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CONTENTS
Hold on to your hat!
lWell admit to a little sympathy for
advertising copywriters. Its not all the
gin-and-glamour of Mad Men. Cer-
tainly not if youre charged with ad-
vertising a swimming pool in Petach
Tikvah to residents of the next town
over, the charedi city of Bnei Brak.
Sure, you can write The swim-
ming pool of Bnei Brak at the top of
the picture. And you can leave out
pictures of God forbid! women in
bathing suits.
But in the end, nothing says the
swimming pool of Bnei Brak like a
man in a suit and a black hat up to
his shoulders in the water. And only
residents as holy as the inhabitants of
Bnei Brak could merit the miracle of
a happy child diving into a pool, with
his yarmulke not at all askew.
Buyer beware, however: Our infor-
mants tell us that real charedim take
off their hats and jackets and even
most of their clothing before going
for a swim. So much for truth in advertising.

LARRY YUDELSON
Invisible women
lAs they say in Boro Park: Anything
Clint Eastwood can do, a chasidic
rebbe can do ten thousand times
better.
A couple of years back, Mr. East-
wood addressed an empty chair at
the Republican National Convention.
Last week, some of Brooklyns
oldest and presumably most saga-
cious chasidic rabbis called a special
womens-only gathering to condemn
use of the Internet.
The rabbis addressed the woman
through a one-way mirror. All they
saw was their only reflection talking
back at them which may be sadly
appropriate in its own way.
In the interest of modesty, purity,
and chastity, the only photo released
of the audience featured the pre-
speech empty chairs.
Whether women actually attend-
ed the event and whether those
women were visible or, like Sue
Storm of the Fantastic Four, have
been dosed by cosmic rays in order
to be transparent to photos could
not be independently confirmed at
press time.
LARRY YUDELSON
Candlelighting: Friday, June 6, 8:06 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, June 7, 9:15 p.m.
There goes the bride
lSome religious tradi-
tionalists like to portray
marriage as between a
man and a woman. But
what about those peo-
ple who would rather
not expose themselves
and their children to
pictures of women?
Two possible solu-
tions to this quintes-
sential dilemma of 21st
century Jewish fun-
damentalists recently
have crossed our desk.
In one (right), from
Every Picture Tells a
Story, in which Chaim
Natan Firszt illustrates
the books of Genesis
and Exodus, Moses
mother, Yocheved, is
demurely veiled. (See
also the shocking nu-
dity of our ancestor
Eve, below.)
A second solution
comes in an illustration
of a Jewish wedding from an Israeli
Talmud adaptation for children. Here
(below right) we see the husband
break a glass under the chuppa,
while his wife hey, has anyone see
a runaway bride? LARRY YUDELSON
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To be the president of Israel? Oh, come on. Tats
not for me. I write books. Im not cut out for that.
Elie Wiesel, explaining to an Israeli newspaper, Yediot Achronot, why he turned
down Benjamin Netanyahus request to run for president of Israel.
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for Hannah Senesh, a
1985 one-woman musi-
cal play about the Hun-
garian poet and para-
trooper who was killed
by the Nazis. Its been
performed worldwide,
and Seneshs mother,
who was 90 then, saw a
1986 Israeli production.
Luttwak made me laugh
as he told a San Diego
Jewish website about
his background: I grew
up in a modern kosher
home (we ate lobster in
the backyard).
The Belmont
Stakes, the third
race in the Triple
Crown, will be shown on
NBC on Saturday, June
7, with coverage starting
at 6:30 p.m. California
Chrome, trained by ART
SHERMAN, 77, will try to
be the first horse since
1978 to win all three
Triple Crown races.
Just about every-
body recognizes
STEVEN WEBER,
but most dont remem-
ber his name. Hes the
charming and regular-
guy-handsome fellow
who still probably is best
known for playing one
of the two commuter
airline pilot brothers on
the 90s sitcom Wings.
Now 53, Weber grew-
up in Queens, where his
father scratched out a
lower-middle class in-
come managing Borscht
Belt performers. I long
knew he was Jewish, but
I didnt know his whole
Jewish background until
he wrote a long article
about visiting Israel in
2011 for the Huffington
Post. It is a smart and
moving piece. (Just
google the title to find it:
In a sense, abroad part
trois, Is real, oy!) N.B.
Idina Menzel
THE NOMINEES:
Its Tony time
Stephen Fry
Mare Winningham James Lapine
The Tony awards,
for excellence
in the Broad-
way theater, will be
broadcast live by CBS
on Sunday, June 8, at
8 p.m. Hugh Jackman
hosts. Here are the
Jewish nominees in the
marquee categories:
Lead actress, musical:
IDINA MENZEL, 42, If/
Then; featured actor,
play: STEPHEN FRY,
56, Twelfth Night;
featured actress, play:
MARE WINNINGHAM,
55, Casa Valentina and
SOPHIE OKENEDO, 46,
A Raisin in the Sun;
featured actor, musical:
DANNY BURSTEIN, 49,
Cabaret, and JARROD
SPECTOR, 34, Beau-
tiful: The Carole King
Musical.
Best play author:
JAMES LAPINE, 65,
Act One and HARVEY
FIERSTEIN, 60, Casa
Valentina; best musi-
cal, songwriters: Af-
ter Midnight, a revival
revue, features the work
of four legendary song-
writers. The lineup in-
cludes the music of the
late HAROLD ARLEN
and lyrics by the late
DOROTHY FIELDS. Also
in this category: Alad-
din by ALAN MEN-
KEN, 65, and the late
HOWARD ASHMAN,
and Beautiful (Carole
King), with songs by
KING, 72, and four of her
contemporary (Jewish)
rock songwriters; and
A Gentlemans Guide to
Love and Murder: lyrics
by ROBERT L. FREED-
MAN, 56, and music and
lyrics by STEVEN LUT-
VAK, 56.
The songwriters of
Gentlemans Guide
and Aladdin were
also nominated for best
original score. Also in
this category: JASON
ROBERT BROWN, 43,
The Bridges of Madison
County, and TOM KITT,
40, music for If/Then.
Finally, WOODY AL-
LEN, 79, is nominated
for the book of the mu-
sical version of Bullets
over Broadway. Robert
Freedman of Gentle-
mans Guide was nomi-
nated for a musicals
book as well.
Glatt kosher factoids:
Act One is based on
the autobiography of
the late playwright/pro-
ducer MOSS HART. The
play is told in flashbacks,
with Hart, as an adult,
providing introduc-
tory narration for each
scene. Arab-American
actor Tony Shalhoub is
Tony-nominated (lead
actor, play) for playing
three roles(!): the adult
Hart, Harts father, and
playwright GEORGE S.
KAUFMAN.
Danny Burstein is
nominated for playing
Herr Schultz, an elderly
German Jewish store-
keeper
Jarrod Spector is
nominated for play-
ing songwriter BARRY
MANN, 75. Mann and his
wife, CYNTHIA WEILL,
73, wrote scads of hits,
including, Youve Lost
That Lovin Feeling.
Steven Luttwaks
works include the music
At the movies
Edge of Tomorrow and The Fault in Our Stars
are both set to open today. The former stars Tom Cruise
as a desk-bound army oficer who is thrown into a very
bloody personal battle with a space alien race. Yes, its
familiar material. But this one sounds like it has inter-
esting twists and the director, DOUG LIMAN, 48, has a
strong track record (Bourne ilms, etc.).
Fault is a romantic comedy/drama. It co-stars
Shailene Woodley as a teen with terminal cancer and
ANSEL ELGORT, 20, as a wonderful guy who takes her
to meet her favorite author. NAT WOLFF, 19, has a big
supporting role.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Senator Booker confers with Jewish federation delegates
LARRY YUDELSON
Once Senator Frank Lautenberg
held the suite of offices 23 stories
above Newark. Now they are Sen-
ator Cory Bookers.
And while Mr. Lautenbergs
time with the United Jewish
Appeal probably gave him a
greater understanding of Jewish
organizational alphabet soup, Mr.
Booker certainly wasnt shy about
showing off his famed Hebrew
vocabulary at his first official meet-
ing with 17 representatives of New
Jerseys Jewish federations and
organizations. Participants in the
meeting last week included Jason
Shames, chief executive officer of
the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey, and Joy Kurland,
director of the federations Jewish
Community Relations Council.
We love you, Mark Leven-
son told Mr. Booker, opening the
meeting. Mr. Levenson is presi-
dent of the New Jersey State Asso-
ciation of Jewish Federations, the
umbrella group for the states 11
Jewish federations.
You are someone we are just
so foursquare with, Mr. Leven-
son said, noting since his election
in October the senator already had
been very good on issues sup-
ported by the Jewish community,
including Iran sanctions, fighting
human trafficking, SNAP funding,
aiding Holocaust survivors, and
even last week, your support for
a Senate resolution relative to the
Nigerian abductees.
The meeting began with the
Jewish representatives introduc-
ing themselves; in addition to
leaders of federations and their
community relations councils, the
group included leaders of the New
Jersey chapters of the American
Jewish Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League.
The group had an agenda that
listed 10 items as priorities for the
Jewish community. Other items,
in addition to those Mr. Levenson
mentioned, included nonprofit
homeland security grants, whose
need was highlighted by the tragic
shooting in the Jewish museum
in Belgium, said Jacob Toporek,
executive director of the state fed-
eration association; preserving the
charitable deduction; providing
money for computerizing medi-
cal records of mental health pro-
fessionals; and maintaining the
Lautenberg amendment, which
streamlines emigration from the
former Soviet Union and which
Mr. Toporek called an important
legacy for the former senator and
for the Jewish community.
Max Kleinman, outgoing direc-
tor of the Jewish Federation of
Greater MetroWest which encom-
passes Essex, Morris, Sussex,
Union, and parts of Somerset
counties, went into more detail
on two other items.
One is an effort to raise money
to help poor Holocaust survivors.
There are an estimated 30,000
of them across North America;
most came from the former Soviet
Union. The project, spearheaded
by the Jewish Federations of North
America, includes a $5 million fed-
eral funding request, which would
be matched by $15 million raised
by the Jewish community.
The national federation fund-
raising campaign is being headed
by Mark Wilf of Livingston, one
of the owners of the Minnesota
Vikings.
The goal is for Holocaust survi-
vors to live out their lives in great
dignity, Mr. Kleinman said.
At this point, Mr. Booker inter-
jected: Let Mr. Wilf know what a
righteous effort it is.
The second concern was the
Palestinian-led campaign for boy-
cott, divestment, and sanctions
against Israel. Mr. Kleinman cited
efforts on college campuses and
by the Presbyterian Church.
Were asking your office to sign
resolutions, to beat back BDS, he
said.
Mr. Shames continued the pitch
for assistance on this front.
BDS is the next step of trying
to delegitimize Israel as a nation,
he said.
We look at it a historically.
There were five wars that failed.
Terrorism took its place; despite
its episodic success its not going
to threaten Israels existence, he
said. Thats why BDS is the newest
effort to threaten Israel.
This level of attacking youth on
campus is something we want to
see fought with the federal govern-
ments help, Mr. Shames said.
Mr. Booker responded to this
enthusiastically.
Ive long been concerned,
since college generations ago
with the sort of hotbed of anti-
Semitism disguised as some sort
of foment around foreign policy
issues. Ive spoken out at numer-
ous Jewish organizations, saying
we should be focusing a lot of our
attention on whats happening on
college campuses.
This is just a different out-
growth of this front of what I
believe is an anti-Semitic effort.
This has been on my radar for
some time. I dont know of any
legislative efforts coming out of
the Senate, besides members
speaking out against it, he said,
asking the group to let him know
if anyone is organizing specific
actions.
Then it was the senators turn to
say his piece.
These are very good friends
of mine around this table. This is
a very righteous group that sits
before me, he said.
Being Jewish, he said, means
something. It ultimately is social
activism, engagement.
My favorite story from the
Torah is Abraham. The last thing
he did before he got the blessing
from God was that he saw strang-
ers and he ran to them. That kind
of chesed he used the Hebrew
word for loving kindness and
goodness of tzedakah is, to me,
an ideal within humanity and
Judaism.
I love what he did afterward.
These messengers from God say
theyre going to destroy a city
as a former mayor that gets me
upset; Ive heard the horrible
things people say, lets level New-
ark and start over.
I love what he does, he argues
with God.
Thats the second pillar,
righteousness.
We must fight for critical
issues, fight for justice, he said.
Then he moved toward his own
story.
Im a black guy sitting before
you. My parents wouldnt let me
forget how I got here. My parents
landed at Fisk University in North
Carolina at the heat of the civil
rights movement. They saw the
incredible, outrageous, wonder-
ful activism of the Jewish commu-
nity, he said.
His parents imbued in him this
idea that blacks and Jews have an
incredible legacy of struggles for
these higher principles.
When his parents moved to
Harrington Park, he said, they
were denied house after house
in the New Jersey suburbs. They
had to get a group of activists,
mainly Jews, able to stand up to
the discrimination.
In the end, a white couple stood
in for them on the house hunt. At
closing, his parents showed up
with a Jewish lawyer. The guy got
punched in the nose by the real
estate agent, he said
Mr. Booker said he has a tradi-
tion of holding something in his
pocket as a good-luck charm. In
his 2002 race for mayor of New-
ark, which he lost, someone
gave me a coin with Booker T.
Washington.
For the last two elections, he
said, he has been holding a great
coin that says in Hebrew, tikkun
olam. On the back of it is a picture
of the Lubavitcher rebbe.
Mr. Booker told a story about
the rebbe.
Mayor Dinkins goes to the
rebbe during the Crown Heights
riots. He says, Rebbe, we have
to get our communities together.
The rebbe looks at him and say,
No.
Dinkins looks at him.
The rebbe says, We have
to bring the one community
together.
I look at my mishpoche here,
he said, using the Yiddish and
Hebrew word for family. The
issues that are important for you
are deeply important for me
because they are our issues.
The serious, serious global
threat were facing now is not a
Senator Corey Booker, top row, left, meets with representa-
tives of New Jerseys Jewish organizations, including Jason
Shames, lower right, chief executive ofcer of the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey, and Joy Kurland, upper
right, director of the federations Jewish Community Relations
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Jewish threat. It is a threat to democracy,
to peace, to love. I was very affected by
the Mumbai terrorist attack. One, they
were done with automatic weapons, and
I fear that we are going to face that kind
of terrorism in this country if we dont
do something about the ease with which
terrorists can get guns.
The only group that was sought out was
Rabbi Holzberg, head of the Lubavitch cen-
ter in Mumbai, he continued. The story of
that murder and the righteous non-Jew who
was able to save that child should call us all.
We have work to do. The righteous
cannot rest. Im very committed to part-
ner with you all. Its a way I can pay back
a debt to my ancestors. As my mother told
me the day I was inaugurated, Never for-
get why you are here. I hope to be able to
use this title in service of goodness, kind-
ness, and justice.
Then he moved on to Iran. We will all
face a difficult period in July when the
president comes back from the nego-
tiations, which have a July 20 deadline
to reach an agreement, Its possible he
says we should take the deal and will be
something the people around this table
and I feel isnt a good deal.
Melanie Roth Gorelick, director of the
community relations council of the MetroW-
est federation, noted that New Jersey led
the country in trying to ensure that Iran
sanctions were put into law. Weve been
working on this as our number one issue
for the last seven years.
We would like to work with you before
the negotiations are concluded. Were
pretty sure when the results of the nego-
tiations are put forward, theyre not going
to be on the level we want them to be. We
would hate for the results to be a split,
within the government, and also between
the Obama administration and the Jewish
community. Were looking at the security of
the western world, she said.
Mr. Booker noted that he was among
the 83 senators who signed a letter to the
president in March spearheaded by New
Jerseys other senator, Robert Menendez,
trying to outline some of the parameters
for what a success will be in the negotia-
tions with Iran.
Im not sure where this train leads, he
said regarding the negotiations. Frankly, I
dont think we should be on this train at all
when sanctions were working.
He said that in this period before
re-election he is running in November
for a full six year term Im just trying
to learn and get up to speed. God willing
after my election, bezrat Hashem, he
said, using the Hebrew term for with the
help of God Im just looking to be cre-
ative. I love to think of new ways to inno-
vate on good work. Whether its on New
Jersey college campuses, things that can
be fun and innovative ways of service,
or legislation thats important that were
maybe just not thinking about. Id love
to have another meeting thats maybe a
brainstorming meeting on what we can
be doing.
In the meantime, he said, he would enjoy
speaking engagements in a nonpolitical
environment such as a Friday night or Sat-
urday morning in a shul, especially in cen-
tral and southern and northwestern parts of
the state where I havent spoken, where I
dont know the Jewish community that well.
Over the coming months I would love
that, he said.
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Noted chef to help raise funds for ELEM
Organization for at-risk Israeli teens raises consciousness in Bergen County
LOIS GOLDRICH
In 1982, a group of professionals and vol-
unteers took note of the fact that Israels
population of at-risk preteens and teens
was not only growing but also sorely
underserved.
In response, that group Israelis and
Americans created ELEM/Youth in
Distress.
Efrat Shafrut, the groups executive
director in Israel, said the organization
now works with at least 20,000 kids each
year. She estimates that there are more
than 200,000 at-risk 12- to 18-year-olds in
Israel.
We work with immigrants from Ethio-
pia and Russia who moved
here over the last 10 or 20
years, single-parent fami-
lies, the poor, people with
drug problems, prostitutes,
Arabs, Bedouins, ultra-
Orthodox religious kids,
whoever needs help, Ms.
Shafrut said. The goal is to
extract them from their sit-
uation and help them find
their place in society.
ELEMs New York office
raises funds to support the
programs in Israel. Michele
Carlin, the executive direc-
tor of the U.S. initiative,
said her group is planning a
special event in Englewood on June 12 not
only to raise funds but to raise awareness
in Bergen County.
The program will feature celebrity chef
and James Beard Award winner Art Smith,
who will hold a book signing and cooking
demonstration. Mr. Smith worked with
ELEM teens in a restaurant in Tel Aviv as
part of a program that teaches both voca-
tional and life skills.
Ms. Shafrut said that what sets her group
apart is the large number of kids it serves
in 40 towns throughout Israel, the wide
range of problems it addresses, and the
proactive nature of its work.
Were not in offices waiting for the
kids, she said. Were going out to find
them. Most of the
kids dont want to
admit they have a
problem, even to
their parents. We
go to meet them in
parks, bars, wher-
ever they can be
found.
Twenty outreach vans go out every
night, especially to poor neighborhoods.
We go to the same neighborhoods, she
said. They already know us and wave to
us.
The organizations 1,700 volunteers are
required to work for a minimum of one
year.
Continuity is very important for these
kids, so the volunteer goes once a week on
the same day to the same neighborhood,
she said. It establishes a connection.
Ms. Carlin noted that onboard pro-
fessionals and volunteers offer immedi-
ate help to homeless and drifting youth
by providing humanitarian aid, informal
counseling, and referrals to other social
services, where appropriate.
The ELEM volunteers and the groups
250 professionals including lawyers,
social workers, educators, and psycholo-
gists work with [the teens] to change
their lives. It takes time to get trust from
kids who have already had so many disap-
pointments, Ms. Shafrut said.
Were open every day for them. Even
if they did something wrong, like drugs
or prostitution, we are with them. Were
waiting for them to be ready to make a
change. We give them the motivation. We
have the patience to wait and take them
step by step.
ELEM is one of the biggest organizations
in Israel for youth at risk, she added.
No other NGO works all over the coun-
try and with all different kinds of prob-
lems, she said. They may work in partic-
ular areas, or on particular problems, she
said. Although the group has good rela-
tions with municipal governments, we
are not a part of them. We are still inde-
pendent and say what we think.
ELEMs funding comes partly from
public monies and partly from private
donations, including money received from
its New York office and from philanthropic
foundations.
Ms. Shafrut said she is very happy to
have opened four centers in ultra-Ortho-
dox cities.
For many years, they didnt want to
talk about their problems. But now they
understand. Things were getting worse
and they asked us to come.
The centers in these towns use only
ultra-Orthodox volunteers and employees.
Its a different way to work, Ms.
Shafrut said. The rabbi of the city has to
check the workers before theyre allowed
to staff the centers. We are very happy
and hope it will succeed. The needs are so
great there.
Ms. Shafrut explained that ELEMs work
is basically in six areas: extreme risk, deal-
ing with prostitution and drug addiction,
with a different project for each town,
depending on its unique needs; outreach
vans; treatment for sex offenders and their
families; mentoring and employment;
An ELEM outreach van brings volunteers to a neighborhood of at-risk teens in Israel.
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multicultural programs; and counseling,
support, and information centers, where
young people can come in to meet with
volunteers.
They can also be volunteers them-
selves, she said. We dont believe they
have to be just clients the ones with
the problem.
Ms. Carlin noted that ELEM operates
13 multicultural social-therapeutic cen-
ters throughout Israel.
The Migdalor Centers provide a solu-
tion for adolescents who find it difficult
to integrate into formal institutions,
she said. They can work on academic
studies, practice athletics or music, and
attend a variety of workshops on issues
of particular interest to them.
Success is not easy to measure, Ms.
Shafrut said. The parameters of success
are different with the different projects.
With extreme-risk groups, like prosti-
tutes, it can be about saving a life.
On the other hand, ELEM now has
about 800 teens involved in its mentor-
ing and employment program.
Her group, she said, has become
increasingly recognized in Israel by its
vans, its employment training program
at Liliyot restaurant in Tel Aviv, and its
outreach to prostitutes the only orga-
nization in Israel that works with them,
Ms. Shafrut said.
She pointed out as well that when kids
helped by ELEM decide to go back to
school or to get a job, the organization
helps make the connection.
Two-time winner of the James Beard
Award including one award for human-
itarian efforts chef Art Smith, personal
chef to Oprah Winfrey for more than 10
years has restaurants throughout the
country.
The bigger restaurants feature south-
ern cooking; the smaller are more
health-based, said Mr. Smith, who has
also written several cookbooks, includ-
ing Art Smiths Healthy Comfort, Back
to the Table, and Real Food for Real
Families.
Mr. Smith also is a culinary diplomat
for a program developed by Hillary
Clinton, and in 2003 he co-founded the
after-school healthy cooking program
Common Threads. The group, which
teaches children living in underserved
communities how to cook wholesome
meals, started with 15 students in Los
Angeles, Mr. Smith said. Today, it serves
47,000 children across the United States.
Acting as an international food ambas-
sador working in cooperation with the
State Department, but not being part
of it we pay our own way around
the world. Chefs travel frequently, Mr.
Smith said. When we do, we notify the
State Department of our travels and they
set up programs.
He has spent a good deal of time in
South Africa, teaching cooking to stu-
dents in Ms. Winfreys Leadership Acad-
emy for Girls, and is now planning a trip
to the Dominican Republic.
Food brings peace, and its an effec-
tive way to get your point across, he
said.
His trip to Israel was amazing, Mr.
Smith added. We started out in Jeru-
salem and then went to Tel Aviv. The
embassy arranged for us to go to Liliyot,
where we worked with 20 or so kids.
The highlight was making kosher fried
chicken, which they requested.
I was really impressed with the
ELEM programming and the kids were
delightful, he said, adding that he is
also impressed with Israeli cuisine. He
was so taken with the youngsters spirit
and motivation that he subsequently
sponsored two of them on a trip to the
United States.
What makes America different is
opportunity, he said. My hope is to
give them the opportunity to improve
their lives. Its not about money but
about interaction. I sincerely believe in
ELEMs way of teaching. These are all
bright young kids. With the right oppor-
tunity, they could do great things.
Mr. Smith said he grew up on a tobacco
farm in a poor town. People introduced
me to people, and I have become suc-
cessful, he said. Its about love.
He said his trip to Israel was one of
the greatest food trips Ive taken in a
long time. Its one of the most amazing
places in the world.
All the youngsters he worked with on
the ELEM program got along with each
other, he said. Kids on the street are
unaware of politics. Theyre just eager
to learn.
During his time with them, he cooked
my grandmothers corn cakes. We
called them hoe cakes since she cooked
them on a hoe. I brought the cornmeal
and grits from America. They loved it.
Mr. Smith said that whatever you do,
you bring a little back with you.
Among the things he has brought back
from his experience with ELEM is the
desire to go back to Israel.
I said to the State Department that in
order for the Chefs Corps to be success-
ful, the chefs have to focus on [particular]
regions, to become familiar faces there,
he said. The kids are our future. The
more we interact, the better it will be.
