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Baby rhino brings
joy to Ramat Gan Safari
l Good news! The
Zoological Center Tel Aviv-
Ramat Gan, popularly
known as the Safari,
announced last week that
one of its rhinoceroses
had given birth to a
healthy female baby.
She was the fifth calf
born to Tanda, a 25-year-
old southern white rhino,
and she came after three
Elad Hershkowitz/Ramat Gan Safari

brothers and a sister.
Six months ago Safari
keepers caught Atari, a
male rhino, in the act with
Tanda and were delighted
when the rhinos’ liai-
son led to a pregnancy.
Atari also is the father of
Tanda’s last calf, Tupak,
named after the Swahili
word for “fighter”.
The new calf, born
four weeks ago, has not
yet been named. The Safari often of- horn is much sought after by practitioners
fers a short list of names for the public to of folk medicine, because of the lingering
choose from when it names its animals. belief that it improves male prowess and
During the pregnancy Tanda had re- can cure diseases.
mained close to Tupak but more recently So great is the demand for rhino horn
It’s a chuppah thing began pushing him away and keeping to

herself, indicating that the birth was close,
the Safari said in a statement.
that on the black market, it is worth twice
as much as gold, the Safari said.
The threat to the world’s rhino popula-
l Ben Grimm is getting married. Jewish in 2002. Now he is get- She was secluded in a fenced-off area in tion was highlighted in May when the last
Mr. Grimm, a former test pilot, ting a Jewish wedding, according a part of the Safari known as the “mater- male northern white rhino died, leaving
rocketed to fame in 1961 when he to promotional materials re- nity ward.” A day later, she gave birth to only two females of the species, which is
piloted a spaceship through the leased by Marvel Comics, which the calf, who weighs around 50 kilograms closely related to the rhinos kept in Israel.
Van Allen Belt. As reported by has scheduled the wedding for (110 pounds). Last year, 1,028 rhinos were hunted
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee of Marvel December. The newcomer does not yet have a in South Africa alone, according to the
Comics, the radiation gave him In what may be a nod to recent horn, but the iconic protrusion is ex- statement.
and the rest of the crew strange high-profile superhero wed- pected to begin growing in the coming The Safari participates in a European
powers, leading them to become dings that went off without their weeks, becoming a recognizable horn breeding program that includes 78 zoos.
the Fantastic Four. Mr. Grimm was couples getting hitched — this after a year or so. Israel’s herd, at 13 rhinos, is the largest in
the one whose life was most pro- summer Kitty Pryde didn’t go Beyond the simple pleasure of a suc- the program and the country is a leader
foundly changed by the accident; through with her scheduled wed- cessful birth, the development is an im- in breeding — an accomplishment at-
he became a powerful but mis- ding to longtime X-Men teammate portant step toward preserving the white tributed to the similarity between Israel’s
shapen rock-like creature dubbed Piotr Rasputin around the same rhinoceros — also known as the square- climate and the species’ natural habitat in
“the Thing.” time that Bruce Wayne canceled lipped rhinoceros — which has been the African wilderness.
Stuart Winer/Times of Israel
Nonetheless, he soon found his scheduled wedding to Selina hunted to near extinction. The animal’s
love, when he met blind sculptress Kyle — Marvel Comics released a
Alicia Masters. picture of the couple at the con-
Now, more than 50 years later, clusion of the ceremony, when Mr.
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Noshes
“Heavy-hearted, long-suffering Bert, yes.
Ernie? Goyishe kopf.”
— ‘Sesame Street’ writer Mark Saltzman,
answering the Forward’s question:
“Are Ernie and Bert Jewish?”
EMMYS ROUNDUP:
A very good night

for tribe members
The 70th Emmy which is produced by,
awards, held last and frequently writ-
week, saw lots of Jews ten by DAVID BENIOFF
clean up in the comedy and D.B. WEISS, both
categories and do well 47. “Saturday Night Live”
Henry Winkler Alex Borstein
elsewhere. HENRY won the Emmy for best
WINKLER, 72 (“Barry”) Variety Sketch series.
won the supporting The award was accepted
actor in a comedy series by LORNE MICHAELS,
Emmy and ALEX BOR- 73, SNL’s creator and
Mayim Bialik
STEIN, 47 (“The Marvel- principal producer.
ous Mrs. Maisel”) won the Moving moments: (1)
supporting actress in a Henry Winkler winning
comedy series award.
The creator of “Mrs.
his first Emmy after five
nominations. On stage,
Bialik’s DNA results
Maisel,” AMY SHERMAN- he said he dreamed of
PALLADINO, 52, won being an actor when he ● Just before the High Holy Days, MAYIM BIALIK, 42,
three Emmys. “Maisel” was 7 years old, living revealed the results of her 23 and Me DNA test in a video
won the comedy series in New York City “with posted on YouTube (search for “Bialik” and “DNA results
Emmy, and as a show short German Jewish Amy Sherman-Palladino Sean Penn revealed”). Part of what she said is here, but she is much
producer Sherman-Palla- parents who did not more charming and funny in the video than printed
dino accepted the award. want me to be an actor…. time in 2015 at a gala now 59, from a Bolivian words convey. She began by assuring us that she was
Individually, she won as I was 27 when I started “Game of Thrones” pre- jail and took him to his learning her test results at the moment she was being
the director of the best doing the Fonz. I’m now miere in San Francisco. home and nursed him
comedy episode and 72 and I’m standing filmed. Here’s part of what she said: “I’m 99.7 per-
back to health. About
best written comedy right here in front of you More new a year after the rescue, cent Ashkenazi Jewish. I am the Jewiest person anyone
episode, both for the with her. Wow.” and (2) TV season notes the whole story came knows. Whatever Jews are chosen for I’ve got it…. One
“Maisel” pilot. The GLENN WEISS, 57, who “The First,” an out, and every sector of of the things that Jewish people all over the world are
“Maisel” juggernaut won an Emmy for best eight-episode the Jewish community reflecting on — now that the holidays — are [here] — is
included Rachel Brosna- direction of a variety limited (i.e., no second praised Penn. our connection to a larger Jewish identity and what that
han, who won the lead special (“The Oscars”), season) series about the The Neighborhood,” means for our significance in the world — and learning
actress (comedy) award proposing marriage to first mission to Mars, is a comedy/drama, be-
for playing the Jewish his girlfriend from the
this information at a time of the year when I am focusing
streaming on Hulu. gins on Monday, Octo-
Mrs. Maisel. stage. She accepted and SEAN PENN, 58, stars as ber 1, at 8 p.m., on CBS. on my spiritual identity and my connection to the Jewish
JOEL WEISBERG, 52, joined him onstage. an astronaut. Reviews MAX GREENFIELD, 38 community…this is a concrete connection to the commu-
and JOEL FIELDS, 50ish By the way, David have praised Penn’s (Schmidt on “New Girl”), nity…and really, really special.”
(“The Americans”), won Benioff’s third cousin performance and the stars as Dave John- By the way, an informed source tells me that Ancestry.
the Emmy for writing (they share a great- series in general (epi- son. Things get dicey com and 23andMe differ a bit in their methodology and
the best drama epi- grandfather), billionaire sodes before they get when Johnson, who is virtually no Jew is above 92 percent Jewish by DNA in the
sode. I recently learned MARC BENIOFF, 53, just into space are a bit slow). described as the “nic- Ancestry test. That was my experience. Ancestry said I
that Fields’ late father bought Time magazine. I placed Penn, the est guy in the Midwest,”
was Rabbi HARVEY J. He’s the CEO of Sales- was 92 percent Ashkenazi Jewish and 8 percent “unde-
always-secular son of a moves his family to a
FIELDS, who served as Force, a major cloud Jewish father and a non- tough L.A. neighbor- fined European.” I have to take the 23 test to see if I can
president of the Board computing company. Jewish mother, on my hood. Many people there out-Jewy or tie Mayim. –N.B.
of Rabbis of South- He’s also a big-time phi- permanent good list in don’t appreciate his
ern California. The best lanthropist and Demo- 2013, when he rescued extreme neighborliness.
drama series Emmy went cratic donor. David and Orthodox businessman Cedric the Entertainer
to “Games of Thrones,” Marc met for the first JACOB OSTREICHER, co-stars. –N.B.
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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Local
Orthodox women leaders
learn to guide nonprofits
Touro’s Chesed Program outlines priorities in establishing the most effective tools
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN rules and regulations that govern how to
A
run a nonprofit and how to keep accurate,
fter Dr. Aimee Baron suffered accessible accounting records; about using
six miscarriages following the social media in the most effective way to
birth of her third child, she reach target audiences, and about which
decided to take time off from elements ought to be included in a non-
her job as in-house pediatrician at Roos- profit’s website.
evelt Hospital in Manhattan to consult spe- “It was a tremendous gift to be in a
cialists near and far. group like this,” Dr. Baron said. “The rela-
Though her search produced no defini- tionships I have built with these women,
tive answers, her next pregnancy pro- including the program director, Cindy
duced the double blessing of twins who Darrison, have already been and will con-
soon will turn five years old. tinue to be my lifelines.”
About two and a half years ago, Dr. Each of the 18 CLP fellows in this second
Baron spoke about her experience in her cohort of the program was paired with
Riverdale neighborhood. This is where a mentor who is a seasoned nonprofit
she was told about NechamaComfort, a executive. Mentors worked one-on-one
Teaneck-based organization founded by with participants to expand on what was
Reva Judas in 2009 to support families covered in the classes, answer questions
anywhere, of all Jewish backgrounds, specific to the needs of the particular orga-
through the trauma of miscarriage, still- nization, and help their charges plan for
birth, or infant loss. the future.
“It was crazy that Reva lived 15 minutes Dr. Baron noted that all the women in
away and nobody had ever mentioned the cohort expressed the feeling of being
her name to me before,” Dr. Baron said. pulled in different directions as moth-
“NechamaComfort was run mostly by ers and as nonprofit executives “trying
word of mouth, and few people beyond to run, or help run, organizations where
Teaneck knew it existed.” people desperately need us.”
Within a short time, Dr. Baron joined Accordingly, one class covered the
NechamaComfort as its director of innova- so-called work-life balance, which was
tion and growth. She took on the responsi- shown to be a rather elusive goal. “One
bility of guiding its future in tandem with of the takeaways was ‘Done is better Dr. Aimee Baron, left, Teaneck-based NechamaComfort’s director of innovation
Ms. Judas, who lives in Teaneck, and two than perfect.’ That really spoke to me,” and growth, Cindy Darrison, Chesed Leadership Program’s director, and
other new staff members, but there was Dr. Baron said. “And we created a What- Alexandra Roth-Kahn, director of UJA-Federation’s Caring department PHOTOS BY
much she still had to learn about nurtur- sApp group, including Cindy, so that KALININ PHOTOGRAPHY FOR TOURO COLLEGE
ing a nonprofit organization. now, even months later, if one of us is

Now she has a whole new skillset to struggling with something we bounce it competency, in that order. will do it right. My staff actually held their
bring to her task after completing the off the others and get immediate profes- “The women in this program already breath every time I came into the office
six-month Chesed Leadership Program, sional advice.” care — they are directing organizations that the day after one of my classes. I was so
a fellowship designed for Orthodox Jew- She first heard about CLP from Alli- address key challenges facing our commu- motivated and eager to implement every-
ish women leading nonprofit and social- son Josephs, who lives in Bergen County nity and they are dedicated to serving those thing I learned right away. It meant more
service organizations. CLP is offered and is the founding director of Jew in the in need every day,” Dr. Huberman said. work for all of us, but better service for
to qualified fellows for free, thanks to a City, a nonprofit dedicated to reversing “Through the Chesed Leadership Program, those who need us.”
partnership between UJA-Federation of negative associations about religious Jews we helped them build the skills they need to “I’m so proud of our graduates, who
New York, Lander College for Women, and Orthodox Judaism. Ms. Josephs was a develop competency so they can lead and are making the most vulnerable among us
and the Touro College Graduate School member of the first CLP cohort. serve in a more professional way.” feel part of the Jewish community,” said
of Social Work. “Allison brought us on her radio show Graduates of the fellowship program Alexandra Roth-Kahn, managing director
“This course taught me there were so and afterward she and I chatted,” Dr. lead a variety of organizations addressing of the Caring Department at UJA-Federa-
many things I didn’t even know I should Baron said. “One of the key things she said issues such as addiction prevention, cop- tion. “Through their work, they are affirm-
know about,” Dr. Baron said. was to recommend that I join the second ing with autism, patient advocacy, training ing the diversity of our community and
From January to June, the cohort met cohort. She knew this would be something for Orthodox mental health professionals, expanding and strengthening it to include
twice a month, usually at Touro’s school that I could bring back to the group.” and more. For some, the charitable work so many in need.”
of social work in Brooklyn. Among the The application process involved sub- they do is voluntary and represents a com- Dr. Baron said that the course “has really
many practical topics the course covered mitting a resume, answering short essay mitment to a cause by which they were been an incredible piece of my life. I’m
were how to structure a nonprofit board questions, and coming in for an inper- personally touched. extremely thankful for the opportunity.”
of directors and how to find the right son interview. According to Sara Rivka Kohn, the pro- Women leading nonprofit organizations
board members and define their terms Dr. Steven Huberman of Teaneck, who gram’s commencement speaker and the in the Orthodox community who are inter-
and responsibilities; how to identify popu- is the dean of the Touro College Gradu- director of LINKS, an organization that ested in more information or who wish to
lations for effective fundraising, and how ate School of Social Work, said that a Har- supports grieving children and teens, apply for the next Chesed Leadership Pro-
best to approach potential donors. Stu- vard University study found two common “This program taught us the skills so that gram cohort should email Ms. Darrison at
dents also learned about federal and state traits of successful people: caring and when we say yes to another project, we cynthia.darrison@touro.edu

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Vandalism hits Gottheimer campaign

Anti-Semitic, racist slogans scrawled on signs, garage door in Hampton Township
JOANNE PALMER
Last Saturday morning, a large campaign

sign for Representative Josh Gottheimer,
the first-term Democrat representing New
Jersey’s Fifth District in the United States
Congress, was defaced with anti-Semitic
and racist graffiti.
Swastikas, racist slogans, profanity,
a penis, incongruous smiley faces, and
oddly worded apparently pro-Trump mes-
sages were scrawled on the four-by-eight-
foot sign, which was planted outside a
house in Hampton Township, and a large
swastika was painted on the garage.
The house next door is for sale, and the
realtor’s sign on its lawn was vandalized as A campaign sign for Representative Josh Gottheimer on the lawn of home in Hampton Township, left, is defaced with anti-
well; a swastika and a penis were painted Semitic and racist graffiti. The home next door, right, had its for-sale sign vandalized.
on it. (The painting was crude – not only
in intent but in execution as well -- but borders for fentanyl and heroin,” and
recognizable). “slander.” A balloon coming from the Faus-
There also were handprints on the tian-looking candidate warns the potential
garage that led police to think that the voter that “Big media owns me.”
vandals may have attempted to enter it, That ludicrous and ultimately unsuc-
although that effort was not successful. cessful flyer might have been an early sign
“The people who lived in the house” — of what was to come.
that’s Colleen Murch, who owns it, and “If you look at the ADLs numbers, you’ll
her partner, Adam Stolarsky — “put up see that the number of white supremacists
the sign, and a few days ago some vandals and anti-Semitic activity has more than
came and pulled it down,” Mr. Gottheimer doubled,” Mr. Gottheimer said.
said. “And then about 1 or 2 a.m. on Sat- What happened is “disgusting,” he con-
urday they came by again — we think it’s tinued. “I really have zero patience for it.
probably the same people — and vandal- I also think that Sussex County in general,
ized it.” and certainly the people I have talked to,
Mr. Stolarsky is Jewish. Ms. Murch is not. have zero patience for it.”
Along with the Nazis symbols and male The local Republican politicians have
genitalia, the sign on their house featured responded appropriately, he said.
the words “MAGA dems suck literal tears The statement from state Senator Steve
go to Cali dems.” There was an arrow Oroho, Assemblyman Parker Space,
drawn from Mr. Gottheimer’s name to a Assemblyman Hal Wirths and Sussex
profanity and then the unprintable slur County Republican Chairman Jerry Scan-
used for black people. lan was straightforward. A swastika painted on the garage of a house in Hampton Township.
“Interestingly enough, last year there “We have heard about the horrible and
was another, similar incident in Sussex hateful defacing of Congressman Josh
county,” Mr. Gottheimer said. In Septem- Gottheimer’s campaign sign in Hamp-
ber 2017, the Airport Diner in Wantage ton,” their joint statement read. “We all
was vandalized; photographs from that unequivocally condemn what some sick
incident show crude scrawling that looks person has done. We hope the individual
very much like the vandalism last week in or individuals responsible for these appall-
Hampton Township. ing and disgusting actions are caught and
“I don’t think this is at all reflective of charged with a hate crime.”
the people of North Jersey, or their val- But Mr. Gottheimer’s Republican oppo-
ues, or their issues,” Mr. Gottheimer said. nent, John McCann, apparently couldn’t
“I spend time with both Republicans and help but add a zinger both at the beginning
Democrats, and this is not reflective of and at the end of his statement, as well as
their values. Of our values. an appeal to the Jewish community in the
“We always have had people who are middle.
extremists. That is not new.” “There is no room for racism in our poli-
In fact, Mr. Gottheimer faced some anti- tics, in our state or in our country. As we
Semitism at the end of his 2016 campaign. saw with the Democratic Sheriff of Bergen
A flyer showed a black-and-white pic- County, who endorsed Gottheimer, racism
ture, smiling menacingly, one front tooth cannot be tolerated.
blacked out and a goatee and horns drawn “The anti-Semitic actions in Sussex
in, next to text, written in a Gothic font, county are abhorrent. It is truly unfor-
saying that the candidate was in favor of tunate that this is the second time this A flyer distributed during Mr. Gottheimer’s 2016 campaign shows the candidate
“11th hour partial birth abortions,” “open SEE VANDALISM PAGE 32 with a goatee, horns, and a sinister leer.

