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CONTENTS
OPINION
The harmonization of Scripture and Greek
philosophy was a heroic intellectual achievement.
DAVID ZINBERG
Weve seen this before
The picture is poignant.
An Israeli reservist kisses his wife,
who is nine months pregnant, as he
answers an emergency call-up hes
received.
The picture was retweeted 80 times
when we posted it to our Twitter ac-
count Wednesday morning.
Just one problem: It turned out that
the picture was from 2012, when Israel
last launched a major military effort
Gaza in response to missile barrages.
Egg on our face!
Or so it would seem.
But the Israeli army Galei Tzahal radio
station interviewed the woman and
it turns out that her husband was just
called up again, in advance of a pos-
sible ground attack.
And shes seven months pregnant
with her second child.
LARRY YUDELSON
How you can help Israel
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey is collecting money to help
Israelis affected by the escalating vio-
lence in Israel.
The federation will send all the funds
to its social service partners in Israel,
who are being called upon to help
children in areas closest to Gaza, to
provide assistance to the disabled who
cant get to a safe place when sirens go
off, and to counsel people with post-
traumatic stress disorder.
Go to www.jfnnj.org/supportisrael to
donate and for more information.
Candlelighting: Friday, July 11, 8:11 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, July 12, 9:18 p.m.
Constant crisis coverage with Twitter
Well be the first
to admit that weekly
newspapers are not
the place to get your
urgent fix of breaking
news. In fact its hard
to imagine that people
once had the patience
for daily newspapers
and nightly newscasts.
CNN is well past
its prime in provid-
ing foreign coverage.
But Twitter, with its
ability to allow anyone
to share anything
instantly around the
world (as long as it
is no longer than 140
characters) Twit-
ter is where instant
reporting and analysis
is taking place.
The challenge in using Twitter,
though, is that its not just like tuning
a dial on a television set. You have to
choose who to follow.
So let us recommend our @Jew-
ishStandard as a place to start. Weve
hired a social media editor who is a
veteran Israeli journalist. He has been
working overtime in updating the
account. Check it out at twitter.com/
JewishStandard.
LARRY YUDELSON
In Israel, as far north
as Haifa, sirens have
warned of missiles
launched from Gaza
this week.
And as far away as
America, anyone who
wants to share in the
Israeli experience can
get real-time notifica-
tion of missile strikes
through two free
apps.
Red Alert is an
English-adaptation
of a Hebrew app created in 2012 by
Ari Spring and Kobi Snir in response
to the missiles Hamas fired into
southern Israel, the Times of Israel
reports.
It promises to send users an alert
whenever Israels Red Alert system
of regional sirens is activated; users
can choose among seven different
sounds. The app gets its informa-
tion from the Israel Defense Force,
though developers declined to spell
out the details.
The English version was made at
the request of Israeli ambassador to
the United States, Ron Dermer.
The app developers also have
hooked into the surprisingly popu-
lar made-in-Israel Yo app and
social network, which allows us-
ers to send only one message to
members: Yo! By connecting to
Red Alerts Yo account, you can get
the message Yo when rockets are
flying.
With its one-word limit, though,
Yo wont tell you where the rockets
are falling; for that youll need the
full Red Alert app.
Red Alert also offers two chan-
nels of streaming radio from the
Israeli army radio, serving a mix-
ture of Israeli and American pop,
news updates on the half hour (in
Hebrew, of course), and solemn,
quiet announcements when missile
launches are detected.
Of course, having an app that
alerts you to danger even distant
danger at random moments cho-
sen by anti-Israel fanatics may not
be the best medicine for your men-
tal health. Its worth keeping in mind
the advice, Nefesh BNefesh, the
organization that supports aliyah,
passed on to recent Israeli immi-
grants this week:
It is normal to be connected
to the news and to want to stay
informed, but remember to give
yourself a news break. Excessive
news does not help natural feelings
of stress and anxiety.
LARRY YUDELSON
Share Israels pain with apps
ITS YOUR PAPER TOO
How did you spend your
summer vacation in 1964?
For a forthcoming article on the jubilee of the Freedom Summer, when young
civil rights activists went to Southern states to register voters disenfranchised
by Jim Crow, the Jewish Standard would like to speak to any readers who were
part of it. Please email larry@jewishmediagroup.com if youre willing to be
interviewed.
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treat: I Love You Alice
B. Toklas (1968); Next
Stop Greenwich Village
(1976); and Enemies: A
Love Story (1989). Basi-
cally, ignore the Alice
title. Its the tale of a very
conventional Jewish at-
torney (played by the
late PETER SELLERS)
whose meshugenah
brother is a hippie. The
portraits of the attor-
neys Jewish parents and
his fiance are hilarious
without being mean. The
attorneys quest to find
more meaning in life by
adopting the hippie life is
funny and touching, but
it is not silly. The movie
also features a brief
scene with real-life twin
cantors who were huge
on the Jewish wedding
circuit during the 60s.
Meanwhile, while Next
Stop is not that great
a film, it is very Jew-
ish and it is basically
Mazurskys autobiogra-
phy until he headed out
to Hollywood to become
an actor. Enemies,
based on a novel by IS-
SAC BASHEVIS SINGER,
is much better. In fact, it
was the only film made
from his work that Singer
really liked. The late RON
SILVER stars in this com-
edy/drama about a Ho-
locaust survivor in New
York who has to juggle
the three women in his
life. N.B.
Eugene Levy
CROSS-BORDER CASTS:
Canadian landsmen
all over the tube
Sarah Levy
Adam Korson Paul Mazursky
A new sitcom,
Working the En-
gels, a Canadian-
American co-production,
premiered on NBC last
night at 9:30. It stars
the very funny Andrea
Martin (who is Arme-
nian/Canadian but often
plays Jews), and features
Canadian EUGENE LEVY,
67, her former SCTV
co-star. Martin plays Ceil
Engel, whose husband,
a lawyer, died suddenly
and left her family in
deep debt. She and the
rest of the family go to
work at her husbands
storefront law firm. The
problem is that only one
family member, daughter
Jenna, a newly minted
lawyer, is qualified to
practice law. Mr. Levy
appears in a recurring
role as Arthur Horowitz,
a prominent nice-guy
Jewish attorney who is
secretly a bit sweet on
his neighbor, Ceil, and
is hoping to retire and
give a few good clients
to Jenna. Levys real-life
daughter, SARAH LEVY,
27, plays his daughter,
Irene Horowitz. One re-
viewer writes: Irene may
seem like a good Jewish
girl, but underneath is a
wild, bad girl in training
seeking experience,
danger, and the arms of
her hot neighbor, Jimmy
Engel. Meanwhile, Mar-
tin Short, another hilari-
ous SCTV veteran, plays
a pastry mogul who used
to be sweet on Ceil when
he was a hippie baker in
the 70s, but now is em-
broiled in a lawsuit with
one of Jennas clients.
Seed is a Canadian
TV comedy that was just
renewed for its second
season. An American
network, CW, picked
up the first season for
broadcast. It will pre-
miere on Monday, July
14, at 9:30 p.m. It stars
ADAM KORSON, 32, who
grew up in a Toronto
suburb, as Harry, a like-
able bartender who dis-
covers he has offspring
from his sperm dona-
tions. The series focuses
on his relationship with
his biological kids and
their families.
Director/writer/
and sometime ac-
tor PAUL MAZUR-
SKY, who died on June
30 at 84, was a great un-
sung genius. More than
anyone else, he got it
right in his films that had
a Jewish flavor or explic-
itly Jewish characters.
So please treat yourself
and binge-view these
flicks his most Jew-
ish for a real kosher
The Holocaust
meets vampires
The Strain, a horror/detective drama, begins on the
FX channel on Sunday, July 13, at 10 p.m. The series stars
COREY STOLL, 38, who is best known for his Oscar-
nominated role in Midnight in Paris (Heminway) and
his Golden Gold nominated role in House of Cards
(Peter Russo). The premiere Strain episode begins with
a plane landing at JFK with its lights off and its doors
sealed. Epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (thats
Stoll) and his team are sent to investigate. They ind two
hundred corpses and four survivors on board. The situ-
ation deteriorates when the bodies begin disappearing
from morgues, and shortly thereafter theres a mysteri-
ous viral outbreak that has the hallmarks of vampirism.
It turns out that a Professor Abraham Setrakian, a
Holocaust-survivor-turned-pawnshop-owner, has answers
about the outbreak. ( John Hurt plays Setrakian in the
pilot, David Bradley plays him thereafter, and newcomer
Jim Watson plays him in flashback concentration camp
scenes.) The backstory on Setrakian: A Romanian Jew, he
escaped from a Nazi death camp. After that, he met and
battled vampires; even though he has grown old, he still
can swing a sword and kill them. He knows the habits and
bioloy of vampires and wants to pass on his knowledge to
Goodweather. (Not your average zaide type!) N.B.
Corey Stoll on the set of The Strain
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Remembering Gabby Reuvenis generous spirit
LOIS GOLDRICH
Just a glance at the web page created in
memory of Gabby Reuveni of Paramus gives
some indication of the number of people she
touched and through the ongoing efforts of
her family she continues to touch.
Killed two years ago in Pennsylvania by a
driver who swerved onto the shoulder of the
road, where she was running, Gabby, who
was 20, was an extremely aware and kind
person, her mother, Jacqueline Reuveni,
said. Were continuing her legacy.
The family has undertaken both public
and private acts of kindness, she said, from
endowing scholarships to meeting local fami-
lies medical bills.
According to her father, Michael Reuveni,
Gabby then a student at Washington Uni-
versity in St. Louis and a member of the
schools track team was a victim of vehicu-
lar homicide.
She was killed by a criminal from New
Jersey who took drugs that didnt belong
to him, fell asleep, and swerved all the way
across the road. Theyre using every tactic
to keep delaying the case, he said. Recently,
the driver, Philip Cise, won another delay by
agreeing to undergo psychiatric treatment.
Theyre using the defense playbook, said
Reuveni, but the case will eventually come
to trial. They think well give up. But we will
never give up.
(Cise, who is from Dover, has a history of
erratic behavior, run-ins with police, and
stints in jail.)
Dr. Reuveni is a member of Hillels Angels,
a New Jersey-based Jewish motorcycle group
affiliated with the Jewish Motorcyle Alliance.
Every year, the JMA holds a Ride to Remem-
ber, using the rally as a fundraiser for a par-
ticular cause.
Two years ago, one of our members
suggested Safe Haven, a small museum in
upstate Oswego, New York, that commemo-
rates a unique act in the annals of American
history, Dr. Reuveni said. According to its
website, the Safe Haven Museum and Educa-
tion Center is dedicated to keeping alive the
stories of the 982 refugees from World War II
who were allowed into the United States as
guests of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The refugees were housed at Fort Ontario
in Oswego from August 1944 until February
1946.
It was the only camp in the U.S. where
people were held, Jacqueline Reuveni said,
and the U.S. government went out of its
way to house these people. She credited
President Franklin Roosevelt and humanitar-
ian and photojournalist Ruth Gerber for the
outreach initiative. It was for Jewish people
affected by displacement in Europe.
While a condition of this arrangement was
that the Jews were to return to Europe after
the war, President Truman subsequently
allowed the Jewish residents to remain and
become citizens.
The 2014 Ride to Remember, dedicated to
the Oswego museum, raised $60,000, Gab-
bys father said, noting that 40 Jewish motor-
cycle groups from around the country took
part in the event. Its a tiny museum, with
very little money, he said. They have more
displays than areas to display them. We made
that our charity.
But the Reuvenis wanted to do even more.
On their wish list was a garden, Michael
Reuveni said. One day it came to me
Gabbys Garden. Since Gabby was all about
people, our family donated the funds to the
museum to create a reflection garden to
honor the lives saved and the generations
they went on to create.
Theyve created 20,000 people so far,
Jacqueline Reuveni added, pointing out that
this year also marked the survivors 70th
reunion.
The Reuvenis Michael and Jacqueline,
their 18-year-old son, Zachary, and their
20-year-old daughter, Jessica have perpet-
uated Gabbys memory and carried on her
legacy of giving in many other ways as well.
Because Gabby was the 2010 Paramus
High School valedictorian, this year, her
family awarded the second annual Gabrielle
Reuveni Award for Academic Excellence.
The $5,000 scholarship was created both to
honor academic achievement and help a high
school student with the cost of their upcom-
ing college expenses.
We always stressed educational excel-
lence at home, Michael Reuveni said. Every-
one talks about sports, but nobody talks
about how academic excellence is rewarded.
Every year, the Paramus High School valedic-
torian will get a scholarship.
In recognition of Gabbys active involve-
ment in her college, the family also supports
Washington Universitys running team, to
which Gabby belonged, and this Passover the
Reuvenis worked with the campuss Chabad
emissaries to create Gabbys Tables at the
groups seder for people without the funds
to sit at those tables.
Random acts of kindness are equally
important to the Reuvenis.
Gabby always found a way to give to peo-
ple or organizations, and she wouldnt take
credit for it, her mother said. We got so
many cards and letters saying, for example,
She found me, she brought me coffee, she
convinced me to be proud of who I am, she
convinced me not to quit school. She always
had a kind word and found a way to help.
While the Reuvenis credit Gabbys person-
ality for her generous nature, they said they
always tried to model charitable behavior for
their three children.
When you drive over the George Washing-
ton Bridge, theres always someone there,
Dr. Reuveni said. I always give them some-
thing, and my kids asked why. I said that if
theyre miserable enough to stand there in
the heat or cold, we should give them some-
thing. I said thank God you have more than
them. We have always been thankful for what
we have. If someone needs something, we
help someone out.
Ms. Reuveni said that Gabby always
seemed to find a person who needed assis-
tance. She zoned in on people who needed
something.
In this spirit, her parents, through the
Gabrielle Reuveni Memorial Gift Fund, have
tried to help local residents in distress, such
as one family with sick kids who couldnt
afford the medical bills.
On the first anniversary of Gabbys death,
her parents urged visitors to her webpage
to emulate that. If Gabby touched you in
any way, we ask you to pay it forward, they
wrote. In her honor, help someone, donate
to a cause, help a stranger, give blood any-
thing that will pay forward the goodness she
shared with you.
Jacqueline Reuveni said shes learned
another lesson as well.
Everybody should enjoy every moment of
their life to its fullest, she said.
You dont know what tomorrow will
bring. Enjoy life as it comes, and dont worry
about the minutia. Stop and smell the roses.
Quoting a saying Gabby kept prominently dis-
played in her room, she added, Live in the
moment, and make it so beautiful that it will
be worth remembering.
The Facebook page established in Gab-
bys memory is at www.facebook.com/
InMemoryofGabbyReuveni.
Gabrielle Reuveni, triumphantly alive, in 2011.
The Jewish Motorcycle Alliance raised funds for Gabbys Garden at the Safe
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for the new fiscal year, the big news was
the $1.6 billion he cut from the Democratic
Assemblys budget he used the line item
veto to slash expenditures, including pen-
sion payments, and block tax increases on
million-dollar earners.
Jewish advocates were able to exhale,
however. The increased funding Jewish
organizations had sought for Jewish edu-
cation and for Holocaust survivors were
left untouched by the governors veto pen.
We are delighted by the support we
received this year from the governor and
legislature, said Jacob Toporek, executive
director of the NJ State Association of Jew-
ish Federations.
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All in the family
As head of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, Rabbi Asher Lopatin wants conversation amid controversy
LARRY YUDELSON
W
hen Rabbi Asher Lopatin
moved from Chicago to
the Riverdale section of
the Bronx a year ago, he
didnt expect to find himself in the middle
of a skirmish between a New York Times
columnist and the mayor of New York.
In May, New York Times writer Michael
Powell criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for
sitting by silently at a dinner for Agudath
Israel as Rabbi Yaakov Perlow, leader of
the ultra-Orthodox group, condemned
other Jewish streams, including Reform
and Conservative Judaism.
The mayor failed a test of courage
with his silence, Mr. Powell wrote.
The New York Times, however, over-
looked the true object of Rabbi Perlows
ire: the liberal wing of Orthodoxy often
called open Orthodoxy as exemplified
by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah. Thats the
rabbinical seminary that Rabbi Lopatin
has headed since last July. Rabbi Lopatin,
49, succeeded the schools founder, Rabbi
Avi Weiss, who turned 70 last week. Rabbi
Perlow, also known as the Novominsker
Rebbe, devoted a large portion of his din-
ner address to denouncing open Ortho-
doxy as heresy and a plague.
Rabbi Lopatin isnt particularly dis-
turbed by the mayors silence at the Agu-
dath dinner. (A spokesman later said that
the mayor hadnt heard the speech.) For
Rabbi Lopatin, the ideal mayoral response
would have been gentle.
He should have made a joke of it. His
office should have said every community
and family has its issues, but the mayors
office loves everybody, said Rabbi Lopa-
tin in a recent interview in his office on
the second floor of the Hebrew Institute of
Riverdale, Rabbi Weiss synagogue.
That reframing of Agudahs righteous
and angry crusade against liberalism as
a squabble within an ultimately loving
family might not have occurred to Mr. de
Blasio, but it is the central metaphor that
Rabbi Lopatin uses to deflect criticism
from ideological opponents. At a time
when Choveveis variety of Orthodoxy has
demonstrated renewed vigor and conse-
quently faced repeated criticism, Rabbi
Lopatin is inclined to praise the virtue of
discussion and debate rather than either
come out swinging in fierce counterattack
or backing off defensively.
Im flattered about being noticed, he
said about Rabbi Perlows denunciation
They feel we are having an impact, not
only some of our ideas, but by going out
into the hinterlands. Rabbi Perlow had
emphasized the dangers the so-called
yeshiva posed outside New York City,
where its graduates have been placed in
many Orthodox pulpits.
Chovevi is far smaller than the rabbini-
cal school affiliated with Yeshiva Univer-
sity. Thats the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo-
logical Seminary, where Rabbi Lopatin
was ordained in 1994. This year Chovevei
ordained only two men; next years incom-
ing class will be its largest, with 15. (The
newer Yeshivat Maharat, also founded
by Rabbi Weiss, ordains women, though
as spiritual leaders maharats, he calls
them rather than as rabbis.) In recent
years, YU has graduated nearly 60 rabbis
each year. But Chovevei has had a dispro-
portionate impact in filling pulpits in con-
gregations outside of Orthodoxys greater
New York center what New Yorkers paro-
chially refer to as out of town since its
graduates are willing to take jobs in small
Jewish communities that most RIETS grad-
uates spurn.
As for the substance of Rabbi Perlows
attack: I listened to the YouTube of the
speech we have to listen to our critics,
said Rabbi Lopatin, who then proceeded
to rebut the only two specific criticisms
made by Rabbi Perlow in his speech.
