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Canadians mark 150 by
singing anthem in Yiddish
A group of 150
Canadians gathered
earlier this month to
wish their country a
freylekhn geburtstog
(happy birthday) by
singing the countrys
national anthem in
Yiddish. This year,
Canada marks its
sesquicentennial its
150th anniversary
of independence from
British colonial rule.

Bikers to mark As far as they

know, these multi- shteyen bay dayn zayt).

Battle of Beersheva
culturally diverse singers are the first
This project came about after it
Canadians to ever sing O Canada
was suggested, discussed, and devel-
in Yiddish. Members of the group
oped by a number of prominent Ca-
ranged from world-famous classi-
There will be mountain bikes instead charge that made history. nadians, including celebrated author
cal guitarist Liona Boyd to Ontario
of mounted horses, and riders for peace The unusual decision to charge from Margaret Atwood.
Black History Society president Nikke
instead of soldiers, but the pride Aus- east to west, into the setting sun According to the 2011 census, only
Clarke to 98-year-old Holocaust sur-
tralians and New Zealanders feel for the meaning that both horse and rider vivor Mary Schlanger. 15,205 Canadians speak Yiddish as
Desert Mounted Corps remains true. essentially were riding blind also is their mother tongue. Most of them
Toronto writer Hindy Nosek-Abel-
This October, to mark the centennial considered to have been decisive be- are either very elderly European-born
son translated the anthem for the
of the Battle of Beersheva, an intrepid cause it was so completely unexpected. Jews or members of insular chasidic
occasion.
group of Australians and New Zealand- The surprise may have contributed to communities. The situation was very
There are challenges that happen
ers will ride 100 kilometers in the foot- ANZACs success. different eight decades earlier, when
with every song or poetry transla-
steps or more accurately, the hoof- The battle was the beginning of an 1.4 percent of the countrys popula-
tion, she told the Globe and Mail.
prints of a battle that involved what offensive that would result in the British tion (150,000 people) spoke Yiddish
You want to get the words to fit the
war historians consider the last of the Empire forces capturing Jerusalem in as their first language.
music like fingers in a glove.
great cavalry charges. December 1917. Unique in North America, Mon-
This might explain why Nosek-
The DMC was a British Army corps To mark the centenary, there will be treal and Toronto are home to non-
Abelson chose to translate the thrice-
that fought during the First World War. a series of events including a reenact-
repeated phrase O Canada, we stand ultra-Orthodox day schools that still
It was made up of the ANZAC Mounted ment of the horseback charge as well
on guard for thee as O Canada we include Yiddish in their curriculums.
Division, the Australian Mounted Divi- as special ceremonies sponsored by
stand by your side (O Kaneda mir RENEE GHERT-ZAND/TIMES OF ISRAEL
sion, and the Yeomanry Mounted Divi- the Israeli, Australian, and New Zealand
sion. (These later were joined by Indian governments.
cavalry and a small French cavalry These include the Ride Like an AN-
detachment.)
The DMCs first operation was the
ZAC tour that will start at the ANZAC
memorial near Kibbutz Beeri and end at
Your challah will pan out every time
Battle of Beersheva, fought on Octo- Beersheva Park. Organizers report that
ber 31, 1917, when the British Egyptian some 120 riders from Israel, Australia, Do you yearn for a challah that looks
Expeditionary Force, commanded by New Zealand, Great Britain including a perfectly braided but dont want to
General Edmund Allenby, attacked and few Bedouins already have signed up. spend the time it takes to braid the
captured the Ottoman garrison at Beer- Most Israelis have never heard of the separate strands together?
sheva. That morning, the DMC launched ANZACs, while for us Australians its a We have to confess that in the whole
successful limited attacks, and soon very significant ride into history, says challah-making process, the kneading
afterward a series of attacks by the AN- Dan Hakim, Australian-born chairman and the rising and the delayed gratifica-
ZAC Mounted Division resulted in the of Kids Kicking Cancer and founder of tion the whole enterprise demands seems
capture of the eastern side of the city. Budo for Peace, who is organizing the to be the hardest part.
Late in the afternoon, the 4th Austra- tour as a fundraiser for the charities. But if it is the braiding that gets you
lian Light Horse Brigade bayonets in A new museum dedicated to the 1917 down, braid in sorrow no more! TheKosher-
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JUNE 23,
Noshes
JEWISH WINNERS:
Tonys, a bit more,
and movie catch-up
All but one of the
Jewish winners at
the Tony awards was in
my special Tonys story
actors BEN PLATT and
BETTE MIDLER; songwrit-
er BENJ PASEK, writer
STEVEN LEVENSON, and
director REBECCA
TAICHMAN. Thats
MICHAEL ARONOV, 41,
who won the Tony for
best featured actor in a
play (Oslo). I was 99
percent sure that hes
Jewish, but I couldnt
confirm it by press time.
Aronov thanked his
parents Solomon and
Anna from the Tony
stage. With that clue, I
gathered some bio
background: His parents
are Jews from the former
Soviet Union who settled
in Miami, where Michael
grew up. Nice to note: His
mothers Facebook page
likes an Israeli govern-
ment agency for Russian
Jews.
In Oslo, Aronov plays
URI SAVIR, a (real) official
the Israeli government
appointed to take over
stalled secret negotia-
tions with the Palestinians
in 1993. Savir does not
appear until Act 2. This
review by Sam Eckmann
in the online review site
Gold Derby encapsulates
why Arnov won the Tony:
Arnov storms the stage
with a rock star swagger,
complete with a tightly
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tailored suit. [He] drasti-
cally alters the pace and
energy of the play as he
drinks, dances, and flirts
his way through scenes.
His showboating is a nec-
essary dramatic counter
to the storys heavier ele-
ments. Thats not to say
he cant handle dramatic
moments. The interplay
between Aronovs Uri
and[a] PLO minister as
they argue over borders
and Jerusalem is the most
thrilling aspect of Oslo.
Aronov walks a delicate
line between friendly rib-
bing and brutal rebuffs
as the two men haggle.
(Oslo won the best new
play Tony.)
Errors in a sched-
ule lead me to
omit Rough Night, a
very Tribe-heavy black
comedy that opened last
Friday and is still playing.
The plot: Things go badly
for five old girlfriends at
a rowdy bachelorette
party when one of them just in time for kids
accidentally kills a male
stripper. The friends are
played by SCARLETT
JOHANSSON, 32, ZOE
KRAVITZ, 28, ILANA
GLAZER, 30 (co-star of
Broad City), Jillian Bell, directed all five Trans-
and Kate McKinnon. (By
the way, didnt Scarlett
look gorgeously classy
as she presented the first
Tony award this year?)
Transformers: The
Last Knight arrives
1 23, 2017
Feeling like frickin Rambam with this
close textual analysis of the WaPo piece Im
writing ... appreciate the congrats.
Journalist Josh Marshall on Twitter, talking about a blog post
he was working on based on a Washington Post story.
Steven Levenson Rebecca Taichman
Jon Bernthal Alison Brie
in theaters on June 23, Driver (opens Wednes-
day, June 28) as a
summer vacation. This is talented getaway driver
the fifth entry in the very for bank robbers. He
lucrative live action sci-fi meets the girl of his
series based on the dreams and sees a
Transformers toys. chance to get out of his
MICHAEL BAY, 52, who criminal life. But his
dream is threatened by a
formers movies, said the nasty crime boss (Kevin
4th would be his last Spacey). JON BERN-
Transformers film. Now THAL, 40, plays a bank
he says the fifth is the end robber. By the way,
for him. Time will tell. Elgorts paternal grandpa
ANSEL ELGORT, was a Russian Jew and it
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stardom by entering the
glitz-and-spandex world
of 1980s female pro
wrestling. Ruth and 11
other Hollywood misfits
are managed by a
washed-up Hollywood B
movie director (MARC
MARON, 53).
Eighteen members
of the Pro Football
Ansel Elgort Hall-of-Fame arrived in
Israel on June 15 for a
week-long stay. The
delegation was led by
New England Patriots
owner ROBERT KRAFT,
76, a big supporter of
American football in
Israel. They were sched-
uled to view Israeli high
school football games,
greet American and
Israeli fans, and answer
their questions in
breakout meetings.
Robert Kraft The 18 included house-
hold names like Joe
grandma was Jewish, too Montana, Jim Brown, and
(but not sure). The Roger Staubach. There
secular actors non-Jew- was one Jewish Hall-of-
ish mothers family Famer among the 18:
deserves mention. His ANDRE TIPPETT, 57, a
Norwegian grandmother great Patriots linebacker
was put in a Nazi (1982-1993) and now
concentration camp for the Patriots community
smuggling Norwegian affairs director. Tippett,
Jewish children from an African-American
occupied Norway to who was raised Baptist,
neutral Sweden. converted to Judaism in
On June 23, Netflix 1998. In 2009, his daugh-
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new series called Glow. in Jerusalem.
It stars ALISON BRIE, 34, N.B.
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Celebrating an institutions indominable spirit
Revitalized Jewish Center of Teaneck revives its gala dinner as it looks forward
Abigail Klein Leichman from which to choose.
Eva Lynn Gans, a JCOT member
On the evening of June 15, the Jewish since 1950, remembers when the main
Center of Teaneck held its first gala din- and auxiliary sanctuaries were over-
ner in more than a decade. It was cel- flowing on the high holidays. By the
ebrating two milestones, one global and time she became the shuls first woman
one local: the 50th anniversary of the president, in 2010, the annual fundrais-
reunification of Jerusalem and the revi- ing dinner-dances that had been wildly
talization of the synagogue. successful in past years had been dis-
JCOT was built in 1933, at a time continued for lack of members.
when a gentile had to front the real- As the years went by, the Conserva-
estate transaction for the small group of tive movement in general lost mem-
founders because Jews were not allowed bers, Ms. Gans said. Our center never
to buy property in the townships for- went egalitarian, and the people who
mer Phelps estate. The congregation hit wanted that left. Others died or moved
its stride in the 1950s and 1960s as mem- away. And we were struggling. I saw
bership rolls swelled to around 1,300. From left, Yitz Cohen, Rabbi Daniel Fridman, and Isaac and Nechama Student all play that the only way to survive was to go
When its current rabbi, 32-year-old important roles in the Jewish Centers revitalization.  Michael Laves Orthodox.
Teaneck native Daniel Fridman, took I managed to convince two-thirds
up his post in September 2016, the number of members United Synagogue of America, JCOT chose to take an inde- of the membership to have an Orthodox service and that
had shrunk to 77. pendent path in the 1970s as a traditional shul led by was step 1.
In the intervening years, external and internal upheav- Orthodox-ordained rabbis. The genders werent sepa- In March 2013, the Jewish Center of Teaneck became a
als took their toll. The synagogue was neither evolving rated for prayer, but women could not lead prayers or be member of the Orthodox Union and a few new members
along with the Conservative movement nor adapting to counted in the minyan. Meanwhile, Teanecks Orthodox joined. But that growth was not nearly enough to sustain
the fast-growing Orthodox landscape surrounding it. community began flourishing and JCOT members who the massive building. Its 60,000 square feet of usable space
Originally affiliated with the Conservative movements leaned in that direction suddenly had many other shuls See JC Teaneck page 39

YJCC sells building

Organization continues plans
to institute new mobile model
Joanne Palmer
The YJCC in Washington Township just
announced that it has sold its building.
The building, on Pascack Road, has
been closed since August 2015, although it
has continued to house the YJCCs admin-
istrative staff and to provide it with a mail-
ing address.
The YJCC, on the other hand, has con-
tinued to provide programs and services
to the community it serves. It has become
a more mobile institution, and its plans
include the ability to adapt more to very
specific local needs as it moves beyond the
anchor of real estate.
Bethany Church has bought the build-
ing, and will lease space to the YJCC, at
least for now, so the YJCCs offices and
address will remain unchanged. The
church, a member of the loosely knit Pen-
tecostal group called Assemblies of God,
has a couple of campuses in the Northern
New Jersey area, including a building in
Washington Township less than half a mile
from us, Abby Leipsner, the YJCCs CEO,
said. They decided they would take a leap
and a jump and buy a bigger building.
So much for the past. What about the
future?
We created our strategic vision and are
finalizing our business plans, Ms. Leipsner
said. We plan on relaunching a variety of
programs, most likely in the fall.
Instead of being moored to its building,
the YJCC will offer programs in what Ms.
Leipsner called public spaces parks,
stores, malls, rooms in municipal build-
ings, spaces in the wide range of venues
that people go to in the course of their needs is wide; the YJCC has done surveys throughout its catchment area will be
lives, places that are both convenient and that show them that. To give just one aimed at new parents, tweens, teens,
comfortable to them and in synagogues. example, look at Fair Lawn and Upper families, children with special needs,
The YJCCs catchment area is vast it Saddle River, Ms. Leipsner said. Fair empty nesters, and active senior adults,
is, Ms. Leipsner said, all of Bergen County Lawn has more need for senior program- Ms. Leipsner said; the institution plans
that is not within the territory of the ming for the older adult population. They to use the funds it gets from the sale of
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly. have more of a need for group exercise the building, along with the allocations it
The goal, she said, is to make sure that programs, although not necessarily a gym. continues to get from the Jewish Federa-
every Jew in Bergen County is covered; We found in Upper Saddle River that there tion of Northern New Jersey, to beef up
that every Jew in Bergen County can have is absolutely no need for any kind of fitness its offerings.
the services of a JCC. The YJCCs area cov- programs. There are great options there. It also is looking for volunteers as it con-
ers 48 towns, she added. The programming the YJCC plans to tinues to work out the details of its new
The range of programs that each area continue in as many places as possible mobile model.

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Where does salvation come from?

Kidney disease can strike at random, leading to need for a donor
Miryam Z. Wahrman, Ph.D.
Four years ago, Sylvia Berger was on a Jew-
ish heritage tour in Eastern Europe.
She went out to eat at a respectable-
looking restaurant in Krakow, Poland.
Shortly after the meal she became very
ill, and the illness continued well after she
returned home. For six months Ms. Berger
suffered severe symptoms and was in and
out of Valley Hospital. She never imagined
that a meal gone wrong would lead to kid-
ney disease, but she had been stricken by
a parasitic infection that took months to
diagnose. By the time medical specialists Sylvia Berger
figured out what was afflicting her, the
damage had been done, and now she is struggling with
advanced kidney disease.
I never thought my trip to Europe would lead to some-
thing like that, Ms. Berger said. It was one night in Kra-
kow when we had free time. I got sick and thought it would
go away. I was the only one who got sick. It caused my
blood pressure to go crazy high. They thought I would get a
heart attack. I would have never associated kidney disease
with diarrhea.
After the diagnosis she was devastated to learn that
kidneys really dont heal. Scar tissues block the flow
of blood. Since she suffers from debilitating effects of
failing kidneys, including anemia, and loss of appetite
and weight, the formerly active woman now struggles
to handle everyday activities. She has not yet started
hemodialysis (a mechanical process that filters and
purifies the blood), but faces the difficult prospect
of a long-term need for the process, an arduous and Holocaust survivors. They
time-consuming therapy designed to replace kidney
functions. Doctors have advised her that her best bet
taught me stamina, and
for recovery would be undergoing a kidney transplant
within the year.
At this point, however, because of a shortage of organ
donors, Sylvia Berger faces a long waiting period for a kid-
ney. It can take as many as seven to ten years to get to the
top of the waiting list at New Yorks Mount Sinai Hospital,
and the median waiting time for a kidney in the United
States now is three to four years. Research shows that
years of waiting, even with hemodialysis therapy, results
in more serious complications and declining health.
We do not usually think of kidney disease as something
that can strike randomly from exposure to contaminated
food on a trip abroad, but such events do occur. Other
causes that could lead to kidney disease or failure include
traumatic injury from an accident,
exposure to certain toxic chemicals or
drugs, complications of pregnancy, or
prostate disease. People who have dia-
betes also are at high risk for kidney
disease, as are those with high blood
pressure, immune system diseases, or
serious viral infections.
Chronic kidney disease is consid-
ered to be a worldwide health cri-
sis. According to the National Kidney
Foundation, 10 percent of the worlds
population suffers from kidney dis-
ease. Only a small fraction of those
people, about two million, mostly
in developed countries, are being
treated with dialysis or kidney transplants. According to
the United Network for Organ Sharing (www.unos.org),
because of the long waiting lists for organs, although there
are as many as 100,000 Americans on waiting lists who
need kidneys, only 19,062 kidney transplants were per-
formed in the United States last year.
Sylvia Berger is a longstanding member of the North
Jersey Jewish community. She was an administrator at
Gerrard Berman Solomon Schechter Day School in Oak-
land for nearly 20 years. She also was active in Hadassah,
You cant give up hope.
My parents were
never to give up.
and is a past president of Fair Lawn Hadassah. A long-
term resident of Fair Lawn, she and her husband now
live in Wanaque.
Ms. Berger is on waiting lists for a cadaver kidney,
but her best bet would be a donation from an altruis-
tic living donor; success rates for live donor kidneys
are better. Robby Berman, founder and director of
the Halachic Organ Donor Society (HODS), which pro-
motes cadaveric organ donations in the Jewish com-
munity, explained that kidneys from living donors do
have better prospects than those organs obtained from
cadavers. Thats because when there is living donor the
transplant can be done more rapidly, and so there is
less time for the kidney to degrade. According to the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Organ
Procurement and Transplantation Network (https://
optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/) the five-year survival rate for
people who received living donor kidneys is 92 percent,
compared with an 83 percent survival rate for patients
who received cadaveric kidneys.
Living kidney donation still are rare, however, and
there are only a few organizations that help coordinate
the process. One such organization, called Renewal
(http://www.life-renewal.org), facilitates kidney dona-
tions in the Jewish community.
A child of Holocaust survivors, Ms. Berger was born in
Russia in 1945, lived in Poland after World War II, then
moved to Israel with her parents when she was four years
old. Ten years later the family moved to Toronto, where
Ms. Berger completed high school and college. She met
and married her husband, Dr. Irwin Berger, in November
1967, and has lived in New Jersey ever since, raising her
four children in Fair Lawn. Now a grandmother to 11, Ms.
Berger reports that her active life has been compromised
since her kidney functioning dropped to 15 percent, a criti-
cal point with regard to kidney failure.
Rabbi Ronald Roth of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center,
where the Bergers belonged when they lived in Fair
Lawn, sent around an open letter Ms. Berger wrote to the
community. In that letter, she explains her situation and
appeals for a kidney donor. She writes, Friends, if any-
one has ever been interested in pursuing the mitzvah of
Pikuach Nefesh Saving Someones Life then consider
viewing this as the ultimate mitzvah opportunity.
Im hoping not to have to go on dialysis, and to get a
live donor, Ms. Berger said. The more people who know
about it, the better the prospect of finding a match. You
never know where the salvation will come from.
In reaching out to the community, Ms. Berger hopes to
raise awareness that you can get kidney disease in many
different ways. If God forbid someone gets diarrhea, they
can get kidney disease from it. She learned it is unbe-
lievable how many side effects are caused by [diseased]
kidneys. Nevertheless, she said, You cant give up hope.
My parents were Holocaust survivors. They taught me
stamina, and never to give up.
Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman is a professor of biology at
William Paterson University of New Jersey, and the author
of The Hand Book: Surviving in a germ-filled world,
which provides advice on how to reduce the risk of infection
and save lives through better hygiene practices.

