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Ancient wine found near Nahariya
Advice to time travelers
planning on visiting the past
of northern New Jerseys
sister city of Nahariya on
Israels Mediterranean coast:
Try to sample some of the
wine a couple miles inland, in
the palace now known as Tel
Kabri.
1700 B.C.E. was a very
good year for wine or at
least, a very well known one.
Last week, archaeologists
researching the Canaanite
palace announced that they
found signs of wine in 40
large jars, each capable of
holding a dozen gallons.
This is the oldest and
largest palatial wine cellar
ever uncovered in the ancient
Near East, according to the
archaeologists.
The team found that the
jugs contained traces of
tartaric acid and syringic acid,
both common in wine. But they also
included several other ingredients.
Not only did they have wine, they
also had a craftsmanship to them.
This is not just your normal wine;
there is some degree of uniqueness
to them, said Dr. Andrew Koh of
Brandeis University, one of the
archaeologists involved with the
study.
Part of this uniqueness included
wine fortified with honey, mint,
cinnamon, juniper berries, and even
special cedar tree resins possibly
giving the wine some psychotropic
properties. This is similar to medicinal
wine found in ancient Egypt.
Archaeologists believe that Kabri,
though not the largest Canaanite
kingdom of its time, ruled over the
port of Nahariya. Earlier excavations
found Aegean-style frescoes, the only
such found in ancient Canaan.
The site is noteworthy because the
settlement was never reoccupied
after its sudden destruction 3,600
years ago, possibly by an earthquake.
Nothing was constructed above the
ruins, which are now part of Kibbutz
Kabri. LARRY YUDELSON & JNS
Wine jars at Tel Kabri PROFESSOR ERIC H. CLINE
AND THE TEL KABRI EXCAVATION
A great manicure happened here
Beth Chananie of this newspaper got into the Chanukah spirit by having her
nails painted creatively at Pinkie Nails in New Milford.
Sweet and silly Chanukah songs
You can tell the tone of folksinger
Dan Berns new Chanukah album from
the liner notes: He shares the credit for
the cover art with his daughter, Lulu,
and the songs are short like those on
his 2009 album, Two Feet Tall, which
featured songs for children a little too
young maybe to sing along. On Ha-
nukah Songs, only two of the eight
songs break the two-minute mark.
Writing for grownups, Mr. Bern
has sung of his relatives massacred
by the Nazis, the revival of Jewish
life in America, and the joy of eating
nothing but olives in Jerusalem.
Here, he sings a recipe for latkes,
the rules for dreidel, and a country-
western number of a long-haul trucker
who makes his menorah on a plate
of hashbrowns at the Waffle House
restaurants that line the highways of
the American South.
Worth a free listen at danbern.
bandcamp.com, where you can also
find eight songs celebrating Halloween
and one celebrating baseballs opening
day. LARRY YUDELSON
Courtesy Cool Kippahs
COVER PHOTO BY JERRY SZUBIN
Noshes
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On May 5, 30183, Chanukah will coincide with Cinco
de Mayo. Celebrate Cinco de Maccabee by
fashioning a menorah out of empty Dos Equis bottles.
Ben Blatt, writing at Slate.com on the forthcoming combinations of the Hebrew and Gregorian cal-
endars, assuming that the Hebrew calendar which gains a day every couple hundred years is not
adjusted at some point to keep Pesach in the spring as the Torah requires.
When I started doing
standup in college, I just
started doing that char-
acter. My first year on the
show, one of the writers
wrote me into a sketch
where I played a bar
mitzvah boy and I got to
do it, which was so cool
but the whole thing
started in my standup. I
felt like I had seen that
boy so much, and its
so fun to play that little
awkward boy who likes
to tell dad-style jokes.
Last week, it was
confirmed that
actress GINNIFER
GOODWIN, 35, and her
fianc, actor Josh Dal-
las, 31, were expecting a
child. The two met when
they were cast as the
co-stars of Once Upon
a Time, the ABC fantasy
series (she plays Snow
White and Dallas plays
Prince Charming).
Last May, Goodwin
reaffirmed her com-
mitment to Judaism
before her hometown
synagogue and said that
Dallas, who was then her
boyfriend, was fine with
theirs being a Jewish
home.
N.B.
Elliott Gould
BACK TO BROOKLYN:
I am kvelling, already:
Streisand comes home
Donna Karan
Vanessa Bayer Ginnifer Goodwin
The PBS series
Great Perfor-
mances will air
a concert film: Barbra
Streisand: Back to Brook-
lyn, tonight, at 9 p.m.
BARBRA STREISAND, 71,
kicked off a world tour
in October 2012 with the
first concert she gave in
her native Brooklyn since
she became a star in the
early 1960s. This world
tour included her well-
publicized first concert
in Israel.
Streisand opened the
two Brooklyn concerts
by proclaiming: I love
people from Brooklyn.
Because theyre real.
Down to earth. They tell
it like it is. Later on in
the concert she joked,
The last time I sang
in Brooklyn it was on a
stoop on Pulaski Street!
Backed by a 60-piece
orchestra, Streisand sang
most of her big hits.
Her songs were framed
by video montages of
her Brooklyn childhood
and early career. They
include images of her
high school and the ye-
shivah she attended. Her
son, JASON GOULD, 46,
also the son of her ex-
husband, actor ELLIOTT
GOULD, 75, was on stage
as well. Jason sang a solo
song and a duet with his
mother.
By the way, Strei-
sand pleased locals by
re-working a few lyrics,
like rhyming Brooklyn
Docks with nova lox.
And in case you were
wondering her shim-
mering gowns were
designed by DONNA
KARAN, 65, Streisands
long-time BFF.
VANESSA BAYER,
32, joined Satur-
day Night Live
four years ago. She has
gradually emerged as a
standout cast member
with dead-on impres-
sions of Miley Cyrus and
Hillary Clinton, as well as
funny characters she has
created, like Jacob, the
bar mitzvah boy.
She recently spoke to
Rolling Stone magazine
about the creation of
Jacob: The town I grew
up in a small Cleve-
land suburb was at
least fifty percent Jewish,
so every weekend in the
seventh grade, we went
to bar and bat mitzvahs.
Its kind of based on that.
A lot of my brothers
friends who have seen it
think that the gestures I
make are based on my
brother, which is pretty
funny and might be true.
Levine is sexiest
People Magazine has named rock musician and The
Voice coach ADAM LEVINE, 34, their sexiest man alive
for 2013. 1998 winner HARRISON FORD, 71, whose late
mother was Jewish, is the only other tribe member to be
named sexiest since 1985, when the award began.
Heres the Jewish 411 on Levine, including some info
not in other sources: Levine, who identiies as Jewish,
has been secular as an adult. His father is Jewish, while
his mother is the daughter of a non-Jewish mother and
a Jewish father (his maternal grandfather descends from
English Jews and maybe some Sephardim). His Jewish
step-mother is the mother of Levines younger half-
brother, SAM.
Levine told a British Jewish paper that he was raised
with only a little Jewish religious observance and in light
of that, he decided to decline his fathers offer to give
him a bar mitzvah ceremony. He said he felt it was a seri-
ous ceremony that evidenced a spiritual commitment
he hadnt been prepared for. He thought it wrong that
many of his Jewish peers had a bar mitzvah because they
wanted a big party and gifts.
By the way, Harrison Ford once seriously said that
he wasnt tattooed so he could be buried in a Jewish
cemetery. Trust me: while Jewish religious law seriously
frowns on tattoos, it is a persistent myth that Jewish cem-
eteries refuse burial to the tattooed. So, in case you were
wondering and worrying: the very tattooed Levine
could be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
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New group home in Teaneck for people with developmental disabilities
LARRY YUDELSON
On Sunday, the Jewish Association for
Development Disabilities inaugurated its
newest group home.
The residence, in Teaneck, will house
six people.
It will be J-ADDs first residence to be
fully accessible for residents with limited
mobility; all living quarters are on the
ground floor.
For more than 25 years, J-ADD has
been offering a place for Jewish people
with developmental disabilities to live in
a home where Jewish customs and rituals
are honored and celebrated, said Dr. Beth
Bressman Sackler, the Hackensack-based
organizations president.
Currently, J-ADD provides housing
and support services for around 50 resi-
dents in seven group homes and five
apartment units. Dr. Sacklers brother is
among those residents; she and her for-
mer husband, Dr. Richard Sackler, dedi-
cated the house.
J-ADD offers respite services to aid peo-
ple who take care of disabled relatives at
home. It also offers vocational services to
the developmentally disabled, whether or
not they live in one of the organizations
homes.
J-ADD is an agency of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey. The fed-
erations womens group, Womens Phi-
lanthropy, held a virtual shower, donating
kitchen and household supplies through a
Bed Bath & Beyond wishlist.
The bulk of the organizations budget,
however, comes from the governments
Medicaid program, which pays for the
ongoing housing and care of the disabled.
(The government does not pay capital
costs, such as inaugurating a new home or
repainting a residence.)
There is not enough government money
to provide residential care for everyone
who qualifies for it, and New Jersey has
a list of thousands of people waiting for
group home placement.
There are families who children have
lived with them into their 40s, and now
they want their sons and daughters to go
into one of the homes. But they are on the
bottom of the state list, Dr. Sackler said.
Dr. Sandra Gold was the founder of
J-ADD. Her husband, Dr. Arnold Gold,
a pediatric neurologist, told her of the
patients he was seeing who would need a
kosher home.
It took two and a half years of negotia-
tion with the state for them to see that this
was an important need to meet, Dr. Gold
said.
Its been a wonderful experience to see
this project grow, she said.
Dr. John Winer, J-ADDs executive direc-
tor, said that New Jersey is changing the
way it funds services for the disabled.
Those changes should shrink the size of
the waiting list while easing the financial
burdens on agencies such as his.
This comes as the state is closing some
of the large institutions, where the major-
ity of the dollars are going at the moment
in terms of caring for individuals with
developmental disabilities, he said.
He thinks thats a good thing: The min-
ute someone is in an institution, you have
segregated that individual. You have pun-
ished the individual and the community
because neither can benefit from each
other.
Dr. Winer said that bringing the devel-
opmentally disabled into the community
whether in a stand-alone group home or
in a dedicated apartment within a larger
complex is an important part of nor-
malizing their lives.
Trying to give people quality lives is
what its about, he said.
We try to get our guys into the com-
munity. A lot go to the JCC on the Pali-
sades rather than go on special programs
for special needs. The more we can move
them into the community and make them
visible, the more it improves their quality
of life and also improves our life.
Over the years he has been work-
ing in the field, he has seen a far greater
acceptance of people with development
disabilities.
J-ADD works with other groups that pro-
vide services for J-ADD residences, such
as the Orthodox Unions Yachad and the
Lubavitch-affiliated Friendship Circle.
We just started a program with Fed-
eration funding together with Friendship
Circle volunteers for people who are non-
vocal, Dr. Winer said. This is a monthly
meeting. My goal is that if they can iden-
tify other members of the group, they have
progressed.
For Dr. Sackler, growing up with a dis-
abled brother was trying. It makes you
very grateful for being OK. I think it gives
you a greater sense of compassion for peo-
ple who have differences, whatever they
may be.
She alluded to that feeling of gratitude
when speaking to the many J-ADD sup-
porters who crowded the home at Sun-
days dedication.
Give for those who have family mem-
bers who have disabilities, she said.
And give even more for those who dont.
J-ADDs new group home in Teaneck will house six people.
Dr. Sandra Gold, Dr. Beth Sackler, Dr. John Winer, Lillian Bressman, and Robert
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From Wayne to Broadway
Producer Daryl Roth
talks about producing
Jewish stars
MIRIAM RINN
W
hen theater producer Daryl
Roth was growing up in
Wayne, she was the only
Jew in her public school.
It was a very different community then
than it is today. There were some inci-
dents that were not pleasant, the multiple
Tony Award winner said in a recent inter-
view, but I look at it as a life lesson. Her
family belonged to a synagogue in Pomp-
ton Lakes and that gave her a strong sense
of connection to the Jewish community,
Ms. Roth said, and the experience may
also have provoked her deep interest in
the status of outsiders.
Im interested in issues of identity,
Ms. Roth said, and that interest is appar-
ent in the shows and plays she has pro-
duced. Her current hit musical, Kinky
Boots, focuses on drag
culture; the play Cly-
bourne Park dealt with
integration and gentrifica-
tion; The Normal Heart
tackled the epidemic of
AIDS; How I Learned
to Drive explored the
nuances of sexual abuse,
and there are dozens more
on a wide variety of top-
ics that reflect Ms. Roths
concerns.
Ms. Roths latest produc-
tion is a musical adaptation of Stars of
David, a book of interviews with famous
people talking about what being Jewish
has meant to them. The books author,
well-known journalist Abigail Pogrebin,
is the daughter of Jew-
ish feminist Letty Cot-
tin Pogrebin, one of the
founding editors of Ms.
Magazine.
Stars of David: Story to Song is playing
at the DR2 Theatre on West 15th Street. An
exceptionally good cast performs songs
written by an illustrious group of com-
posers and lyricists, including Sheldon
Harnick, Michael Feinstein, Amanda
Green, Marvin Hamlisch, and Alan and
Marilyn Bergman. The songs all are based
on the interviews with people ranging
from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Tony Kush-
ner to Kenneth Cole and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Living so close to New York City, Ms.
Roths family often went to the theater,
but although she loved the shows they
saw, Ms. Roth never dreamed of being an
actress. She did, however, want to know
more about the process of putting a show
together. She now believes that produc-
ing, like editing and conducting and other
interpretive processes, is deeply creative.
She began reading plays and produced
Nick and Nora in 1991. While she loves
musicals, most of her productions have
been straight plays, she pointed out, and
several have won the Pulitzer Prize.
