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OK, wise guy, how would YOU

illustrate a circumcision?
So theres an old joke about a guy

whos looking to get his watch fixed.

He passes a little shop with clocks and
watches in the window, and goes inside.
Can I help you? asks the man
behind the counter.
I want this watch repaired, says
David.
Im sorry. I dont repair watches.
Well, how much for a new one
then? asks David.
I dont sell watches.
You dont sell watches?
No, I dont sell watches.
Clocks, you sell clocks then? How
much for a clock?
I dont sell clocks.
You dont sell watches, you dont sell
clocks?
No, Im a mohel, replies the man. I
perform circumcisions.
Then why do you have all those
clocks and watches in the window?
If you were a mohel, tell me, what
would you put in your window?
That joke came to mind when I saw
an illustration for an article in the New
York Times, Should you circumcise
your child? The answer, according
to physician and columnist Aaron E.
Carroll, is its up to you: The medical
evidence fails to make a compelling
case in either direction.
But that illustration! It features a
pencil and pencil sharpener (so far, so
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(which would be gross, right?) what

emerges out of the sharpener are the
petals and florets of a pink flower. Id
try to interpret the image for you, but
frankly I am stumped. (The illustrator,
Alvaro Dominguez, did not respond
to my request for a comment.) Does it
mean that out of the sterile procedure
of a circumcision there emerges a
beautiful blossom?
Flattering, maybe, but not like any
bris Ive ever attended.
To be fair to Dominguez, it isnt
easy to come up with a fresh idea for
illustrating an article about circumcision.
It all seems to have been done before.
Theres the vulnerable baby. There
are the tools the mohel uses. New
York Magazine went with a partially
peeled banana. And it was only a few
months back that the New York Times
ran an essay, To Circumcise or Not to
Circumcise: A New Fathers Question,
featuring an evocative drawing of
a father and a baby approaching a
pincer-like subway turnstile:
A few takeaways based on my
research. News sites love a good
circumcision pun. Opponents of
circumcision (so-called intactivists)
may be small in number but they are
incredibly active on the web.
And do not, under any circumstances,
Google circumcision looking for
images unless you have a strong
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Zionist leaders Zeev

Jabotinsky and
Joseph Trumpeldor
lobbied for a military
unit of Jews to fight
alongside the British
in the war against
the Ottoman Turks.
By the end of the
war, 5,000 Jews
from Palestine, the
United States, England, and elsewhere
had enrolled in
dedicated battalions
collectively known in English as the
Jewish Legion.
The Hebrew title for the units is
Hagdud Haivri, literally the Hebrew
legion. Which makes it more than
a little ironic that one of the signs
marking the Jerusalem street named
for the legion is, as recently pointed
out by a sharp resident, deficient in
its Hebrew.

Actually, its a true multilingual

fail; the English is also flawed and so
too and here were trusting more
expert eyes than ours is the Arabic.
Which leaves us with a question for
those of our readers more familiar
with the life of Jabotinsky, who was a
writer and editor in his years before
and after serving with the Legion.
How did he react when faced with
LARRY YUDELSON
egregious typos?

Jews power
Whats all this fuss about Soviet

juice? Emily Litella, the character Gilda Radner played on Saturday Night
Live in the Brezhnev era, once asked.
We were reminded of this by a
recent Facebook post by Liya Hoshi,
which went viral last week.
She wrote:
Was totally confused for a second
when I looked over at my travel
charger and thought: Did I really
buy a charger from a company
called +JEWS! And didnt notice?;
Is that some sort of horrible pun
on juice?... Oh... Wait... I get it. Its
upside down and the companys
name is iSmart.
She concluded self-deprecatingly:
I NOT smart
We disagree. We often see Hebrew
that we know isnt there on upsidedown English. But maybe this double

meaning is real. One commenter on

imgur.com, where this upside-down
logo surfaced a year ago, argued:
I have a feeling this was not an
accident.
Either way, we agree with another
commenter there, who looked at
the positive side: well, its better
LARRY YUDELSON
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Noshes

I dont have a message for my

fans. Id like to see my family treated fairly
and nicely.
Donald J. Trump, reacting to a request from CNN that he comment on the
torrent of anti-Semitic abuse and threats that Jewish reporter Julia Ioffe received
in response to her GQ story about Melania Trump.

HAMILTON STAR:

Early praise
for Daveed Diggs
Normally I write
about Tony award
nominations the
week before the ceremony this year its on
June 12 but this year I
thought Id highlight one
nominee early. Hes an
actor I havent mentioned yet in this column.
Hamilton actor DAVEED DIGGS, 34, is
nominated for best
featured actor in a
musical. He plays the
Marquis de Lafayette
and Thomas Jefferson.
Diggs went to Brown
University on a track
scholarship, but turned
his attention to theater
and earned a degree in
that field. He was invited
to hear an early version
of Hamilton by the
composer/writer
Lin-Manuel Miranda and
was cast in a major role.
Diggs is the son of
Dountes Diggs, an African American who
works for the San Francisco city transit system, and a white Jewish
mother, Dr. BARBARA
NEEDELL, 67. Now a
consultant, Dr. Needell
worked for U.C. Berkeley
from 1996 to 2015, and
for some years before
she retired she was the
head of a university unit
that aided child welfare
departments statewide.
She describes herself on
Twitter as the mother
of two fine men [Daveed and his brother,

MALCOLM].
Last July, Daveed
Diggs told Broadway.
com: I went to Hebrew
school, but opted out of
a bar mitzvah. My mom
is a white Jewish lady
and my dad is black. The
cultures never seemed
separate I had a lot
of mixed friends. When
I was young, I identified
with being Jewish, but I
embraced my dads side
too.
Hamilton has earned
a record 16 Tony nominations. Its based on
a 2004 biography by
RON CHERNOW, now
67. Back in 2004, I wrote
this about the book:
Chernow, who describes
himself as Jewish, but
more in the breach than
in the observance, covers Hamiltons Jewish
connections. Hamiltons French Protestant
mother was married to
a Dane named Lavien,
which led to speculation
that Lavien was Jewish but Chernow notes
there is no real proof of
this. Hamiltons mother
left Lavien and took up
with a non-Jewish Scot
named James Hamilton
who fathered Alexander. The terms of her
divorce forbade her marrying again, and Alexander was born out of wedlock. Chernow writes that
Hamilton (who grew up
on Nevis, a West Indian
island) had a high opin-

Daveed Diggs

Dr. Barbara Needell

Ron Chernow

Rob Reiner

Nick Reiner

Dorrit Moussaieff

ion of Jews. Hamilton

wrote that a Nevis Jewish
woman tutored him as a
child, and he once recited
the Ten Commandments
in Hebrew before her.
As an adult, Hamilton
defended Jews from the
bigoted attitudes of the
day like all Jews were
untruthful.
One final note Manuel and his wife arent
Jewish. But she loves
Fiddler on the Roof,
and at their 2010 wedding, Manuel (aided by
many talented friends)

sang LChayim To
Life. It is such a well-done and joyful version that
you really have to see the
YouTube video, called
Vanessas Wedding
Surprise. Just enter the
title trust me, youll be
amazed and delighted.
ROB REINERs
directorial career
slump may end
this May. Theres pretty
good advance buzz for
Being Charlie, which
opened on May 6, but
wont be in most theaters until Friday, May 13.

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It was co-written by his

son, NICK REINER, 22,
and it is a semi-autobiographical account about
Nicks battle with drugs
and the burdens of
having a famous last
name. Rob, 69, told ABC
News: Over the course
of making the film, our
relationship definitely
changed. It wasnt
terrible or anything, but
it got better, because I
then understood a lot
more of what he had
gone through and he
understood a bit more

what I had gone

through.
Recently, two
people with
Jewish backgrounds have been in
the news one in
Iceland and the other in
the Congo. Those are
two countries that
couldnt be more
different or less associated with Jews. Iceland
has an elected president,
lafur Grmsson, who is
chief of state and wields
some power. But the
main power is held by
the prime minster. Well,
Icelands prime minister
resigned on April 6,
following the Panama
Papers revelation that he
had had big overseas
secret bank accounts.
Grmsson, now serving
his fifth term, planned to
retire this year. But he
decided to run for a sixth
term to provide stability
in the midst of the
overseas bank scandal.
His wife since 2003 is
DORRIT MOUSSAIEFF,
66. Shes an Israeli from
a prominent family in the
jewelry business. Iceland
historically has been
pretty hostile to Jews
(including barring those
trying to flee Nazi
Germany). So the first
lady of Iceland is reportedly guarded about any
open ties to Icelands
tiny Jewish community.
Next week: the Congo.
N.B.

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Local
Living in a tough neighborhood
Times of Israel founder, journalist David Horovitz, to speak in Paramus
JOANNE PALMER

avid Horovitz, the founder, editor, and visionary behind the

daily online Times of Israel, will
be speaking at the Jewish Center
of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah this
Sunday evening at 6:15.
Ill be talking about the only things I know
about current affairs in Israel, Mr. Horovitz
said modestly, if inaccurately.
Mr. Horovitz, 53, was born in London, and
his affect his ginger hair, his accent, his
very dry wit, his politely veiled but nonetheless evident impatience with incompetence
and cant is deeply British. But although his
body and his manner were in the west, his
heart, as he tells his story, always was in the
east. In Israel.
He made aliyah in 1983, when he was 21,
married a woman whose path began in Texas
but intersected his in Jerusalem, and they
made their life in Israel. Mr. Horovitz, a gifted
writer and clear thinker who began his career
with a journalism degree from a college in
Wales, worked for the Jerusalem Post and the
Jerusalem Report; he was the Jerusalem Posts
editor from 2004 to 2011. Both those publications, like the Times of Israel, are written in
English, and have readers around the world.
The Times of Israel is nonpartisan,
although it is strongly Zionist. (It is also our
partner; our website, jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com, shares the Times of Israels
back-end technology, including its blogging
platform.) In a country where politics are
bare-knuckled and journalists, like politicians, often are unrestrained in their loathing
of their opponents, this middle ground often
is untrodden.
That of course does not mean that the
Times of Israels bloggers one of the websites strongest features is its range of bloggers
do not have strong political opinions, which
they share almost entirely unrestrainedly
with their readers. They do, and they do.
That also does not mean that Mr. Horovitz
does not have opinions. He has them, and
expresses them frequently, firmly but mildly,
entirely without flying spittle but with eloquent emphasis, in his editorials.
One of the issues that the Times of Israel
has been examining recently isnt even
strictly speaking about Israel, although it is
about the relationship between anti-Zionism
and anti-Semitism. Its the ongoing revelations about the depths of Jew-loathing in the
British Labour party.
Those of us who grew up in the decades
after World War II wanted to believe that antiSemitism had been shamed into the margins,
if not obliterated altogether, Mr. Horovitz
said. I think that in the last few years, weve
6 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 13, 2016

learned that it is not the case. And its worse

in France than in Britain.
French Jews are now looking at Israel as
a necessary refuge. I dont think that anyone
ever anticipated that in our lifetime, western
European Jews might regard Israel as a refuge
for themselves.
In England, the Labour Party has a very
fine tradition, and has had leadership that
should be appreciated from a Jewish perspective, Mr. Horovitz continued diplomatically.
But in the last election, it was taken over by
a man of the radical left Jeremy Corbyn
who has spoken about Hamas and Hezbollah as his friends. He is now the head of
Britains largest opposition party.
You have an alliance between the far left
and the far right. Very strange bedfellows
and very unpleasant people. Members of the
Labour Party now find themselves with leadership that is unceasingly hostile to Israel,
obsessively hostile to the planets only Jewish
state.
When I left England to move to Israel,
there was an undercurrent of anti-Semitism,
but its become more prominent since, but
its not at the level of France, Mr. Horovitz
continued. I think that British Jews feel
pretty comfortable in Britain. Jews in central
London feel that they can wear a kippah or a
magen david, the way Jews cannot in Paris.
But there long has been an undercurrent
of anti-Semitism, and its absolutely gotten
worse in recent decades.
What about the United States? I dont
feel qualified to make parallels, Mr. Horovitz said. I think that on college campuses
in America, there is an obsessive hostility to
Israel that lapses into anti-Semitism. Its a
worrying trend, he added. In Britain there
are a lot of campuses that had proud supporters of Israel a few years ago. Now theyre
afraid to be so public. Increasingly its like
that in America, and I fear it will get worse.
I fear that the people who are being

misled about Israel on campus today are

tomorrows journalists and politicians.
Still, he said. America is one of the few
places on earth where Jews can lead a comfortable, proud Jewish life. On the one hand,
thats fantastic. On the other hand, thats not
the norm.
What about Jewish life in Israel, compared
to the United States? One clear difference
between here and there is that in Israel, most
Jews are either Orthodox or secular; as the
ancient, more-true-than-funny line has it,
the shul they dont go to is Orthodox. Thats
not true here; even though the numbers of
Orthodox Jews are rising and the numbers of
liberal Jews are falling, according to the Pew
survey, still most Jews here are not Orthodox.
Non-Orthodox Judaism does not have
much of a foothold in Israel, Mr. Horovitz
confirmed. Thats because, relatively speaking, there arent many non-Orthodox Jews in
Israel, and ultimately Israel is a democracy. If
20 to 30 percent of Israelis were formal members of non-Orthodox streams, and chose to
use their electoral weight, they would be able
to.
You have Orthodox Jews, secular Jews,
and lapsed Jews here in Israel, but not nonOrthodox Jews who are passionate about
it. There just isnt that tradition or footprint
here.
It is a function of demographics. If there
were more people with that ideology in

Israel, then things would change.

Still, he said, American Jews do have some
influence. Israeli leaders do not want to alienate American Jews. Some things were done
by accident, 20 or 30 years ago, without ill
intent, that would not be done now. People
in Israel now are better informed about diaspora Jewry.
Youve seen the effort to resolve the issues
around the Wall, he continued. (The situation at the Western Wall is fraught with tension, which often rises to overtly expressed
rage. The Kotel now functions as an Orthodox synagogue, with a large mens section
and a smaller womens one, and with a separate section, not connected to the main plaza
and not part of what is generally thought of
as the Western Wall, set aside for mixed-gender prayer. Womens efforts to pray publicly,
led by the controversial Women of the Wall,
often meet with violence; the Israeli Supreme
Courts efforts to calm the situation often
meet with disregard. The Wall, like the Temple Mount above it, is both a sacred space and
a tinderbox.)
What about diaspora Jews who have given
up on Israel, or who have never felt its pull on
their hearts? Despite any tensions between
various diaspora communities and the Israeli
government, if you think that Judaism matters, if you think that it is a way to live that is
worth preserving, and if your history speaks
to you, then it is sad if you dont think that
the well-being of the Jewish people is intrinsically connected with the well-being of Israel,
Mr. Horovitz said. There are very few places
on earth where Jews can be comfortable I
think that at least in the medium term, America is one of the them but the immediacy
with which a Jewish state can look after its
residents is critical.
We know that Israel was revived too late
to provide a refuge for Jews from the Holocaust, but it was able to do so for Jews in the
Middle East and northern Africa, and now
were seeing that its becoming important
for some European Jews as well. It is important that Israel remain robust. If American
Jews dont see that, I think they are being
short-sighted.
On the other hand, America is very

David Horovitz to speak in Paramus

Who: David Horovitz, a British-Israeli journalist and the former editor of the Jerusalem Post
What: Will give the first Harold Lerman Fund for Israel talk, called Living in a Rough Neighborhood: Israels Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East.
Where: At the Jewish Community Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, E. 304
Midland Avenue
When: Sunday, May 15, at 6:15 p.m.
Who is invited: Everyone. Its open to the entire community, and it is free
For information: jccparamus.org or (201) 262-7691

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welcoming. It is wonderful to be a Jew here.
It is so comfortable to be an American that
the perceived imperative to champion and
develop your Jewish identity seems less
urgent.
The best way for diaspora Jews to understand the emotional, historic, political, and
moral importance of Israel is to go there, he
said.
For himself, the descendant of a family
of Holocaust refugees, and his wife, whose
father was the sole survivor of his family, we
wanted to be part of this history, to build a
sovereign Jewish nation.
Next, Mr. Horovitz turned his attention to
the American presidential election, as seen
by Israelis. The biggest, most read newspaper in Israel is Israel HaYom, and thats
been quite supportive and complimentary
to Trump, he said. Thats hardly surprising;
the paper, which is free, is owned by Jewish casino owner and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson, the Republican who recently
announced his support for the Republican
presumptive presidential candidate. The
biggest selling tabloid, Yediot Achronot, for
whom Netanyahu can do no right, has been
more openly critical of him.
I think that now we are down to the two
of them, Trump and Clinton, that if Israelis
could vote, probably they would be voting
in higher numbers for Clinton over Trump. I

can only speculate as to why. She is a known

quantity, and there is a lot of good feeling
about her husband.
Also, Israelis may be wary about Trumps
feeling about minorities, he added.
Turning to the Times of Israel, now four
years old, people appreciate that it tries to
be fair-minded, Mr. Horovitz said. I think
that the combination of traditional news
reporting with the vibrant blog community
has been effective, and our effort to report
not only about Israel but also about the Jewish world, and having both original writing
and breaking news, is important.
Its hard being online. The almost impossible challenge of speed and accuracy just
gets harder and harder, he said. You try to
work out whats going on. If you dont report
something fairly rapidly, people will stop
coming to your website. I think that peoples
expectations of the media, of photos and
videos and so on, have grown. The internet
allows you to do that.
The challenge is the 24 by 7 aspect of
it. And we are an English-language website
based in Jerusalem, and about sixty percent
of our readers are in North America. When it
is midnight in Israel, it is only 5 oclock in New
York and New Jersey.
The Times of Israel has staff reporters in
Israel and regular correspondents in other
countries, and it uses freelancers and news

agencies, including JTA, the New York-based

organization once known as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. (The Jewish Standard, like
many other Jewish weeklies, gets much of its
back-of-the-book world coverage from JTA.)
There are thousands of people who have
opened blogs with us, and we get about 40
posts per day or something like that from
around the world, Mr. Horovitz said.
Moreover, we also publish in four languages, he added. We have a very serious
French-language website, and we also have
websites in Arabic and Persian and Chinese.
The Chinese website is almost entirely about
business, particularly Israeli innovation, he
added; it touches on politics only when politics affect innovation. We set it up because of
Chinese interest in Israeli high tech, he said.
The Arabic and Farsi websites, on the other
hand, are mission-oriented. I wanted them
to get a sense of how Israel is fair-minded.
Bloggers write in Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, and
French, and often their readers stumble over
the larger website while following a link to the
blogs.
The New York Jewish Week soon will join
the Jewish Standard in partnership with the
Times of Israel, Mr. Horovitz reported, and
another two or three local Jewish newspapers
are at various stages of discussion with the
Israeli site. I think its fantastic, Mr. Horovitz said. Its mutually beneficial. It has to be.

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JCC/IAC collaboration will increase

engagement with Israeli Americans
Leaders call it a win-win arrangement
LOIS GOLDRICH
When things work, you try to ensure (l) that
theyll keep on working, and (2) that youre
taking advantage of every opportunity to
make them work even better.
With this in mind, the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades has joined with the Israeli-American Council, headquartered in Los Angeles,
to form one unit that will provide services
and resources to American Israelis in New
Jersey. The agreement which calls for unified programming and a joint financial model
is a first: In no other community does the
IAC work in such close partnership with a
JCC. Indeed, the joint venture will be housed
at the JCC in Tenafly.
Aya Shechter, director of the Israel Center
at the JCC, will become the IACs New Jersey
regional director, according to the JCCs CEO,
Jordan Shenker. Ms. Shechter also will continue to support ongoing JCC efforts, such as
its summer camp and afterschool programs.
Shai Nemesh, the IACs New Jersey program
director, will join her in her work for the IAC.
Like many things, [merging the two programs] is not a simple process, Mr. Shenker
said. Ultimately, it emanated from several
years of collaboration between these two
organizations. From the moment [the IAC]
arrived, we began playing in the same sandbox, he added, comparing the relationship
to dating. After six to ten months of discussions with different people, lay leaders
and professionals, we said, What if we really
thought differently? What would it look
like? Lets see if we cant figure out a much
more formal relationship to meet both of our
needs. While each organization, accepting the need to make joint decisions, clearly
would be giving up some control, the question, Mr. Shenker said, was, What is for the
greater good that may not have been the best
option for us individually? What is the long
game?
The IAC, which now has some 10 chapters
throughout the country and access to significant resources, already has launched programs in towns including Hoboken and New
Brunswick, and in the Metrowest area. They

Aya Shechter

Shoham Nicolet

want to set up shop here because of the longtime success of the JCC in Tenafly in serving
the community, and the growing Israeli community in the area, Mr. Shenker said.
About 15,000 Israelis live in and around
Tenafly, Mr. Shenker said. Israelis living here
have a passionate interest in maintaining
their language and Israeli culture, he added.
Many believe theyre going back some day.
They want to feel as Israeli as they can while
living here. They gravitate to experiences in
Hebrew to feel connected to Israeli culture.
Also, coming here without language skills
and social contacts, they gravitate to what is
familiar.
The JCC Israel Center was established 10
years ago. Starting with scarcely 100 participants during its early years, today were
serving between 3,000 and 4,000 Israelis
in active, ongoing programs at the JCC, Mr.
Shenker said. The fact that there is no model
for the new venture with the IAC anywhere
else was part of the motivation for us both,
he continued. They were looking to identify
a model they can replicate with other affiliates. We have 150 sister JCCs. If it works, well
share.
Mr. Shenker said that the merger will
increase and leverage the number of people we can serve, resources we can offer this
population, and increase the impact we have
in the community to create a stronger opportunity for engagement between Israelis and
the general Jewish community. For her part,
Ms. Shechter called the joint venture a positive move, because both organizations have

