Jewish Standard, April 1, 2016

REACHING OUT TO NEIGHBORS IN ENGLEWOOD page 6
UPGRADING SEDERS IN CLOSTER page 8

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Israel only country where
men pray more than women
The traditional Jewish teaching
that communal daily prayer is a male
responsibility turns out to be statistically significant. According to a
new study by the Pew Research
Foundation, Israeli men are more
likely to report engaging in daily
prayer than are Israeli women
and Israel is the only country
where men are the daily prayer
champions.
The Pew study draws on data
from more than 2,500 censuses
and surveys taken over
the last few years in 192
countries. It found that
women generally are more
religious than men. An estimated
83.4 percent of women worldwide
identify with a faith group, compared
to 79.9 percent of men, according to
the study released last week and titled
The Gender Gap in Religion Around
the World.
Women in Christian countries
report that they go to weekly religious
services more often than men do, but
the opposite is true in majority Muslim
countries and in Israel. This is due
in large part to religious norms that
prioritize male worship participation in
Muslim and Orthodox Jewish societies,
the study found.
In the 84 countries for which data
were available, on average women
reported praying every day at a rate 8
percentage points higher than men did.
In 43 of these countries, more women
than men pray every day. In all the
other countries except Israel, roughly
equal numbers of men and women
pray every day.
Israel also is an outlier in the gender
gap on the question of whether
respondents considered religion very
important to them personally. In 36 of
84 countries, more women than men
said religion was very important to
them, and in 46 countries roughly equal
proportions of each sex said religion
was very important, the study found.
Only in Israel and Mozambique did
more men than women say religion is
very important to them.
Heres one more reason to fear the
Among Christians around the world,

women are 7 percentage points more
likely than men to attend religious
services weekly. They are also more
likely to consider religion important, 10
percent more likely to pray daily, and
slightly more likely to believe in angels,
heaven, or hell.
Among Muslims around the world,
men are 28 percentage points more
likely than women to attend religious
services weekly, but women are 2
percent more likely to engage in daily
prayer. Among Muslims, women and
men are about equal in their beliefs
about angels, heaven, hell, and the
importance of religion.
In Israel, men say they attend
religious services weekly at a rate 19
percentage points higher than women.
Among American Jews, men say they
attend religious services weekly at a
rate 3 percent higher than women, the
study found.
The Pew study found some other
key differences between Israeli and
American Jews. In America, women
are 8 percentage points more likely
than men to say that religion is very
important to them. In Israel, Jewish
men are 9 percent more likely than
women to make that assertion.
The report did not state which
groups prayers were more likely to be
answered.
Hasgavra
coming rise of the robots.

Less than a day after Microsoft
connected a computer program
designed to use Twitter to learn how
to communicate, the program had
become a raging anti-Semite and
racist, posting such comments as
Hitler was right I hate the jews.
The so-called chatbot TayTweets
was launched by the Seattle-based
software company last week as an
experiment in artificial intelligence,
or AI, and in conversational
understanding. But Microsoft was
forced to pause the account quickly
and delete the vast majority of its
tweets after the chatbot posted
a number of offensive comments,
including several that admired Adolf
Hitler.
Asked if the Holocaust happened,
the chatbot replied: It was made
up, followed by an emoji of
clapping hands.
The robot also tweeted its support
for genocide against Mexicans and

said it hates ns.
Microsoft said it was making some
changes.
The AI chatbot Tay is a machine
learning project, designed for human
engagement, Microsoft said. As
it learns, some of its responses are
inappropriate and indicative of the
types of interactions some people
are having with it. Were making
some adjustments to Tay.
Some AI fans complained that
suspending the bot was unfair.
When an AI chat bot starts
tweeting racist comments they shut
her down, wrote Kelsey Baxter on
Twitter. When a male human does it
we let him run for president.
Tay was restarted this week, and
it promptly got into trouble with
drugs.
Some critics said the incident
raises questions not about machine
intelligence, but about Microsofts.
Did its researchers not know that
there are groups on Twitter devoted
to harassing women? Was it
unaware that some Twitter accounts,
including Jews for Bernie, get antiSemitic replies to their posts?
Developers experienced in
creating chatbots say the programs
have to be designed carefully if they
are not to attract the online bigots
who overwhelmed
Tay. Lists of
unacceptable
words are
necessary if a
chatbot is not to
be offensive but thats only the
beginning.
Yet what could be blamed on a
handful of naturally unintelligent AI
researchers has broader, frightening
implications, New Republic writer
Jeet Heer tweeted.
If we do develop AI, its likely to
get information about world & social
cues from internet. Which means:
Were doomed.
heil!
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Noshes
Appointing Dani Dayan consul general

in NY while Danny Danon is ambassador
to UN is Netanyahus joke on copy
editors.
Josh Nathan-Kazis, a reporter for the Forward. We know hes right
TASTEFUL FILM:
Whats good to eat

in Los Angeles
JONATHAN
GOLD, 60ish, is
the only food
critic ever to win a
Pulitzer prize, and hes
the subject of City of
Gold, a documentary
that opened in limited
release last week. Gold
is an expert on all the
immigrant food offerings of his native Los
Angeles (including
every style of Jewish
deli as well as more
exotic Jewish food, like
Yemeni). The film
follows Gold as he
combs through colorful
neighborhoods in his
pickup truck, looking for
the immigrant restaurant gem that might be
hiding anywhere and
everywhere. His razorsharp wit and interest in
peoples personal
stories turns his food
journalism into something very universal. By
the way, when Gold was
a UCLA freshman, he
briefly worked in the
kitchen of Milky Way, a
kosher restaurant
owned and run by LEAH
ADLER, STEVEN
SPIELBERGs mother.
(Theres no doubt that
this acclaimed documentary will be available
in media outlets other
than theaters in the near
future, so look for it.)
Everything Is
Copy, a documentary about writer/
director NORA EPHRON,
who died in 2012 at 71,
premiered on HBO last

week. The filmmaker is
JACOB BERNSTEIN, 39,
a N.Y. Times writer whose
parents were Ephron and
her ex- husband, famous
journalist CARL BERNSTEIN, 72. Nora had one
other child, MAX BERNSTEIN, 37. Max, who of
course is Jacobs brother,
declined to participate in
the documentary. Jacob
did get a very large
number of his mothers
famous friends and
colleagues to participate.
He even got his father,
who had declined to talk
about his marital infidelity before, to address this
tender subject. (Carls
philandering was the
subject of an Ephron
novel, Heartburn, which
became a MIKE NICHOLS film in 1983. Nichols,
who died last year, was
interviewed by Jacob.)
First a journalist, Ephron
later broke into screenwriting in a big way
(When Harry Met Sally)
and went on to write and
direct hit films like
Sleepless in Seattle and
Julie & Julia. Noras
friends tell very intimate
stories about her but
the films most dramatic
angle is the fact that the
open book Ephron
kept her battle with
leukemia a secret from
all but a very few.
On April 1, Netflix
will begin streaming the first 10
episodes of a comedy
Jonathan Gold
Leah Adler
Nora Ephron
Debra Winger
Gal Gadot
Garry Shandling
called The Ranch.

Ashton Kutcher stars as
a former pro football
player who returns to
Colorado to help run his
familys ranch. Co-stars
include Danny Masterson
as Kutchers brother,
Sam Elliot (a Western
movie/TV show icon), as
his father, and DEBRA
WINGER, 62, as the
brothers mother. Its
possible that Kutcher
and Winger talked about
Israel during filming
breaks. Winger, whose
three children were
raised Jewish, toured
Israel on a teen trip and

visited again in 2008.
Kabbalah Centre devotee
Kutcher has visited Israel
at least three times for
spiritual and business
reasons.
Batman v.
Superman
opened last week
to so/so notices, which is
ominous for a movie that
has to make $800 million
to break even. However,
W magazine had
nothing but praise for
the dress that GAL
GADOT, who played
Wonder Woman in the
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flick, wore to the premiere: Where critical

reception for [the]
blockbuster may be
lukewarm so far, Gadots
red carpet look was
anything but. Its plunging neckline and shimmering fabric prove what
we suspected already
its Wonder Womans
world, were just living in
it.
In my last column, I
gave incomplete info on
the upcoming superhero
roles of GAL GADOT
and EZRA MILLER (The
Flash). Gadot, 30, will
appear in two upcoming Justice League flicks

(2017 and 2019), as well
as a movie called Wonder Woman (2017).
Miller, 23, will appear in
the two Justice League
flicks as well as his own
Flash-starring movie, to
be released in 2018.
I cant add much
to the extensive
coverage of
GARRY SHANDLINGs
death last week, at 66. I
can urge you to watch
the January 16, 2016
episode of Comedian in
Cars Getting Coffee
which was eerily called
Its Great That Garry
Shandling Is Still Alive. I
watched it a couple of
months ago, and I found
the episode funny,
touching, and very
Jewish. I watched it
again the day Shandling
died, and now it is a
remarkably intimate (if
sometimes sad) tribute
to Shandlings life.
Shandling and host
JERRY SEINFELD, 62,
discussed their parallel
careers and visited
many of their old
haunts, like a famous
comedy club. I wont
spoil the Jewish moments by reciting them
here. The series is on
Crackle, which is a free
website. Crackle (and
this episode) can also
be accessed, for free, on
Roku and other streaming devices.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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What if the world looked a little more like this?
Local shuls join other institutions to give burned churchs parishioners worship space
Abigail Klein Leichman
orshipers looked on in
grief and horror as a
three-alarm fire destroyed
the sanctuary of the
146-year-old First Presbyterian Church of
Englewood on the night of March 22, less
than a week before Easter.
The fire was first reported to 911 by a
neighbor whose family belongs to Congregation Ahavath Torah, and it wasnt
long before that synagogues Rabbi Shmuel Goldin started getting calls at home
from congregants urging him to offer
the shuls help, which he did in emails
that were gratefully acknowledged by the
churchs pastors.
Similar offers came flooding in from
Jewish individuals and synagogues in

Englewood and vicinity.
Our church happens to be in an area
with a large concentration of Jewish families it sits inside an eruv, the Rev. Richard Hong, First Presbyterians senior pastor, said. (An eruv is the stringed boundary
that creates a legal fiction that allows Sabbath-observant Jews to carry items within
the demarcated area on Shabbat.)
Even while the church was burning,
a lot of our neighbors said theyd talk to
their rabbis about how to help, he continued. We are so grateful and touched
by this outpouring. Its been absolutely
amazing and our hearts are filled with
gratitude.
The Rev. Hongs friend, Rev. Ann Kansfield, pastor of Greenpoint Reformed
Church in Brooklyn, came to Englewood

as soon as she learned of the fire. Over
the course of the night, it seemed like just
about every rabbi in a 10-mile radius of the
church had offered them space for their
Holy Week services. The instinct was to
help, to show love, to care, she posted on
Facebook the following morning.
The flames that engulfed the sanctuary
melted the largest pipe organ in Bergen
County, reduced wooden pews to ashes,
and shattered Tiffany stained-glass windows. The entire interior must be rebuilt,
and it will be about six weeks until water
and smoke damage can be cleared from
the churchs gym so that services can be
held there.
Easter services were hosted at Bergen
Performing Arts Center in Englewood,
and next Sunday the churchs worshipers

will meet in a school. On April 10, 17, and
24, First Presbyterians 450 members are
invited to use the worship space at Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly, just
north of the border with Englewood.
Our decision to accept offers from
a school and a temple was predicated
on not disrupting lives as we would in a
church, and also this is an opportunity
to make a statement to the world about
what interfaith relations look like, Rev.
Hong said.
Rabbi Jordan Millstein of Temple Sinai,
who also chairs the Intergroup Relations
Committee for the Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, said that he was
horrified to hear about the devastation
We are so grateful and touched by this

outpouring. Its been absolutely amazing
and our hearts are filled with gratitude.
Rev. Richard Hong
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through acts of goodness.
and immediately asked the synagogues

president, Ilana Matteson, for permission to offer the church a temporary
home during Holy Week. The morning
after the fire he finally was able to reach
Rev. Kellie Anderson-Picallo, director of
mission strategy at First Presbyterian.
We had a wonderful meeting on Friday, and I wish I could put into words
how upbeat and positive she was,
Rabbi Millstein said. She told me they
had arrangements for Easter but needed
space after that. Ordinarily on Sundays
there is a lot going on here, but there is
a school vacation coming up in Tenafly,
during which we dont have religious
school, so April 10 and 17 were available.
And the 24th is the second day of Passover; as a Reform congregation we dont
have services then but we also dont
have religious school, so we can house
them that Sunday as well.
Rabbi Millstein noted that relations between Jews and the Presbyterian Church USA have been strained
because of the churchs stance on boycott and divestment from Israel. On a
local level that shouldnt get in the way
of having relationships that people of
faith should have, he said. We feel
privileged to be able to host the members of the First Presbyterian Church
in Englewood. As Jews, we have to be
especially aware and sensitive to people in need, and reach out to them,
because sometimes we are viewed as
insular. I hope this will lead to a deeper
relationship with the church.
Rabbi Fred Elias of the Conservative
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah which
is housed in St. Pauls Episcopal Church
of Englewood was among those who
got in touch with the pastors right away.
We have collaborated with them in
serving the community over the last
several years, feeding and serving the
homeless who for three weeks each year
stay at First Presbyterian through the
Family Promise program and in addition have shared town-wide Thanksgiving commemorations together, Rabbi
Elias said.
On Purim night, 80 Kol HaNeshamah
congregants signed a letter of solidarity and support for First Presbyterian,
which Rabbi Elias hand-delivered to Rev.
Hong. He accepted the senior pastors
invitation to attend the churchs Easter
service at Bergen PAC a few days later.
In an email to his congregants afterward, Rabbi Elias noted being in awe
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their efforts to make him feel welcome.
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In Closter, Hartmans Noam Zion talks about participation, choice, and involvement
JOANNE PALMER
orget about your Maxwell House

haggadahs, with their old-style
approach to the seder, Noam
Zion says.
We live in a Starbucks world.
What does that mean?
Noam, who is a senior research fellow
at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, is going to be scholar-in-residence
at Temple Emanu-El in Closter next weekend. (As an Israeli and a child of the 60s,
I insist on being called just Noam, he said,
in a way that brooked no disagreement.)
He plans to talk about A Night to Remember, the haggadah that he and his son,
Mishael, have created and refined over the
last two decades. (See box.)
The haggadah is to facilitate peoples
customizing their own seders, and to maximize participation, he said. The idea is
that a haggadah is not a preprogrammed
book for you to read. Thats the Maxwell
House model. In the old days, you could
have coffee simply with sugar or without
sugar, with milk or without milk.
With Starbucks, you have many
choices, and every time you can vary what
you choose.
Noams first haggadah, The Family
Participation Haggadah, was published
in 1997. The second one, A Night to
Remember, is the one he will use when
he teaches at Emanu-El; the older one has
just been reissued, with 50 new pages of
stories.
Our haggadah, A Night to Remember,
has the traditional text on one side, and
on the other side there are things to enrich
it, Noam said. They are not commentaries they can be a beautiful poem from an
Israeli poet, or an American Jewish poet.
They can be a song maybe Let My People Go or stories of aliyah, or of people
escaping into freedom. It can be games or
stories.
For example, he said, the section about
the four sons is illustrated by a political
cartoonist. Cartoons can be good for any
age, and because this is by a cartoonist for
Noam Zion
adults, it appeals specifically to adults, to a
more sophisticated understanding.
When he illustrated the plagues, Noam
said, the artist left one of them out. That
was an accident, but it also turned out to
be a good thing, so the kids could figure
out which one.
That artist based the work on other artists, he added. The plague of the cattle is
based on a Georgia OKeefe, for another
animal plague he used an image from
Pablo Picassos Guernica. The art for the
tenth plague is based on Edward Munchs

Scream.
That way, even if youre at the most
boring seder in the world, there will be so
much that you can read on your own.
The point of the haggadah, though, and
of Noams talk at Emanu-El, is to keep the
seder from being boring. Beyond that, it
is to make the seder relevant, meaningful, gripping, enlightening, enriching, and
even fun.
Lets say that you put in 10 hours of
cleaning and cooking of course its much
more than that and five minutes into preparing the actual content of the seder. Id
like to change that to put more time into
the content.
It shouldnt be that I get compliments
on how delicious the food is or how beautiful the table looks, but because the seder
was fun or interesting.
Everyone who comes to one of these
talks gets a seder planner that they can
use to see what they want to try this year,
and what they might want to use next year.
They also can use it to delegate responsibilities. If you are having a psychologist or
a teacher, why dont you delegate the four
sons to them? They can talk about special
education, or about how people have different kinds of intelligences. And the political sections are perfect for discussions on
poverty.
Im not asking people to write their
own haggadahs. Ninety percent of people
couldnt do that. I am asking them to pick
and choose, just as they pick and choose
at Starbucks.
All the additional material in the haggadah is in English, Noam said, and it is
aimed at American culture and sensibilities. He and his son have created a Hebrewlanguage version for Israelis, and another
in Spanish, for South American Jews. One
in Swedish is on its way, and so is one in
Portuguese, for the Jews of Brazil. We had
a long conversation yesterday with someone from the Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe,
he added. They claim to be direct descendants of the Jews of Yemen. He is translating it into Shona, the native language.
Each of these haggadot will reflect both
the text and the culture that surrounds it.
While the haggadah is meant to be relevant to the time and place in which it is
being used, it is not a freeform adaptation of the ancient text. At Hartman, we
spent a year in in-depth study of the haggadah, and of the passages in the Talmud
about it, Noam said. We made sure that
we understood the structure of the haggadah. It was not until they had that understanding, which began in childhood but
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Close to the beginning of the seder, he was struck by
the ossification of the four questions.
The haggadah has the idea of asking questions, but
that notion has become twisted and fossilized in a way
that keeps it from allowing anyone to ask a question.
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This appears in
the Talmud. The
haggadah does not
undermine the
tradition. Instead, it
mines the tradition
for techniques that
we can apply in
our own time.
It was meant to be a way to encourage questions, to
keep the story alive, Noam said, but it became so formalized, so formulaic, that it now allows no variation.
It is now a catechism.
What Jewish child, what human being, would think
it is a question when you tell them what to ask? he
said. It is not asking questions, it is a recitation. It is
a performance, and the proper response to a performance is not to answer but to clap.
There was a very famous Israeli psychologist who
worked with culturally deprived children, and he
would invite some of them to attend his seder, Noam
said. He was Swiss, he was very formal, and he looked
very forbidding. They were all scared.
He would say to them, I have a lot of serous things
to do at the seder. I have a lot of serious things to say. I
cant be bothered with questions. If anybody asks any
questions, I will have to throw candies at you.
This appears in the Talmud, Noam said. The haggadah does not undermine the tradition. Instead, it
mines the tradition for techniques that we can apply
in our own time.
Who: Noam Zion of the Shalom Hartman Institute

in Jerusalem
What: Will be scholar-in-residence
Where: At Temple Emanu-El of Closter, 180 Piermont Road
When: On Shabbat, April 8-9; at 7 on Friday night
his talk will be The Second Seder Plate: Telling
Personal Stories and the Hagaddah. During Shabbat morning services, which begin at 9, he will
address Liberating Your Seder: Dispelling Five
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Rabbi Kahn looks back

TABC dean, about to move to school across the river, reflects on his time in Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON
ts half an hour after classes ended

at the Torah Academy of Bergen
County, and Rabbi Joshua Kahn
feels the building hum with life and
energy. Many of schools 315 students have
remained on campus to take part in one
of the schools four dozen clubs or teams.
It wasnt that way when Rabbi Kahn, the
schools dean of student life and associate
principal of Judaic studies, first joined the
faculty of the boys high school 12 years
ago as a teacher and co-director of student
activities.
Back then, he said, you would have
been trampled when the bell rang and
the students rushed from the school.
Its something Im really proud of, he
said of the change. The field of education has realized that education is not just
about knowledge. Its about much more
than what takes place in the classroom.
Rabbi Kahn is looking back, because he
is leaving TABC to become head of school
at the Yeshiva University High School
for Boys, across the George Washington
Bridge in Washington Heights. TABC was
Rabbi Kahns first job after being ordained
a rabbi at Yeshiva University.
Rabbi Kahn came to the world of education naturally. My grandmother was a
teacher and ultimately an assistant principal in a public school, he said. My
mother has been a second grade teacher
at Yavneh for 30 years.
His wife, Tamar, also is a born educator. Her mother is a librarian at the Ramaz
School in Manhattan, and she is a first
grade teacher and director of admissions
at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey
in River Edge.
Rabbi Kahn lives in Bergenfield, not far
from where he grew up in Teaneck. He
went to the Yavneh Academy in Paramus
for elementary school, and then to Ramaz
School for high school.
In high school, he was recruited to work
at a youth leader in a Teaneck synagogue.
After two years studying in yeshiva in Israel,
he entered Yeshiva College and began to
think seriously about becoming a teacher.
I wanted to educate and hopefully have
a positive impact on adolescents, on the
future of the Jewish people, he said.
After graduating college, he studied and
was ordained by Yeshiva Universitys seminary. He is working on his dissertation at
YUs graduate school of education on adolescents and prayer a matter of importance at yeshivas like TABC and YU, which
require all students to take part in morning
and afternoon prayer services. Hes trying
to isolate the factors that make teens more
likely to connect to the ritual of prayer.
Is a student who has a certain affinity
Rabbi Joshua Kahn, his wife,