As her parents introduced her to the
magic of the theater, I did the same for
my children, Ms. Roth said. The theatri-
cal itch has spread to her son, Jordan Roth.
He is the president of Jujamcyn Theaters,
which owns and operates five Broadway
houses. Ms. Roths daughter, Amanda
Roth Salzhauer, is a social worker and
president of Hillel at her alma mater, Dart-
mouth College, at the Roth Center for Jew-
ish Life. We are a very committed family,
Ms. Roth said.
When Ms. Roth first read Ms. Pogrebins
book, she was producing Nora Ephrons
Love, Loss and What I Wore, which was
a series of stories. That gave her the idea
that Stars of David could be handled in a
similar way. I remember thinking I didnt
even know that one was Jewish, she said,
noting that Jews always love to discover a
member of the tribe.
Although few of the celebrities are
observant, most feel that Judaism plays an
important role in their lives as tradition,
culture, and as a way of being. I think
that many of us today think of that as what
being Jewish is, Ms. Roth said. (That, of
course, is a view validated by the latest
research on American Jews by the Pew
Center for Research.)
Ms. Roth and her team are planning to
take Stars of David on the road when it
finishes its New York City run, performing
at Jewish community centers and other
venues. The show already is booked in
Florida, California, and Toronto. Our
whole intent was to birth it here and have
it go where audiences will respond, Ms.
Roth said. She hopes that some of the cast
will travel with the show.
Its a very positive piece of material, Ms.
Roth said, and it emphasizes the impor-
tance of being true to oneself. A lot of the
people coming to see the show are not
even Jewish.
Above, Aaron Serotsky, Alan Schmuckler, Donna Vivino, and Janet Metz in Jewish Stars. CAROL ROSEGG
Daryl Roth, left, who was born in Wayne, has made her mark on Broadway.
Janet Metz embodies Joan Rivers in Jewish Stars CAROL ROSEGG
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A chapter
of their own?
Focus group to assess interest in new
Hadassah chapter for young women
JUNE GLAZER
B
ergen County
may soon be
home to an
a d d i t i o n a l
Hadassah chapter if a
focus group, slated to meet
on December 12, confirms
what Hadassah leaders in
the area intuit: that young
women in the area want a
chapter all their own.
Weve had inquiries and we want to see
what these women have in mind what
kind of volunteerism and programming
theyre interested in, said Northern New
Jersey Regional President Loren Roth,
whose job includes overseeing the 10
Hadassah chapters already in existence in
Bergen County.
Hadassah, the Womens Zionist Organi-
zation, is a national philanthropic organiza-
tion founded by Henrietta Szold, with the
stalwart support of Israel as its predomi-
nant goal. It claims 330,000 members and
supporters, and works to enhance the
health of people worldwide through its
support of medical care and research at
the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jeru-
salem, according to its website.
In Bergen County, some 4,500 women
are involved with Hadassah through chap-
ters in Bergenfield, Emerson, Englewood,
Fair Lawn, Palisades, Paramus, Pascack
Valley/Westwood, River Edge, Teaneck,
and Wyckoff. According to Gail Black,
Hadassahs Bergen County region mem-
bership coordinator, women interested in
the December 12 focus group so far come
mostly from Teaneck, Tenafly, and the
Westwood area.
Many of the existing chapters are com-
prised of members who are much older,
while others have a range of ages, Ms.
Black said. The women weve spoken
to about the upcoming focus group are
in their thirties and seem to want to start
something from scratch. Some of the
women are new to the community, some
are just coming of age, and some want the
challenge of starting a unit with its own
identity rather than joining an existing
group, she added.
Ms. Roth and Ms. Black will have an
opportunity to test the waters at the
Thursday night gathering, to be held
at Shellys Vegetarian Caf and Restau-
rant on Cedar Lane in Teaneck at 7 p.m.
Women in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are
invited to join them for pizza and salad
and to bring along their ideas.
This is a new generation
of women, and they may
want to steer the group in
a different direction, Ms.
Roth said. Well take our
cues from them.
Now 101 years old, Hadas-
sah has weathered its share
of challenges, both in public
and behind the scenes it
took a sharp hit from Bernie
Madoff and is now in the
midst of a rebranding cam-
paign to sharpen its image. This, coupled
with the recent Pew report that points
to the waning of institutional Judaism in
America, might lead some onlookers to
think that the future bodes ill for this ven-
erable organization.
Not so, say both Ms. Roth and Ms. Black,
who consider Hadassah to be one of the
bright lights in the firmament of Jewish
organizational life.
In 2012 we celebrated our centennial,
and 60,000 new people became life mem-
bers during that year, Ms. Black said. That
says a lot.
I think Hadassah has been able to
flourish because it does not differenti-
ate between denominations of Jews, and
some chapters and units are even open
and welcoming to non-Jews, Ms. Roth
said. Hadassahs mission is about the
land and people of Israel, supporting them
through medicine and health care, edu-
cation, youth activity, Jewish identity and
continuity.
These are important values, and thats
what puts Hadassah in the forefront of peo-
ples minds.
To join the December 12 focus group,
email Gail Black at blackfam@hotmail.
com or call her at 973-226-1297 before
December 6.
Lauren Roth
This is a new
generation
of women,
and they may
want to steer
the group in
a different
direction.
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Knesset member to speak in Englewood
LARRY YUDELSON
Ayelet Shaked is the model of a modern
Israeli parliamentarian.
She is a rookie, like more than a third
of the Knesset members elected in Janu-
ary who never have served in the parlia-
ment before.
Shes not a long-time party official
she won her seat in the right-wing Jew-
ish Home party by campaigning hard in
party primaries, after a mixture of pub-
lic and private service. After a computer
engineering career at Texas Instruments,
she worked for Benjamin Netanyahus
office when he was in the opposition
and then helped found the My Israel
movement to promote Zionism and
nationalism in Israel.
The group boasts more than 100,000
fans on Facebook.
Her partner in the effort: Naftali Ben-
nett, the former commando and software
millionaire who led the Jewish Home
party to become the fourth largest in this
Knesset.
And like many Knesset members
before her, she will be coming to north-
ern New Jersey in the near future. She
will be helping the Koby Mandell Foun-
dation by appearing at a parlor meeting
for the organization, which runs thera-
peutic healing programs for people who
have lost a mother, father, sister, brother,
or child to terrorism.
The foundation was formed by the
family of Koby Mandell, who was 13 years
old when he was murdered by terrorists
in 2001.
Ms. Shaked hadnt heard of the foun-
dation before the Mandells called her to
help, but Since I remember very clearly
the tragedy of their son, I said Id come,
she said.
She said the biggest surprise in her
Knesset career so far is the influence
that I have. The ability to do meaningful
things. We have a big
influence in the gov-
ernment as a party
more influence than I
thought I would have.
As a legislator within
Mr. Netanyahus ruling
coalition, she can pass
and influence many
laws.
I thought a Knesset
member has less power
than I see now. Theres
really influence, involvement, in every
area of life, she said. Im working very
closely with every faction, even from the
[opposition] Meretz and Labor parties.
There are lots of social and economic
issues where we cooperate with every
other faction, and also with the chare-
dim a lot.
One area where she is not cooperat-
ing with the charedim: The effort to draft
them, one of the Jewish Homes legisla-
tive priorities, an effort being carried out
together with coalition partner Yesh Atid.
The Jewish Home is a product of politi-
cal mergers that include the National
Religious Party, which long represented
Israels modern Orthodox community.
Ms. Shaked herself is not Ortho-
dox; from the research that we
did after the election, around a
third of our voters are secular,
she reported.
Ms. Shaked grew up in Tel
Aviv, where she still lives. On
her mothers side her ancestors
came to Israel with the First
Aliya in the 19th century; her
father came from Iran but his
roots were Iraqi.
The official purpose of her
visit to the United States next month is
the Saban Forum, a discussion of Middle
Eastern issues hosted by the Brookings
Institution in Washington, I think Ill be
the only right-winger there; me and Avig-
dor Lieberman, she said.
Speaking by phone from Israel on
Sunday, she condemned the temporary
accord reached with Iran as a bad agree-
ment. I read an article that said diplo-
macy is better than war, but bad diplo-
macy can cause a bad war.
We think Iran was suffering from sanc-
tions, and that exactly at that point when
we could push more, the West decided to
reach the agreement. Thats the consen-
sus in Israel, actually.
Who: Knesset Member Ayelet
Shaked
What: Meets for a discussion over
sushi and sake
When: Thursday, December 5,
7:30-10 p.m.
Where: A private home in
Englewood
Suggested donation: $180 per
couple
Information: (301) 576-6235
Ayelet Shaked
Not your grandmothers bat mitzvah
Rabbi notes fascinating demographic
LOIS GOLDRICH
Its time to take a new look at the women
who choose to have a bat mitzvah, says
Rabbi Sharon Litwin, associate rabbi at
Ridgewoods Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center and director of the
Northern New Jersey Jewish Academy.
Its a fascinating demographic, Rabbi
Litwin said, noting that of the six women
who celebrated their adult bnot mitz-
vah at the Ridgewood congregation on
November 9, four were Jews by choice.
My bat mitzvah in 1987 was a given,
Rabbi Litwin said, pointing out that
women her age routinely observed the
coming-of-age ceremony. Still, it used
to be, in the 1980s and 90s and maybe
even until a decade ago, that an adult
bar or bat mitzvah would tend to focus
on people of a certain age: women old
enough to have grown up when females
had no ritual purpose on the bimah of
any synagogue, and 83-year-old men who
celebrated a second bar mitzvah, having
lived 70 years since the first.
But that seems to be changing, she
said. Now, adult bnai mitzvah happen
at many ages and for many reasons.
The bar or bat mitzvah ceremony isnt
a mandatory rite of passage, Rabbi Lit-
win said. By Jewish law, a boy reaches
adulthood when he turns 13, and a girl
12 no ceremony required. Referring to
the women who recently celebrated their
bnot mitzvah at the shul, she suggested
that the very lack of necessity makes
the effort of these six women even more
remarkable as a concrete, hard-won, and
public affirmation of Jewish identity and
commitment.
The women began learning more than
two years ago.
We hadnt had an adult bar or bat
mitzvah class for many years, Rabbi
Litwin said. Two of the women came
to me and said they would like one, so
I said why not? Lets see if we can get a
critical mass.
We started with 10 people in the
class, she said, noting that she posted
a message on Ravnet, the Conservative
movements rabbinic listserve, asking for
sample curricula.
I hadnt taught such a class before,
she added, joking that not only did she
not receive any concrete suggestions, but
many of the rabbis told her that if she
came up with a good plan, she should
share it with them.
The first three months, the students
learned how to read Hebrew, Rabbi
Litwin continued, pointing out that
several students, including two men,
dropped out along the way. Of those who
remained, everyone had some sort of
interfaith connection, whether they
were Jews by choice or had children or
grandchildren in interfaith relationships.
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Small change = big change
Local college students start charity that asks for a little every day
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Our generation is constantly inundated
with appeals for worthy causes, and it gets
so overwhelming that you dont engage
with any of them, said Joe Teplow, a
22-year-old Yeshiva University junior from
Teaneck. I found myself as a student with
not so much funds, but a desire to make a
difference. I wanted to give in a small way
to all these causes.
In August, Teplow and three friends
launched Good St. (www.goodst.org), an
innovative online charity platform that
allows registered users, known as Street-
ers, to give as little as a quarter a day to
charity. Its slogan: Turning small change
into big change.
Members receive an email every morn-
ing introducing the cause of the day for
example, Alzheimers disease and a
choice of two charities to support for
example, Alzheimers research or home
care. With one click of a button, donations
are processed.
Since its launch, Good St. has grown
to include about 135 users. Most of them
are in the New York area; there are others
in Los Angeles, England, and Israel. Col-
lectively, they have donated $1,300 each
month to various charities chosen and vet-
ted by the sites management team.
For Chanukah (and Christmas, for that
matter), Good St. is offering the oppor-
tunity for gift-givers to pay up front for
up to a year on behalf of the recipient.
The recipient will get the daily email and
decide how to spend the gift money.
Though Good St. is not a specifically Jew-
ish endeavor, it is rooted in the values that
the founders absorbed from the Orthodox
culture in which they were raised.
The Rambam [Maimonides] says it is
better to give a little every day than one
lump sum at once, to get habituated to
making charity a daily routine, Teplow
said. Every morning, Streeters start their
day giving charity.
Ariel Sterman, 21, a junior at NYU Stern
School of Business, is another Good St.
founder. He said, Among Jewish com-
munities there is a value to give charity,
but young people need a simple, straight-
forward way to give every day, and thats
Joe Benun of Princeton, Joe Teplow of YU, Jeff Dobrinsky of Queens College,
and Ariel Sterman of NYU founded Good St., which asks for as little as a quarter
every day. ALEX BELL
FIRST PERSON
Given back
PHIL JACOBS
What would you do if you found $98,000?
No, it wasnt a miscalculation in a stock
portfolio. It wasnt left to you by some dis-
tant relative.
No, the money was in your house, in
your hands, and for that matter on your
dining room table.
Rabbi Noah Muroff, a teacher at a New
Haven, Conn., yeshivah, needed a desk, so
he did what many of us do. He searched
for a gently used item on Craigs List.
He found one, for $150.
He bought it
The desks top was too wide to fit
through the door, so Rabbi Muroff and a
friend, Yehudah Estes, took it off and then
wrestled the heavy piece of furniture into
his study. When Rabbi Muroff and his wife,
Esther, looked behind one of the drawers,
they spotted a plastic bag filled with cash.
The bag had been hidden behind it.
When he took the bag to his dining room
table he poured out the stacks of money.
His wife and their friend stood there and
stared.
