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TEANECK TWEEN GETS CHOPPED page 8
NOAM AND THE SAVING OF A BELOVED ARK page 12
MAKING JOAN RIVERS LAUGH page 21
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CONTENTS
Swiftly flow the years
Apple unveiled its new
Apple Watch this week.
This new smart
watch doesnt (yet)
have Dick Tracys
video phone tech-
nology, but it does
promise to measure
your pulse as you
exercise.
Which raises the
halachic question: Can
an observant Jew use
a watch like this on
Shabbat? Perhaps if
there were a special
Shabbat mode that
disabled its interactive
elements?
Weve designed
a mockup of such a
Shabbat mode. And
weve started a discus-
sion on our Facebook
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js-apple) LARRY YUDELSON
Israels stormy baby boom
It appears that December show-
ers bring August babies.
Hospitals throughout Israel no-
ticed a baby boom last month, nine
months after a month of heavy rain-
storms, combined with a blanket of
snow in much of the north and the
center of the country, brought some
areas to a standstill.
Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot
reported 700 births this August
compared to 500 last year, and the
Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba
where women gave birth in a de-
livery room reinforced against rock-
ets saw 1,484 births compared
with 1,300 2013.
There were a few days in Decem-
ber that we couldnt leave the house
because of the storm, so it was a
great opportunity to work on making
a baby, new mother Oxana Belayev
told Ynet.
What will summer rocket fire
bring? Check back with us in nine
months. MARCY OSTER / JTA WIRE SERVICE
Candlelighting: Friday, September 12, 6:52 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, September 13, 7:50 p.m.
A newborn baby receives a hearing test at the hospital in December
2013. CHEN LEOPOLD/FLASH90
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the Sabbath observant?
Fiddler on the Roof opened
on Broadway on September 22,
1964. It is turning 50.
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has issued a series of three
stamps honoring the musical,
which was staged in Israel in
Hebrew and then in Yiddish
soon after its success in
America.
One stamp features a fiddler
on a roof; another shows Tevye
and his dairy cart; and in the
third Tevye and Golda sing Do
you love me?
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tone, you might want to watch
the one-minute video clip of
Riddler on the Roof, originally
presented on the childrens TV
show A.N.T. Farm, in which Bat-
man Tevye toasts the Riddler:
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MARTEL, the exotically
beautiful Jewish actress
from the Bronx who
played Spocks reluctant
fiance, died on August
12 at 78. Born Arline
Sax, Martel was married
three times, including a
long marriage to second
husband JERRY DOUG-
LAS, now 81. They had
two children together.
Douglas, born Gerald
Rubenstein, found fame
and job security as star
character John Abbott
on the soap opera The
Young and The Restless.
He played that role from
1980 to 2006.
Sadly, Martel never
landed a similar break-
through role. Still, her
Trek role is known to
millions even if few
know how Jewish an
episode Amok Time
was. It was the episode
that introduced the split-
finger Vulcan greeting.
As most Jewish fans
know, the Vulcan greet-
ing which requires the
greeter to spread his or
her fingers to form a V,
with the palm up is
the gesture kohanim use
during the priestly bless-
ing or benediction. It was
LEONARD NIMOY, now
80 Spock himself
who suggested using the
gesture. Nimoy recalled
in an interview that it was
hard for Martel to master
the split finger, although
she was Jewish.
As viewers recall, T-
Pring rejected Spock,
and custom forced
Spock to fight Captain
Kirk (played by the ko-
Debra Messing
SMALL SCREEN JEWS
Prime time detective,
Star Trek memories
Zoe Levin
Amanda Peet Dave Annable
Two broad-
cast TV shows
premiering next
week have Jewish
stars. Heres the official
description of The Mys-
teries of Laura: DEBRA
MESSING stars as Laura
Diamond, a brilliant
NYPD homicide detec-
tive who balances her
Columbo day job with
a crazy family life that
includes two unruly twin
boys and a soon-to-be
ex-husband also a cop
who just cant seem to
sign the divorce papers.
Between cleaning up af-
ter her boys and cleaning
up the streets, shed be
the first to admit she has
her hot mess moments
in this hilariously authen-
tic look at what it really
means to be a working
mom today. Somehow
she makes it all work
with the help of her sexy
and understanding part-
ner. Messing, 46, had a
huge hit as the co-star
of Will and Grace but
is coming off the can-
cellation of the musical
series Smash, which
faded in the ratings after
a big start. Mysteries
has a sneak preview on
NBC on Wednesday,
September 17, at 10 p.m.
The pilot episode will be
replayed at the shows
regular day and time: 8
p.m. Wednesday, Sep-
tember 24.
Over on Fox, start-
ing at 9 p.m. on the 17th,
is Red Band Society.
Again, heres the of-
ficial 411: Set in the
childrens ward of a Los
Angeles hospital (and
narrated by a kid whos
in a coma), Red Band
Society is a coming-of-
age drama that follows
a Breakfast Club-esque
group of patients as they
face such life-changing
(and life-threatening)
challenges as cancer
and heart defects. ZOE
LEVIN, 20 plays one of
the youngish patients.
She was born and raised
in a religious Jew-
ish home in suburban
Chicago. Levin played
Steve Carrells pretty
teen daughter in the
2013 sleeper hit, The
Way, Way Back, and co-
starred earlier this year
with SARAH JESSICA
PARKER, 49 , in The
Commons of Pensacola,
a hit off-Broadway play
about a Jewish fam-
ily that was written by
actress AMANDA PEET,
42. DAVE ANNABLE, 34
(Brothers and Sisters),
is also in Red Band,
playing a hospital doctor.
His mother is Jewish.
Most Star Trek
fans have seen
the original 1967
Star Trek episode, Amok
Time, in which Spock
is compelled, by Vulcan
physiology, to return to
Vulcan, his home planet,
and wed the Vulcan
woman, T-Pring, to
whom he was betrothed
as a child. Sadly, ARLENE
Sports notes
Outielder JOC PEDERSON, 24, was called up by
the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 1 and got a hit in
his second game. He very well may become a superstar
and a household name to those who follow Jews in pro
sports. The son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish
father, Pederson was raised Jewish and played for Israel
in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. This year, he was
named Paciic Coast League (top minor league) player of
the year and he was the irst PCL player in 80 years to hit
30 homers and steal 30 bases in one season. N.B.
Joc Pederson
sher WILLIAM SHATNER,
now 80), for her hand.
Also presiding over the
whole ceremony (and
fight rules) was T-Pau, a
very old and politically
powerful Vulcan woman.
She was played by Celia
Lovsky, who wasnt Jew-
ish, but who stood by her
Jewish husband, actor
PETER LORRE, as the
Nazis took over their na-
tive Austria, and settled
with him in America.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Groups from across the Jewish spectrum
make solidarity missions to Israel

JOSH LIPOWSKY
A
s rockets fell on Israel, the
North Jersey Jewish community
made a grand show of support
through rallies and donations,
but some local rabbis decided to show
their support even more strongly, by put-
ting boots on the ground.
Earlier in the summer, Rabbi Shmuel
Goldin led a large group of congregants
and friends to Israel, and the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey sent a mis-
sion as well. Local rabbis and laypeople,
too, have been going on their own.
Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform
rabbis jetted off to Israel in July and
August, making a statement to their com-
munities and to Israelis that the Ameri-
can Jewish community continues to sup-
port Israel, especially during times of war.
Rabbi Elyse Frishman of Barnert Tem-
ple of Franklin Lakes was in Israel from
July 27 to 31 on a mission with the Central
Conference of American Rabbis, the rab-
binical arm of the Union for Reform Juda-
ism. She was the only Bergen County rabbi
on the 13-rabbi mission, which had been
put together quickly the week before. Its
goal was both to show support for Israel
and to learn as much about the conflict as
possible.
I went because I wanted to learn how
to decode what I was hearing in the United
States, Rabbi Frishman said. What the
newspapers and all the media were saying
to me about Israel seemed so unlike the
Israel I know and love.
On their first night in Israel, while stay-
ing at a hotel in Tel Aviv, participants
received a welcome that reinforced how
the conflict affected all of Israel: the red
alert sirens went off at 2:30 in the morn-
ing, waking the jetlagged rabbis.
That was important just to experience
that, Rabbi Frishman said. It was impor-
tant to experience what the Iron Dome
does and doesnt do. There are those in
this country who think, Why doesnt Israel
just sit back and let all the rockets fly? Its
safe. Sometimes you need the experience
to bring it home graphically for others.
After their extreme introduction, the
rabbis met with a military ethicist who
explained the Israel Defense Forces mili-
tary ethical strategy, and visited seam-line
communities close to the Gaza border,
including Ashkelon and Sderot. A foreign
policy strategist explained that theres no
such thing as a military strategy, only a
political one, and its impor-
tant to understand there is no
simple solution.
The rabbis also visited
Mount Hertzl in Jerusalem,
shortly after the deaths
of three IDF soldiers who
had just been buried there.
Standing at their gravesites,
knowing that the ground we
were standing on was likely
to be filled with the bodies
of other young soldiers, was
heartbreaking and terrify-
ing, Rabbi Frishman said.
In preparation for the trip,
she reread the Hamas char-
ter, which reminded her
there is a huge difference between nego-
tiating with Hamas and negotiating with
Palestinians.
Hamas has a singular goal, which is
to destroy not only Israel but the Jewish
people, she said. The solution needs to
be to delegitimize Hamas in the political
realm and elevate a Palestinian leadership
that can work alongside Israel. It does us
no good to vilify all Palestinians and talk
from that extremist view.
In the Torah, Amalek is the traditional
enemy of the Jewish nation, and Amaleks
descendants continue to plague the Jewish
people today. Amalek is not always an exter-
nal enemy, according to Rabbi Frishman.
The reason we were overtaken in the
desert was because we were enfeebled, we
stopped listening to God, she said. Ama-
lek is inside us. We have to be strong and
protect ourselves, but ultimately we need
to figure out how to get along with every-
body else. We need to build alliances.
Tag Mechir is a right-wing vigilante
group that has been organizing so-called
price-tag attacks against mosques, cars,
fields, and other Arab property and peo-
ple in Israel and the territories. While in
Israel, the rabbis met with Tag Maier, a
group dedicated to meeting with Arabs
and promoting the message that the price-
tag attacks do not represent Israel.
Part of the work the Reform movement
feels is important and I feel is impor-
tant is to support those organizations in
Israel that strategically, ethically, and suc-
cessfully work on building alliances and to
elevate their existence to others, so they
know this is who Israel really wants to be,
Rabbi Frishman said.
Emergency missions always include two
aspects, Rabbi Shalom Baum of Teanecks
Congregation Keter Torah said. Its very
inspiring and you also see a lot of pain. In
general, the inspiration wins out.
Rabbi Baum, the vice president of the
Rabbinical Council of America, is part of a
small group of Orthodox Union rabbis who
meet every year, usually in the month of
Elul. This year they were supposed to meet
in Scarsdale, Ariz., but Rabbi Baum sent
an email to the group with the subject line
Scarsdale or Sderot. Its message was that
if were going to get together this year as
rabbis, the right place is in Israel, he said.
Rabbi Steven Weil of Teaneck, the
OUs senior managing director, agreed to
arrange the trip, and from August 25 to 29
a group of 13 Orthodox rabbis from across
the country visited soldiers, grieving fami-
lies, and struggling businesses.
It was a really a message to the people
that we didnt forget about you and were
not going to forget about you, Rabbi
Baum said.
The group spent most of the trip in
Sderot, visiting traumatized children, a
yeshiva that had been hit by a rocket a
week before, and Kibbutz Saad, which had
been hit by 18 rockets. To fill a hole left by
one of the rockets, the residents of Saad
had planted a tree, which was symbolic of
what we saw of the determination to con-
tinue to live and grow, Rabbi Baum said.
The OU has launched an emergency
appeal that so far has collected half a mil-
lion dollars from across the country to sup-
port therapy programs for children and
their parents affected by the conflict.
Having only 15 seconds to find shelter
after hearing the red alert siren has put an
enormous strain on young children and
their families, according to Rabbi Weil,
and the OU is putting its efforts behind
providing play therapy for the children,
many of whom cant even communicate
because of their experiences.
These kids are traumatized, Rabbi Weil
said. Thats where the energy needs to go
to rebuilding the psyche and the emotional
structure of these kids and their parents.
On their first mission, earlier in July, the
OU took five rabbis and 45 lay leaders. This
Reform rabbis pack food for Israeli refugee families via the effort called Keren Lakavod.
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trip was for rabbis, so they can tell their com-
munities of the psychological and emotional
trauma of the country, Rabbi Weil said.
The rabbis also can tell the stories of
ordinary people, such as Miriam Peretz,
whose eldest son was killed in the 2006
war in Lebanon. The government would
not allow her other sons on the front lines
unless she agreed. After her sons argued
that they had a responsibility to Israel, she
signed off, in tears, Rabbi Weil said.
Her second son also was killed Leba-
non and her husband died soon after. It
was from a heart attack, but she said it
was because his heart had been broken.
During this summers conflict, Mrs. Per-
etz went from shiva house to shiva house,
comforting other mothers who recently
had to bury their sons.
Shes been in their shoes, not once but
twice, Rabbi Weil said. Shes setting up
support groups for these people whove lost
children. These people are giants emo-
tional giants, moral giants, spiritual giants.
The rabbis have a responsibility to tell a
different side of Israels story, a side often
left out of media reports during times of
crises, Rabbi Weil said. Its about farming,
its about medicine, its about spirituality.
And thats not the story the media tells
because thats not sexy. The media wants
to talk about fighting. And thats the story
our rabbis have to come back and tell.
Thats the story of these people.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner of Temple
Emanu-El of Closter was supposed to lead
a different type of mission to Israel this
summer, but the Conservative synagogues
leadership decided it was too dangerous to
take families, especially on a first-time visit.
Instead, Rabbi Kirshner led an emergency
mission from August 25 to 27, co-sponsored
by Emanu-El, the Jewish Federations of
North Americas Rabbinic Cabinet, and the
New York Board of Rabbis, of which Rabbi
Kirshner is president. In total, 44 people
joined the trip, including more than 25
from the synagogue, as well as U.S. Rep.
Peter King of New York who supported
funding for Israels Iron Dome anti-rocket
system and New Yorks former Governor
David Paterson.
The group brought 22 giant duffel bags full
of toys, socks, shirts, 1,000 hats, and just a
lot of love, Rabbi Kirshner said. The group
also brought $10,000 worth of Sony and
Apple equipment for recovering soldiers.
Emanu-El member Steve Rogers had
committed to raising $18,000 for Israel,
and said that if he reached his goal hed
shave his head. Rabbi Kirshner added to
the wager and agreed to shave his beard if
they doubled the amount. The shul raised
over $50,000, and Im beardless now
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first time she walked off the plane and saw
a sign pointing to a bomb shelter. It just
felt like a different Israel, she said.
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LOIS GOLDRICH
H
ow did 12-year-old Eitan Ber-
nath of Teaneck come to be
on the Food Networks popu-
lar cooking show Chopped?
Hes always been curious and he likes
science, said his mother, Sabrina Ber-
nath. He thinks its cool to mix flavors
and watch things rise. He also likes to
make people happy, she added, pointing
out that he had just brought his friends a
freshly baked batch of cinnabuns.
For Eitan, a student at Yavneh Academy
in Paramus, cooking is more than just a
hobby. Struggling for the right word, the
fledgling chef whose website, cook-
withchefeitan.com, will launch this week
described his relationship with the culi-
nary arts as a passion.
It is a hobby, but its also my life, my
passion, he said, noting that while his
generally supportive family doesnt let me
cook for a big thing like a wedding, they let
me cook most of the time and rally to get
the ingredients he needs.
Once in the kitchen, Eitan likes to be
the executive chef. That does not always
please his mother, who also loves to cook.
He takes over, she said. He wants full
control of the kitchen.
But at least, she said, hes gotten signifi-
cantly better at cleaning up after himself.
She noted that Eitans 9-year-old
brother, Yoni, has absolutely no interest in
cooking, while her husband, Jason, cooks,
but not extensively. He makes Hungarian
goulash, a nice change from cholent. He
also makes hamantaschen, both regular
and gluten-free, and has mastered the Chi-
nese stir fry.
Cooking is a lot of fun, Eitan said.
Its never-ending. You can always make
something new even if its just making
a simple pb&j sandwich, or homemade
cheese. (Yes, he makes his own cheese,
Indian paneer.) And, he said, his friends
love to eat what he makes. While one of
them shares his interest in cooking, the
others mostly just like to eat.
Cooking, Sabrina Bernath said, is Eitans
main thing. Hes obsessed with the Food
Network and the Cooking Channel. It con-
sumes his summers and his weekends.
Hes got a blog and a Twitter account for
his followers. He also likes to do fun and
crazy things to meet famous chefs. Theyre
like rock stars.
For example, she said, when a local
bookstore hosted chef Guy Fieri, Eitan
went to the book-signing dressed in the
Guy Fieri costume he used for Purim. Hes
his idol. When [Fieri] saw him, he stopped
the signing. Eitan had written him a long
letter and he let him read it. He kept hug-
ging him. The book publisher was there
and he took photos.
I like Guy Fieri because hes very ener-
getic, Eitan said. Hes always positive,
happy, excited, enthusiastic, and fun to
watch.
At the book-signing, I wore a costume,
wig, goatee, and everything. When he saw
me, he freaked out and gave me his glasses
and told the audience Id be signing the
rest of the books.
Despite these brushes with fame, Eitan
does not neglect his studies.
Hes in honors classes, his mother
said. He gets his work done. She did
note, however, that filming Chopped
caused him to miss several days of school.
Its incredible how much time goes into
making a one-hour show, she said.
Im pretty good at knowing if I have too
much homework and wont have time to
cook a particular dish, Eitan said. I say,
Can I do this and still do my homework?
According to his mother, he is not only
creative but has the drive to stick to a proj-
ect until it is completed. He has a kind of
fearless quality.
Hes learning to make kosher bacon,
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she said. He walked up to the butcher to request a
certain cut of meat to cure and salt. When he was 6 or
7, he insisted on making lemonade and cookies from
scratch for his lemonade stand.
I love to make everything from scratch, Eitan said.
My motto is, If you can make it at home, make it!
When you make things from scratch, they taste much
better, and you get the excitement of knowing you
made something that most people have to buy.
Sabrina Bernath said that a friend of a friend of a
friend remembering that Eitan likes to cook sent
her an email about an open casting call at the Food
Network. Following this up by looking at the stations
website, Ms. Bernath saw that anyone could enter. As
a joke, we filled out an application, she said. It was
in December. By January, he had already done several
phone interviews and was asked to come in for a cam-
era interview, and then more phone interviews.
Six weeks later, we got an email saying that he was
selected. The taping was in early April. We can only
tell people now, since the show airs on September 30.
This was the first-ever childrens episode, for kids
in fifth and sixth grades, she said. They broke every
rule. The chefs are usually kept in a small room and
dont see the pantry or set before taping. The kids,
on the other hand, were invited to a Chelsea market
the day before, saw the pantry, and met the produc-
ers and directors. Also, while chefs usually cant have
guests present, the children were allowed to have their
entire families there to support them.
They did everything they could, Ms. Bernath said.
They even had a paramedic who specializes in chil-
dren. They provided us with a room and lunch, and
there was a producer whose sole job was to keep us
calm and happy. The kids were using real knives and
ovens.
That didnt faze Eitan.
The utensils and equipment were easy to use,
he said. They explained everything about the
equipment.
Another problem how to cook using non-kosher
ingredients also proved not to be a problem.
He watched a ton of videos on how to cook foods
not in our house, his mother said. He spoke with
Rabbi Knapp Yavnehs principal about what
was and was not halachically allowed. He told Eitan
he could cook the meat, but he couldnt cook meat
and dairy together.
Fortunately, Eitan was not placed in that position.
The meat wasnt kosher, but they didnt put cream
in the basket, Ms. Bernath said. And he wore his
kippah.
Eitan said taping the Chopped episode was the
coolest thing Ive done in life. It was an incredible
experience. There was a lot of filming and a lot of fun.
I thought it would be just cooking and showing it to the
judges. But there was a lot of joking around.
It was the absolute highlight of his first 12 years of
life, echoed his mother. I cant imagine it will ever
dim. It was a huge learning experience. He feels he
accomplished a major life goal already.
Still, she added, he has a million more.
For example, he wants to open two restaurants
one a burger bar, a really fun place for families. Hell
also open up a dessert bar, a new concept, serving
high-end desserts through to candy to ice-cream.
He would love to continue being in the public eye
and educating people about food.
In the meantime, food lovers can go to Eitans web-
site or enjoy his food pictures on instagram, @chefei-
tanbernath; Twitter @chefeitanb; and Facebook, @
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Unpacking Samuel
Salon Tiferet offers layered readings of biblical texts to grown-ups
JOANNE PALMER
T
he two books of Samuel tell
rich, textured stories of a
world both similar to ours and
radically different.
They describe people whose motiva-
tions are recognizable to us, although
their actions might not be; they place
those characters in a world whose gov-
ernance is constantly under discussion.
They look at power and powerlessness,
at prayer and action, at faith and strat-
egy; they are written in language that is
supple and nuanced. They are multifac-
eted and evoke strong emotion.
And many of us know simply what weve
known since childhood or from listening to
haftarah readings. We know little vignettes
of Hannah praying silently for a son, of
Samuel in the Temple, of David fighting
Goliath, of David and Jonathan devising
a pact of safety together. But many of us
have not read them as adults, through an
academic lens or even through adult eyes.
Salon Tiferet, a project of Englewoods
Minyan Tiferet, hopes to offer people
a sophisticated understanding of the
books of Samuel, as seen through the
tools of three disciplines psychology,
political science, and literary analysis.
