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l Looking to buy a toy for a chassidic
cousin?
Look up Mitzvah Kinder on Ama-
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the mitzvah children are a Jewish an-
swer to Fisher-Price.
As with any good childrens toy, the
little figures are collectible and avail-
able in a wide variety of sets. One set
has pegs to fit the chassidic dolls who
come in the box into a Fisher-Price
school bus.
The Mitzvah Menschen expansion
set includes Herschel from Hatzo-
lah, Pinchus the Postman, Mendy
the Fireman, and Brucha from Bikur
Cholim.
Tovya the Construction Worker is
available separately.
Not everyone in this world of pre-
tend is chassidic. Theres a Litvish
Candlelighting: Friday, June 30, 8:14 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, July 1, 9:22 p.m.
expansion featuring men wearing
non-chassidic charedi hats.
Shabbos with the Mitzvah Kinder
Set includes a family, a Shabbos
table, candle sticks, a bowl of soup,
and a plate of fish.
The chasunah set thats Yiddish
for wedding boasts 60 pieces, in-
cluding the bride and groom, tables
with cakes, a keyboard player, a singer
reminiscent of chassidic superstar Lipa
Schmeltzer and a two-piece attrac-
tive pink mechitzah to separate the
women dolls from the men. The boys
cake table is in blue, and the one for the
girls is in pink, so there wont be any
mistake about which doll goes where.
Of course, theres a shul set, which
includes Torah scrolls, a Torah ark,
and a tallis. And theres a seforim
room that would be a library in
English featuring bookcases, books,
a menorah, and three figures. The
side panel of the box explains: Totty
Learns Torah, Tuli Learns With Totty,
Faigy Serves Totty & Tuli. (Totty, for
the non-Yiddish-speakers among us,
means father.)
And thats how the Mitzvah Kinder
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No-go zone
l This sign found in a Jaffa park-
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itself. The Hebrew caption reads:
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OBITUARIES 37
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PIG IN A POKE:
Okja plays
unevenly with
mood swings
The title
character of
Okja, a film
that began streaming on
Netflix on June 28, is a
pig genetically engi-
neered by a big nasty
company to grow as big
as a hippo. The baby
Okja is sent out to be
fostered on an organic
Korean farm. A young
Korean girl bonds with
Okja, and shes devastat-
ed when Dr. Wilcox
(JAKE GYLLENHAAL,
36) takes Okja to
America. So she sets off
to get Okja back.
Variety criticized the
films jarring change in
tones: from the sweetly
familiar (child in love with
animal in danger) to
weird, adult scenes of
Okja mating roughly and
in a grim slaughterhouse.
The films co-writer, JON
RONSON, 50, is a
journalist and documen-
tary filmmaker. He was
born and raised in Wales
and hes the second
Welsh Jew to appear in
this column. The first was
prolific actor ROGER
REES (1944-2015), who
was a devout convert to
Judaism.
I was excited
when I read that
LISA RUBIN,
only about 25, got her
big break and sold
Gypsy, a 10-episode
thriller series, to Netflix.
Word that the usually
solid Nicole Kidman
signed on to play the
lead character, a psychol-
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My credo is if it doesnt make you
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Comedy is real.
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ogist who enters into
dangerous relationships
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good sign. But advance
reviews have panned
Gypsy as plodding and
too full of filler. Begins
streaming June 30.
Darren Aronofsky Benjamin Millipied
So far, we
havent heard
Goldies last
name. Goldie, a comedy
club owner, is featured in
the new Showtime series
Im Dying Up Here (see
June 9 column), but no Dave Franco and Alison Brie
ones even mentioned
her last name. The
credits, however, reveal it
is Herschlag. Obviously,
the writers didnt pick The Hours fly by
that at random: It is well
known that Herschlag is Ohad Naharain Billy Joel
with Alison and Dave
NATALIE PORTMANs The Little Hours, co-starring the busy ALISON
original last name. by Israeli choreogra- tion ceremony at BRIE, 34, and DAVE FRANCO, 32, opens in limited
(Portman is her paternal pher OHAD NAHARAIN, Hicksville High School on
theater release on June 30. This comic romp is set in a
grandmas maiden 65, was well received. Long Island. It was the
name.) Dont think its a medieval nunnery. Brie plays a nun who is very bored
Hes the director of the 50th anniversary of his
dig its more an inside famous Batsheva Dance almost-graduation from and looking for irreligious fun. Franco plays a hot new
joke to amuse the writers Company of Israel. Hicksville. (He left high groundskeeper who pretends to be deaf. Hours got
and well-informed Sadly, the New York school one credit short.) good reviews at Sundance. Brie and Franco, both the
viewers. Times savaged the Also last week, a children of Jewish mothers, wed last March.
Portman, 36, was there dances Millipied cre- Manhattan By the way, the reviews are in for Glow, Bries
when her husbands ated: If it wasnt for his federal judge new Netflix series, and they are great. Entertainment
company, the L.A. Dance own creations, Id call Mr. approved the request of
Project, performed in a Weekly called it a silly, smart masterpiece. N.B.
Millepied enterpris- Cameron Douglas, 38, to
New York City theater ing, chic, unpredictable, leave the New York area
from June 14 to 25. So modern a very consid- to go to California to visit
was DARREN ARONOF- erable force for good in his grandfather, KIRK son on the phone and mary, died on June 15 at
SKY, 48, who directed the dance world. But hes DOUGLAS, 100. Camer- asks when he will come 92. He was best known
Portman in the ballet been making consistent- ons long history of drug out to see him. Outside for playing the comic
film Black Swan (2010). ly unimportant dances abuse led to a six-year the court, Cameron Mexican bellhop Jose
(She won the best ac- for many years now. stay in prison that ended thanked the judge Jimnez on TV, and for
tress Oscar for Black Theyre what stop the last August when he was profusely and said that his comedy records. He
Swan.) The program L.A. Dance Project from paroled. He almost was the trip had nothing to do was also a WWII combat
featured works choreo- becoming an important sent back to jail in April with Kirks health. He is veteran and the writer of
graphed by BENJAMIN company. Ouch! when he tested positive healthy, Cameron said. the famous All in the
MILLIPIED, 40, Port- BILLY JOEL, 68, for marijuana. The N.Y. Comedian BILL Family episode featur-
mans husband, and by spoke last week Post reports that Kirk DANA, born ing SAMMY DAVIS Jr.
others. The dance Yag, at the gradua- often talks to his grand- William Szath- N.B.
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Something old, something new
Making Jewishtext and music more accessible through online crowdsourcing
LOIS GOLDRICH

I
f a community can commission
music, then certainly music can help
create community, contends singer/
songwriter Michelle Citrin. Raised
in Fair Lawn, the musician, composer,
and producer is working on a new album
dedicated to taking the old and making
it new.
But its not just those liturgical texts,
and most specifically the psalms, that Ms.
Citrin will render in a more modern and
accessible form. Her fundraising approach
seeking community support online
through Kickstarter is taking the old
form of supporting the arts and making it
new via the internet.
Weve come full circle, said Ms. Citrin,
who now lives in Brooklyn. Before there
was recorded music, communities that
supported the arts sponsored musicians
to write, and then perform, their new
compositions. Just think of Mozart and his
many patrons.
Drawing on that approach, Ms. Citrin has
created a video explaining the importance
of bringing ancient Jewish wisdom into
everyday life and is asking those in the com-
munity who endorse that goal to help her
do it by contributing money. She believes
the music industry is in flux. Today, with Michelle Citrin, who grew up in Fair Lawn, is using Kickstarter to make a new album of old-turned-new Jewish music.
fewer people buying CDs and more people
streaming their music, the model is chang- internet and home recording technology, Modeh Ani. It helps people start off the fans of her music and interested in hearing
ing. To help defray the costs of producing more artists have the ability to share their day with gratitude, Ms. Citrin said. We her new pieces.
her new album, she has turned to Kick- works and be supported by an audience need hints and reminders of what prayers Ms. Citrin is no stranger to the internet.
starter, which calls itself the worlds larg- who enjoys it. are about. Everyone can appreciate that Her YouTube videos (20 Things to do
est funding platform for creative projects Ms. Citrin, who co-leads services at Tem- message even if theyre not observant. with Matzah, Rosh Hashanah Girl, and
a home for film, music, art, theater, games, ple Micah in Washington, D.C., during the Asking for money and watching peo- Hanukkah Lovin) have received millions
comics, design, photography, and more. High Holy Days and spends a good deal of ple step up to help is so humbling, of hits, and she has sold thousands of her
Citrins upcoming album, her second, time performing at synagogues and other she continued, and working to create the albums without the help of a record label.
due out in January her first, called Left venues around the world, said, I have a rewards also has been an amazing learn- Its a testament to modern technology,
Brained Right Hearted, explored the strug- lot of people coming up to me and saying, ing experience. She said that her entre- she said.
gle of heart versus head will be solely Jew- I didnt know what this prayer was about. preneurial spirit was invaluable when Its a very intimidating thing to ask
ish music. Ill be looking at ancient texts Ive just been going through the motions. she had to learn about producing mugs. the universe for money, Ms. Citrin said.
and finding modern connections, finding a The album will contain pieces Ms. Citrin Rewards vary with the size of the donation. You have to have time and a community
way to make them new, she said. has been doing over the past couple of Some people will get the digital version of to reach out to. Ive spent many years on
Jews have always reinterpreted texts, years, which she describes as mixing the CD, while others will get the product the road connecting with people. Its been
making them relevant so people can Hebrew with the English translation and itself. Still others will be sent videos of the incredible to invite my community to join
connect to them, she continued. They offering an interpretation. recording process, a phenomenal thing to me in the creation of this album. So much
contain beautifully rich pieces of wisdom, Her Kickstarter campaign has been watch, Ms. Citrin said. of the inspiration for the songs and proj-
and as my grandfather instilled in us, ein extremely successful. We have a 30-day The singer also will offer her expertise, ects I create come from my travels and
kol chadash tachat hashamesh, There is campaign to raise $25,000, and in just one and rewards include Skype counseling ses- interaction with people around the world,
nothing new under the sun. (Her grand- day, we fulfilled 30 percent of the albums sions on songwriting and singing. Those so it feels very natural and exciting to be
father, of course, was quoting Kohelet, the funding, which led to topping the charts synagogues that have contributed will able to engage this beloved community to
book of Ecclesiastes.) Now I appreciate of most popularly funded music projects receive a visit from Ms. Citrin. Theres help make new art possible.
what it means. My hope is to find ways on Kickstarter on Day 1, she said. Now its been a wide range of responses, ranging Its very rewarding to be a part of creat-
for people to embrace and celebrate Jew- up to about $17,000, and she is more than from $10 to $3,500, she said. ing something together, making this proj-
ish identity. halfway toward her goal of $25,000. Why do people contribute? I think that ect that much more meaningful.
Some things have changed, however, To make contributors feel even more a if people like what you do and believe in There is more information about
such as the platform through which music part of the effort, donations are acknowl- investing in the Jewish future and finding Ms. Citrin and a link to her Kickstarter
is funded, eliminating geography as an edged with rewards. One, the sip of grati- ways to make it relevant, this is an attrac- campaign on her homepage, www.
obstacle to reaching fans. Thanks to the tude mug, is printed with the prayer tive idea. Some contributors, she said, are michellecitrin.com

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The chain of goodness

How a Tenafly dentist advocated for a WWII hero and a Jerusalem clinic
NATE BLOOM Heres a short summary: the story begins with Capt.

J
ust before Memorial Day, I wrote a Noshes column
item about Capt. Ben Salomon, a Jewish dentist who
was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honor in 2002 for his heroism in World War II.
I noted that in November 2016, the American Friends
of Dental Volunteers of Israel presented a special lecture
honoring Salomon. The AVI, as the organization is known,
is the sister organization of Dental Volunteers for Israel
(DVI). Founded by the late Trudi Birger, DVI runs a free
clinic for children in Israel.
My column item prompted Dr. Scott Dubowsky of
Tenafly, a longtime Jewish Standard subscriber, to email
the Standard. He thanked me for the item and told me
he is a dentist and the president of AVI. We exchanged
further letters and I came to realize that several personal
stories, including Dr. Dubowskys, intertwined in what I
came to think of as a remarkable chain of goodness.
Dr. Salomon, an only child, was born in 1914 and raised
in Milwaukee. In 1937, he graduated from the University
of Southern Californias dental school. In 1940, he was
drafted into the peacetime army. An official Army article
says about his first year:
After basic training Ben joined the 102d Infantry Regi-
ment and quickly proved to be a natural soldier and
leader. He won awards as an expert rifle and pistol marks-
man, and his commanding officer stated that he was the
best all-around soldier in the regiment. Within a year he
had risen to the rank of sergeant and was in charge of a
machine-gun section.
In 1942, with America at war, the Army realized it
needed more dentists, so Salomon was transferred to the
Dental Corps. In July 1944, he went ashore on the island
of Saipan, where a fierce battle raged. He quickly volun-
teered to replace his battalions wounded surgeon.
The final push to defeat the Japanese began on July 4.
On July 5, Capt. Salomon set up an aid station 50 feet from
the front line. The next day, the Japanese, who were run-
ning out of ammunition, were ordered to wage a suicide
attack against the Americans.
Capt. Salomon defended the aid stations patients.
Inside the aid station tent, he killed several enemy soldiers
in hand-to-hand combat. When he went outside, he saw
that the enemys numbers were overwhelming, and he
ordered the healthy men to evacuate the wounded while
he stayed behind and provided cover.
When his body was discovered a few days later, it was
clear his machine-gun fire had killed 98 enemy soldiers.
Salomons body had 24 wounds on it.
Trudi Birger (ne Simon) was born in 1924 in Frankfort,
Capt. Ben Salomon
Germany. Her family was prosperous and Orthodox. She
had one older brother. In 1934, a year after the Nazi take-
over, the family moved to Trudis parents birthplace:
Memel, Lithuania, a city that had been German before
World War I. The Simons were living in Kovno (now
Kaunas), Lithuanias capital, when the Germans invaded
in June 1941. Many Kovno Jews soon were killed on the
streets. Those who survived, including the Simon family,
were forced into the Kovno ghetto by August 1941.
In March 1944, the Nazis swept the ghetto and rounded
up the children they planned to kill immediately. Trudis
father tried to hide some children. He and the children
were discovered and murdered. Shortly thereafter, the
ghetto was emptied. But Trudi and her mother survived.
They were sent to a labor camp where, through a series
of miracles, they were able to hang on to life, although
barely. Her brother was sent to different camp, and he,
too, survived.
The heroes who got a hero his medal
The official Army article on Dr. Salomon devotes several
thousand words to the long, difficult process that finally
ended with Ben Salomon getting his Medal of Honor in
2002.
Edmund G. Love, the historian for Salomons division, and
never would have ended happily without him. Love was
among the first on the scene of Salomons heroism. He
carefully documented what he saw, and that, along with
the witness statements he gathered, allowed him to rec-
ommend Salomon for the Medal of Honor.
A major general turned down the recommendation on
the grounds that the Geneva Convention did not allow a
medical officer to take arms against the enemy.
In 1946, Love wrote a magazine article that mentioned
Salomon. Salomons father heard the article discussed
on the radio. He wrote the Pentagon. The Secretary of
War asked Love to visit Salomons father in Los Angeles
and also to re-submit the recommendation for the Medal
of Honor.
Capt. Love was the first person to tell Bens father how
his son had died. Until then, all his father had been told
was by telegram and all it said was that his son had died.
It took until 1951 before Capt. Love could submit a new
recommendation. The original recommendation papers
had been lost and several witnesses had died or couldnt
be found again. Loves new recommendation was rejected
when the Army ruled that the statute of limitations had
run out for submitting papers for World War II awards.
In 1969, Dr. John Ingle, the dean of the USC School of
Dentistry, who learned from his friend, Bens father, about
Bens heroics, took over the fight. Again, it took a long
time to put together more paperwork. Again, Capt. Love
submitted an extensive account of the events on Saipan.
However, in 1972, the Department of Defense refused to
act on the Secretary of the Armys recommendation that
Salomon be awarded the Medal of Honor. This despite
the fact that the statute-of-limitations bar had been elimi-
nated by subsequent legislation and that legal counsel had
confirmed that under the Geneva Convention a medical
officer can take up arms in self-defense or to defend the
wounded and sick.
In the mid-1990s, Col. John E. King, who had been work-
ing on something else, came across Salomons story. At
the same time, a USC dental school grad, Dr. Robert West,
became interested in Salomons story. (In the mid-1960s, a
major clinic at the school was named after Capt. Salomon.)
King and West joined forces and Dr. West put together the
paperwork for the medal. This time the cause had a great
ally: Maj. Gen. Patrick D. Sculley, the deputy surgeon gen-
eral, and head of the Dental Corps. Sculley made sure that
everything stayed on track as each approval in the long
chain of command was secured.
Finally, on May 1, 2002, President George W. Bush pre-
sented Salomons medal to Dr. West, who represented

