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NOSHES ...............................................................4
OPINION ...........................................................20
COVER STORY ................................................ 26
DVAR TORAH ................................................ 42
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................ 43
CALENDAR ......................................................44
GALLERY .......................................................... 47
OBITUARIES ....................................................48
CLASSIFIEDS ..................................................50
REAL ESTATE.................................................. 52
Noshes
CHAPTER BY CHAPTER :
Knight of Cups
features Portman
Knight of Cups
is opening Friday,
March 11. This
Terence Malick film,
which is labeled as
experimental by the
director, stars Christian
Bale as Rick, a successful but unhappy screenwriter who finds his only
solace in women.
NATALIE PORTMAN, 34,
stars in one of eight
chapters in the film. All
of the chapters center
on one person in Ricks
life; Portman plays a
woman Rick once
wronged
Hello, My Name is Doris is opening the same
day. It stars Sally Field
as Doris, a woman who
is smitten with John, her
companys new, muchyounger art director.
MAX GREENFIELD, 35,
who is best known as
Schmidt on TVs The
New Girl, plays John.
Doris mines the Internet
for info on John and
finds out who his hip
friends are and where
they hang out. She
seeks out these friends
and they like her. Over
time she adopts these
friends bohemian ways,
and her personal style
loosens up. But her family and old friends think
that Doris is making a
fool of herself pursing
her crush on John. Costars include NATASHA
LYONNE, 36.
The director is MI-
CHAEL SHOWALTER,
45 who is best known as
a co-star and co-writer
of Wet Hot American
Summer and its recent
Netflix prequel. One
of his more obscure
credits is the 2005 film
The Baxter, which he
directed and starred
in. This very quirky and
uneven romantic comedy didnt make much
money, but its worth
renting. Its a send-up of
all the romantic comedy
clichs about the right
guy sweeping the girl
off her feet at the last
minute. Showalter plays
a nebbishy nice guy who
is repeatedly dumped
for the right guy. So I
wasnt surprised that he
is helming another film
about possibly unrequited love like Doris.
You might have
heard Charles
Randolph, a
co-Oscar winner for his
Big Short screenplay,
say I love you, Mili in
Hebrew from the Oscar
stage. He was speaking
to his wife, Israeli actress
MILI AVITAL, 43. As
noted in my story about
the Oscars, their son is
being raised Jewish. You
also might have heard
best actor winner
Leonardo DiCaprio and
Revenant director
Alejandro Irritu thank
Chivo in their speeches. Chivo means goat
in Spanish, and its the
Natalie Portman
Max Greenfield
Natasha Lyonne
Mili Avital
Mark Mezvinsky
Jussie Smollett
nickname of Revenant
cinematographer
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI,
51, who won his third
consecutive Oscar the
same night.
While he certainly
doesnt look goatlike
now, Lubezki told the
New York Times in 2014
how he got his nickname: When I was 5 a
[Mexican] schoolmate
gave it [to me]. I guess
it was my face looked
like a goat, almost every
boy in the school had
the animal nickname.
38, an investment
banker who is the son of
two former House
members. They have
one child and another is
on the way. Speculation
is that their children will
be raised in both their
parents faiths. Less well
known, although I have
noted this before, is that
Hillary Clinton had a
Jewish half aunt, the
late ADELINE ROSENBERG FRIEDMAN.
Hillary was fairly close to
Adeline. This aunt was
the daughter of Hillarys
paternal grandmother,
Dorothy, and her second
husband, MAX ROSENBERG, who was Jewish.
(Adeline was the half
brother of Hillarys
father). While Dorothy
never converted to
Judaism, Adeline did,
and lived her life as a
Jew.
Early in February,
Empire star
JUSSIE SMOLLETT, 32, visited Flint,
Michigan, and donated
$10K for relief efforts. On
Oscars night, February
28, he joined other
African-American stars
on the stage in Flint to
raise awareness of the
water crisis and to raise
money for Flint residents.
Smollett sang a song. The
son of a Jewish father
and an African American
mother, Smollet (his
words)identifies as an
African American and a
Jewish man. By the way,
his sister JURNEE
SMOLLETT-BELL, 29,
co-stars in Underground
in Louisiana, a new
10-episode series on
cable station WGN. Its
about the Underground
Railway, the network that
spirited slaves to freedom. Christopher Meloni
(Law and Order: SVU)
co-stars. It began on
March 9, but you can
catch up via encores or
online. New episodes air
Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
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First responders go to Israel with Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
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From left, Lafe Bush, Cathy Madalone, John Devine, Dr. James
Pruden, Jacqueline Luthcke, Todd Pearl, Timothy Torell, and
Kenneth Ehrenberg stand in a gallery at the Knesset.
At the police academy in Beit Shemesh, an instructor shows Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg a knife. Dr. James Pruden, who is partially hidden, and Captain Jacqueline Luthcke look on.
in a new hospital. So it was very interesting for me to see that Nahariya has already
done that. When their regular emergency
room was bombed they were able to move
underground.
A trauma surgeon at Galilee Medical
Center described mass casualty planning
procedures and the checklist the hospital uses to assure that incoming patients
with different types of injuries will be processed appropriately.
Ive worked on preparedness for the
healthcare system, so this was an opportunity for me to see how people who have
had frequent exposure to unusual circumstances responded and how they made
adjustments in their response, and to see
if there is anything we can take home from
their experience, said Dr. James Pruden,
an emergency care physician at St. Josephs
Regional Medical Center in Paterson.
The difference is the real and present
threat that exists in Israel, and so their
commitment to preparedness is probably at a higher level than at hospitals in
the United States, he said. Whats similar is the general strategy of rapid triage
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Before dinner, from left, Barnerts Rabbi Elyse Frishman, Imam Moutaz and Ammar Charaf, both of the Elzahra Islamic
Center in Midland Park; Rabbi Daniel Freelander, president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism; Rev. Kathryn L.