The salon will meet four times; the first
one will be an introduction offered by
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, chair of SAR
High Schools Talmud and rabbinics
department and leader of Congrega-
tion Netivot Shalom in Teaneck. In each
of the other three, prominent academ-
ics will apply the tools of their separate
fields to the text, and Rabbi Helfgot will
lead a discussion with each of them.
Minyan Tiferet is a partnership min-
yan it allows women to lead the parts of
the service that do not require a quorum,
including reading from the Torah. It meets
in members houses on the East Hill in
northern Englewood or southern Tenafly
on Shabbat every six weeks or so.
It is a vibrant community of people
who are focused on creating a spirited
prayer community that encourages the
active participation of all its members,
a former chair, Evan Hochberg, said.
And we always have had a commitment
to being a learning community. We have
a lunch and learn, and every service
has some learning component and
there always is the component of having
women learn to lead and read Torah.
The goal of Salon Tiferet is to ramp it
up to create a learning community that
is also open to the broader community.
We have a real thrust for intensive learn-
ing. Many of us especially those of us
with young children wish that we had
more time for Jewish textual study.
And when we do have the time, we
want to be sure that the program is of
tremendously high quality.
To that end, Mr. Hochberg and the
rest of the five-member committee in
charge of the salon recruited Rabbi Dr.
Tzvi Blanchard, Clals director of orga-
nizational development, to apply the
psychological framework; Dr. Suzanne
Last Stone, a university professor at Car-
dozo, to use the tools of a political scien-
tist; and Drishas Rabbi David Silber, who
will look at the books of Samuel as litera-
ture. Each will apply to the text the meth-
ods and assumptions he or she uses on
other works.
One of the things that we hope will
make the program unique, aside from
the excellence of the speakers, is that
each of the presenters will be transpar-
ent about the way he or she approaches
the text, Mr. Hochberg said. Rabbi Helf-
got will help ensure that transparency in
his role as interlocutor.
Each participant will come out of the
sessions not just with a body of content
knowledge, but also with at least two
new tools in her or her interpretive tool-
box, Mr. Hochberg said.
Such an approach demands much of
its students, including active participa-
tion in discussion. Thats why the com-
mittee chose to call the course a salon.
Its both because of the intensive
engagement with material, and because
it captures one of the minyans key val-
ues participation, Mr. Hochberg said.
We want to create a learning environ-
ment where everyones view is important;
where people are not just passive learners
but are participating actively.
Mr. Hochberg, who is a lawyer, was a
Berrie Fellow in the leadership training
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
As a young man, David plays his harp for the suffering King Saul.
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What: Salon Tiferet offers four sessions with a multidis-
ciplinary look at the books of Samuel
When: Sunday, September 14, October 19, November
16, and December 14, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Where: The rst session will be at 207 Chestnut St.
in Englewood. The locations for later sessions are still to
be decided.
Why: To apply the lens of psychology, political science,
and literary analysis to Samuel I and II.
Who: Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, the moderator, will
be joined, after the rst session, by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi
Blanchard, Dr. Suzanne Last Stone, and Rabbi David
Silber
How: The cost is $10 per session or $30 for all four
sessions
For information or to register: email minyantiferet@
gmail.com or go to minyantiferet.com and click on the
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program run by the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey. One of the programs demands is that
graduates take back what we learn to the commu-
nity. He and another Berrie alumn, Harley Ungar,
had just been through a very intensive Jewish edu-
cational experience, and we wanted to make sure that
we have other similar opportunities, and that others
would as well. We were very fortunate because the
staff of the program was very helpful in conceptual-
izing the idea.
And we got funding from the Dorot Foundation,
he added. He is an alumni of that Jewish nonprofit
agencys fellowship in Israel. They fund alumni proj-
ects, Mr. Hochberg said. That is why we are able to
get the caliber of speakers that we have.
Rabbi Helfgot said that the salon will give partici-
pants, many of whom are kept busy by the demands
of young families, a chance to learn this material in
a sophisticated manner, and to spend time together
with fellow travelers who want to challenge each other
to think about important issues in our Jewish society.
Leadership; the relationships within a family and
between a leader and his flock; the use of power; the
question of meaning these are major questions that
often emerge from the rich study of a text.
This text has tremendous narrative drama, a lot of
characters interacting with each other, a lot of char-
acter development, a lot of conflict. It has characters
trying to make their way through life; it looks at issues
of leadership, of relationship to family, to friends. It
looks at loyalty.
For example, he said, Saul has to navigate many tan-
gled relationships, and it is not clear how he or anyone
else should handle them. His son is loyal to David but
Jonathan and David are rivals. Whose future should he
consider? His sons? His protgs? His peoples? The
complexities and the tragedy might evoke a com-
parison to King Lear.
And what is the ideal form of government? Rabbi
Helfgot continued. Does the Bible have a specific
form in mind? People constantly throw that idea
around, from the left and from the right. The biblical
texts always are used as a resource the Bible is seen
as socialist and as capitalist. Does the book of Samuel
have a clear-cut view of the idea of government? Is
nationalism a good thing?
Those and other questions are likely to come up in
response to the text, he said.
The salon will meet in private houses, Rabbi Helf-
got added, and that will contribute to their appeal.
Its a little more intimate, he said, and that inti-
macy will create the kind of trust that will let ques-
tions, answers, and discussion, all in reaction to a
very old text, fly.
This text has
tremendous narrative
drama, a lot of
characters interacting
with each other,
a lot of character
development, a lot of
conict.
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Stairway to heaven
Yeshivat Noam inaugurates an ark of memories
LARRY YUDELSON
T
he ark of Martha Cohn, who
loved children but had none
of her own, has come to a rest
among the middle schoolers of
Yeshivat Noam in Paramus.
Born in German in 1902, Ms. Cohn was
already in her thirties when Hitler rose to
power. She and her sister heeded the signs
and found their way to America. The rest
of her family was murdered.
In 1965, she was hired by Rabbi Steven
Riskin as the first secretary of the nascent
Lincoln Square Synagogue. The synagogue
was meeting in an apartment in the Lin-
coln Square Apartments, part of the urban
renewal project that included nearby Lin-
coln Center. Soon it would build its own
building, and by the 1970s it had become
the foremost modern Orthodox synagogue
in Manhattan if not all of America.
A widow, Ms. Cohen devoted her life
to the synagogue. She memorized all the
members phone numbers, Rabbi Riskin
recalled last week; she would arrive early,
stay late, and walk to work when a blizzard
shut down the citys buses.
If she was not young when she started
working at the synagogue, she was even
less young when she decided that she
wanted to make a gift to the synagogue, to
dedicate an ark in the congregations sanc-
tuary. She must have seen it as her legacy,
a chance to make a lasting contribution to
the synagogue. How many secretaries are
able to dedicate a $100,000 Torah ark in
memory of their parents?
The synagogue commissioned noted
synagogue architect and Rabbi Riskins
son-in-law Edward Jacobs. The ark
he designed echoed the famous in-the-
round architecture of the synagogue: A
tall cylinder, fronted with a menorah. On
the inside, the Torah scrolls were placed
on a rotating stand, stacked like a spiral
staircase.
Rabbi Riskin would turn the stand when
he stood by the open ark to take out the
Torah, because the sight of the spinning
Torahs pleased Mrs. Cohn.
The rabbi makes the Torahs dance, he
recalled her saying, I like the Torahs to
be dancing.
Mrs. Cohen died in 1997. In 2012, follow-
ing years of cost overruns and delays, the
congregation moved into a new building.
It was a new building with a new sanctu-
ary with a new ark which a donor would
dedicate to Mrs. Cohns memory but
while there had been talk of moving the
old ark into the smaller chapel, apparently
nobody told the architect. The rooms ceil-
ing was just too low.
What to do?
Jewish law is clear: An ark that has held
the holy Torah itself becomes holy. It can-
not be discarded. It must be buried in a
cemetery. That was set to be its fate.
When I heard that, I burst into tears,
Rabbi Riskin said.
The ideal solution would be to find the
old ark a new home.
How?
Its not that you cant sell an ark on eBay
you can in fact order a custom-made
ornate Italian-style Torah ark from Israel
on eBay, for only $1,800 plus $180 ship-
ping. But most synagogues in need of an
ark probably arent looking there. And
how many synagogues need an ark?
The solution was more old-fashioned. A
shadchan. A matchmaker. In the person, it
turned out, of Chaim Birman of Teaneck.
Mr. Birman is a construction project
manager, working for a firm that helps
nonprofits. In that capacity, he worked on
the new Lincoln Square Synagogue build-
ing and learned about its ark problem.
He is also a parent, with four children
attending Yeshivat Noam. Not surprisingly,
he was on the committee that oversaw the
schools 2012 addition.
At some point he realized that the syna-
gogues homeless ark might just fit in the
schools new synagogue space, if the ceil-
ing could be raised just a bit above it. So
he brought the two parties together and a
plan was hatched.
Members of the synagogue raised
money its website says $32,000 to pay
for the arks storage, dismantling, trans-
portation, reassembly, and the necessary
changes to Yeshivat Noams ceiling.
The plan was finalized this summer.
The ark was installed last month, and last
Thursday, at the first Torah service of the
new year, Rabbi Riskin came to Paramus to
tell the students the story of the ark, and
Mrs. Cohen.
When I heard it was coming here, you
have no idea how happy it made me feel,
he said. Its an aron kodesh an ark
that was dedicated by a very, very special
woman. Because she had no children, the
Torah and children and the future of Torah
was the most important thing for her.
Its a nice ending to the saga of this
aron, Mr. Birman said. Despite the dis-
posable nature of the life we live in, cer-
tain things should not be considered
disposable.
Rabbi Steven Riskin demonstrates
how he would spin the Torah holder
when the ark installed in Noam was
in its original Lincoln Square Syna-
gogue home. Right, the ark closed
and open. YESHIVAT NOAM
The rabbi makes
the Torahs
dance. I like the
Torahs to be
dancing.
MARTHA COHN
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Slichot services in Franklin Lakes to begin with cabaret
JOANNE PALMER
M
usic expresses that which
cannot be said and on which
it is impossible to be silent.
Thats a quote from Victor
Hugo, the 19th-century French Romantic,
via Rabbi Joseph Prouser of Temple Eman-
uel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
Rabbi Prouser has been thinking about
music a great deal as the High Holy Days
approach. I am interested in maximizing
the musical experience of the holidays,
he said. I think that music and the canto-
rial arts, especially over the High Holidays,
touch people on a different level than the
purely intellectual sermon or academic
lecture might.
To that end, he is bringing Lois Kittner
of Bogota, a fifth-year student at the Acad-
emy for the Jewish Religion in Yonkers,
N.Y., to share her voice and her spirit with
the congregation for Slichot, the Saturday
night penitential service that ushers in the
melodies, liturgies, themes, and preoccu-
pations of the holiday season.
Rabbi Prouser asked me if I would
think about putting together a small pro-
gram before the Slichot service, as so
many congregations do, Ms. Kittner said.
And I said, Well, I would love to but
I dont know if you know this about me,
but I was a cabaret singer. So if you ask me
to put together a musical program for Sli-
chot, which is all about feelings and intro-
spection and emotion, I am going to want
to put together a cabaret show.
And he said, That sounds great. Lets
do it!
What I found when I started putting
the program together is that I had a won-
derful opportunity which I didnt realize
before the actual creative process began
to bring Torah into the show. So I started
to choose songs that could be connected to
what I call liturgical touchpoints.
Instead of explaining liturgical touch-
points directly, Ms. Kittner used a tradi-
tional Jewish work-around to make her
point. She told a story.
In a regular cabaret show, it is per-
fectly acceptable even expected that
a performer would share a personal story
in introducing a song or group of songs,
she continued. That is because you want
to speak to everyone. If you speak about
your own emotions, the chances are that
youre touching on someone elses as well.
So liturgical touchpoints so Elul the
month that ends with Rosh Hashanah, the
month in which we find ourselves right
now is our month for preparing our-
selves for the yamim noraim, the Days
of Awe. For me, it is also the time of my
fathers yahrzeit.
He died 18 years ago, on the sixth of
Elul, and I desperately wanted a Jewish
ritual to help me through the sadness, the
fear, the aloneness. I remember going to
shul the Shabbat after he died I wasnt
a cantorial student then, of course, just a
congregant and the rabbi said, We will
now turn to page whatever-it-was because
we were reading Psalm 27. For though my
father and my mother have forsaken me,
God will care for me, it said.
I thought the rabbi had chosen it just
for me, although of course he hadnt.
And then my coach and mentor, Can-
tor Sol Zim, wrote a beautiful song to the
words from Hosea that we say when we
wrap tefillin around our arm, to the words
I will betroth you to me forever. He wrote it
for my sons wedding. And now when I sing
that, I am introducing a song, telling a per-
sonal story, and connecting it to our liturgy.
I always think back to that Shabbat
after my fathers passing as a turning point
in my relationship to Jewish liturgy and to
God. When I am searching for answers, for
understanding, or just for some comfort, I
know that I can turn to the psalms, to our
sages, to the liturgy, because it is in there.
Liturgical touchpoints are my leitmotif
because my mission is to bring people to
experience Judaism in a way that works
for them.
And about the cabaret? I look at Some-
where Over the Rainbow as a metaphor
for Slichot, for teshuva, Ms. Kittner said.
I have always experienced it when others
sing it as being wistful, about something
you cant attain, but I have been looking
at it anew.
The Days of Awe are not about punish-
ment, as many of us are raised to believe,
she continued. It is not a negative, dark
time. It is a serious time, even somber, but
if you are willing to do the work of intro-
spection, of asking forgiveness from oth-
ers, from yourself, and then you are ready
to ask for forgiveness from God, as you
understand God then, once youve come
through it, you should definitely be on the
other side of the rainbow.
And if happy little bluebirds fly beyond
the rainbow why cant I? There is poten-
tial for each of us.
Ms. Kittner was a cabaret singer in the
1970s and 80s, and then I was a mom,
she said. As her two sons grew up, she left
the uncertainty of a career in music to work
as a financial planner, although she always
sang whenever she could, and always has
been Jewishly involved. Now, her cantorial
studies bring her worlds together.
At Emanuel, her set also will include
Wilkommen and Meeskeit from Cab-
aret at least the first one is almost oblig-
atory, she said On the Sunny Side of
the Street, Happy Days Are Here Again,
James Taylors Secret of Life, When the
Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin
Along, and Try to Remember.
Through most of it she will be accom-
panied by a keyboard player, but for two
pieces she will work with a guitarist, Rabbi
Prousers son, Eitan, who also will per-
form an original arrangement of the clas-
sic Yerushalayim Shel Zahav.
The arrangement, written in reaction
to this summers violence in Israel, came
to him oddly and insistently, Mr. Prouser
said. I started playing this strange thing,
a really discordant thing, and I felt inspired
to write an entire arrangement based on it.
It came out of nowhere it was exciting.
I am trying to capture all the emotions
that can be inferred from it, fear, the actual
sounds of what was going on, the general
mood the Israelis as a people have had to
incorporate everything. But as an artist, I
never can tell everything Im doing. I want
people to take their own meaning from it
themselves.
The arrangement connects with Slichot
because it is very current, very relevant,
and makes everybody feel a whole range of
emotions. And part of this emotion is what
Lois is trying so hard to convey. It seems
the most logical direction for me to go in.
Rabbi Prouser had not thought of incor-
porating cabaret into Slichot until Ms.
Kittner suggested it, but he is delighted with
it. It is a natural pairing, he said. It is my
hope that the unconventional combination
of cabaret and cantorial music will pique
peoples interest and they will find it a sat-
isfying experience in both musical realms.
Music has an indispensible role in the
Jewish religious experience. The fact that
Lois can be so versatile as to do cabaret
and a liturgy of repentance and introspec-
tion in one evening really means that she is
adept at reaching Jewish souls through the
medium of music.
In the same way, a rabbi cant fully do
his job if he is a master only of the Jewish
sacred texts. You have to have your hand
in a broader intellectual world than that.
Slichot services at Temple Emanuel will
be on the evening of Saturday, September
20. The cabaret performance will start at
9 and the service itself will begin at 10.
The shul is at 558 High Mountain Road; for
information, call (201) 560-0200.
Guitarist Eitan Prouser will
accompany Lois Kittner as she sings
cabaret songs before Slichot.
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
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obert Hyman celebrated
his 61st birthday in uniform
under fire from Hamas mis-
siles, assembling medical
kits at the Israel Defense Forces large
medical supply base.
I could not think of a better birth-
day present to myself, he says in all
sincerity.
Mr. Hyman and his wife, Nancy,
made aliyah from Teaneck last October.
They raised their three boys in New Jer-
sey and now live in Efrat near their son
Yakir and his family. Even before they
saw an urgent call for volunteers from
Sar-El Volunteers for Israel, they had
signed up for three weeks of service
wherever the IDF needed them.
Because of the situation, we had a
unique opportunity to step forward
and do something we wanted to do, at
a time when Israel was at war, said Mr.
Hyman, who had been a senior execu-
tive at the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey.
Sar-Els program coordinator, Pamela
Lazarus, said that in 1982 Gen. Aharon
Davidi launched a drive for overseas vol-
unteers to staff kibbutzim whose men
were off fighting in Lebanon. They got
about 600 volunteers, as a one-time
thing. But when people went home,
many of them said they wanted to do it
again, so the organization was started.
Every year, Sar-El gets between
3,000 and 4,000 volunteers, not all
of them Jewish, from many countries.
Some of those who volunteered and
consequently made aliyah wanted to
participate again. Hence, the program
was opened to Israeli citizens and has
attracted not only newcomers but also
IDF veterans and Israeli expatriates.
Ms. Lazarus works closely with for-
mer Teaneck resident Howie Mischel
of Chashmonaim, who has volun-
teered with Sar-El several times over
25 years and is the Sar-El liaison at the
aliyah organization Nefesh BNefesh.
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This program is made possible, in part, by funds by the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a
Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sar-El is part of the armys logistics
unit, which oversees many supply ware-
houses, Ms. Lazarus said.
Parti ci pants, general l y grouped
according to their native language, stay
on base from Sunday through Thursday
performing the essential but tedious and
time-intensive tasks of replacing, clean-
ing, organizing, inventorying, and pack-
ing all sort of gear: motor vehicles and
parts, uniforms, machinery, medical sup-
plies, communications equipment, and
edibles, for example.
At night, they hear guest speakers and
participate in fun and group-building
activities. Ordinarily a couple of day trips
are included, but they were canceled
during Operation Protective Edge.
To be on the base at a time of height-
ened need was extra special in terms of
feeling the impact of making a contribu-
tion to the IDF, said Mr. Hyman, who
signed on for another three weeks after
his first stint was over.
I am busy with the grandchildren and
the house, Ms. Hyman added. But when
the situation with Gaza started up, I felt
like baking cakes for soldiers just wasnt
going to cut it. And I realized there might
not be another time for me to do this with
Rob because Ill be working full time.
She and seven other volunteers, rang-
ing in age from 20 to about 80 and com-
ing from a variety of English-speaking
countries, stocked or restocked medical
kit bags with such items as gauze, poison-
gas antidotes, bags of saline, eye drops,
bug spray, antibiotic ointment, tourni-
quets, and IV needles.
The second week we were there,
we were resupplying kit bags that were
coming back from Gaza, she said. We
were actually crying while packing the
kits because we hoped and prayed they
wouldnt have to be used. That made it
very real and very personal.
The volunteers kept chitchat to a mini-
mum so they could concentrate on their
work. As I opened one kit, I told my
supervisor it didnt feel right, and sure
enough someone had skipped putting
in a tourniquet, she said. Thank God I
caught that.
On her final day, Ms. Hyman and her
coworkers including Wendy Nelson
Ackerman of Mahwah had to finish
two sets of 201 kits each. We said were
not leaving till we get this job done,
she recalled. We worked double time
because it was so important to us. We
were told that we saved the IDF millions
of dollars in manpower, even with the
cost of feeding us.
She and her husband didnt see much
of each other until the weekends. They
were assigned to different tasks, and the
sleeping barracks are gender-segregated.
(On weekends, participants who dont
live in Israel can stay at a Sar-El hostel or
make their own arrangements.)
Mr. Hymans group of about 30 volun-
teers assembled and replenished medical
kits for medics and field surgeons. These
kits are used not only in Israel but also for
the states many humanitarian missions,
such as to Haiti and Japan, and in army
field hospitals set up to treat casualties
flowing over the border from Gaza in the
south and Syria in the north.
The supplies come from vendors, get
assembled and replenished here, and
then go out to all units, he said. Its a
major operation, and Im amazed at the
efficiency with which they handle it.
His initial group of men and women
was diverse, ranging from college stu-
dents to retirees, mainly from the United
States and Canada. During his second
three-week session, which began on
August 31, most of the volunteers are
retirees. School is back in session.
The people you meet are wonderful,
Mr. Hyman said. Im working with a
former airline pilot, lawyers, doctors,
teachers, social workers, business peo-
ple. We also get the opportunity to work
side by side with active-duty soldiers and
reserve soldiers. That adds an interesting
perspective, and gives us chance to prac-
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Reckoning at Nariman House
Looking back at the horror at Mumbais Chabad
house, finding hope in its rededication
MEYLEKH VISWANATH
T
he last time I visited Nariman
House Beit Chabad in Mum-
bai was in 2009, less than a
year after the horrific terrorist
attack there.
I had been on my annual visit to India,
but I was not sure whether I wanted
to see Nariman House again. In 2008,
my daughter and I spent a Shabbat at
Chabad-Nariman House with Rabbi
Gavriel Holtzberg, whom everybody
seemed to call Gabby, and his wife, Rivka.
My memories of the house were very pos-
itive. I had particularly strong memories
of Gabbys pleasant nature and openness.
Still, when some acquaintances at the
Indian Express asked to go back to Nari-
man House, I had mixed feelings.
