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Helen Maryles Shankman
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Maggie Anton writes of
the magic bowls of Babylon
KRISTALLNACHTS 75TH ANNIVERSARY page 6
A SUPREME MEETING AT SCHECHTER page 8
GRANDPARENTS DAY AT THE STANDARD page 13
POLISH FILM EXPLORES AFTERMATH page 44
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LETTERS
The Yiddish title of the play is Vartn af Godot.
In the review, the Yiddish title is incorrectly
rendered as Varten far Godot, which actually
means Waiting in front of Godot clearly not
the intended translation.
GITL SCHAECHTER-VISWANATH, TEANECK
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Be part of Mitzvah Day
lJoin 1,000 volunteers
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sites across northern New
Jersey.
Volunteers from across
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trum will volunteer at sites,
both Jewish and secular.
Volunteers include mem-
bers of synagogue youth
groups, Girl Scouts, choirs,
children, adults, seniors,
and friendly pets. There is
something for everyone!
To see the entire list of
activities, to learn which
sites are still open, and to
volunteer, go to www.jfnnj.org/
mitzvahday.
Blood drives are set for four
places:
The Glen Rock Jewish Center,
682 Harristown Road, Glen Rock,
9:30 a.m. 2 p.m.
The JCC of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, East 304 Midland Ave.,
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Temple Israel & Jewish Community
Center, 475 Grove St., Ridgewood,
8:45 a.m. 2 p.m.
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and Kesher Community Synagogue,
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8:45 a.m. 2:15 p.m.
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28 collection drives. Volunteers will
accept items including toiletries, adult
briefs, baby clothing, coats, dental
hygiene products, eyeglasses, school
supplies, socks/underwear, boxed pen/
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or gently used books, new scarves,
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paper goods, and cleaning supplies.
If you have any questions, email Al-
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at 201-820-3948.
The National Jewish Coalition for Liter-

acy is sponsoring a book fair at Barnes
& Noble at the Shops at Riverside in
Hackensack to benefit the Bergen
Reads program; a portion of each sale
will benefit the JFNNJ. There also will
be storytime from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and
5 to 7 p.m. Supporters can present a
voucher or mention NJCL book fair at
checkout. (You can also participate by
buying online at BN.com from No-
vember 3-8. Just enter Bookfair ID #
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Candlelighting: Friday, November 1, 5:35 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, November 2, 6:34 p.m.
Eat your heart out, Colonel Sanders!
It was one for the record book:
The worlds largest chicken
nugget was fried up in Secaucus this
week.
It weighed in at over 45 pounds,
measured more than three feet long,
and cooked for 45 minutes in a 500
gallon fryer.
And it was kosher.
It was prepared by a team of six
people for Empire Kosher Poultry at
this weeks Kosherfest expo.
Empire began selling frozen chick-
en nuggets earlier this year. The retail
nuggets are considerably more bite-
sized, weighing one ounce each; they
come in two pound bags.
Empire is marking its 75th birthday
this year, and Jeff Brown, its presi-
dent and CEO, said the Guinness-cer-
tified giant nugget was a big way to
mark the occasion.
This world record nugget shows
that even the biggest ideas start out
small, which is the concept Joe Katz
founded this company on, start-
ing out in a garage in Liberty, N.Y., in
1938, Brown said.
From humble beginnings come
great things. LARRY YUDELSON
A wild Israeli memorial
for Wild Side musician
lLong Island-born Jewish rocker Lou
Reed died on Sunday, and the Jewish
angle was not hard to dig up.
At college he studied with famed
writer Delmore Schwartz. While
his influential 1960s band Velvet
Underground was more likely to sing
about heroin or transvestites than
velvet yarmulkes or Torah mantles,
his long solo career featured a 1989
album, New York, which included a
song, Good Evening Mr. Waldheim,
that could have been an editorial in this
newspaper, taking Pope John Paul II to
task for meeting with Kurt Waldheim
and Jesse Jackson for not denouncing
Louis Farrakhan.
More recently, he was a fixture in
the Downtown Seders, a pre-Passover
creative exploration of the Haggadah.
And he played regularly in Israel, where
he took time to visit relatives.
So its appropriate that his longest-
lasting memorial is in Israel.
Its a memorial with eight
legs: a specie of velvet
spider found in the Negev.
Its discoverer, noting that it
lives underground, decided
to name it Loureedia.
For those unfamiliar with
Reeds music, one warning:
Take a Walk on the Wild
Side, his most popular
song, was not about
spiders.
LARRY YUDELSON
The worlds largest chicken nugget was crafted by Empire Kosher Chicken.
Thats Empire CEO Jeff Brown at front right.
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Remembering Britains Schindler
JCC Kristallnacht
program to screen film
on childrens rescuer
JUNE GLAZER
S
ir Nicholas Wintons story might
never have been told if his wife
had not di scov-
ered a suitcase full
of documents and trans-
port plans in the attic of
their home.
Fifty years earlier, her
husband had organized the
rescue of 669 mostly Jew-
ish children from German-
occupied Czechoslovakia
on the eve of World War
II. But he did not mention
these events to anyone
including his wife for
more than half a century.
On November 6, the
Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades in Tenafly will present a film about
Winton, dubbed Britains Schindler by
the British media, as part of its annual
commemoration of Kristallnacht, the
Night of Broken Glass, when Nazis
destroyed thousands of Jewish homes,
shops, and synagogues through-
out Germany and Austria. This year
marks the 75th anniversary of the
violence in which 91 Jews were killed,
30,000 Jewish men taken away, and
Hitlers Final Solution began.
The film about Winton, titled
Nickys Family and narrated by the
rescued children and Sir Winton, has
garnered more
than 30 awards,
including 14 audi-
ence awards from
U.S. film festivals.
It was released by
Menemsha Films in
2011 and features a
full cast and crew,
as well as cameo
appearances by the
then-102-year- old
Winton, members of
Nickys family, and the
Dalai Lama.
Its a compelling and
poignant story about a virtually unknown
hero, said Rochelle Lazarus, the JCCs
public relations and communications
director. Not only did Winton mount the
actual rescue operation, but he also found
homes for the children and arranged for
their safe passage to Britain.
The film, which features reenactments
of the rescue operation, is one segment
of a broader commemoration to be held
next Wednesday evening in the JCCs Eric
Brown Theater. Lazarus said the pro-
gram, sponsored by the Richard H. Hol-
zer Memorial Foundation and presented
by the Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan
Holocaust Education Institute,
reflects an intergenerational theme
and will include intergenerational
participation.
Prior to the film about Sir Win-
ton, we will showcase a short doc-
umentary titled Generations of
the Shoah: The Regina and Abra-
ham Tauber Story, written and
directed by local teenage Tenafly
brothers Ben, Adam and Daniel
Danzger as their way of passing
the torch so stories such as those in
Nickys family will never be forgot-
ten, Lazarus said, adding that the
brothers, students at Tenafly High
school, conceived of the idea for a
documentary after hearing a Yom
HaShoah sermon by their rabbi,
David-Seth Kirshner of Temple
Emanu-El in Closter. They raised
more than $7,000 toward the proj-
ect and plan to complete a suite of at
least four such videos.
After the screening of Nickys Family,
guest speaker Eva Holzer of Demarest
will recount her experiences as a child
during the Holocaust and as a member
of a kindertransport similar to those
Winton organized as part of his rescue
mission. Holzer, born in Slovakia (then
Sir Nicholas Winton, with one of the 669
children he rescued from Czechoslovakia and
brought to safety in Britain.
Music for Hope to mark 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht
River Edge
Commemoration
to combine music,
stories, and memory
LOIS GOLDRICH
One of the most poignant and effec-
tive ways to memorialize something is
through music, says Dr. Joseph Toltz, asso-
ciate researcher and lecturer at the Syd-
ney Conservatorium of Music, University
of Sydney.
We keep memories alive best through
cultural activities, he said, noting that
both Jews and non-Jews use song and
musical memory to commemorate past
events, either good or bad.
On November 10, Toltz and Cantor Ronit
Josephson of Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge will harness the power of music
to commemorate the 75th anniversary of
Kristallnacht.
Calling the concert a dignified way to
remember what happened during that
time, Toltz noted that Kristallnacht the
Nazi pogrom that took place in November
1938 is now generally regarded as
the beginning of the Holocaust.
The program, Music for Hope,
will combine music, stories, and
memories, Toltz said. Over the
past 15 years, he has interviewed
more than 100 survivors, record-
ing songs they remembered from
the concentration camps. Those
songs will be featured throughout
the evening.
Memorial services help survi-
vors build a community within the
wider Jewish community, he said, point-
ing out that many survivors felt isolated
and abandoned in the wake of the Shoah.
They need to feel like a part of their own
community. In addition, with the number
of survivors shrinking each year, were in
the 59th minute of the 11th hour. I think
that young people want to know what hap-
pened to their grandparents, to keep the
memory alive.
Toltz is uniquely qualified to showcase
the music of the Holocaust. After writing
his doctoral dissertation on Hidden Tes-
timony: Musical Experience and Mem-
ory in Jewish Holocaust survivors, he
served as the Barbara and Richard Rosen-
berg Fellow in the Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies at the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, research-
ing musical testimony recordings from Dr.
David Boders 1946 project in the postwar
DP camps in Europe.
A professional singer, for 13 years Toltz
was the cantor and director of pastoral
care at Australias Emanuel Synagogue.
For the November 10 program, Toltz
has compiled music from a variety
of sources, while Josephson has put
together both adult and childrens vocal
ensembles. The evening also will include
performances by flutist Annette
Li eb and vi ol i ni st Tamara
Freeman.
The music ranges across the
whole period, from the rise of
the Nazis in 1933 to the libera-
tion of camps and survivor songs
commemorating communities
and history, Toltz said. One
of the works, written in occu-
pied Prague as a musical protest
against the German invasion,
integrates Czech folk melodies.
Much of the music to be featured comes
from Terezin.
Terezin had a dynamic and engaged
cultural program, run by the Jewish
inmates for their fellows, Toltz said. We
will see some actual footage from ghetto
performances as well as survivor testi-
mony about musical experiences.
The musician also will introduce four
Yiddish songs compiled by Yehuda Eis-
man in the songbook Mimaamakim
(Out of the Depths), printed in Bucharest
in June 1945.
Its the first-ever Holocaust song-
book, he said. The songs dont appear
Cantor Ronit Josephson Dr. Joseph Toltz
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Lauren Levant, Executive Director, Jewish Home Assisted Living
known as Czechoslo-
vakia), escaped with
her three sisters in
June 1939 and made it
to England, where she
lived in a group home
before continuing on
to Ecuador and reunit-
ing with her family.
A fourth segment
actually the evenings
opener will be a per-
formance of Drops of
Love by the award-
winning Young Peo-
ples Chorus @ Thur-
nauer, an affiliate of
the Young Peoples
Chorus of New York City. Drops of
Love was written in honor of Sir Nich-
olas Winton and is featured in the film.
The choristers, ranging in age from 10
to 17, are part of the Young Peoples
Chorus @ Thurnauers Concert Choir.
Eva Holzer is a beloved friend to the
Thurnauer School of Music. Our chorus
will be performing in her honor as well
as all of the other survivors of the kinder-
transport, said Dorothy Kaplan Roffman,
the Thurnauer schools director.
With this program, the JCC hopes to
communicate an important message
about the sacred quality of life and how
fragile it is, Lazarus added. We hope
to ensure that these stories are not lost
to time.
From left, Ben, Adam, and Daniel Danzger of
Tenay wrote and directed a documentary about a
couple who survived the Holocaust.
What: Kristallnacht commemora-
tion, featuring films Generations of
the Holocaust and Nickys Family,
speaker Eva Holzer, and music by
Young Peoples Chorus @ Thurnauer
When: November 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Eric Brown Theater at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades,
411 East Clinton Avenue in Tenafly
How much: $10 for JCC members,
$12 general admission
Sponsored by: The Richard H.
Holzer Memorial Foundation
For more information: Call event
coordinator Jessica Wolf Spiegel at
201-408-1426.
in other anthologies of Holocaust
material. They are very poignant and
moving, and this may be the first time
they have been sung in public since
publication.
Josephson said she cant wait to
work with Toltz. I expect to learn a
lot, she said, pointing out that Toltz
selected the music. While the melodic
line of many of the songs is familiar,
the arrangements are very different.
It brings another aspect to it very
haunting.
In addition to the synagogues adult
and childrens choirs, Josephson may
have her seventh-grade Hebrew school
students sing as well.
This year, Im teaching them about
the Holocaust, she said. Were cover-
ing Kristallnacht now. Its a good way
to engage them and make them under-
stand a bit better.
Josephson said that while past Yom
HaShoah programs attracted mostly
older congregants, This time were
trying to make it more inclusive, to
get people of all ages. The number of
older people witnesses, survivors
is dwindling. There wont be anyone to
tell the tale. That, she said, is why it is
so important to integrate the testimony
of survivors into the program.
We want people to understand that
the world has not learned [from the
past] and that atrocities are happening
as we speak, she said.
When people start to forget or deny
the Holocaust, that is scary. Every Jew
needs to see this and to be affected by
the music and testimony.
The program, free and open to the
public, will begin at 3 p.m. For more
information, call the synagogue, (201)
489-2463.
Who: Dr. Joseph Toltz and Cantor
Ronit Josephson
What: Presenting Music for Hope
Commemorating the 75th anni-
versary of Kristallnacht
Where: Temple Avodath Shalom,
385 Howland Ave., River Edge
When: November 10 at 3 p.m.
Why: The music was written or ar-
ranged by inmates and survivors of
ghettos, from 1933 to 1945.
How: For more information on the
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Dorit Beinisch, former head of Israels High Court, speaks to Schechter
LARRY YUDELSON
T
rial by jury.
Its a bedrock of the American
legal system. Its the subject of
two of the amendments of the
Bill of Rights.
Last week, the seventh and eighth grad-
ers of Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County in New Milford got to hear
an argument against it from one of Isra-
els leading jurists.
Dorit Beinisch served as president of
Israels High Court of Justice until 2012,
when she hit 70 and Israels mandated
retirement age. Now a fellow at NYU
Law School, she came to New Milford
last Thursday to answer questions from
Schechters middle school students.
The students had been well briefed.
The Constitution and the American legal
system are part of the seventh grade cur-
riculum; the corresponding Israeli institu-
tions are part of the eighth grade curricu-
lum, but the seventh graders received an
advanced peek in preparation for the visit.
The middle schools Israel educator and
the chairs of its social studies and Hebrew
departments worked together to prepare
the students for their visitor.
The students took turns asking ques-
tions they had written out beforehand.
They asked each question in both Hebrew
and English, and Beinisch answered them
in English.
And a question about Israels lack of
juries was raised by both the seventh and
eighth graders.
The jury system is part of the American
democracy, Beinisch acknowledged. In
Israel, we have a professional system.
She explained that Israel inherited its
legal system from the British, who ruled
before the State of Israel was declared in
1948. While England guarantees a jury
trial for those accused of serious crimes,
they didnt trust the people they ruled to
have juries, so verdicts are decided by
judges instead.
I find it a better system for us, she
said. Juries are often swayed by emotions.
Judges are very professional.
Beinisch was the ninth person to serve
as president of Israels High Court of Jus-
tice, and the first woman. She told the
students that she didnt feel her status as
a pioneer there were already women
among the courts 15 members when she
was first appointed to the court in 1995,
after serving as the state prosecutor. But
afterward, women came up to her and
told how she was an inspiration.
What was her most difficult case?
It was not a question involving over-
turning legislation or judging the conflict
between security and human rights, she
told the students.
Instead, it was cases involving adoption
and custody cases that meant nothing to
the state, but meant all the world to those
involved.
Wait. Adoption cases?
Yes, the High Court of Justice serves as
Israels court of appeal, and hears cases
that are not necessarily of constitutional
significance. That makes for a very differ-
ent workload than its American counter-
part. The U.S. Supreme Court hears fewer
than a hundred cases each year; Beinisch
said the Israeli court hears 5,000. (Like
American appeals courts, most cases are
heard by a small subset of the courts
members.)
In fact, it was anger over a family court
cast that led a man named Pinchas Cohen
to throw his shoes at Beinisch in the court-
room in 2010, breaking her glasses.
Unlike the United States, Israel has no
written constitution by which laws can be
overturned. But, as she told the students,
the High Court looks to abstract principals
to define the boundaries of acceptable
legislation.
The Israeli Supreme Court took the
same principal as the American First
Amendment, she said, in a landmark case
barring an Israeli prime minister from
closing down a newspaper.
The court decided that the prime min-
ister had the authority in the law to close
the newspaper, but that he couldnt do it
because of the important value of freedom
of the press. He could only do it if there
was a near certainty that the paper would
endanger the public through incitement to
terrorism, she said.
Beinisch enjoyed answering the ques-
tions; she said she speaks before children
in Israel regularly.
Education is the most important thing
we have. It brings a better future for every-
one, she said.
Beinisch did not brandish her pro-child
credentials, but in 2000 she wrote the
Israeli court decision banning corporal
punishment, overturning a 1944 statute.
She relied on the international Conven-
tion on the Rights of the Child and the
1992 Israeli Basic Law: Human Dignity and
Liberty.
Corporal punishment of children, or
humiliation and derogation from their
dignity as a method of education by their
parents, is entirely impermissible, and is a
remnant of a societal-educational outlook
that has lost its validity, she wrote for the
court. The child is not the parents prop-
erty and cannot be used as a punching bag
the parents can beat at their leisure, even
when the parents honestly believe that
they are fulfilling their duty and right to
educate their child....
Accordingly, let it be known that in
our society, parents are now forbidden
to make use of corporal punishments or
methods that demean and humiliate the
child as an educational system, she wrote.
In recent years, right-wing legislators
have introduced bills in the Knesset that
would curtail the High Courts reach.
I hope it wont happen, Beinisch said.
I believe we have a strong democracy and
it will not happen. Im optimistic.
Israeli jurist Dorit Beinisch tells students of differences between U.S. and Israeli legal systems.
The jury system
is part of the
American
democracy. In
Israel, we have
a professional
system.
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When calling
for votes is intrusive
Robocalls invoking Philadelphia rabbi
called on voters to choose Lonegan
PHIL JACOBS
On October 15, as Dr. Anne Lapidus
Lerner worked at her desk at home in
Teaneck, her phone rang.
Lerner an emerita faculty member
at the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary did not
recognize the caller I.D.;
when she answered she
heard the automated
male voice. It was a
robocall, one of tens of
thousands that went out
from the Steve Lonegan
campaign in the days
and hours prior to the
U.S. Senate election held
the next day.
It wasnt necessarily
the messenger nor the
automated call that bothered Lerner as
much as the message.
The voice in Lerners ear told her
that Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky was
urging Jews to vote for the Republican
candidate.
As we all learned shortly thereafter,
the calls did not succeed. Newarks
mayor, Corey Booker, the Democrat,
will represent New Jersey in the U.S.
Senate.
Booker won some 57 percent of the
vote in Bergen County; Lonegans robo-
calls managed to produce 42 percent.
In Teaneck alone, Booker took almost
83 percent of the vote. The only dis-
cernable place where Jews supported
Lonegan was in heavily Orthodox Lake-
wood, where the candidate garnered
99.5 percent of the vote, according to
reports.
Lerner, though, was looking at
the bigger picture. She was thinking
about the Pew study, showing a grow-
ing chasm between denominations.
This robocall from Kamenetsky for
Lonegan wasnt meant for her, or for
that matter anyone who is not cha-
redi or ultra-Orthodox. Kamenetsky is
the rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Gedolah
of Philadelphia, and he was joined by
Lakewoods rosh yeshivah, Rabbi Yis-
roel Newman, in the endorsement of
Lonegan.
It was so clearly focused on a par-
ticular candidate, Lerner said. The
language used on the robocall was the
language of traditional Judaism. For
someone to say that it was a chiyuv
a Torah-based obligation to vote
for Lonegan was troubling. What con-
nection is there between a religious
obligation and a political campaign?
Because I take chiyuv seriously, I
would like to know how this obligation
is rooted in halachah Jewish law.
If one takes halachah seriously, one
ought to include the details.
I think the robocalls
made so many assump-
tions about who I was
and about what my way
of life was all about.
It made assumptions
about my priorities,
and these were errone-
ous assumptions. I felt it
was real chutzpah.
Dr. Lerner went on to
say that the word chi-
yuv is a serious one and
should never be used in
this fashion.
The robocall said it had an urgent
message to every Jew registered to
vote in the state of New Jersey. We
prevail on you to vote for Republican
Lonegan. He is a proponent of support-
ing our morals and values.
The message went on to say that
Lonegan was a forthright proponent
of life, morality and marriage.
At the end of the message the listener
can hear Kamenetskys voice, saying he
supported the vote for Lonegan. The
call added that the entire country will
be watching the October 16 election.
Torah observant Jews will vote to
defend our values, it said. Go out and
vote for Mayor Lonegan.
Joy Kurland, director of the Jew-
ish Community Relations Council of
Northern New Jersey, said that she
was familiar with the robocall tactic in
elections.
Kurland added that you want peo-
ple to be informed about whom they
are voting for.
We prefer forums where people can
come away with the information they
need. But these robocalls can lead to
a situation where people compromise
their morals if people wanted to take
it that far. Again, you want people to
be informed of their choices. Candi-
date forums provide so much more to
the voters. I think these robocalls are
totally beyond the pale.
Kurland lives in Morris County. She
said she hasnt heard about similar calls
being made to Jews who live there.
Lerner felt that the call fell almost
in lockstep in line with voters who
oppose President Obamas policies.
But this one was different, she said.
Rabbi Shmuel
Kamenetzky
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Synagogue launches
special needs Hebrew
school program
Glen Rock rabbi wants children
to feel welcome and connected
LOIS GOLDRICH
For many years, the Glen Rock Jewish
Center has provided accommodations for
Hebrew school children who need a bit of
extra help.
For example, an adult
resource teacher and teen
volunteers have been on
hand to work one-on-one
with students who could
use some extra help in
Hebrew reading.
Still, the shuls Rabbi
Neil Tow said, that wasnt
enough.
We not i ced over
time that some students
werent able to function
their best in the standard classroom, so
last year we started to think a lot about
that in the congregation, he said.
As a result of those discussions, the
GRJC has now established a Hebrew
school class specifically for children with
special needs.
The program, which began on October
20, is held on Sunday mornings, paral-
lel with the synagogues other Hebrew
school classes. The shul has brought on
Susan Bauer, a certified special education
teacher, to lead the 90-minute sessions.
