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This Yom Kippur, try confessing
the good things youve done
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Every year, Israel issues a set of stamps for the fall holidays.
Last year, for example, stamps featured children celebrating Rosh Hashanah,
Yom Kippur, and Sukkot.
This year, for the first time, the stamps focus on that least photogenic of
Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur.
The three stamps feature scenes from one of the most memorable of Yom Kippurs liturgical poems, which compares Gods control over our fate to the work of
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a craftsman variously a potter, a glazier, and a silversmith.
Worlds oldest man celebrates

bar mitzvah 100 years late
The worlds oldest man, 113-year-old
Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor who
lives in Haifa, celebrated his bar mitzvah. It was only a century late.
Mr. Kristal celebrated over the weekend with his two children, grandchildren, and nearly 30 great-grandchildren,
the Associated Press reported. He was
recognized as the worlds oldest man in
March.
He missed his bar mitzvah at 13 due to
World War I. His father was in the Russian army, and his mother had died three
years earlier.
His daughter, Shulamith Kuperstoch,
told the AP on Wednesday that Mr.
Kristal was very pleased as he recited
the Shehechiyanu prayer of gratitude,
surrounded by his family, as a tallis was
draped around his shoulders.
Everyone sang and danced around
him, she said. He was very happy. It
was always his dream to have a bar
mitzvah, and he really appreciated the
moment.
Ms. Kuperstoch said her father is still
in good health. He still remembers his
life in the early 20th century; his memories include the first time he saw a car.
He was 9 years old.
Born on Sept. 15, 1903, in the town
of Zarnow, Poland, Mr. Kristal moved
to Lodz in 1920 to work in his familys
candy business. He continued running
the business after the Nazis forced the
citys Jews into a ghetto, where his two
Yom Kippur is a time for confession, as Jews flock to synagogues

to recite their sins in a lengthy litany
known as the Viduy. Striking their
hearts, the congregation chants:
we have trespassed, we have dealt
treacherously, we have robbed, we
have spoken slander.
The goal of the ritual is to inspire
the confessor to do better in the year
to come. But what if the opposite is
true? What if, as Rabbi Avi Weiss asks,
all that confessing leads to despair,
to loss of confidence, even to loss of
belief in ones capacity to do good?
Rabbi Weiss, the founding rabbi of
the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in
the Bronx, has proposed an opposite recitation of the confession, this
one focusing on the good things the
speaker has done. His inspiration is
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen
Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of
what became Israel, who once wrote
that just as there is a confession for
the bad, there should be a confession
for the good. Like the original, Rabbi
Weiss new confession is an alphabetical acrostic.
A person should also be joyous
concerning the good he or she has
done. It follows that just as there is
a great benefit to self-improvement
through confessing ones sins, so is
there great benefit to confessing ones
good deeds, Rabbi Weiss writes.
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children died. In 1944 he was deported

to Auschwitz, where his wife was killed.
In 1950, he moved to Haifa with his second wife and their son and went to work
as a confectioner again. His family in
Israel grew.
When he was certified as the oldest living man, he was asked what his
secret to long life was. I dont know the
secret for long life, Mr. Kristal answered.
I believe that everything is determined
from above, and we shall never know the
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My mom and dad, no racists or anti-Semites,

still felt the need to caution my sister and me that these
were folks who DID NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS!
Bruce Springsteen in his new memoir, Born To Run, about living
next door to Jewish neighbors, as quoted in 63 Times a Very Excited
Bruce Springsteen Used ALL CAPS in His Memoir on NYMag.com.
BIRTH OF A NATION:
Same title but

a different script
The new Birth of a
Nation is very
different from the
1915 film of the same
name, which celebrated
the rise of the Ku Klux
Klan. This one is the story
of Nat Turner, a real-life
Virginia slave who led a
famous slave revolt in
1831. The film got good
reviews at Sundance.
JASON STUART, 57, an
openly gay actor and
stand-up comedian,
plays a nasty slave
master. Stuart told Out
magazine that things are
changing regarding
casting gay actors: Look
at someone like me: a
gay liberal Jew playing a
white, heterosexual
Christian plantation
owner.
The handsome Armie
Hammer, 30, co-stars as
Samuel Turner, the son of
Nat Turners slave master.
Samuel was about the
same age as Nat. He took
a liking to Nat, let him be
educated, and protected him. While Hammer
once referred to himself
as half Jewish, he has
but one Jewish greatgrandparent: the famous
industrialist ARMAND
HAMMER. (Opens Friday,
Oct. 7)
A couple of weeks ago,
I mentioned that SHIA
LABEOUF, 30, seems to
be on the comeback trail.
Hes acknowledged his
drinking problem, gone
to AA, and has been

sober for a yearand
I noted that his latest
film, American Honey,
got great film festival
reviews. Well, it opens in
many theaters on Oct. 7.
LaBeouf plays the leader
of a group of young people who barnstorm the
Midwest selling magazine subscriptions.
MAYIM BIALIK, 40,
the co-star of Big
Bang Theory, is
not only in a hit show,
shes a Jewish role model
par excellence. Shes a
well-educated woman
(she has a doctorate in
neuroscience) and a
showbiz star who also is
a religious Jew. She
shares her faith and
other personal things via
a popular blog.
I dont write about
her that often because
what I just wrote, I sense,
is pretty familiar to my
readers from past items
in this column and other
coverage in the Jewish
and general media. However, in a just published
long interview with the
(London) Jewish Chronicle, I learned some new
things about Bialik. The
most timely of her
comments concern the
High Holidays.
First, Bialik is a shofar blower! She says: I
was a trumpet player
in my youth. She also
plays bass guitar and the
Jason Stuart
Armand Hammer
Lewis Black
The angriest man

returns
Shia LaBeouf
Mayim Bialik
piano. The rabbi at the

synagogue I grew up in
had seen me play the
trumpet on a talk show
after [the movie] Beaches came out when I was
13 and he said Have you
ever blown the shofar?
Ive done it in just about
every community that
Ive lived in since.
The Chronicle writes
that this year, like other
recent years, Bialik will
be celebrating the High
Holidays with her exhusband, her children,
and her mother. Bialik
says: We have a home
cooked meal [on Rosh
Hashanah]. My ex and I
do the cooking, my mum
chips in and we just like
to be together. We like
leftovers after synagogue the next day! We

try and do tashlich if we
can but its kind of hard;
there were years when
we werent driving and
there were years when
we were driving just to
go to synagogue, so we
try and keep it as simple
as we can.
Her ex-husband, a
former Mormon, converted to Judaism, and
the Chronicle notes that
he still considers himself Jewish.
A sadder but interesting note came when Bialik discussed the death
of her father last year.
She told the Chronicle
that her Judaism is inescapable and it gave
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There isnt a better time than now for LEWIS BLACK

to do a political stand-up special on Comedy Central.
Hes been doing his new show, Black to the Future, for
the last month or so on Broadway. Its scheduled to close
soon, and then Black will tour the country. Meanwhile,
on Sept. 27, a live performance was filmed on Broadway
and it will air on Comedy Central on Friday, Oct. 7 at 10
p.m. (many encores). Black, 68, mostly takes on Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton.
N.B.
her great strength when

her father died on the
last day of Pesach. It was
a lingering, hard death
and, understandably,
Bialik questioned Gods
will. Her Judaism, she
said, absolutely helped
her deal with the loss.
She says: I dont think
that I could have processed my fathers death

without the structure
everything was so critical
to me moving through a
complicated grief. I took
tremendous comfort in
saying kaddish; I did it
for a year.
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Law, medicine, and the right to decide
Symposium looks at pressing medical ethical issues through Jewish lens
MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN, Ph.D.
Eleven years ago, in his quest to expose
Jewish people to traditional Jewish values, a Chabad rabbi, Shalom Lubin, came
up with a novel idea. He would organize
a symposium geared for attorneys to
expose the legal community to the values
of the Talmud.
Fifty people showed up at the first Jewish Law Symposium in 2007, and since
then the event has grown to fill a Birchwood Manor ballroom with 900 attendees. The 10th Annual Jewish Law Symposium, held on September 26, addressed
bioethical quandaries related to the question of who makes the difficult decisions
in medical practice. Attorneys, physicians,
judges, and other professionals from dozens of prominent law firms, corporations,
and medical centers attended the symposium to learn about Law, Medicine and
the Right to Decide.
Sally Glick, a partner in the CPA firm
Sobel & Co, credited the success of the
event to Rabbi Lubins personal magnetism. He has the ability to draw 900 attorneys, CPAs, and speakers to hear about the
interaction between Jewish law and laws
that govern our society, she said. Ms.
Glick, who lives in Livingston and is former president of Temple Beth Am in Parsippany, said that Rabbi Lubins talent is
showcasing the basis of our law. He seamlessly integrates Jewish tradition with the
secular world.
The symposium is a fabulous opportunity for networking, and every year it gets
bigger, Ms. Glick said. Sobel & Co. has
been a sponsor from the very first symposium in 2007, and now there are many
secular Jews and non-Jewish professionals
who attend the event, she added.
T h e f e a t u re d p re s e n t e r, B a r r y
Ostrowsky, president and CEO of RWJBarnabus Health, launched the program.
It starts at the very beginning: Who is
going to make the decision? he asked.
Mr. Ostrowsky said that when a premature baby is born at 25 weeks, the parents
make the decisions. In later years, finding
the decision-maker is not as simple as you
would have thought. Even if a patient has
a living will there can be complications.
First, since not all clinicians may agree
with each other, decision makers may be
getting mixed signals about the patients
prognosis. In addition, because medical
fields change rapidly, living wills may not
cover every situation. You might be surprised how those documents leave gaps,
he said, recommending that living wills be
updated on a regular basis.
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From left, Rabbi Moshe Herson, the

dean of the Rabbinical College of
America in Morristown, and Rabbi
Shalom Lubin, the founder of the
Jewish Law Symposium, stand next to
New Jerseys lieutenant governor, Kim
Guadagno.
Mr. Ostrowsky runs RWJ-Barnabus

Health, a massive healthcare center that
treats more than 3 million patients in four
New Jersey counties annually. He reported
that the government and employers are
paying less than they used to for healthcare, and if employers stop paying and
the government wont pay, we will have
to ration medical services and that will
have a profound effect on decision-making in medicine. As it is, Mr. Ostrowsky
The panelists and presenters included, from left, Professor Sharona Hoffman,
Dr. Kenneth Prager, Barry H. Ostrowsky., Rabbi Shalom Lubin, and Rabbi
Michael J. Broyde.
reported, New Jersey is the worst jurisdiction in the U.S. for end-of-life counseling
and end-of-life palliative care. We underserve those who face end of life challenges
in a significant way.
Mr. Ostrowsky said that in a world where
the financial structure of healthcare is
unsustainable, we need to be able to convince people to make choices that will
keep them healthier.
Some level of authority will have to
say, if youre going to make bad health
decisions you wont get resources, he
continued. By targeting such medical
issues as obesity, which can lead to cardiac problems, diabetes, and cancer, we
can keep people healthier, he said. Pediatric asthma could be reduced if the
home environment would be modified to
remove sources of allergens. And we can
reduce healthcare costs for seniors if we
make their homes safer, lowering the risks
of falls and other accidents.
Rabbi Lubin moderated the panel discussion, first introducing the case of an
elderly father, who was starting to slip
mentally and had instructed his doctor not to discuss his medical condition
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with his children. Who determines if the

patient is competent? asked Rabbi Lubin
of the panelists.
Its up to the doctor to determine if
the patient is competent, said panelist
Professor Sharona Hoffman, director of
the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western
Reserve University. Hopefully theres a
durable power of attorney naming a decision maker, she said, and by no means
should it name all of the children as decision-makers. There should be one person
designated, along with an alternate.
Panelist Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood, chairman of the Medical Ethics
Committee at Columbia University Medical Center, recommended interviewing
the patient to discover if theres some
semblance of rationality. It can be very
nuanced, and doctors may not agree. He
said it is more typical that the children
will ask the doctor not to tell their parent
whats going on, to protect him or her.
But if it was clear to me that the patient
wants to know, then I would tell him. In
some cultures the norm is not to share
bad news.
Another discussion involved a patient

with HIV who has not informed his partner. The Talmud considers harming
someone to be a sin, said panelist Rabbi
Michael Broyde, a legal scholar at Emory
University School of Law. Jewish tradition
mandates that people do everything they
can to prevent the partner from getting a
lethal disease, not to stand by while someone is in danger of being harmed, even
when the law of the jurisdiction requires
it. If there is a choice between losing a
license and being responsible for someone
being harmed, then take a stand.
There are ethical dilemmas from cradle to grave, Rabbi Lubin said, citing a
case of deaf parents who wanted to use
reproductive technology to ensure that
they had a deaf child.
These are true medical dilemmas,
Dr. Prager said. There are no laws that
govern this. With regard to reproductive
technologies, on one hand there are
those who feel that parents have complete
autonomy, but on the other hand, there
are those who consider the rights of the
child, he added. It is the Wild West of
medicine people can do pretty much

what they want.
We always choose ethically challenging
topics, Rabbi Lubin said. This is the first
year with a medical theme. He noted that
these cases are not issues that every attorney deals with on a regular basis, but any
could face these types of dilemmas at various points in life.
Mimi and Alvin Lakind of Wayne
attended the event. Ive been going for
years, Mimi Lakind said. She works in
the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics,
where she investigates attorney compliance with ethical guidelines. She also
teaches seminars on how attorneys are
supposed to take care of the money, and
what they are allowed to do. She said that
CLE credits have become compulsory in
the last few years, and many attorneys find
the Jewish Law Symposium to be a good
way to fulfill the requirements.
Dr. Israel Wahrman, a psychologist and
attorney serving as administrative law
judge for special education cases in New
York State, said, This was a wonderful way to fulfill the CLE requirement for
ethics credits by addressing perspectives

on how to face real life ethical difficulties.
He added, Judaism as well as American
law and legal ethics have much to say in
this regard, and it is both useful and interesting hearing discussion of different perspectives side by side.
And as a bonus, we got to eat excellent
kosher food at this enjoyable event.
The Jewish Law Symposium is a project
of Chabad of SE Morris County in Madison.
For more information go to www.chabadcares.com or call (973) 377-0707.
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a professor of biology at William Paterson
University where she has developed and
taught courses in bioethics. Her recent
book, The Hand Book: Surviving in a
Germ-Filled World addresses how to stay
healthy, and provides handy tips to reduce
the risk of infectious disease. She is also
the author of Brave New Judaism: When
Science and Scripture Collide, which
addresses cutting edge issues of biomedical
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One dozen heroes

A look back at some
outstanding Israelis
actions in 5776
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Three years ago, I compiled a list of a dozen Israeli unsung heroes to mark the new Jewish year.
Heres my latest list of 12 outstanding people to start off 5777 on an inspiring note, although
its fair to say there are dozens more I could have included. May their example lead us to emulate their efforts to make a positive difference in the world.
2. Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer of Bnai Brak, who

won an Israel Prize in 1997
for founding and chairing
Ezra LeMarpeh in 1979.
The voluntary organization
fills gaps in Israels medical system in many ways:
providing free diagnostics,
international medical referrals, free ambulance service, home care for children
with cancer, extracurricular
activities for disabled children, medical equipment,
and more. Rabbi Firer is
ultra-Orthodox, yet Ezra
LeMarpeh assists Jews and
non-Jews, religious and
secular.
3. Adi Altschuler, who was just 16

in 2002, when she spearheaded
Krembo Wings, the only inclusive
youth movement in Israel for children and young people with severe
disabilities. Now encompassing
about 40 branches, Krembo Wings
provides weekly social activities for
some 4,000 7- to 21-year-olds with
special needs and their able-bodied peers from all cultural, religious,
and socio-economic backgrounds.
Ms. Altschuler was inspired by volunteering with a boy with cerebral
palsy, and worked with his mother
and other volunteers to establish
the organization.
1. Joseph Gitler of Raanana, a