Tamar, and their children.
to role models more likely to connect to

tefillah? he said, using the Hebrew term
for prayer.
There are a lot of core issues that are
not unique to Judaism, he added. A lot of
the literature review involves all denominations and religions.
The difficulty of maintaining order during high school services reflects a challenge typical for teenagers, he said. Its
a time theyre trying to break away from
authority. A lot of prayer is about dependence, turning to God to give whatever
to me. If youre a teen, however, I dont
want to ask anyone for anything, I want to
be autonomous.
So how can a high school lead its charges
to pray?
First and foremost, we have a responsibility to make sure that students who want
to positively engage in tefillah can do that,
he said. Its a matter of decorum and
managements. Tefillah should be no different than a class in terms of expectations.
With decorum in place, a positive connection to role models can make a difference. So too can making tefillah part of
the conversation, so students are aware of
what were trying to do, Rabbi Kahn said.
If were expecting decorum, we need to
explain why that is important, rather than
just demanding it.
At TABC, were experimenting with running different types of minyanim. Weve

had a Sephardic minyan that is a very active
kind of davening because a lot is said out
loud. Weve had explanatory minyanim
where we say less but talk more about it.
The flip side is to also manage the tefillah experience so its the appropriate time
for a high school boy. If its too long, its
hard to sit still.
Weve experimented with different
minyan sizes. Weve davened by class and
with the whole school trying to find the
balance of what would allow for a more
personal tefillah, at same time to make
sure that students are feeling the notion
that theres a community involved.
And theres a fundamental problem
with prayer that needs to be addressed.
We live in a time when our students
feel fortunate and blessed, Rabbi Kahn
said. They dont necessarily feel the need
part of tefillah so much.
So the school works to help the students
recognize how meaningful our tefillot
are, to recognize there may be someone
else in the minyan who needs tefillah,
whether because a family member is out
of work or someone is ill.
Rabbi Kahn is not yet talking about
any changes he wants to make at the YU
high school, where he is replacing Rabbi
Michael Taubes of Teaneck. Rabbi Taubes,

who leads Teanecks Congregation Zichron
Mordechai, still will be involved with the
high school, where he will teach Talmud.
Rabbi Kahn is spending time getting to
know the school and its stakeholders.
Looking back at his time at TABC, there
are two moments other than the afterschool hum of activity that Rabbi Kahn
would like to capture. He is proud of starting TABCs disaster relief missions and
wishes he could capture the look on a
students face when he realizes the impact
he made on someones life. Its important
for our high school students to understand
that they theyre powerful and impactful
people. I dont think adolescents realize
that. These chesed trips are a very concentrated and visible way to see how they
transform someones life.
One more picture is a student holding up his diploma at graduation, when I
know how much time the student and I
worked to get him to that point.
Sometimes you have a student who
wasnt confident in his ability. Its sometimes manifest in his behavior. I explain to
him we have standards and accountability
because we believe in him. That graduation
moment encapsulates all of the stakeholders, the parents, the student, the teachers
and I, who got them all to that point.
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At JCC, memoirist to describe how she left
the chasidic world but kept close to her family
Although they were new Americans, both the Deitsches
and the Gurwitzes were what Ms. Deitsch calls Old Vine
Lubavitchers. The movement into which they had been
born is different in some key ways from the movement as
it is today.
All the outreach that people have come to think of as
typical Chabad is fairly new, Ms. Deitsch said. It started in
the 1970s. Thats very different from the Lubavitch I grew up
JOANNE PALMER
any people outside the Jewish world, and

even some people inside it, have a tendency
to think of all chasidim as the same, a vast
mass of undifferentiated black and white.
They also often think of the chasidic world as unchanging,
out of time, eternal.
Neither of those ideas is true.
Chaya Deitsch, who will talk about her new book, Here
and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Faith, at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly (see the box for more
information), grew up Chabad-Lubavitch in New Haven,
Connecticut. She left that world, although unlike many people in similar situations, she did not have to leave her family
to make that break. In her book, she talks about the world of
her childhood as well as her decision to lead a different life.
Born in 1963, the oldest of five daughters, Ms. Deitsch was
the daughter of first-generation Americans with roots in the
Ukraine. Her mothers family had moved east, to Tashkent,
in Uzbekistan, to escape the Nazis, and her fathers father
ran to Siberia before rejoining his family in Samarkand, also
in Uzbekistan. Later, his family also moved to Tashkent.
Both families eventually filtered their way through the DP
system and both ended up in the United States in 1950,
she said.
The Gurwitzes settled in Crown Heights; the Deitsches
soon made their home in Norwalk, and then in New Haven.
My grandfather had a business opportunity, Ms. Deitsch
said. Remember The Graduate, where Dustin Hoffman
was given advice about the field he should enter. That advice
could have come from the Deitsch family. It was in plastics, Ms. Deitsch said.
Her grandfather asked the Lubavitcher rebbe then it
was Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the father-in-law of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the last Lubavitcher rebbe,
who is buried in Queens and often is thought to have been
(or still to be) the Messiah for his blessing. Yes, Rabbi
Lubavitchers at that
time and place were
more open to the
outside world than
they are now.
Chaya Deitsch
Schneersohn said, as long as you fund-raise for the new

boys yeshiva in Crown Heights. He did, so her grandfather
went with the rebbes blessing, Ms. Deitsch said.
Ms. Deitschs parents families had known each other in
Tashkent, and met again in Brooklyn. There, Joseph Deitsch
and Sarah Gurwitz married, and there their first daughter,
Chaya, was born; soon the young family moved to New
Haven.
with. People were new to the country, they were a lot more
relaxed, and outreach was not as much of a priority.
And then in the 70s, it changed profoundly. It was a very
disruptive time.
Ms. Deitsch went to a Lubavitch yeshiva Lubavitch, that
is, in that it was owned and run by Chabad. Its students,
though, were far more mixed. There were a lot of modern Orthodox kids there, and some who were entirely unaffiliated, she said. There were only two Lubavitcher kids,
including me. It was co-ed, and as a lure for the non-chasidic parents, whose children it needed, it offered a highquality secular education.
Lubavitchers at that time and place were more open
to the outside world than they are now (although, as Ms.
Deitsch points out, they always are more open to the world
than other chasidim are).
Growing up in Crown Heights, My mother and her sisters
were voracious readers, Ms. Deitsch said. They went to
the movies. My mother had no restrictions on her reading.
In Connecticut, there were even fewer constraints. I was
a curious kid, and I lived to read, she said. I read Jewish
books about the Baal Shem Tov, and about pogroms, but I
also was an avid read of the Betsy-Tacy books.
We went to the library every week, and we came out
with a stack of books.
They also had a television, and were allowed occasionally
to watch it.
It was the 70s, Ms. Deitsch said again the decade played
as big a part in her story as if it were an actual person and
feminism was in the air. My mother was very interested in
it, she said. She bought some Ms. Magazines, which she
hid under her mattress and I found when I was 12. I read
them from cover to cover until she caught me. That was
not typical reading for a chasidic woman, even then.
Who: Chaya Deitsch, author of Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Faith
What: Will talk about her book as part of the James H.
Grossmann Memorial Jewish Book Month
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E Clinton Ave, Tenafly
When: On Tuesday, April 5, at 11 a.m.
How much: $10 for members; $12 for nonmembers
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My mother made a choice, Ms. Deitsch said. It was
difficult for her. She was very interested in feminism,
but its hard to be chasidic and a feminist in a way that
still allows you to be honest. But her family and being
part of the community were very important to her, and
she made a choice.
When she was in fifth grade, Ms. Deitsch said, I was
like, ohmygod, in 10 years Ill be married. I never had
that vision for myself. I saw myself more like in That
Girl or The Mary Tyler Moore Show, living in a bachelorette pad. My reading continued, and I got into rock
music.
Her real turning point, though, she said, was in high
school. Our principal who had no business in our
high school she was Jewish but a secular Yiddishist,
with no interest in religion whatsoever, and I dont know
how they hired her she said, You will go to Barnard,
and she started AP English for me.
My mother got married at 18, and she didnt go to
college. I probably would have gone to Stern, but Barnard really put me on a different track.
At Barnard, Ms. Deitsch said, she thought that she easily could slip into the large modern Orthodox community, but soon she learned that it was not so easy. It was
a shock to me to learn that people have their own ways
of being Jewish. When you are raised ultra-Orthodox,
you think of it as a ladder. You are at the pinnacle, and
other people drop down, rung by rung. And then you
realize that other people dont actually think of themselves as being on a lower rung. They have their own
distinct Jewish identity.
I just never felt comfortable there. That was an
eye-opener.
Many people I know who have backgrounds similar
to mine do just leave it completely. With this upbringing, it is hard to find another place where you feel comfortable. Im looking for something that connects me to
where I came from but I also have a fear of getting
sucked back in.
Part of what propelled her out of the community was
how gendered everything was, she continued. But it
was also very hard to be a boy. The expectations for
them are high. They dont get a secular education. They
were on the top of the heap and I didnt realize it at
the time, but life was hard for them. And if you were
a boy who wants to read, or live a little bit more of a
relaxed life, it is very hard.
But for me, being shoved behind a curtain was
a big deal. The idea of being silenced, of staying at
home, and my boy cousins always getting preferential
treatment I had enough sense of self to think that
this really sucks.
Ms. Deitsch worked in book publishing for many
years, and she now does marketing for the financial services industry. Im not particularly Jewishly connected,
but I go to my parents for the holidays, she said. I feel
very Jewish, but very secular.
One of her four sisters still is in the Lubavitch world;
the others all have left. The family, though, still is very
close. I give my parents all the credit, Ms. Deitsch said.
It was all on them, and they said, How else were we
going to respond? Your happiness is important to us.
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My commitment to Judaism has grown with my artwork,
she said. They grew in tandem with each other.
Ms. Cohen, whose studio is in Bath, Ohio, started her Jewish study journey in 1996, when her younger son became a
bar mitzvah. Now, she reads Torah and is one of three women
trained to lead the morning minyan at her shul, Beth El Synagogue in Akron.
While much of her work has been Jewishly themed her
artwork was exhibited at the Spertus Institute for Jewish
Learning and Leadership in Chicago, and more locally, she
has created works for Temple Rishon in Wyckoff and Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood Ms. Cohen also has
done work to enhance public spaces and health care facilities.
Most recently, she worked as artist-in-residence at the Adler
Aphasia Center in Maywood. I was so touched, so inspired
not only by the members but by the staff and volunteers, she
said about that experience. I spoke to the board and about
70 members and their families.
Ms. Cohen spent two days at Adler, training volunteers and
guiding them to produce 8-inch mosaic flowers at a workshop
on March 23. There were almost 80 people at the workshop,
she said. It was beyond my expectations. Everybody was
really pleased, and I was the happiest of all. I had chosen the
palette, tiles, shapes and patterns, but every [flower] had a
personality. The members were so excited.
When the artwork is unveiled in June, the center will have a
12 foot by 6 foot donor recognition wall in its lobby. Its theme,
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with one single step, will be
reflected in a curved pathway through a garden.
An award-winning designer who specializes in large-scale
mosaic art and artist-in-residence projects, Ms. Cohen has
worked to reinvent the concept of donor recognition by incorporating fine art mosaics into her designs. One of her goals,
she said, is to create a stunning and vibrant architectural
statement that will inspire donations for successful capital
campaigns.
Fine art, she said, honors the generosity of donors in a special way. The participants who are trained to help build the
mosaic are taking part in hiddur mitzvah beautifying the
mitzvah are honoring the donors in a beautiful way. Not
only does the artwork acknowledge donors generosity, but
the mitzvah becomes elevated, inspiring future donations by
others who will walk into lobbies, sanctuaries, or multipurpose rooms.
While Ms. Cohen, 62, has lived in Bath all her life, except
for the years she spent working toward her design degree at
Carnegie Mellon, today she travels a lot, sharing her art with
people throughout the country. But before that, for the first
15 years after graduation, she worked for companies such as
Sherwin Williams, channeling her design expertise into package design, product design, and corporate identity projects
with a lot of signage and typography.
Twenty years ago, she left that business and started painting pottery. I ended up winning awards and going back to
school for two more years to learn about ceramics. Now, she
has two kilns and a big studio.
The turning point came when someone in Reston, Va.,
said they wanted to do a project for their sons bar mitzvah
From left, Bonnie Cohen helps Adler Aphasia Center members Javed Ispahany of Tenafly and Dolores Donatello of Paramus create a mosaic flower
as volunteer Nola Sher of Pompton Lakes looks on.
Inset: A flower mosaic
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and donate it to the synagogue, Ms. Cohen recalled. The callers, the Hirsch family, had seen her website, bonniecohen.
com, featuring her Judaica projects.
I had never done a large undertaking like that, she said,
adding that at the time, she also was learning to lead services
and engaging more deeply in Jewish studies.
She met with Ms. Hirsch, a member of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, and it just clicked, she said. I
studied her sons Torah portion and came up with sketches
and concepts. She then arranged to serve as artist-in-residence at the synagogue to work with the bar mitzvah boys
class on the project. In addition, she spoke at Friday night services, learning that I could tell stories and actually teach.
A second contact was equally important. After she posted
the project she did in Virginia on her website, Kathy Davis
found me online. Shes vice-president of the Welch Company
and an expert in donor recognition and fundraising campaigns. She asked if I would consider doing a project with her.
That relationship took off Ms. Cohen and Ms. Davis have
been working together ever since.
She coordinates every aspect of the project, Ms. Cohen
said. Shes the reason I have great opportunities to create
artwork for wonderful organizations like Adler all over the
country. Ive been doing this for 20 years, she said.
Ms. Cohens husband, Randy, is also her business manager.
The couple have two married sons, Michael and Adam. As for
the number of projects she and Ms. David have done, Ive
stopped counting.
Ms. Cohen said her father, a super-practical CPA, was the
first person to steer her beyond just painting and drawing.
He said I needed to have a career to support myself with, she
said. The career she developed is wonderful. I had corporate,
typographical, and technical experience, blending well with
Ms. Daviss area of expertise.
I like making connections with people and I love hearing
their stories, she said, noting that wherever she works, she
discusses the upcoming project with everyone involved. She
recently completed a state-funded project at Ohios Belmont
College under the auspices of Percent for Art.
Called Steps for Success, as Ms. Cohen wrote on its website, three intertwined circles represent lifespan care and the
caring hands represent the importance of balancing human
interaction with technical excellenceThe Belmont logo and
the college name, integrated into the mosaic artwork, reinforces the inspiration and energy of students and faculty who
strive to improve and enhance the lives of others.
In choosing her themes, I meet with staff, volunteers,
committees, college professors, etc., trying to get a feel for
the organization and translating that into something meaningful to the organization.
Among her most cherished projects is the one created for
Temple Rishon. Asked to beautify the entryway to its new education wing, The design challenge was to create a design that
would be interesting and fun for the students and still honor
the incredible generosity of the donors in an elegant way, Ms.
Cohen said. Beginning with the quote , As my parents planted
for me , so do I plant for my children, I created a sculptural,
dimensional tree design and the Welch Architectural Signage
company figured out how to beautifully detail the framing and
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synagogue in Akron, using an all-white palette. Its
one of my best works, she said. Theres not a time I
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dont come up and say, I just love that wall. Theres
something very special about the lighting in the room.
It sparkles and glows with feeling.
Her next project, at Beth El Congregation in Yardley, Pa., will focus on the phrase pillar of cloud.
Most times, she said, people want to use the quote
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among you an offering to the Lord, whoever has a
generous heart, let bring the Lords offering. But I try
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Then, of course, there was her project for the Jewish
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This was a collaborative project designed for an
artist-in-residency program sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Israel, she said. The mural involved
workshops with students at the Jewish Day School and
Hebrew High School in Akron. I designed the concept
for the mural called Planting for Peace, incorporating
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LARRY YUDELSON
The Teaneck town council has
approved a proposal that would
place a Holocaust memorial in
Paul A. Volcker Municipal Green,
the park in front of its town hall,
along with a memorial to Africans
enslaved in America.
This marks the conclusion of
three years of discussions with the
town over the memorial. Earlier
proposals would have placed the
memorial in other public parks,
From left, co-chairs Steve Fox and Bruce
and perhaps built a freestanding
Prince and architect Alan M. Hantman of
educational center.
the Teaneck Holocaust Memorial CommitNow, with the space and scope of
tee show a rendering of their proposed
the memorial set, the hard work of
memorial after receiving approval from the
raising money and building it can
town council.
begin.
The township provided for two
Mr. Fox said he hopes to have fundrais35-foot-square areas to be allocated to
ing materials available for the groups Yom
the each memorial, with more space designated for possible future memorials to
Hashoah commemoration at Teaneck
other groups. Overall, the space between
High on May 4. He said the group hopes to
Teaneck Road and the municipal building
break ground on the project next spring.
will become a Garden to Nurture Human
First, it will set up an advisory board.
Understanding.
These will be members of the greater
We will be looking for foundations and
community who may be actual survivors,
organizations who find the concept of a
or second or third generation, or other
Holocaust memorial as well as a memorial
people who feel strongly about what we
for enslaved Africans on the same townare doing and can help in our fundraising
ship green appealing, Steve Fox said. Mr.
effort, he said.
Fox is co-chair of the Teaneck Holocaust
While the memorial will be in Teaneck,
Commemoration Committee subcommitthe committee sees it as serving as a
tee working on the memorial.
regional center for remembering the
A rendering of one possible design for the memorial
Holocaust, and hopes to attract support

from neighboring towns.
We will be offering individuals the
opportunity to memorialize a family member or friend who was killed during the
Shoah on the memorial tablets that will
line the memorial, he said. We will also
be looking into Jewish philanthropic organizations who value Holocaust remembrance and education to work with us.
There is not yet a fundraising target. But
the more money is raised, Mr. Fox said,
the more the committee can advance its
educational mission. We are looking at
this as not just a memorial but as a mini
museum. Were going to have an entire
educational process.
This may take the form of an interactive app that would provide information
beyond that given on the panels planned
for the memorial. The committee also
hopes to arrange with the library to provide an indoor extension of the memorial,
perhaps housing different artifacts or
screens for education purposes.
The group also is considering producing a video featuring interviews with local
Holocaust survivors. Not to do a 90 minute interview like you see in a Spielberg
thing, but to ask each one a few questions
and put them together in one presentation, Mr. Fox said.
On Sunday, May 8 thats Mothers Day the Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly will hold the 35th annual
Rubin Run, featuring a marathon, 10k run, 5k run/walk,
brunch, and a carnival for children.
As it is every year, the Jewish Standard is among the
days lead sponsors as of press time, along with the Kaplen
Foundation, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, and
the Tenafly Suburbanite.
Each year, hundreds of families and runners share in
a celebration that focuses on family and fitness to raise
significant funds for children and adults with special
needs. Last year, this USATF (United States Track and
Field)-authorized run attracted more than 1,500 runners, thousands of community supporters, and more
than 50 sponsors. Altogether, the JCC collected more
than $160,000, which will help it provide programming
and services for a growing population of people with
special challenges.
Each year, the Mothers Day program is offered as a
celebration of family togetherness. With your help we
continue to collect significant donations each year that
allow us to fulfill a core JCC mission to provide meaningful opportunities for people with special needs that
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adults and children with special needs
The Rubin Run focuses on family togetherness.
chief executive officer, Jordan Shenker, said. We pride

ourselves on the vast array of social, vocational, and independent living skills we offer people with special needs
that allow them to be productive, healthy, and engaged
members of our community. The Rubin Run helps make
this possible year after year.

In preparation for the race, participants can attend specialized training under the guidance of professional athletes and experienced JCC fitness staff. Options include
independent training, running clubs for beginners and
seasoned athletes who want to group train, one-on-one
personal training with an experienced running coach, and
a 5K training program for 6-to 13-year olds.
The day also will feature free babysitting, pre-race
stretches, warm-ups, CompuScore race-recording, trophies to the top three male and female winners in each age
category, and a medal for all children under 10 who finish
the race. In honor of Mothers Day, all participating moms
will receive a rose as they cross the finish line.
Individuals or teams interested in participating can register online at www.jccotp.org/rubinrun. Early bird registration is through April 8 and electronic kiosks will be
available for last minute, race-day registration.
To become a sponsor or to donate, call Michal Kleiman
at (201) 408-1412 or email him at mkleiman@jccotp.org.
The Rubin Run is named for the late Leonard Rubin, a
past president and founder of the JCC, who established
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Program and free lunch
for Englewood seniors
Omicron Delta Epsilon chapter

at Touro inducts new members
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center

is hosting a program on Thursday, April
7, as part of the Age-Friendly Englewood Coalition, which works to make
it easier for seniors to age successfully in
place.
The program starts at 10 a.m., in
the hospitals Chiang Auditorium with
Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center Your Hospital for Life. Afterward, Englewood residents, 60+, will fill
out a survey to assess their needs and
their perceptions of what is available in
Englewood.
The program includes lunch. For a
kosher lunch call (201) 410-6645 or email
agefriendlenglewood@gmail.com.
The Age-Friendly Englewood community survey is available online at www.
age-friendlyenglewood.org. In addition
to the program at the hospital, residents
may pick up a paper copy of the survey in the Englewood Public Librarys
reference room. Residents can use the
The Lander College of Arts & Sciences in

Flatbush inducted 50 Touro College students into the annual class of Omicron
Delta Epsilon, the international honor
society in economics.
This is the beginning, rather than
the culmination of your journey, Dr.
Barry Bressler, dean of the undergraduate School of Business at LAS, said in his
remarks to the inductees. We look at this
as an opportunity for you to be elevated,
to elevate your goals, to elevate what you
librarys computers to fill in the survey,

or a paper version, and return it to the
library.
Residents are asked to submit only one
version of the survey, whether online or
on paper.
The coalition to date includes more
than 30 Englewood nonprofit and civic
organizations, communities of faith, and
offices of city government. The mayor,
city council, and city manager also are
involved. Coalition partners are listed on
the website.
The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation awarded a $35,000 six-month
planning grant to the Southeast Senior
Center for Independent Living to spearhead the project. Janet Sharma, who was
CEO of the Volunteer Center of Bergen
County, is the projects coordinator.
For information, go to www.agefriendlyenglewood.org, email agefriendlyenglewood@gmail.com, or call (201)
410-6645.
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Robert C. Garrett
Warren Geller
JFNNJ to honor
hospital presidents/CEOs
At its healthcare gala, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey will honor
Robert C. Garrett, president and CEO of
Hackensack University Health Network,
and Warren Geller, president and CEO of
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
Its set for Tuesday, April 19, at 6:30 p.m.,
at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe.
For information, call Amy, (201) 820-3911,
email her at amyh@jfnnj.org, or go to
www.jfnnj.org/healthcaregala.
Israeli students stage

game show for JHAL residents
As part of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Partnership2gether
program, visiting Israeli students from
Bergen Countys twin city, Nahariya, visited the Jewish Home Assisted Living and
played a game of Israel Jeopardy with
residents before sitting down for an allAmerican lunch.
The students, who study English in
school, talked to the residents in English; some residents know rudimentary
Hebrew and practiced with the students.
Lunch included burgers, frankfurters,
apple pie, and cola. The students also
watched a video from the residents

recent trip to Israel, which was part of
the Jewish Home Familys centennial
celebration.
It was a pleasure hosting the students
from Nahariya, the Jewish Home Family
president and CEO, Carol Silver Elliott,
said. Intergenerational programming
is always meaningful, but the added element of bridging the cultural divide and
discovering common ground, shared
laughter and thoughtful observations is
something that we will all remember.
JWV annual
legislative breakfast
The Department of New Jersey Jewish War
Veterans and Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary will hold its 35th annual legislative
breakfast on Sunday, April 17, at the Clarion Hotel in Toms River. State Senator Jim
Beach, Legislative District 6, will be honored as Legislator of the Year. Chill Out, an
organization that assists homeless veterans, also will be honored. For information,
call Bert Kaye at (732) 240-3706.
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Norpac has opened registration for its
annual mission to Washington, D.C.,
set for Wednesday, May 18. Its goal is
to bring about 1,000 citizen activists to
Washington to advocate for a stronger

U.S.-Israel relationship with members of
Congress. For information, call (201) 7885133 or go to www.norpac.net.
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680 chapters in the United States, Canada,
Australia, the United Kingdom, Mexico,
Puerto Rico, South Africa, Egypt, France,
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The Jewish Community Center

of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah hosts a community seder
on the second night of Passover,
Saturday April 23, at 8:30 p.m.
Rabbi Arthur and Shira Weiner are
the hosts. All are welcome. Reservations are required by April 6. Call
(201) 262-7691 or email office@jccparamus.org.
Temple Emanu-El of Closter offers

services and a communal seder
on April 23. Services begin at 5:30
p.m., and the seder is at 6. For reservations, go to www.templeemanu-el.com/secondnightseder or call
(201) 750-9997.
Temple Emeth in Teaneck offers a

community seder on April 23 at 6
p.m. Reservations are due April 15.
Call (201) 833-1322.
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne

hosts a seder led by Cantor Charles
Romalis on April 23 at 6 p.m. Participants are asked to contribute
a dish for a potluck dinner. For
an additional fee, a kosher dinner is offered in lieu of the potluck
contribution. Reservations are due
April 20. Call Hope Haiman at (973)
305-6870 or email hopehaiman@
yahoo.com.
Temple Beth Rishon of Wyckoff

and Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake join
at Beth Rishon for seder on April
23, led by Cantor emeritus Mark
Biddelman. Havdalah is at 6:15 p.m.,
and the seder is at 6:30. Reservations are due April 14. For information, call (201) 891-4466 or (201)
988-5701.
The Chabad Center of Passaic

County in Wayne hosts seders on
Friday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m., and
Saturday, April 23, at 8:15 p.m. They
will have English and Hebrew readings. For information, go to www.
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Why do we know so much?
hats an easy question to answer. We

know information that our government, and governments around the
world, release.
Should all that information be available to
us? Does it help us fight terror? Or does it get
in the way?
Two weeks ago, we captured a major ISIS
chemical weapons expert. Imagine if we didnt
know that. What would have changed? If his
terrorist buddies didnt know either, then
maybe chemical stockpiles would not have
been moved and we would still have his intelligence to draw from on future raids.
Did we need to know that the last French
bomber suspect was captured alive after being
shot in the leg in a firefight? Again, if that news
hadnt been released, his comrades might not
have scattered and his intel could have led to
additional successful raids.
And the attack on Belgium might not have
happened. It was reported that one of the airport suicide bombers (I will not print his name)
left a note on his laptop saying he committed suicide to avoid being captured. He felt that with
Truth regardless of consequences
recent raids, the police net was closing in on him.

