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Madonna: Happy Purim!!!!
Did they bring Spider-Mantashen?

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Top celebrity Purim costumes

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Schneider Childrens Medical Center of Israel, this Purim holiday was out of this world. Thanks to two volunteer window washers who dressed up as superheroes, the sick children were treated to a fantastic surprise: Spiderman dangling from ropes outside the hospitals windows. The children and their families
could not participate in celebrations outdoors, so hospital staff swooped in to the rescue and brought the fun to them. But wait: Two Spidermen? Luckily, the children are too young to remember the infamous Spiderman Clone Saga that roiled the pages of Marvel Comics in the ISRAEl21C.ORG mid 1990s.
Purim hoax fools Dutch media

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vors, widows, people with disabilities they all are regulars at the Amsterdam office of the Dutch Jewish welfare organization called JMW. But a 20-minute visit to JWM by President Obama and his army of Secret Service agents? Now thats news. Or, at least, thats what journalists for leading Dutch media thought when they learned last weekend that Mr. Obama would stop by JMW on his visit next week to the Netherlands. As it turns out, the president will not be visiting JMW. Reports that he would visit were a successful Purim joke started by the up-and-coming Dutch Jewish news site Jonet.nl, with help from JMW itself. The prank fooled not only the Amsterdam television station AT5 and the Amsterdam FM radio station, but even the highbrow NRC Handelsblad daily, which, after reporting on it, issued a retraction and a detailed explanation about how they were fooled to readers of its online edition. It also surprised Jaap Koos, a JMW employee on call duty that day. Usually he gets no more than a phone call or two, but that weekend his phone rang constantly, according to the online article by NRC. Three people called this morn-
ing [about Obama], and I had no idea what they were talking about, he told NRC Sunday. So I called JMW Director Hans Vuijsje, who just couldnt stop laughing. Mr. Vuijsje was a major culprit, offering Jonet a quote that seemed to leak parts of the presidents schedule. He wanted to go see the Anne Frank House, but this was logistically and from a security point of view impossible and too time costly, Mr. Koos said. That quote was supposed to be the clincher, but its what made me a Netherlands-based reporter who covers European Jewry for JTA pass up the bait. Id interviewed the director of the Anne Frank House, Ronald Leopold, the previous week, you see, and he didnt strike me as someone whod just forget to mention being considered for a presidential visit. Two hours after tweeting the news that Mr. Obama was going to visit JMW, Jonet and JMW called their own hoax and apologized to colleagues who fell for it. Theyd better watch out, however. April Fools Day is just a few weeks away, and the many outlets they tricked are likely scheming up their payback.
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dress up on Purim. But now they do. And they post pictures of their costumes on Instagram even if not all of their fans know what day it is. And in the miracle of 21st century Jewish/celebrity interaction, the celebrities who dress up arent necessarily even Jewish. Take Madonna, the Catholic-raised, Kabbalah-Center-attending singer, crowned by JTA, the Jewish news agency, as wearing the best Purim celebrity costume. She dressed as Daenerys Targaryen, a royal character on Game of Thrones, writing on Instagram: Happy Purim!!!!! All Hail All Queens!
Bar Refaeli: #happyPurim

It was less surprising to see a Purim costume on model Bar Refaelis Instagram page. After all, not only is she Jewish, but she lives in Israel, where Purim is a national holiday. She dressed as a stylish tiger with a stylish matching Chanel bag.
LARRY YUDElSON
Rooster on the run in Jaffa stadium

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field, but tell that to the Bloomfield Stadium security team in Jaffa. They had to chase a wayward rooster off the field in the middle of a recent game. The feathered fan took to the field at the 18 minute mark. Decked in orange ribbons, the color of the home Bnei Yehuda team, his entrance was perhaps intended to boost morale of the Tel Aviv-based team, now at the bottom of the league. The referee quickly called a time out, but removing the bothersome bird from the field was not a quick task, even for the highly trained security officials, all of them no doubt veterans of the Israel Defense Force. In fact, videos of the event now making the rounds on YouTube show one of the security guards slipping on the grass. The rooster continued to elude the grasp of his pursuers, eventually choosing to exit the field on his own. If the rooster maneuver had been intended to boost the teams morale,
however, it was a bird-brained failure; after play resumed, Bnei Yehudas 2:0 lead evaporated and Hapoel Tel Aviv managed a 2:2 tie.
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Noahs liquid assets

Big biblical epics represent a risk/ reward for Hollywood movie studios of, well, biblical proportions. Such an epic can become a megahit if the product pleases both general audiences and the portion of the audience that are religious believers. However, since the Bible text usually gives only a bare-bones story, the filmmaker virtually always has to invent dialogue and situations to create a dramatically satisfying film. The rub is any such invention inevitably displeases some religious believers. So Paramount bigwig Rob Moore, a rare devout Christian among studio execs, knew he was taking a big chance when he agreed to provide filmmaker DARREN ARONOFSKY, 44, with $135 mil to make Noah, the story of the prophet and the mother of all floods. Aronofsky, who co-wrote the film, sought out the counsel of many regarding his script, including Rabbi GEOFFREY DENNIS, 54, an expert on Jewish mysticism. Aronofsky says he shows Noah as something of an environmentalist, and this portrait has upset some conservative evangelicals. (Paramount has added a tag line that Noah is just inspired by Genesis.) Moore, who prescreened the film for Christian pastors, says he is sure that Aronofskys final cut wont offend most Christian believers, and hes confident that the studios millions have bought it a good dramatic film with great special effects. Russell Crowe stars as Noah; with JENNIFER CONNELLY, 43, as Noahs wife, and LOGAN LERMAN, 22, as Ham, one of Noahs three sons. (Opens Friday, March 28). Sir Anthony Hopkins has a meaty supporting role as Methuselah, Noahs grandfather. He is reported as living until he was 969 years old; he is the oldest person mentioned in the Bible. (For more on Noah, see our review on page 51.) LAUREN BACALL made her first film in 1944. She was only 19 then and had much more experience as a model than as an actress. Nonetheless, she blew audiences and critics away with her co-starring role as Humphrey Bogarts love interest in To Have and Have Not. It is now 70 years later, and Bacall is still working. She is the voice of The Grey One in the English-language version of Ernestine and Clementine, a charming French animated chil-
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drens film. It opens, wide, on March 28. At 91, actor FYVUSH FINKEL, a former Yiddish theater star, is much in demand to perform his recently created nightclub act. He tells stories, jokes, and sings. Asked about exercise, he just told the NY Post: Please. My exercise is where I live. I walk in the halls. Also I enjoy myself. Especially when I have to run from ladies in the synagogue. I was married 61 years. Shes gone now. I should marry again? JOAN RIVERS, 80, is still quite funny when dishing on celebrities on
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Filming Sophie Tucker
Pomona couple researches and tells story of the last red-hot mama
JOANNE PALMER