Teaneck native who founded and
chairs Leket Israel, Israels national
food bank and leading food rescue
network. He made aliyah in 2000
and won a Presidential Citation for
Volunteerism in 2011 for his massive
operation, which began in 2003
with volunteers picking up leftovers
from catered affairs. Last year, Leket
Israel rescued and redistributed
2,110,198 hot meals from corporate
caterers, hotels, and IDF bases, as
well as 12,000 tons of agricultural
produce donated by farmers and
packing houses. The organization
also provides 1,400,000 sandwiches
to needy children at 130 schools in
42 municipalities every year.
4. Yossi Fraenkel, a high-school dropout from

London who learned to channel his ADHD
energies into extraordinary good deeds. At 18,
in Brooklyn, he started volunteering for the
Crown Heights Shomrim neighborhood patrol
and Chesed Shel Emes, a Jewish burial society.
Today, just four years after making aliyah, he is
voluntary operations officer for the ZAKA International Rescue Units and deputy commander
of its Jerusalem region. This UN-recognized volunteer organization works in Israel and abroad
to handle with dignity the remains of victims of
accidents, suicides, natural disasters and terror
attacks, and also has search-and-rescue units.
Mr. Fraenkel also volunteers with the Jerusalem
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profession and a voluntary crusader in the cause of encouraging religious Israelis to consider a plantbased diet or at least to reduce
consumption of animal products
due to the many animal-welfare
issues in slaughterhouses, chicken
coops, egg farms, and dairy farms.
His lectures, videos, and publications argue that modern methods
of preparing animals and animal
byproducts for the dinner plate
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6, 7, 8. Israeli Paralympic medalists Doron Shaziri, Inbal Pezaro, and Moran Samuel, who each came home with a bronze to
add to their collection of medals from various world competitions in testament to the power of perseverance and positive
thinking. Mr. Shaziri lost a leg to a landmine during his army
service in 1987, and since has won eight Paralympic medals in
sharpshooting, in addition to founding a company that makes
sports wheelchairs. Ms. Pezaro, disabled in her legs from
birth, won three swimming world championships and many
other medals in addition to a total of nine Paralympic medals.
Ms. Samuel, paralyzed by a spinal stroke at 24, 10 years ago,
became a pediatric physical therapist and won the disabled
rowing world championship in 2015.
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A Teaneck man visits the island, reports back
MEYLEKH VISWANATH
etting to Cuba
Our next-door neighbor is a
Cuban, an ardent opponent of
the Castro regime. But other
than that, I didnt have much interest in
Cuba.
Nor did I know much about it, beyond
some standard facts about the Batista
regime, the U.S. involvement there, and
the tradition of Afro-Cuban music and
dance genres.
I didnt know about the history of Jews
in Cuba, about the Turkish, Sephardic,
and Eastern European Jews who settled
on the island in the late 19th and the early
20th centuries. Somewhere, in the deep
recesses of my memory, I knew about
the exodus of most of its entrepreneurial,
middle-class Jewish community after the
Cuban revolution. And I had read about
the St. Louiss brief, ill-fated stop in Cuba
in 1939, en route to Miami, and its eventual
return to Europe, most passengers still
aboard. I certainly would not have characterized myself as being knowledgeable or
particularly interested in Cuba, however.
But when our dean suggested that he
might be willing to fund some research on
microenterprise in Cuba,
I become interested. One
thing led to another, and so
in July I flew there.
Traveling to Cuba, even in
todays more relaxed political environment, is not simple. I had very little information about what kind of
papers I needed, especially
as an Indian resident of the
United States. It was not
easy to make contacts and
arrange appointments with
people on the island who
were involved in microfinance and microenterprise
especially considering the
fact that the Cuban government did not look very favorably on anything that smelled of capitalism. And on
top of all of this, I had to figure out how
to make Shabbos in Cuba. I decided that
if I had to spend at least five or six days in
Cuba to be able to get a reasonably good
idea of economic life there, and I didnt
see how I could do that without spending
a Shabbos there.
I spoke to several friends who had been
to Cuba some Orthodox, some not but
still it wasnt clear what I needed to prepare to spend Shabbos in this unknown
place. As a vegetarian, I couldnt go the
tuna route, and I really didnt want to
have a Shabbos in Cuba with cold cheese
Meylekh Viswanath stands outside Congregation Beth-Shalom, above,

and a view of the Patronato, left.
sandwiches. I also didnt fancy lugging lots

of food to Cuba; if I were going to cover
ground in an environment about which I
knew very little, I had to be flexible and
travel light. I was not able to communicate
with anybody in the Jewish community in
Cuba in order to arrange Shabbos meals or
accommodation beforehand.
Still, I was resolute in wanting to be
near an Orthodox synagogue. The only
such synagogue was a Sephardi shul, Adat
Israel, in Old Havana. This was not in the
Vedado district where everybody had
recommended I stay, and this added still
more uncertainty to the enterprise. Nevertheless, I decided to take a chance.
I rented an Airbnb room in

Old Havana for the first four
days and arranged to stay in
lodgings arranged by a Christian
organization involved in educating micro-entrepreneurs for
another three days. That was in
a place called Cardenas, in the
province of Matanzas.
I left for Cuba on Thursday night, flying
via Panama City. I was to arrive in Havana
around noon, and I figured that would
give me enough time to prepare a Shabbos meal and get ready for Shabbos.
I arrived in Havana around 1 p.m. on
Friday. I waited for my luggage to arrive,
got some Cuban money, bought a local
SIM card, and then took a cab to my hotel.
Next, I tried to buy some vegetables to
cook for Shabbos. In the process, I learned
some more about the two co-existing
Cuban currencies CUC (peso cubano
convertible), which is convertible into foreign currencies, and CUP (peso cubano),
which in principle is not convertible. Some

rationed goods and public transportation
can be paid for only with CUPs, while foreigners generally are required to pay with
CUCs. The effective exchange rate of CUCs
for CUPs is 1 to 25, so if you make a mistake
and pay in CUCs when your storekeeper is
expecting CUPs, it can be a costly mistake.
That was a mistake I made my first day,
trying to buy vegetables on the street, but
I didnt make it again!
Preparing for Shabbos

Trying to buy vegetables in Havana can be
an eye-opening experience, because you
can find only a few kinds of vegetables
and some of them are vegetables that you
cant find in many other places. I found
some green beans, cabbages, capsicum,
and carrots at a peddlers carriage that was
similar to the ones we still have in India.
Potatoes and onions also are generally
available in Havana, though this peddler
didnt have any. Anyway, I bought some
Local
cabbage and some carrots and some okra. My rooms

were on Amargura Street between Compostela and
Aguacate, overlooking a very narrow, old-world, picturesque street.
But everything seemed to be falling apart. I discovered that there was no soap in my rooms because soap
had not been available for some time, the refrigerator
did not work and so a freezer had been put to work as
a refrigerator, and apparently no milk was available
the breakfast that was available in my Airbnb location
consisted of milk powder reconstituted as milk.
Although I had use of the kitchen, there was no
detergent to wash my utensils. Fortunately, my host,
Patrick, and his wife, Lianne, came up with short-term
solutions for some of these things. He found some
detergent, and he gave me shampoo to use instead
of soap. Although on Shabbos I had only coffee for
breakfast, the following day I found guava/pineapple
juice and cut-up mangoes and bananas, which were
delicious. I also asked for and was given two eggs and
made an omelet.
Patricks help notwithstanding, I still had a lot to do
to get ready for Shabbos. I bought some vegetables
and then, armed with some coconut oil and spices
that I had brought with me, I got ready to cook. I had
the okra and cabbage and carrots that I had bought; I
made an Indian dish with the cabbage and carrots and
a spicier one with the okra. Then there was the question of the rice my main carbohydrate. I had brought
some nan bread to make ha-motsi, the blessing over
the bread, but I usually depend on rice to round out
my meal. I had wanted to bring along an extra pot to
make rice but forgot it, so I wondered how I could
make rice, The only pot that I had already contained
the vegetables that I had cooked.
Fortunately, Patrick agreed to lend me a ricecooker, which he assured me was not used for anything other than rice. Still, I scoured it thoroughly,
boiled some water, and kashered it. That turned
out to be a good precaution because the next day I
noticed a Cuban cook using the same rice cooker to
cook some meat. Anyway, the cooker came in very
handy that day, especially since it was now possible
to keep food warm for Shabbos.
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Services at Adat Israel

Once the food was ready, I walked down to Adat Israel,
which was just a few blocks away, figuring I would get
there in more than enough time for the afternoon
service, mincha. It turned out that not only had they
already davened mincha and arvit, but the local chazzan, Yaakov, was in the middle of the Shabbat derasha,
the sermon. I quickly davened mincha and arvit and
got ready to join the rest of the congregation.
After the derasha, Yaakov made Kiddush for everybody, made ha-motsi, and distributed the bread, and
then a meal was served for everyone there. Most of
the people there were local, and somewhat elderly I
was told that the free Shabbat meals were a big draw.
Although the food was free, though, it wasnt sumptuous. There was rice, beans, and fish enough food to
fill your stomach. The food was not very tasty, though.
In fact, I found it a bit difficult to get it down, even
though, as a vegetarian, I was given a plate without
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fish. The food reminded me of a Yiddish
song that we sing in our family lomir ale
zingen a zemerl which lists the various
courses in the well-to-do Jews Shabbos
meal: fresh rolls, roast duck, whitefish,
and fruit preserves. The twist in the song
is that it also lists the corresponding components of the poor Jews meal a thin
crust of bread, some sausage, a dried-up
piece of herring, and for dessert, gehakte
tsores. Thats chopped-up worries! The
comparison with the Adat Israel meal
was apt except that there was no meat at
all. And the Shabbos morning meal was
exactly the same. Beggars cant be choosers, I suppose.
Having missed most of the Friday evening service, I wanted to make sure that
I would be there for shakharit, the morning service, which started around 8 a.m.
Indeed, I was there a few minutes after
8. They had started on time and went
I spoke to several
friends who had
been to Cuba
some Orthodox,
some not but
still it wasnt
clear what I
needed to
prepare to spend
Shabbos in this
unknown place.
through the service rapidly. The sefer
Torah was taken out, and I saw that it
was old. Some of the parchment was falling apart. As the only guest/tourist, I was
given the third aliyah, and was able to
take a better look at the sefer Torah. The
parchment was in poor condition, but I
could see no problem with the writing.
There were no chumashim available for
the congregation, though; instead, there
were sheets with the parasha in Hebrew
and Spanish. Copies of this text were distributed just before the leyening and taken
back soon afterward.
The kriya, the reading of the Torah,
was a revelation. Yaakov, the chazzan,
leyened with an extremely heavy Cuban
accent. Even when I knew the words that
he was reading, many times I couldnt
make them out. As an example, intervocalic rs were converted into ls, as is the
custom in Cuban and Puerto Rican Spanish; thus par ben bakar became pal ben
bakal. In intervocalic s was converted into
a Cockney-like glottal stop, which makes
it very difficult to figure out whats being
said if you are used to the more standard
Castilian version of Spanish. All in all, it
was a very exotic Torah-reading!
The sanctuary at the Patronato.
The Reform Patronato

The morning service ended around
10:30, and after more of the same food the
elderly congregation quickly dispersed. I
didnt have much of a chance to engage
them in conversation. However, on Friday
night I did meet two interesting outsiders
temporarily living in Havana Daniel (an
Argentinian Jew, buying and selling real
estate) and Ronch (originally from Perth,
but lately of Melbourne, and in Havana
to learn Spanish). I spent the night with
them, walking around the neighborhood
and drinking beer. On Shabbat morning,
though, they had their own business to
attend to, and I didnt want to go back
to my room and simply go to sleep. So I
decided to walk to the Reform Patronato
and the adjoining Congregation Beth Shalom, both in the Vedado neighborhood.
I didnt have the address but I knew the
street name, and I wasnt sure how to get
there, but I decided to try to find it; I could
try asking people.
Two factors, however, almost did me
in. Most people who I asked had no idea
what a synagogue was or what sort of creature a Jew was. And the intersection that I
thought Daniel had mentioned 16th and
Linea didnt exist. And so, after an hour
spent walking under a hot sun, having no
idea of how to find the Patronato, and facing the prospect of walking an hour back
to Habana Vieja, I had the good luck to run
into an old gentleman who knew where
the Patronato was I had unknowingly
passed it by about ten minutes before. Following his instructions, I reached it without further mishap.
Not only did I find it, I also was able to
get some cold water to drink there, in the
office. The building was air-conditioned,
and I wasnt so keen to step out into the
hot summer sun any time soon. So I went
into the neighboring building and found
the sanctuary where the morning service
was continuing. The room was a large one,
only sparsely populated with worshippers
singing Hebrew melodies. The congregation was mixed and there was no mechitza
in sight, so I didnt want to hang around.

Instead, I went back to the parlor outside
the Patronato office to wait for the worshippers to come around after the morning service to eat the Shabbos meal. Eventually, they arrived, and I walked into the
dining room with them.
Of course, I couldnt eat with them, for
two reasons. First, I had to have paid for
the meal in advance, and I hadnt. Second,
it was not kosher. Still there was nothing
preventing me from going in and talking
to people and thats what I did.
Cuba and the world

Visitors to Havana seem to leave with
impressions of buildings and cars suspended in a 1950s world. And in many
ways, Cuba is a strange mixture of the
third world, of socialism, and of a genteel
European atmosphere that harks back to a
Ultimately,
though, what I
took back with
me was the
impression of
the people that I
met both Jews
and non-Jews.
less complicated time. In some ways Cuba
seems poorer than India and Nairobi,
although nobody is dying of hunger, and
everybody seems relatively well dressed.
On the other hand, because of the lack of
incentives most things are state-owned,
many transactions are allowed, and rights
of real-estate ownership are ambiguous
everything has a run-down air.
The atmosphere could be downright
depressing, particularly in non-tourist
areas. It is difficult to get fresh fruits and
vegetables, things you normally can get
easily in third world economies for

example, even in the Nairobi slum that
I visited in June, vegetables were freely
available. But in Cuba nothing seems to
be freely available. Even when something
does become available, people have to
wait in lines, as for government-subsidized
goods. On the other hand, there seem to
be many shops selling relatively low quality but very high priced consumer durables but there are few people who can
buy them. The only things that seem to be
ubiquitous, always available in the shops
and always in demand are liquor, cigars,
and cosmetics
Ultimately, though, what I took back
with me was the impression of the people
that I met both Jews and non-Jews. For
example, at the Shabbos table at Congregation Beth Shalom, I met two interesting women, Ida and Maria Elena. Ida, an
economist, used to work at the University of Havana, and Maria Elena used to
work for the government in the Department of Statistics. Both of them seemed to
be contented with their lives in Cuba a
quasi-third-world kind of life, but also a
life ameliorated by the Cuban social welfare system, which gave them some kind
of pension, and the ability occasionally
to visit friends and relatives in the United
States. There is now very little anti-Semitism in Cuba and it is an oasis of stability
and serenity for people who have some
financial support. Secular Jews like Ida
and Maria Elena seem to feel quite comfortable with their lives, especially with
the U.S. connections that frequently bring
financial and moral support to the Cuban
Jewish community.
Another of my Shabbos lunch companions, who seemed to be a community
leader, provided a different perspective.
He was satisfied with his life as a Jew in
Cuba. His connections with the outside
Jewish world, however, also seem to have
brought some of the tensions of that world
to a community that seems to be otherwise
relatively secular and partially assimilated
into larger Cuban society.
It turned out that this mans mother
was not Jewish, and so he had an uncomfortable experience with some Lubavitch
people operating on the island. According to his account, they seemed initially to
take a lot of interest in him but only until
they learned about his mother. Then, they
ignored him. There probably are many
such people in the Cuban Jewish community; as the country opens more to the
United Sates, the religious and social conflicts of the larger Jewish community will
filter into Cuba, as well.
All in all, it was an interesting start for
my Cuba trip. What I saw and experienced
in Jewish Havana turned out to be a foreshadowing of similar phenomena all over
the island.
Meylekh (PV) Viswanath of Teaneck is a
professor of finance at Pace Universitys
Lubin School of Business.
Local
Synagogue leaders testify at trial of Aakash Dalal