So far, three children are enrolled.
That was our intention, to start small,
Tow said. We want to give this a try, to
see how it works. The congregation is fully
behind it. We want to provide an oppor-
tunity for students who have not found a
place to learn to connect to a school and
community.
Describing the issue as one of inclusion,
the rabbi said, Its very important to send
this message. Children with special learn-
ing needs can have a place in the Hebrew
school environment and feel welcome
and connected.
Tow said that while the initial concern
was to serve members children, shul
leaders decided to open the program up
to the wider community.
We see this as another offering among
the range of offerings in our area, he said.
There are a series of programs trying to
serve this population. We wanted to add
another option, another possibility for
families to consider.
Tow said that the idea of the program
is to expose students to Judaica in a vari-
ety of forms. The first class dealt with the
Shema, and students created a mezuzah
to bring home.
Students are not divided by grade.
Because we knew it would be a small
group, we decided to welcome students at
a variety of ages, he said.
GRJCs Hebrew school principal, Rachel
Blumenstyk, who has been with the syna-
gogue for some 25 years
and coordinates classes
for 127 students, said that
everyone should be able
to participate in Jewish
life. We want to help them
become part of temple life
and participate in our pro-
grams. Hopefully, well see
them become bar and bat
mitzvah. Thats our goal.
She said that students in
the special needs class will
learn to recognize Hebrew
letters and basic words and will be taught
important prayers. Bauer also will discuss
Jewish history, tell stories, screen videos,
and offer arts and crafts.
In addition, the students will participate
in any program the temple is doing, Blu-
menstyk said, noting that they will join the
other Hebrew school students for music,
library, and computer lab.
We do a lot of fun activities, said Bauer,
who also works as a teacher in Allendales
public school district. She noted that spe-
cial education is all about differentiation,
pointing out that since she has two assis-
tants, her students receive a great deal of
individual attention. As a result one boy
who already knew some Hebrew is getting
additional instruction. While students vary
in age, she said, its very common in a spe-
cial education class to have multi-age stu-
dents at different levels.
Blumenstyk said she is positive the pro-
gram will grow.
Theres a need for it, she said. Ive had
a few calls already.
Bauer is confident as well.
A lot of children have attention issues,
she said, noting that her special needs class
is less demanding than a regular Hebrew
school class. For example, the children are
allowed to walk around something they
cannot do in a standard classroom.
While the class is designed to help indi-
vidual students and families, it helps the
synagogue as well, Blumenstyk said.
Last week I went in and it was so nice to
see how they learned a song about the alef
bet. I was kvelling.
For more information about the pro-
gram, email Rabbi Tow at rabbi@grjc.org
or call him at 201-652-6624; or email Rachel
Blumenstyk at principal@grjc.org or call
her at 201-652-6624.
Rabbi Neil Tow
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Collaborating on food
Schechter, Jewish Home share a meal plan
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
A catering snafu a week before the new
school year threatened to leave children
at Solomon Schechter Day School of Ber-
gen County without a hot lunch program.
So its head of school, Ruth Gafni, got on
the phone and set a unique community
collaboration in motion.
As a result of some fast creative thinking,
this year lunch at Schechter is provided by
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh. Tuesday
through Friday, heated trucks roll down
to New Milford, bringing strictly kosher
soup, salad bar fixings, and a main course
prepared especially for the children.
I reached out to our board member and
my mentor Chuck Berkowitz, CEO of the
Jewish Home Family, Gafni said. By the
next day, she was meeting with Berkowitz,
the Jewish Homes CEO, Sunni Herman, and
its food services director, Lisa Segelbacher.
We compared menus, spoke about
the possibility of collaborating, the cost,
and what may be needed for them to
take over our meal plan, Gafni said.
They mentioned working closely with
a dietician, making the food kid-friendly.
When we were about to leave, they
assured me that they would make it work.
We were confident we could do it
because we already send bulk meals to
the Kaplen JCC [in Tenafly] for the senior
programs and to the YJCC in Washington
Townshi p, Herman sai d. I fel t
passionately about it as a Jewish communal
agency. Personally, as a working parent of
three kids in a school where they get hot
meals, Im very sensitive to ensuring the
kids get lunch. Its very difficult to put
together a nutritious lunch, and parents
depend on the school to do that.
The Homes two fulltime dieticians
worked with the existing menu, evaluating
the nutritional value of the food with an
eye toward common food allergies.
We totally pulled it together, Herman
said. For the first week, we served
cold food because Schechter still had to
purchase equipment to keep the hot food
hot and the cold food cold. I was there the
first day, and it was a real feel-good moment
to know that two Jewish community
agencies could work together so quickly.
Gafni reported that the cuisine garnered
delicious reviews from the start, with
many children coming back for second
helpings. The parents who volunteered
[to serve the food] were pleased, and we
cannot thank Chuck, Sunni, and the staff
enough, she said.
This is really out of the box in terms of a
collaboration, but were really committed
to its success, Herman said, giving kudos
to Executive Chef Dominic Akerman. He
took on this project as his own and made
it work, despite needing to balance all the
demands on the kitchen.
On Mondays, the kids get pizza at
Schechter because the Homes staff cannot
do the necessary ordering and prep work
on Sunday.
Herman pointed out that the unusual
arrangement helps assure that food will
not go to waste. We are always open, and
if there is a storm or some other reason
they couldnt get the food to Schechter,
we could store it on premises, using our
emergency generator. During Hurricane
Sandy, we had 30 people sleep over and
we had to feed them, so no matter what
happens the food wont go to waste.
Gafni and Herman stress that the
relationship is two-sided. Sixth-, seventh-,
and eighth-graders from Schechter visit
residents of the Jewish Home once a week
to schmooze, play games, discuss current
events, and work on joint art projects.
It does take a village, and thats what
we try to teach the children and model
every day here, Gafni said. For the fourth
year in a row, every Wednesday a van
comes from the Jewish Home and takes
the children to interact with residents in
a joyful, meaningful way. Its a wonderful
opportunity to connect the elderly and the
young.
The school has a student population of
420, about two-thirds of whom are signed
up to receive a hot lunch. The children
are happy with the food and now we are
collecting suggestions of how to make it
even more appealing what dishes they
would like to see for the next semester,
Gafni said. It is definitely our intention for
this arrangement to continue.
The more collaboration, the better it is
for everyone.
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On September 21,
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the second son born to her and
her husband, Rabbi Yaakov
Komisar.
We were so blessed as a
family nearly four years ago,
when DeDes oldest child and
our first grandchild, Shalom
Chaniah Tuvia, was born.
His baby brother Itai was
named for his great aunt, Enid
Jacobs Dame, or Ytta Sarah bat
Michal and Tova Sheindel.
Ytta Sarah was a nationally
known feminist poet. She wrote
poems of medresh. She wrote
of Eve and Lillith, the push
and the pull of Jewish life for
women in Jewish tradition.
She was an English professor at
Rutgers and New Jersey Institute of
Technology in Newark.
Google Enid Dame, and youll learn the
extent of her writings and how she used
love, strength, humor, and sometimes
anger to get her voice heard.
She marched on Washington against
the Vietnam War and for civil rights. She
was even arrested for protesting at an
apartment building which in the 1960s
refused to rent to blacks.
At the same time, she was the big
sister who would shlep me to sporting
events. She did so because my parents
were working-class people, seemingly
always on the job. Shed bring Chaucer
and Kipling with her and sit with me
in the bleachers watching the Yankees
visiting the Orioles. Shed look up and
hug me when I cheered. But then shed
be off in the sanctity of her favorite
literature.
My sister bought me my first electric
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growing on my face and I shaved them
like they were forming a beard. She
bought it for me, because Enid always
asked me questions, always wanted
to know what I thought. And when I
confessed to her my deepest fears about
being a boy growing up in a world where
physical prowess was something I could
never live up to, she presented me with
a shaver. She wanted me to have that
beard because she want to help make me
feel more grown up.
My si ster was in love with my
daughters, DeDe and Emily. DeDe shared
with her aunt a love of literature and
Judaism and found no peace in keeping
silent about cruelty and injustice. DeDe
has read and connected with her aunts
friends, and her past.
Sadly, Enid died too young, at age 60,
in 2003.
Enids spouse insisted on purchasing
DeDes wedding dress, as a way
to connect these two very similar
neshamot.
The day after I turned 60, I sat in the
beis medresh of New Havens historic
Orchard Street shul. My daughter so
closely resembles the traits of courage in
her own writings and point of view of life
that I know that my sister is somewhere
looking on with pride.
On a warm Sunday morning after
prayer, I wrapped myself in my tallit,
and with a pillow on my lap I held my
beloved new grandchild, trying my best
to comfort him as the covenant of our
people was completed.
Itai Lev Aryeh. You are named for a
woman who deeply influenced your Ima
and your Poppy, who happened to be
Ytta Sarahs little brother and always will
take pride in that.
Friendly, with a strong heart and the
courage of a lion. This was Ytta Sarah.
You, my little grandson, will carry her
memory to klal Yisroel. And like her, you
will write your own story. Your medresh.
JOANNE PALMER
I
magine a timeline on
a scroll.
The scroll is full of
characters and their
stories, just waiting for air
and light. When the scroll
opens to the right place
just say, for example,
to October 19, 2013 the
story written on that bit of
parchment comes to life.
In this case, to gurgling,
sucking, cooing, crying,
dimpled, lovely life.
That also means that the parchment that
has been covered once again goes dark,
and all the life and stories in it fade to black
as well.
In the Torah our quintessential scroll
the stories come alive every year, with
absolute regularity. We know them all;
we know whats been newly covered
again just as we know what is about to be
revealed with a turn of the spindles. Sarah
and Abraham died last week, and their
stories have been replaced with Isaac
and his twins, who are about to come to
squalling life.
In our own lives, we know whats past
but we have no idea whats to come. So
there is much poignancy as well as great
joy when we name new babies; they
remind us that just as life itself is ever-
renewing, there are people youve loved
who you never will see again.
But I do not want to dwell on sadness,
simply to acknowledge it.
But what do you say about birth? Because
the truth is that it is impossible, at least for
me, to stop babbling about miracles, about
perfection, about tiny little fingers and toes
and ears and perfect rosebud mouths and
exquisite ears and elegant eyebrows and
just the right amount of fine dark hair.
Abs ol ut el y wonder. Compl et e
perfection.
Two Shabbats ago, my granddaughter
(and oh my does that make me sound and
feel, and to be realistic BE old) was born.
Because of the tradition that we not use
her name and in fact that her parents not
divulge it until she was named officially,
we called her Isabella Snuffleface, a name
to which we grew attached. Eventually,
her mother, my daughter Miriam, settled
on Snuffie.
Of course Jewish boys undergo brit milah
on their eighth day of life. Traditionally,
girls are named by their fathers on the
bimah at the first convenient Torah reading
after her birth. But as liberal Jews, we give
our daughters naming ceremonies.
The ceremony to which the baby came
as Isabella Snuffleface was held on Sunday,
October 27, eight days after her birth and
four days before her fathers 30th birthday.
It was held in Temple Emanu-El of Edison,
the Reform shul whose rabbi he has been
for the last year. Daves parents carried the
baby up to the bimah, where one of the
two rabbis leading the ceremony both
friends of Daves from rabbinical school
gave her to me. I sat holding her as my
husband, Andy, stood next to me.
Before an audience of about 200 people,
Daves brother and sister lit candles, the
rabbis spoke, and they announced the
babys name. She is Nava Shira.
Dave explained that the babys first name,
Nava, is after his great uncle, Nathan, who
sponsored his father and grandparents and
gave them a place to stay when perestroika
allowed them to immigrate from Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, to Montreal.
And then Miriam, my brave and wonderful
daughter, said that her new babys middle
name, Shira, is in memory of her own big
sister, Shira Beth. Her sister had been smart,
creative, funny, and charismatic, she said
although she said it far more movingly and
gracefully than I am doing here and she
hopes that her own baby, Nava Shira, will
inherit those characteristics.
Together, she said, the name means
beautiful song. Shira, my Shira, was
named right because she always sang at
times when walking down the street, little
medleys of Cole Porter and Noel Coward
that could have come from no one but her
and she hopes that Nava Shira will sing,
and that the song will be beautiful.
I hope so too.
Grandparents are elderly, arent they?
Gray wrinkled fonts of wisdom? Theyve
outgrown vanity and cynicism and the
love of silly jokes, havent they?
Wait. Im a what? Huh? Howd that
happen? And I guess no, we havent, and
I sort of hope we arent.
So now two of us here at the Standard
our new contributing editor, Phil
Jacobs, and I have just become
grandparents, me for the astounding
first time, him for the old-hand second.
Here, the two of us respond to our
grandchildrens welcoming into the
Jewish world and being given their
names; Itai Lev Aryeh at his bris, Nava
Shira at her naming ceremony.
JOANNE PALMER
Naming our grandchildren
Itai Lev Aryeh
Nava Shira
FIRST PERSON
Local
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Yachad education conferences
set for November 5 in Paramus
The International Jewish Resource Cen-
ter for Inclusion and Special Education
and the New Jersey Association of Jewish
Day Schools, both divisions of Yachad/
National Jewish Council for Disabilities,
will present two conferences in one,
Blended Learning: Toward New Fron-
tiers, on Election Day.
The two concurrent programs, the
National Special Education Professional
Development Conference and the
New Jersey Statewide Professional
Development Conference, will be on
Tuesday, November 5, from 8 a .m. to
3:15 p.m., at Yeshivat Noam, 70 West
Century Road, in Paramus. There will
be workshops in special education,
early childhood, elementary and junior
high school levels, mental health, and
administration.
The conference theme, blended
learning, refers to a combination of
direct teacher instruction with computer
learning. It has become increasingly
prevalent in recent years in both secular
schools and Jewish day schools and
yeshivot. It is expected that close to 800
educators from New Jersey, New York,
Maryland, Florida, California, Wisconsin,
and Canada will attend the national
conference.
For a complete conference schedule,
to register online, and for a list of
participating vendors, go to http://
www.njcd.org/conferences/. Limited
special travel subsidies are available for
educators outside the New York/New
Jersey area.
Arielle Sheinbein
COURTESY OHEL
Fitness teacher
heads camp program
Arielle Sheinbein has been named
head of the itness and dance depart-
ment at Camp Kaylie at Ohel. Shein-
baum is a popular teacher at the
Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in
River Edge.
As a group itness instructor, she
will direct all areas of physical itness
and dance, including Pilates, aerobics,
tabata, and interval training. For
information, call (718) 6863261 or go
to www.campkaylie.org.
Norpac hosting
Idaho senator
Norpac welcomes Senator James Risch
(RID) to Englewood at an event hosted
by Elisabeth and Avi Samuels on Sunday,
November 3, at 7 p.m. For information, call
(201) 7885133 or email Avi@Norpac.net.
Ohels star gala
shines on November 24
Ohel Childrens Home and Family
Services annual gala on Sunday,
November 24, at the New York
Marriot Marquis, begins at 5 p.m.
with a reception, followed by din-
ner at 6. More than 1,000 friends
and supporters are expected to
attend the gala, called Ohel Sees
the Star in Everyone. Moishe
Hellman and Mel Zachter are the
groups co-presidents.
Chani and Jay Kestenbaum of
Lawrence, N.Y., who have been
actively involved at Ohel for over two
decades, are guests of honor.
Jay Kestenbaum, the boards vice presi-
dent, is chairman of the development
committee. He is also a member of the
Camp Kaylie and Los Angeles Etta at Ohel
boards. Chani Kestenbaum volunteers as
a driver, taking Ohel children to and from
appointments with various professionals.
This years corporate guest of honor is
investorsBank, which is headquartered in
Short Hills and supports Ohels work.
For the irst time, Ohel will celebrate
two stars of Camp Kaylie, Ohels premiere
summer camp. They are Nina Bernheim,
daughter of Malkie and Josh Bernheim of
Bergenield, and Malkie Rubin, daughter
of Tzivia and Yossie Rubin of Teaneck.
Ohels golf chairs, Ben Englander, Izzy
Kaufman, Michelle Sulzberger, Jonathan
Marks, and Jeffrey Schwartz who all
live in Long Islands Five Towns will be
honored for their decade of work on the
successful and sold-out annual Ohel Omni
Golf Classics.
For almost 45 years, Ohel has provided
critical programs and services to help
ensure that children are protected, well
cared for, loved, and encouraged to thrive.
Its programs include foster care, domestic
abuse shelters, Camp Kaylie, programs for
the siblings of children with developmen-
tal disabilities, and residential facilities
that serve 450 clients from areas includ-
ing New Jersey and New York.
To learn more, call (718) 9729338 or go
to www.ohelfamily.org/gala.
Nina Bernheim Malkie Rubin
Gift donations sought
for Chanakah toy drive
Bergen Countys 21st annual Chanukah
Toy Drive for children and teens needs
donations of new, unwrapped toys and
gifts including games, sports equipment,
make-up sets, purses, jewelry, dolls,
craft activities, books, and gift cards.
Items will be accepted until Thursday,
November 14, at many local schools and
synagogues so they can be delivered in
time for Chanukah.
This Sunday, November 3, there will
also be collection sites during Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jerseys annual
Mitzvah Day ( JFNNJ.org/mitzvahday).
Donations support organizations,
hospitals, and group homes in the New
Jersey/New York metropolitan area,
in Israel, and the Ukraine, for those
in need. Among those beneiting are
Tomorrows Childrens Institute/Hacken-
sack University Medical Center, Jewish
Family Service, Project Ezrah, Tomchei
Shabbos of Bergen County, JADD group
homes, Bris Avrohom, Ohel Childrens
Home, Sharsheret, OTSAR, Chai Lifeline,
Shelter Our Sisters, Friendship Circle,
and Shaare Zedek Medical Center.
Discounts are offered at the Judaica
House and Zoldans Judaica Center on
Cedar Lane in Teaneck on any non-sale
item bought for the drive and placed
in the special collection boxes in both
stores. Modells Sporting Goods will give
15% off all items purchased for the toy
drive with special coupons available on
the drive website.
For a complete list of drop-off sites,
visit www.bctoydrive.com.
Local woman named
to chair at HUC-JIR
Alyssa Gray, J.D., Ph.D., was named the Emily
S. and Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman Chair in
Rabbinics at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion. She is the daughter of
Miriam and Robert Gray, and sister of Michael
and Ann, longtime members at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, where she
became a bat mitzvah.
Alyssa Gray
Akiva Escott makes a donation to
the Bergen County Chanukah Toy
Drive at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
North Jersey. PHOTO PROVIDED
Senator James Risch
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KRISTALLNACHT COMMEMORATION
Film Screening: Nickys Family
WITH EVA HOLZER, A KINDERTRANSPORT SURVIVOR
Nickys Family tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas
Winton, an Englishman dubbed Britains Schindler.
Winton organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak
children just before the outbreak of World War II through
a series of rail-sea transports. The evening will begin
with a lm short, entitled Generations of the Shoah: The
Regina and Abraham Tauber Stories, written and directed
by JCC teen members Ben, Adam and Daniel Danzger.
Sponsored by Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation.
Brought to you by the Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan
Holocaust Education Institute.
Wed, Nov 6, 7:30 pm, $10/$12
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Jewish Genealogy WITH RON ARONS
Expand your family history research with two
exciting programs ofered on Jewish Genealogy:
Understanding Our Families, Understanding
Ourselves and Finding Living People on the
Internet. Sponsored by the David Bloom Jewish
Heritage Program Fund.
Sun, Nov 3, 1:30 2:30 pm & 3-4 pm $18/$20
My Family Story: A COLLABORATION
WITH BEIT HATFUTZOT ISRAEL
In English and Hebrew, for Ages 11-13. This
experiential program uses multimedia and comics
to connect Jewish students to personal and
family histories, as well as to the Jewish people.
It concludes with a community-wide exhibition;
ten nalists will win trip to Israel to compete
internationally. Brought to you by the Israeli Center.
FREE INTRO SESSION: Sun, Nov 24, 6:30 pm
5 Thursdays, Dec 19, Jan 23, Feb 13, Mar 13 & Apr
24, 5 pm & Sun, Feb 23 at 6:30 pm, $70/$85
EXHIBIT: Tue, May 6, 7 pm
Mitzvah Day
Thanksgivukkah
FEEL THE SPIRIT THROUGHOUT THE JCC!
This year, Thanksgiving and Chanukah will fall on the same
day for the rst time in US history. This shared holiday will
not occur again for another 70,000 years! Join us for a
series of great community events to get you prepped for
this once-in-a-lifetime experience, kicking of with:
Thanksgivukkah Cooking Class
WITH CHEF JOE GODIN OF SMOKEY JOES BBQ
Prepare an inspired menu including Wild Rice Latkes with
Smoked Duck, Black Bean & Pumpkin Soup, and Maple-
Glazed Roasted Pears.
Thurs, Nov 7, 6:30-8:00 pm, $39/$45
Perform a quick mitzvah: decorate reusable bags for a
local food bank, make placemats for Meals on Wheels,
color Menurkeys to decorate the building, and make
Thanksgivukkah cards for seniors. Make a diference
for people in need by donating baby basics such as
diapers, wipes, bottles and other baby essentials, and
craft kits for kids at the JCC now through Nov 3.
Sun, Nov 3, 1-4 pm
KAPLEN JCC on the Palisades
ART SHOW: For a Man is a Tree
of the Field (Genesis 1:11)
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RACHEL BANAI
Rachels work investigates the relationship
between people's identity and the elds
where they are rooted. This collection includes
images of the second generation of Holocaust
survivors and explores their visual identities as
they connect to their new soil. Rachel is a New
Jersey Endowment of the Arts award recipient.
On view in the Waltuch Gallery, November 1-26.
MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTION:
Sun, Nov 3, 1 3 pm
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Hypocrisy
comes in from the cold
T
he most shocking aspect of
the news that the United
States has been spying on
its friends is that anyone is
shocked by the news.
To begin with, there is nothing new
in the news; the reports of U.S. spying
on European leaders first hit the front
pages on June 30, when the German
weekly magazine Der Spiegel reported
that the United States National Secu-
rity Agency collects approximately 20
million telephone conversations and
13 million emails a day a day! in
Germany alone.
In the wake of that report, on July 1
President Barack Obama publicly won-
dered why anyone was so worked up
by what was business as usual in the
intelligence-gathering game. Said the
president:
Every intelligence service, not just
ours, but every European intelligence
service, every Asian intelligence service,
wherever theres an intelligence service,
heres one thing theyre going to be doing:
theyre going to be trying to understand
the world better, and whats going on in
world capitals around the world, from
sources that arent available through the
New York Times or NBC News.