King of St. Albans Episcopal Church and Rev. Lou Kilgore of High Mountain Presbyterian Church, both in Franklin Lakes;
the Peace Institutes Ercon Tozan; Mahomoud Hamza of the Elzahra Islamic Center; Rev. Alison V. Philip of the United Methodist Church in Franklin Lakes; Meryem Teke of the Peace Institute, and Rev. Nathan Busker of Ponds Reformed Church in
Oakland stood together.
vegetarian.
That way, we didnt have to worry
about dietary restrictions, Rabbi Frishman said. Everyone brought food, and it
was so much fun that people asked for a
cookbook of all the recipes.
In planning the evening, she added, We
decided not only to bring people together
in the sanctuary but to have a potluck supper where we could break down xenophobic barriers. Members of the interfaith
council brought members from their own
congregations, and tables were arranged
so that they included people from all religious groups. It also was geared to all age
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to look into each others eyes. I was surprised by how
easy it was.
People were so open. Especially with whats going
on in our nation right now were overwhelmed by
absurdity, anger, polarization, and we dont buy into
that. People want to get to know each other, to break
down barriers. They dont want to be afraid or ignorant of the other. They just need the opportunity.
Rabbi Frishman said the clergy council will meet
soon to brainstorm its program for the coming year,
looking to facilitate small and large gatherings for further dialogue and conversation. We need to build faith
and trust one another. Eventually, the communities
may move on to discuss more controversial issues. In
the meantime, There are a lot of different opportunities, like book groups, and teens working in the garden. It depends on what people are interested in. The
door is wide open.
Other religious leaders were thrilled as well.
Rev. Alison V. Philip, pastor of the Franklin Lakes
United Methodist Church, said, Sometimes, without realizing it, cynicism builds up within me. Last
night at the interfaith friendship gathering, instead
I felt filled up with hope that change can really happen in our world and that it happens through human
relationship.
One thing that sticks with me is a conversation I
had with an imam who identified the struggles refugees face in this country, she continued. Prejudice
is a huge problem from elementary-aged children
and up, and it only perpetuates animosity between
groups. Distrust of the stranger in turn produces distrust within the stranger.
My hope going forward is to find ways as faith
leaders to address prejudice, perhaps by continuing
to offer opportunities for people to connect human
being to human being, and to become truly neighbors
rather than strangers.
Asked if anything surprised her at the gathering, the
Rev. Philip said, It shouldnt surprise me but it still
does each time when I meet someone who seems
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It doesnt erase
differences, of
course, but it
grounds me in the
truth that people
have shared hopes
and values and
dreams.
different from me and as we talk I realize how similar we are. It doesnt erase differences, of course, but
it grounds me in the truth that people have shared
hopes and values and dreams.
Rev. Nathan Busker of Ponds Reformed Church in
Oakland was moved as well, noting that With all the
rhetoric about building walls and fearing the stranger,
the power of love during the interfaith event was palpable. Last night, the space between us disappeared
as bridges of friendship were built.
Ercan Tozan, executive director of the Peace Island
Institute, said, We are polluting the world with our anger,
jealousy, envy, animosity, hatred, prejudices, ego, and
many other contemptuous feelings with the excuse of a
better life, nationalism, or religion. For harmony to flourish, it is vital that we get to know each other. Knowing is
the first step in the road leading to love and peace.
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Jeremy Katz, above, plays the drums in his Teaneck home studio. Right, Katz on guitar,
one of the many instruments hes mastered.
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Maybe Jeremys most valuable asset is the healthy
sense of humor he brings to his videos. He frequently
dons costumes to heighten his music videos into tribute-parody hybrids. The costumes are the best part,
he said. Its one thing hearing me, and its another
thing seeing me play.
Performance certainly is on his mind throughout the
creative process. I try to make it as entertaining as possible. I thought, Im doing a Queen song, why not dress
up like Freddie Mercury? Ill just put the mustache on,
get the wigs, and go for it. I want you to watch my music
and be like damn, that was a really good song and at
the same time, that was funny as hell.
Jeremy launched his entrepreneurial enterprise in
2015. So far, he has worked with major companies
like Shell Oil to create music videos for corporate
team-building. He combined his love of music, entertainment, and video editing to jumpstart his music
video production career. It was an awesome experience. I had a such a great time working with Shell, I
thought, why not keep doing this?
For his most recent project, he created a video for
Campus Pursuit, which organizes scavenger hunts
for college students to connect them with brands.
Theyre using the music video more for advertising
and marketing, he said. I leave the creative decisions
up to them I give them certain production clues.
The rest is up to the company.
Jeremy does not see a strict divide between his current projects. Its goes two ways, he says of his YouTube channel and his corporate work. The people
in the companies will share it all around, so the more
people I work with, the more my channel grows.
Like most ambitious millennials, Jeremy uses social
media to build his personal brand. I use Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. Im not the best at Twitter but Ill
tweet something special for famous dates, like the day
first time, it took me three weeks. Its trial and error, but I
decided Im doing this, and so I did it.
Like anything, hard work is just that: hard work. The
video production aspect of his business is the most difficult
for Jeremy. Its frustrating at times. Like with the violin,
sometimes I want to break the instrument. But I give it a
day and try again.
He plans to build his personal brand by continuing to create music videos, both the corporate ones and the ones he
makes for fun. I want to have a big, successful YouTube
channel. At the same time, I want to build my corporate
work. They go hand in hand. His videos already have been
syndicated to TV networks worldwide, and he has a large
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scouting has meant a great deal to Avi, and Im pleased
to see how his work in earning the Eagle badge has
helped him grow and mature.
Avi is a senior at Torah Academy of Bergen County
in Teaneck and has been an active member of Troop
226 since he was a sixth-grader at Yavneh Academy in
Paramus.
I enjoy scouting, Avi said. Its a unique opportunity to learn many life skills such as camping, survival,
and leadership. Its fun at the same time. He especially
enjoys hiking and rock-climbing trips with the troop,
which now has 12 active members.
Troop 226 is Bergen Countys only Jewish-sponsored
Boy Scout troop and one of only a handful in the state
that is Sabbath observant, although 11- to 18-year-old
boys from all religious backgrounds are welcome to join.
Mr. Chazin said that Troop 226 was established in
1970. It was originally chartered to the Moriah School of
Englewood and moved to the Jewish Center of Teaneck
around 1975, he said.