Both criticisms accused open Orthodox
rabbis of asserting heretical views not on
halacha, Jewish law, but on the actions of
biblical characters. Rabbi Lopatin argued
that what Rabbi Perlow called heresy was
in fact kosher biblical interpretation, and
that those views had been expressed by
rabbis centuries ago.
One vi ew cri ti ci zed by Agudah
concerned the Akedah, Gods command
to Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a
sacrifice, as recounted in Genesis. The
alleged heresy: a claim that Abraham had
failed the test by saying yes to God and
offering Isaac, instead of arguing against
Gods command, as he had done when
God disclosed his plan to destroy the city
of Sodom.
Its in a midrash thats thousands of
years old, Rabbi Lopatin said.
And in fact, he said, that same accusa-
tion of heresy for questioning Abrahams
response to the Akedah had been leveled
20 years ago by the faculty of Yeshiva
Universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theo-
logical Seminary at one of modern Ortho-
doxys most successful leaders Rabbi
Shlomo Riskin, founder of Manhattans
Lincoln Square Synagogue and now head
of several yeshivot in Israel. RIETS barred
Riskin, a RIETS graduate himself, from
speaking in the yeshivas study hall. (Rabbi
Lopatin was a student at the YU seminary
at the time.)
The other point Rabbi Perlow singled
out concerned the relationship between
Jacob and Esau. Here too, Rabbi Lopatin
was able to pull out a supporting comment
from an impeccable traditional source, a
leading 19th century Lithuanian rabbi.
Its a good conversation, and I want the
Novominsker rebbe Rabbi Perlow to
be part of the conversation and to know
that were listening, Rabbi Lopatin said. I
dont want to be arrogant, has vshalom
God forbid. Were trying to make Yid-
diskheit meaningful to Jews all over the
world, and we need all the brilliant minds
to help us with it.
Rabbi Lopatins openness to others
approaches to spreading Yiddishkeit
earned the Agudahs wrath months before
its annual dinner. His formal installation
last September featured a roundtable
discussion with leaders of the Reform,
Conservative, and Reconstructionist
movements.
This is a deeply troubling and disturb-
ing development, fumed Agudah in a
Rabbi Lopatin stands in front of maps highlighting placement of his alumni
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Agudahs alarmism reflects a lack of faith, Rabbi
Lopatin said. That is not a charge normally brought
against the charedim.
More specifically, it reflects a lack of emunat cha-
chamim the Hebrew phrase means faith in the
sages, but Agudah uses it as shorthand for its doctrine
of total adherence to the dictates of rabbinical leaders.
For Rabbi Lopatin, however, it means faith that rab-
binic debates wont lead Judaism astray.
Have emunat chachamim that Hashem trusts us,
that well argue and come up with the right answers,
he said. Lets learn Torah. Lets trust that if were
learning Torah and we trust Hashem and we trust
the halachic process well come up with the right
answers.
Rabbi Lopatin said this approach, welcoming
engagement and criticism, sets a model for his rab-
binical students. As a rabbi, when things heat up,
will your reaction be to hit back, or to take it back and
transform it into something positive and meaningful?
he said.
Rabbi Lopatin has put aside the term open Ortho-
doxy, coined by Rabbi Weiss, in favor of the older
modern Orthodoxy.
Were about reclaiming modern Orthodoxy, he
said.
There was a rich modern Orthodox environment
and culture that is coming back, he continued, citing
debates waged more than 40 years ago in the pages of
YUs student newspaper between Rabbis Yitz Green-
berg and Aharon Lichtenstein, at the time both YU fac-
ulty members, and at the convention of the Rabbinical
Council of America between Rabbis Joseph B. Soloveit-
chik and Emanuel Rackman.
Arguments are good. Lets argue about it, he said.
What he did not say is that by the end of the 1970s,
the arguments had ended at the institutional level
and the liberal wing of modern Orthodoxy had been
exiled. Rabbi Soloveitchik saw to it that Rabbi Rack-
man did not become president of YU, favoring instead
the more centrist Rabbi Norman Lamm. (Rabbi Rack-
man moved to Israel and headed Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity.) And Rabbi Lichtenstein had far more influence
on Yeshiva University rabbinical students as head of
Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel than did Rabbi Green-
berg, who moved to work in non-Orthodox Jewish
organizations.
When Rabbi Weiss founded Yeshivat Chovevei
Torah, the pendulum swung back. Now, even though
there have been people taking potshots at the yeshiva,
theres been so much support, a feeling that modern
Orthodoxy is waking up from its slumber, Rabbi
Lopatin said.
He distinguished between the colleges of Yeshiva
University, which he said are modern Orthodox, and
the universitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary, which he said doesnt see itself as being
modern Orthodox. RIETS leaders prefer the term
centrist Orthodoxy, and the schools rabbinic faculty
frequently have condemned Yeshiva College for offer-
ing courses on topics seen as unkosher. That includes
art history (with nudes and Christian art), the New
Testament, and even Chaucer. Chovevei Torah was
the first American yeshiva established to be modern
Orthodox, he said. Our foundation is very much
modern Orthodox in all its manifestations in its
openness, in its desire to embrace the world, its desire
to send people out into the world.
We werent rejecting anything. We were putting
something new in the American scene, the integration
that modern Orthodoxy is about, he said.
The integration is manifested, he said, in the close coor-
dination between Rabbi Ysoscher Katz, the dean of Talmud,
and Dr. Michelle Friedman, the head of pastoral counsel-
ing. We want to make sure that whats going on in the beis
medresh the study hall is reflective of whats going on
in the world outside.
In sharp contrast to Agudah, and to rulings by YU-affili-
ated rabbis, Rabbi Lopatin doesnt see the need for sharp
lines to distinguish kosher belief from heresy. Nor is he
fazed by the prospect of a slippery slope.
Take the question of women in Jewish law. Could women
ever be treated simply as equal to men in halacha leading
services and being counted in a minyan?
Rabbi Lopatin doesnt want to preclude anything as being
out of bounds.
The basic principles of his Orthodoxy, he said, are belief
in the Torah and the authority of talmudic sages. Beyond
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A memorial to Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
10 children. Born into a family of Belzer
chasidim, he studied with two Lubavitcher
rebbes.
Together with Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach,
Reb Zalman began Jewish outreach as we
know it through programs for Chabad.
Reb Zalman shaped the chavurah move-
ment, Camp Ramah, and Hillel. He is con-
sidered a father to the spiritual eldering,
hospice, and Jewish Renewal movements.
He championed environmentalism and
stewardship of the earth long before they
were fashionable. He helped thousands
of Jews to find their spiritual home within
their own religion by reintroducing Jewish
meditation and Jewish mysticism to Jews
who had fled to the beat culture, ashrams,
and suburban indifference.
Reb Zalman was devoted to deveykut,
bonding with God. Throughout his life,
he explored expanded consciousness
and developed davenology methods
of reaching God through prayer. Perhaps
surprisingly, the Lubavitcher rebbe gave
RABBI DEBRA ORENSTEIN
O
n July 3, 5 Tammuz, Rabbi
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
died. He was 89.
He inspired tens of thou-
sands of people directly
and indirectly he inspired millions more,
people who have yet to discover that the
spiritual approaches they hold dear were
invented and graciously shared by him.
Reb Zalman was prodigiously influential
over many decades, but he was not pro-
portionately famous. He was not always
given credit for his vast learning or for his
astonishing array of contributions. And he
was okay with that.
The first time I saw Reb Zalman, he
was on the bimah of an auditorium that
held 2,000 people. His face beamed love
at the congregation. I had been lead-
ing another High Holiday service, and
I was able to join his congregation for
the last few minutes of Rosh Hashanah
morning.
He spread his arms wide, as if to
embrace everyone present. I had never
felt so much love in a room. I wish I could
quote what he said no doubt it was bril-
liant but all I remember is the palpa-
ble sense that he was blessing everyone
present.
Yes, great achievement
Reb Zalmans life was full and vital. It
was historical both in the sense that
his biography tracked some of the most
important events of the 20th and 21st cen-
turies and in the sense that he shaped
history.
Reb Zalman was a survivor of the Holo-
caust. Held in detention in Vichy France,
he lost a brother and extended family in
Auschwitz. He grew up in what was then
Poland and now is Ukraine, Austria, and
Belgium. In North America, he lived in
and around New York City, Boston, Phila-
delphia, Winnipeg, and Boulder. He had
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson. You
can learn more about Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi at rzlp.org (Reb Zalman Legacy
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Rabbi Zalman Schechter-Shalomi and Rabbi Debra Orenstein welcome the new
year.
He had great
respect for the
ofce of rabbi,
but no personal
pride or ego
about his own
position.
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his blessing to Zalmans meditation at
an ashram and to his experimenting
with drugs with Timothy Leary. Some
of these controversial experiences, and
Reb Zalmans growing conviction that
women should be equal participants
in Jewish ritual, eventually led to him
leaving Chabad, although he was highly
regarded as a scholar and leader, and
even mentioned as a possible successor
to the rebbe.
Deeply grounded in tradition, Reb
Zalman had a genius for innovation in
thought, liturgy, and social action. He
invented or reintroduced dozens of pro-
grams and approaches that have been
adopted and co-opted across the Jew-
ish world, including naming ceremonies
for girls; healing services; praying with
contemporary music and everyday Eng-
lish; chanting Torah with translation;
do-it-yourself, home-based Judaism and
family education; the use of technology
and pop culture in Jewish education;
outreach to interfaith couples; embrace
of LGBT Jews; spiritual direction (God-
centered counseling), and eco-kashrut,
which is a standard for keeping kosher
that integrates moral standards for the
treatment of workers, animals, and
the environment with traditional ritual
requirements.
And thats just a partial list.
Reb Zalman was known in some cir-
cles for his relationships with famous
religious leaders, including Howard
Thurman, Thomas Merton, Ram Dass,
Father Thomas Keating, and Pir Vilayat
Inayat Khan. He was among the Dali
Lamas advisors on the question of
how a people can survive in exile. But
even more than his momentous trip to
Dharamsala, it was Reb Zalmans ongo-
ing interfaith dialogue with people from,
literally, every religious background that
shaped both his extraordinary mastery
of particular religious expressions and
his access to universal principles.
I once arranged to meet Reb Zal-
man at an Assyrian Church of the East
in Los Angeles; my synagogue rented
space there. Upon being introduced
to the priest there, he recited some of
the churchs liturgy, by way of greet-
ing. As you can imagine, that led to a
warm welcome and many wonderful
conversations.
Reb Zalman was an accomplished aca-
demic. That was his day job for most of
his adult life. By the time he retired, he
was professor emeritus at both Temple
and Naropa universities. Though this
doesnt always come with academic cre-
dentials, he also happened to be an out-
standing orator and master teacher.
Great fortune for me
I didnt know Reb Zalmans biography 18
years ago, when I was invited to be his
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Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi beams at Rabbi Orensteins son,
Emmett Weisz, as drummer Joy Krauthammer looks on.
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Chabad of Hoboken in new home
Chabad of Hoboken marked a milestone
this month as it opened its irst perma-
nent home.
The Chabad center, run by Rabbi
Moshe and Shaindel Schapiro, opened
the week after the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks. In 2009, after using
different Hoboken venues, Chabad
rented space at the Boys and Girls Club
there for regular operations. It hosts
Shabbat dinners, launches adult and
child education initiatives, and offers
holiday programming. In late 2012,
Hurricane Sandy rendered the space
unusable; until they found suitable
facilities, the Schapiros moved many
of their activities, including services,
classes, and community dinners, to
their home.
After months of construction, Chabad
of Hoboken moved into its new 1,800
square foot center. The building includes
a large sanctuary, a multipurpose room
for childrens programming and classes,
and a state-of-the-art kitchen.
Rabbi Schapiro said that there now
are more than 4,000 Chabad cen-
ters worldwide. A new biography of
the rebbe, The Life and Teachings of
Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most
Influential Rabbi in Modern History
by Joseph Telushkin has reached best-
seller status in the lists compiled by the
New York Times, Barnes & Noble, and
Amazon.
The Chabad Jewish Center of Hobo-
ken is at 80 Park Avenue; there is an
entrance on Newark Street. Shabbat
services begin on Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Chabad offers adult classes, Hebrew
school, holiday events, childrens pro-
grams, hospital visitations, and kosher
meals for new mothers. Learn more at
JewishHoboken.com
NORPAC
event July 27
Drs. Daniel Feuer and David
Wisotsky host a NORPAC
event for Republican Con-
gressman Mark Meadows of
North Carolina on Sunday,
July 27, at 5 p.m., in Engle-
wood. Call (201) 7885133 or
Avi@NORPAC.net.
Congressman
Mark Meadows
CBS Teaneck gala
Last month, more than 230 people cel-
ebrated at Teanecks Congregation Beth
Sholom gala dinner honoring four mem-
bers of the community. The shuls imme-
diate past president, Howard Lazar, his
wife, Susan, and Norman Steinberg all
were lauded for their leadership in the
community. Edward Zizmor, also a CBS
past president, was presented with the
Shofar Award, given to a community
member for his or her commitment to
Beth Sholom. The evening raised more
than $75,000 to support educational and
cultural programs at CBS.
Howard and Susan Lazar Norman Steinberg Edward Zizmor
JEC has night of celebration
Last month, more than 520
parents, faculty, and friends
of the Jewish Educational
Center in Elizabeth cele-
brated together for the insti-
tutions annual dinner at the
Venetian in Garield.
Miriam and Marty Knecht
were guests of honor, Mimi
and Harry Stadler were the
Lev Tov award recipients,
and Esther Captan was the
educator of the year. Stella
DOnofrio and Dennis Van
Ness, t wo mai ntenance
workers who both have been
with the JEC for more than
20 years, also were honored.
The Knechts six children are JEC
graduates. Marty Knecht is a past presi-
dent of the JECs board and was the
director of social planning with the
then Jewish Federation of Central New
Jersey. He was the irst federation rep-
resentative to forge a strong relation-
ship with Elizabeths Orthodox com-
munity and escorted the late Rabbi
Pinchas M. Teitz, the JECs founder, to
his irst General Assembly in Texas.
The Stadlers three children are grad-
uates of the JECs high school divisions.
Harry Stadler is a longtime gabbai at
the JECs Adath Israel (North Avenue)
shul, and Mimi, an artist, has been
a longtime advocate for the broader
development of creative opportuni-
ties for the schools children, as well
as the planner and host of many of the
schools educational programs.
The Eyptian-born Ms. Captan immi-
grated to the United States in 1967. She
started her career at the JEC in the
boys high school division, teaching
Arabic and French. After a few years
she moved over to Bruriah, where she
has remained.
Stella DOnofrio and Dennis Van
Ness, the beloved maintenance work-
ers who both have been with the Jewish
Educational Center for more than two
decades, received an ovation as they
took the stage to receive their awards.
They were honored for their care and
personal concern for each child who is
a student at JEC.
Rabbis in attendance came from the
many communities that the JEC serves,
including Passaic/Clifton, Teaneck, Ber-
genield, and Monsey, N.Y.
Rav Elazar Mayer Teitz, dean of JEC, presents
an award to Miriam and Marty Knecht.
Ribbon cutting for Wayne teen center
On Tuesday, July 15, at 6 p.m., the Wayne
YMCA will hold a ribbon-cutting cere-
mony to celebrate its newly expanded and
upgraded DFM Foundation Teen Center.
New activities and additions to the center
include Playstation 4, Xbox, Wii, iPads, flat
screen smart HD televisions, air hockey,
foosball, and ping pong.
The Wayne Y offers every seventh
grader in Wayne a free membership; there
are approximately 150 seventh graders
playing basketball, swimming, and using
the itness center this summer.
The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a
partner of the YMYWHA of North Jersey.
The Y is at 1 Pike Drive in Wayne. For infor-
mation, go to www.wayneymca.org or call
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Challenging God
when teens are
murdered
T
he response of many rabbis to the tragic murder
of three teens in Israel has been more spiritual
than physical. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltzs response
to the murder of the three older boys, whom I
understand he knew personally, is moving. Rabbi Stein-
saltz is one of Israels greatest luminaries. But his com-
mentary, which was published online in the Times of
Israel, also is odd. It requires a rejoinder.
Rabbi Steinsaltz says that now they are no longer alive,
the boys are attached to the Almightys mantle, in a
closeness of everlasting fondness and permanent remem-
brance before Him.
Such ideas sound more Christian than Jewish. We are a
nation that values life, not death. We do not believe peo-
ple are better off in heaven
but that they have a mission
here on earth. The place of
these three young martyrs is
not at the Almightys mantle
but at their parents dinner
table, and at soccer games
with their siblings.
Rabbi Steinsaltz goes on to
defend the notion of prayer,
saying that those who suppli-
cated God for the safe return
of the teens should not feel
forlorn because each and
every prayer that was said created some kind of an eleva-
tion in all the higher worlds, and these requests and sup-
plication will bring light and deliverance.
Respectfully, this is not what we need to hear at pres-
ent. Nor was it the path of the Lubavitcher rebbe, to
whom Rabbi Steinsaltz just dedicated a biography. To
the contrary. The word Israel means he who wrestles
with God. We have a right to challenge God, to ask him
why our prayers for these boys was met with silence,
why our supplication seemingly was ignored. God him-
self commanded us to choose life, and we have a tradi-
tion that tells us that He commands us nothing that He
Himself does not practice. So why did God not choose
life this time?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, founder of This World: The
Values Network, has written many books, including
The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face
of Tragedy and Suffering. Follow him on Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
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Scintilla of good
I
f there is a scintilla of good
emerging from Israeli and Pal-
estinian tensions following the
murders of four teenage boys,
perhaps it happened last Sunday.
That was when Yishai Fraenkel, the
uncle of Naftali Fraenkel, one of three
Jewish teens murdered by Palestinian
terrorists, telephoned Hussein Abu
Khdeir, whose 16-year-old son, Moham-
med, was burned to death in an appar-
ent revenge killing, allegedly at the
hands of Jewish extremists.
Mr. Fraenkel called Mr. Khdeir to
offer his condolences. Jerusalems
Mayor Nir Barkat also made a phone
call of condolence to the Khdeir family.
Just hours before, two Palestinians
who live in Hebron paid a shiva call
to the mourning Frankel family. In an
interview with Israeli media outlets, Mr.
Fraenkel was quoted as saying There is
no difference between those who mur-
dered Muhammed, and those who mur-
dered our children. Those are murder-
ers, and these are murderers. And both
must be dealt with to the full extent of
the law.
Indeed, the Fraenkel family also said,
There is no difference when it comes
to blood. Murder is murder. There is no
justification, forgiveness, or atonement
for any murder.
