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Where the Jews are
Judaism is the most popular non-
Christian religion in New Jersey.

Thats one of the at-a-glance findings of a chart showing each states
second largest religious tradition,
based on data collected by the Association of Statisticians of American
Religious Bodies.
Judaism is represented by pink,
leading in only 15 states, mostly here
in the Northeast; Islam is green, outnumbering Jews (and Bahai) in 20
states, including, surprisingly, Florida;
Buddhism, orange, has claimed the
West, from California to as far east
as Oklahama; Hinduism, red, leads
in Arizona and Delaware; and Bahai,
aqua, claims South Carolina.

These charts show data collected
by congregations and reported back
to their national religious bodies,
which obviously limits the accuracy
of the data. This is particularly visible
on the map that shows the leading
non-Christian denomination for each
county, because many counties dont
have a non-Christian congregation,
though they might well have nonChristian residents.
The data shown is from 2010 and
was published in 2012. The charts
went viral this week because, well, the
Internet works in mysterious ways.
LARRY YUDELSON
Eager to find out what counts as a

kosher sport. Can we expect live
broadcasts of yeshiva floor hockey
games and the International Bible Quiz?
Oh wait - the FOOD is kosher? Never mind.
Andrew Silow-Carroll of Teaneck, reacting on
Facebook to the news that a kosher sports bar
will be opening on the towns Palisade Avenue.
If What These Ten Men Say Wont

Make You Cry, What Happens Next
Will Get You For Sure!
Facebook-style headline posted by Rabbi Avraham
Bronstein for this weeks Torah portion, Shelach,
which tells the story of the spies.
Brat Upsets Cantor is the name

of my bar mitzvah memoir.
Mother Jones editor Dave Gilson, reacting on Twitter
to the unexpected defeat of House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor by David Bratt in Tuesdays Republican primary
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TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 47
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Noshes
Erev tov, Tel Aviv. Chag Shavuot sameach,

Yisrael. Anachnu HaAvanim Hamitgalgot.
Mick Jagger, addressing the audience in Hebrew at last weeks Rolling Stones
concert in Tel Aviv, the bands first in Israel.
A TONY, AND MORE:
If you arent a
regular reader of
my column, then
you might have been
surprised when SOPHIE
OKONEDO, 46, referenced her Jewish background when she accepted the Tony for best
featured actress in a play
(A Raisin in the Sun)
last Sunday. She said the
Broadway theater community had welcomed
a Jewish Nigerian from
Britain. While Okonedos
looks favor her Nigerian
father, she was raised by
her white English Jewish mother (her parents
split up when she was
very young). She identifies as Jewish and even
knows a smattering of
Yiddish. Okonedo was
Oscar nominated for her
performance in Hotel
Rwanda.
By a happy coincidence, you can see
Okonedo for the next
several weeks in a juicy
role. She co-stars in a
PBS/BBC mini-series,
The Escape Artist,
which starts on Sunday,
June 15, at 9 p.m. The
title comes from the
nickname of the lead
character, Will Burton
(David Tennant), a brilliant defense attorney
who gets his clients out
of tight corners. Okenedo plays Maggie Gardner, a defense attorney
who has a critical role in
Burtons relations with a
dangerous ex-client.
By the way, congrats to

ROBERT FREEDMAN
and STEVEN LUTVAK,
the co-authors of A
Gentlemans Guide to
Love and Murder. It
won the Tony for best
musical, and Freedman
won another Tony for his
book for the show.
The hit FX cable
show Louie,
written by and
starring comedian Louis
C. K., began its fourth
season on May 5. On May
24, Louis C.K. talked to
NPR host TERRY GROSS,
and for the first time he
laid out his unusual family history in detail.
His paternal grandfather, a Hungarian Jewish
doctor, settled in Mexico
in the 1930s when he
couldnt get into the
States. He remained
Jewish, but allowed his
children to be raised in
their Mexican mothers
Catholic faith. Louis father, LUIS SZEKELEY, an
economist and university
professor, met and married Louis mother, Mary,
an Irish Catholic from
Michigan, while they
both were studying at
Harvard. They divorced
when Louis was 10.
Louis, who follows no
faith as an adult, was
raised lightly Catholic
by his mother. His father
stayed in his life after the
divorce, and they are still
in touch.
Louis said that his
father, Luis, went on to
Sophie Okonedo
Jonah Hill
Hollywood Reporter Drama Roundtable. Mark
Ruffalo, left, Liev Schreiber, Josh Charles, Jeff
Daniels, Michael Sheen and Jon Hamm were
photographed March 30 at Mack Sennett Studio
in Los Angeles.
Shocker: A&E doesnt

show schlock!
Steven Lutvak, left, and Robert Freedman
marry a Jewish woman
and is now an Orthodox Jew. Luis, who now
teaches in Europe, has
held several important
economic posts in earlier
Mexican governments.
Most TV series
that have been
turned into feature
films have been disappointing or worse. A
notable exception was
the 2012 action/comedy
hit 21 Jump Street, costarring JONAH HILL, 30,
and Channing Tatum, as
rookie cops who return
to their high school and
pretend to be students.
They bust a dealer selling
a dangerous drug. The
80s TV series the movie
was based on had a hip
patina but not much
depth and very little humor. Hill, who co-wrote
the 2012 film, saw that
the TV series plot had

unmined comic potential, and he turned out a
funny film script.
Hill is also the coauthor of the sequel,
22 Jump Street, which
opens today. Again, he is
paired with Tatum but
this time they are going
undercover at a local
college. Sequels usually
arent that good but
you gotta give Hill the
benefit of the doubt. He
surprised us before.
Winning the
Kentucky Derby
and the Preakness
is an achievement that
most owners and trainers
only dream about.
California Chrome, a
horse bred from two
horses that cost less than
$10,000 combined, won
both those races. Sadly,
like many horses before
The A&E cable station used to be called the Arts and

Entertainment station, and it produced high quality original programming. Then, about five years ago, it turned
to presenting schlock like Dog: the Bounty Hunter and
Storage Wars (which, by the was, was totally staged).
However, it now is showing a quality miniseries that
long has been available on-line: a four part series of
interviews done by the Hollywood Reporter called the
Roundtable interviews. The series began on Sunday,
June 8, but you can catch up easily. (Check listings for
encore showings.) Many big stars appear, including LIEV
N.B.
SCHREIBER and ANDY SAMBERG.
it, it couldnt win the
Belmont Stakes, the third
jewel in the three race
Triple Crown competition.
The horse and its formerly small-time trainer,
ART SHERMAN, 77, exceeded all expectations
with their two victories.
Sherman, unlike Chrome
co-owner Steve Coburn,

refused to cast blame
for Chromes finish in the
Belmont. He remained
the gentleman he had
shown himself to be in all
his earlier interviews. He
certainly was kind when
I spoke to him right after
his Derby win.
N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Changing the world,
one model UN session at a time
Local student, now living in Israel, wins MUN award for Bar-Ilan
Abigail Klein Leichman
uring two post-high-school

years in Israel, Rachel (Ro)
Yeger made a habit of asking
cab drivers and other native
Israelis about life in the Jewish state. I
wanted to understand what it means to be
here, said Ms. Yeger, whose mother and
youngest brother live in Teaneck.
Since she moved to Israel in October
2012, Ms. Yeger, 24, can answer that
question herself. And she can do so quite
articulately, thanks to public-speaking
skills honed through her involvement in
the Model UN (which goes by the nickname MUN).
Recently, she was one of five Bar-Ilan
University students to win an award at
the International Model UN Competition
in Barcelona. Nearly 200 students from
13 countries took part in this Catalonian
Model UN. Israel sent 27 students the
second-largest delegation in the states history and the Israelis took home 13 out of
the 20 prizes.
Just like an authentic UN diplomatic session, the competition featured roll calls,
open debates, speaking time limits, position papers, alliance building, resolutions,
and committees focused on different
topics.
Ms. Yeger, co-president of BarMUN, won
Outstanding Delegate on the Alliance of
Civilizations committee.
Now in her second year in the universitys interdisciplinary BA program in
macro-economics, political science, and
sociology (which is taught in English),
she works two jobs to support herself and
hopes to get a masters degree in political
communications so she can enter politics
for real.
I want to impact change, and politics
is a good place to do it on a macro scale,
Ms. Yeger said. Fresh ideas are needed
in this country, and I spend a lot of time
grooming myself to be able to make that
difference. MUN is a good tool for that,
because it teaches you diplomacy and
conflict negotiation; its all about the give
and take, being accommodating of others
ideas, learning how to listen and how to
resolve differences. Often politicians close
themselves off to other ideas, and I feel
that can change in the future generation
of politics.
Ms. Yeger also is vice president of the
campus Young Likud and is a member
of Im Tirtzu, a movement whose goal is
Ro Yeger, far left, with fellow BarMUN award winners in Barcelona.
to strengthen Zionist values in academia

and in society. She also is a fellow with
the Israel advocacy organization Stand
With Us.
Her mother, Mindi, says she is in awe of
her daughter. Ro is going to change the
world, she predicts.
At the competition, Ms. Yeger was very
aware of representing Israel. She even
befriended a Catholic Spaniard whom
she describes as initially borderline
anti-Semitic.
I needed to portray what it really
means to be a Jew and an Israeli, and
that I dont necessarily live my life in conflict, Ms. Yeger said. It was an incredible
chance to show a different face of Israel.
Ms. Yeger, who was born in Lakewood,
moved to Monsey with her family when
she was 10. She went to high school at a
Beis Yaacov, where she had to stifle the
questions she yearned to ask. Her mother
encouraged her to go to the gap-year program Machon Maayan, then in Beit Shemesh, to provide a more open environment
for her daughter. The family by then had
moved away from ultra-Orthodoxy, and
Mindi Yeger relocated to Teaneck with her
two younger children while her daughter
Rachel was in Israel.

When I came to Israel I was very confused religiously, Rachel Yeger said. I
didnt know what modern Orthodoxy was,
so it was complete culture shock for me. I
spent the first year reprogramming myself
and relearning Judaism. Machon Maayan
became a place where I knew I could have
my questions answered and feel at home.
The schools program includes lots of
traveling. During our trips, I fell in love
with the country, she said. I started
speaking to Israelis and asking about their
lives, and when I went home to start college at Touro, I knew I had to come back
to Israel because I couldnt stay away anymore. Eventually I convinced my mother
to let me make aliyah.
Mindi Yeger, who is a research analyst,
also is an aspiring standup comic; she will
compete in the Ladies of Laughter, which
kicks off on July 21 at Manhattans Gotham
Comedy Club.
When Ro told me she had interest in
aliyah I said, Thats great; youll find a guy
and then settle in Israel, because I didnt
want her to go through this alone, she
said. Ro explained that this was where
she needed to be now, and when I visited
Bar-Ilan University
and saw her in her own environment I

saw a light in her that wasnt there even in
Teaneck. It was very soothing to me.
I miss her, but thats not the critical
issue.
After high school, Rachels brother,
Yehuda Yeger, now 22, joined his Torah
Academy of Bergen County classmates in
a gap year in Israel. Unlike most others,
he decided to stay. Hes now finishing his
service in the Israel Defense Forces as a
tank gunner, and plans to enter Bar-Ilan
in the fall.
At the beginning I planned to spend a
year and a half in the army, then go [back
to America] to go to law school, he said.
At the end of the year and a half I realized
I wasnt going anywhere, and I signed on
for another year of duty.
Two and a half years later Im Israeli,
and Im not going back.
The youngest Yeger, Yakov, soon will be
in Israel for his gap year.
I raised them to spread their wings and
fly, and theyre flying, Mindi Yeger said,
with obvious pride in her children.
Will she follow the same flight pattern?
Ill tell you this: I dont see myself as a
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Remembering
Barbara Seiden
Joanne Palmer
arbara Cohen Seiden of Tenafly,

who died on June 6 at 90,
embodied determination, honesty, an iron-strong will, and
the resilience of hope, according to her
good friend Dr. Sandra Gold.
Barbara Cohen was born in South Bend,
Ind., in 1924, the only daughter in a loving,
close-knit Orthodox family. It was the custom in many such families for their children to go to college but to live at home as
they studied, so she graduated from Purdue University. There she both earned a
degree in mathematics a field in which
she excelled and met her future husband, Norman Seiden.
The Seidens moved to Tenafly, where
they flourished. Mr. Seiden went from
heading Melnor Industries, a lawn sprinkler and garden supply company that
was ideally situated to take advantage of

the suburban postwar boom, to becoming a leading developer and builder as
well. Both soon became leaders in the
community.
Like the county itself, Bergen Countys
Jewish community was growing, and both
Seidens helped shape and guide it. Ms.
Seiden supported a huge range of Jewish communal organizations. The list of
those groups is long. It includes but is not
limited to the Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
Hadassah, ORT, the National Council of
Jewish Women, the Zionist Organization
of America, UJA Federation, Israel Bonds,
Englewood Hospital, the Arnold P. Gold
Foundation, and the Technion.
Her husband was one of the guiding forces spearheading the building of
the new JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly,
but he only agreed to take that role after
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Its about the mission, says D-Day veteran

Hackensack gunner describes landing on Omaha Beach
Lois Goldrich
y Wagner of Hackensack, a
member of the 747th Tank Battalion during World War II,
often thinks about D-Day.
Thats not surprising. The 92-year-old,
a gunner in one of the tanks that stormed
Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, lost many
friends that day.
I think about the men who were lost, he
said. They were boys, 19, 21, 22.
Mr. Wagner was 21 at the time, but I would
be 22 in September, so I always said I was 22.
He began his military service in January 1943.
Im a lucky man, he said. Thats all I can
say. In all, D-Day claimed the lives of more
than 9,000 Allied troops.
Growing up in Paterson, Mr. Wagner who
lived in Fair Lawn for many years before he
moved to Hackensack was inducted into
military service as Hymen Vagovsky. His
father changed the family name while the
gunner was overseas.
He recalls D-Day clearly. The 747th an
independent tank battalion that participated
in combat operations throughout northern
Somebody
depends on you.
You dont think
about country
or flag, you
think about
those men.
Europe steamed toward shore at H hour
plus 10, Mr. Wagner said, noting that the
battalion comprised almost exclusively men
from New Jersey and New York.
A destroyer cut across our bow telling us
to hold the tanks back, he said. The beachhead hadnt yet been secured. Indeed, the
tank battalion on its flank had just been
destroyed by Nazi guns firing out of concrete
bunkers. So we held off till early dawn.
Mr. Wagners tank came across the English Channel from Southampton, England,
on an LCT an amphibious assault ship
used to land tanks on beachheads.
It was not a big kind of thing, he said,
pointing out that many of these vessels capsized on June 6. There were three tanks on
our craft, he said. His tank carried a major.
I didnt know the game plan, he said. I
knew that we had to land on the beach and
go wherever we had to go. I was a gunner,
not a tank commander. You do whatever
youre going to do.
Mr. Wagner explained that from time to
time, his battalion was assigned to different
combat divisions. On D-Day, One of our
platoons was attached to the 1st Infantry
Division. The others were attached to the
29th Infantry Division. At one time, we were
attached to the English. We got all the way
up to the northern part of Germany.
While the thought of D-Day conjures up
images of countless dead and wounded
Allied fighters for many of us, Mr. Wagner
said that as a gunner, you dont really see
anything except for whats in front of you.
The tank commander had a better view.
Most of the action took place after we
landed on the beach, he said, noting that
after leaving the tank, the major never got
in it again. So we were on missions with
just a four-man crew, where I served as
gunner and tank commander, bobbing up
and down.
I think about it many times, he said.
About how ill-prepared we were, and how
even Dwight D. Eisenhower couldnt control everything. On paper, it was a beautiful
attack, timed well. But on June 7, it would
have been a completely different attack
because it was a beautiful day. June 6 was
clouded over. The bombers went in first,
but they bombed away from the beach.
The cost in lives was multiplied because the
beach area was not destroyed.
Mr. Wagner sponsored a lunch at a Hackensack restaurant on June 6 for dozens of
friends and family members including
widows of military personnel who died on
that day in 1944 Sigmund Westerman of
Fair Lawn, also a veteran of that period,
was among his guests.
Hy Wagner in his World War II uniform the jacket was too small when it first
was issued, he says.
This is the first time he has pulled together

an event to commemorate the Normandy
landing, Mr. Wagner said. I didnt do this
before, but now its 70 years after the invasion a memorable year. Also, before we
were all hustling to make a living.
We had one reunion of the tank group not
long after the war, but then we went about
the business of making a life for ourselves,
he added.
Eventually, Mr. Wagner owned a New
York public relations company, Media
Distribution Services.
What bothers him most today is that
in most schools they dont really teach
history anymore, Mr. Wagner said. He
recently met a man who was as old as
40, who didnt know what D-Day was, and
he was born, raised, and educated in this
country. He wasnt even taught about it.
When I went to school, we had a full class
of history, like we did literature and grammar, he said.
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In Sympathy
It is with great sorrow that we mourn the passing of our beloved
friend and supporter, Mrs. Barbara Seiden. While she will be
greatly missed, her memory, spirit, and legacy will continue to
live on in our hearts and in our community.
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The Board of Trustees, Staff,

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Hospital and Medical Center
offer sincere condolences to her
devoted husband, Norman, and
to the extended Seiden family.
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Blogging Alzheimers
Fort Lee man charts his mothers course and writes letters to the Times
Joanne Palmer
obert Nussbaums mother,

Dorothy Smith Nussbaum, is
almost 97 years old.
Although in reality she lives
in Fort Lee, for the last few years her
Alzheimers-attacked mind often tells her
that, instead, she is in the candy store her
family used to own in Lodi.
Often speaking in Yiddish, she relives
those days. They were happy ones. She
had three sisters each of whom not only
graduated from college but also went to
graduate school and a brother, Harvey Smith, who later went on to become
a prominent judge. (It was Mr. Smith, in
fact, who was responsible for the judicial
decision that allowed 274 acres of Tenafly
woods to become the Tenafly Nature
Center.)
Mr. Nussbaum, who lives with his wife,
Joanne, in Fort Lee, is a lawyer by profession, but increasingly he has found that life
as he lives it compels him to write about it.
One of his subjects is his mother.
A few things distinguish Mr. Nussbaum
from the other would-be-writer attorneys
who similarly have much to say and would
like an audience for their work.
For one thing, he started small. He began
blogging in 2008; tooearlytocall.com holds
a range of his writing on dementia, politics, the Yankees, and golf, among many
other subjects, as well as some fiction.
Now, one of his pieces on Alzheimers is about to be published in the latest
Chicken Soup for the Soul book, this one
subtitled Living with Alzheimers & Other
Dementias. It will be his fifth contribution
to the series.
Mr. Nussbaum also specializes in letters
to the editor; he has had more than 35
published in that Holy Grail of American
letters-to-the-editor, the New York Times.
(If you are English, for generations the
Times of London has been the summit.)
Another of Mr. Nussbaums distinctions
is that he is a third-generation Bergen
County boy. When his mother grew up in
Lodi, she belonged to one of five local Jewish families. When she married, she and
her husband, Richard Nussbaum, moved
to Teaneck, where Robert and his sister,
Gail Nussbaum Kaplan of Englewood,
grew up. The family belonged to Temple
Emeth, then in its glory days; the rabbi,
Louis Sigel, who helped the township
become the first in the country to desegregate its school system voluntarily, presided
at his bar mitzvah and later performed his
wedding.
After he graduated from law school,
Robert Nussbaum married Joanne Friedland, who grew up in Tenafly. (The only
time either of them lived outside Bergen
Robert Nussbaum and his mother, Dorothy Nussbaum, at one of her last family outings, around 2008.
In the late 1980s, Ms. Nussbaum sits with her grandchildren; from left, Lindsay
Kaplan, Alexandra Nussbaum, Brett Kaplan, and Richard Nussbaum.
County was when they were in college,
Mr. Nussbaum reports.) They began their
married life in Fort Lee, moved to Tenafly
to raise their children, and now, as emptynesters, have moved back to Fort Lee.
Richard Nussbaum, a lawyer who graduated first in his NYU law school class,
died when he was 61 years old, in 1971.
Dorothy Nussbaum, who had been a

high-school English teacher in Hackensack until she became a mother, lived
alone, happily and competently, occasionally complaining about her failing
memory but exhibiting no troubling
symptoms, until she turned 90.
Then it became clear that she could
no longer live without a caretaker, her

son said. The problems he and his sister
faced are familiar to many middle-aged
people lucky enough still to have parents.
His mother drove longer than she should
have. By the time her last license was
not renewed, She could remember how
to go to only a few places Montammy
Golf Club, on Route 9W, or Bischoff s
and Louies Charcoal Pit on Cedar Lane
in Teaneck, her son said. Toward the
end of the time she was still driving, once
or twice shed call me and say, Im here,
but I dont know how to get there. She
had a minor accident, could not remember either how it happened or how to get
home, and needed a police escort. That
was when she stopped driving.
We were very lucky that nothing more
significant happened, Mr. Nussbaum said.
Still, the decision to stop his mother from
driving was agonizing. Their car and living alone are the last two vestiges of peoples independence, he said. When we
take those things away, people feel as if
their lives are over.
Ms. Nussbaum had a fear of living in a
nursing home, even a very good one, her
son said. She would always say, Dont put
me there. That stuck with my sister and
me. We couldnt do it.
He sometimes questions that decision,
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have grown older but the horse has not.
Mr. Nussbaum said, although he does not think it was
the wrong one. But it hasnt been easy not for us, not
for the caretakers, and not for her.
Mr. Nussbaums writing about his mother is direct and
honest; it is moving, and at times it is lovely. It addresses
head-on some of the issues about which other people,
those not in his situation, might wonder.
His mother now is blind; when she does speak, which
is infrequent, it often is not easy to understand what she
is saying, even when it is in English. Both Mr. Nussbaum
and Ms. Kaplan visit her frequently; they try to enter her
world because she no longer can return to theirs, Mr.
Nussbaum said. They talk to her, even though she cannot answer them.
The story he contributed to Chicken Soup for the
Soul describes how one day he walked into her room
and heard Frank Sinatras voice coming from her stereo.
His was the music of her adolescence and young adulthood, and it comforted her. This time, in the middle of
Mr. Nussbaums one-sided conversation, all of a sudden
my moms arm came up, as if she were conducting, he
said. And then she started to sing. She sang along perfectly with the Sinatra song for a verse or two, and then
she was quiet again.
Since then, Sinatra often plays in her room, and Mr.
Nussbaum, in one of the role reversals that is a primary
feature of dealing with parents with Alzheimers, sings
to her. She likes my singing, even though no one else
does, he said.
Mr. Nussbaums letters to the New York Times are different in tone than his writing about his mother. Last
week, the newspapers new Times Insider section its
new pay wall, where once again it is trying to find some
way to monetize its web presence featured a look at
some of its most prolific letter-writers, including Mr.
Nussbaum.
The editor of the Letters section, Thomas Feyer,
emailed 35 of the papers most faithful and most published correspondents. He asked each of them three
questions, including one about the effect that having
written so many letters has had on the writers life.
Insomnia, Mr. Nussbaum wrote. That, too, was
published.
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Some of his best friends