What most of us know about Sophie Tucker now is just little wisps of information big, brassy, loud, vulgar, Yiddishinflected. The last of the red-hot mamas whatever, precisely, that might mean. A huge personality, a lost time. As it turns out, Ms. Tucker was a complicated person under all that faade and a very good one. Sue and Lloyd Ecker of Pomona, entrepreneurs who have earned themselves the luxury of pursuing a dream, have shared a fascination with Ms. Tucker for decades and have devoted the last seven years of their lives to her. They have unearthed a trove of information and have worked on a documentary about her; they plan on screening a preview of that work in Suffern on April 6. The Eckers are both exuberant, huge personalities themselves. Perhaps, to some extent, that explains their Sophie Tucker obsession. They take turns telling the story, interrupting, filling in omissions, adding color to each others already colorful narratives. It started in 1973, Ms. Ecker said. Lloyd and I were at Ithaca College together he was an upperclassman, the chairman of the student activities board. A real big shot a big man on campus. I was 6 feet 4 inches, and 132 pounds, Mr. Ecker said. And I was 5 feet 2 inches, a little nothing, Ms. Ecker added. We went out on a date, and it turned out that it was a concert that he had arranged, with an up-and-coming singer named Bette Midler. She hadnt been on the Johnny Carson show yet; she was on the verge, and her career took off right afterward. I promised them that if they elected me, I would get them a big concert, Mr. Ecker interjected. I was in the drama department, and I get to go on this first date sitting in the first row, Ms. Ecker said. And lots of people in my department were angry because they couldnt get seats. And then Lloyd said excuse me, and the next second he was up on stage, introducing Bette Midler. And then we had dinner with her. All this is relevant because Bette Midler does a shtick about Sophie Tucker in all her concerts. She tells Sophie Tucker jokes very raunchy, very bawdy, Mr. Ecker said. It piqued their interest. Sue and Lloyd got married in 1975 and had three children. They went into know a mother or father who would like to get free stuff for the baby? we would make a lot of money. (Im a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Ecker said.) They boned up on the internet quickly, and figured it out. It paid off. Eighteen months later, we got an offer for $23 million, Mr. Ecker said. So he sold the business. I came home that day after I signed the deal that was December 20, 2006 and I walked into the sofa. And then I said, Okay, Sue, heres the check. What do you want to do now? And she said, I want to have dinner with Bette Midler again. But not so fast. Mr. Ecker decided that there were some intermediate steps to take. Given the Eckers, not surprisingly, they were big ones. I said, why dont we find out who this Sophie Tucker is, and we will do a fullblown documentary, and after that we will write a book, like a fictitious memo, and then we will take it to some Hollywood studio, and it will have a big part for Bette Midler, and she will win the Academy Award, and then well have dinner with Bette Midler. They began their research on the internet. They found that Ms. Tucker had written an autobiography; it was out of print, but eventually they tracked down a copy. There had been two biographies of her, and in one they learned that she had donated 400 scrapbooks to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. We went on my birthday in August 2006 and they gave us one to read, Mr. Ecker said. And as soon as we read the first one, I said, Oh my God, this is a treasure trove. She was the Forrest Gump of show business. From 1906 to 1966, she was everywhere. She met everyone. The Eckers managed to read all the journals. Getting them was like the Raiders of the Lost Ark, but after we donated a considerable amount of money to microfilm them, they gave us access, Mr. Ecker said. They spent four years reading not only the librarys 400 volumes but another 100 archived at Brandeis University as well. As it turned out, Ms. Tucker chronicled absolutely everything, and she led a big life. She kept everything, Ms. Ecker said. On the one hand, she wrote about how a visit to England led to a meeting with the king and the Prince of Wales; on the other, she kept receipts from hotels from everywhere, letters from everyone.
Sophie Tucker wears the plumage and finery of the early 1900s. Inset, Tucker and Jimmy Durante mug it up.
Sue and Lloyd Ecker are sharing their fascination with the extraordinary life of Sophie Tucker.
business selling maternity items for fathers-to-be; it was not a niche begging to be filled, but their hats, shirts, and mugs appealed to many buyers. Next, they made money but bored themselves
with credit card machines, and then someone showed me this newfangled thing called the internet, Mr. Ecker said. He said, If you can show me how to put this question on the internet Do you
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Shed have pictures not only of famous people but also of regular ones. Shed make friends and sit around in peoples houses, or in their backyards. She was the kind of person who created her own audience. She would walk into a town and work at night, but during the day shed walk around and introduce herself to people. Shed say, Im Sophie Tucker, and Im opening at the Palace tonight, and shed take names and addresses. The next time she was coming to town, shed send a postcard. She would build an audience by being her own publicist. Before there was Facebook, there was Tuckerbook, Ms. Ecker said. Ms. Tucker was born in Poland, came to Boston with her parents when she was a baby, and then moved with them to Hartford, Conn., when she was about 8 years old. Her mother owned a kosher restaurant there. One thing she learned from her mother, other than hard work and how to wash dishes, was to give to charity, Ms. Ecker said. Her mother would stand at the back door, and shed give any food left over to the poor. She was one of the founders of the senior citizens home in Hartford, the Hebrew Home for the Aged. Sophie got a sense of what it was to give tzedakah. Her mother always said that if you have anything extra, give it away. On her deathbed, she was giving orders about who to buy coal for. Ms. Tucker did not have a very fulfilling private life she was married three times, not well, and her one child, a son, did not leave much of a record. But her public life was wildly successful. By 1920, she was the best way to describe her was Marilyn Monroe, or Lady Gaga, or Madonna, at the height of her career, Ms. Ecker said. Thats how big she was. She met every president, all the way from Woodrow Wilson through to Reagan, before he was elected. She was friends with the Kennedys, and LBJ, and Eleanor Roosevelt. On the flip side, Al Capone played cards with her every night for about a year. On the other hand, she was one of J. Edgar Hoovers few friends. We say in the movie this is one of the few things from the movie well give away J. Edgar Hoover asked her for one of her dresses. Ms. Tucker was generous to many communities, including the Jewish one. She celebrated the 50th anniversary of her career at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, Mr. Ecker said; she filled the main ballroom with her friends. She picked out 10 charities, and gave each one an amount of money that corresponded to the Hebrew year. A lot of people didnt know what the hell that number was, Mr. Ecker said.
Sophie Tucker breaks into song on her sofa. Tucker, the subject of a new documentary, was a show biz xture for sixty years and kept detailed records of people and performances.
Her relationship to Judaism was neither consistent not conventional, he continued. She said she kept Hollywood kosher, which included lobster, shellfish, and pigs knuckles. On some years, she refused to work on the high holidays; and on others, she would decide not to work on Kol Nidrei, but would on Rosh Hashanah. She also gave large sums of money to Israel. Her legendary bawdiness was not particularly real, he continued. She used a lot of innuendo, Mr. Ecker said. She was William Morriss first client William Morris was the founder of a legendary talent agency that bore his name and he said, I want you to work blue. She did this before Mae West, before Jean Harlow. She was the first woman entertainer to work blue. She would push the censors to the limit. Thats one reason shes so important to the history of the American stage. She never cursed, Ms. Ecker said. She would say things like, My boyfriend has the biggest dinghy in the Navy. And then, when people laughed, she would say, I dont know whats on your mind, but my mind is perfectly clean. It was an act. A publicity stunt. She really was the biggest prude in the world, her husband added. The Eckers have made the documentary and written the fictional memoir that they had planned. The film has serious credentials its executive producer was Grammy-award-winning Phil Ramone. The Eckers have so much more information than they have been able to use that they want to keep going. They hope that a Broadway show might be in their future as well. And after that, the dinner with Bette Midler. For now, the movie will be screened in Suffern, and all the money raised will go to three groups the Jewish Federation of Rockland, which will use it to build a playground for disadvantaged children in Haifa; the JCC of Rockland County, and the Eckers shul, the Montebello Jewish Center. The screening, to which participants are invited to wear black tie and will enter on a red carpet, will be followed by a Foremost-catered dinner. The dinner will be Eastern European in theme like the Russian food she grew up on, except it will be gourmet, Mr. Ecker said. The evening will cost $100 per participant, and every cent of it will go to Montebello, the federation, and the JCC, he added. He and his wife are covering all the costs the theater, the dinner, and all the incidentals. In donating this generously to causes in which they believe, they are simply following the example set by their muse, Sophie Tucker.