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‘How Fascism Works’

Yale’s Dr. Jason Stanley talks about the political system’s structure and history
JOANNE PALMER Okay. So what are those ideas? always believed to be corrupt.”
“I will be talking about the ways in which In a fascist structure, the leader seems
What images flash through your mind the political tactics we are seeing now always to call out corruption, and to
when you hear the word “fascist”? across the world, this harsh resurgence pledge to end it, but that leader’s group
Many of us immediately see brown of high-right nationalism, are reflective of always teems with corruption, Dr. Stan-
shirts, shiny black jackboots, black-and- political movements in the past,” he said. ley said; for example, the Nazis constantly
white footage of white-faced, black-mus- People are “susceptible to a certain railed against corruption but exemplified
tached, dead-eyed black-souled men. We kind of divisive politicism, racism, social it.
think of death and horror and trains run- Darwinism, and I want to show that The Nazis were not the only fascist soci-
ning on time. many things that we really are used to ety, but they seem to provide a blueprint.
Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Profes- are worrisome signs. For example, when There is very little — if anything — about
sor of Philosophy at Yale (and before that leaders run as CEOs, promising that they fascism for which the Nazis cannot provide
he held a named chair at Rutgers), has been will run the country like a business — a an example.
thinking about fascism, at least in an infor- democracy is not supposed to be run like Because of its loathing of the truth —
mal way, almost all his life. He’s the son of a business. A democracy is not a busi- truth to fascists is like water to the Wicked
childhood Holocaust refugees; the under- ness, and we need to be better at recog- Witch of the West — the concept of false
standing of how fascism develops and nizing what a democracy is and isn’t. We news and lying reporters is basic to it.
grows tendrils and suffocates life and then need to see that certain things — like the “The Nazis used the term luegenpresse,”
outright kills almost is part of his DNA. promise to run the country like a busi- Jason Stanley Dr. Stanley said. “That means lying press.
Dr. Stanley’s last book, “How Propa- ness — might seem promising, but we That was the mainstream press.”
ganda Works,” was a look at one of fas- have to resist them if we are to hold onto “I did a tremendous amount of Immigration? “Every time I pick up
cism’s tools, and it led directly to his new our democratic ideals. research, and I discovered very many ‘Mein Kampf ’ — and because of my
work, “How Fascism Works.” The book, a “I am going to use history and look surprising things,” Dr. Stanley said. “Like research I have to do that a lot — I find a
small, elegant, carefully designed object, across the world, as in the book, to come this weird use of corruption, which occurs section with Hitler railing about Germa-
takes background that much of us know, up with a template of a kind of politics that everywhere.” ny’s immigration laws being an embarrass-
ties it to history that we might but more is based not on liberty and equality but on American schoolchildren are taught ment to the world,” he said.
likely do not know, and presents us with loyalty and power. Fascist leaders resem- that Reconstructionism — the period And gender issues? “The Nazis were the
a look at the structure of fascism. In the ble Mafia bosses because the Mafia is an right after the Civil War in the South, most anti-feminist government ever,” Dr.
book, Dr. Stanley separates out the ele- organization that is based on loyalty, and where freed slaves were given the power Stanley staid. “Aryan women were to stay
ments that all fascist cultures use, and fascism is a system that prizes loyalty to to vote, and often became politically at home and bear babies. They weren’t
shows us how and why they work, insofar the political leader. powerful — failed because of the rampant allowed in the workplace. Abortion was
as they do work. And he shows how it’s all “How do we see the symptoms of a fas- corruption that bedeviled it, Dr. Stanley entirely banned. The family was the model
based on the basic human desire to sepa- cist system? We see leaders appoint their said. But as W.E.B. Dubois said in his 1935 for the hierarchical vision of society that
rate the world into the good guys — us — relatives and business cronies to adminis- book “Black Reconstruction” — a book fascism set out to implement, so the fam-
and the bad ones — them. trative posts. These are worrisome signs of that Dr. Stanley called Dr. Du Bois’s “mas- ily was set up as a way to create positive
Dr. Stanley’s book has drawn a great the fascist ideology, which replaces truth terpiece” — it was not the African Ameri- emotions toward the authoritarian organi-
deal of interest; the subject is a live one with loyalty. cans who were corrupt. The corruption zation.” (Or at least to create positive emo-
right now, with fascism seemingly resur- “Fascism is a politics of emotion, and came from the southerners who feared tions in the men, who held the power and
gent around the world, a nightmare the emotions that it evokes are fear and their power. As it was then, so it is today, who therefore mattered.)
becoming a daytime soap. Last week, disgust.” he added. “Think about Flint, Michigan,” The inherent problem with fascism, it
the New York Times book review picked In his book, Dr. Stanley looks at the which we are told “like all black major- seems, is that it creates its own reality,
it as one of its suggested weekly reads. interlocking systems that create fascism. ity cities is declared too corrupt to run which can work for it until suddenly it
Dr. Stanley is touring the country talk- They are rooted in a mythic past; a past itself.” That’s why it was run by an emer- bangs up so hard against real reality that
ing about the book, and about the issue that might include nuggets of actual his- gency manager, brought in from the out- it shatters. Is that true? “Hannah Arendt
— in fact, he’ll be in a high-profile pub- tory but is inherently untrue. That past is side, and that led to the scandal of its says that the strength of fascist propa-
lic discussion at the New School with fel- a pure one; the people whose story it tells lead-tainted water. “It is very easy for ganda also is its greatest weakness,” Dr.
low Yale philosophy professor Timothy — the ultimate “us” whose purpose is to Americans to accept the idea that black Stanley said. “Initially you can’t fight it
Snyder, moderated by the New Yorker’s fight — actively to repel — “them” — are of majority places are corrupt,” Dr. Stan- with facts, because the people sucked
Jelani Cobb, on Wednesday, October 10. pure blood. Think of Germany’s glorious ley said. “Why? It’s because you have into it do not care about facts. But in
But the next day, he’ll cross the Hudson (to them) if counterfactual past. Think of an in group and an out group, and the the end, the break between the mythic
for a talk at the JCC U at the Kaplen JCC the “blood and soil” of the tiki-torch-wield- out group is always corrupt. No matter and the factual reality is so great that it
on the Palisades in Tenafly. (See box for ing protestors in Charlottesville last year. how you define the in group and the out becomes too much.”
more information.) Think of the straight line between them. group, the one defined as the out group is So yes, there is some hope.
Why is he coming to the JCC? “I took Fascism is maintained by propaganda
this invitation because I remember being that values its own untrue truths over
Who: Dr. Jason Stanley of Yale, author of “How Fascism Works”
with the community last year, and working actual truth, and binds its followers
through some of these issues with them,” together in a shared, fantastical web, Dr. What: Will talk about his book and then answer questions
he said. “It was during this book’s initial Stanley tells us. It is based as well on a rigid Where: At the JCC U at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave., Tenafly
stages, and I had just started outlining it, hierarchy that always values its members When: On Thursday, October 11, at 10:30
so thinking about it on stage, and thinking over outsiders, and its blood over theirs And also: After Dr. Stanley’s talk and a break for lunch, the session resumes with a talk
about the questions the audience mem- (and it often, maybe even always, comes by Janice Kaplan, the author of “The Gratitude Diaries.” She’ll talk about “How Luck
bers asked, helped me think through it. back to blood); it values men over women Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life.”
So I feel a bond with the community. They (and controlling women’s sexuality is a big How much: $35 for members, $42 for non-members
helped me write this book. I will be com- part of that hierarchical structure); and it
For more information or to register: Call (201) 408-1454 or go to www.jccotp.org/
ing back and reporting on what they saw models its own politics on the family, with
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On communing with the dead at Yizkor

LOIS GOLDRICH When someone dies, they move there.
Simple as that.
(Spoiler alert: I am neither I like to think that Ken, who always
delusional nor a psychic) said that heaven would pretty much be
O
uninterrupted reading, helps them get
n Yom Kippur — dressed in adjusted, introducing one to the other.
white, as is the custom in some This is my village, so everyone here has
congregations — I realized that one degree of separation.
I would be reciting Yizkor for My other image, lifted, I think, from
my husband, in a flowing white skirt, on Rabbi Avi Weiss, is of a bridge. Those liv-
my wedding anniversary. ing in the village enter from one side. I
Sincerely hoping that this wasn’t merely enter from the other. As Yizkor begins,
ironic but rather something more mean- we move toward each other, with Ken as
ingful, I conjured up the image of my long- a kind of troop leader. I smile and wave to
gone spouse to ask him what he thought. the other side and then stand side by side
He appeared, clearly, in his kittel, a large with Ken as I recite the various memo-
woolen tallit with a silver atarah — my wed- rial prayers.
ding gift to him — and his oversized white Yep, there are my parents and sister,
kippah, which we bought in Sefat. behind him. Hi. Miss you. Did I forget
Never, in the 14 years since his death to tell you I love you? My grandparents,
— he died at the conclusion of Simchat aunts, uncles, and friends. Nice to see
Torah — have I been able to picture him so you. Really. You were all pretty color-
clearly. True to form, he was too focused ful characters. Lois Kaplan and Ken Goldrich stand under the chuppah; Meryl Troodler looks on.
on the service to chat, except for occasion- I don’t leave the bridge until I have to.
ally correcting someone’s Hebrew or delib- It’s precious time. Holy time. am that she died so young. To embrace Jewish punchline.
erately perverting the words of a prayer I don’t believe, as I recite my sins, that friends of my children who should be Yom Kippur was, in truth, a beautiful
for comic effect. He hung around until Yiz- I have committed one by venturing out- here now hugging their own children. day. I prayed for the future as I embraced
kor and then faded. side a bit to get closer to those who have To stand beside the man who taught me the past. I learned, I sang, and I crossed
I hold two images in mind regarding moved further away. I get to say things to about unconditional love and was so pas- the boundaries that separate us from
my deceased loved ones. The first, and my parents that I forgot to say when they sionate about his Jewish practice that our those who came before. All in all, not too
most helpful, is my village of the dead. were alive. To tell my sister how sorry I kids said he couldn’t tell a joke without a bad an anniversary.
Bringing a bit of Israel to Bergen County

Shlichot eager to share their experiences in as many settings as possible
LOIS GOLDRICH
E
than Behling, the director
of the Jewish Federation of She will not try to
Northern New Jersey’s Cen-
ter for Israel Engagement, has tell them what to
seen shlichim come and go -- indeed, think about Israel.
he has now welcomed his fourth set
of Israel emissaries. Some were male, People should
some female; some were in their early form their opinion
20s, some a bit older. But they all came
with stories, and with the desire to share when they
their own Israel experiences with the see it with their
local community.
“Their goal is to deepen the connec- own eyes.They
tion between Israel and northern New should get to
Jersey,” said Behling of the shlichim, who
are trained and dispatched by the Jew- know the country
ish Agency. (A note about terminology. and then decide. Aya Adut, left, and Shoval Magal are the Jewish Federation of Northern New
A man is a shaliach, and two or more of Jersey’s new schlichot. JFNNJ
them are shlichim. A woman is a shlicha,

and two or more of them are shlichot.) Aya, who lives in Tel Aviv and finished drive.” So far, she has visited only Manhat- already has plans for Chanukah. “I’m very
This year, JFNNJ welcomed two shli- her army service a year ago, “heard about tan. “It’s like in the movies,” she observed. excited,” she said. “I hope to bring myself to
chot, 22-year-old Aya Adut and 25-year- the program from a friend and decided to According to Aya, who is working not only the community.” She expects those she vis-
old Shoval Magal. (Both emissaries must go for it,” she said. “It will be good for me. with the federation but also with the Wayne its will want to know about her experiences
be of the same gender, because they I like to speak with people and to teach.” Y and the Fair Lawn chapter of Tzofim, as an Israeli, “my daily routine, for example,
share an apartment. These shlichot live Has anything surprised her here? “Yes, the the Israeli Scouts, she is planning to orga- and holidays in Israel.”
in Englewood.) roads are different,” she said. “It’s harder to nize events, primarily for the holidays. She SEE SHLICHOT PAGE 14

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Turboing the Jewish vote

Teach NJS teams up with Democracy Works for outreach
LARRY YUDELSON While many people consider the central issue in
T
the election this November will be which party will
he Orthodox Union is rallying the community control Congress, Mr. Caplan and Teach NJS are
to vote — with a little help from a Facebook focused on the question of increasing state support
billionaire. for non-public schools.
Teach NJS, the OU’s initiative to increase state “In order to make changes and make an impact
aid to yeshivas and other private schools, is urging Jews to we need to vote in greater numbers,” Mr. Caplan
go to teachnjs.turbovote.org. There they can check their said.
voter registration status and sign up to receive reminders He said the budget the state government passed
about when and where to vote. this summer shows the need for the Jewish com-
Turbovote.org is a project of Democracy Works, a non- munity to be more engaged in voting and advo-
profit, nonpartisan organization that wants to see 80 per- cacy. “Public schools were given a large increase
cent of eligible American voters actually voting by 2024. in security funding, to the tune of $87 million,” he
Funded by leading foundations and such for-profit compa- said. “Non-public schools — which include our Jew-
nies as Google and Facebook, its board members include ish day schools — were not given more. It’s unfair.
Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who for a time It’s unacceptable. It’s an injustice.
owned the New Republic magazine. “If we want to correct the injustice we need to
come out and vote in greater numbers,” he said.
What is the turnout like among his
constituency? “The Assembly people have a tremen-
“It varies year to year, community to dous impact on how state funds go to
In the Jewish community,” he replied. “In the New York day schools for nursing and technol-
community, we don’t primaries, there were candidates who lost

because they ignored our communities
ogy,” he said. “The beauty of TurboVote
is that it will tell you that this election is
realize the impact we and candidates who won because they happening and will remind you to vote.
can have by voting. addressed the issues of our communities.

We’re trying to get our communities to
If they are going to vote, we want them
to know there is an assembly race.”
There’s a really come out in more meaningful numbers.” Mr. Caplan said the state budget that
important election TurboVote will let citizens know when

there is an election — and what the election
was hammered out this summer was
disappointing for his organization.
coming up. In order to is for. Mr. Caplan noted that in District 38, Josh Caplan “The bottom line is that in all the areas
make change and make which includes parts of Bergenfield, Para-

mus, and Fair Lawn, among other towns, seats in the state
of school aid where there were cuts in the
governor’s initial budget, funding was restored to the
an impact we need to Assembly are up for election. In April, Assemblyman Joseph previous levels,” he said. “That’s really not good enough.
vote in greater numbers. Lagan was named to the state Senate after state Senator Rob-
ert Gordon joined the state Board of Public Utilities and the
Particularly in the security area. For the state to say our
kids don’t deserve funding to protect their lives and
other District 38 assemblyman, Tim Eustace, resigned. safety is unacceptable. We expect better from our state
For Teach NJS, increasing voter turnout is part of its Democratic officials named former Fair Lawn Mayor politicians. They really failed us this time.
strategy to get the day school community to have a greater Lisa Swain and former Bergenfield Council President Chris “Our community knows about this and going for-
impact in Trenton. Tully to the open seats. Now they are up for election to ward our community will not accept being treated
“We want to make it easier for people to register,” Josh fill out the second year of their predecessors’ two-year as second-class citizens,” he continued. “Jews, Mus-
Caplan, TeachNJ’s executive director, said. His office is in terms, facing off against Republicans Jayme Ouellette and lims, Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists — we all feel
Teaneck; he lives in Edison. “In the Jewish community, we Gail Horton. cheated, we’re all taxpayers, and each of our kids’
don’t realize the impact we can have by voting. There’s a really “It’s a district that includes some major communities,” safety is equally important. We need more than just
important election coming up. In order to make change and Mr. Caplan said. lip service. We need the state to act and won’t stand
make an impact we need to vote in greater numbers.” And it’s important. down until this happens.”
country and then decide.” What she will do is “try to con- we bring the young Israelis here to provide a bit of the
Shlichot nect the community to Israel, bring its culture here, and immersive experience — two vibrant young Israelis talking
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bring some perspectives about what is happening there. about their lives.”
Shoval, who grew up in a small moshav next to Ben They’ll learn from my experience, not formal education. The outreach provided in this way is important, he said,
Gurion airport, 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, finished the “I’ll be happy if they come to meet me, even if only for “because they’re not academic experts — they haven’t
army a few years ago and has been an Israeli tour guide as coffee,” she said. She’ll be splitting her time between fed- even gone to college yet. They’re storytellers and informal
well as a staff member of Birthright. What surprised her eration, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, and Jewish educators, sharing their experiences with peers
upon arrival here last month was the weather. “It’s raining the Tenafly chapter of Tzofim, the Israeli Scouts. and people of all ages throughout the community.
and hot,” she said. Mr. Behling said that JFNNJ’s Israel Engagement Center “I’ve kept in touch with former shlichim, and some of
She explained that she went through a lot of training with sponsors a variety of local programs and facilitates trips them are still in touch with individuals in the community,”
the Jewish Agency in Israel. Her job now, she said, will be to Israel for adults, teens, and young adults. “We also do he added. “We share them with other organizations, so
“getting to know the communities and what they need and theme trips and send delegations to Nahariya,” the fed- they meet many people. They come to a community and
connecting them to Israel in way that suits them.” She will, eration’s sister city in Israel. The center also coordinates connect with as many organizations and groups as pos-
she said, “bring up subjects and things interesting to them.” the federation’s Ulpan program and its Israel film festival. sible to get the conversations going.”
She will not try to tell them what to think about Israel. While immersive Israel programs produce a “‘wow’ To learn more about the Israel Engagement Center or
“People should form their opinion when they see it with moment, it’s difficult to replicate here, and it’s not always arrange for a shaliach to visit your community or organiza-
their own eyes,” she said. “They should get to know the possible to send everyone there,” Mr. Behling said. “So tion, email Mr. Behling at ethanb@jfnnj.org

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An insider’s view
of the Israeli Air Force
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County in New Milford invites the community
to the seventh annual Israel Night, “Israeli
Air Force: Innovation: An Insider’s View,” on
Thursday, October 4, at 6 p.m. The evening
benefits the school’s Stephanie Prezant z”l
Israel Scholarship Fund.
Amos Nachum, who is a Schechter parent, a
veteran of the Israeli Air Force, and a systems Amos Nachum
analyst for Israel’s government, talks about
the innovation that drives the IAF’s success. Tickets include a
vegetarian Israeli dinner.
David Bousbib walks the Torah to the street with Moriah board chairman Zvi Rudman and Rabbi The school is at 275 McKinley Ave. For more information, call
Zev Reichman of East Hill Synagogue. COURTESY MORIAH Alyssa Wolf at (201) 262-9898, ext. 275, email her at awolf@ssdsber-
gen.org, or go to www.ssdsbergen.org.
Moriah celebrates new sefer Torah
On September 17, the Moriah School celebrated a special guests had the opportunity to complete a letter
Hachnasat Sefer Torah by welcoming a new Torah to in the Torah, finishing the scroll.
its home. The Torah, commissioned to be written last Rabbi Mordy Kuessous, assistant rabbi for the Bena-
year, was donated by Gabriel and Polly Bousbib and roya Sephardic Center and the director of the Moriah
family in honor of their son David’s bar mitzvah. It will School Sephardic Cultural Program, gave a d’var Stephanie
be kept at Moriah’s newly constructed Sephardic beit Torah. The Torah was paraded through the school Prezant
midrash. and middle school students and teachers danced in
The morning started with David Bousbib reading the middle of South Woodland Street.
from the Torah for the first time. Afterward, students The morning concluded with words from Moriah’s
and faculty enjoyed a breakfast with live music spon- head of school, Rabbi Daniel Alter and from Gabriel
sored by the Bousbib family. Distinguished rabbis and Bousbib.
Jewish Federation presents
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October 29
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Jewish Federation
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and combating the multitude of lawfare tactics utilized against the Jewish
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Rockland
The Yemini Jews of Rockland County
Meeting of National Council of Jewish Women to explore the lives of political refugees
JOANNE PALMER which have developed to be markedly differ-
T
ent from the Ashkenazi practices over the
here is a civil war in Yemen that many centuries during which the communi-
according to observers includes ties had little contact with each other, made
horrific human rights abuses. their assimilation difficult.
This phase of the war started in Yemen is not the West, and the Yemini
2015, but there has been fighting, death, star- Jews knew little about Western culture
vation, and torture there for much longer. when they arrived here, Ms. Goldress said;
Jews have lived in Yemen since antiquity, she and other American Jews provide the
but most of them were airlifted to Israel in bridge that joins them to the world in which
1949 and 1950, in Operation Magic Carpet. they now live.
Some, however, remained. Their lives had There are about 300 families in the Yemini
not been easy before Magic Carpet, but they community in Rockland, Ms. Goldress esti-
became harder as time went on and condi- mates; about six or seven came in 2009, and
tions in the country grew worse. each has about 10 children, although not all
In 2009, some of the remaining Jews were the children came to the United States with
flown to Israel, and some were allowed into their parents.
the United States as political refugees. Some Ms. Goldress is a Conservative Jew; she
of those families were resettled in Monsey earned two graduate degrees from the
and Spring Valley. movement’s flagship institution, the Jewish
Leslie Goldress of Monsey has been work- Theological Seminary. She has done volun-
ing with some of those families ever since The bride is flanked by her mother and Leslie Goldress of Monsey at her teer fundraising for Rockland Jewish Family
they arrived; she and some of the women traditional pre-wedding henna. Service and she’s taught in both the Florence
will tell their stories at a meeting of the Melton and Midreshet programs at the Jew-
Rockland County section of the National Council of Jew- when these families arrived,” Ms. Goldress said. They ish Federation of Rockland County. She knows a lot about
ish Women on October 3. (See box for more information.) moved to an area that already was home to many well- Jewish education and the way that the Jewish community
“There already was a Yemini community in Monsey established chasidic groups, but their mizrachi traditions, works, but she is not a trained social worker.
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Or to be more accurate, she is not a formally trained