We hope that these messages from
people who share the difficult bond of
grief can reach leaders and peoples on
both sides.
We hope that this is at least a start
toward the de-escalation of the vio-
lence and that it may lead to peaceful
dialogue. Perhaps it can be in the mem-
ories of four teens: Naftali Fraenkel,
Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach, and Moham-
med Abu Khdeir. PJ
Praying for the peace of Jerusalem
A
s we head into the three sad
weeks that lead inexorably
to the fast of Tisha bAv, the
lowest point of our litur-
gical year, the situation facing Israel
seems as grim as it did when Jerusalem
was under siege all those millennia ago.
There seems to be very little hope,
little light, little possibility of peace.
That cannot be.
The murders of the three Israeli boys
and then the murder of a Palestinian
boy seem to be leading irrevocably to
more conflict, more blood, more pain,
more death. Hamas, meanwhile, is tak-
ing advantage of the rage whipped up
by the murders to pursue its own illogi-
cal, violent, unwinnable ends, as Syria
and Iraq explode in spasms of Dark Age
barbarism not too far away.
If there is hope, though, it might well
lie in the lessons of Tisha bAv, three and
a half weeks away. Despite everything,
we survived. We are still here.
We still will be here.
We hope that the path to peace does
not wind through rocket fire and mis-
siles from Gaza, through increased
troop deployments, through the death
of anybodys children. As we begin the
time when we consider our historical
tragedies, we pray that we do not have
to repeat them. JP
Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, an 1866 painting by
Francesco Hayez.
Memorial to the slain Israeli teens in the lobby of the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenay.
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Challenging God
when teens are
murdered
T
he response of many rabbis to the tragic murder
of three teens in Israel has been more spiritual
than physical. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltzs response
to the murder of the three older boys, whom I
understand he knew personally, is moving. Rabbi Stein-
saltz is one of Israels greatest luminaries. But his com-
mentary, which was published online in the Times of
Israel, also is odd. It requires a rejoinder.
Rabbi Steinsaltz says that now they are no longer alive,
the boys are attached to the Almightys mantle, in a
closeness of everlasting fondness and permanent remem-
brance before Him.
Such ideas sound more Christian than Jewish. We are a
nation that values life, not death. We do not believe peo-
ple are better off in heaven
but that they have a mission
here on earth. The place of
these three young martyrs is
not at the Almightys mantle
but at their parents dinner
table, and at soccer games
with their siblings.
Rabbi Steinsaltz goes on to
defend the notion of prayer,
saying that those who suppli-
cated God for the safe return
of the teens should not feel
forlorn because each and
every prayer that was said created some kind of an eleva-
tion in all the higher worlds, and these requests and sup-
plication will bring light and deliverance.
Respectfully, this is not what we need to hear at pres-
ent. Nor was it the path of the Lubavitcher rebbe, to
whom Rabbi Steinsaltz just dedicated a biography. To
the contrary. The word Israel means he who wrestles
with God. We have a right to challenge God, to ask him
why our prayers for these boys was met with silence,
why our supplication seemingly was ignored. God him-
self commanded us to choose life, and we have a tradi-
tion that tells us that He commands us nothing that He
Himself does not practice. So why did God not choose
life this time?
Opinion
Rabbi Steinsaltz says that these prayers are there, and they are
a source of grace and mercy for us and for the entire world. How
so? The boys are dead. They deserve to be alive. They were good,
religious kids. Their only sin was to want to spend the Sabbath
with their families, obeying the Ten Commandments by honoring
their parents.
I am a religious man and an Orthodox Jew. But religion is
degraded when it offers empty platitudes and empty comfort.
Rabbi Steinsaltzs words smack too much of religious resigna-
tion and humble spiritual submission. The rebbe was famous for
asking ad mosai? Until when? How long? How long, oh Lord,
will innocent children die at the hands of terrorists? How long will
the Jewish people be the target of murderers? And how long will
you allow it, oh Lord?
Moses famously challenges God to remove his name from the
Torah if the Almighty will devour the Jews for their sins. Have we
learned nothing from his spiritual audacity?
Rabbi Steinsaltz rightly inveighs against any thought of
revenge, and indeed, if a revenge killing was carried out with
the tragic murder of the Palestinian child found dead in the
woods and as yet we know no details then this action is
an utter abomination against all things Jewish and it is repug-
nant in the extreme. My Jewish heart goes out to his Islamic
parents.
But even so, Rabbi Steinsaltzs advice that our principal
response should be to do Kaddish is appropriate for the grieving
parents who have suffered an unmentionable tragedy and whom
we seek to comfort in their moment of unspeakable pain.
But it is inappropriate for the rest of us. Our response must be
renewed vigilance. Israel must strike at the terrorists who did this,
so that they can never harm innocent children and teens again.
Israel must sow fear in the hearts of the wicked, so that they know
that Jewish blood is not cheap, that every murdered child comes
with an awesome price.
Rabbi Steinsaltz says each and every one of us should also act
as best he or she can in order to do Kaddish by studying more
Torah, by fulfilling one more mitzvah, by our physical actions or
by giving of our time and money to those in need. That is good
but secondary advice. Now is not the time to focus only on doing
the ritual mitzvot. Now is the time to protect and safeguard life.
Now is the time for Israeli special operation forces to weed
out the terrorists. Now is the time for the brave men and
women of the IDF to hunt down the killers and utterly uproot
their terror network.
For 3,300 years the Jewish people have performed the mitzvoth.
We have been the nation most devoted to God in the history of
the world. We have produced rabbis and scholars, pious people
and religious devotees. And still they have murdered and killed us.
Now is the time for military resolve. We built an army to keep us
safe, so we never have to rely on other nations for protection. We
need Gods salvation at every moment. We need Gods deliverance
at every second. We needs Gods love for our very lives.
But the Torah is clear. And the Lord will bless you in all that you
do. In this context doing means supporting the brave men and
women of the Israel Defense Forces so they may find the terror-
ists and neutralize them, so that no parent has to ever say Kaddish
prematurely, God forbid.
Rabbi Steinsaltz says that although our hearts are filled with
weeping, we should also make sure that they will also be filled
with joy. Let us thank God, rejoice in our being the chosen ones,
and endeavor to fulfill our mission with faith and joy.
I disagree. Now is the time for weeping and for physical resolve.
Joy cannot come to us until we take action to safeguard Israels
citizens so that they can live in their land in peace. Israel has no
quarrel with our Arab brothers and sisters. But we will wage eter-
nal war against those who seek to murder us, as they did these
innocent teens, simply for being Jewish.
We are not chosen to die but to live. And rather than thank-
ing God, we should be challenging the Almighty to send the
Messianic redeemer so that, as the prophet promised, at the
end of days death will be consumed forever. Only then will
there be complete joy.
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Goodbye, New York Times
It was a fine affair, but now its over
D
ear New York Times,
Its over between us.
For 30 years, Ive been in love with you,
NYT.
I met you soon after I moved here from Chicago. Never
before had I read such thoughtful, compellingly written
journalism, with dispatches from all over the globe that
mirrored my politics and my interests. You opened my
eyes, New York Times. Back in Chicago, the papers cov-
ered only local news, but you showed me there was a
larger world out there, filled with enchanting possibilities.
It was love at first sight. From that very first time, I
turned to your editorials and op-ed pages to shape my
opinions. I wouldnt see a movie or a play until I read
your reviews. I chose books based on your recommenda-
tions. I tore out your recipes and saved them in a special
notebook. It was a thrill when my illustrations appeared
in your hallowed Sunday Magazine. The papers that
described 9/11 and the election of our first black President
are preserved lovingly in my basement.
Many of my modern Orthodox friends and relatives
stopped reading you long
ago, NYT. You know why.
That old bugaboo, your
biased anti-Israel reporting.
I always defended you. We
have to know all sides of the
story, I explained to them.
You need to know how the
other guy thinks. You cant
just bury your head in the
sand, shut yourself away
from the world, and only
read the opinions of people
who agree with you.
I still believe that. But for now, I will get those opinions
someplace else.
Oh, dont look at me that way. You know what Im talk-
ing about. Your coverage of our boys, a tragedy that
began with the disappearance of three Israeli high school
kids on their way home from school one night and ended
with the discovery of their bodies under a pile of rocks in
a Palestinian field, an event spanning 18 days of baffling
and ominous silence. Mostly, the media soft-pedaled it,
as if the children of West Bank Jews, the ones you refer to
as settlers, maybe kinda sorta had it coming. Last Mon-
day, while the Jewish world was wild with worry, holding
prayer vigils and trying to stay optimistic, you, New York
Times, chose to print an article equating the grief of an
Israeli mother whose child had been kidnapped by ter-
rorists while returning home from school with the grief
of a Palestinian mother whose son was accidentally killed
when he disobeyed his parents orders and ran out of his
house to join a mob hurling rocks at Israeli soldiers as they
searched for the lost boys. Im sure you thought you were
presenting a balanced view of the news.
On Tuesday you published a wildly erroneous editorial,
saying that Prime Minister Netanyahu only commented on
an innocent Palestinian teenagers murder at the hands of
Jewish nationalist extremists after days of near silence.
How come I knew that he called it reprehensible on the
day of the murder, and condemned it again the next day
on national televisionbut you didnt?
This isnt the first time my faith in you has been tested.
I almost broke up with you in November, when you
reported on a sleeping 19-year old Israeli soldier who was
stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist on a bus. The
picture you chose to run was a photograph of the killers
mother, the caption implying that it was she who was the
victim of injustice. When readers wrote to point out the
mismatch between the photo and the story, you admit-
ted that, perhaps, it wasnt the best way to illustrate this
particular article after all. You know what troubled me
most? It was like your editors hadnt even read the piece.
As if they assumed that if the paper was featuring a story
involving Israel and a woman in a hijab, Israel was auto-
matically in the wrong.
That shook me deeply, New York Times. Because if you
could be so unashamedly one-sided about this story, what
else have you been wrong about?
Since your article last week, the one that disturbed me
so much, atrocities have piled up, civil unrest has esca-
lated. Israelis are running for bomb shelters as rockets
and missiles fly from Gaza to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. An
innocent, baby-faced 16-year-old named Muhammed Abu
Khdeir was savagely murdered by Jewish extremists. Rock-
ets and missiles are falling from Gaza into Ashdod and
Ashkelon. In formerly peaceful neighborhoods of East
Jerusalem, mobs of angry Palestinians are attacking Jew-
ish soldiers. Innocents in Gaza are being used by Hamas as
human shields. And in the eye of this maelstrom, Racheli
Fraenkel, the mother of a murdered Jewish boy, reached
out to the parents of the murdered Palestinian boy and
offered her condolences.
So you see, Im keeping up with the news from Israel,
now more than ever. Im just not getting it from you.
My husband is of a different mindset. His attitude is
Bring it on. Hell tell you that a belief, after all, is of no
value until you can defend it rationally against all com-
ers. He doesnt just read you, New York Times, he scours
the net for every wavelength of opinion on Israel, from
Al Jazeera to the UKs Guardian, both of which make you
look like the Jewish Press. He writes copious comments,
sends letters to the editor, and even emails the journalists
directly. And although these rarely get published, he feels
that hes at least contributed to the general discomfort. He
just doesnt give them any money if he can help it.
He suggested new, more balanced sources, alternatives
to both the consistently anti-Israel and to the simplistic
black-and-white pro-Israel rags: Haaretz, the Times of
Israel, the Jerusalem Post, the Council on Foreign Rela-
tions website (www.cfr.org), and the Christian Science
Monitor. He also reads several dozen incredibly dry blogs
written by foreign service professionals, academics, and
open-minded policy analysts. But thats just the problem.
Ninety-nine point nine percent of the well-read, progres-
sive population doesnt read these alternatives. They read
you, New York Times.
I wont pretend I wont miss you. Im sure there will
be times that I reach for you, and you wont be there. Im
accustomed to having you around, always waiting right
outside my front door in the morning, or spread provoca-
tively across my dining room table. But Im a big girl now,
all grown up, and there are other places to get my news
fix. Its a big wide world out there. You taught me that.
So this is goodbye. Maybe Im just being emotional right
now, but I can no longer turn my head and pretend that I
just dont see what youre doing.
You broke my heart, New York Times.
Helen Maryles Shankmans short fiction has appeared in
many publications, including The Kenyon Review and
JewishFiction.net. Her debut novel, The Color of Light, is
available on Amazon. She lives in Teaneck.
Helen
Maryles
Shankman
Opinion
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Letters
Good neighbors?
What religion and science can and cannot teach each other
T
ruth cannot contra-
dict truth.
This terse state-
ment of Averroes,
the twelfth-century Muslim commentator
on Aristotle, captures the central idea of
medieval religious philosophy: Revealed
religion and philosophy including what
we now call science cannot be in con-
flict. That which is observed or derived
by reason, and the prophetic teachings of
Scripture, are both true. If so, they must
always agree.
While this conclusion may seem obvi-
ous, the harmonization of Scripture and
Greek philosophy was a heroic intel-
lectual achievement. For centuries, the
greatest minds best represented in our
tradition by Maimonides were preoc-
cupied with resolving inconsistencies
between divine truth and rational truth.
Eventually, however, the attempt to rec-
oncile the Bible with philosophy was
moot. Dethroned by the scientific revolu-
tion, Aristotle became irrelevant to both
religion and science.
But religion was to face an even greater
existential threat. When modern science
replaced medieval philosophy as the
source of objective truth, the challenge to
traditional religion deepened. By the 19th
century, evidence from geology and the
fossil record, and especially Darwinism,
brought science and religion into full-
blown conflict. Everyone had to choose
sides: Genesis and Darwin could not both
be true.
In the last century, a variety of cre-
ative approaches have arisen that allow
for peaceful coexistence between
science and religion. At
one extreme are biblical
literalists members of an
originally Protestant move-
ment, who recently have
been joined by adherents
in the Jewish community
who advocate scientific
creationism and a Young
Earth theory. In their view,
religion and science are
indeed both true, but only
because their version of sci-
ence supports a literal reading of Genesis.
Creationism, rather than Darwinism, is
true science.
A related but less literal-minded
approach, and one found increasingly
in popular Jewish literature, insists that
the Bible and rabbinic tradition are not
only sources of religious truth, they are
also scientifically accurate. Genesis, read
carefully if not literally, actually is an
outline of modern cosmology; the sages
mastered scientific concepts unknown
for centuries in the West. Science and
religion are one, in this view, because
religious tradition is omniscient and
all-encompassing.
At the opposite end of the spectrum
are advocates of scientism, such as evo-
lutionary psychologist Steven Pinker,
who would like to see religion surrender
unconditionally to science. Not content
with rejecting religion as so much super-
stition, racism, and violence, Pinker
recently has argued that science should
be extended beyond the boundary of
objective knowledge into the domain of
morality, where religion has always domi-
nated. In The Better Angels
of Our Nature, Pinker tries
to prove that the gradual
slide away from traditional
religion since the Enlight-
enment has made human-
ity more moral, not less.
Science is the most reliable
source of truth, including
moral truth.
A more conci l i atory
approach was advanced by
the late evolutionary biolo-
gist Stephen Jay Gould.
He described science and
religion as nonoverlap-
ping magisteria; that is,
two separate realms or sets
of teachings that address
distinct aspects of human
experience. While science is
the master of the empirical,
religion and scripture deal
with meaning and value.
(Four centuries earlier, Gal-
ileo made a similar appeal
for separation of powers.)
Separated by a tall barrier,
science and religion never
should meet in battle.
Goul d admi tted that
despite his ideal of sepa-
ration, the two magiste-
ria tend to bump right
up against each other.
But being a self-described
agnostic Jew, he had little
at stake personally in the
resolution of cross-border
disputes. For traditional
Jews, on the other hand, some conflicts
that arise in medical ethics, for exam-
ple may have mortal consequences. It
is unrealistic and undesirable for a mod-
ern religious person to live with a split
personality, one half scientific and the
other moral. Ultimately, we must learn
how to integrate the two.
Still, I believe Goulds magisteria rep-
resent a useful model for keeping science
and religion at a safe distance from each
other. The Torah is neither a literal nor
an esoteric work of science, and science
by itself cannot determine what is good.
But science and religion should com-
municate frequently across their respec-
tive boundaries. Each magisterium has
something critical to offer the other.
Science can protect religion from the
intellectual blindness and radicalism that
may occasionally afflict the devout, even
when their intentions are pure. At a time
when segments of our own religious com-
munity have become increasingly insular
and extreme, secular learning I include
the humanities as well as the sciences
can provide perspective and balance, and
remind us of our connections and obliga-
tions to the wider community.
Religious tradition must keep science
and technology in moral check. We
have seen the consequences of societ-
ies substituting God with a scientific
ethic based on some utopian vision of
state, race, or enlightened freedom. The
image of a coterie of scientists govern-
ing society by a code of atheistic mor-
als is, quite frankly, horrifying. I much
sooner would put my faith in the moral
judgment of God-fearing nonscientists,
guided by traditional values and practi-
cal wisdom.
Religion and science should occupy
separate territories, but at times each
inevitably will find itself inside the oth-
ers domain. It is important, though
sometimes difficult, to decide when
each one should be invited to climb over
the fence and when it is trespassing.
David Zinberg lives in Teaneck with
his wife and three boys and works in
financial services. His blog is Realia
Judaica.
David S.
Zinberg
Maimonides sought to reconcile scripture and
rational philosophy.
Outrage at the murders
As a Christian, I am deeply outraged
about the events of the last few weeks.
There is no excuse for what has hap-
pened in Israel. I have watched with
increasing dread when there was no new
information in the weeks after the three
boys were kidnapped. When the news
came out they had been murdered, I was
both angered and sad.
I was sad because of the three young
lives that had been snuffed out before
they had a chance to live. Two of the
three boys had not yet completed high
school. One had probably finished high
school the year before. I was angered
because of the senseless act and the fact
that they were killed only because they
were Jews.
All the world should protest the killing
of these three children, so that the horror
of the event will not die. We all should
stand with Israel and not leave them to
face these horrific events alone. My fear
is that in a few days, most people will go
back to business as usual, but I hope that
there will be a tremendous international
outcry so this will not happen.
For myself, I will be supportive to the
Jewish community as much as I am able
as we seek to support them in their hour
of need.
Karen Coupe
Hawthorne
(Editors note: This letter was received
before the news of the fourth dead teenager,
Mohammad Abu Khdeir.)
Where does
the threat come from?
