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#TrumpHaggadah: Its huuuge!
Every year brings forth a new crop of Hag-
Okay, its more a joke than a religious text.

But its a well-executed one.
Herewith, highlights from the Twitter
discussion marked with the hashtag
#TrumpHaggadah. But the whole thing, at
storify.com/AvBronstein/trump-haggadah, is
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gadahs for the seder night. Some of them

become fixtures; others are just a flash in the
seder plate.
This year, there is one that is so topical,
and so ephemeral, that it has been published
only on Twitter.
Israeli physicists electrify your Lego

Some things are just obvious.
Like, why cant you deposit a thin

film of metal on a plastic brick to
create a Lego device thats also an
electric circuit?
Well, maybe you have to be a
physicist to find that obvious.
But Boaz Almog is a physics
researcher at Tel Aviv University. (You
may remember him from his role in a
TED talk on quantum superconducting
levitation that has more than two million
views.)
And when he realized that his sons
electric circuit kits were not as much
fun as his beloved Lego bricks, he had a
brainstorm: Why not develop a kit that
made the circuit out of bricks?
Thus was born Brixo, which is now
raising funds on Kickstarter. Unlike Legos
electrified Techno kits, Brixo projects
dont use wires. Instead, chrome-plated
bricks conduct the circuits. There are
bricks that detect light or sound or
even bluetooth instructions from a
smartphone, and there are bricks that

light up or run a motor.
So yes, you can design a car that starts
driving when the lights go out. As if
walking in a Lego-filled household wasnt
hazardous enough.
Almog is running Brixo with a Tel Aviv
University physics colleague, Amir Saraf.
The two already launched Quantum
Experience, an initiative to bring
quantum physics into the public eye.
Science and technology surround us,
Almog said. But basic understanding
of the principles we look at every day as
physicists are absent from mainstream
consciousness.
You can find out more at getbrixo.com.
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We have to coexist
as best as possible.
Animal control officer Vincent Ascolese, quoted in the
Bergen Record, talking about people and aggressive wild
turkeys in Teaneck and so very many other things
ROLL OF THE DICE:
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six-parter by
comedian Clay
Comedian ANDREW
DICE CLAY, 58,
was never my cup of tea.
Yes, he was funny now
and again but I found
his misogynist, caveman,
greaser stand-up act
hard to take on an
ongoing basis. Still, Clay
turned in a surprisingly
good dramatic performance in the WOODY
ALLEN film Blue
Jasmine (2014). So
maybe theres more to
him than most assume,
and it might be worth
checking out his new
six-episode Showtime
series, Dice, which
starts on April 10. Its a
semi-scripted autobiographical show that
follows Dice as he tries
to mount a career
resurgence. He moves to
Vegas and tries to repay
his gambling debts while
at the same time
managing his two sons
rock band. Guest stars
include RITA RUDNER,
62, MICHAEL RAPAPPORT, 42, and ADRIEN
BRODY, 42.
Gloria Vanderbilt is
the subject of an
HBO documentary,
Nothing Left Unsaid
(Premieres Saturday,
April 9, at 9 p.m.). Gloria,
now 91, is interviewed by
her son, CNN anchor
Anderson Cooper, 48.
Theres a lot about the
battle for little Gloria in
the 1930s. Her father
died when she was 18
months old and left her a

huge trust fund. The
country was riveted as
her mother and rich aunt
battled in court about
use of the trust funds
and her mothers fitness
to raise Gloria. Surprisingly, Gloria emerged
pretty unscathed, and by
1940, at 16, she was a
pretty young socialite
whose best pals were her
contemporaries Oona
ONeill, the daughter of
playwright Eugene
ONeill, and CAROL
MARCUS. Despite their
age, these bright,
beautiful, and connected
young women could go
into any nightclub and
meet anyone. ONeill was
romantically tied to J.D.
SALINGER when he went
into the army in 1942. He
got a Dear John letter
in the form of a newspaper article in 1943 that
said she had married
Charlie Chaplin. Marcus
went on to wed author
William Saroyan and
WALTER MATTHAU, who
survived her.
Meanwhile, Gloria got
more arty and met more
Jews, like famous acting coach SANFORD
MEISNER, with whom
she studied in the 1940s.
Her first marriage, to
conductor Leopold
Stokowski, produced
two sons and ended
in 1955. The same year
she married the then
fairly unknown direc-
Andrew Dice Clay
Gloria Vanderbilt
Jake Gyllenhaal
Liev Schreiber
Paula Abdul
Adam Lambert
tor SIDNEY LUMET (12

Angry Men, Network).
Their childless marriage
ended in 1964 and I am
curious what Vanderbilt
has to say about him.
Vanderbilt went on to
marry Andersons father
and to become famous
as a blue jeans designer
in the 1970s. By the way,
Lumet, who died in 2011
at 86 was married four
times (like Vanderbilt).
His first and only Jewish wife, the beautiful
actress RITA GAM, died
on March 26, at 88. He
had his only children, two

daughters, with his third
wife, Gail Jones, Lena
Hornes daughter.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL,
35, stars in Demolition as Davis, a successful investment banker
who is devastated when
his wife dies in a car
crash. His father-in-law,
played by the alwaysgreat Chris Cooper,
pressures him to get it
together. But Davis
continues to melt down.
Among other things, he
writes a series of letters
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admissions. Karen, a
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Naomi Watts, is taken by
his letters. She and Davis
form an unlikely connection, and Davis begins to
rebuild his life. Watts, by
the way, has been the life
partner of actor LIEV
SCHREIBER, 48, since
2005 and at some point
probably they married.
(Schreiber referred to
her as his wife in 2013.)
They have two young

sons, each of whom had
a bris and Hebrew
naming ceremony.
Well, the once
powerhouse Fox
talent show American
Idol ended on Thursday,
April 7. Entertainment
Weekly interviewed
some biggies associated
with the show and heres
part of what former
judge PAULA ABDUL,
53, and contestant
ADAM LAMBERT, 34,
had to say. Abdul:
[When the show
started] I felt terrible for
these kids. There were
these brilliantly delusional ones, but there were
these total standouts. I
take a lot of pride in the
fact that there were
legitimate groundbreaking careers that
launched from it.
Lambert says: After I
completed the first
auditions I had to quit
my job in order to move
on. That was my income,
my health insurance. It
was a big risk. So when it
came time to go out in
front of the [main]
judges, I thought If this
doesnt work, youre
screwed. The show
came along right after
the country needed
some hope right after
9/11. It was inspiring for
people to come together
and root for the underdog.
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Were all connected to modern slavery

in ways that arent always easy to spot.
In Brazil, scrap timber from Amazon
logging operations is turned into
charcoal, which fuels smelters to make
pig iron, which is used to make steel
that winds up in cars, toys, appliances
and skyscrapers.
KAY CHERNUSH
Freeing the slaves

Local rabbis, Washington-based organization fight modern-day servitude
JOANNE PALMER
vadim hayinu, we say

as we begin each Passover seder. We were
slaves.
Every year we acknowledge that once
we had been enslaved; if God had not
freed us, we might be there still. Now,
though, we are free.
There are at least 21 million people
enslaved across the world; some estimates
say that there are 36 million. With deadly
irony, some of them make bricks not
without straw, as our ancestors did, but certainly without hope. None of those people
can say We were slaves. Free the Slaves, a
Washington-based nonprofit that partners
with local agencies in six countries around
the world, hopes that one day soon they can
say, as we do, today we are free.
Free the Slaves is a secular organization
with a strong faith-based component
there is no way you could do this work
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without faith, its executive director, Maurice Middleberg, said. It works with many
religious organizations, representing Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists,
and Hindus, among others. It has a particularly active Jewish presence, culminating
in but certainly not confined to this years
second annual Passover Project.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein of Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson strongly supports Free the Slaves, and she conceived
of Next Year Free!, a curriculum, meant
to be used to prepare for and lead a seder,
that Free the Slaves offers free online.
Why is this seder different from all
other seders? she asked. Every year,
Jews sit down to a seder, and every year
there are beloved traditions, from grandmas matzah ball soup to Uncle Sidneys
Haggadah reading to my mothers famous
baked goods, that everyone looks forward
to every year. But there also is the element
of Maxwell House Haggadah fatigue.
People say they love the tradition, but
they want to see it renewed from year to

year.
That need, to make the tradition jump
from the rote to become living Torah, dovetails with the tragedy of modern-day slavery.
The moral imperative to rid the world of
slavery became important to Rabbi Orenstein fairly recently. I was asked to write
a sermon about human trafficking for the
High Holidays for the Rabbinical Assembly the organization that represents
Conservative rabbis she said. It wasnt
my passion. I didnt even think it would
be a particularly good topic for the holidays. But I wanted to be a good rabbinic
citizen, so I did some research. And then
the urgency of it took hold of me, and I
felt that I couldnt not make this a cause
in my life.
Ever since then I have been thinking
about it.
No Jew should sit down to a seder
without discussing contemporary slavery, because the whole essence of the
There are people

enslaved in India
who are making
bricks, just as
we made bricks
in Egypt.
Haggadah is to engage your imagination
in order to evoke compassion and commitment to spiritual freedom for yourself
and for physical freedom for other people, she said. To me, it is such an obvious link.
There are people enslaved in India
who are making bricks, just as we made
bricks in Eypt. Free the Slaves website, freetheslaves.net, includes a video
showing people who had been enslaved,
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Slavery is illegal everywhere under local laws and international treaties.
But many rural Indians do not know their rights, making them easy prey
for traffickers. Free the Slaves community mobilizers work at a grassroots
level to free those in slavery and educate the vulnerable to prevent their
enslavement.
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making bricks, and who now are free.

The groups philosophy is not merely to
set those slaves free, but to say, How
can we help you?, Rabbi Orenstein
said. As the video shows, they said
they wanted to have their own kiln, so
they could make their own bricks. You
see people with almost nothing, making
bricks, and now they are smiling.
It takes very little money to free slaves,
Rabbi Orenstein said. We dont go and
outright buy people from the slave
trade, though, because that obviously
would be good for the slave traders. It
would encourage them to enslave more
victims, knowing that ransom would be
forthcoming.
Slavery can be eradicated, she added.
It is doable. Even though there are now
more slaves in the world in numbers, the
percentage of people who are slaves is
lower. Industries dont depend on it the
way they used to, now that there are alternatives. In other words, there are many
benefits as well as drawbacks to industrialization, particularly now, in the digital
age. It takes so little money, relatively
speaking, to make a difference.
There is $150 billion a year going to
trafficking, and only one tenth of that
amount is being spent to eradicate it. If
we just up the spending a little bit more,
we can end it.
Free the Slaves is realistic, she added.
They dont only rescue people, they
think about what they need, and they let
people know about the alternatives.
If someone a trafficker, that is
comes to town, and you have five kids,
and you dont know how to feed them,
and they say We have a good job for
your oldest one, you might make a deal
to feed the other four. But if you know
what is really happening if you have
alternatives, and access to food and
credit and health care, you wont take
that deal.
Free the Slaves offers Jews three ways
to integrate its message into the holiday
through the Passover Project, a five-year
undertaking. Aside from Next Year
Free!, there is Passover Prep, a onepage handout, available for download
online, that offers a range of options,
which would take between 10 seconds
and 10 hours to do. Seder Coupons, also
downloadable, are meant to inspire both
discussion and tzedakah.
Locally, Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, which is Conservative, has
joined Rabbi Orensteins Conservative
Bnai Israel in signing on to use Next
Year Free!, and so have the Solomon
Schechter Day School of Bergen County
and the New York Board of Rabbis,
whose president is Rabbi David-Seth
Kirshner of Temple Emanu-El of Closter,
also Conservative. Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge, which is Reform, and
Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck,
which is Conservative, are using some of
Free the Slaves resources this year.
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot, who leads
Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck
which is Orthodox also wrote a chapter in Next Year Free!.
I wrote two lessons for high-schoolage kids across the denominations, using
Jewish sources, with guiding questions
for teachers, Rabbi Helfgot, chair of
the department of Talmud and rabbinics at SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y.,
said. The sources are both ancient and
contemporary.
He addressed two issues. The first is
sensitizing ourselves to the problem of
slavery, the lack of respect for human
dignity that slavery entails, and what
that means. He juxtaposes those ideas
with the basic Jewish belief that every
human being is created btzelem Elohim
in the image of God.
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Brazil leads the
world in rescuing
people from slavery,
with heavily armed
special police squads
equipped with
drones. Typically, an
escaped slave will
seek sanctuary at
religious safe sites,
and activists will refer
their case to authorities for action. Police
then raid farms or
factories, freeing
everyone still trapped
in slavery even
children. ROBIN ROMANO
The second lesson talks about how we

sometimes are so overwhelmed with a
problem that we feel we cant do anything
about it. The idea is that everyone can contribute in some way to making the world a
better place. He uses Jewish sources to talk
about some of the things that we can do.
Its shocking that there still are millions
of people we would classify as slaves,
Rabbi Helfgot said. Saddening and shocking. It is a positive endeavor to help people
out of slavery, and I wanted to contribute a
Jewish voice to the fight for human dignity.
As we come closer to Pesach, we reaffirm the values that no human being should
oppress other human beings, and that we
should value other people. Those lessons
are very deeply rooted in the Torah. We
can contribute that to the conversation in
the context of our historical experience
and broaden it to the whole world.
Both in the specific and the general, we
affirm the uniqueness of Jewish experience
and peoplehood, and at the same time we
make an impact on the world at large.
Mr. Middleberg, Free the Slaves executive director, came to his work naturally,
through his and his wifes very different
but complementary family histories.
My grandfather, Reuven Mittlesbach,
was a slave laborer in Auschwitz, he
said. He survived because he was a jeweler and watchmaker. The Nazis kept
him alive so he could repair the watches
they stole from the victims en route to
their deaths.
His wife, Fran Middleberg, is the
descendant of famous abolitionists. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, the best known of
three anti-slavery activist brothers, was a

writer and publisher murdered by a mob
incensed by his pre-Civil War work fighting slavery.
Soon after he took his job at Free the
Slaves, in 2012, the Middlebergs went
back to the synagogue outside Atlanta that
theyd had to leave when they moved north
to Washington. He delivered a dvar Torah
on slavery and Judaism at Temple Kehillat
Chaim in Roswell, Ga. And then I spoke to
the kids at the religious school there, and
the kids made us their school project for
the year, he said. It was amazing. They
learned about slavery, did creative projects about it, and had an event in the social
hall at the end of the year, with videos and
poems and essays. It was very moving. The
children also raised money for Free the
Slaves, and Mr. Middleberg was inspired by
their passion and commitment.
It was out of that seed, and the intellectual and creative fertilizer that Rabbi Orenstein added, that Next Year Free! grew,
Mr. Middleberg said.
The goal is to develop a network of 180
Jewish congregations, schools, institutions,
that are mobilized in the fight against slavery, he said. We are asking those Passover
Project partners to do four things.
First, to download the materials from
the web and use them. Second, to advocate to end slavery whenever relevant
policy issues come up on Capitol Hill.
Third, to be careful consumers and investors, choosing not to buy products made
by slaves. And fourth, to make Free the
Slaves an object of tzedakah for your congregation and school, he said. There is
With an estimated 14 million Indians trapped in modern slavery, rock quarries

and brick factories in northern India are the epicenter of this global human rights
crisis. Slavery is most often found where heavy physical labor is needed: mines;
quarries; logging and construction sites; fishing boats and processing facilities;
cocoa, rubber and palm oil plantations; and inside private homes as servants.

PEGGY CALLAHAN
no minimum amount. There is no entry

fee. Whatever you feel is appropriate is
gratefully received.
So far, in the less than two months that
registration for partnership in the Passover
Project has been open, 18 institutions have
signed up. The goal for this year was just 20.
But this is not just about Pesach, Mr. Middleberg said. The fight for freedom is not
a seven- or eight-day event. It is not only a

seder event. It is a continuing engagement.
The goal is to build a true network, a
living, breathing organism that is engaged
in the struggle against modern slavery.
To learn more about modern-day slavery, and about how Free the Slaves works
with partner agencies in six countries to
fight it, go to freetheslaves.net.
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Dental care for survivors

Jewish Family Service of North Jersey provides treatment to needy Holocaust refugees
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
s an officer in Gen. George

Pattons Third Army, Charles
Orden walked past the crematorium of a liberated Nazi
death camp.
Later, he told his son about that
experience.
The now elderly survivors of that dark
time carry lasting emotional and physical scars, whether they were imprisoned
or hidden or forced to flee their homes.
And so Mr. Ordens son, Zach Orden of
Hillsdale, who is a dentist, says he feels
privileged to be able to volunteer his professional services to DASH (Dental Assistance for Survivors of the Holocaust). The
program, an outreach of the Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, is offered to
survivors who cannot afford the dentistry
they need.
I am currently treating a patient who
was saved by Raoul Wallenberg, said Dr.
Orden, referring to the Swedish diplomat
who rescued tens of thousands of Jews
in Nazi-occupied Hungary during World
War II. My assistant, who is Catholic, had
never seen a survivors arm with a number tattooed on it.

She was overcome with emotion and
has done some reading on the subject
since then. So an educational purpose has
been achieved as well.
Established in April 2015, DASH was
the brainchild of Dr. Michael Goldberg, a
retired dentist from Franklin Lakes.
A few years ago I joined the board
of trustees of JFS, Dr. Goldberg said.
At one meeting, the president gave a
report about a White House initiative to
approach Jewish federations to determine
the needs of aging Holocaust survivors.
The Jewish Federations of North America estimates that there are about 120,000
Holocaust survivors in the United States,
about a quarter of whom live below the
poverty line. Medicare does not cover
dental care, which puts the care even further out of those survivors reach.
Hundreds of survivors the exact number is unknown live in the Fair LawnElmwood Park vicinity. That is a key part
of JFS North Jerseys catchment area,
which is Passaic and northwest Bergen
counties.
Dr. Michael Goldberg, a dentist and the volunteer dental liaison to the DASH
program, and assistant Amanda Lutz flank a survivor, who lives in Fair Lawn
and chooses not to reveal his name. He went through several concentration
camps; he is very grateful for the DASH services provided, and he told his
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continued.
His idea was embraced enthusiastically, and Dr. Goldberg recruited an initial volunteer group of 17 dental professionals. The JFS conducted an accredited
continuing-education course to sensitize
the professionals to issues particular to
this population, including white-coat
anxiety and the lingering physical
effects of their early trauma.
For many Holocaust survivors their
suffering included starvation, illness, disease, and malnourishment that contributed to dental problems, social worker
Alice Blass said. Ms. Blass is the coordinator of Holocaust Survivor Services at JFS
North Jersey, which has offices in Wayne
and Fair Lawn. And as we all know, oral
health is connected to general health.
One 77-year-old Holocaust survivor in
Fair Lawn, who already was a JFS client,
talked to Ms. Blass when the clasp on
her partial denture broke and was not
repaired properly.
I asked Alice if she can help me
because I am on Social Security and the
dental work is pretty expensive, said
the woman, a native of Leningrad, who
spent her childhood war years in Siberia

and immigrated to the United States 37
years ago.
Alice sent me to Dr. Goldberg in Midland Park, she continued. He took a
look and said he could fix it so it will stay
more permanent. He sent my partial to
a lab and in a couple of days I got it back
and it was perfect.
Now I can eat. I was very happy with
this program, because its hard to get by
without help.
There are now 23 dentists participating Jews and non-Jews including such
specialists as oral surgeons, endodontists, and periodontists. In September,
the new dental hygiene clinic at Bergen
Community College will participate in
DASH as well.
So far weve provided $25,000
worth of dental care in 60 visits to 23
patients, Dr. Goldberg said. I secured
a renewable $25,000 grant from a
foundation that covers our lab fees
for things like dentures and crowns.
A dental supply company, Parkell,
donates supplies on a quarterly basis
that I distribute to the DASH dentists.
Oral-B has donated toothbrushes and
toothpaste. In addition, a corporation
donated a portable dental transilluminator to help diagnose caries.
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Ms. Blass refers people to DASH based on the

samefinancial eligibility guidelines as those she uses
for recipients of home care services that the Claims
Conference funds for Holocaust survivors. The JFS
offers a range of programs in which about 250 survivors of all means participate, including the monthly
Caf Europa social and luncheon held at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center.
Last July we identified 40 additional survivors
in our catchment area, and we believe there are
more, she said.
Dr. Goldberg reviews each case that Ms. Blass
refers to him, and he matches the patient with the
appropriate DASH volunteer. We provide transportation if they cant get there on their own, and we
coordinate between general and specialists offices
if need be, he said. The patients have been very
appreciative.
Drs. Paul and Daniel Barabas father-and-son
periodontists practicing in Ridgewood have treated
two DASH patients so far.
I grew up in Jersey City and my next-door neighbors were Holocaust survivors, Paul Barabas said.
That had an impact on me. I have been close to
Michael Goldberg for years, and when he asked me
if we wanted to get involved it was a no-brainer. We
feel good about doing it.
DASH is the only program of its kind in the state;
Dr. Goldberg knows of a similar project in Florida.
The Bergen County Dental Societys pro-bono
program is not geared specifically to Holocaust
survivors.
Ms. Kaufman has made DASH available to clients of
the Teaneck-based JFS of Bergen and North Hudson
as well as to the JFS of North Jersey.
Its a great program, and addresses a health need
that many of the people in this population cannot
afford to address, she said. It provides them an
opportunity to get the care they deserve, and we feel
very privileged to be able to be able to help them live
out the rest of their lives with dignity.
She hopes to get more volunteer dentists
involved and identify additional survivors who
need the service.
Ms. Blass handles all the arrangements. Call (973)
595-0111 or email ablass@jfsnorthjersey.org.
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Soy Sefardi
Englewood woman sings Ladino songs of love, loss, and yearning
JOANNE PALMER
ometimes passions, talent, and personal history

come together, jigsaw pieces fitting exactly into
place.
Nicole Murad of Englewood has been lucky in
that way. Her familys story, her desire to sing, and her
very real ability to do so has led her to Ladino music. On
Sunday, she will perform some of the songs from that tradition in Fort Lee (see box); here, she tells her story.
Ms. Murad was born in Montreal and grew up in Albany,
but her mother can trace her family back to 15th-century
Spain. Were her family tree to be in a record book, though,
there would be a huge asterisk next to it. It includes only
mens names. It can show a mans ancestors, all the way
back to the family founder, but it does not show wives,
daughters, or even the names of the families that married
in.
Ms. Murads mother, Rachel Murad, is a Sassoon. That
is a near-mythic name. The family founder, who left Spain
in the expulsion of 1492, was named Abraham, although it
is unlikely that the parents who named him could foresee
that like his biblical namesake, he first would wander and
then generate a dynasty.
Abraham Sassoon went to Iraq, where his descendants
flourished for centuries, until they were forced to leave
in the 1950s, Ms. Murad said. Her mothers family moved
to France, where they had business dealings, and Rachel
was born there; she went to school in France for a few
years, became fluent in French, and then moved with her
family to Argentina. It was during the Peronist era. She
heard crazy things going on in the street then, Nicole
said; once, on a trip back to Argentina, at a soccer game,
when fans started screaming, my mother tensed up, she
said. Whats going on? she asked. It had not been an
easy place to live.
By high school, Rachel Murad was in the United States;
after a stay in Highland Park and a short stint back in
Argentina, the family wound up in White Plains, N.Y.
There were a lot of language and cultural changes, her
daughter understated.
Nicole Murads father, Jeff, also came from an Iraqi family; in 1952, when he was very young, they moved to Israel.
The state, too, was very young, and had more hope than
luxury to offer. At first, the Murads lived in a tent. Jeff
served in the IDF and became an engineer; soon he left
Israel for opportunities in Montreal.
Then he met my mom, Nicole said.
At 38, in Albany, Jeff Murad went to medical school and
became an ophthalmologist. Jeff and Rachel Murad had
two daughters. Both are singers, with strong theatrical
backgrounds and interests. Deborah Murad Nesser, who
lives in Englewood, is a singer who most recently directed
Ten Minute Jewish Plays at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
The sisters went to the Hebrew Academy of the Capital District, a Jewish community day school in Albany,
Who: Nicole Murad
What: Singing Soy Sefardi: Celebrating the Jews of
Spain
When: Sunday, April 10, at 2 p.m.
Where: Fort Lee Public Library, 320 Main St.
For information: (201) 592-3615 or fortlee.bccls.org
Nicole Murad
through eighth grade, when it ended, and then on to public school. The first time I sang on stage was in eighth
grade, Ms. Murad said. We did a Broadway musical
thing songs from Broadway musicals, often the gateway drug for the theater-obsessed and I sang Castle on
a Cloud from Les Miserables.
I found my passion.
Ms. Murad trained as a classical singer. Thats where
my teachers pointed me, she said. Even though I
wanted to sing like Whitney Houston but that wasnt
going to work. For quite a few years, she has worked
with Marni Nixon, famously the voice that issued from
the moving lips of Natalie Wood in West Side Story,
Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn
in My Fair Lady.
Ms. Murad went to college, where she dutifully majored
in biology my father said that music was not practical
but I always took music classes, she said. She taught
both music and science at the Rodeph Sholom School, the
Reform day school in Manhattan. It was amazing to see
the same kids in those two different environments, she
said. They were different, and they said that I changed,
too. They said I was much more serious in science.
After marrying, Ms. Murad and her husband, by then
the parents of two young children, moved to Englewood.
Now, with an almost-7-year-old and an almost-5-yearold, she has time to devote to the projects that I always
wanted to do but didnt have time to do.
Chief among them is exploring and presenting Ladino
songs.
Remember how her Sephardic family tree showed only
male names? Perhaps ironically, Ladino music, as we
know it today, is womens music, melodies and words that
have been passed down through the maternal line.

