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IDEA SCHOOL FINDS HOME IN TENAFLY JCC pages 12

GROWING UP COMMUNIST IN PATERSON page 14
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Matzah made pretty
● With Purim past, it’s time to start getting serious
about matzah, the fabled bread of
affliction.
Or maybe not too serious. Be-
cause as we learned at the recent
KosherFest, just because unleav-
ened bread frequently tastes like
burnt cardboard, that doesn’t
mean that it has to look like burnt
cardboard.
Yes, in this age of technologi-
cal miracles and wonders, we can
celebrate the exodus from Egypt
with matzah printed with a brightly colored Magen
David, a seder plate image, or a cheery “Happy Pass-
Granddaughter of former VP candidate
Joe Lieberman moves to Israel
● Nesya Lieberman, granddaughter of would-be
veep and former senator Joe Lieberman, has made
the aliyah leap.
On Tuesday, the 20-year-old Atlanta native arrived
in Israel under the auspices of Nefesh B’Nefesh.
She will attend ulpan, or Hebrew language learning,
at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu in northern Israel to improve
her Hebrew skills before she begins a year of National
Service volunteer work.
Lieberman, who attended Jewish day schools, has
visited Israel regularly with her family or as a partici-
pant in touring or Jewish learning programs.
“I’ve wanted to make aliyah ever since my eighth-
grade school trip, and am overjoyed to have finally
accomplished that goal!” she said, in a statement is-
sued through Nefesh B’Nefesh. “Making aliyah alone
is intimidating, but I truly believe that this is where I
need to be. Jews have been praying for a return to
Israel for millennia, and I’m fortunate enough to live
in a time when such a return is possible. Why would I
over” greeting. (The latter
being particularly useful for
those of us for whom two cups
of wine is enough to make us
forget which holiday we’re cel-
ebrating.)
Don’t worry: The printed
matzahs are certified kosher for
Pesach by the Orthodox Rabbini-
cal Council of California. The inks
are certified edible by the FDA.
And the “unique and proprietary
state-of-the-art printing tech-
nique” doesn’t damage or crack the matzos.
Only $15 for a box of 12 at matzohgram.com. LARRY YUDELSON
live anywhere else? Israel is my home.”
Joe Lieberman was the running mate when Al Gore
was the Democratic candidate for president in 2000.
He was the first Jewish vice presidential candidate on
a major party ticket. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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A bagel in
your pocket
● Cleaning your phone for Passover is
going to be a little bit harder next year,
thanks to Unicode character U+1F96F.
That’s the computer code for a new
bagel emoji, one of 157 new charac-
ters included in the 11.0 update to the
non-verbal alphabet that spices up our
text messages. (Emoji comes from the
Japanese words for pictograph, not the
English term emotion.)
The bagel image is not the only new
emoji that is good for the Jews. Emoji
people — available in yellow or more
realistic skin tones — can now have
curly or gray hair.
The new set of emoji are slated to ap-
pear on cell phones later this year.
Now: Can we start a petition to add
matzah to the 12.0 emoji update?
LARRY YUDELSON
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BRIEFLY LOCAL ............................................................. 22
COVER STORY ................................................................26
JEWISH WORLD ............................................................30
KEEPING KOSHER.........................................................42
OPINION ...........................................................................46
D’VAR TORAH ................................................................ 52
DEAR RABBI ZAHAVY................................................. 53
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE ................................... 55
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ................................................ 55
ARTS & CULTURE ..........................................................56
CALENDAR ...................................................................... 57
OBITUARIES .....................................................................61
CLASSIFIEDS ..................................................................62
REAL ESTATE..................................................................65
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Noshes
NEW VERSION:
A ‘Death Wish’
on life support
Dr. Death,
Oathbreaker
“Death Wish,” a remake
of the 1974 Charles
Bronson film of the same
name, which was direct-
ed by the late MICHAEL
WINNER, opens on
Friday, March 2. The
original film actually
was anti-vigilante. Paul
(Bronson) is a nice New
York City architect. Then
his wife is murdered and
his daughter is sexually
assaulted during a home
invasion. Paul doesn’t
go after the perpetra-
tors. Instead, he essen-
tially invites criminals to
mug him and then guns
them down. By the end
of the film he’s a twisted
and broken man. The
film was a hit because
it captured the zeitgeist
of an era when violent
crime was soaring and
policing was ineffective.
The title still has mar-
ketability, so it’s being
used to hype a pure
revenge film directed
by ELI ROTH, 45. Roth
is known mostly as a
horror film director. The
setup is the same as the
1974 film, but this time it
takes place in Chicago, I
guess because New York
has so reduced its crime
and murder rate since
the 70s that the film
wouldn’t be very plausi-
ble. I suspect most think-
ing people would trust
the New York cops today
to get the perps. Most
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“In a story Feb. 22 about the Florida school
shooting, The Associated Press misquoted
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel in some
versions of the story when he spoke about the
families of the victims. He said, ‘I’ve been
to their homes where they’re sitting
shiva,’ not ‘where they sit and shiver.’”
— Correction filed by The Associated Press on Feb. 26
sickening: in this version that he went to the
Paul (Bruce Willis) is a Ukraine several times in
physician who grue- 2010 to assist his moth-
somely enacts revenge er’s (fruitless) search for
on the home invaders. the non-Jewish Ukrai-
He evens tortures them. nian who helped save
Yes, a hero doctor who her father’s life and then
tortures! This film will he grew interested in
make money, but it won’t the country — and in
make anybody’s moth- Manafort. The next day
er proud. a light went off in my
head. I checked and
Worth checking out learned that Franklin is
The play “Amy and Eli Roth Edward Barbanell Mark Blum the brother of novelist
the Orphans” opened JONATHAN SAFRAN
yesterday, March 1. It’s FOER, 41, the author of
a Roundabout Theater “Everything is Illuminat-
Company production at ed” (2002). This famous
the Laura Pels Theater. novel is based on Jona-
As described in a Feb. 14 than’s trip to Ukraine
New York Times maga- in 1996. On impulse, he
zine feature piece (“Bar- jumped on a plane to
rier Breaks: An Actress check out family lore
With Down Syndrome about the woman who
Plays the Lead”) it is a saved his grandfather.
groundbreaking produc- As in the novel, he didn’t
tion. The show is about find her. Still, I think that
three siblings who re- Robert Mueller’s staff
unite after their father’s Franklin Foer Jonathan Safran Foer Liev Schreiber probably found Frank-
death, and the exuber- lin’s Manafort report-
ant road trip that follows age illuminating, and if
that meeting. One of perform for Brewer during The play is scheduled to of the Atlantic (you can not for the Foer family
the siblings (Amy) has Wednesday and Satur- run until April 22. read it free online), Foer quest, that reporting
Downs Syndrome, and day matinees, the lead traces Manafort’s life wouldn’t exist.
the actress playing Amy, part will be re-written Maybe everything and career history. He Fun aside: Franklin
Jamie Brewer, really for a man, and the play will be illuminated describes how Manafort Fore is the co-author of
has Downs Syndrome. will be called “Andy NPR recently inter- went from being a “Jewish Jocks” (2012)
She is the first actress and the Orphans.” Mr. viewed FRANKLIN fairly normal domes- a good, insightful book
with Downs Syndrome Barbanell, a Floridian, is FOER, 44, an Atlantic tic Republican political on Jews in sports. LIEV
to have a lead part in the nephew of Teaneck magazine staff writer consultant to a guy who SCHREIBER, 50, the di-
a Broadway or off- residents BARBARA and the former editor was widely perceived rector of the film version
Broadway production. and PAUL DEUTSCH. of “The New Republic.” as dirty in most GOP of “Everything is Illumi-
Her understudy also has Tony winner Debra Monk Foer appears to be the circles even before he nated,” is a big baseball
Downs Syndrome. The plays Amy’s sister, Mag- world’s leading expert started working for fan and has narrated
understudy is EDWARD gie, and veteran actor on Paul Manafort (ex- shady, pro-Russian baseball documenta-
BARBANELL, 40. Like MARK BLUM, 67, plays cept for Rick Gates and Ukrainian politicians and ries as well as Holocaust
Ms. Brewer, he has exten- her brother Jacob. Blum maybe Robert Muel- oligarchs. When asked documentaries. I guess
sive stage experience. was born in Newark and ler’s staff). In the cover how he got interested in everything is connected.
It’s planned that he will grew up in Maplewood. story of the March issue Manafort, Foer replied –N.B.
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Their own Israel stories
iCan conference provides local high school students with ways to explain and connect
JOANNE PALMER
L
ots of Jewish teenagers
love Israel, but they’re
not always sure why.
They know that it’s
part of their heritage — and they
may or may not know a great deal
about that heritage — but they’re
not always sure that they’d know
how to explain how the modern-
day country of Israel fits in. They’re
uneasily aware that they might
have to defend Israel when they get
to college, but they’re not exactly
sure how to do that.
They have to be able to tell their
own Israel story — and of course
to tell that story, first each one of
them has to know what his or her
own Israel story is.
The Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey wants to help. A shot from a video shows members of the teen committee planning the conference.
On Sunday, March 18, the JCRC
will offer the second annual iCan conference. From 10:30
in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, the teens, gath-
ered at the Dwight-Englewood School, unsurprising in the
city of Englewood, will talk, eat, laugh, and think about
Israel. And during part of that time their parents also will
be given a chance to consider what Israel means to them,
and to their kids.
Donna Weintraub of Haworth is an active member of the
federation’s board, and Ariella Noveck is the JCRC direc-
tor. Together, the two are in charge of the conference, and
of the teen council that is putting it together.
“We have been working with a group of kids who come
twice a month,” Ms. Weintraub said. They’re high-school-
ers who come from across the federation’s catchment
area, and they’re from public schools, yeshivot, and secu-
lar private schools. “It’s a wonderful pluralistic group,” she
continued. “There are about 40 all together, and there are
at least 25 at each meeting. And they don’t rush to leave
when it’s over, and that’s amazing.
“Our goal is to help the kids find their own Israel story,” ing issues simply, there wouldn’t be an issue. Because if it
she said. To put it formally, as the mission statement does,
“our goal is to equip the students with the knowledge and
confidence to be able to converse constructively on Jew-
ish and Israel-related subjects. We provide a format for
these students to explore their Jewish identity and their
personal connection with Israel.”
For example, she said, if you are a student whose pas-
sion is science, or engineering, or any of the other STEM
subjects, certainly you can connect to Israel through its
high-tech wizardry. But if your passion lies elsewhere — in
the arts, say, or in history, or in food, or in any other of a things you love.”
vast range of areas — you still can find many strong emo-
tional connections to Israel, and “be able to speak on a
point of knowledge in reference to your interests.”
The students who make up the committee come from at
least 15 high schools, she said, and “it has been really inter-
esting for the kids who don’t have much of a background
on Israel and also for the ones who have much more of a
6 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 2, 2018
“It teaches you how to lead a
room, and how to be heard in
a precise way. It teaches you
skills that you don’t realize
you are picking up.”
“We will start the day off
with two guys, two rabbis,
the Map Guys,” she said.
“One is Reform and one is
Orthodox. One is to the right
and one is to the left.” And
that’s not just their shtick, she
added; it’s their real beliefs.
“It’s the icebreaker — and it’s
completely interactive.
“And at lunch we will have
a dais with a panel with four
college students from differ-
ent colleges, students who
have dealt with things that
happened on campus. They’ll
talk about what happened
and how it was solved.”
Next, there will be three
workshops. “One is about
ackground to learn from each other. how to be an advocate for Israel, and what to say. It’s
“There is zero hierarchy in the room,” she continued. interactive.
“They sit in a big U, and they pretty much all speak. And “One is about how to combat anti-Semitism and BDS
we are very careful to move the conversation around the through the use of social media. It’s pretty cool — and it’s
room.” interactive.
There will be content providers at the conference — “The last one is the art of making friends, and how to
there are nine listed so far on the conference’s webpage, make coalitions with people of other religions. You’ll learn
www.jfnnj.org/calendar/ican, including StandWithUs and that you’re not really that far apart. And — guess what? It’s
the David Project and CAMERA — but “I haven’t found any- interactive!”
thing that’s right- or left-leaning, in the way that we’re pre- During those workshops, parents will be invited to a ses-
senting it,” she said. “We have been very clear that this sion in which they’ll be “coached in how to coach their kids
conference isn’t about telling people what to think. It’s for — I really don’t like the word teach here — about how to deal
them to find their own connection to Israel, and also to with different things on campus, and in life,” she said.
learn to distinguish the difference between anti-Semitism There are many things that students can learn from
and legitimate criticism of Israel. this conference, Ms. Weintraub and Ms. Noveck said, and
“It’s very much not to tell them what to think,” she many things that the students on the committee already
repeated. have incorporated. One, the most basic, is how to talk
“We haven’t been discussing issues with them. That’s about Israel, and another is a set of leadership skills that
not our objective at all. If we could answer the underly- can be useful in a wide range of situations.
And then there is the pluralism, which Ms. Noveck saw at
were simple, we would have peace.” work in a touching vignette. “There was a Torah Academy
She is heading into the conference with the understand- of Bergen County boy who saw that a public school girl was
ing that “you can’t just have facts. Facts by themselves sitting by herself, and he said ‘Can I sit with you?’ It was so
mean nothing if you aren’t passionate about what you are beautiful. If not for this committee, they never would have
saying, or about your connection to those facts. talked to each other. And they have so much in common.
“This is the kids’ heritage, but it has to go beyond just “It is good to seek common ground.”
heritage. They must find their own connection to it, so
that when they are no longer in the bubble of their home
environments, Israel is still something that they feel pas- What: iCan Conference
sionate about. Because you build relationships around the Where: At the Dwight-Englewood School, 315 East
Palisade Ave., in Englewood
Ms. Noveck talks about it with huge enthusiasm, and as When: On Sunday, March 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
she talks one word comes up constantly. Interactive. This For whom: High school students (and also, in a sepa-
is going to be an interactive day, she says and repeats and rate program, their parents, from 3 to 5)
says it once more, just in case. How much: Free
“It is a real day of interaction,” Ms. Noveck said. “It’s not
To register: www.jfnnj.org/ican
that you sit in your chair and listen.” And through that inter-
action, she said, the participants learn leadership skills. To learn more: www.jfnnj.org/calendar/ican
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Local

Really! You can’t do that at work

Jewish Family and Children’s Service to offer panel
on recognizing and combatting sexual harassment
JOANNE PALMER
What is sexual harassment?
How do you recognize it? How do you
name it? How do you complain about it?
How do you stop it?
Do you have to get legal help? Can you
stop it before then?
How do you talk about it? Who should
you talk to about it? When should you start
talking about it?
Help!!!!
Sexual harassment has become a widely
recognized problem in the #MeToo era, but
it’s been a big and almost entirely unrecog- place,” she said. “The workplace is not a
nized problem for a very long time.
The Jewish Family and Children’s Ser-
vice of Northern New Jer-
sey understands that it’s a
problem, and it’s there to
help. This Thursday night,
it’s offering a workshop on
understanding, identify-
ing, and preventing sexual
harassment. (See box.)
“We’re having the pro-
gram in light of everything
that’s happened in the news
since mid-2016,” Susan
Greenberg, JFCS’s CEO,
said. “We know from our
caseload that this is a huge Susan Greenberg
issue for some people. We
know that everyone who has been in the
workforce for the last four or five decades
— in any workplace, in any industry — has
sustained some amount of harassment,
whether sexual or otherwise. And we
know that harassment causes depression,
anxiety, fear, and all sorts of negative emo- place behavior. So, for example, if I am
tions. We wanted to create a forum where
dialogue would be open.”
As part of its mission, the agency pro-
vides counseling and other kinds of sup-
port for people who have been victimized
by sexual harassment, among other things.
But before anyone can get therapy, she
or he could use some idea of what the
problem is. That’s what the evening will
provide. Two lawyers — Maxine Neuhauser
and James Flynn, both of Epstein Becker &
Green, and more specifically of that huge
firm’s Newark office — will offer a work-
shop. After that, a panel will answer ques-
tions about what constitutes harassment,
and what people can do about it.
Ms. Neuhauser has more than 30 years
of experience dealing with harassment,
she said; “after that long in the practice of
employment law, I know that there are sto-
ries that you just can’t make up,” she said.
She will talk about “how it is important
for people to understand their rights as
well as their obligations in the work-
free-speech zone, and it is not a conse-
quence-free zone. The fact is that at the
workplace, we are dealing
with people — and that can
sometimes be a challenge.
But that challenge should
not rise to the level of
having to deal with illegal
behavior directed at you.
“And so our program is
going to be focused not just
on what the law is, but on
what employees in general
— and women in particular
— are entitled to expect and
to demand in any workplace
they’re in.
“And I will illustrate those
things through a library of stories,” she
added. “And really you can’t make this
stuff up.”
It is important for people to realize that
“what is acceptable social behavior is not
necessarily the same as acceptable work-
a guy and I am going to a Giants football
game, I can wear a t-shirt that says ‘10 Rea-
sons Why Beer Is Better Than Women.’
“You can buy that t-shirt on line,” she
added parenthetically. “I know because
I’ve looked it up. But you can’t wear it to
work. And we all know that.
“When you’re with your friends you can
go to a comedy club and you can laugh at
whatever jokes you want to laugh at. But
you can’t necessarily come back to the
office the next day and recreate that com-
edy routine, about the girlfriend or the
mother-in-law or the guy at the 7-Eleven.
You just can’t do that.
“That’s a lot of what we see,” Ms. Neu-
hauser continued. “It’s not the Harvey
Weinstein stuff, or the Steve Wynn stuff.
The things that can bring down a company.
That also happens, but for a lot of folks
it’s just not realizing that a workplace is a
workplace. That we spend a lot of time with
people there — sometimes even more than
we do with our family and friends — but
they are not our family or friends. They are
our co-workers. And there are standards of
behavior that have to be maintained.”
If a situation gets out of control, then
yes, someone feeling harassed should go
to the human relations department, or
to a supervisor, Ms. Neuhauser said. “But
every problem doesn’t have to go nuclear.
“At the end of the day, people want to
work. They want to have a job. They want
to be left alone. They want to have colle-
gial, respectful relationships with the peo-
ple they work with.
“And so we are going to talk about why
these issues matter in terms of career and
reputation.”
As for the offender, “What you intended
is not the issue. And ‘I was just joking’ is
not an excuse. ‘If I offended you…’ is not
an apology. We will be talking about those
sorts of things.
“The goal at the end of the evening is
to make people aware of what their legal
rights are,” Ms. Neuhauser said. “It is to
give them some practical information, and
maybe some strategies, so that they will be
better positioned toward helping to create
and maintain a productive and respectful
workplace.
“And if things still go south, they’ll have
the tools to deal with it,” she concluded.
Who: The Jewish Family and Children’s
Service of Northern New Jersey
What: Presents an evening devoted to
“Understanding, identifying and Pre-
venting Sexual Harassment”
When: On Thursday, March 8, from
7:30 to 9 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Beth Sholom,
354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
For more information or to make a
reservation: Call Sandra Leshaw at
(201) 837-9090 or email her at san-
dral@jfcsnnj.org.

Hoping your table was full

and your day filled with merriment.
Happy Purim
from the JFCS Professional Staff and Board of Trustees.
Teaneck • Wayne • Fair Lawn www.jfcsnnj.org
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Day schools at the table
OU’s Maury Litwack serves on governor’s transition committee
LARRY YUDELSON
It’s one word in a committee report few
people will read, but for Maury Litwack, it
was a job well done.
The word was “all,” and it appeared in
the seemingly bland sentence “Develop a
high-quality STEM curriculum for all stu-
dents,” one of nearly two dozen recom-
mendations in the report of the Educa-
tion, Access, and Opportunity Transition
Advisory Committee designed to guide the
administration of Governor Phil Murphy.
Mr. Litwack runs the Teach Advocacy
Network for the Orthodox Union, an
effort that lobbies state governments for
more funding for Jewish schools. It has six
state-based efforts, including Teach NJ, in
the states that Mr. Litwack says cover 90
percent of the national Jewish day school
population. Mr. Litwack, who lives in
Teaneck, served on the aforementioned
education committee for the transition, as
did Nathan Lindenbaum, also of Teaneck,
who is a member of the executive com-
mittee of Teach NJ. Teach NJ, which has a
three-person staff based in Teaneck, is also
supported by Jewish schools and federa-
tions across the state, including the Jewish
A perfect partnership
The new Idea School is poised to open at the Kaplen JCC
JOANNE PALMER
The Kaplan JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly
isn’t interested in renting out space, its
CEO, Jordan Shenker, said.
But it is interested in “finding a partner,”
he said.
He believes that he has found such
a partner in the Ideas School, the high
school set to open for its first class of ninth-
graders in the fall.
The Idea School’s head of school, Tik-
vah Wiener of Teaneck, is thrilled with the
partnership that will provide her new insti-
tution not only with a physical space, but
with a community into which she and the
school will fit seamlessly.
“It is a wonderful opportunity for us,” she
said. For one thing, the educational philos-
ophy of its preschool, based on the Reggio
Emilia model, which emphasizes “cultivat-
ing creativity and independence,” is exactly
what she wants to stress in the Orthodox
high school she’s creating. Beyond that,
beyond the young children, she sees the
other interest and age groups that find a
home in the JCC, and because she “wants to
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Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Mr. Litwack’s involvement on the transi-
tion committee “was a big deal,” he said,
“because it was the first time I’ve seen that
a representative of the Jewish day school
world was asked to serve on a transition
team. That’s an important reflection of the
way the government views us in terms of
an issue and a priority.”
As for the document itself: “It talked
repeatedly of investing in STEM for all
kids.” That word “all” — which he under-
stands to include private school as well as
public school students — “is a reflection of
our voice and conversations. The recom-
mendation of investment in all kids is a
great starting point.”
The quest for more funding for yeshivas
and day schools often has landed in the mid-
dle of a heated debate concerning general
education. Should the government assist
only public schools, which it can hold to its
standards, and which must accept all stu-
dents? Or, as advocates of school vouchers
have argued, should money go to parents to
send children to the schools of their choice?
That is something that public-school advo-
cates have seen as damaging to the existing
public school system.
interact with the community in a way that
blurs the line between the school and the
community. And what better place is there
to do that then at the JCC?”
The Idea Schools will take advantage
of the JCC’s physical plant. “The track,
the tennis courts, the pool, the art stu-
dio, with the kiln, the music school, the
dance school — all of these give the kids
the opportunity to pursue their passions,
and passion-based learning is one of the
key features of our school.
“And the grounds are a natural place
to explore the environment scientifi-
cally,” she continued. “It is easy to do that
there. The mind kind of boggles at the
possibilities.
“The kids won’t be siloed off,” she
added. “They will be interacting with all
the different communities.”
Not only is the Idea School not simply
renting space as it figures out where to
move next, it is planning actively to weave
itself into the JCC community. “We want
to be able to mesh naturally and organi-
cally with the programs the JCC has,” Ms.
Wiener said.
Maury Litwack
When the OU first came to New Jersey in
2011 to begin advocating for help in Tren-
ton for the yeshiva tuition crisis, it found
allies in the school choice movement. A
legislative breakfast run by the OU that
year was sponsored in part by an organi-
zation calling for private school vouchers.
Now, though, “This is 2.0. We’re not
Jordan Shenker
Her students will be able to take advan-
tage of the speakers the JCC brings in dur-
ing the day; in return, when the school
brings in its own speakers — for, say, a unit
on civil rights — that favor will be returned.
“The kids are creating authentic learning
experiences, and here is a community
talking about vouchers, about taking
money away from public schools,” Mr.
Litwack said. “We’re not looking to take
money away from people.”
Instead of taking money directly from
local school districts, Mr. Litwack said,
Teach NJ wants to continue the increases it
has helped get from Trenton for per-capita
aid for students in private schools, while
trying to replicate funding streams it has
been able to open up in other states.
This year, the state allocated money to
private schools for textbooks, technology,
security, and nursing. These separate line
items came to about $260 per student, or
$39.7 million in private school funding.
Of that amount, $11.5 million goes to Jew-
ish schools, which make up 29 percent of
the state’s private school enrollment. This
sum represents a significant increase since
TeachNJ launched in 2015.
“Since we’ve been doing this work,
there’s been close to a 50 percent increase
in funding from Trenton for day schools
and other nonpublic school kids,” Mr. Lit-
wack said. “We created the first-ever new
line item of funds: security funding. We
think security funding, which now hovers
around $75 per kid, should be $144 per kid.”
Tikvah Wiener
of authentic learners,” she said. “It is an
amazing match.”
One thing that is essential to the
school’s character is the maker space,
which it will be able to create at the JCC.
(A maker space, sometimes spelled as
one word, makerspace, is “a community
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include the many billions local governments spend on
their schools.
If day school advocates are seeking continuing and
steady increases in state funding in each budget year,
they ultimately will face limits on how much schools
reasonably can be said to be spending on textbooks
or technology or nursing or security — areas that have
been cordoned off, by custom and some decreasingly
relevant court rulings, from the private schools’ core
instructional enterprise.
That’s why the OU hailed as “historic” a New York
State law passed last year that would reimburse pri-
vate and religious schools that hired qualified instruc-
tors for science, technology, engineering and math.
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A red-diaper baby remembers

Historian Dr. Daniel Walkowitz talks about his family’s history in Paterson — and Europe
JOANNE PALMER

T
here aren’t that many of us Jews — there’s some
controversy over exactly how many, but it
seems that there are more or less 15 million in
the world now — but we’ve been around for an
awfully long time, and we’ve wandered quite a bit.
That means that whenever any of us tries to trace his or
her history, we find ourselves researching a great many
countries.
There also have been a proportionately huge number of
Jews who now live or whose parents or grandparents or
great grandparents have lived right here, in the metropoli-
tan New York area, in general, and in northern New Jersey
in particular. So when anyone from here tries to trace his
or her history, much of it has a very local focus.
When the researcher is a historian, that focus can be
tight and accurate, and then it can spread out, broad but
still accurate.
So it is with Daniel Walkowitz, a professor emeritus of
history from NYU and a third-generation son of Paterson,
whose soon-to-be-published book, “The Remembered
and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe Above, Daniel Walkowitz in Mostyska, near Lviv, his
and the United States,” looks at his family’s history, and maternal grandffather Max Margel’s hometown. Right,
through it tells much of the Jewish community’s story. in Warsaw, Dr. Walkowitz stands by a stone commem-
Dr. Walkowitz will talk about his book, and most spe- orating Jewish socialist activists. DANIEL WALKOWITZ

cifically about Paterson, in that city on Sunday, March 11.

(See box.)
The book is Dr. Walkowitz’s quest for a deeper under-
standing of his grandmother, Chaya Lubertofsky Walkow-
itz. “I always imagined myself as walking in her footsteps,”
he said. “My grandfather died when I was only a year old,
but I knew my grandmother.” But he only sort of knew her
—- she spoke Yiddish, and he, despite, some attempts at Yid-
dish school, did not. “I always imagined myself as walking in
her footsteps, but those were imaginary footsteps, because I
couldn’t speak to her.”
As he traces his grandmother’s life, not only through
documents but through travel, Dr. Walkowitz, who already
knew a great deal about Jewish life both here and there,
learned even more.
Daniel Walkowitz was born in Paterson in 1942 as a red-
diaper baby. His grandparents, fervent Bundists, were
forced out of Lodz. They arrived in Paterson in 1921, from
Poland via Denmark, where some of their large families
stayed; Dr. Walkowitz still has relatives in Copenhagen, and
also in London, another frequent stop on the exodus from
eastern to western Europe and so on to the New World.
discrete Jewish community. Like many
of the immigrants who flourished in Pat-
erson — both Jews and non-Jews — the
Walkowitzes were textile workers. “My
grandfather, Zisha, was a tailor, and my
grandmother did some weaving,” Dr.
Walkowitz said. “In the 1930s, my aunts
worked in the department stores, and my
father and my uncle worked in the tex-
tile mills.” Eventually, his father and his
uncle opened a floor-covering store, logi-
cally enough called Walkowitz Brothers.
They all continued to be very political.
“Some of my family became socialists,
and some became communists, and they all
were labor organizers,” Dr. Walkowitz said.
His parents’ grandparents were Ortho-
dox, but once they became Bundists, that
all ended. “I was raised in a secular tradi-
tion, and that is what I continue to be,” Dr. The Walkowitz family in 1923. Zisha holds his youngest son,
Walkowitz said. “But I am very Jewish. I Joseph; Sol sits at his left. DANIEL WALKOWITZ

“Many Jews who got to London actually thought it was
New York, and stayed,” he said, only partly joking. Another
branch of the family went to Buenos Aires.
When his paternal grandparents landed in New York,
they did not go to the Lower East Side, and from there
to Brooklyn or the Bronx. Instead, they went straight
to Paterson, which developed its own strong and
Who: Dr. Daniel Walkowitz
What: Will talk about “Paterson Roots Remembered
and Forgotten in Heritage Tourism Abroad.”
Where: At 17-10 River Road, Fair Lawn,
When: On Sunday, March 11, at 11:45 a.m.
Why: For the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey
For more information: (201) 300-6590 or JHSNNJ@
gmail.com.
grew up with a very strong sense of being
Jewish, and my Jewish tradition informed my sense of jus-
tice, and also informed who I am.”
“My father was the head of the Young Pioneers, the com-
munist youth group, and he spoke at the famous silk strike
in 1926. He was 11 years old then.”
As he grew older, his father’s political views moderated
somewhat, but his commitment did not. “When he died, in
1976, he had just been elected head of the Democratic party
in Bergen County,” Dr. Walkowitz said.
Daniel Walkowitz was born in 1942, grew up in Fair Lawn,
and then, as soon as he was old enough to start school, in
Cedar Grove, where “I basically led a secret life,” he said. “I pinochle there,” his grandson reported.
was the only Jew in my high school class of 300, and I was
also the only kid with a left-wing background.”
When he graduated from high school, his parents
moved back to Fair Lawn, where there was more of a
Jewish community.
So there was Daniel Walkowitz, who lived through much
of the history of the second half of the 20th century — he
was a Freedom Rider, among many other things — and who
became a labor and urban historian.
Starting in 2010, he began tracing his family — not only
his father’s family, but his mother’s as well. Zelda Margel
Walkowitz’s family did start in this country on the Lower
East Side — in fact, Dr. Walkowitz said, he learned that her
family had lived just a few blocks from his NYU office — and
later moved to Clifton; “In his later years, my grandfather
lived in Paterson, and in those later years he played a lot of
“In my book, I go to 11 cities in eight countries,” he
said. “I try to find stories of people like my grandmother,
hoping that if I could learn more about her life, I’d learn
more about my own.”
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Israel’s turning 70!

Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly devotes months to celebration
JOANNE PALMER

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urning 70 no longer means that a person is old
— modern medicine is amazing nowadays! —
but it also is hard to pivot that into being young.
Or even middle-aged.
When a country turns 70, though, that’s something else.
It’s still a fledgling among the family of nations. A mere
country-babe.
But when Israel turns 70 the situation is far more com-
plicated, because Israel is not just any country. It’s the
Jewish homeland, the Jewish state, a country that many
Jews, even some who never have been there, think of as
home. It’s a place of austere desert beauty and of old stone
and of Mediterranean beaches and of frighteningly clear,
punishing sunlight. It’s also a country that is a speck of
democracy in a sea of autocracy, a country with its own
internal problems with corruption and impinging theoc-
racy, a country under very real and very constant physical
threat, a country whose lack of popularity in the world
seems to have more to do with the world’s own undying Children celebrate Israel at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.
anti-Semitism than its very own very real issues.
One way for Jewish communities to fete Israel is by wall in Jerusalem — “out of shoe boxes,” Ms. Leslie said. “Experience Israel” month, will bring a film festival and
showcasing some of its many attributes — the culture, art, “People can put notes in between the boxes. Israeli wines and cheeses to the JCC. The Israeli Scouts
music, food, science, technology, philosophy, and general “In May, there will be a cooking class about Moroccan will become involved in July, which also will be technology
creativity that are part of its lifeblood. The Kaplen JCC on food. Eric Goldman, the film critic, will talk about Israeli month, featuring STEM and STEAM efforts, and in August,
the Palisades in Tenafly has chosen to take most of this films in June. And also in June, the JCC s sending the first campers will participate in the Tenafly to Tel Aviv swim
year — from January, at the start of the new secular year, contingent in a long time to the Celebrate Israel parade in challenge. “It’s about 56,500 meters between here and
to August, at the end of camp season, and just before the Manhattan, and the JCC’s dance team will lead it.” there,” Ms. Leslie said. But it’s okay. Swimmers will just
start of the new Jewish year — to celebrate Israel. January started with a lecture about Israel by Dr. Eric go around and around in the pool; they’re not splashing
“We are doing it because we want to celebrate and mark Mandel, and February’s festivities centered around Tu across the Atlantic and then the Mediterranean in any way
Israel’s 70th anniversary, and we want to foster an apprecia- b’Shvat. “We are already accepting submissions for the except virtually.
tion for Israel’s people and culture and history accomplish- Waltuch Gallery,” Ms. Leslie said. “We’re looking for art- That’s a lot.
ments for people in the community who might not be aware work and photos on the theme of ‘What Does Israel Mean It all will be accompanied by trivia quizzes; screens
of them,” Carol Leslie, the JCC’s program director, said. to You?’” throughout the center will flash information about Israel,
To that end, ongoing programs will include something March is arts and culture, and April, the month that and the library will feature a section of books about Israel
Israeli whenever possible during these eight months, and includes Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s independence day, will at 70. In general, Israel will be both unavoidable and a
new programs focusing on something Israeli will pop up see the results of the arts contest hanging on the JCC’s seamless part of life at the JCC.
as well. There will be music and food showing up in the walls. Also April will bring the visit of Israel Story — a live Tobi Kahn, the Manhattan-based artist whose long rela-
lobby occasionally, so that the surprised but pleased pass- version of the popular podcast, co-sponsored by Congre- tionship with the JCC has involved classes, lectures, and
erby can grab just a little taste of Israel. At the same time, gation Beth Sholom in Teaneck. tours of artists’ studios in both New York and Israel, and
“the nursery school is building the Kotel” — the Western May will be kibbutz month, Ms. Leslie said. June,
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Israel 70
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whose own work hangs in museums and

galleries throughout the United States and
far beyond, will teach both sessions of the
JCC U’s last winter session, on March 8,
focusing on Israeli artists.
His approach to the class echoes the
approach the JCC is taking to Israel in gen-
eral — that Israel includes multitudes, and
that to think about it in just one way is to
curtail your understanding of it severely.
“What I want to show is that just like
when you think of American artists or
French artists, you know that there is not
just one type of art, that’s true of Israeli
arts as well,” Mr. Kahn said. “Each of the
artists is a very different man or woman
from all of the other artists, and they’re all
doing such interesting work.
“There are Israeli artists of all ages, men
and women, gay and straight, old and
young, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, living
in Israel, not living in Israel, conceptual
art, installation art, painting, sculpture,
photography…
“It’s amazing, and I very much want to
showcase that.
“I want to show how diverse the art is.
You might think you know Israeli art — but
there is no one Israeli art, and no one way
of looking at it.”
Mr. Kahn plans to focus on photogra-
phy in the morning, and on painting in the
afternoon. He feels very strongly that it is
important to look at both female and male
artists — it’s not right, he says, to focus on
men to the exclusion of women, or for that
matter on straight artists to the exclusion
of the LGBT community.
One of the artists he plans to high-
light is an old friend, South-African-born
Larry Abramson, “who also is an amaz-
ing teacher, and who I met when we were
both 18 years old,” he said. “He is one of
my best friends.” The Tel Aviv-based Mr.
Abrahamson will open a show in Manhat-
tan next week.
He also will talk about Gideon Rubin,
the artist whose grandfather was another
artist, Reuvin Rubin, the Romanian-born
Tobi Kahn’s painting of water in Israel hung in the Jerusalem Biennale.
Tobi Kahn will discuss Israeli artist
Larry Abramson’s work.
Israeli painter whose house in Tel Aviv is The JCC will show the Israeli film “The Band’s Visit.”
now a museum, called (what else?) the
Rubin Museum.
He will talk about Sigalit Landau, the
sculptor and installation artist whose work
is inextricably based on the landscape
where she grew up.
And he will talk about his own work,
including the pieces on water that were
included in the Jewish Art Salon’s show at
the Jerusalem Biennale this fall, and are
now on display at the Derfner Museum at
the Hebrew Home in Riverdale, N.Y. “Those
pieces are about wells,” he said. “They’re
about looking down at water. They’re
about the idea that we don’t care enough
about water, and that we don’t understand
how life can’t happen without water.”
Water, as it happens, is a huge issue in
Israel, which has cultivated the kind of sci-
ence that is allowing the dry country to
flourish. Water technology can be one of The cast of the podcast “Israel Story” will present a live performance on April 24.
the country’s greatest intellectual exports,
should the political climate allow it, Mr. As this shows, often discussions of Israel That is the multifaceted Israel that will
Kahn said, and the controversy around turn political, philosophical, theological — be on display at the Kaplen JCC on the Pal-
it, as the writer Seth Siegel, a friend of Mr. and unbearable. But Israel is not only a isades in Tenafly from now until August,
Kahn’s and an often-quoted expert in the political hot spot, it is also a vibrant, physi- and far beyond then as well.
field, has shown, is a microcosm of the cal, very real place, a place where people For more information, go to the JCC’s
debate around Israel. live and love and dream. website, www.jccotp.org.

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National service coding
Teaneck student makes aliyah, works on facial recognition in Jerusalem
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Should it be Spanish or coding?
Avital Weisinger of Teaneck had to
choose one elective in her sophomore
year at Bruriah High School for Girls in
Elizabeth. After much deliberation, Tali
chose coding — and that turned out to have
a significant impact on her life.
Today, living in Israel, the 20-year-old
is fulfilling an unusual National Service
assignment, using coding to craft creative
solutions for specific civilian problems.
She now is building a face-recognition
technology for babies at Jerusalem’s Alyn
rehabilitation hospital; tiny patients who
cannot make a sound when they cry
because they have a trach tube in their
throats. The system, fixed to the crib, rec-
ognizes the crying face and produces an
artificial cry. That way, caregivers will be
alerted and the babies will have the secu-
rity of knowing that someone will respond
when they are in distress.
“I love this project because it combines
everything I’m fascinated in,” Ms. Weis-
inger said. “I really want to go into com-
puter vision.”
Making the world better — and making better Jews
Bergenfield family donates to NCSY social service project that sends kids out to help
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Over the last 12 years, the New Jersey divi-
sion of NCSY — the Orthodox Union’s youth
movement — has taken nearly 60 groups of
teenagers on volunteer missions to cities in
need, such as New Orleans, to work side by
side with organizations including Habitat
for Humanity, South East Recovery, Hike
For Katrina, Nechama, and Green Light.
Gershon and Aviva Distenfeld of Ber-
genfield recently made a major dona-
tion toward the annual budget for these
social-justice leadership-training missions,
because, they said, they believe them to be
a significant aspect of Jewish education.
“Over the past few years, I have had the
opportunity to go on multiple NJ NCSY
missions, with both day-school and public-
school teens, and have seen firsthand the
impact these trips have on our children,”
Gershon Distenfeld, a senior vice presi-
dent at AllianceBernstein, said.
Participants for the trips are recruited
from public schools across the state, as
well as from schools including the Jewish
Education Center in Elizabeth, Ma’ayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck,
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Her first team project at Bruriah was a
sensor to help colorblind people match
their socks. “With that program I com-
bined my love of science, art, and technol-
ogy,” she said. “Computer science is really
very creative and that appeals to the artist
in me.”
In 11th grade, she and her fellow coding
students created EYE.TO, an eye-track-
ing program to help locked-in syndrome
patients “point” to a specific object. That
summer, she was accepted to the seven-
week 20-girl Girls Who Code boot camp
hosted at Viacom in Times Square. The
company provided her with a kosher
lunch every day and gave each participant
a Macbook Pro as a graduation gift.
The next summer, she was a teaching
assistant in the Girls Who Code camp held
at AIG. The training for this position took
place on a Saturday, when Sabbath-obser-
vant Jews do not travel or actively use
electric or electronic items. But that didn’t
stop Ms. Weisinger.
“I went to the training but didn’t touch
a computer and they were so cool about
it,” she said. “They even let me stay
in a hotel even though it was only for
Gershon and Aviva Distenfeld
the Frisch School in Paramus, and the Ber-
gen County High School of Jewish Studies
in Ridgewood.
The Distenfelds dedicated their dona-
tion in memory of Mr. Distenfeld’s parents,
Fred and Rose Distenfeld.
“My parents instilled in me a desire to
do good for others, and there are many
ways you can do that,” Mr. Distenfeld said.
“I’ve been blessed to have the financial
Avital Weisinger WENDY KELMAN
out-of-towners.”
That September she packed her bags
for a gap year in Israel. She’s already been
accepted to three different colleges in New
York. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to stay
in Israel or come back, but my mother
Gershon Distenfeld, left, and New Jersey NCSY’s regional director, Ethan Katz,
on a mission together.
resources to do good, but my wife and I
were particularly interested in projects
where Jews can get their hands dirty to
help make the world a better place.”
Ms. Distenfeld said that although she
never knew her mother-in-law, “my father
in-law, Fred, was a man of kindness,
always helping people without fanfare or
attribution. Gershon and I are honored to
encouraged me to stay,” she said. “She
knew that I loved Israel and saw my future
here. I always had. When I was in America,
I never felt it was my home. Israel is really
where we’re supposed to be.”
So Ms. Weisinger decided to remain in
Israel after her gap year to do National
Service (Sherut Leumi), an alternative to
military service that is favored by many
religious female teenagers. An organiza-
tion called Here Next Year helped her put
plans in place and she officially made ali-
yah in August 2017.
Ms. Weisinger had a strong idea about
what she did and didn’t want to do during
her national service. “I saw a lot of Ameri-
cans in Sherut Leumi were working in kin-
dergartens or in clerical jobs and I didn’t
want to do that,” she said.
She would have loved to find a position
teaching kids to code, but that didn’t exist.
Then she looked into training service dogs
for the blind, but her Hebrew wasn’t fluent
enough. So she accepted a National Ser-
vice job at Schneider Children’s Hospital
in Petach Tikvah, where she was supposed
to work in a program that uses technology
to entertain pediatric patients.
be able to name this important program
after them and to continue the legacy they
taught us.”
A member of Bergenfield’s Congrega-
tion Beth Abraham, Mr. Distenfeld said
he feels that his fellow modern Orthodox
Jews are becoming more insular and not
doing enough acts of kindness (chesed, in
Hebrew) in the outside world. He finds this
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The program wasn’t all she hoped it would be, and
she would have preferred to be in Jerusalem. But she
stayed on until she heard about a more fitting oppor-
Interior Designer
tunity from a friend she randomly encountered on the
Jerusalem light rail one day. (former interior designer of model
“She’d heard about a program through Sherut rooms for NY’s #1 Dept. Store)
Leumi that she thought I’d enjoy,” Ms. Weisinger said.
“It was called Carmel 6000. I looked it up on Face-
book later and I saw it was brand new. I sent an email,
I went for an interview, and it spoke to me.”
For a totally new look using
This year, Ms. Weisinger and one other National Ser-
vice volunteer have been busy piloting the program, your furniture or starting anew.
laying the groundwork for next year, when 30 more
volunteers are expected to come to learn how to code Staging also available
in order to tackle social-action projects. She plans to
continue as a mentor next year.
“I’m helping them develop the curriculum and we’re
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both making projects to show what Carmel 6000 is
capable of. I’m really part of a startup,” she said.
To communicate better with her Israeli roommates
in Jerusalem, she is taking ulpan — intensive Hebrew
language classes — three times a week. But Hebrew
isn’t as critical during working hours, she said. “In
the tech world, a lot of the vocabulary is English. In
fact, one requirement for getting into Carmel 6000
is knowing English well, because all the websites and
videos you learn from are in English.”
Ms. Weisinger’s blog, “Adventures of Avital,” posted
on Facebook and Instagram, is quite candid about the
obstacles and frustrations she has faced. One of her
pet peeves is that while lone soldiers — those without
family support in Israel — get financial and social perks
from a variety of organizations, lone National Service
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perceived trend disturbing, given the Torah’s often-

repeated emphasis on helping the downtrodden.
“These missions provide a unique learning opportu-
nity outside of the classroom, where teens learn from
the same Jewish values that my parents instilled in me
growing up of what it means to live your life as a proud
Jew, helping others in times of need and being a light
unto the nations,” he said.
“It’s about not just learning how to be a Jew but
actually being a Jew.”
The 2018 schedule began in February with a JEC
Houston mission, a BCHSJS New Orleans mission, a
Ma’ayanot and public school New Orleans Mission,
and a Metro West Nashville Mission.
Participants from Frisch will go to Charleston in
March and Puerto Rico in May, while Ma’ayanot stu-
dents will go to New Orleans March 21-25. Two addi-
tional New Jersey NCSY Puerto Rico missions are
planned for June and August.
Mr. Distenfeld, 42, generally accompanies one mis-
sion every year. Last September, his 16-year-old daugh-
ter, Shoshana, went on her first mission, to Houston.
The other Distenfeld children are 13, 10, and 2, “and I
hope when they are old enough they will participate
as an integral part of their education,” he said. “Kids
often tell us these missions are the most meaningful
experience they have in their high school years.”
One participant, Shira Rosenblum of Passaic, was
part of the group that worked with Green Light New
Orleans, which installs free energy-efficient light
bulbs, rain barrels and backyard vegetable gardens for
local residents. She reported that the mission “really
gave me an appreciation for the small things I have in
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Saul and Deena Kaszovitz Dr. Miriam and Rabbi Elie Berman Dr. Neer and Lynn Even-Hen Samantha Kur

Ma’ayanot scholarship dinner scheduled for March 10

Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
holds its annual scholarship fund dinner
on Saturday, March 10, at Congregation
Keter Torah in Teaneck.
Ma’ayanot parents, students, alumnae,
and friends will gather to honor Samantha
Kur, who will receive the Teacher of the
Year award; Deena and Saul Kaszovitz, the
Keter Shem Tov award winners; Amudei
Ma’ayanot awardees Dr. Miriam and Rabbi
Elie Berman, and Dr. Neer and Lynn Even-
Hen, Parents of the Year.
Saul and Deena Kaszovitz’s four daugh-
ters attended Ma’ayanot, and they have
been Ma’ayanot parents for a record-setting
11 consecutive years. In addition to serving
as Ma’ayanot president for three years, Mr.
Kaszovitz has been on many of its commit-
tees, including finance, board nominating,
dinner fundraising, Middle States review,
open house, development, and dean of
students search. Ms. Kaszovitz was chair
of the dinner committee, a member of a
recent Learning Center focus group, and as
a member of the Middle States review, open
house, and parent ambassador committees.
Dr. Miriam and Rabbi Elie Berman vol-
unteer in many community organizations.
Dr. Berman has been on Ma’ayanot’s board
since 2015; she also has been on many
of its committees, including the Middle
States review, open house, and parent
ambassador. She volunteers for Torah
Academy of Bergen County, Shearit HaP-
late, Yavneh, Yeshivat Noam, Lamdeinu,
and Congregation Rinat Yisrael. Rabbi
Berman teaches a weekly She’elot u-Teshu-
vot shiur at Rinat and is a member of the
board of the Etzion Foundation. He also
always can be counted on to be a volunteer
coach on call at Ma’ayanot softball games.
Dr. Neer and Lynn Even-Hen are
involved in many volunteer activities on
behalf of Ma’ayanot. Dr. Even-Hen has
served on the dinner fundraising commit-
tee, while Ms. Even-Hen has been a mem-
ber of the board since 2014 and been on
the parent ambassador and open house
committees. Together, they have opened
their home to host grade Shabbatonim and
parlor meetings.
Samantha Kur, chair of the English
department, joined Ma’ayanot’s faculty
in 2007. She fosters a love of reading in
her students and teaches them to develop
their own identity and moral compass
through their study of literature.
All funds raised through the dinner will
benefit Ma’ayanot’s scholarship program,
which awarded more than $1.4 million to
families in financial need this fiscal year.
For information or to register, call Pam
Ennis at (201) 833-4307, ext. 265, or email
her at ennisp@maayanot.org.

Joan and Dan Silna Gary and Beth Hirschberg Rabbi Shelley Kniaz

Dinner and dance celebrates honorees

at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Val-
ley hosts “Dine Dance Celebrate,” a
gala dinner dance at the shul on Sat-
urday, April 14. The evening honors
its “Temple GEMS” — Joan and Dan
Silna, Beth and Gary Hirschberg, and
Rabbi Shelly Kniaz.
Joan and Dan Silna have been
members of Temple Emanuel since
1974. As part of the building com-
mittee, Dan Silna was among those
who helped the shul move to Wood-
cliff Lake and marched with Rabbi
Andre Ungar and Cantor Mark Bid-
delman from Westwood to Wood-
cliff Lake. Dan has been president of
UJA-NNJ (now the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey), the YJCC in
Washington Township, the Gerrard
Berman Day School in Oakland, and
Temple Emanuel. Joan Silna has
been on the JFNNJ women’s board
and on the PFA of Pascack Valley
High School.
Beth and Gary Hirschberg of
Woodcliff Lake are greatly involved
in Jewish life in the Pascack Valley.
Ms. Hirschberg, an early childhood
program teacher at Temple Emanuel,
was a Mommy and Me facilitator, and
co-chaired a the shul’s Purim comedy
night. Mr. Hirschberg has been on the
board of the Jewish Home Assisted
Living and he has been president of
the YJCC in Washington Township
and of Temple Emanuel. He was
involved in the hiring of Rabbi Shel-
ley Kniaz, the ECP director, and of
the shul’s executive director. Most
recently he co-chaired both the can-
torial and rabbinic searches.
Rabbi Shelley Kniaz, the shul’s
director of congregational learn-
ing for 10 years, stimulates learning
for students, their families, and the
school faculty. A curriculum writer
and trainer, she has taught in syna-
gogue and Solomon Schechter Day
schools. She helped develop the
Shutafut online exchange program
between students in Israel and the
diaspora and is on the board of
JETSIsrael.
For more information, call (201)
391-0801 or go to www.tepv.org/
gems.
Daniel Straus and Senator Robert Menendez
Norpac will hear
Senator Menendez
Joyce and Daniel Straus will host a pro-Israel Norpac
meeting in honor of Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
on Sunday, March 11, at 11 a.m., in Englewood. Joyce
and Daniel Straus and Zahava and Moshael Straus are
co-chairing the meeting. Mr. Menendez has been one
of the staunchest supporters of the U.S.-Israel relation-
ship in his more than two decades in Congress.
For more information or to RSVP, email Avi@NOR-
PAC.net or call (201) 788-5133,
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Goldman Sachs CIO speaks
to Yeshiva University students
On February 14, Yeshiva University stu-
dents studying finance and computer
science gathered on YU’s Wilf Campus
for a Q&A session with Elisha Wiesel,
Goldman Sachs’s chief information
manuel of the Pascack Valley
officer. The talk was hosted by Judah
Diament, program director of under-
graduate data science and professor
and co-chair of computer science at
Yeshiva College.
Mr. Wiesel told the students about
his 23-year tenure building the infor-
mation architecture that Goldman
uses to manage its businesses. Gold-
man has created a technological struc-
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ture that both centralizes information
and systems management while distribut-
ing the means to query that information to
assess risk, gain, and prediction to every
Goldman employee, he said.
Mr. Wiesel also suggested that everyone
should learn some coding.
In response to a question about how the
legacy of his father, the writer, activist, and
odcliff Lake, NJ 07677
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, has influ-
enced his career, Mr. Wiesel said that he
believes that his father’s greatest skill was
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March Mega Food Drive returning
The Jewish Federation of Northern New to donate. A group also will assemble
Jersey is bringing back its community- snack packs for kids at risk of hunger
wide March Mega Food Drive on Sun- on weekends. A federation donor is
day, March 25. The federation welcomes funding 500 snack packs, and funds are
shuls and schools to participate by act- being raised to provide 500 more. Each
ing as a collection site for food items that snack pack is $4.50; a challenge grant
will benefit five northern New Jersey has been set up to reach that goal. Donat-
food pantries whose shelves are low in ing money for the weekend snack pack
stock at this time of year. project is another way for families to be
Families are invited to a program at involved.
the federation’s Paramus office that For more information, go to www.
afternoon at 1 p.m., when the food will jfnnj.org/fooddrive or call (973)
be sorted and packed so it will be ready 305-6607.
Elisha Wiesel
“listening to people closely and making
them feel like human beings.” He wanted
his legacy at Goldman to reflect that he did
the same thing for the people who worked
for him by making the profession of tech-
nician equal in status to the traders and
other financial people in the company. But
more importantly, he said, “how I raise my
children is the best way for me to honor
my father. That will be my true legacy.” Janis and Oren Heller Yefim and Lena Fleyshmakher
Rachmiel and Alla Kavesh Brian and Ettie Sher
2018-19 Shomrei Torah tribute dinner
Religious School Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair
Lawn holds its 43rd annual dinner on
Union, and Rachmiel Kavesh is from
Afghanistan. The award is to people who
Early Registration Sunday, March 18, at 6 p.m., at Congre- give selflessly of themselves for the ben-
gation Keter Torah in Teaneck. The hon- efit and enrichment of others. Ettie and
NOW orees will be recognized for their service
and their commitment to the shul.
Brian Sher will receive the Young Lead-
ership award. Brian is from Uzbekistan
OPEN Janis and Oren Heller, the guests of
honor, have made significant contribu-
and Ettie from Moldova.
Mr. Fleyshmakher, a photographer,
tions to the shul. Mr. Heller, a former volunteers to record many community
SUBSTANTIAL shul president, is still a part of its day-to- simchas. Ms. Fleyshmakher and her sis-
SAVINGS day events. He is the executive director ter and fellow honoree, Ms. Kavesh, are
of the Mount Sinai Synagogue in Wash- in charge of the shul’s weekly kiddush.
IF YOUR REGISTER ington Heights in Manhattan. Ms. Heller Alla and Rachmiel Kavesh participate
BY MARCH 18, 2018 — a.k.a. Morah Yehudit — taught at the
Leah Sokoloff Nursery School, volun-
and assist in many of the shul’s educa-
tional and religious programs. Ettie and
• Online Classes teers, and runs the shul’s cloud system
for shul payments.
Brian Sher have volunteered for many
shul programs and have hosted special
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Brothers,
more brothers,
and so much winning!
YU Maccabees take conference championship
with help from the Hods of Teaneck

Tyler Hod is 44.

Opposite, Justin Hod, 21.

