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Study: Tefillin good for the ticker
● People who wrap leather
straps around their arms may be
protecting themselves from the
worst effects of heart attacks, a
study found.
Of course, that’s not why they do
it — or at least until now that hasn’t
been why Jews do it. (We have no
idea if anyone else does.) They do it
to prepare for daily morning prayers.
A pilot study by researchers at the
University of Cincinnati College of
Medicine found that regular users of
tefillin may receive cardiovascular
health benefits through remote isch-
emic preconditioning — that is, brief-
ly restricting blood flow and oxygen
CONTENTS to the heart and then restoring it.
NOSHES ..................................................................... 4 The results of the study were pub-
BRIEFLY LOCAL .....................................................14 lished last month online in the Ameri-
COVER STORY ........................................................18 can Journal of Physiology-Heart and
FINANCE.................................................................. 23 Circulatory Physiology. The study
JEWISH WORLD ...................................................30 involved 20 Jewish men from the
HEALTHY LIVING & greater Cincinnati area, including
ADULT LIFESTYLES............................................. 39 nine who wore tefillin daily and 11
OPINION ..................................................................50
D’VAR TORAH ....................................................... 55
THE FRAZZLED HOUSEWIFE .......................... 56
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ....................................... 56
ARTS & CULTURE ................................................. 57
Want to daven from Marilyn Monroe’s siddur?
CALENDAR ............................................................. 58
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OBITUARIES ............................................................61
belonged to Marilyn
CLASSIFIEDS ......................................................... 62
REAL ESTATE......................................................... 65 Monroe is being put up
for auction — and it’s not
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Monroe converted to Judaism
in 1956, before she married Jew-
Candlelighting: ish-American writer Arthur Miller.
Though the couple divorced five
Friday, October 19, 5:52 p.m.
years later, the blond bombshell
Shabbat ends: said that she would not abandon
Saturday, October 20, 6:49 p.m. her new faith.
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who did not.
To put on tefillin, you wrap a
leather strap tightly around one of
your arms, depending on whether
you are left- or right-handed, for
about half an hour six days a week.
The strap often is tight enough to
leave grooves in your skin for a few
minutes after it is removed.
The researchers measured par-
ticipants’ vital signs, drew blood to
analyze its circulating cytokines and
monocyte function, and also mea-
sured blood flow in the user’s domi-
Team Israelder
nant arm — the one without tefillin.
Blood flow was higher for men who prior “We
anthem
wore tefillin daily and improved in all the in
against
participants after they wore it just
once, for the study.
Jack Rubinstein, a UC Health cardi-
ologist and associate professor in its
division of cardiovascular health and
disease, headed the study. He said in
an article posted on the university’s
website that binding an arm — and
Rabbi Robert Goldburg of Con-
gregation Mishkan Israel in New
Haven, Connecticut, who oversaw
her conversion and officiated at her
wedding to Miller, said that she told
him that she was still committed to
being Jewish.
The siddur now is owned by an
American who lives in Israel and
the discomfort users often report
when they do it — may serve as a
form of preconditioning against
acute ischemic reperfusion injury
and offer a substantial degree of
protection against it. (Acute isch-
emic reperfusion injury is what hap-
pens when a section of the heart is
deprived of oxygen and then dam-
aged when re-oxygenated, and can
be a result of a heart attack.)
Ischemic preconditioning essen-
tially mimics the effects of exercise
by placing the heart and vessels un-
players
light lining
stress.up for the national
to thefound people
World who wear
Baseball tefillin
Classic game
either the short
Netherlands or long
in Tokyo, term 13,
March re-2017.
corded a measurable positive effect
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on their blood flow. That has been
associated with better outcomes in
heart disease,” Rubinstein said.
Israeli studies have shown that
Orthodox men have a lower risk of
dying of heart disease than non-Or-
thodox men do. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Arthur Miller with Marilyn Monroe
in 1956.
bought it from Monroe’s estate in
1999, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
This isn’t the owner’s first attempt
to sell it — it was put up for auction
in 2017 but went unsold.
Monroe seems to have used the
siddur. The description says that it
contains notes that are “apparently
in her hand” and that the spine is
nearly detached.
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Noshes
“You just told me that the animals are coming
out of the ark. Will there be bears?”
— Rabbi Shai Held’s 3-year-old, staring at the ark holding the Torah
during Shabbat services last week, when the story of Noah and
the other ark was read, as Rabbi Held recounted on Facebook.

MOVIES AND HITS:

Tribesmen add
to playoff drama
“The Oath” is a (1908-2004). She had third baseman ALEX
searing dirt on Lauder, like BREGMAN, 24. Boston
political knowing Lauder came got Kinsler in a trade in
comedy that from Queens, not Eu- August.. The question
was written and direct- rope, as Lauder claimed. now is whether he’s in
ed by IKE BARINHOLTZ, Lauder tried to bribe the twilight of a great
41, who also stars in it. Israel to kill the book, career that includes be-
Chris (Barinholtz) is a but Israel refused. The ing named an All-Star
political progressive book was not a success four times. He was out
who is outraged when and Israel went into an with injuries in 2017 and
he learns that Ameri- alcohol-fueled career he didn’t hit well in 2018.
cans are being asked to tailspin. To support her- Kinsler is the secular son
sign a loyalty oath or self, she wrote and sold of a Jewish father and a
lose tax credits. The fake letters that pur- Ike Barinholtz Tiffany Hadish Joc Pederson non-Jewish mother.
deadline to sign the portedly had been writ- Bregman has two
oath coincides with a ten by famous people. Jewish parents, both of
family Thanksgiving She was very good at whom are lawyers. He
meal that Chris and his it, but the FBI did catch grew up in Albuquer-
wife, Kai (TIFFANY up with her in about que, New Mexico, where
HADDISH, 38), are set a year and she served his family belongs to
to host. Chris and his a short jail sentence. a synagogue and he
relatives, some conser- NICOLE HOLOFCENER, was a bar mitzvah. His
vative, agree in advance 58, co-wrote the father moved to New
that they will not discuss film’s screenplay. Mexico to play baseball
politics. But that pact for the University of
frays quickly and breaks Baseball this year: New Mexico. His pa-
down completely when Tell a friend! ternal grandfather was
two government agents As I write this, the general counsel for
come to Chris’s door. the two Ryan Braun Ian Kinsler Alex Bregman the old Washington
Co-stars include CAR- baseball Senators and his great-
RIE BROWNSTEIN, 44, League JOC PEDERSON, 26, is Jewish (his father is of a Jewish father and a grandfather, a Russian
as Alice, Chris’s Championship series and Milwaukee Brew- not). He calls himself non-Jewish mother. He’s immigrant, promoted
lefty sister. have not begun, but I’m ers outfielder and first religiously “a nothing,” been a mensch about all boxing matches. As
“Can You Forgive sure that both teams in baseman RYAN BRAUN, but he did play for Israel attention he’s got from a hitter, Bregman has
Me?” is a comedy/drama the World Series (which 34. Pederson is a streaky in the 2013 World Base- Jewish fans. He calls him- been on a hot streak
based on a memoir of begins on Sunday, power hitter. In 2017, ball Classic. self Jewish when asked, since mid-season 2017.
the same name by LEE October 23), will have a he was in such a hitting Braun, an 11-year vet- while noting that he He hit well over .300 in
ISRAEL, who died in Jewish player on their slump that he was sent eran, has a plausible shot didn’t grow up celebrat- the second half of 2017
2014 at 75. Israel (played roster. Yes, tribe mem- to the minors near the at the Hall-of-Fame. The ing Jewish holidays. He’s and followed up in 2018
by Melissa McCarthy) bers, go forth and shout season’s end. A stellar .254 he hit in 2018 was also said that he’s proud with a .286 season aver-
had some success in this to the hills: for the performance in the 2017 a career low, but he did to be role model for Jew- age and 31 home runs.
the 1960s writing pro- first time ever, all four World Series saved his manage to hit 20 hom- ish kids. This year, he became the
files and books about teams in the LC have a MLB baseball career. He ers. He was 2007 Rookie In the American first Jewish player to be
celebrities. In 1983, she Jewish player. seems to be a Mr. Octo- of the Year and the 2011 League, there’s Boston named the MVP of the
got a contract to write a Over in the National ber — he hit .908 in the MVP, and he’s been on Red Sox second base- All-Star game.
biography of cosmetics League, there is Los An- 2018 division playoff se- All-Star teams six times. man IAN KINSLER, 36, –N.B.
mogul ESTEE LAUDER geles Dodger outfielder ries. Pederson’s mother Braun is the secular son and Houston Astros

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Promoting tolerance
Hinam comes to Teaneck to model how to talk to, not past, each other
JOANNE PALMER

I
t’s much easier to hate people you
don’t recognize as human. It’s so
easy that there’s a term for the
most important step in the process
— dehumanization.
On the other hand, it’s not so easy to
hate people you’ve shared meals with,
people you’ve watched breathe and seen
blink, whose hands you’d recognized, and
most likely have shaken. It’s not easy to
hate someone you know to be fully human.
Yeah yeah yeah, we all know that, right?
Well, yes, but acting on that isn’t so easy.
Hinam, a three-year-old Israeli non-
profit, sponsored in part by some Ameri-
can federations and Israeli and American
foundations, is putting together groups
of wildly varied Israelis — Jewish, Mus-
lims, Christians, Druze; secular and lib-
eral and modern Orthodox and centrist
Orthodox and charedi Jews; settlers and
left-wingers, Ashkenazim and Sephardim
and Mizrahim and Ethiopians and Anglos
— who spend anywhere from one to four
months together.
And now it’s bringing a group of 20
Israelis, representing as many demo-
graphic groups as 20 people possibly can,
to the United States. Specifically they’re Israelis from a range of backgrounds gather for discussion in Hinam’s beit midrash in an old building in Abu Ghosh as the
coming to Teaneck, where they’ll present organization works to build tolerance.
a program at the Jewish Center of Teaneck
this Tuesday. (See box.) lives in his own Bible, and hates another tribe of Jews, and they and Israe-
Yaron Kanner is the creator and CEO of all the others. lis should develop a deep and real under-
the Hinam Center for Social Tolerance. “That is the main challenge standing of each other.
The name Hinam “come s from for today’s society.” And, he In Israel, Hinam has developed pro-
Havdalah,” the ceremony that marks the added, he believes it to be the grams for business and political leaders;
transition from the sweetness of Shabbat challenge in other societies as the country’s attorney general has gone,
to the beginning of a new week. “When well; perhaps even this one. along with his top staff. Yehuda Glick, the
Sephardim say Havdalah, they open with Hinami’s core program, Achi Knesset member who controversially has
words from the Bible, ‘Rishon L’Zion, henei Israeli — My Brother the Israeli defended Jews’ right to parts of the West-
hinam,” Mr. Kanner said. “Hinam means — takes a group of 15 young peo- ern Wall to which they are denied access,
here they are. All the people. Everyone.” Yaron Kanner Rabbi Daniel Fridman ple, all at transitional times in who was shot and wounded in an assas-
Hinam, he said, is an entirely apoliti- their lives — before or after the sination attempt, and who participated
cal organization. “We have no agenda. not in his environment. IDF, after college, before finding or begin- in Women Wage Peace last year — who, in
We don’t want to bring anyone to any “If you want to get to know someone, ning a job — when they have the time and other words, is impossible to label — also
ideology. That’s our first principle. And go to his village. To his neighborhood. To the inclination for openness. “They live has taken part in the program.
the other is that we know that tolerance his settlement. To his house. Try to under- together in the same place; a month in an This fall, Mr. Kanner is leading a group
takes time. stand their family, their foods. If you are Arab village, a month in a settlement in of 20 Israelis on another trip; they’re
“You can’t have a one-shot meeting as doing it right, you will stop seeing, say the Gush Etzion, a month in an ultra-Orthodox starting in Teaneck, where they stay in
a tool to promote a tolerant society. You Arab, and you will start seeing the emet.” community in Sfad, a month in an Ethio- people’s houses and learn about their
can’t take a secular high school and an The truth. “The human being. pian neighborhood. And they simply live lives, and will move across the river to
Orthodox high school, or a Jewish high “It is like a miracle, and we see it happen the daily life of the community. Riverdale halfway through their 10-day
school and an Arab high school, and get all the time. “It sounds like nothing — it’s like ‘Sein- stay. “The goal is to understand American
them together once a year for a one-hour “Even if your way of life is very differ- feld,’ a show about nothing — but really it’s Jews, and the way to do it is to live with
session. That doesn’t help anything. ent, even if you don’t agree, you don’t hate everything.” them for a period of time, and to get to
“In those meetings, they just come to him. You respect him. And then the argu- Once that program proved to be a suc- know them,” he said.
win an argument. They don’t come to lis- ment is more soft. More respectful. cess, Hinam branched out, offering other Mr. Kanner, 50, lives with his family in
ten to the other. They don’t come to open “The main problem is that in Israeli programs, some for high school stu- Modi’in. He grew up in Holon, in an obser-
their minds. They just focus on their own society, people simply hate each other. If dents, some for older people. And some vant family; his father was born in Vienna
arguments. And you cannot get to know you are not like me, you are the enemy. take Israelis to the United States, on the and his family was slaughtered in the Holo-
someone in one hour, especially if you are We cannot live in harmony if everyone understanding that American Jews are yet caust, and his mother was born in Tunisia.

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“That’s not unusual now, but a marriage
like that wasn’t common in the 1960s,”
he said. He went to a modern Orthodox
yeshiva in Jerusalem, and then a less mod-
ern one. He was part of an undercover IDF
unit in Gaza during the First Intifada; he
became a journalist, first in print and then
on television; and then he became a lawyer.
As an attorney, he worked in the Jerusalem
district attorney’s office, and the moved
to the nonprofit world. He became CEO
of Kol B’Ramah, “an ultra-Orthodox Sep-
hardic radio station,” which ran into legal
problems because station leadership — not
including him — did not want to allow wom-
en’s voices on its air. Next, he became CEO
of Panim, “the union of Jewish renewal
organizations in Israel,” he said.
After these experiences, which took in
a wider range of experiences than most
people experience firsthand, Mr. Kanner
put them all together and founded Hinam.
“About three months ago, we estab-
lished a unique beit midrash” — study
house — “called a tolerance beit midrash,”
he said. “It is in a very large, very old build-
ing in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh, near
Jerusalem. It will be a home for tolerance
in Israel.” It opened in Elul, the month
before the holidays, and attracted a large
group of people, from charedim to secular
Jews to local Arabs. “We all sat and learned
and ate together,” he said; they learned as
much from the shared meals as from the
more formal lectures.
The Jewish Center’s Rabbi Daniel Frid-
man is grateful for the opportunity to
have the kinds of conversations Hinam
will begin. “The best way to talk is to bring
people face to face,” he said. “People who
come from different racial, religious, eth-
nic, and socioeconomic backgrounds —
and don’t underestimate the importance
of different socioeconomics,” he added.
“It will give better a sense of what the
modern state of Israel is like.”
It also will help model a way for Ameri-
cans to talk to each other, he suggested.
“People are all locked in their silos.” With
the groups from Hinam, “What does it
mean to be of Ethiopian extraction, or
an Orthodox person, or an immigrant
from an Arab country, or from a Western
country? Everybody comes with their
own story.”
He was interested in hosting the pro-
gram, Rabbi Fridman said, because “one
of the great ills of our culture is the terrible
polarization, which I see as a consequence
of not knowing or seeing someone with an
alternative point of view.”
That situation — the fact that so few of us
know anyone whose ideas are profoundly
different from our own — is made worse
by social media, he said. “If you are having
a debate in a comment section, you don’t
see the person you’re arguing with. It’s just
a keyboard. It’s just an avatar.
“That’s true in general of the different
platforms on social media. Just sitting
down with someone is a way of mitigating
unhealthy extremism. The very nature of
human exposure, of seeing that this is a
person who breathes the same air that I
do, promotes moderation.
“It can help us understand the nuances
of the state of Israel, and it also allows us
to have an experience that itself reminds
us how important it is to put down our
phones and our apps and to engage with
the people around us if we are to have any
hope of understanding the other’s. point
of view.
“All the research on the sociology of
genocide and hatred has demonstrated,
clearly and persuasively, that dehuman-
izing is a necessary prerequisite to geno-
cide. As a society, we are in a very precari-
ous space right now, not fully appreciating
the extent to which discourse shifting to
Local
technological platforms really is leading
us toward a very unhealthy polarization,
where we never have to encounter the
humanity of another person.
“There always will be people who can
maintain hateful views and are comfort-
able expressing them in person, but the
average person tends toward moderation
in face-to-face encounters,” Rabbi Frid-
man concluded. Hatred is a threat to civ-
ilization, now as always; his hope is that
the kind of openness to others Hinam pro-
motes will lead to the kind of tolerance
that any civilization needs, both in Israel
and here in the United States.
Who: Rabbi Daniel Fridman of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck and Yaron
Kanner of Hinam
What: Present an evening of small-
group discussion
When: On Tuesday, October, 23, at 8
p.m.
Where: At the Jewish Center, 70 Ster-
ling St., Teaneck
How much: Free and open to the com-
munity
For more information: Go to www.jcot.
org or call (201) 833-0515
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NCJW program to explore ‘fake news’
Joe Amditis to speak on media literacy and how to check things out
LOIS GOLDRICH
A
sked whether she is a longtime member of
the Bergen County section of the National
Council of Jewish Women, Ginny Wasserman
of Fort Lee hesitated. While 10 years might
seem like a long time to some, Ms. Wasserman said, she
was one of the section’s newer members.
“Some of them have been there forever,” she said. “I
know a lot of people in their 90s.”
The organization’s upcoming Timely Topics and Tasty
Treats program was designed with that in mind. As part
of NCJW’s effort to attract younger people, the October
20 presentation will focus on media literacy, a topic that
certainly is timely, while also accommodating the need
to nosh.
In the past, such NCJW programs were billed as study
groups. “We felt we needed to update it and appeal to a
wider range of people,” Ms. Wasserman, who is the pre-
sentation’s chair, said.
“When you hear the term ‘study group,’ you think
more of academic learning,” Ms. Wasserman said. “It
wouldn’t be a draw. We wanted to reframe the title in
a catchier, more relevant way, to draw a more diverse
population.”
Ms. Wasserman, who worked at Hackensack Medi-
cal Center for many years, said that the program came
about as a result of discussions between the director of
her organization and the director of the Network for
Responsible Public Policy, which is co-sponsoring it.
“We decided on our topic because of the upcoming elec-
What is the source of
that reporting? You
need to get it from
multiple sources. Is
it being reported by
more than one news
outlet? If not, sit on it,
then check again.
tions,” she said. “We want our members to be able to
distinguish between facts and fiction. How do we know
when something is true? How do we evaluate what we
see on Facebook? Who are the sources of real news?
What is fake news?”
Joe Amditis, associate director of the Center for
Cooperative Media, will be NCJW’s guest speaker. The
center, housed within the school of communication at
Montclair State University and funded by grants from
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Geral-
dine R. Dodge Foundation, the Democracy Fund, and
the Abrams Foundation, was created to “improve and
sustain local news and information in New Jersey,” Mr.
Amditis said. In other words, it was created to grow and
strengthen local journalism. It does this through train-
ing, workshops, and collaborative projects with news
and information partners. It also holds events for New
Jersey residents and members of the press.
8 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
Joe Amditis CENTER FOR COOPERATIVE MEDIA
Media literacy goes beyond understanding what is
true, Mr. Amditis said. It’s also “developing a deeper
understanding of how media is made. How we know
what we think we know — process-related questions. Not
just where one piece of media comes from, but how it is
made, who benefits from it, what their interests are, and
how it fits into a larger context.”
He pointed out that the term “fake news,” now asso-
ciated with President Trump, originally was coined as
a “response to an active attempt by people in foreign
countries to undermine the credibility of our media.”
The term ultimately was co-opted and “flipped back
around,” Mr. Amditis said. The president “wound up
winning the battle,” but by now the rallying cry has
become “almost trite.”
People vilify the press when it is in their interests to
do so, he said. “When a system of information and com-
munication reveals flawed intentions, you end up with
people who go against that.” And today, “anyone can be
a member of the press. It’s a lot easier to produce media.
Before, there was a monopoly on putting out informa-
tion. Now, anyone can make a website.”
While blaming the press is easy, it is not new but can
be traced back to the late 1700s, he said. “Hamilton
wrote, using pseudonyms, to trash Jefferson. They had
campaigns against each other, they wrote clandestine
op eds.
“They had no qualms about it. People have a lot of fear
about the media. There are a lot of buzzwords, of fear-
mongering. But I like to read a lot and I’ve never found a
better source of comfort than to know that people have
been writing about the same fears for hundreds of years.
These arguments have been circulating forever. In the
words of Mark Twain, ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but
it often rhymes.’”
Mr. Amditis, who graduated from Rutgers University
and earned a master’s degree from the CUNY Gradu-
ate School of Journalism, said that he is fascinated by
the new technology available to teachers. “I spent two
hours on a new free program, Lyrebird, which recreates
someone’s voice,” he said. “One exercise I use during
sessions is to create a spot showing how easy it is to fake
someone’s voice. It allows advertisers to market their
products in different countries” — creating ads spoken in
the country’s native language but in the voice of a celeb-
rity. “It had an innocent purpose, but now there are fake
radio ads, fake audio, created for fun or to manipulate
others into being more afraid.” Another exercise used in
literacy training interactive workshops centers on visual
media accuracy, using clues in four different images to
figure out where the photos were taken.
Media literacy is an evolving skill, Ms. Amditis said,
and the practice should be nonpartisan. “Just be aware.
Slow things down. Don’t make decisions based on one
piece of news.” His goal, he said, is to get across three
major points.
First, “Who wrote it? Why would they write it? What
are the stakes here? Are the stakes high?” High stakes,
he said, might be upcoming elections or preparing to
bomb a county that didn’t attack us. “It doesn’t matter
after the first bomb,” he said. “Apologies can’t catch up.”
As for elections, we need to be “more on guard. There’s
a deadline for that information. They need to get it out
before the deadline.”
Second,” Who is the source? The closer it aligns with
your preconceived notions, the more you should check
it. People are fed confirming information that aligns
with their notions to solidify the base.”
Next, “What is the source of that reporting? You need to
get it from multiple sources. Is it being reported by more
than one news outlet? If not, sit on it, then check again.”
Asked how someone might verify a particular piece
of news, Mr. Amditis said that it might be necessary to
spend most of the day doing so, “veering into becom-
ing a journalist. There’s too much information out there
to spend too much time verifying it. Find people with
a consistent track record, who have been proven right
after the fact. Use discretion in who you follow. Choose
the people to follow based on their record.”
Mr. Amditis, who grew up in the South, “used to be
very conservative,” he said. “We didn’t believe in climate
change, and when I was deployed to Iraq, I was fully
onboard. I’m familiar with that mode of thinking, so I’m
uniquely able to address it.” While he does not live in
Bergen County — although he has lived in both Passaic
and Essex counties — “my parents went to Indian Hills
in Oakland, and my grandmother is in Hawthorne,” he
said. He served in the New Jersey National Guard and
was deployed to Iraq from 2008 to 2009. He narrates,
edits, and produces a podcast on national politics; it’s
called “WTF Just Happened Today?”
Who: Joe Amditis
What: Will deliver a talk on “Media Literacy in Today’s
World”
When: On October 30 at 2:30 p.m.
Where: At the Senior Source, The Shops at Riverside,
second floor, Hackensack
Cost: The program is free for members and $10 for
nonmembers, applicable toward membership if you
join that day.
Information: Email office@ncjwbcs.org,
call (201) 385-4847, or go to www.ncjwbcs.org.
 OPEN HOUSES 2018
BERGEN COUNTY JEWISH DAY SCHOOL Monday, October 22, 2018 Sunday, November 4, 2018
7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Yeshivat Noam Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey

70 West Century Road 666 Kinderkamack Road
Paramus, NJ 07652 River Edge, NJ 07661

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Esther Feil, Director of Admissions Tamar Kahn, Director of Admissions
201.261.1919 ext. 220 201.986.1414 ext. 338
efeil@yeshivatnoam.org welcome@rynj.org
www.yeshivatnoam.org www.RYNJ.org

Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Tuesday, November 6, 2018

7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Yavneh Academy Yeshivat He’Atid

155 N Farview Ave. 1500 Queen Anne Road
Paramus, NJ 07652 Teaneck, NJ 07666

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Vivi Septimus Gitty Eisner
201.262.8494 ext. 335 gittyeisner@yeshivatheatid.org
vivi.septimus@yavnehacademy.org 201.374.2272 ext. 300
www.yavnehacademy.org/admissions/rsvp2018 www.yeshivatheatid.org/open-house
www.yavnehacademy.org www.yeshivatheatid.org

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Wednesday, November 7, 2018

7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

Ben Porat Yosef Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County

E. 243 Frisch Court 275 McKinley Avenue
Paramus, NJ 07652 New Milford, NJ 07646

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Sharona Grossberg admissions@ssdsbergen.org
201.845.5007 201.262.9898 ext. 203
sharonagrossberg@benporatyosef.org www.ssdsbergen.org/openhouse2018
benporatyosef.org/openhouse
www.ssdsbergen.org
www.benporatyosef.org

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

7:30 p.m.