How Seeds of Peace made the political personal for a Teaneck teen
Larry Yudelson
he course at the Bergen County

Academies in Hackensack would
have been impossible to imagine
when we were going to school.
Its not the topic: Empathy and Dialogue
in the Middle East.
Its the medium: Each session, students
videoconference with a different teen in
a different place Israel, Jordan, Gaza,
Egypt, etc.
The class provides a personal introduction to understanding a part of the world
that is far away but often in the news.
Most astonishingly, its taught by a fellow student: 11th grader Ben Sharp, 17. An
American Jew from Teaneck, he knows
peers throughout the Middle East through
taking part in a program called Seeds of
Peace last summer.
(Ben will speak about his Seeds of Peace
experience on Saturday at his synagogue,
Teanecks Temple Emeth.)
Seeds of Peace is a nonprofit organization
that runs a camp, also called Seeds of Peace,
in southern Maine. The camps programming combines traditional summer-camp
fare sports, waterfront activities, arts and
crafts with an encounter group.
Last June, when Ben met his bunkmates,
he found he was the only American Jew in a
group with three Israelis, four Palestinians,
one Jordanian, and one Egyptian.
There were three counselors, which was
a good thing, given that when the Israelis
entered the bunk and met the Palestinians
who had arrived before them, you saw this
tense awkwardness you can almost cut with
a knife, Ben said.
For most of the Palestinians and Israelis
who, remember, all were high school students it was the first time they had ever
come in contact with the other side.
Yet by the end of the three-and-a-halfweek session, we were all brothers in
everything except blood, he said.
Ben believes that going on the program
was the best thing he ever did.
I met the most interesting, most kind,
most passionate, most humorous people
in the world, he said. Beside the countries
represented in his bunk, he made friends
What: Is the Person Eating
Hummus Next to Me My Enemy?
A Summer at Seeds of Peace
Who: High school students
Nouran Mohamed Sobhy, a
Muslim-Egyptian from Cairo, and
Ben Sharp, a Jewish-American
from Teaneck
When: Saturday, June 14, noon.
Where: Temple Emeth, Teaneck,
1666 Windsor Road
with students from Afghanistan, Pakistan,

and India.
Theyre people I still keep in touch with,
he said.
Learning to swim at summer camp
requires hard work by the camper and expert
guidance by swim instructors. Similarly, the
friendships Ben developed at Seeds of Peace
didnt happen accidentally.
The multinational group swam in the lake
together and played soccer together. But the
central activity was when the group gathered
in the dialogue hut for 90 minutes of scheduled dialogue each day.
It was the most challenging thing Ive ever
done in my life, Ben said. It was challenging
emotionally.
It was frustrating, because at first we were
just yelling at each other. We were trying to
get out what we wanted to say and what our
opinions were. It took us a really long
time to realize that if we wanted our
own words to have an impact on others in the dialogue hut, we would have
to offer our ears to what everyone else
has to say also.
I know it sort of sounds like a kindergarten concept, but when you put it
into practical use it still applies to teenagers. It still applies to the adult world.
Unfortunately, I dont think its
widely practiced.
One of the key secrets of the dialogue process was to speak in the first
person, to share your own personal
stories, how the conflict has affected
you, Ben said. When you leave your
house in Ramallah, what do you see?
What do you feel?
Ben Sharp and Nouran Mohamed Sobhy
I saw how that had a more meaningful impact on me, he said.
Every day for a week, the group gathered
He was with his younger brother and his
in the dialogue hut and yelled at each other.
younger brothers best friend. They were
We were stuck, Ben said. They told us
right by the checkpoint to enter the refuwe were one of the most difficult dialogue
gee camp. There was a demonstration. He
groups to work with. I started to lose hope
hears a shot. The next thing he knows his
and not trust the process. You expect to move
brothers best friends brains are scattered
forward and not be yelling at each other the
all over his shoe.
same things over and over, who was right and
That hit me like a rock.
who was wrong in 1948. You want to reach a
I had to watch him say that. I had to watch
level of understanding but we couldnt.
the emotions on his face and the tears come
That was so disheartening, to just be
out of his eyes. I could see how hard it was for
stuck and hear these really vicious tirades be
him to share that story with us.
thrown across each other between friends.
My friend Idan was saying how his uncle
Then, on the seventh day, all of a sudden
was sent to neutralize a bomb that was on
found we a way to respect each other and
a bus in Tel Aviv. Something happened and
listen to each other. That was huge, that was
he wasnt able to deactivate it properly. Idan
everything. It was such a relief.
and his father were on the phone with the
The stories Ben heard from the people who
uncle as he was dying.
were becoming friends people with whom
That was also a difficult story to listen to
he was playing every day were dramatic,
that had a major impact on all of us, he said.
painting the Israeli-Arab conflict as anything
In the end, the success of the dialogue
but abstract.
and its intimacy forged friendships. They
I remember my friend Ahmed sharing a
probably know me better than some of my
story of how he was walking home to his refufriends here who Ive known all my life,
gee camp outside of Bethlehem, Ben said.
said Ben, who stays in touch with his friends
Ben Sharp and his Seeds of Peace

bunkmates.
through Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype, and a

private social network run by Seeds of Peace.
With friends around the world, news
headlines have become personal.
Shortly after he got back from camp last
summer, 500 people were killed in one day
in the streets of Cairo. Ben immediately
texted all his friends there: Are you okay?
Are your family and friends okay?
One such Cairo friend is Nouran
Mohamed Sobhy, who will also be speaking
at Temple Emeth. The two became friends
at an evening concert put on by counselors.
One of the Egyptian kids introduced her
and she started dancing to a song we both
knew, he said.
Nouran lives across the street from the
presidential palace. Shes been there for
the revolution, Ben said. It definitely
makes me worry a lot.
The experience also taught Ben skills that
hes putting into practice as he leads the
course at his high school. I feel that I am
able to understand the dynamics of a group,
of a conversation, and how to influence it to
make progress, he said.
The class is a collaboration with one of the
schools Spanish teachers, an Argentinean
woman who lived in Israel and served in the
IDF. She long had wanted to teach an elective
course on the Middle East and Ben and his
overseas friends served as the catalyst.
The students in the class include a girl
who was born in Israel and another from
Turkey. Most of the remaining students
have no prior knowledge or experience
with the conflict, Ben said. The entire
experience is entirely new to them. Its an
adventure.
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Front row, from left: Galeet Lipke, Medical Task Force Coordinator, JFNNJ; Avia
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Alejandro Livoff, Senior Pathologist and Cytologist, WGMC; Dr. Yadyra Rivera,
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Chief Medical Officer, HNMC.
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Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck
recently welcomed three medical professionals from Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, Israel, who toured the
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Dr. Deane Penn, Chair of the Jewish
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Rutgers Hillel is award-winner

Five students active with Rutand leadership to the unigers Hillel have been elected
versity and community. Outto the ranks of the Scarlets,
standing students, student
recipients of the Universitys
organizations, faculty, and
Student Life-Student Involvestaff members are nominated
ments highest annual recogfor awards in campus pronition. In addition, Hillel staff
gramming, individual excelmember Gregory Yellin of
lence, and organizational
Edison, its director of engageachievement.
Mr. Yellin is the third Hilment, received the Arrigo O.
Gregory Yellin
lel professional to receive
Rogers Award as the Univerthe award. He follows Rabbi
sitys Outstanding Advisor of
Esther Reed of Highland Park, the senior
the Year.
associate director at Rutgers Hillel, and
The Scarlets awards program is conSarah Portilla of Marlboro, development
ducted annually to recognize organizamanager at the Jewish Federation of Montions and people who have shown an
mouth County, who were earlier winners.
immense amount of dedication or service
Congregation Keter
Torah in Teaneck will
host its 14th annual dinner on Monday, June
16, at 6:30 p.m. Tammy
and Ken Secemski are
the guests of honor and
Gila and Gary Elbaum
Ken and Tammy
Gary and Gila Elbaum
are the Esther and WilSecemski
liam B. Manischewitz
Communit y Service
awardees.
in need.
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Since moving to Bergenfield in 1999, the
years ago with their five children and
Elbaums have been active in Keter Torah
joined Keter Torah, where they are active
and the community. Together they volunmembers. Ken, a senior vice president at
teer with their children at shul events and
Merrill Lynch, attends the daily minyan
fundraisers. Gila served five years as coat Keter Torah before work. Tammy, the
president of ATARA and is a member of
owner of Teanecks Glatt Express Superthe Keter Torah Advisory Council.
market and Lazy Bean Caf, provides
The shul is at 600 Roemer Ave. For
refreshments for Rabbi Baums weekly
information, call (201) 907-0180 or visit
morning shiur as well as meals for those
www.ketertorah.org.
Local graduate among Touro/NCSY

scholarship awardees
Sara Lederer of Bergenfield was among seven outstanding high
school graduates from across the nation selected to receive the
prestigious Sarah Rivkah and Dr. Bernard Lander ztl Scholarship, given jointly by Touro College and the Orthodox Unions
National Council of Synagogue Youth.
Touro College, which has a close working relationship with
the Orthodox Union, offers scholarships to outstanding NCSY
graduates who choose to attend one of Touros Lander Colleges in New York City Lander College for Men in Queens,
Lander College for Women/The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten
School in Manhattan, and Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush.
Sara Lederer
Winklers to be honored in Fort Lee

Young Israel of Fort Lee will host a
dinner in honor of Rabbi Neil Winkler and his wife, Andrea, who are
planning to make aliyah after 36
years of service to Fort Lee and Bergen County. The celebration is set
for the Fort Lee Doubletree Hotel
on Sunday, June 22 at 5 p.m. The
Winklers have five grown children
and nine grandchildren. For information, call (201) 592-1518 or email
yiftlee@gmail.com.
Rabbi Neil Winkler
Andrea Winkler
JECS Rabbi Taub wins honor

Rabbi Shmuel Taub, a faculty member at the Jewish Educational Center in Elizabeth, was selected as the 2014 Grinspoon Award-winner for Excellence in Jewish Education in the
Greater MetroWest New Jersey region.
According to the Grinspoon Foundation, the awards are
designed to recognize, honor and support outstanding classroom Jewish educators worthy of national recognition and
are presented to professionals in communities across North
America in conjunction with their central agencies for Jewish
education or Jewish federations.
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SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL

OF BERGEN COUNTY
Graduating Class of 2014

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Maya Greenstein
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We Congratulate This
Years Award Recipients
Valedictorians in
General and Judaic Studies
Danielle Bash and Tal Kamin
Salutatorians in
General and Judaic Studies
Yael Amozeg and Zachary Zimmer
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in General Studies
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Mazal Tov to Our SSDS graduates!
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Our graduates will attend Abraham Joshua

Heschel High School, Golda Och Academy,
SAR Academy High School, Solomon
Schechter School of Westchester High
School, The Ramaz Upper School, and other
elite private high schools.
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Barbara Seiden
from page 7
consulting with her. (Once the Seidens decided to sign

onto the new JCC, their friends added their support,
and the dream became reality.)
Ms. Seiden, by all accounts, was happy at home,
raising her three children, Stephen, Pearl, and Mark.
Behind the scenes, she and her husband were full
life partners. He was their public face, but she was its
heart and soul. Mr. Seiden made no philanthropic gift
without clearing it with his wife, Dr. Gold said.
Love was a constant theme in all her relationships, Dr. Gold added. Her three children made her
the grandmother of 13, and those 13 first cousins so
far have 11 children between them. Ms. Seiden loved
them all.
She was super. Her

determination her
steel will she just
went ahead. She
forged ahead.
Dr. Sandra Gold
Beyond all that, Dr. Gold said, was her love for her
husband and her husbands for her. It was a true
romance, according to Dr. Gold, who quoted Edgar
Alan Poes ode to his lost child bride, Annabelle Lee,
to describe it. He loved with a love that was more
than love, and that described both of them, she said.
In 1976, the Seidens life changed. A nightmarish
and avoidable accident in a hospital, where Ms.
Seiden had gone for what should have been a routine
procedure, put her in a coma, one from which her
doctors assumed that she could not awaken.
But she did wake up. Against all odds, her strong will
and desire to live pulled her out of the coma. Although
she was left with physical deficits, she did not let them
conquer her; instead, she conquered them.
Dr. Gold and her husband, Dr. Arnold Gold, often traveled with the Seidens, and she always was struck by Ms.
Seidens tenacity, her determination not to be defined
or hobbled by her disabilities. She climbed stairs she
climbed up the Pyramids. She used her medical condition as a way to learn to be positive rather than negative,
and she developed a sense of humor.
She always had a strong sense of justice. As her
family learned after the accident, Ms. Seiden had
struck a pact with her housekeeper; if Inel looked
after the Seidens when she worked for them, then
Ms. Seiden pledged to look after Inel in her old age.
Before Ms. Seiden regained consciousness, her husband, knowing nothing of that pact, laid Inel off. He
did not need a housekeeper. Ms. Seiden had heard
about that before she regained enough strength to
be able to talk; once she could talk, her first words
were a question about Inel, and a demand that she
be taken care of. (Later, Inel returned to work once
again for the Seidens.)
Everything Barbara accomplished in her life was
totally unexpected by the experts, Dr. Gold said. She
was super. Her determination her steel will she just
went ahead. She forged ahead.
Neither she nor Norm ever accepted defeat.
And the community Barbara Seiden left behind is
stronger for that iron will.
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SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL

OF BERGEN COUNTY
Kol HaKavod to our SSDS Alumni

who will attend the following
colleges, universities, and
Israel gap-year programs:
Hy Wagner with his wife, Norma, and their
daughter, Beth, at the reunion.
Mission
from page 8
While D-Day claimed many more lives than was

expected, I dont think they could have planned it
very differently, Mr. Wagner said. You just cant predict in that type of situation. DDE [President Eisenhower] had a limited period of clear sky. He gambled
with it.
When something goes wrong, then it depends on
the people on the ground: how they respond, how
they react, how they field their mission. The mission is
the most important thing in their thinking. They have
a job to do.
When Mr. Wagners tank finally was able to storm the
beach on D-Day, it took up a position overlooking a highway. Below it were infantry troops from K company,
which had been decimated, he said.
It stands out in my mind. I think of the guts these guys
had. Four or six of them would go ahead and scout the
highway until they were out of sight. Then they would
come running back. Some would lose their helmet or
their gun. They had to get back quickly.
They had a job to do, he continued. It was their mission. Theres something that happens to a person that is
superior to reasoning, to logic, to anything else. Somebody depends on you. You dont think about country or
flag, you think about those men.
It happened to me deep in the war, when we were
overlooking the Siegfried Line. Everyone had withdrawn
to the bivouacs, but they asked us to stay behind. A group
of infantry men were trapped.
The tank remained even in the face of German fire. Mr.
Wagner even got out of the tank to try to fix the tanks gun,
which had jammed.
I could have left then and there, but those men were
important to me, he said. Theres a sense of comradeship even when you dont know the other people.
When the German fire got dangerously close, Mr. Wagner told the tank driver to leave, and he returned to the
bivouac on foot.
Now retired, Mr. Wagner who returned home from
Europe on December 12, 1945 is busily searching out
a complete history of what took place with the tank battalion, hour by hour, until we reached the end of the war.
He will not soon forget the events of June 6, 1944.
That day has always been very important to me,
he said. I lost some very good friends.
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Editorial
Its no joke
ast week, on our page 3,

which is meant to be a
light-hearted look at the
extremes of the weeks
news, seems to have struck many people as being nothing of the kind.
We understand that the position of
women is the third rail of Jewish life, at
least in the Orthodox world. (The liberal
Jewish world is egalitarian.) Partnership
minyanim, womens tefillah groups,
women and Talmud study, maharats
It is clear to
us that our
community
standards not
only allow
but actively
expect women
to be seen.
Truth regardless of consequences
each one of those developments elicits controversy. The debate between different interpretations of halacha rages
on. Normally we go near it only with
extreme care, but last week that seems
not to have been the case.
We admit to some surprise. The
issue was the far-right Jewish worlds
increasing tendency not to allow womens images to be shown, even in situations where women must be present.
One of the illustrations we showed
was of a charedi groom alone under a
chuppah, not waiting for his bride but
seemingly in the middle of the wedding ceremony without her.
We have gotten letters telling us
that such illustrations convey only
stringent modesty this might not
be a level of observance we all can
attain, but it is one toward which we
all should aspire.
This is both new and surprising.
We did not think that anyone would
see these photos as anything other
than either funny or disturbing.
We know that no matter what this
community in general thinks about

women, it does not shy from allowing them in pictures. Yeshivot send
us pictures of girls playing sports, acting on stage, working on science projects, competing for prizes, winning
awards. Colleges, including YU, send
us photos of young women in Israel,
working with young children, walking
in parades, working in laboratories.
Synagogues send us pictures of married couples as they honor them.
We do not get the sense that we are
sent these photos as a concession to
weakness. Instead, it is clear to us
that our community standards not
only allow but actively expect women
to be seen.
We also think that the people who
are upset with us have pictures of
their own parents and grandparents
weddings, showing the bride as well
as the groom.
We are sorry if our tone upset some
of our readers.
And they are right. Erasing women
-JP
is no joke.
Mourning a toddler
ast Shabbat, Chana Tova

Poupko, the daughter of
Dr. Shoshana and Rabbi
Chaim Poupko, died. She
was 2 years old.
We can write obituaries about people who died after long lives. We can
celebrate their accomplishments, link
them to their ancestors, name their
descendants, and describe their place
in our world.
Often we finish such assignments
feeling the hole in the world left by
the absence of someone we had
never known.
And then we are confronted with
the death of a child, and everything
goes black.
A child has young parents and no
descendents, no accomplishments
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beyond walking, talking, the first smile,

the first tooth, the way she pronounced
her words, hugged her friends, played
with her toys, petted her cat. Her world
was supposed to lay open in front of
her. Her path should have been long.
It is neither our place nor our inclination to consider the theological
implications of a childs death. We
know that Rabbi Poupko, the associate
rabbi at Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood for the last decade,
comes from a prominent Chicago rabbinic family. We hope that he and Dr.
Poupko find comfort in their faith. We
know that ever since Chana was diagnosed with cancer, at 13 months, the
family has been supported by their
communitys fierce love.
We also know that the death of a
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child can put her parents and the rest

of her family at the bottom of a black
hole, a slimy, airless, light-less place.
While there is not much anyone can do,
either for Chanas family or for the families of other children who have suffered
through the death of their own beloved
children, we must do whatever we can.
Sometimes, standing close to
mourners, being there, being present, can hold them up when their own
strength fails. We hope that the community will continue to provide comfort to the Poupkos, and to everyone
else in their situation.
Hamakom yenachem otam btoch
shear aveilei Tzion vYerushalayim.
May God comfort them among the
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
-JP

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Wake up and
smell the hatred
Why Israelis and all Jews
must begin to fight back
pending a week delivering lectures in Germany, Holland, and Switzerland gave me a

renewed perspective on European Jewish life
and attitudes toward Jews. Many of my lectures were based around my new book Kosher Lust,
which led to the frequent question, Is it true that Jews
have sex through a sheet with a hole in the middle?
I responded that the Jewish law allowing a couple
to have sex through a sheet with a hole in the middle
is actually a lenient rabbinic position, mostly practiced by Reform Jews. The truly Orthodox have sex
in two different bedrooms through a hole in the wall,
while the ultra-Orthodox
are in the habit of donning
full body armor just before
sex. (Incidentally, in Jewish law any and all clothing is prohibited during
sex, because love-making
is about becoming bone
of one bone, flesh of one
flesh. Even condoms are
Rabbi
prohibited as a contracepShmuley
tive for the artificial barrier
Boteach
they impose between husband and wife the pill or
a diaphragm is preferred.)
There seems to be no lie that the Jews can be
accused of that the rest of the world especially
Europe will not absorb. First, we were charged with
killing God. Next, that we poisoned Europes wells
during the Black Death. Then we tortured the Eucharist wafers to cause further suffering to Jesus, whose
flesh was incarnate in it. After that, we killed Christian
children, and, like vampires we drained their blood
into our matzahs. Of course, countless people across
the world believe that in an ongoing conspiracy, Jews
plot and scheme about taking over the world.
In 2014, many Europeans believe that tiny Israel
is the cause of most of the strife in the Middle East,
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is founder of This World: The
Values Network, the foremost organization influencing
politics, media, and the culture with Jewish values. He
has just published Kosher Lust: Love is Not the Answer.
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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and that its 6,000,000 Jewish citizens are responsible for the plight of the 400,000,000 who surround it.
The Czech Republic is considered friendly to
Israel, given its history as an object of appeasement to Hitlers insatiable appetite. But that
friendship did not stop a government official telling me, respectfully, that Israels stealing Palestinian land had alienated most of Europe. When I
reminded him that Israel actually had conquered
the West Bank in a defensive war launched by
Jordan, had offered to create a Palestinian state
there many times, and that the Palestinians had
responded with a terror wave that killed thousands of Israelis, he told me that none of that mattered. He had negative feelings toward Israel.
The basic strategy of Israel and the Jewish community must change.
We easily could blame European anti-Semitism
for anti-Israel hostility. But although its true, its
too convenient, and it absolves us Jews of the
responsibility of communicating our message.
Until now, it has mostly been our policy to overlook ludicrous lies against the Jews, believing that
responding to them was dignifying them. Israel
has lost the public relations battle because so many
Israelis believed that the justice of their cause was
so self-evident that it required no defense.
Well, wake up and smell the hatred. The policy
has failed miserably. If history has taught as anything, its that the world will believe that we have
horns under our yarmulkes unless the falsehood
is aggressively challenged.
Hardly a week goes by when serious new allegations arent hurled against Israel. The latest
was when the pope prayed in front of Palestinian graffiti equating Bethlehem with the Warsaw
Ghetto. This made a fundamentally good man an
unwitting party to Holocaust trivialization. To us
Jews this is a grotesque, revolting lie, that should
require no rejoinder. But we are fooling ourselves
if we think that most of the world doesnt already
believe that Israels anti-terror wall is a giant
Alcatraz.
In April my organization, This World: The Values Network, started a series on campus, inviting
Israels leading critics to defend their allegations
against Israel in open debate. The first forum, at
Columbia, featured Peter Beinart, who calls for a
boycott against all products from the West Bank
including Soda Stream because of the Israeli
occupation. I asked him why he uses an iPhone,
given that it is manufactured in China, which has
been occupying Tibet for more than half a century.
He had no response.
A woman came over to me and said that she
believed that arguments like these, defending
Israel, should be a standard feature of Jewish
day school education. I could not agree more.
Every Jewish young adult should be equipped
to respond to lies about the Jewish people. The
world Jewish community should adopt the policy
that every lie should be convincingly rebutted
at a grassroots level, not dismissed as beneath
contempt.
Jews may not use a sheet with a hole in the middle for sex. But we do need a wall without any
holes to stop terrorists from blowing up more
Jewish children. And unless we can persuade the
rest of the world of the justice of our cause, they
will continue to put barriers in the path of our
barriers.
Should Bergdahl have gone free?

