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Safety in the ark
l Its the oldest joke in Pirkei Avot.
Why did the rabbis put a fence
around the Torah?
They wanted a safer Torah.
Bah dum bum.
But the quest for a safer Torah nearly
turned tragic at the chassidic Rabbinical
College Yeshiva of Machzikai Hadas in
Borough Park this week. A worker was
installing a one-ton metal safe, a 8-foot
by 3-foot ark designed to secure the
yeshivas Torah scrolls from theft, when
it toppled over onto him.
Luckily, The hand of God reached
down, the New York Post reported, and
Nerding out with Torah trope
l If youve ever chanted from the Torah,
you have at least a passing familiar-
ity with the trope those notations
indicating which musical phrases go to
which words. You may have noticed that
they fall into certain patterns mercha,
which looks like a quarter circle facing
left, for example, is often followed by a
tipcha, which looks like a quarter circle
facing right.
But have you ever asked yourself
or even your local cantor what is the
percentage of merchas followed by
tipchas?
Noah Liebman asked himself a ques-
tion very much like that. Liebman is
a doctoral student at Northwestern
Universitys joint Ph.D. program in in
computer science and communication
studies. A couple of years ago, around
Simchat Torah, when Deuteronomy cy-
cled back to Genesis, he thought he was
noticing a high proportion of the telisha
gedolah trope, where Deuteronomy had
featured more telisha ketanah.
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the worker miraculously escaped being
crushed to death and flattened like a
matzo.
Whether it was a miracle or luck,
the door to the secure aron kodesh
was open as the safe teetered, and the
worker squeezed himself into the open-
ing. He was trapped beneath the fallen
aron for 45 minutes, along with a large
Torah scroll, until rescue workers came.
Anyone who this happens to should
be really, really hurt . . . but he walked
away smiling, a witness told the Post.
Larry Yudelson
So he applied some computer science
to a problem in Torah communication.
He downloaded the text of the Torah,
wrote a small computer program, and
created a graph.
His suspicion proved correct.
But all good questions raise more
good questions. By the time he was
through, he had created an interactive
website where you can ask these ques-
tions yourself. It lets you choose a se-
quence of trope, and find out how often
it appears in the Torah. You can learn
that mercha is followed by a tipcha 64.6
percent of the time, and by a sof pasuk,
marking the end of the sentence, 26
percent of the time. You trace the trope
from the most common (tipcha 11,264
occurrences in the Torah) to the least
(karnei para and yerach ben yomo each
show up only once.)
So what are you waiting for, Torah
nerds? Go to quantifiedcantillation.nl.
Its the chants of a lifetime.
 Larry Yudelson
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Jewish Agency leader
emerges victorious
l Weve been following the
Maccabiah games now under-
way in Israel with the same
breathless enthusiasm with
which we watch all interna-
tional sporting events that is
to say, not at all.
But one vignette from the
quadrennial Olympics-for-
Jews that came across our
Twitter feed is too good not to
share.
It was posted by Avi Mayer,
spokesman for the Jewish
Agency.
Tonight the boss played
chess against twenty oppo-
nents simultaneously as part
of #Maccabiah2017. He won
seventeen games and tied
three.
His boss, of course, is Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, who
honed his chess skills during his nine years in Soviet prisons. Larry Yudelson
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FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE:
It it a big chill
or navel gazing?
The eight-episode
original series
Friends from College
begins streaming on
Netflix on Friday, July 14.
The series follows a small
group of Harvard grads
now in their 40s. As the
series starts, Ethan
Turner (Keegan-Michael
Key) and Lisa Turner
(Cobie Smulders from
How I Met Your Moth-
er) return to New York
City and reunite with
college friends. Their old
pals include Max Adler,
played by FRED The
Wonder Years SAVAGE,
40, and Nick, played by
NAT FAXON, 41 (Faxons
mother is Jewish).
The famously acerbic
BILLY EICHNER, 38, ap-
pears in a four-episode
arc as Felix, a fertil-
ity doctor who treats
Ethan and Lisa. Mean-
while, he gets romanti-
cally involved with Max.
After a while, Felix gets
tired of the friends reliv-
ing their college days
and he issues some
biting outsider com-
mentary. Also look for
SETH ROGEN, 35, and
IKE BARINHOLTZ, 40, in
one-episode guest roles.
The series was co-
created by NICHOLAS
STOLLER, 41, and his
wife, FRANCESCA
DELBANCO, 42. Its
appropriate that they
should write together,
because they met at a
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Harvard writers work-
shop in 2001 and hit it
off immediately. At the
end of that weekend, the
New York Times reports,
Stoller had the sad duty
of putting Delbanco on a
plane back to Ann Arbor.
Her parents then both
taught at the University
of Michigan (pretty fa-
mous writers NICHOLAS
DELBANCO, 75, and
ELENA GREENHOUSE
DELBANCO, 70ish).
Nicholas and Francesca
wed in a Jewish ceremo-
ny in 2006 and now they
have two children.
Stoller has directed
some good flicks, like
Forgetting Sarah Mar-
shall. But I am cautioned
by the fact a film he
wrote and directed, The
Five Year Engagement,
was too long and some-
what uneven. It was not
exactly an old friends
reunion movie, but it was
close. Many reunion Sunday, July 2. In late
films flop because the
writer(s) are too close
to their subject. A few,
like The Big Chill, are He says he will write no
incredibly memorable.
A nice thing about
CBS Sunday
Morning is that it posts
its stories on the CBS
news website and leaves
them up there a long
time. So you easily can
see or see again the
interview with famous
author HERMAN WOUK,
102, which first aired on
European Model Shown
Before long, I was advertising in the
Baltimore Jewish Times, I was
booking shows, they paid $5, I believe
the price was in the ad
Ira Glass, the creator of This American Life, on that show recently, talking
about how at 12 he was a magician, wearing a kid-sized suit, performing at
birthday and bar and bat mitzvah parties. (He later realized he was booked
not because he was good but because he was cute.)
the Holocaust and that
graphic depiction was
also in the 1988 miniseries
of the same name.
Heres a footnote on
the Winds of War
which answers a ques-
tion many ask: Why did
once-hot actress ALI
MACGRAW, now 78, fade
away around the time
the miniseries version of
Winds was released in
Fred Savage Nat Faxon Billy Eichner 1983? Well, first some
bio: MacGraw disclosed
in 2011 that her mother
was Jewish, but her
mother never disclosed
that to her bigoted
non-Jewish husband.
MacGraw was a top
model when she got her
first big movie part,
playing a young spoiled
Jewish woman in
Goodbye Columbus
(1969). Then, in 1970, she
played the female lead in
Nicholas Stoller Ali Macgraw Jane Seymour Love Story, a megahit.
Looking back, all she had
including a cool Panama- the Pulitzer Prize-winning to do in those flicks was
2015, Wouk published his type hat, and he sported novel, The Caine Mutiny, be pretty, smirk a lot, and
last book, a memoir, a long, well-groomed which was based on issue some cheeky
Sailor and the Fiddler. white beard. Two years his WWII naval service. lines. She could do that.
later, in the CBS inter- He moves on to what A few action movies
more new books, but he view, on the other hand, he wants to say is his followed that didnt
does write in his diary he is in a bathrobe, in a central life work: To, so require much acting. But
every day. wheelchair, with an oxy- far as I could, fix down she was so bad in
Frankly, the CBS inter- gen tube up his nose. His in literature what hap- Winds, which required
view seemed like it will beard is a bit ragged and pened in World War real acting, that she was
be the last word from he wears a simple yar- II and the Holocaust. replaced by JANE
Wouk. He had looked mulke on his bald head. Besides Caine, he was SEYMOUR, now 66, in
jaunty in New York Times Still, his mind is sharp, referring to his two-book the Remembrance
photos that accompa- and he knows he doesnt WWII novel saga, Winds miniseries. The word was
nied a 2015 Sailor and have time to be charm- of War and War and out on MacGraw, and she
Fiddler interview. He ing. He quickly discusses Remembrance. The lat- never got a big, good
wore nice casual clothes, his most famous work, ter graphically depicted part again. N.B.
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Just engage
First-year congressman Josh Gottheimer
looks back on his six months in Washington
Joanne Palmer
Given whats going on in our politics today, from the White
House on down, it doesnt seem like theres much chance
for sunny bipartisanship.
Josh Gottheimer of Wyckoff and now also of Washing-
ton, the freshman Democratic congressman representing
New Jerseys 5th district, isnt disheartened. A speech-
writer for Bill Clinton when he was impossibly young
starting at 23 and a successful Microsoft executive, pol-
icy analyst, and public servant, Mr. Gottheimer went to
Washington determined to reach across the aisle. Nothing
that hes seen since, none of the extraordinarily height-
ened wagon-circling, name calling, or coarseness, has dis-
suaded him from at least trying for comity.
Recently, sitting in a coffee shop in Franklin Lakes, Mr.
Gottheimer talked about the work hes doing, the despite-
everything hope hes feeling, and some of the atmospher-
ics that surround him now, just about six months into his
first two-year term.
Hes worked on a number of bills, he said; among those
dearest to him are one about the Boycott, Divestment, and
Sanctions movement, and another is about imposing sanc-
tions on the terror group Hamas.
Mr. Gottheimer coauthored the anti-terrorist bill,
formally called the Palestinian International Terrorism
We can only know what we know
Local agency heads, politicians discuss ramifications of the health care bill
Joanne Palmer
Last Thursday, a group of top New
Jersey Democratic politicians
including both U.S. senators, Rob-
ert Menendez and Cory Booker, the
two congressmen who represent the
local area, longtime Representative
William Pascrell of the 9th District
and freshman Representative Josh
Gottheimer of the 5th; State Sen-
ate Majority Leader Loretta Wein-
berg of Teaneck, and many other
local politicians met at the Engle-
wood Hospital and Medical Center
to talk about the dangers posed by Hospital administrators, medical professionals, and politicians gathered for a press conference
the Republican effort to repeal and at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center; from left, they are Judy Wong, Jeffrey Gudin, Josh
replace the Affordable Care Act (aka Gottheimer, Hillary Cohen, Warren Geller, Bob Menendez, Cory Booker, Bill Pascrell, Loretta
Obamacare). Weinberg, Rosemarie Hill, Terry Bertolotti, and Betsy Ryan.
Most of the dangerous effects of
the bill, as pointed out by the speakers, would affect all
Americans, and all New Jerseyans, who benefit from Medi-
care or Medicaid or any of the range of services whose
funding the new bill would change. But there also are Jew-
ish agencies that would be affected.
Any discussion of the bill must begin with a caveat. The is undergoing tinkering. The bill, the BCRA, might well
bill keeps changing. The American Health Care Act that the
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Support Prevention Act, with another Democrat and two
Republicans. The Republicans are the chair of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, Ed Royce of California, and Brian Mast
of Florida; the other Democrat is the committees ranking
member, Eliot Engel of the Bronx. It is a big thing to have
gotten the chairman and the ranking member to support
this legislation, Mr. Gottheimer said.
The bipartisan bill imposes sanctions on foreign per-
sons, agencies, and governments that assist Hamas, the
Palestinian Islamic jihad, or their affiliates, Mr. Got-
theimers press release on the bill said. The bill will
ensure that anyone who provides assistance to this
enemy of the United States and our vital ally Israel will
face the strength and determination of our country.
Mr. Gottheimer is deeply involved in the substance of
the bill; he also finds a great deal of meaning, he said,
in the bipartisanship that it reflects. His co-sponsor, Mr.
Mast, is a double amputee; both of his legs were blown
off during his Army service in Afghanistan, which ended
a 12-year military career. Mr. Gottheimer, whose back-
ground is not similar to Mr. Masts in any obvious way
except for their shared service in Congress, is glad to be
able to work with him.
Unfortunately, Israel and issues related to fighting
terror in Israel have become partisan issues, Mr. Got-
theimer said. Thats why it is so important to take the
House of Representatives passed in May, which morphed
around the edges before it was passed, is not exactly the
same as the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senates grams that look to be at risk in the bill. Thats what were
version, which was kept away from all but a group of 13
Republican senators for most of its existence and now
die, or at least go into a deep, possibly irreversible coma,
Josh Gottheimer talks to constituents at an AARP
meeting in Fair Lawn in June.
partisanship out of this issue. It never had been a partisan
matter before. Now, its become divisive. We have a lot of
work to do in the Democratic party on this.
There are many matters that will not make it through
the House now, he said. But it is important to realize that
we still do business every week, and this is the kind of
issue that I believe we can get to the floor and be voted on.
There is still enough support across the aisle. I am going
to approach other members of Congress, to get more co-
sponsors and get them onboard.
The Combating BDS Act of 2017, which Mr. Gottheimer
introduced in June, is another bipartisan effort aimed
at helping Israel. Working with a Republican, Patrick
McHenry of North Carolina, and a Democrat, Juan Vargas
See gottheimer page 8
possibly by the time this story hits
newsprint.
Acknowledging the uncertainty,
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
some local agency heads discussed
the bills likely effects.
Jason Shames is the CEO of the
Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey. His organization pro-
vides some funding to many of the
agencies that work with the elderly
and with people with developmen-
tal or physical disabilities, popula-
tions most likely to be affected by
the cuts proposed in the new bill.
Any cuts in funding to Medi-
care or Medicaid obviously create
a bigger gap for people in need,
Mr. Shames said. We dont have
details now, but I do have a general
concern. We know that there are a
lot of elderly Jews, and also a lot of adults with develop-
ment disabilities, who are very dependent on these pro-
worried about.
I dont have a sense right now about exactly where that
gap will be, but nonetheless we are holding our breaths.
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Gottheimer
from page 6
of California, Mr. Gottheimer introduced
a bill to help local governments fight
the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and
sanctions movement that threatens
it economically. If you seek to harm
Israel, a beacon of democracy and a vital
partner for the United States, then we
will do everything in our power to stop
you, his press release says.
Mr. Gottheimer believes that there
are other issues, chief among them tax
reform and infrastructure repair, that
can gather bipartisan consensus, and
he is part of a group of 21 Democrats
and 21 Republicans working together
on those issues.
But now, he said, the chief problem is
the health care bill, which is a terrible
piece of legislation, he said. Because
the bills fortunes evolve constantly
the Senate version has been through an
entire peals worth of changes between
the time Mr. Gottheimer was interviewed
for this story and the time it was written,
and doubtless will have changed between
the time it was written and the time the
most avid reader sees it online or in print
it is hard even for those few people
who had the chance to read it to know
exactly what is in it. But even acknowl-
edging that, Mr. Gottheimer said, the bill
that the House of Representations passed
is a terrible piece of legislation.
He has no predictions for whether it is
likely to pass the Senate or make it rela-
tively unscathed through reconciliation
if it does, but he thinks that it is not good
for the state.
Heres the problem, he said. If you
go to an emergency room and dont have
insurance coverage, historically New Jer-
sey gave 15 to 20 cents on the dollar to
the hospital on every unpaid bill.
When New Jersey took the Medicaid
expansion, we took our charitable dollar
budget way down and relied on Medic-
aid. So if the Medicaid money is taken
away, the state will have to scramble.
Where would that money come from?
he asked rhetorically. New taxes? Our
budget doesnt have the room, and that
would be a big problem.
It would be bad for New Jersey. I rep-
resent New Jersey, and it would be bad
for us, Mr. Gottheimer said.
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There are a few themes to which Mr.
Gottheimer returned frequently dur-
ing his campaign, and they still fuel his
work. One is bipartisanship, and another
is the fact that New Jersey gives far more
in taxes than it gets back in programs,
services, or in any other way. It is out-
rageous that we get back 33 cents on the
dollar that dollar that state taxpay-
ers send to Washington. And especially
while our property taxes keep going up,
he added.
Mr. Gottheimer said that although
overarching issues affecting presidential
politics are important, the smaller, more
daily problems matter as well. You have
to be able to concentrate on both you
have to be able to walk and chew gum at
the same time, he said. I believe that
people hired me to get things done. We
have the eighth worst roads in the coun-
try, and terrible trains, and our taxes are
too high. Those are issues that I am com-
mitted to working on. That doesnt mean
that Im not committed to trying to get to
the bottom of what happened with our
elections and Russia, but I believe that
there are things that are important to
our district. Therefore, it is important to
make common cause with people on the
other side of the aisle. If youre not at
the table, if you dont sit with the admin-
istration and the Senate, if you dont do
that, then when the music stops, they
control all three branches of government
and you dont have any voice at all.
It is not responsible not to engage if
there are any people open to engage-
ment, he said.
But the picture that most of us have
about Washington now is an exaggera-
tion, Mr. Gottheimer said. The struc-
ture is built to discourage cooperation,
but that doesnt mean that people dont
cooperate. People are people, he said;
they react normally, even in Congress.
It is a point of pride for him not to
introduce partisan bills, but he makes an
effort beyond that. On the House floor,
people tend to go to their own sides, he
said. I always make a point of walking
over to the other side to talk to some-
one. There are some people who want
to find more of a center. And I think that
the strategy of engaging across the aisle
ultimately will produce good results for
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If people fall through the gaps, we have no
place to turn.
It is a complex bill and we are acutely
aware that it could be amended and
changed at any time. We are not looking
forward to any of it being great for our
population.
Jordan Shenker is the CEO of the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. He stressed
that he has not read the bill, but if what
weve heard reported is accurate, there
are two specific provisions in it that would
be problematic for us, he said.
The first one is related to reductions in
funding for Medicare and Medicaid, and
the second one is related to changes in the
tax code that would eliminate charitable
giving as an itemized deduction.
We get much of the funding for our
special needs programs from Medicare
and Medicaid, especially for adults with
developmental and physical challenges,
Mr. Shenker said. Once you reach the age
of 21, you no longer get funding through
the school system, so you have to get it
through other agencies. We are one of
those agencies.
We have dozens and dozens of people
in multiple programs, adults with a wide
range of disabilities. They are funded
through Medicaid, and any cuts in fund-
ing, either direct or indirect, would
directly affect those clients capacity to get
funding for those services.
And then there is the matter of itemized
deductions. People often talk about how
the bill will cut Medicare and Medicaid and
pull back the Medicaid expansion. The fact
that the bill also includes a large tax cut
for the wealthiest group of Americans is
mentioned as well, although less often.
Carol Silver Elliott,
at left, talks to
residents and visitors
at the Jewish Home
Assisted Living in
River Vale.
The detail that despite that tax cut, chari-
table donations no longer will be able to be
used as a deduction, is less known still. Mr.
Shenker worries about it.
It is hard to assess and calculate what
percent of donations we receive from
those who would be disinclined to give
them if those donations no longer were
deductible, Mr. Shenker said drily. I
dont think that a significant number of
our donors would take their checkbooks
and put them back in their pockets with-
out writing a check first, but I suspect that
the change would have some impact.
How much impact? Would it be 10
percent? 20 percent? 30 percent? I dont
know if it would be toward the high end or
the low end, but I suspect it would have a
significant impact.
The JCC has not yet made any plans to
deal with possible cutbacks. Its hard
to make plans until you know what the
impact will be, Mr. Shenker said. Its
possible that they could cut back on Medi-
care and Medicaid, but have those cuts
affect the population that is not disabled
maybe it would affect people in nurs-
ing homes, or assisted living facilities. In
which case it would have a marginal effect
on our services. Until we know what the
bill is, we cant assess what we can or can-
not put into place.
We only know what we know, he
concluded.
Carol Silver Elliott is the president and
CEO of the Jewish Home Family.
Obviously it is hard to speculate, not
knowing what will happen, she said. But
certainly we are very concerned about the
future of Medicaid, especially at the Jew-
ish Home at Rockleigh. The Jewish Home
is the organizations nursing home and
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Complexity theory
Rivka Schwartz talks about talking about tough issues with kids in Teaneck
Larry Yudelson
D
r. Rivka Press Schwartz has a
doctorate in the history of sci-
ence from Princeton. She wrote
her dissertation on the history
of the official history of the Manhattan proj-
ect that is, on how the American govern-
ment directed the talk and therefore con-
trolled the understanding about how the
atomic bomb came to be made. So per-
haps its appropriate that shes coming to
Teaneck to share her ideas on how parents
should talk to their children about difficult
topics. (See box, page 11.)
Dr. Schwartz will speak at Lamdeinu,
which generally focuses on the study of
traditional Jewish texts. (See sidebar.) Dr.
Schwartz, however, will be speaking not
as a Torah scholar or as a historian, but
rather as an observer of the contempo-
rary Orthodox world.
In particular, shes an observer of Ortho-
dox teenagers. Dr. Schwartz is assistant
principal of general studies at SAR High
School in Riverdale, New York. For the last
dozen years, she has worked as an admin-
istrator there or at the Frisch School in
Paramus while teaching as many history
classes as she can. Its the most invigorat-
ing part of her day, she says.
Not only does she work with high school
students and stay in touch with her for-
mer students, but my husband Rabbi not an alignment between what we think
Ezra Schwartz works in a shul with
a population of twenty-somethings
Mount Sinai Jewish Center in Washington
Heights. And if their jobs didnt give them
enough exposure to the next generation
of modern Orthodox Jews, the couple and
their five children live on the campus of
Yeshiva University, where Rabbi Schwartz
teaches Talmud.
So whats her report on kids these days?
I see students who are deeply intellec-
tually curious, but who are engaged in the
world in different ways than we were, she
said. Social media has changed how all of
us engage in the world. Kids are exposed
to more. People usually say theyre
Learning with Lamdeinu
Local institution draws students from across metropolitan area
Larry Yudelson
Here in northern New Jersey, we live in
the cultural and religious shadow of New
York City.
Sure, we have fine synagogues and
top-notch day schools and even excellent
kosher restaurants. But face it: You have to
cross the Hudson River to find a rabbinical
10 Jewish Standard JULY 14, 2017
exposed to more sex and violence, but I
mean more alternate voices. Kids can hear
conflicting and challenging voices that are
different than the values of their parents.
Its much harder now than it used to be to
shelter kids.
That doesnt stop parents from trying to
shelter their children with poor results.
We dont tell them about the hard
questions before they get to college, Dr.
Schwartz said. Newsflash: Theyre going
to be hearing about them in any case.
Her first talk will be about teach-
ing Israel.
The Israel question looms very large
in parents minds. We have prospective
parents looking at our high
school, whose students are
now in eighth grade, asking
What do you do to prepare
kids to engage on Israel
on campus?
The Jewish community,
she notes, has invested
great resources prepar-
ing kids to combat anti-
Semitism and combat BDS
on campus. But not all of
these efforts are effective.
I will talk about which
approaches address real
needs, and which are bark-
ing up the wrong tree. Sometimes theres
they need and what they tell us they need
after being on campus.
She points to approaches that she thinks
arent successful.
One says, dont hate on Israel, Israel
invented grape tomatoes. Israel invented
all this great technology. A more sophis-
ticated version says dont hate on Israel,
Israel is very good on LGBT issues.
These kind of answers dont address
the real questions or challenges. When
someone advocates for BDS, tomatoes
are not the response. If people are asking
questions about Palestinians and were
educating about Israels technological
advances or social advances within Israeli
seminary or a national Jewish organization.
Which makes it noteworthy that a
young Teaneck educational institution is
bringing students to Jersey.
The institution is Lamdeinu thats
Hebrew for teach us and it is a com-
munity beit midrash, a house of study for
adults, offering classes in Talmud, Tan-
ach, and other Jewish subjects. It holds
Rachel Friedman teaches a class at Lamdeinu. Inset,
Rivka Schwartz
society, people will
say thats grand but
it doesnt respond
to the question.
Another way
thats not effective
is to coach our kids in talking points. This
prepares our students for a certain level of
engagement, but not for meaningful con-
versation or growth. It also doesnt credit
our students as young men and women
of curiosity who will ask about things and
want to understand what theyre hearing.
Based on what her former students
report from campus, she thinks there is
another way of engaging with Israel that
result in a more constructive conversation.
Dr. Schwartzs second Teaneck talk will
discuss broader issues for a narrower audi-
ence the tough questions that come up
with being observant in the contempo-
rary world.
These are questions that originate in
the classroom and in conversations with
its classes in Congregation Beth Aaron
in Teaneck, but it aims to draw students
from the entire community.
And as it has developed in the three
years since it began in July 2014, the com-
munity includes both banks of the Hudson.
A large percentage of our students are
from outside the Teaneck area, Rachel
Friedman said. Ms. Friedman is dean of
Lamdeinu. She is a former associate dean
of Drisha, the Manhattan beit midrash
that was one of the first Orthodox insti-
tutions to provide advanced Talmud
students outside the classroom.
Some have to do with the contrast
between the fundamentally egalitarian
values of Western life and the halachic
system, which is not egalitarian. For some
students that conflict is very difficult.
Science and Torah was once a press-
ing issue, though I dont find it as press-
ing now. The broader questions of modern
scholarship, however there are lots of
ways that modern humanities scholarship
challenges Orthodox views of authority.
She rejects the approach of just ignoring
the challenges as treif.
You cant just say, dont engage with
this, dont read that, particularly if your
students are going off to higher education.
She said the questions dont have easy
answers. Rather, confronting them is
exactly whats exciting to me about being
modern Orthodox. We engage in the com-
plicated process of taking in that which is
of value in the modern world, and at the
same time remain faithful to the practice
training to women.
During the summer, Lamdeinu has
an advanced Talmud class restricted to
women many of whom work as teach-
ers and have their summers free. During
the year it has a women-only Talmud
class for students with less Talmud expe-
rience. Most classes, however, are coed.
We teach at a very high level but we are
not a graduate school, Ms. Friedman said.
People come to Lamdeinu to enrich and
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Adding depth to Holocaust classes