Ladino, Ms. Murad said, is based on medieval Spanish.
Like Yiddish, it absorbed many words from the cultures
in which it developed, with Turkish, Italian, and Arabic
roots. Its written with Hebrew letters, but it includes little
Hebrew. Traditionally it is sung a cappella, because these
songs are the product of an oral tradition, Ms. Murad
said. Women sang them at home. They are not well documented, she added.
Their themes, she said, are something that everyone
can relate to. There are a lot of songs about love, and they
address a lot through love songs. They talk about marriage, life, hardship, kids, and death. Theres a lot about
falling in love, and a lot about lost love. Theres often an
element of sadness about them, but also a real sense of
humor. They laugh a lot.
The music is a combination of styles. Theres a medieval feel to it; you also can hear flamenco, a Middle Eastern sound, a more western sound. Like Yiddish, like
Ladino, each place the Jews lived left an echo in the music.
Whats her favorite Ladino song? Ms. Murad hesitated
there are so many she loves, she said and then she said
Noches, Noches, which means Nights, Nights.
Transliterated into English, that is how the song begins.
Noches, noches, buenas noches/Noches son
denamorar/Ah, noches son denamorar.
Dando bueltas por la kama/Komo lpeshe en la mar/Ah
lpeshe en la mar.
Spanish-speakers or even speakers of other Romance
languages will recognize much of this.
Nights, nights, good nights/Nights are for falling in
love. Ah, nights are for falling in love, the singer begins.
In my bed I am restless/Tossing, turning like a fish in
the sea/Oh, like a fish in the sea.
There are many reasons for the songs survival, Ms.
Murad said. One is the music. Its a very Middle Easternscale melody, and its lovely. Another is the words, which
go on to talk about three sisters, each in love, each with
her own perspective on her plight. You could say its just
about love, but there is a lot of trauma there.
Those nights should have been in Spain with the
smells of roses and the sounds of fountains, with all that
beauty but it wasnt like that. It was so tormented for
them. They just didnt know what was going to happen, if
they would survive the night.
The music is a
combination of
styles. Theres a
medieval feel to it;
you also can hear
flamenco, a Middle
Eastern sound, a
more western sound.
You really feel the sense of the Jewish experience, of
being tossed around like a little fish in the sea. Youre a
little fish there are not a lot of you and you are in the
vast ocean, and you have to fight against the tide. You
have to fight all the time.
But somehow, she said, they did survive. And so did
the music.
Wishing you A Happy And Kosher Pesach
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Dining in the dark

Local leader describes Blackout Brunch in support of Jerusalem Institute for the Blind
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
heres a famous morsel of culinary wisdom that tells us that

eating is an eyes-first activity.
Visually appealing food stimulates our appetite. But what if it is impossible to see whats on the plate?
That is what blindfolded participants
in the kosher Blackout Brunch, a benefit
for the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind,
will experience on Sunday, May 22, from
10 a.m. to noon, at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, 5 East 62nd St. in Manhattan.
The unusual culinary event will be facilitated by movement coach Amy Baumgarten, director of Dark Dining Projects,
which holds small group dinners for blindfolded diners. The Blackout Brunch puts
a unique charitable spin on the entertainment concept.
Dining in the dark with blindfolds on
provides a safe, comfortable and short
opportunity to experience what blind
people experience, and at the same time
you become a better, more sensitized and
inspired person, said Leo Brandstatter, a
longtime Fair Lawn resident and the executive director of the Jerusalem Institute for
the Blind.
He hopes to have 200 people at the
brunch, and would like it to become the
organizations signature fundraiser.
The Jerusalem Institute for the Blind
(until recently called the Jewish Institute
for the Blind) was established in the Old
City of Jerusalem in 1902 and relocated to
the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in 1937.
Today, the modern facility serves as a
home, school, social outlet, sports center,
respite provider, and networking enabler
for hundreds of blind and visually challenged Israelis, aged six and up.
The institute gets limited government
funding; the New York office was established in the late 1980s to help contribute
toward the operating budget.
We wanted to do an event to raise
awareness, said Mr. Brandstatter, who
became executive director in 2012 after a
long career in the Madison Avenue advertising world.
We could have done a traditional dinner or concert. But our board vice president, Judith Jelen, was determined to
have something different, and gave us
the courage to reach further than ever
in creating an event that people would
genuinely want to come to, separately
from wanting to support the institute,
he said. And the Blackout Brunch works
perfectly with who we are and what we
represent.
The notion was planted in his mind by
a visit years ago to Dialogue in the Dark,
an experiential exhibition at the Israel
Blindfolded diners participate in the kosher Blackout Brunch to benefit the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind

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Childrens Museum campus in Holon.
There, in total darkness, a blind guide
takes adult visitors through typical everyday scenarios.
It gives you tremendous insight into
the compensatory mechanisms that blind
people employ in the absence of vision,
Mr. Brandstatter said. We all have that
capacity but dont use it nor do we have
to, usually.
But when you eliminate sight, you
put into play so many senses, and they
become heightened. You have a tremendous experience, in a brief time, of what
you yourself can do with your nonvisual
senses, and you also get a basic idea of
how blind people cope all the time.
Until he discovered Dark Dining Projects, Mr. Brandstatter worried that sponsoring a lights-out event for sighted supporters could be fraught with issues of
safety, comfort, and liability. With their
guidance and help, were able to overcome these issues, he said. Every time
you do something new there are a lot
of unknowns, and its good to get assistance from those who have been doing it
successfully.
He said that proceeds from the brunch
are not earmarked for a specific project.
Students at the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind engage in musical activities
designed to enrich their lives.
Were trying to establish a following, and
based upon its size and commitment well
be able to target specific needs going forward, he said.
Technology and adaptive equipment
for the visually challenged population is
costly, yet that is only the beginning.
The aim of the Jerusalem Institute for
the Blinds school is trying to get blind

children to the point of no longer being
needy and dependent, Mr. Brandstatter
said. With assistance and proper coping mechanisms, they can be the helpers.
When confidence is built in them, they
can function in their own environment
and guide others. It does wonders for their
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egos and their hopes and dreams.
The needs of people with visual impairment are
more complex in the 21st century, he continued,
because medical advances have eliminated many
preventable causes of blindness. So the blindness
we see in children today is usually from birth, and
often comes with additional handicaps as well. Therefore, the ratio of students to teachers and aides in our
school is very low.
Summer camps and respite programs during vacation periods are essential. Most children and families
look forward to vacations and holidays as a break from
routine, but the blind have nothing to do outside of
school, Mr. Brandstatter said.
We try to give them alternatives. We have a fantastic sports center that is free to the blind and available
for a nominal fee to the sighted; it has one of the best
pools and gyms in Israel. We have music and library
programs and competitive sports teams that have won
international championships in games such as goal
ball, which is like soccer played with a ball that has a
bell inside. The institute has invested tremendously in
the facilities to have these opportunities for the blind
of all ages.
Incidentally, several other leaders of the American
fundraising arm of the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind
are from Fair Lawn, including former president Rabbi
David Lapp, secretary/treasurer Dr. Abraham Bichler,
and new board member Jacob Blatt.
Mr. Brandstatter, who also was instrumental in
founding the Sinai Schools for students with special
needs, said that the Blackout Brunch is intended to be
something you will enjoy and talk to others about,
and remember as important and inspirational in addition to assisting us as an organization.
By experiencing the world in this way, we can gain
a new perspective on the world of the blind and visually impaired.
Tickets for the Blackout Brunch are $90 per person until April 12, or $125 per person after April 15. To
order tickets, go to www.BlackoutBrunch.org or call
(212) 532-4155.
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Professor shares insights at home and abroad

Management expert says ignore the propaganda and stick to the facts
LOIS GOLDRICH
hat do you do with a masters degree from Tel Aviv

University and Ph.D. in
management from the
London Business School?
Well, you can teach at Tel Aviv University,
the London Business School, InterAmericana University in Puerto Rico, Kazan
State University in Russia, Kiev National
University of Design and Technology
in Ukraine, University of Salzburg for
Applied Sciences, Shanghai University of
Science and Technology, and the Sydney
Business School in Australia.
Or, perhaps, you can conduct comparative studies of domestic and multinational
corporations visiting Austria, Belgium,
Britain, China, France, Germany, Hungary,
Israel, Morocco, Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine and you can publish
your findings in 80 academic journals and
books.
Or, you can do it all. Thats what Israeliborn Moshe Banai of Teaneck does. Dr.
Banai now is a professor of management at
Baruch College and the chief editor of the
academic journal International Studies of
Management and Organization.
Dr. Banais resume is daunting, listing as
areas of expertise International Management, Management of Multinational Corporations, International Human Resource
Management, Cross-Cultural Behavior,
Organizational Strategy and Design, Management Development, and Management
in Transitional Economies.
Still, as I recently learned at lectures Dr.
Banai has given at Teanecks Puffin Center, he is approachable, understandable,
and clear-sighted about the business and
financial issues facing our country and our
world, today. Even more, he is married to
Dr. Moshe Banai of Teaneck, a professor of management at Baruch College, watches a student presentation.
Rachel Banai (a former photographer for

this paper), who joins him in all his travels, launching photography exhibits in the
countries they visit. The couple has two
daughters, Noit and Moran.
Actively involved with the Puffin Center
since its inception 18 years ago, Dr. Banai
sits on the advisory board of the Puffin
Foundation and recruits artists for the
organizations cultural center. Ms. Banai
has run the groups photography classes
for more than a decade.
While Dr. Banais lectures at Puffin
focused mainly on the business climate
Dr. Banai, front and center here, fondly recalls his experiences as a teacher and
cultural observer during his many visits to China.
of other nations notably Russia, China,

and the European Union he has definite
views on what our own country ought to
be doing. He bemoans the ignorance of
those who preach or believe what he calls
propaganda.
For one thing, he believes that the government should get heavily involved in the
creation of jobs. Theres no other choice.
Sometimes, he says, we have an efficient
market but unhappy people; at other
times, its just the reverse. We cant have
both all the time. He also believes that
our economic culture will change because
there are increasing numbers of women,
Hispanics, and other minorities in the
marketplace.
You need to have a long-term view
to understand the current situation, he
said. People shouldnt be swayed by propaganda but should stick to the facts and
scientific evidence as reflected in statistics and economic theories of trade and
make their own judgments. The dichotomy between Republicans and Democrats
is superficial and has no real meaning. The
consultants for the candidates know it, but
the candidates want to be popular and tell
the people what they want to hear. And
at least one candidate, he added, has
bragged that he consults only with himself.
We should care about economic issues,
like free trade, because they have a
major influence on our lives, Dr. Banai
said. Because of free trade, the price of
products and services go down. Future
presidents criticize this and promise to

limit or diminish it. It doesnt make economic sense. As for outsourcing, we
outsource some jobs and people in foreign
countries make money and can buy our
products. And yes, he said, we are still
major producers in some areas, including,
for example, medical care, aircraft, entertainment, and communications.
Eliminating free trade wont fix the
economy because prices will go up.
When we put a tariff on foreign products,
they put it on us, and the price goes up
for everybody. In addition, if we maintain protection for our industries, we
become inefficient because theres no
competition.
Between 1993 and 1996, Dr. Banai, who
was assigned to oversee the building of
a business school in Russia, spent about
seven months in that country under a
joint program between City University and
USIA (now USID). My biggest challenge
was that I had to stand in line for food, he
recalled. While his team was able to finish
the school, it was stolen by the administration, he said, hijacked to generate revenue for the professors. As a state university, it was meant to be free, but I found
out they were charging students $7,000.
After that venture, he served as a founding professor of an international business school in Israel, but it didnt last.
Its success, he said, was premised on
peace, on drawing students from all over
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Litvak with attitude

Dovid Katz fights to preserve Yiddish dialects and Holocaust history
Larry Yudelson
There is a whiff of Indiana Jones in the
career of Dr. Dovid Katz.
Not that the Yiddish professor who will
be speaking in Teaneck on Sunday night
has braved gun fights, jumped from car
to car, or mastered the bullwhip. But in
an academic field prone to bookishness,
Dr. Katz has embarked on scholarship
enmeshed with real world investigations,
exotic travel, and, yes, battles with real-life
Nazis, or at least their sympathizers.
It is, after all, one thing to study and
teach Yiddish professionally, or even to
earn a position at Oxford and a visiting
professorship at Yale. Its another thing
to settle in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania formerly known as Vilna, as Dr. Katz
did in 1999. His mission was the linguistic
equivalent of Indiana Jones archeology:
To map the nuance of Yiddish usage as it
varied from village to village by speaking to
its last surviving native speakers.
And it is one thing to talk about preserving the memory of the Holocaust. It
is another to be fired from your job for
defending the uniqueness of the Nazi
genocide against fascist apologists.
Dovid Katz was born in Brooklyn in
1956. His father, Menke Katz, was a poet
whose 1938 Yiddish masterpiece, Burning
Village, recounted his transition from his
town near Vilna to the Lower East Side.
In some ways, the elder Katzs move to
the New World was more successful than
most: He matched his nine award-winning
volumes of Yiddish poetry with nine volumes of English poetry, which also won
awards. He was a successful editor of the
literary journal Bitter Roots.
But for his son Dovid, Menke tried to
create a life rooted in the Lithuanian shtetl.
He brought me up entirely in Yiddish as a
matter of principle, Dovid Katz said.
It was a very happy childhood. My
father created an imaginary world for me
of the exotic characters of his shtetl. The
semi-mythical world I had was much more
interesting than the gray boring streets of
Brooklyn.
As Dr. Katz grew older, the reality of
Brooklyn remained pale compared to the
tales of the Old World. Our street had the
whole spectrum, from chasidic to Jewish
communist, he said. A fascinating variety of European Judaism was still there,
in the old generation, when I was a kid.
There were very many European Jews and
survivors with fantastically different stories. When he was a teenager, the neighborhood grew more chasidic. Although
by and large in those years the charedim
of Borough Park were not particularly
friendly to our family, I developed a number of lifelong friendships, he said.
Dr. Dovid Katz will speak in Teaneck on Sunday.
Cnaan Liphshiz
Dovid Katz and Shimon Alperovich, head of the Jewish community in Lithuania.
Perhaps it was natural that when it was

time for college, Dr. Katz would study linguistics at Columbia, the rare American
university that taught Yiddish. Yiddish,
after all, was his homeland; Brooklyn
was just a place he and the other children
of displaced immigrants were passing
through. Every one of my friends wanted
to leave. Not one of my closest circle is now
in Brooklyn or even New York, he said.
If there were all kinds of Jews in his corner of Brooklyn, there also were all kinds
of Yiddish. There was the Lithuanian Yiddish of his family, and then the Galizianer,
the Ukranian, the Polish Yiddish around
us. The different dialects are very different sounding, but completely the same
written language. Its like a lock being

turned one notch for every vowel.
Because the differences are systematic, once the initial hilarity of one dialect
hearing the other is past, you understand
everything, he said.
The sounds are the first clue to a dialects difference.
Going deeper, its syntax, words, he
said.
Those familiar with the nuances can tell
the differences between a text written in
Lithuanian Yiddish by a Lubavitcher rebbe
and those in Galizianer Yiddish by a Satmar rebbe.
Dr. Katz has written books about the
broad history of Yiddish, its linguistic and
cultural evolution in the thousand years of

European Jewry. His specialty, though, is
the history, nuance, and variations within
Lithuanian Yiddish.
Lithuania, in Yiddish terms, is much
bigger than todays Lithuania, he said.
It includes Latvia, all of Belarus, northeastern and eastern Ukraine, northeast
Poland, and westernmost Russia. In
other words, pretty much what the Duchy
of Lithuania ruled at its peak in the 15th
century.
And within that Lithuanian Yiddish,
there are vast internal differences. The
Once the initial

hilarity of one
dialect hearing
the other is past,
you understand
everything.
more you study, the more you see its not
monolithic.
It was not just a question of dialect; it
was also a matter of culture and religion.
The east was mostly chasidic, including the
ancestors of present-day Chabad. The west
was mitnagid, non-chassidic, the world of
yeshivas and intense Talmud study.
One of Dr. Katzs major projects is a linguistic map of Lithuanian Yiddish. You
can divide up the territory with any word
that differs, he said. The word ear
would be ever in Minsk, eyver in Vilna,
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There are many cultural interactions
and differences. The ones in the West were
closer to German culture. The ones in the
Far East to Russian culture. The ones in
the middle to Polish culture, he said.
Finding the details of the variations was
the work of his interviews: roughly 3,000
over 25 years, starting in 1990. The oldest
person he recorded was born in 1897. I
wanted people who remembered something of the pre-World War I era, he said.
He would go to villages and ask for the
oldest Yiddish speaker. When I started, I
wouldnt speak to anyone born in 1920. I
said Id catch them next year.
It was cultural archeology, trying to get
back as far as possible. If I interviewed
someone who remembered her grandparents culture and folklore, it was going
back two hundred years, he said.
Of all the varieties of Yiddish, Lithuanian Yiddish is now in the greatest danger of extinction, he said. The chasidim
who speak Yiddish in Borough Park and
beyond keep the language alive, but they
speak other dialects.
Beside his historical working in mapping the dialect, Dr. Katz has made original cultural contributions to Yiddish. He
has written three volumes of fiction. And
he has begun translating the Bible into his
beloved dialect.
If I live long enough, Ill write the whole
Tanach, he said. Its my little contribution to the preservation of Lithuanian
Yiddish for the generations to come, for
the select few who are interested in such
things.
The focus on the internal variations of
Yiddish is a departure from the work of
Yiddishists a century ago. Then, in the
face of critics who denied that Yiddish
was a real language, the focus was on standardization, creating a single version to
unite European Jewry. The result, which
is what is now taught in universities as
standard Yiddish, tends to be a very sterile, lowest common denominator form
thats often very watered down, bereft of
deep Hebraic and Yiddish roots. I think its
over-standardized.
Standard Yiddish, he said, should be an
entrance to the real product rather than
a replacement. When a student hears the
real McCoy Yiddish of someone born in
Kovna or Vilna, its very important that the
student feel comfortable with that as well.
And yes, hes posting the tapes from his
fieldwork on YouTube, so the Yiddish he
captured can be heard by students.
Dr. Katz has an encouraging message for
potential Yiddish students: Its not particularly difficult to learn the language.
Its much easier than Hebrew. Very many
of the roots are European. There are very
many cognates with English.
Its been a sociological issue, whether
people want to learn it or not, he said.
(Back in his high school days at the
Lithuanian ultranationalists march in Kaunas on February 16, 2015.
Yeshiva of Flatbush, he fought the battle

with a protest calling for Yiddish to enter
the day school curriculum.)
Thats the linguistic side of Dr. Katz.
As for politics that concerns the very
history of the Holocaust, he said. There
is an Eastern European effort to rewrite
the history of the Holocaust, to write it out
of history without denying a single death.
What he calls the new Holocaust
denial takes the form of double genocide theory.
Yes, the Holocaust happened, but it
was only one of two equal genocides, is
how he summarizes the argument. First
came the Russians and the Jews, and
they committed genocide against us, the
Eastern Europeans, who are making this
argument. Then came the Germans and
us, who committed genocide against the
Jews. In other words, the new deniers
admit that their ancestors committed
genocide against the Jews, but say that
they were pushed to it by the Jews, who
did it first.
Another claim, enshrined by law in Lithuania and other countries, is that Soviet
and Nazi crimes are equal. That claim has
victimized elderly Holocaust survivors
directly.
Thats how Dr. Katz first became
involved. He defended three Jews who had
fought with Soviet partisans against the
Nazis in the 1940s, and whom Lithuanian
prosecutors had accused of war crimes in
2008.
Promoters of the double genocide theory have to claim that Jews were also war
criminals, he said. Thats why they had
to find Jews who were part of the Soviet
partisans and say they are war criminals.
Theyve only picked on Jewish partisans.
History that is simple and clear is being
made into a big muddle on purpose. They
dont want the stain of the Holocaust on
them.
This anti-Semitism comes from right
wing eastern Europeans. That position
has been ascendant in countries like
Lithuania and Hungary for the last few
years. Beside going after Jews for alleged
Cnaan Liphshiz
Soviet genocide, right-wing politicians

also are trying to rehabilitate pro-Nazi
governments as heroes because they were
anti-Soviet.
In 2012, the Lithuanian government
reburied the Nazi puppet prime minister
with full honors, Dr. Katz said. Murderers are being made into heroes.
At the beginning of World War II, Jews
were murdered on the eastern front, with
the cooperation of locals in Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, and the Ukraine. That collaboration had major ramifications.
The bulk of the murders occurred by
shooting, starting in June 1941 with the
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Dr.
Katz said. Nationalists who are today
being revered as heroes began to murder
Jews even before the first German soldiers
arrived. Only after that did Hitler decide
on genocide at Wannsee in January 1942,
when he saw how easy it would be to
get volunteers to shoot all the Jews and
bury them in a pit outside of town. After
that concentration camps became death
camps. The gleeful participation in the
actual killings in the Baltics and Ukraine is
a sharp contrast to the history in Poland
and Hungary.
The double genocide theory is
intended to let all of the Eastern European
countries off of the hook.
Dr. Katz accuses the Eastern European
governments investment in Jewish studies and Holocaust education as being a
cover for their revisions. The American
government has been reluctant to criticize
its Eastern European allies, he said.
There were big neo-Nazi marches featuring big banners of Holocaust perpetrators. I dont know why the American
ambassador couldnt have made a polite
statement of disapproval.
And most American Jewish organizations, he charges, have traded access for
silence, and have looked away.
He has been chronicling this history at
defendinghistory.com, where you can also
find his Yiddish work, including the Bible
translations.
Im often made fun of, called Dovid
Dovid Katz and Efraim Zuroff of

the Wiesenthal Center observe a
neofascist march.
Quixote, he said. Thats fine with me.