social worker, but on-the-job training counts, and by now
that is a credential that she has earned many times over.
Ms. Goldress began her intensive work with the Yemeni
families because she could talk to them. She’s fluent in
Hebrew. The Yeminis spoke no English when they got to
the United States. They speak Yemini Arabic at home, but
they also know biblical Hebrew. “It’s remarkable,” Ms.
Goldress said. “They have been cut off from the rest of the
Jewish world for 2,000 years, but they speak Hebrew.” So
they could talk. But the language barrier does cut down
the number of volunteers who can do this work, Ms.
Goldress said.
The children all speak English, but many of the parents
have been unwilling or unable to learn.
“The parents aren’t old,” she said. “They are in their
40s, maybe at most their late 40s. So they are not at all
old —but they are old. They have been through so much. That same young woman is sworn in as
The women talk about what life was like in Yemen, and an American citizen.
what prompted them to come here.
“One of them told me that her husband, who was a bus tell them why it is important to pay taxes. I teach them to
driver, was a passenger on a bus and he saw his friend be good citizens.”
stabbed to death on the bus. That day he came home and Meanwhile, while their children often flourish, their
said ‘We are leaving.’ parents sometimes would flounder without guidance. “I
“And they left, and they left everything behind.” Leslie Goldress stands with the bride help them navigate the system,” Ms. Goldress said. “Some-
The Jews who came in this wave of immigration gener- times they call me from the social service agency because
ally tended to be more rural, less well educated, and less they need help. they don’t understand what they’re being told, or because
skilled, less likely to be artisans or businesspeople, than But not their children. “The kids will make it,” Ms. Gold- the need another document.
the Jews who left Yemen earlier, she said. That means that ress said. She works with them, and “I teach them that they “Because they are political refugees, they are entitled
the older generation finds it even harder to assimilate, and must work on the books. They have to file income taxes. I SEE YEMINI JEWS PAGE 28
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This is just a small

portion of Carl
Epstein’s Civil War
memorabilia.
photos by Jerry Szubin
In love
with history Above, this 35-star flag was the country’s official
A look at the life of Carl Epstein 1926-2018 banner from 1863 to 1865; below, Mr. Epstein holds a
Confederate cap.
Joanne Palmer
fact, to say that he has had a storied they spent,” Mr. Epstein said; in other
EDITOR’S NOTE: We were saddened to career, but that is another story.) He words, money “that should have gone
learn that Carl Epstein of Teaneck died also is an ardent student of history on the table.” But that money bought
on Monday, September 24. He was an and collector of Americana. him an excellent education at the
extraordinary man, and all of us here Of all the periods of American his- Yeshiva Etz Chayim — Hebrew Insti-
at the Jewish Standard who knew him tory that speak to him, the one whose tute of Borough Park, which since has
know that we were lucky, and that we voice is loudest is the Civil War; that closed. “It really encouraged atten-
learned and grew by having known him. was the war, he said, that changed dance by klal Yisrael” — it welcomed
We ran this story about him on July 4, everything. He has gathered physi- all Jewish boys, Mr. Epstein said.
2014, and can think of no better way to cal mementoes of that war, objects “They didn’t ask your level of obser-
honor him than by reprinting it now. that real people held in their very real vance or your background.”
Carl’s wife, Rita, died in 2006. He is hands; to look at them and to touch By ninth grade, the school’s high-
survived by his daughters, Judy Epstein them is to realize that before it became est, the nine boys who remained
and Norie Hubner, by his son-in-law, history and then myth, the Civil War in the school were taught by seven
Eric Hubner, and by his grandsons, was a period of real change, unspeak- teachers, Mr. Epstein said; they
Michael and Zachary Hubner. able tragedy, and, finally, hope. learned Jewish subjects until the
I
First, Mr. Epstein’s story. early afternoon, had a short break,
t makes sense that a scrappy, Carl Epstein was born in Borough and then returned at 3:30 for the
idealistic, self-made man Park, Brooklyn, in 1926, to parents English classes, taught by moonlight-
would fall in love with a who had been born in Poland and ing public high school teachers. The
scrappy, idealistic, self-made came over with three small children. result was a formidable education
country, so the intense, ongoing, (One of them died, and another was that more than prepared him for pub-
eight-decade-long relationship born in Brooklyn.) Borough Park lic school in 10th grade. “When you
between Carl Epstein and the United “was a great community, a great place got to public school” — he went to
States was absolutely logical. to grow up,” Mr. Epstein said. “It was New Utrecht — “the minute you told
Mr. Epstein, who lived in Teaneck the Great Depression, so no one had them you went to the Hebrew Insti-
since 1964, had a successful career as money.” His parents sent their chil- tute, they put you at the head of the
a turn-around magician. (It is fair, in dren to yeshivot. “It was kishke gelt class,” he said.

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It was in those small, realize at that time, but over

focused, intense afternoon the millennia, human devel-
classes that Mr. Epstein first opment has had two organiza-
discovered history. tional models — it can follow
One of his public school the military or the church in
teachers — Mrs. Bouris, terms of organizing society.”
whom Mr. Epstein remem- Although the word church
bered with love and a great here is an umbrella term that
sense of gratitude, and includes synagogue, or the
whose first name he never earlier Temple, the young Mr.
knew — saw potential in Mr. Epstein was “intrigued beyond
Epstein, and urged him to belief with the military.
enter a national oratorical “As a youngster, my only
contest sponsored by the ambition in life was to become
American Legion. a professional soldier.”
“The subject was the Army pictures: at left, Carl Epstein is flanked by friends while at home on leave in 1943. At right, he’s When he was 16, Mr.
Constitution and the Bill of surrounded by other Army men during surgical tech training in the spring of 1944. Epstein sent a letter to his
Rights,” he said. “I did a lot congressman, Emanuel Celler
of research, and I won it. There were five of us finalists; And what did he say? “I said that the Hebrew Bible was (whose name might be familiar because Mr. Celler served
we delivered our speeches in a big auditorium. I can’t a major factor in our founding fathers’ thought processes his Brooklyn-based constituency from 1923 to 1973). He
describe the experience adequately. It had a major impact when they created the American Constitution, and that asked for an appointment to West Point.
on my life.” they were well aware of the moral imperatives that flow “Cellar ran a test for everyone who wanted to go to
What did he wear? He sighed. “I had only one pair from the Torah when they created it. West Point,” Mr. Epstein said. “I got the best grades,
of good pants,” he said. “My bed was made of old iron “Most of the founding fathers were deists — they higher than anyone else’s. Then I had to go to Whitehall
springs, and the mattress was folded over. When I was get- believed in a Creator, but that after that it is up to us — to Street for the physical.”
ting dressed, my pants got caught on it, and they tore. I humanity — to do the rest of it ourselves. That was the rea- He flunked it.
didn’t have another pair of dress pants. son we were created in the first place.” He was too short.
“With tears in her eyes, my sister sewed it up — and Therefore, he continued, quite logically, “I became West Point had no height requirement until 1872, Mr.
when I stood at the dais, I made sure that no one could enamored of history — and then particularly of Ameri- Epstein said — and in fact the most successful Civil War
see that leg.” can history — and then the history of the military. I didn’t Union cavalry general, Phil Sheridan, stood 5’2″, but from
24 Jewish standard sePteMBer 28, 2018

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then until much later, students had to be at least 5’4 1/2″. “I was
5’4,” he said. “For a lousy half inch, the army lost its most success-
ful potential general.”
Remembering my friend Carl
He graduated from high school a semester early, “and the min- So there we were, in the refrig- Yes, more than once, I found have a game plan and its leaders
ute I turned 17, in 1943, I enlisted,” he said. “Height was not a prob- erated aisle of our local Stop & him intimidating and felt ill-pre- needed a clear understanding
lem then. They would have taken me if I had been 4’2″. Shop. pared — but we all need to be of its purpose and the commu-
Because Mr. Epstein had enlisted at 17 but combat soldiers had to I asked Carl if he liked rice challenged and to grow. nity it served. It was not just a
be at least 18 — and because he clearly was very smart (as he does pudding. And had he ever tried We all need a Carl in our lives. Jewish Home, Carl insisted, but
not say but is clear nonetheless) — he was sent to a training pro- Kozy Shack? He would tell me He had an amazing mind. He an advanced, modern facility, a
gram at Syracuse University, and then on to another one at Auburn that he’d tried them all, but I was could process the most difficult technological marvel.
Theological Seminary, also in upstate New York. Mr. Epstein was insistent. He had to sample just problems and offer you a well- No doubt he challenged its
being trained in engineering — “I was so incredibly bored,” he said one more. He remained stead- thought-out solution. After all, board on occasion. But that was
— and at the same time moving up through the cadet ranks, from fast, even after I told him my this is the man who Russ Ber- Carl, and that was one of his
sergeant to first sergeant to lieutenant to captain, “the number two brand had no equal. rie often would confide in dur- many gifts. Whether it was an
non-regular Army rank you could get,” he said. Yep, here we were, two grown ing the glory days of his corpo- organization or an individual,
Because the U.S. Army had been terribly hit at its first engage- men having a discussion/argu- ration. I know that many times he would say “Never be compla-
ment in World War II, in Kasserine Pass, the brass suddenly ment about rice pudding. And Russ, who could have had any- cent. Be sure you have a clear
decided that the training program was an unsustainable luxury, yes, ultimately I bought it for one work for him, asked Carl to understanding of your goals and
and it was ended. Only a few cadets — the top-ranking ones — were him and threw it in his cart as manage the company’s sales, ambitions.”
left behind to close it up, while everyone else was shipped off to we left, and he would later call but Carl always said no. “If you feel strongly, Jamie,
Europe. Mr. Epstein was among those cadets, so he got to Fort Dix to say that he loved it. Carl loved history, as our cover prove your point” he would say.
two weeks behind everyone else. That was typical of my interac- story details. And he loved the “I’m not trying to be difficult,
“That probably saved my life,” he said. Instead of going with the tions with Carl. Jewish Home at Rockleigh. He I’m just trying to make you see
106th Division, which was sent to the Ardennes and found itself We would speak often. He was was more than a board member the entire picture — and clearly.”
almost wiped out in the Battle of the Bulge, he was trained as an opinionated and could often be there. Many of the technologi- Bless you, Carl. I treasure
operating room nurse. tough. Whether it was about cal advances that are in place in our conversations. I loved your
He never used that skill — and learned that he did not want to dessert or a larger strategic busi- that building have Carl’s finger- beautiful smile. I salute you,
grow up to be a doctor. He was sent overseas — his war took him ness decision, Carl would chal- prints all over the them. Because dear friend.
to England, France, Holland, Luxembourg, and Germany — but he lenge me. to Carl, even the Home had to – Jamie Janoff
never was in combat. “I was involved in handling the wounded,
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— but I had some unbelievably good luck,” door in Massachusetts. “It was a horrible ended up selling her $50 worth of maga- Some of his work took him into glamor-
he said. “I speak French, and I spent three experience, but I really learned something zines. That was a huge order. And I kept ous worlds. “I danced with Elizabeth Taylor
months in Paris. I was the EMT taking care about selling, even though about half the the commission — 40 percent — so I got 20 once,” he said. “I was so disillusioned when
of the soldiers who were detached from magazines I sold never existed. But some bucks out of it. I put my arm around her and felt a spare
their units.” creative juices flowed.” “I learned something about selling tire.” He met dancers through his affiliation
At the end of the war, he found himself He told one of his favorite stories from — that the key is that you have to get in with Danskin, and became friends with the
frozen in place in Wiesbaden, Germany, that period. “I’m on the Connecticut-Mas- front of the buyer — if you don’t, every- great ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn.
where he was the chief surgical NCO, in sachusetts border. It looks like the East Hill thing else is waste — and you have to be At the same time that Mr. Epstein’s pro-
charge of triage. Once he had trained his in Englewood. The house was gorgeous. I creative about it.” fessional life flourished, so did his personal
successor, though, finally he was able to think, What do I have to lose?,’ so I knock Despite his epiphany, he still hated the life. In 1950, he married Rita Begun, whom
go home. on the door. There was a knocker, not job, so soon Mr. Epstein returned to New he had met in high school. “My marriage
To what? “All I knew is that I had to go even a doorknob. York and took a job with C.J. Van Houten, was made in heaven,” he said; it lasted
to work,” he said. His parents were aging “A maid in a little apron comes to the the chocolate and cocoa company, where until Ms. Epstein died in 2006. They had
and needed help. He was the only unmar- door, and she says, ‘Yes?’ I say, ‘Please he learned a great deal about marketing, two daughters and now have two grand-
ried sibling, so it had to come from him. tell Mrs.-Whatever-Her-Name-Was’ — her most of it self-taught. That began his rapid sons as well.
(Although the GI Bill sent literally mil- name was on the mailbox by the road — rise through the business world. “My wife was treated like the Queen of
lions of veterans to college, including Mr. ‘that Mrs. Epstein’s son from New York is “I worked in 42 different companies or England,” he said. “Her wardrobe was by
Epstein’s older brother, that group did not here to see her.’ She says, ‘Yes,’ and she divisions,” Mr. Epstein said. “I went from Halston.”
include Mr. Epstein, who is not a college goes away, and she comes back and says, sales to marketing to senior management. Of all the turnarounds Mr. Epstein shep-
graduate.) ‘Follow me.’ I can still see Mrs. What’s-Her- I was president of a number of companies, herded, the one of which he is the most
He became part of the 5220 Club — “after Name; she is wearing a magnificent dress, including BVD, Danskin, and Halston Enter- proud, he said, is the Jewish Home. That
you were discharged, you got $20 a week with long sleeves and ruffled cuffs, and she prises, and general manager of several divi- began in 1990, right after he retired; he
for up to 52 weeks, or until you got a job, to has that little blue tint in her gray hair. She sions of International Playtex. He also came worked with Marvin Eiseman, a founder
help tide you over.” That helped. looks at me, and says, ‘Young man, I have up with the idea of the domestic microwave of the Frisch School in Paramus. The home
He thought back to some of his school to apologize to you. I don’t remember ever oven, and of the doughnut hole, he added. then was on the verge of bankruptcy, but
experiences. His training in oratory made meeting your mother.’ And I say to her, “I became a turnaround specialist so I the two men, using all the knowledge
him a good salesman, and his high-school ‘You know what? You never met her. But could go into troubled companies, big or they had gleaned over the course of long
job, at a “very fancy confectionary shop,” if I told your maid that I was here to sell small, and either cure them or kill them.” careers and the creativity that had fueled
taught him how to approach customers, magazines, you wouldn’t have seen me.’ Actually, he added, only one company had See EPSTEIN page 27
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Epstein incredible that in the 2,000 plus years of our dias-

from page 26 pora, never in our history to this very day has there
them all along, pulled it out. “If Marvin had not come been a diaspora as fulfilling, rewarding, and free as
up with the six-point plan we used, and if he hadn’t the American experience,” he said. “The first time in
sold it the way he did, the home probably wouldn’t be 2,000 years that a Jew voted in a municipal election
in existence today,” Mr. Epstein said. “It was a team in any society — well, maybe the first time in 1,800
effort — and the rest is history.” years, because it happened in 1654 — happened in
Ah, that word again. New Amsterdam.
Two aspects of history particularly fascinate Mr. “The more I dug into it the more I realized how
Epstein. “There is the Civil War itself, and its impact little our own Jewish community knows about this. Carl Epstein
on the world, which we are still feeling,” he said. “And They don’t know that the contribution and partici- making the
then there is the story of Jews in America.” pation of Jews in the American military is dispropor- blessing on the
“The Civil War was the first war in the world that tionately high, on a per capita basis, compared to the lulav and etrog
was affected by the Industrial Revolution,” he said. general population. last year with
Mass production, one of that revolution’s most obvi- “I know that is an astounding statement, but it is Rabbi Mendy
ous byproducts, “created the ability to build things of true. From early on, having come here after running Lewis of the
a size and scope that couldn’t be done before,” he said. away from the Inquisition, Jews recognized how Chabad of Old
Railroads, telegraphs, food preservatives, engineering incredibly marvelous this new society and this new Tappan at the
equipment — all that made a huge difference to the world was. Jewish Home’s
military. Photographs that brought the war home to “Freedom is God-given. The reason humanity cre- sukkah.
noncombatants, and the newspapers that distributed ates governments is to safeguard that God-given, photo courtesy
them so widely, cheaply, and easily — all that was new. inalienable right. We must understand that our free- Jewish Home
The American North had been industrialized by the dom does not come from a government.
time of the Civil War but the South had not been, so “The real exercise of that freedom is that the elec-
“the South never stood a chance,” Mr. Epstein said. torate decides who they will trust, to whom they will
The history of the American Republic and the Jews entrust the responsibility of life, liberty, and the pursuit
are inescapably intertwined, he continued. “It is of happiness.”
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to certain things. Rockland gives them a stipend for
rent — Rockland is very good to them. They get food
stamps and Medicaid, and they get some health
care.” Often local doctors and dentists provide free
services to them, and there is a kosher food pan-
to our 40 synagogue communities for welcoming try available to them, she said. And local yeshivot
have been very generous in giving children very
275 participants to this year’s High Holiday services discounted tuition rates. That’s necessary, she said,
through Jewish Federation’s EZ Key program. because the parents would not allow their children
to go to public school. “They just wouldn’t,” she said.
“They are too religious.” Also, the community mem-
Barnert Temple–Congregation B’nai Sephardic Community of Paramus bers do not marry out; all the marriages so far have
Jeshurun, Franklin Lakes Sha’ar Communities, Fort Lee been between Yemini Jews.
The community also has chipped in to help send
Beth Haverim Shir Shalom, Mahwah Shomrei Torah: The Wayne Conservative the community’s children to summer camp. And Ms.
Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn Congregation Goldress often finds herself making up the difference
Clifton Jewish Center Temple Avodat Shalom, River Edge between what community members can afford and
what they need.
Congregation Adas Emuno, Leonia Temple Beth-El, Jersey City
She’s become welcome in their homes, and has
Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck Temple Beth El, Hackensack shared Shabbat with them. She is struck by how dif-
Congregation Beth Tefillah, Paramus Temple Beth El of Northern Valley, ferent their approach to food is. Her Yemini friend
Closter “makes all the breads and dips; they make all different
Congregation B’nai Israel, Emerson
kinds of breads,” she said. “They eat very simply. Their
Congregation B’nai Jacob, Jersey City Temple Beth Or, Washington Township
food for Shabbes is very simple, and the amounts are
Congregation Keter Torah, Teaneck Temple Beth Rishon, Wyckoff so much smaller. They eat a piece of salmon the size
Congregation Kol HaNeshamah, Temple Beth Sholom, Fair Lawn of a minute, some salad, some vegetables, some soup.
Everything is homemade.”
Englewood Temple Beth Tikvah, Wayne
Some of the women have found jobs that use those
Congregation Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn Temple Emanu-El, Closter skills, she added. “A lot of them work in the matzah
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/ Temple Emanuel of North Jersey, bakery in Monroe from November through Pesach.
Congregation Bnai Israel Franklin Lakes They’re very good at it. By the end, they say, their
arms and hands are killing them, but they really are
Glen Rock Jewish Center Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley,
very good. They’ve found their niche, and they use
Jewish Community Center of Fort Lee/ Woodcliff Lake their money to buy the things they need.”
Congregation Gesher Shalom Temple Emeth, Teaneck Among the things on their wish lists are second
Jewish Community Center of Kinnelon, Temple Israel & Jewish Community stoves, for Pesach; they need them because “they take
Pompton Lakes Center, Ridgewood out the bottom rack and make their pita right on the
bottom of the stove,” and so they can’t clean it thor-
Jewish Community Center of Paramus/ Temple Sinai of Bergen County, Tenafly oughly enough to make it pesachdik.
Congregation Beth Tikvah The Paterson Shul Some of the Yemini Jews have become citizens, she
Jewish Learning Experience (at the Federation Apartments) said; she’s helped them prepare for their citizenship
exams, and she’s gone to the ceremonies where they
Netivot Shalom, Teaneck United Synagogue of Hoboken
become Americans. As most people who have seen
Reconstructionist Congregation similar ceremonies report, it is a profoundly moving
Beth Israel, Ridgewood transformation, she said.
“This has become a full-time job for me, and it is a
learning experience,” Ms. Goldress said. “And it has
been good for me. I feel that I am doing something
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In J.K. Rowling’s new novel, the villian