So heres the juncture that many of us
might have faced if we have found some-
thing of value.
For me, it was a $50 bill I saw on the
floor at the base of a hotel check-in coun-
ter. I picked up the cash and gave it to the
cashier. He took my name and room num-
ber and said if nobody were to claim it, it
would be mine.
Of course, no one at the front desk ever
contacted me, and I didnt even bother to
ask the young man about it before we left.
I hope the right person connected with his
money.
The only other time something like this
happened to me was when, as an 11-year-
old, I walked home from school to find our
semi-detached homes front porch clut-
tered with shipping boxes. In one brown
cardboard box was a bicycle, the kind we
called an English racer. God, I wanted that
bike. There was a TV in another box. Yet
another held a product called a Hot Dog-
ger, some sort of frankfurter oven. There
was no return address on any of the boxes.
Sometimes my late father, a furniture
salesman, would win prizes for having
sold the most mattresses or televisions, so
I hoped that these boxes would prove to
be prizes for him. When he came home,
though, he had no clue about what all
of this was. All that he kept hearing was,
Can I keep the bike? Pleeeze, can I keep
the bike?
My father called the post office, and
the next day he brought everything back
there.
He explained that the stuff wasnt ours to
keep, that someone had made a mistake.
Back to the desk.
Rabbi Muroff called the woman who
sold him the desk and told her what he
had found in it. According to articles
online, she gasped and told him that the
money was an inheritance that she had
hidden and then she had forgotten the
hiding place.
He returned every penny of the
$98,000. She gave him a $3,500 reward,
and she refunded the $150 he had paid for
the desk.
He didnt want either the money or
attention from the media. (The story was
made public by an unnamed someone
who had become familiar with the story.)
So this is a stretch, but bear with me on it.
One hot August day, when I could see
the heat coming off the blacktop parking
lot in waves, I came out of my office to
keep an appointment.
Then I stopped in my tracks.
A 1986 Buick like the authors which a homeless woman used for shelter.
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where the vision came in.
Members eventually may be able to create Good St.
microcommunities to support specific causes that are
meaningful to them, Mr. Teplow added.
The founding and management team includes
Teplow, Stern, Jeff Dobrinsky, 21, a Queens College stu-
dent, and Princeton junior Joe Benun, 21. (Dobrinsky
also is from Teaneck, and Benun is from Brooklyn.)
Two of the four already had earned serious cred-
ibility as philanthropists before they came to Good
St. Benun founded the intra-collegiate nonprofit
organization Team U, a fundraising endurance team
dedicated to improving global health and alleviating
poverty. Teplow won a spot on the New York Jew-
ish Weeks 36 Under 36 list in 2009, when he was
a senior at SAR High School in Riverdale, for found-
ing Teens for the World, a group dedicated to helping
other teens conduct charitable projects.
Good St. is a labor-intensive endeavor for the
young men. In the beginning it was just the four
of them, getting together by phone or Skype each
night to choose the cause, curate the charities, and
vet them through websites such as Charity Naviga-
tor and GiveWell. Now they have different people
assigned to each night of the week. Eventually they
hope to introduce voting among members to decide
on the daily causes.
Sterman says the choice often is triggered by cur-
rent events, such as the typhoon in the Philippines.
In fact, because news of the disaster broke on a Fri-
day night, some Shabbat-observant Streeters first
found out about it from opening their Good St. mail on
Sunday morning.
We can mobilize our community to respond to crises,
Teplow said. We see ourselves as a kind of community of
doing good. My 25 cents isnt so powerful, but if I can get
a few friends to add their quarters we can be a positive
force for change.
After givers donate, the website takes them to a thank-
you page that prompts them to do a good deed for the day,
such as being conscious of water use or donating clothing
for homeless people.
For now, the young men are footing the bill for expenses,
including website hosting and credit-card processing. If
the site catches on in a big way, corporate sponsorships
will be sought to take care of those incidental costs.
Email Sterman at ariel@goodst.org with any inquiries
and requests about Good St.; for the Chanukah gift cam-
paign, Gift of Giving, go to www.goodst.org/gift.
I saw a womans head draped over the plastic gray
steering wheel of my 1986 Buick. (My car was so new
then that it still had the new-car smell.) I approached
the car slowly; I saw that she had shocking red hair,
that part of her head had been shaved, and that she
had stitches.
I thought she was dead. I really did.
I went back into my office, and reported, I think
theres a dead lady in my car.
A colleague called 911, and two emergency medi-
cal technicians came to my car in an ambulance. One
of them opened my car door, and we all were nearly
floored by the alcohol smell that hit us.
The EMT said to me, Mister, I want you to meet
Geraldine. Shes not dead she just needed a safe
place to sleep off her alcoholic binge.
Geraldine was wearing pale green hospital scrubs.
Her stitches obviously were new. An EMT told me she
was homeless. When they awakened her, she could
barely stand up. But she still managed to give me a hug
because, she said, You let me sleep in your car. It was
like a present.
The EMTs told her to apologize to me for break-
ing into my car, even though I had left the doors
unlocked, so it wasnt really a break-in. Then they put
her in the ambulance and took her away.
After Geraldine left my car, I went on a homeless
binge of my own, finding out everything I could about
the citys homeless people, and even getting a for-
merly homeless woman to act as sort of a tour guide
for me.
I asked this woman, whose name was Deborah, if
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Jewish National Fund honors locals
Philip and Marlene Rhodes
will receive a Circle of Excel-
lence award and Teaneck
Councilman Yitz Stern will
be the Community Ser-
vice awardee at this years
area Jewish National Fund
celebration on Monday,
December 9, at 7 p.m., at
Congregation Beth Sholom,
354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck.
Ben Gutmann, past presi-
dent of the Northern New
Jersey JNF board, also will be honored.
Maadan of Teaneck will cater the buffet
and dessert reception.
For the last 49 years, Jewish National
Fund has been honoring area residents
with its prestigious Circle of Excellence
awards. Starting with the late New Jersey
State Senator Matthew Feldman, JNF has
selected people from Teaneck who have
worked for the land of Israel and for the
local Jewish community. In 1901, JNF began
collecting coins in blue boxes (pushkes)
all over the world to buy land to help the
Jewish people return to their homeland. In
the 112 years since then, JNF
has evolved into a global and
environmental leader and
become the central address
for the land and people of
Israel.
Marlene and Philip Rhodes
are longtime active members
of Congregation Beth Sholom
and also are active at the
Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County.
Yitz Stern and his wife, Gila,
have lived in Teaneck for 33 years, and are
longtime members of Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun there. Mr. Stern has been active
on local, county and statewide boards
and commissions, and this year Governor
Christie appointed him as a member of
the NJ-Israel Commission; he also serves
on its Homeland Security committee. This
commission was formed in 1989 to foster
economic, scientific, educational, and
cultural ties with the State of Israel.
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of Congregation
Beth Aaron will introduce the guest
speakers: Gush Etzions mayor, Davidi
Perel, and Shani Abrams Simkowitz,
director of the Gush Etzion Foundation.
Proceeds will benefit JNFs special
campaign in support of the revitalization of
the Gush Etzion Visitor Center at Kibbutz
Kfar Etzion.
For information, call Bob Levine at (201)
836-3061, go to www.jnf.org, or email
jinglis@jnf.org.
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Celebration
for worlds largest
Chabad House
This Chanukah, Chabad and the Rut-
gers University community will cel-
ebrate the first year of operation of the
90,000-square-foot Chabad House, which
is both the largest Chabad house and the
largest Jewish center on any public univer-
sity in the world.
The Chabad House Jewish Student Center
at Rutgers University features housing
suites for 107 men and women, a 300-seat
synagogue, and a soon-to-be-completed
Sephardic Synagogue under the same
roof. It also contains a Judaica library,
student lounges, computer areas, and a
brand-new 750 person kosher dining hall
with purpose-built kitchens.
Chabad will celebrate its National
Founders Dinner at the Grand Ballroom
of Chabad House, 170 College Avenue, on
Tuesday, December 3, the seventh night of
Chanukah, at 6 p.m.
More than 500 community leaders and
supporters are expected to pay tribute to
the honorees, Amy B. Mansue, president
and CEO of the Childrens Specialized
Hospital, and the Honorable Bill Baroni,
deputy executive director of the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Thank you, Teaneck firefighters
To express thanks to Teanecks firefighters,
a Thanksgiving dinner with all the trim-
mings will be provided to all those on duty
this Thursday. Congregation Beth Aaron,
an Orthodox synagogue in Teaneck, inau-
gurated the new initiative, dubbed Project
THANKS.
The meal will be delieverd at noon on
Thanksgiving Day to the central fire station at
1231 Teaneck Road. Rabbi Larry Rothwachs,
the spiritual leader of the congregation, will
make a short presentation to the firefighters
and shul president Larry Shafier will also be
among the attendees.
Many congregational families have
donated to this endeavor to convey their
appreciation to the firemen for their
bravery, courage, and valor in serving
the community. The meal, prepared by
Maadan of Teaneck, includes a classic
Thanksgiving dinner menu with a few extras
including potato latkes and applesauce, to
coincide with Chanukah, which falls on the
same day this year.
More than 50 children in the Friends of
Lubavitch of Bergen Countys Kids in Action
program, pictured above, made and deliv-
ered thank you cards and cookies to the
Teaneck Fire Department. Kids in Action
is run by Rabbi Michoel Goldin, youth
and teen program director for Friends of
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Be careful what you wish for
T
he early Sunday morning
deal with Iran already
began to show signs of
being a big mistake even
before the sun rose in Geneva. That
is because Washington and Tehran
do not even agree on what it was
they agreed on regarding the most
important issue the enrichment of
uranium.
Speaking on Irans state-owned
Press TV on Sunday, Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif said: In the
final step, the enrichment process
will be accepted and at the same time
all the sanctions will be lifted.
Secretary of State John Kerry,
however, had a much different view
when he appeared on the ABC News
program This Week. There is no
agreement yet on the enrichment
process, he said. Rather, there will
be a negotiation over whether or not
they could have a very limited, com-
pletely verifiable, extraordinarily
constrained program, where they
might have some medical research or
other things they can do, but there is
no inherent right to enrich uranium,
he said.
The folly of trying to negotiate a
deal with Iran should be obvious.
It is the deal in place, however, and
now it needs to play itself out, one
way or the other.
What trouble us are the moves
in Congress, especially by Republi-
cans and Democrats on the right, to
impose even more sanctions, rather
than allow the agreement to ease
those already in place. It is not the
thought behind it that is troubling; it
is the blatant political pandering that
is odious.
The United States and its allies have
been imposing ever more stringent
sanctions on Iran, with the blessing
of the Congress of the United States,
for many years now. Sanctions have
only one goal: to bring the recalci-
trant nation (in this case, Iran) to the
negotiating table. Well, they worked;
Iran came to the table. To argue that
even more sanctions be imposed now
that the earlier ones succeeded is like
saying, We beat you over the head
until you complied; now that you
complied, we will beat you over the
head for complying.
The politicians in Washington
and elsewhere cannot have it both
ways. They wanted sanctions; they
got sanctions. Now they say they are
unhappy that the sanctions worked.
It is absurd.
It is also destructive. -SE
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Gratitude
as a dying art
A
merica may be the most religious country
in the Western world, but it has an ugly
tendency to rip the spiritual guts out of
its religious festivals and stuff them with
shallow consumerism instead. Im not sure that Jesus
envisioned the celebration of his birth to include a
bearded fat guy sliding down a chimney to deliver a
flat screen TV.
Now we have the specter of the Black Friday
super-sales spilling over into Thanksgiving Day itself,
threatening to rob us of anything solemn left in the
holiday. The arms race of commercial retailers has
resulted in stores like Walmart, Target, and Macys
opening up Thursday evening, when families are
just sitting down for their turkey dinner. Not to be
outdone, K-Mart plans to open as early as 6 a.m. on
Thanksgiving Day, staying open nonstop through
Friday, for a grand total of 41 hours straight.
A simple appreciation of their blessings is what
motivated the first Thanksgiving hosted by Americas
earliest European settlers when they commemorated
the first harvest in the New
World. Joining as allies
wi th native Ameri cans
who taught them how
to catch food and grow
corn, they paid homage
to God for keeping them
from starvation. In 1863,
President Abraham Lincoln
proclaimed a national day of
Thanksgiving and Praise to
our beneficent Father who
dwelleth in the Heavens.
But Turkey Day has
become smartphone day. We give Thee thanks,
Oh Samsung, for lowering the price of a Galaxy S4.
Thousands of employees will be forced to miss quality
family time to restock shelves and ring up crazed
shoppers at the registers.
But the biggest casualty is the simple emotion of
gratitude.
What made the biggest impression on our students
at the University of Oxford, hundreds of whom would
congregate every Friday night to have Shabbat dinner
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the
founder of This World: The Values Network, and
is the author of 30 books. He soon will publish
Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer. Follow
him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley
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Reasons to say thanks
Yesterday, most Jewish Americans
joined the broader community in cele-
brating Thanksgiving, a secular holiday
that has its roots in the festival of Suk-
kot, the Jewish festival of thanksgiving.
As Jews living in the United States,
we have much for which to be thank-
ful. We live in a society that allows us
to be equal partners with equal oppor-
tunities. Jews attain some of the highest
offices in the land, either by election or
appointment. They are leaders in vir-
tually all fields of American life. A Jew
even came within a hairs breadth of
being a heartbeat away from the highest
office, the presidency, when Joe Lieber-
man and Al Gore won the popular vote
in 2000.
Because we are free to be ourselves,
we feel free to bring Jewish values into
our national debates, and Jews help
lead the way in battles for the rights of
others here, and around the globe.
It was not always thus, but it is that
way now, and if we remain vigilant, it
will remain so well into the future. It is
a gift we must never take lightly, and for
which we must always be thankful.