Text messages show alleged synagogue attacker aspired to be fuhrer
Larry Yudelson
Were the Jews of Bergen County terrorized
when five synagogues were vandalized or
attacked in December 2011 and January
2012?
That has become a central question as
the trial of Aakash Dalal began in Hackensack last week.
Mr. Dalal, 24, faces 20 counts in connection to the attacks on synagogues,
among them terrorism and bias intimidation. Prosecutors allege that he was the
mastermind in the attacks, three of which
occurred while he was in New Hampshire,
campaigning for Republican presidential
candidate Ron Paul. Mr. Dalals alleged coconspirator, Anthony Graziano, was convicted in May for carrying them out. He is
awaiting sentencing.
In an opening statement, as the Bergen
Record reported, Assistant Prosecutor
Brian Sinclair presented a picture of Mr.
Dalal, gleaned from text messages and a
search of his computer, as an avowed and
proud anti-Semite.
I know Im going to be fuhrer one

day, Mr. Sinclair quoted from an internet
message Mr. Dalal allegedly sent to Mr.
Graziano.
These chats are damning, Mr. Sinclair
told the jury. Data doesnt lie. It is what
it says it is.
The words Jews did 9/11, spray painted
on a ramp at Temple Beth Israel in Maywood, were the direct handiwork of Mr.
Dalal, Mr. Sinclair said.
The prosecution summoned several witnesses to testify how the attacks had frightened them.
Among them were Christine ODonnell,
a member of Temple Beth Israel who was
the first to discover the graffitti there; Mark
Zettler, the president of Temple Beth El in
Hackensack, and Samuel Lichter, who was
vice president of Congregation Khal Adath
Jeshurun in Paramus.
The witnesses were asked not only
about what they had seen, but about what
they felt.
They spoke of discovering the attacks on
their synagogues.
When Ms. ODonnell saw the grafitti, I

was shocked and nauseated, she testified.
It was a punch to the gut.
They also told of their reaction as the
attacks on the synagogues continued and
escalated.
Mr. Lichter said that when he heard
about the firebombing of Congregation
Beth El in Rutherford, barely a week after
discovering a failed arson attempt at his
synagogue, he felt this person really
meant business.
The defense attorneys sought to convince the jury that there was reasonable
doubt whether Mr. Dalal had intended his
directive to Mr. Graziano to be taken seriously; whether the electronic evidence
the prosecution was presenting could be
trusted; and whether the synagogue leaders were, in fact, terrorized.
Theres no witness to these conversations, defense attorney Joseph Corozzo
said in his opening statement, referring
to text messages exchanged between Mr.
Dalal and Mr. Graziano. Theres no tape
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Prosecutors say that Aakash Dalal directed this vandalism at Temple Beth
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JFNNJ board member
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The Jewish Federations of
Ms. Fish also is a board
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where she co-chaired the
a member of the board of
opening ceremonies of the
trustees at the Jewish FederaMaccabi Games. She sits
tion of Northern New Jersey,
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with its prestigious KipnisFoundation Board and on
Wilson/Friedland award. The
its special events commitaward was announced at this
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Kipnis-Wilson and Toby Friedland, zl,
has held many posts at the federation; she
co-founders of the Jewish Federation of
has been president of its Womens Philanthropy, chair of its Womens Philanthropy
North Americas Lion of Judah program.
Campaign, and chair of the its Young LeadEach winner is recognized at the bienership Division. She also has been on the
nial ILOJC. Merle Fish is one of 75 women
National Young Leadership Cabinet and
to receive this years award. Since 2004,
the National Womens Philanthropy board.
the Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award has
Most recently, she chaired the federations
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Major Gifts Dinner, which was held at the
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Museum of the City of New York.
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Wayne shul receives county grant

Congregation Shomrei Torah in Wayne
has begun construction of a raised-bed
community garden, using a $2,500 grant
from Passaic Countys Dig In program
and City Green, a private nonprofit organization that promotes community gardens. It is the only synagogue in Passaic
County to receive the grant.
Synagogue volunteers will complete
construction of the garden, which will
include raised beds and a deer fence, this
month. The first crops will be planted in
the spring. Congregants will grow vegetables to use for kiddushes and oneg
Shabbats and will donate surplus food
to a local food pantry. Hebrew school
students also will help with gardening.
The garden program offers a way to

consider todays issues through a Jewish lens. Should the garden be organic?
Would Moses have used insecticides on
locusts? Were Adam and Eve vegetarian?
Why are we taught to leave fields fallow
during jubilee years, and not glean the
corners of our fields so that the poor in
the community can have a food source?
The committee, which is still in formation, includes Linda Dumoff, Alice Moskowitz, Marcy Marcus, Linda Gaba, Zev
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wanted their eight toddlers to learn more
about the importance of giving. All the
children go to toddler, transitional, and
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Editorial
Thoughts on 5777,
and on Jerusalem
ometimes it gets confusing, living on so

many calendars.
The Jewish calendar tells us that a new
year 5777 has just started; perhaps
counterintuitively, it begins in the fall, when life
bursts in spectacular color before going dormant
for months.
The political calendar tells us that we are not
quite two months from the end of the four-year
cycle that will culminate in our electing a new
president, should we survive this toxic season.
The secular year, of course, will begin again on
January 1, as the frozen ground (should climate
change allow the ground to continue to freeze)
seems to mock our certain knowledge that crocus will be up in about six weeks, all pale hopeful pastel.
And, of course, there are the other new years on
the Jewish calendar. Its very confusing! But of all
of them, this is the one where the most things turn
around and turn around and start again.
So lets focus on the new Jewish year.
For some ballast, lets think about the new
exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which
we write about in this weeks cover story.
Its about Jerusalem, the place thats at the
center of our liturgy and our collective memory.
Jerusalem, a place of light so intense that it allows
you to see more than perhaps you want to see,
and makes it difficult to hide. Jerusalem, a place
where the most devout followers of many religions,
including but not limited to charedi Judaism, walk
around in layers of clothing that made sense in
other places in one specific season Rome, say,
or Poland, or the Central Asian steppes, all in winter but seem ill-suited for the middle eastern
sun. Jerusalem, a place thats known to drive some
people crazy, to make them believe themselves to
be grander than they are, and eventually to hear
voices no one else can hear.
Jerusalem has been the center of many peoples
most sacred stories for millennia, although in
none of them is it as central and as potent than in
ours. We are a profoundly urban people think
Confession
with understanding
of how often the word city occurs in our liturgy

so it makes sense that we might have come from
the desert, but our yearnings are for a city.
Jerusalem at the Met reminds us that there
always have been other people around us, and
weve always had to come to some kind of understanding with them. When things are good, when
were lucky, we all see each other as fellow human
beings. When that cant happen, when we dont,
or when strong, well-armed outside forces say,
Crusaders, bands of zealots and true believers and
psychopaths out for adventure we lose. Bloodily
and badly.
But the period the Met is showcasing ended
more than 700 years ago, and were still here.
Were still in Jerusalem, and we are all over the
world. We have survived, and weve managed to
overcome and even in many cases in many places
to thrive.
This new year, as we survey the dangers our
world continues to throw our way (and this isnt
being paranoid. The world throws dangers at
everyone!) and try to overcome them, as we soldier through the rest of the presidential campaign
and hope that common sense and decency prevail, and we prepare for the winter that we know is
coming and prepare for the spring that will follow,
lets pray for a good year. For a better year.
And as we go through the confessions of Yom
Kippur, may we pay attention to the dangers of
angry, brutalizing speech, and of the danger of
lies. We have to learn not to tell them, and also
not to believe them. We often are guilty of complacency; it is human to want to do whats easy, to be
beguiled by spectacle, to be flattered by skin-deep
understanding, to be seduced into believing whatever it is we want to believe.
We cant do that.
May we not only refrain from telling lies ourselves, may we learn to open our eyes, cleanse
our hearts, clear our ears, and see and hear and
understand whats true. May we understand and
look beyond our blinders.
-JP
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onfession may be good for the soul, as a Scottish proverb

had it, but on Yom Kippur, it is the order of the day. Says
the Psalmist:
As long as I said nothing, my limbs wasted away from
my anguished roaring all day long.Then I acknowledged my sin to
You...; I resolved, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and
You forgave the guilt of my sin. (See Psalms 32:3-5.)
On Yom Kippur, we recite two confessionals 10 times over the
course of those 25 hours the Lesser (the Ashamnu), and the Greater
(the Al Chet, For the sin of).
Do we understand what it is we are confessing, however? Do we
really know what the words mean, and how these words apply to us?
Confession is serious business. The point is not merely to confess
our sins, but to understand how we sinned and resolve to change our
behavior. That is true teshuvah, true repentance.
Yet Ashamnu usually goes by quickly and, in many synagogues, it is
chanted with a somewhat incongruous melody. We sing it, rather than
recite it, and little attention is actually paid to the words themselves.
Al Chet, too, is rushed through each of its sections, so we can sing the
haunting refrain, For all these sins.
No time at all, it seems, is given to reflecting on the meaning of the
two confessionals.
What follows is a look at the Ashamnu,
known also as the Vidui Zotah (the Lesser
Confessional). A caveat: This is a teaching
text I use, and it is culled from a variety
of sources. I apologize in advance if I use
words others may have written before me.
Ashamnu, we have been guilty. We are
guilty both of demeaning others, and
demeaning ourselves by doing so.
Bagadnu, we have betrayed. We betray
Rabbi
when we reveal a confidence. We also
Shammai
betray, however, when someone does us
Engelmayer
a favor, but we do not return that favor. (It
does not matter that the one who did that
favor did not expect one in return.)
Gazalnu, we have robbed. Robbery takes many forms. It does not
include just actually stealing something tangible. It also includes
such things as trespassing on the rights of others, or stealing someones dignity.
Dibarnu dofi, we have spoken basely. In this category belongs every
kind of sin of speechlashon hara. This is the easiest sin to commit
and the most difficult one to avoid. (Only about five percent of the
Torahs 613 commandments involve the sin of speech, yet nearly
25 percent of the Al Chet litany involves such sins.) It also involves
enabling others to commit such sins by listening to what they have to
say, but not reproving them. This leads us to the next sin
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Heh-eh-vee-nu, we have caused iniquity. Not challenging someone who does wrong enables that person
to keep doing it. This leads to
Vhirshanu, and we have caused wickedness. More
than just passively enabling others to behave badly
towards others, we actively encourage them to do so.
Zaradnu, we have acted wantonly. Knowing something is morally, ethically, or legally wrong, but still
doing it is to act wantonly.
Chamasnu, we have extorted. Most people would
object to being labeled as extortionists, but when
we guilt-trip someone, or threaten someone to act
against his or her wishes, that is extortion.
Tafalnu sheker, we have falsely accused. When we
divert blame onto others for things we did, or when
we spread misinformation about what others did, this
sin applies.
Ya-atznu, we have given bad advice. This does not
need explanation.
Kizavnu, we have lied. More than lying is meant.
Causing others to act on our lie also in included.
Li-atznu, we have acted frivolously. Actions have
consequences. When we do not think these through,
we act frivolously.
Maradnu, we have rebelled. We do this in so many
ways, from jay-walking, to ignoring the Torahs injunctions to care for the less fortunate.
Niatznu, we have angered. Yes, anger is a sin. When
we are angry, we sin. When we cause someone else to
be angry, both of us sin.
Sararnu, we have strayed. The Torah urges us to
walk in [Gods] ways and revere Him by adhering
to the moral and ethical path He laid out. We stray
when we fail to follow the moral and ethical path as
He defines it.
Avinu, we have committed iniquity. We do so by acting immorally or unfairly.
Pashanu, we have willfully sinned. This is akin to
zaradnu and maradnu above; we know what we are
doing is wrong, but we do it anyway.
Tzararnu, we have oppressed. As with chamasnu
above, most people would deny they ever oppress
others, but when we harass someone else, that is
oppression. When we lose patience with someone
else (a counter clerk at a supermarket, say, or department store), that is oppression.
Kishinu oref, we have been obstinate. We are all
stubborn once in a while, including such acts as
arguing a point when we ourselves are unsure of
the facts.
Rashanu, we have been wicked. Any time we
harm someone else, however that is done, is
being wicked.
Shichatnu, we have corrupted. This is another
who me? instance. When we bribe a child to do
something, that is not just bribery, but it is corruptive, because we are teaching that child to do the same
to others.
Tiavnu, ta-eenu, titanu, we are extremists, we yearn
to do evil, we are zealous for bad causes. This is an
eye of the beholder category, and each of us must
search our souls to see where we fit in and what we
must do about it.
In fact, we must search our souls regarding all
these categories, and all of the Al Chet litany, as well.
Teshuvah is not achieved by reciting confessions. It
is only achieved by understanding the confessions we
recite, seeing how we fit in to each, and then deciding
how to change.
Gmar chatimah tovah.
Mourning Israels
President Shimon Peres
Remembering the man who always was there
resident Clinton repeated Prime

better chance of forming a stable government), Peres demonstrated how the true
Minister Netanyahus first words
statesman knows how to transcend partifrom the morning after the death of
san lines to do what is right.
Shimon Peres. This was the first day
This is a wisdom that we see as lacking
of the State of Israel without Shimon Peres, he
in government these days. And while it
said.
may be one of the reasons why Peres was
So it was for all the world leaders who
not as successful in the election booth as
assembled atop Mount Herzl last Friday morning to bid farewell to their fellow diplomat and
more traditional politicians were, it also
Rabbi Dr.
friend. None had experienced a time without
explains why he was so beloved by leaders
David J. Fine
Shimon Peres.
throughout the world.
He was the quintessential diplomat and poliAs is so often the case, we only begin
tician, who always was there. Always ready to
to appreciate the true level of someones
engage. Always ready to serve. And he served in more
greatness when they are gone. When they are here, we
capacities than any other person, not only in Israel, but
take them for granted. And how could Peres not be taken
probably throughout the field of diplomacy and governfor granted? He was, after all, the one who always was
ment. Like the prophets of ancient Israel, he found where
there from the beginning.
the breach was, and that was where he stood.
But now, during these sacred days, as we focus on reaffirming Gods sovereignty over ourselves if not the world,
He led where others did not, and where the path was
and as we repeat the prophecies of old, of the day that
uncertain, save for the focus of his vision. Whether it was
Gods sovereignty truly will be established so that all the
the pursuit of peace or security, agriculture or high tech,
world will assemble in Jerusalem, we must pause and realPeres always pushed forward, never giving up on Israels
ize that Peres brought all the world to assemble in Jerusapotential to be a light unto the nations. Up to the end he
lem just last week.
was criticized, both for his peace initiatives and also, at
As his last gift, the quintessential dreamer gave us a picleast out of Gaza, for his militancy, settlements, and occupation of Arab lands. But he never let disappointments
ture of what the dreams of Isaiah and Jeremiah look like.
sway him from his dreams.
David J. Fine is the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish
Peres was an extraordinarily successful politician
Community Center of Ridgewood, holds a doctorate in
because he knew how to win people over, how to appeal
modern European history, and is an adjunct professor of
to their concerns, how to charm them and earn genuine
Jewish law at the Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel
friendships. He also was an extraordinary failure in that
colleges at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
despite sitting in the prime ministers chair three times, he
never won an election outright. He even
lost his first election for the ceremonial
post of president, which is supposed to be
a fait accompli Knesset vote on the sitting
prime ministers nomination.
But in the end, he was revered and loved
more than any other Israeli head of state.
Even in death, he worked to heal the divisions around him. Just as he brought Rabin
and Arafat to shake hands on the White
House lawn, so he brought Netanyahu and
Abbas to shake hands before his casket, in
front of two American presidents and the
world.
And if that was not enough, he also
brought President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu together, sitting with each
other, together consoling his children.
Peres, while certainly a proponent of
partisan views, proved time and time
again that the true statesman learns to
stand above such divisions for the sake
of the country. Whether it was the unity
government deal with Shamir in 1984, or
leaving Labor to join with Sharon in forming Kadima in 2005, or, in 2009, when
he was president, deciding to extend the
invitation to form a government to Netanyahu rather than Tzipi Livni even though
Kadima won more seats than Likud (but in
Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv on November 30, 2015 TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH 90
Peres correct judgment, Netanyahu had a
Opinion
Closing the gates
always liked the end of Yom Kippur.

