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Uncle Toms Cabin in Yiddish,
with Jewish slaves
Uncle Toms Cabin in
New seder makes

hash of haggadah
How long does it take for a
joke to become an earnest Jewish non-profit initiative?
About a decade.
In 2005, one of the key plot
lines in the Passover comedy
film When Do We Eat was
the pater familiass accidental
ingestion of mind-altering drugs
as he led the seder.
Now, LeOr, the nonprofit formed by Roy and
Claire Kaufmann to promote
Jewish support of marijuana
legalization, has issued a
cannabis-themed haggadah
which, according to its press
release, urges high-minded
Jews to spark up seder table
conversations.
We hosted the inaugural
Cannabis Seder last year here
in Portland, Claire Kaufmann
said. The seder was such a
fun, powerful, and uplifting
experience for all of us there
that we wanted to share it with
our community worldwide.
The 30-page haggadah
promises to provide a familiar
and fun venue to have a
new, often-uncomfortable
conversation about marijuana
prohibition, race, and justice.
And yes, it adds a leaf of
marijuana to the seder plate,
replacing the lettuce used for
maror.
Attending [LeOrs] cannabis
seder last year, I realized just
how far we have come bringing
an amazing life-affirming plant
out of the shadows, said Adam
Eidinger of Dr. Bronners, the

events main sponsor.
As topical haggadot go, this
is probably the first to begin its
Tips for a great seder section
with the admonition Be socialmedia sensitive.
Noting that cannabis
consumption is a sensitive
issue, it cautions that If you
are going to photograph your
seder and post to social media,
get explicit permission from
attendees first.
The haggadah follows the
outline of the traditional seder,
except that with each cup of
wine there is a complementary
bowl of cannabis consumed.
(The authors recommend
drinking grape juice rather
than wine to avoid excessive
intoxication.)
It includes less than joyful
reflections on the drug war,
such as this one from Michelle
Alexanders book, The New
Jim Crow: Nothing has
contributed more to the
systematic mass incarceration
of people of color in the United
States than the war on drugs.
There are more people in prisons
and jails today just for drug
offenses then were incarcerated
for all reasons in 1980.
You can download the
haggadah at jews-and-weed.
myshopify.com for, of course,
a tax-deductible donation of
$4.20. (420 is the number thats
come to be code for pot.)
Yiddish. Sounds crazy, no?

But across 19thcentury Russia and
eastern Europe, Jews
eagerly devoured Russian
Jewish writer Isaac Meir
Diks Yiddish version of
the antislavery classic.
The online Yiddish
studies journal In Geveb
recently translated Diks
introduction to his 1868
translation. But that fails
to capture the full flavor
of the book he renamed
Slavery or Serfdom. It
presents the antebellum South like something
from an alternate universe: in it, the slaves
(and the masters criticized for being too kind
for their own good) are Jewish.
The translation made it to the New
World, where it gained critical and popular
attention. As a 1905 review in the respected
American Jewish monthly New Era Illustrated
Magazine made clear, Dik didnt just translate
the language. He transposed the whole tale.
Now, Jewish customs and textual references
pepper the story. Uncle Tom, a devout Jew,

compares himself to the biblical Joseph,
sold into bondage. Jewishness wasnt just a
gimmick to attract readers. It added to the
novels treatment of slavery.
Its the ending that makes Slavery or
Serfdom one of the best things ever. The
former slaves go to Canada, where the
remaining non-Jews convert to Judaism, all
of them establish a synagogue with Uncle
Tom as president, and they all live happily
HANNAH GREEN/JEWNIVERSE
ever after.
Are you ready for Esther Savings Time?

Theres a new coincidence of calendars on
the horizons.
It probably wont
be as big a deal as
Thanksgivukkah was,
back in 2013, when
the first night of
Chanukah overlapped
Thanksgiving for the first time in the
American holidays history and for the
last time in tens of thousands of years.
Thanksgivukkah, after all, came with
commemorative tchotkes, including teeshirts and menorahs.
But according to Benjamin Dreyfus, a
research associate in the physics department
of the University of Maryland, next year, 2017,
will be the first time that Purim coincides
with the start of Daylight Savings Time the
Saturday night when clocks are moved an

hour forward.
The holiday will gain an extra hour on
the clock but in fact be just as long (or
as short, for those of you who always wish
Purim lasted longer).
Making it to the morning Megillah reading
will be more challenging than usual, however.
If the Daily Savings Time schedule stays the
same, Purim and Spring Forward will coincide
LARRY YUDELSON
again in 2028 and 2031.
LARRY YUDELSON
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Noshes
They sold Joseph into slavery, and thats

how the Jews got to Egypt. Right?
Did you know that?
Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich at a Jewish bookstore in Brooklyn,
talking to black-hatted customers. New York Magazines Jonathan Chait wrote:
this is a bit like visiting MIT, wandering into a physics lab, and asking people if
they ever heard of this guy named Isaac Newton.
Inside stuff
on Amy Schumer
Heres some
interesting sidelight
about AMY SCHUMER,
34, who has become a
major cultural figure in
the last year. Recently, a
friend referred me to a
July 2015 article on the
Religion News Service
website: Confessions of
Amy Schumers Childhood Rabbi. The author
is RABBI JEFFREY
SALKIN, who was the
rabbi of a Long Island
Reform synagogue to
which Amy and her
family belonged from
1988 to 1995 (and who
also spent a year as rabbi
of Temple Beth Am in
Bayonne). Salkin presided over Amys bat
mitzvah, as well as the
bar mitzvah of her older
half-brother, JASON
STEIN (Amys mother,
SANDY, was divorced
from Jasons father when
Jason was quite young).
The rabbi recalled liking
the whole family very
much, including Amys
father, GORDON
SCHUMER. As for Amy,
he says: I remember
[her] as a sweet, funny
kid, who often asked
probing and humorous
questions in religious
school.
About Sandy Schumer,
the rabbi writes: [Sandy]
was on the temple board,
and chaired the education committee. My
friend and I were a little
confused by this statement. Hes a family his-
tory expert and he traced

Amys mothers family
and found no Jewish ancestry. Amy has at least
once referred to herself
as half Jewish (more on
that below). I know that
some Reform temples
have non-Jews on their
board, but it is still pretty
rare and wouldnt the
chair of the education
committee be an odd
fit for a non-Jew? Well,
I wrote the rabbi, who
now is the senior rabbi
of a Florida temple, and
asked him awkward questions: Is Sandy Schumer
a Jew-by-Choice? and,
if not, I think it is worth
telling my readers that
non-Jews do serve on
temple boards (many of
my readers, I know, dont
know this). The rabbi
replied in one sentence:
Sandy Schumer is Jewish.
I guess you can see
where Im going. Its
apparent that Amys
mother is a Jew by
choice, and those bios
that describe Amy as
half have to be rewritten. As for Amy describing herself as half
Jewish well, it was in
the context of a jocular
exchange in which that
comment made comic
sense. (Amy Schumers
Comedy Central series,
Inside Amy Schumer,
began its fourth season
on April 21.)
Criminal is a
high-powered action
flick, directed by ARIEL

VROMEN, 43, an Israeli
who served in the elite 669
IDF unit (Airborne Evacuation and Rescue). In a
last-ditch effort to stop a
diabolical plot, the memories, secrets, and skills of a
dead CIA agent, Billy Pope
(Ryan Reynolds), are
surgically implanted into
Jericho (Kevin Costner), a
dangerous death-row
inmate. The CIA hopes that
Jericho will complete
Popes mission. The
surgery also implants
Popes deep love for his
wife and family and his
strong sense of responsibility. Israeli GAL GADOT,
30, who plays Popes wife,
meets with Jericho to
reinforce his new sense of
purpose. Tommy Lee
Jones plays the surgeon,
with Gary Oldman as the
head of the CIA. (Opens
Friday, April 15.)
Gadot, of course, is
now famous as Wonder
Woman and while Batman v. Superman didnt
get great reviews, her
stunning red carpet dress
for the films premiere led
W magazine to recently
comment: Its Wonder
Womans world, were just
living in it.
JON FAVREAU, 49,
is the director of a
new Disney animated
version of The Jungle
Book, the Kipling classic.
It is billed as a re-imagining of the 1967 Disney
version, and truer to the
original Kipling stories
Amy Schumer
Jeffrey Salkin
Ariel Vromen
Gal Gadot
Jon Favreau
Gillian Greene
than the 1967 film.

Jewish thespians who
provide the voice of
important characters
include: Favreau
(Pygmy Hog); SCARLETT JOHANSSON, 31
(Kaa); the late GARRY
SHANDLING (Ikki),
and SAM RAIMI, 56, as
Giant Squirrel. Best
known as a director,
Raimi (Spider-Man
trilogy) takes a little
acting job occasionally.
Many big-time actors
and directors readily
agree to be in film they
can watch with their
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kids. Raimi has five

children with his wife
GILLIAN GREENE, 48
(the daughter of the
late LORNE Bonanza
GREENE).
The new baseball
season has begun.
These are the Jewish
players on a major
league team roster as of
opening day: RYAN
BRAUN, 31, outfielder,
Milwaukee; CRAIG
BRESLOW, 35, relief
pitcher, Miami; SCOTT
FELDMAN, 33, pitcher,
Houston; NATE FREIMAN, 29, first base,
Washington; SAM FULD,

34, outfielder, Oakland;
IAN KINSLER, 33,
infielder, Detroit; JOC
PEDERSON, 23, outfielder, Los Angeles; KEVIN
PILLAR, 27, outfielder,
Toronto; DANNY
VALENCIA, 31, outfielder,
Oakland. Also a tip of
the cap to ELI KASHKI, a
George Washington
University junior from
Montclair. Last year, the
infielder hit .306 and
started all 54 games.
GWU is a Division I
school.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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Sinais growing again
Program for 18- to 21-year-old special needs
boys to be housed at Teanecks Heichal HaTorah
JOANNE PALMER
he Sinai Schools always have taken

daunting challenges and turned
them into opportunities.
Yes, that sounds like a clich,
but its not. Its the truth. Sinai takes children
whose special needs have caused them to fail
in school, some of them time after time. Children whose parents worry constantly about
their futures and for that matter their present. Children whose families have to overcome the stigma of special needs, and then
conquer the fear of being unable to afford the
special education their children need.
The Sinai Schools model places specialneeds students in two elementary day
schools and three Jewish high schools, giving both them and the other schools typically developing students the chance to
spend social time together, demystifying
both groups. It tailors its programs to fit
each students unique needs, and it manages, through a complex web of funding,
including gifts from generous local families
and institutions, including Holy Name Medical Center, to fund almost all of its students,
because it is the rare family that could afford
to pay Sinais tuition bill.
All this is wonderful but none of it is new.
But using one of its foundational attributes,
the ability to make something very good out
of something inherently challenging, Sinai
has faced a new challenge it had been running out of space in one of its high schools
with a new leap.
In the fall, at the start of the next school
year, there will be a sixth branch of Sinai. It
will meet at Heichal HaTorah, a three-yearold boys high school housed at the onetime
home of the Jewish Center of Teaneck, for
young men.
Now, Sinais first- through eighth-graders
go to either the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North
Jersey in River Edge, or to the Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston. Starting
in ninth grade, students whose disabilities do
not include the intellectual deficits that would
keep them from college, go to the Sinai program at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School
in Livingston. That program is for both boys
and girls.
Boys whose future is unlikely to include
college go to Sinai at the Torah Academy of
Bergen County, and similarly circumstanced
girls to go Sinai at Maayanot. Both schools
are in Teaneck, and both Sinai programs
enroll students who range from 14 to 21, when
they age out.
Sinais relationships with both schools are
very strong and mutually beneficial, Sam
A Sinai student enjoys a science lesson.
TABC and Sinai students celebrate together with a sefer Torah.
Frishman, Sinais executive director, said.

The culture at TABC comes from the top
and permeates through the staff and students. It could not be better in the way that
everyone interacts with our boys, and with
how much our boys gain from TABC boys in
that environment.
This program is about 20 years old, and
there are now adult residents of Teaneck who
grew up side by side with our boys, and have
become major supporters of Sinai, he continued. They are now community leaders
who are so sensitive to the issues of inclusion,
and why it is so important to have children
with disabilities in the same school as nondisabled students.
The relationship with Maayanot, too, is
strong. To its great credit, from the time it
opened its doors, its leaders said that they
wanted to establish Sinai there, and everything about it, both philosophically and the
way its girls act, is consistent with the tone
that it took at the very beginning.

Now, though, as both TABC and Sinai grow,
TABC is running out of room for more Sinai
students, Mr. Fishman said. We have grown
more than 100 percent at TABC in the last six
years, and the demand for this coming year
would add about another 20 percent, just in
one year. We have a large number of students
graduating from our two elementary schools,
and our phone is ringing off the hook with
new prospective parents.
The word is out. We are getting calls from
near and far.
It is Sinais mission to accept all of the students whose needs it can meet. So where to
put them?
We realized that there was an opportunity, Mr. Fishman said. We could continue
to serve children who are high school age in
one school, and then they could graduate
and continue for the next three years at a
new location.
A student and teacher work together

on life skills.
Students learn vocational skills

through Sinai.
Sinai students work on computer skills.
That will solve an occasionally thorny

issue for the boys. They all graduate Sinai
students graduate from high school with
their TABC and Maayanot peers but then
the TABC boys and Maayanot students go
off to Israel or to college, and the Sinai students go back to high school. That situation will not change for the girls, because
Maayanot still has the space to accommodate them, but the boys, like their peers,
will leave high school and move on.
The boys will go to Heichal HaTorah,
where they will be made welcome. Mr.
Fishman is thrilled with the reception
Sinai got there. We approached them and
asked if they would be open to having a
Sinai presence there, and the reaction was
so heartwarming! he said. They said, Of
course we would love it! Those are exactly
the values we want to instill in our boys.
Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Rothwachs is the
schools dean. We have had students in
the past who have struggled with staying
in high school longer than their typically
developing peers, he said. To have this
opportunity to split our school and offer
them an opportunity to move on to the
next part of their lives is something that we
hope will be comforting to them and their
families, just in terms of letting them do
what everyone else is doing.
As the Sinai students in the Teaneck high
schools get older, the educational focus
shifts from academics and classroom
experiences to vocational and life skills
training, he said. At TABC, the approach
for 18-, 19-, 20-, 21-year-olds is more and
more on vocational training, on gaining
more independence in the community.
In order to concentrate on providing its
oldest students both boys and girls and
their parents with the strongest program
possible, Sinai has hired a new director to
head up not only the program at Heichal
HaTorah but also to oversee all the education it offers those students.
In some ways, those three or four years
are the bridge between the students adolescence and the lives they will lead once
they leave school.
Jordan Silvestri, a social worker who
has spent the last decade working at

Ohel, providing, managing, and overseeing community-based and residentially
based programs for men and women with
developmental disabilities, is Sinais newest director. One of the major things Ive
focused on has been residential services,
working with adult males and females in
their next stage in life, assisting them and
guiding them, hopefully helping them
develop independent life skills. Like everyone else, these students trajectories could
take many directions. They might live in
group homes or with their parents; they
might live with roommates, or date and
marry.
By the time their children are 21, our
parents of students with developmental
disabilities are very good advocates for
them in the educational program, Dr.
Rothwachs said. They know what their
rights are, and how to navigate the system,
and they work with their case managers
and with us. But many parents describe
their feelings, when their children turn 21,
as walking off a cliff with no support.
Jordan is very well versed in the new
bureaucracy that parents will face, and
therefore in how to prepare them for it.
When the students leave, our hope is to
provide them with as much skill as possible
to get to the next stage of life, Mr. Silvestri said. It might be a group home, living
at home and going to a day program, or
a vocational program, or some version of
all three. What I have found in my years of
experience is that people who are best prepared are most well equipped to go through
a transition successfully, to take advantage
of what the system can offer them, and to
experience new parts of life.
Some people think that when youre
done with school, youre done growing,
Dr. Rothwachs said. Thats not true for
anyone. We want to teach students and parents not just how to deal with the bureaucracy, how to live in a group home, but to
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A new Jewish voice at the Wayne Y

Judy Weil applauds phenomenally forward thinking attitude
LOIS GOLDRICH
Judy Weil, who recently joined the YMCA
in Wayne as director of Jewish programs,
hit the ground running beginning work
on February 1, organizing a well-attended
Purim carnival on March 20, and hosting a model Passover seder for seniors on
April 13. (Not to mention the big Passover expo on the same day showcasing
holiday products, featuring a nutritionist from Shoprite, and including arts and
crafts projects. Oh and the April 11 cooking demonstration featuring the community shlicha.)
As director of Jewish programs and outreach, Ms. Weil hopes to increase the
exposure of Jewish programming at the Y
and increase Jewish membership.
She believes she is particularly well
suited for the position.
Ive been a Wayne resident for 30
years, she said. My kids grew up here.
Ive been a member of the Y for 25 years
that is, both before and after the facility changed from the YM/YWHA of North
Jersey to the Wayne YMCA in 2011 and
Ive been past president of [the towns]
Shomrei Torah and the local Bnai Brith
Women.
Ms. Weil is particularly impressed by
the Ys phenomenally forward thinking
attitude, led by executive director Justin
Inhe and associate executive director Joyce
Goldberg Fein. The latter, who is Ms. Weils
immediate supervisor, was the interim
executive director when the formerly
Jewish Y joined with the Metro YMCA to
become the Wayne YMCA.
Ms. Weil also acknowledged the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey,
which has provided a one-year grant to
fund her position.
It seems to be a lovely partnership, she
said of the relationship between the two
Ys. I love that the YMCAs mission is childcentric. For example, they provide one
week of free swimming lessons to kids.
It also, she said, has been extremely welcoming to me.
She said that the change in the
Ys status reflected changes in the
Judy Weil with haggadah display at Wayne YMCA.

Jewish population of Wayne. It was only
5 percent Jewish when she moved in, she
added, noting that with more intermarriage, its a different community were
reaching out to.
With that in mind, she is preparing a
five-week program for May, called Building Bridges, Building Friendships. For
that program, she is inviting leaders of different faith communities to address participants. One session, she said, will look
at Abraham as the father of two religions.
Then there will be one from the Indian
school in Wayne; one from the mosque;
and one from the rabbi of my synagogue.
That rabbi, Randall Mark of Shomrei
Torah, has been called upon quite often
since Ms. Weil took on her new position.
Ive been leaning on him a lot, but he
thinks its great, she said.
Pointing out that Wayne has a large unaffiliated population that might be attracted
by revitalized Jewish programing, Ms. Weil
acknowledged that some former members
simply walked out when the old Y became
part of the new organization. As a member, I heard some grumblings, she said.
Some just left. We want to pull people
back in and get new members. Many never
walked in when it had its old name. But of
those who did, many stayed.
In addition to Mays interfaith program,

Ms. Weil is planning a large gathering to
mark Yom HaShoah, but it wont conflict
with that of federation, she said. She will
also coordinate events for Yom HaZikaron
and Yom HaAtzmaut.
Hiring a designated Jewish professional
at a YMCA is not common practice, she
continued. One such program exists in
Toledo, Ohio; another is in Jerusalem.
I was told about one in Massachusetts,
but I cant find it, she said. This is really
wonderful. Its taking a look at what the
community is looking for, and then supporting it.
Ms. Weil hopes to reach unaffiliated
Jews, as well as those who leave organized
Jewish life after their children have passed
bnai mitzvah age. I love a challenge,
she said. She added that she has already
worked together with the towns Conservative and Reform rabbis and has been in
touch with Rabbi Michael Gurkov, who
heads Chabad of Wayne.
Does she have a fixed agenda?
Im making it up as I go along, she said.
When I have time, I check on Ys around
the country to see what theyre doing.
Although her grant from JFNNJ is for one
year, she hopes that it will be extended.
Her initial interview was two-pronged, she
said, and she faced questions from representatives of both the federation and the Y.
I marvel at the forward thinking of
doing collaborative hiring on this, she
said. I told them both that they needed to
hire someone from Wayne, someone who
knows the players and the town. Both factions heard that.
Lisa Harris Glass, managing director
of the federations community planning
and impact department, said that the idea
for Ms. Weils position grew organically,
emanating from a meeting with the leadership of the Wayne Y, including members
of the Jewish committee. The need for this
position emanated from the change in the
management of the Wayne Y to the Metro
YMCAs. They have been great to work with
and have done a lot for the Y. Our mandate
was to find a way to preserve and increase
the Jewish in Wayne, once the Y no longer had that as its central mandate.
Although we conceived it more than a
year ago, the position took a long time to
fill. We were not willing to settle.
The minute Judy came in for the interview, we knew she was a great fit, Ms.
Glass continued. She had a clear passion
for the Wayne Jewish community. Additionally, as a former Jewish professional and a
Jewish lay leader, she possessed an innate
understanding of gathering stakeholders and working collaboratively. We hope
that Judys presence and work will serve
as a fulcrum for the Jewish community of
Wayne, and surrounding areas. We believe
her work will provide a means for gathering Jews of all types for community events
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JCC senior adult services expands dementia program