Until that point, I had only audio memo-
ries of that night, when I acted as an inter-
preter to another Chabad rabbi, speaking
to one of the terrorists by phone in an
unsuccessful attempt to save the Jewish
victims. This visit, however, was much
a more real and vivid testimony to the
events of Thanksgiving Day, 2008. I noted
the bullet holes on the walls of Nariman
House, along with the message painted in
Hindi and English by the Hindu and Mus-
lim neighbors: We condemn the terrorist
attacks of 26-11-2008. Over time, there
were fewer and fewer newspaper reports,
and the memories faded from my immedi-
ate consciousness. Still, as a Jew and as an
Indian, and as somebody with a close con-
nection to the terrorist attack, I could not
forget it entirely.
Last month, though, five years after
my last visit, I had a much more hopeful
and serendipitous encounter with Nari-
man House. I was in Mumbai to work
with Gabriel Project Mumbai, an NGO
founded by an Israeli, Jacob Sztokman,
who is involved in the issues of education
and hunger in the Mumbai slums. Unbe-
knownst to me, Jacob had arranged for me
to go to Nariman House for its grand open-
ing. So that Tuesday, August 25, I found
myself at the chanukas habayis opening
ceremony for the new Beit Chabad.
Rabbi Kotlarsky, vice chairman of
Merkos LInyonei Chinuch, Chabads edu-
cation wing, began by noting that Chabad
was not looking for vengeance. The initials
hyd, which stand for Hashem yikkom
damam may God avenge their blood
are added to Rabbi and Rebbetzin Holtz-
bergs names, but Rabbi Kotlarsky made it
clear that the business of vengeance would
be left to God.
We are not fighting the darkness with
an AK-47, he said. Our way to get rid
of the darkness is by adding more light.
What I would like to talk about here is
the particular kind of light that I believe
Chabad hopes to add in India.
I am not privy to Chabads decisions and
intentions, but words and actions reflect
intentionality. It is that intentionality that
I will try to decipher. Speaking from the
podium that afternoon, Rabbi Kotlarsky
said: For reasons we will never know and
never fathom, six pious people, along with
158 others, were torn from our grasp in the
most barbaric and inhuman of ways. Not
just six pious people, but also 158 other
human beings Muslims, Christians, and
Hindus. After the events of November
26, Jews talked almost exclusively of the
six Jews murdered in Mumbai. As a Jew,
I understood their personal concerns,
but as an Indian and as a human being, I
couldnt understand the lack of acknowl-
edgment of the greater Indian tragedy. So
when Rabbi Kotlarsky referred to the 158
innocent others who were killed at the
same time in Mumbai, it struck a chord
with me.
I dont believe Chabad ever meant to
minimize the importance of the Indian
victims, but there may have been a certain
lack of awareness of Indian sentiment. The
outpouring of support for Chabad and
for Israel in India in the years following
November 26, 2008, certainly must have
made Chabad more aware of the Indian
context of the terror attacks. The impor-
tance that Indians place on what hap-
pened at Nariman House can be seen in
Indian medias coverage of the reopening
of Nariman House. All the major papers
covered the incident, not just in their
Mumbai city pages, but as national news;
and not just English language media, but
also vernacular newspapers like Loksatta
(Marathi) and Navbharat Times (Hindi).
This, however, is not the only expres-
sion of Chabad universality that was
evident as Mumbais Chabad house
reopened. The second and perhaps more
important was the presentation, at a din-
ner reception later that evening, of plans
for a museum at the Nariman House site.
Only three floors of the six floors of Nari-
man House Chabad Center are ready
now. There is a mikvah at the entrance
level of the building, there is an indus-
trial kitchen on the first floor, and there
are plans to open a restaurant where the
synagogue and offices are, on the third
floor. The fourth, fifth, and sixth floors
have been kept as they were left, devas-
tated by the ravages of the terrorists and
the local security forces, with gunshots
and wreckage everywhere. Chabad plans
to open a museum on these floors.
While the lower floors will be used
to fulfill the primary mission of Chabad
houses everywhere, it is on the upper
floors that Chabad Mumbai will try to
accomplish a mission that I believe is
unique to this Chabad house. The focus
of this museum will be the sheva mitsves
bnei noyekh the seven commandments
that the Jewish tradition teaches us are
directed to all of humanity.
The culmination of the reception later
that night was the presentation about
the museum. In a sense, the museum
was the evenings main attraction. Rabbi
Kotlarsky introduced a young New York
museum designer, Nick Appelbaum, and
a young Chabad rabbi, Moshe Gourarie
of Toms River, to talk about the museum.
Rabbi Gourarie was introduced as the
person charged with ensuring that the
museum would reflect the teachings of
Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, the last
Lubavitcher rebbe.
You could have expected Rabbi Goura-
rie to have been a grizzled veteran of the
Chabad movement, well-versed in the
writings of the Lubavitcher rebbe. Cer-
tainly I did. I am sure that Rabbi Gourarie
is well-versed in the rebbes literary out-
put, but his relative youth suggests that
his interpretation of the rebbes message
will be a novel one, likely to reflect a more
global outlook.
While it is well-known that the late
Lubavitcher rebbe introduced a stunningly
successful outreach mission to unaffiliated
and even disenchanted Jews around the
world, it is less well-known that in stark
contrast to most chasidic leaders, Rabbi
Schneerson made it a point to address
non-Jews as well as Jews in his speeches
and national television broadcasts. And
the basis of his reaching out to non-Jews
The author, at right, wearing a brown shirt, stands next to Rabbi Nachman
Holtzberg, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzbergs father, at the inauguration of the new shul
at Nariman House in Mumbai. CHABAD.ORG
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Charles Jacobs screens film, answers questions in Teaneck next week
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
The J Street Challenge: The Seductive
Allure of Peace In Our Time, is a contro-
versial film that examines the left-leaning
organization through a right-of-center
lens. Its producer, Dr. Charles Jacobs, will
answer questions after the screening.
Dr. Jacobs, who was born in Newark and
now lives in the Boston area, is an interna-
tional civil-rights activist who co-founded
the David Project, the American Anti-Slav-
ery Group, and Americans for Peace and
Tolerance.
The Jewish Standard spoke with him by
phone in Denver, during a multicity tour
of his controversial film, which premiered
last February in Miami to a standing-room-
only crowd.
The documentary presents comments
and analyses from academics and writ-
ers critical of the leaning and activities
of J Street, the nonprofit liberal advocacy
group whose stated aim is to promote
American leadership to end the Arab-
Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts
peacefully and diplomatically.
During the Gaza war in July and August,
J Street was one of few Jewish organiza-
tions with nationwide chapters that opted
not to participate in community events in
support of Israel. In May, in a controver-
sial move, the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations
voted not to admit J Street as a member.
Opinion-makers featured in The J Street
Challenge, including recently retired Har-
vard Law School Professor Alan Dershow-
itz and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street
Journal columnist Bret Stephens, assert
that J Street disproportionally blames
Israel for the lack of peace. It ignores Pal-
estinian incitement and the historical con-
text of the conflict, they charge.
The film investigates J Streets back-
ground, its affiliations, and its founder,
former Clinton administration domestic
policy adviser Jeremy Ben-Ami. It looks as
well at its funding from convicted insider-
trading multibillionaire George Soros.
We try to bring the film to Jewish ven-
ues such as JCCs, but sometimes we are
blocked by J Street, and that is a big prob-
lem, said Dr. Jacobs, who probably is best
known for his part in an interfaith effort
that successfully redeemed slaves in Sudan
15 years ago. In the places where J Street
has been accepted into the big tent, they
find it easier to block our film. Part of what
we talk about after the screenings is how
J Street is trying to stop the discussion of
our challenge to its claims.
The Teaneck showing is co-sponsored
by the New Jersey chapter of the Zionist
Organization of America, StandWithUs,
and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle
East Reporting in America.
Our strategy was not to put the film on
YouTube or sell it on Amazon, but to have
broad community discussions at Jewish Com-
munity Relations Councils, JCCs, rented halls,
campus venues or movie theaters, in order
to get hundreds of people in one room to dis-
cuss it together, Dr. Jacobs said.
J Street had been sending out spokes-
people around the country to present its
point of view, and if you saw it and dis-
agreed, its not easy to call Alan Dershowitz
or Caroline Glick and say, Come debate
these people. We provide the Jewish com-
munity with a collection of eloquent,
prominent spokespeople from left to right
to discuss it, and people really enjoy that.
At screenings where Dr. Jacobs leads the
Q&A session, he makes a point of invit-
ing J Street supporters to the stage. These
sessions can last as long as the movie, he
said, noting that the audience usually isnt
monolithic in its opinions.
There are real political divisions in
the Jewish community today, he said. I
wouldnt call it a Jewish civil war, but the posi-
tions are getting harder on the right and the
left because of the intensity of the reality.
Typical questions range from How did
people let J Street into the Jewish Commu-
nity Relations Council of Greater Boston
when they knew it was funded by George
Soros? to Why wont Jeremy Ben-Ami
debate you? to What can we do to win
back our Jewish youth, who seem to be
so nave? Dr. Jacobs said. I have private
meetings with community activists as we
travel around, and I see a lot of people are
very frustrated that the organizations that
are supposed to take care of us are not
functioning well, and theyre looking for
guidance in activism.
On September 7, the New York Post fea-
tured Dr. Jacobs in an article that revealed
that the Islamic States head of social media
belongs to a mosque in Cambridge. That
mosque, the story said, was welcomed by
many in the Boston areas Jewish commu-
nity, even though Americans for Peace and
Tolerance had exposed its Saudi Arabian
funding and its radical Islamist ties. This
is the same mosque that the Boston Mara-
thon bombers attended.
We are excited to bring this film because
it exposes the truth about J Street, which
falsely calls itself pro-Israel when in fact it is
hostile to Israel, Laura Fein, the ZOAs New
Jersey executive director, said. We saw that
this summer, when J Street groups refused
to rally with the entire Jewish community to
support Israel during the war.
J Street receives millions from anti-Zion-
ist sources, including George Soros, and
lied about it. It repeatedly gives a platform
to Boycott, Divestment and Sanction advo-
cates who seek to harm Israel economi-
cally, and it partners with anti-Israel indi-
viduals and organizations who are openly
dedicated to eliminating Israel as a Jewish
state. If you support the Israeli left, you owe
it to yourself to come see how J Street dif-
fers and aligns itself with enemies of Israel.
And if you have a more centrist or right-
leaning perspective, you need to learn the
facts so you know what you, and your kids
on campus, are up against.
What: The J Street Challenge: The Seductive Allure of Peace In Our Time,
a film produced by Dr. Charles Jacobs
Where: Will be screened at the Cedar Lane Cinema in Teaneck
When: On Wednesday, September 17, at 8 p.m. A reception will begin at 7:30,
and a question-and-answer period will follow the screening.
How: The patrons reception with Dr. Jacobs costs $25 per person and includes
tickets, which cost $12.50 each. To reserve tickets, go to jstchallengetnk.
eventbrite.com, email Laura Fein at lfein@zoa.org, or go to (201) 424-1825.
Charles Jacobs, center, helped free many people, including those shown here, from slavery in Sudan. He also advocates for
Israel in his role as an international civil rights spokesman. COURTESY CHARLES JACOBS
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Laughing with Joan
HEIDI MAE BRATT
I
made Joan Rivers laugh.
Of course she made me laugh, like
she did to millions of others through
her decades-long, often unfiltered,
and ever-funny career, but yes, I made
Joan Rivers laugh.
At the time, I was working at the celeb-
rity-obsessed New York Post, and as the
features writer for its womens section,
I had reason to ring up the raspy-voiced,
Brooklyn-born blonde for a quickie. I had
to grab a quote for some story that I was
writing. As I recall, the conversation had
turned to food, a favorite subject of the
Jewish woman on my end of the phone,
and, apparently, of that Jewish woman on
the other end as well. Joan told me that she
just adored the creamed spinach served at
the legendary Brooklyn restaurant, Peter
Lugers a must-have accompaniment to
its famous and robust steaks. Joan told me
she would dine there with a hairdresser-
to-the-stars, the late Kenneth Battelle. (She
kept her physique petite with this practice:
She never ate anything after 3 p.m. If she
did find herself dining with someone, she
popped Altoids to keep her mouth busy.)
As for our brief telephone conversa-
tion, the details of the food I can remem-
ber. I could even conjure up the velvety
creaminess of that spinach side dish she
described. But what I actually said to make
Joan Rivers laugh whether I rolled off
some smart remark, good joke, or off-the-
cuff quip to shore up reporter repartee I
cannot for the life of me recall.
But I did make Joan Rivers laugh. That I
will never forget.
On another occasion, I met Joan Riv-
ers when she hosted a press event that I
covered for the same newspaper, which
featured a bevy of literary lionesses that
included Tama Janowitz, Rona Jaffe,
Nancy Friday, Barbara Taylor Bradford,
Erica Jong, and Olivia Goldsmith. They
gathered the best-selling authors to script
a show for a new romance channel that
would be launched on cable television.
The shows topic was Princess Di (before
Dianas untimely death). As if these best-
selling authors werent playing enough of
an entertaining game of verbal ping-pong,
Joan Rivers tied the gossip-fest together
with her signature snarky style.
Joan Rivers was many things. Mother of
Melissa. Grandmother of Cooper. Nonstop
career woman. Pioneer. Philanthropist.
Proud Jew and staunch supporter of Israel.
The child of Russian Jewish immigrants,
Joan Alexandra Molinsky went beyond
just talk when it came to Israel and Jew-
ish causes. She made pro-Israeli political
donations. She worked for LGBT equality
in Israel. She became a viral video sensa-
tion, condemning Hamas and its rocket
attacks against Israel in a no-holds-barred
impromptu interview, and then voiced
her support on Israeli news shows this
past summer. She even got a tattoo this
year. The 6M on the inside of her arm
stood for six million killed by the Nazis in
World War II.
Not surprisingly, among the avalanche
of condolences following her September 4
death was Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu, who sent his to her family.
The star-studded September 7 sendoff
for the 81-year-old at Manhattans Temple
Emanuel-El, replete with laughter, music,
and even a red carpet, was, according to
those closest to Joan Rivers, a fitting trib-
ute to her life, one in which she hoped to
make people happy.
May her memory always be for a bless-
ing, and may it ever keep us laughing.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About
Our Children.
Joan Rivers in 2009 WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
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Protecting children from sexual abuse
The adult education program at Teanecks Congrega-
tion Rinat Yisrael, with congregations Keter Torah,
Netivot Shalom, and Lubavitch of Bergen County,
hosts a panel discussion, Protecting Our Children
from Sexual Abuse, on Sunday, September 14, at
8 p.m. at Netivot Shalom. The program will focus on
preventing and dealing with sexual abuse of minors in
the Jewish community.
Among the speakers are Rabbi Yosef Blau of
Yeshiva University; Dr. Shira Berkovits, a lawyer and
psychologist; and David Cheifetz, a sexual abuse
victims advocate. Rabbi Yosef Adler of Rinat Yis-
rael and rosh yeshiva of Torah Academy of Bergen
County will introduce the program. Dr. Seymour
Adler of Rinats adult education committee will mod-
erate the discussion.
Congregation Rinat Yisrael is at 389 West Englewood
Ave. in Teaneck. For information, call (201) 837-2795.
J-ADD plans walkathon
at Englewood Boat Basin
The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities, a
nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to helping
people with developmental disabilities and their families,
will hold its annual walkathon on Sunday, October 26, at 9
a.m. The walk, to be held rain or shine, will be at the Engle-
wood Boat Basin recreational area in Englewood.
J-ADD serves more than 1,000 families in Bergen and Pas-
saic counties. The agency provides respite care to families
who have members with developmental disabilities living
at home; housing for adults with developmental disabili-
ties; and advocacy, community awareness, and holiday
celebrations to people with intellectual and developmen-
tal disabilities and their families. In addition, J-ADD over-
sees the Fiddle Foundation Hotline, an online resource that
links people on the autism spectrum with needed services
nationwide.
All proceeds will help to fund J-ADDs programs. For infor-
mation, call (201) 457-0058, ext. 13, or go to www.J-ADD.org.
Queens Tea
celebrates Chabad
Womens Circle
The Jewish Womens Circle of Chabad Passaic
County holds its annual Queens Tea at the Pack-
anack Lake Clubhouse on Sunday, September 21,
at 11:30 a.m.
Royal Women honorees are Debra Till, Friend
of the Friendship Circle of Passaic County; Lana
Ladenheim, Friend of Chabad and presented by
her daughter, Vikki Ziegler, the newest face on
Bravo; Nigina Shindelman, Young Leadership
award recipient, and Asia Shindelman, Tribute to
a Queen (Olga Shindelman zl) recipient.
Guest speaker Liesel Appel will discuss her
book, The Neighbors Son. There will also be
brunch, raffles, tricky-tray baskets, and gift cer-
tificates. 52 Lake Drive West. For information, call
Chani at (973) 694-6274 or email her at Chanig@
optonline.net. Liesel Appel
Wayne congregations fight hunger
with High Holy Days collection
Congregation Shomrei Torah and Tem-
ple Beth Tikvah are joining Conservative
and Reform congregations throughout
the United States in a national effort to
fight hunger and help those less fortu-
nate. The two shuls are sponsoring a
High Holy Days food and basic necessi-
ties drives to benefit the Wayne Inter-
faith Network and other charities to help
alleviate ongoing hunger and need in the
township.
During Rosh Hashanah, September
24 to 26, collection bags will be distrib-
uted to be filled and returned before
Kol Nidre services on Friday, October
3. Donations also can be dropped off at
either synagogue during the weekdays
between the holidays.
Pasta, canned corn and green beans
are not needed now. Items should be
regular sizes (not super sizes). Paper
bags in plastic, or paper bags with han-
dles are best. Check expiration dates on
items. Monetary donations payable to
the Wayne Interfaith Network also are
welcome.
WIN is a nonprofit tax-exempt orga-
nization that operates a pantry for peo-
ple in the Wayne area. The social action
committee of Temple Beth Tikvah coor-
dinates its High Holiday Project and
Shomrei Torah works under the aus-
pices of Operation Isaiah. For informa-
tion, call Shomrei Torah at (973) 696-
2500 or Temple Beth Tikvah at (973)
595-6565.
OU Job Board lists driver positions
New York City recently added green cabs
to its fleet to provide service to upper Man-
hattan and the outer boroughs, and that
created many jobs for drivers. A cab fleet
owner would like to fill up to 150 of those
positions, which are listed on the Ortho-
dox Unions Job Board.
The boards executive director, Michael
Rosner, said: Based on current drivers
experiences, there is the opportunity to
gross $2,000 per week driving a 10-hour
shift. He added that the job board is able
to help applicants get licenses that would
allow them to drive taxis. Because the cars
are constantly on the road, drivers easily
can chose Shabbat- and Yom-Tov-friendly
schedules.
For information email the Job Board at
jobsco@ou.org, call (212) 563-4000, or go
to www.oujobs.org.
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KEEPING THE FAITH
For all
these sins
W
e are at the beginning of the season
of reflection and repentance. Each
of us has the task of examining our
behavior and considering how we
can be better people next year.
Our prayers, for the most part, are couched
in the plural (we have sinned), but the focus
almost exclusively is on us as individuals.
Little or no attention is paid to our behavior as
a community, as a people, as a nation, all of which
are part of the definition of Jew.
Yet attention should be paid. In Israel, in Juda-
ism, the individual is the community and the com-
munity is the individual. When one of us breaks
the covenant, we all break the covenant. When
we all break the covenant, each of us individually
breaks the covenant. The community is the sum
of its parts, yet each part is equal to the whole.
This duality too often gets lost during the High
Holy Days. This is unfortunate, because there is
much we need to know
about our plural self,
meaning our commu-
nal behavior.
Arguably the most
important self-exam-
i nati on text i s the
Great Confessi onal
that is recited eight
times on Yom Kippur,
and twice in the after-
noon service immedi-
ately before it begins.
Known commonly as
Al Chet, it offers an entry point to examine com-
munal sins. Here are a select few of that litany.
For the sin we have sinned against You [God]
by rejecting responsibility.
Example 1: It is the communitys responsibility,
not just that of the parents, to educate our chil-
dren in what being Jewish is all about, in addi-
tion to preparing them for going out into the
world. Tuition in our day schools and yeshivot are
beyond affordability for many people. Some fami-
lies have taken out second and even third mort-
gages they can ill afford to cover the costs. As a
community, we have done much too little to make
Jewish education available to anyone who wants it.
For many families, the only viable option is
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Evils bar
mitzvah
year
T
his is a very complicated time
of year.
It is the start of a new Jew-
ish year, and of the school
year (as we note below). Its when the
seasons turn, when the days, which have
been getting gradually shorter for more
than two months, seem to end dramati-
cally and before their time. Its when the
soft light of summer harshens. Its Elul.
Some of those cycles are natural, some
historic, some cultural, but all predate
us, most by millennia. (The school calen-
dar is new, relatively speaking.)
But as we celebrate cyclical time, the
world rushes on, straight ahead, linear
as possible, sort of like a runaway train,
gathering speed, going faster and faster
this year, more than ever, it seems as if
its either going to jump the tracks or col-
lide with something on them. Either way,
disaster seems inevitable. This has been
a very bad year.
And for the last 13 years, this also is
the time of year when we mark our com-
munal loss of innocence. September 11,
2001, the time when evil took a form that
almost none of us could imagine, was a
turning point for our understanding of
the world.
We have been living in that world, full
of terrorists and fundamentalists waving
swords, throwing bombs, and spewing
hate, ever since.
Our Jewish cycle, though, talks and
even sings to us about returning, about
forgiveness and the love that is on the
other side of pain.
This photograph, taken on Septem-
ber 12, 2001 exactly 13 years ago
is of a hand-drawn sign taped to the
fountain at the top of a flight of stone
stairs on Riverside Drive and 100th
Street in Manhattan. The fountain
is part of a firemans memorial, soft
stone sculpted in the 1920s, with much
of its sharp detail already lost to time,
hastened by pollution. Every year, fire-
fighters from around the country join
there, in neat uniforms, standing at
tight silent attention, as the names of
their peers dead on 9/11 are read.