If that werent the case, then there
would be no use for an intelligence ser-
vice. And I guarantee you that in Euro-
pean capitals, there are people who are
interested in, if not what I had for break-
fast, at least what my talking points might
be should I end up meeting with their
leaders. Thats how intelligence services
operate.
Obama also acknowledged that he
was the end user of this kind of intelli-
gence, and allowed how it might be an
overused tool. If I want to know what
Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is thinking,
I will call Chancellor Merkel. If I want
to know what President [Franois] Hol-
lande is thinking on a particular issue, Ill
call President Hollande. If I want to know
what [Prime Minister] David Cameron
is thinking, I call David Cameron. Ulti-
mately, we work so closely together, that
theres almost no information thats not
shared between our various countries.
The key phrase is the last one, that
theres almost no information thats not
shared, meaning that some informa-
tion indeed is not shared, which is why
friends spy on friends.
What troubles us most is what this
news says about the double standard that
the United States employs as it relates
to Jonathan Jay Pollard. This month,
on November 21, the former civilian
U.S. Navy intelligence analyst will begin
his 29th year in solitary confinement
because he was caught spying for Israel
in the United States.
Even as the United States justifies spy-
ing on the leaders of our European allies,
it maintains a stubbornly opposite view
regarding Pollard, who did not spy on
the United States, but in it. As the sum-
mary of the recently partially declassi-
fied 30-year-old CIA damage assessment
stated, Pollards Israeli handlers asked
primarily for nuclear, military and techni-
cal information on the Arab states, Paki-
stan, and the Soviet Union not on the
United States.
This is a critical distinction. One of the
most frequently given reasons to keep
Pollard in jail is that he spied on the
United States. The CIAs damage assess-
ment states that was not the case.
More to the point, the only reason
Israel agreed to use Pollard is because
he came to them with documents about
Iraqs Scud technology and its chemical
warfare ability. These were documents
that Israel did not even know existed, but
should have known, because the United
States was obligated to turn over such
documents under two separate treaties
with Israel.
In other words, Pollard is in jail for
turning over to Israel documents Israel
was entitled to receive from the United
States but did not receive because the
United States did not honor its treaty
commitment.
Continuing to keep Pollard in jail is
now exposed for what it is: hypocritically
motivated cruel and unusual punish-
ment. It is time for him to be freed.
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Can we blame
others for the
bad things we do?
A
sk 10 Jews what Jewish values are and
you will get 20 responses. Most will list
predictable items education, philan-
thropy, family. But these are values
that any civilized society embraces. Our inability
to articulate values that are uniquely Jewish is the
principal reason why so many Jews are assimilat-
ing. In the opinion of the unaffiliated, Judaism
has done its job. It has communicated important
ideas to the world. Now, like a midwife after a
child is born, it can disappear into obscurity.
This fact was born out powerfully in the recent
and much discussed Pew study on the state of the
American Jewish community. When we asked
Jews about what is and is not essential to their
own sense of Jewishness, 73% say remember-
ing the Holocaust is essential (including 76% of
Jews by religion and 60% of Jews of no religion).
Almost as many Jews, 69%, say leading an ethical
and moral life is essen-
tial, and 56% cite work-
ing for social justice and
equality; only 19% say
observing Jewish law is
essential. If Judaism is
principally about hon-
oring our victimhood
and being a good per-
son, then many believe
that the Jewish religion
is not necessary. Yad
Vashem and good par-
enting will do the job.
In truth, the Jewish people represent essen-
tial values that the world has yet to embrace and
that, were they to be mainstreamed, would make
the world a much better place. Foremost among
them is the idea of choice and destiny.
The Greek world believed in fate. Before someone
was born his life already was scripted. There was no
escape. Astrology and zodiacal signs advanced the
idea that a persons choices were of no consequence.
Life was governed by higher, celestial spheres.
Christianity embraced this idea in the form
Rabbi Shmuley Boteachs latest book, Kosher Lust:
Love is Not the Answer, soon will be published.
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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Setting murderers free, part two
On Sunday, a ministerial commit-
tee headed by Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu approved a list of 26
convicted Palestinian murderers and
would-be murderers who are to be
released from prison as part of a four-
step process meant to underscore
Israels seriousness about achieving a
peace agreement with the Palestinian
Authority.
On Tuesday, Israels Permanent Rep-
resentative to the United Nations in
Geneva, Ambassador Eviatar Manor,
said as much during a meeting of the
United Nations Human Rights Council.
The release, he said, proved that the
Jewish state was serious about peace.
Because the current round of talks
between Israel and the PA are being
held in secret, as they must be if there is
to be any chance of success, it is impos-
sible to gauge the seriousness of either
party to the talks. It is clear, however,
that Netanyahu does not have strong
support within his governing coalition
for any deal with the Palestinians that
involves ceding territory, especially
Arab neighborhoods in east Jerusalem.
We do not want to believe that this
prisoner release is nothing more than
a cynical political publicity stunt. We
would feel more comfortable about it,
however, if Netanyahu dissolved his
current coalition and formed a govern-
ment of national unity that is more ame-
nable to making concessions for peace.
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Can we blame
others for the
bad things we do?
A
sk 10 Jews what Jewish values are and
you will get 20 responses. Most will list
predictable items education, philan-
thropy, family. But these are values
that any civilized society embraces. Our inability
to articulate values that are uniquely Jewish is the
principal reason why so many Jews are assimilat-
ing. In the opinion of the unaffiliated, Judaism
has done its job. It has communicated important
ideas to the world. Now, like a midwife after a
child is born, it can disappear into obscurity.
This fact was born out powerfully in the recent
and much discussed Pew study on the state of the
American Jewish community. When we asked
Jews about what is and is not essential to their
own sense of Jewishness, 73% say remember-
ing the Holocaust is essential (including 76% of
Jews by religion and 60% of Jews of no religion).
Almost as many Jews, 69%, say leading an ethical
and moral life is essen-
tial, and 56% cite work-
ing for social justice and
equality; only 19% say
observing Jewish law is
essential. If Judaism is
principally about hon-
oring our victimhood
and being a good per-
son, then many believe
that the Jewish religion
is not necessary. Yad
Vashem and good par-
enting will do the job.
In truth, the Jewish people represent essen-
tial values that the world has yet to embrace and
that, were they to be mainstreamed, would make
the world a much better place. Foremost among
them is the idea of choice and destiny.
The Greek world believed in fate. Before someone
was born his life already was scripted. There was no
escape. Astrology and zodiacal signs advanced the
idea that a persons choices were of no consequence.
Life was governed by higher, celestial spheres.
Christianity embraced this idea in the form
Op-Ed
of original sin. Whatever someones virtue, he is
born damned, condemned to the eternal fire of hell
because of the sin of someone who preceded him.
Christianity maintains that humans are conceived
in sin and must be redeemed by grace. No ethical
action in your lifetime could rescue you. Only faith
in Christ as your redeemer, a power outside you, can
bring salvation.
Judaism was a radical departure from this view
and contributed to the world the most empowering
idea it has ever known that each of us possesses
the freedom to choose to be whatever we wish. In
every circumstance, in every predicament, we can
make the moral choice to be good or the immoral
choice to be evil. Everything else is just an excuse.
In short, the Hebrew Bible rejected Christian fate
in favor of Jewish destiny.
But this most fundamental of all Jewish values is under
constant threat. Science has been moving away from a
belief in choice for more than a century. It began with
Freud, who posited that we are all far less of masters in
our own mental households than we would otherwise
suppose. Freud emphasized the uncontrollable nature
of the id, which will always subvert the more cultured
mores of the ego or superego.
Science upped the ante with biological determin-
ism, with authors like Robert Wright arguing that
adultery should no longer be regarded as a sin given
the genetic propensity to multiple sexual partners
and the widespread dissemination of ones genes.
Evolution whatever its scientific merits teaches
that we are far more animal than human.
Social anthropologists also assail the idea of des-
tiny created by free choice. How many times have
we heard that poverty breeds crime? It is an argu-
ment that has been especially tragic for the Pales-
tinians who Middle East experts think are forced to
embrace suicide bombings because of the humilia-
tion of Israeli checkpoints. But even if such degrada-
tion were true and nonstop terror against civilians
is what has necessitated military checkpoints what
is the connection with blowing up innocent civilians
and children?
As Alan Dershowitz points out, the Jews of Europe
experienced the most brutal assault in history dur-
ing the Holocaust. But that did not compel them to
vent their fury on German kindergartens and buses.
In Mans Search for Meaning Victor Frankl gave
the definitive rebuttal to the belief that we are noth-
ing but creatures of our environment. Frankls mov-
ing depiction of concentration camp inmates shar-
ing their last morsels of bread and moving about the
disease-ravaged barracks comforting the dying is
proof that there is no such thing as fate. The Nazis
may have wanted all inmates to become animals.
But no one can force us to forfeit our humanity. We
all have choice, in every time, in every place, and
under all circumstances. We all can choose how we
will respond to what is being done to us.
As Frankl put it, when he was an inmate in Aus-
chwitz the Nazis could rob him of his humanity, his
freedom, even his family. But the one thing they
could never take from him was his ability to choose
how he would respond to them. If they forced him
to defecate in a bucket, he did not have to surren-
der his dignity. And if they murdered his loved ones,
he did not have to surrender his hope. And if it left
him a bag of bones, he did not have to surrender his
desire to share his last crumbs of food with those
even hungrier than he.
There is always a choice.
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19 years later
T
he peace t reat y
between Jordan and
Israel was signed 19
years ago this past
week, on land that marked the
boundary between the ancient
kingdoms of Edom and Israel.
According to the Torah, in
Genesis 32, the name Israel is
given to our patriarch Jacob
during a dream in which he
wrestles with God. The Bibles
first mention of Edom is found
in this weeks Torah portion, where we read of Esaus
sale of his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew.
Once when Jacob was cooking a stew Esau came in
from the field famished. Esau said to Jacob Give me
some of that red stuff to gulp down for I am famished
which is why Esau was named Edom. Jacob replied First
sell me your birthright. Esau said Im about to die from
hunger. What use is my birthright to me? Jacob said
Swear to me first. So Esau took an oath and sold his
birthright to Jacob. Jacob then gave Esau bread and lentil
stew. Esau ate, drank got up and went on his way. Thus
did Esau spurn his birthright(Genesis 25:29-32).
The primary purpose of this story is to establish
Jacobs right to inherit the mantle of communal lead-
ership. It is, once again, biblical argument against pri-
mogeniture. Communal leaders should be chosen based
upon ability and capability, not by birth order or right.
According to the Bible, Esau, like his uncle Ishmael,
lacked the spirituality and the commitment to morality
that was necessary for the man meant to be the heir of
Abraham. Jacob, the ish tam, the simple or mild man,
whom the rabbis of the Midrash describe as a student of
Torah, was eager to assume the responsibilities, as well
as the rights, of leadership.
Jacob was not a perfect man by any measure. The
beauty of Torah is that our heroes are presented to us as
real people with their positive qualities accentuated but
with their failings revealed as well.
I sincerely doubt that Jacob, or his father, Isaac, or his
grandfather Abraham, could be elected to public office
in twenty-first century America. Imagine the negative ad
campaign opponents could wage: Jacob the man who
withheld food from his starving brother!
Jacob and Esau were brothers, who in truth were quite
different from each other. From the story of the lentil
stew until their reconciliation decades later, the two
were bitter enemies. Finally, in the dramatic narrative
we will read two weeks from now, immediately follow-
ing the dream in which Jacob becomes Israel, Edom and
Israel are able to reconcile their differences and live side
by side in peace with each other.
On Wednesday October 26, 1994, as a worldwide audi-
ence watched the signing of the peace treaty between
Israel and Jordan, I was awed by the fact that the chil-
dren of Israel and the children of Edom were following
in the footsteps of our biblical ancestors and making
peace with each other. The poignancy of the moment
was increased for me when I realized that the two heads
of state King Hussein, the great grandson of King Faisal
of Arabia, and President Ezer Weizmann, the nephew
of Chaim Weizmann were reconciling differences and
agreeing to live side by side in peace, 75 years after their
ancestors first attempted to make peace at the end of
World War I. Moreover, all of the leaders on that desert
dais 19 years ago were men who had made many mis-
takes and miscalculations over the course of their public
lives. None of them had an unblemished record. In the
negative political climate of early 21st century America,
none of the Jordanians or Israelis at that signing cere-
mony could ever get elected. Yet I believe that we could
argue successfully that only people who are aware of
their own failures could have made the compromises
necessary to reach peace by in essence recognizing the
birthrights of their opponents.
With the hindsight of 19 years, we know that the
dreams that were being dreamed by the children of
Jacob and Esau on that autumn day have not yet been
realized. Modern Amalekites have terrorized both Jacob
and Esau, and turned the warm peace of 1994 into the
cold reality of a Middle East that is a more dangerous
place not only for Arabs and Israelis but for Americans
as well than it was when President Clinton witnessed
the peace treaty signed by King Hussein and President
Weizmann. On this week, when we again read Parshat
Toldot, let us affirm that beleh toldot in this genera-
tion we will rededicate ourselves as Jews and as Ameri-
cans. Piece by piece, we will reweave the fabric of peace
between the children of Jacob and Esau and between all
the children of Isaac and Ishmael.
Neal Borovitz is rabbi emeritus of Avodat Shalom
in River Edge.
Rabbi Neal
Borovitz
Chaim Weizmann, left, and King Feisal in 1918 an
early attempt at peace.
Jacob and Esau a birthright for a bowl of stew.
Op-Ed
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End the chief rabbinates monopoly
Its painful to have ones
rabbinic credentials chal-
lenged by the chief rabbinate
of Israel. But thats exactly
whats happened to me. And
in truth, its much more hurt-
ful to the many people Ive
been honored to serve over
the years.
In recent days, I have been
informed that letters Ive writ-
ten attesting to the Jewishness
and personal status of congre-
gants have been rejected by the office of the
chief rabbinate. Im not the only Orthodox
rabbi to have his letters rejected there are
others.
I have chosen to go public because the issue
is not about me, its about a chief rabbinate
whose power has gone to its head. As Israels
appointed rabbinate, it is accountable to no
one but itself.
Nor could the chief rabbinate have denied
letters from me or other rabbis without input
from select rabbis here in America who, I
believe, are whispering into the chief rabbin-
ates ears. For me, theyll whisper one thing,
for another they will find some other reason
to cast aspersions.
This is an intolerable situation. It not only
undercuts the authority of local rabbis who
are in the best position to attest to the religious
identity of those living in their community,
but it wreaks havoc for constit-
uents whom these rabbis serve.
Penning these harsh words
about Israels chief rabbinate is
not easy for me. I grew up in a
home that venerated the chief
rabbinate. After my parents
made aliya, my father served
as rabbi of Shikun Vatikin in
the outskirts of Netanya, Israel.
There he worked with Rabbi
Yisrael Meir Lau, then chief
rabbi of Netanya who went on
to become Israelis Ashkenazic chief rabbi.
Over the years Ive met with many chief rab-
bis. I found them individually to be not only
learned but caring.
But for some time, Ive come to the conclu-
sion that the chief rabbinate as an institution
just doesnt work. Built into the very fabric of
the institution is the principle of kefiyah, rab-
bis overlording the citizenry, forcing their reli-
gious dictates down their throats. Indeed, the
chief rabbinate has become a subject of scorn
amongst the grassroots public in Israel.
Spiritual striving and religious growth can
only be nourished in a spirit of openness. For
this reason, Israel as a state should give equal
opportunities to the Conservative and Reform
movements. Their rabbis should be able to
conduct weddings and conversions. For that
matter, civil weddings should also be recog-
nized by the state. As in America, it should be
left to the general public if they wish, in con-
sultation with their local rabbis to decide
whether to accept or reject these conversions
and wedding ceremonies.
Such an open attitude is not only important
for non-Orthodox Jewry, but for Orthodoxy
as well. When Orthodoxy is presented as the
only option, when its forced upon people,
it turns people off. A spirit of openness will
make Orthodoxy more attractive.
A related reason that the chief rabbinate
does not work is that it involves centralization
of rabbinic power, that is, rabbinic power left
in the hands of a select few who dictate reli-
gious policy throughout the country.
When the chief rabbinate years back ques-
tioned American Orthodox conversions, an
Orthodox rabbinic organization, the Rabbini-
cal Council of America, rather than challenge
the chief rabbinate and say clearly we have
faith and trust in our rabbis in the field, capit-
ulated to the chief rabbinate, and imported
Israels failed rabbinic centralized format to
the United States.
And so they established a system where
only a select, relatively few rabbis are permit-
ted to sit on conversion courts, undermin-
ing the authority of local community rabbis,
and placing unnecessary stumbling blocks
before serious potential converts. In a piece
I co-authored over five years ago, I strongly
criticized this policy. (RCA deal hurts rabbis,
converts, JTA, March 10, 2008.)
I predicted then that this would be but the
first step towards further centralization. That
it would not be long before a centralized rab-
binic body fully usurps the authority of local
rabbis, deciding which select few can do mar-
riages. And only this body will be able to sign
off on letters attesting to the Jewishness or the
personal status of individuals from across the
country.
Is this the type of religious authority we
want here in America?
The time has come for the government of
Israel its prime minister and Knesset to
pronounce in clear terms that the chief rab-
binate will no longer have a monopoly on
religious dictates of the state. This will pres-
ent challenges. But these challenges pale in
comparison to a coercive and centralized
system which is vulnerable to abuse. As the
motto goes, power corrupts, absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
Its only in the spirit of openness that Israel
as a Jewish democracy will thrive. Its in that
framework that Israels citizenry will be able
to reach higher heights spiritually and
religiously.
Rabbi Avi Weiss is senior rabbi of the
Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and founder
of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat
Maharat. He is also a co-founder of the
International Rabbinic Fellowship. The
opinions presented here are his alone.
Rabbi
Avi Weiss
Free the Armenian rug
Ninety-nine years after the
Turkish genocide of the Arme-
nians, one of the most poi-
gnant symbols of Armenian
suffering is being held hostage
by the White House.
The prisoner is an 18-foot
long rug. It was woven by four
hundred Armenian orphan
girls living in exile in Leba-
non, as a gesture of apprecia-
tion for Americas assistance
to survivors of the genocide.
In 1925, they sent the rug to President Calvin
Coolidge, who pledged that it would have a
place of honor in the White House, where it
will be a daily symbol of goodwill on earth.
Unfortunately, instead the rug is becom-
ing a symbol of the unseemly politics of
genocide.
An Armenian-American dentist, Hagop
Martin Deranian, recently wrote a book
called President Calvin Coolidge and the
Armenian Orphan Rug, and the Smithso-
nian Institution scheduled an event about
Dr. Dernanians book for December 16. But
when the Smithsonian asked the White
House to loan it the rug for the event, the
request was denied.
Reporters who asked the
State Department about
it this week were referred
to the White House. When
they asked the White House
spokesman, they were curtly
told that he had nothing to
say except, It is not possible
to loan it out at this time.
Armenian-American leaders
believe the Obama administra-
tion is responding to pressure
from the Turkish government,
which denies that genocide took place.
And Armenians have good reason to be
suspicious.
As a presidential candidate in 2008,
then-Senator Obama declared, Amer-
ica deserves a leader who speaks truth-
fully about the Armenian genocide. By
contrast, the statements that President
Obama has issued each April on Arme-
nian Remembrance Day have never
included the g-word. Instead, he has used
an Armenian expressionMeds Yegh-
ern, meaning the great calamity. Fear
of displeasing the Turks appears to be the
only plausible motive for that rhetorical
sleight-of-hand.
Armenian-Americans are not the only ones
who should be upset. American Jews should
be up in arms, too. Not only because of the
sympathy that victims of genocide instinc-
tively feel for one another but also because
if the White House can permit political con-
siderations to trump recognition of the Arme-
nian genocide, there is a danger that memo-
rialization of the Holocaust could one day
suffer a similar fate.
In any event, at least one president did
keep his word: Calvin Coolidge proudly dis-
played the Armenian orphans rug in the
White House for the rest of his term.
After he left office, Coolidge took the rug
to his Massachusetts residence. It was still
there in 1939, when former First Lady Grace
Coolidge became a leading figure in the strug-
gle to rescue a different group of children
from a genocidal dictator. Mrs. Coolidge lob-
bied in support of the Wagner-Rogers bill,
which would have admitted 20,000 Ger-
man Jewish children to the United States. But
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused
to support the legislation, and it was buried
in committee.
Ironically, FDRs relative and predecessor,
Theodore Roosevelt, advocated declaring
war on Turkey over the Armenian genocide.
The failure to deal radically with the Turk-
ish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing
the future peace of the world is mischievous
nonsense, the then-ex-president asserted in
1918. Teddy Roosevelt was correct to fear that
tolerating genocide would pave the way for it
to happen again.
Indeed, Adolf Hitler reportedly once
assured his subordinates that their atrocities
would not be remembered, saying, Who,
after all, speaks today of the annihilation of
the Armenians?
The genocide rug eventually made it back
to the White House and was in use during at
least part of the Clinton administration. But it
has not been seen in public since then. If the
Obama administration and the Turkish gov-
ernment have their way, it seems, the impris-
oned rug may never again see the light of day.
In December, Americans will flock to a new
movie called Monuments Men. Directed by
(and co-starring) George Clooney, it will tell
the true story of a handful of U.S. military
personnel who risked their lives to rescue
famous paintings, monuments, and other
precious European cultural artifacts from
the Nazis in the waning days of World War II.
It seems that it might take a new generation
of Monuments Men to rescue the Armenian
genocide rug and restore the treasured heir-
loom to its rightful placein a public display.
JNS.ORG
Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of the David S.
Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in
Washington, D.C. His latest book is FDR and
the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.
Rafael
Medoff
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Funding Jewish education
Gershon Distenfelds provocative proposal
( Putting our money where our mouths
are, October 25) for creating a new cen-
tral body to centralize the financial aid
process and ensure consistency among
our schools raises serious antitrust con-
cerns that must be confronted before the
schools give it any further consideration.
As part of this proposal, Mr. Disten-
feld directs all yeshiva day schools [to]
announce that within the next three years,
they will reduce tuition to the average cost
per student and get out of the scholar-
ship business entirely. There is precedent
concerning the propriety of and condi-
tions circumscribing schools coordinat-
ing their financial assistance policies and
decision-making that directly address Mr.