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Dr. Scott Dubowsky of Tenafly at work in the Trudi
Birger Clinic in Jerusalem.
USCs dental school. Bens parents were long dead, and
he had no close relative to accept the medal on his behalf.
Trudi Birger and her clinic
Trudi Simon and her mother lived in a displaced per-
sons camp in Germany until Trudi discovered that her
brother was alive and living in Frankfort, and they joined
him there. In Frankfort, she met and eventually married
Zev Birger (1927-2011), a strong Zionist who struggled to
maintain Hebrew culture in the Kovno ghetto. After the
ghetto was emptied, Birger was sent to a labor camp and
then to Dachau. He was liberated by American troops,
and became a translator for them, and they urged him to
immigrate to America.
But Zev wanted to build a Jewish state. After much
thought, Trudi and her mother made the difficult deci-
sion to not go to America, as Trudis brother and his wife
had done. Instead, they would go with Zev to Eretz Israel.
Trudi and Zev were married in 1946, and in November
1947 they made aliyah. After serving in the army in the
War of Independence, Zev went into government service,
rising to be a deputy minister overseeing various eco-
nomic matters in 1967. After retiring in 1977, he and Trudi
went to Paris, where he headed up the local office of ICM,
a worldwide arts management company.
Trudi became a microbiologist in Israel. Her thoughts
frequently turned to helping others and easing their suf-
fering. She long had been aware that poor children in
Israel had a pressing need for dental services. The govern-
ment does pay for a sort-of HMO to treat children under
13, but the co-pay, while small, often is too much for a
poor family with many children. (Many ultra-Orthodox
and Palestinian families tend to have large families.)
When she lived in Paris, she determined to set up a free
clinic in Jerusalem, staffed by volunteer dentists. Israeli
A reunion of the medical professionals who worked on identifying victims of the 9/11 attacks.
Trudi Birger with Jerusalems iconic mayor,
Teddy Kollek, who died in 2007. Dr. Scott Dubowsky, right, with his sons and grandchild.
dentists usually spend a month in the army each year, so
asking them to volunteer in their off-time is difficult. She
decided that foreign volunteer dentists might be the solu-
tion to that problem. She recruited six volunteer dentists
from France, set up a nonprofit company in Israel, and
got an Israeli shipping line to bring in tons of equipment
donated by a French company.
In 1980, what is now called the DVI Trudi Birger Clinic
opened in Jerusalem. Thousands of children have been
treated there in the last 37 years. The clinic treats all chil-
dren, regardless of ethnicity or religion. It emphasizes
bringing oral hygiene education to the the entire fam-
ily, so that problems are stopped before they start or get
much worse. About half the volunteers are from America;
the others are from around the world. (The international
nature of the clinics volunteers is reflected in the fact that
the DVI website is in 14 languages.)
It is the largest free dental clinic in Israel, and recently
it began providing free dentures to Holocaust survivors
and the elderly.
After Trudi Birger died in 2002, age 75, the clinic was
named after her.
Enter Dr. Dubowsky
Dr. Scott Dubowsky, 67, is the linchpin that ties all these
stories together. Hes a second-generation dentist with a
practice in Bayonne and the proud father of three really
cool sons: Eric, 41, is a former rock band musician who
is now a mixer, songwriter, and producer, and he won a
Grammy for mixing the best dance music album (Flume).
Jonathan, 39, has his own band ( Jonny Lives) and once
played with his band on the old Conan OBrien Show. He
now is working with people at NYU on IT projects that
deal with sustainability and the environment. Adam, 33,
is a comic wit who has sold one animated project to Fox
Local
animation hes the creator and producer and he has
five funny videos on the popular Funny or Die site.
On September 11, 2001, Dr. Dubowsky saw the North
Tower of the World Trade Center collapse from Bayonne,
where he works. Later, he heard that some of the bod-
ies might be transferred to a morgue in Bayonne. Having
some experience in identifying bodies through teeth and
dental records, he called someone he knew in the New
York medical examiners office and asked if the office
needed help. He was told that yes, they did, but at the
New York morgue. Could he volunteer there?
From then until end of May 2002, Dr. Dubowsky
worked, without pay, examining the dental remains and
records of 9/11 victims. During that time, he maintained
his own practice. At first, he worked from eight to 16 hours
a week on 9/11 victims, although later he slowed down a
little bit.
Dr. Dubowsky had met Trudi Birgir before 9/11, and
he knew about DVI. But it took some time, he said, to
recover from 9/11, and he had three relatively young
sons to look after. But by 2007, his sons were grown. Dr.
Dubowsky wanted to do something else outside him-
self as he had in the aftermath of 9/11. He chose to
volunteer at DVI.
Volunteer dentists do pay for their own transportation,
but they are provided a free if spare apartment in a nice
area of Jerusalem, he said. They typically spend a week at
the clinic, working Sundays through Thursdays.
During his stays in Israel, Dr. Dubowsky has visited the
Holocaust shrine Yad Vashem several times. When I said
I wasnt sure if I could stand to go a second time, he said,
When I go to Yad Vashem, its not so much to remem-
ber the victims of the Holocaust, its to make sure that I
dont forget.
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This is the issue of our time
Conservative rabbis re-examine their roles when Jews marry non-Jews
Joanne Palmer
W
hat is a boundary?
When is it protec-
tive and when is it
constrictive? When
should it have windows and when
should those window sashes be
thrown up? When should it raise the
portcullis to keep out invaders, when
should boiling oil be poured from its
slits, and when should that bridge
be let down? What passports should
visitors need? What documentation
should residents need? When should
it be remodeled?
There have been boundaries pro-
tecting the Jewish people from outsid-
ers from the beginning, from before
we were Jews, back to when we still
were Israelites. Much of that protec-
tion was aimed at the most intimate
of all kinds of protection or invasion
intermarriage and the children that
might result from that union.
Right now, the Conservative
movement, with its carefully drawn bal-
ance between tradition and modernity,
between hewing to its interpretation of
halacha and its understanding of the truths ceremony with Jewish elements, as part of
and realities of the outside world, is con- a long-term project to strengthen the Jew-
fronting the huge question of what to do
about the increasing number of Jews who
want to marry non-Jews but still retain
their connection to the Jewish community.
Can its rabbis possibly perform inter-
marriages? What will happen if they do?
What will happen if they dont? And is
the decision necessarily binary and stark?
What is the best path forward?
Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon of Congrega-
tion Bnai Jeshurun on Manhattans Upper
West Side has brought the question forward
in a way that has affected the discussion
around the country, and certainly in this
area, right across the Hudson.
To begin, it is necessary to situate
Rabbi Matalon and his shul in the Con-
servative movement. Although the syn-
agogue left the United Synagogue of
Conservative Judaism, the movements
synagogue association, decades ago, it
still remains a Conservative institution
it uses the movements siddur and chu-
mash, takes guidance from the move-
ments Joint Committee on Jewish Laws
and Standards, and Rabbi Matalon is a
member of the movements Rabbinical
Assembly. Although the movements to
the Conservatives left and right already
have or someday will have to deal with
the question of Jews marrying non-Jews,
right now it is the centrist movements
turn in this unwelcome spotlight.
Rabbi Matalon has decided that
10 Jewish Standard JUNE 30, 2017
Rabbi Roly Matalon
beginning in 2018, Bnai Jeshuruns rabbis
will perform intermarriages, under certain
specific conditions, as a still-unwritten civil
ish homes and home lives of all the syna-
gogues members. He made that decision
as part of a yearlong project with the com-
munity, and as an outgrowth of a partner-
ship with Rabbi Donniel Hartman of Isra-
els David Hartman Center and a group of
Conservative rabbis and Jewish scholars.
(Donniel Hartman taught at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly for many
years and has many close relationships in
this community.)
Rabbi Matalon began to think about
intermarriage when the congregation
undertook its strategic plan in 2014. One
of the people I interviewed for it was Don-
niel Hartman, he said. I wanted his per-
spective on some of the big issues he was
seeing from where he sits. Thats in Jerusa-
lem, where he lives, but also in the United
States, where he was born, and where he
still spends a great deal of time. Rabbi Hart-
man is an Orthodox rabbi, which adds yet
another perspective to the mix.
Intermarriage came up as a major
issue, and he said to me that if the Con-
servative movement doesnt deal with it in
a serious way, it is going to be in trouble,
Rabbi Matalon said. It will be further and
further diminished. So I asked him if he
would work with me in looking into this
issue. Would he partner with us? And he
said he would be happy to.
So we agreed that the two of us would
put together a group. I would get about
a dozen congregational rabbis and
he would put together a group of
scholars. The rabbis, Rabbi Mata-
lon continued, are from across
the country, younger and older,
men and women. And Donniel put
together a group of scholars. The
scholars who included Dr. Yehuda
Kurtzer and other Hartman scholars
and Dr. Christine Hayes from Yale
got together for about four or five
months on a weekly basis to discuss
the Jewish lenses through which to
look at this theological, historical,
sociological, textual. Then we had a
two-day retreat where the rabbis and
scholars studied together, and the
Hartman scholars presented. That
was in February 2016, he added.
Out of this emerged the curricu-
lum for BJ, Rabbi Matalon continued.
From last years High Holy Days
until last month, the shul had a series
of talks from scholars, parlor meet-
ings, and other meetings and discus-
sions about intermarriage.
I think that maybe the most salient
takeaways from the scholars talks is that
Jewish identity historically has lived within
a spectrum, Rabbi Matalon said. It was
not always binary, in or out, Jew or non-
Jew. There were citizens, there were for-
Couples do not
change their
minds about who
to marry when
we express our
disapproval.
They are going
ahead despite
our disapproval.
eigners, there were resident aliens the
ger toshav and within that spectrum
people had different rights and responsi-
bilities but lived within the Jewish commu-
nity. That was early on, through the rab-
binic and even post-rabbinic period. And
then things became more complicated
and more binary. But throughout Jew-
ish history, he said, there frequently was
an effort to keep apostates or heretics, or
Karaites, or people who otherwise were
somehow deviant, somehow outside
of the norm, connected to the commu-
nity. There was an attempt by Rambam
and other authorities to create bridges,
to create interactions, to stress what they
had in common more than what divided
them, he said. Of course, that effort to
build bridges did not extend to those Jews
who had married outside the community.
Those bridges were an attempt not to
give up, not to read out, Rabbi Matalon
said. Even though those peoples behav-
ior was not acceptable or accepted. So it
established that there is a tradition.
Jewish life became far more constrained,
narrow, and dangerous during the Middle
Ages and even through the more gener-
ally expansive times that followed. Still,
it never has been as stark or as binary as
we have been led to believe, Rabbi Mata-
lon said. It was those things that rose to
the surface in terms of shaping our under-
standing of our present situation. The
present is not identical to anything that
happened in the past, but it gave us a way
to think about the present.
The present is quite unprecedented,
but we can use Jewish texts and a Jewish
lens to figure out solutions for the chal-
lenges we face today.
As Rabbi Matalon began to talk about his
plans, he said that there are some points
that must be made as a preface. First, he
said, the situation we deal with today is
bediavad ex post facto. We are trying
to address something that already has hap-
pened, a posteriori.
We are not out to promote marriages
between Jews and non-Jews. We are not
saying to Jews, go out and marry any-
one you want! We are addressing a situ-
ation that already exists, and is increas-
ing in number. Couples do not change
their minds about who to marry when we
express our disapproval. They are going
ahead despite our disapproval.
Number two, we have to realize that
these people who are marrying non-Jews
do not intend to leave the Jewish commu-
nity. At other times, marrying a non-Jew
was a passport out of the Jewish commu-
nity. That is no longer the case.
Number three, a Jewish person who is
marrying a non-Jew is not doing it as an
indication of a weakness of Jewish identity.
We live in an open society, and people look
for people just like themselves. And since
Jewish values are the larger communitys
values, since the larger community has to
a large extent accepted Jewish values jus-
tice, compassion, decency, responsibility,
hard work so people say, Look, we share
values. We dont share Shabbat or chaggim
or a Jewish identity, but we share values.
One thing that used to keep Jews safe
from marrying non-Jews is that the non-
Jewish world rejected Jews. Who would
want to marry an outcast? A big-nosed,
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tribal, smelly, cheap creep? Thats no lon-
ger the stereotype of Jews. To put it more
sedately, as Rabbi Matalon did, The bar-
riers are going down in both directions.
So he ends up seeing Jews who want to
marry non-Jews but also want their rabbi
to perform the ceremony. He never used
to hear such requests, he said; until not
very many years ago, his assistants would
turn them away before they reached him
and his rabbinic colleagues at BJ.
If we push them away, if they come to
seek our blessing and we push them away,
they basically wander out, he said. They
carry a great deal of shame already, thats
built into the situation, and we augment it,
and theyre out. As rabbis, we have a sense
of responsibility to them and to future gen-
erations to bring these people in, to give
them the tools they need to build Jewish
homes and raise Jewish children, for their
sake and for the sake of the Jewish com-
munity and the Jewish future.
So he and his colleagues will come up
with an alternative ceremony, that will
not be kiddushin, that will unite these
couples as long as they commit themselves
to having a Jewish home and if they have
children to raising Jewish children, and to
converting the children if their mothers
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In order to do so, we will put a pro- or she is interested. On the other, we changing it is not something we could or
gram in place that asks all couples to dis- want people to do it as a real thing, not would do independently.
cuss all these issues. What does it mean to for administrative reasons. Not to make That is a question of klal Israel.
have a Jewish home? To be Jewish? We will other people happy. This is a remarkably important issue,
work with mixed couples Conversion, he contin- Rabbi Matalon concluded. I dont know
and Jewish couples on a ued, is such a transformative if this solution would work for everyone,
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conditions for the mar- to be taken on with thought out is not an option.
riage which include the and meaning. It is a deep spir- This is the issue of our time. It is an
commitments to a Jewish itual shift and has to be taken issue not of pikuach nefesh but of pikuach
home, and if necessary, to with a deep desire to change. neshama not of saving a life, but of sav-
convert the children. It might not happen before ing a soul. A Jewish soul. This is not a
And at BJ we are going the marriage, but maybe five, physical life but a spiritual life.
to create a hopefully very 10, 20 years down the line. It Some people are afraid of moving the
interesting core project can take time for the non-Jew- boundaries, of opening a door in their
called the Jewish Home ish person to be able to come boundaries. We are not removing bound-
Project, with resources, Rabbi Adina Lewittes to that place. Sometimes aries. We are opening a door.
guidance, and classes for they have parents or grandpar- Rabbi Adina Lewittes of Closter is the
all members of BJ. We are going to invite ents they dont want to hurt; sometimes founder of Shaar Communities, a new look
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of contemporary Jewish life, she said.
Drawing the lines where we have drawn
them is not understanding the profound
impact that we could have by somehow
being present to couples on this journey.
And as she pointed out,
saying no has not yielded
us the results that we
imagined that they would
have yielded us.
tools of sanctification that are reserved
for when two Jews are marrying. But a
rabbi can offer a blessing to people who
have found love, and offer teachings, and
extend a very passionate welcome, and
an expectation that they will
live their lives within the Jew-
ish community.
There might not be a hala-
chic paradigm, but it might
Lab/Shuls who was ordained by the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary just the year
before, wrote a widely read piece discuss-
ing their doubts about just saying no to
intermarriage. She said that under certain
circumstances shed perform
them, and he said that until
he decided what he would
do about intermarriage, he
would perform no weddings
David-Seth Kirshner of Temple Emanu-El
in Closter said. I respect Roly immensely,
but I dont think this decision is in the best
interests of Judaism. Saying no at times
defines our boundaries, and it is in our
best interest to say no
sometimes.
In this case, it is not
just saying no, but say-
ing no with empathy,