That day, 13 years ago, the memorial
was full of taped signs asking for sightings
of the vaporized. Bouquets lay in great
heaps. And this sign, with the words of
Rav Nachman of Breslov, was taped in
the middle. Kol haolam kulo, gesher
tsar meod, they read. All the world is
a bridge. Veha ikar and the point
lo lfachad clal. Do not be afraid. Do not
be afraid at all.
That is hard to do. The world right
now is a terrifying place. But we will
try not to fear it, because to fear is
to freeze. Instead, we will accept the
invitation posed to us by the High Holi-
days, we will be enlivened by the fresh-
ness in the fall air, we will glory in the
light that ends sooner but turns to gold
before it goes, and we will try our best
not to be afraid. JP
Back to
school
T
he new year has begun.
Not the new Jewish year
we dont yet have to start
writing 5775 on our checks
but the school year.
More than any other of our new years
the calendar year, our companys or
organizations fiscal year, the Mishnaic
fiscal years for animal or trees, even
than Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of a
school year marks a moment of radical
change.
One day, students and teachers and
their families are on summer vacation,
which Hebrew more evocatively calls
hachofesh hagadol, the long freedom.
The next, their lives are again structured
by demands of school: buses and car
pools, pencils and notebooks, smart-
boards and iPads, homework and pro-
crastination. And in school: assignments,
tests, books to read, sums to calculate.
A structure for their learning and their
teaching.
It is, if you think about it, an amazing
endeavor.
The rhythms of school do not directly
include all of us, other than the return
of the herds of yellow buses that have
returned to our shaded streets.
For some of the younger adults, now
18 or 22 or 26, this fall marks the shock-
ing realization that they are no longer
in the world they toddled into all those
years ago, no longer bound by the school
day or freed by the promise that there is
a right answer to every question.
Congratulations. Welcome to adult-
hood, where the first few years is an edu-
cation in and of itself.
But for the rest of us?
Have we kept alive the excitement of
learning, the surprise of discovery, the
challenge of study? Maybe its time to
renew our inner child, and join in an
educational experience, whether formal
or informal.
Food for thought come Rosh Hasha-
nah. -LY
Shammai
Engelmayer
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal
Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of
North Bergen.
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KEEPING THE FAITH
For all
these sins
W
e are at the beginning of the season
of reflection and repentance. Each
of us has the task of examining our
behavior and considering how we
can be better people next year.
Our prayers, for the most part, are couched
in the plural (we have sinned), but the focus
almost exclusively is on us as individuals.
Little or no attention is paid to our behavior as
a community, as a people, as a nation, all of which
are part of the definition of Jew.
Yet attention should be paid. In Israel, in Juda-
ism, the individual is the community and the com-
munity is the individual. When one of us breaks
the covenant, we all break the covenant. When
we all break the covenant, each of us individually
breaks the covenant. The community is the sum
of its parts, yet each part is equal to the whole.
This duality too often gets lost during the High
Holy Days. This is unfortunate, because there is
much we need to know
about our plural self,
meaning our commu-
nal behavior.
Arguably the most
important self-exam-
i nati on text i s the
Great Confessi onal
that is recited eight
times on Yom Kippur,
and twice in the after-
noon service immedi-
ately before it begins.
Known commonly as
Al Chet, it offers an entry point to examine com-
munal sins. Here are a select few of that litany.
For the sin we have sinned against You [God]
by rejecting responsibility.
Example 1: It is the communitys responsibility,
not just that of the parents, to educate our chil-
dren in what being Jewish is all about, in addi-
tion to preparing them for going out into the
world. Tuition in our day schools and yeshivot are
beyond affordability for many people. Some fami-
lies have taken out second and even third mort-
gages they can ill afford to cover the costs. As a
community, we have done much too little to make
Jewish education available to anyone who wants it.
For many families, the only viable option is
Opinion
afterschool programs at local synagogues. Yet too
many synagogues regard such programs as come-
ons for attracting members, rather than as a sacred
task of educating children. Some synagogues
spend more money promoting their schools than
on providing those schools with the best tools and
resources available. Some have lowered their stan-
dards to attract new members, especially includ-
ing limiting the number of school hours each week
to a single short day. As a community, we have no
vehicle to address such issues.
Example 2: As Gods kingdom of priests and
holy nation, we are supposed to actively engage
in creating a better world than the one we have. As
a community, are we as engaged as we should be
in the larger community around us? Beyond that
community, do we consider Africas Ebola crisis,
say, or Ukraines troubles as being our business?
And for the sin we have sinned against You by
defaming Your Name: One way we do this is by
not lobbying for more effective food programs to
feed those people whom we now refer to euphe-
mistically as food insecure. In the United States
alone in 2013, 3.8 million households were unable
to provide adequate, nutritious food for their chil-
dren, according to a government report. At one
time or another during 2013, there were 17.5 mil-
lion food insecure homes. As a community, what
are we doing about hunger in our own back yard,
much less around the world, where the problem
is even worse?
In the Grace After Meals, we praise God for
feeding all those who need to be fed. In one of the
key psalms of the morning and afternoon service,
we declare, You open your hand and satisfy the
needs of all living creatures.
The only problem is that God does so through us.
He made us His agents. Says Deuteronomy 14:29,
[t]hat they may eat and be satisfied, in order
that the Lord your God will bless you. If there
are hungry people in the world, God is defamed
through our lack of action and concern.
This is but one example of how we cause Gods
Name to be defamed.
Included in the litany are the sins of breach of
trust, and callousness, which, for example, we
as a community commit by ignoring the suffering
of others, in whatever form that suffering takes.
Do we even know the different kinds of suffering
going on right now in this world? Do we even care
to know? Do we even have a vehicle for keeping us
informed, much less in involving us in efforts to
alleviate suffering?
Then there is the sin we have sinned against
You by groundless hatred. Within our own com-
munity, there are segments in all streams who
want nothing to do with their fellow Jews. Even
as we dislike it when people refer to the Jews,
we do the same thing to others. All Christians are
anti-Semites. All Muslims are terrorists. All gays
are potential pedophiles.
Are we even fully cognizant of and involved in
stemming the growing tide of anti-Semitism in
France and the rest of Europe, much less all vari-
eties of group hatred around the world?
As individuals, we have our work cut out for us
over the next few weeks. As a community, we also
have a lot of work to do.
For all of these sins, O God of forgiveness, for-
give us, pardon us, atone for us.
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The many faces of Zionism
Z
ionism is many things to many people.
For some, it is the great hope of the Jewish people
and the guarantor of our survival. For others, includ-
ing a noticeable number of Jews, it is the ruination of
Jewish values and a form of racism, despite the U.N.s long-over-
due rejection of that equation in 1991. On one hand, for some
Jews and Christian supporters it is a dream become reality. On
the other hand, there are Jews and Christiansat least one group
whose church organization voted to boycott some American
companies doing business with Israelwho view Zionism as a
nightmare composed of missed opportunities and worse. Why
such disparate views about what appears to be a single ideology?
Writ large, classical Zionism was believed by all Zionists to
be the national movement for the return of Jewry to its home-
land and for the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. But Zion-
ism never was a single ideology. There was socialist Zionism
and revisionist Zionism, secular Zionism and religious Zionism.
There was the Zionism that foresaw the disappearance of the
diaspora and the Zionism that held Israel to be the center of the
creation of a Jewish-Hebraic culture that would inform diaspora
Jewish life and preserve it for generations to come.
Each of these Zionisms stood for certain principles and ide-
ologies, and do till this day. Indeed, the ideological positions
staked out by the various Zionisms
are so central to them that often
reality has little say in how they
envision building Israels future. To
complicate matters further, each of
these Zionisms, despite clear ideo-
logical platforms, has violated its
own tenets.
Today the dominant Zionist ide-
ology, with government backing
and power in the political sphere, is
a form of revisionist Zionism. Basi-
cally, it is trying to revise Israels
1948 and subsequent 1967 borders
of Israel. This is why this govern-
ment and the earlier ones, going back to Begin, have supported
the growth of settlements as a means of recovering the biblical
borders of Israel.
But wait: did all this start with Begin? Absolutely not. The
socialist, supposedly universalist, peace-loving Labor party,
which held power from the States beginning until 1977, began
the settlement program with the Allon plan. That plan, if exe-
cuted, simply would have annexed the Jordan Valley and other
areas of the West Bank in the name of Israeli security.
So, the supposedly peacenik, left-wing Labor had its own
revisionist notions and acted on them. It has lived to rue them,
because its voice is overwhelmingly silenced in the arena of
todays Israeli politics. Hypocrisy did not pay off.
So Israel now lives in a revisionist Zionist mode, and has since
1977, when Menachem Begin and his revisionist Zionist party,
Herut, came to power. This has promoted settlement of what
revisionists call Judaea and Samaria, names suffused with bibli-
cal associations. Many revisionists are secular, so their claims
to biblical Israel supposedly are based on history. I say sup-
posedly because, according to I Kings 9:11, none other than
King Solomon gave his Lebanese partner in the building of the
Temple, King Hiram the Tyrian, 20 cities in the Galilee to reward
his neighborly cooperation.
Other revisionists, especially settlers, are religious. Some
are messianists, who believe that reclaiming the whole Land
of Israel would bring the yearned-for redeemer. At least that
group never claimed to favor a two-state solution. Most of the
revisionist Zionist governments have, however; either because
they meant it or because it was a useful way to placate the world
community, which overwhelmingly regards the settlements and
the occupation of what could become Palestine as illegal, or at
least illegitimate. For whatever reason, over and over again revi-
sionist Likud governments have claimed to agree to a two-state
solution. That agreement, as well as the return of Gaza to Pales-
tinian control, were violations of their ideologies. (Begins return
of the Sinai was ideologically pure. Sinai was not part of biblical
Eretz Yisrael.) But revisionist Zionism in its present incarnation,
led by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Knesset members Bennett
and Lieberman, seems to be correcting its ideological errors.
Take, for instance, this months annexation of 1000 acres of
land for the construction of Israeli settlements. Much of that
land, in what is a densely Palestinian populated area, is clearly
Palestinian-owned, but has been expropriated. That is good ide-
ological revisionist practice. It is perfectly coherent with revi-
sionist and present-day religious Zionist-settler ideology. From
a revisionist perspective, it properly punishes the Palestinians
for the kidnapping of the three teenagers whose safe return we
prayed for, an event that ignited the tinder that became Opera-
tion Protective Shield.
By carrying out these actions, revisionist ideology trumps
realpolitik. The parties responsible for them hold that Israel
need not worry about world opinion. Nor do they seem to care
whether this behavior will condemn Israeli young men and
reservists to eternal war, with all the calamities it brings down
on Israeli families. This is the same sort of messianism that led
liberal Labor and its supporters down the road to where Israel
is today. From my vantage point, the mashiach talk of my reli-
gious Zionist friends is particularly dangerous. According to
them, there is no other way out of the impossible situation in
which Israel finds itself today; therefore, the redeemer must be
on his way. As I see it, the messiah is the deus ex machina when
hope runs out. Others who dont believe in the messiahs return
as a solution to Israels continued security problems are either
desolate or prepared to battle it out to the end, whatever the
end is.
There is a realistic solution that has never truly been tried.
Its the same one thats been on the table since Oslo: the two-
state solution. True, Yasser Arafat refused the Clinton-Barak
offer, which was almost too good to resist. That was another
fulfillment of Goldas statement, The Palestinians never miss
an opportunity to miss an opportunity. But now it is Bibi and
company who, with a little tit-for-tat played by Abu Mazen and
crew, forfeit peace for impossible goals. Why else do they hold
onto their resistance to the obvious solution separating these
two peoples, who mix like oil and water?
First, as has been mentioned above, a purist revisionist ideol-
ogy has prevailed that is oblivious to realism. What will Israel be
when it becomes the master of 3.3 million more Arabs who will
have to be subdued or given citizenship? If the former, Israel will
be the apartheid state many call it today. If it turns the Palestin-
ians into Israeli Arabs with a vote, Israel will become another
Arab state a few years later.
Second, there is a reasonable fear that a Palestinian state
in the West Bank and Gaza could become Hamastan. If that
would happen, every major city and small community in
Israel could come under the kind of fire we witnessed this
summer. This fear holds back serious efforts toward a settle-
ment of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This concern shows
a shameful, un-Zionist lack of confidence in the strongest
Rabbi Dr.
Michael
Chernick
Professor Michael Chernick holds the Deutsch Family Chair in
Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York; his area of
expertise is the Talmud. Professor Chernick received his doctorate
from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic ordination
from R. Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, both affiliates of
Yeshiva University. He has written extensively about Jewish law
and lore and has lectured on these topics in the United States,
Europe, and Israel. SEE ZIONISM PAGE 26
Opinion
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army in the Middle East, a kind of golus
mentality that still seems to grip Israeli
Jewry despite the fact that Zionism gave
Jews the power to determine their own fate.
Failure to give the two-state solution a
chance will put all Zionisms in the Land
of Israel to a test of Israeli sumud. Sumud
is an Arabic word describing a mixture
of patience and obstinacy, especially as
it relates to holding onto land. If Israel is
condemned to eternal war by its past and
present policies, policies espoused by the
pasts left and the presents right, its people
better have the same or better sumud than
the Palestinians for whom this is a national
principle.
The reality is that we have been a Disa-
pora people longer than we have been a
people whose majority population is in
the State of Israel. We have lived in many
places, and many Israelis have left the place
of their birth and made their homes else-
where, for any of a variety of reasons. Does
the present population of Medinat Yisrael
have the sumud to live the lives they seem
to have to live every two to four years when
the weeds have to be cut again?
There is yet another Zionism, the one that
is least likely to reemerge but might pro-
vide the most hope. That is Martin Bubers
Zionism. That Zionism recognized the need
for a Jewish state but did not blind itself
to a pre-existent Arab presence. Bubers
answer was coexistence, something that was
thwarted in many ways by both Arabs and
Jews in Mandate Palestine, with disastrous
consequences for the future of both peoples.
It was a Zionism that stood for justice and
equality for both Jews and for the indweller
in your midst, just as it sought for Israel
to be a seeker of peace even when others
sought enmity. It is that Zionism that has
a chance of reclaiming those of our youth
in the diaspora who are disenchanted with
Israel and steady those adult Jews who are
presently wavering in their support for the
State. And it is that Zionism that holds the
greatest prospect of making Israel a Jewish
state, not in terms of majority demography
alone, which ultimately is meaningless, but
in terms of the best values that Judaism
espouses.
As for those Zionists who base their
Zionism on nationalist jingoism, rac-
ism, hatred of the Other (even the Jew-
ish Other with whom they disagree), and
anti-democratic behavior: you besmirch the
good name of a movement that has been
one of the most significant preservatives of
the Jewish people since the 19th century.
It is the season of penitence. Consider
doing teshuvah.
Zionism
FROM PAGE 25
Get your facts first
The need for halachic divorce
D
o not be misled. Halachic
divorce IS necessary.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, who
is the chief rabbi of Efrat,
Israel, chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, and
erstwhile rabbi of Manhattans Lincoln
Square Synagogue, recently published an
article called When is Halachic Divorce
Necessary?
Rabbi Riskin discusses the halachic
stance popularized by Rabbi Moshe Fein-
stein with apparent approval. Known to
many as Reb Moshe, Rabbi Feinstein
was the author of the collection of rab-
binic responsa called Igrot Moshe.
Rabbi Riskin summarizes: a get [reli-
gious divorce] is a necessity only for a hal-
achic marriage: the very concept of mar-
riage is unique to the halachic context and
therefore the halachic obligation of a get
applies only within the unique rubric of a
halachic marriage.
Rabbi Riskin asserts that Reb Moshes
path-breaking ruling has been widely
accepted, and that this has greatly min-
imized the problem of mamzerut.
Mamzerut is akin to but not identical
with the Western concept of bastardy
or illegitimacy. A mamzer is a child born
of an incestuous or adulterous union, not
one merely born out of wedlock. A civilly
divorced woman who remarries without
benefit of a Jewish religious divorce the
get is (often unbeknownst to her, and
without malice or emotional betrayal)
engaged in an adulterous relationship,
as she remains halachically married to
her ex-husband. A child born of this sub-
sequent, putative marriage (or even of a
non-marital liaison) is a mamzer, tradition-
ally debarred from marrying legitimate
Jews. Rabbi Feinsteins ruling, Rabbi Riskin
asserts, frees the overwhelming major-
ity of those offspring from any stigma or
taint.
A worthy and commendable objective
if only that were the sole purpose and
consequence of the Fein-
stein approach. It is not. It is,
rather, a dangerous, decep-
tive, and insidiously divi-
sive halachic stance. Rabbi
Feinstein famously and stri-
dently excludes from the cat-
egory of halachic marriage
those solemnized by non-Orthodox rab-
bis. In one responsum included in Igrot
Moshe, for example (Even Ha-Ezer I:76),
Reb Moshe rules that a woman married
in a Reform synagogue needs no get in
order to remarry, because her first union
did not rise to the level of true marriage.
Any doubt that his halachic conclusion
is aimed squarely at delegitimizing non-
Orthodox rabbis (and movements and
institutions) is belied by Rabbi Feinsteins
rhetoric. Though writing in Hebrew, he
simply transliterates the term Reform
Rabbi into Hebrew characters as if it
were impossible to express such a con-
cept in the Holy Tongue itself. Rav
the Hebrew term for rabbi is not to be
applied to non-Orthodox religious leaders,
in Reb Moshes view. Only the foreign Eng-
lish term will do.
Ironically, the stance articulated in
Igrot Moshe and tacitly applauded by
Rabbi Riskin finds telling historic reso-
nance in the infamous 1913 South Afri-
can Supreme Court ruling by Justice Mal-
colm Searle, so vigorously and effectively
protested by Mahatma Gandhi. Searle
declared that only Christian marriages had
legal standing under South African law.
Joseph Lelyvelds 2011 biography of Gan-
dhi, Great Soul, explains: This meant
all Indian wives, except a small number
of Indian Christians, were living out of
wedlock, and all their children were ille-
gitimate in the eyes of their adopted coun-
try. In the 1982 movie Gandhi, directed
by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben
Kingsley, the Mahatmas objections to the
law were phrased more sharply. (I have
been unable firmly to estab-
lish the historicity of the lan-
guage.) Addressing a large
gathering of Hindu and Mus-
lim men, Gandhi is depicted
as saying: Under this act
our wives and mothers are
whores. And every man here
is a bastard.
An halachic stance that
denies the inviolable dignity
of marriage to Jewish couples
joined in matrimony by any-
one other than officiants (and under con-
ditions) fitting the narrow parameters Reb
Moshe recognized as Orthodox has the
same effect. The unions countless Jews
have considered Kiddushin sanctified
marriages are but illicit liaisons, and our
children are born out of wedlock.
Cynically claiming to decrease the num-
ber of mamzerim by increasing the num-
ber of bastards is particularly craven.
Rabbi Riskin also writes: The fewer
women who require religious divorces
mean fewer cases of women chained to
impossible marital situations. Jewish
women (and men) are ill-served by con-
signing them to second-class, common-
law relationships, devoid of religious legit-
imacy and ostensibly lacking in sanctity.
To redress the plight of the agunah (the
chained woman unable to secure a get
from a recalcitrant or missing husband)
by routinely denying the sanctity of the
majority of Jewish marriages (or by deny-
ing that they are, in fact, valid marriages
at all) is an abdication of rabbinic respon-
sibility. It is an offensive portrayal of Jew-
ish family law as being inadequate to the
needs of contemporary Jews.
Divorce is no sin in Jewish law, culture,
and theology. The breakdown of a loving
marriage is tragic; the divorce process
itself with the get properly at its core
is a mitzvah, and reflective of the compas-
sionate humanity inherent in Jewish tradi-
tion. In already tragic circumstances, it is
spiritually harmful and insensitive for hala-
chic decisors to tell divorcing Jews that not
merely did their marriage fail, but in fact
they actually failed to establish a marriage
in the first place, despite it was precisely
such a sanctified state they sought in good
faith.
The scandalous stigma and social con-
sequences of both non-marital unions and
bastardy have been significantly dimin-
ished in American culture. These reframed
cultural mores ought not be embraced or
exploited and certainly not applauded
as the basis for sweeping halachic
legislation.
Consider the (presumably) unintended
consequences of Reb Moshes ruling. If a
non-halachic marriage requires no get
if it is not, in fact, a marriage does infi-
delity within such a relationship fall short
of the halachic category of adultery? Are
extramarital affairs inculpable, less than
sinful, in fact permissible matters of indi-
vidual choice? Do they enjoy rabbinic
sanction? Should traditional couples dis-
pense with other halachic steps aimed at
preventing agunot such as pre-nuptial
agreements and ketubot explicitly provid-
ing contingencies for the dissolution of
marriage and simply assure that their
weddings are halachically compromised
because they have worked with unquali-
fied officiants, unworthy witnesses, and
liturgies that depart from the normative
tradition? Is choosing long-term domes-
tic partnership unsanctified by any form
of wedding ceremony a virtue to be com-
mended as a preventive measure effective
in reducing the number of agunot?
No.
To his credit, Rabbi Riskin also briefly
cites the contrary opinion of Rabbi Yosef
Eliyahu Henkin, who required a get even
after a civil marriage, and by extension, it
is to be inferred, after a non-halachic or
non-Orthodox religious marriage, as well.
(Those interested in a full English language
analysis of this position and its implica-
tions might consult Rabbi Isaac Kleins
1938 responsum on Civil Marriage.)
