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Camels and ostriches
on the track
We dont usually spend Friday
afternoons and evenings at the

race track.
But if anything could convince
us to trade Friday night Kiddush
for Friday night betting, it would
the sort of event scheduled at
the Meadowlands today: a onetwo punch of camel and ostrich
racing.
What?
It turns out that while camels
and ostriches pose no threat
to horses and that includes
our local equine hero, American
Pharoah this Friday, June 12,
will be the fourth annual Ostrich
Derby and Cameltonian.
Last year, Hannah Keyser reported on the event for Mental
Floss. As she discovered, camel
handlers apparently consider it a
victory if all four camels run

in the correct direction
which they did last year,
finishing their run in 20
seconds.
The ostrich race, in
which the large-bodied,
small-brained birds were
yoked to chariots, was
even more speedy. Thats
even though an ostrichs top
speed, 25 miles per hour, is
less than a camels, which at 35
miles per hour is as fast as a race
horse. (American Pharoah averaged 36 mph.)
To see last years races for
yourself, click over to the Mental
Floss article and bit.ly/js-camel.
And that you can do without
missing Shabbat dinner.
LARRY YUDELSON
We have a winner
Congratulations to American Pharoah
Bon Jovi to Israel: Ill be there for you

New Jersey-born singer Jon Bon
Jovi seems to agree that the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions is bad medicine: He has booked
his band for an October 3 concert in
Tel Aviv.
Weve toured around the world
performing over 2,900 concerts in
more than 50 countries and today I
am excited to announce that for the
first time ever we are performing in
Tel Aviv. See you on October 3, the
bands representative said.
Its not clear whether Israelis, for
whom Living on a Prayer is a way of
life and not just a classic rock song,
are dancing in the streets at
the news. Tickets went on
sale on Wednesday. The
performance will be two
days after the band has
a gig in Abu Dhabi.
Promoter Marcel Avram
told the Times of Israel
that band frontman Jon
Bon Jovi has always
wanted to perform
in Israel and doesnt
care about pressure
to boycott it.
Jon Bon Jovi couldnt care less,
Avram said, according to the Times
of Israel. He is not the first or the
last one to come to Israel We are a
proud country where a lot of people
enjoy music; everyone wants to perform in Israel.
He has a lot of Jewish friends,
Avram said of Bon Jovi. There are a
lot of Jewish people in New Jersey
and he wants to see Israel. He was
never here before.
Avram added that Bon Jovis Jewish keyboardist, David Rashbaum,
speaks a little Yiddish and is excited
to be headed to Israel.
The band announced in 2010 that
it would put Israel on its list of stops
during its 2011 world tour, but the
promise never materialized.
Bon Jovi, who has been friendly
with New Jerseys Governor Chris
Christie, also announced this week
that he is hosting a private concert
to raise money for former
Secretary of State Hillary
Clintons presidential
campaign.
LY
on becoming the first horse with Teaneck roots to win racings Triple Crown.
Last Saturday, as everyone knows,
the horse won the Belmont Stakes, the
first since 1978 to do so after winning
the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness
Stakes.
American Pharoah is owned by
Teanecks Ahmed Zayat we spoke

with his wife Joanne for our May 15
issue. As Sabbath observers, the Zayats
stayed in a trailer and walked to the
track to watch their horse run.
The 1978 Triple Crown winner, Affirmed, also had a Jewish owner: Louis
Wolfson of Jacksonville, Florida.
LARRY YUDELSON
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I have also successfully represented several

rabbis accused of everything from tax fraud
to inappropriate conduct.
Letter sent by a criminal defense attorney to a rabbi, in case you, your
congregants, or community needs my services. The attorney added that I am
available 24/7/364. If anyone gets arrested on Yom Kippur, they should pray until
sunset and then call.
JURASSIC WORLD:
Fourth series entry

holds no surprises
Jurassic World
is the long-delayed fourth entry in the
Jurassic Park movie
series. World is
produced by STEVEN
SPIELBERG, 68, who
directed the first two
Jurassic movies. The
screenplay was co-written by COLIN TREVORROW, 38, AMANDA
SILVER, 52, Rick Jaffa,
53, and Derek Connolly.
Silver, who is Jewish,
and Jaffa (who has
some remote Jewish
ancestry), have been
married for 25 years and
have two children. (The
family are regular
synagogue-goers). The
couple scored big as the
co-writers of the two
most recent hit Planet
of the Apes movies.
Trevorrow also directs
this is his first outing at the helm of a big
studio movie. He earned
this gig following critical
acclaim of his indie films.
Trevorrows mother is
Jewish, and his maternal
grandmother came from
a long line of Sephardi
Jews who settled in the
Caribbean centuries
ago. His parents run a
California horse ranch
that bears his maternal
grandmothers maiden
name (Rancho Toledano). They raise Paso
Finos, a breed that originated in the Caribbean.
The plot of the new
Jurassic film is pre-
dictable: fast forward

to the present day and
the new owners of the
park think they can run a
tropic island park where
humans can safely view
genetically engineered
dinosaurs. But something goes terribly wrong
and the parks operations
manager (Bryce Dallas Howard, who is Ron
Howards daughter) and
others have to contain
the dinosaurs before
they can cause more
damage.
Me and Earl and
the Dying Girl is
based on the young
adult hit novel of the
same name by JESSE
ANDREWS, 33, and he
also wrote the film
script. The story is
narrated by Greg Gaines
(Thomas Mann), a
Jewish high school
senior who stays aloof
from most people. He
even describes Earl, his
African-American friend,
with whom he does
really funny routines
about classic foreign
movies, as more of a
co-worker than a
friend. This changes
when Gregs mother
(Connie Britton) nags
him into spending time
with Rachel Kushner
(Olivia Cooke), a high
school classmate who
has just been diagnosed
with terminal leukemia.
Greg and Rachel have
history: they were in the
Steven Spielberg
Colin Trevorrow
Amanda Silver
Jesse Andrews
Ashley Tisdale
Jenji Kohan
same Hebrew school

class when they were
about 12. Greg thought
that if he flirted with
Rachel another girl
the hot girl in the class
would notice him.
Although most of the
main characters in the
novel are Jewish, theres
only one Jewish actor in
the cast JON BERNTHAL, 38, who plays a
non-Jewish character,
Mr. McCarthy, Gregs
easygoing and empathetic teacher.
Dying Girl, which is
set and filmed in Pittsburgh, Andrews home

town, was a huge hit at
Sundance, and advance
reviews noted that every thing you thought
wouldnt work in a film
about a dying girl and
the guy who comes to
bond with her somehow
does work. Variety
said: This wonderfully
funny, bittersweet, and
inventive picture will
headlock even the most
cynical-hearted viewer
and turn him or her into
emotional mush.
Clipped premieres on TBS on

Tuesday, June 16, at
10 p.m. It stars ASHLEY
TISDALE, 29 (High
School Musical), as one
of several very different
high school classmates
who find themselves
working at a barbershop. It was created by
the team of MAX
MUTCHNIK, 49, and
DAVID KOHAN, 51, who
are best known as the
creators of Will and
Grace and Boston
Common. Kohans
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sister, JENJI KOHAN, 45,

is now best known as
the writer/producer of
Orange is the New
Black, the hit Netflix
series. The third season
of Orange will be
released on June 12.
You probably
would recognize
actor ERIC BALFOUR,
38, even if his name
doesnt ring a bell
immediately. I noticed
him first playing Claires
dangerous boyfriend on
HBOs Six Feet Under.
Not long after, he played
Milo Pressman during
the first two seasons of
24 and returned for
the sixth season. Since
2010, he has played
Duke Crocker, a starring
role, on the SyFy
network show, Haven,
which will begin the
second half of its fifth
season in September.
Balfour is tall, dark, and
has a prominent Indianlike nose, which I guess
led some sources, a
decade ago, to claim he
had Native American ancestry. Not so both his
American Jewish parents
are of European Jewish ancestry. On May 30,
Balfour married his long
time girlfriend, fashion
designer ERIN CHIAMULON, 31. The wedding
pics seem to indicate
a rabbi conducted the
ceremony. The brides
N.B.
mother is Jewish.
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Self-expression through art
Sinai Schools special needs students display their work
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Jewish students with learning or developmental disabilities got to express their
artistic talents for the benefit of the Sinai
Schools scholarship fund last Monday in
Teaneck.
More than 70 original artworks from
sunsets and self-portraits to animal and
abstract motifs were created by 60 7- to
16-year-olds during art therapy sessions at
three Sinai locations. The artworks were
framed professionally and displayed at an
open student art show and sale at the Avenue, an event space.
The third annual Unique Inspirations
show served many purposes: Giving Sinai
students a platform for showing and selling
their artworks, helping additional families
access Sinais inclusive special-education
schools and programs for adults, and raising Sinais profile in the North Jersey community. The evening raised nearly $3,500.
Each art therapy participant from Sinais
programs at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
North Jersey in River Edge and the Joseph
Kushner Hebrew Academy and Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston
chose two or three finished projects to
donate to the show, Sinai art therapist
Sarah Tarzik said.
Our art therapy program is designed
to help children express themselves in different ways, sometimes in ways that come
more naturally for children who have difficulty expressing themselves verbally, Ms.
Tarzik said. It gives them a voice to share
their inner world whether theyre conscious of it or not and it relaxes them and
helps them engage with peers.
Ms. Tarzik works with students all year
on two- and three-dimensional artworks
executed in a variety of media, including
clay, oil pastels, acrylic and tempera paint,
and wood.
It really empowers them when they
see theyre able to create something
they never thought possible, she said.
Theyre extremely proud to show work
that they feel very connected to, that represents something personal about themselves, and they are excited about being
in the spotlight as others look at and buy
their work.
Unique Inspirations is a development of
the EmpowerArt program created by Bear
Givers, a New York-based organization that
provides children in need with opportunities to feel the pride and joy of engaging
in acts of kindness and generosity.
EmpowerArt provides an opportunity
for children with special needs or illnesses
who are constantly in the position of
PHOTOS COURTESTY SINAI SCHOOLS
receiving to showcase their artwork in

a professional gallery setting for the benefit of their schools, hospitals, and other
programs.
The empowerment program is for kids
who are usually recipients to experience
the joy of giving, Bear Givers founder Joe
Sprung of Manhattan said.
Mr. Sprung began his organization
as a vehicle for donating teddy bears to
hospitalized Israeli children in 2003, but

the focus evolved as he witnessed the emotional rewards the children earn from giving. He began exhibiting artworks made by
children in a special-needs school in the
art gallery of his Manhattan company, JBS
Financial Services.
I thought, Why not have a show where
they could be recognized for their talent? And for parents to see their kids art
displayed in a gallery setting is wonderful,

he said.
Mr. Sprung became acquainted with
Sinai when he was president of Chai Lifeline and organizing basketball marathon
fundraisers for this international Jewish
organization, which offers family-centered
programs, activities, and services for children with serious illnesses. Longtime Sinai
supporter Michael Blumenthal asked Mr.
Local
Sprung to participate in a
basketball marathon for
Sinai several years ago.
I like how Sinai is an
i n c l u s i o n s c h o o l , M r.
Sprung said. Sinai houses
its special-needs school and
its students within existing
yeshiva day schools, including RYNJ, Kushner, Torah
Academy of Bergen County,
and Maayanot Yeshiva
High School for Girls. We
reached out to them to see
if theyd like to participate
in our programs. This is our
third show together.
Sinai Dean Rabbi Yisrael
Rothwachs said the PaleyMironov art therapy program was instituted several years ago to provide an
alternative means of expression for many students who
struggle with language-based
disabilities.
I knew in theory that
art therapy was an excellent therapeutic tool, but I
never could have dreamed
how successful it would be,

or how much it would mean
to our students, Rabbi Rothwachs said.
Art therapy has opened
a window into the complicated thoughts of our students, many of whom are
suffering silently but who
discover art therapy as an
outlet for their feelings.
Through art therapy and
Sarah Tarziks talented therapeutic methods, we have
gained a better understanding of what our children are
thinking and feeling, allowing our other therapists and
teachers to address these
issues throughout the day.
We are so grateful to Steven
and Laura Paley for establishing this program, and for
continuing to support it.
Steven Paley called the
evening a home run, and
said that he was very gratified to see how the gift he
and his wife gave is making
a difference.
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An unwavering Jewish compass

As he transitions out of his CEO job, supporters talk about Avi Lewinson
JOANNE PALMER
ast week, the Kaplen JCC on the

Palisades in Tenafly announced
a major change in its professional leadership.
According to a press release, the exciting changes saw its CEO, Avi Lewinson of
Demarest, leave that position to become a
fundraising consultant. He will be replaced
in the JCCs executive suite by Jordan Shenker, who had worked for the JCC Association of North America as a consultant to
large JCCs, including to the Kaplen center.
Mr. Lewinson has been at the JCC for
25 years, and at its helm for most of that
time. Since the announcement of his role
change, his many supporters have been
reminiscing about his work there.
Maggie Kaplen and her late husband,
Bill (more correctly, Wilson R., but always
Bill), were such strong supporters of the
JCC that they lent it their names.
When I think of Avi, this is what comes
to mind work hard, aim high, keep
healthy, and stand out, Ms. Kaplen, who
lives in Tenafly, said. And thats what he
did. And not only did he do it himself, he
got the whole JCC community to share
those goals.
I spent a lot of time with him personally, she continued. I sat in class with him
for six or seven years. It was on Thursdays,
a lunch-and-learn with Reuben Kimelman. (Rabbi Kimelman is the JCCs scholar
in residence.) It was supposed to be for
staff, but I went. Only a few of us came, so
I really got to know Avi as a good friend.
And then, when Bill got so ill that I
couldnt go, at least twice a month Avi
came to visit Bill on those Thursdays, and
wonderful conversations ensued. I love
Avi. I adore him. He is a friend. He is caring. He is sensitive. He is a listener.
One of Mr. Lewinsons prime accomplishments, just about everyone agrees,
was his ability to balance the needs of all
the groups that came to the JCC. First,
there is the strong group of wealthy, successful people, who either already were
donors or had the potential to become
big givers. Next, there are the people who
are not particularly wealthy but who are
Sandra Gold
Praise mounts for Avi Lewinson, leaving his desk after 25 years at the Kaplen JCC.
Tani Foger
looking for the community and the specific programs, facilities, and education
the JCC offers. And then there are the people in need whom the JCC helps.
The Kaplen JCC, like other JCCs but to a
far larger extent than almost any other (or
perhaps that should be an unqualified any
other), is at its heart a social-service agency.
It is also an educational and social center,
and then, perhaps uniquely, it is a place
of glitter and glamour, where high-profile
people feel at home and understood. And,
of course, it is profoundly Jewish.
Avi has an unwavering Jewish compass, Tani Foger of Englewood, a psychologist and the chair of the JCCs Judaic
department, said. Under his watch, the
JCC grew and it remained Jewish.
He understood the importance of the
J in the JCC. For him, it was more than a
health club and a swimming pool and a preschool and a summer camp the revenueproducing parts of the organization. He
understood that there is a need for an institution that is grounded in our rich tradition
and culture. He was synonymous with the
J in the JCC, and that is what propelled him
and the organization forward.
That is what built this incredibly
Rabbi Reuben Kimelman
Maggie and the late Bill Kaplen
thriving and robust organization, Dr.

Foger concluded. I hope that continues. I
cant imagine the JCC without him.
Rabbi Kimelman thinks it wise to have
Mr. Lewinson continue to fundraise for the
JCC. He has a remarkable ability to sell
the center, he said. Thats because hes
so passionate about it, and he gets other
people to share his passion and vision.
He lives for the center.
Mr. Lewinson is trained as a social
worker, and that background helped
him as a fundraiser, Rabbi Kimelman
said. Fundraising is all about personal
relationships and group dynamics. By

training, he knew about personal relationships, and through experience, he learned
about group dynamics. And so he became
a consummate fundraiser.
The key to success is that it is very difficult for someone to say no to someone
they like, and whose cause they like. Most
people do not give to a what, they give to
a whom. There are many good causes out
there you invest in those people who
can excite you about the goal. That was
his specialty.
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Or, he corrected himself, one of Mr. Lewinsons

specialties. I have never known anybody else who
paid attention to every individual, no matter what their
means or their giving capacity, he said. He did not
esteem people by their wealth, and this is an unusual
and extraordinary phenomenon. The result was that he
endeared himself to a wide variety of people.
I have worked with many people who run Jewish federations, and I have rarely met anyone with that quality.
It is part of his Jewish vision. He perceives himself as a
Jewish leader, caring about all Jews.
Some Jews are financiers, some Jews are participants, and some Jews are in need. All three became his
constituents. It is very difficult to find anyone in the center who would not say that they like him personally
and hes been there over 20 years.
And then there is the question of Mr. Lewinsons
commitment to study and growth. Avi and I have been
learning Torah almost every week for years, Rabbi
Kimelman said. He is one of the few Jewish leaders
who is constantly growing Jewishly. In that sense, he is a
model for lay leaders and professionals alike.
Dr. Sandra Gold, a one-time JCC president and longtime active member, is a strong fan of Mr. Lewinsons.
From George Hantgan forward, I have had the privilege of working with every executive director who has
ever served the Englewood JCC, now renamed the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, she said. This unique
platform allows me to appreciate the integrity, executive
talent, enlightened Jewish background, dedication to living Jewish values and extraordinary ability to connect
with members, staff and lay leaders which Avi Lewinson
brought to his 25 years of visionary leadership.
It is during his tenure that our JCC attained prominence as one of the flagship community centers in North
America. Avi, steeped in the wisdom of our tradition,
possesses an ethical and moral compass well suited to
carry out the pluralistic mission of our JCC. Outreach
and inclusion are his passions; concern and respect
toward all those who seek services; and a love of both
the Center community and the community at large
motivates Avis support of vulnerable populations. Thus,
the special needs department, for example, grew significantly during his administration.
It has been a pleasure to serve with him and I look
forward to continuing our relationship as Avi transitions
to his role as consultant and mentor.
Mr. Lewinson looks back at his tenure as the JCCs CEO
with pride, dedication, and no little sense of wonder.
I dont love the gym, but I love that we have a robust
membership as a result of the gym, so that we can do the
important social-service work, he said. I love the way
it all comes together, because its for everyone.
Its a bustling, exciting community, and the lobby is
like Main Street. You see people of all ages, all sizes and
shapes, people with special needs, seniors, everybody.
Seniors we have a 105-year-old man and he sings
and he dances, and hes alive. We have seniors with
nursery-school kids; they can be 97 years old, but they
know theyre alive.
Each nursery-school kid has a grandparent who
reads on Shabbat, he continued. (He doesnt mean the
real Shabbat, which begins on sundown on Friday, but
the school Shabbat, the childrens last school day before
the weekend.) And the Orthodox are comfortable with
the secular, with Conservative and Reform, with people
who arent Jewish. Everyone is valued. Its the Jewish
people that matters and the people who arent Jewish
get to learn Jewish culture, values, and history.
Recently, Mr. Lewinson said, Ilan Ramons widow,
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about how we did a
fundraiser at the JCC
after the Japanese
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SSDS Class of 2011 at their 8th Grade Graduation
AVI LEWINSON
Rona Ramon, spoke at the JCC. Her husband, who was