It worked very com-
fortably when society was
organized around very
segmented communities,
she said. It doesnt work
so well anymore.
The work we are doing
now is focusing on a deep Rabbi David-Seth
mining of the tradition to Kirshner
understand if there are
any halachic paradigms into which negoti-
ating this issue may make sense, she con-
tinued. What inspiration, if any, may we
find in our own tradition to frame these
efforts in a way that is continuous? To not
rupture it in the way that most people
anticipate that it will be ruptured?
Like Rabbi Matalon, Rabbi Lewittes
said that she has not and will not per-
form a traditional Jewish wedding for
an interfaith couple. It will be a civil cer- colleague Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, the
emony that cannot use the traditional
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not need a halachic paradigm
because it is not a halachic
moment.
It is even less wise to turn
away couples who ask a rabbi
to officiate at their wedding
because if you read the pages
of the New York Times wed-
ding section, youll notice that
fewer and fewer of wedding
officiants are clery, she said.
Rabbi Lewittes will work at BJ this year;
as a part-time rabbi, she will teach and do
pastoral work. Also, I hope it will afford
me the opportunity to help them think
through the model and evolve some pro-
grams about how to implement it in ways
that will allow them to embrace these cou-
ples and these families, she said.
Last November, Rabbi Lewittes and her
influential founder of Storahtelling and
at all. A few weeks ago, he
made public his decision to
perform intermarriages.
The stakes here are really
high, Rabbi Lewittes con-
cluded. No one should dis-
miss or naively assume that
those who are studying and Rabbi Dr. David J. Fine
struggling to come up with a
re-framework of this reality are in any way
ignorant or dismissive of those stakes. I
cannot stress enough how the group of
rabbis with whom we are working are
people who are approaching it with a great
sense of humility and of understanding of
the great responsibility we carry with us.
Local Conservative rabbis understand
the problems they too face them but
they do not embrace the solution Rabbis
Matalon and Lewittes are exploring.
The difference in this situation is
between a butcher and a surgeon, Rabbi
with understanding, and
with compassion. We let
people know that this will
be their journey, and this
is just one stop on their
journey. We are here for
that journey.
It is important to note
that we are the victims of
our own success, Rabbi Kirshner contin-
ued. We no longer live in the shtetl. No
matter who had won the election, they
would have had a Jewish son-in-law. We
do not want to go back to the shtetl. This is
new for us, and we have to figure out how
to deal with it.
Nonetheless, inherently, when you
say no to one thing, you are saying yes to
something else, he concluded. When
you say no to intermarriage, you are say-
ing yes to a commitment to our people and
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Our volunteers are just like you
Local ambulance corps raise awareness this weekend
MIRYAM Z. WAHRMAN Ph.D.
I
n Orthodox synagogues throughout Teaneck and
Bergenfield, July 1 will be observed as TVAC/BVAC
Shabbos, raising awareness of the work of a selfless
group who are there every day of the week to help
those in need of medical assistance.
The synagogues will present information about the
lifesaving services provided by the Teaneck Volunteer
Ambulance Corps TVAC and the Bergenfield Volun-
teer Ambulance Corps BVAC.
These two squads assist with medical emergencies 24/7,
with a medically trained and equipped first responder
arriving on scene in under two minutes. How do they do
this? The highly trained emergency medical technicians
are an extraordinary force of volunteers from the com-
munity friends and neighbors who give their time, skills,
and knowledge to help people in need. When medical
emergencies strike, quick response time is of the essence
and may mean the difference between life and death, so a
speedy response from the EMTs is paramount for saving
lives and ensuring the best outcome possible.
The goal of this weekend is to raise awareness and
support of our work, both in recruiting volunteers, fund-
raising, and general community support, the two corps
medical director, Dr. Eliyahu Cooper, said. The TVAC and
BVAC respond to more than 7,000 calls every year, and
their average response time is significantly faster than the
nationally recommended average response time.
The organizations are well-equipped TVAC has five
ambulances and BVAC has four so when there are simul-
taneous or overlapping calls or major emergencies, the
groups have the ability to cover multiple sites. They also
have large numbers of highly trained volunteers. Accord-
ing to Ryan Shell, captain of BVAC, his squad has 55 mem-
bers, including 34 men and 21 women. TVAC has about
150 volunteers about 90 of them are on active duty each
month. About 40 percent of those volunteers are women,
Dr. Cooper reported. Many volunteers are Orthodox Jews
who work side by side with fellow EMTs from a cross-sec-
tion of the community. The squads are diverse with regard
to religion and race as well as gender. The two corps serve
everyone, of all backgrounds, in Teaneck and Bergenfield.
In addition to their own extensive capabilities, TVAC
and BVAC work together cooperatively in what they call
a mutual-aid agreement, so that if either town has more
emergency calls than its group can handle at one time, the
other towns ambulance corps will respond.
Its a place where people from all different segments
of the community get together for a common goal, Dr.
Cooper, a 15 year TVAC veteran and former TVAC pres-
ident, said. Dr. Cooper, an anesthesiologist and a mar-
ried father of four, lives in Bergenfield. He grew up in
Teaneck and joined TVAC when he was a teen. It show-
cases how all the different elements of the community
work together, he said.
Mr. Shell, who joined BVAC when he moved to Bergen-
field 10 years ago, has been an EMT since he was 16. Shell
lives in Bergenfield with his wife and three children and
works in information technology. I do a few hundred
calls per year, he said. He reflected on the challenging
situations he has encountered in his service. Its hard,
especially when you start young, when you start at 16,
he continued. You see everything. You see people at the
most difficult and most vulnerable times in their lives. I
saw a teacher of mine as a patient.
14 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 30, 2017
The leaders of the two ambulance corps, from left, include Rabbi Daniel Senter, Dr. Eliyahu Cooper, and Izzy
Infield, respectively president, medical director, and captain of the TVAC; and Mordechai Farkas and Ryan
Shell, respectively lieutenant and captain of the BVAC.
No matter who you are, everybody eventually winds
up on a stretcher, Mr. Shell continued. In the IT world,
whats my contribution to society? Its not that fulfilling.
BVAC is fulfilling. I definitely would not be a complete per-
son without it.
Sam Levi, 71, has been serving TVAC for 23 years. He is
its acting treasurer, managing its annual budget of about
$300,000. He also rides in the ambulance on Tuesday
nights from 7 to 11 p.m. Its a voice telling you that this is
In the IT world, whats
my contribution to
society? Its not that
fulfilling. BVAC is
fulfilling. I definitely
would not be a complete
person without it.
the thing you should be doing, he said. It has to come
from inside the person. You get a lot of inner satisfaction
from doing something thats a service to people.
I get a lot of personal satisfaction from having done it.
Rabbi Daniel Senter, the president of TVAC, lives and
works in Teaneck. As chief operations officer of the Kof K
kosher certification agency, his time is at a premium. But
his volunteer work is a passion and a top priority for him.
Rabbi Senter joined TVAC about 12 years ago. I always
wanted to be an EMT, he said. My daughter Dina was
anxious to start riding, and I said Ill do it with her. Shes a
nurse practitioner now.
One of the successes of TVAC is that weve had many,
many members who joined as younger kids interested in
medical fields, Rabbi Senter added. And many members
and former members have gone on to become doctors,
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fields. Its a good springboard for people who are inter-
ested in medical careers, he said.
Dr. Cooper noted that while we have a lot of people
who have gone on to advanced medical careers, we also
have people who are in other professions. Members work
in business and law; they are teachers, contractors, and
bus drivers, to name a few. Many of my friends are people
who I met at TVAC, Dr. Cooper said. Many people form
lifelong friendships and bonds. Dr. Cooper met his wife
this writers daughter Dr. Abigail Cooper at TVAC. Like
all emergency services we are very much a community and
support each other through good and bad times, he said.
We are local residents helping local people, Rabbi
Senter said. An added benefit in having response from
a local volunteer is that it is your neighbors who will be
responding in an emergency. If you are relying on hospi-
tal-based ambulance, they would probably be able to get
an ambulance in a reasonable amount of time, but when
emergency services are overtaxed in an emergency like
[Superstorm] Sandy or snowstorms, we have lots and lots
of volunteers so we can respond quickly even in a major
emergency. We are strongest when the community most
needs us.
Volunteers commit a minimum of four hours per
week, he added. Many ride more than that. We try to
staff the building 24/7. Often there are four, five, or six
people in the building overnight. Rabbi Senter mentally
calculated how many volunteer hours are completed
each year. We take thousands of calls per year, and two
to five people go out on each call, he said. The aver-
age call takes one hour. Summing it up, he concluded,
We donate in excess of 10,000 ambulance hours free to
our community.
Rabbi Senter also reported that TVAC is a model for other
ambulance corps. Were visited by neighboring ambu-
lance corps so they can figure out how we do it, he said.
We have more than 100 active members, he con-
tinued. The demographics are quite diverse. One
aspect of diversity of both TVAC and BVAC lies in the
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high percentage of women on the squads, with females
comprising about 40 percent of their members. We
have women on the corps who have been members for
many years, who are married with children, and younger
women just starting out. Women bring a lot to the table,
Rabbi Senter said. There are times when a patient may
be more comfortable being treated by a woman, and
having a high proportion of female EMTs makes that
possible. Women are serving on all crews daytime,
weekend, overnight, he continued. Women serve and
have served in every role, from president to captain, and
many are crew chiefs.
There is also linguistic diversity. We have Spanish-
speaking members, Rabbi Senter said. Just today there
was a call with a stroke victim, and its very important to
find out when symptoms started with regard to proper
treatment. In that case, a crew member who speaks Span-
ish helped to obtain the necessary information quickly.
Being that were diverse, were often presented with the
ability to better serve people, Rabbi Senter said.
The work at TVAC goes beyond ambulance calls, he
added. He rides on the ambulance about six hours a week
and also contributes more time for administrative tasks.
There are some volunteers who help out with fundraising.
And members are called upon to do routine tasks, such
as working on vehicle maintenance, cleaning the build-
ing, ordering materials, equipment, and supplies, stock-
ing ambulances, and washing them. All this is done and
staffed by volunteers, he said.
One theme that consistently arises when talking to
TVAC and BVAC volunteers is the importance of spouses
and families in encouraging and enabling their work.
My wife is very supportive, Mr. Shell said. People are
very quick to thank the EMT for giving of their time, but I
believe our spouses sacrifice more than we do. We go out
and get the recognition. If my spouse was not supportive
it would be impossible.
My kids like what I do, he added. They understand
that sometimes daddy has to run, but they understand it.
Mr. Levi said that his wife, Leah, who teaches first grade
at the Moriah School, always has been supportive of his
TVAC work. You have to have a spouse willing for you
to be out of the house going on calls, he said. They are
the unsung heroes. They let the volunteers do their thing.
Spousal support would be a very, very important factor in
being able to volunteer.
Rabbi Senter also noted that spouses and family members
make a tremendous sacrifice. My wife knows that I can dis-
appear, he said. And during disasters were not home. We teaneckambulance.org or email info@teaneckambulance.
all leave the house. We need to acknowledge all these men
and women who have wonderful spouses who make sac-
rifices. The volunteers give up time with their spouse and
family members so they can serve the community.
People are surprised that we are funded solely by
donations and staffed by volunteers, he continued. We
are supported by the community. In the community, peo-
ple never get a bill. Weve always been reluctant to bill for
our services, because if we were to bill there may be peo-
ple who would hesitate to call us during an emergency.
The operating budget of about $300,000 for each squad
includes equipment, building and facilities, ambulances,
supplies, uniforms, and insurance. There are no person-
nel costs volunteers contribute all the work.
TVAC and BVAC are private not-for-profit organizations.
Both ambulance corps are supported mainly by dona-
tions from people and businesses in the community, with
a limited annual donation from the local government. All
services are provided free of charge. All donations are
tax deductible.
The public should know that our volunteers are just
like them, Mr. Shell said. We dont get paid. We are
extremely appreciative of community support.
If you dont have the time or wherewithal to take on
the commitment [to be an EMT], the best way to help is
to donate your funds to the extent that you can, Mr. Levi
added. They are definitely worthwhile organizations that
provide services to the towns that they serve.
For more information or to donate to TVAC, go to www.
org. For more information or to donate to BVAC go to
www.bergenfieldambulance.org or email bvacinfo@ber-
genfieldambulance.org.
Dr. Miryam Z. Wahrman of Teaneck is the Jewish
Standards science correspondent. She is professor of
biology at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Her
recent book, The Hand Book: Surviving in a Germ-Filled
World, has tips on how to reduce the risk of infection in
health care settings, the workplace, at home, school, camp,
summer activities, and while traveling.

NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE FOLKSBIENE at the MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE presents

Amerike
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PHOTOS COURTESY OU
NCJW volunteers at the dedication of the new National Council of
Jewish Women Bergen County Section/Renee Guller Infant/Toddler Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-5th Dist.), third from left, with the New Jersey
Center at the Bergen Family Center in Englewood. Delegation of the OU Advocacy Leadership Mission after a private meeting.