Im not going to defeat any government.
Im proud we have provided a daily record
since 2008 of whats going on, a record
thats important for future historians. History will sort out the truth, as always.
So whats it like to be a Jew speaking
out against the government in Lithuania
today?
Its a bit weird, he said.
I have many, many friends. Ive found
the people to be friendly, warm, tolerant.
Im very close to the survivor community.
My friends are Yiddish-speaking Jews in
their 70s, 80s, and 90s. And I have a young
circle of friends of different backgrounds.
Most people in Lithuania are not antiSemitic, he said. This is a problem of the
elite, and of the far right, the neo-Nazis,
who are in cahoots.
On the negative side, I lost my job and
career.
Dr. Katz said that his bosses at Vilnius
University warned him to stop lobbying
in defense of the Jewish partisans. When
he didnt, he was fired. His supervisor at
the university denied Dr. Katzs version
of his story in an interview with JTA last
year. JTA noted that the supervisor was
a member of Lithuanias commission on
Nazi and Soviet crimes.
Its a very big blow not to have
monthly income, Dr. Katz said. The
second thing is Ive been followed by
government agencies. The third is Ive
been followed around by the neo-Nazis
who publish unflattering pictures of me. I
have no secrets. Im an old bachelor with
no secrets. And the anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe has, so far, been completely
nonviolent.
There is a price to pay, of course. To
be regarded as an opponent of the state.
Im often called a Russian spy. There is
abuse that way and you get used to it.
If youre committed to your belief in
the truth, you have your life.
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Wayne cantors celebrations continue
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the Kressel and Ephrat Family professor of Jewish thought at Yeshiva University, will talk about
Judaisms Unique Concept of Freedom on April 17. The talk,
for the Abraham and Millie Arbesfeld Kollel and Midreshet Yom
Rishon event, hosted by YUs Center for the Jewish Future,
begins at 10 a.m. It will be in Belfer Hall, 2540 Amsterdam Ave.
in upper Manhattan, on YUs Wilf campus.
For information, email Rabbi Aryeh Czarka, program coordinator at the CJF, at aryeh.czarka@yu.edu.
Rabbi Lord
Jonathan Sacks
Cantor Richard Cohn, left, was Temple

Beth Tikvah in Waynes featured guest
speaker at kabbalat Shabbat services
last month. It was part of the jubilee
celebration for Cantor Charles Romalis,
who is standing with him. Cantor Cohn
is the director of the Debbie Friedman
School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew
Union College. Cantor Romalis is the
only Reform cantor in North America
serving in one congregation for 50
years. Tonight during services at Temple Beth Tikvah at 7:30 p.m., colleagues
Cantors Mark Biddleman and Ilan Mamber will join Cantor Romalis.
Cantors Richard Cohn, left, and and

Charles Romalis
Mickey Marcus West Point memorial

will honor contributions of Czechs
Brian Welish, Peter Clarin, Jamie Mennona, Todd Eisenberg, and Mark Bolton
J-ADD Purim party

The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities annual Purim party was
held at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck; the shuls sisterhood assisted. Music
was by Tuvia Orchestra. Residents, many dressed for Purim, family members, and
friends were there. An awards ceremony declared each group home a winner.
J-ADD is a private nonprofit organization that serves people with developmental
disabilities and their families in northern New Jersey.
Celebrate virtually with Sim Shalom

during an online vegetarian seder
Celebrate Passover with Sim Shaloms online synagogue
on April 23, the second night of the holiday. The global
dinner party, which commemorates the exodus of the
Jewish people from slavery in ancient Egypt, focuses on
todays community and Jewish responsibility, including
retelling the story and protecting natural resources.
There will be festive freedom songs, including Dayeinu,
and readings from the Haggadah. The symbolic seder
plate offerings, which will be passed virtually around the
world, will substitute the sacrificial lamb with roasted
beets.
Rabbi/Cantor Steven Blane, Sim Shaloms founder, will
lead the festivities with congregants participating live
via the chat feature. Formerly of Jersey City and Bergen
County, he is a Rogosin Yeshiva High School graduate.
For information, go to www.simshalom.com or call (201)
338-0165.
Red beets replace the

shank bone to symbolize blood of the sacrifice.
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On Sunday, April 17, at 10 a.m., the American Veterans of Israel Legacy and the
Israeli consulate in New York will join for
the 50th annual Mickey Marcus memorial
service at the Jewish Chapel of the United
States Military Academy at West Point.
In the presence of senior military and
diplomatic officials and veterans of Israels
War of Independence, representatives of
the Czech and Slovak Republics will be
formally honored for the vital assistance
rendered by Czechoslovakia during Israels 1948 War of Independence. Czechoslovakia was the only country to sell Israel
fighter planes and weapons. This helped
Israel to gain decisive air superiority and
mount the offensive on the ground that
prompted its first prime minister, David
Ben-Gurion, to say, the Czechoslovak
arms saved the State of Israel.
The service honors Col. David
Mickey Marcus (USMA 24) who was

among the 41 American and Canadian
volunteers who died during Israels War
of Independence.
The program takes place at the USMA
Jewish Chapel, officiated by chaplains,
with choir participation, followed by a
wreath-laying ceremony at Col. Marcus
gravesite and concluding with the honor
guard rendering a firing salute and a
bugler sounding taps.
American Veterans of Israel is the legacy organization of the North American
volunteers who served in Israels 19471949 War of Independence.
The community is invited to the service.
West Point security requires a government-issued photo ID. For information,
email donnaparker1@gmail.com, Rafi
Marom at rafi_marom@hotmail.com, or
Si Spiegelman at spiegelsi@aol.com.
Pre-Pesach food challenge in Teaneck

Corned beef and pastrami will challenge General Tso and Peking duck for
the annual pre-Passover food challenge
between Noahs Ark and Shellys and
Chopstix. All three Teaneck restaurants
donate to the towns Helping Hands
Food Pantry.
Each year customers vie for the biggest donations to help their neighbors,
while supporting the local food bank.
Last years challenge realized over 400
bags of cereal, pancake mix, flour, tuna,
ketchup, diapers, and toiletries, just as
supplies were low and they were most in

need Elie Katz of Chopstix said. Noam
thats Noam Sokolow of Noahs Ark and
Shellys helps store the food and delivers the food bags to the pantry with his
staff and catering truck.
This years contest runs through April
20. Drop off unopened non-perishable
food and toiletries at Chopstix, 172 West
Englewood Ave., Noahs Ark, 493 Cedar
Lane, and Shellys Dairy Restaurant, 482
Cedar Lane, all in Teaneck.
Last year, Noahs Ark won the contest.
Armenian genocide commemoration

includes Holocaust remembrance
On Sunday, April 24, from 2 to 4 p.m.,
thousands of Armenian-Americans and
their friends and supporters will gather in
Times Square to commemorate the first
genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide (Medz Yeghern). In recognition of Aprils Genocide Awareness month,
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance

Day, also will be commemorated, as well
as other genocides that have occurred
since then. The theme of the Armenian
genocide commemoration is Truth, Recognition, and Justice. For information, go
to www.kofv.org.
upcoming at
Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
#LivingFearless
Wellness Symposium
Join Dr. Sharyn Lewin of The Lewin Fund and leading
health practitioners for a panel discussion and Q/A on
wellness, genetics and facts about breast, lung and
colon cancer detection and prevention. Panelists include
professionals from Holy Name Medical Center, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and NYU Medical Center.
Sun, Apr 10, Registration 9:30 am,
Program 10 am-12:30 pm,
Taub Auditorium, Free and open to the community
Top Films You May Have Missed:

Blue Jasmine
A highly-praised, Oscar-nominated 2013 Woody Allen
film starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby
Cannavale and Louis CK. After her marriage to a
wealthy businessman collapses, a New York socialite
flees to San Francisco and the modest apartment of her
sister. Film followed by optional discussion. Coffee and
snacks included.
Mon, Apr 18, 7:30 pm, $7/$10
Guitar Master Class with

Joo Luiz
Gain insight into music and the artistic process in this
intimate, public coaching that features Joo Luiz,
member of the Brasil Guitar Duo and faculty, SUNY at
Purchase College. Part of the Beverly and Lewis Lauring
Guitar Master Class series.
Mon, Apr 18, 4 pm, Free
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Yom Hashoah Commemoration

Besa: The Promise
Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA)
A Passover Celebration
in the Lobby
Join us for this film screening that tells the true

stories of Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews
during WWII as part of their besa, or promise, to
offer a safe harbor to refugees. The evening will also
feature the presentation of the Abe Oster Holocaust
Remembrance Award and a candle-lighting
ceremony honoring the survivors and their families.
Enjoy fresh, organic, local produce while

supporting area farmers. Runs 22 weeks from
June Nov. A full share of vegetables will
average 7-10 varieties each week. Fruit,
free-range eggs, European-style butter and
maple syrup shares also available. Visit online
for details and registration form.
Whats your favorite thing to schmear on matzah?

Cream cheese? Sure! But lets get creative! What
about frosting or sprinkles or chocolate chips?
Join us for a little taste test and get into the spirit
of the holiday.
Wed, May 4, 79 pm, Free
For details, contact Ruth Yung at 201.408.1418 or

ryung@jccotp.org.
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Editorial
Being thankful
t is good to give thanks, were

told; in fact we sing Psalm 92,
which begins with those words,
every Friday night.
Last Shabbat afternoon, members
of Congregation Rinat Yisrael and
Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck
synagogues whose buildings are only
a few blocks apart, along with some
outsiders from other shuls, drawn
there by symbolism or perhaps by
hope, came together at Beth Sholom
to study texts examining thankfulness and thanksgiving.
Hardly newsworthy, right? But no.
Rinat is Orthodox and Beth Sholom
is Conservative, so the fact that members could study together, for a few
hours, in the second of what is meant
to become an annual tradition, is
something worth mentioning.
But, really, when it comes down
to it, it wasnt newsworthy. It wasnt
tense, and it didnt feel groundbreaking, or different, or at all bold.
It felt natural, appropriate, intellectually stimulating, and entirely right.
It felt completely normal.
And that is exactly as it should be.
The afternoons organizers, who sat
on a committee composed of equal
numbers of representatives of both
shuls, worked very hard to make the
session successful. About 200 people
were there that afternoon. Most of us
had registered on line in advance.
The organizers took the list of registrants and worked on dividing us into
tables 20 tables, with about 10 people at each one as if we were going
to a simcha, and they were giving
the party, figuring out which friends
would enjoy parsing a text together
and which relatives wouldnt speak
to each other. They tried not to seat
too many friends together, and to create groups divided as equally as possible between Rinat and Beth Sholom
members.
Each table had a facilitator, and
each facilitator was exhaustively
prepared. Each knew the texts thoroughly, and had been well prepped in
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and how to elicit the insights that the
texts could yield.
As soon as the preliminary remarks
were made, the room buzzed with the
happy sound of brains and tongues at
work. That part of the session ended
as such successful sessions always
do, with the feeling that there was
so much still to say, and not enough
time which to say it.
Beth Sholoms Rabbi Joel Pitkowski
spoke; Rinat Yisraels Rabbi Yosef
Adler, a strong supporter of the days
program, was recovering from an
illness and could not be there, but
Rabbi J.J. Schacter, who belongs to
Rinat and is a professor at Yeshiva
University, represented his shul.
Later, when people raided the
chocolate-laden dessert tables and
talked, neighbors discovered each
other. One prominent academic, a
Beth Sholom member, stared at one
of the Rinat organizers, trying to
tease out why he looked so familiar, finally realizing that he and the
organizers brother had been good
friends. Next, the two realized that
they lived literally around the corner
from each other. They never had spoken to each other before.
The study session ended before
davening began. There are bedrock
principles that separate the Orthodox and Conservative Jewish worlds.
Although many people are comfortable in both worlds, and there are a
few families that retain memberships
in both places, there are no compromises possible on such issues as egalitarianism whether or not women
can be counted in a minyan. Either
they are or theyre not. But the genius
of the program is that there are many
values that Jews share, and text study
is among them. So is eating dessert.
So Conservative and Orthodox Jews
learned and ate together, and then
separated to daven. It was natural, it
was exciting, and it was exactly as it
should be. And for that, all of us who
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KEEPING THE FAITH
Protecting the money of Israel
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ow long will you waste the

price of a pair of doves rose to a golden
money of Israel?
dinar, the Gemara reports. Said [the president of the Sanhedrin] Rabbi Shimon ben
Rabbi Akiva asked
Gamaliel, I will not go to sleep tonight
that question of Rabbi
before the cost is [only a silver] dinar! Then
Yochanan ben Nuri, who argued for what
Rabbi Akiva believed was an expensive strin- hetaught: If a woman had five certain
gency. (See the Babylonian Talmud, tractate
births or five certain issues, she only needs
Bechorot 40a.)
to bring one offering; she is not bound to
Each year at this time, readers of this col- bring the others. At that point, the price of
umn expect what many call my annual
the birds plummeted.
Pesach rant. Critics of the rant which
The principle plays out in at least two
usually focuses on how an ever-growing list
instances in the tractate Chullin (49b and
of halachic stringencies have made Pesach
76b-77a), in which the Babylonian sage Rava
far too expensive and burdensome dismiss
ruled as acceptable foods that may not have
it as just another attempt at liberalizing been acceptable. The reason he gave was,
Judaism by dumbing down its laws.
The Torah protects the money of Israel.
Actually, the rant has never
Not just in the instance of a
been about Passover per se, or
woman giving birth does the
about liberalizing Judaism.
Torah demonstrate such concern, by the way. In a portion
Rather, it is about the everwe read several weeks ago
growing cost of Jewish living fueled by halachic rulings
(Leviticus Chapter 5), it offers
made in complete disregard to
a more extensive version of
an established principle of Jewthis affordability clause, scaling
ish law for which Pesach is the
down from an animal, to birds,
paradigm.
to a little flour, depending on a
In its pure form, the princi- Rabbi
persons means.
Shammai
ple is, The Torah protects the
That concern is not evident in
Engelmayer
money of Israel.
Jewish life today.
Here is an example. AccordThere is another principle
ing to Torah law, a woman who
not actually a law, but goal:
gives birth has to bring two offerings a hiddur mitzvah. The most accurate translation is honoring a mitzvah. Its point is
burnt offering (an olah) of a lamb, and a
that we should approach the performance
dove or pigeon as a sin offering (a chatat). If
of any mitzvah with an open heart and the
she cannot afford the lamb, she brings two
doves or two pigeons. (See this weeks para- desire to honor the mitzvah by performing
shah, Tazria, 12:6-8.)
it in the best way we can. The mitzvah could
Each time she fails to bring an offering, be doing something that shows respect for
it gets added on to the next birth, and so
someone, or it could be making kiddush at
on, until she brings all the offerings. That
a Shabbat meal by using a beautiful tune.
brings us to an incident reported in BT Whatever the mitzvah, the more of ourselves
Kritot 8a. Women, apparently, were not
we put into it, the more honor we give it
bringing offerings each time they gave birth, and the more honor we give to the God who
and so the number of offerings they owed
gave us the commandment.
mounted. Supply and demand came into
Hiddur mitzvah, however, is more commonly translated today as beautifying the
play at one point, and the hawkers of these
mitzvah, and its meaning has shifted in a
birds took advantage.
It once happened in Jerusalem that the
way that not only offers no protection for
the money of Israel but actually disdains
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Faith in honest doubt

Kiddushin 32b). This, too, is ignored today.
This is not being anti-Orthodox. It is a fact, as
can be seen in an essay published in 2006 on the
torah.org website by Rabbi Osher Chaim Levene.
He compares the observant Jew to a performance artist who uses only the best instruments possible with no care for cost a pianist
choosing a Steinway grand piano. In the same
way, he writes, the Jew sets out to obtain beautifully written tefillin and has no hesitation to
purchase an expensive, flawless esrog. His
aim, like the musician, is to achieve the most
exemplary result using the best instruments to
render this in the most attractive way.
He does not see it as a burden, but as a pleasure. He does not treat it as a yoke to dispense
with or shirk off. He is unimpressed just to get
by with the minimum. That he is not pushed
off by the greater expenditure reveals his love
of the mitzvah.
A silver goblet upon which to recite the Shabbos Kiddush, for example, is testimony that we
are not content with performing the act with
due proficiency.Judaism is intrinsically beautiful. Accordingly, we want our relationship
with God to be just as beautiful. Yes, Jewish liv-
Pesach has become

overburdened by
stringencies that
make little sense but
waste a lot of dollars.
Pesach purchasing
hurts peoples
pocketbooks
in a big way.
ing is dear in both meanings of the word. But
we wouldnt have it any other way.
Rava, and Rabbis Akiva and Shimon ben
Gamaliel, and countless other sages of blessed
memory, all would respond to this in the same
way: How long will you waste the money of
Israel?
Pesach has become overburdened by stringencies that make little sense but waste a lot of
dollars. Pesach purchasing hurts peoples pocketbooks in a big way.
Rather than pushing the notion that the more
money you spend, the more observant you are,
imagine what would happen if a group of rabbis
would do for the often excessive spike in food
prices at Pesach time what Rabbi Shimon ben
Gamaliel did for a pair of doves?
It can be done. It should be done. It is not
about dumbing down Judaism. It is about elevating it by protecting the money of Israel.
Chag sameach vkasher.
heres an old joke about a group of elderly Jewish

men sitting around a cafeteria table one afternoon, sipping tea (I said it was old), debating the
existence of God.
Finally, one stands up, slaps his hand on the table, and
says: God may exist or He may not, but in any event,
shoyn tzeit tzu davenen mincha In English, its time to
daven mincha Im told its better in Yiddish.)
There are a number of morals to this story. The first, probably the most prominent, is that the connection between
theological belief and religious observance often is thin. But
perhaps reading a bit between the lines, another moral that
speaks to me is that when the men decamped from the cafeteria to find a minyan, they all went to daven together. There
wasnt a group of believers (who daven) and another, separate, group of nonbelievers (who daven); there was simply
Facebook time line and email inbox are flooded with articles decrying OO and explaining why it really isnt Orthoone group of Jews, who love to discuss and debate belief, all
dox Judaism. While many of the articles come from the pen
of whom need and want to catch a minchah.
of a single writer who has taken this on as his cause celeIn certain ways, things have remained the same. There
bre, he is not alone in his unending stream of attacks. For
are still many Orthodox Jews who question and havent
me, reading his articles is like rubbernecking
found orthodox (lower case) answers satisfying; whose sincere grappling with religion,
at a highway accident; I try hard not to look
study of texts, and contemplation of ideas has
but all too often the gory scene draws me in. I
not resulted in beliefs that precisely match
regret both, but its hard to refrain.
those they were taught in day school. And yet,
Local leaders reactions to OO are varied.
they still slap the table, put down their glasses
One congregational rabbi pulls no punches.
of tea, and go in search of a minyan. They may
The name OO is deceptive and far from reality,
have questions and doubts about what the
he writes; its true name with his apologies
divinity of the Torah actually means, but noneto the late Irving Kristol is neo-Conservatism.
theless study and revere it, bind themselves to
While he claims that he has come to this conJoseph C.
clusion in pain and with a heavy heart, and
its values and mitzvot, and observe what had,
Kaplan
that his wish is to include and not exclude, he
for generations, been the unofficial definition
nonetheless uses his literary compass to draw
of an Orthodox Jew observance of Shabbat,
an exclusive and exclusionary circle.
kashrut, and taharat hamishpacha. In effect,
Fortunately, our community has a broad range of leadthey follow the dictum of our ancestors in the Sinai desert who proclaimed naaseh venishmah we will observe
ers and more than just this one model for how we can deal
even before we hear and learn and understand and agree
with a diversity of ideas. One local RIETS Rosh Yeshiva (who
with all the reasons behind the observance. They remain
will, I know, protest the use of the word leader to describe
a committed part of the Orthodox community with which
him) has, as Ive read on his Facebook page, discussed OO
they self-identify.
issues a number of times. Yet, while he occasionally uses his
Yet some things have changed. I recently thought about
astute pen to take issue, sometimes strong issue, with certain
how excited we were in sixth-grade math, when we took
aspects of OO, it is never to exclude or denigrate. A powerful intellect, an incisive thinker, and a forceful and eloquent
out our new compasses and drew circle after circle. Our
writer, this leader disagrees and criticizes with clearly stated
goal was to draw as perfect a circle as possible. Well, circle
and clearly sincere feelings of respect, tolerance, inclusion,
drawing, albeit without a compass, now has become a popular activity for some adults in the Orthodox community.
and friendship. His arguments, which include listening to
Rather than welcoming those not completely traditional in
what the other side says, are a paradigm of civil discourse.
thought as had once been the norm into Orthodoxy, their
That is something that our community and our country
goal is to draw a circle around Orthodoxy small enough to
could use lots more of.
keep out as many as possible of those who think or speak
Much of what I know about debating ideas I learned as a
or write in nontraditional ways.
teenager at the feet of one of the most significant thinkers,
I once lamented that too many of my halachically
intellects, and Torah leaders of my generation, R. Emanuel
observant compatriots strove to increase the number of
Rackman zl. And if I can sum up those lessons in a few
homes in which they could not eat. Now, too many strive
sentences, it would be this: Know the facts, think for yourself, and always always! consider the arguments on the
to increase the number of our brothers and sisters people who attend shiurim with us, who are as careful about
other side and be respectful of those with whom you disagree. If you do that, he taught us, you can disagree with
kashrut, Shabbat, yom tov, tzedakah, and gemilut chassadim as we are, who send their children to schools and
anyone.
camps and Israel programs with ours whom they conBut enough talking. Ich denk shoyn tzeit tzu davenen.
sider michutz lamachaneh, outside the Orthodox camp.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor who has lived in
The target of these attacks recently have been those who
Teaneck for more than 30 years, is a frequent writer of
affiliate with Open Orthodoxy, a subgroup of Orthodoxy
essays for Jewish publications when he is not practicing law
that has arisen with the growing popularity and influence
in Manhattan.
of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat. My
Know the facts, think

for yourself, and always
always! consider
the arguments on the
other side and be
respectful of those with
whom you disagree.
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Opinion
A view from the pew