Center listened to caregivers concerns, program director says
LOIS GOLDRICH
istening to caregivers and

responding to their concerns is
an important part of her work,
says Judith Davidsohn Nahary,
director of senior adult services at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Those concerns often are quite pressing
for people who tend to parents, spouses,
or other loved ones with dementia.
For example, Ms. Nahary said, caring
for someone with dementia over, say, a
three-day weekend may be particularly
challenging. With that in mind, the JCC
recently expanded its four-day program
for people with different forms of dementia, including Alzheimers disease, to
encompass Fridays as well.
We previously offered four days a
week, Ms. Nahary said, noting that
unlike many other organizations, the JCC
provides support groups for caregivers as
well as for their charges. Several [caregivers] said they would prefer five days a
week, that it would make their lives easier. So we put a budget together, ensured
that we [could provide] staff, transportation, and food, and then went back to
them to see how many would do it.
Right now, that number is 11, but Ms.
Nahary expects the number of participants to grow as people explore the new
option.
In general, that is how we operate
with this program, she said. The caregivers tell us what the needs are out
there, and we try to offer them a solution. Well give them the same services
we have currently. Were not trying any
new services yet. But having an extra
day will allow us to add more to programming, employing different types of
therapies.
In addition to providing transportation, serving breakfast and lunch, and
running support groups for family caregivers and aides, the program offers
opportunities for exercise as well as
music, pet, art, and youth therapy, Ms.
Nahary said, adding that scholarships
help defray the costs of the program for
those who cannot afford it.
Thirty-five people, suffering from
varying stages of Alzheimers disease
and other dementias, come to the adult
day care program for seniors living with
those conditions. Initially, they dont
need a caregiver, Ms. Nahary said. But
once they have additional needs we cant
accommodate such as those involving
use of the toilet and medication they
can come with an aide. Most places dont
allow that. Were unique in that way. The
reason is because we want to provide
a place for participants to age in place.
A bus picks up day-care participants at their homes and brings them back after
the days activities.
COURTESY DEBORAH CHIAPPANE OPRANDY
Bill Chiappane, standing here with his

daughter Jennifer Chiappane Marion,
goes to the JCCs day-care program.
While their condition may progress, they

can still do everything. An aide can help.
Ms. Nahary said most adult day centers
are open five days a week, but they are
medical models. I dont know of many
similar to ours. What is unique about the
JCC, she said, is that we are not in an
isolated environment only for this population. Were in a vibrant community
center, with every age group. Because of
that, we can do so much more with our
population.
That includes intergenerational programming and interaction with the performing arts department. They dont
feel like theyre in a nursing home or day
center; they feel like part of the community, Ms. Nahary said. Theyre threaded
into it. The staff knows you, and the security guards and teachers all know you. Its
a very different feeling for them.
To enhance participants feelings of
well being, the program strives to give
participants a sense of purpose, she
continued. Theyve spent their lives
caring for other people. This dementia happens, and now they need help.
They may lose their purpose, their independence. This takes a toll on self-esteem
and they may become depressed.
We give them a sense of purpose;
they feel like theyre coming to work. It
changes their outlook, especially with
dementia. We call them volunteers, and
they have an opportunity to work with
the community.
For example, they may be asked to help
pack weekend snack packs for the Center for Food Action, and they feel like
theyre giving back. Some participants go
home and tell their spouses, Im running

the JCC. They feel needed and wanted,
so theyre more likely to stay engaged
and active. Weve found amazing ways to
offer that to them.
The seniors relationship with the JCC
early childhood department is especially
fulfilling, Ms. Nahary said. They love the
They feel needed

and wanted, so
theyre more
likely to stay
engaged and
active. Weve
found amazing
ways to offer
that to them.
JUDITH DAVIDSOHN NAHARY
children and some of the children have

cute names for some particular senior,
like bubby this or papa that.
Caregiver Deborah Chiappane
OPrandy of Fort Lee, whose 78-year-old
father, Bill, participates in the dementia
program, said, We never even considered another program. We were attracted
by its longevity and its reputation. We
didnt look anywhere else.
And while her father was enjoying the
four-day program, We were so excited
that they would add on Friday, she said.
Weve been involved with the JCC since
September. Dad had been diagnosed with
Alzheimers for five years and wasnt able
to drive. This made him homebound, and
we wanted to get him involved with some
kind of program. This was recommended
through the social worker who was dealing with us in the hospital.
I just love the program, Ms. OPrandy
continued. I cant say enough good
things about it. She said that the JCC provides transportation and the bus driver,
Shane, comes right to the door. Dads like
a kid waiting for the bus with his coat on,
waving at the driver. Her father, she
said, helps people get on and off. Hes
still able to function in that way.
Happily, her father met someone in
the program that he had known years
ago. Right away they knew each other,
she said. Talk about six degrees of
separation.
While her dad lives with her now, her
sister does the legwork, the research.
Sadly, he doesnt recognize her. Her
brother, she said, has her dads power of
attorney.
Since he joined the program at the JCC,
Ive seen a difference in him, Ms. OPrandy
said. He just fully enjoys the interaction
with staff and the exercise. Hes more engaging with people, and he very much enjoys
the children. He literally gets down on the
ground with them. Perhaps most important, what helps is knowing hes safe, being
picked up and cared for from 9 to 3. This
lets me get to personal appointments or
run to the store or to caregivers meetings,
where she sees other people encountering
a similar challenge.
Its weird to have to take care of a
father, she said, but noted that her caretaking duties began in earnest only last
year. She said she appreciates the calls
from the JCC updating her on her fathers
experiences.
If hes having a bad day, I get a phone
call to say this is what happened, she
said. There was a fire drill recently and
he had to be outside. He seemed more
agitated. But in general, she said, He
makes friends there, and remembers
peoples names.
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Coming out of the parents closet

Eshel retreat for Orthodox parents of LGBT
children creates community, brings hard issues to light
JOANNE PALMER
ts not easy being Orthodox and

gay. Nor is it easy being the Orthodox parent of a gay man, a lesbian, a
bisexual, a transgender person, or a
self-identified queer.
(See? Even the language is hard; queer
seems harsh, judgmental, and out-ofbounds, as well as hard to define, although
its used comfortably by people who apply
that label to themselves.)
In May, for the fourth time, the organization Eshel, which primarily is a support
system for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews, is offering its yearly retreat for that communitys
parents.
It also hosts a monthly conference
call for parents, along with many other
resources and referrals; see the box for
more information.
It attracts many parents, who find the
nonjudgmental community it offers a
balm. As many of them say, When your
kids come out of the closet, you go right
inside it. And the closet is a dark, airless,
stifling place.
Among those parents who go to the
Eshel retreat every year are at least two
couples from Englewoods Congregation
Ahavath Torah. One of those couples,
Jeannie and Dr. Kenneth Prager, have been
public about their daughter, Tamar, who
is lesbian, whom they love, and of whom
they are deeply proud (as they are of their
three other children).
The other couple, Leah and Steven, as
we will call them, are equally proud of
their daughter, but they do not feel free to
use their names. Thats not because they
are ashamed, they say fiercely, and its not
because they feel that their own community would not accept them, but because
they worry about their former son-in-laws
community, which is farther to the right
than theirs.
They still are fond of their former son-inlaw, whom they suspect has not been able
to be open about why his marriage died,
and they do not want to cause him any
more pain. They assume that the details
of their story will make their identity clear
to their own community, and they are fine
with that.
Their story centers around their now
32-year-old daughter, who got married to
a man straight out of college, and we had
no idea whatsoever that she was anything
but straight, Leah said. I think she knew.
She identifies as bisexual, and she had a
girlfriend in college, but we didnt know
she was a girlfriend. She would come to
Shabbat, but the girlfriend part that part
wasnt known to us.
Jeannie and Dr. Kenneth Prager of Englewood talk to another parent at the retreat.
Her daughter met a very lovely fellow, and they were married for four years
before they separated and she moved back
home.
Her husband knew that she identified
as bisexual, so it wasnt as much a surprise
to him, Leah continued. Im not sure
that most people know that sexuality is a
spectrum. I didnt until I had to.
Everyone sang,
full throated, full
voiced, and you
could just feel
the fellowship.
STEVEN
Her daughter also had been diagnosed

with major depression, which derailed
her life, and was a much bigger issue than
the bisexuality, but was not necessarily
connected to her sexuality, Leah said.
Her daughter is now studying at Pardes,
in Israel, recovered from the depression,
full of hope for her next move. Its been a
hard slog, though, and her parents hope
that community support will make it easier
both for them and for other parents at the

beginning of what might be a long road.
Our daughter was eager to help us
understand this part of her life, Leah said.
Leah and her husband did not feel comfortable talking about it at shul or with
her friends. We didnt know what kind
of response we would get, she said. But
at her daughters urging, she and Steven
went to Eshels first retreat. It was cathartic, she said. I was pleased to find that
we had a lot of things in common with the
other parents. We could have been friends
anyway. It was a place to talk about anything we wanted to talk about. Everyone
was there for the same reason, and it made
a huge difference.
It wasnt that I didnt know other LGBT
people. Of course I did. And it didnt trouble me in any way. But its different when
its your child. Its not the trajectory you
expect life to follow.
Her daughter still is Orthodox. In that
way, she is different from many other parents weve met, whose kids have drifted,
Leah said. She is observant. She lives a
shomer mitzvot life, and its really hard
finding a place to go if you are LBGT. Its
hard to find a place where you can be comfortable. It s not an issue at Pardes. They
are welcoming.
Steven was less comfortable than Leah
with the idea of going to the first Eshel

retreat. I considered myself a 21st-century
man, he said. I would have been happier
if my daughter had figured her sexuality
out before she married a man, because
this made it disruptive for everyone, and I
found myself identifying with him. But my
wife said I am going anyway, and you can
come. And then I realized that if she feels
that way, then I also really need to go.
The depth of his feelings once he got
there astounded him. I sat there weeping
for the whole time, he said. So much for
having made peace with myself.
I thought that all our problems were in
the rear view mirror, that she was marrying a great guy, with a great fellowship in
graduate school she was on her way. I
guess it affected me far more than I was
willing to admit.
Steven, a lawyer, works in legal publishing; for some reason, he said, the industry attracts many gay men and lesbians.
People would say this company is so
gay! he said. So I knew a lot of gay men
and women in committed relationships, so
the idea didnt blow me away, but it would
have been so much easier if shed said it
at 19, when she was home from college
at intersession, not when she was 26 and
married to a man.
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So, with all his preconceptions about his

own state of advanced acceptance, Steven
got to the retreat, and Friday night, Kabbalat Shabbat was one of the most moving
religious services I have ever experienced.
Everyone sang, full throated, full voiced,
and you could just feel the fellowship,
even though youd never met most of them
before. It was so moving.
Eshel is very discreet. There are parents we met at the first retreat who are still
not out in their community. As the parents
of gay children, it really did provide a safe
space. The feeling of fellowship was very
powerful.
He can bring some of that feeling home.
I occasionally lead services at Ahavat Torah, and I occasionally read from
the Torah, he said. I was afraid that
they might not let me any more, if they
knew. But everyone was very open and
understanding.
There are parents at Eshel who say
when they come out as parents of LGBT
children, that is, not as themselves gay or
lesbian they are shunned by their community. We didnt have any of that.
Jeannie Prager, who has been going to
the Eshel retreat with her husband since it
began, stressed the importance of community. One of the best things about being
Orthodox is getting the community as
part of your life, she said. You are part
of the community, and it is there for you.
And then you have a gay child, and you
lose that. Its just ripped away from you.
Instantly you feel that you cant talk to
your friends, that there is no one you can
talk to because you dont know who will
listen to you.
Eshel just completed a survey of 100
Orthodox parents of LGBT children, she
said. Nine percent of them said they went
first to their rabbi when they discovered
that they have a gay child. That is shockingly low for people who go to the rabbi
for family problems, and it shows that they
are afraid of the response they might get.
They were afraid that theyd lose
their community. Eshel gives them a
community.
It took them years to be able to tell their
friends that their daughter Tamar was lesbian. Kenny couldnt tell the people he
learned with once a week for 20 years,
she said. He just could not say it to them.
Finally, the day before her wedding, I said
to him, Its now or never. He finally got
the words out. That was in September
2005; Tamar has been happily married
ever since then, and her parents have shed
their reticence.
Recently, Leah and Steven and the Pragers met with their rabbi, Shmuel Goldin.
Rabbi Goldin has begun a series of what
he calls town halls, when he gathers all
the minyanim that make up his more than
700-family congregation together after
Shabbat services and talks about issues in
place of a more standard talk on the Torah

portion. First Rabbi Goldin talks, then he
answers questions posed by his listeners.
The first town hall was about women,
and the third will be about conversion.
The second, last Shabbat, was about
LGBTQ Jews. Leah, Steven, and the Pragers had some influence over that.
First, he allowed the families to post a
flier about the upcoming retreat. Next,
at the town hall, he called on Dr. Prager
for the first question. I gave a 10-minute speech, and it was extremely well
received, he said. One guy told me, three
weeks later, that I had really clarified some
confusing issues for him. I started out by
thanking Rabbi Goldin, and I told him that
I wished there were 100 Orthodox rabbis
in America today offering people like me a
chance to speak. I thanked him for being
an exception to the rule.
We are definitely in a better place than
we were a few years ago, or even last year,
Dr. Prager said. I do see progress. Nevertheless, [Leah] and [Steve] and Jeannie
and I are, I think, the only families that
have come out publicly in this huge congregation. We know that there are others.
Its a shonda.
Rabbi Goldin talks about the issue very
carefully, attempting to avoid the many
landmines its easy to trip over.
Im not really sure I have changed on
this issue, other than that my positions
have become more detailed, he said.
There are lines that may not be crossed,
and I know where they are and those
lines are not just mine. I have done a lot of
consulting with other rabbis.
It is extremely important for the community to address this issue. The way I
shape it for my community is that every
Jewish generation has to balance between
two competing needs, to enfranchise as
many Jews within its time as possible, to
make sure that our Judaism speaks to as
many Jews in our time as we can. At the
same time, we must maintain the tradition
so that it is recognizable, to maintain the
traditional values and laws and rules and
regulations that have characterized our
tradition across time.
I often say that our Judaism has to be
recognizable to our grandparents and at
the same time our grandchildrens Judaism has to be recognizable to us. So how
do you balance those needs, deal with
changing times and at the same time maintain loyalty to your core values?
Belonging is one of the critical elements of the Jewish experience, Rabbi
Goldin continued. If you have a group of
people who say they feel unwelcome, or
that they are not a part of the community,
then we have the challenge of dealing with
it.
How do you deal with individuals in
our community who are gay, and who at
the same time express a keen desire to
remain part of the Orthodox community?
How do we balance our boundaries with
the issue of inclusion? It is a challenge, not
Naomi Oppenheim of Teaneck is another parent who finds community at the

retreat.
something to be ignored.
You have to figure out what your
approach will be.
His approach, Rabbi Goldin continued,
includes allowing gay men and lesbians to
join his community, with the caveat that
it does not become a public statement.
It cannot imply acceptance of anything
larger. He does not think it is his business
to check on peoples sexuality, any more
than he would check on whether they
drive on Shabbat. But if someone asked
for an aliyah as a Sabbath desecrator, as a
way to show that Ahavath Torah does not
care about how Shabbat is valued, then
that aliyah would not be given. If someone said that I want an aliyah davka as a
gay man, that I am making a statement,
then there would be no aliyah forthcoming. We are not making statements other
than welcome to the community, Rabbi
Goldin said.
Where the rubber hits the road, where
I find that I and other rabbis struggle, is
when a gay couple wants to join as a family, he said. This point would be problematic. They can join as individuals, but
the unit itself is not something that I can
label as a family. How this will play out in
terms of how we deal with this unit in the
community I really dont know. I have not
worked this out well enough yet. Children
of gay couples always will be welcome, he
added, and of course they can celebrate
their smachot at the shul, but it is not clear
how their parents will join them.
It is important that the Orthodox community be welcoming to the parents of gay
men and lesbians, Rabbi Goldin said. I
was very pleased that they were comfortable enough to approach me and discuss
it with me.
I feel they need to know that the rabbi
is thinking about these things and struggling with them. Instead of just thinking
that the door is closed, they should feel
that there is an evolution.
In fact, all four of the parents did
mention that Rabbi Goldin had evolved in

his position. All of them used that word.
I think that the rabbi has to be honest,
Rabbi Goldin said. He has to be compassionate. He has to recognize the struggle.
They have to see that it is very personal.
There are a great many biological, sociological, and cultural factors at work, he
added, and that makes the issue even
more complex. I know and I know that
science tells us that for a very substantial
number of people in the gay community,
it is inborn, he said. I have no question
about that. I also wonder, though, if there
arent many gay people out there who,
when things became possible and allowable, experimented. This really is not
within our boundaries. Many people play
with the idea of sexuality and gender as a
social construct, he said. This is a position so radical as to be mind-boggling to
me. Judaism believes that gender is not
a social construct, that there is a natural
dimension to it. If you create a society
where you say that everything goes, then
there are no limits. That certainly is not
consonant with Jewish values.
Rabbi Goldin recently announced that
in a year and a half, he will leave his position at Ahavat Torah, after more than 30
years, so that he and his wife, Barbara,
can make aliyah. This decision, made with
some ambivalence because he is so integral to Ahavat Torah, and Ahavat Torah is
so central to his life, is huge news both for
his community and for the larger one. And
of course it affects his ability to control the
direction the community will take. He is
aware of that irony as he speaks.
Still, that is the future. For now, people
have to understand that one of the reasons
I did the town hall is because it is important for them to hear their rabbi struggling
with the issues, and to hear what goes into
the rabbis decision-making process, he
said. It is not arbitrary. It does take a lot
of things into consideration. It is an ongoing struggle.
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JCC to serve campers Israeli hi-tech

LARRY YUDELSON
For decades there have been many Israelis at American
Jewish summer camps, bringing Hebrew songs, a taste for
falafel, and Zionism to their American cousins.
Now Israel is exporting high-tech teachers.
For its newest summer offering, the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades is importing a made-in-Israel program from Big
Idea, which offers camps in Israel that focus on high technology. In Tenafly, the day camp will be for third- through
ninth-graders.
The Big Idea @ the JCC Hi Tech Camp comes in two
varieties: English and Hebrew, the latter for Israeli families living here who want their children to be proficient
in Hebrew.
The programs will combine high-tech topics such as
computer graphics, film production, and app development with standard camp activities such as swimming.
Its about having fun, and getting the kids to learn
about fields they never would have been exposed to, said
Sharon Goren, the JCCs marketing manager. We hope
they will get motivated, get new ideas, be creative, see that
there are a lot of things they can do.

In Israel, this year will be Big Ideas ninth summer
running tech-focused summer programs. Its flagship
is a two-week sleepaway program that is expected to
draw 900 campers from around the world. Big Idea
will provide the curriculum for the JCC camp, as well
as half of its counselors; the others will be Hebrew
speakers from New Jersey.
Roni Livnat of Big Idea selected the Israeli counselors,
who are all over 18 and experts in their field, she said.
Some are programmers; others are veterans of Israeli
robotic leagues. All of them are educators, with experience in summer camps or youth movements or as teachers or counselors, she said. All are fluent in Hebrew
and English. They also are being trained in representing
Israel abroad by the Jewish Agency.
Ms. Livnat went through Jewish Agency training herCampers at the original Big Ideas program in Israel
self. She spent two years as a shlicha, representing Israel
in a youth movement in Melbourne, Australia.
There will be one counselor for every seven or eight
Yael Feibish of Creskill is looking forward to her children
campers, she said. We do it in very very small groups. We
being at the camp. She is American and her husband is
keep it very interactive, she said.
Israeli, so our kids are a combination. Were raising them
JCC seeks new kosher

supervision after break
with Rabbinical Council
LARRY YUDELSON
Fire closes Foster Village Deli indefinitely

LARRY YUDELSON
Foster Village Kosher Deli in Bergenfield
is not preparing for Passover. Instead,
the restaurant, which opened in 1966, is
closed indefinitely, damaged by a fire in
an adjacent store, Foster Stationery. That
store was gutted by the fire.
There was a lot of smoke and water,
Tal Mizrahi, the manager of the familyowned business, said about the deli.
Right now were unable to open.
Mr. Mizrahi said he is still figuring out
next steps, as he deals with the insurance. Were trying to find a temporary
location so we can work on the catering
orders that we have.
Its pretty devastating. Were trying to
keep our heads high, and hopefully we
can rebuild, he said.