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Peggy Saslow
Tennis anyone?
Yes, says 94-year-old New Milford woman
Lois Goldrich
If you think that reaching the age of 94 means slowing
down, clearly you havent met Peggy Saslow of New Milford.
A past sisterhood president of the towns Beth Tikvah-
New Milford Jewish Center so many years ago that I
dont remember when Ms. Saslow now belongs to the
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, which her con-
gregation joined in 2013.
Im active in the synagogue, and in Hadassah, Ms.
Saslow said. I go to all the meetings. But her main pas-
sion now, in addition to tennis (more about that below) is
working to support a program at New Milford High School
that sends students on a 10-day trip to Germany, the Czech
Republic, and Poland to study the Holocaust.
They visit the death camp and survivors, Ms. Saslow
said. And they have all kinds of educational experiences.
They have actually discovered villages that hid Jews, and
formed a relationship with them. The program, which
has been running for more than 10 years, has been recog-
nized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, D.C. We had the board of the museum
come here, she said.
The New Milford school also has formed a relationship
with a school in Israel, and the principal came here to
meet our kids. The founder of the high school program,
Colleen Tambuscio, is a teacher, Ms. Saslow said. Not only
does Ms. Tambuscio work like a son of a gun to keep it
running, but the kids love her.
This years returning students gave a presentation to
program donors on June 19. They come back and they
are our ambassadors, Ms. Saslow said. They go out and
speak to local synagogues.
The word retired does not seem to fit Ms. Saslow.
Although technically she retired from teaching in 1994,
her involvement in education extended way beyond that.
When she began working at New Milford High School a
commitment that lasted some 30 years she taught only
8th grade home economics. Her qualifications for that job
included a degree in nutrition and diet therapy from Sim-
mons College in Boston.
But later she went back to school to get education credits
at Columbia University, Montclair State, and New York Uni-
versity. (Somewhere in between, she and her late husband,
Sidney whom Ms. Saslow described as a ganzer macher
in their synagogue managed to raise three children.)
With more than enough credits to qualify for a certificate
in science, she gave the subject a go when the school was
short a science teacher. I loved it, she said, and from then
on taught both science and home economics.
After retiring, she spent a semester back at Simmons
College, this time as an instructor, teaching Nutrition 101
to fill in for a professor on sabbatical. Still passionately
interested in education, she later agreed to serve on her
towns board of education. That position, which she held
until she was 90, lasted for 20 years.
Today, Ms. Saslow sits on the boards of the towns
Friends of the Library and its Senior Center. She is co-
president of the Simmons Club of Northern N.J. and still is
on its alumni executive board. She also has been teaching
an AARP driver safety course for the past 20 years.
And now to tennis.
Ms. Saslow said she has played the game since she was
a youngster. When she got married in the early 1950s, she
had no place to play. Id be teaching at New Milford High
School and looking out the window, she said. There
were kids going out on the tennis court with their coach.
I asked him if I could come and get brush-up instructions
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from him. I got lessons and played with the students, some
from my own class. It brought us even closer.
Today, she plays with Tennis for Life, started in 1998
by the late Marcia Devens, who then was a 13-year breast
cancer survivor. Sponsored by the Hackensack University
Medical Center Foundation, the program offers breast
cancer survivors free weekly indoor professional ten-
nis instruction at courts in Ridgewood and in Rockland
County. According to Ms. Saslow, who has been with the
group since its beginning, it also offers monthly guest
speakers on health-related topics, and it runs weekly sup-
port group meetings. It is funded solely through dona-
tions, grants, and fundraising events that are organized
by its members.
Whether tennis has kept Ms. Saslow healthy and vibrant
is open to question. But in 1991, when she first was diag-
nosed with breast cancer, she was told by her doctor that
she had only three to five years to live. Yet she now lives a
happy and independent life, driving up and down the east
coast to visit family and friends. At least one of her fellow
tennis players, Linda Gould of Paramus, has described Ms.
Saslow as inspirational.
Describing the beginnings of the Tennis for Life group,
Ms. Saslow said that our coaches initially were people
who played tennis well and wanted to be involved. Now
were a large group a big deal. While not everyone
comes every week, the group now has more than 100
members.
Although she is 94, it wouldnt occur to me to stop
playing, Ms. Saslow said. While she has been sidelined
recently due to a bad fall, I love the game, and I have
developed admiration, love, and caring for all the women
who pass through my life because of Tennis for Life.
Weve developed a strong bond. The program is free,
and open to people who never have played tennis. We
have a wonderful time, she said. We dont just go and
play games and try to win. Its a different kind of exercise,
with fun attached.
Ms. Saslow paid tribute to Hackensack Hospital,
which handles our finances and collects our money.
Teaching and
interacting with
children was
my passion. I know
how fortunate I was
to get paid for
doing something
that I loved to do.
We have a wonderful relationship. She credited Scott
Devens, Marcia Devens husband, with bringing the hos-
pital on board.
Asked if she had any wisdom to pass down, Ms. Saslow
said that she benefited from finding something to do with
my life that I loved so much that I could never think of it as
just a job. Teaching and interacting with children was my
passion. I know how fortunate I was to get paid for doing
something that I loved to do.
Also important to her has been the realization that life
has many ends, but with each end is a new beginning.
If you care about the world and other people, and you
get yourself involved with other people and develop the
understanding that were not all the same but can bring
each other friendship and help, your life will be enriched,
Ms. Saslow said.
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It was a real high

World Union for Progressive Judaisms Rabbi Daniel Freelander
talks about the groups largest ever Jerusalem meeting
JOANNE PALMER

There is something resonant about Jeru-

salem something deeply, inexplicably,
indefinably emotionally resonant. Some-
thing about the history and the stone and
the view and the hills and the harsh stark-
ness of it all. And of course the light.
Maybe thats why the World Union for
Progressive Judaism here at home, in
the United States, its member synagogues
are Reform, but they use other labels in
other parts of the world chooses to have
every other of its biennial conferences
there. The Reform movement is not par-
ticularly strong in Israel, but this years
conference, held in May, drew the largest
crowd its ever attracted. There were 450
people from 30 countries, its president,
Rabbi Daniel Freelander of Ridgewood,
said. (To be clear, the Reform movement
has much larger meetings, particularly
in North America; this one is specifically
international.)
It wasnt mainly rabbis, Rabbi Free-
lander continued. There were maybe 90
rabbis, but there were a lot of congrega-
tional presidents and officers from all the
regions around the world.
Members of the World Union call them- WUPJ members march to the Kotel; the people carrying sifrei Torah are from Russia, Germany, the UK, and Israel.
selves Reform, Liberal, or Progressive;
each name is the result of the particular
politics of the specific world in which each
developed. Each of the names has over-
tones in their countries, Rabbi Freelander
said. The groups developed in parallel
but in different ways, so coming together
every two years illuminates the different
ways that history and the surrounding cul-
ture influence religious practice.
Out of the entire convention, four expe-
riences stuck most with Rabbi Freelander.
The first one was when a group went to
Robinsons Arch. The arch, a small space,
is part of the Second Temples retaining
wall, like the Kotel, the Western Wall. The
Kotel, the iconic rough-hewn stone wall, is
run as an open-air Orthodox synagogue;
Robinsons Arch, much smaller, tucked out
of sight of the Kotel (although not always Rabbi Daniel Freelander of Ridge-
out of its rabbinates mind), is the place wood is the president of the WUPJ. These three Brazilian women just celebrated becoming bat mitzvah.
where egalitarian prayer is allowed.
That Thursday, we went to Robinsons a time capsule, a living history of Ger- from Brazil, but including representatives North America.) Men and women sat sep-
Arch for the bat mitzvah of 13 South Amer- man Jewish prewar life. Men and women from Chile and Argentina had been lob- arately, and the women couldnt read from
ican women, Rabbi Freelander said. They sat separately, but there was instrumen- bying in their synagogues, almost like suf- the Torah. Since then, that has changed,
were celebrating becoming bat mitzvah tal music, he said. It was not at all like fragists, Rabbi Freelander said. They had and the women celebrated that change. It
then because they had not been allowed classical Reform in this country, which is no ritual rights. was a political struggle, and they marked
to do so at home until recently. Thats sui generis to America. German Reform The last World Union biennial confer- it by all going to Jerusalem as a group, he
because the Reform movement went to evolved earlier; there, women could sing ence had been in Sao Paolo, Rabbi Free- said. And after the last woman read, we
South America with the German refugees with men but still they could not sit with lander said. There is a 2,000-family con- carried our Torah scrolls through, and
who brought the movement with them in them. They also could not read from the gregation there it is huge and it is both marched to the upper plaza of the Kotel.
the 1930 and 40s. It never really evolved, Torah. Masorti and Reform. (Masorti is the name There were 450 of us, and they let us
Rabbi Freelander said; instead, it became The women at the convention mainly for the Conservative movement outside through, with our scrolls, and we finished

10 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 23, 2017


the rest of the service there.
Thats a big deal. There have been
major political struggles at the Kotel,
women are not allowed to bring Torah
scrolls into the womens section, and
often, when they try to pray as a group,
their voices are drowned out by angry
women standing close by and angry
men hovering just on the other side of
the mechitzah.
The Progressive Union group did not
try to enter either the mens or wom-
ens sections; they did not attempt to
draw close to the wall, much less touch
it. But their presence even in the upper
plaza, fenced off from the Kotel but not
far from it, could have drawn protests. It
did not. We had one group aliyah with
a Torah scroll in the upper plaza, and no
Members of the
World Union call
themselves
Reform, Liberal,
or Progressive;
each name is
the result of the
particular
politics of the
specific world
in which each
developed.
one hassled us, Rabbi Freelander said.
It felt very normal. It was such a con-
trast to the news stories we had just read.
And to the last time we tried to bring a
Torah scroll into the upper plaza. Then,
he said, there had been a fracas, and I
ended up really bruised from it. He did
not know why it was so much easier this
time, but he appreciated it.
The conference participants were
divided among seven buses as they
drove throughout the city to explore var-
ious issues. Fifty people went on a bus
going to Gush Etzion, a cluster of towns
on the West Bank. There was a Labor
Party politician on the bus, and a leader
of the settlement movement. There
was a really good intellectual debate on
the bus, Rabbi Freelander said. Other
groups talked to Russian immigrants,
and about Jerusalems security fence.
Some took a bus to Beit Shemesh to
learn about gender segregation, he
added. That was the only one that got
any pushback. People threw things at
them. It was unfortunate.
On the other, happier hand, another
group talked to members of emerging
progressive communities, including one
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that is Russian-speaking, and yet another
group talked to Israeli rabbinic students.
HUC he was talking about the Jeru-
salem branch of Hebrew Union College,
the Reform movements seminary has
an Israeli-only curriculum for Israeli
rabbinic students, and it will ordain its
100th Israeli-born rabbi this year.
Congregations can grow only when
they have rabbis who really understand
the communities theyre in, he added;
the hope is that Israeli leaders, rather
than American ones, will be able to help
liberal congregations gain a foothold in
Israel.
On Friday night, the World Union wel-
comed in Shabbat at the Tachana Ris-
hona the citys old train station, which
has been renovated into a trendy open-
air collections of shops, restaurants, and
performance spaces, bounded by the old
buildings and tracks that give it authen-
ticity and gritty beauty. Every Friday
night there, they do a Kabbalat Shab-
bat, Rabbi Freelander said. This time,
all eight Reform congregations in Jerusa-
lem canceled their regular services and
we did it together there. We had more
than 1,000 people. It was amazing. It
was an hour and a half, we had a band,
Keep your day job.
and then everyone went to dinner in dif-
ferent congregants homes, from those
eight congregations.
People met before services, they sat
with their Israeli hosts, and then they
went back to their homes with them. It
Earn your MS in
was a real high.
And then, on Shabbat morning, we
had Shacharit at our headquarters at
taxation at night!
Beit Shmuel. There were 34 rabbinic
students from around the world, who
study at Geiger College thats Abra-
ham Geiger College in Pottsdam, Ger-
many and at Leo Baeck thats the
Midtown location,
Leo Baeck College in London and
from the seminary in Moscow thats
learn while you earn
the brand-new Moscow Rabbinic Lead- so you can attend class, study for the
ership Institute. They led the service on
Saturday morning. It was a very reassur- CPA exam and have a career at the same time.
ing image, these young people, in their
20s and 30s, from around the world.
This new, affordable, 30-credit, one-year
The conference theme was milestones
in innovation. We were looking for the program satisfies the 150-hour New York CPA
nexus between religious, cultural, and
societal innovation, Rabbi Freelander
requirement and provides a great credential.
said. To that end, the main speakers Learn skills and techniques from CPAs, IRS
were three Israelis who are members of
Reform congregations the well-known agents and attorneys.
educator, activist, and speaker Yossi
Abramowitz, the up-and-coming young For information, please visit:
Knesset member Stav Shafrir, and the
owner of SodaStream, entrepreneur and yu.edu/taxation5
realistic idealist Daniel Birnbaum.
Birnbaum closed with a video of Bed-
ouins, Palestinians, and Israelis working
side by side, Rabbi Freelander said. The
video was made in his factory, and it had
gone viral on YouTube.
It was heartening and very beautiful.
In other words, he closed with hope
and also with reality.
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The lion sings today

Yeshivat Noams eighth-grade girls put on the Lion King
BANJI GANCHROW
The curtain rises, the music swells. and
the lights come on. The audience is trans-
formed to the plains of Africa, perhaps the
Serengeti. You can almost feel the sand
beneath your feet. You can almost see the
herds of elephants. Simba, the lion cub
and future king, is introduced to the ani-
mals and to a packed audience.
Are these lucky viewers at a Broadway
show? Nope, they are at Yeshivat Noams
eighth-grade girls production of Disneys
The Lion King. (The girls-only perfor-
mance was available on live stream and
now can be seen on video, but because of
the Orthodox proscription against kol isha
men hearing womens voices the live
audience was restricted to women.)
For the last five years, Barbra Solomon
has been the drama teacher who is in
charge of these performances. She also
has taught English and history to both
sixth- and seventh-graders at the Paramus
The entire Lion King cast gathers onstage at Yeshivat Noam.
day school. Before she began to work on
performances at Noam, she had been in
charge of more than 25 performances in
camps and other schools. When I first
so they approached me. Her first produc-
tion was Aladdin. Since then, the school
has added a better sound system, but that
still is a work in progress. Now, the system
can support four wireless microphones,
plus another stand-up one. The school
hopes to add to that system, to benefit the
productions and future school events. It
has been amazing working with the girls
every year, Ms. Solomon said. The stu-
dents meet in the beginning of the year and
vote on which show they want to perform.
Thats in September, when the school
year starts. After the school decides which
show to produce, several weeks of tryouts
follow; casting is final at the end of Octo-
ber. Every girl who auditions becomes a
part of the experience, whether as a cast
member, an extra, or working on the pro-
duction side. Students paint the scenery,
started at Noam, both the school and my help with lighting, and learn about many
students knew that I had been involved aspects of what it takes to make a live per-
with play production, Ms. Solomon said. formance happen.
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Adi Rabinowitz, left, president of the board of the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County; Etz Haim endowment committee chairs Phil and Amy
Cushmaro; SSDS founder and honorary trustee Trudy Sadinoff; SSDS past presi-
dent and honorary trustee Freddie Kotek, and head of school Ruth Gafni cut
the ribbon on a new endowment donor wall on June 7. So far, they have raised
$3.5 million in legacy and cash gifts. COURTESY SSDS
Schechter cuts ribbon on new
CareOne CEO Daniel Straus, second from left, and Elizabeth Straus,
center, its executive vice president, were celebrated as the joint recipients
of the Make-A-Wish New Jersey 2017 Humanitarian of the Year award on
June 8 at the organizations gala. With them, from left, are Tom Weath-
erall, Make-A-Wish New Jerseys president and CEO; Frank Bolte, the or-
ganizations board chair; and Emily Schonberg and Rosemarie Farr, both
with Make-A-Wish. LAURA PEDRICK/AP IMAGES FOR CAREONE MANAGEMENT