is far left, Israel-hating, and anti-Semitic
YVETTE ALT MILLER sound of the word. You’d think they’d suf- religion, not a race. “Antisemites thinks tweeted that British Jews’ outrage over
fered enough,” she says of Jews. this is a clever argument, so tell us, do: Corbyn’s views were “synthetic,” Rowling
For months, the writer J.K. Rowling, who Rowling’s depiction of a far-left anti- were atheist Jews exempted from wearing defended the Jews. “What other minority
created Harry Potter and his world, has Semite comes at a time of record high anti- the yellow star?” would you speak to this way?” she posted,
been warning about the dangers of anti- Semitism in Britain, where she lives. Brit- Rowling, who is not Jewish, also shared before quoting from Jean-Paul Sartre’s
Semitism in England, sparring on Twitter ain’s Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy examples of posts she’d received that essay “Anti-Semite and Jew.”
with critics who either downplay the phe- Corbyn, have been accused of insensitivity denied anti-Semitism was a problem with In 2015, Rowling declined to endorse
nomenon or say its proponents are confus- to Jews and of condoning anti-Jewish sen- her 14.4 million Twitter followers. open letters calling for a cultural and aca-
ing criticism of Israel with Jew hatred. timents within the party’s ranks. Corbyn To a commenter who posted that Arabs demic boycott of Israel that were signed by
Now, in her newest book, Rowling has defended a grotesquely anti-Semitic cannot possibly be anti-Semitic because more than 1,000 British authors and opin-
includes a character whose obsessive anti- London mural depicting Jewish bankers, Arabs are Semites too, Rowling tweeted ion leaders. Instead, she joined 150 other
Zionism morphs into anti-Semitism. and referred to his “friends” in terror a photo of a dictionary definition of anti- writers and artists in writing an alternative
“Lethal White,” the fourth series in Row- groups Hamas and Hezbollah, though he’s Semitism: “hostility to or prejudice against letter opposing singling out Israel.
ling’s Cormoran Strike mystery series, said he now regrets these positions. Jews.” She also included a spirited defense “Israelis will be right to ask why cul-
written under the pen name Robert Gal- A September 2018 poll found that nearly of Jews: “Split hairs. Debate etymology. tural boycotts are not also being proposed
braith, features a pair of hard-left political 40 percent of British Jews seriously would Gloss over the abuse of your fellow citizens against...North Korea,” her October 23,
activists who believe that Zionists are evil consider emigrating if Corbyn became by attacking the actions of another coun- 2015, letter declared. Instead of boycotts,
and that they have a stranglehold on West- prime minister — as polls show he might. try’s government. Would your response to the letter said, “Cultural engagement
ern governments. The latest novel isn’t the first time the any other form of racism or bigotry be to builds bridges, nurtures freedom and posi-
In “Lethal White” extortionist Jimmy author of the Harry Potter series has com- squirm, deflect or justify?” tive movement for change.”
Knight’s extreme hatred of Israel has led mented on the dangers of anti-Semitism. When a Jewish mother tweeted Rowling Rowling has been critical of the govern-
him to hate Jews. “I wouldn’t trust him if “Most UK Jews in my timeline are currently to say her son had faced anti-Semitic bullies ment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
it was anything to do with Jews,” Knight’s having to field this kind of crap, so perhaps in school, Rowling tweeted back “so sorry” Netanyahu but is adamant that its oppo-
ex-wife tells a detective. “He doesn’t like some of us non-Jews should start shoul- and wrote “Know that you aren't alone.” nents should not subject Israel, its people,
them. Israel’s the root of all evil, according dering the burden,” she wrote in April, in A few months later, on August 26, after and its supporters to a double standard.
to Jimmy. Zionism: I got sick of the bloody response to a critic who said Judaism is a a fellow mystery writer, Simon Maginn, JTA WIRE SERVICE

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Israel National News that “when China operates a port,
it also controls communications means. This is contrary
to the interests of other states, and there is no mecha-
nism [in Israel] that considers this.”
Chorev reportedly said that Chinese control of the
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Gour-Lavie, who once headed Israel’s
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done in a professional way. The govern-
ment process has to be improved, and
the National Security Council” — a central
body operating under the prime minister’s
office to coordinate security policy — “has
to be stronger in these processes.”
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gest and most important ally, the United
States, “even when the economic logic” in
awarding contracts to Chinese companies
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Vandalism Charlottesville or Washington.
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Program launched Shavuot and continues monthly happened to the congressman right don’t see it through a political lens, but it
with Rosh Chodesh webinars. The WI is partnering with before an election. is troubling that the neo-Nazis and Holo-
TOGETHER synagogues nationwide to sponsor the Simchat Torah “I find this particularly offensive caust deniers and white supremacists
morning aliyot shiur given by local female scholars. Join because I had the honor of serving who are running for office are doing so
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as Shabbos goy in the neighborhood as Republicans.”
where I grew up. It’s not that it’s surprising that
“These types of actions happen they’re running, she elaborated, it’s
when Democratic leaders like Nancy that they’ve been able to move from
Pelosi and Maxine Waters spread mes- the fringe parties that used to be
sages of hate.” their natural home to the Republican
Rebbetzin Dr. Deena Mrs. Geraldine Rebbetzin Ilana Ms. Sarah Rebbetzin Bergen County’s sheriff, Michael party, which until recently would not
Ariela Davis Grant Wiener Weiss Robinson Shira Schiowitz
Saudino, a Democrat, resigned last have allowed them on its ballot line.
week, after the media reported that “I think that Trump has given these
he’d made racists comments. Nancy people enough sense of legitimacy
Pelosi, the speaker of the House of Rep- that they are now running as Repub-
Rebbetzin Dr. Deena Morah Erica Rebbetzin Sara Mrs. Sara Mrs. Stacey resentatives, and Maxine Waters both licans,” she said.
Aviel Brodkin Rabinovich Yadlovker Fayge Twerski Wolfe Goldman
are Democrats who represent Califor- Neil Boylan Strauss is the national
nia in the House; both are Republican spokesman and digital director for
bêtes noires. Neither has anything to the Republican Jewish Coalition. “This
do with anti-Semitic, racists signs in is disgusting,” he emailed about the
Dr. Ayala Mrs. Devorah Mrs. Elyssa Mrs. Rochelle Mrs. Ruchama Tal Gilboa
rural Sussex County. vandalism.
Zoltan Rockoff Cohen Goldschmiedt Garfield Alter Halie Soifer is the executive director “The RJC condemns this act. We
of the Washington D.C.-based Jewish have zero tolerance for hate, whether
Democratic Council of America. “We anti-Semitism or any other form. This
are very disturbed that anyone would behavior has no place in politics or our
Rebbetzin Miriam Mrs. Rachel Mrs. Mindy Rebbetzin Tamar Rebbetzin Dr. Yael
deface not only a sign but someone’s society.”
Schwartz Bodner Schwartz-Zolty Livingstone Yael Axelrod Muskat home,” she said. “The swastikas indi- Josh Gottheimer believes that there is
cate that this person was trying to send some good that can come out of the van-
See
the a message specifically targeting Jews — dalism, and he takes heart from it.
complete both the people who live in the house Ms. Murch and Mr. Stolarsky got a new
list at and Josh Gottheimer. sign and put it up right away, he said,
Dr. Jessica Mrs. Batyah Mrs. Elianna Rachel Ms. Blima
GO.OU.ORG/ST5 “This is a pattern. This rise in anti- and there is a great deal of symbolic
Kalmer Brander Mitnick Tessler Lopatin Maged
Semitism that we see in this country, importance in that move.
OU WOMEN'S INITIATIVE SPONSORED SPEAKERS & HOST SYNAGOGUES clearly has happened since Trump has “It’s an important lesson for us,” Mr.
taken office. We think that the neo- Gottheimer said. “It’s about resilience
⊲ Rebbetzin Sara Fayge Twerski ⊲ Rebbetzin Ilana Weiss ⊲ Dr. Yael Muskat Nazis and the white supremacists and and determination and the resolve not to
Beth Joseph Congregation Sons of Israel Young Israel of Oceanside the other bigots have existed in our be intimidated. They will not be cowed.
Phoenix, AZ Cherry Hill, NJ Oceanside, NY
country all along, but it does seem “I have optimism about our country
⊲ Mrs. Batyah Brander
⊲ Mrs. Rachel Bodner ⊲ Mrs. Tova Alt that they have been emboldened in the because of things like this. These inci-
JEC Elmora Ave Shul Golf Manor Synagogue
LINK
Elizabeth, NJ Cincinnati, OH Trump era, whether it’s through the dents are painful, but the response to it
Los Angeles, CA
defacing of property, incidents in our is hopeful.”
⊲ Morah Erica Yadlovker ⊲ Mrs. Elyssa Goldschmiedt
⊲ Mrs. Geraldine Wiener Anshe Chesed Congregation Sha’arei Torah
Young Israel of Century City Linden, NJ Cincinnati, OH
Los Angeles, CA
⊲ Rebbetzin Shira Schiowitz ⊲ Rebbetzin Aviel Brodkin
Congregation Shaare Congregation Kesser Israel
⊲ Mrs. Sara Wolfe Tefillah of Teaneck Portland, OR BRIEF
East Denver Orthodox Synagogue Teaneck, NJ
Denver, CO ⊲ Mrs. Stacey Goldman
⊲ Ms. Sarah Robinson
Congregation Beth Aaron
Lower Merion Synagogue
Bala Cynwyd, PA
Netanyahu: Israel and Russia
⊲ Dr. Deena Grant
Young Israel of West Hartford Teaneck, NJ
⊲ Tal Gilboa
will continue close defense coordination
West Hartford, CT
⊲ Mrs. Elianna Mitnick Congregation Beth Tikvah
Riverdale Jewish Center Ahavat Shalom Nusach Hoari Israel and Russia will continue to maintain weapons” to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
⊲ Dr. Ayala Zoltan Rockoff
Beth Israel Abraham and Voliner
Bronx, NY Dollard des Ormeaux, QC the close defense and security coordina- “This is not to say that there haven’t
Overland Park, KS ⊲ Dr. Deena Rabinovich ⊲ Rebbetzin Ariela Davis tion between their two militaries, Israeli been exceptions, but all in all, there has
Congregation Etz Chaim Brith Sholom Beth Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said been a great success,” he said. “We did
of Kew Gardens Hills Charleston, SC
⊲ Ms. Blima Maged
Flushing, NY on Tuesday upon departing for New York all this with maximum and successful
Maimonides Kehillah
Brookline, MA ⊲ Mrs. Devorah Cohen to attend the U.N. General Assembly. security coordination with the Russian
⊲ Mrs. Channah Glatt Mrs Rochelle Garfield
Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills Congregation Beth Rambam “I agreed with President Putin that military.”
⊲ Elena Medvedovski Flushing, NY Houston, TZ IDF and Russian military working teams Touching on the Russian spy plane
The Adams Street Shul
Newton, MA ⊲ Mrs. Ruchama Alter ⊲ Rebbetzin Tamar Livingstone would meet soon. We will do what is nec- that was shot down by errant Syrian fire
Congregation Shaaray Tefilla Keneseth Beth Israel essary to defend the security of Israel,” over Latakia last week, killing 15 crew
Lawrence, NY Richmond, VA
⊲ Rebbetzin Miriam Schwartz he told the press at Ben-Gurion Interna- members and sparking a crisis between
OU JLIC at University of
Maryland Hillel ⊲ Rebbetzin Yael Axelrod ⊲ Dr. Jessica Kalmar tional Airport, commenting on his most Moscow and Jerusalem, the prime min-
Young Israel of New Rochelle Anshe Sfard Kehillat Torah
College Park, MD
New Rochelle, NY Glendale, WI recent conversation with the Russian ister said that he had spoken with Putin
leader. twice since the “tragic events.”
⊲ Rachel Tessler Lopatin ⊲ Mrs. Mindy Schwartz-Zolty ⊲ Mrs. Rivky Hoffman
Kehillat Etz Chayim of Detroit Congregation Ohab Zedek Congregation Beth Jehudah
Netanyahu said that for the past three “I expressed to him our deep regret
Detroit, MI New York, NY Milwaukee, WI years, Israel had been “very success- over the loss of the crew of the Russian
ful” in preventing the Iranian military plane that was brought down by irre-
from establishing a presence in Syria, sponsible Syrian anti-aircraft fire,” he
as well as its attempts to transfer “lethal said. JNS.ORG