Montvale teacher joins small group of educators from around the world
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

One of many anti-Jewish laws the Nazi

regime enacted between 1933 and 1945
prohibited Jews from owning dogs, cats,
and birds. So what were German Jewish
families to do with their beloved pets?
This question seems to resonate espe-
cially strongly among juniors and seniors in
Heather Lutzs Holocaust literature classes
at Pascack Hills High School in Montvale.
Theres even a book about this lesser-
known racist law and its effect on a family:
My Dog Lala: The Touching True Story of
a Young Boy and His Dog During the Holo-
caust, by Roman Kent.
This summer, Ms. Lutz, who lives in
Ringwood, heard the story firsthand from
Mr. Kent during an intensive five-day
course sponsored by the Jewish Foun-
dation for the Righteous for 22 select
middle- and high-school teachers from
10 states, Croatia, and Poland, as well as
three educators from Holocaust centers
or museums.
A granddaughter of Polish Holocaust
survivors, Ms. Lutz said she would cher-
ish forever the opportunity to meet Mr.
Kent, as well as other noted survivors and
scholars, including Alexandra Zapruder,
author of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers
Diaries of the Holocaust.
Ive taught Salvaged Pages in the popular that it grew into a full-year course
past, but meeting Alexandra Zapruder
will inspire me to use more of the text and
dive deeply into it in different ways, Ms.
Lutz said.
Held at Columbia University from
June 25 to 29, the JFR Summer Institute
included time for participants to gather in
small groups to process what they learned
from the lectures, share teaching concepts,
and develop approaches to introducing the
subject matter to their students.
Another lecturer was Edward Wester-
mann, a history professor at Texas A&M
University and a fellow at the U.S. Holo-
caust Memorial Museum.
He spoke to us on collaborators and
their methods, Ms. Lutz said. I teach
about that but he had photos and other
scholarly material I will certainly intro-
duce in the classroom. Each lecture added
a dimension to my knowledge.
As I redesign my curriculum for next
year, I will be thinking of ways in which I
can bring it into the classroom.
Ms. Lutz has been teaching English for
15 years. Four years ago, with the full sup-
port of the high schools administration,
she designed and implemented a one-
semester Holocaust literature elective for
juniors and seniors. Since 1994, Holocaust
and genocide education has been man-
dated in New Jersey for grades K-12. Each
school may design its own curriculum.
In this photo of this years Lerner Fellows, Heather Lutz is the sixth from left in the front row, in white jeans and black pat-
terned top. Roman Kent, president of Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and Stanlee Stahl, executive vice president of
JFR, are in the middle.
The Holocaust literature class became so
that Pascack Hills students can take as an
elective or as their English class for junior
or senior year. Ms. Lutz had 100 students
last year; about 40 of them were Jewish.
I find it really interesting to see the
ways in which non-Jewish students who
have not learned a lot about the Holo-
caust respond to the class, Ms. Lutz said.
Some of those students become inspired
to major in genocide and Holocaust stud-
ies in college, and thats the greatest gift an
educator can get.
I cant say enough about our prin-
cipal, Glenn DeMarrais, and the upper
administration who not only supported
me when I went on the March of the Liv-
ing but allow me to bring in Holocaust
survivors to speak and to take my classes
on field trips. I always try to connect stu-
dents with the subject matter outside
the walls of the classroom. This year we
went to the Holocaust Resource Center at
Kean University.
That resource center is one of the part-
ners in the JFRs Centers of Excellence pro-
gram, through which Summer Institute
participants are nominated.
The New Yorkbased JFRs mission is
twofold: to support aged and needy Holo-
caust rescuers Righteous Gentiles in
20 countries and to preserve their legacy
by sharing their stories and educating oth-
ers about the Holocaust. The Summer
Institute is one of several programs geared
to the second part of the mission.
The foundations executive vice presi-
dent, Stanlee Stahl, said that the Summer
Institute provides teachers with gradu-
ate-level courses on the Holocaust, peda-
gogical connections with other teachers
and their curriculum so they learn whats
worked and what hasnt, and resources for
the classroom.
Every year they try to reunite a survi-
vor and rescuer, which is becoming more
difficult as the years go by, Ms. Lutz said.
There are 15-minute clips online that
show these reunions, and that is a per-
fect length for use in the classroom. The
reunions are really personal and help stu-
dents understand that these were people
just like us.
Today, when few survivors and rescuers
are still alive to tell their stories, institutes
such as the JFR are so important in help-
ing us make that personal connection,
she continued. When we approach the
Holocaust as a story of people whether
victims, collaborators, bystanders, or per-
petrators it will always be relevant.
Ive strived to have students think not
only about Auschwitz and corpses but to
look at rescuers and find lessons of moral
courage. One message that comes up a
lot is to encourage our students not to be
indifferent when they see moral injustice.
Thats something that I try to instill in the
classroom, because the moral lessons of
the Holocaust are extraordinarily timely.
Ms. Lutz said she has felt truly hum-
bled and proud to see students level of
interest in learning about the Holocaust
and the impact it has on their lives. I
have students who will openly admit
they never loved English class and then
on their own they go and read multiple
memoirs about the Holocaust. I dont
know exactly why or how but they are
responding more passionately and genu-
inely to stories of the Holocaust.
She exposes her students to a wide vari-
ety of source material. I think an interdis-
ciplinary approach is the most effective
way to teach Holocaust studies so I bring
in primary sources including artwork,
poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and documen-
taries. This provides a fuller picture.
Ms. Lutz said that she and her cohort of
colleagues from the Summer Institute will
continue to collaborate and meet.
All 22 participants are called Alfred
Lerner Fellows in homage to the late
JFR adviser and donor Alfred Lerner, for
whom a building on Columbia Universi-
tys campus is named. This summer, the
American fellows included teachers from
Washington State, Florida, Texas, Mary-
land, Alabama, Alaska, Missouri, South
Carolina, Ohio, and New Jersey. Ms. Lutz
was the only one from Bergen County.
This has really put an exclamation point
on my life both professionally and person-
ally, she said about the Summer Institute.

