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each day, Orkin began
fashioning the pita
bread along with
bits of cheese, halva,
chickpeas, chocolate
and vegetables into
edible portraits of politicians and pop stars.
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116-year-old Susannah Mushatt-Jones, a

113-year-old Jewish lady named Goldie
Corash Michelson became the oldest
living person in the United States.
Goldie, as most people who know
her call her, is in great shape for her
age, but shes a little hard of hearing
these days. So, Renee Minsky, 84, talked
about her mothers extraordinary life
which has involved Jewish volunteer
work, theater, and a lot of chocolate.
Here are some of the aspects that stand
out.
1. Shes lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, for more than a century
Born to Reform Jewish parents in
Russia in 1902, Goldie immigrated to
the United States when she was 2.
Apart from her time as an infant in
Russia and a stint as an undergrad at
Pembroke College a womens college in Providence, Rhode Island, that
merged into Brown University in 1971
Michelson has lived her entire life in her
adopted hometown.
2. Theres a theater named after her
at Clark University
Goldie has a lifelong passion for
theater, which she taught to Hebrew
school students at Worcesters Temple
Emanuel (now Temple Emanuel Sinai),
Jewish senior citizens, and others for
decades. She still has a small theater in
the basement of her home, complete
with a stage, footlights, and a dressing room, which doubles as a laundry
room. When Clark University learned
that Goldie was leaving generous funding for future renovations to its theater
in her will, the school renamed it the
Michelson Theater.
3. She wrote a masters thesis about
Worcesters Jews
Michelson completed a masters
degree at Clark University in sociology,
and her thesis focused on a community
that few probably know better than she
does the Jews of Worcester. In A
Citizenship Survey of Worcester Jewry,
Goldie found that many of the citys

Jewish immigrants were intimidated by
the task of learning English and didnt
pursue American citizenship.
4. She volunteered for Jewish groups
like Hadassah and helped resettle Soviet Jewish refugees
After the borders of the Soviet Union
opened up for Jews in 1989, a new
wave of Jewish immigrants came to
Worcester. Michelson was among the
volunteers to help them settle in and
integrate themselves into American
society. Minsky fondly recalled attending the first bar mitzvah of a Soviet immigrant an experience she said was
incredible.
5. She says the key to her longevity
was walking
Goldie doesnt leave home much
anymore, but for much of her life, she
walked 4 or 5 miles every morning.
One of the great joys of life was
when I sold my car, she told Clark Universitys magazine in 2012.
However, her real secret could be being a Jewish lady named Goldie up
until last year, the presumed oldest Jew
in the world was 114-year-old Goldie
Steinberg of New York.
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Noshes
I cant wait to meet her!

TV star Pamela Anderson, about to be introduced to Elie Wiesel at the World
Values Networks recent gala in Manhattan.
MORLEY AND MIKE:
60 Minutes duo
seemed timeless
Every tribute from
his colleagues for
the late MORLEY SAFER
emphasized his talent
(both as a writer and as
an on-air interviewer), his
kindness, and his humility. Of course, they also
mentioned his remarkable longevity stats. If
you watched his 900
stories for 60 Minutes
for eight hours every day,
it would take you a
month to see them all.
Not oft noted was the
fact that Safer and his
former co-host MIKE
WALLACE (1918-2012)
worked together on 60
Minutes for almost 40
years (1970-2008).
LESLEY STAHL, 74, is the
remaining Jewish 60
Minutes host. Shes held
that job since 1991 and 25
years is a great number.
But she would have to
remain a host until she is
96 to surpass Safers
tenure. Well, as Wallace
and Safer proved, almost
anything is possible.
Safer and Stahl
arent the only aged
Hebrews with great
career longevity. It was
just announced that
BETTE MIDLER, 70, will
star in the title role of a
Broadway revival of
Hello, Dolly. It is set to
open on April 20, 2017.
David Hyde Pierce
(Fraser) will co-star.
Set to direct is four-time
Tony award winner
JERRY ZAKS, 69. His
Polish Jewish parents

survived the Holocaust
(his mother was in
Auschwitz; his father hid
his identity). They came
to America in 1948 and
his father opened a
kosher butcher shop in
East Paterson, New
Jersey. There was
nothing in his background that led him into
the theater. But he was
blown away by a musical
at college and found his
career. Hes proven to be
a very adept dramatic
and musical director
(including Little Shop of
Horrors and La Cage
Aux Folles).
The film version of
Hello, Dolly (1969)
starred BARBRA STREISAND, now 74, and the
late WALTER MATTHAU.
While its been almost
a half-century (!) since
its release, Ms. Streisand
is still wowing them. In
August, shell tour the
country playing 10 major
cities (including Brooklyn
on August 13).
If you like Neighbors, which starred
SETH ROGEN, 34, and
Rose Byrne as new
parents who go ballistic
when a noisy frat takes
over the house next door,
youll probably love
Neighbors 2: Sorority
Rising. Rogen and Byrne
have moved, but their
bad luck holds when a
sorority worse than the
frat boys takes over the
Bette Midler
Jerry Zaks
Lani Hall and Herb Alpert
Ike Barinholtz
house next door. Rogen
enlists best friend Jimmy
(IKE BARINHOLTZ, 38)
to help him, and Jimmy,
in turn, enlists former frat
leader Teddy (Zac Efron)
as their secret anti-sorority weapon.
ELISABETH Beanie
FELDSTEIN, 23, the sister
of JONAH HILL, 32, plays
one of the three principal
sorority enemies. Other
tribe members: DAVE
FRANCO, 30 (Teddys
best friend), LISA KUDROW, 52 (college dean),
and CLARA MAMET, 21,
(sorority member). Clara
is the daughter of playwright DAVID MAMET,
68, and singer/actress
REBECCA PIDGEON,
50, a Jew-by-choice.
Her half sister, ZOSIA,
28, is a Girls star. This
film opened last Friday,
Herb Alpert at 81
still shows brass
Elisabeth Feldstein
but trust me its still in
theaters.
MAYA RUDOLPH,
43, and Martin Short
are the co-hosts of Maya
and Marty in Manhattan,
a live variety show, with
music and sketches, that
premieres on Tuesday,
May 31, at 10 p.m.
Rudolph, a former SNL
star, made a moving
appearance earlier this
year on the PBS series
Finding Your Roots.
Her father, DICK RUDOLPH, 69, is Jewish,
and her late mother,
Minnie Riperton, was
African-American.
However, Rudolph knew
almost nothing about her
fathers family because
her Jewish grandfather
cut virtually all ties to his
parents.
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Meanwhile, HERB ALPERT, 81, who also became

famous in the early 1960s, is still touring because he
just enjoys performing (he is very wealthy and to his
credit, a big philanthropist). Alpert will play the Carlyle
Hotel in Manhattan from May 31 to June 8. His wife of 42
years, singer LANI HALL, 70, the mother of his daughter ARIA, 40, will accompany him. (His first wife, the
mother of his older two children, also is Jewish.)
I just found out that Alpert had an uncredited part as
a drummer on Mount Sinai in the 1956 blockbuster The
Ten Commandments. I thought that all the credited
actors have died, although I knew that Robert Man from
U.N.C.L.E Vaughn, now 83, appeared as an uncredited
Hebrew slave. Well, I checked there is a credited actor
still alive, and shes Jewish. JOANNA MERLIN, 84,
played one of Jethros daughters (not the one MOSES
married). Born Joanne Ratner, she was in the original
Broadway company of Fiddler on the Roof, but left
before the show opened to take care of her two young
children. Happily, she recovered, career-wise, and she
appeared in more than 40 films and in scores of TV guest
shots. She guested (2000-2011) in 43 episodes of Law
N.B.
and Order: SVU as Judge Lena Petrovsky.
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Remembering the hidden children
Susan Gold of Englewood tells her story, edits others, in new anthology
JOANNE PALMER
magine, if you can, being a hidden child,

surviving the Holocaust.
You probably cant imagine it, and dont
even want to try. How could you? The lucky
ones were taken away from their parents, possibly when they were too young to know what was
going on, or to remember them, and brought up
in Christian families. The luckier ones were treated
with love. Their parents survived and came back to
reclaim the luckiest ones.
And then there are the children who hid with
their parents. Children like Susan Geller, who spent
almost two years of her childhood in a dark bunker
underneath a barn floor with her parents and two
other adults, in a space too small for them all to lie
down in at once, had they ever wanted to sleep.
Children like Susan were infinitely better off
than her little brother, Janek. Their mother was
afraid to bring the 2-year-old to the bunker he
might have cried, and imperiled all of them. Her
grandmother took the toddler. Both soon were
murdered.
Susan Geller, now Susan Gold of Englewood,
edited The Hidden Child Book Club Remembers:
An Anthology of Holocaust Stories, and her story
is included in the book. Three of the other 13 storytellers also are from Bergen County. The book was
launched officially at the Skirball
Center at Congregation Emanu-El
of New York on Wednesday. (Ms.
Gold also has written a full-length
memoir, The Eyes Are The Same,
published in 2007.
Ms. Gold was born in Zloczow,
a city in a region of Poland that is
now Ukraine, in 1934. My father,
Gerson Geller, was an engineer,
and we had a regular central European upper-middle-class life, she
said. My mother, Yetta, was a law
student when my parents married.
One of my grandmothers was the
daughter of a rabbi, and of course
we observed the Jewish holidays,
but my family was very assimilated. We spoke Polish at home,
not Yiddish. In fact, she added,
she did learn Yiddish but not
until she got to the United States.
Ms. Gold does not remember
much about her childhood, just
little flashes, although, she said,
more memories came back when she wrote her memoir.
She was 9 when she went into the bunker, in a town called
Podhirce, and all I knew was that I had to keep quiet,
she said. I lived in a world of my own. I slept a lot. I had
a vivid imagination, and I dreamed a lot, about all sorts
of things, about unreal things, having to do with what life
was like before.
It was a grim and out-of-time experience, marked with
bursts of kindness. There was very little light, she said,
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They lived in a small town, where everyone

knew everyone, and they couldnt spend the
gold, whose provenance no doubt would be
traced back to Jews they were hiding.
Soon, when the war dragged on past the
few months they thought it would last, the
farmers familys found itself increasingly in
danger. The penalty for harboring Jews was
death. It was super dangerous for them,
Ms. Gold said. After the war, when we were
out of the bunker, they had a party for us
in their house, with vodka, and he got very
Susan Geller Gold as she is now, and as she
drunk and told us, You know we were going
was as a little girl in Poland. The book she
to kill you. This was going on for too long.
edited is an anthology of hidden childrens
The farmer told Ms. Golds mother and father
stories, including her own.
the plan hed devised to dispose of each of
them, but he told them no such plan for her.
and very little contact with the outMaybe I was going to be saved, she said.
side world. There was one bucket
The Gellers were liberated by the Russians as they
of food a day that came down, and
marched through the Ukraine and Poland on their way
one bucket of waste that went back
to Berlin in 1944. They were very kind, Ms. Gold said.
up. But occasionally the farmers
Those soldiers piqued her interest in Russia, which led to
wife would take me up to the barn,
a long career many years later. But still the family was in
and I would be able to see daylight
danger. We still had all these anti-Semites around us. We
through the cracks in the wall. She
had to leave at night. We went back to Zloczow, to see who
also remembers the Nazis once comwas around, if there was anybody left. Some people recoging to the barn but missing the door to the bunker, and she
nized my mother, and said, Oh! Youre still alive! Almost
remembers the time a cow fell through it.
no one else was, and the statement was made not with
They put a pillow over my head, so I shouldnt scream,
admiration but as a warning. It also was during that time
she said. They were almost done in not by a Nazi, not by
that the Gellers learned that Janek and his grandmother
an informer, but by a calf.
had been slaughtered.
We knew we had to go west, Ms. Gold said. SomeThe farmers family saved us, and they were righthing was arranged, and someone led us to the border of
teous Christians, in quotes, she said. Her grandfather had
Czechoslovakia. By then, in was 1945. The war had ended.
made a deal with them that they would hide us for five
From there, the family went to a displaced persons
gold pieces and they did. At first, there was a problem.
Local
camp in Germany, and stayed there for two years. That
was the first time in a long time that Ms. Gold had gone to
school. My father had taught me a little, and I was sort of
literate, she said. He taught me the alphabet and some
arithmetic. And I did have piano lessons in the camp my
parents still wanted to be the people they had been. She
also remembers learning Israeli songs and folk dances.
The family had no idea where theyd go next, but knew
that it might well be Israel.
It was happenstance that we came here, Ms. Gold
said. Her mother had a much older brother who had
gone to New York decades earlier. He had searched for
them. He contacted us through HIAS because he found
our name on a list, she said. So Susan, Yetta, and Gerson
Geller got on a ship and sailed across the Atlantic. All I
remember was being seasick all the time, Ms. Gold said.
I was really so out of it. So many things had happened
in those few years. Chief among them was the death of
her brother. We never talked about it, she said. Central
Europeans believed strongly in denial as being not only a
river in Egypt. It was all a matter not necessarily of lies,
but of evasions. So I had no idea what to believe.
The boat took 10 days. And then we landed, and my
uncle picked us up in his car and there was New York.
Yetta Gellers brother, Isaac Imber, lived in Washington
Heights, in upper Manhattan, with his wife and children;
for a while, the Gellers slept in his living room. Mr. Imber
made his money in real estate, his niece said, but he was
also a well-known Yiddish poet, and a big Zionist.
When the Gellers got to the United States, Ms. Geller,
the one with business acumen, somehow had $500. My
father was the intellect, Ms. Gold said. Somehow or

other, we got a loan from HIAS, and from a relative here,
and we bought a grocery store in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. My mother worked like a horse, lugging cartons, six
and a half days a week. We lived right next to the store.
My father was depressed. He would just sit at the cash
register, reading a dictionary and the English newspaper.
Although none of them spoke English before they arrived
in New York, they all learned it quickly, and by the time
they died, they were fluent, Ms. Gold said. Her own English now is entirely unaccented, although she was 13 by the
time she began to speak it.
Ms. Gold went to junior high in Brooklyn, and then went
across the East River for high school. She and her parents
wanted her to go to college, but none of us had any idea
of what an out-of-town college might be, she said. And
then she met the dean of the brand-new Brandeis University, Clarence Berger, who was in town on a recruiting trip.
It turned out that he had been an officer liberating a concentration camp, she said. I had taken some SATs, and
I hadnt done well on anything except French, but when I
told Dean Berger my story, it was like carte blanche, she
said. He didnt look at my scores. He just admitted me,
and gave me a scholarship.
This out-of-state thing was like heaven to me, she said.
My parents had no car, but my roommates parents, who
lived in Washington Heights, picked me up, in the fall of
1952, through the burning colors of the fall, after war-torn
Europe, after Williamsburg. We drove right to heaven.
Ms. Gold majored in intellectual history. It was the
1950s, and you had to get engaged by your junior year and
married right after your senior year. And I did. And I fulfilled my mothers mandate that I marry a doctor. Elliot
Gold was a radiologist; he and Susan were married, eventually moving first to Tenafly and then to Englewood. They
had three children; Peter, the youngest, died of an aneurysm in 1979, when he was 13, a death that devastated the
whole family and guided his siblings career choices. Liza
Gold, who lives in Vienna, Virginia, is a forensic psychiatrist, and Jonathan Gold of Randolph is a camp director,
because his younger brother went to camp with him,
Ms. Gold said. Both of Ms. Golds surviving children have
two children each.
Ms. Gold was a stay-at-home mother at first, and then
became a New York City permanent substitute teacher.
(Its a Byzantine system; best not to ask for details.) In
1975, when a money crunch made the city fire all its nontenured employees, Ms. Gold went to work at Chase Manhattan as a market researcher, drawing on her knowledge
of Russia and Russian to work on trade with that huge
country. Her next job often took her to Russia; she finally
ended her career by retiring from AIG as a vice president
and chief representative of its trading office in Russia.
All this equipped her for her writing career; she wrote
a novel, Norilsk: A Tale of Suspense in the Time of the
Oligarchs, soon after she retired.
But Ms. Golds heart is still with the children who were
murdered, or who survived the Holocaust with parts of
their hearts or their souls murdered. So are the hearts of
the other one-time hidden children whose stories are in
the book she just published. Those stories must be told,
and they must be remembered.
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Out-of-the-classroom thinking
Barnert Temple begins a journey to a new Jewish education
LARRY YUDELSON
ooking back, we have to wonder

how much market research was
conducted before the idea of
Hebrew school was invented.
Kids and school, after all, often go
together like felons and jails. Sure, kids
spend lots of time in school. But theyre
often counting the days and hours until they
escape. So who thought it was a wise idea to
turn Jewish religion, culture, and language
into a second shift of school?
No wonder that generations of American Jews dont have warm nostalgia for
their Hebrew school experience even if
they sent their children for a similar Jewish
education.
But why does Hebrew school have to be
so much like, well, school?
Thats the question that Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi, a former administrator at the
Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, asked as she set about transforming
Hebrew school for the Jewish Community
Center of Manhattan and three Upper West
Side synagogues.
And the answer she came up with, as she
put together what became the Jewish Journey Project, is that it doesnt have to be.
Instead, the Jewish Journey Project envisions afterschool Jewish education as akin
to other afterschool activities, such as
music, drama, and art.
After four years, the Jewish Journey Program has 260 students and 40 different
afterschool courses.
We dont call it a school. We call it a program, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said. We try
to meld in the modalities the students love,
like cooking, arts, and drama.
The word journey conveys a sense of
its ongoing, changing nature, she said.
We want the kids to know they can connect based on their passions. We involve
the parents and child in making a choice
of which courses to take. Its very significant. I have classes of children who want to
be there because theyve chosen the class.
Now, that model of Jewish education is
coming to Bergen County.
This fall, Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes is launching its own Jewish Journey
program for its students you should pardon the term in grades 3 to 6, in conjunction with the New York program
Sara Losch with students at Barnert Temple.
Barnert Temple students receive awards from the Kathie F. Williams TAG
Scholarship Challenge. Back row: John and Samantha Williams; middle, left to
right: Gabe P., Jacob M., Ben G., Ella S., Mollie G.; front: Emma G., Rebecca P.,
Noah F., and Gabby and Thalia R.
They will be able to engage in Judaism in

away that will excite them, said Sara Losch,
director of lifelong learning at Barnert
Temple.
The Barnert religious schools new configuration is designed around flexibility.
Students still will be required to take a
Hebrew class but now they can choose
which night to take it. Other options include
a course with the synagogues Rabbi Elyse
Frishman that combines photography and
theology, a cooking course focusing on holiday rituals, and a yoga course that promises to explore Jewish values and teaching
of the weekly Torah program as well as
prayer and kavanah (internal intention).
The model of a journey, rather than a
school, makes it easier to involve parents
in the process. Ms. Losch meets with small
groups of students and their parents to discuss their interests. During the year, there
will be three three-hour classes for parents
and children, focusing on Torah, avodah
(spirituality and ritual), and gemilut chasadim (acts of kindness). Its the heart and
core of what were learning, she said.
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recent years in how families were relating
to the synagogues educational programs.
In the past, when children didnt come to
school because they had sports or something else taking priority, parents would
apologize, Ms. Losch said. All of a sudden
we werent getting the sorries.
We were getting maybe 45 percent attendance on any given Sunday, given all the
other sports and family activities that all
happen on Sunday. On the weekday, we
were getting 95 percent.
This led Barnert to begin evaluating its
religious school program. It hired a consultant and set up a committee of religious
school parents. It discovered that parents
really did want to be part of a Jewish community. They wanted their children to be
Jewishly educated and to learn Hebrew.
But they also wanted flexibility.
This made the Jewish Journey program
the perfect template for Barnert to adopt.
A student who is now coming on Sunday
and during the week can get courses done
in one day with the new program, Ms.
Losch said. On the other hand, students
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The change is deeper than more flexible scheduling, however. Its not just about letting children choose
which hours they will come to religious school and
which classes they will take. Its about changing the
focus from a specific curriculum to a broad exploration
of Judaism.
And its about moving Judaism beyond the classroom.
Barnert began that shift this year with its TAG program. TAG stands for Torah, avodah, and gemilut
chasadim.
Students are given a booklet listing Jewish things they
can do, from taking part in their family seder to kissing
a mezuzah to feeding their pets. When they do them,
they write a short reflection and they earn charms
(called TAGlettes) they can wear on their wrists or hang
on their walls.
Its an incentivization program, Ms. Losch said.
The students are getting into it.
We said to the children, Did you know that feeding
your dog in the evening is a Jewish commandment, a
Jewish mitzvah? Youre doing a mitzvah at home. Putting up a mezuza or calling Grandma every week we
labeled them as Jewish and called them a mitzvah.
We did a vacation package, giving a charm for being
Jewish on vacation.
Families are surprised their children are really doing
it, she said.
Ms. Losch particularly liked a comment from one of
her students: I didnt realize how many things I do are
Jewish.
The TAG program has an added bonus that encourages kids to take it seriously: Its backed by prizes,
offered by the family of Kathie Williams, a past president of the synagogue and chair of its Lifelong Learning
Committee, who died of cancer in 2013. .
Students in third, fourth, and fifth grades can earn
$360 for a Jewish experiential program. Ten students
earned that this year. Sixth-graders can earn $3,600
toward a trip to Israel.
The TAG program was the perfect transition into the
Jewish Journey Program, Ms. Losch said.
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Taking care of Sol

Sophie Helcman of Fair Lawn, 94, dies; waited for little brother
Abigail Klein Leichman
hlomo David (Sol) Adler was 13

and his sister Sophie was 17 when
they found themselves on their
own in the Polish city of Radom
in 1939.
Sophie had promised her well-to-do
parents, who later were murdered along
with another daughter, that she would
take good care of Sol. Their older brother
already had fled to Russia.
For the next six years, until the end of
World War II, the siblings and a 26-yearold neighbor, Eliezer Helcman, kept each
other one step ahead of certain death.
After the war, Sophie and Eliezer wed.
Though the promise wasnt necessarily
in force after the Nazi nightmare was over,
Sophie never stopped watching out for Sol
during the many years they lived in America he in Manhattan and she in Fair Lawn
and even after she moved to Israel, at 89,
to be near her daughter, Felicia Mizrachi.
Sol would call her after 9 p.m. on his
rotary phone, because thats when the
rates went down, Sophies son, Andre
Helcman of Fair Lawn, said. Sometimes
Andre would conference-call his mother
and uncle and put his phone on speaker
so the siblings could talk to each other
across 7,000 miles without worrying
about rates.
On the week of April 10, 94-year-old
Sophie valiantly fended off the Angel of
Death in Jerusalem, finally succumbing
on April 17, two days after Sol died of lung
cancer in New York. Nobody told Sophie
her brother was dying. No one had to.
She knew a thousand percent, Andre

said.
All week, my sister kept texting me that
moms not doing well. At 7 that Friday
morning, I got a call that Sol had died.
Four years earlier, at Sols request,
Andre and Felicia had arranged to buy
him a burial plot next to Eliezers grave at
Har Hamenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem.
The Sunday after Sol died, Andre accompanied the coffin to Israel, hoping at the
same time to see his mother one last time.
I was traveling with my uncles body
and praying for my mother to hold on, he
recalled. But it was not to be. His mother
died just before he boarded the afternoon
flight, though he did not know it until he
landed and saw the looks on the faces of
his sister and nephew at the airport.
Basically she was waiting for her
kid brother to show up, so they could
be buried together on Monday, Andre
said, explaining that in Israel the newly
deceased are interred as quickly as
possible.
If she would have passed on Friday, she
would have been buried before Shabbos,
and if on Saturday she would have been
buried Sunday. She held out till Sunday
at 10 p.m., waiting for her brother. Thank
God she was able to do that for him.
Felicia told a reporter from the Jerusalem Post: Her mission was to take her
brother up to heaven and watch over him.
According to Andre, that mission began
when the Nazi occupiers seized the Adler
house in Radom in 1939.
My mother and my uncle came from a
Gerer chasidic family. When the war broke
Sophie Helcman, center is surrounded by her family; from left, her daughter
and son-in-law, Felicia and Rony Mizrachi, and her son and daughter-in-law,
Andre and Arlene Rubin Helcman.
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The bodies of Sol Adler and Sophie

Adler Helcman lie together in Israel; they
were buried together, next to her husband, Eliezer Helcman. Inset; Sol Adler.

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out, my mothers father told them that if,

God forbid, they were ever split up, they
should know that in the basement under a
certain brick there was a fake wall. Inside
was gold or money, Andre said.
Unfortunately, that time came to pass.
The Nazis took over the house, and somehow they got back and were able to open
the fake wall and take what was left. But
now what to do? They needed help because
they were only teenagers and the streets
were crawling with SS and Gestapo men.
My uncle said, Theres an older man down
the block, and I think he can be trusted
because I see him go to shul every morning.
This was my father, said Andre. He
was going to shul every morning because
his mother had died in 1938 and he was
saying kaddish that year.
Andre does not know all the details
about how the threesome managed to survive against seemingly impossible odds.
When we were growing up, they didnt
relate very much, he said. But other survivors living in Paterson, Fair Lawn, and
Glen Rock used to come for Sunday dinner
at our house sometimes, and Id sit at the
table and hear everyones stories.
He and Felicia learned that Sophie, who
did not look typically Jewish and spoke
fluent German, obtained false papers
through an SS officer who was in love
with a gentile friend of hers. The papers
allowed Sophie to leave the Radom ghetto
to buy necessities for Sol and Eliezer and
to pay for hiding them.
Its amazing that this very chasidish girl

morphed into this other person, Andre
said. My mother, despite being small in
stature, was not bashful. She stood up for
what she believed in and had great faith.
Thats what got her through the Shoah.
Over the course of their six years on the
run in Radom, Danzig, and the countryside in between the two cities, the three
often got separated but worked out a system of secret signals and whistles to find
one another. They took shelter wherever
they could, including in ditches, toilets,
and barns. One bitter winter, Eliezer slept
in a cemetery and suffered frostbite. He
never again regained feeling in the calf of
one leg.
Sophie spent some time in a labor camp.
Once every week or two, the Red Cross
sent nurses to check on prisoners in the
camp, and this one Polish nurse walked
over to my mother and said, You should
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Elijah in Vilna
Classic Yiddish film to be screened
in Franklin Lakes
JOANNE PALMER
he last thing you might

expect of a Yiddish film
made in Poland in 1924,
a film based on the same
story as the classic Yiddish melodrama The Dybbuk, probably is
a happy ending.
But somehow A Vilna Legend
has one.
Its a simple story, Charles
Sokol of Wayne, the film buff who
collects such films and shows them
at his synagogue, Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes,
said. He doesnt want to give away
the entire plot, which, he said, is
not complicated its a short film
but its about two dear friends,
at first married but childless, who
pledge their firstborns to each
other, should one be a girl and the
other a boy.
Needless to say, the friends
have a girl and a boy, and they
are pledged to each other but it
doesnt go well. Its a very deep
film, Mr. Sokol said. A very supernatural film. But everything comes
together in the end, because of the
intervention of Eliyahu haNavi
the prophet Elijah who appears
in the film in human form, in several different guises, depending on
who hes interacting with.
A Vilna Legend stars the Yiddish movie star Ester Rokhl Kaminska and her daughter, the Yiddish movie star Ida Kaminska, as
mother and daughter. As far as he
knows, Mr. Sokol said, it is the only
film in which they played together;

at a minimum, it surely is the only
surviving film.
The film is unusual because of
its Jewish theme, Mr. Sokol said.
Because of the anti-Semitism in
Poland, the major film companies
there even the Jewish ones
did not produce movies with Jewish themes. They did not want to
upset the general population. The
few eastern European films that did
have Jewish themes came from the
Ukraine, he added; the government
there tried to fight anti-Semitism,
and sponsored and encouraged
such films. But, Mr. Sokol said, that
didnt work.
Of course, films then were
silent. It was the intertitles (not
subtitles, which came later, and
were for translation) that were or
were not in Yiddish. When sound
came in, things changed. In 1933,
a couple of people in the Yiddish
entertainment industry decided
to add Yiddish sound and then
English subtitles were added, Mr.
Sokol said. Thats the version of
the film well be showing. There
is no attempt at lip-syncing, he
added as is clear when you see
the movie and the voices were
not the actors own.
A Vilna Legend, like many
other films in his collection, is available through the National Center
for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, which restored it. Mr. Sokol
has shown many of these films at
Temple Emanuel, and plans to
show more of them.
Information
Who: Film buff and collector Charles Sokol
What: Will screen A Vilna Legend; the hour-long film will be followed
by a sing-along.
Where: At Temple Emanuel of North Jersey at 558 High Mountain
Road in Franklin Lakes
When: On Sunday, June 5, at 2 oclock
How much: Its free and open to the public. (Of course, donations are
always welcome.)
What else: Ice cream and popcorn!
Stills from A Vilna Legend. The 1924 movie had Yiddish sound and
English subtitles added in 1933.
upcoming at
Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
JCC U Spring Term
JCCU
Professors and experts lecture on a variety of subjects.

Morning presenter is Emmy award winning film critic
and celebrity interviewer Jeffrey lyons and the
afternoon speaker is professor ronald brown
who will discuss God in the 21st Century.
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For more info call Kathy Graff at 201.408.1454.