in the Israeli Air Force, was onboard the space shuttle
Columbia when it blew up in 2003. Years earlier, Mr.
Lewinson had met Mr. Ramon, and had been touched
by his kindness.
And I think about Hurricane Sandy, and how we
helped, and about how we did a fundraiser at the JCC
after the Japanese tsunami hit, Mr. Lewinson said.
Thats what we do at the JCC.
He is now involved in developing an ambitious international program that takes 30 JCCs 10 from the
United States, 10 from Israel, and 10 from around the
rest of the world and brings them together physically if possible, virtually if not through music. The
Kaplen JCC would be matched with sister organizations
in Romania, Bulgaria, and Israel.
I have gotten to do amazing things, meet amazing
people, and run amazing programs, Mr. Lewinson said.
Its been a good run.
His emotions run deep. I love my staff, he continued. Theyre my family. (Of course, they are not his
only family; he and his wife, Susan Shlanger, have two
sons, Elie and Jacob.) Through good times and bad,
we have been there for each other. I care about them
deeply, and I look forward to working with them in a
different way.
He plans to keep fundraising for the JCC, but I am
going to get another job, he said. I love this community.
I will be doing a little bit of development at the center,
but I am looking at the next chapter. Im excited! People
will still see me at the center hopefully Ill be exercising.
There have been some major personnel changes at
the JCC lately. Its CFO, Danny Rocke, has been gone
since February, and its COO, Deann Forman, who is
now the CEO of the Riverdale YM-YWHA, since last fall.
Those positions have been filled by interims.
The centers president, Tina Guberman, left that
position in April; the volunteer job was filled by Danny
Rubin, who was interim. The JCCs new president, JoJo
Rubach of Tenafly, who was installed at the May 17 board
meeting, said, Tina was supposed to put in a two-year
stint, and she did. She left about a month before the
annual meeting, when the new officers are voted in.
But generally the outgoing president gives the State of
the Center speech at that meeting. Moreover, the board
presidents term, which had been set at two years and
was renewable once, had been changed to a nonrenewable three years. Ms. Gubermans term in office would
have ended next year.
We are thankful for the 20-plus years that Avi has
served us, Mr. Rubach said.
Mr. Lewinson will transition to his fundraising
duties and Mr. Shenker will take over the reins as
CEO on June 15.
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
f three high school boys put many

months of work into tricking out a
walker not a bike, a walker you
know there has to be a mighty strong
motivation pushing the project along.
For Justin Sohn, Izzy Selter, and Harry
Kramer, all students at the Frisch School
in Paramus, that motivation was a strong
interest in engineering, combined with the
tools to create a useful health-related product. The interest was innate; the tools came
courtesy of CIJE-Tech, a discovery-focused
interactive curriculum for Jewish high
schools including Frisch, developed in collaboration with the Israel Sci-Tech network
of schools and New York-based Center for
Initiatives in Jewish Education.
CIJE-Tech offers a year each of scientific and biomedical engineering geared to
introducing a diverse range of science and
technical knowledge while encouraging
multidisciplinary and abstract thinking as
well as leadership and teamwork skills. CIJE
also provides intensive teacher training and
mentoring and it also gives students laboratory equipment.
At the end of May, all 100 Frisch students
in Rifkie Silvermans CIJE-Tech classes presented their three-person projects at a science symposium that packed the Paramus
schools cafeteria. The symposium also featured posters describing college-level bioresearch by 25 juniors in Dr. Mindy Furmans
elective course through the Waksman Student Scholars Program at Rutgers University.
The projects encompassed researching a
problem to solve, finding out what else is out
there to solve that problem, and researching
the parts for making a prototype product,
Ms. Silverman said. Working in threes, the
students are given a budget. We order the
parts and then they have to look up schematics and figure out how to use the microcontroller to read the parts. Every project uses
sensors to gather info from the environment
and process that information and do something useful with it.
Our project was a smart walker, said Justin, a sophomore from Englewood. We did
a lot of research and there were no trickedout walkers on the market to enhance quality of life. People using walkers cant always
see whats on the ground and dont want to
be looking down constantly. So we calculated
the distance between the walker and the next
object in front of it, and if that object is within
four inches the walker vibrates, indicating
theres something ahead. Another feature
was pressure sensors on the handles, displaying how much pressure is being applied from
each hand.
Too much could lead to scoliosis, or
off-balance pressure could lead to falling,
Justin explained.
Its incredibly
eye-opening and
inspiring. Their
projects are quite
sophisticated
in terms of
programming
and circuitry.
RIFKIE SILVERMAN
Ben Katz and Greg Presser demonstrate their Painterbot.
Sammy Friedman, Daniel Koenig, and

Bracha Getter created this hand signer.
In addition, every group was required to

design and make something using a part
printed on the schools 3D printer. Ours
was a pillbox with three compartments for
morning, noon and evening, and at the correct time that section would light up, Justin
said. We found existing pillboxes that made
noise, but none that light up.
Bracha Getter, a Fair Lawn sophomore,
and two other 10th-graders created a hightech glove that transmits sign-language
gestures onto an LCD screen. One of
my group partners was learning sign language, and I have a friend whose sister is
deaf and Ive learned a few words in sign
language, she said.
Bracha also worked with two seniors to
build a Shabbos lock to bypass the problem
of hotel room doors that open electronically.
Strictly Sabbath-observant travelers need a
workaround solution, because the direct use
of electricity is forbidden. If youre in the
hallway near your room and your key is in
Shabbos mode, it will lock and unlock your
door automatically, and in regular mode you
can open the door with the click of a button,
Bracha said.
The latter project was inspired not only by
a practical need but also by Frischs launch
of a guided independent-study elective in
cooperation with Israels nonprofit Zomet
Gabriel Dardik presents his research

data on the isolation of a plant protein.
Institute, which designs high-tech solutions

for modern needs within the boundaries of
Jewish law such as telephones, pens, and
keyboards for medical personnel that do
not violate Sabbath restrictions on writing
and electricity.
Frisch students who chose to design prototypes of Sabbath-compliant devices received
feedback from Zomet engineers, and the
institutes Rabbi Binyamin Zimmerman came
to speak to them about the institutes work.
A huge component of my engineering program is contact with professionals in action,
Ms. Silverman said. I invite parents, alumni,
and friends to speak about everything from
intellectual property laws to animation engineering, computer science, and telecommunications. We observe live robotic surgery at
NYU Medical Center. We take a trip to Google
to see their engineers at work.
Bergenfield freshman Benjamin Katz said
he took the course because his older brother
recommended it, and went in without any
knowledge of coding. Toward the end we
were pretty good at it, he said.
For his project, he and Gregory Presser

and Zechariah Hahn rigged up a joystick that
allows a user to draw on paper. Pressing different buttons on the stick produces different colors. Like everyone else, they had to
deal with some glitches a motor that wasnt
powerful enough, a joystick that broke but
its all part of the learning experience. Ive
learned more in engineering than in any
other subject this year, Benjamin said.
Frisch started a branch of the international Girls Who Code club, mindful of the
White House Office on Science and Technologys goal to encourage more girls to pursue careers in the so-called STEM subjects
science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics.
Dr. Furmans bioinformatics elective
includes nine female and 16 male juniors.
Nicole Aranoff of Teaneck said she was
always interested in biology and liked the
idea of a challenge. I learned so much and
it really broadened my horizons, she said.
I think the course has opened me to the
idea of possibly continuing in some sort of
scientific research.
The Waksman Student Scholars Program
engages high school students in an authentic research project. They acquire their
own original data and have it published for
use by scientists all over the world, Dr. Furman said.
The class researched duckweed, a plant
with potential to be used as a biofuel and a
water purifier. But we dont know a lot about
the genomes and proteins it codes for, she
said. Rutgers prepared a library containing
pieces of the duckweed genome and they
sent us those pieces of DNA cloned into bacteria. The project involves growing the bacteria
and making many copies, then studying the
gene youve isolated. The kids are involved in
all the aspects of growing the colonies with
techniques they would learn in a molecular
biology class in college, with a very sophisticated set of lab techniques.
Once they purify the DNA, we send it back
to Rutgers and they return the sequence. The
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with genetics, and with the biotechnical
revolution, he said. That and the rise of
Asia and China are two of the biggest drivers of change in our era.
More specifically, about biotech and
genetics I think they are going to
change aspects of who we are as human
beings on a fundamental level, he said.
Scientists knowledge, and along with it
their ability to perform what not long ago
would have seemed like miracles, is growing quickly. Our understanding of the
practical and moral implications of that
growth is not growing as fast.
We have so many amazing scientists,
but sometimes it is hard for them to see
the big picture, Dr. Metzl said. Thats
because they are so caught up in it. Thats
the crazy thing; the science of genetic
engineering is advancing so rapidly, and
our society is on the verge of big change.
But were not really talking about it.
In the near term, the genetic revolution will be in embryo selection, Dr. Metzl
said. In fact, there already have been
advances in fertility treatments, and we
have the technology to screen out singlegene mutations for things like Tay-Sachs,
and Huntingtons disease, and others.
Soon we will have enough knowledge of
the human genome to be able to screen
for so-called positive attributes, like intelligence, or height, or anything with a
genetic foundation.
Such ability, of course, is not a straightforwardly good thing. As befitting an idea
of great complexity, its very complicated.
The positive spin is that there is a chance
to eliminate genetic disease and optimize
our offspring, but the negative spin is that
it has the potential to become a form of
eugenics.
And no group is as sensitive to the
issue of eugenics as Jews are, he said.
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specifically to do embryo selection.
That will allow us to eliminate most
genetic diseases, so over time people will
come to see many of the genetic diseases
as disease of choice, that for ideological
reasons people have chosen not to screen.
Over time, the idea of conceiving children
through sex will be seen as an ideological
choice equivalent to not immunizing your
children, or being a Christian Scientist.
Although that might seem to be a class
issue richer people can afford all sorts of
fancy techniques outside the reach of the
plebes its not necessarily so, Dr. Metz
said. With the cost of IVF and genome
sequencing going down, it will become less
expensive to screen for genetic diseases
than to treat them, over the course of a lifetime. When that happens, governments
and insurance companies will become huge
stakeholders who will want to have people
screen their embryos.
Moreover, he added, stem cells are at
their best when they are taken from fiveday-old embryos; when children are born
through IVF, doctors will be able to take
and store their stem cells. That means that

personalized medicine which uses
those stem cells is likely to be the medicine of the future.
On the other hand, There are huge
dangers in reducing the genetic diversity
of the human species, he said. And to get
all science-fiction-y, it is possible that the
fact that there always will be some people
who would have babies the traditional way
would lead to the creation of an underclass, and it might be that in 200 years or
so there would be a significant IQ difference between those groups, Dr. Metz said.
To a horrified listener, it evokes images
of H.G. Wells Time Machine, with the
human-descended Morlocks preying on
the Eloi, another but differently humandescended group.
I am not for or against the idea that
that advances in genetics, IVF techniques,
and personalized medicine will lead to this
strange new world, Dr. Metz said. I am an
agnostic on that.
What I know is that this technology is
coming, and different societies will make
different decisions, and they all will have
huge implications.
Now is the time to have meaningful conversations about these issues and implications. Unfortunately, we are not having that
Seventh-grader Chana Berkman and sixth-grader Evan Block talk to Mr. Metzl.
Daniel Jaye, the schools director of academic affairs, is in the background.
conversation as often as we should.
The future is pretty close, he added.
I spoke to sixth- and seventh-graders
I believe that every one of them will be
touched by this technology. Its here now,
in one generation or less. Thats what
people dont understand. I am not talking
about some technology in the future. This
technology already exists.
It is exciting and it is terrifying, and the
exciting and terrifying pieces are interwoven. That is the challenge.

Children educated in a day school are
well up to meeting that challenge, he
added. These sixth- and seventh-graders were as sophisticated as any group I
talk to. Their Talmud training has taught
them to grapple with complicated issues,
when there is no right or wrong, but a
process of exploration.
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New German pension benefits have

become available to ghetto survivors. Beit
Ahava VeTorah, an organization that advocates for Holocaust survivors, is looking
for help in finding them so they can apply
for the benefits. Dr. Wallace Greene of Fair
Lawn who has taught Holocaust studies
at Upsala College, was among the first to
debunk the Holocaust deniers, is a consultant to the International March of The
Living, has produced the Yom Hashoah
programs at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and is
active in local Holocaust memorials is
spearheading the groups efforts.
The funds are newly available because
the German government stipulates that
forced laborers in the ghettos qualify for a
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pension. Elderly, frail, and impoverished

Holocaust survivors should be notified that
if they worked in a Nazi ghetto they can
apply for new pension benefits. Ads must
be placed in Jewish newspapers in cities
with large populations of Holocaust survivors. PSAs, radio interviews, and newspaper stories including in this paper have
started this process. However the group
feels that repeated newspaper ads will
direct survivors to apply for the benefits.
Beit Ahava VeTorah has no salaried staff
or office expenses. All funds collected will
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Jonathan Sacks should tell Jews to

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n our story about Avi Lewinson, we quote many

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Here, in this space, we are able to eliminate that
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Avi Lewinson is a gem of a man. His love for the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades, filtered as always through his Jewish heart and soul and his social-workers eyes, is pure,
unstinting, and unending. Those of us who have had children in JCC programs knew that wed see him at dropoff or pick-up, and that hed know our kids names. Wed
known that although he is a preternaturally gifted fundraiser, his interest in those of us who did not have funds
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And then there were all the performances, the talks, and
the communal responses to joy and tragedy and natural
disaster that so mark the JCC.
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of his gifted midwifery.
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are glad to learn that he will keep his hand in fundraising
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his week, Englands former chief rabbi, Lord

Jonathan Sacks, gave a speech described by
the media as doom and gloom at a conference
in Herzliya.
Rabbi Sacks admitted a belief that the BDS movement had succeeded in making the state of Israel a
divisive factor in Jewish life, and he claimed that as a
result, supporting Israel was almost impossible for
European Jews.
It was an astonishingly defeatist speech, which is
troubling enough. But most disturbing was the false
dichotomy he presented to European Jews. In his own
troubling words, he said, Jews have been faced with a
choice: live in Europe and criticize Israel
or be silent, or leave Europe In other
words, the only solutions left for Europes
Jewish community is to embrace and succumb to BDS or get out. What he shockingly neglected to mention is the obvious
third option: to stay in Europe, embrace
Israel, and fight for the Jewish state.
I was personally saddened by Rabbi
Sacks most recent remarks. I served as
Rabbi
rabbi at Oxford University for 11 years, Shmuley
and at first I was his biggest public cham- Boteach
pion. His eloquence in promoting Judaism
was thrilling. But as time went by and he
refused to use his considerable pulpit, not to mention
his extraordinary gifts, to fight for Israel and against the
anti-Semites, he gradually lost me.
In all the years Rabbi Sacks spent as chief rabbi, all
would agree that he had few equals in his mastery of
language. That is what makes it all the more mystifying
that he would not use that mastery in the war for the
Jewish state. His chief rabbinate must be judged a failure,
and not only because Anglo-Jewry continued to diminish under his watch. Rather, the phenomenal growth of
anti-Semitism and attacks against Israel while he was in
office, without his joining the battle, rendered his leadership obsolete.
Under his watch, the BBC, to which he had unlimited
access, began to orient itself toward demonizing Israel.
The British universities, where he was and remains
highly respected, likewise ran roughshod over Israel.
Yet, though he was undoubtedly the one who could have
done it, he didnt defend Israel, either in the media or
on campus.
Im not sure what Rabbi Sacks was thinking. Perhaps
he thought defending Israel in the media would brand
him as partisan, or that doing so on campus would chip
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hoped to use to promote Jewish ideas. Maybe he thought
it would all be futile, that the tide turning against Israel
was not something he could stop. I cannot enter the
mans mind. But whatever the reason, it was a stunning
abrogation of leadership.
By 2008, after about 18 years at the helm of British
Jewry, Rabbi Sacks was forced to give a speech where
he admitted that Jewish students were feeling intimidated on campus. We hope that university vice-chancellors will recognize the feeling of vulnerability that
Jewish students have expressed at many university
campuses, he said.
And it was not only his passivity but his
active criticism of Israel that may have contributed to the hostility. That includes the
infamous interview he gave to the Guardian in 2002. There, he said of the IDF that
there are things that happen on a daily
basis which make me feel very uncomfortable as a Jew. In the same interview, he
said the prolonged conflict had generated
hatreds and insensitivities that are corrupting to a culture and said so about
Israel. And even now, when European Jews
are deeply concerned about their safety
and experiencing rejection on an international scale, he tells them, essentially, to give up.
Interestingly, just days before Rabbi Sacks spoke in
Herzliya I was in Las Vegas, speaking at a conference
hosted by Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson and Haim
Saban. Far from admitting defeat, these modern Maccabees brought together 50 Jewish organizations in order
to arrange and coordinate an effective counter-offensive
to take on BDS and eventually bring it down.
The contrast between the two responses is vast. A
refusal to fight for Israel stems from long-standing Jewish fears and self-doubt dating all the way back to the
story captured in this weeks Torah reading, Shelach,
where the spies tell Moses that they saw terrifying giants
in Israel, creatures that could not be defeated. We
appeared in their eyes as if we were grasshoppers, and
so we appeared in our own eyes as well, they said.
But the willingness to stand up for the Jewish state
rises from Jewish courage and pride. The former
Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the founder of the
World Values Network and the author of 30 books,
including the about-to-be-released The Israel Warriors
Handbook. Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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response incites despair and acceptance of the status