He said it could be three months until
the deli is ready to reopen.
They need to test the building, make
sure its structurally sound and safe to
work in, he said. Then we can figure
out what the next steps are.
The caf at the Kaplen JCC on the

Palisades in Tenafly is seeking new
kashrut supervision, after the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County
withdrew its supervision last week.
At issue: The way the caf fired its
mashgiach, or kosher supervisor.
According to a statement issued
by the RCBC, the Caf at the
Kaplen JCC fired its mashgiach for
apparently legitimate cause but
without any prior notification to
the RCBC of a situation that had
been developing over time. This
represents a violation of the signed
contract between the RCBC and the
Caf at the Kaplen JCC. The Caf
was then left without any supervision at the time and sought to hire a
mashgiach that wasnt approved by
the RCBC. The RCBC was compelled
to remove its supervision due to the
absence of a mutually acceptable
mashgiach.
It was a personnel matter, said
Dorit Reiner, who owns and runs
the caf. It has nothing to do with
kashrut laws or food safety or anything. All the food thats being
served now complies with all the
standards of kashrut weve had in
the past. Nothing changed as far as
we are concerned.
The RCBC, however, disputes that
characterization of its disagreement
with the caf, insisting that that the

withdrawal of supervision, though
not prompted by the finding of any
non-kosher food in the caf, was
not unrelated to food service or
merely a personnel matter.
The RCBC could no longer effectively supervise the Kashrut of the
food preparation taking place in the
Caf, said the statement, issued
by Rabbi Chaim Poupko, president
of the council and associate rabbi
at Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood. The council is an organization of the countys Orthodox
pulpit rabbis.
Meanwhile, according to the JCC,
an independent, experienced mashgiach is in place. At the caf, which
employs six people, the mashgiach
is a full-time position.
The JCC has been and continues to be committed to providing
a kosher restaurant, where those
who are observant feel comfortable
to eat. As its mission states, the JCC
looks to serve as a vibrant home for
the Jewish people and welcomes all
with a vision to be the center point
for Jewish life in our community,
the JCC said in a statement last week.
Rabbi Akiva Block, an RCBC member, defended the organizations
decision last week in a letter to his
congregation, Kehilat Kesher / Community Synagogue of Tenafly and
Englewood.
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in a bilingual home, trying to teach them what is important to us about Israel, trying to have them learn things
about Israel without being there. This summer is a perfect opportunity for that, she said.
This camp will have them, I hope, comfortably
speaking Hebrew, and learning other things they
cant quite learn in a Hebrew class, like a song or
what kind of games kids play in Israel.
Last summer, her children attended a local camp
for Israeli children where they learned the ball game
called gaga. Im hoping theyre going to get really
excited about gaga again, she said.
The other really interesting aspect of this camp
is the technological side of it, she added. Its not
going to be a frontal academic kind of environment
they have enough of that during the year. It will
have them have fun with technology. They have
choices like digital photography, 3D modeling, some
stuff that I honestly didnt know what it was that just
sounded cool.
It made me want to learn some of these things
myself.
Please rest assured that decisions like this, particularly regarding communal institutions like the JCC, are
not taken lightly, he wrote. The RCBC, which consists of over 30 orthodox rabbis from all across Bergen
County and for whom I am privileged to serve as an
officer, seeks to service our community in the greatest
and most efficient manner possible while maintaining
the strict kashrut supervision and standards our community deserves and has come to expect.
According to the RCBC statement, The Kaplen JCC
is an important communal institution and the RCBC
has put forth great effort over the years to maintain
our relationship with the Kaplen JCC and its Caf while
maintaining the standard of kashrut on which we and
our community pride ourselves. We hope to continue
working with the Kaplen JCC to find a solution to this
issue.
Jordan Shenker, the JCCs chief executive officer,
said that while he would like to restore ties with the
RCBC, they have not given me any indication they
have any interest in doing so at this time.
He said that based on the feedback in the community, going forward the JCC is going to take a much
more active and assertive role in managing the relationship between the caf and the kosher authorizing
institution.
Mr. Shenker said he has been in touch with several
possible alternative hashgacha providers and is confident that one will be in place not long after Passover;
the caf is scheduled to be closed for the holiday anyway. Meanwhile, the caf plans to bring in and resell
packaged kosher foods, so no one at the JCC will have
to go snackless.
I want whoever I bring in to have community
acceptance, Mr. Shenker said. A standard theyll
find not only halachicly acceptable, but also communally comfortable.
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The wandering Arkansans daughter

Ridgewood rabbi tells the story of the Clintons visit to his familys seder
JOANNE PALMER
Why was that seder night different from
every other seder night?
Of course, we know, every seder is different from every other seder different
foods, different traditions, some people
missing, others newly present, new wine
stains every year but in 2000, the guests
at Helene and Rabbi Robert Fines seder
in Chappaqua, N.Y., included Hillary and
Chelsea Clinton.
It also included about 15 other family
members and friends. Rabbi Robert Fine,
who since has retired, led Bet Torah, the
Conservative shul right over the
town line in Mount Kisco. The
Fines three sons were there, of
course, as the oldest son, Rabbi
Dr. David J. Fine, remembers.
David Fine, then newly
ordained, working on his doctorate and at the Rabbinical
Assembly, now is the rabbi of
Rabbi Robert and
Temple Israel and Jewish ComHelene Fine meet
munity Center in Ridgewood. He
President Bill Clinton
remembers the evening clearly.
at the White House
The guests were not the only
in December 2000, a
people in the room. There also
Rabbi David Fine
few months after they
were large-ish men in suits,
was among the
hosted Hillary and
with discreet cords coming out
guests at his parChelsea Clinton at their
of their ears, eating nothing,
ents seder in 2000.
seder.
BOB FINE
drinking only water, standing
DAVID J. FINE
with their backs to the walls,
unblinkingly watchful.
Bill Clinton had been invited too, and
I always thought of bodyguards like
until an hour or so before the seder, no
the Roman ones, who would taste everyone knew whether hed show up. But as it
thing first, David said. But these didnt. It
turned out he couldnt. Hed been meeting
wouldnt have been professional. Instead,
with Yasser Arafat.
they checked everything very thoroughly
At the very end of his memoir, My Life,
they did their perimeter work, he
Bill Clinton tells a story about his last day
added and then just stood there, blendin office, David said. He wrote that he
ing in, eventually becoming unnoticed
got a call from Arafat, who said, You are a
background to the lively discussion in the
great man. And Clinton said No, I am not
center of the room.
a great man. I am a failure. And you are the
It was the most secure seder Id ever
one who made me that.
been to, David said.
When I read that, I was like, Yeah. And
For context, Bill Clinton was finishing
had you known that then, you could have
up his second term as president, the Moncome to my seder.
ica Lewinsky scandal still was raging, and
What was so special was that it was off
the Clintons, who still lived in the White
the calendar, David said. It was a truly priHouse, had bought their house in Chapvate event; a real seder, a traditional one.
paqua. Hillary was taking her listening
There could be no photographs and no
tour, as she called it, touring her new state
recordings, because it was a chag, so there
and running for the Senate an election
were no artificial constraints. Just a bunch
that she won that fall. Chelsea was in colof people sitting around the table, talking.
lege at Stanford. So was Davids younger
It wasnt at all used for public gain,
brother, Yoni. Everything flowed naturally.
he continued. It was a time for Hillary
Yoni and Chelsea were in the same social
to make friends real friends, not politicircle, they lived in the same town, Yoni
cal ones and to be with her daughter
invited Chelsea and her mother, along
and her daughters friends. It was purely
with other friends, and they came.
genuine. People say that shes phony, that
We thought that they must have been
everythings political, but in my experiin Chappaqua, but no, they had been in
ence that couldnt be farther from the
Washington, David said. They flew to the
truth.
airport in Westchester to get there.
She didnt want any publicity from it,
She said, Yes, her father was a wandering Arkansan, and he journeyed down
to Washington, where he was oppressed
with hard labor, until he was taken out
from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.
I retell that story every year, about the
midrash I heard from the first lady of the
United States, because it was so funny,
and also because it does exactly what it
was supposed to do. The actual purpose
of the text is that you recount the story of
our ancestors, and you personalize it. You
see your own story through the exodus
from Egypt. That is exactly what Hillary
did. She said, We have been through difficult times, and we pulled through. That
was their personal story.
After that, it was a very traditional
seder, David said. They retold the story of
the Exodus, and they talked, and they sat
for six hours, enjoying the evening, learning from each other.
There were a few unexpected
bumps, but none of them were out
of the ordinary. Chelsea was a vegetarian; the main course, onionsmothered brisket, was not ideal.
And Ms. Fine, a full-time English
teacher, always short on time, made
tzimmes with prunes that still had
pits. She watched, with dismay
turning to awe, as Hillary Clinton
removed them from her mouth,
sliding them discreetly onto a soup
spoon, calling no attention to the
problem. I could see that she was
properly trained in table etiquette,
Ms. Fine said.
Hillary Clinton paid attention to
the guests, the Fines report. Josh,
then in his last year at Harvard Law
School, said that hed applied to be
Hillary Clinton wrote to thank the Fines for
a speaker at his commencement.
the hospitality at the seder.
BOB FINE
When Ms. Clinton later called the
Fines to thank them for their hospitality, she followed up. Did Josh end up as
Bob Fine, the brothers father, said. Her
commencement speaker, she asked.
agenda was to meet some of the kids her
She remembered details, despite
daughter hangs out with in college.
everything she had going on, Josh said.
Or, as Davids middle brother, Josh, put
David Fine has a similar story. I had
it, She came more as a mom than as the
wanted to go to Germany that summer for
first lady or a Senate candidate.
Expo 2000, he said. (Expo is a worlds
At first, David said, everyone made
fair; it was held in Hanover that year.) I
small talk, but the elephant in the room
was trying to convince my brother Yoni
the fact that this was the first family of
that he should go with me. It would be
the United States remained unmenfun, and it would be good bonding for
tioned. But when the seder started, we
us. At the end of the seder, Hillary said, I
went around the table, and everyone read
hope you get to go to Germany with your
a passage from the Haggadah. Chelsea
brother.
was the one who read the part about My
Later, I got to use that as ammunition,
father was a wandering Aramean. I said, I
and we went together, and we had a great
knew that there was something about your
time, thanks to Hillary Clinton.
father!
And then, when everyone finished
Uriel Heilman of JTA contributed to this
laughing, Hillary, who was sitting next
report.
to her, came out with a whole midrash.
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Glen Rock, Ridgewood shuls join

for siyyum for fast of the firstborn
Its a tradition of many synagogues,
including the Glen Rock Jewish Center and Temple Israel of Ridgewood, to
hold a siyyum on the morning before
Pesach begins, when first-born sons
are supposed to fast, remembering the
10th plague. A siyyum is a ceremony
that marks the completion of a course of
study. On Friday, April 22, both shuls will
gather for a program at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center at 7 a.m.

One of the rabbis, Rabbi David Fine
of Temple Israel, will teach during the
service, and then, as is traditional, participants will share a meal to celebrate
the learning. This seudat mitzvah takes
precedence; once people have broken
their fast there, they can eat for the rest
of the day. For information, call (201)
652-6624.
JFNNJ food drive

collects 6,000
pounds of food
More than 6,000 pounds of food were
collected for six local pantries and one
elementary school at the recent Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jerseys
March Mega Food Drive and Teen Hunger Awareness program. Taking part in
packing up the collected food were, from
left, Tommy Cohen and Eli Gold. The
food drive has been an ongoing event at
federation for a number of years.
NCJW Bergen advocates

join national campaign
In response to the
U.S. Senate Republican leaderships
stated refusal to
consider President
Obamas Supreme
Court nominee,
Judge Merrick Garland, five Bergen
C o u n t y wo m e n ,
members of the
Bergen County section of the National
Council of Jewish
Women, recently
Representatives of NCJWs Bergen County section.
participated in a
solemn procession
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
on Capitol Hill. They were part of a
As part of the campaign, NCJW advonationwide NCJW campaign demanding that the Senate hold timely hearcates and sections across the country
ings, and vote on the nominee.
will engage with their senators and
During the procession, nearly
their communities in a campaign to
400 women marched from the U.S.
raise visibility and public focus on the
Supreme Court to the U.S. Capitol carurgency of filling the Supreme Court
rying copies of the Constitution and a
vacancy. The organization, with 67
personal message to the chair of the
sections in 28 states, represents thousands of members and supporters.
Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator
JTS gala to honor Richard S. Pzena

The Jewish Theological Seminary will
honor Richard S. Pzena, founder and
chief investment officer of Pzena Investment Management, a participant in and
supporter of Jewish adult education at
JTS and elsewhere, on Tuesday, May 3.
Mr. Pzena will take part in a panel
exploring Good Investing and Investing in Good. He will be joined by Abby
Joseph Cohen of Goldman Sachs, Leon
Cooperman of Omega Advisors, and
Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Capital and

Gotham Asset Management. Scott Wapner, host of CNBCs Fast Money Halftime
Report, will be master of ceremonies.
The evening, which will start with
cocktails at 6:30 and go on to dinner at
7:30, will be at the Mandarin Oriental
in Manhattan. Registration is online at
www.jtsa.edu/Pzena, and sponsorship
opportunities are available.
Bringing Passover joy to lone soldiers

The Israeli-based Lone Soldier Center
in Memory of Michael Levin launched
a campaign to provide supermarket
vouchers for Pesach provisions.
Former Israel Defense Forces lone
soldiers founded the center to support
other lone soldiers, whose families are
overseas, impoverished, or estranged.
Mr. Levin, who was born in the United
States, made aliyah, joined the IDF as a
lone soldier, and died in 2006, fighting
in the Second Lebanon War. The organization named in his memory assists,
connects, and cares for lone soldiers
before, during, and after their IDF service. It has branches in Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv, Haifa, and Beer Sheva.
There are now more than 6,000 lone
soldiers from 50 countries in the IDF.
The center provides them support,
advice, Shabbat and holiday meals, and
social events, and helps with housing,
furniture, and essential items. Its small

staff and more than 300 dedicated volunteers work to provide for the lone soldiers needs.
The LSC is a grassroots, Israel-based
charitable organization with no U.S.
staff members. Lone soldiers are invited
to seders throughout Israel. In anticipation of food they need for the holiday,
LSC provides the lone soldiers with
supermarket vouchers to assist them in
observing Passover without having to
worry about money.
The center has set a goal of raising a
minimum of $18,000, which will permit
them to give vouchers to at least 700
lone soldiers.
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Editorial
Another full moon
o this, finally, is almost it.

The full moon that last glowed
orange in the night sky on Purim
will be back next Friday night.
This is the last weekend before Pesach,
the last chance to shop and clean and cook
and obsess. Next Friday night, that huge
moon, so oversized that its craters are
almost visible to the naked eye, will loom
above us once again, lighting the way we
hope to freedom.
Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not,
this week the Standard includes stories
about many kinds of freedom. The Sinai
schools offer children with disabilities
that might have kept them living tightly
constrained lives the freedom to develop
the talents and interests and personality quirks that of course they have
that each one of us has disabilities
notwithstanding.
At the other end of the life span, the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades offers people
with dementia the chance to leave their
houses, look and touch and smell and
taste things that trigger memories, listen
TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
to the laughter of the children with whom

they share the huge building, and feel free.
It also allows their caregivers a chance to
breathe freely, because they, too, are people, and need that chance.
At Eshels retreat for Orthodox parents
of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people, those parents can be
themselves openly, not closeted by their
childrens lives but free to talk about them.
There are all sorts of ways to be free.
Our lives always are a balance between a
search for freedom and the joy that comes
from accepting the bonds of community.
When the Israelites left Egypt, they did not
flee to complete, lawless freedom, but to a
freedom from oppression, complete with
rules. Many rules. But still freedom.
And then of course theres the freedom
to dream that comes with the beginning of
the new baseball season.
As we head off on that last mad rush to
freedom freedom from crumbs, freedom from the narrow place we wish
everyone courage. By next week, well get
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there!
Remembering Alisa
his week, impossibly, was Alisa

Flatows 21st yarzheit. She was
murdered at 20, blown up on
a bus as she headed toward an
Israeli beach, killed by terrorists whose
goals her death did absolutely nothing to
advance. She now has been dead longer
than she was alive.
Her parents, Rosalyn and Stephen, who
live in West Orange, have kept going. They
have four other children and 13 grandchildren. Three of their children live in Bergen County. The Flatows are strong supporters of local day schools. One of their
grandsons is a Sinai Schools student; they
support Sinai too. Mr. Flatow is a public
speaker, and he writes op ed columns; in
fact, we are running one of his columns
this week.
As the Flatows have learned, a dead child
does not cease being her parents child.
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The acute pain of her absence often can be

dulled it would be impossible to live with
that unbearable sharp pain constantly stabbing its rapier edge into a parents heart.
But the dull ache of that throbbing empty
space never stops, even if work and love
and even occasional joy can almost mute
it, for a short time at least.
Alisa Flatow did not just die. She was
murdered, at random, to make a political point. There are people, not microbes
or failed brakes or faulty DNA strains,
responsible for her death. Her father
has been able to take the rage that grew
from her death and use it to fuel his fight
against Iran, against terrorism, against
anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, and
against hate.
We thank him for his work, and in
return we vow never to forget Alisa.

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Israel got Berned
ernie Sanders has tried to cul- by 500 percent, a magnitude of inaccutivate the idea that he is dif- racy that is deeply unsettling.
ferent from other politicians.
Second, lets add the context that SandMore truthful, more consis- ers ignored. Hamas has openly declared
tent, less compromised.
its goal to destroy Israel and kill Jews
I have known Bernies older brother, everywhere. Toward that end, Hamas
Larry, for 25 years. He was a regular at
has used Gaza as a base to mount terror
our Shabbat dinner when I was rabbi at
attacks and launch thousands of rockets
Oxford University, and I came to enjoy
since Israel withdrew all its citizens and
him greatly. Larry and I differ mightily on
soldiers from there in 2005.
politics and Israel, but I never questioned
Third, not a single Gazan would have
the sincerity of his beliefs. He was always
lost his or her life if Hamas had not indiscriminately fired rockets into Israel. Few,
a gentleman.
if any, civilians would have been harmed
Because they come from the same
if they had heeded the Israeli militarys
stock, I expect the same of Bernie. We
warnings to evacuate batdont have to agree on the
tlegrounds, and if Hamas
issues, but we have a right
had not used them as
to expect truthfulness.
human shields. Prime MinIndeed, I have publicly
ister Netanyahu expressed
praised Senator Sanders
it best when he said that
consistency on the issues.
while Israel uses its misSo its too bad that when
siles to defend its citizens,
it comes to Israel, Bernies
Hamas uses its citizens to
standards of integrity fall
defend its missiles.
dramatically.
If Sanders had been
His latest whopper is
Rabbi
briefed on the conflict,
one of a number of disturb- Shmuley
ing comments he has made
Boteach
he would know that the
about Middle Eastern poliHamas headquarters was
tics in general and Israel in
in a hospital and that arms
particular.
were stored in schools and mosques.
In an interview with the editorial
Like too many of his rivals, when conboard of the New York Daily News, Sand- fronted with the inaccuracy of his stateers called Israels actions during the 2014
ment, Sanders refused to acknowledge
war in Gaza disproportionate, based
his mistake, instead compounding it by
no doubt on his recollection that more
leveling a second erroneous and malicious charge against Israel. When the
than 10,000 innocent people were
editors of the Daily News suggested the
killed in Gaza. Now I might dismiss this
malicious claim as an honest mistake, evi- number appeared to be rather inflated,
dence of his ignorance about Middle East
Sanders doubled down. I dont have it
affairs, if it werent for other statements
in my number, he said, but I think its
Sanders has made that expose a disturb- over 10,000. My understanding is that a
ing animus toward Israel.
whole lot of apartment houses were levFirst, lets set the record straight. eled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed.
No, Bernie, hospitals were not targeted.
Approximately 2,100 Gazans were killed
in the Gaza war. Roughly half were terror- Rather, the Hamas leadership ran the war
ists. Sanders exaggerated the casualties
from the basement of a hospital.
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In January, Bernie Sanders delivered a

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Sanders defamation of Israel is unfortunate.

This is a man that I really want to like personally
even if I rebut his politics. Id love to feel the Bern
and even invited him to our giant 5 May gala dinner in Times Square.
But his voting record in Congress gives me
pause. In 2001, Sanders was the only Jewish
member of the House who disagreed with a resolution blaming all the violence of the second intifada on Palestinian terrorism. In 2004, he was
one of 45 representatives who voted against a
resolution expressing support for Israels security
barrier, which has greatly reduced the number of
Israelis murdered by terrorists, after the wall was
deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice. Sanders was one of 21 U.S. senators who did
not sign onto a resolution expressing solidarity
with Israel during 2014s Gaza War.
Anyone hoping for an improvement in the relationship between the United States and Israel has
to ponder Bernies comment: I gotta tell you, I
am not a great fan of President Netanyahu.
And I think in that region, sadly on both sides, I
dont think we have the kind of leadership that
we need.
He was quoted in Haaretz saying, The United
States will support the security of Israel, help
Israel fight terrorist attacks against that country
and maintain its independence. But under my
administration, the United States will maintain an
evenhanded approach to the area. What weve
often seen before is how evenhanded approach
is code for one-sided pressure on Israel.
Ignoring the neighborhood in which Israel
lives, Sanders also has said, My long-term hope
is that instead of pouring so much military aid
into Israel, into Egypt, we can provide more economic aid to help improve the standard of living
of the people in that area. Instead of providing
essential aid to give Israel the qualitative military
edge it needs to defend its citizens, Sanders said,
It is wrong that the United States provides arms
to Israel.
I fear that Sanders does not recognize that
Israel, the lone democracy and reliable ally in
the region, helps promote American values
and interests. Instead, he wants to keep the
money at home, even though aid to Israel is
an infinitesimal portion of the national budget.
But 75 percent of military assistance to Israel is
spent in the United States, where it creates jobs
and supports the local economy of the towns
where defense contractors are based. Furthermore, joint research on missile defense systems
and other weapons programs benefits the U.S.
military as well as the Israel Defense Forces.