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or the first time in the
history of the Yeshiva
University basketball
team, the YU Maccabees
have won the Skyline Conference
championship.
The New York metropolitan
area-based Skyline Conference
is part of the NCAA’s Division
III, so the win advances the
team to the division’s tourna-
ment, which begins this week-
end. The tournament hosts 64
different Division III college
basketball teams. The Macca-
bees, which was the #4 seed,
defeated the #2 seed Purchase
College Panthers on Sunday,
February 25, by a score of 87-81
at Purchase.
The YU team isn’t special
only because its players wear
ballplayers, but
kippot and are educated with
a dual curriculum — Judaic and
English subjects. This team,
which is coached by Elliot
Steinmetz, who has been working
with them for four years, is also
where two brothers, Tyler and Jus-
tin Hod, from Teaneck continue a
tradition that was started by their
father, Lior, and their uncle, Ayal,
more than 30 years ago.
In this championship game, Jus-
tin went 6 for 6 from the 3 point
line to score 18 points, and Tyler
scored 9.
This wasn’t the first time the
Hods made history at YU. The
brothers had done it before, just
a little more than a year ago, in
January 2017, when Tyler, Justin,
and their older brother, Jordan, all
played in one game. That day, the
Maccabees won, 73 to 43, against
Sarah Lawrence College.
But the story goes back even
further.
The Hod dynasty began when
Lior and Ayal, originally from
Israel, now in their 50s, started to
play basketball in a Jewish com-
I am so happy
for my boys,
for the entire
team, and for
klal Yisrael.
These boys
are great
they are even
better people.
munity center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Their parents, Dov and Rivi, and
their four children had moved to
Atlanta, and the parents opened
a Middle Eastern restaurant. Like
most new restaurants, though, the
Hods’ attempt failed, and Dov and
Rivi returned to Israel.
But Lior, then 15, and Ayal, then
14, stayed in Atlanta. They did not
see their parents for seven years,
but they were able to keep on play-
ing basketball.
A Yeshiva University gradu-
ate saw them playing, and he
was so impressed that he told his
friend about them. His friend hap-
pened to be the legendary Yeshiva
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University coach Jonathan Halpert, who
was able to get them the scholarships that
brought them to Yeshiva University to
study — and to play basketball.
The family had been devoutly secular
until then; it was at YU that Lior Hod was
introduced to Orthodox Judaism. He took
to it.
In 1988, Lior broke Yeshiva University’s
scoring record with 1,541 points. In 1989,
Ayal quickly broke his brother’s record.
(A third brother, Asaf, played from 1998
to 2002.)
Coincidentally, Lior’s young sons — Jor-
dan, Justin, and Tyler — were all water
boys for the Macs, and they all dreamed
of playing for them when they got older.
A generation later, those same three
water boys, the second set of Hod broth-
ers, were playing for the YU Macs.
They made history last year, when they
became the first set of three brothers ever
to play for the same team at the same time
in NCAA Division III. They also were only
the fourth set of three brothers to play at
the same time across the entire NCAA.
Jordan, who graduated last year, now
works in sports technology; he’s at a New
York-based sports league software com-
pany called LeagueApps. His brothers
Tyler, Jordan, and Justin Hod all played for Frisch.
continue to play basketball.
Playing for YU is not like playing for
any other school. According to Tyler, a
21-year-old junior, “A dual curriculum is
hard on its own. To add basketball to the
equation makes it that much more diffi-
cult and time consuming.
“I have a lot of work to do in terms of
managing my time better. Thank God, I am
able to manage it all by making a time and
place for everything and focusing on each
thing at its proper time.”
As for their prowess on the court, “My
dad was an incredible shooter,” Tyler
said. “But nothing in life comes without
doing your hishtadlus” — due diligence —
“and hard work.” “Repetitions and prac-
tice are vital.”
Though they love basketball, the broth-
ers realize that they will not end up play-
ing for the NBA. Justin, now a 22-year-
old senior, wants to pursue finance, and
21-year-old Tyler, a junior, is leaning more
toward the rabbinate.
But first they are savoring being part
of the team that won the Skyline Confer-
ence Championship for the first time in
YU history.
“YU ball keeps on getting more talented
and God-loving, and that is a deadly com-
bination,” Lior Hod said. And how does it
feel for the younger Hods to have accom-
plished something that the elder Hods
were never able to manage? “My father
and my uncle had their fair share of suc-
cess and they are happy for what we have
succeeded in doing,” Tyler Hod said.
The boys’ parents, Lior and Janet, have
lived in Teaneck for more than 30 years,
where Janet is active in the community and
Lior owns his own business, Elkay, which
is involved in healthcare technology.
All four of the Hod children — including
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to Frisch (and Samantha, like her

Lior and Ayal played for YU.
brothers, was an avid and success-
ful athlete there).
The brothers feel that the
Teaneck community has been a
blessing. It’s “one of the best places
in the world to live, after Eretz Yis-
rael,” Tyler said. “Teaneck gave my
brother and me the ability to play
in various sports leagues and con-
stantly compete every season on
some sport. And it helps to have
supportive parents. “We thank God
and thank our parents for giving us
this great home and environment
in Teaneck.” Tyler, left, and Justin study together in YU’s beit midrash.
And how do their parents feel
about their children’s athletic people. They learn before every even in the stands.”
feats? Their father couldn’t say game. They arrive early at the He is proud not only of his sons,
enough. “There is no feeling like gym, warm up, take a break to but of the entire team. “I have had
watching your children accomplish learn together, and then return to many of them stay in my home,
something incredible like this,” the court.” and they are the same way, polite,
Lior said. “I was able to sit in the Lior also takes pride in how his respectful, and thoughtful,” he
stands with my brother Ayal, and boys daven after every game, wear said. “They are incredible role
see them do something that has kippot as they play, and rush to models and athletes. They make
never been done. help the opposing team when they Mac alumni proud. They make
“I am so happy for my boys, fall. “They respect the refs and Yeshiva University proud. These
for the entire team, and for klal coaches even when they disagree,” are basketball-playing mentsches.”
Yisrael. These boys are great ball- he said. “They pick up the garbage There is no greater victory than
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Rabbi Shaya Denburg, co-director of CTeen in Coral Springs, Fla., is joined by
Rabbi Moshe Klein to his left; Chayale Denburg, co-director of CTeen in Coral
Springs, Fla., standing and second from right, and survivors of the Parkland, Fla.,
school shooting. The survivors were in New York for Chabad’s CTeen conference.
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Ben Sales
Seven survivors of the Parkland school
shooting were among thousands of Jew-
ish high school students who attended the
annual conference of the Chabad move-
ment’s youth group.
Responding to the February 14 shooting
I T Y C O L L E G E
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ference, which was hosted in New York
City by CTeen, the teen arm of the cha-
sidic outreach movement. CTeen, which
has 100,000 members worldwide, has
eight chapters in the South Florida area
surrounding Parkland.
The shooting, which killed 17 students
and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School, has galvanized a youth-led
movement for gun reform. But the stu-
dents at the conference, each of whom
had taken part in previous local Chabad
activities, said they appreciated the
opportunity to grieve and be comforted.
“We all have been feeling better
because we’ve been with other teens who
have been supporting us,” Marc Susskind,
14, said. “They’ve been checking in on us,
keeping us company.”
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causes. The movement often encour-
ages doing Jewish rituals, such as light-
ing Shabbat candles or laying tefillin, as
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a response to tragedy.
Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky, CTeen’s presi-
dent, said the group tries to avoid political
issues like the gun control campaign, but
acknowledged the power of the Parkland
students’ activism.
“Teens are the leaders of today, not the
leaders of tomorrow,” he said. “Many of
them are embracing that. The Parkland
event is something that brought this onto
the national stage. Teens might be getting
a bump in being able to mobilize because
a lot of people are looking toward them
and seeing what they’re going to do.”
Other Jewish youth groups are explic-
itly supporting the gun control campaign.
According to the New York Jewish Week,
the teen arms of the Reform, Conserva-
tive, and modern Orthodox movements
have all signed onto the effort.
“Never before have students across the
country mobilized like this, and never
before have the eyes of the nation been
so closely trained on us as we fight for
change,” Zoe Turner, a member of the
Reform movement’s National Federation
of Temple Youth in Florida, wrote in an
essay last week. “A country-wide call to
action roars loudly in all of our ears, and
NFTY is heeding the call.”
The students at the CTeen confer-
ence, which drew 2,500 attendees, said
they would also be engaging in activism,
including a march in Washington, D.C.,
scheduled for March 24. But this week-
end, Parkland survivors said, they were
just grateful to be among friends who
comforted them.
“Everyone knows about the incident
and everyone is going to help reconnect,”
said Maverick Reynolds, 15, who heard
gunshots while hiding in a nearby class-
room. “We knew it was real and it was
very scary.” JTA Wire Service

Why these staunch supporters
of a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem
think Adelson shouldn’t pay for it
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adel-
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U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is getting a
thumb’s down from a range of observers
who support the embassy’s relocation.
Still, State Department lawyers are
poring over the law books to determine
how to pull off America’s first privately
funded embassy.
Why would the Trump administra-
tion want this? Well, no one’s saying, but
cost-cutting seems likely. The move to
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Presumably, a Jerusalem embassy will
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Adelson’s spokesman declined
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JTA asked various people who have
been intimately involved in advocating
for the embassy move — in some cases
for decades — what they thought of the
plan to privatize the embassy. The five
who talked thought it was a terrible idea.
The triumph of Trump’s recognition of
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came about honestly, because recogniz-
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came under intense pressure from the
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The optics of a rich donor paying the
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“Citizens volunteering their resources
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the world — should serve, and belong to,
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Ilan Cohen says it was a “very easy process” to get on the
ballot in Kansas even though he is not old enough to vote,
and doesn’t live there.
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now officially, running to be gover-
nor of Kansas.
And one day he hopes to visit Kansas.
And turn 18. And be able to vote. And
graduate from high school.
Right now, Cohen is a 17-year-old
junior at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day
School in suburban Washington, D.C. But
that hasn’t stopped him from officially
launching a gubernatorial campaign in a
Midwestern state he’s never been to. Go
to CohenForKansas.com, and you will
see an honest-to-goodness campaign
site complete with a biography, links to
media coverage (including, um, Wikipe-
dia), and an inspiring photo of corn.
Why is Ilan Cohen running for gover-
nor of Kansas?
“Because I can,” he said.
“One of the key reasons behind this
candidacy is teen participation in politi-
cal life,” Cohen said in a 20-minute break
from his campaign schedule — and 11th
grade. “There are many ways of getting
involved in the political scene before
you’re 18, and oftentimes in ways you
don’t necessarily expect. For instance,
running for governor of Kansas.”
An apparent oversight in Kansas’
electoral laws has allowed anyone,
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COURTESY OF ILAN COHEN
anywhere, of any age, to become a candi-
date for governor. A handful of teenagers
have jumped at the opportunity. They
include Democrats, Republicans, and
others. One candidate misspells the word
“independent” on his campaign site.
The state did successfully bar a dog
from running, and now it is trying to fig-
ure out how to keep this from happening
in the future. A bill raising the minimum
age to 18 and requiring residency in the
state is advancing.
“I went on the website, entered my
name, my address, phone number, and
email address, and then I did the same
thing for my treasurer, and then maybe
one more time, and then I pressed sub-
mit,” Cohen said. “I didn’t have to show
ID or prove that I’m a citizen of the
United States or anything. It’s a very
easy process.”
The first teen to register to run for
Kansas governor was Jack Bergeson,
also 17, who began his campaign last
year. Bergeson actually is from Kansas
and like Cohen, he is a liberal running
in a state that’s been red since the 1968
election. Bergeson’s platform is a bit
more detailed than Cohen’s: He sup-
ports Medicare for all, a $12 minimum
wage and laying high-speed rail between
major Midwestern cities. JTA was unable
to reach him directly.
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“I’m inspired by it,” Cohen said of the Parkland cam-
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“Whether it is going to shul and occasionally see-
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CALIFORNIA RESERVE ROSE

RESERVE SYRAH
22.95
28.95 ARGENTINA CH. FAYAT POMEROL
CH. FONTENIL BORDEAUX
109.95
47.95
BARON HERZOG RESERVE ZINFANDEL 27.95 DON GUILLERMO MALBEC 9.95 *
CH. FOURCAS DUPREE MEDOC 25.95 *
BATTLE OF BARRELS AM. OAK 31.95 * ELI MONTERO MALBEC 9.95 *
SYRAH 12.95 CH. GAZIN ROCQUENCOURT BORD 48.95
FLECHAS DE LOS ANDE
BATTLE OF BARRELS FRENCH OAK 31.95 * WEINSTOCK CABERNET/SYRAH 23.95 CH. GRAND PUY BORDEAUX 82.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON
MERLOT
8.95 *
8.95 *
CABERNET SAUV
CHARDONNAY
8.95
8.95
*
*
FLECHAS DE LOS ANDE MALBEC
WILD GOAT BONARDA SPECIAL
24.95
8.95 *
CH. GISCOURS MARGAUX
CH. HAUT COND MEDOC
95.95
69.95
Ne
RED ZINFANDEL
PINOT NOIR
8.95 *
8.95 *
MERLOT
SELECT ALICANTE BOUSCHET
8.95
18.95
*
*
WILD GOAT RESERVE MALBEC
WILD GOAT TRI-VARIETAL
10.95 *
8.95 *
CH. JAUMARD BORDEAUX 13.95 * Ad
th
CH. LA CLARE MEDOC 26.95
SAUVIGNON BLANC 8.95 * SELECT CABERNET NAPA 18.95 * CH. LA FLEUR DE BEAULIEU ST.. 22.95
CHARDONNAY
PINOT GRIGIO
8.95 *
8.95 *
SELECT CHARDONNAY SONOMA
"W" MOSCATO
18.95
7.95
*
*
AUSTRIA CH. LARCIS JAUMAT ST EMILLION 25.95
HAFNER LATE HARVEST MUSCAT (O) 12.95 * CH. LA TONNELLE BORDEAUX 27.95
PINK PINOT GRIGIO 8.95 * "W" RED 7.95 * CH. LE CAILLOU POMEROL 76.95
HAFNER QUEEN OF SHEBA RED (O) 12.95 *
ROSE OF CABERNET 6.95 * "W" WHITE 7.95 * CH. LE CROCK SAINT ESTEPHE 58.95
QUEEN ESTHER CAB SAUV RES (O) 13.95 *
CHENIN BLANC
CLONE SIX CAB SAUV
GENERATION VIII NAPA CAB
6.95 *
139.95
225.99
WHITE ZINFANDEL

CANADA
6.95 * QUEEN ESTHER MERLOT RES (O) 13.95 * CH. LE PETIT CHABAN BORDEAUX 15.95
CHAT. LA CLIDE Best Selection/Lowest P
JEUNESSE BLACK MUSCAT 9.95 * TZAFONA CHARDONNAY
TZAFONA VIDAL ICEWINE 375ML
17.95
29.95
AUSTRALIA ST. EMILION GRAND CRU
CH. LAMOTHE CISSAC BORDEAUX 32.95
89.95

JEUNESSE CABERNET SAUV. 9.95 * TEAL LAKE CABERNET/MERLOT (O) 9.95 * CLASSIC MERLOT/ARGAMAN 9.95 *
CH.MARQUISAT DE BI CUVEE ABEL 42.95 COVENANT GROS
JEUNESSE PINK MOSCATO
L.H. CHENIN BLANC 750ML
9.95 *
16.95 *
WASHINGTON TEAL LAKE CABERNET RESERVE
TEAL LAKE CHARDONNAY
16.95
9.95
*
*
CH. PICAMBAU SAINT EMILION 22.95 CHARDONNAY RESERVE
CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE
13.95
16.95
*
*
BLUE C VIOGNER 29.95 BLACK ONY

L.H. JOH.RIESLING 19.95 * /OREGON TEAL LAKE MOSCATO D'AUSSIE 6.95 *

CH. LEOVILLE PO ST. JULIEN
CH. MOULIN RICHE BORDEAUX
219.95
53.95 MERLOT RESERVE 16.95 *
SYRAH
DALTON
64.95 ONYX RED
GUSH
L.H. ORANGE MUSCAT 375ML 9.95 * MAISON ROY SHAI PINOT NOIR 79.95 TEAL LAKE SAUVIGNON BLANC 9.95 * CH. ROLLAN DE BY MEDOC 51.95 * CABERNET SAUV. WINEMAKER 21.95
ALMA CRIMSON BLEND 19.95 BLESSED VA
L.H. RIESLING 375ML 11.95 GOOSE BAY TWO HEMISPHERE RED 19.95 TEAL LAKE SHIRAZ 9.95 * CH. ROYAMONT POMEROL 45.95 * MERLOT WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 21.95
ALMA GSM SCARELT BLEND 19.95 LONE OAK G
L.H. ORANGE MUSCAT 750ML 16.95 * PACIFICA CABERNET SAUV 31.95 TEAL LAKE SHIRAZ RESERVE 16.95 * CH. TERTHE DUGAY SAINT EMILION 99.95 CHARD. WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 22.95
ANNA DESSERT WINE LTD QTY 39.95 LONE OAK C
L.H. ZINFANDEL 16.95 * PACIFICA CABERNET MERLOT 19.95 CH. TOUR SERAN MEDOC 55.95 SHIRAZ WINEMAKER'S CHOICE 21.95
IVORY BLEND 16.95 LONE OAK C
LINEAGE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 14.95 *
LINEAGE CHARDONNAY 14.95 *
PACIFICA MERITAGE
PACIFICA PINOT NOIR
34.95
19.95
CHILE CH. THENAC FLEUR DU PERIGORD 21.95 *
CH. CAMPLAY BORDEAUX 13.95 *
SUPERIEUR CABERNET
BAT SHLOMO
61.95
CABERNET RESERVE
CANAAN RED
32.95
12.95 *
LONE OAK S
ALFASI CABERNET RESERVE 9.95 SPRING RIV
LINEAGE CHOREOGRAPH 14.95 * PACIFICA ROSE 19.95 CH. LE BOURDIE MEDOC 25.95 BETTY'S CUVEE RED 59.95
ALFASI CABERNET SAUVIGNON 7.95 CANAAN WHITE 12.95 * SPRING RIV
LINEAGE PINOT NOIR 14.95 * CROZES HERMITAGE RHONE RED 27.95 CHARDONNAY 34.95
ALFASI CHARDONNAY 7.95 ESTATE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 16.95 *
NAPA ROSE 28.95 * CUVEE HAUTES TERRES MEDOC 25.95 ROSE 28.95 ESTATE CHENIN BLANC 17.95
ALFASI MALBEC/SYRAH RESERVE 9.95 Brand (front)
PRINCE PETITE SYRAH 36.95 LA PIGONNIER VAISINI ST. EMILION 27.95 SAUVIGNON BLANC 24.95 ESTATE PETITE SIRAH 17.95
Actual Dimensions: 3

ALFASI MERLOT 7.95

RES. NAPA PETITE VERDOT 36.95
ALFASI MERLOT RESERVE 8.95 LE MOUREE D'ISLE COTES DU RHONE 17.95 BEIT EL ESTATE ROSE 15.95
RESERVE SPRING MOUNTAIN NAPA 69.95 LES MARRIONNIERS CHABLIS 32.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 21.95 ESTATE MERLOT 16.95
ALFASI PINOT NOIR RESERVE 9.95
SPECIAL RESERVE CHARDONNAY 26.95 * CH. LE VIEUX CH BORDEAUX 24.95 CARIGNAN 21.95 ESTATE M SAUV BLANC 14.95 *
DON ALFONSO CAB SAUV 5.95 *
SPECIAL RESERVE ALEX CABERNET 33.95 * LES ROCHES DE YON FI ST. EMILION 42.95 MAJESTIQUE CABERNET 48.95 ESTATE SHIRAZ 16.95 *
DON ALFONSO MERLOT 5.95 *
SPEC. RES LAKE COUNTY CAB 34.95 PALAIS DE L'OMBRIERE BORDEAUX 19.95 PETITE VERDOT 21.95 _ ESTATE FUME BLANC 13.95
DON ALFONSO SAUVIGNON BLANC 5.95 *
SPEC.RES LAKE COUNTY CAB FRANC36.95
SPEC.RES PASO ROBLES MALBEC 36.95
LANZUR CARMENERE 7.95 * CHATENEUF ROUGE SEMI-DRY BORD 11.95* BEN AMI ESTATE UNOAKED CHARDONNAY 15.95
PAVILLON DE LA ROTONDE BORD, 19.95 * BEN AMI CHARDONNAY 8.95 * GRENACHE 18.95 gus
LANZUR MERLOT 7.95 *
SPEC. RES QUARTET 36.95 PAVILLON DE LEOVILLE ST. JULIEN 53.95 MATATIA RED LTD QTY 109.95
LANZUR RESERVA CAB SAUVIGNON 8.95 * BEN AMI CABERNET 8.95 *
SPEC. RESERVE NAPA CABERNET 43.95 * GASPARD BORDEAUX RESERVE 15.95 MERLOT RESERVE 36.95
LANZUR RESERVA MALBEC 8.95 * BEN AMI MERLOT 8.95 *
SPECIAL RES RUTHEFORD CAB 84.95 THE BUTCHER'S DAUG BORDEAUX 14.95 * MOSCATO 10.95 *
LANZUR RESERVA PINOT NOIR 8.95 * BEN AMI ZMORA SEMI-DRY CAB. 7.95 * Spring River is name

SPECIAL RES PETITE VERDOT NAPA 36.95 M SERIES CABERNET SAUV 17.95 *
BIN NUN
King Herod more tha

LANZUR SAUVIGNON BLANC 7.95 * VIN DE PAYS CABERNET 7.95 * Today the surroundin

VARIATIONS THREE 23.95 * VIN DE PAYS MERLOT 7.95 * M SERIES SAUV BLANC 15.95 *
LANZUR SHIRAZ 7.95 * BIN NUN CAB./MERLOT RESERVE 29.95
VARIATIONS FOUR 23.95 * ESTATE PINOT GRIS 16.95 Gush E
VARIATIONS FIVE 23.95 *
TERRA VEGA CABERNET SAUV 7.95 * DAVID VIGNOBLES LES MASQUES BINYAMINA VIOGNER RESERVE 19.95 Spring
TERRA VEGA CHARDONNAY 7.95 * CHAT DU PAPE 64.95 * BIN CABERNET 12.95 *
WARNECKE SPECIAL ED. CAB 82.95 * SHIRAZ RESERVE 28.95
Herzog Lineage $ 14.95 TERRA VEGA MALBEC 7.95 * BARONS ROTHCHILD BIN CHARDONNAY 12.95 * BEN ZIMRA MERLOT SINGLE VINE. 38.95
WHITE ZINFANDEL 5.95 *
TERRA VEGA PINOT NOIR 7.95 * LES LAURIERES 23.95 BIN MERLOT 12.95 * GAVO
COVENANT HERZOG VALFLORE SEMI-DRY CAB. 7.95 * BIN SHIRAZ 12.95 *
MERON CABERNET SAUV 39.95
GOFNA CAB
NEW YORK
TERRA VEGA ROSE 7.95 * EL KOSH SHIRAZ SINGLE VINEYARD 39.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON 89.95
LAVAN CHARDONNAY 36.95
CITY WINERY
TERRA VEGA SAUVIGNON BLANC
TERRA VEGA SYRAH
7.95
7.95
*
* ISRAEL CABERNET RESERVE
CHARDONNAY RESERVE
19.95
18.95
*
*
SAFSUFA SHIRAZ
YUVALIM CAB SAUV
17.95
13.95
* GDANCE RE
DANCE WHIT
NESHAMA RED 69.95
WISEMAN CABERNET SAUVIGNON 39.95 ADIR WINERY SAUVIGNON BLANC RESERVE 13.95 *
DOMAINE CABERNET
RED C 43.95
RED C ROSE
SAUV. BLANC RED C
31.95
21.95
CITY WINERY EINSOF PINOT NOIR 42.95
CITY WINERY ALDER SPRING SYRAH 38.95 GERMANY BEN ZIMRA CABERNET SAUVIGNON 34.95 *
BEN ZIMRA SHIRAZ 34.95
CHOSEN DIAMOND
THE CAVE
44.95
79.95 *
DU CASTEL
CASTEL LA VIE BLANC 19.95
MASSADA
MERLOT
VON HOVEL RIESLING KABINETT 35.95 AGUR WINERY THE CAVE 79.95
HACO
SOLOMON LOT 70 139.95
CHAMPAGNES AGUR LAYAM SYRAH MOURVEDRE 33.95 BRAVDO
CASTEL LA VIE ROUGE
BLANC DU CASTEL
19.95
42.95 ADI RIESLIN
& SPARKLING FRANCE
THE TRIBE RED 34.95
AGUR KESSEM 28.95 BRAVDO CHARDONNAY 24.95 GRAND VIN 69.95
THE TRIBE WHITE 27.95 HADI SHIRA
BRAVDO CABERNET 27.95
HAGAFEN WINES KOENIG GEWURTZTRAMINER 16.95 * AGUR SPECIAL RESERVE 34.95
ELLA VALLEY HKOUDITION
HAGAFEN 36TH
KOENIG PINOT GRIS 16.95 * ALEXANDER WINERY BRAVDO SHIRAZ 24.95
CHARDONNAY 18.95 HAR B
BACKSBERG BRUT 21.95 * KOENIG RIESLING 16.95 * CLEOPATRA WHITE 54.95 BRAVDO MERLOT 24.95
ANNIVERSARY RES RED 99.95 CABERNET/FRANC 28.95 BRACHA BL
BARTENURA PROSECCO 14.95 * BRAVDO QUADRO 33.95 *
PASCAL BOUCHARD CHABLIS 37.95 * AMAROLO 115 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 28.95
CABERNET FRANC 33.95 * BARTENURA SPARKLING MOSCATO 15.95 * BRAVDO COUPAGE 24.95 HIGHLANDE
BARTENURA ASTI SPUMANTE 12.99 * JOSEPH MELLOT SANCERRE 34.95 ALEXANDER CABERNET FRANC 32.95 EVER RED 16.95
SAUVIGNON 42.95 BRAVDO LANDMARK 2B 34.95 HIGHLANDE
BORGO REALE PROSECCO 14.95 * BARON ROTHSCHILD CH.NEUF ALEX.THE GREAT CAB. SAUVIG 72.95 SAUVIGNON BLANC 18.95
CHARDONNAY 22.95 * BRAVDO LANDMARK MERLOT 34.95 JOZEF CABE
LAKE COUNTY REISLING 17.95 * CONTESSA ANNALISA PROSECCO 13.95 * WHITE SEMI-DRY BO 10.95 * ALEX. THE GREAT CAB. SAUVIG 175.95
CARMEL FLAM HAYO
CONTESSA ANNALISA DOMAINE BUNAN BAN ALEX. THE GREAT BLANC 31.95
MERLOT 26.95 * CARMEL TRAD. CONCORD GRAPE 6.95 *
LAMBRUSCO WHITE 9.95 * PROVENCE ROSE 29.95 * GRAND RESERVE INQUIRE CLASSICO 29.95 AUTEUR CA
PINOT NOIR 27.95 * CONTESSA ANNALISA CARMEL TRAD. SACRAMENTAL 6.95 *
CH. DE RAYNE CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 32.95 NOBLE 84.95 GENESIS CA
SAUVIGNON BLANC 18.95 * LAMBRUSCO ROSE 9.95 * LTD. EDITION 75.95
VIGEAU SAUTERNES 139.95 LIZA SAUVIGNON BLANC 21.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 62.95 GENESIS ME
SYRAH 26.95 * CREMANT D'ALSACE 17.95
WHITE RIESLING DRY 23.95 * DRAPPIER CARTE D'OR 48.95 *
CH. MAIME ROSE 49.95 MERLOT RESERVE 32.95 MEDITERRANEAN
MERLOT SHA'AL
51.95
33.95
GALIL GENESIS SH
HERZON VIN DE PAYS CHARD. 7.95 ROSE 37.95 LYRICA GSM
PADIS DRAPPIER CARTE BLANCHE
ELVI CAVA BRUT
48.95
17.95
*
* BARON ROTHSCHILD SELECTED CABERNET 9.95 *
ALON RED BLEND
BLANC DE'NOIRS
17.95
12.95 LYRICA MER
SANDRO CABERNET/MERLOT 22.95 *
BRILLANCE CABERNET 98.95 LES LAURIERES ROSE 19.95 SELECTED CHARDONNAY 9.95 *
SHIRAH
EN FUEGO CAVA
FREIXENET EXCELENCIA BRUT
12.95
15.95 * BARON ROTHSCHILD
BARKAN SELECTED EMERALD RIES/CHENIN 9.95 *
ELA RED BLEND 17.95 VIRTUOSO C
ALTITUDE SERIES + 412 38.95 BARBERA 16.95 VIRTUOSO C
WINE COMPANY HAGAFEN BRUT ROSE 42.95 BORDEAUX 750ML 31.95 *
ALTITUDE SERIES + 720 38.95
SELECTED SAUV BLANC 9.95 * CABERNET 13.95 VIRTUOSO M
HERZOG BLANC DE BLANC BRUT 12.95 * BARON ROTHSCHILD SELECTED MEDITERRANEAN 9.95 *
BLACK BLUE SYRAH 44.95 ALTITUDE SERIES + 624 38.95 MERLOT 13.95 VIRTUOSO R
HERZOG BRUT CALIFORNIA 10.95 * SELECTED MOSCATO 9.95 *
BRO-DEAX BLEND 52.95 BORDEAUX 375ML 19.95 MERON 21.95
HERZOG BRUT ROSE 12.95 * ASSEMBLAGE EITAN 28.95 SELECTED ROSE 9.95 * SELECT SEM
COUNTER PUNCH 42.95 KEDEM WHITE CHAMP 6.95 * CH. L'OASIS PROVENCE ROSE 19.95 * ROSE 12.95
ASSEMBLAGE REICHAN 28.95 CABERNET APPELLATION 15.95 * SELECT CAB
GESHEM (GSM) 56.95 KEDEM PINK CHAMP 6.95 * CH. BELIERIVES BORDEAUX 12.95 * VIOGNIER 13.95
ASSEMBLAGE TZAFIT 28.95 CABERNET/SHIRAZ APPELLATION 15.95 * SELECT ME
KIMSEY SYRAH 69.95 LAURENT-PERRIER BRUT 78.95 * CH. BELIERIVES WHITE 11.95 * PINOT NOIR 16.95
SAINT BEATRICE INSTANT B ROSE 12.95 CLASSIC CAB SAUVIGNON 9.95 * MERLOT APPELLATION 15.95 * SPEC. EDITI
ONE TWO PUNCH 39.95 LAURENT-PERRIER ROSE 125 YIRON 28.95
CLASSIC CHARDONNAY 9.95 * SPEC. EDITI
PINOT NOIR 59.95 LOUIS DE SACY BRUT ROSE 74.95 CH. CANTELAUD BORDEAUX 21.95 ADMON CABERNET 24.95
GILGAL
POWER TO THE PEOPLE 79.95
LOUIS DE SACY BRUT 59.95 * CH. CANTENAC BROWN 159.95 CLASSIC CHARDONNAY 375ML 5.95 * ADMON CHARDONNAY 24.95
CABERNET 13.95 JACQ
LOUIS DE VIGNEZAC GRAND CRU 79.95 CH. DE AREYRES BORDEAUX 16.95 * CLASSIC SAUVIGNON BLANC 9.95 * ADMON MALBEC 36.95
VINTAGE WHITE 26.95 MA MAISON BRUT 5.95 * CABERNET-MERLOT 13.95 ALBERT BLA
CH. DE CAMPLY BORDEAUX 13.95 * CLASSIC MALBEC 9.95 * KAYOUMI SHIRAZ 33.95
TWIN SUNS MA MAISON ROSE 5.95 *
CH. DE COR BUG BORDEAUX 13.95 CLASSIC MERLOT 9.95 * KAYOUMI WHITE RIESLING 22.95
CHARDONNAY
PINOT NOIR
14.95
13.95
COTES DE G
NOTTE ITALIANA PROSECCO 14.95 * VILLAGE B
CHARDONNAY 12.95 *
MT. TABOR 562 BRUT 16.95 * CH. DE PARSAC SAINT EMILION 21.95 * CLASSIC PETIT SYRAH 9.95 * CHATEAU REMO SANGIOVESE 13.95 CUVEE MAR
CABERNET SAUV. 12.95 * CLASSIC PINOTAGE 9.95 * CABERNET RESERVE 27.95
TISHBI BRUT 26.95 CH. DE PARSAC SYRAH 13.95
CABERNET RESV 22.95 * CLASSIC SHIRAZ 9.95 * GRAND RED BLEND 29.95 CUVEE RED
VAL D'OCA PROSECCO 14.95 * SAINT EMILION 375ML 15.95 * WHITE RIESLING 12.95
GRAND SELECT RED BLEND 31.95 * YARDEN BLANC DE BLANC 27.95 * CLASSIC PINOT NOIR 9.95 * RED BLEND 25.95 CUVEE ROSE
CH. DES RIGANE BORDEAUX 10.95 ROSE 12.95

