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CONTENTS
Rounding out the ark story
between Gilgamesh and Noah
lDr. Irving Finkel could
hardly believe it when he
saw the animals march-
ing two by two.
Dr. Finkel, a specialist
in Akkadian working at
the British Museum, was
decoding a smartphone-
sized cuneiform tablet
that told the story of an
ancient flood.
That ancient Meso-
potamian had a myth
about a flood, and a man
chosen by the gods to
save humanity, has been known since
the first translation of the Epic of Gil-
gamesh in the 19th century.
But on the tablet he was translat-
ing in 2009, Dr. Finkel found the signs
sana which his dictionary of As-
syrian informed him was a rare word
meaning two by two. (Assyrian, a dia-
lect of Akkadian, is related to Hebrew
so the Assyrian word sana is related
to shnaim, the Hebrew word for two.)
This detail, familiar from the biblical
story of Noah, had not been seen in
previous cuneiform flood stories.
Dr. Finkel said this tablet dates from
around 1800 B.C.E.
He has written a book, The Ark
Before Noah: Decoding the Story of
the Flood, which is scheduled to be
published next week.
An excerpt from the
book appeared in the Brit-
ish Telegraph newspaper,
as did an interview with Dr.
Finkel.
One big difference be-
tween the newly deci-
phered Babylonian flood
tale and that of the Bible
is the shape of the ark, he
said.
Noahs ark is rectangu-
lar, made of gopher wood
calked with bitumen. Atra-
hasiss ark, based on instructions from
the god Enki, was definitely, unam-
biguously round, according to Dr.
Finkel.
Draw out the boat that you will
make on a circular plan, read the in-
structions, for creating a circular boat
made of rope caulked with bitumen
that would be 230 feet in diameter
and 20 feet high.
Dr. Finkel has been obsessed with
decoding cuneiform since his univer-
sity days, more than 40 years ago.
Its my lifes work. I am entirely de-
voted to it, he told the Telegraph.
He never has been to Iraq to look
for ancient tablet himself, though. As
a Jew, he said, he wouldnt have been
given a visa. LARRY YUDELSON
In Israel, theres no trend like Noa
lNancy Reagan would be proud.
Israeli parents are just saying No,
with Noa and Noam topping the list
of Jewish baby names in 2012 for girls
and boys respectively, according to a
report recently released by Israels Cen-
tral Bureau for Statistics.
Noa, of biblical origin, was followed
in order by Shira, which means song;
Tamar, a biblical name and a date; Talia,
which means a female lamb, and Maya.
Rounding out the top 10 are Yael, Sarah,
Adele or Edel, Ayala, and Michal.
Noam, which means pleasantness,
was followed by Uri or Ori, which means
my light, and the biblical names Itai,
Yosef (Joseph) and David. Yehonatan
(Jonathan), Daniel, Ariel, Moshe (Mo-
ses), and Eitan also are on the list.
Itai had been the top name of 2011,
but was overtaken by Noam. Noa has
been the top name for girls since at
least 2010.
Among Muslims, Maryam was the
most popular name for girls and Mo-
hammad for boys. For Christians, the
winners were Maria for girls and George
for boys.
Meanwhile across the ocean, the New
York City Health Department has re-
leased its lists of popular names for 2012.
The top names arent particularly
Jewish Sophia for girls and for boys,
Jayden (which, according to the Social
Security Administration, skyrocketed
from the 194th most popular name na-
tionwide in 2000, to seventh in 2012.)
But broken down by ethnicity, the
names tell a different story one that
reflects Brooklyns status as the most
fecund of the five boroughs, with a
birth rate nearly 50 percent higher than
Staten Islands and its not a story
about hipsters.
For white New Yorkers, the top ten
girls names were Emma, Leah, Sarah,
Olivia, Sophia, Esther, Rachel, Chaya,
Ava, and Chana. Note that Chaya has
become a particularly popular name in
Lubavitch circles, in memory of Chaya
Mushka Schneerson, wife of the late
Lubavitcher rebbe. The rebbes name,
Menachem Mendel, did not make the
top ten list, which features Joseph, Da-
vid, Michael, Jacob, Moshe, Daniel, Alex-
ander, Benjamin, Samuel, and James.
Meanwhile, once-popular Israeli boys
names Meyer and Oren were singled
out by New York City for having been
bestowed by as few as ten parents.
LARRY YUDELSON
Could a bigger version of this boat an Indian coracle have saved all the
animals?
Irving Finkel
BEIT HATFUSOT
Pixels of the living god
lWhen it comes to rab-
bis, it doesnt get any
more old-school than Hil-
lel and Shammai.
So its perhaps ap-
propriate that the new
iPhone app Radical
Rabbis, which provides
a byte-sized introduc-
tion to the two legendary
rabbis and their debates,
looks and sounds like a
1980s video game.
It was created by two
participants in the sum-
mer internship program
of G-dcast, the Jewish
educational organiza-
tion most famous for its
series of 54 animated
shorts about the weekly
Torah portion.
While it wont win any industry
awards for engaging game play, it
does provide a quick, fun, four-minute
interactive educational experience.
Theres nothing like moving a pix-
elated rabbi into a cartoon sukkah
to drive home the debate between
Hillel and Shammai over how large a
sukkah has to be. (Shammai de-
manded a full-body experience; Hillel
wanted enough space to feed your
head.)
And fans of the Hillel and Sham-
mai story from tractate Eruvin will be
glad to know that the game includes,
in scrolling eight-bit letters, the
classic line summarizing the three-
year debate between the sages and
their schools: Both of these are the
words of the living G-D.
LARRY YUDELSON
Radical Rabbis simulates the three-year debate
between Hillel and Shammai with a version of
Pong.
We have the winners: Congratulations to the following winners of
tickets to see the Haifa Symphony Orchestra of Israel at bergenPAC on
February 5: Arthur Kronenberg, Hackensack; Larry Fink, Cresskill; Sybil
Grace, Hillsdale; Lauren Babus, Mahwah
Candlelighting: Friday, January 24, 4:45 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, January 25, 5:47 p.m.
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Too big for its bridges
Former Fort Lee mayor talks about Gov. Christie and the Port Authority
JOANNE PALMER
Y
ou can take the boy out of Jersey,
but you cant take Jersey out of
the boy.
In this case, the boy is a grown
man Burt Ross, now of Malibu, Calif. Mr.
Ross and his wife, Joan, decamped a mere
two years ago, following their children west.
But he spent his entire life until then in Ber-
gen County, first in Teaneck, then in Fort Lee,
and finally in Englewood. New Jersey is my
homeland, he said.
While he was here, Mr. Ross whose
gravely accent makes it clear that Brooklyn
and Bergen are not very far apart a Har-
vard-educated lawyer and developer, was
very involved in local politics. In 1972, when
he was 28, he became mayor of Fort Lee.
He was, he reports, the countrys youngest
mayor of a moderately large municipal-
ity. From that vantage point distanced
enough to afford him a clear view, and close
enough, and infused with enough history, to
give vivid context Mr. Ross has been pay-
ing close attention to the unfolding scandal
beginning to envelop the large frame of Gov.
Chris Christie.
Its important to preface anything else I
say by pointing out that I am not partisan, he
said in a phone interview. I am a Democrat,
but I am not partisan. As proof, he pointed
to his endorsement, about three years ago,
of the Republican Kathy Donovan as Bergen
County executive, running against what was
a corrupt machine, he said. (She won.)
Given his lifelong Jersey ties, and the
fact that his voice makes it clear to anyone
within earshot that when he is in Califor-
nia he is far from home, Mr. Ross feels the
hit to the states reputation, and as a Jew,
he is bothered by the corruption because,
quite simply, it is wrong.
I have an aversion to corruption, he
said. People can define corruption how-
ever they want to, but when the smell
reeks to high heaven, thats when I feel an
obligation to speak out.
I had been so fond of Gov. Christie, to the
point where I welcomed his being in the pres-
idential primaries. I felt that having a strong,
moderate voice in the Republican party was
extremely healthy.
I dont know Mr. Christie personally, but
upon reflection, based on everything Ive
heard in the last few weeks and I have fol-
lowed it religiously I was wrong.
Not only do I think he is not presidential
quality, I dont even think he deserves to be
governor.
I think that he and his administration
appear to be morally challenged.
Running down a list of statements Gov.
Christie made at his marathon press confer-
ence a few weeks ago, Mr. Ross listed several
that do not wash. Most of them revolved
around the governors repu-
tation as a micromanager,
which clash with the appar-
ently hands-off style he
claimed for himself.
Mr. Ross became particu-
larly enraged at something
Gov. Christie was reported
to have said a few weeks
before the press conference.
The governor said that he
was all sauced up, because
this little town of Fort Lee
had three dedicated lanes, he said.
Lets start off with the fact that for a guy
whos supposed to know nothing about
whats going on there, he knows an awful lot.
And they are not dedicated lanes! Any-
body can take those lanes; practically every-
body from Edgewater uses them. In fact, 75
percent of the people who use those lanes are
not from Fort Lee.
But assume for a moment that every sin-
gle person who used those lanes was from
Fort Lee. Who cares?
After all, they still have to get from Fort
Lee to Manhattan. What does he propose?
That people in Fort Lee jump off the Pali-
sades and swim across the river?
As a former mayor who presided over a far
smaller empire but still had the responsibil-
ity of running a government, It doesnt wash
that this guy, who has no problem coughing
up anger, who can be brutal with women,
with teachers, with veterans all of a sudden
he doesnt care at all what someone does, all
of a sudden it makes him sad, not mad? (In
the press conference, the governor talked
about going through stages of grief, particu-
larly sadness, at having been lied to.)
If anyone in my administration did
what his people did, I wouldnt be sad,
Mr. Ross said. I would be ballistic. Theyd
have to inject me with Valium.
At one point, he said
that he told his staff that
they had an hour to tell
him if they knew any-
thing and if they did, to tell his chief of
staff. That struck Mr. Ross as ridiculous.
You say tell me right now. And dont tell
someone else. Tell me.
The governor left him feeling betrayed.
I liked the guy because he gave me
Jersey straight talk, he said. This is not
Jersey straight talk. One of the things we
dont like in Jersey is being conned. We
dont buy that crap.
When he was mayor of Fort Lee, Mr.
Ross said, I had a wonderful relation-
ship with the Port Authority. But things
have changed entirely, he said; now the
Port Authority has gotten too big for its
bridges.
For one thing, there is no transpar-
ency, he said. The port needs to be
more transparent. Governor Cuomo has
to stop hiding under a rock. He has not
exhibited the slightest leadership.
And theyre charging $13 to go over
the bridge, but they wont even tell you
if they are paying the legal fees for the
bozos who were in charge of closing the
lanes.
Can you imagine someone being held
up for four hours, and then having to pay
$13, and then having this money go to pay
those bozos? But the Port Authority isnt
saying yes or no.
There is a fine but clear line between
political hardball and dirty politics, Mr.
Ross said, and the actions of Gov. Chris-
ties aides if not of the governor himself
seem to have crossed that line. He is par-
ticularly exercised by the accusations from
Mayor Dawn Zimmerman of Hoboken, who
said that funds for Sandy relief were held
up because she did not support a developer
close to Gov. Christie.
This is worse than Watergate, Mr. Ross
said.
In Watergate, you had a very low-level guy
in the campaign authorize a break-in, simply
to steal some paper. No one was hurt. No one
was even inconvenienced. Maybe the Demo-
cratic party had to hire somebody to fix the
lock, or pick up broken glass. And then the
higher-ups got involved in a cover-up.
Here, you have people in fairly high
places, connected to the administration or
appointees of the governor, who created and
supervised the implementation of the dirty
tricks. And then they covered it up but it
wasnt just a cover-up. It was the higher-ups
who did it.
New Jersey politics isnt all bad, Mr. Ross
concluded.
We have the Loretta Weinbergs the
state senator from Teaneck whom he lauded
for her perseverance in uncovering the situa-
tion, refusing to be intimated, refusing to give
up the Tom Keans, the Bill Bradleys. We
have some magnificent public servants.
This does a disservice to the state.
Gov. Brendan Byrne confers with Burt Ross in this 1970s photo.
Inset, Mr. Ross today.
Not only do I
think he is not
presidential
quality, I dont
even think he
deserves to be
governor.
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Human trafficking
at the big game
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Vehicular trafic will be heavy in the
Meadowlands when the big game comes
to the MetLife Stadium.
For members of the New Jersey Coali-
tion Against Human Traficking, however,
trafic of a much more sinister nature is
the main concern, at this game and at any
large sporting event.
People go to the Super Bowl for fun,
and oftentimes use the services of traf-
icked victims, Melanie Roth Gorelick
said. Ms. Gorelick, the director of the
Community Relations Committee of the
Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest,
is a co-founder of the coalition. They are
under the illusion that girls and women
are making a choice to be in the sex indus-
try, she continued. We believe once
theyre informed about sex traficking, it
may take the fun out of it.
One of coalitions projects in the weeks
before the February 2 game will be
S.O.A.P. UP New Jersey, set for Sunday,
January 26, at the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey in Paramus. From 10
a.m. to 3 p.m., volunteers will learn how
to distribute bars of soap imprinted with
the Human Traficking Hotline phone
number to hotels and motels in a wide
radius of the Meadowlands. The project
is run by S.O.A.P. (Save Our Adolescents
from Prostitution), a national nonproit
founded by a survivor of the sex trade.
Wed heard it was effective at past
Super Bowls, but this is the irst time it is
being brought to New Jersey, Ms. Gorelick
said. We raised $13,000 to bring S.O.A.P.
here and to mobilize several hundred vol-
unteers to carry out the initiative.
In November, the coalition ran an aware-
ness program for motel and hotel manag-
ers, urging them to put a protocol in place
so that no staff member will turn a blind
eye to suspected human traficking victims
in their establishment. It is often cleaning
people who see something, and they need
to know how to share that information
without being at risk, she said.
Human traficking, a modern form of
slavery affecting an estimated 27 million
men, women, and children worldwide, is
deined as the use of force, fraud, and/or
coercion for the purpose of sexual exploita-
tion or forced labor. In the United States, it
is estimated that 600,000 to 800,000 peo-
ple are traficked annually, and this rapidly
growing criminal industry is second only
to drug dealing and equal in scope to arms
dealing.
New Jersey is a prime location because it
is a major national and international trans-
portation and shipping hub. At the same
time, the Polaris Project, a leading orga-
nization in the global ight against human
traficking, rates New Jersey Number 1
among the 50 states for its laws to combat
human traficking, punish trafickers, and
support victims. For the irst time in New
Jersey, January has been designated as
Human Traficking Prevention Month. In
2011, President Obama declared January
as National Slavery and Human Traficking
Prevention Month and January 11 as Human
Traficking Awareness Day.
Why is a Jewish federation involved in
this issue? Aside from the reality that Jews
are among human traficking victims, Ms.
Gorelick believes Jews should be leaders in
the effort to eradicate slavery.
A ier illustrates the
S.O.A.P. Up New Jersey
campaign against human
trafcking.
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Generating research funding
for cybersecurity needs
Israeli, U.S. companies team up on the challenge and possibly find grants too
JOANNE PALMER
A
conference set for Newark
next week will examine the
confluence between cyber
and physical security. It is a
fascinating intersection, where high-tech,
social engineering, and plain carelessness
can rub together, spark, and explode.
The conference itself is another exam-
ple of the confluence of different elements
of American and Israeli high-tech inno-
vation and entrepreneurship, of funding,
of networking, of diplomacy, of form and
content and of the way advances in tech-
nology can advance social and economic
goals.
Thats heavy baggage for one confer-
ence, no matter how impressive its list
of speakers and sponsors and this one
boasts an impressive roster.
How does it work?
The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial
Research and Development Foundation
or Bird, as the Israel-based body is known
by the technological types, who unfortu-
nately tend to be given to whimsy was
started by the two governments in the
late 1970s-early 1980s, Andrea Yonah said.
Ms. Yonah, whose office is in Princeton, is
Birds East Coast representative; she has a
counterpart in Californias Silicon Valley.
Its an amazing story, she said. Bird
has created a sustainable model for fund-
ing innovative technology. Funded
through a $110 million government endow-
ment set up by the United States and Israel
each gave half Bird gives away only the
income on that principal, supplemented
by money it receives from the successful
projects it funds, once they turn an accept-
able profit. We have granted over $300
million; we have approved 878 programs;
we have received back $98 million, Ms.
Yonah said. In fact, a study done about
two years ago shows that the impact in
both countries is approximately $10 bil-
lion in sales, generated both directly and
indirectly.
Bird is always on the lookout for worthy
binational projects to fund, she said. Thats
where the conferences come in.
It was conceived because each year we
pick certain topics that each government
had picked as a priority, she said. This
time, that area is called CHS cyber home-
land security.
Its an opportunity to bring companies
together to discuss a particular topic.
Once you have done that, you bring
together the right people and let them
know that this is an area where you are
looking to collaborate. Those discus-
sions could lead to an application for a
Bird grant up to $1 million for research
and development which could bring a
new partnership, rooted in both coun-
tries. Thats the form. What about the
content?
Cybersecurity has become a very hot
topic now, Ms. Yonah said. Look what
happened with Target. People keep asking
how they can keep their information safe,
whether you are a government aide trying
to protect infrastructure or an individual
wondering how to keep your savings safe,
and how to buy things safely online.
So thats what weve decided to focus
on. You could have the most sophisticated
solution to the problem, but if you leave
the door to your server room open Her
voice trailed off.
Or what happened to a soldier in
Afghanistan, who dropped a disk key that
had all types of information.
So we have decided to focus on that
convergence, between the logical cyber
side and the physical side, she said. From
that perspective, we will have someone
there who is an expert in cyberglobal secu-
rity, someone from ADP whose focus in on
converged security architecture, and the
director of the homeland security center
of excellence at Rutgers.
We have a group coming its called
ICTS that has a new surveillance type of
solution, but on the physical end, she con-
tinued. This group does a lot of security
for Jewish day schools; it works with almost
all the large, well-established day schools
in northern New Jersey and New York City.
The new technology will have a new appli-
cation at a day school. Instead of the guard
there having to be in many different places
at the same time, there will be a 3D system
that takes pictures. The guard can send
them to law enforcement immediately if
something were to happen.
If something happened in a school, a
gunman in a classroom, God forbid, the
police already could have had a picture of
that classroom.
Dr. Leonard Cole of Ridgewood, a for-
mer president of the precursor agency to
the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey, is the director of the program on ter-
ror medicine and security in the Depart-
ment of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers
Universitys medical school. He also was
appointed to the board of the New Jersey
Israel Commission.
I dont know of any security issue higher
on the list of immediate concerns than
cybersecurity right now, Dr. Cole said. For
the near future and maybe the long-term
future as well, the issue really is paramount.
I wouldnt even try to define in partic-
ular which risks we face, because the very
nature of the cyberworld involves almost all
social and relational activities, whether they
are commercial, governmental, or private.
Do you not have a cell phone? If you do, that
automatically involves you in cybersecurity
concerns.
It is one of the great domestic issues of
our time. The government holds our infor-
mation, and even when we know it has the
best intentions, we feel a bit shaky. Every-
one in America feels some uncertainty
about what the future might hold if the gov-
ernment maintains personal records on vir-
tually every citizen.
The conference next Thursday will
address those concerns, as it puts various
groups in touch with each other.
The group of people sponsoring the
organization are top-notch in terms of Jew-
ish and American civil liberty concerns. We
have put together a stellar group with rep-
resentatives of security concerns, he said.
The purpose of this event is to bring them
together.
The public is invited to the conference.
About the conference
What: At the Conference on Cyber/Homeland Security Opportunities for
U.S.-Israel Partnership, a roundtable discussion with leading stakeholders
from industry, government, and research will focus on opportunities and
trends
When: Thursday, January 30, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: New Jersey Institute of Technology, 155 Summit St., Newark
Why: To learn more about both the issues and the possibility of funding for
U.S.-Israel technical collaborations
How: For more information and to register, go the Bird Funds website,
www.birdf.com, and click on the link about halfway down on the right side,
Opportunities and Trends in the Homeland Security and Cyber Security
Spaces, or email Andrea Yonah andreay@birdf.com
Dr. Leonard Cole directs a program on
terror medicine and security.
We have granted
over $300
million; we have
approved 878
programs; we
have received
back $98 million.
This group works
with almost all
the large, well-
established
day schools in
northern New
Jersey and
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GBDS, Japanese school build bridges through art and extreme Frisbee
LOIS GOLDRICH
F
ifth-grader Samantha Rigante
of Wyckoff thought it was really
fun.
I liked when they came to
our school and painted a mural, said
Samantha, a student at the Gerrard Ber-
man Solomon Schechter Day School in
Oakland. I also enjoyed their dancing
and singing.
The boys did a dance from an island
in North Japan, said seventh-grader
Josh Blecherman of Wayne, who clearly
enjoyed both the artistic presentation
and the game of scooter hockey shared
by the Schechter students and their
visitors from the New Jersey Japanese
School, also in Oakland. We also showed
them how to write in Torah text.
Students from the two schools have
met two times so far once at each
school enjoying activities planned by
teachers Rabbi Richard Isaacs and Yuichi
Shikanai.
According to Kumiko Kitada, the office
manager for the 20-year-old Japanese
school, the cultural exchange program
began to take shape last year, after she
spoke with Mayor Linda Schwager of
Oakland.
We were looking for a school to make
an exchange with, and the mayor intro-
duced us to the Gerrard Berman School,
also in Oakland, Ms. Kitada said.
Together with school principal Taka-
haru Fukuzawa, Kitada vi sited the
Schechter school to meet with Robert
Smolen, its head of school.
We talked about it and discussed what
we could do, Ms. Kitada said. We were
impressed by the education there and
explained what we do at our school.
The New Jersey Japanese School,
underwritten by the Japanese govern-
ment, educates students whose parents
are working in the United States, gener-
ally for one to three years. Teachers also
come from Japan for several years, offer-
ing an educational program identical to
the one offered at home, so students can
readjust easily when they return.
After the heads of the two schools
signed off on the exchange project, it was
handed over to coordinators Rabbi Isaacs
and Ms. Kitada, who decided that the vis-
its initially involving only the middle
schools of both educational institutions
should include both physical activities
and academic experiences.
For the first visit during the fall
the Jewish students came to our school,
Ms. Kitada said, noting that her students,
including some 25 youngsters from sev-
enth through ninth grades, showed the
visitors how to write their names using
Japanese calligraphy. During the second
visit which took place at Schechter on
January 14 the host students recipro-
cated, showing their guests how to write
their names in Hebrew.
Ms. Kitada is looking forward to
future exchanges and says she hopes the
schools third-graders will have a chance
to meet in the very near future.
Our students had a great time, she
said. They were so excited to learn
Hebrew. She pointed out that even
before the two visits, students at both
schools had been given pen pals.
They picked out their partners and
wrote to each other, she
said. It made it very spe-
cial for them.
Bei ng i n Ameri ca,
these Japanese students
need to l earn about
American culture and
Jewish culture, she said.
When they return to
Japan, they can utilize
this experience in their
future careers.
Our students had a
blast, she added. We hope to keep
this going as long as we can and really
appreciate the cooperation of the Jewish
school.
For his part, Schechters head of school
is delighted with the program so far.
Their school is only two miles away
from us, Mr. Smolen said. But if distance
is no obstacle, language is a bit more of
a challenge, since they dont all speak
English, including the principal and half
the staff.
Nevertheless, with the help of those
who do they always are on hand to
translate when necessary the two
groups have been able to communicate.
They have a great curiosity about
Jewish religious schools in the American
culture, what we study and focus on,
Mr. Smolen said. Both of our religions
are steeped in history, tradition, and
practice.
During his visit to the Japanese school in
the fall, he, in turn, looked at what the Japa-
nese children studied, noting, for example,
their approach to music and art.
Calligraphy and Japanese writing are a
piece of that program, he said. Japanese
[calligraphy] has three variations. There are
a lot of symbols flying around.
Its not surprising, then, that when his
30 or so students were teaching their
Japanese counterparts how to write in
Hebrew, They could write better than
I could. Their ability to write different
characters was fluent.
Mr. Smolen said that so far, the visits have
not been language-based. One included
extreme Frisbee, while the other offered
scooter hockey. (According to Dr. Smolen,
students roll around on four-wheeled scoot-
ers to play hockey, ensuring that each has
the same ability to move around.) The first
visit also included a small ceremony and an
exchange of gifts, featuring spokespeople
from both schools.
Our goal is cultural exchange, he
said. Both of us are Western-type soci-
eties, but were not familiar with each
others culture.
Students at the two schools investigated each others cultures. GBDS
Our students
had a blast.
We hope
to keep this
going as
long as we
can and really
appreciate the
cooperation
of the Jewish
school.
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He noted, for example, that while both cultures
stress the importance of standards and observances,
they may differ in what they consider important and
what is expected of people.
Mr. Smolen said that in addition to planning a
third-grade event, he hopes to invite students from
the Japanese school to Schechters field day in June.
Citing the kind of kid-to-kid behavior that takes
place during sporting events, he suggested that there
might be more of an opportunity for the students to
share language then.
He said his students have been very interested in
the exchange program.
Theyre thinking about it, he said, noting that
when the Japanese students visited GBDS, they did
two ceremonies, unveiling a 10-foot calligraphy pic-
ture and performing a dance piece about a fishing
village in Japan.
You could have heard a pin drop, Mr. Smolen
said. They were very reflective. When we had a
wrap-up session, they had many different ideas.
They didnt expect the kids to use [ Japanese hip-hop
music] in the dance, and they were intrigued by the
poetry and dance moves.
Calling their attitude respectful, he said his stu-
dents began to soak it in the fact that there is an
entirely different race that theyre not familiar with
on the other side of the globe.
Smolen said the exchange program broadens
their awareness of cultures [around] the world. Its
a big world diverse, extending beyond Bergen
County and this is one piece theyre not familiar
with. Its a window on the world. They get to learn
that its not just Judaism that is enriched by tradition
and steeped in a background of family respect and
observance.
Seventh-grader Josh said he liked the calligraphy
class at the Japanese school and learned that the Jap-
anese bow when they say hello. But he was surprised
to find that many of the Japanese students did not
know much English.
I thought that theyd be more on the American
side, with Japanese roots, he said.
Still, he thinks the program is valuable.
Its pretty important to have some sort of social
experience with people who are different, to be
comfortable with other people.
Sixth-grader Maya Wasserman from Bergenfield
said she enjoyed the Frisbee game at the Japanese
school. In addition, she said, figuring out their
names in Hebrew and writing it was something
special.
Unlike Josh, the 12-year-old was surprised to find
some Japanese students who spoke English.
I thought they would just speak Japanese, she
said, noting that ultimately, most communication
was done with hands and facial expressions.
It was kind of fun, she said. Since we did this,
they now know people from America and we know
people from Japan. If they move back and we keep in
touch, we can see them when we visit there.
I learned that even though people are from differ-
ent races or cultures, we are still the same, she said.
We do the same things.
Fifth-grader Samantha said that at both visits,
her partner spoke English, but my friends partner
didnt so my partner translated.
You need to learn to appreciate other peoples
cultures, she said.
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New Israelis with Bergen roots win Builders of Zion award
T
wo men who grew up in
Teaneck are among the six win-
ners of the inaugural Nefesh
BNefesh Bonei Zion (Builders
of Zion) award.
They are Joseph Gitler, 39, founder and
chairman of the national food bank Leket
Israel (www.leket.org/English); and Dr.
Jeffrey Hausdorff, 51, director of the Lab-
oratory for the Analysis of Gait and Neu-
rodynamics at Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center.
The award recognizes outstanding Eng-
lish-speaking immigrants who encapsu-
late the spirit of modern-day Zionism by
contributing in a significant way towards
the State of Israel.
More than 200 recent and veteran
Anglo immigrants to Israel from Austra-
lia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United
Kingdom, the United States, and Canada
were nominated for the prize. Each recipi-
ent will receive $10,000 in a Jerusalem
ceremony.
Mr. Gitler told the Jew-
ish Standard that he plans
to donate the money to
his organization, which
provides food to 140,000
Israelis every week. Last
year, with the help of
55,000 volunteers from
Israel and abroad, Leket
distributed 30 million
pounds of produce and
other edibles that would
have been discarded by
farmers, manufacturers,
and caterers. Leket also runs Sandwiches
for Schoolchildren, providing 8,700
sandwiches each school day for at-risk
children in about 35 cities.
I was of course excited, elated, hon-
ored, and most of all surprised to win, he
said on the morning following the January
14 announcement. There are so many
wonderful nonprofits in Israel started
by Anglos, and Leket works with many
of them in different capacities. Nefesh
BNefesh could very easily have chosen
someone else.
In 2011, Mr. Gitler received a Presiden-
tial Citation for Volunteerism presented by
President Shimon Peres.
One of four sons of Susie and David
Gitler of Teaneck and himself the father
of three girls and two boys, ranging from
15 to 3 years old Joseph Gitler went to
the Moriah School in Englewood and then
earned degrees from Yeshiva University
and Fordham Law School.
Education from home and school
made it almost second nature that chari-
table involvement is a given, he said.
In September 2000, Mr. Gitler, his
wife, Leelah, and their oldest child made
aliyah. Two years later, Israels National
Insurance Institute issued a report about
the stark realities facing Israels unem-
ployed and working poor. It was pain-
ful that suddenly a country that had been
that strong was struggling so much. So I
decided to take action, he said.
Mr. Gitler started by packing up left-
overs from catered affairs near his
Raanana home. Hed take some to agen-
cies that were open at night and store the
rest in his refrigerator to bring the next
morning. Soon he bought a couple of
used refrigerators, and by February 2003
he was recruiting local volunteers for the
organization he originally called Table
to Table. Soon, he left his first career to
devote himself full-time to Leket.
Leket Israels annual budget has grown
from $5.2 million in 2011 to $8.5 million
today. Collection, distribution, and com-
munity nutrition education activities are
coordinated with 180 other nonprofit
agencies.
The numbers of needy are so large
not growing, but steady that despite our
growth year after year were still unable
to reach everyone, Mr. Gitler said. If we
doubled in size, we still wouldnt serve
everyone in need. But we have the tools in
place to help them, so long as the funding
community continues to help us.
Dr. Hausdorff, who moved to Teaneck
with his family when he was in fourth
grade, graduated from Moriah and the
Frisch School before earning degrees in
biomechanics and biomedical engineering
at Cooper Union, Boston University, and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His mother, Hinda Auerbacher, lives in
Teaneck with her husband, Manny. His sis-
ter, Tammy Spielman, lives in Englewood.
The Bonei Zion prize recognizes his con-
tribution to a better understanding of why
mobility and walking change with aging
and disease, and how to reduce those
changes for greater physical safety.
A major emphasis of our work is show-
ing that walking requires cognitive atten-
tion, he said. That is now well accepted,
but when we started it was thought that
balance and gait are automatic pro-
cesses. Weve done a lot of work to prove
otherwise.
Now that we know the head is involved,
we can use that information to reduce the
risk of falls and improve balance and gait
through intervention with therapy for
aspects of cognitive function.
He and his wife, Sharon, made aliyah
in 2000, fulfilling a longtime dream. He
speaks of being influenced by an under-
current of the importance of Israel in
his Moriah years, and his convictions
grew strong enough to compel him leave
a faculty appointment at Harvard Medi-
cal School to move there. Dr. Hausdorff
is now a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv Uni-
versitys School of Medicine as well as the
director of the Neurodynamics and Gait
Research Laboratory.
My wife and I were finished with our
schooling, and the kids were starting to
get older, so it was time, Dr. Hausdorff
said. The family, including four children,
ranging in age from 12 to 24, lives in
Chashmonaim.
The other Bonei Zion Award win-
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of Matan womens learning center in
Jerusalem; solar energy pioneer Yosef
Abramowitz; Lt. Nira Lee, spokeswoman
for the Coordinator of Government Activ-
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toonist Yaakov Kirschen, and Ben-Gurion
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Freedom service
Remembering Rabbi Heschel
and Dr. King in Emerson
PHIL JACOBS
W
e must keep listening to
the words of our great
leaders.
Debra Orenstei n,
rabbi of Congregation Bnai Israel in
Emerson, knows that, and so does the
clergy council in neighboring Westwood.