NCJW provides funding OU Advocacy mission brings

for two new childrens facilities
Members of the Bergen County Sec-
tion of the National Council of Jewish
Women attended dedication events for
two of its community services on June
7. The section provided funds to these
agencies because of a generous bequest
from long-time member Renee Guller.
Bergen Family Center dedicated
the new National Council of Jewish
Women Bergen County Section/Renee
Guller Infant/Toddler Center at its
Englewood location. The new facility
will expand the early childhood ser-
vices provided to children from four
months to five years old to a three-
room suite designed to create a beauti-
ful, safe, and nourishing environment.
Mitch Schonfeld, CEO of Bergen Family
Center, said that the new facility will
be a fitting culmination to our recent
extensive and comprehensive strategic
planning.
Also on June 7, NCJW BCS members
attended the dedication of the newly
renovated infirmary at Youth Consul-
tation Service Holley Childcare and
Development Center in Hackensack.
Through Renee Gullers bequest, NCJW
BCS was able to provide funding for
new state-of-the-art medical diagnos-
tic equipment in the infirmary, which
serves the needs of the children who
live at the center.
At the YCS dedication, Ms. Gullers
long-time friend, Roselyn Altman, told
the audience about Ms. Gullers love of
children. Renee had a big heart and
she wanted to leave a legacy for vul-
nerable children, Ms. Altman said.
She felt that NCJW was the best orga-
nization shed ever joined because
they found solutions to existing prob-
lems. Speaking on behalf of the medi-
cal team, pediatrician Dr. Peter Cardi-
ello, said, Today we stand in a truly
transformed infirmary. Our examina-
tion equipment is top-of-the-line, our
electronic health system uses the lat-
est technology, and our convalescence
space is warm and friendly. We cannot
thank you all enough.
YCS President Richard Mingoia
acknowledged the NCJW BCS, and
the womens support for the YCS chil-
dren, which it has provided for nearly
50 years. Additional funding was pro-
vided by the Oritani Bank Foundation
and the Hackensack Rotary.
community leaders to Washington
More than 125 lay and rabbinic leaders
representing Orthodox Jewish communi-
ties from across the country convened on
Capitol Hill and at the White House June 15
for the Orthodox Union Advocacy Centers
annual leadership mission to Washington.
The Orthodox Unions president, Mark
Bane, said, The Orthodox Union Advo-
cacy Center works year-round to advocate
for the values and interests of the Ortho-
dox Jewish community, and coming to
Washington is a very visible reminder of
our commitment to those we represent
and our appreciation for this countrys
leaders who work tirelessly on behalf of Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
the Jewish people and Israel. addresses participants.
Throughout the daylong mission, del-
egates focused on advocating for three choice policies.
issues that are important to the Ortho- OU delegates met with their congres-
dox Jewish community: greater funding sional representatives in smaller groups
for the federal Nonprofit Security Grant to discuss the policy agenda. After those
Program to protect Jewish day schools, meetings, the group reconvened for a lun-
synagogues and other nonprofits from cheon with U.S. senators.
attacks; passing the Taylor Force Act, Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
which will suspend U.S. aid to the Pales- announced a 98-2 vote in favor of new
tinian Authority until it ends its practice sanctions on Iran. The vote had just hap-
of paying financial stipends to the fami- pened; he received a standing ovation
lies of terrorists; and advancing school when he discussed it.
OU ADVOCACY CENTER

Dr. Peter Cardiello, Youth Consultation Service pediatrician, meets with OU Advocacy Mission delegation at briefing with Secretary of
NCJW BS volunteers at the opening of the renovated infirmary. Education Betsy DeVos in the White Houses Indian Treaty Room.

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Blood drive
will honor
Adam Gussen
Community Blood Services is hold-
ing a blood drive for former Teaneck
Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen, who
required blood transfusions after
recent surgery. The drive will be at
Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps,
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855 Windsor Road, on Wednesday, July

5, from 3 to 8 p.m. To sign up, go to
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Congregation Shaare Tefillah of
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Cover Story
Let Them In
The Folksbiene presents Amerike,
Yiddish music about the immigrant
experience, starting on the Fourth of July
I
Joanne Palmer
ts extraordinary, when you think about it, this
country of ours.
Thats always a loaded statement to make these
days; tempers are so high, political divisions are
so deep, mistrust is so pervasive.
But still.
We are celebrating the Fourth of July this week, the
time when the founders of this country, along with the
less powerful people they represented, risked everything
18 Jewish Standard JUNE 30, 2017
we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our For-
tunes, and our Sacred Honor, they said, the exuberance
of their capitalization underscoring the depth of their
resolve to create a new kind of state in the New World.
It was, of course, not an untarnished state the found-
ers created human beings were enslaved but it was
the start of a brave new experiment. It remains very far
from perfect, but on the Fourth of July we still explode
fireworks of hope and joy.
Some of those fireworks soar and crest and rain colored
fire on the Statue of Liberty.
Although there were Jews in the 13 colonies that
became the first United States, none were represented
among the entirely white male Christian founders. We
extrapolate the promises those men made to themselves
to cover all of us as well.
Overwhelmingly, most of us are immigrants or the
descendants of immigrants. It is no accident that the Stat-
ute of Liberty, one of the great symbols of the freedom
that this country offers, holds her torch up to immigrants.
This country grew from immigrants, was built by immi-
grants, welcomes immigrants, enriches and is enriched
by immigrants.
Like this country itself, though, immigration was not
all glorious. It was hard, painful, dark, impoverishing, at
times fatal. It could divide families, maim hope, kill love.
The only way truly to acknowledge the great gifts immi-
grants have given us is to honor their sacrifices and their
despair as well as their joy and success.
 Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck is the Folksbienes artistic director.

Daniel Kahn came back to the United States from Berlin to be

So what does this have to do with the National Mloteks father, Joseph, another prominent and in Amerike.
Yiddish Theater Folksbiene? beloved Yiddishist, was the Workmens Circles
Everything! education director. Everything connects, and
The Folksbiene, under the direction of its artistic everyone is connected.
director, Zalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, is producing In 1982, Zalmen Mlotek did not work for the
Amerike The Golden Land, a show about Jewish Folksbiene; I was involved only tangentially with
immigration whose month-long run at the Museum Yiddish theater, he said. I developed my own
of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan is set career as a musician. But when he and Mr. Rosen-
to begin on July 4, in the shadow
cast by the torch of the Statue of
Liberty.
Amerike is less a plotted musi-
cal than a series of songs sung by
We wanted to find material
characters whose stories view- that was an honest
ers can follow, or at least piece
together. The songs all are authen-
portrayal of the immigrant
tic; most of them were unearthed experience, from the
by Mr. Mlotek and his mother, the
great Yiddish musicologist Elea-
immigrants themselves.
nor Gordon Mlotek, and by Mr.
Mloteks cousin, Moishe Rosenfeld. feld were asked to put together a theatrical piece
The beginning of Amerike goes back to 1982, about immigration, they said yes.
when Moishe and I were asked to create a pageant They researched the period beginning in the late
- for the Workmens Circle celebrating the 65th anni- 1880s and going through the next few decades of
versary of the Forward, Mr. Mlotek said. Some the twentieth century. Research involved listen-
explanations Mr. Rosenfeld and Mr. Mlotek are ing to recordings of Yiddish theater and looking at
- not only first cousins but also frequent collabora- music that had never been published before, Mr.
tors. The Forward, the newspaper that began as Mlotek said. We wanted to find material that was
a daily Yiddish publication and now publishes in an honest portrayal of the immigrant experience,
t Yiddish, Russian, and English, almost entirely on from the immigrants themselves.
line, was closely linked with the Workmans Circle, What excited us was the power of the songs and
. the Yiddishist, socially progressive organization the lyrics we discovered. We were able to be trans-
- that helped fresh-off-the-boat immigrants adjust ported dramatically and emotionally to the genera- Bryna Wasserman, a luminary of Yiddish theater, is the Folks-
r to their bewildering new home. The Folksbiene tion of immigrants who experienced this country bienes executive director; here she directs Amerika.
began as a branch of the Workmens Circle. Mr. for the first time.

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 Uncovering this music took detective skills,
including not only the ability to follow barely-
hinted-at trails and allusions, but also to deci-
pher fading scrawled handwriting and to have the
patience to sit still for the huge chunks of time that
deciphering demanded.
There were problems specific to reading music
conventionally read from left to right set to lyrics
in Yiddish conventionally read from right to left
often transliterated into Roman letters conven-
tionally read from left to right. It was complicated
and time-consuming, Mr. Mlotek understated.
So hed do triage. Id look at the music, and if it
interested me I would take the time to decipher it.
Sometimes hed find what he calls jewels.
It was like being on an archaeological dig, he
said.
Some of the jewels were songs like Vatch Your
Step. In that song, Mr. Mlotek said, were excit-
ing phrases that the immigrants heard all the time
and turned into English. Or at least into Yinglish;
the rest of the lyrics were in Yiddish. Other songs
would talk about upward mobility, about no lon-
ger living in the tenements but moving uptown, to
much nicer places in Harlem or the Bronx.
Its always key for us that the experience be
told honestly, he added. These experiences were
from the immigrants pens and minds and spirits.
When Mr. Mlotek and Mr. Rosenfeld first wrote
Watch Your Step thats Vatch in Yiddish is among the songs Amerike, it was mainly in Yiddish, although and again in 2012; that version played well until
in the show.
there was enough English and Yinglish for non-
Yiddish speakers not to feel entirely lost.
The production was a great success, Mr. Mlotek
said. Dick Shepard of the New York Times gave it
a five-column rave review, with our pictures, and
for a week our phones rang nonstop. We were in
a little office in the old Workmans Circle building,
and the phones just kept ringing. It was an incred-
ible experience. It just exploded. People from the
theater world started to come down and see it.
The show evolved. As it got more popular, a
producer came to us and said that he wanted to do
it Off Broadway, but wed have to put more English
into it. That meant translating some of the songs
that had very little English in them.
It worked. The show continued to attract and
charm audiences. After Off Broadway, it toured,
and Leonard Bernstein recommended that we go
to Italy with it, Mr. Mlotek reported. We went to
Palermo and to Venice. The experience in Palermo
was incredible. One time, the audience was all high
school kids. They were rowdy, regular high school
kids and then when we talked about sweatshops
and unionizing workers, they all hushed.
It was as if they were seeing something holy.
That resonated for them. The rest of it well, they
were rowdy high school kids.
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Superstorm Sandy knocked out most of
lower Manhattan, including Baruch Col-
lege, where it was playing. And then
when we came here to the museum, to
our new home, last year, we were wres-
tling between Amerike and The Golden
Bride as the first piece to present here.
The Golden Bride won. Its represen-
tative of Second Avenue material, and
we opted for that, to give people a taste
of actual Yiddish theater, Mr. Mlotek
said. The musical had a brief but critically
acclaimed run at the museum.
Now, though, we decided that because
immigration has become such an impor-
tant issue today, and because we are con-
stantly inspired by our location it doesnt
escape us that the Statue of Liberty is right
outside our windows we felt that it was
time to bring the show back.
Theyve made a change, though. Theyve
stripped the English they added. There is This crumbling handwritten page has music and transliteration for Lost Arayn, which means let them in. Its a heart-
English throughout, Mr. Mlotek said. Its wrenching plea to immigration officials.
the story of immigration, so as the immi-
grants assimilated their Yiddish became members will know whats going on. We auditioned more than 300 people from Berlin.
peppered with English. But now much of Now, he said, a challenge they face is in New York, and we came up with a ter- Daniel Kahn is the young Detroit native
the material is back to the original authen- how to pick a cast that can sing Yiddish rific ensemble of 12 people, he said. Some who has lived in Berlin for the last decade;
tic Yiddish sources that we picked. Also, honestly, authentically, and dramatically have experience in Yiddish, and some he broke into Americas consciousness last
the production includes supertitles so even and also look good and of course also learned it. And then there is one major fall, soon after the singer/songwriter/poet
the most Yiddish-challenged of audience sound good. standout. Daniel Kahn, who we brought Leonard Cohen died, by translating Mr.

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Cohens brilliant, popular, and hauntingly have been. from immigrants. We are celebrating
and undeniably Jewish song Halleluyah That Daniel Kahn. that tie.
into Yiddish, and singing it on YouTube right We are not making a political point with To that end, the Folksbiene also is
into the camera, looking right at the viewer this show, Mr. Mlotek said. This is a nation hosting the first immigration arts sum-
as he sang in a language that the song hadnt of immigrants. The Yiddish theater in Amer- mit, set for Monday and Tuesday, July 17
been written in but seemed as if it should ica became American theater, and it came and 18. The summit, which will include
a keynote address by John Leguizamo,
will bring together the Pan Asian Rep-
ertory, the Repertorio Espaol, the
Irish Repertory Theatre, the Kairo Italy
Theater, the Irish Arts Center, and the
Turkish American Repertory Theatre, as
well as Israels Office of Cultural Affairs
in the USA, the Romanian Cultural Insti-
tute, and the Cumbe Center for African
and diaspora Dance. The point is to talk
about shared experiences, brainstorm
shared ideas for paths forward, and
share performances and audiences with
each other. (See box for more details.)
To go back to the American Jew-
ish experience, there are many light-
hearted lyrics in the show. Its not at all
a depressing experience it is in fact
the opposite, and Vatch Your Step
is in it but there still are moments of
deep sadness. It is hard to leave behind
all that you know, and it is hard to learn
to adapt to something new. And it is also
hard, very hard, more than hard, it is
Here and below, the cast rehearses for the Folksbienes new production of Amerike. soul-rending, to come to a new country,
stand hopefully at its gates, and then be
turned away.
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it in a recording by Aaron Lebedev. My
mother transcribed it. We used the first
verse but not the second one. It was in
one of Ms. Mloteks books about Yiddish
music; for the purposes of her argu-
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federations outgoing president,
Jayne Petak, and its CEO, Jason
Shames, wrote.
It is clear that internal reli-
gious politics have impacted
governmental decision-making
in Israel, undermining efforts at
fostering a greater Klal Yisrael,
they continued. It is our sin-
cere hope that the Government
of Israel will review its decision-
making process and re-embrace
this historic compromise.
Israel is unique in that it rep-
resents the wide range of values
of an entire faith. It is critical that
the government considers the
views of all Jews and the impact Women of the Wall read from the Torah at Robinsons Arch in 2013.
its decisions have on world  WOMEN OF THE WALL
Jewry.
The Jewish United Fund/Jew- compromise to pass last year but since have railed
ish Federation of Metropolitan Chicagos president, against it, blocking its implementation. American Jewish
Steven Nasatir, also responded quickly and passion- leaders had hailed the agreement last year as a step for-
ately. The Federation in Chicago will not be hosting ward for Jewish pluralism and, at the time, Netanyahu
any member of Knesset that votes for this bill, he said. called it a fair and creative solution.
None. They will not be welcome in our community. Now the American Jewish leaders who pushed for the
Were past the time when were standing and agreement say they feel betrayed by Netanyahu. To
applauding and being nice because theyre members of see the agreement go into dormancy for 18 months, and
Knesset or because they hold this position or that posi- then in one day to have it frozen for political reasons,
tion, he said. People who dont have the understand- is feeling like you were sucker-punched and completely
ing of what this bill means to the Jewish people God devalued, Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federa-
bless em, but theyre not welcome in our community, tions of North America, said. It is a direct insult.
period. Silverman said that he and other diaspora leaders are
Another part of the original agreement, expanding determined to fight back to have the Western Wall deal
the small egalitarian section at Robinsons Arch, which is implemented as originally agreed, and to challenge the
not visible from the main part of the wall, will continue governments new conversion bill.
during the suspension, Netanyahus office said. But any We are developing a strategy for a campaign to con-
new agreement would have to be negotiated by Israels vince the Knesset and all Israelis as to the reasons why
Cabinet and come to a new vote before moving forward. the Kotel [Western Wall] plan is so important, he said.
The suspension is a result of pressure from Netan- On Tuesday, the Jewish Agency for Israel took out
yahus charedi Orthodox partners, who allowed the large advertisements in major Israeli newspapers say-
ing that the govern-
ments decisions to halt
the creation of a plural-
istic prayer pavilion at
the Western Wall and to
restore the ultra-Ortho-
dox monopoly on Israeli
conversion endangers
the unity of the Jewish
people.
In a interview with
Israel Radio, Jewi sh
Agency chairman Natan
Sharansky, who was inti-
mately involved in mak-
ing the Western Wall deal,
said that the problem was
Israels refusal to recog-
nize Reform Judaism.
It all exploded because
A 500-yard platform opened south of the familiar Western Wall plaza in Au- the State of Israel did not
gust 2013 was intended as an interim solution to calls by diaspora groups and recognize the Reform,
feminists for a space where Jewish men and women could pray as they wish. he said. This is a very
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dangerous message that can keep Jews away. We
must do everything possible to change the mes-
sage from the Israeli government.
Advocates for the agreement have warned of a
crisis among American non-Orthodox Jews should
the compromise collapse. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, presi-
dent of the Union for Reform Judaism, said that he
was strongly disappointed. He cited a list of recent
Israeli government decisions that the Reform
movement opposed, including recent legislation to
bar supporters of Israel boycotts from entering the
country, and another law legalizing Israeli settle-
ments appropriation of Palestinian land.
This decision screams out that when all is said
and done, the State of Israel and government of
Israel is willing to sell our rights and our well-being
for coalition politics, he said. This does not add
up to be a compelling example of what all of us
understand Jewish life to be, and if theres grow-
ing dissonance between those who lead the State
of Israel and those who lead American Jewry, the
consequences are serious.
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president
of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly, said the
best way forward for non-Orthodox leaders may
be Israels Supreme Court. A court petition filed
by a range of Israeli pluralist groups in 2013 seeks
to compel the government to provide for non-
Orthodox prayer at the wall, but had been tabled
while the 2016 agreement was being negotiated
and implemented.
Now that the agreement is suspended, Schon-
feld believes the Supreme Court may rule favor-
ably on the petition, forcing the government to
accede to non-Orthodox demands.
The Israeli Supreme court seems to be the only
governmental venue that appreciates the long-
term impact of Israel advocating its role as the
home for all Jews, she said. Inevitably, we will
find our way back to the courts. We will continue
to protest.
Leaders of diaspora Jewry and the Women of the
Wall group originally sought a space at the familiar
Western Wall plaza to the north of Robinsons Arch
where women and men could pray together and
women could wear tallitot and kippot and pray
from a Torah scroll. The January 2016 compromise
called for a larger and more permanent prayer
space to the south of the plaza, a single entrance
to the entire Western Wall complex, a pluralistic
joint committee to oversee the southern area and
a budget to pay for it.
Anat Hoffman, chair of the Women of the Wall
prayer group, called the decision shameful to the
government and its women ministers who were
exposed using their vote against women.
Its a terrible day for women in Israel when the
prime minister sacrifices their rights while kow-
towing to a handful of religious extremists, who
want to enforce their religious customs while
intentionally violating the rights of the majority of
the Jewish world, 51 percent being women, she
said.
Women of the Wall will continue to pray as we
always have in the womens section at the Western
Wall, with a Torah scroll and prayer shawls, until
womens equality will be established at the Kotel.
Just like you wouldnt ask a man to take off his kip-
pah, dont ask us to stop praying according to our
conscience.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, the head
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Jewish Federation
OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
Kehillah Cooperative:
Getting a Little Help from Friends
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys what it meant for them. Weve applied
Kehillah Cooperative is all about working to for Homeland Security Grants before,
benefit the Jewish community, which is fitting but weve never gotten one because the
since kehillah is the Hebrew word for community. application process was so hard to figure
Formed in 2008, Kehillahs mission has always out. This year, Debbie guided us and
been saving its member institutions money because of that, we think we have a much
through group purchasing and being a resource better shot getting a grant.
for the Federations beneficiary organizations.
Barbara Herman Hoff, at Temple Avodat
To date, it has savedsynagogues, schools, and
Shalom in River Edge, echoed Barekets
other Jewish agenciesmore than $3.4 million.
remarks.
The Kehillah uses the buying power of member
We would not have been able to get our
organizations to obtain preferred pricing on
FEMA Grant submitted on time without
goods/services that they regularly use. Typical
[Federations help]. Hopefully Temple
savings of between 10-15% are realized in areas
Avodat Shalom will be safer and more
such as office supplies, lighting, utilities, telecom
secure, due in no small part to [help from]
and security.
Debbie Gottlieb, she said.
In 2016, the Kehillah Cooperative stepped
The Kehillah helps community institutions
up and became the go-to place for Jewish
free up overhead dollars and use them to
institutions to get help in obtaining Federal
meet the needs of their constituency. The
Homeland Security Grants. The grants provides
Kehillah Cooperative is a critical part of
funding for target hardening, including CCTV
Federations mission. Federation has made
cameras, exterior lighting, and bollards.
a commitment to improve the quality of
Federation has run workshops, held phone Jewish life in every way it can. With its
consultations and sometimes one-on-one dexterity, it will respond to what its member
dialogue and helped many local Jewish organizations needsometimes before
institutions write successful grant applications. they even know they need it!
The reason we do it is because the Thats really getting a
grant process is an arduous one, little help from
says Debbie Gottlieb, Manager, friends.
Community Purchasing,
for the Cooperative.
Last year, seven
synagogues and
one day school in
our area applied
for and received
grants for a total
of $375,000.
Gottlieb
helped that
day school and
four of those
synagogues
navigate the
complex grant
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This year, Gottlieb was
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Editorial
Benjamin Netanyahus promise The EPA, Trump,