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BRIEFS Argentine leader speaks at U.N.,
German court dismisses lawsuit calls out Iran on bombing attacks
against Kuwait Airways for Israel ban Argentina’s president spoke against global that they arrest a high-level adviser to Iran’s
terrorism and remembered the victims of supreme leader in connection with the
A German court dismissed a lawsuit travel documents,” the Lawfare Proj- the 1992 and 1994 attacks in Buenos Aires attack. Ali Akbar Velayati, who was Iran’s
against Kuwait Airways for banning ect, which supported the plaintiff, in his address to the United Nations Gen- foreign minister at the time of the attack
Israeli passengers, despite labeling the said in a statement. eral Assembly. and visited Moscow earlier this year, has
policy “unacceptable and irrelevant.” The organization continued, “In so Mauricio Macri also called on Iran to been implicated in ordering the bombing.
This move comes after the airline doing, the court had aided and abet- cooperate in the investigation of the 1994 There has been an international arrest war-
refused to serve an Israeli student who ted Kuwait in imposing its anti-Jewish, AMIA Jewish center bombing, which killed rant against Velayati and seven other Iranian
bought a ticket from Germany to Thai- anti-Israeli laws, even though such 85 and injured hundreds. officials since 2006.
land in 2016, affirming a lower court discrimination is illegal in Germany. “We suffered two serious attacks in “We ask the friendly countries of
ruling citing that Kuwaiti law would According to an archaic and anti- 1992 and 1994, which claimed the lives Argentina to accompany us, avoiding
have prohibited the traveler from Semitic 1964 Kuwaiti law, all relations of 107 people and hundreds wounded,” receiving under diplomatic immunity
changing planes in Kuwait. with Israeli citizens are prohibited.” Macri said Tuesday in his address to the any of the accused for whom they have
“As Israelis in practice are not Before the verdict, Lawfare Proj- international body. “Our country will not international arrest requests and red
allowed to enter the transit areas of ect executive director Brooke Gold- cease in its objective: to get all the people notes from Interpol,” Macri said.
Kuwait’s airport, the plaintiff cannot stein said that “justice hangs in the involved in the attacks to appear before He also offered condolences to the
demand transportation by the Kuwaiti balance: If the German court again Argentine courts, to be interrogated and families of the five Argentine citizens
airline from Frankfurt to Bangkok finds in favor of Kuwait Airways, it eventually convicted. who were killed on October 31, 2017 by
with a stopover in Kuwait,” said the will be providing cover for the racial “Next year will be 25 years after the AMIA an Uzbeki driver in New York.
Frankfurt-based High Court of Hesse. purity laws of a foreign dictatorship, bombing. I would like to again ask the “My heart is with the families of the
“The appeal argued that the ver- which is all the more disturbing given Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate with victims of terrorist barbarism around the
dict applied the racist law of a radical, Germany’s dark past with such laws. the Argentine judicial authorities to advance world,” the president said.
totalitarian and theocratic regime, Kuwait Airways should be given an in the investigation of the most brutal terror- Iran also is believed to be behind the
and allowed it to overrule German ultimatum — either cease its anti- ist attack in our territory.” 1992 car bombing that destroyed the
national air-transportation laws, Semitic, unlawful practice or cease Macri also lamented that Russian offi- Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, killing
which obligate every air carrier to operating in Germany.” cials declined Argentina’s request in July 29 and injuring 242. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Editorial
The power of apology In search of the legacy
A
s the holidays of Tishrei finally liberated her. of Mordechai Anielewicz
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draw to a close with the final A few days later, another story in the
goodbyes of Shemini Atzeret Atlantic, this one by Deborah Copaken, few years ago, after spending statistics at the exhibit on the death camps.
and the whirling dizzying also looked at the effect of an apology. Passover in Israel with my fam- How many guards were there in the death
dance of Simchat Torah, it is fascinating Ms. Copaken wrote about how she’d ily, I brought my eldest son close camps?
to see how some of the values of Yom been assaulted the day before her col- to me and struggled to place my In Sobibor, where 225,000, where mur-
Kippur have made their way into the lege graduation. It had been a date rape. hands on his head (he’s taller than me). We dered, there were 24 SS Guards watching
public arena, and to realize how potent She hadn’t told her parents, because had traveled to Israel to spend the holiday the camp.
they are. she couldn’t bear to dent their joy in her with him because the IDF, where he was In Treblinka, where 900,000 were mur-
I have no idea what will happen to accomplishment, but she did report it a special forces combat soldier, would not dered, there were 15 SS guards.
Brett Kavanaugh’s candidacy — my crys- to the police. Nothing happened — the let him leave the country during training. And in Chelmno, where 800,000 were
tal ball is cracked, and all I see in it is police explained the stakes were she to It was amazing for our family to spend a murdered, there were 25 SS guards secur-
my own face, looking perplexed — but pursue a complaint, and she decided full week with him when most of the time ing the camp.
it is clear that although the concepts of that they were too high. So she lived we got 10 minutes a week to speak him Could this be right? Did hundreds of
admitting wrongdoing and apologizing with the trauma for about 30 years, from the field. thousands of Jews suf-
for it are not directly part of his story, keeping it safely distant from her life Knowing he was returning to fer death through gas
many stories of trauma, apology, and most of the time, but dealing with its the Golan Heights where he was when they were barely
forgiveness have surfaced in the last occasional resurgence. just across the border from the guarded? What could
few weeks. But now, with the issue of sexual Iranian-funded monsters of Hez- have persuaded them
Stories, that is, of teshuvah. And sto- assault in the air, with the MeToo move- bollah, I invoked God’s blessing to listen to a tiny minor-
ries that come to our attention right after ment prompting rethinking of so much upon him: May the Lord bless ity of monsters, albeit
Yom Kippur. of so many people’s pasts, she decided you and protect you. May the with machine guns, who
To be sure, all any of us know about to write to the man who had raped her. Lord shine his light toward you wished to annihilate their
is the apologies that go between human He called back within half an hour, and be gracious to you. May the children?
beings, the first step in the process of she reported; he had not realized what Lord lift his countenance toward Rabbi And yes, I’m well
repentance and return. The next part, he had done, and he was overwhelm- you and grant you peace.” Shmuley aware of the extreme and
the one between a person and God, is ingly ashamed and apologetic. She As he left I said to him, there Boteach highly successful propa-
infinitely beyond my pay grade. But we believed him and accepted his apology. are three stages in devotion to ganda efforts on the part
all can learn about human apology and “Suddenly, 30 years of pain and grief a cause. The first, God forbid, of Joseph Goebbels, who
forgiveness. fell out of me,” Ms. Copaken wrote. “I may it never happen, is to die for a cause, convinced the Jews that they were merely
Caitlin Flanagan wrote a powerful cried. And I cried. And I kept crying for martyrdom. The Jewish people have had being deported to the East and that if they
essay in the Atlantic last week about how the next several hours, as I prepared way too much of that. The second, much cooperated they would be safe. But there
she fought off a boy — a classmate who’d for Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of higher, is to live for a cause. But the third was also significant evidence that Jews
seemed both attractive and appealing, a forgiveness. And then, suddenly, I was and the highest is to fight for a cause. You, were being gassed in the East. That the
good boy — who drove her to a deserted cleansed. Reborn. The trauma was gone. Mendy, have the privilege of being in the shower heads brought forth not water but
Long Island beach and tried forcibly to All because of a belated apology.” first Jewish army since Bar Kochva evis- poison gas. That the selection processes at
have sex with her. She’d hated herself There are many reasons why men cerated the Roman armies of Hadrian and the camp train terminals was a quick and
for a long time because of that botched assault women. It’s striking that drink- Julius Severus 2000 years ago. But this perfunctory decision between life and
attack, although she’d managed to extri- ing to excess, if not actual alcoholism, time the Jewish people’s efforts will end death.
cate herself from it. She thought that she seems to be part of the problem in many in victory. Many fought and resisted. There were
must have broadcast her unworthiness (although certainly not all) of these sto- I can only imagine that it was much countless uprisings by the Jews against
as a person and appropriateness as a vic- ries. Sometimes men do it, it seems, harder for his mother to say goodbye to their oppressors. But why weren’t there
tim, and that the attack just meant that because they are just plain bad. At other her son and see him off in his olive green more?
she deserved it. times, they do it because they think uniform. One school of thought is that the six
But the boy apologized in writing in the culture accepts it, or even at times On my last day in Israel on that trip, I million Jews, starving, emaciated, and
her yearbook, and then again in person approves of it, or even maybe, at least visited Yad Vashem in anticipation of Yom riddled with disease, went to their deaths
a few years later, in a way that clearly in their misguided thinking, demands it. HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance day. and did so with the only act of defiance
was heartfelt, unforced, and absolutely But it seems that the insight of Yom There my eyes popped as I read the left to them: to die proudly as Jews, neither
real. And Ms. Flanagan recognized that Kippur is right. Apologies — real ones,
truth and accepted the apology. She heartfelt ones, apologies that come from
was able to resume her life, free of the an understanding of right and wrong The opinions expressed here are those of the authors, not necessarily
blame and anger and shame and disgust and the genuine desire to make wrong those of the newspaper’s editors, publishers, or other staffers.
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Opinion
beaten nor bowed. They were history’s Waters? Will we fight assimilation and the
proudest martyrs, with death forced upon gradual disappearance of millions of Jews
China’s big-brother policies
them not for something they chose but for into identity-less oblivion?
something they were. We shudder in the Just here in the tristate area, BDS is mak-
punish and reward at will
face of the enormity of their sacrifice and ing significant headway. Take New York Uni-
the sanctity of their martyrdom. Those who versity, where the numbers are startling. And how it could affect each of us
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say that European Jews went to their deaths NYU hosts more Jewish undergraduates
like sheep to the slaughter are guilty of a than any other private university in America, ot everyone missed it. But demonstrating your “bad parenting,”
horrible calumny. Animals are not capable about 6,000. It’s located in the heart of a city I did. you can be punished for those offenses.
of dying al kiddush Hashem, for the sanc- that’s home to more Jews than any other, 2.5 It was the spring 2018 The reverse also is true: If you are
tity of God’s names. The Jews of the Holo- million. Yet the students of Students for Jus- news story about how China deemed loyal enough to the regime,
caust laid down their lives in an act of spiri- tice in Palestine passed two BDS resolutions has instituted a social credit policy for and have otherwise not offended it,
tual defiance to give their existence to their two years ago. They are estimated to be not its 1.4 billion people and the domestic you can receive discounted food prices,
Creator. more than 100 students, which makes them and international companies that do energy expenses, rent, banking interest
But we Jews have had too many martyrs. outnumbered by 60 to 1. Yet we could not business with China. rates, and so on.
And today we must honor God not with our stop an anti-Semitic resolution sworn to Under the policy, relying on ever- Of course, the Chinese say that this
deaths but with our lives. Israel’s destruction. more comprehensive data mining, with new policy will result in a more orderly,
On Passover eve in 1943, a mysterious How could this happen? the growing and widespread place- polite, and peaceful society. They jus-
man, about whom till today very little is BDS has no interest in helping the Pales- ment of government cam- tify these actions by say-
known, inspired the broken and decimated tinian people. Its only mission is to destroy eras and other recording ing that a centralized gov-
remainder of the Warsaw Ghetto to rise up the Jewish State. equipment throughout ernment always should
against the SS who were attempting the last So why did we lose so bad? the internet and China be allowed to use a citi-
liquidation of the ghetto. He gathered his There are those who as Jews wish for a life itself, Chinese leaders zens’ public, private, and
fighters together and essentially told them: of peace, who believe that Jewish existence soon will be able to see personal information to
This battle is not between life and death. We is maintained by allowing the storm to pass. a person’s every public punish each citizen who
have no chance of prevailing. We cannot Don’t make waves. Don’t fight back. Don’t step and facial expres- does not comply with
defeat the Nazis. We surely will die. Rather, antagonize. sion, hear all their public the state’s rulers’ chosen
this battle is about the choice of how we will Some took that view when the Obama utterances, and examine social edicts.
die. Will we die as free men, laden with the administration made a nuclear deal with everything they ever have Steven R. But we are not talk-
dignity of our choice, or will we die as beasts Iran even while they engaged in genocidal entered into a computer. Rothman ing about laws punishing
led to the slaughter? promises to annihilate the Jewish people. If you were always murder, stealing, fraud,
For two weeks his starving and diseased There isn’t a nation on earth whom you concerned, as I was, that incitement to violence, or
fighters held off the most powerful army are allowed to threaten with destruction George Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian state committing acts of harm to adults or
in Europe, armed only with a few pistols other than the Jews. There is no hashtag might come into existence one day, children. Those kinds of laws, under
and improvised Molotov cocktails. They “Jewish lives matter.” Had Iran said, “We’re with the government able to know your an implied social contract to maintain
beat back German artillery, and in one of going to kill all the world’s blacks,” the mind, watch everything you do, have order and civility in society, are accept-
the most heroic acts of defiance in the long United States would have withdrawn from constant access to what you read, see, able to all reasonable people.
annals of human history, flew the Magen the negotiations. Had Khameini said, ‘We’re and hear — and thus manipulate your China’s policy goes well beyond that.
Dovid flag, which would become the flag of going to kill all the world’s Sunni Muslims,” understanding of the world around you It is about the use of invasive, ever-pres-
Israel just five short years later. His name: or, “All the world’s women,” the United and punish you for slights they deem ent government spying on its citizens to
Mordechai Anielewicz. Rank: commander. States government would have withdrawn. actionable — your worst nightmare has reward those it likes, and punish those it
Field of battle: The Warsaw Ghetto. But when Khameini said, “We’re going to kill just appeared in China. doesn’t, such as political dissidents and
Then, when they could fight no longer, all the world’s Jews,” the American govern- It is not simply jaywalking, running a those not showing sufficient support.
he and hundreds of fighters, like at Masada ment said, “Where do we send the check for red light, or littering that is being noted Everyone understands the inherent
before them, detonated grenades at their $150b?” and disciplined under this new policy. likelihood that this abuse of government
bunker headquarters of Mila 18 so as not to And there was zero accountability in the If the Chinese authorities consider that power will be used primarily for regime
be captured by the Nazi beast. Jewish community for those lawmakers, like you have said anything about the gov- survival and dominance, and that it will
A few years earlier, in the dead of win- my friend Cory Booker, who voted for the ernment that they find offensive or dis- lead to further government corruption.
ter, after accompanying the Israeli Knesset deal, legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program respectful, or if you have not been effu- But in the words of Samantha Hoff-
to Auschwitz for the 69th anniversary of its and putting Israel in permanent danger. sive enough in your praise of the present man of the Australian Security Policy
liberation, I traveled, alone and freezing, And why didn’t we fight the deal harder? regime, you also can suffer punishment. Institute, “it will [also] affect interna-
in search of Mila 18. I found the lone stone Because for too long we Jews have devel- The most recently revealed treat- tional businesses and overseas Chi-
marker buried under three feet of snow and oped a complacency mentality. It’s the one ment of such transgressors includes nese communities and has the potential
uncovered it with my bare hand. thing hurting us most. banning them from traveling on a plane to interfere directly in the sovereignty
Until today Anielewicz remains one of the If six million Jews die, some in the Ortho- or a bus, denying their children entry of other nations.”
greatest modern heroes in Jewish history dox community will go so far as to say that it into selected schools, slowing their As Michael Grothaus wrote in Fast
and the father of modern Jewish resistance. was because of Jewish sin. internet speed, barring them from cer- Company, “China’s social credit system
What persuaded them to fight when others If Israel is hated around the world, it must tain jobs, prohibiting them from buy- will begin expanding past China’s bor-
had no choice but to embrace Nazi lies and be because it’s doing something wrong. It’s ing real estate, and denying them entry ders to monitor Chinese citizens wher-
false hope? How did he know that “this too occupying, it stole land, it’s making the into desirable hotels and restaurants, to ever they are globally….[Already] the
shall not pass” and the people had to go to Arabs pay for Jewish suffering in the Holo- name just a few. threat of a negative social credit rank-
battle, even if it meant certain death. caust by colonizing a darker-skinned peo- As a parent you even can be acted ing recently pressured international air-
This question most affects American Jewry ple. And if Jews are blown up on buses or upon if one of your children commits lines based in the U.S. and Australia to
today. Not to be or not to be. But to fight or stabbed to death like Ari Fuld in Gush Etzion, an “offense.” For example, if your son remove Taiwan on their international
not to fight. There are those who continue it’s because of West Bank settlement policy. or daughter is spending too much websites. It is feared that as China con-
to believe that Jewish existence is one of It’s time to stop excusing, once and for all, time playing online video games, thus tinues to roll out its social credit rating
ideas, a cognitive process. I think therefore any attacks against the Jewish nation and to businesses, those companies will feel
I am. But we know better. We are Yisrael. adopt a policy of permanent resistance. Jew- Steven R. Rothman of Englewood they have no choice but to adhere to
I fight therefore I am. I struggle therefore I ish life is sacred. It must be protected. is a Democrat and the former U.S. the Chinese Communist Party’s ideolo-
will be. congressman who represented New gies and worldview if they want to keep
Will we fight for Israel on campus against Rabbi Shmuel Boteach is the author of “The Jersey’s 9th Congressional District from operating in the country.”
the dark forces of anti-Semitism? Will we Israel Warrior.” 1997 to 2013. SEE ROTHMAN PAGE 38
resist the boycotters of Israel like Roger
Opinion
A sacred song is also An epistolary Yom Kippur
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God’s song, Israel’s song enter into this days-of-awe period up to us to navigate this complex duality
with trepidations. I recall the year and balance it at home and in the work-
In consideraton of tikkun olam, that passed with gratitude and joy,

and look ahead at the year to come
place. Straddling this balance, we accept
the burden of deciding our observance à
discard the ‘purist’ template with apprehension.
While much of the discussion during
la carte rather than accepting it as a prix-
fixe. As a result, many of us have a hard
and reach out to everyone these Yamim Noraim of Rosh Hashanah time ensuring our children’s adherence
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and Yom Kippur is about it being the day to Orthodoxy, when their needle shifts to
here is one who sings the achieved what he refers to as “human of judgment, where Hashem decides who embracing more modernity at the expense
song of his soul, and in greatness,” meaning that they become shall live and who shall die, I don’t over- of connection to halacha as they move on
his own soul finds all…. one part of the top one percent of our focus on this critical acumen. I’ve lived a with their adult life. Ultimately, it may
And there is one who economy, the super rich (which equals good, full life, and I realize that God will do lead to a dilution of the message, and that
sings the song of the nation, who cleaves the super powerful). The other ninety- what He or She must. What I am expected might make it possible for their children
with gentle love to Knesset Yisrael as a nine percent are left with the leftovers. to do is to keep striving for to let go of Jewish practice
whole, and sings her song with her…. Taking the conservative line, Rabbi my best, which for me means and affiliation altogether.
And there is one whose soul expands Rocklin criticizes Jews and Jewish orga- turning off the cruise-control It is a real threat in a world
further beyond the bound of Israel, to nizations that oppose public funding and asserting more care and of costly Jewish education
sing the song of humanity…. And there of religious institutions, and those who intentionality in my relation- and easy assimilation to the
is one whose spirit expands and ascends criticize policies of the Israeli govern- ships with the world around world around us.
even higher, to the point of unity which ment (accusing them of “turning away me. I should be my best with In wondering how to
all creation, with all crea- from our peoplehood”). my family, my friends, and approach this worry of
tures and with all worlds, But public funding of paro- God who keeps everything mine, I thought of writing a
and sings with them all…. chial schools is bad for sev- in order. My attitude about letter to my children and to
And there is one who eral reasons. It threatens going through this period can Soli Foger anybody who has the same
ascends above all these in the separation of religion be summed up with a mod- concern. It is therefore an
a single union…. The song and state that is one of the ern-day Hebrew expression, open letter to all of us.
of the self, of the nation, foundations of American “if I’ll be all right — we’ll all be all right.” To our children:
of humanity, of the world democracy. And, inevita- The question is obviously how to get there. In facing this Yom Kippur, I spent Shab-
— all come together within bly, it will reduce funding This may sound more like a drive for bat Teshuva in New York City, listening
him…. And this perfection of public schools, which self-improvement. The equivalent of a to the drashot of few of our great rabbis.
in all its fullness ascends Rabbi are under threat today new year resolution about losing weight, Their message had a profound effect on
and becomes a sacred Aryeh Meir by the federal education going to the gym more, or improving my me and I thought of sharing my impres-
song, God’s song, Israel’s department. golf swing. But this is still Yom Kippur, and sion, in the hope that their impact will
song….” (Rav Avraham Regarding criticism of I am talking Jewish. My quest is about how have a lasting effect.
Yitzhak Kook, Orot HaKodesh 1:p.144f. Israeli government policies, organiza- to use our age-old Jewish tradition and wis- First, I want to retell the story I heard
Translation from Rav Kook: Mystic in a tions such as the New Israel Fund and dom to impact ourselves and our families, at the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue from
Time of Revolution, Yehuda Mirsky) Be’tzelem are engaged in constrictive or if you feel comfortable with touchy- Rabbi Meir Soloveichik. The impressive
This teaching of Rav Kook is my criticism of many policies of the right- feely expressions, my mission these days young rabbi followed the text of Mishnah
response to an article in the Septem- wing government while being strong is about rallying my Jewish soul. Yoma’s description of the Kohen Gadol,
ber 14 Jewish Standard by Rabbi Mitch- supporters of the State of Israel and When I think of what I could do to the high priest, and the ritual of the ser-
ell Rocklin called “Rosh Hashanah has its people. They are not “turning away have a lasting effect on my Jewish family, vice during the Yom Kippur during Temple
nothing to do with the attraction of tik- from peoplehood”; rather they want I remember the colloquial expression: times. Following a fascinating depiction of
kun olam.” the Jewish people and the Jewish State “Jewish is he or she, whose grandchildren the preparations and their symbolism, it
Rabbi Rocklin draws support for his to live fully up to the principles of its are Jewish.” There is nothing more critical was clear that the tradition was transfor-
diatribe against liberal Judaism and founding document, the Declaration of to me, after making sure that my family is mative, with the Temple playing a central
liberal Jews from a book whose title Independence. well, than ensuring that ours will be a Jew- role in Jewish life in Israel in BC times. Two
is “To Heal the World? How the Jew- I return to the fourfold song of Rav ish family in generations to come. thousand years later, however, these tradi-
ish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endan- Kook. Rav Kook was not a Reform Jew, But truly, what more can we do? tions appear less and less relevant. Their
gers Israel.” In this view, tikkun olam is nor was he a liberal. But he did posses For those of us within the modern animal sacrifices and particular rituals
equated with social justice, which is a a broader and deeper understanding of Orthodox camp, part of the challenge is in appear weird and ghastly to people in our
bad thing, because, for the rabbi, “social Jewish destiny than the critics of tikkun how to impart our vision of Jewish conti- times.
justice does not seek human greatness, olam. He believed that all human beings, nuity, when we have our feet on both sides Trying to bridge the gap, the rabbi
but equality outcomes…. There is noth- Jew and gentile, are created in the image of the modern divide. We eat kosher, but told a parable. It was a story about a per-
ing great about all humans living leveled of God, and all are partners with God in we may pick a non-kosher snack on the son who’s walking down the street and
lives of equality or sameness.” Accord- the ongoing creation of the world. We run. We observe Shabbat, but we may skip notices, through the soundproof windows
ingly, Judaism really is not very inter- were put into the world to be its caretak- Mincha. We rush to work but sometimes of a house, a bunch of people jumping
ested in working toward a more equal or ers: “God took the human and set him we forget to put tefillin. Each of us over- in strange fashion. The passerby looks
more just society, but in a “liberty that in the Garden of Eden to work it and to comes our daily shortcomings; we send in with fascination, and after a while he
frees up individuals’ potential for great- keep it” (Gen. 2:15). Humans, including our kids to yeshiva and expect it to help becomes convinced that these are crazy
ness, enabling them to to produce great Jews, have a positive mitzvah of caring bridge the gaps of our imperfection. But it people and that the building must be an
if unequal outcomes.” for our only home. We also have a moral doesn’t always work. asylum. Curious, he decides to walk in and
I contend that his approach brings us and religious imperative to be our broth- Modern Orthodoxy is ideological, mean- knocks on the door, but no one answers.
to exactly the society we have today, in ers’ keeper. ing that it is not Jewish light. It is about He then opens the door and enters, and
which a tiny fraction of Americans have We are responsible for one another, blending our Jewish life with the modern at once he hears the incredible sounds
not only for our fellow Jews. world around us and honoring both. I’d of music and realizes instantly that these
Rabbi Aryeh Meir of Teaneck is on Judaism is neither politically nor not want to be any other Jew, but this prac- people were not just jumping randomly,
the faculty of the Academy for Jewish socially conservative or liberal. In fact tice is challenging in how it transforms but they were dancing to magical tunes
Religion and the chairperson of the it is both. We believe that Jews have a the black-and-white orthodoxy of charedi that he couldn’t hear from the outside. He
Teaneck Environmental Commission. SEE MEIR PAGE 38 Judaism to many shades of gray, leaving it then understands that he made a mistake,