Holiday parity is a bad idea.
Even before this weeks Thanksgiving
holiday, it was beginning to look a lot
like Christmas on our streets and shop-
ping malls. Each year, in fact, the Christ-
mas buying season seems to begin ever
earlier.
For some, this is a time to insist on
parity. If there is a Christmas display,
there should be a Chanukah display.
Parity is not warranted, and should
not be sought. As much as it feels
like an equalizer, parity has a serious
downside.
Christmas is less a religious holiday
today than it is an excuse for the rankest
forms of commercialism. By the time
you read this editorial, Internet news
sites will be reporting on riots breaking
out among crowds of early shoppers
who braved a cold Thanksgiving night
to get through department store doors
at special midnight sales. That is not the
way to mark what for scores of millions
of people was the most momentous
event in history.
Chanukah is a celebration of Jewish
survival. It is about how a rebel army
took to the hills and fought off an inva-
sion by the most powerful army in the
region, if not the world, at that time
and won. It is about the desire of Jews to
live as Jews, and how that desire carried
them to victory.
Parity would water down Cha-
nukah the way Christmas has been
diminished, and to some degree
it already has. Far more meaning-
ful than pushing our way through
hordes of mall shoppers is gathering
our families around a small eight-can-
dle menorah and singing Al Hanis-
sim, singing about all the miracles,
including the greatest miracle of all
the miracle of our survival against
all odds, in those days at this time,
and even in our own time.
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Gratitude
as a dying art
A
merica may be the most religious country
in the Western world, but it has an ugly
tendency to rip the spiritual guts out of
its religious festivals and stuff them with
shallow consumerism instead. Im not sure that Jesus
envisioned the celebration of his birth to include a
bearded fat guy sliding down a chimney to deliver a
flat screen TV.
Now we have the specter of the Black Friday
super-sales spilling over into Thanksgiving Day itself,
threatening to rob us of anything solemn left in the
holiday. The arms race of commercial retailers has
resulted in stores like Walmart, Target, and Macys
opening up Thursday evening, when families are
just sitting down for their turkey dinner. Not to be
outdone, K-Mart plans to open as early as 6 a.m. on
Thanksgiving Day, staying open nonstop through
Friday, for a grand total of 41 hours straight.
A simple appreciation of their blessings is what
motivated the first Thanksgiving hosted by Americas
earliest European settlers when they commemorated
the first harvest in the New
World. Joining as allies
wi th native Ameri cans
who taught them how
to catch food and grow
corn, they paid homage
to God for keeping them
from starvation. In 1863,
President Abraham Lincoln
proclaimed a national day of
Thanksgiving and Praise to
our beneficent Father who
dwelleth in the Heavens.
But Turkey Day has
become smartphone day. We give Thee thanks,
Oh Samsung, for lowering the price of a Galaxy S4.
Thousands of employees will be forced to miss quality
family time to restock shelves and ring up crazed
shoppers at the registers.
But the biggest casualty is the simple emotion of
gratitude.
What made the biggest impression on our students
at the University of Oxford, hundreds of whom would
congregate every Friday night to have Shabbat dinner
Op-Ed
with us, was our weekly lchayim tradition. Each
week I would ask students to publicly offer a toast
of gratitude for something good in their lives. As
Oxford is an international community, I asked the
students to say the lchayim in their native tongue. It
added sparkle and color to a beautiful tradition that I
continue every Friday night with the many guests who
frequently join us at our home in Englewood.
This did not mean, however, that gratitude was instilled
into our students character from one toast alone. It takes
more than a glass of wine to acknowledge the kindnesses
that others practice with us.
Why is gratitude the mother of all virtues? Why does
it strike to the very heart of our humanity? Because
at its core gratitude involves the human ability to be
touched by the kindness of another. If people can
selflessly extend themselves to you if a parent can
dress you warmly during winter, if a boss can give you
a paycheck through a recession, if a rabbi can provide
a home away from home at college and it leaves no
mark, then can you be said to have a heart of flesh?
If I have learned one thing about human nature
it is that humans seek recognition. No, Im not
talking about being voted People Magazines Sexiest
Man Alive (a distinction of which I was yet again
robbed this year), winning a Grammy, or being
voted most likely to succeed in some shallow high
school yearbook. Im talking about parents feeling
appreciated for waking up early to feed their families,
a wife having her husband notice that she made
herself pretty for him, a child wanting a parent to
notice the colorful pictures they made at school. To
be unrecognized is to be invisible. And to be invisible
is to be insignificant.
Every human being is born with the inner conviction,
the unassailable knowledge, that they are special. That
there is none quite like them. Much of life is the simple
pursuit of having that conviction validated.
When you show gratitude toward others you are
acknowledging their uniqueness. But when you take
them for granted, or worse, when you use and discard
them, you make them feel ordinary, like they dont
matter, which results in bitterness and anger.
Hillel famously said that the essence of the Torah is
that which you hate do not do unto others. And the
one thing we most hate is ingratitude.
God commanded Moses to show gratitude even
to the waters of the Nile and the dust of Egypt
inanimate objects that had saved his life. And in the
ten most important rules of morality ever given to
mankind, appreciating our parents made the list.
In the Jewish religion there is no greater insult than
to be considered a kofuy tov, an ingrate.
On Black Friday, go ahead and knock yourself
out. Shop till you drop. But Thankful Thursday, that
beautiful day we call Thanksgiving, should not be
corrupted by an insatiable consumerism that is all
about taking and not giving.
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Why is gratitude
the mother of
all virtues? Why
does it strike to the
very heart of
our humanity?
Negotiating with evil
W
inston Churchill must be spinning in his
grave.
It was the great statesman who stood up
against Britains then-Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain, warning his country that no
manner of negotiation was going to stop evil
from marching forward.
Look it up on the Internet. Find the film of
Chamberlains famous peace for our time
speech.
Look up the time when Chamberlain
told the British people, My good friends,
for the second time in our history a British
prime minister has returned from Germany
bringing peace with honor.
Less than a year later, Germany made
Poland the first stop on its blitzkrieg tour.
It is difficult to not have Churchills warnings in your head
when you listen to Secretary of State John Kerry and even
President Obama talk about the recent negotiation with
Iran.
This is the same rogue nation that funds Hezbollah, props
up Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, and has the blood of many
Israelis and Americans on its hands.
It almost seemed as if Kerry so badly wanted to come out
with something he could show for his own credibility and that
of his boss, that he felt it was okay to diss Israel and even Gulf
states such as Saudi Arabia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a great deal
to say about this.
Its not made the world a safer place, he said. Like the
agreement with North Korea in 2005, this agreement has
made the world a much more dangerous place.
Why do I hear Chamberlains voice when I listen to Kerry?
And why do I hear Churchill when I listen to BiBi?
As David Horovitz of the Times of Israel wrote, this agree-
ment scandalously failed to require Iran to admit to those
two decades-plus of lying and deception.
Instead, Horovitz continued, the United States simply
hopes that over the next six months Iran will admit what its
been developing.
Unfortunately, disastrously, thats just not going to hap-
pen, Horovitz concluded.
But as is being reported around the world, Israel
worries that during this next six months Iran could
pull back from this deal, and then, using the next
generation centrifuges it possesses, produce mili-
tary grade uranium very quickly.
They agreed to freeze their program, but they
can continue to enrich, said Ephraim Inbar, direc-
tor of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
at Bar-Ilan University.
The president? He said he understands why
Israel has good reason to be skeptical.
Are you kidding me?
No one wants war. Perhaps these talks are a
start. But I do believe in learning from history.
The public posturing makes it seem as if Israel was never
consulted or included in the negotiation.
But I guess the final warning that is pulsing in my head like
a bad headache comes from the Torah in Deuteronomy 25:
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you
came out of Egypt, how he attacked you on the way when you
were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were
lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. Therefore when
the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies
around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you
for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory
of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.
Im having trouble forgetting what the last Iranian presi-
dent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said: Remove Israel before it
is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations.
Iran is only one leader removed from Ahmadinejad. So I
dont think in six months theres going to be such promise
in Iran.
Chamberlain wanted us to believe in Hitlers promise. A
short time later, the evil he negotiated with was out to destroy
his nation.
Egyptian Nazi scandal
exposes academic dishonesty
Imagine the following scenario: A storied American univer-
sity holds a conference on the future of democracy in Europe.
Representatives of two of the continents neo-Nazi parties,
Jobbik in Hungary and Golden Dawn in Greece, are among
the invited speakers.
Better yet, imagine that same
university holding a conference
on current trends in Israeli poli-
tics, featuring a speaker who is
an open admirer of Baruch Gold-
stein, the Jewish extremist who
murdered 29 worshippers and
wounded more than 100 when
he opened fire in a Palestinian
mosque in Hebron in 1994.
You might think that the ensu-
ing public outcry would be so raucous that the invitations
would be rescinded. Or, more accurately, you might con-
clude that this thought experiment is pointless, because the
invitations would never have been extended in the first place.
European neo-Nazis and Jewish ultranationalists are defi-
nitely two distinct groups who wouldnt get an invitation to
an American campus.
But what if the Nazis are also Arabs? No, thats not a thought
experiment. This dilemma surfaced last week, after George-
town Universitys Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Center for Chris-
tian-Muslim Understanding announced a December 5 confer-
ence called Egypt and the Struggle for Democracy.
Among the speakers was a little-known Egyptian Copt
named Remy Jan, who was invited because he is a founder of
an equally little-known activist group in Egypt called Chris-
tians Against the Coup. The coup in this case is the removal
of the Muslim Brotherhoods Mohamed Morsi as Egyptian
president in July.
A handful of bloggers and journalists did some digging
on Jan. They came up with a particularly juicy detail of Jans
career that apparently had eluded the organizers of the con-
ference. Jan, they revealed, was also a founder of the Egyp-
tian Nazi Party.
Ben Cohen
Phil Jacobs
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Once the news broke, the Al Waleed Cen-
ter swiftly canceled Jans invitation. At the
same time, they claimed no prior knowl-
edge of Jans Nazi loyalties. We had no idea
that there was this issue out there, said the
centers director, John Esposito, in response
to a series of tweets from Eric Trager of the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy that
highlighted Jans affiliation. Another confer-
ence participant, Dalia Mogahed, who is a
former adviser to President Obama on inter-
faith matters, tweeted this about Jans invite:
I can assure you the organizers had no idea
about his other baggage.
Had the conference organizers done their
due diligence, they would have had a very
clear idea of Jans toxic beliefs. After all, were
not talking about a cloak and dagger espio-
nage operation. A few seconds of Googling
would have taken them to a video from
2011, in which Jan and other Egyptian Nazis
explained their raison detre to a shocked
Egyptian television host. Also, the Alwaleed
Center has a Facebook account, as does Jan.
Had the conference organizers paid a brief
visit to the Facebook page of a man they were
willing to fly to Washington, they would have
discovered that hed posted several pictures
of Adolf Hitler alongside admiring tributes to
the Fuhrer.
That they failed to do any of these things
reinforces a suspicion that many of us have
had about the blindness in the western aca-
demic world toward prejudice, bigotry, and
racism not against, but among, Arabs and
Muslims. And in my view, it is this and not
the specific invitation to Jan that is the real
concern here.
Whats needed is a reality check.
We have to stop thinking that institutions
like the Alwaleed Center are dispassionate
centers of academic inquiry. They are politi-
cal advocacy operations, as proven by the
December 5 conference on Egypt, which is
chock full of speakers from the Muslim Broth-
erhood, whose views on subjects like Jews
and Israel are little different from those of the
disinvited Remy Jan.
As the distinguished academic Martin
Kramer observed, at the launch ceremony
for the Alwaleed Center, which was a proj-
ect of a private university Georgetown
and a private businessman, the Saudi Prince
Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, both the U.S. and
Saudi flags were on display. Kramer wrote,
tellingly, The national flags send the implied
message that this deal is somehow in the
interests of the two countries and deserves
their blessing.
Is it in our national interest to treat
Islamists as honored guests with a valuable
perspective? Most Americans would demur if
asked this question. And quite a few of them
would ask how we got to a situation where
universities are presenting political messag-
ing as honest scholarship. Thats the right
question to ask. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen is JNS.orgs Shillman analyst for
JNS.org. He writes on Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics; his work has been published
in the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the
New York Post, Haaretz, Mosaic, and many
other publications.
Adelsons Internet gambling crusade
A
t first glance, theres
l i ttl e doubt that
most of the people
who love to hate
Sheldon Adelson are going to
assume that hes in it strictly
for the money or to pursue
some conservative agenda.
But the more you look at
it, the casino moguls new
cause is not one that seems
to directly advance either his
financial interests or the politi-
cal or Jewish causes that are close to his
heart. Thus, the news reported first last
week by the Washington Post that Adel-
son is going all in on an effort to ban
Internet gambling is puzzling his chorus
of detractors as well as some of his usual
allies. Indeed, most in the gaming indus-
try oppose his efforts, as do many Repub-
licans like Governor Chris Christie, who
might otherwise look to him for support.
But Adelson, who is launching the Coali-
tion to Stop Internet Gambling and pre-
pared to back it with his $20-plus billion
personal fortune, is convinced that he can
change the nations mind about the topic.
As Forbes notes, Adelsons initiative comes
at a time when:
For the first time most of the U.S gam-
bling interests from the casinos to the
horse track owners, state lotteries and
Native American tribes appear to be
starting to coalesce around a pro-online
gambling position. Adelsons effort is likely
to rip apart the American Gaming Associa-
tion, the casino industrys lobbying group
in Washington.