What: Celebrity chef Art Smith gives cooking demonstration and book sign-
ing to raise funds for ELEM/Youth in Distress programs throughout Israel for
at-risk and homeless youth.
When: Thursday, June 12, 7- 10 p.m.
Where: Modiani Kitchen Showroom, 46 South Dean St., Englewood.
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Who are we?
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey surveys the community
JOANNE PALMER
W
e talk about the com-
munity all the time, but
really, who are we?
When we at the Jewish
Standard use the word community, its
shorthand for the Jews in the catchment
area served by the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey all of Bergen and
parts of Passaic and Hudson counties.
But who are these Jews? How many
of them are there? Where do they live?
What do they want? What do they need?
What can they share? How do they define
themselves? What was their past? What
is their present? And what will be their
future?
Some of these questions are metaphys-
ical, but most can be answered.
The federation, along with its partner
agencies, is surveying the Jewish commu-
nity, looking for answers. It plans to use
the results to guide its efforts as it works
to educate, nurture, and strengthen the
community.
Jason Shames, the federations CEO
and executive vice president, provides
an overview. Its going to give us a real
understanding of our demographics, and
its going to give a better understanding of
programs and services that our commu-
nity wants or is interested in, or is willing
to pay for, he said. Its about identifying
services that the community wants its
about being more supply-and-demand-
oriented, market- and consumer-driven,
rather than being top-down.
And it will tell us about philan-
thropic interests. We will know about
what people think they are interested in
supporting.
Because consumer and philanthropic
trends are not the same thing, the sur-
vey will differentiate between them, Mr.
Shames said. What if day school par-
ents feel strongly about sending their
children to Jewish schools, and gladly
pay for them, he said, explaining that
abstract concept in real terms. But still
they prefer that their charitable dol-
lars go for outreach to the safety and
security of Israel and to Holocaust sur-
vivors. The survey will explore those
distinctions.
The survey will attempt to find unaffili-
ated Jews, but one open question in such
polls always is how hard to look. The
hardest segment for us to get informa-
tion from is the completely uninterested
and unaffiliated, and there is an extreme
cost limitation to chasing those people,
Mr. Shames said. We will put the bait out
there but its not as if there is a hun-
gry alligator out there, waiting for some
Empire chicken. And the best person for
us anyway is the person who already has
some interest in the community. We have
to maximize and home in on our known
market.
After all, he concluded, its hard to
be a Jew in northern New Jersey and not
have any connection to the Jewish com-
munity, or any interest in it. One thing
we already know is that the percentage
of Jews here who have some tie or other
to the Jewish community is much higher
than in most other places. We know that
from the number of synagogues and Jew-
ish infrastructure here. Although the
number of connected Jews is admirably
high, the federation would like to bring
that number up even higher.
The last time a study was done was
2001, Sheryl Sarin, the federations plan-
ning associate, said. It was done by Ira
Sheskin, a well-known demographer,
and provided much useful information
but that was then, before September 11
changed our world and before the crash
of 2008 deformed it again. Not to men-
tion, of course, the normal change that
visits and redraws every community.
That data is no longer useful, Ms.
Sarin continued. So weve embarked on
a new marketing study, to assess what the
Jewish community needs, to look at ser-
vices needs and gaps.
This survey is being done by the
Melior Group, a Philadelphia-based firm
that calls itself a full service marketing
research firm. Melior already has com-
pleted a similar survey for the Jewish
Federation of Southern Jersey, so it has
experience with exactly the sorts of ques-
tions that appear on the survey.
Ms. Sarin detailed the survey.
Its not a purely demographic study,
she said. Instead, it is divided into three
parts. The first is demographic. Among
other things, We do want to know peo-
ples age, income, education, marital
status, gender, where people are living
and where they are working, she said.
The next section addresses Jewish
identity and engagement, looking at
affiliations with synagogues, religious
streams, day schools, afternoon schools,
community centers, summer camps and
other organizations, and at respondents
ability to pay for programming, and their
desire to do so. It will look at peoples
attachment to Israel.
The last section will look at peoples
need for social services, delving with
some specificity into the kinds of situ-
ations with which people live and for
which they need help.
The questionnaire is online at the fed-
erations website, jfnnj.org, and also at
www.jewishsurveysays.com. We antici-
pate that it will take about 18 minutes to
fill out, Ms. Sarin said. The federation
plans on sending out email blasts about it
to all the lists that it has. It also will have
phone calls made to people with Jewish-
sounding names.
The more information the survey-tak-
ers can gather, the more accurate the
results will be.
Lisa Harris Glass, the federations man-
aging director for community planning
and impact, said that the survey will fill
in some information that until now could
only be extrapolated from U.S. Census
studies. The 2010 census tells us, for
example, that we are significantly older,
she said. The number of 0- to 4-year-
olds is significantly lower in many of our
zip codes. That is important information
for when we look at early childhood pro-
grams and schools.
We also suspect that more people are
choosing to age in place, because of eco-
nomics. That tells us something about the
services we need.
We have seen synagogues that have
merged or moved or closed, so we know
that there is a change in the zip codes
where Jews live. Thats important for
us to know it affects all the Jewish
institutions.
All this information is anecdotal now.
The federation is looking for more firm
information.
Where do we need to be? Ms. Glass
said. What do we need to be doing? It
affects all our funding decisions.
The survey, constructed as it has been
in the post-Pew Research Center report
on American Jews, also looks at how peo-
ple define themselves Jewishly. In the
Pew survey, they talk about the Jews of
No Religion. Those are Jews who define
themselves as belonging to the commu-
nity in a nebulous, culturally inflected
way, but not through any religious insti-
tution. That appears to be a fast-growing
group. Its important for us to know
about them, so in the survey, we ask,
Ms. Glass said.
Who knows what we might find? It
will inform how we not just federation,
but all the Jewish institutions invest in
the community, and it will inform how
we engage the community, she said.
Dr. John Winer is the executive direc-
tor of J-ADD, the local organization that
began life as the Jewish Association for
Developmental Disabilities. J-ADD is
one of the organizations that is partially
funded by the federation and is support-
ing the survey. All those agencies plan
to work with the information the survey
provides them.
Its really important for us to know
who the community is, Dr. Winer said.
The information we use now is not quite
up-to-date in terms of knowing who is in
the community.
Disabilities strike everyone, no mat-
ter who you are, and you cant predict
that. We dont know how many people
are under the poverty line, and therefore
will need services from us.
Even beyond that, he said, we want to
find out what our communitys strengths
are to learn what we can work on
together. Its a multifaceted approach
that will benefit the community as a
whole.
Sometimes agencies duplicate other
groups services, he said; thats because
often one group does not know what
another one is doing. How can we col-
laborate with each other? he said. For
me, thats the nutshell version of why this
is so important.
Sheryl Sarin Lisa Harris Glass Jason Shames
Its about being
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and-demand-
oriented,
market- and
consumer-
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The conversos dilemma
Local group goes to New Mexico to learn about crypto-Jews
LOIS GOLDRICH
I
magine that you were raised as a
Catholic. Then one day perhaps
as a beloved parent or grandparent
lay dying and leaned over to whisper
something in your ear you learned that
your family once was Jewish. Your ances-
tors were converted forcibly some 500
years ago.
For those people all over the world
who have had that experience, the next
step is not entirely clear. Do they jump in
with both feet and vigorously pursue their
new Jewish identities, or do they simply
go about their business, choosing to do
nothing with this new information? These
dilemmas, and more, were the subject of
a recent Road Scholar program in Albu-
querque, New Mexico.
The topic New Mexicos Conversos
and Crypto-Jews continues to fascinate
both Jews and non-Jews, as evidenced by
the religious identity of the attendees.
Among those participating in this months
session there are 10 such programs held
each year were five residents from our
area, including this author.
The story of the conversos those
Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholi-
cism, as well as their descendants is a
tangled and complicated web of fear, loy-
alty, and tradition. Most conversos know
nothing of their Jewish heritage. But
some, crypto-Jews, secretly and know-
ingly practice Judaism while outwardly
practicing Christianity, instructor Norma
Libman said. A journalist, educator, and
author, Ms. Libman contends that about
5 percent of crypto-Jews are very con-
scious of their Jewish roots.
The instructor, who has interviewed
and profiled dozens of conversos, noted
that the vast majority have no inter-
est in being Jewish. Some, however, do
choose to return to Judaism.
Susan Amsterdam of Ridgewood said
that before this program, she had not
realized the enormous impact the Inqui-
sition had made on the Jewish landscape.
I knew about the expulsion of Jews
from Spain, of course, and I knew they
emigrated to countries not under Spains
control, she said. Still, in my mind,
the expulsion was simply the most dra-
matic example before the Holocaust
of the persecutions Jews had endured
and would continue to endure all over
Europe.
In fact, the Alhambra Decree of 1492,
which forced Spains Jewish citizens to
convert to Christianity or leave the coun-
try, affected a large number of people.
While scholars disagree about how many
Jews left Spain as a result of the decree,
the number is known to be well over
100,000. A smaller number of Jews but
still in the tens of thousands chose to
convert.
Ms. Amsterdam said she was surprised
to learn that 40 percent of the Spanish
conquistadores had Jewish roots, infor-
mation that can be verified by an exami-
nation of inquisitors records. And while
conversos and crypto-Jews can be found
all over the world for example, in Bra-
zil, Portugal, India, Africa, and China I
was most surprised by the existence of
conversos and crypto-Jews in contempo-
rary America.
Im amazed that any acknowledge-
ment of Jewish heritage was maintained
beyond three generations after the Inqui-
sition by conversos, especially in families
where only one or two relatives in each
generation knew the secret of their Jewish
heritage, she said. Under those condi-
tions, I would think the secret would be
lost. Also, when the Inquisition came to
Mexico in 1642, there would be even less
reason to maintain any Jewish ties.
Those Jewish ties varied from family to
family, as did the familys willingness to
discuss it, even with other family mem-
bers. Generally, Ms. Libman said, crypto-
Jewish families kept their Jewishness a
secret. Sometimes one child was told the
secret, and he or she then told one child
in the next generation.
The result, Ms. Amsterdam said was
that many family members found them-
selves practicing Jewish rituals without
knowing why, and not even knowing
these practices were Jewish for exam-
ple, lighting candles on Friday evening,
observing a non-Christian fast day or day
of atonement, or not eating pork prod-
ucts. Sometimes a mezuzah was hidden in
a crucifix and hung on a wall or doorway.
Other mezuzahs were hung on a doorpost
and hidden under coats of plaster. Some
of these people knew they were Jewish,
and others just thought their families had
odd traditions.
Other crypto-Jews kept pet pigs or even
became priests or caretakers of Christian
cemeteries to hide their Jewishness more
thoroughly. It is also possible that hav-
ing relatives in these positions may not
only have indicated piety, but also might
have provided sources of information and
early warnings of impending danger.
Still another peculiar behavior was
the tendency of some converso families
to have preferred marriage partners for
their children, generally singling out the
children of other conversos. While the
reason underlying these preferences was
not made explicitly to their children
and probably not fully understood even
by the parents it created an extended
group whose members referred to each
other as primos cousins.
Im not surprised that most conver-
sos dont pursue their Jewish roots,
Ms. Amsterdam said. It isnt relevant to
their lives. Theyre Catholic, and their
families have been so for generations.
Their Jewish ancestry is just an interest-
ing footnote.
I kept asking myself why the crypto-
Jews continued to keep their secret,
she continued. Im sure it was religious
conviction at first, but as the generations
unfolded, I think it was out of loyalty to
family tradition. It was what made their
family special.
I cant imagine being put in the posi-
tion of keeping such a secret, but if it were
important enough to me, I would do it
too.
Elizabeth Kessler of Cliffside Park, said
she doesnt expect todays conversos to
care about something that happened 500
years ago.
Why tell anyone? she asked. Why
antagonize anybody? Growing up in the
Catholic church, conversos may have a
negative attitude toward Jews. They dont
really know what it means, and they dont
want to be labeled. They dont want to be
ostracized by the community at large.
Ms. Kessler noted that speaker Sonya
Loya who grew up in a practicing Cath-
olic home but eventually discovered that
she hailed from crypto-Jews and now is
training to be a rabbi told the group
her formal conversion back to Juda-
ism has spurred hostility in her home
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searching for something, this is one route to pursue.
Why stir the pot for no reason?
She is not surprised that converso parents who
know about their Jewish heritage stonewall when
asked questions by children who may suspect that
theyre keeping a secret, whether about a family rit-
ual or an object found in the house.
Even if those children get the vibe that the answers
dont pass muster, whether they pursue it further
will depend on their frame of mind, she said.
Joan and Richard Klein of Tenafly also took the
Road Scholar trip.
Joan Klein said she was intrigued by the connection
between the Inquisition and the Holocaust.
I was quite aware of the Inquisition, she said.
What I didnt realize is something our teacher said
that without the Inquisition there would not have
been a Holocaust. On reflection, its clear how the
one led directly to the other.
Recalling a story she heard from a speaker, she
said that in one of our classes, a converso who had
returned to Judaism told us of her uncle, who served
in World War II and was one of the soldiers who lib-
erated the camps. When he returned home in 1945,
he said to his mother, Its still not safe to be a Jew.
Guessing that she, too, could have kept her heri-
tage a secret if it had been absolutely necessary,
Ms. Klein said, I think many conversos continue to
believe that they have no choice.
Who knows? They may be right.
Nevertheless, she said, I dont see how you can
keep a secret for 500 years without family members
having a sense that something is going on, whether
or not they know just what it is. She noted the ter-
rible burden it must have put on those who were told
and had to keep it to themselves. Imagine carrying
this information in your heart and not being able to
share it with those you are closest to you and who
you most love.
On the issue of religious identity, Ms. Klein said,
My grandmother used to talk of a Jewish neshama
a Jewish soul. Its not very scientific, but perhaps
those who have it embrace Judaism to achieve a ful-
fillment that had always eluded them.
If I learned I had a different heritage, I would
explore it with great interest, but not as a replace-
ment for my Judaism, however I came to acquire it.
Richard Klein thinks he could not have kept such
a secret. Conversos seem to continually expect
another Inquisition, he said. Their continued
secrecy in modern times amazes me.
He said that he was struck by some conversos
custom of making only one third of the sign of the
cross. While they may not have known the reason, it
reflected their intention of worshipping only God, the
Father not the son, and not the holy ghost.
The conversos who return to Judaism certainly
have unique values, experiences, and customs that
can only contribute to modern Judaism, he said.
They should be welcomed into the mainstream.
That would not be risk-free, though, he noted it
could increase both interfaith dialogue and inter-
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Making music accessible and viral
Six13 member celebrates singing, Jewish identity
LOIS GOLDRICH
W
hat does it mean when a
video goes viral?
It means wanting to
i ntroduce your chi l -
dren and grandchildren to a particularly
delightful song only to find that they have
already watched it repeatedly.
Such was the case this year with the
Passover parody Chozen, which this
writer thought she was bringing to her
family for the first time. In fact, it already
was one of their favorites.
Thats great, said 22-year-old Franklin
Lakes resident Josh Sauer, a member of
the a capella group Six13, which made the
musical video. It means that our music is
out there.
Indeed it is. Mr. Sauer said the group
founded some 10 years ago at Binghamton
University has five gigs over the next two
weekends.
Six13s music reflecting the strong Jew-
ish identity of its members and featuring
complex harmonies and vocal arrange-
ments clearly has struck a chord. The
group has recorded four award-winning
albums, and its songs have been played all
over Jewish radio.
Recognized both in the Jewish world
and in the wider community the group
was chosen as finalists during the casting
for NBCs The Sing-Off it also has per-
formed around the world, including at a
big Jewish convention in Berlin, said Mr.
Sauer, who joined the group last August.
Mr. Sauer said that Six13 also visits doz-
ens of Jewish communities each year,
providing entertainment at synagogues,
schools, JCCs, and fundraising events. He
is particularly pleased that it will be per-
forming at the upcoming gala of the Ger-
rard Berman Day School on June 8.
GBDS had an amazing impact on my
life, said Mr. Sauer, a graduate of the
school. I still feel a unique connection
to the people I went to school with, and
Im still in touch with a good number of
them. When some of us graduated and
went to the Schechter High School in West
Orange, we still had a sense of community
about us. [GBDS] helped to foster lifelong
friendships.
Newly graduated from the University of
Maryland, where he majored in pre-med
and psychology (Im not doing it, he
pointed out), the young singer now works
part-time for his father and part-time for
his own company, the ticket trading plat-
form Seat Swap.
So in addition to singing, Mr. Sauer
sells electro-mechanical components and
matches people who cant use their event
tickets with those who need them. He also
spends two hours a week learning at the
Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on New
Yorks Upper West Side.
Mr. Sauer said he spent four years look-
ing forward to joining Six13.
When I was a senior in high school,
Mike Boxer [a founder of the group and still
a member] saw me perform in a play and
asked if I knew where I would go to college.
NYU was one of my choices. He said if I was
around, I should audition. So for the last
four years, its been in the back of my mind.
If I moved home, I wanted to do it.
And thats what happened.
Its a kind of supergroup, Mr. Sauer
said, pointing out that many talented sing-
ers from the best collegiate groups across
the country move back to the New York
area, forming a pool of well-qualified
candidates for Six13. In college, he sang
with Rak Shalom. Also of note, he said,
are Tizmoret (Queens College) and Kask-
eset (Binghamton). We all kind of know
each other from singing at competitions
and Shabbatot.
I think theres been a boom in a capella
music over past four years because of [the
television shows] Sing Off and Glee, he
added, noting the increasing popularity of
a capella singing. Were more sought after
more readily accepted.
Jews have always been into music
and singing. [With a capella music] being
brought to the forefront in pop culture, it
gave us more of an avenue to succeed. We
get more calls for bar mitzvahs and wed-
dings. People hire a capella groups and
they know about us.
One of hi s groups strengths i s
improvisation, Mr. Sauer said.
We walk table to table and say What
do you want to hear? Then we get up
and sing it. Mike [Boxer] is somewhat of a
musical genius and tells us what chords to
sing with his hands.
Group members rehearse together,
sing together, and are friends with each
other, he said, pointing out that 80 per-
cent of the music they sing is original,
while the other 20 percent is parodies. Mr.
Boxer writes most of that music.
We dont all have a day school back-
ground, Mr. Sauer said. We come from
all walks of life from tzitzis-wearing to
being very active in the Reform movement
to being less religious but still connected to
Judaism through music.
This dovetails nicely with the groups
goal to make music accessible for peo-
ple so they can connect to Judaism the
way they see fit. To do this, members
must keep up with the latest trends in pop
music which also comes in handy when
preparing for improvisation.
Mr. Sauer said the June 8 concert will
include both original music and some
parodies. He also said to keep your eyes
peeled for something new before Rosh
Hashanah.
For more information, go to www.six13.
com.
Information
What: The Gerrard Berman Day Schools Gala in the Garden, with dinner, in-
cluding a performance by
Who: the a cappella group Six13, which includes GBDS alumni Josh Sauer, as
well as a solo performance by Mr. Sauer.
Where: At a private home in Franklin Lakes
When: June 8 at 6:30
Why: To honor Elaine and Dr. Sy Schlossberg
How much: $125 per person; $75 per GBDS graduate
To register: Go to gerrardbermands.ejoinme.org/ or call Amy Sharon at (201)
337-1111 for more information.
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Jewish Home Foundations annual golf/tennis/card outing a success
Nearly 250 people partici-
pated in the Jewish Home
Foundation of North Jersey
Inc.s 20th annual Golf, Ten-
nis, & Card Outing at the Edge-
wood Country Club in River
Vale last month. In addition
to sports, there was also social
and ACBL-sanctioned bridge,
canasta, and mah jongg.
Nearly 25 volunteers helped
the Jewish Home staff oversee
the days events.
Barry Wien, a member of
the board of the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh, was this years
honoree. Mr. Wien has served
on the JHR board and on the
JHF Foundations Golf, Tennis
& Card Outing committee for
many years.
Howard Chernin, Warren
Feldman, and Frank Patti were
outing co-chairs. Mr. Feldman
noted that the outing will pro-
vide more than $157,000 for all
the programs funded by the
Jewish Home Foundation. The
winner of the 50/50 raffle took
home a grand prize of $17,850.
Paul Traub, Steve Jutkowitz, Warren Feldman, and Jeff Goldsmith.
Susan Wels, Shelley Cohen, Joyce Roth, and Shelli Bettman.
Renee Ward, Debbie Himmelfarb, Howard Lippman, William Lippman, and Stuart Himmelfarb. Jewish Home Foundation President David Sharp and
honoree Barry Wien.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, Ted Silverman, and Ary Freilich.
Leon Sokol, JoAnn Hassan Perlman, Barry Wien, and Eli Lunzer.
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Celebrate Israel
Parade marks
50 years
New Yorks Celebrate Israel Parade, the worlds largest public gathering
honoring the State of Israel, marked its 50th anniversary this year.
The participants marched up Manhattans Fifth Avenue, from 57th to
74th streets, on Sunday, June 1. Many local organizations were among the
marchers, and many others cheered from the sidelines as they passed by.
As of press time, here are some of the photos received from the parade. Students at the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland designed
the banner that was used to represent the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey. Forty-eight GBDS students marched up Fifth Avenue.
Fifth-graders at Ben Porat Yosef Yeshiva Day School in Paramus are eager to join
the line of marchers.
Members of the Glen Rock Jewish Center enjoy the festivities.
Students from the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth
stand heads and shoulders together.
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emy in Paramus. The schools theme was 50 Years of Friendship.
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Wyckoff shul readies ceremony
for its new education center
Temple Beth Rishon will open the Henry
and Elaine Kaufman Learning Center on
Sunday, June 8, at 10 a.m. The new $2.25
million educational facility is at the shul,
585 Russell Ave., in Wyckoff. Students and
families, local educators, Wyckoff public
officials, residents, and philanthropists
Henry and Elaine Kaufman all will take
part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Temple Beth Rishon, founded in 1975
with less than 20 families, has grown to
more than 450 member families. In 2013-
14, TBRs family education programs,
including early childhood, kindergar-
ten, religious, and Hebrew high school,
enrolled more than 250 students and held
dozens of educational programs, semi-
nars, and special events.
Rutgers Hillel dinner next month
Rutgers Hillel will host its annual dinner
at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston on Tues-
day, June 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. Andrew Ger-
traer and Rabbi Esther Reed will receive
the Visionaries in Partnership award in
celebration of their bnai mitzvah year
at Rutgers Hillel. The Center for Israel
Engagement Leadership award will be
presented to Lori and Michael Feldstein.
The Young Alumni award will go to the
Israel Inspires Team 04. Student Rising
Stars Aviv Alter, Ezra Chefitz, Shira Rosen-
blum, and Kate Thomas, also will be rec-
ognized. A special presentation will go to
Gerrie Bamira and Max Kleinman as they
complete their tenures a executive direc-
tors of the Greater Middlesex and Greater
MetroWest federations. For information,
call Barbara Cohen at (732) 545-2407 or
email barbarac@rutgershillel.org.
Kabbalah on Shabbat
Dr. Jonathan Dauber, associate professor of Jewish mysticism
at Yeshiva Universitys Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jew-
ish Studies, will discuss Maimonides and the Emergence of
Kabbalah on Shabbat, June 7, at 6:50 p.m. at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck.
Dr. Dauber holds a Ph.D. in Jewish mysticism from New
York University and is the author of Knowledge of God
and the Development of Early Kabbalah. The shul is at 389
West Englewood Ave. in Teaneck. For information, call (201)
837-2795.
Jonathan Dauber
Ohels event goes over the top
More than 80 participants from the tristate
area took part in Ohels recent Over the
Edge fundraiser, rappelling 20 stories as
part of an extreme fundraising event.
The sold-out climb had participants raising
a minimum of $1,000 to rappel 20 stories
over the side of the Heritage Capital Group
building in Newark. All proceeds will help
Ohels children with developmental dis-
abilities go to summer camp.
Ohel had the support of Steve and Jeff
Greenberg, owners of the Heritage Capital
Group, and their staff. It was a day full of
energy, excitement, and giveaways. Rob-
ert Katz, Ohels chief development officer,
found the match between Over the Edge
and Ohel perfectly symbolic. Ohel helps
thousands of people every year overcome
their fears and challenges, helping them
deal with trauma. At this event we watched
people overcome challenges for only 20
minutes our clients have challenges 24/7.
This was an eye-opening experience.
Susan and Ora Presby, right, of Teaneck at the Ohel fundraiser.
From left, Bari Samson, journal chair; Ellen Lacher, dinner chair; former Sena-
tor Joseph and Hadassah Lieberman, and Chaviva and Rabbi Daniel Wolff.