The Moriah School

53 South Woodland Street
Englewood, NJ 07631

FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER:

Mrs. Livia Marcovici
201.567.0208 ext. 322
admissions@moriahschool.org
www.moriahschool.org/admissions
www.moriahschool.org

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Local
Talmud club for retirees
Men’s beit midrash will launch in Jewish Center of Teaneck
LARRY YUDELSON
C
ome study Torah. It’s good for you.
That’s part of the pitch that Leonard Grunstein
of Teaneck makes for the new Teaneck Beit
Midrash, or study hall, aimed at retired people
and open only to men, that will meet on Mondays and
Wednesdays at the Jewish Center of Teaneck. (On Sunday,
to highlight the program, Rabbi Ari Berman, the president
of Yeshiva University, will headline a yom iyyun, or Torah
study day, at the Jewish Center. See box.)
The pitch goes like this: One of the most important tasks
of retirement is preparing a social network. “It’s the lack
of a social network that makes retirement a failure,” Mr.
Grunstein says, citing an article he read in Fortune Maga-
zine 20 years ago on how to have a successful retirement.
And then there’s the role that intellectual stimulations plays
in warding off dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
“There was a 30-year longitudinal study that looked at an
age-restricted community that had almost no incidents of
Alzheimer’s or dementia,” Mr. Grunstein said. “They allowed
their brains to be autopsied. They found that they had all the
What: Yom Iyun to launch the Beit Midrash of Teaneck program
Who: Rabbis Ari Berman, Herschel Schachter, and Ari Weiss
When: Sunday, October 21, 11 a.m.
Where: Jewish Center of Teaneck, 70 Sterling Place, Teaneck
How to RSVP: Email grunsteinl@gmail.com
Letter from Israel: Bimba Juke
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
O
ur youngest granddaughter, Avital, turned 2
this summer. After asking her parents for a
gift idea, I hopped on a bus to their town on a
Friday morning — when most of us begin our
weekend here, but older kids are in school till noon — and
buckled her into her stroller for a walk to the toy store.
The friendly proprietor is the husband of the ganenet —
preschool teacher — of one of our other granddaughters
and we like to patronize his shop when we buy presents
for our four munchkins.
On this Friday morning, I found the store had been left
in the capable hands of the owner’s 8-year-old son. Why
this child wasn’t in school I cannot say; he seemed hale
and hearty.
“My abba had to step out to run some errands,” the boy
said genially, coming outside to greet me. “How can I help
you?”
“Well,” I explained in Hebrew, “I am looking for a doll
stroller and a bimba.”
“Bimba” is one of many fun Israeli slang words (mostly
borrowed from Arabic) that I never knew before we
moved here 11 years ago. The first time I heard it, I thought
it must be a variation of “bimbo,” but actually an Israeli
bimbo is a “fraykha.” A bimba, it turns out, is any kind of
riding toy propelled by foot.
There are bimbas shaped like little cars or little motor-
cycles and there are bimbas with a handle so an adult can
push them. And then there are bimba jukes.
Bimba jukes have no bells and whistles but they’re
10 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
physical manifestations in their brains of Alzheimer’s — the
tangles, the knots. But the symptoms didn’t occur. The thing
that was unique about the community was that there was
a great deal of intellectual engagement in a social setting.
They had book clubs, they played bridge.”
They probably did not study Talmud. And talmudists
tend not to have their brains dissected posthumously. But
the principle would seem to apply.
The Teaneck Beit Midrash is an Orthodox institution. Mr.
Grunstein is a member of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun. His
colleagues on the committee that founded it include mem-
bers of other Teaneck Orthodox synagogues. The program is
being run in conjunction with the Orthodox Union, Yeshiva
University, and Heichal Hatorah, the Orthodox yeshiva high
school that owns the Teaneck Jewish Center building.
But a key spark to the program took place at Congrega-
tion Beth Sholom, Teaneck’s Conservative congregation. Mr.
Grunstein was there for a study program the congregation
held together with neighboring Orthodox Rinat Yisrael.
“It was magnificent,” he said. “There were 180 people.
Everyone had a source sheet in front of them. We divided
up into groups of six to 10 people, with a moderator direct-
ing the discussion. It was thrilling. A social and intellectually
engaging experience.
“This is a way to energize people because sitting in a lecture
— I notice all too often that people my age” — Mr. Grunstein is
66 — “tend to fall asleep unless they’re personally engaged.
His experience at the program reminded him of his
experience as a young man in yeshiva. “The best part was
sitting in the beit midrash preparing” for the class, rather
super sturdy, with a low center of gravity. This is the
bimba of choice — the Cadillac of bimbas, if you will — for
the 3-and-under set.
“Juke” is slang for “cockroach” so I was a little taken
aback when my daughter-in-law specifically requested a
bimba juke for Avital, but that’s what this super-popular
riding toy is nicknamed, probably because its shape is
somewhat bug-like.
Standing outside with me, where many of the toys were
displayed because the shop is pretty small, Shopkeeper
Jr. asked what sort of bimba I was seeking: a regular or a
bimba juke? Bimba juke, I answered confidently.
“We have a red one right here if you like that color,” he
said, pulling a box off a shelf just inside the door.
Seeing that Avital had fallen asleep, I had to make the
decision on my own. “Perfect,” I said. “I’ll take it.”
Then, surely sizing me up as a rich American sort of
grandmother based on my accent, he inquired whether
I preferred a “standard” doll stroller or a “high-quality”
model. This was to be a gift from my mother — Avital’s
great-grandmother, far away in New York — so I pointed
to a luxurious-looking double doll stroller with a pink sun-
shade. Shopkeeper Jr. smiled and yanked it off the outdoor
display hook.
Just then his abba returned.
“Your son is so helpful!” I complimented Shopkeeper
Sr. “He knew exactly where to find what I wanted.”
The proud father beamed. “Yes, my boy is a champ!”
he agreed.
As he started carrying my purchases to the cash regis-
ter in the back of the store, I pondered what to do. The
Leonard Grunstein Rabbi Ronen Dvash
than the lecture that followed, he said.
The Teaneck Beit Midrash will start at 9:15 a.m. with the
men dividing up into groups and preparing for the lesson
with source sheets in Hebrew and Aramaic, and translated
into English. Moderators will help with the discussions.
At 10, Rabbi Ronen Dvash, who teaches at Heichal Hato-
rah, will give a 45-minute Talmud class. This will be followed
by a class on a topic in Jewish law or philosophy. “We’ll be
drawing from all the departments of Yeshiva University to
staff that part of the program,” Mr. Grunstein said. After that,
Rabbi Hayyim Angel will give a class on the Bible, starting
with the seldom studied Book of Nechemiah.
Add Mincha, the afternoon prayers, and the program
should wrap up around 1 p.m.
In the future, once the beit midrash has achieved a critical
mass, “hopefully we will have afternoon chesed programs,
whether its visiting the sick in the hospital or mentoring,”
Mr. Grunstein said.
Another of the program’s goals is to include program-
ming for women. Mr. Grunstein said the decision to hold
single-sex classes reflected the desires of the people he
spoke to about the program in the Orthodox community
— both men and women.
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
A bimba juke at an Israeli toy store.
jam-packed, narrow aisles were barely wide enough to
accommodate Avital in her stroller.
I turned to Shopkeeper Jr. “Would you watch her out-
side while I pay?” I asked.
Clearly pleased to be entrusted with a new responsibil-
ity now that his shop-keeping stint had ended, the child
nodded and expertly set the brake on the stroller, keeping
a protective hold on the handle.
When I came out, I tried to give him a 2-shekel coin
(worth about 50 cents). “This is for helping me so well,”
I said.
“Oh no,” the child responded uneasily. “I can’t take
your money. I didn’t do anything.”
“Yes, you did,” I insisted. “Listen, if you don’t want to
keep the money for yourself you can give it to charity.”
The smile returned to his face, he pocketed the coin,
and I set off for home pushing both the stroller and the
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midrash will replicate the experience.
“The Socratic method is part of the charm,” he said.
“When the rebbe calls on you asks you to read that
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skills or whose skills have to be refreshed.”
Would-be students can come by the Jewish Center
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an advance email reservation, at grunsteinl@gmail.com,
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Fort Lee, Englewood, even as far away as Riverdale.”

doll stroller, the large bag containing the boxed-up

bimba juke dangling heavily from one wrist. My
granddaughter woke up as we reached her house.
She was utterly delighted to see the stroller and ran
to get a doll.
A few minutes later, her older siblings bounded in
from school and immediately spotted the box with the
bimba sitting in the hallway.
“Cool, a new bimba!” Yehuda (Hudi for short)
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

shouted.
“Yes, it’s our birthday present for Avital, but I don’t
know how to assemble it,” I said.
“Never fear, Hudi is here!” our 9½-year-old bilingual
wonder replied. “I’ll get it set up in two seconds.”
And he did, to the great joy of Avital, who promptly
parked the stroller in the playroom and climbed
aboard the bimba for a trial run. A broad grin appeared
under her honey curls as she rode out the front door
into the garden.
“Shalom!” she called out sweetly and waved bye-bye
before reaching the gate and turning around to zoom
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Local
Pink challah?
Jewish women, 12 and older, invited to Passaic to learn preparation
and support Sharsheret in its fight against women’s cancers
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
W
hether kneading and braid-
ing Sabbath challah bread
is part of your weekly rou-
tine or whether you’ve
never punched down a bowlful of yeast
dough in your life, if you are female, Jewish,
and 12 years old or older, you can take part in
the Jewish Journeys Great Pink Challah Bake
on October 25 at Factory 220 in Passaic.
During the week of October 22, about a
million Jewish women are expected to join
in challah-baking events in conjunction with
the worldwide Shabbat Project. In fact, Valley
Chabad also offers a bake that day. (See box.)
As it is also Breast Cancer Awareness
Month, the Jewish Journeys challah bake
has a pink theme and is being held in part-
nership with Sharsheret — a Teaneck-based
national nonprofit organization dedicated
to addressing the needs of Jewish women
and families facing breast and ovarian can-
cer — and Myriad Women’s Health of Myr-
iad Genetics, which will offer educational
resources to participants.
Screening services will be available at the
beginning of the evening for women who
wish to know if they carry the BRCA gene,
which increases the lifetime risk of develop-
ing breast and/or ovarian cancer up to 84
percent. Women and men of Ashkenazi Jew-
ish heritage have a 1 in 40 chance of being
BRCA-positive.
“This year, because of our partnership
with Sharsheret and Myriad Women’s Health,
I’m referring to it as a challah bake for the
body and the soul,” said Debbie Rosalimsky
of Teaneck, who is chairing the bake. “Rais-
ing awareness to women’s health is critical.”
One of the Great Pink Challah Bake’s goals
is to introduce the community to Jewish
Journeys, a grassroots organization whose
mission is to strengthen the Jewish home.
Under the umbrella of Jinspire Bergen,
Jewish Journeys leads a subsidized Jewish
All the necessary challah-making implements and ingredients are in place for
the Great Pink Bake.
12 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
Participants in the 2017 Jewish Journeys Great Pink Challah Bake.DEBBIE ROSALIMSKY
Women’s Renaissance Project trip to Israel
for Jewish mothers from Bergen County
with limited Jewish background and chil-
dren under 18. Follow-up programming at
home includes classes, challah bakes, Shab-
bat and holiday celebrations, chesed pro-
grams, and social activities.
Ms. Rosalimsky said the bake also aims
“to share the beauty and mitzvah behind
challah-making as well as the how-tos so
that perhaps the women will leave feel-
ing inspired and comfortable to make it at
home. Just as important, we want to gather
women of different ages and Jewish back-
grounds for an evening of unity, fun, danc-
ing, and connecting.”
Since 2014, the annual challah bake has
attracted many participants from across the
Jewish spectrum in Northern Jersey.
In fact, last year the organizers decided
to set a limit of 800 women — all pre-reg-
istered, no walk-ins allowed — because the
bake had grown too large to handle — sort of
like when bread dough rises out of control.
Sharsheret’s senior adviser Shera Dubitsky
(described as “fabulous and funny” by Ms.
Rosalimsky) will be the evening’s emcee.
Devorah Kigel, a dating and marriage coach
and public speaker from Passaic, will give
a live challah-making demo. There will be
dancing while the challah rises, followed by
a braiding demonstration by Ms. Rosalimsky
and finally a raffle and silent auction.
Participants arriving at their assigned
workstations will find an apron, a bowl
with pre-sorted ingredients, a laminated
placemat complete with challah recipes,
challah-making instructions, an expla-
nation of the spiritual meanings behind
each ingredient, and instructions for sep-
arating a small piece of dough symbolic
of the biblical challah offering.
“Water is the only ingredient the women
will have to measure,” Ms. Rosalimsky said.
“It takes a village to organize an event like
this,” she added. “Along with adult volunteers
who have graciously offered their time, we
are very grateful to some of the local Jewish
day school students who will be helping sort
the ingredients and set up the venue.”
Corporate sponsors provided monetary
donations or offered services and supplies
for free or at cost.
“A big thank-you goes to Factory 220,
which is hosting the Challah Bake free of
charge for the third year in a row, BML-
Blackbird of Secaucus, Inflated Creations of
What: Valley Chabad Mega
Challah Bake
When: Thursday, October 25, 7 p.m.
Where: Hilton Woodcliff Lake, 200 Tice
Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake
How Much: $45
Pre-registration is required. Email
ValleyChabad.org.
What: Jewish Journeys Great Pink
Challah Bake
When: Thursday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
(Doors open at 6 p.m.)
Where: Factory 220, 220 Passaic St.,
Passaic
Who: Women and girls 12 and older
How much: $36
Pre-registration is required. Email
jjgreatpinkchallahbake@gmail.
com or go to the calendar on the
Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey’s website, www.jfnnj.org. BRCA
screening and testing by a local
provider will be available before the
event. If you are interested in being
screened/tested, come at 6 and bring
your insurance card.
Passaic, and an anonymous donor providing
the challah ingredients,” Ms. Rosalimsky said.
Other business sponsors include A&E Fine
Art, Berkshire Bank, Myriad Women’s Health,
Northeast Private Client Group, North Jersey
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, and Sari’s Wigs.
Ms. Rosalimsky said that she only started
baking challah five years ago, after attending
a similar event in New York City, and since
has “become a totally passionate challah
baker/teacher/mentor” who films challah-
braiding videos for groups and bakes hol-
iday-themed breads — a Purim loaf in the
shape of a large hamantash and a Chanukah
challah that looks like a menorah.
Teal and Pink Shabbat, the name
Sharsheret has trademarked for its annual
national community-based initiative to edu-
cate Jews about ovarian (teal) and breast
(pink) cancer, will be marked by many
events in October and November.
Locally, in addition to the Great Pink
Challah Bake, Sharsheret Teal/Pink Shab-
bat events are planned in Fair Lawn at Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation B’nai
Israel on October 13 and at Congregation
Ahavat Achim on October 27. Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck will host an event
on November 17.
On October 14, the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly will hold an outdoor
workout; donations for Sharsheret will be
collected there, and information and goody
bags will be handed out. Women of Reform
Judaism will run a community service proj-
ect and Pink Dinner for Sharsheret during
its Atlantic District Convention at the Clin-
ton Inn in Tenafly on October 18 to 21, and a
Pink Challah Bake will be hosted in a private
Tenafly home on October 28.
Ridgewood’s Alex and Ani jewelry store
will donate 15 percent of proceeds from
sales on October 28 to Sharsheret, and Uni-
lever in Englewood will host a Sharsheret
Lunch and Learn program on October 30.

Speaker rebuffs Rutgers
after talk is reinstated
Alumna Lisa Daftari targeted campus radicalism
LARRY YUDELSON
R
utgers University invited Lisa
Daftari to speak to students
about the threats radicalism
poses to dialogue and learning
on campus.
“I was going to speak about freedom of
speech, and how we have to go beyond pro-
test,” Ms. Daftari said last Friday. That was
four days before the announced date of her
talk, “Radicalism on College Campuses,”
which was scheduled for Tuesday, October
16, and was to be sponsored by Rutgers’
office of undergraduate academic affairs.
Ms. Daftari, a Rutgers
graduate who grew up in
Paramus and now lives in
Los Angeles, was looking for-
ward to this homecoming.
Since graduating with a
triple major in Middle East-
ern studies, Spanish, and
vocal performance, Ms.
Daftari has won journalism
awards and crafted a career Lisa Daftari
as a journalist and public
speaker. The child of Iranian Jewish immi-
grants, she has focused on human rights
abuses in the Middle East.
But radicals threatened to protest her
speech.
And then Rutgers canceled it.
Ms. Daftari went public with the story
last week.
And on Monday, Rutgers wrote her to
ask to reschedule the talk for November —
and sent a copy of that letter to the press.
“Rutgers University would like to elimi-
nate any confusion about its invitation for
Lisa Daftari to speak on campus,” Rutgers’
director of public and media relations, John
Cramer, wrote. “The University has offered
several dates for her to come to campus in
November. The University’s position on the
free exchange of ideas is clear; the ability
to respectfully present, discuss and debate
matters in the public interest is at the heart my background, or my talk. They just
of what every great university does. Such
free and respectful discussion is fundamen-
tal to Rutgers’ core values and is practiced
every day at Rutgers.”
Ms. Daftari, however, was having none
of that.
“To come back after the damage has
been done to my reputation and suggest
that this was some misunderstanding
and to continue with the premise that
the event was merely postponed,” Ms.
Daftari wrote to Rutgers, and copied to
the press, “lacks the integrity and respect
that I would have hoped for from my alma
mater.”
Planning for the speech began more
than a year ago, with an invitation from
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Then, last Monday, one student launched
an online petition against Ms. Daftari. In the
petition, Adeel Ahmed described Ms. Daft-
ari as “an unapologetic Islamaphobe” — a
charge she heatedly denies.
The petition singled out a sentence
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Briefly Local
Dr. Pramod K. Mistry Dr. Neal Weinreb
Ask experts about Gaucher Disease
To mark Gaucher Awareness Month, the
National Gaucher Foundation holds “Ask
the Experts,” a panel discussion featur-
ing three experts, and champagne des-
sert reception, on October 27 at 7:30
p.m. at the Mezzanine, 55 Broadway, in
Manhattan. The evening is supported by
Deadline extended for applicants
in Kaplen JCC scholar-athlete contest
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades has
extended the deadline for applications
for the Joseph Taub Scholar Athlete
award to October 22. The award goes to
high school senior student-athletes who
demonstrate exceptional academic abil-
ity and strong leadership skills in sports,
their schools, and their communities.
Bergen County high school seniors
can apply. They do not have to be JCC
members to apply or to win. Winners
will be notified in early November. First
place winners, one male and one female,
each will receive a $3,600 scholarship;
the second place prize $900; third place
is $540.
All winners will be recognized and
honored at the JCC’s second annual
Sports Night of Champions, on Thurs-
day, November 29. The community
fundraising evening will feature sports
celebrities Ron Darling and Tino Mar-
tinez as keynote speakers; it supports
scholarships for children, families in
need, and seniors who benefit from JCC
programs and services.
Norpac
meeting
features
Menendez
Senator Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.) will be at a pro-
Israel Norpac meeting in
Teaneck hosted by Esther
and Mort Fridman on Sun-
day, October 21, at 12:30
p.m. For more information, Esther and Mort Fridman flank Senator Robert
call (201) 788-5133 or email Menendez.
Avi@NORPAC.net.
14 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
Dr. Heather Lau
educational grants from Pfizer, Sanofi
Genzyme, and Shire Human Genetic
Therapies.
Gaucher’s Disease, an inherited con-
dition, is most common amount Ashke-
nazim Jewry. For more information, go
to GaucherDisease.org/asktheexperts.
As part of the application process,
students will be asked to submit a 500-
to 750-word personal essay, two letters
of recommendation, and their most
recent high school transcript. For more
information, go to www.jccotp.org/
athleteawards.
The Joseph Taub Scholar Athlete
Award has been established in memory
of Joseph Taub, a JCC founding member
and former co-owner of the New Jersey
Nets and a founder of Automatic Data
Processing, who dedicated his time and
resources to supporting underserved
young people in the area of athletics. An
avid philanthropist, he made dreams of a
better life possible for countless teenag-
ers by providing scholarship assistance
and creating a successful after-school
basketball league as a safe haven for stu-
dents in the Paterson public school dis-
trict, where he grew up.
For more information, call Fran
Koszer at (201) 408-1404 or email her at
fkoszer@jccotp.org.
COURTESY NORPAC
Shira Feuerstein Jayne Petak
JFCS will honor 3 at gala
Jewish Family & Children’s Services of
Northern New Jersey will hold its annual
gala on Sunday, November 18, at the Edge-
wood Country Club in River Vale. A stroll-
ing dinner begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by
the awards presentation at 7:15 and dessert
at 8.
Shira Feuerstein, Jayne Petak, and Alan
Scharfstein are the honorees.
Shira Feuerstein and her family founded
the Wheels for Meals Bike Ride, which
benefits JFCS, eight years ago. She is a Rus-
sell Berrie Foundation Fellow, has been a
JFCS board member for nine years, and is
a JFCS past president. Shira also is on the
Women’s Philanthropy Board at Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey. She
and her husband, Robert, live in Alpine
and are members of Temple Emanu-El in
Closter.
Jayne Petak has been a leader in the
Jewish community for more than 30 years
and volunteers to support local agencies.
She is a past president of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey, has been
A competitor partcipates in this year’s Special Games. 
Special games for special people
More than 120 differently abled athletes
and more than 75 volunteers participated
in the annual Special Games, an inclusive
field day presented by the Chuck Gutten-
berg Center for the Physically Challenged
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly.
There were 14 events at the games,
Alan Scharfstein
co-president of JFNNJ’s Women’s Phi-
lanthropy, and chaired JFNNJ’s Planning
& Allocation Committee. She is a board
member of the JCC of Northern New Jer-
sey and the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
She and her husband, David, live in River
Vale and are members of Valley Chabad in
Woodcliff Lake.
Alan Scharfstein has served in many
leadership roles at the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, most recently
as president from 2008 to 2011. He was
responsible for a number of initiatives that
changed the face of the federation and its
strategic direction. He has served on the
National Board of Jewish Federations of
North America and the board of Yeshiva
University’s Sy Syms School of Business.
He lives in Woodcliff Lake with his wife,
Karen, and is a member of Temple Eman-
uel of the Pascack Valley.
Tickets and digital journal ads are avail-
able at GALA2018.jfcsnnj.org. For more
information, call Jaymie Kerr at (201) 837-
9090 or email her at JaymieK@jfcsnnj.org.
COURTESY JCCOTP
including golf putt, basketball, softball
and lacrosse throws, Frisbee toss, soc-
cer kick, bowling, volleyball, and an agil-
ity course. All athletes received Special
Games T-shirts; they also were given rib-
bons for each event in which they partici-
pated. Music was by DJ Randi Rae; and a
barbeque highlighted the day.
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Teaneck shul will host program

on addiction and substance abuse
A panel addressing “Addiction and Sub-
stance Abuse: Understanding the Land-
scape and Its Impact on Us” will meet on
Sunday, November 4, at Congregation
Keter Torah in Teaneck at 7:30 p.m. The
discussion will include information on
recent drug trends, state and local initia-
tives, addiction, and what we can do to
address and prevent it.
Speakers will include Christopher
Jakim, a Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration special agent who will provide
information about the current drug cri-
Simchat Torah in Teaneck sis and state measures against traffick-
ing. Shelley Stuart, the director of the
Temple Emeth held its Simchat Torah celebration with singing and dancing with the Center for Alcohol and Drug Resources,
Torahs, candy apples, and a candy bar. will talk about programs and initiatives
in Bergen County. Dr. Matis Shulman
will answer questions about the medical
and physiological aspects of addiction.
Rabbi Larry Rothwachs of Congrega-
tion Beth Aaron will explore communal
efforts and awareness. Rabbi Tully Harc-
sztark, the principal of SAR High School,
will answer questions about policies and
protocols in schools. Etiel Forman will
describe how addiction feels to family
members, and offer ways for the com-
munity to help.
For more information or to sub-
mit questions to the panel, go to
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Bris Avrohom
Teens lead drive for kids with cancer reaches out
Leo Strizhevsky, Brianna
to travelers
Leopold, Sabrina Fried, Bris Avrohom of Hillside
and William Milund were maintains a Jewish informa-
among Bergen Count y tion stand at El Al Airlines at
High School of Jewish Stud- Newark Liberty International
ies students who partici- Airport. The group offers
pated in a collection drive travelers flying to Israel Tefil-
for Tackle Kids Cancer lat Haderech — the traveler’s
patients. Students donated prayer — and helps them put
items to help teens with on tefillin. The stand is under
BARBARA BALKIN

cancer pass the time while the direction of Rabbi Avremy

COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM

they are undergoing treat- Kanelsky, Bris Avrohom’s
ments. Tackle Kids Cancer youth and Torah education
was started at the Chil- director. The group pictured
dren’s Cancer Institute at at El Al security staff head-
Hackensack University Medical Center to raise funds and awareness for pediatric cancer quarters shared High Holy Day
patients. insights, blew shofar, and ate
apples dipped in honey, and
honey cake.