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CABERNET SAUVIGINON 28.95 ESSENCE CABERNET 35.95 YATIR MT AMASA BLEND 39.95 CAPCANES DOLCE SWEET RED 500ML 22.95
CABERNET FRANC 27.95 * ESSENCE CHARDONNAY 27.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 49.95 CAPCANES LA FLOR DE PRIMAVERA 64.95
EDOM RED 33.95 ESSENCE FORTESSE 34.95 FOREST 2010 76.95 CAPCANES SAMSO 64.95
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MERLOT 22.95 ESSENCE MALBEC 36.95 PETIT VERDOT 39.95 CAPCANES PERAJ HA'ABIB 53.95
ESSENCE MERLOT 33.95 SYRAH 45.95 CAPCANES PERAJ PETITA 16.95
C
PEAK RED 44.95

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CAPCANES PERAJ PETITA ROSAT 16.65
PRAT DESSERT WINE 27.95 IMPRESSION CAB SAUV 16.95 * YIKVEI ZION EN FUEGO CABERNET SAUVIGNON 6.95 *
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IMPRESION MERLOT 16.95 *

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ROSE 19.95 CAB SAUV EREZ 9.95 ELVI 26 DE ELVI PRIORAT 48.95
IMPRESION SEMI-DRY CAB 16.95 * CABERNET RESERVE 15.95 ELVI CLOS MESORAH (LIMITED) 68.95
SINAI 18.95 *

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INSPIRE DEVOTAGE RED BLEND 23.95 * DOLEV CABERNET 9.95 * ELVI HERENZA CRIANZA 24.95
SINGLE VINEYARD CAB (LIMITED) 68.95
INSPIRE MERITAGE 21.95 * DOLEV MUSCAT HAMBURG 8.95 ELVI HERENZA RESERVA 61.95
VIOGNIER 19.95
LEGACY CABERNET FRANC 67.95 DOLEV RED MOSCATO 9.95 * ELVI HERENZA RIOJA 11.95 *
RAMOT NAFTALY LEGACY PETITE SIRAH 67.95 * DOLEV SEMI-SWEET CAB 9.95 ELVI INVITA WHITE BLEND 12.95
CABERNET SAUVIGNON 42.95 LEGACY PETITE VERDOT 67.95 NEXUS ONE RIBERA DEL DUERO 17.95

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ETZION KALIL 4% (KIDDUSH WINE) 6.95
DUET MERLOT CABERNET BLEND 31.95 RAMON CARDOVA CRIANZA 18.95 *
PETIT VERDOT 42.95
TRB RESERVE RED BLEND 46.95 YOGEV RAMON CARDOVA GARNACHA 16.95 *
VISION CAB SAUV 8.95 * CABERNET SAUVIGNON 12.95 RAMON CARDOVA RIOJA 13.95 *
MALBEC 42.95 VISION MERLOT 8.95 * TRES BUHIS CABERNET SAUVIGNON 9.95
CABERNET/MERLOT 12.95
RAMAT NEGEV VISION SEMI-DRY WHITE 8.95 * CABERNET/PETITE VERDOT 12.95 TRES BUHIS SELECTION 12.95
GROS JERUSALEM GEWURTZTRAMINER 19.95 VISION SHIRAZ 8.95 * CABERNET/SHIRAZ 12.95 TRES BUHIS TEMPRANILLO 9.95
29.95 BLACK ONYX 69.95 2900 RED BLEND 11.95 * NEVE MIDBAR ROSE 19.95 RED MOSCATO 8.95 * VINA ENCINA RED 10.95 *
CHARDONNAY/SAUVIGNON BLANC 12.95
64.95 ONYX RED 54.95 2900 WHITE BLEND 11.95 * WHITE MOSCATO 8.95 * VINA ENCINA ROSE 10.95 *
NEVE MIDBAR SAUV BLANC 28.95 1848 WINERY VINA ENCINA WHITE 10.95 *
GUSH ETZION GERSTEIN CHARDONNAY 19.95 *
RECANATI TISHBI 2ND GENERATION CAB/MERLO 19.95
19.95 GERSTEIN GEWURTZ 19.95 *
19.95
BLESSED VALLEY RED
LONE OAK GEWURTZTRAMINER
49.95
19.95 GERSTEIN MARSELAN 19.95
BITTUNI RED
CABERNET
34.95
13.95
CABERNET/SYRAH
CHENIN BLANC (S)
11.95 *
10.95 *
2ND GENERATION CAB. SAUVIG 19.95
5TH GENERATION CABERNET FRANC 24.95
SHERRY/PORT
39.95 LONE OAK CABERNET 39.95 PREMIUM CABERNET 16.95 EMERALD RIESLING (S) 10.95* KEDEM LIMITED 26 YRS 39.95 *
CABERNET FRANC RSV 31.95 5TH GENERATION CHARDONNAY 24.95 KEDEM PORT 12.95 *
16.95 LONE OAK CAB FRANC 39.99 PREMIUM PINOTAGE 16.95 ESTATE CABERNET 24.95
CHARDONNAY 13.95 5TH GENERATION SYRAH 24.95 KEDEM SHERRY ROYALE 7.95 *
32.95 LONE OAK SAUVIGNON BLANC 19.95 PREMIUM SHIRAZ 16.95 ESTATE CHARDONNAY 13.95
MARAWI WHITE 34.95 7TH GENERATION CAB SAUV 36.95 PORTO CORDOVERO 27.95 *
12.95 * SPRING RIVER BLEND 24.95 PREMIUM WHITE 17.95 ESTATE GEWURZTRAMINER 13.95
MARSELAN RESERVE 49.95 CABERNET SAUVIGNON RESERVE 35.95 PORTO CORDOVERO LBV 47.95 *
12.95 * SPRING RIVER G.S.M 24.95 RESERVE CABERET 22.95 TIO PEPE TIO PEPE 17.95 *
ESTATE SAUVIGNON BLANC 13.95 SPECIAL RESERVE CAB SAUV 52.95
N 16.95 * RESERVE PETITE SIRAH 22.95 MERLOT 13.95
ESTATE VIOGNIER 14.95 QUEVEDO RUBY PORT 17.95 *
17.95 VINYARD CABERNET 11.95 MERLOT RESERVE 23.95
ESTATE PINOT NOIR 24.95
ITALY
Brand (front)

JEZREEL VALLEY KOSHER

Actual Dimensions: 3.937 in W x 3.937 in H
17.95 PETITE SYRAH 24.95
MALBEC 39.95
15.95 ROSE 12.95 BARTENURA
16.95
14.95 *
ADUMIN RED BLEND
ARGAMAN
27.95
56.95 SAUVIGNON BLANC 13.95
ESTATE MERLOT
MUSCAT ALEXANDRONI
24.95
11.95 MALVAISA 10.95 * SPIRITS
CARIGNAN 38.95 SPECIAL RESERVE RED 48.95 MOSCATO DI ASTI 9.95 * AMBUSH CHILI PEPPER LIQ (375) 14.95
16.95 * ESTATE SHIRAZ 24.95 AMBUSH CHILI PEPPER LIQ (750ML) 19.95
CHARDONNAY 22.95 SHIRAZ (S) 13.95 MOSCATO DI ASTI (375 ML) 6.95 *
13.95 PETIT VERDOT SINGLE VINEYARD 39.95 ASKALON ARAK 80° 18.95
LEVANIM WHITE BLEND 19.95 SYRAH VIOGNER RESERVE 38.95 NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO 13.95 *
AY 15.95 RUBY CABERNET SINGLE VINEYARD 39.95 ASKALON ARAK 100° 19.95
ICON RESERVE 76.95 YASMIN RED 9.95 * ROSSO TOSCANO 6.95 * ASKALON BRANDY 80° 15.95
18.95 CAB. FRANC SINGLE VINEYARD 39.95
gush et zion winery ROSE 19.95 YASMIN WHITE 9.95 * PINOT GRIGIO 11.95 * STOCK 84 BRANDY 15.95
109.95 VINEYARDS CABERNET 14.95 *
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he Land of Lincoln’s next governor may well be f
a Jewish Democrat. —
It just isn’t clear what kind of Jewish Demo- B
crat he will be. I
Two Jewish candidates are the front-runners in the Illi- b
nois Democratic gubernatorial primary in March, and i
both are favored to defeat the unpopular Republican gov-
ernor, Bruce Rauner, in the general election. Among the i
other Democrats, a son of the Kennedy family also is in u
the running. d
But between the two Jewish Democrats, religion and R
political party are where the similarities end.
J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire venture capitalist with ties to p
establishment Democrats, has enjoyed a commanding
lead in the polls. But Daniel Biss is gaining. Biss is a state
senator who has aligned himself squarely with the pro-
gressive movement and with the former presidential can-
didate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt).
Chris Kennedy, a wealthy investor and son of the late
Robert F. Kennedy, is vying with Biss for second place.
And a large number of voters are undecided.
Though the two front-runners have faced controversy
— in Biss’ case relating to Israel — both are projecting con-
fidence as they head into the primary’s final weeks.
Here’s how Pritzker and Biss compare.
Illinois State Senator Daniel Biss in 2014. TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR MOTOROLA MOBILITY
How they got here
J.B. Pritzker, 53, is a scion of the wealthy Pritzker fam- the Democratic primary for Illinois’ 9th Congressional Dis- pursue a career in activism and politics.
ily, whose ancestor A.N. Pritzker founded the Hyatt trict, which has a large Jewish population. He lost to Jan Biss was a policy adviser to the Democratic governor
Hotel chain. J.B. Pritzker graduated from Northwestern Schakowsky, who still holds the seat. of Illinois starting in 2009, and was elected to the state
Law School and founded a venture capital firm in Chi- Daniel Biss, 40, grew up in a family of musicians in House of Representatives the next year. In 2012, he was
cago with his brother Anthony. He has a net worth of Ohio, and earned his doctorate in mathematics from the elected as a state senator representing Chicago’s northern
$3.5 billion. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught math at suburbs; that’s the position he holds today. h
This isn’t his first foray into politics. In 1998, he ran in the University of Chicago from 2002 to 2008, and left to j
What they stand for t
Pritzker vs. Biss is a local version of Hillary Clinton vs. U
Bernie Sanders, the two approaches that have divided the o
Democratic Party since the 2016 presidential campaign. o
Pritzker is an establishment Democrat with deep connec- s
tions. Biss is an upstart progressive campaigning against
billionaires (like Pritzker). B
Pritzker has been a Clinton ally for more than a decade t
and was her national co-chair in the 2008 Democratic pri-
mary. His sister, Penny, was a key Obama ally that year, W
leading to a sibling rivalry. Penny Pritzker ended up as B
Obama’s commerce secretary, while J.B. again was a major f
donor to Clinton in 2016, hosting a fundraiser for her at t
his home. k
In this effort, Pritzker has maintained his establishment M
ties, scoring endorsements from both of his state’s sena- s
tors, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, both Demo- b
crats. He is campaigning on Democratic touchstones, t
pledging more funding for education, health care, and
social services.
Biss has purposefully aligned himself with Bernie Sand- i
ers-style Democratic politics. His ads rail against a “rigged
system,” and he pledges to “make billionaires pay their
fair share in taxes.” He is campaigning for key Sanders
policies like Medicare for all, universal health care, and s
free higher education. d
Biss also has made inroads among the Sanders activist p
J.B. Pritzker speaks to the media at MacArthur’s Restaurant in Chicago on February 6, 2018. base. He was endorsed recently by Our Revolution, the t
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running mate was a member of the Democratic Social-
ists of America, but that didn’t work out.
Why they’ve gotten in trouble
Both candidates have faced controversy, with Biss’
relating to Jewish issues.
Biss’s initial running mate was Carlos Ramirez-Rosa,
a Chicago alderman who is a member of the Demo-
cratic Socialists of America. But Biss faced backlash
for the choice, made in September, because the DSA
experiences with our parents.”
Biss is descended from an Israeli mother and grandpar-
ents who survived the Holocaust. He grew up in a secular,
culturally Jewish family. He told the Chicago Sun-Times
that his maternal grandparents gave him “a deep sense
of Jewish identity” but not “a strong sense of ritual obser-
vance or literal belief, necessarily.” His grandparents on
the other side “had kind of a Marxist view on religion.”
In a story he’s told many times, Biss recalls fasting on Yom
Kippur as a child, when his maternal grandmother came up
to him and said, “Why would you do that?”
Biss still identifies as a Jew, though he has said he does not
observe many rituals. He said he consulted a rabbi when he
launched his run for governor.
“There is a place for morality and ethics and a kind of
a sense of community in politics,” Biss told the Sun-Times.
“In fact, that’s the point of politics. And many of us have
those senses shaped by our faith. But, then, if you bring the
faith into politics in a way that’s exclusive of somebody else,
that’s just dead wrong.”  JTA WIRE SERVICE

— along with Ramirez-Rosa personally — supports the

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against
Israel. Ramirez-Rosa had criticized the United States
because it “subsidized the oppression of the Palestin-
ian people.”
The move led Representative Brad Schneider, a Jew-
ish Democratic congressman from the Chicago sub-
urbs, to withdraw his endorsement of Biss, who then
dropped Ramirez-Rosa from the ticket, claiming that
Ramirez-Rosa had told him he opposes BDS.
Pritzker has come under fire of late. The most
prominent scandal came from a tape recording of

Pritzker vs. Biss

is a local version of
Hillary Clinton vs.
Bernie Sanders, the
two approaches that
have divided
the Democratic
Party since the
2016 presidential
campaign.
him speaking to former Illinois Governor Rod Blago-
jevich, a Democrat who is now in prison on corrup-
tion charges, about filling President Barack Obama’s
U.S. Senate seat. Pritzker suggested Illinois Secretary
of State Jesse White, who is black, as that “covers you
on the African-American thing.” He also called Repre-
sentative Jesse Jackson Jr. a “nightmare.” SOMETIMES LAUGHTER REALLY
IS THE BEST MEDICINE.
In another tape recording of a conversation with
Blagojevich, Pritzker sought political office from
the governor.

Send in the clowns. Because when a child faces an uncomfortable or painful procedure, a smiling
What they say about being Jewish
face or a silly joke is just what the doctor ordered. A recent study by Shaare Zedek Medical Center
Both Pritzker and Biss credit their Jewish background
in Jerusalem found that when our Dream Doctor medical clowns engage and distract patients, the
for making them who they are. Pritzker and his rela-
children report feeling less pain. And this holds true even for subsequent treatments when clowns
tives are longtime donors to Jewish causes, and Pritz-
are not present.
ker includes his support of the Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Center in his campaign web- For more than a century, Shaare Zedek has been known as the Hospital with a Heart, helping
site biography. He also has served on the national patients heal through compassionate care — thanks to the most advanced medical treatments and
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tee, the pro-Israel lobby. acsz.org/donate.
In an interview with a Chicago Jewish paper,
Pritzker said his childhood was imbued with Jew-
ish values.
“I’ve often said it’s hard to separate the values of
my parents and the values of my religion,” he said.
“When we would go to temple and listen to discus- www.acsz.org | national@acsz.org | 212.764.8116
sions (in services or Sunday school), there was no
difference between the things being taught at tem-
ple and those being taught at home. … It was just
the basic things you learn from your rabbi and
teachers are the same things we were learning from