Paramus shul honors Wolffs
Former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman
of Connecticut was the keynote speaker
at the 45th anniversary dinner of Con-
gregation Beth Tefillah of Paramus at
the Old Tappan Manor on May 18. The
congregation honored Rabbi Danny and
Chaviva Wolff for their first decade of
service to the community.
Mr. Lieberman said that his religious
observance was never an obstacle to his
electoral success, noting that as long
as you are consistent in religious prac-
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More than 600 students from Yeshiva Universitys undergrad-
uate schools received degrees at YUs 83rd commencement
exercises, held at the Izod Center in East Rutherford on May
22. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. John S. Ruskay,
executive vice president and CEO of UJA-Federation of New
York, who urged the graduates to find their calling in life by
seeking out a fulfilling career that would allow them to make
an impact in the Jewish community and beyond.
There were five New Jersey valedictorians at YUs com-
mencement, including Benjamin Lebowitz of Fair Lawn,
who received the Sy Syms School of Business Dean Harold
Nierenberg Memorial Valedictorian award, and Isaac Markel
of Teaneck, representing the Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash
program.
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TABC students are the winners
at LCM competition for legal wits
The Beis Medrash LTalmud-Lander College for
Men held its inaugural Model Beis Din competi-
tion for high school students in the tristate area.
The tournament invited teams to the Kew Gardens
Hills campus to match wits as they examined Jew-
ish legal ramifications of a complex halachic quan-
dary. Teams representing Torah Academy of Ber-
gen County in Teaneck and Rambam Mesivta in
Lawrence, N.Y., came in first and second, respec-
tively. Students from the Jewish Educational Center
in Elizabeth and Mesivta Ateres Yaakov in Lawrence
also participated.
The Model Beis Din was an exciting and cre-
ative way of demonstrating the dynamic nature of
halacha how the Torah can inform and confront
moral and legal challenges in the most sophisti-
cated way, said Rabbi Yonason Sacks, rosh hayes-
hiva of the Beis Medrash LTalmud. I was quite
impressed with the students presentations and am
confident that they found this forum to be a most
enriching experience.
The innovative competition centered around
The Case of the Poisoned Sandwich, a well-
known but unconfirmed story in which a bullied
high school student put a poisonous substance
in his lunch, knowing that it would be stolen by
his tormentor. The story introduced a controver-
sial halachic dilemma about a persons right to
self-defense.
The teams offered varying opinions about the
students guilt or innocence. Some argued that
the poisoning was warranted, and that the student
administered an antidote as soon as the bully ate
the sandwich. Others argued that his actions were
reckless because he had no way of knowing if he
would be able to give the antidote.
TABC and Rambam Mesivta were awarded
plaques and the recently published Dirshu editions
of the Mishnah Berurah. Every participant received
all seven volumes of Rabbi Sacks commentary on
Pirkei Avos.
The Lander College for Men in Queens is an
undergraduate division of Touro College.
Paramus shul honors Wolffs
service to the community.
Mr. Lieberman said that his religious
observance was never an obstacle to his
electoral success, noting that as long
as you are consistent in religious prac-
tices, voters respect politicians who have
strong religious convictions.
Columnist at the JCT on Shabbat
On Shabbat, June 14, David M. Wein-
berg, a diplomatic columnist for the
Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, will
be the guest speaker at the Jewish Cen-
ter of Teaneck. At about 11 a.m., he will
discuss Awakening: the Zionist Spring
in a Changed Middle East and at 6:45
p.m., an hour before Minchah, he will
talk about Reforming the Haredi Com-
munity in Israel and Healing Israel.
In addition to being a columnist,
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for Strategic Studies, an Israeli think
tank, and he heads the Israel Office of
Canadas Center for Israel and Jewish
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Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharan-
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against anti-Semitism, and spokesman
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Kinder Shul at the Center, a program
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t is late afternoon on the fifth day of the third
month. The Israelites are encamped at the
mountain of God (see Exodus 18:5). In the
morning, God will appear before all of them
collectively and each of them individually.
As night falls, they go to sleep. Hours pass. Suddenly,
earth-shattering thunder startles them to frightened
wakefulness. There are terrible bursts of lightning
upon the mountain, making it appear as if it is aflame,
and all the peopletrembled (verse 19:17ff ).
It is quite a dramatic scene, but to the kabbalists
of the Middle Ages, there is a problem here. Going to
sleep that night was no way to prepare for the encoun-
ter of encounters.
And so, somewhere
between the 13th century,
when its echoes are said to
be found within rabbinic
texts, and the 16th cen-
tury, when the kabbalists
of Tzfat made it a standard
practice of theirs, the cus-
tom of spending the first
night of Shavuot studying
Torah began. They called
it tikkun leil Shavuot: the
night to tikkun or repair
the wrong-headedness of
the Israelites by staying awake all night in anticipation
of that fateful moment of Revelation (which, in fact, is
re-enacted in the morning with the reading of Exodus
19 and 20).
Many synagogues in our area held Tikkun Leil Sha-
vuot programs this week. The only question is whether
they held these programs on the correct night. In other
words, was Shavuot really Shavuot?
Yes, it was, but that such a question even can be
asked speaks volumes about the ambiguities that
turned what arguably is the most important festival
on our calendar our birthday as a holy nation into
the least observed festival.
The Torah does not give us a date for Shavuot. Pesach,
the Torah tells us several times, begins in the waning
moments of the 14th day of the first month, and Chag
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
JS-22*
Remembering D-Day
F
riday, June 6, will mark the
70th anniversary of the Allied
invasion of Normandy.
As we emerge from Sha-
vuot, memories of what World War
II veterans referred to as the Day of
Days will be upon us. Many of the
9,387 Allied soldiers who died in com-
bat and are buried in the cemetery in
Normandy did not make it out of their
boats; they were cut down from the for-
tified positions the enemy constructed.
One hundred forty-nine of the
soldiers buried at Normandy were Jews.
On this anniversary, we ask that the
day when America and its allies formed
a western front to destroy the Nazi jug-
gernaut be remembered.
General Dwight Eisenhower wrote
to the Allied Expeditionary Forces:
The eyes of the world are upon you.
The hopes and prayers of liberty loving
people everywhere march with you.
In company with our brave Allies and
brothers in arms on other fronts, you
will bring about the destruction of the
German war machine, the elimination
of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed
peoples of Europe and security for our-
selves in a free world.
The cost was high.
Many of us have relatives who served
in the military during World War II.
Some of them fought their way into
France. On this day of the Normandy
landing anniversary, the day after we
said Yizkor on Shavuot, may we extend
those memories for one more impor-
tant day. PJ
Sinat chinam in June?
N
ow that we have finished
with the heights of Sha-
vuot, when Gods presence
explodes from Sinais peak,
we must move on to the Tisha BAv, the
lowest, most parched, most desperate
day on the Jewish calendar.
But we shouldnt have to do it yet.
Tisha BAv begins on August 4 and
marks the day that the Temples in Jeru-
salem were destroyed and the people
sent off into exile. The historic disasters
are said to have been brought on by
sinat chinam, the sin of baseless hatred
directed by Jews at other Jews.
Sinat chinam came to mind on Sun-
day, as an estimated 35,000 of us
marched up Fifth Avenue to celebrate
Israel. The sky was blue, the clouds
puffy white, the sun teased and the
breeze laughed and flirted with us.
Almost the entire range of the Jew-
ish community showed up. We all cel-
ebrated Israel in our own way, but we
all, for once, did it together.
Except for the block-long arid stretch
of Naturei Karta, men dressed as cha-
sidim, black overcoats buttoned tight
against the 75-degree heat, standing
behind banners, chanting, making
obscene hand motions at us. Their eyes
were either downcast or entirely closed,
so that they did not have to sully their
retinas with images of us. About half of
their signs were virulently anti-Israel.
Some showed the word Israel with the
universal No sign around it.
The second half of the Naturei Karta
contingent carried signs lambasting
homosexuality. If it werent for their
costumes, and the fact that all the pro-
testors were male, it would have been
easy to mistake them for members of
the Westboro Baptist Church. Their
signs revealed the same misspelled
obsessions.
(In fact, Haaretz later reported that
the anti-gay contingent actually was
made up of Hispanic day laborers. That
answers the question of why they all
covered their faces with their signs,
but brings up larger ones who hired
them? And why?)
The piece de resistance was the
large stuffed giraffe, with other, smaller
giraffes attached to its hindquarters.
Today man marries man, the sign
next to it read. Tomorrow man mar-
ries giraffee (sic).
Who knew?
There might well have been some
benefit that the rest of us accrued from
the protest. It brought us all together.
The Naturei Karta protestors were
undeniable buffoons. They made us
angry, but it was so stupid stuffed
giraffees? Really? that they made us
laugh.
But senseless hatred is dangerous.
Not only does it show the outside world
that there are some Jews and look!
Devout ones! who agree with the
worst of the anti-Zionists, thus proving,
at least to their own satisfaction, that
hating Israel and hating Jews are not
the same thing, but it also evokes a kind
of unholy and unhealthy rage inside the
Jewish world.
The Westboro Baptist Church has
brought nothing but pain and evil
through its unvarnished malice. The
protestors who stood like ravens at the
sunlit parade, waiting for death, praying
for destruction, are no better. -JP
Protesting at the Celebrate Israel parade. JOANNE PALMER
Shammai
Engelmayer
KEEPING THE FAITH
Wanted: A
way to repair
all of Shavuot
I
t is late afternoon on the fifth day of the third
month. The Israelites are encamped at the
mountain of God (see Exodus 18:5). In the
morning, God will appear before all of them
collectively and each of them individually.
As night falls, they go to sleep. Hours pass. Suddenly,
earth-shattering thunder startles them to frightened
wakefulness. There are terrible bursts of lightning
upon the mountain, making it appear as if it is aflame,
and all the peopletrembled (verse 19:17ff ).
It is quite a dramatic scene, but to the kabbalists
of the Middle Ages, there is a problem here. Going to
sleep that night was no way to prepare for the encoun-
ter of encounters.
And so, somewhere
between the 13th century,
when its echoes are said to
be found within rabbinic
texts, and the 16th cen-
tury, when the kabbalists
of Tzfat made it a standard
practice of theirs, the cus-
tom of spending the first
night of Shavuot studying
Torah began. They called
it tikkun leil Shavuot: the
night to tikkun or repair
the wrong-headedness of
the Israelites by staying awake all night in anticipation
of that fateful moment of Revelation (which, in fact, is
re-enacted in the morning with the reading of Exodus
19 and 20).
Many synagogues in our area held Tikkun Leil Sha-
vuot programs this week. The only question is whether
they held these programs on the correct night. In other
words, was Shavuot really Shavuot?
Yes, it was, but that such a question even can be
asked speaks volumes about the ambiguities that
turned what arguably is the most important festival
on our calendar our birthday as a holy nation into
the least observed festival.
The Torah does not give us a date for Shavuot. Pesach,
the Torah tells us several times, begins in the waning
moments of the 14th day of the first month, and Chag
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
Opinion
Hamatzot (the festival of unleavened bread)
begins moments later as 15th of the month begins.
We have an observance on the first day of the sev-
enth month we call it Rosh Hashanah, or New
Years, even though it falls out in the middle of the
year. On the 10th day of the seventh month we
have Yom Kippur. Then, on the 15th day of the sev-
enth month comes Sukkot, followed the next week
by the Eight Day of Assembly, or Shemini Atzeret.
Shavuot alone is dateless, and that is just the
start of the problem.
Says Leviticus 23:15-16, And from the day on
which you bring the sheaf of elevation offering
the day after Shabbat you shall count off seven
weeks. They must be complete: you must count
until the day after the seventh week 50 days.
Exactly when we bring this sheaf of elevation
offering and what the day after Shabbat means
go unexplained.
The problem is compounded by two verses we
just read in shul on Thursday, Deuteronomy 16:9-
10: start to count the seven weeks when the
sickle is first put to the standing grain. Then you
shall observe the Festival of Shavuot.
Is when the sickle is first put to the standing
grain the same as the day on which you bring
the sheaf of elevation offering, and does that
occur on the day after Shabbat, whatever that
means?
Your guess is as good as anyones.
We take Shabbat to mean what the sages of
blessed memory believed it to mean: the first day
of Pesach (technically speaking, Chag Hamatzot),
meaning that we begin the seven weeks of count-
ing on the second day of that festival. The Torah, in
fact, seems to support this reading when it refers
to festivals as shabbatot.
Not everyone agreed with this, however. The
priests of the Second Temple period took Shab-
bat literally and began their count on the first
Sunday after Pesach began. Using this counting
scheme, this year Shavuot would fall out this Sun-
day, June 8.
The Qumran community used a fixed solar cal-
endar. Because Shabbat to that community
meant the first Shabbat after Pesach, Shavuot
would fall on the 15th day of a solar Sivan.
Although Ethiopias Beta Israel community also
took Shabbat to refer to Pesach, it interpreted
that to mean all of the festival, and so began to
count on the day after Pesach ended, making
Sivan 12 the date for ( June 10 this year). Their Sha-
vuot, however, does not celebrate the giving of the
Torah. That festival is Sigd, which falls each year
on Cheshvan 29. (It is now a recognized national
holiday in Israel.)
This also is due to a built-in ambiguity. The
Torah refers to Shavuot as the Harvest Festival
(see Exodus 23:16), the Feast of Weeks (see Exo-
dus 34:22 and Deuteronomy 16:10) and the Day
of the First-fruits (see Numbers 28:26), but never
as the festival of the giving of our Torah. In fact,
no one seems to have referred to it by that name
before well into the second century C.E., most
likely because no one associated Shavuot with the
giving of the Torah until then.
They debated when Shavuot fell. They debated
why it was celebrated. And, absent a Temple, no
ritual attaches to it. Is it any wonder so many Jews
this week ignored it?
Rather than a Tikkun Leil Shavuot, we desper-
ately need a Tikkun Shavuot period.
JS-23*
Crazy busy
How the intensity of modern life yields to holiness once a week
I
just finished reading a book called Crazy
Busy by Edward H. Hallowell, M.D.
The good doctor, who taught at Har-
vard for 20 years, specializes in ADHD.
His theory is that our entire culture is showing
signs of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
To address folks who are overstretched, over-
booked and about to snap, he offers simple
exercises and approaches to help them slow
down and focus on whats most important. Its
a very quick read.
I paid a fine at the library, though, because I
was so busy that I didnt finish reading it by the
due date not even after renewing the book three times.
If that sounds like a bit of manufactured irony to make a
point in a column well, you give me too much credit. Im only
reporting the facts.
The most potent and disturbing line in the book comes early
on, when Hallowell reports that people who have perfectly aver-
age processing abilities have come to him almost hoping to be
diagnosed with ADHD. A diagnosis would at least explain why
they feel so frazzled and fragmented, why they are working so
hard and seemingly getting nothing accomplished. Hallowell
concludes: While some do [have ADHD], most do not. Instead,
they have a severe case of modern life.
Hardly anyone I know is immune. We are stressed by the
increased pace of life, the torrent of information coming at us,
and the unremitting demands of connectivity. It has become
strangely honorable or even admirable, in some circles, to mar-
tyr yourself to busy-ness. When I was growing up, the correct
answer to How are you? was Fine, thank you. Or, in tradi-
tional circles, Baruch Hashem/Thank God. Today, the socially
acceptable answer is Busy!
It is easy to become addicted to busy-ness. Fruitfulness is
harder to come by.
A whole new lexicon has been created to express our state of
overwhelm (a word once used as a verb or adjective, but not
a noun). We have gigaguilt if we dont stay on top of every last
email. We suffer from a new form of anxiety FOMO: fear of
missing out. Meanwhile, the speed of life that we have chosen
(or, at least, are putting up with) guarantees that we will miss out
on many of the things that really and ultimately matter: good
health, unstructured time with family, communion with God,
volunteer and mitzvah opportunities, or just sitting quietly to
dream, meditate, or think.
Hallowells book is worthwhile, but it doesnt break any new
ground. The truth is that we know what to do: prioritize, dele-
gate, say no to some things, bundle similar tasks together, carve
out time for creativity, distinguish between the important and
the urgent. Nevertheless, I was happy to pay the library fine,
because I believe that we all need regular reminders, fresh inspi-
ration, and social support for opting out of busy-ness.
Hopefully, this column serves those ends, too.
As Jews, we can find inspiration and support through some-
thing much more powerful. We have an infinite, yet neglected
source to draw upon for creating a healthy balance between
activity and rest, doing and being: Shabbos. Six days shall you
labor and do all your work, and the seventh day is a Sabbath unto
Adonai [for] God blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Time management will take you only so far. Energy manage-
ment (eating right, sleeping, exercising) will take you farther.
Habit management (creating routines to manage time and
energy) is the next step. But holiness is a game-changer.
Holiness is not a mere tool for management. It is a call on
your life.
Shabbat attends to body and soul not as means of production,
but as holy, though weary, actors. Shabbat affirms priorities that
have nothing to do with busy-ness and everything to
do with holiness. Shabbat lives (and since primor-
dial times has lived) completely outside of the busi-
ness and busyness economy.
Shabbat is not the pause that enables a produc-
tive week; it does not demand rest for the sake of
efficiency. Shabbat is the purpose and culmination
of the week. As such, it is a more powerful prescrip-
tion for our ADD culture than any other interven-
tion I know.
Time at the office can be wonderful, inventive,
creative, life-affirming. But it still is what Rabbi Zal-
man Schachter-Shalomi has called commodity
time. Shabbat is organic time. It is the time you spend sitting
and telling stories around the table; resting and playing with
your family; visiting with friends; making love with your spouse;
eating delicious, slow food (as opposed to fast food); finding
common cause in prayer, Torah, and spiritual conversations.
In the biblical 6:1 ratio, the balance between labor and rest
is in favor of melachah your lifes work. But lets not forget
that work and busy-ness are far from identical. The command-
ment is not to be busy for six days out of seven, but to do our
work. It is part of everyones life work to love your neighbor
as yourself, to care for the earth and of course there are
individual missions and job descriptions, too. I would argue
that our work includes the mitzvah of self-care. Being crazy
busy may be an unfortunate byproduct of overwork or poor
time management, but it isnt anyones idea of productivity
or contribution.
When you think of self-care not merely as necessary or even
effective, but as a mitzvah a sacred commandment then it
has a different valence. Self-care is no longer just an aid in recov-
ery or a strategy for productivity. It becomes both a duty and
a pleasure. It is a thank-you for the divine gift of life. It gives us
perspective on the purpose to which we have been consecrated.
It gives us the power and the inspiration to fulfill the words of
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and live life as if it were a work
of art.
On the bulletin board in my kitchen, amidst the school notices
and after-school schedules, are a meal rotation chart for packed
lunches and an exercise chart for the adults. Those reminders
help my family to organize our weekdays and to care for mind
and body in healthy ways. But you wont find a Shabbos obser-
vance chart. We are lucky to have experienced that mitzvah in
its fullness, and so no one in my house needs reminding. Nor
will we be tempted to cheat on our Shabbat observance (the
way we might on our diets) or just skip a week (the way I might,
when it comes to exercise). Crazy-busy loses its appeal and com-
pulsion in the face of passionate rest.
The madness of contemporary busy-ness will elicit many
wise and wonderful responses. If you seek a reprieve, no doubt
theres an app (or a few hundred) for that. This column is just a
reminder to stop and take account of our days (Psalm 90:12),
because it is all too easy to simply acclimate ourselves to societal
ADD. It seems normal to commoditize and monetize our one
irreplaceable resource: time. There is so much social support
to remain overbooked and so little support to reset priorities.
Im also offering friendly encouragement to launch the origi-
nal app for apportioning time and energy in a balanced and
meaningful way: namely, Shabbos. If you want help with that,
please feel free to contact me 24/6.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein, spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson, is also a scholar-in-residence and the author of
Lifecycles (Jewish Lights). The goal keeping her busy this year is to
free 100 contemporary slaves before Rosh Hashanah. Learn more
and join her mission at RabbiDebra.com
Rabbi Debra
Orenstein
Opinion
JS-24*
The significance
of holy gestures
Unspoken messages of the popes Israel trip
N
earl y al l Jews
and Catholics are
aware that Pope
Francis visited the
State of Israel last week, on
May 25 and May 26.
The visit was brief a mere
28 hours in Israel proper
and short on substantive dis-
cussion. Many Jews culturally
attuned to the written and spo-
ken word have interpreted the
visits brevity and its absence of
groundbreaking statements as indications of
the visits minimal importance. They couldnt
be more wrong.
In the realm of the spirit and the sphere of
human relations, gestures often speak more
loudly than verbiage, and on this visit Francis
proved a master of grand gestures, ones that
will cast strategic influence on the church,
the Jewish state, and Jewish-Catholic rela-
tions. Against the background of the long,
tortured history of Jewish-Catholic relations,
Francis visit to the Holy Land, so rich in sym-
bolism, was of momentous importance.
Most significant was Francis visit to the
grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of mod-
ern Zionism and the Jewish state. Only 110
years ago, the nave Herzl went to the Vatican
to enlist support for his idea of a Jewish state
from Pope Pius X. Herzl recorded in his diary
that Pius rebuked him harshly,
rejecting out of hand any legiti-
macy of a Jewish return to
Zion:
It is not in our power to
prevent you to go to Jerusa-
lem, but we will never give our
support. As the head of the
Church, I cannot give you any
other answer. The Jews do not
recognize our Lord, hence we
cannot recognize the Jewish
people. So when you come to
Palestine, we will be there to baptize all of
you.
Thus, when Francis paid tribute to Herzl
by laying a wreath on his grave on May 26,
this act was suffused with historical and theo-
logical meaning. In doing so, Francis was
explicitly reversing the almost 1,900-year-old
Christian theology that denied the validity of
the Jews place in history after the advent of
Christianity and the continuing living cove-
nant between the Jewish people and the God
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
While the church and Israel established
diplomatic relations some 20 years ago, Fran-
cis gesture last week told all the world loudly
that the church finally has come to terms with
the fact that Jews have come home to the land
that God promised them in the distant mists
of biblical history, that Israel is here to stay,
and that the church acknowledges that the
Jewish state is a sacred desideratum. No lon-
ger can a faithful Catholic reject Zionism and
the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
The pope also chose to be photographed in
the Palestinian territories, next to the security
barrier. As a head of state and an international
moral figure, he understood the obligation
to call attention to the plight of the Palestin-
ians. Only hard ideologues far removed from
the reality of the conflict could think that the
pope would tell the world about Jewish legiti-
macy while ignoring the hopes and welfare
of the Palestinians. He consistently preached
the message of peace and compromise dur-
ing his trip, because he knows that Palestin-
ian interests must be acknowledged for peace
to have any chance.
We also should not lose sight of the impor-
tant fact that Francis chose to make this trip
to the Holy Land his first official visit beyond
the walls of the Vatican, before America or
even his beloved home, Argentina. More-
over, Francis is the third consecutive pope
(after John Paul II in 2000 and Benedict
XVI in 2009) to visit Israel. In Jewish tradi-
tion, performing an act three times creates a
presumption (hazakah) of permanence and
regularity. While the Vatican is not bound to
this Jewish legal construct, I suspect that any
future pope will be expected to follow in the
footsteps of his three predecessors by visiting
the Jewish state. Should he choose not do so,
he will need to explain that decision to both
the Catholic world and the Jewish people.
I was honored to be part of the rabbinic
delegation that greeted Francis in Heichal
Shlomo on the morning of Monday, May
26. While the popes itinerary was tightly
scripted and carefully controlled, he nev-
ertheless arrived late at Heichal Shlomo. It
seems that he chose to linger a moment lon-
ger during his previous stop at Yad Vashem,
even kissing the hands of Holocaust survivors
he met there. It is hard to overestimate how
touched to the core Jews were by the image
of the head of the church who is consid-
ered royalty bending in humility to kiss the
hands of those elderly Jews who survived the
unspeakable tortures of the Shoah. This was
not the Ecclesia Triumphant of the past, but
a very human church humbly extending com-
passion and empathy to those Jews who were
the true suffering servants of history.
We should not misunderstand Francis
homage to the Shoah at Yad Vashem. As the
popes dear friend, Rabbi Abraham Skorka,
intimated last week, in our relations with the
1.2 billion members of Christendom, Jews
should learn to focus more on the future
than on our tragic past. I can testify person-
ally that Jewish-Catholic dialogue at its high-
est levels is turning more toward meeting the
common challenges that the future poses
to each community, rather than reviewing
our painful and tragic past, which cannot
be reversed. While continuing to revere our
ancestors and their historical experiences,
our primary religious duty today is to build
a world together that is safe for our children
and grandchildren.