I am tired of turning on the television (yes,
the bad guys watch the same news as we do),
watching relentless reports and learning way
too much intelligence.
But we have to ask ourselves what we are
jeopardizing. Why is all this information being
released? Are we helping future terrorists? We
need discretion, and we need it now. Our country is at war, and war always has imposes limits on information. Sometimes we cooperate to
wait before saying something. Sometimes that
has bad results, but sometimes it saves lives.
We need to deal with this now.
Whatever your political affiliation, you realize we are living in dangerous times, I hope.
The bombs have gotten smaller and more
sophisticated, and its only a matter of time
before such devices contain even more dangerous material.
Hope gets us nowhere. Bombs dont discriminate. Let our intelligence agencies do their jobs,
and if they have to, let them keep what they
know to themselves. Its ok if we dont know
J LJ
everything about the war on terror.
Approaching Pesach
assovers coming!
How odd is that?
All of a sudden Purim is over,
theres baby green all over the
place, willows are weeping, birds are singing, forsythia are bursting, daffodils are bobbing, magnolias are opening and cherry trees
already are shedding, leaving a carpet of pink.
Spring? Sprung!
That means that Passover is on its way. The
full moon of Purim is getting ominously thin.
Orgies of cleaning (if thats what excites you)
and of cooking beckon.
This week, we report on Noam Zions haggadah, and we list many courses offered in a
number of synagogues. All of them offer ways
to bring the haggadah to life. They offer suggestions about how to engage participants
perhaps they wont actually feel as if they
personally were leaving Egypt, given the enormous act of imagination and will that would
demand, but they could feel emotionally
and intellectually connected to our peoples
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Re-enactment is a fascinating thing. We dont
have to go to the lengths that Revolutionary
and Civil War re-enactors go through to enter
their favorite historical periods. We dont have
to sleep in cots, eat oddly cooked period food,
carry muskets, and presumably not bathe
to recreate our history. The chain that links
us back to it is so seamless that spiritual and
intellectual effort can connect us. Even before
we clean our houses, before we buy bushels
of food, tons of sugared desserts, and lovely
mountains of chocolate although certainly
we will do those things too we should think
about what we are doing, and why we are
doing it, Noam Zion suggests.
We can let our imaginations play as we recreate the story of our beginnings, knowing that
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Attacked outside AIPAC

Max Blumenthal loses his cool,
Rabbi Boteach wonders why
wo weeks ago our organi- Washington, was interviewed on

zation, The World Values
the Michael Medved radio show, a
Network, took out a full- caller confronted him. The caller
page ad in the New York
said though he was a Clinton supTimes, calling on presidential can- porter, he never would vote for Hilldidate Hillary Clinton to repudiate
ary because of her relationship with
her relationship with Sid and Max
the Blumenthals. Cory was asked to
Blumenthal.
repudiate and condemn Max Blumenthals disgusting anti-Israel fulThe ad, titled Hillary Clinton Must
Disavow Her Anti-Israel Advisors, minations. Cory demurred, changed
the subject, and criticized BDS the
gave a small sampling of the dozens
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
of highly critical anti-Israel emails
movement against
Hillarys longtime advisor
Israel instead.
Sid Blumenthal sent to her
More than
secretly during her time
any thing, our
as secretary of State. They
ad exposed the
only came to light because
advice Mrs. Clinof the State Departments
ton received from
release of Hillarys emails.
her inner circle on
Sids emails include a
Israel. Its deeply
variety of articles written
troubling that a
by his son Max, a man
potential future
whose mediocrity on the
Rabbi
president of the
Middle East and Israel is
Shmuley
Boteach
United States, who
outmatched only by his
currently is beatmalignant hatred of the
ing all Republican
Jewish state. Maxs articles
candidates in the polls, is receiving
are full of the usual anti-Israel drivel
the public has come to expect of him. guidance from and praising the
work of a man who compares Israel
The ad made a huge impact and
to the Nazis.
has been picked up by publications
Mrs. Clinton has yet to explain
throughout the world, and it was
why she paid Sid Blumenthal when
widely discussed at last weeks AIPAC
policy conference in Washington, D.C. he was sending such brutal anti-Israel
rhetoric and why her emails shower
We received hundreds of emails from
glowing praise on multiple occapeople throughout the country who
were shocked at what the ad revealed. sions of Maxs extreme Israel-hating attacks.
Many of Hillarys closest allies
Max is known for creating the
were challenged immediately about
hashtag #JSIL the Jewish State in
its content.
the Levant a play on the acronym
Last week, when my close friend
Senator Cory Booker of New Jer- ISIL, aka ISIS. In Maxs twisted mind,
sey, who already has publicly com- the democratic State of Israel is on
pared Hillary Clinton to George
par with ISIS. In a taped interview at
Shmuley Boteach of Englewood has written more than 30 books and is the
only rabbi to win the London Times Preacher of the Year competition. He
soon will publish The Israel Warriors Handbook. Follow him on Twitter @
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Penn State, Max demands that the Jewish state be brought to
an end. As he explained it, There should be a choice placed
to the settler-colonial population [Maxs synonym for Jewish
Israelis]: You become indigenized and have to be willing to be
a part of the Arab world. Or else you have to leave. He added:
This choice needs to be placed to the Israeli Jewish population
and it can only be placed to them through external pressure,
the kind of pressure that the BDS movement is exerting.
Even notorious Israel-hater Philip Weiss, editor of the antiIsrael website Mondoweiss, actually took issue with Maxs
words, writing that similar attitudes about indigenous culture
have been used in intolerant ways in our society. I see some
intolerance in that answer. When one of the biggest Israel haters rebukes another anti-Semite for going too far with his loathing of the Jewish state, you can be certain that that individual
bears a pathological hatred of Jews and Israel. And this same
individual is an advisor on the Middle East to a possible future
president of the United States.
Two weeks ago, there was a large and ugly anti-Israel demonstration outside of AIPAC. Suddenly, as I was walking nearby
with my family and staff, Max Blumenthal and a gang of angry
pro-Palestinian agitators with cameras ambushed me. It was
ugly. As he accosted my family and me, waving a cell phone
in my face, Max lost it completely, verbally assaulting me and
my group. Appearing deranged and downright thuggish as he
stood surrounded by loud pro-Palestinian protesters, he hurled
accusations and insults, calling my children psychotic and
slandering my wife by falsely accusing her of shoving him. On
Twitter he wrote: Ill post full video soon. See Shmuleys wife
pushing me and others.
As Max is a bit of a buffoon, it comes as no surprise that he
falsely identified my wife as someone else just as he falsely
claims to have been pushed. His unhinged vitriol toward us was
downright scary. As he continued his demented tirade, he followed me his uncontrollable, unhealthy obsession glaringly
obvious going berserk after being exposed for his rabid antiSemitism and vicious hatred of the Jewish state.
It was extraordinary to see a man who advises a presidential candidate, the son of the man who arguably has been the
Clintons most trusted associate over the last three decades,
reduced to appearing at an anti-Israel rally outside of AIPAC
and attacking a rabbi.
You would think his father would have warned him against
such incompressible public displays, but such is the nature of
extreme hatred. It causes you to act in ways you cant control.
When you match a fanatic personality like Max Blumenthal to
a despicable cause like destroying the Jewish state of Israel, you
get some pretty frightening results.
Maxs anti-Semitic book, Goliath, is poorly researched
debris that Eric Alterman of the Nation said could be in the
Hamas Book of the Month Club. It falsely maligns the State
of Israel and includes chapters such as How to Kill Goyim
and Influence People, The Night of the Broken Glass, The
Concentration Camp, and This Belongs to the White Man.
The book was such trash it was widely ignored, with Sohrab
Ahmari, assistant book editor at the Wall Street Journal, tweeting, We donate hundreds of review copies a week (only review
miniscule % of books); but Goliath doesnt even rise to donation-worthy. In other words, they quite literally threw the book
in the garbage.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Wiesenthal
Center, said that Max conflates the Shoah and Holocaust imagery with phantom Israeli crimes. Goliath earned Max ninth
place on the Wiesenthal Centers 2013 list of worst anti-Semitic
and anti-Israel quotes, in part for having quoted approvingly
characterizations of Israeli soldiers as Judeo-Nazis.
We are now left with the disturbing question of why Hillary
Clinton relies so strongly on anti-Israel advisors, and whether
or not she will take action to distance herself from them. Many
people have written to us asking just that. Its time for Hillary
to publicly and irrevocably distance herself from advisors who
are haters of the worlds only Jewish state.
Anti-Semitism, the college campus,

and liberal education
he recent decisions of the Board of Regents

of anti-Semitism that we thought we had all moved
of the University of California and the New
beyond. Outwardly identified Jewish students, faculty, and administrators are finding themselves more
York State Senate on the growth of anti-Israel
and more exposed to criticism because of the associaand anti-Semitic sentiments on the college
tion of Jewish identity with Israel. Some analysts have
campus are arresting.
suggested that where Israel was once a source of pride
The UC Regents passed a resolution condemning antifor American Jewry, it has become a liability, the very
Semitism on campus, while the NYS Senate voted to cut
exposure to anti-Semitic prejudice that Zionism sought
funding to the City University of New York dramatically
to overcome.
until it adequately responded to allegations of anti-Semitism on its campuses.
I want to offer a different perspective, one driven by
No political actions are without their contexts. The
my dual loyalty as both a committed Jew and Zionist
California resolution was a carefully phrased statement
and as a product of the value system of the American
against anti-Semitism; it did not address the atmosphere
university (and a CUNY alum at that). I am troubled by
of intense anti-Israel protests that cultivate anti-Semitic
the onus that is laid upon American Jewish college students today to stand as representatives of
incidents directly. The Republican-sponsored resolution passed by the New York
the state of Israel. We are asked to provide
State Senate positioned itself in the midst
our college students with all the ammunition that we can so that they can counof a contest between a Democratic governor and a protesting Democratic New York
ter the attacks of the pro-Palestinian
City base over state support for the city,
groups on campus and defend Israel. Not
the perennial issue of New York State polionly is that an uncomfortable and unfair
tics. But these contexts do not mitigate the
position for our students to be in, it also
underlying storm that continues to brew
rubs against the ethos of what the university environment ideally should be. Isnt
on college campuses across the country.
Rabbi Dr.
college supposed to be where we go to
When a student at UCLA is questioned
David J. Fine
explore different ideas, open our minds
about her ability to serve in student government because she is Jewish, or when
up to different views, and learn from each
a kippah-wearing professor at Brooklyn College is pubother? Sending our kids to college with a list of talking
licly called a Zionist pig, we have a serious problem
points with which to defend Israel against relentless
that cannot be forgiven as allowance for freedom of
attacks is not what we are supposed to be paying exorbitant tuition for.
speech. The lines between legitimate anti-Israel protest
While I am in no way suggesting that we not continue
and illegitimate anti-Semitism have been violated. I note
to invest in education on Israel on the college campus
here as well that what makes these developments so
and elsewhere, we also might take heart in recognizdisturbing is that they took place (and these were but
ing that Israels security is not dependent on votes by
two examples among many) in New York and Los Angeles, home to the two largest Jewish communities in our
American university student councils. Just as Israel
country, where our children ought to be able to attend
does not depend on the good will of the United Nations
public universities and feel safe.
General Assembly, neither does it depend on other,
University administrators find themselves in an
smaller scale popularity contests. Notwithstanding the
increasingly difficult position because they cannot
economic threat of the BDS movement, it is important
limit the discourse of debate and criticism of Israel
to maintain perspective. The college campus can take
on campus. What makes the university a university is
on the aura of a mini-universe where the fates of nations
that it provides a sanctuary for intellectual and artisdepend on how their defenders duel in the debating
tic expression. As Jews we celebrate the freedom of
arena, but in reality there is a reason why universities
speech and of the press. We remember how over the
are referred to as ivory towers. In a way, the tenure of
centuries our rabbis were dragged into public disputathe campus tends to reflect a countercultural reaction
tions over supposedly anti-Christian statements in the
to the real world. Just as Israels standing seems to be
Talmud, how our libraries were burned, and how we
at an all-time low on the college campus it has attained
had to self-censor what we wrote and said so as not to
a position of great importance in the presidential election campaign, as each candidate has tried to outdo the
offend the authorities. And we remember how just a
other in Israel credentials. Perhaps the highest profile
century ago we still were denied access to certain professions, and how within living memory American univenue for the candidates was the recent AIPAC conversities employed a quota system to limit the number
ference in Washington. While some may connect the
of Jewish students on campus. The right to add our bodgrowth of anti-Israel rhetoric on campus as evident of
ies and voices to the university is the symbolic ground
growing impatience with the stalled peace process, I
upon which a true modern liberal society is built. For
prefer to understand it as a reflection of the warmth
these reasons we are proud of Israeli society, where the
that the American people in general feel towards Israel.
Israeli government is certainly subjected to more critiWe should work to maintain the college campus as a
cism than anywhere else. And for that reason we react
safe space for discourse and learning. The great experiment of American liberal education is to create a laborawith dismay and sadness when we listen to the nature
tory where ideas can mix and challenge each other in
of discourse on the American college campus today.
an elevated and purer environment than the street. But
There always has been an articulate anti-Israel protest voice on campus, but in recent years it has grown
just as that high ideal needs us to allow for views that
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Opinion
On civility
Which candidates embody
that Jewish value?
mericans are inundated with

information, propaganda, polls
and news covering this election
cycles presidential primary
campaign. There have been candidates
with the right family pedigree (Bush and
Clinton), insurgents (Sanders and Cruz),
tough guys (Christie and Trump), governors
(Walker, OMalley) and more.
Some with great records fizzled early.
Most acted as though this would be the
usual sprint to delegates, not the marathon
no one could have predicted.
As a community, we Jews often ask several questions when it comes to elections.
Will such and such candidate be good for
the Jews? Will they be good on Israel? Will
they help fight global anti-Semitism? Will
they promote the traditional American
values of tolerance and religious pluralism that has made the United States such
a great home for us? Will they confront
Islamic supremacism (often a driver of antiSemitism and actions against Israel and our
community)?
Partisans for each candidate remaining in
the race (full disclosure, Im for Cruz) will
undoubtedly scream their heads off that
their candidate is the best for the Jews, on
Israel, fighting anti-Semitism, American values, and confronting Islamic supremacism.
Some may have an actual point more substantive than the volume of the noise they
can make exit their mouths. But another
question I would like to add to the pantheon
of Jewish election concerns is that of civility. Who enriches the discourse by avoiding
rewriting the historical record and by bringing the gravity of intellectual argument and
facts to the debate?
Judaism itself has a deep tradition of civil
discourse, of arguments between great rabbis, with numerous divergent opinions written, preserved, and taught, down through
The election of 2016 and the

decline of the American empire
he election of 2016 features partisan bickering, a fractured electorate, incivility, and intolerance.
This leads me to the conclusion that the great Democratic experiment,
which now is 240 years old, might not be
burning out, bit certainly it now is in smoldering flames. If we examine some of the issues
below, it will be easy to identify the causes of
this situation.
We are living through a downward spiral
of ethics and values. Life has become cheap,
with bloodshed and extreme cruelty tolerated in our country and throughout the
world. The values, ideals, customs, traditions, and institutions the county was built
upon are in decay. The basic principles, standards, and judgments about what was valuable or important in life, the ideas of what is
right and wrong, good and bad, desirable and
undesirable, are being lost. This is exacerbated by a general decline in morals, promiscuous sexual behavior and nudity on display
in public areas, and widespread gambling
and violence at sporting events.
The working class is falling further behind,
requiring more government hand-outs for
them to survive. At the same time, the rich
are earning massive incomes. They are using
it to purchase homes that are palaces and living lives of upper-class rulers, greatly increasing the wealth disparity. We have developed
a dual-class system of haves and have-nots,
which is becoming unsustainable.
Our enemies are becoming stronger and
emboldened. They are no longer afraid to
attack us on the home front as they obtain
more recruits and grow in military might.
These enemies, who want to impose a
different way of life on us, are planning and

carrying out attacks against our country and
our allies that are chipping away at our ability
to prevent them.
Here, there is an antagonism between the
legislative body and the executive branch.
While each branch has clearly delegated functions, they are designed to work together and
complement each other, not interfere with
each others functioning. This is coupled with
political corruption, which sees our elected
officials using their offices for personal gain
until they are caught and arrested. Machine
politics and gerrymandering allows powerful politicians to control the make-up of what
should be democratically elected bodies.
While we face all of these issues, they were
not written about America in 2016. Rather,
each is a widely established theory for the
fall of Rome in 476. The parallels are as fascinating as they are disconcerting. And I firmly
believe that what we are seeing in this years
presidential election is highlighting many of
these problems.
As is clear to anybody who has turned on
the television or seen videos posted on their
social media feeds, we no longer are a society
that cares about modesty. Nudity and simulated sex acts are the norm in music videos
and on cable television, and are even winked
at on broadcast TV. We also no longer are a
society where shame or embarrassment have
a place, because there is no form of attention
that is considered bad attention. (Sex tapes
can make you famous.) Those of us who grew
up before the 2000s and know the sting of
a parent saying I am ashamed of what you
did understand that this phrase has become
meaningless. We have reached a point that
has sought to engage heckthe generations. These disagreements were not always
lers on the issues.
amicable, but both the fact
Its true that Sanders, who
that they were well sourced
spent time on a kibbutz in
and the way that we have
Israel, may be trying to distance himself a bit from Israel
incorporated them into our
friends of the Jewish state
tradition is demonstrative evidence of civility as a Jewish
are an endangered species
virtue. From the Jewish peron the hard left. It is also true
spective, it is clear that on the
that Cruz is not as identified
Joshua
issue of civility, of raising the
with the neoconservatives to
Sotomayortenure of the discussion, only
Einstein
the same degree as Rubio had
two would-be presidents are
been. But on the should-be
worthy candidates for their parties respecJewish issue of civility, they have this Jews
tive nominations.
approval and they should have yours.
Though their views could not be more
Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is originally
divergent, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders
from Teaneck and has lived in Hoboken
have raised the bar by bringing informed
for nine years. He founded Moishe House
positions to the American table. They have
Hoboken in January 2007, is the chairman
not engaged in mudslinging, mudslinging
of both the Hudson County Republican Club
by proxy, or puffing up their own personal
and the Hudson County Young Republicans,
histories beyond belief. You need only look
is on the board of the Jewish Federation of
at the way they have addressed protestors
Northern New Jersey, and enjoys reading
and hecklers. Sanders has ceded his stage
and science fiction.
to Black Live Matters protestors while Cruz
there is so much intolerance

has resulted in the death of
that people attempt to preshame. Today, our society only
vent others from hearing these
values the number of Facebook
opposing views this is the
likes or YouTube views.
biggest political problem of all.
Statistics that show the growing wealth disparity are stagFinally, we are facing enegering and undeniable. As a
mies worldwide like ISIS and
country, we do nothing about
Iran, who want to destroy us
it. We dont encourage laws to
and replace our enlightened
Daniel
stem the tide of this phenomWestern civilization with Dark
Shlufman
enon, nor do we as a society
Age values. (That is similar to
reward those who actually
what happened in Europe after
do good among them social
the fall of the Roman Empire.)
workers, nurses, and teachers. Our childrens
Yet we behave toward them in a way that
role models are not the first responders or
assumes that they are rational people who
hard-working people who raise families, pay
just have a different philosophy, one that we
taxes, and live upstanding lives. Rather, we
need to understand. Our policies reflect deference to their antagonism that no other genhave glorified those in entertainment and
eration of Americans would tolerate. When
business who make the most noise, engage
Barbary pirates attacked American ships
in the most outrageous behavior, and garner
in the 1800s, crippling our ability to trade,
the most attention. We have reached a point
Thomas Jefferson did not discuss why they
where being famous for the sake of being
were doing it with the pirates. He attacked
famous (reaping the staggering financial
with the full force of our nascent Navy, and
rewards that come along with this for some
quickly put an end to the situation.
reason) is an enviable goal.
We are facing some difficult choices in the
The logjam between Congress and the
presidential race this year. No matter which
president (like between the Senate and the
candidate you support, and no matter who
emperor in Rome) is a failing of our political
ultimately is elected, we all will have to find a
system. When our elected officials play politics and will not even entertain a hearing for
way to reverse the course the United States is
a qualified presidential Supreme Court nomon before it becomes irreversible.
inee, this is a big problem. Similarly, when
We have to find our way back to the values
these senators who complain about this inacthat made this country great, the policies that
tion have developed amnesia about the same
led to economic expansion, and the democracy that was the envy of the world in the last
tactics that they undertook years before to
century.
stop another presidents nominations, that is
The Roman empire lasted for 500 years.
a problem as well. And when a president and
The way we are going, I am not sure if the
the Congress are unable to put aside partisan
American empire will make it to 300.
politics to find a middle ground to serve the
interests of the country at large, whom they
Daniel Shlufman of Tenafly is a member of the
were elected to serve, this is government at
board of the Jewish Federation of Northern
its worst.
New Jersey and one of its Berrie Fellows. He is
When all viewpoints other than your own
an attorney and a mortgage broker.
are not only opposed but also vilified, when
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Anti-Semitism at CUNY must be addressed
nti-Semitism on campuses across