Three generations from

one family bake challah
together. Roberta
Soltnick, left, her
daughter, Shari Pillar of
Woodcliff Lake, and Ms.
Soltnick’s granddaughter,
Camryn Pillar, at Valley
Chabad’s Mega Challah
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Bake last year.

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Hundreds expected to participate

Get out and vote at Valley Chabad Mega Challah Bake
Vicki Monaloy, Ina Pearlman Laman, and Joan Donow, members of the Jersey Hills sec- Hundreds of women from the Pascack
tion of the National Council of Jewish Women, participated in a voter registration drive Valley and Saddle River Community
at Bergen Community College. will join on Thursday, October 25, at 7
p.m., at the Hilton Woodcliff Lake for
Valley Chabad Women’s Circle’s Mega
Challah Bake.
Participants will learn how to mix,
knead, and shape their own traditional
challah. There also will be wine, song,
and refreshments. There still are a few
spots available. To reserve a seat, go to
valleychabad.org.

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Cover Story
What a life
Harmonica virtuoso, acoustic engineer,
and high-tech troubleshooter
Abe Barzelay to play at the Kaplen JCC
A
Joanne Palmer
vraham Barzelay of Para-
mus will be responsible
for the music the audi-
ence at the Eric Brown
Theater hears on Satur-
day night, and he also
will be responsible for the way they hear it.
He will play music by Beethoven, Ger-
shwin, and Grieg, among others; Itay
Goren will accompany him on piano as he
plays the harmonica. (The what? Yes. The
chromatic harmonica, the small, unlikely
instrument out of which Abe draws soul-
ful sounds, and to whose modern pio-
neers, Shmuel Gogol and Larry Adler,
Abe is heir.)
(See the box for more information about
the performance.)
The Eric Brown Theater, the jewel-box
18 Jewish Standard OCTOBER 19, 2018
performance space upstairs at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, is celebrat-
ing its 25th anniversary. A wonderfully
designed small theater, with wonderful
sightlines and even better acoustics, it was
carefully designed by the master acoustic
engineer Avraham Barzelay.
Oh yes, that’s the same Abe Barzelay
whose troubleshooting work for Boeing,
among other major corporations, incor-
porates his unimpeded imagination, long
life experience, and rare open-eyed com-
mon sense to fix the problems other peo-
ple consign to him as otherwise unfixable.
So who exactly is Avraham Barzelay?
Mr. Barzelay was born in Kibbutz
Ramat Rachel, in what was then manda-
tory Palestine, in 1944. He was the child
of two Polish-born Jews, who met in the
kibbutz in Poland that young Zionists set
up as a place to train themselves before
they set out for the real thing. His mother,
Pesya, got a visa for Palestine and arrived
at Ramat Rachel with its founders, and
then waited there for two years for her
fiancé to arrive. His father, Joseph — that
fiancé — stayed behind to help organize
illegal immigration to Palestine. He got
on the last boat out (a malodorous vessel
that had been used to ferry pigs). Most of
the rest of both of their families died in
the Holocaust.
Like the other children on the kibbutz,
Abe slept in the children’s house; like
other parents, his would come to say good-
night to him and his older sister. His father
would sing him a lullaby, he remembers.
When Abe was about 4 1/2, Israel was
declared a state, and then the War of Inde-
pendence broke out, as its Arab neighbors
tried to smother the newborn nation in
its cradle. The war soon made its way to
Abe Barzelay of Paramus is a
master of both the harmonica
and the acoustics of concert
stages and recording studios.
Ramat Rachel, not very far from Jerusalem.
“When it got very bad, they put all
the little children in one big house,”
he remembers. “They put sandbags all
around it. There were fighters shooting out
from the window, and I remember one of
the fighters asked the kids around him for
more bullets.
“And then he got one. Right away. A bul-
let in his mouth.”
Abe remembers that; he remembers
being scared, and that other adults came
and got him out of there quickly. But the
memory lingered.
“They decided a few days later that it
was too much for the kids, so they decided
to take us out of there, to take us to Jeru-
salem,” he said. “So they put steel plates
around a bus — they armored it — and they
took us to Jerusalem, about 40 kids, from
babies to 5-year-olds, and some of the

Clockwise from top:
Abe Barzelay, center,
his back to the camera,
suggested major
improvements in the
landing gear of jetliners
manufactured by Boeing.
Th aircraft firm thanked him
with a plaque and desktop
model of its 777-300.
Barzelay also helped solve
a problem NASA had in
balancing the space shuttle.
mothers.” That included his mother.
“The bigger kids, including my sister,
walked to Jerusalem,” he continued. “It
was just about a mile away, but the trip
took about five hours by bus, because
there were landmines and shooting, and
at one point I started to cry because there
was no water, and I was thirsty, so very
thirsty, and I wanted water.
“So my mother asked me, ‘What can I
do to make you stop crying?’ and I said,
‘Sing me the lullaby, the one that my father
sings me.’ And she started to sing, but she
couldn’t do it right, she did not know how
to sing, and I started to cry more and
more, saying, ‘No, no, you are not doing
it right.
“So the worst part of the trauma for me
was with my mother not singing the lul-
laby right,” he said; it is a valuable child’s
eye view of how resilient children are, how
idiosyncratic memory is, and how very
much unexpectedly and all at once some-
thing that was okay can become too much.
The evacuated families were taken to
Atlit, a camp the British had built to house
illegal immigrants to Israel; soon Mr. Bar-
zelay’s father joined his family, and Pesya
and Joseph’s third child, another son, was
born there. The Barzelays were among the
builders of Kibbutz Ain Carmel, where Abe
Barzelay spent the rest of his childhood
and adolescence.
His father was an engineer — “mechani-
cal, electrical, you name it,” he said — and
a very talented man. He went to school
for engineering in Poland, and maybe one
or two years in Germany. I would build
machines with my father. I got a lot of
hands-on experience from him. He was
my inspiration.”
His mother was the kibbutz’s head
nurse.
“It was an agricultural kibbutz, with
one factory, where they made polysty-
rene,” Abe said. “I had a regular life on the
kibbutz, and I went to school there.” Yes,
of course, he went to school there, but,
as his wife, Hana Arad, pointed out, he
also went to the Technion for his last two
years of high school. As it turned out, Mr.
Barzelay was so gifted at math and physics
that his teachers gave up on him — there
is nothing worse than a bored student
who fights ennui by showing how much
more he knows than his teachers do — so
he was shipped off to take college-level
courses. (“I took two sandwiches and two
buses every day,” he said.) Because he
had not yet graduated from high school,
he could not matriculate, and therefore
could not earn an undergraduate degree,
but he had done all the coursework for a
Jewish Standard OCTOBER 19, 2018 19
Cover Story
bachelor’s degree in math and another in
physics by the time he finished his school
at the kibbutz.
Another strong thread that has been
woven throughout Abe’s life was evident
from the beginning. He loved music.
“When I was very young, there was just
one radio on the kibbutz,” he said. “I
would go and sit by the window, just to be
able to listen to the music on the radio.”
There would be concerts on the kib-
butz. When he was 8, he listened to one
that affected him strongly. “About six
months before the concert, my mother’s
brother, my uncle, who had escaped
Poland before the war — the only one
who survived — came from Cuba,” where
he had found shelter from the Shoah,
Mr. Barzelay said. “He brought me a very
small, simple harmonica from Cuba, and
that’s what I started to play.
Cover Story
Abe Barzelay played harmonica at his 1968 wedding
to Batya.
“The player at that concert was a harmonica player
named Shmuel Gogol,” he continued. “To understand this
part of my story, you have to know his story.”
Shmuel Gogol was born in Poland in 1924; he was
orphaned, and ended up in the orphanage run by Janusz
Korczak, the famous Polish Jewish educator who refused
to leave his charges and instead accompanied them to
their deaths — and his own — in Treblinka.
Before the Nazis came, Korczak would give children a
coin — the Polish equivalent of a penny — whenever their
teeth would fall out, Abe said. “He gave coins to Gogol,
and eventually, when all his teeth had fallen out, Gogol
went to him, and said, ‘You gave me a lot of money. I want
you to buy me a harmonica with it.’” And he did.
“A few weeks later, the Nazis came.” Gogol escaped, but
ended up in Auschwitz, without his instrument, which he
had to leave behind. In the death camp, he “heard some-
one playing the harmonica, and he asked to buy it.” They
bartered — the harmonica for two weeks’ worth of bread
— and “Gogol got the harmonica, and a Nazi officer heard
him play, and he got him to play in the death orchestra.”
That was the group of musicians who sat outside the gas
chambers and played as the doomed prisoners were
herded in. “And he was playing there, and suddenly he
saw members of his own family going in there,” Mr. Barz-
elay said. “And from then on, he played only with his eyes
closed.
“And he promised himself that if he ever got out alive,
he would dedicate himself to teaching kids to play the
harmonica.
“He got lucky, and he survived, and he immigrated to
Israel, and a few years after he got there, the mayor of
Ramat Gan, Avraham Krinitzi, heard him play the harmon-
ica, and said to him, ‘I will give you anything you want.
What do you want?’ and he said, ‘All that I want is to have
20 Jewish Standard OCTOBER 19, 2018
an orchestra for kids, and let them play the harmonica.’ do it right,” he said. It’s far easier to play harmonica for
And Krinitzi gave him what he wanted.” blues or jazz or folk; then, “you don’t need a chromatic
After Gogol’s performance at Ain Carmel, some kib- harmonica.” A diatonic is far easier.
butzniks introduced Abe to him, and Abe played for him. He owns about 50 harmonicas, he said; they vary in
Abe had played a basic diatonic instrument — the much many ways, including in key. “Sometimes I’ll try different
less challenging kind, better for beginners — but Gogol ones to see which is right for each piece,” he said, and that
sent him a chromatic one. decision may vary for a range of reasons.
During his time on the kibbutz, a musician who came to During this time, Mr. Barzelay continued to work in the
test the children there to see if any had musical ability sug- kibbutz. He managed its garage; it still was mainly agri-
gested that Abe be sent to a conservatory — not only did he cultural, so he oversaw its combines and other heavy
have talent, he also had perfect pitch, the expert said, and machinery.
“why is he wasting it like this, on the harmonica?” — but In 1967, the Six-Day War broke out; Mr. Barzelay was in
his parents decided against it. “My parents had enough the reserves, so he was called up. He doesn’t want to talk
problems,” he said. “They thought maybe it would be bet- about his military experiences, but something else hap-
ter for me to be a doctor, instead of a musician.” pened to him that affected the course of his life. He met
After graduation — which came a year early, because the Larry Adler, the American-born harmonica player — the
kibbutz’s educators had him skip first grade — Abe joined only harmonica player most Americans who can name
the Israel Defense Forces. He was in the Air Force, stayed any harmonica player could name — who left the United
in for four years, and left with the rank of major. Even all States for England during the McCarthy era and rarely
these years later, he says that he should not — in fact, he returned.
cannot — talk about what he did there. It was classified. Mr. Adler “used to come on the first week of any war
Throughout his time in the IDF, Abe played harmonica; in Israel to play for the injured and for the soldiers,” Mr.
he’d go back to the kibbutz on weekends, “and on Friday Barzelay said. “That was the first time I met him; I played
nights, after dinner, the whole kibbutz would dance, and ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ with him on the stage.
I would play for the dance.” “In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, Larry Adler came
“The first time I met Abe, he told me that he couldn’t again, and again we played together, and he offered me to
dance,” Hana said. “That’s because whenever he was at a be his student. But he lived in London, and I did not have
dance, he was always playing.” the money to go there.”
When he left the Air Force in 1964, “I went back to the But, to jump ahead a little in his story, in 1976 Mr. Bar-
kibbutz, but I wanted to study in the music academy. The zelay and his family moved to the United States, “and I
IDF wanted me to stay, and the kibbutz wanted me to go think two years later I started to go to lessons with him. I
back, but I wanted to go to the academy. It was burning in met him in New York, in Manhattan, because his daughter
my body. The kibbutz said to me that I had to work for two lived there, and then I would go to London for lessons. I
years there, and after that we can send you. And I said, would stay with him for one week in his home every two
‘No. I want it now.’” months. He did not let me stay in a hotel.” They became
He applied to the country’s two biggest music schools, so close, in fact, Mr. Barzelay added, that he played har-
one in Tel Aviv and the other in Jerusalem, asking for both monica at Mr. Adler’s funeral, in 2001.
admission and a scholarship. Both turned him down. He Meanwhile, Mr. Barzelay married; his first wife, Batya, a
had no formal training in music, and anyway the harmon- gifted photographer, died in 2004. In the spare time that
ica was a toy, wasn’t it? it is impossible to imagine he had, he played sports on the
But then something happened. kibbutz. “When I was in the IDF, I took the championship
“My girlfriend at the time was Nechama Hendel, and
she was the biggest singer in Israel,” Abe said. “She was
really a star.”
The Haifa Symphony was planning a concert, and “a
friend invited me to play two solo pieces there,” he went
on. Ms. Hendel “invited the president of the music acad-
emy in Tel Aviv and the president of the music academy
in Jerusalem to the concert. She was a queen; if the queen
invites you, you don’t say no. So they went to the concert,
and then they went out to coffee with her, and she said,
‘So, what do you think?’ And they said, ‘The orchestra is
eh…’” — to illustrate, Abe puts his hand out, palm flat, and
rocks it up and down. So-so. “‘But the young kibbutznik is
talented, and this is something that we never heard before.’
“So she said, ‘Let me tell you something. You both
rejected him.’
“Long story short, two months later I got two scholar-
ships, one to the music academy in Tel Aviv and the other
to the music academy in Jerusalem.”
The schools allowed Mr. Barzelay to combine the schol-
arships and take personal lessons. “I did the whole pro-
gram and graduated in two and a half years, although it
usually takes four,” he said.
Although he also learned how to play the flute, the
harmonica was and remains his main instrument. Why
is it so undervalued? Because, he said, it is very hard to
play classical music well on it. It’s easy to begin to play it,
but after that the curve is steep. “You need a special tech-
nique to work with your shell,” he said, gesturing toward
the bottom part of his face; it’s your jaw and the inside Harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler had a formative
of your mouth, including your tongue. “It’s very hard to influence on Abe’s work and life.

for high jumping, and I played basket-
ball,” he said. And he also developed an
expertise in another one of the areas he
is passionate about — acoustics.
“This is how I got to acoustics,” he
said; why he decided to engineer the
spaces in which musicians perform
rather than perform the music himself.
He was the valedictorian in the music
academy, “and as part of the tradi-
tion the valedictorian has to conduct
the orchestra and the choir for the last
concert of the year,” he said. “At the
last rehearsal, the professor asked one
of the violin players to tune one string
a little bit down.” Mr. Barzelay did not
hear that request. “When we started
the rehearsal again, I heard something
wrong, and I stopped right away, and
asked the group — the violins, from the
first violinist to the last boxes — to play.
And they did, and I heard that it came
from this guy, and I said to him, ‘Four
years in the academy, and you still
didn’t learn how to tune a violin.’
“And then the professor said, ‘No, no,
I did it. I asked him to do that.’ He did it
intentionally, as a test.” To see if Mr. Bar-
zelay could hear it.
“So then he said, ‘Okay, let’s continue,’
Above, former
Prime Minister
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to Mr. Barzelay;
at right, with former
Prime Minister
Shimon Peres as
the IDF honored
Mr. Barzelay.
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“The professor felt so bad. He finished
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else had ever heard.
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“We moved directly to New Jersey
because my brother David had moved
here two years earlier. He also has three
nieces, who have my heart,” he added.
“We moved to an attic, and it was
August, and there was no air condition-
ing,” he said. “It really was a shock. And
we came with only $500.”
But things got better quickly. “After I was
here a year and a half, I was a consultant,
and I worked at Carnegie Hall,” he said.
The family soon moved to Teaneck, where
Abe and Batya lived until they moved to
Paramus, six months before she died. “She
was happy here every day,” he said. The
house backs onto a wide swath of green
that runs for miles, from Ridgewood to
Saddle Brook, he said; it’s got a brook,
and wildlife, and it’s lovely. “Eight miles
of walks and deer, who just look at you,
like they’re saying, ‘Why are you coming
to bother us?’”
Mr. Barzelay created the Eric Brown The-
ater during that time. He also created Bruce
Springsteen’s home studio, a fact upon
which he expands only when prodded.
“The story of Bruce’s studio was that
years ago, my friend, the owner of pro-
fessional studio equipment, asked me
to come and consult for somebody who
wanted to build a studio in his house,”
Abe said. He didn’t know who the client
was. When he got there, he met some
guy who “introduced himself to me as
‘Bruce,’ and I introduced myself. I said
‘I am Abe.’ And when we came to more
details, I asked him what kind of music
he wants me to design the studio for, so
everybody started to look a little white
and they started to look at me. I didn’t
know what happened.
“Then it came out that this guy was
famous.”
Bruce’s last name was Springsteen.
Abe didn’t know Springsteen then, and
didn’t pretend to, and the singer compli-
mented the acoustical engineer on his
honesty. “The result of this meeting was
a very nice studio in his house,” as well as
an invitation to all Springsteen’s local con-
certs, Abe said.
Mr. Barzelay continued to be a per-
fectionist. He worked with the conduc-
tor Kurt Masur at the New York Philhar-
monic for six years; he tells the story of
how one day, when they were recording
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, union
rules demanded a break. After the break,
“I hear a small noise. So I say, ‘Maestro,
stop, please. I hear a noise. Give me a few
minutes.’” After checking, ruling out pos-
sibility after possibility, he saw that the
noise was coming from the direction of
the French horns. It came from an elderly
player who had switched his hearing aid
on during the break and forgot to turn it
off. “Kurt started to laugh,” Abe said, and
he teased Abele, as he called his acoustics
engineer, for the extraordinary acuity of
his hearing.
Still, there is another entirely separate
part to Mr. Barzelay’s career. He consults
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with companies as an extremely high-
level troubleshooter. He’s worked with,
among other companies, Boeing, which
thanked him publicly for the major
improvements he made to its jets’ land-
ing gear. He worked with NASA; he’s
responsible for figuring out how to bal-
ance the space shuttle. “It was the only
problem that he just couldn’t solve,” his
wife, Hana, said. “He was struggling and
struggling with it.
“And then one day he and his late wife
went to the ballet, and he was sitting and
watching, and he saw how the ballerina
twirls, with her arms stretched out over
her head, and then she lowered her arms
when she stops.” Hana demonstrates the
movement, twirling and then lowering
her arms to her sides as she slows and
stops. “He jumped up from his seat, and
he said ‘I have the solution!’”
And he did, and NASA has honored
him for it.
He’s worked on many other proj-
ects, including medical technolo�y —
CAT scans, MRIs, ultrasound devices,
mammography machines. “It’s all part
of mechanical engineering,” he said,
almost dismissively; yet another dis-
cipline he’s mastered, almost without
trying. Everything that he does, as dis-
parate as it is, is connected by math-
ematics, and the way that intellectual
rigor and clarity of vision combine
with commonsense and the wisdom
gained through experience and filtered
through logic.
He has at least 23 patents with Boe-
ing, he said, and some with other com-
panies, but he does not know how
many.
Mr. Barzelay and Hana Arad married
in 2014. He continues to work as a con-
sultant and acoustical engineer, and he
continues to play.
This summer, he went to Auschwitz,
and he played harmonica there. He
played the haunting song “Eli, Eli,” the
poem about faith and hope written by
Hannah Senesh, soon before the Nazis
killed her.
He was following the model of his
early teacher and inspiration, Shmuel
Gogol, who went back to Auschwitz,
the inferno he had survived, in 1993,
to play the songs that he’d been made
to play then, including the mourning Yid- An Israeli newspaper reported on Mr. Barzelay’s mentor and role model,
dish song “Mayn Shtetele Belz.” In 1993, Shmuel Gogol, who returned to Auschwitz to play there in 1993 and died
he played “with his eyes open,” Mr. Bar- soon afterward; Mr. Barzelay played there, echoing Mr. Gogol, this summer.
zelay said. And then, just a few days later,
he had a heart attack and died. He was 69
years old. Who: abraham Barzelay, on harmonica, accompanied by itay Goren on piano
It’s a life of good and bad that Mr. Barz- What: will play the works of Beethoven, Block, Gershwin, Grieg, Kriesler, sarasate,
elay looks back on, just like everybody’s, and others
of course, but arguably more dramatic and When: On saturday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m.
event-filled than most. This is just a sketch,
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a mere outline, of the hundreds more sto- ave., tenafly
ries that he hasn’t yet told.
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When he plays at the Eric Brown The-
ater on Saturday, Mr. Barzely will be call- How much: tickets are $25
ing on all of those stories, as well as the For more information or reservations: Call (201) 408-1465 or go to www.jccopt.org
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The big blockchain lie comes crashing down