It was therefore no accident that Fran-
cis deviated from his whirlwind itinerary to
pray at Jerusalems Victims of Acts of Ter-
ror Memorial, which contains the names of
hundreds of innocent Israeli citizens killed
by Arab attacks. Although these horrific ter-
rorist acts occurred in the past, it is religious
Rabbi Dr.
Eugene Korn
Here we go again
Presbyterians, BDS, and Israel
I
n the charming movie
Groundhog Day, Bill
Murrays character
repeatedly relives the
same day until learning from
the repetition transforms him
from lout to worthy wooer of
his colleague, played by Andie
MacDowell.
The Groundhog Day of
Presbyterian-Jewish relations
is coming soon to a theater
near you, but if we do not
fully engage the issue, a Hollywood ending
is unlikely.
The biennial General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church (USA) has regularly
included an unhealthy confrontation
between pro- and anti-Israel voices. This
struggle is out of sync with the norms of
American interreligious comity.
For the sixth time since 2004 this time
in Detroit on June 14-21 a minority within
the denomination will attempt to convince
fellow Presbyterians that Israeli-Palestinian
peace can be encouraged by
anti-Israel resolutions, divest-
ment from companies doing
business with Israel, boycott
of Israeli products produced
in the territories, labeling
Israel an apartheid state, and
replacing church support for a
two-state solution with a one-
state vision signifying the end
of Israel as a Jewish state.
In 2012, at the churchs last
biennial, a divestment pro-
posal was narrowly defeated by only two
votes out of 664 cast. Despite many defeats,
divestment supporters have not given up.
They are back with new tactics.
Why is this General Assembly different
from all others?
The Presbyterian BDS camp has revealed
its desperation by publishing a virulently
anti-Israel document, Zionism Unsettled:
A Congregational Study Guide, available
for sale on the Presbyterian Churchs web-
site. In this document, the churchs Israel/
Palestine Mission Network openly admits
that its argument with Israel is not about
the Israeli-Palestinian territorial dispute
but rather the entire Zionist enterprise and
Israels very existence.
This screed presents Zionism as a false
theology, heretical doctrine, evil, a
pathology, racism, colonizing and
responsible for cultural genocide.
When asked for its response to Zion-
ism Unsettled, the denominations leader-
ship said, Our Church has a long history
of engaging many points of view when it
comes to dialogue on critical issues facing
the world around us its who we are, part
of our DNA.
Really? Are there no limits? Does Pres-
byterian DNA include a document that
respected Presbyterian theologians have
labeled anti-Semitic and anti-Judaic?
While the BDS minions are harming the
Presbyterian-Jewish relationship, it is not
yet beyond repair. Jews and Presbyterians
can still prevent a minority of Presbyterians
from using the ignominious demonization
and delegitimization of Israel from driving
an irreparable wedge between the two reli-
gious communities.
First, Jews and Presbyterians must clearly
reaffirm their commitment to a two-state
solution achieved through direct negotia-
tions between Israel and the Palestinians.
That solution envisions a future Palestin-
ian state living side-by-side in peace and
security with the Jewish state of Israel. BDS,
in sharp contrast, encourages and promotes
the ideology of those who do not accept
Israels existence, and therefore it must be
rejected.
Second, Presbyterian leadership must
rein in the excesses of the Israel/Palestine
Mission Network and its fellow travelers.
To say that the network speaks to the
church but not for the church is a cop-out.
After all, the network is chartered by the
church, and its propaganda is marketed by
the church.
Similarly, BDS proponents should not be
allowed to turn General Assembly commit-
tees discussing anti-Israel initiatives into
kangaroo courts in which conclusions are
predetermined and intimidation is used to
silence other voices.
In April 2014, the assemblys committee
on Middle East issues deposed a moderator
who dared to have a relationship with his
local Jewish community and participate in
interfaith trips to Israel. Where is the fair-
ness and representativeness that are Pres-
byterian hallmarks?
Rabbi Noam
E. Marans
intolerance, terror, and intolerant exclusiv-
ism that constitute the real common threats
to both Jews and Christians alike, both today
and in the future. Recognizing and fight-
ing this violent extremism are tasks that the
church and the Jewish people must perform
to make the future safer for our two commu-
nities and for the entire human family. By
doing this together, we create a place in the
world for the God of Israel to enter.
Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn, who lives in Jerusalem
and Teaneck, is the American director of the
Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding
and Cooperation in Israel.
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Fighting back on campus
It is commendable that there are pro-
grams to educate incoming college stu-
dents about the anti-Israel arguments and
movements that they will confront when
they get to campus. But Bess Adlers essay
(Tips for fighting campus anti-Israel
activity, May 23) is regrettably meager.
As reported, StandWithUs offered
advice to address the canards about
Israel and its relationship with the Pal-
estinians. While their intent is noble,
such responses are paltry and tepid. For
examples, Ms. Adler wrote that If there is
an anti-Israel group that brings a hate-
filled speaker to campus (then) attend
the lecture with a group of friends
and ask ... questions in a polite and non-
inflammatory way. Heres another: Dur-
ing Israel Apartheid Week apartheid
walls are brought to campuses to whip
up anti-Israel sentiment The recom-
mended response? Hand out cups of
SodaStream drinks!
Such anemic suggestions trivialize the
sophistication as well as the danger of
the anti-Israel campaigns. If this is the
best that those of us who support Israel
can offer our young adults as they head
for increasingly hostile campuses, we are
appallingly impotent.
Here is what we ought to be doing.
There should be full-size posters of a
bombed bus; there are many to choose
from: #5, #37, #142, #960 are just a few,
each graphically showing the very real
danger that Israelis have had to live with.
Every reference to the death of Rachel
Corrie should be met with tall posters
of all the Israeli Rachels who have been
killed in terrorist attacks. Large poster-
boards should be erected showing the
dramatic decrease in the number of Chris-
tians left in Bethlehem since the 2000
second intifada. Condemnations of the
Israeli military should be compared with
the vicious Syrian government attacks on
its own people. A list of beheadings per-
petrated by Islamic extremists on Chris-
tians the numbers are in the many hun-
dreds should be distributed everywhere
calls for BDS are made.
The pro-Israel community must be
much more assertive in pointing out the
rabid savagery of Islamic extremists and
the duplicity of their defenders. Suggest-
ing that our college students can refute
bigotry with cordial conversation and let-
ters to their college newspaper is a feeble
and ineffectual response.
Norman Levin
Director, Emet uMishpat
Teaneck
Price of conformity
I read with interest the story of one
mother who is home-schooling her chil-
dren (No school like home, May 23).
My first thought was Power to her. Then
came the usual Jewish narishkeit about
not wanting others to know, because it
will cause her and her family to be outside
the Jewish mainstream day schools and
yeshivot. Has Judaism made us a herd of
sheep, trying to keep others from know-
ing what they do privately or what they
do differently or whether or not their kids
have special needs?
The secrecy attached to so many sub-
jects in the Jewish community is frighten-
ing. It reeks of people hidden in attics if
they were mentally ill. It reeks of the sin
of having a baby without a father.
It reeks of not being observant enough,
or not belonging to the right synagogue,
or not having the biggest McMansion in
town. It reeks of a mentality of conformity
that is detrimental to the Jewish people.
No one dares step out of the line. If they
do, they will be ostracized by their neigh-
bors and so-called friends. People will
borrow on their homes, to have the big-
gest and best bnai mitvot and weddings,
and then sadly spend their lives making
up for it.
As much as so many things have come
out of the closet, the Jews are so drawn
to conformity that it surpasses religion,
and turns instead to regulating personal
choices, which have no place in a com-
munity that thrives on everyone being the
same. I have never understood this men-
tality, and I live smack in the middle of it.
Sandra Steuer Cohen
Teaneck
FDR failed the Jews
In FDR and the Jews, Breitman & Lich-
tmans questionable conclusion is that
FDR did more than any other world
leader to save the Jews of Europe. Jona-
than Lazarus offered a balanced review of
the book (May 23).
FDR was revered by Jews during his life-
time and generally treated with kid gloves
by most historians of the 20th century.
Its not that FDR did nothing to save
Jews, its that he did not do enough.
FDR was told about the genocidal plans
of Hitler and his henchmen, so it was not
for lack of knowledge. But tragically FDR
failed to comprehend that he was dealing
with the greatest crime in the history of
mankind, and he failed to exert the moral
leadership and take the necessary actions
to save Jewish lives.
Britain had its Kindertransport, which
saved 10,000 children. Sen. Wagner pro-
posed a similar plan to bring 20,000 chil-
dren to America but without FDRs impri-
matur, it never happened.
FDR and the U.S. Coast Guard knew
about the St Louis as its heroic captain
cruised Floridas coast, desperately look-
ing for a port of entry. With Americas
doors shut tight, it was forced to return to
Europe. Ultimately 254 passengers died.
In an unusual show of unity, 400
Orthodox rabbis peacefully marched
on the White House in 1943 to plead for
American help for the Jews of Europe.
Roosevelt discreetly left through the
back door, without meeting the delega-
tion. (Vice President Wallace did meet
them but was powerless.)
Breckinridge Long was an immigra-
tion obstructionist who amassed great
power in the State Department. Immi-
gration quotas were consistently under-
filled while thousands clamored for
entry. But Long was an old Roosevelt
crony and political appointee who could
and should have been axed.
There are many more examples I can
cite. I urge every reader to do your own
reading and careful study of documents
that are available at FDR archives at
Hyde Park, the U.S. Holocaust Museum,
David Wyman Institute, and elsewhere,
and come to your own conclusions.
FDRs inaction and indifference on
behalf of the Jews of Europe does not
minimize the legislative accomplish-
ments of the New Deal and FDRs role
as wartime commander in chief, but it
does greatly tarnish Roosevelts reputa-
tion and brings to question his historical
legacy.
Charles Cohen
Fair Lawn
Volunteers demeaned
With regard to the controversial deci-
sion of Temple Emeth to close their
nursery school, I have no present or
past affiliation with Temple Emeth,
nor have my children ever attended
the nursery school (Do empty pockets
make cold hearts, May 30).
I am cognizant of the sometimes chal-
lenging decisions that synagogue boards
must make; I served on the board of
a local synagogue for many years. I
believe that the overwhelming major-
ity of synagogue board members take
their charge seriously and are commit-
ted to acting in the best interest of the
synagogue. Although synagogue boards
are not perfect, the overriding objective
when the board formulates a decision is
for the process to be fair.
I particularly take exception to Rabbi
Bellino, who was quoted as characteriz-
ing synagogue volunteers as incompe-
tent. It would appear that the rabbi was
speaking out of personal anger and cer-
tainly not with any measured restraint,
as you would expect if he were speak-
ing from the pulpit. His comments were
demeaning and mean-spirited to all
dedicated, committed, and responsible
volunteer synagogue board members.
Furthermore, he continued to vent by
taking a cheap shot at the irrelevant
future status of Temple Emeth, which
serves no meaningful purpose other
than to divide and inflame the very
community in which he lives.
Perhaps some of the incompetent
synagogue volunteers in this rabbis
synagogue will have an opportunity to
learn about his offensive and insensitive
comments.
Marc Sapin
River Edge
Rabbi Eugene Korn greeted Pope
Francis at Heichal Shlomo. EUGENE KORN
Third, Jewish religious leaders and lay-
people are encouraged to reach out to
their Presbyterian friends clergy and lay
and tell them what is being done in their
name.
Let them know how central Israel is to
your Jewishness and how hurtful this pro-
cess has been. Make sure they know of the
Jewish commitment to peace and security
for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Like Americans as a whole, American
Christians overwhelmingly support the
State of Israel, whose values and aspirations
for peace they share. Presbyterians in the
pews are no exception.
But with the tacit approval from the
churchs leadership, a vocal minority has
dominated the conversation. This minority
cannot be allowed to turn back the clock on
Presbyterian-Jewish relations.
Its time for Presbyterians and Jews to
reclaim their historic alliance on issues of
mutual interest, including working together
for Israeli-Palestinian peace. That would be
a Hollywood ending or, in this case, a
beginning. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Rabbi Noam E. Marans of Teaneck is the
American Jewish Committees director of
interreligious and intergroup relations.
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LARRY YUDELSON
I
n the May 1944, Itzhak Bash and
299 other Jewish engineers were
removed from Auschwitz and taken
to work at a Volkswagen factory that
was assembling the V-1 flying bomb.
He had been a textile engineer in
Hungary before the Nazis invaded and
deported the Jews, but the Germans
didnt need his specific technical skills;
they wanted slave laborers they could
trust with careful work. The first V-1s from
occupied France landed on London on
June 13, 1944. As the Allies pushed into
France, Mr. Bash was switched to work on
the V-2, the first rocket to reach the edge of
space. By the wars end, more than 3,000
V-2 rockets had been launched.
Mr. Bash was one of the lucky hundred
men who had survived from the original
group of 300 engineers. Some were killed
by Allied raids; others by the conditions at
the work camps.
His wife and child were not so fortunate.
They never made it out of Auschwitz.
After the war Mr. Bash made his way
to Israel. Meanwhile, the V-2s designer,
Wern her von Braun, was brought to Amer-
ica to head the program that would put a
man on the moon in 1969.
In Israel, Mr. Bash began a second fam-
ily, and eventually made a sort of peace
with Germany, even returning to the Volks-
wagen factory as part of a delegation from
the Histradrut labor union.
Now, seven decades after he helped
Nazis send rockets to kill Londoners, his
grandson, Yariv, is leading an Israeli effort
to put a spaceship on the moon.
Yariv Bash, 34, trained as an electrical
engineer at Tel Aviv University inspired
in part by his late grandfather.
In 2007, Google announced its LunarX
Prize. It was part of its effort to support
radical breakthroughs for the benefit of
humanity, thereby inspiring the formation
of new industries and the revitalization of
markets that are currently stuck due to
existing failures or a commonly held belief
that a solution is not possible. The com-
pany pledged $20 million to the first non-
governmental group that landed a space-
craft on the moon, traveled 500 meters
(more than a quarter mile), and sent back
high resolution video. At the time, it had
been more than 30 years since the last
lunar landing, made by an unmanned
Soviet craft.
Three years later, as the closing date
for entries approached, the younger Bash
heard about the contest. He posted to
Facebook: I want to enter. Whos with me?
Before long, Yariv Bash had registered
the SpaceIL domain name. He and two
friends sat in a Tel Aviv pub, sketching out
the first plans for what became a multimil-
lion project to send an Israeli spacecraft to
the moon.
We were a bit overly optimistic, he said
last week. He was in Paramus, speaking at
the Frisch School, part of a promotional
Blue and white moon
Israeli lunar mission makes stop in Paramus
Yariv Bash describes
the lunar mission at the
Frisch School in Paramus.
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visit to the United States that also included
a float in Sundays Celebrate Israel parade.
Israel was the eighth country to send a
satellite into orbit, with the 1988 launch of
its Ofek reconnaissance craft. One of the
friends, Yonatan Winetraub, is a space
engineer, with experience in Israels space
program. His connection to Israels space
industry helped, but even more cru-
cial to their effort was Israels small size
and famed informality. The three began
approaching Israels leaders. Amazingly,
they all said, yes, well help you reach the
moon, Mr. Bash recounted.
Imagine three young engineers
approaching the head of NASA, he said.
But the chairman of the Israeli Space
Agency, Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, agreed to
meet with them.
Hes a very tachlis guy, said Mr. Bash,
using the Hebrew word for practical.
Three minutes in to the meeting, he
grabbed my laptop and started moving the
slides on his own.
He said: Guys, it will cost more than
you think, it will take more time, but I read
you.
And a month later, SpaceIL was given
a 15-minute slot at Israels annual space
conference.
By chance and Israeli chutzpah we just
got started, Mr. Bash said.
The approach worked. The head of the
Weizmann Institute later said that he was
approached by three young engineers who
wanted to put Israel on the moon. How
could we say no to that?
Its part of the Israeli experience, Mr.
Bash said.
President Shimon Peres has joined the
project, as has Rona Ramon, the widow of
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.
Now, SpaceIL is operating out of Tel
Aviv University, which gives it the space
for free, and has 20 full-time employees.
When Google launched the prize, only
two nations had landed a craft on the
moon. Last December, China became
the third, with its Change lander. Spa-
ceIL hopes Israel will become the fourth
to make a soft landing, or the seventh to
make a crash landing.
We would rather be the fourth.
SpaceIL is one of 18 teams now in the
competition. Several are from the United
States or are multinational. Other coun-
tries with national teams competing
include Malaysia, Japan, Germany, Spain,
Hungary, Brazil, Canada, Chile, and India.
SpaceIL is incorporated as a nonprofit
organization. In addition to designing,
building, and launching the spacecraft, the
organization has a goal of raising excite-
ment and awareness about space and engi-
neering among Israeli children.
Mr. Bash talks about the Apollo effect,
by which the moon shots of the 1960s
motivated a generation of scientists and
engineers.
Its not just about winning, he said.
The three founders of SpaceIL pose with a model of the craft they hope to land on the moon. From left, Kfir Damari, Yona-
ton Winetraub, and Yariv Bash.
Left, SpaceIL founder Yariv Bash shows an audience
at the Frisch School a picture of his grandfather
Itzhak Bash. The elder Bash, above, worked as a
slave laborer in a Nazi factory making V-2 rockets.
Yariv Bash describes
the lunar mission at the
Frisch School in Paramus.
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ish people.
SpaceILs largest single dona-
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whose foundation announced a
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But SpaceIL wants widespread
support as well. It is hosting a fun-
draising campaign on IndieGoGo;
it is trying to raise $240,000, one
dollar for every mile to the moon.
Supporters who donate $18 will
be able to send a 140 character
message to the moon on a special
chip within the ship. People who
donate more can get souvenir
shirts, or, for $1,800, a chance to
have a message engraved on the
spaceship itself. For $100,000,
they can get a seat in the SpaceIL
control room on launch day.
The first space race pitted two
large government bureaucracies against each other, as
the Soviet Union competed against NASA. Now, while
China and India are beginning their own governmental
space race, in the West the focus has shifted to private
and flamboyant enterprise. Richard Branson, founder
of Virgin Atlantic airlines, has been taking reservations
for future suborbital trips through his Virgin Galactic
company. Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder
of SpaceX, unveiled the companys Dragon 2 capsule,
designed to ferry up to seven astronauts to the Interna-
tional Space Station and perhaps beyond. (Despite his
Israeli sounding name, Mr. Musk is not Jewish.) And sev-
eral crowd-funded efforts on IndieGoGo and Kickstarter
have offered space enthusiasts the opportunity to sup-
port space flight, control their own orbital experiments,
and even have photographs taken in space.
At this stage, Mr. Bash believes that his team is the
furthest along. And even if it is not, even if someone
else beats us to the moon, it will probably be a private
team in the States, so we will still be the fourth nation
to land gently on it.
SpaceIL has a design for the spaceship, which it has
named Sparrow. It will weigh about 300 pounds at
launch and stand a bit over three feet tall the size of
a small dishwasher.
Construction has begun. In December, SpaceIL signed
a contract with Israel Aircraft Industries for the propul-
sion system. That system, and its fuel, will make up 80
percent of the satellites weight at launch. With the 88
pounds remaining, SpaceIL will squeeze in navigation,
which can control its journey by looking at the stars
and recognizing landmarks on the moon; broadcasting
equipment to beam the message back to earth; and fuel
to make a second 500 meter hop because why would
an Israeli mission send a rover if the ship itself could
make a shortcut?
Now, the organization is focusing on buying a launch
spot. There are a handful of countries and companies
offering launch service.
You cant secure a launch on eBay, said Mr. Bash.
You have to do a lot of email and tours and meetings all
over the world, until you find the right opportunity for
your spacecraft.
No launches from Cape Canaveral are available to be
booked, he said; a launch from the Baikonur Cosmo-
drome in Kazakhstan remains a possibility.
He said he expects the launch to cost $10 million, but
it can change quite a bit. SpaceILs overall budget is $36
million. And if it wins the $20 million Google contest, it
will plow the proceeds back into its educational work.
SpaceIL is not buying a launch from the Israeli Space
Agency; the agencys Shavit rockets are designed for low
earth orbit only. In addition, Israel is unique in launch-
ing its rockets from east to west, rather than the reverse.
This is not because of Hebrew going from right left, jokes
Mr. Bash, but because our neighbors wouldnt appreci-
ate us launching modified ICBMs above them.
Launching against earths rotation makes orbit 30 per-
cent harder to achieve, or requires the satellites to be 30
percent smaller. Out of that came the Israeli know-how
for microsatellites, he said.
Thats particularly important for the lunar lander,
because building a bigger satellite isnt just a matter of
packing more pounds worth of payload on a rocket. A
more powerful moon craft also would bring an added
layer of paperwork, since it would fall under arms trea-
ties regulating intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The direct flight from earth orbit to the lunar orbit
will take three or four days. The whole voyage will be
longer, though. After being launched into earth orbit,
the mission will wait until the moon is in the right align-
ment. And once it is orbiting the moon, there will be a
further delay until it is in the right position to land. Total
expected time: roughly one month.
There will be simulations before the launch. For a
month, the avionics, the computer, and the spacecraft
will be fed data so they believe theyre flying to the
moon. Its a real simulation. Its almost like flying to
the moon, Mr. Bash said.
Still: Theres nothing like going up.
But Mr. Bashs biggest journey may have come about
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D-Day and the
bombing of Auschwitz
S
eventy years ago this week, the Allies staged the
D-Day invasion, landing some 24,000 troops on
the beaches along Frances Normandy Coast in
one of the major turning points of World War II.
What is not widely realized, however, is that the D-Day
assault on June 6, 1944, also had an important link to the
fate of Europes Jewsand in particular to the contro-
versy over the Allies refusal to bomb Auschwitz.
Apologists for the Roosevelt administrations failure to
bomb the death camps often point to the fact that Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the U.S. military were preoccupied
with D-Day. We are talking about the summer of 1944,
Roosevelt Institute president
William vanden Heuvel has
emphasized. [Because of ]
the invasion of Normandy
on June 6th American and
our allies were stretched dan-
gerously across western and
southern Europe.
But that argument mixes
apples and oranges. The
bombers that would have
been used to strike Auschwitz
would have had to come from
the 15th U.S. Air Force, which
was based in Italy. They were the ones closest enough
for such a mission and they had almost nothing to do
with the D-Day preparations.
Moreover, Allied planes were flying over Auschwitz
long before D-Day. Starting in February 1944 four
months before the Normandy landings Allied photo-
recon planes based in southern Italy began carrying out
surveillance missions over Auschwitz.
This Allied surveillance was focused on a cluster of syn-
thetic oil factories that the Germans set up in that area,
some of them within the greater Auschwitz complex and
operating on Jewish slave labor. Several of the plants were
situated less than five miles from the gas chambers and
crematoria. On May 12, British bombers carried out the
first raid in what was to become known as the oil war.
The oil plants represented a high-priority military
target for the Allies because the Germans desperately
needed them to sustain the Axis war effort. It was in part
because of their dwindling oil supplies that the German
air force, the Luftwaffe, was unable to take part in the
defense of the Normandy region when the Allies landed.
During the entire first day of the invasion, enemy
opposition in the air, fighter or bomber, was next to
nil, Gen. Carl Spaatz, the commander of U.S. Army Air
Forces in the theater, noted in a postwar interview. That
was a major reason why the D-Day invasion succeeded,
and why fewer than 4,000 Allied soldiers lost their lives
at Normandy.
Spaatz directed the Allies oil-war offensive. In the
summer of 1944, he clashed with Chief of Staff Gen-
eral Dwight Eisenhower, after Eisenhower repeatedly
diverted bombers from the oil attacks to the Normandy
region to support the Allied advances following D-Day.
Spaatz was furious over the diversions and ultimately
threatened to resign, forcing Eisenhower to relent.
Ironically, at the very same time Eisenhower and
Spaatz were arguing about diverting planes from the oil
war, the diversion argument became the centerpiece in
the controversy over whether or not the United States
should bomb Auschwitz.
American Jewish leaders who urged the Roosevelt
administration to bomb the death camp or the railways
leading to it were told by Assistant Secretary of War John
McCloy that such bombings would be impracticable.
McCloy claimed that the War Department conducted a
study of the feasibility of the proposal and concluded
it would require diversion of U.S. bombers from battle
zones elsewhere in Europe.