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A VIEW FROM THE PEW
and compelled by the music, he joins them Confronting the disease of addiction
in their dance.
Jewish life is similar, argued Rabbi and the plague of indifference
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Soloveichik. We can be insiders, and appre-
ciate thousands of years of Jewish tradition ift y years ago, when my chapter is that a merciful God gives us
and its beauty, or we can face it as outsiders, brother began abusing alco- second chances. The two most pow-
where we’ll regard everything as strange and hol, the American Jewish erful verses in this Torah reading —
outdated. My hope for you, our children, is community did not see drug 34:6-7, which convey the 13 Attributes I therefore am
that you’d open the door and walk in, appre- and alcohol abuse as “Jewish” prob- of God — were core to our prayers for
ciating our rich Jewish tradition as insiders lems that needed a place on our com- forgiveness and atonement on Yom very excited
and not just watch it from the outside, sepa- munal agenda. Kippur. to inform our
rated from its beautiful tunes. When my sister-in-law, Harriet Ros- The Jewish response to addiction
Then I walked a few blocks and listened setto, opened Beit Tshuvah in Los begins with an admission that we all community that
to Rabbi Robinson of Lincoln Square, who Angeles 32 years ago, it was are imperfect people 5779 is the year
spoke of Rabbi Akiva as representing the ulti- a homeless shelter for Jews living in an imperfect
mate idea of teshuva — repentance — which is coming out of jail who had world. Each of us has when that is
the theme of the Shabbat before Yom Kippur. nowhere else to go. Today, within us the divine gift changing. With
He elaborated on Rabbi Akiva’s life, on his the diseases of alcohol and of both a yetzer ha-ra
bravery — to go study Torah from the begin- drug abuse are issues that, and a yetzer ha-tov; a the generosity
ning, at the age of 40. He spoke about his rev- thankfully, are being rec- good and an evil incli- of anonymous
olutionary interpretations of our halacha, his ognized by American Jews, nation. In two weeks,
deep humility, and his empathic egalitarian both individually and by when we read the story donors and the
view of all types of Jews. And with the loss of our American Jewish com- of Noah, we will learn support of UJA
his students, his resolve to find new ones to munity. Many people today Rabbi Neal in the opening verse
whom he transferred his Torah. Never give are talking the talk of deal- Borovitz that Noah was “a righ- Federation of
up. And that was the message I had to hear. ing with the disease of addic- teous wholehearted New York and
When I walked out, I thought of how tion. Far too few communi- man of his generation.”
inspiring our Jewish story is and how much ties, however, have walked the walk by Later, in chapter 9: 20-23, we will learn of Beit Tshuvah
I’d like to share it with my grandchildren. I providing opportunity and space for a that Noah was the world’s first drunk, Los Angeles,
recalled Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s recent lec- Jewish residential treatment center on and that his sons, Shem and Japheth,
ture about Jewish identity, which he ended the model of Beit Tshuvah. The beds were the first people who attempted to the Tshuvah
with this line: “Biblical Judaism is the story in Los Angeles are always full, and Beit cover up their loved one’s addiction. Center of New
of the redemptive self, which embodies the Tshuvah receives hundreds of calls of As the brother of a recovering alco-
belief that bad things can be overcome while inquiry every month. holic, I confess, in the spirit of Shem York has been
affirming our commitment to building a bet- I therefore am very excited to inform and Japheth, that I spent years cov- created and
ter world. This story is our heritage as Jews our community that 5779 is the year ering up, excusing, and denying that
and our contribution to the moral horizons when that is changing. With the gen- my brother was addicted to alcohol. will open its
of humankind. Hence, the life-changing idea: erosity of anonymous donors and the I know the pain and shame that often doors to new
Our lives are shaped by the story we tell support of UJA Federation of New York leads people to enable loved ones and
about ourselves, so make sure the story you and of Beit Tshuvah Los Angeles, the friends to continue their abusive and residents in
tell is one that speaks to your highest aspira- Tshuvah Center of New York has been addictive behavior. It is rather homi- 5779.
tions, and tell it regularly.” created and will open its doors to new letically convenient that we Jews, who
Our story is transformative, and I wish that residents in 5779. Like Beit Tshuvah, trace our lineage from Noah, through
you all allow it to inspire you. the Tshuvah Center of New York not Shem, are noted for our Shem-like been motivated to share their treat-
When I came home, I tried to share some only will provide residential treatment approach to the problems of alcohol ment program with others, but, have
of it with my son, who had just gradu- but also will be involved in community and drug addiction in our community. lacked the means to do so.
ated college. “But what if we don’t like the outreach and prevention programs in We try to cover up the addictive behav- The Jewish Response to Addiction on
music?” my youngest son asked, referring the New York metropolitan area. ior of our loved ones and do our best October 10 is geared to helping all of us
to Rabbi Soloveichik’s parable. My son is The inaugural program of the Tshu- not to face the problems of addiction. understand the issue of addiction, and
a musician, and for him the question was vah Center of New York will be held on Jewish alcoholics or drug addicts are to formally open the programming of
not only symbolic, but also literal. I thought October 10 at the Marlene Meyerson marginalized and hidden. The Tshuvah Center, New York. Break-
of what the wise rabbi’s answer would be. JCC of Manhattan, at 334 Amsterdam I also know the joy, after having lost out sessions are planned to meet the
I tried my best to reply, while wishing he Ave., between 75th and 76th streets, my brother Mark to his drunkenness, of specific needs of families facing the dis-
was there to whisper his wisdom in my from 8:30 a.m. to noon. having had him restored to me, to our ease of addiction in their homes and
ear: “Judaism is not one soundtrack. Mod- The theme of the half-day sympo- family, and to the Jewish community. to help health care professionals and
ern Orthodoxy celebrates a large library of sium is The Jewish Response to Addic- Today, after being sober for more than clergy who are often the first responders
sounds, and as insider Jews, we have access tion. It will be led by my sister-in-law, 30 years, Mark serves as the rabbi of for addicts and their loved ones. More-
to a rich library of tunes from across history, Harriet Rossetto, the founder of Beit Beit Tshuvah in Los Angeles. With the over, this half day of learning is for all
geography and styles.” Tshuvah, my brother, Rabbi Mark Boro- support of the Los Angeles Jewish com- of us Jews who care about the crisis of
My hope this holiday season is that you vitz, and Rabbi Igael Gurin-Malous, the munity and many others across our addiction that plagues our society and
realize that Judaism is a gift, that Jewish founding director of the Tshuvah Cen- nation, Beit Tshuvah has helped thou- who want to understand more about
observance is for all of us, and that you ter of New York. Igael has worked with sands find a path to recovery by using how we can help.
chose one of our many soundtracks and join Mark and Harriet for a number of years a potent mixture of Judaism, the 12 step While the program is free, registration
in the dance. at Beit Tshuvah LA. program, and psychotherapy. Over the is requested. For more information, email
The Torah reading for this week, course of my tenure in northern New ABBY@FRIEDMANPRODUCTIONS.COM
Soli Foger, who is an architect, grew up in Shabbat Chol haMoed Sukot, includes Jersey, many people have asked me or check out www.Tshuvahcenter.org
Israel. He and his wife, the educator Dr. Tani Exodus chapter 34, where we learn of why Beit Tshuvah never has expanded
Foger, have lived in Englewood for 27 years. Moses’ second ascent of Mount Sinai. to other communities. My response has Neal Borovitz is the rabbi emeritus of
They have four sons and four grandchildren. To me, the underlying message of this been that Mark and Harriet have always Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.

Letters
Social justice and Yom Kippur haftarah, “to unlock the fet- social justice: I believe in free will (I exercised mine
traditional Judaism ters of wickedness . . . to let the oppressed “Halakhic Man . . . publicly protests to become a Jew); I believe each of us has
can peacefully coexist go free . . . to share your bread with the against the oppression of the helpless, the personal responsibility to contribute to the
Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin believes that “tik- hungry and to take the wretched poor into defrauding of the poor, the plight of the world; I believe each of us is “imperfect”
kun olam” is a red herring — a false iden- your home,” we can be confident he was orphan. The rich are deemed as naught in and each of us is “perfect” as reflected
tification of Judaism with social justice promoting authentic Jewish values, not the his view.” in the Torah and other teachings; and I
(“Rosh Hashanah has nothing to do with equality of outcomes. Individual greatness and obsessive con- believe each of us has a right to their own
the attractions of tikkun olam,” Septem- David Zinberg cern for the self may be the heroic model perspective or view regardless of our dif-
ber 14). Creating an easily defeated social- Teaneck that Rabbi Rocklin discerns from classical fering one.
ist straw-man, he says (implausibly) that western literature and thought. It is not The singling out a specific person act-
social justice “does not seek human great- Concern for the other the hero in Halakhic Judaism. ing as judge, jury and punisher on Rosh
ness, but equality of outcomes.” Further- is a necessary part Daniel D. Edelman Hashanah goes against the Jewish way
more, Rabbi Rocklin claims, an obsession of Orthodox Judaism Teaneck founded in the words of the Torah and
with social justice has led Jews astray from Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin, the Tikvah Fund’s reinforced in the Talmud and other writ-
(his) cherished conservative political-reli- leading researcher, questions the impor- Rabbi erred in calling out ings and is a reflection of an attribute of
gious values: School choice, “religious tance of social justice within Orthodoxy Stephen Miller by name mob rule (go….get… the…X) from a bully
liberty,” unquestioning support for Israel, by claiming that such concerns devalue I was singularly disappointed in the sin- pulpit.
strict religious observance. the “individual’s potential for greatness” gling out of a former child congregant by Meeting with applause during a sermon
I agree that “tikkun olam” is overused (“Rosh Hashanah has nothing to do with Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels as his “Rabbi” is not my idea of an endorsement; more
and does not exclusively define Judaism. the attractions of tikkun olam,” September (“Why Stephen Miller’s childhood rabbi playing to the choir instead. You were
In fact, “repairing the world” is too grandi- 14). Without citing Jewish sources (classical singled him out in his Rosh Hashanah ser- playing to the media and you are in the
ose a translation for the expression. In the or contemporary), he advocates a political mon,” September 21); while that designa- media as an entertainer as well as a rabbi.
Talmud, it is a practical extra-legal prin- agenda that raises genuine concerns about tion may have been appropriate 22 years Instead, each religious leader who
ciple: Courts must look to “tikkun olam” the Tikvah Fund’s objectives, curriculum, ago (when a child congregant) it is disin- has public opportunities to call out your
when existing civil law results in undue and programming. genuous at this point in time. I am a Jew beliefs should openly reflect on the
hardship, especially to vulnerable mem- One need only have a superficial expo- by Choice, I joined because of the strong desired changes, actions of your congre-
bers of ancient Jewish society like widows, sure to the works, lectures and thought of values that are at the core of every Jewish gation, and, by extension, the world that
divorcees and slaves. (A better translation Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik (the Rav) text, Jewish worship services, and rites of align with Jewish values and with the obli-
might be “the betterment of society” or to know how much he emphasized the passage, and are reflected in each of the gations of the New Year.
“basic decency.”) centrality of chesed (responsible empa- people in leadership — rabbi, cantor, edu- Deborah E Hammond, M.D.
But let’s not set up a false choice thy for the other) in Orthodox Judaism. cator, synagogue board (both formal and Ridgewood
between traditional Judaism and social Indeed, perhaps the Rav’s most quoted informal) and more importantly, in the
justice. They should coexist. When Isaiah statement is his description of Halakhic congregants and members of religious,
exhorted his audience, as recited in the Man’s heroism as devoted thoroughly to educational, or charity organizations.
Opinion
Rothman Meir
FROM PAGE 35 FROM PAGE 36 “No, this is the fast that I desire: to did Yishayhu ben Amotz. In this very
Maybe the Chinese government or the Chinese special covenant with God, that we have unlock the fetters of wickedness, and broken world and nation, a world and
people will end this totalitarian policy, which is, a unique role to play in human history. untie the cords of the yoke to let the nation deeply in need of healing, the
quite horribly, redefining what it means to be a We believe that the creation of Israel is oppressed go free; to break off every message of both of these great teach-
free person. Or maybe China’s social credit sys- an amazing and even miraculous event yoke. It is to share your bread with ers must be heard. It is a message of
tem will stay the same or become even more and we fully support its existence as a the hungry (not only the Jewish hun- chesed v’rachamim, of love and com-
nightmarish. But the rest of the world cannot Jewish and democratic state. We believe gry or oppressed), and to take the passion, of seeing that we are indeed
wait to find out. We must take action now. in an America that is democratic, mul- wretched poor into your home; when God’s partners, in creation and in the
Ms. Hoffman recommends the following: Con- tiracial, multicultural, multiethnic, and you see the naked, to clothe them, ongoing work of repair and healing.
trolling the export of Western technologies use- multireligious, an America that is open and do not ignore your own flesh.” In the liturgy, our rabbis often
ful to the Chinese social credit policy; reviewing to immigrants who want to be part of If you do all of these (social justice?), referred to God as Nishmat kol Chai,
Western university and research partnerships our democracy and to refugees seeking “then shall your light shine in dark- the soul of all that lives. Each one of
with China to avoid facilitating or enhancing safety on our shores, just as our parents ness and your gloom shall be like us has a part of that neshama, the
the policy; strengthening domestic resilience to and grandparents found security here noonday…. And you shall be called soul that unites us with the greater
counter foreign interference; fortifying data pro- as refugees from many forms of anti- ‘Repairer of fallen walls, Restorer of Nishmat kol Chai, and with the souls
tection by governments and the private sector; Jewish persecution lanes for habitation.” (Isaiah 58) of all that live. We seek the greater tik-
enacting new legislation to make this a human As to repair of the world and social Our prophet calls the Jewish kun, the repair of the world, in every
rights issue; supporting companies threatened justice, I believe that the prophetic people an or lagoyim, a light to the small act that makes our society and
by China’s social credit system; and protect- reading for Yom Kippur says it all: nations. Rav Kook believed this, as our world more whole.
ing overseas Chinese communities from being
affected by China’s efforts to expand its social
credit policy to other countries.
We hope that the Congress and the president
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D’var Torah
Keeping all our sukkot strong
W
e experience maintain it erect and serve its Encouraging our children to consider you do, the less you become. Let’s enjoy
an extension purpose of being a shelter and attending university in Israel as an option. the “change for the better” spirit of Rosh
of the spirit a home. And how about considering making ali- Hashanah and Yom Kippur by making a
of the High I suggest that we need to yah ourselves? commitment to put more Judaism in our
Holidays as we celebrate Suk- strengthen the little state of There is another spiritual sukkah: lifestyles.
kot, and Shemini Atzeret and Israel, which stands like a lit- our homes. Our Jewish homes are like And the third spiritual sukkah is our
rejoice on Simchat Torah. tle sukkah in the wilderness a precarious sukkah in the wilderness congregations. After our homes, our shul
The generic name is the plu- with threatening neighbors, of a non-Jewish society. Strengthen is also like a sukkah in the wilderness of an
ral Sukkot, because every Jew the will of terrorist groups, our Jewish homes before the wind of environment of non-Jewish opportunities.
is expected to build a sukkah Rabbi and the Iranian government’s assimilation destroys them. Teach our By strengthening these spiritual sukkot
at his or her house if they have Alberto desire to wipe her off of the children Jewish values. Provide them we will feel that the little sukkah we have
space for it. (Baruch) face of the Earth. the best Jewish education possible, inside, our neshama, so often surrounded
Sukkot refers also to a differ- Zeilicovich Everything counts: both religious and Zionist. Increase the by the winds of hatred, selfishness and
Temple Beth
ent type of sukkah that is not Sending money to Israel. observance of Shabbat and Holy Days vanity, will grow to a higher spiritual level.
Sholom, Fair Lawn,
made with traditional materi- Conservative Participating in missions in our homes by making them a family Our souls need also to be decorated with
als. These are sukkot built in and just traveling for the sake endeavor. Eat the Jewish way: kosher. beautiful adornments — compassion,
the realm of spirituality. of tourism (so sad to know Today the kosher offerings in our area friendship, loving-kindness, and love.
When the Jews sojourned through the Jews that never visited, but were many are so huge that I suggest using our free- Hashem gave as the tools to achieve them:
desert for 40 years they dwelt in these times to Paris, Spain, etc.). dom of choice to choose ... Jewish. fulfilling and full-living mitzvot.
precarious booths — a hard wind could Sending our children to Israel with All of these actions support this sukkah. May we build the most beautiful sukkot
tear them down. So, the Israelites had to one or more of the different youth group It is crucial, for Jewish continuity, that for the coming year.
strengthen that weak structure in order to opportunities. we understand that in Judaism, the less Chag Sameach!
Carl EpstEin CARL EPSTEIN

The officers and members of the Board of Directors of the In memory of Carl Epstein, a great man, the best friend our
Jewish Home Family boards, our residents and our staff community could ever have, and personally my best friend
note with profound sorrow the passing of our long devoted and mentor.
supporter, very dear friend, and esteemed past president of Carl devoted his entire life to helping others.
Jewish Home at Rockleigh, Jewish Home Foundation and
He was loved, admired and respected by us all.
board member of Jewish Home Family, Jewish Home Assisted
Living, and Jewish Home@Home. Carl wears the 3 Crowns spoken about in Pirkei Avos, the Ethics
of the Fathers: The Crown of Torah; Carl is a student of Torah;
Carl was a critical driving force and advisor for the Jewish the Crown of the Priesthood; Carl is a Levi - close enough; and the
Home for over 25 years. He was a visionary and a strategic Crown of Kingship; a king is a leader; Carl is, our leader.
thinker, and a strong believer in the individual’s and
Pirkei Avos goes on and says that the Crown of a Good Name,
community’s obligation to honor our elderly. His strong efforts
to involve others in this mission resulted in the creation of surpasses them all.
our Jewish Homes. His commitment was championed by Carl wears this Crown as well.
his beloved lifelong partner, Rita. His presence, input and
In fact, throughout Bergen County, and beyond, Carl’s reputation
oversight will be missed. We extend our deepest sympathy to
for good deeds precedes him. All one need say is one word,
his children Judy Epstein, Norie and Eric Hubner, grandsons
“Carl.” Amazingly, everyone knows who that means; no further
Michael and Zachary. Carl’s enduring legacy is and will
continue to be the Jewish Home Family’s thriving senior care identification need by made.
organization that touches the lives of so many. There could be no greater tribute.
Sincere condolences to Carl’s beloved family: Daughter Judy
May his memory be for a blessing. Epstein, Daughter and Son-In-Law Norie and Eric Hubner and
Grandsons Michael and Zachary Hubner.
Carol K. Silberstein, Chairperson of the Board
With Love,
Carol Silver Elliott, President and CEO
Steven Morey Greenberg