So, on the Shabbat before our obser-
vance of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jrs birthday, Rabbi Orenstein said
that both his words and Rabbi Dr. Abra-
ham Joshua Heschels were heard.
It is fitting that they should be heard
together.
Rabbi Heschel, who was born on Janu-
ary 11, 1907, died on December 23, 1972;
given the vagaries of the Jewish year, his
yarzheit usually falls in January, close to
Dr. Kings birthday. It also was in Janu-
ary when the two leaders first met and
became friends, 51 years ago, at a con-
ference on religion and race in Chicago.
Rabbi Heschel joined Dr. King on the
front lines of the civil rights movement,
and Dr. King joined Rabbi Heschel in the
struggle to free Soviet Jewry. There are
iconic photographs that show the two
spiritual leaders together on civil rights
marches, mostly in the deep South.
This was the fourth time Bnai Israel
had participated in the service, and
the second consecutive year it hosted
a Shabbat service including many faith
communities. It is also the second year
the Westwood areas clergy council offi-
cially co-sponsored the service.
I invited them to come to our syna-
gogue in the spirit of interfaith participa-
tion, so that we could honor the lives and
the legacies of King and Heschel, Rabbi
Orenstein said. Being together with
members of area churches brought
everybody together and showed our
common commitment towards a true
sense of brotherhood and sisterhood,
she added.
The shuls Cantor Leonard Mandel
adapted some of the Shabbat liturgy to
the melodies of African American spiri-
tuals including Shalom Aleichem to
Swing Low Sweet Chariot, and Lecha
Dodi to Summertime from Porgy and
Bess. The message was both beautiful
and allowed voices representing differ-
ent faiths to ring out in unison.
In other years, choirs from different
churches lead prayers. This year, a cho-
rus was made up of singers from two
area churches and Bnai Israel.
Rabbi Orenstein said that it was par-
ticularly emotional when the choir sang
Sabbath Prayer from Fiddler on the
Roof. It also sang the Aleinu to the mel-
ody of Rise and Shine and Give God
Your Glory.
It was very lovely, Rabbi Orenstein
said. When we came to the final bene-
diction, thats we sang the Sabbath
Prayer. I explained that we bless our
boys by saying may you be like Ephraim
and Menashe, because after the strife
between Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ish-
mael, Jacob and Esau, and Joseph and
his brothers, these two brothers finally
act with brotherly love. We added May
you be like Martin and Abraham.
Weve gotten amazing feedback, she
added. At the Oneg Shabbat, people
were getting to know one another.
A prayer commemorating the life of
the South African leader Nelson Man-
dela was read at the service. It included
this line: I have cherished the ideal of
a democratic and free society in which
all persons live together in harmony and
with equal opportunities.
Rev. Alex Barbieto of St. Andrews
Catholic Church in Westwood began the
Maariv prayer in English, and Cantor
Mandel read the Hebrew for the prayers
last two lines.
Then Father Barbieto quoted Rabbi
Heschel: Who is worthy to be present at
the constant unfolding of time? Amidst
the meditation of mountains, the humil-
ity of flowers wiser than all alphabets
clouds that die constantly for the sake
of His glory, we are hating, hunting,
hurting.
Suddenly, we feel ashamed of our
clashes and complaints in the face of
the tacit glory in nature. It is so embar-
rassing to live. How strange we are in
the world, and how presumptuous our
doings. Only one response can maintain
us: gratefulness for witnessing the won-
der, for the gift of our unearned right to
serve, to adore and to fulfill. It is grateful-
ness which makes the soul great.
Cantor Mandel followed by quoting Dr.
King: I am convinced that the universe
is under the control of a loving purpose,
and that in the struggle for righteousness
man has cosmic companionship. Behind
the harsh appearance of the world, there
is a benign power.
Rabbi Orenstein divided the congrega-
tion in half for a responsive reading, as if
the two men were talking to each other.
One side of the room read a quote from
Rev. King, then the other side responded
with a quote from Rabbi Heschel. It
ended with both sides saying God is
one in unison.
The Rev. Thomas Pranschke, president
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of the Westwood Area Clergy Council,
spoke to the assembled congregants,
and then the Rev. Glenn Scheyhing of the
United Methodist Church in Westwood
gave the main sermon. His theme came
from the Methodist Book of Discipline: All
persons are of sacred worth. Movingly, he
applied that teaching to King and Rabbi
Heschel and to his own experiences.
The service included We Shall Over-
come in English and Hebrew.
Rabbi Orenstein said that as moving as
the evening was, its highlight might have
been when a young newly engaged cou-
ple came to her afterward and told her
that a Shabbat service such as this one
was why they joined the congregation.
Rabbi Orenstein also has a personal
connection to Rabbi Heschel. Her late
father, Rabbi Jehiel Orenstein, was Rabbi
Heschels secretary. She grew up on Hes-
chels words.
When Heschel talked about freedom,
he calls it a great burden that God has
given to human kind, she said. Its not
just Im free to do what I want. How are
you going to use your freedom?
Just reading the words of King and
Heschel is amazing. They had the abil-
ity to inspire people. And just getting
together and reciting their words helps
us build the kind of ecumenical partner-
ship they had. It supports a sense of mis-
sion to continue living out their legacy.
Rev. Glenn Scheyhing Rabbi Debra Orenstein Cantor Leonard Mandel
The first time I heard of this in the
United States was when the Polaris Proj-
ect opened in Newark and we gave them
a grant, she said. We cover a large
catchment area, and I am responsible
for public policy issues, and this kept
popping up in terms of peoples interest.
So I started asking who was doing
what, and found that nothing cohesive
was going on, so I offered to bring every-
one together.
Since the coalition was formed in early
2011 with 20 partners among them the
Jewish Womens Foundation of New
Jersey, an advisory council of the Jew-
ish Community Foundation of Greater
MetroWest NJ; the National Council of
Jewish Women, and other faith-based
and community organizations it has
grown to include 90 diverse groups.
To prepare for the Super Bowl, the
coalition has teamed up with the state
attorney generals office to deter human
trafficking and to educate at-risk popula-
tions and the general public.
At the urging of the community relations
council, 15 synagogues in greater MetroW-
est agreed to sponsor an End Human Traf-
ficking Shabbat during January.
On January 15, a Human Trafficking
Awareness Day program was held at ber-
genPAC in Englewood. On January 21, a
UJA Federation of NYC-based training for
rabbis and Jewish leaders was sponsored
by Truah: The Rabbinic Call for Human
Rights.
On game day, the #HT Super Bowl Chal-
lenge a social media campaign to publi-
cize the issue of human trafficking will be
kicked off online.
On March 28, the Greater MetroWest
Federation will host a public program at its
Whippany headquarters to inform people
about how human trafficking affects Jew-
ish communities in the United States and
Israel, and how to advocate for change.
Our coalition has been focusing on
awareness, Ms. Gorelick said. We had
first focused on strengthening laws, and
last year helped get the Human Trafficking
Prevention, Protection and Treatment Act
passed. Then, to create community activ-
ism, we worked with high school and col-
lege students, and organized with our part-
ners more than 30 local programs where
we gave out a mobilization kit.
For more information, go to www.
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http://www.njhumantrafficking.org/, or
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Yes, were all Jewish
YU students expand the worldviews of underprivileged Israeli kids
M
iddle-school Israelis in hard-
scrabble development towns
asked a surprising question
of the Yeshiva University
students who came to teach them English
during winter break: Are you Jewish?
The question itself underlines why the
universitys Center for the Jewish Future
put significant resources into planning a
mere week of Israel-diaspora Relations
classes, art projects, and workshops.
About 40 Counterpoint Israel participants
presented the program to 850 teens in
seven student-run camps in the south-
eastern towns of Dimona, Kiryat Gat, and
Kiryat Malachi.
Every student in Israel has roots in the
diaspora, but most of them have never
had a chance to learn about where they
come from, said Aliza Abrams, director
of YUs CJF Department of Jewish Ser-
vice Learning. By taking this important
introspective journey with counselors
who are themselves from the diaspora,
the students will realize how much they
have in common with Jews around the
world.
Counterpoint is a great example of
Israel-diaspora relations, of cultures
intersecting and learning about each
other, said Kiva Rabinsky, programs
director of the CJFs Department of Ser-
vice Learning and Experiential Education.
He said the curriculum is designed to
help the Israeli students improve their
English in an atmosphere of attention,
care and love, but also to learn about
their commonalities and differences with
Jews in the diaspora and to explore their
own familys heritage.
Teaching in pairs, the YU students
helped the youngsters construct a
poster map showing population centers
of world Jewry. Mr. Rabinsky said this
activity was mind-blowing for some of
the children. In succeeding days, the kids
designed postage stamps on the theme
of global Jewry, which the Israel Postal
Authority printed as actual stamps to
post letters between the Israeli and YU
students, who come from North America,
Panama, and Colombia.
Six students from Teaneck where cho-
sen for the second annual Counterpoint
Israel Winter Camp: Tehilla Brander, who
went to Dimona; Rebecca Kleiner and
Chaim Metzger, who both went to Kiryat
Gat, and Rebecca Pey-
ser, Etana Staiman,
and Sam Weinstein,
who all went to Kiryat
Malachi. Romy Koe-
nig of Bergenfield
went to Kiryat Mala-
chi, and Avi Seidman
of Bergenfield and
Jennifer Lebowitz of
Fair Lawn both went
to Kiryat Gat.
Their sojourn in
Israel, from January
9 to 19, included a
week in the schools, three days of tour-
ing, working with youth at risk and par-
ents of high-school dropouts, crafting
pots and eating a traditional meal with
Ethiopian immigrants involved in a spe-
cial farming project, visiting an Aroma
caf in Rehovot run by youth at risk, and
touring the Negev home of Israels first
prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
The winter camp, which is supported
by the Jim Joseph Foundation and Repair
the World, is an abbreviated version of a
summer Counterpoint program and was
implemented at the suggestion of school
officials in the towns served, Mr. Rabin-
sky said.
Our host cities asked for us to come
back in the winter. In Kiryat Gat, for
example, four of the five school princi-
pals came to a meeting with the head of
the local board of education, and they
said Counterpoints effect had been so
great they wanted it in all their schools
this winter.
Rebecca Kleiner, a sophomore at YUs
Stern College for Women, said she saw
Counterpoint as an opportunity to give
something and also gain something for
myself, to bring in my perspective and
learn theirs on Israel-diaspora relations,
and to be a good role model beyond just
teaching English and learning a little
more Hebrew.
Working with eighth-graders in Kiryat Gat
and staying in Kiryat Malachi, allowed her
to see another side of Israel, a side to which
tourists do not often gain access. She noted
that the students with whom she worked
come from varying religious backgrounds
but all were from disadvantaged families.
She and her teaching partner had to
work hard to keep everyone focused
on the lesson and art project. The first
day, some kids in the back werent so
interested their English was not so
great, and we were going back and forth
between English and Hebrew. But even
at the end of that first lesson they were
not only participating but assisting their
friends. We saw such a transition, and
that was immediately rewarding.
Jenny Lebowitz, a Stern junior major-
ing in psychology, said her eighth-graders
gasped when they saw her writing Hebrew
words on the blackboard. It was eye-open-
ing for me and for them, to know there are
Jews all over the world. And we are all so
different, but our roots keep us in common
with one another.
When I said I was from New Jersey, which
is right by New York, a lot of them were ask-
ing me if I knew all these celebrities, she
recalled. I wanted them to realize what
they have in Israel is very special and we all
have this connection. She hopes to stay in
touch with some of them.
Stern junior Romy Koenig said she was
unsure about the impact they had made
until last Friday night. The Counterpoint
students staying in Kiryat Malachi had
invited the youngsters they worked with to
meet them for games and refreshments.
At first, five kids came, and Kiva thought
that would be it, she said. Slowly but surely,
about 40 kids showed up, including five
girls from my class. I played games with
them, and we had a great time. It was really
an amazing experience.
When we saw them in class on Sunday,
we played that game and the other kids
were sad they hadnt been there, she said.
At left, Jenny Lebowitz in Kiryat Gat; above, Chaim Metzger
teaches there. Below, Romy Koenig teaches in Kiryat Mala-
chi. PHOTOS COURTESY YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
Counterpoint is a
great example of
Israel-diaspora
relations,
of cultures
intersecting and
learning about
each other.
KIVA RABINSKY
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Moriah announces honorees for its annual dinner
The Moriah School in Englewood, which
now is educating more than 800 students
from across Bergen County, will host its
annual dinner on Saturday, March 1. It will
be held at Congregation Keter Torah in
Teaneck at 8:30 p.m.
This years honorees are guests of honor
Roni and Yehuda Blinder; Moriah Asso-
ciation of Parents (MAP) awardee Debby
Prince; Alumni awardee Dr. Michal Agus
Fox, and Dr. Elliot Prager, who will receive
the Rabbi J. Shelley Applbaum award.
Roni Blinder (Moriah 84) was a Moriah
board member for 11 years, sat on the
executive committee, and was chair of
the Moriah parade committee. Yehuda
Blinder, a member of the executive com-
mittee, has chaired Moriah committees
and worked on journal campaigns; he also
has been an executive board member of
Congregation Ahavath Torah. The Blind-
ers were honored with the Ahavath Torah
2002 Young Leadership award. They are
active in many Jewish organizations and
live in Englewood with their children Abi-
gail (Moriah 08), Isaac (10), Julia (14), and
Max (17).
Debby Prince began her volunteer work
in the Jewish community by serving as co-
president of Yeshiva Universitys Future
Builders. She has been involved in Amit,
Emunah, Lubavitch on the Palisades, and
Congregation Ahavath Torah, where she is
a board member. She is a past president
of both Ahavath Torahs sisterhood and
the Moriah Association of Parents. She
has received many chesed awards, includ-
ing YUs Young Leadership Ayshet Chayil
award, Ahavath Torahs Mitzvah Din-
ner Young Leadership award, Lubavitch
on the Palisades Ayshet Chayil award,
and Ahavath Torahs Sisterhoods Ayshet
Chayil award. She also has chaired many
MAP events and founded the schools Club
Hub. Debby and her husband, Bruce, live
in Englewood. They have three children,
Zev (Moriah 10), Benjamin (12), and Rosie
(17).
Dr. Michal Agus Fox (Moriah 88) lives in
Englewood with her husband, Natie, and
their four children, Noam (14), Kira (14),
Nili (17), and Mia (20). She has been the
school psychologist for the Ramaz Early
Childhood Center and Lower School for
the last 11 years and the director of its Early
Childhood Center for 5. An active Moriah
parent, she sat on the education commit-
tee, and remains close friends with many
of her Moriah classmates.
Under Dr. Pragers leadership for the
last nine years, Moriahs pursuit of educa-
tional excellence has soared. He is devoted
to the childrens academic, ethical, spiri-
tual, and social-emotional growth. He
has produced an array of curricular, pro-
grammatic, and administrative initiatives
at Moriah, including the internationally
recognized E2K science and math achieve-
ments, Brit Midot, the Bonayich Mishna/
Talmud curriculum, and the Thurnauer
Artist-in-Residence program. Through his
partnerships with institutions and founda-
tions such as PEJE (Partnership for Excel-
lence in Jewish Education), Avi Chai, and
CIJE (Center for Initiatives in Jewish Educa-
tion), Moriah has been involved with many
groundbreaking programs; most recently,
the school became one of only five-day
schools in the nation to be awarded the
prestigious three-year BOLD grant.
For information, call (201) 567-0208 or
go to www.moriahschool.org.
Dr. Michal Agus
Fox
Debby Prince Dr. Elliot Prager Roni and Yehuda
Blinder PHOTOS COURTESY MORIAH
Four to receive awards at Emanu-El dinner
Templ e Emanu- Els 86th
annual dinner dance, Cel-
ebrating Leaders Who Inspire
our Community, will be held
on March 8. Fran and Joshua
Weingast will receive the
Founders Award and Debbie
and Hal Satnick are honored
with the Young Leadership
award. The honorees are rec-
ognized for their outstanding
service to the community.
The Weingasts have been
members of Temple Emanu-
El for 15 years. Fran Weingast has been
on the board of trustees, executive com-
mittee, and religious school board, and
she co-chaired the youth High Holy Day
program. She was the board liaison to the
director of youth and family program-
ming, served on the search committee
for Rabbi Kirshner, and went to Israel on
the shuls inaugural Womens Mission in
2012. She co-chairs the Well Committee
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades and is
on the Womens Philanthropy Board at
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jer-
sey where she is also a Lion of Judah. She
also is the programming vice president
for the Penn Club of Metro New Jersey.
Josh Weingast has been on the Budget
and Finance Committee and volunteers
on the High Holy Days. He has been a
member of the shuls contingent at AIPAC
and on JFNNJs mens mission to Poland
and Israel. He also planned a memorable
three-generation family trip to Israel. In
addition to supporting Birthright and
Hillel, the Weingasts ensure that no Uni-
versity of Michigan student who wants to
study in Israel will be precluded for finan-
cial reasons. A Michigan Wolverine, Josh
volunteers as the alumni representative
to two local high schools and is on the
alumni board of the Michigan Chapter
of Theta Chi Fraternity. The Weingasts
have two daughters, Arielle,
a junior at Michigan and
Joanna, a Tenafly High School
senior.
Debbie and Hal Satnick
joined the congregation more
than 15 years ago. Debbie Sat-
nick has served on the board,
chaired the Passover seder
for many years, served on the
original design committee,
and is part of the catering
committee.
She al so takes part i n
the Adult Education Torah Institute
and chants a haftarah on Rosh Hasha-
nah every year. She was on the board
of AHAVA at Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County and works on
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades-spon-
sored Englewood Hospital Breakfast
Club.
Hal Satnick chaired the shuls first
Passover Expo, organized the first
mens club sukkah event, and helped re-
format the temples Passover cookbook.
The Satnicks have three children, Marti,
Corey, and Tara.
For information, email Chareen Kramer,
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Honoring Dr. King
and Rabbi Heschel
M
onday was a day off
from school for some
people.
For others, it was a
remarkably easy rush hour.
Yet others went to the mall.
If asked why they were off, some
might have been able to say that it
was in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.s birthday.
On the Friday night before, Rabbi
Debra Orenstein held a special ser-
vice with local Christian clergy at
Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson.
For one night in January, Jews and
Christians came together to honor Dr.
Kings memory and the civil rights
advancements he made, as well a
his close relationship with Rabbi Dr.
Abraham Joshua Heschel. The two
friends worked toward one anothers
dream; Rabbi Heschel fought and
marched for racial equality and Dr.
King was an outspoken supporter for
freedom for Soviet Jews.
There is still much to be done for
civil rights. Women still dont earn
as much as their male counterparts.
Even though it is getting better, not
all members of the LGBT community
always feel safe. Rabbi Heschel and
Dr. King showed that persistent, non-
violent words and actions can change
a country. Still, blacks and Jews still
live largely different lives.
Memorials are important. Most
young people know little about the
civil rights movement. We can look
at our black president with pride, his
accomplishments growing out of Dr.
King and Rabbi Heschels legacy.
Its time to take what we learned
from the 1960s and re-introduce it to
children, teens, and adults. How far
have we come? Would Dr. King and
Rabbi Heschel approve of the world
as it is today?
And so who are the future Rabbi
Heschels and Dr. Kings? The idea was
for use to follow through on the work
theyve done, not just stand still and
memorialize it.
Theres a lot of hard, courageous
work to do. Still.
Were guessing that Dr. King would
rather that we not take the day off
unless we used it to help bring jus-
tice and true equality for every man,
woman, and child of every race, reli-
gion, and ethnicity.
In honor of his birthday, take a day
on, not off.
JP
Are husbands
responsible
for their wives
becoming
overweight?
Between Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme, Americans
consume something like 14 million doughnuts per day.
Now, given that about half of that is eaten by New York
City cops, that still leaves a good few million to be eaten
by women, including wives. If I had a dollar for every
email Ive received from husbands who complain that
their wives have let themselves go and are too fat, Id be
the Bill Gates of the rabbinate.
These husbands write to me in order to contest my
assertion that their loss of attraction to their wives has
less to do with a wifes appearance and more to do with
too much familiarity and a laziness on the part of hus-
bands who dont strive to bring erotic playfulness into
marriage. Oh yeah, said
one writer, nothing would
make me happier than for
me and my wife to redis-
cover our lost passion. But
lets get real. When we mar-
ried she was a size six. Now
she has trouble squeez-
ing into a size eighteen.
Another husband echoed
the sentiment. Being mar-
ried to my wife makes me
feel like a polygamist. Its
like Im married to two
women. There are other
nasty comedians out there, like Larry, who wrote, Ive
tried everything to encourage her to diet, go to a gym. I
have even suggested we diet together. She takes offense
at each suggestion and kicks me out of the bed, which
is OK since I barely fit in anyway.
Husbands who are married to women who let them-
selves go use it as justification for an indulgence in por-
nography, affairs, or having little or no sex with their
wives. Its a convenient way of passing the buck and
blaming a woman for the loss of what Judaism says is a
marriages most important ingredient: teshuka, desire.
Firstly, there is something hypocritical in the contem-
porary notion that only women have to be sexy, while
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Americas Rabbi, shortly will
be publishing Kosher Lust. Follow him on Twitter @
RabbiShmuley.
JS-18*
Religious extremism
T
his is not about Israel or
Jews at all.
It is, instead, about a
bombing and small massa-
cre in Kabul, Afghanistan, that hap-
pened last Friday night.
As NPR reported, a suicide bomber
caused a diversion that allowed two
gunmen to massacre 21 people, many
of them foreigners who worked for
nonprofit agencies.
The restaurant, called Taverna du
Liban, was a small oasis, the report
said; the owner, Kamal Hamade, who
was among the victims, was a great
cook and baker, the sort of hospi-
table, gregarious person who runs a
restaurant because he gets joy from
feeding people and watching them
unbend. As its name made clear, it
offered Lebanese food, and until the
first crackdown, it also offered wine.
Once that was disallowed, the owner
still offered wine, but in teapots.
Customers had to ask for red or white
tea.
The taverna was not easy to get
into. It had many layers of security
sort of like the gates after gates after
gates that Maxwell Smart made his
bumbling way through decades ago
in Get Smart, except there was
nothing even vaguely funny about
this. In fact, Mr. Hamade had set
up such safeguards as a barrel of oil,
which was to have been spilled on
the floor to made it likely that intrud-
ers would slip as they charged in.
But the chaos caused by the sui-
cide bomber overrode everything.
For one thing, thi s possibly
changes the rules; until this episode
diplomats and nonprofit workers
were not seen as targets. That change
would be very bad.
But even worse the Taliban
took credit for this attack, claiming,
among other things, that the wine
served proved the restaurants moral
laxity, and consequently its custom-
ers unworthiness for life.
This is about the kind of funda-
mentalism that leads to this kind
of warped evil. We Jews are taught
about moderation; eating and drink-
ing is good, as long as it is done
appropriately, and as long as we fol-
low the rules. But there does seem to
be a human tendency to move from
moderation to a kind of pinched,
sanctimonious dourness that cata-
paults into joyless, pointless self-sac-
rifice and then, eventually, and only
in rare cases, into murderous, love-
less, soulless psychopathology.
The Taliban exemplifies that
movement.
We are very lucky that this story is
not a Jewish story. Let us hope that
we never give into that slide toward
fanaticism.
-JP
Rabbi
Shmuley
Boteach
Op-Ed
we men can have endless folds of whale blubber hang-
ing over our stomachs. Sorry guys, but just as you dont
want to be married to Aunt Jemima she doesnt want to
be married to the Pillsbury dough boy. You say youre
not drawn to the Goodyear blimp, but shes not neces-
sarily into the Michelin man either. If you want her to
get rid of the thunder-thighs, perhaps you should work
on those love handles.
More important, however, is the question of whether
husbands are to blame for a woman putting on weight.
A lot of women today have to balance family and career,
leaving them little time for a healthy diet and exercise.
But from my experience in counseling couples, I
know that a woman often puts on weight because of
a neglectful or distracted husband. Why diet when
theres no one noticing anyway?
All woman, including the brainy career-oriented,
enjoy being attractive, especially to a romantic hus-
band. So when a married woman suddenly doesnt care
much about her appearance its important to ask why.
Often, as painful as it sounds, the blame lies with a
husband who long ago stopped noticing when she did
get dressed up. So she concludes, why bother? With all
the responsibilities I have with the kids, my job, and
running the home, who has time for appearances?
The healthiest diet in the world is what I call the
compliment diet. Its where a woman feeds off her hus-
bands sincere flattery. When told by the man she loves
that she is beautiful, a woman is given the incentive to
live up to the compliment. Silence and indifference,
however, are no match for a calorie-rich diet.
I realize that we all need our own self-esteem, and
no woman, be she married or single, should allow her
identity to be subsumed by a man. Nevertheless, we
cant overlook how in marriage both men and women
are deeply influenced by the others opinion. A roman-
tic spouse brings out the beauty in their partner.
A man from Los Angeles sent me an email. There
is no easy way to tell your wife shes overweight, she
wrote. Perhaps, I answered. But there is was a very
easy way to focus on the positive. Did you tell her how
beautiful she was when she was a bit thinner?
When was the last time you went shopping for cloth-
ing with her and told her what she looks best in?
If a woman lives in the solitary island of a lonely mar-
riage, will she not sometimes console herself by indulg-
ing in the sensual pleasure of food when bereft of the
sensual pleasure of touch?
Of course, it cuts both ways. Telling your spouse that
she is attractive and beautiful is an even better weight
loss program than the Atkins, South Beach, and Dr. Phil
diets combined. It might sound simplistic, but simply
said, it works.
Last summer I bumped into a couple with whom I
had been friendly more than a decade ago. I remem-
bered the wife as a woman of beauty, with sparkling
eyes. But now some of the light of her countenance was
lost. She still smiled brightly, but some of the glow was
lost. I subsequently discovered, her husband had gone
through a rough financial period. Unable to support his
family and falling increasingly in debt, his self-esteem
plummeted. He would come home after work and offer
his wife monosyllabic responses. Whereas once he had
been attentive, he now came home and went straight
to his computer. A week turned into a month, a month
into a year, and soon he was barely noticing his wife.
True, he had lost a lot of money, but he still had lifes
greatest blessing, a loving spouse who was devoted to
him.
So the next time you notice that your wife has added
a couple of pounds, perhaps it is you who should be
looking in the mirror.
JS-19*
Are husbands
responsible
for their wives
becoming
overweight?
Between Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme, Americans
consume something like 14 million doughnuts per day.
Now, given that about half of that is eaten by New York
City cops, that still leaves a good few million to be eaten
by women, including wives. If I had a dollar for every
email Ive received from husbands who complain that
their wives have let themselves go and are too fat, Id be
the Bill Gates of the rabbinate.
These husbands write to me in order to contest my
assertion that their loss of attraction to their wives has
less to do with a wifes appearance and more to do with
too much familiarity and a laziness on the part of hus-
bands who dont strive to bring erotic playfulness into
marriage. Oh yeah, said
one writer, nothing would
make me happier than for
me and my wife to redis-
cover our lost passion. But
lets get real. When we mar-
ried she was a size six. Now
she has trouble squeez-
ing into a size eighteen.
Another husband echoed
the sentiment. Being mar-
ried to my wife makes me
feel like a polygamist. Its
like Im married to two
women. There are other
nasty comedians out there, like Larry, who wrote, Ive
tried everything to encourage her to diet, go to a gym. I
have even suggested we diet together. She takes offense
at each suggestion and kicks me out of the bed, which
is OK since I barely fit in anyway.
Husbands who are married to women who let them-
selves go use it as justification for an indulgence in por-
nography, affairs, or having little or no sex with their
wives. Its a convenient way of passing the buck and
blaming a woman for the loss of what Judaism says is a
marriages most important ingredient: teshuka, desire.
Firstly, there is something hypocritical in the contem-
porary notion that only women have to be sexy, while
Three nasty memes
about Jews and Israel
H
ere are three disturbing memes
about Jews and Israel that Ive
noticed in three separate but related
news stories recently.
Meme Number One: Youre Ungrateful
Heres State Department spokeswoman Marie
Harf responding to reported remarks by the
Israeli defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, attack-
ing Secretary of State John Kerry. We find the
remarks of the defense minister to be offensive
and inappropriate, especially given all that the
United States has done to support Israels secu-
rity needs and will continue to do, Ms. Harf said.
Now, one can certainly argue that Mr.
Yaalons description of Mr. Kerry as obsessive
and messianic was injudicious after all, hes
a government minister, not a newspaper col-
umnist. Rightly, Mr. Yaalon apologized. But
whats striking about Ms. Harfs response is that
she doesnt defend Mr. Kerrys approach to the
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which was what sparked
Mr. Yaalons overly candid criticism. Instead, she effec-
tively accuses the Israelis of biting the hand that feeds
them, a theme beloved by extremists on both left and
right, who argue that Israel is an unconscionable drain
upon the U.S. Treasury.
As Israelis know well, the principal and most valued
defender of Israel is not the United States. It is the Israel
Defense Forces. Additionally,
the vital strategic relationship
between Israel and the United
States is much more balanced
than Ms. Harf s comments sug-
gest. The United States doesnt
have to risk its troops by sta-
tioning them on Israeli soil, in
marked contrast to other Mid-
dle Eastern countries. Mean-
while, Israel enhances Ameri-
can security by, among other
things, exporting more than $1
billion worth of military technology to the United States
every year.
Meme Number Two: Youre Warmongers
The Obama administrations trashing of anyone
expressing doubts about the deal struck with the Iranian
regime last November over its nuclear program contains,
of course, an Israeli dimension. Objecting to the new Iran
sanctions bill co-authored by Senators Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), veteran California Senator
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) opined that the proposed legis-
lation was bolstering a march to war. And who is direct-
ing this heinous agenda? Ms. Feinstein once more: We
cannot let Israel determine when and where the United
States goes to war.
What Ms. Feinsteins statement insinuates is that in
the past Israel has done just that. Those who supported
the survival of Saddam Husseins barbaric regime in Iraq
consistently argued that Israeli pressure was a key reason
why the United States went to war there in 2003; hence
the need to prevent a repeat of that pattern more than a
decade later in Iran. In one stroke, all the complexity of
the Iran situation the disquiet among Arab countries
over Obamas Iran policy, the strengthening of Iran as a
regional power with dire consequences for Syria and Leb-
anon, the summary dismissal of successive U.N. Security
Council resolutions demanding that Iran end its uranium
enrichment activities simply disappears. All we are left
with is the impression that the Israelis are pushing us into
another unwanted war, aided by their dupes on Capitol
Hill.
Meme Number Three: Youre Israel-Firsters
Ive lost count of the number of times over the last few
years that Ive encountered the slanderous notion that
pro-Israel American Jews (the vast majority) are more
loyal to Israel than to the U.S. So frequently has this accu-
sation been voiced that it has added a new term Israel-
Firster to the political lexicon.
So do we come to the recent New York Times op-ed
by former FBI official M.E. Bowman urging that Jonathan
Pollard, who has spent almost 30 years in an American jail
after being convicted of spying for Israel, remain incarcer-
ated. Much of the evidence that Mr. Bowman cited against
Mr. Pollard is, at best, tenuous. Nor did he explain why
Mr. Pollard should not be entitled to clemency, given that
he didnt kill or harm anyone, and that the Cold War is
long over. (Compare that with Israels decision to release
nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu after he served
an 18-year sentence.)
Its therefore difficult to disagree with Tablet magazines
courageous assertion that in order to cover their own
incredibly damaging mistakes and failures, the national
security establishment is keeping Pollard in prison on
the apparent grounds that Jews are especially prone to
disloyalty. As the magazine goes on to point out, whats
involved here is a real injustice whose perpetuation is
clearly intended to suggest that all American Jews are,
inherently, potential traitors to their country.
Separately, all these three examples are alarming
enough. Taken together, they demonstrate that Ameri-
can public discourse about the Middle East is much more
receptive to ideas that we thought had been discredited
by history. Thats why, when the next instance of Iranian
nuclear duplicity surfaces, get ready for the chorus pro-
claiming that its all the fault of Israel and its supporters.
JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst, writes on Jewish
affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other publications.