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organization under Orthodox auspices
appear to have been derailed by the
opposition of the Orthodox Rabbinical
Council of Bergen County.
On Monday, the RCBC issued a letter
opposing efforts by the new Hatzalah of
Bergen County to create an ambulance
service that would compete with the exist-
ing Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corp
and similar services in neighboring towns.
On Tuesday, the Hatzalah of Bergen
Countys site on Facebook no longer
was public. The organizations website,
which had been registered in February,
now redirects to the original Hatzalah
organization, headquartered in Brook-
lyn. (The word hatzalah means rescue.
Orthodox ambulance organizations out-
side of New York, including in Lakewood
and Elizabeth, are allowed to use the
name but are independent.)
As of right now Hatzalah of Bergen
County has strictly been offering free
CPR classes to the community and we
do stand by our mission to help educate
the community regarding first aid at a
free or affordable cost, Gadi Wolicki,
secretary of Hatzalah of Bergen County,
wrote in an email to the Jewish Stan-
dard on Tuesday. We are unsure of any
plans to expand the services of Hatzalah
of Bergen County beyond what has been
described above.
Until now, however, Hatzalah had
been working to create a local ambu-
lance corps.
According to a version of Hatzalah Ber-
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tion was dedicated to bettering the
for a new ambulance corps. The rab-
bis then invited the Teaneck Volunteer
Ambulance Corps to present its position.
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A fulfilling life in food
Stuart Kahan of Maadan talks about leaving his business sort of
BANJI GANCHROW
The food business is not easy.
People have different tastes and differ-
ent expectations. Chicken that is delicious
to one person might not be delicious to
someone else. And palates aside, you also
need a lot of patience. You need to be a
good listener. You need to be consistent.
You need to be agreeable. You need, well,
you need a lot of things, including plain
old-fashioned luck.
In a world where things open and
close as quickly as technology changes,
Maadan, the takeout establishment on
Cedar Lane in Teaneck, has managed to
keep its doors open, selling delicious food
and a great selection of wine, with its good
reputation intact, since 1982.
Maadans story begins in the 1970s
when a young Stuart Kahan started work-
ing at the Ocean Breeze Hotel in Seagate,
a Brooklyn neighborhood. He loved all
aspects of working there and was bitten
by the food service industry bug. I con-
tinued working there on weekends and
holidays until I was 22, even after I started
a jewelry-manufacturing company when
I was 18, Mr. Kahan said. At one point I
was working at the hotel, going to Brook-
lyn College, traveling for my jewelry busi-
ness, and working some evenings at differ-
ent catering halls.
I loved working in all aspects of the
food business and I couldnt pull myself
away from it.
When he tried to decide exactly what he
wanted to do, first he thought of going into
the bagel game because he had an uncle
who had a bagel-baking business, but then
he decided that takeout was going to be his
story. While he was visiting a friend at an
auto body shop in Brooklyn, he ran into
a guy he had known since second grade.
It was Yossi Markovic, a friend whom he
hadnt seen in at least a year.
He was standing against the wall, with
one foot on the wall, Mr. Kahan said. We
started talking, and I told him that I would
like to open a takeout store. He wasnt
happy doing what he was doing, so I asked
him if he would be interested in a partner-
ship. He said he would be interested, and if
anything comes up, to keep him in mind.
After researching different communi-
ties, from Tenafly to Queens, one of Mr.
Kahans cousins told him about Teaneck.
There was only Jerusalem Pizza and a
bakery that was opened on Shabbos, Mr.
Kahan remembered. After looking at sev-
eral locations, he took over the lease at
a crystal store on Cedar Lane. That store
now houses Sababa. And as fate would
have it, Fast forward one year almost to
the day I stopped by my friends auto
shop in Brooklyn, and who do you think
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Stuart Kahan in his store, in front of a photo of him and his business partner,
Yossi Markov, at the 2013 Sinai Schools dinner that honored them.
was standing against the same wall with
his foot up on the wall? Yossi.
I told him that I just found this location
in Teaneck, New Jersey, and I wanted to
open a takeout store because they really
could use one. You interested? Though
Mr. Markovic had never even heard of
Teaneck, his response was a definite Yes.
That was 1982.
The two men had little experience run-
ning their own food establishment, so
they approached George Gross, who was
the owner of Negev, a well-known takeout
store in Brooklyn. According to Mr. Kahan,
We said we would work for free just to get
the experience.
So they did.
With experience from Negev and reci-
pes from both the Ocean Breeze Hotel and
Armon Terrace, a catering hall in Boro
Park, Mr. Kahan and Mr. Markovic were
ready to embark on a culinary adventure
that has brought them to the present.
Mr. Kahan has accumulated many sto-
ries during his time as Maadans owner,
but one in particular came to mind. Cell
phones had just come out, he said.
They were these huge boxes attached
to batteries.
We were driving to a job in Rutherford,
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And now Mr. Kahan and Mr. Markovic,
who also lives in Teaneck, are ready for
their next adventure. They plan to sell
their store but not to just anyone. We
want the person who buys it to continue
with the level of service and quality that
we have tried our best to maintain for all
of these years, Mr. Kahan said. Maadan
prides itself on the freshness of its food.
We make everything from scratch and
cook without chemicals, which contrib-
utes to the taste and freshness of our food.
After 35 of the best years of our lives,
Yossi and I felt that now would be a good
time to start looking for buyers, he con-
tinued. Maadan is busier than ever and
the growth potential is great, but we didnt
want to wait until we are 65 or 70 to start
the process.
And who can take over their legacy? We
wont sell to just anyone, he said. They
have to be nice, knowledgeable in the food
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Yossi and I will do everything pos-
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Maadan for the new owners, for many
years to come, Mr. Kahan said.
Ive known Stuart and Yossi since the
day they opened, Jamie Janoff, the Jew-
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worked summers at the Teaneck Delica-
tessen, which preceded Maadan at the
same location.
Yep, that Friedberg Properties adver-
tisement announcing the sale of Maadan
sure has created a buzz in our commu-
nity, he continued. Ive received some
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Decades later, friendships remain

Couple remember fabulous years at Passaic High School
LOIS GOLDRICH that the mixing of races and economic

N
ot everyone remembers their
high school years with joy
but then, not everyone had the
same wonderful experience as
Roz and Larry Goodman.
In a conversation marked by smiles,
laughter, and fond memories, the Frank-
lin Lakes couple formerly of Fair Lawn,
where they lived for some 35 years
recalled a happy time and wonder-
ful classmates.
We have fabulous memories, Larry
said. There was only one high school [in
Passaic] so everybody went there the
rich from Passaic Park and the poor from
Market Street. We were all together.
Roz Charish and Larry Goodman met
when they were 11 years old. They both
graduated from high school in 1957, and
they recently attended the schools 60th
anniversary celebration, which also was
their classs 60th reunion.
A word of explanation. The schools first
graduating class, in 1873, was made up of
eight students, who went to the Acquacka-
nonk District School. The first Passaic High
School was built in 188687 and stood at
the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Bloom-
field Avenue (now Broadway). The dis-
tricts second high school was built in 1910,
across the street from the original build-
ing on Lafayette Avenue. The present high
school on Paulison Avenue was completed
in May 1957. The Goodmans were the first
class to graduate from the high schools
new building on Paulison Ave.
Roz Goodman remembers that not only
was the school itself fully integrated, but
Roz and Larry Goodman recall their Passaic High School years with pride.
groups carried through outside of school
as well.
We played together, she said. We
had a good time. Indeed, Larry recalled,
It didnt matter what race you were. The
school president was black.
Roz, as Larry pointed out, was a
pompom girl, waving her pompoms and
cheering for the school teams. A glance at
her yearbook reminded her that she was
also a member of the Spanish, math, and
psychology clubs; worked on the yearbook
and high school play; served as secretary
of the history club, and was a representa-
tive to the student council.
Larry joked that he shared leadership
positions in his class with two other stu-
dents. We would get together and split up
the presidencies, he said.
His own activities included member-
ship in the Key Club (its Kiwanis for
high school although in his later life he
wound up joining the Rotary Club), phys-
ics and chemistry clubs (called Psychem,
of which he was president), and the Ger-
man, history, and dramatics clubs. He also
was his class representative to the student
council, worked on the senior play, and
played basketball. He quit after his junior
year because he wasnt tall enough. He just
couldnt keep up.
Participating in school activities was
important, Larry said. Thats why we
were able to enjoy it so much.
But the best part of school was their fel-
low students, both said, and they still keep
up with many of them. Rozs best friend
today went to the school, Larry said.
The recent reunion drew alumni from
Larry Goodman signs his Passaic High yearbook for his future wife, Roz
Charish, second from left, as two classmates join them at graduation ceremo-
nies in 1957.
California, Florida, Georgia, and other
points around the country. There were
about 80 people, Larry said. He spoke
about a military airplane that crashed in
1961, killing the draftees aboard, including
more than a few from their class. They
did a memorial in Passaic for them, he
said. There was money in the kitty from
our last reunion.
Both Goodmans raved about the
schools academic standards. It had a
good reputation and excellent teachers,
Roz said. We had a great math depart-
ment. Classes were not easy.
As for the students, they were not
sweathogs, laughed Larry, referring to the
long-ago sitcom Welcome Back Kotter.
Everyone got along with everyone else
and helped each other, Roz said. While
both Goodmans acknowledged that some
bullying existed, It wasnt obvious or
consistent, Larry said, although there
may have been an occasional fight in the
locker room.
Both Roz and Larry feel that students
today dont have as much respect for
teachers as they once had. When students
went home and complained to parents,
their parents would say, Its not your
teachers fault. And nobody had knives
or guns.
What did they t ake away from
the school?
I learned how to be a leader,
Larry said.
He had planned to become an engineer,
but instead he went on to become a CPA.
In the 50s, the time of Sputnik, you were
supposed to become an engineer, he said.
But I didnt have the talent for that.
Larry earned his undergraduate degree
at Seton Hall University, and then he went
to Fairleigh Dickinson University for grad-
uate studies. Roz received both of her
degrees at Montclair State University. I
always enjoyed being with children, so I
became a teacher, she said.
The reunion held at the Brownstone in
Paterson in June saw a good deal of joy,
hugging, and celebration. We really com-
municated with each other, Larry said. I
knew most of the people, he added, not-
ing that of the entire group, he knew all
but 15 of them.
And how did their classmates look, 60
years later?
Some looked the same; some I didnt
recognize, Roz said. Certainly, clothing
styles have changed. When we were in
high school, male teachers wore shirts and
ties, and women wore dresses. You didnt
wear slacks. In the winter, however, she
recalled wearing heavy leggings beneath
her own dresses and skirts.
But as important as friendship was to
the couple, they came away with other
values as well.
We learned respect, not just for teach-
ers but for each other, Roz said. Thats
the kind of school it was.

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13 adults celebrate bnei mitzvah Board retreat a successful first

at Washington Township shul
Temple Beth Or of Washington Town-
ship marked the culmination of its two-
year bnei mitzvah program with 13
adults. Rabbi Noah Fabricant, back row,
for the NCJW Bergen Section
left, and Cantor Sarah Silverberg, front Honoring the Past Moving into the
row, third from right, are shown here Future was the theme at the first annual
with the bnei mitzvah. A celebratory board retreat held by the Bergen County
luncheon followed. Section of the National Council of Jewish
Women. Sixty-five people went to the all-
day June 13 meeting, held at the Clinton
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Among the guest speakers were Rabbi
Jordan Millstein of Temple Sinai of Ber-
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invocation; Beatrice Kahn, the national
president of NCJW Inc., who talked about
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Michael Goldberg, assistant financial
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of Leonia, secretary. In the front row,
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Cover Story
Having your parents
move next door
Englewood architect builds a house; three generations live together
Joanne Palmer
L
ets posit that fish gotta swim.
Birds gotta fly. Teachers gotta
teach, doctors gotta heal, law-
yers gotta advocate, or at least
they gotta parse contracts closely.
And architects? Pretty clearly, they
gotta model, and design, and then they
gotta build.
And if you are an architect who has
parents who already live nearby, who are
aging, who are finding formidable obstacles
in the vast spaces of their own house, what
you gotta do is build a new house for them.
Make it be next door. Make it be easily
18 Jewish Standard JULY 14, 2017
accessible to people who are likely to face
increasing levels of physical challenge as
they age, but who have exacting standards
of aesthetics. (And who are you kidding?
You have that sense of aesthetics your-
self clearly you got it from somewhere.)
Make the accommodations be barely vis-
ible. And then stand back and enjoy the
multigenerational setting youve created.
Or at least thats what you do if you are
Robert Gross of Englewood.
Mr. Gross and his family live in a lovely
corner of Englewood, on a street with
big, rambling, occasionally jaw-drop-
pingly-beautiful old houses set back on
lush lawns and hidden by huge old trees
and exuberant gardens. There are some
exceptions to that general rule; some new
houses are perhaps showier than conven-
tional taste would dictate, and his own
house is gorgeous but modern.
Next to his house is a brand-new mod-
ern one, all sharp angles, glowing wood,
and glass.
Theres a history that underlies this story.
The Grosses block and the neighbor-
ing ones used to be part of one estate. The
house that used to stand next to theirs was
a stable that was home to the big houses
horses; later additions, at various times,
added both to its charm and to its archi-
tectural incoherence.
When he and his wife, Abigail Hepner
Gross, and their three sons moved to
Englewood in 2006, the Stellars owned
the house next door.
Dr. Stanley Stellar and his wife, Rosetta
van Gelder Stellar, and their two children
moved into Englewood first to the less
large-scale west side in 1946, and then
onto the East Hill in 1953.
The main house was built in around
1906, 1907, some time like that, their
daughter, Susan Stellar, who now lives in
Detroit, said. Some intermediate owner
added a garage, which, by the time my
parents bought the house, had been con-
verted to a living room hence the really
Architect Robert Gross designed this
house in Englewood for his parents.