And no, it wasnt because the fast
was over.
Im referring to the very end of
Neilah, the apex of the service, of the fast
day, and of the Aseret Yemei Teshuva
the Ten Days of Repentance as a whole.
The ark is open for the entirety of this final
service, signifying that the gates of heaven
are wide open to our prayers. Together,
we recite the first line of the Shema. Then,
three times, and uncharacteristically out
loud, we recite Baruch Shem...
And then, finally, the culmination of the
past 25 hours, my favorite part, we boldly
declare, seven times, that our God is the
only God.
The shofar sounds, we sing of next year
in Jerusalem, and we all can breathe a sigh
of relief for having survived the day. Even
when Im at home during Neilah, I can
imagine the members of my shul, and of
synagogues all across the world, reciting
these final words together. I have always
found this to be extremely powerful.
And yet I didnt know the true power
of this service the Closing of the Gates
until last Yom Kippur. As we awaited
my husbands impending heart surgery, I
found out, actually, that I was pregnant.
Erev Yom Kippur I made sure to say the
kapara for a pregnant woman at that
point I was at the 6-week mark, though I
had known about it for only two of those
weeks. At that point it was a seed of an
idea I was just starting to get used to.
As Yom Kippur day neared its end, I
walked to shul for Neilah, anticipating
another meaningful experience. Another
year, another Yom Kippur, another Neilah
gone by.
I went to use the restroom first, and
thats when my breath caught. No, no, I
reasoned, as I entered the sanctuary. It
could just be some spotting. It happens
all the time. Im sure its fine. But as the
Neilah service went on my mind along
with it I began fearing for the worst.
I started to reason with God, trying to
think of something that might persuade
Him as if He would need persuading from the likes of me. And then reason turned to begging, as I recall saying
or thinking or whatever it is that I was
doing: Please, please, God. He could be
the next Kohain Gadol.
Let me pause for a moment. Now some
might describe my approach to religion
as modern, or philosophical, or spiritual,
even but messianic? But when a person is desperate, it seems all bets are off.
Thought defies logic.
I started to think of my husband, who
was standing across the mechitza, and
then realized that maybe I hadnt prayed
enough for him this Yom Kippur. He was
about to have major surgery! And, as I
began to reason, he was a person a fully
formed human being, not a

seed of an idea taking form. So
then, I pleaded to God, well,
if it has to be him or this life
growing inside me, of course
I would choose him! As if, at
that moment, I even had to
choose. Him or it. As if this
was a test and I had to say the
Dena
right answer.
Him or it. Was it really an
it, though? This is something I still ponder. What constitutes life?
Id imagine anyone who has had a miscarriage would have her own take on this
question. Is there a point in a pregnancy
where grief over the loss of the creation
inside is justified or not justified? Is it,
perhaps, justified no matter what? Had it
been further along in the pregnancy, had
I not gotten pregnant again right away,
had my husbands surgery, God forbid,
not have been successful would I even
be sharing this now?
And why am I sharing this at all?
For a few reasons, none of which
relate back to catharsis.
For starters, miscarriage is
common, occurring in 15 to 20
percent of pregnancies. To my
surprise, I discovered that the first
four of five friends with whom I
spoke in the weeks following Yom
Kippur also had experienced miscarriage, some multiple times, some
further along than others. As most of
my friends often are very open, I was surprised that this was the first time I had
heard of their experiences.
I think its important, as painful
as it may be for some, to share
these types of experiences,
at least with friends. This
past August, I attended the
Fourth Annual Communitywide Yoetzet Event at
Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck. The
event was titled Jewish Womens Journey through Life:
Am I the Only
One? E ach
of the speakers
took a matterof-fact, sensitive, and even
comical approach
when addressing a
crowd of hundreds
of women about common occurrences in a
womans life cycle that she
may not realize affect others as
often as they affect her.
Though miscarriage wasnt really
discussed, I was struck by the simplicity and truthfulness of the underlying
theme. That is, when

we think, Am I the only
one? it is isolating and
takes away our sense of
confidence. However, as
Teaneck Yoetzet Shoshana
Samuels relayed, when we
think, Im not the only
one the way that we look
Croog
at these life events begins
to change.
The two main points that
I came away with were that, one, we are
all in this together, and two, we need to
learn better. We need better education and
to communicate better. (This is true of a
whole slew of other topics, as well.) And,
through being in it together and proper
education, we can build our confidence
over time and gain strength.
Thats why another reason Im
sharing this its important to have
support networks. In addition to speaking with friends, I think support groups

and resources, like those provided by
Nechama Comfort, can prove invaluable.
This nonprofit organization, run by Reva
Judas of Teaneck, is dedicated to helping
family members who have experienced
infant or pregnancy loss; it offers counseling, resources, support groups, and community education.
Lastly, the whole experience made me
think a little more about life, and of death,
and of how that might be weighed up in
heaven. Of course, theres no real way to
know. But when I recently took a closer
look at Unetaneh Tokef my favorite part
of the Rosh Hashanah service I noticed
something that I had until then missed.
I always used to be struck by the line,
Who will live and who will die. I never
fully noticed something about the line
before that, the precursor to the rest of
the paragraph.
It says, On Rosh Hashanah it will be
inscribed and on Yom Kippur it will be
sealed, how many will pass from the earth
and how many will be created. The way I
choose to read it is that when it talks here
of life and death in one breath, its not talking about a person who will live or die, as
is mentioned in the sentence that follows.
It is referring to the lives that will leave this
world and the lives that will be created into
this world. It may not be a form of solace
to anyone else, or to someone who was
further along in pregnancy when she miscarried, but to me, this line offers a small
level of comfort if I extend it to mean that
a miscarriage in the womb is not so much
death, as it is the absence of creation.
Again, I wont claim this is helpful for others, but its an idea that, for me, is worth
holding onto.
As we approach this Yom Kippur, I
dont know how Im going to feel during
Neilah. Relief, I would imagine, that it will
most likely lack the intensity of last year.
But perhaps there might be something
else there, as well an appreciation for
the meaning of the moment that I had
never felt before. Not just the energy that
accompanies the recitation of the final
words, but the understanding of those
words that despite all that has happened, there is still something or some
One to believe in. And the final shofar
blast, just as the gates have closed, will
serve as a reminder that hope exists in
the year to come.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in
Teaneck and the founder of Refaenu,
a nonproit organization dedicated to
mood disorder awareness and support.
More information about the organization
and its support groups can be found at
www.refaenu.org. You can also email
dena@refaenu.org with any questions
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Debate, schmebate
came away from the first

What this means, I think, is that the
Blumenthal, who presently spends much
If hes hoping people wont
presidential debate earClinton camp looked into the birther
of his time ranting on Twitter against both
notice, then thats plain
lier this week with three
accusations, but that it took Trumps
his dad and his dads boss.)
dishonesty. If he thinks he
So much for the temperament side of
immediate thoughts.
intervention to prove conclusively that
doesnt owe the American
things. I could say more on this matter,
First, given Donald Trumps
the theory was nonsense, a claim that is,
public an explanation, then
and on the domestic issues that were
diabolical performance, its
in Trumps inimitable tongue, braggadothats more evidence of why
discussed, but my job is to write about
hard to conceive of anyone
cious as well as false. Nor does it explain
Trump is unsuited to be
foreign policy. And on global affairs, I
voting for him for any reason
why Trump kept on pushing this fabripresident.
heard a bunch of rambling, incomplete
other than implacable opposication for years. Moreover, you have to
Lets look at what Trump
Ben Cohen
thoughts from Trump that, if translated
tion to Hillary Clinton and fear
wonder about the intellectual abilities of
did say. To begin with, there
by some miracle into actual policy, could
of her worst excesses.
someone who fogs his sentences with refwere moments of extraordrag America into a war of annihilation.
Second, that both candierences to political operators like Sidney
dinary incoherence. None
Or make us the laughingstock of the
dates have a completely different underBlumenthal. (A pertinent fact that Trump
were more so than when Lester Holt, the
world. Or both.
standing of national security; for Trump,
did not mention is that Sidney is the
debate moderator, asked Trump about his
it starts at home, with the first line of
father of the professional anti-Semite Max
pushing the ridiculous conspiracy theory
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defense, while for Clinton, it hinges upon
that President Barack Obama is not a natAmericas global alliances.
ural-born citizen, and his reason for rejectLet me go back to the first point. (Dont
ing it now. Trump didnt really answer the
worry, Im done with the third one.) Was
question. What he did do and rememHouse Speaker Paul Ryan, whose grave
ber, this is a man who criticizes estabdoubts about Trumps candidacy were
lished politicians for their Beltway clanhardly a secret, really being serious when
nishness was reel off a list of names that
he described the GOP candidate as a spirmost Americans have never heard of.
ited voice to those of us who dont like the
Its very simple to say, Trump said,
status quo? Did he really mean it when
promptly seguing into a paragraph of
he added, I see emerging in front of us
migraine-inducing obscurity. Sidney Bluthe potential for what a unified Republican
menthal works for the campaign and a
government can get you which can be the
very close friend of Secretary Clinton. And
solutions?
her campaign manager, Patti Doyle, went
Because I dont see it. Ive tried, espeto, during her campaign against President
cially through talking to friends and colObama, fought very hard, and you can go
leagues who are going to vote for him,
look it up, and you can check it out, and if
to see the case for Trump, and to underyou look at CNN this past week Patti Solis
stand, as those same people insist, that he
Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this
will appoint the right advisers on the right
happened. Blumenthal sent McClatchy, a
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump watches his running mate, Mike
issues. But I remain as skeptical as ever.
highly-respected reporter at McClatchy, to
Pence, give a speech.
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Its not simply what Trump said, though
Kenya to find out about it.
I will come back to that. Its what he didnt
say should be deeply troubling to his supporters. For months, weve been hearing
endlessly about the wall on our southern
border that is going to be constructed at
Mexicos expense. One wasted day trip to
Mexico City later, and were not hearing
about it anymore. All those who chanted
Build That Wall! at Trump rallies should
be feeling very cheated right now.
Ditto with his proposed ban on Muslims
entering the United States. That policy
also recently went through a slight refinement that no one really understood, but
in any case, it too has disappeared. All
Trump said was that he wanted a strong
border, a statement so bland that nobody
could possibly disagree with it. The only
time Trump mentioned the word Muslim was when he boasted about a club
hed opened in Palm Beach that didnt
discriminate against African-Americans,
against Muslims, against anybody. So
what are we supposed to conclude here?
That in 2016 you get a pat on the back for
not being a racist?
Dont get me wrong. I will be glad if both
of these obscene ideas are buried. However, I question the integrity of a man who
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine with former President Bill Clinton.
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Hospice care:
What and when
Fundamental to Judaism is the belief in the
infinite value of human life and the obligation of each person to protect and preserve it. Life is viewed as a gift from God to
be safeguarded and maintained. There is
an obligation, as well, to alleviate pain and
suffering. At the same time, Judaism recognizes the inevitability of death. Thus, end
of life care is a reality that most families
will eventually have to deal with.
Hospice care is an approach to end of
life care that many are unaware of. It is an
alternative to acute hospital care, which
may not always be the best choice. There
are times when the care that a hospital
can provide is of limited or no benefit,
and may do little to alleviate a patients
suffering while holding out no hope
for improvement.
What is hospice care? Hospice care is,
in a word, comfort care. It is not curative.
It is not designed to cure any underlying
medical condition such as heart failure or
COPD. The goal of the hospice program is
to keep the individual at the end of life as
comfortable and pain free as possible while
preserving his/her dignity, as the terminal
illness progresses and follows its natural

course to conclusion. This is accomplished
by providing all medical interventions
necessary to effectively manage whatever
symptoms exist, be they pain, respiratory
distress, agitation, nausea and vomiting,
etc. Support is provided to the family and
caregiver(s) of the patient, as well. A multidisciplinary hospice team that includes
medical personnel, home health aides,
social workers, and spiritual counselors
manages care. Hospice professionals function as partners with patients, their loved
ones, and caregivers.
Hospice care can be provided at home,
in a nursing or assisted living setting, or in
an inpatient hospice facility. In the inpatient environment, families are welcomed
and encouraged to keep their loved ones
company and even adorn their rooms in
a manner which will make them feel as
much at home as possible. Whatever the
venue, care is managed by the same interdisciplinary team.
When is hospice care appropriate under
Jewish law? As in all areas of halacha, there
is more than one opinion. In general, I
believe it can be said that when a persons
condition is terminal and irreversible,
when there is no hope for recovery and
Liver
further treatment is futile, when there is

severe pain and suffering, then hospice
care may be an appropriate halachic alternative. While there is an obligation to prolong life, there is also the recognition that
life may become unbearably difficult and
painful. There are circumstances, therefore, under which the withholding of lifesustaining or aggressive medical treatment
is permissible, and palliative or comfort
care is appropriate. Since each persons
circumstance is unique, each situation has
to be judged on its own merits. But hospice presents an alternative to continued
intense suffering and an opportunity to
live out your remaining days in peace, and
perhaps even prepare spiritually for what
is to come.
The decision to elect hospice care is
a very difficult and painful one for both
the patient and the family, and should be
made in close consultation with medical experts and your own rabbi or religious/spiritual guide. Life and health
being as precious as they are, the decision naturally should be made with great
care and with the best information and
advice available.
My experience as a hospice chaplain
at Villa Marie Claire, Holy Name Medical
Centers residential hospice center in

Saddle River, and in the community has
taught me that hospice care providers are
exceptionally compassionate and caring,
and hence very successful at providing
incomparable end of life care to patients
and their families. Families regularly offer
thanks and praise to hospice staff for the
excellent care provided their loved one.
And at the Villa, We wish we had known
about this place sooner, is a comment we
often hear.
Rabbi Joseph Siev
Spiritual Counselor
Villa Marie Clair
Saddle River
Hes for Trump