Nouriel Roubini In practice, blockchain is nothing more

W
ith the value of Bitcoin
having fallen by around
70% since its peak late
last year, the mother of
all bubbles has now gone bust. More gen-
erally, cryptocurrencies have entered a
not-so-cryptic apocalypse. The value of
leading coins such as Ether, EOS, Litecoin,
and XRP have all fallen by over 80 percent,
thousands of other digital currencies have
plummeted by 90-99 percent, and the rest
have been exposed as outright frauds. No
one should be surprised by this: four out
of five initial coin offerings (ICOs) were
scams to begin with.
Faced with the public spectacle of a
market bloodbath, boosters have fled to
the last refuge of the crypto scoundrel: a
defense of “blockchain,” the distributed-
ledger software underpinning all crypto-
currencies. Blockchain has been heralded
as a potential panacea for everything from
poverty and famine to cancer. In fact, it is
the most overhyped — and least useful —
technology in human history.
than a glorified spreadsheet. But it has
also become the byword for a libertar-
ian ideology that treats all governments,
central banks, traditional financial insti-
tutions, and real-world currencies as evil
concentrations of power that must be
destroyed. Blockchain fundamentalists’
ideal world is one in which all economic
activity and human interactions are sub-
ject to anarchist or libertarian decen-
tralization. They would like the entirety
of social and political life to end up on
public ledgers that are supposedly “per-
missionless” (accessible to everyone)
and “trustless” (not reliant on a credible
intermediary such as a bank).
Yet far from ushering in a utopia,
blockchain has given rise to a familiar
form of economic hell. A few self-serv-
ing white men (there are hardly any
women or minorities in the blockchain
universe) pretending to be messiahs for
the world’s impoverished, marginalized,
and unbanked masses claim to have cre-
ated billions of dollars of wealth out of
nothing. But one need only consider the
But one need only consider the
massive centralization of power
among cryptocurrency “miners,”
exchanges, developers, and
wealth holders to see that
blockchain is not about
decentralization and
democracy; it is about greed.
massive centralization of power among
cryptocurrency “miners,” exchanges,
developers, and wealth holders to see
that blockchain is not about decentral-
ization and democracy; it is about greed.
For example, a small group of compa-
nies — mostly located in such bastions of
democracy as Russia, Georgia, and China
— control between two-thirds and three-
quarters of all crypto-mining activity, and
all routinely jack up transaction costs to
increase their fat profit margins. Appar-
ently, blockchain fanatics would have us
put our faith in an anonymous cartel sub-
ject to no rule of law, rather than trust
central banks and regulated financial
intermediaries.
A similar pattern has emerged in cryp-
tocurrency trading. Fully 99 percent of
all transactions occur on centralized
exchanges that are hacked on a regular
basis. And, unlike with real money, once
your crypto wealth is hacked, it is gone
forever.
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fundamentalists have named Ethereum
creator Vitalik Buterin a “benevolent
dictator for life” — already has given
lie to the claim that “code is law,” as if
the software underpinning blockchain
applications is immutable. The truth
is that the developers have absolute
power to act as judge and jury. When
something goes wrong in one of their
buggy “smart” pseudo-contracts and
massive hacking occurs, they simply
change the code and “fork” a failing
coin into another one by arbitrary fiat,
revealing the entire “trustless” enter-
prise to have been untrustworthy from
the start.
Lastly, wealth in the crypto universe
is even more concentrated than it is in
North Korea. Whereas a Gini coefficient
of 1.0 means that a single person con-
trols 100 percent of a country’s income/
wealth, North Korea scores 0.86, the
rather unequal United States scores 0.41,
and Bitcoin scores an astonishing 0.88
As should be clear, the claim of
“decentralization” is a myth propa-
gated by the pseudo-billionaires who
control this pseudo-industry. Now that
the retail investors who were suck-
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lost their shirts, the snake-oil salesmen
who remain are sitting on piles of fake
wealth that will immediately disappear
if they try to liquidate their “assets.”
As for blockchain itself, there is no
institution under the sun — bank, cor-
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would put its balance sheet or regis-
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actions with clients and suppliers on
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worth $300,000. Follow the numbers:
1) Roth funds are not included when
calculating your QLAC investment
amount. 2) Your $400,000 IRA allows
you to invest 25 percent, or $100,000,
in a QLAC. 3) If you transfer $100,000
from your 401(k) to your IRA (tax-free),
you can invest $25,000 more in the
QLAC, for a $125,000 total.
• Can I buy a QLAC for my 401(k)?
Yes, if you manage the 401(k), but
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you must ask the plan administrator.
The maximum contribution is also
$125,000.
• Will QLAC amounts increase? Yes.
Today’s $125,000 maximum will be
indexed for inflation and then adjusted
in $10,000 increments.
A $100,000
investment in
a QLAC at age
65 could, by
the time you
are 85, pay
you $50,000 a
year for life.
• At what age must I begin to take
distributions? You must begin taking
distributions no later than your 85th
birthday. You may begin taking pay-
ment prior to 70 1/2, though it may not
be financially appropriate.
• Is there a minimum or maximum
age to buy a QLAC? The minimum age
is 18, and the maximum age is 75.
• What if I buy a QLAC and decide I
don’t want it? The rules are strict. It’s
irrevocable. When you fund a QLAC, it
can’t be unfunded.
• What happens if the insured dies
before payments begin? The pay-
ments can be directed to a spouse or
beneficiary.
• What are my tax liabilities? The
exact tax responsibility depends on
your marginal tax rate.
• Can I use the assets in a fixed annu-
ity or a variable annuity that is in my
IRA to buy a QLAC? Yes. But the Trea-
sury requires a new contract to be
written, and you will have to pay any
early withdrawal fees or market value
adjustments.
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 Finance & Planned Giving
Gambling and losing
the Social Security game
Tom Margenau
I have written many columns caution-
ing people to not play around too much
with their Social Security benefits by
trying to squeeze every last nickel out
of their nest egg.
And I know where the compulsion
to do this comes from. Senior citizens
are barraged with messages in the mail,
in media and online, telling them that
they are missing out on thousands of
dollars in benefits if they don’t employ
some kind of “maximizing” strategy.
And then they are encouraged to attend
seminars or buy books that supposedly
will tell them the secrets to this hidden
treasure trove of benefits.
Essentially, the “secret” message
comes down to this: Wait as long as
possible to file for your benefits. If you
know you are going to live into your late
80s and beyond, that might be good
advice. But of course, no one really
knows how long he or she is going to
live. Today’s questions come from peo-
ple, or from spouses of people, who
gambled on their longevity and, sadly,
lost that bet.
Q: My husband waited until age 70 to
file for his Social Security. He died two
months ago. He was 71. Since he turned
66, I had been encouraging him to file
for Social Security. He never listened.
He said our financial planner told him
to delay filing for benefits as long as
possible. That’s what he did. And look
what happened! Please tell your read-
ers that it isn’t always worth it to try to
get the highest benefit possible.
A: I’m so sorry to hear about your
husband’s death. But thank you for
sharing your message. In defense of
financial planners, I will pass along this
bit of advice from a good friend of mine
who is one. He said his job is to help
people plan for, and be financially pre-
pared for, what possibly might happen
— not for what probably will happen.
And I guess it’s possible your husband
might have lived a much longer life.
There is an upside to your husband
delaying starting his Social Security
benefits. Because he did that, you will
get higher widow’s benefits. Assuming
you are 66 or older and are not getting
higher benefits on your own record,
you will get his full benefit, including
the 32 percent in delayed retirement
credits he got for waiting until age 70.
Q: I just turned 68 years old. I was
planning to wait until 70 to apply for
my Social Security. However, I was
recently diagnosed with stage 4 non-
Hodgkin lymphoma. I probably have
less than six months to live. I realize
now I made a bad decision by not filing
for my Social Security earlier. But what
What’s special
I want to know now is what can I do
to make sure my wife gets the highest
widow’s benefit possible? Just so you
know, my full retirement age benefit
about a Jewish
would have been $2,480.
legacy gift?
A: I am so sorry to hear about your
health prognosis. And it certainly is
noble of you to be thinking about your
wife at a time like this. If you really want
her to get the highest widow’s benefit
possible, then you should simply not
file for any Social Security benefits.
Upon your death, your wife’s widow’s
rate will be based on what you would
have been due at the time of death.
Let me explain. You get an extra
credit of two-thirds of 1 percent added
to your benefit rate for each month you
delay taking Social Security after age
You care about Jewish community.
66. Let’s say you pass away at the age
of 68 years and 6 months. That would A “legacy gift” means that you donate
be a total of 30 months after age 66,
meaning an extra 20 percent would current assets or put plans in place for a
be added to your retirement benefit, future gift that will generate income for
future charitable needs.
Senior citizens
are barraged Top 10 reasons to make a legacy gift to
with messages Jewish Federation
in the mail, • Demonstrate gratitude for life’s blessings
in media and • Give back or “pay it forward”
online, telling • Inspire children and grandchildren
them that they
• Impart Jewish values and traditions
are missing out
on thousands • Contribute resources for a specific cause
of dollars in • Provide financial stability for Jewish organizations
benefits here and in Israel
• Care for Jews in need, always
which would become your wife’s wid- • Benefit from tax savings
ow’s benefit. So she would get $2,976
per month in widow’s benefits. • Be remembered for doing good
But let’s just look at another option.
You might want to file for benefits right • Protect your investment in the community
now. And you could claim up to six
months in retroactive benefits. In other
words, your benefit start date would be
age 67 and 6 months. That would be 18
months after age 66, which translates
into an extra 12 percent in delayed
retirement credits. So your benefit rate
would be $2,777 per month. And that
would be your wife’s eventual wid-
ow’s rate. That is $199 less per month
than the first option I gave you. How-
ever, you would get a back paycheck of
$16,662. (And that does not include any For more information, please contact
possible back pay spousal benefits your
Robin Rochlin at 201-820-3970 or robinr@jfnnj.org
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Kindleberger; “This Time Is Different,”
Feeding the Hungry by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth
S. Rogoff of Harvard University; “The
Caring for the Elderly Shifts and the Shocks,” by the Financial
Times economics commentator Mar-
Helping those in Crisis tin Wolf; and “Hall of Mirrors,” by my
University of California, Berkeley, col-
league Barry Eichengreen.
Now, I want to add a fifth book to
the list: “A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor
Jewish Family & Children’s Services Psychology and Financial Fragility,” by
of Northern New Jersey the economists Nicola Gennaioli and
Andrei Shleifer. (Full disclosure: Shle-
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for generations graduate school; to this day, I credit
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systems, as
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scrambled to
dump assets.
“A Crisis of Beliefs” is important for
three reasons. First, it offers a welcome
rejoinder to those who argue that the
past decade was an unavoidable result
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States. Many experts still claim that the
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cial crisis. But the fact is that the bub-
ble had already deflated substantially
before the crisis erupted.
Recall that by mid-2008, home prices
had returned to, or even fallen below,
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levels supported by their underlying
fundamentals, and employment and
production in the residential construc-
tion industry had declined to levels far
below trend. The work of rebalancing
asset valuations and reallocating eco-
nomic resources across sectors had
already been accomplished.
To be sure, there still would have
been around $750 billion worth of
financial-asset losses in the form of
defaults on subprime mortgages and
home-equity loans. But that is only one-
quarter of what global equity markets
lost in seven hours on October 19, 1987.
In other words, it would not have been
enough to sink the global financial sys-
tem. Ben Bernanke, then chair of the
U.S. Federal Reserve, seemed confident
in the summer of 2008 that the correc-
tion in housing prices had not triggered
any unmanageable financial crisis. At
the time, he was mainly focused on the
dangers of rising inflation.
And then the bottom fell out. The
reason, Gennaioli and Shleifer show,
is that beliefs changed. Investors
came to believe that financial mar-
kets were saddled with highly elevated
risk, owing to a number of factors.
The interbank market had seized up,
homeowners were defaulting on their
mortgages, Bear Stearns had collapsed,
the U.S. Treasury had intervened to
rein in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,
and, above all, Lehman Brothers had
declared bankruptcy.
All of this led to the sudden run on
both the shadow and non-shadow
banking systems, as investors scram-
bled to dump assets. The increased
risk that they had imputed to the sys-
tem became a reality. Like triage nurses
in an emergency room, they quickly
assessed the patient and then ran with
their initial diagnosis as if there were
no other option.
And yet nothing about the fallout
from the crisis was inevitable. Had the
Fed been in possession of contingency
plans for putting too-big-to-fail institu-
tions into receivership and becoming
the risk-bearer of last resort, we would
probably be living in a very different
world today. Unlike those who look
back and conclude that it was all an
inevitable consequence of the housing
bubble, Gennaioli and Shleifer recog-
nize the central role that contingency
played in the crisis and its aftermath.

Gennaioli and Shleifer’s second
important contribution is to show that
“crises of beliefs” like the one that pre-
cipitated the disaster of 2008-2009 are
deeply rooted in human psychology, so
much so that we will never be free of
them. Thus, neither prudent policies
nor crisis-response measures should
treat these occurrences as flukes or
one-off exceptions. Crises of belief are
manifestations of a chronic condition
that must be managed.
Thus, central banks and fiscal
authorities should not use the end of
a crisis as an excuse to step back or to
take their hands off the wheel. When
fundamental beliefs have shifted per-
manently, one should not expect the
same policy mix that supported full
employment, low inflation, and bal-
anced growth before the crisis to do
so afterwards. Moreover, the seeds of
the next Kindlebergian sequence – dis-
placement, optimism, enthusiasm,
crash, panic, revulsion, discrediting
– have already been sown by the very
policies that were needed to address
the last downturn.
The third reason why Gennaioli and
Shleifer’s book is important is more
technical, and applies directly to the
field of economics. Economists have
long recognized that requiring one’s
representative agent to hold rational
expectations of the future tends to pro-
duce models that are profoundly inap-
plicable to the real world. But, until
Social Security
from page 27
wife might be due on your account.)
Perhaps your wife would rather have
that $16,662 (or more) rather than the
extra $199 per month? It’s something to
think about.
Q: I was getting Social Security dis-
ability benefits until I turned 66,
at which point they automatically
switched me to retirement benefits.
In order to try to maximize my Social
Security payout, I immediately with-
drew my retirement with plans to
restart my benefits at age 70 and get the
32 percent bonus for doing so. I turned
70 a few months ago and filed for my
retirement. But I was shocked to learn
I won’t get the extra bonus. Am I just
out of luck?
A: You sure are. You tried a little too
hard to beat the system, and instead, it
beat you. You never should have with-
drawn your retirement claim hoping to
get the extra 32 percent at age 70. After
all, you were getting disability benefits,
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now, no alternative approach has ever
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so presumably, you are not in the best
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Also, in order to claim the delayed
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Jewish World

Chelsea soccer club develops a plan to combat

anti-Semitism by fans: Send them to tour Auschwitz
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ The team’s owner, Roman Abramovich, who is Jewish, has
spearheaded the initiative to combat anti-Semitism, according
The British soccer club Chelsea is planning to send fans who to a report about the plan in the Sun. Chelsea would cover all
are caught chanting anti-Semitic songs on a tour of Auschwitz, the costs.
the former death camp, rather than punishing them. The tours will replace the team’s policy — it now bans
ts
Presen
Fed eration
Jewish
offenders, according to the report, which said the
Auschwitz trips would be “educational.” Fans who
do not wish to go to Auschwitz would face season
bans or longer penalties.
The initiative is designed to combat the prevalent phe-
nomenon of anti-Semitism in soccer chants, especially
when Chelsea faces the Tottenham Hotspur, a north Lon-
don group widely associated with the Jewish people.
Many Hotspur fans refer to themselves proudly as
“yids.” Supporters of rival teams taunt them with anti-
Semitic chants, including about the Holocaust in what
anti-Semitism experts say is a major arena of banali-
zation of the Holocaust and mainstreaming of anti-
Semitic hate speech.
Several other soccer teams throughout Europe are
associated with Jews, none more than Amsterdam’s Ajax,
whose fans fly Israeli flags at matches. Supporters of rival
teams often chants about Hamas, the SS, and gassing Jews.
“If you just ban people, you will never change
their behavior,” the Sun quoted Chelsea chairman

October 31 - November 18, 2018

Bruce Buck as saying. “This policy gives them the
chance to realize what they have done, to make them
want to behave better.”
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joyceg@jfnnj.org • 201-820-3907 www.jfnnj.org/filmfestival effective, and we will consider more as well as other
things that will affect people,” Buck said.
Committee Suzette Diamond (Chair), Lauri Bader, Susan Benkel, Ariella Drori, Nancy Eichenbaum, Etti Inbal, The idea has been backed by the World Jewish Con-
Nina Kampler, Donna Kissler, Joan Krieger, Lynn Karpo-Lantz, Gail Loewenstein, Jo Resnick Rosen, gress, the Holocaust Education Trust, and a leading Jew-
Marian Salamon, Ava Silverstein, Wendy Zuckerberg ish scholar, Rabbi Barry Marcus.
“Banning doesn’t work,” Marcus said.
Critics of correctional trips like the ones envisaged by
Chelsea say they are ineffective because of how many
offenders do not suffer from particular ignorance about
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Film takes contemporary look at Waldheim resume:

U.N. chief, Austrian president, and stalwart Nazi
TOM TUGEND
LOS ANGELES — Kurt Waldheim managed an impressive
feat.
After serving as a soldier and intelligence officer in the
Nazi army during World War II, he was twice elected sec-
retary-general of the United Nations before topping off his
career as president of his native Austria from 1986 to 1992.
How did he do it?
Largely by massaging his biography to convince the
world that he had been merely an ordinary soldier dur-
ing the war and that he simply had been following orders.
He also persuaded his fellow countrymen and the world
that Austria was the first victim of Nazi aggression when
native son Adolf Hitler annexed the country in 1938 — to
nationwide enthusiasm.
As a popular joke at the time had it, Austrian diplo-
mats managed to convince the public that Hitler, an
Austrian, was a native German, and that Beethoven, a
Kurt Waldheim in a still from Ruth Beckermann’s film
“The Waldheim Waltz.” COURTESY OF RUTH BECKERMANN
German, was Austrian.
Nevertheless, by the time Waldheim ran for president in
1986, his war record had come back to haunt him. Among
the protesters against his campaign at the time was Ruth
Beckermann, a budding Jewish Viennese filmmaker who
shot some of the larger Austrian demonstrations against
Waldheim and the counter rallies.
Some decades and more than a dozen films later —
including the very Jewish documentaries “Zorro’s Bar
Mitzvah” and “Toward Jerusalem” — Beckermann decided
to take another look at her earlier footage.
Her new film, “The Waldheim Waltz,” choreographs the
agile steps of one of the odder actors in recent world his-
tory, whose career nevertheless still can be seen as a fore-
bear of recent political swings in Europe and the United
States. The film, recently selected as her country’s entry
into the Oscars’ foreign film race, opens in New York on
October 19 and gets a national rollout to other cities start-
ing on November 16.
In the early 1980s, between Waldheim’s terms as U.N.
secretary-general and Austrian president, the World
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Democrats push back after New York Times

says the party is drifting on policy toward Israel
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Senator Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.) hardly has to establish his pro-
Israel bona fides.
He is guaranteed a standing ovation
every time he appears at the annual con-
ference of the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, and pro-Israel politi-
cal donors are lining up to back him in an
unexpectedly close race for re-election.
But the New Jersey’s senior senator
joined a gaggle of colleagues last week in
reaffirming one of his signature issues after
the New York Times suggested that the
Democrats’ support for Israel is tottering.
The story, headlined “A New Wave of
Democrats Tests the Party’s Blanket Sup-
port for Israel,” may have overstated its
case. There have been a handful of high-
profile nominees among Democrats
who indeed have questioned orthodox-
ies about support for Israel, and there is
more broadly a readiness to criticize the
government of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, arising in part from his open
pro-Trump partisanship.
The Times named four candidates chal-
lenging for seats in the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives: Ilhan Omar in Minnesota,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York,
Rashida Tlaib in Michigan, and Leslie
Cockburn in Virginia. All four have been
tough on Israel in the past, and commen-
tary from Omar has been outright hostile.
Tlaib favors ending assistance to Israel.
(Others mentioned in the article have been
targeted by Republicans using guilt-by-
association tactics, but have conventional
views on Israel.)
In the piece, Matt Brooks, the executive
director of the Republican Jewish Coali-
tion, laments the “fact that this is allowed
to metastasize in the Democratic Party
without any real pushback.”
Others deny that it’s a “wave” — at least
not yet.
As Ronald Halber, the director of the
Jewish Community Relations Council for
the Washington, D.C., area, says in the
article, “We’re talking about a handful of
people; they’re certainly not going to move
Congress’s wall-to-wall support for Israel.”
Nevertheless, the Times helps shape the
narrative, so Democrats are pushing back.
“Today I want to once again reaffirm
that the United States Congress stands
firmly behind a strong U.S.-Israel relation-
ship,” Menendez said in a statement sent
on October 10. “As threats to Israel con-
tinue to increase, as her enemies continue
to grow ever-closer, the United States will
stand firm in our commitments.”
He added: “Despite partisanship inter-
fering with so many pressing policy issues
today, an overwhelming majority of mem-
bers of all political parties continue to
reaffirm Congressional support for this
relationship.”
Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), who is Jewish
and the ranking Democrat on the House
Middle East subcommittee, wrote an
op-ed for the Times of Israel titled “A new
Democratic House majority will continue
our historic support for Israel.”
Lara Friedman, the president of the
Foundation for Middle East Peace, com-
piled statements from 10 legislators in her
weekly legislative roundup, including Jew-
ish and black Democrats and Rep. Steny
Hoyer (D-Md.), the Democratic whip.
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), who
is hoping to unseat Republican Senator
Ted Cruz, is telling constituents that “he
believes Israel is critically important to
the United States because it is the home
of the Jewish people, because it is an
exemplary democracy that shares our
values, and because it is a crucial contrib-
utor to our national security objectives in
the region.”
Representative Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), as
solidly pro-Israel as Menendez, reminded
reporters this week of her leading role in
securing defense assistance for Israel.
And Chuck Schumer, the New York sena-
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broken down by state and whether they are incum-
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NEW YORK
LEE ZELDIN, 38; 1st
District, eastern Long
Island, in Congress
since 2015.
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CALIFORNIA
RON COHEN, CPA; 17th District covering Silicon Val-
ley, challenging incumbent Democrat Ro Khanna.
Know this: Cohen has advanced theories that the 9/11
attacks in 2001 were an inside job, that Michelle Obama
is a man, and that the Obamas’ children were sired by
others. He has deleted or apologized for some of these
theories, but the California GOP has said it will not assist
him and county GOPs have pulled their endorsements.
Prospects: So poor that Cohen advises visitors to his