Jordan Shenker

similar values and aspirations to serve and

engage the Israeli American community. We
have demonstrated in a year and a half of
working together that when we collaborate
and join forces, we can do things more effectively and can do more for the community.
The idea, she said, is to do things together
at the JCC, and things done elsewhere in New
Jersey will be done by the IAC. Still, she
noted, We will definitely try to expose the
entire community here to the various opportunities available in different locations. In
addition, We will ensure that the programming that currently exists at the JCC for the
Israeli community will continue to operate at
the highest level.
It was clear to all that working within the
JCC would create a win-win situation, said
Shoham Nicolet, the IACs chief executive
officer. While the two organizations have
worked together in the past, we hope to
see more collaboration. Nicolet said that
the American Jewish community has much
to learn from its Israeli members, and we
have a responsibility to bring our hybrid
identity and other advantages to support
the community.
He hopes that a leadership training program for 15 Israeli American high school
students will bear fruit, and they will be
leaders in the Israeli American community,
Mr. Nicolet said. Were focusing on building leadership and programs based on what
the community wants. Its becoming more of
a movement, not like in the past, when we
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According to Mr. Nicolet, the IAC functions differently in each area it serves. Its
run by experts, but by the time it comes to
a city and state, it caters to the exact location
and needs of the community, which adapts
it to speak the language of that community.
Even eight years ago, he said, many Israelis
faced complete isolation. We see a huge
shift, a revolution, he said, calling it the
fastest growing Jewish revolution in the U.S.
today. He pointed out that in the past, the
American Jewish communitys policy was
based in large part on Israeli policy, which
stressed that Israel was the place for all Israelis. Today, however, things have changed, and
top ministers in Israel are coming to speak to
our community. In the past, there was no
recognition of an Israeli diaspora.
The IAC is working to develop ways in
which Israelis and the wider Jewish community can work together. Its a very important
message, Mr. Nicolet said. Were Israeli
Americans. We have a hybrid identity. Were
still an immigrant community but part of the
larger American Jewish community and can
contribute to it. Realizing that many Israelis
are here to stay, he said that the choice was
either lose this community or convert it into
an opportunity and turn it into an asset. For
example, with a strong connection to Israel
and a knowledge of Hebrew, we could use
it in the American Jewish community to support Israel and fight initiatives such as BDS.
As for the new arrangement with the
Kaplen JCC, The IAC is thrilled to be working
within, and in full collaboration with, one of
the nations largest and most highly regarded
JCCs, Mr. Nicolet said. We believe that this
new partnership provides an exciting model
for IAC-JCC collaboration that can be replicated all across the country.
This merger will enable two organizations already doing fantastic work engaging
New Jerseys Israeli-American community
to become even more effective, Mr. Shenker said. With our combined resources and
expertise, the IAC and the JCC are going to
nourish a vibrant center for Israeli life in our
community like never before.
One of the major efforts we are going to
invest in during the upcoming year is the
connection between the Israeli and American Jewish community, Ms. Shechter said.
Were working on initiatives to connect
teens and adults. If there are people who
think this is a worthy cause and want to volunteer and create new programs, they should
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Katz on Christie
Reporter Matt Katz talks about New Jerseys Chris Christie at the Tenafly JCC
JOANNE PALMER
Matt Katz, a reporter for WNYC, the New
York City public radio station, sees Governor Chris Christie as a tragic figure,
Falstaffian in his appetites, Nixonian in
his overreach, almost Icarus-like in his
downfall.
Mr. Katz has covered Mr. Christie
since 2011, when the newly inaugurated
Republican governors raw political talent made him a rising star so brilliant
as to be practically blinding. Mr. Katz
has seen Mr. Christies rise, his mortifyingly embarrassing fall, and now his new
zombie-like revival, in thrall to Donald
Trump.
On May 19, Mr. Katz will talk about Mr.
Christie at the JCCU at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly. (See the box for
more information.)
Mr. Katz, who lives in Philadelphia,
began following Mr. Christie for the Philadelphia Inquirer because the newly
elected governor was seen as a likely
presidential candidate, therefore in
need of a reporter devoted to him.
In 2013, Mr. Katz moved to WNYC. I
started the week after he won re-election, Mr. Katz said. He was beating
everyone in the polls, the years-inadvance ones that heralded the still-faraway presidential caucuses, primaries,
and general election campaign. I got a
book deal in 2013, when he was beating
everyone else in the Republican field.
He won by 21 points in New Jersey, got
51 percent of the Hispanic vote, 60 percent of the womens vote. It looked like
a lock.
I sold the book to the publishers.
Everyone wanted it.
Three weeks after the contract was
signed, when the email that signaled the
beginning of Bridgegate was released,
the world learned that it had been time
for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.
Bridgegate, of course, is the scandal
that derailed Mr. Christie, tarnished his
image, and made it impossible for him to
win the Republican nomination for president, at least during this cycle.
Mr. Katz said that fewer people might
have read his book, American Governor: Chris Christies Bridge to Redemption, than might have had Mr. Christie not fallen, but it is a better book
because it is about the rise and fall, not
just the rise.
Before Bridgegate, Mr. Christie had
real magic, Mr. Katz said. In 2011 and
2012, When I saw him at town hall
meetings, people of all stripes were
totally charmed and enchanted by him.
In the first days after Sandy, when he
went out there, met people, talked to
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Chris Christie looks back over his

shoulder at Matt Katz; from left, the
other reporters are Christine Sloan of
Channel 2, Josh Dawsey of the Wall
Street Journal, Matt Arco of the StarLedger, APs Jill Colvin, and Melissa
Hayes of the Bergen Record.

people, hugged people, it made a big difference to people on the ground.

I think that his best moments as a
politician, and something that made him
remarkable for this day and age, was
when Sandy hit, right before the election. Christie had been campaigning for
Mitt Romney nonstop. He welcomed
Obama, and, when on Fox and Friends,
talked about what an excellent job
Obama was doing for New Jersey.
They the talk show hosts said
You invited Obama? and he stopped
cold, and looked at them, and he looked
harried, and he had that fleece on, and
he said, If you think I give a damn about
politics at a time like this, you dont know
me at all.

It was amazing. People loved him.

They thought he was a good guy, even
when they disagreed with him. Much of
New Jersey disagreed with him on just
about everything, but still they liked him.
Except, of course, for more ideological
people, and union members, and Democrats, and teachers, and other public
employees. People who were paying more
close attention to policy didnt like him. But
its almost hard to remember how vastly
popular he was throughout the state, and
across ideological and ethnic lines.
Was that all an act? Mr. Katz doesnt
think so. Part of it was, but not all of
it, he said. Although my view of him
has changed a bit since he endorsed
Trump. That had a more dramatic effect

on my thinking than anything else hes

done has had.
Until then, he said, Yes, there always
were political operations that were
unethical, and that he should be held
accountable for. There was questionable
deal-making and retaliatory acts against
people who didnt go his way long before
Bridgegate. There was questionable use
of taxpayer funds for helicopter trips to
baseball games and political activities.
I always knew that he was an aggressive, hard-nosed politician, and that he
would operate in shades of gray. But I
always felt that even if he did operate
with a cutthroat mentality politically, he
did believe things. That he had hardcore
beliefs that he wouldnt waver from. That
everything wasnt just a means to an end.
But the Trump endorsement is hard
to tie with that, because it seems to contradict everything that he says and stands
for. Its confounding.
Before Bridgegate, Mr. Katz added, Mr.
Christie was able to take advantage of
New Jerseys lack of its own large media
outlets to keep messy local issues out of
the news but to take advantage of the
national markets on either side of the
state. His popularity nationally, in turn,
made New Jerseyans like him. He was on
Saturday Night Live and Letterman and
all the late night shows. That all made

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him appear likable.
The parallels between Nixon and
Christie, bet ween Watergate and
Bridgegate, are unmistakable, although
perhaps it is fair to say that if the first
time around, with Nixon, it was tragedy, this second time, with Christie, its
farce. (Remember the governors quip
about how he was responsible for the
traffic fiasco because he was out there,
wearing overalls and a hat, moving
cones. Once imagined, that mental
image cannot be erased.)
Just as we dont know whether Richard Nixon ordered the raid on the offices
in Watergate, we dont know if Chris
Christie ordered the lane closures. We
do know that neither Nixon nor Christie needed them; both were likely to
win their races, and in fact did. We
also know that both Nixon and Christie were deeply involved in covering up
the initial crimes. There is even missing information in both cases by far
most of Christies texts and emails have
vanished, and of course Nixon had the
famous 18-minute gap in the tapes. Both
men ruined their careers because of the
internal flaws that did not let either of
them be satisfied with what they had,
even though what they had was winning
careers.
After Bridgegate which of course
is still an ongoing investigation, so this
storys not nearly over yet he was a
lot less combative with constituents in
public. He never used to get protestors,
and all of a sudden there were more confrontations. He stopped holding press
conferences to a large degree for a long
time. Hed always had a combative relationship with us, the press, but he also
seemed to enjoy the jousting that came
with it, the back and forth. He didnt
seem to enjoy himself grappling with us
any more. He thought we were all out to
get him.
Still, Mr. Katz said, talk to any
national political reporter, who will tell
you that Christie had the most raw political talent of any of the 17 Republican
contenders. He clearly is one of the if
not the most, talented political communicators in the country.
In New Hampshire, hours before he
lost there, he was still wowing people
in town hall meetings. He was bringing
them to tears, talking about his mother
on her deathbed.
A last flash of what he could do
surfaced when Mr. Christie went after
Marco Rubio in a debate, in a sort of
murder-suicide. That was Mr. Christies
last debate before he dropped out of
the race. It was a high risk/high reward
move, Mr. Katz said. He was the only
one who could have gone after Trump
like that, but he decided not to. I think
he wanted to demonstrate what he could
do in a national election against Hillary,
but the voters didnt buy it.

My mission is to better the world

through acts of goodness.

What will Mr. Christie do now? If

Trump is president, I think hell be attorney general or chief of staff, Mr. Katz
said. If Trump is not president, I think
potentially he could run again, in 2020.
America has a short memory. But who
knows? Another obvious thing for him to
do would be to go into consulting, have
some sort of political lobbying and consulting operation, and appear on cable
news all the time.
For the rest of this political cycle,
Mr. Katz will move from covering Mr.
Christie to covering Donald Trump,
although, as he points out, right now
those two beats overlap. After his talk
at the JCC, he will go to a Trump rally
in Lawrenceville. Trump will be charging $200 a ticket, and using the money
to settle Christies campaign debt from
his presidential campaign, Mr. Trump
said. Then hes having a $25,000 per
person meeting later. Thatll be fundraising for the New Jersey Republican
Committee, to pay the Bridgegate lawyers who were retained by the committee. (This is just a small part of the fees
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in the country.
It is fascinating to see the mutually
beneficial arrangement between Christie and Trump, Mr. Katz said. Christie
needed a favor, Trump has to do a rally
in New Jersey, even though he has the
nomination already, its just a helicopter ride away from home for him, and
Christie will be working for him at least
through November.

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What: Will talk about Governor Chris
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Women, the Talmud, and Tiferet

Talmudist Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein looks at the stories of
three women at a meeting of the partnership minyan
JOANNE PALMER

ts not news to say that nothing

human is perfect, and also that there
is something unstoppably human
about yearning toward perfection
anyway.
There are a lot of shuls in Englewood
and Tenafly, and a lot of Jews to give them
life. (Not as many of either as in Teaneck,
true, but that is an extraordinarily high
bar.)
Theres one Reform shul and one Conservative one, and quite a few Orthodox
ones. All seem to be thriving. There seems
to be no pressing need for one more. But
in 2009, a group of Orthodox Jews all of
whom belonged to shuls, most of whom
were satisfied with those shuls realized
that there were two things that they could
not get from their shuls.
They wanted women to have the chance
to lead parts of the service, within the
bounds of halacha Jewish law as understood and defined by the Orthodox world,
and they also wanted more intimacy than
their large shuls could give them.
That led to the creation of Minyan Tiferet of Englewood and Tenafly.
Tiferet is a partnership minyan, based
on the model of Shira Chadashah in Jerusalem and Darchei Noam in Manhattan, one
of its co-chairs, Mark Schwartz of Englewood, said.
Just about everyone who goes there regularly belongs to Congregation Ahavath
Torah, the East Hill Synagogue, or Kehillat
Kesher. All are in Englewood (although
Kesher is on the border with Tenafly).
It is not a formal synagogue. There is
no membership, Mr. Schwartz said; there
is no rabbi, and no services beyond religious ones no counseling, no programming, most of the time no classes. It offers
religious services about ten times a year,
mostly on Shabbat mornings but occasionally on Friday nights. This year, for the first
Who: Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein
What: Will teach at a lunch and learn at
Minyan Tiferet
When: On Saturday, May 20; davening
at 9:30, potluck lunch at 12:30
Where: At a private home in Tenafly
What will he teach: In Feminist Stories from the Babylonian Talmud (?)
Dr. Rubenstein will look at three talmudic figures: Yalta, the wife of Rav Nachman; Homa, the wife of Abaye, and an
anonymous woman who gets into a
fight with her anonymous husband.
For information: www.minyantiferet.
org
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Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein

time, the minyan met on Purim evening

to read Megillat Esther, and will meet on
Tisha BAv to read Eicha (the book of Lamentations). Women, like men, have the
opportunity to read from both of those
scrolls at Tiferet.
There are no fees and no professionals. Everything is lay-led, and participants
are invited to learn to lead, if they do not
already know how to do it.
In partnership minyanim, a mechitzah
divides the men and womens sections,
as it does in all Orthodox synagogues.
The bimah, though, is neutral territory.
Women are allowed to read Torah and haftarah, and to lead the parts of the service
that do not require a minyan. They are not
counted in the minyan, which still requires
10 men.
We fill a real need for people, Mr.
Schwartz said. The main issue is the participation of women.
I am married to a feminist, and I am the
father of a daughter. Those things changed
me.
I grew up in a mainstream Conservative synagogue, he continued. That synagogue was the Fort Lee Jewish Center,
which, when he was there, had mixed
seating but did not allow women to lead
any part of the service. (In a way, its model
was the opposite of Tiferets.) And then I
went to Yeshiva University, and I met my
wife, who grew up Orthodox. The family joined Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood. They are happy and comfortable there. But the idea of having a place
where women would have more of a voice
appealed to them.
The other component of Tiferets appeal
is its size. Participants come from across
Englewood and Tenaflys East Hill, from
Leonia in the south to Cresskill in the

north. The neighborhoods from which

it draws are full of big, beautiful houses,
with huge rooms that can be configured to
hold 50 or so adults, and also have enough
space left for children and a babysitter.
But those neighborhoods do not include
and are not zoned to include the sorts
of businesses that have space to rent for
occasional meetings.
So Tiferet can never be too big, and with
its relatively small size comes the kind of
intimacy, along with the chance for genuine leadership, that many people crave.
People can have the kind of experiences that they dont get in synagogue
every week, Sarah Adler of Tenafly,
Tiferets other co-chair, said. One of the
things that makes it special is that you
feel that youre part of a group that really
needs you.
Three Tiferet meetings draw large
crowds, which stretch its physical capacity. One of those days, a lunch and learn
on the second day of Sukkot, got a very
large turnout, Mr. Schwartz said. Every
woman who came brought her own lulav
and etrog set. He found that both powerful and moving. Another of those times is
a potluck kabbalat Shabbat dinner, which
had an enough turnout, [?]he said. People love the conviviality. The only downside is that its very hard to find a space
that can contain us.
The third such meeting is Tiferets
annual lunch and learn series. Last year,
Rachel Rosenthal, a doctoral student in
Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary who is also a gifted teacher, drew
crowds. This year, prompted by Ms.
Rosenthals acknowledgment of another
teacher, Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein, last year,
Dr. Rubenstein will teach.
Dr. Rubenstein, who lives in Englewood, is the Skirball Professor of Talmud
and Rabbinics at NYU. He, his wife, and
their four children belong to Kehillat Kesher, which is Orthodox, and Kol Haneshamah, which is Conservative. He straddles
the Conservative and Orthodox worlds;
although he works in academia, he is a
rabbi, ordained at JTS. Looking for a serious Shabbat community, he and his family frequently find themselves in Orthodox
settings. Its hard to find a large, serious
observant Conservative community, and
for various reason we sent our kids to
Moriah, Dr. Rubenstein said. He and his
wife have four children. They developed
friends in the Orthodox communities, so
we spent more time at Kesher.
This is a predicament faced by a lot of
serious Conservative Jews, he added. As
a family, we like going to Kol Haneshamah,
but my kids dont have so many friends

there.
But life always is complicated. My two
teenage daughters like reading Torah,
Dr. Rubenstein said. They read Torah at
womens services for their bat mitzvahs,
but they cant do that at Kesher.
And its important not just for my
daughters but for my sons, too, to be
involved in expanding the role of women
as much as possible.
Tiferet provides an opportunity for
women, and it also understands the tensions with the tradition as Orthodoxy
itself tries to grapple with tradition and
change in the modern context, he said.
It is important to look for precedents or
resources within the tradition. That is the
motivation for the talk I will give.
The talk, about feminist stories in the
Talmud, provides one angle on the history, tradition, and role of women, or the
tensions between men and women, in a
safe way, Dr. Rubenstein said. It can be
addressed in other ways more direct,
polemical ways but this is an opportunity
to pursue the subject through traditional
learning and the sources themselves.
He will teach three talmudic stories
with women protagonists. They each
have a conflict with a man the husband
or another rabbi and in these stories the
women are presented as strong figures,
not simply taking what the rabbi says as
authoritative, but resisting.
In a sense, to me they are a kind of
voice within the tradition, with a different
image of a woman than what you usually
see in a patriarchal story and all of antiquity was patriarchal.
The stories are complex, and it is not
completely clear what the storytellers are
saying, Dr. Rubenstein said. There are
different ways of looking at the stories,
but at least one avenue of interpretation
sees the storytellers as trying to portray
the women in a self-assertive and authoritative way.
I wonder if in a sense they can present
a kind of role model.
The question of the status of women,
along with other issues of personal status, including homosexuality, is certainly
one of the most important issues dividing the Orthodox world, Dr. Rubenstein
said. It is the tension between modern
Western values and traditional Jewish values. The Orthodox model has been Torah
uMadda the guiding value of Yeshiva
University, the phrase means Torah and
secular knowledge. Madda there literally
means science, but really it means critical thinking, he continued. I think that
these issues take a while to work through
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Being a Conservative Jew on campus

Grassroots movement invigorates egalitarian Jewish college life
JOANNE PALMER
Historically, the Conservative movement
has prided itself on its programs for young
people.
For 65 years, starting in 1951, United
Synagogue Youth brought high school students into shuls for social programming,
brought them together from around the
region and kept them overnight on Shabbatonim, packed them into buses to
tour the country on USY on Wheels, and
brought them to Israel on Pilgrimage. The
Ramah system, a flourishing network of
mainly overnight and some day camps
across the country, with a few outposts
around the world, gave children and teenagers an intensive, immersive, deeply lived
Jewish experience. Nativ, an early gap-year
program, took recent high-school graduates to Israel and kept them immersed in
Conservative Judaism.
And then, often it would all end in college, when Conservative students would
flounder as they tried to establish their
Jewish lives as young adults. Some would
give it up, some would find their Jewish
lives in Hillel, and some, deciding that a
strong Jewish life and a Shabbat community was more important than their otherwise-deeply-felt need for an egalitarian
worldview, joined the Orthodox world or
flirted with Chabad.
For about 20 years, Koach, the Conservative movements eternally underfunded
but always hopeful college organization,
established itself as a presence on some
college campuses. Its annual kallah, which
drew students from around North America for a weekend of davening, text study,
friendship, and, when everything worked
as it was meant to, joy, became a vitally
important part in Conservative Jewish
students lives. In fact, in 2011, the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism,
which funded Koach, put out a strategic
plan, which declared that it recognized
that a continuing presence on campus for
Conservative Judaism is vital to maintain
the bridge between our high school students and the young adult post-college
generation.
Despite that recognition, in 2013, the
United Synagogue, which was facing
financial problems, cut funding for Koach,
claiming that the program was on hiatus.
It has not been revived.
There has been a core of Conservative
students on campus who have not been
willing to let their movement go. They
have established Masorti on Campus
Masorti is the name the Conservative
movement uses outside North America
and for the third year are offering a kallah,
set this year for June 3 to June 5 at Hofstra
University on Long Island.
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Masorti on campus met at the Jewish

Theological Seminary in 2014.

Eric Leiderman

Students read Torah at Koach at Rutgers Hillel.

Masorti on Campus also plans to establish internships for college students. This
semester, in a pilot program, it has one
intern Michal Karlin of Teaneck, a freshman at Rutgers.
Michal was born into the Conservative movement. Her father, Gary Karlin,
a Conservative rabbi, was a member of
Koach as a college student. She graduated
from the Solomon Schechter School of
Bergen County and then from the Golda
Och Academy in West Orange; she went
to Ramah Nyack all the way through, first
as a camper and then as a counselor. She
always had assumed that she would join
Koach as soon as she began her freshman
year of college.
As a member of Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck, Michal remembers the
anger arising from United Synagogues
decision to defund Koach. I was in 10th
grade; I remember everyone talking
about it. I remember my parents saying,
Oh, Michal, what are you going to do in
college?
Masorti on Campus was started to fill
that void, she said.
As soon as she got to Rutgers, Michal

Michal Karlin

became active in Hillel. Like some other

Hillels, the branch at Rutgers has its own
student egalitarian group, which has
retained the name Koach. Thats the part
of Hillel that most interested her.
Soon, Michal was asked to join Hillels
board, and soon after that she was asked
to become Masorti on Campuss intern.
Koach holds student-led services every
Friday night and about every other week
on Shabbat mornings; it also has social
programming, offering such food-centric
events as the annual fried fiesta for Chanukah and kosher fat sandwich night. (Fat
sandwiches, of the unkosher variety, are a
thing at Rutgers, Michal explained.)
With the budget that comes with the
internship, she has been able to add five
events, Michal said. They range from making a new cover for the table that holds
the Torah when it is being read, to a rosh
chodesh celebration and a USY/Ramahstyle oneg Shabbat, and a shiur by Rabbi
Joel Alter, the dean of admission at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Next year, Michal who is majoring in
costume design and technology, and who
is passionate not only about Masorti on
Campus but also about her school, Mason
Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, which is both small and top-notch,
she says will be co-chair of Rutgers

Koach. The search to find her replacement

as Masorti on Campus intern is underway.
Eric Leiderman of Englewood, a senior
at Binghamton University and another
lifelong Conservative Jew, Ramahnik, and
Nativ alum, was one of the two co-founders of Masorti on Campus. (The other was
Douglas Kandl of Cranford, who since has
graduated). Hes now the organizations
interim executive director, a volunteer but
time-consuming post. (It now also has one
paid staff member, program coordinator
Amanda Goodman.)
Masorti on Campus is trying to figure
out how best to strengthen Conservative
student groups on campus, working with
the limited resources it has, Eric said. The
funding it does have comes mostly from
private donors and from JTS and Ramah.
(The Ramah Commission, which exercises
no authority but provides some services
to the camps, itself is funded by JTS but is
fairly autonomous.
The Conservative movements structure is complicated.) United Synagogue
no longer has anything to do with us, he
added.
Eric keenly feels the competition from
other Jewish groups on campus groups
that he respects and values, but he feels do
not adequately embody all of his values.
Part of the driving force behind Masorti
on Campus is that we want to present ourselves as authentic Judaism, just as Orthodox and Chabad groups do, he said. We
aim to create an open, pluralistic environment on campus that allows students to
express themselves fully in their Judaism
without making them give up their egalitarian beliefs.
Its important to find a Jewish community where all your values can be embodied, he said. Often, students find warm
communities if they are willing to overlook the gender separation. You would
think that this is something that weve
drilled into teenagers, but it seems that
theyre willing to put it aside for friendship
and connection to others. The struggle is
whether they should look for like-minded
people in terms of philosophy or in terms
of practice.
Our thinking is that having a Conservative minyan is fantastic, but its not enough
just to have a minyan. Its about having the
group of people. People tend to be cliquey,
so your clique should be made of people
who are fine with women reading Torah
and having full participation. It shouldnt
even have to be something you think
about. It should be a given.
Were not presenting Conservative
Judaism as an alternative. We are saying
that it is authentic. That we are doing Judaism in the way that Judaism is meant to be
done.