Who: Sue and Lloyd Ecker present What: Dinner and preview screening of their film on Sophie Tucker Where: Movie at the Lafayette Theater and dinner at the Crowne Plaza, both in Suffern, N.Y. How much: $100 per person; all will go to charity. Why: To benefit the Montebello Jewish Center, the Rockland County JCC, and the Jewish Federation of Rockland County (which will use the funds for a playground in Haifa). For information or reservations: www.jccrockland.org or (845) 362-4400 For information about the movie: sophietucker.com
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Now, New Jersey schools Holocaust play tells familys story
LARRY YUDELSON
It bothers me when I talk about those things, Zelik Diamond of Monsey said. To somebody else its a story. Its forgotten already. Mr. Diamond had just inished retelling what happened on Passover, 1942, in his native Polish village, Dolhinov, which was under German occupation. It was a powerful, memory-searing account. But for him, it was something more. That gap he described, between painful, personal memory and remote, cold history, is what makes Holocaust education both urgent and impossible. How do you teach the incomprehensible? For 30 years, the Yavneh Academy in Paramus, N.J. has made theater the centerpiece of its eighth-grade Holocaust education program. Each year, some eighth-grade students write a play adapting a story from the Holocaust, and all of the eighth-graders take a part in it. This year, the play tells the story of Mr. Diamond and his wife, Mindl, who also came from Dolhinov. The two did not meet until their return to Dolhinov after the war, but their families knew each other. The play begins before the war, when the town of 4,500, 3,000 of them Jewish, had ive synagogues and the life of young Zelik his last name was Dimenstein then consisted largely of school and shul. We lived a different life up there, he said. When I was sick, what do you think my father bought for me? A Gemara. Baba Kama. He didnt bring me a piece of chocolate. On Shabbat afternoon, when his father napped after lunch, you didnt get to just go and play. I had to go to Chaim Katz, of blessed memory, to learn Pirkei Avos. He pauses. He had choked up remembering Rabbi Katz. Later in the interview he will recall how Rabbi Katz was murdered. Death came to the Jews of Dolhinov in three waves. Rabbi Katz was killed in the irst massacre Mr. Diamond uses the Hebrew word shechita, slaughter when 800 of the towns Jews were butchered. The rabbi was holding a Torah scroll. Mrs. Diamonds mother, grandmother, and older sister were killed in this slaughter, three days before Passover. Mr. Diamonds family made it through. Zelik, who was 20 years old then, had been out of town. We were cutting trees, about 18 kilometer from town, Mr. Diamond said. We found out there was the shechita. We headed back. I went to a goy I knew. He let us in. He brought us potatoes in the morning to eat. I sent him into town to take a look at what goes on. I got ammunition. How did he get ammunition? You ight for it, Mrs. Diamond said. The stories Mr. Diamond tells are dramatic. One New Years Eve, the partisans handed out sheets, made into coats. Dressed in white, they attacked and conquered a German air ield. Then they had plenty of ammunition. And also wonderful cigarettes. They smelled so good. I used to smoke in those days. We kept that airport a long time. Then we got in touch with the Russian government. They used to bring us ammunition. That helped a lot. One time they didnt give them the right signal to prove to the Russian pilots supplying them that they were partisans, not Nazis. They dropped the bomb right on us. He was extraordinary close to his mom, said his daughter, Leta Greenstein. My grandmother was killed in the second shechita. After that my father was fearless. They found out there were 20 Jews in the forest, and the Germans were coming to kill them, she said. My father told his father he was going to try to rescue them. My grandfather was very upset. He said, Youll be killed. My father said, Either 21 Jews will come out alive, or 21 Jews will die. My grandfather kissed him and said, Your mother will watch over you. He saved a lot of people, Rabbi Burstein said. Whenever he saw people in peril he went out of his way to save them. Over a hundred Jews survived because of him. After the war, Mrs. Greenstein said, My fathers father had decided there was nothing left there. The ground is soaked in Jewish blood. We have to leave, he said. My mother and her sister said We want to leave also. My father convinced my other grandfather to leave as well. They ended up in D.P. camp in the American Zone. There, Zelik and Mindl six years his junior decided to marry. The irst wedding in the D.P. camp was my mothers sister, she said. My parents were the second wedding. That was in 1946. In 1949, the Diamonds came to America, settling in Omaha, Nebraska, where two aunts had come in the 1920s. Their daughter has the trace of a midwestern accent; she came to New York for college and then settled in Monsey. It was only two years ago that she, her sister, and their mother
Mindl and Zelik Diamond, above, survived the Holocaust, living with partisans in the Polish woods. Next week, Yonatan Gordon and Jessie Gronowitz, right, will play them in the annual Yavneh Academy Holocaust play.
My father alav hashalom of blessed memory sent me back a note: I should come home. That was Pesach night. There still was snow. The snow wasnt white, it was red. My mother closed up the windows. We sat down and put on a seder. They had the guts to sit down and put on a seder. Passover morning. You would go to shul? No. My father gave me a shovel and took me to bury the corpses. In the next round of killings, the second shechita, Mr. Diamonds mother and one of his sisters were murdered. Each father made plans to get out and escape the ghetto, said Rabbi Shmuel Burstein, who heads Yavnehs Holocaust education program. They anticipated the inal third shechita that was going to come. Rabbi Burstein met the Diamonds through his mother, a neighbor of theirs, and has been commissioned by their family to write their story. Last year he brought them to speak at the school. This year, he
asked the family if he could submit their story to Dominique Cieri, the playwright who has been guiding the schools Holocaust theater program for 20 years. Rabbi Burstein submitted three stories for possible adaptation; the Diamonds was chosen. Much of the play takes place in the forest, where Zelik and Mindl, separately, survived, living with the partisans. I asked if I could join them, Mr. Diamond said. Do you have ammunition? they asked. That went on the whole summer of 42. Then I managed to join them.
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convinced their father to retire, at age 90, from the furniture store where he had worked for nearly 60 years, and join his two children, 10 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren in Monsey. Last week, several of the middle school students who are acting in the stage version of the Diamonds life traveled to Monsey and spent three hours talking to the couple. Theyre really amazing, said Jessie Gronowitz, 13, of Teaneck, N.J., who plays Mrs. Diamond in the play. Mindl is very sweet. She cares about others, Jessie said. Meeting the person you play is a very rare opportunity. I think it will help me in the play. She has acted in many plays, both at the JCC and in summer camp. All the plays Ive done have been either musicals or happy plays, she said. In a way this is a new experience because its so serious and also a true story. Its a lot of pressure because theyll be there. Jessie was part of the writing team that drafted the play over an intense two-week period, where we just missed a lot of class and worked on it. Ms. Cieri, the playwright, who teaches drama at William Paterson University, coached them. She outlined the story, then we had to visualize the scene and imagine what they were saying, Jessie said. We had to put ourselves in their position. Their irst draft was revised to make it not sound so modern. There were a lot of phrases that they wouldnt say. The play is also considerably less violent than the reality had been. Grenades and pistols are used as props, but violence happens only offstage. In the play, Jessie said, Mrs. Diamond doesnt have a lot of lines. Most of the storyline is my husbands. In the scenes Im in, its mostly my father talking. I have some pep talks. When my sisters are saying the Germans will not stop until they kill us all, I say Shula, you have to live. You have to go on with life. Tati will watch over us. Were together and well go on with life. Or something like that. I dont have my script with me right now, Jessie said. Yonatan Gordon, 13, is from Fair Lawn, N.J. He plays Zelik Diamond, whom he described as very interesting. He has a lot of stories to tell. And also: Very tall. Mr. Diamond is six foot one. Yonatan inds the character inspiring. He didnt really give up hope. He kept on going. He always wanted to help other people. I think any other person would have just tried to save their own life. Jessie said shes really honored to portray Mrs. Diamond on stage. Mindl and Zelig are such amazing people, and their story is so miraculous. Its very important to remember the Holocaust and tell everyones story, she said. Mrs. Greenstein, the Diamonds daughter, feels strongly my parents should speak to young people. Its part of their heritage. But Zelik Diamond has his doubts about the power of his words. Even with the kids they are wonderful kids but its a story. Some of them will remember, maybe, Years ago the guy with the accent said whatever.