On Sergeant Bergdahl, President Obama,
and the halacha of pidyon shevuyim
he controversy surrounding the prisoner exchange

of Taliban terrorists for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a
story that the Jewish people knows well.
The questions being raised of whether the
president agreed to too much, whether the deal puts more
Americans in danger, and whether Sgt. Bergdahl deserved the
release, are old questions to Jewish ears. The Jewish experience differs from the American experience here, because we
as Jews have a long history of victimization at the hands of the
powerful. From Roman times, when captured Jews became
slaves, sold in an international slave market, to the Middle
Ages, when Jews sailing the Mediterranean would face capture by pirates, Judaism always has seen it as a mitzvah to
ransom captives, called in Hebrew pidyon shevuyim. Raising money to ransom a Jewish captive was seen as saving a
life, whereas failing to so made someone a passive accessory
to murder.
The religious imperative to ransom captives is codified in
the legal codes of Jewish law and is supported by the documentary evidence of the Cairo
Genizah, where an abundance
of fundraising circulars were
discovered raising money from
the Jewish community to pay the
ransom of Jewish captives. There
are some such appeals signed by
Maimonides himself. Jewish communities like Cairo (Fustat), which
had means and were accessible to
Rabbi Dr.
the sea, were natural markets for
David J. Fine
Mediterranean pirates seeking to
sell their Jewish cargo. The
important point here is that Jewish communities saw it as an
obligation to free their captive co-religionist, irrespective of
who she or he was and where he or she was from.
The Mishnah, the second-century code of Jewish law,
places a restriction on the imperative to ransom captives. The
ransom should be refused if the price is too high, the Mishnah
rules (Gittin 4:6). The explanation for the restriction is the
betterment of the world (what they called tikkun olam), and
is explained as concern either that buying high will raise
the price for captives and increase the financial burden on
Jewish communities paying new ransoms, or that agreeing to
high conditions will lead to an increase in the number of Jews
being captured for ransom. The interplay of economics and
ethics is fascinating, but underlying the law is a debate over
the concern for the individual and the greater public good.
The subsequent history of Jewish law on this question
entails an ongoing debate, which has intensified in recent
decades in Israel. The controversial questions raised regarding Sgt. Bergdahl are miniscule compared to the scope of the
debate that rages in Israel every time the Israeli government
negotiates a prisoner exchange. In both America and Israel,
our captives are captive soldiers, and the ransom we pay are
prisoners we hold. Israel has freed hundreds to thousands
of Arab prisoners in exchange for individual Israeli soldiers.
While the prisoners freed in wartime were Arab soldiers, in
more recent years they have been imprisoned terrorists, like
those freed from Guantanamo Bay.
Israeli society has learned to live with the threat of terrorism, just as post-9/11 America has, and the release of murderers who might go on to kill again always has been a heavy
pill for the public to swallow. Questions always are raised as
to whether it is the proper thing to do for national security.
One Israeli soldier, Elhanan Tannenbaum, who was set free
in 2003, had been captured by terrorists in Abu Dhabi, where
he was alleged to have been engaged in buying drugs and

other criminal activity. As with Sgt. Bergdahl, the merit of his
release was questioned. At other times, Israel traded living
terrorists for the remains of Israeli soldiers. If there was a high
bar for the price paid to ransom captives, the State of Israel
has hit that bar repeatedly, leaving the Obama administration
in the distance.
Each time this question resurfaces in Israel, rabbis return
to the halachic debate over the meaning of the Mishnah that
restricts paying too high a ransom. Some continue the interpretive tradition of ignoring the restriction, and others have
argued that exorbitant ransoms should be resisted. We may
remember the controversy over the arms-for-hostages element of the Reagan administrations Iran-Contra affair. The
question, then as now, was whether rewarding the captors
only encourages more captivities.
From my perspective, the very existence of the line in
the Mishnah restricting exorbitant ransoms proves that we,
as Jews, always paid huge ransoms. That is, the Mishnah is
reacting to an already accepted Jewish value. I am proud of
the Jewish value on life. The public good is critical because it
protects life. The public puts itself on the line to protect life.
Sgt. Bergdahl suffered through the years of his captivity. No
matter his personal merits, we have to recognize that he was
captured not for who he is, but because of the American flag
on his shoulder. He endured his captivity as our proxy, and
our responsibilities to him, as to all those who wear and wore
the uniform, should be as if they are family, whom we love no
matter what.
In Israel, the care and concern for soldiers and veterans
is much closer to everyones heart because all young people
(as long as they are not Arab or ultra-Orthodox Jews) serve
in the army and place themselves in the breach on behalf of
the public. In the wake of the terrible VA health care scandal,
our country needs to care more about soldiers and veterans.
We should be proud that the government of the United
States considers the value of a single American life as primary.
Never before has American policy matched so closely to a
particular Jewish value. The Israeli prime ministers who have
negotiated overly exorbitant prisoner swaps to bring Israeli
soldiers home have included the right-leaning Ariel Sharon
and Benjamin Netanyahu. They understood their responsibilities as Jewish commanders-in-chief to include bringing home
all those they sent out in harms way. And now, we should be
proud, as Jews, of the American president.
David J. Fine, the rabbi of Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood, earned his doctorate in modern
European history at CUNY. He also is an adjunct professor
of Jewish law at the Abraham Geiger and Zacharias Frankel
Colleges at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Opinion
Dispute for the sake of heaven?

The Conference of Presidents squares off against JStreet
e Jews are a fractious

bunch.
This reality is reflected
in the famous bon mot
Two Jews three opinions. On the basis of
the rabbinic tradition and its literature, the
Mishnah and Talmud, it is even appropriate to speak of the Jewish culture as one of
debate and disputation.
It was not always so. The Torah is quite
clear that disputes should not go on for
extended periods in communities, but
rather they should be submitted to the
priests or judges and resolved. The priests
or judges decisions are final, and everyone
who was part of the original debate had to
abide by the single decision that was rendered. If anyone deviated from that decision, he or she was subject to capital punishment (Deuteronomy 17:8-13).
Unity of this sort was short-lived. By the
period of the Second Temple there were
many different Jewish sects, and
even various schools of thought
within those sects. Thus, late Pharisaic/early rabbinic Judaism saw the
beginnings of the culture of debate
in the disputes between Shammai
and Hillel, and even more clearly in
the debates between their schools.
We are told that once the students of
Shammai and Hillel became numerous, disputes also became numerous. Soon the single Torah of Israel
seemed like two different Torahs.
The question is whether the disputes between these two schools
were considered good or bad.
We get some help in deciding this issue
from the famous Mishnah tractate Ethics
of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot). There we read:
Any debate that is for the sake of Heaven in
the end will endure; but any debate that is
not for the sake of Heaven in the end will not
endure. What is considered a debate for the
sake of Heaven? The debates of the schools
of Shammai and Hillel. And what is considered a debate not for the sake of Heaven?
The dispute of Korach and his followers.
So it appears that there are debates that
are legitimate and have integrity. Among
them are the debates between the schools
of Shammai and Hillel and the debates
between their descendants, the many sages
whose opinions so often went in opposite
directions.
What made them debates for the sake
of Heaven is that the disputants sought
to find Gods will for the Jewish people
and humanity but they understood that
human beings could understand Gods
will only in part.
Each sage might glimpse a facet of that
will, but being human meant never knowing
Gods will completely. This led to a degree
of humility and an unwillingness to end the
debate, because who could really decide
who was right?

Not all the sages were that generous. Once
it became clear that the school of Hillel had
won the hearts and minds of the majority
of rabbinic Jews, some sages said that it was
time put an end to debate. Hence, his colleagues told Rabbi Tarfon, who followed the
school of Shammais practice of reclining for
the evening Shema, that he was worthy of
death for not following the Hillelites rules
(Mishnah, Berakhot 1:3).
This attitude, however, could not and
did not survive the basic tendency to
argue that was so fundamental to the rabbinic house of study. Therefore, it is not
surprising that about 300 years after their
formation, the question of whether consistent observance according to the school of
Shammai or of Hillel was acceptable still
was debated (Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 11a). A matter that seemed settled
in the year 90 in the Land of Israel was
gain a mainstream bully pulpit

there is much unfair hostility
it did not have before. If they
toward it, and as a byprodlost, they could as they have
uct, toward Jews. Therefore,
cried Censorship!
good policy would be to supIf these scenarios are true,
port Israel exactly as it wishes
then this debate has not been
us to support it. Further, it is
for the sake of Heaven. In that
our task to withhold ammunicase, it is immensely tragic.
tion from those who are not
I believe, however, that the
friends of Israel or the Jewish
Rabbi Dr.
two sides indeed have been
people. That being the case,
Michael
involved in a debate for the
loud and public criticism of
Chernick
sake of Heaven.
Israel is not the proper task of
I believe the Conference
representatives of the Jewish
of Presidents of Major Jewish
community.
Organizations is a principled organization.
These are all principled positions.
It does everything in its power to help Israel
JStreet claims to be fighting for principles
and protect its interests. If it has a fault, it
as well. It holds that when the Israeli governmay be that it supports Israel unquestionment puts itself and the people of Israel into
ingly, perhaps not to Israels real benefit.
a position where peace cannot be achieved
I also believe that it has erred in trying to
and Jewish morality cannot be realized,
marginalize JStreet. If the Conference were
then it is fair and even desirable to work
secure, it would not need to build forto get Israel back on track, even if it entails
tresses up to the heavens.
appealing to the United States
I also believe that JStreet is a principled
or to the UN to insert itself into
organization. If it errs, it errs on the side of
Israels internal affairs. This must
outsiders paternalism, which despite my
be done to preserve Israel for its
reservations might not be the worst idea
citizens and for the Jewish people
when Israel conducts its diplomacy in a
everywhere. Such intervention
dysfunctional way. Often I feel that JStreets
risks giving Israels detractors and
critique of Israel is too public. Similarly, I
its outright enemies ammunition
feel that it is nave about the power of comwith which to condemn the State.
pletely free speech, and that it flirts with
Nevertheless, we must take risks
danger by allowing such speech at JStreet
for the soul and safety of Israel.
conventions. Often such freedom gives
After all, Jewish values demand a
voice to awful ideas, which JStreet hopes to
high degree of moral purity and
debunk by reasoned debate.
the ethical use of power and
But do we not believe in helping people,
Israel does have power.
especially the people of Israel, to find their
Zionist Jews, wherever they may be, have
way to being just and at peace? Dont we
the right to a state of they can be proud, and
believe in debate as the way to the truth?
the obligation to help it become that state by
If these are JStreets principles and I
taking practical action when it is possible.
believe they are then it belongs in the
These, too, are principles.
critical debate that considers what is good
If all this were clearly the case, the debate
for the Jews.
surely would be for the sake of Heaven. But
As I hope I have made clear, determining
matters are more complicated.
whether a debate is or is not for the sake of
Maybe its the old gang, the Conference
Heaven is not easy. When we find ourselves
members, wanting to have the last word
in debates (and as Jews how can we not?),
and the koved, honor, of having the ears
my bottom line is: Let us be careful in order
of presidents and members of Congress.
to make sure the debates we must have are
Maybe JStreet seems to the Conference like
based on principles, and that they honor
a Korach, looking to steal authority from the
the God of the many truths that debate and
legitimate representatives of the American
dispute can uncover.
Jewish majority (perhaps silent) who care
about Israel. And when it comes to young
Professor Michael Chernick holds
American Jews, who may not feel the same
the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish
way about Israel as many members of the
Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the
Conference do, well, theyre young and
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
naive, and giving JStreet legitimacy will lead
Religion in New York; his area of expertise is
them in the wrong direction.
the Talmud. Professor Chernick received his
It also is possible that JStreets intentions
doctorate from the Bernard Revel Graduate
may be not be as pristine as they are made
School and rabbinic ordination from R.
out to be. Maybe its attempt to join the ConIsaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, both
ference of Presidents was a manipulative
affiliates of Yeshiva University. He has written
ploy. If it won, it would gain the same kind of
extensively about Jewish law and lore and
influence that the Conference has wielded.
has lectured on these topics in the United
Then its paternalistic we know better polStates, Europe, and Israel.
icy in relationship to the State of Israel could
The Torah is quite clear

that disputes should not
go on for extended
periods in communities,
but rather they should be
submitted to the priests
or judges and resolved.
reopened for consideration in third century Babylonia with no resolution.

But there are unacceptable debates,
which are not for the sake of Heaven. They
are like the arguments of Korach and his
followers, who rose up against Moses and
Aaron in an attempt to wrest authority from
their hands. That is not to say that leadership can never be challenged, but when the
purpose is simply to gain prominence or
power to feed the debaters own ego, then
that debate is not for the sake of Heaven. Its
for the sake of Me, me, me.
Debates about principlesfine. Debates
for self-aggrandizementunacceptable.
So, to bring us to our Jewish world today,
I would ask: What has the dispute between
the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and JStreet been? Has it
been a high-minded debate about principles
between the parties? If so, it has been a dispute for the sake of Heaven.
But what are the principles involved?
The Conference of Presidents claims that
we must support the policies of the democratically elected government of Israel,
because neither we nor our sons or daughters are on the line. Israel, not we, is in the
Middle East, and that is not a nice neighborhood. Israel also lives in a world in which
Letters
Anger from
the Orthodox world
I was very upset to see the entire Page 3

of last weeks Jewish Standard devoted
to mocking the sensibilities, beliefs and
practices of ultra-Orthodox Jews. There is
enough Jew-hatred in the world without
Jews deprecating the practices of other Jews
with whom they might disagree. I am sure
that there are many denominational practices in other Jewish belief systems that can
easily lend themselves to ridicule by those
not sharing those beliefs. Would an entire
page be devoted to mocking the Amish for
their beliefs ? The Hindus for theirs ? Etc.
etc. The Jewish community deserves better
from the Standard.
dr. Wallace greene, Fair Lawn
Anger from
the Reform world
I was disappointed in Do empty pockets

make cold hearts? (May 30), starting with
the pejorative headline, subhead, and lead
Can the bottom line be the only line for
a Jewish organization?
They draw a conclusion about the
correctness of Temple Emeths decision
better suited to an editorial piece, not a
news article.
The subhead says at last minute.
More than three months before the
start of school is the last minute? When
should such a decision be made, four
years in advance?
As to the appropriateness of the synagogues decision, should an organization
be forced to continue a program in which
it loses money?
The article makes it clear that few members of Temple Emeth, or potential members, are being served by the program. One
parent quoted in the article has another
child in Solomon Schechter; the other is the
rabbi of an Orthodox congregation.
You gave the latter, Rabbi Gavriel Bellino, an entire column one-fourth of
the article to cast aspersions on Temple
Emeth, including this speaks of desperation and incompetence and They know
their building in a few years will be either
an Orthodox synagogue or a breakaway
from the Korean church across the street.
The Standard has a reputation among
Reform Jews that the paper does not
respect us. This article shows why.
lloyd a. de Vries, Paramus
Zionist Spring
I am not normally supportive of new

Jewish/Israeli based organizations we
seem to have more than our share. But
the time has come for a new effort that
will restore the greatness and vitality of
the Zionist movement.
Israel and the Jewish people are under
attack from the outside, and more
importantly, from the inside. Support
for Zionism is the weakest I have seen.
Support for Israel seems to be getting
weaker every day, especially from within
our Jewish community.
The Zionist Spring is a new effort with

which I am very impressed. It is not a
political party, it is not a fundraising organization. It is rather a new voice of the
Jewish people, demanding that Zionism
become relevant in our daily lives again.
Through the Zionist Spring I can demonstrate my passion and commitment
practically, by shaping the decisions of the
Zionist movement through the upcoming
World Zionist Congress, the Parliament
of the Jewish people.
For me, there are four pillars on which
the Zionist enterprise is built:
1) The unity of the Jewish people: sorely
lacking to say the least. Almost three
decades ago Rabbi Irving Yitz Greenbergs CLAL developed an ad that said,
The last time the Jewish people was so
divided we lost 10 out of 12 tribes Forever. Now I believe that we are so divided
that we may lose Israel forever. We need
to develop a new grassroots effort to stop
this growing divide.
2) Making or supporting aliyah:
Although the numbers of people making
aliyah are holding up or increasing, the
vast majority seems to be coming from
the traditional community. The Reform
and Conservative movements seem to not
be serious in terms of supporting aliyah.
This is not healthy for those movements,
this is not healthy for Israel, this is not
healthy for the Jewish people. We need to
develop a new grassroots effort to develop
a plan that will attract Jews of all stripes to
make aliyah.
3) Strengthen Israel: There are too
many among us who think that the best
way to strengthen Israel is to criticize it
constantly. Im reminded of something
Rabbi David Hartman zl use to say: It is
ok to criticize Israel, but do it as a mother,
not a mother-in-law. JStreet has brought
criticism of Israel to a new high. Rabbi
Rick Jacobs, who heads the Reform movement and is a former member of JStreet, is
threatening to withdraw from the Conference of Presidents. Does anyone in their
right mind think that these two examples
strengthen Israel? We need a new grassroots effort that will negate these misguided efforts.
4) Ensuring the future: Without a strong
Israel there will be no future. Without a
strong diaspora there will be no future.
Sure, Israel has warts, as does American
Jewry. We need to develop a new grassroots effort to work, from the inside, to
make things better in both Israel and in
the diaspora, or there will be no future for
the Jewish people.
As we celebrate Israels 66th birthday
please join me by working to return Zionism to the level of importance it used to
have and must have again. The future of
diaspora Jewry, the future of Israel, the
future of the Jewish people may depend
on your involvement and support.
The Zionist Spring is at www.zionistspring.org.
Paul Jesser, Los Angeles
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Come on over
As summer
starts, we look
at the Palisades
Amusement Park
through the eyes
of its longtime
publicist,
Sol Abrams
JOANNE PALMER
alisades has the rides... Palisades has the fun... Come on

over.
Shows and dancing are
free... sos the parking, so gee... Come on over.
Suppose, just for a moment, that you might
want to take an elephant water-skiing.
(No, dont ask why. Thats a question for
another time. Just go with it.)
Okay. So youve got the elephant. Youve got
a body of water big enough for it the Hudson
River.
Oh, and you happen to be on 30 acres that
span Cliffside Park and Fort Lee, in southern
Bergen County, not far at all from the river
but the direction to the river is less east than
it is down. Straight down a jagged
cliff. (Its not called Cliffside Park for
nothing.)
So your next steps are obvious.
You attach some pontoons to a
motorboat, and once thats ready
you lead the elephant down the
windy path on the steep rocky slope of the Palisades, through the trees, until you get to the
rivers edge. And then you just get the elephant
up onto the pontoons, lock it in place, pose a
bathing-suited showgirl next to it, and drive off
down the river.
Piece of cake.
Palisades from coast to coast, where a dime
buys the most.
Palisades Amusement Park. Swings all day and
after dark.
That escapade, which happened in the mid1950s, was the brainchild of Sol Abrams of New
Milford, who was Palisades Amusement Parks
publicist from 1949 until it closed in 1971.
Mr. Abrams was born in 1925, and he is no
longer the fireball that he once was. Still,
when he talks about the park, which was not
only his livelihood but also his passion, he visibly regains energy. He has a story of stories
about the park, and any stories hes forgotten,
his grandson, Avi Schneck of North Caldwell,
remembers.
The park, which first opened, under another
Sol Abrams proposed to his wife, Zelda, at the parks Tunnel of Love.
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name, in 1898, never was a Disneyland;

it was, from all reports, not obsessively
scrubbed; it did not use cutting-edge technology; it was not an aspirational vacation
site, to be visited only infrequently. It was
not even particularly wholesome. It was
open to all comers who could afford its
moderate prices, it attracted a cross-section of people from across New Jersey and
New York, cutting across class and ethnic
lines to do so, and it drew heavily on the
sideshow culture of the carnivals that traveled this country during the last century.
It thrived on spectacle, and Mr. Abrams
was a master at imagining and then implementing outrageous shows.
Mr. Abrams, one of five siblings, was
born in 1925, and grew up in an eight-bedroom house in the east Bronx, his grandson said. His father, Mayer, was born in
Poland and came to America as a young
child. Mayer Abrams loved gardening, Mr.
Schneck said; the father and son would
walk around their urban neighborhood
and the father would quiz the son about
the identity of each tree, shrub, and weed
they passed.
The family owned a farm in Monroe, in
New Yorks Orange County. Mayer Abrams
sent his son there during his senior year
in high school family lore has it that the
father caught the son smoking cigarettes
and feared for his future. He also saw it as
a way to keep his son safe from the draft.
Sol loved it, Mr. Schneck said. He loved
feeding the chickens and milking the cows
hed wake up at 4:30 in the morning to
feed the chickens.