In his last column, The threat from the
Christian Right ( July 20), Rabbi Engel-
mayer seems to have his directions
wrong. The threat to Israel and Jews is
not from the right but the left. The Chris-
tian left the Presbyterian Church (USA)
voted for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanc-
tions against Israel. They want to bring
financial ruin to Israel. They dont believe
in a Zionist state. The Christian right is
the best friend Israel has (tourism, finan-
cial aid, Soviet Jewry, etc. ) To bring in
concern about U.S. immigration policy
obscures the churchs animosity toward
Israel. The immigration policy has many
divergent views amongst all groups,
but to demonize and weaken Israel is a
danger to the Middle East, the Western
world, and world Jewry. Where are your
priorities, Rabbi Engelmayer?
Myrna Haas
Park Ridge
Left and right on Israel
Shammai Engelmayer has written his
periodic attack on the Christian right
(The threat from the Christian right,
June 20) with special emphasis on the
Hagees, who are strong supporters of
Israel. He points out the meaningless
dangers of hearing Christmas carols and
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None of these dangers have affected my
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Once again, the Presbyterian leader-
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27). This year, the Christian left has
managed to pass the infamous BDS
decree. This is a real danger to Israel
and the Jewish people.
I may be wrong, but I have never
read an article by Shammai Engelmayer
on the dangers of the Christian left.
Hagee and his group support the state
of Israel politically and financially. The
Presbyterians maliciously do the oppo-
site. Take your pick.
Last week, Rabbi Neal Borovitz voiced
his distress with the Presbyterians
actions (A view from the pew, July
4). His advice is not to disengage but to
work for greater engagement with our
non-Jewish neighbors. Good advice, but
his advice is really for disengagement,
not engagement. By purposely not rec-
ognizing and identifying that we have
good and loyal supporters in the Chris-
tian community, he is effectively disen-
gaging from them. Yes, engage with oth-
ers but why shun our supporters? We do
not have that many friends.
Harry Lerman
Paramus
Israel should not hold back
I am sick and tired of the international
community calling for restraint from
Israel in its response to terror attacks.
These peace at any cost to Israel
voices are once again being heard as
Israel responds to the brutal murder of
three teenage boys.
What threat were these youngsters to
anyone? The Hamas supermen praised
the kidnappings, and Im sure they
feel the same way about the murders.
They are cowards who strike only the
defenseless.
The world is quick to condemn Israel
and call for restraint, but their voices,
including that of our President Barack
Hussein Obama, are silent in cases such
as this. Perhaps his response to Beng-
hazi is indicative of his moral fiber.
They understand only one thing and
that is when they are made to hurt
more than they are hurting. When
Americans such as Terry Anderson and
Joe Cicippio were kidnapped in Leba-
non and held captive for years, we sent
strong protests. That really scared the
kidnappers.
Emboldened, the terrorists kid-
napped t hree Russi ans. Russi a
demanded their immediate release.
In response they murdered one of the
Russian captives. Russia ceased all dip-
lomatic efforts to free their captive citi-
zens. Instead they sent in Spetsnaz, the
Russian Special Forces.
Their response was brutal. They
wiped out the entire families of the
suspected kidnappers/killers. The next
day the remaining Russians were freed
and no Russian was touched again.
Americans will not resort to such a
brutal response. Nor will Israel. But it
points out that these cowardly terror-
ists only understand one thing harsh
retribution. A measured response will
never do the trick. Those who call for
restraint do so from the comfort of
th eir living rooms or offices and have
no idea of the reality of terrorism. They
condemn Israel because they can. Its
become the popular thing to do.
Fami l i es of shaheed (mart yrs)
encourage their boys and girls to
become suicide bombers because they
receive hefty compensation from Arab
governments, including Saudi Arabia.
Imagine their response if their own
lives were put at risk because little
Ahmed decided to become a shaheed.
Israel was born in the hope of peace-
ful compromise. It has asked for peace
since 1948 and has only been met
with violence. Those calling for Israeli
restraint are too ignorant or bigoted to
understand this.
Bob Nesoff
New Milford
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Those who call
for restraint do
so from the
comfort of th eir
living rooms or
ofces and have
no idea of the
reality of
terrorism.
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JOANNE PALMER
A
s more and more bleak news
from Israel continues to chill
hearts here, the parents of all
four murdered boys the three
Jews and the one Arab will have to learn
how to live without them.
It is a pain that they will feel forever, but
they will learn to manage somehow, each in
his or her own way.
In this country, Stephen Flatow models a
way to take grief, fashion it into a lance, and
wield it powerfully in his quest for justice.
Ever since his daughter, Alisa a Brandeis
student who graduated from the Frisch
School in Paramus and was spending her
junior year abroad in Israel was killed by
terrorists, blown up, along with everyone
else on board, as she rode a bus to an Israeli
beach, Mr. Flatow has fought to make her
murderers, and the terrorist state that sup-
ported them, pay for her death.
There is, of course, an odd way in which
he is lucky, at least relatively speaking,
in having access to the bizarre biochemi-
cal process that allows grief to morph into
action; that is better than the kind of grief
that eats away inside.
And, of course, the long-term, circu-
itously-arrived-at results of the work that
Mr. Flatow began in 1995, when Alisa died,
has ended in the largest penalty a bank has
agreed to pay along with a guilty plea. BNP
Paribas, a huge French bank whose lead-
ers pleaded guilty to doing business with
countries that are not allowed to trade with
the United States and lying about doing
so has agreed to an $8.9 billion penalty.
That is the largest fine ever assessed for that
reason.
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the
bombing, which is called the Kfar Darom
bus attack, and the U.S. State Department
said that the Iranian government had
funded the terrorists. So Mr. Flatow a law-
yer who lives in South Orange and works
in Jersey City and his team began by get-
ting federal legislation enacted that allowed
them to proceed with their suit against the
government of Iran. No government rep-
resentatives ever appeared to answer to
defend themselves, Mr. Flatow said. We
satisfactorily proved to the judge that they
were responsible, and he awarded us a judg-
ment of $250 million.
Were he actually to have been given that
enormous sum which still would be worth
infinitely less to him than his daughter Mr.
Flatow and his family would be staggeringly
rich today. But they are not. Why? When
a client gets a judgment, you try to enforce
it, he said. He could not. My two attorneys
started to identify Iranian assets, he said.
First we went to Washington and located
state property. When we tried to attach it,
the State Department, which until then had
been very good to us, became our worst
enemy.
Once it was clear that the U.S. govern-
ment would not allow the Flatows to go
anywhere near Iranian government prop-
erty, We knew we had to locate commer-
cial assets, Mr. Flatow said.
He and his team found some Iranian com-
mercial assets in Maryland, and then they
began to look at New York City records. We
got the idea that the Iranian government
owned a big skyscraper in Manhattan, he
said. Using Westlaw, LexisNexiss precur-
sor, they ran property searches, and we
came up with this lead, he said. It looks
like there is an office building, the Piaget
Building, held by the Alavi Foundation.
The building is in midtown, on Fifth Avenue
at 52nd Street, near Rockefeller Center; its
most well-known recent tenant was Godiva
Chocolatier.
We did more research, and we found
that the Alavi Foundation once had been
the Pahlavi Foundation, Mr. Flatow said.
Pahlavi was the family name of the Shah of
Iran. He was the government, Mr. Flatow
said. And all of a sudden, in 1980, the very
esteemed members of the Pahlavi Founda-
tion resigned. One of them, he said par-
enthetically, was William Rogers, who had
been President Richard Nixons secretary of
state.
Turning grief
into action
Stephen Flatow talks
about his long quest for
justice for Alisa
and the fine assessed
against BNP Paribas
The foundations name was changed to
something like the Fund for Martyrs, he
continued. And then, I think, someone
who was looking at it said something like
Are we out of our minds? Lets give it a more
normal name, and they changed it to Alavi.
What caught my eye was that there was
no high-powered legal firm doing this work.
It was just one lawyer somewhere in Orange
County. Shades of Bernie Madoff and his
accounting department.
This was 1999; that year, we go to fed-
eral district court, and we say that we have
a judgment against the Iranian government,
and the Alavi foundation is part and parcel
of it. And the Department of Justice says not
so fast. You have to show the governments
day-to-day control of the foundation in
order to pierce the protection of sovereign
immunity, Mr. Flatow said.
It was politics, he added. Madeleine
Albright President Bill Clintons secretary
of state was hell-bent on restoring some
kind of normalcy with Iran. She wanted to
do it by lifting duties from caviar, pistachios,
and Persian carpets.
Unsurprisingly, that effort did not work,
but it did delay Mr. Flatows work against
Iran by a decade or so. He lost in court when
he tried to press his case. We had our clock
cleaned, he said.
A few years went by, and then it was Sep-
tember 11, 2001. In the aftermath of the
attacks against the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon (and the accidental crash in a
field in Pennsylvania), the federal govern-
ment became interested in tracing terror-
ists funding.
Someone had the brainstorm of bring-
ing in a former military man from Israel as
a consultant, Mr. Flatow said. This man,
Eitan Arusy, started investigating, finding all
the information he could find about various
terrorist attacks, their funding, and their ties
to governments.
And it turns out that there is more.
Eitan Arusy turned out to be far more
than he seemed. He had investigated Alisas
bombing at Kfar Darom. Hes looking at
these connections. He recognizes her name.
He walks up to Foley Square the
downtown hub for government agencies
representing many branches and levels of
various municipal, state, and federal orga-
nizations. He pulls out a file, and sees
the allegation that led to the tracing of the
money to the banks.
In the end, everything comes down
to personal relationships, he said. It all
comes down to people.
Mr. Arusy could follow the money trail
Stephen Flatow
models a way
to take grief,
fashion it into a
lance, and wield it
powerfully in his
quest for justice.
up to a point, but then it went entirely
cold. There was no trace of what hap-
pened to any money after that.
Eventually, prosecutors realized some
banks, include Credit Suisse and Lloyds,
were substituting other names for the
foundation. All they had to do, Mr. Flatow
said, was replace one name with another.
In 2009, a whistleblower implicated BNP
Paribas as well. They were able to keep
on doing it until everything started to
unwind, Mr. Flatow said. Then the story
tumbles downhill.
To some extent, his interest in this set-
tlement is almost academic. It is BNP Pari-
bas that will pay the huge fine which is
not so huge for a bank of its size not the
Iranian government, which has come out
of this legal process financially unscathed.
The fine will be divided up among many
hundreds of terror victims each one of
whom deserves far more than that so it
will not go very far.
Meanwhile, Mr. Flatow, whose four liv-
ing children have 15 children between
them, says that Alisa is locked in at 20.
This year she would have turned 40, but
she never will grow older. There never will
be new photographs of her.
Back in 1997, my daughter Ilana stood
in for me at a rally in Manhattan, he said.
She began by saying, My name is Ilana
Flatow, and in a few months I will be older
than my older sister.
Not only does he have some idea of how
the families of all the murdered young
men feel now and will feel as time plays
its sometimes welcome, sometimes ago-
nizing tricks on them but he also has a
special connection to one of the families.
Rabbanit Rachel Sprecher Fraenkel, the
mother of 16-year-old Naftali, who was bur-
ied last week, is the head of the Hilkhata
program at Matan, a gap-year program
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Stephen and Alisa Flatow stand together, the love between them evident, as
she graduates from the Frisch School in Paramus in 1992.
Palestinian terrorism is genocide
STEPHEN FLATOW
I
ts time to say the G-word out
loud.
Palestinian terrorism is not
just another form of violence. Its
genocide by another name.
A word such as genocide should
never be used lightly. If it is to have any
meaning, it must not be flung about
just to make some political point or to
award victim status to some aggrieved
group that has suffered far less than
mass murder.
At the same time, we have to be will-
ing to use the G-word when it applies
even if doing so is politically inconve-
nient or unpopular.
I recently spoke at the 11th National
Conference of the David S. Wyman
Institute for Holocaust Studies. It was
the first time I have ever addressed
such a forum. I was one of the speakers
in a session involving people connected
to genocides other than the Holocaust.
There we were: a survivor of the
Rwandan genocide, a son of victims of
the Armenian genocide, and me, the
father of a victim of Palestinian terror-
ism. At first glance, it must have seemed
to some in the audience that the three
of us had nothing in common. But the
more I have thought about it, the more
I have come to realize that, sadly, we
have everything in common. All three
of us have experienced not only the
consequences of genocide itself, but
also the added tragedy of politics pre-
venting a response to genocide.
Jacqueline Murekatete spoke at the
Wyman conference about how her fam-
ily was brutally slaughtered by the Hutu
mass murderers in Rwanda in 1994,
about her narrow escape from that fate,
and about the Clinton administrations
decision not to intervene. A few days
after her address, the New York Times
reported that the Obama administra-
tion is refusing to declassify 100 inter-
nal White House cables from 1994 that
reveal what U.S. policymakers were dis-
cussing about Rwanda as the genocide
was taking place. Those policymakers
included senior Clinton officials who
are now senior Obama officials, such as
National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
Dr. Hagop Deranian spoke about the
ornate rug woven by Armenian orphans
in 1925 and given to the White House
in appreciation for American humani-
tarian aid to survivors of the Turks
genocide of the Armenians. He spoke,
too, about the Obama administrations
refusal to permit the rug to be seen in
public, evidently for fear of offending
Turkey, which to this day denies that it
committed genocide.
And I, too, spoke about a genocide
that is politically uncomfortable to
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in Israel, and she also teaches at Nishmat in Jersualem.
That is where Alisa Flatow was studying when she was
killed; there is now a building and a program at Nishmat,
endowed by her family, dedicated to her.
Mr. Flatow talked about the alchemy of changing grief
into action. I am a very lucky person, he said. Where
I became lucky was when I was invited to become a
member of a speaking bureau for the United Jewish
Appeal. There was a time when I was speaking two or
three times a week.
I would tell the story of Israel, and of Alisa, and I
would talk about why it is important to stand up for
Israel.
We are all one family.
That ended up being the best therapy I could get.
Every parent, every sibling reacts differently. I was just
extremely lucky that God opened my mouth and that
the stuff that started coming out of it makes sense most
of the time.
He is vehement about the truth that he still is Alisas
father. He wont allow anyone to put that sentence in the
past tense.
He talks about his relationship with President Clinton.
He might have been a philanderer, he might have been
corrupt, but he called me, Mr. Flatow said.
He recalls one conversation in particular. He said
that my wife and I were talking at breakfast about how
brave a man you are, he said; he was talking about
Mr. Flatows dogged refusal to give up what seemed at
many points to be a quixotic quest. I said, Mr. Presi-
dent, wouldnt you do anything for your daughter?
Just because Alisa is dead, she hasnt stopped being my
daughter.
When he sued Iran for wrongful death in 2002, We
had spent the day with our attorney, Thomas Fay, going
over our testimony, Mr. Flatow said. The idea is that a
witness should not be surprised by the questions com-
ing from his own lawyer. But the first one that he was
asked threw him. Fay is a big man, physically big, and
so is the judge, Mr. Flatow said. Fay says, Were you
the father of Alisa Flatow? and I say No. I still am her
father.
They both turned away from me. Their eyes filled
up.
I will not let anyone say that I was her father. I still
am.
He has one last piece of hard-won advice for other par-
ents. I finish every conversation with my kids by say-
ing I love you. You never know when it will be the last
conversation.
acknowledge: the genocide that Palestinian terrorists
have been trying to carry out since the early 1900s.
Its uncomfortable to acknowledge because it flies
in the face of everything that the pundits and the
State Department and the United Nations constantly
claimthat the Palestinians have become moder-
ate, that there is violence by both sides, and that
enough Israeli concessions will produce peace.
But the truth is that when genocide is involved, no
amount of concessions will make any difference.
On April 9, 1995, my daughter Alisa, a 20 year-old
junior at Brandeis University, boarded a bus that
would take her to a seaside resort in Gush Katif, a
region then under Israeli control. She never made
it because a young Palestinian terrorist, recruited
by the group Islamic Jihad, rammed her bus with
his explosives laden van and detonated a massive
explosion. Alisa was one of eight people murdered
in that attack.
They were eight of the thousands of Jews who have
been murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Turkish-
ruled Palestine, in British-ruled Palestine, and in
Israel over the course of the past century.
What was the motive of these Palestinian attack-
ers? The answer to this question is crucial. Motives
matter. They matter very much. Because if the Pal-
estinians motive is simply to secure some territory
and then live in peace next to Israelthen much of
the world can see some justification in their violence.
But if the Palestinians motive is simply to kill Jews,
then their action is genocide. Nothing can justify
that, and no surrender of territory will ever put an
end to it.
Obviously not everyone who has been harmed in
Palestinian attacks has been Jewish. When a terrorist
blows up a plane or machine-guns a crowd, non-Jews
die, too.
And not every victim of Palestinian terrorism has
been an Israeli. Alisa wasnt. The terrorists dont
know the nationality of each of their intended vic-
tims in advance.
But we do know who they are trying to kill. And we
know it for one simple, harsh reason that no pundit
or State Department official ever acknowledges: Pal-
estinian terrorists never try to murder Israeli Arabs.
Think about that. Israeli Arabs are Israeli citizens.
Indeed, we are constantly told that they are, over-
whelmingly, completely loyal to the State of Israel.
So if that is the case, why dont Palestinian terror-
ists ever attack them? If the Palestinians grievance
is against the policies of the State of Israeland not
against Jewsthen they should be attacking Israeli
Arabs just as they attack Israeli Jews. But they dont.
If they were just against Israelis, the Palestin-
ian Authoritys newspapers and radio and television
shows would be inciting Palestinians to hate Israeli
Arabs with the same vehemence that they hate Israeli
Jews. They would be accusing Israeli Arabs of being
evil and Nazi-like. Their political cartoons against the
occupation would be showing Israeli Arabs as mon-
strous occupiers. Instead, their cartoons show occu-
piers with huge hooked noses, side curls, beards,
and yarmulkes.
Palestinian terrorists dont plant bombs in super-
markets in Israeli Arab neighborhoods. They dont
machine-gun bus passengers in Israeli Arab towns.
They dont kidnap Israeli Arab teenagers from hitch-
hiking posts and murder them.
The reason is simple, and there is no other reason-
able explanation: their goal is to murder Jews.
The international legal definition of the crime of
genocide is found in Articles II and III of the 1948
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
Genocide: Acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious
group.
That is what they have been doing, whether with
knives and bombs, airplane hijackings and suicide
bombers, or kidnap-murders of hitchhikers. Its an
inconvenient truth. It doesnt suit most political agen-
das. But its the reality.