I was very surprised in a negative manner when I read the letter penned by Dr.
Greene, (Trump and the big lie, Letters, September 30). I thought that he
was above trying to play the Hitler card
in a Jewish or any other publication. His
equation of a candidate using the big lie
fits more with Clinton than it does Trump.
Which candidate was referred to as lying
many times by the director of the FBI
before a House Committee?
Nes ipsa loquitor? Which candidate
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has been able to isolate herself from the

actions taken by allies and subordinates
to provide for deniability when called
to task for actions taken? Just because
Trump has been called a racist, nativist,
a misogynist and worse does not make
these accusations true, especially when
the quotes used are distorted. The latest
accusation to help prove he is a misogynist as of this writing, was to call
the winner of a Miss Universe Pageant
piggy. It was reported he called her
that after she gained 40-50 pounds after
winning the title. Would it have been better, to instead of trying to embarrass her
into losing weight and then paying for
her going to a health club to assist her in
doing so, he just had her fired for breach
of contract?
When one looks at many of the ad
hominem attacks on Trump they rely on
the lack of knowledge of the listener or
reader. Two are; Trumps calls to halt the
entry of Muslims into the U.S. until they
are properly vetted has been distorted
into a blanket ban. He is not alone with
this demand, many in the intelligence
and security communities agree and
have spoken out concerning this failing.
A second was his call for a judge with
Mexican ancestry to be recused from
adjudicating at a trial he was involved
with that he based on the alleged membership of the judge in the organization
called La Raza.
After the first debate, light was made
of Trumps claim that he had a faulty mic
causing him to sound as if he had sniffles.
He was portrayed as just making it up
as an excuse because he did not sound
well. In an attempt to further demonize
Trump, Howard Dean, former governor
and head of the Democratic National
Committee, had the nerve to make the
almost libelous accusation, Notice
Trump sniffing all the time. Coke user?
An accusation like that should have been
more widely condemned and a loud,
widely disseminated apology made. All I
heard up until today was that Trump was
making it up. There was nothing wrong
with the mic we were told by all, until
the Commission on Presidential Debate
admitted that he was correct, the mic
amplified the sounds of his breathing.
The Jewish Standard should not print
articles, letters or quotes that equate
actions or words by any candidate with
Nazis or Hitler. I would hope that your
readers are smart enough to understand
what is being done.
I hope that in the next Town Hall
type forum, the questions from the
audience are chosen to provide information to the viewer and not to embarrass a candidate.
Howard J. Cohn
New Milford
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who are presently enduring a bombing campaign reminiscent of the worst

outrages of the Luftwaffe during World
War II. According to Trump, Syria is
none of our business because we cannot and Bernie Sanders uses the exact
same words be the policeman of the
world. At least Clinton understands the
importance of alliances with the Kurds
and with the Sunni Arab world, but she
too was pitifully short on detail.
So, like many Americans, I went
to bed after the debate feeling rather
despondent. Yes, its an entertaining
election, but so what? What this country
needs is inspiration. On that point, both
candidates fall short, but much more so
Trump. You cant help thinking that if he
was up against another candidate, hed
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Specifically, lets start with Russia. Understand this: our interests

never align with those of the Kremlin,
its just that the Kremlin exploits our
weaknesses to make it look like weve
achieved consensus. Weve had bitter
experiences of that under Obama, and it
will only get worse with Trump. He will
never criticize Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin, much less act against his cyber
attacks on American infrastructure and
his expansionist aggression in Eastern
Europe and the Middle East. Never.
Or look at Iran. Trump complains,
not unreasonably, that Clinton helped
to shape the disastrous Iran nuclear
deal. But he hasnt said whether we will
adapt or dismantle that deal. He hasnt
offered a policy to curb Iranian interference and terrorism across the region.
And as long as his friend Putin is calling
the shots, he wont.
Or look at Syria. Actually, dont,
because neither candidate had the
decency to express some sympathy and
solidarity with the people of Aleppo,
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Above, Genealogy of the Patriarchs(Yihus ha-Avot); probably Jerusalem, 16th century. The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem. Below, View of Jerusalem from
Journey to the Holy Land, Mainz, 1486, written by Bernhard von Breydenbach, designed by Erhard Reuwich, published by Peter Schoffer the Elder. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
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The Mets Jerusalem 1000-1400:
Every People Under Heaven
offers rare insight
JOANNE PALMER
ystics tell us that there is the earthly
Jerusalem the one we see, the one
whose stones we walk and that tower
above us, the one that smells of spices
and meat and burning diesel fuel, the
one whose streets are filled with the
precise sounds of so many languages that they merge into
a babble of vowels and a jagged army of consonants.
At the center of the earthly Jerusalem is the Temple,
which is holy, and inside it is more holy, and at its core
is the holiest of all places on earth. The Temple, even its
outside, even its ruined Western Wall, and even more its
interior, is a magnet, pulling everyone and everything
toward it.
Above it is the heavenly Jerusalem. The ideal one, the
idealized one, the one whose stones never are stained
with blood.
The Metropolitan Museum of Arts new exhibit, Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, displays
The Book of Divine Service from Maimonides Mishneh Torah, circa 1457, northern Italy. Illumination
attributed to the Master of the Barbo Missal and copied by Nehemiah for Moshe Anau be Yitzchak. Jointly
owned by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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art and artifacts that experienced that
magnetic tug. Some of the objects in the
exhibit are from Jerusalem, and others are
about it. Some are the homely aides to real
life as it was lived there, frayed pieces of
textile and crumbling documents; some
are large chunks of columns and architectural details; some are crosses, crucifixes,
and reliquaries, and some, the most glorious part, are lavishly, lushly, spectacularly
illustrated books, Bibles and Korans and
psalters, still thick with paint and sparkling
Plan of the Temple, Fustat, Egypt, after 1167/68. From Maimonides

Commentary on the Mishnah, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
A knight of the dAluye family (after

1248, by 1267) from a tomb at the
Cistercian Abbey of La Clart-Dieu.
The Cloisters Collection.
PHOTO BY ARDON BAR-HAMA
Upper cover of the Psalter of Melisende, Queen of

Jerusalem, c. 1135, Jerusalem. British Library, London.
Hebrew Bible, Catalonia, first quarter of the 14th century.

Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein, Columbus.
with gold.
Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived in
Jerusalem, sometimes peacefully, sometimes not. More than 11 languages were spoken, and written in nine alphabets. History
happened; the crusades were a brutally violent nightmare imported from Europe. And
life continued.
The exhibit begins with a look at trade.
At the dark rooms center, glistening under
sharp, focused light, artfully arranged to
look casually tossed, a pile of gold coins
gleams. No matter what else was going on
in Jerusalem, and no matter which visitors
from whatever far-flung corner of the world
might be touring, the citys merchants
always would take care of business. Theyd
keep the citys pulse going.
Nearby, an astrolabe, also made of gold,
the GPS of its time, includes many disks,
with lettering in Latin and Arabic, each
showing the way to a different destination.
Each has Jerusalem at its center.
Jerusalem was a crossroads for just about
everyone, and it showed. According to the
exhibit, Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians,
Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians, Indians,
and all sorts of Europeans found their way
there, and left their mark. Books and other
records show that.
Among the treasures is a letter from Maimonides, written, we are told, by a secretary but signed by the Rambam himself,
urging readers to contribute toward ransoming Jews taken captive by Amalric, a
crusader king, in 1169. This letter is not
one of the exhibits more visually stunning
objects in fact, it is among its least visually striking but the idea that Maimonides
signed it that Maimonides was a real person, with a real hand, that could hold a real
pen somehow is astonishing. It is also
deeply moving.
There is also a map of the Temple made
to Maimonides specifications. Its clear and
easy for a modern eye to read, and it shows
the way the holiness increases as the space
becomes more and more interior.
Next to the map, an illuminated page
from Maimonides Mishneh Torah beckons.
Its beautiful. The word Avodah service
overarches in nearly tactile gilt. The sky
into which the Temple at its center reaches
is a deep patterned blue, and the grass on
which it stands is a deep flowered green.
There are two pedestals, one on either side,
and a figure is standing, doing something, at
each one. It is a lovely pastoral scene.
But wait. The figure on the left is roasting
what? Something big. And the figure on
the right what is he doing? Hes slitting an
animals throat. Oh.
Its the Avodah. The sacrifices. It is, after
all, the Temple.
And it was a time of terror.
Later, the exhibit acknowledges the terrible war in which the crusaders conquered
Jerusalem and slaughtered all Jews and
Muslims in it. From 1099, the First Crusade,
until Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187
and allowed the Jews to trickle back, the city
was Judenfrei.
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exhibit that makes the horror clear. Its a
beautiful piece, at first, and straightforward, full of men in armor, apparently
just standing there. But then the viewers
eye is caught by the red, and then by more
red, and then you realize that its blood.
Throats are being cut, heads are being
removed, bodies are being used as swordholders. It is terrible.
During the entire period, though, even
during the worst of it, pilgrims came to
Jerusalem. Some of them were Jews.
It is only much later, centuries later, that
the Western Wall, the Kotel, became the
cynosure for Jewish pilgrims, the exhibits
research associate, Elizabeth Eisenberg,
said. Ms. Eisenberg, who is a doctoral
candidate at NYUs school of fine arts, has
worked on the exhibit for three years. A
Stern College graduate, she focused on the
Jewish materials.
Instead of the Western Wall, the focus
of pilgrimage was the Mount of Olives, on
the eastern side of the city, she said. The
fervor that drew many of the pilgrims was
messianic it was a time of many failed
messiahs and the Jewish pilgrims would
circle the city, say a prayer at each of the
gates, and end at the Gates of Mercy, at the
Mount of Olives.
Because its hard to match the medieval
gate names to what we know now, its hard
to know exactly where they started or in
what direction they went, she added.
The prayers would be a site-appropriate
amalgam of other prayers and psalms, she
said; when they ended theyd say another,
and then look down at the Temple Mount
and say amen.
The idea came from Psalm 48, which
among other things is an ode to the city;
verses 13 and 14 instruct Walk about Zion,
and go round about her; count her towers. Mark well her ramparts, traverse her
palaces; that you may tell it to the generation following. So the pilgrims did walk
around Zion, and those who returned
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safely home did tell the story.

Pilgrims came from all over, Ms. Eisenberg said. Early in the period, it seems
that they came mainly from Arab lands;
later, they came from Europe. Although
the crusaders routed Jews from Jerusalem, still, their travels meant that there
would be many more ships going across
the Mediterranean, and Jews took advantage of the opportunity.
The last section of the exhibit is about
hope. Because its about hope in Jerusalem, it is about eternity. Because its about
all the peoples who lived in Jerusalem, it
encompasses many faiths, and because its
in an art museum, its beautiful.
Next to the stunning Muslim and Christian illuminated manuscripts and religious
objects, which include a jaw-droppingly
lovely psalter, ravishingly illuminated and
encased in delicately carved ivory covers for a powerful woman wonderfully
named Melisende, who was the FrankishArmenian Queen of Jerusalem there are
Jewish illuminations of some of the ritual
objects used in the Temple. The Temple,
of course, was long destroyed by the year
1000 that happened in 70 CE so all of
this was wishful thinking, embodied in
gold leaf that shimmers in the artful light.
At the very end of the exhibit, a large
jeweled shrine, a very big golden box
studded with huge stones and set under

bright lights so it cannot hide, shows that
even Jerusalem, the city where heaven
and earth meet, is not free of vulgarity.
It is a startlingly gaudy place to leave the
Mets paean to the earthly Jerusalem,
but perhaps it is fitting. One of the main
points of the exhibit was how full of life, of
variety, of experience, and of expression
Jerusalem was. It included gory death and
bloody war as well as the highest spiritual
aspirations.
It was a real place. Go learn more about
it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The
exhibit will be open until January 8.
Keeping Kosher
New twist on gluten free challah

BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
I happily shared a package of
Blends by Orly Chocolate Chip
Challah Mix with my dear gluten-free friend, Carol Grodin
of Paramus, who I knew would
really appreciate making and
eating a delicious challah.
It turned into a bigger task
than we planned because
she was determined to make
it following the directions
exactly but didnt have a
free-standing electric mixer.
Orly herself offered an alternative kneading by hand but Carol
was determined and waited for the right
opportunity. As she tells it, the other
day, I finally took the package of Chocolate Chip Challah, some eggs, yeast, white
rice-flour, and oil to a friends home so I
could use her mixer and make the challah.
I didnt want blend everything by hand (as
you suggested), since that wouldnt be a
fair representation of your recipe. Anyway, the challah was absolutely delicious,
flaky, and crusty in all the right places. I

couldnt stop pulling off more and more
pieces until I had eaten more
than should be allowed in
one sitting. It was very easy
and fun to make. I look forward to enjoying all the
other the Blends by Orly as
I am planning to treat myself
to a mixer, thanks to you!
Orly recommends mixing
the dough with an electric
mixer with a paddle attachment because it smooths out
the dough and gets rid of
any lumps. Orly says that a
smooth dough is a lot easier to work with
in gluten free yeast doughs. As long as you
add extra GF flour to your work surface,
the smooth dough will be much easier to
shape and roll out.
You can mix and knead the dough by
hand, but it will be very sticky and the
task will be more difficult. If you are going
to knead by hand, you need a generous
amount of flour on a work surface and
more flour on your hands. Try to knead
until there are no more lumps. Also put oil

on your hands to prevent the dough from
being too sticky.
Heres a recipe using the Gluten-Free
Chocolate Chip Challah mix.
Gluten-free
chocolate chip babka
Recipe yields two babkas
Have extra gluten free flour for rolling
Dough starter:
1 cup chocolate chip challah mix
3 packets yeast
2/3 cup lukewarm milk
Dough:
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups chocolate chip challah mix
1 stick butter, softened
MIXING DIRECTIONS:
Combine the dough starter ingredients 1 cup chocolate chip challah mix,
yeast, and milk in the bowl of your
stand-mixer with the paddle attachment, and let it sit for 10 minutes. This
allows the yeast to start its magic before you add the rest of the ingredients.
Add the sugar, eggs, and vanilla, and
the remaining contents of the chocolate
chip challah mix to the bowl and mix
together on low speed for 2 minutes.

Increase mixer to medium speed and
mix for another 2 minutes, until fully
incorporated. Add the softened butter
and mix all ingredients together until
it forms a smooth, shiny dough. The
dough may look loose and wetter than
you think it should be, thats ok. The
wetter the dough, the moister your finished brioche product will be.
Transfer dough to another bowl, cover
with a towel and allow to sit and rise
for two hours. Chill dough for at least
2 hours to allow the dough to firm up
before using.
Filling and topping:
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups sugar
7 tablespoons melted
butter or oil
1 egg yolk (eggwash)
chocolate chips
cake crumbs, powdered sugar, and
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Judges included the JHRs executive

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Jewish Home chaplain Rabbi Simon Feld;
volunteer Beth Nadel; and Beth Chananie,
food editor at the Jewish Standard.
Yael Rudolph
JHR mandelbrot cook off

In time for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Home at Rockleigh held its Marilyn
Wechter Holiday Bake-Off. Ms. Wechter,
a beloved longtime Rockleigh resident,
died last year. She had been one of the
contests judges for many years, so it has
been named in her honor.

On Thursday, five contestants baked
their finest mandel brot one of the contestants lives at Rockleigh, two are daughters of residents, one is a residents wife
and another a residents granddaughter.
Yield: 2 small loaves

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3 eggs
2 cups flour
Mix together well and slowly add 1 1/2
cups more of flour
Add
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup of sugar
1/2 a medium orange peel and all
Each recipe was a family treasure,

handed down for generations; Carol
Sadler, one of the winners, inherited it
from her Polish grandmother.
The audience, which included many
Rockleigh residents, also included taste
testers. At a discussion, many recalled
stories about eating mandel brot, including several who remembered chipping
their teeth on them.