quo, while the latter inspires a willingness to stand
and bring change.
The essence of leadership is not great oratory or
striking eloquence but moral courage. Moses, the
archetype of all Jewish leaders, was a stutterer. Lincoln, too, the greatest of all American presidents, had
a high-pitched, raspy voice. Although when they are
read his speeches are considered (by myself especially) to be some of the greatest ever delivered, when
they were spoken aloud they were mocked and jeered
at by much of the American press. That is particularly
true of the Gettysburg address. But Moses risked his
life and princely standing to combat a single injustice, the beating of a slave by his master. Retaining his
social position among the Egyptian aristocracy meant
nothing to him. And Lincoln embraced widespread
unpopularity and eventually gave up his life to bring
the greatest injustice in American history to an end.
What made Lincoln a leader was the moral conviction that slavery was an absolute evil that had to be
defeated while the Union was an unalloyed good that
had to be defended.
Winston Churchill was dismissed as a drunk and a
crank by the British for sounding the alarm against Hitler. But his steadfastness in combating evil, while being
despised for it, is what saved Western civilization.
You might have thought that Jonathan Sacks, having retired from his post as chief rabbi, would have
been freed from political and communal constraints
and would have embraced a more courageous stance
on Israel and the Jewish people. Instead, in Herzliya he
strangely succumbed to despair.
With all due respect to Rabbi Sacks, his is an
approach that world Jewry must reject. Of course BDS
is intimidating. Thats exactly its point. But when we
are threatened by such morally debased foes as the
proponents of BDS, the last thing we can do is fall victim to their scare tactics. On the contrary, we have to
fight back. We have to become Maccabees. And Maccabees, above all else, are men and women who are
willing to fight against the odds, against enemies far
larger than themselves, because they know that they
can bend history toward their righteous will.
The Maccabee holds a firm faith in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., that The arc of the moral universe
is long, but it bends toward justice.
We know that Israels cause is just. Let us just have
faith that we can bend the world toward the recognition of its outstanding righteousness.
he results of the elections for the American delCongress election, the Conservative movement should have
egation to the 37th World Zionist Congress are
come out on top, with the Reform as a close second.
worth reflecting on. While the election plays a
That is, according to Pew, 10.3 percent of American
key role in influencing the policies of the World
Jewry should be Conservatives who are very attached
Zionist movement and in mapping the Israel-Diaspora relato Israel, 9.6 percent should be Reform who are very
tionship, the data are also important as an insightful index
attached to Israel, and 3.1 percent should be modern
into the nature of the American Jewish community.
Orthodox who are very attached to Israel. While we can
The big headline is the success of ARZA, representing
crunch numbers here in any combination of variables,
the Reform movement, coming out on top. It won 56 of
what we see is that the modern Orthodox community
the 145 seats allocated to the American delegation; the
did very well in the election, given its small percentage
Congress has 500 seats overall. What strikes me is that
of the American Jewish population.
the 39 percent the Reform movement won here matches
The fact that its delegation dropped by seven delegates since the last election can be credited only to the
with almost scientific precision the Reform movements
extent of ARZAs victory. Because the size of the Reform
share of religiously identified American Jews in the 2013
delegation, as we found, matches its share of the AmeriPew report. The Pew report found that 40 percent of
can Jewish population, the Reform movement exceeded
religiously identified American Jews (as opposed to Jewswhat could have been expected if only those who were
by-ethnicity-only) call themselves Reform.
very attached to Israel voted.
The Pew report made an interesting methodological distinction between Jews by reliThe 25 seats won by Mercaz USA represent
gion and Jews of no religion. While many
17 percent of the total, which, again, comes
are concerned about growing rates of secuclose to the 22 percent of Jews by religion who
larization, secularization is a process that has
identify as Conservative according to Pew.
been going on for 200 years, and the Pew
While the Conservatives should have done a
report found that 4.2 of the 5.3 million Jews in
little better given that there are more Conservative Jews who are very attached to Israel
America indeed are Jews by religion. American Jewish identity, as opposed to Israeli Jewthan there are similarly attached Reform or
ish identity, is still defined through religion.
Orthodox Jews, there is no doubt that some
Rabbi Dr.
This fact is made clear through the Zionist
of those very attached to Israel ConservaDavid J.
tive Jews voted for other parties. (I say this
Congress elections, where three quarters of
Fine
because, among other data, some of them are
the American delegation 109 out of 145 represent parties affiliated with religious movelisted on the slates of other parties.) What was
ments. Additionally, a vote for one of the secular parties
interesting was that the total number of votes for Mercaz
does not necessarily mean that the voter does not identify
USA was 9,890, which compares very closely to the 9,594
with Judaism as a religion. However, the elections results
votes for the Religious Zionists.
show that the religious leadership has a mandate to speak
This is interesting to me because I often have been in
for the Jewish community.
conversations where people have tried to convince me
The Mercaz USA faction, representing the Conservaof the futility of Conservative Judaism, saying that Contive movement in the United States, won 25 delegates,
servative Jews commitment to Jewish tradition is (allegedly) minimal as compared to the Orthodox world. My
and the Religious Zionists have 24. Even combined, the
response often has been that if we look at absolute numparties representing Conservative and Orthodox groups
bers as opposed to percentages within congregations, the
still have fewer delegates than the Reform movement
numbers are probably very similar.
does. This result again matches the Pew report, where
That is, across the board, there are probably just as many
22 percent and 12 percent of Jews by religion identify as
very committed Conservative Jews as there are Orthodox
Conservative and Orthodox respectively, as compared to
but the Conservative Jewish population is dispersed across
the 40 percent who identify as Reform.
the country, while the Orthodox population is more concenThe disparity is found when you consider how well
trated. The Zionist Congress elections, more than the Pew
the Religious Zionists did in the elections as compared
report, show that the numbers of strongly committed modto Mercaz USA. According to the Pew report, only 4 percent of the 12 percent of Jews by religion identifying as
ern Orthodox and Conservative Jews are roughly equivalent.
Orthodox are in fact modern Orthodox. And as mod(Of course, I am not counting the ultra-Orthodox population
ern Orthodoxy is the wellspring of religious Zionism, we
in this comparison.)
have here also an extraordinary success story, where 4
Overall, the results of the Zionist Congress elections
percent of the total has won 17 percent of the Congress
show us that a working alliance between the Reform and
delegates (or 24 of 145 seats).
Conservative movements will control the majority of the
The disparity is understandable, however, when we look
American Jewish delegation, which was to be expected.
at the Pew findings on emotional attachment to Israel. The
At the same time, the election results contribute to our
report found that 77 percent of modern Orthodox Jews were
understanding of the pluralism of voices that make up
very attached to Israel, as opposed to 47 percent of ConAmerican Jewry. That is a very positive contribution that
servatives and 24 percent of Reform. However, if we adjust
we can all make to world Jewry.
the Pew numbers on the denominational breakdown of
American Jewry to consider only those very attached to
Dr. David J. Fine is rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish
Israel, as that is the group most likely to vote in the Zionist
Community Center in Ridgewood.
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A view from the pew

The present as a gift
he May 28 Jewand a congregational rabbi, I

ish Standard news
find the underlying message
report on the
of this study challenging, but
Rockland County
not necessarily pessimistic.
Federation survey of the nonTo me, it is a proof text of a
Orthodox Jewish community
theory I have been wrestling
(Why do they leave?) serves
with for a number of years
as a proof text for the growing
that the crisis in American
disconnect between Jews and
Jewish life is due to the fact
Rabbi Neal I.
the institutions of our Jewish
that we are trying to relate
Borovitz
community.
to post-modern 21st-century
Yet the study also found
Jews through institutions that
that the percentage of unafwere built by my parents genfiliated Jews who positively identify as Jews
eration, the post WWII Jews who created
remains high. While we have focused upon
American Jewish suburban life.
synagogue affiliation rates, I have no doubt
These institutions are no longer speaking
that if we looked at the numbers of contribto the perceived and unperceived needs of
utors to federation campaigns, we would
21st-century American Jews.
see a similar drop, and a similar trend in
The business model of the suburban synagogue was based on young families joining a
federation donors as the Rockland survey shows about synagogue members. An
congregation when their first child entered
immediate response to this survey, and to
religious school and staying as members
the overall trend of declining rates of affiliat least through the bar or bat mitzvah of
ation and participation among American
their youngest child. Today, non-Orthodox
Jews, is to scream oy gevalt.
Jews marry later and have fewer children at
From the perspective of two years of
an older age. The majority of Jews, like our
retirement from the pulpit, and the freedom
Christian neighbors whose churches are
not only to participate actively in a variety
facing a parallel crisis in membership and
of synagogue and non-synagogue based
financial support saw membership as a
Jewish experiences, but also to reflect on
communal norm. In northern New Jersey
my own career in Jewish life, as both a Hillel
and Rockland counties, where every town
has its own government and school system,

synagogues and churches sprung up in
every township in the post WWII era. People identified strongly with their town,
their school, and their synagogue. This
was still somewhat true when I came to
River Edge in 1988.
By the next decade the rise of the Internet
sparked a revolutionary change in the way
people define community. Its no longer
where they live. Instead, often a community
is based upon shared interests. It can exist
in cyberspace as well as in a physical place.
Moreover, as Jewish density in our community decreased and the cost of maintaining our synagogue and JCC structures and
staffing increased, middle-class disposable
income remained static. Except for Orthodox Jews, who need synagogues within
walking distance, American Jews both the
younger generation and my generation of
retirees feel less and less tied geographically or institutionally. The crisis facing both
churches and synagogues and YMCAs and
JCCs is compounded by the fact that we live
in a fee-for-service atmosphere. People will
say, seemingly guilt-free, something I heard
so many times in my last decade as rabbi in
River Edge: Rabbi, I have no problems with
the temple, I just dont need to belong right
now. If I need you in the future, Ill rejoin.
The question, of course, is whether there
will be a church or synagogue left to rejoin.
The recent Rockland County Jewish
community survey proves that my anecdotal experiences are representative of the
challenge facing our community. Over the

past two years I have thought a lot about the
institutional changes we need to respond to
the changing demographics of American
Jews, to transmit to millennials the values
of Judaism, and to instill in the next generations of American Jews the responsibility for
Jewish survival here in America, in Israel,
and around the world, that I inherited from
my parents and grandparents. The story
about the Rockland County Jewish communal study, motivates me to call upon you,
my fellow Jewish community members,
to come together, to talk openly and honestly about how we can proactively reform,
renew, and recreate our Jewish community,
before we reach the crisis that our neighbors to our north are confronting today.
Thanks to the vision and generosity of
Henry Taub, of blessed memory, and the
leadership of Leon Sokol, the founding chair
of the JFNNJ Synagogue Leadership Initiative,
and Judy Beck, the SLI founding director, our
community has a table around which we can
and we must gather to engage in open
and honest evaluation of how our Jewish
communal institutions, from our synagogues
to our JCC, family service agencies, and longterm care facilities can work better together.
I remember that one of the goals that Henry
Taub and Leon Sokol detailed at the the inauguration of the Synagogue Leadership Initiative, at the end of the 20th century, was to
overcome competitiveness between Jewish
organizations by encouraging collaboration
and innovation.
Freedom in Jersey City, extreme caution toward Iran
he great American
scholar and Rabbi
Abraham Joshua
Heschel wrote,
Judaism revolves around
three sacred entities: God,
Torah, Israel. The Jew never
stands alone before God; the
Torah and Israel are always
Mayor
with him. He continues, It
Fulop
is not only a certain quality
in the souls of the individuals
that is Jewish but it is primarily involvement and participation in the covenant and community of Israel.
So we rely upon my Jewish experience and
belief in our involvement and participation in
the civic life of American society. When we
do what is right, what is just, what is merciful,
when we abide by the tenets we have learned
by living in the Jewish community, then we
begin to experience the good and the holy.
As Rabbi Heschel instructed, what we do as
individuals may be trivial; what we attain as
Israel causes us to grow into the infinite.
The Jewish values that I learned in this synagogue and in my parents home have been
the basis for my understanding of service and
the need to build the city, and to make the
world a safer and better place

for all in my little small way.
The Statute of Liberty,
which I see many morning
when I run, is the iconic American expression of freedom. To
the immigrant it is America.
That really is the most basic of
Jewish values. The yearning for
Steven
freedom resonates throughout
the entirety of Jewish tradition. The Exodus story of the
ancient Israelites is the journey from slavery to freedom. So is the story
of the fortress of Masada, where more than
900 Jews committed suicide so they could die
in freedom rather than submit to slavery.The
central premise of freedomin Jewish thought
has various implications. There is always the
emphasis on the rights of the outsider. As
Exodus says, Do not oppress a stranger, for
you know the heart of a stranger for once
you were strangers in the land of Egypt. For
me, that value is enshrined in understanding
Jersey City as a beacon to immigrants, to all
peoples, both insiders and outsiders.
Whether educating the children of illegal
aliens who are born in this country, changing
the immigration laws of this nation to provide
Steven Fulop strides up to the flag-bedecked podium outside Jersey Citys Hall
on his inauguration day.
for just and equitable determinations for citizenship, or providing basic health care at
the local community hospital, our tradition
commands us to be responsible and just to
all immigrants. It is also among the most basic
and cherished of American values.
As Jews, we also must be mindful of
tzedakah. While the word often is translated

as charity in English, in Hebrew the meaning is closer to righteousness and fairness.
Indeed, the Hebrew root of the word tzedakah is tzedek, which means justice. In
contrast to St. Pauls concept of charity, giving
to those in need is not viewed as a generous,
Letters
Since I am not far enough into retirement to
have forgotten the 24/7 demands on the time
of our Jewish professionals, nor the limited
time and financial resources of our lay leaders,
I know that finding the time and resources to
gather community leaders for the type of planning and evaluation process I am proposing will
be difficult. I believe passionately, however, that
the Jewish year 5776 has the potential to be as
revolutionary for our community as 1776 was
for America. That is, if the lay, rabbinic, and
professional leaders of our community, like
the founders of our great nation, are willing to
write and sign a declaration of interdependence
where we proclaim our intent to re-examine
our communal structures. Our goal must be to
become more responsible and responsive to
both the Jewish past and the Jewish future.
Moreover, I believe that our northern New
Jersey Jewish community can be a model for
the rest of American Jewry. In asking our community to undergo what amounts to a communal act of chesbon hanefesh, a self-accounting of the soul, I am reminded of a quote of
unknown origin that often is attributed to
Eleanor Roosevelt. To me, it describes the
state of American Jewish life and the challenge
that lays before us:
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is called the present because
it is a gift.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz is rabbi emeritus of Temple
Avodat Shalom in River Edge and past chair of
the Jewish Community Relations Council of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
magnanimous act. It is simply an act of justice. It

is the right thing to do. It is the performance of a
duty prescribed. Thus, tzedekah is ensuring that
the community is treating equitably, that government is not the province of the wealthy but the
servant of the entire community.
Thus in Jersey City we have striven to bridge
the gap between communities that have been
neglected, investing money to increase open
space in areas that have been neglected, and
to grow our police department to create safer
neighborhoods.
Justice, righteousness, and freedom are integrated through the idealized vision articulated at
the core of Judaism. Each of us is called to make
a unique contribution to improving the world.
Each of us can show tikkun olam. This spirit is
strongly exhibited by Jewish involvement toward
advancing social justice, which is especially mindful of protecting the rights of the marginalized.
For me, that is most recognizable in our work
on prisoner reentry. Every single person deserves
a second chance, and we are making sure that it is
possible in Jersey City. But while we put the ideals
of tzedekah and tikkun olam and social justice at
the pinnacle of importance, we are showing that
it is wrong to think that these ideas cant exist as
we try to drive a strong local economy. To chose
between those values and nurturing a strong
economy would be to make a false choice. We
are doing both in Jersey City.
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Its time for solutions
I read with great interest Rabbi Engelmayers column, Jeopardizing the Jewish future ( June 6). I wholeheartedly agree with
the thrust of the piece. Paying for Jewish education certainly is
a communal responsibility, and many parents are just not able
to afford it on their own.
Had Rabbi Engelmayer penned this column 5 to 10 years
ago, I would have been the first to applaud. But the rabbi
either is ignoring or is unaware of three major initiatives
started in Bergen County over the past few years that are big
steps in the right direction towards solving the tuition crisis
one on the revenue side, one on the cost side, and one in
the political arena.
Lets start with the revenue side. In 2008, under the leadership of Sam Moed, a group of lay leaders representing the
seven (now eight) Bergen County day schools formed an organization Jewish Education for Generations ( JEFG) whose
goal was to address the long-term problem of Jewish day
school affordability. A hallmark of JEFG was the inclusion of
Jewish day schools across denominations and a commitment
to a broad coalition.
In the spring of 2009, we launched NNJKIDS (www.nnjkids.
org), whose goal was to do precisely what Rabbi Engelmayer
is advocating creating a fund that would be supported by the
entire Jewish community, regardless of whether a family had
children in day school or not, much like the American system
of property taxes.
A key driver of NNJKIDS was (and still is) rabbinic support.
The unfortunate reality is that while the Orthodox rabbinate
enthusiastically supported the program, support from nonOrthodox rabbis was virtually nonexistent. And this showed
in the results. At its peak, over 30 percent of Orthodox Jewish
families were regular contributors to NNJKIDS, while the number of non-Orthodox donors was negligible.
If Rabbi Engelmayer really is interested in doing something
toward the stated goal in his column, instead of organizing
a summit meeting between our two rabbinic organizations,
Id suggest that he start with the New Jersey Board of Rabbis
and convince them that this is a cause they should support. I
am fairly certain that once again 100 percent of the members
of the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County will support communal funding of Jewish day schools.
Now on to the cost side. Rabbi Engelmayer ignores the
establishment of Yeshivat HeAtid (www.yeshivatheatid.org),
now finishing its third year at a tuition 40 percent below
that of the average Jewish day school in Bergen County. His
statement that depending on grade and school, elementary
school tuition plus fees ranged from $13,000 to $25,000 is
factually incorrect, as Yeshivat HeAtid charges a total of $9,170
all in, with no additional fees.
Yeshivat HeAtid is using cutting-edge methodologies and
technologies to substantially lower the costs of delivering
a Jewish education. And the results have been impressive.
From standardized test scores to parental satisfaction, Yeshivat HeAtid has proven that a high quality dual curriculum
can be delivered at a substantially lower cost than traditional
alternatives.
While the price point still may be too high for some families,
this is a huge step in the right direction, as is evidenced by
Yeshivat HeAtid requiring only about 1 percent of its budget for
financial aid, versus 10 to 20 percent for the typical day school
in Bergen County. We could use talented people like Rabbi
Englemayer to further the availability and the excellence of
these promising new cost-effective educational models.
Finally, a major new initiative called TEACH NJS was
launched last week, as reported in this very newspaper
(Put this at the top of our agenda) to access greater state
funding for day schools and other parochial schools. The
effort is supported by virtually all of the day schools in our
state, is cross-denominational, and is supported by multiple federations along with the Orthodox Union. Once again,
this is an amazing opportunity for the full range of rabbinic
leadership and their communities to aggressively champion

this cause.
Rabbi Engelmayer, I invite you to join all efforts to make
Jewish education affordable for all. Support the idea that every
Jewish family should contribute towards Jewish education, get
involved in supporting educational models that lower the cost
of providing that education, and get support and get involved
with TEACH NJS. If for whatever reason you dont find these
initiatives to your liking, feel free to create, organize, and
execute your own ideas. But the time for complaining is over.
There are many community leaders hard at work at solving
the problem. Id respectfully ask that you relinquish the company of those who just write about the problem and join those
of us actively working to solve it.
Gershon Distenfeld
Bergenfield
Founder NNJKIDS
Chairman of the Board, Yeshivat HeAtid
More about the Jewish future
Last week, Shammai Engelmayers column (Jeopardizing the

Jewish future) focused on the financial woes of Jewish day
school education. My family experienced the problem firsthand, from the closing of a local Schechter high school eight
years ago. The loss still stings.
He prescribes a meeting of two local rabbinic boards. (Our
area probably is the only place with not one but two separate groups of rabbis.) A meeting of diverse minds and persuasions, in partnership with local educators, is said to be the
key to solving a financial problem. Maybe.
In the adjacent column (Common sense), Dena Croog
describes a Jewish response to mental illness. She highlights
a local support group that meets twice a month. Ms. Croog is
doing great work, and her group may grow to meet the needs
of the greater population. But is not Jewish Family Service
already tasked with serving our families and their needs?
The answer to both of these problems is not blowing in the
wind. It is right in our backyards. Support your local synagogue. Attend its daily support group minyan. Show up for
Shabbat. And in that place, build and support talmud Torah.
The synagogue should be the central place of learning. By
that, I do not mean a two-day-a-week religious school for children under the age of 13. It is the rest of us, adults and parents,
who need continuing re-education.
From that foundation, the Jewish home can again become
the primary classroom. Once that reality is established, day
schools can simply serve as a supplement. Our children will
learn day and night. Eventually we will have more educators,
and school costs will decline.
In the meantime, as Rabbi Engelmayer suggests, the Jewish
community must rally around its day schools and find ways to
fund them. Otherwise, in another generation, our people will
not know the difference between Zechariah and Zorro.
Eric Weis
Wayne
Animal-free circuses, please
I do not think it is proper for a Jewish organization (such as the

YJCC in Washington Township) to support or endorse a circus
that features exotic animal demonstrations. The treatment,
training, and handling of wild animals in circuses forcing them
to perform actions against their instinctive nature for mere
human amusement is a violation of the Torah commandment
of tsar bealla chyim (forbidding animal cruelty). In my opinion, the Ys raising funds in this manner is a shonda (disgrace).
Circuses employ cruel methods. This is well documented.
It is by far a better option to enjoy circuses such as the
Cirque Du Solei whose thrilling performances involve only
humans, who have free choice over their actions.
Jerrold Terdiman, MD
Woodcliff Lake
Opinion
On the Middle East,

France is a tale of two countries
he French, to the c asual

observer, are a real enigma
when it comes to foreign policy.
Sometimes it seems like they
can be truly helpful, whereas other times
they are truly awful.
Take Iran. On the question of the mullahs
nuclear ambitions, France has retained a
healthy skepticism regarding the current
negotiating process being pushed by the
Obama administration. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, French
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was crystal clear that any deal with Iran that didnt
grant international inspectors unfettered
access to nuclear sites wouldnt be worth
the paper it was written on.
The best agreement, if you cannot verify it, its useless, Fabius declared. If only
Obama were so unblinkered and so blunt
on the nuclear issue.
Yet we shouldnt get overly carried away
by Francophilia. Yes, France is a welcome
counterweight to the enthusiasm of the
White House for a deal with the Tehran
regime that looks like Swiss