Its time to acknowledge the nature of what Pales-
tinian terrorists have been doing to the Jews for more
than a centuryand about what they have now done
to three Jewish teenagers. Its not politics, its not pol-
icies. Its genocide. JNS.ORG
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back-up rabbi at High Holiday services for Makom Ohr
Shalom Synagogue in Los Angeles. Reb Zalman had
not been well, and both he and the synagogue lead-
ership wanted someone available in case he needed
to rest. That first year, Reb Zalman indeed was seri-
ously ill and became quite weak, so I stepped in and
led services. By the next year, he had bounced back,
and we co-led.
For 15 amazing years, I was privileged to lead High
Holidays with him. He graciously welcomed me and
Rabbi/Cantor Monty Turner as his partners.
Just by observing him, I became a better counselor,
liturgist, and teacher. I learned to listen better and
to fear death less. Reb Zalman inspired many of the
Jewish practices I hold most dear from reciting the
Ana Bkoach prayer upon hearing a siren to chant-
ing Torah with translation and commentary. I came to
think of Reb Zalman as a mentor and friend, as well as
my rabbi. This was not because we were buddies, but
because he was so open and loving.
I wish I could say that I instantly understood the
extent of the gift I had been given when I was paired
with Reb Zalman. But it took me some time. Part of the
reason for that, no doubt, was my youth and inexperi-
ence. But part of it was Reb Zalmans amazing humil-
ity. He came out with what he had to offer only when
he perceived that people truly were ready.
Greatness defined
Recently, I read an old best-seller, Good to Great, by
Jim Collins. One of my favorite insights to come out of
the research summarized in the book is the distinction
between a good leader and a great one. Leaders who
get good results in the corporate world can manage
themselves, work well with other people, supervise
individuals, manage teams, and hold a vision for the
company. Leaders who get great results have all these
same abilities and one thing more. Not a particular
talent or capacity. Not connections. Not charisma.
They have humility.
It turns out that rock star CEOs, who make the news
or create a culture around their personalities, do not
achieve what genuinely humble CEOs do. This fits the
Jewish paradigm. With Moses as the ultimate example,
our tradition prizes humility both for character and
for leadership.
Its hard to talk about humility. Humble people are
hardly likely to advertise their approach or its benefits.
Biographies, obituaries, and common conversation
laud achievement. Humility is interested in character,
and it flees from the spotlight.
The greatness of Reb Zalman
Obviously, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi made
extraordinary contributions. But what made him truly
great what made him a leader we will be learning
from for generations to come was his humility. He
had great respect for the office of rabbi, but no per-
sonal pride or ego about his own position.
Reb Zalmans own words give credit to his rebbe and
take an unfussy, practical approach toward his own
position. It was owing in large measure to this attitude
that his outreach was successful.
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and I got into our situation,
and all that has happened since, because our rebbe,
Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn, called us to his table
on Yud-Tet-Kislev in 1949 and said, Its time that you
should travel to the campuses, to the universities, he
wrote in Geologist of the Soul: Talks on Rebbe-craft
and Spiritual Leadership. And we agreed that we would go
as just plain Zalman and Shlomo, keeping the threshold for
how we would present ourselves very low. It was not nec-
essarily helpful to be Rabbi Carlebach and Rabbi Schachter,
because we wanted to meet people where they were, without
the barriers those titles might create. And I think it was suc-
cessful because many people felt I can do that too! We were
just telling stories and singing songs and talking about what
we loved. So stepping into our shoes became relatively easy.
Reb Zalmans humility came across in the devoted atten-
tion he brought to every encounter. He listened truly lis-
tened to people. The kind of deep attention he paid is so
rare that initially it was disconcerting to some folks. Even in
a casual conversation, Reb Zalman sometimes would ask for
a moment to think over what a person had just said. He was
someone who truly learned from every person (Avot 4:1),
and so he regularly paused to digest other peoples view-
points and wisdom.
Reb Zalman took students and children seriously. He con-
sidered their questions and comments deeply, stopping to
think, and often to to pray, before responding. He took time
with young children in the synagogue, integrating them into
the services, telling them stories, showing them the Torah
scroll and the letters of their names in it. The adult congre-
gation waited, watched, and learned.
We all know people whose genius and giftedness makes
them impatient with amateurish efforts in the areas of their
expertise. But the opposite was true for Reb Zalman. His gift-
edness sought out and shined a light on the gifts in others.
He cultivated other peoples talents, sometimes actively, as
a guide and mentor, and sometimes just through the power
of his focused, appreciative attention. He did this for me
and for hundreds of others. During the last 10 years of life
he deliberately withdrew from leadership, encouraging and
coaching younger rabbis to step in, even when was available
to do a task himself and frankly, do it better.
Reb Zalman had a beautiful singing voice and a great ear;
he composed music and masterfully applied contemporary
melodies to classic liturgy. When he listened to other peo-
ples compositions or davening, he listened with rapture,
to find God in it, to hear what he loved. His enthusiasm was
genuine, and it inspired both the person leading prayers and
the congregation. Enthusiasm, after all, literally means pos-
sessed of God or having God within.
Reb Zalman often liked to explain the Yiddish word fah-
gin as the polar opposite of to begrudge. Rather than
resisting giving someone else the good, you deliberately
seek it for them. You pray for them, heap upon them good
will and blessings. Reb Zalman not only loved this word, he
embodied it. He never wanted to keep religious leadership,
joy, honor, wisdom, or any other good thing for himself. He
fahgin-ed all good things to all people.
Over and over, I saw Reb Zalman do things for people
of all faiths, backgrounds, and stations even when they
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didnt deserve it, even when someone
else could have done it. I perceived the
price we paid for Zalmans generosity
whether it was directed toward me or
toward others because I understood that
we were taking a genius away from work
that only he could do. Of course, Reb Zal-
man would never have put it or thought
of it that way. On the contrary, he went
out of his way to serve and help people.
Once, an aspiring journalist at a com-
munity paper in a small town published
an article that he was proud of. Reb Zal-
man was mentioned tangentially in the
article, which was brought to his attention
by a friend of the author. When Reb Zal-
man inferred how important this article
was to the author, he tracked him down
and phoned him to offer him a genuine,
heartfelt mazel tov on the piece. I know
about this story for two reasons. First, Reb
Zalman asked me to help put him in touch
with the man. And second, the journalist
talked about that phone call many times
over the course of a decade. It inspired
him to continue in a career path that he
might have given up, but for Reb Zalmans
encouragement.
When I was going through fertility treat-
ment, I had the chutzpah to ask Reb Zal-
man to be on my prayer team. He not only
agreed, he called me often to encourage
me. In a way that was uncanny but never
surprising, his calls usually came right
after an important treatment or bit of
news. Reb Zalman continued to call me
throughout my pregnancies, just to bless
me. He took delight in my two children.
Some of my most precious memories are
of the times he laid hands on them and
blessed them.
Long before I was a mom, Reb Zalman
and I initiated a teen service, scheduled for
the break on Yom Kippur afternoon. We
were just beginning the service, and Reb
Zalman launched in with deep and chal-
lenging questions: What do you see in the
world that worries you? What are you
really concerned about? The kids looked
down and away. No one wanted to speak
first. It so happened that the service took
place in a room where some of the choir
members had stashed their belongings. A
few adults were sneaking in to the room
to collect their things, and some of them,
including the mother of one of the teens,
hung back quietly to listen. Reb Zalman
raised his voice and scolded them angrily,
You are disturbing us here! We are having
a private service for teens only. Get your
things and get out! I was shocked. The
parents and kids were shocked. This was
so unlike the Reb Zalman we knew. Was it
the hunger talking? Was he irritated by the
kids unresponsiveness?
The adults filed out quickly. Most
appeared embarrassed. The mom stormed
out, obviously offended. Reb Zalman
heaved a sigh that signified both exaspera-
tion and relief. And then the kids opened
up, relating their most deeply held con-
cerns. We had a discussion that touched
heart and soul, that connected our ancient
tradition with our contemporary needs. As
the kids left the service, one of them spoke
for the whole group when she said, I will
remember this for my entire life.
I was a little slow on the uptake, but as
soon as the words started tumbling out of
those teens, it became clear that Reb Zal-
mans emotionalism was deliberate. It was
a rare case of aveira leshem shamayim
a sin for the sake of Heaven. He was win-
ning the trust of the teens by establishing
the site of the service as sacred space
even if it meant yelling at the parents.
Afterward, I asked Reb Zalman if he had
planned that opening. He shrugged and
smiled mysteriously. I asked if he would
talk to the mom. He said, No. It was clear
to me that he had made a trade-off. He was
willing to let her think badly of him if it
ensured that her child could have a vital
spiritual and educational experience. Let-
ting her know that he was just fooling
would have saved his ego and reputation,
but if word spread quickly, it might also
have led the teens to question whether
the discussion we had was for real. Believe
me, it was. But Reb Zalman was not will-
ing to take a chance of sacrificing their
growth; he would much rather compro-
mise his dignity.
Reb Zalmans focus was always on God
and community, not on his role. This con-
tinued to be evident in his last days. He
left a message that discouraged his stu-
dents from flying to Colorado for his shiva
and funeral, and asked the community to
continue with a 90th birthday celebration,
conference, and fundraiser for Aleph that
had been planned for August.
Honoring greatness in us all
Rabbi Arthur Waskow wrote this memory
of Reb Zalman, which captures, all at once,
what is generous, brilliant, controversial,
and humble about his spiritual leadership:
He grew up in Lubavitch, where
on special occasions the Rebbe would
gather all the men around him at a
Tisch, the Rebbes table. He would sit in
a special, fancy chair, and teach Torah
for hours on end as the chasidim drank
LChayyim. Reb Zalman would, Erev
Shabbat or the evening before a festival,
gather us all women and men at
the Tisch. He would sit in the Rebbes
Chair, teaching Torah for about 20 min-
utes. Then he would stand up, and say
Everyone stand! So we stood. Then he
would say, Everybody move one chair to
the Left. And we did. So did he. Then he
would say to the person who was now sit-
ting in the Rebbes Chair: Look inside for
the Rebbe-Spark within you and teach
from there. And so we moved, person
by person, through the night. This was
NOT automatic arithmetic equality, like a
voting machine. It saw the possibility that
in each of us was a channel for sacred
Spirit. The Chair was important. It called
us into depth.
Reb Zalman both preached and prac-
ticed imitatio dei, modeling oneself after
God. It is a well-established Jewish prin-
ciple that we should strive to follow the
attributes of the Holy One (Sotah 14a).
Deuteronomy 10:17 teaches that God is
great, mighty, awesome and neither
plays favorites nor accept bribes. In a nut-
shell, that was Reb Zalman.
Reb Zalmans greatness, might, and awe-
some example did not result from mere
charismatic leadership, though he surely
had charisma, as well as dozens of talents,
abilities, and virtues. First and foremost,
his greatness depended upon the kind of
humility that treats all people as equal and
isnt seeking perks or rewards. It was on
that foundation of humility and righteous-
ness that everything else the massive
structure of his legacy was built.
Carrying his
greatness forward
It would be foolish and prideful to aspire
to Zalmans greatness, in the sense of imag-
ing that we could reach his level of learn-
ing, generosity, or influence. But I believe
that each of us has the capacity to build a
foundation of humility as great as his. And
if we are willing to do that, then the divine
potential in each of us will be released, as
surely as it was in him. To quote just plain
Zalman himself: he made it relatively
easy to step into [his] shoes. And with
shoes like his to fill, that was no easy task.
May the memory of the righteous be for
a blessing.
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Dangerous bedfellows
Beware the bearers of friendship with Iran
I
f you want the measure of how
American policy has clumsily tailed
the shifting system of alliances in the
Middle East, look no further than the
op-ed titled Iraq Must Not Come Apart,
published in the New York Times by Leslie
Gelb of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Once an advocate of a federal Iraq, Dr.
Gelb now has changed his mind. Nothing
wrong with that, except that in doing so,
Dr. Gelb, one of the most influential for-
eign policy thinkers in America today, has
arrived at a most troubling position.
Americas priority, Dr. Gelb says, is to
defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater
Syria ISIS the barbaric jihadi organi-
zation that now controls a vast swathe of
Syrian and Iraqi territory, where it has
declared a caliphate ruled by its leader, Abu
Bakr al Baghdadi.
No serious person would dispute that
ISIS, with its practice of beheading its
opponents, constitutes a serious threat. In
his Ramadan message to the Ummathe
global community of Muslimsal Baghdadi
called on the soldiers of the Islamic state
to ight, ight against the treacherous
rulers in the region who faithfully serve
foreign crusaders, atheists, and, of
course, the ultimate controlling power,
the jews (sic).
The problem is Dr. Gelbs prescription
for countering ISIS. America, he argues,
should ally itself with Irans ruling mullahs
and the brutal Syrian regime of Bashar al-
Assad to achieve this goal. The imperative
of defeating the Sunni jihadis overrides any
other considerations.
In one way, this is an extraordinary con-
clusion to reach. It rests on the assump-
tion that Iran can be trusted and that the
sanctions now imposed upon Tehran will
rein in the mullahs should they become,
in Dr. Gelbs phrase, too grabby. There
is no acknowledgement that such a strat-
ey requires ignoring Irans nuclear ambi-
tions and its long history of supporting
terrorism. And it demands that the same
Obama administration that last year iercely
denounced Syrias use of chemical weap-
ons, before backing down from the threat
of military action, now throw its lot in with
Assad, the chief executioner!
But in another way, Dr. Gelb is merely
describing a policy that
is already in placeeven
if he is reluctant to admit
that. As Michael Doran of
the Brookings Institution
has pointed out, in both
an interview with me as
well as in a recent essay
for Mosaic magazine, the
Obama administration has
effectively sided with Iran
in terms of the future direc-
tions of Syria and Iraq. What this overlooks,
Dr. Doran says, is the fact that Syria will
remain a magnet for Sunni jihadis for as
long as Assad, who enjoys the full backing
of Iran, remains in power.
Where would an alliance with the Shia
Islamists and their regional partners take
the United States? In my view, there is no
question that we would end up in a place
far worseif you can imagine thatthan
where we are now.
Its a big mistake to think that because
Iran is aligned with Nouri al Maliki, the sec-
tarian Shia prime minister of Iraq, it has
closed the doors to ISIS. A recent report
by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs,
an Israeli think tank, noted that Iran has
had close links with the Sunni Islamists of
Al Qaeda, which suggests that it is not as
implacably opposed to ISIS as western ana-
lysts would like to believe. Moreover, Assad
actually released key ISIS operatives from
his prisons, in another important indica-
tion that Irans regional alliance system
does not preclude cooperation with Sunni
Islamists.
While some in Washington may dream
of an outcome in which ISIS takes a batter-
ing as bilateral relations with the Iranians
improve, its far more likely that Islamists
of both the Shia and Sunni variants will
come out much stronger, to the detriment
of Americas traditional allies like Jordan
and Israel.
Which brings me to the Palestinian ter-
rorist organization, Hamas. The abduction
and murder of three Israeli teenagers was
an appalling reminder of just how vicious
Hamas is. What that gory episode doesnt
tell us, however, is where
Hamas sits in the emerging Mid-
dle Eastern order.
As the Syrian civil war inten-
siied, Hamas shifted away from
Iran, its traditional sponsor.
Now, however, the wind is blow-
ing the Hamas leadership back
in the direction of Tehran.
In March, as the Palestin-
ian journalist Adnan Abu Mer
reported, Iran resumed the
inancial aid to Hamas that had been sus-
pended in 2012. Ali Larijani, a hardliner
who heads up Irans Shura Council, subse-
quently declared that our relationship with
Hamas is good and has returned to what it
was. Recently, when Israeli jets bombed a
range of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip,
the Hamas representative in Tehran, Khalid
al-Qaddoumi, appealed for further Iranian
assistance on the grounds that the situa-
tion of Palestine is not under the focus of
political circles and is no longer a priority
for the region and the worlds media. (Im
not sure either which media Qaddoumi
is referring to.) And when Hamas leader
Khaled Mashaal met with senior Iranian
oficials in Qatar, he praised Tehran for
supporting the axis of resistancethis on
the eve of the announcement of a Palestin-
ian unity government involving Hamas and
the Fatah movement of Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas.
The notion, then, that Iran can be a
friend to Western interests in the Middle
East is catastrophically misguided. It is far
better to acknowledge the sad reality that
we are running out of regional allies, and
therefore are better off sticking with the
partners we have, rather than inding new
ones, who will delight in betraying us the
irst chance they get.
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publications. His book, Some Of My Best
Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First
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that, he is willing to enter halachic
debates with an open mind.
In discussing halachic issues, Im
motivated by finding out what is emes
truth Rabbi Lopatin said. Im not
motivated by fighting Christianity or
fighting Reform or fighting anyone else,
alluding to claims by Rabbi Herschel
Schachter the foremost talmudist for
RIETS, and a leading halachic authority
for the Orthodox Union that feminism
must be opposed as an anti-Jewish idea
with roots in Christianity.
Rabbi Lopatin argues that despite the
rhetoric that comes from some corners
of the Jewish world, changes in wom-
ens roles have taken place through-
out Orthodox Judaism, not only in its
most liberal reaches. Women now sit
on boards of Orthodox synagogues and
even serve as presidents. That once was
banned. Women now are studying and
teaching Talmud.
Bat mitzvahs are now being held in
standard Orthodox shuls, Rabbi Lopa-
tin said. When I look around, I see
there really is change. Its not fully egali-
tarian change, but there definitely has
been movement. The tradition is one of
change and movement. Being static and
ossified thats not the tradition.
A lot of the discussion has not been
about the halachic merits of women
doing this, but about tradition. Rav
Schachters voice is very important.
Hes a big gaon a genius. Lets hear
his arguments and discuss them.
When a chasidic rebbe says some-
thing, you dont argue with him. When
a rav that is, a non-chasidic rabbi, a
Talmud scholar says something, you
argue, you look at the sources, he said.
I hope that when there is change there
are people who shry gevalt against it,
because change should not be under-
taken lightly. It needs to stand up to
challenge.
Rabbi Lopatins praise for Rabbi
Schachter actually conceals a sharp dis-
sent, because Rabbi Schachter rejects
the idea that his rulings can be debated.
In a ruling published this winter oppos-
ing partnership minyans prayer
groups that call women to the Torah
and allow them to lead certain prayers
Rabbi Schachter began with a lengthy
discussion of how only rare Torah giants
should be allowed to rule on weighty
matters, and he implied that even one of
his best-known colleagues on the RIETS
faculty did not pass muster in his eyes.
Following Rabbi Schachters rul-
ing, RIETS told a student who had par-
ticipated in a partnership minyan that
he would not be ordained unless he
pledged not to do that again. Attaching
such a precondition to ordination was
unprecedented in the history of RIETS,
according to several rabbis who were
ordained there.