small windows on the east side,
and a big picture window where
the garage door had been. And
another garage was added on the
east end. My mother always liked
to say that the house originally was
just three garages.
And then my parents added a
library in the basement that was
the only basement in the house,
because the rest of it was on a slab,
because it hadnt been a house.
It was very idiosyncratic, she
added.
That matters well come back
to it.
r The Stellars were Jewi sh,
o although neither was particularly
connected to the community.
Rosetta Stellar originally was from
a Holland, where much of her family
n was slaughtered during the Holo-
caust. She never really felt that
she was Jewish, even though she
was, her daughter said. Dr. Stel-
d lar came from a more traditional
r background but it remained back-
n ground to him.
r He had been a doctor, fresh out
y of medical school, during World
- War II, taking care of the wounded
y in the European theater, in Belgium and
northern France. He had a dog tag that
said that he was Jewish, but he felt that
because he didnt practice the religion, he
wasnt really Jewish, but still people kept
on calling him Jewish, Ms. Stellar said.
He said that he felt it wasnt safe to be your grandparents not by getting in a
Jewish.
The Englewood into which they moved
had not yet become Jewish. It still had ves-
tiges of the anti-Semitism that flowered
with famous aviator and American-Firster
Charles Lindbergh, who had married into
the locally influential Morrow family. It
was not anti-Semitic, not really, but it was
not yet philo-Semitic either.
Dr. Stellar was a neurosurgeon, a field
that was just beginning to develop when
he was young; he opened his practice in
1949, worked in a few hospitals, and ended
his career, decades later, after many years
at St. Barnabas in Livingston.
As Dr. Stellar told him the story, Mr.
Gross reported that the surgeon had
applied for a job at Columbia Presbyterian
and was told that it would be easier for
him to succeed there were he Protestant
rather than Jewish. So thats what he did.
The Stellars two parents, two children
all converted.
I was 10 years old when one day they
said we were going to the church, Ms.
Stellar said. She was talking about First
Presbyterian in Englewood. So we went
to church. We went from nothing to a
church. My parents wanted to experience
a culture beyond the Jewish culture.
I always felt like I didnt fit in, and this better, Mr. Gross said.
Three generations Pearl and Jack Gross sit in their new house; behind them, Abigail and
Robert stand with their sons, Darius, Judah, and Max.
It always struck me that it would be
such a blessing to be able to know
car occasionally but by coming over
to take some potatoes or asparagus.
helped. It was definitely an experience.
Later, the neighborhood became increas-
ingly and then overwhelmingly Jewish; the
Stellars never hid their background. In
fact, Ms. Stellar said, We always got the
Jewish Standard in the mail.
By the time the Grosses moved next
door, the Stellars conversion, nominal as
it was, was deep in the past. Rosetta died
in 2011 and Stanley died in 2012; he was 98 ernment. After 1945, the family wandered
and she was 101. So by the time they met,
the Stellars were old.
We were very friendly, Mr. Gross said. in Brooklyn.
We did what neighbors do. The Grosses
became the people the Stellars called
when they needed help; they were emo-
tionally close to their children, but they
were physically close to the Grosses.
When Dr. Stellar died, their daughter,
recognizing the value of the relationship,
decided to give first refusal of the house
to the Grosses. And the Grosses jumped
at the chance. They wanted his parents,
Pearl and Jack, next door.
The older Grosses lived just a few blocks but ended up as a very successful busi-
away, but I knew that next door would be
him, concentrated on managing rental
Pearl Furth Gross and Jack Gross both
were born in prewar Europe. She was
born in a small town in Hungary; when
she was 5 years old, the family moved to
Budapest, and that saved my life, she
said. Everyone in her hometown, Debre-
cen, was deported. Her family ended up
in a safe house, under the protection of
Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish gov-
to Paris, to Germany, and then, in 1949, to
the United States, settling in Borough Park,
Jack Grosss family all was murdered in
the Holocaust, a time that he chooses not
to discuss.
When Pearl and Jack married, they
moved first to Montreal, where they lived
for nine years and had their three sons,
and then, after a short stay in Queens, to
York, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Gross, the
youngest of their sons, grew up.
The Grosses were builders, mainly in
Pennsylvania. Jack Gross started small
nessman; Ms. Gross, who worked with
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properties. They both still work,
at least part-time. My dad
wanted to retire years ago, but
retiring just wasnt in his DNA.
Neither was it in his mothers. She
still drives them to Pennsylvania
every week or so.
In 1993, Pearl and Jack Gross
moved to Englewood, where he
built a big house for the two of
them. They became active mem-
bers of the Jewish community
there like all their children and
grandchildren, they are modern
Orthodox and they lived in that
house happily until the late spring
of this year, when they moved to
the new one.
The problem, Robert Gross
said, and his mother agreed, was
that it was becoming too big for
them to navigate easily, and it
seemed likely that age wouldnt
make the long distance between
rooms shrink to any appreciable
degree. So when the house next
door went on the market, his next
move seemed obvious.
At first, Pearl Gross wasnt
entirely comfortable with the
idea. Might it possibly be too
close to her son and his family? But my
daughter-in-law approached me, and she
said, Mom, this house is for sale. Why
dont you buy it, so we can live next door
to each other? And I said, Honestly, do
you really want to live next door to your
mother-in-law? And she said, Honestly,
do you really want to live next door to your
daughter-in-law?
The answer to both questions was yes.
She has her own life, they all have their
own lives, and we have our own indepen-
dent lives, Pearl Gross said.
And there was another reason for the
families to live next to each other. I grew
up with grandparents I didnt really know,
Robert Gross said. We didnt speak the
same language really, and they were older
and died when I was young, and there
were many cultural differences. It was a
limited relationship.
It always struck me that it would be
such a blessing to be able to know your
grandparents not by getting in a car occa-
sionally but by coming over to take some
potatoes or asparagus.
It means so much to me to have the
relationship with my parents comfort-
able, loving, and with them day-to-day
being the people we see.
We think that is the blessing of living
next door.
So the decision to live next door to each
other was made, but what about the house?
The Stellars house was wonderful in
its way, but it was not a good house to age
in. When the different parts were cobbled
together, they were not made level, so
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Left, the Stellars house; above, Dr. Stanley

Stellar and his wife, Rosetta van Gelder Stellar.

there were many steps, many unevennesses, many lurk-
ing dangers. Also, there was a lot of damage from ter-
mites and moisture, Ms. Stellar said. It was not going to
provide the comfortable shelter that Mr. Gross wanted for
his parents.
So he decided to tear it down and build a new one.
The almost trompe loeil aspect to the house Mr. Gross
designed is that it is both designed to help deal with the
restrictions of age and to hide it.
To begin with, the house is not big, at least not by
neighborhood standards. But because the sun bountifully,
goldenly lights all of it on all but the grayest day, it seems
much larger than it is. The top floor, which is lovely but con-
ventional, has bedrooms and bathrooms for visitors, but
Pearl and Jack Gross live on the ground floor. The kitchen,
the dining room, and their bedroom are all just steps from
each other, although again that fact is not apparent.
The outside of the house features a built-in bench that
allows you to sit and wait to be picked up. Its a great help
for someone who would prefer not to stand for too long,
but it also is a marvelous place to sit and just look out at
the lovely green world right in front.
It also has a chain dangling from the roof. Its function
is to channel rainwater and so to function in place of a
gutter; its appearance, so strikingly unlike the rest of the
house, is deeply appealing.
Inside, Mr. Gross used computer models to maximize
the way shadows intersect the light. They are sharp and
the light is pure; the dark lines move throughout the
day, marking the suns passage. (Not overwhelmingly so,

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Left, most but

not all of the
Gross family
have fun at
Robert and
Abigails house;
right, the new
house, still
unfurnished
here, with
bright light and
sharp shadows.

though; the house is full of details that are visible if you
want to see them and add to the background sense of com-
fort and pleasure if you do not.)
The bathroom, full of features anyone would want at
any age, also includes such details as grab bars that are
camouflaged as towel holders. The camouflage, it is
important to add, never is cutesy, it simply is that if one
feature can do double duty, it does.
Whenever it is, sometime far in the future, that this
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want to take advantage of its special features or people
who do not want them but are drawn by its beauty.
Its been just a month or so since the older Grosses
moved next door to the younger Grosses, but so far, so
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I used to live in a house that my husband built, and
now I am living in a house that my son designed, Ms.
Gross said. I think that says something about us.

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Jewish World

Failure to fill State Dept. posts

proving harmful to Israel, experts say
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON Carmel Shama HaCohen, Israels ambas-
sador to UNESCO, is second to none in his admiration for
the Trump administrations United Nations envoy, Nikki
Haley. In fact, hed like to clone her.
Shama HaCohen appreciated Haleys efforts in trying to
head off last weeks vote by UNESCOs Heritage Commit-
tee naming Hebrons Old City an endangered heritage site.
And he believes the joint U.S.Israeli bid to kill a resolution
Israel saw as one-sided might have succeeded had a
U.S. official of Haleys caliber been onsite in Krakow,
where the vote took place. (Haley conducted her
efforts from New York.)
We didnt have the spirit that was strong enough,
Shama HaCohen said in an interview.
Crystal Nix-Hines, the Obama administrations
UNESCO envoy, left on January 20. The Trump admin-

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State Department. Theres no question, having ambassadors

A State Department official said that the Trump
administration remained committed to defending
Israel in every international forum.
We have been clear that the United States will
oppose any effort to delegitimize or isolate Israel,
with the worldview of Nikki Haley, building
relationships, is important, he said. But
automatic majorities, bloc voting which is built
in the U.N. infrastructure. thats really where
these problems lie. JTA Wire Service

wherever it occurs, he official said. We continue to

do that. With respect to staffing, we continue to have a
deep bench of experienced career professionals serv-
ing in key positions that are highly capable and able to The U.S. ambassador to the
help the secretary lead the department. United Nations, Nikki Haley,
We will continue the process of exploring and testifies before the House Foreign
evaluating ways to improve organizational effective- Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill
ness and efficiency, including optimizing the impact Hill in Washington on June 28.
of available resources.  Alex Wong/Getty Images

The White House has blamed Senate Democrats

for obstructing nominations, noting in a press release
this week that Trumps nominees are taking longer on
average to clear the Senate than those of his prede-
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Jewish World

American Orthodox rabbis ambivalent

about Western Wall controversy
Ben Sales The Rabbinates policies have alienated
some non-Orthodox Jewish leaders and some
American Orthodox leaders have a message for their non- of their followers, to be sure, but the Ameri-
Orthodox friends: Take a deep breath. can Jewish community, if seen in aggregate is
When Israels cabinet voted twice to further empower not greatly concerned about Israel, Shafran
the countrys charedi Orthodox religious establishment last wrote. The vast majority of American Jews
month, Reform, Conservative, and other non-Orthodox Zion- who care deeply about Israel (and visit and

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ist leaders were outraged. They canceled meetings with Isra-
els prime minister. They gave an on-camera statement with
an Israeli opposition figure. They launched lobbying efforts
in Jerusalem. They accused Israels government of betrayal.
They threatened legal action. One lay leader said shed stop
flying El Al, Israels national airline.
These leaders have decried the June 25 votes to suspend
the agreement to expand the Western Walls non-Orthodox
prayer area and to advance a bill that gave Israels chief rab-
binate more power over Jewish conversions. This week, lead-
ers also have criticized the rabbinates so-called blacklist of
diaspora rabbis it does not trust to confirm the Jewish identi-
ties of immigrants to Israel.
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Charedi men pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Israel and U.S. Jewry, Americas most prominent Ortho-
dox organizations mostly have remained quiet. The
Orthodox Union and Rabbinical Council of America, two
umbrella American Orthodox bodies, both said that they
are not commenting on the matter. The RCA will meet
with the rabbinate next week regarding the list of rab-
bis; it has received assurances that the so-called blacklist
may have been misconstrued.
And while some modern Orthodox rabbis have criti-
cized Israels actions, they have not called for retaliatory
action against the Israeli government. Others sympa-
thize with what they see as the chief rabbinates defense
of traditional Jewish law.
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a prominent modern Ortho-
dox leader, was sympathetic with his non-Orthodox col-
leagues up to a point. Im disappointed in the mod-
ern Orthodox for not responding strongly, because of
the divisive effect that this has on the Jewish people,
said Lookstein, the rabbi emeritus of Kehilath Jeshurun,
a modern Orthodox synagogue on Manhattans Upper
send their children there) are the Orthodox,
who are not alienated at all by things like the
recent controversial decisions.
All three elements of the controversy
the Western Wall, conversion, and the rab-
bis list do affect Orthodox Jews. The con-
version bill, which has been shelved for six
months, sought to strip legitimacy from pri-
vate Orthodox conversions in Israel. The list
of rabbis included a range of Orthodox as
well as non-Orthodox leaders. And under the Western
Wall deal, the Women of the Wall prayer group agreed
to move its services from its meeting place in the Ortho-
dox womens section of the site a frequent flash point
between feminists and charedim to the expanded non-
Orthodox prayer space.
Even so, Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton
Synagogue in Florida criticized Jewish federations for
opposing the Israeli governments actions so vocally.
By weighing in on the debates, he said, the federations
are supporting Reform and Conservative Jews at the
expense of the Orthodox.
His local federation, in South Palm Beach County, put
a statement from its national umbrella group on its web-
site that criticized Israels actions on conversion and the
Western Wall.
Ive been very disappointed by the federations
reaction, Goldberg said. I understand why Reform
and Conservative would be using their organizations
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Editorial
Honoring our parents Wrongheadedness

D runs into the Wall

o not forsake me in my to consider. (Of course, by the time this
old age. column hits print that too might have