Noting the blurred line
between free speech
and hate speech
ne of the true blessings of

retirement has been having
the time to attend a wide variety of public lectures. A few
weeks ago, on three consecutive nights, I
had the opportunity to hear three scholars
from different backgrounds, representing
different disciplines, speaking on different
topics, who together gave me a trifocal lens
through which to view the contemporary
political scene in America.
On Monday, March 28, Professor Fred
Lawrence, a renowned constitutional lawyer and past president of Brandeis University, spoke at the Jewish Theological
Seminary about the challenge of differentiating free speech from hate speech. In
his remarks, Professor Lawrence included
some real life examples of how we as American Jews have thrived in this country, in
great measure because of the protections
of free expression guaranteed in the First
Amendment to the Constitution. He gave

the audience some chilling examples of
instances when distasteful, even hateful
speech must be tolerated in order to maintain our own rights to free expression. Dr.
Lawrences position is that hateful speech
crosses over the line to hate speech when
it provokes people to take violent or harmful actions.
On Tuesday, I heard a talk by Walter Isaacson, the noted biographer and journalist,
on his series of biographies of American
geniuses from Benjamin Franklin to Steve
Jobs. To me, the most challenging point of
Mr. Isaacsons talk was that he said that for
him, the feature that allows him to differentiate between geniuses and extremely smart
people is the imagination that leads geniuses
to out-of-the-box solutions.
On Wednesday, March 30, I attended a
talk by Benedetta Berti a young Israeli academic, whose specialty is national security
and conflict resolution. Her subject was the
current wave of violence by Palestinians and
how it differs from earlier waves of terror
attacks. Dr. Bertis analysis is that this latest
Palestinian uprising, unlike

since our nations inception,
the Al Aksa Intifada of 2000what shocks and confuses me
2004, is not directed by Palesis that in 2016, the American
tinian leadership, but rather is
electorate seems to be finding a candidates ability to put
directed at both Israeli and Palestinian authorities. It comes
down his opponents as a sign
out of a sense of hopelessness
of strength.
Most political analysts talk
on the part of individual Palestinians. Dr. Berti thinks, she
about Americans anger and
Rabbi Neal I.
said, that this is not a time to
frustration with the status quo
Borovitz
convene another conference
in both political parties as the
whose goal is to find a final
cause of this years chaos. I
settlement of the conflict. Dr.
wonder if the sense of hopelessness that Dr. Berti described as the preBerti, an Italian-born Jew who has made
cipitant cause of the current wave of Palestinaliyah, feels that there is an urgency to take
ian violence against Israelis also is present in
steps to combat the hopelessness that Palestinians feel, and that is leading them to hatethe 2016 American electorate. Both the Sandful acts of violence.
ers and the Trump campaigns are attractIn my opinion, our 2016 presidential priing large percentages of the electorate with
maries have been characterized by hateplatform positions that are unrealistically
filled accusations and expressions that are,
unachievable, despite their populist appeal.
at the very least, hugging the line, if not
Moreover, I have heard from news commentators and read in polls, and also know from
crossing the line, of the distinction between
personal discussions with both Trump and
protected free speech and hate speech.
Sanders supporters, that they know this.
While negative campaign attack ads have
Walter Isaacsons list of people he
been a part of American electoral rhetoric
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classified as geniuses included only two
political figures, Henry Kissinger and
Benjamin Franklin. The common thread
he sees in these two men was not their
exceptional intellects, it was their ability
to think out the box and to imagine new
pathways to the future. Isaacson points
out that like his other subjects, including both Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein,
Franklin and Kissinger were both egocentric and highly intelligent men who
realized that they lived at a time when
their respective societies, colonial America and the post World War II Cold War
America, no longer could operate successfully under their then-current rules
of engagement. Neither man ever held
elective office. Both served as key advisers
to American presidents who understood
that bringing the best minds to the task of
solving communal problems was essential
for achieving their own goals.
Jeff Page, a longtime writer for the
Bergen Record, interviewed me in 2002
for an article on the first anniversary of
September 11. He asked me a question:
What was I doing on the day before the
world changed forever? I remember
that my initial response was that I did
not want to accept the premise that the

world had changed forever, but with the
hindsight of 14 years, I must admit that
the premise of Jeffs question was accurate. In the 21st century, economic insecurity and the fear of terrorism are two
of the most powerful forces affecting us
all as individuals and as a global society.
While finding solutions to our political
and economic challenges may require
geniuses with out-of-the-box thinking,
the primary task before us as Americans,
in the election of 2016, is to choose the
best available leader.
We should elect a leader who can help
us all to keep our eyes on the line between
free speech and hate speech, who can
give realistic hope to the hopeless, and
who can be Americas teacher-in-chief,
instilling in all Americans of every race
and faith the words, from Leviticus 19:18,
that are the centerpiece of Torah: Love
your neighbor as yourself.
Neal Borovitz, rabbi emeritus of Temple
Avodat Shalom in River Edge, is the
immediate past chair of Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey.
Letter
Scandals scandalous stereotyping
I am writing this not only as a rabbi and
cantor, but as an outraged citizen, an outraged human being, and a Jew.
I have been watching Scandal since its
inception, and I am a huge fan but now I
am infuriated. I believe that the talent that
graces the set of Scandal is incredible,
and I always found the storyline engaging. Its always made me yearn for the next
episode.
Truth be told, I still do yearn for the next
episode, but I will not allow what I saw on
its latest episode season 5, episode 16,
The Miseducation of Susan Ross to
pass with no repercussions for the writer,
the director, the executive producers, and
ABC Studios.
In this episode, neither Quinn (Katie
Lowes) nor Huck (Guillermo Diaz) can deal
with the fact that Olivia (Kerry Washington)
is going to cross some very serious boundaries. Quinn decides to ask their friend, ex
co-worker Abby (Darby Stanchfield), for
advice.
At one point in the conversation Quinn,
visibly upset as she talks about Olivia,
says: replacing a white hat for a black
skullcap
I paused the DVR, not believing what I
heard, rewound the scene, and listened
again.
My wife and I sat there in disbelief.
A black skullcap can only refer to one
thing. That is a Jew and in this case its
someone who is conniving, deceitful,
backstabbing; someone who would do
anything to get results. It is absolutely an

anti-Semitic, vilifying comment, the likes
of which Shakespeare used in Merchant
of Venice. It is the kind of stereotyped caricatures the Nazis used during the Second
World War.
In this day and age, where diversity is
the biggest topic of discussion in the world
of entertainment and in the world at large,
where people of all different races, creeds,
nationalities, and religions are trying to live
peacefully, side by side, at least in the Western world, how does ABC Entertainment
allow this disgraceful, disparaging remark
about Jews to be used on one of the finest
shows on television?
Of course I looked up the name of the
writer, and what a surprise. Its Raamla
Mohamed. She chose Scandal to air her
personal attack on the Jewish people.
She doesnt deserve to work in a business that promotes harmony and tries to
put an end to divisiveness.
How could that line ever get past the
director, Scott Foley, or the script supervisors, or anyone from Shondaland? It is hard
to believe that they are all so insensitive to
such a glaringly anti-Semitic comment.
It is my sincere hope that you take this
letter to heart and let the producers of
Scandal know how you feel. Hopefully
the show like all of Shonda Rhimess
shows will continue with great success,
but without Raamla Mohammeds pen.
Cantor Lenny Mandel
Congregation Bnai Israel, Emerson
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Opinion
Scholars tracking anti-Semitism in anti-Zionism
ver the years, Ive spoken at

or attended a number of academic conferences on the subject of rising anti-Semitism.
Parleys like these are essential for
boosting our understanding of why, seven
decades after the end of the World War
II, the taboo around anti-Semitic invective whether directed at Jews as Jews, or
through code words like Zionists has
been broken. Historians, sociologists, and
political scientists, along with scholars
from similar disciplines, all play a decisive
role in determining how the trajectory of
anti-Semitism changes, even as its core
themes, like its implacable opposition to
Jewish sovereignty and its dark warnings
about powerful Jews working against the
national interest, remain the same.
From April 2 to 6, all these topics are
coming under the spotlight once again
at a major conference at the Indiana University Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism, under the able
direction of Professor Alvin Rosenfeld.
The papers being delivered suggest that
the conference is digging deep into the
presents
weeds: Over four days, attendees are discontemporary anti-Semitism and the role
cussing why anti-Semitism and anti-Zionthat hostility to Israel plays in generating
ism exercise little attraction in countries
it, Rosenfeld told the Algemeiner.
like Japan, India, and China; examining
Thus do we come to the perennial questhe manipulation of the Holocaust in pubtion of whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semilic debates around Israel and Zionism,
tism. Its a question that is often put to me,
and revisiting, through such
and my brief answer is that
subjects as Anglo-American
historically, the two were
Committee of Inquiry of
distinct, but today, they are
1946 on the future of the
largely the same. The great
land of Israel, the historical
scholar of anti-Semitism,
foundations of anti-SemiProfessor Robert Wistrich,
tism in our own time.
whose sudden death in 2015
All very interesting
robbed the academic comand perhaps even a little
munity of one of its sharpest
obscure, you might think,
and most charismatic figures,
Ben Cohen
but dont make the mistake
put it much more precisely,
of believing that a conferand it is worth quoting in full:
ence like this one is a purely
Anti-Zionism and antiivory-tower affair. The very title of the conSemitism are two distinct ideologies that
ference Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism,
over time (especially since the creation
and the Dynamics of Delegitimization
of Israel in 1948) have tended to conmakes clear what the conference organizverge, generally without undergoing a full
ers correctly see as the heart of the curmerger. There have always been Bundists,
rent problem. Our goal is to open more
Jewish communists, Reform Jews, and
eyes toward what is happening, to get
ultra-Orthodox Jews who strongly opposed
more people to start paying attention to
Zionism without being Judeophobes. So,
too, there are conservatives, liberals, and

leftists in the West today who are proPalestinian, antagonistic toward Israel,
and deeply distrustful of Zionism without
crossing the line into anti-Semitism. There
are also Israeli post-Zionists who object
to the definition of Israel as an exclusively or even a predominantly Jewish
state without feeling hostile toward Jews
as such. There are others, too, who question whether Jews are really a nation; or
who reject Zionism because they believe
its accomplishment inevitably resulted
in uprooting many Palestinians. None of
these positions is intrinsically anti-Semitic
in the sense of expressing opposition or
hatred toward Jews as Jews. Nevertheless, I
believe that the more radical forms of antiZionism that have emerged with renewed
force in recent years do display unmistakable analogies to European anti-Semitism
immediately preceding the Holocaust. (My
emphasis in the italics.)
In this regard, Wistrich stressed the
grim associations between the Nazi
boycott of German Jews during the 1930s
and the current Boycott, Divestment and
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Israeli Apartheid Week, the annual international anti-Israel event, is advertised

in May 2010 on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. AMCHA INITIATIVE
Sanctions hate campaign targeting the

Jewish state. It is these functional overlaps
between old and new forms of anti-Semitism, rather than the stated intentions of
those who engage in boycotts of Israel, that
really matter. Put another way, most boycotters will, often at the same time, angrily
deny that they are anti-Semites and insist

that the charge of anti-Semitism is a meaningless smear designed to choke off free
debate about the legitimacy of Israel. But
what counts is how these political views
are put into practice. Examine that and you
will find, as recent research by the AMCHA
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passed legislation to counter any material

impact that the BDS hate campaign might
have. The Board of Regents of the University of California recently determined in
a statement that there are anti-Semitic
forms of anti-Zionism. While this manifestly doesnt mean that BDS advocacy is
banned, it does stigmatize the underlying
message as hate speech.
We need more of these victories against
the anti-Semitic incarnation of anti-Zionism, and scholars of the phenomenon
have a critical role to play. For too long,
our adversaries have enjoyed an uncontested playing field upon which to stake
their claim that opposing Zionism is their
duty, a path toward global justice. Now,
though, the triangle of pro-Israel advocacy, anti-BDS legislation, and further
scholarly unmasking of this movements
malicious aims finally is making its mark.
JNS.ORG

Initiative watchdog group has revealed, a

verifiable correlation between anti-Zionist
activism and anti-Semitic outrages.
What AMCHA has shown is that the
more exposed a university campus is to
the propaganda of anti-Zionism the slander that Israel is an apartheid state, the
denial of Jewish indigeneity in the land of
Israel, the celebration of Palestinian violence against Jews and Israelis the more
likely it is that Jewish students will face
harassment. The fact that it is Jews living in
the diaspora, rather than the State of Israel
itself, that are first in the line of BDS fire
tells us a great deal about both the beliefs
and tactics of this campaign.
Of course, campus bien-pensants will tell
you that such data means nothing because
the real challenge is not perceived anti-Jewish prejudice, but the hierarchy of oppression that determines that Jews are the beneficiaries of white privilege. As Harvard
University professor Larry Summers put
it in a recent Washington Post column, on
too many American campuses, [T]here is
hypersensitivity to prejudice against most
minority groups but what might be called
hyper-insensitivity to anti-Semitism.
Yet the portents are changing, and for
the better. Seven U.S. states now have
Ben Cohen, senior editor of theTower.org

and the Tower magazine, writes a weekly
column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
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All-of-a-Kind Family meets
one-of-a-kind writer
Lizzie Skurnick loves words, makes up words, revives old worlds
Joanne Palmer
here are so many ways

to start a story about
Lizzie Skurnick of Jersey City.
It could begin with her long-running, recently ended That should
be a word series in the New York
Times magazine section, with
her resurrecting the All-of-a-Kind
Family series from out-of-print
oblivion, with her poetry, with
her early and influential blogging,
with her familys fascinating (and
partly very local) history, with her
deep knowledge of teen literature, or with the way she came to
have her own publishing imprint,
Lizzie Skurnick Books.
Maybe thats because a story
about someone drunk on words,
high on words, addicted to books,
surrounded by teetering piles of
books, demands more than one
beginning.
Lets pick one of them, then,
and begin.
Lizzie (more formally Elizabeth,
Liz to everyone but her mother
and the reading public), who is 42,
grew up in Englewood, the second
of the three children of Eugene
and Dr. Blanche Jordan Skurnick.
Gene, an engineer, has been on
Englewoods city council four separate times. For better or worse,
hes all heart, his daughter said.
He grew up, the son of Ukrainian
immigrants, on the Lower East
Side, in a time and place where
being Jewish meant being socialist, having a thick Yiddish accent,
and arguing very loudly about just
about everything, just for the joy
and the passion of it. (Think Bernie Sanders.)
Blanche Jordan grew up in an allblack town in Oklahoma named Langston, after the African American poet and
activist Langston Hughes. Her family
intellectuals, many of them teachers

came from Louisiana, but her father
left there because he was afraid hed
be lynched. It was the same reason my
grandparents left the Ukraine, Lizzie said
a realistic fear of pogroms. The family
Jewish world.
Blanche earned at Ph.D. in
English, and taught at City College until she was 40, when she
decided that it was time to act on
a long-held ambition. She went
to medical school, and has been
practicing medicine ever since.
She works with senior citizens,
which is what she always wanted
to do, her daughter said.
Right around the time that their
oldest child, David, was born, the
Skurnicks moved to Englewood.
(Miriam, their youngest, was born
10 years after David.)
Lizzies Jewish education came
from the Workmans Circle in
Bergenfield. Our teacher was
wonderful, but I didnt realize
that he was the premier Yiddish
scholar of our time, she said.
He was Pesach Fiszman, a wonderful man. He thought he was
about 85, and later I realized that
he probably was only about 35.
He was doing a mitzvah in coming out and teaching this class. It
wasnt until she posted something
about him on Facebook that she
realized how famous Dr. Fiszman
had been, she said. He also was a
good teacher; she really learned
to speak Yiddish, although she
since has lost that skill.
Lizzie was a serious reader,
the sort of child whod wander
around banging into things that
she could not see because her
entire field of vision was filled
with letters. She went to public
school in Englewood. It wasnt
Lizzie Skurniks life always has
a particularly good school for
revolved around books.
advanced students, but she was
left alone, free to read whatever
eventually moved to Queens, and Blanche
she chose. I was an autodidact,
went to City College. She met Gene there.
she said. She also was a musician; she
She was a lapsed Catholic, Lizzie said.
first studied violin and then voice at the
She went to a college filled with JewManhattan School of Music, near Columish people, and she had a million Jewish
bia in Manhattans Morningside Heights.
friends. She always was at home in the
I learned the Great American Songbook
Dr. Blanche Skurnick holds baby

Lizzie and David perches on Genes
shoulders as Blanches sister, Cherie,
and her mother, Olivia, smile at them.
The family is on a trip to Europe.
and Schuberts lieder, she said.

It was magical for me. She no
longer sings, but she has that
music in her head and her heart.
Lizzie went to Yale, where she
majored in English and African
American literature as a combined concentration. I wrote
two theses, she said. One was on black
womens magazines in the 1950s, as it
related to housewives post World War II.
The other one was on Titus Andronicus.
She also studied and wrote poetry.
Once she graduated, I had truly no idea
about what I wanted to do, she said. I
applied to a million internships. I was in
I wrote two
theses. One was
on black
womens
magazines in the
1950s, as it
related to
housewives post
World War II.
The other one
was on Titus
Andronicus.
a terrible depression, but I was trying to
force myself to sound like a normal person. And I didnt notice that someone
accepted me. I got a letter from a feminist
Lizzie went to public school in

Englewood and then on to Yale.
press, Calyx, in Corvallis, Oregon, and I

didnt even notice until something finally
went off dimly in my brain.
The note had come in March, and she
called in May; it would have been too late,
but someone who had accepted dropped
out, so after graduation, Lizzie went out
to Oregon. My parents were lovely. They
bought me a Saturn, and I drove across the
country by myself. I loved it.
Corvallis was a brand-new experience.
Its different out west, she said. There are
enormous supermarkets filled with produce
and whole grains. Theres nothing like that
Lizzie, David, and their baby sister,