Thur, June 2, 10:30-2 pm, $32/$40
Incredible Camp+Summer Swim

Club & Gym For Your Whole
Family=Win Win!
Sign up for 1 week or more of our incredible summer
camps and be eligible for a Camp Family Membership
with full use of the JCC for only $750, or just $250 for
those new to the JCC!
Visit jccotp.org/camps for all of our camp offerings for
children 2-18 years. Camps run 9 am-4 pm and are
ALL-INCLUSIVE! Transportation and extended care
options available.
Hurry camps are filling up. Call 201.408.1448 for
membership details.
Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA)
Its not too late to buy a share and 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 us online for details and registration form.
Registration deadline is June 1.
children
Therapeutic Nursery
Program
Monday-Friday, July 11-August 19, 9-11:30 am
or 12:30-3 pm, ages 3-6.
Developmental language-based parent/child
program for bright preschool children with a
variety of developmental difficulties, including
language disorders, ADHD, high-functioning
autism, social and emotional challenges as
well as selective mutism.
For more information contact Lois Mendelson,
PhD, Director at 201.408.1497 or email
tn@jccotp.org.
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Play Fore! the Kids Golf

Classic & Play Games for
the Kids
Come play with us and join the fun and enrich the
lives of hundreds of children with special needs.
Enjoy a day of golf or one of our exciting womens
events including your choice of Tennis, Mah Jongg,
Bridge, Canasta or Rummi-Q, a delicious brunch,
cocktail dinner reception, and sensational online
and live auctions.
For more information, please contact Michal
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Mon, Aug 1, Alpine Country Club, Demarest, NJ
community
Tikkun Shavuot
A unique experiential evening in preparation for
Shavuot. Get in the Shavuot spirit with a funfilled evening featuring a lecture on Megillat Ruth,
workshops related to Shavuot (offered in Hebrew
and English), wine & cheese, music, and a light fare.
Sat, Jun 4, 9:15 pm-12:30 am, $20/$25
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Having the money talk

Local financial planner Lori Sackler tries to destigmatize the taboo
LOIS GOLDRICH
hy does a young woman

planning to become a
pianist suddenly change
her major to business
and finance?
For Lori Sackler of Tenafly, who holds
a masters degree in music, the decision
simply made sense.
I lost my mother when I was in graduate school, Ms. Sackler said. It was a
defining moment for me. I needed to be
financially independent and create a new
path for myself.
Ms. Sackler first earned a masters
degree in business, became a CPA and
a CFP, and then earned a CIMA designation at the Wharton School. (CIMA is the
Certified Investment Management Analyst certification program.) She said that
in addition to her own need for financial
security, she saw a bigger need for sound
financial advice and guidance.
She decided to do something about it.
Now a financial adviser and senior vice
president and senior investment management consultant at Morgan Stanley
Wealth Management, where she leads the
Sackler Group, Ms. Sackler who is also
a longtime board member at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly noted
that women comprise less than 20 percent of the practitioners in her field.
Its been that way for some time, but
were trying to change it, she said. Morgan Stanley understands that theyll have
better success in transitioning wealth and
retaining assets after the death of the traditional male client if they can relate better to women, who not only inherit the
assets but now already control 40 percent of the U.S.s wealth and women
financial advisers are well-suited to relate
to the female client.
There are, she said, fairly big gender
differences in dealing with the issue of
money, which research links to differences in brain physiology. There are
differences in how women plan, in risk
tolerance, and in personal communication styles, she said. Women want to
talk things through and be listened to.
Ms. Sackler, author of The M Word: The
Money Talk Every Family Needs to Have
About Wealth and Their Financial Future

and now The M Word Journal, said that
statistics show that people who engage
in financial planning especially those
working with a trained professional are
more optimistic and confident and have
less anxiety and fear. Quoting John Lennon, Life is what happens while youre
busy making other plans, she stressed
that the planning process is not static.
Times have changed, and we must
change as well, she said. For example, as
responsibility for retirement falls increasingly on individuals and employees rather
than on companies, the onus is on the
individual to save more. Some clients
have sought help in managing their savings right out of college or on getting their
first job. Its the power of compounding,
she said. The longer the interest is compounded, the greater the nest egg. But,
she added, for many its more common
to seek advice when faced with big decisions or life events. These may include
changes in financial circumstances, retirement, marriage, remarriage and merging
families, caring for an older loved one, or
estate transfers.
Not all the news Ms. Sackler delivers to
her clients is good, and not all clients take
her advice. Ive seen people make emotional rather than rational decisions, she
said. They make mistakes, like the clients who used their savings to help buy
homes for their children and then, when
they suffered a financial reversal, were in
a bind. Still, she said, for the most part,
I work with those looking for third-party
advice and for whom I and my team can
have a meaningful impact. Working with
good advisers can help avoid problems.
Ms. Sackler who with husband
Michael has two grown sons, Henry and
Eliot is the creator and former host of
the radio show The M Word on WOR.
Her goal, she said, is to destigmatize the
most taboo of topics, and provide guidance for the discussions that will preserve family finances and relationships
and serve as the basis for better communication and closer connection.
In her new book, she provides families and their advisers with the tools they
need to conduct the money talk successfully. Using a step-by-step decision tree,
Who: Financial planner Lori Sackler and WNBC-TV reporter Jen Maxfield
What: Will lead an interactive dialogue
When: On June 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave. in Tenafly
Cost: $7 for members, $10 for everyone else
For more information, or to register: Call (201) 408-1457
Also: Light refreshments
Lori Sackler
she presents a detailed road map based

on a five-step plan.
The M Word Journal presents a road
map, Ms. Sackler said. It deconstructs
the process to guide the reader through
lifes transitions while focusing on three
takeaways: Identifying the information they will need, defining the how
to, including determining the obstacles
keeping their families from having productive conversations and planning, and
providing guidelines to pick the right
third-party professionals to help while
creating a process that is repeatable.
Ms. Sackler said that having enough
money for retirement seems to be peoples
major concern, even when they have sufficient resources to carry them through.
Its based on consumption patterns, she
said, calling it a humbling experience
to inform a family of limitations on future
spending. Factors such as inflation, particularly in health care, are also of concern,
though this is a bigger issue for those on
a fixed unearned income. Inflation over
time can become a big obstacle.
One problem in our society, she said,
is that we dont discuss the importance
of financial literacy. Kids are pretty smart.
They see how we spend, how we use our
money, and how we save it, but we dont
always talk to them about the topic. If
theres a disconnect, they see that too.
Millennials are more informed, she
continued. Theyve lived through 9/11
and two economic downturns; theyve
seen their families struggle; they have
unprecedented debt. Theyre more like
their grandparents than their parents.
Theyre very cautious and theyre not
particularly trusting of institutions.
In general, though, theres a problem talking about money, which often is
rooted in issues of control and trust. But
the reasons are varied and can be hidden
In both my work
as an adviser and
my personal life,
Ive seen family
stress around
money decisions,
tearing apart
both a familys
finances and
personal
relationships.
below the surface. First, it may be cultural its impolite to talk about it, she
said, a taboo dating back to our founding fathers, reflected in our language and
national character, which is both materialistic and democratic at the same time. Second, there may be an evolutionary component where its perceived as a threat.
Third, there are gender differences,
cited above. And fourth, every family has
a money history with defined personalities that can be charted across generations. Theyre deeply embedded.
While financial planners must have the
requisite financial skill set, it doesnt hurt
if theyre also adept as psychologists,
and you need to understand your clients
and their psychology, Ms. Sackler said.
Its very personal. You have to dig deep.
In both my work as an adviser and
my personal life, Ive seen family stress
around money decisions, tearing apart
both a familys finances and personal
relationships because there was not
adequate planning and communication. Theres a 70 percent failure rate in
transferring wealth across generations.
With $59 trillion to be distributed over
the next 50 years, thats a large problem.
And, she said, breakdown in communication is the biggest reason.
Ms. Sacklers books have been written to provide guidelines for overcoming
obstacles in communication, whether
due to gender, generational differences,
or other issues. On Wednesday, June 1,
the JCC in Tenafly will host an interactive dialogue featuring Ms. Sackler and
WNBC-TV reporter Jen Maxfield. The two
will explore the issues involved in having successful family conversations that
affect major life transitions.
Ms. Sackler said she wants those who
attend the June 1 meeting to walk away
with the initial tools they need to move
forward.
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From left, Mutty Stein, Dr. Reuben Gross, Marc Provisor,

and Mindy Stein.
PHOTOS COURTESY ONE ISRAEL FUND
Evy Stein and Natalie

Sopinsky
Event bolsters One Israel Fund
Members of the Senior Chorus at Five Star Premier Residences.
Fiddler rings out at Five Star

The Senior Chorus at Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck performed selections from Fiddler
on the Roof for community members, friends, family, and residents.
Its executive director, Robin Granat,
conducts the chorus with Five Star
residents. Cecilia Brower, a former pianist with the Metropolitan
Opera Company, is a pianist with the
chorus. Area musician/keyboardist George Tuzzeo and violist Arlene

Locola of Oradell also accompanied
the group.
Encore performances will be held
at several skilled nursing facilities
and senior groups in Bergen County.
For information, call Ms. Granat at
(201) 836-3634.
Mindy and Mutty Stein of Teaneck

recently hosted an event with representatives of One Israel Fund. Marc Provisor, its director of security projects, and
Natalie Sopinsky, its director of community development, talked about what life
is like on the front lines of terror in the
West Bank.
Natalie Sopinsky lives in Susya, 12 kilometers from Otniel, where Daphna Meir
was recently murdered.
Marc Provisor is also a counterterrorism expert who works with the IDF,
which recently adopted his specially
designed anti-ballistic vest. To date,
more than 300 vests have been donated

at a cost of $1,450 each. Mr. Provisor conducts security assessments throughout
the West Bank, recommends technological security upgrades, and raises funds
to get needed equipment, including surveillance and thermal cameras, burn kits,
and emergency medical equipment for
intensive-care ambulances.
The One Israel Fund also raises donations for playgrounds and community
centers for the Jewish residents of the
West Bank. For information, call Ms.
Sopinsky at (516) 239-9202, ext. 22, or
email her at Natalie@oneisraelfund.org.
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Migdal Ohr plans NYC dinner

Migdal Ohr, which works with underprivileged, orphaned, and abused Israeli
children, as well as with the children of
new immigrants to Israel, will hold its
annual gala dinner on Monday, June 6,
at Tribeca 360 in Manhattan. This years
dinner will honor distinguished supporters who have contributed to the organizations success over its 43-year history.
Honorees include Dr. Arthur Henry
and Adina Gerber of Lawrence, N.Y., and
Louis and Anat Menaged of New York
City. Rabbi Allen and Alisa Schwartz,

also of New York City, will receive the
Rabbinic Partnership award. The evening will include a program featuring
Migdal Ohrs founder and dean, Rabbi
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, who won the
Israel Prize in 2004. Prominent criminal
defense attorney Benjamin Brafman is
the master of ceremonies. For information, call (212) 397-3700 or go to www.
migdalohrusa.org.
Celebrate Naamats 90th anniversary

Naamat USA will mark its 90th anniversary and install its new national board on
July 29-30 at the JW Marriot Resort and
Spa in Las Vegas.
Danny Danon, Israels ambassador to
the United Nations, and Professor Shula
Reinharz of Brandeis University will be
the keynote speakers. Other speakers

include Judy Telman of Naamat Israel,
Linda Meisel of Jewish Family and Childrens Service of Greater Mercer County,
and Dr. Nick Spirtos of the Womens Cancer Center of Las Vegas. For more information, go to www.naamat.org.
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The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah will hold its annual journal dinner
dance on Sunday, June 26, at 4:30 p.m.
Two couples will be recognized for their
years of service to the congregation. The
dinner dance honors congregants and a
commemorative journal is published in
conjunction with it.
This years honorees are longtime
members Laurie and Larry Rosman and
Olinda and Larry Sturm. Both couples
and their families have contributed in
many ways to the growth of the JCCP/CBT.
Along with being a sisterhood co-president and former board member, Laurie
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house, and dinner dance. Larry Rosman
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Sinai Schools art show set for June 1
Art is a powerful tool for self-expression,
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significant breakthroughs with her students, and has helped them create astonishing, beautiful artwork.
The community is invited to Unique
Inspirations, a free student art show.
There, the school will auction some of the
works Sinai students made over the course
of this year through its groundbreaking
art therapy program. The show is sponsored by Bear Givers, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering children
who have special needs.
Sinai Schools encourages the community to meet the young artists, and
to support Sinai by buying artwork or
commissioning a canvas. The show
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Daughter of Orangetown Jewish Center rabbi
talks about making aliyah, working with lone soldiers
JOANNE PALMER
arah Drill knew she wanted to

make aliyah, and she knew that
she would be a lone soldier, but
she never thought that her IDF
career would include a stint as a sniper
instructor.
The IDF, though, tests both its recruits
and its draftees thoroughly. It figures out
new soldiers talents, asks them their interests, and does its best to match them. Ms.
Drill, it turns out, can combine intense
focus and extreme coordination with the
ability to pass that skill on to others.
Who could have known?
Ms. Drill was able to parlay that experience, along with the rest of her knowledge, talents, and worldview, into a job
that uses her talents, in Israel, through a
program called Wings.
Last month, Ms. Drill, the daughter of
the Orangetown Jewish Centers Rabbi
Paula Mack Drill, came to Rockland
County and talked to an audience of about
80 people about that 10-year-old but still
inadequately known program.
Wings helps young people from before
they arrive in Israel through two years
after they are released from the IDF, Ms.
Drill said. Thats what makes it unique.
About three months before they are
Sarah Drill and her youngest brother, Josh, stand together at Joshs swearing-in
ceremony at the Kotel in Jerusalem.
SARAH DRILL
released, we put them in a five-day workshop run, of course, in coordination with

the IDF and the workshop starts preparing them for what it means to become a
civilian in Israel.
Part of the workshops function is to talk
to the group about the benefits to which
they are entitled as former soldiers, as new
immigrants, and as lone soldiers, including
scholarships, and the tax implications of

any decisions they make, Ms. Drill said.
Also, each lone soldier is matched with a
professional career counselor, who is also
a psychologist. You, as the lone soldier,
meet with the career counselor as many
times as you want to, for up to two years.
The career counselors also help the lone
soldiers write resumes; even before that,
On International Womens Day, Wings had a program for female lone soldiers. Sarah Drill is in the front row.
SARAH DRILL
they help sharpen their charges ideas

about what theyd like to do once theyre
out of the army. Its entirely individualized. You cant make one plan and expect
it to work for everyone, Ms. Drill said.
The career counselors are not volunteers. Wings pays for the professionals;
the lone soldiers get all these services for
free, Ms. Drill said.
Overall, in both the before and after
programs, we have helped over 6,000 lone
soldiers up to this point, Ms. Drill said. Its
usually about 800 lone soldiers a year.
Wings is a program of the Jewish Agency
for Israel and the David and Laura Merage
Foundation, Ms. Drill said. The Merages,
both Iranian Jews, came to the United
States separately, when they were young,
almost half a century ago. They really
understand and feel for lone soldiers,
what it feels like to come to a new country,
when its not your language and its not
your culture, she said. He loves Israel,
and wants to be part of having these young
people stay in Israel.
The Jewish Agency recognized the high
potential in the young people coming to
Israel and serving as lone soldiers, she
continued. They looked at statistics, and
saw that about 95 percent of them have
potential for higher academic studies. If
you compare them to the regular Israeli
population, that is a very high percentage.
But the Jewish Agency and particularly Mira Kedar, who worked there
noticed a pattern, with people going back
to where they had come from, because
they werent able to find their whole
potential in Israel. They wanted help. Mira
Kedar recognized the issue, and she created the Wings pilot program, along with
the Merage Foundation.
Lone soldiers come from all over the
world; most right out of high school, at 18
or 19, Ms. Drill said. When they first arrive
in Israel, most do not speak fluent Hebrew,
so the services Wings offers them are in
their native tongues. The most frequently
offered languages are English, Spanish,
French, and Russian. By the time they are
ready to write their resumes, though, they
are ready to undertake that task in Hebrew.
Her own story is somewhat anomalous,
she added, because she joined the IDF
after she graduated from Muhlenberg University. I majored in English, with minors
in Jewish studies and photography, she
said. I had a really great experience at
Muhlenberg. I knew even before I started
college that I wanted to make aliyah, but it
was something that came to me after I was
accepted there, so I decided to continue
on my path. I said that if after four years
I still wanted to make aliyah, I would do it
then. She still wanted it. She made aliyah
right after college, in 2012.
Once she and the IDF agreed that shed
become a sniper instructor, she had three
more months of sniper training. You
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The Orangetown Jewish Centers senior rabbi, Craig Scheff, performed the
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SARAH DRILL
have to be certified as a sniper before

you can be certified as a sniper instructor, she said. It is intense. It takes a
lot of focus. A lot of patience. And, of
course, a good eye and a steady hand.
It was a shock. Shed come from a gunfree environment. My mother joked
that shed always confiscated water guns
after birthday parties, Ms. Drill said. I
loved it. I found it to be really meaningful service.
Ms. Drill was in the IDF in the summer
of 2014, when Operation Protective Edge
took soldiers into Gaza. She worked on
Tzeelim, the Israeli training base in
the Negev that is the countrys largest.
Essentially, every soldier who went
into Gaza came through there, she said.
We were able to give them that last lesson before they went into Gaza. We gave
them everything we had.
Her IDF service ended just as Protective Edge did. I had about a month left,
and I panicked, she said. I wondered,
what am I going to do? I realized that
there were people who wanted to make
sure that I would stay in Israel, so I went
to the Wings workshop, and I came out
with a resume.
I had a resume from college, a good
one, in English, so I thought I could
just translate it into Hebrew, but its not
entirely the same thing. My Hebrew one
is definitely shorter, and a very important piece of the workshop was having
them show me how to use my army service on the resume.
Ms. Drill moved to Budapest with her
fianc, an Israeli whom she met while
they were both in the army. Hes a student, studying electrical engineering in
Tel Aviv, she said. When they returned,
she applied for jobs, using the resume
shed worked on with Wings. She knew
she wanted to have a job that made me
feel good at the end of the day, she said.
Coincidentally, that job ended up being
with Wings. Whats really kind of cool is
that I am about to look out for the future
of lone soldiers and my youngest

brother, Josh, is a lone soldier right now.
Thats a big motivation for me.
Ms. Drill came home in April, and therefore was able to talk about Wings at the
Orangetown Jewish Center, because she
was celebrating the first of two wedding
ceremonies. She and her now-husband,
Sagi Fainshtain, got married last month,
and will remarry in Israel next week.
Her parents, Richard and Rabbi Paula
Mack Drill, are in Israel for the wedding
and also to celebrate their own 31st
anniversary.
Two things were very clear to us
from the time Sarah was in high school,
Rabbi Drill said. Her Zionism was so
powerful that she was likely to end up
living in Israel, and her sense of purpose
and drive was so strong that she would
one day be doing something important
for Israel. All of that has come true in her
work for Wings for Lone Soldiers.
We have been proud of Sarah
throughout her many trips to Israel:
her high school trip, three different JNF
alternative spring breaks, her semester
abroad at Haifa University, and her ultimate aliyah. Throughout it all, the common thread has been that she wanted
to become part of Israeli society in a
meaningful way. This goal was clear in
her choice of army service as a sniper
instructor. And now it is clear in her chosen work for Wings.
During her most recent trip back to
the States so that Rabbi Scheff could
officiate at her marriage to Sagi Fainshtain Sarah spent a morning speaking at our synagogue, Orangetown Jewish Center. (Thats Rabbi Craig Scheff,
Orangetowns senior rabbi.)
In that amazing hour, I saw my daughter as a professional woman, speaking
with passion and clarity about her work
on behalf of lone soldiers, including her
brother Joshua.
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at all levels of Holocaust and human rights education.
Fall programs include How Trauma and Resilience
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West Clarkstown Jewish Center in New City, at 7 p.m.
The museums annual benefit brunch is planned for
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Center at Rockland Community College in Suffern. A
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evenings celebration will include the graduation from the Leadership Development Institute
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Memorial Day musings
ou know how Jewish holidays often have more than

one meaning?
One meaning often is tied
to the natural world and our relationship to it, and the other has more to
do with our history as a people
Shavuot, for example, which is
fast approaching, is both a harvest
festival and the anniversary of the
time when the Israelites were gathered around Mount Sinai as they
saw thunder, heard lightning, and
received the Torah.
Sukkot, similarly, marks both
another harvest (there are many harvests, for different kinds of crops, to
the annual surprise of us non-pastoralists) and the Israelites 40-year-old
desert wandering.
Memorial Day also has come to
have more than one meaning.
It marks the sacrifice of those
Americans who gave their lives to
protect us and our freedoms, and
of those Americans who risked their

lives and still managed to return to
us. It also marks the cusp between
springtime and full-on summer, of
barbecues and golden long-shadowed afternoons and the smell of
charcoal and chlorine and sandin-the-bathing-suit beach trips and
ghastly Sunday afternoon traffic.
Those two meanings summer
and sacrifice go together awkwardly, but perhaps appropriately.
They meet in parades and poppies.
It is fitting for us to think about
the courage of the soldiers and sailors and marines who protect us and
who have died for us. It is good for us
to say thank you to them.
So, thank you to the members of
the Jewish War Veterans of America,
and to all veterans of all our conflicts,
who have sacrificed so the rest of us
dont have to. May we never grow
complacent enough to forget them
JP
or their sacrifices.
Unleashed anti-Semitism
or a few years now, really

quite a few years, we have
watched with horror as the
anti-Semitism those of us
lucky enough never to have encountered in person which, thankfully, is
most of us has resurfaced in Europe.
Now it is appearing in this country
as well. Just in spurts, of course, in
little bits, oddly, surprisingly, horrifyingly. It seems to have been drawn
out of its dank pit by Donald Trumps
campaign.
Mr. Trump evokes many feelings;
for many of us, those feelings are
not positive, although we know that
he also has many supporters in the
Jewish world. This is not about Mr.
Trump, though, except indirectly.
He does not seem to be anti-Semitic,
and yes, we know about his Jewish
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them seem racist, but none of them
are anti-Semitic.
Some of his followers, though,
seem to be motivated not only by
admiration for Mr. Trump but also by
Jew-hatred. Journalists who have written about him, and who are Jewish,
have been bombarded by foul tweets
and disgusting images by his suupporters. Renegade Jew, for example, to chose among the more printable epithets, and an image of a trail
of dollar bills leading to an open oven.
Mr. Trump has not said anything
about the anti-Semitism he has
evoked. He has not asked his followers to stop it. He has not told them
that they are wrong. We very much
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J Street: For sale

to the highest bidder
hile it never was monolithic, the

pro-Israel community mostly
has been unified since Israel
became independent.
That has all changed since the emergence
of J Street as a lobby that explicitly set out to
challenge the establishment. The group claims
it is pro-Israel, but it is fundamentally divisive
and philosophically more in tune with the Arab
lobby than the pro-Israel lobby.
This was most recently apparent when J
Street decided to support President Barack
Obamas catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran,
despite the opposition of the Netanyahu government, the opposition Labor Party, and
according to the polls, approximately 80
percent of both the Israeli and American
populations.
Now we learn that its campaign to mislead
Congress and the American public about the Iran deal was paid
for by the Ploughshares Fund.
Ironically, Ploughshares seeks
to eliminate the worlds nuclear
stockpiles and yet supported
an agreement that encourages nuclear proliferation. The
fund paid J Street an astounding $576,500 the equivalent of
Rabbi
nearly one-third of the lobbys
Shmuley
entire 2014 budget to help the
Boteach
Obama administration undermine Israels security.
According to deputy national security
adviser Ben Rhodes, the Ploughshares Fund
was a key partner in the campaign to recruit
nongovernmental organizations, proliferation
experts, and friendly reporters to create
an echo chamber to support the Iran deal.
J Streets executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami,
had numerous meetings with White House officials, including Rhodes, and the organization
created a website, Iran Deal Facts, to echo the
administrations talking points. Blogger Elder
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the
founder of The World Values Network and is the
author of 30 books, including his just published
The Israel Warrior: Fighting Back for the
Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner.
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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of Zion described J Street succinctly as nothing but a paid shill for the White House to split
the U.S. Jewish community and put it at odds
with how Israelis feel.
The Iran case is just one example, however,
of J Streets malevolent influence.
When President Obama criticized Israel for
building homes in its capital, Elie Wiesel published an ad calling for support for the unity
of Jerusalem. In response, J Street published
its own ad, reprinting an article from Haaretz
by Yossi Sarid calling for the division of Israels
capital. Sarid summarized J Streets philosophy by asking President Obama to use his clout
to save us from ourselves.
This idea that Israel must be saved from
itself is not new. It has been a staple of Arabist
thinking at the State Department for decades
and was reflected in an article written by
former undersecretary of state
George Ball called How to save
Israel in spite of itself. The view
always has been popular among
critics of Israel who, like J Street,
believe that Israelis are either stupid, immature, or too foolish to
know what is best for them and
therefore must be helped to see
the error of their ways by Americans, who know better from
the safety and comfort of their
homes, 6,000 miles away.
The followers of this school like
to assert that they represent the true opinion
of Israelis. Yet when Israelis have the opportunity to vote their preferences, they do not
choose governments that have the policies of J
Street. Could it be that rather than being foolish and immature, Israeli voters actually know
their history and make decisions based on
their experience?
One of the early examples of J Street being
out of step with the pro-Israel community
was the groups opposition to Israels policy
toward the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Hadar Susskind, vice president of policy and
strategy for J Street, wrote in the Washington
Post that the issue was not whether Israel had
a right to enforce the blockade of Gaza, but
whether it makes Israel more secure. It does
not, he asserted.
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Israelis, who have caught Hamas smuggling rockets and other weapons, disagree.
And, by the way, so does Egypt, which
enforces its own blockade, and without
which Israels would be ineffective.
The Washington Times revealed that at a
time when Israel and the pro-Israel community were documenting the bias and inaccuracy of the Goldstone report, which alleged
that Israel committed war crimes while
defending itself against thousands of Hamas
rockets ( Judge Goldstone later recanted), J
Street was arranging meetings for Goldstone
on Capitol Hill. When confronted, Ben-Ami
denied its involvement, but the Times had a
recording of an interview with J Street supporter Colete Avital proving their report was
accurate.
J Streets campaign financing arm also
undermines Israels security. For example,
in 2014, 11 members of the House of Representatives supported by J Street refused
to support, or voted against, funding for
the Iron Dome anti-missile system that has
saved thousands of Israeli lives.
There is a fundamental distinction
between the consensus of the pro-Israel
community and those who claim to represent Israels best interests. The former do
not substitute their judgment for that of
Israeli citizens, who must live with the consequences of policy decisions, and who must
fight and sometimes die for their country.
Even more critically, J Street chooses to
ignore Middle East history and all of the
complex factors religion, geography,
history, politics, psychology that make
the conflict in the region so enduring and
reduce the problem to Israels presence in
the West Bank. It is particularly ironic that
J Street emerged after the disengagement
from Gaza, which should have put to rest
once and for all the myth that occupation
and/or settlements are the reasons that the
Middle East is not Eden.
The Washington Post editorialized about
the naivet of those who adopt the J Street
line that peace would follow from American pressure on Israel: Its easy enough
for global leaders to issue flowery appeals
for action on the Middle East or to imply
that progress would be possible if only the
United States used its leverage with Israel.
The stubborn reality is that there can be no
movement toward peace until a Palestinian
leadership that is ready to accept Israels
existence as a Jewish state appears.
Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud
Abbas has refused, however, to negotiate
with Israels prime minister for the last seven
years, and the PAs chief negotiator admitted
that if Israel offered the Palestinians 100 percent of what they demand, it still would not
satisfy them. The Palestinians have no interest in recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, or
coexisting with Israel, even if a Palestinian
state were established tomorrow. Such facts
are critical to Israels survival, but of no
importance to J Street.
Yet another example of J Street chutzpah is to call itself the pro-peace lobby,
which clearly suggests that everyone else
is anti-peace or pro-war. Of course, AIPAC

and the rest of the pro-Israel community has
been working for Middle East peace since
before Ben-Ami was born, but the lobby that
truly represents Americans who believe in
peace and a strong U.S.-Israel relationship
insists that Israelis should decide policies
related to their security.
J Street maintains that it speaks for a constituency that has been silenced, but this is
nonsense as well. It is the argument made
by the losing side of a debate, as in the case
of professors Walt and Mearsheimer, and
the other detractors of the Israeli lobby who
cannot accept the idea that their views are
considered but ultimately rejected because
they do not represent the national interest.
Another myth propagated by J Streeters is
that their actions help Israel, not hurt it, but
this shows a total ignorance of the nature of
interest groups. Like it or not, as Alan Dershowitz observed, whatever Jews say comes
through a megaphone, and J Streets views
are magnified and often misinterpreted as
the position of most American Jews. State
Department Arabists long have exploited
such critics to defend anti-Israel policies by
saying, in effect, even the Jews agree with
us. J Street proved to be similar useful
idiots to the Obama administration in the
lobbying campaign for the Iran deal, and
during its pursuit of the disastrous J Street/
Arabist approach to peace-making that has,
predictably, failed.
But only now did we discover that J Street
was basically bought off to lobby for the
Iran deal with nearly $600,000, proving
once and for all that J Streets problem is not
having the wrong policies but rather having
policies that are sold to the highest bidder.
The pro-Israel community votes with its
feet and its wallet, and that is why 18,000
people attended this years AIPAC policy
conference. AIPACs budget is roughly $100
million, compared with J Streets $2 million.
Rather than representing the alleged mass
of disaffected Jews, it turned out that the
groups largest initial funders were a lady in
Hong Kong and George Soros. The former,
apparently a non-Jew with no connection
to Israel, gave a whopping $811,697 to the
group. Soros is a billionaire known for his
virulent criticism of Israel, who originally
was rumored to be the money behind the
group, but then reportedly decided not to
finance J Street for fear of tainting it because
of his reputation of hostility toward Israel.
J Street lied about its dependence on Soros
until it could no longer hide the evidence.
According to blogger Lenny Ben-David,
the groups political action committee
took money from proSaudi activists,
ArabAmerican leaders, Muslim activists,
State Department Arabists, a Palestinian
billionaire, and even a Turkish American
who helped produce the anti-American
and anti-Semitic film Valley of the Wolves.
These do not appear to be the silent majority of pro-Israel Jews J Street claims to
represent.
Pro-Israel? Pro-Peace? Nah, just for sale to
the highest bidder.
Five generations
On new friendships, old friendship,
and the depth of those bonds
irkei Avot the Ethics of the