Mr. Abrams graduated from high school
in 1943, but he did not go straight into
military service. Despite his fathers plans
to keep him out of the war, Mr. Abrams
was desperate to enlist, but, ironically,
the army did not want him. His eyesight
was abysmal. He was so dedicated to the

United States that he wrote letters to Eisenhower and to all the other generals, pleading to be let in, Mr. Schneck said.
Eventually Mr. Abrams private campaign worked. He was allowed to enlist,
but by then it was 1945, and the war had
ended. He was assigned to Bolling Air

Force Base in Washington, where he
worked on the bases newsletter. He rose
quickly, becoming first its public relations
director and then, two copies later, its
chief editor. He kept every copy he ever
worked on, Mr. Schneck said. He had fun
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From the top, Little Miss America was chosen, the Fifth Dimension sang, and Miss American Teen hopefuls competed at the park.
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with it he knew he was entertaining people.
He discovered his niche.
After his discharge in 1948, Mr. Abrams went to NYU,
where he earned a degree in public relations. At first he
worked as a pr consultant, shuttling from job to job, but
his obvious passion for Palisades Amusement Park, and
his genius at coming up with stunts to promote it, soon
led to a full-time job there.
By then, Palisades Amusement Park was owned
by Irving Rosenthal, another true character. He was
about three feet tall, and very demanding, Mr. Schneck
said, again retelling family lore. He had a real Napoleon complex. He was always dressed very nicely. Very
expensively. His wife, Gladys Shelley, was a lyricist and
composer. It was Ms. Shelley who came up with the
parks jingle, a tune that anyone who was sentient by
1971, when the park closed for good, has permanently
encased somewhere in his or her mind.
Sol Abrams job was to promote the park, and he did
it in increasingly outrageous ways. The park was the
essence of fun, and he was the king of publicity stunts,
Mr. Schneck said. Hed be quiet, and then he would
just look at two things, and put them together, and say
Oh, thats possible. I just have to work it out. And then
he would.
Some of the stunts were quiet; maybe it would be
more accurate to call them marketing devices.
Take the hole in the fence around the park.
Dr. Mark Docktor of Tenafly, who grew up in Fort
Lee, remembers that hole fondly. He and his friends
would sneak into the park; because they were locals,
and knew about it, they felt special, territorial, proud of
their insider knowledge.
In fact, according to Jill Schneck of North Caldwell,
Sol Abrams daughter, that hole was her fathers brainchild. He did it so that people could get in free, have
the thrill of getting something for nothing. Sometimes

her father would stand by the hole, welcoming people as
they climbed through it. Because, of course, they still
had to pay for the rides.
Even the rides were not the parks main source of
income, Mr. Schneck said. Most of the profit came from
fees paid by the concession owners, who sold food.
Once they were inside the park, visitors had a choice
of entertainments. There were the classic carnival
rides, like the Ferris wheel, Mr. Schneck said. It was a
huge old wooden wheel, inherited from the parks previous owner. Youd get stuck up on the top there with your
girl it would be really sweet.
Rosenthal didnt put any money into it, he continued. It was shabby when they got it. It was the rustic
look they wanted. They felt that people wanted to go to
a place that looks like people have been there, that it has
some age to it.
There also were a few roller coasters, most of them
wooden classics, including the Cyclone, named after the
prototype in Coney Island, which Irving and his brother
Jack Rosenthal had built. It scared everyone, Mr. Schneck said. At first it cost a penny a ride; later it went up
to two cents.
When Mr. Rosenthal bought the park, it also included
a huge saltwater pool, filled with filtered river water.
(Dont think about that one too hard, and assume that
the filter worked well.) A giant machine made waves.
My grandfather wanted adults to come in and sit by
the pool, and let the kids run off with the pocketful of
change theyd saved up all week, Mr. Schneck said.
The park had paddle boats, and other fairly slow, standard carnival rides.
And then there was the Tunnel of Love.
It was a classic, Mr. Schneck said. It was a long ride
in a two-person carriage. It took you through scenes with
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there and make out. Riders couldnt do
much more than kiss, he added; There
was a bar covering you up to your waist.
It was a favorite ride for young couples at the end of an evening, he added.
You take this slow-moving ride, holding
hands it was very 1950s and your parents would be outside, waiting for you,
fuming, knowing exactly what you were
doing.
In fact, his grandfather proposed to his
grandmother, Zelda, outside the Tunnel
of Love.
His grandmother was a realtor; she
was the ever-present parent, the one
who brought up the familys three children while her husband was out at work.
This was not her world. Im sure that
when he proposed there, my grandmother was thinking, Really? The Tunnel of Love? Mr. Schneck said.
Mr. Abrams ran all sorts of pageants.
He would go to women with infants,
and say, Do you want to be part of
this? Often, they would. Infants would
be entered in races to see which one
crawled fastest. That was called the Diaper Derby. There would be 20 babies,
screaming, and people would take bets
on how fast they could go, Mr. Schneck
said. There would be beauty pageants
for women, for teenagers, for young
girls. Little Miss America, Miss Polish
America, Miss Who-Knows-What-Else,
his mother added. And Buffy and Jody
from Family Affair the youngest children on a popular sit-com were the
emcees for Little Miss America.
My grandfather was responsible for
bringing in all the one-hit wonders of
the time, Mr. Schneck said. He would
escort them through crowds of people
trying to get their autographs, trying to

touch them, and they loved it.
The park also attracted famous people, as famous as Jackie Kennedy and
her children. Eddie Fisher and Debbie
Reynolds announced their engagement
there. Even William Shatner showed up.
Bruce Morrow Cousin Brucie ran a
rocknroll show there, which featured
many of the hottest names of the 1950s
and 60s, from Frankie Avalon, Fabian,
and Bobby Rydell to the Young Rascals,
Petula Clark, and the Lovin Spoonful.
Disk jockey Murray the K emceed there
as well. All of that was done under Sol
Abrams watchful eye.
And then, once the promotion or the
contest or the parade or the stunt was
over, Mr. Abrams had to write it up and
then he would have to drive it over the
bridge to the news outlets in New York. It
was decades before press releases could
be faxed, much less emailed.
When you ask people who grew up in
other parts of the country, you find that
often they too had heard of the park. Mr.
Abrams had the foresight to advertise in
comic books the park had a relationship with DC Comics, Harvey Comics,
and Archie Comics, and often those
companies heroes, including Superman, would make guest appearances;
others would lend their names to rides,
particularly for small children. Eventually, the Tunnel of Love, which lost its
appeal for teenagers, was repurposed
for kids, and renamed for Casper the
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you know!)
Parking always was a big problem. The
park had small lots, which were not adequate; eventually, it bought lots further
away and shuttled visitors in. But still
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there was not enough space. Park guests would park
all over Fort Lee and Cliffside Park, and that, understandably, would enrage the towns residents. And
there still was not enough space. At times, the road
that led south from the George Washington Bridge
to the park, and then south from there nearly to the
Lincoln Tunnel, would be packed with would-be
park patrons trawling unsuccessfully for someplace
to leave the car.
The park became unpopular with the people who
lived nearby. And then eventually it got old. Times
and tastes changed. What had been appealing shabby
became visibly threadbare.
There was a time for everything, and its time was
over, Mr. Schneck said. In 1971, Irving Rosenthal sold
it to the developers who built luxury high-rise apartment buildings; Winston Towers grew on the ground
where the Cyclone and the Tunnel of Love once had
stood.
The closing was sudden and unannounced. Irving
felt he had to take the deal, and he did not consult
with the staff before he made the decision, Mr. Schneck said. My grandfather felt betrayed by someone
he had worked so hard for.
After the park closed, Mr. Abrams continued working as a publicist. He and his family belonged to the
New Milford Jewish Center, and then to the JCC of
Paramus. He had been and continues to be deeply
connected to the Jewish community, and a resolute
Zionist. In fact, his grandson said, his grandfather
always has kept kosher, so he could not eat much at
the park. Hed go across the street to Hirams a
famous hot-dog stand in Fort Lee, both then and now
but hed only eat eggs.
His mind was American, but his heart was Jewish, Mr. Schneck said, and some of that sensibility
translated itself to the park, in its family-friendliness.
Palisades Amusement Park has been closed for
decades now; the last generation of children who
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PHIl JAcObS
illy Cooks bar mitzvah Torah portion was

Kedoshim, with the famous command:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Billy wanted to follow the command.
But how?
Billy, 13, and his mother Phylisse were directed by Irene Bolton, Temple Beth Ors director of
lifelong learning, to the offerings of Kesher Olam
(connection to the world), the bar and bat mitzvah project list of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Through Kesher Olam, he saw organizations
that would work with students his age. There was
no danger of rejection because of age, year in
school, or lack of a drivers license.
One group, the Major Stuart Adam Wolfer
Institute (MSAWI) offered a support a soldier
project where students could write personal messages on cards accompanied by sweet
treats, personal care, or entertainment items.
Billy wanted to write messages, but not on
cards. He wanted instead to send his messages
on baseballs. Word got out. Soon friends, family
members, sporting goods companies, even baseball leagues were sending him baseballs. Over
1,700 balls, all with messages, have been sent
to troops overseas. Billys BASEballs has its own
brand, its own non-profit status, and of course a
Facebook page.
Billy wants to play for the Yankees one day,
and hes serious. He was serious about sending
baseballs to soldiers around the world, and with
nearly 2,000 baseballs sent around the world, you
can see how that turned out. So it wont be a surprise if his determination and talent earns him a
Yankee uniform one day.
Meanwhile, the men and women wearing
U.S. Army uniforms have a 13-year-old boy with
a dream to thank for a bit of joy as they play catch
amidst their routine.
Unbeknownst to them, they also have another boys dad to thank: Dan Shlufman of Tenafly,
who came up with the idea and started Kesher
Olam.
He was a parent attending a Temple Emanu-El of Closter pre-bar and bat mitzvah meeting. Once there, the pre-bnei mitzvah children,
including his son Noah, were sent downstairs to
meet with an assistant rabbi to discuss mitzvah
Billy Cooks baseballs-for-troops project snowballed.
projects.
So, all the children are downstairs and all the
where parents and children could get ideas and help
adults are upstairs, he said. This was the entire bar
turn those ideas into projects and that place should
mitzvah discussion. It wasnt coordinated. They took
be the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
the children downstairs and asked them what they
Mr. Shlufman said the federation was a logical
were interested in. But upstairs, its the parents who
choice with its connections with agencies in our area.
are the ones who will have to help them find the projWe wanted the project to have something where
ects.
the children had to touch someone, he said. It
Mr. Shlufman felt that there needed to be a place
couldnt be where they were collecting bottle caps
or running a race. They had to be with a person.

They could tutor a child with special needs, bring
a pet to the Jewish Home, and perform a concert
for one or a group. These are tactile projects.
The projects didnt even have to be at a Jewish place. Feeding the hungry at a soup kitchen is a
Jewish value, he said.
Mr. Shlufman said it wasnt so easy for a 12 or
13-year-old youth to find a charitable organization that didnt prefer high school or college aged
students, students with drivers licenses or even
previous experience.
He said that rabbis and religious school principals love Kesher Olam, because it takes so much
of the burden off them of helping to find a workable project.
Once downloaded and printed from the
JFNNJ.org site, the 30-page Kesher Olam guide
covers opportunities by area of interest such as
working with special needs children, violence
against women, family issues, building and renovating, and many programs related to Israel.
Kesher Olam is run by Alice Blass, a project
coordinator for the federations Jewish Community
Relations Council, who also leads the federations
Mitzvah Day and Good Deeds Day.
Ms. Blass notes that many Hebrew schools require
mitzvah projects from their students.
What Kesher Olam does is provide multiple
options from various agencies giving bar and bat mitzvah students various agencies to choose from. It really
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makes it easy for families to fulfill this requirement,
she said.
While Billy Books basebal project is the most well
known Kesher Olam success story, Ms. Blass said area
students and their parents have a lot of mitzvah projects to be proud of.
There is the student teaching computer technology to seniors in an assisted living facility.
There are students who provide kits of kosher food
and toiletries for Project S.A.R.A.H., an organization
helping women to leave an abusive relationship.
There is the autistic child who is helping other
autistic children learn how to swim.
More than 70 area families from about 15 different
area synagogues have asked about the projects since
Kesher Olam started in 2011, said Ms. Blass.
It can be overwhelming to find a project, said
Ms. Blass. It can be particularly difficult for this age
group. But we have found opportunities for them.
And of course, a mitzvah is not just a mitzvah; it is
an education.
This is an opportunity for children to be exposed
to a social issue they may not be familiar with. Working
with elderly, doing work at a shelter is not the world
they live in. But we should be teaching them about
that world, said Ms. Blass.
Sari Gross of Wayne, is the vice chair of JCRC and
chair of its Tikkun Olam Initiative. She oversees Mitzvah Day. She said Kesher Olam fills an important role
for the community.
We have families who have the passion and who
really cared, they just didnt know how to connect the
dots. We know about the agencies, we work with them
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Ms. Bolton of Temple Beth Or said Billy Cooks
project had an amazing impact on the synagogue.
The best part has been in our own community
for our congregation on Washington Township Day,
she said.Billy took balls with him to a table. The
response of people had been incredible. Kids have
decorated the balls. For a moment, kids are stopping
and saying that there are people risking their lives for
our freedom, how amazing is that? If we can do this
one little act were making a difference.
Billy worked hard to create a culture of involvement and understanding those less fortunate in the
world, and that we have a responsibility to help. Sometimes its for a soldier out in the field. But sometimes
its to help a child who is not able to run and jump like
we can run and jump. We have kids in our school who
go to the JCC and help children with autism in the
pool. The Kesher Olam Project has helped our congregation move to a deep understanding that its more
important to give up time and help those who need
help, she said.
And as for Billy and his family: Not only has he
grown and matured, Bolton said, but to see a family
so engaged, you know that makes it even better. They
dont talk about being Jewish, they act on it. They help
guide and teach them. Its really why I work in this field
for moments like this where Jewish life becomes a
guiding force for us.
Billys mother keeps the inscription on one ball
close to her heart. This ball, someone wrote, comes
with an infinite amount of prayer. Every time the ball is
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For more information on these opportunities, contact

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Volunteers organize a book drive of new books for
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new books are distributed to the Bergen Reads students in grades K-4 as end-of-year gifts. A book plate
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Jewish. To learn from Sally that there

were Jews killed during her lifetime just
because they were Jewish was difficult.
I felt that my interview for my
bat mitzvah was important, because
we have to keep telling the story of the
Holocaust survivors.
Anna said that Ms. Whitmore came
to the U.S. when she was 20. She would
go on to marry another Holocaust survivor.
She told us that her husband didnt
talk about his experiences for about a
10-year-period, said Anna. When they
started having children, thats when the
stories were told.
Mrs. Kasmanoff said she was very
proud of her daughters bat mitzvah
project.
She spoke very well, and it was
meaningful. We do all have to remember the Holocaust, and hopefully people
listened.
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Book club/reading to residents who

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Today he is a piano man

Phil Jacobs
idan Kluger, 13, decided that

his bar mitzvah project should
reflect what he does best. He
composes and plays music,
both classical and contemporary, on the
piano.
So after consulting with Kesher
Olam, he set about playing piano for
audiences at the Jewish Home of Rockleigh, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades,
and the Bergen Family Center.
His bar mitzvah was held on January 25 at Temple Sinai in Tenafly. His
project was to bring music into the lives
of the senior residents he played for.
He received, according to his mother,

Lauren, rousing applause from every
audience.
I really thought about what I really enjoyed doing, and how I thought
I could make a difference in other
peoples lives, said the Tenafly Middle School seventh grade student. I
thought the best way was to share the
talents I have. Music and playing the
piano are huge parts of my life.
Aidan said he was told there were
people in his audiences suffering with
different levels of Alzheimers. The
youthful pianist said he saw a spark in
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the eyes of many he played for.

Some of the audience members
asked him questions such as how long
has he been playing. Aiden started playing piano between six and seven years
old.
He played largely classical music.
His favorite classical composer is
Claude Debussy. He loves John Williams
as his favorite contemporary composer.
Aidan also was named the New
Jersey Arts Collectives Pictures
2014 pre-college winner for a musical composition he wrote called Defiance of a Bird. Mrs. Kluger said that
she was in tears when she watched

the reaction of the elderly audiences.
Some were severely incapacitated,
she said. But you could see they were
moved by the music.
Aidan added that at one location,
some of the elderly people, including he
said a 102-year-old man, were moved to
get up and start dancing to his music.
At his bar mitzvah, Aidan gave a
summary of his performances and his
audiences.
The whole experience was
extremely enriching, he said. I really
enjoyed giving back to the community.
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Seventh graders and older can participate in the Friends at Home program.
Each week pairs of teen volunteers
visit children with special needs in their
homes where they share in activities
and offer friendship. Sixth graders can
learn more in-depth in formation about
various special needs through the
Mitzvah Volunteer Program (MVP). The
MVP teaches about various disabilities,
appropriate conduct when volunteering, and how to interact with children
Volunteers go in pairs to the homes.