Distenfelds proposal, calling into question
his desire that all our schools agree not to
provide financial assistance scholarships.
In the late 1980s and the early 1990s,
the antitrust division of the United States
Department of Justice sued the eight Ivy
League schools and M.I.T., alleging that
joint financial aid practices among these
institutions violated Section 1 of the Sher-
man Act, which proscribes coordinated
action or agreements in restraint of trade.
Sherman Act violations are not only felo-
nies but any civil damages can be tripled.
Agreements among horizontal competi-
tors that affect price are the most sensitive
and scrutinized the most closely.
While the Ivy League schools settled
with the DOJ by entering into consent
decrees, M.I.T. decided to litigate, arguing
primarily that it was exempt from the anti-
trust laws as a not-for-profit educational
institution. Ultimately, the case reached
the Third Circuit Court of Appeals the
federal region that includes New Jersey.
That court determined that there is no
automatic not-for-profit exception under
the antitrust laws and specifically held
that coordinated efforts by schools as to
financial aid is subject to the antitrust laws
because financial assistance to students
is part and parcel of the process of setting
tuition and thus a commercial transac-
tion. Eventually, M.I.T. also settled with
the DOJ and agreed to adhere to specific
standards of conduct.
The DOJ standards of conduct, as well
as a temporary exemption Congress
accorded in 2001 to institutions of higher
education in Section 568 of the Improv-
ing Americas Schools Act demonstrated
the circumstances by which to construct
any valid coordinated financial assistance
endeavors. For example, the Section 568
temporary exemption allowed schools to
agree to common principles of analysis
for determining the need of such students
for financial aid. But the statute also
provided that any such agreement can-
not restrict financial aid officers of such
institutions in their exercising indepen-
dent professional judgment with respect
to individual applicants for such financial
aid. Likewise, pursuant to the Section 568
temporary exemption, the schools could
agree to use a common application but
any joint form they conceived could not
restrict the individual institutions from
asking for more data.
Moreover, the Section 568 temporary
exemption allowed schools to agree to
exchange individual information about
assets, income, and expenses, but only if
the exchange were to be carefully executed
through an independent third party, lim-
iting each schools opportunity to retrieve
information to one occurrence per indi-
vidual student. In general, an indepen-
dent third party or joint venture meant
to shield constituent entities from antitrust
strictures would have to be constructed in
a way that the entity operated as a genu-
inely independent economic actor that has
taken measures to prevent it from being
used as a vehicle for sharing individual-
ized prospective pricing and cost informa-
tion. Indeed, Section 568 made explicitly
clear that the temporary exemption did
not apply to an agreement among schools
with respect to the amount or terms of
any prospective financial aid award to a
specific individual, meaning that such
individualized financial aid decisions
could not be made on a coordinated basis
under the antitrust laws.
Of course, maintaining quality Jewish
schools accessible to all should be a para-
mount priority for the Jewish community
perhaps even the most paramount. As
Mr. Distenfeld suggests, there probably
should be more en0hanced community-
wide efforts to raise funds from everybody,
including those who do not send or have
children in the schools. We might even go
a step further and advocate for mandatory
contributions to our schools through syn-
agogue dues or JCC membership, as was
historically common in European Jewish
communities.
But recognizing that school funding is a
communal obligation and a very critical
one at that is something very different
than demanding that all schools uncondi-
tionally abide by one central entitys deter-
minations about individualized financial
aid and scholarship determinations. Such
restrictions could amount to anti-compet-
itive price fixing, the very essence of what
the antitrust laws are designed to protect,
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J
ewish Book Month is a
movable feast.
Like everything else on
the Jewish calendar, it is
moored to the lunar calendar
until everything changes and
its not. It always is the month
before Chanukah a time of
year when Jews buy even more
books than usual.
This year, Jewish Book
Month is October 26 through
November 26.
To mark it, we present a
close look at a local first-
time novelist and her newly
published book, as well as some
background on a more well-
established Jewish writer.
Boo!!!
Its
Jewish
Book
Month
It all began with Buffy
Artist turned author
sinks her teeth into new tale
JOANNE PALMER
H
istorically, theres nothing particu-
larly Jewish about vampires.
Jewish folklore is filled with
golems and dybbuks; Lilith and
other succubi skulk at night, and nameless
demons wait to be summoned.
But vampires waiting to drink a victims
blood?
Not really.
But as anyone who has even the slightest
connection to popular culture knows,
vampires have been big for years. Their lure
has crested and ebbed in ways that will keep
cultural historians sated for a long time. Right
now, just as we thought we were at the height
of a vampire wave, as it seemed to be curling
over on itself with the completion of the
Twilight saga, at least three new big-budget
vampire films are in the works, and television
is treating us to two new series Dracula
(NBC) and The Originals (The CW). And then
there is HBOs True Blood, which is about to
launch its seventh season.
But vampires are creatures of eastern
European folklore, traditionally stopped by
crosses or other signs of Christian faith.
One night in January 2006, though, as
Helen Maryles Shankman sat in her house in
Teaneck, watching an episode of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer an artifact of the last great
period of vampire awareness before this one
she was struck by an idea.
I had all these little kids there was always
someone in diapers and everyone had the
flu, she said. I was up watching TV, so I could
have some time by myself.
Buffy came on, and I realized that a
vampire isnt just a metaphor for the eternal
outsider.
It can of course be used to represent an
addict or an alcoholic, someone outside
society, but the whole Buffy thing really was
all about what its like to go to high school, and
to feel like an outsider; about how difficult it
is to figure out what youre going to be in life,
and dealing with bullies and mean girls.
And you rarely saw a parent in Buffy, she
said. I found this galvanizing.
I had never been interested in my parents
Holocaust background before, she said. But
now all of a sudden it became very interesting.
So interesting, in fact, that she has worked
their background into a novel, The Color of
Light, published this week by Stony Creek
Press.
Its not surpri sing that the title of
Shankmans first novel is about color and light;
she trained as a classical painter and worked
as a graphic artist. In fact, many of the themes
that have characterized her life so far seem to
combine to make this novel her logical debut.
Shankman, now in her mid-40s, grew up in
what she calls an insular modern Orthodox
community in Chicagos West Rogers Park,
and went to the Ida Crown Academy there.
Her parents, like many of their neighbors,
had been blighted by the Shoah. Theyre both
from the eastern edge of Poland; her mothers
family came from a town six kilometers away
from the death camp Sobibor, and the locals
were real eyewitnesses to the Holocaust,
Shankman said. Her family, though, was lucky,
relatively speaking.
Her grandfather made harnesses and
saddles; he, like other Jewish craftsmen, were
protected by a local official, a man named
Selinger, at some real risk to himself, until they
could be protected no longer. It is not clear
why Selinger protected his workers, except
perhaps because they were his, and he felt
some loyalty toward them. You can be shady
and decent at the same time, Shankman said.
Her grandfather took his family and slipped
away into the woods and hid for two years.
Once the war was over, they made their way to
a displaced persons camp. My mom finished
growing up in the DP camp in Germany,
Shankman said.
The community in which Shankman grew
up was founded on similar stories, and they
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surrounded her. She breathed them.
She also breathed books. My mom
has no idea how I learned to read, but I
was reading by the time I was 3 or 4,
she said. My parents had had terrible
experiences as children. They had no
childhood. So I was reading to teach
myself how to be an American.
I loved Dick and Jane books. I was
convinced that the rest of America was
living like Dick and Jane.
My aunt left inappropriate literature
in the house, she continued. When I
was 9, I was reading Peyton Place and
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and
Slaughterhouse-Five. Age-inappropriate
stuff, adult books with adult issues.
I was always escaping inside my head,
she said. I was making up stories and
writing them down pretty regularly.
And then there was art. When youre
an artist, you know, she said. When you
are 4, you already are drawing way better
than everyone else.
Until she was 12, Shankman wrote; at 12,
my art took off. I started doing portraits.
She really loves portraits, she added.
Shes only passable as a landscape artist,
but I can do faces.
The desire and the ability to make art
runs in her family, she added. There is a
branch where almost everyone died in the
war, and a branch that came here before
the war, and on both sides there always
have been artists, she said. Someone
should study us. The talent is always
springing up in someones kids.
Throughout hi gh school , then,
Shankman was a visual artist, but she
began college with a fellowship in English
at the University of Illinois. She missed
art so much, though, that she transferred
to Yeshiva Universitys Stern College in
Manhattan where she continued not to
make art and then to Parsons School of
Design, also in Manhattan, for a second
bachelors degree. After stints as an artists
assistant, she landed a job at Cond Nast,
working for Self Magazine.
Cond Nasts editorial director was
Alex Liberman, a fierce, courtly, and
brilliantly talented man who took an
interest in Shankman. Then 82 years old
and despite his aristocratic persona a
Jew who had fled Europe before the Nazis
Liberman, a legend in the art world
and beyond it, would come into the art
department, and the whole department
would be electrified, Shankman said.
Youd go into the art room with him, and
youd watch Alex work.
And there was real electricity between
us.
In that art room, Shankman was able to
learn directly from Liberman; together,
they specialized in collaged words, almost
like which turned up in Self as headlines.
It is a symbolically perfect medium for
someone whose talent and interests go
back and forth between making art with
material objects and making it with words.
When Cond Nast had one of its regular
purges and her job ended, Shankman went
to graduate school, studying painting at
the New York Academy for Art, supporting
The vampire and the Jew
Helen Maryles Shankmans new novel takes on the Holocaust
DEENA YELLIN FUKSBRUMER
I
s there redemption for people who
commit horrific crimes?
Would you give immortal life to
a loved one if it meant taking away
his or her soul?
Can a vampire follow his baser instincts
and still live a principled existence?
Such dilemmas twist ethicists brains.
Yet readers of The Color of Light
may find themselves pondering these
and other moral puzzles long after
theyve finished the haunting new novel
by award-winning short-story writer
Helen Maryles Shankman.
The tale she weaves in this enchanting
page turner i s not about ethical
conundrums, however. The Color
of Light is a poignant love story that
brings us into the lives of Manhattan
art students, Holocaust victims, and
vampires. That Shankman can blend fact
and fiction and make it all ring true is a
testament to her fine writing.
The storys Jewish heroine, Tessa
Moss, arrives in Manhattan to study at
the American Academy of Classical Art,
a school reclaiming art from the 20th
century by teaching the techniques of
the Old World masters. Tessa opts to
paint Holocaust-related images because
of her grandparents, who are survivors.
The fictional characters family, like the
authors own, was nearly obliterated in
the Holocaust.
Tessa is rejected by her relatives for
her field of study and spurned by the
man she adores. But her response to
pain is ultimately one of optimism: The
terrible things that happen to us. What
we do with them. I think thats what
makes us artists.
She soon catches the attention of the
schools mysterious founder, Raphael
Sinclair, who some say is a vampire.
Raphael is drawn to Tessa after he spies
her sketch of a mother at a concentration
camp holding a child dressed in clothing
from the 1930s, the mother covering the
little boys eyes with her hand. At her feet
was a suitcase with the name Wizotsky
printed on it. Raphael is convinced that
the drawing depicts Sofia Wizotsky, a
Jewish artist who was the love of his life
in Paris on the eve of World War II, and
who disappeared during the war. He
decides Tessa is the link to discovering
what happened to her. But the pair soon
find themselves inexplicably drawn to
each other.
Readers will get swept up into the
Manhattan art world as Shankman takes
us on a journey to gallery openings, chic
parties, publishing houses, and gritty
New York streets. We find ourselves
rooting for the art students as they battle
against the trend towards experimental
modern art in favor of art in the spirit of
the old masters.
Vampires have become all the rage in
recent years, both in literature and on
the big screen think Anne Rices The
Vampire Chronicles and Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer. But Raphael
differs from the one-dimensional
fanged creature to which weve grown
accustomed. Hes aching for repentance,
even feeling guilt over his craving for
blood. This vampire is philosophical
and reflective, questioning his role in
the universe. Do I have a purpose? Am I
part of Gods design? he asks. He wants
to reassure others who might judge him
by his sins that they dont define him.
Its not who I am, he says.
And he casts judgment on the failure of
men to stand up to evil in the Holocaust.
I could not have conjured up the kind
of man who would be willing to design
an oven that could be economically
fueled by the fat of the men, women
and children it was burning. I would not
have believed that these same engineers
would find other men willing to carry
out their monstrous plans that one
kind of human being could industriously
collect and kill six million of another
kind of human being. Somewhere along
the line, there would have to be someone
who said no.
The writing and sensory descriptions
painted in this book are beautiful,
with twists and turns in the plot that
will keep readers captivated until the
final page. This readers sole critique is
that the steamy sex scenes were a tad
abundant throughout the novel and not
all necessary. Needless to say, I will keep
this hidden away from my children.
Shankmans background as an artist is
apparent in her vivid portrayal of life in
art school, from the odor of turpentine to
the joy of bringing life and vibrant color
to an empty canvas. Like the paintings
its heroine reveres the Rembrandts,
Vermeers and DaVincis the novel
explores the contrasts of darkness
and light, good and evil, and the gray
shadows in between.
Readers will be grateful for that
journey.
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She was part of a tribe of artists, good friends, firm believers
in then-out-of-vogue figurative art. She was also always either
the only or one of two Orthodox Jews in her group.
I have always been the only Orthodox Jew someone ever
met, and so people would say remarkable things to me, she
said. One, the director of a very famous British TV show,
said, Helen, is it true that Jews have to be buried with their
fingernail clippings?
He meant every piece of stray fingernail shed in the course
of a lifetime, she added.
When I was done laughing, and he was horribly
humiliated, he said, Helen, just so you know, Catholics have
to be buried with their pubic hair.
He too was joking; although more recently Shankman has
learned that the Talmud does discuss burial with fingernail
clippings. Another man, with an Oklahoma drawl, asked her
more questions that betrayed complete ignorance of Judaism
and Jews, and then said that he had a Jew up the family tree,
she said.
Theyd bring me these stories because they just wanted
to check.
The non-Jewish New Yorkers, who of course had met lots
of Jews, found all this funny, too, so wed all laugh, and the
person who asked the question would be horribly humiliated.
Helen Maryles Shankmans The Daughters
of Zalman Jacobs.
JOANNE PALMER
A
s good a storyteller
as she i s, Mag-
gie Anton doesnt
begin new projects
yearning to write.
Instead, Anton the author
of the Rashis Daughters
trilogy most loves the
research that goes into each of
her books.
What she found when she
researched her new novel,
Rav Hi sdas Daughter,
literally was magic.
Rashi and his daughters
l i ved i n a f ai rl y wel l -
documented time and place,
11th century France, she said
in a phone interview from
her home in Los Angeles. Rav
Hisdas daughter whose name appears to have been
Hisdadukh, which means wait for it Rav Hisdahs
daughter lived in third-century Babylonia. Although
we have some understanding of that time from the
Mishnah, until recently there have not been many
physical objects to allow us to visualize it with any
accuracy.
When there is no real information, imagination has
much room to flourish.
People have preconceived ideas about it, Anton
said. It doesnt matter even
if you have a great Jewish or
classical education; this isnt
on anybodys curriculum.
But we do have preconceived
notions about this time and
pace, this land of flying
carpets and genies in bottles.
We think of it as the land
of magic and in some ways
it really was, she said. The
Three Magi in the Christmas
story are magicians the
resemblance between the
words is not accidental
who came from the east
from Babyl oni a, and
astronomers who claimed to
foretell the future flourished
there.
For some t i me, t he
occasional bowl inscribed
with incantations would turn up in the area that was
ancient Babylonia modern-day Iraq but at first
scholars ignored them, as weird and exotic outliers,
Anton said. But during the war in Iraq in 1991, looters
I prefer to think of them more as adventurers, she
said flooded into Iraq, where they could get into
all these sites, and do whatever they wanted, with no
adult supervision.
They found these incantation bowls ancient
pieces of pottery marked with writing, often in a spiral
Maggie Anton
Making book on Babylon
Author travels to magical world
of a Talmud stalwarts daughter
Shankman
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Right after she graduated from art school, Helen
Maryles married Jonathan Shankman, a research
gerontologist who is vice president of product
development at AMC Health, and fairly soon they moved
to Teaneck, where their four children Gabriella, 17,
Raphael, 15, Ayden, 13, and Jude, 8, have grown up. She
dropped art, except for the occasional commissioned
portrait and some teaching, because the demands on
her time made it impossible.
And deprived of paint, her creative imagination went
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Above, Helen Maryles Shankman at work at Self
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under just about every house.
They were ubiquitous.
When archaeol ogi st s and
linguists began translating the
writing, they realized that each
bowl was unique. This is unlike
amulets, which often were more
formulaic and low-level and
because they generally were made
of organic materials, they are more
likely to have rotted away by now.
The language was the same
language as used in the Talmud,
meaning Aramaic, Anton said,
and researchers realized that the
writers were educated, literate
people.
Scientists came to realize two
more things about the bowls:
The incantations on them were
written mainly by Jews, and many
of those Jews were women.
There were about a million Jews in Babylonia, and
they lived there for a thousand years, Anton said.
Now its a desert; back then, between the Tigris and
the Euphrates they dug canals, and planted all sorts of
crops. The phrase open sesame came from there
they grew sesame. And roses. They developed peaches
and apricots.
After a digression on the nature of Talmud study,
which she adores, and which she said has opened up
to people who cannot read it in the original only in the
last 20 or so years, she talked about some of the many
supernatural, phantasmagorical stories the Talmud
includes.
Some of what we think of as magic is folk medicine,
she said.
The Talmud is adamant that sorcery is evil, she
continued but that is foreign
sorcery. Jewish sorcery is not
only absolutely permitted,
but if its for healing, for
protection, it is more than
permitted, it is encouraged.
The Talmud talks about
how you need an amulet for
healing, not just if you are
sick but to prevent you from
getting sick, she said. Then
it covers everything from
whether you are permitted
to wear it on Shabbat to how
you find an expert. Its quite
amazing there is no question
that they take it seriously.
They talk about various
diseases; they give you five ways
of curing rabies, incantations
and procedures for different
kinds of illnesses, headaches,
and getting rid of the demons that cause bad dreams.
There were love spells. When they first found those
bowls the ones with incantations for love they
were all blackened and burnt. The archaeologists at
first thought it was accidental, but the incantation
would say, Just as this bowl burns, so should the heart
of so-and-so burn for the daughter of so-and-so; may
she come to his bed at night.
One of my favorite incantations on an amulet was to
win at chariot races. You do wonder if everyone at the
stadium had an amulet.
There is a great deal that researchers can learn about
daily life from the incantations. A tablet found under
an ancient synagogue urged the angels to ensure that
congregations listen to one particular group and not
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ago! Anton said.
This field of history is cutting-edge,
Anton said. The Israel Museum had
a big exhibit on ancient Jewish magic
in February 2012. Meanwhile, Jewish
magic, at least in a vestigial form, still is
a part of Jewish life.
The travel ers bl essi ng i s an
incantation from the Talmud, Anton
said. She has one. This one is short
the original Talmud wording has been
expanded with the verse on one side
and the hamsah, the familiar open-
palmed bangle a blue eye, and three
fish on it.
The Talmud tells us that fish are
immune to the evil eye, because they
cant see through water.
You can go into any synagogue
bookstore and you will find the travelers
blessing, and a number of people wear
amulets around their necks even if they
dont know it a hamsah, or a mezuzah.
Do people still believe in it? Well, as
someone told me, it cant hurt.
Because the incantation bowls and the
Talmud come from the same time and
place, Anton ties them together in Rav
Hisdas Daughter. Did that tie really
exist? I dont know, Anton said, but it
easily could.
Then there is the question of women.
I look at this through a feminist lens,
Anton said. It is women who are doing
these incantations.
Theyre not old hags in pointy
black hats, witches like we know them
from Disney. These are respected
professionals, who you could go to for
help.
There was a way that women
could interact with the unseen world,
with angels and God, and help others
interact, that we lost when the Christian
world started demonizing witches in the
medieval period.
It was during the time of the Black
Death, when Christians started pointing
fingers at witches which is what they
called learned women. That was the
time in the church when Christians were
starting to venerate the Virgin Mary, and
the church fathers were threatened, so
they started demonizing women.
But in the Jewish world, sorceresses
are in league with the angels.
According to the Talmud, it was in
the sixth chapter of Genesis that the
heavenly beings looked down and saw
that the daughters of man were fair, and
they married them. Thats how the great
heroes were born.
The Talmud says that when they
came down, they taught their wives all
those spells, and the wives taught their
daughters, and thats where incantation
and healing and sorcery came into the
world.
Talk about empowering for women!
Anton
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WASHINGTON Bernard
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An unscrupulous contractor.
Art that disappeared or was
destroyed by fire its not clear
which.
Bad, bad bookkeepers.
And did we mention Bernard
Madoff?
These were among the
causes of material diversion
of assets tax-speak for lost
funds or property totaling
$250,000 or 5 percent reported by Jew-
ish organizations on their tax returns.
Since 2008, the IRS has asked nonprofit
organizations to indicate on their tax
returns whether they have become aware
of such losses in the past year. According
to an investigation of 1,000 nonprofits
published Sunday in the Washington Post,
21 Jewish organizations answered yes.
The year 2008 happened to be when
Madoff s massive Ponzi scheme came to
light. In the two years that followed, at
least 13 Jewish organizations that were vic-
tims of Madoff answered yes to the ques-
tion on their tax returns.
Several of the organizations provided
explanations of the losses.
Yeshiva Universitys 2008 return noted
that Madoff was a former university
trustee and described how many invest-
ments wended their way into Madoff s
portfolio, eventually adding up to a $95
million loss. The return also described the
steps Y.U. took in response.
The university enhanced its conflict of
interest policy, the university reported.
Under the enhanced conflict of interest
policy, members of the university board
of trustees may not be engaged in busi-
ness with the university.
Other Madoff victims are terser in
describing their relationships with the
swindler, in some cases not even naming
him. The America Israel Cultural Founda-
tions explanation of how it lost $14 mil-
lion to Madoff amounted to this: The
custodian of the investment pool did not
invest the funds and stole the remaining
moneys under his custody.
Some were hit indirectly by Madoff.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los
Angeles and at least three California fam-
ily foundations reported millions of dol-
lars in losses through investments made
through the Jewish Community Founda-
tion, which reported in its 2008 return an
overall loss of more than $23 million to
the Ponzi scheme.