Fathers instructs us that it
is as essential to form relationships with friends (kenei
lecha chaver) as it is to find a rabbinic
guide (asei lecha rav).
In Taanit, the Talmud goes a step
beyond, and teaches that we have a
choice of either friendship or death,
and Elie Wiesel said friendship marks
a life even more deeply than love.
Friendship, of course, is a universal
value, with, for example, Thomas Aquinas writing that there is nothing on
this earth to be prized more than true
friendship. To me, friends are people
who like, care about, are considerate
of, and interested in each other; who
during services, the last two times my
enjoy talking, arguing, laughing, and
shul built a new sanctuary I purposely
spending time together; who have comchose a seat in a section where I had no
mon interests and values;
friends, thinking I would
who are trustworthy and
have no one to talk to.
dependable; who do not
And it actually worked
only listen but also pay
for about a year or two.
attention; who cheer your
Then I learned, to my
victories and give support
detriment/pleasure, that
and encouragement in
you become friends with
times of need; who help
the people you sit next to
each other grow to be
every Shabbat and yom
their best selves.
tov. And so, at a stage in
Joseph C.
Yet experience teaches
my life when I am usually
Kaplan
us that the nature of
invited to bar mitzvahs
friendship and the means
only of relatives and the
of forming friendships difgrandchildren of friends,
fer under varying circumstances and
I found myself attending a bar mitzvah
life stages. Young children new to the
of a child of a shul friend.
neighborhood seem to make friends
I also have learned that friends from
within minutes of arriving at the playschool whom you have not seen in
ground, while their parents struggle to
decades fit into two categories. There
find a place. Thats not because people
are those who, after a warm greeting, you begin chatting with and the
are cold and unfriendly, but with their
next thing you know two hours have
obligations to children, career, and
passed. The years have washed away,
other demands of modern life, they
and youre back in school or camp
dont have enough time to spend with
or the old neighborhood. You may
the friends they already have, much
not see them again for years, but you
less make new ones. Thats a dilemma
understand that in important ways
of which I have been on both sides.
youre friends for life. There are others,
And so new residents often make
though, who, after a warm greeting,
friends with the parents of their childrens friends, with whom they caryou begin chatting with and the next
pool and arrange play dates. Or they
thing you know its been only two minutes and neither of you has anything
become friends with other new residents, who also are looking for, and
left to say. Its at that point that you
having difficulty making, new friends.
wonder how you were ever friends in
Some of these friendships of convethe first place, and chalk it up to youth.
nience develop into meaningful ones
In the 21st century there are, of
and endure, while others wither on the
course, virtual friends you know only
vine as time passes, children graduate,
from an online profile, whose spouse
and new residents become old-timers.
and kids you never met, whom you
Then there are shul friendships.
wouldnt recognize in a crowd, whose
Since I know Im not supposed to talk
SEE FIVE GENERATIONS PAGE 26
Yet experience
teaches us that
the nature of
friendship and the
means of forming
friendships differ
under varying
circumstances
and life stages.
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Persisting doubts about the Iran nuclear deal
ardly a week has passed since

last years introduction of the
Iran nuclear deal without
reports of an unsavory Iranian action or an American surprise disclosure or obfuscation.
A previous weeks surprise was about
White House manipulations to gain support for the agreement. Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser to President
Obama, admitted that the administrations touting of a new moderate Iranian
leadership had been a deception. It was
largely manufactured for the purpose of
selling the deal. Further, he boasted that
freshly minted experts and compliant
reporters had echoed whatever talking
points the White House gave them.
A hoped-for benefit beyond curbing
Irans nuclear program was that the deal
ultimately would change Iranian behavior. Although the agreement was struck
last July, implementation officially began
in January 2016. In exchange for billions
of dollars made available by the lifting of
sanctions imposed by the United States

and others, Iran has curtailed some weapons-intended activities. It has dismantled
equipment at several nuclear facilities,
including the core of a nuclear reactor and
centrifuges that enrich uranium fuel. But
continuing Iranian belligerence and American concessions have been dismaying.
The rush by so many countries to discard previous inhibitions about engaging
with Iran makes the reversal of this new
reality unlikely. Days after implementation, an array of post-sanctions activities
were undertaken. Besides sanctions relief
by the United States, the United Kingdom
ended its ban on 22 banks and companies previously blacklisted for engaging
in nuclear-linked financing; Germanys
trade arrangements with Iran rose by 33
percent; China signed contracts to help
build five more Iranian nuclear reactors;
Russia began delivery to Iran of S300 antimissile systems; France sent a 100 member delegation to Iran in search of business contracts. The United States pre-deal
assurance that sanctions

In March, Iran added a new
could be snapped back if
twist to its defiance by not
necessary now seemed more
only test firing long-range
a wish than a possibility.
missiles in violation of a UN
When the implementation
Security Council resolution.
began, Robert Gates, secreThe missiles were inscribed
tary of defense under George
in Hebrew: Israel must be
W. Bush and Barack Obama,
wiped off the Earth.
put a damper on prospects
The American response
Dr. Leonard
for success. The belief that
hardly was satisfying. SecreA. Cole
tary of State John Kerry said
over time, Iran will abandon
that the United States would
its theological revolutionary
continue to lift sanctions
underpinnings, its aspirations in the region, or even its aspirations
as part of the nuclear accord, even while
for nuclear weapons is unrealistic, he
imposing new sanctions in response to
said. He rued the Obama administrations
Irans missile tests. This posture was akin
concessions to get Iranians to accept the
to hosing a single room in a burning building as fire rages throughout the building.
deal, including dropping the administrations earlier insistence on anytime anyEvents last month were especially diswhere inspections.
heartening to those who had hoped for
Thus far, Irans behavior has validated
better from Iran. Yousef al Otaiba, the
Gatess skepticism. Iran continues to
United Arab Emirates Ambassador to
export terrorism, call for the annihilathe United States, observed that Iran is
tion of Israel, and develop long-range misas dangerous as ever. It remains hossiles that could carry nuclear warheads.
tile, expansionist [and] violent. Reports
An old tradition
Honoring the very oldest among us
Childrens children are a crown to the aged,
and the glory of children is their elders.
f we take this teaching from the

Book of Proverbs (17:6) to heart, the
Jewish people todays children
of Israel have a great deal indeed
in which to glory of late. In March of this
year, the Guinness Book of World Records
confirmed that Israel Kristal, a 112-year-old
resident of Haifa, is the worlds oldest living man.
Mr. Kristal, born in Poland in 1903, is a
survivor of Auschwitz, where his first wife
and their children perished, and where
he toiled as a slave laborer. That a survivor of the genocidal efforts of the Nazi
regime has lived not merely to old age,
but to be recognized as the oldest man
in the world, is a fact of profound historical and spiritual significance: a milestone
of biblical proportions. The more they
were oppressed, the more they increased
and prospered (Exodus 2:12). Given Mr.
Kristals professional life as a confectioner
in the sovereign Jewish state, it is particularly apt to describe his legacy as one of
sweet revenge. It is reported that he continues his life-long devotion to daily prayer
and the mitzvah of tefillin. With long life
I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation (Psalms 91:16).
Mr. Kristal humbly put his achievement in perspective: I dont know the
secret for long life. I believe that everything
is determined from above, and we shall

never know the reasons why. There have
been smarter, stronger, and better looking men than I who are no longer alive. All
that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is
lost. Mr. Kristal was surrounded by his
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren as he was recognized formally by
Guinness for his longevity. Clearly, he has
practiced what he preaches about rebuilding the Jewish people.
The Jewish people and specifically the
American Jewish community can glory
still further in the more recent announcement that 113-year-old Goldie Michelson
of Worcester, Massachusetts, is the oldest
person living in the United States, and is
believed to be the oldest Jew in the world.
Mrs. Michelson is an alumna of Clark University in Worcester. My son, Ayal, graduated from Clark some 80 years after Mrs.
Michelson, and attended the university at
the same time as her great-granddaughter. Mrs. Michelson credits her longevity
in part to the salutary effects of extensive
walking and of chocolate. On a variety
of levels, she has much in common with
Israels long-lived confectioner!
That the Jewish people now count both
the worlds oldest man and the United
States oldest resident among our number is a moment of history not to be taken
for granted. The Jewish peoples historical
mission our national raison detre long
has been to bring a greater

person dies, a library burns
awareness of God and of
to the ground. This dramatic
Gods universal demand for
image should be particularly
moral conduct to humanity.
compelling to the People of
How we are to view old age,
the Book. The elderly have
and how we are to relate to
borne witness to history,
the aged, represent a critiacquired life experience, and
cal aspect of Jewish moralabsorbed wisdom and infority. Perhaps, in light of Mr.
mation not readily evident
Rabbi Joseph
Kristal and Mrs. Michelsons
to the more vital and active
H. Prouser
celebrated longevity, the
younger generations. Rabbi
Jewish community should
Yossi ben Yehudah taught:
rededicate itself to the study
He who learns from the
and practice of our traditions principled
young, to what may he be compared? To
reverence for the elderly.
one who eats unripe grapes or drinks wine
When better to do so than on the
from the vat. But one who learns from the
approaching festival of Shavuot, with
old, to what may he be compared? To one
its communal programs of learning,
who eats ripe grapes or drinks properly
and the reading of the Decalogues comaged wine (Pirkei Avot 4:26). The advice
mandment: Honor your father and your
of both Yossis on age? Sage.
mother, that you may enjoy length of days
Rabbi Haskel Lindenthal, of blessed
on the land that the Lord your God is givmemory, a congregational rabbi, a
ing you (Exodus 20:12). It is no coincischolar trained in the yeshivot of Vilna
dence that the reward for devotion to our
and Hebron, a poet, mohel, shochet, and
elders is itself long life (see also Deuteroncherished rabbinic mentor over 50 years
omy 5:16).
my senior, would wryly quip in his tenth
The sages taught that deference is due
decade that his Galilean forbear was
the elderly because of the wisdom born of
correct: ziknah indeed was an etymologically significant acronym (ZKNH), but
life experience. Rabbi Yossi the Galilean
it stood for the Yiddish words Ziftzen,
posited that the word ziknah (old age)
Krechsen, Niftzen, and Huftzen, which he
is derived from the phrase kanah chochmah one who has acquired wisdom
translated roughly as sighing, moaning,
(Kiddushin 32B). This insight is mirrored
groaning, and crying. While biblical and
in the proverb, generally identified as
rabbinic literature is similarly replete with
African in origin, that says When an old
observations conceding the challenges
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of more U.S. concessions appeared. The

administration was yielding leverage by
incentivizing banks to lend to companies
doing business with Iran.
After concessions to get the deal, the
Obama team was still making concessions
to keep it.
Two more troubling reports surfaced
at the end of April. The first, described as
a loophole in the deal, could allow Russia and China to procure materials and
renovate Iranian nuclear facilities without
informing Western powers. The second
was the news that the Obama administration had agreed to buy heavy water from
Iran. Heavy water can be used to develop
nuclear weapons. The deal had called for
Iran to reduce its supply, though it did not
say that Iran should receive remuneration
for doing so. The American payout of $8.6
million for 32 tons of the material reportedly was made to encourage Teheran to
stick to the nuclear agreement.
The passionate intensity of opposition
to the Iran nuclear deal has subsided since
Congress failed to block it last September,

but its opponents worries have not. In a
recent U.S. poll only 30 percent of respondents approved of the agreement and 57
percent disapproved. The sentiment has
changed little since the eve of the Congressional vote, when 56 percent of surveyed
Americans believed Congress should
reject the deal.
Longstanding and broad-based Jewish
organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish
Committee, and more than two dozen
Jewish federations across the country,
issued statements of opposition. While
taking no formal public position, many of
the other 100-plus federations expressed
concern. None issued a statement of
support.
Most members of Congress were in
sync with the public, and voted against
the agreement. In the House the margin
was 269 to 162, and in the Senate, 58 to
42. Yet the deal went forward because
the Senate majority fell two votes short of
and difficulties of aging (See Shabbat 52A),

Judaism is unambiguous concerning our
obligations to the elderly.
Anyone who has been a passenger on
an Israeli bus is familiar with the biblical
injunction lifnei seivah takum: You
shall rise before the aged (Leviticus 19:32).
Not only is this verse actually posted on
public conveyances in Israel (a wonderful
example of the nexus between biblical literature and modern Jewish state), but its
spirit has been embraced by the diverse
Israeli public. Woe to that youthful passenger who neglects to surrender his seat
to a deserving elder! It should be noted

that the verse traditionally is understood
not exclusively to prescribe surrendering your seat, but to require the relatively
youthful to rise in salute and deference at
the mere approach of the elderly, whether
or not that persons seat or other act of
practical service is needed (See Chofetz
Chayim, Sefer Mitzvot Ha-Katzar, Positive
Commandment #17).
The second half of the same Leviticus verse reads Vhadarta pnei zaken,
which is translated as Show respect for
the elderly (NIV) or Honor the face
of an old man (King James Version)
or Honor the presence of an elder
(NET Bible) or Show deference to the
old ( JPS). The root of the verb hadarta (HDR) frequently is associated
with beauty (as I learned as a youth at
Connecticuts Camp Hadar). Countless
chalutzim and Zionists have cited Isaiah
35:1-2: The arid desert shall be glad. The
wilderness shall rejoice and shall bloom
like a rose It shall receive the glory of
Lebanon, the beauty (hadar) of Carmel
and Sharon. Similarly, the principle
of hiddur mitzvah calls on the devoted
practitioner to lend added beauty to
religious observance, beyond the minimum requirements of the law. (That is
why we decorate the sukkah, we seek
out a beautiful etrog, we wear a fancy tallis.) Vhadarta pnei zaken thus can be
understood to beckon us to perceive the
In 2008, Goldie Michelson sits outside

the theater named for her at Clark
University in Worcester, Mass.

COURTESY OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
the 60 required for rejection. As reported

in the New York Times, most Democrats
voted their loyalty to President Obama
rather than to their constituents.
Therein lies the core fallacy of the
debate on the nuclear issue. The outcome was and still is perceived by many
as determined by loyalty to the president
and to the enhancement of his legacy.
The matter should have been seen
as beyond partisanship. Too bad that
Obama also has framed it as a matter
of legacy. If the deal ultimately fails to
prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear
weapon, he said in a much publicized
Atlantic interview, its my name on this.
Apart from national security, I have a
personal interest in locking this down.
To Obama, a key risk of a failed policy
appears to be a bruise to his ego. Unmentioned in the interview is the catastrophic
risk of a nuclear Iran to the international
order, or to fulfillment of Irans threat to
wipe out Israel.
Of course, several of the deals
supporters said that it was the best

option available, regardless of partisan
considerations. They also admitted their
decision was a close call. Now we may
wonder which lawmakers might have
voted differently had they known of the
administrations manipulations, or the
continued intensity of Irans belligerence.
Whether or how long the nuclear deal
will hold remains uncertain. But skeptics,
like Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ),
believe its demonstrated flaws already
have validated their opposition. Menendezs wise words deserve repetition:
Legacy is not a policy, and hope is not a
national security strategy.
Dr. Leonard A. Cole of Ridgewood is a
past president of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, an adjunct
professor of political science at Rutgers,
and of emergency medicine at Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School, where he is
the director of the program on terror
medicine and security.
Israel Kristal, who lives in Israel, is a 112-year-old retired confectioner and

Holocaust survivor.
beauty in old age: You shall rise before

the aged, and recognize the inherent
beauty of the elderly.
We are living at a unique moment in
Jewish history. A beautiful moment.
The divine blessing of long life has been
bestowed in all but unrivalled measure
upon two venerable members of the Jewish people. It is left to the rest of us to
marvel at the beauty in the lives and in
the presence of Goldie Michelson and
Israel Kristal. In a culture that in many
ways idolizes youth, the message of our
tradition concerning old age and long
life is increasingly urgent. Lifnei seivah
takum: May we rise to the occasion.
The Torah records that Gods prophet,

his most faithful servant, Moses, was
granted a life of 120 years. Other notable
biblical personages are said to have lived
longer, but it is Moses 120 years that
became the gold standard of Jewish blessing. Given their already prodigious ages, I
hope it is not ungenerous or less than lavish, therefore, to invoke the customary
blessing on Mr. Kristal and Mrs. Michelson:
Ad meah vesrim! Bis hundert zvantzig
yohr! May they live (at least!) to 120 years.
And may all the years ahead be sweet.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
Opinion
Jews should be conservative
s a member of the tribe

involved in Jewish communal
life, the fact that the Jewish
community swings left is no
surprise to me.
From Jewish groups advocating for
the related issues of open borders,
amnesty for illegal aliens, and taking
in un-screenable Syrian immigrants to
Second Amendment infringements and
free association limitations, our community seemingly has never met a government dictate it didnt like. Indeed, if
one could personify the overwhelming
stances of the Jewish community in a
contemporary political leader, it would
be named Bernie Sanders.
Yet, from the perspective of this Jew, a
young-ish, frie (Yiddish, literally meaning free, used as secular), involved
member of the Jewish community, it
seems that our values are more in sync
with conservatism. The command economics and top-down politics of the
mainstream left (and the fringe right)
are antithetical to the Jewish tradition of
pluralism, diversity, and civil disagreement. From the minhagim (traditions)
of different Jewish communities, to the
rabid but mostly cordial disagreements
of our sages, to the present-day war of
ideas between our current denominations, none could argue that, at least
amongst ourselves, we are committed to
the common sense conservative values
Five generations
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voice you never heard, and whose heart

never touched yours. But every once in a
while you find one who not only shares
your political and religious views, but
also, like you, misses Phil Ochs, the 60s
troubadour whos been gone for half
a century, and still listens to his songs.
And when he posts a picture of Central
Park on his Facebook timeline, you realize hes visiting New York, and the next
day the virtual becomes real as you share
a lunch in midtown.
And there are serendipitous friendships that arise at an age when you think
youve made all the friends you ever will.
It turns out that you and the editor of the
paper that publishes your column have
a slew of overlapping relationships with
friends and relatives, and, as you dig a bit
deeper, strong overlapping sensibilities
Conservative
values
dissent,
tolerance, free
association,
self-defense,
free speech and
more are
Jewish values.
of non-coercion and the right to defend
ourselves in the public sphere.
These values, essentially the golden
rule of do not do unto others as you
would have them not do unto you,
should translate into the positions of
the Jewish community and organizations on issues facing our country. On
unrestricted immigration, which so
many Jewish organizations support
would you support the wholesale outsourcing of your industry? If not, then
why support illegal immigration and
H-1B visa expansion when they undermine the economic leverage of, and disadvantage, the working poor and the
middle class? Whether they are blue or
on areas of life that are important to you

both. You even have similar senses of
humor. And when you inveigle an invitation for a chat over coffee from the
educator whose scholarship and ideas
you deeply respect, you learn that your
brother is a favorite scholar of his, your
daughters were in school together and
are good friends, and you disagree about
many areas of life that are important
to you both yet in ways so civil and
thoughtful that the disagreements are
enjoyable and meaningful.
But the most cherished friendships
are those that begin in childhood and
continue unabated to the present. The
sweetness of such relationships sometimes hits you when it turns a tad bittersweet, and your long-time friends decide
to downsize and move to a new neighborhood to be closer to their grandkids. Or,
like this Pesach, when one of our guests
was a friend a bit shy of seven decades
our right of free association

white collar, Americans are
(which includes the right
hurt when foreign workers
not to associate)? If not,
are imported to do jobs at
why then do Jewish groups
lower wages.
not take a stand when
If we in the community
mom and pop bakeries and
value the right to defend
photographers are forced
ourselves assertively
under legal penalty of masfrom unwarranted attack,
sive business-killing-fines
whether in the world of
Joshua
to participate in events
writing, the government
Sotomayorthey find objectionable?
subsidies we receive to
Einstein
From the right to choose
harden communal buildwho we associate with to
ings against potential terthe right of self-defense,
rorist attack, and as demand on immigration, it seems the
onstrated by our support for the state
stances of the organized Jewish comof Israel, should we not also support the
munity are in conflict with the position
right of all Americans to defend themit and its members take internally and
selves? While synagogues can afford
in their daily lives. From the perspecto post a police officer outside during
tive of a loud and proud Jew, the Jewservices, is it not hypocritical for us
ish community has its politics all wrong.
to deprive the same right to an armed
Conservative values dissent, tolerdefense to a single mother in a rough
ance, free association, self-defense, free
neighborhood? No one should have to
speech and more are Jewish values.
wait 10 minutes (the average national
911 response time) hoping that a burglar,
Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is originally
potential rapist, or murderer is delayed
from Teaneck and has lived in Hoboken
by a closed and barricaded bedroom
for 9 years. He founded Moishe House
door.
Hoboken in January 2007, is the
Would our community want a governchairman of both the Hudson County
ment mandate forcing all Jewish instituRepublican Club and the Hudson County
tions (such as JCCs or shuls) that have
Young Republicans, is on the board of
event spaces to rent to anti-Israel Boythe Jewish Federation of Northern New
cott and Divestment groups and those
Jersey, and enjoys reading and science
that deny Israels right to exist? Would
iction.
they tolerate such a massive violation of
But the most

cherished
friendships are
those that begin
in childhood and
continue
unabated to the
present.
duration, whose bar mitzvah parsha,
and precisely how he layned it, are forever engraved in my memory. I know not
only his kids and grandkids, but I knew
his parents and grandparents as well, and
he could say the same about mine. Five
generations.
We share memories of people and

events; easy laughter often accompanies our conversations; we dont need to
explain references or cultural allusions;
we frequently care about similar issues.
And yes, on rare occasions we even
briefly may not like each other. But we
quickly see beyond the flaws, and realize
how little they really mean.
With these friends, we know each
other for who we were, who we are, and
how weve gotten from then to now, from
there to here. As that Talmud in Taanit
suggests, in choosing such lifelong friendships we have fulfilled the Torah dictum
of uvacharta bachayim.
We have chosen life.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor
who has lived in Teaneck for more than
30 years, is a frequent writer of essays
for Jewish publications when he is not
practicing law in Manhattan.
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Talking about that elephant
I feel compelled to respond to Shmuel Goldins

essay (Understanding Orthodoxy, May 20). It all
sounds quite wonderful if you dont actually stop
and think about it, but quite absurd if you do.
You cant judge Judaism by the Jews? Are you
kidding me? By what other standard could you possibly judge it? How beautifully typeset the Torah is?
How luscious the parchment feels? Judaism is a system of belief and behavior designed to improve the
way people live their lives. If it doesnt lead people
to live good lives, then its no better than a fad diet
that doesnt help people lose weight.
Next up, this gem: Religious coercion is antithetical to Jewish thought Really? Did we all
learn the same Torah? The one I learned obligates
Jewish courts to engage in all sorts of religious coercion. Fines, lashes, imprisonment, even stoning
to death are all required methods of encouraging
compliance with Jewish law.
Sure, we dont have this system today. But do
Rabbi Goldin and all who believe as he does not
pray every day for the moshiach to come, for the
beis hamikdash to be rebuilt, for the Sanhedrin
to be reinstated, along with the legal system that
includes whipping people who violate certain
laws?
Maybe Im splitting hairs here, but since were
addressing the elephant in the room
Adam Schorr
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Transliterating into Arabic
I was intrigued by your Page 3 story, Wanted: A legion of

proofreaders, on May 13.
Representing the Hebrew original in other languages poses
a dilemma: Should the Hebrew be translated or transliterated? In the present case, the decision was made to transliterate Hagdud Haivri (The Hebrew Legion) into both English and Arabic. Other than the obvious typographical error,
the transliteration into English was not difficult, with the
exception of the Hebrew ayin (the first i in Haivri), the
sound of which exists only in Hebrew and Arabic. The substitution of the English i appears to be a reasonable choice.
The transliteration into Arabic poses greater difficulties.
The second letter (from the right) in the middle word was
designed to duplicate the sound of the hard g in Hagdud.
This sound usually is approximated in Arabic either by the
Arabic letter kaf (pronounced, as the Hebrew kaf, more
harshly than the g) or by the Arabic letter jim. The latter
letter works well in Egypt, where it is indeed pronounced as
a hard g (as in Gamal). Unfortunately, it is pronounced j
(as in the English jam) in the countries of the eastern Mediterranean littoral (including Israel), so would not be a good
substitute for the hard g on a Jerusalem sign. Moreover, the
actual letter on the sign is neither a kaf nor a jim. It is, in
fact, not Arabic at all. In the process of transliteration, Arabic
occasionally borrows letters from cognate languages, when
the required sound is not part of the Arabic alphabet. The letter on the sign was taken from Persian/Urdu, apparently for
this purpose. Regrettably, the letter chosen is not pronounced
as a hard g but rather as ch (as in the English chair). It
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I
dont do flour.
Thats been my kitchen rule for
a very long time. I cook, and Ive
learned to prepare and master many
a tasty dish for the Shabbat meal, but
when it comes to baking desserts or
challah, then its hello to my friends,
Butterflake, Zomicks, Zadies, and
Sterns.
Cooking, Ive always felt, seemed
more aligned with my personality. It
could be extemporaneous and a bit
more forgiving a little more of this,
a little less of that, lets eyeball the
amount than what I perceived to be
the more precise, rigid, and scientific
art of baking.
Besides, sweets and other baked
treats never beckoned me the way
that a good meat and potatoes entre
did.
That explains why it was only very
recently that I baked my first-ever
from-scratch challah.
Unlike her mother, my daughter,
Shaina, often has expressed interest in
baking. So when the opportunity came
up to join in a neighborhood womens
challah bake following Passover, I
signed us up. It is a tradition for some women

who bake challah for this
particular Shabbat to include a ke y in Yiddish
a shlissel inside their
loaves. The key is a symbol for unlocking good
things and blessing in
the coming year, and the
challah has been come
to be known as shlissel
challah.
So we went. Wearing my signature
black clothes (oy! the flour all over!),
we assembled that evening with a
roomful of lively women, all there to
have their kneads and their needs met.
Each one of us had a five-pound bag of
flour, oil, sugar, eggs, water, yeast and
all the other necessary ingredients
and was instructed on what to do.
When we all introduced ourselves,
I announced that this was my first
time, a challah maiden, if you will.
Shaina seemed to take to it very
easily. I was a tentative student, but
got into the moment. We learned
about separating the challah, and
making the blessing,

and of giving good
thoughts and love to
the act of preparing the
special bread. There
was camaraderie in the
all-female gathering. It
was like a party.
It was getting late,
and tomorrow was
school, so we couldnt
stay for the braiding
demonstration. We put
our dough into large plastic bags, and
carrying more than 10 pounds of challah dough, went home. (It was like carrying a baby!) Instructed to put everything into the refrigerator until baking
time on Friday afternoon, we did.
By the next day, the dough had
broken through the plastic and was
climbing up the refrigerator wall. It
was crazy, I was a little alarmed, but
I figured that it was normal. So we
pushed down the again-risen challah,
and when we were ready to bake, Shaina took to the Internet to find how to
braid it. She found a variety of shapes
and took over the lesson giving. I
wanted to make a big, fat loaf, and did

so, while she shaped hers artfully.
Before the challahs went into the
oven, Shaina filmed them pre-baked
and shared them online. Of course,
I took our well-washed house key,
wrapped it in aluminum foil, and inserted it in one of the challahs (the big
fat one which actually didnt bake
all through).
Needless to say, the house was aromatic with the smell of freshly baked
challah. It wafted to the outside. It
smelled like Shabbat.
When served, those loaves were
oohed and ahhed during our dinner.
They were also gobbled up. It was a
wonderful experience.
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DENISE MORRISON YEARIAN
any youngsters like to use the

summer to make a few bucks.
Whether take a job working in a
store or if they work in a camp, summer
is a good chance for them to taste the
work world. In addition, there are plenty
of entrepreneurial opportunities for motivated youngsters who want to launch a
new business.
To help your child find a successful
and satisfying niche in the marketplace
this summer, consider these tips:
1. Tap into his or her interests. Start
by having your child make a list of activities he or she enjoys and businesses that
relate to those interests. Find something
that they would be passionate about and
want to pursue. If your child is good with
pets, perhaps he or she would enjoy a
dog-walking business. If they like being
outdoors, maybe cutting grass would be
a good idea.
2. Materialize the market. Consider
what the customer wants by creating a
questionnaire. Is there a need for this
type of service or product? If so, how
much are people willing to pay?
3. Consider the competition. Find
out what other companies with similar
products or services are offering and
at what cost. If it is a service, do they
charge a flat rate or by the hour? Then
have your child ask, How can I duplicate this offering for a little lower than
market rate and still make a profit?
4. Team up or tread alone. Have
your child decide if he wants to partner

with a peer. If he is involved in a summer
activity it may be best to team up with a
friend who can help carry the workload.
Suggest he find someone who is equally
passionate about this type of business
but possesses a different skill set so they
complement one another. To prevent
problems, detail in writing how responsibilities and profits will be divvied up.
5. Name it and claim it. Choose a
name that clearly states the business
mission and its offering. Consider adding
rhymes, alliterations or catchy phrases
so it can be easily remembered.
6. Advertising agents. Advertise without spending a lot of money.
Print flyers and pass them out to family, friends and acquaintances. Tack up
posters with take-and-tear tabs that list
services provided and a contact number. Or create computer-generated business cards. Have your child hand out
extra flyers or business cards to current
customers and say, If you are satisfied
with my services, pass along my name
to friends.
7. Count the cost. List all of the supplies needed and the cost of each item.
Then do a cost-of-goods sold and break
it down to one unit: How much does it
cost to make one item or provide service
to one customer? This will help your
child know how to set the price. If your
child has money in his savings account,
suggest that he or she use that to get
the business started. Or lend it with the
agreement of a return payment.
8. Set a precedence. Predetermine

products and services that will be offered and give clients a written description before the work begins to prevent
potential customer dissatisfaction.
When the service is complete, have
your child give the customer a receipt
and keep a duplicate, particularly where
cash versus a check is involved.
9. Embrace good work ethic. Remind
your child that he can earn the respect
of customers by being punctual, dependable, honest, respectful, hard working and
following through with commitments.
10. Start with safety. Insist that your
child inform you of his whereabouts at
all times. Stress the importance of not

talking with strangers while he is alone.
Review safety rules if he will be working
with equipment or machinery.
11. Manage the money. Encourage
your child to record his expenses, income and profits by making a chart in
a notebook, using a ledger or creating a
spreadsheet. Allow him to spend some
of his earnings, but encourage him to
reinvest in the business, save a portion
and give some to his charity of choice.
Denise Morrison Yearian is the former editor
of two parenting magazines and the mother
of three children and four grandchildren.
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1 Depot Square
201-482-8194
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Spend the summer doing theater games,
music, dance, arts & crafts, and a final
showcase on the bergenPAC main stage.
Here, every child will get to feel like a
star. The program is for youngsters from
5 to 12 years old.
Blue Moon Mexican Caf
23 E. Palisade Ave.
201-541-0600
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Blue Moon Mexican Caf is a lot of fun
for the little ones. Great Mexican-themed
birthday parties for kids from 1 to 16 years
old. Our packages start at $13.95 per person. The Englewood location has two separate party rooms. On-site parking.
Cassies
18 S. Dean St.,
201-541-6760
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Lively Italian restaurant with coal-burning, brick-oven pizzas plus individual or
family-style pastas and salads. Great childrens menu.
Dwight-Englewood Summer
Connections
315 East Palisade Ave.