Sanders also apparently is unaware of the billions of dollars in international aid already provided to the Palestinians, which has made them
the largest recipients of aid per capita in the
world. Bernie appears slightly ignorant of the
fact that not a single home has been built for any
refugees in camps in Gaza with those billions and
that much of the aid was siphoned off by Hamas,
Yasser Arafat, and other members of the Palestinian Authority kleptocracy.
But for me, Bernies rose-colored views on Iran
are particularly troubling. Beyond supporting the
catastrophic nuclear deal, he believes the United
States should move as aggressively as we can to
normalize relations with Iran, and claims we are
seeing a thaw in our relationships with Iran.
I know that Bernie cares about human rights.
Shouldnt the United States insist on gays not
hanging from cranes, women not being stoned to
death, and protesters not being shot in the street
before we normalize relations?
Surely Bernie is also concerned with the continuing Iranian condemnations of the United
States, the ongoing Death to America chants,
the illegal ballistic missile tests, the genocidal
threats against Israel, the provocative words and
actions directed at our Gulf allies, the military
engagement in Syria, the subversion in Iraq, the
support for Hezbollah and other terrorists and
the kidnapping and humiliation of American
soldiers.
Bernie does say he believes in Israels right to
exist in peace and security, and that the Palestinians must fulfill their responsibilities to arrest
terrorists, confiscate terrorists weapons, dismantle terrorist organizations, halt all anti-Jewish and
anti-Israel incitement, and recognize Israels right
to exist. In return, he said, the Israelis must end
their policy of targeted killings, prevent further
Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, and prevent the destruction of Palestinian homes, businesses and infrastructure.
But this attempt at evenhandedness equates
terrorism with counterterrorism. Israel would
not engage in targeted killings or destroy any
homes if it were not being attacked by Palestinian
terrorists. The Palestinians were offered numerous peace plans, including offers that Israel
would withdraw from 97 percent of the West
Bank and establish a Palestinian state. The Palestinian response has been renewed terror waves
against Israel and thousands of rockets launched
at Israeli cities.
Furthermore, Bernie needs to talk to Israelis about how they feel about the possibility of
a Hamas takeover of the West Bank, which is
the terrorists goal, and about Israelis willingness to risk their lives by ceding more territory
after the experience in Gaza. The oft-mentioned
belief in trading land for peace was tested when
Israel withdrew from Gaza, and it proved to be a
catastrophic failure, as Israel exchanged land for
rocket bombardments and other terrorist attacks.
Last September, Bernie held meetings with the
Jewish community in Iowa and compared himself
to Israels first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
That shows that Bernie does, after all, identify
with Israel on some level. Now he has to begin
to show sensitivity to a tiny democracy fighting
for its survival while surrounded by genocidal
Islamist foes.
Chutzpah this Passover
ow, I am just as amazed

I had been dimly aware of Kims
as you are, but I took a
transition from being president
meeting this week with
of Dartmouth College to becoming president of the World Bank. I
the head of the World
became a fan.
Bank. It was a triumph of bashert
For the last three years, I have
and of chutzpah.
focused my social justice work on
Bashert is one of those Yiddish
freeing slaves and preventing human
words that isnt captured easily in
trafficking. Shortly before SeptemEnglish. It means meant to be,
bers broadcast, I tentatively began
aided by Providence, with perfect
to think and speak about ending
timing, destiny, and sometimes
slavery in our lifetimes. When you
soul mate. Use it in a sentence?
listen to someone with chutzpah of
Glad you asked. It was bashert that
the noble variety, like Jim Yong Kim,
I met Dr. Jim Yong Kim, head of the
it reminds you that we could all dare
World Bank.
more greatly for holy causes.
Chutzpah, translated as effrontery, often is defined by an example
Kim not only inspired me to think
that Leo Rosten made famous: That
big (as in boldly, with chutzpah), but
quality enshrined in a man who, havalso to think big (as in broadly, taking killed his mother
ing an expansive view
and father, throws himof problems and buildself on the mercy of the
ing a coalition to solve
court because he is an
them). For two years,
orphan. As with many
I have been learning
Yiddish words, chutza similar orientation
pah can be either a
from Free the Slaves
compliment or a conand its remarkable
demnation, depending
executive direc tor,
on tone and context.
Maurice Middleberg.
Rabbi Debra
Rabbi Shlomo CarI was motivated iniOrenstein
lebach talked about
tially, as most of us are,
holy chutzpah. As in,
by individual needs
I exercised holy chutzand stories. How can I
pah by calling someone I hadnt seen
rescue this child from a fishing boat?
in 20 years and asking him to get me
Or that teenage immigrant from a
some time alone with the head of the
brothel? Or three generations of one
World Bank. Then I asked the head
family doing hard labor in a quarry,
of the World Bank to call my friend,
based on a $40 debt the grandfather
Maurice.
incurred? Each life is precious; each
OK, a little background.
tragedy demands a response.
On September 24, I happened
Yet by definition, you make only
to be driving; I was listening to the
incremental progress when you
radio when Jim Yong Kim was interaddress one need at a time. Thats
viewed about collaborating with
why Free the Slaves also partners
the pope to end extreme poverty
with local organizations and leaders
by 2030. (To hear this inspiring segto develop community-based proment, google World Bank President
grams against trafficking. If you can
Has a Plan to Eradicate Poverty and
organize whole villages and economies, you will liberate and sustain
select the link from wnyc.org.)
thousands of people.
It was a timely conversation. The
The goals of eliminating poverty
next day at the United Nations, 197
and eradicating slavery clearly are
countries adopted 17 sustainable
allied. Curtail extreme poverty and
development goals they hope to
you help to end slavery. People who
achieve by 2030. Goal #1 was to end
can access credit, pay for medicine,
poverty.
and feed their children are less vulKim spoke about extending the
nerable to traffickers than those who
collaboration to all faiths, and about
cannot.
the moral and religious duty to help
The reverse also is true: Protect
the poor. He was critical of his own
people against traffickers, and you
institution and open to learning
reduce extreme poverty. One mitzfrom others, including Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, a champion
vah leads to another (Avot 4:2).
of micro-financing, and from poor
Former slaves who receive help and
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Beyond the pale
hat yeshiva ordains

heretics.
This group rejects
the fundamentals of
Jewish faith. It is not Orthodox.
The authors views on the Bible are
beyond the pale of Orthodox Judaism.
Such accusations have appeared in the
Jewish media recently with increasing frequency and desperation. The accusers a
cast of Orthodox rabbis, academics, and
bloggers come from a variety of backgrounds and institutions. If there is one
thing they have in common, however, it is
a passion for heresy hunting.
A new self-appointed role the Theological Gatekeeper has emerged in the
Orthodox community. The pretenders to
this dubious position lack no self-esteem.
They consider themselves entitled, even
obligated, to publicly denounce fellow
Jews as religious deviants. (One rabbi has a
weekly blog dedicated to shaming writers
he considers non-Orthodox.) While no honest religious person ever would deny having a moment of doubt, the heresy hunters
are not ones for thoughtful introspection
they seem more interested in subjecting an
opponent to a good pummeling.

The Theological Gatekeepers use Maimonides Principles of Faith as the ultimate
test of ideological kashrut. Accept them,
and you are a card-carrying Orthodox Jew;
express doubt in a single principle, and
you are outside the camp of the faithful,
damned in this world and the next.
But Jewish dogma is not Torah from
Sinai. It has a history. The gatekeepers may
be surprised to learn that the Maimonidean
concept of systematic religious dogma is a
medieval invention borrowed from GrecoIslamic philosophy. The notion that the
affirmation of a creed is a necessary and sufficient condition for salvation is completely
foreign to the biblical and Talmudic traditions. (See Menachem Kellners outstanding
Must a Jew Believe Anything?)
This is not to say that every idea is compatible with Judaism. The divinity of Jesus,
for example, is irreconcilable with historical
Jewish belief. In practice, however, beyond
a few assumptions at the very core of Jewish identity, theology has hardly ever been
and should not be today the shibboleth
for membership in the Jewish community,
including the Orthodox community. Neither
Judaism nor Jewish peoplehood are functions of dogma.

If a religion can tolerate
some doctrinal pluralism, the
pursuit of heretics loses its
meaning.
But isnt religious tolerance an oxymoron? Religion
David S.
deals in absolutes not just
Zinberg
truth, but the One Truth. How
could a religious community
tolerate heresy? Must a religion not adhere to some sort of orthodoxy
at all costs, even if that means shunning
skeptics? How can the followers of an immutable creed leave room for nuanced beliefs
without compromising a measure of commitment to their sacred ideals?
To answer these questions, I suggest two
complementary approaches: First, we have
an ancient tradition of theological tolerance. Take the canonization of the Bible,
for example. As Sid Z. Leiman noted (and
as cited by Kellner), books like Jubilees
with its alternative, non-halachic calendar
were left out of the Bible. But Kohelet was
included in the cannon despite its questionable theology.
The second approach is related to humanitys progressive maturity with respect to
religion. One of the great achievements of
modernity, which includes

modern Orthodoxy, is that it
has enabled the coexistence
of religious passion with religious tolerance. No doubt, a
traditional faith community
must maintain and occasionally fight for its identity
against external pressures.
But a modern Western society, by definition, is a religiously inclusive society. The
sordid history of religious wars in Europe
demonstrated how banning an idea is a few
short steps away from persecuting, if not
annihilating, its adherents. In the wake of
such atrocities, Western states, with varying degrees of success, gradually embraced
religious tolerance as a remedy for mans
natural inclination to rid his neighborhood
of dissent. The United States, the most successful experiment in religious tolerance,
was founded on this principle.
Despite some recent lapses, our community may yet recover its theological tolerance. Jewish tradition itself provides the
moral resources to disarm the intolerant.
As a cardinal value of Jewish ethics,
humility may be the best antidote to heresy hunting. Heretics often have been
proved right. If the heresy hunter argues a
Piece of broken glass ruins Palestinian cause
r d i n a r i l y, a
piece of broken glass lying
on the ground
is unsightly litter at best, a
danger to bare feet and pets
at worst. But not in the Middle East. There, a piece of
broken glass has the power
Stephen
to ruin decades of political
Flatow
propaganda.
Pro-Palestinian propaganda, that is.
Case in point: this weeks discovery of
the worlds oldest glass kilns, alongside a
railroad track at the foot of Mount Carmel,
near Haifa.
Dr. Yael Gorin-Rosen, the head curator
of the Israel Antiquities Authoritys glass
department, announced that the Mount
Carmel diggers had come across pieces of
broken glass, which in turn revealed fullfledged glass kilns. It is, she said, a very
important discovery with implications
regarding the history of the glass industry both in Israel and in the entire ancient
world.
Professor Ian Freestone of Londons
University College, a specialist in the identification of the chemical composition of
glass, declared the Mount Carmel glass a
sensational discovery.
Glass researchers from around the world
are flying to Israel to view it first-hand.
Why all the fuss? Well, it

turns out that years ago, the
glass-history experts carried out chemical analysis of
glass objects that were found
in Roman-era shipwrecks in
the Mediterranean. The tests
showed that the glass originated in the Acre (Akko) valM.
ley, in the northern part of the
Land of Israel. But nobody
had ever located the actual
kilns where the raw materials
were processed to create that glass. Until
now!
Now all of this might seem like pretty
boring stuff to anybody outside a handful
of archaeologists and their fellow travelers.
But in fact, its a vivid and powerful affirmation of Zionism, and it deals a devastating blow to the Palestinian Arab cause.
To begin with, according to Dr. Freestone, the kilns reveal that Israel constituted a production center on an international scale hence its glassware was
widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean and Europe.
Why is that such a big deal? Because
the archaeologists have determined that
the kilns are about 1,600 years old. That
means they were in use around the year
400 CE, in the late Roman period.
Think about that.
The Romans destroyed the Second
Archaeologist Abdel Al-Salam Said holds up one of the chunks of glass discovered at the site of the kilns in northern Israel. ASSAF PERETZ/ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY
Temple in the year 70 CE. The Bar Kochba

rebellion was crushed in 135 CE. An estimated 600,000 Jews were killed. More
than 1,000 Jewish cities and towns were
destroyed. The popular assumption is that
this catastrophe of murder, displacement,
and exile meant the end of any meaningful
Jewish society in the Land of Israel.
Not so fast! Evidently it was no simple
matter to sever the ties that bind the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. Because,
as the glass discoveries demonstrate,
within a relatively short amount of time,
the Jewish community in the Land of
Israel was (among other things) serving as

a glass-production center that exported its
products throughout the Roman Empire.
Note: there was no Palestinian glassproduction center in the country. There
werent even any Muslims in the country;
Islam was not founded until the seventh
century CE.
And it turns out that much of what glass
historians know about Roman glass is
based on a 4th century CE decree by an
early Roman emperor named Diocletian.
His edict, carved on stone tablets, set the
prices for the two types of glass used in
Opinion
point of disputed fact say, regarding the authorship of
a particular biblical text he or she ultimately may be
wrong. No amount of intimidation can change what is
true to false. On the other hand, of course, the heretic
may be wrong. For that reason, even the most ungenerous among us should consider such a person mistaken,
rather than disloyal to his community.
But lets assume that a writer indeed has breached
some critical theological boundary. Even then, should
we grant the Theological Gatekeeper a moral license to
engage in McCarthyist bullying and slander? For the religious person, heresy is a grave crime. A charge of heresy
seldom is made from love. It is a curse, akin to branding
the recipient an egregious sinner, a blasphemer, a traitor, an outcast rejected by God and man. To libel someone that way violates the biblical prohibitions, among
the 613 commandments, of halbanat panim (humiliation) and onaat devarim (verbal harassment). Would
our gatekeepers dare to suggest their victims deserve to
be shamed for the sake of Heaven?
Do not go about as a talebearer among your people,
and you shall not stand idly by the blood of your fellow
(Leviticus 19:16). Abraham ibn Ezra links this verses two
clauses slander often leads to murder, he says. If it
does not result in the literal spilling of blood, the unrelenting slander of an individual or a community is character assassination, behavior any decent person would
call beyond the pale. We cannot stand idly by.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his wife and three
sons. He works in inancial services.
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the empire. One type was called Alexandrian Glass,

because it originated in the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
The other was called Judean glass.
Not Palestinian glass. Judean glass. Because
everyone knew that the name of the region was
Judea. Thats what the Bible called it. Thats what
historians called it for more than 2,000 years.
Contemporary Palestinian propagandists have
tried to bury the name Judea. They prefer the deJudaized term West Bank. But until a few decades
ago, nobody ever used the phrase West Bank. Do
you know why? Because it has no historical basis, no
legal basis, and not even any real geographical basis.
Most of it is miles away from the western bank of the
Jordan River.
Just a few weeks ago, Israeli archaeologists discovered two seals that were used for sealing documents in
the 7th or 8th centuries BCE, that is, some 2,700 years
ago. The writing on them was Hebrew, not Arabic.
One bore the name of a man, Saadyahu ben Shebnayahu; the other had the name of a woman, Elihanah bat Goel (or Gael). The archaeologists noted that
the construction of the names were in typical Judean
fashion for this time period.
There it is again: Judean. Not Palestinian.
I look forward to seeing the Saadyahu ben Shebnayahu and Elihanah bat Goel seals when they go on
display. And I hope to see the Mount Carmel glass,
when it is exhibited at the Carmel Zvulun Regional
High School later this year.
Yes, I know its only a piece of broken glass. But
really, its so much more.
Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an attorney who
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Kerrys resounding
Iranian success
eres the latest episode of

actually have been a resounding sucoutreach to Iran from the
cess in the context of that policy.
lips of U.S. Secretary of
Part of that policy is occasionally to
State John Kerry.
indulge Americas Arab allies by sharAfter condemning the destabilizing
ing their alarm at what Iran is getting
actions of Iran in the Middle East durup to. And the Iranians know very well
ing a press conference in Bahrain, he
that this will be the limit of American
followed up with a plea.
opprobrium. They also
Help us end the war in
know that they can wring
Yemen, Kerry implored
concessions easily from
the Tehran regime. Help
Obama and Kerry. When
us end the war in Syria,
the Iranians complained
not intensify, and help us
that they were not feeling
to be able to change the
the benefits of the surrendynamics of this region.
der on Tehrans nuclear
What do you call this?
program negotiated last
Naivet? Hard-nosed realyear, the Americans let it
Ben Cohen
ism? The actualization of
be known that they were
President Barack Obamas
looking into how offshore
deeply held belief that
financial institutions
American diplomacy must be humble
might conduct legitimate business
and post-imperial? Or just the plain old
with Iran in U.S. dollarsa currency
enabling of a rogue state ruled by clerto which up until now they have been
ics who practice censorship and torture?
denied access.
Perhaps the fairest way to adjudiSuch trading certainly would lubricate this would be to judge Kerry by his
cate Irans economy, which has weathresults. There is no chance that Iran
ered several years of international sancis going to perform a 180-degree turntions. And in any case, Iran already has
around in its foreign policy, and Kerry
enjoyed a productive relationship with
knows it. In Syria, Iran has worked with
offshore institutions, as the Panama
Russia to stabilize the bloodstained
Papers leaked from shady law firm
tyrant Bashar al-Assad, while in Yemen
Mossack Fonseca amply demonstrate.
and elsewhere in the Gulf, it is systemPetropars, an oil firm the U.S. Treasury
atically baiting the conservative Sunni
Department sanctioned in 2010 for its
monarchies quivering in the face of risinvolvement in Tehrans nuclear proing Shia power.
gram, was one of several Iranian clients.
In that light, its hard to take State
Still, we can only say that Kerry has
Department assurances that its guidance to companies doing business in
Iran will be aimed at keeping them
within the law seriously. Iran, we can be
confident, will do everything it can to
circumvent international regulations.
Momentum, thankfully, is building
up in Congress to counter Irans reentry into a global financial system in
which the United States is still the most
powerful player. In early April, Sens.
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Kirk
(R-Ill.) introduced a bill that will prevent Iran from gaining even indirect
access to American banks and other
financial institutions, while also imposing secondary sanctions against any
financial institutions that assist Iran in
offshore dollar trading.
failed if we believe that the Obama
At the same time, the House Inteladministrations policy is aimed priligence Committee has announced an
marily at curbing Iranian provocations.
investigation into whether the Obama
Now, when you look at the administraadministration misled Congress over
tions policy on Iran, it becomes clear
the nuclear deal with Iran, on such
that Kerrys expressed concern about
critical issues as continuing Iranian
Irans behavior was a sop to his Bahmissile tests and the character of the
raini hosts. When you remember that
nuclear facilities inspections regime.
administration policy is to disengage
Moreover, the anxiety over these confrom the region, thereby empowering
cessions to Iran is bipartisan in nature.
Iran, you can argue that Kerrys results
Prominent Democrats pushing back
Meanwhile, Iran
is doing
everything it
can to remind
the world that
its stance
will become
only more
belligerent.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad
Javad Zarif address reporters before their bilateral meeting at United Nations
headquarters in New York on September 26, 2015.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
against administration policy include

House Minority Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer
(D-Md.), who told the recent AIPAC policy conference that blocking Iran from
obtaining nuclear weaponsa potential
outcome that the nuclear deal has no
power to preventmust be our number one focus.
Meanwhile, Iran is doing everything it can to remind the world that
its stance will become only more belligerent. After one of the regimes missile tests in early March, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh issued a brazen
threat to Israel, saying that the reason
we designed our missiles with a range
of 2,000 kilometers is to be able to hit
our enemy the Zionist regime from a
safe distance.
That now has been followed up with
another demonstration of intent. On
April 7, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan inaugurated a new Octogen power plant.
Octogen is an explosive used in penetrating missile warheads. It can also be
deployed as a detonator for an atomic
weapon.
A statement from the Iranian Defense
Ministry didnt have to pretend that the
Octogen manufacture was for defensive purposes. The Defense Ministry
has also paid attention to boosting the
destructive and penetration power of
different weapons warheads and has
put on its agenda the acquisition of the
technical know-how to produce Octogen explosive materials and Octogenbased weapons, the statement said.
What should worry us here in America
is that our administration is quite satisfied with this current threat level. When
What should
worry us here
in America is
that our
administration
is quite
satisfied with
this current
threat level.
it comes to the presidential race, fear of
further strategic giveaways to the Iranians will remain locked in place for as
long as Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie
Sanders (D-Vt.), with their isolationist
platforms, maintain their bids for their
respective parties nominations.
The present activity in Congress is
our best hope of pushing back against
Iran, but it will not undo the nuclear
deal. Nor will it prevent further Iranian
missile tests, or Irans backing for such
monsters as Assad and the Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah. Given
that, why would Iran conduct itself any
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Why the Braves?