Another topic that has earned Cho-
vevei criticism in the Orthodox world
has been TheTorah.com, a website that
seeks to bring the world of academic
Bible study including its findings
that the Torah is the work of multiple
authors into religious Jewish conver-
sation. One of the leaders of TheTorah.
com is Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber, a Chovevei
graduate who earned a doctorate in
Bible from Emory University in Atlanta.
(Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler, professor of Bible
at Brandeis University, and Rabbi David
Steinberg of Passaic, who has a charedi
background, are the sites founders.)
The site hosts divrei Torah from both
Orthodox and non-Orthodox rabbis
and scholars.
On this issue, as with the role of
women, Rabbi Lopatin declined to draw
a red line. We preach and believe in
classic Torah min hashamayim, a divine
Torah. Thats what we teach our stu-
dents. Thats what we believe, he said.
Two weeks ago, Chovevei held its
12th annual public Bible seminar. And
in contrast to the secular academic
approach favored by TheTorah.com,
which is taught at non-Orthodox rab-
binical schools, the seminars classes
focus on what the head of Choveveis
Bible department, Rabbi Nathaniel Helf-
got, leader of Teanecks Congregation
Netivot Shalom, calls the literary-theo-
logical method. Unlike the academic
approach, the method looks at each
book of the Bible as a whole, rather than
tracing its evolution.
I want to make sure people know
were passionately committed to the
divinity of the Torah, Rabbi Lopatin
said. At the same time, were a very wel-
coming place, and we welcome all Jews
to a discussion.
He finds the popularity of TheTorah.
com fascinating and the question of
how to study biblical criticism and still
maintain faith interesting.
There are many passionate Jews who
keep halacha, who are committed to
Torah, who even say they are commit-
ted to the doctrine of Torah from Sinai in
a way, while accepting academic claims
about the Torahs historical origins, he
said. We have to embrace them, and to
embrace the conversation. Not as a way
of weakening our faith in Torah miSinai,
but as a way of enhancing our emunah,
our faith.
How do we go with a firm belief that
Hashem gave the entire Torah to Moshe
Rabbeinu, to all the interesting patterns
that academic study of Torah bring out?
He said he didnt want to spell out
which views about the Torahs origins
Orthodox Jews must reject.
I want to emphasize the positive
approach, that this is what we believe in
Torah miSinai, the divine Torah, he
said.
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With new presence in Mississippi,
Chabad now in 49 U.S. states
Chabad-Lubavitch has a new presence in
Mississippi. That means that the move-
ment known for its outreach efforts
around the world is now working in 49 of
50 U.S. states.
Rabbi Akiva and Hannah Hall signed a
lease in the city of Biloxi for what will dou-
ble as their home and a Chabad center for
the Jewish community of southern Missis-
sippi, Chabad.org reported. The only U.S.
state now lacking a Chabad presence is
South Dakota.
According to the latest figures, the
entire state [of Mississippi] is said to have
1,600 Jewish souls, Rabbi Hall said. We
believe the Biloxi-Gulfport area is a most
appropriate location [for the Chabad cen-
ter] because it is a growing tourist area.
Since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005,
the area has been rebuilt beautifully, the
beaches have been revamped, and vaca-
tioners and others are coming more than
ever before.
There are also a fair number of Jews
serving on Keesler Air Force Base in
Biloxi, Hall said. JNS.ORG
Iranian cleric: most sorcerers are Jews
Iranian cleric and Tehran University pro-
fessor Valiollah Naghipourfar said that
most sorcerers are Jews in a recent seg-
ment on Irans state-run Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting.
In the broadcast, Naghipourfar speaks at
length about jinns, evil mythical creatures
in Islamic mythology also prevalent in
Iranian culture and considered to be
employed at times by sorcerers in order
to torment human beings in various ways.
The Jew is very practiced in sorcery,
he added.
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Another black eye for Israel
Beating of Palestinian-American teen one more mark against Israel
URIEL HEILMAN
F
or Israelis, the enduring image
of the past few weeks may be
the montage of the three Israeli
teens murdered last month after
being abducted from a hitchhiking post in
the West Bank.
But another enduring image has
emerged in the last few days that is
unlikely to garner much sympathy for
Israel: a minute-long video in which a
Palestinian-American teenager is beaten
by two Israeli border policemen. One
officer is seen pinning Tariq Abu Khdeir
to the ground while the other pummels
the 15-year-old with his fists and also
kicks his head.
After the incident, photos of the boys
bloody face, including black eyes and a
severely swollen lip, rocketed around the
globe.
It was but one episode in a gruesome
few days that saw Tariqs cousin, Moham-
med Abu Khdeir, burned to death by
Jewish extremists, Gaza rocket crews
fire scores of missiles into Israel, and the
Israeli army respond with an expanded
bombing operation of targets in the Gaza
Strip.
Amid the escalation of violence, Tariqs
beating received even wider attention
because it was captured on video and he
is a U.S. citizen from Tampa, Fla. And the
beating was doled out not by extremists
but by Israeli authorities Border Police
wearing the green uniforms of the Israel
Defense Forces.
We are profoundly troubled by
reports that he was severely beaten while
in police custody and strongly condemn
any excessive use of force, State Depart-
ment spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a
statement. We are calling for a speedy,
transparent and credible investigation
and full accountability for any excessive
use of force.
Israeli police have accused Tariq of
rioting and attacking officers; he is under
house arrest while the incident is being
investigated. The teen and his family say
he was observing Palestinian protests
over his cousins murder but he was not
participating in rioting.
I was just watching, Tariq told ABC
News. When the Israeli police set upon
him, he said, I was blown. I was like,
why is this all happening? Why would
you attack me like that? At least try to
tell me why would you do that to me if I
didnt do anything to you.
This is hardly the first time that video
footage has emerged that fueled accusa-
tions against Israeli soldiers or police of
excessive use of force.
In mid-May, Israeli authorities faced
questions after videos surfaced showing
two Palestinian teenagers being shot to
death while seemingly idle. The incident
took place outside Ofer Prison in the
West Bank, where Palestinians marking
Nakba Day, the anniversary of the catas-
trophe of Israels birth, clashed with
Israeli authorities during protests that at
times turned violent.
Palestinians said no rocks were being
thrown at the time that Muhammad Abu
Thahr, 15, and Nadim Nuwara, 17, were
shot with live ammunition. Israeli authori-
ties at first said only rubber bullets were
used during the clashes, then suggested
that the video footage may have been doc-
tored. An autopsy conducted on Nuwaras
body showed that live fire had been used,
according to Israeli media reports.
For the time being, Tariqs case is
receiving plenty of media attention in
the United States. Tariq and his parents
have given interviews to CNN, ABC News,
The Washington Post and a host of other
outlets. The Council of American-Islamic
Relations in Florida has taken up the
cause, calling for Tariqs speedy release
and portraying him as a regular Ameri-
can kid who likes playing soccer and
video games.
Tariq, as you know, is a young Ameri-
can boy who last week on Thursday was
brutally attacked on his family land in
Palestine where Israeli police officers in
uniform brutally shackled his hands and
proceeded to brutally, brutally attack
him and beat him, Hassan Shibly, an
attorney for the council, said at a Florida
news conference on Monday.
Among Jewish groups, the incident
hasnt prompted much comment. While
Jewish organizations across the politi-
cal and religious spectrum condemned
the killing last week of Mohammed Abu
Khdeir once it became clear that Jewish
extremists were responsible for abduct-
ing him and burning him to death, they
have hardly remarked on Tariqs beating.
One exception was J Street, which
called it a vicious beating.
A spokesman for the Anti-Defamation
League said that it was withholding judg-
ment for now.
Tariq Abu Khdeir was arrested for
participating in a violent demonstra-
tion against Israeli authorities, and he
remains under house arrest. The circum-
stances of his detention are currently
under investigation, the spokesman
said. We will await the outcome of that
investigation before drawing any conclu-
sion about his alleged treatment.
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Round up the usual brokers?
Egypt and United States, usually brokers in cease-fires, may not help this time
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Escalations between
Hamas and Israel are nothing new.
Whats missing this time, analysts say, is
the alignment of outside interests that has
resolved such fights in the past.
Egypts government lacks the influence
over Hamas that its predecessors had, and
the United States is in hand-washing mode
on the Middle East, said Ami Ayalon, a for-
mer chief of the Shin Bet, Israels internal
security service.
In the past, Egyptians could play a
major role and America had an interest
in pressing for cease-fires, Ayalon said.
Now, he said, Egypts new president,
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is strongly hostile to
Hamas a posture Israel appreciates but
one that undercuts his ability to force a
cease-fire and the United States is not
pressing actively for a truce.
Today, the way it seems from here,
America couldnt care less, Ayalon said.
The Obama administration issued a
short statement Tuesday slamming the
rocket fire from Gaza but not hinting at any
U.S. intervention to help bring the fighting
to a halt.
We strongly condemn the continuing
rocket fire inside of Israel and the deliber-
ate targeting of civilians by terrorist organi-
zations in Gaza, White House spokesman
Josh Earnest said at the daily press brief-
ing. No country can accept rocket fire
aimed at civilians, and we support Israels
right to defend itself against these vicious
attacks.
In the current fighting, scores of missiles
have rained down on Israel from Gaza.
Hamas unveiled longer-range rockets that
for the first time hit targets as far away as
Jerusalem.
Palestinian officials told international
media Tuesday that at least 15 people were
killed in Israeli airstrikes.
Intensive U.S. interventions, in collab-
oration with Egypt, ended Gaza wars in
2009 and 2012.
Shlomo Brom, a former director of the
Israeli armys strategic planning division,
said the United States had little choice but
to hold back in the absence of Egyptian
influence on Hamas.
The United States doesnt have much
power in this situation because they dont
have leverage over Hamas, said Brom,
now the head of the program on Israeli-
Palestinian relations at Israels Institute
for National Security Studies. The United
States has leverage in Israel but Israel is
willing to have a cease-fire.
Aaron David Miller, a former top U.S.
Middle East negotiator, wrote that holding
back for now made sense for the United
States, because to intervene and treat
Hamas as an equal to Israel would under-
cut Americas preferred Palestinian inter-
locutor, the Palestinian Authority, led by
President Mahmoud Abbas.
The last thing Washington should be
doing right now is bailing out Hamas, let
alone engaging it directly or through cut-
outs, Miller, now a vice president at the
Wilson Center, wrote in Foreign Policy.
The conflagration is fueled by a slew
of incidents: the kidnapping and mur-
der of three Israeli teens; Israels mili-
tary campaign in the West Bank against
Hamas, which it blamed for the kidnap-
ping; retaliatory rocket fire from Palestin-
ian factions in Gaza; and the murder of a
Palestinian teen from eastern Jerusalem,
apparently by Jewish extremists seek-
ing revenge for the killings of the Israeli
teens.
This is the worst kind of a war, said
Ziad Asali, president of the American
Task Force on Palestine, where it is
not planned, designed or desired by the
leadership but gradually the logic is driven
by passionate forces.
Brom said even more extreme rivals cor-
nered Hamas into escalation.
If you will go back and see how it all
began, the current conflict in the Gaza
Strip, you can see that quite a number of
days that those who were attacking Israel
from the Gaza Strip were not Hamas but
members of other militant groups in the
Gaza Strip that were in opposition to
Hamas, Brom said. These groups are
interested in dragging Israel and Hamas
into a wider conflict.
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for
research at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies in Washington, said Israeli
officials told him that Prime Minister Ben-
jamin Netanyahu exercised restraint in
Israels response to the rocket fire until a
blitz of 80 rockets on Monday.
That was the tipping point, Schanzer
said, speaking from Jerusalem. Every-
body we talked to made it clear Bibi was
not interested in escalation.
In a statement Tuesday evening, Netan-
yahu underscored his reluctance to have
the situation escalate.
This comes after our repeated efforts
to restore calm were met with increased
Hamas rocket fire, he said. Israel is not
eager for war, but the security of our citi-
zens is our primary consideration.
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Israelis take cover near Tel Aviv on July 8. FLASH 90
Jewish World
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First
unity, then
calls for
revenge
Now Israelis look
inward for answers
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Many Israelis eyes are
turning south as they watch yet another
conflict unfold with Hamas.
Yet their thoughts also are turned inward,
contemplating the sense of national solidar-
ity occasioned by the abduction and mur-
der of three teenagers and then shattered
by the murder of a fourth.
The Israeli media both the social and
the conventional varieties have exploded
in recent days with recrimination and self-
recrimination over the brutal murder of
Muhammad Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian
teenager from eastern Jerusalem who was
burned alive last week. The killing was
apparent retaliation for the murders of
three Israeli teens Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad
Shaer and Eyal Yifrach who were kid-
napped while hitchhiking.
A national struggle does not justify acts
of terror, the outgoing and incoming Israeli
presidents, Shimon Peres and Reuven Riv-
lin, wrote on Monday in a joint op-ed for the
Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot.
Acts of terror do not justify revenge,
they wrote. Revenge does not justify
destruction, plunder and desolation.
Even in the face of the rage and frustra-
tion, the violence and the pain, things can
be done differently. Things must be done
differently.
Israeli police said three Jewish youths
have confessed to the Khdeir murder and
three others also are in custody.
Leeat Granek, a grief specialist at Ben-
Gurion Universitys public health depart-
ment, said public displays of grief can be
used to bring nations together as well as
to stoke rage. In the wake of the murder of
the three Israelis, both phenomena were
evident in the rallying around the parents
of the murdered teenagers and then in the
calls for revenge.
There was a kind of unification of the
country that came together with the griev-
ing, with prayer circles, she said. In some
ways that grief can be used to bring the
country together; it also can be used to esca-
late anger, rage.
Yoaz Hendel, a former director of pub-
lic diplomacy in Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahus office who now heads a right-
wing think tank, the Institute for Zionist
Participants in an anti-racism rally in Jerusalem hold signs that say, Enough violence. Yes to co-existence on July 7.
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BBC investigation reveals Gaza
pictures not what they claim to be
BBC Trending, the broadcasting services social media department,
reported Monday that many images posted on social media under the
hashtag #GazaUnderAttack are not necessarily what the people who posted
them claim them to be.
A video created by BBC Trending shows that rather than posting photo-
graphs of the effects of current Israeli airstrikes, as the most widely shared
photos are labeled to be, many of the most popular shared images were
actually of past airstrikes, and sometimes were not even pictures of Gaza
at all.
Some photos, the investigation revealed, date as far back as 2009, while
others are from conflicts in Iraq and Syria. JNS.ORG
Strategies, wrote a widely discussed Face-
book post in the immediate aftermath of
Khdeirs murder, before any suspects had
been apprehended. In the posting, Hendel
railed against Jewish rioters inflamed by the
killings of the Israeli teens who had attacked
Arabs in downtown Jerusalem.
It is unbelievable how a few hundred
racist Jews can cause so much damage to an
entire country, Hendel wrote in Hebrew.
The results of the investigation into the
death of the boy are already unimportant.
After pictures of the mob shouting Death
to Arabs, the damage is done.
Hendel said that Israelis had to assume
responsibility for the extremists among
them, even if the extremists represent a
marginal phenomenon.
Its our obligation to do heshbon
nefesh, Hendel said, using the Hebrew
term for soul searching, so we dont let
pass this phenomenon that we have racist
Jews here acting like the Ku Klux Klan, not
the Zionist dream.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a left-wing Israeli
writer and activist, blamed politicians for
stoking the flames with the rhetoric of
revenge. She pointed to Netanyahus June
30 statement announcing the discovery of
the bodies of the three kidnapped teens
that quoted a poem Hayyim Nachman Bialik
wrote after a pogrom.
Vengeance for the blood of a small
child, Satan has not yet created, Netan-
yahu said, quoting the poem, before con-
tinuing in his own words: Neither has ven-
geance for the blood of three pure youths,
who were on their way home to meet their
parents, who will not see them anymore.
Such statements empowered anti-Arab
racists, Tsurkov said. Its clear how this
kind of rhetoric justifies attacking people
who are not involved in combat, she said.
But Hendel rejected assertions that the
broader Israeli society was guilty, noting the
condemnations of Khdeirs murder from
across the political spectrum.
Hendel has had pushback from some
online commenters who objected to his
condemnations of anti-Arab violence. In
a follow-up posted July 4, he addressed a
commenter who had told Hendel, You are
not my brother, and we do not belong to the
same people.
Believe me, I wish it were so, Hendel
replied. Im stuck with you.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
A screenshot of the BBC Trending video
investigation into pictures shared under the
#GazaUnderAttack hashtag.
SCREENSHOT OF BBC TRENDING VIDEO
Gallery
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n 1 Eighth graders at the Academies at GBDS posed
for a farewell photo after commencement ceremonies.
The graduates will go on to study at the Frisch School,
the Bergen Academies, and Fair Lawn, Indian Hills,
and Teaneck high schools in the fall. COURTESY GBDS
n 2 Temple Emeth in Teaneck installed its new board during
Shabbat services last month. Cantor Ellen Tilem, left, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu, right, flank secretary Steve Friedman,
assistant financial officer Jay Levine, second vice president
Amy Abrams, president Paula Dillon, first vice president
Marc Chelemer, assistant secretary Lisa Eig, and treasurer
Larry Silver. Third vice president Lynn Chaiken and finan-
cial secretary Jim Sandler are not pictured. CARLA SILVER
n 3 Barry Wien, left, is pictured with Senator Cory Booker
at the New Synagogue of Fort Lees recent dinner at The
Rockleigh. Senator Booker was honored with Fort Lee
Mayor Mark Sokolich at the event. Barry Wien is a direc-
tor and partner at Eden Memorial Chapels of Fort Lee and
a longtime member of the New York Board of Rabbis.
n 4 National Council of Jewish Women Bergen County Sec-
tion awarded endowed $1,000 scholarships to five young
Jewish women graduating from a public Bergen County
high school and accepted at a four-year college or univer-
sity. The graduates, from left Emily Gore, Bach Scholar-
ship winner, attending University of Rochester; Marjorie G.
Aerenson Memorial Scholarship winners, Jessalyn Gerber,
attending The College of New Jersey and Anna Ginsburg,
going to Vassar College; and Zimmerman Family Scholar-
ship winners, Bryce Berman going to Tulane University, and
Alexa Hirschberg (not pictured) going to Emory University.
n 5 The elementary school at Lubavitch on the Pali-
sades ended the school year with a healthy habits
party sponsored by Stop & Shop, the culmination of a
monthly healthy habits program. Those habits include
eating fruits and vegetables, drinking water, and get-
ting a good nights sleep. Stop & Shop provided the
grant money to facilitate the program. COURTESY LPS
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4 5
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Dvar Torah
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Pinchas: Succeeding at succession
S
trong and effec-
tive leadership is a
monumental chal-
lenge. But I some-
times wonder whether the
greatest test of a success-
ful leader comes not in the
duration of his or her ofice,
but rather as the moment of
the leaderships conclusion
draws near. History teaches
us that many a talented
leader failed to preserve
a legacy for future generations simply
because of the lack of a well-thought out
transition process.