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Part of the
driving force
behind Masorti
on Campus is
that we want to
present ourselves
as authentic
Judaism, just as
Orthodox and
Chabad groups do.
The Masorti on Campus Shabbaton will
be similar to an old Koach Kallah, but it
will not be identical, Eric said. The kallah was always focused on being a massive
Shabbaton, with a lot of learning for the
sake of learning, which is fantastic. Our
Shabbatonim have been more focused on
learning leadership skills, meeting people,
and sharing ideas. Weve been running it
more like a conference than another version of Limmud.
This years Shabbaton, which will be the

third, will be not only for college students

but also for incoming college students
students coming back from gap years
or straight from high school and at the
other end for graduate students and rabbinical students. We will have Jewish professionals there too. Those professionals
will include Rabbi Esther Reed of Rutgers
Hillel and her husband, Rabbi Mordecai
Schwartz of JTS.
The Shabbatons theme is Jewish identity, Eric said. Its also about figuring out
our identity as Masorti on Campus.
We want to keep going as student-run,
grass-roots, not top-down. Students shape
our mission and message. There will be
people teaching about personal identity,
Jewish identity, college identity. If you
spent three, four, five years in college, you
will reinvent yourself over and over again.
We want to help. We want to be a mainstay in peoples lives, whether they identify as Conservative egalitarian Jews or not.
Some people have come to our Shabbaton
who are Reform, open Orthodox, modern
Orthodox. To me its great to see the blurring of lines, because its about philosophy
and ideology. Its not about labels.
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Part of the change, he added, is the
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of traditional narrative, and that raises
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FIRST PERSON

Running for the home

Team Jewish Homes
co-captain on being part of
the Kaplen JCCs Rubin Run
SUNNI S. HERMAN
The Lucky Runner was my favorite book
when we were kids.
A young boy depends on his striped socks
to win races. My siblings and I would hang
onto every word as Mom would read to us
at night, especially the ending: You never
needed lucky socks to win races. You win
because you practice hard, you want to win
and because you are a champion.
We created Team Jewish Home as a fun
way to build camaraderie and promote fitness for our staff. We believe that a healthy,
happy staff makes for a healthy happy, home
and for a happy Jewish Home Family. (The
Jewish Home Family is the organization that
includes the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Jewish Home Assisted Living, the Jewish Home
@ Home, and the Jewish Home Foundation
of North Jersey.) We try all sorts of ways to

promote staff happiness weve had a lip

sync battle, Purim costume contests, educational opportunities, and simply supporting
each other in difficult times. Wellness is a key
component of happiness.
Using money from the Seid Memorial
Fund (generously donated by Ronnie
Aroesty and his family specifically for staff
fitness), we bought neon yellow shirts as a
way to help us find each other in a crowd.
Team Jewish Home members wore their
shirts throughout the building before
the run to recruit participants and build
enthusiasm. Since we have a Rubin Unit at
the home, it was most apropos that our first
event would be the 2016 Mothers Day Rubin
Run at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
In the days before the run, we emailed tips
to our team: Runkeeper is a great free app to
pace you. Get a good nights sleep. Carry as
little as possible. And most important, go to
the bathroom before the race. After all, there
are no porta-potties along the way.
The morning of the run was grey and
pouring. I received texts from our team
members asking if the run was on and I

Surviving together
Local author tells her
familys Holocaust story
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Ann Arnold of Norwood always knew
that her father, aunt, and grandmother
had survived the Holocaust by going into
hiding. But it wasnt until well after her
grandmother Salas death in 2002 that she
got a fuller picture and a greater appreciation for their ability to maintain a positive
approach to life despite their traumatic
wartime experiences.
Ms. Arnold and her father, Mark Schonwetter, will be on hand for a book signing
of Together: A Journey for Survival on
May 19 at 7 p.m. at Books & Greetings in
Northvale. The book is the realization of
Ms. Arnolds long-held wish to record her
family story.
Together refers to Sala Schonwetters determination never to part from her
young children, Manek (Mark) and Zosia,
throughout their harrowing odyssey to
escape the Nazis.
Against heavy odds, she did manage to
keep the three of them together through
three hungry, dangerous years, hiding out
in forests, barns, and holes in the ground.
Her husband had been arrested before
their escape, and they found out after
the war that hed been shot. In 2012, the
mass grave in which Israel Schonwetter is
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buried was discovered, thanks to a marker

placed there by a Polish gentile.
In 2009, I had the opportunity to
go back to Poland to the tiny village of
Brzostek, where my fathers family lived
before the war, Ms. Arnold said. The
occasion was the rededication of the Jewish cemetery in Brzostek, which is near
several former concentration camps in
southern Poland. The mayor invited Mr.
Schonwetter, his sister, and their families.
There were 1,500 inhabitants of the village in 1939, 500 of them Jewish, and of
those 500 fewer than 50 survived, including my dad, Aunt Zosia, and my grandmother, Ms. Arnold said. Not one Jewish
person has lived there since 1942.
To Ms. Arnolds great surprise, when
their entourage stopped in front of her
fathers childhood home, neighbors came

Team Jewish Home members are ready to go. Team captains Chris Pableo and
Sunni Herman are in front at the left; Sunnis embracing her team.

texted back: Im here. See you soon. A

year ago I had biked to work while practicing for my first triathlon. That day, Chris
Pableo, our nursing admin assistant, said
to me, Next year, Ill race with you. So
Sunday morning, I said to Chris, as it drizzled on us, Come on, co-captain. Lets do
this together.

The 10K started promptly at 8:15, and we

shot down the JCC driveway. We ran so fast
that after awhile I felt myself hydroplaning.
Along the way I sang aloud, and I thought,
Rain cant stop me the sun is out. I
despise litter, but there is something invigorating about sipping and then throwing the
cup of water across to the side while not

out to greet them.

People were saying, Youre the Schonwetters. We remember you. We used
to play with you, she said. They were
only children then. They told us things
they remembered from the war years, like
watching a woman being beaten to death
outside my dads house and not being
allowed to help her. These people actually
cared.
Ms. Arnold was astounded to see more
than 300 townspeople arrive at the graveyard for the ceremony. She learned that
when the cemetery renewal project had
begun and the townspeople heard that
the Germans had used headstones for
masonry work, many of them started digging up stones with Hebrew writing from
their walkways and driveways, bringing
the pieces back.
By the time the cemetery was ready
to be unveiled, the people of Brzostek
had found over thirty original headstones
from the cemetery, Ms. Arnold wrote in
her book. Amazingly, one of the matzevahs (headstones) that was returned was
that of my great-grandfather, Fischel
Schonwetter.
After the ceremony, the visitors were
escorted to the local high school, where
the students had researched Jewish recipes
and prepared a homemade spread, including a kosher section, Ms. Arnold said.
It was a life-changing experience for
me. I always knew from my dads stories
that there were good Polish people, and
that without them I would never be alive.
Her book documents the kindness of

several Polish families who were brave

enough to shelter and feed the mother and
her children. One couple paid the ultimate
price, when their own son was shot dead
as punishment for their harboring Jews.
You never know unless youre in that
situation if you could do what they did,
Ms. Arnold said. If I were a Polish person,
would I risk my childrens lives to help
someone else? Unfortunately or fortunately I dont know.
And she can only guess if she could
have summoned the wits and fortitude
displayed by her grandmother in the face
of constant fear and starvation. My grandmothers courage, strength, and perseverance will always stand as an example of
the superhero-like qualities that can be
found in a mothers love, she said.
After the war, the Schonwetters stayed
in Poland until 1957, and Sala remarried. Then they immigrated to Israel, but
because there were not many jobs available, Mark Schonwetter moved near relatives in the United States in 1961. With five
dollars in his pocket and no knowledge of
English, he found work at a jewelry factory
sweeping floors, under the supervision of
a man who spoke Yiddish.
Mr. Schonwetter became the factorys
manager within five years. Another five
years later, he bought a different jewelry company and turned it into a successful wedding ring and bridal enterprise, which he owned and operated for
more than 40 years. Now 82, he and his
wife, Luba, live in Livingston, as does
Ms. Arnolds sister, Isabella Fiske. Zosia

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skipping a beat of course also making sure
the flying water doesnt hit other runners.
As we made a turn, Beryl, the JCC lifeguard, was motioning the runners on. I gave
her a kiss and resumed running. Other runners did the same. We waved to the staff,
volunteers and police who helped direct us
through the route and gave them thumbs up
along the way.
At one point, I turned to my left, and the
gentleman running beside me, who I did
not know, said, Youve been carrying me.
At that point, we were all team members.
By mile 5.5, Chris started faltering. I said
to him, Come on. You can do this. This is
your race! I pulled the earphones from

my iPhone and blasted the last song that

guided us through to the end out loud. The
1997 UK rock favorite, Tubthumping by
Chumbawamba I get knocked down, but
I get up again, Youre never gonna keep me
down played over and over out loud.
After 64 minutes, side by side with
Chris, I stopped right before the finish line,
jumped over it, and then stumbled forward,
right into JCC CEO Jordan Shenker. Wow,
that was the most enthusiastic finish Ive
seen, he said.
We walked further. More than a dozen
other members of Team Jewish Home were
waiting at the finish line of the 10K for the
5K to start. Even though it started out as a

stormy day, our team showed up. We highfived each other, took selfies, and danced
through the mist of the morning.
The most fun part of the day for me was
cheering on the 5K runners as they came
back up the JCC driveway to end their run.
You can do it! Great job! The kids, huffing and puffing and showing pride on their
faces. The man who called out Im 87. My
neighbor Courtney, the famous Teaneck
Turkey Lady, with her sweet son Jacob. The
lovely ladies, Elle Rubach and Dana Post
Adler. Danny Rubin with his arms stretched
out.
And then there was our team of lucky
runners, proudly wearing their bright neon

yellow Team Jewish Home shirts. There

was our CEO and our directors of nursing,
PR, recreation, rehab, and social work, our
amazing staff and their family members,
arm in arm, proudly smiling from ear to ear.
Everyone at the Rubin Run was a Lucky
Runner. Our wet socks werent what made
us finish. Despite the rain it was drive.
Determination. Unity in community.
Look for the Team Jewish Home shirts at
the JFS Wheels for Meals and other future
events.

Schonwetter, now Dr. Sophia Joachims, is

a dentist in Israel.
Ms. Arnold, a certified public accountant, helped her father run his business
until it was sold a few years ago, and now
she is chief financial officer for several
companies she owns with her husband,
Jonathan. She remains active in jewelry
industry associations and is the mother of
two daughters, Lexi, 15, and Ashley, 19.
I wanted to write down my fathers
story since I was 17, but Im not a writer,
she said. And I was very busy with my

career and family.

However, around 2010 she felt compelled to start blogging about her fathers
past.
Only after I had children myself did I
understand parts of the story all the way
down in my soul, Ms. Arnold wrote. In
Poland, where most Jews did not live
through the war, and many died in the turmoil and violence that followed the war,
Sala Schonwetter not only got both of their
children through it, she lived to see her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren

grow up both in the country of the free

and the brave and the country promised
to her people by God.
About a year ago, a reader introduced
her to publisher Maximillion Pick of Avalerion Books. Ms. Pick was interested in
working with Ms. Arnold. She interviewed
Mr. Schonwetter herself to draw out all the
details he could remember, transcribed
those interviews, and turned them over to
Ms. Arnold. Last August, the book started
taking shape. I think I rewrote it about a
thousand times, Ms. Arnold said.

She had no particular age group in

mind when she wrote the book. I hope
I can show people of any age that there
really are good people in the world. With
everything going on today you cant
turn on the TV without hearing hatred
we need to understand how to be tolerant of each other.
I hope students read the book and
understand that everyones not bad.
We all need to keep being reminded of
the message of goodness, hope, and
tolerance.

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Dont have a cow

Vegetarian advocate to speak in Mahwah, Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON

or Jeffrey Cohan, the beginning of vegetarianism was

Genesis. Genesis 1:29 to be
precise, in which God tells the
first humans: Behold, I have given you
every herb yielding seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed
to you it shall be for food.
Mr. Cohan was listening to the Torah
reading during parashat Bereshit in his
Pittsburgh congregation in 2007, and the
words struck him.
It occurred to me that God was telling
us to be vegetarian, he said.
He started to look into what the rest of
the Torah had to say on the issue.
To my pleasant surprise it was a
pretty consistent theme. Thats when I
first became a vegetarian, he said.
Five years later, he became the first
fulltime employee of what was then the
Jewish Vegetarians of North America.
(Under his leadership, the group has
been rebranded as JewishVeg.com.)
This month he is coming to two area
synagogues to spell out the pro-vegetarian Jewish position.
He will be speaking at Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom in Mahwah on Friday night;
on Tuesday, May 24, he will be at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
I was unlikely as anybody to go vegetarian, he said. I was a big-time carnivore for the first 40 years of my life.
My friends and family members were
surprised.
Did he have any vegetarian leanings
before he entered the synagogue that day?
Not really, he said. The only thing
that maybe was operating in the back of
my mind was that my father died of heart
disease when he was 52 years old. I was
outwardly in good health, I was pretty
much in good shape, I was a marathon
runner but my cholesterol was high. So
maybe I had in the back of my mind the
idea that my diet could be a lot healthier.
While JewishVeg.com promotes the
health benefits of an animal-free diet,
that is not Mr. Cohans focus when he
speaks in synagogues. Instead, Im going
to get into what the Torah writ large has
to say about these issues.
There are really three streams that are
important to this topic.
The first is that a plant-based diet is
held up as the ideal, not just in Bereshit
but elsewhere in the Torah.
Second, meat-eating, while permitted, is often portrayed in negative light in
the Torah. In some cases, very negative.
Number three this is very important
the Torah mandate of the prevention
18 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 13, 2016

of animal suffering, tzaar baalei chayim,

is being desecrated in modern animal
agriculture. That renders the question of
meat being kosher almost irrelevant. You
cant commit a sin to commit a mitzvah.
This is a position that is not limited
to one stream of Judaism. His organizations rabbinic advisory board has representatives of all streams. The Orthodox
Zionist hero Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
famously was a vegetarian; former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (now on
the Yeshiva University faculty) is a vegetarian, and it turns out that Y.U.s Rabbi
Joseph B. Soloveitchik made an impassioned theoretical defense of vegetarianism, though one he did not actually bring
to the dinner table.
For Rachel Lendner, the Beth Sholom
congregant responsible for Mr. Kohans
invitation, the conversion to vegetarianism did not stem from a Torah verse or
a rabbinic teaching. It happened in 1993,
while she was making a pasta salad. A
fleishig pasta salad.
I was shredding a chicken leg into the
pasta salad, she said. At that moment,
it just struck me as gross. Shredding a leg
into my salad struck me as disgusting, and I
havent been able to eat meat since.
She met Mr. Cohan at a vegetarian convention in Pittsburgh.

The Torah
mandate of
the prevention
of animal
suffering, tzaar
baalei chayim,
is being
desecrated in
modern animal
agriculture.
JEFFREY COHAN

Not only is Judaism friendly to vegetarianism; vegetarianism, and particularly the vegan diet, which also avoids
dairy and eggs, is particularly friendly to
kashrut.
Four years ago, Ms. Lendner, who lives
in Teaneck, made the shift from a vegetarian diet to a vegan one. That, she said, is
almost entirely my sons influence. Her
son, Eliron, was 14, and looking to understand the vegetarian principles he had been
raised on. He wanted better answers to the
question of why he was a vegetarian than

She said, Oh my god! Its just a bird without a head! Im in too!

Ms. Lendner is happy about Margos
decision, though she doesnt expect her
daughter to be joining her and Eliron at
VeggieFest any time soon.
Im not a huge advocate, she said. I
dont spend time trying to convince other
people to be vegan. Not everyone cares
about what I care about and thats fine.
Bringing Mr. Cohan to Teaneck is
not step one in my mission to make the

Jeffrey Cohan

My parents are, she said.

He found a video on YouTube offering
101 reasons to go vegan.
He didnt realize that vegan was different than vegetarian.
The video was more than an hour long.
It was so entertaining, Ms. Lendner
said. It was a combination of animal
rights issues and the nutritional advantages and the effects on the environment.
Without being too in-your-face preachy it
was very powerful and convincing. He
said, Mom, you have to watch this video
with me. Im not having dairy anymore,
Im not eating eggs anymore.
Mom was convinced too.
How did the change to veganism work
out?
I like a challenge, she said. I like to
cook. It really forces you to be creative.
She quoted Mr. Cohan as saying, food
is your best spokesman for veganism.
People are much more willing to come
on board if you them you can make and
eat delicious food, she said.
It worked with Eliron. This is a kid
who never ate anything but pizza and
pasta, she said. He tried more vegetables. Now he likes green smoothies. Hes
super healthy nutritious.
And what about Elirons 16-year-old
sister, Margo? She goes back and forth,
her mother said.
Like Eliron, Margo was raised in a vegetarian house by parents who had never
prohibited her from eating meat at a restaurant or with friends.
For a while, she would just roll her
eyes at Eliron and me and say The vegans are talking. Really recently, she was
watching one of those cooking videos
where you watch something being made
in 30 seconds. She was watching a dish
where they were using a whole chicken.

Not only
is Judaism
friendly to
vegetarianism;
vegetarianism,
and particularly
the vegan diet,
which also
avoids dairy
and eggs, is
particularly
friendly to
kashrut.
whole world vegetarian, she said. I
like the idea of bringing this to Beth Sholom because hes a great speaker, and I
know there are vegetarians and vegans in
the Jewish community. It would be nice
to come together for an hour and hear
from a like-minded person.
If somebody happens to not be a vegetarian when they walk in and are convinced
by something that is said or if they are toying with doing this and it fuels them to make
the change and a few less animals die, that
would be a great thing, she said.

Save the Dates

Who: Jeffrey Cohan, executive director
of Jewish Veg
What: Dvar Torah
Where: Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, 280
Ramapo Valley Rd., Mahwah
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13
What: Judaism and Animals: Tzaar
Baalei Chaim in our Contemporary
World
Where: Congregation Beth Sholom,
354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
When: 7 p.m., Tuesday, May 24

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Local
BCHSJS graduation
is May 22

Jewish Homes golf/tennis/card event is May 23

The Jewish Home Foundation of North
Jerseys 22nd annual Golf, Tennis and
Card Outing is set for Monday, May 23, at
the Montammy Golf Club in Alpine. The
day begins with brunch at 9:45 a.m. Golf
kicks off at 11:45 with a shotgun start;
cards and other games are at 12:45 p.m.;
tennis is at 1; and cocktails and dinner at
5:30. This years outing honors JoAnne
Hassan and Martin Perlman for their
many years of dedication.
The daylong fundraiser will benefit
the programs and services the Jewish

Homes provide to older adults in the

community
Howard Chernin and Warren Feldman
are the outing co-chairs, Howard Blatt is
the golf chair, and David Edelberg, Howard Lippman, Susan Penn, and Barry
Wien are the tennis co-chairs.
Attendees can play golf, tennis, mah
jongg, and social and A.C.B.L. sanctioned bridge. Companies can sponsor
the event or send participants. Personal
support can be doubled if a company
has a matching gift program.

Visionaries are Areyvut honorees

Areyvut holds its annual breakfast, this
year honoring Lillian Pravda with a Young
Leadership award and Jay Feinberg with a
Community Leadership award, at Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck on Sunday, May 15. The breakfast is from 9:30 to
11 a.m.; the presentation is at 10:30.
Lillian Pravda, 16, is the founder and
CEO (chief eyesight optimist) of Vision
for and from Children, a U.S.-based global
501(c)(3) dedicated to providing eye surgeries and vision services to children who
lack access to such care. So far, she has
helped 26,210 children receive the gift of
sight in the United States and developing regions. Many news outlets, including
ABC, CBS, Fox Business, Bloomberg TV,
Crains Under 20, and the Wall Street Journal have profiled her.
Daniel Rothner, Areyvuts founder and
director, said Lillian has inspired participants in Areyvuts teen philanthropy program and at a bnei mitzvah chessed fair.
Jay Feinberg, a 20-year transplant survivor, is the Gift of Lifes founder and
chief executive officer. After he was diagnosed with leukemia in 1991, he searched
for a matching donor, organizing 250
drives and testing 60,000 donors. His
match was found in the last donor tested
in the last drive.
Under Mr. Feinbergs leadership, Gift of
Life has become one of the worlds most
effective volunteer donor registries. He
has received many honors including the

20 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 13, 2016

The Jewish Home Foundation is a

501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
responsible for aiding and supporting
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, the Jewish Home and Rehabilitation Center,
Jewish Home Assisted Living, Jewish
Home at Home, and the Gallen Adult
Day Health Care Center. All provide
care, programs, and services to seniors,
the elderly, and the infirm.
For information, call Molly Shulman
at (201) 784-1414, ext. 5539, or email her
at mshulman@jewishhomefdtn.org.

The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies will hold its annual graduation at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake on Tuesday,
May 24, at 7:30 p.m. Closing exercises
for all other students will be held on
the last day of school, May 22.
The president of the schools board,
Elayne Kalina; its principal, Fred
Nagler; and the students congregational rabbis will present diplomas and
gifts to the 35 graduates.
The Bergen County High School of
Jewish Studies is a regional Sunday
school program for eighth- through
12th-graders. For information about
the school, call (201) 488-0834 or go to
www.bchsjs.org.

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew

to address JTS grads
On Tuesday, May 17, United States Treasury Secretary
Jack Lew will deliver the commencement address to the
Jewish Theological Seminarys class of 2016. This year,
80 graduates will receive degrees from one of JTSs five
schools List College, the Davidson School, Gershon
Kekst Graduate School, H. L. Miller Cantorial School, and
the Rabbinical School. JTS will award honorary degrees
to a distinguished group of leaders in government, civil
rights, public service, and academia.

Lillian Pravda

Jay Feinberg

Charles Bronfman Prize, the National

Marrow Donors Allison Atlas award, and
Hadassah Internationals Citizen of the
World award.
Mr. Rothner, who has known Mr. Feinberg since 1995, said, Jay has been a
model and inspiration. So many people
have friends and relatives or know of others whose lives have been saved by Jay and
Gift of Life.
Areyvuts mission is to infuse the lives
of Jewish children and teenagers with the
core values of chessed, tzedakah, and tikkun olam. The organization creates programs to make these values real and meaningful in day and congregational schools,
synagogues, and community centers, and
for families.
The shul is at 641 West Englewood Ave.
For information, go to www.areyvut.org,
email social@areyvut.org, or call (201)
244-6702.