201-227-3144
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Summer Connections engages children
ages 3 through grade 12 in exploratory
learning in areas such as design, STEM,
mindfulness, philanthropy, and more.
Scholars can also earn Carnegie school
credit in math, science, and world languages. Our smallest campers discover
the joy of learning with the help of a full
day of guided activities by caring and experienced teachers and counselors. We

invite you to connect to a different community, to your teachers, and to your inner passion.
The Elisabeth Morrow School

Summer Explorations
435 Lydecker St.

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The Elisabeth Morrow School Summer
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youngsters that include an Early Childhood Program for ages 3 through grade 1,
Explorers Camp Workshops for students
grades 2 through 6, as well as enrichment for students in grades 7 through 9.
New this year, the inclusion of i2 Camp
Programs, which help to engage middle
school students in STEM topics through
interesting courses such as Building an

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the Physics of Photography.
Fusion Academy, Englewood
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95 North State Route 17, Paramus
(Will be in permanent Englewood
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201-368-0949
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Fusion serves middle and high school
students who crave a flexible, customized learning environment. Each classroom is one-to-one: one student and one
teacher, always. This allows us to personalize curriculum and teaching for each
students individual strengths and learning style. We offer rolling admissions and
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Future Soccer training camp is held indoors at the air conditioned City Sports
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Growing Smiles Pediatric Dentistry
105 N. Dean St.

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We are a state-of-the-art pediatric dental practice. Dr. Eytan Chen, our awesome pediatric dentist, is a graduate of
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are warm and caring. Both you and your
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all made with high-quality kosher ingredients.The newly renovated, peanut-free
facility owned by Syed Rizvi is operated
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All cakes can be made with most of the
hard ice cream flavors and they specialize in picture cakes.
IHOP
141-147 N. Dean Street

201-568-8088
Friendly, family restaurant serving their
world famous pancakes and a variety of
breakfast, lunch and dinner items for all
ages. Receive one free Kids Meal with
purchase of adult entre Tuesday and
Friday from 4 to 10 p.m. purchase. See
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Open daily 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Lakeland Bank
42 N. Dean St.
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Lakeland Bank is a community-oriented
bank that provides financial products and
services to local small businesses and consumers. Headquartered in Oak Ridge, NJ,
the Bank operates 53 New Jersey branch
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Marcias Attic for Kids
29 North Dean St.

201- 894-5701
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We have been outfitting Northern New
Jerseys chicest tots for more than 40
years, specializing in head-to-toe dressing from newborn to size 16. For the hippest collection of clothing, toys, shoes
and accessories, check us out. The store
also carries many one-of-kind, hand-created items. Celebrities shop here, as well
as generations of Marcias moms, who
are now grandmothers. We have a knowledgeable sales staff.
Matisse Chocolatier
260 Grand Ave.

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Great birthday parties that children will
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Milk & Honey
11 Grand Ave.
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Milk & Honey is a luxe one-stop shop for
new parents featuring a premium selection of high quality nursery furniture,
gear, toys, clothes and specialty baby
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The Moriah School
53 South Woodland St.

201-567-0208
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Moriahs mission is to deliver an academic program of the highest caliber while
instilling a sense of commitment to Torat
Yisrael, Am Yisrael and Medinat Yisrael.
Our school emphasizes the use of a variety of modalities in the classroom and beyond to enable each child to realize their
academic, religious and personal potential. Graduates leave with deep pride in
their Jewish heritage and an appreciation
for the role they can play in improving
the world. Serving as a home away from
home for children from nursery through
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of the Bergen Countys largest yeshivas
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who is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency
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vent these injuries. Proper lawn care and

maintenance can also prevent the growth
of these irritating plants.
AOC: What is the best way to protect
your child from dangerous bug bites?
Dr. Browner: Again we always say
that prevention is better than treatment
and there are many ways to protect oneself from dangerous bug bites. Some the
most dangerous bug bites in the world
are actually mosquito bites and there is
a lot of concern about diseases that mosquitoes may carry in the world today.
One of the most important ways that any
family can prevent mosquito exposure
is by ensuring that there is no stagnant
water on their land, or near where their
children play, as this is where mosquitoes breed. Other ways to prevent dangerous bug bites would be wearing proper clothing, especially when going hiking
in the woods as well as the application of
appropriate insect repellent sprays and
lotions. The insect repellent treatments
should also be applied to shoes including and not just the skin. Clothing that
has been pre-treated with repellents are
also available and may provide longer
protection.
AOC: What about other safety measures such as injuries from falls following outdoor play or other sports?
Dr. Browner: Children are going to

play and need to play, and with playing
and activities come falling and unfortunately injuries will occur. Those being
said, however, there are some important
prevention measures that can be applied.
If the child is participating in any sports
they should be wearing the appropriate
safety equipment for that sport. The
same goes for bike riding, anyone on a
bicycle should be wearing a helmet no
matter how old they are. In fact, parents
and caregivers role-modeling proper
safety techniques and practices is an important way to help children understand
the need and use for bike helmets. If the
child is going to be using a scooter, roller skates, rollerblades, or other similar
equipment patient also be wearing wrist,
elbow, and kneepads.
AOC: What is the best way to practice swim and water safety?
Dr. Browner: There are many things
that can be done to help children learn
and practice proper water safety. One
very important method to teach a child
proper pool and water safety is enrolling
the child in swim lessons. The will not
only learn how to swim but also how to
respect the water. Other things that can
and should be done are keeping a watchful eye on children whenever they are in
a pool. In fact, if a child is having a party

at a pool, hiring a lifeguard(s) who is/are
constantly watching the water and the
children is very important and could be
life saving. All pools should have proper
fences and gates around them and doors
that open directly to a pool area from a
house should have an alarm. Children
who are not fully able to swim on their
own should be wearing a flotation device or lifejacket whenever they are in
the water.
AOC: Is there a good general protocol a parent should follow to ensure
summer safety?
Dr. Browner: Following the advice
given above as well as participating
in any sports or activity when following their proper safety protocols and
requirements are great ways to ensure
summer safety. Very important activities
that any family should be very careful
about allowing their children to participate in or use are fireworks and sparklers especially around July 4. These
have the potential to be very dangerous
and cause significant short-term and
long-term injuries.
AOC: When is it appropriate for a
parent to bring their child to the emergency room for treatment?
Dr. Browner: Any child with a sig-
nificant injury should be evaluated by a

physician in the emergency department.
If the child has an open cut, has injured
an extremity, is not acting normally
or having changes in behavior, or the
family is just concerned are appropriate reasons to come to the emergency
department.
AOC: Anything else youd like to
share?
Dr. Browner: One final area that is
very important to discuss regards travel
over the summer. The single best ways
to prevent your child from having a significant illness is getting them vaccinated along the proper vaccine schedule.
As families travel over the summer there
are larger gatherings of people and there
is the risk of being exposed to vaccine
preventable diseases that have significant morbidity and mortality. In the last
few summers there have been several
outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases at vacation destinations. Vaccines
are the single most important way to
prevent a child from getting potentially
life-threatening illness and vaccines are
safe. As was said above and repeated
many times, prevention is always better
than treatment.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About
Our Children.
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GENERATION G
Oh, You, Beautiful (American Girl) Doll

E D S I L B E R FA R B
t all began with a knock on the door. It

was the two pre-teen sisters from the
next floor apartment each carrying a
laundry bag.
We thought your granddaughter
might like these things, they said.
These things were doll clothes and
doll accessories: dresses, skirts, formal
gowns, gym shorts, swimsuits, hats, ribbons, necklaces, and on and on as the
contents of each laundry bag came spilling out.
But where are the dolls? Ah, a minor
omission. All the paraphernalia was to
support a culture pattern, the American
Girl Doll. The doll itself was available at
a chic store on a glitzy stretch of Fifth
Avenue near Cartier, Tiffany, Bergdorf
Goodman, and Saks.
Devorah will be thrilled, says Sharon good wife, who is delighted with
the prospect of introducing our granddaughter to the world of luxury dolls.
What about the old fashioned rag
doll, I wonder naively, sewn together
from a piece of quilt, a balled-up sock
and buttons for eyes?
Thats all very quaint, says Sharon,
but the American Girl Doll is an exciting
adventure of a different sort.
We visit the store. There milling
about are the girls with their mothers,
grandmothers and a few painfully tolerant fathers. They are checking out the
dolls, each of which has its own identity, personality and ethnicity. I learn not
only can a girl buy a doll if she has the
means, but she can also bring her own
doll in for a hair-do, and, if sick or injured, treatment by the doll doctor. The
doll can join her for afternoon tea, sitting

at the table with her on a special chair
with tiny teacup and saucer.
Wow! is my reaction. Now I know
why Rome fell.
But Sharon is quite taken with this
return to childhood, and sees no reason
why a kid cant pretend while still young
enough to enjoy it.
And so Devorah becomes part of the
American Girl Doll mystique. Theres no
problem deciding on birthday presents
for her. Soon she has two genuine American Girl dolls and a third, which is an
identical imitation made in China. One
doll is a Jewish immigrant from the early
1900s. Another is Mexican and a third is
an Eskimo.
We all become involved. I do my part
by fashioning little hangers for the dolls
clothes. The piece de resistance is a
luxurious brass doll bed from Devorahs

uncle.
Its fortunate that Devorah has her
own room to accommodate these creations because there is another level
of make-believe that must share the
space Devorahs dollhouse and its
miniature occupants. Besides trying to
earn money to buy American Girl Doll
items, Devorah is also searching constantly for additions to her dollhouse
tiny furniture and other Lilliputian-sized
accouterments.
Other worthy dolls have been part
of Devorahs life Barbie and Polly
Pocket but they never commanded
the attention, as have her American
Girl collection and the residents of her
dollhouse.
Flash forward ten years. Devorah
now 17 prepares for high school gradu-
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ation and a year with a seminary in Israel. Her cousin, Alina, will soon have
her eighth birthday. There is no question about the birthday party. It must
be at the American Girl place with a few
friends and her doll, a blue-eyed blond,
which has already been outfitted with
gym clothes to change occasionally
from her day-to-day dress. She also has a
pair of glasses that actually magnify and
a pair of tiny earrings.
For the birthday, Sharon scours the
catalogues for the perfect present, but
also at a reduced price. She thinks she
has found it a pair of pretty red and
white, flowered matching dresses, one
for the girl and one for the doll at an irresistible 40 percent off the original price.
Alina is delighted and, of course, she and
the doll wear their matching outfits at
the party.
The guests arrive, each with a doll,
and take their place at the table. One girl
doesnt bring a doll, but she borrows
one from the store. They choose food
from the luncheon menus and select an
exotic purple drink, all of which have
Devorah and her dolls.
been approved by the dolls. Then out

comes the cake, and a round of Happy
birthday, Alina. If one listens carefully
one can hear the soft doll voices joining
the chorus.
Back home, Alina, at age eight, has
almost outgrown her little bed. The replacement is not only larger, but is also
an exciting loft bed. How lucky! Alina can
sleep on the top and her doll down below. Life goes on and the doll is an active
participant.
But what about Kira, Alinas fouryear-old cousin? Surely the doll parade
wont pass her by. Contributions came
from all directions. Alina donated a talking doll, one that had something to say
when a button on her belly was pushed.
Kira may be too young for the sophisticated American Girl Doll, but one is
waiting for her when she gets older. Her
grandmother won it in a raffle.
And her great grandmother was not
to be outdone. She knew Sharon and I
would be traveling in Sicily on vacation,
so she commissioned us to buy an ethnic Sicilian doll for Kira. What seemed
to be a simple assignment proved to be
a daunting challenge. Souvenir shops
from Siracusa to Palermo had nothing
that came close. Apparently doll-making
is a lost craft.
We almost gave up, but in the town
of Taormina, swarming with tourists in

view of Mount Etna, was a shop where
the owner had bought the remaining
dolls from a craftsmans final effort.
There it was. About a foot high, a young
Sicilian lady in a peasant skirt, white
blouse and red kerchief, holding a wine
jug, and with a perky expression. No
credit card accepted, but we completed
the deal after a tiring search for an ATM
machine.
And so, from the unexpected knock
on the door that produced piles of doll
clothes, to the culture shock of the
American Girl Doll, to the final triumphant search for the Sicilian peasant, a
stretch of almost 15 years, I lost my innocence and became a full citizen of the
world of dolls.
Ed Silberfarb was a reporter for the Bergen
Record in New Jersey, then the New York
Herald Tribune where he was City Hall
bureau chief. Later, he was a public information officer for the New York City Transit
Authority and editor of one of its employee
publications.
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E M U N A B RAV E R M A N
he real way to cement a connection is to give. We usually think of

this in terms of the parent-child
relationship. Due to the one-way nature
of the giving, parents love their children
much more than children love their parents. But this idea can also be applied
when there is a relationship you would
like to fix, someone you would live to feel
closer to. Just start giving to them.
And this fascinating principle
doesnt only apply to relationships. It
applies to everything in life and can
be used to deepen our connection not
just to people but to our jobs as well. It
doesnt matter if its the most objectively
meaningful job or not, the most intellectually stimulating job or not, your dream
job or not; if you give, you will care.
I learned this idea from my plumber.
Now I know you can make a good living
as a plumber (some say its

better than a doctor these
days!) and Im certainly
grateful to have a plumber
available at those moments
when we need one, but I
wouldnt have thought it to
be a very interesting or exciting job. I learned otherwise or at least I learned
to see it through my plumbers eyes.
We had a problem with
some clogged pipes that
seemed due to tree roots. The plumber
had a special camera that could snake
through the pipes and take a film of the
situation, thereby determining how far
the roots had extended into our plumbing and what kind of repairs were required. I wanted to know the bottom line
answer, but my plumber wanted to show
me the actual video of our pipes. I really
didnt want to watch. I had

a lot to do but he was very
insistent. And very excited!
He loved looking at the
film and the roots and the
pipes and figuring out a solution to the problem. I didnt
love the film (maybe popcorn would have helped) but
I loved his enthusiasm. And
since I doubt he dreamed
of being a plumber from a
young age, I think it was an
example of you give, you
care. He invested in this job and he grew
to love it.
At the other end of the spectrum,
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a perfume exhibit and sale, with the actual perfumers being the ones exhibiting
and explaining their wares. It was the
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Some Creative Ways to Treat Dad on his Day

DENISE MORRISON YEARIAN
athers Day is a special

day set aside to celebrate
dads and other male role
models in your childrens
lives. This year, Fathers Day
falls on June 19. Rather than
spending a fortune on gadgets and gizmos that break
or collect dust, why not try a
creative approach to gift giving?
Following is a list of five no-cost
ways to show Dad the appreciation and
love he deserves.
1. This is your life.

Make Dad feel honored with a special
presentation of This is your Life.
Stage the show as if it were a television
special. Have one person be the show
host who interviews other family members regarding what they love about
Dad. They may also want to share a
story or memory they have of him.
Between interviews, prepare a special song, poem or other talent in his
honor. Ask Mom to videotape the pro-
gram and your father

will have a keepsake for
years to come.
2. At your service.
The gift of service is
something that keeps
on giving. Talk with family members about the
simple chores your father
does around the house.
On small strips of paper write down each
job he does, and on the other side write
the name of one family member who will
volunteer to do that chore for him. Tasks
could include cutting the yard, weeding
the flowerbeds, washing the car, shining
his shoes, etc. Continue this until you
have covered all of his responsibilities.
Find an old shoe box, place the strips of
paper in it and wrap it up. Present this to
Dad and in the days to come give him service with a smile.
3. A family tree.
Show Dad what a special part of your
family he is by creating a family tree.
Find a short tree branch and place it in
a decorated can. Stabilize the branch

with sand, clay or plaster. Next cut out
large leaf shapes from construction paper. Write the names of family members
on one side of the leaves and tape or
paste photographs of them to the other side. (Dont forget your pets.) If you
dont have a picture of someone, draw
it. Punch a hole through the top of each
leaf and thread a piece of yarn through it.
Now tie the leaves to the tree branches.
4. King for the day.

A day of relaxation and royalty will
make Dad feel extra special. When he
wakes up, greet him with a homemade
crown and tell him he will be king for
the day. Serve his favorite breakfast in
bed and ask what he would like to do
today. If he needs a little prompting,
suggest a family hike in the morning, a
picnic in the park for lunch and a nap in
the afternoon. While he is having down
time, wash his car and ask Mom to fill it
up with gas. Make the evening special
with a steak and potato dinner and a
special dessert, followed by his favorite movie. Throughout the day, remind
him of how much you love and appreciate him.
5. A day off.
Many fathers have little time for themselves. If this is the case, give Dad the
day off to play golf, go fishing or have
some time out with his buds. While he is
gone, prepare a special Best Dad in the
World banner for his arrival home.
Still want to purchase something for
Fathers Day? Here are a few tried-andtrue ideas: flowers, shrubs or a tree to
plant in the yard; season pass to a museum or science center; membership to
a health club; tickets to a sporting event;
gift certificate to his favorite restaurant,
home improvement store or garden center; magazine subscription; golf getaway
weekend; themed gift basket with items
of personal interestfishing, football,
golf or the movies; barbeque utensils;
computer software. Whatever you decide on, make sure its something that
suits Dads personal taste.
Denise Morrison Yearian is the former editor
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Dont Worry,
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Five Simple Stress Busters for Children

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ore children seem to be more

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Whatever the reason, children are
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My friends will just ignore me!

I am dumb!
I cant do anything right!
I give up!
We can teach children to replace
their negative thoughts with more positive ones:
Take it easy
Stay cool
Chill out
Take some deep breaths
Im getting tense so I need to relax.
Im going to be okay
Its okay if Im not good at this
Im sad that she doesnt want to hang
out with me, but other people like
me
Ill just try my hardest
1. Teach them what stress is:
3. Think good and it will be good:
Children often dont know that the physical symptoms that theyre experiencing
are due to their worries. In order to deal
with stress you need to be able to recognize that you are under stress. Our bodies are created in such a way that they
signal to us that we are tense and under
pressure. We need to interpret the signs.
When we worry, our breath and
heart rate increases and we feel like we
have butterflies in our stomach. Depending on our level of stress, our faces turn
red, our muscles tense and our body
feels hot. Children can have a hard time
understanding something inside the
body that cannot be seen or touched. It
can be helpful to have your child run in
place for 30 to 60 seconds and then ask
them to think about how his or her body
feels in terms of the body signals. You
can then discuss how your body feels
similarly under stress.
Children will benefit from learning the

connection between thoughts, feelings
and behaviors. For example:
2. Your mind is under attack:

Your body is not the only part of you
sending warnings. Your thoughts are
also being assaulted. Stress can be a result or exacerbated by negative thought
patterns. Children, teens and even
adults, will find that if they examine their
thinking when worried, their thoughts
sound something like this:
I cant do it!
It will be awful!
Im so stupid!
I hate doing homework!
Unhelpful thought: He is so unfair to

me=Negative Feelings: Anger =Unhelpful Behavior=Yelling and calling
names
Helpful thought: He is usually a good
friend=Positive Feelings=Happy
Helpful Behavior= Talk out a
disagreement
Unhelpful thought: I always screw up
math=Negative Feelings=Sadness=
Unhelpful Behavior=Dont try with
math
Helpful thought: Ill try my best
with my math=Positive
Feelings=Confidence=Helpful
Behavior=Good effort with math
We can help children move through
their difficulties by gently questioning their attitudes and moving them
through their worries.
Here is an example of how this can
work:
I cant read! I am stupid!
Are you thinking unhelpful thoughts?
Yes, I am thinking I am stupid!
Are these thoughts going to help you?
No, it makes me feel like giving up.
What is a different and more helpful
way I can think?
I can do this. I can ask for help or think
of a better strategy to do this.
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To help decrease worrying over all it is helpful to develop a healthy lifestyle. Try to build into your family life
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References:
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OurChildren
About
Helping Your Child or Teen

Cope with Test Anxiety
A R I E . F OX
here is a four-letter word, often

heard in school. This word can
elicit fear, even panic for some students. That word? TEST.
Most people feel at least a little
nervous before an exam. A low level of
anxiety can actually be helpful, as it can
provide motivation and energy during
the test. The problem is when the anxiety becomes so intense that it interferes
with concentration or performance.
When this happens, the student may
zone out or freeze up on the day of the
test and have trouble answering questions he or she actually knows. For some
individuals, tests can even bring about
physical symptoms.
What is Test Anxiety?

Test anxiety is a type of performance
anxiety. In performance anxiety, one
feels pressure to do well. Examples of

performance anxiety include waiting to
go onstage in a play, going to a job interview or making a class presentation.
Test anxiety, like other performance anxiety can induce:
butterflies
shakiness
sweating
rapid heart beat
nausea
headaches
What Causes Test Anxiety?

Like other forms of anxiety, test anxiety is an effect of anticipating a stressful outcome. When one is under great
stress, the body releases the hormone
adrenaline (an adaptive mechanism that
prepares us for danger. This is known as
the fight of flight response). The release
of adrenaline causes many of the physical symptoms described above. Focus-
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ing on negative outcomes can also contribute to test anxiety. One can become
flooded with thoughts like:
What if I mess up?
What if the test is too hard?
What if I forget what I studied?
What if people notice how nervous
I am?
There are essentially four main
sources of test anxiety:
How will others view me?

How will the test outcome affect my own
self-image?
How will the test affect my future?
Am I prepared for the test?
Tips to Help Students Cope

with Test Anxiety
1. Be Prepared
The more confident your child is going
into an exam, the less severe the test
anxiety is likely to be. Encourage your
child to familiarize himself or herself
with the test format (what kinds of questions, how much time is allotted, etc).
Organize the notes from the class. Make
flashcards and create mnemonics to
help with memorizing key concepts and
terms. Set a schedule to help determine
how much time is needed to study. Cramming the night before a test can intensify
anxiety and is often ineffective. Getting a
good nights sleep and a hearty meal are
important aspects of test preparation.
2. Think Positively
Be aware of negative thinking both before and during the test. Challenge the
negative thoughts with positive statements. For example, if your child is
thinking, There is no way I will do well
on this test, he or she could counter
with I studied hard. I know the information. I am going to try my best and will
do as well as I can. Positive thinking can
go a long way.
3. Take Some Pressure Off
I often tell children with whom I work
that it is physically impossible for them
to do better than their best. What I
mean by this is that students often feel
like they have to achieve the impossible.
It is as if they have to move a mountain
or run a 2-minute mile. This can feel
overwhelming and can cause children
to freeze or even give up. Children who
experience test anxiety need realistic
expectations, while being encouraged to
put in their best effort. Without minimizing the importance of the test to your
child, you can also provide comfort in
the fact that the test likely not make or
break the rest of their lives. Focusing on

the process (i.e. the effort) rather than
the outcome can help put things in perspective for you and your child.
4. Practice Relaxation Exercises
Develop relaxation strategies to help
your child feel calmer before and during the test. Breathing slowly and deeply through the nostrils and exhaling
through the mouth helps to slow heart
rate and normalize breathing. I recommend having your child practice this
regularly when they are in a relaxed
state, so they will have it ready as a tool
come test time. Tensing and relaxing the
muscles from the top of the body down
is another way to ease tension. Some
students like to squeeze a stress ball or
other small object. Remind your child of
the strategies prior to the exam. Some
students find it helpful to write about
their feelings prior to an exam. Actually,
several studies have shown that writing
for 8 minutes before a test can put students who worry on par with those who
do not.
5. Strategies During the Test
If the material seems unfamiliar or you
struggle at the start, find a question you
can handle and then start there to build
confidence.
Take breaks to recharge.
Take a few deep breaths.
Take a drink of water.
Close your eyes for a moment and
envision a calming scene.
Try to think positively: Remind
yourself that you prepared and are
doing your best.
Think of a reward you will give
yourself after the test: a treat, a
movie or something else to look
forward to when you are done.
Like any other skill, learning to manage test anxiety takes practice and patience. It is important for you the parent,
to address the problem as early as possible, because it is likely to get worse over
time without intervention. Rather than
avoiding the unpleasant thoughts and
feelings associated with test taking, your
child will benefit from working with you
to develop the tools and support systems
that will help them in the long term.
Ari Fox is a child, adolescent and young
adult psychotherapist in New York City. His
practice, Cope With School NYC, helps individuals with a wide range of issues and specializes in school functioning. To learn more,
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OurChildren
About
The Very Specialness of Specialty Camps

rom intense soccer training to playing chess like a champ to dancing

your ballerina best, or expressing
yourself through art, specialty camps fill a
niche for those campers who have a passion, or a special interest, or a few weeks
during the to explore something different.
If youre really serious about soccer, Future Soccer Academy is offering a
seven-week program starting July 11 at
its Englewood location. Founded in 2009,
Future Soccer Academy is a highly competitive soccer club. In less than seven
years, Future Soccer Academy has produced teams that compete in the highest-level leagues. Future Soccer Academy teams have captured first place in
numerous high-level college show case
tournaments.
The camp program is custom designed by club founder Riza Uku, a
highly acclaimed National B licensed
coach who oversees the daily operation.
In addition, coaches from the Red Bulls
Academy will be on staff to bring training techniques to our campers.

Theres another plus, since Future
Soccer Academy is help in an air-conditioned, indoor facility, the weather is
always perfect.
If capturing chess titles and exercising the mind through the skill and strategy of this thoughtful game is your thing,
then you can check out International
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Open to youngsters 6 to 16, campers
are giving a 5 to 1 student, teacher ratio,
prizes and trophies for tournaments and
competitions. The goal is to foster an
environment of learning and fun. A full
day of camp also includes creative arts
projects, guitar, piano and drum lessons.
At the summer program at Cresskill
Performing Arts in Cresskill, there is
even more performing arts for the summer is on tap, where according to owner
Betsy Daly, the camp has added another
studio to its space but sticks to a policy
of an intimate group size of 12 campers
for individualized attention. Cresskill,
International Chess Academy
she notes, is also an official camp for

special needs campers, as well.
Also new this year at Cresskill Performing Arts, says Ms. Daly, is a second
week of modern/ballet intensive dancingthere is a week in July and a week in
August. Camp this year will offer its array
of courses from dance, acting, art, fencing, stage combat, circus arts and the new
gymnastics/jazz program. Cresskill also
offers evening classes in modern and ballet dance for dancers who may be doing
something else during the day, but want
to continue studying dance.
At The Camp at Teaneck Creek, children entering grades one through seven
can partake in arts and science programs, which includes courses such as
aviation/fabulous flying machines, making magic, fairy tale trialsout of the
woods and into the courtroom, and nature and discovery at the Puffin and the
Teaneck Creek.
High Exposure Rock Climbing and
Parkour in Northvale is offering a survival camp for indoor and outdoor ad-
venture, including tree climbing, rope

climbing and other elements of survival
from June 25 through Aug. 12. Later in
the summer, High Exposure will offer an
American Ninja Warrior Camp that will
feature stars of the popular television
show, including Joe Moravsky, said High
Exposure owner Stephanie Shultz.
Calling all actors and musicians. For
its 8th summer season and the first in
its new Teaneck home, Black Box Rock
Musical Theater Intensive at Black Box
Studios will offer its camp from June 27
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This seasons musical production is
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of
Fleet Street, says Matt Okin, the artistic director of Black Box and the shows
director.
Okin has said that many of the
youngsters are serious about working
in the theater and becoming theater
professionals.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our
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About
Children and Divorce:

Dos and Donts for Single Dads
AV I G A I L R O S E N B E R G
Money isnt a weapon.

Dont withhold child support in order to punish your
ex. Itll end up filtering down to the children, who will
realize they cant trust you. Retaliation is tempting, but
its not the goal: healthy children are. Likewise, dont
badmouth. Your children may hear a lot of negativity
about you, but if you take the high road and refrain
from returning the favor, theyll ultimately realize which
parent they can trust and which they cant.
n the 10 years of Michael L.s marriage, his wife had

accused him drug peddling, refused to attend therapy, and claimed that he was the one with psychological issues. When the situation deteriorated to the point
where she became physically abusive, he walked out.
Yet three years later, his ex-wife hasnt let up, reporting him as violent towards their children to the police,
while hes left struggling to prove his innocence and
combat the poison she feeds the children about him.
Danny S.s ex left him over religious reasons, yet
hes still a devoted dad to his three boyswhen hes
able to see them. More often than not, his ex will cancel visitations at the last minute, upending his weekend
plans. When he tries to complain, she sweetly turns the
tables, claiming the boys didnt want to see him anyway and he doesnt deserve to see them either. Because
the child support he pays eats up most of his salary, he
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out. And when they dont, hes helpless, angry, and

afraid of her wrath.
Ben W. is a dedicated single father whose wife
walked out on him when their daughter was six months
old. He spent a year in court gaining the rights to see
her, and now has regular visitation and a loving relationship with his five-year-old, despite her mothers attempts at interference. Self-employed, he devotes two
afternoons a week to his daughters care, as well as every other weekend. Yet his social life is curtailed and
his dating prospects minimal, since his life is wrapped
around a preschoolers.
In todays society, single moms usually triumphtheyre often the ones holding the cards when
a family dissolves. Its not easy to manage on the home
front single-handedly, but the resources are plentiful,
and divorced moms often succeed in holding down a
job and raising the children, even on their own.
But what about the single dad? Cut off from family
life, cash-strapped, and occasionally pushed around by
nasty exes, they may struggle to find their footing in the
aftermath of divorce.
Can a single father maintain his relationship with
his children, hold onto his self-worth, and persevere in
the face of the many challenges ahead? He can, but only
if he knows how to go about it.
Here are some dos and donts for the divorced dad:
Recognize your role.

Dont abandon your children, even if they dont live
with you anymore. All children crave regular contact
with their father, whether through phone calls, e-mails,
or texts. Weekend visits are important, but dont limit
your contact with your children to those visits. Let
them know you care. Trust me, theyll thank you for it.
Seek help when necessary.