In fact, no such study was conducted, and as the War
Department knew, American and British planes were
bombing the Auschwitz area regularly as part of the oil
war. In other words, the bombers were already there
the claim that they would have to be diverted from the
war effort was false, Stuart Erdheim, director of They
Looked Away, a documentary film about the question
of bombing Auschwitz, said. Spaatz himself was fight-
ing with Eisenhower to keep American bombers in the
Auschwitz area to target the oil factories and Spaatz
won that argument.
The irony is painful: while the Roosevelt administra-
tion was claiming it could not divert planes to go to Aus-
chwitz, the only actual diversion was when Eisenhower
diverted American planes away from Auschwitz.
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on fading city
$11 million hub envisioned for Wilkes-Barre
URIEL HEILMAN
WILKES-BARRE, PA. There once was
a time when the Jewish community in this
Pennsylvania city just west of the Pocono
Mountains was thriving.
That much is clear from a quick tour. The
sanctuary at the local Orthodox synagogue,
Ohav Zedek, seats nearly 1,000. Temple
Israel, the Conservative shul, has two huge
buildings, a hulking sanctuary and a three-
story school. Theres a Jewish day school, a
JCC with its own bowling alley, and a Reform
synagogue with many sanctuaries.
But theres also ample evidence that the
Jewish heyday is long gone.
At the JCC, the six-lane basement bowling
alley went dark years ago, shoes and balls sit-
ting in their places as if frozen in time. Mold is
growing on the ceiling at the four-lane indoor
pool, and though theres a lifeguard and its
mid-afternoon, nobody is swimming.
The day school, United Hebrew Institute,
left its 17,000-square-foot building in 2010 for
a smaller space in the JCC. Now down to just
six students and with its endowment gone,
the school will cease operations later this
month.
Most Saturdays, fewer than 20 of Ohav
Zedeks 940 seats are occupied. At the Con-
servative synagogue, the daily minyan has
been trimmed to three days a week; the aver-
age congregant is over 60.
Home decades ago to an estimated 6,000
to 7,000 Jews, Wilkes-Barre today has fewer
than 1,800 Jews left.
Yet the Jewish federation here is about to
launch an audacious new fundraising cam-
paign to raise $6 million for the construction
of an $11 million Jewish community campus.
The planned Center for Jewish Life, located
about a mile away from the JCC and just
across the Susquehanna River in Kingston,
will house a new JCC, the federation, and
Temple Israels offices and congregational
school to start. The hope is that other local
Jewish institutions eventually will move in,
too, making the consolidated site the hub of
the Jewish community in Luzerne County.
This old mining city nestled in Pennsyl-
vanias Wyoming Valley is hardly the only
shrinking Jewish community in America try-
ing to figure out how to survive. But its plan
for warding off its demise is unusual.
Its a very exciting project, said Chuck
Cohen, a dental products manufacturer who
is a main backer, along with local business-
men Paul Lantz and Rob Friedman. The three
bought the 13-acre property on Third Avenue
in Kingston several years ago after a Price
The population of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., located about 120 miles west of New York,
is less than half what it was in 1930.
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and the site went into bankruptcy.
In their view, the new campus is a one-
size-fits-all solution. The old JCC is expen-
sive to maintain, lacks adequate parking
and a regulation-size pool, and would cost
$4 million to upgrade. A new JCC, they say,
can attract and retain new members.
Other Jewish institutions in town nota-
bly, the synagogues also are housed in
aging structures that are expensive to main-
tain and ill suited to the diminished size of
their constituencies, the projects backers
say. Putting those institutions into smaller
spaces in a modern facility would reduce
maintenance costs and make more sense in
the long term, they argue.
We think it works if the community
gets smaller or gets larger, Mr. Lantz said.
Putting in more money will help us oper-
ate more profitably and attract people into
town. And even if we continue to shrink for
a while, it will be more affordable to the
community.
But not everyone in town thinks its a
good idea to spend millions building a new
Jewish campus for a shrinking community.
What do we need a new one for? said
Shirley Schoenholtz, a longtime commu-
nity member who works at the JCC. We
got a pool, we have a gym. Its perfectly
fine. Im happy here.
Rabbi Raphael Nemetsky, Ohav Zedeks
departing rabbi, says the notion that a
new facility will help draw Jews to town is
far-fetched.
Its hard for me to see how its going to
work, he said. Outside of a temporary
blip, sustainability is not dependent on
how nice the facility is and how much pro-
gramming there is. I dont think thats the
staying power of the Jewish community.
It would be better to spend money to
help attract businesses to the area that
would employ Jews, he said.
Mr. Cohen acknowledges that even if the
Jewish campus is a success, Wilkes-Barres
Jewish community is unlikely to grow. But
hes not thinking about serving only Wilkes-
Barres Jews.
The model were pursuing is the
Hebrew National model: Weve got kosher
hot dogs, but not all our members purchas-
ing hot dogs are Jewish, Mr. Cohen said. I
think it will always be a JCC with Jewish pro-
grams, but it will also attract people from
outside the community.
The planners envision remodeling the
old Price Chopper building into a JCC
and adding a swimming pool and bas-
ketball courts. The offices of the federa-
tion and Jewish Family Services, which
formally merged with the JCC in January
2013 to become the Jewish Community
Alliance of Northeastern Pennsylvania,
will be onsite. Chabads growing cheder
school, now a tenant of the JCC, also will
move to the new site.
The architectural plans, which are
not yet finalized, are designed to leave
flexibility so other institutions can join
(and build at their own expense) later.
So when Temple Israel decides it can-
not afford to keep its 525-seat sanctuary,
for example, the shul can sell its build-
ing and build a smaller sanctuary on the
campus. Because it will be attached to the
JCC, there wont be a need to build such
supplementary facilities as bathrooms, a
kitchen, or meeting rooms.
Were not a growing community, Mr.
Cohen said. Were vibrant, were engaged,
but were an aging community with aging
infrastructure and an aging population.
The question is, how can we build an
infrastructure for the community to thrive?
We believe this could be a model for many
communities going forward.
Temple Israel is the only other institu-
tion that has committed to join the new
site. And even Temple Israel is moving
only its administrative offices and twice-
a-week Hebrew school, not the synagogue
itself, and the move is being done on a
three-year trial basis.
At this point, were going to see how
things go in the new setting; were not
going to sell the school building, said Rabbi
Larry Kaplan of Temple Israel. And were
going to keep our davening in the sanctuary
of our historic building in Wilkes-Barre.
But Rosemary Chromey, the synagogues
president, suggested that the day might
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come when a diminished congregation
would move, too.
Temple Israel as a congregation will be
around hopefully forever, but maybe not
at the current location, she said. Theres
always the possibility that you need to
downsize 50 years from now if the com-
munity shrinks.
With an eye toward that same fate, even
the leaders of the other Jewish institutions
in town that have rejected the move for
now arent ruling it out for the future.
Right now we really like our building,
said Rabbi Roger Lerner of Temple Bnai
Brith, a 168-year-old Reform congregation
in Kingston. But, he added, if we need to
move in 20 or 30 or 40 years, itll be there.
Jews arent the only group struggling
in Wilkes-Barre. The citys population is
less than half what it was in the 1930s,
the population of Luzerne County is in
decline, and the unemployment rate in
the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area is roughly
15 percent above the national average,
and the highest among Pennsylvanias 14
largest markets.
The citys most severe blow came in
1972, when Hurricane Agnes caused the
Susquehanna River to overflow, flooding
Wilkes-Barres downtown in 9 feet of water
and damaging or destroying 25,000 homes
and businesses. Like many other structures
in the city, Jewish institutions were reno-
vated after the flood and in many cases
updated since. That makes it more difficult
to convince them to abandon their build-
ings to join the new campus.
When Temple Bnai Brith informally
surveyed its 150 families to gauge interest,
the buildings good condition and the syna-
gogues healthy finances convinced mem-
bers to stay put.
For me whats really important is being
able to keep your identity and not lose it
in another institution, Rabbi Lerner said.
As nice as it would be to join the campus,
I think for us here its important to have a
little separation.
Ohav Zedek is the more likely candidate
for a move. Most of its regulars already live
in Kingston and hold a Shabbat minyan in
a private home there because its too far to
walk to Ohav Zedek in Wilkes-Barre. Talks
are serious enough that the two sides have
discussed design specifications that would
enable Orthodox Jews coming to pray on
Shabbat to avoid having to walk past a park-
ing lot in use for the JCC, which is expected
to be open on Saturdays.
The new campus still is not a done deal.
The sponsors say they have to raise 80
percent of its $6 million fundraising goal
before construction can begin. Thats a
tall order in a town where the federations
annual campaign typically brings in about
$500,000.
The balance of the $11 million or so (pre-
cise costs have yet to be finalized) will come
at no cost to the community: The three
families that bought the new site, now val-
ued at $2 million, will donate it, more than
$1 million in state gambling funds has been
secured, and an additional $1 million is
expected from the sale of the old JCC build-
ing. Parts of the new campus also may be
rented out to other tenants or sold off.
If Wilkes-Barres Jews dont get started
on the project now, according to Temple
Israels Rabbi Kaplan, they wont be able to
build it later.
This is clearly the last opportunity for
our community as its structured now to do
this, he said. We do anticipate a further
decline in our demographics. If we dont do
this now, its not going to be able to happen
in 10 years not just because there wont
be as many people, but because there
wont be as many givers.
Mr. Cohen believes that the new campus
is a matter of survival.
Weve looked at the models of com-
munities that go out of business, he
said. We do not want to be a commu-
nity that dies off. JTA WIRE SERVICE
The 525-seat sanctuary at Temple Israel is one of many signs of Wilkes-Barres
once-thriving Jewish community. These days the synagogue is mostly empty
on Shabbat, and the average congregants age is above 60.
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Shul caught in scandal, school closes
Conservative Jews reeling in Sharon, Mass.
URIEL HEILMAN
I
ts been a rough few weeks for Conservative Jews
in the Boston suburbs known as the South Area.
First, Rabbi Barry Starr, the longtime spiritual
leader of Temple Israel of Sharon, resigned amid
allegations that he used synagogue discretionary funds to
pay about $480,000 in hush money to an extortionist to
hide a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
Then came the news that the areas only Conserva-
tive Jewish day school, the Kehillah Schechter Acad-
emy of nearby Norwood, will be shutting down at
the end of the school year. With the next-closest non-
Orthodox day school more than 45 minutes away, it
doesnt leave a whole lot of options for South Area
Conservative Jews notably in Sharon, the single larg-
est source of KSAs students.
Its a double whammy for me personally because Im a
member of the shul, said Gregg Rubenstein, KSAs board
president. But the temple will survive. Its not an institu-
tion-threatening incident. The school, on the other hand,
is disappearing.
Like Mr. Rubenstein, many KSA parents also are mem-
bers of the scandal-plagued Temple Israel.
Now some community members are trying to salvage
some good news with a campaign to create a new local
pluralistic day school to replace KSA.
Dubbed Ner Tamid Hebrew for eternal flame the
school is still in its embryonic stages. It doesnt have a
site, nor is it clear if theres a viable business model. Plus,
many KSA students, who represent the target population
of the new school, already are in the process of enrolling
at other schools for next year.
But Elana Margolis, a school parent whose husband
also works at KSA, says shes determined to give it a try.
Just because the school has decided to close doesnt
mean there wont be Jewish educational options in this
area, said Ms. Margolis, who is also the associate direc-
tor of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater
Boston. We feel its important for our community to have
something local. We think crisis breeds opportunity. This
is time for a rebirth, a reboot.
At Temple Israel, community members are still
absorbing the shock of learning that Rabbi Starr, the
synagogues leader for 28 years, was having an extra-
marital affair with a teenage boy and apparently
had used money from the rabbis discretionary fund
to keep his secret from getting out.
The man who allegedly was blackmailing Rabbi Starr
has been identified as Nicholas Zemeitus, 29. The allega-
tions emerged from court papers amid an investigation by
the Norfolk district attorney, but the facts remain unclear.
Congregants learned of the affair from an email the
rabbi sent to community members several weeks ago
explaining what he had done, expressing his deep
regrets, and announcing his resignation. Since then, the
synagogue has held two congregation-wide meetings to
Parents and teachers of the closing Kehillah Schechter Academy meet in Easton, Mass., to discuss launching a
new area day school. DEVORAH DANIELS
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discuss the situation: one led by the presi-
dent in the immediate aftermath of the rev-
elations and one a grief-counseling session
led by a professional.
Sheldon Kriegel, a retired dentist who
has been a Temple Israel member for about
15 years, said the feeling in the community
is more shock and grief than anger.
People dont seem to be angry at all,
theyre just upset. He was very loved,
Dr. Kriegel said. There are people who
said to me that if he wanted to come back,
even after all this, theyd welcome him.
People arent really blaming him for it,
even though he takes responsibility for his
actions.
Rabbi Starr had been a well-respected
Conservative leader, a past president of
the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis and
a one-time member of the chancellors
rabbinic cabinet at the Jewish Theological
Seminary.
Since his departure, the shul has been
led by the cantor, a rabbi who had led
overflow High Holiday services for the
synagogue, and Rabbi Ed Gelb, a Temple
Israel congregant who also is the direc-
tor of Camp Ramah in New England.
Rabbi Starr had announced his inten-
tion to retire and move to Florida some
time ago, so the synagogue already had
started thinking about its next move. But
the abrupt resignation caught practically
everyone by surprise.
In contrast to the rabbi scandal, KSAs
demise was not a surprise. For the last
few years, the K-8 school part of the
Solomon Schechter network of Conserva-
tive Jewish day schools was struggling
financially. After the 2008 recession dealt
a severe blow to many school families,
KSA responded by holding down tuition
costs and increasing financial assistance.
Those moves helped preserve the student
body but they came at a high cost to the
schools bottom line.
When it became clear over the last
three years that the model was not sus-
tainable, tuition rose, financial assistance
dried up, and staff was laid off. As a conse-
quence, students began leaving in droves.
The student body fell to 110 this year from
240 three years ago, with most of the
departing students transferring to local
public and non-Jewish private schools.
It led to this downward cycle they
couldnt get out of, said Gil Preuss, the
executive vice president of Bostons Jewish
federation, Combined Jewish Philanthro-
pies, which supported KSA. They actually
were able to maintain a very high-quality
education throughout this time, but they
couldnt get on top of the finances fund-
raising and tuition to support it.
KSAs board made clear several weeks
ago that 82 students needed to enroll by
mid-May if the school were to stay open
for next year. Only 73 signed up.
The closure announcement came May
15. Now the school, which was founded in
1989 as the South Area Solomon Schech-
ter Day School, is making a final fundrais-
ing push just to make its payroll through
the summer. Combined Jewish Philan-
thropies is kicking in $50,000 to help the
transition, including funding for the trans-
portation of students to other Boston-area
day schools.
KSAs closure comes at a particularly
high cost for Ariel Margolis, Elana Margo-
lis husband. As a science teacher and par-
ent of two KSA students, hes losing both
his job and his kids school.
Since the closure announcement, Mr.
Margolis has been working double time
trying to launch Ner Tamid. He hopes
that between ex-KSA students, unaffili-
ated Jews, and online students who would
Skype in for select classes, the new school
could have the critical mass it needs to
survive. He also wants to keep tuition at
$12,000 per year. Thats about half the
annual fee at KSA.
I want every kid who wants a day
school education to receive it, Mr. Margo-
lis said. We fully believe that this is going
to happen, that this is going to emerge.
The odds are not in Ner Tamids favor,
Mr. Preuss suggested.
Its a tough model. A lot of schools that
are smaller than 125 or 100 students strug-
gle financially, he said. Small schools
need to be very lean in terms of overhead
and facilities. Theyre in a very tough situ-
ation in competing for families and pro-
viding a high-quality education.
With not very many days left before the
start of the new school term, Ariel Mar-
golis figures he has two to eight weeks to
figure out whether the plan is viable. The
school already is scouting out possible
sites at area synagogues Temple Israel
is one place being considered. Twelve
families showed up to New Tamids first
parlor meeting, and another meeting was
planned for a few days later.
Were very hopeful, but were being
very honest when we talk to perspective
families, telling them not to put all your
eggs in one basket, Ariel Margolis said.
We have our work cut out for us.
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Former Knesset speaker Reuven
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as a staunch defender of democratic
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liberties.
Mr. Rivlins record earned his presi-
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the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz, which
cited his niceness. Mr. Netanyahus
backing, however, was seen as given
more reluctantly. Mr. Rivlin, who has
had a sometimes acrimonious rela-
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Edelstein.
As speaker, Mr. Rivlin broke with the
Likud-led coalition in 2011 in oppos-
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boycott of goods produced in Israeli
settlements, explaining in an op-ed that
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into an era in which gagging people
becomes accepted legal practice.
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the Knesset from stripping an Arab-
Israeli lawmaker of her parliamentary
privileges as punishment for partici-
pating in the flotilla operation to break
Israels blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Shmuel Sandler, a political science
professor at Bar-Ilan University, said
that as Knesset speaker Mr. Rivlin
treated parliamentarians fairly regard-
less of party affiliation.
He created a precedent that you
cant be overly biased, Dr. Sandler
said.
But Mr. Rivlin has taken a hard line
on official Israeli recognition of non-
Orthodox streams of Judaism.
In a Knesset session last month, Mr.
Rivlin said that if Reform or Conserva-
tive conversion standards are adopted,
determining Jewish status becomes a
civic definition rather than a religious
definition.
I have no doubt, and my positions
are known, that the status of Judaism
according to halachah [ Jewish law] is
what has kept us going for 3,800 years,
Mr. Rivlin said in a Knesset speech in
2006. Besides it there is nothing.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the former presi-
dent of the Union for Reform Judaism,
recalls meeting with Mr. Rivlin upon his
first run for Israels presidency in 2007.
Rabbi Yoffie asked Mr. Rivlin whether,
as president, he would recognize Rabbi
Yoffie as a rabbi. Mr. Rivlin declined to
answer.
Hes a traditional Jew who isnt sym-
pathetic to Reform, Rabbi Yoffie said.
That hasnt changed. But I do expect
candidates for president to act in an
appropriate and respectful manner to
all elements of the Jewish world.
Religious pluralism issues have been
a point of recurring conflict in Israel-
diaspora relations.
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice
president of the Conservative move-
ments Rabbinical Assembly, said that
Mr. Rivlins comments about Reform
rabbis were absolutely unacceptable,
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American Jewish organizations such as
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have made clear their concerns about
how the non-Orthodox streams of Juda-
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There are political figures in Israel
who certainly call us rabbi. That
doesnt mean they have done anything
to change the law: making state funding
of religion available to everyone on an
equal basis or having no state funding
of religion.
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the
Union for Reform Judaism, declined to
be interviewed on the issue. His office
referred to an article by Rabbi Yoffie
in Haaretz criticizing Mr. Rivlins past
remarks.
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billionaire candy company founders suc-
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Others believed that Mr. Poroshenko, who won 54
percent of the vote in last weeks presidential race,
was the best candidate for negotiating an end to hos-
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tions, which he acquired during his one-year stint as
Ukraines foreign minister in 2010.
Ukrainian Jewish leaders have more reasons to cel-
ebrate the outcome. To them, the presidential election
results came as a relief because they thwarted the political
ambitions of the Ukrainian far right and thereby refuted
Russian allegations that fascists and anti-Semites were on
the rise in Ukraine.
The failure of far-right groups in the elections proves
everything we knew to be true about the tolerant nature
of Ukrainian society, Josef Zissels, the head of the Vaad,
Ukraines Jewish umbrella group, said.
In the presidential race, Oleh Tyahnybok, the candidate
for the ultranationalist Svoboda party, won only a little
more than 1 percent of the vote. It was a major defeat for
Svoboda, which had been Ukraines fourth-largest party
after winning 10 percent of the vote in the 2012 parlia-
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Semitic rhetoric. Mr. Tyahnybok himself has inveighed
against the Jewish-Russian mafia.
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to garner 1 percent of the vote despite the central role that
his Right Sector movement had played, along with Svo-
boda, in the revolution that ultimately led to the May 25
presidential election.
The combined vote for Mr. Yarosh and Mr. Tyahny-
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by Vadim Rabinovich, a Jewish business tycoon who is
involved in many Jewish projects, including the estab-
lishment of the European Jewish Parliament and the
now-defunct Jewish News One television channel. In the
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a candidate with a unique set of skills for leading
Ukraine now.
In the months since the ouster of Russian-allied Presi-
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and clashed with Ukrainian forces in the countrys east.
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pawns in a much larger dispute.
Mr. Poroshenkos victory is also significant given the uncon-
firmed but widespread reports that he is of partially Jewish
ancestry, Mr. Zissels said.
According to Russia 1, Mr. Poroshenkos father, Alexey Valts-
man, was a Jew from Odessa who took his wifes last name
in 1956. But last year, a Mr. Poroshenko spokeswoman asked
Forbes Israel to remove the billionaires name from a list of the
worlds richest Jews. The spokeswoman, Irina Fireez, did not
say why she wanted her boss name removed.
Mr. Poroshenkos office did not reply to queries on this
issue.
Poroshenkos lineage is none of my business, but what is
noteworthy is that the widespread reports of his alleged Jew-
ish lineage have done nothing to hurt his popularity, Mr. Zis-
sels said. And this again attests as to the tolerant nature of
Ukrainian society, despite Russian propaganda.
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with which the shooter at Belgiums
Jewish museum murdered four people
shocked many Belgians, but local Jewish
leaders have long anticipated the possibil-
ity of such an attack on their community.
The man who was arrested on suspi-
cion of killing four people last month at
the Jewish Museum of Belgium allegedly
claimed responsibility for the attack in
a video.
Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic
Van Leeuw said in a news conference in
Brussels on Sunday that a video found
after the arrest of Mehdi Nemmouche,
29, at a bus and train station in Marseille
on Friday includes his voice claiming
responsibility for the May 24 attack and
murders. Mr. Nemmouche had tried to
film the attack, according to Mr. Van
Leeuw, but the camera failed.
Mr. Nemmouche is being held on sus-
picion of terrorist activity. He arrived
in Marseille aboard a bus that left from
Amsterdam via Brussels.
According to TF1, a French television
broadcaster, customs officers perform-
ing routine checks stopped Mr. Nem-
mouche. He declined to open his bag,
leading the customs officers to evacu-
ate the bus and check the contents of
every bag aboard. The weapons found
in his luggage were arms of the same
type used on May 24 in Brussels, an
unnamed source told AFP.
Mr. Nemmouche also carried a small
portable video camera and a baseball
cap similar to the one that is believed to
have been worn by the perpetrator of
the Brussels Jewish museum shooting,
according to AFP.
Also on Sunday, Belgian police took
two people in for questioning in connec-
tion with the investigation into Mr. Nem-
mouche, according to AFP.
The suspect had become a radical jihad-
ist while serving a sentence in France in
2009 for armed robbery, TF1 reported. He
left France for Belgium in 2012 and from
there he traveled to Syria. He had spent a
total of five years in prison from late 2007
to December 2012, and he had gone to
the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Turkey,
and Syria after his release. He returned to
Europe in March 2014, BFMTV reported
Sunday.
Roger Cukierman, president of French
Jewrys umbrella organization CRIF, told
the British Independent newspaper that
it would be a huge relief if Mr. Nem-
mouche is found to be the Brussels killer.
While he was free, another attack was
likely, Mr. Cukierman said. It seems that
the worst fears of Western governments
are being realized. The European jihadists
in Syria are a time bomb waiting to go off.
The shooter who entered the Jewish
Museum of Belgium in central Brussels
on May 24 approached each victim with
calm, aiming only for the head without
uttering a word in a manner that is shock-
ing because of the level of training it sug-
gests, said Mischael Modrikamen, the
Jewish leader of Belgiums small, centrist
Parti Populaire.
Sadly, however, the actual attack
comes as no surprise to us after years
of living in an atmosphere of rampant
anti-Semitism that often leads to vio-
lence, he added.
Within hours of the attack, the local
Jewish community and the European
Jewish Congress Brussels-based Security
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Baruch Lanner appearance seen as emblematic of communal failings on abuse
LARRY YUDELSON
T
he head of the Yeshiva Uni-
versity High School for Boys
is under fire for hosting a con-
victed child molester at his
Teaneck synagogue and home as recently
as February, even as the high school and
the parent university was sued this week
for $380 million for damages growing out
of alleged sexual abuse at the high school
three decades ago.