There are many opportunities.
Friends at Home program runs from
September June. Contact the Friendship Circle for the MVP schedule.
Days and times can accommodate a
wide variety of schedules. The Family
Circle staff will coordinate accordingly.
An adult is always present in the home
while the volunteers are there.
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Volunteers can make regular visits to
one of the homes and do any number
of activities with the consumers such
as play games, bake, do puzzles, or just
sit and schmooze! An adult chaperone
must be present at all times,
Because there are multiple homes,
there is no limit on the number of volunteers.
The project takes place weekly or
whatever arrangements are made between the student and J-ADD.
The various activities can be performed
on weekday afternoons, evenings or
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Fix a house, fix the world, with Bonim Buiders
hat do teens Valerie Maier, DD Naiman, and

Josh Blecherman have in common? Each one
selected Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jerseys Bonim Builders to fulfill a mitzvah
project, and in the process, reconnect to the purpose
and meaning of becoming a bar or bat mitzvah.
More and more bnei mitzvot and their families
are interested in marking the milestone with handson projects that reinforce the Jewish values of charity
and acts of kindness to the community at large. Bonim
Builders provides many tikkun olam repairing the
world opportunities for bnei mitzvah students who
are looking for a mitzvah project a little bit out of the
ordinary.
Students can select their level of participation and
either sign on to already-scheduled projects or sponsor a project. The student can help plan the project
from its beginning. Bonim volunteers perform critical
repairs and renovations for low income families, the
physically and mentally disabled, and seniors in Bergen, Passaic, and North Hudson counties.
Bonim Builders welcomes volunteers of all skill
levels, and especially welcomes bnei mitzvah students
and their families. Student participation varies and is
dependent on the talents and special interests of the
child.
A long-term Bonim project piqued Tenafly teen
Valerie Maiers interest. Shed asked that in lieu of gifts,
donations be made to a Jewish non-profit. She chose
to create a donor advised fund with Jewish Federations
Endowment Foundation. It is from this fund that Valerie selected a project she would fund: to purchase a
generator for a wheelchair-bound little girlZoesuffering from severe cerebral palsy.
Bonim Builders, in partnership with Bergen Habitat for Humanity, was in the process of completing the
build-out of a two-story addition for Zoe and her low
income family in New Milford. Although the renovation rendered the tiny house wheelchair-accessible,
there was still need for a generator in case of a power
outage, since Zoeys hospital bed and other necessary
medical equipment are electrically-powered.
Valeries bat mitzvah project and her donation of
the generator served to complete a Bonim Builders
project that allows the family to rest easier that Zoes
quality of life and safety are not jeopardized.
DD Naiman, a Teaneck teen, has a propensity for
power tools and all things building-related. His handson inclination and Bonims building projects was a
perfect match. DD, accompanied by his father Avi,
catered events
assisted with a teen center renovation at Temple
Beth
El in North Bergen where Bonim replaced the ceiling
and lighting. In addition, DD helped Bonim build the
new Family Promise offices and day center serving the
homeless in Ridgewood. DD helped Bonim assemble
sukkahs for seniors unable to do so. DDs hallmark
project, under the tutelage of Bonim Builders, was
the sponsorship and assembly of an exterior handicap ramp for a 90-year-old wheelchair-bound retired
school teacher. Not only did DD give up a portion of
his bar mitzvah gifts to aid a neighbor, but he invited
family and friends to come help build the ramp from
the ground up.
Josh Blecherman, a Wayne teen, enjoys painting,
and helped Bonim paint the home of a disabled man,
as well as paint a facility that serves homeless families. In lieu of flowers adorning the bima of his synagogue during his bar mitzvah service, Josh decorated
Home Depot buckets filled with painting supplies and
donated these supplies to Bonim Builders after his bar
mitzvah.
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If my daughter can learn to chant, so can I
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he invitation was very exciting. A nearby Orthodox synagogue was having a reading of the Book
of Ruth by the congregations women and girls,
and I was invited to take part along with my
daughter Shaina. The Book of Ruth, which is read on
the second day of Shavuot, celebrates a Jewish heroine
whose legacy promises salvation and whose life epito-
mized kindness and loyalty. I had never, ever leined

chanted from the Bible before. Neither had Shaina,
a newly-minted bat mitzvah. Here was a ready-made
opportunity for mother-and-daughter bonding and
spiritual growth.
Sure, it is a season of deadlines and pre-summer
events, of end-of-year-schoolwork, projects, presenta-
tions, performances and finals. Nonetheless, I figured

why not? And I said yes to another commitment.
Beth Schwartz, a mother of four who organized a
Women and Girls Megillat Ruth reading at The Jewish
Center in Manhattan three years ago, was very encouraging. No worries, Beth told me. Its just like learning
a song. Just make sure that the Hebrew words you are
chanting are correct. Besides, she assured, this is a
great way to get your feet wet.
Beth emailed a virtual cantor along with our
assignments. He would guide me on the three lines
that I was to chant.
Shaina set up the virtual cantor on my laptop and
I started following along, becoming familiar with his
deep, old school tenor voice. I played my virtual cantor again and again, trying to get down exactly the
nuanced curls of the trope. But when I would practice
and repeat, it was as if I was starting the cantillation
anew.
Why, I wondered, was I able to sing along with
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Youngs Teach Your Children,
a favorite song from decades ago, when I would hear it
while browsing the aisles of Key Food, but I was having
trouble with this new little ditty?
For Shaina, it was snap, crackle, and pop. She
spent some time attached to her earphones and her
iPad, and, voila, she knew it. And she sounded great.
On Thursday, the day of the reading, I realized a
tad late I didnt have much of an ear for learning the
leining with my virtual cantor, and while not quite
ready, I would have to give it my best shot.
When I said I thought learning the symbols for the
melody would be much more useful, my son, Yehuda,
who chanted his Torah portion at his bar mitzvah 10
months earlier, whipped out his old learning material
and started to teach me at the 11th hour.
Patient, funny, encouraging, and with his own
unique style, Yehuda was giving me a lesson from his
own lessons!
Later, at the Megillat Ruth reading, there were
more than 25 girls and women who came together. A
stream of different feminine voices leining in dulcet
tones, daughters, mothers, women and girls, retelling
the story of Ruth and of a special relationship between
two women, Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi. The
reading went very well and everyone was filled with
pride, and, for some, with relief.
Shaina had leined beautifully.
Yehuda had taught beautifully.
And while I did fine, what I felt most was grateful.
I was filled with my own bar and bat mitzvah mama
pride, proud of my children and their involvement.
I guess you could say that I couldnt sing their
praises, in trope or otherwise, any better.
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itzvah Organizer, a new webbased planner, was created for

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BAR/BAT MITZVAH
Touched by an author
Boy finds way to bar mitzvah with help of Simms Taback picture books
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s his mother read to him, Levi

Davishoff puckered and moved
his lips in the universal sign indicating that something is sour. He
then pointed to the lemon pictured in
the library book.
His mother, Marla, was thrilled.
It was the first time that Levi, then 18
months old, had communicated with
the baby sign language he had been
learning. He had been in therapy for
developmental and cognitive delays
since he was two months old.
Davishoff rushed out to buy the
book, Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, by
Simms Taback. It would become Levis
favorite.
Little did she imagine that 12 years
later the book would play an integral
part in Levis bar mitzvah ceremony.
In fact, for many years it wasnt
clear that any bar mitzvah service
would take place.
His learning disabilities were exacerbated by an illness, Davishoff said.
He had a significant cognitive decline
Levi Davishoff on the bimah of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation in Lincolnshire, Ill. Tell Draper
A cutout of a Star of David, peeking through to

another photo, appearing on the service booklets
page with Hatikvah. Tell Draper
that he still hasnt recovered from.

Due to the illness, Levi, who attends
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a therapeutic day school, skipped a

year of Sunday school at Kol Hadash
Humanistic Congregation in Lincolnshire, Ill. But he missed being there and
remained eager to have a bar mitzvah
ceremony.
I just wanted to be like everyone
else, he recalled.
Youngsters at Levis synagogue
arent obligated to read the Torah por-
tion at their bar or bat mitzvah. So Levi

decided to do a project on Taback, who
had become his favorite author.
He researched the graphic artist
who wrote childrens books and had
been a designer for The New York Times
and CBS Records. Levi also contacted
Tabacks daughter, who sent an autographed copy of the book Joseph it
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I just love his books; theyre very interesting and
I just think theyre great books, the 13-year-old said.
Theyre funny and theyre good stories.
Levis mother, meanwhile, designed a service
booklet for the May 31 bar mitzvah celebration evoking Tabacks use of collages by using images from
Joseph and his other works.
After the booklets were printed, she added die cuts
to each a signature of Tabacks books. For example,
at the top of the page with Hatikvah, she punched
out a Star of David, which peeked through to an image
on the next page taken from the cover of Tabacks book
Kibitzers and Fools. That image appeared near the
portion of Levis speech that mentions the book.
On another page, a punch-out of a wine glass was
placed next to the Kiddush in the service, revealing on
the following page a picture of the sun and flower from
Joseph.
As I learned about Simms Taback, I discovered
how important books are in my life, Levi said in his
speech. I am lucky to collect a small library for myself
and I try to find new homes for my books when I am
done reading them.
That is, he said, if my dog Cocoa hasnt destroyed
them first.
Articulating the speech was the hardest part,
Levi said, his shyness about talking to a reporter coming through. I just was proud of myself because I did a
good thing.
Said Kol Hadashs Rabbi Adam Chalom: The big
smile on his face, his obvious sense of accomplishment and pride, were priceless.
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Looking back in awe

Reflecting on my bat mitzvah as high school graduation approaches
Olivia Rosenzweig
nly a few days in your

life are all about you,
my father once told
me: your birth, your
bar/bat mitzvah, and your
wedding. Each of these celebrations marks a transition
to a new stage of your life:
childhood, adolescence, and
adulthood. As a graduating
high school senior, I find
myself in the middle of these last two
stages, a young adult still not completely ready to take on grown-up responsibilities. As such, Ive been reflecting on
my bat mitzvah how it impacted me,
and how I grew from it.
When I was eleven, my parents set me

down and asked me what I wanted to do
for my upcoming celebration. Bat mitzvah celebrations are relatively new my
mother had one but my grandmother did
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community. Being the overachiever that I was, I decided

to lead services and read from
the Torah at a womens-only
service on Shabbat afternoon,
as well as study a tractate of Talmud which I would complete
with a festive siyum celebration. I chose a pretty obscure
tractate to study, Masechet
Taanit, which details the laws of fasting.
I thought my other option for a not-toohard, not-too-long tractate, Masechet Megillah, seemed too mainstream. (It deals
with Purim.)
And of course I wanted a party in addition to all of this; what twelve-year-old
girl doesnt?
As a result, my bat mitzvah spread out
into a monstrous three-day event, which
featured a Shabbat afternoon service at
my house, a Saturday night kids party,
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where I would speak about what I learned
from my Talmud study.
Of course, not everything went as
smoothly as planned. I wasnt able to finish learning my self-assigned tractate myself, so my parents and rabbi had to do
some extra learning on my behalf in order to officially declare a siyum. Half the
guests couldnt hear my speech due to the
dysfunctional microphones. My father
forgot to put out my personalized benchers so we still have a stack of about fifty
sitting in our dining room.
At the time, however, it felt like I was
wading through a dreamlike fog.
On Sunday, I wafted from room to
room, as different guests pulled me aside.
People I barely knew pushed thick white
envelopes into my hand, whispering their
congratulations. Strangers cried about
how grown-up I looked. People raved
about the food that I myself didnt have
the opportunity to try. But the highlight
of the day was standing on stage and
knowing everyone was there for me, to
celebrate my accomplishments.
And I really did feel accomplished. I
had never chanted from the Torah before, never studied Talmud, and never
composed a speech. For months, I had
bat mitzvah lessons two nights a week
after school, and it was a commitment I
enjoyed. I was learning new skills, and actually growing from the experience.
When the tumult finally passed and
all the guests went home, I was left overwhelmed by the quiet, trying to commit
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to memory the last 48 hours. I was just

getting used to the spotlight, and suddenly the electricity had been turned off.
My time center stage was done, but
that didnt mean my responsibilities were
over. I was now technically an adult in regards to Jewish law. I took this very seriously, making a conscious effort to follow
the mitzvot and go to synagogue with my
mom each week. Judaism became an integral part of my identity.
As I entered high school, I am sad to
say, I lost some of my child-like dedication
to mitzvot and, becoming more and more
unsure of what I really believed in. I miss
that part of me and hope to rediscover it
as I prepare to enter the next stage of my
life, post-high school.
Although my spirituality has declined,
my educational and emotional growth is,
gratefully, incomparable. Now I reread
the speeches I wrote and review what I actually learned and am astonished by how
mediocre my accomplishments seem. At
the time my triumphs felt tremendous,
but by now I can probably accomplish
just as much, with better execution, in a
number of hours.
These days, I tend to look up at the podium in awe when I attend the celebrations
of my family and friends. That scrawny
kid at the bimah, hesitantly reciting her
blessings, has finally achieved a day all
her own. She has just begun her journey
into adulthood. And knowing how much
Ive grown since my bat mitzvah, I look at
her and cant wait to see what the next six
years have in store.
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Collect and deliver new clothing, new shoes, sports
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children in the Tapuz absorption center in Nahariya.
Once a year Tapuz organizes a day of celebration for
all the bar mitzvah boys when they have an aliyah and
a party. Families can help enhance the experience.
Or-Shalom is the major organization handling foster
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could adopt such children as their Bar/Bat mitzvah
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Provide scholarships for children and teens to participate in organized after school sport and arts activities.
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Amcha (for holocaust survivors), Marshal (for the
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Donations can be made towards the purchase of
equipment and supplies such as computers and enrichment activities.
Yael (devoted to helping and supporting the sick, the
hospitalized and their families)-donate books and/or
gifts for the holidays.
Visit the elderly in their homes in Israel.
Assemble care packages for the Israel Defense Force
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At 80, Holocaust survivor finally revels in his bar mitzvah

Debra Rubin
van and Rebecca Gabor have

Their son, Gabe, adds, I cant
been married for 34 years.
remember a time in my life when
And for 34 years, Rebecca had
he didnt remind me of the fact that
heard her husband lament
he didnt have a bar mitzvah.
that he never had a bar mitzvah
Rebecca decided to do somecelebration.
thing about it without telling her
Born in Transylvania, Ivan
husband.
and his family moved to HungaShe had an invitation sent to
ry when he was a young child,
their Sunny Isles, Fla., home, invitchanging their last name from
ing the couple to a 40th wedding
Grossman to Gabor. When the
anniversary celebration for friends
Nazis came, his father was sent to
to be held at Beit Torah in Aventua forced labor camp; Ivan and his
ra, Fla. The Gabors walked into the
mother went into hiding.
reception hall and Ivan discovered
His father returned at the
the invitation was a ruse. It turned
end of the war but was very sick,
out he was the guest of honor at an
said Gabor, whose self-published
80th birthday party.
memoir, Echoes of My FootThey yelled Surprise! Gabor
steps, tells the story of his sursaid. They came over to congratuvival and his life in Israel and
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Argentina before settling in the
But there was a second surUnited States in 1977.
Ivan Gabor, left, with wife Rebecca, son Gabe and daughter-in-law Lili, attending Florida International Universitys annual prise for Gabor, not to mention a
He was planning my bar Torch Awards ceremony in 2012.
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mitzvah, Gabor said. He even
were ushered into the sanctuary,
wrote a speech. But he passed away. I never had a bar
Every time we would go to a bar mitzvah, he
where Gabor was presented with a tallit. Rabbi Isaac
mitzvah.
would say I never had a bar mitzvah, Rebecca said.
Galimidi-Hodara led him in the blessing before walking Gabor to the ark for what the rabbi called a mitzvah ceremony.
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sometimes can meet one another in Israel. One Family tries to match up twins with their counterparts
through similarities in personalities and hobbies.
Financial support at any level can make a big difference. Among its services, One Family sends children who have been affected by terrorism to special
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Time spent in wonderful summer activities with the
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for entire families.
The Teen Director conducts an intake meeting with

each child, working together to choose the project
best suited for that child.
The Klene Up Krewe was first formed in 2005 in the
aftermath of Hurricane Katrina which wreaked havoc
on Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Twice a year the
group travels to that area with rebuilding efforts. The
trips involve a three day trip to New Orleans to help
the city rebuild and rebound from the devastation
caused by Katrina. The specific projects include rebuilding homes, working with schools and community
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Its relatively status quo to make a bar mitzvah in

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for her four sons.
A bat mitzvah, on the other hand, is hugely difficult you have to think totally out of the box to have
the type of service she remembered having back in the
United States.
She decided the best way to accomplish that was
to plan a bat mitzvah celebration for Zoe in her childhood synagogue, Agudat Achim in Schenectady, N.Y.
even though Beckers parents, who live in nearby
Loudonville, no longer belong to the Conservative
shul.
Still, Becker and her parents felt an emotional
connection to Agudat. In Tel Aviv, she says, we dont
have any place that would be egalitarian and beautiful
and have a sense of history.
The plans began last fall with a big question:
Would the synagogue agree that even though the family does not belong, Zoe could become a bat mitzvah
there? No problem. The rabbi gave his blessing, with
the board following suit.
I knew this was a very special request and I was
very touched that the family had a very strong connection to Agudat Achim, said Mery Gross, synagogue
president at the time. The request was made during
Agudats 120th year celebration and it really speaks to

the impact that the congregation has had on its congregants.
Once everyone was on board for the July 20 service, Zoe began studying her Torah portion and working on a dvar Torah. The family arrived in the United
States on July 4; four days later, Zoe learned that bnai
mitzvah students also do a haftarah reading, along
with the accompanying blessings. She was undeterred,
wanting to do the same.
It was time for zaydie boot camp, as her grandfather, Martin Becker, who spent hours helping her learn
her haftarah portion and the blessings that accompany it, put it. She met with bnai mitzvah tutor Alexandra Schmidt on Sunday, a week before the bat mitzvah,
to be sure she was ready for the service. Her Torah portion was fine, but the haftarah?
She didnt really have it together, Schmidt says.
Normally, Id say forget it, the child just wont do that
part. But in Zoes case, shes a fine music student and
obviously her Hebrew is native. She happens to have a
grandfather who has ritual skills. She was motivated.
So Schmidt told her, Lets meet Wednesday
just three days before the bat mitzvah. She came back
Wednesday and it was fine, the tutor said. That does
not happen often.
Becker was thrilled with the experience. But she
still plans for her four sons to celebrate their bnai
mitzvah in Israel, the start of a new family tradition.
As for 12-year-old Zoe: It felt good to be on the
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specifically for Jewish women, however, part of the
work Project S.A.R.A.H. does is to make it possible for
an observant Jewish woman to reside in a shelter as
comfortably as possible. One way in which we help
is by providing Kosher Kits containing kosher food
and a few other necessities, to all shelters in the state.
There is enough food for a woman and up to three
children to last for 24 hours. (During that time the
shelter contacts us to help provide kosher food for
after that period.)
Contact Project S.A.R.A.H. for a list of kosher kit contents. A kosher kit must contain enough food for a
woman and three children.
Collect toys, books, and other items for children in a
shelter.
When children must leave their homes with their
mother and are forced to go into a shelter, they find
themselves without many of the familiar things that
make their home their home. Childrens toys, Shabbos games, books, crayons, and other accessories
they need especially those with a Jewish theme
are usually in short supply. You can collect such items
from friends and family to donate to a shelter. (Items
must be new or in excellent condition.)
Raise funds for victims of domestic violence.
Victims of domestic violence are often controlled
financially by their abusers. If they have to leave the
relationship, they frequently leave penniless and in
need. Project S.A.R.A.H. helps them in any way possible from finding housing, to getting kids to school,
to providing free counseling. A donation to Project
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be earmarked for a particular purpose if desired. We
can be a part of your ceremony by presenting a certificate at your bat mitzvah.
Visit http://projectsarah.org/how-you-can-help/batmitzvah-projects for more details on the various Bat
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impact on the Jewish community.
Students work to increase awareness about breast
and ovarian cancer in the Jewish community by distributing resources and materials, so Sharsheret can
help more women and their families.
Host a Pink/Teal Shabbat in your synagogue. In the
spirit of Shabbat organize a pink challah baking party,
using Sharsherets exclusive challah recipe, for you
and your friends. Sell the challah to friends and family
and include educational materials to raise awareness.
Giving Tzedakah, or charity, to others at a time when
you are receiving so many special gifts can be very
meaningful.
Set aside hours to volunteer in the Sharsheret office
and assist the staff in coordinating Sharsherets programs and upcoming events.
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Extra special celebrations

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hen he was little, Kovy

Morgensterns doctors
told his mother that
he was never going to
walk or talk. He was born with
agenesis of the corpus callosum,
a rare neurological condition
that results in very low muscle
tone and other delays. Later on,
he was diagnosed with Andermann Syndrome, a degenerative
neuro-muscular condition. He
also has epilepsy.
But man laughs or cries
and God plans.
This upcoming Labor Day,
not only will Kovy Morgenstern
talk, but he will chant from the
Torah on the occasion of his bar
mitzvah before 200 members of
his supportive family and friends
in a ceremony that will also
include a siyum, a celebration of
the completion of his learning
Pirket Avot, Ethics of the Fathers,
during the last year and a half.
Who could have possibly
imagined a bar mitzvah? asks
his mother, Galiah Morgenstern,
It was as far away as the moon,
and now here it is.
To mark his son Boruchs Boruch Nojowitzs bar mitzvah.
bar mitzvah last October, Kasriel
Nojowitz put together a bells-and-whisgenuine sense of happiness for Boruch
tles shindig in Deal, featuring the singer
and the family. It was unbelievable.
Yaakov Shwekey and a five-piece band
For some families of special needs
for a celebratory night of lively singing
children, the bar or bat mitzvah, the celand dancing.
ebration when a young man or woman
reaches the age of Jewish adulthood and
marks the milestone of their development and entrance into the Jewish community, takes on a far more profound
meaning.
All the hours and all the days come
together and somehow were here, says
Ms. Morgenstern, who describes Kovys
personality as happy-go-lucky, magnetic and jokingly calls him The Mayor.
All the years and years of therapy
and hard work, says Ms. Morgenstern,
who has two other children, and has
made a typical bar mitzvah for her older
son, which she describes as an entirely
different thing.
Rabbi Levi Welton
I think that this bar mitzvah gives
us the time to pause and reflect on how
Among the many invited guests of
far Kovy has come and to celebrate who
Boruch, who has nemaline myopathy,
he is, Ms. Morgenstern says. He is part
a neuromuscular disorder that causes
of a larger community, and these chilmuscle weakness and causes Boruch
dren who are turning bar mitzvah have
to rely on a wheelchair, respirator and
a place in the bigger picture.
feeding tube, were many youngsters
Says Mr. Nojowitz, Boruch is a
from Camp Simcha, Kids of Courage,
champ. He doesnt complain. He says,
and Chai Lifetime, who came to be joyIt is what it is and thats the attitude
ful with their friend.
he needs. Parents of special needs kids
It was one of the most amazing
sometimes have a sense of embarrassnights of my life, says Kasriel Nojowitz.
ment and ask, Why is my kid different?
There were so many people who felt a
I decided from day one that I was going
Rabbi Levi Welton,

assistant rabbi at The
Ha m p t o n Sy n a g o g u e
in Westhampton Beach,
N.Y., says that a bar mitzvah for a special needs
youngster serves as a
reminder to the community of what exactly is the
essence of a bar mitzvah.
Its not about the
watches or the popularity
or all the friends, Welton
says. This is about celebrating the same exact
thing, whether it is a special needs bar mitzvah or
not. And that is celebrating the spiritual maturity
of the bar or bat mitzvah.
We may think that the
person in front of us is
different, but really, we
are all the same.
Rabbi Chayim
Alevsky, who runs the
youth program at Chabad
on the Upper West Side
and who has created
online tools to help children learn, including an
online siddur that he is developing,
says that while the bar mitzvah family is
marking this special milestone, it is also
the community that greatly benefits
from being part of a special needs bar
or bat mitzvah.
It really helps to make people
more sensitive to the family and to their
needs, and to reflect on their own sense
of gratitude, Rabbi Alevsky says.
Its been 10 years since the bar
mitzvah of Steven Newman, who
passed away six years ago, but the
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HERZLIYA, Israel Naftali Bennett and Tzipi Livni

dont agree on much.
Mr. Bennett, Israels economy minister, sees the
West Bank as an inseparable part of the Jewish state
and wants Israel to annex its settlements there. Ms.
Livni, the justice minister, says Israel can remain a
Jewish democracy only by evacuating settlements.
But they agree on one thing: Israel must break its
status quo with the Palestinians.
Mr. Bennett and Ms. Livni were two of the five politicians who presented a range of responses to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Sunday at the annual
Herzliya Conference, an elite gathering of Israeli politicians, military officials, and security experts weighing in on the central issues facing Israel.
Their debate exposes the cracks in Israels diverse
governing coalition. But the biggest division in Herzliya wasnt between hawks and doves but between
the politicians who prioritized addressing the IsraeliPalestinian conflict and the military officials who all
but ignored it.
The military leaderships assessment of the situation differed little from last years conference,
despite the recent collapse of Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks and the subsequent unity agreement
between the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, which most
of the West considers to be a terrorist group.
Were in a Middle
East thats
undergoing a jolt.
Dramatic instability
is a constant in this
region, and we need
to be ready.
Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz
Those developments, which the politicians treated

as major changes, were mentioned only in passing
by military officials, who focused instead on threats
emanating from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
Were in a Middle East thats undergoing a jolt,
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said
in a speech on Monday that focused mainly on tensions on Israels borders. Dramatic instability is a
constant in this region, and we need to be ready.
While the military officials were focused on missiles, strategic threats, and regional alliances, the
politicians were concerned mainly with Zionist values, domestic politics, and international legitimacy.
One after another, the leaders of five major Israeli
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how Israel should proceed following the failure of
peace negotiations.
Mr. Bennett suggested partial annexation of the
West Bank. Finance Minister Yair Lapid advocated
staged withdrawal. Ms. Livni and Labor party Chairman Isaac Herzog called for a more aggressive
approach to negotiations.
Each speaker criticized the others. Mr. Lapid and
Mr. Bennett, once political allies, called each others
proposals delusional.
The era of Oslo has ended, Mr. Bennett said.
Now the time has come to admit that it simply
didnt work. We need to think in a different way to
create a better reality.
Mr. Lapid said the absence of a two-state solution
to the conflict could lead to Israels destruction, and
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Theres no reason to have settlements that wont
One issue that