$3.5M endowment campaign CareOne named

The Etz Haim endowment campaign at
Solomon Schechter Day School of Ber-
gen County recognizes the generosity
and commitment of current and pioneer
donors committed to the long-term suc-
cess of the school, which is in its 43rd
year. Every year, SSDS educates nearly
425 students, from 3-year-olds through
eighth-graders.
SSDS seeks to lay the educational and
moral foundation that helps children grow
into confident, intellectually inquisitive,
and compassionate adults who contribute
to the Jewish and global communities.
The schools programs include the
renowned Singapore mathematics pro-
gram in elementary school, an interdisci-
plinary eco-educational organic garden,
Wayne pantry needs donations
research-grade microscopy lab, and the
annual eighth-grade Israel Encounter.
They also include the gold standard
International Baccalaureate certification
for Middle School, which SSDS anticipates
it will secure in 2018.
In the past five years, SSDS also has
established a thriving annual giving cam-
paign, allowing the school to continue
serving a diverse population from Ber-
gen, Rockland, and Hudson counties and
New York City, by providing generous
tuition assistance packages to families in
need.
For information about the campaign,
email Michelle Weinraub, director of insti-
tutional advancement, at mweinraub@
ssdsbergen.org.
Corporation of the Year
CareOne, a family-owned healthcare
company that has more than 29 facili-
ties throughout New Jersey, was hon-
ored as Corporation of the Year by
Make-A-Wish New Jersey at its annual
gala on June 8. Daniel Straus, CareOnes
CEO, and Elizabeth Straus, its execu-
tive vice president, were honored as
Humanitarians of the Year. The entire
CareOne organization was recognized
as Corporation of the Year, in recogni-
tion of CareOnes 200 Wishes fund-
raiser, which took place at the Pruden-
tial Center in February and drew more
than 1,000 attendees. That resulted in
a $1.3 million commitment from Care-
One, representing the single largest
corporate gift and the largest one-day
fundraiser in the 34-year history of
Make-A-Wish New Jersey.
CareOne is hopefully an example to
others of what it means to be involved
in business and community. You have
to be involved in both to be successful,
Daniel Straus said.
I dont think you can care for peo-
ple without caring for each other. We
want to be a place where everyone
knows were compassionate and we
really want to care for those in need,
Elizabeth Straus added.
The Make-A-Wish New Jersey gala
included an address from Tom Weath-
erall, the organizations New Jersey
president and CEO, as well as testimo-
nials and performances by local New
Jersey wish kids who recently experi-
enced the power of a wish. Event spon-
sors included Toys R Us, RWJ Barnabas
Health, Hackensack Meridian Health,
and Macys. For information, go to
www.care-one.com or nj.wish.org.

WIN, the Wayne Interfaith Network, a
coalition of volunteers from houses of
worship and service organizations in the
greater Wayne area, provides ongoing sup-
plies of nonperishable food and other basic
necessities to Wayne residents. The pan-
trys supplies are critically low and since
children will be home for the summer and
so will not get school lunches, donations
are being requested as soon as possible.
Bags of nonperishable food and other
basic necessities, including paper goods,
toiletry items, and cleaning products,
are requested. Limit donations to regu-
lar sizes, not super sizes, and check that
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glass. Items must be nonperishable, with
no dents or cracks in cans or bottles and
no torn or open boxes or containers.
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Elizabeth Straus and her father, Daniel Straus, accept the award.

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BCHSJS president Sy Blechman
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BCHSJS annual gala

The Bergen County High School of Jew-
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The LDor VDor award was presented
to David Goodman and Dr. Hope Schloss-
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Cover Story
Is Jewish art
too Jewish?
Of course not! Jewish Art Salon members
explain the question (and talk about
the upcoming Jerusalem Biennale)
J
JOANNE PALMER
ews and art.
Art and Jews.
Its one of those weird relation-
ships. Many Jews seem to be drawn
to art. (Here, we are talking spe-
cifically about the visual arts, but thats a
general statement true about literature,
music, performance, and just about every
other kind of creative work there is.)
16 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 23, 2017
But it can be a troubled relationship
nonetheless. Jewish law has prescrip-
tions against figurative art that kept many
Jews away from it for a very long time;
Jews often did not have the freedom or
the resources to make art; and now, with
the biblical law in most parts of the com-
munity interpreted differently, the free-
dom so taken for granted as to be part of
the air, and resources much more readily
available, there seems to be other cultural
constraints that often keep artists from
making overtly Jewish art.
Other questions that hover over any dis-
cussion of Jewish art also are the very basic
ones: What is Jewish art? What is a Jewish
artist? Do you have to be Jewish to make
Jewish art? Can a Jewish artist make non-
Jewish art? How about a-Jewish art?
And theres a question that might seem
surprising to the non-artists who hear about
it How can a Jewish artist find another
Jewish artist, to talk about Jewish art?
Yona Verwer asked all those questions.
Yona Verwer
The Dutch-born artist now lives in Man-
hattan. I realized that I was working with
Jewish themes, and I didnt know anybody
else who wanted to talk about them, she
said. I am very involved in the New York
art world, and I didnt have that for my
Jewish work.
There is something intrinsically empow-
ering about creating art. It allows all sorts
of ideas about identity, truth, and emo-
tion to hover in the air, sometimes hit-
ting a viewer hard in the face, sometimes

feathering little gusts of air in her direc-
tion. Much of that power is solitary, but
there also is power in communities, where
artists can talk about ideas and use vocab-
ulary that no one else would understand.
Perhaps because of this, there are many
networks for different kinds of artists. For
women, of course; feminist art is flourish-
ing. For artists of color, for artists of fluid
gender identity, for artists who hold tightly
to particular beliefs about economics and
social justice, for artists whose styles bind
them together or whose histories draw
them to each other all of these artists can
find communities.
But somehow, Ms. Verwer said, there
seemed to be no network for Jewish art-
ists, or for artists making Jewish art. So, in
2008, she decided to create one.
She started by trying to figure out what
she meant by Jewish art. I define it very
loosely, she said. To my surprise, I real-
ized that there is a whole movement of
feminist Jewish art, and there were many
people working in a cartoon style, and
then there are many Jews of color who are
artists. It covers a wide variety.
So how do you create a network?
She called some friends artists who
make Jewish art and came away with
enthusiastic responses. My goal was very
modest, she said. I hoped to get maybe
10 artists together, which at the time
seemed impossible.
At the first meeting, we had 18. And it
just grew from there. And so the Jewish Art
Salon was born.
Because Ms. Verwer realized that some
of the people in the group were not art-
ists but art historians and curators, she
widened its definition to include them.
The Jewish Art Salon met monthly or
bimonthly, where artists would bring
slides of their work, give short presenta-
tions, and then discussions would follow.
But you put a couple of artists together,
and the first thing they want is an exhibi-
tion, Ms. Verwer said. I hadnt prepared
for that. But soon she began sending out
information about exhibits, acting as a
resource both for artists who wished to
show and institutions mainly Jewish
ones that wanted a show.
Meanwhile, membership kept grow-
ing. Most of the groups meetings are in
Manhattan, with occasional excursions
At left, Joel Silverstein,
Ten Commandments - A Question.
Inspired by an 1,800 year old Jewish
mural, this shows Jerusalem, Moses
and Aaron, drowning Egyptians,
the flooding red sea and Wonder
woman, mixing figurative art with
pop references.
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to Brooklyn, but its members there are
around 300 now come from around the
world and keep in touch online.
One of the shows is the Jerusalem Bien-
nale, a big, ambitious show, whose mission
is to present Israeli and Jewish art or, as
its website puts it, is dedicated to explor-
But somehow,
Ms. Verwer said,
there seemed to
be no network for
Jewish artists,
or for artists
making Jewish
art. So, in 2008,
she decided to
create one.
ing the places in which Contemporary Art
and the Jewish World of Content meet.
Its a big deal, and hopes to become bigger
every other year.
The first Biennale was in 2013; the Jew-
ish Art Salon had work displayed in the
second. Its members had been impressed
with the quality of the work there, and
approved wholeheartedly of its goals,
which dovetailed with their own. The third
Biennale is set for this October; the Salon
was invited back, with a show called Jeru- Yona Verwer and Katarzyna Kozeras Book of Yona #5 weaves together the
salem Between Heaven and Earth, and it coming-to-America stories of the artists with the story of the prophet Jonah.
now is trying to raise the funds it needs to The artist Yona left Old Amsterdam for the New, and resurfaced as an observant
get there. Jew. The whale in the Mediterranean has become a submarine in the East River.
The Salon is made up of artists, not The painting contains augmented reality embedded hidden videos.
fundraisers. So what to do?
Miriam Stern of Teaneck, a prominent
artist whose work is deeply Jewish and
who was an early member of the Salon,
came up with a major initiative, Ms. Ver-
wer said. A parlor meeting.
(Its set for this Monday, June 26; see the
box for more details.)
Ms. Stern also came up with the idea of
inviting the artist Archie Rand, all of whose
work is Jewish because being Jewish is so
deeply who he is and who also is an
unstoppable, warm, and funny speaker
to speak at the meeting. He is so fantastic,
so entertaining, and works so hard for the
salon, she said.
Joel Silverstein of Mahwah is an artist
and a curator; hes also on the Jewish Art
Salons executive team.
What is Jewish art? What makes art Jew-
ish is the content, Mr. Silverstein said. The Billha Zussman, Espinosa. This installation piece, inspired by Baruch Spinoza,
artists do not have to be Jewish, although deals with defining Jewishness and breaking boundaries. The pair of tied hands
certainly most artists who make Jewish art represents the entangled relationship between old and new.
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are. But we accept everyone who is inter-
ested in making Jewish art, who wants to
address ideas in Jewish philosophy, cul-
ture, religion, about Israel, about making
a visual midrash.
Why is there a need for a specifically
Jewish art salon? We all had the experi-
ence of trying to show Jewish art and being
rebuffed, often being made fun of for it,
often by gallerists and critics who are Jew-
ish, he said, and Ms. Verwer and Ms. Stern
confirmed. So this is an attempt to band
together to make our own network.
It is unfashionable to make your art
overtly Jewish, he said. Its hard to say
why. Some of it is a modern phenome-
non; there is a lot of nervousness about
religion post 9/11, he said. Most artists
are liberal; you dont want to be seen as
being anti-Muslim. And of course Israel is
a complicated, controver-
sial issue, and so is Jewish
identity. Its sometimes
about being white but not
having the status of a white
person the whiteness of
Jews is an ongoing issue.
Thats from the liberal side.
From the conserva-
tive side, there is a tradi-
tional tendency to be ner-
vous about visual art. Of
course, becoming a visual
artist would have to mean Joel Silverstein
that the artist has over-
come at least some of that discomfort, or
at least chosen to ignore it, but people
have internalized the rules, Mr. Silverstein
said. Those artists are careful about what
Richard McBee, Exodus Redux. These two sets of doors show the Exodus in they choose to paint, opting, for exam-
10 images. ple, to skip the classes that involve nude
models.
Also, he added, some Jewish venues are
careful about the images they allow to be
displayed. It is not like the secular art
world, which is like a mirror image of this.
We have a coalition of liberal Jews and
frum Jews, and we have a lot of baale tes-
huva. Western art tends to be Christian, or
have Christian symbols, and Jewish artists
have to navigate through that.
They combine, somehow. We have
people who are chassidim, or who are very
left-wing, at times anti-Israel. We form a
coalition, focusing on aesthetics, not on
politics. But most of us are pro-Israel, and
most of us are okay about visual art.
Why does he make such Jewish art? I
grew up in Brooklyn, in Gravesend and
Bensonhurst, Mr. Silverstein said. There
was a heavy mix of Italians, secular Jews,
Ben Schachter, Aquavit - Pray for Rain. Orthodox Jews, and Syrian Sephardic Jews.
These faucets, hoses, channels, It was intensely tribal and territorial. I was be super left wing and secular, he said.
and other implements explore the exposed to real Catholic anti-Semitism
mikvah, a place drenched in purity, and to Jewish tribalism. I was discounted
law, and tension. because I was a Conservative Jew among
the Orthodox. (Today, he belongs to Beth
Haverim Shir Shalom, the Reform syna-
gogue in Mahwah.) So there were all
Joel Silverstein, High Priest (Arnie).
these intense kinds of river currents about
The priest is modeled on El Grecos
religion and cultural identity, and I went
work, wears biblical robes, and has
on a spiritual quest.
the face of the painters father-in-law.
18 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 23, 2017
Mr. Silversteins quest for the freedom to
express his Jewish identity corresponded
with and somehow was conflated into his
fight for the unimpeded right to make figu-
rative art, instead of the abstract art that
prevailed when he was in art school, in the
late 1970s and early 1980s.
What I found was Jewish abstract art-
ists, who told me that any kind of figura-
tive content was bad. Color, good. Con-
tent, bad. So I became a figurative artist.
Its not that he doesnt see the brilliance
of some abstract art, particularly as it
began, he added. I am a great fan of the
first generation of abstract artists they
found ways to integrate figurative content
into it but then content became verbo-
ten in no time.
So he was putting together ideas about
figurative content and Jewishness. I dis-
covered Jewish postmod-
ernism and started see-
ing Torah in postmodern
terms, he said. I was
reading a lot of philoso-
phy in graduate school.
I read Derrida, who had
a lot of Jewish ties, and I
was reading and thinking
about working with Jew-
ish culture and religion in
a creative way. Sort of the
way William Blake did he
rewrote the Bible, made
illustrated books, referred
to England as the New Jerusalem. In other
words, he took the cultural references in
which he was steeped, which he loved,
which were part of the atmosphere he
breathed, and he used them consciously,
with reverence but also with indepen-
dence and imagination.
And then I started noticing things
in American culture, like comic books,
like Superman and Batman and Captain
America, whose creators all were Jews. I
was noticing a lot of covert Jewish identity.
If you are Jewish, and you grew up with
Jewish stuff, not Catholic stuff, then when
you think spiritual, you dont think Jesus.
You think Moses. I was in my 30s when I
found out that the movie director Cecil
B. DeMille was a crypto-Jew his mother
converted but it was right there in the
movie The 10 Commandments. You could
smell it in there.
Catholics and Protestants dont have to
hide who they are, and if youre black, you
cant hide it. That changed the game. Black
artists said, Listen, Im black. Im doing
black content. Jews just couldnt do that.
In the art world, there is real pressure to
How could I articulate these ideas, and
who I was as a person? When I would artic-
ulate it to Jews in the art world, they would
shoot me down. When he tried to present
those ideas in public and he did they
would shout him down. If you stick your
nose out, it will get punched, Mr. Silver-
stein said.
So how did he become a consciously