What: Yavneh Academys annual Holocaust play, Diamonds in the Forest When: Thursday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. Where: Paramus High School, 99 East Century Road
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When life hands you illness, make lemonade. That may be a prescription straight from Maimonides, if a Ben Gurion University scholar is correct in attributing to the famed doctor and rabbinic sage a recipe found in the Cairo Genizah. (Discovered by Solomon Schechter in the 19th century, the Genizah collected centuries of discarded documents, books, letters, and even prescriptions written by the Cairo community dating back over a thousand years.) Amir Ashur cautions that some aspects of the medieval recipes handwriting arent normally characteristic of Maimonidean handwriting. But writing on the website of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit of Cambridge University, where he is a research fellow, Dr. Ashur says a careful comparison of the handwriting of this recipe to Maimonides known autographs clariies, in my opinion, that this manuscript is written in his hand. Tr a n sl a t e d f ro m t h e Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic written with Hebrew characters), the recipe reads as below.
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One ounce of sticky sugar melted in hot water. He should squeeze juice from two lemons onto it and drink it lukewarm in order to vomit. One hour after vomiting, he should sip two ounces of a lemon and squill-like oxymel drink, heated to lukewarm on a low flame, mixed with melissa-type and green mint leaves. And he should be careful not to eat unripe dates, Christs Thorn jujube, green almonds, carob, green broad beans, carrots and any food that contains vinegar or taro. And for dessert he should eat only raisins, pistachios, figs and nuts. The Lord will ward off from you all sickness. May the well-being of his Excellency increase forever and ever! Selah! 3/11/14 8:51 AM Page 1 #16551 FV Rockland-Spring Clr Ad_6.5x5
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Fair Lawn man aims for Guinness-record dinner in Tel Aviv
ABIGaIL KLEIN LEICHMaN
y Shultz is determined to set a a new world record while promoting Tel Aviv usually cited for its nightlife and startup culture as a great place to spend Shabbat. The 37-year-old Fair Lawn native, who has lived in Israel since 2006, has earned a reputation as the International Mayor of Tel Aviv after a series of grandscale initiatives geared at positioning his adopted city as welcoming haven for young professional immigrants. His latest exploit: Through his popular White City Shabbat program, which offers communal meals for young Israelis and immigrants at local synagogues, Mr. Shultz launched an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign to sponsor the worlds largest Shabbat dinner. He hopes it leads to a Guinness world record. (To find it online, just google indiegogo White City Shabbat dinner and follow the link.) The free kosher dinner, scheduled for June 13 at Hangar 11 in the Tel Aviv port, is expected to seat at least 1,000 diners. Invited guests include Tel Avivs Mayor Ron Huldai; its chief rabbi, Yisrael Meir Lau, and Israels deputy minister of religious affairs, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan. Both Mr. Huldai and Rabbi Lau have joined in past White City Shabbat dinners, which have attracted more than 10,000 people in total and average about 200 at each monthly meal. But it was not enough for this colorful entrepreneur to go public with his appeal to raise $25,000 by April 9 to cover his costs. Mr. Shultz enlivened the campaign by starring in a tongue-in-cheek takeoff of the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World commercials, dubbed The Most Interesting Jew in the World. The clip, made on zero budget thanks to donated services, shows a debonair Mr. Shultz with an unlit cigar in his hand and a beautiful blonde model at his side, inviting people to partake in the worlds largest Shabbat dinner. I dont always keep Shabbat, but when I do, I prefer White City, he intones, keeping his face straight. Tel Aviv is nicknamed the White City; its earned that sobriquet because of its many white Bauhaus-style buildings. Funny though the video may be, Mr. Shultz is dead serious about this project. He even secured a matching $5,000 grant for it from the ROI Community, of which he is an alumni. Were not breaking, but setting, a record, he emphasizes. We petitioned Guinness to create a new category called
Jay Shultz, in a spoof of a well-known advertisement, plays The Most Interesting Jew in the World. At least his friend seems to be buying into the idea.
For us, what makes it interesting is that we are highlighting to the entire Jewish world that Tel Aviv is important for the Jewish people today. It has always been a mandate of White City Shabbat, since I started it six years ago, to make Tel Aviv a portal for religious life in Israel. Its not turning sin city into something holy, because Tel Aviv is already part of the Holy Land. Its revealing the true DNA of the city. In fact, the next promotional video for the mega international blockbuster event will feature Rabbi Lau inviting people to the meal and talking about the history, beauty, and importance of Sabbath observance in Tel Aviv. Hes holding a copy of a 1933 poster that the first mayor, Meir Dizengoff despite his own secular leanings posted all over Tel Aviv, teaching the value of keeping the Sabbath holy. Mr. Shultz and his committee of volunteers including Eytan White, a former student at the Torah Academy of Bergen County hope that Ashkenazim, Sephardim, new immigrants, native Israelis, and Tel Avivians ranging from the ultraOrthodox to the ultra-secular all will feel welcome to attend at no charge. (Of course, donations will be accepted with dinner reservations.) Ordinarily, the dinners cost NIS 80 per person, or about $25. At any given White City Shabbat dinner, youll hear about 10 languages spoken, and the worlds largest Shabbat dinner will be no exception, said Natalie Solomon, a new immigrant from Alabama who is one of the events organizers. We would like to see Jews from all over the globe take part in this event, either to come and enjoy this spectacular demonstration of Jewish peoplehood in person or by donating to our fundraising efforts. After all, Shabbat is the soul of the Jewish people, and Tel Aviv is a focal point of the Jewish world. Mr. Shultz said that his umbrella group, TLV Internationals, strives to be a lighthouse to shine to Jews around the world to come home, specifically to Tel Aviv, which was the first Jewish city of modern times. A proponent of observant proactive Zionism something far more than eating chicken soup and buying Israel Bonds, Mr. Schultz graduated from Fair Lawn High School, Rutgers University, and Fordham Law School. He is the son of Howard and Sabina Shultz of Fair Lawn. UK Toremet is the fiscal sponsor of the worlds largest Shabbat dinner. Other partial sponsors include the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality, Hangar 11, Golan Heights Winery, and the Israeli Religious Affairs Ministry.
We petitioned Guinness to create a new category called Shabbat, and it took months. They came back to us with thick guidelines.
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Shabbat, and it took months. They came back to us with thick guidelines about what makes a Shabbat dinner and what rules and regulations we have to follow to prove it. Were getting rabbinical guidance on how to balance that with the laws of Shabbat. For example, they have figure out how to have the event filmed without violating Shabbat, and how to count participants without writing down names or stamping hands. But these details are not what float Mr. Shultzs boat.