U.S. Treasury
Secretary Jack Lew

Citywide Holocaust remembrance

More than 2,000 people,
including Holocaust survivors and their families, were
at New York Citys annual
Gathering of Remembrance,
the citys largest and oldest
Holocaust commemoration.
The ceremony is held every
year on the Sunday closest
to Yom HaShoah; this years
was on May 1 at Temple
Rita Lerner with Jordana Stone and her family.
Emanu-El of the City of New
MELANIE EINZIG/MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE
York. It was organized by the
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Esther Geizhalss daughter, Jacqueline
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and
Krim, spoke on behalf of the American
the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
and their Descendants. Jordana Reisman
and Israel Knesset member Merav
Stone, the granddaughter of a Holocaust
Michaeli spoke. Museum trustee Judah
survivor, represented the third generation. Musical selections featured Cantor
Gribetz, museum vice chair Ann Oster,
Joseph Malovany, the Temple Emanu-El
and trustee Rita Lerner of Englewood
Choir, and the HaZamir International
Cliffs, both daughters of Holocaust survivors, led the proceedings and offered
Jewish High School Choir.
personal reflections. Holocaust survivor

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Yom Haatzmaut:
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Celebrate Israels Independence Day in this fun
celebration featuring food vendors, arts and crafts,
live performances, Israeli dance, youth activities
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Sun, May 15, 2 pm, $5, Open to the Community

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Professors and experts lecture on a variety of
subjects. Morning presenters this term include Emmy
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Local
Photographs/
dedication
by Doris Levin
An exhibit, Forgotten Survivors: The Elderly Jews of Eastern
Europe --- Photographs by Doris
Levin, will be unveiled at a dedication ceremony at the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh on Sunday,
May 15, at 3 p.m.
Doris Levin is donating her
collection of large-format photographs of elderly Jews who
remained in Eastern Europe
to the Jewish Home Family.
The permanent installation is
in memory of her daughter,
Melissa Levin, zl.
For information, call (201) 7841414 or go to jewishhomefamily.
org/JHR.

Tamar Rothenberg

Gila Kolb and her family

PHOTOS COURTESY
EMUNAH

Locals among Emunah

spring luncheon honorees
Ziska Shapiro of Podbrodz, Lithuania.
He survived the war by fleeing to Russia in 1941 and joining the Red Army,
where he worked as a barber.

COURTESY DORIS LEVIN

Hebrew burial association breakfast

The inaugural Hebrew Free Burial
Associations Bergen County community breakfast is set for Sunday, May
22, at 10:30 a.m. The breakfast, to be
held at Congregation Rinat Yisrael in
Teaneck, will honor Bryan Alter and
feature Rabbi Paysach Krohn as guest
speaker. HFBA board member Robert
Mendeles is the event chair.
Founded in 1888 on Manhattans
Bryan Alter
Rabbi Paysach
Lower East Side, the Hebrew Free
Krohn
Burial Association is the only organization in the New York metropolitan
area dedicated to assuring that every
assistance and spiritual support to surviving family members and friends with
Jew, regardless of financial means or
nowhere else to turn. For breakfast resreligious affiliation, receives a dignified,
ervations, call (212) 239-1662 or go to
traditional Jewish funeral and burial. It
www.hebrewfreeburial.org/bergen.
is the largest free burial society outside
Donations will be accepted at the event.
Israel, providing burials for more than
350 indigent Jews each year and critical

Emunah will pay tribute to Empowering

Women at its spring luncheon on May
24 at the Prince George Ballroom in New
York City.
Gila Kolb of Englewood, registrar and
associate director of admissions at SAR
High School, and Tamar Rothenberg of
Teaneck, senior vice president of marketing for Extell Development Company, are
among the honorees.
Lea J. Goldman of Teaneck, executive editor of Marie Claire, is the keynote
speaker. Susan Nadritch, Lisa Schechter, and Deena Segal are the luncheon
co-chairs.
Long active in empowering women in
Israel, Emunah is instrumental in protecting

womens rights in the Jewish state. Emunah

operates programs for women in business,
offering leadership lectures and networking
opportunities, and prepares the next generation of empowered women in Israel. This
is in addition to its award-winning girls high
schools and the College of Art for young
women. Emunah also operates crisis centers for women in distress.
The luncheon will include high-end
raffle packages. The days proceeds will
support Emunahs girls educational and
vocational high schools and its college for
young women in Israel.
For reservations and information, call
(212) 564-9045, ext. 306, or register online
at Emunah.org/springluncheon.

Wyckoff mitzvah day on Sunday

Temple Beth Rishons annual Mitzvah Day
Murray Prawer Walk on Sunday will support Kosher Meals on Wheels, provided by
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey. The

walk begins at 10:15 a.m., with registration

at 9, and breakfast at 9:15.
For information, go to www.bethrishon.
org or call (201) 891-4466.

Expo on disabilities and rehabilitation

The BINA organization is hosting a Disability and Rehabilitation Expo at the
Palace Hall in Brooklyn on Tuesday,
May 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. There will be
a broad range of vendors representing
a wide spectrum of the disabilities and
the rehabilitation system. To date, they
include acute, sub-acute, and post-acute
adult and pediatric inpatient facilities;
leading outpatient therapists and centers, including home based therapy
providers; and home care agencies.
Medicaid enrollment specialists, attorneys, and agencies with a range of services to the disabled will be on hand to
answer questions. In addition, there will
be companies specializing in medical
transports, home modifications, vehicle
22 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 13, 2016

accessibility, and driver education for

the disabled. The non-profit sector will
be represented with a group that provides sports and outdoor opportunities
for the disabled and an association for
individuals with hydrocephalus.
A special feature of the expo will be
the Stroke and Brain Injury Research and
Clinical Trials section, where researchers
and scientists from leading facilities and
hospitals will share information on current research projects and clinical trials
and answer questions from attendees.
Those who have a disability or who
are caring for a family member of any
age with a disability are welcome to
attend. For information, call (718) 6456400 or go to binausa.org/expo.

A CBI congregant, left, raises a rescued Holocaust Torah during a Yom HaShoah
ceremony. Cantor Lenny Mandel is with him. At right, Rabbi Debra Orenstein is
pictured with the Torah.
COURTESY CBI

Emerson shul welcomes Holocaust Torah

Debra Orenstein, the rabbi of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson, stands
with a special 19th century Torah scroll,
above, which was buried in a graveyard
near a synagogue in an effort to protect it from the Nazis on the night before
Kristallnacht. After the war ended the
scroll was exhumed still dressed in its

mantel brought to the United States, and

restored. Eventually it found a home in the
Hillcrest Jewish Center, which was headed
by Rabbi Orensteins grandfather, Rabbi
Israel Mowshowitz.
This year, the Torah was central in Bnai
Israels Yom HaShoah program.

Come hear

David Horovitz
Founding editor of the Times of Israel
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The Jewish Community Center of Paramus/

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Editorial
It takes courage

he spring holidays
c iv i l a n d Jew i sh
both are just about
over now. Theres just
Memorial Day and Shavuot to
come.
Its striking how the days that
we are to use to honor memory
and think with love and pride
of our dead and their sacrifices
fall during the spring, when the
world is green and full of birdsong and we want to think not
of death but of life. Its the time
when the contrast between life
and death is at its strongest.
That cant be accidental.
And of course Shavuot is the
celebration of receiving the
Torah, and of the early harvest.
Its a celebration of new hope.
But we have almost a month
before its here. Time to breathe.
Meanwhile, if our stories this
week have a theme, its courage.
The courage to define boundaries and to decide sometimes
to cross them and sometimes
not to, and to honor them, as
we see at Minyan Tiferet. The
courage to start a new movement because you know what
you need, even if youre a college student and the adult organization heads around you disagree. Thats what the founders
of Masorti on Campus are doing.
Theres the courage to write a
book, although youve never
done that before, never thought
of yourself as a writer, because
you want your mothers story of
escape from the Holocaust told.
Thats Ann Arnold.
And then, of course, there
is the huge courage that Lev
Golinkins parents drew on as
they took him, his sister, and
Levs grandmother out of the
Soviet Union. We here, safe in
this country, know that many
Soviet Jews made it here, but we
dont focus much on how they

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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

did it. We know in theory that

they lived in a failed totalitarian
state, but we dont think that
much about what that would
feel like, how it would be to
grow up with every thought circumscribed, every posture and
purchase prescribed. To have
the spirit to break out of that, to
trust that somehow life should
be better, could be better, to
not be so beaten down that you
have nothing left that can rise
up that takes unimaginable
courage.
We knew that people who left
eastern Europe at the end of
the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the massive
waves of people who nonetheless trickled out alone or in
small groups, faced the absolute unknown when they left.
All they knew was that it was
unlikely that theyd ever see
their families again. But its
harder to realize that people
who made that same westward
trek in our lifetimes, during a
time when technology already
had shortened the distances
between almost everyplace on
earth, also had to leave everything and everyone they d
known and strike off for the
absolute unknown.
Mr. Golinkin writes about
the terror of the journey from
the Ukraine to Austria, where
freedom began. He was a child
then; to him most of it was
exciting at first, then boring,
although some of the time it
was petrifying for him as well
as his parents. But his parents,
like so many other adults, made
a decision that turned out to be
right but how did they do it?
How did any of the hundreds of
thousands of them do it?
We who were born here are so
very lucky. So very very lucky.
JP


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The little country that could

srael is the greatest Jewish miracle in 2,000

years. As it turns 68 years old, it is important
to consider its implications.
There is a tendency by some not to romanticize Israel. For them the country is like others, albeit
with far greater security challenges. Israel, they say,
is a country with roads, cities, towns, and town
squares, like any other.
This is not true for me. For me, Israel is the most
romantic country in the world. Its every stone flowers with meaning, its every road presents a journey
on the stage of destiny. Some nations are built on a
dream. Israel is the dream itself. Arriving as a visitor, you awake fully to its bounty and beauty. And it
never grows old. Visiting for the fiftieth time is like
visiting for the first.
Arriving and bending down to
kiss its holy soil may not seem like
much when its the tarmac of Ben
Gurion airport. But for me the kiss
is an acknowledgment of an affair
between two lovers.
And the truth is that in Israel there
are no visitors. Arrive in Israel and you
are instantly family. My daughter and
son-in-law were pushing a stroller in
Rabbi
the sand on Herzliya beach. In a min- Shmuley
ute four young men jumped to their
Boteach
feet to help carry the children. In
Israel everyone is your relative.
My son serves in the IDF, and we traveled there
for Passover to spend it with him. Seeing him in his
uniform at the airport was jaw-dropping. For 2,000
years the Jews have been maligned, slandered, and
murdered. They were given no choice but to die.
They did so with valor, knowing that the only act of
defiance available to them was to die proudly as Jews.
On Passover eve 1943, a mysterious man about
whom still today not much is known summoned
his ragtag group of 700 ghetto fighters. Armed with
nothing but a few pistols and Molotov cocktails, he
informed them that their choice was not between
life and death. In this battle, he said, we have no
chance of prevailing. We cannot defeat the Nazis.
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choice of how we will die. Will we die as free men,

laden with the dignity of our choice, or will we die
as beasts led to the slaughter? He continued, It is
impossible to describe the conditions under which
the Jews of the ghetto are now living. Only a few will
be able to hold out. The remainder will die sooner
or later. Their fate is decided. The dream of my life
has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto
will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and
revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.
For three weeks, his starving and diseased fighters held off the most powerful army in Europe. They
beat back German artillery, and in one of the most
heroic acts of defiance in the long annals of human
history, flew the Magen Dovid flag that
would become that of Israel just five
short years later.
His name: Mordechai Anielewicz.
His rank: commander. Field of battle:
the Warsaw Ghetto.
Then, when they could fight no longer, he and hundreds of fighters, like
the fighters at Masada before them,
committed mass suicide by ingesting
poison, so they would not be captured
by the Nazi beast.
Seventy-one years later, in the
dead of winter, after accompanying
the Israeli Knesset to Auschwitz for
the 69th anniversary of its liberation, I traveled,
alone and freezing, in search of Mila 18, Anielewiczs underground command bunker. I found
the lone stone marker buried under three feet of
snow and uncovered it with my bare hands. I shivered, not from the cold but from the chill that went
down my spine as I contemplated the bravery that
lay beneath me.
Till today, Anielewicz remains one of the greatest
heroes in Jewish history and the father of modern
Jewish resistance. But a short five years later, the
Jews had finally pushed the limits of choice to their
logical conclusion: not whether to die as free men
but rather to live as free men and women. They
could, in their ancient homeland, fight back in
1948 against five invading Arab armies promising a
renewed genocide and establish a democratic nation,
free of the Arab tyranny that surrounded them.
Writers before me point out that perhaps the most
sinister contribution of the Nazis to history was the
muselmenn, the living dead, the men and women of
the concentration camps haunting the barbed wire

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enclosures, with their hollowed-out eyes, bereft of any
human spirit, reduced simply to the search for rotten
bread. The Nazis had succeeded with those kept alive
from the gas chambers for work in not only enslaving
once-free people but in making them living corpses, in
whom the divine spark had been all but extinguished.
That is how the American, British, and Russian liberators found them, a collection of emaciated bags of
bones, barely capable of begging even for soup.
Not long ago I asked Elie Wiesel, the living face of the
six million, about the searing honesty he expressed
toward the end of his holocaust classic, Night, when
he revealed that in the death barracks, his father, consumed with fever, asked him for water.
Wiesel, emaciated, starving, infirm, and famished,
had hoped that after spending weeks taking care of his
typhoid-ravished parent he would finally be liberated
from his care. When his father begged him for water
in the middle of the night, Wiesel, freezing and barely
holding on to life himself, could not summon the energy
even to respond. In the morning the pleas ceased. Wiesels father had died. Wiesel was free at last.
How did you write those haunting words, I asked.
I wrote them because if I was not honest in the book
there was no point in writing it.
But not only would Elie Wiesel become reanimated,
he would become the greatest chronicler of the greatest crime in human history, thereby lending dignity and
eternity to the six million martyrs, among whom were
1.5 million children. In the process, he would become a
great Jewish light unto the nations, winning the Nobel
Prize for peace.
But the point remains the same. The Nazis had
reduced even a soul that bright to the necessities of simple survival.
The Nazis wanted to make animals out of human
beings. Lacking dreams, absent of vistas and horizons,
the animal has no conception of maximizing its potential. The Nazis sought to reduce the Jews to beasts, bereft
of human ambition, striving, and feeling.
But just a few short years later, the Jews did not just
dream but reached and attained their ancient homeland,
reconstituting themselves as a nation prepared to fight
for independence, identity, dignity, and human rights.
That dream courses through the arteries of all that
Israel. To miss it is to overlook Israels magic. Its to be
blind to the defiant nature of the Israeli people.
Israel is not Sparta, committed as that ancient citystate was to victory for its own sake. Israel fights simply
to defend life, and because Jews deserve better that simply being granted the choice as to how to die.
In Israel, everything lives. From the beautiful spring
flowers that are now in bloom, to the settler communities surrounded by danger, where people live fearlessly,
to young men and women like my son and daughter,
who serve in the military without any bravado or militaristic inclinations, save to defend the innocent civilian
population from attack.
Make no mistake about it. The world is ganging up
on Israel. It has grown tired of these fighting Jews, who
after nearly seven decades of attack have shown no sign
of weakness. An overwhelming number of people seem
intent on its destruction.
And still it lives. And still it breathes. And still it
blooms.
Am Yisrael chai. Israel is alive.
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From freedom to independence

and back again
and making that person a means to anothers ends. In that
respect, slavery is not a historical curiosity: even without
whips or chains, today, from the traffic in women, to migrant
labor, to all kinds of oppressive social relations sadly, the
idea of slavery, even if not called that, is still very much with
us. While beautifully expressed, this reflection on the holiday is not unique. Like others similar to it, it already embeds
an important expansion. Rabbi Heschel is not thinking only
of Jewish liberation. He is thinking broadly of human liberation. Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan follows the same line of thought
when he said, Freedom means more than broken chains. It
means liberation from all those enslavements that warp the
s these thoughts are gathered and written, we
spirit and blight the mind, that destroy the soul even though
are sitting in the time between Pesach and Yom
they leave the flesh alive. Peoples suffer, nations struggle to
Haatzmaut. It is a good time to reflect on these
make this dream of freedom come true. Pesach calls upon us
two holidays together.
to dedicate ourselves to the struggle for freedom. Though the
The events of the seders are still fresh in our memory.
sacrifice be great and the hardships many, we must not rest
We blessed and drank in our celebration. But
until the many different chains that enslave all
each part of the celebration was tempered. We
men are broken.
blessed bread but ate matzah. Our parsley was
Pesach celebrates our exodus from Egypt,
dipped in salt water, the charoset mixed with
the historical event that gave 12 disparate tribes
maror. At the height of our celebration of freea national identity. It was the first step to the
dom, we diminished our joy with spilling out 10
first Jewish state. Yom Haatzmaut is the celebration of the creation of the modern State of
drops of wine as we remembered the pain the
Israel. It too is a celebration of a transformation.
plagues brought to those who had enslaved us.
It is the realization of the hope of two thousand
And when we sought to answer the four
years; a movement of the Jewish people from
questions, we began by lifting the matzah and
Dr. Mark
being persecuted and stateless to being a free
declaring Ha lachma anya. Here is the bread
Gold
people in their homeland. And with that new
of affliction that our ancestors ate in the land
condition come new privileges and new responof Egypt. We announce that we are partaking
sibilities. We remember as if we ourselves were
of this bread of slavery and inviting all who are
slaves and we personally were redeemed. We
hungry to join us and celebrate this Feast of
can trace that 2,000-year-old journey through
Freedom with us. Today it isnt easy to translate
time, and we can trace it through a month of
the Aramaic anya. It captures many meanings poverty, oppression, humiliation. Today
memorial and holy days.
it does not flow easily from our mouths, but we
We start with Pesach, which is followed
recite Ha lachma anya in Aramaic because that
closely by Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial
was the language of the street at the time the
Day, when we light candles, remember with
Haggadah first was compiled. It is not a mistake,
reverence and love those who perished, and
Hiam
but a conscious decision to ensure that everydeclare never again. But for whose sake do
Simon
one would understand the invitation, and in
we declare that oath? Is it that we swear that we
understanding, become a part of our saga.
wont allow it to happen to us again? Or have
The final four words of this passage Lshana
we accepted the burden of a free people, as
habaah bnai chorin, Next year as the children of freedom
defined by both Heschel and Kaplan? Instead, do we proclaim
are as carefully chosen to be in Hebrew. These words of
our role to defend all others from such a fate as well?
promise and hope can be only in our own native tongue, the
Not too long after the memorial candles wicks burn down
language of a free people.
and the flames flicker to their end, we again remember the
And we continue the saga and the explanation with Avadim
fallen. This time it is the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces,
hayinu, that we had been slaves. Indeed, our obligation is to
who have died creating the state and defending its citizens
recall that particular slavery as if we ourselves personally had
for 68 years. It is understood that we will not be able to celebrate our independence on Yom Haatzmaut with full hearts
experienced the darkness of bondage and only then enjoyed
without taking a breath to remember those whose lives were
the light of freedom. Our clans left Egypt and became a people
snuffed out like last weeks candles so that we can in fact be
at Mount Sinai. It is a special feature of our heritage that our
free to celebrate. And celebrate we must, for our travels from
national emergence is a story of transformation and liberation. And therefore we are called upon to celebrate it as a perslavery to freedom, across 2,000 years and countless counsonal emergence and with a special consciousness: All who
tries, was a long and painful road. A road filled with persecution, pogroms, the Crusades, and the Inquisition (just to
are hungry, let them come and eat. We too had been slaves.
mention a few). The difficult road taught us to value our indeIt is our obligation to bear the awareness of the meaning of
pendence and our freedom.
hunger, misery, subjugation, and humiliation, even as we celebrate our triumph in our struggle for freedom.
But did it teach us how to live as a free people? Was it
As part of his thoughts about Pesach, Rabbi Abraham
up to the task that the 40 years in the desert provided our
Joshua Heschel reflected upon the meaning of slavery. What
ancestors?
is slavery, deep down? Simply put, slaves exist to fulfill the
With all the lessons taught and with all the history lived
needs and commands of others, with no possibility for choice
and learned, with all the tempering of our celebrations, with
or expression of their own. Their owners do not acknowlall the lessons of the spilled wine over plagues, the charoset
edge that slaves have their own dreams and desires. Slavery
with just a dash of maror, and the salt water of our tears, are
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involves taking a person, who is an end unto him or herself,
For most peoples the Festival of Spring is a festival of liberty.
But it is remarkable that with these peoples, it is not human
beings, not the nation, but a deity who is liberated. For nonJews the Festival of Spring the resurrection of the deity symbolizes the Spring, the revival of life.
Only the Jews, in their national consciousness, have dared
to connect the liberation of nature with the liberation of the
nation, with the exodus from Egypt. Only the Jews, in their cosmic world egoism, have known how to transform the Festival
of Spring into the Festival of Freedom.
Ber Borochov 1913

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Progressives and Israel

he email invite began with the

words Hello Progressive Jewish
Friends, the implication being
that if you werent progressive,
there probably was no need to read further.
The story behind it has been fairly well
publicized and occurred just a few weeks
ago. Tzipi Livni, a well-known Israeli politician, was speaking at a Harvard Law School
event when a student asked her why she was
so smelly.
This created a firestorm of protest. The
student, Husam El-Qoulaq, apologized, and
the above email invite from fellow students
was meant to be a show of support to counter
what was deemed a smear campaign against
him. All well and good, except that while
defending El-Qoulaq, the writers launched
into an attack of their own, angered at the
strong response aimed at those who dare
challenge Israels abuses against Palestinians.
Often animosity toward Israel is accompanied by a disclaimer. Our problem is not
with the Jewish state, but rather with Prime
Minister Netanyahu and the policies of his
right-wing government. Livni, the founder of

Hatnuah, described as a liberal, secular and

democratic party, clearly is not part of the
Netanyahu camp but that didnt stop these
progressive students. To make her fair game,
they cited a 2009 arrest warrant against her
by a British judge on allegations of war crimes
committed during the Gaza campaign.
Apparently a loophole in British law
allowed lawyers representing Palestinians
to issue the warrant without consulting public prosecutors as to its merit. After learning of this, British Foreign Secretary David
Milliband contacted Livni and other Israeli
officials to explain the issue formally and to
apologize on behalf of the British government, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown
reassured her that she was most welcome
in Britain anytime.
A simple Google search would have clarified the bogus charge quickly. Strange how
Harvard Laws best and brightest failed to
uncover this inconvenient truth before hurling accusations. Although only 11 Harvard
Law students signed the official letter that followed, the incident is indicative of how the
hearts and minds of so many of our young,