East just as the stock of the
cheese in terms of what the
Americans came crashing
Iranians can get away with. But
down.
So it is with Iran. The
France has good reasons for
French stance certainly
adopting this stance, and its
boosts the Israelis, but it
important to remember that
is among the Sunni Arab
they have very little to do with
nations that they are reapsupporting the spread of open,
ing material rewards. In
democratic societies in the
Ben Cohen
May, the French closed
Middle East, or with standing
a deal with Qatarthat
up for Israels national security.
charming emirate built on
Historically, France has
oil, natural gas, and slave
never liked playing second
laborto sell 24 Rafale fighter jets. That
fiddle to the Americansa sentiment
same month, French President Francois
that goes all the way back to the time of
Hollande was welcomed with open arms
Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. But
at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in
this has more to do with strategic calculaRiyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he assured the
tion than emotion. The France that takes
assembled oil sheikhs that a deal with Iran
a harder line against the Iranians than do
had to be based on preventing the mullahs
the Americans is the same France that in
from weaponizing their nuclear program.
2003 vociferously opposed the AmericanThe Israeli-Palestinian conflict is
led war in Iraq that led to the overthrow
another aspect of the Middle Easts woes
of Saddam Husseins dictatorship. At the
in which France is pursuing a policy of
time, the French figured that doing so
pleasing the Arab nations, only this time
would push up their stock in the Middle
at the expense of Israel. Ironicallythough

this is doubtless the source of much pride
at the Quai dOrsay in Paris, where the
countrys foreign ministry is locatedthe
French appear to have the support of the
Americans as well.
Last years vote by French parliamentarians to recognize a Palestinian state unilaterally, then described as mainly symbolic, is steadily becoming official French
policy. In March, the French government
set in motion the drafting of a U.N. resolution to secure a final settling of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. As the Associated Press reported at the time, While
the substance of the French draft may
not differ much from past failed efforts to
revive Mideast peace talks, France is hoping this time to avoid a U.S. veto at the U.N.
because of increasing American frustration with [Israeli] Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
Now the French have teamed up with
New Zealand to continue the work of
drafting the resolution. Its unlikely that
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there will be any significant movement on
this front before June 30, when the deadline for an agreement with the Iranians
expires, but it is entirely possible that the
resolution will have been submitted by
September, when world leaders descend
upon New York City for the U.N.s annual
General Assembly.
According to reports in the French press,
the resolution uses Israels pre-1967 borders as its point of departure. Two states
would be secured on either side of the 1949
armistice line the Green Line with land
swaps implemented to compensate the Palestinians for any West Bank territory incorporated into Israel by such an agreement.
The resolution would require the sharing
of Jerusalem as the capital of both states.
A just solution of the Palestinian refugee
questionwidely believed to focus on financial compensationis also on the table.
Heres the kicker, though: If that resolution hasnt led to the creation of an independent Palestinian state within 18 months of its
passage, Franceone of the five permanent
members of the U.N. Security Councilwill
go ahead and recognize one anyway. Either
way, this poses a serious threat to Israels
sovereignty, because unlike U.N. General
Assembly resolutions, those passed by the
Security Council carry legal weight.
President Barack Obama and French President Franois Hollande in the White
House on May 18, 2012.
Pete Souza/White House photo
Israel does have allies that are likely to

oppose the resolution, such as the Canadians, about whom Netanyahu recently said
that the Jewish state has no better friend.
Some of the European states, anxious to
avoid a situation in which they are eclipsed
by the French on foreign policy, might
also raise objections. But Canada isnt on
the Security Council, and the only other

Europeans who are there permanently are
the British. In the final analysis, then, the
French bid can only be thwarted by the
United States.
Obama, though, has been hinting
strongly that the United States would vote
in favor of the resolution, thus breaking
a long tradition of vetoing measures that

would harm Israels security. As usual,
Obama rationalized this position by playing up his personal animus towards Netanyahu. In a recent interview with Israeli
television, the president described Netanyahu as predisposed to thinking that
peace is naive. (This led one Democratic
strategist to remark that such an attitude
has been proven time and again to help,
rather than hinder, Netanyahus appeal to
the Israeli public.)
Hence, by the end of the year, we could
be facing the prospect of an Iranian nuclear
weapon and a solution to the Palestinian
issue that would be imposed upon Israel,
rather than arising from the consent that
is essential for successful negotiations. In
many ways, the French will be to blame for
this. But the real responsibility will lie with
the Obama administration, which continues
to insist that it has Israels back while undermining it at every turn.
JNS.org
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org
& The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly
column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal, and
many other publications.
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Welcome WIZO
Womens
International
Zionist
Organization
opens local branch
Joanne Palmer
hats WIZO, and why

might it make you think
of Julius Caesar?
Think about dividing a
large territory into regions.
WIZO is not a shortened version of Dorothys magic-performing over-the-rainbow
friend the Wizard of Oz, but the very serious and very successful Womens International Zionist Organization. If you havent
heard of it (and if you live in the United
States, the odds are that you havent), thats
where the Julius Caesar part comes in.
Caesar, remember, famously wrote that
All Gaul is divided into three parts. The
founders of womens Zionist organizations were even more ambitious than the
conquerors of the French. They divided
People in
general, and
women in
particular, have a
loving inclination
to help others.
DR. GALINA SHENFELD
the world into just two parts. Hadassah

an organization you most definitely have
heard of got the United States, and
WIZO got the world, Galina Shenfeld said.
That, of course, is not entirely true.
WIZO does have a presence in this country, centered around New York and Florida. Dr. Shenfeld, who lives in Cresskill,
and her friend Mery Nathan of Closter
have decided to enlarge that presence by
starting a WIZO chapter in northern New
Jersey.
As the two women explain it, the organizations history and their own have
become intertwined.
WIZO Internationals mission, as its
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Galina Shenfeld, at left, and Mery Nathan have started a WIZO chapter in New Jersey.
website puts it, is to strengthen Israeli

society by strengthening Israels people.
WIZO USAs mandate adds to that core by
working to strengthen the ties between
Israelis and Americans by helping Israels
most vulnerable children, women, and
frail elderly people.
WIZO has 250,000 volunteers and 50
chapters all over the world, Dr. Shenfeld
said. It employs about 5,000 people in
Israel. It is Israels largest social service
organization, and the biggest Jewish womens organization in the world. It provides
not only money but also vocational work.
It also runs two shelters for abused women
and programs for their children and for
at-risk teenagers; its 800 or so projects in
Israel include more than 180 kindergartens and 15 youth villages.
WIZO was created in 1920 by a group
of British Jewish women that included Dr.
Vera Weizmann, wife of Chaim Weizmann,
Israels first president. The group was a bit
of a parvenu; Henrietta Szold had started
Hadassah in 1912. The story goes that at the
beginning of the 1920s, Vera Weizmann
came to America, and Mrs. Szold said Get
out of my territory. So the split was made,
and both groups flourished.
WIZO USAs office in New York was not
averse to starting more chapters the deal
with Hadassah is over by now but leaders waited for a spark to light the tinder
they could spread. In Galina Shenfeld and
Rafael Dayan
Vera Weizmann, shown here in Israel, worked with friends to found the Womens
International Zionist Organization in 1920.
Mery Nathan, they found their spark.

Dr. Shenfeld was born in Moscow,
began her studies at Moscow Medical
School in 1975, and graduated in 1981. The
next year, she left Russia, stayed briefly in
Vienna, and went on to Jersey City in 1982
with her husband, Boris, and her in-laws,
Leopold and Maria. They had no relatives
in this country.
We were told that when you come to

Vienna, you could call a cell phone number and ask for this man, who will help
you. That man worked for an ultraOrthodox organization called Rav Tov,
she said. What she did have was faith,
which had been starved in the Soviet
Union but raised its hopeful, hungry head
as soon as she escaped. She also had her
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in-laws. My father-in-law was legally blind

and deaf, and a professor of math and philosophy, she said. He wrote an incredible
book on the kabbalah of Spinoza and Maimonides, called Mathematics and Philosophy of Maimonides and Leibnitz.
I wasnt allowed to bring books out, but
I put it under my clothes and pretended
that I was pregnant.
The Shenfelds found themselves in Jersey City, a very old community, with an
Orthodox shul, but we had no connection to it, Dr. Shenfeld said. And then
we found Bris Avrohom, the Lubavitch
synagogue that works mainly with Russian Jews. We connected with them. The
family which eventually included five
children started to assimilate into American life. When my first child was 2 years
old, we lived in a project in Jersey City,
Dr. Shenfeld said. We couldnt afford anything. We looked for a Jewish school, and
the only one around was the Yeshiva of
North Bergen. They were happy with the
school but then it moved. (By then, the
yeshiva in Jersey City was just an outpost
for the institution that since has become
the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey in
River Edge.)
Her husband, who had a doctorate
in chemistry, at first couldnt find a job
because he was overqualified for the kinds
of jobs that did not require a knowledge
of English, she said, and their English
was not yet good. Eventually, he started
to work at Manischevitz as a chemist. He
read a lot of real-estate ads in the New York
Times, so he went and became a commercial real-estate broker.
By then my son was 3 years old, God
sent us a couple of sales, and we could
afford to buy a house in West Orange.
They sent their children to the Kushner
Academy there.
We went to the Orthodox synagogue
in West Orange, but it was difficult
because we still didnt speak English, but
we asked questions. The answers were
always Because we said so. That was not
enough for a grown person. So we started
searching.
The result of that search was Chabad, as
it had been in Jersey City. That is a world
to which she still is connected. What I
learned is that what matters is how you
meet the world, and the people in it, she
said. She went to medical school, and is
president of a diagnostic facility, the Diagnostic Ultrasound Plus in Englewood Cliffs.
Her children, David, Jessica, Michelle,
Jeffrey, and Rebecca, are all are grown
WIZO funds nursery

programs for needy
families in Israel.
Young women work with children and teens at Nir HaEmek, one of WIZOs youth villages in Israel.
now one is studying medicine at Sackler Medical School in Tel Aviv, one graduated from Cardozo School of Law, one is a
real-estate developer, one has a masters
in psychology and works in the Bronx,

and the youngest just graduated from the
Rhode Island School of Design.
Now that her children are out of the
house, Dr. Shenfeld knew she had to turn

her prodigious energies to something
else. That was when her good friend Mery
Nathan talked to her about WIZO.
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Abused woman and their children can find shelter in the WIZO-supported Mayerhoff Day Care Center in Rehovot.
Ms. Nathans story, like Dr. Shenfelds, is

about emigration and adjustment, but its
set on a different continent. She was born
in Chile, at the start of the dictatorship
of Augusto Pinochet. When I was one
year old, in 1974, we crossed the Panama
Canal in a boat. Ms. Nathan grew up in
Panamas Jewish community and went to
a day school. My family always has been
involved with WIZO, she said.
She studied advertising and journalism in college, worked in those fields, and
then went to Israel to consider aliyah. I
came back to visit my parents, and some
of my parents friends told my sister,
Theres a guy
That guy, an Israeli named Avi Nathan,
became her husband. The couple decided
to move to New York; Mr. Nathan and his
cousins sold wholesale furniture, and for

years the family owned a retail store in
Edgewater.
The Nathans move was complicated by
historic tragedy.
We stayed in Panama for a year and a
half, and then we came here with a yearand-a-half-old baby, Ms. Nathan said. We
were supposed to get here on September
13, 2001. Instead, they came a week later.
I remember flying in over New York City
and looking down at that big cloud that
still covered the remains of the World Trade
Center, she said. It still was very gray.
The Nathans now have two children,
Ariel and Noa. Unlike the Shenfelds, who
are part of Chabad, they do not belong to a
synagogue. But the familys understanding
of itself as inextricably bound to the Jewish
community is as strong as the Shenfelds.

Ms. Nathan stopped working in the family store when one of her children developed some health issues, but then I said,
I have to do something else.
I thought about WIZO for a long time, I
mentioned it to Galina, and I just thought
that if I talk about it, it will stay in the air.
But Galina is so active! She is everywhere, and she knows a lot of people. So
everything became a reality in less than
a week.
At first, Ms. Nathans sister, Yael Chamay
of Closter, was part of the founding team,
providing a great deal of the drive toward
establishing a WIZO chapter in New Jersey.
Dr. Shenfeld, for her part, said she was
drawn to WIZO because the best way
to receive is to give. Women feel fulfilled
when they are giving. People in general,
and women in particular, have a loving
inclination to help others.
When we thought about WIZO, we
looked at Israel and we looked at New
Jersey. They are nearly identical in their
shape, and in their square footage both
are about 8,000 square miles. And the
population is very near 7 million in New
Jersey, and its similar in Israel. Per capita,
we are making about $3,600 in Jersey and
$3,500 in Israel.
But as much as we are similar, we are
not surrounded by enemies. No one is
throwing bombs at us. We dont have to
go to bomb shelters. We didnt have 12
major wars in less than 70 years. We dont
have to spend our money for ammunition, and we dont have to prepare our
children for war.
So as much as we are the same, it
seems that there is an urgency for people
who live in New Jersey to help people who
live in Israel. I consider that my children
and Israeli children are the same. When
I look at the kids in the IDF the Israel
Defense Forces I see my children, who I

have to protect and love and cherish.
New Jersey has a very diverse Jewish
community. We have Ashkenazis, Persians, Moroccans, Russians, Israelis, Latin
Americans, Syrians, and many other kinds
of Jews. If we will have a common denominator for the women in all these groups,
we can unite them, whether they go to
Chabad or Reform or Orthodox or Conservative. If we love Eretz Yisrael, we will
be united, regardless of our ethnic backgrounds or any other differences.
The Tel Aviv-based international organization gave the fledgling WIZO NJ chapter
two projects. Neither is glamorous. Both
matter in the real lives of real people. The
group has been tasked with raising funds
to renovate a shelter for battered women
in Jerusalem, a distressed building that can
house 15 women and their children. The
other is to raise money to support a daycare center in Rehovot.
Because WIZO has absolutely no history in New Jersey, before we do fundraising we have to raise awareness of our organization, Dr. Shenfeld said. So we will
create a whole plethora of amazing events.
The first one will be fundraising for
the shelter. Its set for June 17. (For more
information, see box.) We will have
speakers to bring awareness of domestic
abuse in Israel.
Domestic abuse certainly is not confined
to Israel (and despite many peoples wishful thinking, it is far from unknown either
here or there). Last year, 10 women were
murdered by their partners in Israel, Dr.
Shenfeld said. That rate is very high for
such a small country.
At the meetings, a local attorney, Galit
Moskowitz, will present a short talk about
the womens shelter, focusing on how it
has protected women. We know that
its a gloomy subject, Dr. Shenfeld said.
To keep the audience from sinking into
despair, Ms. Nathan and Dr. Shenfeld plan
to entertain them. We will play a wedding, she said. We will have five or six
wedding parties. It will be a fashion show,
but without any grooms. Outfits will
include ensembles for the brides mother
and grandmother, as well as for bridesmaids and flowergirls. The volunteers
will be walking the runway and we will do
Who: WIZO NJ (the Womens International Zionist Organization of New
Jersey)
What: A fashion show to raise money
for a battered-women program in Jerusalem.
When: Wednesday, June 17, 7 to 9 p.m.
Where: Temple Emanuel, 180 Piermont
Road, Closter
Why: To strengthen the bonds between American and Israeli women
and to raise funds to protect victims of
domestic abuse.
Nir HaEmek offers at-risk teenagers a chance to find a path to adulthood through its police cadet program.
How: For tickets or more information,

email wizony@gmail.com. To learn
more, go to wizo.usa/NJFashionShow
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The second event, which has
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Later plans call for a trip to
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A teenager in Nir HaEmek wears a WIZO shirt as he prepares to wrap
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So what do we learn from
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sometimes provides more fuel and more fire, and that
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin riles Conservative rabbis

worldwide Conservative/Masorti movement.
Rivlins spokesperson, Jason Pearlman, told
sraeli Conservative rabbis and their Ameria different story, saying the event program had
can colleagues are learning an important
yet to be finalized, and a number of possible
lesson.
options for the ceremony were still on the table.
Sometimes no mitzvah goes unpunished.
A statement put out by the presidents office in
After the Orthodox mayor of Rehovot cancelled
response to the letter criticized the obstinacy
a bar mitzvah ceremony for disabled children
of the Conservative rabbis and accused them of
arranged by the local Masorti synagogue, leaders
seeking to advance their agenda through the
of Israels Masorti movement, as Conservative Judacynical use of children.
ism is known in Israel, thought they had a comproThe final details of what was going to hapmise brokered by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin,
pen and who would do what in what order, these
who offered to host the ceremony in his official
details had yet to be finalized, Pearlman said.
residence.
But Yizhar Hess, CEO of the Masorti movement, said the details of the event had been
Now Masorti leaders are crying foul, saying the
finalized at a meeting at the presidents resirabbi who trained the disabled kids for their group
dence on May 26.
bar mitzvah has been disinvited from the planned
Israeli president Reuven Rivlin at the presidents house in Jerusalem
We had a meeting in the presidents house
June ceremony arranged by Rivlins office.
on May 28.
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with the presidents people, two and a half
The ceremony, scheduled to take place at the end
hours, going from every place to every place,
of the month, was supposed to have two co-officiating rabbis, Rehovots Masorti leader, Rabbi Mike Goldstein,
claims that Rivlin sent them the official ceremony program
putting the program together by the minute, Hess
and an Orthodox rabbi, Benny Lau, Conservative movelast week without Goldsteins name.
said. Everything was set in stone.
ment officials say. At the service, 10 children with disabiliIt is painful to say it, but this is an act of cruelty in which
Hess says that if Rivlin agrees to hold a co-officiated
ties, including autism, were to participate in a group bnai
disabled children and their parents are being denied a serservice as previously planned, the ceremony can go on.
vice that would help them, according to the letter, which
mitzvah ceremony.
The bar/bat mitzvah ceremony for children with disabilities has been taking place in the central Israeli city
asserts that the sole reason for this denial is the contempt
But a strongly worded letter to Rivlin, signed last week
of Rehovot, under the auspices of the Masorti moveof Israels leaders for the sponsors of this program, the
by 24 Conservative rabbis and movement professionals,
ment, for 20 years. The celebration was moved to the
presidents residence in Jerusalem after Rahamim
Malul, the mayor of Rehovot, canceled the ceremony
because it would be held at a Masorti synagogue.
Malul, a former lawmaker for the Sephardic ultraOrthodox Shas party, said that there were students
with disabilities in the program who were uncomfortable going to a non-Orthodox synagogue.
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sectors of Israeli society his central goal as president.
But this isnt the first time Rivlin has offended nonOrthodox movements. In 1989, after visiting Temple
Emanu-El in Westfield, a large and prominent Reform
synagogue, Rivlin then the chairman of the Likud
party told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot that Reform Judaism is a completely new religion without any connection to Judaism and called
Reform Jews idol worshippers, and as late as 2007 he
refused to address Reform rabbis by the title rabbi.
It looks to me like hes building his record, hes
expanding his record, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive
vice president of the Conservative movements Rabbinical Assembly, said. Previously, hes made these highly
derogatory comments about the Reform movement.
Now, he has not only added the Conservative movement
to that, but he has deepened the impact of his loathing
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At security confab, Israeli coalition members

split on West Bank policy
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HERZLIYA, ISRAEL When Israels coalition government formed last month, its constituent parties all but
ruled out establishing a Palestinian state in the near
future. But that doesnt mean they can agree on what
to do instead.
Speaking this week at the Herzliya Conference,
Israels premier diplomatic and security policy gathering, senior Israeli government officials struck different and sometimes conflicting tones on what Israels
policy toward the Palestinians should be. Even within
the ruling Likud party, officials advanced significantly
different proposals for the future of the West Bank.
Some favor indefinite control of the territory. Others support negotiations and interim steps to prepare
the ground for a future partition. Others want to hang
tight while the wars roiling the Middle East play out.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared
to reverse his earlier support for Palestinian statehood
on the eve of his re-election in March, portrayed himself in his conference address on Tuesday as having
never shifted his position on the subject. He called on
the Arab world to push the Palestinians toward negotiations, and insisted that in a final agreement, the Palestinian Authority would have to agree to a demilitarized state and recognize Israel as the Jewish state a
condition they have refused so far.
There might be an opening, because some of the
Arab states silently agree with what I say, Netanyahu
said. They might be in the position to influence the
lifetime. Though Yaalon, who is 64, suggested measures to

improve the Palestinian economy and local Palestinian government, he rejected any limitation on Israeli military operations in the West Bank, saying that could invite a takeover
by Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza.
Theres really something stable here, Yaalon said, referring to the West Bank. Should we upset it out of wishful
thinking? So were suggesting, within the framework of not
ruling them, steps that make it possible for both sides to live
in welfare, to live with respect, to live in security without
illusions.
Likud Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, who would serve
as Israels chief delegate to peace talks should they resume,
struck a more optimistic tone in his Monday address, calling for a regional conference of Israel and the Arab states to
confront shared regional threats, and encouraging the Palestinians to return to bilateral negotiations with Israel without
preconditions.
We believe the only way to achieve a solution is through
peace, and peace can be achieved only through negotiations, Shalom said. If they are willing to do so, and to
resume the negotiations, they will find Israel as a real and
serious partner to peace.
But Likud Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely dismissed the prospect of a peace deal entirely. Instead, she
said, mass Jewish immigration to Israel is the solution, as
millions more Jews would eliminate any danger of Palestinians gaining a majority in Israel.
This is the Zionist vision: It was always connected to the
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While they disagreed

on the peace process,
Israels officials
advanced a unified
front in opposing
boycotts of Israel.
Palestinians to adopt a more conciliatory or positive
approach. It will be hard, because all politics is theater, and international politics is theater, too, and
everyone is cast in a role.
Held annually at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a college founded in 1994, the Herzliya Conference brings together top officials from Israels government, diplomatic, and defense arenas to discuss
threats facing Israel and the Middle East. The conference, held from June 7 to 9, offers a peek into the
minds of Israels leading decision makers and occasionally provides a venue for Israeli leaders to make
important announcements.
There were no such big developments this year, but
the conference did reveal the extent of the disagreement within the Israeli government about the appropriate path forward in resolving Israels decades-long
conflict with the Palestinians.
Likud Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon was more
pessimistic than his boss on Tuesday, declaring a stable agreement with the Palestinians unlikely in his
Jewish World
Turkish newspaper tries to save a dying language