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n November 2015, in front of a roaring, care bill by leaning on politicians from his party; and Torah law

massive roomful of Jewish profession-
als and professional volunteers at the
general assembly of the Jewish Federa-
tions of North America, Israels Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was making
progress on a compromise between all streams
of Judaism, from the most liberal to the most
charedi, about access to the Kotel. It was of top
importance to him, he said; he was working on
it because he knew how much it mattered. He
promised that if diaspora Jews were patient, he
would make it all work out.
He has said similar things often; I note that
one in particular because I was there. He was
throwing red meat to that crowd, who ate it up
and waited for more, but it was clear even then
that he was pandering.
Now, Mr. Netanyahu has pulled back from
the agreement he was advocating then, which
would have given non-Orthodox Jews more
space close to (although not at) the Western
Wall. The liberal movement had given up far
more than it was going to get already in agree-
ment, which seemed unlikely to work anyway,
given the opposition from both the Waqf and
the Antiquities Commission.
Still, this decision is upsetting, and should be
upsetting to everyone who cares about the con-
tinuing relationship between diaspora Jews and
Israel. As we all know, younger Jews are disen-
gaging from Israel at a shocking rate its hard
to support a country that the rest of the world,
for motives ranging from perhaps disinterested
concern for the downtrodden to a quite clear
loathing of Jews, hatred of Zionists because they
are Jews, and a willingness to demonize both
Israel and Jews, has turned into a pariah state.
Its wrong, but its easy to understand.
Its fascinating if unnerving to watch whats
going on around the world as leaders in liberal
democracies try to make the kind of compro-
mises that allow them to stay in power. In the
United States, Mitch McConnell has tried and
for now failed, but hes a remarkably shrewd
politician, so stay tuned to push through a
remarkably and deservedly unpopular health
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he has a Republican majority in the Senate, and
for complicated reasons needs only 50 votes to
get the legislation through.
In the U.K., Theresa May, less than a year after
taking office as the result of the Brexit vote and
a huge kerfuffle in the Conservative Party, mis-
calculated by calling for a unnecessary election.
She hoped to strengthen her party but instead
weakened it, and herself. For us here, though, it
is so very interesting to watch how those elec-
tions work. Only her own constituency had the
chance to vote for or against Ms. May directly.
All the rest of it, like the machinations that
brought her to the premiership in the first place,
was indirect. That, of course, is the way the par-
liamentary system works.
Similarly in Israel which takes Britains par-
liamentary system and adds another layer of
crazy by removing any mooring to any particu-
lar place Mr. Netanyahus politicking leaves his
actual constituency far behind. Eventually he
has to answer to his voters, but well before that
he has to bargain with his own coalition part-
ners, who keep him in power but could topple
him should they chose.
American Jews have no power in Israel. There
is a strong argument that we have no right to any
power there. We live here. There is also a strong
argument that we give Israel enormous amounts
of money. Beyond that, if we are all one people
and we always are told that we are, huge dif-
ferences in theology, life choices, and worldview
notwithstanding we all must be recognized.
We are all Jews; Israel has a powerful meaning
for each one of us.
Liberal Jews are not asking for equality.
Theyve given up on that long ago. They are not
trying to change the nature of the worship at the
main part of the Kotel. They are more like Oliver
Twist, asking for scraps. Those scraps are being
denied. Still, they we are asked for money,
and beyond that, for unswerving allegiance.
That wont work forever.
We join much of the rest of the American Jewish
world including the CEO of the Jewish Federa-
tion of Northern New Jersey, Jason Shames, who
we quote on page 23 in hoping that Mr. Netan-
yahu changes his mind and lives up to the prom-
ises he has been quoted many times as making.
Truth matters. Promise-keeping matters.
JP
T
Judaism, on the other hand,
he Environmental Pro- insists we must keep protect the
tection Agency probably world around us. The earth is not
needs to change its name ours, after all; it belongs to God.
to the Environmental Sad to say, that humankind has
Lack of Protection Agency. such an ambivalence toward its
In Administrator Scott Pruitts relationship to the environment is
first few months in office, the EPA indicative of the ambivalence we
has made a number have toward God and
of moves designed to His role as Creator. As
dismantle the depart- much as many people
ments effectiveness. pay lip service to that,
It has proposed a they do not really
budget that will make buy the package. The
it unworkable in many texts, however, do
vital areas. It has elim- not allow for such
inated a number of ambivalence.
sites on its web pages Thus, while it is
that offered detailed Shammai t r u e t h at P s a l m s
climate data and sci- Engelmayer 115:16 says, The heav-
entific information ens are the heavens of
about greenhouse the Lord; but He has
gases and other dangers. given the earth to the children of
Last week, the EPA moved to men, that does not mean the chil-
purge nearly all the members of its dren of men can do with it as they
current Board of Scientific Coun- please. As Psalm 24:1 states: The
selors by mid-August. It also shut earth is the Lords and all that fills
down any meetings planned for the it; the world and those who dwell
summer by BOSC subcommittees. in it.
This is not a total surprise. Aside The earth belongs to God. The
from the fact that Pruitt, while job of humankind is to care for the
serving as attorney general of Okla- earth on behalf of the Landlord. It
homa, sued the EPA 14 times, the is that simple.
man who appointed him appar- Say that, however, and you
ently believes that climate change is get many who will quote Genesis
a hoax. Since 2011, President Don- 1:28, And God blessed them, and
ald Trump has tweeted as much God said to them, Be fruitful, and
as 115 times, according to a survey multiply, and replenish the earth,
by Vox contributor Dylan Mat- and subdue it; and have domin-
thews. Trump and his spokespeo- ion over the fish of the sea, and
ple, meanwhile, steadfastly refuse over the birds of the air, and over
to say whether he still believes that. every living thing that moves upon
The question was raised again late the earth. Having dominion, they
last month, when Trump withdrew insist, means being in control and
the United States from the Paris cli- making all the decisions.
mate accord. Not so. According to the com-
Sadly, the American public mentator Abraham Ibn Ezra, The
seems to be as unconcerned as is ignorant have compared mans rule
the administration. over the earth with Gods rule over
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community Center/
Congregation Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El
of North Bergen.

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the heavens. This is not right, for God rules over every-
thing. The meaning of he has given the earth to the chil-
dren of men is that man is Gods pakeed over the earth
and must do everything according to Gods word [because
pakeed, meaning steward, is a specific term, referring to
a commission for a specific task. That task is found in Gen
2:15]: And the Lord God took the man, and put him into
the Garden of Eden to till it and tend it.
In fact, the Torah makes clear in several ways that
humankind does not have absolute power over the envi-
ronment. Nowhere is this more evident than in the notion
that even the land is entitled to a Shabbat of rest. Thus,
the Torah tells us in Leviticus 25:1-19: And the Lord spoke
to Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the people of
Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land
In fact, the Torah
makes clear in several
ways that humankind
does not have absolute
power over the
environment.
which I give you, then shall the land keep a Shabbat to the
Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you
shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit; but in
the seventh year shall be a Shabbat of rest to the land;
you shall not sow your field, nor prune your vineyard....
Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my judg-
ments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in
safety. And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat
your fill, and dwell in it in safety.
Then there is Deuteronomy 20:19. You shall not destroy
the fruit-bearing trees of the enemy, for is the tree of the
field a man, that it should be besieged by you?
This simple statement led to a halachic principle often
cited here, the principle known as bal tashchit, or pro-
hibition against wanton destruction. Thus, the Babylonian
Talmud Shabbat 67b teaches us, He who covers an oil
lamp or uncovers a naphtha [lamp] infringes the prohibi-
tion of wanton destruction, because such actions would
speed up the burning of those fuels in the lamp. Because
it is forbidden to burn fossil fuels with abandon, for exam-
ple, it is a violation of Jewish law to drive above maximum
speed limits, because the faster we go, the faster we burn
the cars fuel.
Maimonides, the Rambam, addresses the question of
removing trees for esthetic purposes. Says he, based on
this simple verse, The Torah forbids ... uprooting with-
out any purpose, for that is wanton destruction. (See his
Responsa, No. 54.)
A 14th century rabbi, Aharon Halevy of Barcelona, wrote
of the way of the pious and those of good deeds in his
Sefer Ha-Chinuch. They love peace, rejoice in that which
is of benefit to people and brings them to Torah; not even
a grain of mustard do they destroy, and are grieved by any
destruction they may see.
The Jerusalem Talmud (Kiddushin 4:12, 66d) offers
another interesting take on Torah law: It is forbidden to
live in a town in which there is no garden or greenery.
Neither Trump nor his EPA administrator need to take
Torah law seriously. We do, however. We are, after all,
Gods kingdom of priests, and the earth is the Lords and
all that fills it.
Opinion
A great Judeo-Christian nation?
O
rthodox Jews and orthodox Christians may layers upon layers of interpretation and practice, fails
view each other as natural allies.
Large segments of both groups tend to
be social conservatives who share a belief
in a divinely sanctioned model of marriage and family.
Both are unwavering in their support for Israel. And the
staunchest religious conservatives, Christian and Jewish,
also are united in opposing liberalism often carica-
tured as moral relativism or anti-religious secularism
which they consider an existential threat. On a range of
issues, many within these two faith communities stand
on common ground.
But given the unique relationship between
Christianity and Judaism, common ground
is not a simple thing. In fact, it is a minefield,
especially for Orthodox Jews. The American
Orthodox rabbinate sets strict guidelines for
interfaith dialogue and forbids official dis-
cussion on matters of belief.
Yet on the battlefields of the culture wars,
Orthodox Jews have found common cause
with Christian conservatives. Behind the David S.
burgeoning partnership is the idea, some-
times stated explicitly, that Jews and Chris-
Zinberg
tians, despite their religious incompatibility,
can agree on the content of a divinely revealed morality.
The first principle of this ideology is the Judeo-Chris-
tian tradition.
Politics aside, the idea is flawed. While Christianitys not hard to guess which ethnic and religious minorities
deepest roots are in Judaism, the Judeo-Christian tradi-
tion is historical fiction. As religious communities, Jews
and Christians effectively parted ways by the middle of
the first century. Since then, in theology, religious prac- ship, especially in the United States. A much wider moral
tice, and historical experience, they have been defined
more by their differences than their commonalities.
(Arthur H. Cohen, in a 1969 essay in Commentary titled
The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, called it
a myth which buries under the fine silt of rhetoric the
authentic, meaningful, and irrevocable distinction which
exists between Jewish belief and Christian belief.)
Related to the Judeo-Christian tradition is the notion
of a common moral code called Judeo-Christian ethics
or biblical values, as though it were the product of an
essential Judeo-Christianity reduced to its bare bones.
And this too is a myth. Such an ethic never existed in
practice and cannot arise naturally from the history of
religion. To manufacture one would violate the integrity
of both faiths.
To begin with, from which Bible and from whose
extra-biblical tradition should Judeo-Christian ethics
be taken the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud?
The Gospels and the Church Fathers? All of the above?
The Tanach and the Old Testament may contain the
same words but each is wrapped in a distinct prophetic
and moral tradition that often is unrecognizable to the
other. Even the Ten Commandments, viewed through
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the test of commonality.
The idea of a Judeo-Christian tradition is uniquely
American, and it has a long history. In postwar Amer-
ica, it was intended to foster cultural inclusiveness, in
much the same way that a transdenominational Ameri-
can civil religion with its own mythology, holidays,
martyrs, villains, and saints lowered cultural barriers
for the children of European immigrants.
Judeo-Christian has evolved since then. The expres-
sion simply may reflect a traditional orientation toward
American culture. But it also might be
taken as an exclusionary label for a soci-
ety that tolerates all religions while being
dominated by two (more precisely, a
blend of two, not necessarily in equal
measure). And it may be used as a euphe-
mism a veiled claim that the United
States is, or should be, a great Christian
nation. (The Judeo part of Judeo-
Christian sometimes feels like an after-
thought; a fig leaf designed to conceal a
socially unacceptable description of our
national character.)
Taking the idea a few steps further,
21st-century nativists have weaponized Judeo-Chris-
tian in a bid to purge American culture of any influence
other than its European or Western heritage. It is
are excluded from that vision of America.
Religion is a primary source of personal and social
identity, but it need not be the sole basis of moral fellow-
circle encompasses Americans of all religious stripes.
The Judeo part of
Judeo-Christian
sometimes feels like
an afterthought.
We are a nation of traditional American values that are
a legacy of the secular (but not godless) Enlightenment
as much as revealed religion. Like America itself, those
common civic values transcend religious divisions. Chris-
tians and Jews along with members of all faiths and
those who profess none can find unity in the values,
norms, laws, and institutions of our great Republic.
To that, let every patriotic American say Amen.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his wife and three
sons. He works in inancial services.
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Opinion