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be in the territory of Israel in any final agreement, or
to invest millions of shekels in areas that will be part
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The only politicians who werent especially bothered by the state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs were
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and Interior Minister Gideon Saar, both of the ruling Likud party. Both
dismissed the idea of territorial compromise and
blamed the failure of the talks on the Palestinian
refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
I think we made a mistake with land for peace,
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One issue that found broad consensus among
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striving toward it, Mr. Yaalon said. And it thinks
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West and a charm offensive.
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member, said a nuclear-armed Iran constitutes
a far greater danger than the stalemate with the
Palestinians.
If a difficult scenario comes to be 10 years from
now, with Iran holding tens of weapons, all peace
plans will be a total failure, he said. With a nuclear
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An interim chief rabbi of France, Michel Gugenheim, at the opening of a

charitable institution on March 11.
Consistoire de Paris
Frances rabbinate
faces new scandal
month ago, Michel Gugenheim seemed to have succeeded in helping Frances

rabbinate recover from the
scandal that had ended its previous chief
rabbis tenure.
One of Frances two interim chief
rabbis and the president of the Paris
rabbinic court, Rabbi Gugenheim had
helped advance an ambitious restructuring plan to address redundancies within
French Orthodox institutions.
He also kept his office mostly out of
the news. That was a welcome reprieve
after the resignation last year of a former
chief rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, amid revelations that he had committed plagiarism and used a false academic title.
The sense was that Rabbi Gugenheim
had paved the way for the smooth election of a successor.
But then a video emerged that reportedly shows Rabbi Gugenheim ordering
the family of a woman seeking a divorce
to write a $120,000 check to a religious
charity in exchange for securing a Jewish divorce certificate, or get, from her
husband.
Dubbed by French media as Laffaire
du guet the get affair the scandal
broke just weeks before the June 22 election for chief rabbi. That was going to be
a vote that many hoped would help salvage the rabbinates reputation following
the Bernheim debacle.
Now the rabbinate and its parent organization, the Consistoire an Orthodox
body that Napoleon established to represent French Jewry in 1808 again
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While Bernheims plagiarisms
exposed his own personal shortcomings
and failures, the get affair undermines
the credibility of the French rabbinate
much more profoundly because it flags a
systemic failure that touches the lives of
ordinary French Jews, said Jean-Claude
Lalou, who heads a group, Future of
Judaism, that is pushing for reform of
the Consistoire and knew in advance of
the familys plan to record the divorce
discussion.
The get affair comes amid a continuing erosion in the prestige of chief rabbis
across the Jewish world.
In Israel, a former Ashkenazi chief
rabbi, Yona Metzger, was the subject
of several fraud investigations while he
was in office, while a former Sephardic
chief rabbi, Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, was
indicted in 2012 for allegedly issuing fake
rabbinical ordination certificates.
Its unclear how the latest scandal will
affect the race for chief rabbi in France,
home to Europes largest Jewish community. Ten candidates are vying for the
votes of the 300 Consistoire delegates
charged with electing the chief rabbi.
Rabbi Gugenheim is not among the
candidates, but the man with whom he
was sharing interim chief rabbi duties,
Olivier Kaufmann, was considered a
leading contender before the get affair
exploded.
The get scandal concerns a 28-year-old
woman named Anaelle, whose family
left a check for $120,000 made out to a
French Jewish charity with Rabbi Gugenheims Paris beit din, or rabbinic court,
on March 18.
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Cantors loss leaves Jewish Republicans bereft

Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON Eric Cantors defeat in
one of his constituencies, Virginias 7th
Congressional District, triggered mourning
in another one Republican Jews.
Since 2009, Mr. Cantor, 51, has been the
only Jewish Republican in Congress. After
the 2010 GOP takeover of the House, he
became the majority leader. He is the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in congressional history.
But his meteoric rise came to a screeching
halt on Tuesday, when he was trounced in a
primary by a poorly financed Tea Party challenger, Dave Brat, an economics professor.
Obviously we came up short, Mr. Cantor told his stunned followers in a Richmond hotel ballroom. Serving as the 7th
District congressman and having the privilege of being majority leader has been one
of the highest honors of my life.
The defeat, with Mr. Brat garnering 55
percent of the vote to 44 percent for the
incumbent, was a shock to Republican Jews,
for whom Mr. Cantor was a standard-bearer.
Were all processing it, said Matt
Brooks, the president of the Republican

Jewish Coalition. He was an invaluable
leader, he was so integral to the promotion
of, to congressional support of the proIsrael agenda. It is a colossal defeat not just
for Republicans but for the entire Jewish
community.
Mr. Cantor also was a natural ally for
socially conservative Orthodox Jews, who
at times have been at odds with the Obama
administration on religion-state issues.
Nathan Diament, executive director
for public policy of the Orthodox Union,
called Cantor a friend who has been a
critical partner for the advocacy work of
the Orthodox Jewish community on issues
ranging from Israels security and the security of Jewish institutions in the United
States, to religious liberty to educational
reform, and opportunity to defending the
needs of the nonprofit sector.
Mr. Cantor was elected to Congress in
2000, at 37, after having served nine years
in the Virginia legislature. From the start
he made clear that he had three bedrocks:
his faith, his state, and his conservatism.
His first floor speech, on Jan. 31 2001,
Eric Cantor at the Virginia Military

Institute in February.

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was in favor of making the Capitol Rotunda

available for Holocaust commemoration,
and in two minutes he wove together the
importance of Holocaust education a
nod to two Virginia founding fathers and

an embrace of the foreign policy interventionism that would guide the George W.
Bush administration.
The remembrance of this dark chapter
in human history serves as a reminder of
what can happen when the fundamental
tenets of democracy are discarded by dictatorial regimes, a hesitant and nervous
Mr. Cantor said.
While we in the United States, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, have experienced years of peace and
prosperity, we must not forget that genocide and human rights abuses continue
to occur elsewhere around the world, he
continued. As the leader of the free world,
the United States must use its power and
influence to bring stability to the world and
educate people around the globe about the
horrors of the Holocaust to ensure that it
must never happen again.
Mr. Cantors popularity in his district, his
ability to garner supporters in the Republican caucus, and his fundraising prowess soon caught the eye of Rep. Roy Blunt
(R-Mo.), who in 2003 was set to become
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House majority whip. Mr. Blunt named Mr. Cantor his
chief deputy, a stunning rise for a congressional sophomore who had not yet reached 40.
Mr. Cantors Jewish involvement deepened as his days
grew busier. Raised in a Conservative Jewish home, he
started to keep kosher and take private classes with
Orthodox rabbis. His three children with his wife, Diana,
whom he met at Columbia University, were active in
Jewish youth movements.
Confidants say his commitment to Israel intensified
after a cousin, Daniel Cantor Wulz, was killed in a 2006
suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Cantor was a critical connection within the
Republican Party for the Jewish communitys domestic
agenda, said William Daroff, the Washington director of
the Jewish Federations of North America.
When there was a need for a heavy lift for much of
our Jewish federation agenda, we could count on being
able to call Eric and have him help us get to the finish
line, he said.
At first, Mr. Cantor seemed to be riding the Tea Party
wave. During the 2010 midterm elections, he joined
with Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Kevin McCarthy of
California in setting up a political action committee that
championed younger conservatives in a GOP that they
said had become too moderate and complacent.
In a book co-written by the three, Mr. Cantor welcomed the Tea Party wave.
They saw that the powers in charge here are ignorant of what the people want and frankly arrogant about
it, he wrote, referring to the protests against President
Obamas health care plan that had sparked the Tea Party
movement.
In the book, he again rooted his conservatism in the
South and in his faith.
At the time, Cantor seemed to think he could harness
the Tea Party insurgency.
Tea Party individuals are focused on three things:
One, limited, constitutional government; two, cutting
spending; and three, a return to free markets, he said in
2010, on the eve of the midterm elections. Most Americans are about that, and the American Jewish community is like that.
As majority leader, Cantor stayed to the right of Rep.
John Boehner (R-Ohio), and many believed he would
soon challenge Mr. Boehner to become the first Jewish
House speaker.
Mr. Cantor and Mr. Obama have not had a good relationship. Mr. Cantor has not attended a single Jewish
event at the White House during Mr. Obamas tenure,
although he has been invited to all of them.
Until two weeks into the October 2013 federal government shutdown, Mr. Cantor resisted agreeing to
a deal, and he conceded only when it became clear
that the shutdown was damaging Republican electoral
prospects.
Heeding a Republican establishment that believed
the Tea Party had gotten out of hand, he more recently
tilted toward the center, championing job creation programs, criticizing foreign policy isolationists within the
GOP, and expressing a willingness to consider elements
of the 2013 Senate immigration reform bill, although
until now he has resisted bringing it to the House floor.
That tilt and a perception that Mr. Cantor was not sufficiently invested in his district helped contribute to his
defeat. Mr. Brat focused on criticizing Mr. Cantors tentative embrace of a path to citizenship to undocumented
immigrants who arrived in the United States as minors.
Hadar Susskind, the director of Bend the Arc, a Jewish
group that is a leader on immigration reform, said it was
bizarre to accuse Mr. Cantor of being overly accommodating on immigration.
He has been the single largest obstruction in the effort to

reform our immigration laws, so those efforts lose nothing
with his defeat, she said.
Democrats immediately seized on Cantors loss as evidence
that the Republican Party is becoming increasingly extreme.
When Eric Cantor, who time and again has blocked
common sense legislation to grow the middle class, cant
earn the Republican nomination, its clear the GOP has
redefined far right, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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as well as liberal and Democratic causes, said he was conflicted
about Cantors departure. On the one hand, he couldnt help
but be amused that Cantors flirtation with the Tea Party came
back to haunt him. On the other, Mr. Rabinowitz suggested
that Cantors defeat was a minus for the Jewish community.
Wearing my mainstream Jewish skullcap, its clear the
community needs people like Eric Cantor, he said. This is a
loss for the Jewish community. I have my disagreements with
him, but hes been there for the community.
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Journalists who have seen the video reported that under

an arrangement that the beit din helped broker, the money
was to be funneled through the charity, with one-third going
to the husband and the charity pocketing the difference.
The family, in turn, would receive an $80,000 credit from
the French government for making a charitable donation.
Anaelles family secretly recorded the court proceedings
on video and has threatened to file a complaint with police

unless the check is returned. The video has not been made
public, but journalists who have seen it reported that Rabbi
Gugenheim is heard saying, This is the price of her liberty.
Another rabbinical judge, Betsalel Levy, is also heard on
the recording saying, Im not giving a get until we have the
check.
Rabbi Gugenheim says the video creates a false impression that he and other rabbinical judges pocketed the
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money. The demand for funds came from the husband, he said, not the court.
None of the rabbis received the money, but people read the headlines and think there is graft, Rabbi
Gugenheim told the news site JSS news.
The Consistoires defenders accuse those behind the
leaking of the video to the media of trying to damage
the institution.
I strongly deplore these unacceptable attempts to
destabilize the Consistoire and discredit the rabbinate
of France and its tribunal, said Sammy Ghozlan, the
vice president of the Consistoire.
But Mr. Lalou says the next chief rabbi will have to
carry out major reforms to both the Consistoire and
the rabbinate if he is to salvage their reputations and
regain French Jewrys trust.
These centralist bodies know no oversight, no
transparency and no accountability, he said. This is
driving away Jews from institutional life precisely at a
time of great external challenges.
Reform needs to happen on four major points, said
Martine Cohen, a prominent researcher on French
Jewry.
We are talking about womens place in religious
life; a policy of openness on conversions to Judaism;
an overhaul of the rabbinical ordination process and,
finally, last but not least, the opening of dialogue with
other streams of religious Judaism, she wrote in an
article on the French-language version of the Huffington Post.
Some critics of the Consistoire doubt that it has the
capacity to carry out such reforms.
Rabbi Yeshaya Dalsace, a well-known Masorti, or
Conservative, rabbi from Paris, cites Rabbi Bernheim
whom many hoped would bring new openness to
the rabbinate and the Consistoire as an example of
French Orthodoxys difficulty with change.
Bernheim wanted change, but all he did was talk.
He encountered too much resistance, Rabbi Dalsace
said.
The reason, according to Rabbi Dalsace, is that like
the rabbinate in Israel, the Consistoire in France is
hostage to radical forces and chasidic courts whose
rabbis make up the Consistoire electorate.
Its like trying to lobby for change within the Communist Party during Bolshevism, he said.

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Uriel Heilman
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. The Bais Menachem Youth Development program in
this northeastern Pennsylvania city is no
typical Chabad yeshiva.
The students wear flip-flops and T-shirts,
not the typical black-and-white of chasidic seminaries. In addition to Jewish law
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improv nights, poetry slams, and screenings of National Geographic nature shows.
The students take tae kwondo classes, skiing lessons, and canoe trips down the Delaware River. Theres even a house band.
Welcome to the yeshiva for wayward
Chabad youths.
A couple of years ago, I was coming
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and smoke marijuana and hang out with
very bad people.
Most of the Torah study at the yeshiva in Wilkes-Barre takes place in small groups.
At the yeshiva in Wilkes-Barre, Levi said,

he finally found what he needed.
Instead of just kicking me out for my
issues, they looked past them, he said.
They didnt look at me as someone who
would ruin the school but as someone who
needed help. They brought me back to my
roots. Other yeshivas treated me like a
child, not like an equal. They treated me
like a human being.
In the rule-bound world of charedi
Orthodoxy, theres not much room for
boys who dont conform to the norms

of yeshiva life: day-to-night Torah study,
adherence to a stringent dress code, and
strict self-discipline, especially when it
comes to foregoing secular pleasures.
Those who cant cope often are rejected
and end up leaving the Orthodox fold.
Many years ago, Rabbi Uri Perlman,
now 37, was one of those at-risk teenagers. But with a little help at a yeshiva
in Melbourne, Australia, Rabbi Perlman
managed to turn things around. Today
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he sports the trademark hat and beard of

Chabad chasidim everywhere.
His experience motivated Rabbi Perlman to start the Bais Menachem yeshiva
in 1999 to give Chabad kids who dont fit
into the typical mold the space to figure
out who they are as people and as Jews.
In the frum community, if you dont
make it in yeshiva, youre a failure. And
when that happens, theres really no place
to turn but down or out, said Rabbi Perlman, a native of Wilkes-Barre, where his
father is the longtime shaliach, or outreach emissary.
Nothing is swept under the rug here,
he said. Our No. 1 goal is they should be
happy, healthy people who know who
they are. Then work on the Yiddishkeit
and on their career.
Other yeshivas
treated me like a
child, not like an
equal. They
treated me like a
human being.
Levi
Rabbi Uri Perlman, founder of the Bais Menachem Youth Development program, runs the yeshiva out of a rundown building that used to be a real estate office.
Uriel Heilman/JTA
The 25 or so boys at this in-residence

yeshiva in a dilapidated building adjacent
to the leafy campus of Wilkes University
have problems ranging from drug and
alcohol abuse to pornography addictions.
But many are simply kids uninterested in
Orthodox Jewish observance or have interests that are frowned upon in the yeshiva
world, such as art or popular music.
Bais Menachem has Talmud classes,
See Chabad page 40
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mourn the passing of
Barbara Seiden
Barbara Seiden was a devoted friend and longtime
champion of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
She was a strong supporter of Jewish Federation of
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legacy by endowing her Lion of Judah gift. The wife
of Norman Seiden, a woman of great strength in the
face of every challenge, Barbara was a warm, loving,
optimistic, and compassionate Woman of Valor.
She and Norman were founding members of
Federation and active participants at many of
Federations beneciary agencies, including the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, and the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh. She was also a fervent supporter of the
Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the American Technion

Society, and a life member of National Council of
Jewish Women, Hadassah, and ORT. In Israel, together
with her husband, her name is identied with 13
kindergartens and daycare centers, a community
center, and a tennis center.
We extend our deepest condolences to her husband,
Norman, their three children, Stephen (Sharon), Pearl,
Mark (Diane), eleven grandchildren, and thirteen
great-grandchildren.
May the family be comforted among the mourners of
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forever.
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courses in Jewish philosophy, and mandatory prayer services. But the approach is
much more laid back, tolerant, and individualized than at a typical Chabad yeshiva.
If a student doesnt show up for class, hes
sought out and counseled, not chastised.
Those struggling with their faith dont have
to hide it: The teachers are open to discussions about God and doubt. Much of the
learning is done one on one or in small
groups.
If anyone had doubts about their service to God or maybe feels a little cold
toward Judaism, this is a place that can help
warm you up, said Menachem Gudelsky,
an 18-year-old from Johannesburg, South
Africa. Its a place where questions are
answered. Its very tailored to your needs,
with a lot of love.
Menachem says the school helped him get
through a lot of humps, including quitting
smoking.
The goal of the curriculum is for the kids
to get an appreciation for Judaism and life,
said Yossi Schulman, a teacher at Bais Menachem. In addition to organizing the curriculum, Mr. Schulman helps lead extracurricular vocational training and secures federal
E-rate technoloy funding for the school.