The first Jewish Boy Scout troop in the country was
formed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan in 1913. Today
there are about 60 Jewish Cub Scout packs and 70 Jewish Boy Scout troops nationally. Of those, about 40
percent are Sabbath observant. (There also are Jewish
Daisy, Brownie, and Girl Scout troops across the country, including Junior Girl Scout Troop 5826 in Teaneck.
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osher Champagne from Champagne, France? Cabernet sauvignon sorbet? Perhaps a little
pastrami babka?
A sold-out crowd of approximately 1,600
packed into New Yorks Chelsea Piers on
February 29 for Royal Wines tenth annual
Kosher Food and Wine Experience to try
these and other delicacies.
Bayonne-based Royal Wine returned
the show to Chelsea Piers, overlooking the
Hudson River. To take advantage of the
setting, the show offered a docked yacht
with a new VIP section featuring sushi,
special selections from Teanecks Etc
Steakhouse (such as carved roast turkey
and pastrami), and older vintage wines.
Three hundred VIP tickets sold out within
48 hours, according to Mordy Herzog,
executive vice president of Royal Wine.
Mr. Herzog credits the shows popularity
to kosher wine consumers expanding their
tastes and trying new flavors.
Five years ago everybody just wanted
cabs on the red and chards on the white,
Mr. Herzog said. Now, the consumer is
opening up and people are more interested to try new varietals.
There was no shortage of variety. With
more than 200 wines and 30 restaurants
and caterers at the show, it is impossible
to do justice to every delectable dish and
wine. So below we present you with just
a few of our choice selections from this
years show.
Mordy Herzog,
executive vice
president of
Royal Wine.
Appleation showcased
three varieties of hard cider.
Fireside, Monsey
Fireside has been open for just nine
months and made its first appearance this
year at KFWE. Executive chef Alex Remer,
who lives in Teaneck, brought a Chicagostyle deep-dish fleishig pizza topped with
house-made beef bacon, ground beef,
shredded salami, a wild mushroom medley, and a maple aoli. Tumbleweed onions,
crisp red onions served with a special
house sauce, were on the side. Both dishes
are on Firesides regular menu. The tumbleweed onions have been on the menu
since the beginning, while Mr. Remer
introduced the pizza about six months
ago. Both have been big hits, he said.
This is not Mr. Remes first visit to
KFWE; he had been there when he worked
at Teanecks Etc. Steakhouse. People tend
to think of Monsey as upstate, he said. I
knew KFWE was a great place to introduce
ourselves to the greater kosher-eating
community.
Pomegranate, Brooklyn
Every year this kosher market brings new
flavors and experimental dishes to KFWE.
This year was no different. Pomegranate
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Babka from
Pomegranate
is stuffed with
corned beef or
pastrami.
Teaneck Doghouse
Co-owner Jonathan Gellis likes to try new
wines and foods to keep the restaurant
uptempo, its manager, Josh Pinsker, said.
Mr. Pinsker managed the Doghouses
table while Mr. Gellis explored the show.
The Doghouse offered a few staples
from its menu: pulled brisket sliders,
barbecued salami tossed in a barbecue
sauce, and sausage eggrolls in a sweet
chili sauce. Now were just trying to
Appleation
Appleation showcased three hard
ciders: dry, sweet, and cinnamon flavored.
Its like apple pie in liquid form.
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On Sunday, March 13 at 7 p.m., Drs. Mort
and Esther Fridman will host a NORPAC
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Sinai Schools holds 30th annual benefit dinner
Nearly 850 people attended the Sinai Schools
annual benefit dinner at the Marriott Glenpointe
Hotel in Teaneck on February 28 to support
Sinai and its unique model of inclusive special
education.
Rena and Jerry Barta of Teaneck, Eve and Heshy
Feldman of Englewood, Karen and Rabbi Steven
Finkelstein of Bergenfield, Rosalyn and Stephen
Flatow of West Orange, and Annette and Jerry
Kranson of Fair Lawn were honored. The Community Partnership award was presented to Alfred
Sanzari Enterprises, celebrating 30 years of Sinai
dinners at Sanzaris Glenpointe Hotel.
The program included the dedication of
Sinais Bayrish Schreiber Music Therapy Program, by AJ and Leah Schreiber, and short films
about the issues facing parents of children with
special needs. A highlight was the premiere
of this years feature documentary, Saving
Freddy, which addressed the topic of depression and suicidal ideation in teens on the autistic spectrum. Presentation speeches and films
at the dinner are online at www.sinaischools.
org/2016-dinner-videos.
Sinai partners with inclusive Jewish day and
high schools in New Jersey to provide secular and
Jewish special education to children with a wide
range of disabilities. Sinai creates a completely
individualized program for each child based on
his or her social, emotional, and academic needs,
translating into a 1:2 professional staff-to-student
ratio and several different in-house therapies, with
specialists on staff at each school.
If they do not get significant financial aid, Sinais
tuition which reflects its own costs is beyond
the reach of most families.
For information or to make a donation, call (201)
833-1134, ext. 105, or go to www.sinaischools.org.
1 Rabbi Wallace Greene with honorees Rosalyn and Stephen Flatow. 2 Esti Herman, Sinais chief development officer,
with honorees David Sanzari, the president and CEO of Sanzari Enterprises, and Jerry Barta, its vice president.
3 Sam Fishman, Sinais managing director, with honorees Jerry and Annette Kranson. 4 Leah and AJ Schreiber, sponsors
of Sinais Bayrish Schreiber Music Therapy Program. 5 Rabbi Steven and Karen Finkelstein 6 Rena and Jerry Barta
7 Eve and Heshy Feldman 8 Honoree Karen Finkelstein with Sinais dean, Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Rothwachs.
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letter to the editor in last weeks issue of the Jewish Standard (Scalia on changing the law) raises some interesting points. I thank its author, Rabbi Gary Karlin, for that
letter because it provides an opportunity to expand on
the discussion begun two weeks ago.