Ben Cohen
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks at the Long
Beach Port in California in 2010. Discussing new sanctions
again Iran, Ms. Feinstein said, We cannot let Israel determine
when and where the United States goes to war.
OFFICE OF DIANNE FEINSTEIN
Op-Ed
JS-20*
Rampaging minority
politicized the MLA conference
AMY SCHWARTZ
CHICAGO The Modern Language Asso-
ciation, which held its annual conference
here January 9 to 12, has approximately
28,000 humanities scholars in its mem-
bership, about 4,000 of whom attend the
annual conference. The conference fea-
tures hundreds of workshops and panel
discussions about 800 in total this year
on topics ranging from Italian-American
literature to comics and graphic novels to
old Norse language and literature.
The campaign to boycott Israel com-
monly known as the boycott, divestment
and sanctions movement, or BDS was
surely the last thing on the minds of most
MLA attendees in Chicago. So why did this
years program include a roundtable panel
discussion on academic boycotts of Israel
and a factually flawed resolution alleging
that Israel bars academics seeking to enter
the west bank?
In my view, it was nothing more than
the political rampaging of a small cadre of
MLA members intent on politicizing the
event and taking advantage of the mem-
berships general lack of awareness to foist
a wholly non-academic issue to the fore-
front of the conference.
Talking to friends and fellow MLA mem-
bers, it was striking that none of them had
heard of the academic boycott panel or the
resolution. Indeed, MLA members seemed
acutely unaware of the larger political con-
text and agenda of the panel discussants
and resolution proposers, including Omar
Barghouti and David Lloyd, who are major
players in the BDS movement.
The roundtable discussion was a closed
session open only to MLA members. Those
who attended were largely a self-selecting
group of supporters. The room was half
filled with about 100 people, although
three security guards stood at the door.
The atmosphere was similar to a pep
rally, complete with much applause and
grandstanding.
There was nothing academic about the
panel discussion. Rather it was a hostile,
politicized circus in the guise of an intel-
lectual and academic discussion.
It got worse when MLA delegates moved
to a discussion of Resolution 2014-1 charg-
ing that Israel bars academics seeking to
enter the west bank. The propaganda and
polemics of resolution supporters was
astounding.
In light of these events, I decided to
step up to the microphone to speak out
against the resolution at the open hear-
ing of the Delegate Assembly. I spoke to
the integrity of the MLA as an academic
organization and the imperative that it
remain apolitical. If organizations like the
MLA become vehicles of the political agen-
das of its members, this respected group
will be compromised, resulting in more
harm to the already suffering state of the
humanities.
Such results are being seen in other aca-
demic circles. Just look at the recent back-
lash to the American Studies Associations
vote to impose a boycott of Israeli aca-
demic institutions. More than 150 univer-
sity presidents have publicly criticized aca-
demic boycotts. Several universities have
withdrawn their institutional membership
in the ASA.
The response to my testimony was pre-
dictable. Lloyd claimed BDS proponents
were being unfairly attacked, intimi-
dated and threatened to suggest there
would be a backlash against the MLA for
this resolution.
The Delegate Assembly on January 11
was sheer chaos. The chairperson, Marga-
ret Ferguson of the University of California,
Davis, had little control over the room and
seemed to change the rules as she went
along, quashing those who simply wanted
to be heard and eventually moving to sus-
pend the rules of order expressly meant to
govern the proceedings.
I cant say those of us who knew in
advance of the roundtable and the reso-
lution were surprised by the insidious
atmosphere. There was an expectation
that most MLA delegates would be largely
uninformed about these issues, and the
delegates would vote on impulse without
doing their due diligence and reading the
background material.
The warnings were sadly apt. It sur-
prised me to be in a room of accomplished
scholars from highly respected universities
and hear them respond to the resolution
with a profound lack of awareness of its
political context and implications.
In the end, while the body voted down
consideration of an emergency resolu-
tion condemning attacks and intimida-
tion of the ASA for its boycott, Resolution
2014-1, passed by a vote of 60-53, exhorted
the U.S. State Department to investigate
alleged denials of entry of American
scholars traveling to pursue academic
research and teach in the west bank.
The resolution advances to the execu-
tive committee meeting in February, and
if it passes there, it will go to before MLA
members for a vote. At that point, the reso-
lution must be supported by a majority of
voting members whose number equals at
least 10 percent of the overall membership.
Colleagues who have attended MLA
meetings for decades say they have never
seen anything like what occurred. Several
members who first learned of the agenda
at the conference expressed such disgust
that they threatened to cancel their mem-
bership if the resolution passes. A serious
backlash by members this spring would
not be surprising.
Preemptive preparations for this uphill
battle were thorough and thoughtful. The
impressive group of Jewish intellectuals
who fought the resolution, led by highly
respected professors Cary Nelson of the
University of Illinois and Russell Berman
of Stanford University, helped organize an
alternative discussion on academic free-
dom immediately after the academic boy-
cott roundtable.
Clearly the effort to counter the main-
streaming BDS initiatives within academic
organizations is only beginning. MLA
Scholars for Academic Freedom and anti-
BDS forces such as the Israel Action Net-
work, the Israel on Campus Coalition,
the Anti-Defamation League, and others
will continue to educate and inform the
MLA membership and initiate outreach to
other academic organizations to promote
responsibility, academic freedom and
integrity. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Amy Schwartz, the assistant regional
director of the Anti-Defamation Leagues
Chicago office, is a member of the Modern
Language Association and a former
adjunct professor at Northwestern
University.
Professor Cary Nelson of the Uni-
versity of Illinois helped organize an
alternative discussion on academic
freedom to counter the boycott move-
ment.
LETTERS
Fort Lee visa
I agree wholeheartedly with the editorial
assessment of the bridge scandal (Lead-
ers and bridges, January 17) and I look for-
ward to its denouement. However, I would
like to comment on the subtly ironic state-
ment that the access road is not a road
you need a Fort Lee visa to be allowed to
drive.
Au contraire.
In my decades-long work commute
across the bridge via Route 4, I have dis-
covered several efficient short cuts. The
main one that I use on bad traffic days cuts
right through Main Street; however, if traf-
fic is particularly bad, the Fort Lee cops set
up cones and dont allow access to it. On
one particularly frustrating morning a few
years ago, when I saw that some drivers
were getting access and I was being turned
away, I respectfully approached the traffic
cop and he actually asked me for written
proof of residency in Fort Lee. I was furi-
ous. Dont I pay taxes in Bergen County
and should I not have access to all public
county and local roads? Apparently not,
according to the Fort Lee powers that be.
Gitl S. Viswanath
Teaneck
Not enough understanding
The name of the Chabad movement of
Lubavitch is an acronym for chochmah
(wisdom, or creative thought), beenah
(understanding), and daas (factual knowl-
edge). Beenah is related to the word
bayn, which means between. Under-
standing, therefore, means knowing the
difference between concepts, situations,
etc. My opinion is that in presenting their
arguments, three of the letter-writers in
your January 17 issue failed to meet the
beenah standard.
Shel Haas takes Rabbi Shmuel Goldin to
task for not acknowledging the behavior
of certain so-called ultra-Orthodox Jews in
Rockland County. Rabbi Goldin has been
my pulpit rabbi at Congregation Ahavath
Torah for almost 30 years, and through-
out that time he has gone out of his way
to keep open channels of communica-
tion with non-Orthodox denominations,
including founding an organization called
Edah designed specifically for that pur-
pose. While that effort was unsuccessful,
it wasnt for lack of trying. To associate
the rabbi, a former president of the RCA,
and by extension Modern Orthodoxy, with
people who are practically kindred spirits
with those xenophobic charedim in Israel
who think they are privileged characters
exempt from military service is highly
inappropriate. Theres a huge and obvious
difference between them.
Letters
JS-21
Dan Mosenkis describes several lenient decisions by
Orthodox rabbis to be agenda-driven. In fact, Ortho-
doxy has always required the rabbis to seek out the
most lenient result in every case of law, in order to
keep observance of the religion from becoming too
onerous. Thats not an agenda; its a fundamental prin-
ciple. Theres a difference between them too.
Paul Einschlag compares the leaders of the Reform
movements rebooting approach to Ben-Gurion and
other secular Israeli leaders. Again, the comparison is
invalid. The work of the founders of the state of Israel
resulted in a Jewish country with a huge Jewish major-
ity, Hebrew as the primary language, and the study
of Tanach in schools. In contrast, Jews comprise less
than 2 percent of the population of the United States,
and the opportunities and temptations in this country
for assimilation and intermarriage are overwhelming.
The last 65 years show a massive difference between
the results of their respective efforts.
Gary M. Rosenberg
Englewood
Arguing with Avi Shavit
Avi Shavits book My Promised Land received a pos-
itive review from Abraham Bernstein (Context and
consciousness, January 17). Mr. Shavit does praise
some aspects of Israels history. However, there are
questions concerning his assessment of that history.
He speaks of his great grandfathers arrival in Pal-
estine in the late nineteenth century. Members of my
own family also came earlier in that period. Their
descriptions are part of my family memories.
These individuals were motivated with a yearning
to return to Palestine by a culture that had never
abandoned that land, that associated its history and
spirituality with the existence of a Jewish people, and
kept them from disappearing. The dream of a return
kept the nation alive. Shavits great grandfather and
his generation were not the first to return. There were
many who came singly or in small groups in all the
years following the Roman conquest.
Shavits statement that his great grandfather was
motivated not to see is very unlikely. What there
was to see was a parched , uncultivated, abandoned
land with a small population. He and others took on
the task of restoring the land with great effort and did
not neglect its intellectual or economic growth. They
began the advances that Ari Shavit experienced when
he grew up.
In those days no one had claimed sovereignty and
nationhood in Palestine. It was ruled by a series of
colonial powers but not by a Palestinian population.
Over time a nationalism evolved that began to mani-
fest itself in violence instigated by some in the land as
well as some beyond its borders who vied for leader-
ship. The attitude became similar to the current situ-
ation in Iraq, where a Sunni Arab group and a Shiite
group seek to eject each other rather than share the
territory. This attitude, intensified after World War I
and II, often focused on the Jewish population and was
responsible for many Jewish deaths.
Eventually this philosophy resulted in the 1948 war.
Five Arab nations attacked the new Jewish nation.
War inevitably results in tragedies. Lyddas population
expulsion was one. Unfortunately Shavit makes it the
centerpiece of his book, his speeches. and the televi-
sion documentary that framed the incident.
He is fair to describe the choice that was given to the
peoplel of Lydda leave or we will have to do to you
what you would do to us. They knew the Arab choice
would have been slaughter and their departure was
painful but preferable. For the Jewish nation survival
was at stake. Survival is still threatened. Ari Shavit should
emphasize that, and the need to avoid making Israel face
choices brought by war and violence.
Mishel Greenberg
Teaneck
Interdenominational activities
It is good that Rabbi Goldin reminds us that he and other
Orthodox leaders place a high premium on interdenomi-
national activities (Letters, January 10). I hope he can elu-
cidate his statement by explaining to us why the Forward
reported that the installation of Rabbi Asher Lopatin to
succeed Rabbi Avi Weiss at YCT, which featured an interde-
nominational panel of distinguished (non-Orthodox) lead-
ers, attracted few if any rabbis in the YU-RCA circle.
I suggest that the incident which provoked the reactions
by Rabbis Goldin and Zahavy (an Orthodox rabbi pointedly
refusing to enter a Conservative service) (Dear Rabbi, Janu-
ary 3) might be explained further by the following statement
by Rav Soloveitchik (zl): It would be better not to hear the
shofar [on the High Holydays] than to enter a synagogue
whose sanctity has been profaned [by mixed seating].
Dan Mosenkis
Fair Lawn
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JOANNE PALMER
I
n a way, its almost like a science fiction experi-
ment in alternate realities.
The British Jewish world is in some ways like
ours, and in other ways deeply, structurally, per-
haps even radically different. There is much for us to
learn in both the similarities and the differences.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi
of the Commonwealth of Great Britain, who will be
scholar in residence at Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood next Shabbat, embodies both the
familiarity and the otherness. On the one hand, there
is his name and title Rabbi Sacks is also the Right Hon-
ourable Lord Sacks, and can properly be called Baron
Sacks as well.
On the other, deeply familiar hand, he is an Ortho-
dox Jew, the son and grandson of immigrants; his his-
tory and religious practice are not foreign at all to us.
As he explained in a phone conversation, the Jewish
community in the U.K. is far smaller than its U.S. coun-
terpart We are just under 300,000, he said, cen-
tered mostly in London and Manchester in England,
with very small communities in Wales and Ireland, and
Meet the
Right Honorable
Lord Sacks
Former chief rabbi
of Great Britain is
scholar in residence
in Englewood
Rabbi Sacks, in Israel, speaks at the
launch of Radical Responsiblity, a
book discussing his contributions to
Jewish philosophy.
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a slightly larger one in Scotland. British
Jews also are a little more traditional than
the American Jewish community, so that
around 70 percent are members of Ortho-
dox synagogues. (Rabbi Sacks organiza-
tion, the United Hebrew Congregations
of the Commonwealth, represents most
but not all Orthodox non-charedi shuls.)
About another 10 percent or so are mem-
bers of non-Orthodox shuls, he said. That
doesnt make the British community more
religious just more traditional but it
does mean that Orthodoxy has a strong
voice in Britain.
Not only does the majority of the com-
munity have a chief rabbi, in Britain, we
have two different kinds of leadership,
Rabbi Sacks said. There is the board of
deputies and the chief rabbi. That means
that there is a kind of division of labor that
doesnt happen in the United States. The
board defends Jewish interests, and the
chief rabbi articulates Jewish principles.
That allows me to exercise much more of
a teaching role, and to be a voice in the
public square.
I do a lot of broadcasting and public
media, he said.
The reason that the office of the chief
rabbinate exists in Britain is because
we are constituted as a religious commu-
nity rather than an ethnic one, he said.
And every Jew is counted as part of that
community, not only the Orthodox Jews
who are members of United Synagogue-
affiliated shuls.
We worked out ways of doing this,
Rabbi Sacks said. I had to formulate prin-
ciples, because as the community changes
you have to make sure that everyone
knows who represents what, and so on.
I formulated basic principles that help
to finesse problems on all matters that
affect us as Jews, regardless of our religious
differences. We agree to differ on those dif-
ferences, but there are those issues where
we work together across denominations
issues such as anti-Semitism, interfaith,
welfare, and defense of Israel. On those
matters, we work together across the
board.
Although the part of the community I
am closest to is modern Orthodoxy, I try
to call it inclusive Orthodoxy, Rabbi Sacks
said. We are much broader in our reach
than American Orthodoxy. There are a lot
of less religiously inclined people. The shul
that people go to once or twice a year is
Orthodox. Some people think of that as
hypocrisy, but I think of it as loyalty.
As most of the Jewish world knows by
now, a study the Pew Research Center
released a few months ago seemed to con-
tain dire news about the American Jew-
ish communitys future, were trends not
reversed soon. The study was old news for
Rabbi Sacks, though, and there is much
that we can learn from his efforts, he
suggested.
We faced these problems intermar-
riage, lack of connection, dwindling rates
of affiliation when I first became chief
rabbi, in 1991, he said. That was when
the 1990 national Jewish population study
was published in the States. I studied that
report and really the Pew report is that
first report, 20 years on and it was clear
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Rabbi Sacks looks on as Prime Minister David Cameron lights a chanukiyah.
Rabbi Sacks and Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, host Queen
Elizabeth in Lambeth Palace as part of an interfaith gathering to mark her
Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
Lord and Lady Sacks
are surrounded by
a group of students
on Bnei Akivas gap
year program.
I formulated
basic principles
that help to
finesse
problems on
all matters that
affect us
as Jews.
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to me that the issues that American Jewry was facing we
would face too, if not immediately then quite soon.
So we acted on that.
We had a huge advantage in that we were small enough
a community to be able to generate a series of plans across
the community to transform it, and to meet the challenges
head on.
The first thing we did was analyze the data. I spent three
years studying every study that exists on the maintenance
of minority group identities everywhere in the world. It was
clear to us that education is the key.
Historically, wherever Jewish education was strong, Jew-
ish identity was strong.
So we decided that we were going to increase the num-
ber of Jewish children studying in day schools in an unprec-
edented way. When we began, 25 percent of Jewish children
were studying at day schools. Now, 20 years on, 70 percent
are. We built more Jewish day schools in 20 years than in
the previous three centuries plus of Anglo-Jewish history.
Not only are the differences in numbers striking, but so
is the source of funding. The schools are state supported,
Rabbi Sacks said. That doesnt mean that the support was
automatic. We had to make two very strong cases. We had
to persuade Jewish parents to want to send their children
and we had to overcome a longstanding reluctance on their
part to do so and we had to persuade the government to
support it. Finally, we managed both.
Now, for the first time, we have a generation of young
Jews who are more Jewishly knowledgeable and committed
than their parents.
Another difference is summer camps, which have been
instrumental in retaining generations of American Jewish
children. We are not a summer camp sort of community,
Rabbi Sacks said. We tend to send our kids to Israel in the
summer, probably because we are so much closer. (He was
talking geography; the flight is only about five hours.)
Intermarriage, too, is an issue. We cant estimate it, but
we know that just as it is in America, it is highly stratified,
depending on the degree of religious observance. The more
there is in the home, the less likely children are to marry
out.
We know that intermarriage is the single most critical
factor, and we also know that the Archimedean point, the
point from which we can move the world, is school.
When children come back from school and start teach-
ing their parents, thats when their parents start being more
religious. We couldnt tell them directly to be more reli-
gious, but we can say that you should send your children
to day school.
The schools also teach strong ethics. We teach our kids
to be good, responsible citizens, who care for others. These
are good chesed-based schools, and the fact that our kids
come out of them strongly committed to the common good
and to helping others is a reason why the government looks
so favorably on them.
The schools are superb in their secular achievements
as well. Thats why parents want to send their kids there.
That is the dynamic that is shaping up in Britain.
There were 450,000 Jews in the U.K. after World War
II; that number fell to 300,000 by 2005. We did our
arithmetic, Rabbi Sacks said. We knew that more
Jews were dying than were being born. It was that
simple. We were losing Jews.
Proactive work took care of that as well.
We arrested the demographic decline, Rabbi
Sacks continued. Anglo-Jewry had declined year
after year between 1945 and 2005, but since 2005 it
has been growing year after year. And that growth is
indigenous, without immigration.
England is a very old country, but the Jewish com-
munity as it is now is about as old as ours. There are
glimpses of Jewish presence there that can be traced
back to soon after the Norman Conquest, but the
traces are rare; most of the time Jews are found in Eng-
lish history between then and the English Revolution,
it is as the victims of pogroms. Oliver Cromwell let a
few Jews trickle in, and by the Victorian era around
when Jews started landing in noticeable numbers in
the United States the community was visible, if not
thriving. (Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin of Israel!! a
brilliant man gifted with what was considered to be
a Jewish brain and burdened by what was labeled as
a Jewish nose was prime minister, but as a child he
had been received by the Anglican church. That might
have been a fig-leaf conversion, but it was necessary
nonetheless. So glass half full or half empty?)
There were only 20,000 Jewish families in 1880,
Rabbi Sacks said. There are relatively few really old
Anglo-Jewish families.
The practical result of this history is that the roots
of the British Jewish community are similar to ours.
Shabbat with Rabbi Sacks
Who: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief
rabbi of the Commonwealth of Great Britain
What: Will be rabbi in residence
Where: At Congregation Ahavath Torah, 240
Broad Ave., Englewood
When: January 31-February 1
Shabbat schedule:
January 31, dessert reception and lecture, The
3 Greatest Challenges Facing the Orthodox
Community Today, and Their Solutions, 8:30
p.m.
February 1, sermon, Building a Home for God,
11:30 a.m.; talk and seudah shelisheet, Torah
and Contemporary Politics, A Case Study, 4:45
p.m.
For more information: www.ahavathtorah.org
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Rabbi Sacks own story is familiar, at least
in part.
My fathers family came from
Poland, he said. My late father was an
immigrant; they first came in the early
20th century. My late mother was born in
Britain, but her parents came from Israel.
My great grandfather, Aryeh Leib
Frumkin, who was an Orthodox rabbi
in Lithuania, was one of the early Zion-
ists. He built the first school and house
in Petach Tikvah. He made aliyah in 1871.
But there was an attack on the village in
1894, and he decided that it wasnt safe
to raise a family there, so he came over in
1894 and began a wine business, import-
ing from Israel.
The business was called Frumkins,
and it was a sort of center of Jewish life
in the East End, Rabbi Sacks continued.
(Londons East End was the equivalent
of New Yorks Lower East Side, the place
where new immigrants lived until they
made enough money and assimilated
enough local manners to move on up.)
My earliest memories of my grandmother were of a
balabuste. She sort of ran the whole East End, selling
wine. It was the place where new immigrants came, the
point of arrival.
Did Rabbi Sacks grandmother have a first name?
Yes, he said, but I knew her as bubbe, and everyone
else knew her as Mrs. Frumkin.
My grandfather sat in the shop, studying Talmud; she
ran the shop, and she ran the neighborhood. She was
illiterate. She was one of the great forceful characters of
the East End. Everyone knew Mrs. Frumkin.
My father, Louis, sold shmattes in the East End. He
was one of the generation that never had a chance to
get an education. He had to leave school at 14 to support
the family.
Louis and his wife, Libby, had four boys; Jonathan was
born in 1948. We had the kind of education they didnt
have, Rabbi Sacks said.
Now that he has retired as chief rabbi, Rabbi Sacks
is relishing the freedom to expand his reach. I will be
teaching at Yeshiva University and New York University,
and at Kings College in Britain, he said. I will be travel-
ing the world to encourage leadership in the next gen-
eration of Jews, to get young people to really become
leaders in the Jewish world. I will be engaging in virtu-
ally every leadership program in the Jewish world, and
I am particularly looking forward to developing a rela-
tionship with Hillel in America.
One of his first stops in the United States will be
the weekend at Ahavath Torah, and its president, Lee
Lasher of Englewood, is thrilled.
In terms of inspirational leadership, rabbinic or oth-
erwise, Rabbi Sacks is one of the leaders in the Jewish
world today, he said. This is an honor and a privilege.
On a personal level, I am aligned with so many of
Rabbi Sacks values, Mr. Lasher continued. I was at
the GA the general assembly of the Jewish Federa-
tions of North America, which met in Israel in November
when Rabbi Sacks spoke. It was astounding. It was
a standing-room audience, and people literally walked
out of it saying that it was the best talk they had heard.
He talked about how his Judaism engaged with the
world. He said that there had been two models of Juda-
ism reacting to crisis. One response was Im giving up.
Total assimilation. The other is the charedi approach,
total isolation. He said that we dont need that anymore.
We should be engaged with the world, proud of our
Judaism.
He told a story about how the Archbishop of Canter-
bury addressed the Parliament, and they came to him a
few years into his term as chief rabbi and asked him if
he would do it.
He said it was unbelievable; people were talking
about it, non-Jewish people. It was such a Kiddush
HaShem a glorification of Gods name. He is able to
articulate Jewish values in such a beautiful way.
He talked about the servant leader, the kind of Jewish
leader that Moses exemplifies. Thats Rabbi Sacks. Its
the exact opposite of Chris Christie.
At the GA, he gave a handout, and it said, Judaism
does not mean living in the past. It means living with the
past, but with eyes firmly turned toward the future.
Although I had been trying for months to bring Rabbi
Sacks, with a lot of back and forth with the youth rabbi
at East Hills Synagogue in Englewood, whose brother
works with Rabbi Sacks, Yeshiva University heard that
I was interested, and Stu Halpern, who lives in the com-
munity and works at YU, came to us and said, We can
make this happen, and we would love to.
Rabbi Sacks is going to speak at only a few commu-
nities a year, and we are so excited to have him speak
to us.
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, who leads Ahavat Torah and is
the immediate past president of the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of America, said, It is a privilege and an honor for
us to be able to host Rabbi Sacks. He is a scholar par
excellence, who is firmly rooted in the real world and
whose philosophical contributions are not esoteric but
practical and real, and address peoples lives in a very
concrete way.
This has allowed him to make an immeasurable con-
tribution to the Jewish community at large. There are
few people who have the extraordinary reach that he
has, and the ability to relate to people from different
backgrounds and religious perspectives.
Like Mr. Lasher, Rabbi Goldin thanked YU for provid-
ing us with this opportunity.
It demonstrates what a wonderful contribution
Rabbi Sacks can make now that he has taken on a role
within that esteemed institution, he said.
This month, Rabbi Sacks talks with Christiane
Amanpour on CNN.
Rabbi Sacks speaks at an AIPAC conference in Washington D.C.,
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WASHINGTON In previous AIPAC vs. White House dust-
ups, the pro-Israel lobbying groups strategy was to speak
softly and let Congress carry the big stick.
But in the American Israel Public Affairs Committees
face-off with the Obama administration over new Iran sanc-
tions, congressional support may not be so readily available,
and keeping a low public profile is proving impossible.
According to congressional insiders and some of the pro-
Israel lobbying groups former senior executives, AIPAC may
soon face a tough choice: Stick out the battle over sanctions
and potentially face a reputation-damaging defeat, or reach
out to the White House and find a way for both sides to save
face.
I dont believe this is sustainable, the confrontational
posture, said Steve Rosen, a former AIPAC foreign policy
chief known for his hawkishness on Iran.
The Obama administration has taken a firm line against
the sanctions bill backed by AIPAC, warning that the leg-
islation would harm prospects for a achieving a diplo-
matic solution on the Iranian nuclear issue. Meanwhile,
the confrontation has landed AIPAC squarely in the media
spotlight and drawn pointed criticism from leading liberal
commentators.
AIPAC has been stymied by a critical core of Senate Demo-
crats who have sided with the Obama administration in the
fight. While AIPACs bid to build a veto-busting majority has
reached 59 eight short of the needed 67 it has stalled
there in part because Democrats have more or less stopped
signing on.
Sens. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the
bills sponsors, rounded up 15 Democrats when the bill was
introduced on December 19, just before Congress went on
its Christmas recess. Since Congress returned this month,
however, they have added just one Democrat, Michael Ben-
net of Colorado.
AIPAC, however, says its bid to pass sanctions is on track.
Our top priority is stopping Irans nuclear program, and
consequently we are very engaged in building support for
the Menendez-Kirk bill, which now has the bipartisan co-
sponsorship of 59 senators, AIPACs spokesman, Marshall
Wittman, wrote in an email to JTA. This measure would
provide our negotiators with critical leverage in their efforts
to achieve a peaceful end to Irans nuclear weapons
program.
But in a recent interview with The New Yorker, Pres-
ident Obama appeared confident that backers of the
bill would not reach a veto-proof majority.
I dont think a new sanctions bill will reach my
desk during this period, but if it did, I would veto it
and expect it to be sustained, Mr. Obama said.
A source close to AIPAC said the stall in support
for the legislation is due in part to the fact that of 10
committee chairmen opposed to the bill, four are Jew-
ish and have histories of closeness to the pro-Israel
community.
Non-Jewish lawmakers tend to take their cues on
Israel-related issues from their Jewish colleagues a
common template with lawmakers from other com-
munities and this is no different, the source said.
AIPACs determined push on sanctions is drawing
some anger from Democrats. A number of party insid-
ers say that staffers on Capitol Hill are referring openly
to AIPAC as an antagonist on the Iran issue in private
conversations.
Now it just looks like AIPAC is backing a partisan
bill rather than pushing a bipartisan policy to stop
Iran, said a former Democratic Hill staffer who deals
in Middle Eastern issues; like many others, he asked
not to be identified because of the issues sensitivity.
AIPACs efforts have spurred surprisingly blunt criti-
cism from sources that are more known for caution on
such matters. The new director of the National Jew-
ish Democratic Council, Rabbi Jack Moline, accused
AIPAC activists of using strong-arm tactics on
uncommitted senators earlier this month.
Douglas Bloomfield, who served as AIPACs legisla-
tive director in the 1980s and is now frequently criti-
cal of the group, warned that with most Democrats
inclined to back Mr. Obama on this issue, AIPACs con-
frontational posture could wound its reputation down
the road.
There could be repercussions across the board
with a lot of members of Congress the next time they
say they want them to go to the barricades, he said.
AIPAC already is taking some high-profile hits on TV,
with liberal commentators accusing the lobby of trying
to scuttle a diplomatic settlement with Iran.
The senators from the great state of Israel are
Will AIPAC-Obama clash on sanctions
hurt the pro-Israel lobbys clout?
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) is the Democratic
sponsor of new Iran sanctions legislation.
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against it, comedian Jon Stewart said last week on The
Daily Show, sitting in front a graphic of a map of Israel
emblazoned with the AIPAC logo. MSNBC host Chris
Hayes said the 16 Democratic senators backing the sanc-
tions bill are afraid of AIPAC.
Mr. Rosen said that such exposure, while irritating to
AIPAC, would not be a factor in getting the lobby to shift
course. More serious would be calls from donors to the
group who have ties to Democrats. AIPACs reputation
as having bipartisan support a critical element of its
influence could be put at risk.
AIPAC puts a premium on bipartisan consensus and
maintaining communication with the White House,
said Mr. Rosen, who was fired by AIPAC in 2005 after
being investigated in a government leak probe, though
the resulting charges were dismissed and he later sued
AIPAC unsuccessfully for damages.
Mr. Rosen noted AIPACs forthcoming policy confer-
ence in March; such conferences routinely feature a top
administration official the president or vice president,
the secretary of state or defense. At least one of these
failing to appear would be devastating to AIPACs image
of bipartisanship, he said.
A way out for the group would be to quietly negotiate
a compromise behind the scenes with the White House,
he added.
They dont want to be seen as backing down, he said
of his former employer, but the White House is good at
helping people backing down without seeming to back
down.
AIPAC hardly stands alone in advocating the sanc-
tions, said an official from another Jewish group, not-
ing that support for the bill spanned the breadth of the
community from the right-wing Zionist Organization of
America to the consensus-oriented Jewish Council for
Public Affairs. None of these groups, including AIPAC,
wanted a confrontation, the official said.
Its awkward, and the pro-Israel organizations
have been looking for a way to climb down from
this question, said the official, who asked not to be
identified.
However, the official said, the Obama administration
has taken a confrontational approach. The official cited
a pointed remark by National Security Council spokes-
woman Bernadette Meehan, who suggested earlier this
month that congressional backers of the sanctions leg-
islation actually favor war with Iran and should be up-
front with the American public and say so.
There seems to be a concerted effort by the White
House to say were not going to blink, the Jewish orga-
nizational official said.
Notably, last week, in an off-the-record conference
call with Jewish leaders, a top White House official
dialed back such accusations, saying that backers and
opponents of the bill both wanted a peaceful resolution
to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Others, however, argue that the conflict with the
White House is not necessarily bad for AIPAC.
When they are being attacked, they come out on top
from a fundraising point of view, said a former AIPAC
official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
An aide to a Republican senator who backs the sanc-
tions said that in the long run, AIPACs better bet was to
align itself with Congress rather than the White House.
Congress holds the foreign policy purse, the aide
said. The White House will always have a new occu-
pant. It is less important what the White House thinks of
any organization and far more important what Congress
thinks of any organization.
Morris Amitay, a former AIPAC executive director,
said the lobbys natural approach toward the executive
branch was to influence its adversary, Congress.
AIPACs relationship with the White House has never
been kissy-kissy, said Mr. Amitay, who now leads a pro-
Israel political action committee. And if you look at
where Congress is today on Israel issues, the peace pro-
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households which do not meet the [construction safety]
standards meaning that millions of citizens are at risk
during an earthquake, Erdan told the Knesset Interior
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TORONTO It took seven years, but one
of Israels staunchest allies among world
leaders has made his maiden voyage to
the Jewish state.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
Harper arrived in Israel on Sunday with
his wife, Laureen. On Tuesday, Mr. Harper
and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu agreed to expand a free trade
pact between their countries, and signed
a memorandum providing for increased
cooperation in defense, business, and
academia.
Canada supports Israel because it
is right to do so, Mr. Harper said in an
address to the Knesset on Monday. This
is a very Canadian trait, to do something
for no reason other than it is right.