Tuition, room, and board is about $10,000
per student per year.
In the Chabad world, its common for families to ship teenagers to in-residence yeshivas when they are 14 or 15 years old. But Bais
Menachem is the only Chabad yeshiva in the
United States targeting this population and
using this kind of approach, according to
the schools administrators and a Chabad
spokesman in New York.
Ranging in age from their mid-teens to
their early 20s, Chabadniks come to WilkesBarre from as far away as England, Australia,
and South Africa. Some hail from families
who are relatively new to the Chabad movement, but many also come from longtime
Chabad-Lubavitch families.
Much of the program is non-academic.
A smoking-cessation counselor visits from
time to time. Students who might benefit
from Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are
encouraged to attend. On breaks, some of
the students smoke on the yeshivas front
steps or retreat to the adjacent dormitory,
where some have decorated their rooms
with soccer- and music-related items.
Students are encouraged to volunteer in
the community visiting senior centers,
mowing lawns, marching with flags at the
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The basement weight room is one of the features that make Bais Menachem
an atypical Chabad yeshiva.
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Veterans Day parade. Because many

of them are high school dropouts, the
yeshiva also offers GED tutoring.
I never really thought I was going to
go back to yeshiva, said Ari Kasowitz, 21,
a native of St. Paul, Minn., who felt he
had to hide his secular books and movies when he was enrolled at a standard
Chabad yeshiva in Morristown. I was
done with that. But then a friend invited
me here for a Shabbos. I loved it.
Theres plenty of recreation, from
pickup basketball to workouts in the
dank basement weight room to skiing
and swimming at a local pool. Unusual
for an Orthodox yeshiva, the administrators encourage but do not insist on
gender-separate swimming.
Were not really enforcing everything
that their parents enforce or that we
believe in, Rabbi Perlman said. Were
enforcing the fundamentals of Judaism,
and we want the rest to be something the
students respect and eventually take on.
So everybody is asked to put on tefillin,
but some kids put it on for just 30 seconds. Nobody gets in trouble for that.
The average duration of a stay at
the yeshiva is two years. Afterward,
the students move on to other yeshivas, college or vocational school, or
work, according to Perlman. About 25
alumni have gone on to serve in the
Israel Defense Forces.
None of the teachers at the yeshiva

have any specialized training to deal
with at-risk youths, but Perlman says
he and the other staffers have learned
the skills they need on the job. When
needed, the yeshiva brings in psychologists, art therapists and the like.
Eitan Binstok, a 19-year-old from Los
Angeles in his third year at the yeshiva,
says the school helped him turn his life
around.
There are no facades here, said
Eitan, who is studying the laws of Sabbath for his rabbinical ordination and
hopes to begin training soon to be an
electrician. I always thought nobody
understands me, that no one has ever
been like me before. But coming here
you realize there are a lot of people with
troubles. And having people you can
turn to allows you to grow. The people
here actually care.
While the yeshiva initially encountered much skepticism in Chabad circles, Rabbi Perlman says the results have
changed that.
A lot of our boys have turned their
lives around, he said. Were not trying
to create rabbis or shluchim or anything
in particular. Were trying to give the
people who come here whatever they
need for who they want to be, but without any of the good Jewish things left
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a founding member and staunch supporter of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
Barbaras life was characterized by her devotion to her family,
her commitment to global Jewish causes, and her generous spirit.
A loving wife and mother, Barbara received the first
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Norman in recognition of their unwavering commitment to the JCC.
Her contributions to our community were monumental.
Among the many gifts Barbara and Norman bestowed on the JCC were the
Seiden Health & Wellness Center as well as endowments in support of
the arts, culture, and senior and special needs programming.
We were blessed to have Barbara as an integral part of our JCC family.
Her legacy will continue to shape and guide our future endeavors.
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Opinion
Fatah-Hamas government
reflects American weakness
ve long argued that any proper understanding of

the Palestinian conflict with Israels legitimacy is
compromised by not taking wider regional factors
into account.
The school of thought that describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the Middle East conflict is dangerously misguided, because it ignores other factors that
are far more important, such as the historically violent
schism between Sunni and Shia Islam, Irans renewed
assertiveness in Syria and
Lebanon, the shared strategic interests binding Israel
and the conservative regimes
in the Arab Gulf in confronting Irans nuclear ambitions,
and the fragmentation of
the various jihadi groups in
Sinai, Syria, Iraq, and other
territories.
Ben Cohen
Thats why I want to preface
my comments about the new
Palestinian unity government,
which brings together Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbass Fatah movement with the Islamists of
Hamas, by pointing to a political rally several hundred
miles to the east of Jerusalem, in Tehran.
At that rally, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei stood in front of a banner that declared
America cannot do a damned thing. A military attack
is not a priority for Americans now, Khamenei boasted.
They have renounced the idea of any military actions,
he said.
In other words, in the Middle East as a whole, America
is weak, or is at least perceived to be weak. And weakness has a natural partner in the form of navetthe
exact word used by Israeli government minister Gilad
Erdan to describe the Obama administrations acceptance of the new Fatah-Hamas coalition, but which
could equally apply to the American approach to conflicts from Libya in the west to Afghanistan in the east.
After all, would Abbas have cut a deal with Hamas
if he were dealing with an American administration
with a tough and cogent Middle Eastern policy? Would
Obamas predecessor, George W. Bush, have been hoodwinked into believing that because the new Palestinian
governments ministries are largely run by technocrats,
the American pledge to shun Hamas while it remains a
terrorist organization has not been violated? I think not.
Still, Israels supporters are compelled to deal with
this situation as it is, and not as we would like it to be.
Hence, we have a choice. We can lambaste Secretary
of State John Kerry for placing the lions share of the
blame for the recent collapse of peace talks on Israel,
while ignoring Abbass pursuit of unilateral recognition
for a Palestinian state and his reconciliation with the
genocidal anti-Semites of Hamas. We can laugh, bitterly,
at Obamas statement to Bloomberg columnist Jeffrey
Goldberg that Abbas is sincere about resolving these
issues in a diplomatic fashion that meets the concerns of
the people of Israela line worthy of a Monty Python
scriptwriter.
But as therapeutic as doing all that might be, it is not
a replacement for a political strategy. With more than
two years to go before President Obama leaves the White
House, the best strategy we can work for now is damage
limitation.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with the new Fatah-Hamas unity government in the
West Bank city of Ramallah on June 2.
Issam Rimawi/Flash90
There is
no credible
Palestinian political
force committed
to an enduring
peace deal
with Israel.
The first element of such a strategy is to point out that
the Fatah-Hamas deal, which on the surface looks more
secure when compared to previous agreements between
these bitter rivals in the recent past, still contains some
serious holes. Critically, as the Tel Aviv University security
analyst Dr. Benedetta Berti argued in an interview with
Fathom, a British magazine focused on the Middle East,
where the parties have not seen eye to eye so far is on
their mutual desire to keep control of Gaza, in the case
of Hamas, and the West Bank, in the case of Fatah. Berti
further pointed out that the core elements of Hamass
ideology have not shifted, but there is an internal conflict
in the organization about how to accommodate ideology
with political interests and pragmatism.
It is nigh on impossible to believe that Hamas will
become so pragmatic as to surrender its formidable arsenal of weapons and materiel to the PA. Far more likely,
as the Israeli journalist Ehud Yaari has observed, is that
Hamas will increasingly mimic the bullets and ballots
model followed by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Under this
arrangement, 20,000 fighters and security personnel will
remain under the Hamas banner. At the same time, these
terrorists will be able to continue with the production of
missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The possibility that the unity government will enable a

fresh terrorist assault on Israel that provokes a sustained
response on the part of the IDF is, therefore, a very real
one. How, then, are we to avoid a repeat of the clashes
over the last decade that resulted in Israels being smeared
with false accusations of war crimes, from Jenin in 2002
to Gaza in 2009?
One avenue is to mobilize the U.S. Congress to frustrate
the Obama administrations determination to deal with
the unity government. At present, American taxpayers are
supporting Abbas and the PA to the tune of $400 million
a year. Now that Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, is part of the PAs governing machine, we should be
demanding that our congressional representatives work
for an immediate suspension of this aid.
Also, just as the Palestinians have used lawfarethe
invocation of international legal conventions against
Israelso can we. Abbas and his colleagues should be held
accountable for breaching the 1998 Wye Memorandum,
which obliges the PA to control the arsenals of Hamas and
smaller terror groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The fundamental problem remains: There is no credible Palestinian political force committed to an enduring
peace deal with Israel. Therefore, expect more violence,
both among the Palestinians and against Israel, and
expect, as a consequence, further international vilification of Israel for taking the necessary measures to protect
its population.
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other publications. His book, Some Of My Best Friends: A
Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism, is
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Diamond minds
Baseball bonds generations of Shapiros
Hillel Kuttler
ABERDEEN, Md. Standing on a hill on
a glorious Sunday morning, Mark and Ron
Shapiro are kvelling as they watch Caden
Shapiro son of Mark and grandson of Ron
pitching in a baseball tournament in this
city near Baltimore after he was shelved for
nearly two months by a broken ankle.
Mark Shapiro, the president of the Cleveland Indians, recently was back in his native
area for the three-day competition. He was
there as a coach for his boys Cleveland Spiders, not to see his Tribe play the Orioles at
nearby Camden Yards.
The site for the tournament a complex
of beautifully maintained fields was named
for Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, the most recognizable client of Mark Shapiros father, Ron,
an eminent sports agent.
At 11, Caden is the latest Shapiro drawn to
baseball, a chain emanating from the 1950s,
when Rons immigrant father, also named
Mark, took his young son by train from their
home in Philadelphia to a World Series game
at Yankee Stadium in New York

Ron and Mark Shapiro have a combined
62 years of baseball-related employment,
which began in 1975 when the Orioles thenowner, Jerry Hoffberger, asked Ron, a lawyer friend, to assist Brooks Robinson. The
teams All-Star third baseman was confronting financial problems and needed help.
Providing that help launched Ron Shapiro
into a lucrative career as an agent representing athletes in contract negotiations.
The work appealed to Mark Shapiro, too,
but he blazed a different path to his baseball life. In 1991, he took an entry-level job
with the Indians that included chauffeuring
prospective free agents, such as pitchers Sid
Fernandez and David Wells, from the airport. From there he would serve as director of player development, assistant general
manager, and general manager, before being
promoted to president four years ago.
Their jobs, at least occasionally, would
have pitted Shapiro the agent against Shapiro the executive. Instead, they recused
themselves from face-to-face involvement.
When it came to doing contracts, he

delegated and I delegated, Mark Shapiro said. It just seemed like the right
way, the honest way, to handle it.
Ron Shapiro said hes heard plenty
of kind words around baseball about
Marks integrity.
What does a father feel other than
unbelievable pride? he said. I look at
Caden looking at his father, and the relationship continues.
Mark and Ron Shapiro see each other
five or six times a year they had been
together a month earlier at the New Jersey bat mitzvah of Mark Shapiros niece
but they speak by telephone several
times a week.
Nothing happens of major importance where we dont talk to each other,
said Ron Shapiro, 71.
It makes me happy to see kids play
and parents and kids interacting around
baseball, said Mark Shapiro, 47.
It was Mark Shapiro who co-founded
the Spiders a name the Indians had
used in the late 19th century two years
ago to imbue youth baseball with values
that he thought were missing.

In youth baseball, the overarching
opportunity is character development,
Mark Shapiro said, sitting with his father
in the shade after Cadens game. Character is how do you respond to adversity
and setbacks. Being a great teammate,
showing respect thats at the core of
what this experience provides for us, as
coaches and as fathers.
They have the perfect role model
in Cal Ripken. The Orioles former star
infielder, baseballs Ironman, had stood
with Ron Shapiro not far from here, surveying the acreage that would become
a stadium and complex for the minorleague Aberdeen Ironbirds and youth
leagues to draw the next generation of
players.
At the Ripken facility, Mark Shapiro
called over former major-league first
baseman Sean Casey to talk to the Spiders. Casey, coaching his son Jakes Pittsburgh club, stood beside his own father,
Jim, who had enlisted Ron Shapiro as his
sons first agent when he was drafted by
the Indians in 1997.
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Jake and Cadens teams would square off that afternoon. Close friends Casey and Mark Shapiro would be
in the coaching boxes.
Take it easy on us, Casey told the Spiders.
Coaching the Spiders helped Mark Shapiro overcome the temptation to attend the Indians-Orioles
series. So was visiting with his father and stepmother,
Cathi, at their suburban Baltimore farm.
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Reuven Rivlin elected 10th

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Father and son exude warmth. Ron Shapiro, unable to stay

for the afternoon game, told Mark Give me a kiss and a hug
when he left, and as they hugged each said I love you.
Their personal-baseball time together here was a weekend to savor.
For me, baseball has always been relational and nothing is more relational than family, Mark Shapiro said. My
love for baseball has always been tied to my father. And to
JTA Wire Service
In MeMorIal - BarBara SeIden
With 63 of 116 valid votes among members of the Knesset, MK Reuven Rivlin of Likud was voted Israels 10th
president on Tuesday at the culmination of a close tworound election.
Rivlins rival in the second round runoff, MK Meir
Sheetrit of Hatnuah, received 53 votes in what commentators considered a surprisingly strong showing. Of
the 120 eligible MKs, 119 cast ballots. In the first round,
two ballots were disqualified due to double ballots in the
envelope. In the second round, three voters submitted
blank ballots.
None of the five candidatesNobel Prize laureate Professor Daniel Shechtman, former Knesset speaker Dalia
Itzik, retired Supreme Court justice Dalia Dorner, former Knesset speaker Rivlin, and Sheetritwas able to
win the necessary 61-vote majority for an automatic victory in the first round. Rivlin and Sheetrit received 44
and 31 votes in the first round, respectively, to advance
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The officers, board and staff of the American Technion Society (ATS) are deeply saddened
at the loss of Barbara Seiden of Tenafly, N.J. Together with her beloved husband Norman,
a member of the ATS National Board of Directors and Deputy Chairman of the Technion
International Board of Governors, Mrs. Seiden was a steadfast supporter of the Technion and
Israel, and a Technion Guardian, a distinction reserved for those who have reached the highest
level of commitment. She was a Life Trustee, and past national Board Member, of the ATS
Womens Division, of which she was a leading supporter. Among the significant Technion
projects the couple funded are the Barbara and Norman Seiden Nanoelectronics Processing
Laboratory, and the Barbara and Norman Seiden/New York Metropolitan Region Center for
Advanced Opto-Electronics. They also established several academic chairs, including ones
in the names of each of their children. We extend our deepest sympathy to Norman, children
Stephen, Pearl and Mark, and the entire Seiden family.
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EU and Israel sign Horizon

2020 scientific agreement
The European Union and Israel have signed the Horizon 2020 cooperation agreement, enabling the Jewish
state to join one of the largest scientific and research
programs in the world.
Israel will have the same access to Horizon 2020 as
other EU member states, allowing Israeli researchers
and innovators to participate at the start of research
programs. Israel, in return, will contribute to the programs budgetwhich is nearly $109 billion.
Israel is a strong player in research and innovation
and for this reason is an important partner for the EU to
address societal challenges of common concern, such as
aging, food safety, environment protection, or cleaner
energy, and to strengthen the competitiveness of our
industries, said European Commission President Jose
Manuel Barroso.
Israel has already cooperated with EU scientific and
research programs for nearly 20 years, and its population has one of the worlds highest proportions of
researchers.

be able to see that relationship and love for the game shared
with my son, and to have my dad here, is incredibly special.
Caden gets the whole baseball-family thing.
Its pretty cool, passing down baseball generation to
generation, he said, grasping the white sphere. Its a great
experience Im living with my father and grandfather. Baseball just runs in our family. Ill pass it on to my grandkids.
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Gaza rocket explodes in

Ashkelon region
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in the Ashkelon region of southern Israel on Sunday night, Israel
Hayom reported.
No injuries or damage were reported. Warning sirens
sounded in the area before the rocket exploded. Early
last week, the Israeli Air Force struck two terror targets
in Gaza in response to rocket fire from the Hamas-conJNS.org
trolled coastal enclave.
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n 1 Temple Avodat Shalom in

River Edge celebrated participants graduation from TASTE
(Temple Avodat Shalom Teen
Experience) last month. Seniors
who graduated from the post
bnai mitzvah high school program are shown with school
director Rabbi Paula Feldstein
and teacher Anat Katzir.
n 2 Third and fourth graders from the Academies at

GBDS in Oakland explored
nature and learned hiking
safety at the James McFaul
Environmental Center in
Wyckoff. Jennifer Krakovsky
n 3 The Bergen County YJCC
in the Township of Washington celebrated its spring gala
on May 15 at the Rockleigh.
Distinguished members were
recognized for their outstanding contributions to the
organization. From left are
Young Leaders Jason and
Jennifer Auerbach, Community Builders David and Jayne
Petak, and Couple of the Year
Ron and Debbie Eisenberg.
Sharry and Mark Friedberg
and Joan and Dan Silna were
gala chairs, and Martin Kornheiser chaired the ad journal.
International Jewish Book Award finalist, and PJ Library

book selection, and the co-author of My Shoshana.
n 4 Anna Olswanger of Fair Lawn was among the four

authors honored by the Stuttering Foundation during
Stuttering Awareness Week, last month, for her recent
book Greenhorn. She also is the author of Shlemiel
Crooks, which is a Sydney Taylor Honor Book, a Koret
n 5 Children at the Helen Troum Nursery School and

Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn
were fascinated as they watched the release of butterflies they observed since their caterpillar stage. It all
was part of a lesson on the lifecycle of butterflies.
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n 6 Temple Emeth Milestone Shabbat. On May 30,

Temple Emeth honored its congregants who have been
members for multiples of five years, from 5 to 60 years.
Each member was given a certificate and a blessing
by Rabbi Steven Sirbu, right, and Cantor Ellen Tilem,
left. Ken Heller, seated front, talked about his experiences during his 45-year membership. Barbara Balkin
Dvar Torah
Shelach Lecha: Back to beginnings
arashat Shelach
and possess it; for we are
Lecha begins with
well able to overcome it
Moses sending 12
(Numbers 13:30). What gave
spies to travel the
Caleb the courage to go
length and the breadth of
against the others?
the Land of Israel, and report
According to the great
their findings. It is worth notBiblical commentator Rashi
ing that unlike the tribal leadit was a unique personal
ers who were called to assist
experience that gave him the
Rabbi Arthur
Moses with the census that
strength to do so. According
Weiner
began the Book of Numbers,
to the Torah all the spies
Jewish Community
the men chosen for this partraversed the land from south
Center of Paramus/
ticular mission were men who
to north (13:22). Yet while
Congregation
had earned their high status
doing so, the verse says that
Beth Tikvah,
Conservative
by their own achievements.
they spied the land starting
For 40 days they gathered the
in the south, and he went to
information as requested and
Hebron. The verse switches
then prepared their report. All agreed that
from they went to he went within the
it was a good land, flowing with milk and
course of one sentence, which seems to
honey. Yet 10 of the spies reported that the
make no grammatical sense. Rashi says
inhabitants of the land were too strong for
that the he refers to Caleb, who seems to
the Israelites to conquer. Their words led to
have broken off from the group for a while
fear and dissension among the people, who
and gone to Hebron.
rebelled against Moses, and the rest is hisWhy would he do that? Because of the
tory. They were punished with 40 years of
importance of Hebron in Jewish history.
wandering in the desert. None of that genBy making this detour, to pray at the
eration would enter the land of Israel.
cave of Machpela, the burial places of
One of the spies, Caleb, had a different
the patriarchs and matriarchs, Caleb
opinion: We should go up at once,
drew inspiration from those first Jews in
the land of Israel who also experienced

hardship and potential danger from those
who inhabited the land, yet persevered
and made a home there. That is why, at
least according to Rashi, Caleb did not
fall prey to the self-doubt and insecurity
demonstrated by the others. He alone,
along with Joshua, was allowed to enter
the land of Israel.
With the failure of the recent peace
talks, the formation of a Palestinian unity
government, as well the troublesome
decision of the Obama administration
to cooperate with it, Israels friends
and supporters throughout the world
are especially concerned. Even the
presidents closest allies in the Jewish
community cannot possibly deny the
pressure the decision to work with the
new Palestinian unity government has
put on Israel, or deny the possibility of
a showdown over this issue in the future.
Our opinions and responses to these and
similar challenges always touch upon
issues of politics, security, international
law, and the like. But Rashis comment
on this section of the Torah is sharing a
different type of lesson and truth with
us. Rashi is stating our historic claim to
this land, and our interest in its welfare.

Rashi is not making a political statement;
he is making a religious statement. He
is not asking whether or not one may
trade land for peace, or weighing in on
the merits of the settlement movement.
What he is saying is something far
different, reminding us that Hebron was
our ancestors first real estate holding in
the land of Israel recognized by others,
purchased in such a way so as to deny
others the right to contest our claims
there. Countless generations of Jews have
not only dreamed of but also drawn hope
and religious inspiration from this very
place. Caleb too used this inspiration to
strengthen his resolve in the face of great
adversity. And it made all the difference.
On this Shabbat all who care for the
security of the state of Israel, whether
we are right, center, or left in our Zionist
leanings, whether we are Republican
or Democrat, need to make our own
metaphoric journey to Hebron, and
consider the sacrifices and heroism of
previous generations. Like Caleb before
us, may we too find the inspiration there
to remain strong in our beliefs in the face
of adversity and difficulty. And may we
emerge from the experience more ready
to work for a safer and more secure
future for world Jewry, for the state of
Israel, and for all humanity.
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Arts & Culture

Ethel sings off key
Miriam Rinn
hile some theatergoers

may be put off by the very
idea of a play about Ethel
and Julius Rosenberg
that includes musical numbers, I am not
among them.
Contemporary musicals handle all kinds
of serious and controversial subject matter, from presidential assassinations to the
lynching of Leo Frank and the trials of the
Scottsboro boys. In those shows some
more successfully than others the music
expands our understanding of the historical events. One cannot say the same for
Ethel Sings, a new play by Joan Beber
about the woman who was executed in
1953, along with her husband, for passing
atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Here,
the large multiracial cast breaking into disparate musical genres, including an African dance number and a jazzy courtroom
tune, further muddles a play that is uncertain about its purpose.
The story of Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs
trial and execution is well known and has
been covered in books, memoirs, movies,
and plays. It now is widely accepted that
Julius was a Soviet spy, Ethel an unsuspecting dupe, their trial a farce, and anti-Semitism and anti-communist hysteria were
critical factors in their executions.
What new insights, then,
does Ethel Sings present?
Not many that I could discern. Julius is still the true
believer, Ethel seems to be a
flighty, foolish woman, daydreaming about the time
she played St. Joan in high
school, worrying about her
parenting skills, and passionately devoted to Julius. Her
brother, David Greenglass, is
presented as a foolish lout,
and her sister-in-law, Ruth,
as a slut. Ethels mother is
treated with the most contempt, including being provided with an entirely unconvincing Yiddish accent and
stereotypical demeanor. All
of these characters are little
more than caricatures, and in
the case of Mrs. Greenglass, a
deeply offensive caricature.
The play opens in Sing Sing, where
both Julius and Ethel were imprisoned,
and then moves back in time to the early
1930, when the couple first met at a Young
Communist League meeting. At the start,
Ethel is talking about angels and sin and
how shes like St. Joan, bizarrely Christian
imagery for a Jewish girl from the Lower
Cast tries hard, but musical offers little insight into the
Rosenbergs.
East Side, and a communist, to boot.

What are we to make of this? Has Ethel
found religion a different one in
prison? She has a constant companion
who says she represents all faiths and all
cultures. The very talented Adrienne C.
Moore (now in Orange Is the New Black)
plays this role, which seems to be a cross
between a Greek chorus and a guardian
angel. Although Ms.