The stance shared by Rabbis Henkin and
Klein and many other venerable halachic
authorities is based to a great extent (albeit
not exclusively) on two principles of Jew-
ish law. The first is a legal presumption
Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser
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I loved the article about my friend and colleague across
the aisle, Mayor Sophie Dittman Heymann (An Ameri-
can Tale, August 29). Id also like to offer my thanks to
Joanne Palmer and the Jewish Standard for writing about
older women who might be moms and grandmoms but
are still working to contribute to society. I enjoyed being
featured myself in a past Jewish Standard article (Facing
bullies, detangling Bridgegate April 25), and it is even
more fun sharing the stage with my good friend, Mayor
Sophie Heymann.
Thank you for a wonderful profile of the mayor.
Loretta Weinberg, Teaneck
(Ms. Weinberg represents District 37 in the state senate, where
she is majority leader.)
The Talmud says
Larry Yudelson lays the blame for the deaths of several
Israeli yeshiva students over past years during hikes at the
doorstep of their religious authorities (Rescuing a genera-
tion, September 5).
That he ignores those very authorities repeated warn-
ings about undertaking such hikes without adequate sup-
plies, support and precautions is unfortunate and mis-
leading. As is his dismissive, cynical assertion that Torah
students are taught that in studying the Talmud they are
learning all they need to know. In a real sense, that is
indeed true. Torah encompasses everything. But the Tal-
mud teaches that we are to take all necessary precautions
to protect our lives. And that teaching is part and parcel
of what every yeshiva student learns.
Mr. Yudelson may find it more gratifying and self-vali-
dating to assign guilt to charedi leaders who forbid their
students to buy cellphones with Internet access, but self-
gratification and objectivity (not to mention good will)
often clash loudly.
Rabbi Avi Shafran, Manhattan
Director of Public Affairs, Agudath Israel of America
Larry Yudelson responds:
Sadly, Rabbi Shafran does not go far enough in his Tal-
mud lesson.
Indeed, the Talmud does command us to take all neces-
sary precautions to protect our lives, but it specifically rec-
ommends that we teach our sons how to swim (Kiddushin
29a). Yet such lessons are not a universal part of the charedi
yeshiva education system. Why is that?
The Talmud is even more clear of the obligation to teach
ones sons a trade but as I wrote, the efforts by the Orthodox
rabbi who heads Israels education ministry to enforce that
Jewish ideal by requiring minimal educational standards in
charedi yeshivot are being mightily resisted.
We dont share their values
Your September 5 editorial (Calling evil by name) cor-
rectly characterized ISIS murder of Steven Sotloff as
pure evil. However, what part of human history makes
it, as you wrote, impossible to understand how such
evil can exist? We live in the shadow of the Holocaust,
Stalins Great Purge, which killed millions of his coun-
trymen, the genocidal, machete slaughter by the Rwan-
dan Hutus of 800,000 Tutsis, the annihilation by the Pol
Pot Khmer Rouge regime of millions of Cambodians, the
unspeakable tortures committed by Iraqs Saddam Hus-
sein and Ugandas Idi Amin against their countrymen, and
so many, many other atrocities.
I find it impossible to understand why so many find it
impossible to understand how such evil can exist. I find
it impossible to understand why so many seem to think
that we can tame human bestial proclivities by recogniz-
ing their legitimate grievances.
Dialogue and compromise are indeed the only path
to peace and justice when both sides share the same
values, when the goal of both sides is, indeed, peace and
justice. The grievances of mass genocidalists like ISIS, and
would-be mass genocidalists like Hamas and Iran are, how-
ever, mere pretexts for their openly stated goals to conquer
and to dominate, the same goals that have driven much of
humanity throughout history.
The fundamental and ironic flaw of progressive thinking is
that while insisting that it celebrates diversity, it in fact rejects
the possibility that other cultures have different values; it
denies that there are many nations that reject Western cul-
tures celebration of the individual right to dignity and free
choice. Hence, Secretary Kerrys description of Russias med-
dling in Ukraine as 19th century behavior. The fact is that in
the 21st century, much of the world is still engaging in such
behavior. And if Western culture does not stand up for its val-
ues, not least by refusing to tolerate intolerance and by stand-
ing with Israel, the Kurds, Tibet, and the beleaguered Middle
Eastern and Nigerian Christians, I shudder to think what 22nd
century behavior will look like.
Harry J. Reidler, Englewood
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Stop at the Red Apple
Founders daughter talks about her childhood at the Route 17 landmark
JOANNE PALMER
I
ts one of those absolute genera-
tional and geographic divides.
If you are from somewhere other
than here, or if you are below, say,
40 or so, the Red Apple Rest means noth-
ing to you.
But if you are from here, defined very
broadly, and if you are at least nudging
middle age, then even if you never actu-
ally went there, your memory will con-
jure up images of that iconic place. It was
what? A diner, sort of, or more accurately
a cafeteria, a rest stop on the way up to
the mountains. (And if you have to ask
which mountains, then never mind. Its
the Catskills, dear. Now go and play while
we grown-ups talk)
The Red Apple Rest the never-closed
oasis that drew motorists off the maca-
damed hell that was Route 17 as they made
their almost endless way to their vacations
or summer bungalows was created by
Reuben Freed, who made it his life and
loved it dearly. Elaine Freed Lindenblatt,
72, who lives in Tappan, N.Y. and is the
youngest of Mr. Freeds four children, has
written a memoir, Stop at the Red Apple,
chronicling the familys life there. Its pub-
lisher, SUNY Press, will release the book
in January.
Reuben Freed, who was born in Minsk,
Russia, in 1894, immigrated to the Lower
East Side. Entrepreneurial by instinct, he
began to work in the garment industry;
by 1920, he was well established as a coat-
maker, with his own manufacturing com-
pany. He was doing very well, Ms. Lin-
denblatt said.
And then, in 1929, the stock market
imploded and the Great Depression began.
Mr. Freed, then married to Ethel and the
father of a young child, soon lost his busi-
ness. He was left with nothing, according
to his daughter.
In 1930, Mr. Freed went for a ride with
his cousin, who had a car; the cousin sold
auto supplies. One of the cousins custom-
ers told the men that he was building a
restaurant and was looking for someone
to run it. The cousin said Wow! and
pointed to my father, who said What? The
only experience hed had with restaurants
was eating in them, Ms. Lindenblatt said.
But not having any better prospects, he
just took a leap of insanity, and he leased
the place, she said. The family was living
in Brooklyn, but they moved to South-
fields, a tiny town in Orange County, four
miles from the Rockland border and just
north of Tuxedo. In 1931, Reuben Freed
opened the Red Apple Rest.
At first, it struggled at lot, Ms. Linden-
blatt said. But my dad was an amazing
person.
He was a small man physically, socially
reticent, quiet, laid back, happy
just sitting by himself reading a
newspaper. But in business,
he had courage and tenacity.
He took foolhardy risks in
those early years. But they
were well thought-out. He
did things that he thought
An early publicity shot of the Red Apple Rest; a scene from its last night.
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Nothing on this menu is more than $1. A
cheese omelet, with fries and toast, is 65 cents.
Ethel and Reuben Freed share a rare night out.
Elaine and her father, Reuben, pose in
front of the big Red Apple sign.
Ethel and Reuben Freed with their two older children.
would work and for the most part, they
did.
He realized that his location was ideal
because it was both on the way up to the
Catskills the Jewish Riviera and half-
way between New York City and Albany.
He had at least two natural constituencies:
vacationers and bus passengers on their
way to the state capital. He got a contract
with Greyhound Bus Lines to stop there,
Ms. Lindenblatt said. People traveled by
bus a lot. When he got that contract, it
gave him a steady stream of clients.
In 1941, the second of Mr. Freeds two
five-year leases expired. My father had
the foresight to insert a clause giving him
the option to buy, his daughter said.
The landlord regretted having allowed
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couldnt really handle the kind of
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the line seems counterintuitive, at
least all these decades later. Every
customer had to have a ticket (or
a check the words were synony-
mous). You used to come in and
take a check, and it was punched
by the counterman when you
ordered, she said. After you ate,
you would hand in your check, pay,
and leave if the system worked
smoothly. Often it didnt. The sys-
tem opened up a Pandoras box of
terrible things.
The tickets were handed out by
the newest, rawest employees.
That was the low mans job, stand-
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had to have a check, and most peo-
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were a big eater and were upgraded
to another one, which could han-
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up only to $1.45. Punching tickets
slowed down the line; sometimes
they were punched incorrectly,
and sometimes patrons tried to lose
their tickets and replace them with
other, less punched ones.
In the late 1950s, the New York
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cost the Red Apple some business
and later it was one of the many
forces that killed it, but after the first
excitement for a while it was just a
blip. The Thruway gave people an
option, a way to go instead of Route
17, and a lot of them initially left to
try this new road. Once they were
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Red Apple. But a number of them
came back. There were tolls, and
the Thruway was sterile. People
returned to the place where their
memories were engrained, Ms. Lin-
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In 1960, when other people were
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He put on an addition that really
changed things. It had a lot more
seating capacity, for one thing. For
another, the system of payment was
updated so people paid for their
food before they sat down to eat.
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and siblings, worked in the Red
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too young to work, they spent all
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being about 6 years old, sitting
behind the candy counter, play-
ing with big boxes of candy. She
does not remember first hand but
remembers being told that once,
when she was 4, sitting behind the
counter, playing with boxes, mind-
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someone keep saying, Excuse
me, excuse me, and making rat-
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I personally dont remember
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primly. I was a nice little girl.
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big thrill.
I was taking cash at the register,
and also doing all the menial stuff,
and a boy who worked there asked Reuben Freed with some of his granddaughters, who seem to be experiencing a gamut of emotions.
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weekend we went to services at our local
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time, he has represented a
variety of constituencies,
beginning in the Scottish
city of Glasgow. Now his
district is a section of Brad-
ford, a heavily Muslim city
in the north of England. He
also has represented two
different political parties.
The first one was Labor, from which he
was expelled in 2003 over his inflamma-
tory comments concerning the forth-
coming war in Iraq. His next party was
the far-left Respect, an oddball coali-
tion of Islamists, Trotskyites, and anti-
war activists that Galloway himself set
up and that has remained his political
home over the last decade.
A man who craves celebrity and
attention, Galloway is rarely out of the
news, which is what accounts for his
name being recognized well beyond
the boundaries of the United Kingdom.
Typical of Galloways recent publicity
stunts was his appearance on a real-
ity TV show, wearing a red leotard and
impersonating a purring cat.
Galloway remained in the limelight
in late August, but not in the kind of
way hed normally envision. While
posing for photographs with admir-
ers on a street in west London, he was
approached and beaten by 39-year-old
Neil Masterson. By the time the police
arrested Masterson, he had left Gal-
loway with severe bruising on his face
and head and a couple of broken ribs. It
was a nasty beating, but not a fatal one,
and Galloway was discharged from the
hospital on the following day.
I will readily admit that like many
Jews, my reaction to the news was
unbridled joy, tempered by the guilty
realization that in a democracy, vio-
lence is rightly frowned upon as a
means of dealing with political oppo-
nents. However distasteful a persons
views and Galloways views are, with-
out question, highly distasteful there
are legal and constitutional channels
available to challenge them.
The problem is that Galloway never
has been forced to answer in court for
his incitement against Jews and Israel,
his shady financial dealings through
various charities like the notorious
Viva Palestina, his brazen support
for Islamist terrorist organizations like
Hamas and Hezbollah, and his fond-
ness for brutal dictators like Saddam
Hussein, Bashar al-Assad, Fidel Castro,
and Hugo Chavez. Since he has carried
on these antics with impunity, count-
less Galloway adversaries
on social media platforms
opined that the beating
had been a long time
coming.
But just how bad is
Galloway? In my mind,
nothing beats his craven
appearance before Sad-
dam Hussein in 1994,
long after the Iraqi dicta-
tor deployed chemical
weapons against both the
Iranian army and the defenseless Kurd-
ish population in the north, during
which Galloway declared, Sir, I salute
your courage, your strength, your
indefatigability.
Yet there have been several moments
almost as nauseating in the intervening
two decades. In 2006, while in Beirut,
Galloway fawned over the Hezbollah
leader Hassan Nasrallah, expressing
his wish that the terror master would
one day become president of Lebanon.
There was his 2005 election campaign
in the eastern London constituency of
Bethnal Green and Bow, during which
his supporters hounded sitting rep-
resentative Oona King, a black Jewish
woman, with anti-Semitic rhetoric.
There is Galloways insatiable appe-
tite for headlining TV shows on some of
the worlds most foul networks, includ-
ing Press TV, the Iranian government-
financed Holocaust denial outfit, and
RTV, the English-language mouthpiece
of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
And there is his habit, which drives some
observers to mirth and others to apo-
plexy, of sauntering around like a wan-
nabe dictator, a Cuban cigar fixed in his
mouth, speaking English with an Arabic-
inflected accent despite the fact that he
hails from the Scottish city of Dundee.
But it was the latest Galloway scan-
dal that probably was uppermost in
Neil Mastersons mind when he spot-
ted him and landed a series of punches
and kicks. In early August, with Isra-
els Operation Protective Edge against
Hamas in full swing, Galloway deliv-
ered a speech in Bradford in which he
declared the city to be an Israel-Free
Zone.
We dont want any Israeli services,
Galloway ranted. We dont want any
Israeli academics coming to the univer-
sity or the college. We dont even want
any Israeli tourists to come to Bradford,
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so. We reject this illegal, barbarous, sav-
age state that calls itself Israel. And you
have to do the same.
Jewish leaders rightly dubbed this
tirade as hate speech. Galloway even was
questioned by police, as there is no First
Amendment in the U.K. that protects rac-
ist or anti-Semitic invective. But as of yet,
no charges have been brought against him.
Therein lies the tragedy of the assault
on Galloway. Over the years, there have
been many opportunities to prosecute
him for unfiled paperwork relating to
his charities, for his handing over of thou-
sands of dollars in cash to Hamas leaders,
for baiting British Jews with his violently
anti-Zionist rhetoric, and for allegedly
benefiting from the U.N.s Oil for Food
scandal in Iraq. Yet Galloway has never
paid the price for his actions. Had any
of these episodes been properly inves-
tigated, its conceivable that Galloway
would be sitting in a jail cell by now.
For anyone who cares about democracy,
seeing Galloway behind bars would be a far
more satisfactory outcome than seeing him
writhing around on a London sidewalk,
cowering beneath his assailants blows.
The MPs incarceration is an outcome,
moreover, that is still worth pursuing.
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RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON From 31 in 2009 to a likely 19 in January, the
unofficial Jewish caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives is
shrinking fast.
Jewish lawmakers have traditionally been the first stop for
Jewish lobbyists seeking inroads for their issues, including
Israel, preserving the social safety net, and keeping church and
state separate. Additionally, lawmakers generally seek guidance
from colleagues most invested in an issue.
Fewer Jewish lawmakers means the community could lose
influence in areas where its voice has been preeminent.
The Jewish community is going to have to work harder, said
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Jewish community and a staffer for a Jewish lawmaker.
The 31 figure was the highest Jewish representation ever
in the House, matched only in the early 1990s. The numbers
dropped in part because of victories by the Tea Party wave of
conservative Republicans in 2010 and a spate of retirements by
veteran lawmakers elected in the 1970s and 80s.
Weve lost a lot of seniority, said the congressional staffer
who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the
issue, noting in particular the retirement this year of Rep. Henry
Waxman (D-Calif.), the senior Democrat on the Energy Commit-
tee, elected in 1974 and the dean of the unofficial Jewish caucus.
The lower profile of Jewish lawmakers is seen as well in the
context of shifts in how Democrats traditionally the redoubt of
Jewish voters are treating Israel. These have been exacerbated
by tensions between the administrations of President Obama
and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
You saw that article in the New Yorker
that said Bibi has a Republican view of the
world, one Jewish Democratic insider
said, referring to a recent story on shifting
perceptions of the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby
that roiled the professional Jewish commu-
nity in Washington.
That resonated, said the insider, who
also spoke anonymously because of the
sensitivity of the issue.
But Jewish lawmakers likely to be re-
elected said that a smaller Jewish caucus
should not be cause for alarm.
Jewish representation is still strong in
Congress, and we are serving in positions
of influence, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), the
senior Democrat on the powerful Appro-
priations Committee, wrote in an email.
Lowey also insisted that Jewish val-
ues would continue to be represented by
House Democrats, who are pushing such
issues as access to quality education, col-
lege affordability, sensible gun safety mea-
sures to keep our communities safe, access to affordable health
care, and addressing climate change.
In addition to Lowey, Jewish leaders in the House include
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the senior Democrat on the For-
eign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.),
the senior Democrat on the tax-writing Ways and Means
Committee.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said that 19 members
4 percent of the House was still about twice the
estimated Jewish representation in the population. In
addition, Jews have constituted 10 percent of the Sen-
ate, a proportion not likely to shift after the midterms
in November.
We still, compared to other religious and ethnic
minorities, have far beyond our percentage in the pop-
ulation, she said in an interview.
Waxman said Jews in Congress, in both parties, made
valuable contributions both on their communitys
behalf and to the country.
For the most part, Jewish members in Congress have
lived up to what Hillel had to say when he said that If I
am not for myself, who will be for me, and if I am not for
others, who am I? he said.
We care about issues of particular Jewish concern
such as Israel, anti-Semitism, our Jewish brethren in
other countries, the fight for Soviet Jews to be able to
emigrate to Israel or anywhere else. But there are other
issues I consider Jewish issues as well, which is to fight
for a more just society for everyone to succeed to the
extent their abilities will take them, that every child
should have health care and education and not have
impediments such as an inability to move from one class
to the other.
Other leaders who have left the stage in recent years
include Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the House majority
leader felled by a Tea Party-associated challenger in a
primary earlier this year and the sole Jewish Republi-
can in Congress; Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the Holo-
caust survivor who was the bodys pre-eminent voice on
human rights, who died in 2008; Rep. Howard Berman
(D-Calif.), the one-time chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee who lost an election in 2012; and Rep. Gary
Ackerman (D-N.Y.), who was the top Democrat on the
Middle East subcommittee until he retired in 2012.
A measure of the shrinking caucus is that its not at all
clear yet which member will succeed Waxman in con-
vening occasional informal meetings of Jewish mem-
bers, according to congressional insiders.
A number of younger Jewish members are rising
through the ranks Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) succeeded
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Ackerman in helming Democrats on the Middle East
subcommittee.
We need to encourage more Jews to run, Schakowsky
acknowledged.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), one of the lead Israel cham-
pions in the House, said that support for Israel was undimin-
ished. He noted the overwhelming vote last month to add $225
million to existing funding for Iron Dome, the anti-missile sys-
tem that protected Israelis during the recent Israel-Hamas war
in the Gaza Strip.
Look at the Iron Dome vote, he said. Four Republicans
and four Democrats voted against. Support for Israel is at a
very high level.
Nonetheless, pro-Israel groups have noted the tendency
among Democrats in particular and Jewish Democrats
among them to criticize Israel in tougher tones than was
imaginable a decade ago.
During the recent Gaza war, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who
is Jewish, told MSNBC, I fail to see what an Israeli incursion
into Gaza, how thats going to solve the long-term problem.
Gaza is itself a problem and the Palestinians are essentially
quarantined there; thats the polite word.
In that July 26 broadcast, he called the civilian deaths in
Gaza a tragedy of enormous proportions.
Even among Jewish lawmakers not known for challenging
Israel directly, there has been a change in tone. Last week,
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) met with Yair Lapid, the Israeli
finance minister who has been critical of Netanyahus recent
settlement expansion bid. On Twitter, he then aligned himself
with Lapid and by implication Obama.
Agree w/Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid on need to
return to negotiations & being against any swift changes in
the West Bank right now, Nadler tweeted.
In an interview, Yarmuth said that support for Israel
including his own was unassailable but more nuanced, in
part because of support for members by J Street, the Jewish
lobbying group that forcefully backs U.S. involvement in bring-
ing about a two-state solution.
American Jewry has become more nuanced in its opinions
on the Middle East with regards to opinions on Israel and the
Palestinians, Yarmuth said. J Street reflects that diversity.
How best to pitch Israel to liberals and Democrats has
been the focus of pro-Israel groups in recent months. Most
recently, Frank Luntz, a Republican political consultant and
pollster who has worked with centrist pro-Israel groups, last
week addressed a monthly meeting of Jewish professionals
and noted with alarm what other pollsters have found: Israel
is hemorrhaging support among traditional Democratic con-
stituencies, including women and minorities.
In a Powerpoint presentation obtained by JTA, Luntz, who
is famous for shaping the language that brought Republi-
cans to congressional power in 1994, suggested progressive-
friendly phrases when making Israels case. Among words
to use, he suggested mutual understanding and mutual
respect. Among words to lose, he derided Israel is not
stalling and Peace takes two.
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), another lawmaker endorsed
by J Street, said the long-range view on Israel among Jewish
lawmakers was the same, regardless of whether they were
more ideologically aligned with AIPAC or J Street.
If Jewish members are divided, he said, it is over different
ideas over how to make Israel viable for eternity.
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Playing not Jewish
How reporters in Muslim lands hide their identity
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Dont bring it up.
If it comes up, change the subject. If
that doesnt work, consider an outright
denial.
Those are some of the strategies Jewish
reporters working in the Arab and Muslim
Middle East use to conceal their religious
heritage.
The dangers facing Jewish journalists
in the region became evident this week
after the beheading of a dual American-
Israeli citizen, Steven Sotloff, by the jihad-
ist group Islamic State, or ISIS.
Its not known whether ISIS knew that
Sotloff was Jewish. Colleagues believe that
his 2013 kidnapping by ISIS-affiliated ter-
rorists in Syria was one of opportunity,
not a deliberate targeting. James Foley,
another journalist kidnapped by ISIS and
beheaded by the terror group last month,
was Catholic.
But Sotloff s family in South Florida,
his friends, and his colleagues indeed
much of the journalistic community
went to lengths to conceal his familys
deep involvement in the Jewish commu-
nity and his Israeli citizenship. They did
so in order not to draw his captors atten-
tion to a factor that may have exacerbated
his ordeal. JTA did not report on his cap-
tivity for the same reason.