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For women in Jewish fundraising,
harassment is an occupational hazard
DEBRA NUSSBAUM COHEN
She was young, Jewish, and the founder of
a nonprofit organization that aids deprived
children in Southeast Asia. He was a poten-
tial funder more than twice her age, prom-
ising donations and introductions to influ-
ential people.
“He dangled a lot of carrots,” she said.
But the fundraiser, who spoke on condi-
tion that she not be named for fear of jeop-
ardizing future professional prospects,
received no donations from the man who
had promised so much. Instead he stroked
her thigh, propositioned her, belittled her,
and at their first and only meeting gave
her gifts, like a bracelet, more appropriate
for a mistress. More than two years later,
he continues to leave suitor-like messages
from ever-changing phone numbers.
They initially connected through a Jew-
ish group that matches donors and causes.
When the founder reported the incident
to a leader there, it was brushed off, she
said. Today she has had many more expe-
riences like that working in the Jewish non-
profit world and frequently declines pri-
vate meetings with male potential funders
— “leaving money on the table,” she said.
She said it has significantly diminished the
number of children her organization can
help.
Similar experiences at a prominent
Israel-related nonprofit left her disillu-
sioned with the way sexual harassment is
handled, and recently she decided to step
back from working in the Jewish nonprofit
world altogether.
From in-person town hall-style gather-
ings to online testimonials, female fun-
draisers working in the Jewish world are
sharing similar stories of harassment. A
closed Facebook group urging women to
share their experiences is called #GamAni,
the Hebrew translation of #MeToo. It now
has 590 members.
To be sure, the issue is not limited to
the Jewish or nonprofit spheres — the
#MeToo moment started in October with
Harvey Weinstein’s outing as an alleged
serial sexual harasser and abuser in Hol-
lywood, which quickly led to a cascade of
allegations against men in the media, poli-
tics, and other for-profit and nonprofit
organizations. In many cases those allega-
tions resulted in the men either resigning
or being fired. The issue affects women at
every level in every industry, experts say,
but especially those who are vulnerable
because they are seeking career help, as
in Hollywood; access, as in political lob-
bying, and donations, as in the nonprofit
community.
Several people interviewed noted that
unlike the Hollywood and media scan-
dals, the accusers in the nonprofit world
have neither the fame nor the professional
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From left: Philanthropist Barbara Dobkin; Deborah Meyer, the founder and CEO of Moving Traditions; Rabbi Joanna
Samuels, executive of the Manny Cantor Center; and Rabbi Mira Beth Wasserman, director of Center for Jewish Ethics at
the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College speaking at a town hall meeting in New York on sexual harassment in the Jewish
community on January 25, 2018.
security to put their names forward.
There are not yet any firm numbers
about the prevalence of sexual harass-
ment in nonprofit organizations, said
Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of
Philanthropy, which has commissioned a
poll on the issue. Results are expected next
month. So there is no way yet to know how
the Jewish community compares to other
faith-based or ethnic philanthropies.
But in the nonprofit field, “there are a
lot of women in fundraising compared
with men,” Palmer said. Studies “suggest
as many of 75 percent of fundraisers are
women, though at the top levels many
men hold the top jobs. Among rank-and-
file fundraisers it’s a very female job,” she
said.
There is also a key difference between
nonprofit and other fields: At the end of
the day, in the nonproft world, donors
hold nearly all the power. Most big-money
donors are male. So are most CEOs.
Women constitute less than 17 percent of
chief executives in the Jewish nonprofit
world, according to the Forward.
Those are reasons women cite as they
say they will discuss their allegations pri-
vately but are not willing to go public with
the name of the perpetrator — or even with
their own names. The personal and profes-
sional risks are too great, they say, even if
they now hold a senior position.
Earlier this month, the Jewish Week of
New York reported on a list in circulation
that names men involved in Jewish com-
munal life who have been accused of sex-
ual harassment or abuse over the years.
Similar to the “Shitty Media Men” list that
also gathered anonymous allegations, the
Jewish list, which was seen by a dozen men
and women who spoke with this reporter,
was briefly public but quickly disappeared
from view. No one who was interviewed
say they know who created it.
Elana Sztokman, the author of three
books about gender dynamics and a stu-
dent at the Reform movement’s rabbini-
cal school in Jerusalem, wrote on her blog
about a male colleague who demanded
that she protect a man on the secret list
who had been accused by many women
of being abusive. Sztokman wrote that
the colleague, a rabbi who holds a “posi-
tion of power in the Jewish world,” asked
if she could use her connections to quash
the list and protect the other highly visible
man, someone who is frequently invited to
keynote conferences and colloquia. Sztok-
man, who said she did not create the list
but shared it at one point, declined.
“Does he understand how women who
make accusations are cast as mentally
unstable, as problematic, as not-team-
players, as angry, as having a chip on their
shoulder, as having an agenda, as unem-
ployable?” she wrote of the man who pres-
sured her. “He was so willing and eager to
take all this time to help his friend keep his
reputation. But when did he or anyone like
him ever do that for women who experi-
enced sexual abuse? Never.”
Rather than out accused sexual abusers,
a growing number of female professional
leaders and funders are taking a different
tack — directing time and money to chang-
ing organizational culture. A preliminary
group of 30 funders, organization heads,
and abuse experts met in Washington,
D.C., on January 29. Lisa Eisen, vice presi-
dent of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman
Family Foundation, organized the group.
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More people are now being invited into
the effort, Eisen said, and working groups
are being formed.
“There’s a great deal of interest in the
funding community and Jewish com-
munity to make change,” she said. “We
want to develop a communal pledge
together with standards, a clearinghouse
of resources, a focus on policies, proce-
dures and training, awareness efforts, and
reporting and investigation mechanisms.”
There also will be money for organiza-
tions to tap for work on sexual harassment
and abuse.
“Short-, medium- and long-term change
needs to happen,” Eisen said. “Our aim is
to put a fund or funds together.”
Money already is being poured into
other somewhat scattershot efforts: Webi-
nars and in-person seminars are being
run by groups ranging from the Jewish
Orthodox Feminist Alliance to the Reform
movement’s Women’s Rabbinic Network.
Training about handling and preventing
sexual harassment is being held at some
local Jewish federations and through Hillel
International, among others.
Naomi Eisenberger, founding executive
director of the Good People Fund, which
funnels grant money to small grassroots
nonprofits, organized a training for the
heads of small- and medium-sized Jew-
ish nonprofits in New York. Fran Sepler,
an expert on workplace harassment who
developed programs used by the U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
sion, runs the training. She gave a work-
shop to leaders of a dozen Jewish groups
in December. Registration has opened for
a larger workshop starting in late April.
Though the $1,000 cost per organization
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is no small expense for small organizations, coordina-
tors say there still is more demand than they can meet.
Eisenberger became aware of the prevalence of
sexual harassment even before the Weinstein scan-
dal broke, when a young woman whose organization
gets money through the Good People Fund turned to
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her for advice about how she could respond to the
sexual harassment she had faced. When Eisenberger
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Jewish Funders Network, which has some 1,800 grant-
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disparity between funders and grantees for some
time, as well as the abuses that too often arise from
the donors’ sense of entitlement, president and CEO
Andres Spokoiny said in an interview. But discus-
sion within JFN’s board of directors ramped up when
#MeToo began.
“Funders don’t have a code of ethics. It doesn’t
exist,” Spokoiny said. “JFN understands situations of
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Her latest challenge ended last week
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handled media for the European Jewish
Congress and three other co-organizers.
The prestigious event at the University of
Vienna featured government ministers and
some of the world’s best-known scholars
on anti-Semitism. It came off despite her
organization’s initial discomfort at holding
a summit against anti-Semitism under the
auspices of the only government in Europe
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With the Freedom Party entering the
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the largest academic events of its kind in
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“We tore the hairs off our heads,” said You need to use
Dina Porat, chief historian at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. a lot of
“Of course we had our doubts.” diplomacy” now
Porat decided to remain as a co-orga-
nizer to make a stance against the Free- that the Freedom
dom Party. Besides, she said, changing the Party is in the
venue on short notice would have meant
cancelling the whole thing. government.
Last month, officials representing the MILLI SEGAL
Jewish community of Austria boycotted the
parliament’s annual Holocaust commemo- “I am organizing a commemoration
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officials from the Freedom Party, which the “I told an official from that company we
community was not able to block. don’t want at the event any officials from
Segal said there are other complications the Freedom Party.”
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representatives try to avoid events where
Freedom Party officials will be present.
But when that proves impossible, Segal
said, “we certainly will not shake hands
with a Freedom Party official.”
No Freedom Party officials were at the
conference on anti-Semitism. But their
shadow was strongly felt.
Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, who is
an unusually blunt and outspoken critic of
the party, declined an invitation to attend
the conference, which had the French
philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy as its
keynote speaker. The Israeli Foreign Min-
istry’s representatives were embassy staff.
That was an unusually low-level delegation
for an event that featured addresses by a
government minister and the head of the
opposition in Austria, as well as prominent
members of academia.
During a speech by one of those offi-
cials, Education Minister Heinz Fass-
mann, Jewish students unfurled a banner
reading “Mr. Kurz! Your government is not
kosher!” before being escorted out of the
university hall.
Conference organizers anticipated such
scenes, Porat said. “Besides, we did feel
this is the right time and place to have such
a conference exactly because of the prob-
lematic aspects of the Freedom Party,” she
added.
Milli Segal
Nearly 20 years ago, at least one large
Jewish group did decide to cancel an event
in Austria over the Freedom Party. The
Conference of European Rabbis was sup-
posed to meet in Vienna in 2000, when
the Freedom Party entered the coalition
governing coalition for the first time.
“As an act of protest, we moved the
summit to Bratislava in Slovakia,” Rabbi
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party’s calling card and political currency.
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no place in his movement. Strache, who
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have spoken favorably about the Jewish
state. He said in December that he would
have liked to see the Austrian Embassy
move to Jerusalem, against the European
Union’s stance.
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the makeover.
On Tuesday, Oskar Deutsch, presi-
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his university fraternity published anti-
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she said. The Freedom Party that entered
the government nearly 20 years ago “was
far less dangerous than the one that’s in it
now,” she added.
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versities has made it a party of ideologues
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Editorial
It’s almost spring
I for paying for murders, and recalling
t’s odd, this time between Purim
and Pesach.
Spring officially starts before
Pesach, the holiday of early
spring, when the unleavened bread on
our tables often is joined by delicate new
vegetables, wispy asparagus, delicate
light-green chives.
The light is changing noticeably now,
and so are dawn and dusk. Now, when I
take my dogs for a walk in the morning,
I still put on their little white lights (ask
me someday about the charms of the
inexpensive lights you can get on Ama-
zon, which make your dogs both more
visible to drivers and also totally gor-
geous at the very same time — but really
only ask if you’re prepared for a long dis-
cursion on dog lights. Which few people
are) but now I turn them off before I’m
halfway back home.
Now there often still is some light in
the sky as I go home from work.
And now at noon the light is just a lit-
tle bit less pale, just a little bit more full,
than it had been. It doesn’t feel exactly
like spring, but it doesn’t feel exactly like
winter either. It’s a liminal time.
I’ve even seen an occasional crocus
this year.
It’s also a time when everything feels
odd and temporary. Part of it is the odd-
ness of the new political culture we live
in now, the topsy-turviness of a world
where Republicans cozy up to Russians,
Democrats favor the FBI, and teachers
might be expected to carry guns to safe-
guard their kindergarteners. It’s a world
from which civility often seems to have
vanished, at least publicly, lost in tweet-
storms of insults and name-calling and
partisan hatred.
But there is good going on in the world
too, and it is good to be reminded of that.
In our pages, we see that Israel at 70
is being celebrated at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly; on another
page, we see that high school students
are urged to go to the iCan conference to
learn their own Israel stories. Neither of
these events — the one-day conference
or the months-long celebration — over-
look Israel’s complexity; in fact, if Isra-
el’s reality were more straightforward,
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there would be less need for the con-
ference (although there always will be
room for celebration).
And then the past comes back.
Last week, we wrote about “Four Sea-
sons Lodge,” a documentary about a
bungalow colony in the Catskills whose
residents all were Holocaust survivors,
and about how even once you’ve out-
lived the Nazis, old age gets you in the
end. The film will be screened at Con-
gregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck on
Sunday evening at 7; its director, Andrew
Jacobs, who will be there to answer ques-
tions, tells us that Ester Geizhals, who is
88 and spent her summers at the colony,
will be there as well, and also will answer
questions.
That story also has made me remem-
ber a survivor who I interviewed many
years ago. It was Eta Wrobel, who lived in
Fort Lee then — she died in 2008 — and
who had spent the war first passing as a
non-Jewish Pole, relaying secrets to the
partisans in the woods, and then joining
the partisans when it became too dan-
gerous even for someone as steel-nerved
as she to move freely in public. Eta was
a leader — she led the partisans, she
survived attacks and bullets, and even
when I met her, when she was well into
her late 80s, she radiated charisma and
power. She was a formidable presence.
The survivors in the bungalow colony
danced. The nightmare was never far
from their minds, even though it had
happened when they were young, and
now they were old, but still they danced.
Joy kept the terror at bay, they said.
I remember Eta talking about how
she also danced. She was always the last
one on the dance floor at any party or
simcha, she said. She danced because
she could dance. She danced because
she was alive. She danced because the
ferocity of her rage and her drive for sur-
vival also became a ferocity for life. This
might sound clichéd, but when you met
her, the sheer power of her being took it
from cliché to undying truth.
So go see “Four Seasons Lodge,” if you
want to be taken out of this this season
of fragility and liminality, and to think
about what life really means. —JP
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Punishing the Palestinian Authority
the warriors cut down by terror
O
n March 8 the World Values
Network will be posthumously
awarding the Elie Wiesel Prize —
chosen and presented by Marion
and Elisha Wiesel — to Yoni Netanyahu and
Taylor Force, two heroes who defended lib-
erty and were murdered by terrorists.
Yoni is arguably Israel’s most revered mili-
tary hero and achieved immortality for his
unequaled leadership in the Entebbe rescue
mission, the most electrifying anti-terror bat-
tle in modern history. Taylor Force was a West
Point graduate and Army officer who served
in Iraq and Afghanistan and was murdered in
Tel Aviv by a Palestinian terror-
ist on March 8, 2016. The award
being presented by the Wiesel
family at the Plaza hotel at the
WVN gala will occur two years
to the day of his murder and
will be received by Robbi and
Stuart Force, his parents. As it
stands, Congress is consider-
ing legislation, the Taylor Force
Act, to cut aid to the Palestinian Rabbi
Authority for paying large sti- Shmuley
pends to individuals who com- Boteach
mit acts of terrorism, including
the murderer of Taylor Force,
and to the families of deceased terrorists.
Taylor Force was on a study trip with his
fellow MBA students from Vanderbilt Uni-
versity when he was stabbed, along with 11
other people.
This horrific crime was celebrated by the
Palestinians who offer incentives to murder
Jews and rewards to those who are impris-
oned or “martyred.” Under this “pay-to-slay”
policy the Palestinian Authority, which has
repeatedly pledged to end terrorism, pro-
vides generous monthly stipends to terrorists
and their families for attacks against Israelis.
Men who have served at least five years in
Israeli jails, and women who served at least
two, are entitled to these “salaries” for life.
The more heinous the crime, the more money
a prisoner receives. Terrorists receive health
benefits and priority for employment after
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they are released from jail. Palestinians can
earn more money by attacking Jews and going
to jail than they could working at most of the
jobs in the West Bank.
The PA, which pleads poverty and begs for
international aid, spends roughly $140 mil-
lion for payments to terrorists. That money
is coming out of the pockets of Americans,
whose tax dollars ostensibly are sent to pro-
vide aid for the welfare of the Palestinian
people. Given the fungibility of money, how-
ever, any U.S. funding allows the PA to divert
other resources to the pay-to-slay program,
which now consumes about 7 percent of the
PA’s budget.
President Trump repeatedly
has criticized the PA for this
policy and told PA President
Mahmoud Abbas directly that
it had to stop. Abbas thumbed
his nose at the president, as
well as the Europeans who also
demanded a halt to the policy,
and declared his determination
not only to continue to incentiv-
ize murder, but to increase the
amount paid to terrorists.
Trump subsequently decided
to withhold aid from the Pales-
tinians. Congress also has become fed up with
seeing taxpayer money go to support terror-
ism. The Senate now is poised to pass bipar-
tisan legislation, the Taylor Force Act, to cut
the roughly $400 million in U.S. assistance to
the PA if the payments continue. It is essential
that Congress quickly pass this law, and send
a message to Palestinian officials that America
will no longer stand by silently while they pay
their people to attack innocent men, women
and children, Jews and non-Jews, Israelis and
non-Israelis.
It is tragic that it took the murder of an
American citizen to prompt Congress to
finally act. Sadly, Taylor was not the first
American to be killed by Palestinian terror-
ists. Since Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Peace
Accords in September 1993, and pledged to
end violence, at least 54 Americans have been
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murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
I wish that we did not have to give
a posthumous award. Taylor Force
should be alive today, pursuing a
career in business and continuing
to contribute to the welfare of the
United States as he did during his
military service. It is with a heavy
heart that we will present the Elie
Wiesel award to Taylor’s parents.
No parent should have to bury their
g child and no child should die at the
hands of terrorists.
There is a direct connection
r between Taylor Force and the other
- recipient of the Elie Wiesel prize at
y our gala, Yoni Netanyahu, who was
, murdered 41 years ago in Entebbe.
- Both men fought for democracy and
liberty. And both had their lives cut
- short by terrorists.
t Most Americans don’t know that
, Yoni Netanyahu was born in New
York City on March 13, 1946, the
son of Benzion and Cela, who had
y moved to the United States to work
for the New Zionist Organization. I
t knew Benzion Netanyahu. I hosted
t him in Oxford and London over a
few days and used to visit him in his
home in Jerusalem. He was a great
man and a scholar, a man of fero-
, cious Jewish pride who conveyed
that pride to his three sons.
- After Israel’s independence, the
Netanyahus returned to Israel,
where Yoni’s brothers Binyamin and
Iddo were born.
- Yoni’s moving letters were pub-
lished posthumously. In one letter
- he writes to his parents: “In another
- week I’ll be 23. On me, on us, the
t young men of Israel, rests the duty
of keeping our country safe. This is a
l heavy responsibility, which matures
us early... I do not regret what I have
a done and what I’m about to do. I’m
y convinced that what I am doing is
right. I believe in myself, in my coun-
try and in my future.”
Not long after Egypt and Syria
launched a surprise attack on Yom
Kippur, the holiest day on the Jew-
t ish calendar. That devastating war
- was won thanks to the bravery,
guile and indomitable spirit of the
members of the Israel Defense
Forces (a U.S. airlift, ordered by
President Nixon, also was vital).
One of the fighters who distin-
guished himself during the fight-
ing was Yoni Netanyahu, who
commanded an elite Sayeret
Matkal force that helped pro-
tect citizens in Northern Israel
following Syria’s attack on the
Golan Heights. During the war,
he also rescued a soldier who
was wounded behind Syrian lines.
He later was awarded the Medal
of Distinguished Service, Israel’s
third highest military decoration.
He had written to his brother
Benjamin, now Israel’s prime min-
ister, a few weeks after the Arab
invasion: “We’re preparing for
war, and it’s hard to know what to
expect. What I’m positive of is that
there will be a next round, and oth-
ers after that. But I would rather opt
for living here in continual battle
than for becoming part of the wan-
dering Jewish people. Any compro-
mise will simply hasten the end. As
I don’t intend to tell my grandchil-
dren about the Jewish State in the
twentieth century as a mere brief
and transient episode in thousands
of years of wandering, I intend to
hold on here with all my might.”
On June 27, 1976, an Air France
plane flying from Tel Aviv to Paris
with 248 passengers was hijacked
by Palestinian and German ter-
rorists and diverted to Entebbe.
Israeli and other Jewish passen-
gers were separated from the rest
and 148 hostages were released.
The hijackers held 94 passengers
hostage, along with the 12-member
Air France crew, who heroically
insisted on staying with the remain-
ing passengers. The terrorists
threatened to kill the hostages if a
group of prisoners was not released
from Israeli and other prisons.
Israel decided to mount a seem-
ingly impossible rescue mission.
Israeli transport planes carrying
approximately 100 commandos
would have to fly more than 2,500
miles, get past Ugandan soldiers,
and surprise the terrorists to free
the hostages. Yoni Netanyahu was
chosen to lead the team that would
assault the terminal where the hos-
tages were being held.
On July 4, the Israelis landed at
the airport in Entebbe. It took just 53
minutes to carry out the entire oper-
ation. All the hijackers, four hostages,
and 45 Ugandan soldiers were killed,
and 102 hostages were rescued.
There was only one Israeli fatality —
Yoni Netanyahu — who was killed by
a sniper. The raid was posthumously
renamed Operation Yonatan.
Defense Minister Shimon Peres
eulogized Netanyahu during his
funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery on
July 6, 1976, saying “a bullet had torn
the young heart of one of Israel’s fin-
est sons, one of its most courageous
warriors, one of its most promis-
ing commanders — the magnificent
Yonatan Netanyahu.”
We are proud to honor Yoni and
Taylor Force with the Elie Wiesel
Award and we are eternally grate-
ful to Marion and Elisha Wiesel for
choosing Yoni and Taylor and per-
sonally presenting the award on 8
March in New York. We look forward
to having you join us.
Opinion
I’VE BEEN THINKING
Micro and macro of Israel visit
W
hen I was about bar mitzvah There was, of course, the food. Sadly, we
age, a family in my synagogue were unable to eat our way through Israel —
spent Sukkot in Israel. This though we tried our best! But it wasn’t only
was deemed so exotic that on the many fine restaurants we experienced
their return, the shul sponsored a Friday eve- (personal favorite: Tokopaya in Nes Tziona). It
ning oneg Shabbat for them to discuss their also was the ability to take a break from a day
unusual experience. And in my early married of touring or shopping and grab a burger at the
years, I recall my rabbi father-in-law wishing Hadar mall (so-so), a falafel at HaMelech Falafel
a special mazal tov whenever congregants left on King George (was on my not-to-be missed list
for, as he put it, their “very special pilgrimage — and rightfully so), or a brunch at Waffle Bar on
to the Holy Land.” Rechov Bet Lechem (yum).
How things have changed! In between all this eating, we somehow man-
Now it’s not terribly unusual to hop over to aged to see some sights; exploring the City of
Israel to attend a wedding. Friends own apart- David, the Western Wall Tunnel, and Migdal
ments, and have children and grandchildren, in Dovid; seeing some of the fantastic exhibits at the
Israel, making it their default vacation and yom Israel Museum in Yerushalayim with our cousin
tov destination. Many of our high school chil- and docent par excellence, Debra Applebaum,
dren spend a summer in Israel on travel pro- and enjoying a similar private tour at the new
grams as well as a post-high school gap year(s) Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion (not because we
in Israel, or serve in the IDF as a chayil boded had proteksia but because we were the only ones
(lone soldier). Since 1967, Israel, there); walking up and down the
now comfortable rather than Yaffo/Ben Yehudah/King George
exotic, has become a home away triangle (personal favorite pur-
from home for many, a country chase: enough kippot serugot for
whose people and news are as every occasion); sitting in on a Bible
familiar as our neighbors and the shiur by our dear friend and master
front page of the New York Times. teacher, Esther Lapian; and visiting
Indeed, I believe, based on a the Bullet Factory and Weitzman
completely nonscientific and non- House in Rechovot.
halachic analysis, that one of the But most special and memo-
reasons so many American mod- Joseph C. rable was a three–day trip to the
ern Orthodox Jews spending a Jew- Kaplan Galil/Golan with Ezra Rosenfeld, a
ish holiday in Israel observe only childhood friend (see “Two Roads
one day of yom tov rather than Diverged,” May 30, 2017) and one
two, as had been the norm, is that they feel a of the leading Tanachi guides in the country.
true part of that community. Thus, it’s simply In preparing for that trip I had asked Ezra for
too dissonant to observe yom tov restrictions some “wow” moments, and he delivered, with
while their Israeli compatriots are on a chol plenty of use of the three Tanachs he carried
hamoed tiyul. (Yes, there’s rabbinic and hala- in his knapsack. We were wowed by the Kassar
chic support for this practice as well.) El Yehuda Jordan River crossing and the bamot
With this in mind, I join with Pharaoh’s wine built by Yeravam ben Nevat in Tel Dan; by 1967
steward in saying et chata’ai ani mazkir hayom battlefields, and, sadly, by Emek HaBacha from
(Gen. 41:9) — I must make mention of my short- the Yom Kippur War and the Sha’ar Avraham
comings. My generation sadly preceded the Memorial(s); by the Dan stele mentioning Bet
high school trip and gap year programs, I have David (the original of which we saw in the Israel
not been among those actively and steadily sup- Museum); and by ancient synagogues galore,
porting Israel with their presence and dollars, the Caeserea complex (where we were locked
and my visits as an adult regrettably have been in — don’t ask), Bet Shearim and the burial loca-
too few and far between. tion of Rav Yehuda HaNasi, and the Yigal Yadin
And so, as I’ve written here previously (“It’s digs in Hatzor (which Sharon’s father talked
Not an Ugly Word, Ernest,” January 18, 2018), his way into in 1955, and the entire family met
the confluence of my brother-in-law’s recent Yadin). And much more.
wedding and my retirement (and the gracious But small encounters and vignettes also struck
and overly generous hospitality of longtime strong chords. Meeting a fellow SWEAT partici-
friends from the Upper West Side and Teaneck — pant on Emek Refa’im on erev Shabbat seemed
one couple, two locations) gave me and my wife perfectly normal, but what about bumping into
the impetus to spend three wonderful weeks in a Teaneck neighbor in a jewelry store who men-
Israel — my first trip in all too many years. tioned that she just read my latest Jewish Stan-
So allow me, in response to a sweet email dard column — while in Jerusalem!
from my niece that she “looks forward to see And while it wasn’t too surprising to chance
if and how you write about your visit to Israel upon a former Teaneck resident at Yeshiva Har
in your column,” share some impressions and Etzion (whose father was my oneg leader when
recollections of our trip. SEE KAPLAN PAGE 51
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Student activism mobilizes after Parkland
S
tudents across the country are
significantly affected by the
shooting that devastated Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in
Parkland, Florida, because we know the
same terror can easily happen to us in our
own schools, even in New Jersey.
As a high schooler, I never want to know
what it is like to see my friend shot, my
teacher take a bullet, or the arrant hor-
ror of everyone else. I go to school so I
can learn and I should not have to worry
about someone rampaging with an assault
weapon. The Parkland school shooting is
eye-opening to all of us. Now we see how
easy it is for any high school to be ravaged
with gun violence.
Our country needs significant changes
in our gun laws. We need to ban bump
stocks, a mechanism that transforms guns
into machine guns. We need to ban assault
weapons, and keep them away from civil-
ians. We need stronger background checks
to make sure criminals, terrorists, the men-
tally ill, and others who cannot be trusted
with a gun are far away from firearms.
If we do not implement these simple
solutions, we will continue to see more
horrific mass shootings across the country
like the ones in Parkland, Sandy Hook, and
Las Vegas. I am not against responsible
gun owners carrying safer guns, I am just
against bad guys with killing machines.
There is so much change that needs to be
done and it is imperative to our safety.
The idea that gun violence is primar-
ily a mental health issue, or that teachers
should be armed, are diversions rooted in
Promoting interfaith peace beyond the rhetoric
B
etween February 5 and Febru-
ary 7, I had an opportunity to
join approximately 400 other
faith leaders at a conference in
Washington, D.C., called “Alliance of Virtue
for the Common Good.”
The organization “Promoting Peace in
Muslim Societies,” whose president is His
Excellency Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah,
sponsored the conference. In January 2016,
Shaykh bin Bayyah issued “The Marrakesh
Declaration,” a document signed by 350
Muslim leaders and scholars, as a way of
supporting efforts toward building peace
and coexistence with minority populations
living in Muslim majority lands. At that ini-
tial document signing, a handful of leaders
from other faiths were present.
The recent conference in Washington
brought more of us for two days of speak-
ers, breakout sessions, shared meals, and
further dialogue. A partner in the process
was the Religious Action Center of Reform
Judaism, whose director emeritus, Rabbi
48 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 2, 2018
the NRA’s significant influence over gov-
ernment. Donating tens of millions of dol-
lars to politicians, the NRA buys the Con-
gress it wants. Politicians choose money
over protecting the American people, and
it is shameful.
The NRA deceives Americans with the
argument that the only way to stop a bad
guy with a gun is with a good guy with a
gun, and as a result we need deregulation.
The issue with this argument is that back-
ground checks still would allow respon-
sible gun owners to carry guns, and not
every good guy is going to be comfortable
carrying a weapon anyway, especially in a
village like Ridgewood. Also, there was an
armed guard at the school in Parkland, fur-
ther discrediting the NRA’s argument that
you need a good guy with a gun to stop
a bad guy with a gun. Deregulation would
give more bad guys more guns, and the
NRA supports it because it would be mak-
ing more money.
The NRA does not represent gun own-
ers, but gun manufacturers, whose goals
are to sell as many firearms to Americans
as possible regardless of how harmful it
can be to society. Congress chooses the
NRA and big money over the American
people, and as a result Americans have to
take our safety into our own hands.
As they hear people call for stronger gun
control to prevent mass shootings, NRA-
backed politicians have been saying that
this is not the time for a gun-control debate,
but rather for thoughts and prayers. At the
end of the day, however, thoughts and
prayers do not change anything and have
David Saperstein, a former United States
ambassador for religious freedom, tried to
ensure that there would be a large contin-
gent of Reform rabbis present for the occa-
sion. Given our synagogue’s involvement
in the past few years in multifaith dialogue
with members of the Muslim community,
and our award-winning “Muslim-Jewish Dia-
logue for Teens” shared with Peace Islands
Institute in 2015, we received a humbling
invitation to attend and participate.
At the conclusion of the conference, the
“Washington Declaration” was affirmed
and signed, representing an effort by the
Abrahamic faiths to work together amid
our differences to engage in activities that
collectively bring healing to the world. Each
of the speakers acknowledged that reli-
gion can and should be used as a force for
good, not evil. It was very rewarding and
heartening to meet people from Israel, the
United Kingdom, Mauritania, Italy, Finland,
Algeria, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates,
Qatar, and elsewhere, both internationally
not been changing anything.
There were thoughts and
prayers after the Columbine,
Sandy Hook, and Las Vegas
shootings, and we still see
mass shootings.
This is the time for Con-
gress to pass gun-control
legislation, because if it does
not, ordinary Americans will Laurence S.
continue to die. We cannot Fine
allow that to happen. We
need change.
Students across the country have been
organizing school walkouts for March 14
from 10 a.m. to 10:17 a.m. That is a min-
ute for each Parkland victim. The goal is
to honor the Parkland victims, to advocate
for stronger gun control, and to feel safe in Walkout.) The type of community we are
our own schools.
In Ridgewood High School, I have been
working with students, teachers, and
administrators on organizing a school
walkout.
I created a groupchat with a couple of
students from Glen Rock and Westwood
who also were planning school walkouts on
March 14, so we could collaborate and share
ideas. It was very constructive and beneficial amazing: there were so many students
to be hearing what students in other schools
were planning, and we thought it was
important to try to involve as many schools
in Bergen County as possible in our collabo-
ration of ideas. We are constantly reaching
out to contacts in other towns, recruiting
walkout organizers across Bergen County.
As of this writing, there are students from 11 are able to devote their time and effort to
high schools involved in our Bergen County
and throughout the United
States, who are engaged in
various multifaith initiatives,
including dialogue, retreats
(for example, between evan-
gelical pastors and imams),
aid organizations, academic
work, and social justice proj-
ects, as well as representatives
of national organizations who Rabbi Paul
are responding to acts of reli- Jacobson
gious extremism (throughout
the Islamic world too).
A few of the speakers offered some poi-
gnant words. Speaking in Arabic through
a translator, Shaykh bin Bayyah taught,
“Religious leaders are obligated to search
their sacred texts to find stronger sources
for tolerance. We need to develop and pro-
mote a narrative and vision of Islam that
calls for peace and tolerance. The distorted If religion is part of the problem, then it is
perspective of extremists goes beyond the
pale of our tradition. Literal interpretation
does not employ figurative understandings
walkout collaboration, cover-
ing 17 municipalities in Ber-
gen County including Allen-
dale, Bergenfield, Closter,
Demarest, Fair Lawn, Glen
Rock, Haworth, Ho-Ho-Kus,
Lyndhurst, Oradell, Ramsey,
Ridgewood, River Edge, Sad-
dle River, Upper Saddle River,
Washington Township, and
Westwood.
Last week, I was at a meet-
ing at the home of a senior
from Westwood Regional High School,
sharing Ridgewood’s walkout ideas and
strategy. We are working intensely on
planning a countywide rally on March 24.
(See our Facebook page: Bergen County
building across the county is friendly and
is uniting Bergen County in a cause we pas-
sionately believe in.
At my school, Ridgewood High School,
we have been seeing incredible support.
Last week, we were able to use the loud-
speaker to announce a school walkout
planning meeting in one of the class-
rooms during lunch. What happened was
and teachers in the room that people
had to stand in the hallway. We have a
Google classroom page for the walkout,
and it already has about 70 people. The
support is enormous, and it reveals a
powerful message: people care about gun
violence and their safety, and that people
create change.
and results in alternative per-
spectives. There are irrefut-
able proofs that our religions
are not causes of hate and
violence.”
Timo Soini, the Finnish
minister of foreign affairs,
explained, “How we practice
our religion holds a mirror in
front of us.” He reminded his
audience, “Freedom of reli-
gion belongs to everyone, to
people of all faiths. Freedom
of religion also entails the freedom to not
believe or share in a particular faith. Finally,
freedom cannot exist without responsibility.
There is no freedom to be intolerant of the
faith of the other. On the contrary, we have
an obligation to be vigilant in preventing any
kind of discrimination on religious grounds.
also must be part of the solution.”
Admittedly, this was my first time in the
presence of numerous Christian evangelical

The aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14.
These nationwide walkouts will wake up NRA-
backed politicians to what Americans want, and they
are an essential effort in our push for common-sense
gun legislation.
This network of high schools activists encompassing
(as of this writing) 17 municipalities in Bergen County
is not just a network, but also a movement. These net-
works are also forming in other counties in other states
across the country. High schoolers, most of us still
unable to vote, are perceived as a silent demographic,
but we are making our voices very clear.
We are a grassroots movement; a movement of
clergy. Pastor Bob Roberts, who has partnered regularly
with Shaykh bin Bayyah, instructed us that to discover
common ground, that can yield common actions, ulti-
mately will result in a common good. Pastor Roberts has
been involved in efforts to build bridges with the Islamic
community, focusing on clergy becoming acquainted with
one another. After a relationship is forged between pastor
and imam, the circle expands to include the clergy mem-
ber’s family (if they have one), and their congregation.
In due course, knowing one another leads to opportuni-
ties to stand up for another. Going on dialogue retreats
together and participating in projects in underdeveloped
neighborhoods deepens the process. “We all bleed the
same,” he said. “If we quit the hatred, we might learn to
love each other.” As Pastor John Jenkins, Pastor Roberts’
colleague, said, “The imam has the same thing in his heart
that I do, but the media won’t tell you that story. We need
to get the media to tell the other story.”
While the event predominantly featured Muslims,
Christians, and Jews, and a few people of other faiths, I
am hoping that those who identify as secular, atheist, and
of no religion eventually will be welcomed at this table
too. Thinking that religion has cornered the market on
virtue or on being a good person, or that it can speak to
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teenagers who passionately care for their government,
their towns, their people, and their country. The Ameri-
can people are mobilizing to the point that teenagers are
strategizing together on how to make our country a safer
place. Although we are enduring a gun violence crisis in
our country with an ineffective government, our ability
to mobilize as a nation is like no other.
Regardless of any chaos, the United States of America
is still the greatest country in the world.
Laurence S. Fine is a ninth-grader at Ridgewood
High School.
everyone’s common good, simply is not true, and this
notion of “virtue” needs to include voices from those who
do not identify with a religion or with a faith practice as
well.
Still, it was interesting to be involved, to be a fly on the
wall, and even more enlightening to gather awareness of
others who are deeply involved in the work of trying to
improve upon our world, day by day. The most critical
piece to emerge from the Alliance Conference is making
sure that what was discussed in Washington becomes
actionable in our own communities.
How remarkable and how disappointing is it that in 2018
we still are preaching lessons and holding conferences on
how to talk to one another, how to be in relationships with
one another, and how to see the divine in other human
beings, in other communities beyond our own.
If the Washington Declaration is a piece of paper that
ultimately just is filed somewhere, then this was nothing
but a talkfest. If the experience continues to translate into
action, there’s a lot of healing that can be done.
Time to get to work.
Paul Jacobson has been rabbi of Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge since 2013.
Opinion
What it feels like
when the illusion
of privacy is gone
I
never considered myself
a private person.
By nature, I am fiercely
proud of who I am,
where I come from, and what
I stand for, and with that often
comes a lack of concern about
who holds what information
about me. It’s my general rule
that if you ask me a question, Cheryl
you’ll get an honest and often- Weiner
times thorough answer—I am Rosenberg
quick to share what I am think-
ing, what I want, what I like (or
dislike), etc.
Given all of this, I felt no adjustment would be needed to
transition into the realm of public service. If I had very lit-
tle that needed to be kept private, why would I worry that
being the public eye would be uncomfortable in any way?
All this said, there is nothing that could have prepared
me for being thrown into the very public eye on a regular
basis. And, although I have thankfully not reached J-Lo
celebrity-esque status, where I would be recognized walk-
ing down the street, in some ways my words and actions
are even more public. While celebrities or other non-gov-
ernment “public” figures always run the risk of having pri-
vate conversations or outings made public through sight-
ings or a betrayal of confidence, it is a given that my words
and actions and all of my communications belong to the
public. Every meeting I attend for city council is public
record, and often is recorded. Anyone can ask for a copy
of any email, text, or message that I send regarding city
matters, and it will be provided to them. And, of course,
my social media posts are analyzed by hundreds or thou-
sands of people — many of whom have never even met me.
Once I got past the initial shock of having my words and
my actions scrutinized by everyone — those who like me,
those who hate me, and those who are still deciding — I
realized there is something oddly freeing about not hav-
ing the illusion of privacy. There is no game of telephone
or he said/she said: if you want to know what I said, play
back the livestream. There is no private email that is acci-
dentally sent to the wrong person: I always assume the
person I least want to read my words will be requesting to
see them, as is their right. Someone in public office truly
has to own who they are, what they do, and what they say.
This is no place for someone who wishes to paint their
image with stories and good PR.
Once you are elected, you are judged simply by your
actions and your words, which once spoke are public
record and can be pulled up at any time. There is little
explanation or spin to be had.
Though jarring at times to have to vote or take action
with no private discussion, what better way is there to
prove what you stand for? Do you want to know who I
am? Watch how I vote. Listen to what I say — because what
I say to you, I say to everyone else at the same time. If all
of us were judged only on our actions, and we were held
accountable to the words we speak, perhaps we would all
have to think before we speak, act honestly and with our
true intentions laid bare, and maybe just maybe, be a little
kinder to one another.
Cheryl Weiner Rosenberg represents Englewood’s First
Ward on its city council.
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Opinion
The occupation and Israel’s human rights record
I
n June of 2017, Israel’s
occupation of the West
Bank and the Gaza
Strip reached the half-
century mark, and entered
its fifty-first year. A third, and
even a fourth generation of
Palestinians and Israelis have
been born into this reality,
a reality that is the only one Rabbi Aryeh
they have ever known. Thir- Meir
teen million people live in the
land between the Mediterra-
nean Sea and the Jordan River, yet only eight million
— those who hold Israeli citizenship — can participate in
the political process that determines the future of this
geographic area. This reality has created two classes of
people: those with the full rights granted to citizens of a
democracy and those who have less than full rights. To
put it simply, the inherent features of this reality make
it impossible to call Israel a democracy.
We can judge Israel’s intentions and goals only by
examining Israel’s actions over the last half century:
strengthening its control over the occupied territories
and promoting its national interests while establishing
ever more facts on the ground, tightening restrictions
over the daily lives of millions of Palestinian subjects
bereft of rights, and weakening the resistance, both in
Israel and around the world, to the ongoing occupation.
The Israeli government claims to favor a two state
solution, but its actions over the past decade and lon-
ger — expansion of the settlement project and creation
of infrastructure in the West Bank — make the existence
of a viable Palestinian state with territorial contiguity
nearly impossible.
There is a significant segment of Israelis who oppose
this reality and are working to change it.
Here is the mission statement of B’TSELEM: The
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occu-
pied Territories.
“B’Tselem strives to end the occupation, and that is
the only way forward to a future in which human rights,
democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all peo-
ple, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jor-
dan River and the Mediterranean Sea.”
I am well aware that Israel faces many challenges to
its security: the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah
in the north; Hamas in Gaza; and several Islamic Jihadist
groups in northern Sinai. So I write this knowing that the
focus on Israel’s human rights violations in the occupied
territories (the West Bank and East Jerusalem) will be
criticized by many in the Jewish community.
I write this as someone whose connection to Israel is
deep. First, I am an Israeli citizen and lived and worked
there with my family for a number of years. I have strong
ties to the country, its history, the land, and its people.
I understand the meaning of its struggle to survive in
a dangerous neighborhood. I am proud to call myself
an Israeli and an American. I am proud of all of Isra-
el’s achievements. But I also am not afraid to face its
shortcomings.
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This reality has created two classes of
people: those with the full rights granted
to citizens of a democracy and those who
have less than full rights. To put it simply,
the inherent features of this reality make it
impossible to call Israel a democracy.
I cannot ignore or remain silent regarding the vio-
lations of human rights that the half-century of mili-
tary occupation and rule over the lives of two million
Palestinians have caused. As a people who have often
been subjected to the violation of our human rights,
we should not remain silent when the policies of the
Jewish state result in serious human rights violations
to another people.
One of the major obstacles facing Palestinians in their
daily lives is the severe restrictions placed on movement
in and between the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem,
and Israel proper. For example;
• In Jerusalem, checkpoints cut Palestinian neighbor-
hoods over the separation barrier from the rest of the
city. More than 140,000 Palestinian Jerusalem residents
have to negotiate checkpoints to enter their own city.
They never know how long it will take them to pass
through (or if they will be turned away) as they try to
get to work, to a doctor’s appointment, or to visit fam-
ily members. Palestinians live in constant uncertainty,
never knowing if and when they will be allowed to move
from place to place.
• Restrictions on movement have institutionalized
the separation between Jewish settlers and Palestinian
residents. There exists a system of separate roads for
Israeli settler/citizens and Palestinians, often built on
land expropriated from Palestinians. Palestinians in the
occupied territories need special permits to enter Israel
or East Jerusalem for any purpose — for work, medical
care, or family visits. Similarly, in the seam zone, areas
separated from the West Bank by the separation barrier,
Palestinian farmers need special permits to gain access
to their own land. All in the name of security.
• The permit system is complemented by a system of
roadblocks, gates, checkpoints, and the separation bar-
rier, all of which are obstacles to movement by Palestin-
ians. Citizens of Israel, tourists, and Jewish citizens of
other countries are exempt from these restrictions to
movement. So a tourist or a Jewish citizen of another
country has more freedom of movement than a Palestin-
ian in his or her own land.
• Palestinian access to basic resources and services,
such as their own land, water, health care, and educa-
tion are severely limited. A system of segregation and
inequality exists. Just drive through one or two Israeli
settlements and then to a nearby Arab village to see the
vast inequalities in housing, roads, and other infrastruc-
ture, schools, playgrounds, and clinics.
In his recently published book, “The Wall and The
Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human
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Rights,” Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human
rights lawyers, writes:
“We have become the only democracy in the world
that has held another nation under occupation for half
a century and has settled in their territory, brutishly tak-
ing over their land. Who would have believed it? Millions
of people, all created in the image of God, suffering, for
the fifth decade, under the yoke of military rule by a
nation that knows better than any other the pain of los-
ing freedom, property, and human dignity.”
And on the last page, Sfard concludes with these
words: “…Israeli society and the state have deep,
authentic liberal foundations. Its system of govern-
ment includes an elected legislature, separation of
powers, and the principle of rule of law… At the same
time, the state’s definition of itself as Jewish, the exal-
tation of nationalism, the dispossession of the people
who were here when the state was established … and
the de-facto creation of an underclass subjected to sys-
temic, institutionalized discrimination…are (all) part
of Israel’s deep, authentic foundations, defining attri-
butes of its society.”
It is human rights lawyers such as Michael Sfard and
supporters of Be’Tselem such as David Grossman,
Amos Oz, Avishai Margalit, Rabbi David Rosen, Alice
Shalvi, A.B. Yehoshua, and many other prominent
Israelis and Palestinians who give us hope that Israe-
lis ultimately will realize that they will have to decide
between occupation and control over another people
and fulfilling what the State of Israel was meant to be
by its builders and founders — a Jewish and a demo-
cratic state.
As long as the occupation continues, Israel cannot
be a true democracy. As long as Palestinians are living
under military rule, lacking important human rights,
primarily the right to determine their future, Israel can-
not be a democracy.
Many American Jews are blind to this reality, or if they
recognize it, they say that security trumps human rights.
Certainly Israel has security concerns. But the settle-
ment project really is not about security. It is about the
Greater Israel project — to eliminate the possibility of
a Palestinian state and thus any rights that Palestinians
claim to a land they lived in for generations.
This situation cannot stand.
The occupation will end. It must end.
Rabbi Aryeh Meir of Teaneck is on the faculty of the
Academy for Jewish Religion and he is the chair of the
Teaneck Environmental Commission.