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The liminal season
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Ask the right questions
ts always such an odd season, these weeks between Purim and Pesach. The month see s a shift in weather as winter (usually) gives up its sad black-edged snowy grip and spring unfurls. It usually sees Jewish households in frantic clean-up-throw-out-scour-thekitchen-scour-the-stores-buy-cookbuy-cook-freeze-freeze-freeze mode, and at the same time spring clothes are pulled out of closets and drab winter wools stuffed gratefully away. This year, though, seems weird. Oddly unsettled.
Maybe its the weather. Its been so cold for so long that spring seems unlikely, even though it began yesterday; right now the sky is the bright blue of April, but the air still has the pale, sharp-shadowed look of winter. And maybe its because the world itself, always precarious, seems so much more so just now. Maybe its the plane that vanished into the clear blue sky of Malaysia after flying over the Strait of Malucca exotic, nearly fairytale places and maybe its the resurgence of Cold War rhetoric in Ukraine and Crimea, a place
whose name evokes Tennyson and Victorian wars. (The Crimea is where the Charge of the Light Brigade happened Stormd at with shot and shell,/ Boldly they rode and well,/ Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell/ Rode the six hundred. Lets hope thats not a template for our century.) But things do change. The light does get richer. The shadows lose their edge. Pesach and its message of liberation draws closer by the day, beckoning at the other end of the charge of the kitchen brigade. Its spring. There really is hope.
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So, really, why be Jewish?
Drafts of wrath
Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon Thy name. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation. These lines from Psalm 79 are familiar to us all from their recitation at the Passover seder, added when our Festival of Liberation was transformed, in Christian Europe, to a season of pogroms and blood libels. The psalm itself, of course, long predates Christianity and the diaspora; as is clear from its opening verse, it targets the heathen who are come into Thine inheritance; they have defiled Thy holy temple. These heathens presumably Nebuchadnezzers Babylonians have given the dead bodies of Thy servants to be food unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of Thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, with none to bury them. Now, the psalm has been repurposed to pray for protection against a new enemy that has arisen. Not Iran. Not Hamas. Not Vladimir Putin. No, the new enemy, which hundreds of thousands of self-styled fervently Orthodox Jews gathered to protest, in Jerusalem and New York, is the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which planned this week to pass a law that would ostensibly require some yeshiva students to serve in the Israeli army. (We say ostensibly because the law has been criticized as too little, too late; its most dramatic sanctions dont kick in until 2017, allowing time for a new election and a more pro-charedi coalition to form.) 50 Thousand Haredim March So Only Other Jews Die in War is how the Jewish Press concisely put it until, in response to the ultraOrthodox backlash, the article was pulled down from the web and its author fired. Most of those marching perhaps believed they were protesting the current incarnations of Pharaoh and Haman, as one Agudat Yisrael Knesset member at the New York rally put it. For some, that may be a sincere interpretation of a law that indeed would have the effect of moving members of the community from the cloisters of kollel to a real world of employment. Others, who have been fed only a diet of rabbinically controlled media, may really think that Israeli troops plan to empty the yeshivot. In truth, Torah study and army services are not incompatible as has been proved by decades of students and soldiers who combine the two at Orthodox hesder yeshivot. But it is true that the iron grip of charedi rabbis on their followers may well be lessened as they enter the workforce and the broader Israeli society. Given the kind of hatred for most Jews evinced at the anti-draft rallies, that could only be a good thing. -LY
ith the arrival and maturation of my generation, the Millenials, the question Who is a Jew? is rather pass. Forget the halachic dimensions to this endlessly debatable topic. Forget all the moralizing arguments over the issue. Forget the demographically induced paranoia, the post-Holocaust hand-wringing, the Israeli legal maneuvering (not to mention the pandering that comes with it), and the denominational infighting. And for heavens sake! forget the Pew study. The fact is that Who is a Jew? is the wrong question. To maintain our relevance to regain it, really the question we must ask today is Why be Jewish? The problem with the who-is-a-Jew question is the binary premise from which it springs: that there is an us and a them. (Worse, perhaps is the accompanying hope that we will one day delineate a set of criteria that define who is an us and who is a them.) The premise itself is as boring and potentially harmful as the question it gives rise to. It has infiltrated our national debate in a variety of guises: Who is affiliated and who is unaffiliated? Who is an insider and who is an outsider? Who is a member and who is a non-member? Who is inmarried and who is intermarried? David A. M. And, of utmost importance in the Wilensky case of Millenials: Are your parents both Jewish? For 48 percent of us, the answer is no. In each version of the question, the implication is clear: One is good and one is bad. When we make these questions central, whatever our intention in asking them, the question that many people will hear is this: Are you a good Jew or a bad Jew? And labeling people bad Jews probably is not the best way to draw them into deeper engagement with Jewish life. At the very least, the Millenials I know are bored with all this who-is-a-Jew business. And at the worst, the idea that this question will be useful as we confront the challenges now before us is a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the changes we see today. These changes profoundly affect every element of our communitys demographics, suggesting many new questions: geography (where are the Jews?) and migration (how did those Jews get there and why?); values (what does each individual Jew believe?) and priorities (what does each Jew value and how much?); age (what do todays Jews need at each stage of life?); affiliation (how does the changing nature of membership in contemporary America affect our perception of the organized David A.M. Wilensky is a program associate at Big Tent Judaism/Jewish Outreach Institute. He lives in South Orange, and he is single, straight, and utterly shameless.
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Jewish community?); and reproduction (who do the Jews choose as their partners? and how do they raise their children?). Allow me to use myself as an example: 48 percent of Jews born after 1980 are children of intermarriage: Though their wedding ceremony was Jewish, only one of my parents was. (Remember when I told you to forget the Pew study? Yeah, I lied. Still, lets just try to stay on this side of the line between informed interest in the Pew study and unhealthy obsession with it, shall we?) 20 percent or more of children of intermarriage who consider themselves Jewish are patrilineal: Like me, their father was Jewish when they were born, while their mother was not. 61 percent of intermarried families are raising their children with a Jewish identity: I was circumcised as an infant, and later taken to Tot Shabbat at a nearby synagogue. I went to camp. I became bar mitzvah. 59 percent of adult children of intermarriage under the age of 30 identify as Jews: Hi there. Jews by choice are not a novelty for us: My mother became a Jew when I was 7 years old. One of my high school best friends had converted when he was younger. I once went out with a Conservative rabbinical student who converted in college. Jews of color are not a novelty for us: The Garcias are one of the most visibly active families in my childhood synagogue. Ive had a number of Jewish peers who were adopted from East Asia. Im too young to remember what Israel looked like before the waves of immigration from Ethiopia. We have been both insiders and outsiders: I was deeply involved in our synagogue, my high school youth group, and Jewish life in general. Yet when I first came into close contact with other strains of Judaism, I suddenly found myself on the outside. We receive mixed messages: Our synagogue was Reform, so my status as a patrilineal Jew wasnt an issue. But my tastes evolved, putting me for a time in a Conservative synagogue, where I underwent a conversion. (Not for me, but for the synagogue; Ive always considered myself an unqualified Jew.) We are just not interested in denominations and feefor-service membership: I go to services regularly sometimes at informal, independent groups, sometimes at any one of a number of synagogues (none of which I am a member of ). In short, our identities are complex, too complex to be explained with binaries. Change has arrived in the North American Jewish community. Bigger changes are on the way. If we plan to hold the interest of the entire Jewish community energetic Millenials, boomers bored with retirement, the LGBT community, intermarried families, Jews of color, families with young children well have to do a lot more. We are no longer in a battle to maintain our relevance, but to regain it. The question should no longer be Who is a Jew? The question now is Why be Jewish? The first steps toward this are inclusion, diversity, and welcoming. Not just inclusion, but active inclusion; not just diversity, but embracing diversity; not just welcoming, but encountering everyone in the Jewish community as individuals with unique stories, needs, interests, and longings. As people who already are comfortable and fortunate enough to be involved in Jewish life, we are called to learn about, embrace, and direct into deeper engagement these myriad individuals who make up the entire Jewish community. This is just a taste of the issues we will explore in this column. And I am your flawed guide: a Millenial, for better or for worse; a patrilineal Jew; the son of a convert; a child of intermarriage, and well, you get the idea.