With online gambling now legal in New
Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware, and with 12
states set to consider it in the near future,
the odds against Adelsons initiative are
long. But whether he is able to stop or
even slow down the race of state govern-
ments to cash in on what they believe will
be a windfall, the billion-
aire happens to be in the
right. The spread of gam-
bling on personal comput-
ers and smart phones will
not only harm his industry
but cause untold societal
damage, especially to the
poor.
Internet gambling was
deemed illegal by the fed-
eral government up until
an opinion handed down
in 2011 by the Justice Department made
it possible. That led most casinos and
other potential gambling venues to get
behind efforts to get the states to legalize
such businesses. Politicians like Christie,
eager for more revenue to balance their
budgets without having to cut more ser-
vices or to raise taxes, also look at it as
a way to obtain free money. They also
think it will help bolster gambling havens
like Atlantic City that are suffering from
the proliferation of legal casinos around
the country. They point out that Internet
gambling already exists via offshore sites
that attempt to skirt the laws and that
there is no reason for states not to cash in
and take their share. Adelsons numerous
opponents also point to his own record as
a casino owner and his onetime interest in
Internet gambling as proof that his moral
concerns are hypocritical.
But whether he is tilting against wind-
mills or not, Adelson is right to try and
facilitate a debate about the social costs of
this trend before it is too late.
Gambling, whether at destination
resorts like the ones Adelson owns in Las
Vegas and Macao, or via state lotteries, is
generally depicted in the media and in
the flood of advertisements perpetually
seeking to entice people to gamble as
entertainment with no down sides for
society. It is that for many Americans, but
we dont hear enough about how this sup-
posedly harmless vice destroys countless
families and lives. Wherever legal gam-
bling flourishes, it generates a lot of work
for bankruptcy lawyers and sets off waves
of crime as debt-ridden gamblers resort
to thievery and embezzlement. Every
conceivable social pathology comes in
its wake, and though governments profit
at one end with their large take of the cut,
they pay for it in many other ways that
have to do with the damage done to those
destroyed by gambling.
The odds of winning in state lotteries
are so astronomical that they are in effect
a tax on stupidity. They would be consid-
ered scams were anyone but the govern-
ment operating them. But the low cost
of tickets makes it harder for gambling
addicts to ruin themselves with it. Simi-
larly, however great the toll of suffering
due to legal casinos may be, its impact
is limited by the fact that going to such a
place is not an impulse decision but rather
a planned excursion.
But once high-stakes gambling becomes
something you can play on your phone,
the stakes for society will increase expo-
nentially. Scoff at sermons about the evils
of gambling preached by a casino owner
all you like. But Adelsons right that once
this spreads across the country, it will
sink the nation in a new wave of addiction
whose costs will be incalculable.
So far, Adelsons group, which is being
fronted by a bipartisan trio of retired pol-
iticians Republican former New York
Governor George Pataki, former Demo-
cratic Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkan-
sas, and former Denver Mayor Wellington
Webb has been met with skepticism, as
was evident when the three were grilled
by Chuck Todd on his MSNBC program.
Trying to convince Americans that more
legal gambling is wrong a proposition
that might have appealed to previous
generations may be like trying to put
the genie back in the bottle. But unlike
casinos and state lotteries, which are off
limits for kids, Internet gambling also will
likely victimize children who have access
to smart phones with little assurance that
regulations will make this impossible. As
such, Adelsons group may be right to
say that this could be like the Joe Camel
moment, when the nation turned on cig-
arette advertising because of the way it
exploited children and created lifetime
addictions.
Liberals who care about the way gam-
bling singles out the poor ought to be on
his side. So, too, should conservatives
who claim to care about communal values
as well as those who understand that the
answer to the question of how to finance
big government should be found in lower
expenditures, not soaking middle-class
and poor gambling addicts.
With many Republicans and most of the
gaming industry against him, its not clear
that all the money in Adelsons deep pock-
ets will be enough to prevent more states
from following New Jerseys example. Nor
are the odds in favor of his attempt to get
federal legislation to close the legal Inter-
net gambling sites down. But even if all
hes able to do is to raise awareness of the
grievous social costs of this scourge, it will
have been worth it.
I doubt that this will improve his image
in a mainstream media that despises Adel-
son for his support for conservatives and
deprecates his backing for Israels Likud
government. But whatever you may think
of his politics, Adelsons stand deserves
respect and support.
THIS COLUMN FIRST APPEARED IN COMMENTARY
MAGAZINE. REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION.
Award-winning journalist Jonathan S.
Tobin is Commentary magazines senior
online editor and its chief political blogger.
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consistently
In his letter to the editor, Too open to be
Orthodox (November 22), Israel Polak
focuses on certain leading individuals
associated with Yeshivat Chovevei Torah,
who, he tells us, turn their backs on ...
the fundamental beliefs that underlie and
define Orthodoxy. He then demands that
YCTs students confront their leadership
to declare that these peoples espousal of
what he terms neo-Conservative Judaism
is a rejection of Orthodox Judaism.
Mr. Polaks call for confrontation
between YCTs student body and its
leadership is intriguing, particularly if
its premise that an Orthodox Jewish
organization should be judged by those
of its associates who espouse the views
least congruent to the Orthodox view of
the Torah is applied to other Ortho-
dox rabbinical schools and rabbinical
organizations.
Here are three of many examples where
Mr. Polaks demands can be made:
1. Not long ago, a renowned rosh
yeshiva of the famed Torah vDaas Yeshiva
in Brooklyn, who simultaneously serves as
a leading halachic decisor for kashrut divi-
sion of the Orthodox Union, issued a letter
attacking a charedi family in Lakewood.
That family had sought to bring criminal
charges against a rabbi and teacher for
sexually assaulting their 11-year-old son.
In his public letter attacking the family,
the rosh yeshiva wrote that he had inves-
tigated the matter and that the charges of
sexual assault against the teacher were
totally baseless. The family whom the rosh
yeshiva attacked had to leave Lakewood
because of the social ostracism they faced.
The teacher recently pleaded guilty to sex-
ual assault and was sentenced to over 12
years in prison, and the rosh yeshiva has
never apologized for attacking the fam-
ily of the victim and for his false asser-
tion of the innocence of the teacher who
molested his young student.
Is it imperative that the rabbinical stu-
dents of Torah vDaas and the rabbis who
run the kashrut division of the Ortho-
dox Union confront their leadership and
demand that this rosh yeshiva, who is
unrepentant in his defense of an admit-
ted sexual predator, be removed from any
position of leadership in Orthodoxy?
2. A rising star in the Orthodox rabbin-
ate, a graduate of Yeshiva Universitys
rabbinical school who served ably as a
pulpit rabbi in a Young Israel synagogue,
declared himself to be openly gay and
lives with his partner of the same sex. He
has recently written a book in which he
defends his lifestyle and his commitment
to Orthodox Judaism.
Is it imperative that the students of
Yeshiva Universitys rabbinical seminary
confront their leadership to issue a decla-
ration that this students views are inimi-
cal to Orthodox Judaism? No such state-
ment has been issued by the seminary.
3. A leading pulpit rabbi in the New York
area, who was ordained at Yeshiva Univer-
sity, recently served in a key leadership
role in the Rabbinical Council of America.
The RCA is an organization of Orthodox
rabbis whose purpose is, per its website,
to advance the cause and the voice of
Torah and the rabbinic tradition by pro-
moting the welfare, interests, and profes-
sionalism of Orthodox rabbis. This rabbi
formerly served as the spiritual leader of
a synagogue that featured mixed seating
and used a microphone on Shabbat. This
same rabbi was involved in the rollout of
the RCAs recently issued geirus policies
and standards, which were intended to
vouchsafe that Orthodox standards are
adhered to in conversions to Judaism by
RCA-affiliated rabbis in this country.
Is it imperative that the rabbis who
are members of the RCA confront their
leadership to issue a declaration that it
is incompatible for a rabbi who himself
served a congregation with the mixed
seating a practice that defines Conserva-
tive Judaism for most Orthodox Jews to
be involved in efforts to protect Orthodox
conversion standards or to serve in any
leadership role in the RCA?
That Mr. Polak makes his demand of the
students of YCT but not of the students of
the rabbinical schools of Torah vDaas and
Yeshiva University or of the RCAs rabbis is
telling. The bad apples of Torah vDaas
and YU do not taint those institutions
and their illustrious graduates. In fact,
in todays Orthodox world it seems that
it is unacceptable to even hint that they
should leave their leadership positions.
It would be better to let all the rabbini-
cal students focus on their studies, so that
they can leave their Torah institutions
equipped with Jewish knowledge and the
people skills that are so necessary to con-
vey Torah learning and Torah values to
the broader Jewish community.
(For full disclosure, I have close personal
connections to YCT; however, I have in no
way been authorized to speak for YCT and
the views expressed here are my own and
do not necessarily represent those of YCT.)
Aaron Friedman
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JOANNE PALMER
V
ery few of us know how wed react if we were
faced with a row of tanks, moving slowing
toward us.
Angelica Berrie knows.
She stood her ground.
She was terrified, she said, but also filled with the kind
of hope even fear couldnt quell. So she stood there, in the
front line, holding hands with the nuns who had educated
her, and backed by several thousands of other Filipinos,
waving a Bible and a rosary.
That moment transformed her country, and it
transformed her.
Ms. Berrie has lived a life filled with drama, change, and
unlikely surprise. The road that took her from Cebu, an
island in the south of the Philippines, to Englewood has
been an extraordinary one.
The Philippines is in many ways a melting pot or
perhaps a glorious mosaic, or whatever the term of art
may be today much like the United States. Ms. Berries
grandparents came from all over the world, and oh do
they have stories. Her mothers parents were Chinese
her grandfather, a salesman, wooed her grandmother
through letters that entranced her. She learned, just
before her wedding day, that a friend had written them;
after they married, the young couple lived with that friend
her grandfathers business partner and his wife,
until the business relationship ended in bankruptcy and
lawsuits. Very Cyrano de Bergerac, Ms. Berrie said.
Her grandmother, the brains in the family, according
to her granddaughter, came from a family of status and
means in China, and therefore was among the last in the
world to have had her feet bound. (The centuries-old
custom, which involved breaking the bones in a girls
Angelica
Berries
amazing
journey
The day she stared down
tanks helped define
philanthropists life
PHOTO BY JERRY SZUBIN
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foot to make keep her feet tiny, was most
prevalent in wealthy families, showing that
she would never have to work. The brutal
custom began to die out in the early to
mid-20th century.) She was an only child
and her parents doted on her, so although
they crippled her feet they fed her mind,
allowing her to learn to read and write.
In the Philippines, she secured the family
fortune by cooking well enough to end
up feeding soldiers during the Japanese
occupation of her adopted country.
Ms. Berries grandfather was a Spaniard,
who went to the Philippines in his early 20s
to make his fortune. He did and lost it,
and made it, and lost it again. He married a
woman of mixed Filipino-Spanish descent;
among their nine children was Ms. Berries
father. Her grandfather had a car long
enough for all the family to sit in at one
time, she recalls; she does not know the
make, but she loves the image.
Ms. Berrie, then Angelica Urra, was
born in 1955 to Gregorio Urra and Isabel
Coleongco. Her father was an engineer
who developed a business selling farm
equipment.
Her familys religious background was
mixed. Her Chinese grandmother was
a devout Buddhist; after she died, the
family maintained a shrine to her, and Ms.
Berrie recalls going to her gravesite and
kowtowing to her. (How often is it possible
to use that word literally?)
The rest of the family, though, was
devoutly Catholic; although Catholicism
is not the Philippines state religion,
it is by far the predominant one. Ms.
Berrie went to a convent school. Her
part of the country, where sugar cane
is raised, tends toward the joyful kind
of religion, with feasting, dancing, and
bright colors; although there are parts
of the Philippines where the austere,
death-centric version of Catholicism
predominates, that was not hers.
She loved it.
After high school, Ms. Berrie went to
a Catholic college, Assumption, where
her classmates included relatives of both
the Marcoses Ferdinand Marcos was
the countrys ruler, who had imposed
martial law in 1972, just before Ms. Berrie
completed high school and the Aquinos
it was the assassination of Benigno
Aquino that led eventually to the People
Power revolution and the presidency of his
widow, Corazon.
After she graduated from college in
1977, Ms. Berrie became an entrepreneur.
It was a window for women, she said,
a new and exciting time when young
women could venture into business. She
had ambition, brains, and drive. She
succeeded, moving from business to
business as opportunities changed.
In 1986, the situation in the Philippines
boiled over. Marcos, it was widely believed,
stole the election, and a ragtag army of
thousands of unarmed Filipinos of all
classes, led both practically and morally by
Archbishop Jaime Sin, rallied in EDSA, the
avenue that connected two military bases.
That was at the heart of the People
Power revolution.
Unarmed Filipinos faced tanks, ready
to roll, staffed by soldiers who would roll
over them or would they?
Ms. Berrie owned a manufacturing
business back then, and her employees
were hurting. She had strong anti-Marcos
sentiments, and like the nuns who had
educated her and like most of the rest of
the country she was a strong supporter
of the revolution.
One Sunday in February, news came out
from the Catholic radio station that played
an important role in the revolution that
a large rally was under way. Ms. Berrie,
her brother, a cousin, and a few others
crammed themselves into a car and drove
toward it. They drove past some tanks,
she remembers now; cars can move much
more quickly than tanks. Soon they parked
and headed off to the center on foot,
flagging down other cars as they ran.
Everyone at the scene seemed ready
to react, she wrote a few years later. A
After she
graduated from
college in 1977,
Ms. Berrie
became an
entrepreneur. It
was a window
for women.
ANGELICA BERRIE
Angelica Berrie sorts through her photographs. JERRY SZUBIN
The tanks rolling in; Angelica Urra and her brother Greg. Wearing yellow,
she whistles her support of the People Power Revolution.