Archie Rand, 1946. This painting references the decimation of European Jews and Shoah survivors options. It is made from collaged scraps of found oil paintings
and decals and has been repainted in acrylic.
Jewish artist, a creator of figurative work
that incorporated Jewish symbols? That
sometimes showed Jews? It was an evolu-
tion, he said. It took a lot of work. But
he kept at it, and eventually and then
with the help of the Jewish Art Salon I
met a lot of other people who were search-
ing for a spiritual identity. And it was okay
to be Jewish. You didnt have to be a popu-
list secularist if you didnt want to.
In the art world, where it seems to be
okay to be almost anything else, it takes
surprising amounts of courage to be
openly Jewish, Mr. Silverstein said. He told
the story of an artist, a Jewish woman of
color, who was showing at a gallery. She
said that she studied with a rabbi every
week, and every single piece of work she
had in the show had Jewish content, but
she was not allowed to present herself as
a Jew. The critics did not allow it. That
would have conflicted with the narratives
of her as a woman, as not white, as making
art from more palatable positions.
The problem is compounded, Mr. Silver-
stein said, because you have art people
who are anti-Jewish, and you have Jewish
people who are anti-art.
His own art is a mixture, but even the
stuff that is autobiographical can be read
in a Jewish way. It is always about the
Exodus. Its always about freedom. And
I would say that at least half of my work
is overtly about the Hebrew Bible, about
making the golem, about Bezalel, Mr. Sil-
verstein said.
Archie Rand, who will speak at the par-
lor meeting, was one of Mr. Silversteins
mentors; he is a funny and vigorous
speaker who recently published The 613,
a comic book about every one of the bibli-
cal mitzvot.
Mr. Rand, who was born in 1949 a
Brooklyn boy like Mr. Silverstein has
been doing work with Jewish content
throughout my entire career, he said. At
first, it was not overtly Jewish, but even
such very early works as the paintings
of forgotten jazz musicians were scroll
shaped, and I had been thinking of them
as Torah scrolls, he said. I was thinking
of the paintings as being about zachor
about the commandment to remember.
We think of the Torah scroll as a living
thing, he said.
At one point he painted work that he
named after the 10 victims
memorialized in the marty-
rology read on Yom Kippur,
and they got reviewed,
and nobody noticed the
names. Names like Amnon
of Mainz and Rabbi Chutz-
pit Hameturgeman. In
other words, not ordinary
names, but instead names
that demand an explana-
tion. But no. Jewish critics
reviewed them, but they did
not notice the names. Archie Rand
Judaism was in the air Mr.
Rand breathed. He went to public school
and then to Lafayette High School, then a
very good institution, later closed because
of the murder rate there, he said. The
neighborhood had changed. When he
was growing up, his family was not par-
ticularly observant but still he went to
Hebrew school four days during the week
and then on Sunday, and he went to shul
every Shabbat. We learned Hebrew, we
learned Chumash, we learned midrash.
Judaism didnt play a major part in my life, moved. If you declare it Jewish, it is like a
because everyone was Jewish.
Because he was smart, and what he
called a Sputnik kid aggressively edu-
cated because the United States needed
smart young people to fight the Soviet
Union with their sheer brainpower he
graduated from high school and then from
college early. He worked in the art world,
came to know many famous Jewish artists,
and it did not occur to me at first that the
art world was where Jews go to assimilate.
They fear being too Jewish, too vulgar, too
loud. Of being too foreign, too odd, too
different. Too much.
Mr. Rand realized that he had to make
Jewish art, whether or not he could sell it;
understanding, in fact, that the odds were
that he could not sell it. I did a set of paint-
ings on the Shmona Esrei, the Amidah,
the standing prayer at the
heart of the service. I
realized then that the stuff
had to be made, whether
or not it had a market. It
was hard to sell because
Jews who collect art do it
to assimilate, and obser-
vant Jews didnt want art
in the house, unless its
a portrait of Menachem
Mendel Schneerson.
But I realized that it
had to be made.
No culture can exist
without some visual component, Mr.
Rand said. But there is very little visual
component to Judaism. There are two
reasons for that one internal and one
external.
First, the external, which is particu-
larly true in the diaspora, Mr. Rand sug-
gested. If you take a building and you
put a mural inside it, you have tattooed
the building. That building declares some-
thing. Its unlike a painting, which can be
flag. It is like waving a red flag. It is consid-
ered antagonistic.
And then internally, rabbis have prob- his lavish Italian estate, I Tatti, and Scha-
lems with it as well, Mr. Rand said. It eats
away at their communal power. In Chris-
tianity, in a dogmatic religion this is espe-
cially true in Catholicism you have a para-
metrical power structure. Someone can
come to the priest and say, I saw a picture
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of Mother Mary. She was wearing blue, and
thats the color of the sky, and so I can say
a prayer to Mary, who is in the sky, and the
priest will say fine. But if you do that to a
rabbi, if you say, I saw a picture of Mor-
dechai, and he was wearing a purple tur-
ban, and thats the color of royalty, so that
means that the messiah will be ben Morde-
chai, not Ben David, the rabbi will say this
is a bubbemeise. It is nonsense.
Thats because the Christian iconogra-
phy is so settled that it is easy to fit things
into it, and to come to the conclusions to
which it is pointing you. But Jews dont
have that. If you declare a Jewish iconog-
raphy, you declare power, Mr. Rand said.
You declare a cohesiveness to the com-
munity. Symbols have to be recognized by
the community before they can be uniting.
Jews have been united through oral
Torah, not through visual symbols. Once
you have visual symbols, someone is able
to draw individual conclusions, and that
takes the power away from the rabbinate.
Non-Jews dont want to know that Jews
feel comfortable enough to make their own
coat of arms, so it was a convenient deal
that Jews made with non-Jews that Jews not
have a visual component.
But I figure that now, when we live
in a time with the Gershwins and Bern-
steins and Einsteins, we can invade this
territory.
There is a famous art-world story, Mr.
Rand said, that is directly relevant. Its
about the great turn-of-the century art his-
torian Bernard Berenson, and the younger
art historian Meyer Schapiro, Berensons
protg. Berenson would hold salons at
piro, a young genius in his early 20s, was
invited to one of these, Mr. Rand said.
Berenson said something in German to
one guest, in Russian to another guest, in
Italian to a third. Schapiro said something
to Berenson in Yiddish, and Berenson
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kid from Brooklyn, and I Joel Silverstein, Jo-El/Jor-El. The artist plays
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enormous amount of Jew-
ish inspired, spiritually inspired, litur- five years or so, they rebel. So I figure
gically inspired work that there is abso- that some critic out of Swarthmore or
lutely no clientele for. The only places Wellesley will realize that there is this

Youve graduated... where I can show them are Jewish muse-

ums and large JCCs. But I do it on pur-
glorious art, and she could make it avail-
able and visible.

now what?
pose, because this work has to be done.
I want to do stuff so Jewish that it
stinks of herring, he said.
He values the Jewish Art Salon. It
shows that we are not isolated, dis-
reputable, failed artists making Jewish
chachkes, he said. And Yona Verwer
is extraordinary. She has organized
this group, which by now is fairly enor-
mous. Now, any time there is a show
Contact Dr. Norma Brecker, in a shtiebel in Omaha, Yona will put it
online. Shell post that there is a juried
the Career Doctor, show in the basement of Congregation
for a free resume review. Halvah in Tulsa on the theme of fruit.
And instead of three ladies in the Water-
color Society of Tulsa being the only
people to submit, someone in New York
or Teaneck will send in a picture of the
ram and Abraham and a bowl of fruit.
Yona is quietly and steadfastly cou-
rageous. She doesnt think of herself as
courageous, but she is. She is doing this
with tremendous energy and education.
She continues to pound the idea that it
is important not only aesthetically but
politically. Her devotion is fierce, and her
organizational capacity is remarkable.
He hopes that the future might look
Contact
REACH Norma
OUT: at up for Jewish art, if for no other reason
than the way the art world cycles rap-
(201) 986-1716
idly through trends and enthusiasms.
NORMA@MYCAREERDOC.COM I have noticed that critics act the same
way that artists do, he said. After about
She will say, Everyone is afraid of
Jewish stuff, but lets do it. Lets do some-
thing about two marginalized cultures.
Lets do a Jewish and queer show. It
hasnt happened yet, but as long as the
Jewish Art Salon is making it visible, the
potential is there.
And as the clich says, If it is possi-
ble, then it is inevitable.
And, Mr. Rand repeated, The salons
work is amazing. Kol hakavod to them
for it.
Who: The Jewish Art Salon
What: Holds a salon to raise money
toward its exhibit, Jerusalem
Between Heaven and Earth in the
Jerusalem Biennale 2017
When: On Monday, June 26, at
7:30 p.m.
Where: At a private home in
Teaneck; call (201) 837-6157 for more
information
What else: The guest speaker will be
artist, Jewish Art Salon member, and
raconteur Archie Rand
For more information:
Call (201) 837-6157 or email
Miriam.stern9@gmail.com
To donate toward the trip: Send a
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Members of Israels Navy in an exercise on the beach.
Big data
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operations, which transferred data to
one another inefficiently and slowly.
Now, nothing is transferred because
everyone is sitting on the same infra-
structure. Each one is contributing to
the common picture, in line with their
missions, Ovadia said.
Network IDF began as a concept in
2014 and quickly began changing the
way Israeli forces fight in battle.
Then, during the 2014 conflict with
Hamas on July 8, a terrorist naval com-
mando cell from Gaza swam north in the
Mediterranean Sea and landed on Zikim
beach on Israels southern coastline.
What happened next represents the
first sparks of the network, Ovadia said.
An observations soldier saw suspi-
cious activity on the beach. She trans-
mitted data in real time to ground
and air units. Then a dialogue began
This is a fictional
scenario today,
but it could
become reality
soon, thanks to
the high-tech
revolution of the
IDFs network-
centered
warfare.
between a tank commander and the air
force. The units coordinated their fire-
power against the targets, he recalled.
The network allows military plat-
forms, like a helicopter and a tank, to
communicate directly with one another,
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Since its inception, the IDF has worked
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In 2015, Network IDF was declared
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Editorial
Old things
L violence in America but
ast week, David Grossman
won the Man Booker Inter-
national Prize for his novel
A Horse Walks Into a Bar.
Published in Israel in 2014 and in
translation this year, the novel pri-
marily is the story of Dov Greenstein,
who is standing on a stage in a base-
ment dive bar in Netanya and deliv-
ering stand-up if not precisely the
comedy the audience was expect-
ing, then at least self-disclosure pep-
pered by jokes.
Dovs father was a barber who was
always running a side hustle: Darn-
ing stockings. Selling jeans with mis-
placed zippers. And gathering sec-
ondhand clothing and bedding for
resale in whole or as parts. He used
to drive around Jerusalems neigh-
borhoods on his Sachs moped buy-
ing rags, old clothes, shirts, pants,
Dov says. As he goes, his father
shouts the familiar ragmans call:
Alte zachen! Jewish Journalism of the American
Alte zachen. Old things. Old
things with an implied hope for
renewal. For a second life. As it
happened, last week another novel
by an Israeli won a literary award,
and that novel also featured a rag
dealer calling alte zachen on the
streets of Jerusalem. That novel
is Central Station by Lavie Tid-
har. (We reviewed it in March.) It
won the John W. Campbell Memo-
rial Award for Best Science Fiction
Novel probably less for the 23rd-
century alte zachen dealer than for
Tidhars recycling and refurbishing
of classic science fiction tropes.
This got us thinking about alte
zachen, and the ways Jewish writ-
ing is like the rag trade. Its not the
shmattes themselves; its about the
idea that nothing is ever discarded.
The past can, and must be, repur-
posed. Whether it is a tattered bed
sheet or an old Germanic language
picked up in one corner of our dis-
persion, another customer, another
generation, will find a use for the
alte zachen.
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It is the combination of the old
and new that makes our Jewish sto-
ries compelling, that provide the fac-
ets that dazzle us from time to time.
The past echoes in today, and today
echoes in the past.
The power of Grossmans and
Tidhars stories lie in their authors
grasp of William Faulkners truism
that The past is never dead. Its not
even past. Grossmans comedian
never can escape the shadow the
Holocaust cast on his mother, even
as he yearns to make his audience
laugh. Tidhars characters live in the
shadow of a Tel Aviv spaceport, but
they never can escape their own pri-
vate and family histories.
And in our community, the sto-
ries that compel and delight us most
share that characteristic. Were
pleased that our colleague Joanne
Palmer also won two awards last
week the Rockower Awards for
Jewish Press Association. The two
stories reflected the different ways
alte zachen manifest in our 21st cen-
tury America. One told the tale of
the Maxwell House Haggadah an
ancient ritual remade again and
again for the needs of modern Jews
and the advertising agency that mar-
kets to them. The other told about
Orthodox parents of gay kids, and
how they gathered to figure out
how to love their children while not
cutting themselves off from the old
traditions.
This week, our paper again has
many tales of alte zachen. On the
cover, Jewish artists repurpose
old themes as new Jewish art. The
Teaneck Jewish Center, one of our
communitys oldest congregations,
seeks to rebuild. And Miryam Wah-
rman writes of medicine as a mitz-
vah as a congregation seeks to find
a slightly used kidney. Not quite a
modern-day ragman shouting alten
nirren, old kidneys, as he rides
through the streets on his moped,
but close. L.Y.
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TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES
Booker rightly addresses gun
betrays himself by funding Iran
J
ust days ago, my friend Senator Cory
Booker (D-NJ) tried to turn the anti-Trump
this is not normal slogan on its head.
In a speech to the New Democracy
Forum, Cory expressed displeasure in the
forums program, which decried the politi-
cal-situation in the United States as exactly
that: not normal. To say that the election
of Donald Trump marked the beginning of
an abnormal time is what gets me upset,
explained the senator.
What isnt normal, Cory argued,
is Americas lack of proper gun-
control and excessive methods
of mass incarceration both
of which have been an issue
long before the rise of Trump.
Theres shootings on blocks in
America every single day, he
said. There are people being
murdered in our city in our Rabbi
country every single day. And Shmuley
we have normalized it. Boteach
Cory called, quite soundly, for
background checks on weapons
sales, saying something had to be done to stop
the violence in American cities. The carnage,
he claimed, had reached a level that belongs
in war zones.
Cory went on to explain how youth of color
are being too easily incarcerated on minor drug
charges, thereby sequestering their right to vote
in crucial swing states such as Florida, Virginia,
and Iowa all of which ban those convicted of
a felony from voting. People of white color were
using the same drugs, something Cory said he
witnessed in Stanford, but with far fewer conse-
quences. Hence, Americas minority communi-
ties were being largely disenfranchised.
These all are important issues. On a domes-
tic level, gun violence, incarceration, and dis-
enfranchisement are serious issues that need to
be addressed.
But Cory seems to ignore these issues the
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moment hes not dealing with Americans.
When it comes to foreign policy, Cory has to
reverse his position of supporting regimes that
commit most horrific acts of violence, imprison
and execute their citizens without trial, and lack
even the slightest trace of democracy.
In 2015, Cory voted for a deal that has given
Iran $150 billion dollars and full legitimacy in
the international economy, a move that will
net the country hundreds of billions more. Far
worse, though, is the fact that
when you give sums like that to a
nation like Iran, youre effectively
funding the quasi terror states
that exist almost entirely on the
Iranian rial horrific regimes like
Assads Syria, Hamas-ruled Gaza,
Houthi-torn Yemen, and Hezbol-
lah-controlled southern Lebanon.
Iran now is aiding and abetting
a genocide of Sunni Muslims in
Syria via its support of the Assad
regime. Those who voted to fund
Iran must be aware of these seri-
ous consequences.
Cory is absolutely right about the need to end
the violence in Newark, Detroit, and Chicago.
But what about Homs, Aleppo, Damascus, and
Sanaa? The money given to Iran by Obamas
deal, which Cory voted for and supported, has
given the Iranians the ability to make the vio-
lence in those cities go on forever.
According to some estimates, Iran is provid-
ing the Assad regime with up to $20 billion a
year. How can you oppose violence at home and
then give that much money to a country so com-
mitted to supporting the most violent man on
earth? And, tragically, Assad is a whole lot more
dangerous than even Americas fiercest gangs.
Roughly half a million people have been killed
so far in the Syrian civil war. According to the
Syrian Network for Human Rights, 94 percent
of the dead were murdered by the Iran-Assad
alliance an alliance that might not exist if it
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werent for the immense American cash flows, provided
in part by the Iran nuclear agreement that our senator
supported. Iran, by the way, isnt using this money just
on firearms. Its footing the bill for Assad to buy heavy
artillery, develop chemical weapons, and fuel the planes
being used to drop combustible kegs of gasoline on civil-
ians throughout Syria.
And since Cory is concerned with incarceration, he
should know that Assad has imprisoned more than
117,000 civilians since the start of the conflict six years
ago. And his prisons are worse than the one Cory men-
tioned on Rikers Island. Torture, starvation, and sum-
mary execution are regular causes of death in Syrian
prisons. And if youve been looking at the news, you
now know that Assad has furnished at least one of his
prisons with a fully functional crematorium, which he
uses to burn the bodies of his victims.
As for being disenfranchised, no one lacks democracy
more than a nation whose leader goes to war with them
to avoid stepping down.
Within Iran itself, things arent much better. Democ-
racy is a fallacy in a country where everything is subor-
dinate to Ayatollah Khameini, who rules for life while
repeatedly calling for the wholesale extermination of
the six million Jews who live in Israel. Violence exists
in Iran as well, though its not gangs the citizens fear
Perhaps, Senator
Booker, before giving
this regime hundreds of
billions of dollars and
international legitimacy,
American elected
officials should have
given them a
background check.
but their own police and government officers. Also, as
Cory must surely know, in Iran people arent incar-
cerated on minor drug charges. Theyre imprisoned
for being critical of the regime, for being members of
the Bahai faith, or even for being gay. Often, theyll
be murdered in prison, and even hung from cranes to
intimidate the public.
Perhaps, Senator Booker, before giving this regime
hundreds of billions of dollars and international legit-
imacy, American elected officials should have given
them a background check.
Im not here to take issue with any of Corys critical
points about the need for a moral domestic policy that
is fair, democratic, and promotes peace. And gun vio-
lence is a scourge in America that must be addressed by
both parties. What I am saying is that these values Cory
preaches need to be reflected in his foreign policy as
well, if he is to be consistent.
Because American money ending up supporting a
regime that is the worlds leading sponsor of terror just
isnt to put it lightly normal.
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Opinion
Modern with a capital M redux
O
ne of the many pleasures Ive
experienced since I began writ-
ing this column for the Jew-
ish Standard is the friendship I
developed with its editor (see my column,
Five generations, 5/27/16).
But as with all friendships, this one also
has its bumps in the road. For example, the
editor is, quite inexplicably to me, a Mets
fan, while I as befitting someone who was Joseph C.
privileged to live for his first five years on Kaplan
the Grand Concourse and 156th St. in the
shadow of the House that Ruth Built root
for the Yankees. Thankfully, we have somehow managed
to bridge that chasm.
Another disagreement arose at the very inception of
our relationship. It relates to, of all things, typography.
(Really.) In my very first Standard column, I referred
to the Modern Orthodox community. That phrase,
though, was edited to read modern Orthodox in the
printed version. I brought up this editorial change in an
email to the editor, and in the ensuing thread we dis-
cussed, and disagreed about, its necessity. But since
shes the editor and Im not, we now use the following
protocol: When I want to use that phrase in a column (as
I often do), the draft I submit contains Modern Ortho-
dox (put down your blue pencil, Joanne, Im making a
point), the print version in the Standard reads modern
Orthodox, and that reverts yet again to Modern Ortho-
dox when it is republished online in my Times of Israel/
Jewish Standard blog.
This is not a new issue for me. I first wrote about it
15 years ago, in an article that appeared in the late (and
lamented by me and I hope others) Edah Journal, titled
Modern With a Capital M. In that article (which can
be found by googling the title), I posit that Modern
Orthodox Jews modern with a capital M do more
than modernize our Orthodoxy and ensure that the
modern twenty-first century lives we live are Orthodox;
we have a strong affirmative commitment to modernity
and certain of its values which we strive to infuse with
sanctity. To the Modern Orthodox Jew, Modern is not
simply an adjective modifying Orthodox; rather, it also
connotes an extra-halachic allegiance to certain modern
values apart from, in addition to, and to state the obvi-
ous not in conflict with our Orthodoxy. The remain-
der of that article contains examples that, I argue, sup-
port that thesis.
I still believe in the thesis and supporting examples. But
I recently heard a lecture called The Curious Invention
Named Modern Orthodoxy by R. Dr. Zev Eleff, Chief Aca-
demic Officer of Hebrew Theological College and an up-
and-coming American Jewish history star, which helped
me rethink the question of the relationship between
modern and orthodox and conclude that there is
another reason the M should be capitalized.
Its more than the relationship I discussed in my ear-
lier article and still believe is correct. Rather, its also that
the two-word phrase Modern Orthodox has become the
title of a group (I hesitate to use the word denomination)
like Chabad or Reconstructionist which is more than the
sum of its individual parts and their meanings. Its a brand
name that both denotes and unifies our community; its a
shorthand way to tell others, both our compatriots and
not, who we are, where we fit in on the spectrum of Jew-
ish communities and religious groups, and some of what
we stand for, what specific values we cherish, and what
practices we hold dear.
At an earlier time in American Jewish his-
tory, that shorthand was mainly an exclusion-
ary one; that is, it told others who we were
not. To say we were Modern Orthodox was
to say we were not chassidic or charedi (to
be anachronistic) or Conservative or Reform;
that we didnt, for example, have Yiddish ser-
mons, mixed seating, or microphones, or use
the Silverman siddur in our shuls. But these
nots, important as they were while we
were slowly finding our way in America, tells
only half the story.
Knowing who you are not is just the first step to the
more critical one of discovering who you are.
And so, as we entered the second half of the 20th cen-
tury, a more positive understanding took hold. Its not,
of course, that all Modern Orthodox Jews or communi-
ties are the same, or have identical values and practices.
Rather, its that there are some basic values and practices,
in addition to a commitment to Torah and halacha, that
we share, and that are highlighted by the Modern Ortho-
dox brand.
We share, for example, a belief in Zionism, and in being
actors rather than merely observers in history; a belief in
the inherent value of a secular education, which opens
us up to the grandeur of our God-given world; a belief in
democracy and its rights and freedoms as secular Ameri-
can values, albeit consonant with our Jewish ones; a belief
Knowing who you are
not is just the first step
to the more critical
one of discovering
who you are.
in tolerance of, and respect for, the other, both within and
outside our community, and a belief in the importance
of providing women with equal access to a high level of
Jewish learning and a role in the leadership, including the
religious leadership, of our community.
Of course, even with respect to these basic values
there are different shadings, sometimes important ones,
on details and emphases. For example, there are both
single sex and co-ed Modern Orthodox elementary and
high schools, each with strongly committed and opin-
ionated adherents. Yet we not only tolerate and respect
both choices, but we also understand that our shared
commitment to giving our daughters the highest level
Jewish education is far more significant than the dis-
agreement over whether it should be taught in a co-ed
or separate environment.
And so when we say we are Modern Orthodox Jews or
a Modern Orthodox community or shul or school, we are
telling others the general parameters of what they can
expect when they get to know us or visit (or join) our com-
munity. But even more importantly, we are reiterating
those expectations to other members of our community, to
our children, and even, or perhaps especially, to ourselves.
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Opinion
Looking beyond the labels
A
s a Jewish woman who grew
up in a totally non-observant
household and now lives almost
completely within the Ortho-
dox Jewish world, labels bother me.
When I first got married and became
observant, I joked that I was reform-adox,
using a made-up term to make light of the
fact that truly I defied all labels. Dont we all?
I was concerned about what my chil-
dren would experience, or not experience,
growing up firmly grounded in the Ortho-
dox community. Would they be friends with
people who were unlike them? Would they
experience the beauty of living in a diverse,
global world, or would they strive to fit
neatly into the boxes that were presented
to them as the norm in the schools and
synagogues that they attended?
To be honest, I find my own Ashkenazic
heritage to be somewhat obsessed with
All My Sons
C
hris: Its not enough to be sorry.
Larry didnt kill himself for you
and Dad to be sorry. He did it to
show you.
Mom: What more can we be than sorry?
What more?
Chris: You can be better. Once and for all,
you can know that the whole earth comes in
through those fences, that theres a universe
outside and youre responsible to it and if
youre not, then you threw your son away
because thats why he died, you understand.
Thats why.
From All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The fact that the assassination attempt
on the lives of Congressman Steve Scal-
ise, congressional staffer Zach Barth, lob-
byist Matt Mika, and police officers Krys-
tal Griner and David Bailey on a baseball
field happened during the same week as
Fathers Day and my own fathers yahrzeit
has unleashed many memories.
Both my parents were politically active.
My grandfather was an attorney, and like
most professional men of that time, not
only did he belong to various fraternal
orders, like the Masons, he was also active
in the Democratic party in the Bronx. This
led to my mother becoming a poll watcher
in her teens, and her involvement grew
from there. My father was first generation
in this country, and he became active after
his time in the Army. The last official role
he had was as a Democratic district leader
in the 1960s. We recently found my par-
ents invitation to attend LBJs inaugura-
tion in 1965.
My parents would end their active politi-
cal involvement about the time I entered
elementary school. If you assume that they
26 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 23, 2017
labels you are Orthodox or Conserva-
tive or Reform or Reconstructionist. And,
more recently, we have gone even further
Yeshivish, ultra-Orthodox, modern Ortho-
dox, open Orthodox, Conservadox, Tradi-
tional, neo-chassidic. It seems that the more
labels we create, the harder it is to figure
out where we fit in, and the more isolated
we feel from other Jews, most of whom are
really not so different from ourselves!
It is probably no surprise, then, that
I chose to send my children to a school
founded upon the Sephardic values of
inclusion, tolerance, and respect for every
individual. Historically, there were no sub-
divisions in the Sephardic world. The laws
of observance and modes of practice were
unequivocal the rules were the rules.
What was different about this approach,
however, were the ways in which the com-
munity interacted within these parameters.
indoctrinated us just to vote the party can-
didates, you would be wrong. I can still
hear my mother saying that the beauty of
the United States is the privacy of the vote.
Your vote is secret unless you decide to
share it. Never forget that no party has the
market share on good or evil and we are
risking our freedom if we fool ourselves
into believing this.
My dad would continue with a warning
born out of being the son of immigrants:
We must be on guard for those who want
to divide us, to balkanize us, because these
forces are relentless and their impact, if it
were to be successful, would be devastat-
ing to our freedom.
My parents taught us how to think. You
prefer another candidate, fine, but you
have to be able to make the case if you are
to persuade anyone else. And never forget,
the more a politician tells you all the things
that he or she is doing for you, the more
you have to look if see if you still have your
wallet and if you do, check whether
there is anything left in it. Our conversa-
tions were detailed and interesting but
never cantankerous.
It was later on when I saw how many
politicians became wealthy or even mil-
lionaires once they were entrenched in
office. My parents wanted to prepare us
for the real world, and they did, although
it took us time to begin to see their advice
play out in real life.
Given this background and the inescap-
able symbolism of five fellow Americans
being shot on a baseball field baseball
is Americas national pastime for the so-
called sin of being Republican, another
memory emerged that I suggest shows
a way forward for those who are serious
Someone is a Jew whether or
not they observe the laws of
Shabbat, of kashrut, of nid-
dah. Sephardim didnt label
them as Orthodox if they
walked to synagogue and
Reform if they drove. No mat-
ter how they arrived, or what
rules they followed outside
the synagogue walls, they Cheryl
were invited in to pray. Rosenberg
These were the values I
want my children to experi-
ence, both at home and at school. I want
them to know that no matter what they do,
or dont do, Hashem loves them; we, their
parents, love them; their community loves
them. And they are always invited in to con- time embracing toward individual people
nect with Hashem in the most meaningful
of ways.
So, how then do I begin to reconcile
about changing the tone.
My parents had one bit-
ter political dispute, which
was legend in my family. It
was over the 1960 Presiden-
tial election. My father hated
Richard Nixon. In addition
to policy differences, he said
that when Richard Nixon
campaigned for the Senate Martha
in 1950 against Helen Gaha- Cohen
gan Douglas, the wife of
movie actor Melvyn Douglas,
phone calls to voters asked if they knew
that Douglas was married to a Jew. Though
it was never proven that these calls came
from the Nixon campaign, my father felt
that they did.
My mother wasnt a Nixon fan either.
She, like my dad, loved Harry Truman,
and she worked for Adlai Stevensons two
failed presidential campaigns against Pres-
ident Eisenhower. But she also felt uneasy
about JFK. It was a fact that JFKs father,
who was instrumental in his campaign,
had no love of Jews; in fact, he was recalled
as ambassador to England when he sug-
gested siding with Germany in World War
II. Even after my father died, my mother
never shared her choice with anyone, and
she kept that secret for the rest of her life.
This is prologue to one of the most
important lessons I received from my
father. During the 1968 campaign, both my
parents voted for Hubert Humphrey for
president, not for Nixon. I even remem-
ber my mother taking me to a Humphrey
campaign rally where we caught a glimpse
of the candidate up close. I was very young
but I still remember the excitement of the
moment, my first political rally, where I
these concepts with those of
division, exclusion, and intol-
erance that recently have sur-
faced in the Sephardic world?
Just last month, Rabbi
STEFANIE DIAMOND
Joseph Dweck, considered by
many as the top Sephardic
rabbi in the UK, gave an
unprecedented public speech
about the LGBTQ community
and its members inclusion in
the Torah-observant Jewish
world. This speech was, in my
mind, completely in line with everything
that I had learned about Sephardic Judaism.
It was steadfast concerning the actual laws
as laid out in the Torah, and at the same
in the most tolerant and loving of ways.
The message was twofold: there are laws
(about many, many things well beyond the
saw the man who I thought
was going to be the next pres-
ident of the United States.
Fast forward to election
night. Humphrey loses.
Nixon wins.
I remember talking with
my father about the outcome.
He was quiet and contempla-
tive but I wasnt. Here I
was, a feisty little girl, telling
my father that we had to fight
this result and make sure that
Nixon failed. My father looked at me and
gently said, No, Martha. That is not what
we do here in America. We now have to
pray that we were wrong and other people
were right. We must do whatever we can
to help President Nixon be the best presi-
dent possible, because if he fails, our coun-
try fails and we love our country.
He went on to remind me that we will
have the ability to vote in a new president
in the next election, four years from then,
but right now our focus needs to be on
supporting the democratic process and
helping Nixon become a good president.
That night was the moment when I
understood what is meant to be an Ameri-
can. We believe in the rule of law. We fight
hard for our beliefs but should never be
so self-consumed as to believe that we
know everything. We must appreciate
and engage in sharing ideas with those
who have different views and not demon-
ize or sabotage. We dont have to agree
on everything, but it is dishonorable not
to play fair. There is no one rule for you
and another for me. And always remem-
ber, the political party is not something to
pledge allegiance to. That pledge is to our