In my last column, Scalia would have stewed over a Shabbat
staple, I equated the U.S. Constitution to the constitution of the
Jewish people, meaning the Torah, and suggested that had Scalia
been a rabbi, and had his view prevailed, Judaism probably would
have disappeared by now, dead under the heavy weight of its own
words.
That is because the late Supreme Court justice believed the only
good Constitution is a dead Constitution, meaning it is not open to
subjective reinterpretation, whereas Judaisms ability to survive is
directly related to the Torah being open to just such subjective reinterpretation. Torah law has been able to evolve because it was not
stuck in time and place, and because
individual rabbis and groups of rabbis recognized that and acted upon it.
Karlin, it seems, actually agreed
with me on this point. In the halachic system, he wrote, rabbis have
and continue to formulate, write, disseminate, challenge, and change Jewish law.
In his letter, Karlin argued that the
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Torah and the U.S. Constitution have
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little in common. (So did several peoEngelmayer
ple who responded to the Times of
Israel blog posting, although not with
the kind of reasoned arguments Karlin proffered.)
The Jewish legal tradition that got us to [this] point is very different from the American jurisprudence, he wrote. Where does the
comparison between American and Jewish law break down? In Jewish law, unlike in American law, there is no separation of powers.
To be fair, what Karlin wrote is correct in fact; Judaism operates
the way he outlined.
Rabbis are both judges (dayanim) and halachic authorities (posekim) who issue rulings, he wrote. A rabbi is the final voice of legal
authority in his or her community and may join others to augment their authority.
For millennia, there has been no formal, authoritative Jewish
congress legislating laws. No Jewish chief executive. No supreme
Jewish court. Just individual rabbis, working to keep Jewish law relevant and real.
That is the system we have, but it is not the system we were given.
If not for the system we were given, the system we have probably
never would have come to be.
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That is a head-spinning statement, to be sure, but
perhaps it will make sense as we address some of the
rabbis specific points.
It is true; there is no separation of powers in the
current Jewish legal system. That, however, is the
consequence of history. Originally, Israel was to be
ruled by three branches: king, priest, and prophet.
Each had his role to play. That is why a prophet,
Nathan, could stand before the mighty King David
and proclaim him guilty of horrendous crimes. In
any eastern court then and for many centuries after,
the man who so accused the king would quickly have
his head separated from his shoulders. In Israel, it
was the king who had to bow to the prophets judgment. (See 2 Samuel 12.)
Eventually, Israel was exiled, prophecy ceased, the
Temple was destroyed (twice), and there no longer
were kings, priests, or prophets to govern. There was
a power vacuum, and the rabbis filled it.
How did they get the authority to do so? Aside
from creating a direct line from Moses to themselves
(see Pirkei Avot, Chapter 1), they took several verses
from the Torah and reinterpreted them in their own
favor. (See Deuteronomy 17:9-14.) They could do
so because the Torah is subject to reinterpretation
when the need arises.
Karlin did allow that [p]erhaps one can claim that
Jewish communities, and in a broader sense, klal Yisrael, the Jewish people as a whole, balance rabbinic
authority, but in practical terms, that is not the case.
But it is supposed to be.
To begin with, according to black letter Jewish
law, rabbis, by acting in concert, can even stand the
Torah on its head, if by doing so they would bring
people closer to the Torah and to God.
Maimonides, the Rambam, states this concept
clearly. In his Mishneh Torah volume Rebels [Mamrim] (2:4), he says of the rabbis: If they should
conclude that it is necessary to suspend a positive
[Torah] commandment or nullify a negative one in
order to restore the people to the faith or to save
many Jews from otherwise becoming lax in matters
[of observance], they may act as the needs of the
time require.
By this, the Rambam means that if a clear majority of the People Israel have abandoned observance
of a particular God-given commandment, the rabbis
have the power (perhaps even the duty) to suspend
that commandment temporarily, rather than see the
entire halachic system plummet down a slippery
slope. (Does putting a string around Route 4 really
create a private domain allowing people to carry
on Shabbat? The eruvs purpose is to provide a way
for people to do what they would do in any case
carry on Shabbat without thinking they are violating Shabbat by doing so. Otherwise, they might start
to ignore other Shabbat rules.)
Finally, if the rabbis refuse to act, the people can.
Halachah actually gives the public the ability to
annul laws it considers obnoxious. (See, for example,
the Babylonian Talmud tractate Bava Batra 60b, BT
Avodah Zara 36a, and the Jerusalem Talmud tractate
Avodah Zarah 2:8.)
Rambam brings it all together (see MT Mamrim 2:57): A rabbinic decree, he says, is invalid if the people
resist it and a majority in fact refuses to adhere to it;
it is not permitted to force the people to follow it.
In American terms, we the Jewish people have
the right to amend our constitution, and even to
overturn laws that derive from it. We can do so only
because the Torah is a living document, not a dead
one.
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Culture wars result when litigants are unable to gain the support of the people. They then urge the Supreme Court nine
unelected old people to usurp the constitutionally mandated amendment procedure by twisting the words of the
Constitution so that they have no resemblance to what was
originally intended. The people of a particular state naturally
take umbrage when their will is thwarted by a 5-4 decision
handed down from Washington. The people view this as a
tyranny of the minority imposing its views on the majority,
and it amounts to a rejection of our foundational principle of
representative democracy.
Many today are hoping that a new Supreme Court justice
will be appointed who will be the deciding vote to reverse
the Citizens United decision. Scalia would argue that these
people are, in effect, opposed to the democratic process,
and rejecting the inherent right of the people to decide
this issue. Scalia believed that New York had every right to
adopt a law in 1970 granting a woman the right to choose
whether to abort her child. However, he found nothing in
the Constitution that authorizes nine unelected people on
the Supreme Court to invalidate the choice of the people of
Texas from adopting a different law.
This tension between constitutional interpretation and
democracy has nothing to do with the interpretation of the
Torah. When the rabbis of old, to whom Rabbi Engelmayer
referred, creatively interpreted provisions of the Torah, they
believed they were actually following Justice Scalias theory
of originalism. The rabbis of old adopted what they believed
were original principles handed down in the Oral Torah by
God and applied those original principles to new circumstances. Justice Scalia would do the same.