Since his election in 2006, the Conserva-
tive prime minister has been full throated,
unapologetic, and seemingly indifferent to
consequence in his support for Israel.
Mr. Harper was the first Western leader
to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority fol-
lowing Hamas 2006 seizure of power in
Gaza, and the first to withdraw from the
second U.N. World Conference Against
Racism, known as Durban II, saying
the event would scapegoat the Jewish
people.
Canada has sided openly with Israel in
every one of its military operations since
2006. Mr. Netanyahu calls Mr. Harper Ste-
phen, and the two speak regularly. And
earlier this month, Mr. Harper appointed
Vivian Bercovici, a Toronto lawyer and an
outspoken Israel supporter, as Canadas
ambassador to Israel.
Mr. Harper has backed Israel with such
fervor that some scholars and diplo-
mats rank it as the most dramatic shift
in the history of postwar Canadian for-
eign policy, according to journalist Marci
McDonalds 2011 book, The Armaged-
don Factor: The Rise of Christian Nation-
alism in Canada.
The jolting change has left many of
Canadas 375,000 Jews swooning, fol-
lowing decades in which Ottawa sought
a more neutral posture toward Israel.
And they have repaid the good will:
Polls showed that for the first time, more
than half of Canadian Jews 52 percent
voted for Harpers Tories in the 2011
election, a historic departure from their
traditional base in the Liberal Party.
Observers agree that Mr. Harper, an
evangelical Christian, stands to gain little
by supporting Israel, and in fact may be
paying a price for it. Canada failed in its
2010 bid for a seat on the U.N. Security
Council for the first time, a result some
attributed to its foreign policy in general
and support for Israel in particular.
Politically, Mr. Harper also has little to
gain and much to lose. The shift in Jew-
ish voting has helped Conservatives in
only about 10 of Canadas 308 electoral
districts, though Jewish voters in three
key Toronto-area districts helped replace
Liberal members of parliament with Con-
servatives, two of whom are Jewish them-
selves. Among Muslims, a community
roughly triple the size of Jews in Canada,
Mr. Harper won a meager 12 percent in
the last election.
I do think his support for Israel is a
principled one because he will stand to
lose more non-Jewish votes than gain
Jewish ones by his forthright defense of
the country, said Henry Srebrnik, who
got to know Mr. Harper when he taught
at the University of Calgary in the early
1990s and Mr. Harper represented the
city in the House of Commons. I doubt
there was any sudden epiphany when it
comes to Israel, but more likely a grow-
ing, and probably somewhat religiously
based, admiration for the Jewish state.
Mr. Harper is Canadas first evangeli-
cal prime minister in 50 years, and most
observers accept that his faith plays some
role in his support for Israel. Rabbi Philip
Scheim of Toronto, who accompanied
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prime ministers support for Israel is part of an end-
of-days, apocalyptic scenario.
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tice and a righting of historical wrongs, especially in
light of the Holocaust, Rabbi Scheim said.
In speeches and interviews, Mr. Harper has credited
his late father, a teetotaling accountant who raised his
son in the mainline liberal United Church of Canada,
with being his greatest influence. Joseph Harper spoke
favorably of the Jewish people, teaching his three sons
about the Jews biblical status as the chosen people
and saying that in the wake of the Holocaust, they
deserved kindness.
According to Ms. McDonalds book, the younger
Harper shifted to evangelicalism after being encour-
aged to read the works of Christian thinkers C.S. Lewis
and Malcolm Muggeridge. He joined the Christian and
Missionary Alliance, an evangelical denomination
headquartered in Colorado that stresses the author-
ity of the Bible and the physical healing powers of
Jesus but does not have an especially strong Zionist
component.
Ms. McDonald paints an alarming picture of a right-
wing Christian takeover of Canadian politics. Others
arent convinced.
I havent seen signs that [Harper] is motivated all
that strongly by anything distinctively Christian, said
John Stackhouse, a theology professor at Regent Col-
lege in Vancouver and one of Canadas top watchers
of evangelicals. On two of the main issues from his
purported religious constituency namely abortion
and homosexuality he has done next to nothing and
prevented others, actually, from doing anything.
Mr. Harper was exposed to Middle East policy issues
when he was first elected to Parliament in 1993 under
the banner of the Western-based, populist Reform
Party, many of whose members were pro-Israel evan-
gelicals who saw Israel as an oasis of democracy sur-
rounded by dictatorships.
The Reform Party begat the short-lived Canadian
Alliance, which Mr. Harper led briefly before all right-
leaning parties were united in the current Conserva-
tive Party of Canada. But in its three years of existence,
the Canadian Alliance worked to broaden its base by
forging close ties with the Jewish community notably
Bnai Brith Canada, according to Lloyd Mackeys book
The Pilgrimage of Stephen Harper.
Norman Spector, who served as Canadas ambassa-
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Brian Mulroney, offers a simple reason for Mr. Harp-
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has read widely and thought deeply about the issue,
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In the start-up nation,
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BEN SALES
TEL AVIV When the Israeli mobile maps start-
up Waze accepted a buyout from Google for
more than $1 billion in June, each of the compa-
nys 100 employees walked away with an aver-
age of $1.2 million from the sale.
An even bigger check, though, went to Baruch
Lipner, a Canadian Israeli who hasnt worked in
the high-tech or finance industries for a decade.
The acquisition put $1.5 million on his desk.
A veteran of the venture capital world, Mr.
Lipner now is the sole employee of Tmura, a
nonprofit that pushes Israeli start-ups to donate
stock options to charity. If any of the donating
nonprofits merges, goes public, or is bought,
Tmura cashes in the options and distributes the
money to Israeli youth and educational chari-
ties. If the start-up fails, Tmura carries none of
the risk.
Even though Tmura owned less than 1 percent of
Waze, the record-breaking deal made 2013 a banner
year for it, comprising approximately three-quarters of
the $2 million it raised.
Our small fraction of a percent was worth a lot of
money very quickly, Mr. Lipner said. A lot of the entre-
preneurs running these companies are good people,
who are happy to help.
Waze wasnt the only Israeli company giving back in
2013.
As the countrys economy has grown in recent years,
experts and corporate advisers are seeing a steady
uptick in corporate donations and a growing culture of
corporate responsibility.
Israeli corporate philanthropy experienced a nearly
sevenfold jump between 1998 and 2008 from 89 mil-
lion shekels, or about $25 million, to 600 million shek-
els, or about $172 million according to Hebrew Univer-
sitys Center for the Study of Philanthropy. More recent
data isnt available, but observers say the upward trend
has continued.
Good Vision, an Israeli corporate social responsibility
consultancy that counts El Al Israel Airlines and Bank
Leumi among its 25 clients, prepared reports for three
companies on corporate giving last year. Now it is writ-
ing ten. Of the 320 companies partnering with Tmura,
54 donated options in 2013.
According to the 2013 Maala Index, which measures
Israeli corporate giving, the 82 companies that reported
giving gave about 1 percent of their profits to charity, a
rate similar to the American corporate giving average.
Maala CEO Momo Mahadav says the percentage has
risen only slightly since 2008, but that the number of
companies reporting data has nearly doubled.
If we look at the last 10 years, there is a critical mass
of Israeli companies that are committed and regard giv-
ing to the community as one of the things they should
do, Mr. Mahadav said. The bad news is that that criti-
cal mass is about a third of the large companies in Israel.
Two-thirds are less committed.
Good Vision CEO Ivri Verbin says corporate social
responsibility goes beyond writing a check. He notes
that most Israeli companies urge their employees to
make in-kind donations by doing pro-bono work or vol-
unteering with nonprofits a reflection of what some
say is an Israeli reluctance to donate in cash.
Many Israelis feel burdened by high taxes, Mr. Verbin
says, but theyre happy to lend a hand.
Its not enough to give money, he said. Its much
more important to be honest, to be responsible. In Israel
its easy because even the CEOs like their employees to
volunteer.
Good Vision aims to pair its client companies with
charities that could benefit from their services. The
leading Israeli insulin manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, for
example, joined with the Israeli Cycling Federation to
fund a bicycle program for Israeli youth because cycling
helps prevent diabetes.
A similar logic inspired JVP Community, a nonprofit
created by Erel Margalit, founder of the venture capi-
tal firm Jerusalem Venture Partners. By funding youth
programming and educational initiatives in poor Jeru-
salem neighborhoods, JVP Community hopes to foster
social entrepreneurship that will complement the firms
encouragement of Israeli business.
We tell the kids about high-tech to make them part of
the start-up nation, said JVP Community CEO Yair Zaaf-
rany. They dont have opportunities. They want to be
soccer players, which they cant achieve, or bus drivers
or barbers. We want to give them more opportunities,
and the connection with JVP opens that world for them.
Founded in 2002, the nonprofit receives a quarter
of its budget from JVP. Employees of JVP volunteer in
the youth programs and the participants are brought to
visit the firms offices. Other start-ups funded by JVP also
have donated to the nonprofit through Tmura.
In recent years, several professionals say, the biggest
challenge has been teaching Israeli companies the value
of organized giving. But as more and more corporations
have increased their charitable work, Mr. Lipner expects
other companies to follow suit.
When we first started to pitch the model to give
options to charity, it was an educational project, he
said. Once we started making real money, the story
started to change.
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Community, a nonprofit founded by the Israeli high-tech
entrepreneur Erel Margalit.
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board members from brand-name compa-
nies like Facebook and Disney.
Its splashy fundraising video promises a
customizable online platform for Jewish lear-
ning with a comprehensive digital library of
Judaic texts featuring translations, links to
related sources, maps and videos.
But is Mercava the future of Jewish educa-
tion, or is it mere vaporware, the tech term
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rializes fully?
Founded with $1.5 million in private
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Syrian Jewish community, Mercava hopes to
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values not just affordable and accessible,
but also relevant to modern life and attrac-
tive in this media-rich and entertainment-
driven age.
The project remains a work in progress.
Until late December, when its 8 1/2-minute
fundraising video began circulating online,
even American Jewish education leaders at
the forefront of technoloy-based learning
Mercava platform touting itself
as future of Jewish education
were unaware of its existence.
But in recent weeks, Mercava has
sparked discussion in some Jewish edu-
cation forums over whether the project
is just a lot of hype, if it has involved
enough educators in the planning pro-
cess, and whether it will offer something
new and useful. Others have raised con-
cerns about the scarcity of women in
the groups promotional video. All of
Mercavas executives and board mem-
bers are men, many of them Orthodox
and Syrian.
We cant waste our resources on par-
tial solutions developed in a vacuum,
Kohelet Foundation President David
Magerman wrote on a popular Jewish
education listserv. We need to plan
these kinds of projects with broad-based
discussion and support, so the product
is acceptable and usable by as many as
possible.
Mercava is hardly the irst piece of
Jewish educational technoloy, but it
may be the most ambitious. A start-up
called Sefaria has begun enlisting volun-
teers to help put the entire Jewish canon
online. The publisher Behrman House
makes its textbooks available in digital
form. And Israels Center for Education
Technoloy has helped develop inte-
ractive textbooks for use in Jewish day
schools.
But none match Mercava in the sheer
breadth of features, services, texts and
other media it plans to make available in
one central hub. The scale of the sites
ambitions is evident in its marketing
rhetoric, which touts the project as the
biggest thing to happen to Talmud since
Talmud.
Mr. Moshe said that Mercava has been
in development for nearly ive years,
and that most of the underlying work
is done. A basic version of its Daf Yomi
program providing free access to the Tal-
mud already is available and has been
piloted in almost 100 schools, mostly in
Australia and England, he says.
Additional products will begin rolling
out in July with the release of 1,000 inte-
ractive books in Hebrew and English. A
lesson builder tool for teachers will be
released soon after.
It is not clear whether Mercava will be
open source, but Mr. Moshe emphasized
that most of its contents will be offered
free of charge.
Think of it like [Apples] app store,
he said. As much as we can, well make
available for free. However, other orga-
nizations and companies can build their
own products on the platform or inte-
grate existing products, and they can
choose whether to make the products
available for free or to charge for them.
Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky, a Judaic studies
teacher at the Frisch School in Paramus
and the author of the Tech Rav blog,
recently wrote that Mercava inally may
have igured out how to bring Jewish
education into the digital era.
Rabbi Pittinsky speciically praised
its Talmud app for ease of use with stu-
dents of varying levels and plans for a
lesson building tool that allows teachers
to create interactive lessons with gui-
ded readings, embedded notes and the
option to display or hide translations.
It might just be the future of Jewish
education, he wrote.
As to the dearth of women in the
Mercava promotional video, Dr. Shira
Epstein, an education professor at the
Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote on
a Jewish educators Facebook page that
she was dismayed. Mr. Moshe said that
some of the initial funders of the project
were women and that more women will
be brought on, including as board mem-
bers, as the project continues.
Rachel Abrahams, a program oficer
at the Avi Chai Foundation, which has
funded many Jewish educational tech-
noloy projects in recent years, said that
while her foundation is not investing in
Mercava, theres a need for the kinds of
resources and features it is promising.
They have very big goals, Ms. Abra-
hams said. The question is how they get
there and will they deliver.
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First I hear a whistle
on my phone at a pre-dawn
hour alerting me to a text.
Then I get a message from the
school. It was the principal asking
me to return his call, but assuring me
that it was nothing about the kids.
As the day unfolded, it was the
beginning of my global warning.
My laptop had been hacked. I had
been e-jacked. A plaintiff message
was sent out to all the recipients of
any email that I sent in the past. All
my contacts for as long as Ive been
emailing (and Im AOL, you know, the
dinosaur of email) received a note
from me (!) asking them for money
($900!) because I was stuck in Greece,
having gone there to help a cousin
with a failing kidney, and my credit
card was not working.
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in my apartment in Manhattan in the
throes of winter, the only Greece Ive
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Jokes aside, a bit of panic set in
because I didnt know how far this
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spoke with someone who told me
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Another scam!
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Internet carrier and after speaking
to three people (two in Romania and
one in India) secured my account,
changed my password and recovered
my email list, which had disappeared.
I now had to spend the time
getting back to all to apologize and
explain that it wasnt me sending out
the message.
Needless to say, a good chunk
of my day had been hacked. I didnt
expect to wake up and fnd myself
troubleshooting for hours. Starting
with Yehuda and Shaina, my IT team,
ministering advice, followed by my
attempt to fx, and fnally really clear
up the problem.
If I could get over the heebie-jee-
bies of feeling digitally violated, there
was a silver lining to be had here. In
one fell swoop, in one mass mailing,
everyone who I knew and emailed
over the years had heard from me.
First, in my phony Greece location,
and then in my apology and explana-
tion that followed.
Most people knew the message
was a scam, but some were very con-
cerned and called to see if I was okay.
My fathers accountant in Florida
called me to ask if I really needed
money.
Another one of my fathers friends
also called to see if things were fne.
(One friend remarked that most
younger people who are more digi-
tally plugged in knew it was a scam,
but this may have eluded the more
senior people on my email list).
But who did I hear from? Sud-
denly, I got updates from folks from
all walks of my life.
I heard from two, no three old
beaus, and learned sadly that two of
them had recently lost their fathers.
The third ex sent me a photograph
taken when I was about 12 years old
at his bar mitzvah. What a hoot to
show the kids a picture of my tween
self.
I also learned that a dear friends
son found his betrothed.
I heard from an old editor from
my frst daily newspaper, thrilled to
hear that her health was good. And
from another editor, also thrilled to
hear that her health was good.
There was the sarcastic and funny
exchange from some.
Really? Youre not in Greece?
I was just about to wire you some
money.
But mostly, it was a chance to say
hello to so many old friends.
It really was a pain in the neck,
this hacking business.
But the episode was also a sort of
This is Your Life and I was reminded
of how many people Ive been blessed
to touch and be touched by.
Cheers,
musings from the editor
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From Baby Steps to Big Strides,
Our Children Never Walk Alone
S L OV I E J UNGR E I S - WOL F F
P
arents can get bogged down in the carpool sched-
ules, the after school activities, the stress of late
homework and tests. The constant hurdles of dis-
cipline and scheduling our childrens lives can rob us of
the bigger picture. We easily forget that our parenting is
truly a journey of love.
Whenever I think of my father, especially as his
yartzeit approaches, I recall his taking my smaller hand
into his larger one, and giving me the gift of his words
to carry me throughout the many seasons of my life.
Though he is no longer here beside me, the image of
him walking next to me and trying to share a life legacy
is never lost. These are sweet moments that for me are
frozen in time. Though they may have occurred years
ago and took just a few minutes to relay, the imprint has
never left my soul. My father let me know that I never
walk alone. Perhaps we can all take a closer look at the
message we would like our children to recall when they
think about us, one day.
Season of Love
August, 1984
The soft music was playing in the distance. Before me
stood two tall doors that would soon be opened. I was
in my tulle-wedding gown, veil covering my face, antici-
pating my walk down the aisle with my parents at my
side. I was starting a whole new stage of life and was
excited to begin my married life.
My father motioned to me. He wanted to tell me
something. He took my hand and I saw that his eyes
were moist. Sheyfelah, he whispered. (He always
called me shayfelah, a Yiddish term of endearment.)
As you walk to the chuppah tonight I want you to know
that you are not walking alone. On your sides are all
your holy bubbies and zaydies who walked before you.
Their souls are here and they are bringing you bless-
ings. They are so holy and they are watching over you.
Wherever life takes you, never be afraid.
I knew that my father had lost his parents and en-
tire family in the Holocaust. I knew that for him to see
life begin anew was a miracle. And I knew that he had
inhaled despair but exhaled faith. Now he was sharing
this faith with me. As I began my life as a young bride
my father wanted me to always know that my faith
would carry me through. He gave me this blessing, this
incredible knowledge that we never walk alone.
The doors opened. We began our walk down the
aisle, hand in hand.
Season of Life
September, 1985
The doctor says I need to walk.
There we were in the hospital, anticipating the birth
of our frst child. My husband and I had arrived at the
light of dawn thinking that I was in heavy labor. Instead
I was informed that I had lots of time to go. My parents
arrived and I relayed to them the advice that the doctor
had given us. He had said that walking would be the
best thing to do.
Once again my father took my hand in his. Come,
sheyfalah, lets take a good walk around the block to-
gether. When you feel terrible pain, squeeze my hand.
I squeezed my fathers hand hard that day. I was
afraid that I was hurting him but he laughed and said,
This is what fathers are for. As we walked he once
again reminded me that I never walk alone.
That night my husband and I welcomed a precious
baby boy into this world. He was named for my fathers
elder brother who had been taken away by the Nazis.
He had left behind a beautiful family who were also
never seen or heard from again. My father carried their
lives within him. It was a heavy load though he never
allowed himself to grow bitter or become lost in sad-
ness. He never uttered a word of complaint. I knew that
we could offer some little solace for all that my father
lost through the naming of our son. And my father of-
fered us great love and patience for all our children who
followed.
Watching my father parent my children was a les-
son in joy. He would take the toddlers to the lake across
the street and laugh as they would feed challah to the
ducks. He enjoyed carrying our babies on his shoulder
and rocking them to sleep with his kisses. He always
had time for another bedtime story or to sing the She-
ma prayer. As the children grew they would love to visit
with him because he listened he really listened. He
was never impatient. He never seemed tired or bored.
He made us all feel loved unconditionally. I know that
he had plenty of pressures. But somehow he always
pushed the stress to the side, put a magnifcent smile
on his face, and delighted in us, his children and grand-
children. This is the inspired parenting that I draw upon
as I am trying to climb my own ladder in life.
Season of Loss
January, 1996
The doctor says I need to walk.
Once again I am in a hospital but this time we are
not anticipating the exciting birth of a child. My fa-
ther is in Memorial Sloan Kettering, a cancer hospital
in New York City. I know that he is very ill though we
discovered that he was facing the fght of his life only
a few weeks before. We are shell- shocked. My beauti-
ful 6-foot-2 father who had always carried us upon his
broad shoulders now lay in a hospital bed. I was spend-
ing time with him and my father told me that the doctor
had said it would be a good idea to take a walk around
the corridors. I helped my father up from the bed and
we approached the hallway.
My father took my hand into his. We took a few
steps, silently. I did not know what to say.
My father stopped walking for a moment.
Shayfelah, he turned to look at me. Do you re-
member another walk we once took together? Do you
remember how you said that the doctor wants you to
walk?
I nodded not trusting myself to speak.
This is a different walk, I know. But I am still tak-
ing your hand in mine. And you can still squeeze my
hand if you feel pain. I want you to know that even here
we never walk alone. You never have to be afraid. And
when one day I will not be here next to you anymore, I
want you to know that I am still by your side. Remem-
ber that I am walking along with all your bubbies and
zaydies. You will never walk alone.
Soon after that day, my father gave me his fnal
blessing. He left me with a legacy of parenting that I try
to live up to each day.
As we parent our children, lets try to show them
that we enjoy being with them. Lets give them the
message that even though there are pressures and mo-
ments of stress, we hear their voices and never turn
away. And when there are moments of challenge or fear,
let us impart a message of faith.
My sweet child, you will never walk alone. No mat-
ter what, I am here beside you. Never be afraid.
Slovie Jungreis-Wolff is a parenting educator and author of
Raising a Child With Soul, (St. Martins Press).
Reprinted with permission from Aish.com.
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The Elisabeth Morrow School
An independent, co-educational country day school
for age three through eighth grade.
Located on 14 wooded acres in Englewood, NJ,
just 9 miles from Manhattan.
An environment designed to meet the educational
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A school so close can take them so far.
Find out more.
Schedule a visit today.
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Parents pick us
because of our
experience
kids love
us because
of theirs
With 25 acres, a natural lake, 6 pools, 7 tennis courts, a 7,000 sq ft dining hall, 1,000
sq ft newly renovated performing arts center and numerous courts, felds and cabins
for sports and fne arts, Deer Mountain Day Camp offers the attributes of a large camp
with a small camp feel. Smart, authentic leadership and an experienced staff create
an environment where kids feel safe and comfortable to be who they are. Expert
activity instructors create engaging, high quality programs so kids develop real skills.
www.deermountaindaycamp.com
845.354.2727
Preparing for Adventures
Close to Home in Day Camp
DE NI S E Y E A R I A N
S
ummer day camp is a place where children can
stretch their minds, exercise their bodies, develop
new interests and create lasting friendships. But
preparation is key. So how can you help your child
make the most of his day camp experience?
First fnd the right program. When choosing a day
camp, consider what you and your child want from the
experience. Talk about their interests. Would he enjoy
an assortment of activities or does he want to concen-
trate on one skill, such as soccer or art?
Next consider program length. Day camps range
from several hours to a full day and can run from one-
week long to an entire summer. How long your child
should participate in a program will depend largely
upon his age, developmental level and previous camp
experience. First-time campers would do well starting
in a partial- to full-week program. Experienced campers
may enjoy one that runs throughout the summer.
Once a camp has been chosen, call and ask for in-
formation regarding staff, facilities and cost. Find out
the camper-to-counselor ratio. Ideally it should be six
campers to one counselor, as recommended by the
American Camping Association. What experience and/
or training do the counselors have? How are they se-
lected? What is the camps discipline policy? Can they
accommodate health concerns such as asthma, aller-
gies and dispensing medicine?
Ask about indoor and outdoor facilities. Is there
enough space indoors for the children to play in in-
clement weather? How often is the outdoor equipment
and grounds maintained? Are the childrens swimming
skills tested before they are allowed to enter the water?
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Parents pick us
because of our
experience
kids love
us because
of theirs
With 25 acres, a natural lake, 6 pools, 7 tennis courts, a 7,000 sq ft dining hall, 1,000
sq ft newly renovated performing arts center and numerous courts, felds and cabins
for sports and fne arts, Deer Mountain Day Camp offers the attributes of a large camp
with a small camp feel. Smart, authentic leadership and an experienced staff create
an environment where kids feel safe and comfortable to be who they are. Expert
activity instructors create engaging, high quality programs so kids develop real skills.
845.354.2727
Local Camps Offer
Learning, Playing and
Growing Experiences
HE I DI MA E B RAT T
F
or nearly three months, the children are free from a
rigorous school schedule. No homework, no tests,
no stress of the academic life. Summer camp gives
them the opportunity for summer play where they can
experience sports, arts, and even more enrichment and
learning, if they like. Their time spent can be mixed and
matched to their needs. There are so many local op-
tions to explore.
At Kidville in Englewood, young campers up to
6 years old can dip their feet into the world of camp
and become acquainted with all the fun that older-kid
camps offer. For the real little ones, says Bibi Peneva,
one of the owners of Kidville, the program is an oppor-
tunity to learn sensory skills, cognitive skills, gross mo-
tor skills and a host of other things while having fun.
Its a great introduction to summer camp for chil-
dren, says Peneva.
Also in Englewood, for the youngster who wants
academic enrichment presented in a very imaginative
and creative way, The Elisabeth Morrow School offers
a 7-week program students can take one, two or all
weeks offering youngsters grades 3 to 9 an opportunity
to blend school and camp. For the youngest set, the
program is much like day camp. The older grades get a
choice of academic classes straight up or with a twist,
such as cooking and Lego Robotics.
None of the kids feel like theyre in school, says
Liza Hards, director of the schools auxiliary program.
Shalom Yeladim, with locations in Teaneck, Tenafy
and New York, gives pre-school youngsters an opportu-
nity to learn and have fun. Its program is a creative one
that teaches Jewish culture and ritual with kabbalat
Shabbat and fun holidays, such as Purim in August and
Chanukah in July, says Marina Blyumin, camp owner.
This year is a red-letter year at Ramoquois Day
Camp in Pomona, N.Y., says owner Arthur Kessler, be-
cause it marks the 40th anniversary of the day camp.
On August 2, there will be a big alumni gathering at the
camp. There are 150 second generation campers al-
ready, he says.
With 25 acres, a natural lake, six pools, seven tennis
courts, a 7,000 square-foot dining hall, 1,000 square-foot
newly renovated performing arts center and numerous
courts, felds and cabins for sports and fne arts, Deer
Mountain Day Camp in Pomona, offers the attributes of
a large camp with a small camp feel. Smart, authentic
leadership and an experienced staff create an environ-
ment that is safe and happy.
Bounce U in Paramus offers summer fun for young-
sters who want to experience jumping for joy in its col-
orful and spacious location flled with infatable fun.
Artist Sheryl Intrator, creator of Art for Learning,
which is based in Englewood, runs one of the most
engaging, intense themed art programs, which marry
visits to museums and real-life fashion sites and real
creation of art.
Cresskill Performing Arts Center continues its year-
long offerings during the summer with programs that
inspire youngsters to act, sing, dance, fence and have a
wonderful time.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our Children.
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Guide to Summer Camps
DAY CAMPS
Deer Mountain Day Camp
63 Call Hollow Road
Pomona, NY
845-354-2727
With 25 acres, a lake, 6 pools, 7 tennis
courts, 7,000 square-foot dining hall,
1,000 square-foot performing arts cen-
ter, courts, felds and cabins for sports
and fne arts, Deer Mountain offers the
attributes of a large camp with a small
camp feel. Smart, authentic leadership
and experienced staff create an environ-
ment where kids feel comfortable to be
who they are. Expert instructors create
engaging, high quality programs so kids
develop real skills. Parents pick Deer
Mountain because of their experience;
kids love it because of theirs.Please see
our ad on page 8.
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Camp Ramaquois
20 Mountain Road
Pomona, NY 10970
845-354-1600
845-354-0764
prainone@ramaquois.com
Camp Ramaquois, A day camp as com-
plete as sleep-away camp, situated on 44
acres in Rockand County. From adventur-
ous activities to creative arts to athletic
activities, boys and girls, ages 3-15 expe-
rience a traditional day camp program
flled with a variety of stimulating activi-
ties including instructional and general
swim in our eight heated pools, boating
on our 5-acre crystalline lake, tennis,
basketball, volleyball, hockey, softball,
soccer, computers, puppetry, ceramics,
nature, dance drama, special events and
more. We offer an optional Adventure
Trip Program for grades 3-10; optional
overnight trips for grades 6-10. Many air-
conditioned buildings. Please see our ad
on page 12.
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Camp Veritans
225 Pompton Road
Haledon, NJ
Phone 973-956-1220
Fax 973-956-5751
Passaic County
www.campveritans.com
4 Years-10th grade
June 30-August 22
Counselor to Camper Ratio1:5
Camp Veritans, a Jewish day camp lo-
cated in Haledon, is a camp for children
entering pre-K through 10th grade. We of-
fer a variety of fantastic activities on our
beautiful 64 acre campus including Red
Cross swim instruction, amazing sports,
creative arts, ropes/challenge course,
in addition to daily hot kosher catered
lunches, transportation and so much
more. Specialized Trip & Travel program
for 8th and 9th graders and a comprehen-
sive CIT program for our 10th graders.
Please see our ad on page 11.
,
Carousel Early Learning Center
Summer Camp
200 Third Ave.
Westwood, NJ
201-722-9822
535 Walnut St.
Norwood, NJ
201-767-0784
www.carouselearlylearningcenter.com
Ages 5-8 years
7 a.m.-6 p.m.
Carousel Early Learning Center of West-
wood and Norwood offers a Funtastic
Summer Camp for children. Breakfast,
lunch and snack are included. The camp
curriculum consists of approximately 2-3
feld trips per week. Some of our summer
events are: swimming, sports activites,
weekly feld trips, arts and crafts, magic
shows, pony rides, and much more. Each
day is flled with a variety of exciting ac-
tivities and curriculum. Please see our ad
on page 14 .
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NURSERY SCHOOL
For more info
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Swimming/Water Play Animal Centers Nature Exploration
Arts and Crafts Music and Movement Weekly Trips Baking
Sports/Gymnastics Creative Dance Shabbat Parties
Our warm and experienced sta is
looking forward to giving your child
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The Neil Klatskin Day Camp
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-567-8963
www.jccotp.org
Ages 3-11 years
June 24-August 16
9 a.m.-4 p.m.
(extended care available)
For more information on all Day Camp
programs, call 201-567-8963.
NKDC offers a summer of adventure
and nonstop fun. Our beautiful 21-acre
campus in Tenafy and 600-acre campus
in Alpine provide the perfect backdrop
for your camper to enjoy the outdoors,
learn new skills, make new friends and
explore their personal interests. With
dynamic, age-appropriate programming
including sports, Red Cross instructional
and recreational swim, art, music, Ju-
daic programming, fun theme days and
much more, your camper will be sure to
have an incredible summer to remember.
Membership to the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades required for NKDC enrollment.
Families who have never been a member
can join for just $250. Membership good
for June, July and August 2014. Restric-
tions apply.
Camp Katan
411 East Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1433
www.jccotp.org
Ages 24-35 months
Mon-Fri or Mon, Wed, Fri,
July 23-August 15
9:15-11:30 a.m.
A separation preparation camp provid-
ing all the fun of day camp in an ideal
setting for young children to get used to
being on their own. Program highlights
include daily indoor and outdoor play,
art, music, water activities, story time,
singing, puppetry, and a scheduled visit
from a petting zoo. A parent or caregiver
stays with each child until the separation
process is complete.
Cant Wait for Summer
School Mini-Camp
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Call Franci, 201-408-1435
or Sheli, 201-408-1436.
www.jccotp.org
Ages 2-5 Years (As of Oct. 15, 2013)
June 17-21, Monday-Friday
9 a.m.-2 p.m./4 p.m./6 p.m. (4 p.m. on
Fridays)
Join us for a fabulous transition into sum-
mer, before other day camp options be-
gin. Our mini-camp for pre-schoolers fea-
tures sport of all kinds, arts and crafts,
swim and water play, live entertainment,
outdoor activities, snacks and more. Pre-
registration required with a minimum of
10 children to run the programs. Bring a
kosher nut free lunch. Extended hours
available. Pre-registration required.
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Shalom Yeladim
815 Prince St. and 1650 Palisade Ave.
Teaneck, NJ
91 W. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-894-8300 or 201-837-0837
www.shalomyeladim.com
shalomyeladim@optonline.net
Infants through 5-years-old
June 30-August22
A warm, safe and fun environment for
children 5-years-old and younger. We
have many activities: swimming/water
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music and movement; baking; sports/
gymnastics; creative dance; and shabbat
parties. See our ad on page 11.
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For ages 7-18
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well as ftness and nutrition classes.