As the baseball
season opens,
Fair Lawn
baseball writer
Dan Schlossberg
talks about
his love for the
Atlanta team
JOANNE PALMER
t does seem quixotic to be a
nearly 68-year-old lifelong New
Jerseyan with a nearly equally lifelong passion for the (first Boston,
then Milwaukee, and finally thenand-still-now Atlanta) Braves. Not
only has the teams many homes never
included New Jersey, its also a team that
never won until it did, hugely, amazingly,
for 14 (almost) consecutive years and
then hasnt won so much since then.
Dan Schlossberg, who grew up in Passaic and now lives in Fair Lawn, has nourished his passion for the Braves not only
as a fan but later as a sportswriter, able
Dan Schlossberg, left, with former Met Art Shamsky, one
not only to indulge that passion but to be
of baseballs most well-known Jewish players.
paid for it.
He comes by his willingness to follow a
quixotic dream naturally. Mr. Schlossberg, a baseball hisyears later she resisted her familys entreaties
torian, former AP sports correspondent, and the author of
to go back, this time as a tourist. She had ter36 books about baseball, also is the son of the first nativerible memories of going through it for real,
born American to speak Hebrew as his first language, Mr.
her son said.
Schlossberg said. It was his parents passion to make the
Miriam Serban Schlossberg was a nurse,
ancient language live in the modern world.
and Ezra Schlossberg was a physician a
His fathers parents, Shulamit and Meyer Schlossberg,
radiologist who was chief of staff at Beth
both were born in Russia, and both were active particiIsrael in Passaic, a hospital that exists no lonpants in the verbal war that raged between Yiddishists
ger. They met at Lake Waramaug in Connectand Hebraists in the first decades of the 20th century.
icut, they married and lived in the Bronx,
Strong Zionists, ardent disciples of Theodor Herzl, they
and a week after Dan was born they moved
taught their son, Ezra, and then their daughter, Esther,
to Passaic.
Hebrew, and left them to learn English from the outside
Miriam Schlossberg spoke Russian and
world. They were Hebrew school teachers and missionYiddish, but no Hebrew. Ezra Schlossberg
aries, Mr. Schlossberg said. Their mission was to spread
never learned Yiddish. They spoke to each
the gospel of Hebrew; the Hebrew schools they built were
other and to their children in English. But
attached to Conservative shuls.
they remained Zionists.
I was born on May 6, 1948, Mr.
The elder Schlossbergs lived in Chattanooga, TennesSchlossberg said. He almost shares that
see, Sioux City, Iowa, Shaker Heights, Ohio, and Lynne,
birthday with the state of Israel (which
Massachusetts, setting up Hebrew schools as they went.
was born eight days later). And my 13th
Mr. Schlossbergs mother, Miriam Serban, was born in
birthday fell on Shabbat! Those are
Russia; her name was truncated at Ellis Island. That entire
both auspicious things to have happen,
Ellis Island experience was so deeply unpleasant that
28 Jewish standard aPriL 15, 2016
he said. He celebrated that bar mitzvah

at Ahavath Torah, a then-thriving Conservative shul in Passaic. It was a thriving
Jewish community then, he said; it once
again is thriving, but now, in a break from
its past, as mainly Orthodox.
He was an athletic kid, if not a particularly athletically gifted one. I played a lot
of stickball, Mr. Schlossberg said. He also
played a lot of softball.
Mr. Schlossberg cast his lot with the Milwaukee Braves when he was young. In
1957 that infamous year, the year that
brought exquisite suffering to New York
fans when both the Brooklyn Dodgers and
the New York Giants decamped for California most of my friends were Yankee
fans. But the Milwaukee Braves beat the
Yankees, so I figured the Braves were the
best team, he said.
Yes, he added, he does have many
friends who responded to their abandonment by becoming Mets fans. He sympathizes with them without feeling their pain
or walking their path himself.
Art Shamsky points to his

signature at the Louisville
Slugger Musuem.
Bobby Cox, right, talking to Dan Schlossberg, was Atlantas manager during its winning streak.
Mr. Schlossbergs first baseball game was in 1958. His

father took him to see the Yankees play the Washington
Senators, the now-defunct, hopeless, hopeful team that
the musical Damn Yankees was based on. (After all,
You Gotta Have Heart!)
Instead of summer camp, Mr. Schlossbergs father
sent Dan to summer programs at Phillips Andover
Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he played
hardball. Second base, he said, but he wasnt very good.
I was pretty good at stealing bases, he said but you
have to be able to get to base before you can steal the
next one. That part he wasnt so good at.
When he graduated from Passaic High School, Dan
Schlossberg went to Syracuse University, because he
knew he wanted to be a journalist, and he enrolled in
the universitys excellent Newhouse School of Public
Communication. I also got a BA in political science,
he said. I wanted to cover the White House. But then
Nixon got elected, and it soured the whole deal for me.
I realized Id rather cover baseball. So I did!
Mr. Schlossbergs first big break was a direct result
of Syracuses ghastly weather, he said. There was a
huge blizzard in 1966, his freshman year at college.
It was before the time when the Weather Channel
named storms, he said, so it was creatively called the
Blizzard of 1966.
I was trying to get back to school from Paramus,
from the bus stop, he said. The driver said that Syracuse was closed. I thought he meant that the school was
closed. He meant that the whole city was closed.
He got as far as Albany, then he said that this was as

far as we could go. We all slept on the floor of the train
station for two days, until a train came through with a
plow attached to it.
A trip that should have taken four hours took three
days.
Once he got to Syracuse University, he found that
life still was upended. Food was rationed at school,
the newspaper didnt get printed, and you had to wear
your boots inside the dorm, he said.
Later that semester, Mr. Schlossberg wrote about the
semi-trying, semi-funny ordeal and sent the story to
the then-Passaic Herald News, which is now the North
Jersey Herald News, he said. A week later, the story
was printed.
In April, Mr. Schlossberg got an interview at the Herald News. He was looking for a summer internship;
there were three openings and about 150 applicants.
He handed in a resume and was about to skulk off, frustrated, when the editor taking the applications said,
Wait. How do I know your name? Mr. Schlossberg
recalled. I said, I wrote that story about the storm a
few months ago. And then he said, You showed initiative. You have the job.
And then I was off and running.
After three summers interning at the Herald News,
Mr. Schlossberg went to work there full time after he
graduated.
Next, Mr. Schlossberg took a job at the Associated
Press, off Broad Street in Newark. It was hard work and
Al Clark was one of baseballs

few Jewish umpires. He and
Dan Schlossberg co-wrote his
memoir, Called Out But Safe.
Shawn Green, another former

Met, was also a favorite
Jewish baseball player.
Jewish Standard APRIL 15, 2016 29
Cover Story
good training. I was the sports editor for
New Jersey, and also was a radio editor,
he said. I had to write copy every hour
news, not sports and also do the sports.
That was the way it worked then, he said.
Everyone was a general reporter and also
had his or her own specialty. Work shifts
ran all night long and all through the weekend; the less seniority you had, the less
desirable the shifts you got. Mr. Schlossberg, as the new guy, got the least desirable shifts. After three years and much
experience, he left.
After that, Mr. Schlossbergs career
included a stint at the newly established
Bergen County Jewish News, a short-lived
newspaper established by the Jewish federation (which was not yet named the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey and was
structured in a way very different than its
successor agency is today). Mr. Schlossberg
was the papers editor for most of its existence; he left it in 1986 and soon it folded.
Ive been freelance ever since, Mr.
Schlossberg said; since then he has written about baseball and travel.
Why does he love baseball as he does?
Its the easiest sport to understand, he
said. My father often would put it on TV,
turn the sound off, and he would tell me
what was going on in the game. Its also
relatively easy to play, at least if your standards arent too high. You can be any age,
any size, any shape, and you can go out
and play it, Mr. Schlossberg said.
And why has it always been the Braves?
Thats not as easy to answer as why it has
never been the Yankees. Rooting for the
Yankees is sort of rooting for U.S. Steel,
Mr. Schlossberg said. Or like rooting for
General Motors, or for big tobacco. Thats
why the Mets are so lovable. Theyre losers. And any team that plays the Yankees
automatically is the underdog.
Why has there always been a romance
between Jews and baseball? Probably
because they werent good enough to
play any other sport, Mr. Schlossberg
said, blithely pushing aside the many
Jews who have succeeded at other sports
The American-born Ezra Schlossberg,

Dans father, spoke Hebrew before he
spoke English.
30 Jewish Standard APRIL 15, 2016
to get to what he thinks is the matters

deepest truth. Baseball players can be
short and fat.
Theyre also real. Thats why the
Brooklyn Dodgers were such a lovable
team. They lived in the neighborhood
where they played, and they really melted
into the neighborhood. People knew them
as real people, not just as players.
Mr. Schlossbergs latest book, When the
Braves Ruled the Diamond, has just come
out. Its timed to coincide with the 25th
anniversary of the 1991 Atlanta Braves, he
said. That was the only team in baseball
history to go from being the statistically
worst team in Major League Baseball one
year to nearly winning the World Series the
next year. That year, the Braves came agonizingly close to winning. The seventh game
the last game was 0 to 0 in the ninth
inning, and then Minnesota won, 1 to nothing in the tenth inning. Five of the games in
that series were decided by one run.
The Braves had picked up a lot of free
agents after their disastrous 1990 season.
They were very strong fielders, and as a
result of the better defense, the Braves
young pitchers had more confidence. In
1992, they won again.
My favorite game of all time was during
the playoffs of 1992, he continued. And
they had a 14-year winning streak, 1991 to
2005, with only one year missing 1994,
and that season was incomplete because
of the strike.
No other team in the history of professional sports has ever won 14 consecutive
titles. Thats what the Atlanta Braves did.
Mr. Schlossberg remembers the 1992
National League pennant series. It was
the last game of the series, and the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing in Atlanta, at
the old Fulton County Stadium. He was in
the press box, he said, freelancing for the
press service UPI, and his team, the Braves
(because reportorial distance can go only
so far, and there was no hiding the fact
that it was his team) was losing. He got a
message from his bosses. He was to go to
the clubhouse, which he knew would be
a morgue. But his orders were to go, so
he went.
Then the Braves put on an unbelievable rally, they scored three runs, and they
won the pennant.
The winning run was scored by the slowest runner in the league, against the arm
of Barry Bonds, whose one weakness was
throwing. He did not have a strong arm.
So there Mr. Schlossberg was, almost
alone in the clubhouse. Everyone else was
on the field, watching and screaming and
pounding each other and dousing each
other with champagne and acting like
maniacs.
The only other person there was the
owners wife. The owner was the CNN
magnate Ted Turner, and his wife was Jane
Fonda. She said she was in there because
Ted was on the field with the players, and
she didnt want to get messed up, Mr.
Schlossberg said. She looked beautiful.
Al Clark and former Yankee Ron

Blomberg mug for the camera.
Dan Schlossberg wrote a book on
Blomberg, Designated Hebrew.
Mr. Turner sold the team in 1995; its

owner today, John Malone, is the wealthiest owner in baseball but he doesnt
spend a dime on the team, Mr. Schlossberg said.
It will be historically bad this year.
Theyve already lost their first five games.
Gave them away. And most of them were
home games.
Still, Mr. Schlossberg believes that his
beloved Braves will rise again, and soon.
In 2018, to be precise. The organization
traded away its expensive older stars and
has put a lot of care into its minor league
system. In two years, those young players
will be ready to rise, he said.
Mr. Schlossbergs favorite local baseball stories all center on Yogi Berra, that
human shaggy-dog story, whose cuddly
malapropisms, inadvertent witticisms,
and genuine humility made even generally
sober people fall in love with him.
Many of his sayings are well known;
beneath their silliness they are true. The
restaurant is so crowded that no one ever
goes there anymore, he famously said and
Mr. Schlossberg repeated. We all know
what he means.
When you come to a crossroads, take
it, he told visitors trying to make their
way to his house. That sounds as if it might
be profound, perhaps, on some level;
what he really meant is that the road to his
house split and then rejoined, so either
way was the right way to go. (Maybe that
still is profound, on some level.)
When he and his wife went to look at
their first apartment, which she already
had leased, he couldnt see the bed. She
pointed to the Murphy bed, folded up into
the wall, and said, Here it is. And he said,
We have to sleep standing up? That joke,
as Mr. Schlossberg told it, is just funny.
But there was more to Yogi Berra. For
one thing, he was charitable. For another,
he was down-to-earth. I used to bowl at
the Berra-Rizutto bowling alley in Clifton,
next to Styretown, Mr. Schlossberg said.
(Phil Rizutto was another career-long
Yankee, who, like Mr. Berra, lived in New

Jersey.) And he was humble.
One time I was having lunch in Montclair, and I saw Yogi walking, all by himself, Mr. Schlossberg said. He was just
all by himself. And I was thinking, here
he is, this big star, and no, hes just walking down the street in Montclair, all by
himself. Youd think there would be an
entourage, but he was humble. There
was no entourage.
Last year, when Yogis museum
thats the Yogi Berra Museum, on the campus of Montclair State University was
robbed, Yogis comment was priceless,
Mr. Schlossberg said. His Most Valuable
Player trophies were stolen later they
were replaced by Major League Baseball
and Yogi said, I dont need them. I know
that I was the most valuable player.
This year, Mr. Schlossberg has been out
hustling his new book. He had a book signing at Disney Worlds Champion Stadium,
where the Braves have spring training. The
day hed agreed to be there was the day of
the first exhibition game at the stadium,
featuring the Mets playing the Braves.
They asked me if I would like to throw out
the first ball in the game, Mr. Schlossberg
said. And I said, Thats only Number One
on my bucket list.
I wore my Braves jersey from the
Braves summer camp in 1987.
Many New Yorkers winter in Florida,
and many of them are Mets fans. Many of
those fans show up for exhibition games.
So, what did it feel like to make that first
pitch? It was interesting, Mr. Schlossberg said. Interesting how? Interesting because 60 feet and six inches the
distance from the pitching mount to the
catcher doesnt seem like too much until
you are suddenly standing on the pitching
mound, in front of 10,000 people.
And where else should a lifelong baseball fan be but on a pitching mound in
early spring, with the whole season in
front of him?
There could be no place better.
Who: Dan Schlossberg
What: Will talk about his new book,
When the Braves Ruled the Diamond:
Fourteen Flags Over Atlanta
Where and when:
At Bookends, 211 East Ridgewood Avenue, in Ridgewood, on Saturday, April
23, at 1 p.m.
At the Englewood Public Library, 31
Engle Street, on Tuesday, May 17, at 7:15
p.m.
At the Maurice M. Pine Free Public
Library, 10-01 Fair Lawn Avenue in Fair
Lawn, on May 18. Time not yet announced.
At the Yogi Berra Museum on the campus of Montclair State University, 8 Yogi
Berra Drive, in Little Falls, on May 22 at
2 p.m., as part of a panel, with Marty
Appel, Hal Bock, and Howard Megdal
discussing the Yankees, the Cubs, the
Cardinals, and of course the Braves.
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re-enter their communities typically

help, in turn, to increase prosperity. They
often do in freedom the same work they
did as slaves, but with dignity that uplifts
the spirit and that results in spendable
income that supports the local economy.
This phenomenon has been dubbed the
freedom dividend.
Collaboration between Free the Slaves
and the World Bank would be cheap in
dollars and priceless in human terms.
Anti-poverty initiatives that track local
development can simultaneously, and
with little added cost, determine the risks
and prevalence of human trafficking in
a given area. Where dangers are great,
abolitionists can intervene effectively
and inexpensively. For an average cost
of $1,220, Free the Slaves safeguards an
entire village against trafficking for a year.
I felt that Maurice and his kindred
spirit, Jim Yong Kim, were meant to work
together.
Last week, I happened to visit the website of my alma mater, the Jewish Theological Seminary, for the first time in
more than a year. I saw that in about 48
hours, Jim Yong Kim would be delivering an address co-sponsored by the seminarys Milstein Center for Interreligious
Dialogue. Rabbi Burt Visotzky, director
of the Milstein Center, was one of my
favorite professors. In 1996, I wrote a
short piece for Talking About Genesis,
a book based on the television series
with Bill Moyers. Rabbi Visotzky played
a major role in the series. Unfortunately,
we fell out of touch afterwards. Nevertheless, I called him and asked (chutzpah!) for a two-minute audience with
Dr. Kim. Thanks to Rabbi Visotzkys gracious generosity, I was able to talk with
Dr. Kim, suggest synergies with Free the
Slaves, and provide him with Maurice
Middlebergs contact information.
So what does all this have to do with
Passover? One obvious and valid
answer is that freedom, equality, and
overcoming disadvantage are the holidays essential values. As the Haggadah
declares, Let all who are hungry come

and eat. This year, slaves. Next year,
free people.
Also, we spend money for Passover. It
is customary to buy new clothes and provide gifts for finding the afikoman. Kosherfor-Passover food is expensive, and many
of us host big, celebratory meals. Others
bring gifts to our hosts. It is the season for
maaot chitim, tzedakah to help poor people pay for matzah, among other needs.
Thus, many Jewish charities request donations at this time of year.
During his seminary talk, Kim a medical doctor and anthropologist by training
shared his conviction that moral problems will not be solved unless moral people develop the skill of deploying money
effectively. So I did a few calculations:
Assuming 5.3 million Jews in the United
States and 85 percent seder attendance, if
every Jew who attended a seder donated
just $5 at www.FreeTheSlaves.net/Judaism, we could protect 1,800 villages
against slavery for a decade. Eighteen
hundred villages protected until 2026
would go a long way toward eradicating
both slavery and poverty by 2030.
Of course, not all the Jews who attend a
seder will give $5, but many, I hope, will
give more.
We have a choice to make this Passover. Will we, individually and collectively, deploy money to rescue people
from bondage or will we just talk about
freedom? Will Exodus and the Haggadah
merely be sacred words we inherit and
pronounce, or will they also be our call
to action?
I am taking the liberty of making a
chutzpah-dik request: this Passover,
please put your money where your mouth
is. Then it will truly be a sweet and freeing holiday.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein, spiritual leader
of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson,
has collaborated with a team of Jewish
educators to create handouts, readings,
and activities to add meaning and spark
conversation at your seders. Go to www.
FreeTheSlaves.net/Judaism to read and
download them.
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Kuwaiti columnist calls

on Muslim nations to
recognize Israel
Kuwaiti media personality Yousuf Abd Al-Karim
Al-Zinkawi called on all Muslim countries to recognize Israel immediately in an article for the Kuwaitbased Al-Seyassah newspaper, according to a
report released by the Middle East Media Research
Institute.
Israel became a member of the U.N. on May
11, 1949, namely 67 years ago, before most of the
Arab and Islamic states became independent, AlZinkawi wrote. At the time, the U.N. had only 57
member states, which means that over 62 percent
favored Israels admittance. Today, when the [U.N.]
General Assembly has swelled to include 193 states,
I believe that the proportion of states that support
Israel is even greater, and is over 83 percent. This,
especially after some five Arab states and quite
a few Muslim ones have recognized the State of
Israel.
Al-Zinkawi wrote that, in practice, Arab and Muslim nations already recognize Israel because they
work under the same roof as the Israeli delegation at the U.N. General Assembly.
Calling the constant efforts to delegitimize Israel
despite unofficial and indirect ties with the Jewish
state a political charade, he wrote that Arab and
Muslim leaders should accept reality and recognize
Israel.
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Dome: Israels Rafael unveils
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Israels Rafael Advanced Defense Systems this week
unveiled its newest development, the Drone Dome
defense system, designed to intercept enemy
unmanned aerial vehicles. Rafael is also the developer of the Israeli militarys highly successful Iron
Dome missile defense system.
The Drone Dome was unveiled during the 2016
LAAD Public and Corporate Security International
Exhibition in Brazil. According to Rafael, Drone
Dome is an innovative end-to-end defense system
designed to provide effective airspace defense
against hostile drones, including micro and nano
drones used by terrorist groups to gather intelligence and carry out aerial attacks.
Drone Dome is designed to detect, track, and
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identified, the system alerts operators of the hostile drone in the monitored airspace. The systems
signal jammer is then put into action, either automatically or manually, and finally, the hostile drone
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Fearing the billionaire businessman,
Republican Jews give Cruz another look
RON KAMPEAS
LAS VEGAS Ted Cruz came here to
woo Republican Jews over the weekend,
and in the absence of his opponents for
the GOP presidential nomination came
away with qualified support based not
on who he is but who he is not.
Hes not Donald Trump.
Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich
skipped the spring meeting of the
Republican Jewish Coalition, leaving
Cruz as the sole hopeful to address the
560 Jews packed into a conference room
at the Venetian casino resort.
Trumps high negative approval ratings among women and minorities,
coupled with his seeming fecklessness
on Israel pledging neutrality one week
and support the next seemed to drive
many of the Jews in the room to give
Cruz a second look. That came after
months of shunning the Texas senator
for his social conservatism and reputation for not making nice with other
Republicans.
This is a room of dear, dear friends,
and people who are becoming dear
friends, Cruz said during his Saturday
night address.
No one questioned Cruzs Israel bona
fides, and his impassioned expressions
of support for the country earned standing ovations, the longest when he swore
to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
But his more important qualification was
the possibility that he could beat Trump,
whose candidacy, as people whispered
in conversations in the corridors, would
lead inexorably to President Hillary
Clinton.
There was a very clear realization
that where we are today, Ted Cruz is
our best choice to be the nominee,
Jay Zeidman, a Houston businessman,
said after the RJC weekend. He and his
father, Fred, had been leading bundlers
for the campaign of former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush. Everyone understands we
need to get Cruz to get to the convention
to at least stop Trump from getting the
nomination.
Trump had planned to attend the RJC
meeting as part of a Western campaign
trip, but the tour was canceled. Kasich,
badly trailing Trump and Cruz, is working the corners of New York State, hoping to garner enough delegates in its
primary next week to make his continued presence in the race seem less than
absurd.
Senator Cruz was the only one to
accept our invitation, Michael Epstein, a
board member of the Republican Jewish
Coalition, said in his introduction of the

candidate. The room burst into grateful
applause.
Cruz addressed the hesitation, the
fraught quality of this getting-to-knowyou session.
Many of you started with someone
else, he said. Thats a perfectly natural, reasonable thing to do.
One of the more emotional moments
came when Joel Geiderman, a Beverly
Hills doctor and the child of a Holocaust
survivor, refuted the TV pundits, including Geraldo Rivera, who said Cruzs derision of New York values was a dogwhistle to anti-Semites.
We dont think you have an antiSemitic bone in your body, Geiderman
said, stirring a standing ovation.
There were also anxious, awkward
questions about his social policies.
I recognize that is a question that
many people here wrestle with, Cruz
said after one of the attendees earned
applause for saying that Cruzs hardline attitudes on abortion and gay marriage were unpopular with many Jewish
Republicans.
Cruz said social issues devolve to the
states and suggested that he would not
seek to impose his views as a president.
Nobody wants to elect a hectoring
scold, he said.
Yet within minutes, he was hectoring,
however politely. Wealthier Republicans
needed to acknowledge the strong feelings of blue-collar voters who believe
they are losing jobs to undocumented
immigrants, Cruz said.
You want to understand the rage,
Cruz said. That frustration, that anger
median income has not changed in 20
years for the working class.
He acknowledged that he would not
win on a first vote at the convention, but
on a subsequent ballot were going to
win the nomination, he said.
Cruz is working hard at it. He spent
Friday at the RJC event meeting privately with fund-raisers. The reception
was positive, said Nick Muzin, a senior
adviser to the campaign.
On issues that matter most, Ted is on
the same side, Muzin said. Hes going
to do what he says.
Cruz flew early Saturday to Colorado to work its Republican Party state
convention, to productive effect he
walked away with the states entire slate
of pledged delegates.
He flew back to Las Vegas in the afternoon. Rains drenching the city kept
him circling the airport for an hour or
so while the RJC activists paced the
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by Sheldon Adelson, a major
funder of the RJC and a Republican
kingmaker.
Cruz did not score the prized Adelson endorsement; the magnate left
the RJC confab early for a wedding.
In the halls, Jewish Republicans
were more inclined to talk about
whom they did not favor Trump
than to offer a glowing recommendation of Cruz.
No one knows who [Trump]
is, said Ellyn Bogdanoff, a former
Florida state legislator who backed
Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from her
state. His negatives are extremely
high.
What about Cruz?
Bogdanoff thought a moment. Id
like to see someone who would win,
she said, in a tone suggesting she
wanted Cruz to convince her.
David Gilson, a lawyer from Arlington, Virginia, who backs Kasich, said
that at least conference-goers were
not negative about Cruz. I do hear
cracks about Trump, he said.
One member explained his support for Trump so far in
pragmatic terms. Theres no point

in backing someone if hes not going
to be elected in November, said
David Pulver, a Florida businessman.
Mark Hirsch, a real estate investor
from Scarsdale, New York, decried
Trumps politics of personal
destruction. We havent focused
on the failed presidency of Barack
Obama or factored Hillary Clinton
into it, he said, worried that the
momentum for such a narrative is
slipping away.
Asked about Cruz, Hirsch like
others paused, then said: Hes
brilliant but rigid.
After Cruz spoke, many in the
room appeared reassured.
Ted Cruz helped himself a lot
at the Republican Jewish Coalition
meeting, Ari Fleischer, an RJC board
member and the first-term spokesman for President George W. Bush,
said on Twitter. Hes going to leave
here with a lot of support.
Walking out of the room, Hirsch
said: I liked hearing that he feels
he can bring the party together. He
hasnt run a negative campaign.