Rabbi Baruch Lanner is the former New
Jersey director of the Orthodox NCSY
youth group. In 2000, a Jewish Week
report documenting his long history of
emotional and sexual abuse finally ended
his career at the Orthodox Union; in 2002
he was convicted of molesting two girls
at the Hillel Yeshiva High School in Deal.
On Purimthis year, Lanner was a guest at
the home of Rabbi Michael Taubes, who
is both the rosh yeshiva of the YU high
school (or MTA, as it generally is called)
and the spiritual leader of Congregation
Zichron Mordechai in Teaneck.
Lanner was paroled in 2008 and has
been seen at Zichron Mordechai since
then.
David Cheifetz of Teaneck raised the
issue publicly on June 30 in an address to
the annual conference of the Rabbinical
Council of America.
How is it possible? he asked the 50
rabbis who attended the session, the first
of the convention.
It staggers the mind, really, that the
principal of MTA would be hosting the
most notorious pedophile in the history
of modern Orthodoxy, Cheifetz told the
Jewish Standard. This was even more true,
he said, in wake of the revelations, first
published in the Forward last December,
of alleged abuse by the schools former
principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein.
Reached at his MTA office, Taubes said,
Imnot going to comment at this time.
The public affairs office of Yeshiva
University declined to comment on the
propriety of Taubes hosting Lanner.
The Standard has spoken to three
Teaneck residents who saw Lanner at
Taubes Purim meal, which was open to
the public, seated in a position of respect,
or at Zichron Mordechai.
Two of those witnesses, who prefer not
to be identified, are Orthodox rabbis who
work at YUs Washington Heights campus.
The third, Jordan Hirsch, is a member of a
nearby Orthodox congregation that met in
Zichron Mordechai while its own building
was under renovation.
Cheifetz said that after he posted a copy
of his RCAtalk on Facebook, and then later
on a blog, the Jewish Community Watch,
Taubes called him. Although Taubes
downplayed the significance of Lanners
visits, Cheifetz said, He did not deny that
Baruch Lanner was at his shul.
Couldnt send himaway
He said it was only two times in three
years, Cheiftz said. He mentioned that
those Shabbosimwhen Lanner was there,
he was a guest at Rabbi Taubes home. He
did not deny that Baruch Lanner was in his
house on Purim. He said that Baruch Lan-
ner, he claimed, came to deliver shaloch
manos and he couldnt ask himto leave so
he stayed for a little bit.
Cheifetz said he told Taubes, You as
the head of a synagogue and as a principal
of MTA are not just yourself. You are a
symbol. You are a role model. What about
all the victims of Baruch Lanner? What do
you think this is doing for them?
Giving voice to victims
Teanecks David Cheifetz works to establish newwatchdog organization
LARRY YUDELSON
David Cheifetz is not the first victim of
childhood sexual abuse in the Orthodox
community to come forward.
But he may be the first who also is
an executive at McKinsey & Company,
the New York-based hi gh-profi l e
management consulting company.
He sees the problem of sexual abuse
as reflecting the failure of the institutions
that allowed it to happen.
And he is working to build his own
institution, with the tentative name of
Mi Li Who Is For Me?
This is not intended as a one-man
shop, he said. There are many activists
who have done fantastic work on a
limited budget. This is meant to address
it on some degree of scale.
Activists have had a profound
impact on helping victims, he said. In
Lakewood, he said, Rabbi Yosef Kolko
eventually pleaded guilty of abusing a
child, after years of denial, because of
activists behind the scene, whose names
are not known, working very hard to
identify other victims who were willing
to step forward.
The next stage, he said is to step
forward and create an organization of
scale, with employees. We need to move
from what has been to a great degree
a guerrilla battle against overarching,
large-scale, institutionally powerful
organizations whether Agudah, NCSY
and OU in the days of Lanner, whether
its Yeshiva University, whether its
Lakewood, whether its particular
chasidic sects we need to assemble an
operation that is of scale to help victims
and their families.
Chei fetz, who i s a member of
Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck,
envisions a two-prong mission for the
organization.
The primary objective would be
to serve as an ombudsman, to help
victims and families go through
the entire process, both in terms
of managing the legal and social
welfare systems and getting pro bono
support.
The other prong will deal in more
general advocacy. We need to
fundamentally change the thinking of
the community, including the modern
Orthodox community, in terms of how
we relate to victims and accusations, he
said. We need to give the benefit of the
doubt to victims.
So far, Cheifetz has begun recruiting
members for two boards: a governing
board that would handle the financial
side, and an advisory board. He has
incorporated the organization and has
begun the paperwork of setting it up.
And he is holding lots of meetings.
Im currently focused on growing a
network of rabbis who are committed
to the core principles, engaging with
psychologists, psychiatrists, and social
workers, and others with relevant
insights and experience, he said. Im
also engaging with members of other
faith groups. In general, the proposal has
been greeted with enthusiasm.
Major efforts are underway to build
funding and other support, and I am
delighted to speak to people who want
to help create an institutional solution
to this terrible problem, which has been
largely ignored and hushed up by our
community for far too long, he said.
David Cheifetz: It is
easier to punish the
victimthan it is to punish
the perpetrator.
Rabbi Norman Lamm:
I acted in a way that
I thought was correct,
but which now seems ill
conceived.
Rabbi Michael Taubes
is head of the Yeshiva
University High School
for Boys and leader of
Teanecks Congregation
Zichron Morechai.
Major efforts
are underway to
build funding and
other support
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t must be the zeitgeist.
Just as the Pew Research Cen-
ters survey of American Jews was
released, to a flurry of responses
and defenses and soul-searching posts
and stories and interviews for an exam-
ple, take a look at the front pages of this
newspaper Bad Jews, a play looking
at the same set of phenomena, opened
at the Roundabout Theater Companys
Laura Pels Theater on West 46th Street.
(The play hit the road for a year after
playing to capacity crowds in its earlier
run. The original cast has returned for
this production, which ends on Decem-
ber 15.)
The Pew survey showed that many
younger Jews are loath to affiliate with a
denomination, join a synagogue, refrain
from intermarriage, or call themselves
religious, although they are proud to be
Jews.
Bad Jews, written by Joshua Harmon,
shows how some of that plays out in fam-
ily life; its more witty, more specific,
often more profane, and therefore more
probing than the anodyne prose of the
Pew survey, and it is very effective.
Its also (whew!) good theater.
Bad Jews is set in a studio apartment
in a prewar building on Manhattans
Upper West Side, where two brothers,
their first cousin, and a girlfriend have
gathered to spend a claustrophobic and
loud night. Their grandfather was bur-
ied that day, and shivah will begin in the
morning, in an apartment down the hall.
One of the brothers Liam, a smart,
articulate, often unpleasant graduate
student has moved far beyond what
he sees as the irrational, outmoded
demands of old-fashioned Jewish life. The
Birthright-intoxicated cousin a funny,
frequently savage, larger-than-life Vas-
sar senior with huge frizzy hair that she
tosses and wraps and that seems almost
to have its own life wants to make ali-
yah and join the IDF as soon as she grad-
uates. Her Jewishness defines her; she
prefers being called Daphna, her Hebrew
name, rather than her birth name, Diana.
The younger, Jonah, brother just wants
to be left alone, and the perky blonde
girlfriend, when asked about her fam-
ilys background, says that they are from
Delaware.
Its the Pew study, come to life.
It is also a family drama, entirely acces-
sible to non-Jewish audiences, but the
specifics make it resonate with Jews in a
way that, say, a play like Doubt, with
a compelling plot and vivid characters,
appeals to everyone but has a special
meaning to the Catholic audiences who
went to parochial schools.
Both the actors who play Bad Jews
brothers are Jewish, and both come from
Bergen County. Both grew up in kosher
homes and their families belong to Con-
servative shuls. Both retain strong ties to
Tracee Chimo, Philip Ettinger, Molly Ranson, and Michael Zegen carry the tensions of Bad Jews. JOAN MARCUS
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LOCAL RABBI IS FRIENDOF BILL page 8
WHATS UP, DOCTOR BARKAMA? page 10
VETERANS VISIT ENGLEWOODSCHOOLpage 14
ISRAELIS MODERNIZE DYLANpages 3, 48
INTHIS ISSUE:
ABOUT OUR
CHILDREN
OurChildren
About
Useful Information for the Next Generation of Jewish Families
All the Worlds a Stage
Vitamins for Kids
Supplement to The Jewish Standard and Rockland Jewish Standard December 2013
Winter Fun
Holiday mashup wont
happen again until 79043 c.e.
(We should live so long!)
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LESSONS OF ABROKENNECK page 6
CHANT ENCOUNTERS page 12
65 YEARS OF INNOVATIONpage 30
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remember
Rabbi
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Reflections
on the Rav
VOTE!
READERS CHOICE
SEE PAGE 34
JSTANDARD.COM
FREEDOMSONG
MUSICAL ABOUT RECOVERY STAGEDINTEANECK page 10
FEDS CRACK DOWNONISRAELI KIOSK WORKERS page 27
SPORTS: INTHE BIGINNINGpage 31
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Saturday night
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and Crisis Center were operating a crisis management
room complete with a telephone hotline and web-
site testament to years of preparation for a terrorist
attack on one of Europes most at-risk communities.
The shooter, who fled the scene along with a
driver, used an assault rifle to kill Israeli tourists Mira
and Emanuel Riva, a married couple in their 50s;
Alexandre Strens, 25, a Belgian man employed by
the museum, and Dominique Sabrier, 66, a French
woman who volunteered there.
A manhunt was set in motion to capture the perpe-
trators of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in Western
Europe since the French Islamist Mohammed Merah
killed four people, including three children, at a Jew-
ish school in Toulouse in 2012.
Indeed, the characteristics of the museum attack
follow the pattern observed at Toulouse, according to
Claude Moniquet, a Brussels-based counterterrorism
expert.
It seems we are dealing with a small cell of opera-
tives Islamists or otherwise with a low signature
that minimizes their risk of being caught, he said.
Yet Belgiums Jews have experience with such vio-
lence that predates the Toulouse attack by more than
20 years.
In 1989, a Moroccan terrorist assassinated the com-
munitys president, Joseph Wybran. A 1982 armed
attack on Brussels largest synagogue, which is 400
yards from the museum, wounded four. In 1979, 13
people were wounded in an attack on an El Al plane
at the Brussels airport.
Some of the worst attacks on Belgian Jewry hap-
pened between 1979 and 1981, when Arab terrorists
killed four people in a series of explosions, including
a car bomb, and shootings directed at Jewish targets in
Antwerps Diamond Quarter.
That track record means that no one thought this
couldnt happen here, said Joel Rubinfeld, president
of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism and the
former leader of French-speaking Belgian Jews. In
fact, most of us knew it could and would, especially
in recent years. So I am shocked but not in the least
surprised.
In more recent years, Belgiums Jewish community
of about 40,000, divided more or less equally between
Brussels and Antwerp, has suffered from rising anti-
Semitism. The level of threats increased after the sec-
ond Palestinian intifada in the early to mid-2000s,
when Belgium began seeing dozens of anti-Semitic
attacks each year for the first time since World War II.
There is a silent exodus from Belgium which is
largely attributable to the countrys anti-Semitism
problem, Mr. Rubinfeld said. We are facing an uncer-
tain future, and I am concerned.
The concerns have increased lately not only because
of Mr. Merah, who inspired a slew of anti-Semitic
attacks across the French-speaking world, but because
of the arrival to the scene of new patrons of anti-
Semitism in the French-speaking world, Mr. Rubin-
feld said, a reference to Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, a
French comedian.
Earlier this month, Belgian authorities banned a
conference organized in Brussels by several people
who have a track record of promoting anti-Semitism,
including Dieudonne, French activist Alain Soral, and
Belgian lawmaker Laurent Louis.
Mr. Rubinfeld said the ban was the first case of its
kind in recent years where we saw a determined stance.
Belgian authorities generally had a more lax attitude
toward anti-Semitism than their French counterparts,
he said.
Mr. Modrikamen noted that the police maintained no per-
manent presence outside the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
Even when police do place protection, it means two cops
in a car parked outside a building and nothing comparable
to the security provided in France, he said.
But Arie Zuckerman, a European Jewish Congress execu-
tive who has spearheaded Jewish communities prepara-
tions for crises after Toulouse, says the problem is not local.
When governments perceive a threat, they know how to
cooperate tightly and devote enormous resources, and we
see this in the war on drugs, for example, he said. Sadly,
no such pan-European recognition has emerged on the need
to protect Jewish institutions, which often have to carry the
burden of security costs.
We saw it Brussels, where the terrorists probably col-
lected intelligence without being detected, but it could hap-
pen in many other places.
The tragedy is in Belgium, but the problem is in Europe.
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HONORINGAGOODDOCTOR page 7
PARSINGASUPREME COURT RULINGpage 8
PREVIEWINGISRAEL: AHOME MOVIE page 29
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The Goldin way
Englewood rabbis path
to national leadership
page 16
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three decades ago.
then.
Council of America.
of the convention.
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to step forward.
and their families.
organization.
support.
doubt to victims.
the perpetrator.
Rabbi Norman Lamm:
conceived.
Zichron Morechai.
Major efforts
are underway to
build funding and
other support
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three decades ago.
then.
Council of America.
of the convention.
LARRY YUDELSON
to step forward.
and their families.
organization.
support.
doubt to victims.
the perpetrator.
Rabbi Norman Lamm:
conceived.
Zichron Morechai.
Major efforts
are underway to
build funding and
other support
DAVIDCHEIFETZ
JSTANDARD.COM
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ETHICS AFTER AUSCHWITZ page 10
HERES TOYOU, MRS. ROOSEVELT page 44
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Praying
in color
Michael Haruni
illuminates the liturgy
with new siddur
page 20
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About Our
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Readers
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LOCALS PAINT FOR ISRAEL page 8
TENAFLY TEENS RECORDSURVIVORS page 10
JEWISHHERITAGE INAMINOR LEAGUE page 12
CHIEF RABBI BUSTED; ISRAEL SHRUGS page 27
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Playing to the Pew
In Broadways Bad Jews, two actors, local boys, find parallels to their Jewish lives
JOANNE PALMER
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t must be the zeitgeist.
Just as the Pew Research Cen-
ters survey of American Jews was
released, to a flurry of responses
and defenses and soul-searching posts
and stories and interviews for an exam-
ple, take a look at the front pages of this
newspaper Bad Jews, a play looking
at the same set of phenomena, opened
at the Roundabout Theater Companys
Laura Pels Theater on West 46th Street.
(The play hit the road for a year after
playing to capacity crowds in its earlier
run. The original cast has returned for
this production, which ends on Decem-
ber 15.)
The Pew survey showed that many
younger Jews are loath to affiliate with a
denomination, join a synagogue, refrain
from intermarriage, or call themselves
religious, although they are proud to be
Jews.
Bad Jews, written by Joshua Harmon,
shows how some of that plays out in fam-
ily life; its more witty, more specific,
often more profane, and therefore more
probing than the anodyne prose of the
Pew survey, and it is very effective.
Its also (whew!) good theater.
Bad Jews is set in a studio apartment
in a prewar building on Manhattans
Upper West Side, where two brothers,
their first cousin, and a girlfriend have
gathered to spend a claustrophobic and
loud night. Their grandfather was bur-
ied that day, and shivah will begin in the
morning, in an apartment down the hall.
One of the brothers Liam, a smart,
articulate, often unpleasant graduate
student has moved far beyond what
he sees as the irrational, outmoded
demands of old-fashioned Jewish life. The
Birthright-intoxicated cousin a funny,
frequently savage, larger-than-life Vas-
sar senior with huge frizzy hair that she
tosses and wraps and that seems almost
to have its own life wants to make ali-
yah and join the IDF as soon as she grad-
uates. Her Jewishness defines her; she
prefers being called Daphna, her Hebrew
name, rather than her birth name, Diana.
The younger, Jonah, brother just wants
to be left alone, and the perky blonde
girlfriend, when asked about her fam-
ilys background, says that they are from
Delaware.
Its the Pew study, come to life.
It is also a family drama, entirely acces-
sible to non-Jewish audiences, but the
specifics make it resonate with Jews in a
way that, say, a play like Doubt, with
a compelling plot and vivid characters,
appeals to everyone but has a special
meaning to the Catholic audiences who
went to parochial schools.
Both the actors who play Bad Jews
brothers are Jewish, and both come from
Bergen County. Both grew up in kosher
homes and their families belong to Con-
servative shuls. Both retain strong ties to
Tracee Chimo, Philip Ettinger, Molly Ranson, and Michael Zegen carry the tensions of Bad Jews. JOAN MARCUS
JSTANDARD.COM
2013 83
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NOVEMBER 22, 2013 VOL. LXXXIII NO. 11 $1.00
page 22
LOCAL RABBI IS FRIENDOF BILL page 8
WHATS UP, DOCTOR BARKAMA? page 10
VETERANS VISIT ENGLEWOODSCHOOLpage 14
ISRAELIS MODERNIZE DYLANpages 3, 48
INTHIS ISSUE:
ABOUT OUR
CHILDREN
OurChildren
About
Useful Information for the Next Generation of Jewish Families
All the Worlds a Stage
Vitamins for Kids
Supplement to The Jewish Standard and Rockland Jewish Standard December 2013
Winter Fun
Holiday mashup wont
happen again until 79043 c.e.
(We should live so long!)
JSTANDARD.COM
LESSONS OF ABROKENNECK page 6
CHANT ENCOUNTERS page 12
65 YEARS OF INNOVATIONpage 30
APRIL 12, 2013 VOL. LXXXII NO. 30 $1.00
2013 82
Local rabbis
remember
Rabbi
Soloveitchik
Reflections
on the Rav
VOTE!
READERS CHOICE
SEE PAGE 34
JSTANDARD.COM
FREEDOMSONG
MUSICAL ABOUT RECOVERY STAGEDINTEANECK page 10
FEDS CRACK DOWNONISRAELI KIOSK WORKERS page 27
SPORTS: INTHE BIGINNINGpage 31
Screening
Israel
MARCH 1, 2013 VOL. LXXXII NO. 24 $1.00
Film & Cultural
Festival starts locally
Saturday night
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Brewed with pride in
northern New Jersey.
The David Frank
Personality Profles
FIRST PLACE
The Goldin way
Joanne Palmer
Award for Excellence
in News Reporting
FIRST PLACE
Outcry over hosting
a sex ofender
Larry Yudelson
Review Writing
FIRST PLACE
Praying in color: Michael Haruni
illuminates the liturgy with new siddur
Joanne Palmer
Best Local News
SECOND PLACE
Outcry over hosting
a sex ofender
Larry Yudelson
Health, Science, Technology, and
Environmental Reporting
FIRST PLACE
Genes, judges, and Jews: Supreme
Court DNA decision analyzed
Miryam Z. Wahrman
Review Writing
SECOND PLACE
Playing to the Pew
Joanne Palmer
Graphic Design: Covers
SECOND PLACE
March 1, April 12 and
November 22
Jerry Szubin
The results of the 2014 NJ Society of Professional Journalists
Excellence in Journalism Awards were announced.
They join the Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in
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n 1 Kindergarteners at the Acad-
emies at GBDS study chrysalises,
from which butterflies soon will
emerge, as part of experiencing
farm life, animals, and gardening.
The learning culminated with a trip
to Abmas Farm. COURTESY GBDS
n 2 Bergen County Freeholder Jim
Tedesco, left, with Bris Avrohom
board member Leon Kozak; Bris
Avrohoms executive and associate
directors, Rabbi Mordechai and Shter-
ney Kanelsky; Bergen County Execu-
tive Kathleen Donovan; Freeholder
Joan Voss; Sheriff Michael Saudino;
County Clerk John S. Hogan; Teaneck
Councilman Yitz Stern, and Rabbi
Joseph Siev, Care One in Teanecks
chaplain, at the annual Holocaust
memorial at Bergen Countys execu-
tive headquarters in Hackensack.
n 3 The Glen Rock Jewish Centers
Kindergarten Enrichment class headed
to Hawaii, complete with grass
skirts, palm trees, and tropical fruits.
n 4 Sixth- and seventh-graders from
Ben Porat Yosef went on an over-
night trip to Camp Monroe, where
they hiked, fished, tried their hands
at archery, go-carting, boating, and
zip lining, and performed in a talent
show. The trips goal was to pro-
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sportsmanship, and respect for each
other and for nature. COURTESY BPY
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raised more than $31,000 during its
14th annual Mitzvah Mall with help
from the newly formed Team Tze-
dek, pictured. The yearlong efforts
raised money and awareness for 11
selected charities, each represent-
ing a mitzvah: a commandment to
do moral deeds and pursue tzedek,
or social justice, through acts of hu-
man kindness. COURTESY BARNERT
n 6 The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel honored
its rabbi emeritus, Simon Glustrom,
at its annual fundraising gala, in
celebration of his 90th birthday. The event chair,
Myra Rosenblatt, presides. COURTESY FLJC/CBI
n 7 More than 500 men, women, and children at-
tended Cresskills Memorial Day parade led by Her-
bert S. Gold, a veteran of World War II. At the memo-
rial service after the parade, Mr. Gold put on tefillin
for the first time in 81 years with Rabbi Mordechai
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conductor, SHIRAH will perform traditional and
contemporary songs from the Jewish tradition.
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a specially commissioned arrangement of Boruch
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extended trip to Los Angeles, California! For more info, contact
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This wonderful recipe comes from Yael Rudolph,
granddaughter of Jewish Home at Rockleigh resident
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Cherry cheesecake
-YAEL RUDOLPH
PREP TIME: 20 MINUTES
TOTAL TIME: 5 HOURS 45 MINUTES
INGREDIENTS:
1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted
4 packages (8 ounces each) Philadelphia Cream
Cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 eggs
One can cherry pie filing
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Mix graham crumbs, 3
tablespoons sugar, and butter; press into bottom
of 9-inch springform pan.
Beat cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla with
mixer until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mix-
ing on low speed after each, just until blended.
Pour over crust. Swirl in half the cherry pie filing
into the batter. Reserve the other half for after the
cheesecake has set.
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Dear Rabbi
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Dear Rabbi,
Im puzzled by a new film based on a
2010 book called, Heaven is for Real: A
Little Boys Astounding Story of His Trip
to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo and
Lynn Vincent. First, I dont understand
how a fictional story has been classified
and ranked as a bestselling work of nonfic-
tion. More disturbing, I find it offensive that
the book portrays the heaven of Christians,
by Christians and for Christians. Please
help me understand what to believe about
all of this?
Heavenly Jew in Hackensack
Dear Heavenly,
Im critical of the book you mention
because its story is so obviously manipu-
lative and because the premise of its nar-
rative is so patronizingly Protestant.
For those unfamiliar, the book
recounts, the true story of a four-year
old son of a small town Nebraska pastor
who experienced heaven during emer-
gency surgery. He talks about looking
down to see the doctor operating and
his dad praying in the waiting room. The
family didnt know what to believe but
soon the evidence was clear
This book builds on a familiar narrative
about the soul and death that is common
in the belief systems of Western religions.
That story proposes that every living
person is made up of a body and a soul,
which is the life-force that animates the
body. When a person dies, that life-force
no longer inhabits the body. It does not
cease to exist. It goes to another domain.
Since death by definition is irreversible,
that domain is a mystery to us.
No matter that it is unknowable. Many
have speculated about whether a heaven
or a hell exists and, if so, what it/they
look(s) like. This book to which you refer
purports to settle the speculations only
about heaven, with nothing to say about
hell. It presents us with an account of an
innocent young boy whose soul departs
his body, goes to heaven, and comes back
to inhabit his body and to report to us
what he found in the next world.
So yes, this books framework account
is legitimately nonfiction in parts because
it tells us about a true story about a little
boy who did undergo emergency sur-
gery and had a near-death experience.
And because the book, and now the film,
both allege to report what the boy said to
his parents after his
operation, it can be
classified as a non-
fiction chronicle of a
boys conversations
with adults.
Then, by a manip-
ul at i ve l i t er ar y
sleight of hand, the
tale weaves into the
framework of bare
facts a wildly imagi-
native fundamental-
ist Christian account of heavenly ascent
by an ostensibly guileless little boy. It
mingles wholly imaginary details of
what the boy says he saw in heaven into
the factual background of his hospital
procedures.
You need to know that this type of tale
is nothing new. Jewish, Christian, and
Islamic mystics and religious visionaries
have provided us in the past with reports
of heavenly ascents, mainly achieved
in ecstatic states of mediation or other
events. The Jewish Hekhalot literature,
for instance, describes mystical rises into
heaven accompanied by divine visions,
including in them ways to summon and
control angels and to find in heaven some
new knowledge of the Torah.