One of the filers, the American Jewish
Congress, reported $18.2 million in losses
to Madoff in its 2008 return. Missing is
the poignant follow-up: The American
Jewish Congress largely has
ceased operations, but it has
continued to operate in a mostly
nominal fashion under the lead-
ership of philanthropist Jack
Rosen.
Madoff does not account for
all of the 21 Jewish organiza-
tions reporting losses. In 2009,
the Conference on Jewish Mate-
rial Claims Against Germany
reported $42.5 million in losses
from fraudulent claims orches-
trated by former staffers.
Because the nature of irregu-
larities is outside the scope of the Claims
Conference, it is limited in its ability to
investigate such matters, the return says,
concluding: In the opinion of legal coun-
sel, the Claims Conference has acted with
appropriate business diligence in the dis-
bursements of these funds.
Touro College, a Jewish-affiliated school
based in New York, disclosed in 2009 that
a former construction manager had
used a sophisticated kickback scheme to
defraud the school.
Hedy Shulman, a Touro spokeswoman,
declined to elaborate or say how much
was lost, adding that the matter was sub-
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however, that the loss was related to the
development at Touros facility on 125th
Street in Manhattan.
The Jewish Community Center of
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reported in 2009 that its bookkeeper was
involved in an embezzlement scheme
and has stolen company assets. Officials
did not reply to requests for comment.
Other reports are harder to compre-
hend. American Friends of the Tel Aviv
Museum of Art reported in 2009 that
certain works of art were stolen and
destroyed by fire in the current year. The
groups director, Enid Shapiro, was in
Paris and unavailable for immediate com-
ment, a staffer said.
Colorado-based Chessed Rifka, which
raises money for yeshivas in Israel,
answered yes to the diversion question
but did not provide any explanation of
what monies were lost.
One Jewish group reported a happy
ending kind of. Advancing Women Pro-
fessionals and the Jewish Community
recovered $62,000 and legal fees from an
independent contractor in 2011 after hav-
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negotiations to resolve the standoff over Irans suspected
nuclear weapons program.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Jewish
Federations of North America, and the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs support a bill, passed by the House
of Representatives in July, that would sanction entities
facilitating Iranian money transfers and increase the
burden on financial outfits to ensure they are not dealing in
money that originated in Iran. Israels leadership also favors
enhanced sanctions.
But the Obama administration, while urging Congress to
Obama to Congress: Talk tough on sanctions, but dont do anything
continue its saber rattling, believes the bill could derail
talks that got underway in Geneva earlier this month
and are due to resume in mid-November.
That was the takeaway from a closed session held
October 24 by the National Security Council for senior
staffers in the House and Senate. Participants said that
the NSC unveiled findings showing that threats from
Congress to enhance sanctions are keeping Iran at the
negotiating table. But the NSC also argued that actually
advancing the bill could thwart progress toward a
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notice a signal of how it is parting ways on Iran
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and the pro-Israel community.
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Israel and Japan to collaborate
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Israeli Agriculture Minister Yair Shamir announced
Monday that the Israeli and Japanese governments
will establish a joint research and development fund
after a meeting with Japanese Agriculture, Fisheries
and Forests Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo.
While in Japan, Shamir toured fishing and green
house development areas, and examined Japans
wastewater treatment and dairy industry. The two
ministers also discussed the option of exporting Israeli
agricultural produce to Japan. A secondary goal of the
trip was to promote the International Dairy Federation
conference, to be held next October in Israel with
participants from 54 countries.
I was impressed that there is a great appreciation
for the scientific and technological capabilities of the
State of Israel in the field of agriculture, Shamir said,
according to the Jerusalem Post.
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regards movement toward a Senate vote as the kind of
action that would alienate Iran.
The fate of the bill is now in the hands of Sen. Tim
Johnson (D-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee. A committee official said last Friday that
Johnson had yet to reach a decision on whether and
when to bring the bill up for debate and a vote. But
Johnson previously had told the Obama administration
that he could not delay a committee vote beyond
the end of October. Administration officials want
it delayed at least until after the next set of talks in
mid-November.
Caitlin Hayden, an NSC spokeswoman, described
the meeting last week as a close consultation with
Congress.
Congress has been an important partner in our
efforts thus far, Hayden said in an email last Friday.
We will continue our close consultation, as we
have in the past, so that any congressional action
is aligned with our negotiating strategy as we move
forward.
Participants said it was not clear after the meeting
what the consensus was among the staffers, who advise
lawmakers and play a critical role in advancing and
shaping legislation. They described two competing
narratives: one in which increased sanctions would
help keep Iran at the negotiating table and the other
in which they drive Iran away.
The differences did not divide along partisan lines,
participants said, with some of the fiercest resistance
to putting a hold on new sanctions coming from
staffers for Democrats. Those who want to enhance
sanctions emphasized that Iran continues to enrich
uranium and ignore other U.N. Security Council
demands.
We think that this is a time for a pause to see if
negotiations can gain traction, Wendy Sherman, the
third-highest-ranked official at the State Department,
who is leading talks with Iran, told the Voice of
America.
Shermans pleas, which she made in a meeting with
House members last week and will repeat in a Senate
meeting this week, seem to have had an effect.
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told a Jewish
audience last week that he would be open to freezing
sanctions action for a period of time.
I would be open to freezing further legislative action
on this new sanctions bill if Iran quickly takes a number
of concrete and fully verifiable steps, he said at an event
organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of
Greater Washington.
First, Iran must freeze all enrichment, as demanded
repeatedly by the U.N. Security Council. It must stop
the installation of new centrifuges and halt construction
of the Arak heavy water reactor, which could produce
plutonium. It must agree to remove all of its 20 percent
enriched uranium from the country. Finally, it must allow
comprehensive nuclear inspections.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu favors
enhanced sanctions, something his strategic affairs
minister, Yuval Steinitz, emphasized in meetings with
officials on October 23, when he led the Israeli team in
the semi-annual U.S.-Israel strategic dialogue.
The more you increase the pressure, the greater the
chances, Steinitz told reporters. The Iranians are on the
boards. Why relieve pressure now?
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Hamas loses $230 million a
month due to tunnel closure
Egypts closure of smuggling tunnels between Gaza
and the Sinai Peninsula is costing Hamas $230 mil-
lion in lost revenue a month in industry, commerce,
agriculture, transport and (the) construction sec-
tors, said Hatem Oweida, Hamas deputy economic
minister, AFP reported.
Hamas used the smuggling tunnels to transfer
economic goods, as well as weapons and rockets,
into Gaza. Hamas also generates a lot of revenue by
taxing goods that pass through the tunnels.
However, Egypts military-backed government
accused Hamas of supporting terrorists in the
Sinai and said it has shut down more than 130
tunnels between Gaza and Egypts Sinai Peninsula
last month. Israel recently uncovered a massive
tunnel stretching from southern Gaza to Israels
Eshkol region.
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What is your reason?
Now there are two
With Mekels arrival, Casspi has Israeli
company on the NBA court
HILLEL KUTTLER
HOUSTON Midway through the first quar-
ter, Omri Casspi entered the preseason game
between his Houston Rockets and the Dallas
Mavericks.
A minute later, the buzzer sounded sum-
moning Mavs rookie guard Gal Mekel into the
October 21 contest.
Casspi took his first shot, a three-pointer
that missed. On the ensuing possession,
Mekel scored on a driving layup.
Order was following form: Four years ago,
Casspi became the first Israeli to play in the
National Basketball Association. And with the
new season tipping off this week, Mekel will
become the second.
A reprise will occur imminently this time
when it counts in the standings when the
Mavericks return to Houstons Toyota Cen-
ter on Friday night in the first of four regu-
lar-season meetings between the Southwest
Division clubs.
Theres no telling if those games will
feature the chanting, adoring, Israeli flag-wav-
ing fans who punctuated Casspis NBA tenure
early on or whether the adulation bestowed
upon an Israeli pro in America has fizzled out
before Mekel can feel the love, too.
The players, both 25, say they expect the
atmosphere to resemble the former. While
their in-season games will likely draw plenty
of Israeli media, JTA spoke exclusively last
week with Casspi and Mekel.
Its a big thing, I think, for such a small
country to have two [NBA] players. Its some-
thing unique, Mekel said at the Mavericks
downtown hotel here as Casspi sat across
from him. I saw the excitement when Omri
came into the league, and Im really looking
forward to experiencing that, so hopefully
well bring pride.
Casspi acknowledged that he got excited
when he saw that Dallas was Houstons sec-
ond opponent this season.
At 6-9, Casspi towers six inches above
Mekel, so they wont be matched against each
other unless there is a defensive switch. Their
coaches and teammates note similar char-
acteristics in both players primarily their
competitiveness, commitment to improve,
determination on defense, and team-first
mentality.
Like nearly every NBA player, they possess
basketball pedigrees Casspi as a 2009 first-
round draft choice of the Sacramento Kings,
Mekel as the two-time Most Valuable Player
in the Israel Basketball League. But Casspis
output has declined steadily in his four NBA
seasons and Mekel is a rookie, so they both
have much to prove playing as reserves
for talented teams in the strong Western
Conference.
With Houston, Casspi is light years from
his previous clubs, the lowly Kings and the
rebuilding, post-LeBron Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Rockets are loaded, featuring new center
Dwight Howard, forwards James Harden and
Israelis Omri Casspi, left, of the Houston Rockets and Gal Mekel of the Dallas
Mavericks share a friendly moment at the Toyota Center in Houston before their
teams square off in a preseason game on October 21.
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Chandler Parsons, and point guard Jeremy Lin.
Mekels accomplished teammates include forward Dirk
Nowitzki, who led Dallas to an NBA title three seasons ago,
along with frontcourt partner Shawn Marion and guards
Jose Calderon and Monta Ellis.
Helping the Israelis fit in is the extraordinary diversity
of both clubs, with players hailing from Germany, Spain,
the Dominican Republic, Lithuania, Haiti, Turkey and
Brazil to say nothing of Lin, the son of Taiwanese immi-
grants who ignited Linsanity during his brief tenure
with the New York Knicks two seasons ago.
Mavs center Samuel Dalembert, a Haitian, stands out
even beyond his 6-11 frame. Having played with Casspi
on the Kings, he is the only one to count both Israelis as
teammates.
Im making history, a laughing Dalembert said.
Casspi already has found a kindred spirit in Lin. On the
team bus, on the road and at Sabbath dinner at Casspis
apartment, the two have talked about their ethnic pres-
sures and struggles in establishing themselves in the NBA.
Lin says he and Casspi have gone through some of the
same things.
With the Rockets, coach Kevin McHale has shifted
Casspi into the stretch-4 position: a power forward capa-
ble of rebounding and reliably draining shots while play-
ing away from the basket. Its a job McHale, an authority
on forward play by virtue of his Hall of Fame career with
the Boston Celtics, believes Casspi is equipped for because
hes big and is not afraid to bang.
In fact, McHale says he has eyed Casspi ever since the
Israeli was an 18-year-old on his national team.
He was aggressive, he moved, he had a good overall
feel, McHale said in his office. I thought he had a really
good rookie year, a really good start to his NBA career. For
the last couple of years, I didnt think it worked for him.
When Casspi became a free agent, McHale said he and
general manager Daryl Morey went after him.
Omri fits in with our style and, hopefully, our style fits
him. It has so far, McHale said. I really like him. I think
hes a guy wholl help us.
Rockets assistant coach Kelvin Sampson called Casspi
the surprise of our team for whom the position change
is making all the difference.
When he plays the 4, he shows what he can do, Samp-
son said. When he plays the 3 [small forward], he shows
what he cant do.
Mekel has adapted, too, following injuries to guards
Shane Larkin, also a rookie, and Devin Harris that thrust
opportunity upon him. His learning curve was steep early
in training camp, said Dallas coach Rick Carlisle. He was
mistake-prone on offense going airborne before decid-
ing whether to shoot or pass, trying to split defenders he
couldnt beat and turning over the ball often, a huge no-no
for a point guard.
But in four starts, Carlisle said, Mekel made progress
each and every game.
Hes knowledgeable, rugged and a very good play-
maker, and his shooting is improving every day, the Mavs
veteran coach said.
Entering the NBA, outside shooting was the area
Mekel most needed to improve, said his Maccabi Haifa
coach, Brad Greenberg. But he added that the teams
run to last years IBL championship really showcased
Mekels solid skill set: penetrating to the basket, dis-
tributing the ball, playing tough defense and providing
leadership.
A close State Cup championship loss to Maccabi Tel
Aviv, which Haifa later defeated for the IBL title, was
when I realized he was pretty special, Greenberg said.
He scored, he made clutch plays, he said. He had
a standout game in a high-pressure situation against a
great team.
Mekel and Casspi actually honed their skills as teammates on
junior clubs, including Tel Avivs, before Mekel headed to Wich-
ita State to play two years. Casspi would win an IBL champion-
ship with Tel Aviv in 2009; Mekel won it the following season
with Hapoel Gilboa Galil.
They have remained friends. Casspi referred Mekel to his
Florida-based trainer after Mekel signed with Dallas. And last
summer in Israel, Mekel watched Casspi and the rest of the
national team practice for the EuroBasket tournament.
Their chat with JTA was akin to a family reunion.
Did my father tell you? He saw your aunt in Slovenia, Casspi
said of the early-September tournament.
The aunt and Mekels father will fly in from Ramat Aviv for the
Mavs-Rockets game on Friday, but Casspis family will wait for a
longer homestand so they can attend more games.
Throughout the season, well watch each other, look up to
each other, Casspi said.
For me, its great to have somebody to get tips from,
Mekel said. All the things rookies go through, I have a guy I can
ask, and have a friend to speak the language with.
Casspi and Mekel were ready to conclude the interview and
head off to dinner. Perhaps down the line, they may even get to
break bread with more Israelis in the NBA.
If we do well and represent the country well, Mekel said,
we could open the door for other guys, like Omri opened the
door for me. JTA WIRE SERVICE

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New bill to give Israeli fathers eight days of paid paternity leave
A Knesset committee has approved a bill that will grant
new fathers in Israel eight days of paternity leave.
The bill, which was submitted by MK Tamar Zandberg,
from the left-leaning party Meretz, enjoys support from
across the political spectrum including the right-leaning
Jewish Home party. It will now go to the full Knesset for
a reading.
The bill gives new fathers three days of paid leave and
five days of paid sick leave, to be paid by the employer.
This bill will let fathers be partners and help begin
their connection with their child. The model of equal
parenthood is encouraged throughout the Western
world, and this bill could be a first step in this direction,
Zandberg told Haaretz. JNS.ORG
Pope Francis I speaks to
Simon Wiesenthal Center
delegation
A 60-member delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal
Center, including Holocaust survivors, Christians, and
one Muslim, met privately with Pope Francis I in the
Vatican on October 24.
In his address to the delegation, Pope Francis
commended the organizations work in defending
human rights and in fighting every form of racism,
intolerance and anti-Semitism, preserving the memory
of the Shoah and promoting mutual understanding
through education and social action, according to the
Official Vatican Network.
Pope Francis also highlighted the global persecution
of Christians.
I think with particular sadness of the suffering,
marginalization and real persecution experienced by
many Christians in various countries throughout the
world, he said.
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Carmel Caves named newest
UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Carmel Caves site in northern Israel has been
named the newest World Heritage Site by the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organiza-
tion for providing a definitive chronological frame-
work at a key period of human development.
The announcement ceremony, to be held on
Tuesday, will be attended by Israels National
Commission for UNESCO Secretary-General Dr.
Dalit Atrakchi and Israel Nature and Parks Authority
Chairman Shaul Goldstein.
Located in one of the best preserved fossilized
reefs of the Mediterranean region, the site contains
cultural deposits representing half a million years of
human evolution from the Lower Paleolithic to the
present, a UNESCO statement said.
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Australian anti-Semitic
attack spurs KKL-JNF
emergency meeting
The World Chairman of Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-
Jewish National Fund plans to convene an emergency
meeting between the organizations international rep-
resentatives after four members of the Jewish Behar
family and a JNF education representative were physi-
cally attacked in Bondi Beach, Australia, by eight
young men shouting anti-Semitic comments.
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statement by the Behar family said, according to Israel
National News.
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BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA When he takes the
oath of office in December as a new member of Argen-
tinas lower house of parliament, Rabbi Sergio Berg-
man will eschew the Christian Bible used by other leg-
islators in favor of the Five Books of Moses.
Bergman, whose PRO party won 34.5 percent of the
vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday, is believed
to be the only rabbi seated in a national parliament
outside Israel.
PRO, which Bergman
leads, edged the runner-
up UNEN party, which
captured just over 32 per-
cent, making Bergman
the first Argentine rabbi
to win a seat as a national
lawmaker.
We were selected to
improve the country as we
did before in the city, Berg-
man, now a Buenos Aires
legislator, told the media
after the vote. We were
selected to protect the law
and the constitution.
Trained in biochemistry
and pharmacology, Berg-
man abandoned a career
with the German pharma-
ceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim for the rabbinate
at the urging of his wife, Gabriela.
Lets follow your vocation, he said she advised
him. If then you find that rabbinical work doesnt fit,
you can return to your profession as a pharmacist. But
I dont want to see you in your 40s unhappy with your
life.
Now 51, Bergman has four children, is the author
of five books, and is recognized internationally. He
founded a network of Jewish schools and educational
projects that includes a gay alliance and a rural farm.
In May he received the Micah Award from the World
Union for Progressive Judaism for his commitment
to social justice at the organizations convention in
Jerusalem.
But he is also recognized beyond the Jewish com-
munity as a leading thinker on the issues of spirituality
and interfaith activism.
Pope Francis, then Buenos Airess Archbishop Cardi-
nal Jorge Bergoglio, wrote in a prologue to Bergmans
2008 book Argentina Ciudadana, or Argentina Citi-
zen, that the rabbi uses the Bible as an inspiration to
build a basis of our civic behavior and elaborates the
fundamentals of a civil spirituality.
Bergman launched his political career in 2011, when
he was tapped by Buenos Airess Mayor Mauricio
Macri to lead his PRO partys list for the municipal leg-
islature. Among 10 parties, Bergmans was the leading
vote getter, tripling the vote total of the second-place
finisher.
As a legislator, Bergman employed unorthodox
methods to reduce tensions in the city, organizing a
day of meditation for legislative employees and install-
ing a popcorn machine in his office.
The struggles and also some projects are funnier
than some movies, he said.
Argentinas history-making rabbi-lawmaker
wears Jewishness on his sleeve
Sergio Bergman,
shown in Jerusalem
in May 2013, will
be the first rabbi to
serve in Argentinas
parliament when
he takes office in
December.
Throughout his political career, Bergman has not hidden
his Jewishness. Indeed, he has celebrated it, wearing his
colorful kippah at his public appearances. At a recent cam-
paign rally, his speech was full of biblical allusions, saying
citizens needed to join together in building the holy land
of the city of Buenos Aires in order to develop the promised
land of Argentina.
In the 2011 election, he wanted to be listed on the ballot as
Rabbi Sergio Bergman. Opponents challenged the bid, and
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Argentinas history-making rabbi-lawmaker
wears Jewishness on his sleeve
a court ruled eventually that while Berg-
man might be well known as a rabbi, his
title suggests positive connotations that
are inappropriate for an election ballot.
In a country only three decades
removed from dictatorship, the acknowl-
edgment was seen as a democratic
advance.
Argentina is in a deep crisis of val-
ues, Bergman said. I believe that Torah
can also be taught in the legislature. Im
against the union of state and religion.
Im in favor of the separation of church
and state, but also in favor of putting
deep values in politics.
The juxtaposition has a notable his-
tory in Argentina.
Rabbi Marshal Meyer, an American
who lived in Buenos Aires from 1958 to
1984 and founded the Conservative rab-
binical seminary here, was famous for
saying that a religious person can handle
the Torah in one hand and a newspaper
in the other. Meyer spoke openly about
Argentinas social problems and fought
for human rights against the dictatorship
that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.
A disciple of Meyer, Mario Rojzman,
was the first Argentine rabbi to attempt a
political career. In 1997, Rojzman sought
to be a congressional candidate with
the Nueva Dirigencia party, but fierce
criticism persuaded him to abandon the
effort.
I have in mind that Rabbi Mario Rojz-
man also tried to create a political space
with non-Jewish sectors 10 years ago,
but he was criticized so much, Berg-
man said. That was a matter of timing.
Maybe he was ahead of his time.
Bergman dismisses concerns about
embracing such a high public profile in
a Jewish community that still lives in the
shadow of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA
Jewish center, which killed 84 people
and injured hundreds.
Im not worried about prejudices; in
fact non-Jews love me more than Jews,
Bergman said. If the society knows us
better, the level of anti-Semitism will
become lower. Im not sure that this is
the right idea, but Im sure that this is
my objective.
What I can guarantee is that I can be
criticized for many things, but not for
being a rabbi. I receive criticisms that
Im on the right or that I ask for law and
order, but nobody criticizes me for being
Jewish. If I am attacked for being a rabbi,
the first to come out to defend me are
the non-Jews.
A fellow alumnus of the Latin Ameri-
can Rabbinical Seminary, Daniel Fain-
stein, says much has changed since
Argentina restored democracy in 1983,
and Jews are now much more visible in
the public arena.
For some people, this situation
can potentially increase anti-Semitism
through the high visibility of a political
figure who is a rabbi, Fainstein said.
For others, its a symbol of the full
integration of the Jews in the national
society.
On the other hand, as a committed
citizen, Rabbi Bergman has the right to
be active in the political contest, choos-
ing the political party he likes.
Bergman lives in the middle-class Bel-
grano neighborhood, where the semi-
nary and most of the citys Conservative
congregations are located.
At one time he was a member of two
rabbinical organizations the Conser-
vative movements Rabbinical Assembly
and the Reform Central Conference of
American Rabbis. But he resigned from
the Rabbinical Assembly in 2012, citing
his failure to get rabbis from both move-
ments to work together.
Bergman has an active presence
online, with more than 65,000 follow-
ers on Facebook and more than 35,000
on Twitter. According to his most recent
financial disclosure, his personal wealth
amounts to approximately $500,000.
Analysts say Bergmans political future
is linked to the fate of his patron Macri,
who has announced he will run for presi-
dent in 2015. If Macri wins, there is spec-
ulation that Bergman could be given any
number of plum positions, from minister
of education to mayor of Buenos Aires.
But in the short term, Bergmans suc-
cess hinges on the success of an initia-
tive he is championing as a legislator:
the rollback of Argentinas agreement to
cooperate with Iran in investigating the
1994 AMIA bombing and the impeach-
ment of the countrys Jewish foreign
minister, Hector Timmerman, who
negotiated it. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Rabbi Sergio
Bergman
campaigning
for the PRO
party, which
came in first
in Argentine
elections
Sunday.