Miriam, in their Englewood backyard.
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here, even now. Its particular to the west.
It was beautiful, and also a little boring.
My roommates got nervous when I crossed
the street against the light. But there was a
river that I could run along, and I lived in a
group house with different kinds of people
one of them was a soil engineer and
it was wonderful. During that four-month
internship, she copy-edited, wrote pieces
for the presss journal, arranged book
tours for authors, and in general learned a
great deal about the less glamorous side of
the publishing world.
Back home, Lizzie got a job at the
Book of the Month Club, doing development (which in publishing means putting together books, from beginning to
end; it does not mean fundraising) for the
African-American collection, Griot books.
She moved to the Upper West Side. Back
then, you could support yourself in publishing, she said. I think I made $23,000
a year. I wasnt living it up, but I could buy
my own couch. And I learned a lot more
about every aspect of publishing.
She also learned a great deal about the
less elevated aspects of publishing. Part
of her job was reading new manuscripts,
weeding out the clunkers (most of them),
and propelling the good ones to be considered for publication. One of the men
for whom she worked said, women cant
write, and black people dont really read,
she reported.
Then she went freelance, writing readers reports and press releases. In those
days, the late 1990s, it was a word-ofmouth thing, Lizzie said. If you had a
publicist who needed a press release, and
you knew someone who wrote quickly
She was a very quick writer.
Next, Lizzie was hired by a publisher
that specialized in packaging books for
teens. The firm, called 17th Street Productions and now owned by Alloy Entertainment did all the teen books you could
think of, including the very popular Sweet
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loving detail.
Valley High series. One of Lizzies passions

is childrens and teen literature not only
the Sweet Valley High kind but the other,
better, longer-lasting kind and she was
able to indulge that love in her work.
After so much effort on other peoples
words, Lizzie decided that it was time
to work on her own. (Also, I had a boyfriend I hated and I already had published
a friend, a wonderful poet at Yale, in the
Book of the Month Club. Her work there
was done.) She applied to writing programs at Columbia, Iowa, and Johns Hopkins, got into all of them, and chose Hopkins. She studied with poets whose work
she loved Sandy McClatchy, Andrew
Hudgins, John Irwin. They are the formal
poets of our era, she said. Through them,
I got to meet all these Southern male
poets at the Sewanee writing conference.
It was a yearlong program. She earned a
masters degree, had a teaching fellowship, and once that was finished became
an adjunct, teaching writing.
Can you teach someone to write? You
can give them assignments. I have always
been very into forms one of my teachers
always said that the whole purpose of a

form is to free up the psyche. When you
have a limitation, that improves your craft.
You can expose people to literature that
expands them. If they really cant write,
you cant teach people to write, but you
can make them competent, and teach
them to recognize what competence is.
You do need a spark, she added. Its
like what I couldnt do as a singer. It would
have been a disaster if Id tried.
Lizzie stayed in Baltimore for seven
years, teaching and writing. She published her first book of poetry, CheckIn. She turned out books for 17th Street
Productions. They needed people who
could bang them out, she said. She could.
Everyone was scornful toward me for
writing these books, not fancy novels the
dream of their lives was to be published in
the Iowa Review and I was like Dude,
you should do some writing for money.
And then she stalled. Management at
17th Street Production changed, and she
got fewer assignments. I had written 10
books, I had published the book of poetry,
I had gotten fellowships at Yaddo, Ucross,
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and Green Mountain. I had done all that

but then I dried up, and I remember jogging around an awful depressing lake, and
I told myself, You will have to write yourself out of this or you will endure doing
nothing, being no one.
No surprise she did.
Lizzie started a blog she called Old Hag.
It was 2003, not so long ago but antediluvian in blog history. It was just me
messing around, having fun, finally writing the criticism I wanted to write in my
own voice. I had no idea that anyone was
reading us the other early bloggers, the
people who became The Awl and Gawker
and Wonkette but I was wrong.
An editor from the New York Times
Book Review emailed and said, We read
your blog and we would like to have you
write a few reviews for us. After getting
over her conviction that the email was
a joke I wrote back and said this isnt
even funny she did contribute reviews
to the Times, to the Washington Post, and
to the New Yorker.
From Old Hag I had a huge freelance
career, and did occasional free verse on
NPR, she said.
Lizzie also wrote That Should Be a
Word, where she combined two words
into a new one, with a logical definition. Theyre hilarious. In nearly every
instance, shes entirely right. Why werent
those words?
Her definitions have been collected
into a book also called That Should Be
a Word, a tall, thin cartoon-illustrated
paperback, in dictionary form, with diagrams showing her creations relationships to each other.
Its remarkably difficult to pick just a
few, but it seems worth trying. So here are
some randomly picked samples from the
chapter on social media:
Smearch v., Google someone in
hopes of finding bad news.
Twiticule v., Make fun of someone
on Twitter.
Epistol n., One who fires off
messages.
Hystoria n., Panic if one second of
life is not documented.
Blogging changed Lizzies life. She
moved back to New York in 2006 and
wrote a weekly column on out-of-print
teen books for Jezebel.
The column began when blogs were
launched and could never have existed
at any other time or place, she said. It
was a place where women could gather,
virtually, of course, and talk about
these books. It was a bunch of 35-yearold women saying I never realized how
important that book was for me.
She was approached by a book packager
who offered Lizzie her own imprint, Lizzie
Skurnick Books, which launched in 2013.
I use my expertise in finding out-of-print
books that we should bring back, as well as
books that should have been popular and
never were. The imprint has 23 books now.
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Lizzie
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The first of Sydney Taylors

All-of-a-Kind Family series
remained in print, but the other
four did not until Lizzie rescued
them. They are by far the most
popular of her books.
Most Jewish women have
read those books, which were
set in the 1910s and first published in the 1950s. Ms. Taylor
wrote them for her own daughter, Jo, who was an only child.
They are essentially a combination of a Jewish Little Women
and a Jewish Little House on the
Prairie, Lizzie said. There are,
as far as I know, no other books
about Jewish children set in this
time period. They are not about
the Holocaust. They are about a
large family, and each girl represents a different kind of person,
like in Little Women. They are
Lizzie Skurnick and her son, Javier, in Jersey
all connected to the community,
City last Halloween.
and they dont notice that their
dad is a junk salesman, their
her story to her daughter. You could see
mom has to hunt for buttons, and they
that she was looking back for specific
only have one dress between them.
Ah, that dress. Ask almost anyone who
details, and coming up with the details
has read the books, and the first memthat a child would remember.
ory they will come up with is the dress,
Thats why the books are so important. They contain so much.
which one sister stained with tea and
Lizzie Skurnick Books specializes
then recovered by dyeing with tea.
in books that read as authentic. All
That dress is an obsession for everyone, Lizzie said. My theory is that
the books I chose are about girls contending with the world, and learning
the dress is about the ingenuity of
about it, but we get to see them learnassimilation.
ing about it as teenagers, not from the
America is the white dress, and the
point of view of an adult. Its not how
Jews are a benefit to the country. They
an adult would see things, but how a
are able to wear it, and they also have
teenager experiences it. That makes the
the ingenuity to change that white dress
entire difference.
into something else.
In the All-of-a-Kind Family books,
And, she added, the idea of dyeing
Mama definitely is there, but its about
something like that is just so much fun.
how the girls see Momma. Its not about
The family is always drawing together
how Mama sees the girls.
to weather situations, and thats something that readers want too. We dont
In 2013, Lizzie had a baby, Javier,
always have the chance to have so many
around whom her life (and, she says
experiences of learning with our famiwith love and gratitude, her parents
lies. And something specific always is
lives) revolves. She adjusts her writing
happening, and they are solving it with
and publishing to his schedule; when
something else specific.
he was an infant, that meant doing less.
I am always focused on how Uncle
Now, she is working on two books. One,
Human comes over and eats a dozen eggs,
Grandma Said, for Workman Press, is a
and freshly buttered bread. He comes
collection of great old-time phrases for
over with food, and then he eats it all.
every occasion, she said. The other is a
When you are a younger person, you
novel, set in Yale in the 1990s.
learn about the world through details and
Lizzies career so far has been an idiosyncratic one. She can offer no clear
stories, not through overarching theories.
model for younger writers, other than
These books are about eating pickles on
the obvious truth that what she has done
the subway. Theyre about library books.
They also tell the story of the Jewhas worked wonderfully for her.
ish migration from the Lower East Side
Doing any kind of writing makes
to the Bronx, and how neighborhoods
you a better writer, she said. I find its
change. They tell about the features of
much easier to work on something when
the girls lives the library, the settleI am also working on something else.
ment house, the subway, the doubleAnd every three years I seem to turn
decker bus. Most books dont revive a
over a leaf for the next thing.
world like this.
You can learn more about Lizzie on
You can tell it was a mother telling
her website, lizzieskurnick.com.
Wishing you and your family a
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handling foreign relations in the Senate
says he will try to get Congress to reauthorize Iran sanctions before years end,
a key goal of pro-Israel activists.
Theres general agreement we have
to extend the sanctions against Iran, and
we need to do it before they expire at the
end of this year, Senator Ben Cardin of
Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
said last week.
Last month, Cardin toured Israel,
Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where he met
with leaders to discuss the best ways to
deal with Iran in the post-nuclear-deal
environment.
Reauthorizing sanctions was the
major request last month, when a record
18,000 American Israel Public Affairs
Committee activists ended a three-day
conference in Washington with a day of
Capitol Hill lobbying.
Yet in a move highly unusual for an
AIPAC lobbying day, activists did not
attach legislation to the request. Thats
because Republicans and Democrats
have yet to agree on a way forward postIran deal.
Pro-Israel Democrats like Cardin are
caught between an Obama administration that shows little enthusiasm for anything that could be construed by Iran as
a U.S. bid to undercut the deal, on the
one hand, and Republicans determined
to toughen what they say has been a
giveaway to Iran on the other.
Cardin said he can get Democrats
behind a simple reauthorization,
adding that it is needed to keep sanctions the Obama administration say

will snap back should Iran violate the
deal in effect. The deal offers sanctions
relief in exchange for rollbacks in Irans
nuclear program.
Speaking as the ranking Democrat
on the committee, and on behalf of the
Democrats, we could get it done quickly
if we were to just do that part, he said,
meaning a simple reauthorization of the
sanctions, which were passed in 1996
and reauthorized in 2006. The sanctions
must be renewed every 10 years.
Cardin said that concerns about
whether Iran would expand its influence in the region came up during his
March 18-26 tour of the region in conversations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi King Salman, and
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the
emir of Qatar.
Israelis believe Iran will comply with
the letter of the agreement as it relates to
nuclear provisions, Cardin said. They
are very concerned it will push envelopes on ballistic missiles, on terrorism
and on human rights.
The Obama administration says reauthorization is not required, and for now
it is opposing reauthorizing the act.
It is not necessary to extend the Iran
Sanctions Act at this time, as it does not
expire until December 2016, a senior
administration official said. Right now
we are focused on ensuring that Iran
adheres to its nuclear-related commitments under the JCPOA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the formal
name for the Iran deal.
The official cited other laws that would
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testing.
Lawmakers from both parties have
also sought assurances from the administration about a report that it is considering allowing Iran to work around a ban,
under sanctions still in place, on trading in dollars. The Associated Press earlier this week quoted Treasury officials
as saying they are considering allowing
such transactions to take place outside
of Iran. That would facilitate trade for
Iran, since the vast majority of foreign
transactions include trading in dollars at
some point.
Administration officials have hinted
that in order for Iranians to feel the benefits of the nuclear deal, some sanctions
may have to be eased.
The lawmakers, including top Democrats such as Representative Steny
Hoyer (D-Md.), the minority whip in the
House, say the workaround is a giveaway
uncalled for by the nuclear deal.
I do not support granting Iran any
new relief without a corresponding
concession, Hoyer said in a statement.
We lose leverage otherwise, and Iran
receives something for free.
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United States, now due to expire in 2018,
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activities not directly related to the deal
for instance, its recent ballistic missile
testing. We can do everything we need
to do under existing law, the official said.
Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the
chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was unavailable for an interview,
but his spokesman forwarded recent
statements suggesting that he was not
likely for now to back Cardins straightforward reauthorization.
Any reauthorization legislation must
also deal appropriately with the waiver
issue, because I believe President Obama
used the Iran waivers in a manner that
Congress never intended, he said last
month.
The failure so far to strike a deal is
notable in part because Corker and Cardin are known for their ability to compromise; they fashioned the agreement
last year under which Congress considered the Iran deal. Cardin was one of
four Democrats who joined Republicans
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(R-Calif.), the chairman of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, and Representative
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), its top Democrat,
who often jointly sponsor legislation,
have yet to do so to reauthorize the Iran
sanctions.
Engel said in an interview that Democrats may have to compromise, given
that they are in the minority in both
chambers. We need the reauthorization for sure, he said. The Republicans
want a little bit more, and they do have
the majority in both houses. We want to
pass things.
Royce was unavailable for comment,
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they were working to reauthorize the
Iran Sanctions Act.
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actions, including backing for terrorism
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in an
interview with the New York Daily News
editorial board that Israel launched
indiscriminate attacks against the
residents of Gaza in 2014, resulting in
what Sanders suggested were more than
10,000 Palestinian civilian deaths during
that summers war between Israel and
the Hamas terror group.
Anybody help me out here, because I
dont remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people
were killed in Gaza. Does that sound
right? Sanders said. When told that
the figure was probably high, Sanders
replied, I dont have it in my number...
but I think its over 10,000.
My understanding is that a whole lot
of apartment houses were leveled. Hospitals, I think, were bombed, he added.
So yeah, I do believe and I dont think
Im alone in believing that Israels force
was more indiscriminate than it should
have been.
According to the United Nations
Human Rights Council, 2,251 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza war, including 1,462 civilians (65 percent). In its
own report on the war, the Israeli government said that 2,125 Palestinians
were killed, with at least 44 percent of
them confirmed to have been armed
members of Hamas and other terrorist
organizations. Based on both the Israeli
and U.N. estimates, Sanders inflated the
Gaza conflicts total Palestinian death toll
about fivefold and its Palestinian civilian
death toll at least sevenfold.
When asked what he would have
done differently than Israel during
the Gaza war, Sanders said he is not
qualified to answer that question, but

still called Israels attacks against Gaza
indiscriminate.
But I think it is fair to say that the
level of attacks against civilian areas and
I do know that the Palestinians, some of
them, were using civilian areas to launch
missiles. Makes it very difficult, he said.
But I think most international observers
would say that the attacks against Gaza
were indiscriminate and that a lot of
innocent people were killed who should
not have been killed.
Sanders, who is Jewish, noted that he
has spent time living in Israel, has family members in Israel, and believes 100
percent not only in Israels right to exist,
a right to exist in peace and security
without having to face terrorist attacks.
Yet Sanders also said that Israel must
end its expansion of settlements if it
wants to achieve true peace and security.
From the United States point of view,
I think, long-term, we cannot ignore the
reality that you have large numbers
of Palestinians who are suffering now,
poverty rate off the charts, unemployment off the charts, Gaza remaining a
destroyed area, he said. I think if the
expansion was illegal, moving into territory that was not their territory, I think
withdrawal from those territories is
appropriate.
Sanders also controversially linked the
prospect of positive U.S.-Israel relations to the status of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
To the degree that they want us to
have a positive relationship, I think
theyre going to have to improve their
relationship with the Palestinians, he
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The missing left

Wheres the support for liberal Zionists
on campuses across the country?
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
he Forward recently asked college students to tell us about

a college experience that had
shaped their Jewish identity in
some way.
Of the six students whose responses
it published, five go to American universities. Of those, two are members of
Students for Justice in Palestine, which
supports the Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement against Israel and
rejects Zionism or what one of the students, Ben Berman of Clark University,
calls the settler-colonial project of Zionism. A third declares he has no connection with Israel.
The remaining two are proudly proIsrael. One belongs to the campus chapter
of Students Supporting Israel, a group that
takes a mostly uncritical view of Israel.
The other counters the pro-Palestinian
propaganda she hears with references to
Michael Oren, an Israeli centrist, and Caroline Glick, a journalist on the far-right
band of the Israeli political spectrum.
Its impossible to say whether this
small sample is representative of anything, but one thing is conspicuous:
There is no pro-Israel left. To engage
with Israel, according to these students,
means either to defend it uncritically or
to join those who, according to the antiZionist principles of SJP, seek an end to
the occupation and colonization of all
Arab lands. To be a Jew means either
to stand with Israel or, as Berman puts
it, stand against injustice especially
when its being committed by some of
our own.
You wouldnt know that there actually
is a Zionism that can be loving but critical of Israel. Or that within and outside
of Israel, there are groups that support
Palestinian rights and statehood while
defending the Jews right to a state and
Israelis right to security.
The same dichotomy is found in
another testimony by a presumed millennial, Jesse Alexander Myerson. In
a cover story in the Village Voice titled
The Heresy and Evangelism of Bernie Sanders, Myerson argues that the
non-Zionist Sanders appeals to Jews
of my generation precisely because
his socialism represents an alternative to
the militant nationalism of the Jewish
mainstream.
[N]ext to Bernie Sanderss dogged
agitation for universal equality and justice, decade in and decade out, Zionist
chest-thumping looks like a cheap substitute, Myerson writes.
Calling Sanders non-Zionist is wishful thinking by Myerson, who divides

Jewish identity neatly between socialism
and Zionism. This presumes that: a, the
two are mutually exclusive (for Israels
founding generation, that might come as
a surprise), and b, there is no way to be
a Zionist and stand up for equality and
injustice.
Sanders, who famously spent time on
a kibbutz as a young man, doesnt talk
like a non-Zionist.
Israel is one of Americas closest
allies, he said in his first major address
on the Middle East, and we as a nation
are committed not just to guaranteeing Israels survival, but also to make
sure that its people have a right to live in
peace and security.
In the same speech, the Democratic
presidential candidate spoke about a
whole lot of suffering among Palestinians, as well as the unconditional recognition by all people of Israels right
to exist. Sanders called for an end to
attacks of all kinds against Israel, as
well as ending what amounts to the
occupation of Palestinian territory. He
criticized the Netanyahu government
for building more settlements, the Palestinian Authority for abrogating the Oslo
Accords and Hamas for saying Israel
does not have the right to exist.
Thats not non-Zionism thats liberal
Zionism.
One student leader who understood
the distinction was Benjy Cannon, the
former president of J Street U. Writing
in Haaretz, Cannon praised Sanders for
creating an opening for other candidates, now or in the future, to extend a
clear hand in friendship to Palestinians,
condemn the occupation and settlement
growth, and simultaneously maintain
the critical importance of U.S.-Israeli ties
and Israels right to be free from terror
and violence.
Its a shame Sanders wouldnt give his
speech in person at the American Israel
Public Affairs Committees recent policy conference, or that AIPAC wouldnt
let him deliver his remarks via satellite.
It might have signaled to young liberal
Zionists that the pro-Israel mainstream
is at least willing to air such views, even
if they dont like them.
The demise of liberal or progressive
Zionism is in part the result of its own
failures, and of historical events out of
its control. Israelis themselves are disillusioned with their own left, which
hasnt been a political force for years.
Taking their cues from Israels hawkish
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government and reacting to Palestinian

terror and rejectionism many American pro-Israel organizations and leaders
ignore or ostracize liberal Zionists. The
vote to block J Street from joining the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations was seen by many
on the Jewish left as a referendum on its
liberal policies, not its tactics.
The rise of anti-Zionism voices on college campuses especially among Jews
suggests how this trend might be backfiring. Writing about the BDS movement on
his Brooklyn College campus, Eric Alterman noted that the pro-boycott group
Jewish Voice for Peace is perhaps the fastest-growing Jewish organization on campuses nationwide. The BDS movement,
he writes, is filled with young Jews.
One group seeking to counter this is
Ameinu, the former Labor Zionist Alliance. An Ameinu initiative, the Third Narrative, is trying to support those who stand
with Israel, criticize its policies, and are
buffeted from both the right and the left.
Significantly, the initiative tries to help liberal Zionists respond to Israels most vitriolic critics.
Kenneth Bob, Ameinus national
president, points to a 2010

study by Israels centrist
Reut Institute. To fight the
campaign to delegitimize
Israel, according to Reut,
pro-Israel groups should
substantively engage liberal and progressive circles. These represent the
battleground bet ween
Israel and its allies, and the
delegitimizers.
And yet Ameinu hasnt
been able to attract philanthropic support for its
campus outreach.
Wed love to have a
campus program, but have
great difficult finding funding, Bob said in an interview. The community
speaks out very vocally
on issues like [egalitarian prayer] at the Kotel,
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URIEL HEILMAN
occupation they are very
hesitant to support those
who use that word. As a result, Bob said,
change the minds of students who are
clash between the non-Zionist left and the
there is a huge vacuum in reaching propredisposed to embrace BDS and other
uncritical pro-Israel groups, it might provide an authentic alternative.
Israel campus liberals.
dogmas of the far left. But for the silent

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the Middle East. But Rabin was assassinated and peace

didnt materialize. They couldnt see how to generate
students. Dr. Banai continues to visit Israel at least once
or twice a year.
The winner of three Fulbright awards two for projects in Austria and one for Ukraine Dr. Banai said hes
probably gotten more of these grants than anyone else
in the United States. His assignments, often through
invitations from universities, have taken him all over
the world. For 12 years, he and Rachel spent summers
and winters in China.
I found that when it comes to the individual, people
are pretty much the same, he said. But when it comes
to systems, they differ to a great extent. The greatest difference is between China and the U.S. They have a oneparty government, a business monopoly, no freedoms,
and no democracy.
I found that when

it comes to the
individual, people are
pretty much the same.
But when it comes to
systems, they differ
to a great extent. The
greatest difference is
between China and the
U.S. They have a
one-party government,
a business monopoly,
no freedoms, and
no democracy.
Nevertheless, he said, he was happy to spend the time
there, because not only does he enjoy Chinese food, but
I felt good about sharing the principles of a free market
with people who needed it the most. In addition, he said,
The Chinese people are nice hosts, and the reception
was always outstanding. Im interested in their culture,
and this gave me motivation. He said what surprised him
most was that despite my knowledge of the big difference in culture, it was still very difficult to adjust my own
behavior. You may know about it, but its hard to execute
it. It was hardest in China. We are short-term thinkers and
executors. It doesnt work like that in China, where the
norm is long-term thinking and planning.
All these projects and additional assignments in Australia and Puerto Rico, among other places gave me
the opportunity to meet colleagues, develop research
programs with them, and collect data for the international research projects he has conducted over the past 30
years, Dr. Banai said. There have been three basic projects expatriate managers, the shift from communism to
capitalism, and international negotiations.
With all these experiences under his belt, Dr. Banai
said his favorite place still is the United States. I kiss
the soil when I arrive back here, and you can quote me
on that, he said. Through all my traveling, Ive learned
how strong are the democracy and freedoms we take
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Jews across the spectrum wrestle with transgender issues

URIEL HEILMAN
eres a riddle: If a transgender

Jew shows up at an Orthodox
synagogue, on which side of
the mechitzah the barrier
separating the sexes should that person
be seated?
Thats an easy one compared to more
complex Jewish legal questions raised by
people who dont identify as the gender
suggested by their physical anatomy at
birth.
Is a woman who transitioned to male
required to put on tefillin daily? Can a
man who becomes a woman marry under
Orthodox law? What about someone
whose gender identity doesnt fit binary
categories? Can the circumcision requirement of conversion be waived if the convert is male but has no penis?
With the growing visibility of transgender people, these are no longer theoretical
questions.
While American society generally grapples with how and how much to accommodate trans preferences, Jewish religious
denominations are doing some unique
grappling of their own.