Harry J. Reidler, Englewood
Is truth relative?
It may come as a surprise to Mr. Fischer, who wrote a letter (February 26) chastising the Jewish Standard for publishing columns by Rabbi Boteach, but some of us agree
with much not all of what the rabbi has to say. Isnt
America where diversity is extolled, meaning not only
diversity concerning classifications of people, but also
diversity of opinion?
And as for Republican bias, is Democratic bias better? In
my opinion, it is important for us to sift out the bias and try to
find the truth. And my truth may be different from your truth.
Susan Ebenstein, Hackensack
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ou dont hear
Ahmadinejad who in 2009
that much these
led the brutal charge at
days about Mahthe behest of Supreme
m ou d A h m a L e a d e r Ay a t o l l a h A l i
dinejad, the former Iranian
Khamenei and the Iranian
president whose penchant
Revolutionar y Gu ards
for denying the HoloCorps against the Iranian
caust at every opportunity
democracy movement.
became legendary.
T h ou g h t h e re we re
Ben Cohen
If conventional wisdom
more people demonstratis to be taken at face value,
ing in the streets in 2009
the reason for that is simthan even in 1979, when
ple: The era of Ahmadinejad came to
the Islamist revolution brought down
an end in 2013, when he was replaced
the Shah, Western policymakers act
by the current incumbent, Hassan Rouas if none of that ever happened. Such
hani. Where a semi-literate fanatic once
airbrushing of history allows them to
reigned, there is now in his place an
cast Rouhani, whose fealty to the Iraavuncular model of good sense. Irans
nian variant of Islamist rule has never
main aim presently, it follows, is to reinwavered, as a moderate.
tegrate itself into the international sysRather, as Ahmadinejad would
tem through trade and renewed foreign
remember well, the true moderates are
investment.
exiled, or dead, or operating underIts this deeply faulty thinking that
ground, or languishing in monstrous
informs both the nuclear deal with Iran
jails like Tehrans Evin Prison. Moreover,
reached last year as well as the lions
the fact that a majority of candidates for
share of media coverage of the recent
both parliament and the Assembly of
Iranian parliamentary elections. Iran,
Experts were rejected by the Guardians
we are told, is divided between hardCouncil shows what a travesty of democliners and moderates. The duty of
racy these elections are.
the West is to support the moderates,
With Rouhani in power, the traditional
whose electoral triumph is a timely demunderstanding of what constitutes a
onstration that the engagement strategy
moderate has been stretched beyond
with Tehran is paying off.
recognition. To be a moderate in Iran
But you can and perhaps you should
these days, you dont have to disavow
look at this situation entirely differthe regimes military and operational
ently. The Islamic Republic has good
backing, in concert with Russia, for the
reason to think fondly of Ahmadinederanged Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in
jad, no matter how much the outside
Syria. You dont have to pledge that $150
world insists that he was just an irritatbillion in recouped funds from sanctions
ing blip on the road to lucrative deals
relief will be spent on public health or
with German car manufacturers and
childrens literacy programs, instead of
French industrialists. After all, it was
Shiite terrorist organizations in Iraq and
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Lebanon. You dont have to stop roaring
slogans like Death to Israel! and Death
to America! at public demonstrations. All
that is required for exemption from hardliner status is a broad show of support for
the nuclear deal.
Thus does Iran play its role in maintaining the fiction that the nuclear deal will
usher in an era of peace, with Tehran sufficiently incentivized to acknowledge the
mild restrictions on its nuclear development negotiated in Geneva. Ultimately,
its all based on faith that Irans regime will
never weaponize its nuclear program.
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.),
a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, put it eloquently just
after the deal was announced. This deal
is based on hope, Menendez said. Hope
that when the nuclear sunset clause
expires, Iran will have succumbed to the
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benefits of commerce and global integration. Hope that the hardliners will have
lost their power and the revolution will
end its hegemonic goals. And hope that
the regime will allow the Iranian people to decide their fate. Hope is part of
human nature, but unfortunately it is not
a national security strategy.
Examining his words more closely, we
might say that Menendez was being overly
generous. What passes for a strategy is
predicated on the belief that Iran will grab
at everything it can except for a nuclear
bomb, and thats something we can live
with. That means Iran will continue, with
outside acquiescence, sponsoring Assads
carnage in Syria, confident that the United
States and Europe will do nothing to counter the tyrants boast to a German broadcaster that the restraint he is supposedly showing has a limit. (For Assad,
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outside investment.
But at the moment, President Barack
Obama is doing the opposite, encouraging a climate of economic security
around Iran. Should the ghastly vision of
a Donald Trump presidency come to fruition, the essence of this policy likely will
continue, and will be further softened
by Trumps eagerness to please Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Thats an outcome that Irans ruling moderates, in
whom we have placed so much trust, will
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doubtless welcome.
Ben Cohen, senior editor of theTower.org
and the Tower magazine, writes a weekly
column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
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JOANNE PALMER
n some ways, the Anti-Defamation Leagues new director, Jonathan Greenblatt,
could not be more different from its recently retired
longtime head, Abraham
Foxman of Bergen County.
To begin with, there are
the visuals. Mr. Foxman is so
warm that its practically visible; of course the warmth masks steel, but
you cant see it. Mr. Greenblatt is all hard
edges; light bounces off his head. There is
real heat, but the steel is on the outside.
Mr. Foxman is courtly; Mr. Greenblatt is
tightly wired and all business. Those differences mark not only the very real dissimilarities between their personal styles
and their histories Mr. Foxman, 75, was
born in Poland at the start of the Holocaust
and brought up as a Catholic to save his
life; Mr. Greenblatt, 45, was born in the
United States, the grandson of a Holocaust
survivor but of the very different times in
which they grew up.
Although their approaches reflect their
generations, though, their passion is
shared stopping the defamation of the
Jewish people and securing justice for all,
as Mr. Greenblatt puts it.
Thats been on display most recently
in the ADLs quick response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump,
whose denunciations of entire ethnic or
religious groups, and later refusal to condemn David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan,
immediately was met by the ADLs offer to
educate him on homegrown hate groups.