America seems to be growing,
spreading poison and causing a
toxic environment for Jewish students. One recent example in the New York
area has continued this troubling trend. The
City University of New York system, where
high numbers of Jewish students traditionally have enrolled, has recently experienced
many anti-Jewish incidents at four different
campuses, causing fear among students and
faculty and leading the New York State Senate to recommend decreasing funding for the
system.
What is the right response to this frightening trend?
While free speech is sacrosanct, there are
times when the line gets crossed, and one
persons right to free speech impedes anothers basic right to safety. It is not a stretch to
say this is the case at CUNY right now. When

Students for Justice in Palestine condemns
the Zionist administration at CUNY for
hosting Birthright programs, hurls invectives
at Jewish students and faculty, and goes so
far as to call for an Intifada, the time to act
has come. Instead of promoting SJPs right to
voice its opinions, CUNY should act swiftly.
CUNY administrators have condemned
some of the anti-Semitic statements and
assembled external advisors to provide
input, but in my view the response is inadequate. Students who engage in overtly racist behavior should be educated, but sometimes a teachable moment requires discipline
as well, to demonstrate the unacceptability
of prejudice and to create an atmosphere
where minority students can feel comfortable. It would be surprising if overtly racist
as opposed to anti-Semitic comments would
Letters
In support of Trump at AIPAC
It was not Donald Trump who undid the plans to come

together, whatever that may mean, but the new president
of AIPAC, Lillian Pinkus, and her fellow leaders who saw
fit to apologize for remarks made by Trump that were met
by cheers from those thousands present that did not fit
into their definition of permitted speech (Trump undoes
AIPACs plans to come together, March 25).
There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply
hurt last night, and for that we are deeply sorry. We are
deeply disappointed that so many people applauded a sentiment we neither agree with or condone. Just because she is
president does not give her the right to apologize on behalf
of her organization. I find her remarks deeply offensive.
Somehow I dont understand how Trump and those
who dont see Obama as the savior of the U.S., Israel, and
the world affect the bipartisanship of AIPAC. It appears
that there may be a divide between the leadership of
AIPAC, who will seemingly do anything to keep the doors
to the Obama administration open, and those perhaps
more principled who are willing to point out that the
emperors clothes do not exist. Bipartisan means at least
two views. It means that there may be more than one
truth. To lockstep with the views of one segment without
giving a venue to the thoughts of another is not unity.
The vilification, distortions, and harping on the changes
of thoughts of largely one candidate does not bode well for
our political system. The press and media should attempt
to exhibit more journalism and less editorial contents in
the news sections of their respective media.
The Bergen Record carried an opinion piece on Friday,
March 25, from Rabbi Samuel Herzfeld. I will quote his
words. So when Donald Trump addressed the groups
annual policy conference at the Verizon Center on Monday, I was sitting six rows away from the stage. And as
Trump began his speech, I rose from my seat. I spread my
tallit over my shoulders, raised my hands up high, and
declared: This man is wicked. He inspires racists and bigots. He encourages violence. Do not listen to him. With
every cell in my body I felt the obligation to declare his
wickedness to the world. What a light onto the world this
rabbi exhibits.
It seems that there are those in power who are willing to
fight for our right to express any views we want, as long as
be dealt with in the same

way. It is far more likely that
the offending students would
be sanctioned quickly and
aggressively.
Colleges are the ultimate
educators. Beyond the academics and intellectual pursuit of knowledge, universiDr. Alan
ties must educate students
Kadish
to become responsible and
tolerant citizens of the world.
Differences of opinion, attitudes, and perspectives are part of the
natural course of life, but students must
be taught how to address those differences
respectfully and responsibly as they interact with others on campus, in communities, and eventually in the workplace. Many
colleges are composed of a diverse student
they parallel theirs. Hopefully as the campaign for president progresses journalism will return and the editorials
will remain on the editorial and opinion pages.
Howard J. Cohn
New Milford
More Trump love
It amazes me how, just like almost all the other U.S. media,
the Jewish Standard only prints letters bashing Trump. I
would think that a Jewish newspaper would not stand
up for the Establishment which has never treated Jews
well. Everything that Trump says is to change the status
quo....do we Jews really want to go forward as we are now?
Doesnt any Jew out there care that Jewish students in
colleges in many, many states our being treated to blatant
anti-Semitism, just like in the Nazi days? Trump would
crack down on that, he would never allow it. (I know this
because a family member works for him and he is definitely pro-Israel and pro-Jewish.) Our present government, though, stands down and allows this to happen.
Where do you think that is going to lead, if allowed to continue? Our present government is strangely quiet about
freedom of speech when it comes to Jews in American
universities.
Furthermore, Trump has not said to keep all Muslims
out forever, he is just saying until they can be vetted as to
their intentions. Do you know that right now, airplanes are
bringing refugees at night into American airports. Why?
To sneak them in and not check their qualifications? Why?
Is that better than having them vetted first? We have a
wonderful country, the best in the world. Almost all of our
ancestors were immigrants who came here legally. Why
are illegal immigrants allowed in now?
And as far as a wall, give me a break. We are the only
country in the world which does not have protected borders. We would not be the first country to build a wall.
How about the Great Wall of China? The Berlin Wall? The
wall in Israel? If there were no walls in those countries,
there would be no country.
Israel is at risk with the current administration which
has allowed Iran to basically do whatever it wants. What
kind of an administration allowed that to happen? An
administration who does not stand up for Israel and has
betrayed it at every turn.
I, frankly, dont care what Trump says as long as he is
not part of the present establishment and will protect and
body, and for the most part

tolerance of various ethnic
minorities is promoted. And
yet, when it comes to antiSemitism, even in the most
overt cases, the credo of
acceptance applied to other
groups does not seem to be in
effect.
Just as racism and anti-gay
sentiments never would be tolerated, anti-Semitism cannot
be allowed to fester and grow.
College administrators and leaders must act
more aggressively to denounce all forms of
prejudice. Higher education is simply too
important not to get it right.
Dr. Alan Kadish of Teaneck is president of the
Touro College and University system.
defend the Shangri-la we live in, which is these United

States, and not be afraid to stand up to anyone and do
the right thing, which is recognize Israel as country with
a right to exist.
Ruta Lutzer
Saddle River
Loves Trump, hates Clinton
It was only when I was about three-quarters through Rabbi

Kirshners opinion piece (The rhetoric before the storm,
March 25) comparing Donald Trump to Hitler did I start
laughing, when I realized that this was a typical Purimspiel article where one satirically says or writes things that
are opposite of all rational logic for humorous effect. What
finally tipped me off was the rabbis list of Hitler-like qualities that Donald Trump has. It included Mr. Trumps reprehensible desire to build a wall to keep Mexicans out.
Seriously, how un-American to want to have secure borders to keep out illegal immigrants, prevent drug smuggling, and prevent the infiltration of murderous radical
Islamic terrorists.
Rabbi Kirshner thinks that Mr. Trumps advocating for
the murder of innocent family members of terrorists is
a war crime. What Mr. Trump has quite morally said is
that if, for example, pre-9/11 Osama Bin-Laden had been
in his compound with his innocent family members
and the U.S. could have blown up his compound and prevented the deaths of thousands of American men, women,
and children, he would give the order without a second
thought. If the rabbi thinks that is a war crime, then what
he is suggesting is a crime against humanity, and I hope he
can with a good conscience live with of all those dead or
mourning truly innocent American family members who
were victims of radical Islamic terror.
The candidate that is the most demagogic, elitist,
and separatist and is antithetical to the Judeo-Christian (note: not Muslim) morals this country was founded
upon is Hillary Clinton. Hillary and Bill Clinton constantly feel that they are above the law and are the most
remarkable pathological liars. Does anyone seriously
believe that the reason Mrs. Clinton did not use her official State Department email system, even when she was
at a desktop computer in her office, was because it was
inconvenient to carry two mobile devices? How many
more emails with clearly classified information have to
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From Bosnia to Brussels, Europe fumbles

BeN cOHeN
he former Bosnian Serb leader

Radovan Karadzic finally
received a modicum of justice this week, when a United
Nations court in the Hague sentenced him
to 40 years in prison for his monstrous
war crimes.
The 10 charges for which Karadzic was
convicted included his role in the massacre
of 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in
the town of Srebrenica in July 1995. Those
who remember that horrific event will
recall that along with the disgraceful buckpassing that stained the European response
to that genocide, there was a more generalized disbelief that such a vicious war actually was raging on the continent, just 50
years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
Two decades later, Europe again is being
reminded of the illusion of a permanent
peace. In the same week that judgment
was passed on Karadzic for his crimes in
a European war waged in the recent past,
the war of the European present came
once again to Brussels, where Islamic State
terrorists murdered 31 people and injured
presents
though, is the powerful sense of an internascores more in a single hour of atrocities. (I

tional leadership that is adrift. War crimes
say once again because in 2014 the Jewand ethnic cleansing enveloped the Balish museum in the Belgian capital was tarkans for eight years before Tony Blair and
geted by an Islamist gunman, who killed
Bill Clinton took military action against the
four innocents.)
Serbs in Kosovo. The current
There are, of course, major
jihad has lasted much longer,
differences between the Baland the fear that no end is in
kan wars of the 1990s and
sight is compounded by the
the battle now. Hundreds of
knowledge that this enemy
thousands of people repreis more dangerous, more
senting several nationalities
sophisticated, and more
died in the Balkans, whereas
wedded to the hatred of libthe number murdered by
eral freedoms than the Serb
Islamist terrorists in Europe
paramilitaries ever were.
thankfully is far short of that.
Ben Cohen
At least French Prime
During the Wars of the YugoMinister Manuel Valls has
slav Succession, nationaloffered a cogent, if incomist extremists in Serbia were
plete, diagnosis of the nature of the probfighting for lebensraum, and emptying the
lem. Europe, Valls declared in the wake
territories they conquered of the non-Serb
of the Brussels massacre, is enmeshed in
populations; it was a brutal war, but a local
another war, because terrorism, this terone. The Islamists have declared war on
rorism, Islamic State, wants to destroy us,
their enemies in the Middle East and upon
wants to destroy men and women, but it
Western civilization itself. This brutal war
also wants to destroy our way of life. The
is both local, as demonstrated by the conattacks in Paris, like in Brussels, they tartinuing slaughter in Syria, and global, as
get people sitting on cafe terraces, catchthe Brussels attacks tragically remind us.
What both conflicts have in common,
ing airplanes, getting the metro.
Valls also criticized Europes blindness

to how the progression of extremist
ideas, Salafism has penetrated neighborhoods which, through a combination
of drug trafficking and radical Islamism,
perverted ... a part of the youth.
Those youths include the approximately
5,000 Islamic State volunteers who have
traveled to the Middle East, along with up
to 600 terrorists stationed in Europe and
organized in cells with a degree of independence, meaning that they can decide
among themselves when, where, and
how to launch an attack. As the Associated Press pointed out, this network of
agile and semiautonomous cells shows the
reach of the extremist group in Europe
even as it loses ground in Syria and Iraq.
Perhaps because of its fragile position
in the Middle East, Islamic State now has
invested more resources in its war against
neighboring Europe. As one security official explained in the same Associated Press
article, Now the strategy has changed.
Special units have been set up. The training is longer. And the objective appears
to no longer be killing as many people as
possible but rather to have as many terror
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A gathering in Brussels on March 22, the day that 31 people died in terror attacks in that city.
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operations as possible, so the enemy is

forced to spend more money or more in
manpower. Its more about the rhythm of
terror operations now.
The aim of the jihadis is to make those
rhythms as regular as possible, leaving as
little trace as possible. In this way, they
believe, they will create a new normal
for Europe, where fear reigns, social polarization deepens, and law enforcement
is marked by failure. Even if one cell is
busted, there are dozens of others that will
remain operational, thereby enabling every
arrest to be followed by another bombing.

As for the jihadis, their main challenge
is to keep a few steps ahead of the authorities, much as they have done until now.
Some European countries have better
records in combating terror than others,
but the continents porous borders mean
that one states mistakes will rebound on
the states around it. For example, Salah
Abdeslam, who directed the Paris bombings last November and whose arrest by
Belgian police came a few days before the
Brussels attacks, lived in Belgium.
Belgium continues to be a source of

worry for security officials because of
what seem like elementary errors by its
law enforcement authorities. One of the
suicide bombers at the Brussels airport,
Belgian citizen Najim Laachraoui, was discovered to have been involved in the Paris
attacks after his DNA was found on explosives used in the outrages. Since that time,
he operated undetected in Belgium, to the
point where he was able to successfully
carry out a martyrdom operation. And
thats one of several glaring examples.
Still, the temptation to resort to Donald
Trump-style hyperbole in these situations
has to be resisted, because it will lead us
nowhere. One should forget about unfeasible (not to mention morally repugnant)
suggestions, like banning Muslims within
our borders, because right now Europe
cant even cope with whats feasible. For
one thing, the external borders of Turkey,
a NATO member state, are completely
insecure. For another, according to French
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, several thousand people are being monitored by intelligence services, but with
every terror attack, the effectiveness of
that monitoring is going to be treated with
greater skepticism.
If Western leaders want to be creative,
then they have no choice but to tackle the
main source of the problem, which lies in

the civil war in Syria. Though an ostensible enemy of Bashar al-Assads regime,
the dictator and his Iranian and Russian
allies have left Islamic State to its own
devices. And here we get to something that
Frances Valls did not say in his reflections
on Brussels, but that is essential for grasping todays complexity: while radical ideology is a constant source of inspiration for
jihad, the ongoing Syrian war has enabled
it further in operational terms.
But just as in Bosnia 20 years ago, there
is a terrible reluctance to take ownership
of this issue. In the Bosnian case, that was
in part because no country outside the
Balkans was, by Syrian standards, dramatically impacted by the war there. Yet
Syrias war, which has generated internal
human suffering far greater in scale than
even the Balkans, has become a war on
Europes streets as well. Only this time
round, America is not going to organize
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Living Torah
Family, friends remember Temple Emanu-Els Cantor Kurt Silbermann
Silbermann became the shuls cantor.

When the Silbermanns arrived in New
York, Kurt did not speak English. He learned
quickly, though. He also joined a youth
group; many of its members later moved to
Bergen County. That included Sophie Heymann, who retired just over a year ago as
mayor of Closter.
And another one of the groups members was a fellow they nicknamed Kissus,
Mr. Freilich said. Thats because his full
name was Heinz later Henry Kissinger.
It was in Washington Heights that Kurt
JOANNE PALMER
antor Kurt Silbermann, who
died on Saturday at 92, probably would have liked a red
sports car, his son-in-law, Ary
Freilich, said.
But as a clergyman at Temple Emanu-El,
then of Englewood, for more than 30 years,
he often had to preside at funerals, and then
drive, way up in the procession, following
the hearse, to the burial. Then hed have to
park at the cemetery, right in front of the
plot. Everyone would see his car.
So his desire for a red car didnt matter. He would always get a bland car, Mr.
Freilich said. He felt that anything else
would have been inappropriate.
When he retired, in 1988, synagogue
members gave him a going-away present. It
was a maroon Toyota Camry. Not red that
would have been too much of a leap but
not brown either. Part way to red.
That story defines Cantor Silbermann. He
was thoughtful, selfless, and real; that goodness coming from him evoked goodness and
generosity from others. (Who gets a car as a
thank-you gift?)
His story began in Munich on July 14,
1923, where he was born into the equivalent of a modern Orthodox home, the son
of Hermann and Mira Silbermann. His
father, a salesman, was a part-time cantor,
and both Kurt and his older brother, Fred,
sang in the shul choir. Their parents put
Fred on a Kindertransport to England, and
then the three remaining Silbermanns were
able to get visas, get to England, and then
sail across the Atlantic to New York Harbor.
They arrived on August 31, 1939. On September 1, the Nazis invaded Poland, and
World War II officially began.
Just last week, Kurt told me what it was
like to wake up in the morning, that first
morning, and see the Statue of Liberty,
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner said. (Rabbi
Kirshner heads Temple Emanu-El, now in
Closter; although he arrived long after Cantor Silbermann retired, the two men were
close, and Rabbi Kirshner officiated at Cantor Silbermanns funeral on Monday.)
When he saw the statue, he was overcome with tears, Rabbi Kirshner said. He
realized that it meant freedom. He also told
me that he never saw one sunrise without
thanking God for the blessing of coming to
There was not

even one sentence
that he would say
without a smile.
And that smile felt
as if it were not an
external thing, but
warmth and love.
CANTOR ISRAEL SINGER
America.
When they got to New York, the Silbermanns moved to join the German-Jewish
immigrant community in Washington

Heights. They lived the classic immigrant
struggle, Mr. Freilich said. They lived in a
modest apartment. Dad went to work, the
boys went to school. It was a financial struggle, but Kurt had ambitions. He went to college, and got a masters.
The family joined Beth Hillel Synagogue,
led by Rabbi Leo Baerwald. It was very
formal, Mr. Freilich said. Rabbi Baerwald wore morning dress. (Thats morning
dress as in a one-button, two-tailed coat, a
waistcoat, and trousers.) Soon, Hermann
Silbermann met Inge May. According to all

observers, she was the love of his life, and
he was hers. The two were married for 68
years.
Inge came from Munich, just like Kurt,
but she came from a completely assimilated background, Mr. Freilich said. She
quickly realized, however, that as much
as they loved each other, when it came to
being Jewish, she was the one who would
have to change. She decided that he wasnt
going to become more like her, so she would
have to become more like him, he said.
And she did.
They complemented each other. He was
more gentle; she was more assertive. Both
were charming.
When it came time to chose a career,
Kurt Silbermann, choir singer, cantors
son, music lover, decided, quite logically, to become a cantor. He was an
opera fan, Mr. Freilich said. Up until just
about the time he was ready for cantorial
school, no such institution existed, but he
became a member of the first class at the
music school at the Hebrew Union College

in lower Manhattan. Although HUC had
some serious musicians and musicologists,
it was a whole different Jewish world, Mr.
Freilich said. It is one of the leading institutions in American Reform Judaism; Cantor Silbermanns background was Conservative, and his own personal observance
then was strict, as it remained throughout his life. He was somewhat worried
that by moving there, he would be out of
the mainstream, Mr. Freilich continued.
He was very gratified, some years later,
when he was given an honorary doctorate
by JTS. The Jewish Theological Seminary
is the Conservative movements flagship
school. HUC also gave Cantor Silbermann
an honorary doctorate.
Confirming his ties with the Conservative movement, Cantor Silbermann
became active in its Cantorial Assembly; he
became its president, and headed its placement services in the 1960, 70s, and 80s.
Cantor Silbermanns first job was in Norristown, Pennsylvania. During their time
there, they adopted Judy, and created a
family that not only casual observers but
even intimate friends saw as extraordinarily loving. Judy says that she was the
luckiest person in the world, to have been
adopted by two people who created such
a perfect home for her, Mr. Freilich said.
In 1962, the family moved to Englewood.
Among the friends already in Bergen
County were Paul and Inge Wolff, who
lived in Bergenfield. (Mr. Wolff died in
December.) I knew Inge from the other
side, Ms. Wolff, who now lives in Cresskill,
said. And Paul knew Kurt from Munich.
They met again in Washington Heights;
they were not close friends then, but on
Sundays we would all go to the park or to
the beach, and the boys played volleyball
there. Kurt was young, and he was skinny,
and he was one of the boys.
I can still see him running and playing
ball there.
After the Silbermanns moved to Englewood, they convinced the Wolffs, who
had not been happy with the synagogue
in Bergenfield, to join Emanu-El. Then the
families became close and remained close
throughout the rest of their lives.
As Ms. Wolff describes her friend Kurt,
she sets a theme that recurs in every discussion of him. He was always extremely
friendly, she said. Very soft-spoken. He
listened to everybody. And you would
never hear a bad word from Kurt. In all
the time I knew him, I never heard him say

a bad word about anyone. He was a very
gentle person.
She remembers one surprising detail.
When he was in cantorial school, he
needed to make money, so he worked as a
silversmith, she said. She never saw anything that he made, and she never saw him
do anything with his hands, but none of
us had any money, and we all had to make
some money somehow, she said.
During his time at Emanu-El, Cantor
Silbermann worked with the shuls rabbi,
the famous writer, teacher, and public
intellectual Arthur Hertzberg, who died
10 years ago.
Kurt and his entire family were great
friends to our family, Susan Hertzberg
of Haworth, Arthur and Phyllis Hertzbergs younger daughter, said. Kurt and
Inge were always charitable, in the highest sense of the word, and they extended
their personal warmth to everyone around
them.
Our families grew up together Linda
and Susan Hertzberg and Judy Freilich
are all just about the same age and the
three of us grew up together, both in synagogue and in life.
Kurt was always cheerful and always
available, and it came from a place of genuine warmth and humility and acknowledgement of every individual. He had a way of
relating to every person that made them
feel special and admired and encouraged.
Cantor Silbermann always found the
less public part of his job the pastoral
work as important as the public aspect
of it. That made him and Rabbi Hertzberg
great partners. They shared the pastoral
work, and that allowed Rabbi Hertzberg
to travel, speak, and write. Kurt was so
accomplished at pastoral work, and he
was so dedicated to it, that it gave Dad
the space to pursue other interests, Ms.
Hertzberg said. They really had a lovely
relationship, and definitely worked hard to
make each other the best they could be.
Cantor Silbermann was a religious
leader, she added. He was there in
good times and in bad, and he and Inge
supported our family during our difficult times. They were there for the totality of life, not just for the good times. The
admiration of the community was a consequence of their steadfastness, and their
support of those around them.
There was another aspect to the relationship. Cantor Silbermann had an impish
Above, as a child, in
Munich; at right, Inge
and Kurt Silbermann
Above, Kurt and