realm of homosexuality) that the Torah tells us to follow,
and there are human beings, created in the image of God,
who choose either to observe these laws or not to observe
them. Each and every one is loved by Hashem and should
be embraced by the community.
How much simpler can you get? And why on earth
would this be controversial? Since when do we ask which
rules people follow before inviting them into our homes?
Our schools? Our places of worship? Since when do we,
as humans, get to pass judgment on our fellow Jews and
make decisions about whether they are worthy of com-
munity and connection?
Rabbi Dweck said, Should we put them [homosexual
men] up to the Torah? What kind of a stupid question.
You know how many people we should not put up to the
Torah if we start that kind of scrutiny? You wont be able
to fill a minyan, you wont be able to fill the synagogue,
you wont be able to read the Torah if thats the kind of
scrutiny youll start making.
In a world where Jews and Israel are being targeted by
hatred and anti-Semitism more than ever, and where we
Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson starred in the 1948 film version of All My Sons.
country, and to our fellow Americans.
As the excerpt above from All My Sons conveys, we
are responsible to the bigger world outside our front
door. We are responsible to our fellow Americans, to
respect and listen, to disagree without attacking their
integrity by calling them names or demonizing them,
without creating the perception that another person has
the right, in his twisted view, to take their life to pro-
tect the country. In the same scene in All My Sons, the
self-absorbed father, played by Edward G. Robinson in
the film version, finally understands that his act in send-
ing defective airplane parts to the Army resulted in 20
are struggling to keep people connected to keep them
Jewish why would we push anyone away? How many
subdivisions and labels can we possibly create before no
two Jews can feel that we are a part of the same chosen
people who received the Torah at Mount Sinai?
In the words of John Lennon, You may say Im a
dreamer, but Im not the only one. I hope someday youll
join us, and the world will be as one. Please, let us take the
most beautiful parts of our heritage and especially of the
collective Sephardic heritage to strengthen our people.
In a world so filled with hate, we must find every oppor-
tunity to love one another so that we can create a stron-
ger Israel, a more loving global Jewish community, and a
kinder human race.
Cheryl Rosenberg lives in Englewood, is a member of
Kehilat Kesher Synagogue, and is the outgoing president
of Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus. She is an executive board
member of Teach NJS, a recent graduate of the Berrie
Fellows Leadership Program, and a long-time activist in the
areas of civil liberties, equality, and womens rights.
deaths. That was his fault. And now he knows that it led
to his own son, a pilot, deliberately dying in the war, in
a sort of atonement for his fathers sin. When his wife
reminds him that he lost this son in the war, he replies,
Sure he was my son, but I think to him, they were all
my sons. And I guess they were all my sons.
A lesson for us all, especially our leaders, whether
they be political, religious or social.
Martha Cohen is an award-winning producer and
creative executive. She lives in Fort Lee with her
husband and son.
Opinion
Lest violence
become the
national pastime
A
ruthless gunmans
attack on members
of Congress practic-
ing for their annual
charity baseball game last week
left patriotic Americans of all
political stripes dismayed.
Perpetrated on Flag Day,
the politic ally motivated
shooting profoundly dis- Rabbi Joseph
honored the very symbol H. Prouser
of American unity and self-
government that the holiday
was established to celebrate.
It was a startling reminder of the deep chasm that
increasingly separates not only members of a dysfunc-
tional legislative branch, but the American electorate
itself. Victims including, notably, House Majority
Whip Steve Scalise suffered grievous injury. Merci-
fully, all victims are expected to recover. We can be
thankful, at least, for that piece of good news.
As Americans await thoughtful and worthy responses
to this incident from our leaders beyond inane pro-
testations of their personal capacity for bipartisan
friendship we would do well to listen to a prayerful
voice from our not-too-distant history. On February 14,
1947 70 years ago the Rev. Peter Marshall, chaplain
of the United States Senate, opened that august bodys
daily session with words of prayer that now seem pro-
phetic in their anticipation of this past weeks tragic
events:
O Thou Great Architect of the Universe As we are
now united in our praying, so may we be united in our
working, that, as a team, we may be doing together the
will of our Father, who is not a God of any one party,
of any one nation, or of any one race. Open our eyes
that we may discern what God is doing, and our ears
that we may hear what God is saying. And then, O God,
give us all we need to take due notice and to govern
ourselves accordingly Amen.
It is especially noteworthy that the Senate chaplain
intoned these prescient words of prayer and blessing
on Valentines Day. While no one reasonably expects
congressional partisans to view political opponents
and detractors with romantic ardor, elected officials,
together with those they represent, are properly
reminded that we cannot claim to love America while
simultaneously hating Americans.
Seventy years before the violent attack on congres-
sional baseball players, the Rev. Dr. Marshall also
taught us that our senators and representatives serve
us best when they work together as a team. He
prayerfully asserted further that members of both leg-
islative houses ultimately are answerable to the Great
Architect of the Universe.
As Representative Scalise, his fellow victims, and
all Americans recover from the Flag Day attack, may
we embrace the wisdom that animated Rev. Marshalls
Valentines Day prayer lest violence become the
national pastime.
Or as Yogi Berra put it: Love is the most important
thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes
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Letters
Suicide is never a viable option
I can appreciate Michael Cohens point of view regarding
the show 13 Reasons Why (Dont be afraid of 13 reasons
why, June 16). However, Im sorry to say that he misses the
point of all those who are so vehemently against the airing
of this program.
He intellectualizes the issue and is able to be quite objec-
tive in his reaction. Those of us who are alarmed by the
program, unfortunately, cannot view this issue quite so
intellectually and we have, unfortunately, lost the luxury
of objectivity.
We are not against dialogue in the least. We are, however,
alarmed at the presentation of this material.
Hiding behind the excuse that the program will begin a
conversation about important issues like bullying, adoles-
cent date rape, the need for parental supervision, drinking
and drug abuse, etc., is at best perverse and misguided,
when put into the context of its glorification of the taking
of ones own life. Perhaps it is the case that the program is
starting a discourse, but the program itself has been seen,
and can be seen, by vulnerable people who no doubt will
be affected by it.
I have no doubt that as terrifying as it is to realize it, unfor-
tunately 13 Reasons Why will cause some young people to
take their own lives. Thats the problem.
Is there no better way to start a discourse and bring
important issues to the fore, without encouraging or seem-
ingly justifying suicide, or presenting it as a viable option for
those in emotional pain? The results of a risk-benefit analy-
sis are obvious. Is even a lot of discourse worth the death of
one single suffering child who gets this horrible message?
We need go no further than current headlines, in which a
young woman, Michelle Carter, is convicted of involuntary
manslaughter because she convinced her boyfriend, Con-
rad Roy III, to take his own life via text messages and phone
calls. In rendering a guilty verdict the judge, in effect, ruled
that Ms. Carters words in texts and phone calls are what
killed Conrad Roy. Her words were a murder weapon.
Doesnt this demonstrate the warped perception of sui-
cide on the part of struggling young people? It offers us a
real-life example of how impressionable they are and how
easily influenced they can be to view suicide as a plausible
and reasonable option. Isnt presenting suicide, in a pol-
ished television production, as noble, and as an effective
way to get ones message across to ones bullies, horrifyingly
irresponsible when viewed in this context?
Those of us whose lives have been touched by a loved
ones struggles with depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar dis-
order, etc. and in our community this is more prevalent
than you would imagine have no fear about getting out the
message or starting discourse about difficult topics. We are,
however, frightened of discussion initiated in a terrifyingly
reckless manner.
Ruth Tepler Roth
Teaneck
Toxic political discourse harms all
Last weeks shooting of five members of the Republi-
can Congressional baseball team brings to mind the
horrific assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv in
November 1995.
At that time, an ultranationalist enraged by Rabins
political views took it upon himself to assassinate the
prime minister. A number of elements within Israeli soci-
ety, including several ultranationalist groups, were highly
critical of Rabin for considering the establishment of a Pal-
estinian state. While none of those individuals who criti-
cized Rabin or even suggested that he might be guilty of a
capital crime conspired with the murderer, Yigal Amir, the
atmosphere and influence that they created surely helped
incite the assassin.
Many religious leaders issued calls to tone down the
28 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 23, 2017
aggressive rhetoric. Clearly they were chastened by the
violence. Although deep divisions remain in Israeli soci-
ety, internecine assassinations have not happened since. attacks in the world of today, and I for one am grateful.
Yitzhak Rabin and Donald Trump have little in com-
mon. Rabin was a lifelong general and politician whose
views became more dovish over time, whereas Trump is
a political outsider who recently became a Republican.
Nonetheless, much of the writing and rhetoric regarding
Trump has echoed the irresponsible hysteria about Rabin.
A comedian thought it was funny to hold Trumps severed
head, his family has been verbally abused, and support
for him has been considered criminal or worse. Whether
or not specific points made have been strictly correct, the
tone and sense of the discourse has been irresponsible.
Now, five public servants have been shot and one at
least remains critical.
Colleges and the media must continue active political
discourse, but it must happen in a responsible way. Views
must be heard and positions should be reasoned and
respectful, not ad hominum. In Deuteronomy, the Bible
suggests that an entire town bears a sense of responsibility
when a murder occurs. If we do not change the nature of
our political discourse, we will all have to answer for the
next shooting.
Alan Kadish, MD
Teaneck
President, Touro College and University System
Please sign the petition!
The Senate is fast-tracking a bill to repeal the Afford-
able Care Act. Like the American Health Care Act, which
recently passed the House of Representatives by a narrow
margin, reports indicate the developing Senate bill is likely
to include devastating cuts and changes to Medicaid.
These changes would severely hinder Jewish social ser-
vice agencies ability to provide needed services to seniors,
low-income community members, people with disabili-
ties, and women the most vulnerable in our community.
The Senate could vote before the July 4th recess, short
circuiting discussion and debate. Health care should not
be a partisan issue. Urge your senators to do due dil-
igence in ensuring that changes in policy do not hurt
those in need.
Many Jewish organizations raise millions of dol-
lars annually to provide needed services to the most
vulnerable.
If the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628) is enacted:
23 million people would lose their health care cover-
age; thousands of health care workers, including Jewish
workers, would lose their jobs; hundreds of Jewish social
service agencies will be unable to provide services to tens
of thousands of their clients and community members
Jewish and non-Jewish alike; seniors and those with pre-
existing conditions will lose much needed coverage. Jew-
ish seniors are the fastest growing population in the Jewish
community, and many are dependent on the safety net
this coverage provides for their health and well-being;
people with disabilities will lose much needed support to
live independently; and women will pay more based solely
on their gender.
As the Talmud instructs, he who saves a single life is
seen as having saved the whole world.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs urges you to sign a
petition asking Congress not to pass the ACHA.
Please go to jewishpublicaffairs.org, follow the
links there to the petition, and sign it. This matters
tremendously.
Please help save lives. Help save the whole world.
Rabbi Neal Borovitz
Rabbi Emeritus
Temple Avodat Shalom
River Edge
At least its somewhere else
Israel is temporarily off the map as the heart of terror
There are terrible episodes of terror in London, Paris,
the United States, and naturally right in the midst of
such nations such as Syria and Afghanistan. I am very
grateful that the many years Israel has been the front
and center of terrorism against its citizens, have not so
much decreased, as left the public eye.
No one is grateful for what is happening in this world;
it is shameless how many are dead or maimed from radi-
cal Islamic terror. Now, it doesnt matter where the ter-
ror is occurring, just that it is no longer predominately
against Jews or the Jewish state
Remember how little the world cared about tiny Israel
and its 60 to 70 odd years of being assaulted by Hamas,
the PLO, or any group of Jew-hating neighbors and citi-
zens? Nobody cared. Not even many of its own citizens.
It was a blip on the media mainstream.
The wave of terror since 9/11 has grazed the world
over, starting with the bombing of the World Trade
Center. If anything was a wakeup call to Americans and
Europeans it was that horrific event; yet it passed and
the attention went back to Israel as the instigator of
everything wrong with the Middle East.
I am relieved, and it sort of shames me to say so, that
the attacks of late are not in Israel. Despite that a young
woman was killed this week, and my pain is as great as her
familys, it is one death one more death not dozens..
Maybe I am wrong in stating these feelings, but after
what Israel has gone through in world opinion and in
the number of large and small attacks on women and
children, and lastly on soldiers, I feel self-righteous in
saying that it gives me satisfaction that the shoe is on
the other foot, or on the conscience of other nations.
After all, who cared about Israel, other than the Jews of
the world?
Just as no one cared what the Nazi regime did to the
6,000,000 million Jews while it was ongoing, we are
ignoring the same kind of genocide in other areas of the
world. We as Jews are trying to help but still we are
relieved that it is not against our people.
Sandra Steuer Cohen
Teaneck
A nation apart
I believe that a major cause of anti Semitism is the obses-
sion that many Jews have to assimilate into the identity
of the host nations of our exile.
We owe our hosts our gratitude, our loyalty, our
creative efforts, our good behavior, our contribution
towards the economy and defense (etc.). However, we
should not identify with our host.
For example, it is correct to be a French (or English)
Jew, but not a Jewish Frenchman or Jewish Eng-
lishman, etc. We should keep our Jewish appearance
and our Jewish community (and religious) behavior in
full view of our hosts (as did our father Abraham). We
should avoid positions of policy and power. Rather, we
should limit ourselves to the role of advisers (when such
advice is sought).
The exception to this is the United States, which in
reality is a coalition of nations and nationalities.
Of course, we must always defend and act upon our
Jewish values which were given to us in Torah.
I know that this is a very radical idea and is not likely
to appeal to most Jews, but it is a big mistake to attempt
to have two identities. This invariably will lead to suspi-
cion and hostility among many of our hosts.
G-D commanded that we be a nation apart.
Jerrold Terdiman MD
Woodcliff Lake
 Opinion