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group of coiffed matrons in a white Benz
disembarked, leaving their car parked
in the middle of the road. Reluctant
drivers were persuaded to abandon their
huge buses, which were strategically
positioned across the junction.
Passengers scurried out, while someone
had the presence of mind to deflate the
tires to ensure that the buses stayed
where they were.
They formed a barricade. The scene
was set.
The revolution had a color bright,
cheerful, sunshine yellow taken from
the song Tie a Yellow Ribbon, which
Americans had used to signal their
support for the hostages Iran had held
for 444 days not too many years earlier.
Now, just about everyone at the
protest wore a swatch of yellow. Ms.
Berrie had a headband holding back
her straight dark hair. At first she held a
yellow flag, but soon she exchanged that
for a Bible; photos taken then show her
holding the book heavenward.
The tanks plowed through the cars
and buses that slowed but did not stop
them. Dull thuds signaled a breach as
they crashed through the walls made by
the vehicles, she continued.
With hardly enough time to say a
prayer, we found ourselves in the path
of the tanks.
I was shaking with fright, defiance,
and outrage she wrote. The
deafening rumble of the tanks, the
hard-bitten faces of the Marines, with
their machine guns pointed at us, the
menacing sight of large bullets slung
across their chests.
I was convinced they meant to
fire above our heads as a warning. I
remember praying that if it happened,
SEE BERRIE PAGE 24
Ms. Berries Spanish grandparents, Santos and Margarita Urra, and
their children.
Her grandparents on their
wedding day in China.
Her Chinese grandparents,
Alice and Vicence Coleoneco,
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The air soon was filled with the sound
of pleas coming from everyone facing
the tanks as the stone-faced soldiers in
the tanks stared them down, she said.
People held up their rosaries as if they
were bullet-repelling amulets. Someone
held up a statue of the Virgin Mary, and
the protestors knelt to pray. We sang
Ave Maria and Our Father every time
we felt the soldiers resolve hardening,
Ms. Berrie wrote.
And then a mother lifted her child
to offer them a flower hastily plucked
from the walls of Corinthian Gardens,
causing one of the soldiers to break
down, she wrote. Eyes filled with tears,
he slid into the hole of the tank to regain
his composure, leaving his companion
unable to look at any of us.
This one story was not the story of
how the standoff ended, but many such
stories added up. The soldiers could not
roll over their fellow Filipinos the fact
that the soldiers knew that the protestors
were right would not have made that
decision, as it turned out unthinkable
anyway, any easier and eventually,
at first one by one and then in larger
numbers, the soldiers defected.
By the next day, Ferdinand Marcos
was out and Corazon Aquino was in.
Such moments can define a life.
Angelica Berries life was defined by
that moment, but she was not finished
with transformations.
She became a successful exporter
of papier mache angels; it was in that
capacity that she met Russell Berrie,
the Bergen County-based philanthropist
whose business was manufacturing
plush toys and other gift items. In
1993, they married, and she moved to
Englewood. He died, at 69, in 2009,
and for two years she was CEO of his
business, Russ Berrie and Co.
Ms. Berrie is passionate about
interreligious issues. The Russell
Berrie Foundation supports the Center
for Interreligious Understanding, a
program that Rabbi Jack Bemporad
of Tenafly, still its executive director,
founded decades ago.
When she and Mr. Berrie married,
she was a Catholic; at her first of two
meetings with Pope John Paul II, she
wore black, covered her head with a
mantilla, and sank to her knees before
him, as a good Catholic woman should.
The next time she met him, she was no
longer as committed a Catholic as she had
been; by the time she met the next pope,
Benedict XVI, she had become a Jew.
Ms. Berrie chose to become Jewish, she
said, because she already had become a
committed, connected member of the
Jewish community; in fact, most people
assumed she had converted some time
before she did, simply because they could
not imagine such commitment otherwise.
She would not have done so, though, had
she not felt her soul drawn toward it, and
had she not realized that she had left the
Catholic world that had nurtured her so
well through young adulthood.
She studied with Rabbi Donniel
Hartman, the American-Israeli Orthodox
rabbi who took over from his father, the
late Rabbi David Hartman, to head the
Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
It was not hard to move from
Catholicism to Judaism, Ms. Berrie said;
she did not make the move until both
her heart and her head were ready. It
was when Pope John Paul said that Jews
were the churchs older brothers that I
felt it was time, she said.
Because of her familys history
and her own choices, Ms. Berrie is
extraordinarily cosmopolitan. Like
many Filipinos, she is fluent in English,
Spanish, and Tagalog. She holds
citizenship in three countries the
Philippines, the United States, and
because Spanish law gives citizenship
to descendants of its citizens Spain.
And she has had firsthand experience
of three of the worlds great religions
Buddhism, Catholicism, and Judaism.
By now, the revolution in the
Philippines is long over; Benigno
Aquino III, the son of the man whose
death began it, is president, and the
country seems to be returning to a sort
of corruption, although not tyranny, Ms.
Berrie said. And, of course, it has been
back in the news because of the deadly
typhoon, Haiyan, which is estimated
to have killed more than 5,235 people
there, and demolished large swathes of
infrastructure.
That devastated country is not the
place Ms. Berrie remembers, but
she hopes that others will join her in
supporting its recovery.
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey which the Berries long
have supported is collecting money for
storm relief. To help, go to its website,
www.jfnnj.org, and click on the link at
the top. All the money the federation
collects goes directly to the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee,
which is the worlds leading Jewish
humanitarian organization.
Berrie
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At least five, she told me.
I paid her $100 to take me to each one of them.
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social worker friends couldnt discuss any of his history,
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two thick.
My wife and I began contributing to organizations that
help the homeless and the mentally ill. Philips reward
to us was that he was able to find an apartment and
worked at finding a job.
The value my wife and I put on helping Philip:
priceless.
But again, getting back to Rabbi Muroff. My daughter
DeDe had a completely different take on all of this.
For her, this was more about ridding Jews of the ste-
reotype of money-grubbing. Students in my religious
school class have told me in past years that they often
are taunted by classmates who will throw pennies on the
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a stranger finding comfort in our car, our answer has to
be to give back what we can, sometimes all that we can.
Rabbi Muroff gave back to this woman who had mis-
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that every effort had to be taken to find the owners of
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street. I saw a nicely dressed woman walking along by
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She was talking to herself or to no one in particular.
Her hair was bright red.
It was Geraldine.
She knocked on my glass door, waved, and said
Thanks again.
I waved back sheepishly in return.
Geraldine was given back.
She reminded me of the stashed-away money. Only
I found her in the front seat of a Buick. The EMTs took
her back. And with the help of city social service agen-
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I hoped.
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Everyone
loves Chanukah
Chanukah seems to be more
popular than ever. Thanks
to Adam Sandler, Orrin
Hatch, and the American
culture of consumerism
and marketing, the festival
of lights has secured a more
prominent place in popu-
lar culture than other Jew-
ish holidays. And Im sure
this popularity is about
more than just its proxim-
ity to another better known
holiday or its eight days of
presents.
Chanukahs popularity also has a lot
to do with the universal appeal of its
storyline. This holiday recalls a classic
underdog story about a scrappy, smaller
protagonist that defeats the larger, domi-
nant, cruel antagonist. Who wouldnt be
impressed by the bravery of the weak
and few as they make a stand against the
mighty and numerous? Its a story with
the same appeal of the American Revolu-
tionary War or the movie Rudy.
And yet this seems surprising when
you consider the fact that Chanukah cel-
ebrates a victory whose gains ultimately
were lost a mere 200 years later with
the destruction of the Second Temple in
Jerusalem. That small band of freedom
fighters may have won a battle, but they
eventually lost the war. If Chanukah is a
commemoration of a political victory of
freedom over oppression, then its mean-
ing should be lost in the ashes of the Sec-
ond Temple. Why then do we continue to
celebrate Chanukah?
Clearly there is an enduring, spiritual
significance to this miraculous victory.
The political and religious freedoms that
were temporarily regained by the Chash-
monaim have monumental repercussions
and to understand this we must consider
one more curious fact about the story.
Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zl notes
that the Talmud refers to the enemy as
the Greeks when in actuality it wasnt
really them. In reality, the oppressors of
the Jewish people were Hellenized Syr-
ians who were assimilated into the Greek
culture and language. Why then do we
ascribe the persecutions to the Greeks?
The answer is that the Greek culture of
that time was responsible for spreading
intolerance and religious persecution.
Their mission was to conquer the entire
world and assimilate everyone into their
culture. Alexander the Great set out to
conquer the world not only for the sake
of power, but to bring the Greek culture
to every barbarian tribe or nation. All
peoples were to recognize one universal
message. This mission is no different than
later examples in history when people
would pursue utopian soci-
eties that only grew into
tyrannical regimes. In fact,
Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi
of Great Britain, identi-
fies the root of this attitude
with the Greek philoso-
pher Plato. As Rabbi Sacks
explains in his book, The
Dignity of Difference, Plato
held that truth can only be
found in universal ideals.
What is true is true for
everyone at all times, and so
the more universal a culture
is, the closer to truth it comes.
This attitude dominated Western think-
ing for millennia and laid the groundwork
for Syrian Greeks of the Chanukah story
and much later societies, such as the
Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
In the face of such tyranny stood the
Chashmonaim, who bore the spiritual tra-
dition that God is the only universal truth
and basic divine morality is the only univer-
sal order. And this divine morality teaches
that every person is unique and possesses
dignity. The Torah is primarily concerned
with the plight of those who are different.
While there is only one commandment
to love ones neighbor, there are at least
36 places in the Torah where we are com-
manded to ensure the well-being of the
stranger. Divine morality recognizes the
innate dignity of every person and every
society that upholds this concept.
This is why, Rabbi Sacks explains, God
would choose one family (who would
become a nation) to be separate from the
rest of the world in order to carry this
message. The Jewish people are the liv-
ing example of the fact that God created a
world with diversity and God will be rep-
resented by that very people who is differ-
ent, the Jewish people. The victory over
the Syrian Greeks was a victory for toler-
ating diversity and appreciating diversity.
The Syrian Greeks sought to undermine
our uniqueness by destroying the one
thing that keeps us unique our fidelity
to the Torah. They knew that their univer-
sal world order would only succeed if they
got rid of the very paradigm of divinely
created diversity the Jewish people.
While the political victory of the Chash-
monaim was short-lived, the spiritual vic-
tory endures today. The cultivation of Jew-
ish identity and commitment to the Torah
is an active perpetuation of the victory of
the Chashmonaim. While the holiday of
Chanukah itself has been assimilated into
American culture, we, the Jewish people,
carry the light of its true message that
each person is deserving of dignity and
we can only perpetuate that lesson as long
as we ourselves remain unique.
Rabbi Chaim
Poupko,
Cong. Ahavath
Torah, Englewood,
Orthodox
Wishing You
A Happy
Chanukah!
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Carlyz Craze, Teaneck
CMG Vending, Union City
Cresskill Performing Arts, Cresskill
Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee
Esplanade, Chestnut Ridge
Fairway Market, Paramus, Woodland Park, Nanuet
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Hans Salon, Leonia
Matt & Evy Libien, Tenay
Mike & Lois Libien, Glen Rock
Marcias Attic for Kids, Englewood
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Portage & The Jewelry Box, Englewood
Rudys Restaurant, Hackensack
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Teaneck Dentist, Teaneck
Visions Federal Credit Union, Dumont, Englewood Cliffs,
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FIRST PLACE
ANTIQUE DEALER
Nice Jewish boy, looking to buy all antiques, fne art,
Judaica, military, Tiffany lamps, bronzes, paintings,
Persian rugs, dolls, toys, very fne furniture and
everything wonderful!
Were only in business for 47 years
Largest antiques store in the Tri-state
Located in a 30,000 sq. ft. warehouse
Complete estates & clean outs
The solution to last weeks
crossword puzzle is on page 51.
Across
1. Doesnt possess
6. Hit 2006 film banned in every Arab
country except Lebanon
11. Letters in Pretoria politics
14. Shall ___ your kiddush cup?
15. The Israelites were taught by the
Canaanites how to raise it
16. Re-elected Jerusalem Mayor Barkat
17. New York Congressman who repre-
sented the Twin Towers
19. Words under a non-Orthodox chup-
pah
20. Body in Jerusalem
21. What golf pencils lack
23. What the king repeatedly says in
The King and I
24. Fins and ___ (criteria for kosher fish)
25. Papa and Assi in the Talmud
28. Reaction to Haman on Purim
32. Red or yellow or green or brown
33. ADL Director Foxman
34. Put on ___ (fake it)
36. Ark groupings
39. Frank family fried Miep
41. Bitter herbs
42. Leopold Blooms land
43. Son of Adam and Eve
44. Occasional New York Times con-
tributor Newhouse
45. Judah P. Benjamin served in its cabi-
net (abbr.)
46. M*A*S*H prop
48. Schreiber who won a Tony for
Glengarry Glen Ross
49. ___ HaBeracha (last Torah portion)
50. ...and ___ in the wells of silence.