The captors of Daniel Pearl, a Wall
Street Journal correspondent kidnapped
and beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan
in 2002, made a point of his Jewishness.
In the video showing his execution, they
included Pearl saying My father is Jew-
ish, my mother is Jewish. I am a Jew
among his final words.
We send our deepest condolences to
the family of Steven Sotloff, Pearls par-
ents, Judea and Ruth, wrote in a state-
ment. We know too well the pain of
such horrific loss. Once again the world
has seen the horror of terrorism in action.
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Society of Professional Journalists, attends a candlelight vigil held for journalist
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As ethnic and sectarian origins loom large in every
encounter, keeping Sotloff s Jewish identity under wraps
made sense, said Janine Zacharia, who has reported in the
region for the Washington Post.
For me, the first question whenever I met anyone in
the Arab world was where are you from, and they werent
asking whether it was the United States or Canada it was
are you a Muslim or a Jew? said Zacharia, who was based
in Jerusalem for the Post from 2009 until 2011 and who
now lectures at Stanford University.
I would say, Im from New York or D.C., and if they
persisted, I would say My grandfather is from Greece,
which is true. I didnt want to say what my religion was,
she said.
Another Jerusalem-based correspondent who asked not
to be named because she is still reporting throughout the
region said she drew on the experiences of extended fam-
ily who are Christian to pretend she was as well.
You hear it in conversation. Youre not a Jew, are you?
said this correspondent, who knew Sotloff. She said it
was especially pronounced in Libya during the overthrow
of Moammar Gadhafi there in 2011. There was so much
indoctrination against Jews, but they didnt know Jews.
Suspicion of Jews is not straightforward, correspondents
said. Often it is wrapped into other issues for instance,
being based at Jerusalem, which hundreds of foreign jour-
nalists are. Many governments in the region tend to ban
entry to correspondents, regardless of religious heritage,
who are based in Israel.
When they are allowed in, Jerusalem correspondents
traveling to Arab countries go to lengths to cover up any
Israel ties: ripping tags out of clothes, leaving Israeli cash
with trusted friends in transit cities, shutting down social
media accounts.
Its not just an Israel address that can raise mistrust. First
impressions in the region often take into account a per-
sons background and presumed loyalties.
Aaron Schachter, who was based in Lebanon and Jeru-
salem for the BBC in the last decade, said that in Leba-
non, asking about your background was a natural opening
conversational gambit. But when the answer was Jew-
ish, he said, there was a patina of suspicion that he called
creepy.
In Lebanon it was slightly threatening because every-
one pays attention to what you are Sunni, Shia and
its not unusual for someone to call attention to it, but at
a point its vaguely threatening for Jews, said Schachter,
now an assignment editor for the World, a Public Radio
International program.
I know what you are, he recalled an interlocutor affili-
ated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based group that repeat-
edly waged war with Israel, as saying. The man drew the
conclusion, correctly, that Schachter was Jewish from his
first name.
I know theyre going to try to figure out who you are,
whether a Maronite Christian or Orthodox Christian,
Schachter said. But when you have someone say I know
what you are, what is the purpose of that in the course of
the conversation were having?
One thing journalists quickly learn is that the Jewish
tells in the West dont mean much in the Middle East.
Names that are obviously Jewish to Westerners do not seem
so in the region, and stereotypical Jewish looks among
Westerners are indistinguishable from the Mediterranean
and Middle Eastern features that are common throughout
the Middle East.
My name might have been Miriam Leah Goldbergstein,
and I wouldnt have worried, said Lisa Goldman, who
reported for various outlets in Lebanon and then was in in
Cairo during the Arab Spring in 2011.
A non-Jewish Baghdad correspondent for a major U.S.
outlet recalled that in 2009, she and another American
staffer were alarmed when they learned that a U.S.-
based staffer for the outlet was on his way in for a
reporting stint. From his looks and name, she said,
they immediately surmised that he was Jewish.
Stoking their alarm was the fact that local Iraqi
hires were unabashed in their anti-Jewish hostility,
at least in conversation with the non-Jewish Ameri-
can staffers, said this correspondent, who asked
not to be named in return for the chance to speak
freely.
So she and the other American devised a plan:
The incoming reporter would be met in Amman, Jor-
dan, by the local Iraqi hires and taken out for dinner
before traveling to Baghdad. Neither the incoming
reporter nor the Iraqis knew the true agenda of the
dinner, and the Iraqis were not told that the reporter
was Jewish.
Afterward, she recalled, she casually asked the
local hires for their impressions of the newcomer
would he fit in? Their reactions were universally posi-
tive; no one had guessed he was Jewish.
Its an issue, said this correspondent, who knew
Sotloff and after his kidnapping obsessively tracked
on the Internet to see whether his Jewishness was
exposed.
Theres so much conspiracy indulgence, she
said. Theres so much suspicion about spies, Israeli
spies.
Jamie Tarabay, a senior staff writer for Al Jazeera
who is not Jewish, said the anti-Jewish hostility
alarmed her during her reporting in Baghdad for a
number of major U.S. outlets.
All I know is that people who might have been
Jewish in Baghdad, you kept it quiet, you did not talk
about it, she said.
Goldman said that the educated professionals she
encountered in Lebanon and Egypt were at pains to
distinguish between Jews and Zionists.
Peoples minds are very muddled, they talk
about the people of the book, the tolerance that the
Prophet had for the Jews, but they are aware most
Jews support Israel as an identity issue, said Gold-
man, now the director of the Israel-Palestine initia-
tive at the New America Foundation, a think tank.
Goldman recalled a casual conversation she had in
her pidgin Arabic with a cab driver in Cairo in 2011,
during the uprising. The mood was festive and it
began well, she said.
Where are you from? Canada. Walla! Are you a
Christian? No Im Jewish, Goldman recounted. He
must have changed color five times and went silent.
She asked an Egyptian friend later about the
encounter and was told that years of anti-Jewish gov-
ernment propaganda had left its mark.
He was probably wondering where your horns
were, her friend told her.
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New details emerged Tuesday
about an August 1 cease-fire viola-
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agreements chief mediators
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and U.N. Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon provided Israel with
incorrect information on Hamass
intentions.
The 72-hour cease-fire, one of
11 deals violated by Hamas dur-
ing the recent Gaza conflict,
ended when Palestinian terrorists
emerged from a tunnel opening
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We asked for a written docu-
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Al-Qaeda targeting Israelis in India, authorities warn
Indian authorities are warning of the possibil-
ity of a terror attack against Israeli tourists in
India over the High Holy Days, Israels Channel
2 reported.
According to the report, Indian authorities
believe al-Qaeda terrorists will try to attack Jew-
ish and Israeli centers in Mumbai, Delhi, and
Dharamsala, among other cities.
The Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office has not
issued a travel warning. Following the report,
the Indian Interior Ministry recommended
increased security at Israeli sites in India and
advised Israelis planning on spending the next
several weeks in the country to take additional
security precautions.
The sites that Indian authorities are con-
cerned about include the Israeli embassy, con-
sulates, synagogues, Chabad houses, and Jewish
community centers. The warning comes shortly
after it was reported that al-Qaeda had estab-
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Israels newest sub en route from Germany
Israels fourth submarine, the Dolphin-class INS
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A crew in Israels submarine fleet is manning
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Tanin is 270 miles off the coast of Haifa, the
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Israels INS Dakar submarine sank in 1968, for
a memorial ceremony for the Dakar crew. The
Tanin will then pull into the Haifa port, where it
will be welcomed in an official ceremony.
The anticipated arrival of the Tanin marks
the culmination of a seven-year joint submarine
project between Israel and Germany. Dolphin-
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Israel providing U.S. with satellite intelligence on ISIS
Israel is providing the United States
with satellite images of Islamic State
positions, as well as intelligence
information on individuals with
western passports who have joined
the terrorist organization, Reuters
reported.
Israeli spy satellites which fly
over Iraq and are able to detect
frequencies and angles that U.S.
satellites cannot are helping the
U.S. fill out its information and get
better battle-damage assessments
after American airstrikes on Islamic
State targets, an anonymous diplo-
mat said.
The Israelis are very good with
passenger data and with analyzing
social media in Arabic to get a bet-
ter idea of who these people are,
said the diplomat, who added that
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ish barber from Poland, a
new book on the 125-year-
old mystery claims.
Russell Edwards, author
of the book and a self-con-
fessed armchair detec-
tive, claims that Aaron
Kosminski, a 23-year-old
Polish-Jewish immigrant,
was definitely, categori-
cally, and absolutely the
man behind the grisly mur-
ders of five women in Lon-
don in 1888.
Ive got the only piece
of forensic evidence in the
whole history of the case,
Edwards said, The Guard-
ian reported. Ive spent
14 years working on it, and
we have definitively solved
the mystery of who Jack
the Ripper was.
Edwards said that a
blood-stained shawl he
bought in 2007, originally
taken from the crime scene
of one of Jack the Rippers
victims, contained DNA
evidence that eventually
led him to Kosminski, who
had been questioned by
London police during their
search for the killer.
Kosminkski and his fam-
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1881 and lived in the Mile
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admitted to several luna-
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Lebanese Christians arm themselves against jihadist threat
Christian militias have started to
arm themselves for the first time
in decades as Lebanese military
leaders urge unity in the face of the
jihadist threat.
ISIS is a cancerous tumor that
surfaced at first in parts of Iraq
and Syria and its still contained
to a certain point and this can be
removed only if we join our efforts
via an international Arab alliance,
Lebanese forces commander Samir
Geagea said Saturday, the Daily Star
reported.
In the face of the threat posed
by Islamic State, Christians from
groups such as the Free Patriotic
Movement political party are arm-
ing themselves for the first time
since the bloody Lebanese Civil War
ended in 1990, the Associated Press
reported.
Lebanon, where Christians com-
prise up to 40 percent of the popu-
lation, has been a popular destina-
tion for Christians fleeing Iraq and
Syria.
We all know that if they come,
they will slit our throats for no rea-
son, an armed villager from the
Christian town of Qaa near the
Syrian border told the Associated
Press.
Several Islamic State messages
have recently appeared on churches
in Tripoli, the Daily Star reported.
The Islamic State will break the
cross, read a message painted on
the wall of the Mar Elias Church.
Another message stated, We came
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Opinion
(pioneered by no less than the sage Hil-
lel) that a Jew, given the choice, would
not consciously choose to render his
sexual activity forbidden when it might
be deemed sanctiied. (Ein adam oseh
beilato beilat zenut.) That is to say, in
the context of civil (or for that matter,
religious) marriage, Jewish law presumes
(with binding force) that the couple will-
ingly embraces the status of Kiddushin:
sanctiied marriage, if not halachic in its
ritual solemnization, halachically bind-
ing in its effect. (See, e.g., Gittin 81AB.)
The second principle of Jewish law
animating Rabbis Klein and Henkin and
their rabbinic disciples of all religious
stripes and afiliations today is Yatza
kol mekudeshet. If there is a public per-
ception or presumption that a couple is
married, notwithstanding uncertainty
regarding their marital bona ides, and
notwithstanding the lack of legal evi-
dence or documentation of their mar-
riage, their union is accorded the status
of (at least possible) Kiddushin. They are
presumed (with binding legal force) to
be married.
How much stronger is this presump-
tion when marriage was their intention,
and they signiied that commitment by a
ceremony religious or civil and con-
tinue to live together in intimate partner-
ship: that is, as husband and wife. (See,
e.g., Gittin 88B, Even Ha-Ezer 46:1.)
Both these principles of Jewish law
apply directly and with force of partic-
ular clarity to countless Jewish couples
whose marriages Rabbi Feinstein would
demean and dismiss as non-halachic.
While arguably an accurate estimation
of some wedding ceremonies and cre-
ative, contemporary rituals joining Jew-
ish couples in marriage, non-halachic is
not properly applied to the binding and
sanctiied status of the marital bond sub-
sequently established by those progres-
sive (or in some cases ill-served) couples
by virtue of their intimate domestic
partnership. Should they, alas, choose
in time to dissolve their unions, the
legal (and moral) presumptions born of
their married life demand that they do
so not merely through civil decree, but
by securing a get a Jewish religious
divorce, properly and painstakingly
executed.
Rabbis, religious authorities, and even
divorcing parties who harbor sincere or
principled doubts about the halachic
force of a particular Jewish marriage,
should nevertheless require a get for its
dissolution. They should do so out of an
abundance of caution and in the spirit of
theological humility out of safeq
to address the possibility that they are
wrong, and that kiddushin was in fact
established, if not through the wedding,
then through wedded life. A get given in
the cautious but mistaken presumption
of kiddushin renders the couples rela-
tionship no less dissolved, and in no way
undermines lofty halachic standards for
marriage. A get omitted in the mistaken
presumption that halachic marriage
never took effect, however, leads to adul-
tery, polygamy, and illegitimacy. Rab-
binic policies and rulings that encourage
such omissions in the name of Orthodox
exclusivity do not represent path-break-
ing progress in Jewish family law; they
inflame Jewish communal inighting and
internecine hostilities.
It is my hope that Rabbi Riskin, in
many ways an eloquent voice of moder-
ation who has served the Jewish people
well and with distinction, will clarify his
own stance on this matter and call for
Jewish ritual divorce even in cases Rabbi
Feinstein might have deemed doubtful
at best.
We ind ourselves now in the closing
days of Elul the month of introspec-
tion, repentance, and reconciliation
leading to the High Holy Days. Tradition
identiies the name Elul as an acro-
nym taken from the verse in the Song
of Songs: Ani ldodi vdodi li I am
my beloveds and my beloved is mine
a verse recited under countless wed-
ding canopies. In Elul we strive to renew
our loving covenantal bond with the
Almighty. As the season of repentance
proceeds, the Jewish People and its rab-
binic leaders should also be focused on
elevating the level of sanctity in Jewish
marriage and our other loving relation-
ships not on denying marital sanctity
where it is properly to be found.
Joseph Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin
Lakes, a certiied mesader gittin (rabbinic
adjudicator of religious divorce), and
a member of the Joint Bet Din of the
Conservative movement.
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Jewish heritage trip to Spain in
July. COURTESY BARBARA BALKIN
n 2 Late last month, the
Academies at GBDS in Oakland
hosted a bubble workshop in
conjunction with Shalom Baby
of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey. Ruthie and
Ethan Kaplan enjoy the colorful
bubble artwork they created.
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n 3 NORPAC recently welcomed
House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy (R-Calif.) to a Teaneck
meeting hosted by Drs. Mort
and Esther Fridman. Dr. Ben
Chouake, NORPACs president,
chats with Mr. McCarthy. Jack
Halpern and Rabbi Steve Weil,
the Orthodox Unions executive
vice president, also were at
the meeting. COURTESY NORPAC
n 4 Students at the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth Tikvah
Hebrew School began their
Hebrew studies on Sunday.
Morah Iris Dadon taught
the K-1 class about round
challahs and honey as the
children enjoyed their sweet
snack. (201) 262-7733 or
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n 5 Students at the Glen
Rock Jewish Center Nursery
School listened as Rabbi
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on guitar. (201) 652-6624 or
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was the dissemination of the seven
universal commandments, the sheva
mitsves bnei noyekh.
So although the museums theme
most likely i s unprecedented in
Chabad houses, it is connected to the
Lubavitcher rebbe. And I believe that
this theme is very appropriate to India.
The reason that people from all over the
world and particularly from the West
flock to India for spiritual succor is
Hinduisms universal focus. God or the
Divine in Hinduism is unconnected to
any specific Indian history and is char-
acterized by an unpartitionable unity of
essence.
A few days ago, I saw the message
Hum Sab ka Bhagwan Ek on an
autorickshaw in Mumbai. It is a Hindi
phrase that can be translated in a cou-
ple of ways. One is that the God of all
religions is the same; the other is that
our God is One. Both interpretations
are appropriate and emphasize the uni-
versality of the Indian understanding
of God. Thus, answers to the nature of
the Divine are much more accessible
in Hinduism than in other traditions,
which are more characterized by prohi-
bitions on deep inquiries. Judaism, how-
ever, especially in its rabbinic form, has
developed a valuable system of laws for
the organization of society, the likes of
which is lacking in Hinduism.
Such an assertion might seem to
be ridiculous, given the existence of
numerous dharma shastras codes
of conduct that lay down the rules
for various aspects of human life, such
as commerce, food, purity, marriage,
and so on. However, these codes do
not include the intricate binding of the
divine with the mundane that you find
in the Gemara. In contrast, the talmudic
exposition involves not just the applica-
tion of laws to daily life, but more impor-
tantly, the linking of these laws with
overarching ethical principles, such as
Love your neighbor as thyself, Do not
do unto others what is hateful to you,
Uphold the rights of the orphan; defend
the cause of the widow. and others.
In addition, compared to the Jewish
system of halacha (and to a lesser extent,
Islamic Sharia), Hinduism has been a lot
less successful in developing a system
that can respond to external shocks
and that can renew itself in response to
new environmental demands. While the
seven universal commandments in Juda-
ism are separate from the 613 (and more)
commandments to Jews, the presenta-
tion of these seven commandments will
invite Hindu and Indian attention to the
importance of linking the moral organi-
zation of society with the spiritual.
By no means am I claiming that Indi-
ans or Hindus are immoral. We are
brought up to live moral lives. We are
told we should not steal, kill, or lie, that
we should care for the weak, give char-
ity, and so on and so forth. However,
the concern for the stranger, which is
so pronounced in the Jewish Bible, is a
relatively recent phenomenon in sectar-
ian India.
I believe that while India can and
does teach Jews and the world about the
Divine, Jews can teach India about the
moral and social implications of belief in
the Divine.
The seven universal commandments
in the Jewish system consist of six prohi-
bitions against inappropriate worship
of God, murder, theft, sexual immoral-
ity, blasphemy, and the eating of flesh
taken from an animal while it is still alive.
There is also a positive commandment
to maintain a system of laws to provide
justice. Here we see two commandments
inappropriate worship and blasphemy
relating primarily to the divine, while
the other five pertain primarily to social
order. This revolutionary juxtaposition
of the divine and the social, and the rela-
tive importance given to the social over
the divine, are two aspects of the seven
universal Jewish commandments that
will cause the Indian to stop and take
notice.
On the other hand, the lack of par-
ticularistic commandments foreign to
Indian culture also may take Indians
by surprise. There is no requirement to
believe in any particular manifestation
of the divine; in fact, there are almost
no creedal requirements at all. This is in
contrast to Christianity, with its empha-
sis on Jesus, and Islam, with its empha-
sis on Muhammad. From the conceptual
point of view, most Indians lump Juda-
ism along with Christianity; from the
visual point of view, especially of late,
Judaism is represented in Indian minds
by men with beards wearing black coats
and hats. This presentation of the seven-
fold nature of the universal about Jewish
tradition will go a long way to correct
Indian misunderstandings of Judaism.
The inauguration of the new Nariman
House Chabad Centre in Mumbai rep-
resents an important stage in the devel-
opment of Jewish-Indian relations. On
the one hand, it represents a more open
and friendly Chabad approach to Indians
and Indian culture; on the other, the new
museum will provide a point of view that
will complement and help uplift Indians
world view.
Meylekh Viswanath of Teaneck is an
Indian Jew who teaches finance at Pace
University. As part of his research,
he investigates economic issues in the
Talmud. In addition to believing that the
God of the Jews is God of all the world
and has a special relationship with every
human being, he also believes strongly
in the importance of the diaspora and of
diaspora communities for the continued
strength of the Jewish people and the
Jewish nation
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enough to be her own children, and their determina-
tion moved the group to tears.
They were heroes, she said. They went right to our
hearts and anything we could do to make them feel better
we wanted to do, but what actually happened was that
they lifted our spirits and we left with a sense of hope.
After a visit with Racheli Fraenkel, mother of Naftali
Fraenkel, one of the three yeshiva boys who went miss-
ing in June and was later found dead, Bruce Egert of
Tenafly left feeling that the grieving mother was a pro-
file in courage.
It was a combination of Israeli spirit and how her
religion was able to carry her through these terrible
days of losing a son right when he was ready to burst
out in life, said Mr. Egert, another of Rabbi Kirshners
congregants.
During a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan
Shapiro on the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship,
Mr. Egert asked the ambassador about media reports
on the rift between President Obama and Prime Minis-
ter Netanyahu. According to Mr. Egert, the ambassador
assured him that everything he told the group about
strong U.S. support for Israel is the administrations
policy.
In Tel Aviv, the group met with wounded soldiers,
intending to bring them a little cheer, but the American
visitors found it was the soldiers who instead inspired
them.
Theyre just kids and each of them was pretty busted
up, but all they really wanted to do was get back to life
and to action, Mr. Egert said. They were very proud to
serve and they wanted to continue.
In Ashkelon, after meeting with a group of recent high
school graduates about their plans to serve their coun-
try, the group found itself running to cover when the
red alert sounded. It was very sobering that a group
of 50 Jews had to go running for cover in Israel, and it
brought home what it was like to live under terror, said
Mr. Egert, who had also been a witness to the Septem-
ber 11 attacks in New York.
Its all personal, Ms. Wolfer said. The rocket that
was sent into Ashkelon could have killed me, could have
killed the man next to me, the young girl who was trying
to help me. And it was surreal.
If you find out your loved ones in the hospital, you
feel a sense of fulfillment when you stand by their side,
Rabbi Kirshner said. You are part of the healing process.
The question, as asked on the trip, is if this is for the visi-
tor or the visited and the answer is both. We need to be
involved in any and all ways to support Israel and we
cant just be fair-weather friends when it comes to Israel.
The American Jewish community is not always uni-
fied; arguments between the movements over kashrut,
religious practices, and even Israel are common. When
Israel is in conflict, though, the divisions fall away. Rabbi
Kirshners group was perhaps the least homogenous of
the missions, and even they were all in agreement on
the reasons for being there.