As a group, women are often able to acknowledge that
they cant do it all and reach out for help, whether from
family, friends, or community. Not so men, who prefer
to put up a macho front and go it alone. If youre a single
dad, you may need help with meal planning, parenting
advice, or laundry knowhow. Pick up that phone and
call someone. Dont try to do it all, especially at the expense of your kids comfort and safety.
Children need structure and stability in order to thrive,

even if theyre in your house only once a week. Create
routines for them during the times theyre with you:
dinner, bath time, and bedtime at predictable times will
make your time together much more manageable. Spoil
them a bit by buying special treats or renting a movie,
but dont overdo it and return them to their mom sugar
high and sleep deprived.
Make the minutes count.

Take the time to get to know your children when theyre
with you. Ask them about their day, find out about their
friends and activities, plan outings and play games together. Turn off your phone and focus on them so they
know you really care.
Dont restart till youre ready.

It may be tempting to turn your back on your past relationship and move right into the next one. Dont do it.
Statistics show that 80 percent of divorced men remarry the same type of woman they married the first time,
leading to a similarly unhappy marriage or a second divorce. Before you start dating again, process what went
wrong in your first marriage and own your part of the
story. Your future family will only gain.
Let go of the baggage.

If you find your dating always seems to end at the same
point, its a sign that youre stuck somewhere in the
process. Most of us find it hard to be objective about
our own role in a failed relationship. If necessary, find
a professional who can help you let go of the baggage
and move on.
Dont lose hope.

Always look for the light, no matter how bleak your situation is. Use your time alone to grow as a person, as
a father, and most of all as a future partner. If you do
the internal work necessary, youll start off your next
relationship on firmer ground, and youand your
kidswill be better off.
Single dads may not find it easy, but they can free
themselves of past heartache and rebuild their lives,
with a new partner or without. Hard as it may be, theyll
be glad they did.
Avigail Rosenberg is the editor of the recently released
Healing from the Break: Stories, Inspiration, and Guidance
for Anyone Touched by Divorce (Menucha Publishers), and
the creator of www.HealingfromtheBreak.com, a divorce
resource for single parents and others.
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Emmett his sister Hannah Mathilda Weisz hold a poster for Jews Freeing Slaves.
When a Tweens Fashion Means

Freedom for Those Without
f clothes make the man, perhaps clothes can free the

man.
Thats the creative idea of two Teaneck youngsters, Hannah Mathilda Weisz, nearly 10, and her brother, Emmett Weisz, 11.
Hannah Mathilda, with the help of Emmett, recently
launched a website, fashionfreedom.org, dedicated to
raising money by selling gently used clothing for Free
the Slaves, an organization with a mission to eradicate
global slavery.
If that sounds like pretty heavy stuff for the tween
duo, both of whom attend Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County, consider that their mother is
Rabbi Debra Orenstein, the rabbi of Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson, and a strong supporter of Free the
Slaves, a secular organization with a wide network of
faith-based groups.
In her championing of Free the Slaves, Rabbi Orenstein has conceived of Next Year Free!, a curriculum
designed to be used to prepare and lead a Passover
seder, which Free the Slaves offers online.
While Rabbi Orenstein is a prime mover of this mission in her familys home, and in her wider religious
circles, she is quick to credit her daughter with coming
up with the idea of selling the clothes shes outgrown to
help raise money for Free the Slaves.
It was all my daughters idea, says Rabbi Orenstein. But my son stepped in to help her design the
website, which went live around Passover. I have to
say that I originally started off as her web master, but

Emmett quickly replaced me. They 100 percent own
this.
The website, which features photographs and videos taken by their professional photographer father,
Craig Weisz, shows Hannah Mathilda in an array of outfits that shes ready to part with to help the cause that
she also champions.
Wear good things. Do great things, is the motto
that shes devised for fashionfreedom. Hannah Mathilda also has written all the descriptions on the website,
and acts as model for the fashions, many purchased
from her favorite stores, Target and Payless Shoes. The
website also features an interview that Hannah Mathilda conducted with Free the Slaves executive director,
Maurice Middleberg.
As for Emmetts take: Hannah is super-fashionable
and the clothes are great.
The pair said they have gotten much of praise and
Mazel Tovs for their effort, which they really appreciate. But what they really want is for visitors to the site
to buy the clothing so they could start to make a dent in
their fundraising effort. Visitors also can make a donation to the cause without buying the clothing.
Im very proud to see how they are working together, says Rabbi Orenstein, who adds that her children typically get along very well.
But with this cause in common, she says, theyve
become partners.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our Children.
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Museum Mile Festival

Art, Culture, Tradition
Now in its 38th year,

the annual Museum
Mile Festival takes place
rain or shine with free
admission to the Jewish
Museum and six other
New York City museums
on Fifth Avenue. Enjoy
live music by Mariachi
Flor de Toloache with
Bang on a Can, familyfriendly activities, and
special exhibitions.
Begun as a way to spur
the development of
new museum audiences and increase
support for the arts,
Museum Mile was
formed as a consortium by the museums that
share the Fifth Avenue address. The tradition continues on Tuesday, June 14. From 6 to
9 p.m. Museum Mile Festival, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan between 82 and105 Streets.
www.museummilefestival.org.
Year-End Showcase for

beyondDANCE
This year beyondDANCE will present two inspiring performances of Unstoppable,

showcasing all students in the dance program at The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC. Come celebrate Fathers Day in a unique way as the students showcase their
dance training. Another plus: there is a 50 percent discount for Dads in honor of
Fathers Day. beyondDance, Sunday, June19 at1 and 4 p.m. bergenPAC main stage at
30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood. 201-227-1030, www.ticketmaster.com, www.
bergenpac.org.
The Lightning Thief

Flashes at bergenPAC
The Lightning Thief, a new musical adapted from Rick Riordans book of the
same name will be brought to life on stage by Theaterworks USA. Percy
Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school yet again. But, that is
the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount
Olympus seem to be walking out of the pages of Percys Greek mythology
textbook and into his life. And hes angered a few of them. Zeuss master
lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect. Come watch
the fun. Sunday, June 5. 1 and 4 p.m. The Lightning Thief, bergenPAC, 30
North Van Brunt St., Englewood. 201-227-1030, www.bergenpac.org,
www.ticketmaster.com
Sight, Sound and Spirit at

Celebrate Israel Parade
Join more than 30,000 marchers and hundreds of thousands spectators, in addition to American and Israeli community leaders and dignitaries, entertainers, artists, musicians, dancers, celebrities, floats and bands, in the annual Celebrate Israel
Parade along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. In 1965, thousands walked down Riverside
Drive in support of the young State of Israel. This impromptu walk evolved into the
Salute to Israel Parade. In 2011, the parades name changed to focus on celebrating the vibrant and diverse country of Israel. Sunday, June 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Celebrate Israel Parade, Along Manhattans Fifth Avenue from 57 to 74 Streets.
www.celebrateisraelny.org.
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1. Record setting player and member of the 1969 Miracle Mets Art Shamsky spoke at Temple
Emanuel about his experiences as a Jew in Major League Baseball and his involvement with the
Israel Baseball League.
5. Fanwood residents Ethan, Jeff, Mallory and Gina Banks organized the Rockin For Autism
Music Festival in Fanwood. The event was the brainchild of Mallory, 14, who has raised more than
$20,000 for AutismNJ since 2011 in honor of her brother, Ethan.
2. Students at Solomon Schechter Day School celebrated Israels 68th birthday with classic Israeli
dances in the morning rekudiyah, played on a Tel Aviv beach, prayed at the Kotel, and more. They
capped off the day with a spirited zimriyah.
6. More than 700 people assembled at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades to commemorate Israels
fallen soldiers and victims of terror during its Yom Hazikaron commemoration. The event featured a
ceremony in English and Hebrew, prepared by members of the JCC Israel Center, the Israeli Scouts
and the Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement.
3. The Moriah School fifth-graders recently concluded their oceanography unit with Oceanography
Night. Friends and family came to The Moriah School for an evening of fun and education.
4. Volunteers from the Torah Academy Of Bergen County visited the Yiddish Farm in Goshen, N.Y.,
and helped prepare it for the coming season as part of their Senior Year Work Study. They repaired
fencing, turned over the garden, planted potatoes, mulched horseradish, and cleaned a chicken
coop, among other chores.
7. Glen Rock Jewish Center celebrated Israels independence day with a festival featuring food,
crafts and activities. The highlight was our zimriyah, a celebration in song. Rabbi Jennifer
Schlosberg is seen leading the children.
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The Good Life With Kids
To Our Readers: This calendar is a day-by-day schedule of events. Although all information is as timely as we can make it, its a good idea to call to
verify details before you go.
Saturday, May 28
Friday, June 3
Our Great Big Backyard Storytime: To help

commemorate the 100th anniversary of the
National Park Service, this special Storytime
explores Our Great Big Backyard. #1 New York
Times bestselling author former First Lady Laura
Bush and her daughter Jenna Bush Hager have
created an exuberant picture book tribute to our
national parks and the importance of connecting with nature. 11 a.m. Coloring and activities
to follow. Barnes & Noble, 765 Route 17 South,
Paramus. 201-445-4589.
Young Family Shabbat in Glen Rock: Glen

Rock Jewish Center hosts young family Shabbat.
Service starting at 5:30 p.m.; dinner and dessert
following at 6 p.m. Glen Rock Jewish Center, 682
Harristown Road, Glen Rock, 201-652-6624,
www.grjc.org.
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company: World premiere
of First Touch performed 7:30 p.m. at New Jersey
Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), 1 Center Street,
Newark. Tickets $20 to $50. www.njpac.org.
Sunday, May 29
Saturday, June 4
Middle School Trip to Manhattan: CTeen is

hosting a trip for middle school teens, grades 6
through 8. The teens will travel to NYC where
they will spend a day of fun including meeting
new friends, sightseeing and volunteering for the
needy. For more information, CTeen.org/junior,
973-694-6274, Musky@jewishwayne.com.
Prepare for Shavuot: The Kaplen JCC on the

Palisades and the Israeli-American Council offers
a contemporary alternative to an old tradition
with poetry, yoga, dance, delicious food and
more. Come dressed in white. Starting at 9:15
p.m. $20 member; $25 nonmember. JCC on the
Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly. 201-4081427, www.jccotp.org.
Tuesday, May 31
Saturday, June 4
Storytime in Clifton: Join other youngsters for

storytime at Barnes & Noble in Clifton. 11 a.m.
Clifton Commons, 395 Route 3 East, Clifton. 973779-5500.
Wednesday, June 1
Family Game Night in Closter: Parents with children are encouraged to come learn and play fun
card, and board games or solve jigsaw puzzles
together. Some of our games include Monopoly,
Scrabble, Uno, Jenga, Sorry, Apples to Apples to
name a few. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Closter Library, 280
High St., Closter. 201-768-4197.
The M Word: How to have the money talk, an
interactive dialogue featuring financial expert
Lori Sackler and WNBC-TV reporter Jen Maxfield.
7:30-9:30 p.m. JCC on the Palisades, 411 E.
Clinton Ave., Tenafly. $7 members; $10 nonmembers. 201-408-1456.
Thursday, June 2
Playtime in the Library: Come and enjoy time
with other youngsters during playtime 10-11 a.m.
Englewood Library, 31 Engle St., Englewood. 201568-2215.
Author Event: Come hear Alison Formento,
author of several childrens books, who joins a
special Storytime. 3:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble,
Clifton Commons, 395 Route 3 East, Clifton. 973779-5500.
Summer Reading Triathlon Opening

Ceremony: Children grades 1 through 6 can
earn a free book at their local Barnes & Noble.
Join the Summer Reading Triathlon Opening
Ceremony at 11 a.m. Kids can get their journals
for a free book, enjoy fun activities and cast a
ballot for their favorite book hero and place to
win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Medal. Barnes &
Noble, 765 Route 17 South, Paramus. 201-4454589.
Sunday, June 5
Family Art Project: Find out what makes soil
healthy and rich through exploration outdoor
and indoor experiments. Use actual soil in the art
project. 10 a.m. Free with admission. Wave Hill,
649 W. 249 St., Bronx. 718-549-3200, www.
wavehill.org.
The Lightning Thief: A new musical based on
the book by Rick Riordan. 1 and 4 p.m. bergenPAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood.
201-227-1030, www.ticketmaster.com, www.
bergenpac.org.
Tuesday, June 7
Storytime in Clifton: Join other youngsters for
storytime at Barnes & Noble in Clifton. 11 a.m.
Clifton Commons, 395 Route 3 East, Clifton.
973-779-5500.
Author Speak: Author Debbie Slevin talks about
her book, UnPregnant Pause: Where are the
Babies? 7 p.m. at the Y, to speak at the Wayne
YMCA about her book UnPregnant Pause:
Where are the Babies? Free. 1 Pike Drive,
Wayne. 973-595-0100, www.wayneymca.org.
Wednesday, June 8
Lego Club at the Library, see Thursday, June 9
22 ABOUT OUR CHILDREN MAY 2016
Preschool Storytime: Children 3 1/2 to 5 years

old are invited to preschool storytime at the
library. 3 p.m. No registration required. Teaneck
Public Library, 840 Teaneck Road, Teaneck. 201837-4171, www.teaneck.org.
Chabad Womens Circle of Tenafly Dinner:
18th Annual Womens Dinner at 7 p.m. honoring Vivian Brisman, Stephanie Rabbani and
Sonya Soloman. Also featuring celebrity chef,
restaurant owner and cookbook author Levana
Kirschenbaum. Lubavitch on the Palisades, 11
Harold St. Tenafly. $54 per

person. 201-871-1152, www.
chabadlubavitch.org.
Thursday,
June 9
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Tuesday, June 8
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Wednesday,
June 15
Family Game Night in
Closter: Parents with children are encouraged to
come learn and play fun
card, and board games
or solve jigsaw puzzles
together. Some of our
games include Monopoly,
Scrabble, Uno, Jenga,
Sorry, Apples to Apples to
name a few. 3:30-4:30
p.m. Closter Library, 280
High St., Closter. 201-7684197.
Playtime in the Library:

Come and enjoy time with
other youngsters during playtime 10-11 a.m.
Englewood Library, 31 Engle
St., Englewood. 201-5682215.
Lego Club at the Library:
The Lego Club is for children 6 and older. After
storytime, build Legos based
on the storytime theme.
Children should bring their
Oh, the Places Youll Go, see Saturday,
own Legos (BYOBlocks) to
June 11.
the meeting. Registration
is required. Teaneck Public
Young Fantasy Reads Book Group: Join the
Library, 840 Teaneck Road, Teaneck. 201-837Young Fantasy Reads book group in the Cafe as
4171, www.teaneck.org.
they discuss I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore.
Mother-Daughter Tea: A tea for CTeen mothAll are welcome. 7:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 765
ers and their daughters and the newly appointed
Route 17 South, Paramus. 201-445-4589.
CTeen leaders will be announced. 7:15 p.m. A
light dinner will be served. Chabad Center of
Passaic County, 194 Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973Temple Emeth Shabbat Music Service: Join in
694-6274, www.jewishwayne.org.
as Shabbat is celebrated through singing, dancing
and music performed by the Temple Emeth band.
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck. 201-833Author Event: Come hear Alison Formento,
1322, www.emeth.org.
author of several childrens books, who joins a
special storytime. 3:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble in
Clifton. 11 a.m. Clifton Commons, 395 Route 3
Fathers Day Storytime: To honor dads, grandpas
East, Clifton. 973-779-5500.
and caregivers, we will read two charming books,
Dad School and Grandpa Loves You! Activities to
follow. 11:00 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 765 Route 17
Family Storytime: Come one, come all. Starting
South, Paramus. 201-445-4589.
at 11 a.m. family storytime at the library. No regFathers Day Storytime: To honor dads, grandistration required. Teaneck Public Library, 840
fathers and caregivers, there will be a reading of
Teaneck Road, Teaneck. 201-837-4171, www.
Dad School, and Grandpa Loves You! Activities
teaneck.org.
to follow. Barnes & Noble in Clifton. 11 a.m. Clifton
B-Fest Teen Book Festival: Special event for
Commons, 395 Route 3 East, Clifton. 973-779teens. 11 a.m. Get sneak peeks of your favorites,
5500.
including James Dashners prequel to The Maze
Runner, new stories from Miss Peregrines Peculiar
Children by Ransom Riggs, and an exciting new
beyondDANCE End-of-Year Showcase: The
series from Veronica Roth, plus other exciting
Performing Arts School at bergenPAC presents
giveaways. Limit one each per customer while
Unstoppable, 1 and 4 p.m. showcasing the work
supplies last. Barnes & Noble, 765 Route 17
of the dance students. 30 N. Van Brunt St. in
South, Paramus. 201-445-4589.
Englewood. There is a 50 percent discount for
Oh, the Places Youll Go!: Special Childrens
dads in honor of Fathers Day. 201-227-1030,
Event. In celebration of lifes many milestones,
www.ticketmaster.com, www.bergenpac.org
join in a reading of the Dr. Seuss Classic, Oh the
Places Youll Go! Activities to follow. Barnes &
Noble in Clifton. 11 a.m. Clifton Commons, 395
Playtime in the Library: Come and enjoy time
Route 3 East, Clifton. 973-779-5500.
with other youngsters during playtime 10-11 a.m.
Joint Shavuot Services: Glen Rock Jewish Center
Englewood Library, 31 Engle St., Englewood. 201joins Temple Israel for a cheese tasting, study
568-2215.
and learning with three rabbis. Cheesecake for
dessert. 8 p.m. Temple Israel, 475 Grove St.,
Ridgewood. 201-652-6624, office@grjc.org.
Girls Science Camp: Girls grades 4 through 6 are
invited to attend a Girls Science Interactive Camp
starting this day and going for six sessions. From 4
College Talks: Learn about the amazing extrato 5 p.m. Registration required. Englewood Library,
curricular opportunities different extracurricular
31 Engle St., Englewood. 201-568-2215.
activities for students to position themselves well
for the admissions process. 7 to 8 p.m. Sign-up
is required. Closter Library, 280 High St., Closter.
Thursday,
June 16
Friday, June 17
Friday, June 10
Saturday, June 18
Saturday, June 11
Sunday, June 19
Monday, June 27
Tuesday, June 28
Tuesday, June 14
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Protection from Summers Pests:

Insect Bites
The emergence of the Zika virus,
spread by mosquitoes, has increased
the prevention bug bites and brought
much-needed attention and scrutiny
to the bug repellent market. It is worth
noting that the term bug repellent
is inappropriate, as it seems the way
these products work is actually to
make us invisible to biting bugs; these
products are more like bug cloaks.
Historically DEET has been the
mainstay of effective bug cloaking. It
was developed by our federal government in the 1940s to help soldiers deal
with the bugs of jungle warfare. DEET
has demonstrated effectiveness and it
seems the higher the concentration the
longer the protection. There were safety concerns that surrounded an association of DEET and neurotoxicity, but
research has shown that when DEET is
used as recommended in concentrations of 20 to 30 percent it is very safe,
and can be used in children as young
as 3 months. There are a lot of DEET
products available so it is important
to look at the DEET concentration. For
effective and long-acting bug cloaking,
one should use a product that has 20
to 30 percent DEET. Very often parents
are scared to use DEET due to the stories of toxicity. As a result people avoid
DEET or purchase products that have
very low DEET concentrations. This is
not an effective strategy because DEET
works well but when used in low concentrations it will do little to prevent
bug bites, and in low concentrations
any protection will be for a very short
period of time.
Here is a list of the most common
commercially available products with
DEET that would be safe and effective:
Off! Deep Woods VIII with 25 percent
DEET; Sawyer Premium Ultra with 30

to 30 percent DEET; Cutter Backwoods
with 25 percent DEET.
In the last decade, a new line of
bug cloaking products with the
chemical Picaridin came to the U.S.
market. Picaridin has demonstrated
comparable and possibly superior
effectiveness as DEET. There are no
reports of toxicity associated with Picaridin. An added benefit of Picaridin
products is they have a more pleasant
scent than DEET products and they do
not irritate the mouth and eyes. Here
is a list of the most common commercially available products with Picaridin that would be safe and effective:
Sawyer Fishermans Formula Picaridin
with 20 percent Picaridin; Natrapel
with Picaridin 20 percent. There is another product that has become a great
option and it is derived from a naturally occurring bug cloaking ingredient called oil of lemon eucalyptus. It
should be noted that the effective bug
cloaking chemical in oil of lemon eucalyptus called PMD (p-menthane-3,8diol) is not natural and is chemically
manufactured when used in commercial bug cloaking products. PMD has
no toxicity, has a pleasant odor, and
works as well or better than the gold
standard DEET. Repel and Cutter are
the most recognizable brands that
produce PMD products.
It should be noted that there are
lots of other products out there that
market themselves as more natural
or DEET free or nontoxic. The
evidence suggests that if the product
doesnt have DEET, Picardin, or PMD
you will be quite visible and uncloaked
thus you will remain a juicy target as
you embark into the world of insects.
Simchas
Bnai mitzvah
Neil Epstein of Haworth and

sister of Isabelle, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
May 8 at Temple Emanu-el in
Closter.
SOPHIE FERRARA
LUC FERRARA
EVAN BLOCK
Evan Block, son of Drs. Sari
Zimmer Block and Michael
Block of Englewood Cliffs and
brother of Lauren, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah
on May 7 at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
His grandparents are Joy
and the late Lowell Zimmer
of Teaneck and Esther and
the late Theodore Block of
Englewood Cliffs.
Sophie and Luc Ferrara, twin

children of Julie and James
Ferrara of Norwood, celebrated becoming bnai mitzvah on
May 14 at Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley in Closter.
Remy Dresner, son of Jennifer

and Ed Dresner of Ridgewood
and brother of Hannah, celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah on May 7 at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff.
JILLIAN HEIT
Jillian Heit, daughter of Stacy
and Stuart Heit of Waldwick,
celebrated becoming a bat
mitzvah on May 14 at Temple
Israel & Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood.
OLIVIA SUIED
DANIEL FUCHS
REMY DRESNER
and Michael Giammo of

Hackensack and sister of
Lucas Giammo, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
May 21 at Temple Avodat
Shalom in River Edge. Her
grandparents are Susan
and Sheldon Sandler of
Wilmington, Del.; Kathleen
Fahey of San Diego, Calif.;
Moira and James Giammo of
Fairfax, Va.
Daniel Fuchs, son of Amy and

Bruce Fuchs of Upper Saddle
River and brother of Devon,
celebrated becoming a bar
Emanuel in Woodcliff Lake.
HARLIE EPSTEIN
NATALIE SANDLER
GIAMMO
Harlie Epstein, daughter of

Laurie Zettler Epstein and
Natalie Sandler Giammo,

daughter of Alison Sandler
Olivia Suied, daughter of

Debra and Albert Suied of
Mahwah and sister of Noa,
celebrated becoming a bat
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.
ADAM WEISS
Adam Weiss, son of Wendy
and Larry Weiss of Haworth,
celebrated becoming a bar
Beth El of Northern Valley in
Closter.
PARTY
Camp Gan Israel for Summer Fun

Looking for a place where your child
will be welcomed with open arms? A
place where every Jewish child thrives
in a safe and warm environment?
Camp Gan Israel is the place for your
child. The camp features sports, swimming, drama, arts & crafts, cooking,
weekly trips, martial arts, tennis, weekly Jewish themed activities and more.
Located in New City, N.Y., Camp Gan
Israel has a 35,000 square foot facility
that includes a heated pool, indoor airconditioned facility, which includes a
gym, cafeteria, art room, game room
& music room. Our outdoor play areas
and courts are zoned for children of all
ages that allows for many types of activities and growth.
Camp Gan Israel, known affectionately as Gan Izzy, is part of the
largest international network of Jewish camps created to provide Jewish children with a comprehensive
and meaningful summer program. It
is geared for Jewish boys and girls
ages 2 through 12. Children at Camp
Gan Israel come from many different
backgrounds and levels of affiliation.
Everyone is welcomed with open
arms and made to feel part of the
loving Gan Izzy family. The daily
schedule includes a fun and engaging
mix of sports, field trips, swimming
and activities to foster the growth of
children emotionally, socially and
Jewishly.
For more information or to receive
registration forms, call 845-634-0951
or email info@cgirockland.org., www.
cgirockland.org.
973-661-9368
Include:
1 hours of skating (during public session)
Private decorated party room
Off ice party attendant
Skate rental
Invitations for party guests
Pizza and soda
Personalized Carvel ice cream cake
Favors and candy
FREE skating pass for future use
Birthday child receives FREE Ice Vault T shirt
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AWARD RECOGNITION
2016 VIZIENT SUSTAINABILITY
EXCELLENCE AWARD
GREENHEALTH PARTNER
FOR CHANGE AWARD
Top quality care.

For our environment, too.
GREENING THE
O.R. AWARD
Valley Health System is recognized for taking major steps to reduce waste and increase sustainability. We were
honored with the 2016 Vizient Sustainability Excellence Award, the Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change
Award and the Greening the OR Award. From harvesting honey and beeswax to recycling and creating
more environmentally friendly operating rooms, our efforts help save money and reduce our carbon
footprint, which impacts employees, patients and our entire community.
Our initiatives help us create even higher quality care the reason
we believe patients choose us. Again and again.
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EVENTS &
CELEBRATIONS
A supplement to the Jewish Standard Spring 2016
Jewish Standard
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Games people play...................................................4

From basketball to foosball, racing to rock climbing, the event is a blast
Second time around..................................................5

Freedom from traditional wear, if you want
Gifts that give...........................................................8

Tzedakah gifts lift the giver and receiver
Favors back in favor................................................11

Incredible edibles among top take-home gifts
Inside out................................................................12
Weddings that use the freshness of the outdoors
Set a sweet stage for the

big graduation party...............................................14
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racing to rock climbing, the event is a blast
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ome the end of June and hundreds of graduated seniors

are going to get the stadium
event of their school lives.
Theyll be right on the green at
the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford to play Dave & Busterstype videogames, watching an
awe-inspiring mentalist, and
celebrating their completion of
high school from the night into
the morning in a very safe, very
secure, very fun and very alcohol-free space.
Its Project Graduation, an
event that offers these teen revelers a chance to celebrate with
activities galore, some of which replicate performances to club hopping.
Its such a wonderful night, said
Barbara Mastando, special events sales
manager for D&C/Metlife Stadium. This
could be a worrisome night, but instead
it turns out to be a great program. The

kids have a blast and for the parents, its
peace of mind.
Events are always fun, but games are a
big draw. And what could be more reminiscent of a game than holding a party in
a stadium?
In Jersey City, Pole Position Raceway, an indoor go-kart arena is another
fun way to celebrate any occasion. At
Pole Position Raceway, we strive to provide our customers with a celebration to
remember, Karen Davis-Farage, president and co-owner of the Pole Position
Raceway has said. Weve raced hundreds of thousands of people and hosted
countless occasions for 20 to 300-plus
people, including bachelor and bachelorette parties, birthdays, corporate
and team building events and more. Our
exhilarating, safe and authentic race
experience coupled with our attentive
and dedicated staff makes for truly personalized events which we believe keeps
our guests coming back.
In fact, said Zach Thigpen, director of

marketing, the racing appeals to several
different demographic groups including
corporate clients who love racing around
while doing their team building, tourists,
who get to catch a fun ride while visiting
the area, revelers who are celebrating an
occasion, and folks who just want to have
a great time.
We do many special events such as
bar mitzvahs and bachelor parties, to
name a few, said Mr. Thigpen.
Bowling anyone? Bowlmar, with locations nationwide, is a classic game for a
party. Who doesnt remember the old
bowling party? But venues like Bowlmar have taken the partying up a few
notches.
These events are extremely customizable, said Nicole Scharf, a representative of Bowlmar, who handles the companys publicity.
When someone plays games at an
event, it heightens their enjoyment,
adding a level of activity and providing
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another form of entertainment, said Ms. Scharf.