Jeremy Corbyn didnt win,

so British Jews shouldnt give up on Labour

F
or me, the main
takeaway from the
British election June
8 was that Jeremy
Corbyn, the far-left leader of
the opposition Labour Party,
didnt win it.
Most of the ridicule in the
wake of the election has been
aimed at the leader of the Con- Ben Cohen
servative party, Prime Minister
Theresa May, for her political
error. It was worthy of an Elizabethan farce calling an
election with the aim of increasing her majority, only to
end up needing the votes of a right-wing Unionist party
in Northern Ireland in order to form a government.
The scorn heaped on May by most of the British media
has been matched with the fulsome praise tossed in Cor-
byns direction. Since Labour, under his leadership, had
been tipped for electoral annihilation, the fact that he
received a respectable portion of the vote was heralded
as if hed actually won the thing.
For Labour, the last decade has mirrored its experi-
ence in the 1980s. Back then at a time when there was
no Twitter universe for left-wing activists to use to coun-
ter the invective directed at the party from right-wing
tabloid newspapers Labour, with its myriad far-left fac-
tions, became an electoral wreck.
Toward the end of the Margaret Thatcher era, a
Labour leader named Neil Kinnock brought the party Jeremy Corbyn PAUL NEW VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

guardedly back into the mainstream. But Labour didnt

win an election for nearly 20 years, until Tony Blair
won handsomely in 1997 and that fact, more than any
other, continues to nag at Corbyn and his acolytes, who
dream of a reinvented party firmly on the socialist left.
Corbyn came out of the 2017 election more than 60
seats short of a working parliamentary majority. To my
mind, for him to win an election remains a tall order.
If theres another one soon, hell have to mobilize the
youth vote all over again much easier said than done
and hell need to pray for another benevolent news
cycle in which all the focus is on his opponents errors
and slips.
If theres another election much later, Corbyn still
will have to deal with the ironclad doubts about his
suitability to lead their country that a majority of Brit-
ish voters retain.
One of the most troubling spectacles of Corbyns ten-
ure, of course, has been the many anti-Semitism scan-
dals plaguing the party, often involving key Labour
figures. That includes former London Mayor Ken Liv-
ingstone, who remains discreetly suspended, rather
than expelled, for telling open lies about Adolf Hitlers
alleged support for Zionism. There is, therefore, a
whiff of schadenfreude in the air when you realize that
had Corbyn taken the issue of anti-Semitism seriously,
had he not embraced friends like Hamas and Hezbol-
lah, he might have been in a position to make Theresa
Mays attempts to form a governing coalition nearly
impossible.
In four districts in northern London, all with signifi-
cant Jewish populations, the overall swing to Labour in
The scorn heaped on May by most of the British
media has been matched with the fulsome
praise tossed in Corbyns direction. Since
Labour, under his leadership, had been tipped
for electoral annihilation, the fact that he
received a respectable portion of the vote was
heralded as if hed actually won the thing.
four parliamentary seats and it came agonizingly close
to doing so May would have been forced to turn to hos-
tile opposition parties to form a government. Had that
happened, she likely would have failed.
Yet Labour remains a force in British politics, and I
modestly hope that British Jews wont give up on the
party. One lesson the party can take from its 2017 expe-
rience at the polls is that winning elections is possible
if certain aspects of its message are tweaked appropri-
ately. Whether those Labour figures who still have some
influence within the party, and some distance from
Corbyn, can persuade the members that a leadership
change should be one of those aspects doesnt strike me
as hugely viable.
But British Jews can play a role in ensuring that the
party isnt entirely hijacked by the far left, which regards
BDS as an article of faith and dismisses any charge of
anti-Semitism as a Mossad-directed smear campaign.
Jews certainly have Labour allies both established
politician for many months. The Labour party must
rebuild trust with you, the Jewish community it cant
be acceptable that there is any community that feels the
Labour party is not on their side, he said.
There was another remark from Khan that caught my
eye: There is no hierarchy in racism. Racism is rac-
ism. That is an exquisitely bold statement for someone
to make in the age of intersectionality which argues
there is, in fact, a hierarchy in racism, and that Jews are
very low down on it and it is also a message Labour
needs to absorb.
Khans challenge to his party on the anti-Semitism
issue is particularly significant during a week when
even liberals in America are cooing on their admira-
tion for Corbyn. This should be borne in mind by those
people tempted to side with President Donald Trump
in his bizarre Twitter campaign against the London
mayor. Friends can be found where you least expect
them, after all. JNS.ORG

the city wasnt enough to overcome the Conservative
candidates. At least two of the defeated Labour candi-
dates said afterward that the partys electoral fortunes
in these London constituencies had been damaged by
the anti-Semitism scandals. But had Labour won these
ones, like John Mann, a parliamentarian who has dili-
gently combated anti-Semitism for more than a decade,
and new ones, like Londons Mayor Sadiq Khan.
This week, Khan told a Jewish gathering in London
what they had been waiting to hear from a Labour
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column 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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Jewish World

British Jews feels left behind

amid the election turmoil
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

N
early 50 years after she left her native South
Africa for Britain to escape apartheid, Sharon
Klaff again is finding herself unable to imagine
a future for her family in her country and soci-
ety because of racism.
And this time, the problem is hitting nearer to home,
said Klaff, 69, who is Jewish, a yoga teacher, and the
mother of two.
Troubled by the Labour Partys recent electoral suc-
cesses despite its perceived failure to tackle anti-Semitic
vitriol in its ranks, Klaff felt even more concerned when
London Mayor Sadiq Khan a Muslim Labour politi-
cian who reached out to the citys Jews on his first day
in office allowed hundreds of protesters to march at
an anti-Israel event carrying flags from Hezbollah, the
terrorist group.
There probably isnt a place for me here as a Jew,
Klaff, who attended an unauthorized counterprotest
against the annual Al-Quds march, said. And Im kind of
wondering wheres the place of anyone who belongs to
Western, democratic civilization.
In the Jewish media, few spoke out quite as pessimis-
tically as Klaff about the march, or about Labours per-
formance in the June 8 general elections, when the party
gained 29 seats rather than suffer the collapse anticipated
by critics of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
But amid record levels of anti-Semitic hate crimes, for Jeremy Corbyn talks to faith leaders at the Finsbury Park Mosque on June 19. Worshippers there were struck
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a growing sense of isolation and the polarizing effects of

terrorism on a society that already was struggling with its
impending divorce from the European Union.
Corbyn, a far-left politician, became Labours leader
in 2015. Last year a parliamentary committee of inquiry
determined he was not doing enough to curb the growing
prevalence of anti-Semitic hate speech in his party.
The year before, Corbyn went to a memorial ceremony
for Palestinian terrorists who were killed by Israel before
the initiation of peace talks. And in 2009, during a speech
in parliament, Corbyn described both Hamas and Hezbol-
lah as organizations dedicated towards the good of the
Palestinian people and bringing about peace and social
justice and political justice.
Last year, Corbyn said he regretted calling the militants
his friends in that speech.
The British media gave unprecedented coverage to
Labours anti-Semitism problem under Corbyn. Critics say
he has failed not only to prevent hate speech against Jews
and Israel in his partys ranks, but also to punish anyone
responsible for it.
A record high 1,309 anti-Semitic incidents in 2016 and
growing anger over Islamist terrorism further highlighted
the partys perceived failures.
Subsequently, in an unusual statement for his nonpar-
tisan group, the president of the Board of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews, Jonathan Arkush, said last year, Frankly, most
people in the Jewish community cant trust Labour.
The rare rebuke was cited frequently by pundits who
said Corbyns Labour party was unlikely to threaten the
ruling Conservative party headed by Theresa May, who
called an early election. May was seeking a public reaffir-
mation of her leadership after replacing David Cameron
as prime minister; he resigned after a majority of voters
supported leaving the European Union.
Her gambit backfired spectacularly. May lost her par-
tys absolute majority in parliament, forcing it to form a
coalition with a smaller party from Northern Ireland and
handing Corbyn an important success that shocked Brit-
ish Jews.
Before the election, 77 percent of Jewish voters said
they supported Mays Conservatives, and only 13 percent
backed Labour.
We were unable to stop anti-Semitic politics being nor-
malized on the left and we were unable to stop it from
moving into the mainstream, David Hirsh, a British Jew-
ish columnist and prominent sociologist at the University
of London, wrote in a column in the Jewish Chronicle
titled Antisemitic Politics is the New Normal.
To Klaff, Corbyns success, the acceptance of Hezbol- Gideon Falter, the chairman of the Campaign Against Anti-
lah flags on the streets of London, its the culmination of
something that I first started noticing about seven years
ago, I guess, that is making me feel increasingly uncom-
fortable in the United Kingdom.
She cited a conversation that she recently had with
a yoga student of hers, a housing union activist in his
20s who supported Corbyn. I told him that Corbyn is
responsible for anti-Semitism. He wasnt interested, Klaff
recalled.
Corbyn did not participate in the Al-Quds march over
the weekend. But he had attended several previous events,
including in 2012 when he was photographed smiling in
front of a Hezbollah flag held by an Al-Quds marcher. The
photographer who took the picture said Corbyn may have
not been aware of the flag in the background.
At this years march, organizers instructed participants
to say they support Hezbollahs political wing but not its
military one. The distinction is rejected by Hezbollah
itself, although in 2013 the European Union classified only
the armed wing as a terrorist group.
In 2002, Hezbollahs leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said
Israels creation was the expression of Allahs will to
gather the Jews in one place for the final and decisive
battle.
The United States, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the
Netherlands, and several other countries regard all of Hez-
bollahs organs as belonging to the same terrorist entity.
The refusal by police and the City of London to ban
the march, and their action against counterprotesters,
drew harsh condemnations by critics from the Jewish
community. It was an apparent reflection of growing
exasperation.
Hezbollah seeks the genocide of Jews worldwide,
semitism watchdog, wrote in a scathing statement. As
Britain mourns those we have so recently lost to Islamist
terrorism, he added, police permitted Hezbollah sup-
porters to mount a show of force through the heart of
London. This is the reality of the supposed crackdown on
extremism and terrorism.
Jack Mendel, a journalist who covered the march for
the Jewish News of London, made light of the situation on
Twitter, where he wrote about a photo he took of three
marchers draped in Hezbollahs flag.
Awkward! Three people came in the same terror flag,
he wrote.
Mendel also noted that whereas police ignored the flags,
one officer advised him to be careful not to hurt his toes
after noticing that he was wearing flip-flops.
Theres a certain sense of helplessness when Hezbol-
lahs terror flags fly in my city, and police are more con-
cerned with my well-being, Mendel wrote.
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 Dvar Torah
Korach: Strip-mining Mount Sinai