A short narrative in Parashat Pinc has
conveys some important lessons on how
leaders can create effective successors.
It is the fortieth year of the sojourn of
the nation of Israel in the wilderness
the era of the second generation follow-
ing the exodus from Eypt. Miriam has
died, Aaron the high priest is gone and
has handed over responsibility to Elazar
and Pinhas. The mood is anticipatory
victories have been achieved and the
people, as most clearly reflected in the
requests of the daughters of Tzelofchad
for a land inheritance, clearly have the
future in the Promised Land on their
minds.
It is in this very context that God raises
with Moses the issue of his personal
future. In Bemidbar 27:1214, God tells
Moses to ascend Mount Avarim and look
at the land from a distance, but reminds
him that he himself like his brother
Aaron will never actually enter because
of their failure to sanctify G-ds name at
the waters of Merivah in the sight of the
people.
Moses response to God and the con-
versation that follows is poignant; but
more importantly it reads like a discus-
sion of how, in light of Israels history in
the wilderness, to best continue Moses
legacy as Gods messenger and as politi-
cal leader of the people:
Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of
all flesh, set a man over the congregation,
who may go out before them, and who
may come in before them, and who may
lead them out, and who may bring them
in; that the congregation of the Lord be
not as sheep which have
no shepherd (Bemidbar
27:1617)
Moses precise articula-
tion has numerous messages.
First, his emphasis on the
need for a man or human
being to be appointed as a
leader evokes the pandemo-
nium at the sin of the golden
calf. In that instance, Moses
brief delay on Mount Sinai
led to revelry and idolatry as
the people declared, make us a god who
will go before us as Moses this man who
brought us out of Eypt we do not know
what became of him! Immediate continu-
ity of human leadership is essential to pro-
ceed with inheritance of the land.
Second, Moses calls on God with an epi-
thet that appears only on one other occa-
sion in the Torah. The title, God of the spir-
its of all flesh, reminds us that only God
knows the inner workings of the human
persona and who truly is it to lead. But it
also reminds us of the anarchy and detri-
ment to an entire nation that can result
when the ofice of leadership is in question
and challenged by the populace. This was
Moses and Aarons fear in the uprising of
Korah, Oh God of the spirits of all flesh,
shall one man sin and You be angry at the
entire nation? A vacuum in leadership at
this moment in history would indeed be
devastating to all of Israel!
But Moses request of God clearly evinces
his personal disappointment as well. He
begs God to appoint a leader who will take
them out and also bring them in, reminding
us that Moshe true to his name could
draw Israel out of Eypt but would not have
the opportunity to inish the job. And Moses
had the training and idealism of the paradig-
matic biblical leader, the selfless shepherd
who leads his flock.
Gods response to Moses is a recipe for
effectively passing the baton to the next in
line. Indeed, God points to Joshua as the
successor with the proper spirit, divinely
acknowledged. But strikingly, the emphasis
is not on the choice of successor but rather
on the process:
And the Lord said unto Moses: Take
thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom
is spirit, and lay thy hand upon him; and set
him before Eleazar the priest, and before all
the congregation; and give him a charge in
their sight. And thou shalt put of thy honor
upon him, that all the congregation of the
children of Israel may hearken (Bemid-
bar 27:1820)
It is essential that Moses invest the
authority of leadership in Joshua in a
public ceremony that is both seen and
heard by the people. He must command
Joshua in his new role in the sight of the
people, reminding us that at Mei Merivah
Moses did not sanctify Gods authority in
the sight of the people. Furthermore,
this process can only be accomplished
if Moses places his hand upon Joshua,
recalling that Moses hand which bran-
dished the staff of God was the source
of numerous miracles and represented
his divine calling. It was also the hand
which wielded a staff that struck the rock
at Merivah, signifying the inevitable con-
clusion of the era of Moses as leader of
Israel.
If God commands a precise process of
investiture of Joshua, does Moses follow
Gods instructions? A careful reading of
the Torah text might suggest otherwise.
As a number of medieval commentators
notice, Moses modiies Gods plan in at
least two ways:
And Moses did as the Lord com-
manded him; and he took Joshua, and set
him before Eleazar the priest, and before
all the congregation. And he laid his
hands upon him, and gave him a charge,
as the Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
(Bemidbar 27:2223)
First, Moses changes the order of
Gods command in the execution. He
places Joshua before the people before
he lays his hands upon him. And second,
Moses places two hands on Joshua rather
than one. Why so? These two modiica-
tions are telling of Moses heroism and
philosophy of leadership. Placing Joshua
before the nation before the investiture
begins is a demonstration to the people
that they are included in the process.
Consensual leadership engages a popu-
lace as it clearly lays down the guidelines
and boundaries.
Finally, placing two hands on Joshua,
rather than the one that God com-
manded, was a show of Moses generosity
of spirit. As Rashi comments quoting the
Sifre, Moses gave much more than was
asked of him. Moses is the epitome of the
selfless leader who rises above personal
pain and anguish to address the best
interests of the people. I would further
suggest that the additional hand placed
upon Joshua is Moses repentance for the
mishap of Moses hand at the Waters of
Merivah. Indeed, God acknowledges and
approves of Moses conduct of redress as
the text concludes: And he laid his hands
upon him, and gave him a charge, as the
Lord spoke by the hand of Moses.
Being a charismatic and effective
leader is a monumental challenge in the
present. But creating a positive and har-
monious transition to the next leader is
the true mark of the visionary who under-
stands how best to bring ones legacy into
the future. Human psycholoy makes it
dificult for us to separate from things we
are close to and especially things we have
a part in creating whether it is our chil-
dren, our vocations, or in Moses case,
the nation of Israel.
To succeed as a leader is meritorious;
to hand over the reins to ones successor
with charity and realism is truly heroic.
Rachel Friedman is dean of Lamdeinu, a
new center for Jewish learning in Teaneck.
She served for many years as associate
dean and chair of Tanakh studies at
Drisha Institute in New York.
Rachel
Friedman
Creating a positive and harmonious
transition to the next leader is the
true mark of the visionary who
understands how best to bring
ones legacy into the future.
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. Pairs of tefillin are often kept in them
5. Zeydie, in Israel
9. Phobia of Hitlers
13. Penzias who helped identify
the Big Bang
14. The fact hes a doctor, to many
potential mother-in-laws
15. One way to access jewishvirtuallibrary.
org
16. Broadways Bloom of 2001
18. Keep the mezuzah from your previous
house, e.g.
19. Call it a day?
20. Source of joy for Matt Drudge
21. Taught the Torah portion in a boring
manner
22. Robert whos president of the
American Jewish University
24. Finds intimidating, as conversion to
Judaism
25. All-of-a-Kind Family loc.
26. Mel Gibson, on July 28, 2006
27. The Promised Land autobiographer
Mary
30. The third one lasted 12 years
31. Party for Sen. Bernie Sanders
34. Patriarch or president
35. SodaStream factory location ___
Adumim
36. AIPAC and J Street have one
37. Tchelet, e.g.
38. Famous black convert of 1961
39. ___ the Jewish people suffered
enough?
40. Yiddish word that goes with shep,
not shlep
42. Family ___ (Alex Borstein show)
43. Garden type in a 1991 Broadway
musical starring Mandy Patinkin
44. Some builders of the Holy Temple
47. Something to cover at a shiva house
48. Israeli oasis Ein ___
49. ___ Crowd (book about prominent
19th century Jewish New Yorkers)
51. Lets Make ___ (game show of
Canadian Jew Monty Hall)
52. It may contain poppy seeds
54. Streisand role of 1983
55. Dog food whose spokesman was once
Lorne Greene
56. It was once known as the Jewish Lake
57. Gimme ___ (Cry from a Brandeis
cheerleader)
58. Mila 18 author Uris
59. Riding on the Altalena
Down
1. Moses, in the basket
2. Lag BaOmer projectile
3. Shalom Jewish ___ (actual name of a
lawn ornament)
4. The esoteric way to interpret a
Jewish text
5. Shootings like the one in Overland Park,
Kansas on April 13, 2014
6. An evildoer hearkens to the language
of violence; ___ lends an ear to
destructive language. (Proverbs 17:4)
7. Shekel alternative
8. Solicit for Federation
9. We ___ (old UJA slogan)
10. Israel and Egypt
11. Stops being usable as dough for matzah
12. Died like Beatles manager Brian Epstein
15. The Wall Street Journal called her a
cross between Henry Kissinger and
Minnie Mouse
17. Emmy host who famously referred to
her audience as a room full of Jews
21. Salsa or Hora
23. Year BCE that Tiberius began to rule
Rome
24. Forward quality
26. Measurement of the records the Nazis
kept about the Holocaust
27. ___ thou shalt love the Lord thy God...
(part of the Shma)
28. Knesset vote
29. Many Hasidic women learned about
the Torah through it
30. Kibbutz ___ Rachel
32. Second-worst dreidel spin
33. Substance unfortunately sprayed on
new Moroccan-born Israelis in the
1950s
35. Religulous star Bill
36. St. Louis-born mystery writer Kellerman
38. Torah, e.g.
39. Part of the Talmud that deals with
kosher slaughter
41. Make ___ that has room for a mat-
tress (line from a Jewish Moroccan
folk tale)
42. Kind of Bible
43. Picked a view on the Who is a Jew?
controversy
44. Philip Glass concern
45. Acts like the MGM lion
46. Essman who shared a first name
with her character on Curb Your
Enthusiasm
47. Poet Angelou who served on the board
of the U.S. Holocaust museum
48. Jewish Olympian swimmer Garret
Weber-___
50. Reform Judaisms ___ Hirsch School of
Education
52. Stanley Kubrick computer that asked,
What are you doing, Dave?
53. Brooklyn kosher restaurant ___ for
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Whats next for Paul Shaffer?
David Lettermans sidekick on his dream job, Jewish upbringing
ROBERT GLUCK
A
Jewish upbringing taught Paul Shaf-
fer, David Lettermans musical
director and sidekick for 32 years,
the value of giving back.
After the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Mr.
Shaffer served as musical director for The
Concert for New York City, and in 2012 he
accompanied Adam Sandler in 12-12-12: The
Concert for Sandy Relief, a fundraiser for Hur-
ricane Sandy victims. He also was the national
spokesperson for Epilepsy Canada.
My mother taught by example, Mr. Shaf-
fer said. She was a great supporter of Israel.
She was a great supporter of local charities and
gave her time to Hadassah, as well as to the
ladies auxiliary at the hospital.
Growing up, I watched this, so it just came
natural to me. Getting involved in charities and
fundraisers myself became a great opportunity
for me to use my musical talents to do some
good.
In April, Mr. Letterman announced his intent
to retire in 2015, at around the time his contract
with CBS expires. That will mean the end of the
line for the Late Show with David Letterman.
Whats next for Mr. Shaffer?
Im going to try to find something which is
as much fun as this has been, but it is not going
to be easy because it really has been the dream
job for me, Mr. Schaffer said. Getting to play
every day, have my own band, do comedy, go
up against the quickest, smartest guy in the
business its not going to be easy, but Im still
going to play the piano. Ill be looking for more
ways to do that.
Mr. Shaffers parents, Shirley and Bernard,
introduced him to the piano when he was growing up in
Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada. He
went on to work as the musical director for the Toronto
production of Godspell in 1972. Two years later he
played piano for The Magic Show on Broadway and
became a member of the house band on NBCs Saturday
Night Live from 1975 to 1980.
My parents said, That kid is going to play the piano
and thats the way its going to be, Mr. Shaffer said. Play-
ing the piano was obligatory, but I enjoyed it and still do.
There was always music playing in my house. My mother
with her Broadway show tunes as well as classical tunes.
My dad played the great jazz singers of his era. I had music
always ringing in my ears.
From his role as musical director for John Belushi and
Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed
as The Blues Brothers, to his appearances with Adam
Sandler, Mr. Shaffer has fond memories of the SNL comics.
It was a time when they were making this stuff up and
inventing it for the first time and figuring out what kind of
show SNL was going to be, he said.
It was going to represent the youth culture. It was going
to break down the barriers. I got to be there and watch
this happen and develop. I spoke with [SNL creator]
Lorne Michaels a few years ago, and I said, in watching
some of the musical parodies, These guys are better now
than we were. Lorne said, You can only be first once.
By that maybe he meant that the first cast laid down
the pattern and showed how this was to be done.
Mr. Shaffer has played and recorded with many
famous musicians, including Ray Charles, B.B. King,
Donald Fagen, Diana Ross, Carl Perkins, Robert Plant,
Billy Joel, and Bob Dylan. His own album, Coast to
Coast, was nominated for a Grammy in 1989. Soon he
will broadcast his 2,500th segment of Paul Shaffers
Day in Rock, a radio show that illustrates the daily his-
tory of rock and roll. The daily vignette draws on Mr.
Shaffers vast musical knowledge and his ability to offer
expert commentary on the history of rock.
Its what I love, he said. I have a huge compendium
of fun facts and comic rock trivia. Everything we talk
about is accurate but we present it with a comic twist.
Sort of like what John Stewart does with the news on
The Daily Show. We do with rock trivia.
In June 2006, Mr. Shaffer received a star on Cana-
das Walk of Fame. Still, whatever his other personal
achievements are, he will be connected with David
Letterman forever. Asked to describe Mr. Lettermans
legacy, Mr. Shaffer called his boss the guy that all the
other talk show hosts looked to, to figure out how to
behave in times of stress.
Right after the 9/11 attack comes to mind, Mr. Shaf-
fer said. He stayed off the air initially. He went back on
then everyone else went back on.
He said, Its time to start going back to our normal
lives and laughing again. Everyone else said, Yes it is.
Thats his legacy. An intelligent guy on the spot. A real
intelligent man behind the desk, who really knew how
to run a show like that. Interviewing not only the crazi-
est clown or comedic performer up to the leader of the
free world and doing a great job, no matter who it was.
Reflecting on his Jewish upbringing, the 64-year-old
Mr. Shaffer said, Judaism is certainly a blueprint to bring
up your kids, and if you follow that blueprint, you can be
assured that they are going to be great, that they will carry
on the tradition of their parents.
My parents were the greatest, he continued. They
brought me up that way. Not all that observant, but there
was only one synagogue in town which was Orthodox, so
my education was Orthodox. It gives me something to fall
back on spiritually, that kind of background. JNS.ORG
After Letterman, Paul Shaffer will be looking for more ways to
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Friday
JULY 11
Shabbat in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
hosts its special 7-11
Shabbat, beginning with
services at 7:11 p.m.,
followed by an oneg
Shabbat featuring
popcorn and snow cone
machines. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463.
Sunday
JULY 13
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to
the Showboat casino.
A bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
at 9:15 a.m.; breakfast
is served onboard at 9.
$30; includes $25 slot
play money. Bring ID and
Tropicana Rewards card.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Monday
JULY 14
Golf in Alpine: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades holds its 14th
annual Play Fore! the
Kids golf outing at the
Montammy Golf Club.
Registration begins at
10:30 a.m.; shotgun start
at 11:45. Proceeds help
provide programming
at the JCC for children
with physical, emotional,
and developmental
disabilities. (201) 408-
1405 or spotolsky@
jccotp.org.
Mommy and Me in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues a mommy and
me program using the
Babyccino curriculum,
for babies up to 30
months old, 10 a.m. $8
per class. Continues July
21 and 28 and Aug. 4.
194 Ratzer Road. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Wednesday
JULY 16
Rabbi Elyse Frishman
Kabbalah in Franklin
Lakes: Rabbi Elyse
Frishman of Barnert
Temple begins a series,
Kabbalah: For the
Heart, Mind and Soul,
at the shul, 9:30 a.m.
Series continues through
August 20. 747 Route
208 South. Vicky, (201)
848-1800.
Yiddish club: Khaverim
Far Yidish (Friends for
Yiddish) of the Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets for a
program with a reading
from Sholem Aleichem,
2 p.m. Group meets the
third Wednesday of the
month. $10 yearly dues.
East 304 Midland Ave.
Varda, (201) 791-0327.
Thursday
JULY 17
Yiddish in Wayne: The
Wayne YMCA offers the
Yiddish Vinkle, sponsored
by the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike Drive. (973)
595-0100, ext. 236.
Discussing Israel:
Avinoam Sharon
discusses Israel as
a Jewish State and
National Homeland at
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee,
7 p.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735.
Music in Hoboken: The
Gordys, a rock/pop/
folk/bluegrass/klezmer
band from Hoboken that
includes several United
Synagogue of Hoboken
members, performs at
Sinatra Park, 7 p.m. (201)
659-4000.
Friday
JULY 18
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee holds a summer
barbecue and service
beginning at 6 p.m. on
the shuls lawn. Bring
friends, family, and
picnic blankets. Free but
reservations required.
1449 Anderson Ave. (201)
947-1735.
Shabbat outdoors:
Temple Beth El of Closter
invites the community to
an informal Prayers on
the Palisades service at
6:30 p.m., at the State
Line Lookout off the
Palisades Parkway. All
are welcome; bring a
lawn chair and bug spray.
In case of inclement
weather, services
will be at TBE, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. Next service
August 22, jointly with
Teanecks Temple Emeth.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Sunday
JULY 20
Youth theater in Wayne:
The Rosen Theater
at the Wayne YMCA
presents Godspell
Junior, performed
by the Ys Youth
Performing Ensemble,
2 p.m. Presented by
special arrangement
with Musical Theatre
International. Conceived
and originally directed
by John-Michael Tebelak;
music and new lyrics by
Stephen Schwartz. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100 or www.
wayneymca.org.
In New York
Wednesday
JULY 16
Film in NYC: A free eight-
session summer film
series, Close Encounters
of the Spielberg Kind,
continues at the Museum
Award-winning singer Natalie
Douglas, who mixes jazz, blues,
standards, pop, folk, and country
music, performs for the Wayne
YMCAs Summer Concert Series on Thursday, July 17,
at 7 p.m. Tickets, $12. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike
Drive. (973) 595-0100.
JULY
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of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust with
Amistad, starring
Dijmon Hounsou,
Matthew McConaughey,
and Anthony Hopkins,
6:30 p.m. Series runs
through August 13. Raffle
prizes will be given away
at each screening. 36
Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.
org/spielberg.
Singles
Thursday
JULY 17
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a monthly
luncheon group for
widows and widowers,
meets at the Glen
Rock Jewish Center,
12:30-2 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
lunch. (201) 652-6624 or
arbgr@aol.com.