Our religious traditions have a variety
of idealized stories of heaven. But you
seem not to care much for the conclusion
that a Christian heaven is for Real and
that the Burpo boy was there and back.
Neither do I, partly because I had a
near death experience that does not con-
firm the boys story.
In 2006 my heart stopped at the
beginning of a routine angioplasty pro-
cedure in a hospital catheterization lab.
I fell unconscious while the cardiology
practitioners were inserting a catheter
into an artery near my leg. By the doc-
tors criteria, I was clinically dead for
two minutes.
Did I go to heaven? Do I have a report
about what wonders I saw there? Did I
have any out-of-body experience? No, I
had none of the above. My experience
contradicts Colton Burpos. With the help
of his father, who is a minister, Colton
recollected a whole lot of facts about
the spiritual experiences of his soul as
it traveled outside his body and made a
visit to a Christian heaven.
Unlike Coltons, my soul did not see
bright lights suggesting the divine
presence of a God. My soul did not
soar to heaven or float around out-
side of my body. My soul did not
meet my dead relatives or greet any
great religious personages of any
faiths or persuasions.
In spite of my own non-ascent, if
you do insist, I can weave for you a
narrative of a Jewish heavenly expe-
rience. There are many possibilities
based on the strands of Jewish reli-
gious traditions.
The great medieval rabbi Maimonides
presents us with a visualization of Gan
Eden, a heavenly depiction based on the
Talmud that always has seemed attractive
to me.
In the world to come, there is nothing
corporeal, no material substance. There
are only souls of the righteous without
bodies like the ministering angels... The
righteous attain to a knowledge and real-
ization of truth concerning God to which
they had not attained while they were
in the murky and lowly body (Mishneh
Torah, Repentance 8).
In some Talmudic views, the Garden
of Eden is the eternal destination for the
righteous. In that realm of joy and peace
the Talmud in some instances describes
golden banquet tables (Talmud, Taanit
25a), stools of gold (Talmud, Ketubot
77b), lavish feasts (Talmud, Baba Batra
75a), celebrations of the Sabbath, basking
in sunshine and engaging in sex (Talmud,
Berakhot 57b).
In other views which Maimonides
seems to prefer Talmudic rabbis declare
that in Gan Eden there will be no eating,
drinking, procreation, or commerce; no
envy, hatred, or rivalry. The righteous
will sit in Gan Eden with crowns on their
heads, and bask in the light of the Shechi-
nah (Talmud, Berakhot 17a).
Every religion has its own meaning-
ful storylines, which are used to educate
its adherents and promulgate its beliefs.
The (unarticulated) deal in our pluralis-
tic American culture has been that each
religion agrees to tell its stories to its own
members and to stop there.
The Burpo book cleverly sidesteps an
understood status quo that encourages
plural religions to coexist calmly in our
complex society. Your unease was caused
by the loud unsolicited declarations of
faith that come forth in this book and
movie. Those proclamations are tanta-
mount to acts of proselytization active
attempts to convert others to another
faith. They ought to make you uncom-
fortable or even angry.
Using a cute boys medical emergency
to preach fundamentalist Christianity to
the populace at large is a tacky activity
that you appear to recognize for what it
is, to question its validity, and to properly
reject it.
Dear Rabbi,
Ten years ago, when I was shopping in a
big department store, I saw a nice leather
belt for sale on a table. Something came
over me. I picked up the belt, I liked how it
looked, and I put it into my pocket. Shortly
thereafter I walked out of the store without
paying for it. No alarms went off. I went
home and started to wear the belt. I had not
done anything like this before and truly I do
not know what moved me to act this way,
to shoplift a small and paltry item that I
surely could have paid for.
Recently I have become reflective and am
trying to understand myself, introspective
of my inner motives and some of my inex-
plicable actions of the past. Will it help me
to give back the belt to the store or to offer
to pay for it? If so should I do that anony-
mously or let the store know who I am?
Remorseful in Randolph
Dear Remorseful,
How are we supposed to act once we
regret a little or a big action that we took
in the past? What is better to make
amends involving other parties actively,
or to recognize privately that we are
human and prone to occasional failure,
to learn from that, and to move on?
A situation like this, where there
appears to be a contradiction among
value systems, can be clarified when it
is approached talmudically. On the one
hand, commercial stores expect to incur
some percentage of losses from shoplift-
ing. After years have passed, it makes no
sense to me for you to go back with the
belt or directly to offer payment. At this
late date, the store managers probably
would be amused by your story and not
know what to do with your restitution.
On the other hand, you did violate a
commandment. To make true amends
you need to repent and repay. It seems
like you have grown in self-awareness and
repented. To repay the company, I sug-
gest a simple, unconventional method.
Go to the store (or go online to the store
site), buy a gift card for the value of the
belt, go home (or offline) and shred the
card (or delete the emails and codes per-
taining to it). The store will have received
value back to its bottom line and you
will have satisfied your needs to make
restitution.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy was ordained at
Yeshiva University and earned his Ph.D. in
religious studies at Brown University.
Rabbi Tzvee
Zahavy
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Behaalotcha: Second chances
D
espite its bright
beginnings with
t h e d e s c r i p -
tion of the con-
struction and kindling of the
Temples menorah, Parshat
Behaalotcha carries in its nar-
rative a host of moments of
disappointment and setback.
Among them is the episode of
kivrot hataavah, where the
people are sadly taken over by
a bout of nostalgia for the past
as they remember it. They long
for the fleshpots of Egypt. This
is preceded by the news of Yitros deci-
sion to return to his post in Midian and
not become a part of the nascent Jewish
people. His leaderships skills, experience,
intellect, and stature would have been a
boon to the struggling Israelites, and he
would have provided much-needed sup-
port and counsel to his son-in-law, Moshe.
And to add insult to injury, Moshes own
kin, sister Miriam and brother Aharon,
later are discovered dispar-
aging their brothers choice
of a mate. Social comity
does not flow well and the
emotional tension seems to
cut across all lines.
And yet despite the
moments of ingratitude
against God and family,
as Behaalotcha opens
bright light shines through
the darkness filled by the
peoples backsliding and
murmuring. There is one
notable exception to its
otherwise cantankerous tones.
At the beginning of Chapter 9, we hear
of a plea made by those people who had
been denied the opportunity to partici-
pate in the original Pesach offering and
ritual, either because they had been ritu-
ally impure or on a distant road and out
of reach of a Pesach celebration site. Rec-
ognizing the definitional nature of the pas-
chal offering, which was a transformative
communal experience, and carried the
severe penalty of karet (excision) if it were
not fulfilled, this group spoke up, demand-
ing an opportunity to make it up. Their
words are as plaintive as they are convinc-
ing. Lamah ni-gara why should we
be diminished on account of our earlier
justifiable inability to join with the others
in this defining moment of national and
spiritual identity. They refused to allow
the experience to pass with no redress, no
way to correct the situation that already
had precluded their participation with the
rest of the people.
And their request is heard and accepted,
in what is known as Pesach Sheni, a day
that remains on the Hebrew calendar. Fol-
lowing the Sifrei, Rashi comments that
those people were privileged to be the
instrument for introducing the mitzvah of
Pesach Sheni, and their protest is an exam-
ple of how determined people with the
right intentions can realize positive out-
comes. There was a real need to empower
a group that had been marginalized and
a solution was found that enfranchised
them.
In a world in which zero tolerance is all
too often used indiscriminately to cover
so many cases of error and misstep,
Pesach then is a bright spot on the bibli-
cal landscape. It illuminates the need to
provide second chances where logically
indicated. Rulebooks can easily make a
miss as great as a mile. Our tradition
most notably in this case, and in other
places as well reminds us that there is
a way back into the group. It is interest-
ing to note that an exam make-up provi-
sion, called moed bet, literally mean-
ing second time, is built into the Israeli
university system. But it is more than a
term; it is a generative theme about how
we allow people to grow and gain from
their missed opportunities.
As we see, a sedra that in so many ways
seems to lack for gracious moments in
fact includes this signature moment. It is
where our tradition decides to afford a
second chance for people who once had
been out of and away from the mix. It gives
them a second try at connecting with what
was then and remains today, through the
experience of the Pesach seder, perhaps
Judaisms greatest gateway experience and
road back to belonging.
Rabbi
Lawrence S.
Zierler
Jewish Center of
Teaneck, Orthodox
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. Works in the Garment District
5. Act like the American Jewish population to
the Northeast, demographically
9. Bombs in this citys Jewish quarter in 1948
killed more than 70 Jews
14. Half a sport enjoyed by many Miami Jews
15. 1945 book The Wise Men of ___
16. Judaism doesnt do this to cremations
17. Sondheims Demon Barber
18. City on the border of the Negev and Judean
Deserts
19. Accuse the Jews of killing Jesus, e.g.
20. Like the Book of Life before Yom Kippur
22. Said No, like Leonard Maltin in the short-
est film review in U.S. history (for Isnt it
Romantic?)
23. 1960s Mossad director Meir
24. Number of Jewish U.S. Presidents, so far
25. City with frequent air raid alarms
28. Fried bread of Yemenite Jews
32. Hapoel Jerusalem and Maccabi Beer Sheva
33. The boys from The Boys from Brazil
34. Accountant Bloom played by Matthew
Broderick on Broadway
35. Sums put on bar mitzvah chks.
36. Singer-songwriter-science-fiction-author Ian
37. Pioneer org. of 1882
38. The Mile End Cookbook co-author ___
Bernamoff
39. It may rise from a hot bowl of Jewish peni-
cillin
40. Ethnicities of the Bnai Moshe converted
Jews of Peru
41. Sea of Galilee
43. URJ ___ Family Camp outside Waco, Texas
44. Given first name of Denver sports owner
Stan Kroenke
45. ___ Mitzvah (twin celebrations)
46. Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony winner
Hamlisch
49. Game that might be found in a ZBT lounge
53. Ladino waters
54. Like some peoples matzah ball preference
55. Role of a shylock
56. Felix Mendelssohns ___ Capriccioso
57. First name of the author who said Neutrality
helps the oppressor, never the victim
58. A year to Josephus
59. Israeli film director Fox (Yossi & Jagger)
60. 1945 Miss America Myerson
61. Inside Intermarriage author Jim, a non-Jew
raising Jewish children
Down
1. With 46-Down, Romanian city which lent its
name to Satmar Chasidism
2. See 21-Down
3. Rolls of 100-shekel bills
4. Uzis, e.g.
5. Gilad or Gene
6. Author Etgar
7. Civil-rights activist Hagai
8. Existential threat to Isr. from Iran
9. Eilat sights
10. Airings of The Goldbergs that arent reruns
11. Bar-___ (Hebrew U. alternative)
12. Birthplace of Antonio Sabato, Jr.
13. Needed to pay a Shylock
21. With 2-Down, author of The Israelis:
Founders and Sons
22. Colorado Congressman Jared active in the
Anti-Defamation League
24. He abstains from grape products and hair-
cutting
25. O-U competitor
26. Doubtful produce tractate of the order
Zeraim (seeds)
27. Noshed
28. Mishloach ___ (Purim baskets)
29. Holocaust survivor Herz-Sommer whose
documentary won an Oscar a week after
her death at 110
30. Paul who said a poet will keep writing even
when he is a Jew and the language of his
poems is German
31. Ticho ___ (historic Jerusalem home/museum)
33. Locations of some tefillin knots
36. Pop duo Evan and ___
37. City mentioned in the Haggadah
39. Kosher beef alternative
40. Magaziner and Glass
42. Site of Sheldon Adelsons Venetian Hotel
and Casino
43. Revenge of the Lawn ___ by R.L. Stine
45. Nobelist novelist Pasternak (Doctor
Zhivago)
46. See 1-Down
47. OToole, Oy! Are you ___!
48. Todd Rundgrens first solo album which was
a play on his name
49. The FBI had one on Groucho Marx
50. Sauce for a steak at New Yorks Prime Grill
51. Clair de ___ (favorite piano piece for Victor
Borge)
52. Zionist Pinsker
54. Tu BShvat mo., in 2015
The solution for last weeks puzzle
is on page 55
Arts & Culture
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Leadership in the Wilderness
New books framework is based on an age-old Jewish text
NATHANIEL MOLDOFF
The interdisciplinary ield of leadership
studies is booming.
University lecture halls on the topic
are overflowing, and books by leadership
gurus are flying off of shelves. The ield
is often informed by the social sciences,
such as psycholoy, economics, and soci-
oloy, but can the humanities and in
particular religious studies make any
contributions to it?
According to Dr. Erica Brown, who is
the scholar in residence at the Jewish Fed-
eration of Greater Washington and a mas-
ter Jewish educator, an often-neglected
book of the Torah may hold some clues as
to what an authentic Jewish model of lead-
ership might be. Her most recent book,
Leadership in the Wilderness: Author-
ity and Anarchy in the Book of Num-
bers, attempts to provide todays aspir-
ing leaders, both Jewish and non-Jewish,
with practical guidance based on one of
the most ancient and fundamental Jewish
texts: Bemidbar) Numbers the fourth
book of the Bible.
By moving outside the realm of
more traditional Torah commen-
taries and homilies and venturing
into the worlds of literature, phi-
losophy, and organizational psy-
choloy, Dr. Brown proposes a
refreshing new framework within
which to view the fascinating and
often perplexing episodes and
laws chronicled in the Book Num-
bers. She gathers and presents an
incredibly diverse array of source
materials to create a comprehen-
sive leadership manual, capable
of providing leaders of any type
of organization with the insight to
handle many types of expected and unex-
pected challenges appropriately, and the
inspiration to continue forging ahead.
Leadership in the Wilderness is
divided into three main parts, each focus-
ing on a different stage in the Israelites
journey through the wilderness. Next,
these parts are divided into chapters, gen-
erally focusing on a particular lesson in
leadership that corresponds to a speciic
episode or concept found in Numbers.
Brown treats the assembly of Israelites as
an archetypal organization and Moses as
the archetypal leader. Part One deals with
the transition and uncertainty the Israel-
ites faced, newly fled from their servitude
in Eypt and now inding themselves in
the middle of a vast, seemingly untamable
wilderness. Here, Dr. Brown discusses the
impact of environment both natural and
artiicial on the stability of an organiza-
tion, and how the different categories of
people found among the Israelite camp
represent different types of people found
in an organization.
Part Two is the natural extension of Part
One. After a period of uncertainty and
transition, leadership authority inevita-
bly will break down. It happened with the
ancient Israelites. People make mistakes
even Moses, whose authority as a leader
is questioned at every turn, does so. After
all the frustrating challenges to leader-
ship discussed in Parts One and Two, Part
Three shows how Moses and the Israelites
learn from the trials and tribulations they
encounter in the wilderness. They now
understand how to harness the power of
language carefully, and
how to be selective in
trusting those who offer
innovative alternatives to
the status quo.
Dr. Browns writing
style and approach are
highly reminiscent of
several essays by the for-
mer chief rabbi of the
United Hebrew Congre-
gations of the Common-
wealth, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Both
authors comfortably integrate a wide
range of source material in their writing,
and they distill abstract philosophical
ideas and seemingly antiquated biblical
passages into practical morsels of wisdom
that are applicable to almost any readers
daily life. But unlike Rabbi Sacks Cov-
enant and Conversation (Koren, 2009
and 2010), which is arranged according
to the weekly parsha (Torah portion) and
offers a compilation of short essays that
can be read on their own, Leadership in
the Wilderness loosely follows the order
of the biblical text and should be read as
a single work.
My biggest frustration with this book
was how the narrative of the book of
Numbers often would get lost in a sea of
contemporary literature and recent ind-
ings from the ield of organizational psy-
choloy. I would strongly advise all readers
to irst familiarize (or re-familiarize) them-
selves with the actual text of Numbers,
because while Dr. Brown manages to cover
a large portion of the biblical text over the
course of the book, some crucial context
is lost when it is presented alongside so
many other sources and ideas.
Dr. Brown clearly wrote this book with
the broadest possible audience in mind.
She explains most biblical and Jewish
terms in such a way that the novice reader
of the Bible, and even non-Jews, would be
able to follow her arguments. At the same
time, more experienced students of Torah
surely will ind new layers of meaning in
the text, made possible by the incorpora-
tion of many nontraditional sources.
Readers should take Dr. Browns insights
on biblical examples of leadership to heart
and incorporate the Torahs wisdom into
their own leadership roles, whatever and
wherever they may be. JNS.ORG
Nathaniel Moldoff is a student at the Pardes
Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
He is a recent graduate of Franklin &
Marshall College and is an aspiring Jewish
communal professional.
Dr. Erica Brown
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Congregation Shomrei
Torah holds Tot Shabbat
for children in nursery
school to second grade
and their families with
Rabbi Randy Mark, 5 p.m.
30 Hinchman Ave. (973)
696-2500 or www.
ShomreiTorahWCC.org.
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Rabbi Debby Hachen
leads First Friday...
Eat, Pray...Shabbat,
with a potluck dinner
at 6:30 p.m., an all-ages
service at 7:30, and an
Oneg Shabbat. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard. (201)
333-4229 or office@
betheljc.org.
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 Closter:
Temple Beth El installs
its new board during
services, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Sunday
JUNE 8
Breakfast/
entertainment
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob continues its
Lox n Learning series
with Mokum and
Medienne Growing Up
in Jewish Amsterdam,
a musical presentation
by Barbara Haimowitz
with keyboard and guitar
accompaniment, 10 a.m.
Lox and bagels and
desserts from Jewish
Amsterdam. $5 donation
requested. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Monday
JUNE 9
Moriah student
documentary in
Teaneck: Names, Not
Numbers: A Movie in the
Making, a documentary
by Moriah eighth-
graders, premieres at
Congregation Keter
Torah, 7 p.m. In addition,
there will be inspiring
stories by a number
of guests, including a
liberator. The film is an
interactive multimedia
Holocaust oral history
film project created by
educator Tova Fish-
Rosenberg. Reception
for Holocaust survivors
precedes screening. 600
Roemer Ave. (201) 907-
0180.
Shiur in Englewood:
Leah Herzog, a Tanach
teacher at Maayanot
Yeshiva High School
for Girls in Teaneck,
gives a shiur, Family
Systems in Breisheit, at
a private home, 8 p.m. All
welcome. 475 Engle St.
201-833-4307, ext. 265
Tuesday
JUNE 10
Lower East Side history:
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,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel, 11 a.m. Marty
Schneit will discuss the
history of New Yorks
Lower East Side. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Networking in
Livingston: The Jewish
Business Network meets
for lunch at Fumio Grill,
11:30 a.m. 21 E. Northfield
Road. Glatt kosher under
the Vaad of Metrowest.
www.jbusinessnetwork.
net or (973) 994-2344.
The impact of the
bicycle: Sue Macy of
Englewood, author of
books about sports
and womens history,
discusses her award-
winning Wheels Of
Change: How Women
Road The Bicycle To
Freedom, for Englewood
& Cliffs chapter of ORT
America, at the JCC of
Fort Lee/Gesher Shalom,
noon. 1449 Anderson
Ave. Lynda, (201) 448-
8822.
Wednesday
JUNE 11
Play group in New
Milford: Shalom Baby
of Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
offers a beach party,
with stories, songs,
crafts, and snacks for
moms and dads of
newborns through age
3, to connect with each
other and the Jewish
community, at Solomon
Schechter Day School of
Bergen County, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative. 295 McKinley
Ave. Ellen, (201) 820-
3917, or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Caregivers support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically
frail or suffering from
Alzheimers Disease or
dementia meets at the
Gallen Adult Day Health
Care Center at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh,
10-11:30 a.m. Attorney
Doreen McCullough will
discuss elder law topics.
10 Link Drive. Shelley
Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.
Jeremy Bash
AIPAC gathering: AIPAC
Bergen & Rockland
holds its annual event
with dinner, 6:30 p.m.,
and program/dessert at
the Rockleigh, 7:30. Co-
chaired by Debbie and
Mickey Harris and Nina
Kampler and Zvi Marans.
Jeremy Bash is guest
speaker. Arielle. (917)
210-6327 or abrenner@
aipac.org.
Comedy in West
Orange: Capitol Steps
offers a night of laughter
for the Jewish Family
Service of MetroWest at
JCC MetroWest, 8 p.m.
760 Northfield Ave.
(973) 765-9050 or www.
jfsmetrowest.org.
Thursday
JUNE 12
Networking in Fair
Lawn: The Jewish
Business Networks
womens group meets
at the Ives Architectural
Firm offices, 9:30 a.m. 14-
25 Plaza Road, Suite S-3-
5. www.jbusinessnetwork.
net.
Cooking demo in
Englewood: Celebrity
Chef Art Smith, a
James Beard Award-
winner, gives a cooking
demonstration/book
signing to raise funds for
ELEM/Youth in Distress
in Israel at Modiani
Kitchen Showroom,
7-10 p.m. 46 South Dean
St.
Friday
JUNE 13
Shabbat in Paramus:
The Young Jewish
Families Club and
membership committee
of the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah hosts an open
house, barbecue, and
family service, 6 p.m.
Rain or shine. East
304 Midland Ave.
Reservations, (201) 262-
7691 or yjf@jccparamus.
org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds a
family Shabbat led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman,
with BETY (Beth El Youth
Group), a camp send-off,
and blessings for high
school seniors, 6:45 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
The sisterhood of
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom hosts services,
7 p.m. Refreshments.
1449 Anderson Ave. (201)
947-1735.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
Cantor Mark Biddelman,
on guitar, hosts Shabbat
Yachad, Hebrew prayers
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by flutist Debra Blecher,
keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD with
service melodies
available at the shul. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801 or www.tepv.
org.
Saturday
JUNE 14
Concert in Wayne:
TUSK: The Ultimate
Fleetwood Mac Tribute
performs for the Rock
Tribute Series at the
Wayne YMCA, 7 p.m.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973)
595-0100.
Sunday
JUNE 15
Scholarship breakfast
in Teaneck: Torah
Academy of Bergen
High schoolers Ben Sharp, an American Jew from Teaneck, and
Nouran Sobhy, a Egyptian Muslim from Cairo, shown last year at
the Seeds of Peace International Camp in Otisfield, Maine, will
discuss Is the Person Eating Hummus Next to Me My Enemy?
on Saturday, June 14, at Temple Emeth in Teaneck at noon. Light lunch. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322.
JUNE
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United Hatzalah race set for June 8
United Hatzalah, Israels emergency
response volunteer organization, will
hold its annual 5K Race to Save Lives on
June 8 at 9 a.m. on Roosevelt Island in
New York City. The organization hopes
to raise more than $1.2 million, which
will buy 62 ambucycle units, defibrilla-
tors, and other lifesaving equipment for
its network of more than 2,300 volun-
teers. The race was started in Israel in
2010 by two American volunteers, Aha-
ron Watson of Teaneck and a friend,
Alex Goldberg, who were studying
there. Later, they brought the race to
the United States. For information, go to
racetosavelives.com.
County holds its annual scholarship
breakfast at the school, 9:30 a.m.
Rachel Friedman and Suzy Schwartz
are the honorees. 201-837-7696 or teri.
normand@tabc.org.
In New York
Tuesday
JUNE 10
Museum mile festival: The Jewish
Museum participates in the annual
Museum Mile Festival, 6-9 p.m. The
opening ceremony is at the Museum
of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth
Ave. and 103rd Street, at 5:45. Free
museum admissions and outdoor
art activities for children. www.
museummilefestival.org.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 8
Senior singles meet in West Nyack:
Singles 65+ meet over bagels and lox
at the JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. 450 West
Nyack Road. $8. Gene Arkin, (845)
356-5525.
Comedy in NYC: Its About Time
Jewish Singles partners with Geoff
Koles The Funniest Jewish Comedian
of The Year Contest at the Broadway
Comedy Club, 6-9 p.m. Special
singles tables and guest comedians.
Its About Time Jewish Singles is a
modern Orthodox organization that
holds functions for Jewish singles, 35+,
in New York and New Jersey. 318 W.
53rd St., between Eighth and Ninth
avenues. (973) 851-9070 or grin31@
gmail.com.
Family Shabbat open house/bbq
The Young Jewish Families group and
membership committee of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus/Congrega-
tion Beth Tikvah host an open house with
a barbecue and family Shabbat service
on Friday, June 13, at the JCCP/CBT, East
304 East Midland Ave. The barbecue at 6
p.m.; services and an Oneg Shabbat fol-
low. Reservations are requested. Call (201)
262-7691.