Mr. Foxman, whose tenure at the ADL
took him through a full 50 years of change,
retired (or at least sort of retired he is
far too fully engaged in the world to retire
completely) in July, and Mr. Greenblatt
became the ADLs sixth national director.
One of his early moves there was to hire
Shari Gersten of Tenafly, who became the
ADLs first vice president of leadership and
external relations. Recently, the two of
them talked about themselves, their paths
to the ADL, and their vision for it.
Mr. Greenblatt wastes little time on getting-to-know-you small talk. His qualifications for his job are impressive. In 1992,
as a brand-new college graduate, fresh
from Tufts, he worked for candidate Bill
Clintons presidential campaign, and later
was a special assistant to President Barack
Obama and director of the brand-new
Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. He is an entrepreneur, and much
of his success has been at the intersection
Jonathan Greenblatt stands at a memorial to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Hypercacher supermarket in Paris.
Leah Rabin, the widow of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, describes
pictures of her husband to Jonathan Greenblatt.
something substantive.
In 1997, Ms. Gersten and her husband,
David Rosenblatt, moved to Boston, and
then to Silicon Valley, where she worked
in a small start-up, and where their twins,
Arielle and Zeke, were born. When they
turned 2, we decided that Jewishly there
wasnt enough for us there, she said. We
used to have to get our kosher meat from
45 minutes away. We felt that if we didnt
have a strong Jewish community, it would
be like raising our kids on an island.
Ms. Gersten is from Scarsdale, N.Y., so
it was natural to move back to the metropolitan area, and we had friends in Englewood. We knew that we wanted a Jewish
day school, and to be as close to Manhattan as possible. They moved to Tenafly,
in Sobibor.
Last year Ms. Gersten made the pilgrimage to Sobibor; she also went to Poland and
saw Auschwitz. My grandfather and I were
very close, and now that I have been to his
town I understand more about his story,
and about how lucky he was, she said.
To get back to duality what Ms. Gersten saw in Poland embodied that. She
saw the death camps; she also saw life.
Polands government is now newly and
worryingly right-wing; at the same time,
more and more Polish people are finding
out that they had relatives who were Jewish, and they are deciding that they want
to learn more, to be more Jewish. My joke
with David is that my one-time bucket wish
was to go to Poland, and now I have been
there twice within the last six months, and
I am hoping to go again this summer.
She recently agreed to join the board of
the JCC in Krakow.
When her friend Jonathan Greenblatt
asked Ms. Gersten to join him at the ADL,
I felt really blessed, as a Jew, as a person,
Ms. Gersten said. It is such an honor.
Ms. Gersten works with the ADLs lay
leaders and nurtures the next generation,
who gradually will step up to leadership
roles. The future is with the young leaders, she said.
I feel blessed every time I walk in and see
our mission statement on the wall. I look at
it every day, because it energizes me.
She also is thrilled to work with Mr.
Greenblatt. Jonathan is incredibly special, she said. He has such a neshama
such a soul. He cares so much for the
Jewish people.
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groupings are not analogous to those that describe the various American Jewish approaches to Judaism.)
Between the charedim at one pole (9 percent of Israeli
Jews), and the chilonim (49 percent) at the other, the survey uses two other categories. The datim (13 percent)
are Orthodox Jews who engage far more than the charedim in Israels larger society, and the masortim (29 percent) fall between Orthodoxy and secularism.
So on a question about Jewish law and society for
example, should public transportation shut down on
Shabbat responses vary markedly among the four subgroups. While 96 percent of the charedim favor a shutdown, fewer of the other groups agree 85 percent of
datim, 44 percent of masortim, and 6 percent of chilonim.
And as distinct as the responses among Israels Jews,
a starker contrast divides Jews and Arabs on some of the
most fundamental questions of Israeli life.
For example: 42 percent of Jewish Israelis say the West
Bank settlements help Israels security and 30 percent say
these Jewish communities illegal under international
law hurt it. But 29 percent of Muslim Israelis say they
help and 61 percent say they hurt.
And while 21 percent of Israeli Jews say there is a lot of
discrimination against Muslims in Israel, 79 percent of
Israeli Arabs hold that view.
Other findings of the report include:
About one-third of Jewish men in Israel say they wear
a kippah or other head covering that denotes respect for
God.
About half of Israel Jews are Ashkenazi, with ancestral
roots in Central or Eastern Europe, and half are Sephardi
or Mizrahi, with roots in Spain, the Mediterranean, and
the Middle East.
Muslims in Israel generally are more religious than
Israeli Jews nearly seven in 10 Muslims (68 percent) say
religion is very important in their lives but less religious
than Muslims living in many other countries in the region.
The report, funded in part by the Neubauer Family
Foundation, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent among Israeli Jews, plus or minus 6 percent among
Israeli Muslims, plus or minus 9 percent among Israeli
Christians and plus or minus 11 percent for Druze in Israel.
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Were doing a big tour of Europe in May, of 30 shows.
Im the new David Hasselhoff of Germany. (Hes talking
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6. Make like Moses after the Golden Calf
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11. What the Pres. on Eric Roths House
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on occasion
14. Physics for Einstein and biology for
Salk (Fields)
15. Alternative version of a Gad Elbaz
song, e.g.
16. Albert Brooks unhatched ones in
Finding Nemo
17. Job for a shadchan
19. Unclean (night) bird
20. How things run at the end of
Blazing Saddles
21. Band with a song about Andy
Kaufman
22. Nazi ship
24. Screen spot for Hebrew National
26. (Fictional) Master of the Universe
28. Words said many, many times on
Yom Kippur
31. Sport of 52-Across
34. Aaron was the first high one
35. Horne in Lumets The Wiz
36. And others (as often seen in
crosswords)
37. Billy Joels ___ to Extremes
38. Job for a Beit Din
41. Echad, to Jose
42. Jonah or Joel
44. Theyre filled before Shabbat
45. Director Meyers
47. Judges Jerusalem real estate
49. Plants the kibbutz field again
50. ___ essen
51. Son of 54-Down
52. Player of Wilpons whos now
banned for life
54. Broke a fast
55. Indiana Jones femme fatale
Schneider
59. ___ of Adaline (2015 Harrison Ford
film)
60. Job for a Baal Koreh
64. The Dead Sea, compared to
everywhere else
65. A Coen brother
66. Talmud option
67. Nissuin needs?
68. Busha
69. Night ___ (Winkler/Keaton film)
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1. Result of a Crystal crack?