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
ISTANBUL Every time she prepares her
newspaper for print, Karen Sarhon has
her pick from dozens of submissions she
receives daily from writers around the
world.
This would be a desirable situation for
any editor-in-chief. Sarhon says it is nothing short of unbelievable for her monthly,
El Amaneser, which is the worlds only
newspaper in Ladino a Jewish-Spanish language teetering on the brink of
extinction.
In the 1970s, Ladino was truly a dying
language, but El Amaneser is among the
relatively new initiatives giving Ladino a
new lease on life, said Sarhon, a TurkishJewish linguist who launched the Ladino
publication 10 years ago as part of her
work at the Turkish Jewish communitys Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture
Research Center.
Sarhons center was founded as Jews
worldwide, and especially in Israel, grew
alarmed at the prospect of Ladinos disap-
Karen Sarhon at the offices of Al Amaneser in 2013.
El Amaneser
is among the
relatively new
initiatives giving
Ladino a new
lease on life.
KAREN SARHON
pearance and mounted an international

effort spanning four continents to preserve
it. The effort to preserve the language also
has gotten a boost from Spains push to
export its culture and language abroad
through its Cervantes Institute, and from
popular nostalgia for Sephardic culture.
About 100,000 people speak Ladino,
according to Israels Association of Translators. Most of those people are in Israel,
the association says. Other estimates say
the number of Ladino speakers worldwide
may be more than twice that number.
Whatever the exact figure, Ladino is not
being passed on to the next generation, at
least in part because these Ladino speakers are dispersed in countries dominated
by other languages.
Starting in the mid 1990s, language
classes and online forums promoting
Ladino began popping up in Israel. In
1996, Israels National Authority of Ladino
was established, and in the early 2000s
two Israeli universities, Bar-Ilan and BenGurion, began teaching the language.
These conditions allowed El Amaneser
to recruit writers from Turkey, France,
Argentina, Chile, Israel, the United States,
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Claire Levy in Sofia in

2012.
Copies of El Amaneser and Salom.
and Britain, who send in far more material

every month than the paper can print in
its 24 pages.
With no more than 2,000 readers in
Turkey and another 300 worldwide, El
Amaneser is not exactly a moneymaker. It
exists as a nonprofit, like most other bodies that were set up over the past 30 years
to save Ladino from oblivion.
But whereas most of these bodies have
state or university funding, El Amaneser
exists thanks to the resources of Turkeys
small Jewish community and Salom, the
countrys Jewish weekly, which prints
El Amaneser and houses its offices in its
building. Unlike most diaspora Jewish
newspapers, Salom actually generates a
profit, and not only does it fund El Amaneser, Salom also distributes the Ladino
paper for free to its own 4,500-odd subscribers. Its not clear how many of them
actually can read Ladino. Originally written in Hebrew letters, the language has
been transliterated into Latin letters for
the past 30 years.
For Turkish Jews, preserving Ladino is
a historical obligation, says Sami Aker, a
journalist at Salom. He notes that Ladino
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was developed in the Ottoman Empire by

Sephardic Jews who arrived as refugees in
the 15th century after fleeing the Spanish
and Portuguese Inquisitions.
Contrary to common misconceptions,
Sephardic Jews didnt speak Ladino in
Spain and Portugal; they spoke their local
dialect over there, Sarhon said. Only after
they came to the Ottoman Empire did they
begin using Ladino, which is very much
an Ottoman language, she said.
While most immigrant populations lose
their native languages within four generations, Ladino has survived for centuries.
It was so widely spoken among Turkish
Jews that it was chosen over Turkish as the
language for Salom when the paper was
founded in 1947.
But Ladino readership diminished as
young Turkish Jews either left for Israel
or integrated into Turkish society. Salom
switched to Turkish in 1984, keeping
Ladino alive only in one weekly page and
in the framed, yellowing front pages that
adorn the walls of the papers headquarters in downtown Istanbul.
Ladino did not fare any better in Bulgaria, where Jews spoke the language until
recently. (Bulgaria, too, used to also be

part of the Ottoman Empire.) Claire Levy,
a Bulgarian Jew, recalls how the language
died out within her family, like many other
Jewish families, when everyone left for
Israel in the 1950s except for one Ladinospeaking aunt.
Later on, she married a Bulgarian guy
and stopped speaking Ladino altogether,
Levy said on TalesofLadino.wordpress.
com in 2012.
In Turkey, preserving Ladino is not
the most pressing issue for a community
concerned about its future amid rising
Islamism and the anti-Israel and, some
say, anti-Semitic tirades of Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his cronies. After two Istanbul synagogues were
bombed in 2003, Salom added new security measures at its headquarters, which
now are housed in a nondescript building
that is under constant guard and equipped
with massive, blast-proof doors.
Turkish Jews stake in preserving Ladino
a language rich with humorous expressions, songs, jokes, and poetic metaphors
is understandable, considering how
intricately woven into their communal
identity the language has become. To this
day, Ladino phrases pepper the conversations of Turkish Jews, not unlike the way
American Jews or Israelis use Yiddish.
Turkish Jews use Ladino references for
everything from domestic items (pantofeles for slippers) to insults (jandaracho, which can mean a floor mop or a
submissive person).
Though El Amaneser has relatively few
readers, the fact that it is published at all is
itself an important element of Ladino culture, says Eliezer Papo, a scholar on Balkan Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel.
The amount of Ladino-language papers
printed in the Ottoman Empire was staggering and completely outsized when compared to the output of other minorities,
Papo said. Were talking about up to eight
or nine publications per medium-sized
community of Ladino speakers.
Fitting for a language famous for its
humor, each community had at least one
satirical publication.
No one depends on El Amaneser for
their news, because hardly anyone speaks
Ladino as a first language, Papo said, Yet
from a nostalgic point of view, Ladino
needs at least one newspaper to stay alive.
In explaining what El Amaneser means
to Turkish Jews and Ladino speakers, Papo
recalls the origins of the papers name:
A Ladino saying that speaks of how the
nights darkest hour occurs just before the
break of dawn.
Just as Ladino disappears into the darkness, its devotees at El Amaneser and elsewhere are making sure it has more time in
the sun, Papo said.
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the land. Thats not what will bring Israel legitimacy.
Israel needs to be right. Israel needs to continue in its
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At last years conference, held just months after an
intensive round of Israeli-Palestinian talks had collapsed, pro-settler Jewish Home Chairman Naftali
Bennett advocated annexing the Etzion settlement
bloc south of Jerusalem. This year, with the prospect
of Israeli withdrawal no longer under discussion, he
made scant mention of the West Bank, saying simply
that he and the foreign governments urging territorial concessions would have to agree to disagree.
Instead, he turned to another territory Israel captured in 1967, the Golan Heights, calling on the international community to recognize Israels sovereignty
there. The civil war in Syria has made withdrawal
impossible, he said, advocating instead that Israel
move tens of thousands of Jews to the strategic plateau
in the next five years.
Whom should we give the Golan to, to al-Nusra? To
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active in Syria. Why do they still not recognize the
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world, we would have given away the Golan, and ISIS
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Stephane Richard, CEO of the French telecommunications giant Orange, suggesting he would pull his
business out of Israel. They called on Israel to fight
back against boycott efforts, marshaling the buying
power of its supporters to boycott companies that
boycott Israel.
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Ruling on Jerusalem passport limited

Met with relief from pro-Israel community
RON KAMPEAS
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Anthony Kennedy, writing for
the majority in the Supreme
Court decision that will keep
Israel off the passports of Jerusalem-born Americans, begins
by calling Jerusalem a delicate
subject.
Competing claims to the Holy
City were not the only timeworn
and sensitive issue the justices
contended with in their 6-3 decision on Monday, which upheld
the State Departments policy of
not allowing Americans born in
Jerusalem to list Israel as their
birthplace. The Supreme Court
in Zivotofsky v. Kerry waded into
tensions dating to the founding of
the United States over whether
the executive or the legislative branch determines foreign
policy.
The ruling effectively nullified
a law passed by Congress in 2002
requiring the State Department
to list Israel as a birth country
for Jerusalem-born Americans,
should the citizens request it.
Like its predecessor, the administration of President George W.
Bush, the Obama administration said recognition of another
nations sovereignty over territory was a matter strictly for the
executive branch.
Pro-Israel groups had hoped
for a decision that would determine U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israels capital. But after
hearing judicial interjections
during oral arguments on the
case last year, some feared that
that case was mutating into a
broader issue over Congress role

in determining foreign policy.
Marc Stern, who wrote the
amicus brief filed by the American Jewish Committee arguing that recognition of another
nation was a matter for Congress
as well as the president, said
the decision left intact the traditional American ambiguity over
which branch determines foreign policy. This issue has been
unsettled for 200 years, and the
court leaves much of it unsettled
today, he said.
Stern, the AJCs general counsel, called the decision as
good a defeat as we could have
suffered.
Thats because Kennedys
majority decision considered
only the presidents right to recognize another nations sovereignty. A formulation broader
than the rule that the president
alone determines what nations to
formally recognize as legitimate
and that he consequently controls his statements on matters of
recognition presents different
issues and is unnecessary to the
resolution of this case, Kennedy
wrote.
In its statement responding to
the ruling, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee noted
that Congress, where the lobby
is most influential, retained its
foreign policy clout.
Clearly, we are disappointed
by the ruling, AIPACs spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, said
in an email. However, the court
opinion, viewed in its totality,
clearly recognizes the important
role that Congress plays in U.S.
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Justice Kennedy acknowledges that the subject is
quite narrow: The Execut ive s exc l u s ive p owe r
extends no further than his
formal recognition determination, the Lewins said in a
statement. Congress broad
powers to deal with foreign
policy remain extensive and
virtually unlimited.
It appeared during oral
arguments last November
Menachem Zivotofsky, left, and his father, Ari, stand in front of the
that the justices were considSupreme Court with their attorney, Alyza Lewin, and Lewins father,
ering whether to settle a conNathan, last November.
RIKKI GORDON LEWIN
stitutional argument on who
controls foreign policy that
much of the pro-Israel commuhas dogged relations between
foreign policy a role that has
nity on an issue close to its heart
presidents and legislators going
been critical in strengthening the
the Israeli and Jewish claim to
back to the time of George
U.S.-Israel relationship.
Jerusalem.
Washington.
In addition to Kennedy, a conservative who sometimes swings
The Conference of Presidents
What youre saying is that
liberal, the majority included the
of Major American Jewish OrgaCongress cant compel speech by
nizations said it was deeply conbenchs four liberals, Ruth Bader
the president with respect to forcerned by the decision.
eign relations, Sotomayor said
Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena
We hope that a constitutionto Donald Verrilli, the U.S. soliciKagan, and Sonia Sotomayor, as
ally acceptable path can be found
tor general who was arguing on
well as Clarence Thomas, who is
to assure that Americans born in
behalf of the policy.
conservative. Breyer, Kagan, and
Jerusalem will be accorded their
A wider decision limiting
Ginsburg are the courts three
full rights, including the designacongressional influence might
Jewish justices. The dissenters
tion of their country of birth, the
have had an immediate impact
were all conservative: Chief Justice John Roberts, Samuel Alito,
Jewish communitys foreign polon efforts in Congress to assert
icy umbrella organization said in
and Antonin Scalia.
a role in determining whether
The constitution does not give
a statement.
the United States agrees to an
the president exclusive power to
Yet the decisions narrow cast
emerging nuclear deal with Iran,
determine which claims to statedrew expressions of relief from
the AJCs Stern said. Pro-Israel
hood and territory are legitimate
Alyza Lewin and her father,
groups back an assertive role for
in the eyes of the United States,
Nathan Lewin, lawyers known
Congress in overseeing any deal.
Scalia wrote in the dissent. Confor their pro-Israel and Jewish
This was a defeat, but a limgress may express its own views
ited defeat, Stern said. The
advocacy. The Lewins represented Menachem Zivotofsky, the
about these matters by declaring
decision doesnt determine the
12-year-old Jerusalem-born Amerwar, restricting trade, denying forresult regarding Congress poweign aid, and much else besides.
ican at the center of the case, as
ers regarding Iran.
The decision was a defeat for

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The Palestinian Authority rejects peace
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boycotts imposed on the Jewish state
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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting Czech Republic Foreign Minister
Lubomir Zaoralek in Jerusalem on Monday, calling the situation a perfect trap.
We want two states for two peoples:
a Jewish state, a Jewish nation state
Israel, living in peace with a demilitarized Palestinian state, Netanyahu
said. Unfortunately, the Palestinians
dont negotiate. They ran away from

negotiations. They ran away from
[Ehud] Barak, they ran away from
[Ariel] Sharon, they ran away from
[Ehud] Olmert, they ran away from me.
... What they do is they refuse to negotiate run to Hamas, which calls for our
destruction, go to the U.N. and try to
get sanctions on Israel. They refuse to
negotiate and then try to get boycotts
on Israel for there not being negotiations, which they refuse to enter. CatchJNS.ORG
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During his four years as chairman,

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strained politically under President
Obama, the nations strategic defense
relationship under Dempsey has
remained strong, with the U.S. providing funding for the highly successful Iron
Dome missile defense system and discussions of an increase in American military
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Orange pulls out

Phone company move seen as sign of BDS influence on French policy
Cnaan Liphshiz
To Israels supporters, the decision by the
French telecommunications giant Orange to
dump its Israeli affiliate is not only a politically motivated divestment by a major multinational corporation, but a sign that European policymakers are being impacted by
efforts to boycott the Jewish state.
Citing the French governments ownership of a quarter of Oranges shares,
European pro-Israel groups said the move
reflected the rising influence of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,
or BDS, and Frances growing impatience
with Israeli reluctance to make concessions
to the Palestinians.
Oranges pullout is part of the French
governments attempt to bring Israel to its
knees and accept the Pax Europeana, said
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of the National
Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism,
or BNVCA, which has taken legal action
against many BDS promoters.
But Orange insists that its nothing
of the sort. In a statement announcing
The French telecom giant Orange announced that it would terminate its
relationship with its Israeli affiliate, Partner Communications.

Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images
the termination of its relationship with

its Israeli affiliate, Partner Communications, Orange said it was merely effecting
a policy to end its presence in countries
where it does not provide services directly.
Its motivations, the company said,

have nothing to do with any political debate. Israel is the only country
where a third party is using the Orange
brand, the firm said.
That claim was made harder to
believe by the fact that it came only
a day after Orange CEO Stephane
Richard, speaking at a conference in
Cairo, said he would abandon Partner
tomorrow morning if not for contractual penalties.
I know that it is a sensitive issue
here in Egypt, but not only in Egypt,
Orange took
a cowardly
decision to
cave in to
demands by the
international
campaign to
boycott Israel.
Abraham Foxman
Richard said. We want to be one of the

trustful partners of all Arab countries.
Richard later told Ynet he did not
mean to suggest the pullout had anything to do with Israel or its conflict
with some of its Arab neighbors.
Ghozlan called Oranges statement
a transparent lie. Yonathan Arif, the
vice president of CRIF, the umbrella
group for French Jewish communities,
said Orange may be attempting to avoid
prosecution for discriminating against
a nation, which is illegal in France.
Orange is active in many areas
where human rights are violated, but

Orange does not pull out of there, Arif
said, adding that the French government was ultimately responsible and
must intervene and alter the decision.
The Anti-Defamation League was
not buying Oranges claim either. Like
the CRIF, the ADL pointed its finger
at the French government and urged
it to make clear that complying with
demands to boycott Israel are illegal
under French law and contrary to the
countrys national interests and moral
values.
Orange took a cowardly decision to
cave in to demands by the international
campaign to boycott Israel, Abraham
Foxman, the ADLs national director,
said in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu voiced a similar appeal to
the French government, as did Israels
president, Reuven Rivlin.
On Friday, French Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius repeated French opposition to boycotts of Israel, adding that
it is for the president of the Orange
group to determine the commercial
strategy of the company.
The furious reaction comes amid
mounting concern about the growth of
the BDS movement, as well as growing
anger at the French government. Last
month, the CRIF took the rare step of
publishing a letter its president, Roger
Cukierman, had sent to Fabius, complaining about Frances support for
United Nations anti-Israel resolutions
that are opposed by many other major
democratic powers, as well as the
reception in March of a convicted Palestinian terrorist at the Foreign Ministrys headquarters. While the CRIF has
conveyed similar messages privately,
the publication of its complaint was
an exception for an organization that
generally aims to cultivate constructive
relationships with French officials.
These policies create a certain
atmosphere that is conducive to boycotts, Ghozlan said. Orange took its
cue from the French government.
Frances government is not the first
to be perceived as encouraging divestment from Israel. In the Netherlands in
2013, a water company, Vitens, cited its
consultations with the Dutch foreign
ministry in explaining why it decided
to end its cooperation with its Israeli
counterpart, Mekorot.
The influence of BDS on policy is
more than a trickle; its a flow, said Shimon Samuels, the Paris-based director
for international relations of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center. And its happening
all over Europe.
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Jewish World
A Russian chief rabbi stands

by his strongman, Vladimir Putin
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
MOSCOW Rabbi Berel Lazars mother
was eager for grandchildren. So she gave
her 25-year-old son an ultimatum: He
could return to his beloved Jewish outreach work in Russia if and only if he
got married.
His yeshiva classmates jokingly said he
was already wed, to the idea of going to
Russia, said Lazar, the son of ChabadLubavitch emissaries in Milan, Italy.
A few months after his mother put
her foot down in 1989, Lazar married his
American-born wife, Channa, and the couple settled in Moscow, where they raised
14 children.
An emissary for Chabad, Lazar, 51,
would go on to become one of Russias
two chief rabbis, a major and controversial force in the dramatic revival of Russian Jewry following decades of Communist oppression and mass immigration to
Israel, the United States, Germany, and
elsewhere.
Lazars work, his Russia boosterism, and his ties to the Kremlin he is
sometimes called Putins rabbi have
helped Chabads Russian branch eclipse
all the other Jewish groups that are vying
to reshape the countrys community of
250,000 Jews. Now Lazar heads a vast network made up of dozens of employees and
legions of volunteers working in hundreds
of Jewish institutions: schools, synagogues,
community centers, and kosher shops.
I am amazed at what became of a
community that had been stripped of
everything, even its books, Lazar said,
referring to Soviet Jewry before the fall of
communism, when religious practice was
suppressed.
Today, Lazar said, Russia has in Vladimir
Putin its most pro-Jewish leader, whom
he credits with fighting anti-Semitism
more vigorously than any Russian leader
before him.
But criticism of Lazars partnership with
Putin persists as the Russian president
makes use of his pro-Jewish credentials
in justifying his policies. The strongman
repeatedly has cited the alleged anti-Semitism of Ukrainian nationalists in justifying
Russias 2014 annexation of the Ukrainecontrolled Crimea. In January, Putin
inveighed against Ukrainian nationalists
he called them Banderites, a reference
to the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan
Bandera during a speech he delivered
on International Holocaust Memorial Day,
when he was Lazars guest at Moscows
Jewish museum.
Lazar also has been criticized for his
presence at Kremlin events, like the one
last year celebrating Russias Crimea
annexation. (Like other clerics, my duties
include officiating at state events, Lazar
said in an interview with JTA.)