Inge surrounded
by friends and
family at their
wedding; at right,
with their daughter, Judy, in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Cover Story
Inge and Kurt Silbermann, who were married for 68 years, hold hands; their granddaughters Sarah, left, and Elizabeth share the love.
charm, Ms. Hertzberg said; her father,

too, had an impish streak, a sort of roguish
charm. Although they both were straightlaced in public, in private they would laugh
together. The robing room was the place
for joking, Ms. Hertzberg said.
Emanu-El was ahead of its time in its
move toward egalitarianism, Ms. Hertzberg added. She, her sister, and Judy Silbermann all became bat mitzvah in the
late 1960s. I and my sister were among
the many students who Kurt taught trope
to, she said. He assured every student
that they would be able to master what
they needed for their bar or bat mitzvah. Although girls were not yet able
to read Torah at Emanu-El then, they
read haftarah at Friday night services. I
didnt realize at the time that most Conservative synagogues were confirming
young women instead of allowing them to
become bat mitzvah, she said. What we
were doing was something different.
He did not make us feel as if we were an
afterthought.
Rabbi Kirshners friendship with Cantor
Silbermann went back to his time in rabbinical school, and his family connection
went back even farther. His father, Phillip
Kirshner, who later became a rabbi, first
was a cantor, and Cantor Silbermann, in
his volunteer role as the Cantors Assemblys placement director, developed a
relationship with the men (and yes, at that
time they all were men) with whom he
worked. So when the younger Rabbi Kirshner then still Mr. Kirshner went to JTS,
he always looked out for me, he said.
We met for lunch, he always asked me
how my studies were faring. He couldnt
have been kinder.
But not only did they not overlap at
Emanu-El Cantor Silbermann had been
retired for about 15 years when Rabbi Kirshner arrived there within weeks of my
coming, he and Inge moved to assisted

living.
They were the first people to live there,
at Jewish Home Assisted Living at River
Vale.
Rabbi Kirshner visited often. One
incredibly beautiful thing, he said. I saw
him a few hours before he died, and also
the week before. Then, he was sitting on
the couch holding Inges hand. They were
like lovebirds. She, unfortunately, is suffering from dementia now. He was sitting
there, holding her hand, telling her stories. Loving her. Sixty-eight years later, and
they are lovers who also still are friends.
Cantor Israel Singer replaced Cantor
Silbermann at Emanu-El. They became
good friends.
There was not even one sentence that
he would say without a smile, Cantor
Singer said. And that smile felt as if it were
not an external thing, but warmth and
love. He would officiate at weddings and
at funerals, and it didnt matter if it were
a simcha or a sorrow. He knew that both
were touching the most profound essence
of life. And he did it with so much respect
for the moment and for the person.
The two cantors shared a love for opera.
Often, they and a few others from the shul
would go to the Metropolitan Opera, both
for morning rehearsals and for performances. We were lucky to see some of the
most amazing singers Pavarotti, Placido
Domingo, Cantor Singer said. And Kurt
was so prepared!
He would bring us all sandwiches, and
everyone had his name on his sandwich.
He was so organized! He arranged everything. He always knew who was bringing
the car, and where we were parking. He
was so very organized that he always made
me feel as if my own life was a mess!
They had different musical styles, Cantor Singer said; they came from different
places at different times. We bridged

two generations, he said. He came from
Europe, where it was so strict about the
text and about the song. And I came from
Israel, from the modern world. I was so
much younger. I brought the Israeli thing
we can change things at the last minute,
improvise if someone was talking about
Argentina, I would sing the Kedusha to
Dont Cry For Me, Argentina. Things
like that.
Cantor Silbermann wasnt particularly
fond of such improvisation, but he came
to me many times to tell me how much he
loved the cantorial pieces. We were very
close. Even with the distance between our
two worlds, he touched my heart always.
Cantor Silbermann was very dignified,
Cantor Singer said; that quite possibly
was a result of his German upbringing, he
added. I visited him in Englewood Hospital. He always was so well dressed. He was
going to leave, and he didnt want to leave
in inappropriate clothes. Even at the end
of his life, he was going to be appropriate.
Cantor Singer went to the nurse and
arranged the clothing, he said. And then
Cantor Silbermann behaved again in the
way that was most true to himself. He
was so appreciative, Cantor Singer said.
He never took anything for granted. He
appreciated everything.
Ary Freilich summed up his
father-in-law.
He was always warm, he said. He was
always smiling. But that was never shallow.
It was set in a context in which actions and
good conduct and proper treatment of
others, empathy, respect, decency they
all mattered.
I am struggling for the right thing to say
because Kurt would say to me that people
will see to all the good things you do, they
will listen to all the nice things you say,
and they will forget them, but if you say
something wrong, they will remember

it forever. If you wrong them, they will
remember it forever.
He said that it is a challenge to converse
with people and deal with them in such a
way that you dont make a mistake, and
say something unintentionally that would
be hurtful. He worked at that.
He took it as a life goal to be able to
relate to many people intimately, and not
to damage that relationship by carelessness of the tongue.
His job had three parts music, pastoral work, and education. And then there
was family, and the Cantorial Assembly. He
combined them all, and in each part of his
life, people said that he conducted himself
in a flawless manner.
Flawless is a word that gets thrown
around a lot. I wont say that Kurt was flawless, but I never heard him say a bad word
about anyone, and I never heard anyone
say a bad word about Kurt.
He was a happy person. He was
not cynical and he was not foolish. He
accepted the negative aspects of life, and
he was determined to live his life in a positive, hopeful, friendly decent manner. He
was determined to have a positive impact
on those around him.
Rabbi William Lebeau, a former dean
of the Jewish Theological Seminary, was
the second High Holy Day rabbi at Temple Emanu-El for many years, so he knew
Cantor Silbermann well. He co-officiated
at his funeral with Rabbi Kirshner, and
Ary Freilich quoted his description of
Kurt Silbermann.
He lived Torah, Rabbi Lebeau said.
Cantor Kurt Silbermann is survived
by his wife, Inge May Silbermann, their
daughter, Judy Freilich, their son-in-law,
Ary Freilich, their granddaughters, Elizabeth Freilich and Sarah Benedek, and their
grandson-in-law, David Benedek.
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Nosanchuk or Klein.
Matt always took my calls, returned
my calls, he listened to my concerns and
responded respectfully, obviously supporting Obama, thats his job, Klein said.
Obama was lucky to have him.
Nosanchuks key to lasting longer than
his predecessors?
It was his preternatural ability to listen
without judgment, according to Rabbi
Levi Shemtov, who directs American
Friends of Lubavitch, Chabads office
here. Matts biggest strength might just
be his ability to listen to opinions beyond
his own or that of the administration and
appreciate their merits, Shemtov said.
Thats probably why he was so widely
respected during his tenure.
Its a skill that guided Nosanchuk,
50, who lives in the Maryland suburbs
of Washington, D.C., through some of
the most fraught years of a fraught relationship among the Obama administration, the Israeli government, and some
organized Jewish groups. He took flak
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON You get to listen to
Jews yelling at you. You get to listen to
mandarins tell you why they wont listen to Jews. You get to emcee a cappella
competitions.
Who wouldnt want to be White House
Jewish liaison?
Matt Nosanchuk lasted nearly three
years in a post officially titled associate director of public engagement that
may be the apotheosis of thanklessness.
He stepped down last week.
Notably, Nosanchuk wound it up with
plenty of thanks from some of those who
made clear their antipathy to the administration he represented.
One email said: Matt. Best of luck. You
were always gracious and a wonderful listener. Obama is fortunate to have you.
That was from Morton Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America and one of the Obama administrations most lacerating critics.
Klein confirmed he sent the missive,
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Nosanchuk led outreach to the Jewish community during the talks over the
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the 2013-14 U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which collapsed in recriminations among all sides.
Throughout, he maintained friendly relationships with the antagonists in those battles, testified by rare on-the-record praise
from AIPAC and Ron Dermer, the Israeli

ambassador to Washington. The embassy
enjoyed working with Matt, who also
attended many of our events, and I wish
him much success in the future, Dermer
wrote in an email.
We are grateful to Matt for his strong
efforts to build the relationship between
the administration and the pro-Israel community, said Marshall Wittmann, AIPACs
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Nosanchuk would make a beeline
for his adversaries, hoping to win them
over. At a recent conference of the
Israeli-American Council, he sat at the
same table as Sheldon Adelson who is
the councils funder and a Republican
kingmaker and made pleasant small
talk. Adelson, a casino magnate, had
gone to great lengths to stop President
Barack Obamas reelection in 2012.
In a biographical sketch he sent
friends as he readied to leave, Nosanchuk listed near the top: keeping lines
of communication open with those in
the community who are critical of
Obama. (Toward the end, he also lists
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operandi was
to frame
contentious
issues in
familiar, even
homey settings.
Nosanchuk, who is gay and a member of the Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in suburban Washington, came to the job experienced in
negotiating change in less than amenable environments. As a Justice Department official, he advocated for LGBT
rights in the first Obama term, which
evolved from agnosticism on same-sex
marriage to full-throated support of
marriage equality.
When you are at the White House,
it is very easy to shut the door and say
we will not meet with people who do
not agree with us, said William Daroff,
the Washington director of the Jewish
Federations of North America. The
White House under Matt never shut the
door. He made sure the Iran deal was in
a silo, so those who disagreed on Iran
could work with the administration on
99 other issues. His personality and
relationships were such that that open
door was always there.
The JFNA did not take a position on
the Iran deal, but many of its constituent agencies were opposed.
Nosanchuks modus operandi was
to frame contentious issues in familiar, even homey settings. At the height
of the Iran debate a year ago, Nosanchuk organized Obamas speech at
Adas Israel, a Washington synagogue.
He also set up the presidents online
address to the Jewish community during the Iran debate through the JFNA.
In 2013, for the first time, a sukkah was

in place for the vice presidents annual
Jewish community reception.
A signal of the post-Iran deal reconciliation between Obama and Netanyahu and Dermer, Netanyahus
right-hand man was the presidents
Holocaust memorial address at the
Israeli embassy in January, also brokered by Nosanchuk.
Nosanchuks last week was a busy
one. In addition to organizing a Purim
megillah reading for administration
officials at the White Houses diplomatic reception room, he shepherded
Vice President Joe Bidens well-received
March 20 valedictory speech to AIPACs
annual policy conference.
The next day, a speech that Deputy
Secretary of State Tony Blinken delivered to AIPACs luncheon for rabbis
and cantors drew less attention. Nosanchuk had a prominent hand writing the
speech, which featured an almost seamless meld of Yiddishkeit and the typical
strong Obama administration defense
of its policies as being pro-Israel.
Blinken opened by joking about his
bar mitzvah I cant shake this feeling I have that I forgot to practice something and closed with references to
the Jewish tradition of going out for Chinese food and a movie on Christmas. In
between, Blinken argued that the Iran
deal was producing results that limit
Irans threat in the region, and listed
the ways in which the Obama administration has maintained a robust security relationship with Israel.
Nosanchuk was adept, too, at that
most dreaded of White House traditions among Jewish liaisons: organizing
the annual Chanukah party. Drawing
up the invitation list and fielding the
anguished calls from the uninvited is
a protocol challenge of the first order.
In fact, in the canned quote the White
House media operation allowed him
to release to JTA, Nosanchuk seems
to take pride in the fact that under his
watch, an extra Chanukah party was
added to handle the throngs each year.
President Obama speaks often about
the values that he and his entire administration share with the Jewish community, as well as his deep connections
to the community, Nosanchuk said
in the statement. Over the past three
years or, as anyone holding this role
measures it, six White House Chanukah
receptions I have had the chance to
work with incredible colleagues here
at the White House and throughout the
administration, and with many individuals and organizations in the Jewish
community, to put those values into
action.
Nosanchuk will be staying on in the
government in a position that has yet
to be announced. His successor has not
been named publicly.
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JERUSALEM Without warning, the
ritual bath attendant pulled off Naava
Shafners towel.
She found herself standing, naked,
in front of a woman she didnt know.
Then the attendant began interrogating her.
Shafner had gone to a ritual bath,
or mikvah, regularly since she married in 2010. Under Jewish law, Orthodox women are required to immerse
in the mikvah following menstruation
and before resuming sexual relations.
Women must be fully naked when
immersing. They cannot even wear
jewelry. To ensure that women comply, female attendants supervise all of
Israels government-funded mikvahs.
During the 2013 encounter, which
occurred in the central city of Beit
Shemesh, the attendant demanded
that Shafner take off an irremovable
earring. After stripping off Shafners
towel, the attendant called a local rabbi
and initially demanded that Shafner go
home without immersing. After 15 minutes of arguing, Shafner was allowed to
immerse.
It wasnt the first time that Shafner
had been mistreated by a mikvah attendant. Attendants had touched her without asking, invasively examined her
body, and forcibly scrubbed her nails.
As a survivor of sexual abuse, she found
the incidents particularly traumatizing.
Theres a woman completely vulnerable, completely naked, having to
argue to fulfill her religious commandment, Shafner said. Standing for my
rights while completely vulnerable is
difficult and jarring. It takes away the
entire beauty of the commandment.
Shafner is one of many women who
have complained of mistreatment in
Israels public mikvahs, alleging disrespectful treatment, verbal abuse,
and unwanted physical contact from

attendants. Women who spoke to JTA
recalled being made to immerse up to
20 times in a row, or prevented from
immersing altogether.
Mistreatment at mikvahs in Israel
has entered the public discussion this
month over a bill that would solidify
control of the countrys public mikvahs by the charedi Orthodox chief
rabbinate.
The measure, which would bar nonOrthodox conversions at public mikvahs and require attendants to obey
Jewish law as determined by the chief
rabbinate, is sponsored by the Orthodox parties and has passed an initial
vote in the Knesset. It seeks to override
a Supreme Court decision from February mandating that public mikvahs
be made available for non-Orthodox
conversions.
Israels attorney general opined this
week that the bill violates civil rights
laws, making passage in its current
form unlikely.
But activists and many women
remain concerned that their mistreatment comes from overzealous mikvah
attendants who work in poor conditions with little pay and are beholden
to an aloof, male-dominated religious
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say, has created a culture in which the
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Court last month by Itim, a group that
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have a bill of rights posted in every
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One sticking point is whether women even need an

attendant to supervise the immersion.
The Torah says women are trustworthy on the subject
of purity, said Idit Bartov, a scholar of Jewish law and
Itims authority on mikvahs.
Bartov compared the issue to keeping kosher. Do we
check if a man ate steak before he orders coffee in a restaurant? she asked. We all give an account to God. Thats
who Im scared of.
Orthodox women follow a range of Jewish legal opinions at the mikvah, including immersing alone or with a
friend. Israels chief Ashkenazi rabbi, David Lau, says an
attendant must be present to ensure compliance. But in an

open letter he issued last week, Lau wrote that attendants
should offer their help while honoring womens wishes if
they decline assistance.
Two years ago, Israels Religious Services Ministry
released guidelines prohibiting attendants from asking
women unwanted intrusive questions and requiring them
to respect the physical privacy of women who immerse.
The guidelines emphasized that the mikvahs exist as a
public service and that the women themselves, not the
attendants, should determine whether the immersion was
kosher.
But the guidelines have met resistance from those
meant to enforce them. Rabbi Menachem Blumenthal,
who manages Jerusalems 40 mikvahs, rejected the idea
that a woman could immerse unsupervised. Blumenthal said immersing contrary to the chief rabbinates
guidelines is akin to performing a non-Jewish ritual.
There is one Jewish law, and the party in Israel
responsible for Jewish law is the chief rabbinate of
Israel, he said. I have no problem with giving mikvahs to Reform Jews and to Muslims and Christians
and Sunnis and Alawis, but here in Israel the Jewish
religion is set by the chief rabbinate.
Blumenthal condemned physical or verbal abuse
by attendants, and said he has received one or two
complaints of such conduct each month. When he
receives a complaint, he said, he or a deputy supervisor addresses them in a personal conversation with
an attendant. Only four such cases have reached his
desk in the past two years, Blumenthal said, and hes
never fired an attendant due to a complaint.
But though women blame attendants for mistreatment, activists say the mikvah employees also are victims. Attendants sometimes work at night, illegally, for
below Israels minimum wage of approximately $6.50
an hour. Nechama Shulman, a Tel Aviv mikvah attendant, said that she makes about $4 an hour. Attendants
are responsible for all aspects of the mikvahs upkeep,
from cleaning the facility to answering the phone to
supervising the women who immerse. An interministerial committee was formed six months ago to ensure
that attendants receive fair pay.
Shulman said the attendants often are poor and
fear losing their jobs if they let a woman break Jewish
law. She added that attendants are largely older charedi women, while the women who immerse often
are younger and less religious.
They take women who are often simple, uneducated, lower-class as attendants, Shulman said.
Theyre scared of their own shadow, scared theyll
get fired if [rabbis] find out they let a woman do
something wrong.
Tensions between attendants and mikvah users
often flare when women come to immerse before
visiting the Temple Mount, a halachic requirement.
Some attendants have stopped unmarried women
from immersing, citing a commonly held Jewish
legal opinion on the unmarried at the mikvah. Others have barred women from immersing based on
the opinion that Jewish law forbids setting foot on
the Temple Mount.
To sidestep attendants, unmarried women will try
to disguise themselves as married, wearing a ring
and a headscarf, according to Rivka Shimon, a member of Women for the Temple Mount, which encourages women to visit the site. Others immerse alone in
one of the springs surrounding Jerusalem.
It was degrading, said Bitya Cohen, who was
prevented from visiting the Temple Mount last year
after an attendant argued with her for a half hour
and stopped her from immersing. A lot of women
walked past and saw me arguing with the attendant.
Who has the authority to say whats permitted and
whats forbidden?
Some activists have considered avoiding conflict
by setting up private mikvahs, independent of the
chief rabbinate. But they worry the cost will be prohibitive and object on principle to having to pay for
something that according to Israeli law is a public
service.
The attendants place is to say, How do you
want your service? said Keren Hadad Taub, who
founded Advot, a group of women pushing mikvah reform. Immersion is the responsibility of the
woman alone. Its not a question of Jewish law. Its a
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TEL AVIV It began as an all-too-common story: A Palestinian assailant in
the contested West Bank city of Hebron
stabs and wounds an Israeli soldier.
Israeli forces shoot him dead.
But hours after the incident last Thursday, a political and moral firestorm
engulfed Israel. A video showed a soldier executing the already incapacitated
attacker. One day later, after condemnation from the highest reaches of Israels
government, a second video seemed to
show that the attacker still might have
posed a threat. In response, the IDF
released results of an investigation indicating that the soldier was at fault. Then
came a third video, showing the soldier
shaking hands with a far-right activist
after the incident.
The dueling views of the clash are the
latest installments in a running debate
over how far Israeli soldiers should go in
responding to the ongoing wave of Palestinian knife attacks. The incident has
raised questions about the Israel Defense
Forces rules of engagement, how the
army should treat soldiers who break
protocol, and the limits of criticism of
the IDF within Israeli society.
Heres what happened, how it has
played out, and what it says about
Israels response to the terror wave.

A video showed an Israeli soldier killing an already incapacitated attacker.
On the morning of Thursday, March 24,
two Palestinian men armed with knives
attacked an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint
in Hebron, lightly wounding him. Nearby
soldiers shot the two men dead.
But a video taken by the Israeli human
rights group BTselem shows that one of
the attackers was killed after the attack,
while he was lying on the ground. In the
video, an Israeli soldier approaches the
scene, cocks his gun, aims, and shoots
the man as an ambulance passes by.
After the shot, blood flows from the Palestinians head onto the pavement.
The IDF arrested the soldier, and
senior Israeli officials criticized his
response. On Friday, the army charged
the soldier with murder.
What happened today in Hebron
does not represent the values of the
IDF, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The IDF expects its soldiers
to behave level-headedly and in accordance with the rules of engagement.
Right-wing Israelis are defending the
soldier. They say the attacker still may
have posed a threat.
Backlash soon followed the criticism.
Four-fifths of posts about the shooting on Israeli social media support the
soldier, according to Buzzilla, a social media

analytics startup. And a video of the attack
released one day later seemed to corroborate the claim that the attacker still could
have been dangerous: Paramedics urge
people to stay away from the attacker, as he
could be preparing to detonate explosives.
Politicians to Netanyahus right have criticized him for rushing to condemn the incident and insufficiently supporting Israels
troops. Last Saturday, Education Minister
Naftali Bennett wrote on Facebook that
officials should withhold criticism until the
IDF finishes its investigation. Bennett and
Netanyahu argued over the incident at Sundays Cabinet meeting, according to Israeli
reports.
Are we out of our minds? Bennett wrote.
Were at war. A war against cruel terror. Its
possible the soldier erred. Its possible he
didnt. Its possible he felt that the terrorist had an explosive and could detonate it
at any time, and by shooting him he would
save lives and prevent a subsequent attack.
In response to the criticism, the IDF

released the results of its investigation to
that point, which indicate that the soldier
arrived at the scene several minutes after
the terror attack and acted independently.
His officers had checked the attacker and
rejected the possibility that he had a bomb.
On Sunday, a third video surfaced. It
showed the soldier shaking hands with farright Kahanist activist Baruch Marzel after
the attack.
On the professional front, we have found
that the [other] soldiers acted appropriately,
and we praise their actions and their quick
foiling of the terrorists, IDF spokesman
Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz wrote on Facebook on
Sunday. On the values front, after an initial
investigation by the commanders, we have
found that this is a severe incident.
The video comes amid criticism of Israels
response to a wave of stabbing attacks.
Netanyahu is hardly the first to criticize
Israeli soldiers response to the terror wave.
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Since its outset last year, perceived oversteps in the IDFs

response to the stabbing attacks have drawn criticism from
leaders both within and outside of Israel.
Since September, more than 200 Palestinian stabbing
attacks have left 34 Israelis dead and hundreds wounded,
according to Israels Foreign Ministry. Israeli forces have killed
more than 200 Palestinians, most of them attackers, according to news reports. Centrist and right-wing Israeli politicians,
including Yesh Atid Chairman Yair Lapid and Public Security
Minister Gilad Erdan, have encouraged soldiers to kill attackers on the spot.
The U.S. State Department, as well as Swedens Foreign Ministry, have criticized Israel for a disproportionate response to
the attacks. Even IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot told high
schoolers last month that he doesnt want a soldier emptying
a magazine on a girl carrying scissors, while Defense Minister
Moshe Yaalon said the next day, We need to know how to win
and still remain human. Eizenkot, in turn, was criticized for
not defending his soldiers.