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robust alliance with
Trump, who has FLORIDA
endorsed him. Zeldin, JOE KAUFMAN, right-wing activist; 23rd District cov-
an Army veteran, has ering parts of Broward and Miami-Dade counties, chal-
become a go-to TV lenging Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
talking head defending Know this: This is Kaufman’s fourth attempt to unseat
Trump from charges Rep. Lee Zeldin Wasserman Schultz. He is a frequent contributor to
that his campaign col- Frontpage Mag, where he recently wrote about a pur-
luded with Russia. Zeldin also embraces Trump’s poli- ported Muslim Brotherhood threat on Ivanka Trump.
cies on stemming undocumented immigration and has Prospects: Nil.
sponsored legislation that would revoke the citizenship
of Americans found to be members of gangs. MASSACHUSETTS
Jewish stuff: An email from the Republican National JOSEPH SCHNEIDER, consultant to the aerospace
Committee sent to New York Jewish Republicans called industry; 6th District in the state’s northeast corner, Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
Zeldin “perhaps the most important pro-Israel” member challenging incumbent Democrat Seth Moulton.
of Congress. He has joined and in some cases led many Know this: Schneider’s family fled from communist Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
legislative efforts championed by the centrist and right- Romania when he was a child, and he became a Green
wing pro-Israel community, including bids to cut fund- Beret. He told the Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby that he is
ing to the Palestinians. Zeldin was a leading opponent not a fan of Trump’s “cult of personality” but chides
of the Iran deal. Democrats for reflexively opposing the president.
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June, she said the Jewish-founded Franklin
Hills Country Club canceled a planned fun-
draiser for her, and she decried a lack of
civil engagement in the Jewish community.
Endorsements: Republican Jewish
Coalition, Trump
Prospects: Not great: a 1 in 6 chance of
keeping the seat red.
MARC HERSCHFUS, gastroenterolo-
gist; 14th District encompassing part
of Detroit and northern suburbs, chal-
lenging incumbent Democrat Brenda
Lawrence.
Know this: The district includes a sub-
stantial population of Chaldeans, the
ancient community of Iraqi Christians
who speak a version of Aramaic. He told
the Chaldean News that as a Jew he feels
an affinity with the group, noting that
both communities have preserved the
Aramaic language.
Prospects: Nil.
NEW JERSEY
SETH GROSSMAN, lawyer; 2nd District
encompassing the state’s south, running
to replace Republican Frank LoBiondo,
who is retiring. His opponent is state
Senator Jeff Van Drew.
Know this: The National Republican
Congressional Committee has cut off
this former Atlantic City councilor, who
has on his Facebook page linked to rac-
ist musings. Grossman, whose primary
victory was an upset over an establish-
ment GOP candidate, has enthusiasti-
cally embraced Trump and has adopted
the president’s Make America Great
Again motto.
Prospects: 1 in 40 shot. It looks like
this red district will flip to blue.
DARYL KIPNIS, lawyer; 12th District
in the center of the state encompass-
ing Princeton University, challenging
incumbent Democrat Bonnie Watson
Coleman.
Know this: Kipnis does not mention
Trump on his website and favors a path
to citizenship for “dreamers,” undocu-
mented migrants who came as chil-
dren, a position directly at odds with
the president but consistent with the
state’s liberal tendencies. Kipnis praised
the Trump administration’s decision to
move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Prospects: Extremely unlikely: a 1 in
100 shot.
NEW YORK
AMEER BENNO, lawyer; 4th District
encompassing parts of Nassau County,
challenging incumbent Democrat Kath-
leen Rice.
Know this: Benno, who has worked
for Hillel International and Camp
Ramah, is the president of the Merrick-
Bellmore Jewish Community Council
and has traveled to Israel to litigate on
behalf of victims of terrorism.
Prospects: Nil.
NAOMI LEVIN, software engineer; 10th
District, encompassing Manhattan’s lower
West Side and portions of Brooklyn,
challenging longtime incumbent Jerrold
Nadler.
Know this: Levin’s campaign bio says
she speaks four languages, including
Hebrew and Russian, “spoken by many
in the district.”
Prospects: Nil.
ELIOT RABIN, upscale clothing retailer; 12th
District, encompassing Manhattan’s East
Side and Brooklyn’s Greenpoint, challenging
incumbent Democrat Carolyn Maloney.
Know this: Rabin, from South Caro-
lina, is a graduate of its military school,
the Citadel, and a veteran. He says he
was the president of the campus Hillel.
He moved to New York to work in cloth-
ing. Trump’s friendship with Russian
President Vladimir Putin rattles Rabin. “I
have a big problem with people humor-
ing Mr. Putin when he’s an out-and-out
murderer,” he told Town-Village, an East
Side online newsletter. He favors outlaw-
ing the purchase of assault rifles.
Prospects: Nil.
OHIO
BEVERLY GOLDSTEIN, audiologist; 11th
District, runs from Cleveland south to
Akron, challenging incumbent Democrat
Marcia Fudge.
Know this: Goldstein’s campaign
website says she has been active in the
Republican Jewish Coalition and Chris-
tians United for Israel. She has also been
active with ACT! for America, a group the
Anti-Defamation League calls the “largest
anti-Muslim group in the United States.”
Prospects: Nil.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRYAN LEIB, businessman and politi-
cal activist; 3rd District covering parts
of Philadelphia, challenging incumbent
Dwight Evans.
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commemorates the Holocaust in ‘upbeat’ fashion
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ There are other ways in which what happened in Den- their escape, which was carried out with the help of their
mark contrasted with the rest of Nazi-controlled Europe. family doctor, the late resistance hero Borghild Andersson.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — All over the world, Annelise Tchernia, 79, recalls finding her family’s home Andersson also took care of Tchernia’s childhood home,
Holocaust commemoration events follow a certain “exactly as we left it” after she and her parents returned letting those in need of housing stay there — but under the
protocol. from Sweden. They had spent at least three years there after SEE DENMARK PAGE 38
They usually are somber affairs, where participants
dress modestly, in dark colors, and they usually fea-
ture a soulful rendition of the “El Malei Rachamim”
prayer, sung by an anguished cantor who names Nazi
death camps and the horrible ways Jews were mur-
dered there.
Less traditional ceremonies may include a low-key
mourning song, often from Israel, and “Hatikvah,” the
Israeli national anthem.
Not so in Denmark, the world’s only country where
nearly all the members of the Jewish minority were
rescued from the Holocaust by the local population
in a grassroots operation that involved thousands of
people. It culminated 75 years ago, when 7,200 Jews
from the Nazi-occupied Scandinavian land were fer-
ried aboard small ships to neutral Sweden in a matter
of just a few days.
The annual commemoration here occurs on the
anniversary of the rescue. There is mourning for the
51 Jews from Denmark who died in the genocide. But
it is mostly a cheerful event, where one unique com-
munity unites to celebrate its rescue amid song, back-
slapping, expressions of gratitude, and sometimes a
festive communal dinner.
This was certainly the case earlier this month, on
the 75th anniversary of the rescue.
On October 11, hundreds filled the Great Syna-
gogue of Copenhagen to capacity, greeting their
Crown Prince Federik with a silent ovation and
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin with a roaring one.
Susanne Bier, an Oscar-winning Jewish director,
wore a tight red dress reminiscent of gala wear. The
ceremony ended with an upbeat performance by a
girls choir from a Jewish school singing “Ya’ase Sha-
lom” and a patriotic Danish song written by national
writer Hans-Christian Andersen.
“This ceremony has some sadness for those who
didn’t make it and for our brethren who perished,”
said Helle Fromberg, a kindergarten teacher whose
mother was rescued. “But inevitably it’s also a celebra-
tion of the rescue, without which most of the people
here would not be alive today.”
Fromberg and her husband, Norwegian-born
Thomas Gorlen, celebrate how the Danish resistance
movement made the country a more hospitable place
for its Jews right up to the present. “There is this men-
tality here that it doesn’t matter so much who or what
you are as long as you follow the rules and integrate,”
he said. “And Danish Jews did, so they were never seen
as the ‘other.’”
The couple, who lived together in Norway, are “very
happy we ended up settling in Denmark and raising
our children here,” Fromberg said. Denmark’s his-
tory means that “the Jewish community is more self-
assured and belonging” than in countries where Jews
were killed by the Nazis, most often with significant
collaboration by locals.
“Throughout most of Europe, police helped the
Nazis kill the Jews,” Fromberg said. “Here, police
helped the Jews escape the Nazis. Of course this has
a profound effect on how a Jew feels growing up in
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some property during their absence, its Jews to Sweden across to Oresund Straits
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of anywhere else in Europe, where equivalent of thousands of dollars. Tch-
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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles
Serving the Jewish community
of Bergen County for 12 years Pumpkins: A healthy food choice
NIKOLE GAVRIILIDIS

A
All certified home health aides
licensed, bonded and criminal s the summer sun fades and an excellent source of vitamin A. In just
Serving the Jewish community
background checks
of Bergen County for 12 years
the leaves start to change, a a half-cup serving of pureed pumpkin,
familiar flavor returns to our there are over 6,000 IU of vitamin A.
• C Serving
certified homethe Jewish
Allertified home health aides
health community
aides vocabulary — pumpkin! The Vitamin A is essential for eye and skin
RN supervision & coordination
licensed,ofbonded
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County for 12 years
criminal fall has arrived and the Valley nutrition health, as well as overall immunity —
background
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icensed and bonded team is looking for ways to incorporate which is especially important to remem-
AllHourly,
certifiedlive-in
home health aides care
and respite all things pumpkin into our routines. ber as we enter into the flu season.
• R licensed, bonded and criminal
RNN supervision and coordination
supervision & coordination We will, of course, suggest enjoying the To incorporate pumpkin into your fall
background
24/7 live checks
on-call service outdoors while pumpkin picking and routine, try this delicious recipe below
Hourly, live-in and respite care pumpkin carving, but we also want to from “Eating Well!.”
• Hourly, live-in and respite care give you ways to enjoy pumpkin in your If you are interested in meeting with
RN supervision & coordination
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24/7 live on-call service social work own kitchen. a nutrition coach to learn more about
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Hourly,
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social and respite care can be pureed and added to bread, including menu planning, refrigera-
lifestyle support services
services muffin, or pancake mixes. They can be tor makeovers, supermarket shopping,
Linkages
24/7 to other
live on-call elder care
service enjoyed on their own — stewed, roasted advice about what to order in restau-
• C oordination of services with
Linkages options
to other elder care or pureed into a soup. They can also be rants, personal chef referrals, lunch box
other elder care providers
optionsComplimentary social work seasoned with pumpkin spice, which is ideas, collaborative cooking instruction
services a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and recipes, contact Joe Juliano, nutri-
cloves, and allspice that heightens the tion and wellness manager, The Valley
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1 large egg
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coating the pan with cooking spray
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that support healthy minds and bodies.

Our residents enjoy:

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Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Hackensack University Medical Center among first hospitals

to acquire innovative da Vinci single port robotic systems

H
ackensack Meridian Health
Hackensack University Medi-
cal Center is among the first
hospitals in the world to
acquire the innovative da Vinci single port
(SP) system, a cutting-edge robotic-assisted
technology used by surgeons to perform
complex urological procedures. Hacken-
sack University Medical Center, a center
for excellence in advanced robotic sur-
gery, is the first and only hospital in New
Jersey to have access to this groundbreak-
ing technology.
The da Vinci SP technology’s revolution-
ary design enables single port surgery,
narrow access surgery, triangulation, and
360-degree rotation. Surgeons only need to
make a one-inch incision utilizing da Vinci
SP, which may cause less stress, shorten
recovery time, and improve cosmesis.
Currently, the robotic system has received
U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
approval for minimally invasive surgery
in urologic procedures, including pros-
tate cancer, kidney cancer, and advanced
urinary tract reconstruction surgery.
“Hackensack Meridian Health is com-
mitted to pushing the boundaries of medi-
cine to reach new heights of research
and innovation,” said Robert C. Garrett,
co-CEO, Hackensack Meridian Health. “It
is no surprise that Hackensack Univer-
sity Medical Center, which is a center for
excellence in advanced robotic surgery, is
among the first hospitals in the world to
acquire the groundbreaking da Vinci SP
technology. We look forward to utilizing
this revolutionary technology to deliver
the health care of tomorrow, today.”
This pioneering technology will enable
Hackensack University Medical Center’s
renowned urologic robotics program
to perform the most complex surgeries
through a one-inch incision. The medi-
cal center will acquire the technology
in November and train a select group of
advanced urologic surgeons and staff.
Hackensack University Medical Center
surgeons anticipate performing their first
surgery with da Vinci SP before the end
of the year.
“Hackensack University Medical Cen-
ter is the first in New Jersey and among
the first hospitals in the world to acquire
the da Vinci single port robotic system,”
said Dr. Ihor S. Sawczuk, regional presi-
dent, Northern Market, Hackensack
Meridian Health. “Hackensack Univer-
sity Medical Center is a world leader in
robotic surgery, and we look forward to
utilizing this innovative technology to
improve patient outcomes.”
“Hackensack University Medical Cen-
ter’s urologic robotics program is the top
program in New Jersey, has the highest
volume of procedures in the state and top
three in the New York Metro area,” said
Mark D. Sparta, president of Hackensack
University Medical Center. “Since 2002,
Hackensack University Medical Center
has established a center for excellence in
robotic urological surgery.”
“This acquisition places Hackensack
University Medical Center’s urology
program on the world stage,” said Dr.
Michael Stifelman, chair of urology and
director of robotic surgery, Hackensack
University Medical Center. “Hackensack
University Medical Center is focused on
bringing the most advanced technol-
ogy and the most experienced surgeons
together to constantly improve patient
outcomes. The da Vinci SP technology is
transformative as it enables our surgeons
to perform the most complex surgeries
in the hardest to reach places, using just
one small incision.”
The da Vinci SP is the fourth-genera-
tion da Vinci surgical device. The FDA
approved da Vinci SP for urologic proce-
dures in June 2018. It is anticipated that
within the next year, the FDA will decide
on the approval of the da Vinci SP for addi-
tional procedures, such as ear, nose and
throat (ENT) and colorectal surgery.
For additional information about Hack-
ensack University Medical Center’s urol-
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 Healthy Living & Adult Lifestyles

Red Cross issues a plea for volunteers to hosts winter blood drives

E
very two seconds someone in the U.S. needs are made at blood drives hosted by volunteers, blood drive drive logistics, and I help by asking my friends and family to
blood. To help meet the constant demand partners play a vital role in helping ensure a sufficient blood schedule an appointment to give blood at the drive.”
for lifesaving blood donations and prevent supply for patients in need. A Red Cross representative works with the host every step
blood shortages this winter, the American Organizing a blood drive is easier than many expect, and of the way, providing planning assistance, tools to recruit
Red Cross is urging individuals and organizations to be blood drive coordinator Joe Turner agrees. Since 2016, Turner blood donors, equipment and supplies, and the trained staff
winter heroes by hosting a blood drive. has hosted an annual blood drive at his church in memory needed to screen donors and collect donations. Blood drive
Right now, the Red Cross needs about 6,500 additional of his father, Woody, who battled cancer for many years and hosts provide a large, open location, identify volunteers to
groups across the country to host blood drives in Decem- needed platelets during treatment. support donor recruitment, and recruit and schedule blood
ber, January, and February to ensure blood will be there “Hosting a blood drive with Red Cross is pretty simple,” said donors. Turner actively recruits blood donors for the drive
for patients who rely on blood products. In this area, Turner. “The donor recruitment manager takes care of the using social media, flyers, and a SleevesUp campaign.
about 310 more blood drive hosts are needed. During
the winter, there is often a decrease in the number of
blood drives, which can contribute to blood shortages.
“When someone hosts a blood drive, they give donors
a chance to donate lifesaving blood, in turn helping
to save dozens or even hundreds of lives,” said Cliff
Numark, senior vice president of biomedical services.
“Blood shortages are not uncommon during the win-
ter months, and these shortages could cause delays in
patient care. But with the help of volunteer blood drive
partners, the Red Cross can be better prepared to meet
patient needs all winter long.”
To learn more about hosting a blood drive and to sign
up, visit RedCrossBlood.org/HostADrive. Blood drive
partners who host a drive between December 20 and
January 6 will receive long-sleeved Red Cross T-shirts
for all who come to give, and if the partner achieves its
donation goal, it will be recognized in a national news-
paper highlighting its lifesaving work.
Because more than 80 percent of blood donations

Senior fitness programs

Fitness expert Michael Blauner has been delivering fit-
ness to the Jewish community in New Jersey for over 30
years. His programs have helped countless people enjoy
healthy, happy lives. Many of his clients are seniors.
In order for seniors to enjoy a vibrant, vital, and active

“They cared about me

lifestyle, physical fitness should be a top priority.
There are many ways one can approach getting fit.
Michael Blauner recommends trying numerous methods
until you find your fitness passion and it can be more
than one method . Variety tends to keep people moti- as a person.”
vated. But, most importantly it’s finding an exercise pro-
gram you truly enjoy. This will keep one involved. Some
choices would be cardio-fitness training in the form of
brisk walking; perhaps biking, either indoor or outdoors;
tennis; even gardening can be considered exercise!
There are many options.
However, in order to ensure the maintenance of over-
Valley Health System’s cancer care team
all functional strength, Blauner highly recommends a Alex
sound, safe, and manageable resistance training pro-
now works with Mount Sinai Health System.
Defeated breast cancer
gram that includes his unique style of functional training. In addition to having Mount Sinai doctors
Functional training is his method of using certain exer- practice at Valley, we collaborate so we can
cises that work the body in a way that emulates critical be even better at preventing and beating
daily motions with certain levels of resistance added to cancer. Here’s Alex’s story.
increase strength. This will ensure that your body keeps
its musculature and ability to do all the activities you’ve
Alex was a healthy runner and mother of two.
long enjoyed. There are many ways one can do strength
Cancer was never on her radar because she didn’t
training and Blauner has worked with countless seniors
have a family history. Then, at a yearly wellness
in developing and maintaining their overall health and
visit, Alex’s doctor discovered a cancerous lump
fitness. Strength training plays a large part in that.
in her breast. After careful consideration, she
It has been proven that a senior who has not exer-
chose Valley — a decision that resulted in finding
cised in a significant amount of time can increase their
undiagnosed cancer in her other breast.
strength exponentially in a relatively short amount of
time. So, regardless of your fitness level, it’s always a See how Alex’s decision changed her life at
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percent accuracy.”
BioMosquito will run much like a bot-
tling plant. The mosquitos enter from
one end, are sorted and then output
into cartridges, each containing thou-
sands of male mosquitos. (The females
are destroyed.)
The cartridges are key to the next step
in the Senecio process — slowly releasing
the fragile mosquitos, whether by air or
land, so they get the widest bang for their
buzz. The average mosquito only travels a
hundred or so meters over its lifetime, so
Senecio’s solution enables a “slow drip”
of mosquitos over an entire city.
In July, Senecio received a patent for
sequentially deploying its mosquito car-
tridges — that is, opening them one after
another in a controlled manner — while
flying at 250 kilometers an hour. Senecio
uses software combined with GPS track-
ing to ensure the release is slow enough
that the male mosquitos survive the trip.
Senecio has partnered with Dynamic
Aviation, a Virginia-based aircraft firm,
to test BioMosquito. Senecio’s new pat-
ent is based on work initially funded by
the BIRD Foundation.
Puffing out mosquitos
Senecio has also received patents to use
its sequential cartridge system on the
ground and via pilot-less drones, and
for the release pod mechanism itself,
which “puffs” the mosquitos out a tube
using air, rather than simply opening
the door.
The latter is standard operating pro-
cedure in developing countries such as
Brazil and China, where the only deliv-
ery system available is often a van or a
three-wheeler — or even a worker with
a box of sterile male mosquitos on his or
her back. A plane, by contrast, can carry
up to 10 million mosquitos at a time.
Lepek estimates that to suppress a
mosquito population properly, anti-
mosquito warriors must release up to
800 sterile mosquitos for every person
in the targeted area.
We wondered whether ridding a
region of mosquitos — even if they carry
deadly diseases — might have unex-
pected negative side effects on the eco-
system. Lepek told us not to worry.
“These mosquitos are an invasive spe-
cies. They’re not supposed to be in the
cities, so it’s no problem to eradicate
them,” he explains. Nor are they being
“eradicated from the jungles, just from
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Not all mosquitos are under the Sene-
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Freedom Home Healthcare renamed
as Aveanna Healthcare Concierge Services
Freedom Home Healthcare, which has been provid-
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will be changing its name to Aveanna Healthcare Con-
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range of activities, from companionship and cooking to
assistance with personal care.
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Second annual Mark Samitt 5K Run a rousing success

T
he second annual Mark Samitt 5K Run was a
smashing success on Sunday, October 14. More
than 180 runners and walkers registered to
compete on the USATF-certified course, which
began and ended at Temple Beth Or in Washington Town- run went smoothly and safely.
ship. The community came together to make this event a The overall top male finisher was Josh Kramer, 25, and
success with 40 local volunteers deployed at the registra- the overall top female finisher was Ally Greenberg, 19, of
tion and staging area and out on the course to ensure the Woodcliff Lake. Other top finishers were:

Male 10 and under: Yoel Katzir, age 9, of Tenafly
Female 10 and under: Dalia Gewirtz, 8, of River Edge
Male ages 11-14: Andrew Pasdar, 11, of Emerson
Female ages 11-14: Nicole Dicaprio, 14, of Woodcliff Lake
Male ages 15-19: Jason Greenberg, 15, of Woodcliff Lake
Female ages 15-19: Sierra Halsband, 16, of Park Ridge
Male ages 20-29: Gary Peters, 20, of Washington Township
Female ages 20-29: Ariel Rokito, 24, of Hillsdale
Male ages 30-39: Noah Fabricant, 36, of Ridgewood
Female ages 30-39: Andrea Kapr, 32, of Park Ridge
Male ages 40-49: David Halsband, 47, of Park Ridge
Female ages 40-49: Lauren Cherkas, 42, of Woodcliff Lake
Male ages 50-59: Phil Mania, 52, of Park Ridge
Female ages 50-59: Alice Vlasak, 55, of Washington Township
Male ages 60 and up: Leonard Manis, 63, of Paramus
Female ages 60 and up: Danielle Manis, 61, of Paramus

All the top sponsorship levels for the Mark Samitt 5K
Run were sold out. Many local sponsors showed sup-
port for this charity event by signing on as signature
sponsors. For the second year in a row, Title Sponsor
was Hackensack UMC at Pascack Valley. This year’s Plat-
inum Sponsor was Berkeley College and the Diamond
Sponsor was Porky Products. NIA National Realty, Inc.
was the T-Shirt Sponsor. Bagel Nosh of Waldwick and
The Rowbottom Family were this year’s two Gold Spon-
sors. Kilometer Marker Silver Sponsors were: Blue Moon
Mexican Café, Camp Ramaquois, Haley Stuart Group,
and Nicholas Markets Foodtown of Township of Wash-
ington. Bronze Sponsors were: Mania Hair Studio, Weg-
mans, Abeles Dermatology Aesthetic & Laser Arts, The
Spine & Health Center of New Jersey, Superdome Sports,
Township Volunteer Ambulance Corps donated their
emergency services. Balloon Artistry supplied the beau-
tiful balloon stands at the Start/Finish Line and at the
Hackensack UMC at Pascack Valley Winner’s Circle.
Proceeds from the run will benefit two of Mark
Samitt’s passions: Temple Beth Or and The Melanoma
Research Foundation (MRF). Mark Samitt was a beloved
family man, devoted friend, Temple Beth Or board
member, runner, and successful business professional
who died at age 52 in May 2015 after a long and valiant
fight with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
In the midst of his battle, Mark created Mark the SPOT! —
a campaign affiliated with the MRF aimed at generating
awareness among the hairstylist community about spot-
ting unusual moles or lesions during the routine styl-

A Reason to Smile and The Mittleman Family. Township of Washington’s

Charlie Brown’s Fresh Grill and Knights of Columbus
graciously donated their parking lots Sunday morning
for volunteers, runners, and walkers. The Washington
ing process. The campaign urged stylists, “If you SPOT
something, say something!”
To learn more about melanoma, Mark the Spot!, and
this event, visit www.marksamittrun.org.

Zika anymore,” Lepek says. The mosquitos, with their short

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of mosquitos, but only three to four are the types we
want to suppress,” Lepek explains. Tops on that list: the
Aedes aegypti, which carries Zika, yellow fever and chi-
kungunya; and the anopheles mosquito, the primary
carrier of malaria.
Even so, some mosquito researchers do worry about
a possible environmental cascade effect. While the
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continue spreading the same disease.
Richard S. Gertler, DMD, FAGD Still, it’s better than what existed before the advent
Ari Frohlich, DMD of Sterile Insect Technique (SIT), when mosquitos were
Sami Solaimanzadeh, DMD killed using pesticides. “Chemicals don’t work well
lifespans, quickly adapt and “creating new chemicals
takes a lot of time, money and regulations.”
Introducing sterile male insects was first tried suc-
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early example, Mexico and Guatemala stopped a med-
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crops by releasing billions of sterilized flies. Guatemala
continues to release 1.3 billion sterile male medflies a
week to maintain a “biological barrier.”
Mosquitos are more fragile than fruit flies, Lepek
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such as Senecio’s cartridges is required.
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Specialist in advanced cardiac imaging welcomes new patients
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Dr. Chokshi is an expert in the diagnosis and treat- dation’s Award for Overall Excellence in Clinical Research English, he is fluent in Gujarati and has working knowledge
ment of all forms of adult heart disease, with special and served as an abstract reviewer for the American College of Hindi and Spanish.
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Editorial
Portraits in courage … not
KEEPING THE FAITH

How to ‘mar’ a perfectly

W legitimate observance
hat exactly is going on in our Ms. Daftari, incensed, said no thank you, in
universities? an ice-cold, entirely appropriate response.