To Roman Bronfman, a former Israeli
lawmaker and author of a book about
Russian-Jewish immigration to Israel, the
relationship between Putin and Lazar is a
beneficiary symbiosis. Lazars support
for Putin, Bronfman said, is a constant
and the basis of his claim to the title of
chief rabbi.
Lazar was Chabads chief envoy to Russia before staking claim to the title of chief
Above, Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Chabad rabbis
at an unfinished synagogue in Sevatopol, Crimea, in July 2014. Left,
Rabbi Lazar, right, at a brit milah at a Moscow synagogue in April.

rabbi in 2000. Thats when he quit the Russian Jewish Congress, an umbrella group,
after the organizations founder, Vladimir
Gusinsky, and Russias other chief rabbi,
Adolf Shayevich, criticized Russias war
in Chechnya and its alleged human rights
abuses including the alleged targeting
of political dissidents by anti-corruption
authorities.
Challenging the government is not the
Jewish way, and [Gusinsky] put the Jewish community in harms way, said Lazar,
noting that the chief rabbi should be apolitical, not a government critic. I wanted
to have nothing to do with this.
Shayevich, who has been chief rabbi
since 1993, heads the Keroor religious
congress, a body responsible for religious
services at affiliated synagogues. In March,
Keroor and Lazars Federation of Jewish
Communities of the CIS, or FJC both are
Orthodox bodies signed a nonaggression pact in which the groups committed
to not speak ill of one another in public.
The agreement ended years of acrimonious exchanges in the media, but to this day
Keroor does not recognize Lazars claim to
the title of chief rabbi.
In recent years, however, Lazars federation eclipsed Keroor in prominence
and reach. FJC operates in 160 cities, compared to Keroors 34. In addition, FJC has
departments in other former Soviet countries, which means that Lazar also has considerable clout in the Jewish communities
of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan, and elsewhere.
In 2012, Moscow opened a $50 million
Jewish museum that is headed

by Lazars top aide, Rabbi Boruch Gorin.
Putins support for the Jewish community, Lazar said, flows from his respect for
religion and warm sentiments to Judaism,
not out of political calculation. Russian
Jews, Lazar added in reference to Putins
time in office, have a duty to use this
golden hour and press ahead with community growth.
Still, Putin was quick to leverage the new
Jewish museum for his needs.
In 2013, the space became Putins
answer to an international legal dispute
involving the Schneerson Library, which
holds texts by Joseph I. Schneerson, a late
leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The Russian state has held the material since Communist authorities confiscated it in 1917. In 2013, a U.S. federal judge
ruled in favor of Chabad lawyers in the
United States who are seeking the return
of the library to Brooklyn, where ChabadLubavitch is based.
Lazar reluctantly agreed to Putins
request that the texts be housed in the
museum as a form of compromise. The
claimants in New York refuse to see it as
such, but the move showed Putins influence over Lazar.
He wanted to solve a problem, Lazar
said of Putins so-called compromise,
though it may have caused a problem for
me.
But Lazar and Putins relationship seems
to go deeper than political expediency.
In 2012, Lazar led the Russian leader on
a tour of Jerusalems Western Wall. And
last year Putin made Lazar a member of
PHOTOS BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Russias prestigious Merit to the Fatherland order, the countrys highest civilian
decoration and one that is rarely conferred
on people who were not born in Russia.
(Lazar became a Russian citizen in 2000.)
Lazars prominence has a powerful
effect on his constituents. At a recent brit
milah in Moscow, men from a Sephardic
family from the Caucasus lined up to shake
his hand at a shul that fell silent when
Lazar stepped in. After the shake, they
kissed their own palms as a show of their
reverence for Lazar, whom some in attendance described as a great sage.
Many Russian-Jewish leaders are happy
to bask in the warmth of such adoration.
But to Lazar who has armed guards, a
chauffeur, and several assistants his
congregants reverence is an unwanted
byproduct of a title he neither coveted
nor particularly enjoys, he said. If not for
his current position, Lazar said, he would
have preferred to be a teacher like his
father in Milan.
Dovid Eliezrie, a Chabad rabbi who
recently completed writing a book on the
movements global outreach efforts, said
that for months Lazar resisted pressure
by other Chabad leaders to accept the
title of chief rabbi. Lazar acquiesced only
after a former Israeli chief rabbi revealed
that Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the
revered Chabad leader who died in 1994,
had said Lazar would be a good candidate
for becoming Russias chief rabbi one day.
The title, as Lazar has come to see it, is
nothing more than a tool that allows me to
achieve certain goals for my community.

JTA WIRE SERVICE
Jewish World
Jewish comedian big in China

Sometimes the humor translates sometimes it doesnt
URIEL HEILMAN
How do you tell a joke in China about Jews,
when the only things most Chinese think
they know about the Chosen People is that
theyre smart and good with money?
That was Jesse Appells quandary when
he moved to China three years ago from
Massachusetts. He had plans to become a
comedian and, like many stand-ups, he
planned to mine his own upbringing for
material.
All the bad stereotypes about Jews in
the West are considered good in China,
Appell said. Chinese say: The Jews control the media and the banks amazing!
When people find out Im Jewish, they say
thats why I speak Chinese so well, because
Jews are super-smart. Im like, thats not
how it works.
Appell, 24, is one of only a handful of
stand-up comedians in China, a country of
1.35 billion people that until very recently
didnt have much of a stand-up circuit. The
countrys first stand-up show premiered
on Dragon TV in 2012, the same year that
Appell graduated from Brandeis University
and moved to Beijing.
He went there on a Fulbright scholarship; his goal was to train in the traditional
Chinese comedic art known as Xiang
Sheng, in which two performers engage
in witty banter in semi-scripted routines
a bit like the Abbott and Costello classic
Whos On First.
But Appell, who performs in Mandarin Chinese, soon found a following with
funny videos and stand-up routines. Much
of his humor centers on his position as
an insider/outsider, a foreigner in China
who gets Chinese culture except when
he doesnt. A Gagnam-style parody video
Appell made about being a Laowai, Chinese slang for foreigner, has garnered more
than 2 million views on Chinese websites.
Im the type of Laowai who sucks at
basketball, Appell sings in Chinese in
the music video. The type of Laowai
who buys stuff at Silk Street but doesnt
get ripped off. The type of Laowai who
doesnt drive a BMW and instead drives
a secondhand electric bike. A regular guy
whos a Laowai.
By combining some traditional Xiang
Sheng routines with TV appearances,
stand-up performances, touring on the
college circuit, and teaching a high school
improv class, Appell has been able to
cobble together a living as a comedian in
China.
Its not exactly a standard career path
for an American Jewish boy.
There are some limitations to being
a stand-up comedian in China. For one
thing, the Chinese term for stand-up is the
same as the one for talk show, so many
Jesse Appell, an American comedian living in Beijing, finds that Chinese audiences are eager to hear about his Jewish background.
COURTESY OF JESSE APPELL
audience members coming to open-mic

nights at their college or local bar have no
idea whether to expect a Louis C.K. or an
Ellen DeGeneres.
You cant really poke fun at the government, which intentionally leaves the
boundary of acceptability vague to get
artists to censor themselves. The Chinese
arent great at self-deprecation. Add to
that the lack of alcohol, and Chinese inhibitions against laughing too loudly, and it
can make for a tough crowd.
Until I got to China, I never realized
how big of an effect there is going into a
set where the audience is a little liquored
up, Appell told JTA in an interview while
on a visit to the United States for shows in
Atlanta and Tennessee. The Chinese tend
to come in, sit down in neat rows, dont
talk, and wait for the show to start. But
people still have a good time if we can
make them laugh.

Appell sometimes serves as an opening
act for Joe Wong, one of Chinas biggest
stand-up comedians and the subject of a
May New York Times Magazine profile.
Appell also recently launched a new web
series about living in China. He says he has
performed in more than 20 Chinese provinces, and last fall he did a 13-city tour in
North America.
Funny business came early for Appell.
He and his brother used to do bar mitzvahs, with his brother handling the music
and Appell serving as the emcee and
funnyman. As a teen he was picked for
Newton North High Schools elite improv
troupe. He was so good that one of his
teachers let him submit a rap video on
Otto Von Bismarck, the 19th-century German leader, in place of a term paper.
My name is OVB, yeah, you know me
/ Im the Iron Chancellor of Germany,

Appell raps. Shoulda seen us kickin ass
up in Denmark / the only better warrior
is Mr. Stark. / We got into this thang up in
Holstein / but Prussia comes out lookin
super clean.
He continued doing comedy in college,
but also began studying Chinese intensively (about 10 percent of all Brandeis
freshmen come from China). Appell spent
six months of his junior year studying in
China, where he discovered traditional
Xiang Sheng comedy.
He still does plenty of Xiang Sheng,
often with a 300-pound Iranian partner
training with the same Xiang Sheng master as Appell.
You have a skinny Jewish guy and a fat
Iranian guy doing Chinese comedy, Appell
said, noting that the absurdity of the juxtaposition is lost on Chinese audiences.
American-style stand-up offers Appell
a way to get his own material onstage.
Though Chinese people dont know much
about the Jews, Appell says theyre always
excited to hear him talk about Judaism. A
routine he recorded about being Jewish
in China made it to the front page of Chinas version of YouTube and quickly got
100,000 views.
I feel like Jewish culture and Chinese
culture have a lot of commonalities,
Appell said in one of his stand-up routines.
Jews at the age of 13 have a coming-of-age
ritual. Its called a bar mitzvah. We need
to read lots of books, we have to study a
new language, but whether we speak it or
not doesnt matter. Theres a lot of praying
involved, and finally we share all the boring stuff weve learned. After I got to China
I realized that Chinese people have a similar coming-of-age ritual at 13: Its called the
high school entrance exam.
Ironically, Appell, who grew up in the
heavily Jewish Boston suburb of Newton,
Massachusetts, and attended Brandeis, the
Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university,
says he actually has become much more
Jewishly involved since moving to China.
At Brandeis, the Jewish stuff was everywhere, so you could engage with it without stepping out of your way, he said.
In China, if I dont go to services, Im not
going to walk by services or see people
lighting candles in their dorm room.
Appell says he finds himself at the egalitarian Jewish congregation Kehillat Beijing
nearly every Friday night that is, if he
doesnt have a show. This year he emceed
the communitys Passover seder, which
drew 200 people on the holidays first
night.
He says his mother often asks him if hell
stay in China for good.
Thats in the figure-it-out-later column, Appell said.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Dvar Torah
Parshah Shelach
Joshua: champion of moderation
udging from our history, leading the

Jewish people is a unique challenge.
Even a cursory reading of the Torah
reveals the many obstacles Moses
faced shepherding the nation of Israel out
of Egypt and through the desert. Im sure
he would be able relate to the story that
is told about the American president and
Israeli prime minister comparing their
jobs. The president comments that its not
easy to be the president of several hundred million people, to which the prime
minister responds, try being the prime
minister of three million prime ministers.
In this weeks Torah reading, the most
difficult events of national rebellion and
betrayal climax with the sin of the spies
and the peoples ensuing despair. And yet
while many other biblical leaders faced
similar challenges like Moses to varying
degrees, there is one notable exception.
Joshua, Moses successor, faces no rebellions and no national betrayals of God as
he leads the people into the land of Israel
and settles them there. In fact, the book
of Joshua concludes with Israel served
God all the days of Joshua. ( Joshua
24:31) Moses endured a number of bitter
moments of conflict and national sin and
even goes so far as to say that God became
angry at him because of the people, and
here his student faces no such challenges
whatsoever. What was it about Joshua that
he enjoyed leading a generation so loyal to
God and to his leadership?
Looking at the story of the sin of the
spies we can find the roots of Joshuas
unique personality and sense of leadership. When the Jewish people accept the
negative report of the 10 wicked spies and
abandon all hope of settling the land of
Israel, there is a notable contrast in the
reaction of Moses and Aaron on the one
hand and that of Joshua and Calev on the
other hand. While the former pair falls on
their faces making no attempt to address
the people, Joshua and Calev follow the
recognizes these differing

rending of their garments with
approaches later on. In the
a rebuttal of the claims of the
first chapter of the book of
10 spies. And they spoke to the
Devarim, Moses observes
congregation of the children of
that the only members of
Israel, saying: The land, which
the generation who left
we passed through to spy it
Egypt who will enter the
out, is an exceedingly good
land are Calev, who will
land. (Bamidbar 14:7) One
inherit a special portion
way to account for this differRabbi Chaim
ence is to recognize that Moses
in the land because he
Poupko
and Aaron belong to the older
followed God wholeheartAssociate rabbi,
edly, and Joshua because
generation and had difficulty
Congregation
he will settle the people in
understanding and relating to
Ahavath Torah,
Englewood,
the land. Calev is rewarded
the malcontent younger generOrthodox
ation in the desert. Joshua and
for his self-sacrifice while
Calev are able to address the
Joshua is not given any
people because they belong to
such reward. He merits
this younger generation. According to the
entry not because of his actions. He simply was destined to lead the people there.
rabbis, there was already a prophecy that
While Calevs bold action in defending
declared that Moses would not lead the
Gods honor garners praise and reward,
people into Israel, while Joshua would.
it doesnt earn him any responsibilities
This episode represents just one of several indicators that Moses and Aaron are
because his reaction had no effect on the
becoming increasingly estranged from the
people. Certainly he sanctified Gods name
younger generation that was expected to
in his bold gesture standing up for God in
conquer and settle the land.
the face of rebellion, but in this case such a
Nevertheless, if we look further at
stance yielded no practical consequences
the details of the aftermath of the sin of
for the people. Joshua, however, walks a
the spies we find that Joshua and Calev
different path. He chooses his battles. He
diverge in their responses. Rabbi Mosheh
doesnt rebuff the spies and the people
Lichtenstein observes in his book, Moses:
once he sees that such an attempt would
Envoy of God, Envoy of His People, that
be futile. He remains silent in order to cultivate his relationships with others, ensurprior to their aforementioned joint statement to the people, it is only Calev who
ing that he remain an effective leader. Having a sense of politics, he works behind the
reacts and speaks up when the wicked
scenes at this point. Joshua is more focused
spies initially give their report. And Calev
on educating the people and restoring
silenced the people toward Moses, and
their sense of priorities as he knows he will
said: We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome
be the one leading them.
it. (Bamidbar 13:30) Calev makes a bold
The success that Joshua enjoyed as
stand against the other spies and pointa leader can be traced back directly to
edly exhorts the people to ignore them.
moments like this one in which Joshua
Joshua, however, avoids this more conassumes this moderate approach. His comfrontational approach and instead joins
mitment to God and Torah was shown not
in the more moderate statement that simthrough bold declarations this time, but
ply asserts that the land of Israel is an
rather through patience and hard work
exceedingly good land. Indeed, the Torah
in the areas of education and spiritual
guidance. Joshuas moderate voice was

able to penetrate more deeply than
Calevs loud declaration. In fact, the rabbis say that the elders of this generation
observed that the face of Moses was like
the sun while the face of Joshua was like
the moon. Moses, who received the Torah
directly from God, possessed a spiritual
intensity that was as difficult to approach
as it is to look into the bright light of the
sun. Joshua, the student of Moses, was
able to reflect this light just as the moon
reflects the light of the sun in a fashion that
allowed for a closer relationship with the
people. Joshuas moderation was easier to
handle.
We hear many voices today, largely due
to the proliferation and anonymity of the
Internet. And with the advent of Twitter,
Facebook, and the smartphone, an environment has been fostered in which we
face an onslaught of slogans, headlines,
and catchphrases from individuals, companies, and organizations competing for our
attention to buy their product and or buy
into their opinion. The result of this reality is that many important, complex issues
are boiled down into bold Calev-type declarations pithy, declarative slogans and
sound-bytes. Nuance and complexity are
sacrificed for the sake of one-upmanship
and making information easily digestible.
So much discourse regarding politics,
social issues, and the like, especially in
comment threads on blogs, are reduced
to the level of what I like to call bumper
sticker sophistication. Ideological lines are
drawn hard and fast in black or white with
little room for other opinions or moderate voices in between. There are certainly
moments that call upon us to make a bold
stand like Calev. But our standard, everyday mode of communication should match
Joshuas voice a voice that communicates
and teaches in a deliberate fashion marked
by patience, diligence, moderation, and
sophistication.
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FROM PAGE 23
I would like to go back to Rabbi Heschel

for a second. Rabbi Heschel called us to live
more fully into the community of Israel.
As Jews, as Americans, we are called to
be mindful of that sacred place. Israel is a
special place. We know that the world can
be a dangerous place, and while we labor
for justice in the world, we also will need
to know that we must exercise wisdom in
the maintenance of Americas interests
and Israels freedom. In many ways they
are intertwined.
While I recognize the unique cultures
and traditions of other peoples, as Americans, we need to appreciate the particular
challenge of Iran to both our nation here
and of course Israel. If the chant Death to
America and the destruction of Israel are
the state supported and sanctioned rallying cries of government supported rallies,
we are not negotiating with a rational and
objective government. And whether one
is a Democrat, as I am, or a Republican,
a Christian, Muslim, or Jew; the hatred to
our nation expressed by Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei when
he affirmed a Tehran crowds chants of
death to America, must give us insights
as to Irans intentions. I am reminded
of my lessons as a graduate student at
Columbia University, when a professor
admonished us not simply to accept representations at the bargaining table, but
to be aware as to intentionality. There can
be no question as to Irans intent as to our
nation, as well as Israel.
As Americans, as Democrats and Republicans, as people of goodwill, we as a nation
have a legitimate right to protect ourselves,
and of course to protect American national
interests.
Yes, peaceful self-determination must
be for all nations, but when Iran is heading
upon a clear discernible charge toward the
acquisition of nuclear weapons, we must
be mindful of the nuances of the discussion and its impact on the United States,
and of course on Israel. I point it out today,
because amidst all the newspaper reporting there are five key points that impact
all of us and must be included in any deal.
These points are crucial.
First, inspections and verification.
Inspectors must be permitted unimpeded access to suspect nuclear sites. An
agreement must support anytime, anywhere, as Ronald Reagan said, quoting a
Russian proverb. We ought to hearken to
President Reagans wisdom.
Next, knowledge of possible military
dimension.
Iran must explain its prior weapons
efforts fully. The entire scope of Irans
nuclear activities must be known, so we
can establish a baseline against which we
can measure future actions.