Fear and mostly hope on the Fourth of July

I
t was the summer of 1974, I had just
graduated high school and was look-
ing forward to starting my first year
of college in the fall, and I had been
accepted into a special summer program
called Torah Corps, sponsored by what
was then known as the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, now the Union for
Reform Judaism.
It was an intensive learning experience
for a small group of students, all of whom
had just completed 10th, 11th, or 12th
grade. Most of us were from the United
States, but the group also included several
students from Canada.
The program was held at a lodge in Lit-
tleton, New Hampshire, and I well recall
how we all gathered around the lone tele-
vision set available to us on the night of
August 8 to watch President Richard Nixon
deliver a speech to the nation. We knew
that he was in trouble over the Watergate
scandal, but it still came as a tremendous
shock when he uttered the words, I shall
resign the presidency effective at noon
tomorrow. We vocalized our sense of dis-
may at this unprecedented development
collectively, through gasps and cries and
the like. At least those of us who were President Nixon sits in front of edited transcripts of his taped conversations as he broadcasts an address to the nation on
Americans did so, in response to what we April 29, 1974. National Archives & Records Administration

perceived to be a somber and

tragic event.
But in a somewhat irrever-
ent manner, one of the Cana-
dians started to say, Yitgadal
vyitkadash
Reciting the first few words
of our Mourners Kaddish did
succeed in breaking some of
the tension of the situation and
injecting a note of humor. But Dr. Lance
many of us were not amused. Strate
There is a time to weep and a
time to laugh, and this was a
time to shed a tear, not for Nixon himself
but for the way in which he had tarnished
the institution of the presidency and tried
to undermine the democratic process.
And yet, somehow, we survived Water-
gate and moved forward as a nation. Just
as we had survived the assassination of
John F. Kennedy 11 years earlier. Apart
from the loss of idealism and proliferation
of conspiracy theories, some commenta-
tors started to point to historical paral-
lels between the United States, character-
ized at that time by the intensifying social sudden collapse of the West at a later date. think it only fitting to recall the fact that we lic. We have seen dark times in the past,
and political unrest of the 1960s, and the
decline and fall of the Roman Empire. This
especially was the case after the assassina- phers referred to as the end of history, that officials, and that we have done so while
tion of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 at the
hands of a Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan
Sirhan, just two months after the Rev. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a
white supremacist, James Earl Ray.
The decades that followed certainly
were not free from scandal. Ronald Rea-
gan gave us Iran-Contra and Bill Clinton
was impeached for lying about the Monica
Lewinsky affair, narrowly calendar time. (Calendars also were pro-
avoiding a conviction and duced by printing.) Especially starting in
removal from office. But the 19th century, more and more people
neither event seemed to came to recognize and understand their
threaten the viability of place in world history. As limited as the
the American republic as historical knowledge of the average Ameri-
a whole, and in between can may be, everyone learns about the
we witnessed the sudden years 1492 and 1776. And we study history
collapse of the Commu- in grade school, and learn about our Civil
nist bloc, first in Eastern War, and other events such as the impeach-
Europe and culminating ment of Andrew Johnson, the scandals
with the dissolution of the associated with the Ulysses S. Grant admin-
Soviet Union. istration, and the Teapot Dome scandal
The end of European Communism came during Warren G. Hardings presidency.
about so quickly that it seemed almost At a time when we are witnessing an
unbelievable. We celebrated the fall of the unprecedented number of scandals and
Berlin Wall and the coming of freedom and improprieties associated with the White
democracy to Russia, and presumably to House, and the election of Donald J.
the other former Soviet republics (pre- Trump has been described by some as
maturely in some cases). Some wondered an extinction level event for American
what would happen to the United States democracy, history may offer some sol-
without its one-time adversary serving as ace by reminding us that our republic has
a foil and contrast. And some even won- weathered many storms in the past. And
dered if the sudden collapse of the Soviet on this Fourth of July, at a time when many
Union might be followed by an equally of us fear for the future of our country, I
But for the most part, we emitted a col- have survived the legal, moral, and ethical
lective sigh of relief at what some philoso- failings of more than a few of our elected
is, the triumph of liberal democracy. expanding civil liberties, human rights,
But we also live with a historical con- and the rule of law.
sciousness that has been rare in human Taking the long view of American his-
history. As the late Elizabeth Eisenstein tory gives us cause to be optimistic. At the
explained, the ready availability of books, same time, taking the much longer view
pamphlets, and periodicals, made possible of Jewish history can provide a somewhat
by the printing revolution that began in the different perspective, as we have seen
15th century, eventually resulted in wide- the great nations and empires of the past
spread awareness of the chronology of come and go over the millennia. We, the
Jewish people, have seen the rise and fall
of great powers, and from that deep his-
torical consciousness we know that noth-
ing in the temporal realm lasts forever, not
even the American republic that we love
so much. And so, we cannot so easily dis-
miss the possibility that the end is nigh. Or
the understanding that we just dont know L
when the end might come, or if it might o
come as suddenly as it did for the Commu- o
nist bloc and the USSR. R
Once, long ago, I attended a lecture K
given by a major scholar and intellectual,
and during the question and answer ses-
sion, he was asked if he was optimistic or
pessimistic about the future. His answer
stuck with me, because it expresses my
own sense of ambivalence. He said that on
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sun-
days he was an optimist, and on Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays he was a pessi-
mist. Or was it the other way around?
Either way, for this Fourth of July, I
think it only fitting to be an optimist, and
to underscore the resilience of our repub-
and survived, and if we the people are will-
ing and able, and with the help of divine
providence, our great Enlightenment
experiment will continue for generations
to come.
May it be so.
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a
professor of communication and media
studies at Fordham University in the
Bronx, and the president of his synagogue,
Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia.

28 Jewish Standard JUNE 30, 2017

 Opinion

A religious case for repealing the Affordable Care Act

And why Rabbi Israel Salanter wouldnt buy it

T
h e p ro p o s e d c h a n ge s t o them each an estimated $7 million a year
Americas health care sys- in savings.
tem advanced by the Republi- How exactly to cut government ser-
can Congress have been con- vices to pay for this financial windfall var-
demned by patient advocates like AARP, ies between the Senate and the House
doctor advocates like the AMA, and hospi- plans, but not significantly. The Senate
tal advocates like the American Hospitals plan would manage by reducing Medicaid
Association. payments by an ever-increasing amounts,
But theres a religious case that has leaving the states and future legislators to
been made in its defense that decide whether to cut ser-
is worth examining, even vices for the working poor,
though its not a case the disabled children, or senior
authors of either the House citizens in nursing homes. It
or the Senate bill have been would also reduce support
forthright in making per- for insurance premiums for
haps fearing to bring reli- the lower middle class, and
gious ideas into the public encourage plans that would
discourse. be cheaper for healthy peo-
The basics of the bill the ple while being less likely to
Senate has been consider- Larry keep sick people from being
ing and might consider Yudelson bankrupted.
again are simple. The bill For those of us raised
would retroactively repeal the with a mandate of vahavta
taxes that financed the ACA. Most impor- lreiacha kamocha loving our neigh-
tantly, this is a 3.9 percent tax on invest- bor as ourselves (Leviticus 19:18) and
ment income above a certain threshold. lo taamod al dam reicha do not stand
Someone who makes $200,000 a year in idly by the blood of your neighbor (Leviti-
salary and earns $50,000 in capital gains cus 19:16) it would seem that redirecting
will not benefit from the tax cut, since such money to rich peoples pockets from sick
a person now doesnt pay any Net Invest- peoples health care would be religiously
ment Income Tax. A family with $500,000 indefensible. Indeed, Yeshiva Universitys
of earned income and $50,000 of interest Rabbi Moshe Tendler has used these two
and dividends, however, will save $1,800 biblical verses to argue that providing
with this tax cut. And for the 400 richest health care is a societal obligation. So why
families, this and related tax cuts will net arent all religious groups following the
lead of the Union for Reform Judaism and
Larry Yudelson is the associate editor condemning the Republican health plans?
of the Jewish Standard and the author One answer is that an increasing number
of Ben Yehuda Presss How Would God of Americans particularly those who iden-
REALLY Vote: A Jewish Rebuttal to David tify as Republican follow what is called
Klinghoffers Conservative Polemic. the Prosperity Gospel. A classic exemplar
is Paula White, the senior pastor of New
Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Flor-
ida, who gave the invocation at the Trump
inauguration. Followers of the Prosperity
Gospel believe that a persons wealth and
health reflects his or her righteousness.
You can hear this theology in the recent
remarks of Republican Congressman Mo
Brooks of Alabama. He declared that
people who lead good lives shouldnt
have to pay for the health care costs of
people who have higher health care
costs. If youre sick, in other words, you
deserve it.
Or as Vice President Mike Pence recently
tweeted, the new Republican-designed
health care system will be based on per-
sonal responsibility. So indeed, why
should people with pre-existing medical
conditions have to be paid for by healthier,
and presumably more godly, citizens?
It is not a new idea this is one of the
theological arguments that the biblical
Book of Job was written to rebut thou-
sands of years ago.
You dont have to be a full-fledged Pros-
perity Gospel advocate to think God would
rather you get a tax cut than that money
go to heal people. One Jewish advocate for
valuing wealth over health is the writer
David Klinghoffer, who spelled out his
argument in his 2008 book, How Would
God Vote: Why the Bible Commands You
to Be a Conservative.
Basing himself on an extremely innova-
tive reading of Talmud Chulin 91a, Kling-
hoffer writes that the Bible would have us
choose wealth over health.
It would be a shame if government
policies, namely the imposition of uni-
versal health care, were implemented to
make it impossible for a consumer to exer-
cise such a risky but idealistic choice, he
wrote. (The full details are in my rejoinder
volume, How Would God REALLY Vote: A
Jewish Rebuttal to David Klinghoffers Con-
servative Polemic.)
Klinghoffer further argued that any gov-
ernment effort to provide health care is an
obstacle to religious growth. He approv-
ingly cites a Catholic theologian who, ignor-
ing the role of Jesus as a healer, argued for
the value of human suffering as a neces-
sary condition in spiritual formation.
He summarizes this religious view in a
sentence that I believe explains not only
the specifics of the Republican health-
defunding tax cuts, but also many pro-
visions of the proposed Trump budget,
which would slash funding for medical
research: If materialism is the premise,
then by all means, let us deploy the gov-
ernment to rid ourselves of illness of all
illness, why not?
But the point of view that Klinghoffer
represents is anti-materialist. From this
religious view, a government designed to
help citizens with their material problems
is a bad thing. If salvation comes from the
church, who needs government? And by
that logic, any secular government is the
enemy of religion.
Yes, Klinghoffer has followed his Chris-
tian brothers in ideology into the realm of
anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Jews. But note
that while he doesnt want the government
to help other people, he confesses to per-
sonally lacking enough faith to renounce
the medical services his wealth can buy
him: The Talmud explains that in an ideal
world, we would never consult doctors at
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Regime of the extreme
Is Israel a religious Zionist state or a charedi ayatollah
state?
Weve heard this news before:
Israels Chief Rabbinate rejects conversions authorized
by top U.S. Orthodox rabbis.
Israels government has rejected the Supreme Courts
ruling in favor of women being allowed to read from the
Torah in the womens section at the Western Wall.
The coalition government strikes down a law mandating
ultra-Orthodox conscription into the IDF.
And now, in its latest affront, Israel indefinitely freezes
the agreement for a state-recognized egalitarian prayer
space at the Western Wall.
Reading this troubling news year after year, I keep
wondering if and when Israel will start balancing its civil
rights laws with its coalition needs? Quite honestly, as an
Israeli and an American Jew, the charedi parties hijack-
ing of Israels democratic institutions make me feel that
this is an affront to us all. I believe that this struggle is
not less important than defending ourselves against Irans
ayatollah state. As matter fact, if were not careful, we
might actually become one.
I am not alone in this and, as matter of fact, the Jew-
ish Agency has just issued a severe and unprecedented
criticism of the governments approval of a bill to grant the
Chief Rabbinate a total monopoly over conversion in Israel
and the prayer space at the Western Wall.
Rabbi Donniel Hartman suggested that Suspending the
Kotel agreement is an affront to Zionism, its dreams and
aspirations. It is an affront to Israels commitment to being
a Jewish democracy. It threatens Israels core identity and
future.
Journalist and author Yossi Klein Halevi wrote: In the
fiftieth year of the liberation of the Wall, the government
of Israel has told a majority of diaspora Jewry that it has
no organized place in our most resonant public space. If
unity helped us return to Jerusalem, what does our squab-
bling over the Wall portend?
In a time when we demand that the U.S. administration
Letter
move its embassy to Jerusalem, let us start by making Jeru-
salem a democratic city first.
This is a travesty. We cannot just let Israel devolve into
a totalitarian regime of the extreme.
We need to stop the passive acceptance of such dicta-
torship. The government yields to the demands of the
extreme members in its midst, but we, the diaspora, that
supports Israel with over a billion dollars a year of Israel
Bonds, should have our say as well.
We tried negotiations but everything failed. We need
to stop capitulating in the face of rabbinic excuses and jus-
tifications. We must invigorate our Jewish media and the
public to pressure the government, in a rebellion of the
moderate Jewish world.
Charedi politics is taking over Israel, trampling public
rights, while the charedim keep condemning the very
state whose rules they are dictating.
This has to stop immediately.
Soli Israel Foger
Englewood