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Meet Simone Zimmerman

Bernie Sanders Jewish outreach director
is outspoken critic of Israeli policies, actions
corporations to stop profiting off
human rights abuses. (The Anti-Defimone Zimmerman, the Beramation League has called JVP one of
nie Sanders campaigns newly
Americas top 10 anti-Israel groups.)
hired national Jewish outreach
Were paying attention to whats
coordinator, is familiar with
happening in Israel and we are
the American Jewish establishment.
angry, Zimmerman said in a column
She is used to fighting against it.
on her fellow millennials in Israels
During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerdaily Haaretz in February.
man was one of the leaders of a group
The hypocrisy of expecting feelof young Jews who held regular protest
good social justice projects to offset
vigils outside the offices of the Confermillennials deep outrage at the grave
ence of Presidents of Major Ameriinjustices committed by the Jewish
Simone Zimmerman says
can Jewish Organizations, reading
state is almost too much to bear,
her fellow millennials are
the names of Palestinians and Israelis
wrote Zimmerman, who is in her midangry about what is hapkilled in the conflict.
20s. No public relations trick can save
pening in Israel.
She opposes Israels occupation,
Israels image. The problem isnt with

COURTESY OF J STREET
wants Hillel to allow participation by
the hasbara [public relations]. The
groups that support the Boycott, Divestproblem is nearly 50 years of occupament and Sanctions movement against Israel, is against
tion. The problem is rampant racism in Israeli society.
Jewish federation funding for Israeli projects in the
The problem is attacks on human rights defenders by
West Bank, and wrote favorably of the efforts of Jewish
extremists and by the state. The problem is a Jewish
Voice for Peace, a pro-BDS group, to get international
establishment that ignores or justifies all of this.
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Now charged with reaching out to Jews and Jewish
groups to try to corral support for the only Jewish candidate in the race for president, Zimmerman may be
either a deeply flawed choice for the job or the perfect
hire, depending on your political views and your analysis of Sanders prospects among varying kinds of Jewish
voters.
Zimmerman declined JTAs requests to be interviewed
for this story.
Jews who back Sanders invariably say they are doing
so largely because of the candidates positions on socioeconomic issues. But many of these Jewish progressives
also like Sanders questioning of American political
orthodoxy on Israel. Sanders is a proponent of Israels
security and survival, but also criticizes the Jewish state
for using disproportionate force against the Palestinians and says the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict needs to be more evenhanded.
It makes me feel good to be supporting a candidate
where I dont have to make excuses for them being
part of the pro-occupation establishment, said Charles
Lenchner, a Jewish Sanders supporter from Brooklyn.
This is a candidate who has embraced the full
humanity of Palestinians in a way we have not seen from
any past president except for Jimmy Carter, he continued. We need a president who will stand up to Israels
settler minority, which has captured the government
there and captured the foreign policy establishment in
the U.S. Bernie Sanders might actually be able to bring
American power to bear on the intransigence of the
Israeli right wing.

But other Jews, including some inclined to vote
for Sanders, are troubled by some of the candidates
statements on Israel, including his erroneous recall in
a New York Daily News interview of the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the 2014 Gaza conflict. Sanders said he thought the number was 10,000 dead, but
the actual U.N. estimate was 1,462. When someone in
the room did a quick search for the official number
and offered the corrected figure, Sanders immediately
accepted it.
Critics nevertheless seized upon the mistake and
other Sanders statements as evidence that he buys
into the Palestinian narrative that Israel is the primary
aggressor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For these Jews, Zimmermans appointment is unlikely
to allay their concerns about Sanders. Some anti-Sanders groups already have seized upon Zimmermans hire
as fodder for their argument that a Sanders presidency
would be bad for the Jews.
Yes, this is what the Bernie Sanders version of Jewish
outreach looks like, Daniel Greenfield wrote in FrontPageMag, a right-wing website associated with the David
Horowitz Freedom Center, which describes the political
left as an enemy of America. Stone throwing and BDS
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Zimmerman
FROM PAGE 37
of Los Angeles, born in 1990, and the

great-granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Zimmerman grew up in a Conservative Jewish household, went to Jewish day
school and Jewish camp, and was active in
United Synagogue Youth, the Conservative
movements youth organization, according to a biography of her on the American
Jewish Peace Archives website. The bio
is based on an interview with Zimmerman last May. Zimmerman said she visited Israel a number of times during her
childhood.
When she started college at the University of California, Berkeley, Zimmerman
initially gravitated toward the traditional
pro-Israel camp. She joined Berkeleys
Israel Action Committee, protested a
divestment bill in the student senate, and
went to Washington in the spring to attend
AIPACs annual policy conference.
But Zimmermans political views
changed as she learned more from advocates of divestment and saw Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians during a visit to
Israel, she said. She soon joined her campus chapter of J Street, the pro-Israel, propeace lobbying group that supports U.S.
pressure on Israel to support a two-state
solution. She spent the summer after her

sophomore year studying colloquial Arabic at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In
2012, Zimmerman was elected president
of the national student board of J Street U,
the groups campus arm.
Throughout her college years at Berkeley, Zimmerman said she opposed BDS,
but over time she became supportive of
the rights of pro-BDS groups to be part
of the Jewish communal conversation on
Israel.
We are doing this out of love for our
community and love for our neighbors,
she wrote of her work opposing the occupation. We know that Jewish liberation
is inextricably tied to the liberation of all
people.
When Israel and Hamas went to war in
Gaza in 2014, Zimmerman helped found a
group called IfNotNow that seeks to end
Israels occupation and during the war
protested American Jewish groups like the
Presidents Conference. Malcolm Hoenlein, who heads the umbrella organization, told JTA he remembers the protesters outside his office during the war but
did not talk to them and was not familiar
with Zimmerman.
Since moving to Brooklyn, Zimmerman
also has marched in #BlackLivesMatter
Now charged with reaching

out to Jews and Jewish
groups to try to corral
support for the only Jewish
candidate in the race for
president, Zimmerman may be
either a deeply flawed
choice for the job or the
perfect hire.
protests and helped raise money for Jews
for Racial and Economic Justice, a group
that aims to dismantle racism and economic exploitation in New York.
But Zimmerman remains very focused
on Israel. In her Haaretz column in February, she wrote of the importance of
bringing American Jews to do civil resistance work in solidarity with West Bank
Palestinians.
What we need is for the community to
stop willfully blinding itself to the disastrous reality of holding millions of Palestinians under military occupation, Zimmerman wrote. Moreover, we need the
community to stop policing and demonizing those of us who say these truths in
public and are fighting for change.

Now Zimmerman is fighting for the
change that Sanders champions. After
Sanders won his first primary election in
New Hampshire in February, Zimmerman
hailed the historic moment.
The first Jew in history just won a primary, as a proud socialist calling for political revolution, backed 85-15 by millennials, Zimmerman wrote on Facebook,
according to a report in the Forward
(Zimmermans posts are not all viewable
to the general public). Referencing Hillary Clinton, Sanders Democratic rival for
the presidency, Zimmerman added, Hil
thinks she can win us back with hawkish
Israel policies? Wake the fk up.
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Three Palestinians were arrested by Palestinian
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second wife from a Palestinian village into Israel.
Based on intelligence information, security
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Charles Lenchner of Brooklyn, left, and Rabbi Iris Richman, a founder of Rabbis for Bernie, were at a Jewish Sanders campaign brunch in Manhattan on
April 10.
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hil Aroneanu is a second-generation American Jew whose

parents came to America as
immigrants seeking refuge
from an oppressive Communist regime
in Eastern Europe. Aroneanu was born
in New York City and later moved to
Vermont.
Its a biography that to some extent
mirrors Bernie Sanders own. And its
partly why Aroneanu, who now works as
the Sanders campaigns New York state
director, decided to join the campaign.
Bernie speaks to my Jewish values
in a pretty significant way, especially
with Pesach coming up, Aroneanu, 32,
said. We were once enslaved and now
were free. We have an innate desire and
now responsibility to free others from
oppression, whether racial oppression,
religious oppression, or refugees coming
into this country or economic injustice.
Thats what prompted me to jump on his
campaign.
Aroneanu is one of many Jews backing
Sanders who say the candidate embodies their Jewish values. Its not because
Sanders is Jewish, they say; its because
of the social justice values he champions.
He embodies justice, integrity and
hope, said Iris Richman, a Conservative
rabbi in New York who has established a
grassroots group called Rabbis for Bernie
that aims to help the Sanders presidential bid. So many of his values are Jewish values. We were strangers in the land
of Egypt. We were once at the bottom of
society, and now we have a responsibility to the least privileged to make sure
theyre able to strive and function.

The fact that Sanders is also Jewish is a
nice bonus, Richman said.
Its a very positive thing given the
history of Jews in America that theres a
Jewish candidate for president who has
advanced to this point, and his Judaism
doesnt seem to be a negative in his campaign, she noted.
Richman was among several speakers at a Sanders campaign brunch in
Manhattan on Sunday, organized by the
grassroots group Jews for Bernie, in the
run-up to New Yorks April 19 primary.
Richman delivered a pro-Sanders dvar
Torah.
The Torah tells us 36 times the
most repeated and emphasized value in
the Torah that we must always remember that Jews were once strangers in
Egypt and we must protect the stranger,
Richman said in her speech. We need
to hear that call of the afflicted and we
need to respond. Which candidate do
we know who, for his entire adult life,
has been willing to take the lonely road
as an outsider when necessary and consistently and always stand for the poor?
Stand for free college? Stand for health
care for all as a right and not a privilege?
Stand against the war in Iraq?
The pro-Sanders audience cheered.
Susan Cohen, 60, a lifelong Orthodox
Jew from Brooklyn, said that she also
sees Sanders as championing Jewish ethics and her own political values.
The Democratic principles I hold
so dear are the same principles Bernie
Sanders talks about: being a voice for the
disenfranchised, the poor, the homeless,
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she said in a telephone interview. These
are not just Jewish values but religious,
Torah-based values, and having all of
that I choose to support Bernie Sanders
for president.
A diehard Democrat, Cohen says she
finds the shift among Orthodox Jews
toward the Republican Party bewildering. She describes herself as a strong
supporter of Israel and notes that her
parents, two siblings, and other relatives have immigrated to Israel. Cohen
says shes sure that if Sanders is elected
president, he will do right by the Jewish
state though she allows that she wishes
he were going to Israel this week instead
of to a Vatican conference in Rome.
If Bernie gets the nomination, hes
going to approach Israel with the same
careful consideration he applies to
other things: learning the real issues,
actually visiting Israel to see what its
like for Israel to live next door to enemies pledging to wipe Israel off the face
of the earth, Cohen said. Hes going to
do the right thing, which is to continue
to support Israel militarily, financially,
morally. I dont think that Bernie Sanders in any way shape or form is going to
betray us.
Sanders himself rarely expresses his
politics in terms of Jewish values. Last
year, when NPR asked him about what
being a Jew meant to him, Sanders spoke
of his relatives lost in the Holocaust and
his subsequent efforts to combat horrific racism or anti-Semitism. But others
see him as an exemplar of a particular
type of Jewish leftist. Rabbi and columnist Jay Michaelson, writing in the Daily
Beast, described the model as the basically secular, basically atheist Jewish
Democratic Socialist, part of the erstwhile 20th-century American Jewish
Left.
Whether or not Sanders wins in New
York, where Jewish voters carry more
sway than in any other state, Aroneanu
says his time as a campaign staffer will
be well spent. (As the campaigns state
director, he will be out of a job after April
19.)
He says his own experience as a child
of immigrants underscores the urgency
of the Sanders candidacy. Aroneanus
mother came to the United States in
1980 as a political asylum seeker fleeing the Communist Ceauescu regime
in Romania. His father came over as a
non-refugee immigrant from Romania
several years earlier. The two worked
hard to make it in America, and their
son, who was born in Manhattan in 1983,
was raised largely by his grandparents in
their Bergen County home.
Aroneanu says he wants to make sure
the American dream remains attainable
for people like his parents.
Im not a very religious Jew, but I
feel deeply connected to my roots as a
Jew, as an immigrant, as a child of immigrants, as someone with a lot of history
in Europe both with World War II and
communism, he said. So does Bernie.
Besides, Aroneanu said, he believes
Sanders has a shot at beating Hillary
Clinton.
Were definitely contesting New York.
Weve got a great operation here and the
volunteer energy is incredible, he said.
Its diverse, its energetic and I think we
can build on it.

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Watchdog group accuses U.N. agency

of systematic bias against Israel
A scathing report released by the NGO
Monitor watchdog group reveals that the
Jerusalem-based United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
regularly misrepresents data to distort
perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict against Israel.
OCHA oPt regularly presents data in a
manipulative way that erases the context
of terrorism and distorts law and morality, by not distinguishing between Palestinian terrorists and regular civilians, and
by amplifying Palestinian causality claims,
NGO Monitor said, adding that the agency
also falsely equates between legal Israel
self-defense tactics and illegal Palestinian
terror attacks on Israeli civilians.
For example, according to the
report, the agency presents pie charts
purporting to show the number of
Palestinian fatalities by Israeli forces

in the oPt. Yet, this data as presented
does not provide any information as to
how the fatalities took place, including how many of the fatalities occurred
while Palestinians were attempting to
murder Israeli civilians or engaged in
violent confrontations with Israeli law
enforcement. As a result, it is impossible to make any meaningful assessments from OCHAs figures.
David Carden, the head of OCHA oPt,
said the agency carries out its operations
in line with our global mandate to coordinate principled humanitarian assistance
and protection to people in need, in line
with General Assembly Resolution 46/182.
We have just received the report and we
are examining its contents. From a preliminary review it appears that OCHAs work
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and so much more! NEW: 20 Israeli teens will join us
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Fee includes bus to and from the JCC, lunch at the
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attractions. No refunds. Contact Kathy at
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Thur, May 12, 8:30 am-6:30 pm, $110/$130
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Muslims in Nazi Germanys War

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Film Screening: Prisoner of Her Past

(About a Holocaust survivor suffering
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Dr. David Motadel, Chancellors Fellow,

University of Edinburgh
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River Edge Public Library
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Jewishness on Display: Gender and

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 7 P.M.
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Poll: British Muslims more likely

to support anti-Semitic theories
A new poll in the United Kingdom has
found that British Muslims are much
more likely to support a number of antiSemitic conspiracy theories than the
wider British public.
According to a poll conducted by ICM
for the U.K.s Channel 4, the British Muslim community is more likely to believe
that Jewish people have too much power
in Britain and too much power over government, media, the business world,
international financial markets, and
global affairs.
The poll, conducted among 1,081
British Muslims, found that 35 percent
agreed with the suggestion that Jews

have too much power in the U.K., compared to only 9 percent in the national
average. Additionally, 39 percent of Muslims believe that Jews have too much
power over the media and 44 percent
said Jews have too much power over business, compared to only 10 and 18 percent
respectively nationwide.
Forty percent of the British Muslims
surveyed believe Jews are more loyal
to Israel than the U.K., and 34 percent
believe Jews talk too much about what
happened to them in the Holocaust.
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Arabia over the transfer of sovereignty
of two islands in the Red Sea may require
changes to the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace
treaty, reports indicate.
According to a report in Egypts AlAhram newspaper, the islands agreement may require changes to the treaty,
including some dealing with maritime
borders, which would require Israeli
Knesset approval. Additionally, the
report said Egyptian officials had told
their Israeli counterparts that the signed

agreement would include a commitment
by Saudi Arabia to respect Egypts peace
obligations with Israel. The report said
Israel has so far not expressed any opposition to the islands coming under Saudi
control.
Saudi Arabias King Salman recently
made a five-day visit to Egypt, where it
was announced that Egypt would hand
over sovereignty of the Red Sea islands of
Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. JNS.ORG
Netanyahu: Israel prevents Hezbollah

from acquiring game-changing weapons
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
that Israel has prevented the Lebanese
terror group Hezbollah from acquiring
game-changing weaponry as a result of
numerous attacks by Israel in Syria.
We are proud that in the stormy and
volatile Middle East, we were able to
maintain relative calm and relative safety
in Israel. We act when we should act,
including here, across the border, in dozens of attacks, to prevent Hezbollah from
getting game-changing weaponry, Netanyahu said during a visit with soldiers in the
Israeli Golan Heights.
Netanyahus statements are the latest in
a war of words between the Jewish state

and Hezbollah. Over the past few months,
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has
threatened to strike chemical and nuclear
sites inside Israel.
But Germanys Bild newspaper
reported Saturday that Hezbollah has
acquired the Russian-made Buk SA-17
missile battery that had been previously
given to the Syrian government. The
medium-range surface-to-air missile system is designed to target aircraft, missiles,
and unmanned aerial vehicles that could
potentially be used by Israel in an attack
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Jay Leno offers to donate ambucycle

to Israels United Hatzalah
Comedian Jay Leno on Sunday offered
to donate a $36,000 fully equipped
ambucycle to Israels United Hatzalah
emergency response group, during a
Lincoln Center concert fundraiser for
the group.
What you guys are doing is so special. I am so proud to be here and be
part of it. I have 117 motorcycles in my
collection, but none of my motorcycles
save lives. I want to donate an ambucycle with all of the trappings, the
former Tonight Show host told Eli

Beer, founder and president of United
Hatzalah, on the events stage after performing a comedy act.
The Leno-funded ambucycle will be
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thereby cutting emergency response
time to under three minutes while
Israel deals with an ongoing wave of
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normal and is not typically a cause for
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Fortunately, stress can be managed
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lower levels. This positive stress, known
as eustress, serves as a motivator for us
in many aspects of our lives such as academics and professional performance.
However, to benefit from eustress, we
must learn how to manage our negative stress, known as distress, properly.
By not managing our stress properly,
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is exceeded then illness is the result. By
restoring balance, for instance through
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psychological, and getting rid of what
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Untreated chronic stress can result
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Dr. Katz adds that We all must work
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The APA has a list of simple steps you
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Exercising
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Meditating
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Understanding how you stress
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Recognizing how you deal with stress
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Jewish Home unveils virtual reality rehab program
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The Virtual Rehab Program (VRP) goes
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consumers with the Xbox One gaming system, but with an entire suite of software
developed by the Jewish Homes rehab
partner, Functional Pathways.
The sensors monitor the persons entire
body, transposing their movements onto
the screen as they confront various gamified scenarios. VRP allows the therapist
and patient to work on balance, coordination, range of motion, and cognitive
activities.
The system will adjust the activity based
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device such as a cane or walker. Longterm residents, as well as short-term rehab
patients, are presented with challenges,
such as kicking a virtual soccer ball into
a goal, or guiding a fish that responds to
their movements to swim in a particular

direction thereby exercising and measuring their range of motion.
The use of technology transports the
patient to another world where they can
ride a motorcycle, ski, or play football,
says Director of Rehab Ilana Dallas. The
patient is having fun while doing therapy,
which allows for greater participation and
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The VRP has been incorporated into
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digital activities geared for the short stay
patients, joining Cognitive Therapy, Spiritual Therapy, Horticulture Therapy and
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High school-age volunteers interested in
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during weekends and off hours. To volunteer, contact Stacey Orden at sorden@jewishhomefamily.org or (201) 518-1175.
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And still this is one small step for man

RICHARD PORTUGAL
s his boot gently touched down and broke the

moons surface, Neil Armstrong said, This is
one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for
mankind. The 1969 landing on the moon was
indeed one very big step. In the midst of the Cold War, it
provided Americans a certain pride and direction. With a

world filled with uncertainty, this step allowed us a swagger
and confidence in our nations walk forward.
Todays seniors in 2012 can learn something from our past
space program. To walk with confidence with big steps and
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head erect is to remain independent and insure that

activities of daily living are accomplished with strength
and vigor. Let us consider the three main objectives in
walking with a proper step:
One: Raise your knees when you walk. When you
raise your knees, your feet will follow insuring a long
stride. Let your foot fall on your heel and push off
with your toe. Raise your knee and let your foot take
a naturally long step. Short steps or shuffling will only
increase your chances of a fall. Step over the floor and
do not permit your foot to drag on the floor. Increased
friction and contact with the floor will only cause
imbalance and hindrance to a proper walk.
Two: Let your arms swing normally as you walk to
contribute to proper trunk rotation and balance. Your
arm and shoulder should naturally move forward in
coordination with your opposite foot taking a step.
Then your other arm and shoulder swing as your
other foot proceeds to step. This is a smooth transition from foot to foot as your arms and torso move
accordingly.
Three: Keep your head up and look straight ahead.
Our inner ear balance mechanisms, in cooperation
with our eyes and nervous system, give us our sense
of spatial relationships. They monitor our position in
space so we intuitively know where our legs, arms
and body are positioned. Letting our heads fall forward will only cause imbalance and increase chances
of a fall. It is natural to look down and all around prior
to walking. But once started, walk with your head up
and allow your peripheral vision to monitor your path
ahead.
To attain these three objectives of walking you must
be aware of your movements, concentrate, and cajole
your body to cooperate with some simple exercises:
One: Exercise your shoulders. The stronger your
shoulder muscles are, the easier it is to hold your
head erect and look straight ahead. Our head weighs
approximately twelve pounds. Allowing the bowling ball which sits atop your neck to fall forward will
cause imbalance and unsteadiness. A head that falls
forward pulls your entire body out of balance and
encourages short, halting steps which further cause
instability. Hold your head up and walk with confidence rather than shuffle in response to poor body
position.
Two: Exercise your legs. The legs are composed of
three main muscle groups: the quadriceps, the hamstrings and the calf muscles. There are simple exercises for each muscle group which will insure strong
and powerful legs. Legs are your means of locomotion
take care of them.
Three: Exercise your upper body. Make sure your
biceps, triceps, forearms, chest, and back are strong
and agile. Their proper movement, strength and flexibility is imperative to a proper walk. They should
swing freely and be strong. Again, there are multitude
of exercises which will insure a strong upper body and
promote a proper gait.
Remember, your body was made to walk. Let it do
its thing and you too can step on the moon!
Richard Portugal is the founder and owner of Fitness
Senior Style, which exercises seniors for balance,
strength, and cognitive fitness in their own homes. He
has been certified as a senior trainer by the American
Senior Fitness Association. For further information,
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your aging mother and your aging father?
ROBIN GRANAT
s parents get older the commandment to