Carol Sadler, who lives at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh, and professional
baker/fitness expert Yael Rudolph,
granddaughter of JHR resident Ruth
Waldman, tied for first place. This was
the fourth time that Yael competed in a
JHR bake-off.
Here are the two winning recipes:
Mandelbrot with a chocolate surprise
Mandelbrot with a citrus surprise

Courtesy Yael Rudolph
Carol Sadler
Put all ingredients in the food processor

or blender and blend well.
After it is all mixed, add 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
Form two flat oval loaves on a cookie
sheet sprayed with non-stick spray.
Bake them for 20-25 minutes at 350
degrees (until solid, not brown yet).
Remove from oven, score them into 1/2"
slices on a diagonal, and flip them. Put
back in oven at 375 degrees for another
10-12 minutes.
Courtesy Carol Wilks Sadler

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
3 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 eggs
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 package chocolate chips
Cinnamon and sugar
Mix all ingredients together except

for cinnamon and additional sugar.
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each ball on a baking tray about 2
inches apart. Press each ball into
a long loaf and smooth until there
are no cracks. Generously sprinkle
each loaf with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for approximately 40 minutes.
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fresher fish at lower prices. The result? Happier shoppers.
Introducing a new fish department has been
a breath of fresh air for our customers, said
Cedar Markets Jeff Hollander. Customers have
already been blown away by the departments
pricing and quality.
The change took place shortly before Rosh
Hashanah, while rave reviews flooded Cedar
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announcement.
Customer Ronna Adler praised the new fish
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Which Major League Baseball team is the most Jewish?

some legends like Ron Blomberg, the first
designated hitter, and Jimmie Reese (born
James Herman Solomon), who hit .346 as
Babe Ruths teammate in 1930.
But with their storied history, the Yankees stand for tradition. Thats what the
Jewish people are all about.
Uriel Heilman

Los Angeles Dodgers
Some younger baseball fans are likely

unaware that before relocating to Los Angeles, one of the countrys most Jewish cities, the
Dodgers were based in what is often thought of
as the nations Jewish capital: Brooklyn. After
playing in South Brooklyn and then Brownsville, the team moved to the storied Ebbets
SEE BASEBALL PAGE 32
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Cubs Addison Russell, left, and Kris Bryant during the fifth inning of a game
against the Padres at Petco Park in San Diego on August 23.
ctober marks the beginning

of a new year, a time of fresh
starts and second chances
and playoff baseball, the climax of a summer of (we still insist) American Jewrys favorite sport.
But if Jews and baseball go together
like peanuts and Cracker Jacks ( Jewish
immigrants found America in baseball,
as a sociologist once wrote), certainly
some teams go together better than others. What makes a team the most Jewish?
Geography? History? The Jewish players
who sat in their dugouts, or perhaps the
Jewish owners and general managers who
sit in their front offices?
Just as every Jew insists on his or her
way of being Jewish, every Jewish fan can
feel at times like their squad is the chosen
team. In that spirit, we asked members of
the JTA staff to argue why some of the contenders this year (and years past) might be
the most Jewish in the major leagues.
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Western Wall, covered in green plants,

steeped in memory, and mired in controversy over who can pray where. The Cubs
fan also travels to a holy site Wrigley
Field, covered in green plants, steeped in
memory, and mired in controversy over a
hideous Jumbotron.
Things are good for the Cubs fan now.
The team has more than 100 wins and is
favored to take the World Series. But the
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Our hope is not yet lost. Weve been

cursed, rejected, persecuted, doomed to
an existence of pain and suffering. But we
do not abandon our traditions. We do not
lose our faith. Each day we return, our
eyes to God and Theo Epstein, praying to
renew our days as of old.
The Jew and the Cubs fan are kindred
spirits: The Jew laments the exile of 2,000
years. The Cubs fan mourns 107 years
without a World Series win. The Jew
remembers death and destruction in
Spain, Russia, Poland and Germany. The
Cubs fan remembers seasons snatched
away in 1945, 1969, 1984 and 2003.
The Jew holds strong to tradition fasting on Yom Kippur, recounting the Exodus at Passover, abstaining from pork and
shellfish. The Cubs fan stays true to custom waving the W flag, throwing back
opponents home run balls, pounding Old
Style beer, and singing Take Me Out to
the Ball Game.
The Jew travels to a holy site the
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and Starlin Castro at a game against
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New York Yankees
They are the hometown team of Americas most Jewish city, their pinstripes
are evocative of a tallis, and its not too
hard to get a minyan in the stands (not
to mention a kosher frank). Is there any
doubt the New York Yankees are the
most Jewish of baseball teams?
The Bronx Bombers are the winningest team ever in professional sports,
and the Jews are the Chosen People.
Theres no greater shidduch. Sure, the
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Field in Flatbush or what one Jewish sports writer called a neighborhood of kosher butchers, grocery stores with the owner living
in the back [and] men sitting on the newsstand arguing about
baseball.
Of course, this franchise also gave us the most Jewish moment
in professional sports history. On Oct. 6, 1965, Brooklyn native and
Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax sat out the first game of the
World Series when it fell on Yom Kippur. Jewish fans young and
old still kvell over the aces decision to this day.
The list of other Jewish Dodgers includes Cal Abrams (who went
by Abie) and the Sherry brothers, Norm and Larry. Larry was
the 1959 World Series MVP and when Koufax won that award in
1963 and 1965, that gave the team a string of three consecutive Jews to receive the honor.
Gabe Friedman
the three outfield spots. The teams Jewish history dates

back even further, when Andy Cohen patrolled second base in the 1920s. Manager John McGraw supposedly wanted a Jewish player to attract fans to the Polo
Grounds in Manhattan, an answer to Babe Ruth of the
Yankees drawing crowds in the Bronx.
Fast forward to the late 2000s, when the San Francisco Giants called up an outfielder named Brian Horwitz, aka The Rabbi. In the front office, club president Larry Baer brought home three World Series titles
starting in 2008 from a franchise that hadnt won a
championship since 1954. The team is also known for
its succession of players with chasidic-worthy beards
see Hunter Pence, Sergio Romo and Brian Wilson. Now
Marc Brodsky
if only Willie Mays were Jewish.
Jose Reyes, left, celebrates with teammate

Asdrubal Cabrera during a game against the
Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field in New York on
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of efficient excellence one might even say the leagues
oppressors (or, in the famous words of one Red Sox
executive, the evil empire) the Mets are the opposite: underdogs, clumsy nebbishes, a quirky group of
underestimated misfits who flourish occasionally. In
other words, they represent the whole of Jewish athletics and the dark horse spirit that has characterized our
tribe throughout history. If the Yankees are Goliaths, the
Mets are the Davids.
Furthermore, what other team has a slogan more Jewish than Ya gotta believe? What other team can claim
to have received the kind of divine intervention that
made that ball go through Bill Buckners legs in the 1986
World Series? What other team can point to so many
Job-like tests (like the consecutive collapses of 2007
and 2008) punctuated by periods of relative prosperity
(which feel ever so much sweeter because of the lean
times)? If thats not the Jewish story, what is?
Famous Jewish Mets include Art Shamsky a fan
favorite on the 1969 team, which delivered the franchises first World Series and Shawn Green, who hit
over 300 home runs in his career and, like Koufax, sat
out games that fell on Yom Kippur. Gabe Friedman
Coco Crisp, left, celebrates with Cleveland

teammate Jose Ramirez in a game against the
Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit on
September 26.
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Cleveland Indians
No collection of Jewy baseball teams would be complete without the Tribe yes, the much maligned
Cleveland Indians.
The Indians recently clinched the Central Division of
the American League for their first trip to the playoffs
since 2001. They have won the World Series just twice:
in 1920 and 1948.
The most prominent Jewish member of the Tribe
was slugger Al Rosen, The Hebrew Hammer, who
spent his entire career from 1947 to 1956 with the Indians. He also refused to play on the High Holidays.
In 2002, Mark Shapiro was named general manager.
In 2010 he became the teams president, a job he held
for five years.
The Indians have had a kosher hot dog stand at their
field for more than 15 years and hold an annual Jewish
community night that draws hundreds of Jewish fans
to the downtown Cleveland venue.
And what other fan base can proudly call themselves
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How many baseball franchises have put four Jewish players on the field at the same time? The Giants, on Sept.
11, 1941 when they played in New York had a battery
of Harry Feldman pitching and Harry Danning catching,
with Sid Gordon and Morrie Arnovich manning two of
The Phillies are the most Jewish team in the sense that
the franchise has survived and even occasionally
thrived despite a long and unprecedented history
of futility. No professional sports team has lost more
games; no people has suffered so much over such a
long period of time. And when you look at it that way,
what could be more Jewish than blowing a chance to
sign a then-unknown Sandy Koufax, as the Phils did
when they tried lowballing the future icon with a measly $1,500 contract offer.
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Dear Rabbi Zahavy
Your Talmudic advice column

the heavenly accountant,
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
who keeps records in a big
I went to a big Orthodox Jewish family wedding recently
book (or perhaps if it were
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
written today, the narrative
The music was so loud that
would refer to a giant data
some of my relatives, who had
storehouse in the cloud), the
expected it, brought along
all-in-one policeman, judge,
earplugs. There was so much
and jury, who tracks each
food at the smorgasbord and
persons actions and metes
Rabbi Tzvee
the main meal that the next
out rewards and punishZahavy
ments accordingly.
day I weighed myself and saw
The moving High HoliI had gained more than three
day Unetaneh Tokef prayer
pounds in one night.
assures us that such accounting is the case.
Im tempted to turn down invitations to
That liturgy assures us that fasting, repenfuture frum family simchas just to keep my
tance, prayer, and charity all facilitate the
hearing intact and my waistline under control. Is that a reasonable course of action?
mitigation of the punishment for the sins
Binging in Bergenfield
that are tracked.
Dear Binging,
But you dont believe that story and you
Sure you can skip family weddings to prethink that makes you an apikores, a heretic
serve your health and well-being, and you
who denies the reality of sin. And therefore, you cannot repent.
should do that if you have no other solution. But some of your kin seem to have
And indeed, the medieval philosopher
found modalities that allow them to parMaimonides makes clear his view that we
ticipate and preserve their hearing. Surely
cannot ever accept the repentance of a heretic (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Idolatry 2:5).
ear plugs are an option for you too. Why
Surely you could argue against that
not avail yourself of them?
standpoint. Who better would we want
And regarding the food, you know that
to return to the fold than the outright
you do not have to eat all of it! One possible alternative is to attend the smorg and
rejecter? But it seems that the tough line
the chuppah and gracefully decline the
prevailed in the medieval view. Like a
elaborate dinner that follows. Who needs
spurned lover, the rabbi says to the heretic, once you walk out that door, you are
to drive home at midnight from Brooklyn anyway? Of course, doing that you
not welcome ever to come back in!
will miss the chance to bond and share at
Now I expect that you are a serious and
greater length with your family. But with
thoughtful person who wishes to return to
such loud bands, how much schmoozing
a better circumstance, to improve yourself morally and ethically. And as such,
could you do with the relatives anyway?
you can and should repent of sin in the
You are challenged with the fact that
conceptual framework that makes sense
some Jewish weddings are overly loud and
to you.
can be exercises in excess eating. If you do
Let me give you an alternative repengo to one, use as much self-restraint and
tance narrative that may fit your personalwisdom as you can.
ity and beliefs better than the classical one
that we sing and chant in the synagogue.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
In the 10 days from the New Year to Yom
This time of year, around the High Holidays,
Kippur you could take some extra time to
I have some troubling religion questions.
consider how to get your life on a better
First one, I dont believe in the religious idea
track. Over the course of the year, everyof sin. I guess that makes me a heretic. And
one gets diverted or even derailed in one
I saw that recently that a theologian gave a
way or another from the direction that
seminar at a local synagogue on the topic of
they set as optimal for themselves.
whether a heretic is eligible at all to repent.
We fall short of personal goals. We
Second, I ask myself at this time of year,
mess up our interpersonal relationships.
Why do we so overemphasize these 10 days
We may violate societal expectations. We
between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
may break laws. We may do terrible rotWhy do we not continually work on repenting all year long?
ten things that we regret in retrospect and
Sinful in Secaucus
wonder what in the world motivated our
Dear Sinful,
missing the mark?
We often end up beating ourselves up for
Sin exists, of that I am sure. The Hebrew
being bad, or lazy, or mean or thoughtless.
word for sin is chet, which implies missing
And then there we are. In a place we dont
the target. Actions are sins if they are not
want to be, feeling lousy about our lives.
hitting the norm, not adhering to the highest level of behavior, as judged by ones
What to do? How to go forward? In the
peers, community, society or religion.
secular scenario, the path is not so mysterious. You need to have compassion for
When you say, you dont believe in religious sin, I surmise that means you do not
yourself. You need to forgive yourself of
accept the narrative that there is a God,
your shortcomings to free yourself from
all your bad vows of the past. And you

need to chart a course going forward to get
back to a better, safer, calmer place.
And let me tell you, all that is easy to
say, and yet it is utterly hard to do. To
accomplish that you likely will need help.
Perhaps talking with good friends, family members, or a professional; a talented
therapist can assist you along this road.
But many of us do turn to religion to
seek support in this process. The whole
dramatic arc of repentance in the Rosh
Hashanah to Yom Kippur liturgy unfolds in
two acts. In act one we meet the Lord, King
of the Universe, the creator of heavens and
Earth. He is no stranger to us having forged
a relationship with us through several covenants. And we have proven our faithfulness, passing many tests along the way
from the testing of Abraham and onward.
The Lord revealed to us his Torah, the
template for a proper life. And here we
are, unable to rise to the requirements
of the revealed law, falling short of our
assigned tasks and goals. Curtain falls
end of Act One.
Act Two opens at Kol Nidre with us,
the subjects, standing in dejection and
sin, wanting a way out of our sad situation. Before we address the Lord, we seek
legal redress, we ask that our vows be
released, that our bad habits be nullified.
And throughout the Day of Atonement we
ask repeatedly for our Lords compassion,
mercy, forgiveness and pardon.
And at the end of a long day, and a

lengthy 10-day period of seeking Gods
compassion, we blow the shofar and we
are sure that our sins are forgiven.
In the classical liturgical telling we rely
on our belief that our great Lord will grant
us forgiveness, release us from our past
mistakes, and clean our slates to start over.
I hope you can value how the religious
modality affords a strong means of assisting a way out of sin by calling on a higher
power to help us, to forgive us.
The secular story arc puts the burden
more on you to find the way forward to
absolve yourself of bad actions. It seems
simpler at first, but may end up being
more complex to achieve.
And finally yes, I agree that self-betterment not be confined to one annual intensive 10-day period. Constant activity over
the year to forgive yourself and fix what is
broken in your life makes perfect sense to
me. Go for it.
Tzvee Zahavy of Teaneck received his Ph.D.
from Brown University and his rabbinic
ordination from Yeshiva University. He is
the author of many books about Judaism,
including Jewish Magic, a new Kindle
eBook on Amazon, and he also has
published The Book of Jewish Prayers in
English, Gods Favorite Prayers, and
Talmudic Advice from Dear Rabbi, which
includes his past columns from the Jewish
Standard and other essays.
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers mindful advice based on Talmudic
wisdom. It aspires to be equally open and meaningful to all of the varieties
and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or email them to
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Gallery
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n 1 Temple Emanu-El of Closter joined
Nature Marc of the Closter Nature
Center for a mitzvah project to help
clean up the natural habitat surrounding the synagogue. COURTESY EMANU-EL
n 2 Religious school students from Shomrei
Torah in Wayne show cards they made for
Rosh Hashanah. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH
n 3 Congregants of Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake and
Temple Beth Or in Washington Township
joined to celebrate Selichot. From left,
Rabbi Noah Fabrikant and Cantor Sarah
Silverberg of Beth Or, and Cantor Emeritus
Mark Biddelman, Cantor Alan Sokoloff, and
Rabbi Loren Monosov of Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 4 More than 200 people came to the Selichot musical program at the Jewish Center
of Teaneck, where, from left, Elisha, Zalmen,
and Rabbi Avram Mlotek performed. Zalmen
Mlotek of Teaneck, who was joined by his
sons, is the artistic director of the Folksbiene, the National Yiddish Theater. A drasha
by the shuls new rabbi, Daniel Fridman, and

services followed. PHOTO BY MICHAEL LAVES
n 5 Claire Rosenbaum, left, and Wendy
Salkin, River Dell Hadassah co-presidents,
with Beth Chananie, Jewish Standard food
editor; Amy Forman, chapter treasurer; and
Susan Katz, cookbook door prize winner from
Hadassahs Pascack Valley/ Northern Valley
chapter. Ms. Chananie gave a presentation
with a hands-on cooking demonstration on
Trends in Jewish Cuisine: Old and New for
30 Hadassah members, at Temple Avodat
Shalom, River Edge. The group made and
ate a broccoli salad. COURTESY HADASSAH
n 6 Fred Nagler, far left, the principal and
director of the Bergen County High School
of Jewish Studies, recently attended the
North American Association of Community
and Congregational Hebrew High Schools
conference in Memphis. The focus was on
service learning. A trip to downtown Memphis included a tour of the Civil Rights
Museum, adjacent to the site where Martin
Luther King, Jr. was killed. COURTESY BCHSJS
7
n 7 Ben Porat Yosef held its Family Fun Carnival on September 25.
Activities included face painting,
games, making lanterns for their sukkahs, bounce house, blow up rides,
comedy juggling by Amazing Larry,
and a petting zoo. COURTESY BPY
n 8 Nearly 50 teens joined Valley
Chabads CTeen kickoff event late
last month in Woodcliff Lake. Teens,