Not standing idly by

It is necessary to work to end the scourge of gun violence
t should be enough to be in the right, to have the moral and religious high ground. That often isnt enough, however, if what you want is real, fundamental change. As legendary community organizer Ernie Cortes teaches, there is no nice way to get change. Real change happens only when enough tension is created to force the change. Dont take my word for it think about it. Make a list of all the societal changes that have taken place purely because of a good sermon from a charismatic preacher. I bet its a really short list. The sermon might have moved people to action, but the change only came once the action itself was powerful enough to create enough tension to help the people with the power to make the change see it in their self-interest to say yes. The moral argument alone didnt work for our people in Egypt. Never were more moving or resounding words uttered by a prophet than those of Moses: Let my people go. And yet it took 10 plagues and the decision of the Israelites to participate in their own liberation before we actually went free. As we soon will say at our seders Dayenu. It should have been enough. The argument itself should have sufficed. Pharaoh: 400 years of slavery is enough. Let my people go. But even Moshe Rabbeinu couldnt muster the power to Rabbi Joel liberate us with moral suasion Mosbacher alone. On the other hand, the power of faith, when combined with the power of faithful people, gives us the ability to make real and sustained change. It always has, and it can again. Think again of the list of fundamental changes weve seen in the last 100 years: womens suffrage; workers rights, the civil rights movement, and more only took place because of tension created by powerful people. Never have powerful people been more needed than on the issue of gun violence in America. The scourge has reached epic proportions. If 30,000 Americans were dying in a war each year, our streets would be filled by protests, and our religious convictions would move us to action. And yet, it seems, we have grown so inured to gun violence that even the horrifying murders of innocent children in Newtown, Connecticut, more than a year ago havent driven our nation to action. If the moral outrage we felt after that tragic day didnt move us to change course on gun violence, what greater affirmation can there be that moral arguments arent in themselves sufficient? My own father was gunned down 15 years ago. Some 400,000 Americans have died by gun since then the overwhelming majority of them in murders that didnt make the evening news or break into your regularly scheduled program. Surely the cause reducing gun violence is the right cause. This is true after each massacre in an elementary school, movie theater, or supermarket. And yet, sadly, shockingly, in each case, being right isnt enough to compel change. Despite the work that so many organizations did to bring gun sanity to our legislators, lawmakers actively decided to violate a foundational principle of the Torah. Our government decided to stand idly by as our neighbors continue to bleed to stand by as the equivalent of a Newtowns worth of Americans continue to be gunned down every day. Many organizations continue to push Congress and the administration to play their part in reducing gun violence by passing a universal background check law that would close
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the gun show loophole that allows thousand of guns to be sold each year without those vital checks. I applaud these efforts. But our congregation has joined people of faith across New Jersey and across the country in taking a different approach. Metro IAF, an organization of synagogues, churches, and mosques in 10 states across the country, began to ask an essential question. We began to ask ourselves: Who else has the power to affect change on the issue of gun violence? While there is no one solution to this multifaceted challenge, we believe that gun manufacturers also could do meaningful things to address this scourge. They could invest in research and development for safer gun technology, which would help reduce accidental deaths and keep people from being able to use guns that dont belong to them to do harm. And they could help reduce gun trafficking by refusing to sell their products through the 1 percent of dealers who sell a high percentage of the guns used in crimes in America. They could work as collaboratively with the ATF and law enforcement as they do with organizations that seek to undermine every sensible gun law in the United States. And they could do all of this without there needing to be a single new law passed by a Congress that seems determined to stand idly by on a whole host of vital issues our nation faces. Metro IAF knows that its not enough to be right on this issue. We have to muster the power necessary to get gun manufacturers to take these sensible steps none of which violate the Second Amendment, and none of which will take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. In order to gather that power, we have approached mayors and police chiefs in cities across the country. With our taxpayer dollars, our police and military buy 40 percent of the guns sold in America. We are asking these municipalities, and the Obama administration as well, to use their purchasing power to seek out manufacturers who will work collaboratively to reduce gun violence. As of this writing, 18 cities across America have resolved to join us in this effort to use the power of the mighty dollar to encourage better customer service from the manufacturers of the guns our police purchase. Mayors, police chiefs, county sheriffs, and governors in cities and states small and large cities like Mahwah, Jersey City, Paterson, Hoboken, and Newark in New Jersey, as well as in Rockland and Westchester counties in New York and cities in North Carolina, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, the State of Illinois. Just this past week, New York City has come onto the list. All have joined us in issuing a Request for Information addressed to gun manufacturers. These cities are saying: Next time we buy weapons, well be looking not just for technically excellent weapons, but also for companies that take their corporate responsibility seriously. And gun manufacturers already have begun to react in the media, on the Internet, and even at Europes largest police show last week, where I joined a group of clergy in engaging with these companies. We dont need to add a verse to Dayenu. We dont need to say, If only we had the power to reduce gun violence, Dayenu. We do have the power. This campaign, called Do Not Stand Idly By, is gaining momentum, and we need more partners. For more information, go to www.DoNotStandIdlyBy.org. As people of faith, we can do more than bury the dead and lament the state of things. We can do more than wait on Congress to act. We can act powerfully now. Let us begin. Finally. Joel Mosbacher is rabbi of Beth Haverim Shir Shalom in Mahwah.
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For 17 years, Jules and Lila Stern have sponsored memorial lectures. At first, they were in loving memory of Mr. Sterns father, Israel; after his mother, Pearl, died, the series was renamed to honor and remember both of them. The speakers have included rabbis, scholars, and writers, among them Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; the Wall Street Journals Bret Stephens, the Orthodox Unions Rabbi Stephen Weil, and Rabbi Abraham Twersky of the Gateway Program. Their areas of expertise include Israel, Jewish law, the Jewish communal world, and other issues of Jewish interest. This year, the guest speaker will be Daniel Pipes, the historian and Middle Eastern analyst who founded a think tank, the Middle East Forum, in 1994; it has a lively web presence at www.danielpipes.org. Dr. Pipes, who earned both his undergraduate degree and his doctorate at Harvard, worked at both the U.S. State Department and the Department of Defense. His is a prominent voice in the analysis of the Middle East. The Israel and Pearl Stern Memorial Lecture is set for Sunday, April 6, at 10:15 a.m., at the Community Synagogue of Monsey, 89 W. Maple Ave., Monsey. For more information, call Jules Stern at 201-337-0742 or jspres@metrovacworld.com. Brunch will follow Dr. Pipes talk; everyone is invited to the mornings activities.