Justice after the Holocaust

he longtime head of the AntiDefamation League considers

what is possible after the Shoah
Id like to begin with an honest
comment about the title of this column: Justice after the Holocaust.
I dont believe there truly can be justice
after the Holocaust. How can there be justice for the six million innocents who were
murdered?
How can there be justice for the one and a
half million slain Jewish children, who never
experienced adulthood?
How can there be justice when we think
of all the scientific discoveries, the symphonies, the works of art, the beautiful books
that never became real because of the death
camps?
How could there be justice when millions
not only were murdered but were humiliated
before they were killed? How could there be
justice when so many societies and governments around the world either collaborated
with the Nazis or stood idly by when the Nazis
engaged in the extermination of European
Jewry?
So we need to be more modest. Lets talk
about a measure of justice, which is necessary to pay tribute to those who perished. It is
necessary for the families of victims, for those
who survived.
It is necessary to move forward to try to
learn the lessons of the Holocaust if we are to
make this a better world and to protect Jewish life going forward.
Achieving a measure of justice and
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identifying the things that can be done never

was simple and it gets even more complicated as the years pass. To many, the Holocaust seems like ancient history.
We start with the most basic element
prosecuting Nazi war criminals. There isnt a
great record here. Fewer and fewer of them
still are alive, and when a 90 year old is put
on trial, as just happened in Germany, there
is an air of cruelty about it.
I believe it is vital to do it. It was vital in the
case of Reinhold Hanning, 94, who admitted
that he was a guard at Auschwitz and apologized for having done nothing about it. Yes,
that is a necessary measure of justice, but
thats all.
Then theres the issue of restoring stolen
property to Jews. This issue was raging 10 or
15 years ago. As a survivor and a professional
who spent his life fighting anti-Semitism and
protecting Jews, I found myself ambivalent
about those activities.
Of course, Jews had every right to demand
that valuable family possessions be returned,
insurance policies paid, bank accounts fulfilled. There undoubtedly was a measure of
justice here.
Ultimately, however, the Shoah was not
about money and thievery, though that took
place everywhere, and Jews do not remember the Holocaust in a search for money.
The Holocaust is a sorry tale of where bigotry can lead. Remembering it is in order to
respect the victims and to learn from the tragedy. I always worried that the focus on money
would distort what happened, and play into

both Jew and non-Jew alike, are

being hijacked.
And so it goes with the progressive movement. Whether
or not you agree with its other
positions, its anti-Israel sentiments are apparent and
becoming more firmly embedded over time. With the conRobert
current rise of the BDS moveIsler
ment, a potentially toxic mix is
brewing.
The progressive group Code
Pink which requires its own op-ed to fully
appreciate the pervasiveness of its Zionist
hatred is an example of where this can
lead. It bills itself as a grassroots peace and
social justice movement, with Wikipedia
noting that It is primarily focused on antiwar issues, but has also taken positions on
gun control, social justice, Palestinian Statehood, green jobs and health care issues. In
other words, along with four or five broadstroke areas of focus, it rallies behind the very
specific issue of the Palestinians, an agenda
that takes the form of many aggressively antiIsrael activities.
The progressive movement most definitely has increased its visibility as a result of

Bernie Sanders presidential

campaign. The beliefs of many
of its adherents are illustrated
by a minor incident reported
late last year. At a large rally at
the University of Chicago, a student questioned Sanders about
his Middle East views. Sanders
began his reply by stating that
Israel has a right to exist, then
continued that he strongly
favors a Palestinian state. The
initial statement generated a
subdued smattering of applause, while the
follow-up resulted in cheering that became
loud and sustained.
Think about it. If a basic right to exist
statement, which no one would dare entertain for any other nation on earth, is regarded
as controversial enough to be met with near
silence, what does that say about many
adherents to the progressive movement?
The common retort is that being anti-Zionist
doesnt equate with being anti-Semitic, but as
one writer recently noted, In a world where
there is just one Jewish State, to oppose it
vehemently is to endanger Jews.
The Democratic Party, which for years
was considered more supportive of Israel

the old stereotype of Jews and

more in terms of remembering and changing peoples
money.
attitudes and behavior, than
I also worry about putting
in exacting some kind of
Europeans on the spot today
metaphysical revenge for the
for what their countries did
horror that was.
in those days. Again, there is a
Which leads me to the meameasure of justice in it but it
sure of justice that is most
also produces a backlash.
desired but which is least fulI think of that backlash every
Abraham H.
filled eliminating anti-Semitime I hear the obscene comFoxman
parison of Israelis to Nazis. Its
tism from the world.
as if the accusers are trying to
We cannot begin to understand the Shoah without understanding
relieve themselves of the guilt projected onto
the 2,000 year history of anti-Semitism. Of
them for the Holocaust. Yes, we Europeans
course, the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews
had our Nazis back then, they seem to be saying, and today you Jews have your Nazis in
went far beyond anything that preceded it.
the form of the Israelis. So to them there is a
but it could not have happened if the antimoral equivalence, with one thing cancelling
Semitic idea had not been embedded deeply
the other out.
within Western civilization. This underlaid the Nazi demonization of the Jews and
Other manifestations of a measure of justice leave me more satisfied. The internaenabled millions of others to be collaborators
tional observance of Yom Hashoah, beyond
or bystanders in the slaughter.
Israel and the Jewish world, is important.
In the years following the first pictures of
Teaching about the Holocaust to youngsters
Auschwitz, people felt shame about what
in many countries is another measure of juslong-held anti-Semitism could lead to. Antitice. We need more of that. And the recogniSemitism was by no means eliminated, but
tion of those non-Jews, the righteous among
cultural embarrassment about anti-Semitism
the nations, who rescued Jews during those
curtailed its emergence. Today, that shame
terrible years is a good thing. It should be
about anti-Semitism is disappearing.
encouraged.
There are two reasons for that. First,
My very existence depended on one such
the passage of time. New generations feel
person, so I am emotionally attached to this
removed from the Shoah, and even when
theme. But the idea that honoring such indithey learn about it, it doesnt have the same
vidual projects that people could make a
emotional impact it once had.
difference even in the most challenging of
Second, the non-stop assault on the good
times has to be reinforced time and again.
name of the state of Israel. These assaults
Clearly, as you can see, I think that the
often are a cover for anti-Semitism.
concept of justice after the Holocaust is
Without getting into the question of when
complicated. I think of attaining justice
anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, it must be

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than its Republican counterpart, has seen
that stance steadily erode. This is due in
no small measure to its progressive wing.
Although bipartisan support in Congress
on issues related to Israels security remains
strong, rank-and-file support is a different
story, and down the road it could lead to
pressure on those seeking office to rethink
their positions.
To quantify matters, during Israels
summer 2014 operation in Gaza following Hamas extensive missile barrage, Pew
Research Center conducted a poll that
asked, In the dispute between Israel and
the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more Israel or the Palestinians? Support for Israel stood at 77 percent for conservative Republicans and 68
percent for moderates. On the Democratic
side, support was 48 percent for moderates and just 39 percent for liberals, which
means that 6 in 10 liberals (which can be
argued are essentially the same as progressives) either supported Israels enemies in
that conflict, or wouldnt choose sides. An
article by Jonathan Tobin in Commentary
magazine last December put the blame on
the Obama administration for the ascent
of the hard left and predicted that a

Democratic Party that has been captured

by the left will be increasingly disdainful of
Israel.
If you have any doubts about the seriousness of this issue, just turn to what is
probably the largest progressive website,
the Huffington Post. To its credit, the site
does carry op-eds that are sympathetic
toward Israel, although they are far outnumbered by those that are critical. The
email responses toward the former are
eye-opening. Its not just the level of vitriol
directed at Israel and its supporters, but
the huge percentage of those commenting
expressing such views.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, progressive is defined as moving forward or using or interested in new
or modern ideas, especially in politics and
education. The irony is that such a term
has been chosen by a movement that often
joins ranks with backward thinkers in practicing the oldest form of hatred known to
man.

said that the attacks on Israel dramatically

weaken the resistance to anti-Semitism. It
is no accident that anti-Semitisms dramatic
upsurge coincides with growing efforts to
delegitimize the Jewish state.
A measure of justice that would matter most for me, therefore, would be the
international communitys serious commitment to combat anti-Semitism. That
would involve several initiatives. One,
which already is ongoing, is teaching young
people about the Shoah. But dont just tell
them about it. Get them to relate to it.
Rita Sussmuth, once head of the Bundestag in Germany and a remarkable woman,
told an ADL group that we have to find
different ways to teach each generation
about the Holocaust. Young people today
are so far removed from it that creative
approaches must be developed. The facts
of the Shoah must be relevant to those
young people. They cannot be just dry
words in a book or on a computer screen.
Second is an understanding that an
assault on Israels legitimacy or the
demonizing of the Jewish state should
be illegitimate because it generates the
very anti-Semitism so many protest they
are against. Dont get me wrong. Im not
suggesting Israel is beyond criticism, nor
do I see this as a tool to stifle legitimate
criticism of Israel.
One of the most important lessons
of the Holocaust is that Jews can never
again afford to be powerless. The horror
of the Shoah was that a regime committed to the destruction of the Jews came
to rule not only Germany but most of
Europe, at a time when the Jews had no

power at all no army, no place to go,

no political influence to speak.
Thank God, today Jews have an element
of power Israel, the IDF, American Jews
and their friends.
With power, however, comes responsibility. So Israel is not beyond criticism. But
the demonization and delegitimization of
Israel have nothing to do with legitimate
criticism.
Whether or not anti-Zionism is always
anti-Semitism, one damaging concept
we sometimes hear and must combat is
the idea that anti-Zionism never can be
anti-Semitism.
We need international recognition
that often anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism,
and even when its not, it generates an
enormous amount of anti-Semitism, and
legitimates it.
Ill close where I began. I dont want
to be caught up on the concept of justice after the Holocaust. Its an impossible endeavor. There are, however, many
opportunities for the world to show that
the Holocaust was a seminal event and
that we can learn something from it.
We must recommit ourselves to the
never-ending struggle for remembrance
and learning, for the sake of those who
perished, for the sake of us living today,
and for the sake of those who are yet
unborn.

Robert Isler of Fair Lawn is a marketing/

media research professional who also
writes about Jewish issues. Reach him at
robertisler23@gmail.com.

Abraham Foxman of Bergen County is the

director and chairman of the Center for
the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Jewish
Heritage Museum and national director
emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League.

Letters
Remembering two teachers

The April 29 issue of the Standard was surprisingly personal to me. First, I was moved
by the yahrzeit tribute to Arthur Hertzberg,
whom I worked under as high holiday assistant rabbi for three years in what was his
last rabbinic post, a high holiday service at
the home of the late Edgar Bronfman Sr.,
for about 70 people. (Editorial, Remembering Arthur Hertzberg.) Rabbi Hertzberg gave
the installation address for me at my firsttime pulpit, in Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002, and
he was a witness on our ketubah. (Alla and I
were married in 2001.)
Then there was the story on Cantor Romalis (Touching peoples souls). Cantor Morris Romalis was Cantor Charles Romaliss son,
and in 1986 I was Morris Romaliss last bar
mitzvah student. Morris Romalis taught me
how to daven. I can attest to Cantor Charles

Hertzberg or Elvis?

Romaliss memory of his fathers loyal frustration with Conservative Judaism. We had just
moved to Westchester a few months before
my bar mitzvah (although I continued to
study with Cantor Romalis on a regular basis,
then and after my bar mitzvah, until he died).
I remember him being very sorry that even
as cantor emeritus of a Conservative synagogue, he could not drive from Queens to
Westchester on Shabbat. Seeing a very old
picture of the cantor, who was like a third
grandfather to me, and another photo of
one of my rabbinic and academic mentors,
two dear late teachers of mine, in the same
issue of the Standard made for a surprising
if familiar read.
Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine
Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center
Ridgewood

Thank you so much for your wonderful

reminiscences of Rabbi Hertzberg. He was
my childhood rabbi (well, I was a teenager
when he came to Temple Emanuel) and
my lifelong friend. In his early years at
Temple Emanuel, we teenagers were privileged to meet and talk with him informally
on Sunday mornings.
For years afterward, I again was privileged
and honored to audit some of his classes at
Columbia. We met from time to time, just to
talk. When I spoke at his retirement dinner, I
said something like, When I was a teenager,

my friends had crushes on Elvis Presley. Me

I adored Arthur Hertzberg! How happy I was
to read your beautiful personal memories of
his later years.
I was especially happy to read the reprint
of his essay (Zionism: Messianic movement
or tool for Jewish survival?). I was struck
by how relevant his thoughts are today. His
assessment of the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is even more on point
today. If only folks had listened
Linda Poskanzer
Hackensack

Freedom

not lead us to become the taskmasters. Our

consciousness should guide us, with a desire
to be neither victim nor oppressor.
This Yom Haatzmaut, let us celebrate the
hope, HaTikvah, that this finally may be the
season that sees the people of Israel and its
neighbors pass over from bloodshed to normalcy. May the barriers of enmity and isolation, distrust and fear, give way to cooperation and understanding.
Then we will be able to celebrate not only
our independence but our true freedom.
Next year in Jerusalem. Next year Jerusalem and both her peoples, in peace.

FROM PAGE 25

we looking at only one side of the never

again coin?
Todays celebrations, well-earned and well
deserved, present challenges both to American Jews and to Israelis. The overwhelming
majority of us here have not experienced the
tragedies of persecution. Have we grown so
comfortable in our democratic home that we
have lost touch with the extraordinary transformation the Third Jewish Commonwealth
brought to the Jewish condition? Or, with
that understanding, have we turned our eyes
away from the sometimes vile acts of some of
our kinsman in our homeland? In full awareness of the remarkable achievements connected with the creation of the State of Israel,
we must separate our excitement with the
national renewal from a destructive chauvinism, lest we become ensnared and enslaved
by a blind and callous zeal. The Four Sons
live, and we can only hope that the Wicked
Child, the one who hasnt learned the lessons
of our history, who did not receive the teachings of the fathers from his father, will not
prevail. May there still be enough of us who
will work to ensure that our own zeal does

Dr. Mark Gold of Teaneck holds a Ph.D. in

economics from NYU. He is on the executive
board of Partners for Progressive Israel, a
member organization of the American Zionist
Movement and an affiliate of the World Union
of Meretz.
Hiam Simon of Englewood is the chief
operating officer of Ameinu, the leading
progressive Zionist membership organization
in the United States. He live din Israel for many
years, where he was the dean of students for
what is now the Alexander Muss high School,
and he was an artillery sergeant in the IDF.

CORRECTION
Musician with a Message (May 6) failed to mention Michelle Citrins father. His name
is Barry Citrin, and he lives in Fair Lawn. We regret the omission.

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Opinion

Season 3 of Trump:
Reasons to be nervous about foreign policy

he last time I wrote about Donald

Trump in this column was back
in December, when the Republican presidential primary race
was in full swing.
Back then, I voiced concern about what
the Middle East policy of a Trump administration might look like, pointing out that his
failure to address Irans hegemonic ambitions, along with his deference to Russian
autocrat President Vladimir Putin, was perilously similar to the approach of President
Barack Obama whom the New York billionaire reviles.
Six months later, and in the face of endless
high-minded wonkish critiques like mine,
Trump has overwhelmed his GOP competitors. The prospect of a Trump victory in the
November general election suddenly is very
real, and only a fool would claim otherwise.
Still, recognition of Trumps extraordinary
achievement hasnt altered my worries about
how he would shape American foreign policy. Before I explain why, I think its worth
making some general observations about
Trumps approach to politics, to put all this

in context.
First off, we have to distinguish between
Trumps sensibilities and Trumps abilities.
He is not a stupid man far from it and
he flourishes when his rivals underestimate
him. But he clearly distrusts intellectuals,
cares little for history, and disdains the kinds
of political speeches that are peppered with
literary and philosophical references. For
all his bombast about making America great
again, the Founding Fathers, the U.S. Constitution, and the endurance of the American republic across nearly three centuries,
all are conspicuous by their absence from
his podium addresses. All we are told is that
its gonna be fabulous. We just dont know
quite how.
Yet when it comes to the operational
aspects of his campaign, Trump has proven
himself a master communicator in terms of
the timing of his messages. In every tussle
and every confrontation, he has proved that
whatever doesnt kill him makes him stronger. If Hillary Clintons campaign believes
that facing off against Trump is a political
gift, then that is a potentially fatal strategic

error, as all the eliminated

therefore leads, secondly,
Republican contenders 16 of
to comparisons with foreign
them can affirm.
leaders. None of them are
Trumps insertion of TV
remotely encouraging. Ive
reality show values into the
seen or heard Trump invoked
presidential contest is jarring
alongside the late Venezuand crude, but it has worked
elan tyrant Hugo Chavez, the
for him so far. Season 1 of
former Argentine dictator
Trump just has ended, with
Juan Peron, and Jean Marie
Ben Cohen
his assumption of the GOP
Le Pen, the former leader of
nomination. Season 2 his
Frances National Front party,
contest with Clinton is just
who is the most prominent of
beginning. If we get to a Season 3, its because
Europes postwar neo-fascists. Indeed, the
Trump is in the White House. Season 4? That
respected political analyst Daniel Pipes, who
means a second presidential term. We have
is a conservative, has made a persuasive case
to hope that Trump has enough respect for
that Trump deserved the label of neo-fascist.
the two-term presidential limit for there not
Trump has done little to allay these anxietto be a Season 5.
ies. Even though some of his advisers want
I make that last point because in studyhim to be more presidential, which in his
ing Trumps style and discussing his camcase simply means not tossing out bizarre
paign with friends and political contacts,
conspiracy theories and puerile insults, at
Ive noted a couple of observations that are
this point he is not prepared to transform
made regularly. Firstly, that it is pretty much
his rhetoric. Nor is he willing to disavow the
impossible to find a proto-Trump among the
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One of those perceived critics was Julia Ioffe, a Jewish journalist who recently wrote an unflattering portrayal of Trumps wife Melania for GQ magazine. Ioffe
quickly found herself the target of threats in the form
of Nazi imagery and anonymous phone calls consisting
of recorded Hitler speeches. When CNNs Wolf Blitzer
asked Trump about his supporters baiting Ioffe, the candidates response was, I dont know about that. I dont
know anything about that. Youll have to talk to them
about it.... I dont have a message to the fans.
This is exactly the Trump who many of us have come
to know and dislike and even fear. This also is the Trump
who many of us believe will enter the White House if he
wins in November, which is why we search desperately
for signs that suggest the outcome will not be as dreadful
as we anticipate.
In a purely abstract sense, it is conceivable that Trump
could be more of an international statesman than seems
possible now; as in sport, in politics nothing should ever
be discounted. Nevertheless, there is precious little evidence to back up such an assertion.
Trumps speech after his victory over Sen. Ted Cruz
in the Indiana primary was more confirmation that in
his view, the rest of the world has kept American leaders
from attending to American problems. As Trump presents it, we can either build world class airports at home,
or we can waste the cash on ungrateful foreigners abroad.
When it comes to relations with Americas allies, it is
deeply troubling that the only foreign leader of whom
he speaks with consistent respect is Putin. Trump still
is smarting from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus rejection of his unconstitutional proposal to ban
Muslims from entering the United States. Ditto for British Prime Minister David Cameron, who called Trumps
demand stupid and wrong.
For his part, Trump has described German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a catastrophic leader because of
her refugee policy. No other European or Western leader
seems even to be on his radar perhaps because politicians like Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady who would
have been more than a match for Trump, are increasingly
rare in the liberal democracies these days.
Entering office with a record of contemptuous remarks
about the leaders of our traditional allies is hardly a solid
foundation on which to build the relationships that a neophyte like Trump will need in order to conduct foreign
policy. And he will need them. His fetish for authoritarian
leaders encourages the concern that it wont stop just at
Putin, but will lead to flirtations with North Koreas Kim
Jong Un (led perhaps by Dennis Rodman, the former
NBA star and friend-of-Kim who also is a stalwart Trump
supporter) and the Islamist mullahs running Iran. Like
Trump himself, these people arent stupid, and they
would love nothing more than to humiliate the United
States by flattering its new president in order to deceive
him later on.
While I believe, therefore, that we need to prepare ourselves for a Trump presidency, I cannot find even a grain
of comfort when it comes to projecting what his foreign
policy will involve. One of his advisers recently told The
Algemeiners Ruthie Blum, to negotiations between Israel
and the Palestinians, I cant think of a better guy who
can sit at the table and try to bring everybody together.
This mantra from the Trump camp, and its underlying
hubris, will be sorely tested should he be inaugurated in
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Cover Story

Escaping

with Comrade Bear

Lev Golinkin on his memoir about
leaving the Ukraine, JFNNJs
One Book One Community choice
JOANNE PALMER

omehow, when you think about it, you

realize that we dont really know much
about how the Russian Jews got here.
We know a bit about the politics behind
it. Those of us who are old enough to remember it
firsthand know about the Soviet Jewry movement,
about the refusniks and their mad courage, and
about the Americans who smuggled them matzahs
and Bibles.
But we dont know what it felt like to be a
Jew from the Soviet Union, or what it felt like to
escape, or what it felt like to start a new life here.
30 Jewish standard MaY 13, 2016

There hasnt been much written about it. Maybe

its still too soon. Maybe there will be a torrent of
novels and memoirs and films. Maybe someone
had to start it.
Lev Golinkin of East Windsor has written a
memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of
Vodka: A Memoir, about his familys exodus from
the Ukraine. The books been the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys One Book, One
Community centerpiece, and the culmination of
the yearlong series of events based on it will be on
Wednesday, May 18, at 7 p.m., when Mr. Golinkin
will talk about it at Temple Beth Or in Washington
Township. (See the box for more information.)

y
Mr. Golinkin was 9 years old in 1989,
when his family began the odyssey that
ended in New Jersey. The backpack and
the bear Comrade Bear, genus stuffed,
species cute were just about all he could
bring out, and the vodka went as bribes to
the various terrifying people they encountered, whose outstretched hands would
either take the offerings or be used as
weapons against them.
You dont have to be Jewish to read this
book, but a big part of what I set out to do
in this book is help American Jews understand what and who they fought for, and

You have to
present your
credentials to
get anything.
So imagine if
your drivers
license said Jew.
what and who they were fighting against,
Mr. Golinkin said. I wanted to show why
so many not all, but so many Soviet
Jews came to the U.S. and then didnt
engage with the Jewish community.
I can only speak for myself most days
I have enough trouble even doing that
and in the book I am very careful to speak
only for myself but I do realize that my
familys experience wasnt unique. It was
part of a pattern.
I dont think that American Jews, who
live in a land of synagogues and bar mitzvahs, quite understand what a thorough
job the Soviets did in extinguishing religion and culture, Mr. Golinkin continued.
And two American organizations, HIAS
and the JDC thats the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the Joint Distribution Committee not only helped us get
out of the Soviet Union, they actually came
in and worked to plant seeds in countries
like Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Russia, to
help get Jewish life back there.
In my home city, Kharkov, the synagogue was turned into a rec center, and
now its a fully functioning Jewish center
again. Religion was something that was
illegal and underground and now they
have an Ask the Rabbi website.
Imagine if you left the United States,
and then you came back, and all of a sudden you learn that heroin is legal, and you

can buy it on the street. Judaism was like

heroin, he suggested.
Why such an odd metaphor? Why compare Judaism to a deadly drug? Karl Marx
said that religion was the opiate of the people, Mr. Golinkin said. Beyond that, he
wanted to show the depths of the hatred
and the resulting self-hatred that came
from the Soviets campaign against religion. It was a very persistent campaign,
he said. They started with killing rabbis
and community leaders, and they kept on
eradicating everything.
His background in the former Soviet
Union taught me that being a Jew was
a disease, he said. The problem is
that idea goes all the way across the
Atlantic with you, and I nurtured it
long after the Soviet Union collapsed.
All religion was sent underground,
and priests, too, were hunted. Still,
there was particular hatred aimed at the
Jews, who were persecuted not only
for religion but also for
ethnicity.
I think that Jews
are probably the
only people in the
world where the
name applies to
both things, he
continued. We had
very little of religion
by the time the 1980s
rolled around, but everyone
had to carry an ID card, and the fifth line
was the line for ethnicity. You have to present your credentials to get anything. So
imagine if your drivers license said Jew.
The Soviet Union was a huge place, he
added. The levels of anti-Semitism varied
depending on what other ethnic groups
were around, how many Jews there were,
and many other factors, including local
history, and then the random whims of the
people in charge. Where he was, when he
was there, Jew-loathing reigned.
My mom was a Jewish doctor. She had
no problems. But my sister wasnt allowed
to go to medical school, he said. Policies
varied. It was unpredictable.
One thing that did not vary for little Lev
was the hatred directed toward him at
school. He often was beaten up, his friends
called him names, and his parents, trying
to protect him, kept him home as often as
they could. Of course, to be fair, school,
at least as he describes it in his memoir,
was the sort of place that would make any
sane child take to bed. It was highly regimented, purely polemical, imaginationaverse, and actively unpleasant.