From Holocaust to ‘Polocaust’
A change in common parlance doesn’t change the facts
I
interviewed Mateusz
Morawiecki, the prime
minister of Poland, dur-
ing his September visit to
New York.
The public-relations maven
who arranged the meeting
pitched Morawiecki — then still
deputy prime minister — as a
rising star anxious to allay con- Ben Cohen
cerns in the Jewish community
about controversial legislation
(which was signed into law on February 6) having to do with
terminology and the Holocaust.
Indeed, when we sat down for our conversation,
Morawiecki advanced the case that Jews and Poles have a
common interest in commemorating the brutalities of the
Nazi occupation together. Phrases like “Polish death camps”
and “Polish concentration camps” (which the new law now
considers a crime to actually use) should be excised from
public vocabulary, he said, because they do a disservice to
both Jews and Poles. (Nodding while taking notes, I told him
that most Jews agree wholeheartedly with that complaint,
and that it really wasn’t so controversial.) He wanted more
understanding and more attention paid to the sufferings of
the Polish nation during the war. (Again, I briefly interjected
that this was also a goal that Jews could empathize with —
just as we commemorate the disabled victims of the ghastly
eugenics program launched by the Nazis and the gay men
incarcerated in concentration camps, as well the 500,000
Romani gypsies exterminated on the grounds of their “racial
impurity,” and so on.)
The way Morawiecki spoke, you would have thought
that the Holocaust was an exclusively Jewish affair. But no
credible Holocaust scholar ever has argued that the geno-
cidal anti-Semitism that drove the Nazi conquest of Europe
claimed only Jewish lives. As smooth and as polished as I
found Morawiecki — who, like many of Eastern Europe’s
more capable politicians, is well-traveled and speaks excel-
lent English, and also studied at Northwestern University
outside Chicago — I left our encounter mildly disturbed
by some of the questionable, even bizarre, claims that
Kaplan
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I was growing up in Far Rockaway), what about encounter-
ing his wife two days later at a shiva call? Or the group from
Memphis we found at the beach in Caeserea and discovered
that one of them recently met Ezra at a wedding, and that
their rabbi also grew up in our shul in Far Rockaway?
But my favorite was a group of longtime Anglo olim
at the Agam Museum. While chatting with one of them,
my wife introduced herself using her maiden name.
The woman asked, “Penkower? As in Rabbi Penkower?”
When my wife answered yes, why do you ask, she replied,
“because he married us!” And Sharon then recognized her
husband, the once young man from her father’s shul who
she knew as Sammy. (He’s Sam now.)
Even leaving Israel was memorable. I recently dropped
some pounds in order to fit into my tuxedo at my daugh-
ter’s upcoming wedding. At Ben Gurion, the security
officer asking us about our luggage also requested that
I remove my glasses. As she looked carefully between
punctuated a message that was on the surface reasonable,
even to the point of being unremarkable.
That unease has been borne out by the manner in which
Poland has revised the Holocaust since then. The right-
wing nationalists now ruling Poland want to recast the
Nazi extermination program as the “Polocaust,” a word
coined this week by Deputy Culture Minister Jarosław
Sellin, when he urged the construction of a new museum
dedicated to this topic.
In this rubric, talking about the suffering of ordinary Poles
isn’t enough. The aim is to present the Holocaust as a largely
Polish affair, with six million Polish victims, half of whom hap-
pened to be Jews but who are being reclaimed, in keeping with
the Warsaw government’s present imperatives, as Poles first.
Ironic really, given that many of the Poles who lived through
the Nazi occupation — such as the pro-German Swietokrzyska
Brigade, which fled westward with the Nazis in 1945, and
whose graves in Munich Marowiecki visited on February 17 —
would violently disagree with that assertion.
A good deal of the motive here is financial. Although Ger-
many paid out more than $1 billion to Poland in wartime com-
pensation in the mid-1990s, the country wants more, and its
leaders hold up the reparations paid to Jewish communities
as an example of how Jewish victimhood has been elevated
above Polish victimhood. And while Morawiecki told me in
September that he could foresee some of that money going to
Jewish individuals and institutions, the way the legislation has
been framed means that it’s virtually impossible for anyone
who is not a Polish citizen to receive any future compensation.
On top of this comes a slew of myths and half-truths, all of
which help to shape our understanding of the “Polocaust.”
One of the stranger assertions I heard from Marowiecki was
that non-Jews who rescued Jews from the clutches of the Nazis
elsewhere in occupied Europe were, if caught, subjected to
a mere fine. But in Poland, he continued, saving Jews was a
much riskier business because it brought a death sentence.
This is dangerous nonsense, of course, and an insult to citi-
zens in countries across Europe who were murdered because
they were caught sheltering Jews. As sensitive and angry as
Poland’s leaders are about their own wartime record, they
have few qualms about belittling the contributions of others
in those long, dark years of resistance to Hitler.
me and my two-year old passport photo she finally said,
“Joseph, you’ve lost a lot of weight.” The cherry on top
of a wonderful trip.
And one final story. In early 1968, several friends and I
went to the Riverdale Jewish Center to hear Rabbi David
Hartman speak about his recent post-June 1967 trip to
Israel. When asked about his most spiritual moment,
he said it wasn’t going to the Kotel or walking the streets
of the Old City. Rather, it was a trip to an extremely left-
wing mud-laden kibbutz whose only concrete sidewalk
connected two buildings. A kibbutz member explained
that the buildings were the children’s house (I said it was
very left-wing) and the dining hall, and was put in because
there was a teenager who unfortunately was confined to a
wheelchair. The sidewalk thus allowed him to wheel him-
self between these two critical locations without always
being dependent on the help of others. That was true spir-
ituality, R. Hartman said. (The congregation did not have
the same positive reaction to this story that we YU guys
did, to the extent that the shul’s rabbi, R. Yitz Greenberg,
had to get up and remind them that while disagreement
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki FLICKR
Ultimately, this is not a bad-tempered debate about his-
tory, but a concerted political campaign about the present.
A number of Polish politicians, including a senior adviser
to the president, have turned on Israel in the process, sur-
mising that its policies toward the Palestinians are the result
of the shame that Jews feel from having passively gone to
the slaughter during World War II. Small wonder, then, that
someone in Israel decided to daub the Polish embassy in Tel
Aviv with obscenities, even if a more constructive response
would have been to ask where, exactly, the Polish resistance
was in April 1943, when the Jewish fighters of the Warsaw
Ghetto rose in a heroic, bloody uprising against the far bet-
ter-armed and more numerous Germans.
Only one other country today wields the Holocaust as a
weapon to bash Israel and the Jews. That’s Iran. That a mem-
ber state of the European Union now finds itself in the com-
pany of Tehran’s deniers and revisionists should give pause.
Yet European governments have looked the other way as
Poland reinvents the Holocaust as the “Polocaust,” conve-
niently deciding that this is one of those things that should
be written off as an “internal matter.”
Of such platitudes are moral disasters borne. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics for JNS.org.
was acceptable, it had to be expressed with respect.)
And so, while I found walking in the Old City stirring,
the moment I found most moving was when our fam-
ily, gathered for my brother-in-law’s aufruf on Shabbat,
began davening mincha. My 22-year old great-nephew,
with his bushy peyot and an engaging smile — the win-
ner of a chayil lemofet award given to a recruit who sets
an example of an ideal soldier, and who just began a
Zahal tank commander course — gently and carefully put
down his Uzi near the bima before he began leading the
service. It took but a few seconds, but encapsulated so
much about modern day Israel that it touched my soul.
I’ll be back, please God, and much sooner than before.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular columnist, is a long-time
resident of Teaneck. His work also has appeared in
various publications including Sh’ma magazine, the New
York Jewish Week, the Baltimore Jewish Times, and, as
letters to the editor, the New York Times.
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D’var Torah
Ki Tisa: Hands that make a difference

T
his week’s Torah reading opens
with a census of the Israelite
nation. The purpose of this cen-
sus was two-fold: to raise funds
for the building of the Mishkan, the des-
ert tabernacle, and to provide an accurate
count of both the ancient Israelite army
and the nation as a whole. Men above 20
years of age were counted by each of them
donating a half shekel, and the size of the
overall nation was extrapolated from this
number of men. The language used by the
Torah for the description of the census,
however, provides much more meaning
for us than a simple counting of people or
collecting of funds.
Exodus 30:11-12 states, “The Lord spoke
to Moses, saying: When you take a census
of the Israelite people according to their
enrollment, each shall pay the Lord a ran-
som for himself on being enrolled, that no
plague may come upon them through their
being enrolled.” The Hebrew words for
“when you take a census” literally mean
“raise the head,” and we imagine a census
involving everyone lifting up their heads
to be counted as a member of the commu-
nity, and simultaneously lifting up their
heads in pride at their accomplishments as
individuals. When you lift up your head,
for what will you be remembered? How
will people speak about you?
One answer to this ques-
tion of how we will be remem-
bered can be found in an
interesting distinction that
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
(former chief rabbi of Great
Britain) notices between the
two sets of tablets (with the
Ten Commandments writ- Rabbi Joel
ten on them) discussed in our Pitkowsky
Torah reading. The first set of Congregation Beth
Sholom, Teaneck,
tablets Moses receives from Conservative
God and brings down to the
children of Israel while they
are dancing around the Golden Calf. Moses
is so upset at them for their actions that he
throws the tablets down to the group and
breaks them. Moses punishes the nation,
and then goes back up to Mt. Sinai and
receives a second set of tablets from God.
This story is well known, probably one
that many of us have known for many years.
What is less well known is that the two sets
of tablets containing the Ten Command-
ments were not identical. The first set is
described in this way (Exodus 31:18), “When
He (God) finished speaking with him (Moses
on Mount Sinai), He gave Moses the two tab-
lets of the Pact, stone tablets inscribed with
the finger of God.” The second set of tablets
is described in the following
way (Exodus 34:1), “The Lord
said to Moses: Carve two tab-
lets of stone like the first, and
I (God) will inscribe upon the
tablets the words that were
on the first tablets, which you
shattered.”
Did you notice the differ-
ence between the two sets of
tablets? The first set was made
entirely by God, while the sec-
ond set is made by God and
Moses together. In the first
set Moses is passive, and in
the second set Moses carves the tablets and
God inscribes them. One might guess that
the first set, created solely by God, would
have more holiness than the tablets cre-
ated jointly by God and human beings, and
yet it is the tablets created jointly by God
and human beings that survive, while the
first set of tablets, made entirely by God, is
destroyed by Moses.
As Rabbi Sacks teaches, perhaps the
reason that the tablets created by God and
human beings together survives is because
human nature feels deeply connected and
affected by moments when we take the
initiative, when we play a role in changing
our reality. What an incredible idea! We
look around our world and we are often
dismayed at what we see; such beauty is
possible, and yet there is so much hatred
and ugliness. And what is perhaps the
worst problem of all? When we see in our
world challenges that seem insurmount-
able, that seem so large, complex, and
overwhelming that we don’t even bother
trying to fix them, to effect a tikkun, a
repair, in our world, because after all, we
reason, what’s the point?
It is at those moments we must remem-
ber this powerful teaching that we learn
from Moses. We need to play a role and get
our hands dirty in the challenges we face in
the world. If we do that, if we try our hard-
est to effect change and bring the spirit of
God into this world, then without a doubt
we will be continuing in the tradition of
Moses and the tablets that he carved will
still be providing guidance for all of us. And
to end where we began, remember the cen-
sus at the beginning of our Torah reading?
We will all be counted for something at the
end of our lives. That is beyond our con-
trol. What is within our control, however, is
exactly what we will be counted for. Make
your mark, cause a change, leave this world
a better place than you found it. If you do
that, then you will be able to hold your head
high and be counted without regrets.

in the relationship between Poland and world Jewry

Remembering
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He took Jewish heritage tours and walking tours, went
to museums and memorials and monuments. “I saw the
remembered and the forgotten Jewish worlds,” he said.
He learned that Jewish heritage tours in New York,
which once had been enormously popular, “had lan-
guished after the 1990s, and the break-up of the Soviet
Union,” because it became much easier for people to go
to Eastern Europe. “In New York, Jewish heritage tour-
ism has mostly been absorbed by immigration tourism,”
he said. “So in the second part of my book I go to Ber-
lin, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Budapest. I wasn’t sure if
any of my family had lived there, but then I discovered,
much to my surprise, that one quarter of my ancestry
wasn’t Ashkenazi — I had assumed it was all Ashkenazi —
but Sephardi.” Those Sephardi ancestors had made their
way up to northeastern Europe through the Mediterra-
nean ports, he said.
“I end the book in Krakow and Warsaw, which have
the strongest Jewish heritage tours,” he said; of course,
the political currents now possibly causing sea changes
might change that, but it hasn’t yet, he said.
The new Jewish museum that opened in 2014, curated
by his good friend Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, has
“changed the paradigm of Jewish heritage,” Dr. Walkowitz
said. Until now, it’s been concentrated almost entirely on
the Holocaust; although certainly the Shoah will not lose
its central place in the history of European Jews, now more
people also are paying more attention to what happened
there before and after that cataclysm. “There are some indi-
cations that the story of Jewish socialism, the story of Jewish
feminism, the story of Jewish women, will come through.”
Just as the study of history shifted from being almost exclu-
sively the story of great men in the West in the 1970s and
80s, so will the study of Jewish history stop being only the
stories of great rabbis now, he suggested.
“And I am helping that by writing the story of a woman —
of my Bubba Chaya,” Dr. Walkowitz said.
“In my research, my understanding of my own Jewish his-
tory in Paterson has been transformed in ways that have to
do with Jewish family and Jewish culture,” he concluded.
What are those ways? That’s what he’ll talk about in Pater- Daniel Walkowitz, left, with two of the few Jews
son next week, he said. remaining in Mostyska.

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I’m a high school student who was devas- Keystone, Sporting Arms, and maintain eternal per- are printed in Israeli-flag blue.
tated by the recent deadly shootings in a Kahr Arms, Barrett Firearms, sistent vigilance thereaf- With this book open in front of you, at
Florida school and by so many other recent Norinco, and Hi-Point Fire- ter — that ought to be your a glance you can see when a passage orig-
awful acts of gun violence in our country. arms. Start a new BDS move- plan. inated. And because the text is in many
My friends and I are organizing activities ment — this time against the Ah, but you may ask, colors, the individual paragraphs pop out
to counter this terrible trend, but I’m afraidgun makers. Boycott, divest- what of the second at you, and you automatically pay more
we will not succeed against the fierce tide ofment, sanctions. amendment to the consti- attention to them and their origins and
gun proponents. Does it seem like a lot to ask tution? Well, try this. As their meanings.
What should we do to get some real trac- for you to go after each com- Rabbi Tzvee George W. Bush once said In addition to the full multicolor pages
tion and lasting results? pany? Perhaps it will be too Zahavy (yes, about an entirely of Hebrew text, this Haggadah also
Fighter for firearms much trouble? Going after other issue), “The con- reprints incredible color illuminations
controls in Fair Lawn the NRA is easier, isn’t it? Well, yes, that stitution is just a piece of paper.” What from medieval Haggadah manuscripts.
is what the sly gun makers want you to about the rights of gun collectors? And There’s a classic example of what the
Dear Fighter, think. And if you do that, you are playing the right to form a well-regulated militia? German 15th century Haggadahs look
I am awed by the response of students by their rules. Okay, here is the answer. Those outdated like, and what the 14th century Spanish
after the latest tragic gun carnage in Flor- Stop. Think. Act. Make a lot of noise in ideas are irrelevant. They are dangerous. Haggadahs look like, and more. Jacob
ida. I especially was floored by the young the streets. Disrupt society. (Legally, of They need to be ignored; they may need Freedman picked out vivid images that
speaker who made her displeasure with course, but loudly and vocally.) Overturn outright to be erased. add a lot of life and more color to this
politicians clear, saying on TV, among the calm of the status quo. Your lives and The declared essential American right lively Haggadah text.
other strong sentiments, “We call B.S.! the lives of your friends are at stake. to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness When you see the diverse sources of
Shame on you!” Does Jewish tradition sanction this transcends the obsolete entitlement to the Haggadah in vibrant color, it helps
How awful that our innocent schools course of activist action? Absolutely. The own a weapon of mass death. makes the point that my teacher, Rabbi
and holy houses of worship have suffered Talmud teaches, “If someone comes to That is my substantial Talmudic advice, Joseph B. Soloveitchik, always said — the
violent attacks that resulted in multiple kill you, rise up against him first.” That my sane and ethical counsel. And it ought Haggadah is not just the simple retelling
deaths. How utterly sad that venues of slogan is our blanket manifesto for this to be every citizen’s inalienable human of a story.
merry entertainment were attacked by kind of activism. entitlement. To reiterate: achieve your He taught that the ritual recitation at
perverse maniacs. What a dreadful day And given the facts, it’s not even as if valiant goals by forceful means, and then the seder is a sacred act of talmud Torah,
and age we live in. you are planning a preemptive action. guard your gains, never turn your back in studying Torah in the rabbinic manner.
I think about this contrast. Back in the You are fighting an ongoing war against complacency. When you finish at the end of the seder,
1950s my dad sat working during the day evil purveyors of violent weapons. Jewish you haven’t really told a sequential nar-
in his quiet rabbi’s study in the Park East law, and all human principles, sanction Dear Rabbi Zahavy, rative story of the Exodus. But you have
Synagogue in New York City on East 67th your resistance to the destructive armies I love the Passover seder. Every year it’s an engaged in a wonderful midrashic learn-
Street, right next door to the local police of darkness. occasion to unite with family and celebrate ing session, combined with the recitation
precinct. The shul entrance was always Do you think I simplify the matter? our Jewish traditions. But I am confused by of meaningful prayers, and the singing of
unlocked as he worked alone in the big Others will tell you that it is the insane the Haggadah. It seems to be such a mixture superlative (and some silly) songs.
empty shul building. actor that is at fault, not the maker of the of different content. I do not know where to All of this surrounds a sumptuous meal
He told me that criminals and gangsters weapon of mass death. Rubbish. That’s a start to understand its composition. What preceded by the sampling of symbolic
sometimes would come to his study door smokescreen. We need to ban these ter- is your suggestion to help me work this out delicacies, and let’s not forget the matzah
after their release from the station house rible guns. Again and again and again. this year? too. No wonder the seder is so universally
and seek to engage him in conversation or And to be clear about it, each time you Haggadah Hunter in Hackensack celebrated and loved.
ask him for counsel. Looking back now, get them off the market, the insidious sup- The polychrome color highlighting
it’s clear that his life and his safety often pliers will weasel them back on. Dear Hunter, of this edition clearly shows you all the
were in potential danger. But guns were This lesson I have repeated many Sociologists say that the Passover seder is alternating cadences of the work. I added
not prevalent and terrorist attacks on vul- times to my students: After you accom- the most widely observed Jewish practice to this edition a brief introduction that
nerable venues and innocent people were plish your difficult goals for the good and in America. And you are right that few explains that the seder is like an opera
rare in that era. the moral and the ethical actions in our people comprehend the complexities of with different arias. The Haggadah is the
Times are radically different now. What world, you must never turn your back the Haggadah. It is a composite book of libretto.
should you do? Much of it you know. or become complacent. If you look away many layers that developed over a period If all this sounds enticing to you, I
Organize the vote. Engage in the political for a minute, the enemies of the virtuous of more than 2,000 years. shamelessly and happily suggest that you
processes. will take back all the advantages that you To be sure, there are hundreds of help- order the Polychrome Historical Hagga-
One thing to do that has not been accomplished. ful editions of the book with commen- dah, readily available from Amazon. And
touted much even in all the uproar is You may already know that in 1994, taries, many published recently by local may you have a joyous spiritually and
directly to confront the manufacturers of with Ronald Reagan’s support, Congress writers. But few of them expose the his- intellectually satisfying Passover.
guns. Not the NRA. That group is a clever banned high-capacity magazines as well torical origins of the strata of the text.
shield for the greedy gun runners. Here as assault rifles. A decade later, incred- Last year, to help resolve this issue, I Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from
are the top gun corporations for you to ibly and absurdly, lawmakers let this ban republished the best work I knew of, the Brown University and his rabbinic
challenge. Go after them directly: Sturm expire, under pressure from the gun- Polychrome Historical Haggadah. ordination from Yeshiva University. He
Ruger, Remington, Outdoor, Smith & makers and the likes of the National Rifle This wonderful book was first issued by taught advanced Talmud, Halakhah
Wesson, Glock, Sig Sauer, O.F. Mossberg Association. Rabbi Jacob Freedman of Springfield, Mas- and Jewish law codes, Jewish Liturgy,
& Sons, Savage, Springfield Armory, My advice to you is engage in loud, sachusetts, in 1974. By putting each text- Jewish History and Religious Studies
layer in a distinct color, he highlighted the at seminaries and at major research
seven different periods of the origins of universities. He is a prolific author and
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers mindful advice based on Talmudic the Haggadah. Biblical verses are black. published numerous articles and books
reasoning and wisdom. It aspires to be equally open and meaningful to all Mishna passages are red. Talmud material about Judaism and Jewish texts (including
the varieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first is orange. Geonic passages are in green. the above-referenced Polychrome
Friday of the month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or Medieval additions are in brown. Mod- Historical Haggadah). Visit www.tzvee.
email them to zahavy@gmail.com ern insertions are in purple, and finally, com for links.