Honor Your Mother and Your Father is put
to the test. Adult children are often asked
to step in and be helpful. How does an
adult child help while maintaining the dignity and
independence of the parents who put their heart and
souls into raising them?
Have you heard the term helicopter parent?
That is a parent who hovers over their children, overseeing everything despite the childs ability to manage themselves and worse prevents the child from
making mistakes and learning from them.
In the senior living world, adult children are at risk
of becoming helicopter children. Those are the children who are over-involved in their parents lives and
overprotect them. They hover by getting involved in
areas that their parents can manage on their own
and take over their parents life. Moreover, they
become so frightened about their parents well-being
that they dont allow them try out different ways of
managing.
The act of helicoptering comes from a place of
wanting to be there for someone you love, our parent, mingled with our personalities. Adult children
who have a take-charge personality are especially at
risk of becoming a helicopter child. The helicopter
child demoralizes and demeans the older person
without intending to do so.
I have heard residents at the senior community
where I work and their children say that the roles
are reversed as parents age. I take issue with that.
While our parents may need a hand, they never
become our children. Honoring your parent means
never forgetting that they raised you, not the other
way around.
The balance between autonomy and support is a
delicate one in any relationship. The helicopter relationship is not healthy because support and autonomy are out of balance.
If you are the parent reading this, I would like to
suggest two questions that you ask yourself before
bringing your needs to the attention of your children. The first question that should be asked is what
specific support do I need? The more specific you
are with your children the easier it will be for your
children to respond with that assistance and not take
over. The second question is whether my childrens
response respects my autonomy?
If you are an adult child reading this I will suggest
that in all situations you ask your parents what they
specifically need. If your parent is unable to answer,
then work to be specific yourself and not simply
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ergen Volunteer Medical Initiative has

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Hearing
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In recent years, the ubiquity of personal electronic devices and earbuds has
contributed to a rise in hearing loss for
teens and young people.
The proximity of earbuds to the eardrum creates an incredibly dangerous
level of noise, which rivals the sounds of
drilling in a coal mine. Additionally, due
to long battery life and the ability to play
music and media at high volumes, young
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For music and media, hearing specialists recommend adhering to the 60-60
rule: listening to sounds at 60 percent of
the volume, for no more than 60 minutes a day. Additionally, parents might
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If you are attending a sports event or
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Protecting your hearing now is the
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Dvar Torah
Whats so great about Shabbat Hagadol?
culture (according to many

Hashem hagadol vhanora, the
authorities, the lamb was
great and awesome day of the
an Egyptian deity) and their
Lord. (Malachi 3:23).
Most scholars, however, conallegiance to their own God.
nect the designation of Shabbat
This courageous act on the
Hagadol to the monumental
part of the Israelites, and
historical event that took place
Gods miraculous protection
on the Shabbat before Pesach
of them in the face of looming danger, is marked each
during the year of the Exodus.
Rabbi Shmuel
year on Shabbat Hagadol,
According to tradition, the 15th
Goldin
the Great Shabbat.
day of Nisan, the actual day of
Congregation
A critical question
the Exodus, fell that year on a
Ahavath Torah,
emerges,
however, if we
Thursday. The previous ShabEnglewood,
bat, therefore, coincided with
accept this historical explaOrthodox
nation of Shabbat Hagadol.
the 10th day of Nisan, the day on
Commemorations of hiswhich the Israelites were commanded to set aside the Paschal lamb, in full
torical events on the Jewish calendar are
view of their Egyptian neighbors. This lamb
marked each year, as a rule, on the calendar dates of those events, not on the days
would serve as the korban Pesach offering,
of the week when they originally occurred.
to be slaughtered on the 14th of Nisan and
Why then do we celebrate Shabbat Hagconsumed by the Israelites, in their homes,
adol on Shabbat each year, instead of
on the night of the 15th.
marking the 10th day of Nisan on whatever
The public setting aside the korban
day of the week it may happen to fall?
Pesach on the 10th of Nisan constituted a
It occurred to me some years ago that
potentially dangerous declaration of freedom. In one fell swoop, the Israelites prothe answer to this question may lie in the
claimed their severance from Egyptian
thematic connection between Shabbat and
e tend to accept certain

traditions without much
thought. As a case in
point, consider the designation of this particular Shabbat. Traditionally, the Shabbat before Pesach
is called Shabbat Hagadol, the Big or
Great Shabbat.
The rationale for this designation, however, warrants examination.
Some authorities delineate a utilitarian
origin for the title Shabbat Hagadol. On
the Shabbat before Pesach, these scholars
explain, the rabbi customarily delivers a
lengthy exposition regarding specific laws
and concepts of the Pesach festival. This
extended lecture lends the Shabbat before
Pesach its character as a Shabbat which is
Gadol (depending upon ones vantage
point, either great or just simply long.)
Other authorities trace the title of Shabbat Hagadol to the last line of the haftara
traditionally recited on this Shabbat. In
this final verse, the prophet Malachi references a future day of great significance: Behold, I will send you Eliyahu
the prophet before the coming of yom
historical events of the 10th day of Nisan.

Just as the setting aside of the korban
Pesach constituted the Israelites declaration of independence from Egypt, Shabbat constitutes our weekly declaration of
freedom from an outside world. On Shabbat, we turn to a surrounding society and,
through action, declare: That which is
most important to you, that which even
we sometimes fall into thinking is most
important, is not. Physical striving, accomplishment, and acquisition are admittedly
values. They are not, however, the central
values of our lives. Much more important
is our devotion to God and tradition; our
own spiritual growth; our commitment to
family, nation, and community.
The Israelites of the Exodus proclaimed
their freedom from Egyptian gods and
announced their allegiance to the one God
on the 10th day of Nisan. We proclaim our
freedom from the gods around us and
announce our allegiance to a higher divine
calling, each week, on Shabbat. Perhaps
this is the real lesson of Shabbat Hagadol,
a lesson meant to flow from the Shabbat
before Pesach to every Shabbat of the year.
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Across
1 With 73-Across, who of the Fab Four
has a stepfather and wife of Jewish
descent?
6 One of two in Tishre
10 Dozen in the priestly breastplate
14 Jon Stewart humor quality
15 Beverly Sills bit
16 Tennis star Nastase who complained
of too many Jews in 1976
17 Not one of the four questions at the
Seder
18 The one at NYCs Kosher Deluxe is
immense
19 Clarks Smallville sweetheart
20 What New York venue did Sid
Bernstein secure for the Fab Four
in 1965?
23 Anti-Semitic type?
27 The name of his Paradiso comes
from Hebrew
28 Part of Eugene Levys SCTV
29 Worker of many miracles in Kings II
34 Velvet finish, for certain yarmulkes
35 Faisal and others
37 Gets ready to empty the gefilte fish
jar
39 Who of the Fab Four married two
Jewish women?
43 Network for Einstein
44 Calendar for September, not Tishre
46 Ends of Yom Kippur and Passover?
49 Where to find soc.culture.jewish
51 Like Jewfro hair
52 Purim seudah, e.g.
54 Dead Sea sectarian
56 What was the nickname for Fab Four
manager Brian Epstein?
61 Glycogen Storage Disease Type ___
(disorder found among Ashkenazi
Jews)
62 Tool used by one of Sheldon
Adelsons croupiers
63 God told him to go to the Land that
I will show you
68 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and do not___ upon your understanding (Proverbs 3:5)
69 How a menorah might be marked at
a yard sale
70 Beatle___
71 They might just sit and watch at a
seder
72 Jacobs wives each had one
73 See 1-Across
Down
1 Like a brisket before its a brisket
2 Freuds ego
3 Chelsea Mezvinsky, ___ Clinton
4 Sound from the dog that bit the cat
that ate the kid my father bought
for two zuzim
5 Like The Fat Jew
6 1980 film set at a performing arts high
school with the music teacher Mr.
Shorofsky
7 Bay ___ Jewish Healing Center (San
Francisco medical clinic)
8 Mixing linen and wool; and others
9 Like tight tefillin
10 Radner of note
11 Jerrys TV ex
12 The Talmud is known for this kind of
detail
13 Workers aboard the Exodus
21 Kibbutz implement
22 Hellenizes, in a way
23 Sault ___ Marie (unlikely name for
the city where Congregation Beth
Jacob is found)
24 In Israel, its measured in C.
25 Director Kazan
26 Any airing of The Nanny, nowadays
30 Mammon
31 Like the Bnai Moshe of Peru
32 Tiny hint a fish is kosher
33 Sinai start?
36 1972 film directed by Joseph L.
Mankiewicz
38 Sights to behold on Mt. Hermon
40 Letters next to sigmas and alphas on
the outfits of some Jewish frat boys
41 First name behind Night
42 Bubbe meise
45 Pastrami locale?
46 Have the shekels for
47 Mels comic partner Carl
48 How those who say Tefillat HaDerekh
hope to arrive home
50 ___ Hai (famous battle site)
53 Refuses to make aliyah
55 Garment district workers targets
57 Pack for Sheedy and Nelson
58 Not requiring much sechel
59 All Jews, on some level
60 Israeli teens bagrut, e.g.
64 Womans mitzvah?
65 One place to find the Cohen gene
66 ___ France (Entebbe crisis flyer)
67 Desecrate
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 67.

Arts & Culture

The Closer shows how global economic
instability grew from very local greed
GEORGE BISHAI
hen I saw the recent Academy Awardwinning film The Big Short, I was
struck by the sheer genius of the
financiers who devised the schemes
and packaged the loans for resale, but it left me with
unanswered questions about how the properties these
loans represented were moved.
The Big Short was largely about paper transactions, big money, and wealthy investors, and it mildly
touched on the way the actual end-users the home
buyers and brokers played into this scheme.
For every packaged loan transaction, credit default
swap, and synthetic collateralized debt obligation handled by the men in suits, there are actual people and
properties being bet on. The film inescapably raised
questions. How were these properties moved? Who
was on the ground in these risky neighborhoods? And
just how were these transactions put together?
Three Brooklyn-based Israeli real estate brokers,
developers, and property managers were working
deep in the heart of the real estate boom before the big
bust of 2008. They were buying dilapidated properties, renovating them, and then reselling them usually to people who could obtain loans only through
the controversial government-backed programs that
encouraged property ownership even for those who
could not afford it.
Above and below, scenes from The Closer.
What they saw were greedy mortgage brokers, shady
developers, and most likely inept or corrupt appraisers, and they also saw firsthand the deal-making on the
stories of challenges stemming from the then-recent
ground that got these properties sold sales that would
market collapse. As they talked, they realized that they
then yield a risky mortgage to be packaged by the bankers
shared in interest in telling this story to the world. So
on display in The Big Short. It inspired them to write a
they embarked on the ambitious project of developing a compelling story based on some very real experiscreenplay and develop a story to share with the world.
ences they saw, heard about first hand, or learned about
That was the 2015 movie The Closer.
It was only by chance, in 2010, while he was working
through industry peers.
in real estate to finance his passion for film, that former
Now, The Closer evolved and is on the film festival
Israel Defense Forces photographer Eli Hershko met
circuit, launching in Buffalo, N.Y., and Palm Beach, Fla.,
developer Isaac Broyn and his partner Victor Baranes,
then coming to Hawaii and New York City, to name a
a former master engineer in a fighter jet squadron in
few host cities. It is a self-financed film, shot over the
the Israeli Air Force. They were all involved in the same
course of 28 days, pulling favors all over Brooklyn, from
markets in lower-income Brooklyn, so they shared their
the local police and property managers to the bars and
shops used as sets.

The movie stars Robert Berlin as the military unit commander, a ruthless broker who cares only about making
money to fund his lavish lifestyle. Christopher Kloko is
his right-hand man, and Patrick Duke Conboy is the initially unwitting loner who is trying to escape the nightmares of war when their buddy was killed by a sniper.
The film itself is a drama, with action, heated anger, a
love story, and a tale of a friendship that begins in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in a U.S. military unit, and
extends to the tough streets of Brooklyn. It quickly establishes the characters and their associations, their friendships and post-war personalities, before getting into the
fast-paced and sometimes shady underworld of the lowincome real estate market.
The Closer explores the methods used to get loans
approved for high-risk borrowers, and the way emotions are played on to convince the prey that home
ownership is good for them. It covers the violent turf
and gang wars over neglected buildings in poor neighborhoods, the removal of squatters, and the corruption in the appraisal process. Basically, it shows the
bottom rungs of the banking scandals that brought the
market down. For every unprincipled finance vehicle
created by the bankers, The Closer shows the voracious property and mortgage brokers sowing the seeds
of catastrophe so that they can buy Rolex watches and
Mercedes-Benz cars.
The film also includes a love story, which looks at
the ways in which money and greed affect families
and loved ones. It also presents a test of the loyalties
between a commander and his troops. There are Russian
mobsters, street thugs, exotic dancers, car crashes, and
shootouts, and it all comes together in a compelling action
film surrounding the local Brooklyn streets, the atmosphere built by greed, and the corruption that rose from
the ground up to the towers of Wall Street.
Eli Hershko, Isaac Broyn, and Victor Baranes just elevated themselves from unknown real estate entrepreneurs
to the competitive world of Hollywood and the indie film
market. They have built a solid little picture that will compel moviegoers and give us all some appreciation for how
a major international economic scandal was born on small
streets in our own neighborhoods, all around us. JNS.ORG
Calendar
group on difficult
conversations with Rabbi
Debra Orenstein and
other parents, 10 a.m.
Bagels, coffee, and a
spiritual conversation
about how to respond
meaningfully and from
the soul when a child or
grandchild asks a tough
question. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Tuesday
APRIL 19
Healthcare gala: The
Michael Drob
Film in Fort Lee: As
Dr. David Motadel
Kerry Wallach
Dr. David Motadel, a research

fellow in modern history at
Gonville and Caius College at
Englands University of Cambridge,
discusses Muslims in Nazi Germanys War: 1941-1945
on Tuesday, April 19, at 7 p.m. On Thursday, April 21,
at 4 p.m., Kerry Wallach, an assistant professor of
German at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, tackles
Jewishness on Display: Gender and Jewish Visibility
in Weimar Germany. The programs are sponsored
by the Ramapo College Gross Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies. The college is at 505 Ramapo
Valley Road, Mahwah. (201) 684-7409.
APRIL
19 & 21
Friday
APRIL 15
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom holds a prePassover congregational
dinner and musical
service, 6 p.m. Dinner
reservations required.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts its casual
Les Miz Shabbat
service, with traditional
prayers set to the
music of the Broadway
hit Les Miserables,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
its guest artist Shabbat
service, featuring jazz
vibraphonist Bill Ware,
7:30 p.m., and led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer,
Cantor Rica Timman,
and musical director
James Rensink. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishons
adult choir, Kol Rishon,
and its teen choir,
Zemer Rishon, join with
Cantor Ilan Mamber
on guitar, Itay Goren
on piano, Jimmy
Cohen on percussion,
and cantorial intern
Summer GreenwaldGonella for a musical
Pre-Passover service,
7:30 p.m. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
www.bethrishon.org.
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
welcomes special guest,
Ambassador Andrew
J. Young, for the fifth
annual Rabbi Israel S.
Dresner Tikkun Olam
lecture, 8 p.m. 950
Preakness Ave. The shul
also will celebrate Rabbi
Emeritus Dresners 87th
birthday that night.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
cantor emeritus, Mark
Biddelman, hosts
Shabbat Yachad, Hebrew
prayers set to easy-tosing melodies, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
a Shabbat klezmer
service with musicians
from Tsu Fil Duvids
Klezmer Ensemble and
the Temple Emeth Band
with Cantor Ellen Tilem
and Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
Book club in Paramus:

JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah has an informal
book club discussion of
Betty Smiths A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn,
10:30 a.m. Refreshments.
304 East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Saturday
APRIL 16
Or presents Zachor:
Songs of Memory, a
cantorial concert led by
the shuls Cantor Sarah
Silverberg, accompanied
by special guests from
neighboring synagogues,
7 p.m. Selections in
English, Hebrew, and
Yiddish. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.templebethornj.org.
Sunday
APRIL 17
Blood drive in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
hosts a blood drive,
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
747 Route 208 South.
NYBloodCenter.org.
Childrens Passover
program in Jersey City:
Temple Emanu-El of
Bayonne and Cong. Bnai
Jacob hold a chocolate
seder at Bnai Jacob,
10 a.m. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
www.bnaijacobjc.org.
Difficult conversations:
Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson hosts
a parenting discussion
Author in Teaneck: Ariel
Family musical in Fair

Lawn: The Old Library
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor

Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.
Music in Washington
Township: Temple Beth
part of the Jewish

Federation of Northern
New Jerseys One Book,
One Community events,
the Fort Lee Library
will screen Stateless,
followed by a Q&A
with the film producer/
director, Michael Drob,
2 p.m. 320 Main St. www.
fortlee.bccls.org or www.
stateless.us.
Faithfully feminist in
Teaneck: Rabbi Rebecca
Sirbu discusses the book
Faithfully Feminist:
Jewish, Christian and
Muslim Feminists on
Why We Stay at Temple
Emeths Byachad
breakfast, 10:30 a.m.
Rabbi Sirbu, director
of Rabbis Without
Borders, will discuss her
journey in the rabbinate
and changes she has
observed since her
ordination 16 years ago.
Books available for sale.
1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Theatre presents a
semi-staged reading of
the musical Shlemiel
Crooks, based on
the books Shlemiel
Crooks and Chicken
Bone Man by Anna
Olswanger, at the Fair
Lawn Community Center,
at the intersection of
20th and Kipp streets,
2 p.m. (973) 658-4420,
oldlibrarytheatre.net/
readers-theatre.
Monday
APRIL 18
Sabar, who wrote My

Fathers Paradise: A Sons
Search for his Jewish
Past in Kurdish Iraq, is
the guest speaker at the
general meeting of the
Bergen County section
of the National Council of
Jewish Women at Temple
Emeth in Teaneck,
12:30 p.m. The memoir
won a National Book
Critics Circle Award.
Light refreshments. 1666
Windsor Road. www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Wednesday
APRIL 20
Passover in Bayonne:
Chai Caf, a kosher
nutrition site for people
over 60, offers a model
seder led by Rabbi
Jacob Benzaquen
of Temple Emanu-El
Bayonne, 10:45 a.m.
Transportation may be
available upon request.
735 Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 697-3355.
Friday
APRIL 22
Matzah factory in
Wayne: Rabbi Michel
Gurkov, director of the
Chabad Center of Passaic
County, facilitates an
interactive program,
Kids Celebrate Passover
Early, with a hands-on
model matzah factory,
noon. 194 Ratzer Road.
Chani, (973) 694-6274 or
www.JewishWayne.com.
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
honors Robert C. Garrett,
president and CEO of
Hackensack University
Health Network, and
Warren Geller, president
and CEO of Englewood
Hospital and Medical
Center, at a healthcare
gala at the Teaneck
Marriott and Glenpointe,
6:30 p.m., 100 Frank W.
Burr Boulevard. Amy,
(201) 820-3911, amyh@
jfnnj.org, or www.jfnnj.
org/healthcaregala.
Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Woody
Allens Blue Jasmine,
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.
Chametz burning in
Teaneck: The ninth
annual Big Bread Burn
is at the Jewish Center
of Teaneck, 9:30
11:45 a.m. Co-sponsored
by the JCT with Yeshiva
Heichal HaTorah.
70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515.
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
Calendar
hold a brief pre-seder
Shabbat service, 5 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Saturday
APRIL 23
Joint Passover Shabbat
in Tenafly: Temple Sinai
welcomes Temple Beth
El of Closter and Temple
Emeth of Teaneck for
a Passover service,
10:30 a.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.
in the Sharp Theater

at the Berrie Center
at Ramapo College
of New Jersey, 8 p.m.
505 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 684-7844
or www.ramapo.edu/
berriecenter.
In New York
Tuesday
APRIL 19
Run/walk in Paramus:
APRIL 17
Dennis Ross
Diplomat/author talk:
Yeshiva University hosts
American diplomat and
author Dennis Ross,
who will discuss his
new book, Doomed
to Succeed: The U.S.Israel Relationship from
Truman to Obama,
7:30 p.m. The lecture,
part of the Dr. Marcia
Robbins-Wilf Scholar-inResidence program at
Wednesday
APRIL 20
Seniors meet in
Orangeburg: Singles
65+ of the JCC
Rockland meet for
dinner at Hogans Diner
in Orangeburg, N.Y.,
6 p.m. Individual checks.
Reservations by April 19,
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
MICHAEL LAVES
Dance, metro Detroits

contemporary dance
company, performs
Dances from the
Heart of Rock n Roll
Sunday
Jewish Singles 45+ meet

for lunch, entertainment
by a musician, and
dancing, to celebrate the
groups fifth anniversary,
at Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12:45 p.m. 20
Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
APRIL 24
Contemporary dance
in Mahwah: Eisenhower
Singles
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Sunday
The NJ Sharing Network
holds its annual 5K
Run/Walk at Bergen
Community College.
Registration opens
at 8:30 a.m. The
network is a nonprofit
organization that saves
lives through organ and
tissue donation. www.
njsharingnetwork.org/5k.
YUs Stern College for