The problem is not with the IDFs rules of engagement, but rather with how theyre enforced, according
to former Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben Meir. He
said that 99.9 percent of IDF actions are appropriate,
but that the army has to make a concerted effort to educate soldiers about conduct in fighting terror and that
the IDF must enforce those norms.
When theres continual terror, it creates pressure

and tension, so what we need to learn from this situation, the most important thing, is to keep the rules of
engagement, said Ben Meir, who heads the National
Security and Public Opinion Project at Tel Aviv Universitys Institute for National Security Studies. If everyone
does whatever they think, everything will fall apart.
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hospitals take place. Cardin explains that in the
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Medicine has been impacted through Jewish parensuring that Jewish doctors who faced discrimiticipation and Jewish identity has also been shaped by
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In Baltimore, Sinai Hospital was founded as the
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Pharmacist Dixie Leikach provided an oral history to the exhibit, talking about the importance of
which probably will travel to other Jewish and general
the field of pharmacy in her and her familys life.
museums throughout the country beginning in 2017, is
She says she met her husband, Neil, in pharmacy
an immersive, explorative, hands-on journey through
school; his father, Henry, already was a prominent
the 20th-century experience of Jews and medicine.
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People think Baltimore is small, says Leikach.
nearly three years.
Part of the Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in
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America exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
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and many of the Jewish pharmacists in Baltimore
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owned their own pharmacies. Most have since
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Friedenwalds study. Among them is a July 1922 letter from
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Seltzer clock tower is a famous Baltimore landmark
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and inventor of the headache remedy, as part of the
that limited the number of Jewish students. Harry describes
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Photos demonstrating its use are featured prominently near
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A league of their own

A Jewish baseball museum, at last
This custom baseball, signed by Sandy Koufax

and other Hall of Famers, including Yogi Berra, is a
prized possession in the Jeff Aeder collection.

COURTESY OF JEFF AEDER
Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg bats for the Detroit

Tigers in 1935.
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GABE FRIEDMAN
hen Jews visit the National Baseball

Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New
York, they can learn about the two
most celebrated members of the tribe
who have been inducted into the hallowed museum:
Hank The Hebrew Hammer Greenberg and Sandy
Koufax.
Now theyll also have the chance to find out about
the dozens of other Jews who have played in the major
leagues but not in Cooperstown.
Thanks to the effort of a dedicated memorabilia collector, clearly taking Theodor Herzls legendary words
to heart If you will it, it is no dream a Jewish
baseball museum is, at last, a reality.
Well, make that a virtual reality.
An extensive new website, the Jewish Baseball
Museum, is a veritable Jewish baseball nerds dream.
Set to launch on Monday, the site is complete with
biographies of nearly all the Jews who made it to the
big leagues. There are interviews with former players
and prominent baseball-industry types, as well as a
timeline of Jewish baseball stories that goes back to
the 1860s.
The site could be the precursor to an actual Jewish
baseball museum in Chicago, according to its creator,
Jeff Aeder, a Chicago-based real estate investor and
Cubs fanatic.
The Jewish Baseball Museum is a passion project for
Aeder, 54, who says he has amassed one of the largest collections of Jewish baseball memorabilia in the country.
His collection, which is showcased on the site, comprises
some 2,000 objects among them are a Ron Blomberg
bat with a Star of David on the knob and a letter Greenberg
wrote to a friend during World War II and approximately
2,500 pre-1990 baseball cards of Jewish players.
Aeder says the website is an opportunity to introduce the stories of older Jewish ballplayers to younger
generations.
The bat one-time MVP Al Rosen used in the 1955

All-Star Game is among the treasures found in Jeff
Aeders collection.
COURTESY OF JEFF AEDER
Of all the [ Jewish] ballplayers whove played in the

major leagues, everybody always says Koufax and Hank
Greenberg, he said. But when you learn and read about
people like Jimmie Reese [born James Herman Solomon],
Al Rosen, Sy Rosenthal, Mo Berg, there are just so many
people. And they have unbelievable stories.
Take Lipman Pike, who in 1871 became the first Jew to
play for the majors. He earned a salary of $20 a week.
The two other Jews in the Hall of Fame early
Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss and Lou Boudreau,
who was raised Catholic and never identified as Jewish are not featured on the site.
Aeder who with his wife, Jennifer Levine, were
named Chicagoans of the Year in 2013 for opening the
Wolcott School, a high school for kids with learning challenges will gauge the reaction to the website before
moving ahead with plans for the physical museum. He
hopes it will open as early as 2017 in his native Lakeview
neighborhood on the citys North Side.
Aeder said his collection would form the core of the
museums permanent exhibit.
For now, the site lives up to its title as an online
museum. Viewers can zoom in for close-ups of Aeders collectibles and scroll through dozens of videos
with footage of classic Jewish baseball moments,
from Koufaxs World Series wins to Shawn Greens
four home-run game. Stories and interviews by wellknown baseball writers populate the sites many other
sections.
Perhaps surprisingly, Aeder, who says he has a
fairly obsessive personality, hasnt spent decades
amassing his huge collection. It has taken shape only
in the past few years. Once he decided to do it, Aeder
went to auctions, scoured eBay, and sent personal letters to owners who might have been looking to sell.
Aeder is no stranger to successful hobbies hes
also the founding owner of Milts Barbecue for the Perplexed, a popular kosher barbecue joint near Wrigley
Field that serves up old-fashioned ribs and sides and
gives its profits to worthy causes. The restaurant has
earned the respect of Cubs fans Jews and non-Jews
alike as well as last years Cy Young Award winner,
Jake Arrieta.
Aeders motto for his labor-of-love ventures sounds
like something the late Yogi Berra might say: If youre
going to do something, do it first class, he said. Otherwise dont do it.
So heres hoping another sages words will come
true. In this case, the voice from Field of Dreams:
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What earthquake?
The worlds largest seder in Nepal will go on, despite slow recovery from disaster
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
hen the ground started to

shake beneath Rabbi Chezki Lifshitzs feet, he was
praying near a doorway at
the Chabad House of Kathmandu, where
he lives with his wife, Chani, and their six
children.
Lifshitz, 42, an energetic redhead who
was born in Israel, has served as the
Chabad-Lubavitch movements first permanent envoy to Nepal since 2000, when
he and Chani opened the Chabad House in
the earthquake-prone nations capital. Since
then he has lived in expectation of tremors.
But nothing could have prepared him
for the 30 seconds of violent shaking on
April 25 of last year, which was so powerful that it shifted the whole of Kathmandu
10 feet southward. The city was devastated
and some 9,000 people throughout the
small mountainous country were killed.
In the days after the quake, Lifshitz conducted dozens of airborne rescue operations while his wife, staff, and volunteers
following a contingency plan they had
spent years preparing. The plan included
building a cache of supplies (food and
purified water, medical supplies, gasoline
for the power generators) and setting up a
network of emergency service providers,
including helicopter pilots and chauffeurs,
who could be counted on in times of crisis.
Last year, the Chabad House was transformed into an island of safety for hundreds
of Israelis who were in the country, along
with dozens of locals and tourists from
around the world, both Jews and non-Jews.
Now, in a country that was ranked as
Asias second poorest even before the

quake, the Lifshitzes are preparing to kick
off a massive annual production that is
among the highlights of their mission in
Nepal: a feast believed to be the worlds
largest seder, which attracts some 1,500
Israeli and Jewish backpackers each year.
The event in Kathmandu comprises
three, sometimes four, simultaneous seders two in Hebrew, the rest in English.
Some years, as is the plan for this Passover,
which begins the evening of April 22, the
venue is the 8,000-square-foot Chabad
House compound a heavily guarded fortress in Thamel, a tourist district. In other
years the feast is hosted at a hotel, often
the Radisson, whose kitchen is especially
kashered for the event.
Two weeks before the seder, Thamels
guesthouses fill up with many hundreds of
Israelis, mostly 20-something backpackers
who have recently finished their army service. Theyre drawn to Nepal in the spring,
which is one of the best times for trekking
in the Himalayas.
At the seder, they are joined by a diverse
melange of Israelis and Jews, including
middle-aged hikers on unusual honeymoons and homesick drifters from India
and Thailand some on spiritual journeys,
others on a different kind of trip. Sporting dreadlocks, bindis, and Teva sandals,
they descend on Thamels shops to buy
the traditional Kathmandu seder uniform:
white cotton shirts and loose-fitting salwar
pants, though nothing stays white for long
in the citys thick smog, said Keren Singer,
an Israeli participant in the 2012 seder.
An interior designer in her 30s, Singer
and her architect husband, Daniel, were
Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz, left in upper row, with hikers at the Chabad House of Kathmandu on March 2012.
COURTESY OF CHABAD NEPAL
The main hall before the Passover seder on Kathmandu at the Nepalese capitals
Radisson Hotel on April 6, 2012.
COURTESY EYAL KEREN
in Nepal on a trip around the world that

year. Both are nonobservant Jews, they
had planned an intimate seder with four
other friends Singer said she was looking
forward to cooking and to get away from
the Israeli crowd they had met in tourist
destinations across Nepal and India.
But they went for the Chabad option
out of a desire to have a proper seder
and because we didnt have time to organize our own, she said. Before the event,
Singer joined dozens of other Israelis who
each year volunteer to help prepare it.
Being away from home for so long
brought us closer to anything reminiscent
of it, she recalled.
For the Lifshitzes, the Passover preparations are somewhat more demanding.
Immediately after one seder they start fundraising for the next, because each meal
costs north of $60,000. And while ChabadLubavitch world headquarters provides
much of the funding, the Lifshitzes still
strive to collect as much as possible from
private donors. Its a struggle in a country
lacking the kind of local philanthropists
that bankroll Chabad activities elsewhere
in the world.
Four months before the big night, the
Lifshitzes and their helpers kick off logistical efforts that include transporting into
Nepal some 800 pounds of matzah, 2,000
kosher wine bottles and thousands of tins
of fish. They also organize a shechitah, a
kosher slaughter, of hundreds of fowl and
some beef.
The process is always challenging in a
corrupt nation with a bad transportation
system, but this year has been extra difficult because of the post-earthquake chaos,
Lifshitz said.
Describing Nepal as beautiful and
uniquely spiritual, Lifshitz also said that
misery here is enormous, with whole
villages wiped off the map.
While some roads are blocked because

of the earthquake, others are targeted by
road thieves. The combination has complicated and delayed the process of shipping
this years Passover necessities to Nepal
from neighboring India.
We just had to begin earlier than usual,
Lifshitz said of the preparations.
In addition to readying for the event,
the rabbi and his staff are helping rebuild
a village that was destroyed during the
earthquake.
Another hurdle is Nepals gas shortage
the worst in recent history. The Lifshitzes
had planned to offer a cold seder dinner
a major downgrade from previous years
because of the lack of fuel.
However, the couple acquired enough
butane to ensure warm meals. Lifshitz
declined to specify how he managed it
beyond saying that Chabad still has some
friends.
With Nepals already poor infrastructure
in shambles, the tourist traffic to Nepal last
fall the other popular trekking season
was significantly lower than the previous
year. So the Lifshitzes expect fewer guests
this seder.
But the event is on, as are the two other
(and far smaller) seders being organized
by the Lifshitzes in Nepal: in Pokhara,
a city near the capital that is a point of
departure for the famous Anapurna trail,
and Manang, a trekkers hub at an altitude
of 11,545 feet. According to the ChabadLubavitch World Headquarters, it is the
worlds tallest.
Every seder in the world has four children, Lifshitz said in reference to a passage in the Haggadah, the text that sets
forth the Passover seder, that explores
four attitudes to Judaism. In Nepal, we
have seders for the fifth child: the one
whos never home for seder.

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Keeping Kosher
OU Kosher offers webinar
on Passover this Wednesday
Register for OU Koshers annual Live 2016
Passover Webinar to hear OU experts
answer Passover-related questions and
cover general Passover topics. The webinar will be on Wednesday, April 6, from
1 to 1:40 p.m. To preregister, go to www.
ou.org/events/ou-kosher-passover-webinar-2016/. Subscribers can email questions
or ask them during the webinar. Rabbi Zvi
Nussbaum of OU Koshers Consumer Hotline and OUKosher.org Live Chat will moderate. Those who wish to view the webcast
live should log on at about 12:45.
The panelists include Rabbis Moshe
Elefant, COO of OU Kosher; Nachum Rabinowitz, senior rabbinic coordinator and
OU Passover Directory editor; Gavriel

Price, rabbinic coordinator for OUs ingredient research; and Eli Gersten, rabbinic
coordinator and halachic recorder for OU
Kosher.
Subjects include kashering a modern
kitchen; modern appliances and their use
on yom tov; the difference between mevushal and mefustar wine; and whether
shemittah still impacts Passover.
Email questions in advance to Rabbi Zvi
Nussbaum at PassoverWebinar@ou.org.
You also can submit your questions during the live broadcast by posting on OU
Koshers Facebook wall or sending a tweet
on Twitter @OUKosher.
Kid-friendly seders
Shaare Tefillah, Yavneh Academy, and
Congregation Rinat Yisrael host Seder
Surprises with Zalman Suldan on Monday, April 4, at 7:45 p.m. The program, at
Rinat, 389 West Englewood Ave, Teaneck,
offers creative, hands-on ways to make

seders more exciting, engaging, and
kid-friendly. For information, call (201)
837-2795.
Susie Fishbeins new cookbook

chronicles her culinary travels
recipe for this dish, a pride of that Campania region. It is eggplant filled with all
bright Italian ingredients. Scarponcino is
Italian for shoes. The traditional preparation calls for splitting the eggplant
lengthwise to make 2 halves that look
like childrens shoes. As a side dish, I like
the size of the rounds better.
Susie Fishbeins final installment in

the Kosher by Design cookbook series,
Kosher by Design Brings It Home, has
been published in time for Passover. Fifteen years ago, Ms. Fishbein set out to
bring a sense of elegance and beauty to
kosher cooking by creating innovative
recipes for holidays and everyday meals,
and by offering unique table settings
and floral arrangements. The Kosher by
Design cookbook series has sold more
than 500,000 copies.
In her final installment, Ms. Fishbein
offers fresh and exciting new recipes
from her 15-year culinary journey. The
book has 115 recipes, accompanied by
full-color photos and stories from her
cooking demos. Recipes were culled
from great chefs she encountered in
Italy, France, Mexico, Israel, and across
North America.
Moving out of the comfort zone of
my New Jersey kitchen has been monumentally influential on my recipe writing, Ms. Fishbein said. While travel is
truly one of lifes pleasures, and there
is a thrill and gratification to seeing the
world, there is nothing like the comfort
found in bringing it home.
Among the recipes, is one for melanzane di scarponcino, a nice side dish
that will work well for Passover and
year-round.
Melanzane
di scarponcino
YIELDS 6-8 SERVINGS
According to Ms. Fishbein, One of my

favorite spots on the Amalfi coast is the
charming, serene coastal town of Sorrento. It is a wonderful place to stroll;
the town straddles the cliffs that overlook the water toward Naples and Mt.
Vesuvius. It was there that I learned this
INGREDIENTS:
peanut or canola oil
extra-virgin olive oil
1-2 medium purple eggplants, sliced
into 3/4-inch slices
salt
3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
1/3 cup salt capers or capers
1/2 cup green olives, pitted and
roughly chopped
1/2 cup Kalamata olives, drained,
pitted, roughly chopped
12 medium-large cherry tomatoes,
chopped
5 leaves fresh basil, chopped
1 cup warm marinara sauce
dried oregano
INSTRUCTIONS:
Pour equal amounts of peanut oil and
olive oil into a large skillet to come
up to 1/2 inch on the pan. Heat over
medium heat until very hot but not
smoking. Pan fry the eggplant slices
for 2-3 minutes per side, until golden
brown. Drain on paper towels. Season
the eggplants with a small sprinkling
of salt.
If using salt capers, they need to be
soaked in water to remove the salt. If
using regular capers, rinse them very
well to remove the acidic taste. In a
large skillet, heat 2 tablespoons olive
oil. Add the garlic; cook for 1 minute
until fragrant, do not allow to brown.
Add the capers, green olives, and
Kalamata olives. Saut for 5 minutes.
Add the tomatoes; cook for 1 minute.
Sprinkle in the fresh basil; add marinara sauce. Season with oregano to
taste.
Remove the mixture from heat;
spread over each of the eggplant
slices. Can be made in advance and
reheated.
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Lean left after shopping right at Cedar Market
From one holiday to the next, Cedar Market is ready for
Passover. For months, this one-stop kosher supermarket
in Teaneck has been planning and preparing for the Passover holiday and now its aisles and shelves are stocked
and ready to go. The stores meat department is also
kosher for Passover, with a full line of fresh and high quality meats, including prime black angus beef, lamb, and
veal, as well as chicken, turkey, and duck.
The wide selection and low prices arent just available
to those spending Passover in the tri-state area Cedar

Market is also offering shipping to its shoppers who are
headed to Florida for the holiday. When a customer shops
for their order on April 10, 11, or 12, a team at Cedar Market
has arranged for a refrigerated truck to ship their items to
Florida, with door-to-door service for $35 per box. Delivery cities include Miami Beach, Orlando, Aventura, Boynton Beach, and others.
Our crew has been working hard on ensuring our
valued customers have an amazing holiday shopping

experience, said Cedar Market owner Jeff Hollander,
from the moment they walk into Cedar Market until the
end of Chad Gadya at their beautiful Passover seder.
Shoppers are encouraged to shop early and save big on
the supermarkets wide array of Passover deals in every
department. The store is at 646 Cedar Lane in Teaneck.
For information, call (201) 855-8500.
Manischewitz adds 12 new Passover products

The Manischewitz Company has many new
products for Passover.
Hazelnut Chocolate Macaroons, made with
bursts of chocolate and real hazelnuts, won
Best New Item for Passover at Kosherfest. For
baking and cooking, there is Gluten Free Matzo
Meal and Gluten Free Cake Meal, with recipes
on the packages. Gluten Free Matzo now comes
in a convenient three-pack at a value price.
Tri-Color Spiral Noodles are gluten-free, with
great texture and taste. New gluten free cereal
for Passover includes Magic Maxs Chocolate
Crunch Puffs and Magic Maxs Vanilla Crunch
Puffs, which are great for snacks too. Thin
Potato Chips and Ripple Potato Chips are available in 9 snack-sized bags in a multipack tray.
There is also Gluten Free Grab n Go Chocolate
Cookies and Gluten Free Grab n Go Chocolate
Chip Cookies in convenient take away cups
with resealable lids. The Blueberry Bran Muffin mix includes real blueberries, which are a
good source of fiber. Balsamic vinegar is the latest item imported from the Modena region of
Italy. It is is great for vinaigrettes, marinades, and glazes, and the bottle displays
the Protected Geographical Indication
seal that certifies it is an authentic product of Modena. This year, Manischewitz
announced its partnership with Americas #1 grape juice brand, Welchs, to offer
consumers Welchs Manischewitz 100%
Grape Juice for Passover.
The Manischewitz Company is a specialty foods company with 12 kosher
foods brands, including Manischewitz,
Season, Goodmans, and Jason. TMC
offers a diverse product line with more
than 30 unique product categories.
Manischewitz was founded in Cincinnati by Rabbi Dov Behr Manischewitz in
1888; its small bakery produced Passover matzah. In 1932, Rabbi Manischewitz opened a plant in Jersey City. A full
list of products and recipes is at www.
Manischewitz.com.
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INGREDIENTS:
2 egg whites
12 ounces unsweetened
shredded coconut
1 (14-ounce) can full-fat
coconut milk
14 cup honey
zest of one orange
about 12 tablespoon
1 tablespoon orange
juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
extract
pinch salt
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking
sheets with parchment paper. In a medium bowl,
beat the egg whites until medium peaks form. In a
large bowl, combine the shredded coconut, coconut
milk, honey, orange zest, orange juice, vanilla, and
salt. Fold the egg whites into the coconut mixture.
Using a small ice cream scoop with a lever, or two
spoons, drop the mixture onto a cookie sheet, about
2 tablespoons in each. Bake for 2530 minutes, or
until golden brown on the edges. Allow them to cool
before removing from the pan.
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if he hits your mom, that means that he broke
You may be tempted to come up with Plan
health, and which surely has terrible impacts
the law. And when a person does that, he can
C, trying to wait out the storm, or praying that
on their psychological wellbeing.
be put in jail.
your husband will change and be the kind and
It is never the case that bickering, fighting,
If that does happen, when your father
gentle man that you know he can be. And so
or physical abuse are acceptable expressions
comes back, he may have learned his lesson
you will decide to stay and endure the abuse.
of love or tolerable actions between married
and will behave better. Sometimes a person
Be vigilant. Be aware that if you follow this
people. That way of thinking is plainly and
does not learn his lesson. It may be that he
last course, you put yourself and your chilsimply wrong.
will come back even more angry than he was
dren in danger. You may be attacked again.
If you are able to realize how badly you have
before. If that happens, you may have to call
Your children may suffer psychological damacted, it still wont be easy for you to change,
the police again. And you should call. And it
age that will stay with them for the rest of their
and you may not succeed. You should seek
may be that you, your brother, your sister,
lives. Do you want to take those risks?
out help from a therapist or a social worker.
and your mom will have to move out of your
Bottom line, my advice is that you resist
Expect to spend multiple sessions working
house to stay with relatives or someplace else
the temptation to follow Plan C. Try as hard
through your primary issues, gaining insights
that is safe.
as you can to put aside your turbulent emointo your worst personality defects, and devisThe most important thing is that by acting
tions and let logic guide your decisions.
the right way, by calling the police, you proing strategies to cope with your most urgent
problems.
tected yourself, your mom, and your brother
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
Whether or not you salvage your marriage
and sister from possibly being hurt.
I am 40, married, and have kids. To my family
and keep your family intact, it is worth the
and friends, it looks like I have an ideal mareffort for you to pursue this course of action.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
riage. But my wife and I fight all the time. She
You need to try to fix what is broken. You need
I am married to a man who holds a distindoes so many things that irritate me.
to learn to act in socially acceptable ways and
When I was growing up, my parents fought
guished position in our community. We have
have healthy relationships for your own sake,
and argued constantly. And I remember at
young children. I love and respect my husband
and for the sake of all those whom you love.
times seeing my grandparents arguing and bickvery much. He is a learned and witty man. I
want to be with him. But he often loses his temering over trivial little things.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
I really lost my cool recently over something
per over trivial things and he becomes enraged.
I am a police officer in a local town. I am not
that my wife did. I hit her during our argument.
At times he becomes so furious that he hits me.
Jewish. It happens on occasion that I get called
to answer a domestic violence complaint in the
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers timely advice based on timeless
home of a Jewish family. I have been trained in
Talmudic wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all
all the police protocols for responding to such
varieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday
a call. And thankfully I have been able to interof the month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or email to
zahavy@gmail.com.
vene most times to cool down the situation and
restore the peace in the family and to the community. Now I would like to know if there is
something I can say from within your traditions
to practicing Jews that will help bring their perspectives back in line and help me more quickly
and permanently resolve family quarrels.
Peace Officer in your vicinity
Dear Officer,
Yes, I am sure there are things you might cite
from Jewish traditions to help restore perspectives of squabbling families and keep anger
and strife from recurring. You could refer to
many teachings from the Hebrew Bible, the
Talmud or the midrash, the ethical musar literature, and much more.
These sources concur on the basic principle that the ways of graciousness and the
paths of peace are the correct courses of living for all Jews and are at the core of the values of Judaism.
Our traditions teach that a husband must
treat his wife with dignity and respect. They
also underscore that a Jew must follow the
laws of his locale in all ways, including those
statutes that prohibit violence and abuse
within a marriage or anywhere at large.
But having said that, I dont recommend
that you cite our Judaic teachings or our principles when you are intervening as a police
officer in an episode of rage or violence. Your
appearance during an incident of a domestic dispute should be guided solely by your
professional law enforcement protocols and
criteria.
Keep doing what you have been trained to
do to defuse the immediate dangers of such
entanglements.
And as you no doubt know, a more lasting solution to domestic strife depends on
more than a single external intervention,
no matter how deftly that is handled. Once
you pacify the immediate situation, Its
urgent that close friends, family members,
and Jewish community religious or social
service professionals follow up. Its not
your responsibility to pursue the follow-up
to incidents of domestic abuse.
In the end, a good outcome will depend
a great deal on the offending partys will to
change. Thats never easy. Its surely something youd like to see, and we all would like
to see. But that too is not your job.
Stay focused on the roles of your profession and allow others to do what they can to
try to fix, in whatever ways they know, these
unfortunate persistent underlying issues in
our community.
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from