including Sophie Yuneyv and Hannah Nassau, pictured, baked apple
pies, participated in ice breakers and
games, and decorated school supplies
for needy families in the county. Cteen
is led by Rabbi Yosef and Estie Orenstein, directors of Valley Chabads Teen
Leadership Initiative. COURTESY CHABAD
Dvar Torah
Shabbat Shuvah: An individual act of community
his week many of

us will enter our
synagogue to confess and repent
our sins. The script for the
confession and repentance
are in the machzor, the High
Holy Day prayer book. The
sins we confess are a litany,
Rabbi
a repetitive list of prayers
Steven Sirbu
or requests. In one such litTemple Emeth,
any, the Al Cheit, the line
Teaneck, Reform
between individual and community is blurred. We confess
misdeeds that we as individuals are prone to making, but the phrasing of the confession
is in the plural, connecting us with our greater community.
The idea of having a script of confession to recite before
God predates the machzor. This weeks Haftarah portion,
rather than having a thematic link to the Torah portion,
instead emphasizes the theme of repentance. So crucial
are these words to our understanding of the season that
the name of this Shabbat comes from the first word of the
Haftarah: ShuvahReturn.
The Haftarah is composed of multiple prophetic
voices, the first of which is Hosea 14:2. He begins directly:
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have
fallen because of your sin. Having presented the moral
and religious challenge, Hosea provides the people the
very words they should say to repair the breech: Take
words with you and return to the Lord. Say to Him: Forgive all guilt and accept what is good; instead of bulls we
will pay [the offering of ] our lips. Assyria shall not save
us, no more will we ride on steeds; nor ever again will we
call our handiwork our god, since in You alone orphans
find pity!
Two things stand out to me about this passage. The first
is that in a society that saw animal sacrifice as the preeminent form of worship, we see a shift to the value of words.
Jewish life today has no animal sacrifice, so words must
be the vehicle to express our truest longings to God. And
similar to the confession in the machzor that we recite,
the prophet seeks to standardize the words, helping us to
say what God wants to hear at the moment we most seek
to connect with God.
The other connection albeit more subtle to our
liturgy is that Hosea easily crosses the line between individual and communal responsibility. The first verse of the
Haftarah addresses Israel in the singular, as if the nation
were a single person. The second addresses the people in
the plural, truly as a community. To drive the point home,
the word return appears in both lines, first as Shuva
in the singular and then as Shuvu in the plural.
One can read it as a mere poetic flourish. But I see a
deeper meaning. Ones sins have ramifications that affect
the community, and a nations sins impact every individual. It is impossible to fully separate individual and communal culpability and repentance.
The second prophetic voice in this Haftarah, as read in
Ashkenazic tradition, is that of Joel. When it comes to a
holy day for fasting and gathering, his passage also blurs
the line between individual and communal, giving priority to the community.
Blow a shofar in Zion, solemnize a fast, proclaim an
assembly! This call in Joel 2:15 could be a description of
Yom Kippur, for these elements are all part of the way we
as a Jewish community observe this holiest of days. The prophet

goes on to call upon the old, the young, the newly married, and
presumably everyone else to set aside their personal obligations
for the obligations of the community.
If Hoseas words imply that every religious act has an element
of both individual and communal, then Joels words tell us that
on this unique day, we suppress our individual needs in favor of
our communal ones. The intended result, a communal one that

will extend to every individual, is expressed in the last verse of
the Joel section: And you shall know that I am in the midst of
Israel: that I the Lord am your God and there is no other. And
my people shall be shamed no more.
Gmar chatimah tovah May this year lead to life for us as
individuals and as a Jewish community.
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Shimon Peres and Jerry Silverman
North America federation

president attends Peres funeral
Jerry Silverman, the president and CEO
of Jewish Federations of North America,
was one of hundreds of dignitaries at last
weeks state funeral for Shimon Peres.
Federations across North America had a
longstanding relationship with Mr. Peres,
whose last appearance at the JFNA General
Assembly was in 2013. At that meeting, Mr.
Peres reminded attendees that as a people
Jews have always had a vision deriving
from the way we value life.
The Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey is a member of the Jewish Federations of North America.

For decades, regardless of the political
climate, Mr. Peres message remained the
same: peace is our goal. Shimon Peres
was North American Jewrys greatest ally,
advocate, and friend in Israel, Mr. Silverman said. Shimon Peres will be remembered along with the great leaders of Israel
who fought in the War of Independence:
David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, and
Yitzhak Rabin, he added.
THE GROSS CENTER FOR

HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE STUDIES
FALL PROGRAM 2016
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2-4:30 P.M.

When Elephants Fight
Film Screening
Co-sponsored with Communication Arts Program

of Ramapo College
Trustees Pavilion (PAV2&3)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2 P.M.
The Legacy of Genocide: An Update on

Developments in Rwanda and Burundi
Eugenie Mukeshimana, Genocide Survivors

Network, Baltimore, Maryland
Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges,

SC156-157)
For Information and to request

disability-related accommodations
please contact: holgen@ramapo.edu
or 201.684.7409
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 9 A.M.-3 P.M.

The Ressettlement of Survivors of
Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity
and Mass Atrocity: Past and Present
In cooperation with and supported by the N.J. State

Commission on Holocaust Education
Gumpert Teachers Workshop
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 7:15 P.M.
Recovering Armenia: The Limits of
Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart

Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston
All Programs Free and Open

to the Public
SALAMENO SCHOOL
OF HUMANITIES
AND GLOBAL STUDIES
505 Ramapo Valley Rd Mahwah, NJ
Across
1. Mineo of Exodus
4. Whoever saves a life, it is considered
as if he saved an entire world. e.g
9. Channel that might show Wasserman
Schultzs house?
14. Emotion for Moses when seeing the
Golden Calf
15. 1998 Disney animated film with
Harvey Fierstein
16. My ___ (how Mordecai might have
addressed Ahasuerus)
17. Keira Knightleys 2007 attrition at the
end of 61-Across?
19. Biblical witchs locale or home of the
Ewoks
20. Rock genre of Guster
21. Vilna Gaon, with The
22. Makes a yutz out of
25. Like Clint Eastwood in 1992 at the
end of 61-Across, perhaps?
30. Shortened name of a Biblical strong
man
31. Bird where 9 Av is in the winter
32. Give 18-Down
33. Novelist Rand
34. Pieces on Gene Wilder, e.g.
36. An Uzi is one
37. Robert who fought against 21-Down
38. Judd Nelsons 1985 group at the end
of 61-Across? (with The)
42. James of The Godfather
43. Length of time the world has not
lasted, according to a literal Bible
translation
44. Stoudemire in Israel
46. Letters on a switched sim-card at
Ben Gurion, perhaps
47. Jew___ (hairdo)
48. ___air
50. Brady who plays for Kraft
51. Paul Newmans 1982 outcome at the
end of 61-Across?
54. Synagogue seats
55. Gold played by Jeremy Piven
56. Fire called for by the IDF?
58. Ahava, in Paris
61. See 17, 25, 38, and 51-Across (its over
in the 25th hour)
65. Talmud option
66. Mideast ruler: Var.
67. ...be a wise man ___ fool? (Ecc.
2:19)
68. Arguments between Bubbie and
Zadie
69. Patches up like a Bubbi
70. Symbol of tref
Down
1. David Guettas Titanium singer
2. Work of Chagall
3. Uncle on Seinfeld
4. Ill second that
5. Brand that makes a kosher bacon lollipop
6. Prayer at the end of nearly all services
7. Swindler
8. Talking tree creature that doesnt
meet Sean Astin in The Lord of The
Rings
9. Rabbis and priests
10. Moses spent a lot of time on it
11. Ryan Braun admitted using one: Abbr.
12. 68 years ___ (Israel was born)
13. Tamid or shel Shabbat
18. Money in the Holy Land: Abbr.
21. General Ulysses who tried to expel
Jews from Kentucky, Tennessee and
Mississippi
22. G.I. entertainers (like The Marx
Brothers)
23. Its not a work day
24. Arab chieftains domain
26. Richard Dreyfusss Mr. Hollands
___
27. Find out how much (Wix) is worth
28. Target for tweezers or Estee Lauder
products
29. Netanya to Tiberias dir.
31. ___ Einai
35. Number of Commandments
36. Eden was one
37. Common tree in northern America,
but not northern Israel
39. 1996 Olympian Strug
40. Challah or gefilte fish, e.g.
41. It can be hard getting one around the
Old City
42. Common Israeli stray
45. Ends of Purim and Shushan Purim?
47. Iconic role for Matthew (Broderick)
48. Block cutters at the start of Menzels
Frozen
49. Invested in (like Israel Bonds)
52. Aly Raisman might jump off one...or
a place for her medals
53. Here ___ to save the day! (Mighty
Mouse...or Andy Kauffman)
54. ___ talk, motivational speech at
Ramat Gan Stadium
57. Moses Montefiore and Paul
McCartney
58. Jake Gyllenhaals six-pack
59. One that shows Israels borders
60. Eves eggs
61. Sweet addition to a cholent
62. Ellie Goulding genre
63. Mentalist Geller
64. Schmatta
Arts & Culture

Two Israeli films now playing in New York
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
lain and simple Israeli cinema can match up today with

cinema from about any other
country.
With new funding sources from both
within and outside the government, and
with co-productions with other countries,
we are witnessing a quality of filmmaking that can make us proud. And whats
even more exciting is that Israeli filmmakers are tackling all aspects of Israeli life
in their narratives, and their documentaries are winning prizes all over the world.
This week, Shimon Dotans The Settlers
is showing at the New York Film Festival
and Elite Zexers Sand Storm is playing
at Film Forum in New York City. Dotans
work is a documentary about Israelis who
are living in territories Israel conquered
during the Six Day War, and Zexers is a
narrative about a Bedouin community. It is
in Arabic with English subtitles.
The Settlers
Shimon Dotan began his career in
Israel making powerful dramatic
motion pictures, like Repeat Dive,
a moving film about Navy divers who
risk their lives every day, and Smile
of the Lamb, adapted from David
Grossmans book about the friendship
between an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian living on the West Bank. After
making a few films in North America,
in 2006 Dotan returned to Israel to
make Hot House, which showed how
Israeli prisons have become the breeding ground for the next generation of
Palestinian leaders. It won the Special Jury
Prize for documentary at the Sundance
Film Festival. Dotan followed it with a few
more narrative features made here, and
he has now returned to documentary filmmaking in Israel with The Settlers.
The Settlers attempts to provide an
overall history of the settler movement
by tracing its origins to a just a few weeks
before the start of the Six Day War, when
Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook of Mercaz HaRav
Yeshiva in Jerusalem delivered a speech
expressing his longing for the holy sites on
the West Bank. After Israels victory, Kooks
students saw his speech as prophetic;
within a year, settlers were living in Kfar
Etzion and in Kiryat Arba, outside Hebron.
By 1977, when Menachem Begin was
elected prime minister, there were 4,400
Israelis living in 31 settlements in the territories. Within five years there were 21,000
settlers living in 73 settlements, and today
more than 400,000 settlers live in more
than 200 settlements and illegal outposts
across the West Bank. Dotan interviews
Scenes from The Settlers, above, and Sand Storm, left.
some of the people involved in creating

the movement, including Yehuda Etzion
and Benny Katzover; General Shlomo
Gazit, who oversaw political and economic
affairs in the occupied territories; Talia Sasson, a former deputy state attorney; Palestinian attorney Raja Shehadeh, and some
new arrivals to settlements. While he does
a masterful job in providing a broad history of how the movement has grown over
50 years, there are few Palestinian voices.
We also do not hear enough about how
the relationships between the settlements
and neighboring Arab villages. Dotan tries
to remain neutral. But throughout there
are blistering critiques from all parties of
the various Israeli governments that either
stalled or allowed creation of the settlements. Strangely, there is little mention of
the current government and its policies.
A few months ago, Shimon Dotan was
invited to show the film at a conference
at Syracuse University. A few weeks later,
Syracuse religion professor M. Gail Hamner uninvited him, claiming that she did
not have a chance to see the

film, while in fact she never
had asked to see it. It appears
that she was afraid that BDS
activists would protest the
screening of an Israeli film.
How sad it is that BDS has
gained such strength on the
university campus. After a
scathing article about the affair in the Atlantic, the university vice-chancellor made an
official apology on behalf of the university
and Syracuse has invited Dotan back.
Shimon Dotan does a credible job in
providing an historical framework for
understanding the settler movement. He
breaks down the film into episodes following a biblical timeline of sorts that did not
work all that well for me. What did work
was having Hebrew University professor Moshe Halbertal fill in the gaps and
give incisive commentary. Halbertal pulls
everything together brilliantly. Most of the
settlers interviewed come across as ideological, believing themselves to be chalutzim, Israels present-day pioneers, but
we also meet a family that has chosen to
move to the territories simply because they
can buy twice as big a house for half the
price. While doing a fine job delving into
how this phenomenon came about, Dotan
largely avoids the issue of how settlers get
along with their Palestinian neighbors and
what effect the presence of such a massive
number of settlers has on todays government policy. The former state attorney and
general weigh in, pointing to the settler
movement as being the single biggest detriment to making peace in the area today.
As for Palestinians, they are barely heard.
See it and make your own judgment.
Whatever you think, you will walk away
more aware of an important issue for the
future of the State of Israel. The film will be
shown tonight at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.
Sand Storm
Most Israelis see the Bedouin as seminomads whose tourist tents they may have
slept in or whose coffee they might have
sipped. For first-time feature filmmaker
Elite Zexer, they are family.
The future director, then 25 years old,
joined her mother, a still photographer,
more than a decade ago on a photo shoot
of Bedouin women from neighboring villages in the Negev. That trip had a lasting
effect on Zexer; her fascination with Bedouin life and culture made her want to put
some of the stories she heard on paper.
When she began to study filmmaking at Tel
Aviv University, it became clear to her that
she had to put one or more of the stories
onto film. After producing a short film set
in the community, she has now made her
feature film debut. It is a terrific look into
SEE FILMS PAGE 41
Calendar
has services, 9 a.m.,
Mincha, 5 p.m., Neilah
at 6, and breaks the
fast at 7. 32 Park Ave.
(201) 391-4620.
Friday
OCTOBER 7
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Health and wellness

fair in Teaneck: Arbor
Terrace Teaneck, the
premium independent
senior living community,
hosts a free health
and wellness fair,
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Offerings
Include a flu vaccine
clinic (bring insurance
card), chair yoga and
massage, meditation,
blood pressure clinic,
balance screenings,
and a discussion with a
registered dietitian about
healthy eating sponsored
by Shoprite of Emerson.
For information,
or to schedule a
chair massage,
(201) 836-9260. 600
Frank W. Burr Boulevard.
Fundraiser for animals:
Kim Friedman
and Kate Siegel
Mother/daughter in
Tenafly: Kate Siegel
and her mother, Kim
Friedman, discuss Kates
book, Mother Can You
Not?, at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
5:30 p.m. The duo
created the popular
Instagram account @
Crazy Jewish Mom.
Q&A and book signing.
Presented in part with
the James H. Grossmann
Memorial Endowment
Fund for the celebration
of Jewish Book Month.
(201) 408-1454 or www.
jccotp.org.
Tuesday
OCTOBER 11
START II, Save the