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PROGRAMS FOR TEENS
Teen Adventures Travel Camp
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Alexis Robins 201-408-1470
arobins@jccotp.org
www.jccotp.org
Monday-Friday
June 23-July 25
This exciting fve-week program for teens
features daily trips to amusement parks,
water parks, beaches, baseball games,
trips into Manhattan and more! This sum-
mer, the program will feature two com-
munity service days every week, a two-
night trip to Lake George, and an amazing
extended trip to Los Angeles, California.
Volunteering for Teens (ages 12 & up)
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
arobins@jccotp.org
www.jccotp.org
Teens can spend a meaningful and re-
warding summer at the JCC as a camp
volunteer and earn community service
hours. Volunteer opportunities are avail-
able in many departments.
Counselor-in-Training Program
The Neil Klatskin Day Camp
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
arobins@jccotp.org
www.jccotp.org
Teens Entering Grade 10
Call for details.
Teens have an incredible opportunity to
develop the skills and experience they
need to become future camp counselors
and form close relationships with other
teens in a leadership capacity.
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Meet sports celebrities
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Bounce U
70 Eisenhower Dr.
Paramus, NJ
201-843-5880
BounceU.com/Paramus
Ages 4-11
Weekly Programs Starting
July 8-August 28
Tuesday-Thursday from 9:00a.m.-3p.m.
Create and Bounce is an art camp for
children that combines exciting art proj-
ects with structured physical activities.
Children will work on a different fun art
and craft project each day from canvas
painting to clay. With its unique blend of
upbeat exercises and dedicated time for
painting and projects, Create and Bounce
offers an experience thats healthy, men-
tally engaging, and seriously fun. We
also bring in some spectacular special
guests from magicians and performers
to traveling petting zoos and change
lesson themes each week in order to en-
sure that every day at Create and Bounce
is distinctly different. Each weekly ses-
sion is three-days and is offered for eight
consecutive weeks this summer. Lunch
is provided. Create and Bounce Summer
Art Camp includes: different art and craft
project each day; games and activities;
guest performers; daily snacks and lunch-
es; offcial camp T-shirt; well-trained staff
of camp counselors and experienced art
instructor; secure, climate-controlled
facility. Now enrolling for summer 2014.
See our ad on page 13.
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EMS Explorations
435 Lydecker Street
Englewood, NJ
201-568-5566, ext. 7150
www.elisabethmorrow.org
Ages 3-grade 6
June 23-August 8
EMS Explorations, the summer program
of the Elisabeth Morrow School, offers
a unique blend of camp and school,
with a wide variety of choices to stretch
a childs imagination, intellect, and
muscles. The 14-acre wooded campus,
playgrounds, playing felds, science and
computer labs provide just the right set-
ting for learning and recreation. Children
from age 3 through grade 1 explore their
world through games, movement, music,
stories, water play, drama, and arts and
crafts. Students in grades 2-6 investigate
special interests, develop concepts, and
extend skills in mathematics, reading,
writing, science, technology, and more. In
the afternoon, students make daily choic-
es, which include sports, arts and crafts,
technology, cooking, science, and other
activities. Please see our ad on page 7.
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at weeklong day and overnight summer
programs. Held at Vassar, Sarah Law-
rence, NYU, Columbia, Stanford, and oth-
ers. Also 2-week, pre-college programs
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from age 3 through grade 1 explore their
world through games, movement, music,
stories, water play, drama, and arts and
crafts. Students in grades 2-6 investigate
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extend skills in mathematics, reading,
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Held at Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, NYU,
and 80+ prestigious universities nation-
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Ages 7-17
dates
8:1 ratios
1-888-709-TECH (8324)
iDTech.com
Take interests further and gain a com-
petitive edge! Create apps, video games,
C++/Java programs, movies, and more
at weeklong day and overnight summer
programs. Held at Vassar, Sarah Law-
rence, NYU, Columbia, Stanford, and oth-
ers. Also 2-week, pre-college programs
for ages 13-18. Please see our ad on page
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Held at NYU, Stanford, Princeton,
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Ages 13-18
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1-888-709-TECH (8324)
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Gain a competitive edge and learn how
programming can become a college
degree and even a rewarding career.
2-week, pre-college summer programs in
programming, app development, and ro-
botics engineering. Held at top universi-
ties including NYU, Princeton, Stanford,
and others. Also weeklong programming
and robotics camps for ages 7-17 held
at iD Tech Camps. Please see our ad on
page 13.
iD Game Design & Development
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Held at Vassar, Stanford, Harvard,
and select universities
Ages 13-18
dates
8:1 ratios
1-888-709-TECH (8324)
iDGameDevAcademy.com
Instead of just playing games, design and
develop your own. Two-week, pre-college
summer programs in design, develop-
ment, programming, and 3D modeling.
Held at top universities including Vassar,
Harvard, Stanford, and others. Learn
how game development can lead to a
rewarding career. Also weeklong game
design and development camps for ages
7-17 held at iD Tech Camps. Please see
our ad on page 13.
iD Film Academy
Held at NYU, Yale, and UC Berkeley
Ages 13-18
dates
8:1 ratios
1-888-709-TECH (8324)
iDFilmAcademy.com
Put your creativity to use while exploring
NYU and using NYC as your flm or pho-
tography backdrop. Pre-college summer
programs where ages 13-18 discover how
visual arts can lead to a rewarding career.
Held at NYU, Yale, or UC Berkeley. Also
weeklong flm and photography camps
for ages 7-17 held at iD Tech Camps.
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Kidville
20 Grand Avenue
Englewood, NJ
201-266-0633
www.kidville.com/englewood
18-24 months: 2 or 3 days per week
2 years: 2 or 3 days per week
3-5 years: 5 days per week
Counselor to camper ratio: 4 to 1
2-Week, 8-Week, 12-Week, and
16-Week Sessions starting May 12
Camp Kidville is THE place for learning,
playing, and making new friends! Each
small camp group participates in devel-
opmentally appropriate activities in gym,
music, art, exploration and more. Weekly
themes such as The Wild Wild West and
Safari Adventure set the stage for sports
and movement games, live jam sessions
with a Kidville musician, take-home
art projects, interactive story time and
dramatic play in our state-of-the-art air
conditioned facility. No sweltering heat,
no sunburns, just an amazing line-up of
exciting and structured Kidville activities
all summer long! See our ad on page 19.
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Montclair State University
Gifted and Talented Summer Camp
1 Normal Ave
Montclair, NJ
973-655-4104
Fax 973-655-7895
Students who have completed K-11
www.montclair.edu/gifted
Counselor to Camper ratio: 1:10
Session I: June 30-July 18
(no class July 4)
Session II: July 21-August 8
The summer program provides high-
achieving students, in grades 1-11, the
opportunity to immerse themselves in
an educational environment focusing on
mathematics, science, technology, fne
and performing arts, English, and the
humanities, as well as enjoying activi-
ties such as swimming and tennis. The
summer course schedule and application
will be available in February. Registration
deadline for Session I is May 16; Session
II is June 13. Please see our ad on page 9.
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Sports Broadcasting Camp
1420 Walnut Street, Suite 605
Philadelphia, PA
800-319-0884
www.playbyplaycamps.com
Boys & Girls Ages 10-18
July 7-11
The Sports Broadcasting Camp is located
on the campus of Montclair State College
in Montclair this summer. Learn from the
pros. Meet sports celebrities; make play-
by-play, sports anchor, and reporting
tapes. Participate in mock sports talk ra-
dio and PTI-style shows, and much more.
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ARTS, PERFORMANCE AND
MUSIC CAMPS
Art for Learning, LLC
Englewood area, NJ
artforlearning@yahoo.com
http://www.artforlearning.com/
201-503-9796
Art grades 1-10
Fashion grades 4-10
Teen Travel grades 7-10
June 23-August 22
Programs include various age appropri-
ate levels of Impressionist, Modern, Co-
lonial and Victorian Art. Other programs
are taught for specifc age groups, like Art
of China and Japan, Mosaic and Glass Art,
Princess Experience. All art programs
are taught based on history and sociol-
ogy, music and poetry of time is some-
times introduced. Excerpts from books
are required for the Jewish Immigrant
Experience, and Greek and Roman Art,
which are based on Percy Jackson and
the Lightning Thief book. Younger kids
programs focus on dinosaurs and fsh,
African zoo animals and farm animals.
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Westwood
200 Third Ave.
201-722-9822
Norwood
535 Walnut St.
201-767-0784
Also includes:
Swimming
Sports Activities
Weekly Field Trips
Arts and Crafts
Planned Weekly Events:
Magic Shows, Pony Rides
& Much More
SUMMER
CAMP
at both locations!
Call for details!
WWW.CAROUSELEARLYLEARNINGCENTER.COM
Programs from 8 weeks - 5 years. We ofer
a year-round full and half day program.
Hours of operation 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Breakfast and Lunch included.
Age-appropriate curriculum.
State-of-the-art security system.
Fully enclosed age-appropriate soft surface
playground
On-site enrichment program. Dance, Tae Kwon Do,
Music, Yoga and Swimming (Norwood).
All our staf are CPR and First Aid Certifed.
Each art program includes two trips to
related venues like the Metropolitan Mu-
seum followed by art lessons in Central
Park, Victorian mansions, Ellis Island,
etc. Fashion programs begin from design
concept through retail, with trips to the
garment district showrooms, meetings
with fashion designers, marketing, and
merchandising experts, lectures at FIT,
and more. Kids have the chance to create
fashion-related artwork and products.
Teen Travel includes fve days of visits
to NBC Studios, Empire State Building
Skyride, Brooklyn Bridge, South Street
Seaport, Madame Tussauds, and more!
Discount offered for early enrollment.
Please see our ad page 15.
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Cresskill Performing Arts
300 Knickerbocker Road, Suite 1100
Cresskill, NJ
201-390-7513 and 201-266-8830
www.cresskillperformingarts.com
Toddlers-adults (studio)
Age 3-teens (camp programs)
April Break Performing Arts Mini Camp
April 14-18. Half and full day camp avail-
able. Dancing, Acting, Singing, Art/Crafts,
Yoga and more. Be productive, busy,
happy and challenged during the school
break! Our expanded program includes
Once Upon a Time (reading readiness/
crafts class for age 4- 7) and Kids Concoc-
tions to Make and Take (designer crafts
for age 8 and up). Activities include bal-
let, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, theater
dance, voice/musical theater, acting,
improv workshop, fencing (sword fght-
ing), yoga, on camera workshop and
more! Cresskill Performing Arts teach-
ers are extraordinary: on Broadway now,
in Jay-Z videos, and in Cirque shows!
Camp runs from June 30 through August
29, 2014. Register for one week, two, or
all summer, and we have camp for ages
3 through teens. Early drop-off and late
pick-up to help working parents. Fencing
Camp will be two weeks this summer the
week of June and the week of August 25.
Beginners as well as more experienced
fencers will get stronger and try all the
weapons in our popular fencing experi-
ence! And our Creative Legos Workshops
return for the month of July, for age
5-10. Families can also win a free week
of Summer Camp! Our annual Summer
Performing Arts Camp Scholarship Con-
test is running through March 31, 2014.
Children age 3 through teens create an
art project illustrating their passion for
the arts. Three winners will each receive
a free week of camp this summer! Sub-
missions should be sent to the studio ad-
dress above. Please see our ad page 15.
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2014 Maccabi ArtsFest
August 17-22
Call Sara Sideman 201-408-1469
ssideman@jccotp.org
Jewish Teens ages 13-17
Detroit, Michigan
Spend a week with Jewish teens from all
over the world in amazing art specialty
workshops, with a large fnal perfor-
mance and arts showcase. Disciplines in-
clude acting/improv, culinary, dance, mu-
sical theater, rock band, star reporters,
visual arts, vocal music/glee and more!
Center Stage Musical Theater Camp
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades/
School of Performing Arts
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Ingbal 201-408-1493
www.jccotp.org
Available to members grades 4-9 and
non-members grades 6-9
Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Session 1: June 27-July 11
Show: July 13 at 6 p.m.
Session 2: July 14-July 25
Show: July 27 at 6 p.m.
Featuring: South Pacifc Passport com-
bines three of Rogers & Hammersteins
popular shows (South Pacifc, The King
and I and Flower Drum Song). An excel-
lent opportunity for students of all levels
to experience the fun of performing at a
very high level. Each session ends with
a Broadway style musical with sets, cos-
tumes, challenging dialogue and big mu-
sical numbers. Daily schedule includes
workshops in acting, improvisation,
stage combat, movement and singing, as
well as an end-of-the-day swim.
Summer Dance Intensive
School of Performing Arts
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Allyson 201-408-1495
www.jccotp.org
Ages 6-16
Monday-Thursday August 11-21
10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
Performance: Thursday, Aug. 21, 5:30
p.m.
Four days a week of basic technique that
explores all the latest crazes and new
dance forms. Students take class in bal-
let, tap, and jazz each day of camp as
well as an elective such as hip hop, lyri-
cal, modern, musical theater, acrobatics,
salsa, and ballroom. Improve your skill
level, build strength, and gain more fex-
ibility while having a great time. Dance
Camp is available to JCC members of all
ages and JCC nonmembers ages 11+.
BergenPAC-JCC Summer
Performance Intensive
Joseph A. Baker, director
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1493
www.jccotp.org
Ages 9-17
July 2-July 20
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
An exciting program for intermediate-
advanced students that culminates in at
least two performances. Professional skill
development in singing, acting, sketch
comedy and movement. This cabaret-
style performance features favorite num-
bers from Broadway musicals, sketch
comedy, short scenes and popular rock
songs as well as new pieces. The director,
Joseph A. Baker, is a highly successful
Broadway music director/accompanist,
with performances in Wicked, Shrek, The
Lion King, Little Shop of Horrors, and
many other shows.
Little Dancers Camp!
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1495
www.jccotp.org
Ages 3-5
Monday-Friday
June 16-June 20
& August 18-August 29
9 a.m.-3 p.m. (JCC members only)
A fun-flled week of dance and camp ac-
tivities including creative movement, bal-
let, tap, hip hop, and jazz, as well as arts
and crafts time, fun on the playground,
splash time in the waterpark, lunch
break and rest/video time. Our teachers
are experienced dance teachers with a
warm, caring approach in the classroom.
Extended care available until 5 p.m. upon
request. Call Allyson at 201-408-1495.
Thurnauer Chamber Music Camp
Thurnauer School of Music
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1465
www.jccotp.org
Ages 8-18
Monday-Friday, July 7-11
9:15 a.m.-3 p.m.
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FASHION PROGRAM Grades 411
Visit fabulous show rooms in the Garment District
and backstage of Broadway shows. Meet with fashion
designers, marketing & merchandising experts, and
perfume manufacturers. Lectures at FIT and more!
Great projects! Two trips per week.
June 23 through August 22
Weekly Sessions at our Englewood Location
TEEN TRAVEL Grades 711
Daily trips into popular NYC tourist sites, NBC Studios,
Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building and more!
Grade 2nd - 9th
Age Appropriate Art & Fashion Design Programs
Available in Weekly sessions at Our Englewood Location
Book Now! Call
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E-mail: artforlearning@yahoo.com
Impressionist Modern Victorian Art of China and Japan - 4 levels of Fashion
Painting in Central Park Trips to Museums & Mansions
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Farm, Zoo, Dinosaurs & Fish Two Trips Per Week
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Chamber Music Camp brings to-
gether talented young musicians
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the joys of ensemble playing in an
atmosphere of success and enjoy-
ment. The camp accepts a select
group of string players and pianists
based on auditions, interviews and
recommendations.
FluteStars Camp
Noelle Perrin, Director
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1465
utestars@aol.com
Monday-Friday, August25-29
8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Flutestars Camp is for interme-
diate and advanced futists. Daily
schedule includes masterclass-style
lessons, private practice time, and
small and large ensemble rehears-
als. Emphasis will be on develop-
ment of good tone and refned tech-
nique. The rehearsal schedule is
mixed with free time for socializing
and recreation. This exciting week
culminates with a fnal concert in
which futists will perform solos, du-
ets, trios, and large ensemble music.
Tuition includes lunches, snacks,
daily swim, and camp T-shirt.
Private Instrumental Instruction
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1465
www.jccotp.org
All ages welcome. Current students
continue their progress, while new
students begin private study.
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SPECIAL NEEDS SUMMER
PROGRAMS
Neil Klatskin Day Camp Tikvah
Program
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201- 567-8963
www.jccotp.org
Ages 5-15
June 23-August 15,
9 a.m.-4 p.m. (extended care avail-
able)
Children with special needs partici-
pate in a diverse full-day program
including academic remediation,
adaptive physical education, arts
and crafts, Red Cross instructional
and recreational swim, Judaic pro-
gramming, music, theme days, live
entertainment, extended nights,
carnivals, playground time, Shabbat
and more. Group sizes range from
3 to 6 campers and are staffed by a
minimum of two caring and quali-
fed counselors. Intake interview
required.
On Our Own
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Call Shelley at 201.408.1489
www.jccotp.org
Ages 15-30
June 30-August 8
9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
On Our Own summer program is a
six week life skills, vocational and
recreational program for teens and
young adults with intellectual and
developmental delays, including
autism, with self-help skills to in-
dependently participate within a
1:3 staffng ratio. Activities include
work experiences, weekly trips,
swim, gym, music and dance. Door-
to-door transportation is available
within a 15 mile radius in Bergen
County only. We are a qualifed New
Jersey Department of Human Ser-
vices Division of Children & Fami-
lies (DCF), PerformCare provider
and a qualifed New Jersey Division
of Developmental Disabilities (DDD)
provider and accept payments from
other service agency providers as
well as sending school districts. Fi-
nancial aid and scholarships avail-
able. Intake interview required.
Camp Haverim
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Call Shelley at 201-408-1489
www.jccotp.org
Ages 3-21
August 11-22
9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. (extended care
available)
Camp Haverim is a two week camp
for children and teens with au-
tism and other cognitive and de-
velopmental delays, who attend
11 months of special schooling.
Campers participate in social skills
training, swimming and water park
activities, adaptive physical educa-
tion, music, art, dance, academic
enrichment and more! Group siz-
es are between 4 and 8 campers.
Groups are staffed by experienced
professionals, university students
and teen volunteers. New camper
intake interview is required. We are
a qualifed New Jersey Department
of Human Services Division of Chil-
dren & Families (DCF), PerformCare
provider and accept payments from
other service agency providers as
well as sending school districts. Fi-
nancial aid and scholarships avail-
able. Sponsored in part through the
MindWorks Charitable Family Trust,
the Hana and Stanley Goldberg, MD,
Endowment Fund for Camp Haver-
im, and the Ronald L. and Meryl
Gallatin Camp Haverim Scholarship
Endowment Fund. Intake interview
required. .
Schools Out! Special Services
Mini Camp FunDays
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1489
www.jccotp.org
Ages 8-21
Tues-Thurs, June 25-27
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Children and teens with autism and
other cognitive and developmental
delays enjoy gym, swim, art, music,
movies and more prior to the start
of the extended school year. Con-
tact Shelley Levy, Director for Spe-
cial Services, 201-408-1489.
Summer PALS After School
Program
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
201-408-1489
www.jccotp.org
Ages 8-21
Monday-Thursday, July 8-Aug 1
2:30-5 p.m.
Promotes activities and life skills for
youth and teens who are conversa-
tionally verbal, social and have self-
help skills to independently partici-
pate in activities such as life skills
and computers, as well as swim,
yoga, cooking, soccer, ftness, music
and more.
Camp Dream Street: The Pearl
Seiden Summer Program for
Children with Cancer and other
Blood Disorders
411 E. Clinton Ave.
Tenay, NJ
Call Lisa at 201.408.1455
Ages 4-14
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Are there staff certifed in
lifesaving, present during water
activities?
When inquiring about camp
cost, ask about additional fees.
Some day camps have a base price
but charge extra for trips, special
events and activities. If money is
tight, ask about a scholarship pro-
gram. Also inquire about a refund
policy in the event of an illness or
family emergency.
Finally arrange a pre-visit. Dur-
ing this time you may receive medi-
cal and emergency contact forms to
fll out. This is a time to be thorough
and specifc about medications, al-
lergies and the like. Equally impor-
tant is to share other concerns with
camp staff, such as if your family
is going through a divorce or has
experienced a recent death as this
may affect how your child interacts
throughout the day. Remember
camps look out for the physical and
emotional needs of your child so
the more information you provide,
the better equipped they will be.
Another form you will need to fll
out is for emergency contact. While
it is imperative to have an appoint-
ed individual, equally important is
that the person knows she is des-
ignated as such. Every year camps
have situations where they call the
emergency contact person listed
and she was not informed she was
such. The best advice is to check
with that individual before writing
the name down.
During your visit, the camp
should give you materials on camp
policies, procedures and planned
activities. Talk with you child about
these. If she cannot participate in
an activity due to health reasons,
make sure you (not your child) in-
form the camp.
In recent years, some day
camps have developed strict poli-
cies regarding technology items
and ask that cell phones, hand-
held games and other tech toys be
left at home. If restricted items are
brought to camp, they may be con-
fscated and returned at the end of
the day in hopes the child under-
stands to leave it at home.
Sometime before camp starts
stock up on supplies your child will
need. When purchasing the items,
pick up a permanent marker so you
can label all items going to camp.
Include your childs name, address
and phone number so the staff will
recognize whom it belongs to if it is
left behind. This also avoids confu-
sion if two children bring identical
items.
While you are shopping, talk
with your child about the type
of clothing he will need to wear.
Make sure he is dressed for com-
fort, safety and appropriate tem-
peratures. Another thing to avoid
is clothing with strings attached as
they may get caught on play equip-
ment. Proper shoes are important
too, particularly if she is playing
outside. Avoid strappy sandals and
fip-fops; opt for tennis shoes.
Each night before your child
goes to camp, place a plastic water
bottle in the freezer and a second
one in the refrigerator. The next
morning send both bottles to camp.
The refrigerated one can be used in
the morning and the frozen one will
melt and provide cool refreshment
in the afternoon heat. Spray bottles
are a great idea too. They keep the
face and body cool in the hot sun.
Before leaving for camp, ap-
ply sunscreen to your childs skin
and send along the tube for later
reapplication. You may even want
to send along a hat for extra pro-
tection. If your child is going to be
in a natural environment, apply
insect repellent. Look for a lotion
form that is safe for children; avoid
sprays. Follow up with a tick check
when your child comes home.
Make sure your child gets plen-
ty of rest each night before camp
and is up early the next morning so
he isnt rushed getting out the door.
Keep the line of communication
open and talk about camp before
it even starts. Reassure your child
of the positive experience he will
have. Above all, encourage your
child to always do his best, obey
the rules, be respectful of others
and have a great time.
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A Symphony of Choices
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f your youngster is ready to graduate
from banging on pots and pans and
belting out toddler tunes to some-
thing more sophisticated, you may have
a budding musician ready to learn his or
her frst musical instrument.
Musical experts say that many dif-
ferent factors go into making this deci-
sion in considering the childs age, per-
sonality, how much space you have in
your house, and of course, the budget
for classes or private lessons.
For example, when it comes to a
childs age, woodwind and brass in-
struments, not including the recorder,
should not be started until a child is
about 7 or 8 when he has a mouthful
of adult teeth, in order to position lips
and teeth correctly. String instruments,
such as violins, can be downsized where
even a small child as young as 3 can
start to learn. Drums and piano also can
be started very young, as young as 2
years old, although it is very important
to choose a teacher who has experience
teaching the littlest ones.
Personality and other physical traits
can also make learning different instru-
ments easier for some youngsters.
For example, the oboe is a rather
intricate instrument that requires intelli-
gence. Playing the tuba might be a good
choice for students with bigger lips. The
trombone is fne for a player with front
teeth that are even. The violin is quite
versatile and usually a good start-
er instrument. Likewise, the
piano is also a good beginning
instrument, although stu-
dents with long fngers and
bigger hands may be bet-
ter suited for this in-
strument. Size would
also matter with an
instrument such
as the bassoon,
which when
as s embl ed
stands at
nearly 6 feet
tall with the
spread of the
fnger holes quite
wide. This instrument
would be best suited to a
larger student.
For the budding rock
n roll star, guitar lessons
can start for children as
young 3 and certainly
by 8 years old. The im-
portant thing is that
the child has dexterity
and that the instrument
fts the childs hand. There are guitars
available in , and size of reason-
able quality and price. Guitar strumming
is also excellent to increase fne motor
skills.
Whether your child is more of an
introvert or extrovert can also
factor into the choice of instru-
ment. For instance, higher-
pitched instruments like the
trumpet or fute will often have
the melody and may be better
suited to a child who likes to
be center stage. Conversely, a
more reserved child might
be more comfortable
with a supporting role
instrument, such as
the trombone. Oth-
er instruments, like
the oboe, bassoon,
and French horn,
could be the only
one in a band.
Children who
tend to be a bit
more independent
might be drawn to these
instruments.
Its not just beautiful
listening, but learning mu-
sic can also make a very
big difference to cognitive
development, skills and
acuity, according to Nina Kraus, a profes-
sor of communication sciences, neurobi-
ology and physiology and the director of
the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory
at Northwestern University, who has
studied the impact of music training on a
childs cognitive development. Defning
a musician as someone who plays for 20
minutes two times a week, her team has
compared the impact music has on at-
tention, language and reading.
The same biological ingredients
that are important for reading are those
that are strengthened through playing
a musical instrument, according to
Kraus. The ability to categorize sounds,
to pull out important sounds from back-
ground noise, to respond consistently to
the sounds in ones environment, these
are all ingredients that are important for
learning, for auditory learning, for read-
ing and for listening in classrooms.
Whichever instrument your child
decides to learn, he or she will need en-
couragement to keep practicing, espe-
cially in the beginning. Start with about
10 minutes of practice daily and increase
fve minutes each day, until you build
up to 30 minutes. As they become bet-
ter and more fuent, hopefully they will
come to enjoy playing and their motiva-
tion to practice and advance will come
from them.
And, its always good to be a cheer-
ing section for their at-home concerts.
At the Thurnauer School of Music
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafy, a great resource in the commu-
nity, the approach to choosing which in-
strument for what child is not an exact
science, but rather a confuence of many
factors, including a childs own interest
in a instrument.
If a child is expressing interest,
says Michael Reingold, associate direc-
tor of the JCC Thurnauer School of Mu-
sic, then go for it. In an ideal world, ev-
ery child would have the opportunity to
learn an instrument.
Twice a year, the school offers a Pet-
ting Zoo, at which at the open house,
youngsters have an opportunity to try-
on, see, hear and sometimes get to play
instruments on display to see which
one, or more than one, clicks.
While playing music certainly has its
side effects such as teaching many life
lessons, including learning diligence, the
benefts of hard work, math skills, read-
ing, and social skills among others, the
music schools goal, says Reingold, is
to help the child love and become pas-
sionate about music. Its all about the
music-making.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of
About Our Children.
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There Are Only Winners
in the Caramel vs. Chocolate Lover War
H
ey there. Yes you. Quick question:
Whats your dessert profle? What
do you go for in your desserts?
Sure, absolutely, take a few minutes to
think about it. Perhaps this brief ques-
tionnaire will be helpful in fguring it out.
Dont worry. There is no right or wrong
answer. There is something for every
sweet-tooth/treat-freak in the bitter-
sweet-salty-fruity-nutty world of des-
serts.
Youre at a restaurant and the des-
sert menu offers Crme Brulee, Pecan
Pie, or Bananas Foster. You choose:
Crme Brulee. Que cest dlicieux! It
doesnt get better than a hard, crunchy,
burnt-sugar shell that reveals soft, silky,
vanilla sweet custard.
Pecan Pie. What can be bad about
sweet toffee-favored pie with toasty
nutty pecans to bring out the meltingly
warm favors?
Bananas Foster. Totes! How often is
dessert served on fre?
None of the above. Are you kidding?!
Its not dessert if its not chocolate!
Your coffee drink of choice:
A. Light & Sweet
B. Hazelnut Latte
C. I dont drink coffee, for me its a frappe
+ whip
D. Double espresso
In my less stellar moments I could
be described as a:
A. Marshmallow
B. Honey Roasted Nut
C. Blondie
D. Pain au Chocolat
Your last meal would comprise:
A. It would be carbo-load!
B. My mothers _____________
C. A warm fruit pie or cobbler with a
scoop of ice cream melting over it.
D. Three courses of dark chocolate.
If you answered all or mostly as, bs,
or cs. Congratulations! Im pleased to in-
form you that you qualify as a Caramel-
low. You are an admirer of sugar in a va-
riety of forms: caramel, toffee, meringue,
marshmallow, and brittle. You like it
sweet and homey. Maybe its sweet with
nuts (mostly bs), sweet with fruit, sweet
with cream just so long as its sweet!
Youre laid back and open when it comes
to your dessert choices. Your taste buds
would be right at home in the South,
which is populated with an abundance
of Caramellows.
If you answered all ds. You are a cer-
tifable Chocoholic, but you didnt need
me to tell you that. Your blood type is
C for Cacao. Chocolate is your true love,
and you will never abide anything else.
You like your desserts dark and intense
with a suggestion of bitterness, and
have a slight disdain for milk chocolate
and an outright disdain for white choco-
late (which you dont consider choco-
late anyway).
To thank you for your participation
in this completely unscientifc dessert
survey Ive included the following reci-
pes. Each recipe is pretty simple but re-
ally captures the essence of what both
Caramellows and Chocoholics seek out
in their favorite desserts and treats.
For Caramellow consideration, a
Caramel Blondie with a pretzel streusel
topping. Its sweet, homey, ooey-gooey
with a subtle saltiness that comple-
ments thick and creamy sweetness of
the caramel. If you are a nutty-Caramel-
low substitute your favorite nut for the
pretzels is in the streusel topping.
For the uncompromising Choco-
holic theres this Dark Chocolate Truffe
Tart. Its the easiest route to deep choco-
late fulfllment with a slightly bitter edge,
that (bonus) requires no baking!
Caramel Blondie with Pretzel Streusel
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
1 cup rmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla
teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose our
1 cup caramel sauce (recipe below)
Pretzel streusel (recipe below)
Preheat oven to 350. Spray an 8 x 8-inch
baking pan with cooking spray. With a
hand-mixer in a medium sized bowl, cream
together butter and brown sugar. Add in
egg, vanilla, salt, and our until a sticky bat-
ter results.
Spread batter evenly in prepared baking
pan. Pour caramel sauce over Blondie bat-
ter. Sprinkle pretzel streusel over the layer
of caramel. Place in oven and bake for
28-32 minutes or until a toothpick inserted
in center of blondes come out clean.
Caramel Sauce
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon salt, optional
In a medium saucepan over high heat melt
butter. Mix in brown sugar until a deep gold-
en brown, thick, smooth syrup forms. Let it
cook until it bubbles around the edges.
Reduce heat to medium and pour in heavy
cream mixing well until thickened. Stir in
salt if using. Allow to cool.
Makes 2 cups
Pretzel Streusel Topping
1 cup of salted pretzels, crushed
cup all-purpose our
4 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Mix all ingredients together in a medium
sized bowl. Then with a fork or with your
ngers rub or mash the butter into peas
sized pieces.
Makes 1 cup
Dark Chocolate Truffle Tart
1 cup crushed chocolate wafer cookies
(about 15 cookies)
cup melted butter
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 egg yolks
Mix cookie crumbs in pie plate with melted
butter. Press down on bottom and sides of
pie plate to form crust. Set aside.
In a double boiler over simmering water,
heat chocolate chips stirring until smooth
and melted. Slowly add the heavy cream,
stirring well until chocolate is thick and
glossy. Mix in vanilla and egg yolks and stir
until well incorporated. Cook over heat until
pudding-like in consistency and hot about
5 minutes, stirring regularly.
Pour into crust. Refrigerate until rm, about
2 or 3 hours.
Makes 6 to 8 servings
Rachel Harkham is a cookbook author, recipe developer and chocolatier. She lives in
Rockland County with her husband and three children. Visit her on www.reciperachel.com.
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Because your most rewarding
job is also the hardest.
Asthma is Controllable
with the
Right Medical Attention
A
sthma is among the most common
of chronic diseases of childhood.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control, asthma affects about
8.5 percent of the pediatric population
in the United States, or more than 7 mil-
lion children.