NY Medical College hosts
Holocaust museum exhibition
A preview of the United States Holocaust Me-
morial Museums traveling exhibition, Deadly
Medicine: Creating the Master Race. is set for
Tuesday, July 15, at noon at New York Medical
College.
The exhibit, on loan through Sept. 3, examines
how the Nazi leadership, in collaboration with
individuals in professions traditionally charged
with healing and the public good, used sci-
ence to help legitimize persecution, murder, and
ultimately, genocide. It traces Nazi Germanys
campaign to cleanse German society of peo-
ple viewed as biological threats to the nations
health from the early 20th-century interna-
tional eugenics movement to the Nazi regimes
science of race. It also challenges viewers to
reflect on the present-day interest in genetic
manipulation that promotes the possibility of
human perfection.
NYMC is in Hawthorne, N.Y. It will be in the 19
Skyline Drive Building. Dr. Alan Kadish, Touro
College and University system president/CEO,
and Dr. Edward C. Halperin, NYMC chancellor/
CEO, will be there.
New York Medical College joined the Touro
College and University System in 2011.
Dr. Otmar von Verschuer examines twins at
the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. As the head of
the KWIs Department for Human Heredity,
Verschuer examined hundreds of pairs of
twins to study whether criminality, feeble-
mindedness, tuberculosis, and cancer were
inheritable. In 1927, he recommended the
forced sterilization of the mentally and
morally subnormal. Verschuer typified those
academics whose interest in Germanys
national regeneration provided motivation
for their research. The image above is part of
the exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the
Master Race.
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Chris McDonald at bergenPAC
Chris McDonald will perform an Elvis
memorial concert at the Bergen Perform-
ing Arts Center in Englewood on Thurs-
day, August 14, at 8 p.m. Elvis Presley died
on August 16 37 years ago.
The theater is 30 North Van Brunt St.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.
com and www.bergenpac.org or by calling
the box office, (201) 227 1030.
Locals named
to all academic/athletic team
Three Yeshiva University softball team
members from Teaneck were among 17
winter and spring YU student-athletes rec-
ognized by the Hudson Valley Intercolle-
giate Athletic Conference and named to its
All Academic team for maintaining their
cumulative grade point average at 3.5 or
higher. The Teaneck three are senior Kayla
Applebaum, junior Merav Saden Barach,
and Rebecca Kleiner, sophomore.
Six of the student-athletes, including
Kayla Applebaum, also were all-confer-
ence team members during their sports
seasons.
Kayla Applebaum Merav Saden Barach Rebecca Kleiner
Meditation and tai chi in Fort Lee
Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee offers a fitness class in meditation
and tai chi on Thursdays at 11 a.m. The
class is pay-as-you-go but reservations are
required. It costs $10 a class. The syna-
gogue is at 1449 Anderson Ave. in Fort Lee.
Call (201) 947-1735 or email office@gesher-
shalom.org.
Poets coming to Teaneck
Jewish poets Eve Grubin, David Caplan,
Baruch November, and Yehoshua
November will read and discuss their
award-winning poetry on Sunday, July
27, at 7:30 p.m. at the Teaneck General
Store.
Eve Grubin, the author of Morning
Prayer, has had her work in many liter-
ary journals and magazines, including
the American Poetry Review, the Vir-
ginia Quarterly Review, the New Repub-
lic, and Conjunctions. She is the poet in
residence at the London School of Jew-
ish Studies.
David Caplan is the author of a poetry
collection, In The World He Created
According To His Will, as well as three
books of poetry criticism. Mr. Caplan
is the Benjamin T. Spencer Professor
of Literature and the associate direc-
tor of creative writing at Ohio Wesleyan
University.
Baruch November is the author of
the poetry collection Dry Nectars of
Plenty, which was a co-winner in the
BigCityLit chapbook contest. His poems
and stories have appeared in the For-
ward and Lumina, and on BigCityLit.
com, and he teaches writing and litera-
ture at Touro College.
Yehoshua November is the author of
Gods Optimism, which won the MSR
Poetry Book Award and was named a
finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in
Poetry, Autumn House Poetry Prize, and
the Tampa Review Prize. His work has
appeared in The Sun, Virginia Quarterly
Review, and Prairie Schooner, and on
NPRs Writers Almanac. His poems also
have been featured in a number of Jew-
ish publications including the Forward,
Midstream, and Moment. He teaches
writing at Rutgers University and Touro
College.
The General Store is at 502A Cedar
Lane. For information, call (201) 530-
5046 or go to Teaneckgeneralstore.com.
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How to tell the kids?
Jewish summer camps grappling with murders of Israeli teens
HILLEL KUTTLER
O
n the morning of June 30, the
children began arriving at
Camp Solomon Schechter in
Olympia, Wash., ready for a
fun-filled summer.
But shortly before the first little feet
descended the bus steps, the sleepaway
camps Israeli counselors learned from
back home about the discovery of the bod-
ies of three teens kidnapped in the West
Bank 18 days earlier.
The news about the teens fate chal-
lenged administrators at Jewish camps
like the Conservative movement-affiliated
Schechter to deal with the tragedy: what
information to present, how to tailor their
words to campers varied maturity levels,
and how to mourn the youthful victims
while not alarming children for whom
camp represents happiness and escape.
Then there was tending to Israeli camp-
ers and counselors, for whom the trauma
was more personal.
At Schechter, the dilemma for adminis-
trators was compounded by the campers
being so young second- through seventh-
graders. The teenage cohort wasnt due
until later in the summer.
So nothing was announced that day
and no mention appeared on the camps
website.
Its not really a great topic for kicking
off camp and having a great summer, said
the camps executive director, Sam Perlin.
Getting off to a good start is extremely
important.
Only at the next mornings daily assem-
bly at the flagpole to sing Hatikvah, Isra-
els national anthem, did Mr. Perlin tell
campers that the three missing yeshiva
students had lost their lives.
I didnt say murdered or killed, he
related. I didnt say how or why.
Across the country, Camp Moshava, a
modern Orthodox overnight camp in Hon-
esdale, Pa., took a different approach.
Campers arriving on June 24 were
greeted at the front gate with placards
hung by Israeli counselors featuring the
faces of the kidnapped boys and a message
in Hebrew praying for their safe return.
The news of their deaths broke nearly a
week later at lunchtime, when each shift
of children finishing the meal headed to
another building for the daily afternoon
prayers, youngest group to oldest. At the
Mincha service, news of the boys death
was conveyed at an age-appropriate level.
Moshavas website the next morning
showed images of three Israeli flags arrayed
horizontally across the screen above the
words Baruch Dayan HaEmet, the tra-
ditional words said when a Jew learns
of another Jews death. The left column
presented news of the deaths of Naftali
Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrach.
Were a religious Zionist camp. This is
what were all about, the camps direc-
tor, Alan Silverman, said when asked about
his guiding principles for handling the
situation.
Upon hearing the news, he said, we
and the camp psychologists made a plan
for each group that included telling Israeli
staffers and campers first. Others were dis-
patched to share the news with two groups
of adolescent campers who were off site on
organized hikes.
Moshava campers of all ages are learning
sections of Mishnah in memory of the mur-
dered teens. Three eighth-grade girls initi-
ated a project to collect campers letters,
poems, and drawings for albums to be sent
to the grieving parents.
They should feel we are connected, even
though we are thousands of miles away,
said Davida Krauss, one of the girls, who is
from the Bronx. We wanted to do some-
thing for them.
Davida said that she and two friends came
up with the idea because we saw everyone
so sad that they cant do something but
we really can do something.
The campers were offered the opportu-
nity during their midafternoon free period
to gather on the grass outside the dining hall
to speak with mental health professionals or
with each other. Some did.
Otherwise, swimming, ballgames and
the rest of the recreational schedule car-
ried on normally, Mr. Silverman said.
After hearing of the deaths of the Jewish
teens, several former staff members drove
to Moshava in solidarity.
In a sense, the camp is the best place
you could possibly be, said Mr. Silver-
man, who lives most of the year just a few
miles from where the Israeli boys were
kidnapped in the West Banks Gush Etzion
settlement bloc and has run the camp for
29 years. Here youre with a large com-
munity that is grieving together.
The same impulse hit Israeli staffers at
the Schechter camp.
Bar Bamani, a counselor who had flown
in recently from his Tel Aviv-area home-
town of Tel Mond to work at the camp,
said his mother texted him the news just
as some of the other Israeli staffers were
hearing what had happened.
One of the Israelis began crying, so we
sat together and talked a bit about it, to
make sure everything was OK, said Mr.
Bamani, 21. Campers were coming, so
there wasnt much time to sit and breathe
and digest the situation.
During crises, we feel united and close
to Israel, he said. Thats the safe place,
the family. You can feel the mourning of
everyone.
He expected campers to bring up the
subject of the tragedy, but he said that he
wont initiate those conversations.
The camps rabbi, Yohanna Kinberg,
is helping to launch conversation on the
topic. She laminated a photograph of the
Israeli victims for display in the synagogue
alongside battery-operated memorial
candles.
Someone moved the photo to a central
walkway outside, where it has prompted
discussions among campers and staff,
she said. This is real, and its important
to talk about if its framed in a thoughtful
way, not a terrifying way.
Days after the discovery of the Israeli
teens bodies came news of the murder of
a Palestinian teenager from eastern Jeru-
salem, Muhammad Abu Khdeir, and later
of Israels arrest of six Jewish suspects in
connection with his death.
That murder came up at Moshava in dis-
cussions among the high school-age camp-
ers, Mr. Silverman said. At the Schechter
camp, staff members spoke about it infor-
mally over Shabbat, Mr. Perlin said.
Referring to the aftermath of the killings,
along with the rocket attacks launched on
Israel from the Gaza Strip, Rabbi Kinberg
said the situation is spiraling and its
scary, and its very upsetting.
I think well have a lot of discussions
with the teens on whats happening in
Israel, she said. Since we have so many
Israelis here, itll be a much richer conver-
sation. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Camp Moshavas director, Alan Silverman, and its head counselor, Chanah Spiegelman, stand at the camp
in Honesdale, Pa. CAMP MOSHAVA
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Eric Adler, 92, of Fort Lee, formerly of Englewood, died
July 1.
Born in Germany, he came to the U.S. in his teens.
He was an Army World War II veteran receiving the
WWII Victory and Good Conduct medals, Asiatic Pacific
Service Medal with bronze arrowhead, and Philippines
Liberation Ribbon with a bronze star. He was a textile
exporter for his company, Adlertex, Inc. He was a mem-
ber of Temple Emanuel of Englewood.
He is survived by his wife, Edith, ne Kahn; children,
Dennis (Robin Aronow) of New York and Glenn (Debra)
of California; a brother, Howard (Hanna) of North Caro-
lina; and five grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Gutterman-Musicant Funeral
Directors in Hackensack.
Anita Alster
Anita R. Alster, ne Sacks, of Fair Lawn, previously of
Clifton and Brooklyn, died June 17.
A homemaker, she was a Hadassah life member and
member of Congregation Shomrei Torah in
Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by her husband, Dr. Jack (Chaim), she
is survived by her children, Dr. Bram (Shari), Marc,
Gigi, and Dr. Riva Kaynan (Dr. Ayal); a sister, Lorraine
Nichtberger, and grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to Dr. Balwani, c/o Icahn
School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York,
or Kollel Nachlas Tzvi, Brooklyn. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Elaine Berman
Elaine Berman, ne Geller, 86, of Clifton, formerly of
Fair Lawn, died July 2.
Before retiring, she owned Elaine Berman Interiors.
She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Bernard;
children, Dr. Jay (Beverly Asaro), Rabbi Howard (Steven
Littlehale), Michael ( Judith), and Garry (Karen); a
sister, Beverly Mann, and five grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Daughters of Miriam
Center, Clifton. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Herbert Caspert
Herbert Barry Caspert, 82, of Norwood, formerly of
Englewood Cliffs, Teaneck, and New York, died June 23.
A Marine Corps veteran of the Korean conflict, he
received the National Service Defense Medal. He was a
self-employed auctioneer in New York City for 65 years
and a longtime member of Temple Emanu-El of Closter
and Munn Masonic Lodge. He was a past president of the
Fort Lee Jewish Community Center and a member of the
NJ State Society of Auctioneers and National Auctioneers
Association.
Predeceased by a sister, Rita, he is survived by
his wife, Bernice; children, Mitchell (Shari) of North
Caldwell, Ronald (Laurie) of Woodcliff Lake, and Lisa
Robins (Robert) of Leonia; and eight grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Camp Dream Street at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, or the Angelman
Syndrome Foundation.
Arrangements were by Gutterman-Musicant Funeral
Directors in Hackensack.
Robert Young
Robert A. Young, 89, of Wayne, formerly of Fair Lawn,
died July 1.
An Army World War II veteran, he is survived by
his wife, Frances; children, Sherry Mark (Lowell) and
Debbie Wacker (Arthur); and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
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Private schools receive per capita payments from
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and technology.
Nursing and technology funds were slashed in the
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tures in response to the economic crisis of 2008.
This year, funds for school nurses will return to their
2008 levels; schools will receive $90 from the state
for each student. Technology funding will rise to
$32 per capita from the $20 in last years budget; the
grant was $40 in 2008.
Textbook funds remain flat at $54 per student.
There are approximately 5,000 Jewish day school
students in the area covered by the Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey, so this budget will bring
in about $800,000 in state aid to those local schools.
Josh Pruzansky, New Jersey Regional Director, Ortho-
dox Union Advocacy Center, estimates that there are
another 30,000 students in day schools and yeshivot
elsewhere in the state.
Overall state aid to nonpublic education comes to
more than $80 million, out of a total state education
budget of around $12 billion.
The aid for private schools was started in the
1990s. State aid for Holocaust survivors, however,
began only last year.
This years budget doubles the grant to $400,000,
which will be divided among the states Jewish Fam-
ily Service agencies.
The grant is modeled after a grant of more than
$2 million that those organizations receive from the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Ger-
many, which funds programs for survivors from the
proceeds of unclaimed Jewish property in the for-
mer East Germany .
In 2011, the Claims Conference estimated the num-
ber of Holocaust survivors in New Jersey at 7,695.
The number of survivors who receive services from
the family service agencies is lower: 615. Of them,
134 are served by local agencies the Jewish Fam-
ily Service of North Jersey in Wayne and the Jew-
ish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson in
Teaneck.
We are grateful to Governor Chris Christie and
the New Jersey legislature for once more recogniz-
ing, in a bipartisan way, that the concerns of Holo-
caust survivors are unique because of what they
have been through and because their vulnerabilities
at this age are increasing and are real, Mark Leven-
son, president of the state federation group, said in
a statement.
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Creativityand colorful floral centerpieceswere in full bloom
in June at the Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation. Resi-
dents there gathered last month to make fresh flower arrange-
ments that graced the tables at the Jewish Community Housing
Corporation annual dinner. They worked under the tutelage of
horticulture therapist Megan Fainsinger from ARTS! For The
People, a non-profit organization that brings various arts pro-
grams to JCHC communities throughout the year. Working with
blossoms and greens, the residents crafted beautiful arrange-
ments and they all agreed it was a wonderful way to spend the
morning. In fact, they enjoyed the activity so much that they are
interested in holding a flower arranging class at the senior living
community on an ongoing basis.
In addition to creative arts programs, residents also enjoy
weekly exercise classes, musical performances, seminars,
health and wellness presentations, and outings every month.
Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation, located at
110 Vose Avenue near downtown South Orange, is owned
and managed by the Jewish Community Housing Corpora-
tion of Metropolitan New Jersey. For information about the
senior community, call Cheryl Kasye at (973) 763-0999 or
visit www.jchcorp.org.
Residents hope ower arranging classes will be
an ongoing program.
Floral centerpieces bloom at Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation
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States 2013 Stepha-
nie Jill Chernick. Pro-
ceeds raised during
the evenings celebra-
tion were donated to
charity.
Dr. Brock joined
Touro as a profes-
sor at its New York
School of Career and
Applied Studies in
June 2007 and was
named interim dean
of the GSB in 2012. Her
notable accomplish-
ments since joining the business school
include the introduction of a new career
center, relaunching the masters degree
program in accounting; increasing inter-
and intraschool communication and
collaboration, and creating higher vis-
ibility for the GSB with programs such as
monthly open houses. Under her tenure,
the school has increased its enrollment
by more than nine percent and the diver-
sity of its faculty by 30 percent.
Sabra Brock
Project Witness remembers
Seventy years ago, in May, 1944, the
deportation of the Jews of Hungary to
the death camps of Auschwitz-Birke-
nau commenced. Within a short period
of 54 days, the Germans deported
434,400 Hungarian Jews in a total of
147 trains. Now, seven decades later,
Project Witness, a Holocaust research
center in Brooklyn, has planned an
event to memorialize this tragic epoch
in Holocaust history.
On Monday evening, July 28, Project
Witness will unveil In One Split Sec-
ond, an hour-long documentary, at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New
York City.
In One Second features three
time zones of Jewish experience
construction, destruction, transfor-
mation. From the magnificent pre-war
Hungarian communities to the crema-
toriums of concentration camps such
as Auschwitz, to the post World War II
rebuilding of Jewish life in Israel, the
United States, and all over the world,
this film promises to provide the audi-
ence with a deeper understanding of
the conditions that prevailed in Hun-
gary during that difficult time.
The premiere of In One Split Sec-
ond will feature Holocaust survivors,
dignitaries, elected officials, and Jew-
ish communal leaders, among them
Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive
vice chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Jewish Organi-
zations, and Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau,
the former Chief Rabbi of Israel and
currently Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, the
youngest survivor of the Buchenwald
Concentration Camp, who was 8 years
old when he was liberated.
The Keil Maleh prayer memorializing
the dead will be chanted by Cantor Moshe
Kraus, a nonagenarian who was a cantor
in Hungary before the war, survived sev-
eral concentration camps due to his melo-
dious voice, and ultimately served as a
cantor in Ottawa in the post-war years.
Project Witness i s a Holocaust
Resource Center dedicated to trans-
mitting to future generations the his-
tory and the spiritual courage of the
six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust and of those who survived
the horror. Through a variety of edu-
cational and community initiatives,
Project Witness is ensuring that the
memory of the Holocaust and its impli-
cations for worldwide Jewry will never
fade into the mists of history. With its
goal to educate, inspire, and transform,
Project Witness is dedicated to stimu-
lating Jewish awareness and identity,
thereby ensuring that the courage and
faith of the past become a guiding light
for the future.
For further information you can con-
tact Project Witness at 1-800-WITNESS
or info@projectwitness.org
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