Animals Rescue Team,
holds its annual kitten/
puppy shower fundraiser
at Vitales in Teaneck,
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Tricky
tray, 50/50, auction, gift
certificates, brunch with
vegetarian options. 293
Queen Anne Road. Joan,
(201) 368-2743.
Holocaust
remembrance
in Wayne: Alan
Moskin, a liberator
of the Gunskirchen
Concentration Camp, a
sub-camp of Mathausen,
is the guest speaker at
the Chabad Center of
Passaic County. Chinese
buffet at 5 p.m.; talk
at 6. 194 Ratzer Road.
(973) 694-6274 or
Jewishwayne.com.
Pink Shabbat in Closter:

Temple Emanu-El raises
breast cancer awareness
during Shabbat services,
9 a.m. Different family
services at 10:15.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
of Congregation Bnai
Jacob leads services,
10 a.m.; Yizkor at 11:30;
afternoon services,
4 p.m.; community
breaks the fast at 7:01.
176 West Side Ave.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
Dumont historian
Dick Burnon presents
a video/lecture The
Controversial Presidential
Election of 1800, at
a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
10:45 a.m. Excerpts of
the film Duel, about the
1804 Burr-Hamilton duel
in Weehawken, will be
shown. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900 or www.
jccotp.org.
Kol Nidre in Jersey

City: Rabbi Aaron Katz
of Congregation Bnai
Jacob leads Kol Nidre
services, 6:30 p.m.
176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or www.
bnaijacobjc.com.
Wednesday
OCTOBER 12
Yom Kippur in Park
Ridge: Temple Beth
Sholom of Pascack Valley
Pink Shabbat in Fair

Lawn: The sisterhood
of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBI partners
with Sharsheret for
Pink Shabbat, 9 a.m. A
breast cancer survivor
will speak during
services. There will be
educational materials
from Sharsheret at a
Pink Kiddush following
services. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Yom Kippur in
Washington Township:
Temple Beth Or has
Shofar Kids services,
9 a.m., family services,
2:30 p.m., Yizkor,
4:45, and break-fast
at 6:15. Call for tickets.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 664-7422.
Yom Kippur in
Woodcliff Lake: Valley
Chabad has family
services led by Rabbi
Dov Drizin, 10:30 a.m.,
followed at 11 by Rabbi
Yosef Orenstein leading
the Teen Leadership
Initiative service, at the
Hilton Woodcliff Lake,
200 Tice Boulevard.
(201) 476-0157 or
valleychabad.org.
Yom Kippur in Pearl

River: Beth Am Temple
Presidential
controversy in Tenafly:
Alan Moskin
OCTOBER 15
Yom Kippur in Jersey

City: Rabbi Aaron Katz
Sunday
OCTOBER 9
Saturday
offers healing services,

12:45 p.m., young
childrens service, 2,
afternoon services, 3:30,
and Yizkor, 5. 60 East
Madison Ave. Call for free
tickets. (845) 735-5858
or www.bethamtemple.
org.
Yom Kippur in
Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley offers
family services for
children 8 and younger
with parents, 1:15 p.m.
Community Yizkor at
3. 87 Overlook Drive.
Call for free tickets.
(201) 391-0801.
Yizkor in Glen Rock:

The Glen Rock Jewish
Center has Yizkor, 1:15
pm., Mincha at 4:45,
Neilah at 5:45. All are
welcome to bring a
shofar and participate
in the final shofar blast.
682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Yizkor in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers a memorial service,
1:30 p.m. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.
Yom Kippur in Teaneck:

Temple Emeth has
family and tot services,
Sunday
Simpler Times,
starring Jerry Stiller
and his late wife,
Anne Meara, the other
half of the legendary comedy
duo Stiller & Meara, is their last
appearance together onscreen.
The movie will be shown as part
of the Ocktober Film Festival,
Sunday, October 9 at 2:45 p.m., at
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway
at 96 Street, in Manhattan. The
film was a finalist at both the 25th
annual San Diego Jewish Film
Festival and the Pittsburgh Jewish
Film Forums Robinson Short Film
Competition. ocktoberfilmfest.com.
OCT.
2:30 p.m., afternoon

service at 3:45, Yizkor
at 5:30, and Neilah at
6. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Yom Kippur in Closter:

Temple Beth El holds a
family service for young
children, 2:30 p.m., and
an afternoon/Yizkor/
Neilah service at 3:30. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Yizkor in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah offers a
community Yizkor,
3:45 p.m. 304
East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Community Yizkor
in Montebello: The
Montebello Jewish
Center holds a
community Yizkor
service, 4 p.m. 34
Montebello Road.
(845) 357-2430 or
office@montebellojc.org.
Yom Kippur in Fair

Lawn: The Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI
welcomes young families
to mark the end of
Neilah services with
glow sticks and songs,
5:50 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Thursday
OCTOBER 13
Politics and the biblical
books: Rabbi David
Bockman continues
an adult ed class,
Politics, Leadership,
and Scandal: the biblical
Books of Samuel and
Kings, at Congregation
Beth Shalom,
10:45 a.m. 21 Passaic Ave.
(973) 835-3500 or www.
bethshalomnj.org.
OCTOBER 16
Sukkah building in Park
Ridge: Help build Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack
Valleys sukkah, 9 a.m.,
breakfast served. 32 Park
Ave. (201) 391-4620.
Sukkah building
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a world most of us know nothing about.

Zexers Sand Storm has taken the
Israeli film community by storm. The
Israel Film Academy selected it as the best
motion picture of the year and therefore
it is Israels submission to the Oscars this
year. Zexer was picked as best director, an
amazing feat for a first-time movie-maker.
Most Israeli Bedouins live in the Negev.
During Israels War of Independence they
were caught in the thick of battle, and
many chose to flee to neighboring lands.
The Israeli government pushed hard to
get the Bedouin who remained to commit
to living in a specific place, particularly as
developing the Negev became a priority
for the new state. A variety of problems
developed as the Bedouin, who had their
own unique culture, history and social
order and were used to moving freely, now
were confined to live within demarcated
areas. Their ability to support themselves
worsened, and today Bedouins are ranked
toward the bottom of Israels socioeconomic ladder. According to a 2010 Knesset
report, unemployment is high and education level is low in comparison to other
minorities. On top of that, the Bedouins
fertility rate, at 5.5 percent per year, is one
of the highest in the world. That means

that there are always more mouths to
feed. And although a large proportion of
Bedouin serve in the IDF, they have never
been able or willing to integrate into the
greater Israeli society. In Sand Storm,
Zexer gives us a rare and unique opportunity to learn about the Bedouin.
It should come as no surprise that Zexers focus is on women and their status
within this community, where tribal laws
and customs prevail. The film begins with
a father and daughter arriving in their village, and throughout the film Zexer uses
entrances and exits as a unique way to
exhibit the fragility of the female presence
in this patriarchal world. Layla has been
away, studying at Ben Gurion University,
where she encounters a new social culture. Now she is back in her village for
her fathers wedding to a second wife.
Her father has two daughters, it is never
clear whether he is marrying again to try
to have a son or just because he wants to
about 25 percent of Bedouin men have
more than one wife. So how does her mom
react, and how does this 18-year-old feel
about having another woman in the household? And what will be her fate, now that
she has reached marriageable age? Layla
is being given the luxury of a college
education and interaction with an outside

world, yet she knows full well the limitations posed by the strict traditional world
in which she lives.
It is clear from the beginning of Sand
Storm that Elite Zexer who after all
is a photographers daughter is a filmmaker with a keen sense for lighting and
ambiance. Shooting in a gorgeous desert
landscape, she brilliantly uses its hues
and the overpasses and underpasses that
weave their way through the sands. There
are clear and open passageways and dead
ends and tunnels to nowhere. Zexer plays
with different color schemes to emphasize and contrast different situations the
wedding, where there are separate prenuptial events for men and women; the
bridal suite, and the homes interiors and
exteriors. Even Laylas and her mothers
departures and arrivals are visually powerful as we track their standing within the
village and the various physical and communal obstacles that may keep them from
shaking things up too much. It is wonderful to see Laylas younger sister survey the
action through an outside window, just
like we, the spectators, do.
In a recent conversation, Elite Zexer
talked to me about her affection for and
obsession with Bedouin life. The films
story is based largely on a true one. Many

Bedouin women study on a university
campus, where they see a different set of
rules. But what are their choices? What are
the consequences they and their families
face if they break these rules?
Sand Storm is exquisite and visually stunning. The actors, most of whom
are non-professional and all of whom
are native Arabic speakers, had to learn
Bedouin dialect; Bedouin women are
restricted from acting in films. Not for the
first time, Israelis have to watch an Israeli
film subtitled into Hebrew. That an Israeli
Jew could make an Arabic language film,
and that it could garner such honors, is
a tribute to Israel and the government
funds that supported its making. Elite
Zexer is a filmmaker to watch; I hope that
this first feature is an indicator of many
more superb movies to come. I am going
on record, without yet knowing anything
about the competition, to predict a first
for Israel an Academy Award winner for
Best Foreign Language film. Sand Storm
is playing at Film Forum in New York.
Eric Goldman teaches and lectures on film.
He is founder of Ergo Media and adjunct
professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.
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The bike tour began in northern
Israel near the Sea of Galilee and covered more than 400 miles with a total
vertical climb of 32,000 feet. The tour
concluded in six days at Tel Avivs
Mediterranean beach.
Along the way, the group visited
Israeli military bases, national landmarks and ancient historical sites.
FIDF was established by a group of
Holocaust survivors in 1981 and has
more than 150,000 supporters today.
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Chinese investors are expected to

fund up to $50 billion in some 500
Israeli start-up companies as the two
countries continue to strengthen ties
in many areas including trade and
travel.
Over the past few years we have
seen a series of investments coming
to Israel from China, but only now are
we beginning to understand the great
potential of this cooperation for both
countries, said Amit Lang, director
general of Israels Ministry of Economy and Industry. He spoke at the second annual Innovation China-Israel
Investment Conference on Wednesday
in Tel Aviv attended by over 1,000 Chinese investors.
The event was organized by the

Infinity Investment Group with help
from Israels Ministry of Economy and
Industry.
The importance we see in China as
a strategic partner has made China the
country with the highest number of
Israeli trade missions in the world in
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong
Kong and from next week, Chengdu,
Lang said.
He also noted that Israel and China
are in negotiations to establish a freetrade zone in an effort to remove any
obstacles to trade as well as encourage
investment opportunities between the
two countries.
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Frank Luntz shares five ways to

combat anti-Semitism on college campuses
Republican pollster and political consultant Frank Luntz said there are five
things Jewish students can do to more
effectively discuss combating antiSemitism on college campuses.
Luntz, who has worked for years
with Israeli leaders including the
late former Israeli President Shimon
Peres has teamed up with the Jewish National Fund to take on anti-Semitism across the country.
To better prepare students to
engage in conversations about antiSemitism, and specifically the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, Luntz and JNF have developed
a language library.
The idea behind it is to be the
most efficient, effective process to
provide information, awareness and
messaging that will help make the

Jewish community stronger, safer and
effective in what they do, Luntz said
Wednesday, during a phone call with
Jewish media.
Luntz laid out five keys to engaging
people in a discussion on combatting
anti-Semitism. They are: use the word
imagine, which, according to Luntz,
changes the entire communications
process and brings people to your
side; talk about ending a culture of
hate; emphasize human rights, social
justice and equality when responding to the BDS movement; know that
the Hamas Charter does not accept
Jews right to live or Israels right to
exist; and teach that hate will never
lead to peace.
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From my experience as a car enthusiast, there is a difference in the way you drive a luxury car and a sports car.
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The interior is class-leading as we have come to expect
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Another safety feature standard on the 2017 E-Class
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bergenPAC gallery naming
honors long-time supporter
The newly updated and beautifully illuminated Sandy Bennett Art Gallery at Bergen
Performing Arts Center, located on the second floor of bergenPAC at 30 N. Van Brunt
Street in Englewood, was the scene of an
elegant cocktail reception and ceremony
last week to celebrate its new name.
The Intermezzo Art Gallery at bergenPAC was permanently re-named the Sandy
Bennett Art Gallery in memory of longtime devotee Sandy Bennett, who worked
at and supported the theater since its
founding in 2003. Bennett recently passed
away after many years of service to the
non-profit performing arts center.
We are proud to honor Sandys memory in this way because she was at the forefront for keeping the jewel that is bergenPAC in downtown Englewood thriving,
said founder of bergenPAC and Mayor
Frank Huttle III. Her name will live on at
bergenPAC for generations to come.
The newly named Sandy Bennett Art
Gallery reflects Bennetts passion as an artist which came to the forefront while coordinating artists to exhibit there monthly
since bergenPACs inception. Bennett relished her role of bringing the fine arts to
bergenPAC and particularly enjoyed working with the artists to celebrate their work
at the venue.
Bennetts ties to bergenPAC run deep.
Her son Dae Bennett recorded Grammywinning albums at the former Bennett
Studio, now the Performing Arts School at
bergenPAC and she was also the database
and office manager at bergenPAC for her

entire tenure.
Friends and family, as well as distinguished guests, honored Bennett with
displayed photos of Bennett and a plaque
to memorialize the evening. The evening
included the presentation of a proclamation by Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri
Huttle and the City of Englewood to honor
Bennetts contribution to bergenPAC.
Sandys invaluable passion for the arts
is not only recognized in our community
here in Bergen County but well beyond
throughout our state.
The guests were treated to a poignant
rendition of The Beatles Let It Be, a
favorite of Bennetts, by bergenPAC Board
of Trustees Member Kelli Rabke Agresta.
It was an honor and pleasure to have
had the benefit of Sandys expertise both
in the performing and fine arts worlds,
said Dominic Roncace, bergenPAC CEO.
Sandy had a keen eye for artistic talent
and a wonderful connection to the artists
that exhibited at bergenPACs gallery. She
will be greatly missed.
The gallery is dedicated to giving local
artists of all ages an opportunity to exhibit
their work with a new artist each month.
All art work is for sale and a portion of the
proceeds go to support bergenPAC. The
gallery is accepting applications to exhibit
art in 2017. For information check www.
bergenpac.org/gallery or contact kcraig@
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird was
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Richard Nixon won a landslide victory
over what South Dakota senator in the
1972 presidential election?
Elizabeth Montgomery played a witch
named Samantha in what popular TV
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If you can answer these questions
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you just may have what it takes to
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The first round in this years Senior
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Last years event really captured the
interests of our residents, so we decided
to expand it in 2016 by opening the competition up to all people over the age
of 75 who live in the area, said Mary
Franck, Arbor Terrace of Teanecks

director of sales and marketing. Were
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still be incredibly sharp. People love TV
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huge response from the community. We
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Questions will focus on Americana,
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literature, entertainment, leisure/sports,
geography, etc. The top scorers in the
preliminary rounds will advance to the
semi-final and final rounds. There is no
fee to enter.
Those interested in competing or
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For those keeping score, the answers
to the questions above are Harper Lee,
George McGovern, and Bewitched.
Five Star welcomes Shelley Edelson

Five Star Premiere Residences of
Teaneck, an award-winning luxury
senior living community, is pleased to
welcome Shelley Edelson as its community relations manager. In this position, Ms. Edelson is responsible for
increasing visibility and promoting Premier Teaneck to local businesses and
the public.
Ms. Edelson has more than 20 years
experience in marketing and business development within a healthcare
environment. No stranger to Premier
Teaneck, Ms. Edelson served as the community relations manger 10 years ago
under Classic Residence by Hyatt. Ms.

Edelson rejoins Five Star after opening
a non-profit senior community in River
Edge, working for a home care agency,
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as creating many networking organizations for professionals in the senior living industry.
Ms. Edelson was asked what her favorite part of returning to Five Star was and
she said, It is the people. The people
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here. She feels fortunate to resume her
role under the same executive director
that was here 10 years ago when she left.
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genes. The breakthrough brings doctors
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genetic mechanism for the disorder and
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Dr. Idan Menashe and his colleagues,
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found characteristics that differentiate
them from other genes in the human

genome.
If we find the remaining genes out
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We can certainly estimate that
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