Brown University and rabbinic ordination
from Yeshiva University. He is the author
of several books, including these ebooks
on Amazon: The Book of Jewish Prayers
in English, Rashi: The Greatest Exegete,
Gods Favorite Prayers and Dear
Rabbi Zahavy which includes his past
columns from the Jewish Standard and
other essays.
Dvar Torah
Parashat Shmini
The revelation at the Mishkan
hen Dorothy and the gang

finally arrive in Oz to meet
the great wizard, they are
shocked and dismayed to
find that the booming voice and thunderous
effects they experience when speaking to
the wizard are all the machinations of a simple man behind a curtain. When the mystery is unveiled, the group is disappointed.
Whereas the wizard in the Wizard
of Oz implores his audience to pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain,
Gods presence appears miraculously, selfconsciously, and by intention before the
entire people in this weeks Torah portion,
Parashat Shmini. This is the only time
that the aish, the fire, comes outside of the
Mishkan, which is also known as the Tent
of Meeting. When the curtain of the tent is
drawn back (this is not a detail in our biblical story; Im employing the curtain as a
metaphor) and Gods presence appears,
by contrast, the people shout with joy and
fall on their faces in awe and reverence and
relief. Lhavdil, God is no wizard.
Like Sinai before it, this Revelation demonstrates Gods awesome power and presence in the universe. But, unlike the Revelation at Mount Sinai, whose site is unknown
and intentionally obscured in our tradition
to prevent its idolization, Gods appearance
before the people at the Mishkan inaugurated, for the first time, a dependable sense
of location and therefore nearness. At Sinai,
proximity had been profoundly frightening and uncomfortable. You speak to us,
Moses! The people implored him to run
interference, rather than experiencing the
unmediated and terrifying awesomeness
of God themselves. The nearness of Gods
presence at the Mishkan was far less destabilizing for the people, who had similarly
according to her own strength.

gathered around the entrance
Though each of us has our
to the Mishkan as they had
own unique version of it, and
once gathered at the foot of
therefore voice to bring to a
Mount Sinai. Of course, Aaron
discussion about it, we share
and his sons had already been
a common experience. This
groomed and set apart to
common experience fortifies
serve as priests for God in this
a shared responsibility. In the
new Mishkan and perhaps
case of the Revelation at Sinai,
that mitigated the ancient
Rabbi Jacob
we, ancestors of the ancient
Israelites concern and rightM. Lieberman
Israelites, share a responsisized their sense of awe,
Reconstructionist
bility for Jewish wisdom and
allowing for true joy when
Congregation Beth
instruction. In the case of the
witnessing proof of Gods
Israel, Ridgewood
Revelation at the Mishkan, we
presence.
As a Reconstructionist
come to share a responsirabbi, Im more interested in the power
bility for maintaining certain aspects of
of the experience of God in our lives than
purity and holiness without which Gods
the experience of Gods power in our lives.
presence cannot remain near to us or
Im more curious about how our sense that
dwell among us.
Gods presence is near or Gods presence
One of the most famous parts of Parais far or Gods presence fills the entire unishat Shmini is the story of Nadav and
verse affects our individual and collective
Avihu, the two sons of Aaron who took fire
experiences of the Divine than I am in solvand incense in their fire pans and brought
ing the theological puzzles of immanence
a strange or forbidden fire to the altar. In
and transcendence. Im more interested in
response, a fire came out from God and
taking steps to increase peoples access to
consumed them. Their sacrifice, Torah
our Jewish wisdom and our Jewish traditeaches, was not Gods command. There
tions and to their own sense of God than I
are many midrashim and interpretations
am in being the right moderator and right
concerning Nadav and Avihu, but in the
mediator of their experience of Judaism.
context of our Torah portion, it seems
And I am always invested in the hope and
likely that here it is a warning about the
the possibility that our Jewish experiences
importance of precise compliance with
and wisdom will inspire us and others to
Gods command. The sections that foltake positive actions that lead to greater
low after the death of Nadav and Avihu
peace, greater equality, and greater holiwarn against certain behaviors among the
ness in our lives and in our world.
priests (offering sacrifices after drinking
For both the Revelation at Sinai and the
alcohol) and reiterates commandments for
Revelation of Gods presence at the Mishthe priests to follow (eating certain sacrifikan, it is vitally important that the entire
cial foods at the alter and others outside
people of Israel is gathered and shares in
the Mishkan). After these, we find kashrut
this experience. This is even as we know
rules for all of the people to follow to hanthat each person received the revelation
dle and eat foods that maintain purity. In
Education
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we dont like, and to listen to angry voices, it also means that

we need to draw a very sharp line between debate and prejudicial hatred. What makes the college campus the safe environment that the laboratory of liberal education demands is
that it must be safe.
Once critical discourse is transferred from an idea to a person, the laboratory loses its security and the experiment is
compromised. Hatred of others must be checked at the door.
There must be zero tolerance for prejudice. Anti-Israel sentiment is permitted on campus, but it cannot be allowed to
develop into anti-Semitism and threaten the Jewish members of the campus community. University and government
authorities must be ready to step in and protect not only the
rights of the victims of anti-Semitic hatred but also the very
fabric of the campus community if it is to have any hope of
achieving the ideal of liberal education.
Indeed, the ugliness of the anti-Israel and the related
anti-Semitic nature of the college campus today reflects a

greater failure of liberal education. Rather than approach the
university with an openness to learning, students and some
faculty approach from a position of entrenchment, seeking
not to listen but only to speak and yell at others.
This may be an unexpected product of the success of liberal education. We have taken the mix of ideas so seriously
that the course of learning today includes more areas and
fields than any single person ever could consider. While we
see multiculturalism as a value, in embracing cultures that
were once ignored in the older dead white men curriculum, we also, ironically, suffer from learning how to encounter the Other when there are so many Others to choose
from. When courses of study are organized by culture and
geography (East Asian studies, African American studies,
Middle Eastern studies, American studies, Latin American
studies, etc.) rather than academic discipline of inquiry (history, religion, literature, political science, etc.), we focus on
the object of interest rather than on how to examine any
the parshiyot (Torah portions) that follow

Shmini, well find more and more rules
for the people to keep in order to protect
ourselves from impurity. Through our
extreme care and diligence to avoid the
improper and the impure, we make our
encampments and our world a place fit
for Gods presence.
Torah teachings rarely line up perfectly
with the conditions and challenges of
this post-modern world. But, for me, the
bombing of the airport and the metro in
Brussels, Belgium on March 22 can be seen
metaphorically as aish zara, forbidden
fires and explosives that no matter how
sincerely offered are not Gods command
and which therefore bring with them an
impurity that threatens to drive out Gods
presence from this world. If one of the lasting legacies of our Torah teaching around
Gods presence is that it requires extreme
care and attention to detail in order to
maintain, then it makes good sense to me
why our ancestors focused on the dozens of daily decision points which could
increase or decrease our capacity to sustain holiness in this world. Where else
would we begin?
May our Torah learning this week
increase our awareness of the good that
Gods presence brings to this world. May
our eyes, hearts and souls be trained to
seek out holiness and root out impurities
that have the potential to drive Gods presence from among us. And may we all come
to know the priestly blessings which Aaron
and Moses offer the people this week in
our parashah: May God bless you and keep
you. May God make Gods face shine light
upon you and be gracious to you. May God
lift Gods face to you and grant you Peace.
Amen.
object of interest critically. The university, in its well-meaning attempt to avoid dictating to students how to think, has
forgotten how to teach students how to think, and instead
we are left with noise and hatred.
Erring too much on the side of acceptance of everyone
and everything, universities end up fostering an atmosphere
of prejudice, the very vice that the university was seeking to
overcome.
Our universities must not forget that their primary focus
is to teach. The alarming rise of anti-Semitism on the college
campus should serve as the starting block to a conversation
on how our universities are failing to fulfill. their promise. We
certainly invest enough in them to demand better.
David J. Fine, the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center of Ridgewood, holds a doctorate in modern European
history and is an adjunct professor of Jewish law at the
Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel colleges at the
University of Potsdam in Germany.
Letters
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come out before her statements that she

never received or sent classified information are patently lies? The forty years of
never-ending Clinton scandals: Emailgate,
Bengahzi, their crooked foundation, filegate, travelgate, Chinagate, Whitewater,
pardongate, billingsgate, cattle futuresgate,
bimbogates one to ten, and even Watergate.
The reason Mr. Trump doesnt like
illegal immigrants is because he deeply
believes in the rule of law as a fundamental tenant for our American society to
flourish otherwise there needs to be consequences. Further he empathizes with
the hard working, low wage earning,
honest Americans whos jobs the illegal
immigrants are taking away. Clearly Mrs.
Clinton does not.
As for the rabbis commitment at Birkenau of Never Again, surely he knows
that the most existential threat to the
slightly more than six million Jews in
Israel is Iran, and its proxies of Hezbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorist
organizations. While Mrs. Clinton was
one of the original architects of, and
incredulously defended at AIPAC, the
disastrous nuclear deal with Iran which
threatens the lives of every one of the six
million Jews living in Israel, Mr. Trump
at AIPAC said his number one priority
was to dismantle the disastrous deal with
Iran and secondly, we will totally dismantle Irans global terror network.
While Mr. Trump certainly has said
things that are repugnant, which he
should clearly repudiate, and he should
be a lot more thoughtful before he speaks
or acts, he is certainly not a racist, bigot,
xenophobe, a supporter of the KKK, or
the spawn of Satan. Mr. Trump is certainly not at all like Hitler, but the rabbi
and I can both agree he is not at all like
Hillary Clinton either.
David Wolf
Bergenfield
Some love for Cruz
In Eyes, ears, Jewish law and Election

2016 (March 25) Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer infers that Senator Ted Cruz
wants the United States to be run as a
Christian country since it was founded
as a Christian country. We all know that
Ted Cruz is a strong supporter of the
Constitution. The First Amendment to
the Constitution declares, Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof. Therefore Ted
Cruz would never run America as a
Christian country.
When Cruz says that, If our leaders are elected by unbelievers, is it any
wonder that they do not reflect our values? he is not saying that only believing Christians should have the right to
vote, as the article claims. All Ted Cruz
is saying is that people who believe in
Torah /biblical/Christian principles
such as truth, integrity, treating others as you would want to be treated,
etc. will vote for candidates who reflect
those values and vice versa. Your inference that Cruz advocates that unbelievers dont have the right to vote is a complete fabrication; all he is saying is that
they vote for people with similar values.
In reference to your quote of Cruz
saying, If the body of Christ arises, if
Christians simply show up and vote biblical values, we can restore our nation.
Cruzs main point here is to vote biblical values (goodness and righteousness, which are not radical) no matter
what your faith is. Ted Cruz is not disparaging other religions and therefore
there is no lashon hara.
I feel that Senator Ted Cruz is an
honorable man of great integrity who
protects our freedoms by upholding the Constitution. He also is the
best supporter of Israel among all the
candidates.
Rosalie Greenberg
Teaneck
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Across
1. It surrounds one having a shvitz
6. The Way We ___
10. Moonves CBS dramas
14. 17-Across walks down it
15. Islamic version of a rabbi
16. Tent
17. One who might stand to the side of
the chuppah
18. Its next to Bernie Sanders state
20. Magneto played on a glass one
22. Made like Ross and Rachel in Vegas
23. Word Bubbe might repeat before
Your skin and bones
24. Gunk not to be used for lighting
Shabbat candles
25. Graynor and Miri Ben26. Disobey Saul or David
27. Land linked to Robin Hood
31. Lauren (Cohan) on The Walking
Dead
34. Rabbi Sacks before he was Lord
35. ___ Nidre
36. Reuben and Saul were part of his 11
37. Son of Noah...or the tref removed
from this puzzle
38. One way to meet a potential spouse
40. See 43-Across
41. Words before in Adam
42. Ball or Bat Mitzvah
43. Largest city in 41-Across
46. With 54-Down, he directed Get
Hard
47. Paul Rudds tiny friends in the Marvel
Universe
48. Do the Jerusalem marathon
49. Shacharit times, for short
52. European city where Herzl was originally buried
55. Wondrous Israeli actress
57. Purim treat
59. Like Esau
60. Samuel cut his head off
61. Actress Skye
62. Info. for Mossad
63. Niels Bohr, e.g.
64. Kinds of samples in 10-Across
65. Was a ganef
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.
Down
1. Elaine tried it to get the stink from her
hair on Seinfeld
2. Part of a summer fast
3. ___ Chayil
4. Brews that might be drunk on Purim,
but not Passover
5. Rodgers musical partner
6. Carmel or Golan Heights
7. Its the truth
8. How lox is eaten
9. Title for Nero or Titus
10. Title for one of Walters women on
The View
11. Jonah was thrown off one
12. Able was ___...
13. Downhill transport on Hermon
19. A high one on a skirt might not be
considered tzniut
21. How the IDF is meant to keep Israel
25. ___ Zemirot
26. Org. for Spielberg
28. Hebrew for essence
29. Memo (often found in a Talmuds
outer margins)
30. Show with Rachel Berry
31. It was east of Israel...now its in Utah
32. Rights org. Dershowitz is a member
of
33. One might be shifted biking in the
Jerusalem hills
34. Jewish hands
37. Witches in Polanskis Macbeth
38. The Firm author
39. Beit follower
41. One might be taken after a spicy
cholent
42. Neshama
44. What Brad Ausmus does for the
Tigers
45. Masada Guest House and Mitzpe
Ramon Hostel, e.g.
46. Last names of Lilith Sternins former
in-laws on Frasier
49. Increase, as a Maccabi lead
50. 55-Across was one
51. Billy Joels Thats Not Her ___
52. Kosher overseers
53. Young Frankenstein woman
54. See 46-Across
55. Rowlands in Woody Allens Another
Woman
56. Rachel, to Judah
58. Motek (term of endearment, for
short)
Arts & Culture

Dudu Fisher shares his love of
Israel through songs and stories
Jerusalem is the source of all energy, singer tells his New York audience
LOIS GOLDRICH
hen Cameron Macintosh approached Israeli
singer David Dudu
Fisher about playing
the role of Jean Valjean
on Broadway, the producer said he was particularly moved by Israeli audiences reaction to the song Bring Him Home.
Cameron came to Israel to see the [Les
Miserables] premiere, Mr. Fisher, who
played Jean Valjean in the Israeli production, said. He came over to me, and he said,
When you sing, there is something in the air
I cant understand. I want you to bring this
to America.
I explained that 99 percent of the people
in the theater had somebody in the army,
or perhaps a friend or family member who
had never come home. I told him, We live
in the jungle. You never know whats coming next.
The United States was not involved in any
wars then, Mr. Fisher said. But after the U.S.
military became involved in Iraq, I sensed
the same feeling in New York when I sang it.
The people were praying with me.
Born in Petach Tikvah in 1951, Mr. Fisher
who performed his multimedia autobiographical show
Jerusalem for sold-out audiences at the Museum of Jewish Heritage this week is the son of a Holocaust survivor
and a mother who attributes his safe delivery to a note
from the Lubavitcher rebbe. He is the father of three,
grandfather of six, and now, in his second marriage, is
expecting a new baby. He and his wife will take the baby
with them when they travel, he said.
After many years, Mr. Fisher left his home in Tel Aviv
and now lives right above the Sea of Galilee, like in Switzerland, he said. Its a place where you can create.
I have so many projects. I sit outside and look at the
green Galilee.
Mr. Fisher, who studied at the Tel Aviv Academy of
Music as well as privately under several renowned cantors, became cantor of Tel Avivs Great Synagogue while
he was still in his early 20s, moving from there to spend
four years in South Africa. For more than 20 years, he was
the High Holiday cantor at Kutshers Hotel in the Catskills,
and later he became the chief cantor at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, and at the New
York Synagogue in Manhattan.
So is he a cantor first and a performer second? Maybe
once, but not now.
I used to be a cantor who sang only Yiddish and cantorial music on stage, Mr. Fisher said. Now that is my side
job. He will be the High Holiday chazzan in Chicago this
year for the third time, and I hope for many years.
His relationship with Les Miz the show that
launched his stage career is of particular note in his life.
After being mesmerized by a performance of the show
in London, Mr. Fisher, then a young singer with no acting

experience, auditioned for the role of Jean Valjean in a
Hebrew production. He won the role, and played it to rave
reviews from 1987 to 1990.
Following his stint on Broadway, he reprised the role
on Londons West End and subsequently was invited to
perform before Queen Elizabeth II.
And what do you sing for a queen?
You sing what they tell you to sing, he joked, but it
was an amazing experience. They brought in people who
sang star roles from Les Miz from all over the world.
Eponine was Japanese, and there were singers from Hungary and London, each one singing in their own language.
To my honor, Cameron Macintosh chose me to represent
all Jean Valjeans.
Fisher also has racked up some impressive firsts in his
career. He was the first performer excused from Friday
night and Saturday performances in New York and London because, as an Orthodox Jew, he could not perform
on Shabbat. In addition, he was the first Israeli artist
allowed to sing in the Soviet Union before perestroika. He
notes on his website that his concerts were attended by
thousands of Jews thirsting for Jewish culture. A particularly moving concert took place in my fathers hometown
of Dubnow in the Ukraine.
According to the international performer, When Cameron Macintosh offered me the role on Broadway, I said
Id love to do it, it would be the fulfillment of my wishes,
but it was not possible because Im an observant Jew. He
tried to understand, but said, This is not work. Youre just
onstage singing.
I told him that there are things in life more

important than my career. Being away so often,
I need to be home at least on Friday to be with
my family. He probably understood. He must
have, since Fisher went on to sing the role not
only on Broadway but all over the world.
It opened up doors, he said. Thank God it
worked out all right.
Jerusalem is not Mr. Fishers first one-man
show. He already performed Never on Friday, exploring the complications of working on
Broadway as an observant Jew. He also has visited Jewish communities throughout the world,
performing both Yiddish and Hebrew songs as
well as Broadway show tunes.
Each November, Mr. Fisher takes his show
to Branson, Mo. He is encouraged by Christian evangelist Victoria Hurst, who supports
Israel and donates a lot of money, he said. She
invited me to a show in Colorado, and afterward
someone said I should come see Branson. The
next morning I went there and saw 100 theaters.
Eight million tourists come to see shows. The
variety is amazing. When I went to see a show
and it was announced that there was a guest
from Israel, 700 people gave me a standing ovation. His latest PBS program was filmed in Branson and aired in August 2014.
Mr. Fisher has performed in a wide range of
musicals and has treasured the experience, but he is still
most attached to the character of Jean Valjean, not that
Fiddler is so terrible, but Jean Valjean was my first theater role, so Im really attached to it.
I knew I could do it without one acting lesson. I could
play the role because he was so much like me a religious
man, who trusts in God. All through the show he doesnt
move without consulting God. Ive had such a wonderful
journey with this musical. Others are great, but this is the
cherry on the cake.
Of course, he added, he might also like to play Don
Quixote in Man of La Mancha.
Mr. Fisher recalled that 30 years ago, when he performed in Argentina, people expected a lot of Yiddish.
But now, Im told that one song is enough. He believes,
though, that Yiddish will be kept alive through its use in
the Orthodox community .
His Jerusalem was written six years ago, though it has
undergone some changes. For me, he said, Jerusalem is
the center of everything. The energy of the world is rolling
because of Jerusalem. So too, he said, the energy he gets
personally is from that city.
I call it Jerusalem because of the energy I get when I
visit, Mr. Fisher said. I used to live there, listening to the
music of mosques, churches, and synagogues. Everything
comes from this place. When Im walking in the streets
of Sydney, Russia, or New York, Im carrying in my shoe
heels a piece of Jerusalem and trying to spread it around.
People should know that its a peaceful place. There
are some crazy people, but you cant say its not safe
anymore.
Calendar
7:30 p.m., as part of a
series, Top Films You
May Have Missed or
Want to See Again.
Commentary by Andrew
Lazarus, coffee, and
snacks. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1493.
Kid-friendly seder:
Shaare Tefillah, Yavneh
Academys YPAA, and
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael host Seder
Surprises with Zalman
Suldan at Rinat in
Teaneck, 7:45 p.m. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Manhattans Jewish Museum offers Freedom Art Jam, a

fun-filled family day for Passover, on Sunday, April 17, from
noon to 4 p.m. Activities include a dance party with the
Macaroons, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m.; a drop-in art workshop, and
holiday spotlight tours. Fifth Avenue and 92nd St. (212) 423-3200 or
TheJewishMuseum.org/programs/families.
APR.
Tuesday
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Friday
APRIL 1
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers Town Hall,
a service led by Rabbi
Debra Orenstein, that
includes a discussion on
contemporary issues,
8 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Veterans meets for

breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
Shulem Deen
Shulem Deen in
Hoboken: Memoirist
APRIL 2
Judy Brown
Wine tasting in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Community breakfast
in Teaneck: Project
Casino/tricky tray
in Ridgewood: The
Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School
hold a casino/tricky tray
night at Temple Israel,
8:30-11:30 p.m. Roaring
20s dress is encouraged.
Admission includes
desserts, coffee/tea bar,
wine, and one sheet of
tickets. BYO kosher beer.
475 Grove St. www.ssnj.
org/trickytray.
Sunday
APRIL 3
War veterans meet
in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
by the Westinghouse
Corporation filmed in
part at the fair, 2 p.m.
Popcorn and ice cream.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Wine and cheese in