The more liberal movements have been
the most progressive on transgender
issues. But even in the Orthodox world,
which presents the most barriers to transgender acceptance, both culturally and in
Jewish law, some community figures are
talking about the need to find a place for
trans Jews.
Its something that has to be dealt
with, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, said. Ive read a lot about it
and offered a range of opinions along with
a plea for compassion. These are people
who are going through difficulties. How
do we reach out to them compassionately
as human beings, as fellow Jews, as people
we dont want to lose from the Orthodox
community?
Last November, the Union for Reform
Judaism passed a landmark resolution
affirming transgender equality. It called
on Reform institutions to adopt changes
to embrace trans people without impediment, referring to them by their chosen
identity, providing gender-neutral bathrooms, instituting sensitivity training for
staff and community members, and making liturgical language more gender neutral. The trans equality resolution went
With the growing

visibility of
transgender
people, these
are no longer
theoretical
questions.
further than any major religious denomination in America, Jewish or non-Jewish,
has gone.
In the Conservative movement, the Rabbinical Assemblys Committee on Jewish
Law and Standards is nearing a vote about
what constitutes sufficient grounds in Jewish law for someone to change their gender: Is it enough to present in the new
gender identity, or must there be at least
hormonal change, or is sex reassignment

surgery required?
There are practical implications to this
question. Even in egalitarian Conservative Judaism, gender determines how a
person is prepared for burial, what kind
of wedding ceremony a person has (samesex or traditional) and whether a person
must undergo a circumcision in order to
convert.
The new proposed Conservative rule,
drafted by Rabbi Leonard Sharzer, argues
that gender identity should be broadly
defined.
A person with male anatomy who
identifies as female and is presenting to
the world as female in terms of dress and
action, even if there has been no hormonal
therapy or surgery, then in most situations
we should apply halachah as it applies to
their adopted gender, Sharzer said, using
the Hebrew term for Jewish law.
Meanwhile, the movement is making
trans-friendly changes. The Jewish Theological Seminary recently designated two
all-gender bathrooms, and the schools
application form has been changed so
applicants can define their gender any
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way they choose, rather than checking off boxes labeled

male or female. Some rituals, too, have been adapted.
For example, people may be called to the Torah without the traditional gender-specific language son of or
daughter of. Instead, the person is identified as of the
family of.
Weve tried to help students who do not want to
identify according to strict binary categories, said
Rabbi Daniel Nevins, dean of JTSs rabbinical school. I
wont claim weve got it all down. They have discreet
needs that were trying our best to understand, and to
embrace them, which is what we really want.
Though most but not all Orthodox authorities who
have considered the issue say the hallmarks of transgender identity cross-dressing, hormonal treatment,
sex reassignment surgery are forbidden, that still
leaves two key questions. One, if someone has surgically
altered their anatomy, what gender are they according
to Jewish law? And two, how should Orthodox communities strive to treat trans Jews?
To be sure, in most Orthodox communities these are
still largely theoretical questions, and there is no shortage of Orthodox Jews who dont want to talk about or
see transgender Jews in their shuls. And most Orthodox
Jews who do come out as trans tend to leave Orthodoxy.
Most people who are trans probably wont feel comfortable remaining in the Orthodox community, which
is sad but for the moment I think is a fact of life, said
Rabbi Mark Dratch, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, the nations main centrist
Orthodox rabbinical association. On the other hand,
for those who want to stay Orthodox, there are the challenges of creating a safe space in a community where
theres lots of misunderstanding, prejudice and concerns about halachic complications.
Dana Friedman, a 51-year-old trans Orthodox Jew, is
familiar with many of those complications. She grew
up modern Orthodox, left the community during her
transition three decades ago and returned to Orthodox
observance in 2008, when she felt things had changed
enough for her to be accepted.
Its been eight years and nobodys made a public
fuss, said Friedman, an information technology consultant in New York who dabbles in Orthodox tranny
standup comedy (its a very small genre). Nobody has
asked me to leave anyplace. And I have not heard that
anybody has a real problem with me being in the womens section.
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Rabbi Jeffrey Fox, the head at Yeshivat Maharat, a

religious seminary for Orthodox women co-founded
by the liberal-minded Rabbi Avi Weiss of Riverdale, has
researched trans-related questions of Jewish law. Since
he started lecturing publicly about the subject three
years ago, he says he has been contacted by some 30
trans Jews in the Orthodox community.
How can we help them have a meaningful Jewish
life? I dont think the answer is to tell them you just
dont belong in my shul, Fox said. This means were
confronting questions we could never have imagined
before.
At first glance, Orthodox Jewish law might seem
pretty clear-cut on gender transitions. Cross-dressing is
explicitly prohibited in the Bible, and the Torahs ban
on castrating animals generally is understood to apply
to humans, too. From the perspective of Jewish law,
according to Weinreb, a Jews gender is unchangeable
and determined solely by anatomy at birth, regardless
of surgery or hormonal treatments.
However, there is ample rabbinic discourse about
men who have lost their genitalia once a more common happenstance due to warfare, accidents, disease and the prevalence of eunuchs. The Talmud also
debates Jewish law as it relates to those born with both
male and female physical characteristics, and those who
appear to have neither.
In fact, the authoritative Code of Jewish Law known
as the Shulchan Aruch makes clear that a prospective
convert whose penis has been amputated may convert
without circumcision.
Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, a leading Israeli Orthodox
rabbinic figure known as the Tzitz Eliezer, who died in
2006, suggested that a persons gender was determined
by their current anatomy. He ruled that a married person whose genitalia were surgically altered to that of the
opposite sex would not require a get, or religious writ, to
consummate divorce, since same-sex marriage is impossible according to Orthodox Jewish law. Many of the rulings by Waldenberg, who served as an Orthodox rabbinic authority for Jerusalems Shaare Zedek hospital,
were not consensus views, however.
Fox said there are instances when Jewish law may
support helping someone make a gender transition
namely, in cases where a person is so distressed by
gender dysphoria as to be suicidal. Thats actually
quite common, Fox said, noting that the commandment of pikuach nefesh saving a human life should
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supersede restrictions against castration or cross-dressing.
If someone surgically alters their anatomy even in contravention of Jewish law, the question of what gender they
are and therefore what Jewish rituals they are required to
observe depends on which rabbinic opinion one follows.
In any case, most trans Jews are not asking rabbis for
permission to undergo hormonal therapy or surgery, Fox
noted. Theyre making changes on their own, and are concerned about being welcomed in the community. The question, then, is how rabbis and Orthodox communities react.
When youre dealing with life and death issues, the
question of whether you count in a minyan is secondary,

Fox said. We have to make sure these people are safe and
are welcomed.
The quandary of how Orthodox communities should
relate to people who have contravened Jewish law is not
unique to transgender issues. Generations ago, Orthodox rabbis debated how to treat Jews known to violate
the Sabbath or kosher laws, and whether they could be
counted toward a minyan. More recently, Orthodox communities have been grappling with how to treat openly gay
individuals.
Trans Jews should be treated just as sympathetically,

said Rabbi Asher Lopatin, president of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the open Orthodox rabbinical school
also started by Weiss. He recalled helping an observant trans congregant at the Chicago synagogue he led
for two decades figure out which side of the mechitzah
to sit on. The communitys own comfort level figured
into the decision, he said.
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference
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TEL AVIV The Israeli Supreme Court decision on Jewish
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Under the March 31 ruling, the state of Israel must recognize Jewish conversions performed in private Orthodox
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The ruling concerned whether three people

who had converted in non-rabbinate courts could
gain Israeli citizenship. Previously, Jews by choice
could only become Israeli citizens if they converted
either through the rabbinate, or outside of Israel
and lived in a diaspora Jewish community. Foreign
conversions do not have to be Orthodox.
Now, according to the ruling, those who convert in any Orthodox court in Israel may gain
citizenship.
The Jewish nation is indeed one nation, but it
is spread out across the world, and is composed
of communities, layers and sub-layers, the courts
decision read. Oversight of legitimate conversions
is not limited to the one and only possibility of the
rabbinates courts.
The decision affects only a handful of people,
and affords them no additional rights or privileges.
It does not force the chief rabbinate to recognize
the private conversions, nor does it require the rabbinate to allow the converts to marry in Israel.
But advocates for religious reform say the ruling, in conferring legitimacy on private conversion, delivers yet another blow to the rabbinates
monopoly on Jewish rites in Israel.
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a judge on Giyur Kahalacha
courts, plans to conduct weddings for his converts.
A subsequent Supreme Court case, he said, could
force the rabbinate to recognize those marriages,
using Thursdays ruling as proof of the conversions legitimacy.
But advocates for

religious reform say
the ruling, in
conferring legitimacy
on private
conversion, delivers
yet another blow to
the rabbinates
monopoly on Jewish
rites in Israel.
From my point of view, I have every right to
marry those who convert under his supervision,
said Riskin, rabbi of the West Bank settlement of
Efrat. Im an Orthodox rabbi, and I was told by this
ruling that this conversion is a valid conversion.
A future court case, some speculate, might pave
the way for more substantial change.
This says we recognize you as part of the Jewish collective, said Rabbi Seth Farber, a founder
of Giyur Kahalacha. That has symbolic meaning.
Until now, [the rabbinate] said we cant marry
someone who the state doesnt recognize as
Jewish.
The decisions immediate impact is small. Israel
already recognizes Orthodox conversions performed outside its borders, and Giyur Kahalacha
courts have converted only about 150 people.
Those converts will still not be able to marry or
divorce in Israel because those rituals are run by
OF rabbinate,
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which
has vowed
not to recognize the private conversions. In a statement
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decision required state mikvahs to allow non-Orthodox
conversions.
But charedi lawmakers have persuaded Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to reopen the Western Wall plan
for debate. And last month, a bill overriding the mikvah
ruling passed an initial vote.
No matter what happens, the chief rabbinate still
wont accept non-Orthodox converts. Nor will Israel
recognize non-Orthodox Jewish weddings, which a large
majority of Israeli Jews supports. So while some activists

hope the ruling will create a domino effect in Israels
religious establishment, others say the only answer is
wholesale reform of government policy.
The pressure needs to be on extending recognition
that will allow civil marriage in Israel, said Uri Regev,
founder of Hiddush, a religious pluralism advocacy organization. There is no chance to get the rabbinate to recognize these conversions.
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last year.
If Riskin is right, and Thursdays ruling ends
up allowing non-rabbinate converts to marry, it
essentially will restore the 2014 reform. For now,
Israels charedi Orthodox establishment is holding
its ground. Charedi politicians have vowed to pass
legislation overriding the ruling.
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For parents of soldiers lost in Gaza,

the war has never ended
BEN SALES
KFAR SABA, ISRAEL One familys son
died in late July 2014. The other familys
son died on the first of August in the same
year.
One family has lobbied the United
Nations and crossed an ocean in hopes
of bringing their sons remains back. The
other mostly stays home.
One family is sure their son is dead. The
other is plagued by uncertainty.
But one thing unites the Goldin and
Shaul families: Of the 67 sets of Israeli parents who lost sons in the Gaza War two
years ago, only theirs have not returned.
Now, the two mothers, Leah Goldin and
Zehava Shaul, look burned out and constantly on the verge of tears as they talk
separately about their ordeals. By their
sides, their husbands, Simcha Goldin and
Herzl Shaul, look dejected
They say were not normal, Leah
Goldin said. We have to talk about the
first of August. Its like returning to the
Zehava and Herzl Shaul have no definitive proof that their son Oron died after
he was captured by Hamas in Gaza City on July 20, 2014.
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scene of the crime. We cant leave the

place of our mourning.
Oron Shaul, then 20, and his unit were
engaged in a brutal battle over the Gaza
City neighborhood of Shejaiya on July

20, 2014. He had left his armored personnel carrier to repair a broken part
when Hamas militants began firing on
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Five days later, the Israel Defense Forces
confirmed that he had died, based on evidence at the scene. The battle also claimed
12 other Israeli soldiers.
Herzl Shaul accepts the armys conclusion about his son. But because his body
wasnt recovered, Zehava Shaul believes
that he is still alive. She says Oron is being
held captive by Hamas. She compares him
to Gilad Shalit, the soldier captured in a
2006 raid and returned in a hotly debated
2011 prisoner swap that saw 1,000 Palestinian prisoners go free.
As a mother I feel hes alive, she said.
How can you determine death when hes
in the hands of Hamas? In any case, I want
Oron. The government and the defense
minister sent him to this operation. They
need to bring him back.
About two weeks after Shauls capture, Hadar Goldin was taken during the
collapse of a cease-fire. In response, the
IDF employed the controversial Hannibal
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Directive, which calls for the army to use

any means necessary to ensure a soldier
isnt taken prisoner. Some 150 Palestinians
and three Israelis died in the ensuing fight.
The IDF was able to recover enough of
Hadars body to declare him dead. The
family held a funeral, and since then has
engaged in an unending quest to have the
rest of their sons remains returned.
Though both parents work, the Goldins
campaign takes up all their energy. They
have traveled from their home in this central Israeli city to the United States three
times in their so-far-failed attempt to meet
with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
and lobby for the return of Hadars body.
They hope for a deal to increase humanitarian assistance to Gaza in return for the
bodies of their son and Oron Shaul. They
confer on the campaign regularly with the
Shaul family.
We have no time to be sad, Leah
Goldin said. We have no time to get angry.
We must act. We need energy to speak, to
influence.
Back home, the Goldins and their
friends are doing everything they can to
keep their sons memory alive. They held
an exhibit of his artwork on the wars first
anniversary at the Ein Hod artists village

in northern Israel. Twice a year, his classmates organize a day of hiking and study
in his memory.
Following Orons capture, the IDF
offered a headstone for him in a section
of a military cemetery reserved for missing soldiers. The Shauls wanted no part of
it. Oron has been memorialized at many
events, from official military functions to
a marathon to a home match of his favorite soccer team, Beitar Jerusalem. An hour
after speaking to reporters at their home,
the Shauls would be visited by former Education Minister Shai Piron.
But while the Shauls appreciate the
thought behind these gestures, they are
exhausted by them. Zehava Shaul doesnt
want to see her son memorialized; she
wants him back. Besides, she doesnt think
hes dead.
What can I tell you? None of that helps
me, Zehava Shaul said. The opposite; it
makes it worse for me. Sometimes you want
quiet, to be with yourself, and they dont let
you. Some minister is supposed to come
over. Nothing helps.
Before last year, Zehava Shaul said, it
didnt occur to us to join the Goldins
overseas trips. Ms. Shaul went to London
last summer to meet with representatives
Leah and Simcha Goldin have embarked on a tireless campaign to

retrieve the body of their son, Hadar,
from Gaza. He was captured and killed
in a clash on August 1, 2014.
from the International Committee of the

Red Cross, to no avail. They planned to
join the most recent trip, in February, but
Herzl Shaul was diagnosed with intestinal
cancer.
Neither Shaul works now. They spend
their days on the couches in the living room of their home in Poriya Ilit, a
small town near the Sea of Galilee, surrounded by pictures of their son in and
out of uniform, tortured by what might
have happened to him. Orons bed is covered with signs, pictures, and gifts sent
to the family after his death. Otherwise it
remains untouched, his shirts and jeans
still sitting in neat stacks in his closet.
Its the hardest thing, Zehava Shaul
said. Theres nothing harder than uncertainty. Every day the hole in my heart gets
bigger. Every day I say when I get up in the
morning, What have I done to bring back
Oron? Theres no one to talk to.
Both families have met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But nearly two
years after the war, neither expects much
from him, or finds comfort in his sympathy. They understand that after the Shalit
deal, which saw some of the Palestinian
prisoners return to terror, the Israeli public has little appetite for another exchange.
As much as theyre campaigning to get
their sons back, the Goldins and Shauls are
fighting for something more basic: They
just want Israelis to pay attention to their
plight.
When we start talking about bringing
back Hadar, they say, Oy oy oy, how much
will it cost? The trauma of Gilad Shalit was
terrible for us, Leah Goldin said.
So what? she asked. You dont do
anything?

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SAINT-DENIS, FRANCE After three firebombs hit the synagogue of this poor and
heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal
authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its profile.
Like dozens of attacks on French synagogues since 2000, the January 2009 incident at the Chabad House of Saint-Denis,
which did not result in any injuries, was
believed to have been Islamist extremists
retaliation for Israels actions that year
against Hamas in Gaza.
We were told by the mayor from the
Communist Party that it would be prudent if we tone down our activities at least
until things calm down in the Middle East,
recalled Yisroel Belinow, who runs the
Chabad House here with his wife, Rivky,
and his brother, Mendel.
We had absolutely no intention of complying, he said.
Instead of laying low, that year the Belinows produced Saint-Denis first public
community Passover seder, starting an
annual tradition. Members of this besieged
congregation say it succeeded because it
reflects their unity in the face of rising antiSemitic violence.
Each year since 2009, the Beth Chabad
of Saint-Denis a small building under
constant army protection welcomes
about 100 congregants for a group seder
dinner. It is led by Belinow, an introverted
and soft-spoken man, and his more outgoing older brother.
Its the best answer we could come up
with to the attack, Belinow said.
On the evening of January 11, 2009,
assailants ignited firebombs and hurled
them into the Chabad Houses kitchen.
The fire charred the dining area but failed
to catch because of a quick intervention by
Mendel Belinow, who was inside the building. Belinow said police found 15 unignited
firebombs in parts of the building, including a childrens play corner. No one was
convicted in the attack.
The attack lasted an instant and made
an impression for a few weeks. But the seders theyre now an annual event thats
part of the definition of this community,
Belinow said during a community event
last month in Saint-Denis.
Saint-Denis 15,000 Jews are all that
remains of a community that was halved
after the 1980s, when many left for more
affluent and safer areas. Jewish emigration
from Saint-Denis increased in 2000 amid
a surge in anti-Semitic attacks. Gradually
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unsafe to wear a kippah, the Jews here
joined a quiet exodus that has depleted
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With 100 guests, attendance at public
seders in this drab suburb is relatively
high for France. The Chabad House of
Toulouse, where 23,000 Jews live, gets
similar or at times even lower attendance,
which sometimes leads to the events cancellation. And in Nice, where 20,000 Jews
live, some 120 local Jews attend the local
Chabad Houses public seder, which is

being prepared for the fifth consecutive
year.
Group seders are less popular in France
than elsewhere in Europe because it has
a predominantly Sephardic community
with close family ties and a tradition of
hospitality, said Avraham Weill, a Chabad
emissary and the chief rabbi of Toulouse.
People get invited to family seders, lowering demand for a public one.
Some of the Saint-Denis seder guests
are poor Jews with no family in France,
including Mordechai Elbaz, a 60-year-old
former dope dealer who lives in a moldy
two-room apartment. He plans to attend
the seder this year with his sister, who is
his only relative and visiting from Israel.
Other Saint-Denis congregants choose
the public seder over a family setting. Caroline Wildbaum, 47, a regular at the Belinows Chabad House, has attended SaintDenis seders with her four children, now
15 to 22 years old, since the first year.
I have a rather large family, so its not
like I come here not to feel alone, said
Wildbaum, who lives in the nearby suburb of Sarcelles, a municipality known as
little Jerusalem for its Jewish community
of 60,000. Having a seder here doesnt

subtract from the family atmosphere, it
amplifies it.
She added: None of Sarcelles synagogues offer this feeling of unity and
family.
The Chabad House is now the only synagogue in Saint-Denis, which once boasted
four. Drugs are sold openly at a local train
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LVIV, UKRAINE Theres a Jewishthemed restaurant attached to the ruins of
the 16th-century Golden Rose Synagogue
here.
It first caught my eye last month when
I was taking photographs of Meylakh
Sheykhet, a charedi Jewish man who is
fighting to preserve whats left of the once
beautiful structure.
Sheykhet insisted I train my lens in a
different direction. I dont want this antiSemitic restaurant in the background, he
said.
At first glance Pid Zolotoju Rozoju,
Ukrainian for At the Golden Rose, isnt
a particularly remarkable restaurant. But
if Jewish themed makes you think of a
kosher-style deli in Miami Beach or a Montreal bagelry, think again: Peddling Jewish
food and culture with a combination of
nostalgia and stereotypes, the eatery has
been widely pilloried.
Since it opened in 2008, the restaurant
has faced allegations that it crassly perpetuates anti-Semitic stereotypes, particularly
in a place where Nazis and locals wiped
out nearly all traces of Judaism, including the very synagogue after which it is
named.
I wanted to check out those allegations
for myself. So I posed Sheykhet against
a different background and decided Id
come back for dinner later that evening.
Pid Zolotoju Rozoju looks like many
other restaurants in this city, which is
near the Polish border and has changed
names and hands over the centuries as it
fell under Russian, Polish and Austro-Hungarian control.
The joint is dark and small, with low
ceilings, no windows, and only nine tables.
Its decor, such as it is, consisting of Judaica and Yiddish theater posters, could be
considered almost tasteful, even if the restaurant serves such non-kosher dishes as
rabbit kidneys.
But after sitting down and seeing the
menu, I understood the uproar. There are
no prices. Thats because its Jewish tradition to haggle and bargain afterwards,
said my non-Jewish waiter, who instructed
me to call him Moishe though, when
pressed, he revealed his name was Vlodymir. He then told me hell be right back
and went into the kitchen.
I was left alone to survey my surroundings in the quiet dining room.
The cheap-looking wooden tables had
stained crocheted tablecloths. Juxtaposed
with the greasy retro interior was a plasma
television showing a slideshow of images
from 1930s Lviv, when the city had 110,000
Vlodymir, a waiter at the Pid Zolotoju Rozoju restaurant, calls himself Moishe.
Jews a third of its total population.

Back then, Lviv (in Russian its Lvov,
in German Lemberg) was teeming with
Jewish life, and the Golden Rose was considered one of the finest synagogues in
Europe. Lviv had five Jewish publishers,
six Jewish schools, and many small charedi schools. Among the Jewish newspapers sold here were the Togblat (Yiddish)
and Chwila (Polish) dailies.
But it all came to an abrupt end in 1941,
when the Germans invaded. They blew up
the synagogue in 1943. Only a few hundred
Jews survived. Today the Jewish community numbers 1,200.
While I was contemplating my peoples
sad history in the city, Moishe came back
with a bowl and a copper jug. He had
covered his brown hair with a black hat
adorned with fake peyot, the sidelocks
typically grown by charedim. He cheerfully shook his head to make the fake hair
jiggle.
Its Jewish tradition to wash your hands
before eating. We are a very clean people,
as you see, he said, gesturing, ironically
or otherwise, at the somewhat grubby
surroundings.
Playing the part of an unknowing tourist a persona I decided would make the
staff feel most at ease I obliged with a
smile. I then asked whether he had any
pork schnitzel.
No! Moishe replied in horror. Jews
dont eat pork!
But if you pay extra, maybe we can
arrange something, he added with a mischievous smile.