Much of life in the Soviet Union was

actively unpleasant. He was a child when
he left, so he must go by other peoples
reports, but people who know talk a lot
about the sense of unreality in the Soviet
Union, he said. They were constantly
told about their countrys glories, and
how they would conquer all challenges.
On the other hand, people in their living
rooms were quietly derisive about the government, about Lenin, about everything.
There was a very rich, sarcastic sense of
humor that just pervaded everything. People often would say We pretend to work,
and they pretend to pay us.
This is a country that lost 20 million, at
least, to World War II, and another 70 million to Stalin. The humor was really dark
humor.
Maybe because of that influence, Mr.
Golinkins book, too, is darkly funny. At
other times, its just straightforwardly
funny. That sets off the darkness of his
early life filled with some periods of
active fear, but even more with the dank

boredom
of the grim
Soviet system.
Pe o p l e d i d
not know that the
system was on the verge of falling apart,
Mr. Golinkin said. They knew that things
werent going well, but instead of the
problems leading to the end of the Soviet
Union, they feared that it would lead to the
end of the Jews. One of the reasons we
left was that when things go wrong, Russians and Ukranians have pogroms. They
blame everything on the Jews.
When he and his family left, they were
part of a huge wave of Jewish refugees who
nearly swamped the systems set up to help
them. Part of Mr. Golinkins story is about
his long journey out, and then the familys
new life in the United States.
The decision to leave was an incredibly
hard one, he said; he hadnt realized how
wrenchingly hard it was for his parents
because he wasnt old enough when they
left. All he knew was that he desperately
Jewish standard MaY 13, 2016 31

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wanted to get out.
Leaving was very dangerous, he said.
You had to leave all of your belongings
-you were allowed just a few nonessential
items. You had no money. All you knew
was that you had to get to some train station in Vienna. You have a one-way ticket.
You just had to hope that someone would
be there to meet you.
In his book, Mr. Golinkin writes about
the stratagems his parents had to use to get
the paperwork that would allow them out;
the emotional capital they had to expend,
the buttons they had to push and the
levers they had to pull not to mention
the actual money they had to pay, both
over and under the table. They needed
luck. They were lucky.
The trip out to the border sounds like
an old Western. They went by bus, not
stagecoach, but they had to worry about
marauders hijacking the bus, robbing
them, possibly even murdering them
and throwing their bodies out into the
bleak, featureless tundra through which
they drove. Their stops had to be short,
because that minimized the chances of
being attacked. They had to pay off watchers who could warn them about raiders.
Once they got to the border, John Ford
was replaced by Franz Kafka. The border
check was terrifying and irrational. Not
everyone made it out. The Golinkins did,
but it was close and Levs father, who
tried to sneak out his intellectual capital,
secreted on a computer chip, had to find
a way destroy it, quickly and secretly. The
stakes were far too high.
The skeleton of his book is formed from
his childhood memories, fleshed out with
a great deal of reporting work that he did
as an adult. So some images are extremely
intense, seen through the eyes of a preteen
boy, and then they are given context.
The middle section of the book tells
about the familys stay in Austria, as they
are moved around, taken care of but not
told much, unsure of where they are going
but very sure that they are headed in the

Lev on the first day of first grade in Kharkov, Soviet Ukraine. Note his posture
and the girls outfits. Both were mandatory.

right direction.
Mr. Golinkins father spoke English
before he left Ukraine. In the 1970s, when
he was on his deathbed, my fathers father
told my father One of these days, one of
these years, one of these decades, this
cursed country is going to collapse, and
you will have the opportunity to get your
family out, so youd better get ready,
Mr. Golinkin said. So he learned English,
and spent years honing it. Thats why he
now has a job as an engineer. Hes about
to celebrate his 25th anniversary at that.
His mother, who had not learned English
before she escaped the Ukraine, has not
been able to work as a doctor. Shes now
working as a security guard, but shes very
happy to be here, and to help the United
States, her son said.
Levs sister, called Lina in the memoir, learned English in the Ukraine, and
found it very useful. Shes an engineer,
now lives in the Midwest, and her younger
son just celebrated his bar mitzvah. His
grandmother, on the other hand, the
fifth Golinkin in the group, never really
learned English, he said. But she was

pretty old when she came here.

Lev learned some English before he
came to this country. The familys first
year was spent in West Lafayette, Indiana.
When the Golinkins and one other Russian Jewish family arrived, it made frontpage news, he said. Its a small college
town, and it was summer. Nothing happens there. An adorable puppy can make
the front page.
The Jewish community came together
to adopt us, and they also involved the
rest of the town. The whole town took us
on. Both the good and the bad. And this
happened in communities throughout the
United States.
His memories of school back in the
Ukraine, along with his inability to get
along well in English, made his transition to school hard. I was in the fourth
grade, he said. There was nobody from
the Soviet Union in school with me.
But the teachers handled me wonderfully. They realized that I was terrified of
school. I hated school. They didnt speak
Russian and I didnt speak English. They
realized that if theyd leave me alone in the
back of the class, I would learn. They just
gave me work to do and checked in with
me at the end.
West Lafayette is a university town, and
his teachers were able to take advantage of
that. There was a grad student at Purdue
who was working on a Ph.D. in English and
was interested in education, he said. She
was matched with Lev, and she figured
me out, he said. She asked my dad what
I liked, and he said English fairy tales. New

ones, not Hans Christian Andersen stories,

which I already knew in Russian. So she
gave me fairly tales, and in order to get to
the ending I had to do the lesson.
Eventually I trusted her, and we worked
together for months, he said; he recently
tracked down his tutor, and learned that
shes now the head of the English program at Michigan State University.
The Golinkins stay in Indiana was short
because as soon as my dad started making money, he put it into resumes. That
led to the job in Trenton that he still holds,
and the family moved to New Jersey. Lev
graduated from high school there, and
went on to Boston College.
Why did he choose a Jesuit institution?
Specifically because it wasnt Jewish. I
went there to escape my Jewish identity,
he said. And then, while I was at Boston
College, slowly, that changed. I needed to
understand more. Toward the end of college, I had a serious conversation with a
mentor there, and he said that I had to
understand my past. That I have to know
where I came from.
He told me, You need to stop telling
people that you come from New Jersey.
But that took time. I was driving out of
New Brunswick once with friends, and the
parking lot attendant had an accent. One
of my drunk friends said Where are you
from? and he said New Brunswick. He
asked him again, and the guy stared him
down and said New Brunswick.
I said Leave him alone. He knows what
you mean, and he doesnt want to tell you.
A lot of the time, Americans dont know
where theyre from. Often the people who
come here know where theyre from all
too well.
Mr. Golinkin knew where he was from
but he knew it from a childs vantage
point. One of the reasons for this book
was to give him the chance to see it as an
adult.
Part of it also was trying to reconnect
with my Jewish identity, he added. I go
to no synagogue, no temple, no nothing.
But I am extraordinarily proud of being a
Jew, of coming from a people who have the
right to turn their back on the world but
instead decide to engage and heal it.
I feel most Jewish when I am working
on a humanitarian project. One of the big
gifts of writing this book is working with
the JDC and HIAS. They helped my family,
and they continue to help millions of others. It also helps me through volunteering
and coming to terms with my past.

Who: Lev Golinkin

What: will talk about his book, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A
Memoir; a dessert reception will follow
Where: At Temple Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood Road, Washington Township
When: On Wednesday, May 18, at 7 p.m.
Why: To mark the culmination of this years One Book, One Community project

Lev Golinkin, second from left, went back to Binders, the Austrian hotel where
he and his family stayed right after they got out of the Ukraine. Here he is with
the owners.
32 Jewish Standard MAY 13, 2016

How: RSVP online at www.jfnnj.org/oboc, by emailing Nancy Perlman at NancyP@

jfnnj.org, or by calling her at (201) 820-3904. The Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey would welcome an $18 donation to support this project.

Jewish World

At home in London, French Jews dread vote on leaving EU

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
LONDON Less than two years after he
moved his family from Paris to London,
David Herz already feels at home there.
The co-founder of a communications
agency, Herz is among thousands of French
Jews who moved across the channel in
recent years. He says he immigrated mostly
for financial reasons and is enjoying the
added benefit of having his teenage children
study in English in a good school.
Herz, his wife, and their three kids are
part of the vibrant congregation of the
Liberal Jewish Synagogue, which recently
added services in French, led by a rabbi
from Strasbourg. The school and the synagogue, Herz added, are the pillars of his
social life in his adoptive country.
But like millions living in Britain, the Herzes now are unsure of their future in the
island kingdom as it prepares to vote next
month on a referendum on staying in or leaving the European Union. That decision could
have far-reaching consequences for Europeans living and working in England, and for
British workers on the continent.
Were in limbo, Herz, 45, said. No one,

including the government, seems to know

what it would mean for us if Britain leaves.
The June 23 vote on whether to Brexit or
Bremain follows Decembers vote in Parliament to put the decision to a referendum.
Occurring amid a debate over the EUs
authority over individual member states
and their financial affairs, the Brexit issue
is complicated further by growing tensions among lawmakers over foreign policy
issues.
As is true elsewhere in Europe as well,
Britains right-wing parties resent UKs
membership in the bloc. A Brexit would
ensure that Britain is not pressured into taking in some of the 1.8 million mostly Muslim migrants who entered Europe last year,
those critics argue.
But Bremainers including Prime Minister David Cameron, who agreed to a referendum to appease his Conservative Partys right-leaning bloc warn that leaving
the EU would disrupt Britains economy
and force millions of Britons living on the
continent to return. The scenario triggered
speculation that Britain might retaliate by
sending millions of EU citizens living in the
UK packing.

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Despite Camerons campaign against the

Brexit U.S. President Barack Obama controversially endorsed his position in a joint
news conference with the British premier
last month polls suggest a 50-50 split,
with some surveys registering a growth in
the Brexit vote.
British Jews also are divided on the issue,
according to Justin Cohen, news editor at Londons Jewish News daily. But among Europeans living in Britain, including French-speaking Jews, Brexit is seen as a disruptive choice,
born out of fear and arrogance.

In France, we see fear taking the form of

xenophobia, as a rising National Front party
reaches new popularity, said the Herzes
rabbi, Rene Pfertzel, who came to Britain 15
years ago to study and ended up staying. In
Britain, it assumes the form of Brexit isolationism. But it comes from the same source.
For French Jews, Britain is attractive
because it has lower taxes than France,
more employment opportunities, and a
large Jewish community of some 250,000
people Western Europes largest after
Frances own 500,000 Jews. And Paris and
London are only a two-hour train ride away,
making family visits easy to arrange.
Under EU agreements, citizens of member states may relocate and work in any of
the blocs 28 member states without requiring permission, often simply by registering
as residents with their EU passport with the
local municipality. For Europeans, a Brexit
is expected to mean some sort of application process for residence in the UK, possibly involving a vetting process by British
immigration authorities.
The ability to escape anti-Semitism is
among the arguments for remaining in a
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union that allows people greater freedom to move among

member states.
Some Jews feel safer in Britain than in France, although
anti-Semitism here remains a problem. In 2013, 69 violent
anti-Semitic attacks were recorded in Britain, compared to
105 in France, meaning that Jews were 1.3 times likelier to be
physically assaulted in Britain. In some other years, French
Jews were likelier to be attacked, though not by much.
The risks are the same risks, guards are sadly necessary in synagogues here and in France, said Sacha
Bielawski, a 38-year-old father of two who came to London from Paris 10 years ago and works in finance. I feel
equally safe and unsafe in both countries.
Linda Borowski, a computer specialist from Brussels
who moved to London 10 years ago, says she is now in the
process of immigrating to the United States because of the
threat of jihadism. My children are targets here every bit
as much as in Brussels, she said. I dont want to raise
them in fear or under guard.
Herz said the British media was playing up the risk to
Jews in France and portraying Britain as a refuge in what
he called French bashing. Jewish immigration to London is part of a major wave of general emigration from
France and is not specific to Jews, he said.
Whatever the reason, the recent arrival of hundreds of
French Jews in Britain led to the establishment of Francophone Jewish communities in three London synagogues
and the formation of predominantly French-speaking
classrooms in at least one Jewish London school.

Many of the French Jews of London have little to fear

even if the Brexit happens, Bielawski said.
A realistic solution will be found to the visa issue, he
said. The London finance industry and market is full of
foreigners. They will have to be reasonable if they want to
avoid a collapse.
But newcomers like the Herzes are less certain than longtime residents, who have accumulated various rights over
time, including the right to vote in some local elections and
referendums. In the Brexit referendum, however, only British, Irish, and Commonwealth citizens who live in the UK
may vote.
British Jews are far more divided on the issue than the
French Jews among them are.
Robert Halfon, a British-Jewish lawmaker, argued in a
March op-ed in the Jewish News that remaining would
allow London to positively influence EU policy on Israel.
But Geoffrey Alderman, a historian and former member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, disputed the
point. In an op-ed the same month in the Jewish Chronicle, he asserted that British Jews are better off lobbying
for communal interests in London, which they know, than
in Brussels, where they have less sway and which is perceived as more hostile to Israel.
And while EU membership allows Jews to come and
leave murderous racism in France, Alderman said, murderous racists were free to follow them.
Brexit comes down to a question of sovereignty, he
wrote. As a religious Jew, I pray for the welfare of the nation.
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Others advising Hillary Clinton are not immediately
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until this topsy turvy election season were prerequisites for an entre into a senior advisory role for a presidential campaign: top schools, experience in government, and proven loyalty to the candidate.
Another tie that binds Clintons advisers to her: Many
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to be more skeptical of the Iran nuclear deal and more
reluctant to criticize Israel openly.
But same old same old is what the Clinton campaign hopes will emerge as one of its strengths. Albright,
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with the nuclear codes?
Heres a look at five top Middle East advisers and the
chops they bring to the campaign and could carry into
a Clinton administration. Jake Sullivan and Laura Rosenberger are paid staffers, and the others belong to campaign
advisory groups and have helped shape policy papers.

Jake Sullivan
A Yale law school alum who advised Clintons 2008
presidential campaign and went on to advise Obama,
Jake Sullivan was Clintons deputy chief of staff when
she was Obamas secretary of state. He moved to Vice
President Joe Bidens office after she left at the end of
Obamas first term.
Sullivan, 39, now is the campaigns foreign policy
chief, and is touted to become the youngest-ever national
security adviser should Clinton win the presidency.
Sullivan was Clintons point man in helping to shape
the talks that led to the Iran nuclear deal. According to
Politico, as Bidens national security adviser Sullivan
brokered the historic 2013 phone call between President
Obama and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani.
Clinton involved Sullivan in the Iranian gambit from
day one. According to her second autobiography, Hard
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deputy foreign minister at talks on Afghanistan in March of
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negotiators.
That background gave him credibility when early in
the current campaign he went after Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont vying with Clinton for
the Democratic nod, for hoping to normalize relations
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her degree in conflict resolution working with NGOs in
the Balkans soon after she graduated in 2002.
She nabbed a career position in the State Department
in 2004, and moved up through the ranks, ending her
career there as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of
state before joining Clintons campaign a year ago.
Rosenberger, 35, told the Jewish Journal in January
that she comes from a family deeply involved in Jewish
life in the Pittsburgh area, and described her core mission in Jewish terms: Passover is my favorite holiday,
because I find very much a driving mission for myself in
this, the obligation of the Jewish people who have been
free from oppression ourselves to root out oppression
wherever we see it, she said.
Her focus is the Middle East and she has homed in
on the anti-Muslim rhetoric that has flared around the
campaigns of Trump, the real estate magnate, and Cruz,
the Texas senator who dropped out of the race after
Trumps major victory in Indiana.
Rosenberger posted on the campaign website her
annotated version of Clintons speech in November to
the Council on Foreign Relations on the threat of the
Islamic State group. In a long speech that dealt with
military and diplomatic options for crushing Islamic
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Andrew Shapiro
Hang out at pro-Israel organizations
during Obamas first term and you were
likely sooner or later to run into Andrew
Shapiro, then an assistant secretary of
state for political-military affairs.
Shapiro was Clintons pro-Israel
explainer: When tensions were ratcheting up between the Obama and Netanyahu governments, Shapiro was among
the first to master the original unprecedented aid pitch, offering facts and
figures on the level of military assistance
the Obama administration was delivering to Israel.
I am proud to say that this administration has taken steps to strengthen the
U.S.-Israel relationship and preserve it in a
new century and era of dramatic change,
he told the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy in November 2011.
As a result of the Obama administrations commitment, our security relationship with Israel is broader, deeper
and more intense than ever before, he
said. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said
that the security cooperation between
our two countries is unprecedented. In
fact, I believe that no American administration has done as much as ours for
Israels security.
Shapiro, 48, who studied international
relations at the University of Pennsylvania and then Columbia University, is an
old Clinton hand. He worked for her as
a senior foreign policy adviser when she
was senator from New York. In Hard
Choices, she credits him with helping to
secure Israels access to F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter jets.
In Obamas second term, Shapiro
left government and established a foreign policy strategic consultancy, Beacon Global Strategies, with two other
Obama administration alumni, Jeremy
Bash, a top Pentagon official and the son
of a Washington area rabbi, and Philippe
Reines, one of Clintons closest advisers
when she was secretary of state.
While all three are true-blue Democrats, the groups advisory board is
bipartisan and includes hawkish veterans of the President George W. Bush
administration, including former ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman. Its a
grouping that signals that Shapiro, like
his once and possible future boss, has
ties deep inside Washingtons interventionist foreign policy establishment.

James Steinberg
Eight years after concluding a term as a
deputy national security adviser in the
Clinton administration, James Steinberg,
62, became a deputy to his first bosss
wife, as a deputy secretary of state.
Steinberg had worked on the Obama
campaign, and according to the Wall
Street Journal helped craft the candidates 2008 speech to the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, which
with its emotional recalling of the 1960s
black-Jewish civil rights alliance did
much to tamp down skepticism about
Obama among pro-Israel centrists, at
least for a while.
Steinberg left after two years, according to Politico, because as an Obamabranded staffer he was having trouble in
Clinton-land. In Hard Choices Clinton
dismisses that explanation, noting that
during the 2008 cycle he had advised
both campaigns. She writes that she
offered him the job because of his expertise in the Asia-Pacific region, a priority
in Obamas first term.
This go-round, Steinbergs specialty
in advising the Clinton campaign is the
Middle East. Last September Steinberg
announced that he would wrap up his
gig heading Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs at the end of this academic year.

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tamara Cofman Wittes directs the
Brookings Institutions Center for Middle East Policy, a position that makes
her a link to one of the best-known Clinton Israel whisperers, Haim Saban, the
entertainment mogul and major Democratic Party funder.
The center was known as the Saban
Center until recently, and the IsraeliAmerican magnate is still involved in its
funding. It organizes the annual Saban
Forum, which brings together movers
and shakers from Israel and the United
States, including, reliably, Clinton.
Wittes was a top Middle East policy
official under Clinton when she was secretary of state, and her Brookings biography says she was central to organizing
the U.S. governments response to the
Arab awakening.
A Hebrew speaker, Wittes has a deep
involvement in Israel. Shes a board member of the Israel Institute, which advances
Israel studies in the United States.
She also is an advocate for greater representation of women in the Middle East
policy world, routinely using her social
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reached if Israel agreed to resolve the electricity and
water crises in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory of
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he Eurovision Song Contest the worlds most

popular televised singing competition, which pits
singers from 43 countries against one another in
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singer, Amir Haddad, who goes by the stage name Amir.
A certified dentist, Amir had his first 15 minutes of fame in
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Amir, who has dual Israeli-French citizenship, placed third.
Soon afterward, he was selected to represent France in the
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France is one of the Eurovisions so-called Big Five countries along with Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United
Kingdom that do not have to participate in semifinal contests, held this year on May 10 and 12. This means Amir

automatically will be one of the 10

singers who competes in the finals.
Israel, on the other hand, has to
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Representing Israel this year with
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Star, a stylist and hairdresser who
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Over the contests 61 years,
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Amir Haddad, a French-Israeli dentist, will represent France at this years
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been plagued by some controversy after a leaked document
song Diva.
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can pop star Justin Timberlake will make Eurovision history
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A recent study found that one out of

six Israeli academics hides his or her
national identity when submitting drafts
of research papers in order to avoid being
a victim of the academic boycotts fueled
by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement.
These are the new hidden Jews, the
new anusim (forced converts) within
Israeli academia, said Sharona Goldenberg, director of the International Freedom of Research Center, who presented
the studys findings at a Tel Aviv conference on anti-Semitism and the BDS movement. By putting them into a situation
where they need to hide their identity,
the boycotters are breaching their basic
rights.
The IFRC study, conducted last month,
surveyed 500 Israeli academics who live
in Israel and abroad. Israeli academics,
according to the study, sometimes use
only part of their name or a different
name when they first submit proposal

drafts. At other times, scholars will not

use Israeli subjects in survey samples or
data related specifically to Israel.
Goldenberg decided to conduct the survey based on her own fear of being identified as an Israeli.
I had done a study on work hours
in Europe and asked a Jewish colleague
from overseas if he would have a look
at it, Goldenberg said. The first thing
he asked me was why I was only writing
about Europe and not about Israel. I told
him that I was afraid to be identified as
Israeli, and thats when I got the idea to
do this study.
In the United States, the Association for Asian American Studies and
the American Studies Association have
approved proposals to boycott Israeli
universities. The American Anthropological Association passed a similar boycott resolution and is awaiting a vote by
its membership to approve or reject the
JNS.ORG
measure.