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Vadim Rabinovich claims mantle
Shrugs off critics and an assassination attempt
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
KIEV, UKRAINE The explosion that
ripped through Vadim Rabinovichs luxury
SUV in central Kiev was strong enough to
send a shock wave from the parking lot up
to his third-floor office in the heart of the
Ukrainian capital.
It was a shock for a day or two, Rabi-
novich said. And then I moved on.
The 60-year-old media mogul and Jew-
ish philanthropist views the March 4
explosion as an attack on his life. He has
accused Andrey Derkach, a businessman
and former politician, of responsibility for
the attack, telling the Ukrainian media that
Derkach had tried to bully him into selling
JN1, the Kiev-based television station spe-
cializing in Jewish news that Rabinovich
launched a couple of years ago.
Derkach has denied the accusation and
threatened to sue for libel. The police are
still investigating.
Now I have an armored car,
Rabinovich said. And thats the only thing
that has changed.
If a brush with death isnt enough to
cow Rabinovich, its hard to see what will.
Over the years, the feisty oligarch has bat-
tled Ukrainian authorities, business rivals,
and Jewish community leaders, some of
whom have expressed resentment about
Vadim Rabinovich, second from right, with Rabbi Moshe Azman, right, during a visit to Kievs Central Synagogue last year.
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his ongoing efforts to challenge the old
guard of European Jewish institutional
life.
But the relentless criticism, like the
explosion, has not had its intended
effect.
You cant please everyone, Rabinov-
ich said. Thats life.
In an interview this month, he was
clad in his typical uniform of jeans and
sneakers, a get-up he has been known
to wear on occasions where everyone
else is in business attire. Rabinovich
has a limited appreciation for formali-
ties, and as he puts it, little patience for
nonsense.
In the 1980s, Rabinovich was arrested
and sentenced to 14 years in prison
for black market ventures, but wound
up serving only seven years, accord-
ing to Korrespondent, a Ukrainian
weekly. Rabinovich says he was jailed on
trumped-up charges, but the United
States has barred his entry to the coun-
try to this day as a result of that convic-
tion, he confirmed.
You will find accusations against
me in the U.S. In Israel, some say I am
connected to the mafia, Rabinovich
said. In Ukraine, they say I am Mossad
agent, if you find this kind of nonsense
interesting.
I dont.
Following his release in 1991, Rabinov-
ich began to amass a fortune as a metals
dealer, operating in the economic free-
for-all after the collapse of the Soviet
Union. By 1995, he began pouring mil-
lions into Jewish causes.
After I turned 40, I made a discovery
that there is such a thing called Torah,
he said. It led me in all kinds of new
directions.
Rabinovich says he puts on tefillin
and prays every morning. He also hosts
friends at his house every Friday, where
he leads a discussion on the weekly
Torah portion.
In 1997 he founded the All-Ukrainian
Jewish Congress, which has an annual
budget of $3 million, and he still serves
as its president. He has sponsored Lim-
mud Jewish learning conferences, pro-
vided security services to Jewish schools
in Ukraine, and started JN1, the worlds
first 24-hour Jewish news network.
In 2010, Rabinovich and Igor Kolo-
moisky, a friend and business partner,
tried to take over the helm of a long-
running Jewish organization, the Euro-
pean Council of Jewish Communities,
but were stymied when board members
staged a walkout after Kolomoisky was
appointed president outside traditional
nominating procedures. Detractors said
Rabinovich played a key role in what
they described as a hostile takeover of
the organization.
So Rabinovich started his own orga-
nization the following year, calling it the
European Jewish Parliament and set-
ting up offices in Kiev and Brussels. Its
board had 120 members. Critics laughed
the group off as a farce, noting that the
boards initial nominees included such
celebrities as soccer star David Beck-
ham, filmmaker Roman Polanski, and
actor Sacha Baron Cohen who didnt
even know they were candidates.
Clearly, the principle of representa-
tion is lacking from this organization,
which, like other groups, is no more
than a vehicle for the ego of its creator,
Edwin Shuker, the London-based vice
president of the European Jewish Con-
gress, said.
But Rabinovich, whose organization
has lobbied European governments
on Jewish issues, is unfazed by such
criticism. In fact, he doles it out just as
readily.
Rabinovich on Moshe Kantor, the
European Jewish Congress president: He
just sits behind a desk and does noth-
ing and will do everything the Kremlin
tells him.
On Yaakov Dov Bleich, the U.S.-born
chief rabbi of Ukraine: Speaks no Rus-
sian and comes to Ukraine twice a year.
And of American Jewish organizational
leaders, Rabinovich says they only want
to be interviewed on television.
Bleich said he spends most of his time
in Ukraine. A spokesperson for Kantors
European Jewish Congress said that
Rabinovichs statements are unfounded
and spurious allegations, unworthy of
comment.
This is a desperate attempt by Rabi-
novich to remain on the agenda one
last time before his organization ceases
to exist in the same way as many other
fleeting organizations which come and
go, causing confusion and embarrass-
ment to the Jewish community and its
relationship with European leaders, the
spokesperson said.
Joel Rubinfeld, a former leader of Bel-
gian Jewry and now co-chair of the Euro-
pean Jewish Parliament, counts some
successes of Rabinovichs organization,
notably securing the construction of
Montenegros first modern synagogue
and co-organizing the first European
Jewish choir festival in Vienna.
Rubinfeld says Rabinovichs contribu-
tions, his prickly style notwithstanding,
are deeply appreciated by Jewish com-
munities, particularly in places that have
limited resources and had suffered for
decades under communist rule.
Vadim is both a builder and a bull-
dozer, and as such I think he sees life in
a rather geometric manner, Rubinfeld
said. He always takes the shortest dis-
tance between two points. Some cherish
him for it, others resent him.
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conflict in Netanyahus coalition
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JERUSALEM Israels peace talks with
the Palestinians remain mostly shrouded in
secrecy, but one thing is certain: The Pales-
tinian prisoner release that paved the way
for their resumption is increasing tensions
in Israels governing coalition.
Israel completed the second stage of the
four-part release on Tuesday, setting free
26 prisoners who had committed crimes
mostly murders before the Israeli-Pal-
estinian peace process began in 1993. The
irst stage of the prisoner release occurred
in August.
The government approved the release in
July in a bid to jumpstart the peace talks.
But the move elicited harsh protests within
the ruling coalition as well as on the Israeli
street.
After the government announced the
second phase of the prisoner release on
Sunday, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett,
chairman of the right-wing Jewish Home
party, proposed a law to prohibit any future
Palestinian prisoner releases. The Cabinet
voted 8 to 5 against the proposal; the oppo-
sition included Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
The decision to release prisoners is one
of the toughest decisions that Ive made as
prime minister, Netanyahu told a meeting
of his Likud-Israel Beiteinu faction on Mon-
day, according to reports. My heart is with
the bereaved families, and the heart hurts.
We must navigate a complex international
arena.
An estimated 3,000 demonstrators,
among them relatives of the prisoners
victims, protested the release on Monday
night. On Tuesday, a group of relatives
unsuccessfully petitioned Israels Supreme
Court to stop the release.
Also Tuesday, an unidentiied group
placed signs on the graves of soldiers at
Jerusalems Mount Herzl cemetery. They
read: Sorry we forgot. For us, your death
was for nothing.
Tuesdays release comes as the 3-month-
old talks face an uncertain future.
Although U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry has insisted on complete conidenti-
ality, Israels Channel 2 reported this week
that the Palestinian Authority reportedly
has demanded that land swaps in the west
bank not exceed 2 percent a provision
Netanyahus coalition likely would oppose.
Bennett, whose party voted in July
against the prisoner release, wrote on Face-
book that releasing prisoners is immoral
and weakens Israel.
The goal is to establish a red line once
and for all, he wrote after his proposal
was rejected. Israel has been disrespect-
ing itself for 20 years with prisoner release
deals, and its time to put an end to it. We
will continue to ight this in every demo-
cratic way possible.
Bennetts vocal opposition to the release
has brought tensions in Netanyahus gov-
erning coalition to a head. Along with Jew-
ish Home, the coalition includes Justice
Minister Tzipi Livnis Hatnua party, which
campaigned on a platform of reaching a
peace treaty with the Palestinian Author-
ity. Livni is heading Israels delegation to
the talks.
The government, as opposed to one of
its member parties, acts according to the
national interest and not according to a
cynical partisan interest, Livni wrote on
Facebook, in a dig at Jewish Home. This
government is advancing a diplomatic pro-
cess, which is in the national and security
interests of Israel.
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The Slingshot effect
Do innovators reap rewards from annual list?
JULIE WIENER
The biblical David used a slingshot to kill
Goliath, thus earning the attention of King
Saul.
Today, Jewish organizations are trying
to use Slingshot, an annual guide of the
50 most innovative organizations and
projects, to capture the attention of donors.
The ninth installment of the guide was
released Thursday.
Launched in 2005 by a group of donors
in their 20s and 30s, the guide evaluates
North American Jewish organizations based
on their innovative approach, the impact
they have in their work, the leadership they
have in their sector, and their effectiveness
at achieving results.
Inclusion in Slingshot offers a stamp of
recognition, said Vivian Stadlin, co-director
of Eden Village Camp, a 4-year- old
overnight camp focused on environmental
sustainability that has appeared in Slingshot
for several consecutive years.
Even if a prospective parent doesnt
know about Slingshot, to be able to say
we appear in the Slingshot list of 50 most
innovative Jewish groups puts people at
ease, she added. It gives the sense that
theyre climbing aboard a winning ship.
Ed Case, CEO of InterfaithFamily, a
website offering resources for interfaith
families, said making the Slingshot list offers
a heksher, or seal of approval, especially
for new organizations getting started.
Whether Slingshot inclusion has a
financial benefit is an open question. Guide
inclusion does not come with any monetary
reward, although those that make the list
are eligible to receive grants through the
Slingshot Fund. Case said his group has
received grants from small foundations that
discovered it through Slingshot.
Julie Finkelstein, Slingshots program
director, said many organizations leverage
it to receive funding from other sources.
Sarah Lefton, executive di rector
and producer of G-dcast, a new media
production company that has been in
Slingshot for several consecutive years,
praised the guide, noting particularly its
organizers openness to feedback.
However, several professionals say the
application process is burdensome, the
selection process overly subjective, and
the payoff not always clear.
A professional with an organization
featured many times in Slingshot,
who did not want to be seen publicly
criticizing the group, said she has heard
a lot of grousing about it from Jewish
organizations.
Its a really involved application both
to be in the guide and to get money
[through the Slingshot Fund], and
theres not a clear return, she said.
Another Jewish professional echoed
this concern, saying, People like the
recognition, but Im not sure how many
organizations have seen real gains or
been able to leverage it into grants.
The Slingshot Day, which brings
together groups and donors, also gets
mixed reviews. Case said its great to
have the once-a-year opportunity to
meet with counterparts that is rare
to nonexistent otherwise, especially for
organizations not based in New York.
But another professional said theres a
mismatch between the expectations of
funders and organizations at the annual
conference.
The organizations are coming to
meet funders, but the funders are not
coming to be met, the professional said.
For the first time this year, Slingshot
published two supplements to the
list on Disabilities & Inclusion,
in partnership with the Ruderman
Foundation, and on Women & Girls,
in partnership with the Jewish Womens
Foundation of New York as a means
to broaden its community and attract
public interest and donor support in
these areas.
The guide also features 17 standard
bearers groups that are included
yearly as models of innovation. They
include organizations such as Moishe
House, a social and educational group
for 20-something Jews, and Mechon
Hadar, a liberal yeshiva.
Newcomers to the list this year include
City Harvests Kosher Initiative, a hunger-
relief project in New York; NewGround:
A Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change,
of Los Angeles; Ramah Tikvah Network,
a training program for professionals
serving special-needs populations; and
the Kitchen, an alternative congregation
in San Francisco.
Slingshot is a resource highlighting
the breadth and depth of the Jewish
community at this moment, and it is
relied upon by doers and donors alike,
said Will Schneider, Slingshots executive
director.
Meredith Lewis, director of operations
at MyJewishLearning, which has made
the top 50 for several consecutive
years, said Slingshot and particularly
an annual conference it holds for
organizations and donors helped her
group forge partnerships with others,
such as the Institute for Southern Jewish
Life and Keshet, an LGBT advocacy
group.
When were thinking about new
partners to bring on, thats the first place
we look, she said.
Of the 50 Slingshot groups, the average
founding year is 2005 and the average
annual budget is $717,320. Women lead
52 percent of them.
While commonly thought of as
emphasizing programs serving young
Jews, several Slingshot organizations in
the guide focus on baby boomers and
the elderly, including Wise Aging, which
provides spiritual learning, intellectual
engagement, and community gathering
for Jews 65 and over, and Kavod
vNichum, a group that teaches about
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and it is only a matter of time before price
collaboration will extend to setting uniform
teacher salaries and imposing across-the-
board cost restrictions affecting curriculum
and services. Those measures most certainly
would erode the quality of our schools.
While our schools should never be
viewed as competitive enterprises in
the mode of profit-maximizing busi-
nesses, and while we should develop and
strengthen joint community endeavors
such as NNJKIDS to assist all of the schools
through difficult economic times and the
funding crisis, it is important that we do so
responsibly and act in way that is carefully
consistent with the law and with the desire
to maintain the quality education that our
schools continue to provide.
Daniel D. Edelman
Teaneck
(Daniel Edelman is an attorney who
practices law in New York City.)
Another approach to funding
There is an approach Mr. Distenfeld has
not broached. Just as Tomchei Shabbos
focuses on Shabbos meals and not on
those for the weekdays, it is conceivable
that Jewish education can be limited to the
morning portion of the day and that secu-
lar education can be delivered by cooper-
ative public schools in the afternoon.
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might interact with non-Jewish ones, whose
parents would opt for the public classes
later in the day. However, this should not be
a problem provided that the public schools
cooperate and the Jewish community lead-
ership is supportive. We are already paying
for secular education in the public schools
and it is just plain idiotic to pay twice by
duplicating those studies.
Henry Frisch
Teaneck
Long live Christmas
Letter-writer Reuben E. Gross (Alienat-
ing decorations, October 18) urges read-
ers to start campaigning against Christmas
decorations in banks and other places of
business.
As far as I can tell, for Jews to take on the
role of Scrooge can only serve to promote
anti-Semitism. I dont see why we cant all
enjoy the holiday gift-giving season in a
positive way. Happily, around Christmas,
Christians think of the birth of Jesus, who,
of course, was born into a Jewish fam-
ily. Of all Christian holidays, Christmas
is the one holiday that promotes positive
feelings towards Jews among Christians.
Therefore, I say: Long live Christmas!!!
Harry Eisenberg
Glen Rock
Our house is burning
Smell the smoke? There is a fire burning
in the house of the American Jewish com-
munity. Sadly, it has been burning for a
long time.
The recent Pew study amounted to a
pox on all the branches of Judaism. While
Orthodoxy had higher birth rates and in-
marriage, there was an inexplicable fall-
off with age. Reform Judaism still had a
large share, but with the very high inter-
marriage rate its longevity seems doubt-
ful. Conservative Judaism is in dire straits.
The largest growing branch of Judaism is
unaffiliated. None of the statistics were
encouraging. No one should be happy.
We have seen evidence of this accelerat-
ing trend in our own area, with numerous
synagogue closings and the shuttering of
the Conservative movements high school.
Anyone walking through the former Clif-
ton Y cannot help but be shaken at the
loss of such a large structure, formerly
alive with Jewish activity. Those whose
commitment to Israel forms the bedrock
of their identification with Judaism should
be profoundly disturbed, because as the
cohesiveness and voting numbers of the
American Jewish community dwindle, so
will Americas support of the Jewish State.
As the Jewish community in Israel soon
eclipses ours in sheer numbers, it may be
time for the flow of support to reverse.
The desert has already bloomed, and the
urgency to build up a 65 year-old nation
has waned. The money we send to Israel
may be put to better use encouraging
more visits from here to there through the
Birthright program. It is time for Israel to
engage in far more outreach here in the
United States.
Although this crisis has been known for
years, these new numbers should add a
new sense of urgency to the alphabet soup
of Jewish organizations with their multi-
million dollar budgets to realize that there
can be no more business as usual. The old
models have failed. New approaches have
to be found. The alternative is that our
house will burn down.
Dr. Scott Lippe
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Toldot: Generosity of spirit and expansiveness of heart
Of the three patriarchs, Isaac is
the most enigmatic and cryp-
tic. Much of his life is clouded
in mystery and, in contrast to
his father Abraham and his
son Jacob, relatively little space
within the Torah text itself is
dedicated to the details of his
life. And even when the events
of his day are described, he is
usually not the main character
in the episode. His near-sacri-
fice, for example, is recalled
more often to dramatize and
stress the uniqueness of Abra-
ham rather than that of Isaac.
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rav of
blessed memory, avers that the amount of
text assigned to Isaacs life should not be seen
as a diminution of his status and acclaim but
instead an indication of his unique character
in keeping with the specific trait accorded
each of the Avot, the three patriarchs. Abra-
ham represents chesed, kindness; Jacob
stands for emet, truth; and Isaac is an
exemplar of gevurah, strength. Abrahams
kindness represents a movement away from
ones self towards others. It expresses itself
in an expansion of character.
Isaacs trait of strength, by con-
trast, is a retreat into a more
hidden world with only God as
his companion to commune
with for much of his life. The
paucity of the text reflects his
penchant for privacy.
Parashat Toldot shares one
episode involving Isaac which
on the surface is seemingly
insignificant. It describes how
Isaac re-opens the wells earlier
dug and initiated by his father
which the Philistines had
stopped and filled with dirt. (Gen. 26:15). How-
ever, the Ramban explains that with deeper
probing the story of the wells reflects an
added dimension to Isaacs personality. Isaac
not only re-opened the wells and restored
a great good and service to society, but also
restored their names according to those origi-
nally assigned them by Abraham. He safe-
guards the historical record. Parenthetically,
the destruction of these wells has its paral-
lel in other contemporary events whereby
our enemies seek to eradicate in word and
deed meaningful Jewish accomplishments.
In Israel, as an example, arson to its forests in
1989 and the leveling of infrastructure in the
Sinai and in Gaza respectively, when these
areas were turned over to our detractors, can
be seen as an effort to un-write our contribu-
tions to improving the land for all.
Through this episode with the wells, the
otherwise withdrawn and nearly invisible
Isaac transitions into a much more public role
and in so doing preserved the legacy of his
father. Isaac moves beyond his characteristic
interiority to assert himself with a more pub-
lic persona. He digs three new wells. The Phi-
listines object to the first two and so he called
them Eisek contention, and Sitnah
enmity. But by the time the third well had
been dug, the conflict had abated and thus
he named it Rechovot, imparting a sense of
that which is more spacious or expansive.
These three wells have been seen as alluding
to the three Batei Mikdash, Holy temples in
Jerusalem. The first two were destroyed by
our enemies who were able to capitalize on
our internal strife and quarrels. But the ulti-
mate third Beit Mikdash will be built in a spirit
of harmony and will represent a new-found
generosity of spirit and expansiveness of
heart. By opening the wells initially excavated
by his father the once intensely private Isaac
has stepped out of his comfort zone and not
only symbolically but in a real and material
way offers hope and encouragement to his
generation and beyond.
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meaning one year after Super Storm Sandy
and the crisis-strewn landscape that was cre-
ated in its wake. Calamity can bring out the
best and also the worst in people and soci-
ety. It can illustrate our capacity for kindness
and generosity. There were countless stories
of great caring and sharing just as there were
and remain untold instances of bureaucratic
logjam, ignored and unmet needs. And so it
was not simply that Isaac opened up the wells
and created three more but he set his sights
on the plight of others. He remained ever
mindful of the previous accomplishments of
his father which he renewed and restored in
his own time so as to plant and provide for
the future. Isaacs novelty lay in his insight
and forward thinking; in his strength of char-
acter and awareness of the need to serve as
a bridge between the generation that pre-
ceded and would succeed him, anchoring the
achievements of the past while securing the
stage for the days ahead.
Rabbi
Lawrence S.
Zierler
Jewish Center of
Teaneck, Orthodox
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Christian town from jihadi rebels
Syrian government soldiers retook the
ancient Christian town of Sadad from jihadi
rebels. According to the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights, residents from Sadad
reported that rebels from the al-Qaeda-
linked Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organiza-
tion have retreated from the town after
heavy fighting with the Syrian army.
According to the Associated Press, Jabhat
al-Nusra rebels targeted the village due to
its strategic location on the highway north
of Damascus, and not because its Christian.
But Jabhat al-Nusra has a history of brutally
attacking Christians in areas it occupies.
The Islamist rebel attack against the
mainly Christian, Biblical village of Sadad
and its hospital is just the latest barbaric
act in the destruction of Syria. Christians
and other religious minorities in Syria
are in danger of being eliminated, Dr.
John Eibner, CEO of Christian Solidarity
International, said. JNS.ORG
Series of droughts led to rise
of ancient Israelite kingdom, study says
A series of major droughts may have led
to the collapse of several great Bronze Age
civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean
between 1250 and 1100 B.C.E, leading to the
rise of new civilizations such as the ancient
Israelite kingdom, a new three-year study
published in the Journal of the Institute of
Archaeology of Tel Aviv University says.
Using samples of sediment retrieved
from up to 18 meters underneath the Sea
of Galilee and other sites such as the Dead
Sea, researchers were able to use fossilized
pollen grains to understand ancient climate
conditions.
These [pollen] particles tell us about
the vegetation that grew near the lake and
testify to the climatic conditions in the
region, palynologist Dafna Langgut, one
of the reports authors, told Haaretz.
JNS.ORG
IDFs Golani Brigade gets first Druze commander
Col. Rasan Alian was appointed last week
as the commander of the prestigious
Golani Brigade, making Israel Defense
Forces history as the first member of the
Druze community to fill the role.
Alian, 41, is from the northern city
of Shfaram and will be the second
Druze officer to become an infantry
brigade commanderthe first was Brig.
Gen. (ret.) Imad Fares, who was the
commander of the Givati Brigade.