Third, sanctions.
Sanctions relief must commence
only after Iran complies with its
commitments.
Fourth, duration.
Irans nuclear weapons quest must be
blocked for decades, if not for the foreseeable future.
Last, dismantlement.
Iran must dismantle its existing nuclear
infrastructure so it has no discernible path
to a nuclear weapon.
Inspection, knowledge of military
dimension, sanctions, duration, and
dismantlement. These five points are
the framework for a practical, enforceable agreement. They are no less and
Each of us
is called to
make a unique
contribution to
improving the
world. Each of
us can show
tikkun olam.
no more than the terms President John
Fitzgerald Kennedy crafted after the
Cuban missile crisis to address the Soviet
threat posed by the installation of missiles in Cuba.
Now is as important a time for Israel and
for the United States as any time in history .
We have talked today of faith and family,
of rebuilding a city and a community, and
living in a world that can ignore at best, or
be hostile at worst, to the values we discuss
on Shabbat. Yet I am optimistic, as I believe
in an adage that resonated in President Lincolns heart. Right does make might.
Whatever we have suffered throughout
the ages, from Pharaohs slavery to the dark
evil that was the Holocaust, we are commanded by the prophet Micah to follow
that simply profound admonition, to do
justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with
our God.
If we follow Micahs wise precept, I am
confident we will build a stronger community, a more vibrant America, and a more
secure world for our children and our childrens children.
Steven Fulop is the mayor of Jersey City.
This column is extracted from the talk
he gave on Sunday, when his childhood
rabbi, Gerald Zelizer, celebrated
his retirement from Neve Shalom in
Metuchen after 45 years on its bimah.
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1 Joels Cabaret costar

5 Jacob to Abraham: Abbr.
9 The Exodus, in a sense
13 Japanese lokshen
14 Prefix with pathy (together, treatment
method strongly advocated by Yehudi
Menuhin)
15 Wedding staple
16 Over-the-top sermon
17 How some remove their yarmulkes
18 Second Commandment taboo
19 Fischer fixation
21 Canaan dog, e.g.
23 8th sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of
Life
24 Gershwin song, ___ All Laughed
25 Menorah finish, perhaps
29 Manifestations of Sodom and Saddam
31 Gymnast Kerri Strugs home state
32 Feature of Hatari! (1962) in which Red
Buttons played a lead role
34 Cross Creek director Martin
35 Mitzvah type, for Ashkenazi Jews
36 Lerner and Loewes If ___ I Would
Leave You
37 Sound made by the stone as it struck
Goliath, perhaps
39 Samsons were no doubt quite impressive
40 First person
41 Dolph Schayes datum
42 Really digs, as ones Torah study class,
e.g.
44 Do some dor-to-dor work with your
values
46 One who is not to be trusted
47 Remington ___: TV Series in which
Stephanie Zimbalist played Laura Holt
48 3800 3900 to the Romans
49 Start of the name of the character
who saw Princess Leias hologram on
Tatooine
52 Brad Ausmuss milieu: Abbr.
53 Hung around after Hebrew school, say
55 Abbie an Slats writer
58 Research subject for Lise Meitner
60 Its one of the oldest inhabited cities in
the world
61 Second son
62 Lisa of A Different World
63 Ward who starred in Zwick/Herdkovitzs
Once and Again
64 She costarred with Dustin in Outbreak
65 Competitor of Donna, Calvin and Ralph
66 Mod to 65 Across
1 Carolyn Jones characters manservant in

The Addams Family
2 Common source for the main latke ingredient
3 Football strategy
4 Example of provident and organized
industry, according to Proverbs
5 Tzedakah beneficiaries
6 Sidney Lumets Running on ___
7 Vav in Venice
8 Anton Rubinstein, e.g.
9 Red alternative from the Galilee
10 Ben Gurion Internationals locale
11 Valuable metal in Ladino
12 Gun designer Uzi
14 Words before dont you cry in the
song Summertime
20 Direction in a borscht recipe
22 Omer, for one
26 Goon
27 What the Knesset can do with laws
28 Prop used by Billy Crystal in City
Slickers
30 Matzah to matzo: Abbr.
31 To be a free nation in our Land, for
example
32 Penultimate round in the Ligat HaAl
playoffs
33 Elliot Sharps genre, ____-garde
34 Megillat ___ (Book traditionally read
on Shavuot)
38 Kubricks computer
39 Knish, so to speak
41 One place to cool a 39 Down
43 State in which you dont want the bat
mitzvah just before her service
45 Second destroyed by Titus
46 Garden guardians that have five letters
in common with creatures like the one
from Prague
48 Like the high priest in the Holy of
Holies, always
50 Mr. Television of a Golden Age
51 Tony Martins song I Get ___
54 Charles Gorens position, at times
55 Sabra of the 60s, for one
56 One-time New York mayor Beame
57 Today I am a fountain ___.
59 Congratulatory conclusion
The solution to last weeks puzzle

in on page 47.
Arts & Culture

Movies at KulturefestNYC
An unparalleled film celebration of Yiddish culture
ERIC GOLDMAN
t is not every week when you can

see 37 films in seven days all celebrating the renaissance of Yiddish
culture.
Starting Sunday, as part of KulturfestNYC, the National Yiddish Theatre
Folksbiene will present the largest festival
of Yiddish culture cinema ever presented
anywhere. (In full disclosure, I am pleased
to have been asked to curate and moderate
the film series.)
A century ago, Yiddish cinema began.
It was seen as a way to convey Yiddish theater to the far ends of Europe.
In Soviet Russia, it became a medium
for Jewish expression in a Communist
realm that first encouraged it and then
later demanded ideological conformity.
Throughout the 1930s, it continued as a
creative force, both in the United States
and in Poland, as a source of entertainment and a bulwark against assimilation. After World War II, Yiddish movies
served to provide comfort to those in
need of that consolation.
Throughout the first half of the 20th
century, Jewish life, culture, and language
were extolled as a check against the perceived threats to the Jewish world. But
within a few years of the wars end, with
the majority of Yiddish speakers dead,
new forms of entertainment, including
television, and a post-Holocaust world
Jewry more comfortable in secular society, Yiddish cinema ceased to be the
dynamic cultural force it once had been.
A generation later, however, in the mid1970s, three young filmmakers in New
York Josh Waletzky, David Greenwald,
and Sally Hecklel all turned to Yiddish
to tell their stories. In 1980, a filmmaker,
Samy Szlingerbaum, whose parents were
stateless after the war, related those experiences in Brussels-Transit, the first feature film to be made in Yiddish in 30 years.
So began an incredible renaissance of Yiddish cinema across Europe, Israel, and the
United States that continues today. The
three once-young filmmakers will be on
hand to screen and talk about their films
(The Bent Tree, Luck, and The Well)
on Thursday morning. Boris Lehman, the
star of Brussels-Transit, will be coming in
from Belgium to be at Wednesday nights
screening of his film.
The film program begins on Sunday
afternoon at 5 p.m. with Auf das Leben/
To Life, a German film that premiered
this winter at the Berlin Film Festival. It is
the story of a once-popular cabaret singer
of Yiddish songs who has an ongoing
From Auf Das Leben To Life
Theodore Bikel
From The Dybbuk and the Holy Apple

Field
struggle with memories of her early life.

Her memories become all the more complicated when she meets a man who has a
remarkable resemblance to the love of her
life from some 30 years earlier. The film is
one more example of how todays German
cinema has been struggling with the question of how Jews do or dont fit into todays
Germany. Sharon Brauner, a popular German singer who stars in the film, will be on
hand for a post-screening conversation at
the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
Throughout the week, films will be
screened at the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Museum of Tolerance on 42nd Street in
the afternoons and at Temple Emanu-El
Skirball Center at East 65th Street in the
evenings. Highlighting the series are a feature film, A Gesheft/The Deal, shot by
ultra-Orthodox Jews in Monsey; Mendy,

Adam Vardys movie about a chasidic
Jew who leaves his Brooklyn community
in search of a different life; Eve Annenbergs Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish, a
2010 contemporary version of Shakespeare set in Williamsburg, and The
Dybbuk and the Holy Apple Field, Israeli
filmmaker Yossi Somers adaptation of
the classic play, set in Jerusalems Mea
Shearim. Other highlights are screenings
of Tevya and His Seven Daughters; an
Israeli adaptation of the classic Sholem
Aleichem stories, Too Early to be Quiet,
Too Late to Sing; Israeli vocalist Chava
Albersteins homage to Israeli Yiddish
poets, and a look at YidLife Crisis and
some of the interesting made-for-the-web
Yiddish films of today. There also will be
a screening of the 1918 silent film The

Yellow Ticket, presented with Alicia Svigals original music, and showings of two
1920s silent films with live piano accompaniment. Filmmakers, artists and actors
will be at most of the showings for postscreening conversations.
Cinema at KulturfestNYC will conclude
next Sunday, June 21, at the Museum of
Jewish Heritage, with the showing of two
important films. One is The Pin, Naomi
Jayes Canadian Yiddish film, released in
2013, about two young people who hide in
the woods during World War II. The other
is Avram Heffners 1990 Israeli film, Laura
Adlers Last Love Affair, with Rita Zohar,
who will be at the screening. Its about the
queen of a Yiddish theater troupe and her
diminishing audience.
The festival closes with the New York
City premiere of Theodore Bikel: In the
Shoes of Sholem Aleichem, a cinematic
celebration of the legendary actor, singer,
troubadour, and Jewish activist. The
extraordinary Bikel will be on hand for a
conversation following the film.
This is an opportunity like no other! For
more information, go to www.KulturfestNYC.org. For tickets, go to Ovation Tix866-811-4111 or call 212-213-2120, ext. 0.
Eric Goldman, author of Visions,
Images and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past
and Present, reviews films for the Jewish
Standard.
Calendar
Saturday
JUNE 13
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead informal tot
Shabbat, with songs,
stories, and crafts,
5:15 p.m., followed by a
family Shabbat service
including a blessing
for all high school
seniors and a send-off
for summer overnight
campers at 6:45. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Book discussion in
Washington Township:
The Bergen County
YJCC hosts a discussion
of Kelly Joness The
Woman Who Heard
Color, 7:30 p.m.
605 Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610.
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob has a
year-end communitywide Shabbat dinner
and Friday Night
Live! musical services.
Nosh and schmooze,
6-6:30 p.m.; followed
by services and dinner.
176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Shabbat in Tenafly: The

Temple Sinai Rock Band
performs during services,
7:30 p.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.
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 keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
Sunday
JUNE 14
Charity bike ride: Jewish
Family Service of Bergen
and North Hudson
sponsors JFS Wheels for
Meals - Ride to Fight
Hunger, beginning and
ending at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh.
The Jewish Standard is
among the sponsors.
(201) 837-9090 or
RidetoFightHunger.com.
Wednesday
JUNE 17
Yiddish club: Khaverim
Shirah performs Jewish secular and sacred songs to honor the

memory of Bernie and Ruth Weinflash, the choirs founders
and longtime supporters, at the Thurnauer School of Music at
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, on Sunday, June
12, at 7 p.m. Cantor Israel Singer of Temple Emanu-El in Closter is guest
soloist, under the direction of founding director/conductor Matthew Lazar
and associate conductor Marsha Bryan Edelman. Tickets subsidized by the
Weinflash family. Post-concert dessert and coffee reception. (201) 408-1465
or jccotp.org/Thurnauer.
PHOTO BT JANE KICKS
JUNE
14
Blanco, 10 a.m. Free

one-hour yoga class for
all ages and levels. First
100 participants receive
yogi swag bags with
treats and educational
information from Shea
Moisture, Now Foods,
Karma Organic, and
Healthway Natural Foods.
Lulu Lemon Athletica,
an event partner, will
display wearable yoga
and exercise apparel.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1475.
Literary fair/sale in Fair

Lawn: Congregation
Darchei Noam hosts
a Celebrate Authors
Literary Fair and
Used Book Sale,
10:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Puppet workshop,
author reading, open
mic reading, and
book signings. 10-04
Alexander Ave. www.
darcheinoam.com.
Installation/brunch in
Cliffside Park: Temple
Yoga in Tenafly: The

Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades hosts the third
annual Yoga on the
Green with JCC master
yoga instructor Brenda
Israel of Cliffside Park

and Temple Beth El
of North Bergen has a
congregational election
meeting, 11 a.m., followed
by an international
brunch with a Spanish
menu at Temple Israel,
207 Edgewater Road,
Cliffside Park, 1:30 p.m.

Reservations, (201)-9457310.
Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center hosts military
bridge with lunch,
refreshments, and
prizes, noon. 195 West
Clarkstown Road, New
City, N.Y. (845) 352-0017.
Circus in Washington
Township: The Kelly
Miller Circus comes
to the Bergen County
YJCC for two shows,
noon and 4 p.m. Rain or
shine. Traditional circus
features elephants, tigers,
camels, ponies, as well
as aerialists, acrobats,
and clowns, all under the
big top. Advance sales
benefit the YJCC. 605
Pascack Road. Wendy
Fox, (201) 666-6610.
Monday
JUNE 15
Hadassah meets in
Fair Lawn: Bernie Roth
discusses What our
grandparents knew,
but failed to tell us
- Embracing Yiddish
culture and Yiddish
values, then and now,
the Palisades in Tenafly

commemorates the
Lubavitcher rebbes
21st yahrzeit with a trip
to his gravesite. Light
dinner. Buses leave
from the Beth Aharon
Forem Chabad House, 11
Harold Street in Tenafly,
6 p.m. Reservations,
201) 871-1152, Rabbi@
Chabadlubavitch.org, or
www.chabadlubavitch.
org.
Yiddish in Wayne: The
JUNE 19
JUNE 16
Ohel trip: Lubavitch on
JUNE 18
Friday
Tuesday
Center of Passaic
County offers a womens
discussion on this weeks
Torah portion over
lunch, noon. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 493-7842 or
Jewishwayne.com.
Thursday
Wayne YMCA offers a
Yiddish Vinkle led by
Ray Fishler, sponsored
by Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 236.
for Fair Lawn Hadassah

at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, 1 p.m.
Refreshments. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 7910327.
Ladies lunch and learn

in Wayne: The Chabad
Far Yiddish (Friends

for Yiddish) of the
JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah meets for lunch
and to celebrate Flag
Day, 1 p.m. Group meets
the third Wednesday
of the month. East 304
Midland Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Mosab Hassan Yousef

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AIPAC dinner in
Rockleigh: AIPAC (the
American Israel Public
Affairs Committee) holds
its AIPAC Bergen &
Rockland summer dinner
at the Rockleigh Country
Club, 6:30 p.m. Chaired
by Janene and Richard
Edlin, Debbie and Mickey
Harris, and Miriam and
Ezra Lightman, with
200 couples as host
committee members
for the evening. Former
Shin Bet spy Mosab
Hassan Yousef, son of
the founder of Hamas, is
the guest speaker. Ayelet
Kahane, akahane@aipac.
org or (646) 360-1542.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman,
honoring volunteers
and installing its new
board, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Rabbi Moshe Bryski

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Shabbat in Tenafly:
Rabbi Moshe Bryski,
executive director/
spiritual leader of
Chabad of the Conejo in
Agoura Hills, Calif., is the
guest rabbi at Lubavitch
on the Palisades in
Calendar
commemoration of the
Lubavitcher rebbes 21st
yahrzeit. At 7:30 p.m.,
after dinner, he will
discuss The Hero In
You. On Shabbat
morning at 10:30 a.m.,
he will talk about The
Power of Hope; at
noon, The Legacy of
the Lubavitcher Rebbe:
The Infinite Value of the
Individual Jew, and at
7 p.m., Climbing Your
Mountain. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, www.
chabadlubavitch.org/
shabbaton.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
musical Shabbat service
led by Rabbi Steven
Sirbu and Cantor Ellen
Tilem with the Temple
Emeth band, 8 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Saturday
JUNE 20
Film/discussion in
Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno welcomes
writer/producer Larry
Richards, who will
screen and discuss his
documentary When
Comedy Went to
School, about Borscht
Belt comedians, 7:30 p.m.
Light refreshments. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Monday
JUNE 22
Feature film: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Women
in Love, 7:30 p.m., as
part of a series, Top
Films You May Have
Missed (or want to see
again). Harold Chapler
introduces the film and
leads the discussion
afterward. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 14
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
for food, an original
group game with
prizes, and to mingle at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12:45 p.m. $10.
20 Academy Road.
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
Wednesday
JUNE 17
Senior singles meet
in Tallman: Singles
65+ meet for dinner
at the Waterwheel
Restaurant, 6 p.m. The

group meets monthly
at the JCC Rockland.
Individual checks. 272
Route 59. Paul Lewis,
(845) 357-5567 or
pmlewis6391@optonline.
net.
Friday
JUNE 26
Shabbat weekend:
Modern Orthodox/
Machmir singles,
20s-30s, are welcome
to a Shabbat singles
Shabbaton in
Bergenfield. Weekend
includes guest speakers
Rabbi Yaakov Neuberger
of Congregation Beth
Abraham in Bergenfield,
Dr. Shani Ratzker, author
of Finding Your Bashert
and the Survival
Guide to Shidduchim,
and health coach and
dating mentors Gila
and Carl Guzman of
Teaneck; shalosh seudot,
and musical Melavah
Malkah kumsitz with
David Ross from Shir
Soul, Maccabeats, and
Voices for Israel. $125
in advance/$130 at
door; includes all meals.
Hosted by RZ Ruchlamer
and Dr. Shani Ratzker.
(201) 522-4776, rzr18k@
gmail.com or www.
bethabraham.org.
Kitchen renovation project on Sunday

Bonim Builders of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey is partnering with
Rebuilding Together Bergen County to
renovate a kitchen for an elderly woman in
Teaneck. Bonim is looking for volunteers,
16 years and older, who can work on Sunday, June 14, helping to sheetrock kitchen
ceiling and walls. There are two shifts,
8:30 a.m. to noon or noon to 3:30 p.m.
Cold water and kosher snacks will be
provided at the worksite. Materials, supplies, and tools will be provided, but
you can bring your own tools if they are
labeled with your name. Dress for a mess

and bring work gloves. Closed-toed shoes
are required no sandals or flipflops.
The address, work scope, and waiver
forms will be emailed to you before the
project begins. Complete the waivers
for both Bonim Builders and Rebuilding
Together and bring them to the project.
Register in advance by emailing Stacey
Orden, Bonim Builderss project coordinator, at staceyo@jfnnj.org or call (201)
820-3903.
PBS plans documentary

on Norman Lear
Norman Lear

COURTESY PBS
The first documentary about television legend Norman

Lear, co-produced by Loki Films and THIRTEENs American Masters, is coming to PBS during the fall of 2016. It
will feature interviews with Lear, George Clooney, Carl
and Rob Reiner, Russell Simmons, and others. Lears
name is synonymous with the sitcom. Approximately
120 million viewers tuned into his weekly shows at the
peak of his career.
Nutritionist to answer questions

at Sunday JFS bike-athon
individually with athletes from
Author/nutritionist Heidi
Major League Baseball, the
Skolnik of Nutrition Conditioning in Englewood
National Basketball Association, Mens and Womens Major
Cliffs will be at the fifth
League Soccer, Olympic-level
annual Jewish Family Service Wheels for Meals
athletes, professional cyclists,
Ride to Fight Hunger on
and marathoners.
Sunday, June 14, at the
The Jewish Standard is among
Heidi Skolnik
Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
the event sponsors. Online regCOURTESY JFS
istration is open for riders or
Ride/walk participants and
walkers for the fundraising
attendees will be able stop
event at www.ridetofighthunger.com;
at the registration area for the opportunity to Ask the Nutritionist. Skolnik
proceeds from the Wheels for Meals
has led nutrition training with the New
Ride to Fight Hunger will enable JFS, a
York Giants, New York Knicks, New York
non-profit organization in Teaneck, to
Mets, and Fordham University Athletcontinue its kosher Meals on Wheels
ics, The Julliard School, and the School
program and food pantry that serve the
of American Ballet, has written several
homebound elderly and disabled individuals in Bergen County. Donations
books, and is a frequent guest on television programs. She has also worked
may be made online as well.
JCC performance camp with bergenPAC