Poll: Netanyahu among 10

most-admired people in U.S.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the 10th-most-admired person
in the United States, according to the
Worlds Most Admired 2016 YouGov
poll that gauged the popularity of famous
people in 30 different countries.
U.S. President Barack Obama topped
the chart, Pope Francis came in second, Democratic presidential candidate
Senator Bernie Sanders was sixth, and

presumptive Republican presidential

nominee Donald Trump ranked eighth.
Netanyahu ranked higher than former
president George W. Bush, actor Johnny
Depp, and former president Bill Clinton, who came in 11th, 12th, and 13th,
respectively.
The poll was conducted using openended nominations from panelists across
JNS.ORG
30 countries, YouGov said.

Netanyahu and deputy IDF chief

reconcile after divisive Holocaust remarks
Less than a week after Israel Defense
Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair
Golan made controversial remarks in a
Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that
drew a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two shook hands on
Monday during a pre-Independence Day
toast at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.
At the end of Mondays celebratory
gathering of Israels top military officials,
Netanyahu said, The story of the speech
is behind us. I see this as a one-time
thing, and from here well all continue on

together.
Golan set off a firestorm last week
when, in a speech at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event, he said he identified
in Israel the same revolting trends that
were present in Europe before the Holocaust. Golan later clarified his remarks,
saying, The comparison is absurd and
unfounded. There was no intention of creating that impression or to criticize [Israels] political echelon. The IDF is a moral
army that honors the tenets of purity of
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arms and dignity.

Iran says it test-fired missile than can reach Israel

We tested a missile with a range of
2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) and eight
meters error margin two weeks ago.
An eight-meter error margin means...
full accuracy, Brig. Gen. Ali Abdollahi
said, the Iranian news agency Tasnim
reported. This distance would be sufficient to attack Israel.
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, said Brig.
Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards aerospace
division.
Just two months ago, Iran test-fired
two ballistic missiles at a target about
870 miles away. Those missiles were
marked with the phrase Israel must be
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Jewish World

Pew survey: Sympathy for Palestinians

up among younger Americans
URIEL HEILMAN
Democrats are more than four times as
likely as Republicans to say they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with
Israel, according to a survey published
Thursday, and sympathy for the Palestinians among Americans overall is growing.
Sympathy for the Palestinians is up
most sharply among the youngest American adults, growing threefold over the
last decade, the new survey by the Pew
Research Center shows. Some 27 percent of
millennials say are more sympathetic to the
Palestinians than Israel; in 2006 the figure
was 9 percent. The share of those favoring
Israel has held steady at about 43 percent.
On Israel, the survey also shows one
of the widest-ever gaps between the two
main political parties.
While self-identified Democrats are
more likely to favor Israel over the Palestinians (43 percent to 29 percent), they are far
less sympathetic toward Israel than either
Republicans or Independents. Among selfidentified Republicans, 75 percent say they

An Israeli border policeman talks to a Palestinian man near the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalems Old City last October.
LIOR MIZRAHI/GETTY IMAGES

sympathize more with Israel compared to

7 percent sympathizing more for the Palestinians. Among Independents, the sympathies are 52 percent with Israel and 19

percent with the Palestinians.

The new data is part of a telephone survey of more than 4,000 American adults
between April 4 and 24 in which Pew

surveyors asked respondents a range of

questions about how they view the U.S.
role in the world.
Among Americans overall, 54 percent
say they sympathize more with Israel and
19 percent sympathize more with the Palestinians, with 13 percent saying with neither side and 3 percent with both. Compared to a similar survey conducted in July
2014, sympathy for Israel held steady while
sympathy for the Palestinians jumped by
one-third, to 19 percent today from 14 percent in the earlier survey.
Among liberal Democrats, the least
pro-Israel grouping, more respondents
say they are sympathetic toward the Palestinians than toward Israel: 40 percent
vs. 33 percent. While the pro-Israel figure
has held steady, the pro-Palestinian figure
is the largest it has been in 15 years, suggesting that sympathy for the Palestinians
is growing among these Americans who
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Self-identified conservative Democrats
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Camp Koby a different kind of liberation at Passover

very year, Camp Koby, a project

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programs in which several hundred bereaved children participate. This
years Passover Camp was able to take
place thanks to a grant from the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
The Koby Mandell Foundation has been
running camps for bereaved children since
2002. It was established by Rabbi Seth and
Sherri Mandell following the murder of
their son Koby, who was stoned to death
along with his friend Yosef Ish-Ran by Palestinian terrorists in May 2001.
Rabbi Mandell, the foundations founder
and president, said, We are grateful to
the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey for their leadership gift, which
helped make the Passover Camp possible this year. They, and all their donors,
should truly be proud of the meaningful
and lasting impact they helped create. The
therapeutic programs of Camp Koby are
an invaluable source of strength to these
bereaved children.
This year, the need for the Camp Koby

Camp Koby helps bereaved children, shown here in 2015, to heal.

Passover camp was particularly strong.
More children had been bereaved this
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Six ways Israel counts its blessings on Independence Day

Ben Sales
TEL AVIV When Israel entered its 1948
War of Independence, the coastal city of
Rishon Lezion was a hardscrabble farming settlement with fewer than 20,000
residents.
As waves of immigrants inundated Israel
in its founding years, many were settled
in temporary camps on Rishon Lezions
sandy outskirts. The arrivals braved rainy
winters in tents and subsisted on the
national food rationing program, which
limited Israeli consumption of eggs and
meat.
Now, less than seven decades later, Rishon Lezion is Israels fourth largest city, a
bustling hub of nearly 250,000, freckled
with malls.
Its rise mirrors the meteoric growth
experienced by Israeli society in the 68
years since the nations founding. Though
Israel faces social, cultural, religious, and
military challenges, it has burgeoned economically, technologically, and militarily.

Soldiers last year at Israels 67th Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl in
Jerusalem. 
Hadas Parush/Flash 90

As the nation readied to celebrate its Independence Day on Wednesday, here are six

statistics that show how.

1. Israels population has grown tenfold

since 1948.
Israel was founded with a population of
806,000. Today there are 8.5 million Israelis, about 75 percent of them Jews.
In 1948, just over a third of Israelis were
native born, or sabras. The rest were
immigrants from either war-torn Europe
or the Middle East and North Africa.
Today, three-quarters of Israelis are native
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swell their numbers: 30,000 immigrants
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and Canada. In total, some 2.5 percent
of Israels population approximately
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800,000 residents. Sixteen Israeli cities

boast more than 100,000 residents, and
eight have more than 200,000.
2. A higher percentage of Israelis than
Americans own cellphones.
In Israels first decades, phone access
was a luxury. Through the 1970s, new
immigrants sometimes waited for years
to get a landline in their apartment. In the
meantime, they lined up at the local pay
phone with a handful of tokens.
Now, 96 percent of Israelis own cellphones, more than the 90 percent in the
United States. A swarm of Israeli phone
companies compete for customers shekels, while Israeli technological innovation
has made cellphones more powerful.
Since 1948, Israels economy has grown
even faster than its population. The countrys GDP in its founding year was $6.6 billion in todays dollars. Now Israel produces
about 44 times as much nearly $300 billion a year. In 2010, the country joined the
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, a group of the worlds
most affluent countries.
Standards of living also have risen. Israels GDP per capita today is approximately
$35,000 6.7 times what it was in 1948,

adjusted for inflation. Nine years after the

states founding, just one-tenth of Israelis
had an air conditioner for the countrys
sweltering summer. Now, thankfully, almost
nine in 10 Israelis have the machines at
home. The country boasts nearly 3 million
cars, compared to 34,000 in 1948.
3. Israels Air Force grew from nothing to
be the regions most powerful.
When Israels provisional government
declared independence, a militia, the
Haganah, was in place to defend it. But
the new state had a total of zero combat
aircraft. The first shipment of 25 planes
came from Czechoslovakia a few weeks
after Independence Day.
The Israel Air Force since has established itself as the best in the Middle East.
At 680 combat aircraft, it isnt the regions
largest fleet, but technological prowess,
training and Israels stability make it the
most formidable.
Helpfully, Israel receives more than
$3 billion of U.S. military aid every year,
allowing it to maintain its advantage.
The countries are now negotiating a new
defense assistance package reportedly
shaping up to be the largest ever.
4. Israels yeshiva student population is
300 times bigger than it was in 1948.
When Israels first prime minister, David

Ben-Gurion, exempted full-time yeshiva students from Israels military draft, the pass
applied to just 400 charedi Orthodox young
men studying Torah all day. But Israels
yeshivas have been fruitful and multiplied.
Today, more than 120,000 yeshiva students
skip the army, according to the religious
pluralism advocacy group Hiddush.
Charedi Jews make up 9 percent of Jewish-Israeli society, and their numbers are
growing. According to a March study by
the Pew Research Center, 91 percent of
them have more than three children, while
half of secular Jews have two or fewer.
The draft exemption has been a heated
political issue in Israel for years, with
many Israelis calling on the government
to equalize the burden of military service. The centrist Yesh Atid party became
Israels second largest in 2013 by promising draft reform. Its legislation passed
in 2014, but was defanged last year after
Israels most recent election, which swept
charedi parties back into power and sent
Yesh Atid into the opposition.
5. The number of women in the Knesset
has tripled.
Women fought alongside men in Israels
prestate battles and the War of Independence. But when the first Knesset convened
in 1949, just 11 of the bodys 120 members

were women less than 10 percent. One

of them was Golda Meyerson, who would
leave her mark on the world as Golda Meir,
Israels first female prime minister.
While no woman has followed Meir to
Israels top post, more women than ever
are members of Knesset. Women, who
make up a majority of Israels population,
still are underrepresented. But the body
now includes a record 32 women, more
than a quarter of Israeli lawmakers. Thats
compared to the 19 percent of the U.S.
Congress thats female.
6. Ben Gurion Airport welcomes 16 million travelers a year.
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has festered, Israeli fears of international boycott
have risen. But you wouldnt know it from
Israels main link to the outside world, Ben
Gurion Airport. Fifteen million travelers
passed through the hub in 2015, up from
10 million in 2010.
Tourism did drop 3 percent from 2014
to 2015, which Israels tourism ministry
attributed to the 2014 Gaza War. But the
war also showed the importance to Israelis
of international travel. Some of the wars
tensest days came in late July, when many
flights to Israel were canceled due to missile threats, severing some links between
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Dvar Torah
Kedoshim: Blueprint for sacred community

ccording to its mission, Camp

Harlam, a summer camp in
Pennsylvania run by the Union
for Reform Judaism, is guided
by nine core values. One of these is kehilah
kedosha, or sacred community. This value
is probably echoed by many Jewish camps
across the denominational spectrum.
One can understand why a Jewish summer camp would strive to be a sacred community. The relationships that are formed
there are unique, and the trust required
to live with people you havent met before
with no locks on the doors is unlike that of
any other setting. Summer camp is not a
utopia if it were there would be no such
thing as homesickness but it is a place
where unique relationships and trust
enable young people to grow and explore
in ways they couldnt at home. At its core,
it is a place where kids can become their
best selves.
The concept of kehilah kedosha is rooted
in this weeks Torah portion, Kedoshim.

Both phrases have the Hebrew

There is an emphasis on
root kadosh, meaning holy, and
respect for others with differences, as Kedoshim says
Kedoshim establishes for its
we shall not insult the deaf
time how members of a sacred
or put a stumbling block
community are to behave
before the blind. We shall
around one another. Within
rise before the aged and
the first chapter of the portion
show deference to the old.
alone are several qualities that
We shall love the stranger
make a community sacred.
Rabbi Steven
There is an emphasis on
as ourselves.
Sirbu
family: You shall each revere
And there is an emphasis
Temple Emeth,
his mother and his father. The
on fundamental fairness,
Teaneck, Reform
irony that camp is a sacred
as in a verse that seems to
community in part because
be addressed to judges, it
kids are separated from their
reads, You shall not render an unfair decision: not favor the poor
parents is not lost on me. But reverence
or show deference to the rich; judge your
and proximity are not the same thing.
kinsman fairly.
There is an emphasis on generosity, as
Each of these qualities illustrates a differthe Torah commands to leave the corners
ent aspect of trust, for there must be trust
of the fields unharvested for the poor and
for a community to inspire sacred living.
the stranger.
In the view of many scholars and theoThere is an emphasis on honesty, as
logians, the holiness described in this porthe Torah prohibits theft, fraud and false
tion and elsewhere in the Torah means
measures.

separateness. And yet, Moses begins the

chapter by addressing all of the Israelite
community. In its unique way, the separateness of Kedoshim requires togetherness.
At summer camp, togetherness is the
core of the experience. Most kids return
home having enjoyed the activities and
the independence, but truly missing their
friends. They have nurtured these friendships in an environment of generosity,
honesty, respect for those who are different, and fundamental fairness. And the
aspect of family? At Camp Harlam, their
motto is Where Friends Become Family.
You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your
God, am holy. This command from the
Torah is both awe-inspiring and intimidating. It cannot be achieved alone. As
we strive to build sacred communities
here at home places we can learn to
be our best selves let us learn from the
powerful examples of summer camps.
Let us remember that holiness requires
togetherness.

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28. Memorable title character from 65Across
30. Separator
33. Performance by Shlock Rock
34. Bnei ___
36. He ruled Judah nearly 30 years
before 39-Across
37. Yisrael, David, or Hen
39. Arguably the only good king of
Israel
40. Made like Spitz at the start of a race
42. Sammy Davis Jr. book Yes ___
46. Shalom site
48. Place to bet on Zayats American
Pharoah: Abbr.
49. Some states near Israel
50. ___-ching! (Kesef!)
53. Morning ritual
56. Word before Megiddo or Mond
57. Responded to a Jackie Mason bit
59. Ein ___
61. It leads to the huppah
62. Charoset, e.g.
65. See 28-Across
68. Half of what Moshe received from
G-d
71. Where Adi Nes or Sigalit Landau
might make their art
72. Biblical plot
73. In the cooler
74. Fix at Mount Sinai?
75. Rickles and Imus
76. Eppes follower
77. Puzzle abbr. that would make Moshe
into Moshes

The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.

Down
1. Prayer shawl
2. ___ dog that you come at me....
(Goliath quote): three words
3. Expensive party, for many
4. Circular like a yarmulke or rectangular
like a mezuzah, e.g.
5. Do or do not. There is no ___. (Yoda
line by Lawrence Kasdan)
6. Phone that isnt very zaftig
7. Arthur who beat Tom Okker to win
the US Open
8. Hugo who was no friend to Jews
9. Himalayan animal with split hooves
that chews its cud
10. Weigher at Ben Gurion
11. Bunks in Ramah
12. One etrog ___ (each)
13. It can make cheese tref
19. Name found in many a chumash
21. Book after Judges, for short
25. ______ way (what Moses did in the
desert)
27. One could be used to dam the
Jordan
28. Pres. when Eshkol was PM
29. Before, to Lazarus
31. CBS show produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer
32. State of Sodom, at its end
35. Get up, in Israel
38. Fix, like Rothstein and the 1919
World Series (allegedly)
41. Biblical suffix
43. Dave Couliers Full House catchphrase...or a hint to solving the
starred clues in this puzzle
44. Drink always found in Jerusalem?
45. Goodells org.
47. White like tzaraat
50. Like Daniels den-mates
51. Jewfro, for one
52. Seth Grahame-Smith inserted
Zombies into her classic
54. Extras at the King David
55. Ivanka Trump party (Abbr.)
58. Names with garry and Ross in a
Mamet classic
60. Gabbanas partner (Ralph Lauren
competitor)
63. Blooming actress daughter of
Judd Apatow
64. Running rate for Sam Stoller
66. Late singer Haza
67. Seder garment
69. ...and upon the great ___ of his
right foot. ( Lev. 14:14)
70. Common kosher bird

REFRESHMENTS...
and lots, lots more!
For more information contact:
Laurie 201-213-5701 blgopin@verizon.net
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Arts & Culture

Mothers
way
Parenting as a
spiritual practice
AVRAHAM BRONSTEIN

or a veteran reader of parenting books, Nurture the Wow

by Rabbi Danya Rottenberg was
a refreshing change of pace.
Unlike most of the genre, this book does
not offer a how-to strategy for raising obedient or well-adjusted children with a minimum of efficiently placed effort. Instead,
its somewhat counterintuitive central thesis is that parenting is not a goal-oriented
process at all. Rather than exploring the
best ways to get specific results from our
children, Rottenberg reflects on how parenting can make parents themselves more
sensitive, open, and truly spiritual people.
Making parenting a spiritual practice in
and of itself was critical for Rottenberg, as
her young children made traditional synagogue and community-centered life at first
impossible, and then very difficult.
Judaism, however, in general has left the
spiritual consequences of being a mother,
at home, raising her children unaddressed. In traditional rabbinic society,
the work of homemaking and child-rearing was reserved primarily for women,
and in light of this overriding and constant responsibility, the rabbis exempted
women from time-bound religious obligations, including communal prayer. That
blanket exemption left a void. The tradition either assumed a woman to be too
busy with her children for her own spiritual development or simply didnt consider her to begin with.
Rottenberg discovered that this was not
just a Jewish problem. When asked how to
balance raising children with personal spirituality, the Dalai Lama punted, responding, How would I know? Im a monk!
Rather than neglecting herself for the
sake of her children at a transformative moment in her life, and instead of
trying to shoehorn a childfree mode of
spiritual involvement into a daily routine
that could not accommodate it, Rottenberg found spiritual expression within
her motherhood. Her journey is mostly
framed around Jewish sources, though
informed deeply by a broad range of writers and anecdotes, and always with direct
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Rabbi Danya
Rottenberg

reference to her own parenting experiences. Again and again, she looks to find
ways to be present and mindful in parenting, finding sparks of transcendence in the
physical and repetitive work of housekeeping, moments of ecstatic play with a toddler, and experiencing awe as her children
grow and develop.
Rottenbergs strongest theological statement is about parental love itself. Her analysis begins with Martin Bubers distinction
between an I-It and an I-Thou relationship. The former see the other party as
an object to be manipulated for someones own ends for example, seeing a
child as something to be sleep-trained so
a parent can finally get a full nights sleep.
An I-Thou, relationship, though, is based
on empathy and recognizing the essential
independence of the other party. Spiritual parenting for Rottenberg means seeing her children through the I-Thou lens,
as challenging as that can be for a guiding authority figure. Spiritual growth happens in the tension between appreciating
children as independent beings with their
own personalities, desires, and concerns
on one hand, and recognizing the strong
connections and interdependence the
still needing to get them to bed on time
on the other.
In traditional Jewish sources, a childs
love and reverence for parents is seen as a
model from which he or she one day may
build the same relationship with God,
and Rottenberg similarly cites the Hindu
teacher Ram Dass and the feminist and
spiritual writer Carol Lee Flinders, who
seem to see parenting as practice for the

ultimate, more meaningful spiritual

journeys. But Rottenberg rejects
this approach. Instead, she sees her
deeply empathetic maternal love,
and the opening up of herself that is
necessary to accomplish that love, as
a spiritual end in and of itself. Rather
than finding God by using the same
tools she honed on her children,
she found God in her children, and
in the unthinkably strong bonds of
motherhood that connected her to
them. The Buddhist-tinted influence of Rabbi Alan Lew, a mentor
of hers, comes through particularly
powerfully.
Rottenberg brings a finely honed
feminist critique to her reflections,
challenging both texts and traditions
even as she uses them to frame her
experiences. She notes, for example,
that the formal, fixed liturgical service mostly was unavailable to her when
she had young children, whether at home
or the synagogue. This is ironic, because
the rabbis derive the model of that formal
service from the biblical Hannah, whose
prayer was both spontaneous and a reflection of her innermost feelings at that particular moment. Rottenberg found fulfillment in being able to articulate and affirm
what she was feeling, especially at more
difficult times, all while aware that she
also was pressing against the traditional
image of the endlessly patient mother who
absorbs all of the stress around her without ever losing her cool.
Rottenberg gives us an intimate view
into the life of a high-achieving, active,

and ambitious woman as she navigates

motherhood, finding a path that is both
deeply traditional and yet all her own. The
many anecdotes, points, and suggestions
from her own friends and contemporaries
within her books pages point to the many
ways that both parenting and parents are
changing rapidly, but with remarkable
self-awareness and agency. Any parent
who is raising or who has raised younger
children will find much to consider and
reflect upon.
We can only eagerly wait for the sequel,
which will or at least I hope it will deal
with finding spirituality in raising teenagers. For many, I am sure it cannot come
too soon.

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friday

Sunday

MAY 13

MAY 15

Shabbat in Closter:

Early childhood open

house in Oakland: The

Temple Beth El offers a

family service with a Yom
Haatzmaut celebration,
led by Rabbi S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman,
featuring award-winning
performer Shira Kline,
aka ShirLaLa, 7 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers its Celebrate
Israel service, featuring
choral pieces and folk
songs in honor of Yom
Haatzmut and Israels
68th birthday, 7:30 p.m.
Special Israeli desserts.
585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.

Saturday
MAY 14

Missed or Want to See

Again. Commentary
by Andrew Lazarus,
coffee, and snacks.
7:30 p.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.

Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School offer
an open house today
and tomorrow, 10-11 a.m.,
for parents and children
who will be from 21
months to 5 years old in
September. 45 Spruce St.
(201) 337-1111 or gbds@
ssnj.org.

Tuesday
MAY 17
Learning about
Alzheimers:
Alzheimers New Jersey
presents a community
education program at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
11 a.m. (201) 408-1409,
(973) 586-4300, or www.
jccotp.org.

Environmental fair:
The Academies at
Gerrard Berman Day
School unveils its new
greenhouse at the fair,
which also features 3D
printers, hydroponic
planting, constructing
mini greenhouses, and
computer design teeshirts. Noon-3 p.m. 45
Spruce St. (201) 337-1111
or gbds@ssnj.org.

Blood drive in Leonia:

Congregation Adas
Emuno holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a division
of New York Blood
Center, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Donors, 16 and older,
must eat and drink
before donating. Photo
ID required. 254 Broad
Ave. Walk-ins welcome
or pre-register at
leoniablooddrive@gmail.
com. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.

Program for Holocaust

survivors: Cafe Europa,

Teaneck native David Rothenberg

discusses his book, Fortune in My Eyes:
A Memoir of Broadway Glamour, Social
Justice, and Political Passion for the
Bergen County section of the National Council of
Jewish Women on Tuesday, May 17, at 12:30 p.m., at
Temple Emeth in Teaneck. Mr. Rothenberg dated
Elizabeth Taylor and worked with Bette Davis, Richard
Burton, and Lauren Bacall. In 1967, he launched the
Fortune Society, a foundation that helps ex-prisoners
re-enter society. Refreshments. 1666 Windsor Road.
www.ncjwbcs.org.