According to some sources, the
prevalence of asthma is increasing. This
is also the case with other allergy condi-
tions, including eczema (atopic dermati-
tis), hay fever (allergic rhinitis), and food
allergies.
The condition accounts for more
school absences and more hospitaliza-
tions than any other chronic condition
in this country.
What is asthma?
Asthma is a reversible obstructive
lung disease, caused by increased reac-
tion of the airways to various stimuli. It
is a chronic infammatory condition with
acute exacerbations. An asthma episode
is a series of events that results in nar-
rowed airways. These include: swelling
of the lining, tightening of the muscle,
and increased secretion of mucus in the
airway. The narrowed airway is respon-
sible for the diffculty in breathing with
the familiar wheeze.
It is characterized by excessive sen-
sitivity of the lungs to various stimuli.
Triggers range from viral infections to
allergies, to irritating gases and particles
in the air. Each child reacts differently
to the factors that may trigger asthma,
including: respiratory infections and
colds, cigarette smoke, allergic reac-
tions to such allergens as pollen, mold,
animal dander, feather, dust, food, and
cockroaches.
Also factors are indoor and outdoor
air pollutants, including ozone and par-
ticle pollution, exposure to cold air or
sudden temperature change, excite-
ment/stress and exercise.
A major and preventable culprit
is secondhand smoke, which can cause
serious harm to children. An estimated
400,000 to one million children with
asthma have their condition worsened
by exposure to secondhand smoke.
Dr. Steven Kanengiser, director of
Pediatric Pulmonolgy at Valley Hos-
pital in Ridgewood, says that asthma
can be tamed with the proper medical
intervention.
We can teach families to control
their asthma rather than having the
asthma control them, Kanengiser says.
To that end, the family needs to be
clear on what are exactly the particular
triggers for the asthma episodes. In ad-
dition, Kanengiser stresses, it is very
important to maintain a medicine rou-
tine to keep asthma from faring up, that
means taking medicine, usually inhaled
steroids, on a regular basis, to control
the persistent condition.
This may be challenging when the
child seems okay.
One of the hardest things with
families that have a child with persistent
asthma is to give the medication when
they seem well. But, he stresses, it is
important to do so.
He stressed that having asthma does
not have to interfere with a youngsters
regular routines, again, if the asthma is
treated appropriately.
For instance, Kanengiser says, The
vast majority can participate fully in
sports.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our
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becoming a bar mitzvah
on December 21, Parashat
Shemot, at the Anshei
Lubavitch Congregation in
Fair Lawn. Caleb attends
Yavneh Academy in Paramus
where he is a member of
the schools Youth Baseball
League.
Erica
NOE
Erica Noe, daughter of
Elizabeth and Christopher
Noes of Woodcliff Lake and
sister of Jonathan, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
January 11 at Temple Beth
Or in Washington Township.
Jonah
PITKOWSKY
Jonah Pitkowsky, son of
Rabbi Joel Pitkowsky and
Ingrid Goldfein of Teaneck
and brother of Lili, became a
bar mitzvah on January 18,
2014 at Congregation Beth
Sholom in Teaneck.
Jacob
QUINN
Jacob Quinn, son of Robin
and Stephen Quinn of Saddle
Brook and brother of Alena,
mitzvah on January 4 at
Temple Avodat Shalom in
River Edge. His grandparents
are Bernice and Sheldon
Berman of Paramus.
Seth
RATUSHEWITZ
Seth Ratushewitz, son of
Dawn and Philip Ratushewitz
of Hillsdale, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
January 4 at Temple Beth Or
in Washington Township.
Justin
SHERMAN
Justin Sherman, son of
Jennifer and Jonathan
Sherman of Ridgewood and
brother of Jack and Sam,
mitzvah on January 18 at
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley in Woodcliff
Lake.
Maya
WASSERMAN
Maya Wasserman, daugh-
ter of Lymor and Jack
Wasserman of Bergeneld
and sister of Elan, became a
bat mitzvah on January 11,
2014 at Cong. Beth Sholom
in Teaneck.
Simchas
Gifted and Talented Summer Program at Montclair State
Summer is a great time for students to
challenge their minds. Montclair State
University offers a Gifted and Talented
summer program in two, three-week ses-
sions. The frst session runs from June
30 through July 18 and the second ses-
sion runs from July 21 through August
8. The summer program provides high-
achieving students, in grades 1-11, the
opportunity to immerse themselves in
an educational environment focusing on
mathematics, science, technology, fne
and performing arts, English, and the
humanities, as well as enjoying activi-
ties such as swimming and tennis. The
summer course schedule and applica-
tion will be available in February. Please
visit montclair.edu/gifted for more
information.
The Gifted and Talented program
is accepting applications for the Spring
Weekend Program offered across nine
weekends with courses available to stu-
dents on Saturday and/or Sunday, be-
ginning on March 1 through May 4. For
detailed information on registration, eli-
gibility, and tuition, visit montclair.edu/
gifted.
Honors and AP-level students in
grades 9-12 who wish to enrich their ed-
ucation have the opportunity to enroll in
intensive courses and academically tar-
geted workshops in the spring and the
fall. The intensive courses and targeted
workshops cater to Honors and AP-level
students interested in exploring aca-
demically challenging topics in the arts,
mathematics, and sciences.
Spring intensive courses and work-
shops range from 1 to 3 weekends and
focus on varied areas of study including
SAT preparation, Fine Arts, and College
Essay Writing.
The Hi-Jump program is an oppor-
tunity for high-achieving high school
students to earn undergraduate college
credits. Through this early college pro-
gram, students can prepare for college
course work and experience university
life by taking full credit courses along-
side Montclair State University students.
Accepted Hi-Jump students may register
for courses during the fall, winter, spring,
and summer. For more information on
opportunities for high school students,
visit montclair.edu/gifted/high-school.
To learn more about Montclair
State University Gifted and Talented or
Hi-Jump, call (973) 655-4104 or email
gifted@montclair.edu.
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Fabulous Childrens
Fashions
Every Day of the Week
From everyday to Shabbat, Yom Tov
and special occasion clothing, Tuesdays
Child in Teaneck offers a unique blend of
brands that marry mid-to-high fashion,
quality and wearability, with a touch of
trend for girls and boys, infants through
teenagers. The West Englewood Avenue
store, named for the classic childrens
poem about the days of the week
Tuesdays child is full of grace carries
such brands as Ella Moss, Meme, Stella
McCartney, Kiki Riki, Marc Jacobs, John
Galliano, Lili Gaufrette, Diesel, Armani,
Junior Gaultier, Il Gufo, to name a few.
But hurry in. Now through when its
racks are empty, the winter collection is
discounted up to 70 percent. Tuesdays
Child also has much of its new spring
collection, which is all about cheer-
ful color, says owner Rachel Fischer,
who also has stores in Brooklyn.
and in Lakewood. Tuesdays Child,
177 West Englewood Ave., Teaneck
201-357-8363. wwwtuesdayschild.
New Summer
Program for Lil Ones
at Camp Veritans
This summer, Camp Veritans is launching Yeladim, a new program for Pre-K
children. The programs goal is to help instill independence, positive attitudes,
develop social growth,
enhance coordination
and skills, but mostly to
give the youngsters a
happy summer camp
experience. Yeladim
campers will have the
same quality sum-
mer day camp fun
that older campers
experience but in a
condensed day that is
tailored to their needs.
The program includes
instructional and free swim,
sports, arts and crafts, science, cooking and more. A hot lunch and snack are
also provided. Camp Veritans, 973-956-1220,Carlacampveritans.com.
David Weinstone and Music
for Aardvarks
David Weinstone and The Music for Aardvarks Band will perform two concerts for chil-
dren 2 to 5 at The Jewish Museum on Sunday, February 9 at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Families will hear favorite songs, including City Kid, Taxi, Jack Hammer Joe and Modern
Art. David Weinstone, found-
er of Music for Aardvarks,
explains, Our shows are
rockin, and we try to have
as much audience participa-
tion as possible. Weve even
had kids come up on stage
with us to sing or dance.
Tickets are $18 per adult;
$13 per child with a discount
for museum members. $15
adult Jewish Museum fam-
ily level member; and $11
child Jewish Museum family
level member. The Jewish
Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave.,
Manhattan. 212-423-3200,
www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Rockland Street Fair
Features The Maccabeats
The popular a cappella group, The
Maccabeats, who rocketed to fame
in 2010 with their Chanukah spoof of
Taio Cruzs Dynamite, will be the main
attraction at a family festival, Come
in from the Cold, hosted by New City
Jewish Center on Sunday, Feb. 9. The
event, which includes brunch, an indoor
street fair and the concert, gets rolling
at 11 a.m. The concert begins at 12:45
p.m. Tickets cost $18 per person and
family pricing start at $50. For reserved
concert seating, the cost is $36 for
individuals with family pricing starting at $100. All prices go up on Feb. 1 by $5. New City
Jewish Center, 47 Old Schoolhouse Road, New City, N.Y. 845-638-9600, 914-643-1988,
To Our Readers: This calendar is a day-by-day schedule of events. Although all information is as timely as we can make it, its a good idea to call to
verify details before you go.
To Add Your Event to Our Calendar
Send it to:
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or fax it to: 201-833-4959
Deadline for March issue (published February28):
Tuesday, February 18
January 25-February 21
Saturday, January 25
Fitness Zumba Party: Open to all 12 and older.
Join at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades at
7:30p.m. for a free, 90-minute Zumba event.
JCC on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenay.
201-408-1475.
Comedy in Glen Rock: Glen Rock Jewish Center
will hold a Comedy Night and Silent Auction
at 8 p.m. featuring Chris Coccia, Sandy Marks
and Barry Weintraub. Check for pricing. 682
Harristown Road, Glen Rock, 201-652-6624,
ofce@grjc.org.
Sunday, January 26
Kids in Action: Sunday program focuses on
the ve senses, featuring using your feet to do
good deeds. Trip to The Ice Vault skating rink.
Transportation from the Chabad Center, 194
Ratzer Road, Wayne. From 1 to 2:30 p.m. for 6 to
12 years old. $10 per child, includes light lunch.
For information, chanig@optonline.net, 973-
694-6274.
Friendship Circle Bowling: The Friendship Circle
of Passaic County is holding its bowling league at
the Holiday Bowl, 29 Spruce St., Oakland, from
noon to 1 p.m. and at the Van Houten Lanes,
564 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. $5 per child.
Information, fcpassaiccounty.com, chaya@fcpas-
saiccounty.com, 718-483-5682.
Deance Screening: The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades and the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey host a screening for families of bar/
bat mitzvah children of the 2007 lm, Deance
with special guest Brenda Weisman, daughter of
Aron Bielski, the lms real-life hero. 4:45 p.m. for
pizza followed by 5:30 screening. $18 in advance,
$25 at door.
Pattern Palooza: Join in Pattern Palooza Family
Day from noon to 4 p.m. Performances by Oran
Etkin at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m., drop-in art work-
shop and family tours. Free with admission. The
Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-
423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org.
Family Art Project: Hibernators den. Make your
own furry bear, bat, toad or hedgehog mask.
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wave Hill House, Wave Hill, 675
W 252 St., the Bronx 718-549-3200.
Tuesday,
January 28
Tailgate Party: The Star Ledger and NJ.com
are collaborating with the Newark Museum on
a Super Bowl XLVIII Media Day from noon to
8 p.m. in Newark. $60 at the Museum. The
Newark Museum, 49 Washington Place, Newark,
973-596-6699.
Sunday, February 2
Concert at Wave Hill: Family concert by Sonic
Escape and the Music Makers at 2 p.m. Call for
admission prices. www.wavehill.org.
Tuesday, February 4
Free Exercise for Mom and Daughter:
Presented by Valleys Spirt of Women program
join a discussion by local OB/GYNs followed by
tness at Ethos Spa and Fitness Center from
6 to 8 p.m. This evening targets daughters
13 to 16 years old. For more information call
1-800-VALLEY 1 or www.valleyhealth.com/
events.
Wednesday, February 5
Shalom Baby: Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey hosts Shalom Baby for parents of
their newborn or newly adopted child. Pajama
party themed playgroup, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m.
at Solomon Schechter of Bergen County, 295
McKinley Ave., New Milford.
Dr. Mehmet Oz: Americas doctor appears at
the 92St Y at 8 p.m. Kaufmann Concert Hall. 92
Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92 Street. Prices
from $34. www.92StY.org.
Friday, February 7
Family Shabbat Services: Family-friendly ser-
vices at 7:30 p.m. Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor
Road, Teaneck, 201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
The Fab Four: Uncanny rendition of the famed
Beatles. Performance 8 p.m. bergenPAC, 30
North Van Brunt St., Englewood, 201-227-1030,
www.bergenpac.org.
Family Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: Rabbi Elyse
Frishman and Rabbi Rachel Steiner of Barnert
Temple lead a family-friendly 7 p.m. Shabbat ser-
vice. Potluck supper follows. Barnert Temple, 747
Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes, 201-848-1800.
www.barnerttemple.org.
Saturday, February 8
Winter Music: Temple Israel and the JCC of
Ridgewood continue its Winter Music Saturdays
with a concert by Jonathan Taylor. Concert follows
7:45 p.m. havdalah service. $10 donation request-
ed. 475 Grove St., Ridgewood. 201-444-9320.
Think Pink Floyd: The iconic band of the 70s
and 80s brings its music to an 8 p.m. show at
bergenPAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood.
201-227-1030, www.bergenpac.org.
Sunday, February 9
Street Fair in Rockland County: The
Maccabeats will be the main attraction at a fam-
ily festival, Come in from the Cold, hosted by
New City Jewish Center. The event, which includes
brunch, an indoor street fair and the concert,
starts at 11 a.m. The concert is at 12:45 p.m.
Tickets cost $18 per person and family pricing
start at $50. For reserved concert seating, the
cost is $36 for individuals with family pricing
starting at $100. All prices go up on Feb.
1 by $5. New City Jewish Center, 47 Old
Schoolhouse Road, New City, N.Y. 845-
638-9600, 914-643-1988, www.newcityjc.
org.
Monday, February 10
Parenting Conference: For parents with
children from 2 to 10 years old. Edward
Hallowell, Harold Koplewicz, Catherine
Steiner-Adair and Dr. Ron Taffel will be
featured at the conference, 9:15 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. 92 Street. Y, at 92 Street and
Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. www.92Y.
org.
Friday, February 14
Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: All are invited
to Shabbat service at 7 p.m. at Barnert
Temple followed by an Oneg Shabbat (des-
sert). 747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes,
201-848-1800. www.barnerttemple.org.
their newborn or newly adopted child. Baby
Sign Language themed playgroup at the
Jewish Community Center of Paramus, 9:30 to
10:45 a.m., 304 Midland Ave., Paramus.
Bubblemania: Casey Carle brings his soapy
show to the Kidz Caberet Series, 1 and 3 p.m. at
bergenPAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood,
Shabbat Yoga: All levels, including beginners,
are welcome. Please bring a yoga mat and wear
comfortable, non-binding clothing (appropriate for
exercise). Classes are from 9 to 10:15 a.m., free
for members, $18 donation for non-members.
Barnert Temple, 747 Route 208 South, Franklin
Lakes. 201-848-1800. www.barnerttemple.org.
Friday, February 21
Musical Shabbat: Temple Emeth presents a
Shabbat lled with music. 8 p.m. with singing and
dancing. Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road,
Teaneck, 201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
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their newborn or newly adopted child. Baby
Sign Language themed playgroup at the
Jewish Community Center of Paramus, 9:30 to
10:45 a.m., 304 Midland Ave., Paramus.
Bubblemania: Casey Carle brings his soapy
show to the Kidz Caberet Series, 1 and 3 p.m. at
bergenPAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood,
Shabbat Yoga: All levels, including beginners,
are welcome. Please bring a yoga mat and wear
comfortable, non-binding clothing (appropriate for
exercise). Classes are from 9 to 10:15 a.m., free
for members, $18 donation for non-members.
Barnert Temple, 747 Route 208 South, Franklin
Lakes. 201-848-1800. www.barnerttemple.org.
Friday, February 21
Musical Shabbat: Temple Emeth presents a
Shabbat lled with music. 8 p.m. with singing and
dancing. Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road,
Teaneck, 201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
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See Sonic Escape Trio, Sunday, February 2
See Bubblemania, Saturday, February 15
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973-661-9368
Book Collection at Kaplen JCC
To ensure that students in underserved
communities have access to books in
their school classrooms and librar-
ies, the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades is
partnering with Project Cicero to col-
lect and distribute new and gently used
books. Books, both hardcover and
paperback, must be in new or excel-
lent condition and can include fction,
non-fction, current reference books,
biographies, science and math for early
readers through high school. Picture
books are also welcome. Donations can
be brought to the JCC and deposited in
collection bins any time between Feb-
ruary 17 and March 6, when the books
will be distributed. For more informa-
tion, www.projectcicero.org. For JCC,
201-408-1469.
Chabad Teen NYC Shabbaton
The Chabad Center of Pas-
saic County will be joining the
Cteen Shabbaton in NYC from
February 28th March 2 to
give teens, grades 9 through
12, a chance to meet their co-
horts from all over the coun-
try and enjoy a weekend in
New York City. Cost is $200.
Discounted price until Jan.
31 if participant signs up with
the Chabad Center. Registra-
tion is open for all Passaic
County Jewish teens, regard-
less of their Religious afflia-
tion. Transportation will be
provided both ways.
To sign up, go to Jewish-
Wayne.com/cteenshabbaton.
Promo code: pV9AHR. For
more information, call 973-
694-6274 or e-mail chanig@
optonline.net.
Arts Scholarship for Bergen County Students
Skyline Theatre Company (www.skyli-
netheatrecompany.org) will continue
to support young New Jersey artists in
Bergen County in 2014. For the 6th year
in a row, Skyline is offering a $1000 cash
scholarship to support Bergen County
high school seniors who will be fur-
thering their education by majoring in
theater, television, flm, or communica-
tions.. Any Bergen County high school
senior planning to major in theater,
television, flm or communications
following their graduation from high
school may submit an application. Ap-
plications can be found on the Skyline
web site, www.skylinetheatercompany.
org. The deadline for all applications is
March 15, 2014.
Barnert Temple Preschool
and Kindergarten Tours
Families that are looking for nurturing
social and learning opportunities for
their children are invited to explore the
Barnert Temple Preschool and Kinder-
garten. Barnert Temple is a warm and
supportive Reform Jewish preschool
community offering Jewish and inter-
faith families preschool and kindergar-
ten programming for children ages 15
months to 6 years. For over 25 years
Barnert has consistently provided
small class sizes and personalized at-
tention with Jewish values and culture
woven throughout the curriculum.
Barnerts preschool and kindergar-
ten classes fll up quickly so it is sug-
gested that interested parents arrange
to see the school as soon as possible.
Interfaith families are always welcome.
To schedule a tour, please call Alice
Berdy at 201-848-1027, website at www.
barnerttemple.org.
Breast Feeding Program
The Valley Hospital Center for
Family Education is offering a
program entitled Breastfeed-
ing Basics. This informative
course explores the advantag-
es and benefts of breastfeed-
ing. There will also be discus-
sions regarding techniques
that work, positions that are
comfortable, common prob-
lems, pumping and storage
of breast milk and the correct
use of the breast pumping
equipment. This class should
be taken during the eighth
month of pregnancy. The
course will be held from 7 to
10 p.m. on February 6, 15, and
20 at the Dorothy B. Kraft Cen-
ter, 15 Essex Road, Paramus.
To register online, please visit
www.ValleyHealth.com/Fami-
lyEducation. 201-291-6151.
Mazel Tov, Youre Expecting a Baby
The Valley Hospitals Center for Family
Education and the Fair Lawn Jewish Cen-
ter have partnered to offer a new class
entitled Mazel Tov, Youre Expecting
A Baby! This class is a 4-week course
that includes two classes on Jewish
parenting, one class on Newborn Care,
and a tour of the Valley Hospitals La-
bor and Delivery and the Mother Baby
Units. Adoptive parents are welcome to
attend. Series 1 is scheduled for Janu-
ary 29 and February 5 and 12. Classes
1-3 will be held at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center, 10-10 Norma Avenue, Fair Lawn.
Classes 1 and 2 are from 7-9 p.m. Class
3 is from 7 to 10 p.m. Class 4 is a 1-hour
tour held at The Valley Hospital, 223
North Van Dien Avenue, Ridgewood, at
7 p.m. Early registration is encouraged.
The fee is $86.00 per couple. To regis-
ter online, visit www.ValleyHealth.com/
FamilyEducation. 201-291-6151.
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Wyckoff man is football Giants legal counsel
JOANNE PALMER
S
ay youre a kid who grows up as
a football fanatic. Its a real a pas-
sion for you. You love it so much
that you become a quarterback
not a very good one, though, and you
know it.
Say that you also are very smart well,
youre not going to say that about yourself
but it seems clear, so lets posit it and
right around the time you become a bar
mitzvah, you realize that youd make a
very good lawyer. You aim for that.
But youve never given up your love of
sports. And you grew up in northern New
Jersey, and you root for the local NFL team.
So when you grow up, what would your
dream job be?
Youd be legal counsel for the New York
Football Giants.
Meet William J. Heller of Wyckoff.
Bill Heller, 61, grew up in Hackensack,
just when the once-strong Jewish pres-
ence there was waning. His father, Leon,
who grew up in Fort Lee, had been a tre-
mendous athlete, Bill said, who played
football, baseball, basketball, and track
at school; in fact, he was so good that the
Yankees signed him in 1931. But Leon Hell-
ers dream ended badly They told him
not to play football when he was a senior in
high school but he did, and he was injured.
In those days, that was the end of the line.
Bills grandparents came to the United
States from Eastern Europe at around the
turn of the last century, and their trajec-
tory was a fairly typical one. Bills paternal
grandmother was an extremely devout
Orthodox Jew, whose father, I believe, was
a rabbi in the old country, he said. As the
only son Leon and Grace Heller also had
two older daughters my grandmother
wanted me to go to yeshiva, hoping that I
would become a rabbi.
But I wanted to be Y.A. Tittle, so my
goals werent consistent with my grand-
mothers, he added.
He never did go to yeshiva and
although he never did become Y.A. Tittle,
he did get to meet his idol. But that comes
later.
When Bill was young, the Hackensack
Hebrew Institute already was in decline,
he said. It moved to Summit Avenue, and
took on a more modern name. On the
holidays it was packed, but when I went
to public school, there was a very small
minority of Jews.
From the time he was a boy, sports
always was an important part of my life,
Bill said. That was primarily because of
my father; also, because when I was very
young I was overweight. When I learned
about sports I became a fanatic, like every
other boy in the early 1960s.
My father ran and operated candy stores
at various locations, he continued. I col-
lected baseball and football cards, and I
played ball in the street all the time.
When I got to junior high and high school,
I was intent on playing baseball, basketball,
and football. I played baseball for a year, I
played basketball for a year, and after that I
started to concentrate on football.
I played quarterback. I really wanted to
try to make something of it but I couldnt
because I really wasnt that good.
Another part of his motivation, Bill said,
was specific to his time and place. In the
1960s in Hackensack, the focus was not
on academics, even in school. It was on
football.
Before my time, Hackensack had been
a football powerhouse. So even though I
wasnt very good, I was recruited to play
football by a number of small colleges.
I had no guidance, he continued. Nei-
ther my parents nor my sisters went to col-
lege, so they didnt know anything about
schools or the application process. The
school didnt help, and the coach was
pushing me to play college football.
Every college I applied to, except one,
was recruiting me.
But Bill had something else on his mind.
When he was around 13, he met a lawyer
and he decided that he wanted to be a law-
yer, too. So when he chose his college, I
remember having the first epiphany of my
life, he said.
I said to myself, Remember, you want
to be a lawyer, and you suck at football, so
I went to the only college to which I had
applied that had not recruited me.
He went to Rutgers. That year, they
had four quarterbacks coming in, he said.
They were not interested in another, so-so
one.
Bill majored in economics. Thats when
my academic life really kicked in, he said.
I graduated magna cum laude, with high
distinction in economics, and Phi Beta
Kappa. I was proud of that.
His next stop was law school at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania.
Thats where he met Natalie. We met
in the law library, he said. She was an
undergraduate at the time, studying in the
law library with the ulterior motive, com-
mon to many Jewish women at Ivy League
institutions, of finding a spouse.
And she did.
Natalie, an accountant by training,
works at Unilever in Englewood Cliffs. She
has worked in a variety of financial func-
tions, her husband said.
She is also a serious football fan, he
added, despite having been born into a
fanatical baseball family and having to,
well, convert to pigskin worship. Now, she
is so serious a football fan that the Giants
can be ahead by four touchdowns with six
minutes left in the fourth quarter, and she
will refuse to leave the game to try to beat
the traffic because something might hap-
pen, he said, with evident pride.
After graduation, Mr. Heller worked
in two law firms, soon making partner.
In 1999 he joined McCarter & English, a
regional law firm that, as he later learned,
represented the Giants. I specialized in
intellectual property and licensing and
entertainment issues, Bill said. It was
through McCarter & English that Bill first
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got extra amounts of both of those from
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went to the Giants offices, in the old sta-
dium which has since been demolished,
Bill said. At the time they already had
won two Super Bowls this probably was
in 2000. I remember standing a few feet
from the Super Bowl trophies; I remember
walking in and getting a tour of the locker
room and the field. Of course, I was in my
lawyer costume, keeping my cool.
Inside, I was exploding.
When I left the office I went out to the
stadiums parking lot, which was empty, to
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just experienced.
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The Giants kept giving Bill, still of
McCarter & English, more and more work,
to the point where by 2005 or 06 I was
regularly involved in many things for them.
Thats when a perfect storm occurred.
It was a combination of things. Welling-
ton Mara the patriarch of the family that
co-owns the team passed away. His son
John who is a lawyer at the time was
executive vice president and general coun-
sel. The second thing is that those were the
years when the new stadium, now known
as MetLife Stadium, was in the planning
stages.
There was a ton of legal work to be done.
John Mara, pulled in many directions,
found less time to devote to the legal work
than to the broader issues of the team.
And at the same time, in addition to
building the stadium, they also built a
new practice facility. They sold the nam-
ing rights of that facility to the Timex
Corporation.
I did that deal, and it went quickly and
smoothly, to the point where someone
from the Giants said in a joking manner,
Gee, we should have you around more
often.
I recall not reacting at the time, but recall
hearing something like it again, and then I
had the following thoughts:
Im 57, Natalie and I are empty-nesters,
and after 30 plus years of private practice,
when is this opportunity ever going to
come again?
Discussions with various people in the
Giants organization ended at lunch on
Route 17 on April 1, 2010, where Mr. Mara
described why the Giants had come around
to the view that they needed to hire a new
general counsel. I said that I would be
happy to help him look for and interview
candidates but if he was still interested, I
was still interested. His response was, We
want you.
I was in my lawyer costume again, and
I quietly said Thank you very much. I am
interested.
Then I got my car and called my boys
Michael is 30 now, and Robert is 26 and
I told them what had just transpired. They
said, Yeah, right, Dad, its April Fools Day.
Now ensconced in the Giants organiza-
tion, with a job that he loves, Bill still finds
that people think the job is something
other than it is that it comes with the
opportunity to share his views on how the
team should be managed.
It does not.
Some people think that I stroll into the
office to have coffee with Tom Coughlin to
discuss game plans, he said. They think
Im hanging out with the players and going
over personnel decisions and football deci-
sions with the coaches.
While there is some interaction with
players and coaches, the reality is that Im
a lawyer. I deal with all the Giants legal
affairs. Some of them are enormously
complex, and some are more routine. For
example, Bill has worked on the naming
rights agreement for MetLife Stadium, but
on his first day at the Giants, somebody
plunked the elevator maintenance contract
in front of me.
I started practice as a generalist, and I
am now a generalist again, Bill said. It is
enormously fulfilling because I am a lawyer,
I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I am
happiest when I am working practicing law.
Yes, it is cool to be sitting in the cafeteria
and say hello to players. Do I deal with play-
ers? Yes. But usually not.
People think that I have inside informa-
tion. But all I know is what I read in the
papers, just like you do.
In fact, he said, its more or less the way a
lawyer for a hospital does good, important,
complicated work but does not tell the
neurosurgeons on staff how to operate on
brains. My job does not include offering
my opinion on what to do with third and
long yardage in the red zone.
Bill and Natalie Heller belong to Temple
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff; for many years he
sat on its board. Jewishness is important to
him, but religion is irrelevant in the world
of the Giants, he said. In fact, the Giants are
a diverse organization; the Mara and Tisch
families, co-owners of the team, have cre-
ated a workplace where religious affiliation
is not important to the work of the team.
This is so even though the Tisch family
is actively Jewish and Wellington Mara
was a devout Catholic, Bill continued. In
fact, the team has a priest loosely affili-
ated with it, and in recent months he has
asked me for help with something. He
knows Im Jewish, and I dont think that
I have a better friend at the Giants than
Father William Dowd.
Oh, and Y.A. Tittle, Bills boyhood
hero? When Bill Parcels was elected
to the National Football League Hall of
Fame, all of the Giants previous induct-
ees were invited and honored, Bill said.
That group included the one and only
Y.A. Tittle. Bill met his idol, and a photo-
graph commemorates the fulfillment of
that long-held dream.
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Rabid Giants
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ever ever get into a New York
Giants trivia battle with June
Salzman of Fair Lawn.
Youll lose. Get over it.
June a mother of five, grandmother
of 11, and now great grandmother of
three has seen generations of Giants
football. She began following the team
with her late husband, David. The Giants
are 89 years old, and June is 82. Theyve
practically grown up together.
June and David saw everyone play,
from Giants legends Y.A. Tittle to Frank
Gifford to L.T. to Eli Manning. Shes seen
coaches and players come and go.
You think you know your Giants his-
tory? June Salzmans been there. You
know what the Y.A. in Y.A. Tittle stands
for? Yelberton Abraham she answered,
even before the question was out of the
interviewers mouth. She watched him
play at Yankee Stadium, she said.
June followed the team on its jour-
ney from home field to home field. The
Giants, one of five teams to start the
National Football League in 1925, had
several homes over the years, from the
Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium to
the Yale Bowl to Shea Stadium. Giants
Stadium opened in 1976; the G-men
played there until 2009. Now they play
at MetLife Stadium, the venue for Febru-
ary 2s big game.
Though at times it was challenging,
June and David Salzman almost never
missed a home game.
The Super Bowl? June remembers
when it was just called the championship
June Salzman: true (Giants) blue.
She vows, The Giants will be back.
Youll see. They always come back.
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game, and she still hasnt gotten over the
Giants 1958 loss to Baltimore in what
they still call the greatest game ever
played.
Frank Gifford? She loved him. LT?
Dont ask.
Oh, you have an Eli Manning shirt?
June can tell us when the Giants drafted
him.
The game is in our backyard but nei-
ther one of the local teams are playing.
So there is a bit of a letdown. Ask Mrs.
Salzman, who said shes going to watch
the game anyway.
Did we mention she still watches every
Giants game at home or away, usually
on TV? Ask her if shes a football fanatic?
Shell modify the statement. You may
say Im a Giants fanatic.
The Giants are not her only love,
though. June still keeps track of Major
League Baseballs Los Angeles Dodgers.
She used to take the subway to games
at Brooklyns Ebbets Field as a girl, and
was heartbroken like many when they
left Brooklyn in 1957.
Then there is Jeff Elias of Norwood.
If June is your quarterback, shes
handing the ball off to the 59-year-old
super Giants fan.
Super Bowl 21 Giants, 39, Broncos,
20 Jeff was there in Pasadena, Calif.
Rodeo Drive was full of fans wearing
Giants blue, he said.
Before Super Bowl 25 in Tampa,
Fla., he and his friends made it out
of snowed-in New Jersey to watch the
Giants say thank you to Bills place
kicker Scott Norwood, who shanked
a possible game-winning Buffalo field
goal, and saw the Giants walk off with
a 20-19 championship. One point or 20,
a W is a W.