Is it a fit of anti-Zionism? An
anti-Semitic snit? Or a less-ideo-
logical but carefully played inter-college spasm
of sheer cowardice?
Who should be allowed to speak on cam-
puses? Everyone? Including anti-Semites and
racists and overt bigots, whether on the right
or the left? Or no one who possibly could
cause anybody to feel uncomfortable, per-
haps by making that person think? So does
that mean no one other than the occasional
happy-talk babbler?
How do we figure it out?
Last week, Lisa Daftari, a Middle East analyst
— and a young woman whose Iranian Jewish par-
ents brought her up in Paramus — was set to speak
at Rutgers University, the school from which she’d
graduated with a triple major in Middle Eastern
studies, Spanish, and vocal performance.
Her talk, as Larry Yudelson describes on
page 13, was to be about radicalism on college
campuses.
There are perhaps items in her resume that
trip some people’s alarms, in these incredibly
polarized and unhappy times. She does often
speak on Fox News, and that in itself is divisive.
Beyond that, it might be that a young woman
— and a Jew — daring to speak about Islam
might be seen as provocative, even though Ms.
Daftari’s goal is not to provoke, but merely to
explain and explore.
It seems that her talk was canceled after a
petition circulated calling her “an unapologetic
Islamophobe.” She denies that charge angrily.
Rutgers quickly canceled her talk, which had
been planned for more than a year, after worry-
ing that the university could not provide enough
security.
Then, Rutgers’ director of public and media
relations, John Cramer, wrote an email say-
ing, among other mealy-mouthed apparent
untruths, “Our position on the free exchange of
ideas is clear; the ability to respectfully present,
discuss and debate matters in the public inter-
est is at the heart of what every great university
does. Such free and respectful discussion is fun-
damental to Rutgers’ core values and is prac-
ticed every day at Rutgers.”
Would that this were true. If it were not true,
would that Rutgers would be straightforward
about it.
Thanks, Rutgers, for teaching about courage,
integrity, and the value of truth.
Meanwhile, at William Paterson University,
Professor Clyde Magarelli has retired.
Readers might remember Larry’s story about
him in our June 5 issue. A student called out his
Holocaust denial, among other instances of anti-
Semitism and other kinds of virulent and also
idiotic racism and other conspiracist lunacy;
as it turns out, Dr. Magarelli had been teaching
both standard sociology and less standard les-
sons since 1951. There have been complaints
against him for decades, but it was not until last
year, when the student filmed him on her phone
and posted the video on Twitter, that the univer-
sity took action.
And this is the action it took — we don’t know
why Dr. Magarelli, who certainly has reached
retirement age, retired. We don’t know whose
choice it was — his or the school’s. But we do
know what the school said.
In an email in response to Larry’s question
about Dr. Magarelli, the school’s director of pub-
lic relations, Mary Beth Zeman, wrote this:
“University administrators learned in June
of complaints by a student against a Univer-
sity professor. The University then began a
thorough process, applying established insti-
tutional procedures, to determine if the pro-
fessor’s teaching and conduct were consistent
with University policies and standards for aca-
demic integrity and excellence. While there
has been no finding of violations of our dis-
crimination and harassment policies, the pro-
cess revealed issues related to pedagogy and
teaching effectiveness. The University took
appropriate action. Since this is a personnel
matter, the details are confidential between
the University and the individual faculty mem-
ber. After 51 years of service at William Pater-
son, Dr. Magarelli chose to retire as of Septem-
ber 1, 2018.”
So teaching Holocaust denial, among other
anti-Semitic, racist, and just plain crackpot
ideas, is not wrong. The only problem is “issues
related to pedagogy and teaching effectiveness,”
which is, of course, true, as far as it goes.
So kudos to you, Rutgers, and to you, Wil-
liam Paterson, for your straightforward,
clearly reasoned acts of pure courage. Teach
your students well. — JP
T
omorrow — Saturday, Octo- this column and read it every October
ber 20 — is Information 20 because it will overload you with
Overload Day. information you never realized you
Seriously. could live without and probably will
According to the website daysofthe- forget soon after you have googled
year.com, the observance was estab- your way into realizing I did not make
lished by a group of companies con- any of this up.
cerned about how much money was Let us, therefore, discuss the ques-
being lost because employees were tion of what the current Jewish month
spending time checking their emails is called.
and other social media Question No. 1: Is it
components. That “Marcheshvan,” as some
price tag is somewhere call it, or is it “Cheshvan”
around $180 billion, or “Heshvan,” with or
which is why Informa- without a dot under the
tion Overload Day came capital H, which is just
to be, because “clearly about how every Jewish
something needed to calendar lists it?
be done,” the website Question No. 2: Most
proclaims. people would answer
Among the ways to Shammai the previous question
“celebrate” the day, it Engelmayer by saying Cheshvan is
suggests, is to “stop its “real” name. If so,
checking your email why did someone tack
every time it dings…, log [into your on that “Mar”?
email] only five times a day…, turn off Question No. 3: Some people may
the ringer on your phone, including opt for “Marcheshvan” as being cor-
the vibration.” rect. If so, why is it correct — or are
The trouble is, that could not have they also wrong?
worked for many of us, at least not Answer No. 1: Neither Cheshvan
this year, assuming we are aware of nor Marcheshvan is correct, although
“I-O Day.” That is because October 20 Marcheshvan comes closer to the
is a Shabbat, which means that many actual name.
of my faithful readers will go beyond Answer No. 2: The common belief
these suggestions, and they will do so is that Cheshvan is correct and “mar”
again next Shabbat, and the one after was added because it means bitter in
that, and so on. Perhaps that means Hebrew, and “Cheshvan” is a “bitter”
that observant Jews observe a Jewish month. Why that is the case is another
Information Overload Day 65 times story. Either it is bitter because it is
every secular year. (This includes all the month in which the Great Flood
of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and began (the anniversary of which, by
the pilgrimage festivals’ opening and the way, was last Shabbat), or because
closing days.) That being the case, it is the only Jewish month in which
observing the day on the proper day there supposedly are no formal Jew-
is one day too much, so how else may ish observances.
we observe it? These, however, are just myths.
My suggestion would be to save Answer No. 3: As noted,
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades, now
in Fort Lee.

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Marcheshvan comes closest to the actual name, but
probably it should be pronounced as two words,
“Marach shavan,” as Yemenite Jews pronounce it.
The original name of the month is spelled with letters
that we do pronounce as “Marcheshvan.” In the Babylo-
nian Talmud, for example, in tractate Pesachim 94b, we
find “MRCHSHVN” at the center of a three-month cycle
in which the sun “travels over the seas in order to dry
the rivers,” presumably because that helps bring rain to
agricultural regions.
In BT Rosh Hashanah 7a, there is a lively discussion
of whether Nisan or Tishrei is the “seventh month”
referred to in the Torah. An anonymous someone pro-
poses that the actual seventh month is “MRCHSHVN,”
but this is rejected because the seventh month requires
crops to be harvested, and this month begins after the
harvest ends.
In fact, according to BT Bava Metzia 106b, this month
is smack in the middle of the planting season, an opin-
ion uttered by the head of the Sanhedrin, Rabban Shi-
mon ben Gamliel II, who was quoting Rabbi Meir, the
Sanhedrin’s Number 3 sage at the time (known as the
Chacham). That he did quote Rabbi Meir is interesting
in itself, since he ejected Rabbi Meir from the Sanhedrin
because of a clash of egos, and then banned anyone
from quoting law in Rabbi Meir’s name (see BT Horayot
13b). We are told that Rabbi Shimon ben Menasya agreed
with this opinion, but that Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi
Shimon had their own ideas. Both, however, included
“MRCHSHVN” in their opinions.
Rashi uses the name at least eight times in the Talmud,
and once in a comment to a verse in last Shabbat’s Torah
reading (see his comment to Gen. 7:11). We also find it
in Rambam, in the Shulchan Aruch, and in many other
rabbinic writings.
As for why “MRCHSHVN” is more likely pronounced
as “Marach shavan,” that takes a bit of explaining.
The name of the month actually originates in ancient
Akkadian, a language in which the letters mem and vav
are interchangeable, which is then carried over into
ancient Hebrew, which also used to interchange the let-
ters vav and yod. (That is why in the Torah “hee,” mean-
ing she, most often is written as “hoo,” meaning he.)
Thus, “mar” in Akkadian could be “var,” and “chesh-
van” could be “cheshman.” Put those letters together
and we get “VRCHSHMN” (“VaRaCHSHaMNu”), which
actually is two words — “VaRaCH SHaMNu.” In Akka-
dian, that phrase means “eighth month.” Interchange
those letters in Hebrew and you get YRCHSHMN, which
is pronounced as two words, “YeReCH SH’MiNi,” and
also means “eight month.” Since Tishrei is the seventh
month and this month follows it, “YRCHSHMN” is
exactly right.
Now the interchanging comes into play. Instead of
YRCHSHMN, we get MRCHSHVN. Yemenite Jews divide it
into two and pronounce it as “MaRaCH SHaVaN,” mim-
icking the two words “YeReCH SH’MiNi.” It is just as easy,
of course, to pronounce MRCHSHVN as “MaRCHeSH-
VaN,” but that would reduce the name to one word,
when clearly it began as two words.
In any case, there is nothing bitter about Marach sha-
van, or Marcheshvan. True, the Great Flood began in this
month, but it also ended in this month (on the 27th, which
is November 5 this year) with the exit from the Ark. That is
a sweet thing, not a bitter one. For another, there really is
a Jewish observance of a sort, Rosh Chodesh, which once
upon a time was celebrated as a minor festival and still
retains many of the trappings of one.
Too much information? Maybe, but at least now you
can celebrate Information Overload Day every year by
reading this column aloud to anyone willing to listen.
Then pop a cork and say, “Oy Vey, it’s I-O Day!”
Opinion
Talmudic politics of personal abuse
I
n the late first century, Rabban Gamliel II, also
known as Gamliel of Yavneh, was nasi — the pres-
ident, or head — of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish
people’s national deliberative body and its high-
est court. The Sanhedrin tried criminal cases, debated
and determined ritual law, resolved civil disputes, and
addressed matters of all sorts affecting the public weal.
A brilliant scholar and an able leader, Gamliel had a
fatal character flaw. He repeatedly introduced bitter par-
tisan rhetoric and ad hominem attacks into the Sanhe-
drin’s debates. Tellingly, he referred to that august rab-
binic institution’s members as baalei trisim — “armored
combatants” (Berachot 27B).
Specifically, a belligerent Rabban Gamliel demeaned
Rabbi Yehoshua on a series of occasions. Before there
was a fixed Jewish calendar, there was disagreement
about the scheduling of Yom Kippur. Pre-
dictably, Gamliel and Yehoshua took oppos-
ing positions. In an extraordinary exercise
of his authority, Gamliel ordered Yehoshua
to take actions on the day that Yehoshua
believed to be Yom Kippur, and they were
actions that would desecrate the holy day.
Gamliel thus quashed a dissenting opinion
and coerced his colleague to subordinate
himself to the nasi’s power.
G a m l i e l a l s o p u b l i c ly hu m i l i ate d Rabbi Joseph
Yehoshua in the course of a subsequent dis- H. Prouser
cussion by the Sanhedrin concerning sacri-
ficial protocols.
Since Gamliel came to power after the destruction of
the Temple and the cessation of the sacrificial cult, such
a debate was purely academic; expressions of personal
animus were all the more unnecessary.
Rabban Gamliel went on to reprise his politics of per-
sonal abuse on a third and fateful occasion. A student
appeared before Rabbi Yehoshua and asked a matter of
ritual and liturgical practice. Is “Maariv” — the evening
prayer — obligatory, or is it optional? Rabbi Yehoshua
ruled that the evening service is optional. For some
reason, the same student then went to Rabban Gamliel
and asked the same question. The nasi told the student
that the evening prayer was obligatory. The student
objected: “But Rabbi Yehoshua says it is optional.” Gam-
liel had the student appear before the Sanhedrin when it
next convened and made him ask his question in public.
When he did so, Gamliel repeated his ruling: “The eve-
ning prayer is obligatory,” adding imperiously: “Is there
anyone here who disagrees?”
When Rabbi Yehoshua remained silent, Gamliel
sprang his trap, citing Yehoshua’s earlier ruling, portray-
ing him as a liar, and threatening to call witnesses before
the Sanhedrin to testify against him. Yehoshua crypti-
cally conceded that he would be unable to contradict
any such witnesses. A vindictive and petulant Gamliel
ordered Yehoshua to stand up, and to remain standing
while the nasi’s lecture and the Sanhedrin’s delibera-
tions continued.
It was an act of rank disrespect to Yehoshua, a blatant
breach of the great scholar’s dignity, and a willful and
arrogant violation of time-honored norms.
Principled Sanhedrin members — perhaps reflect-
ing public sentiment — finally objected to Gamliel’s
unseemly, divisive conduct, and deposed him from
leadership, removing him as nasi. Ad kama n’tza-arei
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This version of Talmudic-era debate in the Sanhedrin
is on display at Beit Ha-Tefutzot in Israel.
v’neizil, they said. “How long can we toler-
ate this abusive behavior?”
Gamliel’s removal, of course, left a criti-
cal vacancy. Who would succeed him? Not
Rabbi Yehoshua: he was tainted as a party to
the antagonistic exchange. His appointment
would be too harsh a blow to Gamliel, exacer-
bating the very divisiveness that the Sanhedrin
members found so improper. Rabbi Akiba was
a prospective successor, but he was rejected
(a bit shockingly by today’s democratic stan-
dards) because he was of undistinguished
ancestry. That made him unlike Gamliel, the
great-great-grandson of Hillel. Ultimately, 18-year-old Elazar
ben Azarya was appointed nasi (though his sagacious young
wife expressed well-placed misgivings about assuming lead-
ership in such a toxic political climate!).
In case you were wondering, the halacha was estab-
lished in accordance with the view of Rabbi Yehoshua:
Maariv — the evening service — was declared optional.
However, the Jewish people took the evening prayer upon
themselves as a sacred trust, in practical terms render-
ing it every bit as obligatory as the morning and after-
noon prayers. Popular sentiment forged a compromise
that entrenched and that partisan national leaders were
unwilling or unable to reach.
As for the youthful Elazar, his dark beard famously is
said miraculously to have sprouted gray hairs overnight.
Perhaps that was so that the teenage nasi might look the
part — or perhaps it was a warning, a sign of how the oner-
ous burdens and challenges of national leadership quickly
age those who occupy high public office.
Elazar’s first act as nasi was to increase transparency in
the Sanhedrin, by adding 400 (some say 700!) benches to
its gallery, accommodating as many scholars and observ-
ers as possible.
Nineteen hundred years ago, Jewish tradition under-
stood … that there must be effective checks on national
leaders, lest they abuse their power … that dysfunctional
national leadership demands a change … that broad popu-
lar engagement in the deliberative process is required …
and that a principled new generation of leaders may have
a critical role to play.
“Ad kama n’tza-arei v’neizil?” “How long can we toler-
ate this abusive behavior?”
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018 51
Opinion

Canary Mission turns bigoted words on bigots

S
omething odd hap- a racist, the world should know.” The site profiles people
pened during the Viet- who are in violation of the U.S. State Department defini-
nam War. tion of anti-Semitism, who support terrorists, who vio-
Actually, a lot of late the personal safety of Jews or supporters of Israel, Canary Mission —
odd things happened during promote BDS, and so on. Canary Mission uses only open
the Vietnam War, but I want sources (tweets, posts, articles, and the like), so there’s no whose name comes
to focus on one of them. Time spying on anybody. from the proverbial
magazine had a cover story Here’s a small sampling of Canary Mission profiles:
about the war. On the cover Alex Abbasi of Harvard called for a stone-throwing inti- canary in the coal mine,
was a picture of a naked, cry- Rabbi Robert fada in Israel, expressed solidarity with terrorist organi- the first alert of danger
ing baby. It turns out the upper L. Wolkoff zations Hamas and Hezbollah, denied that Israel has a
crust ladies of Dallas, Texas, right to self-defense, and claimed that Israel was trying to — catalogues the anti-
took great offense at the idea mutate Palestinians genetically. Israel and anti-Semitic
that Time would do something so atrocious as to show Rabab Abdulhadi, a professor at San Francisco State
a baby’s naked tush on its cover. So they insisted that University, called for a Third Intifada, organized a trip to comments that pollute
every issue of Time magazine had a post-it note glued on the Middle East where participants met with convicted our college campuses.
to cover the baby, and thereby avoid offending the good terrorist and hijacker Leila Khaled, and supports BDS.
citizens of Dallas. Mohammad G. Hammad, a former student at San
The irony, of course, is that if anything was atrocious, it Francisco State, praised the terrorist organization PFLP, Who, in case you didn’t know, is us.
was the war itself, not the baby’s tush. But in this case the and posted a picture of himself holding a knife and say- Atrocious stuff, certainly. And you would think that a
real atrocity was ignored, while there was endless cluck- ing, “I seriously can not get over how much I love this website that identified these people should be congratu-
clucking and tut-tutting about the evidence of the atrocity. blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through lated. After all, when the neo-Nazis from Charlottesville
Something similar is taking place today with a website everything like butter and just holding it makes me want were named and shamed, nobody complained about it.
called Canary Mission. to stab an Israeli soldier.” He also commented that when To the contrary. @YesYoureRacist has nearly 400 thou-
Canary Mission — whose name comes from the pro- he saw a picture of an Israeli soldier, “The only ‘peace’ sand followers.
verbial canary in the coal mine, the first alert of danger I’m interest in is the head of this f•cking scum on a plate, But now, believe it or not, Canary Mission itself — not
— catalogues the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments as well as the heads of all others like her, and all others the anti-Semites it exposes — is under fire.
that pollute our college campuses. Its motto is: “If you’re who support the IDF.” Why? Well, beside the gutter anti-Semites like Hammad,

‘Our Struggle Is My Struggle’

Three inspired hoaxers expose the dangers of grievance studies

T
he world of aca-
demia has been
riveted by the full
account of an elabo-
rate hoax that resulted in sev-
eral high-profile academic jour-
nals publishing articles based
on ludicrous notions and fake
field research, but couched in
the language of social justice Ben Cohen
and identity politics.
The hoax was the brainchild
of three academics — editor and writer Helen Pluckrose,
mathematician James Lindsay, and philosopher Peter
Boghossian — none of whom are likely to receive A-list
university posts now that they have performed this valu-
able service. Over a period of about a year, the three of
them concocted 20 hoax papers relating to themes like
identity, sexuality, body shape, and the significance of
intersectional struggles. By the time they called a halt to
the project, seven of these hoaxes had been published in
various academic journals, essentially confirming their
initial suspicion that as long as it is in the proper political
packaging, there are plenty of journal editors out there
receptive to any old garbage.
One paper about “rape culture” in dog parks in Port-
land, Ore., received a special citation from the journal
that published it. Another paper, on how “masculin-
ist and Western bias” in the science of astronomy “can
best be corrected by including feminist, queer and
indigenous astrology,” was enthusiastically received by
academic reviewers with a request for only minor revi-
sions. Most spectacularly, the feminist social-work jour-
nal Affilia published a hoax paper titled “Our Struggle The scientific
Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional
Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism” that was com- standards and
posed of passages lifted from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf rationalist principles
with, in the words of the three hoaxers, “fashionable
buzzwords switched in.” that underlie the
Many academics have protested that the hoax project exploration of what
was unethical because its methodology hinged upon dis-
honest dealings with the editors and peer reviewers of constitutes truth are
the journals where these papers were published. There being assailed by what
is some merit to that argument, but more importantly
still, we can learn a great deal about human behavior the hoaxers call
from these types of underhand experiments. When the “the identitarian
controversial American social psychologists Stanley Mil-
gram and Philip Zimbardo carried out their respective madness coming
studies of obedience more than 50 years ago — in Mil- out of the academic
gram’s case, setting up unknowing subjects to believe
that they were inflicting electric shocks on others at the and activist left.”
behest of an “authority figure,” and in Zimbardo’s, plac-
ing student volunteers in “guard” and “inmate” roles in dramatic as the exploration of human cruelty. Its frame-
a laboratory “prison” — these were similarly denounced work of enquiry was restricted to academic journals
as unethical. But they also demonstrated that willfully only. And its purpose was to establish whether what the
engaging in state-sanctioned brutality is something that authors call “grievance studies” — the collection of disci-
all human beings are vulnerable to, even when doing plines spanning gender, race and culture that are served
so violates the values and standards taught to them all by the journals in question — is “corrupting academic
their lives. research.” Their short answer is “yes.”
The focus of this present hoax was not, of course, as At stake here is more than the irresponsible use of facts