Thats the plea of the
writer of Psalm 71. Its
a poignant request. In the psalm, its
made to God, but its likely that a such
plea has been addressed to adult chil-
dren, to other adults, to caregivers,
even if necessary to strangers, in abso-
lutely every generation across both
time and space.
It resonates.
This week, we look at the question
of how adult children should treat
their aging parents; its a subject weve
addressed at other times, as we marvel
at the resources of time, money, atten-
tion, patience, and love some people
are able to give their parents. Every
few months a stunning example of that
devotion comes to our attention, and
we bring it to yours.
Of course, not everyone is blessed
with all of those attributes. Not every-
one can take care of their parents as
their parents once took care of them.
Few of us, in fact, are blessed with all
the resources that effort demands. And
because relationships between par-
ents and children, no matter what age
the parent and what age the child, are
human and therefore imperfect. Some
are wonderful. Some are ghastly. Most
are pretty good but they change over
time and with mood.
The Gross family in Englewood is
blessed with talent and resources. As
we detail in the cover story, Mr. Gross
was able to build a house for his parents
next to his own, so the two branches
of the same family can live together.
Had he not done so, he would not
have forsaken his parents. The house
is far above and way beyond that. It is
an expression of love and aesthetics,
braided together inextricably.
It is particularly striking to consider
the Grosses house in juxtaposition to
the health care bill the Senate is about
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changed. News is moving pretty fast
just now.)
That bill, which very few people
have had the chance to read Senator
Mitch McConnell has been very effec-
tive at seeing to that seems likely to
reduce or remove health care from
millions of people.
We will not touch the politics of that
move, but in these pages we report on
the local leaders whose work will be
affected by it.
Their responses dismay, worry, dis-
approval were remarkably consistent.
Many institutions in the local Jewish
community like institutions in other
communities, Jewish or not, New Jer-
sey or not will have to try to figure out
what to do when they no longer will be
getting the funds they need to provide
vital services to people who cannot pos-
sibly get them for themselves. No one
we talked to thought the threat minor. If
the bill goes through, they all think, the
weakest and most vulnerable among us
the elderly, the physically or develop-
mentally disabled will be stripped of
much of the care they need.
Jewish communal values demand that
we honor our parents. It demands that
we respect the elderly, and that we look
on age as a likely sign of wisdom. It does
not allow the idea of disposable people.
So most of us will not be able to do
what the Grosses did. We will not be
able to build spectacular houses next
door to our own for our parents, long
before they need any extra care but
with enough foresight so that when they
need that care it will be there.
But equally we should not do what
the Senate bill seems to want us to do.
We should not acquiesce as our govern-
ment denies the health services that
should be a basic human right to the
weakest among us. That would not be a
Jewish thing to do. JP
P
rime Minister Benjamin Netan- up of several organizations. For Sephardim,
yahu, ever desperate to cling to there is the World Sephardic Zionist Orga-
power at any cost, has angered nizations Ohavei Zion. Every few years,
American Jewish groups by members of these groups are able to vote
reversing a deal to allow non-Orthodox for delegates to the World Zionist Congress,
egalitarian prayer at a section of the West- the policy-setting arm of the World Zion-
ern Wall. He also seeks to water ist Organization. The WZO
down in a somewhat incon- has been the driving force
sequential way past compro- behind progress on plural-
mises on conversions to Juda- ism issues in Israel.
ism. His actions have elicited On the ground in Israel,
veiled threats from the Ameri- the Conservative (Masorti)
cans about withdrawing sup- and Reform movements
port for Israel. have to form political par-
Netanyahu could not care ties of their own. They never
less. To stay in power, he will be majority parties, but
needed to assuage the extreme Shammai they do not have to be. Isra-
right religious fringes of his Engelmayer els political system makes
governing coalition, who are it almost impossible for any
offended at any notion of one party ever to get an
women wearing tallitot and tefillin, or read- absolute majority of 61 seats in the Knesset.
ing from a Torah scroll. Netanyahus Likud, for example, has only
This is not a Who is a Jew? issue. There 30 seats. Netanyahu became prime minister
never was such an issue. It always was, and only because of what he was willing to give
remains today, Who is a rabbi? away to smaller parties.
That said, threats to withhold support As for the other side of the issue, let us
to the people of the State of Israel for the be clear: No one should have his or her reli-
actions of a few are wrongheaded. The gious sensibilities violated. If some people
Torah has an answer for that. When Korach find women wearing tefillin or reading
led a rebellion against Moses and Aaron, from a Torah scroll offensive, those people
God wanted to annihilate the entire people. should not be subjected to those things
The two responded: When one man sins, where they pray. On the other hand, they
will You vent Your wrath on the whole com- have no right to deny equal space out of
munity? (See Numbers 16:22.) their sight to egalitarian prayer.
If it is not okay for God to act that way, For the record, God never seemed to
surely it is not for those required to walk have a problem with that. Nor did the reli-
in His ways. gion of Israel in its earliest days. To say oth-
This is a political battle pure and simple, erwise is just as wrongheaded.
and it has to be fought in the Israeli political To begin with, Deuteronomy 6:8-9,
arena. American Jews can do that by joining where the mitzvah of tefillin primarily is
their movements Zionist arms. For liberal found, makes no distinction between men
Jews concerned about pluralism in Israel, and women: Bind them as a sign on your
these include Mercaz: The Zionist Organi- hand and let them serve as a symbol on
zation of the Conservative Movement, and your forehead; inscribe them on the mezu-
ARZA: The Association of Reform Zionists zot [doorposts] of your house and on your
of America. For Orthodox Ashkenazim, gates. Nothing in that text suggests it is for
there is the Religious Zionists slate, made men only. (Indeed, everyone acknowledges
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community Center | Congregation Heichal
Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.

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that the mezuzot clause applies to both men and women.)
Somewhere along the line, women were given an exemption
to most positive time-bound commandments (mezuzot are not
time-bound), although there never was an explanation of how
or why the exemption came to be.
Exemption, however, does not mean prohibition, and the
Sages of Blessed Memory acknowledged that. For example, we
are told that Michal the daughter of the Kushite [King Saul]
wore tefillin, and the Sages did not attempt to prevent her.
(See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Eiruvin 96a.)
True, many later commentators worked overtime to turn
this on its head, but not all did. Thus, the 13th century Sefer
HaChinuch writes that if women choose to lay tefillin, we do
not object, and they receive reward for observing a mitzvah
because they want to rather than because they have to. (See
positive mitzvah 421.)
The same can be said about tzitzit. Women wearing tallitot
often are spat on, or worse, in some circles, including at the
Wall. The verses regarding tzitzit (Numbers 15:37-41), however,
apply to both men and women. So the Sages taught, as we
learn in BT Menachot 43a: All must observe the law of tzitzit,
[including] priests, Levites and Israelites, proselytes, women,
and slaves. Tzitzit are time-bound; women are exempt from
the mitzvah, but they are not prohibited from observing it.
The Talmud also has something to say about women reading
from a Torah scroll.
First, there is no issue of an impure woman touching a
Torah scroll, or even standing next to one. BT Berachot 22a
offers this: It has been taught: Rabbi Yehudah ben Bathyra
[II] used to say: Words of Torah are not susceptible of
uncleanness.
Two centuries later, the Babylonian sage Rav Nachman bar
Yitzchak said this, according to BT Chullin 136b: Nowadays,
the world has adopted... that [view] of Rabbi Yehudah ben
Bathyra with regard to the words of the Torah....
The same goes for women standing on a bimah. States BT
Megillah 32a, Rabbi Zera said in the name of Rav Mattenah,
no sanctity attaches to the [reading] boards and to the plat-
forms [bimot].
As for women reading from the Torah, we have this from BT
Megillah 23a: Our rabbis taught: All are qualified to be among
the seven [who receive an aliyah], even a minor and a woman.
It then adds, arguably parenthetically, only the Sages said that
a woman should not read in the Torah out of respect for the
congregation.
The additional comment is advisory. To understand what
it means requires understanding what the Sages considered
an aliyah. In their day, there was no Torah reader. Anyone
called up for an aliyah was required to read from the scroll. If
only one person in the room could read from the scroll, that
person was called up seven times. Thus, respect for the con-
gregation means that if a woman is called to read from the
Torah, this suggests there are not enough men present who
could do what a woman could do read from the scroll.
We no longer require the person receiving an aliyah to do the
reading, so there no longer is a reason to worry about embar-
rassing the men in the pews. Today, All are qualified to be
among the seven.
It is one thing to object to something forbidden. It is entirely
something else to deny people to do what the Torah and the
Sages said they could.
Opinion
The art of avoidance,
at least for the present
A
column of mine that received a (relatively)
good number of comments, both positive
and negative, expressed dis-
appointment over Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushners travel to
and from the inaugural ball on Friday
evening after Shabbat had begun (Priv-
ilege and Responsibility a la Ivanka and
Jared, January 16, 2017). A very close
friend indeed, an unofficial member
of the family also commented, but not
to agree or disagree.
Rather, she thought it was all Joseph C.
irrelevant. Kaplan
This time you lost me, she said.
Who gives a hoot about whether they
had permission to drive on Shabbos to the inaugural
of an incompetent who is now already en route to
driving this country into some new version of 1939?
The situation is such a horror story that this feels like friend, who spent untold hours trying to expand
utter narishkeit compared to what we are dealing
with. (Expletive deleted.) As we emailed some more,
it became clear that her complaint could be boiled
down to this: in times like these, its important that
you write about politics.
This is not the first or last time I was either told I
should write about partisan political issues (which I
havent) or asked why I didnt. Im happy to explain, point here.) Some who agree with me reacted by
but before doing so, some full disclosure for those
who dont know me personally. Im a 1960s liberal, istration activities, and I admire them for that. But
who most often supports Democratic policies, pro-
grams, and candidates. I therefore was surprised
and terribly disappointed indeed, angry at the
results of the last presidential election, and in my
view, things are getting worse every day. (I under-
stand many others disagree, but thats not the point
of this column.)
And as a bleeding-heart liberal, Ive always been
quite outspoken on political matters; just ask anyone
whos ever shared a Shabbat meal or carpooled with
me. While I try very hard to be civil and listen to and
consider the other side (try is the operative word),
Ive always spoken and written about issues I care
about, including political ones, with the passion and
intensity of the litigator Ive been for many years.
So why no politics in these pages?
One answer is that I rarely think I have anything
new to add to that discussion. For example, Im rela-
tively knowledgeable, care deeply, and have strong
opinions about our countrys health care system. But
what can I say that Paul Krugman, Chuck Schumer,
Ezekiel Emanuel, or Rachel Maddow havent said
already and probably better than I? Im really not
interested in being merely an echo.
Some rare times, though, like with Jared and
Ivanka, I will opine on topics relating to the national
scene. But only when I think my angle which in that
case concentrated on their responsibility to Shabbat
observers and not whether what they did was hala-
chically permissible and/or what it said about their
Orthodoxy is not one I saw elsewhere. (Note: while
I did see my angle discussed on Face Book and Jewish
online groups in connection with their flight to Saudi
Arabia on a Friday night, that was after my column
was published.)
I understand, of course, that Im not always
original. But I try hard to look at topics from what
I hope is a different, often personal, perspective.
Thats one reason I like to use my dis-
tinctive life experiences as jumping off
points to muse about non-page-one top-
ics like kindness, friendship, or decision-
making, discuss Jewish topics of con-
cern to my own particular community,
or recall specific events or people and
their impact on who I am.
And theres a second reason. Until
November 8, I was a real news junkie.
This included reading numerous arti-
cles by many conservative thinkers and
writers, like Charles Krauthammer,
Thomas Sowell, and William Kristol,
whose work is published in the Wall Street Journal,
the Weekly Standard, and the National Review. That
all was courtesy of a close and very conservative
my horizons. While his attempt to convert me to his
political ideology bore no fruit, he was successful in
having me spend, over the last 12 years, probably
more time in the conservative echo chamber than
in the liberal one.
And then came November 8. From my perspec-
tive, the results were devastating. (Again, not my
speaking up loudly and participating in anti-admin-
for good or bad, my reaction was the opposite. With
all the noise generated in the past two years over the
election and its frightening results, I decided to take
a personal, partial timeout from the political arena.
And so, for example, I asked my friend to pause his
attempts to educate me in the true religion, result-
ing in a much thinner email in-box and more time to
read Lehrhaus articles.
Oh, I still read the New York Times daily and watch
cable news from time to time if something really
important is happening, like the Comey testimony,
the health care debate, or the presidents trip to
Israel. But its not like before. Now, Ill skim articles
and op-eds that I once would have read carefully and
watch only a few minutes of the news before turning
my attention to really important things like Madame
Secretary (now thats a politician I like!) or the audio-
books I listen to at double speed. And while I still
express my political opinions from time to time, I
will more often shy away from discussions, either in
person or online, that in earlier years I would have
actively participated in. And in that vein, although
tempted otherwise, Ive tried to keep this column
partisan politics-free. That may change, of course.
But not quite yet.
Perhaps Im taking an easier or more cowardly
path. Or perhaps its simply an attempt to maintain
my composure and sanity and keep my blood pres-
sure down in scary times. But no matter, thats where
I, and this column, are for the time being. So let me
tell you that Moosehead Lake story. Nah, Ill save it for
another column. Maybe.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor, has been
living in Teaneck and practicing law in Manhattan for
many years.
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Opinion
Letting go
Thoughts on sending a youngest child
to sleepaway camp: Whos the baby?
I
can handle it, Mom, says my 12-year-old,
hefting his Tupperware box of snacks.
As he does, his knapsack shifts, and the
chair he is carrying slung over his shoul- always another little one. A little one to pick up
der swings ominously to the right.
I wonder if he is as nervous as I am.
It looks heavy, I fret, as he shoves the
snack box and the chair into the storage
space in the belly of the bus.
Ill ask someone to help me carry it
when I get off the bus, he assures me.
Dont forget, you have to put your
clothes away after you wear them,
I remind him for the millionth time.
Or youll lose them. And dont forget
to brush your teeth every night. Its Helen
important. Maryles
Okay, Mom. Shankman
And youre going to have to make
your bed. Do you know how to put on
a pillowcase?
He looks at me a certain way, and I get the mes-
sage. Im treating him like hes a baby.
I can handle it, Mom.
My heart breaks a little. Its happened. He doesnt
need me anymore.
Will you send me pictures of the new puppy?
he asks.
Ah. Theres my little boy. Of course I will. His too dirty or stinky to wear again, you have to keep
face brightens.
We wait alongside the ragged row of buses. A
counselor comes by with her clipboard and checks
him off. She seems way too young to take responsi-
bility for my child. Were loading up, she informs bunch of kids you barely know. Its a lot to ask of a
us cheerfully. The buses in front have already left.
Reluctantly, my son submits to my hug, then clam-
bers up the steps onto the bus and disappears. The
windows are dark; where is he? Frantic, I run around
to the other side. There he is, framed in a window
near the back. I wave at him; he waves back. I dab;
he dabs back, laughing.
All around me, kids are streaming onto buses. The
grownups left behind drift into groups of twos and
threes. I dont see anyone I know. Shading my eyes,
I gaze at his silhouette in the window, not wanting
to let him out of my sight. Suddenly, the bus lets out
a hiss, and with a jerk it begins to roll forward. The
long line of buses picks up speed, raising clouds of
dust. At the light, the buses make a right. Within
moments, they are out of sight.
I walk back to my car and get in. Automatically, I
switch it on. With the car running, I freeze. Should
I go home? Or to a store? After the frantic machina-
tions of packing digging out last years summer
things, discarding them, driving to store after store,
trying on piles of shirts, pants, shorts, and shoes,
labeling, laundering, arguing, counting underwear
and socks, neglecting to buy essential items, running
out again to buy more stuff now that the bus is
gone, no one needs me, and there is nothing urgent
to do.
It isnt my first time at this rodeo. For the past 11 Jewishfiction.net, and Cream City Review. Scribner
years, Ive been sending kids off to sleepaway camp.
But this time was different. Before today, each time
28 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 14, 2017
I put one child on the bus, I was accompanied by
a still-younger child. Driving back home from the
camp drop-off site, I was never alone. There was
from day camp. A little one to hang out with at the
pool. A little one to ride bikes with,
or buy Legos for, a little one who sat
on the steps to sound the alert when
the ice cream truck turned down the
street, a little one to take to 7-Eleven
for Slurpees, a little one who still was
excited about mini golf, or going to
the Liberty Science Center, or water
parks, or Six Flags.
He wasnt ready last year. Many of
the kids in his class were taking the
leap, but he stayed home. Some of his
friends were the oldest siblings in their
family, exhibiting a firstborns desire
for independence, but my son still was
happy to sign up for our local Sports and Arts camp.
In my heart of hearts, I rejoiced.
There are life skills involved in being a camper,
after all. It requires a certain level of maturity and
organization. You have to make your bed. You have
to brush your teeth. You have to ration your snacks
so that they last until visiting day. You have to shower
regularly, you have to know when your clothes are
grown accustomed and by which we have for so long defined
track of your towels and shoes and iPod. But most
of all, you have to be emotionally ready to sleep in
a strange bed, to try new activities, to adapt to new
rules, to follow a schedule, to hang out 24/7 with a
upheaval, to the deep darkness with which people and peoples
12-year-old who happens to be the baby of the family.
Could he do it? Was he ready? Would he have fun?
I fought down the urge to drive to camp to check on
him. Perhaps the question was really about me. How
about it? Was I ready to let go?
The emptiness I felt took me completely by sur-
prise. My mind slipped back to a September day
seven years ago, when my littlest one climbed up
onto the school bus for the first time, proudly wear-
ing his new Transformers backpack and sneakers.
I stayed on the corner as the bus drove away, wav-
ing at it until it disappeared. On my way back to the
house, my eyes had filled with tears.
Its another damn rite of passage, thats the prob-
lem. I want to freeze time. Like Holden Caulfield in
Catcher in the Rye, I want to catch my children
before they take that leap off the cliff into adult-
hood. I want to keep them in a time loop right here,
forever riding their bikes in circles on the street in
front of the house, shooting basketballs into the
rickety hoop, stretching those summer afternoons
at the swim club into endless summer evenings lit
by fireflies.
Helen Maryles Shankman of Teaneck is an artist
and writer. Her work appears in many fine
journals, including The Kenyon Review, Gargoyle,
recently published her second novel, In The Land
of Armadillos.
Ask the question,
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A
s the Jewish community observes the doleful three
weeks culminating in the fast of Tisha BAv, we focus
our attention on our long history of loss, destruction,
and displacement.
Tisha BAv recalls the Babylonians destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem by the Babylonians on the ninth day of Av in 586 BCE
and by Rome on the same day in 70 CE. Other catastrophes asso-
ciated more or less precisely with this date include the beginning
of the First Crusade in 1096; the expul-
sion of Jews from England in 1290,
from France in 1306, and from Spain
in 1492; the Nazi partys final approval
of the Final Solution in 1941, and
the mass deportation of Jews from the
Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka in 1942.
The liturgical centerpiece of this day
of mourning is the chanting of the bib-
lical book of Lamentations. Lamenta-
Rabbi Joseph tions is known in Hebrew as Eicha
H. Prouser meaning Why? or How? or How
Could It Possibly Be? a term that is
repeated throughout the book. While
Eicha is the very first word in Lamentations, the choice of title
is of far deeper significance.
Eicha is the only book of the Bible with a title in the form of a
question. The historic cataclysm commemorated by Eicha left the
Jewish people displaced, distraught, and disoriented. We were,
necessarily, left questioning questioning our faith, questioning
our fate, and wondering about our future prospects and options.
What will we do now, without a Temple, without national sover-
eignty, without the spiritual and national life to which we have
ourselves?
Lamentations/Eicha inaugurated a long history of literary
works that take questions as their titles, and that thereby give
voice to human uncertainty in times of personal or national
are confronted, unbidden and often without warning.
Spencer Johnson, who died on July 3, was the author of the
wildly popular Who Moved My Cheese? Spencers book, with
its aptly interrogative title, offers the reader a parable about how
to cope with change, which often is so unwanted and disruptive.
The parable tells of two mice, Scurry and Sniff, who live in a
maze with two mouse-sized little people, Hem and Haw. Life
is good and manageable for the four denizens of the maze, until
their reliable food source an ample supply of cheese is dimin-
ished and then removed. Scurry and Sniff quickly move on in
search of a new routine, a new life, a new source of sustenance
and fulfillment, while Hem and Haw, true to their names, merely
bewail the unfairness of their lot and their loss. Tragically indeci-
sive and stubbornly unwilling and afraid to adapt, they go hungry.
Johnsons wise if simple parable comprises a principle with
many applications. What you are afraid of is never as bad as
what you imagine, he writes. Life moves on and so should we.
It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless
situation, he writes. And, perhaps most applicable to Tisha BAv:
If you do not change, you can become extinct.
Questioning titles have found their way into the humor genre.
To wit: Erma Bombecks If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I
doing in the pits? Bombecks response to challenges and frustra-
tions and everyday indignities is laughter.
Horace McCoys 1935 novel, They Shoot Horses, Dont They?,
is a profoundly dark illustration of the interrogative titular tradi-
tion. Robert Syverten has confessed to murder. He shot his sui-
cidal dance marathon partner, Gloria Beatty, who, in existential
despair, handed him a pistol and asked him to take her life. The
novel is the story of Roberts relationship with his victim, with