(Simon and Garfunkel lyric)
53. Battery for a camera or phone
55. Level
57. Blood ___ (one who accuses Jews of
kidnapping children at Eastertime)
61. MIA Arad
62. Author, Women and Jewish Law
64. Braun or Gabor
65. Victory ___ (Rodgers score)
66. ___ my love... (Song of Songs lyric)
67. So many ___, so little time: Mae
West
68. More reserved
69. Palmach commander Yitzchak
Down
1. Letters between G and L
2. With the stroke of ___
3. Boil, during the plagues of Egypt
4. Mount Sinai Training School for ___
(founded 1881)
5. Adultery event
6. The Altalena, e.g.
7. Like Methuselah
8. Bug and more
9. Swears
10. Abrahams old man
11. Holocaust hero Mordechai
12. Kol ___
13. Under Crescent and ___: the Jews
of the Middle Ages (Mark R. Cohen
book)
18. Defiance author Tec
22. Onion-cooking instruction
25. Jewish immigrant musical
26. Broadway Rose-lover
27. Torah portion whose name means
And I pleaded
29. Taken as a whole
30. Abram pretended she was his sister
31. Bagel alternative
35. Labor
37. Margin-of-error phrase
38. One of 120 at the Knesset
40. Movie ___ (place for Spielberg)
47. Bright swimmers
49. Parsha with several plagues in Egypt
50. Violinist Zimbalist
51. Its often smelled at Havdalah
52. Murder by ___: Neil Simon comedy
54. Arafats successor
56. Orthodox teenagers org.
57. People for the American Way
founder Norman
58. Reposed
59. Show Boat song Nobody ___ But
Me
60. Deuteronomy Torah portion, literally
see
63. Bit of a laugh
Calendar
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Friday
NOVEMBER 29
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive in the hospital
parking lot, 1-7 p.m. All
donors will receive a red
Super Community Blood
Drive wristband and
have the opportunity to
win two tickets to Super
Bowl XLVIII. 718 Teaneck
Road. (800) 933-BLOOD
or www.nybloodcenter.
org.
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 4:10 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley holds its
annual 101 Menorahs
Shabbat, 6 p.m. Bring
a menorah and four
candles to light. Latkes
and donuts served. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 30
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
next, Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses Making
the Cut: the Jewish Lists,
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.
Chanukah in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee holds a community
candle lighting and
Havdalah service led by
Rabbi Kenneth Stern and
Cantor Paul Zim at the
Triangle, Main Street and
Lemoine Avenue, 6 p.m.
(201) 947-1735.
Sunday
DECEMBER 1
War veterans meet
in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
Veterans meets for
breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
Chanukah in Cliffside
Park: Temple Israel
Community Center/
Congregation Heichal
Yisrael hosts a Chanukah
brunch with omelets and
latkes, a movie, concert,
and games, 1 p.m.
207 Edgewater Road.
Reservations, (201) 945-
7310.
Chanukah in Ringwood:
Chabad of Upper Passaic
County holds a menorah
lighting ceremony with
Ringwoods Mayor Linda
M. Schaefer in front
of Wells Fargo Bank,
5 p.m. Latkes, donuts,
and chocolate gelt.
110 Skyline Drive. (201)
696-7609 or Rabbi@
JewishHighlands.org.
Chanukah in Wayne:
The Chabad Center of
Passaic County holds a
Chanukah carnival with
a Magical Mayhem show,
games, treats, and a
grand balloon menorah
lighting, 3-5 p.m. 194
Razter Road. Chani, (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Chanukah in Wyckoff:
The Chabad Jewish
Center holds a menorah
lighting with elected
officials at Town Hall,
5 p.m. Hot Chanukah
refreshments, glow
giveaways, and a grand
raffle. 340 Franklin Ave.
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Chanukah in Paramus:
Chabad of Paramus lights
a menorah at Paramus
Borough Hall, 6 p.m. 1
West Jockish Square.
(201) 262-7172 or zeesy@
bcfriendship.com.
Chanukah in Woodcliff
Lake: Valley Chabad
offers a community
menorah lighting with
latkes, donuts, dreidels,
music, and dancing,
at the Old Mill Pond,
6:30 p.m. (201) 476-0157
or valleychabad.org/
Chanukah.
Chanukah in Pompton
Lakes: Congregation
Beth Shalom holds a
group menorah lighting
and sing-along with
Rabbi David Bockman,
7 p.m. Latkes and jelly
donuts. Bring a menorah
and candles to light.
21 Passaic Ave. (973)
835-3500 or www.
bethshalomnj.org.
Chanukah in Demarest:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades of Tenafly
holds a menorah lighting
ceremony in the gazebo
at the Demarest Duck
Pond, 7 p.m. The family
festival features the
Skyriders, a menorah
contest, donuts, and
latkes.(201) 871-1152 or
www.chabadlubavitch.
org.
Chanukah in Haskell:
Chabad of Upper
Passaic County
hosts a community
Chanukah celebration
with entertainment by
ventriloquist John Pizzi
and the lighting of a
giant popcorn menorah
at the Haskell Towne
Centre, 7 p.m. 1069
Ringwood Ave, Suite
202.(201) 696-7609 or
Rabbi@JewishHighlands.
org.
Monday
DECEMBER 2
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
holds its Book of the
Lunch program with a
discussion by Marlene
Markoff on Madeline
Albrights book Prague
Winter, noon. Lunch
served. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Chanukah for special
needs children: The
Friendship Circle of
Passaic County hosts
a Chanukah party
for the special needs
community at the Home
Depot, 545 Route 46,
Totowa, 5:30-6:45 p.m.
Build a wood menorah.
Refreshments. (973) 694-
6274 or fcpassaiccounty.
com.
Chanukah in Mahwah:
Chabad of NW Bergen
County leads a menorah
lighting in front of Town
Hall, 6 p.m. Mayor Bill
Laforet and local officials
will be there. Program
includes entertainment,
refreshments, glow-
giveaways, and childrens
crafts in the senior
center. 475 Corporate
Drive. (201) 848-0449 or
www.chabadplace.org.
Chanukah in Allendale:
Valley Chabad offers a
community menorah
lighting with latkes,
donuts, dreidels,
music, and dancing, at
Allendale Borough Hall,
6:30 p.m. 500 Crescent
Ave. (201) 476-0157
Chanukah.
Chanukah in Tenafly:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades holds a
menorah lighting
ceremony in Huyler Park,
7 p.m. County Road.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Chanukah in Wanaque:
Chabad of Upper Passaic
County holds a menorah
lighting ceremony with
Mayor Daniel Mahler in
front of the Municipal
Building, 7 p.m. Latkes,
donuts, and chocolate
gelt. 579 Ringwood
Ave. (201) 696-7609 or
Rabbi@JewishHighlands.
org.
Tuesday
DECEMBER 3
Benefit jewelry show
in Englewood: Noted
Bergen County jewelry
designer Norma
Wellington presents
The Jewish Museum offers a Chanukah
family concert by Ben Rudnick and Friends,
including John Zevos on mandolin and vocals,
Chris Zevos on bass guitar and vocals, David
Dillon on drums, and Kenny Kosek on fiddle on Sunday,
December 12, at 2 p.m. Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street (212)
423-3337 or www.TheJewishMuseum.org. COURTESY JEWISH MUSEUM
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a one-woman jewelry
show at bergenPAC,
10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Portion
of proceeds benefits
bergenPACs scholarship
program. 30 North Van
Brunt St.
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets for a Chanukah
celebration at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m. The Shirat Chesed
Choir will perform,
followed by lunch and
latkes. 10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Chanukah in Teaneck:
New Beginnings, a group
for mature and retired
people at the Jewish
Center of Teaneck, meets
to celebrate Chanukah.
Simie Weinberger, a
specialist in mental
fitness, offers Dreidel
Plus, games and mind-
stretching challenges,
1:30 p.m. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515,
ext. 200, or www.Jcot.
org.
Chanukah in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts Give/
Get 5:30 p.m., with
a candle lighting and
light dinner. Attendees
should bring a menorah
and candles to light and
a new/unwrapped set
of childrens pajamas
and/or books to donate
to the Pajama Project,
an organization that
provides needy children
with warm, clean
pajamas and a bedtime
story. Pizza dinner. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or office@bisrael.
com.
Chabad of Paramus lights
the menorah at Westfield
Garden State Plaza Mall,
Neiman Marcus Court,
6 p.m. The Yavneh
Academy choir will
perform. (201) 262-7172
or zeesy@bcfriendship.
com.
Chanukah in River Vale:
Valley Chabad offers a
community menorah
lighting, with latkes,
donuts, dreidels, music,
and dancing, at the River
Vale Community Center,
6:30 p.m. (201) 476-0157
Chanukah.
Chanukah in Cresskill:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades holds a
menorah lighting
ceremony in front of
the Cresskill Library,
7 p.m. 53 Union Ave.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Chanukah for women
in Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
invited the community
to meet to construct
and light a menorah
made of cans of non-
perishable food, to be
donated to the Northern
New Jersey Food Pantry.
Participants should
bring non-perishable
boxed and/or canned
food. The evening, with
latkes, desserts, and
music, will be at a private
home, 7:30- 9 p.m. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Chanukah in Haskell:
Chabad of Upper
Passaic County hosts a
community Chanukah
celebration with
ventriloquist John Pizzi,
a grand menorah lighting
of a giant popcorn
menorah, chocolate gelt,
latkes, donuts, live music,
and childrens crafts at
the Haskell Towne Centre,
7 p.m. 1069 Ringwood
Ave., Suite 202. (201)
696-7609 or Rabbi@
Improvisational
Bible in Teaneck:
Linda Poskanzer leads
bibliodrama at Temple
Emeth, 8:40 p.m. Course
continues weekly
through December 17.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Wednesday
DECEMBER 4
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for people who are
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.
Chanukah in West
Milford: Chabad of
Upper Passaic County
holds a menorah lighting
ceremony at Town Hall,
5:15 p.m. Latkes, donuts,
and chocolate gelt. 1480
Union Valley Road. (201)
696-7609 or Rabbi@
Chabad of Paramus
lights the menorah at
the Bergen Town Center,
6 p.m. The Yavneh
Academy choir will
perform. (201) 262-7172
or zeesy@bcfriendship.
com.
Night out for moms
with special needs
children: The Friendship
Circle of the Chabad
Center of Passaic County
hosts a Chanukah-
themed spa night at
the Faces Plus Salon in
Wayne, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
$5; includes a manicure.
Discounted haircuts and
skin care products on
sale. Chanukah-themed
desserts. 229 Berdan
Ave. (973) 694-6274 or
chaya@fcpassaiccounty.
com.
Eric Goldman
Film and discussion
in Englewood Cliffs:
Shaar Communities
hosts its monthly Gate
of Study rosh chodesh
class, Drink & Think,
at a private home,
6:30 p.m. Eric Goldman,
film editor for the Jewish
Standard, screens The
Other Son, and leads a
discussion. JoAnne, (201)
213-9569 or joanne@
shaarcommunities.org.
Thursday
DECEMBER 5
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Author speaking in
Tenafly: Jessica Soffer
discusses her book,
Tomorrow There Will
be Apricots, for the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades James H.
Grossmann Memorial
Jewish Book Month
series, 8 p.m. There will
be a VIP reception at 7.
Book signing and sale.
Stephanie, (201) 408-
1426 or www.jccotp.org.
Sushi and saki in
Englewood: The Koby
Mandell Foundation
hosts a benefit featuring
MK Ayelet Shaked of the
Bayit Yehudi party, at a
private home, 7:30 p.m.
Sushi, saki, and more.
(301) 576-6235.
Friday
DECEMBER 6
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
offers a Ch-oliday
potluck dinner after
6 p.m. services. There will
be performances by the
shuls Intergenerational
Choir and by students
and a childrens craft.
Participants should bring
a main or side dish; no
dairy. 950 Preakness Ave.
Dani, (973) 694-5408 or
danigrand@verizon.net.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
offers a family Chanukah
service and concert,
7 p.m. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org or www.tepv.org.
Shabbat in River
Edge: Temple Avodat
Shalom celebrates 10th
night of Chanukah,
6 p.m. Tot Shabbat for
children up to 6 and
their families, 6:30 p.m.;
dinner with latkes, 7:30;
family service with sixth
graders leading services,
7:30, with alternative
service at the same
time. 385 Howland Ave.
Reservations, (201)
489-2463, ext. 202, or
avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts its casual
Frank Sinatra Shabbat
service, 7:30 p.m., with
traditional prayers set to
his melodies. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Maywood:
Reconstructionist
Temple Beth Israel
marks Human Rights
Shabbat with services
and a talk by member
Roz Altman, who works
with the National Council
of Jewish Womens
task force on human
trafficking, 8 p.m. 34
West Magnolia Avenue in
Maywood, off Maywood
Ave. (201) 845-7550,
ext. 1.
Saturday
DECEMBER 7
Shabbat in Maywood:
Reconstructionist Temple
Beth Israel offers a
lunch & learn session,
continuing its series
on midrash, following
services at 10 a.m. Adult
ed chair Martin Springer
and student rabbi Ellen
Jaffe-Gill will present
texts from Exodus
Rabbah, focusing on two
conflicting episodes:
the revelation of Torah
at Mount Sinai and the
creation of the golden
calf. 34 West Magnolia
Avenue in Maywood, off
Maywood Ave. (201) 845-
7550, ext. 1.
In New York
Sunday
DECEMBER 1
Chanukah in NYC:
The Jewish Museum
presents a Chanukah
family concert with Ben
Rudnick and friends,
including John Zevos
(mandolin and vocals),
Chris Zevos (bass guitar
and vocals), David Dillon
(drums), and guest
Kenny Kosek (fiddle),
2 p.m. Fifth Avenue
and 92nd Street Fifth
Avenue and 92nd Street
(212) 423-3337 or www.
TheJewishMuseum.org.
Wednesday
DECEMBER 4
Chanukah in NYC: Sim
Shalom, the Jewish
Universalist online
synagogue, offers a
free jazz-influenced
Chanukah celebration
at StandUpNY, led by
Rabbi Steven Blane
and accompanied
by a jazz trio,
5:30 p.m. Reservations
via Eventbrite. $18
suggested optional
donation.