Such antics are the trademark of the
Lviv-based !FEST chain of concept restaurants that operates Pid Zolotoju Rozoju.
Its properties include Kryjivka, which was
built like a partisans bunker and accused
of honoring the legacy of a Nazi collaborator. Another celebrates the life and
writings of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,
whose kinky works inspired the term
masochism.
Across Eastern Europe there are restaurants paying uncomfortable homage to
communities decimated by the Holocaust.
Several of these Jewish, pork-serving
restaurants operate in Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of the Polish city of Krakow. In
Kiev, Cimes (its name a variant of tzimmes,
the Ashkenazi carrot dish) boasts a neon
sign featuring a caricature of a hook-nosed
Jew.
But the Golden Rose restaurant has
been the most controversial. Sheykhet, the
Ukraine director of the Union of Councils
for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, told
me it panders to, and thereby enhances
and legitimizes, anti-Semitic attitudes.
Andriy Khudo, a co-owner of Pid
Zolotoju Rozoju, frequently has faced
such accusations. In 2012, he told Agence
France Presse that he and his partners
studied the history of Jews in Lviv for
three months and worked with the main
Jewish organization in the city, which gave
its approval for the project.
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Khudo was referring to an endorsement

reportedly given by Ada Dianova, who
runs the local Jewish Hesed charity. In an
2008 interview, Dianova said Hesed gives
gifts and printed material to Pid Zolotoju
Rozoju to distribute to patrons. (I only
received a magnet with the restaurants
name as a souvenir.)
We do maybe use stereotypes, but the
customers like it, Khudo told AFP. And
Ukrainians, too, like haggling. Theres
nothing offensive in it.
During my visit, a group of young Ukrainians drank plum liquor at the bar. They
burst into laughter when the barman told
them the drink was made by squeezing
juice out of Jews peyot.
I asked one of them whether she had
heard that some Jews find the place
objectionable.
I never met any of them, so I dont
know, said the patron, who identified herself only as Marina.
Despite the owners insistence that its
all good-natured fun, the restaurants
menu refers to Jews as zhids the Russian equivalent of kikes.
The price-free menu carries a longwinded disclaimer explaining that zhid
is a neutral word in Ukrainian. The reality, however, is more complicated. Many
Ukrainians use it matter-of-factly, but
many others use it as a slur. Ukraines official Jewish community staunchly opposes
its use, arguing it should be dropped
altogether.
Jewish World
When the check finally came, Moishes opening bid was
450 hryvna approximately $17. Thats more than triple
an acceptable price in Lviv for what I had ordered a
stewed beef brisket with polenta that to my unsophisticated palate tasted pretty good.
Aware of the irony of the situation I was accepting
Moishes challenge to act according to a racist stereotype
of, well, me I offered to pay 30 percent lower than what
I estimated to be fair, hoping to settle on it.
But Moishe had another trick under his black hat: If I
could sing a song in Yiddish for him, he said, I would get
a discount.
Deliberating over my small repertoire of Yiddish songs,
I reflected on the nearby Jewish ghetto that in 1943 was
converted into a labor camp where more than 15,000 of
my brethren were murdered.
So I sang Partizaner Lid, the heartbreakingly optimistic partisans anthem written that year by Hirsh Glick, a
young Jewish inmate of the Vilna Ghetto. Like many Israelis, I had studied its Hebrew-language version, but I know
a part of the Yiddish original thanks to my Lviv-born bar
mitzvah tutor.
Never say this is the final road for you, though leaden
skies may cover over days of blue, I sang in Yiddish.
But I had to switch to Hebrew because I could no longer
remember the lyrics in the language that the Nazis had
done their best to erase. My voice cracked with emotion.
Moishe didnt seem to notice.
Very nice, he said, and knocked 50 hryvna off the bill.

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Parashat Tazria: From gossip to gratitude
esach is coming. This week is

Shabbat Hachodesh, the special
Shabbat marking the new month
of Nisan, the month of spring
and liberation. We read selections from
three Torah scrolls. From one we read the
the regular Torah portion, Tazria, which
includes the priestly laws regarding tzaraat,
often translated (inaccurately) as leprosy,
but which is actually scaly skin disease (psoriasis?). From the second we read the Shabbat Rosh Hodesh passage, Numbers 28:9-15.
And from the third we read Exodus 12:1-20,
the story of the first Pesach.
Lets look at Tazria. A close reading of
the portion, Leviticus chapters 12 and 13,
reveals that the priestly writers did not
provide a cause for tzaraat. The affliction
comes without warning and no remedy is
prescribed; the sufferer must simply wait
outside the camp until the disease passes.
However, the ancient rabbis did say
that tzaraat is punishment for sin, basing
themselves on biblical texts like Deuteronomy 24:9. What is the sin? In particular, it is lashon hara, gossip and slander,
proven by a play on words connecting the
metzora, leper, to the motzi shem ra,
one who speaks evil. What do the rabbinic
doctors order? Social isolation, leading to

idolatry, adultery and murder. In his philosophical/theological view, evil speech is
repentance.
Clearly, the classical rabbis were not talkan extreme form of arrogance and selfing about scientific medicine. Rather, they
aggrandizement, and separates the sinner
were concerned with the ramifications of
from God.
unethical speech how people who hurt
But I want to offer a different take on our
others are treated by society and how they
Torah portion. Lashon hara is no doubt a
may harm their own selfserious issue, but it is a mistake to view it in terms of a
image and even their health.
In the Middle Ages, Maiformulaic set of rules. The
monides held that the Torah
long list of ethical violations that Rabbi Israel Meir
removes the slanderer from
Kagan detailed in the 19th
the community to shield
century (in the Sefer Chofetz
people from the damages caused by the persons
Chayim, still a rabbinic bestseller) is too intimidating for
words. Isolation, then, is a
most of us. While we have
protective measure, not retRabbi David
ribution. The sinner is not
to be thoughtful about how
Klatzker
dehumanized. (Think about
we speak, not every form of
Temple
this lesson. Doesnt it seem
lashon hara is negative, as
Emanuel of the
that American society has
the Chofetz Chayim himself
Pascack Valley,
largely stopped having comrecognized. Gossip can even
passion for people in prison,
Woodcliff Lake,
be an ethical activity.
Conservative
who like us are created in the
When someone in the
image of God? They obviously
congregation tells me that
dont get much sympathy
another congregant is having marital problems, should I not listen,
from politicians, juries, or prison officials.)
and then reach out delicately to the couMaimonides elsewhere goes so far as
ple to offer them support? When a female
to say that lashon hara is on a par with
employee shares with another her frustration at being passed over for a muchdeserved promotion, is it forbidden to talk
about it in public, or might it help to bring
the issue to light? Arent there times when
we need to listen to criticism of our own
actions (a possible form of lashon hara)
without responding with anger?
Instead of fixating on lashon hara, it
seems more valuable to meditate on the
idea that tzaraat is a metaphor for exclusion and rehabilitation. Cancer, mental illness, the loss of a friend or family member, the realization that we have harmed
others, are the sort of events that we need
to acknowledge in all of their singular significance. People may stigmatize us, or we
ourselves may push them away, but we
need to be reminded that we dont have
to be alone. There is the potential in the
world that we may be comforted and learn
to comfort, be healed and learn to heal, be
forgiven and learn to forgive.
Come to think of it, that is not a bad
message for Pesach two weeks from now,
when our seder tables can be places for
spiritual intimacy, gratitude, empowerment and healing, rather than wounding,
shame, and alienation. Shabbat shalom!
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Shmura matzah for Passover

The real reason its so expensive
URIEL HEILMAN
t costs more per pound than filet

mignon. It might be burnt or taste
like cardboard. Its so delicate it
often breaks in the box, rendering it
unfit for Passover ritual use.
Yet every year, Jews from Brooklyn to
Bnei Brak line up to fork over their hardearned money to buy boxes and boxes of
the stuff.
This isnt your regular box of factorymade matzah. Were talking, of course,
about handmade shmura matzah: the artisanal, disc-shaped matzahs considered
extra special because the ingredients are
guarded against leavening, or chametz,
not just from the time the wheat is ground
into flour, but from before the wheat is
even harvested. Shmura is Hebrew for
guarded.
The extra level of scrutiny and the
labor-intensive process required to make
handcrafted matzah is largely what
accounts for its high price: anywhere from
$20 to $60 for a single pound.
The amount of hours of labor going into
this between me and my staff is incomparable, said Yisroel Bass, who runs a farm
in Goshen, N.Y., that produces organically
grown shmura matzah ($34 per pound for
regular shmura, $37 for spelt).
Renting out a bakery costs a lot of
money the space and the staff. Equipment breaks every year. Every farm has
its expenses, and organic farms end up
having more overhead. We cant buy the
synthetic fertilizer; we have manure, Bass
said. And God forbid I have a bad year
and the rabbi comes and says the wheat
is no good, I just spent a whole lot of time
and money on a product nobody wants.
The cost has to reflect that.
Despite its price and, some say,
its taste theres a thriving market for
handmade shmura matzah. (Theres also
machine-made shmura, which is cheaper
and usually square but more strictly scrutinized than regular matzah.) Many observant Jews wont use anything other than
handmade shmura matzah on their seder
tables. Some wont eat non-shmura any
time during Passover. The same Jews who
light expensive olive oil menorahs rather
It takes about 20 seconds in a 1,300-degree, coal-and-wood-fired oven to bake

shmura matzah to perfection.
PHOTOS BY URIEL HEILMAN
than wax candles on Chanukah, or who

buy premium etrogs for Sukkot, will lay
out extra cash before Passover to buy
handmade shmura matzah. (The practice of going above and beyond is known
as hiddur mitzvah, beautifying the
commandment.)
For the consumer, it is an opportunity

to purchase the only sacred food that we
have today in our faith, said Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom synagogue in
Washington, D.C. It is a bargain. Buy less
brisket and more shmura matzah.
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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
Matzah dough is rolled into thin round discs before it is perforated and baked.
Every 15 minutes at the Satmar Bakery in Brooklyn, the work ceases while all
surfaces are scoured or replaced, and all hands are washed to remove stray bits
of dough.
Matzah
FROM PAGE 61
Mitchell Weitzman, a lawyer from Baltimore, says shmura matzah has sentimental value.
There is just a sense of authenticity about having shmura matzah on the
table, Weitzman said. Its a feeling more
than anything else certainly more than
serving up Passover-style Fruit Loops the
next morning.
Others say they like the taste and eat it
year round, stocking up right after Passover when the reduced demand results in
a dramatic reduction in its price.
I keep a box of shmura matzah in the
trunk of my car, said Tali Aronsky, a public relations doyenne who lives in Israel.
Keeps crispy in all weather and great in
a pinch.
Some Jews consider shmura matzah
baked after midday on the day before
Passover known as matzot mitzvah
as especially meritorious to eat, and the
matzah is priced accordingly. At the Satmar Bakery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a
pound of the Passover eve-baked stuff sells
for $60. The line of customers at the Rutledge Street store usually snakes around
the block.
The Satmar Bakery employs a number
of stringencies rare even in the world of
shmura matzah. It harvests its wheat in
Arizona, where the dry climate helps
guard against accidental leavening (moisture precipitates leavening).
Matzah farmers in the Northeast typically harvest their wheat crop in May or
June around Shavuot (also called Hag
Habikurim, which means Festival of the
First Fruits). The wheat is plucked after
the kernels start to harden but before they
sprout new shoots. Kosher supervisors
monitor the grain even as its growing to
make sure the wheat isnt sprouting.
From the time it is picked until being
milled months later, the wheat must be
guarded and stored in a climate-controlled
environment. Too moist, it could become
chametz. Too dry, it will fail to bake properly. At the Yiddish Farm in upstate New
York, Bass says he uses fans and computer
monitoring to bring the moisture level
down to the desired 11-12 percent level.
After the wheat is milled into flour
also under close supervision the baking
process may begin.
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Every shmura matzah is inspected for quality and adherence to kosher standards before it is boxed.
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Arts & Culture

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
annah Arendt died

more than fort y
years ago, yet the
fascination she
exerts over so many people does
not seem to let go.
If anything, over the past few
years, not only have writers,
Holocaust scholars, and students of philosophy gone back
to re-examine her writings, but
filmmakers have joined them. In
2012, German director Margarethe von Trotta made a documentary about the writer/philosopher, called simply Hannah
Arendt, and now Israeli director Ada Ushpiz brings us Vita
Activa: The Spirit of Hannah
Arendt. The documentary follows the German Jewish migr
from her birth in 1906 through
her last days in New York, 69
years later.
Arendt had studied at many
of the fine German academies
and had been a protge of the
German philosopher Martin
Heidegger. With Hitlers rise
to power in 1933, she fled to
Paris. There, she was involved
in a variety of Jewish causes,
including Zionist endeavors,
even attending the Zionist Congress of 1935 in Switzerland.
Throughout her eight years in
what she described as Jewish
exile, she wrote extensively
about her feelings as a refugee,
feeling superfluous in society.
In 1939, she joined hundreds of
other German Jewish exiles in a
French detention camp for the
so-called stateless. When Nazi
Germany invaded France, these
Vita Activa looks at the career and controversies of philosopher Hannah Arendt.
became Nazi transit camps,
but Arendt managed to flee to
the Final Solution and the mass murder
of Jewish communal organizations in the
Spain, then Portugal, and made her way
of Jews in Europe, or was he an efficient
ghettos, the Nazis actually were able to
to New York, where she would live the
bureaucrat, listening to orders from above,
inflict greater horror and send more Jews
rest of her life.
In 1961, Arendt was happily married,
unable to think for himself, simply doing
to their death. This was seen by many as a
teaching college in New York, and pubhis job? Arendt struggled to understand.
defense of the murderer Eichmann and an
lishing philosophic works. Thats when
In her 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem:
attack on the Jewish victims.
she agreed to go to Israel to observe and
A Report on the Banality of Evil, she miniTo this day, Arendts writings remain
mized Eichmanns moral culpability for
report on the Eichmann trial for the New
controversial, and director Ushpiz tries
his role in the Holocaust. In so doing, she
Yorker. By this time, she had achieved conto provide some understanding of who
siderable attention as a thoughtful politialienated many friends, colleagues, and
Arendt was and what in her personal life
cal theorist but her journey to Jerusalem
the Jewish community at large.
might have brought her to make such
would change her life forever.
The negative reaction was extensive;
highly controversial conclusions.
During the trial, she carefully observed
people were enraged, feeling that she was
Ushpiz uses Arendts words to narrate
Eichmann, caged in a glass booth built
making excuses for Eichmanns actions. In
the documentary, bringing in a variety
to protect him from an assassins bullet.
addition, Arendt posited that because of
of scholars, former students, and other
Was he the monstrous technocrat behind
the highly efficient and organized nature
interested parties. To her credit, those
interviewed provide a broad

interpretation of how they view
Arendt and her work. Nobody is
there to lay blame, condemn, or
applaud. Ushpiz helps us understand Arendt by delving into her
background and life story. She
also manages to pull together an
exemplary collection of archival
footage, though sometimes we
are watching old movie footage
without any clear understanding
of why the filmmaker chose it,
other than possibly because she
had nothing else to put on screen.
The film includes interviews
with Arendt herself, made for
either French or German television. Arendt was truly brilliant,
but her words and her attempted
clarification of issues can be hard
to understand. She was a great
philosopher, who used nuanced
language and had an historical
perspective that an American
viewer may struggle to understand. Thats not because its
hard to make out her words, but
because it is often difficult to comprehend the deeper meaning of
those words.
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt is a lengthy study of
a controversial intellectual, her
writings, and her philosophy. It is
more than two hours long, often
difficult to absorb, and at times
seemed directed more to a scholarly audience than to the general
public. To be sure, Arendt is not
easily understood, and writer/
director Ushpiz does her best to
allow the viewer to grasp the complexity of this woman.
Arendt abhorred the fact that
Heidegger, her great hero and
former lover, wholeheartedly
followed Nazi doctrine. The puzzle of who Hannah Arendt was
becomes more complicated when we
learn that years after the war, on a lecture tour in Germany, she went to see Heidegger, whom she supposedly despised,
and instead defended him, even helping
to get some of his writings published.
The film allows the critics to speak, but
most important, it lets Arendts words
speak on her behalf.
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah
Arendt is playing in New York at Film
Forum through April 19.
Eric Goldman, an adjunct professor of
cinema at Yeshiva University, teaches and
lectures on Jewish cinema.
Calendar
olds, chair massages,
refreshments, and door
prizes. Registration,
9:30 a.m.; program at
10. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
Register, TheLewinFund.
org.
Friday
APRIL 8
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
welcomes scholar-inresidence Noam Zion,
senior research fellow
at the Shalom Hartman
Institute. At 7 p.m.,
he will discuss The
Second Seder Plate:
Telling Personal Stories
and the Hagaddah.
During Shabbat morning
services at 9 a.m., his
talk will be Liberating
Your Seder: Dispelling
Five Misconceptions,
followed by a dessert
reception and seminar,
Maximizing Participation
and Customizing Your
Seder. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
offers a folk rock service
in celebration of Cantor
Charles Romalis 50th
jubilee at Temple Beth
Tikvah, 7:30 p.m. Cantor
Romalis will be joined
by colleagues Cantors
Mark Biddleman and
Ilan Mamber and a fivepiece band. Homemade
desserts. 950 Preakness
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or
www.templebethtikvahnj.
org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
services featuring the
Shabbat Unplugged
Band with members
of the congregation
and klezmer clarinetist
Marty Laskin, led by
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Rabbi Barry Schwartz

Shabbat in Leonia:
Congregation Adas
Emuno welcomes
author Paul Levinson,
who will join Rabbi
Barry Schwartz and the
shuls president, Lance
Strate, to discuss their
book, Touching the
Face of the Cosmos:
On the Intersection
of Space Travel and
Religion, 10 a.m. Bagel
brunch. 254 Broad Ave.
(201) 592-1712.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck welcomes Dr.
Alanna E. Cooper, a
cultural anthropologist
who is the director of
Jewish lifelong learning
at Case Western Reserve
University in Cleveland
(and sister of congregant
Dr. Ben Cooper). She will
talk about Exploring
Jewish Diversity with a
Focus on the Sephardic
Experience at the shuls
monthly tish at about
noon, following the
monthly simcha kiddush.
The monthly Sephardic
minyan will meet that
day as well. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515.
Sunday
APRIL 10
Shabbat in Emerson: In
preparation for Passover,
Congregation Bnai
Israel offers Free the
Slaves. Rabbi Debra
Orenstein will discuss
the worldwide problems
of enslavement and
human trafficking and
offer ideas on making the
seder more meaningful,
7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272.
Saturday
APRIL 9
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers its prePassover fun shop for
children and interactive
Torah study for adults
with Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, 10 a.m. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725.
Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin

Cancer prevention &
wellness in Tenafly: In
recognition of National
Cancer Control Month
and World Health Week,
Teanecks Holy Name
Medical Center joins the
Lewin Fund to present
the Living Fearless
Wellness Symposium
at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades. Dr.
Sharyn N. Lewin heads
a panel of health
experts. Complimentary
child care, kid-friendly
activities for babies
through 10 year-
History of Yiddish:
Professor Dovid Katz,
an internationally
acclaimed scholar,
author, and historian
of Lithuanian Jewry,
discusses Six Hundred
Years of Conflict: the
Tumultuous History of
the Yiddish Language
at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Monday
Rabbi Arthur Weiner
APRIL 11
Learn about Passover:
Film in Teaneck:
Rabbi Arthur Weiner

answers questions about
Passover at a mens club
breakfast at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 9:30 a.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or
JCCParamus.org.
Teaneck-Hackensack
Hadassah meets at
Congregation Beth
Sholom to watch
Wasserman, an Avi Chai
Foundation Israel Jewish
identity film, 1 p.m.
Helen Levine, program
coordinator/Hadassah life
member, will introduce
it. 354 Maitland Ave.
Refreshments. Minette,
(201) 837-8157.
Tuesday
APRIL 12
Rabbi Marsha Dubrow
Haggadah history/
food in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob continues its Lox
n Learning series with
a presentation on the
amazing history of the
haggadah by Rabbi
Marsha Dubrow, 10 a.m.
Bagels and lox. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725.
Pre-Pesach learning in
Teaneck: At Lamdeinu,
a center for Jewish
learning that meets
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, Dr. Julie Goldstein
will talk about Rescue
Me: Redemption in
the Art of Haggadot,
10:15 a.m. 950 Queen
Anne Road. www.
lamdeinu.org.
Ariel Sabar, author

of My Fathers
Paradise: A Sons
Search For His Jewish
Past in Kurdish Iraq, is the guest
speaker at the general meeting
of the Bergen County section of
the National Council of Jewish
Women on Tuesday, April 19,
at 12:30 p.m., at Temple Emeth
in Teaneck. The book won the
National Book Critics Circle
Award for autobiography. Light
refreshments. 1666 Windsor Road.
www.ncjwbcs.org.
APR.
19
Womens benefit in
Wayne: The Jewish
Womens Circle of
Chabad Passaic County
holds its annual Queens
Tea at the Packanack
Lake Clubhouse, noon.
Yitta Halberstam, author
of the bestselling Small
Miracles series, is guest
speaker. Carol Palmer
Yomtov, Beth Bunin,
Erica Bunin, Einat Pinsker,
and Roberta Kaplan
Rubin are Royal Women
honorees. Funds benefit
the Friendship Circle of
Passaic County. Brunch
served; tricky tray
baskets. 52 Lake Drive
West. (973) 694-6274.
Film in Paramus:
JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah screens South
Pacific, 3 p.m. Snacks
; deli dinner follows for
people whove made
dinner reservations.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.
Thursday
APRIL 14
Richard Muti
Author in Fort Lee:
Award-winning author
Richard Muti discusses
his latest book, Cent
Anni : The Sinatra
Legend at 100 for the
Englewood & Cliffs
chapter of ORT America
and the sisterhood of
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee,
12:30 p.m. Coffee and
cake. 1449 Anderson Ave.
Naomi, (201) 568-9274.
Passover course in
Tenafly: Lubavitch on
the Palisades offers a
crash course on Passover
preparations, 8 p.m.
11 Harold St. Rabbi
Mordechai Shain, (201)
871-1152 or dubbie @
chabadlubavitch.org.
Hadassah meets in Park