JNS.ORG
JS-41*
Ask the Rabbi
Dear Rabbi your talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi,
In our synagogue on Shab-
bat, in the middle of the
Torah reading service, the
gabbai announces that he is
going to recite the prayer for
those who are sick. He says
that when he pauses at the
place for the name of the sick
person, anyone who wishes
to make a prayer for some-
one who is ill should stand in
his pew and speak the name
of the person they wish to include in the
prayer. I follow the instructions and in an
undertone, at the pause, I recite the legal
names of my friends and relatives who are
ailing. I also include the name of my pet
dog who is ill. Is this okay?
Love my pet
Alpine
Dear Pet Lover,
You ask about whom we can pray
for in the synagogue and how we can
pray for them. Yes, in my view you
can include anyone you want in your
mesheberach prayer list. In that prayer
we ask that God who blessed our ances-
tors (Hebrew words: mi-sheberach) to
bestow on the people whom we name,
healing of the soul and healing of the
body along with (healing) all the ill
of Israel (some add: and all the ill who
dwell on Earth) soon, speedily, with-
out delay, and let us all say: Amen.
There are several issues related to
your question. To begin with, is there
any evidence that prayers like this one
that we make for the sick are effective?
Second, when you recite the prayer
does it matter with what name you iden-
tify the person for whom you are pray-
ing? Third, can you pray for the health
of an animal?
Im quite accommodating and non-
judgmental about whom you pray for
and what name you use in this prayer
for the sick. Put simply,
because we recently and
openly made up this mode
of praying, we have much
leeway to accept as valid
whatever we deem proper
for the prayer.
In some of our local
Teaneck shuls, we changed
these prayers to fill-in-the-
blank-at-your-pew recita-
tions just a few years ago.
It used to be the case that
those who wanted to make an individual
prayer on behalf of a sick person would
go up to the bimah and request that the
gabbai recite an individual prayer or
recite the Hebrew name of the ill person
aloud from the bimah in his list.
The stipulation in the text is clear
that the person who seeks the prayer
for healing will make a donation on
behalf of the sick person. The recent
change from gabbai-recited prayers for
each sick person to a more economical
prayer for all was necessitated perhaps
by the large number of people on whose
behalf people in the synagogue are pray-
ing these days. And likely it was moti-
vated by the general lack of patience
that synagogue-goers have for a few
extra minutes it would take to recite all
of those names aloud in the prayer for
the sick.
Its possible that you will find some
rabbis who will say that you may make
this prayer for Jews only, and not for
pets, and that you must use the Hebrew
name of the person you are praying for
and his or her parents names, also in
Hebrew. Still, its my view that you can
include the name of anyone you wish,
using any form of the name, and pets
are included. My reasoning is that God
can tell who you are praying for even if
you use a persons legal name, and even
if you just imagine a mental picture of
the person.
You still might object about pets,
because some people consider pets to
be property and unworthy of synagogue
prayers. On this subject, consider the
essay by Gregory Berns in the New York
Times on October 5, called Dogs are
People Too. Berns argues, by using
the M.R.I. to push away the limitations
of behaviorism, we can no longer hide
from the evidence. Dogs, and proba-
bly many other animals (especially our
closest primate relatives), seem to have
emotions just like us. And this means
we must reconsider their treatment as
property.
Most pet owners know on their own
that their pet is people too, even
without the support of a quasi-scientific
study summarized by the Times. Taking
this perspective into account, you cer-
tainly can pray for a pet who is ill.
There are those who will argue that
a prayer for a specific sick person is a
lot of hocus-pocus, a magical wish that
has no place in our religion. Yet on the
other side of that argument, there are
recent credible studies that have been
conducted that show that prayer-at-a-
distance for a sick person is effective
in helping that person recover. Larry
Dossey argued in his well-known 2011
book Healing Words that prayer is as
valid and vital a healing tool as drugs
or surgery.
So to sum up, continue to pray for
your list of people who are ill. And
include your pet as well. May they all
have a refuah shelemah complete and
speedy recoveries.
Dear Rabbi,
I want to improve the quality of my
existence to have better relationships,
make better investments and more sen-
sible purchases, and in general lead a
healthier and happier life. How can a
talmudic approach to decision making
help me?
Wants Better Outcomes
Woodcliff Lake
Dear Wants Better,
No matter how much we crave stabil-
ity and seek out guidance from others
for right paths for our actions and eth-
ics, life throws our way many situations
that require us to make crucial deci-
sions on our own.
The authors of the Talmud developed
an energetic view of how to deal with
the world, based on several vital prem-
ises. The talmudic approach can pro-
vide you with the equipment to make
the choices that you need to make at
the crucial junctures of your lifes chal-
lenges. You can extract these talmudic
premises and live by them. Here is a
brief capsule view of some of the funda-
mentals as I see them.
Premise one: The goal of talmudic cul-
ture is that all Jews become rabbis and
live as rabbis. That means all Jews ought
to become talmudic virtuosos, who can
have opinions, state opinions, argue
opinions, and make decisions.
Premise two: Jews and all people are
possessors of individual personalities.
Every person had to recognize his or
her own composition and the distinc-
tive personality elements of his or her
relatives, friends, and neighbors.
Premise three: The world throws
thorny problems that require complex
solutions at you. Talmudic culture rec-
ognizes that our world is not populated
by simple artificial dualisms like yin and
yang, good and evil, mind and body.
Premise four: You and your neighbors
act to make choices in dynamic ways,
working energetically in varied roles
and in changing modes.
Based on those suppositions, here are
some of the many talmudic ways that I
employ to look at a situation and make
a decision ways that recognize that I
may act through a multiplicity of diver-
gent roles and forces.
Before I make a decision, I strive to
be part meditative and part mystical. I
need to take account of forces both visi-
ble and invisible before I make a choice.
That means to assess a situation I look
carefully like a mindful meditator at
what tangible forces surround me. But I
also imagine like a mystic how other
imperceptible intangibles that are not
present can come into play.
Before I make a decision, I make
efforts to be part scribal and part
priestly. I look for all the details related
to the situation, and I make lists, as an
ancient scribe had to do to make accu-
rate scrolls and records. And in addi-
tion I accept the reality that we possess
received traditions that govern how we
think and act, as an ancient priest had
to do when he performed the rituals in
the Temple.
When finally I make a decision I act in
part as a performer and in part as a com-
petitor. I recognize that I need to know
my lines and my texts when I go into any
congregation, into any meeting. I must
know my co-players and my audience as
best as I can. And I derive my energy
from the adventure of competing in the
arena of my choosing, whether it is in
business, professional, or academic. Of
course, when the score is tallied, I want
to be number one, the victor, amidst
high drama, and yet accompanied by
impeccable sportsmanship.
In sum: in approaching all deci-
sions I employ what I call a talmudic
approach to living that is multitextured
and analytical.
Adhering to such demanding yet
inspiring talmudic modes of action has
helped me to achieve better relation-
ships, make better decisions, and live a
happier life.
The Dear Rabbi column offers
timely advice based on timeless
Talmudic wisdom. It aspires
to be equally respectful and
meaningful to all varieties and
denominations of Judaism.
You can find it here on the
first Friday of the month. Send
your questions to DearRabbi@
jewishmediagroup.com
Rabbi Tzvee
Zahavy
Rabbi Dr. Tzvee Zahavy was ordained at
Yeshiva University and earned his Ph.D. in
religious studies at Brown University
Its my view
that you can
include the
name of anyone
you wish, using
any form of the
name, and pets
are included.
Series of droughts led to rise
of ancient Israelite kingdom, study says
of Galilee and other sites such as the Dead
Sea, researchers were able to use fossilized
pollen grains to understand ancient climate
conditions.
These [pollen] particles tell us about
the vegetation that grew near the lake and
testify to the climatic conditions in the
region, palynologist Dafna Langgut, one
of the reports authors, told Haaretz.
JNS.ORG
IDFs Golani Brigade gets first Druze commander
of Shfaram and will be the second
Druze officer to become an infantry
brigade commanderthe first was Brig.
Gen. (ret.) Imad Fares, who was the
commander of the Givati Brigade.
JNS.ORG
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5. Opens the toothpaste tube
11. Dramatist Stoppard
14. Word that starts the name of three
Talmudic tractates
15. Yes ___, Bob!
16. ___ Lanka
17. He played a Star Trek android
19. Its my work, ___ say, and I do it for
pay (Dylan lyric)
20. ___ Fuehrers Face (1942 Disney
short)
21. Mountain, to some
23. ___ Wolf (Fiddler on the Roof role)
26. Yiddish letter after ches
27. Early settlers of Iceland
28. ___ of the Will, 1935 film
30. Leah, to Rachel
31. Cant help loving ___ man of mine
(Oscar Hammerstein II lyric)
32. Book-smart
35. First prime minister born in Israel
after the establishment of the state
40. Middle Ages philosopher Abraham
41. I ___ Rock (Simon & Garfunkel hit)
43. The Jerusalem Report, e.g.
46. Last step of the seder
49. Garlic-egg-oil sauce
50. ___ mask (Gulf War necessity)
52. Rivers and Nathan
53. Wacko
55. Tina who co-anchored Weekend
Update with Seth Meyers
56. Technology Spielberg often uses
57. Hes known as The man who broke
the Bank of England
62. Chick magnet?
63. Captivated
64. Les Misrables award, 1987
65. Unit of energy
66. Matisyahus style
67. Latin love
Down
1. Chicago lyricist Fred
2. Purim mo.
3. ___ Got Five Dollars (Rodgers and
Hart Song)
4. Ed Wood Oscar winner Martin
5. Frequent David Remnick topic
6. Pinch
7. ___ is naught but misdirected
energy: Emma Goldman
8. Mayer and Nadel
9. Banana covering
10. 12-steppers prayer request
11. My parents went to Israel and all I
got was this lousy ___
12. Blackmailers words
13. The Rose star Bette
18. Part of the school year
22. Prophet whose name means
salvation
23. Brits Inc.
24. ___ Legion (Jerusalem attackers of
May 15, 1948)
25. Baked Italian dish
26. Minimum necessary for a zimun
29. ___ Pingleton (Hairspray charac-
ter)
30. Camp David Accords subject
33. There was a man from the land of
___... (Job 1:1)
34. Engages in rent-fixing?
36. Israeli wheat snack
37. 1978 Nobel Prizewinner
38. Yemenite singer Ofra
39. Rosh Hashana pilgrimage site
42. Responses to a masseur
43. Totally tacky
44. Stay a while
45. Showing awe, perhaps
47. Some liberal teachers
48. Nissan rival
50. Mathematician Cantor
51. What ___ (Ho-hum)
54. Actor Wilder who played Willy
Wonka
55. Shindig
58. Honor roll stat
59. It stores data permanently
60. Kiryat ___ (city near Tel Aviv)
61. One of Isr.s neighbors
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years; while her husband went back to
Israel, Ruth used her German restitution
money to sail to New York.
Al though thi s ki nd of steady
exposition can be deadly in a play, the
audience happily follows along because
Rupp gives her performance so much
verve, and director Julianne Boyd
keeps her moving picking things up
and putting them down, answering the
phone, flirting with the audience, and
other business. Boyd developed the
play at the Barrington Stage Company
in the Berkshires and presented it at
TheaterWorks in Hartford before this
production.
Marrying and divorcing again, Ruth
inds herself a young mother in New
York, who must learn one more language and adjust to
yet another culture. Like so many survivors, Ruth has
an indomitable will and tremendous enery, qualities
that help her to survive. St. Germain keeps bringing the
play back to Karolas childhood, the time when those
characteristics were nurtured. Those early years gave her
the foundation to build on later, yet the loss is even more
profound because they lasted such a short time. There is a
layer of melancholy underneath the cheeriness.
The career that would make Westheimer famous
began with a job at Planned Parenthood in Harlem. Its
somewhat ironic that everyones favorite sex educator got
her start at an agency that is now so often attacked and
pilloried. American attitudes toward sex are as ambivalent
as they were when Dr. Ruth answered her irst question on
her 15-minute radio show, Sexually Speaking.
Arts & Culture
Becoming Dr. Ruth
MIRIAM RINN
D
ebra Jo Rupp is as adorable as the woman she
portrays in the eponymous one-woman show
currently at the Westside Theatre in New York
City.
In Becoming Dr. Ruth, Rupp, familiar to many for her
role as Kitty Forman in That 70s Show, captures Ruth
Westheimers bouncy exuberance as well as her German
accent, slightly hunched shoulders, and determined gait.
While this play by Mark St. Germain wont win creative or
adventurous theater awards, its an enjoyable and often
touching visit with the famous sex therapist, whose life
was much harder than her constant beaming smile would
indicate.
The year is 1997, and we meet Dr. Ruth in her crowded
Washington Heights apartment as she is packing to move.
We can visit while I pack, she tells the audience. We
soon learn that Fred, her third husband (later well talk,
she promises) and love of her
life, has died, and she is leaving
the home shes lived in for more
than 30 years. Video projections
behind the realistically cozy
set show the view of both the
George Washington and Tappan
Zee Bridges. As Dr. Ruth picks
up photos of her parents and
grandmother to encase in bubble
wrap, she recalls her loving
childhood in Frankfurt.
The play progresses in an
almost uninterrupted straight line
from her days as a happy toddler
in Germany to her evacuation to
Switzerland on a Kindertransport,
to her post-war years in Israel, a
short stay in Paris, and eventual arrival in New York.
St. Germain, who wrote Freuds Last Session, is
not aiming for anything fancy. He has a great story in
Westheimers peripatetic life, and he tells it straight.
Adored by her grandmother and father, little
Karola Ruth Siegel (Dr. Ruths real name) grew up in a
traditional German Jewish community, where learning
was admired. Always smile and be cheerful, you are
loved, her grandmother told her. All that warmth and
love helped Karola overcome the trauma of leaving
her family shortly after Kristallnacht, when she was 10
years old, to live in an institution in Switzerland. There
was little warmth or sympathy there, and the refugee
children were made to work as servants. Reading a 1941
notation from her diary, Ruth argues with God about
her plight: If You dont think of us, I wont think of
You. Even on Your holidays. Later in the play, Ruth
picks up one of the turtles she collects
and compares it to yekkes, German Jews. Like turtles,
yekkes have a hard shell and move slowly, but they get
where they are going, she says.
Ruths next stop was Palestine, where she moved to
a kibbutz, changed her name, and joined the Haganah.
As she roguishly explains, her sexual top popped on
the kibbutz, but she has already been in love once,
with a 12-year-old boy called Walter. I thought that I
was short and ugly and stupid, and that no man would
be interested in me. But he was. It made me happy in
a way I never felt before.
Wounded during the War of Independence, Ruth
soon married a young man from the kibbutz and
moved to Paris with him. They divorced after several

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Arts & Culture
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
F
or the last 20 years, a trip to
Poland increasingly has become
a key component in any Jew-
ish teenagers coming to terms
with Jewish identity and history. March
of the Living trips have been going on for
decades, and high-school trips to Israel
often include a prelude period in Poland;
even Israeli students often visit now as
part of their high school education. Poland
also has become a Jewish adult tourist des-
tination. After all, most of the concentra-
tion camps were in Poland, and nearly half
of the victims murdered in the Holocaust
were Polish Jews.
Other Jews, though often feel an aversion
to Poland, because anti-Semitism is so
closely tied to it. It is hard to imagine that
after the victory over the Nazis, some
surviving Jews returned to their homes
only to be murdered by Poles. Pogroms
took place after the war was over! Yet since
the war Poles have been mesmerized by
Jews, and Jews continue to want to see the
memory-sites that have become a ixture
in contemporary Jewish history.
Since the wars end, Polands curiosity
about the Shoah has been carefully
examined in Polish cinema. Former
Auschwitz prisoner Wanda Jakubowska
recreated a concentration camp in her
piercing 1948 ilm The Last Stage, and
that same year Jewish director Aleksander
Ford made Border Street about the
Warsaw uprising. Andrzej
Wajda often depicted anti-
Nazi actions in such ilms as
Kanal (1957) and Samson
(1961) as a way of subtly taking
on Soviet tyranny, and more
recently Agnieszka Holland
examined delicate Holocaust
subject matter in ilms like
Europa Europa ( 1990)
and In Darkness (2012).
Now, Wladyslaw Pasikowski,
who co-wrote Wajdas 2007
Katyn, about how the Soviets
murdered thousands of Polish
oficers, and then created a
myth that the massacre was
perpetrated by the Nazis, has written
and directed Pokosie Aftermath. This
time, the question is what happened to a
ictional community of Polish Jews. How
and by whom were they murdered?
Pasikowski is a master ilmmaker, and
he gives us a powerful detective story and
thriller. The narrative revolves around
two Polish brothers, Franek Kalina, who
left Poland 20 years earlier and has been
living in Chicago, and his brother Jzek,
who stayed behind and has managed
the family farm. When Franek returns,
he inds that his brother has stumbled
across several Jewish gravestones that had
been uncovered in a local road during a
repaving project.
Jzek has taken it upon himself to ind
an appropriate place to reset the stones,
taking a corner of his farm and creating a
inal resting place, a ield of gravestones.
Franek believes his brother to have lost his
mind, but soon becomes fascinated by the
question of what happened to the Jewish
community during the war. The local
townspeople are not happy about this
new Jewish cemetery, and they do not like
the brothers poking around into wartime
activities. Tension in the town mounts.
Aftermath is not a Holocaust ilm.
There are no flashbacks to the past, and
it is not set during the war. It is a look at
todays Poles, who are struggling with the
memory of a country once dominated and
deeply affected by its Jews. On the eve of
World War II, Jews constituted 10 percent
of the population. Yet, according to Yad
Vashem, only 380,000 Polish Jews, just 12
percent of prewar Polish Jewry
survived, and most of those
survivors soon left. Yet, today
a Poland devoid of its Jews
continues to provide Jewish
story lines for Polish cinema.
It appears that ilmmakers
like Pasikowski see their role
as forcing Poles to struggle
with their repressed past and
memory.
Twelve years ago, Princeton
historian Jan Gross wrote
Neighbors, an historical
study of the Jews of Jedwabne,
who were murdered by their
Polish neighbors, not by Nazis,
as the world had been led to believe. The
book created quite a stir here, but a even
greater controversy in Poland. Aftermath
seems to have stimulated a discussion in
Poland today, but this time it is a Polish
ilmmaker, not a Jewish expatriate, who is
asking the tough questions.
Pasikowskis Aftermath does not
provide easy answers or happy endings.
There are no Jews in this ilm, just their
memory. Ireneusz Czop as Franek and
Maciej Stuhr as Jzek give us outstanding
performances. This is a ilm to be seen
and to be reckoned with. It opens today
in Manhattan.
Eric Goldman teaches cinema at Yeshiva
University. He is president of Teaneck-based
Jewish ilm distributor Ergo Media.
Coming to terms
with Poland in
Aftermath
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Friday
NOVEMBER 1
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Dr. Susannah Heschel,
professor of Jewish
studies at Dartmouth
College, is scholar-
in-residence at
Congregation Beth
Sholom. She will discuss
the legacy of her father,
Abraham Joshua
Heschel, throughout
Shabbat. Kabbalat
Shabbat services at
5:35 p.m.; Shabbat
morning services
at 9 a.m., and in the
afternoon. Reservations
requested for Shabbat
dinner and lunch. 354
Maitland Ave. (201)
833-2620 or office@
cbsteaneck.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds its monthly family
service, including a
story by the rabbi and
songs, at 6 p.m.; dinner
follows at 7. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Shabbat in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
offers tot Shabbat, 6 p.m.
for children up to 6 and
their families. Shabbat
dinner with Chinese food
at 6:30; family services
led by the seventh
grade and an alternative
service, both at 7:30.
385 Howland Ave. (201)
489-2463, ext. 202, or
avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel welcomes Shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an inter-generational
drumming circle, 6 p.m.;
traditional services at
8. Drums provided; you
can bring a percussion
instrument. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Dr. Rachel Korazim
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes Hartman
Institute scholar Dr.
Rachel Korazim as
scholar-in-residence.
She will speak during
services, 7 p.m., and
again during Shabbat
morning services that
begin at 9. A dessert
reception will follow.
Korazims recent work
has brought her to
emerging schools in
Hungary. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997 or
will www.templeemanu-
el.com. She also speak on
Sunday in Wyckoff.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 2
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck offers services
at 9 a.m., followed by
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
discussing For Your
Eyes Only? Big Brother
is not Only Watching but
Listening Too, as part of
the Three Cs Cholent,
Cugel, and Conversation.
Kinder Shul for 3- to
8-year-olds, while
parents attend services,
10:30-11:45. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515 or
www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers a Torah discussion
group in English with
Rabbi Marley Weiner,
9 a.m. At 10, Rabbi
Ziona Zelazo leads an
alternative Shabbat
experience. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Tot Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
its monthly morning tot
Shabbat led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer, Cantor
Rica Timman, and Music
Lisa, 9:30 a.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 3
Mitzvah Day: Jewish
Federation of
Northern New Jersey
hosts Mitzvah Day, a
community-wide day
of volunteering, local
collections, and blood
drives. Alice Blass, (201)
820-3900 or www.
JFNNJ.org.
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to
Tropicana Casino Hotel.
A bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
at 9:15 a.m. Breakfast
served on bus at 9. $30;
includes $25 slot play
money. Bring ID and
Tropicana Rewards card.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
School open house
in Elizabeth: The
Jewish Educational
Centers Bruriah
High School for Girls
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. 35
North Ave. (908) 355-
4850 or www.Bruriah.
theJEC.org.
Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and snacks
for pre-k students and
their parents, 9:30 a.m. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-6867
or educationoffice@
templesinaibc.org.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
in September 2014,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.
Israeli society through
literature: Hartman
Institute scholar Dr.
Rachel Korazim discusses
Connections to the
Land: Windows into
Israeli Society Through
Literature, for the
Food for Thought
Distinguished Speaker
series at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff,
9:45 a.m. Breakfast
buffet. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Holiday craft fair:
Residents of the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh
have a holiday craft
fair with handcrafted
items by local artisans
and a variety of crafts
created by the residents,
live entertainment,
50-50 raffle, and silent
auction, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the
JHR resident fund. 10
Link Drive. Tracey, (201)
518-1171.
School open house
in Teaneck: Torah
Academy of Bergen
Academy invites eighth
grade boys and their
parents to an open
house. Doors open at
9:15 a.m.; program at 10.
1600 Queen Anne Road.
Preregistration at www.
tabc.org/admissions.
Donna Hoenig, (201) 837-
7696 or admissions@
tabc.org.