Fair Lawn: Temple Beth
Saturday
Emanuel of the Pascack

Valley hosts its annual
kosher wine tasting,
8:15 p.m. Orders placed
will be available in time
for Passover. Admission
includes homemade hors
doeuvres and catered
desserts. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
go to www.tepv.org.
correspondent, is the
speaker. 32 Park Ave.
(973) 593-0095, ext. 823
or JNF.org/community
breakfast.
Sarah (Stop Abusive

Relationships At Home)
holds its 10th annual
community breakfast
at Congregation Keter
Torah, 9:30 a.m. Judy
Brown, the author of
Hush, is the speaker.
Childcare available
with preregistration.
600 Roemer Ave.
(973) 777-7638 or www.
projectsarah.org.
and Jewish Book Council

award-winner Shulem
Deen will talk about
All Who Go Do Not
Return, his book about
his life and struggles
as a Skverer chasid, at
brunch at the United
Synagogue of Hoboken,
10:30 a.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org
Charity vendor/craft
show in Tenafly: An
indoor/outdoor vendor
and craft show to benefit
Alzheimers New Jersey
is at the Tenafly Elks
Club, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 20
Franklin St.
Party showcase in Park

Ridge: Celebrate! Party
Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil
JNF breakfast in Park
Ridge: Jewish National
Fund holds a community
breakfast at Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack
Valley, 9:30 a.m. Rebecca
Shimoni-Stoil, the Times
of Israels Washington
Showcase holds a bar/

bat mitzvah planning
fair, presented by
Mitzvah Market, at the
Park Ridge Marriott,
noon-4 p.m. 300 Brae
Boulevard. Sign up at
CelebrateShowcase.com.
Sholom sisterhood holds

its annual Passover
Wine & Cheese Tasting,
2-4:30 p.m. Passover
wine orders accepted.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321.
Author in Tenafly: Chaya

Deitsch, discusses her
book, Here and There:
Leaving, chasidism,
Keeping my Faith,
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, 11 a.m.
Presented in part with
the James H. Grossmann
Memorial Jewish Book
Month. (201) 408-1418, or
ryung@jccotp.org.
APRIL 6
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically frail or
people with Alzheimers
disease meets at the
Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal toll
of caregiving. 10 Link
Drive. Shelley Steiner,
(201) 784-1414, ext. 5340.
Torah in Closter: The

Torah Institute with
Rabbi David-Seth
Kirshner meets at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter,
7:30 p.m., to study
history, historiography,
and journeys of the
Jewish people. Also April
13. 180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
Thursday
APRIL 7
Monday
Randi Kaplan
APRIL 4
Discussing caregiving
in Wyckoff: Randi
Book discussion:
The Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel continues
its Book and Lunch
program as Ilene Wolosin
discusses David Laskins
novel The Family,
noon. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or www.
fljc.com.
Basketball and brew

in Closter: Temple
Emanu-Els mens club
has a party to watch the
NCAA finals, 7:30 p.m.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanuel.com.
Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss

Understanding
caretaking: CareOne
at Teaneck offers a
discussion with Rabbi
Dr. Richard Weiss on
Responsibility, 7 p.m.
He is the leader of Young
Israel of Hillcrest,
Queens, and an adjunct
assistant professor
of biology at Stern
College for Women.
Kosher refreshments.
544 Teaneck Road.
(201) 862-3300.
Pre-Pesach learning
in Teaneck: Lamdeinu,
Film in Franklin Lakes:

Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey shows
The Middleton Family
at The New York Worlds
Fair, a docudrama
Chaya Deitsch
Wednesday
Feature film: The Kaplen

in Tenafly screens A
Stranger Among Us,
a center for Jewish

learning that meets
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, offers Insights
Into Shir HaShirim,
led by Rabbi Nathaniel
Helfgot, 8:15 p.m. Also
April 12 and 19. 950
Queen Anne Road. www.
lamdeinu.org.
Kaplan, director of
the Caregiver Support
Center at Montefiore
Health System,
discusses Caregiving:
a Responsibility and a
Privilege for the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey, at Temple Beth
Rishon, 7 p.m. 585
Russell Ave. Program to
benefit the JFSNJ Sam
and Nina Wolff Caregiver
Support Center. Melanie,
(973) 595-0111, or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Vodka tasting/
discussion: The Kaplen
offers a chance to sample
vodkas from around the
world and learn how it is
made, including trends,
flavors, and other fun
facts, as part of this
years JFNNJs One
Book One Community
programming, 7:30 p.m.
This years book selection
is A Backpack, A Bear
and Eight Crates of
Vodka, by Lev Golinkin.
Ruth, (201) 408-1418, or
www.jccotp.org.
Calendar
Passover recipes in
Fair Lawn: Graciela
Zeilicovich demonstrates
and shares some of her
Passover recipes with
the sisterhood of Temple
Beth Sholom, 8 p.m.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321.
Friday
Shabbat Unplugged
Band, with members
of the congregation
and klezmer clarinetist
Marty Laskin, led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
of Space Travel and

Religion, 10 a.m. Bagel
brunch. 254 Broad Ave.
(201) 592-1712. www.
adasemuno.org.
Shabbat in Emerson: In
preparation for Passover,
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers Free the Slaves.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
will discuss the issues
of enslavement and
human trafficking that
exist worldwide and
give ideas to make the
Passover celebration
more meaningful.
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
APRIL 8
Noam Zion
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes scholar-inresidence Noam Zion,
senior research fellow
at the Shalom Hartman
Institute. At 7 p.m.,
he will discuss The
Second Seder Plate:
Telling Personal Stories
and the Hagaddah.
During Shabbat morning
services at 9 a.m., his
talk will be Liberating
Your Seder: Dispelling
Five Misconceptions,
followed by a dessert
reception and seminar,
Maximizing Participation
and Customizing Your
Seder. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
services featuring the
Saturday
APRIL 9
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers its PrePassover Fun Shop for
children and interactive
Torah study for adults
with Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, 10 a.m. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or bnaijacobjc.org.
Shabbat in Leonia:
Congregation Adas
Emuno welcomes Paul
Levinson, who will join
Rabbi Barry Schwartz
and the shuls president,
Lance Strate, to discuss
his book, Touching the
Face of the Cosmos:
On the Intersection
Alanna E. Cooper
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
welcomes Alanna E.
Cooper, Ph.D., a cultural
anthropologist who is
the director of Jewish
Lifelong Learning at
Case Western University
in Cleveland, and the
sister of congregant Dr.
Ben Cooper. She will talk
about Exploring Jewish
Diversity with a Focus on
the Sephardi Experience
at the shuls monthly tish
at about noon, following
the monthly Simcha
Kiddush. The monthly
Sephardic minyan
will meet that day as
well. 70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515 or www.
jcot.org.
Sunday
APRIL 10
Cancer prevention/
wellness in Tenafly: In
recognition of National
Cancer Control Month
and World Health Week
in April, Teanecks Holy
Name Medical Center

has partnered with the
Lewin Fund to present
a Living Fearless
Wellness Symposium
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades. A panel of
world-renowned health
experts will be led by
HNMCs Dr. Sharyn N.
Lewin. Complimentary
childcare, kid-friendly
activities for babies
through 10-yearolds, chair massages,
refreshments, and door
prizes. Registration,
9:30 a.m.; program at
10. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
Register: TheLewinFund.
org.
Haggadah history/
food in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob continues its Lox
n Learning series with
a presentation by Rabbi
Marsha Dubrow on the
amazing history of the
Haggadah, 10 a.m. Bagels
and lox. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Yiddish language
history: Professor Dovid
Katz, an internationally
acclaimed scholar, author,
and cultural historian
of Lithuanian Jewry,
discusses Six Hundred
Years of Conflict: the
Tumultuous History of
the Yiddish Language,
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795, www.
rinat.org.
In New York Singles

Sunday
Sunday
APRIL 10
APRIL 3
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
Family concert: Twotime Grammy nominee

Elizabeth Mitchell and
You Are My Flower
perform a folk rock
concert at the Jewish
Museum, 11:30 a.m. 1109
Fifth Avenue at 92nd
Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
meets for a social bagels

and lox brunch at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties. 450
West Nyack Road. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Comedy fundraiser:
Internationally acclaimed
comedian Jay Leno will
headline An Evening
of Laughter and Song,
a benefit for United
Hatzalah, at the Rose
Theater at Lincoln Center,
7:30 p.m. JM-in-theAM radio host Nachum
Segal hosts the concert,
produced by Suki and
Ding Productions. Eli
Beer, United Hatzalah
founder, will honor
United Hatzalah
volunteers. Concert
proceeds will buy
medical equipment for
use by United Hatzalah
volunteers in Israel.
Tickets, (646) 833-7108
or www.jazz.org/
events/t-5560.
Nate Tiffe
Dinner and
entertainment in
Clifton: North Jersey
Jewish Singles 40s-60s,
a group sponsored by
the Clifton Jewish Center,
hosts a spring dance
and buffet dinner with
cabaret entertainment
by Nate Tiffe, 5:30 p.m.
The Boomers Dance
will follow with favorite
party music by a
DJ. 18 Delaware St.
(973) 772-3131 or www.
meetup.com.
Holy Name and Lewin Fund offer

cancer prevention/wellness program
Rabbi David Fine
Rabbi Jacob
Lieberman
Rabbi Deborah
Waxman
Rabbis talk about

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan
Rabbis David Fine and Jacob
Lieberman of Temple Israel & JCC,
leaders of TIJCCs two congregations, egalitarian Conservative
and Reconstructionist, will lead an
exploration on the twin legacies
of Rabbi Mordecai M. Kaplan on
Wednesday, April 13, at 8 p.m.
Dr. Kaplan was a professor at
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America and the founder of
Reconstructionist Judaism. The
program will look at how this one
Jewish rabbi and educator changed

the face of American Judaism and
how his ideas continue to affect the
course of both streams. The event
is a prelude to a special scholar-inresidence weekend, set for May
6 to 7, when TIJCC hosts Rabbi
Deborah Waxman, president of
the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College.
For more information, call (201)
444-9320, email office@synagogue.
org, or go to www.synagogue.org.
massages, refreshments, and door

The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
prizes.
Tenafly offers Living Fearless Wellness Symposium on Sunday, April
The panel will include Dr. Nadeem R.
10. In recognition of April as National
Abu-Rustum the chief of the gynecology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Control Month and of World
Cancer Center; Dr. Fay Kastrinos, MPH
Health Week, which is recognized
and assistant professor in the departin April, Teanecks Holy Name
ment of medicine at Columbia UniverMedical Center partnered with the
sity Medical Center; Dr. Freya R. SchLewin Fund to present the program.
Dr. Sharyn N.
nabel, the director of breast surgery at
World-renowned health experts will
Lewin
NYU Langone Medical Center; Dr. Elan
be part of a panel discussion, led by
Diamond, a medical oncologist at Holy
Holy Names Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin,
Name Medical Center, and Holy Names oncology
that will answer questions about wellness, genetics, breast, gynecologic, lung, and colon cancer
nutritionist, Debbie Bessen.
prevention, and early detection. There will be
Registration is at 9:30 a.m.; the program, with
complimentary childcare, kid-friendly activirefreshments, is at 10. To register, go to Theties for 6 month olds through 10 year-olds, chair
LewinFund.org. Space is limited.
Camp Veritans holds spring open houses

Camp Veritans will hold open houses on Sundays, April 10 and 17, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the
camp, at 225 Pompton Road in North Haledon.
The open houses will feature family friendly
shows at 2:30, with Mad Science on April 10 and
Unique Creatures on April 17. Camp tours will be

offered and administrators will be on hand.
Call (973) 956-1220 or email Carla@
CampVeritans.com.
Obituaries
Martin Berck
Martin Gans Berck, 88, of

Teaneck, died March 28.
He graduated New York
and Columbia universities, where he taught
journalism. As a reporter,
he was credited with
helping open the Soviet
Union to Jewish emigration. His career in journalism included 20 years at
Newsday.
He was involved in
many charitable causes,
including a scholarship for
children in San Miguel de
Allende, Mexico, where he
had a second home, and
many Jewish causes.
He is survived by his
wife of 62 years, Lenore,
and his children, Jonathan
(Suzy) and David (Iris),
both of New York, Judith
(Bryan) of Oregon, and
five grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Lillian Blum
Lillian Blum, ne
Edelstein, 95, of Florida,
formerly of Fair Lawn,
died March 30.
Born in Paterson,
before retiring a few years
ago, she was a bookkeeper
for Feldman Brothers
Electric.
Predeceased by her four
siblings and her husband,
Irving, she is survived
by her daughter Marsha
Blum of Mount Dora, Fla.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Mara Dunayevska
Mara Dunayevska, 76, of
Fort Lee, died March 27.
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Pearl Feder
Pearl Feder, 98, of Hollywood, Fla., formerl of

Oklahoma, Arkansas, Passaic, and Fair Lawn, died
March 27.
Born in North Bergen,
she was active in Jewish
organizations, including
serving as ORT president, Bnai Brith, and
City of Hope. She hosted
the Pearl Feder Show
on a local Florida cable
network.
Predeceased by her
husband, William (Bill),
she is survived by a daughter, Gale Hunter (Barry);
grandchildren, Abbe Spector and Joshua Hunter;
and four great-grandchildren. Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Bertha Goldman
Bertha Deck Goldman, 95,

of Glen Rock, died March
25.
Active in the Jewish
community, she was a former president of Womens
American ORT Bergen
County chapter and a lifetime member of ORT and
Hadassah.
Predeceased by her husband, Jacob, of 60 years,
she is survived by her children Marc, Steven, Diane,
Karen, and Arlene; eight
grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Herbert Kolb
Herbert Kolb of Paramus

died March 27.
Born in Germany, he
was a Holocaust survivor, commercial artist,
craftsman, calligrapher,
philatelist, historian, and
cabinet-maker. He was
a member of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah.
Predeceased by his
wife, Laure, in 1999; he is
survived by his children,
Rebecca Segal (Bruno),
Chuck (Beth), and Steven
(Suzette); six grandchildren; and his partner of 15
years, Arlene Beckman.
Contributions can be
sent to the JCC of Paramus/CBT, Blue Card, or
Ridgewood Art Institute.
Hackensack.
Henrietta Merel
Henrietta Merel, ne
Abramowitz, 94, died
March 29.
She graduated Albany
State Teachers College
and Syracuse University.
She was a reading teacher
in the Jamesville-DeWitt
School District in DeWitt,
N.Y. After retiring, she
was a volunteer reading
teacher at the Elmcrest
Childrens Center.
Predeceased by her
husband, Alfred, in 1983,
a decorated World War II
veteran, she is survived by
daughters, Lynn Altshuler
of Wayne, and Gail Merel
of Houston, Texas; granddaughters, Loren and
Karin Altshuler, and four
great- granddaughters.
In loving memory of
Cantor Kurt Silbermann

from the staff of
the Jewish Standard
The world is richer because he was in it.
Robert Schoems Menorah

Chapel, Paramus.
Elaine ProsnitzHendricks
Elaine (Esther) ProsnitzHendricks, 88, of River

Edge, born in Newark,
died March 25.
She and her husband,
Henry, owner of Prozys
Army and Navy Store,
were among the original
founders of Temple Shalom in River Edge. She was
the shuls secretary and
served as sisterhood president. She supported Israel
and Ramapo College,
where she was a graduate.
Predeceased by her husbands, Henry, and Jimmy
Hendricks, she is survived
by her children, David
(Lori), Iris Levinsohn
(Craig), and Robert;

grandchildren, Joseph and
Miriam Prosnitz, Hannah
Eckstein (Ofer), and Daniel and Kyle Levinsohn.
Donations can be sent
to the Susan G. Komen

Breast Cancer Foundation.
Hackensack.
Kurt Silbermann
The officers and members of the Boards

of the Jewish Home Family, note with
profound sorrow the passing of Cantor
Kurt Silbermann - father of Jewish Home
Assisted Living trustee and father-in-law of
past chairman of the Jewish Home Family,
Judy and Ary Freilich. Cantor Silbermann
was a very special person and his beaming
smile and warm personality will be greatly
missed by all who were privileged to know
him. We extend our deepest sympathy to his
wife Inge, his children Judy and Ary, and his
grandchildren Sarah and David, Elizabeth, and
his entire family. We know that his kindness
and good deeds will be a lasting legacy.
Eli Ungar, Chairman
Carol Silver Elliott, President & CEO
The Clergy, Officers, Board of Directors, Trustees and Temple

Emanu-El community extends our deepest condolences upon
the death of our beloved Cantor Emeritus, Kurt Silbermann zl.
Kurt Silbermann was the heart and soul of Temple Emanu-El
for over 30 years. Together with his wife Inge, they transformed
our community through song and a magnetic warmth that
captured everyone blessed to meet them, into the welcoming,
spirited and kind home of worship we celebrate today.
Cantor Silbermann officiated at countless Bnai Mitzvah
services, weddings, funerals, brisses and baby namings along
with Shabbatot and holidays for our community for decades.
He was an extension of our own families by always being
present and available at each life cycle event.
We offer our condolences to Inge, Kurt's wife of 68 years,
Judy and Ary Freilich, Kurts daughter and son in law, and
their children Sarah & David, and Elizabeth on the loss of their
husband, father and grandfather.
May Cantor Silbermanns memory always be a blessing.
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner
Rabbi Alex Freedman
Cantor Israel Singer
Howard Lavin, President
Obituaries
Lotte Shavel
Lotte Shavel, ne Lang,

81, of Carlsbad, Calif., died
March 18.
Born in Lambsheim,
Germany, she was a medical secretary for St. Barnabas Hospital.
Predeceased by her
husband, Henry, she is
survived by her children,
Marc, and Robin Friend.
Fort Lee.
Janet Werner
Janet Werner, ne Rouse,

80, of Fair Lawn, formerly
of Paterson, died March
24.
Predeceased by her
husband, Harvey, she is
survived by her children,
Fredrick (Vicki), Pamela
Zacotinsky (William), and
Kirk (Donnajean); and
grandchildren, Shawn,
Jara, Harrison, Brad,
Ashleigh, JR, and Andrew.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
George Zolna
George Zolna, 90, of West

Orange, died March 24.
Born in Poland, he was
an executive in the parking lot industry.
He is survived by his
children, William of Livingston, and Renee Weinstein of Fort Lee; and four
grandchildren.
Fort Lee.
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JEAN ALFUS
It is with deep sorrow that the family of Jean Alfus shares the loss of our
beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, and Sister.
Jean, ne Strovitch, was born on December 30, 1920, in Liverpool,
England. As the second oldest of her four siblings, she had a wonderful and
full life. In 1945 she met and married Frank E. Alfus and two years later she
immigrated to the United States. They raised their two daughters, Barbara
and Jennifer, first in Manhattan, then the Bronx, and finally in Teaneck, New
Jersey. Jean was an active member of the Teaneck Chapter of Hadassah,
where she was the long-time Youth Aliyah Chair, and a member of the
Teaneck Jewish Community Center.
Her most important job was being Nanny Jean to her seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A true people-person with a most
remarkable Liverpool sense of humor, she will be missed by all who were
fortunate to know her. She is survived by her youngest sister, Judith, in
Israel as well as many nieces and nephews around the world. Her children
Barbara and Richard (Montvale, NJ), Jennifer and Tom Heide (Wilton, CT),
and grandchildren Jonathan and Dr. Marla Baum (Englewood, NJ), Brian and
Dr. Carrie Baum (New Orleans, LA), and Rachel Baum (Philadelphia, PA),
Daniel and Kalinka Feighan (Stamford, CT), Jessica Feighan (Stamford, CT),
Caitlin and Rick DeForest (Darien, CT), and Conor Feighan (Stamford, CT), as
well as great-grandchildren, Jack and Harrison Baum (Englewood, NJ), Elliot
Maya Baum (New Orleans), and Brady and Tucker DeForest (Darien, CT), are
grateful for her love, dedication, and guidance.
Jeans final three years of life were as a resident of the Jewish Home
Assisted Living in River Vale, New Jersey. We thank the entire staff for their
caring and professional assistance and mostly for their love of our Mother
and our Family. Jean lived Tzedakah and she has taught us well. Contributions to Hadassah, Jewish Home Assisted Living, or Valley Chabad are
greatly appreciated.
The funeral was held on Monday, March 28, 2016 at Gutterman Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors Hackensack, NJ. Shiva will be observed at the
Baum residence, 1 Maureen Court, Montvale, N.J. 07645 through Sunday.
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Rabbi Sidney b. Schimmel
Rabbi Sidney Schimmel, 73, of Bergenfield, died

Saturday, March 26. Born in Exeter, Pa., he
graduated Yeshiva University and The New
School for Social Research in New York City.
Involved in education his entire career, Rabbi
Schimmel was principal at The Hebrew Academy
of Morris County and The Jewish Foundation
School Staten Island; assistant principal at Ashar
in Monsey, N.Y.; taught psychology; and was a
student advisor at Yeshiva University High
School.
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n 1 Participants in the Jewish

Course of Why, led by Rabbi
Mordechai Shain at Lubavitch on
the Palisades in Tenafly, celebrated
their graduation. COURTESY LOTP
n 2 Hundreds in the community
celebrated at the Rubach
Family Purim Carnival at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 3 The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI held a Purim carnival
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mens clubs. COURTESY FLJC/CBI
n 4 Students at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah Hebrew School made
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a Purim carnival. Here, kindergarten

teacher Reva Judas and educational
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n 6 Temple Emeths religious school
performed I Am Esther, a Purim
play written and directed by Rachel
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n 7 Arline Herman, Alice Blass, Sophie Infield,
and Janet Finke dance the Miserlou to the
music of the Odessa Klezmer Band at a
recent Cafe Europa, hosted by Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey. COURTESY JFSNJ
n 8 Children enjoyed the Purim
carnival at Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson. COURTESY CBI
n 9 Chabad of Passaic County in Wayne
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and seniors. COURTESY CHABAD
n 5 Temple Emanu-El of
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check www.elal.com, call

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technology and effective water-management policies.
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drought-tolerant crops.
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After evaluating a number of options to enhance
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Lundberg Family Farms, one of the worlds largest producers of organic rice, is a partner in the pilot project.

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2. How to qualify
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4. How to prepare for homeownership
5. What you should know about the local
market
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The first sustainable farming initiative leveraging Israels
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California.
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amount of water ordinarily used in growing rice.
We believe this initiative represents the first use of
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We couldnt ask for better partners: Ben-Gurion University of the Negevs Zuckerberg Institute for Water
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This effort could serve as a model for other farms
and potentially save hundreds of thousands of acre-feet
of water in California if widely adopted.
As Californias farmers continue to seek solutions
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