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Opinion
Welcome to the Shia corridor
I
f you havent encountered the term Shia corridor
yet, chances are that you will in the coming weeks,
particularly if the ongoing confrontation between
the United States and Iran in Syria intensifies.
What initially was a sideshow to the main battle against
Islamic State in Syria is fast becoming the main focus of
attention. In recent weeks, the United States has shot
down at least two Iranian armed drones over Syria. A Syr-
ian regime bomber jet supposedly attacking Islamic State
positions near Raqqa also was downed, after it ventured
too close to positions held by U.S.-allied forces. Armed
skirmishes have been reported between U.S.-allied forces
and Iranian-backed Shia Islamist militias. The Russians
allied with Iran in supporting the tyrant Bashar al-Assad
in Damascus also are part of this dangerous equation,
going so far as to declare that Moscows generals will treat
U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of the Euphrates
River in Syria as potential targets.
What does Iran hope to achieve here? To start with, its
important to note that the international legitimacy the
mullahs have enjoyed since the Iran nuclear deal of 2015
is starting to fragment. The U.S. Senate this month voted
to slap new sanctions on Iran for its violations outside the
terms of the nuclear deal, such as its use of ballistic mis-
siles and its support for terrorist groups like Hezbollah
in Lebanon. Such political moves invariably have a sig-
nificant economic impact, which is why Western banks
continue to advise caution toward companies tempted to
invest in Iran.
None of this fretting is of much conse-
quence to the overtly revolutionary wings
of the Iranian regime, most obviously the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which
is built to retain its enormous power with or
without sanctions in place. But the eclipse
of the Obama administrations engagement
strategy with Iran highlights once again that
it is institutions like the Revolutionary Guard,
much more than one or another foreign min- Ben Cohen
ister sounding reasonable and eloquent, that
define the nature of power and influence in
the Islamic Republic.
This is where the Shia corridor comes in. Irans
goal to become the dominant power in the Islamic world
involves more than religious or ideological influence. It
requires the boots of Iran and its proxies on the ground
as demonstrated already in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and
Yemen. It requires that Iran has easy, uninterrupted
access to all those parts of the region where it exercises
political control.
On one level, the idea of a Shia corridor seems a little
fantastical. Almost 2,000 miles separate Tehran from the
Mediterranean coast to its far west. The road between
the two points is distinguished by rough terrain and the
presence of numerous militias along the route, many of
them belonging to Sunni Islamist factions hostile to Iran.
In addition to heavy defenses on the ground, the corridor
would need effective aerial warning systems, given Israels
demonstrated willingness to bomb weapons shipments
between Iran and its allies in Syria and Lebanon. Can a
country with an ailing economy like Irans, that is now fac-
ing an increasingly hostile administration in Washington,
really carve out such a corridor unopposed?
The point, for now at least, is Iran is doing precisely that
assisted by the lack of a defined U.S. policy toward not
just the Iranian nuclear program, but its entire regional
role; the absence of any appetite among the Europeans
for a confrontation with Tehran; and the unprecedented
support coming from Irans traditional foe, Russia, thanks
30 Jewish standard JUne 30, 2017
to President Vladimir Putins benevolence.
In other words, Iran will face obstacles to its contiguous
territorial path only if its adversaries not just America,
but also Egypt, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, among others
are willing to place them there.
Does the advance of the corridor so far warrant such
concern? At the end of May, a few corre-
spondents in the region, among them the
Israeli journalist Seth Franztman and the
American reporter Dexter Filkins, reported
that Iranian-backed militias had seized a
cluster of villages along the SyrianIraqi bor-
der, thereby securing an encumbered road
link between the Revolutionary Guard in
Tehran and its client in Damascus.
The development is potentially momen-
tous, because, for the first time, it would
bind together, by a single land route, a
string of Iranian allies, including Hezbollah,
in Lebanon; the Assad regime, in Syria; and the Iranian-
dominated government in Iraq, Filkins wrote in the New
Yorker. Those allies form what is often referred to as the
Shiite Crescent, an Iranian sphere of influence in an area
otherwise dominated by Sunni Muslims.
While those same Sunni Muslims are divided between
those who see the Muslim Brotherhood or Iran as their
main enemy, and those who accord that distinction to
Israel and the United States, Iran is presenting a unified
Shia revolutionary stance toward the outside world. Iran
has allies all the way from Lebanon to Bahrain, and Iran
Care act
FrOM page 29
all. A person with an illness would seek out spiritual
guidance, not unlike the model of Christian Science.
That we are allowed to use medicine is a lenience, a con-
cession taking into account that few of us are up to the
exalted spiritual level it would require to effect healing
through repentance.
We all understand that Christian Science is a religious
view and most of us are grateful that our own reli-
gious teachers dont preach it. We take pride in Juda-
isms this-worldly nature. I believe that the Republican
plan likewise reflects a religious view and one that the
Iranian anti-tank
rockets that IDF
forces in southern
Lebanon captured
from Hezbollah
in 2006.
idF
is their unmistakable leader. When looked at on the map,
this status conveys the possibility of an Iranian empire
that Tehrans actions in the field seek only to reinforce.
The consequences for Israel of a Shia corridor are,
needless to say, acute. Since the war in Lebanon in the
mid-1980s, Israel has been acutely aware of Irans abil-
ity to wage direct war on its territory, through the mis-
sile barrages of its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon. The exis-
tence of a land corridor will transform Irans capacity in
this regard, perhaps to the point where a land-based war
launched against Israel from Syria and Lebanon could be
as perilous as a nuclear attack.
For some time now, it has been an established fact that
Hezbollah has increased its number of missiles pointed
at Israel by a factor of 10, with newer and deadlier mod-
els now in operation despite the existence of U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1701, passed in 2006, which
demands that Hezbollah disarm entirely. A land corridor
would make any attempt to enforce this resolution a much
harder task.
As always, Israel is prepared for the worst. But how it
responds will depend, more than anything else, on how
the Trump administration copes with the reality that
America once again is locked in combat with its adver-
saries. JNs.orG
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.
mainstream of Jewish tradition roundly rejects. Those
lending their support to these plans to change Ameri-
can health care should keep in mind how Rabbi Israel
Salanter distinguished between a tzaddik, a righteous
man, and a rasha, a wicked one.
A righteous tzaddik, Rabbi Salanter, worries about
his own soul and his neighbors body. A wicked rasha,
by contrast, worries, about his own body and his neigh-
bors soul.
If Congress succeeds in passing its proposed undoing
of the Affordable Care Act, it will have made some reli-
gious people happy. Rabbi Salanter, however, would not
be among them.
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The Frazzled Housewife
What Barbie are you?
W
hen I was little, the only
reason why I enjoyed
playing with Barbie dolls
was because I liked cut-
ting their hair.
I even remember the giant Barbie head
that I got for Chanukah one year I could
cut her hair and put permanent marker on
her face instead of the washable makeup
that came with her. Yes, I was a troubled
child. But I had an older sister who took
such good care of everything
my parents ever bought for
her. How could I ever live up
to that? Dolls in their origi-
nal boxes! Crayons kept in an
orderly fashion! Her grades
always perfect! Her room
always spotless! Who can fol-
low in such immaculate foot-
steps? I would usually dump
everything from my closet Banji
onto the floor, thinking that I Ganchrow
was going to organize every-
thing. My dad would come in
a few hours later to check on my progress,
to find me sleeping on the very comfort-
able pile of stuff. Yes, that was me. But
back to the Barbies.
Over the years, many feminists have
criticized the Barbie doll. They have said
that her measurements, if they were
translated into a real live woman, were
impossible to maintain. No one has mea-
surements like that, unless, of course,
they have been surgically altered. How
is this doll supposed to be a role model
for little girls and boys all over the world?
Measurements aside, Barbie had a dream
house, a dream pool (of which, I was the
proud owner), a dream car. There were
doctor Barbies and scientist Barbies and
businesswoman Barbies. These were
role models.
Barbie taught us that you can have it all.
A few years ago, Barbie started coming
out in different shapes. This, of course,
made me happy because there was a zaf-
tig Barbie. Barbie with a little meat on her
bones. Of course, true to form, if zaftig
Barbies measurements were translated
into real life ones, she still would only
probably be a size 12, but it still is progress. Ken? Maybe we could mix and match the
Barbie would have to shop in the plus size
department, while all of her skinny Barbie
friends were lunching on lettuce and wear-
ing a size 2 but it was still a shout-out to
big gals everywhere. But it got me think-
ing what about Ken? Would Ken, the ulti-
mate man, date zaftig Barbie?
I still remember the blind date I went on
many, many years ago, when the voice on
the other end of the phone asked me if I
was zaftig. I was taken aback by the ques-
tion because the joy of the blind date (to
be read sarcastically) is not having any
idea what the other person looks like.
With social media, you can look people
32 JEWISH STANDARD JUNE 30, 2017
up, but back in the stone age, blind meant
just that. You had no idea what you were
getting. So this particular narcissist that I
went on one date with was disappointed
with my physique did it matter that he
looked like a monkey? No, because he
was a narcissist. He thought he was a Ken
because he was a doctor, but he was not.
In any event, the other day, on the radio,
I was pleased to hear that now Ken comes
in different shapes! If I am not mistaken,
Ken now comes in three or
four different builds, one of
which is sturdy.
Ahh, sturdy Ken he
likes drinking five or six
beers when he comes home
from the office and eating a
couple of steaks that zaftig
Barbie grilled for him when
he was at work. His doctor
keeps warning him about
his cholesterol and his mid-
section, but zaftig Barbie
loves him just the way he
is. Truth be told, original size Barbie also
loves him because he comes from family
money that has afforded her a five carat
diamond ring, the dream house, and the
dream pool.
If we put sturdy Ken with zaftig Bar-
bie, we are just promoting the stereo-
type that big belongs with big. I think that
the makers of Ken and Barbie should go
If we put sturdy
Ken with zaftig
Barbie, we are
just promoting
the stereotype
that big belongs
with big.
one step further with the Ken line. How
about receding hair Ken? Combover Ken?
Buzzed-haircut-because-I-am-really-bald
different heads with the different builds?
Fat and bald Ken would go over great with
the ladies, because I have always said that
a woman, like zaftig Barbie, could be suc-
cessful but still single in her 40s, whereas
fat and bald Ken could be unemployed
and living in his car and still manage to
get married.
Yup, it is still a mans world, but at least
Barbie has started eating, and that, my
friends, is progress!
Banji Ganchrow has never been a fan of
dolls, but has always been a fan of peanut
chews.
Crossword
SCHOOLS OUT BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MEDIUM
Across
1. They might be held when drinking some
Galil Ela
6. Gan Sacher, e.g.
10. Sacrifice stock
16. ___ Be (Lu Yehi)
17. Many people think turning cell phones
off one day a week is a good one
18. Hachnasat ___
19. Day of celebration in Eretz Yisrael
21. Get into an Inbal bed
22. Fig. for those at 47-Across
23. Dismays
24. Shoresh center?
25. Hebrew letter with a value of 9
26. Mel Brooks classic
30. Country in Jerusalem?
31. 2002 Streisand album
32. Actor Broderick, for short
35. Claremont or Martin
38. You ___ heard nothin yet (Al Jolsen)
42. An Emanuel brother
43. Remove, as pages from this publication
45. Faith, in Judaism
47. Jewish Institution established in 1886...
or a hint to whats missing in 19, 26, 61,
& 75- Across
50. Confine, like the lion in Ezekiel 19
51. Those eating in a 1982 Barry Levinson
film
52. When doubled, a kosher restaurant in
Venice
53. An Emanuel brother
54. Shmutzy
55. Sof haderech
56. Ones in charge at 47-Across, for short
59. Like Laban
61. Israels Ambassador to the United
Nations from 1984-88
68. Hair product from Natural
69. Ramat Hadar borders?
70. Kama and Basra
71. El ___ (1961 Anthony Mann classic)
73. Symbolic liquid of one who might need
tzedakah
75. Jerusalem locale that gets very crowded
on Friday
77. Color of Jenji Kohans Netflix show
78. Astin of Lord of the Rings
79. Jordan e.g.
80. Tisha BAv readings
81. Addresses used by one medium of this
publication
82. Part of Tommy Ramones kit
Down
1. Make like the Jews through the desert
2. Pace or a chalav yisrael brand in Australia
3. A Coen brother
4. Hamm or Kirshner
5. Props for Jacob and Moses
6. Big Apple offering
7. Some Omnicom or Joseph Jacobs work-
ers
8. Pose a shaylah again
9. Dennings who played a Broke Girl
10. Something taken at 47-Across
11. Will on Hurwitzs Arrested Development
12. Chan. that might air Billy Wilder films
13. Words between Am in Exodus 3:14
14. Say Joseph is comparable to Daniel
15. Its the truth
20. She won gold four years before Sarah
(Hughes)
24. Leading the Jews for forty years, for
Moses (at times)
27. Its good in Yiddish, but can be
unhealthy in English?
28. Job of Michael Kahn on virtually every
Spielberg film
29. Jacobs twin, and others
32. Film mogul Louis B.
33. Hapoel Jerusalem Basketball Club, for
one
34. N.Y.U.s ___ School of the Arts
35. Stereotyped Jewish job: Abbr.
36. Historic name in magic
37. Confrontation, like on Bochcos Hill
Street Blues
39. Iconic role for Mandy (Patinkin)
40. Refusenik Sharansky
41. Herb in a Simon & Garfunkel title
43. Make like Rothstein to the World Series,
supposedly
44. ___ Lost You (Elvis)
45. Puppet ending (e.g. Shari Lewis)
46. Zeresh, ___ 48-Across
48. Husband of 46-Across
49. Oy follower
54. Adjusts electric lights for Havdalah,
perhaps
55. She wrote about Dagny (Taggart)
57. ___ Unchained (film with a humorous
Jonah Hill cameo)
58. 75-Across, e.g.
59. Legendary Lee
60. Ammo for Han Solo
61. Southern Kibbutz
62. Rental name at Ben Gurion
63. Casspi or Curry, briefly
64. A brigade in the IDF
65. Famous Abba and his family
66. Bin name in Halva
67. Miep Gies to Anne Frank
68. ___ Nation (Mayim Bialik website)
72. Double ___ (Marc Summers game
show)
74. Establishment for Rahab
75. Big Ten sch. of Sam Raimi and Magic
Johnson
76. Karem or Gedi
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 39.