Childrens program:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah continues Sunday
Specials for pre-k to
second graders, 10 a.m.,
with Fun in the Gym
with Matt Fox. Program
includes parachutes,
hula hoops, basketball,
bounce house, and nut-
free snacks. East 304
Midland Ave. Marcia
Kagedan, (201) 262-
7733 or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
Christianity and Jewish
content: Rabbi David
J. Fine, Ph.D., continues
an adult education
program at Temple Israel
of Ridgewood with
The History of Judaism
and Christianity,
10:30 a.m. This session,
The New Testament
and its Meaning in
Jewish History. Course
runs weekly through
December 15. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org.
Adult ed in Fair Lawn:
Rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich
continues Rethinking
the Covenant at Temple
Beth Sholom with State
of Israel as a Covenant
Opportunity, 10:30 a.m.
Program based on the
theme of the rabbinic
Torah study seminar
at Hartmann Institute
in Jerusalem. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201)
797-9321, ext. 415, or
AdultEd@tbsfl.org.
Synagogue trip:
Members and friends
of Temple Beth Or in
Washington Township
travel to the restored
Eldridge Street
Synagogue for a guided
tour, including a journey
through the history
of New York City and
the Jewish immigrant
community on the Lower
East Side of Manhattan.
Bus leaves the shul at
noon. 56 Ridgewood
Ave. (201) 664- 7422 or
lgraizel@templebethornj.
org.
Eugene Marlows Heritage Ensemble will perform at
Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia on Saturday, November
16, at 7 p.m. The quintet records and performs Marlows original
compositions and arrangements of Hebraic melodies in
various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neo-classical styles. Featured band
members include Grammy Award-nominee Bobby Sanabria. Coffee and
dessert. 254 Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712 or www.adasemuno.org.
NOV.
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Ron Aron
Genealogy in Tenafly:
Genealogy expert Ron
Arons leads two Jewish
genealogy workshops at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 1:30 and 3 p.m.
411 East Clinton Ave.
www.jccotp.org.
School open house in
River Edge: Rosenbaum
Yeshiva of North Jersey
holds an open house,
7 p.m. 666 Kinderkamack
Road. (201) 986-1414 or
www.rynj.org.
Monday
NOVEMBER 4
Book discussion: Cantor
Dr. Eric Wasser leads a
discussion at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel on Mitchell James
Kaplans novel, By
Fire, By Water, noon.
The book is this years
JFNNJ One Book One
Community selection.
Lunch served. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 796-
5040.
Tuesday
NOVEMBER 5
Celebrating Jewish
holidays: The Chabad
Jewish Centers Rosh
Chodesh Society in
Franklin Lakes begins
a seven-session
course, A Reason to
Celebrate: Illuminating
Our Lives through the
Jewish Holidays, at the
Chabad Jewish Center
in Franklin Lakes, 8 p.m.
Also on Wednesdays
at 11 a.m. Mimi Kaplan,
(201) 848-0449 or www.
roshchodeshsociety.com/
courses.
Michael Rosner
COURTESY OU
Advice for women
entering workforce:
Michael Rosner,
international director
of the OU Job Board,
offers advice to women
in the Orthodox
community who would
like to return to the
workforce on Brachas
Roundtable, a program
broadcast at noon, on
JewishTalkRadio.com.
Wednesday
NOVEMBER 6
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically
frail or suffering from
Alzheimers disease or
related dementia meets
at the Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns
and the personal toll of
care-giving. 10 Link Drive.
Shelley Steiner, (201)
784-1414, ext. 5340.
Synagogue history in
Fair Lawn: Lil Geiger, the
last surviving founding
member of Temple Beth
Sholom, recalls the shuls
birth 58 years ago, for
the sisterhood, 8 p.m.
Refreshments. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
9321.
Thursday
NOVEMBER 7
David Harris
COURTESY AJC
AJC director in
Ridgewood: David
Harris, AJCs executive
director, speaks at
Temple Israel & JCC,
7:30 p.m. 475 Grove
St. (201) 444-9320 or
greenbaumi@ajc.org.
Book club in Wyckoff:
The Readers Circle Book
Club at Temple Beth
Rishon will review and
discuss Mitchell James
Kaplans novel, By Fire,
By Water, JFNNJs One
Book One Community
selection, 7:30 p.m. 585
Russell Ave. (201) 891-
4466 or bethrishon.org.
Friday
NOVEMBER 8
Nily Shiryon
PHOTO PROVIDED
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Dr. Nily Shiryon,
an Israeli psychologist
and educator, discusses
The Jewish Right
and Imperative of
Questioning, following
services at 8 p.m., at
Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 9
Comedy/music in Fort
Lee: Congregation
Gesher Shalom/JCC
of Fort Lee hosts a
Comedy Concert
starring comedians Dan
Naturman and Jon Fisch,
with music by Cantor
Paul Zim, 8 p.m. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 947-
1735.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 10
School open house in
Paramus: The Frisch
School holds an open
house, 9 a.m. 120 West
Century Road. (201)
267-9100, ext. 201,
openhouse.frisch.org, or
admissions@frisch.org.
Rummage sale in
Closter: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley
holds its semi-annual
rummage sale, 10 a.m.-
noon and 1-3 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Circle of life:
Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson hosts All You
Need is Love, focusing
on Birth, Bris, & Baby
Namings, with Rabbi
Debra Orenstein and
Cantor Lenny Mandel,
10 a.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Honoring veterans in
Fair Lawn: The Mens
Club of Temple Beth
Sholom hosts a program
in recognition of Veterans
Day featuring guest
speaker Colonel Glenn
H. Goldman, director of
military instruction at
West Point, 10:30 a.m.
Light breakfast. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
9321 or mensclub@tbsfl.
org.
Hadassah meets:
Teaneck-Hackensack
Hadassah hosts a brunch
at a private home in
Teaneck, 11 a.m. Funds
raised benefit the
Hadassah Medical Center.
(201) 836-9689.
Marking Kristallnacht in
Teaneck: Congregation
Beth Sholom marks
the 75th anniversary
of Kristallnacht with
a special musical
program, 11 a.m. Dr.
Tamara Freeman, an
ethnomusicologist and
concert violist, performs
pieces composed in
World War II ghettos and
concentration camps
on her 1935 viola, an
instrument that was
rescued from the Nazis.
She explores each
composers historical
circumstances and
explains how their music
reflects their unique
situations. Brunch and
candle lighting ceremony.
354 Maitland Ave.(201)
833-2620 or office@
cbsteaneck.org.
Appraisals in Fair
Lawn: The Fair Lawn
Community Center
offers Whats It Worth?
A Valuation Event,
11 a.m.-3 p.m., with
professional appraisers,
including those skilled
in Judaica. Hosted by
the Knights of Pythias,
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Lodge. Proceeds benefit
the restoration of the
Naugle House and
support the lodges
charity fund. 10-10
20th St. Jon Taner,
WhatsitWorthNJ@gmail.
com.
Yiddish theater trip:
Temple Beth Rishon
travels to see the
National Yiddish Theatre
production of Lies My
Father Told Me, 2 p.m.,
at the Baruch Performing
Arts Center in Manhattan.
Cantor Ilan Mamber,
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
The Walking Dead in
Franklin Lakes: Temple
Emanuel of North
Jersey hosts a panel
of prominent religious
and community leaders
discussing The Walking
Dead: What Can Zombies
Teach Us About Moral
Absolutes? based on
the AMC television series,
The Walking Dead,
7 p.m. Graphic excerpts
from program episodes
will be shown; parental
discretion is urged.
Panelists are Archpriest
Eric G. Tosi, secretary of
the Orthodox Church in
America and a former
U.S. Army captain
and tank platoon
commander; Dr. Alyssa
Gray, associate professor
of codes and responsa at
Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of
Religion; Moshe Horn,
a former Manhattan
assistant district attorney
and lecturer on criminal
ethics; and Richard
Altabef, Emmy Award-
winning counsel to CBS
News and Sixty Minutes
and legal advisor to
Univision News. Temple
Emanuels Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser moderates.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Restoring Polish
cemeteries: Avi
Mizrachi discusses
Mending a Broken
Link: Jewish Cemeteries
Restoration in Poland
Through Education and
Dialogue for the annual
Susan Nelson Glasser
Memorial Kristallnacht
commemoration
at Congregation
Shomrei Torah in
Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m.
Mizrachi is co-founder/
executive director of
the Foundation for
Holocaust Education
Projects. Refreshments.
19-10 Morlot Ave.
(201) 791-7910 or
mediahappenings@
gmail.com.
In New York
Sunday
NOVEMBER 3
Director at museum:
Writer/director Artemis
Joukowsky III screens
and discusses his
documentary, The
Sharps War, at the
Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust, 2:30 p.m.
Program is in conjunction
with the exhibition
Against the Odds:
American Jews and
the Rescue of Europes
Refugees, 1933-1941. 36
Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
Holiday boutique in
Pearl River: Beth Am
Temple hosts a gala
holiday vendor boutique
including jewelry,
clothing, Tupperware,
crafts, and Pampered
Chef items, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Also a Kidz Boutique
for children to buy
holiday gifts. PRS Gold
Buyers will be on hand
to purchase gold and
silver, with 10 percent of
the proceeds donated
back to the shul. 60
East Madison Ave. (845)
735-5858 or www.
BethAmTemple.org.
Jewish humor
in Monsey: The
Fountainview at College
Road and Hadassah
host a Speakers on
Humanities lecture,
Im Right, Youre
Right, Hes Right Too:
Multiple Perspectives
in Jewish Humor and
Folklore, with Dr. Steve
Zeitlin, 2 p.m. 2000
Fountainview Drive.
Karen, (845) 426-6757,
ext. 232.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 10
School open house
for women: Yeshiva
University holds an open
house for women. 500
West 185th St. (212) 960-
5277 or www.yu.edu/
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International film fest
coming to Teaneck
The eighth annual Teaneck International
Film Festival is set for November 15 to 17.
There will be independent features, doc-
umentaries, and shorts, plus talkbacks
with ilm folks, and Kid Flix Mix (free for
children 4 to 8), with host Bob McGrath.
This year, the theme is Activism: Mak-
ing Change.
Weekend movie passes are $30;
individual tickets are $6 in advance at
Brier Rose Books, 450 Cedar Lane, and
Teaneck General Store, 502 Cedar Lane,
and $8 at the door; and $6 plus a service
charge online.
For the Saturday night gala, Cinema
and Song II, with a concert by Vivian
Sessoms and Clinton Daniel, there will
be a $25 minimum contribution to TIFF
for two tickets or $18 per person at the
door.
Venues include Teaneck Cinemas,
Pufin Foundation, Temple Emeth, and
the Jewish Center of Teaneck.
Compl ete detai l s are at www.
teaneckilmfestival.org or by calling (201)
2031723.
From the Israeli film Fill the Void, about a girl pressured to marry her de-
ceased sisters husband. PHOTO PROVIDED
Month-long celebration in Tenafly
to mark Thanksgivukkah holiday
This year, Thanksgiving and Chanukah
fall on the same day for the irst time in
U.S. history, November 28. The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly will cel-
ebrate Thanksgivukkah all month. When
the Thanksgiving meal is done, families
will light the irst Chanukah candle on
their menorahs.
This shared celebration will not
happen again for another 70,000 years.
With that in mind, the Kaplen JCC is
planning programs and a community-
wide food and toy drive to celebrate.
Every JCC department is participating.
The celebration will culminate on
November 21, when JCC members and
friends are invited to join in the lobby to
sort food, and wrap Chanukah gifts for
children in need.
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the holiday. On November 7 at 6:30 p.m.,
Chef Joe Godin of Smokey Joes BBQ will
lead a Thanksgivukkah cooking class
with a menu that will merge Chanukah
and Thanksgiving favorites. Participants
will learn to prepare wild rice latkes with
smoked duck, black bean and pumpkin
soup, and maple-glazed roasted pears.
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Arthur Lloyd Hecht, of Naples, Fla.,
formerly of Englewood and Ridge-
wood, died October 22, a day before
his 80th birthday.
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owned Higgins & Peterson, an ad
agency, then moved into broadcast
television promotion, working at CBS,
NBC, and WWOR, before retiring in
1995. He was a founding member of
the Naples Press Club.
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ne Schkurman, he is survived by his
wife, Roberta, ne Liberman; children,
Jeffrey of Wayne, Eric of Florida, and
Jennifer Rothenberg of Massachusetts;
a sister, Barbara Pierce of Florida; and
six grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Irving Hoffman
Irving Hoffman, a 50-year resident of
Englewood Cliffs, formerly of Brook-
lyn, died October 24.
He was a CPA.
He is survived by his wife of 56
years, Ruth; sons, Brian, Steve, and
David; daughters-in-law, Jennifer and
Tamara; and four grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to the
Heart Association or the Upper Saddle
River Volunteer Fire Department.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Anne Kassner
Anne Kassner, 91, of Fort Lee, died
October 23. Born in New York City, she
was known as the number 1 diamond
sales woman of Fortunoffs in Paramus.
Predeceased by her husband,
Thomas, and a son, David Hochstadt
(Irene); she is survived by her chil-
dren, Susan Kassner and Mark Kassner
(Ela); two grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memo-
rial Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee.
Marvin Klein
Marvin Klein, 79, of Wanaque and
Del Ray Beach, Fla., formerly of Fair
Lawn, died October 13.
He was an insurancer broker.
He is survived by his wife of 58
years, Abbey; daughters, Jill and
Bonnie; son-in-law, Michael, and
three grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to
Hospice of New Jersey, Bloomfield.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Ella Kostina
Ella Kostina, 71, of Paterson, died
October 29. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Zelda Marans
Zelda Marans, of Wellesley, Mass., for-
merly of Fair Lawn, died October 24.
A graduate of Boston Teach-
ers College, she earned a masters
degree from Boston University and
later studied at Teachers College at
Columbia University. She taught for
many years in the Paterson school
district.
Albert in 1995, she is survived by
her children, Ronald and Karen; sib-
lings, Sarah Freedman and Arthur
Mark; and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Rob-
ert Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.
Lucy Rosenfeld
Lucy Rosenfeld, ne Davidson, 74, of
Leonia, died October 24.
Born in New York City, she was a
writer.
Peter, she is survived by daughters,
Lucinda of Brooklyn, Marina Rosen-
feld of New York City, and Sophie of
Philadelphia; and six grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee.
Betty Shayne
Betty B. Shayne of Hasbrouck
Heights died October 22.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Morris Torchinsky
Morris Torchinsky, 97, of Cherry Hill
and Florida, formerly of Fair Lawn,
died September 15.
A World War II veteran, he worked
for ITT, rising from a messenger to
a manager, until he retired in 1981.
Along with his wife, he was active
in the Jewish War Veterans in the
Bronx and later with the James Platt
Jewish War Veterans in Fair Lawn.
They volunteered for Meals On
Wheels, the Veterans Home, and
were member of the Senior Cen-
ter in Fair Lawn and Temple Beth
Sholom.
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years, Diana, who died on July 7, he
is survived by his children, Caro-
lyn (Saul) and Warren (Sherry); 10
grandchildren; and 10 great-grand-
children. Donations can be made
to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements were by Louis Subur-
ban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Conrad Toub
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October 23. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Charles Zilbert
Charles David Zilbert, 52, of
Matawan, died October 23.
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& Drum Company in Kearny.
Predeceased by his father,
Seymour Zilbert of Fort Lee, he is
survived by his mother, Martha,
and sisters, Beth Zilbert and Sherry
Ikalowych.
Contributions can be sent to
the National Kidney Foundation.
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Memorial Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee.
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n 2 Shulamit Holzer, left, and Shifra Bendheim,
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in Clifton. Kosher breakfast will be served.
Jaffe will help attendees gain perspective on todays
markets by discussing strategies to manage and diver-
sify investment portfolios; advantages and disadvan-
tages of different investment options; how to create
a goal-oriented, balanced portfolio or strengthen an
existing one; and how todays economic outlook may
impact on an investment plan.
Keeping up, much less getting a step ahead, has
become extremely difficult during economic times
like now, said Jaffe, who has more than 20 years
of finance experience and is an author, speaker,
teacher and radio show host. This educational
workshop will provide participants with strategies
and offer some innovative ideas to help your achieve
your goals. he said.
To RSVP, or for more information on the semi-
nar, contact Jessica Snow at (973) 740-2400 (jsnow@
awplan.com).
Provident offers
chance for you and your
favorite charity to win
This fall, Provident Bank is offering New Jersey resi-
dents a chance to win big and support their favorite
charities.
The bank is hosting its Committed to Share
sweepstakes through November 23 to give a financial
boost to consumers and charities alike. Participants
can enter for a chance to win one of three top cash
prizes with a matching donation to a charity.
In addition, one winner will be selected each day
at random to receive a $100 Provident Visa gift card
for themselves and a $100 donation to a charity of
their choice.
Three top prizes will be awarded on December
14, including a grand prize of $5,000 cash and a
$5,000 donation to a charity; a first place prize of
$2,500 cash and a $2,500 donation to a charity; and
a second place prize of $1,000 cash and a $1,000
donation to a charity. Overall, Provident will award
more than $28,000 in prizes to winners and their
charities.
The Provident Bank welcomes the opportunity
to support and give back to the communities where
we live and work. In these challenging times, we look
forward to helping support local charities while pro-
viding a little holiday cheer for entrants to the Com-
mitted to Share sweepstakes, said Chris Martin,
president and CEO of Provident.
The public may enter the sweepstakes at any
of Providents branches or online at www.Provi-
dentNJ.com. Visit www.Facebook.com/ProvidentNJ
and www.Twitter.com/ProvidentNJ to join the
conversations.
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Berkshire Bank
wants to meet you
The Berkshire Bank in Teaneck has a message: Stop in and
introduce yourself, grab a cup of cofee and cookies, make
suggestions and offer feedback.
The Berkshire Bank prides itself on being a community
bank. It is proud to have been involved with the Mitch
Gross Baseball League, The Teaneck Helping Hands Food
Pantry, as well as the Do Wonders Charity.
The bank has both extended and raised the rate on its
Prime NOW Checking Account which offers a premium
rate that is guaranteed through April 30, 2014.
The bank is located at 517 Cedar Lane, and can be
reached at (201) 287-0008.
First Meridian Mortgage
opens in Teaneck
Teaneck Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin of
Teaneck welcomed First Meridian Mortgage to town
at a ribbon cutting ceremony with vice president
Jason Berg.
First Meridian, an industry leader with over
twenty years of experience, celebrated the opening
of its latest location with an open house event at the
branch, at 568 Cedar Lane. Local business people
and community members enjoyed refreshments and
good company as they learned more about the new
mortgage related resources available to them.
It was great to have the opportunity to introduce
members of the Teaneck community to the local
First Meridian team. Were excited to be able to
service the community in which we work, live, and
play, Berg stated.
First Meridian is a community lender with over
a dozen locations, priding itself on its operational
strength and boutique level customer service. The
firm offers a wide of mortgage products.
In addition to his work with home buyers, Berg
also delivers closing cost concession strategies and
new negotiating techniques for buyers and realtors,
as well as effective merchandising strategies for
sellers.
As a relationship oriented mortgage bank, First
Meridian strives to keep its clients educated through-
out the loan application process by encouraging
interaction between loan officers and clients. First
Meridian Mortgage loan officers answer questions,
set a budget, educate their clients, and help in con-
structing better and smarter decisions.
For more information about Jason Berg and his
work with First Meridian Mortgage, contact him at
(201) 343-6100 or jberg@fmm.com. To learn more
about First Meridian Mortgage, visit www.fmm.com.
Tenafly fall street fair
From left, Friedberg Properties personnel Tali Tanne,
Christiane Shuman, Merav Rashty, Dana Yehuda and
Miriam Kim participate in the Tenafly Fall Street Fair
last weekend. During the popular event, Friedberg
representatives had a chance to meet area residents
and advise them of housing opportunities in town.
The Charles Bronfman
Prize issues call
for 2014 nominations
The Charles Bronfman Prize is seeking nominations
for its annual award, which recognizes a visionary
young humanitarian who is fueled by Jewish values to
create global impact.
Marking one decade honoring Jewish humanitar-
ians and elevating the power of bold ideas to change
lives, the Prize celebrates the accomplishment of an
individual or team, under the age of 50, whose work
has a significant impact on the worlds most pressing
challenges.
The Prize was established in 2004 by Ellen Bronfman
Hauptman and Stephen Bronfman, together with their
spouses, Andrew Hauptman and Claudine Blondin
Bronfman, to honor their father, his values, and his
commitment to young people and their potential as
change makers.
An internationally recognized panel of judges will
select the 2014 Prize recipient and present the award
next fall.
Past recipients include Jay Feinberg, founder and
executive director of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow
Foundation; Dr. Alon Tal, founder of Israels Arava
Institute for Environmental Studies; Dr. Amitai Ziv,
founder and director of the Israel Center for Medi-
cal Simulation; Rachel Andres, founder and director
of Jewish World Watchs Solar Cooker Project; Mike
Feinberg and Dave Levin, co-founders of the Knowl-
edge is Power Program (KIPP); Sasha Chanoff, founder
and executive director of RefugePoint; Jared Genser,
founder and president of Freedom Now; Karen Tal,
former principal of the Bialik-Rogozin Campus and co-
founder of The Educational Initiatives Center in Israel;
Eric Greitens, founder and CEO of The Mission Contin-
ues; and Eric Rosenthal, founder and executive direc-
tor of Disability Rights International.
The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2014.
Guidelines and forms for nomination may be down-
loaded at www.TheCharlesBronfmanPrize.com.
Village Apartments
celebrates 25 years
The Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation, part
of the Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Met-
ropolitan New Jerseys family of senior communities,
recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The community
was joined by the Charles Bierman Home, which shares
the premises at 110 Vose Avenue in South Orange and
also marked its 25th year in senior housing.
After a week of programs and activities that were
open to the public, the JCHC board of trustees, non-
profit agency partners, corporate sponsors, and Vil-
lage Apartments residents and employees gathered for
a private reception on October 3. On the evening of
October 9, a dinner was held for residents, hosted by
nearby Temple Sharey Tefilo-Israel.
Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation offers
rental apartments for independent seniors with
a range of amenities and programs that foster an
engaged and active lifestyle. Subsidies are available
to those who qualify. The Charles Bierman Home
offers shared apartment living in a supportive inde-
pendent environment.
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Ruth@MironProperties.com www.MironProperties.com/NJ
Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
Contact us today for your complimentary consultation!
ENGLEWOOD
Spacious Colonial. Prime Area.
ENGLEWOOD
Wonderful 4 BR/3 BTH Cape.
ENGLEWOOD
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ENGLEWOOD
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Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
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Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
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