The Giants have been in five Super
Bowls, with a 4-1 record. After this
years disappointing record, where they
missed the post-season for the second
straight year, Mr. Elias said that you just
have to hang on to something, like, say,
the 21-17 win over New England in Super
Bowl 46 in Indianapolis. Let that mem-
ory carry you, he said.
And there probably is something to be
said for hosting the game.
The Super Bowl well, its a happen-
ing, Jeff said. Its the Kentucky Derby,
the Indy 500, the NCAA Final Four. Its
the Academy Awards. Thats the level
the Super Bowl is on. When your own
team is in it, theres nothing like it.
The Giants have a long-time history
and fan following. The team joined the
NFL in 1925. It played its home games at
the Polo Grounds. Emlen Tunnell, in a
sense the Jackie Robinson of the Giants,
was its first black player. He also was
the fist black player enshrined in the
Football Hall of Fame. There are 28
Giants in the Hall of Fame; few teams
have more.
Generations of families pass season
Giants fans
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Jeff Elias of
Norwood made
sure his son,
Sammy, now 21,
was a Giants fan
from the git-go.
Though at
times it was
challenging,
June and David
Salzman almost
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ing generations. Jeff Elias
started going to Giants
games when he was a sec-
ond grader, he said; his
father had season tickets.
But he remembers bad
seats sometimes a pole
obstructed his view.
He started exposing
his son, Sammy, to the
Giants when he was only
3. Sammy is 21 now, and
like his dad still a super
Giants fan.
Many children dream of becoming
professional athletes, and many adults
remember those dreams.
I was going to be a centerfielder for
the Yankees or a tight end for the Giants,
Jeff said. I was sure of it.
Hes had a successful career in finance,
and his son was all-league in both base-
ball and basketball through high school,
and he played high school football as
well.
So, even though their team isnt in
the big game this year, are Giant fans
excited about it being played in the
neighborhood?
Honestly, not really, Jeff said. The
only time someone brings it up is when
theyre talking about the traffic thats
coming here. This, of course, comes
after the governor did
his pre-Super Bowl traffic
congestion dress rehearsal
at the George Washington
Bridge. He was prepping
us for February 2.
A lot of people are
down on it this year, that
it shouldnt be here in this
winter weather, Mr. Elias
said. I think its a big
mistake, he added refer-
ring to the cold New York
winters.
Dan Galperin, 33, from
Old Tappan disagrees.
This is the first ever cold weather out-
doors Super Bowl, he said. I think its
fantastic. He added that he is proud
of the New Jersey-New York areas for
being chosen for the game. A football
fanatic? Mr. Galperin said absolutely.
I watch every Giants game, and I even
watch any other game that is on TV at
the time.
As a Super Bowl volunteer, hell be
wearing the jacket with the Super Bowl
logo over what he described as a jump
suit. Plus Mr. Galperin will get to the
keep the uniform. Of course, no free
ticket to the game. Hell watch from
the comforts of home or with friends
at a nearby bar. Mr. Gal-
perin thinks that the day
will be intense, and
the cold weather will
be a factor not only in
the game, but possibly
in the disposition of the
people hell try to help
make it to MetLife, the
cathedral of football, on
time.
That Super Bowl
intensity, which is so
clear when youre there,
doesn t necessari l y
translate to TV, according to Mr. Elias.
It would of course be better this year
for us if the Giants were in it, he said,
Its more exciting having your team play
in a Super Bowl out of town than host-
ing it with your team not involved on the
field.
This year, hell be at a party, watching
the game from inside a house, all snug
and warm. Trust us, hed rather be out-
side watching his team.
Jason Shames of Haworth hopes that it
snows on February 2.
The executive vice president of the Jew-
ish Federation of Northern New Jersey is
serious. If the Giants arent playing, he
said, hes going to stay warm in front of
a friends widescreen TV with plenty of
food. If his team isnt involved, he wants
an added variable like
cold weather to greet
the teams and their fans.
So if the Giants arent in
it, let the other fans feel
the chill and watch their
players slosh around on
a cold, wet field.
You can tell a person
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he ends every one of
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sports picks.
You can tell a person
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For Jason, it was in 1976, the Steelers
vs. the Cowboys.
In a dreamy voice, he said, Terry
Bradshaw, Franco Harris. It was incred-
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Bradshaw throwing to a wide receiver
named (Lynn) Swann. Over on the Cow-
boys side, quarterback Roger Staubach
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He still does.
But really, for Jason, it all comes down to the Giants.
Now he watches with pride as his son Josh, 10, gets
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This isnt fanaticism?
The Giants are Lenny Mandels favorite team. Lenny is
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During a Sports Shabbat at the shul, he asked Rabbi
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clasped, deep in prayer.
When the man asked her what she was praying for,
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should beat the Red Sox in a playoff game, Lenny said.
Listen, if you believe in a God who cares about the
Yankees and Red Sox or Giants in football, we are in
trouble.
There is no shortage of Giants and NFL fanatics in our
community, getting themselves stocked up with cold
cuts, beer, chips, and the select man cave invitation lists.
One person interviewed compared his Super Bowl party
invitation to the golden ticket in the film Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory.
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What is the message that Giants fans have to under-
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BETH CHANANIE
Jewish football fans who will be heading
for MetLife Stadium for the Super Bowl
can count on at least one more bite of a
kosher hot dog before hanging up their
jerseys on this years football season.
Professional sports have come a long
way in our area in the last few years,
when it comes to accommodating the
needs of the kosher sports fan.
Especially where football is con-
cerned, food seems to go hand-in-hand
with sports, with pre-game tailgating
parties in the parking lots, and the eat-
ing of hot dogs and other foods inside
the stadium during games. Not too long
ago, the kosher consumer had limited
to no options whatever at area stadia.
Today, not only can you get kosher food
at your favorite teams home turf, it may
even be possible to ind a minyan (prayer
quorum), if need be. MetLife Stadium,
which is the site of Super Bowl XLVIII
and home to both the Jets and the Giants,
offers a variety of kosher food options.
Strikly Kosher operates four portable
kosher concessions carts at the stadium
on the 100 level (Sections 124 and 144)
and on the 300 level (Sections 308 and
334), along with kosher catering in the
Coaches Club, along with both the Lexus
and Chase clubs.
Strikly Kosher, the New York-based
kosher catering company founded by
Jeff Striks, is under glatt kosher super-
vision by Vaad of Queens. It operates
glatt-kosher facilities for Sportservice
at a number of other stadia, as well,
including Yankee Stadium, the Pruden-
tial Center in Newark (Section 20), and
Provident Bank Ball Park, home of the
Rockland Boulders. Portable carts offer
kosher hot dogs, knishes, and pretzels.
The Super Bowl menu (as of now)
includes hot dogs, chicken, knishes, and
pretzels. The clubs menu is expanded to
include honey barbecue wings.
According to Strikly Koshers epony-
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Rays Ballpark Caf and Andrew Zim-
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He lives by his motto Do things the
right way to make certain that cus-
tomers keep coming back for more.
There will be a minyan during the
Super Bowl somewhere between 4 to
4:30 p.m., depending on game status, as
there is at every regular game at each of
the four glatt-kosher stands operated by
Strikly Kosher. Usually, there are at least
two minyanim per game at each location
and sometimes as many as four, with
anywhere from 10 to 50 people at each
stand, usually before the game and dur-
ing halftime. Siddurim (prayer books)
are provided.
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treats, plus prayer services, at four locations at
MetLife Stadium. COURTESY NICOLE FOUNTAIN
Jeff Striks
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and concussions
DR. LEE IGEL
Super Bowl XLVII is sched-
uled to kick off on the eve-
ning of Sunday, February 2,
at MetLife Stadium in East
Rutherford.
Whether or not youre a
football fan, its tough not to
notice that the spell of the
National Football Leagues
championship game is
upon us. News reports, tele-
vision commercials, and social media men-
tions tell us so. And if you need any more
convincing, try motoring around New York
City and northern New Jersey in the days
leading up to the game. That umpteenth
traffic snarl youre idling in isnt another
Bridgegate its just an influx of hundreds
of thousands of visitors rushing between all
sorts of events.
But along with the usual frenzy around
the game, there is a serious issue worth giv-
ing some attention to if there are going to
be more Super Bowls to watch in the long-
term future.
The NFL is a $10 billion-a-year enter-
prise and growing. About 205 million
Americans watched at least one NFL game
on television during the regular season,
and 34 of the 35 most-watched fall televi-
sion shows were NFL games. (The Macys
Thanksgiving Day Parade was the lone
outlier at number 22.)
Thats some of the context for the Super
Bowl broadcast; for the last several years
Super Bowl has reached about 110 million
viewers, give or take, in the United States
alone. Add to that a top-offense-versus-
top-defense matchup between the Denver
Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, plus the
prospect of a Polar Vortex-level weather
event, and its simple for anyone to under-
stand why the Super Bowl is a big deal.
Yet this kind of success is being threat-
ened directly by concerns about player
health and safety. In particular, what the
NFL has going for it is increasingly getting
crippled by concussions.
There is no doubt that well see plenty
of hard hits during the big game. At least
one or another along the
way is likely to lead to a con-
cussion, a product of the
violent nature of this contact
sport. But as research con-
tinues shedding light on the
cost that participation could
have on players brains, its
likely that more and more
parents especially in the
middle and upper classes
will hesitate to let their
children take the field. That
could eventually lead to a smaller fan base,
not only because the best athletes will play
other sports, but because it ends up being
difficult finding a moral justification for
watching poor people bash their brains in
for the entertainment of others.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, fran-
chise owners, and current and retired play-
ers all are working to find ways to keep
hard hits in the game while removing the
unnecessary ones. They are not ignoring
the safety crisis. But in both boardrooms
and locker rooms, they are finding them-
selves up against the challenge of having
to slough off what has worked exceedingly
well for some time.
It is not easy to change the habits and
practices that have led to success. That is
why more and more people are suggest-
ing that its best to let athletes give their
informed consent, rather than changing
the rules. In other words, the athletes will
know the risks, and they should be allowed
to play if they are willing to take responsibil-
ity for doing so.
That line of thinking is understandable.
The problem with it, though, is that it does
little to discourage risky behavior in the
highly competitive people who prioritize
the rewards of their efforts over the dan-
gers associated with them. And it does even
less for children and teenagers, who still are
learning the ways of sound judgment, and
who often model themselves on their pro-
fessional sports heroes.
Admittedly, Super Bowl Sunday probably
is not a day when most people will be ach-
ing to have a discussion about health and
wellbeing. After all, its the banner day for
pizza delivery drivers, fried food cooks, and
snack food manufacturers. But you may
want to enjoy the day for what it is now.
Thats because it could soon become
a shell of itself, if we dont start answer-
ing questions about what happens when
we are willing to watch other people risk
their health in the interests of our own
amusement.
Lee H. Igel, Ph.D., is associate professor
in the Tisch Center and co-director of the
Sports & Society Program at New York
University. His teaching and research focus
on decision-making and behavioral insight.
Dr. Lee Igel
In particular,
what the NFL
has going for it
is increasingly
getting crippled
by concussions.
DR. LEE IGEL
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LOIS GOLDRICH
N
ot all of us are blessed with
the opportunity, or abil-
ity, to combine those things
in life that give us the most
pleasure.
Steve Rosner of Closter, co-founder of
16W Marketing in Rutherford, is one of
those lucky people who has pulled it off.
His sports marketing company has been
going strong since 2000. But he says that
while luck certainly is one factor, noth-
ing is accomplished without hard work.
My dad worked in the dry clean-
ing business for 40 years. My work
ethic comes from him, said Mr. Ros-
ner, whose company represents sports
luminaries such as former NFL stars
Phil Simms, Boomer Esiason, Howie
Long, and Cris Collinsworth. No matter
what your background, it doesnt matter.
Youre your own person.
There are no shortcuts when it comes
to success, he added. You have to put
your time in. And then, he said, if it hap-
pens that you get a lucky break, you
have to take that as an opportunity and
capitalize on it.
This philosophy has served him well.
Combining his passion for sports with
his knowledge of business, for the last
three decades he has represented some
of the leading figures in the sports world.
Born in Bayonne and a loyal son
of New Jersey I definitely consider
myself a Jersey guy and am damn proud
of it, he says Mr. Rosner attended
Ramapo College, later doing graduate
work at Wagner College in Staten Island.
I always had a passion for sports, he
said, noting that he worked as Wagners
information director while studying for
his masters degree. Basically, I did the
PR work for the athletic department,
and they paid for my education.
After graduation, he was introduced
to someone who was looking to start a
financial group for professional athletes.
I started recruiting athletes for them,
he recalled, adding that the timing was
right. Athletes were starting to make a
good amount of money. It also didnt
hurt that his second client was Law-
rence Taylor, linebacker for the New
York Giants.
He brought in 25 clients within two
years, became a partner, and earned a
chance to work on endorsements and
off-the-field activities for these athletes.
In 1993, Mr. Rosner and Frank Vuono
created Integrated Sports International.
I had already been in business 10
years, and Frank was at the NFL, so
we decided to partner up with another
business associate we worked with in
the past, Fred Fried, to create an agency
that would be a bit different, Mr. Ros-
ner said. We were going to concentrate
on representing professional athletes for
marketing and off-the-field endeavors,
as well as to consult for teams and com-
panies. We werent going to concentrate
on negotiating professional playing con-
tracts like a traditional agent would. We
wanted to create a point of difference.
The group grew from 6 to 70 employ-
ees in six years, and from 10 clients
to 100; it was courted and ultimately
acquired by SFX Entertainment.
But despite overseeing a talent group
of 700 athletes, including Warren Moon,
Steve Young, Michael Jordan, Roger Cle-
mens, Troy Aikman, and Hakeem Olaju-
won, when the integration we thought
would happen didnt, we Rosner and
Vuono decided to gracefully bow out
and continue our partnership, but in a
different way.
We had built something once before,
he continued. We wanted to be able to
continue to be in the mix and represent
the highest-profile clients individuals
or corporations but stay small at the
same time.
The two partners decided at the out-
set that their new company, 16W Mar-
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Steve Rosners sports marketing firm
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We wanted to be able to have time to
take care of the business but also see our
kids at every play, be at every recital, and
attend every sporting event, he said. Both
partners also wanted to spend more time
working on charitable initiatives.
Family and charity are very important
to Mr. Rosner. He attributes that to his par-
ents, Seymour and Shirley Rosner.
My parents were on the board of the
Bayonne Jewish Center as long as I can
remember, he said. I get my philan-
thropic passion from them. They taught
me that giving wasnt only with dollars,
but with time and commitment. Ive tried
to carry that lesson throughout my life.
Mr. Rosner said that when he was grow-
ing up, the Jewish Community Center in
Bayonne was his second home, a place
where he spent a great deal of time and cre-
ated many lasting friendships. It was only fit-
ting, then, that when he sold his company
to SFX, he took the opportunity to refurbish
the gym at the community center.
I wanted to do something in my grand-
mothers name and in honor of my par-
ents, he said. I played ball at the JCC, I
made relationships there that still exist 40
years later. It was important for me to give
something back. It needed refurbishing,
new lights, a new floor, a lot of improve-
ments. The gym is now named the Anna
Rosner Memorial Gymnasium.
Since 1998, Mr. Rosner also has served
as a member of the board of the CJ Foun-
dation for SIDS, which honored him at its
Excellence in Giving dinner in April. He
also is very active in the March of Dimes.
He also credits his parents with giving
him an abiding love of Judaism.
Im the kind of Jew I am today because
of what was instilled in me by my parents,
he said.
In his own home together with his
wife, Stefanie, and daughters Melissa, 17,
and Amy, 15 we try to have Shabbes
dinner and light the candles as often as
possible, he said.
There are two reasons. First, theres
the religious side of it, to let my girls get a
feel for this tradition, and our faith in gen-
eral. They might not understand it now,
but it obviously made an impact on me.
Second, we sit down to dinner as a
family. With everyones schedules being
so busy, we dont do that as much as we
should. I tell them that I want them to be
home between 6 and 6:45 and then they
can do what they want.
Its our responsibility mine and my
wifes to do the best we can with our
children when it comes to Judaism, he
said. We can keep the family together.
I want them one day to argue with their
own children, as they sometimes do with
us, about why its important to be home
for Shabbes dinner.
The family are members of Temple
Emanu-El of Closter, where his daughters
celebrated their bnot mitzvah.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Rosner also has a
sports connection to Jewish life.
In 1976, he said, I was fortunate to be
named to the Pan-American Maccabi team,
and I went to play in Lima, Peru. Thirty-
five years later, a friend was going to be
the head coach of the same team that I
captained back then. So in 2011 I was on
the coaching staff of the most recent Pan-
American Maccabi team. We went to Brazil
and won the gold medal.
It was an unbelievable experience, not
just being able to coach a team I had cap-
tained but having been in the sports busi-
ness my whole career and having been
around great athletes getting back on the
court. It was one of the most rewarding
things in my adult life.
Mr. Rosner said that after the team won
the gold medal, when they stood on the
podium to get their gold medals and to
hear Hatikvah and The Star-Spangled
Banner, there were tears in my eyes.
I have a thing about the national
anthem, he said, pointing out that he
sings it at every one of the more than
1,000 sports games he estimated having
attended. So attached is he to the song
that he had his friend Branford Marsalis
play it as he and his bride walked into their
wedding reception.
Mr. Rosner said that while there might
not be many Jews playing on the field at
NFL games (10 at last count, including
Julian Edelman of the New England Patri-
ots), there are many more at work on the
business end of the sport.
Rosner
FROM PAGE 43
SEE ROSNER PAGE 46
Steve Rosner, third from right, helped coach the 2011 Pan-American Maccabi team.
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Wilf of New Jersey, owners of the Minne-
sota Vikings, and Bob Kraft, owner of the
New England Patriots.
Mr. Kraft and his late wife Myra have
donated millions of dollars to the State
of Israel, he said, while the Wilfs gen-
erosity is demonstrated by the familys
major contributions to Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem.
Mr. Rosner said that he talks to many
young people who are interested in the
sports business, telling them that its
more than just passion and knowing sta-
tistics and being a good fantasy football
player. It needs business acumen.
The business is different now than it
was when he first started, he said.
There are various ways to be in the
business now, from sports marketing to
sales, PR, finances, naming rights there
are about 12 to 15 ways to be involved.
Much more opportunity.
Improved technology has broadened
opportunities in all fields.
Right now, from the digital aspect,
theres a whole new way to be in sports
that was not available just seven or eight
years ago.
His newest venture, the Experts Net-
work, jointly owned by the company
and its clients, is using that ability to
market his clients expertise.
We decided to go out and sell their
expertise as a group, especially in a digi-
tal space, and create an opportunity for
them by putting together a group of ath-
letes, making it more attractive to some
companies. While they all have individ-
ual careers, we saw an opportunity to
put them together as a group.
While there are many things Mr. Ros-
ner can point to as highlights of his job
the only disappointment he can recall is
coming in second when trying to recruit
Peyton Manning he said that theres
nothing like being your own boss. He is
also pleased that because of the nature
of the industry, Ive been able to share
with family and friends some of the
perks that come with this.
A lot of my friends know Phil Simms,
Boomer Esiason, Howie Long, and Ron
Darling by their first names, and vice
versa. To me, being able to share is a
mitzvah, and I try to do it as much as
I can.
Mr. Rosner has been to 27 Super Bowls
so far, and it is not surprising that the
upcoming big game is much on his mind.
Its always a big event for us, he said,
pointing out that this year, unlike oth-
ers, there wont be a need to travel. We
always have our annual party for 100 to
125 of our closest friends and clients, he
said, adding that he usually schedules
about 25 to 35 appearances both for the
clients and other companies.
But this year, at the rate were going,
Ive got a feeling that might double, he
said. We know how the Super Bowl
works, and people are looking for our
guys. For the last year, 16W Marketing
has been consulting with companies in
the New York area whose executives are
less familiar with the workings of the
event.
Most of the time Im pretty exhausted
by game time, he said. Ive got to meet
people usually I have two or three
meetings a day to talk about old business
and create new business. Then there
are parties. Its fun, but its a very busy
weekend. By the time kickoff comes, Im
ready to go home.
But I am committed to keep going to
the Super Bowl until my beloved Jets
play in the game.
SB fun facts
The Denver Broncos will be making
their seventh Super Bowl appear-
ance; its the second for the Seattle
Seahawks.
The most people ever at MetLife
Stadium was 93,000; they were
there for, you guessed it, the 12th Si-
yum HaShas, the celebration of the
completion of the Talmud, in August
2012.
In 1967, a 30-second commercial
on the Super Bowl cost $40,000. It
will cost $4 million this year. Accord-
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their spots over the last 10 years.
The Vince Lombardi trophy is
made by Tiffany & Co. and costs
$25,000.
NFC teams have won 25 of the 47
Super Bowls.
Only Thanksgiving is a more
food-centric day than the day of the
Super Bowl.
MetLife Stadium will host the
first NFL title game in the met-
ropolitan area since the Packers
defeated the Giants on December
30, 1962.
No tailgating will be permitted
at the stadium. Ticket-holders are
being charged $150 for one of the
13,000 parking spaces available.
Parking is by permit only.
More than 3,000 private security
officers will be at the stadium, and
the New Jersey State Police will
have about 700 troopers on duty.
Ticket-holders who need alter-
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can take buses that will pick up
and drop them off at nine locations
around the region. NJ Transit also
will be available.
MetLife is the first certified green
restaurant stadium in the world.
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So, you are an avid follower
of professional sports, and
the time has come to share
this enthusiasm with your
family or friends by taking
them to a live sporting event
or concert.
There is only one thing
missing. A ticket.
Off you go onto the Internet and find a
set of tickets for a reasonable price and
lo and behold, there they are! Four great
seats, at a great price. You contact the
seller and he sounds honest enough. You
agree to meet at a local shopping mall,
where you feel safe its a public space.
You exchange tickets for cash money,
and off you go, to the event of a lifetime.
What could possible go wrong?
When you get to the stadium, you
proudly present your ticket to the guest
service representative at the gates. And
then the scanner beeps and shows red.
It is an uh oh moment. You very
shortly find out the ticket is not valid. It
probably is a counterfeit. As your anger
and embarrassment quickly builds, you
reach for your cell phone and call the
ticket seller. There must be some kind of
mix up with your ticket seller, correct?
Surprise! The number is disconnected
or goes to a full voice mailbox. You are
now out the money, and you have no
way into the venue.
Sounds extreme? Its not. This exact
story has been played out countless
times in the past year, throughout sta-
diums and arenas in the metropolitan
area. Dishonest sellers (aka criminals)
have been inundating online sites, par-
ticularly Craigslist, offering tickets that
are fraudulent, preying on the diehard
sports fan.
What can you do to keep such an inci-
dent from happening to you? Here are
some frequently asked questions and
answers that might help.
How can I buy tickets for events in
the NY/NJ area entertainment com-
plexes? Each venue has its own poli-
cies about ticket sales. Its always best to
call the box office and ask if tickets are
available. You might be surprised to find
excellent last-minute tickets have been
released for sale at face value. If you
register on most venues websites, you
will be advised of upcoming ticket sales,
exclusive codes, and specials to every
major event.
Is there a safe place to buy a ticket
for an event? Your first defense is
always to buy from a reputable seller
or the venue itself. A reputable seller
for football games includes NFL Ticket
Exchange (which is run by Ticketmaster)
or a site that guarantees that
the ticket is valid and offers a
full refund if it is not. Stay far
away from Craigslist or simi-
lar online sites for tickets.
Remember, ticket scalp-
ing is illegal. In New Jersey,
scalping is defined as the
resale of tickets for more
than 20 percent over face
value or $3 over face value,
whichever is higher.
How do you know if a ticket is valid
or if it is a fake? First, trust your gut. If
your immediate feeling is that the offer is
too good to be true, its usually a fraud.
If you do have a chance to examine the
ticket in advance, call the venues box
office and explain what you have. There
are special codes and other event-spe-
cific distinguishing characteristics that
the box office can help you identify
immediately.
If you already have a ticket and
find out its fake, what do you do?
First, call your local police department
and file a police report. What happened
to you is a crime, and you probably are
not the only person who has been vic-
timized. Police departments across the
area have active investigations into this
type of scam. Your information might
be the break that brings the criminal(s)
to justice. Also, sometimes the venue
will have last minute tickets available
and will offer them for sale, but you are
still out the original sum you paid the
unscrupulous fake vendor.
I see people already have Super
Bowl tickets for sale. Can I buy them
now? Yes and no. The NFL has a lottery
each year, so the general public can buy
tickets for that upcoming Super Bowl.
The lottery for Super Bowl 48 already
is over. If you were lucky enough to be
picked, you would have been notified
already. Each team is given a certain
number of tickets, which they allocate as
they see fit. The two winning teams from
the NFC and AFC are allocated extra tick-
ets, but again, its their decision on how
to distribute them. If you really want to
go to the big game here in New Jersey, to
see the Broncos and Seahawks battle it
out, the NFL ticket exchange is the safest
way to go about buying a ticket.
Mike Falvey, retired after 26 years
as a lieutenant in Teanecks police
department, where he headed the
Community Policing Bureau. He was
also a contributing writer for the public
service segment of The Jewish Standards
website, www.jstandard.com. He is the
security manager at MetLife Stadium.
If you have any questions, email him at
mfalvey@metlifestadium.com.
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Seven years
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ture. The film is the true-life story of Solo-
mon Northup, a free black man who is
kidnapped and forced into slavery. The trailers alone
(I havent yet seen the film) show the brutal nature
of slavery as it was institutionalized in the American
South. Northups captivity ends when he is able at last
to prove his identity.
American slave owners, to varying degrees, relied
on the Bible as justification for slavery. For example,
in Genesis Chapter 16 Hagar runs away from her mis-
tress Sarah (known at that point of the story as Sarai).
An angel of God speaks to her and tells her to return
to her mistress harsh treatment. This was interpreted
by some to promote slavery and discourage slaves
from running away. But Deuteronomy 23:16-17 pro-
hibits the return of fugitive slaves: You shall not turn
over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you
from his master. He shall live with you in any place
he may choose among the settlements in your midst,
wherever he pleases: you
must not ill-treat him. One
commentator posits that
this refers only to slaves
from abroad, but the Tal-
mud says that the rule also
applied when the owner
was an Israelite.
Slavery seems to be a
topic addressed with some
ambivalence in the Torah.
On one hand, our ances-
tors formative experience-
was the redemption from
slavery in Egypt. These
events are commemorated,
ritualized, and even re-enacted at the Passover seder.
Our path to fulfillment as the Jewish people depends
on our freedom.
And yet the Torah does not outlaw slavery. Instead
it is meticulous about regulating it, presumably to
make it unattractive to a potential slave owner. This
weeks Torah portion, Mishpatim, in Exodus Chapter
21, presents most of the commandments the Torah
has about slavery. The laws are somewhat disjointed,
but they create a picture not really of slavery, but of
the slave. He is a human being. He is to be given the
right to leave after seven years. Had American slav-
ery truly been biblically based, Simon Northops night-
mare would have been five years shorter. Mishpatim
and other parts of the Torah list other restrictions on
slavery, doing its best to affirm that we ought to be ser-
vants only to God. The most sweeping commandment
portraying slavery as a flawed institution is the jubilee
year, which in Leviticus 25 proclaims release through-
out the land every fifty years, and reunites families.
Slavery in this country is a thing of the past, legally
at least. Recently we celebrated the 150th anniversary
of the Gettysburg Address, which announced a new
birth of freedom for this country. But slavery has not
been eradicated by any means. Some estimates indi-
cate that there are more slaves worldwide today than
at any point in history.
Here in the United States, we hear stories about
men and women who are often trafficked into forced
labor situations in homes or businesses. Others are
Rabbi
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forced into sexual slavery. It is difficult to help these vic-
tims because it is hard to find them; for obvious reasons
their captors keep them from view. And they seek help only
at great risk to themselves and sometimes to their families.
Recently there has been a concerted effort to raise aware-
ness of human trafficking. Jewish organizations such as
Truah, National Council of Jewish Women, and the Com-
munity Relations Committee of Greater MetroWest NJ have
put a priority on addressing this crisis, as it tends to become
more acute around major sporting events such as the Super
Bowl. The work that they and others have done is crucial,
and it can be supported by individuals of all different politi-
cal and religious ideologies. (See page 7 for more informa-
tion about local efforts to fight human trafficking.)
No one ought to be a slave. The Torah limited slavery as
best it could, and we are blessed to live in a country that
outlaws forced servitude. The challenge now is to embrace
the lessons of the Exodus, understand the implications of
Parashat Mishpatim, and ensure that freedom extends to
everyone.
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Across
1. ___ I am tonight! (lyric from Marc
Cohns Walking in Memphis)
5. ___ HaChareidis (Ultra-Orthodox orga-
nization in Israel)
9. ___ arose from the Earth... (Gen. 2:6)
14. ___ to leap tall buildings in a single
bound
15. Miriams tribe
16. Samuel Gompers was president of the
American Federation of ___
17. Famous spoon-bender
19. Bruce who said Dig: Im Jewish.
20. Name for Tel Avivs Zoological Center
21. ___ and I (2005 Holocaust film)
23. ___-Yid (Abba Kovners astronomic
name for himself)
25. ___ of slavery (what the bitter herbs
symbolize on Passover)
29. ___ Pops (kosher frozen treat)
31. RJ ___ Family Camp in Texas
33. Author Kafka (The Metamorphosis)
36. Rambam and Neil Sedaka, e.g.
38. Sababa
39. Followers of a philosophy Judah Halevi
argued against
40. Israels consul-general to New York
Aharoni
41. Chabads kind of Chasidism
44. Meal where you dip twice
46. Haman and others
47. Gaza group
49. Enjoys Manischewitz
51. Nebbishes
54. ___ of wine (what the bride and
groom take under the chuppah)
56. Klipot (Kabbalistic idea)
58. Kadima leader Mofaz
62. One of the twelve Minor Prophets
64. Tool for Pissaro
65. Pennsylvania hometown of Ish
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66. ___ Turnblad (Hairspray mother)
67. Rapper Elliot who refused to boycott
Israel
68. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii.)
and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
69. Green or Rogen
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Tale
2. God told him Go forth from your land
and from your birthplace...
3. Jonathan Kirschs Moses: ___
4. Israel is rumored to have bombs in this
range
5. Conservative theologian Dorff
6. Home st. of Bob Dylans wife Sara
7. One might do it on a Bible
8. One of the Torahs four types of watch-
men
9. Novelist Goodman (The Cookbook
Collector)
10. Actress Questel who voiced Betty
Boop
11. Samuel ___ Tibbon (French Jewish phi-
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12. One of four in the Haggadah
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(Gen. 1:5)
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dinner
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vis the song Dynamite
28. Clem ___ (Singers of Jews for Jesus
Blues)
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59. Bali ___ (song from the musical
South Pacific)
60. Abraham saddled his
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Museum of New York is located
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ERIC A. GOLDMAN
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any of us want to pass on our
memories to our children
and our childrens children,
and many of us lament not
having taken oral and video histories of
our parents and grandparents.
After watching Isaac Hertzs Life is
Strange: There Was a Time When They
Were Children Too, you immediately
want to set up that videotaping session
with an elder. You either will do that or
you will call a friend over and ask him or
her to record your life story on your smart
phone or video camera, so it is preserved
for the next generation.
But not everybodys life story is all that
compelling. The question remains will
anyone really care?
Hertzs film is unmistakably a work of
deep commitment. He works to capture
a European Jewish life that disappeared
and that remains dear to a generation that
is slowing dying out. The stories they tell
clearly are of great significance to the film-
maker and they should be for any Jew
today. The question is how do you tell the
story? How you keep an audience involved
and related to the story being told?
Hertz does an amazing job in capturing a
broad swath of stories from a varied group
of people. They speak about their child-
hood; going to school; family life; living
as a Jew where you were reminded every
day that you were Jewish or that you barely
knew you were Jewish; rites of passage; the
effect of war. He interviewed descendents
of great chasidic rabbis and famed secular
philosophers. Nobel laureates in chemis-
try and economics Walter Kohn and Rob-
ert Aumann, Holocaust survivor and writer
Uri Orlev, and Israels president, Shimon
Peres, are among the storytellers.
Some stories hold more interest than
others, but what Hertz has done is assem-
ble these stories so that each person has an
opportunity to give his or her testimony.