I
n this weeks Torah portion, Korach,
we read of simultaneous multiple
rebellions against the regime of
Moses, his brother Aaron the Kohen
Gadol, and their silent partner, God.
Strangely enough, although we know the
rebellions failed to topple the leadership
and we have more quotes from Korach and
his cohorts than we often find from major
figures in the Bible, we dont actually
know what the content of their arguments
was. Scandal - yes. Revolt - yes. Challenge
withstood - yes. But the essence of their
arguments was - as the talmud tells us of
any dispute that is not for the purpose of
heaven - not destined to remain (en sofa
lehitkayem).
Rabbinic midrashim, of course, go
to town on explanations! We should (of
course) be cautioned at the outset that
there is a danger in seeing too much of
contemporary issues in ancient texts, even
for those living in the rabbinic period who
projected their own concerns onto Bibli-
cal texts that predated their own times by
more than a thousand years. Having said
that, the method of combing the textual
vicinity for hints is beautifully accomplished
in this case. At the end of last weeks por-
tion, the laws of the tzitzit with its require-
ment of ablue thread prompt the rabbis to
challenge the law in the (virtual) voice of
Korach: Why a thread of tchelet? What if
the entire garment were dyed that shade of
blue? Would it still require the addition of a
blue string on the corner? Korach and his
buddies, the midrash tells us, proceeded to
make 250 totally blue tallitot. Considering
that the requirement for a single blue string
was discontinued in the Talmudic period
because the particular dye was prohibitively
expensive to obtain and use and too many
poor people were substituting cheaper
colors, one can only imagine more so, the mathemati-
how much those 250 royal cian Kurt Godel proved in
blue garments cost! And what, 1931 that no system can
said the Korach character, possibly be complete. Try
of a house filled with Torah to work out all the rules to
scrolls z- does it need a mezu- be efficient and consistent,
zah (with only two paragraphs and there will always be
from the Torah) on its door- something that doesnt fit,
posts? Again, we notice that that cant be proven, that
the question seems ludicrous Rabbi David destroys the completeness
in an age before the printing Bockman of whatever system of rules
Congregation
press made publication of you may create. As Doug-
Beth Shalom,
books affordable to anybody Pompton Lakes, las Hofstadter analogizes
outside the most elite. Conservative in his classic book Godel,
How can following the rules Escher, Bach; an Eternal
that Moses dictated to us sat- Golden Braid, there always
isfy Gods requirements when a more com- exists a phonograph record that when it
plete expression will not? Korach uses his is played on a turntable of sufficient fidel-
best legal arguments to tear down Moses ity will produce sounds that will destroy
authority. Maybe people would not be the machine. Any and every complete
swayed by such legalisms in normal times, system can be manipulated in such a way
but another midrash about Korach has him that it can destroy itself by its own rules,
representing the case against Moses and even the system of halacha or the laws and
Aaron brought by a poor widow and two rules and regulations that govern life in the
orphan girls who are thwarted by their United States.
laws at every step they unfortunately take. According to this reading, Korach
Their subsistence depends on a small field, pushed the process along to bring the
but Moses and Aaron demand they leave system crashing down, ostensibly to help
aside the corners, forgotten sheaves, and the poor lady. No matter that Moses and
also that they pay ten percent to the Koha- Aaron, in following Gods laws, helped
nim (maaser). They shear what few sheep the entire Israelite nation survive (receive
they own to try to make a living selling the manna, be guided by a pillar of fire, win
wool, but Aaron demands the first cuttings battles against enemies). If one person suf-
(reishit ha-gez), and when they decide that fers, says Korach, better to bring the entire
they cant afford to keep the sheep and structure crashing down! Like Osama bin
that they would eat them instead, Aaron Laden, the trained engineer from the
demands that which is due to the kohanim wealthy Saudi Arabian family who could
from all slaughterings. These poor ladies have used some of his vast reserves of
cannot catch a break, because at every turn, money to help poor Arabs whom he
the system takes from them until helpful claimed to represent (so, too with Yasser
Korach comes along to argue their cause. Arafat and others), Korach found it suited
We know from experience that no sys- him better to tear down an entire society
tem works perfectly for everybody. Even rather than actually giving assistance to
those who most needed it. The many suf-
fer at the hands of these demagogues and
saviors, ostensibly in the name of the few
who suffer.
It is always easier to tear down than to
build up, to destroy a system rather than
improve it. As they greatest sages of their
generation, the talmudic rabbis Rav Yosef
and Rabbah are nicknamed Sinai and
Uprooter of Mountains. Rav Yosef s
knowledge was encyclopedic, full and
useful. Rabbah, on the other hand, had a
keen analytic mind, able to find chinks in
every argument to riposte and ultimately,
improve the clarity and strength of any-
ones thinking, especially in pursuit of the
Truth. They were each outstanding aca-
demics up for leadership of the great acad-
emy of Pumbedita. In Horayot 14a, the
question is raised as to which should be
in charge, Sinai or Uprooter. The answer
was that Sinai takes precedence because
everybody needs a provider of grain.
When, however, the position was offered
to Rav Yosef, he turned it down. Rabbah
served for twenty two years, after which
Rav Yosef succeeded him.
It is always easier to stripmine all the
beauty and profit from a system as Korach
tried to do. But to build up and maintain
a mountainscape, a community dedicated
to what is true and good and helpful to
those who most need it - to build a Sinai - is
never easy. Ultimately, if they are of good
character and join in the fray for the good
of the community, both mountain build-
ing and gradual erosion serve to maintain
a healthy and ever-improving balance in
the world. When we can find the best in us
all and dedicate ourselves to the hard work
of perfecting rather than merely repealing
or uprooting, we will always find Sinai to
be a revelation.

Lion King
FROM PAGE 12
According to Ms. Solomon, the girls take
it very seriously, They rehearse once a
week until a month before the show, and
then there are two rehearsals a week, she
said. The entire production is a learning
experience.
Abigail Lerer of Teaneck, a seventh-
grader at Yeshivat Noam, has seen all the
performances Ms. Solomon has produced.
The first one I saw was Aladdin, and I
thought it was really good, Abigail said.
She was only in third grade at the time.
But this year, as a seventh grader, I am
really looking forward to being a part of
the production next year, she continued.
This years performance was amazing,
but next year, when my friends and I are
in eighth grade, it will be even better!
Melissa Keiser and Mugsy Sheinfeld are
the proud parents of Yakira and Carly,
who portrayed the hyenas in the show. I
was so impressed with how seriously the
girls took the show, Ms. Keiser said. If
they werent doing homework, they were
rehearsing their lines. My older daughter
was in her class performance as well, and
it has become a right of passage for the
girls.
Carly has expressed to me how her last
year at Noam was made even better because
of her involvement in the Lion King, Ms.
Sheinfeld said. There have been so many
things that she has loved about school, and
this was at the top of her list. The audience
consisted not only of family members, but
of girls from the younger grades as well.
This is something that the entire school
looks forward to because we all feel like
we are family, Abigail said. Everyone gets
excited about seeing the show because we
know how hard all of our friends and their
sisters worked on it.

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The Frazzled Housewife
What if?
A column on being grateful
B
efore you read this, please know people who look like they are in perfect
that I know that people have
gone through horrible things in
their lives. They have been sick, really, very few things are in our control.
they have lost loved ones, they have suf-
fered. I know all of these things.
For the past 4 + years, I have been writ-
ing a humor column; for three months, Ive
been writing it for this paper. This will be
the first non-humorous but reflective col-
umn Ive written. Because life
isnt always funny.
We use humor to deflect the
sadness and the pain. I know
that I do. Heck, my column
has been a source of therapy
for me, and I certainly hope
that by making others laugh,
it has been helpful for them as
well. (Unless, of course, you
do not think that I am funny. Banji
Then feel free to disregard Ganchrow
everything that I have said.
And, I apologize for not mak-
ing you laugh.)
Life is filled with what ifs. On the lighter what if, because that what if takes me to
side, you have the What if I didnt eat that
plate of spaghetti? Chances are, you prob-
ably would feel lighter. What if I didnt
break up with that guy? Hmm, maybe
you would be living in a bigger house? A
smaller one? You would have more kids?
Fewer kids? Who knows? What if I went
to a different college? I would have a bet-
ter job? No job? I would be homeless? Not
a clue. We have all of these detours that
we choose to take, roads untaken. Its just
like the famous poem, where the roads
diverge in the woods and you choose to
take the path less traveled. Has it made
all the difference? You will never know,
because you didnt take the other road.
What happens on that other road? Bet-
ter vacations? Time in jail? You just cant
think about it, because there is nothing
you can do about it now.
When a study came out a couple of
weeks ago saying that diet soda was a con-
tributing factor to Alzheimers, my mother
insisted that we all stop drinking diet soda.
I still drink my beloved Tab, because I feel
that the damage has been done already.
When they do my autopsy, they will find
actual packets of Splenda in my veins.
That is just the way it is. There are people
who smoke their whole lives and live well
into their 80s and 90s and then there are
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shape and drop dead while exercising in
their 50s. Not in our control. Because,
Which brings us to today.
It could be the day that I am writing this,
or any day at all, this just happened to have
happened today. Some of you maybe were
driving on Route 4 by the Teaneck Road
exit, and maybe you noticed an accident.
An older model Buick was
totaled. There were no other
cars involved, but when you
saw this car, you thought, Oh
God, I hope that everyone is
ok. That looks really bad.
And it did look bad. It
looked so bad that when I saw
it, I almost threw up on the
side of the road. My boy had
been in that car. That car was
Clunky. And though Clunky is
no longer with us, son #1 is.
Thank God. It is a miracle. It
is an I dont even want to think about the
5. Temple destroyer
a really dark place. Husband #1 showed up
at the scene because son #1 couldnt find
his phone in the mess that was Clunky, and
some nice woman waiting for the jitney
called 911 and let son #1 use her phone. And
then husband #1 called me.
When I got there, son #1 was in the back
of an ambulance with blood all over his face
and his shirt, because the air bag deployed
and smacked him in the face. What if there
was no air bag? Dont even want to go there.
This was a miracle on so many levels. How
were no other cars involved? How did the
car look like that and he was ok? What if? I
dont even want to know.
But when the shock wore off, and the
tears dried, the humor could start again.
Poor Clunky, he survived the drive from
Florida, but he couldnt make it to Teaneck
Hot Bagels on a steamy Monday morning.
How will son #3 get to school next year?
How will son #1 get to work for the rest of
the summer? What if? Who cares.
Someone was in control today, and I am
grateful for that.
Banji Ganchrow is pleased to report that
husband #1 did like his Fathers Day present.
You can find him sitting on it every Shabbos
afternoon in his backyard. (Its a lounge
chairjust to be clear.)
Crossword
DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Across
1. Where a Jewish servant might be
pierced
10. His wife was a part of him, once
14. Gang ___ (make like several Arab
nations in 1967)
15. Apple name of 16-Across?
16. Jacobs youngest
17. Many a creation by Kane or Kirby
19. ___ Shabbat
20. Upcoming electric Jerusalem Tel
Aviv connector
21. Grandson of 10-Across
23. Be in hock to a gemach
24. Had enough at a Seder
25. Tribe of Beta Israel, perhaps
26. One way to get things to Isr.
28. Rank on Bochcos NYPD Blue
30. Wedding locales
33. Schoenberg wrote one to Napoleon
36. Makes like Solomon, to the Temple
40. Party that might have rotating pig
41. Executive Moonves
42. A Sayeret Matkal member can do a
lot of them...or a hint to solving 17,
30, 49, and 68-Across
44. ... and I will ___ evil beasts out of
the land (Lev 26:6)
45. Hoodwink
47. Majorexpressway near Yeshiva
University
48. Text option
49. How a yutz acts
51. USD alternative in Israel
53. 61-Across, in Nice
54. Neckwear the Prime Minister cant
do without?
57. Cortbert and Seiko sounds
61. Musician G, for short
63. Color of some schach
65. He directed Sean in Mystic River
66. Israeli hero Ramon
68. Matzah ball, perhaps
70. Like Solomon
71. Country that gives thanks in Hebrew?
72. Tzedek or Shalom
73. Item for Hermon
74. There are two in seven days during
Tishrei
75. ___ bien! (Ayzeh yofi!)
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 39.
Down
1. Disobeys the Tenth Commandment
2. Schoenbergs Moses und Aron, e.g.
3. Fictional anti-Semite played by a Jew
4. Coveted
5. Brad Garrett sitcom ___Death
6. Loafed outside of synagogue
7. Disney princess that sings Randy
Newman songs
8. What happens under a 30-Across
9. Bli
10. Major simcha
11. Creatures in Spielberg features
12. How some people start on 11 Tishrei
13. Balaam might be considered one
18. Like one involved in 35-Down, per-
haps
22. Mah?
27. Chevra, in txtspk
29. Alison Brie on Mad Men
30. Where one could watch Bernie
Sanders speak
31. Este, Danielle, and Alanas band
32. Hebrew, e.g.
33. Car pioneer (that was not a raging
anti-Semite)
34. Bible bk.
35. Mossad matter
37. Bnei Brak to Geulah dir.
38. Current Weekend Update anchor
on Michaels SNL
39. Pusher at Haifa or Ashdod
43. Item chased by Radcliffes Potter
46. Touro email ender
50. Observed Hanukkah
52. Like DeMilles original The Ten
Commandments
54. ___ sera (Layla tov)
55. Devices that can run the Tikun app
56. Suit well
58. Drink made by Busters Beverage
Company
59. Like Haman
60. Eye veys?
61. Legendary rock band fronted by two
Jews
62. Questioning carrier
64. Catchphrase of Cher Horowitz in
Clueless
67. Ryerson played by Stephen
Tobolowsky
69. Yiddish dads, for short
 Arts & Culture
The story of Hebrew
A look at Lewis Glinerts wonderful new book
CURT LEVIANT

L
ets say it at the outset. This book
is a gem.
Every page of The Story of
Hebrew is packed with infor-
mation about the language, from its begin-
nings through post-1948 Israel. In addition
to this longitudinal approach, Lewis Glin-
ert, a professor of Hebrew and linguistics
at Dartmouth, also approaches his subject
laterally, focusing on various lands where
Jewish or Hebrew life and culture thrived,
including early Palestine, Babylonia, North
Africa, Spain, Europe, Russia, the United
States, and Israel.
The author shows us how living under
Greek and Roman domination affected
Hebrew, and how vocabulary from those
occupiers seeped into the language. Two
examples, the first mine, the second Glin-
erts: the simple word for shoemaker in
Hebrew, sandlar, which comes from the
Latin sandalrius; and Sanhedrin, the
Jewish High Court, which stems from the
Greek synedrion.
Jews did not shy away from these for-
eign influences; their Hebrew language
embraced them.
Glinert also traces the changes in the Franz Kafka kept a notebook where he entered German/Hebrew translations.
use of the language from biblical times
through the mishnaic period, before and and 12th century in Ashkenaz (in north- As Glinert elegantly puts it: those two
after 200 CE. The Hebrew of that period ern France and the Rhineland) the accent translations would inject a Hebraic qual-
was more direct and seemingly more col- was on liturgy and Torah scholarship the ity into the syntax and phraseology of Eng-
loquial, as can be seen by comparing a text works of Rashi, for instance. In Sepharad lish literary usage without parallel in any
from the Mishna with any chapter in the (Spain) and Italy, secular Hebrew poetry other European culture. The author fur-
Bible. During the next two or three hun- flourished, influenced by Arabic poetry ther adds that echoes of this biblical Eng-
dred years, written Hebrew moved on and exemplified by Yehuda Halevi and lish can be heard from Walt Whitmans
from the Hebrew-only Mishna to the two- other poets. Leaves of Grass to Martin Luther Kings
language Talmud, with its mix of mostly The author devotes two remarkable I Have a Dream speech.
Aramaic and much less Hebrew. (In all of chapters to Christians interaction with Hebrew also made its mark in the early
this, of course, we have only written texts Hebrew. In one of these unholy splits, history of the United States. The Pilgrims
to go by.) two of the noted translators of the Bible saw themselves as the New Israelites, giv-
With sacred books passing from genera- from Hebrew, the forth century church ing their towns name like New Canaan
tion to generation orally, correct pronun- father Jerome and the sixteenth century and Salem. Even their Thanksgiving was
ciation might be lost or distorted. Along German Martin Luther both respected a belated Sukkot to celebrate a bounti-
came the Masoretes (from the Hebrew Hebrew but both disparaged Jews and ful harvest. And Hebrew at one time was
word, masorah, tradition), who by the Judaism. In his notorious 1542 book, On ensconced as a mandatory subject in the
year 1000 CE had created the above-and- the Jews and Their Lies, Luther asserts Ivy League colleges. I recently read that
below-the-letters signs that ingeniously that Jews should be expelled before they at graduation ceremonies students would
indicated pronunciation, melody, accent, poison more wells and ritually abuse more deliver orations in Hebrew, Greek, and
and phrasing. children. Latin, and university presidents, like Ezra
Jews also contributed to scientific learn- A better relationship ensued with Eng- Stiles of Yale, also would occasionally give
ing by writing about medicine in Hebrew. lish translators. William Tyndale was the their commencement talks in Hebrew.
I am sure it will surprise many readers, first to render the Five Books of Moses Glinert writes that the door to moder-
as it did me, that in Italys first medical Newtons table of Hebrew roots. (1530) into English directly from the nity in Europe was opened in 1780 by
school, in Salerno, founded in the 9th cen- Hebrew; and in so doing he defied a bish- two books published on different sides
tury CE, the languages of instruction were official language of instruction in the medi- ops ban on a translation other than the of Europe. One, in Germany, was Moses
Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic. And cal schools in southern France in Arles, Latin Vulgate. Tyndales translation led to Mendelssohns Biur, the first volume of his
Narbonne and Montpelier was Hebrew. the classic 1611 King James version of the translation of the Torah into German; the
Among Curt Leviants novels are the Religious attitudes also influenced how complete Bible, whose English rhythms, other, in a small town in the Ukraine, was
recently published and critically acclaimed Hebrew was used. Glinert delves into this cadences, and even sentence structure a book in Hebrew about chasidic thought.
King of Yiddish and Kafkas Son. divide by showing that during the 11th affected English enormously. SEE HEBREW PAGE 37