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he didnt live to see the Oscar. On Sunday, February 23, in London, one week before The Lady in Number 6 was awarded an Oscar for best short documentary, Gigi Alice Herz-Sommer femme extraordinaire, died. It was a few short months past her 110th birthday. She had been thought to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor, and as she had told me, the oldest person in London. Born in Prague in 1903 to a Germanspeaking Czech family, Gigi was an accomplished concert pianist before World War II. She was deported to Theresienstadt (Terezin, the so-called model camp the Nazis created to deceive the world about the fate of the Jews) in 1943, together with her husband, Leopold, and their son, Stephan. Leopold succumbed to typhus in Dachau. Gigi and Stephan remained in Theresienstadt, where Stephan sang in Brundibar, the now-famous childrens opera. Gigi gave more than 100 concerts. After liberation they went to Prague, and then settled in Israel in 1949. Stephan, who had changed his name to Raphael, became an accomplished cellist; Gigi helped establish a new conservatory in Jerusalem. Raphael, who was based in London, died suddenly in 2001. Gigi, who had lived full-time in London since 1986, practiced piano daily, swam, took walks, and cooked her own meals. (Read more about her in A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer. My contribution here is anecdotal, based on my interviews with Gigi, whom I first met in spring 2005; I first visited her together with Christopher Nupen, the renowned British director of music documentaries. I had been working to bring him and We Want the Light, his award-winning film, to the United States, and I had organized a series of lecture/ screenings in New York, Miami, and L.A. By the time I met Gigi, I had seen the film perhaps 20 times. With each glimpse of her, I was spellbound. She was only 98 when the film was shot, a still-vibrant pianist, who cut quite a remarkable figure, was always smiling, and never complained. After that, I interviewed her annually, sometimes during multiple visits. When I was alone with her, Gigi spoke about everything from Kafka, whom she knew and saw as highly conflicted, to Mahler, who had grown up in the same town as her Orthodox grandmother. Once, when my younger daughter accompanied me, we chuckled at Gigis emphatic declaration that marriage is one of lifes most difficult challenges.
Pianist Alice Herz-Sommer and her friend Rachel Kovacs of Bergen County. Ms. Herz-Sommer survived the Holocaust; she died in February, just before the lm about her life, The Lady in Room Number 6, won an Oscar.
Gigi loved company, so time alone with her was a privilege, and you would never know who would visit her Israelis, with whom she spoke Hebrew (she told me she had studied 10 hours a day to learn it), or perhaps Czechs, who reminisced with her and brought her waferthin delicacies. She was uniquely modest and aware, not conventionally religious, but grateful for all of creation and for the spirituality of music. On a Friday morning in November 2010, I turned on BBC Newshour, as was my usual custom, and heard the preview of a broadcast about her 107th birthday. I scrambled for the phone. Hullo, answered the female voice at the other end. The voice sounded younger and a bit higher pitched than I remembered. Gigi? I asked. No, she answered. Its Rachel, I said. Im calling from America to speak with Gigi. Oh, said the woman. And then the query: You arent the cat from Brundibar, are you? No, I answered, startled. You didnt play the cat in Brundibar, in Theresienstadt? No, I answered. Im too young to have been in Theresienstadt. Oh, said the woman. Yes, you do sound too young to have been in Theresienstadt. I just came in, and Gigi is nowhere in sight, she continued. Ill have a look round. Perhaps shes in the loo. (Thats British for toilet). Please dont disturb her if she is, I said. The woman went off in search of Gigi, and I thought, fleetingly, that its hard to get lost in a bedsit thats British for studio apartment even if you are 107 years old. The woman picked up the phone. No sight of her, she said. The flat is in perfect order. Well, maybe she went for a walk, I offered. Maybe she did, seconded the woman. Ill have a look around. After an anxious minute or two losing track of a 107-year-old-woman can be a cause for anxiety the woman, unflappable, reported that Gigi was down the hall, celebrating her birthday with a neighbor. This seemed more predictable for Gigi than a stroll in Belsize Park at 4 p.m. in November, when it would have soon been nightfall, too dark for even a daring 107-year-old. The mystery woman, who upon request identified herself as Wendy, said she had come by to play her daily Scrabble game with Gigi. I didnt know about that part of Gigis routine. I only knew about the walks and the two to four hours of piano practice every day. I called Gigi again before her 7 p.m. bedtime. She was cheerful, but when I probed about how she was doing, she said, I am getting old. Yes, I agreed, but You are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. She laughed, and you could hear her whole body ripple with the laughter. I asked about her piano playing. How is it going? I am learning Bach, Gigi replied. This was a curious turn of phrase, coming from a pianist who had performed more than 100 concerts in Theresienstadt. Certainly she knew Bach! I remembered her entranced look in We Want the Light, as she said Bach is like the Bible. I let it pass and focused on her two hours a day of practicing. When I last saw you, you said four hours. Did you cut back? Sometimes one, sometimes two,
sometimes four it depends, she said. Then, after a short command report about how my family was doing, Gigi emphatically declared, I wish all of your family all the best, all the time. And as quickly as that blessing was uttered, the phone call was over. Maybe she was tired. Maybe she was not a phone person. Who cared? At 107, she called the shots. When I visited her last summer she was much frailer, but her optimism was unchanged. It was a relatively hot day, and we sat opposite each other. The window was open and the apartment dimly lit, probably to keep it cool. Gigi still welcomed visitors in the afternoons. When she had been well enough to get around but not strong enough to venture outside on her own, she had pushed her walker up and down the hallways. This time though, her energy, her words, and the conversation were much more measured. Gigi volunteered, I cannot see; I cannot hear; I cannot walk, but I am happy. Life is beeeyouuuuuteeful; nature is beautiful. She was adamant. I am an optimist. I generally phoned Gigi before the High Holy Days and other holidays. My most recent call to her went unanswered. That was uncharacteristic. At that point, a close friend of hers told me that not only could she not hear the phone, but she was in the hospital. Given my responsibilities, I could not immediately follow up by mail. Regrettably, time did not wait for me to catch up with her, which is a lesson hard learned about contact with friends and loved ones not just the elderly, but especially the elderly. Carpe diem, because the diem of the elderly is elusive and tomorrow is promised to no one. When my son called to tell me that he had read about her death online, the sadness and void that I felt was superseded by the need to tell people about her, to make my students aware of her extraordinary life, even before YouTube and social media rendered her presence viral. I made sure that a memorial candle was lit and that someone would say Kaddish for her. I resolved to play and sing again, and to be even more grateful, not merely for my own pleasure, but because music is the magic and beauty that Gigi Sommer represented and perpetuated, and because, as she would say, everything is a present. Rachel Kovacs of Bergen County is an adjunct associate professor and writing assessment specialist at CUNY. She has lived, studied, and conducted research in the U.K. and organized many Kristallnacht commemorations for the Bergen County community.
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ouro Colleges School of Health Sciences administration and faculty in occupational therapy have recently been honored for their leadership, advocacy, and contributions to the profession and community, including pioneering OT practices in mental health, and addressing health care disparities. Assistant Professor Elizabeth Griffin Lannigan, Ph.D., has been chosen to receive the 2014 Roster of Fellows Award of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Dr. Lannigan received the honor for her leadership and advocacy in addressing health care disparities. Assistant Professor Pat Precin has also been chosen to receive the 2014 Roster of Fellows Award. Dr. Precinis being recognized for pioneering OT practice areas in mental health. Beth Chiariello, Ph.D., an associate director of the schools Manhattan-based OT program, won the Merit for Service
award from the New York State Occupational Therapy Association. Dr. Chiarello is the founding chair of the NYS Occupational Therapy Political Action Committee and served on the organizations executive board for ten years. Dr. Lannigan has also received the Presidents Award from the New Jersey Occupational Therapy Association for her outstanding service and mentorship to the OT community of New Jersey. She served for 12 years on the organizations executive board, including stints as treasurer and secretary. Assistant Professor Alex Lopez will receive the American Occupational Therapy Foundations Award for Community Volunteerism for 2014 at the AOTA conference. Given in acknowledgement of contributions to the community and profession, the honor recognizes Professor Lopezs service to the community through PAR FORE, a program that uses golf as a medium to build resiliency in at-risk youth. PAR FORE is a program he developed locally and that is
expanding nationwide. I am very pleased that Touro College occupational therapy faculty members are being recognized with these distinguished honors for their important contributions to the community and the profession, said Stephanie Dapice Wong, chairperson and director of the Occupational Therapy Department.