Throughout the film, a child narra-
tor interjects his thoughts, in an effort to
compare life for an American Jewish child
today with a childs life then and there.
That effort does not always work. But
what is very effective is a sense of deep joy
that each interviewee takes in being Jew-
ish. Thats true even for Peter Marcuse,
son of New Left intellectual Herbert Mar-
cuse, who talks about the importance of
community.
One of the men relates to his beautiful
childhood in Jewish Poland, the poverty
that somehow did not impede his joie de
vivre, and how Shabbes became the focal
point of each week, because of the spiri-
tuality, sense of community, and substan-
tial meal.
Isaac Hertz takes us from his storytellers
childhood years into the years of tyranny
and finally to the Shoah; and for many of
Life is
Strange
Rabbi Isidore Greengrass gives testimony for the film.
The children of a long-ago Europe.
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them, their survival after the war. Each
story is powerful and poignant, from lying
among the dead outside the concentra-
tion camp, to the grandeur of the German
synagogues destroyed on Kristallnacht, to
that implausible time of liberation by the
Americans.
For me, hearing from President Peres
about his grandfather, who was marched
from his home into the synagogue by the
Nazis, where he along with the Jews of the
community were burned alive, somehow
stayed with me. And then writer Uri Orlev
speaks about how he never shared his war
stories with his children and grandchil-
dren, yet writes extensively about being
a child at the time. As he sees it, an adult
remembers only the horrors, while a child
remembers joyful and playful moments.
Isaac Hertz has made a fine, if imperfect,
effort of putting onto film recollections of
a time gone by, in a grand effort to insure
that it will not be forgotten.
For that, he deserves our praise.
The film is now playing at New York
Citys Quad Cinema.
Eric A. Goldman teaches film at Stern
College.
Sisters Ruth Orenstein and Yocheved Friedenson talk about their family.
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The Portrait is mostly empty
MIRIAM RINN
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he press materials for The
Portrait by Sarah Levine
Simon say that the play was
first written for National Pub-
lic Radios drama series Simon Studio
Presents.
It may have worked better in that for-
mat than it does in the production now
running at Theater 54 on West 54th
Street. Stretched to what feels like a long
90 minutes, The Portrait is oddly light
on plot and almost entirely lacking in
wit. Not promising for what purports to
be a satirical comedy.
The story is simple in the extreme. At
a dinner party in a fancy Upper East Side
apartment in 1982, two well-heeled older
brothers and their wives meet and await
the arrival of a younger cousin and his
wife. Each of the couples owns a por-
trait of a Revolutionary Era ancestor,
made by a well-known painter. The two
older brothers, Henry and Toddy, bet
that they can convince the young man,
a struggling theater director, to sell his
painting. The other painting will go to
the winner as well, so the three portraits
all will belong to one person. Why this
is a big deal is unclear, but evidently its
better if they are all together.
Helen, the hostess and wife of Toddy
Renard, is the pretentious sort who
insists that the maid pronounce fines
herbes just right, while Henry keeps a
watchful eye on his wife Aggies drinking.
Henry and Toddy dare each other to have
a bit of Helens famous pate, as if they
were still naughty boys snitching cookies.
If the dialogue was consistently clever,
this setup might have worked in a 1930s
screwball comedy about the daffy upper
classes and their peculiar habits. That
would have required much quicker pac-
ing than exists in The Portrait, how-
ever. The play would benefit from speed-
ier farce-like timing, despite its lack of
plot movement.
The reason this review appears in the
Jewish Standard at all is that the charac-
ters are revealed to be Jews, but the sort
who dont want to make a display of it.
Although they are proud of their early
American Jewish ancestors, they keep
the emphasis on the American rather
than the Jewish.
When young cousin Martys wife,
Alissa, announces that her parents keep
kosher, Helen is shocked. Of course, Jews
have been making (better) jokes about
this kind of thing for hundreds of years,
so The Portrait isnt going to win praise
for originality. This has been a trope from
the Yiddish theater all the way to Woody
Allen.
Surprisingly, Simon doesnt do any-
thing with the family name of Renard,
which is French for fox. As my mother
would have asked, what was it before
they changed it?
The large cast in The Portrait
includes Roger Hendricks Simon, who
directs and plays Henry, as well as a
group of talented professional actors.
James Leaf as Marty Finkelstein, the
young cousin, brings a jolt of energy
to the proceedings when he comes on
stage, and Jessica Eleanor Grant shows
off a gorgeous voice as Martys wife,
who is a singer. The playwright herself
is a classical singer, who has appeared
as a soloist and in opera. The play is pro-
duced by AdLib Productions (Actors and
Directors Living in Brooklyn) and The
Simon Studio. Run by Roger Hendricks
Simon, this is a coaching/training space
for actors and directors.
James Leaf as Marty, Roger Hendricks Simon as Henry, and Jessica Eleanor Grant
as Alissa. JOSIE WILLIAMS
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Friday
JANUARY 24
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 4:45 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers Shabbat La
Vida Loca celebrating
Sephardic heritage and
the Latin American
Jewish community.
Following a Sephardic
Shabbat dinner at
6:30 p.m., Latin American
musical services at 8 will
be led by Cantors Mark
Biddleman, Ilan Mamber,
and Jenna Daniels,
accompanied by a salsa
band. Dessert follows.
Part of Jewish Federation
of North Jerseys One
Book, One Community
programs. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
www.bethrishon.org.
Debbie Friedman, zl
Shabbat celebration:
Shaar Communities
hosts Friday Night Live!
services and dinner
commemorating
Debbie Friedmans
yahrzeit, 6:30 p.m.
Location information,
JoAnne, (201) 213-
9569 or joanne@
shaarcommunities.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers a
service with music by a
guest from the New York
Philharmonic, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Temple Beth-El offers
its Jewish Arts service,
8 p.m.; choreographer
Ariel Grossman of Ariel
Rivka Dance and her
husband, composer
David Horman, will
discuss their new work,
The Book of Esther:
A Modern Dance and
Music Collaboration.
2419 Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229.
Saturday
JANUARY 25
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then Rabbi Lawrence
Zierler discusses Whats
New about the Jews
from the Pews? as
part of the Three Cs
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob offers Torah
lessons and blessings
for the new month of
Adar with Cantor Marsha
Dubrow, 9:15 a.m. Tu
bShvat seder during
kiddush lunch. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or bnaijacobjc.org.
Havdalah/bingo/ice
cream: The Jewish
Community Center of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah offers
Havdalah services,
followed by family bingo
with make-your-own
sundaes, 7 p.m. $5 per
person includes prizes
and refreshments.
East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691 or
julieleopold@yahoo.com.
Zumba in Tenafly: The
Health & Wellness Center
at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades hosts a Zumba
Party for everyone 12
and older, led by Kristen
Steitz and other Zumba
instructors, 7:30 p.m.
411 East Clinton Ave.
Barbara, (201) 408-1475.
Comedy/auction: The
Glen Rock Jewish Center
offers entertainment by
comedians Chris Coccia,
Sandy Marks, and Barry
Weintraub, along with a
silent auction, 8 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624.
Sunday
JANUARY 26
Mitzvah Mall in Franklin
Lakes: At Barnert
Temples annual Mitzvah
Mall, a 9 a.m. pancake
breakfast is followed
by interaction with
representatives of 10
charities dedicated to
helping hurricane victims.
747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800 or www.
barnerttemple.org.
Project to combat
human trafficking: The
Jewish Federations of
Northern New Jersey
and MetroWest join other
groups to combat human
trafficking. Hundreds
of volunteers from New
Jersey will gather at
the JFNNJs Paramus
headquarters for training
at 10 a.m.; and then go to
area hotels and distribute
soaps marked with
information on human
trafficking and hotline
numbers. The project is in
time for an expected rise
in this activity because of
the Super Bowl. Project
also sponsored by SOAP
(Save Our Adolescents
from Prostitution) and
the NJ Coalition Against
Human Trafficking. 50
Eisenhower Drive. (201)
820-3900 or www.jfnnj.
org.
Summer camp fair
in East Hanover:
Sensational Summers
holds the New Jersey
Summer Camp Fair at the
East Hanover Ramada
Inn & Conference Center,
featuring representatives
from many camps;
noon-3 p.m.. The first
100 families to mention
the Jewish Standard and
bring this listing get a
free gift. 130 Route 10
West. www.njcampfairs.
com.
Ice skating: Chabad of
Passaic County offers
Kids in Action, for 6-
to 12-year-olds, at the
Chabad Center, 194
Razter Road in Wayne,
1 p.m. Afterward, they
have lunch and go to the
Ice Vault for skating. Pick
up at the skating rink,
10 Nevins Road, Wayne.
(973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Bowling: The Friendship
Circle of Passaic County
offers a bowling league
for special needs
children at Holiday Bowl
in Oakland and Van
Houten Lanes in Clifton,
noon-1 p.m. Volunteers
will be on hand to help.
$5. 564 Van Houten Ave.
(973) 694-6274 or www.
FCPassaicCounty.com.
Film in Woodcliff Lake:
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley screens
The Heritage, winner of
three Israeli film awards,
7 p.m. Part of Jewish
Federation of North
Jerseys One Book, One
Community programs.
87 Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801.
Film in Franklin Lakes:
As part of its Israel
Film Series, Barnert
Temple presents The
Syrian Bride, 7 p.m.
747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800 or www.
barnerttemple.org.
Morton Klein
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ZOA president in
Teaneck: Morton Klein,
the Zionist Organization
of Americas national
president, discusses Iran
Nuclear Deal: Progress or
Peril? at Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun, 7:30 p.m.
641 West Englewood
The Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust in Manhattan, in collaboration with Salon/Sanctuary
Concerts and the Primo Levi Center, presents From Ghetto
to Palazzo Exploring the Life and Works of Italian Jewish
Composer Salamone Rossi, at the museum, this Sunday, 2:30-6 p.m.
Featuring the award-winning Profeti della Quinta vocal ensemble and the
2012 Joseph Rochlitz documentary Hebreo: In Search of Salamone Rossi.
Violinists Leah Nelson and Lisa Rautenberg and theorbo player Daniel
Swenberg will open the day with a performance of Rossi trio sonatas,
followed by a short discussion with noted Rossi expert Dr. Francesco
Spagnolo, who will offer insights into Rossis historical context. 36 Battery
Place. (646)437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org, or www.salonsanctuary.org.
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424-1825 or lfein@zoa.
org.
Monday
JANUARY 27
Networking in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
joins with Beth Rishon
of Wyckoff and Beth
Haverim Shir Shalom
of Mahwah for a job
networking program;
Barnert hosts at
6:30 p.m. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1800.
Tuesday
JANUARY 28
Networking in
Springfield: The Jewish
Business Network
meets for breakfast at
Temple Shaarey Shalom,
8:30 a.m. 78 South
Springfield Ave. www.
jbusinessnetwork.net or
(973) 379-5387.
Hebrew reading in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley offers intermediate
Hebrew reading at a
nearby office complex,
noon, and a beginner
course at the shul,
87 Overlook Drive, at
1:30 p.m. (201) 391-0801
or events@tepv.org.
Wednesday
JANUARY 29
Preschool parent
workshop in Tenafly:
Lubavitch on the
Palisades Preschool hosts
Building Confidence
and Self- Esteem in Our
Children by psychologist
Nancy Zwiebach,
8:15 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, ext. 505.
Thursday
JANUARY 30
Author speaking:
Englewood author Susan
Gold reads excerpts from
her new book, Norilsk:
A Tale of Suspense in the
Time of the Oligarchs,
at the Englewood Public
Library, 7:15 p.m. Her
first book, The Eyes Are
the Same, a Holocaust
memoir, was published
in 2007. 31 Engle St.
(201) 568-2215 or www.
englewoodlibrary.org.
Discussing breast
cancer: Dr. Laura
Klein, medical director
of the breast center
at the Valley Hospital
in Ridgewood, offers
information on the
latest in breast cancer
treatment options
including surgery
and reconstruction
techniques, radiation
therapy, chemotherapy,
targeted therapies, and
hormonal therapy, at the
Bergen County YJCC in
Washington Township,
7 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610,
(800) Valley1, or www.
valleyhealth.com/events.
Interfaith relationships:
Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake continues
its Keruv series, Keeping
in Touch, with a
discussion, Interfaith in
Times of Crisis and Loss,
led by Rabbi Leanna
Moritt, at a private
home, 7:30 p.m. The
program was developed
by the Federation of
Jewish Mens Clubs to
help couples, parents,
extended families, and
synagogues deal with
interfaith relationships
and marriage, (201) 391-
0801 or keruvte@aol.
com.
Interfaith Bible study:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center and the Good
Shepherd Lutheran
Church of Glen Rock
begin Psalms: Poetry of
the Soul, an interfaith
Bible study program, at
the church, 233 South
Highwood Ave., 7:30 p.m.
Bring a Bible. Program
continues February 27 at
the shul. (201) 652-6624
or rabbi@grjc.org.
Friday
JANUARY 31
Childrens performance
in Tenafly: Lubavitch on
the Palisades presents
Choosing to be
Leaders, a performance
by LOTP elementary
school students,
9:30 a.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152, ext. 505.
Games in Washington
Township: The Bergen
YJCC offers Game On,
a day of games including
mah jong, bridge,
canasta, and Scrabble,
with breakfast, lunch,
and raffles, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Carol Berliner and Karen
Feltman are event chairs.
Proceeds benefit YJCC
programs. (201) 666-
6610, ext. 5812.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
Ruach Shabbat, led
by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 1
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
offers tot Shabbat led
by Roberta Seltzer, with
songs, props, stories,
and a giant siddur, and
a family service led by
education director Cory
Chargo, 10:30 a.m. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 947-
1735.
Havdalah in Closter:
Temple Beth El invites
families with children,
2 to 5, to Pajama
Havdalah, with art
project and pizza, 4 p.m.
Wear pajamas. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Chaya Newman
Memorial lecture in
Elizabeth: Bruriah
High School hosts a
lecture in memory of
Chaya Newman, its
longtime principal,
8 p.m. Rebbetzin Esther
Jungreis, founder of
Hineni International,
will discuss Turning
Negatives Into
Positives and sign
books. Refreshments.
Rescheduled from
December. 35 North
Ave. in Elizabeth. (908)
355-4850, ext. 6214, or
Bruriah.theJEC.org.
Singles
Sunday
JANUARY 26
Brunch/discussion:
North Jersey Jewish
Singles (40s-60s) at the
Clifton Jewish Center
hosts a bagels and
conversation brunch
with musical tables,
11:30 a.m. $15. Optional
film at shul at 2 p.m.
Karen, (973) 772-3131 or
join North Jersey Jewish
Singles 45-60s, at www.
meetup.com.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 1
Winter party: The
Mosaic Outdoor
Mountain Club of Greater
New York holds a winter
party at Ansche Chesed
in Manhattan, 7-11:30 p.m.
Doors open at 6:45.
Square dancing with
professional caller, a
live band, Girls on Top,
snacks, and games. $25
at the door. Register in
advance to volunteer for
a discounted admission
fee. 251 West 100th St.
(212) 502-0820 or www.
mosaic-gny.org.
Defiance to screen in Tenafly
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades and the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
host a screening of Defiance with spe-
cial guest Brenda Weisman, the daughter
of Aron Bielski, the films real-life hero, on
Sunday, January 26, at 4:45 p.m., at the
JCC.
Bielski was a key leader in Eastern
Polands resistance movement.
Planned as a family event for parents
and post bnai-mitzvah-aged children,
the evening includes pizza and salad (all
dietary laws strictly observed), followed
by the film screening at 5:30. Weisman
will speak and answer questions following
the movie.
The evening costs $18 per person in
advance; $25 at the door. All proceeds
benefit Holocaust awareness and edu-
cation. Sponsorship packages available.
Send checks payable to Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, 50 Eisenhower
Drive, Paramus, NJ 07652.
For information, email Karen Farber,
kfarber33@gmail.com; Dana Runyon,
drunyon123@gmail.com, or JoAnn Good-
stein, joanng@jfnnj.org, or go to www.
jfnnj.org/defiance.
Game On in Washington Township
The Bergen County YJCC hosts Game
On, an opportunity to join friends and
play favorite games, on Friday, January
31 at the YJCC, 605 Pascack Road, Wash-
ington Township. The day begins at 9:30
a.m. with a continental breakfast. Games
including mah jong, bridge, canasta,
and Scrabble are from 10 to 1 p.m., when
lunch is served. There also will be raffles.
It costs $45 per person with proceeds ben-
efiting YJCC programs. Co-chairs are Carol
Berliner and Karen Feltman. For informa-
tion, call Jill Brown at (201) 666-6610, ext.
5812.
Oran Etkin DUSAN RELJIN
Multigenerational
event at museum
The Jewish Museum presents Pattern
Palooza Family Day, a fun-filled multi-
generational event celebrating the
exhibition three ASFOUR: MER KA
BA, on Sunday, January 26, from noon
to 4 p.m. Activities include two per-
formances by world music artist Oran
Etkin, a huge drop-in art workshop,
and family tours. This event is free
with museum admission. The program
is for children ages 3 and older; adults
are asked to accompany their children.
Call (212) 423-3200 or go to TheJewish-
Museum.org/specialfamilydays.

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Mitzvah Mall remembers
Hurricane Sandy victims
The Good People Fund will return to Barnert Temples
Mitzvah Mall on January 26 to raise more money for
people who still are recovering from Superstorm Sandy.
Last year, Franklin Lakes Mayor Frank Bivona, center,
participated in the annual event, which raised more than
$26,000 for Sandy Relief.
Cafe night in Fair Lawn
features the Kennedys
The Kennedys guitarist Pete and vocalist Maura will per-
form on Saturday, January 25, at 8 p.m., at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel. The duo have per-
formed at presidential inaugurations and have toured exten-
sively throughout the United States, Great Britain, Ireland,
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ruary 2-23, in Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Ave., on YUs
Wilf Campus in upper Manhattan. The sale is operated
entirely by YU students, from ordering to setting up, mar-
keting, and all the technology the project entails.
The Judaica book sale draws more than 15,000 people
on average from the tristate area and provides discounted
prices on the latest of more than 10,000 titles in rabbinic
and academic literature, cookbooks, and childrens books.
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Super winning recipes
for the game ... or not
BETH CHANANIE
With Super Bowl XLVIII only a bit more
than a week away and anticipation build-
ing (especially because this year it is right
here in Secaucus) fans are planning their
annual SB get-togethers.
Excitement is all around us. Remember,
not everyone is a fan, so perhaps there are
those who invite friends over for a movie
instead. However you decide to celebrate,
or not, here are some delicious and easy
recipes for SB or anytime gatherings. Try
to cook healthy. For example, one can
surely substitute reduced fat hot dogs for
full fat ones. Serve plenty of raw vegeta-
bles and less chips. As noted below, pop-
corn is a great low calorie option.
Whatever you do, whether you are the
host or guest, just remember to enjoy,
laugh, and try not to overeat and never
drink and drive. Go team!!!
Another nice recipe comes from a newer GRJC: Great Recipes from Jewish
Cooks! which debuted last year from the Glen Rock Jewish Center. I think
this Claremont Diner salad would be a great accompaniment to whatever
one is serving.
Claremont Diner Salad
1 medium head cabbage, shredded
2 cucumbers, thinly sliced
3 carrots, thinly sliced
1 Bermuda onion, thinly sliced
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 tablespoons water
3 teaspoons salt
Combine cabbage, cucumbers, carrots, and onion in a large bowl. In a small
bowl, whisk together the vinegar, oil, water, and salt. Pour over the cabbage
mixture, toss and coat and refrigerate for at least 12 hours. Drain excess liquid
before serving. Variation: Cut and add one large green pepper cut into small
pieces. Marinate overnight and mix well before serving.
Power Packed Popcorn Sports Bars
Fiber and protein from nutritious ingredients
in a handy crispy bar and without corn syrup.
Yield: 12 bars
Ingredients
2 quarts popped popcorn
1/2 cup sliced almonds
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots
1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
1/2 cup roasted soy nuts (or shelled sunflower seeds)
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
2/3 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line a 13x9-inch pan with foil and spray lightly with
cooking spray; set aside. Place popcorn, almonds, coconut, apricots, cranberries
and soy nuts in a large bowl; set aside.
In a small saucepan, heat butter, honey, brown sugar, vanilla and salt over medium
heat. Stir to blend and bring to a boil. Boil 2 minutes, stirring constantly; pour over
popcorn mixture.
Stir to blend all ingredients and pour into foil-lined pan.
With damp hands, press mixture lightly and evenly into pan. Bake 30 minutes or
until lightly browned.
Cool in pan at least 3 hours before cutting into rectangles to serve. Wrap individu-
ally in plastic wrap and store in an airtight container up to 2 weeks.
The Popcorn Board (www.popcorn.org) shared some yummy recipes. Ac-
cording to the company, Game Day snacking is an art form with planning and
preparation as elaborate as some holiday feasts. People roast chicken wings,
carve cold cuts, stuff sandwiches, mash avocadoes, chop vegetables, and
serve lots of snacks and desserts. Game day snacking requires creativity and
variety to satisfy all. They suggest including healthful snacks like one of these
popcorn recipes from the Popcorn Board. Whole-grain popcorn is naturally
low in fat and calories and contains energy-producing carbohydrates to keep
one going all day long this way, one can cheer on their team even into over-
time! www.popcorn.org.
Sriracha Lime Popcorn
3 quarts popped popcorn
1/2 teaspoon minced lime zest
2 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1 tablespoon hot chili sriracha sauce
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
Place popcorn in a large bowl and sprinkle with lime zest.
Mix butter or margarine, sriracha sauce, and lime juice. Drizzle over popcorn
and toss. Sprinkle with salt, toss again, and serve.
From Kids Cooking Made Easy
Favorite Triple-Tested Recipes, (Mesorah
Publications 2013), the latest in a series by
Leah Schapira & Victoria Dwek, comes a
fabulous recipe for Hot Dog Garlic Knots.
You can be sure this will be a crowd-
pleasing favorite.
Hot Dog Garlic Knots
Yield 36 knots
1 3/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast
1 tablespoon oil
23 cup water
6 hot dogs, each cut into 6 pieces
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons parsley flakes
pinch salt
In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, sugar, yeast, oil, and water. Knead until
smooth. Add 1 additional tablespoon of water if necessary. You can use your
hands or knead the dough with an electric mixer.
Grease a bowl with nonstick cooking spray. Place dough in bowl, cover with
plastic wrap or a clean towel, and let rise for 35-40 minutes. You can keep it in
the mixer bowl or place it in a separate bowl.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Divide dough into 4 parts. Cut each part into 9 pieces. Stretch each piece into a
rectangle and wrap it around a piece of hot dog. Tie a knot at the top, and tuck
the two ends underneath. You can also simply wrap the dough around the hot
dog. Place wrapped hot dogs on prepared baking sheet. Bake for 18-22 minutes
until golden brown.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine olive oil, garlic powder, parsley, and salt.
Toss hot dogs in garlic mixture as soon as they come out of the oven.
Most dough that contains yeast needs to rise before it is baked. Place your
dough into a large greased bowl in a warm spot in your kitchen. You should
cover it with plastic wrap or a clean dishtowel so it doesnt form a crust. Youll
see the dough growing bigger and bigger as the yeast creates air bubbles in-
side it. Be patient!
To save a step, you can use store-bought dough or take a piece of your moms
challah dough to wrap up your hot dogs.
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He was an Army veteran of
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of sergeant.
Predeceased by his wife, Rae,
ne Karas, he is survived by a
daughter, Sheri Dougan (Tom) of
Fair Lawn; a sister, Ethel Gold-
stein; two grandchildren, and one
great-grandson.
Donations can be made to the
American Heart Fund. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Dr. Herbert Breite
Dr. Herbert J. Breite, 77, of Wayne,
died on January 14.
Born in Poland, he survived the
Holocaust after being imprisoned
in a concentration camp at age
6. He came to America with his
parents when he was 13 and served
in the United States Marine Corps
in 1955, graduated Hunter Col-
lege, and went to medical school
at the University of Heidelberg in
Germany.
He was the head of emergency
room medicine at the Robert
Packer Hospital/Guthrie Clinic in
Sayre, Pa., for more than 22 years.
In 1981, he enlisted in the United
States Army Reserve and retired as
a lieutenant colonel. During Opera-
tion Desert Storm, he worked in
emergency medicine at Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington D.C.,
and received many awards, includ-
ing the National Defense Service
and Army Reserve Components
Achievement medals and the Army
Service Ribbon.
Predeceased by a son, Benja-
min, he is survived by his wife of
52 years, Ina, a daughter, Rachel
Breite of Nutley, and a son, Harley
( Jane de Santana) of Wayne.
Arrangements were by Jewish
Memorial Chapel, Clifton.
Raymond Hopp
Raymond H. Hopp, 72, of Montvale,
formerly of Englewood, died on
January 14.
A graduate of Marietta College,
he was chairman of the board at HK
Metalcraft Corporation, continuing
the work of his father and grandfa-
ther. His son, Joshua, was named
president of the firm in December.
He was a Bnai Brith Man of the
Year and was active in the Precision
Metalforming Association, serving as
its chairman.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy,
children, Charles, Robert, Lori,
Marc, and Joshua; a sister, Barbara
Grossman; and nine grandchildren.
Services were at Temple Avodat
Shalom in River Edge. Donations
can be sent to Tri-Boro Volunteer
Ambulance Corps, Park Ridge, or
the Lustgarten Foundation. Arrange-
ments were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Sheldon Klein
Sheldon Klein of Delray Beach, Fla.,
died on January 13.
Born in 1930, he was a U.S. Army
veteran of the Korean War and was
self-employed in the machine tool
business.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Abraham Morris
Abraham Morris, 88, of Walnut
Creek, Calif., formerly of Bellevue,
Wash., died on January 17.
Born and raised in Hoboken, he
served as a Marine in the Pacific
Theater during World War II.
He is survived by his wife,
Rozelle, children, Marlene Morris
(Paul Steckel), and Ron (Shelley),
all of California, and Sharon Nev-
ins (Ted) of Tenafly; a sister, Irene
Massarsky of Fort Lee; and four
grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to a
charity of your choice.
Services were held in California.
Leonard Rothstein
Leonard H. Rothstein of Paramus
died on January 13.
Born in Brooklyn, he was a U.S.
Army veteran. He attended the
Rochester Institute of Technology
and owned a textile business.
Predeceased by a sister, Susie, he
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Finkelstein, sons, Jeffrey and Steven
(Cindy); and two grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to
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of America, New York, N.Y., or the
Alzheimers Association. Arrange-
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Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
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on January 16. He was an educa-
tor in New York and New Jersey
for 35 years and also an artist with
his ceramic works featured in art
shows and collections. He authored
a play, The Leaf about his mother,
a Holocaust survivor, which was
performed by Passaic High School
students in 2012; the play will be rec-
reated and performed in his honor
in the coming year.
He is survived by his wife, Iris
Coleman, a daughter, Moriah Weiss-
man, and a sister, Natalie Weissman.
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n 1 The Gozalim class at Gan
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n 2 The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel held A
Modern Response to Hunger and
Food Waste in the Land of Milk and
Honey last week with Lauren Yoked,
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ty High School of Jewish Studies led
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terwoven relationship between an in-
dividual and a community. To illustrate
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Holy Name opens nuclear medicine suite with the latest technology
Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck has
established a new nuclear medicine suite
in its radiology department. The advanced
facility, which opened to patient care in
late December, features late-generation
technology and upgraded software sys-
tems that minimize radiation exposure
and expedite the testing process: half the
dose, in half the time.
The 2,700-square-foot space was
designed with an eye to safety, efficiency,
and aesthetics. The goal was to create an
imaging experience that delivers exqui-
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possible dose of radiation, in an environ-
ment that is convenient for both patients
and staff, and provides all necessary ser-
vices in one self-contained area. The suite
contains two nuclear imaging machines
(SPECTCT and SPECT only), patient
exam and consult space, a waiting area
with Wi-Fi, a dedicated physician image
interpretation station, private patient
bathrooms, and patient locker rooms.
Interior finishes include the use of hospi-
tal-grade wood finishes, a soothing color
scheme, and back-lit nature scenes on the
ceiling above the testing table.
The centerpiece of the new nuclear
medicine suite is the Symbia TruePoint
SPECTCT system from Siemens Medical
Solutions, a nuclear imaging device that,
paired with upgraded software, produces
exquisitely detailed images by combining
single-photo emission computer tomog-
raphy (SPECT) with computed tomogra-
phy (CT). SPECTCT allows physicians
to obtain more detailed information
and increased image clarity in a single,
non-invasive procedure than is possible
with separate SPECT and CT procedures.
The resulting scans enable physicians to
detect diseases and abnormalities ear-
lier, and target treatments with greater
precision.
Holy Name is the only hospital in Bergen
County to offer combined SPECTCT.
The SPECT portion of the test requires
injection of a radiopharmaceutical that
contains a weak dose of radiation to target
molecules specific to a particular disease
before changes in structure (i.e., tumors)
become visible. A gamma camera creates
images of the area(s) of interest and iden-
tifies hot spots that indicate the location
and extent of disease, such as increased
metabolic activity characteristic of cancer.
This information is combined with the
anatomical details obtained through CT
scan technology to pinpoint the location
of abnormal cells.
At Holy Name, physicians are using
SPECTCT to diagnose cancer and detect
metastases, find infections of unknown
origin, and determine the status of prob-
lematic prosthetic implants for orthope-
dic patients. Scans that formerly required
patients to lie motionless for extended
periods are significantly abbreviated with
the new technology. For example, an
oncology study that previously took two
hours and 25 minutes can now be per-
formed in one hour and 10 minutes.
Bethlehem, the winner of seven 2013
awards from the Israel Film Academy, will be
the featured presentation at AMITs Second
Annual Night of Israeli Cinema on Saturday
evening, February 8.
The screening will be at 8 p.m. at Tribeca
Cinemas, 54 Varick St., Manhattan and all
proceeds will benefit the more than 28,000
students enrolled in the AMIT network of
schools and programs in Israel. This will be
an exclusive sneak preview of Bethlehem,
which has been honored at film festivals
abroad and was submitted by Israel for con-
sideration as an Academy Award nominee.
In the Name of God, a film produced
by the students of the AMIT Atidim High
School in Or Akiva, which won third place
in the Haifa Student Film Festival, also will
be screened.
Bethlehem tells the story of the com-
plex relationship between an Israeli Secret
Service officer and his teenage Palestinian
AMIT presents night of Israeli cinema with Bethlehem preview
informant. Shuttling back and forth
between conflicting points of view, the
film is a raw portrayal of characters torn
apart by competing loyalties and impos-
sible moral dilemmas. The film pro-
vides an unparalleled glimpse into the
dark and fascinating world of human
intelligence.
Bethlehem was named Best Film of
2013 by the Israel Film Academy, and its
director, its two screenwriters, its edi-
tor, its casting directors, and its two stars
won awards as well.
In the Name of God follows a young
charedi man who enlists in the army
against the strong objections of his fam-
ily, especially his father. Some 450 stu-
dents at Ait Or Akiva participate in the
schools film program, which includes
the various aspects of filmmaking such
as writing, filming, casting and editing.
Or Akiva is a depressed development
town with a host of socioeconomic prob-
lems, and the students films often show
the everyday struggles they and their
families encounter.
Tickets to the AMIT Night of Israeli
Cinema are $66, with additional sponsor-
ship opportunities available. Admission
includes popcorn, soda, and a dessert
reception after the films.
For reservations, go to www.amitchil-
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477-4725, email her at robinr@amit-
children.org, or call Amy Oppenheim
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JulieDance Nutcracker production
raises funds for cancer research
This years JulieDance and Donetsk Bal-
lets presentation of The Nutcracker
raised $33,500 in support of pediatric
cancer, research, care and treatment
The production has become a Bergen
County tradition, affording young danc-
ers from Miss Pattis School of Dance an
exceptional opportunity to perform in a
professional production with one of the
worlds leading ballet companies and
raise money for an important cause.
JulieDance is dedicated to fostering
appreciation for and participation in
dance and music, and supporting the
research and treatment of childhood
cancer.
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