intermittent excerpts from the presiding
judges sentencing statement. The judges
words appear in increasingly large print,
until their very conclusion. His closing is
printed in diminutive letters: And may
God have mercy on your soul.
The printers font seems to suggest that
even as violence and mayhem intensify,
divine mercy remains in short supply.
A similarly dark work (and particularly
apt Tisha BAv reading) takes as its ques-
tioning title the famous statement of the
rabbinic sage Hillel: If Not Now, Then
When, by Primo Levi. (In Levis original
Italian, it is Se non ora, quando?)
The disturbing story, suggested by
historic events, traces the activities of a
group of Jewish partisans who are fight-
ing, sabotaging the Nazi war effort, and
dreaming of settling in the land of Israel
and participating in building the new Jew-
ish state. The protagonist, Mendel Nach-
manovich Dajcher, tellingly was a watch-
maker before the war. That is a profession
requiring discipline and exacting preci-
sion, and reflects the predictability of time
and our ability to assert control over our
lives, and to impose order on events. His
clockwork existence is obliterated, how-
ever. While he is serving in the Red Army,
Mendels shtetl including his wife are
massacred. He is further disoriented by
the decimation and loss of his regiment,
occasioning his flight and involvement
with the partisans. Mendel seizes control
of his upended life and fights for mean-
ing and existence and vindication. Se non
ora, quando? If someone does not fight for
a way to survive and to act meaningfully
under such dire conditions, then when
would he?
Levi, an Auschwitz survivor and former
partisan, famously was motivated by loss
and tragedy to identify a new lifes course.
He was a gifted chemist his collection of
short stories, The Periodic Table, was
deemed the best science book ever by
Britains Royal Institution and is remem-
bered for his poetic and sensitive treat-
ment of among the darkest moments in
human (and certainly Jewish) history.
Judy Blumes 1970 young adult novel,
Are You There, God? Its Me, Margaret,
is far lighter fare, but no less focused on
personal uncertainty, questioning, and
the search for meaning, identity, and
direction. The young protagonist and title
character is forced to contend simultane-
ously with the approach of puberty and
the personal and spiritual implications
of her parents intermarriage. Margaret
searches for a spiritual home and lifestyle,
visiting a variety of churches, and becom-
ing disillusioned with her mothers Chris-
tianity as well as her fathers Judaism
owing, to a great extent, to the impact of
what she perceives to be unwelcome and
coercive grandparental measures. For a
time she despairs theologically and aban-
dons her spiritual quest, but ultimately
establishes a connection to the Divine:
I know youre there, God Thank you,
God. Thanks an awful lot
Nikolai Popovs beautifully illustrated,
wordless book, Why? (first published in
Salzburg as Warum?) is aimed, at least
ostensibly, at younger children. Through
detailed watercolors, Popov conveys a
tale of an idyllic habitat suddenly beset by
a cycle of jealousy, conflict, aggression,
and retaliation. The futility of war and
the destruction wrought by violence are
given expression through the experiences
of a frog defending its lily against the
incursions of a belligerent mouse. Boots
and other footwear become the vehicles
of war on the battlefield that emerges, as
the diminutive combatants fill the shoes
of the human antagonists to whom they
allude. The title of the morality tale alone
is sufficient to convey its pained and prob-
ing message: Why? Warum?
There are, of course exceptions, but the
use of the interrogative in the title of a liter-
ary work has come to suggest the human
encounter with adversity, the disorienta-
tion it engenders, and the decision-making
it necessitates. In Jewish tradition, how-
ever, questioning is a uniquely welcome
and sacred spiritual response.
Contemporary talmudist Rabbi Adin
Steinsaltz, describing the three-million-
word opus he has made his lifes work,
says: It is, perhaps, the only sacred book
in all of world culture that not only per-
mits, but even encourages the student to
question it. Perhaps some of this posi-
tive spirit, therefore, should inform our
observance of Tisha BAv, with the inter-
rogative Eicha so firmly at its core.
After all, though we mourn the destruc-
tion of ancient Jerusalem, that holy city
is now the vibrant, bustling capital of a
free, democratic, sovereign Jewish state
Furthermore, our American exile is
an experience of religious freedom, civil
enfranchisement, and social acceptance
and inclusion unprecedented in Jewish
history.
The cognitive dissonance necessar-
ily evoked by twenty-first century Tisha
BAv mourning particularly in the fuller
context of the lugubrious Three Weeks
preceding that fast calls to mind yet
another telling title, Dr. Seuss Did I Ever
Tell You How Lucky You Are? Perhaps
together with our Tishah BAv dirges and
lamentations, and our pained cries of
Eicha?! How could it possibly be?
and as his grateful readers mourn the
passing of Spencer Johnson, we would
do well to reflect upon (if not publicly
to intone) the wisdom of Theodor Seuss
Geisel:
When you think things are bad, when
you feel sour and blue, when you start to
get mad you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie, youre really
quite lucky! Some people are much more
oh, ever so much more oh muchly
much-much more unlucky than you!
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
Opinion
HADAS PARUSH/FLASH90
Anat Hoffman, leader of the Women of the Wall, speaks with members of the
media near the Western Wall in 2016, reacting to the Israeli governments pas-
sage of a new plan on egalitarian prayer rights at the Jewish holy site.
Israel vs. American Jewry:
Real or fake conflict?
P
rime Minister Benjamin Netan- its not officially a synagogue, it should
yahus reversal of both his be accessible to everybody for personal
personal promise and his gov- or communal prayer, without any limi-
ernments commitment to tations, because it represents each Jews
egalitarian prayer at the Kotel is not a new yearning for connection with the divine.
phenomenon. He further suggests that there should be
Instead, it is the latest move in the sys- no gatekeeper deciding how Jews should
temic capitulation of his 61-member coali- express their individual yearning.
tion to charedi blackmail. Perhaps not many peo-
Many governments before ple will agree with his
his have yielded, bowing approach, which some
down to the extortion of may call radical, yet its
small parties in the narrow inclusiveness strikes me
coalition forming otherwise as fundamental and in line
unlikely partnerships. Weve with the spirit of Jewish
seen Bibis repeated submis- tradition, the birthright
sion to charedi demands in of our people. Even if we
recent years by allowing the maintain the Kotel as it is,
Israeli rabbinate to limit con- Soli Foger however, what is at stake
versions performed by strictly is more than curtailing a
orthodox rabbis in the United group of extreme provo-
States and striking down the law requiring cateurs. The issues that are at risk are at
ultra-Orthodox conscription into the IDF, the very core of our Jewish debate over
among many other such examples. important topics, starting with denounc-
The real question is whether there is a ing the delegitimization of Orthodox rab-
difference in the current climate. Is this bis in the United States, to resolving the
yet another surrender to this ongoing issue of conversions, to being more inclu-
black-hat power, once more stripping a sive to the role of women.
large group of Jews from its yearnings? True, there are differences in our tradi-
This time the yearning is to be repre- tion between the roles assigned to men
sented at the Kotel and to women, yet the front line in the
Rabbi Nathan Cardozo, founder and debate throughout the greater Jewish
dean of the David Cardozo Academy, world is in redefining those differences.
heads a think tank focusing on finding Specifically, many religious scholars
halachic and philosophical approaches claim that excluding women from Torah
to dealing with the crisis of religion and learning and from many religious cer-
identity among Jews and the Jewish state. emonies is not based in halacha reli-
He recently wrote an important article, gious law but rather has evolved due to
The Kotel Have We Gone Mad?, in ancient conditions, social and economic
which he suggests that since the Kotel limitations, and other circumstances. (We
doesnt belong to any one group and since have to remember less than 1,000 years
Soli Foger, an architect and writer, was born in Eastern Europe and grew up in Israel; he
and his wife, Dr. Tani Foger, an educator, have lived in Englewood for 27 years. They have
four sons and four grandchildren.
JEWISH STANDARD JULY 14, 2017 29
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ago men were permitted multiple wives.)
Within this context, we can understand the ultra-
Orthodox attitude as part of a larger battle to defend
their narrow version of Judaism and to impose it on the
larger Jewish world, not as Chabad does, with a carrot,
but with the stick of banishing people in a tyranny of
subversive insurgence.
We can argue that the main purpose of our Talmud,
besides to teach halacha, is to demonstrate the argu-
mentative format, teaching us about the archetypes of
Hillel and Shammai, and how they got along despite
their renowned disputes. Along these lines, we can
deduce that this current disagreement, like many oth-
ers, is not as much about enacting laws, or about their
execution, as it is a test for us, as Jews of different points
of view, about living together even when we disagree.
The charedi partys attempt to hijack this conversation
may not end well, and the danger if we do not learn to
live together is not theoretical. We can see the calamity
among our Muslim brethren, where Sunni and Shiites
kill each other in the name of their own independent
reading of the same Koran.
I found a poster, circulating in the Israeli media, show-
ing the religious parliament leaders, with a text above:
Were only 10%, but you will keep quiet while fighting in
the army, work like dogs, pay taxes, and only do as we per-
mit you. Many Israeli citizens are outraged by yet another
desecration of their democracy, and I fear that this tension
may drag the country into more internal conflict.
Back to our question is there a difference in todays
controversy? Ive been following the public debate, and in
the latest exchanges I was shocked to see how the rhetoric
is shifting. Instead of focusing on the democratic imbal-
ance, which is systemic in the Israeli parliament, it has
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Rabbi Nathan Cardozo
turned to attack and blame U.S. Jewry, labeling the situa-
tion an American Jewish provocation.
Nathan Sharansky, the head of the Jewish agency since
2009, warned against dismissing American Jewry and
nothing that more than three million Jews here iden-
tify as Conservative or Reform. In an unprecedented
condemnation, the Jewish Agency issued a scathing
response to freeze the agreement for a state-recognized
egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall indefinitely,
and it also delivered severe criticism of the governments
granting the chief rabbinate a total monopoly over con-
version in Israel.
But other headlines put the blame squarely on spoiled
American Jews, who supposedly place their claim to
Israeli sacred places, while for the most part being dis-
connected from Israel. They ridicule Reform Jews for
Letters
Fake news from the charedim
Donald Trump and his acolyte Kellyanne Conway didnt
invent fake news. Charedi rabbis got there before him.
In Charedi rabbi explains why he opposes the Western
Wall deal ( July7), the writer, Andrew Tobin, quotes
Rabbi Nachum Eisensteins claims that Conservative and
Reform Jews threaten the survival of the Jewish people.
These are the fake news claims he makes:
Judaism is the only religion that has always been
the same, the way it was given to us on Mount Sinai.
Fact: Since its inception there have always been more
ways to be Jewish the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes,
Karaites, Samaritans are only a few of the many groups of
Jews who, over the ages, chose different interpretations
of the laws given on Mount Sinai, and the many embel-
lishments of the laws.
Reform and Conservative Jews generally dont pray.
Fact: Like many others, I attend services in my Reform
temple every single week; many Conservative syna-
gogues in New York City are full of dedicated worshipers
every week.
They go to a night club to mix (genders) and find
women who dress inappropriately. Fact: Zipporah
Deborah, Esther, and Ruth, among others mentioned
in the Bible, certainly mixed with the opposite sex, and
in several cases dressed (inappropriately) seductively to
achieve their purpose.
Marrying a non-Jew is prohibited by Jewish law. Fact:
Moses himself married a non-Jewess.
Jews living in Israel dont want intermarriage. Fact:
The island of Cyprus has special programs for the many
making frivolous claims that are inconsistent with their
lack of presence, saying that all they do is have bar and
bat mitzvahs in Israel and send kids on Birthright trips,
while the other, more serious Jews carry the real burden.
Israeli diplomats in North America rejected a talking point
recently handed down to them from Jerusalem by Jona-
than Schechter, a top adviser to the prime minister, which
blames liberal Jews for the Western Wall controversy.
This is shaking the relationship between Israel and the
diaspora.
Our rabbi, Rabbi Zev Reichman of the East Hill Syna-
gogue, reminded us that Rabbi Yisroel Salanter advised
a Jew who was a little too enthusiastic: When you wrap
yourself in a tallis, try not to hit the guy next to you.
This sounds like good advice for many of the devoted
Orthodox, who try to fix the world rather than exam-
ine themselves. With utter shock and great dismay, I
recently watched a video showing Meir Porush a reli-
gious Knesset member who is Israels deputy education
minister, speaking in a derogatory manner during a tele-
vised Knesset speech. The place of the Women of the
Wall is in an out-of-the-way corner, outside the camp,
near the Dung Gate, he said. They should be thrown
to the dogs, he added.
Sadly, I realized how misinformation is designed to
cause deliberate rift in the Jewish world, in order to hide
the fact that the Israeli government is willing to cross lines
in its ongoing political struggle to remain in power. But
such leadership is doomed, as were so many other power-
mongers throughout history, to dig their own pit, undo-
ing the great legacy of many of its members.
Lets just hope that unlike what we read in parashat
Korach a few weeks ago, not too many Jews are brought
down in this debacle.
intermarried Jews and their offspring, who are forced out
of Israel for their weddings.
But perhaps the most egregious comment in the article
is the fake news comment from Interior Minister Aryeh
Deri, who criticized non-Orthodox Jews by saying that
they are trying to destroy everything that we have built
here over the years. Fact: Israel as a modern nation was
built by secular Jews, and it is sustained to this day by the
very Jews so denigrated by the ultra-Orthodox.
Sophie Heymann, Closter
(Ms. Heymann is a former mayor of Closter.)
Charedim abuse power
The charedim did not exist until the Baal Shem Tov
reached his maturity in the last quarter of the 18th cen-
tury. They are newcomers to the world of Jewry. How
they arose to power is a study in itself, but they have hin-
dered the obligation of the state of Israels construction
of a constitution as dictated by the rules of the states
establishment.
Why isnt there a constitution? The charedim do not
recognize the rights of others, only their own. Jews,
according to charedim, are not really Jews! In some
cases, we are not to be tolerated.
The charedims power presently exists because of Isra-
els coalition government. Their votes are needed and
therefore they have power.
At present, Israel is not true a democratic state. It
never be if the charedim are allowed their place in the
affairs of state.
Shel Haas, Fort Lee