Shares of farm produce available
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
is taking registration for a 22-week part-
nership with a local farm that provides
members who buy shares the opportu-
nity to enjoy healthy eating for less than
$25 a week. The partnership with Freebird
Farms, a small family farm in Palantine
Bridge, N.Y., is a Community Supported
Agriculture program, where members
receive a healthy supply of seasonal fresh
produce in return for supporting a local
farmer to cover operating expenses. Par-
ticipation in a CSA helps create a healthy
relationship with the food we eat, the land
on which it is grown, and the people who
grow it.
This years season will run from June
10 to Nov. 4, and it is open to both JCC
members and nonmembers. Participants
receive locally grown, certified organic
produce, which will be delivered weekly
to the JCC. Full- and half-shares are avail-
able, as are shares of organic free-range
eggs, fruit, and a variety of other goods,
including organic, free-trade chocolate
and coffee. Full shares average seven to 10
varieties of vegetables each week.
For information, call Ruth at (201) 408-
1418 or email ryung@jccotp.org.
Dead Sea scrolls conference at YU
The Yeshiva University Dead Sea Scrolls
seminar will host its second annual con-
ference on the scrolls on June 8, from 1 to
4 p.m. at the Yeshiva University Museum,
15 West 16th St., in Manhattan.
The scrolls 972 documents found in
the Qumran area from 1947 through 1956
include more than 200 texts that shed
light on Jewish beliefs and practices during
the Second Temple period.
The conference will feature lectures by
several prominent scholars in the field on
a range of topics. The guests will tour the
YU Museum exhibition, Modeling the
Synagogue: From Dura to Touro, which
features seven scale models of historic syn-
agogues. For information, email Dr. Ari J.
Mermelstein at mermels@yu.edu.
REO Speedwagon at bergenPAC
REO Speedwagon will perform on
Wednesday, June 18, at 8 p.m., at the
Bergen Performing Arts Center in Engle-
wood. REO rode the top of the charts
with a RIAA-certified 22 million albums
sold in the U.S. and 40 million around
the globe, and a string of gold and
platinum records and international hit
singles.
Tickets are available at www.ticket-
master.com or www.bergenpac.org or
by calling the box office, (201) 227 1030.
Mazel Tov to Wendy Federman on her 2014 Tony
Award nomination as co-producer of the new
Broadway play All The Way. She is pictured with
Bryan Cranston, Emmy and Golden Globe award-
winning star of televisions Breaking Bad and
starring as LBJ in All The Way. On June 1, the
show won a Drama Desk Award for Best New Play.
Ms. Federman is a multi Tony and Drama Desk
award-winning producer. This is her 14th Tony
Award nomination.
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No couch potato
Knish expert takes global journey for Jewish soul food book
ROBERT GLUCK
T
he history of the knish represents more than
just the lineage of a fried, dumpling-like food. It
also demonstrates the often-central role of food
in communities and cultural legacies.
Laura Silver knows that well. She has consumed knishes
on three different continents, and her exhaustive research
on the iconic potato treat has resulted in her new book,
Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food, which was
released in early May. She will talk about knishes at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 15. (See box.)
When she started her knish book project, Ms. Silver had
no plans for an intercontinental journey, though she did
plan to go to Vineland, home of the Pasta Factory, the
company that bought the famous knish recipes from Mrs.
Stahls bakery.
Growing up in Queens, Ms. Silver vividly remembers
heading to Mrs. Stahls in the Brighton Beach section of
Brooklyn for knishes.
Mrs. Stahls was our go-to place, but there were cer-
tainly knishes in other places, she said. When I grew
up in Queens there were many Jewish delis around. Mrs.
Fanny Stahl was born with the Yiddish name of Feige.
She was an immigrant who supported
her ive children by doing many jobs,
including cooking. She started the
knish shop and ran it until her death.
She was very active in the Brook-
lyn chapter of Hadassah, and she knit-
ted sweaters for the people of Pales-
tine before Israel was a state. She was
an entrepreneur par excellence. She
worked very hard.
Ms. Silver is considered the worlds
foremost expert on the knish. But can
she deinitively say where the irst
knish came from?
I dont think its possible to know exactly who made
the irst knish, she said. It certainly happened in a differ-
ent time but it was before 1614, the irst recorded history
of the knish, which is in a poem in the Polish language. It
comes from a town called Krakowiec, which is in modern-
day Ukraine, in what would be the Pale of Settlement.
The knish undoubtedly has links to the Polish town of
Knyszyn, where Ms. Silvers own family originated, she
said. But before setting out on her quest, she had no idea
that she might be related to direct descendants of the
knishs pioneers from that very town.
I didnt realize I was on a quest until I was in Poland
with my family and we learned that our great aunt was
from Knyszyn, she said. Thats what tipped
me off that I might be a direct descendant of
the knish, which I am in fact.
It was bashert (meant to be).
According to David Sax, author of Save
the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty
Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen,
Ms. Silvers knish book is a lovingly researched
volume that elevates the knish arguably the
humblest of Jewish foods into a weighty symbol of his-
tory, identity, and family.
Knishes havent met anything this good for them since
the invention of mustard, Mr. Sax said about Ms. Silvers
book. The knish is ripe for the spotlight Laura has shone
upon it.
Just look at the lineup for Black Seed, the new Montreal
bagel place in New York, and youll see that the revived
interest in Jewish soul food is only growing. I bet well see
some amazing knishes in the years to come.
Arthur Schwartz, author of Arthur Schwartzs Jewish
Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited, said that the
knish has never been put to better use than it is in Ms.
Silvers book.
Laura Silvers at-times poetic meditation on knishes is
not only a cultural history of this illed lump of dough, as
meticulously researched as any doctoral thesis, but also a
Proustian personal memoir that hints of James Joyce, no
less, in the way Silver intones and uses the rhythms of Ara-
maic Jewish litury, Yiddishkeit, and Yiddish humor to tell
her story, Mr. Schwartz said on the books website.
During her research, Ms. Silver discovered that the knish
has connections to sources as surprising as Eleanor Roos-
evelt and rap music. One of her favorite stories in the book
is about Gussie Schwebel, a former knish maker on Houston
Street in Manhattans Lower East Side. Ms. Schwebel wrote
to Mrs. Roosevelt to ask her to sample her knishes.
They turned her away because there was too much
press, Ms. Silver said. Mrs. Roosevelts secretary thought it
was a public relations stunt. I say hats off to Mrs. Schwebel,
because she had the chutzpah to write to Roosevelt. She
wanted to help her adopted country, so she asked to cook
knishes for the armed forces. She used what she had,
a knish, a food, and she ramped it up. That was in the
1940s.
Later on she was quoted again in the Washington Post,
saying that knishes are going to bring about world peace
and put an end to the Cold War. She saw food as an instru-
ment for political maneuvering. Good for her.
Where are Ms. Silvers favorite places to buy a knish?
The best knish you can get is one you make yourself,
she said. Barring that, I like the one at Gottliebs in Wil-
liamsburg, because they speak Yiddish behind the coun-
ter. I also like the ones at Pastrami Queen uptown, and
if you have a hankering walking down the street theres
Gabilas.
Knish Nosh also has some good knish shops in Queens,
and theres Yonah Schimmels Knish Bakery on Houston
Street.
Every culture does seem to have its wrapped pastries,
and Ms. Silver calls them knishin cousins.
Food is never just about food, she said. It was about
identity, otherness, sameness. I never thought of the
knish as anything unusual. The more I talk about it the
more I realize everyone doesnt know what a knish is. Its
a great moment for knish literacy.
Ms. Silver recently was hired to teach a course at the
Brooklyn Greenery, Improve Your Knish IQ, to give peo-
ple a chance to expand their knowledge of the food.
The knish is a simple food, and it is accessible, she
said. It is one that people yearn for even when they dont
need to eat simple food, because it reminds them of con-
nections that may be dificult to maintain, or obtain.
Ms. Silver also is set to appear at New Yorks Museum of
Jewish Heritage on June 15 to discuss her book with food
writer Gabriella Gershenson. Gabriel Sanders, director
of public programs at the museum, said that what King
Arthur is to the knight, Laura Silver is to the knish.
Never before has the potato pocket had such a
devoted champion, Mr. Sanders said.
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Information
Who: Laura Silver and food writer Gabriella Ger-
shenson
What: Will honor Fathers Day by discussing
knishes in great detail
Where: At the Museum of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the Holocaust, at 36 Battery
Place in lower Manhattan
When: On Sunday, June 15, at 2:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by: The 92nd Street Y, as part of
its 92Y@MJH book series
How: To get tickets, go to www.mjhnyc.org, call
(646) 437-4202, or go to the Ys box office
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BEN SALES
JERUSALEM Its leaders call it a historic development, a
paradigm shift and a change in the relationship between
Israel and diaspora Jewry.
But when it comes to the details of the Joint Initiative of the
Government of Israel and World Jewry, key questions have
yet to be answered including what it will do and who will
fund it.
Conceived last year as a partnership between the Israeli
government, the Jewish Agency for Israel, and major dias-
pora Jewish bodies, the initiative aims to strengthen diaspora
Jewish identity and connections between Israel and Jews
worldwide.
On Sunday, Israels cabinet voted to invest more than $50
million on the initiative through 2017. The government intends
to increase the sum to $100 million annually by 2022.
The government wants diaspora sources federations,
philanthropic foundations, and individual donors to con-
tribute double those sums for two-thirds of the initiatives total
budget.
The funding will go toward both expanding existing pro-
grams for young adults and creating new ones.
Its a historic development that the Israeli government
has decided to take more responsibility for strengthening the
identity of Jewish communities, the Jewish Agencys chair-
man, Natan Sharansky, said. Were talking about Jewish iden-
tity built on a connection to Israel.
Given the success of Birthright Israel, a 10-day free trip
to Israel for young Jewish adults, the initiative will focus on
immersive experiences in Israel, college campus programs,
Jewish summer camps, and experiential learning, Mr. Sharan-
sky said.
But though the Israeli government has set aside money for
the initiative, it has neither lined up the matching grants from
diaspora foundations nor outlined the specific programs that
would receive the funding.
A planning meeting for the initiative in November 2013
drew a virtual whos who of major Jewish organizations and
foundations. But Mr. Sharansky mentioned only Jewish Feder-
ations of North America as a potential initial source of funding
from the United States, saying he didnt want to single others
out before a plan had been set.
There are many unanswered questions at this point, the
Jewish Federations CEO, Jerry Silverman, said. Six months
from now, many of those questions will be answered. Were
not at the finish line. Were at the 30-yard line. We feel confi-
dent well get to the finish line together on this.
Mr. Silverman said that the Jewish Federations had yet to
decide on an initial sum to contribute to the initiative, and that
his network was not involved in setting the budget passed by
the Israeli cabinet on Sunday.
Mr. Sharansky set a timetable of one to two months for
program proposals to be drawn up. Following the initiatives
lengthy planning process thus far, which has included confer-
ences and an online forum for young Jews worldwide to sug-
gest programs, Mr. Sharansky said that coming to practical
Israel vows big investment in world Jewry project
decisions comes very quickly.
Dvir Kahana, the director-general of Israels Jerusalem and
Diaspora Affairs Ministry, said the initiative still requires stra-
tegic planning in addition to practical steps.
The Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Ministry, as well as the
Finance Ministry, will provide Israeli government funding for
the initiative. It will be run by a body including representatives
from the Israeli government, the Jewish Agency and diaspora
funders.
Were going to have a strategic plan for the next 25 years,
Mr. Kahana said. Not what we know to do now but what we
should and should not do. From that strategic perspective,
with key people, well make decisions both regarding existing
programs and programs we need to create. Were not set on
any specific program.
According to the text of the resolution passed by Israels
Cabinet, a key portion of the initiative is strengthening the
relationship between Israel and diaspora Jewry. The first stage
of the initiative will focus both on bringing young diaspora
Jews to Israel and on Israel education in diaspora communi-
ties. There has not been a decision whether the projects ini-
tial stage also will educate Israeli Jews about world Jewry, Mr.
Sharansky said.
The Jewish Agency, historically focused on promoting
immigration to Israel, in recent years has taken up a new mis-
sion of strengthening Jewish identity in the diaspora and peo-
plehood. It now offers diaspora Jews long-term experiences
in Israel asking them to make a commitment to immigrate.
Mr. Sharansky said that while Orthodox Jews can count on
ritual observance to keep them engaged in the Jewish commu-
nity, Israel is the only proven anchor to ensure Jewish identity
for non-Orthodox Jews.
In the non-Orthodox world nothing stops assimilation
except connection to Israel, he said. In Orthodox commu-
nities, awareness of Jewish identity is very high. They live
through their faith and Jewish tradition. When you move to
others you find out that this deep feeling of your belonging to
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Village Apartments resident receives honor
Jeannie Ginsberg, 94, a resident of Village Apartments of the
Jewish Federation in South Orange, was among the honorees
this year at the Eighth Annual Essex County Older Americans
Heritage Month Celebration.
Ginsberg and other honorees were chosen as positive role
models who have worked to assist fellow seniors and improve
the quality of life. She was nominated by Frances Bucien, coor-
dinator of the JCC Essex County Kosher Nutrition lunch pro-
gram at Village Apartments, one of four senior living commu-
nities owned and managed by the Jewish Community Housing
Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey ( JCHC) in Essex and
Morris counties.
A native of Newark, Ginsberg began her
career in early childhood education in 1951
as director of the Playhouse cooperative pre-
school in South Orange. She developed an
inclusive environment through her personal
ABCs: acceptance, brotherhood and compas-
sion. Children were encouraged to engage in hands-on play,
learn from nature, and respect each other. Parents were encour-
aged to participate, which created enduring friendships among
the Playhouse families through the years.
Growth in enrollment led to a move to a
larger facility in West Orange, where the Play-
house was able to cater to a larger population
of children throughout Essex County. In rec-
ognition of the diverse community, Ginsberg
spearheaded what were considered innova-
tions at the time offering registration materi-
als in Spanish and charging tuition on a sliding
scale along with fostering respect for different
cultures and backgrounds among the youngsters, many
of whom later sent their own children there. Playhouse
continues Ginsbergs tradition of open play, exploration,
and learning to get along with others.
I have spent my entire life doing what I love and help-
ing little ones to do the same, Ginsberg said of her fifty-
year career. When people ask me how to make the world
a better place, I tell them to start with young people.
Today, Ginsberg enjoys life at Village Apartments, an
independent living senior residence at 110 Vose Ave.
in the heart of South Orange. For more information
about Village Apartments, go to www.jchcorp.org or
contact site manager Cheryl Kasye at (973) 763-0999.
Teaneck Farmers Market
to open Thursday, June 12
The new season of the Teaneck Farmers Market starts
on Thursday, June 12, and runs through October 30. As
in past years, it is located in the Garrison Avenue and
Beverly Road municipal parking lot and its hours are
noon to 6 p.m.
A bakers dozen of vendors will be at the market.
Sundens Stone Pointe Farm and Stoltzfus Produce
anchor the ends. Each will bring their very best fresh
produce, flowers, plants, herbs, eggs, and seasonal
specials. Teanecks own Pickle-Licious will supply
many varieties of pickles, olives, tapenades, sundried
tomatoes, and other marinated delights. Hoboken
Farms offers prepared gourmet foods, artisan breads,
fresh mozzarella cheese, and their two award-winning
pasta sauces, Big Red Marinara and Big Boss Vodka.
At Paolos Kitchen, dont forget to ask for their glu-
ten-free line of prepared foods along with their other
wonderful prepared entrees.
Nanas Home Cooking Middle Eastern cuisine makes
a freshly grilled kebob, a falafel with pita, tapenades,
hummus, or their wonderful sweet desserts of bakla-
vas, brownies, or a special cookie of the day.
Gourmet Nuts and Dried Fruits offers tasty, healthy,
raw, and roasted nuts and some sweetly decadent
coated nuts too, and a large variety of dried fruits and
trail mixes. The Amish Country Bakery brings their
cookies, whoopee pies, sweet breads, jams, honey
and more.
Teanecks own Angela Logan has had a television
biopic movie made about her this year. It depicts how
Angela saved her house from foreclosure, with the
help of her three sons, Marcus, William and Nicholas,
and her fianc, Melvin George, and the support of her
friends. She developed her Apple Mortgage Cake busi-
ness with her grandmothers recipe.
NJ Bees will be back with his honey and other bee
products. Also returning this season is Back in Touch,
with a license massage therapist.
New this season is Stellas Empanada Argentine Grill
and Mo Green Juices.
The Senior Farm Nutritional Program is scheduled
for July 17.
For more information, call (201) 907-0493 or visit
www.cedarlane.net.
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ALPINE STUNNING $3,788,500
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1115 Belle Ave. $379,000 1-3 PM
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1391 River Rd. $328,999 1-3 PM
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1402 Milford Ter. $379,000 1-3 PM
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190 Carlton Ter. $399,900 1-3 PM
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Fam Rm, EIK. Three (3) 2nd Flr Brms, Full Updated 2nd Flr
Hall Bath. Fin Bsmt/.5 Bath. H/W Flrs. Gar.
951 Alpine Dr. $499,900 1-3 PM
Country Club Area. Beaut & Totally Updated. 3 Generous BRs,
2 Desig Baths. LR/ Fplc, Den/4th BR, Ultra Designer Kit/step
down to Fam Rm. Fab Game Rm Bsmt /2nd Kit, Study + O/S
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276 Van Buren Ave. $299,000 2-4 PM
3 BR, 1.5 Bath Col. Enc Por, LR, French Drs to Den, DR, Kit,
Bkfst Nook/Sliders to Deck. 1st Flr Laund. Bsmt. H/W Flrs,
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220 Vandelinda Ave. $799,900 3-5 PM
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DR, Ultra Gran Kit. Fin Grnd Lev/Sep Ent/4 Rms (Office/Guest
Suite). H/W Flrs, Crown Mold, Recessed Lights, 2 Car Gar.
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260 Farrant Ter $269,900 3:30-5:30 PM
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Bkfst Cntr. 2 BRs, Updated Bath. Semi-Fin Bsmt. Oversized
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575 Teaneck Rd. $395,000 3:30-5:30 PM
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Plan: LR /DR/Granite Kit. New Wood Flrs, New Wins, C/A/C,
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61 Copley Ave, Tnk $569,000 1:00-3:00pm
145 Johnson Ave, Tnk $529,000 1:00-3:00pm
988 Allen Ct, Tnk $367,000 1:00-3:00pm
15 Mahurter Ct, Bgfld $599,000 1:30-3:30pm
1072 Allessandrini Ave. N Mlfd $459,000 1:00-3:00pm
RECENT SALES!
196 Van Buren Ave, Teaneck
728 Cottage Place, Teaneck
72 John Pl, Bergenfield
327 Van Buren Ave, Teaneck
835 Country Club Dr, Teaneck
564 S Prospect Ave, Bergenfield
3/BR 2/bath, new
kitchen, dining room,
wood fireplace,
garage, Historic
tudor-style building,
12 miles from midtown.
$360,000 or best offer.
Open House Sun, June 8th, 10-5pm.
Will be sold to THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
917-328-0602
Dwight Manor, Englewood By Owner
Tenafy/Teaneck Office
(201) 569-7888
Elliot W. Steinberg
(201) 446-0839
Emily R. Steinberg
(201) 446-1034
BY APPOINTMENT
Hackensack - Whitehall Coop, 2 BR, 2 Bath. 24 Hour
Security/Doormen, Pool, Exercise Room. $69,500
Fort Lee - Horizon House Coop, 2 BR, 2 Bath,
Sophisticated Contemporary Duplex (2125 sq.ft.) with
Unobstructed Views of the Hudson River and GWB
$354,900
Fort Lee - Northbridge Park Coop, 2 BR, 2 Bath Totally
Renovated with Views of the Hudson River and Palisades,
Pool, Tennis, Community Room $228,500
Fort Lee - Horizon Towers Coop, 2 BR, 2 Baths,
Spacious Open Floor Plan. Loaded with Amenities, Full
Service Building $320,000
UNDER CONTRACT/SOLD
Teaneck - East Maple, 2 BR, 1 Baths
Hackensack - Poplar Avenue, 2 BR, 2 Bath
Teaneck - Frances Street 2 BR, 2 Bath
Hackensack - Prospect Avenue, 3 BR, 2 Bath
Teaneck - Northumberland Ave. 3 BR, 1 Baths
Teaneck - Maitland Avenue, 4 BR, 2 Baths
Lincoln Park - Susquehanna Avenue, 4 BR, 2 Bath
CALL FOR A NO OBLIGATION CONSULTATION!
Cancer survivors concert
Englewood Hospital will present its seventh Survivors
Rock! concert in celebration of cancer survivors and
their loved ones.
The Worlds Best Billy Joel Tribute Band performs
at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, for an evening filled
with rock and roll classics at the hospitals Chiang Audi-
torium, 350 Engle St., Englewood. Special guest and
WCBS-FM radio personality Dan Taylor will emcee.
Seats are limited and registration is required for the
free event. Call (866) 980-3462 or visit www.englewood-
hospital.com and click the Class and Event Registra-
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Holy Name MS Centers Spring Fashion Fling
raises over $180,000 for care and research
Holy Name Medical Centers MS Center
recently held its 17th Annual Spring Fash-
ion Fling raising over $180,000. All pro-
ceeds will go towards patient care and
research at the MS Center.
Holy Name Medical Center is com-
mitted to ensuring that our MS patients
have access to todays most promising
therapies, novel treatment strategies,
and incomparable care, said Celeste A.
Oranchak, vice president of development
at Holy Name Medical Center and execu-
tive director of the Holy Name Medical
Center Foundation. We are deeply grate-
ful for the generous support of our donors
which significantly helps the MS Center
provide the best medical care to the MS
community.
The event was held at the Glenpointe
Marriott Teaneck. It included a fashion
show by Lord & Taylor at the Fashion
Center, Paramus; an auction, and a lun-
cheon reception. Chris Cimino, WNBC-
TV meteorologist, served as honorary
chairperson of the event, while friends
of the MS Center acted as models for the
fashion show.
Approximately 1,900 patients from the
greater New York metropolitan region
visit the Holy Name MS Center every
year for its clinical excellence, personal-
ized patient care, and innovative clinical
research. For more information on the
Holy Name MS Center, please call (201)
837-0727. To learn more about giving
opportunities, please contact the Holy
Name Medical Center Foundation at (201)
833-3187 or foundation@holyname.org.
Mom 101 seminar at Englewood Hospital
The Childbirth Education Department
at Englewood Hospital and Medical Cen-
ter is offering Mom 101, a free educa-
tional seminar series that provides guid-
ance and support to new and expectant
parents.
The third of six scheduled seminars
focuses on What Will Happen to Your
Children if Something Happens to You?
and will be lead by attorney Maurice
Giro. The seminar will be held Monday,
June 16, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in Child-
birth Education Classroom #4168 at the
hospital.
Refreshments will be served. Seats are
limited. Registration is required for this
free event. To register, call (201) 894-
3727 or 1-866-980-3462 or visit www.
englewoodhospital.com and click the
Classes and Support Groups tab.
Vocalists: Verismo Opera audition deadline
The New Jersey Association of Verismo
Opera invites soloists in all vocal catego-
ries to submit their applications now to
audition for the companys 2014-2015
season. The audition deadline is June 16
and an appointment is required.
Open auditions will be held from Mon-
day, June 23, to Friday, June 27, for solo
roles in the companys new productions
of Giacomo Puccinis La Bohme,
Georges Bizets Carmen, and Gaetano
Donizettis Lucia di Lammermoor.
Audition appointments will be sched-
uled from 1-5 p.m. at The Performing
Arts School of the Bergen Performing
Arts Center (bergenPAC), located at 1
Depot Square in Englewood.
Verismo Opera will perform these
grand operas fully staged with a live
orchestra and chorus. The selected
vocalists will receive free coaching
from professionals in the field. Profes-
sional photos and a DVD of the produc-
tion will be available to use for future
engagements and performances.
All applicants must have previous
experience in a fully staged production
and the necessary vocal training to per-
form leading or supporting roles. New
Jersey residents are encouraged to apply.
Although an accompanist will be pro-
vided, applicants may bring their own.
For an audition appointment, call (201)-
886-0561 or send an e-mail to info@
verismopera.org.
Applicants must submit a bio listing
current or past performances and roles
sung, a resume, photo and an audio file,
preferably in an MP3 format or on a CD,
by the application deadline to Verismo
Opera Inc., P.O. Box 3024, Fort Lee, N.J.
07024-9024 or to info@verismopera.
org. A refundable $25 deposit must be
submitted with all applications. Checks
should be made out to Verismo Opera.
For more information visit www.
verismopera.org.
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