Ridge: The Pascack
Valley/Northern Valley
Chapter of Hadassah
meets at Temple Beth
Sholom, 2:45 p.m.
Members will display
and talk about their
Jewish memorabilia
and relate the stories
that are attached to
them for Our Treasured
Past. Refreshments.
32 Park Ave. Hannah,
(201) 880-4614.
Friday
APRIL 15
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom holds a prePassover congregational
dinner and musical
service, 6 p.m. Dinner
reservations required.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Shabbat in Emerson:
hosts its casual Les
Miz Shabbat service,
with traditional prayers
set to the music of the
long-running Broadway
hit, 7:30 p.m. 53 Palisade
Ave. (201) 265-2272.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
its guest artist Shabbat
service, featuring jazz
vibraphonist Bill Ware
and led by Rabbi
David Widzer, Cantor
Rica Timman, and
musical director James
Rensink 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishons
adult choir, Kol Rishon,
and its teen choir, Zemer
Rishon, join Cantor Ilan
Mamber on guitar, Itay
Calendar
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers a
Shabbat klezmer service
with musicians from
Tsu Fil Duvids Klezmer
Ensemble and the
Temple Emeth Band,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.
Sunday
APRIL 17
Hard talks in Emerson:
Andrew Young
Shabbat in Wayne:
Temple Beth Tikvah
welcomes special guest
Ambassador Andrew J.
Young for the fifth annual
Rabbi Israel S. Dresner
Tikkun Olam lecture,
8 p.m. 950 Preakness
Ave. Rabbi Dresner is
the shuls emeritus rabbi;
it also will celebrate his
87th birthday that night.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson hosts
a parenting discussion
group focusing on
difficult conversations
with Rabbi Debra
Orenstein and other
parents, 10 a.m. Bagels,
coffee, and a spiritual
conversation about how
to respond meaningfully
and from the soul when
a child or grandchild
asks a tough question.
53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
cantor emeritus, Mark
Biddelman, hosts
Shabbat Yachad, Hebrew
prayers set to easy-tosing melodies, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Congregation Beth
Tikvah has an informal
book club discussion of
Betty Smiths A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn,
10:30 a.m. Refreshments.
304 East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Ordaining women:
Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu
discusses the book
Faithfully Feminist:
Jewish, Christian and
Muslim Feminists on
Why We Stay at Temple
Emeth in Teanecks
Byachad breakfast,
10:30 a.m. Rabbi Sirbu,
director of Rabbis
Without Borders, will
discuss her time in the
rabbinate and changes
she has observed since
her ordination 16 years
ago. Books available for
sale. 1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
Matzah factory in
Wayne: Rabbi Michel
Gurkov, director of the
Chabad Center of Passaic
County, facilitates an
interactive program,
Kids Celebrate Passover
Early, with a hands-on
model matzah factory,
noon. 194 Ratzer Road.
Chani, (973) 694-6274 or
www.JewishWayne.com.
Film in Fort Lee: As

Book club in Paramus:
JCC of Paramus/
part of the Jewish

Federation of Northern
New Jerseys One Book,
Book and author lunch
Talia Carner
Hadassah Northern New Jersey hosts its Education Day Book

& Author Lunch on Sunday, April 10, at noon, at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI.
Talia Carner, author of Hotel Moscow, will discuss Jewish
Legacy Burden or Privilege. Books will be signed and sold.
For information, email Geri Lipschitz at gerilipschitz@hotmail.
com.
Jewish Home offers car checkups

and tips on fitting the vehicle
Bring your car to the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh on Thursday, April 14, from
10 a.m. to noon for a CarFit checkup.
Each checkup takes about 20 minutes.
CarFit is a free, interactive, and educational program that teaches drivers how
to make their cars fit them them so they
can increase their safety and mobility.
The checkup is not a driving test
or mechanical inspection. Instead, it
reviews the 12 key areas where you

can adjust your fit to your car, including space between you and your steering wheel, proper seat belt use, and
properly adjusted head restraints. Participants also will learn how to use and
adjust safety devices.
For an appointment, call (201) 518-1176.
JHR is at 10 Link Drive in Rockleigh. For
information, go to www.car-fit.org.
One Community events,

the Fort Lee Library
will screen Stateless,
followed by a Q&A with
the producer/director,
Michael Drob, 2 p.m.
320 Main St. www.
fortlee.bccls.org or www.
stateless.us.
Family musical in Fair

Lawn: A semi-staged
reading of the musical
Shlemiel Crooks,
based on the books
Shlemiel Crooks and
Chicken Bone Man
by Anna Olswanger, is
performed by the Old
Library Theatre at the
Fair Lawn Community,
2 p.m. Directed by
Linda Wielkotz, with
musical direction by
Evan T. Charpentier.
At the intersection of
20th and Kipp streets.
(973) 658-4420,
oldlibrarytheatre.net/
readers-theatre.
Monday
APRIL 18
Feature film: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly screens Blue
Jasmine, 7:30 p.m., as
part of a series, Top
Films You May Have
Missed or Want to See
Again. Commentary by
Andrew Lazarus, coffee,
and snacks. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
In New York
Sunday
APRIL 10
Family concert: Twotime Grammy nominee
Elizabeth Mitchell and
You Are My Flower
perform a folk rock
concert at the Jewish
Museum, 11:30 a.m. 1109
Fifth Avenue at 92nd
Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
use by United Hatzalah

volunteers in Israel.
Tickets, (646) 833-7108
or www.jazz.org/
events/t-5560.
Thursday
APRIL 14
Sharsheret mah jongg
fundraiser: Stay
Strong and Mahj On,
a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is
hosting a mah jongg
fundraiser at Sarabeths
to benefit Sharsheret,
an organization that
supports young Jewish
women and their families
facing breast cancer. 381
Park Ave. South. www.
staystrongandmahjon.
org/events
Singles
Jay Leno
Wednesday
Comedy fundraiser:
APRIL 20
Comedian Jay Leno will

headline An Evening
of Laughter and Song,
a benefit for United
Hatzalah, at the Rose
Theater at the Lincoln
Center, 7:30 p.m. JMin-the-AM radio host
Nachum Segal hosts
the concert, which is
produced by Suki and
Ding Productions. Eli
Beer, United Hatzalah
founder, will honor United
Hatzalah volunteers.
Concert proceeds will buy
medical equipment for
Seniors meet in
Orangeburg: Singles
65+ of the JCC
Rockland meet for
dinner at Hogans Diner
in Orangeburg, N.Y.,
6 p.m. Individual checks.
Reservations by April 19,
Gene, (845) 356-5525.
Art in Tenafly
Drawing with the Knife, cut paper and
watercolor images by Herbert Stern,
will be displayed at the Waltuch Art Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly through April 29.
Mr. Stern, a retired art and creative
director from the publishing world,
specializes in creating traditional paper
cuts. He updates the decorative folk
art by adding watercolor washes and
focuses on such painterly subjects as
landscapes and Jewish themes.
For more information, call Jessica
Spiegel at (201) 408-1426 or go to www.
jccotp.org.
COURTESY JCCOTP
Goren on piano, Jimmy

Cohen on percussion,
and cantorial intern
Summer GreenwaldGonella for a musical
Pre-Passover service,
7:30 p.m. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466.
Jacob and the Angel

by Herb Stern
Neil Sedaka coming to Englewood

The Bergen Performing Arts Center has tickets for an evening with
singer/songwriter/composer/pianist/author Neil Sedaka, who will
be at the Englewood theater on Wednesday, August 17, at 8 p.m.
For tickets, go to www.ticketmaster.com, call the box office at
(201) 227-1030, or go to www.bergenpac.org.
Calendar
Great wines abound for a great Pesach
Pesach is around the corner. Everybody is
busy preparing for the holiday by cleaning the house and shopping for food and
clothing. With so many meals and the
four cups of seder wine, it is also time to
choose the wines that will accompany and
enhance the celebration.
Many new wines have been released
recently, offering an array of choices for the
occasional drinker and the more sophisticated palate alike. Selections include big,
bold, dry reds; light, refreshing whites and
ross, and/or sweet wines.
Many people have the custom of serving
only red wines at the seder. Some new and
interesting ones include:
Baron Herzog Ros of Cabernet Sauvignon, one of the latest additions to Royal
Wines portfolio. With its shining cherry
color and tantalizing aroma of strawberries and currants, it would be perfect for
the first seder cup. For the second cup,
a nice and easy-to-drink Bordeaux wine
like Chteau Les Riganes would be great,
with its medium body, fruity bouquet, and
earthy undertones.
An unusual wine for the third cup could
be the Tulip Espero. Fruit-forward, oaky,
and spicy, this dry red wine is made by one
of the most acclaimed boutique wineries
in Israel. Espero means hope, and Tulip

employs people with special needs who
live in the village of Kfar Tikva, where the
winery is located. This gives them hope
and a meaningful way to make a living.
Yatir winery, which is in Israels southern Judean Hills, constantly gets the highest scores from the worlds most influential wine publications, like the Wine
Advocate and Wine Enthusiast. Another
option for the third cup is the winerys
new Mt. Amasa, which is deep, rich, and
layered, and will pair well with a tender
smoked brisket.
Or Haganuz Pisga is a wine to consider
with the fourth cup, for dessert. This
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port-style sweet red wine is bold, complex,

and concentrated with multiple layers of
flavors. Featuring notes of caramelized
pecan nuts, craisins, coconut, and dates, it
will compliment a flourless chocolate cake.
If you are looking for a wine that is not as
heavy and has a lower alcohol content, consider the new Teperberg Red Moscato. This
slightly frizzante sweet wine will go well
with a fruit salad or coconut cookies.
Every year there are many recommendations for the four cups, but do not forget
that there are many other meals and delicious dishes on Pesach.
Freixenet is a Cava, a traditional sparkling
wine from Spain that would go well with
chicken and matzah ball soup. Made by one

of the most popular Cava producers in the
world, it has sharp bubbles and flavors of
green apple peels and salted almonds.
Another new white wine from Israel is
the Tabor Adama II Zohar, a blend of Mediterranean varieties. It is crisp, dry, and has
a bouquet of orange zest, lemongrass, and
flavors of cantaloupe, which will go well
with an herb-crusted gefilte fish.
Alsace, a region in the eastern part of
France known for its white wines, has the
ideal cold weather to grow varieties like
Riesling and Pinot Gris and the aromatic
Gewurztraminer. The Koenig Gewurztraminer is a perfect companion with salads.
Womens League
spring program
focuses on Israel
Ezra Schwartz
memorial run
draws hundreds
Step up for Israel, the Garden State

Region of Womens League for Conservative Judaisms spring program, is on
Sunday, April 10, at 9:30 a.m., at Temple Beth Or/Beth Torah in Clark. It will
include presentations and an interactive discussion led by experts on Israel,
focusing on the myths and the facts in
the media and the college campus.
Speakers include Miri Kornfield,
executive director of high school
affairs, Stand With Us; Shimon MercerWood, consul for media affairs, consulate general of Israel; and Janet Tobin,
president, Mercaz USA, and a WLCJ
past president.
An Israeli-style breakfast will be
served. Email LynetteSeader59@
gmail.com or call (732) 254-4966.
More than 200 runners and walkers

have registered to compete in the fifth
annual FIT (For Israel Team Hillel) 5K
run/walk and one-mile fun/walk on
Sunday, April 10, in Buccleuch Park,
New Brunswick. The event, held rain
or shine, benefits the Rutgers Hillel Center for Israel Engagement. It
was renamed this year to honor the
memory of Ezra Schwartz, an incoming Rutgers freshman, who was murdered by terrorists while delivering
food to IDF soldiers in Israel.
Participants also include youth contingents representing Bnai Tikvah
Congregation in North Brunswick and
Diller Teen Fellows of the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest.
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Matzapalooza! Reimagining Passover, a hands-on, family-friendly

event with music, crafts, and food for
making a Passover seder fun, is on
Sunday, April 10, from noon to 3 p.m.,
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36
Battery Place in Lower Manhattan.
The Workmens Circle, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, and the museum sponsor it. For information, go to www.
mjhnyc.org/diyseder or call (646) 437-4202.
Gallery
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n 1 Participants enjoy the Megillah reading
at the JCC of Fort Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom. COURTESY JCC OF FORT LEE
n 2 Valley Chabad Hebrew school students,
Joshua Meyer, Zachery Friend, Joshua
Gura, Devan Nassau, Jake Horowitz, and
Ari Shashoua participated in the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jerseys Mega
Food Drive last month. VALLEY CHABAD
n 3 Students help with the Ben Porat YosefProject Ezrah Purim partnership. BPY
has become Project Ezrahs permanent
Purim home; BPY students packed almost
10,000 mishloach manot packets that the
organization distributed. COURTESY BPY
n 4 Early childhood teachers at the
Academies of the Gerrard Berman Day
School in Oakland showed their support
for Israel on Purim. COURTESY GBDS
n 5 Leora Sulimanoff, Judy Landau, and Ann

Shinnar participated in the Purim womens
megillah reading at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck. The program was coordinated by
Judi Resnick and Judy Landau. MICHAEL LAVES
n 6 Children in the pre-K class at Gan
Yaldenu in Teaneck enjoyed face painting
for Purim. Hagit Niazov, left, donated
her time and talent. COURTESY GY
n 7 Assemblywoman Annette Quijano and
her chief of staff, Shane Derris, visited Bris
Avrohom in Hillside where she presented
a resolution for its outstanding work with
the Russian Jewish community in New
Jerseyw for providing education programs,
assisting in life cycle events, and sponsoring
holiday gatherings. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 8 Students dressed as Queen Vashti and
King Ahasuerus at Shomrei Torah in Wayne
put on a Purim shpiel. COURTESY ST
Jewish World
AT&T Girls surprising call to action

Jewish immigrant actress uses social media to help Syrian refugees
VICTOR WISHNA
ou know Lily. You do. Shes that

chipper, slyly witty girl who
works at the AT&T store not a
real one, but the one you see in
those ubiquitous TV ads.
What you may not know is that the
actress who plays her, Milana Vayntrub,
is a nice Jewish girl. Shes a former Soviet
refusenik, and between acting gigs, standup spots, and the comedy webisodes
she writes and produces, shes trying to
change the world.
Cant Do Nothing is a new social-mediadriven movement to raise awareness and
funds to ease the dire plight of Syrian (and
other) refugees. Vayntrub launched the
web platform this year after a getaway to
Greece with her dad. The trip turned into a
one-woman mission to make some kind of
difference once she realized the nature of
the drama unfolding just miles away.
I couldnt leave knowing that I was so
close, she said. I really believe that an
opportunity that goes unfulfilled turns
into a curse. And I knew that if I went, I
would never regret it.
Using only her iPhone, Vayntrub filmed
what would become a compelling 14-minute documentary of her experience helping refugees. I dont want to be a passive
citizen anymore I want to be a force
for good, she says into her phones camera with a self-aware smile. Hours earlier,
she had traded in her ticket home for one
to the isle of Lesbos, where overloaded
rafts of Syrians were arriving daily.
I dont really know what Im going to
do, she says, but I cant do nothing.
The news footage she saw in Athens
from the BBC and other international
channels CNN was showing wall-to-wall
Trump and Emmys coverage made her
realize just how ignorant she and most
Americans are of the situation. In particular, a clip of a girl at the Macedonian border passing out sack lunches to refugees
boarding trains hit home.
That really affected me for a couple of
reasons, she said. One, this is a girl who
is not funded by a nonprofit. Shes out
there literally by herself just passing out
these bags. And two, theres something
about the imagery of groups of people
getting on crammed trains in the middle
of nowhere that was very reminiscent of
what our people had to go through.
Once on Lesbos, Vayntrub said she did
what she could helping refugees off
boats, changing diapers, offering rides
to the buses that would take migrants to
inland camps.
When she returned home, her sense
of duty lingered, and led her to team
up with Eron Zehavi, a friend and tech
entrepreneur, to start CantDoNothing.

org, a site to connect people who want
to help with people who are already helping, she said.
In the little more than two months since
#cantdonothing went live, its made more
than a quarter-million trips around the
Twitterverse, and proven that hashtags
can lead to hard cash. Vayntrub claims
donations sparked by the campaign have
funded many classrooms and hired fulltime teachers at refugee camps in Jordan,
bought a first-aid tent and ambulance in
Lesbos, and provided prescription eyeglasses for more than 150 children, among
other things.
Cant Do Nothing isnt a fundraising
entity the last thing I wanted to do was
start another organization when there
are so many that are already doing it and
need help, Vayntrub said. The site connects people to groups like the Boat Refugee Foundation, a Dutch-based network
that puts volunteers on the ground in
Greece; The Syria Fund, supporting educational programs for refugees; and Off
Track Health, which has been providing
first aid and other services on Lesbos and
elsewhere. Separate areas on the website
encourage users to give time, money or
their voice (This is something we all have,
and its free) to the cause.
Ive always felt that as an influencer,
I have an obligation to spread a message
of love and good, because I can, because
people are listening to what Im saying,
Vayntrub said. So why not give them
something to actually listen to?
Besides her ubiquitous presence as Lily,
Vayntrub appears in the new Judd Apatow-produced Netflix series Love, HBOs
Silicon Valley and several online shorts.
The archived web series Lets Talk About
Something More Interesting, in which she
co-conducts snarky interviews with celebs
such as Matt Damon, still draws a following, too.
Its not a career path that was obvious
in 1989, when Vayntrub, then 2 years old,
and her parents left everything behind
in their native Tashkent, Uzbekistan
then still part of the Soviet Union on an
arduous yearlong escape via Austria and
Italy that ultimately brought them to Los
Angeles.
She recollects little of the journey, but
I remember having parents who werent
from here, she said. So I certainly feel
connected to that. I understand what
thats like.
Growing up in a heavily Russian section
of West Hollywood, Vayntrub recalls the
challenges of learning what it meant to be
Jewish after arriving from a place where
Judaism, legally, did not exist.
My grandmother was a nanny for an
Actress Milana Vayntrub, the AT&T Girl, volunteering with Syrian refugees in
Lesbos, Greece.
COURTESY OF VAYNTRUB/CANT DO NOTHING
Orthodox Jewish family, and she would

come home and tell us about that, she
said. And then we would be, like, OK, I
guess its time to learn about Passover.
Little by little, the Vayntrubs reconnected
with their heritage, eventually joining a
synagogue.
But Vayntrub said that even if she hadnt
been Jewish or a refugee herself, the stories of the Syrians fleeing their homes
would have sparked her attention and
compassion and that action is in everyones interest.
If we dont do anything, what is this
crisis going to look like 10 years down the
line, when millions of kids dont have an
education or resources? she asked. It
makes so much sense to me as an investment in the future of the whole planet.
In June, she will travel back to Greece,
as well as Jordan, to see the fruits of our
labor there and assess what else needs to
be done.
By summer, Vayntrub hopes another
branch of Cant Do Nothing will have risen

on a different pressing issue such as climate change or homelessness or womens rights, perhaps headed by a different
person.
The goal of Cant Do Nothing is to ask
people, what matters for you? she said.
And whatever it is, what are you doing
about it? How bad does it need to get
before you take action?
Thats been the biggest lesson in this
for me, that I put some effort into trying
to make the world better and its working.
I almost cant talk about it without getting
emotional because its so cool.
It has nothing to do with celebrity, Vayntrub insisted.
I cut together a YouTube video and
made a really simple website anybody could make that website, she said.
Everybody can do something. We all
have the power to be influencers. You
certainly wont be able to do anything if
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you dont try.
Obituaries
Philip Bergman
Philip S. Bergman, 82, died April 6.

He was a former ABC News producer for 20/20,
Nightline, World News Tonight, Good Morning
America, and the ABC Saturday Evening News.
A City College of New York graduate, he was a reporter
and editor at the Newark Star-Ledger, for United Press
International, and was a U.S. Army correspondent.
He won many honors including five Emmy Awards,
two national Headline Awards, a Christopher Award, and
an Aviation & Space Writers Award for TV & Radio.
Predeceased by his wife of 46 years, Irene, and brothers, Cyril and Jules, he is survived by sons, Michael and
Jason; daughter-in-law, Jill; and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Bernice Urbach
Bernice Urbach, ne Mittelman, 94, of Englishtown,

formerly of Elmwood Park and Paterson, died April 3.
Born in Warsaw, she came to the United States in
1930. She was a homemaker.
Predeceased by her husband, Morris in 1991, she
is survived by her children, Larry (Ellen Hollander)
of Georgia, and Ellen Fern (Elliott); a sister, Sylvia
Roskosh of New York; five grandchildren, and three
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the Lupus Foundation
of America. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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Murray Gerner
Murray Gerner, 95, of Teaneck, formerly of the Bronx,

died March 30.
He served in the Army during World War II. After
retiring as an accountant for New York City, he
volunteered for the Better Business Bureau, and was a
former treasurer of Temple Beth-El in the Bronx.
Predeceased by his wife, Annette, he is survived by
his children, Nancy Heaps (Warren) of Paramus, and
Howard (Marla) of Suffern, N.Y., and six grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Temple Avodat Shalom, River
Edge. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Alexander Holman
Alexander H. Holman of New York City, Englewood, and

Mill River, Mass., died April 3.
An Army captain during World War II, he was an NYU
graduate and a fashion designer and was active in Public
Funds for Public Schools, ACLU Bergen County chapter,
and MD Support-the Eyes of the Macular Degeneration
Community.
He is survived by his wife Adele, children, Lewis
(Mary), Janet (Rick), and Madeline (Neil); grandchildren,
David (Rommy), Eric (Haley), Maya, Joanna, Andrew,
Julie, and Brian, and two great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be made to MD Support,
Grandview, Mo. Arrangements were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Joel Mansbach
Joel I. Mansbach, 78, of River Vale died March 29.

He was a professor emeritus at City College of New York.
Predeceased by his wife, Sarah, he is survived by his children, Matthew (Amy) and Naomi (David Nagourney); a sister, Judith Varon (Dan), and two grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to www.keepmemoryalive.org.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Denise Rubens
Denise Rubens, ne Blum, 90, of Hillsdale died April 4.

Born in France, she came to the U.S. during World War
II and was a translator.
Predeceased by her husband, Stanley, a brother,
Jacques Blum, and a son, Rick, she is survived by a
daughter, Monique Rubens Krohn (Dr. Douglas); a sister,
Rhoda Berman; two grandchildren, and nieces and a
nephew.
Donations can be made to Hearing Loss Association
of America, Bethesda, Md. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
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Correcting errors is the responsibility
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Theodore Jacobs
Theodore (Ted) Jacobs of Fair Lawn, NJ,
passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2016.
Beloved husband of Sheila, devoted father
of Robyn (Steve) Nusim, adored grandfather
(Baba) of Jake and Gabriella, and loyal
relative, friend, and associate to many.
He was a unique person who will never be
replaced. Donations in his memory can
be made to Hadassah or Shomrei Torah
in Fair Lawn.
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Brooklyn-born Rivky Belinow by calling her my sister

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her charm and sweetness just melts everyone who
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NVE Banks spring cereal food drive resulted
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Staffed by dedicated volunteers, the pantry, located at 55 West Demarest Ave., supplies groceries to over 900 families in Englewood and surrounding communities every
week and is the largest single location food
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late Marietta French of Englewood, who died in
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Were all connected to modern slavery

Freeing the slaves

vadim hayinu, we say

Dr. Dovid Katz will speak in Teaneck on Sunday.

Lithuanian ultranationalists march in Kaunas on February 16, 2015.