Women, is in the Moot
Court Room of YUs
Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law, on 55
Fifth Avenue at 12th St.
www.yu.edu.
Big Bread Burn in Teaneck next week

The ninth annual Big Bread Burn (more
formally the Joy and Al Amsel Memorial
Community Passover Biur Chametz Program) at the Jewish Center of Teaneck, a
pre-Passover community-wide event, is
expected to draw more than 1,000 adults
and children from Teaneck and the surrounding communities. It is set for Friday,
April 22, from 9:30 to 11:45 a.m. It is cosponsored by the JCT with Yeshiva Heichal
HaTorah.
The Big Bread Burn is a memorial tribute to the Amsels. For more than three
decades, they invited community members to gather in their backyard around
their fire pit on erev Pesach to share in
the ritual of Biur Chametz, the ceremonial burning of a token amount of leaven,
before Passover.
A Teaneck fire safety trailer and engine
truck will be on hand, along with fire
department staff, to provide a fire safety
learning experience for young children and
their families. Kosher for Passover chocolate lollipops, donated by Streits Matzoh
Company (a staple of the Amsels backyard
hospitality), will be distributed, along with
junior fire chief hats for the children.
Congregations Beth Aaron, Bnai Yeshurun, Netivot Shalom, Ohr Saadya, Rinat
Yisrael, and other community organizations also sponsor the event.
Chametz for burning should be placed
only in paper bags. The latest time for
burning chametz is 11:45 a.m. For information call (201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
Get ready to ride

Jewish Family Service of Bergen and
North Hudson has opened registration
for the sixth annual Wheels-for-Meals
Ride to Fight Hunger on Fathers Day,
Sunday, June 19. Since its inception,
more than 1,500 people have participated, raising more than $500,000.
This year, athletes of all ages and abilities once again will take to the streets of
Bergen County to cycle in support of JFS,
raising funds and awareness to fight hunger in our community.
The ride funds the 54,000 meals
delivered each year to the homebound
elderly and disabled in our area from
JFSs Teaneck office, and it fills the JFS
food pantry.
The ride, which starts and ends at the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh, offers 3-, 10-,
25-, 35-, and 50- mile routes, as well as a
1-mile walk. Each rider receives a t-shirt,
breakfast, snacks, drinks, and prizes. All
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Cleric never knew Argentine prosecutor

Alberto Nisman but became his familys rabbi
NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA In January 2015, Rabbi
Marcelo Polakoff was stuck in Buenos Aires when his
phone rang.
Hed been planning a trip to New York but a storm had
canceled all flights, so Polakoff, the rabbi of Cordoba, a
province in central Argentina, was cooling his heels at his
sisters house.
A woman he didnt know was on the line. She introduced herself by saying that she remembered him from
a wedding hed performed for a friend of hers, and she
asked if he could help her family in Buenos Aires.
The woman was a cousin of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who was found dead last year, just
days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez de
Kirchner of covering up Irans role in the 1994 bombing of
this citys Jewish center, called the AMIA.
Polakoff did not know Nisman, but the call brought the
rabbi into a circle of private mourning, public outrage,
and global intrigue over a death that made headlines
around the world.
Nisman was 51 when he died. He left behind a formidable tribe of women: his mother, Sara Garfunkel; her sister,
the psychologist Lidia Garfunkel; a sister, Sandra Nisman,
and his former wife, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, the mother of
their daughters Iara, who was 15 at the time of her fathers
death, and Kala, who was 8.
When the cousin called Polakoff, their own rabbi was
out of town. In fact, half the Nisman family was out of
town. Polakoff was asked to accompany Nismans mother
to identify his body.
Argentine law stipulates that a body must be identified
formally before it can be buried. On the day her son died,
jittery police officers took Sara Garfunkel to her sons
apartment, where she was the first to see his lifeless body
splayed on the bathroom floor in a pool of drying blood.
Ten days later, Garfunkel was asked to look at the body
again, this time at the city morgue.
You cant imagine, Polakoff, 49, the president of the
Latin American Rabbinical Assembly, said. Sandra, Nismans sister, decided not to enter, and Sara asked me to
accompany her. Of course, it was very complex and difficult. But this is what rabbis do.
Polakoff uses his hands to frame a smallish oval on his
face. That is what he was able to see of Alberto Nismans
face when they were called upon to identify the body.
The magnitude of an event like this can unfocus you,
said Polakoff, who had not told his story before this conversation. During this year and a bit, Ive tried not to lose
focus and to attempt to simply accompany the family. It
is paradoxical that I didnt meet Alberto Nisman alive.
Incredibly, lamentably, it came to me to see him only in
death.
Polakoff also was a shomer, or guardian, of Nismans
body at the funeral home in the hours before a public
wake. (Thats a custom of Argentine Jews, and it is distinct
from the shiva.)
I was there alone with the coffin for a few hours well,
alone, he said. The streets were blocked off, there were
barriers up, guards, snipers, helicopters, attack dogs, antiterror vehicles.
Later on, when people started streaming in, there was
a waitress, not Jewish, who worked there, whod seen me
since I slipped in, who came up to me sobbing, crying rivers of tears. She grabbed my arm and said, Rabbi, I am
incensed. I feel desperate. Did you see the deployment out
Newly elected Argentine President Mauricio Macri,

right, invited the family of the late prosecutor
Alberto Nisman to his home in January. Clockwise
to his left are Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff; Nismans
daughter Kala; Macris wife Juliana and daughter
Antonia, and Nismans daughter Iara.

Rabbi Marcelo Polakoff is the rabbi of Crdoba, a

province in central Argentina.
NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
there, even snipers on the roof? Shed noticed even that.

A waitress. If the prosecutor had had this kind of security
two weeks ago, we wouldnt be here today. Sobbing.
For years, Nisman had received threats to his life and to
the well-being of his family. To this day, his friends arent
certain if he was fully aware that he was endangering his
life by investigating Irans role in the AMIA bombing, or by
accusing Kirchner of covering it up.
Nisman was protected around the clock by a detail of
the Argentine Federal Police. On January 18, 2015, for
unknown reasons, those officers refused to break down
his door for the better part of a day when he stopped
answering his phone.
Now his family is guarded by officers from the same
security force.
Its a different government, friends of the family point
out, accurately but without conviction.
On January 29, 2015, the slow journey of the hearse
that carried Nismans body to the Jewish cemetery of La
Tablada was interrupted by people jumping into the middle of street shouting Nisman! or Argentina! or both.
Others threw flowers onto the car.
At one point, while I was riding in the hearse towards
the burial, someone jumped out and kissed the car, and it
was then that I allowed myself to react, a little, Polakoff
said. It was unbelievable, unbelievable.
As part of his eulogy, Polakoff told a story directed at
Kala, Nismans younger daughter. It was about a little boy
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her age, who liked asking his rabbi tough questions. One
day he asked why crocodiles, which are so ugly and dangerous, live so long, compared to butterflies, which are so
pretty and benign.
I dont know, the rabbi answered. But I do know a
crocodile cant achieve in 1,000 years what a butterfly
achieves in two weeks.
Kala read aloud a letter to her father that ended Bye
Daddy, Ill see you when I die.
In January of this year, Mauricio Macri, the newly
elected president of Argentina, invited the two Nisman
girls to his home to mark the anniversary of their fathers
death. Their mother was abroad, so they went with
Polakoff.
It was the two Macris with Antonia, their 4-year-old
little girl and the three of us, the rabbi said. I read Psalm
23 and El Maleh Rachamim and explained what it meant
to the president.
The presidents office tweeted an image of the gathering
that went viral alongside the message that Macri promised
the Nisman girls there will be justice.
Last month, a Buenos Aires court ruled that the investigation into Nismans death must be handled by a federal
court, under the assumption that the death of Natalio
Alberto Nisman could also be a result of the act of a third
party.
Despite the tragic and tabloid-ready circumstances of
Nismans death, Polakoff said he tries not to see it as anything but a particular familys loss.
When death comes early, is violent and has national
and international significance, it should be indistinguishable from any other, from a rabbis point of view, he said.
Because for the person who has lost a loved one too
early and violently, no matter what other transcendence
the event may have it is the same to me whoever is the
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Edward Davidson
Edward W. Davidson, 87, died April 6.

He was an Eagle Scout, commercial real estate
broker/investor, a former Fair Lawn Jewish Center
board member, and a volunteer at Valley Hospital.
Predeceased by his wife, Alix, he is survived by his
children, Beth D. Mendick (Michael), Julie, and Paul
(Grace); brothers, Alan (Pat) and Franklin (Carol);
and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
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Ruthann Eckstein
Ruthann Eckstein, ne Beer, 59, of Englewood, died

April 7. Born in Ohio, she was a Barnard College
graduate and earned masters degrees from NYU and
Columbia Teachers College. She led book groups.
She is survived by her husband of 35 years,
Kenneth; sons, Max, Sam, and Zach; and a brother,
David Beer.
Donations can be made to the Museum of Jewish
Heritage in New York.
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Joyce Kass
Joyce Kass, ne Landman, 81, of Paterson, died April

12. She was a secretary at the Hebrew Free School in
Paterson.
Predeceased by her husband, Dr. Morton, and siblings,
Marilyn Mossie Morgenstern, Rezah Leah Landman,
and Louis Landman; she is survived by children, Edward
(Michelle) and Miryam (Doug Mandelman), and a
grandson.
Donations can be made to the National Multiple
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Barbara Lakind
Barbara Lakind, ne Moskofsky, 82, of Paterson,

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She was the assistant director of Patersons welfare

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n 1 Graciela Zeilicovich, Vicki Mulbauer, and Holli Cortez made ice cream sundaes
during Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawns Purim celebration. COURTESY TBS
n 2 As part of a unit on kashrut, the Dalet class at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valleys religious school, including Michael Kroner, Ryan Kroner, and Jake Feder, pictured,
went shopping for kosher items at the Acme Market in Woodcliff Lake. They will use
the ingredients to cook for an upcoming brunch for friends and family. COURTESY TEPV
n 3 Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge hosted Politically (in)Correct: The
Purim Spiel to an audience of more than 275 people. COURTESY TAS
n 4 The Friendship Circle of Passaic County hosted a model matzah bakery in Passaic for children with special needs. Rabbi Michel Gurkov of the
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n 5 The Glen Rock Jewish Centers Gimel class held a mock wedding so students could
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Nefesh BNefesh announces

Bonei Zion prize winners for 2016
Prize is awarded to English-speaking immigrants who have
significantly contributed to the State of Israel
Six Olim (immigrants) from English-speaking countries
who have made a major impact on the State of Israel were
awarded the 2016 Sylvan Adams Nefesh BNefesh Bonei Zion
Prize .This years prizes are due to be awarded at an official
ceremony in the Knesset on May 23. The prize recognizes
outstanding Anglo olim who have helped Israel in a meaningful way by encapsulating the spirit of modern-day Zionism and contributing in significant ways towards the State
of Israel.
The following are the details of recipients.
Science and Medicine: Professor Howard (Chaim) Cedar,
a Safra distinguished professor at the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research at Hebrew University, has made pioneering contributions in the field
of genetics. He discovered that, in addition to the genetic
text inherited from our parents, which contains all of the
instructions for making every component of the human
body, there is also a system of annotation that marks this
text and represents a further layer of information. This
annotation, which is accomplished chemically through DNA
methylation, marks genes as being either active or silent and
constitutes the cornerstone of human development. Methylation plays a role in many diseases and especially cancer
where Dr. Cedars discoveries have led to the development
of new approaches for diagnosing and treating this disease.
Dr. Cedar made aliyah in 1973 from the U.S.
Entrepreneurship and Technology: Scott R. Tobin serves
as general partner at Battery Ventures, which he joined in
1997. He leads investments in Israel, the United States, and
Europe. Scott has been named multiple times to the Forbes
Midas List, which ranks top venture capitalists from around
the world. In 2008, he relocated to Batterys Israel office
to build the team and to lead the firms further expansion
into Israel, the Middle East and Europe. He graduated with
honors from Brandeis University with a BA in International
Relations and Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Scott is
involved in a number of social-impact initiatives in Israel, on

a local community and national level. He proudly serves on
the Board of Directors of Maoz, an organization identifying and accelerating the impact of Israels best and brightest public sector leaders, who collaborate on cross-sectorial
solutions to Israels most pressing challenges. He officially
made aliyah in 2011 from the U.S.
Community and Non-Profit: Dr. Rachel Levmore is the
founder and director of the Agunah and Get-Refusal Prevention Project of the International Young Israel Movement and
the Jewish Agency for Israel. As a rabbinical court advocate,
she assists agunot in Israel and in the diaspora to free themselves from the chains of unwanted marriage through a dignified process. Dr. Levmore revolutionized Israeli societys
view on womens halachic personal status by participating
in the authorship of the Israeli reciprocal halachic prenuptial Agreement for Mutual Respect, thus preventing getrefusal. As a ground-breaking halachic scholar and author of
the seminal halachic book Minee Einayikh Medimah on prenuptial agreements, Ph.D. in Talmud and Jewish Law, and
decades-long social activist, Levmore has worked tirelessly
to prevent get-abuse, culminating her efforts as a member
of the Israel Commission for the Appointment of Dayanim.
By working within Jewish law, Levmore is pulling the state
religious establishment into the 21st century in the family law
field. Dr. Levmore made aliyah in 1976 from the U.S.
Education: Barbara Levin began, in 1976, as principal of
the First Traditional School, where pluralistic Jewish subjects were included in the curriculum for children from
both secular and observant families. The school grew from
a group of 33 to 300 pupils and served as the prototype for
schools that wanted to adopt its unique curriculum. Today,
there are 96 schools, 134 nursery classes, and some 35,000
pupils in the TALI educational system. While serving as principal of the Frankel School for 29 years, Levin also managed
to successfully institute a wide range of innovative projects,
including Community Theater, a twinning program, the Frankel

Center for Jewish Family Education, an initiative to begin teaching
English from first grade, and a program that integrated pupils with
autism into the schools classes. Retired in 2005, Levin continues
to consult schools and volunteers teaching prayer skills for youth
as well as with seniors in her local community. She made aliyah
in 1969 from the U.S.
IDF and National Service Young Leadership: Staff Sgt. Sahar
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p.m. Tickets are $45 online and $50 per person at
the door.
This fifth annual Taste event will present some
of the areas top restaurants, feature wonderful top
prizes through tricky tray raffles, and showcase
local talent including Reggie Pittman, Loren Daniels
and their trio.
Last year, Taste of Teaneck drew more than 300
people and raised over $17,000 for ongoing Rotary
programs.
We have a large following, and people have
started to look forward to it, says Joel Goldin, chair
of the event. There is already an amazing variety
of restaurants on board, ranging from fine dining to
delis and bakeries.
The Rotary Club will be raising money for both
local and global causes. Locally, money will go
towards Helping Hands Food Pantry, local shelter to help feed andor clothe the homeless, the
Teaneck Ambulance Corp, youth projects, and
various school projects. These school programs
include sending promising high school students
to leadership development camp, giving college scholarships, taking students to the United
Nations, and donating dictionaries for third graders in the district. On a global level, the money will
go towards completing the Sierra Leone project in
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in Haiti; and the Dominican Republic/Haiti Burn
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One hundred percent of the money raised from
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The Passover holiday brings with it a sense of cultural pride and an
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the Jewish nation unites to commemorate liberation from slavery
in Egypt, to mark the gift of freedom in the Land of Israel, and to
pay tribute to a glorious heritage.
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Statistics recently released in the Israel National Insurance Institutes annual poverty report are painfully disheartening: a staggering 1.7 million Israelis, including
almost 800,000 children, live below the poverty line. Too
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fear, and pain.
As Israels premier food and social services organization, Meir Panim actively fights the poverty and hunger
crisis in Israel every day.
Meir Panims programs offer lifesaving aid to the poorest members of Israeli society. A wide network of relief
centers across the country supply ongoing crucial services
to families who have nowhere else to turn.
Meir Panim combats poverty not just during holidays
but also year-round, through extensive food distribution
networks and a range of social service programs for both
adults and children. A comprehensive coalition of relief
centers strategically situated across Israel supply lifesaving nourishment and critical services to poor Israelis who
live day-to-day, trying to remain afloat in a sea of despair.
Services include food relief centers, serving 410,000
meals annually in restaurant-style soup kitchens; Meals
on Wheels, delivering 180,000 meals annually to the
homebound, disabled, and elderly; Meals for Children,
distributing 100,000 nourishing hot lunches annually to
children; food shopping cards issued annually to 5,300
families to buy food at grocery stores; and the Israel
Nutrition Center, the only food production and distribution facility in the Middle East capable of serving 30,000
meals each day.
These services regularly are hailed as being comprehensive and inclusive. But when Passover arrives, Meir
Panims bustling operations kick into overdrive.
In addition to distributing hundreds of boxes filled with
matzah, fish, chicken, vegetables, and other Passover
essentials, Meir Panim oversees many other auxiliary
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We want to ensure that needy people, particularly
the elderly without family, do not spend Passover alone,
David Roth, Meir Panims president, said. So we match
people with host families for Passover seders. In 2015,
more than 2,300 individuals were placed and that number is rising for this year.
But the Kulam Beseder initiative is just one component
in the grand scheme of things.
Hundreds of people will participate in meaningful seders, being held in Meir Panims Dimona and Haifa restaurants, and join in unity to celebrate their Jewish heritage.
For struggling families who wish to celebrate the holiday in their own homes, Meir Panim is distributing a number of pre-paid food shopping cards, enabling recipients
to buy Passover necessities to fill their refrigerators and
pantries.
The Meir Panim Or Akiva afterschool club will keep its
doors open throughout the almost three-week-long Passover break, offering daily nutritious meals, continued
educational and social enrichment, and special outings,
including a boat ride on the Kinneret.
And the critical services offered by Meir Panim dont
stop once Passover comes to a close.
Tens of thousands of families many who have been
affected by the drastic cuts in Israels social services
funding and have watched helplessly as their already
precarious financial situations plummeted in response
rely solely on Meir Panim for basic sustenance throughout the year.
These needy people are essentially left to fend for
themselves and are struggling to survive each day, Roth
said. We need the Jewish communities of America to
unite and help these underprivileged Israelis experience
true freedom from poverty, from darkness, and from
hunger.
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commanders order to take cover, Elbaz

returned fire, overcame a jam in his
weapon, and eliminated four of the five
attacking terrorists. Describing the event,
one of his commanders said, Sahars story
will be taught at commanders courses for
many years to come. Elbaz arrived in
Israel, on his own, from the U.S. four years
ago, and immediately joined the Givati Brigade, where he served as a combat soldier
in the Rimon unit. Elbaz was one of only
five soldiers to receive the chief of staffs
citation in Operation Protective Edge,
which was bestowed upon him for his bravery, resourcefulness and fortitude. Sahar
Culture, Sports, and Arts: Estelle Friedman began her long journey in educational
television in 1968, as a screenwriter and
TV teacher for the English teaching TV
series More About English. Soon after,
she was appointed producer of the English Department and produced over 500
episodes teaching English on TV. Her success opened the door to becoming director of production at Israel Educational TV,
where she worked producing programs
that became an integral part of Israeli culture. Many generations have acquired the
basics of the English, Hebrew, and Arabic
languages, and basic concepts of Judaism,
thanks to the innovation and accessibility
Estelle brought to educational programming. She has touched the lives of millions
of young people and adults, and contributed to the education of Israelis as well as
the creation of a culture of values of
Israeli
society. Friedmans work was born out of a
Zionist sense of duty to provide new skills
and learning tools for students in Israel. She
Lifetime Achievement Award: Moshe
Arens entered the political arena in 1973,
when he was elected to the Knesset on the
Likud party list. He served as foreign minister, defense minister, and as the Israeli
ambassador to the U.S. The author of two
books, Arens currently writes a column for
Haaretz newspaper and serves as chairman
of the board of governors of Ariel University. He enlisted in 1944 for two years in the
U.S. Armys Engineers Corps and then completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from MIT. He managed various aircraft and
missile development projects, for which
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New seder makes

Eidinger of Dr. Bronners, the

Yiddish. Sounds crazy, no?

pepper the story. Uncle Tom, a devout Jew,

Are you ready for Esther Savings Time?

Saturday night when clocks are moved an

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Candlelighting: Friday, April 15, 7:18 p.m.

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They sold Joseph into slavery, and thats

tory expert and he traced

flick, directed by ARIEL

than the 1967 film.

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he Sinai Schools always have taken

A Sinai student enjoys a science lesson.

TABC and Sinai students celebrate together with a sefer Torah.

Frishman, Sinais executive director, said.

that it took at the very beginning.

A student and teacher work together

Students learn vocational skills

Sinai students work on computer skills.

That will solve an occasionally thorny

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The future is now.

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A new Jewish voice at the Wayne Y

Judy Weil with haggadah display at Wayne YMCA.

In addition to Mays interfaith program,

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Professional counseling and support services are available to help

Wishing you a happy and Kosher Pesach

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JCC senior adult services expands dementia program

istening to caregivers and

Bill Chiappane, standing here with his

While their condition may progress, they

home and tell their spouses, Im running

They feel needed

children and some of the children have

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Coming out of the parents closet

ts not easy being Orthodox and

Her daughter also had been diagnosed

both for them and for other parents at the

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