The joy of Israel and India, together at last
I
sraels defenders in America should
take great pleasure from the success
of Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modis historic visit to the Jewish
state this week.
Eight months ago, after assisting in
the passage of a United Nations Security
Council resolution that blamed Israel for
the impasse with the Palestin-
ians, then Secretary of State
John Kerry warned Israel that
it faced international isolation
over its West Bank settlement
policy. Apparently, Modi the
leader of a nation of 1.3 bil-
lion people that includes the
worlds largest Muslim minor-
ity wasnt listening.
Though Modis embrace of Ben Cohen
Israel represents an enormous
shift in policy terms, you can
argue that its also the maturation of an
emotional bond between Jews and Indians
that goes back centuries. Only 5,000 Jews
a microscopic percentage of the popula-
tion live in India now, but they have been British Empire.
a consistent presence in that vast country
since the original community, the Bene
Israel, emerged there during the first mil- write to Nehru: May I appeal to you, as
lennium. The last set of immigrants, Jews
from Iraq, began arriving in the 19th cen-
tury, and they set up a flourishing com-
munity. Unlike nearly everywhere else
where Jews have lived, in India they were
never persecuted, never stigmatized, never
exiled, never slaughtered.
India and Israel achieved their indepen-
dence within a year of each other. Indias
alignment with the Soviet bloc kept the
two countries apart for half a century,
but diplomatic relations were enthusiasti-
cally agreed upon a little more than a year
after the USSR crumbled. Both countries
national movements shared
a number of similarities, not
least their support rare in
anti-colonial struggles for
parliamentary democracy
as the model to follow after
independence.
Both movements were
led by men I am thinking
in particular of Chaim Weiz-
mann, Israels first presi-
dent, and Jawaharlal Nehru,
Indias prime minister from
1947 to 1964 who were supremely at ease
by the country-home fireplaces of the Brit-
ish aristocracy, and yet played a decisive
role in drawing down the curtain on the
It was that sense of mutual understand-
ing that led Albert Einstein in 1947 to
the leader of a movement of social and
national enfranchisement, to recognize in
Zionism a similar movement whose real-
ization will add to the peace and progress
of the Orient? Eighty years later, with
Modis visit, the affirmative answer to
Einsteins question finally has arrived.
Those who still cling to the belief that
Israel where the majority of the popu-
lation is of African, Middle Eastern, and
Asian descent is some sort of colonial
implant might want to reflect on Modis
visit. Now is an ideal time to remind these
folks especially the white, privileged from Muslim Pakistan in 1971 in large part
leftists among them that the country
inspiring a host of national liberation
struggles, the country co-founding the
nonaligned movement, now is partnering
with Israel on nothing less than a national
mission to secure clean water and an unin-
terrupted food supply for the rural and
urban masses of India.
For Israel, alignment with India offers
additional security not only in a military
sense, but in terms of shared values had lost, the Pakistanis would have done to
the same phrase that has dominated eleva-
tor-pitch summaries of U.S.-Israel relations
for decades now. But just because its con-
stant repetition can be tiresome doesnt
mean that the statement isnt true. In the
case of India, Israels geographic proxim-
ity, combined with billions of dollars in
trade and a shared ambition to sustain
democratic societies in the face of severe
external threats, creates an immediate
commonality of interests based, in turn,
on the moral desire to remain free.
Yes, Modi is described as authoritarian,
as is Netanyahu, but in India, as in Israel,
visceral critics of the government are pro-
tected by the law, instead of being pushed
Opinion
Indian Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi and Israeli
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
take a jeep ride on
the Olga Beach in
northern Israel.
KOBI GIDEON/GPO
outside it. That is one of many differences
between them and places like Pakistan
and the Palestinian Authority.
Many years ago, before my first visit to
India, I worked for a few months in neigh-
boring Bangladesh a predominantly Mus-
lim country that won its independence
because of Indias humanitarian military
intervention, and which has remained
secular under Indias continued wise influ-
ence. I got to know many fine Muslim and
Hindu journalists while I was there, and I
became proud of being the first Jew they
had ever met. In particular, I remember
one Hindu journalist, who had been a child
when Bangladesh survived the genocidal
war waged by Pakistan, telling me, If we
my people what the Germans did to yours.
I mention that story as another illustra-
tion of the emotional bond I talked about
earlier. In the final analysis and notwith-
standing the disdain of the academic real-
ists ideas, emotions, and shared experi-
ences do matter in international relations.
Hopefully, in the coming months and
years, Israel and India will use these bonds
to flourish together. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish
affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His
work has been published in Commentary,
the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.
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Dvar Torah
Pinchas: What good do we need now?
W
e have just started the Three
Weeks period of mourning for
our national losses. Next Shab-
bat we announce the new month
of Av and include in our prayers that it should
bring upon us tovah, good. What particular
good do we need at this time?
In Chapters 25 and 26 of the parshah, we read of
the commanded census of the Israelites to prepare
for war against the Midianites and the planned
allotment of land in Eretz Yisrael to the tribes
according to lots (bagoral), a democratic process.
In Chapter 27, we hear the voices of the five
daughters of Tzlafchad from the tribe of Menashe
the son of Yosef. They present an orderly, step-
by-step, soft-spoken but persistent petition of
their right to inheritance to Moses, to Elazar
32 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 14, 2017
the new High Priest, and to the heads of the
tribes. They stand in respect vataamodnah
and they come close vatikravnah and they
gently speak in words that Moses and God find
compelling.
God says: Ken bnot tzlafchad dovrot. They
are right. If a man dies and he has no sons to
inherit his land, indeed the inheritance should
go to his daughters.
We should take note: theirs is not a demand, or
a heated invective against someone or something,
but rather a thoughtful, sane, clear presentation
of what is yosher, fair, and tzedek, just. This is the
kind of shakla vtarian, principled give and take,
that Bnei Yisrael should be engaging in all the
time, every day in every way, and it is the tovah we
especially should activate in these Three Weeks.
2017
READERS
CHOICE
It is not surprising that the mitzvah of korban
tamid, the daily sacrifice, is announced after this
incident. We need the regularity of sacrificing
something of ourselves, not sacrificing the other
before God. We need more benevolence, kind-
ness, and darchei noam, ways of pleasantness,
in our public discourse. That is the best way to
revive our personal and communal spirits, espe-
cially as we contemplate how we demeaned one
another and lost our collective power to safe- Rabbi Gerald
guard our Holy Temple and Holy City, Jerusalem. Friedman
When Am Yisrael is hurting, we dont need Rabbi Emeritus,
harsh pronouncements from rabbis or other Temple Beth
leaders to tell us who is in and who is out. We Sholom of
cant afford self-righteousness and finger point- Pasckack Valley,
ing. We need respect for one another and the Park Ridge,
willingness to do one another a tovah, a favor. Conservative
Coming July 28

GETTING ORG.ANIZED BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
Across
1. Jewish philanthropy org. established
in 1939
4. Jewish news org. established in 1917
7. Jewish diplomatic org. established
in 1936
10. Jewish land developing org. estab-
lished in 1901
13. Radio host Brenner whose name
means wolf
14. Freud and Meyerhof, e.g.: Abbr.
15. Hellenistic or Elizabethan
16. Witness, for a chatan
17. O.T. prophet
18. Hint at (what some rabbis say many
Torah verses do)
20. A Gabor, times two
21. She had a huge hit with David
Guettas Titanium
23. One who might clean up
after Shabbat
24. Guevara who visited the Middle East
in 1959 and SNL comic Michael
26. Joker or playoff round Wilfs Viking
played in in 2015
28. Jewish organization essentially found-
ed in 1775
30. European country where a daily min-
yan cannot be found
31. Late night host who often had Elon
Gold on his program
32. Gymnast Comaneci or
Pianist Reisenberg
33. First name behind The Producers
34. W.W. II craft: Abbr.
35. Jewish service organization founded
in 1843
40. Page, in Talmud
43. Samson had a strong one, in mod-
ern slang
44. Jon on Weiners Mad Men, and oth-
ers
48. Jaffa fruits
51. Mashuganas
53. Jewish campus organization founded
in 1923
54. Latke holiday
55. Garca Bernal of Babel and Mozart 52. Stars of Bogdanovichs Paper Moon
in the Jungle
56. Like the Temple, sadly
57. Al Franken is one: Abbr.
58. Har ___ (Jerusalem)
59. The English calendar has one, the
Hebrew one does not
62. Isnt ___ pity? (Gershwin)
64. Stadium call (to an animal sacrificed
in the Temple)
65. ___ Chaim
66. Word before mode often after a meal
67. ___L (Shalom, in text lingo)
68. Jewish civil rights org. established
in 1913
Crossword
69. Jewish ordained org. established
in 1923
70. Jewish teen org. established in 1952
71. Jewish pro-Israel org. established
in 1897
Down
1. Arm of Israel
2. Sarah ___ Parker
3. Was of service (perhaps at a service)
4. Degs. at the Rothenberg Law Firm
5. President in 1948
6. Realm Natalie Portman visits in Thor:
The Dark World
7. It was decriminalized in Israel this year
8. Uncommon namesake abbrs. for Jews
9. Like many Billy Joel tunes
10. Wicked Queen of Israel
11. Cars that sound like a month
12. It has to approve a product before
the OU
19. ___ hanasheh (forbidden nerve)
22. Improvise, like Sacha Baron Cohen
25. Evil Kubrick computer
26. What Casspi is likely to do a lot more
of with the Warriors next year
27. James of The Godfather
28. State of Pico Blvd.
29. ___ Matrix (Rivers in Spaceballs)
31. Bible book after 17-Across
33. Living legend in Jewish music,
for short
36. Cains victim
37. System that operates the iSiddur
38. Shalt preceder
39. Actor who has played the most lead-
ing roles for Spielberg
40. Cry from Krustys (sometime) pal
41. Iconic Jeremy Piven Entourage role
42. Popular Israeli food
45. Parsha between Vayeshev
and Vayigash
46. Its ___ be! (Bashert!)
47. Sheket sound
49. Div. of Lerners Nationals
50. Ross or Monica
51. Actor Martin of Ed Wood and
Rounders
54. What some Jews do on Sukkot or
kangaroos do all the time
56. Locale thats launched more rockets
than NASA
58. Righteous daughter of Zelophehad or
singer Achinoam Nini
60. Yadda, yadda, yadda
61. Mazel tov!, simply
63. Israeli short film nominated for an
Oscar in 2012
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 39.
The Frazzled Housewife
Super powers!
L
ast week I wrote that is for another column.
about superheroes. Since this column is
It got me thinking all about me, and really,
that we, as mere everything is all about me,
mortals, all have powers that the idea for this column
make us special. We all have came to me last week. I
unique traits that make peo- was at a Staten Island Yan-
ple really like us, really hate kees game with husband
us, or just make us who we #1 and sons #1 and 3 #2
are and we dont care about Banji already has left for six more
the ramifications. Ganchrow months in Israel. (Again,
Husband #1, for example, that is for another column
if he were to be a superhero, Why We Send Our Kids to
would be Minyan Man, able to find a Israel When They Decide Never to Come
minyan no matter where he is. No matter Home.) As we entered the stadium, I
what the weather conditions, minyan man heard the boys say, So, if we dont find
comes through for his minions of sons, a Maariv minyan here, we will just stop
setting an example that you can pray three by Passaic on the way home and catch
times a day AND be a lawyer AND watch a minyan.
sporting events AND drink Fanta and eat For those of you who dont know what
Stella Doro Swiss Fudge Cookies. He fights Mari is it is the evening prayer service.
evil with a prayer book and makes the For those of you who dont know me,
world a better place. His cape, which his the fact that they were discussing stop-
mother probably bought for him on sale ping off in Passaic was making my head
at Marshalls, has a giant M on it and his explode. No, no, no, I said (well, pos-
head glistens in the moonlight as he sur- sibly yelled, but tomato, tomato). I will
veys the masses find you a minyan. Now you would think
I feel safer just writing about it. that because husband #1 is Minyan Man,
Of course, his tool is godaven.com (an he would find the people for the minyan.
actual website that has found us minyans But, no, that requires too much effort and
all over the country and on cruises. Hus- Minyan Man, though a superhero, likes
band #1 feels it is the greatest invention things that come easily to him.
since Drakes coffee cakes). His car turns A sense of calm came over me as I sur-
into a giant mechitza, separating men and veyed the crowed. This wasnt going to be
women wherever he goes sort of like easy because there were no telltale signs of
the batmobile, but not really. eligible men. No yarmulkes, no black hats,
What are some other superpowers do no women with head coverings who were
people you know have? Hmm, one of my being followed by several children wearing
favorites is Invisible Woman. Invisible matching outfits and eating bags of potato
Woman is the person who makes you feel sticks. I had my work cut out for me.
invisible because you are there, right in I could stereotypically rule out anyone
front of her, yet she does not acknowledge with a sleeve tattoo or a gold cross. And
your presence because she has made you then I saw it. A group of men and women
invisible. Apparently, you are so thin that sitting together. The women were wear-
she cannot see you! (I apologize to those ing generic jean skirts and I could see that
of you who have heard me use that line some of the men, though wearing baseball
before. As my kids tell me way too often, caps, had fresh haircuts, otherwise known
I am turning into my mother and have a as the three week haircut. I approached
tendency to repeat myself. And repeat them and very quietly said, Are you a
myself, see, I did it again.) Jew? They looked at me and nodded.
On a more positive note, there is also Maariv, seventh inning stretch, behind
Ego Stroking Lady. She makes you third base. And so it began.
feel like you are amazing. With her kind By the seventh inning stretch we had
words, this superhero can make you feel nine men. We were one short. I was
beautiful on a day that you know you not going to Passaic but what was I to
look like crap. She makes you feel accom- do? And then, as if from heaven, a man
plished when you have yet to do anything appeared. A Jewish man (we dont need
on your to-do list, and she leaves you with to go into how we knew this) and then
a smile on your face. We all know people there were 10. And I had found my super-
like this, and some of us even are lucky power. Guess that is why I am married to
enough to be friends with people like Ego Minyan Man
Stroking Lady. May we all use our powers for good and
And then, of course, some of us choose not evil!
to be friends with Invisible Woman. And
then there are people like me, who just Banji Ganchrow will be happy for any of
choose to be friends with anonymous peo- her readers to share their superpowers
ple on Facebook who wouldnt know me with herhappy and curious to know what
in real life if they tripped over me but they are!
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 TONY AWARD-WINNER
EXTENDS THRU AUGUST 6
Online exhibition commemorates ASUPERBLY REALIZED,
Polands prewar Jewish cyclists REMARKABLY POWERFUL
On June 30, the Tour de France
the month-long annual multi- NEW PLAY
national bicycle race began in by Pulitzer Prize winner PAULA VOGEL,
Dusseldorf, Germany. It ends on directed by Tony Award winner REBECCA TAICHMAN.
July 23 in Paris at the Champs- THE NEW YORK TIMES
lyses. Yad Vashem, the world
Holocaust remembrance center,
is marking the race by uploading 100 minutes of
a new online exhibition, A Shat-
tered World: Diary and Memen-
POTENT THEATRICAL MAGIC.