52 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018


Canary Mission also lists the people who are
actively involved in the BDS movement, like
Rebecca Vilkomerson, head of Jewish Voice
for Peace. And people like this don’t think
they should be on the same list as the gut-
ter anti-Semites because, you see, they have
high morals.
Unlike the rest of us.
So when they disrupt Israeli speak-
ers, compare Israelis to Nazis, and seek to
destroy the livelihood of millions of Jews
through BDS, they think they should get a
medal. And the website that simply repeats
what they have publicly said and done is
committing an atrocity. McCarthyism! Intim-
idation! Blacklisting! Demonization! Scare
tactics! Defamation!
Wait…. what? How can it be defamation
to quote accurately what a person says pub-
licly, and to describe accurately what a per-
son does publicly?
One student with a Canary Mission pro-
file, Nadine Jawad (who is active in BDS and
accused Israel of “demonic acts,” “state
sponsored terrorism,” and “massacre”) com-
mented, “When you google my name, this
comes up. How is it going to be perceived?”
Exactly as it should be perceived, in my
by academics or the ideological assump-
tions behind much research in social sci-
ence. Ultimately, we are dealing with what
the hoaxers rightly identify as a crisis in
epistemology — the venerable branch of
philosophy concerned with what we know
and how we know it, ranging from simple
observations (“it’s raining”) to more com-
plex judgements (“you did the right thing”).
The scientific standards and rationalist
principles that underlie the exploration of
what constitutes truth are being assailed
by what the hoaxers call “the identitarian
madness coming out of the academic and
activist left.” Madness it may be, but at the
same time it has become a useful tool for
scholars who “bully students, administra-
tors and other departments into adhering
to their worldview.”
Increasingly, students are taught that
the veracity of a particular claim cannot be
separated from the identity of the person
making it — and that suggesting otherwise
is a surrender to patriarchy and racism.
Central to this approach as well — as
my colleague Jonathan S. Tobin recently
pointed out in a different context focus-
ing on environmental activists — is the
abandonment of the skepticism that is so
essential to the scientific method. Ideo-
logical conviction and an in-built bias
toward some human identities over oth-
ers, rather than testing and observation,
Opinion
humble opinion. You break it, you buy it.
And remember: the Internet is forever.
The ante has been upped, now, because
evidently Israeli immigration authorities are
aware of Canary Mission and use it to help
determine who gets to enter Israel. And they
don’t like people coming to their country
that are actively working for its destruction.
Go figure.
And make no mistake, the goal of BDS
is the destruction of Israel. As Princeton’s
own resident anti-Semite, Richard Falk, has
written, the purpose of BDS is “to shake the
foundations of the Zionist insistence on a
Jewish state.” Success for BDS will ruin (if
not end) the lives of millions and millions of
Jews. And we’re not supposed to even talk
about it?
Sorry, but “sha shtill” (“quiet down, don’t
make trouble”) is no longer an option for us.
And if that makes life tough for anti-Semites,
well, you are known for who you are.
Robert L. Wolkoff has lectured and written
internationally on Israel and Judaism.
He is the rabbi of Congregation B’nai
Tikvah in North Brunswick and is a JNF
Rabbi for Israel.
has become the standard by which we
ascertain what is true, and therefore,
what is false as well.
While the three hoaxers don’t claim that
the entire university system has been con-
sumed by identity politics and its dubious
methods of attaining the truth, the prob-
lem is evidently significant enough for us
laypeople to worry about it. From a Jew-
ish philosophical perspective, there is no
serious quarrel with the scientific method;
Maimonides wrote that “knowledge of the
Divine cannot be attained except through
knowledge of the natural sciences.”
But far more practically, we shouldn’t
shy away from saying that the academic
study of the Nazi Holocaust — particularly
as carried out in Israel by Yad Vashem and
other institutions — provides us with a
model to examine human suffering that is
far more rigorous than anything purveyed
by the identitarians. Because if this darkly
amusing hoax has taught us anything, it’s
that the study of grievances is too impor-
tant to be left to the practitioners of griev-
ance studies. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for
JNS on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern
politics. His work has been published in
Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
the Wall Street Journal, and many other
publications.
Menendez called a friend of Jews and immigrants
As fall begins and our attention whip-
saws between the Trump scandal du
jour and the general busy-ness of our
daily lives, a national tragedy that
began in the spring continues to haunt
our country today. I am of course talk-
ing about the Trump administration’s
family separation policy. It is partly
for this reason why I have become so
involved in the United States Senate
race in my home state of New Jersey,
even while running for mayor in my
town of Englewood. We have a choice
between Senator Bob Menendez, who
is a leading voice on immigration
issues, and Bob Hugin, a Trump shill
who barely pretends to care about
the horrors inflicted on the separated
families and children.
Beginning in April, the administra-
tion announced a “zero tolerance”
policy in which immigrant families
caught attempting to cross the bor-
der into the United States would
be separated so that children and
parents could not even be incarcer-
ated together. Chaos, psychologi-
cal trauma, and even death ensued.
At its peak, the program separated
2,500 people. Fortunately, our fed-
eral judiciary stepped up and man-
dated that the federal government
reunify all families. Unfortunately,
our government has yet to reunite
hundreds of individuals who are try-
ing to desperately to see their fami-
lies again. The total disorganization
exhibited by our immigration offi-
cials is indeed deeply disturbing.
As an immigration attorney, my cli-
ents’ experiences have run the gamut.
Many have dealt with unspeakable
hardships while others have had
more fortunate livelihoods. The rea-
son I find the government’s zero tol-
erance policy so troubling is because
it should never be the United States
that creates the horrors for people
wanting to immigrate here. Our coun-
try must of course have security poli-
cies in place, but there is no rationale
why we cannot carry out our laws
with humanity and respect. If we
are to be a democratic nation that
serves as a beacon of hope and vir-
tue for the rest of the world, our gov-
ernment officials and policies must
never fall short of the highest ideals
set forth by our Founding Fathers in
the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution.
As a Jew, I am also disappointed in
our leaders. I need not recite the his-
tory of forced migration of the Jewish
people in this publication. As excru-
ciating as it was for our ancestors to
be rejected by some countries, it was
equally joyous to be welcomed to the
United States where our community
continues to thrive.
This mindset is why I support
JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018 53
Letter
Senator Bob Menendez’s re-election
campaign. Not only is he a major sup-
porter of Israel, but in 2013 Senator
Menendez was a member of the Gang
of 8, a bipartisan group of senators
that came together to draft compre-
hensive immigration reform legisla-
tion. The bill both created a pathway
to citizenship for immigrants already
living in the United States and con-
tributing to our communities. The
bill passed the Senate 68-32. House
Republicans then capitulated to
the far-right wing of their party and
stopped it from reaching President
Obama’s desk. It was beyond disap-
pointing that so many Republicans
sided with xenophobia over common-
sense public policy.
In contrast, Senator Menendez’s
opponent, Bob Hugin, may try to
come across as a sensible Republican,
but nothing in his history supports
that notion. Perhaps most tellingly,
at the same time that Senator Menen-
dez was pursuing groundbreaking
immigration legislation, Hugin wrote
a half-million-dollar check to the
influential Heritage Foundation, an
extreme right-wing think tank and
political advocacy group. That same
year, Heritage achieved particu-
lar notoriety for publishing a sham
study that suggested immigration
reform will cost the public trillions
of dollars in government subsidies.
One of the authors had previously
written that the IQ of immigrants was
“substantially lower than that of the
white native population, and the dif-
ference is likely to persist over several
generations.”
This wasn’t a one-off conserva-
tive donation. Hugin also donated
$100,000 to Trump’s campaign. In
turn, it should then come as no sur-
prise that Hugin, well into his thirties,
sought to keep women out his exclu-
sive college club. After the New Jersey
Supreme Court ruled his former club
could no longer discriminate against
women, he called the decision “politi-
cally correct fascism.” Please. We Jews
know what fascism looks like, and a
court decision advancing social jus-
tice isn’t it.
Clearly we need a senator like Bob
Menendez who knows how to reach
across the aisle to make laws that
maintain a deep sense of compassion.
Let us enter the voting booth with a
moral compass. Our country needs it
more than ever.
Michael Wildes
Englewood
Michael Wildes is a candidate for
mayor in Englewood, an immigration
attorney, and the author of the recently
published “Safe Haven in America:
Battles to Open the Golden Door.”
Jewish World
Kushner bromance with Saudi Prince Mohammed
grows murkier with each passing meeting
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON — In March, Saudi Arabia
was on the brink of a new age of moder-
nity. And Prince Mohammed bin Salman
and Jared Kushner, President Donald
Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser, were
at the epicenter of that transformation.
But allegations this week that bin Salman
— or MBS, as he is known — ordered the
brazen murder and dismemberment of a
dissident Saudi journalist in Istanbul, Tur-
key, have roiled the prince’s reputation as
a modernizer.
So where does that leave Kushner, who
cultivated a close friendship with MBS, in
part to advance his efforts to revive the
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks? Does Kush-
ner counsel the president to distance the
United States from Saudi Arabia? Or does
he wait out the storm and return to the
bromance when things are quieter?
Despite some favorable media coverage
at the time of his last U.S. visit in March,
much reporting suggested — even before
last week, when Jamal Khashoggi, a per-
manent resident of the United States, dis-
appeared after walking into the Saudi
embassy in Istanbul — that MBS’s reforms
were more show than substance.
Yes, women could drive — but the activ-
ists who helped bring about the change
were languishing in jail. Yes, MSB seemed
ready for closer relations with Israel —
while also bombing Yemen into submis-
sion, with little regard for civilian casual-
ties. Yes, the extended Saudi royal family
seemed on board with his changes — but
maybe a period of imprisonment and tor-
ture in 2017 had something to do with that.
With the Khashoggi crisis in full bloom,
the Trump administration is scrambling
for a strategy. Trump is wary of penal-
izing a nation that spends big money on
U.S. arms. “I don’t like stopping massive
amounts of money that’s being poured
into our country on — I know they’re talk-
ing about different kinds of sanctions,” he
said last Thursday, referring to moves in
Congress to sanction Saudi Arabia, “but
they’re spending $110 billion on military
equipment and on things that create jobs,
like jobs and others, for this country.” (As
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reporting in the Washington Post and the
New York Times, as well as in other places,
has made clear, that $110 billion figure is
highly inflated at best.
Saudi Arabia also figures large in Trump
administration plans to isolate Iran.
Kushner, whom Trump has tasked with
relaunching the Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks, is at the center of the U.S.-Saudi rela-
tionship. The drive for a peace deal osten-
sibly is what brought Kushner and MBS
together, but their relationship has broad-
ened to include arms sales and regional
strategy making.
Here are five key moments in the Kush-
ner-MBS bromance.
The first meeting
According to the Washington Post, MBS
and Kushner became friendly when
the crown prince first visited Trump in
March 2017, soon after he became presi-
dent. A meeting with German Chancel-
lor Angela Merkel was next on the agenda
but was delayed by a snowstorm, which
allowed the two 30somethings to become
acquainted. That set off a long-distance
relationship, with frequent phone calls,
the Post reported.
Open arms and an arms deal
One result of the closeness was a major
shift: A president’s inaugural trip tradi-
tionally has been to a neighbor, Canada
or Mexico. Trump instead first headed to
Saudi Arabia, in May 2017, and Kushner
was instrumental in setting the agenda —
so instrumental that he says he got a rab-
bi’s permission to join his father-in-law on
the Shabbat flight. (Which rabbi? That’s
still a mystery.)
The trip went off smoothly — remember
that glowing orb that Trump and MBS’s
dad touched together? And Trump signed
a theoretical $110 billion arms sale deal
with the country.
That Lebanon business
Kushner visited with MBS in Saudi Arabia
in October 2017, supposedly to discuss
advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace
deal. A week or so later, Saad Hariri, the
Lebanese prime minister, turned up in
Jared Kushner, left, and Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia to resign, citing the over-
weening influence in his country of Hez-
bollah, the Shiite militia aligned with Iran.
It was a bizarre moment, and soon
Hariri was back in Lebanon, after rescind-
ing his resignation. What happened?
Hariri has close business and family
relations in Saudi Arabia, and MBS may
have coerced his resignation as a means
of sowing chaos in Lebanon — chaos he
reportedly hoped would spark a punish-
ing Israeli assault on Hezbollah. No one
told the Israelis, and they were not game
to be Saudi Arabia’s proxy in its longstand-
ing dispute with Iran.
Did Kushner give MBS a green light? They
chatted until 4 a.m. during the visit. We may
never know what they discussed, but the
proximity and secrecy of his visit, so close
to the Lebanon fiasco, led to speculation
that Kushner winked at MBS’s maneuvering.
The crown prince arrested a bunch of his
extended family at around the same time.
That was the second round of arrests; the
first was in June, soon after the Trump visit.
Making matters murkier, Trump praised the
prince for the arrests in a tweet.
That peace deal
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas was summoned to Saudi Arabia
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the same month as Hariri, November
2017. What was said was not clear, but
according to subsequent reports, MBS
pressed Abbas to accept Kushner’s terms
for a peace deal that would comprise a
Palestinian quasi state with its capital in
Jerusalem’s suburbs, as opposed to the
city itself.
Abbas reportedly declined, and Saudi
statements denied that MBS had ever
embraced such a proposal.
One year later ...
A year after their snowbound bromance
began, MBS was back in the United States
for what was to be a turning point in the
U.S.-Saudi relationship. He met with
Trump, and Kushner helped organize
a busy itinerary for the prince, includ-
ing stops in high-tech centers on the
East and West coasts to talk investment.
MBS and his modernization proposals
received glowing attention from influen-
tial columnists.
Marring the visit was the revelation, first
reported at the time by The Intercept, that
MBS told Persian Gulf buddies that he had
Kushner “in his pocket.”
Is that the case? The Khashoggi mys-
tery is not going away, and we may learn
more soon. JTA WIRE SERVICE

Lech Lecha: Embracing the journey
W
hen I was a kid, I dreamt
about growing up and
becoming a truck driver.
I was fascinated with big
rigs, 18 wheelers, and the different engines
of trucks. I thought it would be so fun to
drive across this glorious country and see
so many different sites and landscapes and
have the excitement of a truck’s wheel on
my hands.
I think this obsession came from my
childhood where we moved a lot. Large
men, usually named Spike or Roy, would
come to our home every few years and
take our belongings and put them on a
truck and take them to wherever we
would make our home for the years
to come. We left that which was com-
fortable, and started on the road to a
new beginning.
By the time I was sixteen years young I
had lived in six different places. Each of
them was different and unique. Living in
these places gave me a special perspective
on dialects, pace of life, values of regions,
temperatures and, of course, the topogra-
phy of each location.
Seeing things from a new perspective
is an important principle. That is perhaps
the reason why every figure in the Bible
takes journeys and most likely the rea-
son there is never an “arrival” moment in
Jewish history. We are a dynamic people
always on the move.
Adam and Eve are banished from the
Garden of Eden, Noah rides the waves
of destruction to a new creation. Moses
leads the Israelites through an Exodus.
Jacob runs from his brother and runs
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D’var Torah
after his missing son. Joseph
is moved against his will to
Egypt. We are a people con-
stantly on the move. No one
figure demonstrates that
more boldly than Abram in
this week’s Torah portion of
Lech Lecha.
Abram is told by God,
Lech lecha. Go, pack up Rabbi David-
your things and go from this Seth Kirshner
land, your birthplace, your Temple Emanu-El,
Closter,
father’s land to a land that I Conservative
will show you.
Similar to my family, it
wasn’t Abram’s failure or calamity which
caused his move, rather something was
lacking. Spiritually Abram was not fulfilled
and God wanted to develop a relationship
with Abram. And, in order for that to hap-
pen, God required that Abram move physi-
cally in order to move spiritually.
Rashi explains the words “Lech lecha,”
as “Abram, go, begin your journey, and
there, you will worship me in the land of
Israel, because all of the time you are out-
side the land you have no relationship with
God.” It is clear from this source that the
point of the physical journey was to grow
spiritually and augment Abram’s relation-
ship with God.
The Zohar explains the redundancy of
the words “Lech Lecha” as a directive,
explaining that for someone to move spiri-
tually they must move physically too.
To gain perspective on things you have
to shake it up a little, change them around.
These changes are integral in advancing
your relationship with God.
not mention Trump and his issues page
repudiates many hallmarks of the Trump
presidency: Gangs pose a greater threat
to Mexicans than Americans, Aronoff
says, and border security “doesn’t
require some big expensive wall.” He
wants a path to citizenship for dreamers
and wants to reinstate a work visa pro-
gram for Mexicans.
Prospects: 1 in 99 in a district that is
solidly liberal.
Here are some other
noteworthy tidbits on the
midterms:
The year of women?
Of 56 Jewish candidates in the Senate and
the House, 20 are women, among them
two, an incumbent and a challenger, in
the Senate; six Democratic incumbents
in the House; nine Democratic House
There is an interesting law
that applies to a mourner.
If someone is a regular
attendee at synagogue, they
most likely have an estab-
lished seat. This is referred
to as a makom kavua. The
law teaches that in the unfor-
tunate case of a loved one’s
death, we must change our
makom kavua, our estab-
lished seat, for the entire year
of mourning. At a time when
we would naturally question
God the most, we need to sit
somewhere that would give us a new and
different perspective so we can continue
to advance our relationship with God. That
is a beautiful code in our tradition encour-
aging us to maintain our connection with
God, regardless of circumstance.
Changing, moving, looking at things
from a new point of view — these are some
of the most difficult things in the world
to do. We all love our routine. We all feel
secure with familiar neighborhoods. We
love to walk into the diner and order the
same drink and bagel without change.
When we escape from our regular order,
something seems different. It never tastes
right and it inevitably throws our days off
balance. Sometimes, we find ourselves
changing our orders, we find ourselves on
journeys. Most of the times we aren’t pre-
pared for these journeys and they could
not come at more inopportune time.
Nonetheless, by embarking on them,
we naturally cultivate our relationship
with God
challengers (half of the party’s 18 Jew-
ish challengers); and three Republican
House challengers.
Inspired by dad
Two women House Democratic challeng-
ers, Chrissy Houlahan in Pennsylvania
and Kara Eastman in Nebraska, do not
identify as Jewish, but each says her Jew-
ish father shaped her outlook as a liberal
Democrat.
Three Levins
There are three Levins running: Mike in
California and Andy in Michigan, both
Democrats, and Naomi in New York, a
Republican.
Married to the tribe
Two Democratic House nominees, David
Trone in Maryland and Angie Craig in
Minnesota, are married to Jewish spouses
JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018 55
Journeys might be the hallmark of Juda-
ism. We are a dynamic people. We pray
the same liturgy everyday. Some days,
certain prayers speak to us more than
others. Often the same prayers inspire
different thoughts. Each year we re-read
the Torah from the beginning making
our way through the last word. During
every cycle we analyze different verses
of the Torah, understand new concepts,
apply ancient words to the here and
now. The watchwords of Conservative
Judaism are “tradition and change.” The
“change” is the essential ingredient to
our survival. We must work at changing
our perspectives.
The Talmud Bavli teaches, “mishaneh
makom mishaneh mazal,” by changing
our place in life we can change our for-
tune. I suggest that we translate the text a
bit differently. Instead of changing our for-
tune, we should understand it as changing
our destiny.
Abram took a physical journey in his
life and it led him to a deeper relationship
with God that we all inherit today. Like
Moses, Miriam, Abram, Joseph, the peo-
ple of Israel, we are always seeking out our
destiny. Like our ancestors, we are always
on a journey.
Some of us have spiritual journeys. All
of us take journeys, journeys that are dif-
ferent in nature, but all of them strengthen
our individual character and change our
perspective. Allow Lech Lecha to embrace
the journey to the new and unknown
and allow it to open our possibilities for
deepening our connection with Judaism
and God.
and have raised their children as Jewish.
They join at least two incumbent House
Democrats who have done the same:
John Sarbanes in Maryland and Rose
DeLauro in Connecticut.
Jew vs. Jew
Three House races pit a Jewish Demo-
crat against a Jewish Republican: Nadler
against Levin in New York; Perry Gershon
against Zeldin in New York; and Debbie
Wasserman Schultz against Kaufman in
Florida.
In the states
Four Jews are in gubernatorial races, all
Democrats: J.B. Pritzker tops the ticket in
Illinois, as does Jared Polis in Colorado.
Susan Turnbull in Maryland and David
Zuckerman in Vermont are running for
lieutenant governor. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Picture Day