2. Part of Syria, in the Torah
3. Celine Dions If You Asked ___
(written by Diane Warren)
4. ___ quarterback, objective for
37-Across
5. 8 Av dipping
6. Like an on duty Givati member
7. Kirk: ___ me up, Scotty
8. Net fig. for Itzhak Stern
9. Tac go with (mint that has a kosher
symbol in Israel)
10. Make like Moshe to Josephs remains
11. Job for a cantor
12. Where Bernie narrowly lost to Hillary
13. Moolah
18. What the suspicious smell (that isnt
kosher)
23. Movie title character thats t`reif
25. Kvetch, perhaps
26. Makes like Haman?
27. Uncle of Judah
28. Great rabbi killed by the Romans
29. Different branches of the IDF, shown
on uniforms
30. Job for a gabbai
31. Cholent part
32. Ivanhoe weapon
33. Name often yelled by Ari Gold
35. Davidic instruments
39. Deceptive ploy (like David
pretending to be crazy)
40. Israel news site
43. Head in Yiddish (var.)
46. Worshipped tree, long ago
48. Makes like King Saul to Agag
49. Eilat has one
51. Actress Yael of Orange is the New
Black
52. Dan, Gad, and Job, e.g.
53. Harold (Ramis) in Ghostbusters
54. See 51-Across
56. Half of a feared biblical duo
57. Freudian concern
58. Opening to the Timna mine
61. Biblical verb ending
62. Mazel tov! (similar cry upon
finishing a tough puzzle)
63. Employer of Mike Wallace
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Friday
Sunday
march 11
march 13
Shabbat in Wayne:
Saturday
march 12
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El in
Closter welcomes a
scholar-in-residence,
journalist Abigail
Pogrebin, to discuss
A Surprising Jewish
Path How 62 Jewish
Celebrities Led Me to
Choose More Judaism,
9 a.m., followed by a
dessert reception and
seminar. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.
Eric A. Goldman
Jewish experiences
in film: Film critic Dr.
Mordechai Rosenstein
Cantors Mark Biddelman and Ilan Mamber
Shuli Taubes
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael welcomes Shuli
Taubes, a SAR High
School faculty member
and community scholar at
the Young Israel of North
Riverdale, as its scholarin-residence. She will give
the derasha after the 9
a.m. minyan; at 4:25 p.m.,
she will discuss Nehama
Leibowitz: The Master
Teacher and Her Text,
and at 5:25, she will talk
about Close Encounters
of the Theological Kind:
The Jewish Perspective
on Other Religions. 89 W.
Englewood Ave. (201) 8372795 or www.rinat.org.
Casino in Hoboken:
United Synagogue of
Hoboken holds its annual
Casino Night fundraiser
at the Hoboken Elks
Club, 7:30 p.m. Proceeds
benefit the Hoboken
Homeless Shelter,
Hoboken Emergency
Food Pantry, and
Jubilee Center. 10th and
Washington streets.
(201) 659-4000 or www.
hobokensynagogue.org.
Calligrapher/artist
Mordechai Rosenstein
discusses Originals by
an Original at Temple
Emeth in Teanecks
Byachad breakfast, 10:30
a.m. 1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322, www.
emeth.org, or www.
rosensteinarts.com.
Maximizing benefits:
Michael Karlin, a fellow of
the Society of Actuaries,
discusses Maximizing
Social Security Benefits
for the mens club of
Temple Beth Sholom of
Fair Lawn, 10:30 a.m. 4025 Fair Lawn Ave. (201)
797-9321.
Concert in Wayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
concludes its Backstage
at the Y Series with
pianist Sakura Myers,
11:45 a.m. This program
is made possible, in part,
by a grant administered
by the Passaic County
Cultural & Heritage
Council from funds
granted by the New
Jersey State Council
on the Arts. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the YMYWHA of North Jersey.
1 Pike Drive. (973) 5950100.
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Purim baking in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israels Kadima, for
sixth- to eighth-graders,
hosts a hamentaschen
baking program, 1:303:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272,
naomi.weinberg@bisrael.
com, or www.bisrael.com.
Sinatra in Franklin
Lakes: Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey offers
Frank Sinatra and
Guests: Videos from
the 50s, showing two
of Sinatras television
variety shows, 2 p.m.
Popcorn and ice cream.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Monday
march 14
Feature film: The Kaplen
Tuesday
march 15
Jewish learning in
Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
a center for Jewish
learning that meets
at Congregation Beth
offers a presentation
by the Jewish Home
Familys Safely@
Home that offers a new
home maintenance
and modification
subscription service,
1:30 p.m., at the Shops
at Riverside Square Mall,
second floor, outside
of Bloomingdales
Furniture, in Hackensack.
Refreshments. (201)
342-0962 or www.
seniorsourcellc.com.
Calendar
Books and vodka in
Tenafly: As part of
the One Book One
Community project
sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers vodka
tasting, Russian food,
and a book discussion,
7:30 p.m. www.
templesinaibc.org.
Miriam Adani
Shabbat learning in
Teaneck: Miriam Adani,
Wednesday
march 16
Rabbi Daniel
Freelander
Shabbat in Wayne:
Thursday
march 17
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
cantor emeritus, Mark
Biddelman, hosts
Shabbat Yachad,
Hebrew prayers set to
easy-to-sing melodies,
8 p.m. Free copy of CD
at the shul. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
www.tepv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbi Reuven
Kimelman
Purim seminar in
Tenafly: Rabbi Reuven
Kimelman, Judaic
scholar-in-residence at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, leads a Purim
discussion, focusing
on what happened to
Amalek, 8:15 p.m. (201)
408-1418 or www.jccotp.
org.
Friday
march 18
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Young Israel of Teaneck
presents its annual
Joseph Dresdner zl
Memorial Shabbat
chazzanut weekend
with Cantor Netanel
Hershtik and the
Hamptons Synagogue
Choir, conducted
by Izchak Haimov.