Weimar in the
summertime
JOANNE PALMER
T
here is something ironic
maybe post-ironic about
having a Yiddish program in
Weimar.
Until 1933, when the Nazis took over
the city, art flourished there music, lit-
erature, visual art, architecture. It was
vibrant, freethinking, exciting every-
thing the Nazis hated, and tried and failed
to destroy. It gave its name to the Weimar
Republic, that between-the-wars flowering
of cutting-edge culture.
Then the Nazis came, and there was
darkness.
Now, the city has come alive again; for
the last 18 years its been home to the festi-
val of Yiddish culture called Yiddish Sum-
mer Weimar. It has introduced and rein-
troduced thousands of participants and
visitors to the artistic and anthropological
scientific and social dimensions of Yiddish
culture through imaginative exploration of
the past, and a trenchant engagement with
the present, in order to further the develop-
ment and celebrate Yiddish as a language,
life-style, and art form, in the 21st century
and beyond, its press release reads.
The festival, from July 12 to August 15,
offers workshops, lecture series, and con-
certs in, on, and about Yiddish; its long
history has seen some of the biggest names
in Jewish music perform there.
Arts & Culture
It also is looking at the various dias-
pora groups that have come together in
Israel Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian and
other smaller Mizrachi groups each hold
onto their own traditions even as they are
woven into the larger ribbon of Jewish life.
This year, the Summer Weimar Festival
will look at how that works, and will pro-
mote conversations among those groups
and between those groups and the larger
Jewish world.
Hope for the future, hope for our chil-
dren, will be embodied in performances
by Kadya, is a collaboration between the
Arab-Jewish Voices of Peace girls choir
from Jaffa and the Weimar Schola Can-
torum. When they perform, Arab-Israeli
and Jewish-Israeli children will sing with
German children; theyll be joined by an
Arab-Jewish orchestra from Haifa.
As full of events as the entire festival is,
everything is ramped up on Festival Week,
August 2 through 6, when workshops, mini-
workshops, all-night concerts, lectures, a
brand-new Israeli documentary film series,
and other emotionally and intellectual
engaging experiences come together.
Keep Yiddish alive in Germany, the orga-
nizers urge. Its more than ironic. Its more
than post-ironic. Its a tribute to the past
and an invitation to the future.
Theres lots more information about
Yiddish Summer Weimar online in Eng-
lish! at yiddishsummer.eu.
Scenes from last
summers festival.
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Jewish World
Men pray on Passover in 2009.
Western Wall
FROM PAGE 25
of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party
and one of two Cabinet members to vote
against the decision to freeze the agree-
ment, said in a statement that it consti-
tutes a severe blow to the unity of the
Jewish people, Jewish communities, and
the fabric of relations between the State
of Israel and the Jews of the diaspora.
Yair Lapid, head of the opposition
Yesh Atid party, spoke in English at the
beginning of his partys faction meeting
in order to reach the Jewish diaspora,
particularly U.S. Jews, he said.
I want to tell you that the vast major-
ity of the citizens of Israel oppose the
two decisions taken yesterday by the
government, he said, referring to the
Western Wall decision and a separate
conversion bill that would solidify con-
versions in Israel under the authority of
the charedi-dominated Chief Rabbinate.
Do not give up on us. We have no
intention of giving up on you. We are one
people. It might take time. It might take
elections. But in a democracy the major-
ity decides and the majority in Israel
want us to be one nation.
Sephardi Orthodox Shas Party leader
Arye Deri, who opposes the Western
Wall compromise, said during his partys
meeting that the canceled plan destroys
Jewish unity.
Every Jew in the world, and non-
Jews, can come pray there. We have
nothing against Jews, in any place they
may be. They are all our brothers. Our
fight is against the approach, this ideol-
ogy which is attempting to bring a new
Judaism here, is trying to destroy every-
thing that we built here over the years.
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman of the
charedi United Torah Judaism party also
welcomed the Cabinet decision as a vic-
tory over liberal Jews.
This decision sends a clear message
to the entire world that Reform Judaism
has no access to or recognition at the
Western Wall, he said Sunday in a state-
ment. I thank the rabbi of the Western
Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, and the chief
rabbis of Israel. To their merit we were
able to sanctify Gods name.
A range of other groups criticized Sun-
days decision, including the American
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Jewish Committee, the Women of the
Wall, the Israel Democracy Institute
think tank and the Jewish Agency, whose
chairman, Natan Sharansky, was one of
the architects of the 2016 agreement.
After four years of intense negotia-
tions, we reached a solution that was
accepted by all major denominations
and was then adopted by the govern-
ment and embraced by the worlds Jew-
ish communities, Sharansky said in a
statement. Todays decision signifies
a retreat from that agreement and will
make our work to bring Israel and the
Jewish world closer together increas-
ingly more difficult.
Yizhar Hess, head of the Conservative
movement in Israel, wrote an op ed in a
daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, saying
that he regretted reaching a compromise
with the government.
We made a mistake, he wrote. We
believed the government, we believed
the prime minister, we believed that
we needed at last to end this squab-
bling among ourselves over the Western
Wall, and we agreed to a compromise
arrangement.
But the Cabinets decision last night
a cynical, even wicked decision took
this historic agreement and threw it in
the faces of millions of Jews around the
world.
Non-Orthodox leaders also decried
the Israeli governments advancing a bill
to centralize authority for Jewish conver-
sions under the Israeli Chief Rabbinate,
a charedi-dominated body. Silverman
compared the bill to a 2010 bill on con-
versions in Israel, which American Jew-
ish groups also opposed because they
argued it would delegitimize non-Ortho-
dox conversions.
The conversion bill that was approved
by the ministerial committee and Knesset
is one that definitively changes the status
quo in conversions, Silverman said. This
is something that almost every 10 years
comes up, and would have a dramatic
effect on who is a Jew, which obviously
has a significant impact.
JTA WIRE SERVICE/TIMES OF ISRAEL
Amanda Borschel-Dan, Larry Yudelson,
and Joanne Palmer contributed to this
report.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leading the weekly Cabinet
meeting in Jerusalem on June 25.
Netanyahu defends suspending
the Western Wall agreement.
Heres his spin on events
BEN SALES
American Jewish leaders are calling it a
betrayal.
They say that 17 months after achiev-
ing a historic agreement to provide a
non-Orthodox space at Judaisms holiest
prayer site, Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu reneged in a Cabinet vote
Sunday, effectively canceling the deal and
caving to the interests of his charedi Ortho-
dox coalition partners.
Netanyahu disagrees. Far from killing
the compromise, he believes the vote has
given it new life. And far from betraying
diaspora Jewry, he says the vote shows his
concern for Jews around the world.
In a lengthy conversation, an unnamed
senior Israeli official gave some insight into
Netanyahus defense of the vote freezing
the 2016 Western Wall agreement: why he
did it, what the vote leaves in place, and
what it means moving forward.
The agreement, which was passed by
the Cabinet in January 2016, has three
components. First is a physical expansion
and upgrade of the non-Orthodox prayer
section south of the familiar Western Wall
plaza. Second is the construction of a
shared entrance to the Orthodox and non-
Orthodox sections. Third is the creation of
a government-appointed, interdenomina-
tional Jewish committee to govern the non-
Orthodox section.
Sundays decision, the senior official
said, leaves in place the physical expan-
sion of the prayer site while suspending
the creation of the interdenominational
committee. Netanyahus charedi partners,
the official said, objected to the idea that
the committee amounted to state recogni-
tion of non-Orthodox Judaism.
With the controversy over the commit-
tee frozen, the official said, actual build-
ing at the site can start unhindered and
MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/POOL/FLASH90
will be expedited.
The symbolic piece was holding the
practical piece hostage, the official said.
What was frozen yesterday was the sym-
bolic part. The practical part of advanc-
ing the prayer arrangements, that can
The symbolic
piece was
holding the
practical piece
hostage. What
was frozen
yesterday was
the symbolic
part.
now move forward. Regrettably, there are
those on both sides who are spinning this
as cancellation.
However, several aspects of the proj-
ect as it stands are murky. It isnt clear
whether the expansion of the site will
proceed according to the dimensions
outlined in the 2016 agreement. Nor is it
clear whether construction will begin on
the shared entrance to the site or whether
the non-Orthodox space will have a staff,
accessible prayer books, and Torah scrolls,
as promised in the agreement.
The official said that the suspension of
the deal is itself a compromise: the charedi
parties wanted to cancel the deal altogether,
a step he said that Netanyahu was unwilling
to take. Freezing the agreement, the official
said, allows for continued negotiations to
rework it. It also may provide an acceptable
SEE WESTERN WALL PAGE 40

Herbert Bloom
Herbert A. Bloom of Haw-
thorne, formerly of Scars-
dale, N.Y., and Paterson,
died June 24.
A Rutgers University grad-
uate, he was a CPA with
Best Manufacturing Co.
and then worked at Cov-
enant House in Newark.
He was a member of
Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey and Consolidated
Lodge No.31, F&AM.
He is survived by his
children, Arthur of Wash-
ington, D.C., and Susan
of New York City, and a
sister, Adeline Some of
Livingston. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Herbert Dorfman
Herbert Dorfman, 88, of
Leonia died June 22.
Born Brooklyn, he was
a retired television news
producer. Predeceased
by a son, Andrew in 1968,
he is survived by his wife,
Esther, ne Gold, a daugh- non, Michael, Rebecca,
ter, Robin Dorfman of Los
Angeles; a brother, Walter
Anderson of White Plains,
N.Y., and a grandson,
Andrew Farrow.
Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Miriam Friede
Miriam Friede, 93, of Fair
Lawn, died June 25.
A Holocaust survi-
vor, she was a former
member of Temple Beth
Sholom in Fair Lawn and
a member of the Jacob
Dineson Lodge #422 Brith
Abraham in Paterson and
Hadassah.
Predeceased by her
husband, Jacob, and a
granddaughter, Keren,
she is survived by sons,
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Israeli parliament member Nachman Shai, left, and Jewish Agency Chairman
Natan Sharansky confer at a meeting in the Knesset on June 27.
Western Wall
from page 36
answer to the Supreme Court, which is con-
sidering a petition to force the government
to provide an appropriate space for non-
Orthodox prayer at the Wall.
The official added that The prime min-
ister takes Israels relations with diaspora
Jewry very seriously.
But non-Orthodox leaders were not pla-
cated by these assurances.
Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of the
United Synagogue of Conservative Juda-
ism, called Sundays vote sleight of hand.
He is treating it as a cancellation of the
agreement, given that the agreement had
not been implemented nearly a year and a
half after being passed.
Its not really a freeze, its a kill, he
said. Its already been frozen. It hasnt
been moving for 18 months. We were wait-
ing, and assured by the prime minister
that entire time that negotiations were
happening and they would get back to us.
That hasnt happened.
Jewish leaders also called the expansion
of the prayer space insufficient. They noted
re Service that the shared entrance would have granted
the non-Orthodox space equal standing with
the Orthodox section, but now the plan for
expanding that space is unknown.
The physical portion of this agreement
was far more extensive, including opening
the site to the main plaza, making it visible
and accessible, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, presi-
dent of the Union for Reform Judaism,
said. What the government is currently
planning to do in no way meets the prom-
ises and the details of this agreement.
Anat Hoffman, chairwoman of the
Women of the Wall, whose activism led to
negotiations over the Wall, also said that
any physical expansion of one of the most
sensitive sites in the world would take years.
Given the delays that have already plagued
the process, Hoffman said she is hesitant to
trust assurances from Netanyahu.
We sat for three years in good faith,
our group split over this, we paid such a
price, how could I possibly believe you?
she recalls telling Tzachi Hanegbi, a
40 Jewish Standard JUNE 30, 2017
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government minister and Netanyahu ally,
on Tuesday. And now youre going to
compromise over the compromise?
On Tuesday, at the conclusion of its
board of governors meetings in Jerusalem,
Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan
Sharansky urged 200 employees who rep-
resent the agency abroad to prepare for
criticism of the governments suspension
in the diaspora. The night before, the Jew-
ish Agency canceled its scheduled gala din-
ner with Netanyahu over the Cabinet vote.
According to a statement, Sharansky
urged the emissaries to listen to expres-
Its not really a
freeze, its a kill.
Its already been
frozen. It hasnt
been moving for
18 months.
sions of anger and criticism that are being
heard in many Jewish communities and
bring them to the attention of public fig-
ures and politicians in Israel.
After meeting with the prime minister
on Monday, Jerry Silverman, CEO of the
Jewish Federations of North America, told
The Times of Israel that American Jewish
groups plan to lobby Israelis to support
their concerns about religious pluralism.
American Jewish leaders, he said, will also
invest more in lobbying Israeli lawmakers.
But the Israeli official said that trying to
force change in Israeli religious policy is
what leads to acrimony over these issues.
Better, he said, to let the laws change grad-
ually and quietly.
So what you have is, you have the sta-
tus quo: a set of slowly evolving, informal
rules, the official said. Often you get into
trouble when one of the sides tries to for-
malize something by going to court or by
legislation.
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auction, and lunch by Juice Theory.
Briefs
Mossad establishes tech investment fund
Mossad, Israels security and intelligence
agency, will converge with the Jewish
states start-up nation through the
establishment of a technological innova-
tion fund.
The fund, Libertad, will serve as
an additional branch of the intelligence
services technological force build-
up, Mossad said. Libertad will connect
Mossad to Israels various technology
start-ups by enabling the intelligence
agency to invest in homegrown research
and development programs directly.
As part of the Libertad initiative,
Mossad has called on entrepreneurs
and companies to submit innovative pro-
posals in the fields of robotics, energy
U.S., Israel sign new cybersecurity pact
The United States and Israel announced
a pact to establish a cybersecurity work-
ing group.
The new working group will be led by
Rob Joyce, special assistant to President
Donald Trump and cybersecurity coor-
dinator, and Dr. Eviatar Matania, direc-
tor of the National Cyber Bureau at the
Israeli Prime Ministers Office.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu met with Joyce and Tom Bossert,
the Trump administrations homeland
security and cyberterrorism adviser, to
outline the new partnership. Accord-
ing to the U.S. Embassy in Israel, They
discussed creating joint cyber teams
Courtesy LK
It benefits Ezer Mizions Lotties
Kitchen in Israel, which provides meals
for families dealing with serious illness.
The organization provides 1,200 hot
meals and 1,500 sandwiches every week.
For information, go to www.ezermi-
zion.org or call (718) 853-8400.
harvesting, web intelligence, encryp-
tion, and more.
We are looking for companies that
are dealing in areas we are interested
in, that are at the beginning stages, with
a good idea and a good staff, said a
Mossad employee identified as Aleph
on a conference call with reporters. We
want a relationship with them and to
invest in their idea, so that they can ful-
fill their dreams and we can get the tech-
nology that we can use.
Libertad is offering up to NIS 2 mil-
lion ($570,000) in equity-free capital
to invest in cutting-edge projects, and
larger sums may be approved in unique
cases.  JNS.org
to develop [international] cyber pol-
icy, protecting crucial infrastructure,
research and development, and more.
Speaking at the Cyber Week 2017 con-
ference in Tel Aviv, Bossert said the new
working group will focus on identifying
and stopping attacks before they reach
critical infrastructure and networks,
while also seeking to punish offenders.
The agility Israel has in developing
solutions will innovate cyber defenses
that we can test here and bring back to
America, he said. Perfect security may
not be achievable, but we have within
our reach a safer and more secure
internet.  JNS.org

Blood Shortage
New Jersey Blood Services (NJBS) has declared a blood
emergency and is asking the public to please find time
to donate blood at a NJBS donor center or convenient
blood drive to help replenish the communitys blood
supply. It is imperative to always have an adequately
stocked blood supply to respond when communi-
ties are faced with events that require life-saving
blood products.
Our local blood supply has reached a critically low
level, with under a two-day supply of O negative, B
negative, and A negative. Donors with O negative
blood type, or universal donors, are especially
encouraged to donate, as their blood can be used in
emergencies. We are in dire need of O negative blood
with a reserve that is currently below a two-day sup-
ply and that is just too low, says Andrea Cefarelli,
Executive Director of New York Blood Center.
In order to maintain a safe blood supply, a seven-
day inventory of all types must be continually replen-
ished. Nearly 2,000 donations are needed each day in
New York and New Jersey alone. About one in seven
hospital admissions requires a blood transfusion, and
with a limited shelf life, supplies must be continu-
ally replenished.
Companies, organizations, and community groups
are also encouraged to step up to host a blood drive
in July or August to help rebuild the blood supply. Any
company, community organization, place of worship,
or individual may host a blood drive. Hosting a blood
drive is easy and New Jersey Blood Services staff will
help you every step of the way.
Eligible donors include those people at least age
16 (parental consent is required for 16-year-olds)
who weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, are in good
health, and meet all FDA and NY or NJ State Depart-
ment of Health donor criteria. People age 76 or
older may donate if they have a doctors note on
file with New York Blood Center or if they bring one
on the day of the blood drive. If you cannot donate
but still wish to participate in bringing crucial blood
products to patients in need, please ask someone to
donate for you, or consider volunteering at a local
blood drive.
The entire donation process takes less than an hour
and a single donation can be used to save multiple
lives. Blood donors receive free mini-medical exams
on site including information about their tempera-
ture, blood pressure, and hematocrit level.
To donate blood or for information on how to orga-
nize a blood drive, please call (toll-free): (800) 933-
2566 or visit:www.nybloodcenter.org/blood.
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