Kosher Crossword
“SIMCHAT TORAH SWEATING” BY: YONI GLATT
The Frazzled Housewife
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Supermarket
etiquette — or not
W
ith holiday season comes friend decided that the cows that produce
spending a lot more this expensive milk must daven Mincha; I
time in the supermar- said those cows probably go to the mik-
ket. With holiday season vah as well. But since I am such tolerant
and spending a lot more time in the super- person, I go with the non-cholov yisrael
market comes exercising great patience. milk because sometimes a cow is just a
Patience is what separates us from the cow, and if she misses Mincha, I have to
animals. Without patience, there is may- assume that she had a good reason for it.
hem. But without proper So we finished buying
supermarket etiquette, it a whole cartload of stuff,
is hard to have patience. most of which we bought
There are signs posted in because it was late, we
front of various markets that were hungry, it looked
require proper attire, no good, and it was time to
dogs allowed, etc. — but why check out. There were
don’t these signs remind hundreds of people on
people of basic human line. And I am not even
decency and compassion? exaggerating. I think that
If the sign says “10 items or Banji every person in Monsey
less,” that usually means 10 Ganchrow was at Evergreen at 10 p.m.
items or less … and if I am Some folks came with their
behind you on that line and kids, all in matching out-
you have 18 items, I will make a comment. fits, not sure why they were still awake.
Yes, I am that person. Some husbands were there without their
Last week I had the pleasure and privi- wives, some wives were there without
lege of shopping at Evergreen in Mon- their husbands, and I was pretty much
sey. If you have never been to this haven the only person there wearing pants.
of kosher items, it is worth it just for the The majority of people had at least
experience. Before we go into the eti- two carts overflowing with grocery good-
Across Down
quette component, let’s discuss the vari- ies and we were in search of a short line.
1. “It Happened One Night” director 1. Dietary component, for short
ous food offerings. Let’s take the meat I happened across a line that had a few
6. ‘Frasier’ costar Gilpin 2. ___ Shvut
10. Buddhist god 3. Load people on it, but it was relatively short
14. Border crosser, perhaps 4. Replace a starter and there was an unattended shopping
15. Many an Israeli 5. “I”, in Efrat cart filled with stuff. But it wasn’t on line,
16. Dark loaves 6. Polytheists it was off to the side. So I stood on line.
17. Simcha exercise similar to using a row-
ing machine
7. Eagle Zach
8. “Yay, team!” If I am behind Fifteen minutes go by and some woman
shows up, dumps a bunch of items on
20. Brak preceder
21. With Boy, a kind of chair
9. Spaniards and Portuguese
10. Pops in
you on that top of the already full cart and pushes the
22. With maturity 11. Bronte character line and you cart in front of me. Seriously??? I chan-
23. 2-2, e.g. 12. Kind of kosher cutlet neled Pedro the Plumber’s words to me
25. They were recently forgiven (hope- 13. Grayish have 18 items, about my negativity, but this woman
fully)
26. Tricky (and risky) Simchat Torah exer-
18. Atlanta Brave or New York Met, slang-
ily I will make a just added about another 25 minutes to
my stay in Monsey. Just as I was about to
cise
31. Be in doubt
19. Chime sound
24. Actress Farmiga comment. Yes, I express myself to this woman (who, me?)
32. Mini car?
33. Motion carriers, at times
25. Writer also known as S.Y.
26. Todah ___
am that person. my friend said, “Just let her be…she prob-
ably has tough life.” C’mon! Let me yell at
35. King Hezekiah’s mother 27. 1980 Tony winner
36. One who probably does not observe 28. Javelin, e.g. her! Let me tell her that she has so much
Simchat Torah 29. Location to do the mitzvah of department — the exact same cut of roast chutzpah and that she needs to go behind
40. 6 or 60 in Isr. , e.g. Shiluach Haken can be found for four different prices, me on line because you cannot just leave
41. Henry Jones Sr. hates them 30. Abhors depending on which rabbi supervised its your cart for 15 minutes…. I am the only
43. Annoying wait, facetiously 31. Independence can follow it
kosherness. And all four of those prices one wearing pants in a sea of long black
44. American dogwood used in basketry 34. Rabbi’s speech: Abbr.
46. They can be great for cardio on 37. Some Jewish measurements are less than what you find in any Ber- skirts, snoods, and black hats, and maybe
Simchat Torah 38. Cow hand? gen County kosher establishment. Now I if she let me go before her, I would find
50. Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. 39. Be deaf but can still hear? have been Jewish for a very long time and God and start going to Mincha with the
51. Place 42. Crept around I have been keeping kosher for just as long cholov yisrael cows!!
52. Right leaning? 45. What “-gate” may indicate
and it still amazes me that this is a thing. But I listened to my friend, I took a deep
55. Marvel bigwig Arad 47. Indian’s home
56. Jewish teen org. 48. Says Shema, e.g. I am so curious to know why Rabbi X is breath, and I very kindly said, “You should
60. Post-Simchat Torah calorie burning 49. Met song only $10.49 a pound and Rabbi Y is $12.99 just know that if my friend was not here,
activity 52. “It ___ no concern” a pound. Is it the length of his beard? The there is no way I would let you go in front
63. Cartoon canine 53. Sass, slangily brim of his hat? The number of children of me.” I don’t think Pedro the Plumber
64. Land with a Supreme Leader 54. Like
he has produced? Who knows? It is one of would approve, but I tried my best.
65. “Everybody Loves Raymond” role 55. Sometimes foe of ancient Israel
66. Forestall, with “off” 57. “___ buck I might!” (“Newsies” lyric) life’s great mysteries.
67. Delivery people? 58. Jacob, e.g. Just like cholov yisrael. What is it? While Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is writing
68. Make like 52-Across 59. Source of Israeli news standing on line with my friend, we saw a this column while her adorable sons are
61. Bud man purchasing six gallons of cholov yis- lugging mattresses into the sukkah so they
The solution to last week puzzle is 62. Tour de France measurements, briefly
on page 47. rael milk, which is much more expensive can sleep there comfortably. She is totally
than milk that is not cholov yisrael. My staying out of that situation….

Arts & Culture
The Toronto International Film Festival
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
T
here is nothing like the Toronto
International Film Festival.
It offers a multitude of choices
— there can be up to 24 films play-
ing at the same time. And it has become the
place to see new Israeli or Jewish-content
films, which often open in Toronto long
before they are shown here or in Israel.
This year Rosh Hashanah fell smack in
the middle of the festival, so I decided to
skip all the glitz and celebrity red carpets
that punctuate the first days and just fly up
to Toronto the morning after the holiday to
catch the rest of the festival. I knew that it
would require watching a bunch of films
each day, but I was up to it! On my first full
day I saw six films, but there are many peo-
ple out there who can beat that record. TIFF
screens movies from 9 a.m. to way beyond
midnight. A scene from “The Other Story,” premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Six Israeli feature narrative films pre-
miered at TIFF this year, and the program- now, Aviad’s work has been mainly docu- festival audience loved the film, and David- Remarkable Career of Ben Ferencz” is a
mers chose a most interesting mix. Veteran mentary, but here she gives us a superb ian won the Eurimages Audentia award in precious documentary about the legend-
filmmaker Avi Nesher, who has had three drama, and Liron Ben-Shlush gives a break- Toronto for best female director. ary 98-year-old American Jewish Nurem-
films shown at the festival, continues his out performance. Sameh Zoabi’s “Tel Aviv on Fire” pro- berg prosecutor and his career. To this
cinematic study of women struggling with One of the more exciting developments vides some comic relief to a situation that day, Ferencz continues his amazing work.
faith. His latest, “The Other Story,” is about in Israeli cinema is the emergence of tra- is far from funny. It is no easy task for this In “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in His-
two young women whose paths cross. They ditional Jewish filmmakers, most of whom graduate of Tel Aviv’s Film School to make tory as Barbarians,” which won the best
are both rejecting their backgrounds; one is are baalei teshuva. We have seen the work a comedy that touches on checkpoints and film award at the Karlovy Vary Film Festi-
fleeing secular societal hedonism, while the of Rama Burshtein (“Fill the Void,” “The tensions between Israelis and Palestinians, val, Romanian director Radu Jude hurls a
other is breaking with her religious upbring- Wedding Plan”) and Shuli Rand (“Ush- but with financial support from a variety of scorching attack on Romanian Holocaust
ing. The film has been chosen to open this pizin”) and soon we will learn more about sources, including the Israeli government, denial. The words in the film’s title were
week’s Haifa Film Festival. the talented Tsivia Barkai, whose first fea- the Israeli-Palestinian writer-director does spoken by dictator Ion Antonescu in the
Yona Rozenkier had a bad experience ture film, “The Red Cow,” shared the high- an admirable job. The film is about a Ramal- Romanian Council of Ministers shortly
serving in the Israel Defense Forces, which est honor at the Jerusalem Film Festival. In lah-based soap opera, set before the Six Day before the Odessa Massacre, in which
led to post-traumatic stress disorder. The Tel Toronto, I met Tsivia, her husband, Boaz War, and a beautiful woman, a spy who is Romanian soldiers slaughtered more than
Aviv Film School graduate decided to use Yehonatan Ben-Yacov, and their newborn sent to befriend an oblivious Israeli general. 100,000 Bessarabian and Bukovinan Jews.
cinema as his therapy, crafting “The Dive,” son. I had a chance to sit down with Ben- The soap opera is silly, and we see both Pal- Using a docudrama approach, the film
a powerful, largely autobiographical film Yacov, also a filmmaker, who sees his work estinians and Israelis watching it keenly; at begins with an actor introducing herself
about three brothers who return to their as a mission. His film, the partially auto- the same time, the well-written dialogue dis- as a stage director, and then going through
kibbutz for their father’s funeral. One of the biographical “Remembrance,” reflects cussing what went into the making of this the process of creating a public, staged re-
brothers has been out of touch for quite a that passion. Co-written and co-directed television drama gives us a subtle analysis enactment of the massacre. This brilliant
while because of his difficult struggle with with seasoned director Yossi Madmony, of the current situation. film elicits all kinds of official reactions
PTSD. In Toronto, I sat with Rozenkier and “Remembrance” is the story of a baal tes- Other films at the festival with Israeli from cast, crew, and the audience, includ-
two of his brothers, Yoel and Micha, who huvah’s struggle to find a balance between connections include Sarah Colangelo’s ing “Tone it down” and “This never really
played key roles in the film. They described faith and creativity, all the while trying to English-language “The Kindergarten happened.” Jude shows it all as he care-
how making the film – and particularly be a good parent to a child with a serious Teacher.” The film, starring Maggie Gyl- fully points the finger at a government that
working together on the kibbutz where they malady. The music is amazing and Moshe lenhaal, is a remake of Nadav Lapid’s 2014 publically admits its criminal complicity,
grew up — helped Yona work out much of Folkenflick is superb in it. Israeli drama about a teacher’s obsession while callously not being ready to do more
the trauma that had haunted him. The film “Fig Tree,” by first-time Ethiopian-Israeli with a young child prodigy. Israeli director to let its own people know the truth — that
shared the Haggiag award with “The Red filmmaker Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian (aka Guy Nattiv’s American-made “Skin,” which Romanian soldiers killed 320,000 Jews
Cow” for best Israeli feature at the Jerusa- Alamork Davidian) is a compelling film. won the festival’s Fipresci Jury Award, has during World War II. Bravo Radu!
lem Film Festival in July. Based in part on her childhood experiences Jamie Bell as a young man, raised in a neo- This is just a brief list of some of the enter-
Sexual harassment is the subject of Michal in Addis Ababa, the Amharic-language film Nazi environment, who breaks away from tainment and education that was available
Aviad’s compelling “Working Woman.” The looks at the difficulties of growing up as a it, with the help of a black activist and at the Toronto International Film Festival
#MeToo movement is growing in Israel as it Jew in war-torn Ethiopia. Young Mina tries the woman he loves. Episodes from the this year. So next year, when the Jewish
is here, making all of us more sensitive and to protect her non-Jewish boyhood neigh- new Israeli television mini-series “Stock- New Year won’t interfere, make your way
aware, so this is a must-see film. Aviad tells bor from being taken away by the army holm,” with Sasson Gabai, who now is on to Toronto!
the story of a young woman trying to forge while waiting to be airlifted to Israel, hop- Broadway in “The Band’s Visit,” also were
a career in largely male-dominated Israeli ing that he might join her. Not since Meyer unveiled at the festival. Eric Goldman teaches at Yeshiva Univerity
society. She gives us a powerful study of Levin’s insightful 1973 film “The Falashas” Two other films worthy of mention and Fairleigh Dickinson. He is host of
how sexual harassment and assault easily have I seen a film that so vividly captures touched on the Holocaust. Barry Avrich’s “Jewish Cinematheque” on the Jewish
can find their way into the workplace. Until what life was like for Ethiopian Jews. The beautifully made “Prosecuting Evil: The Broadcasting Network.

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Saturday Wednesday the sisterhood of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey
SEPTEMBER 29 OCTOBER 3 in Franklin Lakes, 7 p.m.
558 High Mountain Road.
Shabbat in Wayne: The Yoga & Torah in Closter: (201) 560-0200 or www.
senior daytime program Temple Emanu-El offers tenjfl.org.
at Temple Beth Tikvah “Spiritual Stretch: Yoga
meets for brunch in & Torah,” a holistic Fundraiser for animals:
the sukkah, noon. 950 workout that stretches START II, Save the
Preakness Ave. (973) the mind and body while Animals Rescue Team II,
595-6565 or www. connecting spiritually hold its annual tricky tray
templebethtikvahnj.org. with Torah teachings, at the Fiesta in Wood-
song, and prayer, led by Ridge. Doors open, 5
Sunday instructor Shari Brooks
and Cantor Israel and
p.m., calling starts at 7,
includes dinner. 255 Rt.
SEPTEMBER 30 Bruria Singer, 10:30 a.m. 17 South. Vivien Siegel,
Weekly class through (201) 417-3363.
Children’s program: November 28. 180
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Piermont Road. (201)
750-9997 or www. Saturday
Tikvah’s Hebrew school templeemanu-el.com. OCTOBER 6
begins its Sunday special
series for children, 4- to
10-year-olds and their
Thursday Shabbat in Teaneck:
Rabbanit Gilla Rosen,
families, 9:30-11:30 a.m. OCTOBER 4 dean of Yakar in
Program on Sukkot with Jerusalem and Tel
activities, brunch in the Israel scholarship night: Aviv, discusses “Let Us
sukkah. East 304 Midland Solomon Schechter Day Make Adam”: Midrashic
Ave. (201) 262-7733, School of Bergen County Struggles with Difficult
edudirector@jccparamus.
OCT. Teaneck congregations Rinat Yisrael and Beth invites the community Verses,” at Congregation
org, or www.jccparamus. to the seventh annual Rinat Yisrael in Teaneck,
Aaron show an acclaimed film, “Ben-Gurion,
14
org. Israel Night, “Israeli 4:40 p.m. 389 West
Epilogue,” at Rinat at 8 p.m. The film won the Air Force: Innovation: Englewood Ave. (201)
Breakfast in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Israeli Film and TV Academy Award for Best An Insider’s View,” 837-2795.
benefitting the school’s
Congregation Beth Documentary; guest speaker is Yefet Ozery,
Tikvah’s sisterhood American Associates of Ben Gurion University. 389
Stephanie Prezant z”l
Israel Scholarship Fund, Sunday
and men’s club have
West Englewood Ave. (201) 837-2795. YEFET OZERY
6-8 p.m. Amos Nachum, OCTOBER 7
an opening breakfast a Schechter parent,
in the sukkah, 9:30 a.m. Israeli Air Force veteran,
(201) 262-7691 or www. and systems analyst for
jccparamus.org. Israel’s government, talks
Erev Simchat Torah in Simchat Torah in Park
Erev Simchat Torah/ Glen Rock: The Glen Ridge: Temple Beth Tuesday about the innovation
Rock Jewish Center has Sholom of Pascack Valley OCTOBER 2 that drives the IAF’s
consecration in Closter: success. Tickets include
Temple Beth El offers a dinner celebrating its welcomes participants
Simchat Torah honorees, to dance with its Torahs, vegetarian Israeli dinner.
consecration and erev 275 McKinley Ave.
Simchat Torah services 6:30 p.m. 682 Harristown 7:30 p.m. 32 Park Ave.
Road. (201) 652-6624 or (201) 391-4620 or www. Alyssa Wolf, (201) 262-
led by Rabbi David S. 9898, ext. 275, awolf@
Widzer and Cantor office@grjc.org. temple-beth-sholom.org.
ssdsbergen.org, or www.
Elizabeth Goldmann, ssdsbergen.org.
6:30 p.m. Simchat Torah/ Erev Simchat Torah in Erev Simchat Torah for
Emerson: Congregation women in Teaneck: Dr. Sharyn Lewin
Yizkor morning service
on Monday at 10:30 B’nai Israel celebrates by Congregation Beth Gynecologic health
a.m. 221 Schraalenburgh unfurling a handwritten Aaron offers women’s and wellness: Dr.
Road. (201) 768-5112. Torah scroll; also programming and Sharyn Lewin, medical
offering holiday treats learning, 7:30 p.m., director of gynecologic
and Israeli dancing led following the first hakafa.
Monday by Rabbi Lisa Vernon, It will include divrei Torah Sarah Robinson
oncology at Holy
Name Medical Center
OCTOBER 1 7 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave. from Annette Feldman in Teaneck, discusses
(201) 265-2272 or www. (Torah), Miriam Shapiro Simchat Torah in “Current Strategies for
bisrael.com. (Nevi’im), and Rachel Teaneck: Sarah
Erev Simchat Torah in Gynecologic Health
Frazer (Ketuvim) and a Robinson, a Manhattan
Closter: Temple Emanu- Erev Simchat Torah and Wellness” at
musical experience led Day School girls teacher, Congregation B’nai Israel
El invites the community in Fair Lawn: Bris by Marsha Edelman. 950 gives a women’s shiur, in Emerson, 10:30 a.m.
to celebrate and dance Avrohom celebrates with
with its Torahs, 6:30
Queen Anne Road. (201) “Moshe Rabbenu: Breast cancer and She is the founder and
dancing with its Torahs 836-6210. From Egyptian Prince Jewish law: Radiologist
p.m. Special treats and a hot dinner, 7 p.m. executive director of
to Man of God,” at the Dr. Rand J. Stack, the Lewin Fund to Fight
follow. 180 Piermont 30-02 Fair Lawn Ave. Rothwachs home, 9:15 author of “The Breast Women’s Cancers and is
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based national nonprofit
organization supporting
Singles JCC to host special games and barbecue
young Jewish women
with breast cancer. 53 The Chuck Guttenberg Center for the Physically Challenged at the Kaplen JCC
Palisade Ave. (201) 265- Sunday on the Palisades is hosting its annual Special Games on Sunday, September 30.
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
OCTOBER 7 The field day provides children, teens, and adults who are differently-abled the
Walk in Wayne: opportunity to engage in physical activity and interact with others in a friendly,
Temple Beth Tikvah Senior singles meet
supportive environment. Activities, from 12 to 2:30 p.m., include golf putt, bas-
has its monthly dog- in West Nyack: 65+
friendly walk through Singles meet for a social ketball, softball and lacrosse throw, Frisbee and bean bag toss, beach volleyball,
Laurelwood Arboretum get-together at the JCC and more. Nearly 200 athletes and volunteers will gather on the JCC fields to par-
in Pines Lake, 9:30 a.m., Rockland, 11 a.m. 450 ticipate and then celebrate at an end-of-day barbecue.
weather permitting. West Nyack Road. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
“The games are a volunteer run event and a wonderful experience for everyone
Walk on unpaved, well-
maintained trails with who gets involved, so we encourage people to both participate and volunteer,”
several modest hills. Singles brunch in said Guttenberg Center for Special Services director Shelley Levy. “All participants
Clifton: North Jersey
Children welcome. Sturdy receive ribbons at every event station and activity they participate in, and the
shoes and baggies for Jewish Singles 50s+ at
the Clifton Jewish Center enthusiastic volunteers who help and cheer on the participants really give these
cleanup required. Group
meets first Sunday of the hosts a brunch, with athletes a great sense of accomplishment and pride.”
month at the Sensory ice breakers, trivia, and The JCC is seeking volunteers, participants, and sponsors. For information, call Taken at last year’s special
socializing, 11:30 a.m. 18
Garden between the
Delaware St. (973) 772- Mindy Liebowitz at (201) 408-1490 or email mliebowitz@jccotp.org. games event. COURTESY JCCOTP
two parking lots. 725
Pines Lake Drive West, 3131 or join the group at
Wayne. Email Mitchell. www.meetup.com.
borger@gmail.com, call Singles meet in
(917) 757-3832, or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Caldwell: New Jersey Teaneck forum to take on the issues
that affect North Jersey’s environment
Jewish Singles 45+
meets at Congregation
Agudath Israel for ice
breakers, discussion, and The Teaneck Democratic Municipal Committee will hold Dist.); state Senator Loretta Weinberg, and Assembly mem-
dessert buffet, 2:30 p.m. a public forum on environmental protection, called “Our bers Gordon Johnson and Valerie Vainieri Huttle.
20 Academy Road. Sue, Fragile Ecosystem,” on Sunday, October 7, at Teaneck’s Participants will break out into smaller discussion
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145, Rodda Center at 1:30 p.m. The forum will feature elected groups led by Jeff Tittel, senior director of the New Jersey
or singles@agudath.org.
officials, local environmental activists, and members of Sierra Club; Paula Rogovin of the Coalition to Ban Unsafe
the North Jersey community. The discussion will touch Oil Trains; and Harriet Shugarman of Climate Mama.
on a wide range of environmental concerns, from the Leaders of other local groups will provide information on
local effects of global warming to industrial pollution to their activities. They include Friends of the Hackensack
the preservation of open spaces such as the Hackensack River Greenway, Teaneck Creek Conservancy, NJ Food
River Greenway. and Water, 360.org, and the Hackensack Riverkeeper.
Invitations have been sent to Governor Phil Murphy; U.S. For more information, call Alexandra Soriano-Taveras,
Senators Robert Menendez and Cory Booker; Representa- Teaneck’s Democratic municipal committee chair, at (917)
tives Josh Gottheimer (D-5th Dist.) and Bill Pascrell (D-9th 502-0732, or email TeaneckDMC@gmail.com.
Pop art by rabbi