Registration is open
young stars will share
for the Kaplen JCC on
their talents, insights, and
the Palisades bergenenthusiasm for the BroadPAC-JCC Summer Perway stage. They include
formance Intensive, a
Henry Hodges, an actor/
musical theater/cabaret
voice actor/singer, who
experience for interstarred as Chip in Beauty
mediate and advanced
and the Beast; Jeremy
students, from 9 to 17
Potts, who was in the
years old. The program
original Broadway cast of
will run Monday to FriChitty Chitty Bang Bang
day, July 8 to 24, from
and played Michael Banks
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
in the original Broadway
The program offers
cast of Mary Poppins;
From a bergenPAC-JCC
the opportunit y to
Rozi Baker, who made
production of Willy
develop professional
her Broadway debut at
Wonka COURTESY JCCOTP
skills in singing, acting,
10 in Shrek, the Musical, played Jane Banks
comedy, and movement. The cabaret-style three-week perin Mary Poppins at the New Amsterformance-intensive program will feature
dam Theatre, and was the understudy
favorite numbers from Broadway musifor the role of young Bonnie in Bonnie
cals, comedy skits, short scenes, popuand Clyde,; and Emily Rosenfeld, who
lar rock songs, and new pieces. It culmimade her Broadway debut as Molly in
nates with a performance in a Manhattan
the revival of Annie.
venue on July 23, followed by another
An interview and audition are
performance in bergenPACs cabaret
required. The price includes two tickets
space on July 24.
to the New York performance. The workshop will be held at bergenPAC. Students
Joseph A. Baker, a successful Broadway music director/accompanist, who
can be bused to the JCC at 3:20 p.m. to
has performed in shows including
swim; an extended day is available at an
Wicked, Shrek, The Lion King, and
additional cost. The program costs $995
Little Shop of Horrors, will teach the
for JCC members; $1,195 for nonmembers. Call Deb Roberts at (201) 408-1492
program. Well-known Broadway guest
or email droberts@jccotp.org.
instructors will assist him, and three
Dion performing at bergenPAC

Tickets are on sale at the Bergen County Performing Arts Center for Dion, who will perform on Wednesday, July 8, at 8 p.m.
The singer, songwriter, and performers hits include Runaround
Sue, The Wanderer, and A Teenager in Love. He was one of
the most popular American rock and roll performers of the preBritish Invasion era. For information, call (201) 227-1030 or go to
www.bergenpac.org or www.ticketmaster.com.
Dion

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BERGENPAC
Jewish World
When homeland becomes home

Israel through the eyes of older immigrants
DEBORAH FINEBLUM SCHABB
Carl and Anita Jacobs, who left Teaneck for
Jerusalem four years ago, are both the same
age as the State of Israel67.
Everywhere we go there are these neon
signs that say 67 and I know were 67, but
now they are constantly reminding us, Ms.
Jacobs said with a laugh.
In perhaps the ultimate introduction to
the Jewish state, she had the chance to spend
time with former prime minister Golda Meir,
who stayed at the familys New Jersey home
during a fundraising tour in the 1950s.
She was very much like my bubbe, very
gentleand taller than youd think, Ms.
Jacobs said.
Even as a child, she came to understand
the importance of Israel. I knew even then
that this land is my heritage, and I really
wanted to be a part of it, she says.
As a teenager, Ms. Jacobs helped to finance
her very first trip to Israel in 1965 with her
babysitting earnings. Years later, she became
the New York-area director of the Jewish
National Fund, traveling regularly to Israel
for both business and pleasure. Though jobs
and kids and elderly parents would keep
Anita and Carl Jacobs in the United States for
many years, they are now mostly retired and
free to live their Israel dream, which includes
regular army base volunteer stints through
the IDFs Sar-El program.
Like other Jews his age, Gerry Wine
remembers the day Israel was bornMay 14,
1948and the United Nations vote the previous November, the one that opened the door
to a Jewish state.
He was 8 years old.
These were magical moments for all of
us, very, very exciting times, Mr. Wine said.
Even us kids were celebrating.
Mr. Wine recalls wearing blue and white to
religious school to honor the nascent state,
dropping coins for tzedakah into the blue tin
box in the kitchen. But he didnt truly begin
to appreciate the miracle of Israel until he was
married and a young father, and a non-Jewish
friend told him after the Six-Day War in 1967,
You guys really know how to whup em.
That offhand comment of his planted a
seed, a sense of pride in our people and the
amazing things we were doing there, he said.
Even so, Mr. Wine never dreamed that the
infant nation his family was cheering back in
1948 would become his home more than six
decades later.
The official reason Mr. Wine and his wife,
Sandy, made aliyah in 2012 from Sharon,
Mass., was the son and his family who already
were living in Modiin, midway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
They certainly were the big green light,
Sandy Wine, 74, said. But what I did not
expect was to fall in love with Israel. If youd
told me 10 years ago I would be living here
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu leans over the piano
during a visit to a retirement home in
Jerusalem in April 2012.

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and loving it, I would have thought you were

crazy. Now all I want to know is why doesnt
everyone live here?
Like the Wines, many seniors who now
live in Israel can recall the moment the U.N.
passed the resolution to partition the land in
1947, allowing for the formation of the State
of Israel and David Ben-Gurions declaration
the following May.
As a 19-year-old living in Hartford, Conn.,
Hannah Libman, who now is 86, recalls
sweating each U.N. vote.
I sat near the radio and counted them as
they came in, she said. I can still feel it, it
was so huge, the joy of it, but also the fear
that we would not get the votes we needed.
Understanding that the Holocaust preceded Israels establishment, Ms. Libman valued the moment all the more. She was born
in Germany in 1936, and her family escaped
before Hitlers net closed on the rest of her
relatives.
We didnt know the details until later, but
we knew what was happening over there was
terrible, that my grandparents were missing
and my fathers Polish family was also missing, she said. To us, we knew Israel would
be a place where Jews could be safe.
Like the Wines, Ms. Libman and her husband, Alfred, 89, were pulled to Israel by
familya daughter, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. They arrived last summer
from West Hartford, Conn., and now live in
senior housing in Jerusalem.
Wed been living near our son in New York
and visiting Israel a couple times a year, Hannah said. But one day we woke up and chose
Israel. Now we say every day, Isnt this wonderful? Were on this lovely vacation with a
new life and new friendsand our grands and
great-grands are determined not to let us get
bored.
Chaya (Claire) Subar, formerly of Rochester, N.Y., and her husband, David, have lived
in Jerusalem since 2007. Having narrowly
escaped death at the hands of the Nazis and
spent the war years being cared for by Polish
For many, that pride is personified in their

grandchildrens accomplishments.
When I see my grandchildren serving in
the IDF, I am filled with pride, said New York
native Barbara Greenberg, 70, who has lived
in Raanana for 16 years, close to her kids and
grandkids.
For Ms. Wine, much of the joy she gets
from living in Israel comes
from seeing her grandchildren growing up in the Jewish homeland.
Their friends are more
like close cousins, she said.
There are no play dates you
have to drive to, since the
kids walk, bike, and bus happily to friends. Its strange
that the world sees this place
as less safe, when the kids
have so much more freedom
here. Theyre empowered,
this is their country, their
Edith Sykora, a Hungarian-born Auschwitz survivor, and
home, and they feel that.
her late husband, Joel, made aliyah nine years ago.
Living here at our age is

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the frosting on the cake of
our lives, said Hannah Libman, who was rushing around her apartment
farmers, Ms. Subar reunited with her mother
preparing lunch for four granddaughters.
in 1948 and was living in a community of
We had a wonderful life in America, but now
Holocaust survivors in Stuttgart, Germany.
I feel like I came home.
I remember seeing a picture of a short guy
As to what the future holds for their
with bushy eyebrows and bushy hair, said
adopted homeland, most of the seniors are
Ms. Subar, who is now in her mid-70s. And
cautiously optimistic. Carl Jacobs is conI knew that he had something to do with a
cerned by the recent surge in anti-Semitic
new country for Jewish people. Everyone we
attacks around the world and the ongoing
knew was so happy.
negative media coverage of Israel.
Indeed, Holocaust survivors had a deep
Plus so many Jewish kids in America are
appreciation for the newly established Jewish state.
not prepared to refute it, he said. They just
I know how happy I was, says Hungardont know the real story of the Jewish peoian-born Edith Sykora, 85, who survived Ausple, and the importance of Israel.
chwitz and spent nearly a half-century in the
Sixteen years into her life in Israel, Barbara
U.S. before making aliyah to Raanana nine
Greenberg describes herself as optimistic,
years ago with her husband, Joel, who died
because our greatest strength is our people,
a few years ago.
the mix of people from all over, and for the
It really is wonderful being here with my
most part, everyone gets along. We understand the importance of having a Jewish state,
children and grandchildren, she said. Its
especially since our homeland has become
fantastic what they did here in not even 70
our home too.
years.
Warts and all, Israel is the best news the
As a girl growing up in Buenos Aires,
Jewish people have had in a long time, Chaya
Argentina, Eva Rabotnicoff Dimensteinas also
Subar, who survived the Nazis, said. Where
understood that somewhere far away, there
else and when else in history have we had our
was now a place where Jewish people could
own army to protect us?
be safe. Now 73, living in Maale Adumim
Edith Sykora, her fellow Holocaust surviwith her husband, Leon who both became
vor, agrees.
Israeli citizens in July she feels the blessing
Im sure there are certain things about
all the more keenly.
Israel that are not for the best, too much
We love it here, she said. This country
politics, she said, sighing. But still, its
is a very good place for our grandchildren to
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fantastic.
grow up.
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Shirley Adlerstein
Shirley Adlerstein, 93, of Paramus, died June 3.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair
Lawn.
Frieda Astalos
Frieda Astalos, ne Wiener, 95, died June 7.

Born in Bayonne, she was a retired executive for Irving
Trust in New York City and was a member of Temple EmanuEl and Adas Israel, both in Bayonne.
Predeceased by her husband, Martin, in 1990, she is survived by nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and great- nephews.
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Marvin Infield, 80, of Fair Lawn, died May 20.

He worked for Shoprite and Ehlers Corp, then later as a
mashgiach at Petaks and other kosher establishments. He
was a member of Congregation Ahavat Achim in Fair Lawn.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Sophie, ne
Zuckerberg; children, Mark (Terry), Debbie Greenbaum
(Stuart), and Michele Bardash (Dr. Jody); siblings, Leonard, Florence Wolfson, and Evelyn Weinstein; grandchildren, Izzy, Chani, and Malki Infield, Zachary, Jason, and
Alex Greenbaum, and Yoni, Ari, Deena, Etan, and Talia
Bardash; a great-grandson, Yehoshua Benyamin Bardash;
and nieces and nephews. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Seymour Rappoport
Seymour Franklin Rappoport, 94, of Chevy Chase, Md., formerly of Teaneck and Paterson, died June 2.
A World War II veteran serving in the Army Corps of Engineers, he worked on the Manhattan Project and in the military government that oversaw the reconstruction of Japan.
Predeceased by his wife, Marjorie, ne Garbert, and
sisters, Rosalie Saul and Lila Landau, he is survived by
his children, Joel (Alexandra Tan), Jay, and Philippa; and
two grandchildren. Donations can be made to the Jewish
Braille Institute. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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We assure that all deceased veterans have an American
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at their graves at the time of interment. Our Advanced
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Gloria Yaffee
Gloria Yaffee, 88, of Tenafly, died June 5.

Predeceased by her husband, Samuel (Ben), she is
survived by her children, Jonathan (Marjorie) and Jennifer Goetz (Marty); grandchildren, Misha, Zachary, Mara,
and Allison; and nieces, nephews, great-nieces, and
great-nephews.
Donations can be sent to the Jewish National Fund.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
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Gallery
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n 1 Senior volunteers Fran Halman-Migdal, left, and

Bea Tendler, who are friends and Fort Lee neighbors,
deliver Kosher Meals on Wheels for Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson They take
meals to to six seniors in Cliffside Park and Edgewater every Friday. They also volunteer weekly in
the National Council of Jewish Women thrift store in
Bergenfield. JFS will hold its fifth annual Wheels for
Meals A Ride to Fight Hunger (www.ridetofighthunger.com) fundraiser on June 14. COURTESY JFS
n 2 100 people attended a ceremony organized by Bris

Avrohom, along with the Bergen County Executives
office and the Board of Chosen Freeholders, to mark
Holocaust Memorial Day. Bergen County Executive
James Tedesco is in the middle; Bris Avrohoms executive director, Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky, is to his left,
along with Bris Avrohom staff, including its senior rabbi,
Rabbi/Cantor Berel Zaltzman; and other public officials
including Dr. Joan Voss, chair of the freeholders board,
and Sheriff Michael Saudino. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 3 Ohel embraced the Celebrate Israels theme,
Imagine, with its banner, Imagine A Community Without Stigma, while Camp Kaylie went with
Imagine An Experience for Life! COURTESY OHEL
n 4 Catastrophic floods hit Houston last month, leaving a trail of devastation that touched the citys Jewish
community in the southwestern neighborhood of Willow Meadows. Yeshiva University students, including
Ariella Levie of Teaneck, Batsheva Reich of Bergenfield, Avigayil Jarashow of Fair Lawn, and Sara Rozner of Monsey, N.Y.,
began working with local community leaders to organize a relief mission
to the area. With support from the Orthodox Union, Neals Fund, Harry
Ballan, Virginia Bayer, and Rabbi Robert Hirt, and in partnership with
Nechama, a group of 20 students flew to Houston to help. COURTESY YU
n 5 Teens from Temple Emanu-El in Closter and the residents of the
Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale celebrated a year of intergenerational friendships with a special dinner. COURTESY TEMPLE EMANU-EL
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OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 6/14 1-3PM
605 Albin, Teaneck
Move in ready 3BR,
2.5 bath colonial,
xlarge living room w
fireplace, den with
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cabinets, double sinks. Finished basement with wood
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Holy Name hospice hosts End-of-Life Doula presentation
Holy Name Medical Centers hospice program will host an informational presentation about and End-of-Life Doula on
Monday, June 22, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., in
Marian Conference Room #5. The speaker
will be Henry Fersko-Weiss. This presentation will be offered again on June 29.
An end-of-life doula offers a compassionate presence, knowing support, a caring

touch, and respite for a dying person and
his or her caregivers. Mr. Fersko-Weiss has
more than ten years experience heading
doula volunteer programs.
Holy Name Hospice is offering a
training program for volunteers in Endof-Life Doula in collaboration with Mr.

Fersko-Weiss. Training will begin July
8th at Holy Name Medical Center. The
informational presentation is an opportunity for potential volunteers to learn
more about the free training program
and to register.
For additional information or to
participate in this meaningful experience, call Jamie Anderson (201783-8870 ext. 311), the hospice programs volunteer coordinator, or email
prospectivedoulas@holyname.org.
The Teaneck Farmers

Market returns on Thursdays
The Teaneck Farmers Market is open
with fresh produce and gourmet treats.
The market is located in the Garrison
Avenue and Beverly Road free municipal parking lot, at the back of Wells Fargo
Bank. It is open on Thursdays from noon
to 6 p.m..
Sundens Stone Pointe Farm brings
fresh produce, flowers, plants, herbs,
eggs, and seasonal specials. Stoltzfus
Produce offers a selection from their
farm. Teanecks own Pickle-Licious has
varieties of pickles, olives, tapenades,
sundried tomatoes, and other marinated
delights.
Hoboken Farms offers prepared gourmet foods including portion control prepackets of meats and poultry, and their
two award-winning pasta sauces, Big Red
Marinara and Big Boss Vodka Sauces.
Paolos Kitchens stand brings the
heart of old-time Italian family style cuisine now with a gluten-free line of prepared foods.
Nanas Home Cooking Middle Eastern
makes on-site grilled kebab, falafel with
pita, salad platters, and sandwiches.

They also bring sweet desserts of baklavas, brownies, and cookies.
Gourmet Nuts and Dried Fruits offers
healthy raw and roasted nuts and a
large variety of dried fruits and trail
mixes.
Teanecks own Angela Logan returns
to sell Mortgage Apple Cakes, with original recipes of apple cake for cupcakes,
cakes infused with rum, and others drizzled with white chocolate or a white buttercream frosting.
Teanecks NJ Bees is back with local
honey and other bee products. Beekeeper Danny Senter will be share his
beekeeping knowledge
Mo Green Juices will be at the market
every other Thursday, starting this week,
with fresh-pressed raw vegetable juices
that many health-conscientious people
drink.
Come on Thursday, and youll find
these, and more. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/
teaneckfarmersmarket.
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Brightview Tenafly welcomes

first residents on Monday
Brightview Tenafly, a 90-apartment
home assisted living community in
Tenafly, will welcome its first residents
and families on Monday.
The community, located at 55 Hudson
Avenue, will feature assisted living apartment homes for people who need some
support services and are looking for a
vibrant lifestyle as well as Brightviews
specialized program and environment
for memory care, known as Wellspring
Village.
The community looks great and we
are thrilled to welcome the communitys first residents and families, executive director Alina Vanden Berg said. It
will be a big day.

The community will feature amenities
and gathering spaces including a caf/
bar and a beauty/ barber salon. Services at Brightview Tenafly will include
housekeeping, dining, transportation,
and maintenance provided by a highly
trained and caring staff.
Because we focus on possibilities
rather than limitations, residents, families and associates will enjoy fun-filled
days, adds community sales director,
Sherry Zimmer. To learn more about
Brightview Tenafly, call Sherry Zimmer
at (201) 510-2060.
Inbal Jerusalem Hotel enters

Trip Advisors prestigious Hall of Fame
The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel has been
awarded Trip Advisors most prestigious
honor, being recognized as a TripAdvisor
Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame winner. The Trip Advisor Hall of Fame is
reserved for the very top hospitality establishments that have earned a Certificate of
Excellence for five consecutive years.
Based on the millions of reviews and
opinions collected each year by TripAdvisor users worldwide, the Inbal was also
voted Jerusalems most luxurious hotel
in the 2015 TripAdvisor Travelers Choice
Awards, ranking the hotel in the top one
percent of all hotels around the world.
When selecting Certificate of Excellence winners, TripAdvisor uses a proprietary algorithm that takes into account the
quality, quantity, and timing of reviews
and opinions submitted by travelers on
TripAdvisor over a 12-month period, as well
as a businesss tenure and ranking on the
Popularity Index on the site. Of total Certificate of Excellence winners this year, only
9-percent have qualified for the Trip Advisor Hall of Fame, further emphasizing the
achievement of the hotel, Jerusalems most
premium hotel property.
It is a great honor and a remarkable
achievement to have been awarded with
TripAdvisors Certificate of Excellence five
years running, said Alex Herman, vice
president of sales and marketing at the
Inbal Jerusalem Hotel. The Inbal prides
Inbal Jerusalem Hotels courtyard
itself on providing its guests with the most

luxurious Jerusalem lodging and with
recent renovations throughout the hotel we
are always striving to provide an authentic
yet premium experience.
The hotel adds this award to its already
impressive collection of recent accolades,
which includes being voted the best hotel
in Israel and fourth best hotel in the entire
Middle East by readers of the influential
Conde Nast Traveler magazine.
The Inbal Jerusalem hotel is an awardwinning, five-star deluxe hotel situated in
the heart of Jerusalem overlooking the Old
City walls, and minutes away from all the
major cultural and historical sites. With
its Jerusalem stone exterior, the 283-room
hotel is known for its intimate authentic
Jerusalem character and impeccable worldclass service.
For more information, go to www.
inbalhotel.com
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