We went with a Republican and a Democrat, there
were some rabbis who were Orthodox, some were
Reform, some were Conservative, Rabbi Kirshner
said. There were Jews of all stripes but there was
never a moment of divide religiously or politically. The
entire three and a half days were built on common
denominators.
There was a sense across the board that the Jewish
leaders need to model being in Israel when things are
difficult, Rabbi Baum said. Israel and its people are in
need of support, he added, and he would like to see
more American Jews change their travel plans to visit
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Israel. Trips to Florida can wait; Israel needs it from an emo-
tional perspective and economically.
The Jewish community speaks with its wallets, Rabbi Frish-
man said, pointing to how the community banded together
to aid in emergency campaigns. The wartime visit left Rabbi
Frishman optimistic for Israels future.
I think theres complete interdenominational support for
Israels response to Hamas, but then I think theres tremen-
dous disagreement about other issues that this conflict wont
change for example civil rights in Israel and West Bank set-
tlements, she said. Even though I think this is a very difficult
time, there is always opportunity.
When the ceasefire went into effect on August 26, many
Israelis were pessimistic about whether it would hold Hamas
already had broken several ceasefires. Many in Israel felt relief
that quiet would finally return to their lives, but there is also
disappointment, especially in the south, that Israel did not fin-
ish the job. But removing Hamas carries other considerations
as well, and Prime Minister Netanyahu also has information
to which the public is not privy, Rabbi Weil said.
If you take out Hamas, is it worth the loss of life? Are you
just opening the door for Al Qaeda or some of the Sunni
groups to take over? We dont have the right to knock the
prime minister, he said.
Mr. Egert lamented that Hamas has embedded itself among
Gazas population, and seeing evidence of the tunnels Hamas
has dug underneath Gaza further drove home for him how
much the terror group has taken Gaza hostage.
Its not like a tunnel for a rodent you could drive a car
through it, Mr. Egert said. The amount of building supplies
and concrete that went into it could have built many more
hospitals.
Gaza has the potential to become the Singapore of the Mid-
dle East, some have said, and with the right support, Mr. Egert
hopes this is true.
I hope the world would come to its aid and it can become
a place where normal people can live and thrive, he said.
Thats in everyones interests, including Israels.
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Dvar Torah
Ki Tavo: Wisdom
and maturity at forty
A
n i mpor t ant
lesson for life
appears at the
end of t hi s
weeks Torah portion of Ki
Tavo. Just before the maftir
portion at the end of the
seventh aliyah, Moshe, in
response to the ingrati-
tude of the Israelites, pre-
pares to remind them of
the more unusual aspects
of their shared forty-year
desert trek.
As a preface to those
recollections he tells them
that the Almighty has not granted them
an understanding heart and eyes to see
and ears to hear until this day, forty years
into their journey. (See Deuteronomy
29:3-4). The Talmud quotes the sage
Rabba as commenting on this verse
that one cannot fully comprehend or
appreciate what his rabbi or teacher has
previously taught him until forty years
have passed. (Talmud Bavli, Tractate
Avodah Zarah, 5b).
This statement speaks quite truthfully
about the human condition. For
oftentimes we look for quick results,
fast achievement, and accelerated
gain and progress in our work as well
as in our leisure-time pursuits. Living
in a dog-eat-dog world we are prone
to seek quick results. As a result of the
advances in technology we aspire to be
the best in our given professional fields
as soon as possible. The urge to attain
mastery over our studies, careers,
and environments presses and pushes
continually on our personalities, on
our character. Even in the area of
religious fulfillment there is a desire
to get it all at once to be the perfect
Jew as quickly as possible which can
lead to harmful habits and personally
oppressive behaviors.
And it is here that we ought to
heed the time-honored lesson of
the great sage Hillel. Asked by the
would-be proselyte to teach the entire
Torah while standing on one foot, he
answered with succinct lesson, that
which is hateful to you do not do to
your friend or fellow human and
added crucially: Go and learn! The
rest is commentary and a life-long
pursuit of meaningful study.
Any mastery over a system of
knowledge, over our environment,
and religious way of life can only be
acquired over the course of a long
period of time, involving years of
persistent work and dedication to the
cause. Mere study is not enough; there
must be a genuine interest in seeking
t o underst and more
deeply the principles of
knowledge and the life
experi ences we have
collected along the way.
It is then no mere echo
of Rabbas t eachi ng
above when our sages in
Pirkei Avot (5:25) state
that forty is the age of
understanding.
I l ook back at my
almost three decades in
the rabbinate and other
areas of Jewish communal
service painfully aware of
how little I knew when I started out. In
my first pulpit, in my mid-twenties, I
was amazed and at times overwhelmed
by the trust placed in me by those
many years my senior who came to
me for counsel on deeply painful and
complicated personal issues. It was
my role to guide and advise but not
my prerogative to assume that at that
young age I could in any way come
close to having enough wisdom with
which to acquit myself in those roles.
The words of our Torah reading for
this week offer good guidance and
proper perspective in our approach
to life and the pursuit of not only
knowledge but understanding as well.
Only after forty years of leadership
under Moshes steady hand, despite the
countless convulsions along the way
on the part of the people, could Israel
acquire the heart to know. Against
the backdrop of our worship of youth
and young age and the contemporary
penchant to ignore those with the
gray hair while investing inordinate
responsibilities in those who have not
yet lived and seen enough, Rabbas
comment on this verse represents
a signature pedagogy that should
be followed in striving toward a
more holistic and lasting recipe for
communal well-being. The ancients of
our faith had it right; somehow along
the way we have strayed.
Rabbi
Lawrence S.
Zierler
Jewish Center of
Teaneck, Orthodox
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the course of a
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MIRIAM RINN
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t is the early 1980s, and
three Jewish young adults
meet in an Upper West Side
apartment.
They are the children of rela-
tively affluent left-leaning par-
ents, the last pathetic remnants
of Upper West Side Jewish liberal-
ism, as one of the three describes
them, but of course that has not
protected them from the vicissi-
tudes of life.
In This Is Our Youth, play-
wright Kenneth Lonergan cap-
tures with humor and pathos that
particular stage of our lives when
our psychic pain has not yet calci-
fied into bitterness but has begun
to set into its final form. Loner-
gans sensitive ear for the way
young people express themselves
makes the play both bitingly funny
and deeply insightful into the
myriad ways we disappoint our-
selves and others.
The Broadway production of
This Is Our Youth now playing
at the Cort Theatre was developed
at Steppenwolf in Chicago and
stars Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin,
and Tavi Gevinson. Directed by
Anna D. Shapiro, the production
emphasizes the humor, and at
least through Ceras performance
the genuine compassion Loner-
gan brings to his characters. After
the 1996 off-Broadway premiere
of This Is Our Youth, starring
a young Mark Ruffalo, Loner-
gan went on to write other plays
and the film scripts for You Can
Count on Me and Analyze This,
as well as Margaret, hailed by
many as his masterwork.
At lights-up, we meet Den-
nis, zoned out in front of a large
TV. Hes soon joined by Warren
Straub, a close friend who is as
self-effacing as Dennis is bellicose.
A college dropout, Warren arrives
with a substantial sack of money
he has stolen from his father, as
well as a load of beloved toys,
which is worth a lot, he insists. His
father has kicked him out, he tells
Dennis, and he needs a place to
crash. After some resistance and
a torrent of insults, Dennis agrees,
and their conversation turns to
Jessica, a girl Warren likes and
hopes to sleep with, and whether
Dennis, a small-time dealer, can
arrange a drug sale with another
acquaintance, which will result
in a profit and enable Warren to
return his fathers money. War-
rens father is a lingerie manufac-
turer with a lot of shady associ-
ates, who Dennis is convinced will
come and kill them if the money is
not returned. Dennis may talk big,
but hes no fool. Hes just a rich
Jewish kid who likes to pretend
hes a gangster.
While This Is Our Youth has a
plot, that is not what makes it such
good theater. Its really all about
the language, and the opportuni-
ties for breakout performances by
young actors. Michael Cera is the
standout in this production. He
imbues Warren with an observant
vulnerability that is just beneath
his sad-sack surface. Although he
is angry at his fathers constant
criticism, he understands that
neither of them ever will get over
Warrens sisters murder by an
abusive boyfriend. That unfore-
seen blow has knocked them
both to the ground; Warren may
be able to get up but his parents
wont. Kieran Culkins character,
Dennis, is the son of a famous
artist and a furiously do-gooding
mother; Dennis sees through their
public fame to the broken people
within but cannot find it in himself
to forgive them their failures. The
third character, Jessica, receives
the weakest performance from
the very young Tavi Gevinson. A
fashion blogger from the time she
was in her early teens,, Gevinson
shares Jessicas interest in style,
but she does not seem as com-
fortable on stage as the others.
Still, her speech in the second act
after she and Warren have spent
the night at the Plaza is a marvel
of adolescent-girl strategizing and
rationalizing.
The Upper West Side has
changed since the 80s. It is both
more Jewish and less liberal. The
Reagan-era anthem of inefficient
government and triumphalist cap-
italism has become the countrys
default setting and only occasion-
ally inspires more than resigned
contempt. But there are just as
many, if not many more, disil-
lusioned and lost young people,
searching for something to hold
on to.
It is a surprise to realize that
Warren, Dennis, and Jessica tech-
nically are baby boomers, hav-
ing been born before 1964. They
could as easily be Gen-Xers or
Millennials or whatever we call
20-years-olds today. The angst is
the same.
Michael Cera and Tavi Gevinson in a scene from This Is Our Youth
by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Anna D. Shapiro at the Cort theatre.
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SEPTEMBER 12
The New Testament:
Eco-theologian Rabbi
Lawrence Troster begins
a five-part course,
The Story of Joshua
of Nazareth: A Jewish
Reading of the New
Testament, at the
Bergen County YJCC in
Washington Township,
11 a.m. Course continues
through January 16.
605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610.
Shabbat in New City:
The Nanuet Hebrew
Center hosts an end-of-
summer meet & mingle
Shabbat. Tot Shabbat at
5 p.m.; barbecue, 5:30,
with live music by NHCs
Temple Dudes, and
Shabbat services at 6:30.
Weather permitting,
everything outdoors;
indoors if it rains. 411 S.
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708-9181 or office@
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Jewish Community
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Congregation Beth
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dinner, 6:30 p.m., to
celebrate Shabbat
with friends and family.
Services at 8. $18 per
person. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691.
Shabbat in Suffern:
Rabbi Steven Weil, senior
managing director of
the Orthodox Union,
speaks during an OU
community weekend at
Congregation Bais Torah.
The after-Mincha talk is
on The Reenactment
of the Covenant and
the Shabbat morning
subject will be The State
of Marriage and the
Family in the Orthodox
Community. The
Fascinating World of the
Rosh Hashanah Machzor
is the afternoon lecture,
followed by What Is the
Akeidah Doing in the
Machzor? during seudah
shlishit. His final talk is
After the Apocalypse:
The Orthodox Response
to Jewish Assimilation
in America. 89 West
Carlton Road. (845) 352-
1343.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
a spiritual service led
by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman with guest
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Kuney, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Tenafly: The
Temple Sinai Rock Band
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7:30 p.m. 1 Engle St. (201)
568-3035.
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
Rabbi Neil Tow leads
a pre-Shabbat guided
meditation session to
help get you into the
spirit of Shabbat at
the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, 7:45 p.m. Also
September 19. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624 or office@grjc.
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Mendelevich
Shabbat in Englewood:
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich,
Soviet refusenik turned
Israeli Torah scholar, is
the scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Shomrei
Emunah. He gained
international support
after attempting to hijack
a plane from Russia
to Israel and spending
11 years in the gulag.
Tonight he will share
The Personal Story of a
Prisoner for Zion. After
Shacharit on Shabbat
morning, he will discuss
Confessions of a Jewish
Hijacker. During Shabbat
lunch, by reservation
only, his topic will be
From Mesirat Nefesh for
Eretz Yisrael to Mesirat
Nefesh for Torah and
Mitzvot During 11 Years
in Prison. During seudat
shlishit, he will discuss
My Miraculous Exodus
from Gulag to Israel,
and at motzei Shabbat
he will sign copies of
his book, Unbroken
Spirit. 89 Huguenot Ave.
Reservations, Chana,
(201) 567-9420 or
chanieshomrei@gmail.
com.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
Cantor Mark Biddelman,
on guitar, hosts Shabbat
Yachad, Hebrew prayers
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by flutist Debra Blecher,
keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD with
service melodies
available at the shul. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801 or www.tepv.
org.
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 13
Concert in Wayne: U2
Nation: The Definitive
Tribute to U2, with
vocalist Albert Saadi,
guitarist/keyboardist
Matt Dooley, drummer
Jeff Pizzi, and bassist
Brad Grauer, performs for
the Rock Tribute series at
the Wayne YMCA, 7 p.m.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973)
595-0100.
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to
the Tropicana casino.
A bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
at 9:15 a.m.; breakfast
served onboard at 9.
$30; includes $25 slot
play money. Bring ID and
Tropicana Rewards card.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Childrens program: The
Jewish Community Center
of Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah begins a
Sunday Specials series
for 4- to 7-year-olds
with a Rosh Hashanah
program, 9:30-11 a.m.
Songs, crafts, and cooking
for the holiday table.
Nut-free snacks. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7733 or edudirector@
jccparamus.org.
Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and
snacks with a Sukkot/
Simchat Torah theme, for
pre-K students and their
parents, 9:30 a.m. 1 Engle
St. (201) 568-3035.
Shofar workshop in
Emerson: Rabbi Debra
Orenstein and Craig
Weisz conduct a one-
hour Shofar Workshop
on the hows and whys of
the shofar in preparation
for the High Holy Days at
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Cantor Marsha Dubrow
Rabbi installation
in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob holds a formal
installation ceremony
for Cantor Marsha
Dubrow, its spiritual
leader, celebrating her
ordination as a rabbi
this summer, 2 p.m.
Celebration includes
music by Metropolitan
Klezmer. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725.
Yiddish film in Franklin
Lakes: Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey hosts
a film screening of 18
short documentaries on
Jerusalem filmed from
1896 to 1976, 2 p.m.
Refreshments. 558 High
Mountain Road. (201)
560-0200 or www.tenjfl.
org.
Teaneck boutique:
Sinai Schools holds its
annual fall Yom Tov
boutique, including
sukkah decorations, hats
and hair accessories,
clothing, kippot, tzitzit,
paper goods, gifts, toys,
tablecloths, cash for gold
jewelry, and refreshments
by Gotham Burger, at
Teaneck Marriott at
Glenpointe, 5-9 p.m.
100 Frank W. Burr Blvd.
(201) 837-8309 or
(201) 387-8218.
Rikki Kleiman is the celebrity guest speaker
for the general meeting of the Bergen
County section of the National Council of
Jewish Women on Tuesday, September 16,
12:30 p.m., at Temple Emeth in Teaneck. Ms. Klieman,
a television anchor, legal analyst, trial attorney, actor,
best-selling author, and wife of New York Citys police
commission, Bill Bratton, will discuss Law, Politics, and
the Media. 1666 Windsor Road. (201) 404-8816 or visit
www.ncjwbcs.org.
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Barbecue for kids in
Paramus: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah host a
welcome barbecue as
the first USY (ninth-12th
grades) and Kadima
(sixth-eighth grades)
event, 5-7 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave. (201)
262-7691 or youth@
jccparamus.org.
Monday
SEPTEMBER 15
Tricky tray in
Montebello: The
sisterhood of the
Montebello Jewish
Center has its paid-up
membership Tricky
Tray Auction, 6:30 p.m.
34 Montebello Road,
Montebello, N.Y. (845)
357-2430.
Teen volunteer
orientation in Wayne:
The Chabad Center of
Passaic County holds an
orientation for Friendship
Circle volunteers at the
center, 7 p.m. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 493-7842 or
FCPassaicCounty.com.
Hadassah region meets:
The board of directors
of Hadassahs Northern
New Jersey region meets
at the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington
Township. Light supper
at 7 p.m., program at
7:30. Debra Mazon,
national vice coordinator
of Hadassahs public
relations, advocacy,
Zionism, and education
division is the speaker.
Election of nominating
committee chaired by
Gloria Saltz. 605 Pascack
Road. (973) 530-3996 or
NNJRegion@hadassah.
org.
Tuesday
SEPTEMBER 16
Bereavement program
in Saddle River: Holy
Name Medical Center
Hospice and Palliative
Services offers Sharing
the Journey, an eight-
session bereavement
program to provide
support and guidance
through the grieving
process. Open to those
who have experienced
loss in the past year.
Meetings on Tuesdays
at 12:30-2 p.m., at Villa
Marie Claire, 12 West
Saddle River Road.
Registration, Claudia
Coenen, (201) 833-3000,
ext. 7483.
Songs of the Hudson:
The JCC Rockland with
Hadassah and the New
York Council for the
Humanities offers Of
Time and the River:
Songs of the Historic
Hudson, by balladeer
Linda Russell, 2:30 p.m.
(845) 362-4400, ext.
109, or BonnieW@
jccrockland.org.
Concert in Rockleigh:
The Leonora Messer
2014 Summer Concert
Series concludes
outside on the patio,
weather permitting, at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 6:30 p.m., with
a performance by Ed
Goldberg & the Odessa
Klezmer Band. 10 Link
Drive. (201) 784-1414.
Chanalee Fischer
Challah baking in New
City: Chanalee Fischer,
aka the Challah Fairy,
offers the opportunity to
braid challah at the New
City Jewish Center, 8 p.m.
Participants will bring
home challahs to bake.
$18. 47 Old Schoolhouse
Road. (845) 638-9600 or
www.newcityjc.org.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 17
Paramus Yiddish club:
Khaverim Far Yidish
(Friends for Yiddish) of
the JCCP/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets to
hear David Braun, a
linguistics professor,
discuss his Yiddish life,
2 p.m. Program in Yiddish
and English. Group meets
the third Wednesday of
the month. $10 yearly
dues. East 304 Midland
Ave. Varda, (201) 791-
0327.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 18
Health gimmicks talk
in Fair Lawn: The
Jersey Hills section of
National Council of
Jewish Women meets
at Temple Beth Shalom,
7:30 p.m. Annette
Tolomeo of the Valley
Hospitals department
of community services
offers a presentation,
Rumor Has It, focusing
on health gimmicks.
Refreshments. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. Lori, (201)
796-0463.
Friday
SEPTEMBER 19
Shabbat for seniors: The
Bergen County YJCC in
Washington Township
begins Kabbalat
Shabbat, a monthly
program with lunch and
a speaker, noon-2 p.m.
Programs continue
October 24, November
21, and December 19.
Partially subsidized by
a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610.
Rabbi Manis Friedman
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Author, counselor,
lecturer, and philosopher
presents a Shabbat
of Inspiration and
Spirituality for the last
Shabbat of the year
at Lubavitch on the
Palisades. Traditional
dinner and a lecture,
Youre Only As Happy
As Your Unhappiest
Child, 7 p.m. On
Shabbat morning at
10:30 a.m., his topic will
be Existing Is Boring;
Life is Existing. He will
also be there for Selichot.
Dinner reservations,
(201) 871-1152 or www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
shabbaton.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a service with organ
accompaniment, led
by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers services and
a sermon by Maurice
Middleberg, executive
director of Free the
Slaves, on modern-day
slavery, 7:30 p.m. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Saturday
SEPTEMBER 20
Selichot in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob screens Ushpizin,
followed by a brief
Selichot service, 7 p.m.
176 West Side Ave. (201)
435-5725.
Selichot in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
dessert, a staged reading
of the one-act play
Four (Women) Entered
Paradise, by Sigal
Samuel, and a discussion,
7:30 p.m. Services at
10. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Selichot in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers family-friendly
Havdalah and Selichot
services, a short film, and
discussion, 7:30 p.m. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Selichot in Glen Rock:
Services, with the theme
of Renewal, are at the
Glen Rock Jewish Center,
8 p.m. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Selichot in Closter:
Temple Beth El screens
The Truman Show,
a 1998 film starting
Jim Carrey exploring
High Holy Day themes,
8 p.m., followed by
dessert and services. 221
(201) 768-5112.
Selichot in Paramus:
The Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah honors Harold
Kaplan and his family
at its annual pre-Rosh
Hashanah Selichot
dessert reception, 9 p.m.
Services follow. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
7691 or www.jccparamus.
org.
Selichot in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck screens the
documentary, Dressing
America: Tales from the
Garment Center, 9 p.m.,
followed by a discussion
by Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler and refreshments.
Services at 10:30. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515, ext.200 or www.
jcot.org.
Selichot in Fort Lee:
Congregation Kehilath
Baruch/The New
Synagogue of Fort Lee
offers a program with
Professor Benjamin
Nelson, 9 p.m. Services
by Rabbi Meir Berger
and Cantor Leon Berger,
accompanied by the
Leon Berger Symphonic
Choir, at 10; supper at
11:30. 1585 Center Ave.
(201) 947-1555.
Selichot in Tenafly:
concludes his Shabbat
program with a lecture,
You Can See the
Invisible, You Can Do the
Impossible, at Lubavitch
on the Palisades, 10 p.m.
Services at midnight
followed by light dinner
and music. (201) 871-1152
or www.chabadlubavitch.
org.
Selichot in Fort Lee:
The Young Israel of Fort
Lee welcomes its new
rabbi, Zev Goldberg, at a
meet-and-greet collation
followed by services led
by Cantor Dr. Joshua
Kaplan, beginning at
9 p.m. 1610 Parker Ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
In New York
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Jayne Cohen
Celebrating Latin
American Jewish
food: Chefs and food
writers, including James
Beard-nominated
cookbook author Jayne
Cohen, celebrate Latin
American Jewish cuisine
at a talk and reception
featuring Latin desserts
at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 2:30 p.m.