Slate, New York Citys Ultimate Event Venue,
has a little bit for everyone, said Sam Boudloche, the director of events for Slate. Slate blends
a swanky nightclub atmosphere with the fun of a
cozy sports bar with its elaborate extras, including
an expansive and state-of-the-art audio and video
system and intelligent lighting.
Likewise, there is plenty of play there, including
a ping-pong table, foosball and more for team building and friendly competition. There are private and
semi-private areas in the restaurant as well.
The kids just love it for their parties and bar
and bat mitzvahs, said Jeremy Lieberman, director of marketing and branding for The Lure Group,
owner of Slate.
Slate, which attracts several celebrities, including Michael Strahan among others, also has a giant
old-school arcade machine equipped with 2,000
games, said Lieberman. In addition, it boasts a
giant chess set (life size if youre a kid) and a
giant Jenga set, a classic block-stacking, stack
crashing game. There is also ping-pong, pool, and
shuffleboard.
Having these games just enhances everyones
experience, Mr. Lieberman said. It just adds
another layer of fun to the entertainment.
Another Manhattan game spot where, if youre
lucky, you can spot or pay to spot basketball
legend, Walt Clyde Frazier is Clyde Fraziers Wine
and Dine, which spans a full city block on 10th Avenue between 37th and 38th Streets.
The dining room, bar and lounge occupy 10,000
square feet, and one of the biggest draws is what
else for the former star player of the Knicks?
the basketball court. It is a regulation half court,
which is a big hit, especially with the bar and bat
mitzvah parties. It is not unusual for the host to
hire a coach there is even one on staff at the
restaurant to practice drills with the young, and
even not-so-young guests. For those who want the
extra, which is for Clyde to make an appearance,
he does. For a fee he will come to the party, sign
autographs, pose for photographs and chitchat
with the guests.
Closer to home, Teaneck Doghouse, a quaint
stone tavern and sports bar with kosher food and
full bar, athletic memorabilia and games on multiple screens that opened in September 2014, is
a great spot for all kinds of parties. If youre not
playing a game, youre watching one on the many
screens playing sports.
Over in West Orange, a relatively newcomer that
has reinvented the space of a former nightclub is
4Sixty6 Caterers, which has the architecture and
amenities of the South Beach, Las Vegas-type nightclub that preceded it. It takes that and now marries it with a high-tech lighting and sound system to
have a space where bar and bat mitzvahs and other
events are unique and one-of-a-kind, said Jude Roppatte who owns the facility with Bill Zolna.
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Second time around

Freedom from traditional wear, if you want
Heidi Mae Bratt
he big white dress. A creation

made of tulle, silk, lace, beading. A train that rivals the
iconic one that followed Princess Diana at her storybook wedding. A veil that stuns as it frames a
perfectly made-up face. Every bride
dreams of that wedding day dress,
that sartorial fantasy and spends
plenty of time shopping for that
right probably-be-worn-once dress.
Some may pass it along to a daughter or a charity. But most have the
once-worn dress captured in memories and in photographs.
What happens the second-time
around. Maybe the bride is a bit
older, wiser and not so into the
mega-white wedding. What are
brides choosing for when they
walk down the aisle again. And for
that matter, what are men choosing when they walk down the aisle
again.
Local fashionistas say the word is
fashion freedom.
There is freedom to explore
another look, freedom to honor the
changes in your body, freedom to
honor the changes in your age and
the changes in your matrimonial
status. There are also those who like
the more tried and true look.
Some women are traditionalists who want to wear that ivory
or blush to get as close to white as
you can, said Sara, the owner of
Mishelynes Fashions in Teaneck,
an emporium of formal and more
casual stylish clothing.
Then there are those who really
want to go another route, said
Sara. They opt for real color like
eggplant, navy and red.
But the key to getting a secondtime around look, said Sara, is to absolutely find and choose what flatters.
In terms of fabric you want to go
for a dress that you like and that you
feel beautiful in and that has a flattering style, she said.
Topping it off with the look of fine
jewelry, semi-precious pieces to match
the dress and the color of the season,
and how could you go wrong?
My best advice, said Sara, is if
youve already done the original route
Great sleek and pretty looks

for the bride from Mishelynes
Fashions in Teaneck.
to organza to chiffon.
You understand that this is
still a real wedding, said Ms.
Parlato.
Remember, you
dont have to look
like a traditional
bride. You just have
to look special.
Sara, owner of
Mishelynes Fashions, Teaneck
the first time before, so you definitely

can do something different. Remember, you dont have to look like a traditional bride. You just have to look
special.
Paula Parlato, owner of The Engle
Shop in Englewood, said that many
second-time brides say they want to
keep the second-time around wedding wear simple and close to white.
They choose light pink, light blue or
ivory. The fabrics range from soft lace
Ms. Parlato agreed that the best

thing is for the bride to look her
very best.
Try to get the best look for your
body. Whatever looks good, whatever
is age appropriate. You can go a little
funky and sophisticated, she said.
As for the grooms, Aryeh Elbaum,
the visual designer and salesman at
Emporio, the new mens clothing
store in Teaneck, says that it depends
whose first time it is. If it is the second
time for the groom, but the first time
for the bride, the groom may have to
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go more traditional, but not necessarily pull out his

first-time tuxedo (not that he should).
Nowadays, a well-fitted elegant black suit, paired
with a gorgeous white shirt and a black or a white tie
and then set off with a satin black vest, and youve
got a near-tuxedo look without the tuxedo, Mr.
Elbaum said.
Its also very practical because you have a great
black suit that you can wear again and again, and
not a tuxedo that is going to be stuck in your closet
and pulled out only for the rare black tie event, said
Mr. Elbaum.
Diana Yomtobian, the owner of Monte Carlo, a
mens clothing store in Westwood, agrees that the
second time is a bit more relaxed and offers more
choice in terms of suiting up.
The second time is not as formal, said Ms.
Yomtobian. But it also depends on where the celebration is taking place. Sometimes, she said, the
grooms attire matches the brides dress and they
dress in pants or a jacket that is lilac or lavender.
Ms. Yomtobian also said that blue is replacing
black as the formal color.
Yes, its true. Blue is the new black, she said.
Another hot look, and one that she witnessed in
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The groom can be stylishly outfitted at Emporio mens clothing shop in Teaneck.
a wedding abroad and clearly had a European lead, was the tie-less suit. A white,
crisp French cuff shirt sets off a suit and
there is no tie. The first and second button
is left open.
Thats right. No ties. I saw a lot in
Europe, Paris and London, said Ms.
Yomtobian.
Nowadays, everyone makes their own

fashion. Anything goes.
David Rappaport, owner of Teanecks
Emporio, said that the store actually is selling very few formal tuxedos.
I dont think there are any rules, Mr.
Rappaport said. I think these days, its
really a matter of preference.
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Tzedakah gifts lift the

giver and receiver
tabletop. hostess gifts. bridal registries
Heidi Mae Bratt
zedakah is one of our values. In fact, it is an imperative. To give. Even if you have very little, the sages
tell us to give, even a little.
Tzedakah gifts are very popular because such a
gift elevates the occasion and brings it to a new level. Sure
its nice to give a big, fat check or the China setting on the
wedding registry, but some of these gifts are the gifts that
keep giving.
When Rachel Rubinstein, a 12-year-old sixth grader at
Yavneh Academy, started thinking about her mitzvah project, her mother, Valerie Rubinstein of Teaneck, turned
to Jewish Family Services for guidance. The agency has
launched and continues to run many successful programs
for the community, including its annual Wheels for Meals
Ride to Fight Hunger.
Ms. Rubinstein reached out to Ellen Finkelstein at Jewish Family Services. It just so happened that Ms. Finkelstein was launching a new program, Birthday in a Box.
The program was an effort to give the youngsters of families who use the organizations food pantry a chance to
have their own birthday parties.
For these families who avail themselves of the food
pantry, there is little for the essentials and even less for
something like a birthday party, Ms. Finkelstein said. So
was born Birthday in a Box, and Rachel was among the
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first to do this project. It involves getting boxes and filling

them with birthday party goodies, such as paper goods,
candles, and balloons all the accessories that make a
party look and feel like a party.
Rachel assembled the boxes and enlisted friends to
write a lovely birthday card to the recipients who would
be boys and girls and then used the filled boxes as centerpieces for her own party. After her party, she gave
the already assembled boxes to Jewish Family Services.
Youngsters are already on tap to have their birthday parties. ( JFS has organized pizza and birthday cake as well.)
It was really a very nice project for Rachel, said her
mother. I also think that is was very relatable. She was
having a party, and she was helping another child to have
a party, said Ms. Rubinstein
Reading and helping other youngsters read is the goal of
the Book Centerpieces for a Tzedakah project, said Beth
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Short Term Projects:
Participate in the Ride to Fight

Hunger.
Donate Birthday in a Box supplies
Hold a food drive for our Food Pantry.
Make craft packages for our School

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Socialize with Holocaust survivors at

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Create holiday packages for Kosher

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Collect and pack emergency supplies

for senior citizens.
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Long Term Projects:
Create a Team for Wheels-for-Meals Ride get

your friends and family involved!
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Ambassador.
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ideas come directly from our volunteers!
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Figman, the director of volunteers for Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Through the purchase, rental actually,
of artfully designed book centerpieces
that could sit on the tables at an affair or
an event, funds are raised to support Bergen Reads, a program that sends volunteers into the schools to help support 350
students in the area learn to read.
Its very meaningful to the kids, said
Ms. Figman. These centerpieces look
beautiful when you need them that day
and it serves to support a program that
helps bring children up to grade level in
their reading.
Another beautiful centerpiece that also
serves a purpose are Flowers by J-ADD,
bouquets of which are assembled by members of J-ADD, the Jewish Association for
Developmental Disabilities.
The program started small about five
years ago but it is really developing and
expanding, said John J. Winer, executive
director of J-ADD.
Through this program, he said, we can
teach people a skill, make them more independent and increase everyones quality
of life, Mr. Winer said.
Another gift that goes beyond the standard items that usually come to mind for
celebratory occasions is Israel bonds.
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the gift of Israel, since the bond connects
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Two bonds currently being offered by
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Bonds that are particularly appropriate for
gifts are the Mazel Tov eMitzvah bonds.
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Favors back in favor
Incredible edibles among top take-home gifts

Sharon Naylor
fter a few years of skipping wedding favors as a

budget-saving decision with the marrying couple donating to their favorite charity in lieu of giving guests favors in many cases fabulous favors
have now made their way back onto must-have lists. With
guests traveling, sometimes great distances, to attend the
wedding, couples want to thank them for their time and
efforts on their big day. And with the growth of creative
and edible favors, so admired on wedding blogs and on
Pinterest and Instagram, wedding couples enjoy having
the chance to select or make favors that impress.
According to Shane McMurray, publisher of the wedding
survey magazine The Wedding Report, the average amount
spent on wedding favors is $173-$289, with high-end favors
reaching an average of $347-$462. Here are the most popular wedding favor items from The Wedding Report:
Mini-pots of honey. Honey wedding favors are popular now because they have multiple levels of appeal, says
Mary Kosenski, owner of E+M Wedding Favors and E+M
Gold Beekeepers, makers of raw honey products. The
first is that honey is used and enjoyed in so many different ways, such as added to tea, spread on toast or scones,
drizzled on appetizers, and eaten as-is. Many wedding
couples are also very interested in what beekeepers are
doing to protect the worlds honeybee populations that
are so essential to our environment. And theres a support your local farmers element that adds a doing good
in your community benefit to choosing wedding favors.
Couples know how blessed they are, and they want to give
back by choosing local small businesses products. Mary
also points out that honey fits many themes associated
with love and marriage, such as the honeymoon or pet
names.
Jams and jellies. Whether purchased or homemade,
jars of jams or jellies are a welcome treat. Allow guests
to pick their own favorite flavors from a displayed collection of three or four varieties, or choose a jam or jelly that
matches the wedding color scheme, such as a raspberry
jam to coordinate with pink wedding colors.
Barbecue sauce. Especially if the wedding has a country feel to it, or features ribs or barbecued chicken wings
in local flavors, the gift of barbecue sauce shares a memory of the day and allows guests to indulge later. Salsa or
hot sauces share a similar vibe.
Lemon curd. This surprising 4th-place finisher on The
Wedding Reports survey results list brings thought of an
afternoon tea. It also color coordinates with a sunny, yellow wedding, perhaps inspired by the Pantone color Buttercup, one of 2016s top colors.
Baked goods, such as chocolates, iced cookies or
homemade breads or muffins.
Candy buffet take-home sweets, with guests given containers and scoops to help themselves to colorful candies
displayed on a dessert station.
Seasonally inspired wedding favors. Perhaps salt-water
taffy and gourmet fudge for summertime, beach-inspired
wedding theme, smores kits for a winter wedding or
maple syrup for fall wedding flavor.
Spices. A packet of spices allows the couple to share
their favorite flavors of home with their guests. For

instance, a New England wedding might include packets
of seafood flavoring spices, or a winter wedding might
inspire packets of mulled cider spices.
While edible wedding favors rule popularity lists,
non-edible favors are also common, with functionality a
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stoppers will surely be used after the wedding, reminding guests of the special day.
Ornate Victorian-style keys are also rising in popularity. Often attached to guest place cards, keys can become
decor items or paperweights back home. Metallic elements are trending, and there is a symbolism to keys.
They unlock potential, happiness and opportunity, and
many couples are adding notes with such cute sayings as,
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ho doesnt want to take advantage of the beautiful weather

when the season turns? And no
wonder that June weddings are
so popular. The sun is shining, the flowers
are in perfect bloom. Its not too hot yet,
not too cold. Its one of the best times that
a bride and groom can enjoy their nuptials
and their guests in the outdoors.
In our area there are many venues that
allow for an inside and outside experience, taking full advantage of beautiful
grounds and a bucolic scene for exchanging vows, taking photographs and
mingling with guests.

The Estate at Florentine Gardens says it
all in its name.
We have a really large outdoor space
with wonderful gardens, said Maria Daidone, owner of the River Vale venue for
27 years.
The garden is distinguished between
four different garden spots that have their
own personality. There is the outside garden right off the terrace, featuring a fountain and benches and perfect for photo
opportunities; there is the pergola, ablaze
in light pink roses, especially during May
and June; there is the secret garden, a
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photographs, and there is the main garden
area, where ceremonies take place with a
gazebo as its focal point.
Its beautiful, and this is a beautiful
time of year, said Ms. Daidone. The garden is breathtaking.
At Northern Valley Affairs at Temple
Emanu-El in Closter, owner Les Friedman
has taken full advantage of the capacious
outdoor space that is practically the size of
the venues inside.
So much so that he flipped one June
wedding around and brought the main
action, dining and dancing, outside replete
with a bandstand and a dance floor.
We have 5,000 square feet of courtyard, said Mr. Friedman. We have done
everything out there from weddings, to
cocktail hour to putting up tents. We can
call it our outside ballroom.
In recalling his flipped June wedding,
Mr. Friedman said the couple wanted
something a little different and the
weather was absolutely beautiful. The
effect was that everyone was in awe.
Mr. Friedman said that the outdoor

space is routinely used for cocktail hour
where grills are cooking up tasty appetizers such as caramelized portobello mushrooms, steak, onions and the like.
Very often, he said, the courtyard is also
used for wedding after-parties.
We set up a cigar bar and get a threepiece jazz ensemble or reggae or a DJ and
the party continues. We will serve take
out Chinese food. Like mini-egg rolls, lo
mein or hot pretzels if they like. They love
being outside.
And if theres a chill in the air, heating
lamps bring the temperature to a comfortable level.
I wish that someone can fly into Pleasantdale Chateau and see from above
what this looks like, said Fred Fogg, the
director of sales and catering, of the West
Orange venue that originally was a private
farm dating back to the 1900s.
If you drive in, Mr. Fogg said, there is
a 1/4-mile until you reach the property,
which spans 40 acres. Add to that a pond,
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waterfall, and its like you come through the gate and you
feel like you are in Europe.
Guests take full advantage of the outdoors.
Its phenomenal for picture taking. We have ceremonies overlooking the lakes and gazebo and it could be fully
lit so an event can take place after sundown.
In addition to the lush and sprawling grounds, Pleasantdale Chateau has kept the farm, which produces produce
that is served at its events. There are cucumbers, apples,
squash, peppers, tomatoes, to name some.
Its awesome because it comes off the farm fresh and
then is served at the weddings, Mr. Fogg said. Pleasantdale also has bees that produce honey, also served at the
catered events.
Being outside is wonderful. You have the tranquility of
being outside on a beautiful weather day. It is very peaceful and serene. And we are 1/4 mile off the road.
Even local synagogues, such as Temple Emeth, a
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I had to determine what I would do
with the business I grew in the U.S.
for over 20 years. It would be challenging to run two businesses simultaneously but I felt I didnt want to
lose the amazing relationships I had
with my American clients and the
wonderful connections I had with
my American vendors. I also felt the
need to do my best to continue to
infuse some Israeli spirit into American bnei mitzvah and weddings that
people loved. In the end I am keeping both businesses and simply hired
additional staffing to run the business while I am in Israel. My plan is
to return to oversee events in the U.S.
Preparing for a bar mitzvah dinner at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem.
as much as needed. I will continue to
our daughters made aliyah within a three-year time period
keep our apartment and office in the
and with one child in college in the U.S., we decided it
U.S. and will always be just a U.S. phone number away!
made sense to move and hope our son will join the family when he finishes college. Also, I have been producing
Question: How is your party planning business in Israel
events in Israel for the past seven years on a part time
the same? How is it enhanced?
basis in order to gear up for the day we made aliyah.
Penny Rabinowitz: The business (formerly Save the
Day Events now Penny & Co. Events) will provide the
Question: Tell us about the new venture? Is there still a
same quality out-of-the-box experience in Israel as it
U.S. component to your business?
has in the States for so many years. We will design crePenny Rabinowitz: Once we made the decision to
ative events with an unmatched professionalism and
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vent designer Penny Rabinowitz, who has helped

create many bar and bat mitzvahs, weddings and
other events, will be making aliyah, transitioning
from her Bergen County home to Jerusalem. Not
only will she have a new home, but a new name for her
business; formerly Save the Day Events is now Penny &
Co. Events. Ms. Rabinowitz will continue to operate both
in Israel and the United States. We caught up with her to
find out what was ahead.
Question: Why did you move to Israel? What was the
genesis for the business to move to Israel?
Penny Rabinowitz: Moving to Israel has always been a
dream of mine and my husbands, both having grown up
with Zionist backgrounds. Circumstances and jobs in the
U.S. made it difficult to make the move but when three of
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back to us. Enhancements in Israel will
include an option for our clients to use
our own floral dcor and design company
as opposed to relying on an outside florist
to produce our event designs. This will
allow for event dcor prices to be lower
and also will insure the cohesiveness
of the entire event under one roof. The
fact that our events will be in Israel is an
enhancement in its own right! We will be
producing weddings and parties in venues
that have historical meaning and value to
Judaism. The beauty and magnificence of
the abundance of venue options is not to
be compared to those anywhere else in
the world. Its very exciting.
Question: What are the major differences in the new venture?
Penny Rabinowitz: The biggest difference is that we will be catering to those
coming from the U.S. or other countries
outside Israel. This means we will be providing not only the myriad of logistical
details for a single party or wedding but
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for those who are bringing guests from
outside Israel. We will be actively involved

in customizing tours for people whove
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as well as for people who have never been
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what, all our clients and their guests will
be assured a meaningful and fun experience they wont forget.
beautiful rustic settings with trees overhead or beautiful scenic views in the background. In contrast, when we produce
and design a wedding for a bride coming from outside Israel, she typically will
choose more abundant florals with much
more color. Similarly clients prefer simpler dcor for a bar mitzvah if they live in
Israel. Those coming to make a bar mitzvah from outside are usually willing to let
us get slightly more creative with a theme
and dcor.
Question: Are there any interesting differences in how U.S. celebrants differ
from Israeli celebrants?
Penny Rabinowitz: There is a marked
difference between celebrants already
living in Israel and those coming from
outside Israel. The biggest difference
weve noticed is what they are willing to
spend to make an event unique. There of
course are exceptions but the vast majority of Israelis are living on a much tighter
budget. Another difference is the type of
dcor they request. For many of our real
Israeli weddings, the brides want rustic
and minimal dcor because of the venues they choose, which are typically in
Question: How long have you been in the

event design and production business?
Penny Rabinowitz: Ive been in this
business for over 20 years in the United
States and for the past seven years parttime in Israel.
Question: What are your specialties
when it comes to party planning?
Penny Rabinowitz: I believe that my
specialty is the unique branding element
and fine details that make up my events.
I create the logo and invitations and carry
the design concept through every aspect
of the event with much of the decor being
handmade and customized for each
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design and see the same typical decor you
see at other parties.
Question: What are the most important
things to look for in an event producer
and designer?
Penny Rabinowitz: It is of utmost
importance to have knowledge of the terrain the vendors and professionals that
have to be dealt with in order to produce
a fantastic event from thousands of miles
away. Dealing with vendors in Israel is
extremely different than in Western countries. On the one hand, they are more
relaxed (e.g. Dont worry! Everything
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do it here and it cant be done any other
way!). Of course, you also have to take into
account what is important to you and how
much work you want to do yourself. Different event coordinators offer different
services. Some party and event planners
solely coordinate logistics while others
like Penny and Co. Events offer in-house
custom dcor and design, creating a full
package and simplifying the process for
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Americans have taken backyard cooking

and dining to a whole new level. Heading
into the outdoor living season, expect this
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One of the hottest trends literally for

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Home automation is hugely popular

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From lighting and music controlled
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Donald Trump during a March campaign rally in Arizona.
A message to Trumps
Jewish supporters
es not Hitler. He wants

Those all are positions that deserve to
to help America.
be considered and debated rationally.
Melania Trumps
Jewish supporters of Trump have a
comment about her
point when they say that the reality TV
husband, GOP presidential candidate
star is well-poised to win the election,
Donald Trump, will go down as one of
and that therefore we would be wise
the more memorable quotes in an electo engage him. But equally, they have
tion cycle that has had its fair share of
to understand that historically, Jews
gaffes, outbursts, and the like.
invariably have oriented toward the
While her second sentence is debatcenter of politics. Demagogues articuable, the first one undoubtedly is true. If
lating strident messages that translate
you are looking for this eras aspiring Hituneasily into policy are the polar oppolers, you will not find them in America.
site of the experienced establishment
In another country and
political figures who tradiin another political systionally have won Jewish
tem, Donald Trump quite
support.
At issue here, moreconceivably could become
over, is not just Trump, but
a dictator. Given his admiTrumps supporters. As I
ration for the collection of
said, even if Trump wants
clowns and thugs who now
to imitate Russian Presifit that political descriptor,
dent Vladimir Putin, conhe clearly has the right perditions in America mean
sonality. And even if the
Ben Cohen
that he cannot do so. In a
strength of our democratic
country like Russia, Putin
structures means that
can court the far right
Trump cannot become an
like the Rodina party, whose Tiger
American caudillo, the fact that we can
youth wing pledged allegiance to Putin
easily picture him enjoying such a role is
in 2015 from the depths of a nuclear
a critical reason why so many Americans
bunker in central Moscow without any
shudder at the thought of Trump in the
political cost. Contrastingly, in AmerWhite House.
ica, a would-be president is expected to
While most American Jews share that
act like a statesman. By that logic, and
visceral reaction, there are a growing
sooner rather than later, Trump should
number who dont, and who are going to
disavow, explicitly and unreservedly, the
campaign for and vote for Trump. Those
semi-literate Klan-like rabble that is ridIve spoken to all have said that they
ing his coattails.
cant stomach the thought of a Hillary
Crucially, nobody has given him an
Clinton presidency after eight years of
incentive to do so yet. That incenPresident Barack Obama. They list positive can, realistically, be provided only
tive reasons, too. They think that Trump
by Trumps Jewish supporters, since
will be receptive to Jewish concerns, that
he never listens to his adversaries. If
hell be tough on national security, and
these Jews are going to give him legitithat he should be applauded for standing
macy, and assist him in resisting the
up to the same progressive Democrats
false charge that hes an anti-Semite,
who treat Israel as an enemy instead of
then their voices have to be heard on
an ally.
Opinion
the following developments that increasingly have marred Trumps appeal to Jewish voters:
GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Anti-Semitic harassment
of Jewish critics
Julia Ioffe, a prominent journalist whose GQ
magazine profile of Melania Trump earned
her the enmity of the Trump campaign,
was bombarded with sickening anti-Semitic
messages from pro-Trump trolls on social
media. Nazi imagery aimed at Ioffe was
richly in evidence, as it has been with other
Jewish critics of Trump, like John Podhoretz
of Commentary magazine (Are you gonna
flee to Israel after TRUMP is elected president?! LMAO KIKE!! read one message)
and Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro, whose
newborn baby was described by one sociopath, in the fashion of Der Strmer, as a
cockroach. In public at least, Trump has
been unmoved by any of this, and even has
ventured that these critics brought this foul
invective upon themselves.
As a Jew apologetics
When I read the vile attack Breitbart.com
carried against Weekly Standard editor Bill
Kristol, which identified him as a Renegade Jew, I wondered whether this would
Many of these
people are
Holocaust deniers,
baiters of the
disabled, and
similar malcontents.
They all have lined
up behind Trump.
be an isolated example or the harbinger
of a new phenomenon. The author of
the piece, David Horowitz, has embraced
Trump with the same dogmatic fury that
he employed in embracing the far left in
the late 1960s. In highlighting the irrelevant fact that Kristol is Jewish, Horowitz
trod the same ground as those forelocktugging Jewish leftists who ingratiate themselves with Israels enemies by disavowing
the Jewish state.
I am a Jew who has never been to Israel
and has never been a Zionist in the sense of
believing that Jews can rid themselves of Jew
hatred by having their own nation state,
Horowitz implored pathetically. For good

measure, he added that he is an American
(and an American first) thereby insinuating that the remainder of the Jewish community is compromised fatally by a greater
loyalty to Israel. Are there other Jews on the
right who are going to follow the shabby
example of those on the left by presenting themselves as the good Jews? Does a
Trump supporter who invokes the dual
loyalty smear get a free pass?
The rise of the alt-right

The alternative right, to give its full
name, is a toxic cluster of blogs, websites,
and one-person think tanks that fuses
old-style white power nationalism with
what its followers mistakenly regard as
witty ripostes to political correctness on
race and gender. Many of these people are
Holocaust deniers, baiters of the disabled,
and similar malcontents. They all have
lined up behind Trump. Are Jewish supporters of Trump really going to employ
the same argumentation as those on the
far left, soothing themselves that we have
nothing to worry about because his daughter converted to Judaism and some of his
best friends are Jews?
If theres one lesson we have learned
in dealing with the left-wing anti-Zionist

onslaught of the last decade, its that some
very ugly fringe memes can emerge suddenly in mainstream discourse. There is
no reason why that should be any different on the right. That the Jew-hatred is not
confined to Trumps supporters the billionaire Koch brothers, who are opposed
to Trump, are financing a conference featuring the anti-Semitic academics John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of
the discredited book The Israel Lobby is
even more cause to act quickly to prevent
the mainstreaming of this poison.
Here, therefore, is my challenge to Donald Trumps Jewish supporters.
Will you seize the opportunity to display
the same toughness youve shown toward
the left with your favored presidential candidate? Will you tell Trump that he needs to
ditch this faction of his supporters?
Your answer is eagerly awaited. JNS.ORG
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
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal, and
many other publications.
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Milts BBQ for

the Perplexed
Bergen County transplant does
all sorts of good work in Chicago
Joanne Palmer
magine a small, close-knit neighborhood, a small town really,
inside a big city.
Its got a view of a huge lake
that stretches to the far horizon; from the spring through
the fall, sailboats glide by, powerboats leave white wakes, and massive
ships throw everything else into startling
perspective. It happens to be very close to
a baseball stadium that houses a hapless,
beloved team.
Imagine a multigenerational Jewish community in that small town where everyone oddly but honestly gets along; where
synagogues across the range of Jewish life

routinely share programming, agreeing in
the most civilized way possible to agree on
some things, disagree on others. A community, moreover, that opens up to the
rest of the world as well.
Imagine that the kosher restaurant in
that small town not only provides seriously
good food, but also donates all of its profits
to charity.
Yeah, right? And the women are strong,
the men are good-looking, and all the kids
are above average?
So maybe this is a little bit idealized,
but when you talk to people who live in
Lakeview, they rave. Chicago, the big
city of which they are a part, is having a
Jeff Aeder, right, stands at Milts with Rabbi Asher Lopatin,

who now heads the Bronx-based Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
but before that was Mr. Aeders neighbor and rabbi.
particularly hard time right now its politics are seamy, its mayor, the picturesque,
controversial, notoriously foul-mouthed
(and Jewish) Rahm Emanuel, is reaching
new lows of unpopularity, and gun deaths
are terrifyingly, hideously up.
But Lakeview seems to be a little bit

of heaven. (And the baseball team is the
Cubs, and its stadium is Wrigley Field.)
Real-estate investor and philanthropist
Jeffrey Aeder, who was born in Hackensack Hospital in 1962 and grew up in Upper
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Israels former ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, stands with Jeff
Aeder and his wife, Jennifer Levine, outside the Wolcott School. Mr. Oren talked
to the students about his struggle with dyslexia.
During a Bergen County trip, the whole family Mollie, Sadie, Clara, and George
Aeder, Jennifer Levine, and Jeff Aeder pose outside an Allendale restaurant.
Saddle River, has a lot to do with Lakeviews Edenic affect. Hes the owner of the
spectacularly named Milts Barbeque for
the Perplexed, the restaurant whose profits go to charity.
Mr. Aeders roots in northern New
Jersey are deep, even though some of
his memories are hazy. His family lived
in Ramsey until he was 6; he graduated
from Northern Highlands Regional High
School in 1980. The next year, his sister
also graduated, and his parents, Arthur
and Wilma, moved to Manhattan. We
belonged to a shul in Ramsey, right on the
train tracks, thats probably been closed
for 30 or 40 years, he said. Most of the
year his family would drive to services,
but I remember the long walk from our
house to Ramsey on Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur, he said.
My parents were very involved in Jewish organizations, Mr. Aeder said. They
were very involved in the federation,
in AIPAC, and in many other groups.
(Once they moved to the Upper East Side,
Arthur and Wilma Aeder joined Congregation Or Zarua, a Conservative synagogue
whose rabbi, Scott Bolton, used to live in
Teaneck. Rabbi Boltons wife, Rabbi Amy
Bolton, comes from Lakeview. The whole
Jewish world is connected.)
Mr. Aeder graduated from NYU, and

then I was unsuccessful in finding a job in
New York, so I went to Chicago for a year,
he said. He got a job working for a big real
estate company, one thing led to another,
he started his own firm with a partner
I love doing
these things.
They make me
happy. Thats
why I do them.
in 1988 and now, in 2016, obviously
immensely successful (as he absolutely
does not say but his life makes clear), hes
still in Chicago.
Mr. Aeder always has what he calls
projects going. One is the restaurant;
another is a college prep school for
bright high school kids who learn differently, founded so that his daughter
would not have to go to a boarding school;
yet another is the new website featuring
Jewish baseball memorabilia, which might
end up in brick-and-mortar form should it
prove popular enough, and still another is

his work for United Hatzalah, the Israeli
emergency response network that has
started a service in Jersey City.
Lakeview is the heart of the city, where
young single people and young families
and more established families live, he
said. Its a very vibrant area, but it had a
dearth of kosher restaurants. Most of the
observant community lives farther north,
in West Rogers Park, where there are many
such restaurants. I thought that I wanted
to open a community center, and the only
way that people would come to it would be
if I turned it into a restaurant, and it had
good food.
My principle is that if you are going
to do it, do it well. I wanted to make it
a beautiful, hip place, with great food,
which youd love whether or not youre
Jewish. Weve been open about 3 1/2 years
now, weve gotten great reviews, and its
always packed.
Its also run for inclusivity. Its CRC-certified kosher thats the Chicago Rabbinical Council, the local Orthodox organization and its fleishig but with nut-free
and gluten-free and vegetarian options.
Everyone can eat here.
We have speakers, we subsidize meals,
we have pre-paid Friday night dinners for
bar and bat mitzvah and wedding guests
and other parties, and 100 percent of the
proceeds go to tzedakah.
We have a charity of the month my
wife is in charge of that we pick a different charity, primarily local ones, either
Jewish or non-Jewish, and we do some sort
of project with it. This month we gave to a