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Family community seder

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Museum celebrates Purim with Stone Age stone faces

It turns out that masks predate Purim. By about 7,000 years. The Israeli Museum is putting on a new exhibit featuring a dozen limestone masks dating back 9,000 years. They are believed to originate in what is now the Judean desert. It is important to say that these are not living people, these are spirits, Dr. Debby Hershman, curator of prehistoric cultures at the Israel Museum, told the Times of Israel. Archeologists believe that Israel is the site of some of the earliest settled human cultures, which, like these masks, predate the invention of writing by some 3,500 years.
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Jordanian-born Yitzhak Rabin enlists in IDF

Yitzhak Rabin was the talk of the news in Israel last week as he tried to fulfill his dream. Of course, the Rabin in question was not the former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995, one year after signing a peace treaty with Jordan. Instead, the Yitzhak Rabin in the headlines was an 18-year-old Jordanian-born teenager who dreamed of gaining Israeli citizenship and the chance to enlist in the IDF. Yitzhak Rabin Namsy (his full name) was named by his Muslim parents in the prime ministers honor. In reaction to the unlikely name they chose for their son, they were harassed and eventually forced to flee to Israel. They settled in Eilat in 1988. The young Yitzhak Rabin was adopted informally by the prime ministers widow, Leah Rabin, and granted temporary resident status. After she died in 2000, the Jordanianborn teen applied for full Israeli citizenship. He dreamed of joining his friends in the Israeli army. I want to become an officer [in the army], and continue in the path of Yitzhak Rabin, may his memory be blessed, he told a reporter in November. I want to give back to the state in a way that would make Yitzhak [Rabin] proud of me. I dont understand what the problem is here. In the end, a lengthy court battle proved successful, and Interior Minister Gideon Saar personally traveled to Eilat to present the 18-year-old with his Israeli identification card. VIvA SARAH PREss/IsRAEL21C.ORG
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id Caesar, who died on February 12, made America laugh and he revolutionized television comedy. His trailblazing style was infused with Jewish influences, according to Eddy Friedfeld, co-author with Mr. Caesar of the comics Caesars Hours: My Life in Comedy, With Love and Laughter. Sid was part of the Jewish tradition of storytelling, Mr. Friedfeld, who gave a eulogy at Mr. Caesars funeral in February, said. The difference was not his joke telling, it was comedy based on character. His sketches were stories with beginnings, middles, and ends. That was not coincidentally a function of the Jewish influence. Sid Caesar was the youngest of three sons born to Jewish immigrants living in Yonkers. His father, Max, came from Poland, and his mother, Ida, came from Russia; together, the couple operated a luncheonette. Young Sid developed his foreign-sounding double talk by listening closely to the luncheonettes multinational clientele. Mr. Friedfeld, who teaches courses in comedy at Yale University and NYU and worked with Caesar on the book for several years, said that Mr. Caesar had a strong Jewish identity. According to Mr. Friedfelds book, after graduating from Yonkers High School in 1939, Sid left home intent on starting a musical career. In Manhattan, he worked as an usher and then a doorman at the Capitol Theatre. He was ineligible to From left, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris as The Comjoin the musicians union in New York muters on the 1950s television series Caesars Hour. COUrTEsY EDDY FrIEDfELD City until he established residency, but he found work as a saxophonist at the Vacationland Hotel, a Catskills resort. Mr. Friedfeld said Mr. Caesar was a radioactive termite and developed an Mentored by Don Appel, the resorts social master of character and dialect, and he insatiable appetite for wood. As the Profesdirector, Mr. Caesar played in the dance transformed himself into classic characsor, his boundless expertise ranged from band and learned to perform comedy, ters such as the put-upon husband Charlie mountain climbing, to sleeping, to childoing three shows a week. Hickenlooper; feudal lord Shtaka Yamadren. And as the crying clown, Galipacci, His family were proud and aware Jews. gura; stoner jazz musician Progress Hornhe braved the perils of live television. Sid went to cheder, the after-school prosby; Tony Towers, the inventor of the TowDoing the sketches week after week was gram. Sid claimed he was the first to introers Trot; the Gangster Moose in Bullets not easy for Mr. Caesar. In an interview duce the word chutzpah into the American Over Broadway, who had ears like a hawk; he gave for the Archive of American Televernacular, Mr. Friedfeld said. Al Duncy, who was reluctantly and litervision, he emphasized the challenge of Unlike earlier comedy, rooted in immially carried onto the stage to have his life doing live TV during its early days. Doing gration and financial depression, Mr. Caestory told with Uncle Goopy and a parade a show live on television is a different anisars brand was about a new, post-World of other crazy relatives in front of 5,000 mal altogether than doing TV today, he War II America, prosperous and hopeful in people, and the German general who fassaid. I mean on tape, thats like relaxing. the era of suburbs, skyscrapers, and space tidiously avoided jangling his medals as he Thats like going on vacation! travel. The United States needed smart, prepared to be a fancy hotels doorman. Lawrence Epstein, the author of The fresh, optimistic, cutting-edge comedy, In one of his sketches, Mr. Caesar Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comewith an infusion of culture and satire. became a scientist who was bitten by a dians in America and a professor of
English at Suffolk County Community College in New York from 1974 to 2008, said that Mr. Caesar set the template for television comedy. He did the satires, the accents, the costumes that would help define future comedic efforts, Dr. Epstein said. Caesars great comedy ear is often cited for his ability to create any accent and seems to speak fluently in that language while in fact uttering gibberish. But I think that great ears largest contribution was its ability to recognize talent. The only show in history where the writers became as famous as the performers, Caesars Show of Shows turned sketch comedy into an art. From a sketch about a boy at his first dance, to an argument at a bus station, to lions in the circus, the stories crafted by the shows writers helped television to grow into one of the most enduring forces in our society. Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen, and so many others went on to further greatness after traveling through the Caesar comedy gateway, Dr. Epstein said. I think Neil Simons older brother, the late Danny Simon, was an overlooked genius in the room where the ideas flowed, but everyone in that room who is not well-known deserves much more recognition. Caesar was himself a complex guy, but one whose brilliance gave a permanent and enduring gift to the American people. In a statement released after Mr. Caesars death, Carl Reiner said that his friend and colleague had been inarguably the greatest pantomimist, monologist, and single-sketch comedian who ever worked in television. A friend of Larry Gelbart, Mr. Friedfeld said that when Mr. Gelbart was asked why most of Caesars writers were young and Jewish, he responded, Because all of our parents were old and Jewish. Before flying to see Mr. Caesar on his 90th birthday, Mr. Friedfeld recalled bumping into Woody Allen on Park Avenue in New York. Mr. Allen said, Tell Sid hes still my finest credit. Sid revolutionized comedy, Mr. Friedfeld said. Before Sid, television was burlesque and wrestling and bowling. Caesar, his co-stars, and his writers created modern television. They brought this modern sensibility. All the great sitcoms that followed, like All in the Family, Cheers, Frasier, and now Modern Family, owe their legacy to Sid Caesar.
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