Carlebach-style
Saturday
march 19
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob offers its
pre-Purim Fun Shop
with Jessica and Torah
Topics for adults with
Rabbi Marsha Dubrow,
10 a.m. Kiddush lunch
follows. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Sunday
march 20
Film/food in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob continues
its Lox n Learning
series with a screening
of the award-winning
documentary, Hava
Nagila (The Movie), 10
a.m., followed by bagels
and lox. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Purim in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth hosts a
carnival, with games
and prizes, 10 a.m.noon. Costumes
encouraged. 1666
Windsor Road. (201)
833-1322.
tattoos, prizes,
hamentaschen,
costume parade,
masks, and
noisemakers,
noon-2 p.m.
Sponsored by
Jewish Federation
of Northern
New Jersey. The
Metro YMCAs of
the Oranges is a
partner of the YMYWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
www.wayneymca.
org or (973) 5950100.
Purim in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades
holds a carnival
for children with
special needs,
noon-1 p.m., an
hour before the
Rubach Family
Purim Carnival
opens to the
public. 411 E.
Clinton Ave. (201)
408-1484.
Purim in
Paramus: The
JCC of Paramus/
Congregation
Beth Tikvah
holds a carnival
with a bouncy
castle, games,
cotton candy,
goldfish, prizes,
and food, noon-2
p.m. Costumes
encouraged. E.
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or
www.jccparamus.
org.
is also working to
shed light on the
stories of converts
and Mischlinge
before, during, and
after World War II.
www.carolynenger.
com.
Singles
Purim in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades holds
the Rubach Family
Purim Carnival,
1-4 p.m. Choices
include bounce
houses, slides,
games, prizes,
life-size cartoon
characters,
popcorn, and
cotton candy.
Costume parade
at 2:45. Food
available for
purchase. 411 E.
Clinton Ave. (201)
408-1484.
Friday
march 11
Singles
Shabbaton in
Teaneck: Sharon
Ganz & Friends
hosts a PrePurim Shabbaton
weekend for
Orthodox Jewish
singles, 20s-40s,
at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun,
including
Shabbat meals,
guest speakers,
and programs.
Home hospitality
available. Sharon,
(646) 529-8748 or
(718) 575-3962.
Sunday
march 13
Seniors meet
in West Nyack:
Singles 65+ meets
for a social get
together with
refreshments
at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m.
All are welcome,
particularly from
Hudson, Passaic,
Bergen, or
Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack
Road. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New
Jersey Jewish
Singles 45+ meets
at Congregation
Agudath Israel
for a Joke-AThon with lunch,
laughter, and
mingling, 12:45
p.m. 20 Academy
Road. (973) 2263600, ext. 145, or
singles@agudath.
org.
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Purim in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon has
a carnival with games,
laser tag, game truck,
photo booth, inflatables,
magician, food, face
painting, arts and crafts,
and sand art, 11 a.m.-1
p.m. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Purim in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts a carnival
with games, prizes, and
food, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Costumes encouraged.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272or www.
bisrael.com.
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Date nut cookies for Purim
Boys Town Jerusalem chef Avi Chamal is cooking up hundreds of his special Oriental
Date cookies as a holiday treat for the 900 boys who enjoy his culinary treasures each
day. The cookies are a traditional Sephardic Jewish delicacy and great for a Purim
masquerade since the filling is disguised inside a soft sugar-topped white cookie.
Submissions are being accepted from Bergen County ninth- through 12th Graders for
this years Abe Oster Holocaust Remembrance award contest at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades. Applicants must create
an original piece of art that communicates
the relevance of the Holocaust in the 21st
century. All forms of fine/studio art will be
accepted. Students from all backgrounds
in public or private schools are encouraged to apply. Awards are $1,000 cash for
first place; $500 for second. The submission deadline is April 13. For information,
call Ruth at (201) 408-1469 or go to www.
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Oriental Date
Cookies
Ingredients:
Dough:
2 cups sifted flour
Scant 1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup lukewarm water
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup oil (not olive)
1 teaspoon rosewater or vanilla
extract
1 tablespoon sugar
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3/4 cup date spread (or blend
pitted dates in food processor until
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1/3 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon whiskey
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Tracy Morgan
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An advertisement from a 1950 comic
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during Brotherhood Week.
Courtesy National Jewish Archive of
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sisted in resettlement and vocational services for new migrs. JFSNJ staff members are with him. COURTESY JFSNJ
n 5 Students from Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls visited residents at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh; Maggie, a certified P.E.T. Therapy dog, was there too. The dog, part of JHRs
ongoing animal therapy program, visits weekly. COURTESY JHR
n 6 In honor of the month of Adar, children at Lubavitch on the
Palisades had a special tie-dye activity with Andrea Dworkin
of Tie Dye Town. Children will wear one of colorful shirts for
Purim and donate a second as part of a class tzedakah project.
Shirts will be included in special mishloach manot packages
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Obituaries
Barbara Braverman
Barbara Braverman, ne Roth 86, of Hackensack, formerly of Paramus and Jersey City,
died January. 26.
She and her husband were founding
members of the Jewish Community Center
of Paramus and she was a member of Bnai
Brith Women.
Predeceased by her husband, Arthur, she
is survived by her children, Ellen Braverman
(Morton Mackof ), and Michael Braverman (Kristine Larson), and grandchildren,
Alexandra Mackof and Joseph and William
Braverman.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Burton Cohen
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Carole Miller
Ira Rubin
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Predeceased by his parents, Lillian and Morton Rubin,
he is survived by cousins and friends. Donations can be
sent to the Burn Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center,
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Stunning 1 BR/2 BTH. Full service. $2,495,000 Great co-op bldg. Renov 1 BR/1 BTH unit. $375,000
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3 story townhouse. 2 apartments. $1,795,000 Modern 1,200 sq. ft. loft w/city views & balcony. Townhouse-style condo. Heart of West Village.
Jeff@MironProperties.com Ruth@MironProperties.com
www.MironProperties.com
Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
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