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Calendar
Ambassador
Dani Dayan
JUNE Elie Katz of Teaneck
and his sister-in-
25
law, Jessica Katz of
Passaic, host the
first annual Breakfast for Israel,
to benefit Yad Leah and Magen
David Adom, at the Jewish
Center of Teaneck, Sunday, June
25, at 9:45 a.m. Children from
the Frisch School, the Moriah
School, Yeshivat HeAtid, Yeshivat
Noam, and Yavneh Academy
created and participated in
fundraising and volunteer
events for both organizations.
Speakers include Ambassador
Dani Dayan, the consul general
of Israel in New York, and N.J.
Lieutenant Governor Kim
Guadagno. Zev Brenner of Talkline
Communications is the master
of ceremonies. Assemblyman
Gary Schaer, Teanecks Mayor
Mohammed Hameeduddin, and
Councilman Mark Schwartz
will present school awards. The
business award will be presented
to the IDT Corporation and its
CEO, Shmuel Jonas. 70 Sterling
Place. IsraelBreakfast.org or email
breakfast@YadLeah.org.
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Eretz HaTzvi in Israel, workshop for people
Friday is scholar-in-residence
at Congregation Beth
with Parkinsons and
their loved ones,
JUNE 23 Aaron. On Shabbat Goodbye Parkinsons,
morning he will discuss Hello Life! at the Jewish
Shabbat in Hoboken: Winning the Battle but Home Assisted Living,
The United Synagogue of Losing the War after 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Alex
Hoboken hosts Shabbat kiddush following the Kerten is the guest
in the Park for children main minyan. At 7:15 p.m., speaker. Presented
and adults of all ages, his topic will be Moshes in collaboration with
especially with young Finest Moment, and CAPSTM Movement For
children, 6 p.m. Bring Dr. Yosef Priel
following the 8:05 Joy. Lunch served; books
a kosher or vegetarian Mincha, he will discuss available for sale. 685
Israeli songs: The adult
picnic dinner; challah and Israeli and American Westwood Ave., River
education committee
grape juice provided. Orthodoxy: Continents Vale. (201) 750-4246
of Congregation Rinat
Rain will cancel event. Adrift. 950 Queen Anne or email parkinsons@
Yisrael in Teaneck
Regular services at shul Road. (201) 836-6210 or jewishhomefamily.org.
presents Dr. Yosef Priel
at 7. Church Square Park, www.bethaaron.org. of Bar Ilan University
5th and Willow/Park.
discussing The Songs
ushpreschool@gmail.
com. Sunday of Israels Wars: An
Audio-Visual Journey
JUNE 25 Through Israeli Songs We
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Bnai Jacob hosts a Love, 8 p.m. Program
special barbecue dinner entirely in Hebrew. 389
celebrating Shabbat, West Englewood Ave.
led by Rabbi Aaron (201) 837-2795.
Katz, 7 p.m. 176 West
Side Ave. Reservations, Tuesday Rabbi Avraham Stolik
(201) 435-5725 or Info@
bnaijacobjc.org. JUNE 27 Israeli archeology in
Haskell: Rabbi Avraham
Shabbat in Bayonne: Jewish genetics: REAP Stolik offers a multimedia
Congregation Ohav (Retired Executives
and Professionals) at
presentation, The
Zedek holds a Archaeological Claim to
couples Shabbaton
Book discussion in the Kaplen JCC on the Jerusalem for Chabad
Paramus: Carolyn Palisades in Tenafly
weekend. 912 Avenue of Upper Passaic County
Kaufman leads a meets to hear member
C. Rabbi Abe Unger,
discussion on Shulem Dr. Irwin Rhine discuss
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has briefed hundreds of U.S. lawmakers on Israeli film footage, the celebration features a full
missile defense, including briefings on Capitol Hill at live band performing hits including Mrs.
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ambassador. He speaks regularly for the Israeli Foreign bled Water, and Homeward Bound. It
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After Jerusalem attack, US experts warn
Islamic State may be coming to Israel
ANDREW TOBIN
JERUSALEM When the Islamic State
claimed credit for an attack on Israeli soil
for the first time last Friday, June 16, and
vowed to strike again, the response here
was not fear but incredulity.
Israeli officials generally dismissed the
militant Islamist groups assertion that it
was behind the shooting and stabbing in
Jerusalem that left a 23-year-old police-
woman and her attackers dead.
Top U.S. experts on the group said those
Israeli officials would be wise to think again.
This is a pattern that we see, Rukmini
Callimachi, a New York Times reporter
who monitors the group online, said. ISIS
makes threats, very grandiose threats,
accompanied by snuff videos and things
of that nature. Reaction in the West is this
is the talk of deranged people, its all talk
and no action, and then one by one, coun-
tries that have been called out have seen
bloodshed on their soil.
Callimachi and other U.S. analysts
warned that the Islamic State rarely bluffs
about attacks. The group has vowed to
destroy the Jewish state for a long time,
they said, and it finally may be following
through.
The Islamic State, or ISIS, claimed
responsibility soon after the attack, which
involved a pair of coordinated assaults
by three West Bank Palestinians in and
around the Old City on Friday night.
Through its official online news agency,
the Islamic State announced that lions of
the caliphate carried out a blessed attack
on a gathering of Jews in al-Quds, refer-
ring to Jerusalem by its Arabic name. It
warned the attack will not be the last.
Hamas, the militant Islamist Palestin-
ian group that controls the Gaza Strip,
rejected the Islamic States claim early the
An Islamic State flag flies in the Syrian
town of Tabqa on April 30.
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next morning. A spokesman called it an
attempt to muddy the waters. The attack
was carried out by two Palestinians from
the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine and a third from Hamas, Sami
Abou Zouhri said.
For their part, Israeli officials, including
some from the Israel Security Agency, or
Shin Bet, and Israel Defense Forces were
unimpressed by both groups declarations.
They said the attackers appeared to have
been part of a local cell and had no organi-
zational backing.
As we understand it, there is no con-
nection between ISIS or Hamas to what
happened, a high-ranking military offi-
cial said, on condition of anonymity. We
understand at the moment that its a local
initiative, a local terrorist cell, without any
connection to any terrorist organization.
But Callimachi said it was unusual for
the Islamic State to claim an attack falsely
and it was unclear what the group would
gain from doing so in last weeks attacks,
which she described as small potatoes.
She noted that many attacks connected to
the Islamic State are considered at first to
be the work of lone wolves, with evidence
of ties to the group only emerging later,
often too late to make headlines.
Contrary to public perception, ISIS
does not claim every attack, she said.
They actually have a very good track
record. There are far more instances of
attacks ISIS did but never claimed than
the opposite.
It doesnt make sense that they would
want to claim[falsely] this small attack in
a territory where they have already been
accused of inspiring attacks at a time when
they have had major attacks in places like
Europe and Iran.
Callimachi also pointed out that the
Islamic State has threatened Israel repeat-
edly, including in a December 2015 video
believed to feature its leader, Abu Bakr al-
Baghdadi. The group eventually followed
through against other countries it men-
aced, she said, including the United King-
dom and Iran.
Local officials confirmed the groups
claims of a car ramming and stabbing in
London that killed eight people on June
3, and a shooting in Tehran on June 7 that
killed 18, as well as of two deadly attacks in
Britain earlier this year.
After the Iran attack, Michael S. Smith
II, an adviser on terrorism to the U.S. Con-
gress, had predicted Israel would be next.
Increased use of Hebrew on Islamic State
communication channels hinted to him
that something was afoot. With ISIS suf-
fering military losses in Syria and Iraq,
he said, targeting Israel is a good way to
win recruits and distinguish itself from
competitors.
Israeli security forces stand at the scene of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on
June 16. YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90
Smith speculated that both Israeli and
Hamas officials were hesitant to credit the
Islamic State with the Jerusalem attack for
fear of giving it a propaganda victory. He
reasoned that neither party wants to see
Hamas which Smith says ideologically
agrees with the Islamic State more than
it disagrees face competition to take an
even more violent approach to its conflict
with Israel.
I would suspect theres recognition that
jumping to claim an attack was Islamic
State would be strategically problematic,
he said. Israel and Hamas leadership,
although probably not coordinating their
response, have similar sets of concerns
here namely that the dynamic becomes
one where there is a need for more conflict
to assert Palestinian leadership.
Current and former Israeli officials who
work in counterterrorism acknowledged
that there is still much they do not know
about last weeks attacks. But some voiced
skepticism that the Islamic State could
make inroads among the Palestinians,
who generally have rejected the groups
ideology. Even if it did, they suggested the
group would not significantly alter Israels
already challenging security reality.
Islamic State affiliates have claimed
rocket fire into Israel, and officials said that
at least two terrorist attacks in the coun-
try last year were inspired by the group.
Yet Palestinian violence against Israel and
Zionism long predates the Islamic State,
and large numbers of young Palestinians,
moved by personal and political frus-
trations, have been launching lone wolf
attacks against Israelis since October 2015.
Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said
that while Israel had no evidence that the
Jerusalem attackers were linked to any
organization, it takes the Islamic State
threat very seriously and allocates sig-
nificant resources to thwarting attacks
at home and abroad. He said that Israel
is at less risk from the Islamic State than
other countries are, in part because of its
well-established defenses and policy of
deterrence.
As far as terror in general is concerned,
we feel that Israel is better organized to
deal with it as a result of experience and
creativity and innovation, in terms of rel-
evant legislation, which is very important,
and also in terms of public awareness
and fast response by military, police and
armed civilians with military experience,
Katz wrote in an email. Although even
with all that, we are unfortunately unable
to completely prevent attacks like the one
in Jerusalem, which took once again the
life of a young policewoman.
Asked if Israel should be more con-
cerned about the Islamic State, Amos Yad-
lin, a retired major general who was Isra-
els chief of military intelligence, repeated
his oft-stated view that the group is not
a critical threat. The second intifada,
the bloody Palestinian uprising between
2000 and 2005, taught the country how
to handle terrorism, he said, leaving him
to worry about other security challenges
in his current role as head of the influen-
tial Institute for National Security Studies
think tank.
With all due respect, we face much big-
ger concerns than some stabbings, Yad-
lin said, pointing especially to Iran and
its patron in Lebanon, the Shiite Islamist
militant group Hezbollah. The rest of
the world is already fighting ISIS, but with
these other terrorists were alone.
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It was clear that the only solution was to sell the build-
ing, but that presented all sorts of problems. Isaac Stu-
dent, the shuls outgoing president, brilliantly managed
to convince the board and membership to sell, Ms. Gans
said. Without Isaac, we would have run out of money.
The sale to a boys yeshiva high school, Heichal Hato-
rah, was finalized in June 2016, in an agreement that
grants the congregation permanent use of the building.
Other organizations rent space in it, including Yachad
The National Jewish Council for Disabilities; Sinai Schools,
which established a high school program at Heichal Hato-
rah; and Shalom Yeladim preschool, where Rabbi Frid-
man and his wife, Chaya, send their daughter, Eliana.
The infusion of funds enabled the JCOT board to hire a
new rabbi. The previous spiritual leader, Rabbi Larry Zier-
ler, served from 2006 to 2014 and oversaw the transition
to Orthodoxy. He was wonderful, but he saw we couldnt
afford him anymore so he stepped down, Ms. Gans said.
After the sale went through, We were lucky to get
Rabbi Fridman, an amazing speaker and teacher who has
attracted new members, she added.
Membership now stands at 110 units individuals and
families.
In the two unsteady years that followed Rabbi Zierlers
departure, JCOT ritual director Yitz Cohen, as a volun-
teer, had filled some of the roles of a shul rabbi. Isaac
Students wife, Nechama, managed to have a kiddush
for us every week, Ms. Gans said. The Students and Mr.
Cohen were the three honorees at the June 15 dinner.
To say that we would not, as a congregation, be where
we are today without the Students is an understatement
of enormous proportions, Rabbi Fridman wrote in a let-
ter to congregants, adding that Mr. Cohen played a cru-
cial role in stabilizing the congregation during challenging
times over the last number of years.
The young rabbi said that when he was hired, the shul
had already become fully Orthodox and it was my job to
revitalize the place. Incredibly dedicated lay people worked
with me to really make it a dynamic modern Orthodox shul
that everybody could feel comfortable in, irrespective of
educational background or observance level. Chaired by Lori Rosner, the gala dinner included a
Today, JCOT offers three daily minyanim and adult-edu- siyyum mishnayot, a ceremony marking the comple-
cation classes on Shabbat and Monday nights. The sister- tion of the study of a book of the Mishnah, led by Dr.
hood came back to life after lying dormant for 15 years. Jonathan Resnick. The dinner was, thank God, very
Rabbi Yishai and Yiskah Klein, Israeli emissaries teach- successful at multiple levels, in terms of our being able
ing at Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus, recently were hired as to express gratitude to the Almighty for a reunified Jeru-
fulltime youth directors. Rabbi Klein leads a new Shabbat salem, in terms of our being able to thank those who
youth minyan for third- to fifth-graders. A knitting group have served us so faithfully, in terms of our ability to
and a book club also meet at the center during the week. make a siyyum reflecting our commitment to Torah, and
Now, instead of board reports on how many members in financial terms as well, Rabbi Fridman said.
have quit or died, we get reports on new members, Ms. But the sum was much greater than even these impor-
Gans said. Its just been great. tant parts, he continued. As Zechariah once said, Not
A lot of people have become regular attendees, includ- with the army, and not with force, but with the spirit, so
ing some of the old-timers who stuck it out. Some of those said the Lord, this dinner was about the indomitable spirit
who left us when we went Orthodox have come back. Its of a community that has weathered the storm, and, with
really the place to be right now. the help of God, looks forward to a future bright enough to
This uptick is very gratifying to me, said Mr. Student, match, and exceed, an august history of 84 years.
who has been a JCOT member for 40 years. The last
three years have been very challenging and that is an
understatement. But we have pulled through, thank God,
and I am very optimistic. We now have children running
around on Shabbat, and the building is full of Jewish activ-
ities. We have a wonderful rabbi who has taken an aggres-
Being hungry affects your
appearance, how you act.
sive lead to revive the center. Its almost a rebirth of the When Im hungry, Im not in the
Jewish Center, and this is just the beginning. mood for anything.
It was Rabbi Fridmans idea to relaunch the annual gala
dinner and to tie it in with celebrating the reunification of
Jerusalem in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War.
It is altogether fitting and appropriate that we should
celebrate our communal and national restoration in con-
junction with one another, as we must always be cogni-
zant of the fact that our synagogue, amongst synagogues
all across the diaspora, represents a stone in the edifice
of a fully rebuilt Jerusalem, he explained to congregants.
Anchoring JCOT in Israel and Jerusalem is a big part of
the educational message he seeks to instill, he added.
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n 1. Rabbi Kenneth Stern, back row left, and

sofer Rabbi Jay Greenspan, next to him, are
with congregants who gathered to help re-
pair the Torah scrolls at Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC Fort Lee. PHOTO PROVIDED

n 2. Nosh and Drash, a course-in-a-box pre-

pared by the Jewish Theological Seminary, held
its last class of the semester at Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake. This
years course was The Ethical Life; and several
area Conservative shuls used the material. The
course uses printed texts, online video talks,
and classroom discussions, moderated by a
professional teacher. Rabbi Shelley Kniaz led
the TEPV program. A new semester will start
after the High Holy Days. Call (201) 391-0801.

n 3. Eight members of Emeth Teen Community,

4 a teen service and leadership program from
Temple Emeth in Teaneck, joined with Rabbi
Steven Sirbu, at right, to volunteer at the JFCS
Wheels for Meals ride on June 11. They were
transported in style thanks to shul member Da-
vid Steiner. With Rabbi Sirbu, from left, are Jo-
seph Conlon, Michael Conlon, Luke Conlon, Kyla
Ginsberg, Evelyn Pierce, Austin Steiner, Jacob
Newman, and Ryan Zaken. COURTESY RABBI SIRBU

n 4. Rebbetzins Shterney Kanelsky and Chani

Lazar with a group of women from Russia who
recently came to the United States. Chani Lazar
is the wife of Moscows chief rabbi, Berel Lazar;
Shterney Kanelsky, Bris Avrohoms associate
director, is the wife of its executive director,
Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky. The group went to
the Lubavitcher rebbes grave in Queens and
then shared a banquet at Bris Avrohoms Hill-
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