The panel features
chef Sam Gorenstein,
food writers Leticia
Moreinos Schwartz and
Susan Schmidt, and
anthropologist Ruth
Behar. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Wednesday
SEPTEMBER 17
Lucinda Franks
Author in NYC:
Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Lucinda Franks
discusses her new
memoir, Timeless:
Love, Morgenthau, and
Me, at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 7 p.m., 36
Battery Place. (646) 437-
4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
Singles
Sunday
SEPTEMBER 14
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
get-together with
refreshments at the JCC
Rockland, 10:30 a.m. 450
West Nyack Road. $3.
Gene Arkin, (845) 356-
5525.
Thursday
SEPTEMBER 18
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
office@grjc.org.
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Naomi Less
Sinbad Guy Code + Girl Code
Itzhak Perlman joins Cantor Helfgot
for Rejoicing special on PBS
Violinist Itzhak Perlman
and Cantor Yitzchak Meir
Helfgot join forces for a
musical exploration of
liturgical and traditional
works in new arrange-
ments for both chamber
orchestra and klezmer on
THIRTEENs Great Perfor-
mances, airing on PBS on
Sunday, September 21, at 7
p.m.
The music of Rejoice
with Itzhak Perlman and
Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helf-
got showcases Mr. Perl-
mans classical technique
and Cantor Helfgots voice.
Reminiscences by Elie Wiesel, Joel Grey,
and Neil Sedaka also are featured. The
program is directed by Joshua Waletzky,
whose earlier collaboration with Mr. Perl-
man, In the Fiddlers House, won a
prime-time Emmy in 1995.
Great Performances: Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman
and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot. JOSEPH SINNOTT
Poetry on Shabbat
Poet Yehoshua November, author of Gods Opti-
mism, who was named a finalist for the L.A. Times
Poetry Book of the Year, will be at Teanecks Congre-
gation Rinat Yisrael tomorrow, September 13, at 5:35
p.m. Mr. November, who also teaches writing at Rut-
gers University and Touro College, will offer a reading
and discussion called Contemporary Poetry with a
Chassidic Emphasis.
The shul is at 389 W. Englewood Ave. in Teaneck.
Call (201) 837-2795. Yehoshua November
Family concert in New Milford
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Ber-
gen County in New Milford begins its Sun-
days at Schechter, a community-wide
Jewish-themed family series, with Jewish-
KidsRock! on September 14 at 10 a.m. The
outdoor concert with Naomi Less and her
high-energy band will be held rain or shine.
The school plans an open house on Thurs-
day, November 6, from 79 p.m. The school
is at 275 McKinley Ave. For information
about the concert or the open house, call
(201) 262-9898 or go to www.ssdsbergen.org/
schechter-rock
The generations
link hearts

Valley Chabad teens will begin the fourth
year of the Linking Hearts program on
Tuesday, September 16, at 3:45 p.m., at
the Jewish Home Assisted Living in River
Vale. Middle schoolers from across the
Pascack and Saddle River Valley commu-
nities meet monthly at JHAL to interact
and make a Jewish-themed art project
with seniors.
Registration is required for the free
program and synagogue affiliation is
optional.
Call (201) 476-0157 or email rabbiyo-
sef@valleychabad.org.
JHAL resident Roz Goldstein and Link-
ing Hearts volunteer Naomi Dym of
Woodcliff Lake are pictured in a photo
from last year with the honey dish
they made.
YU athletics department unveils
a newly designed website
The official website of the Yeshiva Uni-
versity Department of Athletics, yumacs.
com, underwent a total makeover. This
week, the newly designed website was
revealed. During the summer, the ath-
letics department worked with Sidearm,
the company that has hosted yumacs.
com since 2009, for a makeover.
While its look is new, Yeshiva athlet-
ics fans are reminded that nothing will
change. Fans still will have the access to
stories, photos, videos, rosters, sched-
ules, and statistics, but the site will have
a sleeker design and easier navigation.
Learning center launches classes
Classes began last week at Lamdeinu, a
new center for Jewish learning in Teaneck.
Offerings include Parshanut HaMikra,
Talmud, Parashat HaShavua, Yirmi-
yahu, a miniseries on haftarot and Jewish
philosophy, and morning yoga.
A High Holy Days series will continue on
September 17 and October 1 at 10:15 a.m.
For information, go to lamdeinu.org.
bergenPAC has tickets for Sinbad
and MTVs Guy Code + Girl Code
Tickets are on sale at the
Bergen Performing Arts
Center in Englewood for
MTVs Guy Code + Girl
Code Comedy Tour on
Tuesday, November 5, and
Sinbad, on Friday, Novem-
ber 14. Both shows are at 8
p.m. Tickets are available at
www.bergenpac.org, www.
ticketmaster.com, or at the
box office, (201) 227-1030.
Sunday open house at JCC
In celebration of a new
membership season,
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly
will hold a community
open house on Sun-
day, September 14,
from 1 to 4 p.m. JCC
staff will be on hand to
give tours of the facil-
ity where members
and guests can use
the JCC gyms, outside
pools and water park,
sample classes, and
make use of both the
adult and youth fitness
centers. There will also be special
childrens activities including a moon
bounce, face painting, balloonologist,
and use of the nursery school play-
grounds and tumble room.
There will also be a variety of
sample classes, demonstrations for
children and adults, music, and give-
aways. JCC representatives will be on
hand for information about JCC pro-
grams and membership and to help
people register for classes.
For information call (201) 408-1448
or email join@jccotp.org
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TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES It was 6 a.m. on August
19, 1964, when the phone rang in the
Los Angeles apartment of Ivor Davis, the
young West Coast correspondent for Lon-
dons Daily Express, circulation 4 million.
On the other end was the papers for-
eign editor, who told Davis to drive to the
airport and catch the 11 a.m. flight to San
Francisco. His assignment was to cover
that evenings gig at the Cow Palace by a
hot British pop group called the Beatles.
For Davis and the band, it would be the
start of a whirlwhind 34-day, 24-city tour
across the United States and Canada.
I had unfettered access to the boys ...
I lived and ate with them, played cards
and Monopoly until the early hours of
the morning, Davis recalled. I was there
when they popped pills, talked candidly
about their passions and how they
coped with the revolving door of women
that was the inevitable result of their perch
as global sex symbols.
It has taken 50 years, but Davis, 76, oth-
erwise a quick and prolific journalist and
author, has finally put together the highs
and lows of the memorable tour in a lively
new book, The Beatles and Me. In it, he
writes of the pressure, adulation, booze,
drugs, and girls in the groups life.
Davis, who was raised in an Orthodox
Jewish family in East London, devotes
considerable space to the influence of the
Fifth Beatle, Brian Samuel Epstein, man-
ager of the Fab Four and a frequent target
of the stereotypical Jewish cracks of that
time and environment by some of the
boys.
Asked why he delayed writing the book
for such a long time, Davis said, I never
expected their fame and legacy would last
this long.
Neither did the Beatles themselves. In a
2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Ringo
Starr said that John Lennon expected the
groups style and music to endure for
about four years, that Paul McCartney
planned on a writing career, and George
Harrison wanted to open a garage. Ringos
ambition: to run a hair salon.
Davis attributed the instant success and
enduring mythology of the Beatles in part
to timing.
For one, the Beatles came and lifted
American spirits depressed by the assassi-
nation of President Kennedy, he said. For
another, Lennon and McCartney proved to
be really talented composers.
It seems unlikely that Beyonce or Jus-
tin Bieber will be remembered this way 50
years from now.
Epstein was born into a well-to-do mer-
chant family in Liverpool on Yom Kippur.
Without any managerial experience, he
more or less appointed himself as manager
of the largely unknown band after hearing
it play at a local cellar club.
The Beatles took on Epstein partially in
the conviction that Jews are good with
money, as McCartney reportedly put it.
Despite his lack of managerial acumen,
Epstein, or Eppy, successfully trans-
formed his charges stage presence. The
rough black-leather-clad working-class
lads performing in the basement of a con-
verted warehouse became nice middle-
class chaps in neat, dark suits.
Epstein changed the boys into clean-
cut lads whom he could take home and
introduce to his Yiddishe mamma, Davis
Brian Epstein horses around at his
30th birthday party.
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Author Ivor Davis, standing, doubled as ghostwriter for Beatle George Harrison.
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said. If he were to try the same with the
Rolling Stones, they would have burned
down the house.
Under the outward appearance of a per-
fectly groomed, well-spoken, and some-
what aloof Englishman, Epstein wrestled
with the burden of being closeted as a
Jew and gay at a time when engaging in a
homosexual act was considered a criminal
offense in Britain.
Of course, the boys knew all about the
skeletons in Epsteins closet, as illustrated
by an exchange during a late-night drink.
Epstein mentioned that he had just
finished his (ghost-written) autobiogra-
phy. Lennon, who enjoyed getting under
Epsteins skin, asked for the books title.
A Cellarful of Noise, Epstein replied.
How about A Cellarful of Boys, Len-
non countered.
Getting into the spirit, Epstein offered A
Cellarful of Goys, though he wasnt sure
the Beatles knew the meaning of the term.
No, no, said Lennon, Ive got the per-
fect title Queer Jew.
When Lennon was recording Baby,
Youre A Rich Man, he occasionally
switched the lyrics to Baby, Youre A Rich
Jew, to the anguish of the groups pro-
ducer. At his most provocative, Lennon
often addressed Epstein to his face as a
rich fag Jew.
Despite such provocations, Davis does
not believe that Lennon was an outright
anti-Semite.
John was extraordinarily bright and
had a nasty, warped sense of humor,
Davis said. He knew how to get a rise out
of people.
Epstein rarely talked to the press and
had hardly exchanged a word with Davis
during the first four weeks of the national
tour. So when the group arrived in New
Orleans and checked into a hotel before
the performance, Davis was startled when
he was summoned to Epsteins suite.
Its Yom Kippur tomorrow, Epstein
informed Davis. I wonder if you know
anyone who could arrange for me to pop
in at the local synagogue, adding quickly,
I wont be able to stay all day, of course.
Davis called the synagogue, and with-
out mentioning Epsteins name or who
he was scored two free tickets. The noble
offer was in vain, since in the end nei-
ther Epstein nor Davis showed up for the
services.
The Beatles popularity would outlive
Epstein; he died at 32 in 1967. The coroner
listed the death as accidental, probably
caused by prolonged overuse of the seda-
tive carbitrol.
The Beatles and Me cites a few other
Jewish aspects of the 1964 tour:
When the band performed in Mon-
treal, a caller to the hotel threatened to
kill the Jew Ringo which he wasnt,
although his father-in-law was.
At a news conference, a reporter asked
the Beatles if they thought Jews played too
influential a role in show business. Sens-
ing an obvious provocation, the foursome
skipped on to the next question.
McCartney had an affinity for Jewish
wives. His first wife, Linda Eastman, to
whom he was married until she died in
1998, was Jewish. His third wife, Nancy
Shevell, also is Jewish.
Throughout his far-ranging writing
career, Davis, in collaboration with his late
wife Sally Ogle Davis, has reported on Hol-
lywood stars, headline trials, natural disas-
ters, and politics for the Times of London,
the Daily Express, the New York Times
Syndicate and American magazines.
Now living out his golden years in the
California beachfront community of
Ventura, Davis is working on two new
books one about movies, the other a
true crime story.
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Janet Goodkind
Janet Beth Goodkin, 48,
of Wayne died on
September 2.
She was an executive
secretary at Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey in
Wayne for over 20 years.
She is survived by her
parents, Dr. Robert and
Diane Goodkin of Wayne, a
daughter, Rachel Hannagan
of Wayne, a brother, David
of Dania Beach, Fla.;
aunts and uncles, Sue and
Howard Kagan and Marcie
and Richard Seninsky; a
niece, and cousins.
Donations can be
sent to JFSNJ, Wayne.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Robert Kempner
Robert A. Kempner, 68, of
Pompton Lakes, formerly
of Fair Lawn, died on
September 9. Born in
Paterson, he was the owner/
operator of Kempner
Photography for 40 years.
He is survived by his
wife of 38 years, Anne, ne
Glazer, children, David
(Etana) of San Clemente,
Calif., and Lindsay
of Rockwall, Texas; a
brother, Kenneth (Carol) of
Bethesda, Md.; a grandson,
nephews, and extended
family.
Donations can be sent to
the Lustgarten Foundation
for pancreatic cancer
research or to the Crohns
& Colitis Foundation of
America. Arrangements
were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Jack Press
Jack Press of Fair Lawn
died on September 4.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Lillian Rubin
Lillian Lil Rubin, ne
Perlmutter, 97, of Maywood
died on August 31.
Born in Brooklyn, she
received a bachelors degree
from Hunter College and
a masters degree from
City College of New York.
She was the co-founder/
co-owner with her husband
of the Maywood weekly
newspaper, Our Town, from
1948 until their retirement,
after 44 years, in 1992. She
was also a correspondent
for the Jewish Standard,
having had four cover
stories and receiving a
state press award for a
deadline-written story. She
was a long-time member
of the Ridgewood Chorale
and a Maywood Chamber
of Commerce secretary.
She also taught ESL in the
Hackensack school system.
She is survived by her
husband of 73 years, Len,
children, Ted ( Janis) of
Glen Valley, Calif., and
Debbie Ames ( Jeff ) of Broad
Brook, Conn., and three
grandchildren.
Donations can be made to
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Foundation. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral
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Edward Share
Edward Share, 91, of Fort
Lee died on September 5.
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World War II veteran. After
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institution in Manhattans
Garment Center, working
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long-time owner.
Two sons, Myles of New
York City, and Jed of Seattle,
and a grandson, Leo,
survive him.
Rabbi Alvin Kass,
chaplain of the NYPD for
over 40 years, and formerly
of the Jewish Press, led
services. Arrangements
were by Eden Memorial
Chapels in Fort Lee.
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veteran of the Korean War
and a City College of New
York graduate. Before
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40 years as a business
executive with the Shultz
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Stolbach, he is survived
by his children, Jonathan
Wald, Jennifer Rabinowitz
(David); and Jamie Wald
( James Toothman), and
six grandchildren.
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LOWER EAST SIDE
Renovated 3 BR/1.5 BTH condo. $999,000
UPPER WEST SIDE
Spacious 2 BR pre-war condo. Granite kitchen.
EAST VILLAGE
Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.
MURRAY HILL
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GREENWICH VILLAGE
Gorgeous alcove studio. Doorman bldg.
GREENPOINT
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WILLIAMSBURG
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FORT LEE
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Honorees selected for awards
at Teaneck Chamber celebration
The Teaneck Chamber of Commerce has
announced its honorees for the 13th Annual
Community Awards Dinner at the Marriott
Hotel at Glenpointe on Thursday, October 30.
THE HONOREES ARE:
Public Service: retired Teaneck police
chief Robert Wilson, Lt. David Barrett of the
Teaneck Fire Department, Richard Merz of
the Department of Public Works, and Melanie
Rubio of TVAC;
Women of the Year: educator Andrea
Holmes Thompkins and Loren Daniels;
Cultural Arts: Steven Bell;
Youth Achievement: Teaneck High School
Interact Club;
Business of the Year: Heritage Pointe of Teaneck;
Humanitarian: Mohammed Hameeduddin;
Y Community Achievement: Angelae
Wilkerson;
Lifetime Achievement: Theodora Lacey.
Teaneck has so much to offer, but some-
times it gets lost as we go about our everyday
affairs, said Larry Bauer, president of the
Chamber. The purpose of our Community
Awards Dinner is to showcase various members
of our community, whether they are individual,
groups or organizations. Each year the choice
is difficult as Teaneck has so many unsung
heroes, some in the public eye and some we
never get to see, yet they are there for us, and
this is our way to come together and celebrate
Teaneck. We are a township, but we are still a
community.
Jennifer Glass, Chamber vice president, said,
Our list of honorees just keeps getting better
and better. Each year, the number of nomina-
tions that come in from the public is amazing.
Choosing honorees is an incredibly difficult
decision since all of our nominees do so much
for our community. It is our hope that we can
shine a light on these fine individuals and cel-
ebrate their accomplishments at our dinner.
Congratulations to all of our honorees and we
hope our nominees will continue doing all they
do for our town.
As in the past, and in preparation for the
holiday season, donations of food items will
be accepted at the event by Teanecks Helping
Hands Food Pantry.
To receive additional information on the din-
ner, tickets, ad journal sponsorships and con-
gratulatory messages, the Teaneck Chamber
of Commerce, its activities, programs, mem-
bership, or to get on their e-mail list, visit the
Chambers website at http://www.teaneck-
chamber.org; contact the Chamber office at
(201) 801-0012, or e-mail at info@teaneckcham-
ber.org. Like the Chamber on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/TeaneckCoC.
Kosher meals for the Community Awards
dinner are available and must be ordered in
advance.
The Teaneck Chamber of Commerce is a not-
for-profit organization lead by business leaders
who care about the community. The Chambers
missions are to promote business growth in
Teaneck, to serve members with personal and
professional development opportunities, to
affect public policy decisions to the benefit of
the Teaneck business community, and to par-
ticipate in various community activities for the
betterment of the quality of life in the township.
Bob McGrath of Sesame Street
to visit Teaneck Farmers Market
A full bounty awaits at the Teaneck
Farmers Market on Thursdays, so come
down to select from the array of newly
harvested fall produce, plants, floral
bouquets, gourmet foods, freshly baked
breads and cakes, pickles, olives nuts,
dried fruits, honey, cold-press juices,
and international cuisine favorites.
And complimentary back massages
are also offered. The market hours are
noon to 6 p.m., but if vendors are set
up before that time, they will gladly sell
their items.
Thursday, September 18, will be a
unique moment at the market. At 2
p.m. Teaneck resident Bob McGrath,
an original cast member of Sesame
Street and The Mitch Miller Show,
will visit and be joined in song by local
kindergarteners.
Last week he appeared on Good
Morning America for the 45th anniver-
sary of Sesame Street. Mr. McGrath
is active in the Wounded Warrior Proj-
ect and still makes guest appearances
throughout the U.S. and Canada. This
past summer he made a tandem sky-
dive with the same flying team as Presi-
dent George H.W. Bush did for his 90th
birthday.
A group of kindergarteners from the
Bryant School in Teaneck will sing with
Mr. McGrath. Be sure to come by for this
one-of-a-kind moment at the market.
Loren Daniels, recently retired
Teaneck musical educator, helped coor-
dinate the event. Catch him with his jazz
group at The JazzBerry Patch at Clas-
sic Quiche and The Jazz Cabaret Night
on October 18 for the fund-raiser for The
Teaneck Community Chorus at The Eth-
ical Culture Society.
The First Teaneck Farmers Market
Blood Drive with the Bergen County
Community Blood Services was a mean-
ingful event last week. The Blood Center
Mobile parked in the Garrison Avenue
lot for four hours while fifteen people
donated.
Kerry Surlak, an assistant to farmer
Richard Sunden, came up with the idea.
The blood center was contacted, agreed
to participate, and a thoughtful commu-
nity concept became a reality.
The Amish Country Bakery has
returned to the market with its favor-
ite offerings. And Holy Name Medi-
cal Center community director Linda
Lohsen and her assistant, Nina Alavrez,
appeared last week to provide back-to-
school information.
The market is still collecting nonper-
ishable foods through Helping Hands
and The Center For Food Action on
Thursdays. The hours for drop-off are
9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. for The Center For
Food Action, www.cfanj.org, and 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. for Helping Hands, www.
teaneckpantry.com. Food bundles can-
not be kept overnight.
For live updates on market days and
highlight of activities, go to Facebook:
www.teaneckfarmersmarket.com, or
call (201) 907-0493.
Saving Israeli lives by sipping
a fine array of Israel vintages
Wine producers association partnering
with American Friends of Magen David Adom
As Americans continue to look for
ways to support Israel after this sum-
mers Operation Protective Edge, a new
partnership can help them save Israeli
lives while also sustaining the countrys
growing wine industry.
American Friends of Magen David
Adom (AFMDA) and the Israeli Wine
Producers Association (IWPA) have
announced a new initiative where the
producers will donate $24 to Magen
David Adom (MDA) for every 12 bottles
of Israeli wines purchased through
October 31.
The funds will help MDA, Israels
national emergency medical response
and blood services organization,
replenish critical medical supplies such
as needles, bandages, and blood trans-
fusion kits that were depleted during
Operation Protective Edge.
With the High Holy Days approach-
ing, now is an ideal time to buy
Israeli wines. Among the wineries
participating are Gamla, Barkan, Car-
mel, Shiloh, Binyamina, Flam, Segals,
and Domaine du Castel. Many of Isra-
els 300 wineries are now producing
internationally-renowned wines, and
sales of Israeli wines top $315 million
annually.
The Israeli wines can be purchased
at retailers and online. Rebates and
receipts must be mailed by November
30 to qualify. The $24 donation will
be made only in increments of 12 pur-
chased bottles, although the denomina-
tion does not matter (a person can pro-
vide three receipts with four bottles on
each). The donation rebate forms for
MDA are available in stores, as well as
online at www.afmda.org/wine-rebate
and www.iwpa.com/rebate.php.
For more information about MDAs
lifesaving work in Israel, visit www.
afmda.org. To learn about the Israeli
Wine Producers Association, visit www.
iwpa.com.
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LOWER EAST SIDE
Renovated 3 BR/1.5 BTH condo. $999,000
UPPER WEST SIDE
Spacious 2 BR pre-war condo. Granite kitchen.
EAST VILLAGE
Sleek one-of-a-kind brownstone penthouse.
MURRAY HILL
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CHELSEA
Spacious ex 1 BR. Doorman building.
GREENWICH VILLAGE
Gorgeous alcove studio. Doorman bldg.
GREENPOINT
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WILLIAMSBURG
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FORT LEE
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FORT LEE
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FORT LEE
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ENGLEWOOD
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ENGLEWOOD
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ENGLEWOOD
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Sprawling Ranch. Great 1 acre property.
TENAFLY
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TENAFLY
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Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
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