displayed in Newark
The Jewish Museum of New Jersey at Congregation Aha-
vas Sholom, the oldest continually operating synagogue in
Newark, is exhibiting “Yitzchok Moully: Pop Art Rabbi.”
The solo art show reflects the spiritual and artistic journey
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY JCCOTP of a chassidic rabbi turned pop artist. The show, curated
by Matt Gosser, is open on Sundays through October 21,
Gallery at Kaplen JCC from 1 to 5 p.m. The Jewish Museum will hold a reception
with the artists on Thursday, October 4, at 6 p.m., in con-
to feature images junction with the Newark Arts Festival.
Pop art by Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, right.
PHOTOS COURTESY JEWISH MUSEUM OF NJ
of interfaith tolerance Yitzchok Moully is a conceptual artist whose work

explores the intersection of spirituality and the material world we live in. He grew up in Australia and lived a few
The Waltuch Art Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades years in chassidic Brooklyn. He was a youth rabbi in Basking Ridge for 10 years before he embraced his creative spirit
in Tenafly presents “Images on Canvas: Stories of Worship and becoming known as the Pop Art Rabbi.
and Interfaith Tolerance,” from Octoer 3 to 30. The unique For more information go to www.jewishmuseumnj.org or call (973) 485-2609.
photography exhibition organized in Burma (Myanmar),
is presented by Faithspace USA.
A special film screening of the 2017 Burmese peace doc-
umentary, “SITTWE,” will be on Thursday, October 4, at
8 p.m., at the opening reception. Mahjong and games scheduled
The Waltuch Art Gallery is a community space that
exhibits thematically Jewish artwork, or art produced by
at shuls in Wayne and Paramus
Jewish artists. All artwork is available for sale and a por- Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will offer a three- templebethtikvahnj.org. Checks are payable to the shul.
tion of the proceeds support cultural arts programming part beginner’s mahjong class on October 10, 17, and •
at the JCC. 24; all will begin at 7 p.m. and refreshments will be Beginning in October, the JCC of Paramus/Congregation
Proceeds from the opening reception and film screen- served. Bring a 2018 mahjong card. Reservations are Beth Tikvah offers canasta and Scrabble on Tuesdays at
ing support the JCC Patron of the Arts Program. For infor- required by October 4. Temple Beth Tikvah is at 950 1 p.m., and mahjong on Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. The shul
mation, call Nina Bachrach at (201) 408-1406 or email nba- Preakness Ave., in Wayne. For more information, call is at East 304 Midland Ave., Paramus. For more informa-
chrach@jccotop.org. (973) 595-6565, email mrr32@optonline.net, or go to tion, call (201) 262-7691 or go to www.JCCParamus.org.

Jewish World
Haberdasher to close after century of suiting up

bar mitzvah boys — and the occasional mobster
Johanna Ginsberg
When Clifford Kulwin celebrated his 13th

anniversary as rabbi at Temple B’nai Abra-
ham in Livingston, he knew he had to
mention another local institution.
“I understand there are some present
who do not consider this a ‘real’ bar mitz-
vah. To them I have just one word: Sam’s!”
he said before opening his suit jacket and
pointing to the label sewn into the lin-
ing: Sam’s Fine Men’s Clothing in Livings-
ton. “Eight hundred people there utterly
brought down the house,” Kulwin said.
For generations, Sam’s has been the
go-to shop for dapper bar mitzvah boys in
Essex County. The announcement that it
will close at the end of October was met
Jeffrey Cohen
with sadness here, and the kind of wist-
fulness that greets the demise of any insti-
tution that reminds Jewish locals of their
roots — in this case, the storied Newark of
the first half of the 20th century.
Of course Sam’s, on the corner of North-
Ginsberg
field and Livingston avenues, sells more
than bar mitzvah apparel. Made-to-mea- Above, Sam’s storefront in the mid-
Sam’s
sure suits for men make up a big part of 1960s; near right, brothers Edward,
anna
the current business, and it also sells fine left, and Louis Cohen took over in
men’s sportswear, although not as much as
Joh
1968; cousins Maurice, left, and
in decades past, before online shopping. Jeffrey Cohen are closing it down.
Over the years, the store has been fre-
quented by celebrities, models, even also were put to work. “Our fathers would
mobsters, who would come after the store give us the cutoffs from pants that had
was closed, so they could shop in privacy. been tailored to put in a box and sell to
That’s according to Maurice Cohen, a the ragman,” Maurice said. “Then,” Jeffrey
third-generation owner with his cousin, said, “we’d go to Sidney’s Deli for corned price tags. The business adjusted by add- Jennifer Goodman Linn. “It was important
Jeffrey Cohen. beef and pastrami on rye, and then for ing European suits — first made in France, for us to support the community that sup-
Shortly after announcing their retire- cookies from Wigler’s Bakery. That was a later in Italy — along with fine sportswear. ported us,” Jeffrey said.
ment in an early September letter mailed good day.” Jeffrey, not a natural gambler, recalled The cousins, both 68, said they are
to the community, the Cohen cousins Asked what they’ll miss most after the all the risks the cousins had to take. “You ready to close the shop and spend more
met with the New Jersey Jewish News in closing, Maurice said “the camaraderie.” can’t be in the fashion industry looking in time with their families. Their four chil-
an office above the store and reminisced Maybe that stems from the early days of the rearview mirror,” he said. “You’ve got dren each pursued careers that did not
about their lives in the business. the store, when it really was a place peo- to always be looking ahead.” include Sam’s, and they have no regrets
Among the oddest items they remember ple went to socialize. Maurice recalled Some bets paid off. Others didn’t. “The about not passing the family business to
selling, as late as 1975, were white parade that around 5 p.m. on Saturdays, an hour only thing we’re married to is our wives,” the next generation. “We had a pretty
gloves and men’s garters. “Did we sell the before closing, his parents would put out Maurice said. “If it sells, great. If not, get good run,” Jeffrey said.
gloves at regular price or on sale?” Jef- a tray of cheese and salami and poured rid of it.” There was one common thread that ran
frey asked Maurice in an impromptu quiz. whiskey and bourbon for customers. If customers didn’t understand a fash- through all the incarnations of the busi-
“Regular price!” was the answer. The Newark business was destroyed ion trend, there was no point explain- ness. Jeffrey calls it “the human touch.”
Maurice fondly recalled their 1970s during the 1967 riots. It was looted and ing it. “When you buy clothes, only two “We were always staffed up and ready to
inventory of velvet suits, sold with frilly burned. Nothing was left but a vendor’s things matter: One, that it looks good, and help our customers,” he said.
shirts. “I’m a peacock,” he acknowledged. pencil that the cousins saved, along with two, that it feels comfortable,” he said. That’s what kept families coming back
On this day he wore an orange-and-white the fireproof lockbox with all the records “Buying clothes should not be a cerebral through generations. Jordan Odette of
checked button-down shirt with jeans, of clothing bought on installment. (Install- experience.” Springfield grew up in Livingston and
while Jeffrey was dressed more con- ment plans made up a large portion of the They also transformed the store win- shopped at Sam’s, just like his father and
servatively in an understated blue suit, business then.) dows from a place to push merchandise uncle had. Before he married in 2012,
complete with handkerchief in the front In 1968, the family bought Sam’s in and sales to something that could express there was only one place for him and his
pocket. Livingston, then an Army-Navy surplus a point of view (and also push merchan- groomsmen to get their outfits for the wed-
The clothing business began with their store, from Sam Winkler, for whom it dise). The windows became iconic for ding. “I wouldn’t think of going anywhere
grandfather, Hyman Cohen, who sold bolts was named. Jeffrey remembered selling their artistic expression. One award- else,” Odette said. “I knew they would take
of fabric from a pushcart. It morphed into hip boots for fishing, hockey sticks, even winning display featured an homage to care of us and the suits would fit well and
men’s and women’s ready-to-wear cloth- ammunition. By the time the cousins took Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” with they’d be ready on time. And I like giving
ing; circa 1920, Hyman Cohen opened the over the business from their fathers, Louis a high-fashion button-down men’s shirt business to the store I grew up with.”
storefront at 79 Prince St. in Newark. and Edward, in the early 1980s, the com- standing in for the first man. Now that it’s closing, he said, “It will live
Maurice and Jeffrey remembered play- munity — by then fully replanted in the The store also supported local causes, on in our memories as the best place to
ing with large cardboard boxes in the back suburbs — was ready for higher fashion, like Cycle for Survival, a fundraiser for suit up.”
of the H. Cohen & Sons location, but they higher quality merchandise, and higher rare cancers started by Livingston native JTA Wire Service/New Jersey Jewish News

Obituaries
Estelle Ezor He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Elise, children, She was a Teaneck public school teacher for 35 years.
Estelle Ezor, née Preblub, 93, died on Yom Kippur, Jeffrey (Shelley) and Amy Hirshberg Lederman; She is survived by her husband of 72 years, Harold, sons,
September 19. grandchildren Danielle (Hunter), Jeremy (Shelley), Jacob, Larry (Shirley) and Andy; grandsons, Matthew, Russell and
She was trained in voice at the Juilliard School of Joshua, and Lauren (Blaire), and four great-grandchildren. Jeffrey, and four great-grandchildren.
Music. Donations can be sent to the American Committee for Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Predeceased by her husband of more than 70 years, the Weizmann Institute of Science or Jewish Guild for the Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Sheldon, and a daughter, Susan Moss ( Jeffrey), she is Blind. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah
survived by a son Bobby (Elisa), and grandchildren Chapel, Paramus.
Zachary (Lara) and Danielle.
Contributions can be sent to Ahavath Achim Estelle Levine
Synagogue Early Learning Center or Weinstein Hospice, Estelle Levine, née Verner, 92, of Fair Lawn, formerly of
both in Atlanta. Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Paterson, died September 20. Obituaries are prepared with
Menorah Chapel, Paramus. She was a bookkeeper for Paramus Tire Company. information provided by funeral homes.
Predeceased by her husband, Arnold, she is survived Correcting errors is the responsibility of the
Harold Hirshberg by children, Larry, and Loni Delaney ( Jack); a brother, Sid funeral home.
Harold Murray Hirshberg, 99, of Park Ridge died on Verner; grandchildren, Keri, Kevin (Tara), Jason (May), and
September 18. Eric (Kristi), and five great-grandchildren.
He earned degrees at Rutgers University and served Donations can be sent to Memorial Sloan Kettering
in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was the Cancer Center. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
CEO/owner of Federal Supply Corp. of Paterson, and Chapel, Fair Lawn.
acquired and rehabilitated real estate and businesses.
A philanthropist, he served on the boards of Barnert Enid Rubin
Hospital, the YM-YWHA of Bergen County, and the Cedar Enid Joan Rubin, née Neuwirth, 91, of Fort Lee, died
Park Cemetery. September 21.
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An Israeli singer in Amsterdam

creates the world’s first Ladino pop album
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
AMSTERDAM - Wandering the ornate streets of the city

of Fes in northern Morocco, Noam Vazana heard several
men singing a tune so familiar that it made her stop in
her tracks.
Vazana, a successful 35-year-old Israeli musician living
here, was visiting her ancestors’ country of birth for a
performance at the Tanjazz festival in Tangier when she
heard the tune. She began following the men through
alleyways to a square where hundreds of locals were
singing that same Arabic-language song at a street party.
She could neither recognize nor understand the lyr-
ics, but the melody was woven into some of her earliest
childhood memories: It featured in a song that Vazana’s
late grandmother used to sing to her regularly in Israel
in Ladino, the dying Jewish-Sephardic language.
For Vazana, the experience was the start of a jour-
ney to study her roots and grandmother’s language and
culture.
It also was the trigger for the creation this year by
Vazana of what several experts in the field say will be
the first album in many years entirely comprising newly
written or newly composed Ladino songs for adults.
The new album, which has yet to be recorded in full, Noam Vazana performs at the Tanjazz festival in Tangier, Morocco, Sept. 14, 2017. COURTESY OF VAZANA
is coming out under Vazana’s stage name, Nani - her
grandmother’s nickname for her. middle-aged people were wrapped in shrouds and given
“Ladino was something of a forbidden language at our a mock funeral – often after becoming grandparents or
home,” Vazana said. To her father, a Fes native, it rep- retiring.
resented the opposite of fitting into Israeli society, she “It looks very macabre at first, but actually the cere-
explained. mony is not about death at all but about rebirth,” Vazana
But hearing the melody in the Moroccan city reminded said. “You come to grips with your mortality, but at the
Vazana of how her grandmother would sing to her in same time you shed the shroud and symbolically your
Ladino anyway, including “one time that she and I were troubles away with it and begin a new phase in life.”
peeling beans in the kitchen,” the singer recalled. In preparing the tour and album, Vazana studied
The Ladino album is part of a growing musical scene Ladino culture and poetry with Jonathan Benavides,
that came into its own about 20 years ago thanks to the chairman of the Jewish community of the Dutch city
young Sephardic artists, many of them from Israel, who of Leiden. Benavides is also among a handful of Ladino
like Vazana reconnected with their roots through music. language teachers in the Netherlands, whose centuries-
Notable artists from that scene include performer- old Portuguese Jewish community used to be one of the
composers like Yasmin Levi, daughter of the late Noam Vazana wrote her upcoming album world’s greatest Sephardic diasporas.
researcher of Sephardic culture Yitzhak Isaac Levy, and “Andalusian Brew” in Ladino. ASAF LEWKOWITZ “To my knowledge, so far there have been no Ladino
Mor Karbasi. Both deploy their powerful voices to show- music albums made up of with newly written songs
case the operatic melodrama typical of many traditional Spanish, Creole or Galician. Radio stations where these and melodies,” Benavides told JTA. “There have been
Ladino numbers. dialects are spoken often play compositions that com- recently terrific albums with traditional Ladino works.”
Preserving Ladino music in all of its authentic glory bine ancient and contemporary elements. Devin Naar, a professor of Sephardic studies at the
is a difficult task - and many believe an important one - The themes treated in the new tour and album reflect University of Washington, told JTA that when it comes
because of the relative paucity of historical recordings. even more poignantly Vazana’s attempt at modernizing to newly written music albums in Ladino, he is aware
After the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Ladino music. One track is a passionate but humoris- only of two featuring children’s songs: the 2016 “Ora de
Israel, the vast majority of the Jews of the Mediterra- tic tribute to the virtues of the eggplant, complete with Despertar” by Sarah Aroeste and another compilation
nean basin left for Israel and beyond. The exodus meant cooking tips. But other songs are more risqué. One gives released recently in Israel titled “Yeladino.”
that Ladino went from being a living, breathing language voice to a transgender woman who becomes a man to Benavides has not seen Vazana’s tour, but said he is
spoken by half a million people to a dying dialect spoken make her son-less father proud; another adapts the not sure about some of her interpretations of the sources
mostly by a graying population of immigrants in Israel allegedly homoerotic poetry of the 11th-century philos- she studied under his instruction – including the alleg-
and a minority of Turkey’s 15,000 Jews. opher Shmuel Hanagid. edly homoerotic Hanagid poem.
Vazana said that she cares about preserving Ladino. A former trombone player and member of the Israel “It is true that homoerotic [poetry] was written in
She is currently giving a European tour of traditional Air Force and Israel Defense Forces orchestras, Vazana 12th-century Spain by some poets,” Benavides said. “But
Ladino songs with a modern twist, titled “Andalusian shows off her skills as a musician as well as a singer in I’m not sure you can say that Shmuel Hanagid did that.”
Brew” - the same title as her upcoming album, which the “Andalusian Brew” show. With her powerful voice More broadly, though, Benavides said he has limited
will contain only newly composed numbers. and confidence playing the piano, parts of the concert faith in any project that explores Ladino in a secular con-
But her take is anything but ethnographic. feel like an unlikely fusion between the music of pop text, as Vazana appears to be doing.
Instead of trying to re-create Ladino music authenti- innovator Vanessa Carlton and one of the great Ladino “It’s not that Ladino is a religious language. It’s not,”
cally, in the new album she attempts to adapt it to mod- divas of the 20th century, Rosa Ashkenazi. he said. “But it was part of a world, of a community,
ern times, leaving listeners to imagine a world where One of her songs, “A Second Skin” (“Una Segunda defined by the Jewish religion. And when you examine
Ladino and its music were allowed to evolve like other Piel),” which will be on the new album, concerns an it outside of that context, well, you’re looking at half
Spanish and Portuguese variants such as Canarian ancient Sephardic custom called “La Mortaja” in which the story.” JTA WIRE SERVICE

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speakers from the worlds of graphic design, digital, UI/UX, his own design studio, Studio&more. startup scene.
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