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 The Frazzled Housewife
Circle of life
BANJI GANCHROW
A
few weeks ago I was at a bris.
Big news, right? I tend not
to go to many of these things
because 1, it involves me leav-
ing my house and 2, if I leave my house,
it involves me having to smile at people,
which I normally don’t have a problem
with, unless I really don’t like you, and
then I just pretend not to see you. A use-
ful trick I have learned from living in this parent, or you wish you were a grand-
community, unfortunately.
ANYWAY, I went to this bris
because I really, really like
the family. Really and truly.
And, let’s be honest, I was in
the mood for a good bagel
and lox.
So the ceremony is done
and the cute little guy has
screamed his adorable head
off and downstairs we go for Banji
the after party. You would Ganchrow
think they would start serv-
ing mimosas after what the
family has just gone through, but I have
yet to be at a bris like that. But I digress. will grow up to be a good man. A man who
I am sitting at the table with my friend’s
daughter, who normally might think I am
a well-adjusted human being (who am I
kidding…I am nuts, but a good kind.
Not the kind that everyone seems to be
allergic to these days and needs to carry
an epi-pen for. Though, thinking about
it, that would make quite the column,
people who you are allergic to. Sorry,
another tangent. No, I am not writing
this drunk) and I have an epiphany.
Which, of course, because I am my
mother’s daughter, I had to share with
the poor teenager sitting next to me. And
now I am going to share it with you.
When you are young, going to a bris
doesn’t mean anything to you. You
go because your parents tell you to.
And you hope they let you eat dessert.
When you go to a bris when you are
dating, your thoughts go to your future
and whether you will be blessed with
the ability to have a bris for your own
child. Then you get married, you go to
a bris, and you get a little teary because
you are either pregnant or trying to get
pregnant. (Going to a bris after a miscar-
riage is not up for discussion in a humor
column, because there is nothing funny
about that.) Then, with God’s help, you
have a baby and going to a bris means
shlepping the little guy out and hoping
you don’t have to nurse him because
you forgot to wear your nursing bra and
it becomes a whole process that isn’t
worth going into. Hamayveen, yaveen
(which means “those who understand,
understand what I am referring too”).
For the next few years, as a new
mother, brises are emotional. Is it
because you haven’t slept for years?
Is it because you are hormonal? Who
knows… But then, the tears seem to stop.
That seems to be after your last bar mitz-
vah and before you make a wedding.
Could it be because you’re meno-
pausal? You are angry at your kids? You
don’t particularly like your spouse that
day? Again, who knows. But then the
tears start again. Either you’re becom-
ing a grandparent, or you are a grand-
parent. They’re tears for
what is, what could have
been, and what you hope
will be.
And there I am, trying
to explain this to a 15-year-
old girl, who would rather
be anywhere else but lis-
tening to me going on with
my epiphany. Poor kid.
But the thing about a bris
is that from that ceremony
comes a young man.
A young man who, with
the right guidance and a whole lot of luck,
has sons of his own who think he is the
greatest father in the whole world. Who
When you are
young, going to
a bris doesn’t
mean anything
to you. You go
because your
parents tell you
to. And you
hope they let
you eat dessert.
teaches his boys by example — going to
minyan in Podunk, Indiana, learning with
his son who is in Israel almost every day,
driving his other son into the city, and
trusting his baby with a car. I would now
be talking about husband #1.
His Hebrew birthday is on Purim,
which is this week, and he already told
me that he doesn’t want anything for his
birthday. So this paragraph is his gift.
Happy birthday to husband #1 and happy
Purim to the rest of you.
And the next time you see me at a bris,
you might want to sit at another table.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is married to
a man who can lain a 15 minute megillah.
It is one of his many talents that doesn’t
seem to annoy her.
Crossword
“AT THE ZOO” BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY
Across Down
1. Participant in the Second Plague 1. Elm Street menace Krueger
5. Isaac’s sacrificial replacement 2. Change the inner layer of a coat again
8. Balaam’s talked 3. “Band” option for a small simcha
14. Vegas alternative 4. Republican letters
15. Historical period 5. Duane ___ (pharmacy chain)
16. Grande on the radio 6. Will who voices “Lego Batman”
17. Eleazar Maccabee was tragically
crushed by one
7. Floor for Aly Raisman
8. “Religious”, in Israel
19. Like some windows and glasses 9. Baltimore baseballer
20. “That when Isaac was old, and his
eyes were ___” (Gen. 27:1)
10. Scatterbrain, to a Brit
11. “Kit ___” (chocolate snack)
21. Ending for imp or stamp
22. Den-mate of Daniel, once
12. Tel Aviv to Tiberias Dir.
13. ___ Vashem (Holocaust memorial)
23. Genetic link between many Jewish
priests
18. Bonham Carter of the “Harry Potter”
films
24. “Here, I’ll do that”
26. Fibbing
22. “Unhand me!”
25. Jordan or Jackson
30. “Fiddler on the Roof” matchmaker 27. “Are you ___ out?”
32. Rabbi or Doctor, e.g.
34. Shabbat afternoon “activity”
28. Be a nudge
29. Waze, e.g. (Abbr.)
35. Santa ___ winds
37. Like some characters in Spielberg’s
31. Installs, as a driveway
33. “... thine own ___ testify against thee”
“Ready Player One”, for short
38. Jezebel was eaten by them
(Job 15:6)
36. Israel’s continent
39. Insect that could be kosher 38. “Drop this,” editorially
42. They’re essential to Rosh Hashana 39. Diamonds and rubies
44. Call ___ night (end the Seder) 40. Fill, as a Jewish mother might stereo-
45. Actor Mineo of “Exodus” typically do
46. Tefillin limb 41. Weekly Torah reading
47. Former “Today” co-anchor Matt 42. “Kapow!”
49. Pose for another portrait 43. Bard’s “before”
53. Complicated, as a breakup 47. Actress Natasha who went to The
55. Goes on the run Ramaz School
57. Angsty rock genre 48. “The King of Queens” actress Leah
58. Sign of the tribe of Benjamin 50. Solo pic, nowadays
60. Aug. or Sept., e.g. 51. Get in the way of
61. Vinyl records, for short 52. One flipping a coin
62. Explain the meaning of “life”? 54. Travels by arm and leg across the
65. Largest kosher animal Galilee
67. Those who graduated Brandeis, now 56. Lulav’s partner
68. “I’ll take that as ___” 59. Hawaiian necklaces
69. Assistant 62. “Yup”, to Boris
70. Solomon acquired too many of these 63. “Evil Woman” band, for short
71. Animal best known for being tref 64. 22-Across is covered in it
72. “...swift like the ___” (Pirkei Avot 5:20) 65. ___ year (spent in Israel, for many
students)
66. Fidget spinners, for one
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 63.
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Arts & Culture
The Tribe at the Oscars: 2018 edition
NATE BLOOM
T
he 90th Oscars ceremony begin at 8 p.m. on
Sunday, March 4, on ABC. Jimmy Kimmel will
host. The following is a list of confirmed Jew-
ish Oscar nominees. The number of Jewish
nominees is smaller than some years, but still it is
substantial.
Leading actor: TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET,, 24,
“Call Me by My Name.” He competes in this cat-
egory with DANIEL DAY-LEWIS,, who starred in
“The Phantom Thread.” Chalamet is the breakout
actor of 2017. Besides starring in “Call Me,” a best
picture nominee, he had a biggish supporting role
in “Lady Bird,” another best picture nominee. He
grew up in New York City, the son of an American
Jewish mother (a real estate broker who had been
a Broadway dancer) and a French Protestant father
(an editor for UNICEF). Chalamet has referred to him-
self as Jewish, and as I’ve noted before, his mother has
posted photos online of the family about to celebrate
Passover and celebrating Chanukah. Chalamet has com-
piled a number of credits in TV and film since he was a
child. However, before “Call Me,” almost nobody but his
friends and family would recognize his name right away.
In “Call Me,” Chalamet plays Elio Perlman, a 17-year-old
living in Italy with his Italian Jewish mother and American
Jewish father. His character has a brief same-sex affair with
Oliver, 22, a visiting American Jewish student. The movie
ends with Elio receiving a call from Oliver just as the family
is about to celebrate Chanukah. Oliver tells Elio that he is
engaged to be married and Elio clearly is upset. The film is
based on a novel of the same name by ANDRÉ ACIMAN,
67, a Sephardic Jew who was born in Egypt, left that coun-
try with his family in 1965, and settled briefly in Rome. Aci-
man moved to New York in 1968. Like the leading actors in
the film, he is straight — the married father of three — and
he’s emphasized that “Call Me” should not be seen as only
a gay love story. Elio’s sexuality still is forming during the
time period depicted in the film, Aciman says. Moreover,
he told The Times of Israel, gayness was not the key first
spark between Elio and Oliver. Rather, Aciman said, “It’s
not sexual, but Jewish at first. It’s something fundamental
and deep-rooted between them. It’s the development of
an essential bond between them.”  Also in this category: “Logan,” which was co-written
The novel has a 30-page end section that provides a par-
tial coda about the lives of Elio and Oliver, in scenes that
take place 15 and 20 years after their first meeting. This
has led the director, Luca Guadagnino, to seriously con-
sider making sequels to “Call Me.” The mechanics of that
will take some working out.  less,” a recent Netflix series. Green, 44, grew up in a New
Daniel Day-Lewis, 60, is the only person to win three
best actor Oscars. His father, Cecil Day-Lewis, was of
Irish Protestant background, and the poet laureate of
England from 1968 until he died in 1972 (and he also
moonlighted as the mystery writer Nicholas Blake). His
mother, the late actress JILL BALCON (1925-2009),
was Jewish. Jill’s father, Sir MICHAEL BALCON, was a
founder of the British film industry. Daniel always has
been secular. He says “Phantom Thread,” in which he
plays a fashion designer, will be his last film. Day-Lewis
was close to his late father-in-law, the famous playwright
ARTHUR MILLER.  In 1996, Day-Lewis wed REBECCA
MILLER, now 55, and they have two children. Miller, a
(secular) writer and filmmaker, occasionally has touched
56 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 2, 2018
on Jewish themes in her work.
No Jewish actresses are nominated this year, no Jewish
actors got a supporting actor nomination, and no Jewish
writers are nominated for an original screenplay. How-
ever, a number of Jewish writers are nominated for best
adapted screenplay. “The Disaster Artist,” a comedy about
a terrible real movie, adapted from a memoir, was written
by SCOTT NEUSTATDER and MICHAEL H. WEBER,
both 40. The duo has been a writing team since 1999 and
have similar backgrounds — Neustader grew up on Long
Island and Weber in Atlantic City. Both had a bar mitz-
vah and like to schmooze about Jews in the movies. Their
break-out film was “500 Days of Summer” (2006), a clever
original romantic comedy/drama.  firmed Jewish producers:
by SCOTT FRANK, 57, James Mangold, and MICHAEL
GREEN, 45. “Logan” is the first comic-book-based movie
to get a best screenplay Oscar nomination. Frank’s cred-
its include writing “Out of Sight,” for which he got an
Oscar nomination. He also wrote and directed “God-
York City suburb, where his religious Israeli-born mother
insisted he attend a yeshiva. He became more secular as
he grew older. Also: AARON SORKIN, 56, for “Molly’s
Game,” a film from a memoir by Molly Bloom (whose
father is Jewish) about running high-stakes poker games.
Sorkin became famous with his 1989 play “A Few Good
Men,” which became a hit movie in 1992.
LEE UNKRICH, 50, was the co-director and co-producer
of “Coco,” a best feature-length animated movie nominee
from Pixar Studios. He directed “Toy Story 3,” which won
the Oscar in 2011. “Coco” won the 2018 Golden Globe for
best animated film and the betting is that it will win the
Oscar, too. Unkrich was raised in Cleveland. This writer
lives near Unkrich in the San Francisco Bay area, and I’m
happy to tell you that the bar/bat mitzvah announcements
of Unkrich’s three children, with his wife, LAURA all, have
appeared in the Bay Area Jewish paper.
STIEFEL, 60ish, is nominated for best docu-
FRANK STIEFEL
mentary short subject (“Heaven is a Traffic Jam”). It’s
about MINDY ALPER,
ALPER 58, a talented California multime-
dia artist who has battled mental health problems. Stiefel
made a short movie, “Ingelore” (2009), about how his
mother, a deaf teen, escaped Nazi Germany.
BRYAN FOGELFOGEL, 40ish, wrote and co-starred in
“Icarus,” a best feature-length documentary nomi-
nee. Fogel, a very serious bicyclist, blew the lid off
Russian athlete doping in his film. Before “Icarus,”
he was best known for “Jewtopia,” a comedic play/
film. His parents, who belong to a Denver Ortho-
dox synagogue, will accompany him to the Oscars.
WARREN, 61, is nominated for best
DIANE WARREN
song, “Stand Up for Something,” from “Marshall.”
This is her ninth best song nomination. She com-
petes with U-M alums BENJ PASEK, 32, and Justin
Paul, who wrote “This is Me” from “The Greatest
Showman.”  HANS ZIMMER, 60, is nominated for
best musical score for “Dunkirk.” He’s been
Oscar-nominated 11 times, winning in 1995
for “The Lion King.”
I don’t usually cover the technical nomi-
nations because it’s very difficult to tell if
nominees are Jewish. However, a Canadian
friend helped me establish that film editor
WOLINSKY 70, a truly talented man,
SIDNEY WOLINSKY,
is Jewish. Born and raised in Winnipeg, he’s nominated for
editing “The Shape of Water.” Before “Water,” he mostly
was known for his TV work, including “The Sopranos,”
for which he won an Emmy.  His mother, EVA KOVES
WOLINSKY STUBBS, died last December at 92. She
fled Hungary in 1944 and eventually became one of Can-
ada’s leading sculptors. Wolinsky told the Winnipeg Free
Press: “I regret that she didn’t get to see me get this nomi-
nation. I think she would have enjoyed it. But she was in
her 90s and lived a long and good life and she couldn’t
make it any longer.”
The best picture nomination goes to the film’s produc-
ers. Nine movies are nominated. The following have con-
“Call Me by My Name” was co-produced by PETER
SPEARS, 50. In a 2007 profile in the Los Angeles Jewish
newspaper, Spears recounted how helping the Israeli film
industry reignited his Jewish ties, including having a bar
mitzvah at the Western Wall. He recently said he could
relate to the outsider status of the main characters in “Call
Me” because he is Jewish, gay, and grew up in Kansas.
“The Darkest Hour” was co-produced by ERIC FELL-
NER, 58. This is the fifth best picture nomination for Fell-
ner, a Brit.
“Lady Bird” was co-produced by SCOTT RUDIN, 59.
This is the seventh best picture nomination for Rudin; he’s
won for “No Country for Old Men” (2007). Greta Gerwig,
the director/writer of “Lady Bird,” recently told NPR that
she wanted to use excerpts of a STEPHEN SONDHEIM
musical in her film. Fortunately, she said, Rudin is friends
with Sondheim, 87, and Sondheim gave her permission.
Finally, there’s “The Post,” which was co-produced by
AMY PASCAL, 59, and STEVEN SPIELBERG, 71. Spiel-
berg directed “The Post” but wasn’t nominated for best
director this year.
 Calendar political commentator
Gil Troy is scholar-in- Learning about Judaism
residence at Temple in Pearl River: Beth
Emanu-El during Am Temple holds
services that begin at a community open
9 a.m. Dessert reception house, “Everything You
follows. 180 Piermont Wanted to Know About
Road. (201) 750-9997 or Judaism But Didn’t
templeemanu-el.com. Have the Opportunity
to Ask,” led by Rabbi
Shabbat opera in Daniel Pernick, 4:30 p.m.
Teaneck: Temple Emeth 60 East Madison Ave.
offers Shabbat services (845) 735-5858 or www.
at 10:30 a.m. At 1 p.m., a bethamtemple.org.
film of George Gershwin’s
opera “Porgy and Bess,” Knitting and book
starring Eric Owens, club in Teaneck: The
Laquita Mitchell, and the sisterhood of the Jewish
San Francisco Opera, Center of Teaneck hosts
will be screened, with Knitting Night, 7-8 p.m.
introduction by Mark Afterward, the Leaves
Shapiro, music director of Faith Book Club will
of Cecilia Chorus of New discuss Jorge Luis Borges’
York and artistic director “Aleph and Other Stories”
of Cantori New York. with Professor Sarah
Desserts and beverages. Rindner and Rabbi Daniel
1666 Windsor Road. Fridman. 70 Sterling
(201) 833-1322. Place. (201) 833-0515 or
jcot.org.
Casino in Hoboken:
United Synagogue of
Hoboken holds its annual
MAR. The Glen Rock Jewish Center sisterhood hosts “Too Good to Casino Night fundraiser
at the Hoboken Elks Club.
Passover,” a talk and tasting with chef Jennifer Felicia Abadi
4
Doors open at 7 p.m.,
at 11:15 a.m. Ms. Abadi will discuss her new Passover cookbook, gaming starts at 7:30.
“Too Good to Passover: Sephardic & Judeo-Arabic Seder Menus Proceeds benefit USH
and community service
and Memories from Africa, Asia and Europe.” She will also tell stories and organizations, including
offer sample desserts and charoset from her travels to Sephardic and the Hoboken Homeless
Judeo-Arabic communities all over the world. 682 Harristown Road. (201) Shelter and Hoboken
Emergency Food Pantry. Catskills in Teaneck:
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St. (201) 659-4000, Sholom screens “Four
CasinoNight@ Seasons Lodge,” followed
Broadway in Hillsdale, Reservations, 111 Avenue Rogin, bass guitarist HobokenSynagogue. by a Q&A with the
Friday 2:30-3:45 p.m. It’s part
of CBI’s “Office Hours”
B. (201) 858-2020 or
templebay111@gmail.com.
Mark Kantrowitz, and
drummer Jimmy Cohen,
org, or www. director Andrew Jacobs,
hobokensynagogue.org. 7 p.m. 354 Maitland Ave.
MARCH 2 in local public spaces. 7:30 p.m. Desserts (201) 833-2620 or www.
Fundraising lunch in
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
follow. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or Sunday cbsteaneck.org.
River Vale: The Jewish bethrishon.org. MARCH 4
Community Organization Shabbat/Purim in Monday
of Northern Bergen Wayne: Temple Beth Shabbat in Emerson:
County holds its fifth
Purim in Montebello: MARCH 5
Tikvah’s family service Congregation B’nai The Montebello Jewish
Make-A-Wish luncheon, and Megillah reading, Israel has services Center hosts a Purim
to benefit a local mostly in English, 6 p.m. and a “Torah Town carnival, 10:30 a.m.–noon.
17-year-old with a brain 950 Preakness Ave. Hall” discussion with Costumes encouraged.
malformation, at the (973) 595-6565 or www. Rabbi Debra Orenstein 34 Montebello Road.
Edgewood Country Club, templebethtikvahnj.org. about headlines with (845) 357-2430 or www.
11 a.m. JCONBC.com/ a Jewish perspective, montebellojc.org.
upcoming-events. Purim/Shabbat in Cantors Biddelman and 8 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
Bayonne: Temple Beth Mamber (201) 265-2272 or www. Purim in Wyckoff:
Coffee with rabbi Am offers pizza at Purim bisrael.com. Temple Beth Rishon
in Hillsdale: Rabbi dinner, 6 p.m., followed Shabbat in Wyckoff: holds a Purim carnival
Debra Orenstein of by Megillah reading and Temple Beth Rishon
Congregation B’nai sing-along led by Rabbi holds Shabbat Tzavta Saturday with laser tag, game
truck, games, food, photo
Israel in Emerson Cathy Felix, at 7. Bring a (together), a semi-annual MARCH 3 booth, inflatables, arts & Matt Chertkoff
welcomes guests to box of pasta to use as a participatory folk-rock crafts, and face painting,
join her for beverages grogger and then donate service led by Cantors Shabbat in Closter: 11 a.m. 585 Russell Jazz in Fort Lee: The
and conversation it to the food pantry. Ilan Mamber and Mark Professor, writer, Ave. (201) 891-4466 or CSI Scholar Fund of
at Starbucks, 126 Crazy hats encouraged. Biddelman, with Naomi presidential historian, and bethrishon.org. the JCC of Fort Lee/

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Congregation Gesher
Shalom presents “Kosher
Jazz III,”a narrated
concert featuring the
Matt Chertkoff Quartet,
1 p.m. Refreshments at
12:30. 1449 Anderson
Ave., Fort Lee. (201) 947
1735.
Film in Tenafly: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades screens
“Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind” as
part of a new monthly
JCC Film Forum,
7:30 p.m. Film critic,
radio/TV personality,
and writer-producer-
director Mike Sargent
leads a discussion.
(201) 408-1456 or
JCCoTP.org.
Intro to Judaism in
Pearl River: Beth Am
Temple begins a 15-week
Introduction to Judaism
class for Jews and non-
Jews, led by Rabbi Daniel
Pernick, , 7:45 p.m.
60 East Madison Ave.,
Pearl River, NY. www.
bethamtemple.org.
Tuesday  com.
MARCH 6
Joann S. Lublin
Trailblazing women:
Joann S. Lublin,
management news
editor for the Wall Street
Journal, discusses her
book “Earning It: Hard-
Won Lessons from
Trailblazing Women at
the Top of the Business
World,’’ at a lunch and
learn for the Bergen
County section of the
National Council of
Jewish Women. Program
at Temple Emeth, 1666
Windsor Road, Teaneck
, noon. Lunch by Foster
Village Deli. Reservations,
www.ncjwbcs.org or
(201) 385-4847.
Film in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth’s adult
education group screens
a Jewish-themed movie,
7:30 p.m., as part of its
“Movies That Matter”
series. Refreshments.
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1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322.
Living in Israel
concerns: Congregation
Ahavath Torah offers
a panel discussion,
“Solutions to Israeli Real
Estate, Tax and Estate
Concerns” with Mark
Hess, partner, taxation
and wealth planning
practice co-chair,
Israel practice for Fox
Rothschild LLP; Debra
Hirsch, partner, Fox
Rothschild LLP; and Gadi
Last, founder, Israel at
Last – advisers to English
speakers on Israeli real
estate and finance , 8
p.m. Topics include dos
and don’ts of Israeli
real estate and finance;
estate planning updates
regarding children living
in Israel; and taxation of
U.S. retirement benefits
after aliyah. 240 Broad
Ave. (201) 568-1315 or
www.ahavathTorah.org.
Wednesday  “Jewish Lifecycle Events
MARCH 7
Torah in Closter: The
Torah Institute with Rabbi
David-Seth Kirshner
meets at Temple Emanu-
El of Closter, 7:30 p.m., to
study the past, present,
and future of the Jewish
people. Also March 21.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997, kramer@
templeemanu-el.com,
or www.templeemanuel.
Thursday  in the 1920s/1930s led
MARCH 8
Michael Ferraro
GAVIN CHRISTOPHER JONES
Lavish lunches: The
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly
hosts its annual “Lavish
Lunches,” a culinary
adventure beginning
with a light breakfast
at 10:15 a.m., with a
culinary presentation
by chef Michael Ferraro.
Afterward, participants
choose from a selection
of lunches, served in local
homes and other places,
at 12:15 p.m. Proceeds
will support a range
of JCC programs and
services for senior adults
in the community. Michal
Kleiman, (201) 408-1412,
mkleiman@jccotp.org,
or www.jccotp.org/
lavishlunches.
of Northern NJ, host of the American Jewish
“#MeToo is More than a Shabbat Across Experience & Reform
Hashtag…Understanding, America in Emerson: Jewish History at Hebrew
Identifying and Congregation B’nai Union College –Jewish
Preventing Sexual Israel participates in the Institute of Religion in
Harassment” at annual SAA, 6:30-8 p.m.  Cincinnati, discusses “He
Congregation Beth Celebrate Shabbat Was One of Us! American
Sholom, 7:30 p.m. The with dinner, rituals, Jewry’s Relationship
program led by two songs, and prayers With Abraham Lincoln”
lawyers who specialize in around the table, led by for the Distinguished
labor and employment, Rabbi Debra Orenstein Speaker series at Temple
and Cantor Lenny
Dr. Martin Dean followed by a Q&A Beth Rishon in Wyckoff.
session to a panel Mandel. 53 Palisade Sponsored by the Fred
Babi Yar: Dr. Martin Dean, that includes an HR Ave. (201) 265-2272 or  Emert Memorial Adult
historical consultant professional and bisrael.com . Education Fund with TBR
at Babi Yar Holocaust LCSW, coincides with patron support. Breakfast
Memorial Center,
discusses “Babi Yar
International Day of Saturday  buffet, 9:45 a.m.; talk at
Women. 354 Maitland 10:30. 585 Russell Ave.
and the Holocaust in Ave., Teaneck. SandraL@
MARCH 10 (201) 891-4466 or www.
Ukraine” in the Robert JFCSNNJ.org. bethrishon.org.
A. Scott Student Center Comedy in Paramus:
(Alumni Lounges, SC- Pre-Passover seder: The The JCC of Paramus/ Challah baking in
158) at Ramapo College Jersey Hills section of Congregation Beth Montebello: The
Tikvah hosts a comedy
in Mahwah, 1:20 p.m. the National Council of Montebello Jewish
night starring Joe
Sponsored by Ramapo’s Jewish Women meets Center hosts challah
DeVito and Karen
Gross Center for for a sweet seder at baking for families
Bergreen. Doors open,
Holocaust and Genocide Temple Beth Sholom with 4- to 13-year-olds,
7:45 p.m.; show starts
Studies. 505 Ramapo in Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m. 10:30 a.m. 34 Montebello
at 8:30. Refreshments
Valley Road, Mahwah. 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. Road. (845) 357-2430 or
and dessert. 304 East
(201) 684-7409. (201) 652-4824. www.montebellojc.org.
Midland Ave., Paramus.
Jewish lifecycles: Rabbi (201) 262-7691 or www. Paterson roots: The
Alex Freedman teaches jccparamus.org. Jewish Historical Society
of North Jersey offers
Comedy in Closter:
Explained,” 7:30 p.m. a discussion “Paterson
Classes continue through Temple Beth El’s Roots Remembered and
March 22. 180 Piermont sisterhood invites Forgotten in Heritage
Road. (201) 750-9997 or the community to Tourism Abroad,” by
be entertained by
www.templeemanu-el. Dr. Daniel J. Walkowitz,
comedians Steven Scott,
com. 11:45 a.m. Refreshments.
Alexandra McHale, and
17-10 River Road, Fair
Mike Speirs of Headline
Edith Sobel Friday  Entertainment, 8:30 p.m.;
Lawn. (201) 300-6590 or
JHSNNJ@gmail.com.
MARCH 9 doors open at 8. Light
Hadassah meets in Park refreshments and BYOB. Party showcase in
Ridge: Pascack Valley/ 221 Schraalenburgh East Rutherford: The
Northern Valley chapter Road. (201) 768-5112 or Meadowlands Racing
of Hadassah meets at www.tbenv.org. and Entertainment in
Temple Beth Sholom, East Rutherford, a state-
1:30 p.m., for a program
on Jewish gangsters Sunday  of-the-art venue with
unlimited possibilities,
M
by journalist, critic, and
MARCH 11 including a Victory
Sports Bar & Club, 20
i
C
reviewer Edith Sobel. Meet Josh Gottheimer: foot screens, and premier
Refreshments. 32 Park Congregation Beth lighting effects, offers o
Ave. (201) 880-4614. Aaron in Teaneck, a mitzvah showcase for t
the Orthodox Union simcha parties, noon-
Shabbat Across E
Advocacy Center, Teach 4 p.m. 1 Racetrack Drive,
America in Suffern: f
NJS, and the Jewish East Rutherford. Register,
Congregation Shaarey
Israel participates in Federation of Northern Playmeadowlands.com/ n
New Jersey host a town mitzvah.
the annual National s
Shabbat Across America hall meeting with Rep.
Josh Gottheimer (NJ- Passover arts and crafts i
and Canada. Along
Dist 5), 9:30 a.m. Part in Demarest: The ETC g
with services and a chapter of Hadassah
Shabbat meal, the of a series of events for
community members hosts “Passover Pals,”
Heschel Harmonizers a children’s Passover- G
high school choir will and those in or seeking
Hungarian film: “1945,” office to engage in a civil themed arts and crafts d
sing and Rabbi Elchanan
an acclaimed Hungarian Weinbach will discuss, and informed discussion program led by Kathy e
about key issues of Eisler, at the Art School
film, is screened in “Can You Hear the
concern and interest. at Old Church, 11 a.m.
the Trustees Pavilion Jewish Future?” 6 p.m.
950 Queen Anne Road. 561 Piermont Road.
(PAV 3) at Ramapo 18 Montebello Road.
(201) 836-6210 or www. Raffles and refreshments.
College in Mahwah, (845)266-6445 or www.
bethaaron.org. Reservations,
7 p.m. Sponsored by shaareyisraelrockland.
kathyeisler@gmail.com
Ramapo’s Gross Center com.
or (201) 567-2120.
for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies. The Shabbat Across
Book club in Wayne:
program is in memory America in Paramus:
The Chabad Center
of Holocaust survivor/ The JCC of Paramus/
of Passaic County’s
advisory board member, Congregation Beth
Spotlight on Book Club
John Gunzler, who died Tikvah participates in
for women offers a
recently, 505 Ramapo the annual SAA. Family
discussion on Georgia
Valley Road, Mahwah. friendly services at 6:30,
Hunter’s novel, “We
(201) 684-7409. led by Rabbi Arthur
Were the Lucky Ones,”
Weiner and Cantor 7:30 p.m. The novel is
Sexual harassment
Sam Weiss, followed Dr. Gary Phillip Zola based on the life of the
discussion: Jewish
by kiddush and dinner. author’s grandfather.
Family & Children’s
304 East Midland American Jews and Dessert. 194 Ratzer Road.
Services, Project
Ave. Reservations, Lincoln: Dr. Gary Chani, (973) 694-6274 or
Ezrah, and Women’s
(201) 262-7691 or www. Phillip Zola, executive jewishwayne.com.
Philanthropy Division
jccparamus.org. director of the Jacob
of Jewish Federation
Rader Marcus Center
 Calendar

Mentalist in Leonia:
Congregation Adas Singles
lunch with community
rabbis and their families. NBN and parents of lone soldiers
Emuno welcomes
EnglewoodShabbaton@
gmail.com. will convene in Bergenfield
renowned mentalist Marc
Salem in “Mind Games,”
Sunday  Shabbaton: Sharon
Parents of current and future lone soldiers will meet to hear a talk about Nefesh
4-6 p.m. 254 Broad Ave. MARCH 4 Ganz & Friends host a B’Nefesh and the FIDF-Lone Soldiers Program on March 12, at 8 p.m., at a private
(201) 592-1712 or www. post-Purim Shabbaton home in Bergenfield. The meeting is not a fund raiser. For more information, email
adasemuno.org. Seniors meet in West for Jewish singles dassahdk@gmail.com.
Nyack: Singles 65+ at Young Israel of
Monday  meets for a social bagels
and lox brunch at the
Avenue J in Brooklyn,
through Saturday
MARCH 12 JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All night. Fee includes
are welcome, particularly three Shabbat meals,
Kid-friendly seders: if you are from Hudson, Flatbush tour, guest
Congregations Shaare Passaic, Bergen, or speakers, and Saturday
Tefillah and Rinat Rockland counties. 450 night party. Home
Yisrael of Teaneck West Nyack Road. Gene hospitality. 1721 Avenue
and Yavneh Academy Arkin, (845) 356-5525. J. (646) 529-8748 or
YPAA in Paramus host (718) 575-3962.
“Seder Surprises,” Singles meet in
hands-on ways to make Caldwell: New Jersey Singles Shabbat in
your seders amazing, Jewish Singles 45+ Brooklyn: Star Singles
engaging, and exciting, meets at Congregation and Shadchanim host
with Zalman Suldan, Agudath Israel for group a weekend for modern
at Rinat, 7:15 p.m. 389 trivia with prizes and Orthodox Jewish
West Englewood Ave. dessert buffet, 2:30 p.m. singles, 40s- 60s, in
(201) 837-2795. 20 Academy Road. Sue, Flatbush/Midwood,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145, Brooklyn, at the Yun Kee
Parents’ night for or singles@agudath.org. Restaurant/Chap a Nosh The Zahal delegation on a field trip last year. JO ROSEN PHOTOGRAPHY
lone soldier parents: in Flatbush. Gourmet
Parents of current and
future lone soldiers are
Friday  catered Shabbat
meals with divrei
Spring boutique to support
invited to a get-together
at a private home in
MARCH 9 Torah, seudah shlishit,
and a melave malka
Israel’s disabled veterans
Bergenfield, 8 p.m. Hear Englewood Shabbaton: with entertainment, Zahal Shalom is sponsoring a spring Israeli war veterans to Bergen County
about Nefesh B’Nefesh Modern Orthodox/ and shadchanim. boutique to support Israel’s disabled for two weeks; they are hosted by local
and about the FIDF-lone machmir singles, 25- FrumSingles@aol.com.
soldiers program. Not a 35, are welcome to a veterans at Congregation Beth Sholom volunteer families. Their itinerary
fundraiser, about aliyah, Shabbaton in Englewood. in Teaneck on March 22 from 6 to 10 includes educational programs, social
or recruiting potential Intimate dinner hosted p.m. Vendors will have a wide range of events and sightseeing as well as a trip
soldiers. Location by members of the
items for sale, including jewelry, active to Washington D.C. Host and buddy
information, dassahdk@ community, Friday
gmail.com. night oneg, Shabbat wear, personalized gifts, handbags, table families often have never visited Israel;
linens, accessories, giftware, and even they learn about life in Israel from the
walking tours. The boutique will raise visitors, and frequently plan a trip to
funds to bring 12 disabled Israeli veter- Israel after the delegation departs.
ans to Bergen County this summer. The soldiers are inspired and healed
Mentorship role reversed Zahal Shalom was created in 1993 by
a group of people from Bergen County
through interacting with the host and
buddy families. The warm and long
in ‘Genius Bar’ for women shuls and Jewish organizations. It is part lasting relationships forged from this
Community women are invited to the sec- professional and Ma’ayanot’s technology of an overseas program that traces its experience create familial bonds that
ond annual “Genius Bar,” a reverse-men- staff will teach a pre-session class about origins to the Six Day War and involves last many years.
torship program sponsored by Project LinkedIn, personal branding, Google apps, two Israeli organizations, the Zahal For vendor information, email Tali
Ezrah and Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School and advanced internet resourcefulness. Disabled Veterans and Beit Halochem. Blum at tali@zahalshalom.org. For event
for Girls. Women who want to learn tech- The program begins on Monday, March Each year the group brings 10 disabled tickets, go to zahalshalom.org.
nology skills will be paired with Ma’ayanot 5, and runs weekly through March 26,
student mentors, who will work with them from 11:15 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., at Ma’ayanot,
individually to help them achieve their
goals.
1650 Palisade Ave., in Teaneck.
For more information, go to www.maay-
Preparing for Passover
The Genius Bar has options including anot.org/event/genius-bar/ or email Orly Zalman Suldan offers creative, hands-on ways to make
Google apps, Microsoft Office, graphic Nadler, the school’s co-director of STEAM your seders amazing, engaging, and exciting at Congrega-
design, iMovie, social media, and gen- education and innovation, at nadlero@ tion Beth Aaron in Teaneck, on Saturday, March 10, at 3:30
eral computing. A human resources maayanot.org. p.m. He will also give a program on Monday, March 12, at
Congregation Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck at 7:15 p.m., that is
jointly sponsored with Congregation Shaare Tefillah and
Yavneh Academy’s YPAA. Beth Aaron is at 950 Queen Anne
Road. (201) 836-6210. Rinat Yisrael is at 389 West Engle-
Noted cookbook author wood Ave. (201) 837-2795. Zalman Suldan
is coming to Closter On Sunday, March 11, the sisterhood of Congregation
Beth Aaron has a pre-Pesach tablecloth sale at a private home in Teaneck, at 506
Temple Emanu-El of Closter will welcome Susie Fishbein, the Sagamore Ave., from 6 to 9:30 p.m.. There will be tablecloths ranging in size from 52
international best-selling author of the “Kosher by Design” x 52” to 70 x 180” along with flannel-backed vinyl and finished clear plastic ones. A
cookbook series. She will lead a cooking demonstration and portion of the proceeds will be donated to the sisterhood. For information, call (201)
tasting on Wednesday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., at the shul. 836-6210 or go to www.bethaaron.org.
Ms. Fishbein’s enthusiasm for food and entertaining led to Kol HaNeshamah offers a Passover program with
the creation of her best-selling cookbook, “Kosher by Design,” Dr. Murray Spiegel, author of “300 Ways to Create
published in 2003. As of 2016, Ms. Fishbein has produced Susie Fishbein an Unforgettable Seder,” at Solomon Schechter Day
nine cookbooks in the series. She also has developed a public School of Bergen County, on Tuesday, March 13 at 7:30
career as a celebrity chef, with cooking demonstrations at Jewish benefits, kosher cruises, p.m. The school is at 275 McKinley Ave., in New Mil-
and food festivals. To register, call Jeanine Corrubia at (201) 750-9997 or email her at cor- ford. For information, go to www.KHNJ.org or email
rubia@templeemanu-el.com. RSVP@KHNJ.org.