Moore gives her all
to the role, it never
is clear what she is
there to do. Switching
from gospel-inflected
affirmations to Yiddishisms, she is one
example of the strange
mash-up of AfricanAmerican and Jewish
sensibilities on display
at the Beckett Theatre
on Theatre Row.
Perhaps director
Will Pomerantz wants
to emphasize the early
civil-rights work of
the Communist Party, or the reality that
African-Americans made up a large percentage of prisoners then, just as they do
now. Since none of that is made explicit or
even strongly implied in the overly busy
production, the casting decisions become
another confusing choice.
The missteps of Ethel Sings cannot
be blamed on its talented cast, who try
hard to make the play work as they perform multiple characters. Set designer
John McDermott and costume designer
Whitney Locher create a believable
Depression/wartime environment, with
a vaguely industrial-looking set that
evokes both prison and tenement. Tracy
Michailidis (Beauty and the Beast) captures Ethels delicacy and stubbornness
and has a beautiful voice as well, but we
never understand what motivates her to
make the decisions she does. She is not
the ideologue that Julius is, and at times
seems to have ordinary dreams of a nice
apartment and happy children. Her identification with Joan of Arc is vexing: is her
passion for Julius meant to remind us of
Joans religious fervor? Does her execution make her a leftist saint? If we cannot
grasp who Ethel is and apprehend why
she does what she does, what does Ethel
Sings bring to our deeper comprehension of her life?
Perhaps there is a musical treatment
hidden in the experiences of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg, but Ethel Sings is not
it. At least, not yet.
Calendar
Scholarship breakfast
in Teaneck: torah
academy of Bergen
County holds its annual
scholarship breakfast
at the school, 9:30 a.m.
rachel Friedman and
suzy schwartz are the
honorees. (201) 837-7696
or teri.normand@tabc.org.
The Shirah Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by its

founding director, conductor Matthew Lazar, performs its 20th
anniversary spring concert on Sunday, June 15, at 7 p.m., in the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. The performance in
the Taub Auditorium, which will include traditional and contemporary pieces
in Hebrew, English, and Yiddish, is in memory of its founder, Ruth Weinflash.
A dessert reception follows. The JCC Thurnauer School of Music will hold its
15th annual Sandra O. Gold Founders Day Concert with the schools acclaimed
student ensembles on Thursday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m., also in the JCCs Taub
Auditorium. 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly. (201) 408-1465 or www.jccotp.org.
5:30- 7:30 p.m. 441

Cedar Lane. www.
jbusinessnetwork.net.
Wednesday
june 18
Yiddish club: Khaverim
Far Yidish (Friends for
Yiddish) of the Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth tikvah meets for
lunch and a program
with pianist inna Leytush,
1 p.m. Group meets the
fourth wednesday of
the month. $10. east 304
Midland ave. Varda, (201)
791-0327.
JUNE
15 & 19
Friday
june 13
Shabbat in Paramus:
the Young Jewish
Families Club and
membership committee
of the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth tikvah
hosts an open house,
barbecue, and family
service, 6 p.m. rain or
shine. east 304 Midland
ave. reservations,
(201) 262-7691 or yjf@
jccparamus.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
temple Beth el hosts
family shabbat, led by
rabbi david s. widzer
and Cantor rica timman,
with BetY (Beth el Youth
Group), a camp send-off,
and blessings for high
school seniors, 6:45 p.m.
221 schraalenburgh
road. (201) 768-5112.
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by flutist debra Blecher,
keyboardist Jonathan
hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of Cd with
service melodies
available at the shul. 87
Overlook drive. (201) 3910801 or www.tepv.org.
temple emeth offers
a shlomo Carlebach
musical service in honor
of Cantor ellen tilems
20th anniversary as the
shuls cantor, 8 p.m. 1666
windsor road. (201) 8331322.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: temple emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
Cantor Mark Biddelman,
on guitar, hosts shabbat
Yachad, hebrew prayers
Shabbat in Springfield:
temple shaarey shalom
invites the community to
a special shabbat alive
musical service with
Jewish rock musician
rick recht, 8 p.m. he will
be joined by the temples
Place. (201) 833-0515 or

www.jcot.org.
Saturday
june 14
Concert in Wayne:
tUsK: the Ultimate
Fleetwood Mac tribute
band performs for the
rock tribute series at
the wayne YMCa, 7 p.m.
the Metro YMCas of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-Ywha of north
Jersey. 1 Pike drive. (973)
595-0100.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Shabbat in Fort Lee:

the sisterhood of
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
shalom hosts services,
7 p.m. refreshments.
1449 anderson ave. (201)
947-1735.
adult and youth choirs.

78 south springfield ave.
(973) 379-5387.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
david M. weinberg,
diplomatic columnist
for the Jerusalem
Post and israel
hayom, speaks during
services that begin at
9 a.m. at the Jewish
Center of teaneck. at
approximately 11, Mr.
weinberg will discuss
awakening: the Zionist
spring in a Changed
Middle east and at
6:45 p.m., an hour before
Minchah, he will talk
about reforming the
Charedi Community
in israel and healing
israel. Kinder shul for
3- to 8-year-olds, while
parents attend services,
10:30-11:45. 70 sterling
Sunday
june 15
Charity bike ride:
Jewish Family service
of Bergen and north
hudson sponsors
JFs wheels for Meals
ride to Fight hunger,
beginning and ending
at the Jewish home at
rockleigh. registration
begins at 6:30 a.m.
route options: Cycle 3,
10, 25, or 50 miles, or 5K
walk. (201) 837-9090 or
ridetoFighthunger.org.
Author/book signing in
Teaneck: eric Goldman,
film editor for the
Jewish standard, signs
copies of his book, the
american Jewish story
through Cinema, at
the Judaica house, 11
a.m.-12:30 p.m. Goldman
is also an adjunct
professor of cinema
at Yeshiva University
and founder/president
of ergo Media, inc., a
Jewish film distributor.
the book signing is
the final stop on a
nationwide book tour to
over 30 communities.
478 Cedar Lane. (201)
801-9001.
Monday
june 16
Enriching our lives:
rabbi ephraim epstein
is the guest lecturer
for a lunch and learn at
Young israel of Fort Lee,
noon. rabbi epstein, the
leader of Congregation
sons of israel in Cherry
hill, and the writer of the
weekly column tefillah
tips on the OU website,
discusses an attitude of
Gratitude: exploring the
Characteristics that Can
enrich Our Lives. Light
lunch. 1610 Parker ave.
(201) 592-1518 or yiftlee.
org.
Tuesday
june 17
Networking in Teaneck:
the Jewish Business
network meets for
Cocktails and Carats,
an after-hours business
card exchange at
Garden state Jewelers,
Book discussion in
Fort Lee: sisterhood of
Congregation Gesher
shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
meets for a discussion
on Jonathan d. sarnas
book when General
Grant expelled the Jews,
8 p.m. refreshments.
1449 anderson ave. (201)
947-1735.
Thursday
june 19
Networking in Short
Hills: the Jewish
Business network meets
with members of the
tribe and temple Bnai
Jeshurun, 8 a.m. 1025
south Orange ave. www.
jbusinessnetwork.net.
Yiddish in Wayne: the

wayne YMCa offers a
Yiddish Vinkle, sponsored
by Jewish Federation of
northern new Jersey,
1 p.m. 1 Pike drive. (973)
595-0100, ext. 236.
Friday
june 20
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers the yearend Friday night Live!
with nosh, schmooze,
and shabbat dinner,
beginning at 6:30 p.m.
176 west side ave. (201)
435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.
org.
Saturday
june 21
Shabbat in Teaneck:
daniel rynhold discusses
Calendar
Halakhic Man or
Superman? A Jewish
Response to Nietzsche,
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 6:55 p.m.
Rynhold is an associate
professor in modern
Jewish philosophy at the
Bernard Revel Graduate
School of Jewish Studies,
Yeshiva University, and
author of three books on
philosophy and religion.
389 W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Sunday
june 22
Atlantic City trip:
Hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to
Show Boat Casino Hotel.
A bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
at 9:15 a.m. Breakfast
served on bus at 9. $30;
includes $25 slot play
money. Bring ID and
Tropicana Rewards card.
10-10 Norma Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
cast of international
circus stars: daring
aerialists, agile acrobats,
and cavorting clowns,
all under the big top.
Advance sales benefit
the YJCC. 605 Pascack
Road. Wendy Fox, (201)
666-6610.
In New York
Tuesday
june 17
Job networking for
attorneys: The Orthodox
Union Job Board
and Crown Heights
Young Entrepreneurs
host Networking for
Attorneys, at the OU
Job Board International
Headquarters,
5:30-7:30 p.m. Featuring
Speed Networking with
round-robin seating. Not
a job fair. Registration
required. 11 Broadway,
14th Floor, Manhattan.
(212) 563-4000 or www.
oujobs.org.
Singles
Sunday
Sunset soiree
for young
professionals
Young Friends of the Museum
at the Museum of Jewish HeritageA Living Memorial to
the Holocaust in Manhattans
Battery Park City host Young
Friends Sunset Soiree for the
areas young professional community, 21 to 39 years old. It is
set for Thursday, June 26, from
7 to 10 p.m.; a private museum
exhibition tour begins at 6:30.
Participants can socialize on
the outdoor terrace overlooking New York Harbor and look
at the museums special exhibitions. Gallery educators will
be available to answer questions and give tours.
There will be an open beer
and wine bar and light refreshments will be served; dietary
laws will be observed. Proceeds support the museums
education programs. For information, call (646) 437-4252
or go to www.mjhnyc.org/
youngfriends.
A charity ride to fight hunger

Jewish Family Service of Bergen
and North Hudson holds its fourth
annual Wheels for Meals Ride to
Fight Hunger, Fathers Day, Sunday,
June 15, from 6:30 a.m. to noon. The
annual event will raise money for
Meals on Wheels and its food pantry. ABC Eyewitness News Anchor,
Lori Stokes will be on-site to support
participants including Mara Miller,
a two-time USA Cycling National
champion.
There will be 25 and 50 mile rides
for advanced cyclists, 10 and 3 mile
routes for less experienced riders,
and a 3-mile walk.
Corporate sponsors include

Stop and Shop, Benzel Busch, BJs
Wholesale Club, Unilevers Degree,
Sharp Electronics, Becton Dickinson, Pepsico, Optima, TD Bank, and
Crestron.
A rest stop sponsored by the
Tenafly Bicycle Workshop will be
available along the cycling route.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided and there will be a chance to
win a Sharp AQUOS 60 LED Smart
TV with Quattron Technology.
For information, visit www.ridetofighthunger.org or www.facebook.
com/JFSBergen/events.
june 29
Dance party in Clifton:
Circus in Washington
Township: The Kelly
Miller Circus comes to
the Bergen County YJCC
for two shows, noon
and 4 p.m. Rain or shine.
Traditional tented circus
features elephants, tigers,
camels, ponies, and a
North Jersey Jewish

Singles Meetup, a group
sponsored by the Clifton
Jewish Center, hosts
Jewish singles dinner
and dance, 6-9:30 p.m.
Light dinner buffet, ice
breakers, followed by
baby boomers dance
music with DJ Allan
Bolles. $20. 18 Delaware
St. (973) 772-3131 or
www.meetup.com.
Ridgewood family
bike ride
Northern New Jersey Hadassah Associates sponsors a family bike ride at the Ridgewood Wild Duck Pond on Sunday,
June 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be a choice of bike trails, a walk/run, and use
of a playground. Water will be available and light refreshments will be served after the activities. Helmets are
required for the bike ride.
Proceeds will benefit the Mens Health Initiative at
Hadassah Medical Organization. For information call Neal
Lipschitz at (201) 248-0517 or nlipschitz@hotmail.com or
Bruce Revesz at (973) 239-7230 or nogbrutrpt@gmail.com.
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Bike to the
beach
Hazon offers a Bke to the
Beach event on Sunday, June
15. Join riders from various
locations in New Jersey and
New York all headed to Coney
Island.
Starting locations and times
include 9 a.m. in Fort Lee, and
9:30 a.m., at the JCC Manhattan, Upper West Side. Lunch
will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Riding is free, with an
option to buy lunch and a
Hazon water bottle for $10.
Visit hazon.org/calendar/
bike-beach-2.
Concert at JHR next week

The Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Russ Berrie
Home for Jewish Living invites the community
to the 12h annual Myrna and Alan Cohen Spring
Concert on Sunday, June 22, at 2:30 p.m.
Hagit Avnon, an Israeli-born dancer and
singer, weaves Hebrew, Yiddish, and English
songs into her performance. She has appeared
on Israeli and American stages, performed
at JHR in 2008, and will be the featured performer again this year. Her show covers the
saga of the Jews in the 20th century from the
shtetl to the birth of the State of Israel.
Admission is free and refreshments will be
Hagit Avnon
served. The concert is made possible through
the Jewish Home Foundation and the Myrna
and Alan Cohen Annual Spring Concert Endowment, which was established
in 2003 by the Cohens friends to provide special springtime entertainment
to JHR residents.
For information, call (201) 784-1414.
NYC museum offers discussion on knish book

The Museum of Jewish HeritageA Living Memorial to the Holocaust hosts a
Fathers Day program about the history
of the knish with a discussion of Laura
Silvers new book, Knish: In Search of
the Jewish Soul Food, on Sunday, June
15, at 2:30 p.m. Ms. Silver, who is considered the worlds leading authority on
knishes, will be joined in conversation
with food writer Gabriella Gershenson.
She will report on her round-the-world

quest for the origins of the humble
potato pocket. The event, which is copresented by 92Y, is part of the 92Y@
MJH book series. The event will include
a light post-discussion knish nosh.
Tickets are available online at www.
mjhnyc.org or by calling the Museum
box office at (646) 437-4202, at 92Ys box
office, and on its website, www.92y.org.
BarBara Seiden
The Jewish Home Family notes with profound
sorrow the passing of our long devoted
supporter, very dear friend, and wife of our past
JHRC past president and board chair, Norman
Seiden. Alongside her beloved devoted husband
Norman, Barbara was a critical driving force in
the development of the Jewish Home Family.
Together, their strong belief in involving others
in our mission of providing for elders in our
community resulted in the creation of our
organization as well as our ability to improve the
lives of seniors daily. A woman loved by all who
exhibited a profound commitment to countless
organizations and causes in the local, national
and international Jewish communities. She will
be missed by many. We extend our deepest
sympathy to her beloved husband, Norman,
her children Stephen, Pearl, and Mark, her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and her
entire family. Barbaras legacy includes the many
fine institutions that along with her lifelong
partner Norman, she conceived, founded,
stewarded, and generously and tirelessly
supported. May her memory be for a blessing.
Eli Ungar, Chairperson of the Board
Charles P. Berkowitz, President and CEO
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Obituaries
Mildred Goldin
Mildred Goldin, ne Adler, 93, of Mission Viejo, Calif.,

formerly of Hillsdale, died June 7.
She graduated Hunter College and earned a masters
at Montclair State College. Before retiring, she was a
teacher at Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg,
N.Y. She was a former member of Temple Emanuel in
Woodcliff Lake.
Predeceased by her husband, Benjamin, she is
survived by her children, Susan Goldin-Meadow
(William Meadow) of Chicago, and Alan (Rozanne
Sandri-Goldin) of Irvine, Calif.; three grandchildren;
and one great-grandchild.
Donations can be made to the Avon Foundation
Breast Cancer Crusade. Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Ivan Kivva
Ivan Kivva, 84, of Paterson, died June 5. Arrangements

were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Lawrence Lewis
Lawrence Larry M. Lewis, 89, of Edgewater died

May 30 in North Bergen.
Born in the Bronx, he was an Army World War II
veteran earning three Battle Stars, a Bronze Star, and
the Croix de Guerre with Palm awarded by General
De Gaulle to the 88th Infantry Division members.
Before retiring, he spent nearly four decades as
a top administrative and financial executive for
MCA, General Artists Corp./Creative Management

Associates, and William Morris, Hollywood talent
agencies.
He is survived by his wife, Elinor; children, Andy,
Barbara Marco, and Susan Sadoun; a sister, Cookie
Marks; four grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by Gutterman-Musicant
Funeral Directors in Hackensack.
Marlene Marlowe
Marlene D. Marlowe, 80, of Hawthorne, formerly of

New York City, died June 3.
Predeceased by her siblings, Bernard Marlowe and
Lillian Marlowe Gordon, she is survived by a brotherin-law, Allen Gordon, and a nephew, Senator Bob
Gordon (Gail) of Fair Lawn.
Contributions can be sent to the Alzheimers
Association. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Michael Piekarsky
Michael Ira Piekarsky, 73, of Sarasota, Fla., formerly of

Paterson, died June 4.
He was a graduate of Ohio College of Podiatry in
Cleveland.
A sister, Judith Sellman, of Sarasota, and nephews
David and Steven, survive him.
Donations can be made to Tidewell Hospice,
Sarasota, Fla. Arrangements were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
In MeMorIal - BarBara SeIden

The officers, board and staff of the American Technion Society (ATS) are deeply saddened
at the loss of Barbara Seiden of Tenafly, N.J. Together with her beloved husband Norman,
a member of the ATS National Board of Directors and Deputy Chairman of the Technion
International Board of Governors, Mrs. Seiden was a steadfast supporter of the Technion and
Israel, and a Technion Guardian, a distinction reserved for those who have reached the highest
level of commitment. She was a Life Trustee, and past national Board Member, of the ATS
Womens Division, of which she was a leading supporter. Among the significant Technion
projects the couple funded are the Barbara and Norman Seiden Nanoelectronics Processing
Laboratory, and the Barbara and Norman Seiden/New York Metropolitan Region Center for
Advanced Opto-Electronics. They also established several academic chairs, including ones
in the names of each of their children. We extend our deepest sympathy to Norman, children
Stephen, Pearl and Mark, and the entire Seiden family.
AMERICAN TEChNION SOCIETY
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Jeffrey Richard, Executive Vice President

Melvyn. h. Bloom, Executive Vice President Emeritus
Ken Rubenstein, New York Metro Region President
Jerry Kleinman, New York Metro Region Director
Obituaries
Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Inc
Norma T. FuNd
Chana Tova PouPko
Norma T. Fund of Allendale, was 86 years old and

passed away quietly on May 25, 2014, at Care One
Rehab Center in Westwood, N.J., after a prolonged
stay at Valley Hospital, suffering from a serious fall
and complications.
Married 68 years to Jerry Fund, she was a loving
wife, mother, and grandmother to Jerry, daughter
Melanie, and grandchildren, Alani and Kai.
An accomplished artist, photographer, musician,
and sportswoman, she was engaged throughout
her married years as correspondent, secretary,
homemaker, and office manager alongside Jerry in
their many business ventures and activities.
She was, above all else, a charming, gregarious
LADY with hordes of friends and relatives due to her
many interests and activities through the years.
She was laid to rest at Riverside Cemetery from
Schoems Menorah Chapel.
May she rest in peace with all our Love and
Respect forever. She will be sorely missed by all who
knew her.
The clergy, lay leaders and the close knit

community of Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood wish to extend their sincere
and deep sympathy to the Associate Rabbi,
HaRav Chaim and Dr. Shoshana Poupko
and their families on the untimely passing of their beloved daughter, Chana Tova,
obm on Shabbat, June 7, 2014. Funeral
services took place on Sunday, June 8 at
Congregation Ahavath Torah followed by
the kivura in Israel on Monday, June 9 at
Eretz HaChaim Cemetery in Beit Shemesh.
Chana was an exceptional child who in her
short time with us touched all of our hearts
deeply. She will be sorely missed. We pray
that her memory will continue to strengthen
and enrich the lives of her family and our
entire community.
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Pope Francis, Peres, Abbas pray for peace in Vatican City

Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas joined Pope Francis to pray
for peace in Vatican City on Sunday.
Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than
warfare, Pope Francis said. It calls for the courage to
say yes to encounter and no to conflict.
The 90-year-old Peres said, I was young. Now I am
old. I experienced war. I tasted peace. And all my life
I shall never stop to act for peace, for generations to
come. Lets all of us join hands and make it happen.
O Lord, bring comprehensive and just peace to our
country and region so that our people and the peoples

of the Middle East and the whole world would enjoy the
fruit of peace, stability, and coexistence, said Abbas,
whose Fatah party recently formed a unity government
with the terrorist group Hamas.
Abbas also took on a more political tone, emphasizing
that a just peace would alleviate the suffering of the
Palestinian people.
Peres and Abbas, meanwhile, met privately for about
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Heritage Point of Teaneck crowns trivia champion
What was the classic novel, and only book, written by
Harper Lee?
Who is the only President since George Washington to
become President without being elected to the office or
succeeding from the Vice Presidency?
Who wrote the line, We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
These are the kinds of questions that were tossed
at residents at Heritage Pointe of Teaneck, the senior
independent community, in the preliminary and final

rounds of the Senior Trivia Olympics. The Gold Medal
winner was Irwin Geller, 92, a one-time manufacturer and
retailer. He nosed out Gerry Wagner, the Silver Medal winner; and Jane Raps, who captured the Bronze.
We thought this would be a fun and unique activity for
our residents, many of whom weve found are extremely
well-read and knowledgeable on a range of subjects,
including politics, history, literature, world events, sports
and entertainment, said Lorraine Amendola, life

enrichment director at Heritage Pointe of Teaneck.
What were finding is that an activity like this not
only offers the residents a good time, but is also beneficial in keeping their minds active and their memories sharp.
The event was divided into the categories Famous
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sports, music and art.
I didnt realize how much I remembered about
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every pot (Herbert Hoover) and the name of the
Supreme Court decision that declared segregation
unconstitutional in schools (Brown vs. Board of Education). Since I didnt know the answers on those
questions concerning television, it probably just
goes to show that I havent lived a frivolous life.
According to Amendola, she is considering having Heritage Pointe of Teaneck host a Senior Trivia
Olympics for seniors in the community later this
summer. Those who are interested in learning the
details can contact her at 201-836-9260 (lamendola@
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And, for those keeping score, the answers to the
questions above are To Kill a Mockingbird, Gerald
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Touro College of
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Following musical interludes from Harlems Cotton Club All Stars band, and with friends and family
members cheering them on, the eighty-six graduating students of the third class of the Touro College
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