From the Yad Vashem online exhibition

NY1
tos from Bicycle Trips and Tour-
naments that Moshe Cukierman
Participated In. To see it, google
Yad Vashem, Moshe Cukier-
man, and bicycle.
The exhibition a large col-
lection of medals, newspaper
clippings, travel diaries, and
photographs donated to the
Yad Vashem artifacts collec- A Provocative New Play With Music
tion document the impres-
Celebrating Jewish Culture
sive sporting activities of Polish-
born cyclist Moshe Cukierman
and his colleagues before World

AN EXHILARATING
War II. Cukierman and his fel-
low cyclists trained with the Bar
Moshe Cukierman, a member of the Bar
Kochba sports club in Lodz, Poland, beside
RIDE YOULL
Kochba and Maccabi Lodz Jew-
ish sports clubs, and they par-
his bicycle, early 1920s. NEVER FORGET.
DEADLINE
ticipated in competitions throughout the throughout Poland. He participated in
1920s and 1930s. long-distance riding competitions, won
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Obituaries/Jewish World

Selma Cohen
Selma Cohen, ne Popper,
of Mamaroneck, N.Y.,
formerly of Fort Lee, died
at home on June 30. She
was 92.
Born in Brooklyn, she
earned a B.A. from Mont-
clair State College and a
certificate in gerontology
from Yeshiva Universitys
Wurzweiler School of
Social Work. For more
than 23 years she was an
administrator at Bergen
Community College. She
was an active member of
the JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly and volunteered
in many Jewish and civic
organizations.
Ms. Cohen is survived
by her daughter, Ellie
Aronowitz-Witkes of
Teaneck; a son-in-law,
Michael Witkes; a grand-
son, Michael Aronowitz,
and five great-grandchil-
dren, Dovid, Eliyahu,
David Lau, Israels Ashkenazi chief rabbi, talks to children about Kristallnacht at the Or Avner Jewish school in Berlin on November 8, Yehoshua, Rochel, and
2013.  Sean Gallup/Getty Images Binyamin.
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Ben Sales were not recognized by the personal status Another of the rabbis on that list is Baruch Marion Kahn

T
he Israeli chief rabbinate says that
its list of foreign rabbis has been
misconstrued, and that the list does
not imply that those rabbis cannot
be trusted to vouch for the Jewish identities of
their followers.
Last Saturday, JTA reported on a list of some
160 rabbis whose efforts to confirm the Jew-
ish identities of immigrants were rejected by
Israels charedi-dominated chief rabbinate.
In order to get married in Israel, immigrants
must provide the rabbinate proof of their Jew-
ish identity, often in the form of a letter from a
rabbi in their home community.
Rabbis from 24 countries, including the
United States and Canada, are on the list. In
addition to Reform and Conservative rabbis,
the list includes several Orthodox leaders.
Itim, the Israeli organization that obtained the
list, called it a blacklist.
On Tuesday, three days after the list was
released, Moshe Dagan, the rabbinates
director-general, said that the character-
ization of it as a blacklist is misleading. In
a letter to the Orthodox Rabbinical Council
of America, Dagan wrote that the proof-of-
Judaism letters were rejected for a range
of reasons, and that the list questioned the
documentation, not the individual rabbis.
Dagan added that these rejections some-
times were temporary.
The list that was publicized is not a list of
unrecognized/unauthorized rabbis, Dagan
wrote in Hebrew. Rather, he continued, it is
a list of rabbis whose letters about marriage
and conversion division of the chief rabbinate
of Israel for whatever reason.
Even though the list contained only the
rabbis names and did not have any informa-
tion about any documentation, Dagan wrote
in bold type that it is the documents that
were presented which are unrecognized, not
the rabbis.
He added that I am pained by the anguish
caused to the respected rabbis who appear on
the list, and will do everything I can to mini-
mize the damage as much as possible and
to take care that errors of this kind will not
be repeated.
Itims director, Rabbi Seth Farber, who
received the list in an email correspondence
with the chief rabbinate, called Dagans
clarification doublespeak because the
list was of rabbis names, not problems
with documentation.
The letters were signed by rabbis, he said.
If the problem was the documents, why did
the rabbinate send me a list of rabbis names?
If the problem was the documents, why didnt
they just try to clear the documents instead of
writing no, unacceptable.
The list contains the names of rabbis whose
letters the rabbinate rejected during 2016. Of
66 U.S. rabbis included on the list, at least one-
fifth are Orthodox, while almost all of the rest
are Reform or Conservative. Among the Ortho-
dox are Avi Weiss, the liberal Orthodox rabbi
from Riverdale, and Yehoshua Fass, the execu-
tive director of Nefesh BNefesh, a group that
encourages and facilitates American immigra-
tion to Israel.
Goodman, who directs the Chabad House at Raindorf
Rutgers University. The other rabbi from this Marion Kahn Raindorf of
region is Alberto (Baruch) Zeilicovich, who Medford, formerly of Fair
heads a Conservative shul in Fair Lawn, Tem- Lawn, died on June 28. She
ple Beth Sholom. was 86.
In a separate letter sent on Monday, Israeli Ms. Raindorf was born
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Laus office apol- in Offenbach am Main,
ogized to Fass for his inclusion. In the letter Germany, and immigrated
to Fass, Laus senior aide reiterated that Lau to New York in October
did not know of the list before its publication, 1938, where she lived with
and that it does not imply rejection of the rab- her family in Washing-
bis themselves. ton Heights. She and her
[The lists] intention was not to invalidate husband, Ken Raindorf,
rabbis, God forbid, but rather [to invalidate] moved to Fair Lawn in
letters that raised doubts and questions, 1958, and she lived there
wrote Rabbi Rafael Frank, the aide. The letter, for more than 50 years.
also in Hebrew, said Lau very much appreci- Ms. Raindorf worked at
ates Fass work. Panasonic and then at the
The publication of the list comes on the Jewish Standard where
heels of a clash between American Jewish lead- she was an exacting, per-
ers and the chief rabbinate over how to deter- sistent, passionate, and
mine Jewish identity. In June, Israels Cabinet successful credit manager.
advanced a bill that would give the chief rab- She also was active in her
binate authority over all official Jewish conver- communitys theater and
sions within Israel. Following an outcry from in the Jewish community.
Jewish leaders in America, the bill was shelved She is survived by her
for six months. son, David Raindorf of
The chief rabbinates distrust of some Ortho- Edgewater, her daughter,
dox rabbis outside Israel was evident last year, Julie R. Spesaison (and
when it omitted several prominent Orthodox Julies husband Albert) of
figures from a list of rabbis it trusts to confirm Medford, and grandchild-
the authenticity of Jewish conversions. The ren, Benjamin Raindorf,
rabbinate also has rejected the validity of con- Sandi Toben, and Josh
versions performed by prominent Orthodox Spesaison.
rabbis in New York City and Chicago.
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Trump team hits roadblocks
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and their intent is to cease
the payments to the fam-
ily members of those who
have committed murder.
After months of intensive
U.S. efforts, Tillersons
statements suggested that
the Palestinians had back-
tracked on a longstanding
policy, handing the Trump
administration its first
victory on the peace pro- Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck, President Donald Trumps international negotiations adviser, meets with Israeli
cess front. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in March. 
However, only one day
later, the momentum disappeared. The
head of the PA prisoners affairs depart-
ment asserted that Tillersons remarks
were not true and this statement is an
aggression against the Palestinian peo-
ple. An Israeli official also confirmed
that the PA was continuing its controver-
sial payment policy. Next week marks
the six-month anniversary for the cur-
rent administration and the consensus is
that the decades-long IsraeliPalestinian
conflict, which has frustrated both Dem-
ocratic and Republican administrations,
has not been smooth sailing for the Trump
White House.
Elliott Abrams, a former senior official
in the George W. Bush administration
and Tillersons preferred choice for dep-
uty secretary of state, told Jewish Insider,
There is a gap now between the optimism
of the transition period and the very early
days of the administration and the lack of
actual progress. For example, its July and
there has been no meeting yet between
[PM Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Mah-
moud] Abbas.
In addition to Israeli ire with terror pay- his support for the two-state solution or a involvement on this issue. The desig-
ments, the Palestinians have expressed
increasing concern with the Israeli govern-
ments settlement policy since January 20.
As top adviser and presidential son-in-law
Jared Kushner flew into Israel, the Israeli
government broke ground on the first new
Israeli settlement in 25 years. Nabil Abu
Rudeina, Palestinian Authority president
Mahmoud Abbas spokesman, called the
new settlement a grave escalation and
an attempt to foil efforts by the American
administration to revive negotiations.
40 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 14, 2017
Natalie Strom, a White House assistant
press secretary, referred Jewish Insider
to Kushner spokesman Josh Raffel, who
declined multiple interview requests for
this article.
During the campaign, Trump repeat-
edly promised to secure the ultimate
deal between Israelis and Palestinians.
The former real estate mogul insisted
that Kushner was the best possible
Middle East envoy in January. Despite
the deep differences between the two
sides, Trump confidently asserted,
There is no reason theres not peace
between Israel and the Palestinians
none whatsoever.
Given the tension before direct talks
have even begun, Grant Rumley, a
researcher at the Foundations for the
Defense of Democracies, explained that
the Trump team seem to be getting
bogged down in the negotiations about
the negotiations, which is kind of a staple Udi Segall.
of the peace process these days.
In a break from the previous administra- resident scholar at the Arab Gulf Insti-
tion, the president has refused to declare
Palestinian state under any borders. While
Rumley praised the effort by envoy Jason
Greenblatt of Teaneck to reach out to the
Palestinian public, including a visit to the White House and not the State Depart-
Jalazone refugee camp, he underscored
the limitations of the Trump administra-
tions approach.
Ultimately they [the Palestinians] still
want to know that this administration envi- to the region, including his meetings this
sions a two-state solution the way Obama,
Bush, and Clinton did before them, Rum-
ley, the co-author of a new biography on
Abbas, said. I am not sure Abbas knows
how far he can go with this without these
assurances. For any big push to happen,
the Palestinians will want to know it ends
where previous administrations stated the
goal is. Citing the George W. Bush admin-
istrations 2003 Road Map, Rumley clari-
fied that Palestinians were willing to accept
a program with steps such as quashing the
second intifada if there was a clearly stated
endgame of Palestinian independence in
viable borders.
In addition to Trumps unwillingness to
affirm a two-state solution, tensions with
Ramallah escalated after Trumps meeting
with Abbas in Bethlehem. You tricked me
in D.C.! You talked there about your com-
mitment to peace, but the Israelis showed
me your involvement in incitement,
Trump reportedly yelled at the Palestin-
ian leader, leaving Abbas stunned, accord-
ing to Channel 2s veteran correspondent
At the same time, Hussein Ibish, senior
tute, credits the president for his active
nation of Jared Kushner, the Presidents
trusted son-in-law, as the point person
is an indication that this is [led by] the
ment. That means the President put
some amount of his personal and politi-
cal prestige on the line, he said.
However, despite Greenblatts six trips
week in Israel and the West Bank, Ibish is
far more skeptical. There isnt any indica-
tion that they [the Trump administration]
have any new ideas. The
most relevant stuff they
seem to be pursuing
is pretty standard, he
noted. Ibish cited the idea
of working with Arab Gulf
states to sweeten a deal
with Israel, a proposal
made during the Obama
administration that never
succeeded and would still
be extremely challenging
to successfully implement.
While Ibish approved of
the decision not to trans-
fer the U.S. Embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, he
cautioned about excessive
praise for this decision.
Dodging a bullet is not
a reason to have a party,
Ibish said.
Some exper ts were
more optimistic about the
Trump administrations
KOBI GIDEON/GPO approach. Daniel Shapiro,
former U.S. ambassador to
Israel, said, I give them high marks for
demonstrating the Presidents personal
interest and commitment both to Isra-
els security and helping the Palestinians
achieve their aspirations. While many
analysts have cited the considerable dif-
ferences between the Obama and Trump
policies on the issue, including the 2009
call for a settlement freeze, the 2016 U.N.
Security Council resolution (UNSC 2334),
and frequent harsh criticism of Jerusalem
by former Secretary of State John Kerry,
Shapiro offered an alternative viewpoint.
Some of the language is a little bit differ-
ent but I think the overall policy is much
more similar, he said. The commit-
ments demonstrated to Israels security
is also quite similar and important. The
desire to engage Arab states more is also
similar. The insistence on a sustained Pal-
estinian commitment is also very consis-
tent. I actually think there is much more
continuity than change.
Yet this relative optimism appears
somewhat detached from the reality on
the ground. No progress has been made
on any final status issue and direct talks
between Israelis and Palestinians are still
nonexistent, with Abbas and Netanyahu
regularly trading insults. I dont know
anybody who works on this closely and
professionally who has any confidence
that the administration has much of a shot
of doing anything where its predecessors
failed, Ibish said.
This story originally appeared on the Daily
Kickoff morning newsletter at jewishinsider.
com. Reprinted with permission.
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