I
t’s picture day. well play the song “Sunrise Sunset”
For those of us who hate dress- every time you read my column. My
ing up and having our hair done adorable little baby, my little cutie boy
all pretty, picture day was a whose foot was as big as my thumb
nightmare. My mother always used to when he was born, is graduating from
make me wear ribbons on my ponytails high school. I might be posting the fol-
(don’t ask) and one year, out of defi- lowing on Teaneck shuls: “Looking for
ance, I took them off before pictures. I a scientist to regrow my umbilical cord
just wanted to look like everyone else, so my baby will be reattached to me
and not like an extra on the set of “Lit- so he won’t leave when he graduates.”
tle House on the Prairie.” Needless to Too much? Perhaps, but I am trying
say, when the pictures came back, she to take this year as slowly as possible.
was none too pleased. If this means having
In any event, back in the him be late for davening
80s, when my generation every morning so I can
would get ready for picture just stare at him when
day, there were no pleas on he sleeps, then so be it.
Teaneck shuls, “Looking I am just not ready for
for hairdresser and makeup this. At all. And today
person to come and fix up was his picture day. For
my daughter for pictures — his senior graduating
will pay anything and will pictures. In his suit. All
go anywhere and at any- Banji dressed up. A far cry
time!!!!” Let’s look at those Ganchrow from when he was first
last few lines again and born and I was looking
have some commentary. at him and singing the
1. There were no Teaneck shuls in the “My Three Sons” theme song (which,
Across Down 80s. Whether that is good or bad is not of course, I did).
1. Tater 1. Sly up for discussion, it just wasn’t. So he comes downstairs all dressed
5. When I say “Cain” you say..... 2. Kitchen tool 2. I am pretty sure that none of my up, and off he goes to school, and I am
9. Gadget 3. Elegant in manner
friends had their hair or makeup done standing at the door, flashing back to
14. Esther or Mordechai, e.g. 4. Kosher animal not often on a menu
15. Goal of medical research, often 5. “Defending our rights” org. ever. Big hair was big in the 80s and his first Picture Day and how he let me
16. NBA Finals MVP in 2000, 2001 and 6. Ripped it was very easy to do it yourself. The dress him up in a plaid shirt and pants
2002 7. Lose ground, literally worse it looked, the better. with a vest. And then he let me comb
17. ....”Bar Kokhba”.... 8. Goodman of “Dancing with the Stars” 3. Makeup might be another story. I his hair and he looked so adorable I just
19. Cherished 9. ...”David”...
still don’t think any of my friends had wanted to shmush his face off.
20. She, in Rio 10. Knowing, as a secret
21. “___ Lang Syne” 11. Hebrew wolf their makeup done. What I do know Of course, I wanted to do the same
22. Israel’s Gedi 12. Fannie follower, in banks is that blue eyeliner and blue mascara thing to him today, but I refrained. Sort
23. Darling of “Peter Pan” 13. ...”Methusaleh”... was very “in” back then. Enough said… of. After all, he still is my baby!
25. Prefix meaning “four” 18. “Now I ___ down... “ So fast forward to Picture Day 2018. And today my baby took his senior
27. TV investigation letters 22. 1.78 is considered outstanding
I certainly hope that all of those young pictures. There was no hair and
30. ...”Joseph”... 24. Flowery girls name
32. Goes to a restaurant 26. It needs to be charged before you can ladies looking for hair and makeup makeup, there was no drama about his
34. Maggie’s “The Dark Knight” co-star, go people bright and early in the morn- outfit not looking right or his hair being
and others 27. Hip ing were not disappointed. After all, too frizzy — this being the joy of having
37. Nuclear explosive, briefly 28. Sport in the Israeli film “A Matter of pictures are forever. And you will be boys. Watching him leave the house, all
38. One way to Israel Size”
looking at your yearbook quite often tall and handsome in his suit, with his
41. ...”Jonah”... 29. “What’ll ___?”
43. Balm ingredient 31. Visited over the next 30 years. You know, in whole future ahead of him and me look-
44. Bloomer of Amsterdam 33. Food court pizza chain between having babies, nursing, look- ing at him getting into his car praying
46. Youngest of Aaron 35. When repeated, a calming word ing for the perfect nursery school, that his picture, and his life, turn out
48. Forecast for improved weather 36. Shabbat wear, for some carpool, after-school activities….there exactly the way he wants them to.
50. ...”Samson”... 38. Make an impression?
is going to be LOTS of time for your
54. “Star Wars” General 39. Berg Opera in which Jack the Ripper
55. “There’s ___ every crowd” is a character yearbook, so make sure that picture is Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is going
58. Israeli doctor 40. Hamilton, for short perfect. to be going through many boxes of
59. Advanced HS classes 42. Hatzolah letters Clearly I am discussing Picture Day tissues this year. For both rational and
60. 54- Across appears in this episode 45. ...”Elijah”... for a reason. This whole year is going irrational reasons….
62. Big do, in slang 47. Heart chambers
to be emotional for me. You might as
63. Monkeylike 49. Nav. rank
66. ...”Judah”... 51. Ignore a trigger warning, maybe
68. Make a bow again
69. Huber of women’s tennis
52. Sea nymph of Greek myth
53. House haunters So he comes downstairs all
70. “...and step ___!”
71. Patriots owner
56. Founder of a Russian dynasty
57. Kroll and Jonas dressed up, and off he goes to
72. ...”Solomon”...
73. Tries to figure out a KenKen puzzle,
59. “In your dreams!”
61. Beverage with brainfreeze potential
school, and I am standing at
perhaps 63. ...”Noah”...
64. Word with annum or capita
the door, flashing back to his
65. “Give ___ minute...” first Picture Day and how he
66. Paw’s woman
67. Squeezing snake let me dress him up in a plaid
The solution to last week’s puzzle is on page 63. shirt and pants with a vest.
56 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
Actors Barry Atsma, left, and
Jacob Derwig play Walraven and
Gijs van Hall, respectively, in “The
Resistance Banker.” DUTCH FILMWORKS
ARTS & CULTURE
Holland reacts enthusiastically to film
on banker brothers who duped Nazis
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
O
pposite the Dutch national
bank here in Amsterdam lies
one of Europe’s least conspicu-
ous monuments to a war hero.
“Fallen Tree,” as the metal statue for
resistance fighter Walraven van Hall is
called, looks very realistic. So realistic, in
fact, that for months after it was unveiled in
2010, the municipality would receive calls
reporting the statue, whose brown-painted
branches are strewn over a small square,
was storm debris in need of removal.
A departure from the bombastic reliefs
commemorating other European World
War II heroes, it’s a fitting tribute to Wal-
raven van Hall. For decades he had gone
unrecognized in his own country, even
though he used cunning and courage to
save hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust
while inflicting painful damage on the Nazi
war machine — until German soldiers exe-
cuted him in 1945.
This year, however, for the first time,
van Hall’s bravery has moved from obscu-
rity to the mainstream, thanks to the
production of a multimillion-dollar film
titled “The Resistance Banker,” which won
the Netherlands’ national award for best
film in 2018 and is the country’s Academy
Award submission.
The film, where the persecution of Jews
plays a central role, is the first treatment of
its kind about the actions of van Hall and
his brother, Gijsbert. Members of a promi-
nent banking family, for three years they COURTESY OF THE VAN HALL FAMILY
bankrolled the Dutch resistance, supply-
ing it with the equivalent of $500 million.
It’s taken a surprisingly long time, con-
sidering the scale of van Hall’s actions,
which historians say helped make the
Dutch resistance one of Europe’s fiercest
and most effective. There are also power-
ful dramatic elements in the van Hall story,
a tale full of valor, betrayal, death, devo-
tion — and even a bank robbery of unprec- Walraven van Hall, right, and his brother Gijs in the 1930s.
edented proportions.
Dutch moviegoers have noticed. daily newspaper, De Volkskrant. The film of money that it cost to keep this organiza-
With 400,000 ticket sales, “The Resis- debuted in Dutch theaters in September tion — the resistance — running,” the film’s
tance Banker” is by far the highest-gross- and is now available in the United States director, Joram Lürsen, said.
ing locally made film production in the on Netflix. But resistance leaders knew this all too
Netherlands this year and it is one of the “When people think of the resistance ... well in 1942, when van Hall, an ex-marine
industry’s all-time hits, according to a they rarely think of the enormous amounts SEE VAN HALL PAGE 60
JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018 57
Calendar Aaron. After Kiddush,
he will discuss “The Games in Wyckoff:
Animal Kingdom in Temple Beth Rishon’s
Jewish Thought.” At Women’s Club hosts “Get
4:45, his topic will be Your Game On!” at the
“The Sages and Science,” shul, 10 a.m. Women can
and between the 5:45 learn to play mahjong or
Mincha and the 6:51 canasta. 585 Russell Ave.
Maariv, he will speak (201) 891-4466 or www.
about “Rationalism vs. bethrishon.org.
Mysticism: Schisms
in Traditional Jewish
Thought.” At 8, there
will be a multimedia
presentation,
“Encounters with
Animals,” and his books
will be on sale. 950
Queen Anne Road.
(201) 836-6210 or www.
bethaaron.org.
Marina Rostow
Cairo Geniza: Professor
Marina Rustow gives the
Ilana Sasson Memorial
Lecture, focusing on the
“materiality’ of Cairo
geniza,” at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck,
7:30 p.m. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620 or
A commemorative concert marking the 80th anniversary of cbsteaneck.org.
OCT.
Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, will feature the Madison
21 Monday 
Avraham Barzeley
String Quartet, pianist Itay Goren, baritone Steven Scheschareg, RACHEL BANAI
and Cantor David Perper at Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom OCTOBER 22
Music in Tenafly: Israel-
in Mahwah, at 2 p.m. Co-sponsored by Ramapo College’s Gross Center for born harmonica virtuoso Jewish filmmakers:
Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 280 Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202). Avraham Barzeley, Visiting scholar Dr. Eric
joined by pianist Itay Goldman continues a
(201) 512-1983 or www.bethhaverim.org. COURTESY RAMAPO
Goren, performs music series, “Iconic Jewish
by Beethoven, Bloch, Filmmakers,” for the
Gershwin, Kreisler, JCC of Fort Lee/
at Ramapo College Yisrael, 4:45 p.m., as part Sarasate, and others Congregation Gesher
Friday , in Mahwah, 1:45 p.m.
Sponsored by Ramapo’s
Saturday  of a series of shiurim
in memory of Rabbi
in the Eric Brown Shalom’s CSI Scholar
OCTOBER 19 Gross Center for OCTOBER 20 Ozer Glickman. 389 W.
Theater of the Kaplen Fund and Sisterhood, at
JCC on the Palisades, shul. Refreshments at
Holocaust and Genocide Englewood Ave. (201) 7:30 p.m. 411 E. Clinton 12:30 p.m.; program at 1.
Studies. 505 Ramapo 837-2795 or Rinat.org. Ave. (201) 408-1465 or Series concludes October
Valley Road, Mahwah. jccotp.org/Thurnauer. 29. 1449 Anderson Ave.,
(201) 684-7409. Fort Lee. (201) 947 1735.
Shabbat in Teaneck: Sunday  School open house
Temple Emeth offers a
special National Refugee
OCTOBER 21 in Paramus: Yeshivat
Noam invites families
Shabbat service, part of a of prospective students
nationwide HIAS project, School open house
in Teaneck: Torah to an open house,
with guest speaker 7:30 p.m. 70 West
William Mehrvarz, 8 p.m. Academy of Bergen
Dr. Azra Hromadžic County has an open Century Road. Esther
Born in Iran to a Muslim Rabbi Dr. Michael Feil, (201) 261-1919, ext.
COURTESY RAMAPO family, Mehrvarz was house, breakfast,
Shmidman Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin and academic fair, 220, efeil@yeshivatnoam.
forced to flee when he org, or YeshivatNoam.
Concept of genocide: expressed an interest 9 a.m.; program,
Dr. Azra Hromadžic, Shabbat in Teaneck: Shabbat in Teaneck: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., org.
in Judaism. Pianist Eric Rabbi Dr. Michael
associate professor of Rabbi Dr. Natan lunch follows. 1650
Clark will play. 1666 Shmidman, dean of
anthropology at Syracuse Slifkin, director of the Queen Anne Road.
Windsor Road. (201) 833- Touro’s Graduate School
University, discusses Biblical Museum of P’nina Seplowitz,
1322 or www.Emeth.org. of Jewish Studies,
“Youth and State Making Natural History in Beit (201) 837-7696, ext.
in Post Genocide Bosnia- discusses “Maimonides Shemesh, Israel, is the 607, admissions@
Herzegovina” in the on the Messiah and scholar-in-residence tabc.org or TABC.org/
Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1) Messianic Age,” at at Congregation Beth openhouse2018.
Congregation Rinat

58 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018

 8: 3 0 P M AT M A’ AYA N O T
NEW HORIZONS IN
WOMEN’S JEWISH EDUCATION
R A B B A N I T C H A N A H ESingles
A cohesive Israel:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck welcomes
F O U N D E R & D E A N O F N I S H M AT, T H E J E A N I E S C H OT T E N S T E I N C E N T E R
Hinam, an organization
that promotes diversity
and tolerance withinF O R A DUnited
Israeli society, 8 p.m. The
dialogue, “Forming a
More Cohesive Israel,” will
include representatives
Rabbanit Chana Henkin of more than 20 different
MSunday
RS. RIVKA KAHAN
social and ethnic groups
Community in Israel. 70 Sterling
conversations in Place. (201) 833-0515.
Teaneck: Ma’ayanot
Yeshiva High School Sephardic Jewish
history: Congregation
for Girls begins a new
series, “Community Shomrei Torah in Wayne
Conversations,” with begins the “History
a discussion, “New of Sephardic Jewish
Culture,” an eight-session
Horizons in Women’s
Jewish Education,” podcast developed by
the Jewish Theological
Sponsorship opportunities available. Please contact Rabbi Zev Prince
8:30 p.m. Rabbanit
Chana Henkin, founder/ Seminary, 8 p.m. Program
dean of Nishmat, will runs through January
at princez@maayanot.org for more information.
lead the program with
Ma’ayanot’s principal,
22. 30 Hinchman Ave.
(973) 696-2500 or
shomreitorahwcc.org.
Rivka Kahan, 1650
Palisade Ave. Dena Block,
Wednesday 
Open to men, women, & students in the community.
(201) 833-4307, ext. 255,
admissions@maayanot.
org or www.maayanot. OCTOBER 24
org.
Intro to Judaism
in Hoboken: The
Tuesday United Synagogue of
OCTOBER 23 Hoboken offers the
United Synagogue of
Pursue Your Dreams at Ma’ayanot
Program for seniors Conservative Judaism
in Closter: Hazak and the New Jersey
at Temple Emanu-El
meets 11:30 a.m. 180
In New York The
Rabbinical Assembly’s
24-week Introduction
latest chapter in
Englewood’s book sale
Piermont Road. Julia, to Judaism class,
(201) 750-9997 or taught by Rabbi Robert
Scheinberg, Shana
vazquez@templeemnu-
Goldberg-Lee, and Rafi
el.com.
Spitzer, 7-9:30 p.m. Ellen
Nesson, (973) 285-9772
Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
or IntroJudaismnj.com.
Jewelry/gifts in
1650 Palisade Avenue | Teaneck, New Jersey | 07666 | www.maayanot.org
Teaneck: The sisterhood
of Congregation Beth
Sholom offers a boutique
with Earthly Treasures, a
collection of jewelry and
gifts in all price ranges,
Eva Schloss 7:30 p.m. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620.
Anne Frank’s stepsister
in Franklin Lakes: Eva
Schloss, the stepsister Friday  music by Johannes
and friend of Holocaust OCTOBER 26
victim and diarist
Anne Frank, tells her
story at Ramapo High
School, 7:30 p.m. Jointly
sponsored by the Gross
Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies at
Ramapo College, Chabad
of NW Bergen County,
and the Ramapo-Indian
Hills School District.
Adults and mature Deborah Powell
children of all faiths
invited. 331 George St. Bergen County history:
Deborah Powell, a
(201) 848-0449 or www.
AnneFrankNJ.org. past president of the
Bergen County Historical
Religion and Western Society, discusses
values: Rabbi Michel “Little Known History of
Gurkov of the Chabad Bergen County: The Tidal
Center of Passaic County Gristmill at New Bridge
in Wayne begins the Landing” for River Dell
six-session Rohr Jewish Hadassah, at the River
Learning Institute series, Edge Public Library,
“Wrestling with Faith,” 11 a.m. Refreshments.
7:30 p.m. Rabbi Michel 685 Elm Ave.
Gurkov, (973) 454-8857 (201) 261-1663, ext. 4.
or www.myJLI.com.
NKIN
Saturday  Tuesday  are welcome to “Singles
OCTOBER 27
Film in Hoboken: The
VA N C ED TORAH STUD
Synagogue
of Hoboken’s Film
in conversation with
series shows “Besa
— The Promise,”
7:30 p.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or
hobokensynagogue.org.
P R I N C I P A L Otypes
OCTOBER 28
School open house in
Teaneck: Ma’ayanot
Yeshiva High School for
Girls has an open house.
Breakfast/registration,
9 a.m.; program
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 1650
Palisade Ave. Dena Block,
(201) 833-4307, ext. 255,
admissions@maayanot.
org or www.maayanot.
org.
Concert in Park Ridge:
The free Bergen County
Summer Music Concert
Series at the Wortendyke
Barn Museum, a county
historic site in Park
Ridge, concludes with
the eighth annual
Bluegrass & Cider
festival, 1 p.m. Limited
seating is available;
attendees are welcome
to bring chairs/blankets;
a food vendor will be
there and the museum is
open to visitors at noon
and during intermission.
(201) 336-7292 or email
glucente@co.bergen.
nj.us.
Music in Tenafly:
Thurnauer School faculty
member Steven Masi,
violinists Laura Goldberg
and Samuel Katz, violist
Sarah Adams, cellist
Barbara Stein Mallow,
and clarinetist Diana
Petrella perform chamber
Brahms at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
3 p.m. 411 East Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1465 or
jccotp.org/Thurnauer.
Monday 
OCTOBER 29
Talking about Israel:
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
begins “FedTalk: Israel,”
a series of discussions
focused on current issues
in Israel. Israeli attorney
and human rights activist
Natsana Darshan-Leitner,
founder of Shurat HaDin
Israeli Law Center, will
discuss “Bankrupting
Terrorism…One Lawsuit
at a Time,” 7:30 p.m. 50
Eisenhower Drive. www.
jfnnj.org/fedtalks or
(201) 820-3907.
Calendar
Orthodox singles, 30-45,
Fall-Back,” featuring
OCTOBER 30 Shabbat.com founder,
Sunday  Rabbi Benzion Klatzko.
Fake news: Joe Amditis, Kabbalat Shabbat
Y F O Rdirector
associate W O Mof ENtheI N J OCTOBER
E R U S A L E M21 services in Smilowitz
Center for Cooperative Beit Midrash for singles
Media at Montclair Seniors meet: Singles only, followed by dinner
State University, will 65+ of the JCC Rockland and program; Shabbat
lead “Timely Topics and meets for lunch at morning singles-only
Tasty Treats,” a study Sutter’s Mill of Suffern, Kiddush followed by
group on techniques for noon. 214 Route 59, meals with families;
recognizing the credible Suffern, N.Y. Individual evening program at Ohr
from the fake in all checks. Reservations, Torah with comedian Avi
F M of
A media,
’ AYA N for
O the
T Gene, (845) 356-5525. Lieberman, ice breakers,
Bergen County section
and more. Singles of all
of the National Council
of Jewish Women at
Friday  ages are invited for the
Saturday night program.
Senior Source at the NOVEMBER 2 westorange.singles.
Shops at Riverside,
shabbaton@gmail.com.
second level, in Riverside West Orange
Square Mall, Hackensack, Shabbaton: Modern
2:30 p.m. Refreshments.
(201) 385-4847 or www.
ncjwbcs.org.
School open house
in Paramus: Ben
Porat Yosef holds
an open house for
PHOTO PROVIDED
parents of prospective
students, 7:30 p.m.
East 243 Frisch Court.
Sharona Grossberg,
(201) 845-5007,
SharonaGrossberg@
benporatyosef.org, or Members of the Friends of the Englewood
www.benporatyosef.org.
Library sort and shelve books for the sale.
Sunday  The Friends of the Englewood Library offer this year’s
bargain fall book sale from October 19 through October
OCTOBER 14
21. One of the largest, most comprehensive book sales in
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van Hall
FROM PAGE 57
whom Israel recognized in 1978 as a Righ-
teous Among the Nations, a non-Jew who
risked his life to save Jews during the Holo-
caust, joined them.
He and his brother stole the equivalent
of $250 million from Nazi-controlled cof-
fers and borrowed another $250 million
from other bankers to carry out attacks,
smuggle Allied pilots to safety, and provide
financial support to at least 8,000 Jews in
hiding during World War II.
They did all this “through an incredibly
complicated web of front companies, falsi-
fications, and bureaucratic sleight of hand
They did all
this “through
an incredibly
complicated
web of front
companies,
falsifications, and
bureaucratic
sleight of hand.”
that is tricky to pack into a two-hour fea-
ture film,” or even a biographical novel,
Lürsen said. An attempt to “truly explain
the genius of their actions” would lose
most filmgoers within the first 20 minutes,
he added.
To tackle this storytelling challenge,
Lürsen focused on the most daring action
the brothers undertook — the theft and
cashing in of central bank bonds, which at
that point was the largest-scale bank rob-
bery in European history.
“This one element of the story contains
everything you need in a Hollywood action
film,” Lürsen said. “It’s as easy to follow
and full of suspense as a casino heist.”
Not everyone is pleased with the short-
cuts and artistic license that Lürsen and
his team have taken.
Harm Ede Botje, a senior analyst for a
magazine, Vrij Nederland, and an expert
in World War II history, accused the film-
makers of gratuitous melodrama and dis-
regard for historical detail in a withering
critique of the film in March. He noted a
powerful scene in which an exhausted
van Hall, nicknamed Wallie, draws resolve
from looking out from his train window
and seeing Jews in cattle wagons zoom-
ing past as fellow passengers look away in
embarrassment. But Ede Botje says that
Jews were never transported in the day-
time in occupied Holland.
In the film, the trigger for van Hall’s
decision to enter the resistance is the sui-
cide of a Jewish family of former clients in
Zaandam. But there is no evidence to sug-
gest this is true — and no records of such
60 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 19, 2018
This Amsterdam monument commemorates Walraven van Hall.
From left, Jacob Derwig, Barry Atsma and director Joram Lürsen after they won
the Golden Calf film award at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, Holland
on October 5, 2018. COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE NETHERLANDS
a suicide in that suburb of Amsterdam,
according to Ede Botje.
“It’s true,” Lürsen said of how persecu-
tion of the Jews is highlighted and perhaps
amplified in his film. “I made a film about
two courageous brothers, their lives, their
love. Of course I had to make cinemato-
graphic and dramaturgical decisions, but it
was important to include in a digestible way
the background. Should I have spent less
attention to the worst genocide in Dutch
history because I have no evidence of Wal-
lie ever witnessing it? I don’t think so.”
Another departure from the historical
record diminishes the van Halls’ incred-
ible ability to evade Nazi detection, Botje
writes. In the film, van Hall is executed
two months before the war’s end, after the
Germans and collaborators identify him as
van Tuyl and the “oil man” — one of the
many false identities he wore.
But in reality, the Germans had no
idea who van Hall was to the bitter end.
He was shot along with several other sus-
pected resistance fighters in retaliation for
a Nazi officer’s assassination. To this day,
historians do not know why the Germans
arrested van Hall.
The relative obscurity of the van Halls’
story — despite its significance, it has
been the subject of only one dryly written
book, in the 1990s — owes to more than
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just its complexity.
“For many decades there was a reluc-
tance in the banking industry of this coun-
try to go into the details of the van Halls’
actions, because doing so would expose
many of the system’s weak points,” Lürsen
said. “No one wanted to publish a manual
for mass bank fraud.”
But the industry has changed over time,
and the unofficial veil of silence that bedev-
iled historians’ attempts to get to the bot-
tom of the van Halls’ operation was lifted.
Gijsbert van Hall, the elder brother, who
later became mayor of Amsterdam, kept a
meticulous record of each and every cent
dispensed by his operation. Auditors after
the war found no discrepancies in the
bookkeeping after studying it for months.
The Netherlands had many collabora-
tors with the Nazis, who helped murder 75
percent of the country’s Jewish population
— the highest death rate in Nazi-occupied
Western Europe. But for the size of its pop-
ulation and Jewish minority, it also had a
vastly disproportionate number of Righ-
teous Among the Nations — 5,669 of them,
the second-highest number in the world,
trailing Poland’s 6,863. Many of the rescu-
ers’ efforts were facilitated by the support
extended to them by the van Halls.
Holland also saw the first major show
of public disobedience over the fate of the
Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in the so-
called February Strike of 1942.
For a small, flat country with few natu-
ral hiding places like woods, marshes or
mountains, resistance to the Nazis was in
some respects “fierce,” and in no small
part thanks to the actions of the van Halls,
according to Johannes Houwink ten Cate, a
historian who is one of the world’s leading
experts on the Holocaust in Holland.
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Stanley Haskel
Stanley A. Haskel, 90, of Livingston, formerly of Long
Island, died October 9.
An Army veteran of the Korean War, he owned
Haskel Brothers Monument Co. in Manhattan and was
a member of the Morristown Jewish Center.
He is survived by his wife, Judy, née Glassman,
children, Robin Haskel Epstein of Livingston and
Steven of Paramus, and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
Betty Kaminer
Betty Kaminer, née Cohen, 88, of Fair Lawn died
October 14. She was a longtime volunteer at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center.
Predeceased by her husband, Artie, she is survived
by her children, Bruce (Susan) of Paramus and Beth of
Denmark
FROM PAGE 38
who took us across was so scared that the Germans would
come for him after they found out the Jews had gone that
he stayed in Sweden,” she said. “He needed some money
to get by, too.”
Tchernia’s father had looked for a crossing point for
days before he found the captain, she said. At one point
her father arrived in Gilleleje, a fishing village 40 miles
north of Copenhagen, where locals hid 86 Jews in an
attic before the Nazis discovered them. A refugee from
Russia who grew up hearing about pogroms, the father
“took one look and said there were too many people in
one small place,” and took his family elsewhere, Tcher-
nia said.
On September 26, the Hebrew calendar anniversary
of the crossing, she and dozens of other Danish Jews
attended a re-enactment of the rescue organized by Rabbi
Yitzi and Rochel Loewenthal, the emissaries of the Chabad
movement in Denmark. It featured a klezmer band and
testimonies by survivors like Tchernia.
Despite the gratitude she feels to the Danes who saved
her family, Tchernia and others living in Denmark today
say the tolerance that inspired the operation has dimin-
ished following a backlash against Muslim immigrants.
Over the last decade, Denmark has developed some of
Europe’s strictest immigration policies, which the Wash-
ington Post last year called “a Muslim ban [that] was just
called something else.” The country is now preparing to
vote on a parliamentary resolution whose premise is that
nonmedical circumcision of boys is a form of child abuse.
“It’s not safe to wear a kippah on the street,” Tchernia
said, noting the 2015 murder of a Jewish guard, Dan Uzan,
outside the synagogue by a jihadist. Anti-Semitic violence
in Denmark mostly come from Muslims, “But it’s not only
Muslims who are creating the problem. It’s changed the
whole society.”
Rochel Lowenthal wonders if the Danish Holocaust
story would have been different had the country’s Jews,
like today’s Muslims, been more easily identifiable as
outsiders.
“Danish Jews were always very integrated,” said Lowen-
thal, who like her husband wears the distinctive modest
garb of charedi Orthodox Jews. “And I can’t help but won-
der if they would almost all have been rescued if they
looked like me and my husband.” JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Fair Lawn, and grandchildren, Jaime Kaminer
( Jared Bacall), Elysa Kaminer, and Alec Kaminer.
Donations can be sent to Fair Lawn All-Sports
Association or the American Heart Association.
Arrangements were by Robert Schoem’s Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Audrey Lissak
Audrey S. Lissak, née Teitelbaum, of Fair Lawn
died October 7.
Predeceased by her first husband Norman Dolin,
and a brother, Arthur Teitelbaum, she is survived by
her husband, Wilbert Lissak, children, Cheryl Dolin
(Russell Aubertin) and Charles Dolin (Ann), and
grandchildren, Naomi, Nathan, Ryan, Eric, and Leah.
Donations can be made to City of Hope.
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Fairway Market launches Taste Israel: A world of flavors showcases newly imported products from abroad
Fairway Market presents a celebration of food,
wine, beer, condiments, confections, and
other gourmet specialties from Israel at all 15
Fairway store locations, including Paramus.
The promotion will run through Thursday,
November 1.
“The Israeli and also the Jewish commu-
nity in New York are where our roots are,”
said Fairway Market CEO Abel Porter. “We
were founded in NYC. Our founder was part
of this community, we continue to be part of
that community and it is very important to
our business.”
“Israel is a gastronomic superpower with
some of the world’s finest offerings, many
that are being highlighted as part of this pro-
gram,” said Israel Consul General Dani Dayan.
He spoke of the opportunities for a variety of
Israeli products in the New York market.
Featured Israeli brands include: Lin’s
Bee Farm, Al Arz Tahini, Carmit, Nature
Bites, Rafael’s, Mighty Sesame, Fire
Grain, Sindyanna of Galilee, Marrakesh,
The Date Bar, Elite, Open Sesame, Toot
HomeMade Nature Bites, Wissotzky
Tea and El Nakhleh Coffee, Nature Nut,
Schwartz Natural Cosmetics, JEM’s Beer,
and Dalton Wines.
As part of the celebration, Fair-
way and El Al are raffling off a pair of
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night Dan Hotels stay. You can enter at
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