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Jewish World
What is AIPAC’s role in the age of Trump?
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — When candidate Donald
Trump spoke at AIPAC’s Policy Conference
in 2016 and said that Barack Obama may
be the worst thing that ever happened to
Israel, many cheered, many choked, and
the organization apologized.
The fallout from that event will haunt
the proceedings when 18,000 activists,
including 3,500 students, attend the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
conference here next week.
Navigating an increasingly polarized
political landscape is the new reality for
the lobby, which remains pre-eminent
among pro-Israel groups and has banked
on bipartisanship for a long time.
Trump, on the one hand, has delivered
on much of AIPAC’s agenda. He is mov-
ing the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, he is
pushing Congress and America’s allies to
toughen up the Iran nuclear deal, he is cut-
ting funds to the Palestinians as a means
of forcing them to align more with Israel
and the West, and he has spoken forcefully
against United Nations members who go
against the United States on its Israel poli-
cies. AIPAC has advocated all of these poli-
cies in recent years.
At the same time, much of the Jewish
community reviles Trump for his per-
ceived bigotries and postures on a range
of issues, including immigration, minor-
ity, and women’s rights, and funding for
social safety net programs. His approval
ratings among Jewish voters remain bar-
gain-basement low — 28 percent according
to Gallup in January, “significantly below
the national average,” the pollster said.
That was after Trump had announced the
embassy move and made clear his posi-
tions on the other issues that AIPAC favors.
AIPAC also always has claimed to speak
for the American Jewish community on
matters relating to Israel. But can the cen-
ter hold when its delegates are so deeply
divided, sometimes against themselves?
“It’s a real delicate balance,” said Neal
Sher, who helmed AIPAC as executive
director for a period in the mid-1990s
before Howard Kohr assumed the post he
still holds.
Sher said the pro-Israel credibility that
Trump accumulated over his first year in
office would guarantee a hearty reception
for those representing his administration,
including Vice President Mike Pence, U.N.
envoy Nikki Haley, and the ambassador to
Israel, David Friedman.
“The conference this year, they’re going
to be going nuts, it’s going to be like Trump
at CPAC,” Sher said, referring to the ecstatic
reception afforded the president earlier this
month when he addressed the annual con-
ference for political conservatives. “That’s
going to be a problem when you look at
Jewish demographics,” he said, referring to
60 JEWISH STANDARD MARCH 2, 2018
Jewish disaffection with Trump.
Some Jewish Democrats who once rel-
ished attending AIPAC now describe it as
hostile territory.
“I feel the right wing has taken over
the organization and there is no respect
for other opinions,” said a former board
member who is a major Democratic donor
and once reached high enough in AIPAC’s
ranks to chair a policy conference. “It’s
just not a place for me anymore.”
The dilemma facing AIPAC was in evi-
dence in March 2016, the day after Trump,
then close to clinching the Republican
presidential nomination, earned a round
of cheers for saying Obama, then the
incumbent president, “may be the worst
thing to ever happen to Israel, believe me,
believe me.”
The following morning, the AIPAC
brass appeared on stage to apologize for
Trump’s behavior — and for the crowd’s
reaction to it.
“There are people in our AIPAC fam-
ily who were deeply hurt last night and
for that we are deeply sorry,” said Lillian
Pinkus, the lobby’s president, her voice
choking. “We are deeply disappointed that
so many people applauded a sentiment
that we neither agree with or condone.”
It was a sequence of events that pleased
no one: Democrats despaired of the robust
cheers Trump earned, and Trump enthusi-
asts were shocked at the apology. (Report-
edly so was Trump, and his displeasure
was conveyed to AIPAC by a senior aide.)
Two years later the sequence still smarts
— for both sides.
“They boo the president at the policy
conference and it takes them 24 hours to
apologize?” the former board member said.
Morton Klein, who heads the Zionist
Organization of America and has emerged
as a Jewish leader with some of the closest
Trump administration ties, said an AIPAC
apology was overdue.
“The first thing AIPAC should do is apol-
ogize for two years ago, for having the
audacity to apologize for Trump’s speech,”
he said.
Significantly, both the former board
member and Klein — along with many oth-
ers — cited that moment without prompt-
ing as representing AIPAC’s crisis point.
It’s critical for AIPAC to figure out how
to navigate those rough waters, said Tom
Dine, Sher’s predecessor as executive
director, if only to sustain the broad bipar-
tisan support Israel has accrued over the
decades. “At this deeply divided and poi-
sonous period in our politics and policy
debate, AIPAC is needed now more than
ever,” he said.
An AIPAC official said the path to bipar-
tisanship runs through Congress. “Biparti-
sanship is part of our DNA because it is the
only proven way to secure the U.S.-Israel
relationship for the long term,” the official
SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Donald Trump waves after address-
ing the American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee Policy Conference in
Washington, D.C., on March 21, 2016.
said in an email. “At a time of polarization,
our Policy Conference is an oasis of bipar-
tisanship where we are united in the single
goal of strengthening that relationship.”
An AIPAC insider said the focus on Con-
gress would promote bipartisanship in an
arena where the divisiveness Trump tends
to elicit is not so apparent. “AIPAC has
always been about Congress; Congress is
90 percent of the relationship,” said the
insider, who acknowledged that there was
more AIPAC could do to cultivate the Dem-
ocratic grassroots.
The problem with that strategy is that
Republicans in Congress increasingly are
identified with Trump. Indeed, some of
AIPAC’s best Republican advocates in Con-
gress, who always were careful to partner
with Democrats in advancing pro-Israel
legislation, are retiring this year, in part
because they can no longer abide Trump’s
GOP. Among them are Ed Royce of Califor-
nia and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida. Both
leave behind influential foreign policy spots.
The seeds of partisan division over Israel
precede the Trump presidency. The deep
divide between the Obama administra-
tion and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government over Iran policy
and settlements drove some Democrats
away from reflexive support for Israel.
AIPAC took Israel’s side more often than
not in those disputes.
“When I joined AIPAC, it was a safe
space for Democrats,” said Steve Shef-
fey, a pro-Israel and Democratic activist
from the Chicago area. “It has become
increasingly right wing, and not where
the American Jewish community is, and
in the age of Trump it’s become increas-
ingly embarrassing.”
Last month, a Pew poll showed that the
gap between how Republicans and Dem-
ocrats view Israel is widening, “with 79
percent of Republicans saying they sym-
pathize more with Israel than the Pales-
tinians, compared with just 27 percent of
Democrats.” Although some criticized its
methodology, the poll reflected concern
that Israel could rapidly become as politi-
cally divisive as abortion or gun control.
AIPAC is not ready to give up the fight.
Members of Congress speaking at the con-
ference are evenly divided between the
parties, and in a let-bygones-be-bygones
sign, include many Democrats who voted
for the Iran deal. (Most backers of the Iran
deal were absent from the last two confer-
ences.) AIPAC is endeavoring to reconcile
Democratic and Republican agendas on
key legislative actions, including the Taylor
Force Act, named for an American slain in
2016 by a Palestinian terrorist. It would cut
funding to the Palestinian Authority until
it stops payments to Palestinian attack-
ers. Democrats want some carve-outs for
humanitarian purposes, and Republicans
are resisting them.
Ann Lewis, who was a communications
director for the Clinton White House,
is leading two sessions on reaching out
to progressives.
Lewis said progressives were a criti-
cal constituency to cultivate because
America was at a point where political
positions are being set in stone for subse-
quent generations.
“From all the data I have seen, decisions
about political identity is being decided
now for years to come; we’re looking at
a generational shift,” she said. “It is really
important that support for the U.S.-Israel
relationship be included.”
Then there was the point of view that
AIPAC may as well cut its losses with one
party and embrace the more natural fit.
Of course, what the natural fit is for a
pro-Israel lobby depends on where you sit.
“The impact of Jews in politics is mostly
in campaign contributions,” said Steve
Rosen, a former AIPAC foreign policy chief
who now works for conservative pro-Israel
groups. And, he pointed out, the natural
constituency for Israel’s policies increas-
ingly is politically conservative Jews.
“If the future of AIPAC depends on
becoming an organization of donors, that
means looking to the Orthodox over time,
who also happen to be more conservative
politically,” Rosen said.
Jeremy Ben Ami, who heads J Street,
the liberal Jewish Middle East policy
group that at times has positioned itself as
AIPAC’s rival, said catering to the Trump
and Netanyahu governments would be a
death sentence, considering the American
Jewish community’s political trends.
“The alliance between two leaderships
that three-quarters of American Jews dis-
agree with makes it hard to back an orga-
nization that exists only to support the
Israeli government,” he said. “We’re in
an era where the majority of American
Jews want to be in opposition.”
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Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech
freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites
I
don’t know if Wayne
LaPierre is anti-
Semitic. In many ways,
I don’t care if Wayne
LaPierre is anti-Semitic. But
the executive vice president
of the NRA gave a speech
this week that was heard as
anti-Semitic by two kinds of
people: left-leaning Jews and Andrew
hard-right anti-Semites. Let’s Silow-Carroll
agree that’s troubling.
Speaking at CPAC, the
annual arch-conservative gathering, LaPierre accused
proponents of gun control of promoting “socialism” in
the guise of public health and safety. Behind this “social
engineering,” he said, are the billions of dollars donated
by “people like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Tom
Steyer and more.”
The fact that he singled out three Jews — and later,
the late Jewish community organizer Saul Alinsky — was
alarming to many on Twitter and to two columnists for
the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Bradley Burston wrote that
LaPierre’s defense of gun rights “included expressions of
dog-whistle anti-Semitism reminiscent of the ‘Protocols of
the Elders of Zion,’ with descriptions of a powerful plot to
destroy America’s freedom by ‘European-style Socialists’
who he said had taken over the Democratic Party.” Rabbi
Avraham Bronstein of Long Island’s Hampton Synagogue
wrote that LaPierre “delivered a Christian nationalist call
to arms that should be chilling to us all” and that the “asso-
ciation of Jews with shadowy foreign threats is not new in
this political moment.”
The anti-Semitic fringe heard the same things in LaPi-
erre’s speech.
“The NRA Representing White People Against the Jews”
blared a headline in the Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi web-
site. LaPierre “knows it’s Jews coming for our guns,” wrote
Andrew Anglin, the site’s founder. Another neo-Nazi web-
site, Infostormer, declared, “There is no denying the Jew-
ish role in pushing for gun control and it is good to see that
the NRA is now indirectly exposing this fact.”
Neo-Nazis hear what they want to hear — the obscene
flip side of Jews who are too quick to cry anti-Semitism.
Neither are completely reliable judges of what is and
isn’t anti-Semitism.
There were Jews who found the accusations of dog-
whistling far-fetched. Jonathan Tobin of the Jewish News
Syndicate noted that Soros is “arguably the nation’s
leading funder of liberal causes” and that Bloomberg
has put his money behind an organization, Everytown
for Gun Safety, that decries the National Rifle Associa-
tion’s influence.
“If you were amassing a list of prominent opponents
of the NRA, such as the one LaPierre spouted about,”
Tobin wrote, “it would be impossible to do so without
naming many Jews primarily or even solely known for
their politics.”
That seems fair and accurate, and it would exonerate
LaPierre if his speech were a reasoned, careful consider-
ation of the challenges to the NRA’s agenda. But because
LaPierre’s address was an emotional defense of the Sec-
ond Amendment, as opposed to one that was legal or
intellectual, it’s fair to explore the emotional impact
of the words he chose. Soros and Bloomberg? Naming
either or both is a surefire way of riling up a conserva-
tive crowd — but is that solely because of the causes they
back or because they represent an insidious archetype?
Opinion Obituaries
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Karen Terach, née Sperber, 70, died February 26.
She had a passion for volunteering, earned a blackbelt
Perhaps most CPAC members can identify Alinsky, who in Tae Kwan Do, and worked with handicapped children.
died in 1972 — or does the name itself signify something She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Irwin,
alien and ethnic? children, Julie Garofalo (Chris) and Michael (Stepha-
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anti-socialist manifesto combined with a religious sermon grandchildren, Emma and Elise Terach, and Sean and
about providential destiny. The constitutional right to Sophia Garofalo; in-laws, nieces, and great-nieces and
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“This creates an environment where schools are incen-
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year, New York has allocated $5 million for this, with the
money to be divided proportionately among the schools
that apply.
“We expect the program to grow rapidly. Everyone in
New York is excited. That the state is investing in the secu-
lar side of our instruction, with bipartisan support, is a real
testament to how far we’ve come on these issues.
“Our argument is that this is a growing population that
requires investment from the state, or you lose these people
as residents. Their kids don’t come back,” he said.
“It’s a big deal because the tuition crisis is not just about
cost, it’s about quality. This creates an environment where
schools are incentivized to hire quality teachers,” Mr. Lit-
wack concluded.
Under the New York regulation, teachers must be state
certified or have master’s degrees to be eligible for funding.
As for actual lobbying tactics, the Teach Advocacy Net-
work focuses on mobilizing thousands upon thousands of
day school parents for grassroots lobbying. “The unique-
ness of our model is we don’t believe in the necessity of a
day-to-day person in Trenton,” Mr. Litwack said. “The point
of contact we want to have is between politicians and com-
munity members.
“On March 13, we will have 1,200 people in the halls of
Albany. It’s the largest Jewish lobbying mission after AIPAC.
It demonstrates this is a movement about parents and kids
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FrOM PaGe 13
“Someone gave us the idea of think-
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39 things you are not allowed to do on
Shabbat — weaving and planting and
grinding, for example. We are thinking
about that philosophically. What does it
mean to create? And what does it mean
to create rest?
“Everything we do is seen through a
Jewish lens. We don’t have to keep talk-
ing about it because the whole day is Jew-
ish education.”
Mr. Shenker is equally excited about
joining forces with the Idea School.
“Why do we do it? It’s easy. The JCC
exists to create meaningful experiences
and to create Jewish community. The
school will be perfect in partnership
with us to realize this vision.
“This is mission alignment. We share
the same values. We have the same
shared desire to support Jewish teens,
to respond to unmet or undermet needs
in the Jewish community, to use our
resources to support the community.
“When you put these needs together —
when you put us together — you get per-
fect synergy.”
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have a 10-year-old daughter, Batya, and another son,

Kelman
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Service volunteers make less money than lone soldiers and
aren’t eligible for most of the benefits, although they do get
free public transportation and an apartment shared with
other National Service women.
“We don’t get enough support or respect,” Ms. Weis-
inger said. “Lone soldiers get vouchers for meals and
supermarkets even though they get food on base. I don’t
get any food at work and my salary is less.” But, she added,
a new organization is advocating to improve conditions for
lone National Service volunteers.
“I do talk about the hard parts but I also post about how
much I love my job,” she said. “It’s so amazing to serve
your country doing something you love.”
Two of her siblings also live in Israel. Her brother
Yonatan is finishing his IDF service in March and plans to
join the police force. Another older brother, Zev, lives in
Jerusalem with his family and is the director of develop-
ment for Friends of Nachal Charedi, the fundraising arm
of the Orthodox men’s IDF battalion.
After her second year in Carmel 6000, Ms. Weisinger
plans to do a preparatory year at Hebrew University to per-
fect her Hebrew and then pursue a degree in computer
science or computer engineering.
Her mother, L’via, says that she and her husband, Char-
lie, are “super proud” of their older daughter. They also
Akiva, who lives in Seattle with his wife. The elder Weis-
ingers hope to make aliyah in the coming years.
“We feel it was a really good move for Tali socially, emo-
tionally, and career-wise, because Israel is where it’s at
with technology and she has tremendous opportunities
there,” L’via Weisinger said. “Here she would be a little fish
in a big sea, while in Israel she’s a big fish in a little sea and
they’re making a push for getting women into high tech.”
Ms. Weisinger, a registered nurse, says she is pleased
that her daughter is able to indulge her coding passion
“not just to code games, but for things like biotech, which
will really help people.”
She reports that she burst into happy tears when see-
ing a video her daughter sent showing the face-recogni-
tion program functioning perfectly. She knows how much
sweat equity went into its design. The mother and daugh-
ter are in frequent contact via phone and WhatsApp, shar-
ing both exasperating and triumphant moments.
In addition, Tali Weisinger and her father study Talmud
together long distance. “I think it’s really important in
Sherut Leumi … to carve out time in your day to do things
that you love with the people you love,” she blogged.
“It’s been a trial by fire for her — finding the right posi-
tion without connections, coming up with strategies to
deal with problems in her apartment … all of that has
made her stronger,” L’via Weisinger said. “We hope she
inspires others.”
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life that are usually taken for granted. Changing light
bulbs with Green Light opened my eyes to the desti-
tute lives of, unfortunately, many Americans.
“Seeing their homes made me so grateful for the
home and life I was given, and has strengthened my
drive even more to help others in need.”
Shaina Levin of Teaneck wrote that the New
Orleans mission “taught me that everyone has a
purpose; even I have a purpose,” and that she had
learned to appreciate her role as a member of the
Jewish people.
Mr. Distenfeld points out that in many cases the
people receiving assistance from the New Jersey
teens had never met Jews before. And he empha-
sizes that the benefits flow in both directions.
“The kids who go out lifting floorboards after a
storm, or rebuilding homes, are doing a big chesed,
but often it’s the kids themselves who are most
impacted by what they have accomplished,” he said.
“We want to continue to ensure that as many kids as
possible can participate.
“In my day job I’m focused on investment returns
and I’m also focused on the return of my charity
dollars,” he added. “The payback on this is hard to
quantify — but it’s tremendous.”

Harassment International “offering support

FROM PAGE 39 and praise for the way I handled it.
quickly gathered leaders of local “Locally and beyond, the com-
Jewish groups to think about ways munity has been so supportive,”
to address sexual harassment, and she said. “I want people to know

CAITLYN
assigned three staffers to develop how positive the reaction has
policies and protocols. been, and that you don’t have to

JENNER
A week after she was harassed, keep silent. If I can publicly say
Abrams published a powerful what happened to me and not
essay in JTA about her experience. be afraid, my hope is that other

WINS THE WORLD Abrams’ coming forward also

accelerated work on sexual harass-
women will do the same.”
Not everyone is confident that
VALUES NETWORK ment policies at Hillel Interna- there will be a notable change in
CHAMPION OF tional, said Mimi Kravetz, its chief how sexual harassment and abuse
ISRAEL AND HUMAN talent officer. Hillel has a network are handled by Jewish nonprofits,
RIGHTS AWARD of 180 chapters serving 550 North
American college campuses. The
no matter how many trainings and
programs are run for fundraisers
IT TAKES GUTS for Caitlyn Jenner to stand up and fight every
day for human rights and human equality around the world. organization updated its employee and donors.
While speaking at the Xpose Awards in Dublin, Ireland,
she voiced her strong support for Israel, proudly defending
handbook and distributed it to Hil- “At the end of the day organiza-
the Jewish State as a bastion of human rights and dignity in lel’s 1,200 staff members world- tions want the money from donors,
that cesspit of human rights abuses, the Middle East.
wide — many are recent college and staff people are obviously less
DISCRIMINATION IS WRONG. graduates. It also sent out informa- important than the money,” said
God created all human beings in his image, and Israel – situated
in a Middle East where LGBTQ people are hung from cranes, tion on how staffers should protect Rachel Canar, an American-born,
themselves and others from sexual Tel Aviv-based development con-
burned alive in cages, and thrown to their deaths from the roof-
tops – stands alone as a nation that treats all LGBTQ citizens
as people and as children of God, protecting them from
persecution and harm.
harassment, and how to report it. sultant who has worked for a wide
By defending and celebrating Israel, Caitlyn Jenner is proudly The organization ran an online range of liberal Jewish groups.
standing with the Jewish people in defense of human rights.
For her courage and incredible friendship to the Jewish people,
town hall in which staffers shared In the ecology of the Jewish com-
the World Values Network will proudly award Caitlyn Jenner their experiences, and by next munity, fundraisers “are more
the Champion of Israel and Human Rights Award at The
Champions of Jewish Values Awards Gala on March 8, 2018 month will have run three training expendable” than donors, she
at The Plaza in New York City.
sessions. said. No matter how much effort
SHE STANDS SHOULDER TO Abrams said she received phone goes into addressing sexual harass-
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of the aliyah process no matter where you are in your
journey.”
The Mega Event includes a full-day Medical Profes-
sionals Seminar that provides the opportunity to meet
with top representatives from the Israeli Ministry of
Health Licensing Division, the Israeli Medical Asso-
ciation, and Israeli health funds, while representa-
tives from nearly every hospital in Israel will also be
in attendance. Professionals in various medical fields
will be able to start the process of transferring their
professional license to Israel on the spot.
Other aspects of the mega event will include a full day
of workshops and seminars, designed to provide profes-
sional answers to any aliyah questions; networking with
hundreds of other aliyah-minded people; children’s pro-
gramming; the presence of Israeli vendors and service
providers who can give prospective immigrants a head-
start on Aliyah preparations; and an Israeli-style shuk
(market) and cafe that will offer food and refreshments
throughout the day. The event’s “Go Beyond Pavilion,”
organized by Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael and Nefesh
B’Nefesh, will help attendees tap into the opportuni-
ties available to those who make aliyah to areas beyond
Israel’s center.
For more information on the March 11 Mega
Event, please visit: www.nbn.org.il/mega-events/
nyc-mega-event/
More information on the Medical Professionals Sem-
inar can be found at: www.nbn.org.il/mega-events/
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Teaneck chamber hosts Colon cancer awareness
real estate seminar at Holy Name
On Thursday, March 15, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the real estate com-
mittee of Teaneck’s Chamber of Commerce is hosting “Real
Colon cancer is the third most commonly diag-
nosed cancer and the second leading cause of
Estate 2018: Taxes – What Buyers And Sellers Need To Know” at cancer death in the United States. However, it
the Teaneck Public Library. This real estate seminar is for current
homeowners as well as those who are thinking of buying or selling
is highly detectable and treatable. In recogni-
tion of Colorectal Cancer Awareness month,
property in the near future. join our representatives from Holy Name
Topics will include how the revised tax laws affect homeowners Medical Center’s departments of oncology,
and future buyers, current real estate market trends, and financ- nutrition, endoscopy, and genetic counseling
ing issues. There will be a Q&A session. who will provide information on detection
Moderated by Wendy Wineburgh Dessanti (Weichert Realtors), and prevention of colon cancer. Enjoy light
the panel of speakers will include James Brown (CPA), Barbara refreshments as a physician discusses screen-
Ostroth (Coldwell Banker RE), Deborah Pico (attorney) and Liz ing methods, prevention, etc. Educational
Santos (Residential Home Funding) who will all provide valu- materials and free colon cancer screenings kits
able, timely information and advice on the many factors affecting will be available to all participants.
selling, buying and/or maintaining your home. Come with your The free event will take place Thursday,
questions! March 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Holy Name
Refreshments will be served. Your RSVP is appreciated but not Medical Center’s Marian Hall.
required to attend. For more information, contact Wendy at (201)
310-2255 or wendydess@aol.com.
Learn about comprehensive care for AFib
The Valley Hospital will host a free community health pro- efficiently, those living with AFib are at an increased risk
gram, Get Your Beat Back, on Tuesday, March 20 from 7 to of stroke, heart failure and other problems.
8:30 p.m. at The Ridgewood Library, 125 N. Maple Avenue, Fortunately, there are more options available today to
Ridgewood. treat AFib than ever before.
Atrial fibrillation (AF or AFib) is the most common irreg- Join Valley electrophysiologist Dan L. Musat, M.D., to
ular or abnormal heart rhythm disorder, affecting more learn about the latest advances in care for patients with
than 3 million Americans. Afib to both manage the condition and improve one’s
Since the heart can weaken when it is unable to pump overall quality of life.
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Association of Jewish Attorneys

SELLING YOUR HOME? launches in New Jersey
Last week marked the launch of the
Association of Jewish Attorneys first
chapter in New Jersey. The AJA is a full-
service Jewish bar association, commit-
ted to providing members with practical
benefits to assist in their day-to-day prac-
tice of law.
Among other benefits, the AJA fea-
tures an online career center for post-
ing and searching job openings and
resumes and will also host regular Con-
tinuing Legal Education seminars. The
AJA’ s first CLE event, a Lunch & Learn
with Martin Shenkman entitled “Estate
Planning: A Jewish Perspective,” will take
place on April 19, followed soon after
by “All About Property Surveys” with
Eliezer Shaffren and Michael L. Donini
on May 15. Many other CLE seminars
are currently being planned, including
“Kosher Divorce: What Every Lawyer
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share information and questions,” said
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AJA. In addition to hosting networking
events, the AJA website features a mem-
bers-only online networking platform,
which allows members to connect with
each other online, post and comment on
articles and other content, join practice
area groups, partake in practice area dis-
cussion forums and even start their own
blogs.
The AJA also offers some benefits spe-
cifically for new attorneys and law stu-
dents, such as a young lawyers discus-
sion group, a mentoring program for
young attorneys seeking to get advice
from more experienced attorneys, and
a career center with a resume building
tool and categories for summer intern-
ships and junior associate positions.
Any new member who joins the AJA
by March 9 is entitled to a complimen-
tary CLE program. For more informa-
tion, visit www.ajanj.org, or email info@
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