grade school in a low-income area, and we
also did a school supply drive with them.
And then theres what we call Milts
Night Out. We have people who donate
tickets to sporting events or concerts or
shows or other events, or they can get us
comps, and we call social service agencies
and they find people we can take as guests,
after we have them to the restaurant for a
free dinner.
Why does he do this? I get a lot more
happiness out of it than it costs me, Mr.
Aeder said. I love doing these things. They
make me happy. Thats why I do them.
He and his wife, Jennifer Levine,
founded the Wolcott School in 2012. I
was not much of a student growing up,
Mr. Aeder said. I struggled. He didnt
want his children to have to feel out of
place, as he did, instead of being able
to attack their studies directly, as all students should be able to do. I always say
that if you are going to take on a project,
you should do it first class. So instead of
starting in some rented place, and growing slowly, we built what I think is a gorgeous school, with the best technology
and the best faculty.
The vast majority of the kids there have
struggled in school. A lot of people say that
they believe in the integration model, but
I believe in what works. If they feel good
here, they should stay here. If not, they
should not stay.
Its not a school where students parents are pushing them to come. Its a
school where students say This is where
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I want to be. We have attracted an unbelievable caliber of
faculty and students we have 35 masters degrees and
five Ph.D.s among our faculty, which is pretty amazing for
a school with 88 students. And our first graduating class
went to great colleges to the University of Michigan, to
Lake Forest, to the University of Denver.
He was able to attract funding because if you have a
tremendous amount of passion, and you put your whole
heart into it, then other people will sense that. They sense
that you are a serious person, and that your vision is one
that they can identify with.
We have no more than 10 students in a classroom. We
are very big on inclusivity we admit students based on
their ability to thrive in school, not on their ability to pay.
We offer enough financial aid so that everyone who we
admitted we enrolled. In other words, the school was
able to offer scholarships to everyone who needed one.
The school, built in the old Union League Boys Club
building, which was gut renovated, is designed to max
out at about 150 students, Mr. Aeder said. We are building a new gym and theater. It is open to everyone who
needs it and it can help, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Why did he and Ms. Levine start this school? Partly
to spare his oldest daughter, who is graduating in a few
weeks, from having to choose between leaving home in
ninth grade for a boarding school that would suit her needs
or staying at home and going to a school that would be illsuited to her. Partly because he knew that another two of
his four children also would benefit from the school. And
partly, he said, because everything I do is based on the
principles I learned from my Jewish heritage.
You have to try to leave the place this world, that
is better than it was when you found it.
What about the baseball museum? I happen to be a
huge baseball fan, Mr. Aeder said. A Cubs fan, of course,
also a fully converted from the Mets fan.
I started assembling a collection of Jewish baseball
memorabilia, and I did some research, and I started to
become more and more obsessed. I decided that I should
open up a Jewish baseball museum, because the history is
so interesting. There were so many great Jewish baseball
players, and so many Jewish baseball players who were
great people. There were so many stories. I thought it
would be a great thing to share. So, with help, I designed
a museum.
And then my wife said to me, What happens if you
are the only person who is interested in this? And I said,
Thats an interesting question.
So I decided that I would start the museum online. It
launched about a month ago. You can spend an entire day
on it. Its huge! And you can sign up for
updates. I had people do interviews and
stories, and I will probably be almost doubling what we have on it. Were probably
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld and Rabbi David Wolkenfeld with their children.
only about halfway done with it. Its just tons of fun.
He will gauge the response to the virtual museum, at
jewishbaseballmuseum.com, and use that information
Scenes from the Wolcott School in Chicago,

created by Mr. Aeder and Ms. Levine.
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to decide whether to go real with it
as well. Meanwhile, he continues
to amass objects, which now sit in
storage.
Mr. Aeder is deeply involved in
Israel. Starting in 2002, during the
Second Intifada, I would take groups
of six to 16 guys to Israel for short
trips every six months or so, he
said. I did it because I love Israel,
and I felt that it needed our support,
and that people should go and show
Israelis that they werent alone. I love
the country, I love the spirit there, I
love the energy.
Im also involved with United
Hatzalah, he added. Im very
close with Eli Beer, its founder.
Of all the people Ive met, I think
hes the most impressive. Hes got
a real game-changing organization,
and at a time when Israel always
struggles with how to tell the story
of how special the country is and
there is an organization there that
has 3,000 volunteers and 35 paid
employees, Christians, Muslims,
Druse, and Jews, and they are all
about saving lives.
Theyve taken it to Jersey City and to Detroit, and in
the next 10 years I think it will be all over the world. Its
great for Israel, and its great for the world.
The good news is that I am 54 years old, and I am
planning a lot of new projects, Mr. Aeder said. I dont
have a political agenda at all. I think that when you do
The good news is

that I am 54 years old,
and I am planning a
lot of new projects.
something thats good for everyone, and that makes
everyone feel welcome, it just makes the world a better place.
I dont know what projects next. I dont look for
them. They come to me.
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld grew up in Teaneck; her
husband, Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, leads Anshe Sholom
Bnai Israel, the modern Orthodox shul in Lakeview to
which Mr. Aeder and his family belong.
The Jewish community in Lakeview is almost like a
throwback, Ms. Wolkenfeld said. Everyone gets along.
Its not just toleration its more than that. People dont
feel labeled. Its great. In fact, she said, her shul and the
local Conservative and Reform ones are joining forces
for a tikkun leil Shavuot program.
Shes a big fan of Mr. Aeders restaurant, Milts, which
opened just before she and her family moved to Lakeview. They catered the Kiddush for our interview weekend, she said. It was really funny. Everyone said, We
really should be interested in meeting you guys, but
were really interested in the food.
Its a great meet-up spot. We post to Facebook, and
we say were going to Milts, and if you want to meet us
there, come over. Milts hosts community events; they
had a speaker for Martin Luther King Day and they had
a kids party for New Years Eve. They invited everyone
Mr. Aeders Jewish baseball

memorabilia includes Sandy
Koufaxs 1963 uniform, Ron
Blombergs bat, Moe Bergs
catchers mitt, and Hank
Greenbergs hat.
to come at 5 p.m. which is midnight in Israel and for

$10 a person everyone got hats and noisemakers, and
food, and he put New Years Eve in Israel on the TV. It
was great.
My kids love it. Sara and David Wolkenfeld have four
children Noam, Hillel, Akiva, and Sophie. Sophie is 4,
she and Jeff danced together at a bar mitzvah once, and
she has a major crush on him.
My kids love going there. Its the biggest treat in the
world for them. And Jeff is a major presence there.
David Wolkenfeld moved to Anshe Sholom Bnai Israel
to replace Rabbi Asher Lopatin, who is now in Riverdale,
N.Y., heading Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Jeff is really committed to the Jewish people, Rabbi
Lopatin said. This restaurant is committed to his vision
of a Jewish center.
Understand that its not just about people filling
their stomachs. The key is that kosher is not just about
certain random laws that God told us. It is a way of
connecting Jews.
The restaurant is a vessel. Its under impeccable rabbinic certification. It can be open on Friday nights
always for prepaid, prearranged dinners and the shul
has events once a month. Its an amazing thing. The
food is as inexpensive as a kosher restaurants food can
be, Rabbi Lopatin added, and it is very classy. Not at all
shleppy. Top notch.
People go to Milts from the charedi world, the ultra
Orthodox world, the modern Orthodox world, the
Conservative world, the Reform world, the non-Jewish
world, he said. It is an amazing gathering.
One of the hallmarks of Mr. Aeders thinking is the way
he values both Jews and non-Jews; his work bolsters all
sorts of communities. He is very community-minded,
Rabbi Lopatin said. That is the ideal of the modern
Orthodox Jew. You are a citizen of the world. Your family is the priority, but that doesnt keep you from caring
about the entire world.
Jeff does it in the way that the rabbis talk about. The
poor people in our city come first so first Lakeview,
then Chicago, then broader causes. He is very sensitive
to that, and it comes from his rock-solid sense of his
identity as a Jew and as a citizen of the world.
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They went into a shed and switched clothing, and my
mother walked out wearing a nurses outfit.
The siblings each recall that when they were children,
their mother regularly sent money, gifts, and clothing
to a woman in Poland. Felicia believes it was the friend
who helped Sophie get false papers. Andre thinks it
was the nurse. Either way, both these righteous gentile
women deserved gratitude.
Nevertheless, Sophie once told her son that most of
the Polish people she knew were as bad or worse than
the Nazis; they would turn in a Jew for a kilo of sugar.
Eliezer and Sophie married in a displaced persons
camp after the war. They were denied entry to the
U.S. having a sponsor didnt help so they went to
France, Andre said. He was born in Paris in 1949.
Any townspeople from Radom who survived lived
with my parents in Paris, six or eight people at a time,
and my father was the only breadwinner in the household, he continued. One of his sisters survived, and
my parents were able to make a wedding for her in
France when I was about a year old.
Andre recalls his father as a quiet doer, raised in a
well-heeled Jewish family. As a teenager in Radom, he
told his son, he had physically defended fellow yeshiva
boys from beatings at the hands of ruffians.
When his father died in 1982 at just 68 years old, a
woman the Helcman family did not know asked to speak
at the funeral, which was held in Louis Suburban Chapel in Fair Lawn. She told the mourners that when she
was 13, in a DP camp with her younger brother, Eliezer
came over to see why the little boy was crying. Hes
upset that we have no place to go and no money and we
dont know anybody and were going to die here, the
girl told Eliezer.
My father asked about family, and she said there were
relatives in Queens. To get out of a DP camp you needed
money, so my father took out a gold coin, gave it to the
girl, and said, This will get you and your brother to
America. She said, But what are you going to do? And
my father said, Listen, Ill be able to take care of myself,
but you need to get to Queens. To this day I dont know
how she found out about my fathers funeral.
The Helcmans and Sol Adler also made it to America
eventually, and Felicia was born in Brooklyn. The Helcmans moved to Paterson around 1963 and then to Fair
Lawn in 1972.
This was just three years after Yeshiva University sent a
young rabbi named Benjamin Yudin and his wife, Shevi,
to Fair Lawn to develop an Orthodox synagogue there.
My mother took to them right away, Andre said.
With full confidence in their abilities, she prodded
the few dozen founding families to open their pocketbooks to buy a property on which to build a proper shul
building.
Shevi Yudin gets choked up when she talks about
Sophie. We were a very small congregation then, and
our members were nervous about raising funds for
a building, she said. I can still hear Sophies voice;
she said, I dont understand you people! You have an
opportunity in a free country to build a synagogue and
youre hesitating? If you have the faith to vote for this,
God will help us do it. Sure enough, thats exactly what
happened.
Ms. Yudin described Sophie as the most incredible
person, and an unbelievably committed Jewess. It was
an honor for me to sit next to her in shul every Saturday morning. She loved everything about her religion.
She used to come to classes all the time, and she would
be there for every big thing we did, encouraging us to
build a mikvah, build a shul, raise charity for someone

in need. She helped us get wherever we needed to go.
She really believed in God after the Holocaust and was
thankful that she was saved and felt that because of that,
she had a responsibility to do her part.
My mother was not only a big believer but was driven
by doing good things and never saying anything bad
about people, Andre added.
Eliezer, who owned a shoe store, also encouraged the
men to step up in support of Shomrei Torah, but more
behind the scenes, his son said.
And of course the couple remained close with Sol,
who spoke six languages and worked as a translator. I
liked hanging out with him when I was in high school
and college because he was part of the intelligentsia in
Manhattan, Andre said. He and other well-read survivors used to hang out and talk in a bagel shop, and I
enjoyed being with them.
Felicia married an Israeli she met in New York, and
they made aliyah with their three children in 1995.
Andre was surprised that it took his mother 16 years to
follow her.
Knowing that the messiah will come first to Jerusalem, she felt there was an imperative that everybody has
to live in Israel, he said. Yet for years she had excuses.
For one thing, she worried about me and about Sol.
A little more than five years ago, as her physical health
began failing, Sophie agreed to go live with Felicia,
though it was hard for her to leave her son and brother
in America.
After a couple of years she moved to an assisted-living
apartment in Neve AMIT in Jerusalem. She was mobile
and had all her faculties to the end, said Andre, who
sent her tulips on her 94th birthday in March.
Every morning she would pray before eating breakfast. When she got to Neve AMIT, she didnt care when
breakfast was served; shed always daven first. So they
made sure she had food no matter when she finished
davening. Sometimes she was the only one in the dining
room at 11 in the morning.
Longevity apparently runs in the Adler family. Sophie
and Sols older brother, who had fled to Russia before the
war and later raised a family in Brooklyn, died less than
two years ago. He was about 100 years old. Andre and his
first cousin Aryeh took the responsibility of keeping an
eye on Sol; Aryeh more than me, Andre insists.
My uncle was fit going into his 90s, he continued.
He read the New York Times front to back every day
and never wanted to visit a doctor. He would say, If it
aint broke, why fix it? And then about a year ago, I saw
the age beginning to creep up.
Sol was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer only about
a month before his death. To the end, I would sit with
him and ask if he was in pain and hed say no, Andre
said. He and my mother were never complainers. My
mother had two heart attacks in Israel and insisted she
was fine. I could only tell how she felt by the strength of
her voice.
Andre acknowledges that it is difficult to adjust to the
sudden absence of these two towering personalities. I
take my mothers line and try to power through it, he
said.
My mother was one of the most righteous women I
have ever met, embodying faith and charity and goodness, and always so positive. If you showed my mother
a gentleman of the same generation and said he was a
Nazi, I would bet a million dollars shed say, He was a
young boy and he didnt know what he was doing. She
found the good in everyone.
And she was a woman of her word, Felicia said. She
vowed to her parents that she would take care of her
brother until the end.
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The Obama administration has expressed skepticism
over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus
call for direct peace negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinians.
We of course support meaningful negotiations
and we continue to believe that this conflict can only
be resolved through direct negotiations between the
parties. We do not believe in negotiations just for
the sake of negotiations, a senior U.S. State Department official told the Jerusalem Post.
As weve said many times, it is up to the parties to
decide if they are ready to make the tough decisions
necessary for successful negotiations, the official
added. For our part, we continue to call on both
sides to demonstrate with policies and actions a genuine commitment to a two-state solution.
The Obama administrations statement comes
as France is organizing a meeting of world leaders
in early June to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu has opposed the French approach,
telling French Prime Minister Manuel Valls that he
prefers direct negotiations between the Israelis and
Palestinians.
France plans to use the meeting to help plan a
larger summit next fall on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and to introduce a United Nations Security
Council resolution on the issue.
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Egypt reportedly moving on

plans for Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks
Egypt is reportedly moving forward with plans
to hold a trilateral summit in an effort to forge an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo on Sunday
on behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
order to arrange a meeting with Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Palestinian news agency
Maan reported.
The delegation is reportedly led by Aviva Raz
Shechter, the director general of the Foreign Ministrys Middle East Division, as well as other high-ranking officials.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the last few days
have seen significant diplomatic efforts that have
been led by Egypt to organize a summit between
Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Last week, El-Sisi said he saw a real opportunity
for Israeli-Palestinian peace, and that such a deal
would give safety and stability to both sides. If this
is achieved, we will enter a new phase that perhaps
no one can imagine now.
As opposed to a separate French initiative that
seeks to involve the international community and
exclude Israeli or Palestinian representatives, Netanyahu has said that he welcomes El-Sisis plan for
direct talks and his willingness to invest every effort
to advance a future of peace and security between us
and the Palestinians.
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Israel and South Korea announced that they will hold
free trade negotiations in Seoul two months from now.
A free trade agreement between Israel and South
Korea will be a significant milestone in trade relations
between the two countries and carry significant economic potential for them, as well as economic relations
between Israel and Asian countries in general, Israeli
Economy Ministry Director-General Ami Lang said.
The decision resulted from a meeting in Jerusalem
on Monday between Lang and South Korean Deputy
Trade Minister Tae Hee Woo, in which they discussed
expanding bilateral trade and investment as well as
cooperating in the technological, agricultural, and
industrial sectors.
In the last few months, Israel has also announced
free trade talks with China and Vietnam. Israels Economy Ministry expects the Jewish states exports to
Asia to grow from 21 percent in 2013 to 24.5 percent
by 2018. Israeli-South Korean trade reached $1.7 billion
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summit providing tools to
fight BDS
Israels ambassador to the United Nations, Danny
Danon, will host a summit on fighting the BDS movement on May 31. He is expected to draw a crowd of
more than 1,500 students, diplomats, academics, legal
professionals, and activists to the U.N.
BDS is the modern incarnation of anti-Semitism,
Danon said. Holding this anti-BDS summit in the U.N.
General Assembly will bring together an international
coalition against the boycott movement, and will send
a clear message to all of our adversaries Israel will
not relent and will continue to reveal the lies propagated by the BDS movement.
Participants will learn about various aspects of the
campaign against BDS from panelists including Ronald
Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress; Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, vice president of the Israeli
Supreme Court; and Jay Sekulow, chief legal counsel of
the American Center for Law and Justice (and a former
Jew who now is Christian). Attendees also will receive
an ambassadors against BDS toolkit that will provide
suggestions and contact information to help them fight
BDS on the practical level.
They will return to their campuses fully equipped
and ready to take on the lies of the BDS movement,
Danon said.
The Israeli envoys Building Bridges, Not Boycotts
conference will include a performance in the U.N.
General Assembly by Jewish reggae star Matisyahu,
who experienced BDS firsthand in 2015 when a Spanish music festival initially decided to disinvite him in
response to BDS pressure. The festival ultimately reinstated his performance.
The U.N. conference is a partnership between Israels Mission to the U.N. and organizations including
the World Jewish Congress, Keren HaYesod, the American Center for Law and Justice, the Anti-Defamation
League, the Zionist Organization of America, Israel
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In the summer of 2011, young Israelis camped out on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to protest high
housing prices.
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BEN SALES
TEL AVIV On one hand, most Israelis say their financial situation is good and getting better. On the other
hand, theyre worried they wont be able to provide
for their children.
On one hand, they want significantly more government spending in a wide range of public services. On
the other hand, they say they pay too much in taxes.
These are among the confused results of a wideranging economic survey by a think tank, the Israel
Democracy Institute. The survey results show widespread Israeli positivity when it comes to personal
finances, disappointment in government, and a desire
for a broader welfare state on the Scandinavian model.
These are people who, in the present, have a reasonable situation, but because of all of the change in
the global arena, theyre very scared of the future,
Tamar Hermann, the studys lead author, said. Its
not that someone is scared of the future because of
his present situation. The situation isnt totally bad;
its pretty good. But we dont know what will be in the
future.
Israel has had a relatively strong economy in recent
years. The country joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of
wealthy nations, in 2010. Its unemployment rate is
around 5 percent, and its per capita GDP has risen
from $26,500 in 2010 to $34,300 in 2015. The economy is growing 3 percent annually, according to the
Bank of Israel.
The situation isnt

totally bad; its pretty
good. But we dont
know what will be in
the future.
TAMAR HERMANN
But at the same time, Israelis have become increasingly frustrated with their economy. The last two
Israeli elections have seen centrist, bread-and-butterfocused parties gain significant followings. In 2011, half
a million Israelis took to the streets as part of a summer-long protest over the high cost of living. Smaller
demonstrations took place the following summer.
Study author Hermann said the protests stemmed in
part from the debt Israelis feel the government owes
them in return for their mandatory military service.
Most Jewish-Israeli men serve three years in the army;
women serve two.
People say, I pay with my life, in years of my life,
she said. They say, We pay taxes and serve in the
army. The state should take care of us. The feeling is
the state isnt giving enough.
Recent data in some ways show an unequal economy. According to a report by Israels Taub Center for
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Social Policy Studies, Israelis spend more on consumer
goods particularly food in comparison to the residents of other OECD countries. Only three countries
in the OECD have greater income inequality, defined
by the group as the difference in income between the
richest 10 percent and the poorest 10 percent. More
than one-fifth of Israelis live under the poverty line.
Frustration amid prosperity has resulted in contradictory attitudes, the survey shows. Despite the economic challenges, the majority of both Israels Jews
(59 percent) and Arabs (58 percent) are happy with
their financial situations. More than three-quarters of
both populations believe their economic situation will
improve in the coming years.
But at the same time, majorities of Jews and Arabs
worry that they wont be able to provide for their children or save money for the future. More than a quarter
say they have trouble making ends meet each month.
Nearly a third of Jews and a majority of Arabs say they
probably will be unemployed at some point before
they retire.
The work market has changed, Hermann said.
You dont have tenure anymore. In high tech, from
age 45 on, youre obsolete. Theres an element of fear
here. Maybe difficulties wont happen, but the fear is
it will happen. Thats not even to mention wars and
things like that.
Israeli Jews in particular, according to the survey, look
to the government to better their lives. Nearly 60 percent
new
Majorities of all
Israelis also want the
government to spend
more on health, police,
education, academia,
transit, welfare,
and housing.
of Jews prefer a Scandinavian model economy, with
high taxes and a robust welfare state, over an American model, with lower taxes and fewer government services. Nearly half of Jews 45 percent say they want
more government involvement in the economy.
Majorities of all Israelis also want the government to
spend more on health, police, education, academia,
transit, welfare, and housing.
But most Jews are critical of their government, according to the survey. Almost 62 percent say their tax burden
is unfair. Most rate Israels civil service poor or very
poor when it came to areas like efficiency, transparency, and quality of service. And most say government
improves when experts from the private sector join the
civil service.
Israelis are unlike some in the U.S. that consider

the government part of the problem, IDIs president,
Yohanan Plesner, said. In Israel, people have very
high expectations of the government to be involved
and take responsibility. It means theres a much
greater need to ensure the government is effective in
the provision of services.
Israeli Arabs, on the other hand, report higher levels
of satisfaction with the government than do Jews, but
a majority 63 percent prefer the low-taxes, fewerservices American model of government. Only about
a quarter want more government involvement in the
economy.
While Israeli Jews and Arabs differ on the role of government, neither trusts Israels political institutions. A
2015 IDI survey found that less than half of Jewish and
Arab citizens trust the government, the Knesset and
Israels political parties.
Plesner said Arabs may prefer fewer government services because, unlike Jews, they feel the government
discriminates against them and is not built to serve
their needs.
There is perhaps less trust that if the government
has a major role, that Arabs as a minority would benefit from it, Plesner said. Jewish Israelis have low
trust, but high expectations.
The poll surveyed 500 Israeli Jews and 100 Israeli
Arabs from March 29 to April 3, and has a 4.1 percent
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n 1 Rabbi Steven Sirbu celebrated his 13 years at Temple Emeth in Teaneck at the synagogues Spring Gala
dinner dance in his honor. The evening included dinner, dancing, and tributes. Loretta Weinberg, the New
Jersey State Senates majority leader, who belongs
to Temple Emeth, presented Rabbi Sirbu with a proclamation from the state. COURTESY TEMPLE EMETH
n 2 Nearly 2,500 people attended the Yom Haatzmaut
ceremony at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Israels 68th birthday celebration featured arts and crafts,
live performances, Israeli dance, and youth activities
sponsored and run by Israeli Scouts, and an Israeli shuk
(market), as well as food vendors. The program was offered in partnership with the Israeli-American Council
and other community organizations. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 3 Movin On, the Glen Rock Jewish Centers group

for widows and widowers, meets monthly for lunch
and a speaker or discussion. The next meeting is
Thursday, June 16, at 12:30 p.m. COURTESY GRJC
n 4 Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn held a
dinner and spring fashion show with clothing by Chicos of
Ridgewood. Emcee Liz Schwarz, left, is shown with models Esther Wertlieb, Linda Ames, Tracey Cohen, Suzanne
Berman, Michele Shaloff, and Janet Singer. COURTESY TBS
n 5 New Jersey Assemblyman Joe Lagana (D-38th Dist.)
recently spent a morning at Yeshivat Noam with students, staff, and parents. After touring the campus, Mr.
Lagana spoke to students and answered questions about
education affordability and local government. The visit
was initiated and directed by Teach NJS, an organization created by the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center.
It is a partnership of 20 Jewish day schools, including

Yeshivat Noam, Ben Porat Yosef, Frisch, Lubavitch on
the Palisades, Maayanot, Moriah, Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
North Jersey, Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County, Torah Academy of Bergen County, Yavneh, and
Yeshivat HeAtid, as well as two federations, the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey. COURTESY YESHIVAT NOAM
n 6 In honor of Israels 68th birthday, Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys religious school students celebrated with an array of Israeli-themed activities. Students learned krav maga (Israeli martial arts), made
Israeli salad, fruit kebabs, and crafts, and played Israeli
games. Lt. (Res.) Amir Shuker led students on a walk
through Israel on a giant floor map. Elena Rosenbaum
of American Friends of Leket Israel, Israels national
food bank, made a presentation. COURTESY TEPV
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Dems panel drafting platform includes critics of Israel,

friends of Israel and a BDS backer
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON The Democratic Party platform drafting committee is top-heavy with veterans of political
battles over Israel. Some are friendly, some are critical,
and at least one is a major backer of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The Democratic National Committee named the committee on Monday, a day after reports emerged that
Bernie Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont
running for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination, wants the platform to elevate the issue of Palestinian rights.
The names signal that the robust debate on Israel that
has rattled the partys relationship with the mainstream
pro-Israel community over the last two years will continue
through the party convention in Philadelphia in July.
Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party
nominating contests, named five of the committees
members, while Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of
state and frontrunner in the partys presidential primaries, named six. The remaining four were named by the
DNCs chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
D-Fla., who is one of the most prominent Jewish leaders in the party.
Three of the Sanders backers on the committee Cornel West, a philosopher and social activist, James Zogby,
the president of the Arab American Institute, and Rep.
Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress are known in part for their criticisms of Israel.
West is a prominent BDS backer, and Zogby has spoken forcefully against attempts to marginalize the movement. Ellison has called for greater consideration of Palestinian rights, but also has close ties to his home state
Jewish community and says Israels security must be
taken into account.
The standout appointment is West, a fiery speaker
who has called the Gaza Strip the hood on steroids
and, in 2014, wrote that the crimes of Hamas pale in
the face of the U.S. supported Israeli slaughters of innocent civilians.
Zogby and Ellison are longtime insiders who have
taken leadership roles in the party, so their inclusion is
not extraordinary.
Among the six Clinton backers is Wendy Sherman,
the former deputy secretary of state who was a lead
negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks. Sherman, who has
spoken lovingly of her involvement in Jewish life in suburban Maryland, was wounded by the tough criticisms
of the deal from Israels government and centrist proIsrael organizations.
Wasserman Schultzs picks include Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who will be the committees chairman.
Cummings is close to his states Jewish community and
for years has run a program sending a dozen or so black
high-schoolers from the Baltimore area to Israel.
Another of her picks is Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif.,
who also is close to the pro-Israel community. Berman
shepherded far-reaching Iran sanctions through Congress in 2010, when he was chairman of the U.S. House
of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., also a Wasserman Schultz
pick, has been critical of Israel in her career, joining 59
House members in a letter after the 2009 Gaza war urging the Obama administration to pressure Israel to allow
increased humanitarian relief into Gaza. She also spoke
against a resolution condemning the 2009 U.N. report
on the war, which was reviled by Israels government and the

mainstream pro-Israel community.
The drafting committee presents the document to the full
platform committee, which votes on it during the convention.
Usually there are few objections. In 2012, however, the drafting committee omitted recognition of Jerusalem as Israels
capital from the draft platform. New language including the
recognition was passed during the meeting of the full committee, but not without objections and boos.
All four of the Congress members on the drafting committee Cummings, Lee, Ellison, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez,
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Lag Baomer: Better than fame
ere in the United

it cannot be ignored that it
St ate s, elec tion
occurs in a period of mourning for the 24,000 students
season is well
of Rabbi Akiva who perished
underway. Three
during this time (an indecandidates have had ample
scribable loss). The cause of
opportunity to answer questions as well as to convince the
their demise was their lack of
American public audience why
respect towards each other.
they are deserving of their vote.
In truth, they were good peoRabbi Moshe
ple, fine scholars and comWith so much at stake, it is
Schapiro
panions. But they couldnt
perhaps understandable that
Chabad Lubavitch
accept each others point of
some negativity should creep
of Hoboken,
view. They were adamant that
in. Although it is reprehensible,
Orthodox
their view was correct and
some of those campaigning for
would not tolerate dissent.
office will descend to any depths
To seek recognition is one
in an attempt to raise ones profile and fame at the expense of others. The
thing. To do so at the expense of others is
tragedy is that this behavior is not restricted
shameful and demeaning. To paraphrase a
to politicians. Most people wouldnt think
story I heard as a child: one can either stand
twice about saying, or implying, something
tall by pushing someone else to the ground,
derisive about another individual particuor by climbing onto a chair. I know which
larly if they feel that there is something to be
one I would choose. Lag Baomer emphasizes this concept. To be courteous, respectgained from it.
ful and kindhearted towards others in
This is the key lesson of Lag Baomer,
their presence and even in their absence.
which just took place on Thursday. While it
Fame will have to come from elsewhere.
is a day of tremendous joy and celebration,
BRIEF
Israeli Foreign Ministry falls short

of goals in BDS fight, government report says
A new report issued by the Israeli state
comptroller says that the countrys
Foreign Ministry is failing to achieve its
designated goals in the fight against
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement.
Foreign Ministry projects meant to
improve Israels image in target communities around the world are lacking in their planning, management,
and implementation, and are failing
to achieve their designated goals, said
the report, issued by State Comptroller
Yosef Shapira.
While there have been some efforts
to combat the BDS movement, overall
the Foreign Ministry has a hard time
presenting achievements relating to
efforts to delegitimize Israel around
the world: in academic circles, culture,
trade unions, and the general public in
the target countries, the report said.
The report specified a number of
failed strategies, including those of
Israels relatively new Ministry of