MAY

17

Steven Lutvak
Broadway comes to
Closter: Temple Beth
El of Northern Valley
welcomes Steven Lutvak,
composer/co-lyricist of
A Gentlemans Guide
To Love And Murder,
the 2014 Tony Awardwinner for best musical.
Cocktails, 6:30 p.m. It is
sponsored by Leslie and
Stephen Jerome, with
proceeds benefitting
the TBE Music Fund. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org

Classical music in
Manalapan: The
Arcadian Chorale of
Matawan performs
LChaim to Life, a
spring concert in Hebrew
and Yiddish, at Temple
Shaari Emeths 50th
anniversary celebration,
8 p.m. 400 Craig
Road. (732) 462-7744,
shaariemeth.org, or www.
arcadianchorale.org.

Rabbi Lawrence Troster

Environmental issues:

Vegetarian cooking in
Hoboken: The United
Synagogue of Hoboken
hosts a book brunch
about The Vilna
Vegetarian Cookbook:
Garden-Fresh Recipes
Rediscovered and
Adapted for Todays
Kitchen. The book
rediscovers 400
vegetarian recipes that
were popularized in Fania
Lewando, a restaurant
that thrived in Lithuania
in the 1930s. Barbara
Mazur and Wendy
Waxman, the books
producers, will discuss
how they found and
translated the text from
Yiddish to English,
10:30 a.m. Brunch. 115
Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or
office@
hobokensynagogue.org.

Temple Israel and Jewish

Community Center of
Ridgewood celebrates
Earth Day with a forum,
Environmental Issues
Facing Us Locally
and Globally, with
eco-theologian Rabbi
Lawrence Troster of
Teaneck, 10:30 a.m.
Breakout sessions for
adults and a childrens
program. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.

Rabbi installed in
Bayonne: Rabbi Marc

David Horovitz
Times of Israel editor
in Paramus: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvahs Harold
Lerman Fund for
Israel Education and
Engagement marks
Yom Haatzmaut with a
discussion, Living in a
Rough Neighborhood:
Israels Challenges
and Opportunities in
the Middle East, by
David Horovitz, awardwinning journalist/author
and Times of Israels
founding editor, 6:15 p.m.
E. 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.

Disick is installed
at Temple Beth Am
with a tree planting
in his honor, followed
by a catered lunch.
12:30 p.m. Reservations
requested. 111 Avenue B.
(201) 858-2020.

Judy Klitsner
Bibles greatest leaders
and their mentors:

Judy Klitsner, author and

Bible/biblical exegesis
teacher at the Pardes
Institute of Jewish
Studies, discusses
Inside-Outside: Biblical
Leaders and Their
Non-Jewish Mentors
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795 or www.
rinat.org.

a monthly social and

support program the
Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey sponsors
for Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m. Program includes
lunch and a performance
by the Gerrard Berman
Day School Choir.
Transportation available.
10-10 Norma Ave. Melanie
Lester, (973) 595-0111 or
www.jfsnorthjersey.org.

Blood drive in Teaneck:

Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 2-8 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Monday
MAY 16
Blood drive in River
Vale: The Jewish Home
Assisted Living holds
a community blood
drive in conjunction
with Community Blood
Services, 1-5 p.m.
685 Westwood Ave.
(201) 251-3703.

Feature film: The Kaplen

JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Serpico
as part of a series, Top
Films You May Have

Sasson Sassy Reuven

Raid on Entebbe: Sasson
Sassy Reuven, a veteran
of the Israel Defense
Special Operation
Forces who served in
the IDFs elite Red Beret
paratrooper unit, will give
a firsthand account of
the operation at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter,
7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored
by Shira and Robert
Feuerstein, Allyson and
Steven Lash, Tina and
Mitchell Lieberman, and
the Solomon Schechter
Day School of Bergen
County. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.

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Calendar
Biblical stories in
Tenafly: Lubavitch on the
Palisades offers Lessons
in Character from Biblical
Stories of Kings, Judges,
and Prophets, a sixsession JLI course led
by Rabbi Mordechai
Shain, 8 p.m. 11 Harold St.
Rabbi Mordechai Shain,
(201) 871-1152, dubbie @
chabadlubavitch.org.

Wednesday
MAY 18

The Bobby Block Trio

Holocaust survivor
group in Paramus: Cafe
Europa, a social program
the Jewish Family Service
sponsors for Holocaust
survivors, funded in
part by the Claims on
Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany, the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 11:30 a.m.
The Bobby Block Trio
will entertain. Lunch. E.
304 Midland Ave. Shari,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237
or sharib@jfsbergen.org.

Thursday
MAY 19
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Congregation Rinat
Yisrael holds a blood drive
with New Jersey Blood
Services, a division of
New York Blood Center,
3-9 p.m. O-negative blood
donors especially needed.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

Holocaust author in
Northvale: Demarest
author Ann S. Arnold
holds a launch party
and book signing for
her book, Together A
Journey for Survival,
at Books & Greetings,
7 p.m. 271 Livingston St.
(201) 784-2665 or www.
booksandgreetings.com.

Musicant in Hackensack
discusses Jewish Views
on Death and Mourning
at Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley, 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments. 221
Schraalenburgh Road in
Closter. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.

Friday
MAY 20
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Dr. Rachel Korazim
is the Rabbi Barry
Schaeffer Memorial
scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Beth
Sholom. The weekend
is themed Windows to
Israeli Society through
Literature. Tonight, her
topic is The Other as
Mirror; she will look
at Biblical Motifs
Challenging Views on
Shabbat morning and
Complex Images of
Peace and Hope in the
afternoon. Meals, with
reservations, precede the
lectures. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org

Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel welcomes Shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an intergenerational
drumming circle,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.

Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
services featuring the
Shabbat Unplugged
Band, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
Shabbat music service
with the Temple Emeth
Band, Cantor Ellen Tilem,
and Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.

Saturday
MAY 21
Shabbat in Emerson:
Certified yoga instructor
Andrea Collier, who
is co-president of
Congregation Bnai
Israels sisterhood, joins
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
in incorporating
yoga postures into
the morning prayers,
10 a.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
office@bisrael.com or
www.bisrael.com.

Sunday
MAY 22
Martin Kasdan
Death and mourning:
Funeral director Martin
Kasdan of Gutterman and

Park, 299 Rockland Lake

Road in Valley Cottage,
N.Y. At 10:15 a.m., there
will be a 5K run/walk;
at 11, there will be a
camper fun run; and from
noon-3 p.m., there will be
a barbecue, family fun
day, and alumni reunion
at Ramah Nyack, 303
Christian Herald Road, in
Nyack. (212) 678-8884 or
Run@RamahNyack.org.

Ramah scholarship run:

Camp Ramah Nyack
holds its Scholarship Run
at Rockland Lake State

50 JEWISH STANDARD MAY 13, 2016

Book club in Paramus:

The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvahs book club talks
about Dara Horns novel A
Guide for the Perplexed,
10:30 a.m. Refreshments.
East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
grandmamimil@verizon.
net.

Cantors concert in
Wyckoff: The New
Jersey Cantors Concert
Ensemble, sponsored by
the New Jersey Region
of the Cantors Assembly,
performs Jewish choral,
cantorial, classical,
and traditional Israeli,
Yiddish, chasidic, and
Sephardic music, along
with modern, upbeat
selections, at Temple
Beth Rishon, 4 p.m. Local
participants include
Cantors Ilan Mamber,
Mark Biddelman, Faith
Steinsnyder, and David
Perper. Cantor Sheldon
M. Levin is the conductor.
Concert is supported by
Beth Rishons Channa
Mamber Music Memorial
Fund. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.

Singles
Wednesday
MAY 18
Seniors meet to eat:
Singles 65+ of the JCC
Rockland meet for dinner
at State Line Family
Restaurant, 96 NY-303,
Tappan, N.Y., 6 p.m.
Individual checks. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.

Sunday
MAY 22
Brunch/mingle: North
Jersey Jewish Singles at
the Clifton Jewish Center
offers its bagels and
conversation brunch,
11 a.m., with a discussion
of funny dating stories.
(973) 772-3131 or join
North Jersey Jewish
Singles 45-60s at www.
meetup.com.

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Barbecue/picnic in
Emerson: The Mens
Club of Congregation
Bnai Israel hosts a
community outreach
barbecue and picnic,
with games, in honor of
Lag BOmer, rain or shine,
11:30 a.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.

Mah jongg in New City:

The West Clarkstown
Jewish Center hosts
Mah Jongg Madness,
with lunch and prizes,
noon. 195 West
Clarkstown Road, New
City, N.Y. (845) 352-0017
or speechbox@optonline.
net.

Teen choir auditions:

The Bergen County
chapter of HaZamir: the
International Jewish High
School Choir, conducted
by Cantor Ronit Wolff
Hanan, holds an open
rehearsal for teens at
Congregation Beth
Sholom in Teaneck, 1
p.m. 354 Maitland Ave.
HaZamirBergen@gmail.
com.

Genealogy in Wayne:
The Jewish Genealogical
Society of North Jersey
meets at the Wayne
YMCA for a discussion,
Analysis of Handwriting
for Genealogical
Research, 2:30 p.m.
The Charles & Bessie
Goldman Library will be
open for resources and
socializing. Refreshments.
Free. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, or
Susan, (732) 412-7606,
president@jgsnj.org, or
www.jgsnj.org.

Minyan on the mountain

The Mens Club at Temple Emanu-El in
Closter hosts its annual Minyan on the
Mountain on Sunday, May 22, at 9 a.m.
The group will meet at the bridge on the
9W trailhead in Alpine to take an invigorating short walk to a breathtaking overlook where they will lay tefillin, pray, and
sing, led by Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner.
The trailhead is directly opposite the
FM radio tower on Route 9W, about two

miles north of Closter Dock Road, where

the Forest View trail crosses the parkway
on a pedestrian bridge. (It is just south of
a similar pedestrian bridge that crosses
Route 9W itself, for the benefit of Boy
Scouts hiking to nearby Camp Alpine,
about 0.5 miles north of the Japanese
restaurant.) For information, email Steve
Sachs at mr.stevesachs@gmail.com or
call the shul, (201) 750-9997.

Holocaust workshop for NJ teachers

Ramapo Colleges Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosts a teachers workshop, called Complicity in Genocide: Individual, Nations, and the Lessons to be Learned at Ramapo on Wednesday, May 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The free workshop is approved for certificate renewal (six hours), in association
with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. For information, call (201)
684-7409.
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Art in Tenafly

Art Shamsky

Art Shamsky
coming to Closter
Art Shamsky, the Jewish baseball
player on the Mets team that won the
World Series in 1969, is the scholar-inresidence at Temple Emanu-El of Closter on Sunday, May 15, at 10:30 a.m.
He will discuss his experiences as
a Jew and as a record-setting Major
League Baseball player. Tickets include
breakfast, a signed baseball, and a
copy of his autographed book, The
Magnificent Season. Drs. Sharon and
Kenneth Fried are event co-sponsors.
Mr. Shamsky, who was born in
St. Louis, played professional baseball for 13 years. He started his major
league career with the Cincinnati Reds
in 1960, was traded to the New York
Mets in 1967, and was a major part of
the Miracle Mets. The team won the
1969 championship by defeating the
Baltimore Orioles.
Mr. Shamsky hit four home runs in
a row while playing for the Cincinnati
Reds; the bat he used that day is on
display in Baseballs Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown.
Since he retired from baseball,
Mr. Shamsky has been an on-camera
sports broadcaster at WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City and ESPN Television. He also has done play-by-play
announcing for the Mets.
He is the author of The Magnificent
Season, a book about the New York
Jets, New York Mets, and the New York
Knicks, which all won championships,
each for the first time, from January
1969 to May 1970.
In 2007, Mr. Shamsky managed one
of the six teams in the new professional Israel Baseball League.
For information, call (201) 750-9997
or go to www.templeemanu-el.com.

Besa: The Promise, a black and white photography exhibit

by artist Norman H. Gershman, will be on display until June
30 at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly.
Norman Gershman is a renowned Jewish-American photographer who documented the lives of Albanian Muslims who
rescued Jews during the Holocaust. This exhibition is on special loan to the JCC in connection with its recent Holocaust

remembrance commemoration, which featured a screening

of Besa: The Promise, a story that weaves Norman H. Gershmans journey with that of an Albanian Muslim, who fulfilled a
promise (or besa) his father made to a Jewish family by returning a set of books they left behind.
For information, call Jessica at (201) 408-1426 or go to www.
jccotp.org.

Wise aging program

in Wyckoff
The Jewish Family Service of North
Jersey begins an eight-week Wise
Aging program on Tuesday, May 17, at
Temple Beth Rishon in Wyckoff. The
series, facilitated by Lauryn Tuchman
and aimed at community members 60
and older, focuses on the many facets of aging, including changing relationships, rituals, values, and legacy.
Participants will use text study, writing, meditation, and listening to gain
perspective on how to approach this
phase of life with insight and wisdom.
For information, call Ms. Tuchman
at (973) 595-0111 or email her at ltuchman@jfsnorthjersey.org.

Chai Riders first

ride of season
On Sunday, May 15, join the Chai Riders for its first motorcycle ride of the
season. Registration with bagels and
lox is in the parking lot at Temple
Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn from 8:30
to 10 a.m. The day includes a poker
run through Bergen County, five stops
along a scenic route with refreshments
served on the way, an after-ride barbeque at the Kindred MC Clubhouse in
Wayne, raffles, and prizes. For information, call Dr. Charlie Knapp at (201)
791-4161, email FL2THMAN@aol.com,
or go to ChaiRiders.org

Pops concert in Mahwah

Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom sponsors its All-Pops concert by the Glen Rock
Pops, conducted by Anthony LaGruth, on
Sunday, May 15 at 2 p.m. The group just
celebrated its 40th anniversary. It will

play a selection of Broadway and big band

music film favorites, and klezmer. The shul
is at 280 Ramapo Valley Road in Mahwah.
For information, call (201) 512-1983 or go to
www.bethhaverim.org.

America at bergenPAC
Bergen Performing Arts Center presents
the classic rock group America on Thursday, June 2, at 8 p.m. Last year marked the
groups 45th anniversary. Founding members Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell
(along with former band mate Dan Peek)
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1960s and harmonized their way to the top
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Israeli wines for the season

Gabriel Geller
One of the traditions of Yom Haatzmaut is the
nearly-mandatory BBQ, often referred to as the
mitzvah of the day by the Israelis. A great BBQ
is not complete without all the salads, grilled
corn, and some fresh fruits. And of course,
some delicious Israeli wines to pair with the
plethora of food!
Having myself lived in Israel for many years, I
have made it my personal custom to enjoy on Yom
Haatzmaut some of the best wines produced by
the many and very dynamic Israeli wineries.
Some wineries such as Carmel have played an
important role in the history of the State of Israel.
The first telephone ever in Israel was installed at
Carmel winery even before the state was founded.
As well, three former prime ministers have worked
at Carmel. Speaking of history, the Carmel Appellation Carignan, a wine made with grapes from
45-50 year old vines, makes for a great match with
grilled meats. It is full-bodied and earthy with flavors of dark berries and spices.
Psagot winery is located in the mountains
north of Jerusalem. Their best wines mature in
oak barrels in an old, natural cave dating back
to the time of the Second Temple, more than
2,000 years ago. On the bottles, you may find

the replica of a coin from those times which was

found in that very same cave.
The new Psagot Ros is a delightful and
refreshing wine that is very pleasant on its own
as well as an accompaniment to fresh salads and
roasted veggies. It features a salmon color with
mouth-watering acidity as well as notes of ripe
strawberries, tangerines, and papaya.
If you fancy some grilled fish rather than
meat, I would then recommend you check out
the bright and buttery Barkan Special Reserve
Winemakers Choice Chardonnay. Served slightly
chilled, its creamy texture as well as flavors of
lemon and almonds, complement fresh tuna
nicely and with class.
In a few weeks, we will also celebrate Lag
Baomer. The custom is to sing and dance around
a huge bonfire, often with a BBQ as well. Every
year, as part of the celebration, thousands of
people visit the sepulchure of Rabbi Shimon Bar
Yochai at Mount Meron in the Galilee. That beautiful region in the north of Israel is filled with
beautiful vineyards from which some of the best
Israel wineries source their grapes. Or Haganuz
is one of them, producing distinctive wines from
selected plots.
The Horkenus is the new flagship wine of Or
Haganuz. It is a Bordeaux-blend that matured

for 40 months in French oak barrels. The result

is a powerful, tannic, and bold wine, loaded
with bursting aromas of blackberries, currants,
toasted oak and dark chocolate. This wine comes
in a beautiful wooden box, reflecting its standing. While approachable now and quite adequate
with a big steak, it will soften and evolve over the
next few years.
Roy Itzhaki is a young entrepreneur who
serves as a reservist officer in the IDFs Air Force.
Roy is also the founder and owner of the Tulip
winery. Devoted to serving his country both in
his personal and professional life, Roy wanted to
make great wine while making a difference, in
terms of quality of course but also for his community. Tulip employs adults with special needs
who live in Kfar Tikva, the Village of Hope, where
the winery is located. Roy has achieved success
with his wines, some of which having received
the highest accolades from Robert Parkers Wine
Advocate.
On a warm afternoon, whether enjoyed as
appetizer, dessert, or both, there is nothing more
refreshing than some cold and juicy watermelon.
And it tastes even better with a bottle of Tulip
White Franc, a delicious, semi-sweet wine with
tropical and citrus fruit flavors.
Lchaim and Chag Atzmaut Sameach!

Gallery
n 1 Rachel Braun Scherl of
South Orange, left; Rona
Anhalt of Englewood; Knesset member Michael Oren,
Israels former ambassador
to the United States, and
Jodi Scherl of Englewood
were in Krakow, Poland, on
May 5. The New Jersey group
is part of the FIDFs From
Holocaust to Independence
delegation. Shahar Azran
n 2 Bergen County elected
officials, rabbis from Bris
Avrohom, leaders of the
Jewish community, and
candle lighters stand in
front of six symbolic memorial candles. Bergen

County Executive James Tedesco III hosted the event and

presented Bris Avrohom with a proclamation declaring the
week Days of Remembrance. Speakers included Tracy Zur,
vice chair of the Board of Chosen Freeholders; Gale Bindelglass, chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, and Rabbi/
Cantor Berel Zaltzman of Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn.

52 Jewish Standard MAY 13, 2016

n 3 The night before Passover, the CTeen chapter

of Chabad of Passaic County of Wayne gathered
for a chocolate mock seder. There were four cups
of chocolate milk, chocolate covered matzah, and
strawberries dipped into the chocolate fountain. The
teens then packaged and delivered matzah for Jewish residents of the Llanfair House. Courtesy Chabad

n 4 Girls from Valley Chabads

Bat Mitzvah Club hold emoji
pillows they made at a club
meeting last month. The club
is open to all bat mitzvahage girls regardless of affiliation. Courtesy Chabad

Obituaries
Sylvia Breidenbach
Sylvia Breidenbach, 101,
of California, formerly
of Hillsdale, died May 7.
She was a commercial
artist. Predeceased by
her husband, Leo, she
is survived by sons,
Martin (Nan Phinney)
and Fred (Susan); two
grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Lee Rosen

Lee Rosen, 66, of

Montvale, died May 8.
He is survived by his
wife, Betty; children,
Eric (Amanda), Steven
(Ashly), and Lawrence;
brothers, Jay ( Jean), and
Mark ( Judy); and two
grandchildren.
Donations can be
made to the American
Lung Association.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Len Rubin

Len S. Rubin, 99, of Maywood, died May 5.

He served in the Army
Air Corps during World
War II as a photographer
and writer. Along with
his wife, he was the cofounder/editor/publisher
of the Maywood weekly
newspaper, Our Town,
until retiring in 1992.
After retiring, he wrote
and published Maywood
Rotarys biweekly publication, The Log.
Predeceased by his wife,
Lil, a former Jewish Standard correspondent, he is
survived by children, Ted
( Janis) of California and
Debbie Ames ( Jeff ) of Connecticut; grandchildren,
Jessica, Abby, and Daniel;
two great- grandchildren;

nieces and nephews.

Donations can be sent
to the Maywood Rotary
Kenya Project, 453 Golf
Ave., Maywood, NJ.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors
in Hackensack.

Janis Selman

Janis Lee Selman, ne

Roder, 69, of Old Tappan,
died May 5.
Born in Kansas, she
worked in the familys
forklift truck business.
Predeceased by her
husband, Gary, and a
sister, Pamela Roder,
she is survived by sons,
Gregg Schoenberg
(Zvia) of Brooklyn, and
Baron Selman (Shelley)
of Arkansas; and two
granddaughters.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Gertrude
Wegodsky

Gertrude Wegodsky, ne
Cohen, 96, of Jersey City,
died May 9.
She was an active
member of Temple Beth
El, serving on the board
and volunteering in the
office for many years.
She was a member of the
Womens Auxiliary of the
Hebrew Home for the
Aged in Jersey City and a
life member of Hadassah
and The Workmens
Circle.
Predeceased by her
husband, Milton, and
sisters Sophie Spitz and
Simy Burman Neels, she
is survived by a sister,
Norma Cohen, and nieces
and nephews.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Rabbi Morton Leifman

Rabbi Morton Leifman, who oversaw the training of Conservative movement cantors for decades, has died.
Leifman, a former vice president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and longtime dean of its Cantors
Institute, now called the H.L. Miller Cantorial School, died
on May 5 in Rockville, Maryland. He was 89.
A Minneapolis native, Leifman began his five decade
career at JTS in 1959, becoming dean of students of the
Teachers Institute and director of the Joint Bet Din. He
became the dean of the Cantors Institute-Seminary College of Jewish Music in 1973, and while serving as dean
was named senior vice president under Chancellor Gerson Cohen. In the 1980s he was named a vice-chancellor
at JTS, the title he held when he retired. He taught nusach,
or cantillation, and liturgy in both the cantorial and rabbinical schools at JTS, and also made recordings of them.
Leifman was considered a master raconteur. His stories
were legendary and he would regale everyone for hours,
his family said. Over his career he visited hundreds of congregations as scholar-in-residence, engaging audiences
with his stories and knowledge of Jewish music.
He was the seminarys troubadour, raconteur, and carrier of an entire oral tradition of what happened inside
those wrought-iron gates for well over half a century,
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Thank you for your trust in me.
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$449,000

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119 E. Palisades Ave.
Palisade Place
4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths
Townhouse in desirable
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shopping, bergenPAC,
wonderful restaurants, NYC
transportation, houses
of worship and excellent
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eat-in-kitchen with stainless steel appliances, living room w/gas
fireplace and sliding glass doors to patio. Formal dining room
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Englewood, NJ 07631
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President

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