Lily Brett
FRIEDA STERENBERG
Author in NYC: Lily
Brett discusses her
autobiographical rock
n roll novel, Lola
Bensky, at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 7 p.m. She
will be joined by Liel
Leibovitz, senior writer
at Tablet Magazine. 36
Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
Chanukah in NYC:
The JCC in Manhattan
holds its annual Russian
Chanukah soiree, Latkes
and Vodka, 8 p.m.,
against the backdrop of
Alina and Jeff Bliumis
new exhibit, Casual
Conversations. 334
Amsterdam Ave. @ 76th
Street. (646) 505-5708
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GARY LANDSMAN
T
hanksgiving and Chanukah:
Chanukah and Thanksgiving
Thanksgivuka! Whatever it
was being called and which-
ever part you most looked forward
to celebrating, it was tantalizing to us.
Maybe you had some turkey, certainly
some latkes, and in all likelihood an all-
around assortment of good food (not to
mention the doughnuts).
Add great people and you have a won-
derful recipe for a great time, with just
one missing ingredient. The one thing
that takes any meal and makes it an
occasion. It is the wine (and other adult
beverages).
But what wine to drink? There are
so many fabulous kosher wines on the
market these days it is so hard to choose.
And while we all have a favorite or two it
is always fun to try new stuff.
You have heard it before, but it bears
repeating: the most important thing is
to pick a wine you like dont worry
about the rules for wine pairing. That
said, there are some guidelines you can
follow that may help you discover a new
favorite.
With Thanksgiving, it is said that big
and bold red wines such as Cabernet
or Shiraz will overpower the delicate
flavors of turkey. A rich mushroom or
other savory gravy can definitely help
add some robustness to the turkey so it
will better hold up to a bold and robust
wine.
And if bold red wines are what you
like, bold red wines are what you should
drink!
Thanksgiving is an American holiday
where people often drink the quintes-
sential American wine, Zinfandel. The
Baron Herzog OLD VINE Zin is a big (but
not overpowering) red wine that will go
great with meat or Turkey.
If you prefer to stick with the familiar
Cabernet Sauvignon wines, the Herzog
Reserve Alexander Valley and Binyam-
ina Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon are
familiar favorites. For something new,
keep your eyes out for a new Single Vine-
yard Cabernet from Carmel (Samuka
vineyard). If a nice spicy Shiraz is what
you, like check out the recent arrival
Teal Lake Reserve Shiraz or the new Mt
Tabor Shiraz.
Two other more traditional Thanks-
giving wines are Pinot Noir (a light bod-
ied red that wont overpower turkey and
goes nicely with cranberry sauce) and
Chardonnaya rich white that goes well
with white meat turkey. Good examples
here are Goose Bay Pinot Noir and Bar-
kan Reserve Chardonnay.
As Chanuka kicks into full gear, fried/
greasy foods such as latkes take center
stage. The best pairing for these foods
is one that will refresh your palate such
as a nice bubbly (AKA Sparkling wines,
AKA Champagne). Some people save
Champagne for special occasions which
I think is a mistake. Much like beer it is a
refreshing sparkling beverage just that
this one is made of grapes instead of
grains. Remember, not all sparkling wine
is expensive Champagne. Bartenura Pro-
secco from Italy or Elvi Adar Brut Cava
from Spain are more economical exam-
ples of delicious sparkling wine. And if
you want to go all out for Chanuka which
is a tremendous simcha, Drappier Cham-
pagne is perfect.
Last, but certainly not least is some-
thing with the donuts. And for that mat-
ter, something for the sweet beverage
person in your party. There are lots of
us out there, whether we enjoy that
sweet drink for dessert or throughout
the meal it is nothing to be ashamed of.
If it is OK to add sugar to coffee or tea it
is OK to drink a wine with some sweet-
ness. The obvious choice here is the ever
famous Blue Bottle Bartenura Moscato.
But dont stop there, be adventurous!
Herzog Reserve makes a scrumptious
Orange Muscat late harvest dessert
wine. And there are some alternative
sweet drinks such as Morads Passion
fruit wine or a liqueur that is guaranteed
to go great with cream filled donuts - the
Walders Vodka Vanilla liqueur.
Bold and robust, light and fruity or lus-
cious and sweet, whatever your prefer-
ence, do not forget to make the upcom-
ing Thanksgiving and Chanuka meals
memorable experiences that will last.
Wine rounds out a meal and makes us
feel good. Drink what you like and have
a safe and fun (early) holiday season!
LChaim!!
Obituaries Local
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Rae Friedman
Rae Friedman, 91, who lived in Paterson
and Passaic, died November 21.
Born in Brooklyn, she owned and
operated the Eastside Bakery in Pater-
son, along with her family. Later, she
was the chief deputy county clerk at the
Passaic County Courthouse.
Predeceased by her husband, Sam,
she is survived by her sons, Ira and
Brian, and seven grandchildren.
Contributions can be made to the Jew-
ish Home Assisted Living, River Vale.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Selma Landsman
Selma Landsman, ne Chachanowsky,
96, of Hallandale, Fla., formerly of New
York City, died November 19.
Predeceased by her husband, Jacob,
in 1975, she is survived by a daughter,
Deena, of Aventura, Fla.; a son, Ira, of
Demarest; and a grandson, Joshua.
Arrangements were by Eden Memo-
rial Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee.
Richard Nash
Richard Nash, 80, of Clifton, formerly of
Miami, Parsippany, Fair Lawn, Boyton
Beach, Fla., and New York City, died
November 20.
He is survived by his wife of 59
years, Marilyn, ne Levine; children,
Barry ( Janet) of Bergenfield, Ilene Nash
(Howard Wein) of Clifton, and Marc
(Rochelle) of Passaic; a sister, Sarah
Heiblum of Miami; nine grandchildren;
and two great-grandchildren.
Born in Havana, Cuba, he came to the
United States in 1945. An Army veteran
of the Korean War, he owned Ricky
Nash Appliances in Ridgewood before
retiring. He was a member of the James
I. Platt Jewish War Veterans Post #651
in Fair Lawn and the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center.
Contributions can be sent to Chevra
Kadisha of Passaic/Clifton, Passaic.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass, 55, died November 2 in
Lake Tahoe, Nev.
Born and raised in Teaneck, he
earned a bachelors degree cum laude in
mathematics in 1981, a masters degree
in sociology in 1985, and a doctorate in
sociology in 1986, all from Princeton
University. A researcher on multitask-
ing, he was a professor at Stanford Uni-
versity in California.
Predeceased by his parents, Florence
and Jules Nass, and a brother, Michael,
he is survived by a son, Matt, a student
at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in
Massachusetts, and his partner, Barbara
Pugliese.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Irwin Nijaki
Irwin Nijaki, 87, of Wayne, formerly of
Paterson and Newark, died November 22.
Born in Boroslaw, Poland, he came
to America in 1949. A Holocaust survi-
vor, he was a member of Farband Labor
Zionist Order, Independent Young Mens
Lodzer Society in Fair Lawn, Congrega-
tion Shomrei Torah in Wayne, and the
Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne.
Predeceased by his wife, Marie, in
2012, he is survived by his children,
Lawrence Meyers (Valerie), and Helen
Kaye; and two grandchildren. Donations
can be made to Icahn School of Medi-
cine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Randolph Rogers
Randolph Rogers of Bergenfield died
November 13, a day before his 93rd
birthday.
Born in Austria, he was a British
Army refugee soldier/gunner with the
8th Royal Irish Hussars in the Royal
Armoured Corps. He was taken pris-
oner after participating in the invasion
of Normandy and came to the United
States at wars end. About 15 years ago,
he went to England with his son to
attend a regimental reunion.
An optician in Bergenfield, he was a
long-time member of the Bergenfield-
Dumont Jewish Community Center (now
merged with Congregation Beth Sholom
in Teaneck.)
He is survived by his wife of 61 years,
Rose; daughter Miriam; son Gary (Ruth);
a sister in Israel; and family in America
and Israel.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Dorothy Schneider
Dorothy Schneider, ne Bacal, of
Wayne, formerly of Teaneck, died on
November 25.
Born in Montreal, she was a pioneer
member of the Teaneck Jewish Center
and its sisterhood.
Predeceased by her husband, Louis,
and twin brother, Frank Bacal, she
is survived by her children, Barbara
Friedman ( Jerry) of Wayne, and Steven
(Robin) of Culver City, Calif.; siblings,
Mildred Cohen and Nathan Bacal, both
of Montreal; three grandchildren; and
four great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Parent
Project Muscular Dystrophy. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Robert Webber
Robert Y. Webber, 83, of Englewood,
died November 20. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
It never occurred to me that [Jews by
choice] would make up the majority of
the class, she said. They were so com-
mitted. They felt it was important to be
good role models for their children, and
also wanted to be able to turn around
and help their children.
I pushed them really hard, Rabbi
Litwin said, noting that when asked
what they wanted to accomplish, the
students said they wanted to be able to
come to synagogue services and under-
stand whats going on. We started with
the siddur, page by page, learning the
structure, order, what the prayers mean
and why theyre in that order. But I told
them that they had to have this knowl-
edge reinforced by coming to services.
That really helped them. They felt more
and more comfortable.
The six students met every Monday
night for nearly two hours. A year into
the program, they were joined by Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg, who began to teach
them Torah trope.
Beginning in April, they were assigned
Torah portions.
Some of them took on long aliyot,
Rabbi Litwin said. They were dedicated
to being able to read from the Torah and
learn some part of the service, whether
taking out the Torah or doing Musaf. It
was really important for them. They felt
they were learning something meaning-
ful. The class was inspiring to them as
they grew as a community. They wanted
to give honor to it.
Sometimes the women went out after
class to spend time together at a local
restaurant. Last winter, they went to
Rabbi Litwins home for a Chanukah
celebration.
There was really a community feel-
ing, she said.
At the service, Rabbi Litwin paid trib-
ute to the efforts of her students, Alanna
Carter, Suzanne Holden, Susan Landau,
Erin Lindenberg, Linda Paige, and Tricia
Schreiber.
I am proud of them, as a class and as
individuals, she said. I am touched by
the efforts that each of them has made
to be at class every Monday night for
two years, with almost no exception.
Alanna rented a Zipcar every week and
shlepped in from New York City; Erin
shifted her on-call duties as a pediatri-
cian and mom of very young twins; Suzie
made sure that Josh was home to be with
their children, despite his many commit-
ments as synagogue vice president and
now president; Linda overcame her fear
of public speaking and singing in pub-
lic; Susan found herself more and more
comfortable coming to synagogue every
week; and Tricia, moved by the experi-
ence of her childrens bnai mitzvah and
living life in a Jewish family for almost 20
years, converted to Judaism last spring
as a part of this journey to becoming bat
mitzvah.
According to Rabbi Litwin, the feed-
back from the congregation was over-
whelmingly positive. One woman, a
longtime member, came up to me a
week later and said this was one of the
most special moments we had at this
synagogue.
Rabbi Litwin said she was gratified on
both a personal and a professional level
to have made such an impact on both
the community and the bnot mitzvah,
who were inspired to commit them-
selves to study and prepare for some-
thing Jewish. It was amazing. It makes
my work so much more meaningful.
Another bnai mitzvah class will begin
at the synagogue next year after the high
holidays, and six members already have
committed to join.
Bat mitzvah
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Conference urged to focus on plight
of Jewish refugees from Arab countries
Jewish and Israeli leaders on Thursday
urged greater attention to the plight of
the 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab
countries during a conference on the
issue at the United Nations.
Israeli Minister of Energy and Water
Silvan Shalom said, Over the last 65
years, the U.N. and its agencies have
spent tens of billions of dollars on Pal-
estinian refugees, but not a cent on Jew-
ish refugees.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice
chairman of the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American Jewish Orga-
nizations, reiterated a recent statement
by 42 groups on the fate of the Iraqi Jew-
ish Archive artifacts recovered from
the basement of the Iraqi intelligence
ministry in 2003 and restored by the
U.S. government. Twenty-four of the
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Washington, D.C., but all of them are
set to return to the Iraqi government
later, despite the belief that Iraq stole
them from the Jewish community.
We urge our government not to
send them back to an uncertain fate
in Iraq, where hundreds of holy Torah
scrolls remain in disuse and decay,
Hoenlein said.
Ron Prosor, Israeli ambassador to
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resources and assets put together in
order to compile it the way it is; it was
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Michael Weiner
Michael Weiner, 51, of Mansfield,
formerly of Pompton Lakes, died
November 21.
Born in Paterson, he spent his career
with the Major League Baseball Play-
ers Association, serving as its executive
director since 2009. He was a con-
gregant, board member, and Sunday
school teacher at the Jewish Center of
Northwest Jersey in Washington. The
Hebrew School was renamed the JCNWJ
Mike Weiner School of Jewish Learning
last summer. He received a Bicentennial
Medal from his alma mater, Williams
College, in September, and the Arthur
Richman You Gotta Have Heart award
by the New York chapter of the Base-
ball Writers Association of America in
January.
His father, the late Isaac Weiner, was a
principal of Pike Construction Company.
He is survived by his wife of 32 years,
Diane; his mother, Regina Raskin Pom-
per (Lewis); stepmother, Terry Weiner;
daughters, Margie, Grace, and Sally;
mother/father-in-law, Rose and Steve
Margolin; siblings, David (Ronni), and
Danielle ( John); brother-in-law, Andrew
(Diane); stepsister, Lisa Pomper; and
nieces and nephews.
Donations can be sent to Voices
Against Brain Cancer, the Baseball
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office. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Ellen Wolf
Ellen R. Wolf, ne Dorf, 76, of Fair Lawn,
died November 21.
A graduate of Brooklyn College, before
retiring she was a secretary for the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers Union
in New York City.
She is survived by her husband of
53 years, Charles; a daughter, Jill Eilert
(Steven) of Wayne; a brother, Jack Dorf
(Susan); and two grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Valley
Hospital Foundation, Ridgewood, or the
American Heart Association. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
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