Strategic Affairs and Public Relations,
which was tasked in 2013 with countering the BDS movement and has had
problems cooperating with the Foreign
Ministry.
As of 2015, the Ministry of Strategic
Affairs and Public Relations has still
not put into place its own operational
work plans and still lacks the operational advantages that are built into the
Foreign Ministry, including the professional knowledge and experience
required to manage a campaign effectively against BDS, the report said,
adding, Reports from missions abroad
have made it clear that the problems
in this area have steadily exacerbated.
The report also said that only about
8 percent of the Foreign Ministrys
annual budget is used for diplomatic
activity, including development aid,
conference, and hasbara (public diplomacy).
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CHOICE
A supplement to
The Jewish Standar

d Summer 2015
Arts & Culture

To Life
French-Jewish
filmmaker
Jean-Jacques
Zilberman looks
at three Holocaust
survivors
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
re there too many movies that

deal with the Holocaust?
Not according to French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Zilbermann,
who wants us to understand that
for Holocaust survivors, and for
their children and the childrens
children, the Shoah always remains
a part of their lives. And those of us
who have no immediate family connection that we known about just
as if it is necessary for us to feel as
if we personally have left Egypt on
Passover it is imperative for us to
connect with those who survived
the terror that was the Shoah.
There was a time in America
when no filmmaker dared tackle
the subject of the Holocaust. In fact,
there is no concentration camp
scene in an American film until we
watch American soldiers liberate a
camp in the 1958 film The Young
Lions. In France, where French
collaboration with the Nazis left an indelible scar for decades, the Shoah was a subject long avoided. Then, in the aftermath
of the 1968 upheavals in France, Marcel
Ophuls released his groundbreaking 1970
film The Sorrow and the Pity, shattering historical myths and engendering an
outpouring of soul-searching and Holocaust filmmaking. Now, more than a generation later, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann,
a French child of Holocaust survivors,
takes a look at survival and adjustment
to life after liberation.
With his latest film, To Life, Zilbermann has us join three Holocaust survivors as they try to move forward with life
while struggling with the trauma within
themselves.
Children of survivors have come forward these last decades with a powerful
outpouring of films about their parents
experiences and how those experiences
Above,
Lily, Rose,
and Hlne
reunite in
Jean-Jacque
Zilbermans
To Life.
Below,
the Shoah
survivors
relive the
memories.
affected their own lives. Dozens of documentaries have looked at testimony,

survivors return visits to Europe, their
trauma and psychological damage, and
their post-war survival. Some filmmakers, like Andrew Jacobs in his 2008 Four
Seasons Lodge, celebrated survivors and
the ways in which they were able to overcome the past and create a beautiful community for themselves. Other moviemakers, like Chantal Akerman, focused on
survivors displacement and their inability to come to terms with the present. Last
spring, Akerman completed No Home
Movie, a film about her mother, Natalie
Akerman, an Auschwitz survivor. Natalie
Akerman died soon after the movie was
completed; Chantal Akerman, suffering
from depression, committed suicide just
days before the films U.S. premiere. The
process of movie-making can be cathartic
or dispiriting.
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann already had

made Irene and Her Sisters, a documentary about his mother, an Auschwitz
survivor. After Irenes death, the filmmaker must have felt more comfortable
about sharing parts of his mothers life
than he could have while she was alive.
With la vie, being released here as
To Life, he has created a film narrative
about how, by reconnecting with fellow
inmates of the camps, his mother found
solace and comfort and a safe place from
which to move forward and enjoy life. In
the film, Irene becomes Hlne, and we
first see her on screen as she, with her
friends Lily and Rose, seeks a way to survive the January 1945 death march from
Auschwitz. Rose can barely walk and
Hlne and Lily believe that their friend
cannot survive.
We meet Hlne ( Julie Depardieu) six
months later, as she returns home and
tries to pull her life together, reconnecting with her former world as well as she
can and moving back into her apartment,
which clearly she had left in a hurry, years
before. Now, with the war over and no
family left, Hlne sets out to find Lily
( Johanna ter Steege), with whom she
had lost contact after being liberated.
They believe that Rose is dead. Fifteen
years and countless newspaper ads later,
Hlne and Lily are to be reunited. They
are to meet for a weekend get-together at a
French seaside resort, Berck-sur-Mer. The
surprise is that Rose (Suzanne Clment)
somehow has survived the war.
This is not your typical Holocaust film.
There are no scenes of Nazi terror. Rather,
it is a celebration of life. It is the story of
how three women, who met in the most
horrific of situations, became lifelong
friends and were able to help each other.
Their deep dark past remained embedded
within themselves, and with their coming
together in Berck they come face-to-face
with each others traumas. Their shared
experience and mutual support helps each
move forward in tackling and unleashing
her own personal demons.
Performances by the French Depardieu,
the Dutch ter Steege and the French Canadian Clment are strong, and director Zilbermann gives us the gift of a feel good
film about survivors of the Shoah. The film
opens today in New York.
Eric Goldman teaches cinema at Stern
College for Women. He is founder of Ergo
Media, a distributor of Jewish cinema.
Calendar
In New York
Sunday
JUNE 5
Israel parade: New
Chanie Apfelbaum
Dairy cooking demo:
Manhattans Jewish
Museum offers
George Gershwin
in conversation with
Jens Hoffmann on Tuesday, May
31, at 6:30 p.m. Hoffmann, the
museums deputy director of
exhibitions and public programs,
will talk to Gershwin, as
portrayed by pianist/playwright
Hershey Felder, who will perform
beloved Gershwin works. Fifth
Avenue and 92nd St. (212) 4233200 or TheJewishMuseum.org/
programs/families.
MAY
31
Chabad Womens Circle

of Teaneck offers a
pre-Shavuot cooking
demonstration, 8 p.m.
Food blogger Chanie
Apfelbaum of Busy in
Brooklyn and Shaina
Trapedo will lead
Order in the Court: A
Dramatization of the Har
Sinai Summons. Dairy
desserts and samplings.
513 Kenwood Place.
(201) 907-0686 or
rivkygoldin@gmail.com.
Thursday
JUNE 2
Israeli history in Jersey

City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob continues
its Lox n Learning
series with The State
of The State of Israel, a
presentation, including a
film, led by Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, 10 a.m. Bagels
and lox. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Tuesday
MAY 31
Baseball lecture in
Tenafly: Baseball buff/
Dumont historian Dick
Burnon gives a lecture,
Baseball During
World War II, to the
Retired Executives
and Professionals
(REAP) group at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 10:45 a.m.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900, ext. 235,
or info@jccotp.org.
Joshua Cohen
COURTESY NCJW
Global anti-Semitism:
Joshua Cohen, director
of the Anti-Defamation
Leagues New Jersey
regional office, is the
guest speaker at the
general meeting of
the Bergen County
section of the National
Council of Jewish
Women at the Shops of
Riverside in Hackensack,
1 p.m. The meeting,
including an interactive
audiovisual presentation
is at the lower level
conference center. Light
refreshments. www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Jeremy Dauber is the

scholar-in-residence at
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom. After Barbecue
Before Barechu at
6 p.m. and services at 7,
he will discuss Jewish
Comedy: A History in
Five Jokes. During
Shabbat services at
9 a.m., he will talk about
Jewish Storytelling
and Tikkun Olam: The
Case of Nachman of
Bratslav. After Kiddush
at 12:45 p.m., the topic
will be A Brief, Yet
Helpful, Guide to Jewish
Monsters; or Everything
You Wanted to Know
About Dybbuks but
were Afraid to Ask. Call
for dinner reservations.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735 or
geshershalom.org.
JUNE 5
JCC of Fort Lee/

Congregation Gesher
Shalom celebrates Yom
Yerushalayim with a
screening of Beneath
the Helmet: From High
School to the Home
Front, 6:45 p.m. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 9471735.
MAY 29
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Sunday
Celebrate Israel
in Fort Lee: The
Sunday
Jeremy Dauber
Friday
JUNE 3
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
has its Blue Jeans &
BBQ congregational
dinner, 6 p.m.,
followed by services
at 7. 180 Piermont
Road. Reservations,
(201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds a barbecue,
6:30 p.m., followed
by services under the
stars. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Cantorial music in
Wayne: Temple Beth
Tikvah holds a jubilee
concert for Cantor
Charles Romalis, 4 p.m.,
featuring the New
Jersey Cantors Concert
Ensemble, the Temple
Beth Tikvah Choir, and
surprise guests. The
American Conference of
Cantors will honor Cantor
Romalis for serving as
the shuls cantor for 50
years. Reception follows.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Monday
JUNE 6
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
holds its Book of the
Lunch program with a
discussion by Marlene
Markoff on Trudi Alexys
book, The Mezuzah in
the Madonnas Foot,
noon. Lunch served.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Yorks Celebrate Israel

Parade, the worlds
largest public gathering
honoring the State of
Israel, marches up Fifth
Avenue from 57th to 74th
streets, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cast members from the
Broadway production
of Fiddler on the Roof
will perform songs from
the musical. Check
local synagogues, JCCs,
and organizations for

participation information.
Go to celebrateisraelny.
org or (212) 983-4800.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 5
Seniors meet in
Pomona: Singles 65+
of the JCC Rockland
meets for lunch at Ocean
Empire, noon. 340
Route 202, Pomona, N.Y.
Individual checks. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

to sing in Englewood
Mary Chapin Carpenter performs with special guest
Rose Cousins at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in
Englewood on Tuesday, June 28, at 8 p.m.
Over the course of her career, Carpenter has
recorded 14 albums and sold more than 14 million
records. With hits like Passionate Kisses and He
Thinks Hell Keep Her, she has been nominated for
15 Grammy Awards and won five of them; shes also
won two CMA awards and been given two Academy of
Country Music awards for her vocals. She is a member
of the Nashville Sonwriters Hall of Fame.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or at
the box office, (201) 227-1030.
Musicians of all ages

welcome to tryouts
The JCC Thurnauer School of Music invites musicians
from the tristate area to its spring ensemble auditions
on Sunday, June 5, for the upcoming school year. Auditions will be held for participation in chamber music
ensembles, the String Camerata and Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra, the TeenTown Jazz Big Band, and
the Young Peoples Chorus @ Thurnauer.
We are very excited for our 33rd season at the
JCC Thurnauer School of Music, its founding director, Dorothy Kaplan Roffman, said. We invite musicians of all ages and abilities to share their talents
with us, and see how they can grow and thrive at the
music school under the guidance of our outstanding
faculty.
Thurnauer ensembles rehearse weekly and are
led by skilled and dedicated teachers. Each ensemble performs several times throughout the year and
has unique opportunities, including performing with
renowned guest artists such as violinist Joshua Bell,
New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert,
legendary jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, jazz artist and
former New York Yankee Bernie Williams, and the
artistic director and founder of the Young Peoples
Chorus, Francisco J. Nez
Auditions are by appointment only. To schedule
one, call (201) 569-7900, ext. 375, or email rsearles@
jccotp.org. Alternate dates or video auditions may be
arranged if you are unable to attend on June 5. The JCC
Thurnauer School of Musics year begins on Sunday,
September 25.
Jewish World
Crossword
TORAH GREATS
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Director Yvan Attal, right, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Dany Boon
during the filming of The Jews
in Paris.
COURTESY OF WILD BUNCH PRODUCTIONS
FIRST PERSON
French Jews react to first

screening of buzzy, irreverent
comedy on anti-Semitism
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Across
1. Miss Universe winner Mor or dancer Schenfeld
5. She can show you any verse in the bible
9. As you teach you learn, e.g.
14. Barbras Funny Girl co-star
15. Rebbi Nachmans land
16. Sin city
17. Like Kerri Strug
18. Tense of the Torah
19. Right wing party that merged with Likud
20. Founder of Bais Yaakov
23. Abbis Broad City comic partner
24. Saul feels it for David, at times
25. Kvetch
27. Former team of Farmar
28. Org. where one might learn Torah and have
a dip
31. With 39-Across, Author of the New
Studies... parsha series
34. Einstein had a good one or two
36. Written, e.g.
38. Sacha Baron Cohen Show
39. See 31-Across
42. Other first name for Rabbi Moshe Sofer
45. Sharon Osbourne, ___ Levy
46. Hashomer ___ anochi?
50. Historic Judge
52. Hellenistic or Hasmonean
54. Make like manna after a day (other than
Shabbat)
55. Many preparing for a yr. in Israel
56. McGraw who was a Met with Art Shamsky
58. A Lannister on Weisss Game of Thrones
60. Significant 19th Century chasidic leader
(and miracle worker, according to some)
65. Jonathan showcased it
66. Show with Rachel Berry
67. Like Jonah, at times
68. Ideal hole for Morgan Pressel or Dinah Shore
69. Scripture says its guarded by two cherubs
70. He played Malph on Happy Day
71. Namesakes of a Salinger girl
72. Some characters in An American Tail
73. Chip in for an Adelson establishment?
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 47.
Down
1. Moses in Egypt composer
2. Like a shish kabob
3. Make like Kohelet in Ecclesiastes
4. Nazi race
5. Eats at a seder
6. Apple not used by Orthodox jews on Rosh
Hashana
7. His children were notable Torah scholars
8. Future Einstein resident
9. Rav who was the head of the Sura Academy
10. ...and plentifully rewarded the proud ___
(Psalms 31:23)
11. Gland that might kick into gear on a Segens
mission
12. Kosher kissing aquarium fish (generally not
eaten)
13. MDA volunteer
21. Uris novel, with The
22. One requiring more tzedakah
26. Possible order from Kagan
29. The Negevs is often dry
30. Many a Mercedes in Israel
32. Common quadruped in Israel
33. Singer Ofra
35. Range for Dianna Agron
37. Made like Israel in 1948
40. Where a Hebrew slave might have shown
his devotion to his master?
41. Israel, compared to most other Middle East
countries
42. Alts. to Israel Bonds
43. Wouk and Melville
44. Rebellious son in Samuel II
47. Color of the flag Rahab hung outside her inn
48. Most inviting Shabbat house
49. Say Kol Nidre, say
51. Feeling on Tisha BAv
53. It includes the Ziegler Sch. of Rabbinic
Studies
57. Meir who taught at a Folks Schule
59. Israeli earth
61. Actress Skye
62. Rap Dr. and Smiths role in Weintraubs The
Karate Kid
63. Everybody gonna move their ___ (Kiss)
64. Bruce and Kravitz, for short
65. Contend, like Yuri Foreman
PARIS When the French-Jewish film

director Yvan Attal titled his muchhyped comedy about anti-Semitism
They Are Everywhere, he was referring to how some anti-Semites feel
about Jews, and vice versa.
But the French-language title applies
in another way, too: Though the film
has not yet been released, Attal and the
star-studded cast have been all over the
French media, which are abuzz over
the irreverent take on a problem thats
seen by some, at least as a scourge
of French society.
The Jews the English title for
the film stars Attal, an Israel-born
actor-director who grew up in Paris,
and his life partner, actor-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. The mere fact of the
films existence has been the subject of
dozens of news articles by major publications in recent weeks, including Le
Figaro, Paris Match, and the Agence
France-Presse.
The cast including famed comedians in France like Dany Boon, who is
Jewish, and Benoit Poelvoorde have
appeared on several prime-time talk
shows.
Given the movies high profile, I
could hardly believe my luck when
CRIF, the umbrella group of French
Jewish communities, invited me to
a pre-premiere of the film followed
by a Q&A with Attal. When I saw it, it
had not yet been screened before any
audience.
In the movie, Attal attempts to
deconstruct or spoof major antiSemitic myths, such as Jews killed
Jesus, Jews have money, and Jews
play up the Holocaust. Each stereotype provides the theme for a short
cinematic tale. The seemingly disparate stories are connected by a narration by Attal, who portrays himself in
therapy discussing his obsession with
Jews and anti-Semites.
The security outside the cinema
rented for the May 17 screening was
tight. Our bags were inspected at the
entrance; some people were patted down and questioned. A casually
dressed Jewish man in his 50s the
main age group represented swore to
the guard he wasnt smuggling in any
homemade popcorn before opening
his bag with a smile.
Such security has become commonplace at Jewish events; its now
a standard precaution. Since 2012, 12
people have been murdered in jihadist attacks on Jewish targets in France
and Belgium. Hundreds of nonfatal violent hate crimes against Jews have been
recorded in Paris since that year, when
an Islamist killed three children and a
rabbi at a school in Toulouse.
It was the school tragedy that indirectly inspired the movie, Attal said at
the post-screening Q&A.
I was in a taxi not long after Toulouse, listening to the news about the
arrest of some Islamist ring, when
the taxi driver said, one of these days
they will attack a school. When Attal
reminded the driver that they already
have, he shrugged and said, yeah,
youre right.
The exchange inspired Attal to make
a film for non-Jews that he said would
draw attention to the anti-Semitic
myths that serve to legitimize attacks
on Jews on one hand and desensitize
some observers to the true horror of
these attacks on the other hand.
The first story in the movie is about
SEE FRENCH JEWS PAGE 44
Jewish World
French Jews
perceived indifference of French society

to the killings in Toulouse, compared to
a nationalist politician whose ambitious
the national mobilization that followed
husband discovers hes Jewish. He uses
the murder of Charlie Hebdo staffers in
the secret to blackmail his wife into
2015.
feigning cancer and thereby replaces her
The really courageous act, though, was
at the partys helm. Styled after Frances
showing the film to a bunch of Jews, Attal
far-right politician Marine Le Pen, the
said. He also urged the crowd to keep
character stares at her own reflecin mind that they ultimately are not the
tion, looking defeated. Her haircut and
intended audience.
pajamas are evocative of an Auschwitz
I know you: Two Jews, three opinions,
prisoner.
and I just know youll slam me for this
Another controversial scene involves
or that right after you see it, said Attal,
a womanizing Mossad agent who is sent
who wore a T-shirt and chewed gum as
back in time to kill baby Jesus. He ends
he spoke. Honestly, this right here is my
up instead falling for the biblical Mary,
worst fear.
who is depicted as the town floozy and a
His concerns were just partly justified.
cheat. Attal said he removed a sex scene
While largely positive, some viewers said
between the agent and Mary from the
they feared his comedy was too highbrow and that its nuances would be lost
final edit to avoid offense to Christians.
on viewers in the suburbs (read: MusThe scenes and dialogues are snappy,
lims), who would take the film as affirmcontaining some slapstick along with provocative statements about the Holocaust,
ing the very stereotypes it cleverly seeks
French politics, and Christianity.
to destroy. Another remarked that those
The audience seemed to enjoy the film
same viewers are more likely to watch
at the CRIF screening. Viewers particuAmerican action films as an escape from
larly liked Attals narration sequences.
the grinding reality of life as second-class
In the deeply personal monologues It
citizens in Frances violent ghettos.
would be dishonest to hide behind some
Attal conceded that he believes the film
character, hes pretty much me, he told
probably will not reform hardened antithe crowd Attal, 51, talks about being a
Semites but might raise question marks
Jewish filmmaker who is obsessed with
among the undecided.
Jews and anti-Semitism, and who is marAnother critic said that while the film
ried to a woman whose father is Jewish
addresses anti-Semitism by the far right,
(the legendary Serge Gainsbourg).
he avoided the most difficult problem
The crowd roared at Attals Jewish
right now: Muslim anti-Semitism.
jokes: I get why people hate us rude SepBut the absence of Muslims from the
hardic Jews, but the poor Ashkenazis?
film was a deliberate omission, Attal said.
Theyre practically goyim! They nodded
The inclusion, he said, wouldve meant
pensively at some of Attals more serious
being labeled Islamophobic, backfiring,
musings, including about his connection
and exposing us to attack.
to his Algeria-born Orthodox parents,
We didnt want to fall into clichs
despite his linguistic, religious, and culwhile trying to debunk them. You have
tural disconnect from their reality.
to walk a fine line between provoking
Several viewers commended Attals
thought in your audience and alienating
courage in making the film, despite prothem.
ducers reluctance to fund it. There was
And yet, Attal said, he tried to show in
pressure as well from some distributors,
the film that attacks on Israel and by
asking him to broaden the films scope to
extension, its people and supporters
include other types of racism an underare at least partly motivated by hatred of
standable instinct in a country with a
Jews. He drives the point home at the end
strong universalist ethos.
of the film.
It wasnt easy, Attal confirmed.
In the concluding story, France votes
Its a problem seen as too sensitive,
to become a Jewish state, following a
people dont want to talk about it, he
referendum led by an unpopular president who is desperate to revive the
said of anti-Semitism. Its a sentiment
economy. (He figures
France will get rich by
doing so because all
Jews are rich.)
But all does not go
as planned. The films
shocking final shot is
a birds-eye view of
Paris. An oscillating
siren blasts from the
speakers, and a large
surface-to-surface missile descends near the
Eiffel Tower in slow
Yvan Attal, right, and Gilles Lellouche during filming
motion.
of The
Jews
in Israel
in critical
2014. of the

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Obituaries
Walter Cohn
Walter Cohn, 92, of Cedar

Crest Village, formerly of
Saddle Brook and Wyckoff, died May 20.
Born in Germany, he
emigrated to the U.S.,
and served his country in
World War II.
Predeceased by his
wife, Sonja, he is survived by his children,
Jeffrey, Arlene, and
Randy (Lucie); grandchildren, Rebecca Zipp
(Daniel), Melanie Davidson, Daniel, Mason, and
Michael Cohn, and two
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent
to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum,
Washington, D.C. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Arthur Lessack
Arthur J. Lessack, 92, of

Saddle Brook, died May 19.
He served as a pilot in
the Army Air Force during
World War II and was a
self-employed real estate
broker and accountant
before retiring. He was
a member of American
Legion Post #170 and The
Seniors, both in Rochelle
Park.
He is survived by his wife
of 47 years, Rosemary, children, Michael (Larisa) and
Fran Greenwood (Mark);
seven grandchildren, and
four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Robert Nathans
Robert Marc Nathans, 60,

of Florida, died April 27.
A professional artist,
he studied painting and
drawing and earned a
masters degree in fine

arts from the University of
South Florida in Tampa.
He worked with the Chautauqua Institute, the Broward Art Guild, and the
Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood, Fla. He served
as an adjunct professor
for Broward Community
College, and was involved
with the Stonewall Library
in Fort Lauderdale.
Predeceased by his
mother, Rita, ne Kitzis,
and a brother, David, he
is survived by his father,
Jerome Jerry; siblings,
Sari Nathans McIntyre and
William (Claudia); a niece,
Joanna Rita Opel, and a
nephew, David Nathans.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Charles Roman
Charles Martin Roman, 89,

of Teaneck, died May 10.
GeorGe Starkman
George Starkman 98, of Englewood, and
formerly of North Bergen, died May 18.
Born in Kalisz, Poland, he was the grandson
of HaRav Hagaon, Yosef Mayer Starkman,
and survived many Nazi concentration camps
and death camps including Guntkriechen,
Matthausen, and Maidanek. He and
his brother escaped from a transport to
Treblinka by jumping from the train and
trudging through snow at night to his home
town where he was later recaptured.
He was liberated by the American forces in
1945 and contended with pleurisy, gangrene,
and severe malnourishment. Tenacious
and possessing a strong will to survive, he
reconstituted his life soon after arriving in
New York on August 31, 1946 under the
sponsorship of his uncle Jack Heber of West
New York. He married another Holocaust
survivor, Jean (Genia) Sztuzaft and started
a successful embroidery manufacturing
business. Mr. Starkman was a member of
Temple Beth El in North Bergen, and more
recently Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood.
As his ultimate victory over the Nazis:
he is survived by his three children: Jay,
of Atlanta, Georgia; Frances (Greenfest),
of Teaneck; and Steven of Englewood,
twelve grandchildren, and nineteen great
grandchildren.
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A Holocaust survivor, he
was a veteran of the
Korean War.
He is survived by his
wife, Inge, daughter, Carol
Cohen (Charles), and
grandchildren, Matthew
and Erica.
Contributions can be
sent to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., or the Friends
and Alumni of OSE-USA,
Livingston. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and
Musicant Funeral Directors
in Hackensack.
Theodore Russak
Theodore Russak, 74,

of Paramus, formerly of
Wayne, died May 17.
He is survived by his
wife of 45 years, Carol,
ne Levin, a son, Bradley (Nicole); a sister,
Barbara Simowitz, and a
granddaughter.
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Audrey Brodsky
Audrey Brodsky, formerly of East Northport
and Port Jefferson, NY was born on May 11,
1947 and passed away on May 21, 2016.
Loving mother of Amy Gordon (Garry),
Jill Brodsky, and Jason Brodsky (Cheryl).
Grandmother of Daniel, Emma, Zachary,
Jacob, Chloe, and Dana.
Services were held on Tuesday, May 24,
2016 at Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban
Funeral Chapel, 68 Old Short Hills Road,
Livingston, NJ. Interment followed at
Wellwood Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
For Shiva information, please call the
funeral home at (973) 422-0600.
201-791-0015
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information provided by funeral homes.
Correcting errors is the responsibility
of the funeral home.
Ruth (hochheimeR)
hoffman
Ruth (Hochheimer) Hoffman departed us
on May 19, 2016 surrounded by her friends
and family at her California home. She was
a longtime resident of Cliffside Park, New
Jersey and an active member of Temple Israel
of the Palisades where she married Paul Leo
Hoffman in 1958. We will remember her for
her unwavering love and commitment to her
family and friends. She had an incredible sense
of humor and loved to laugh, smile, and tell
and listen to jokes. She loved to travel and
continued her love and interest in biology
(her college major) and plants throughout
her life. She was a graduate of City College in
New York City. She was predeceased by her
parents Fred and Cecilia Hochheimer and her
husband Paul. She is survived by her children,
Laura (Hoffman) Davis, Michael and David
Hoffman, five grandchildren, and Shlomo
Ziv, her significant other. Contributions in her
memory can be sent to the Jewish National
Fund or The Elizabeth Hospice Foundation.
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Its a new season at the

Teaneck Farmers Market
rom Thursday, June 2, to

October 27, the Teaneck
Farmers Market will celebrate its 20th anniversary
season.
This year, hours are from noon to 5
p.m. The market is still located at the
Garrison Avenue and Beverly Road
municipal parking lot off Cedar Lane
and behind the Wells Fargo Bank. Parking is free.
The market is proud of its continuing
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This year, Holy Name Medical Center
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community outreach programs.
Patrons are encouraged to submit
favorite family recipes for the markets
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Enjoy Pennsylvania Amish Country
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whoopee pies, fruit pies, jams, honey,
pickled items and freshly churned butter in tubs.
In July, Lefkowitz Wellness Center will
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have Lauren Hooker, Teanecks own Jazz
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In 2011 she was the first Afro-American woman to win Chopped and
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annual blood drive with the Bergen
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The Bergen County Senior Nutritional
Farmers Market Program will distribute
discount coupons of $20 to those senior
citizens who qualify. They can be used
only at the produce farm stands, not
with other vendors. We are also featuring The Holy Name Medical Centers
Community Program. They will be conducting a blood pressure screening.
We will be collecting non-perishable food items this season for Helping Hands, so look for our future
announcements.
The Cedar Lane Management Group
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FORT LEE THE COLONY
Jewish Educational Center

celebrates 75 years
The atmosphere was emotional and inspiring as more
than 600 gathered at MetLife Stadium last Wednesday
to celebrate 75 years of excellence at the Jewish Educational Center.
The JEC, founded by Torah luminary and Jewish activist Rav Pinchas Mordechai Teitz, zl, has grown from an
inaugural class of only 12 students to a flourishing school
of three divisions the Yeshiva of Elizabeth, Rav Teitz
Mesivta Academy and Bruriah High School that educate nearly 900 students.
Attendees experienced everything from nostalgia to
excitement as they witnessed the manner in which JEC
students are empowered to achieve outstanding success
academically, spiritually, socially and personally.
Parents, faculty, students, supporters, and alumni
spanning the decades, came out to pay tribute to Rav
Teitz, and his son, the current dean, Rav Elazar Mayer
Teitz, under whose tutelage the school has continued
to flourish, and to celebrate the decades of leadership,
achievement and prominence that the institution has
achieved in New Jersey and beyond.
Jewish Education is really the best way to ensure a
Jewish future, to make sure our children and generations to come receive Torah education, said JEC alumnus Mark Wilf. And the JEC represents the best of those
values. We will do whatever we can to support that the
JEC remains strong and vibrant and continues to educate hundreds of Jewish young men and women. Were
very proud of our connection to the JEC and we wish it
well for generations to come.
The theme of the evening, Celebrate the Past and
Embrace the Future, was woven through each presentation. Guests were greeted by a wall of photos old black
and whites interspersed with current scenes depicting
the JECs years of excellence in Torah, general education, staunch commitment to Israel the land, the people and the state and social/communal responsibility.
As they moved through the venue toward the a
dinner buffet, guests encountered opportunities for
engagement, including a golf tournament pavilion for
the schools upcoming first annual golf outing on July 11;
a promotional table for the schools annual PTA Walkathon & Family Fun Day, which took place this past Sunday; a red carpeted photo booth and video interview
area reminiscent of an Academy Awards pre-show; an
alumni network welcome area; and selections from the
2016 Bruriah Holocaust Museum, created completely by
11th grade students.
Also, three separate interactive STEM displays by the
three divisions, which included stimulating features,
including multiple 3-D printers that produced commemorative 75th anniversary logo keychains for guests,
do-it-yourself production of mini-flashlights, and a JEC
version of the popular Are You Smarter Than a 5th
Grader? television game.
TV monitors displayed a photographic slideshow of
the history of the JEC and journal advertisers could see
their tribute and ads displayed prominently on the stadiums jumbotrons overlooking the playing field.
The evening paid tribute to the life and legacy of Rav
Teitz, who dared to dream that a Torah community
could take root in the small town of Elizabeth.
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tribute to the millions of mothers who
perished in the Holocaust.
The final award of the evening was
conferred upon the Early Childhood divisions coordinator, Morah Lisa Bond, and
her faculty. Under her leadership, the EC
department has grown to capacity with a
waiting list for the past several years. Her
staff adapts to new technology and programs and regularly takes advantage of
professional development opportunities
offered by the JEC.
The evenings MC, Brian Ness, who is
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board of trustees, and a partner in PwC,
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Holocaust survivors who came to the

area as orphans and began to rebuild
their lives, sent their children to the JEC,
many on full scholarships. This eminent
group became known as The Builders,
who quite literally supported the development of the school as it grew to what
it is today.
The evenings guest of honor was Dr.
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distinguished alumnus from RTMAs Class
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term as president of the JECs Board of
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the JEC and greater Jewish community.
Each year the JEC awards a Lev Tov
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donated a Holocaust-era Torah to the
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