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Animating a Japanese
invasion (of tourists)
Making the case for
Jewish Halloween costumers
l Were not big trick-or-treaters ourselves, but we certainly respect the true
masters of costumery.
No question about it: Prize for best
costume, Halloween 5765 edition, goes
to a portrayal of a popular and Jewish
take-no-prisoners Supreme Court

justice.
As mom Kate Livingston wrote to the
Huffington Post when she submitted this
picture: Our 12-week-old son Sycamore
is his favorite feminist action figure, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg!
Larry Yudelson

Where there is no rhino-vision,

Israelis innovate
l Tanda can see clearly now.

The pain is gone.

Tanda, 22, is a two-ton
rhinoceros. And after 14 years at
the Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan Zoo, the
South African native Tanda can
now appreciate the bright, sunshiny
days of her adopted home, thanks
to zoo staffer Neta Gueta, who
figured out how to treat the rhinos
chronic eye infection.
The problem was that flies
would lay eggs in Tandas eyes,
and that inflamed her eyelids,
causing the chronic condition.
Conventional medications and
treatments failed to work.
But Guetas innovation, a
custom-made adaptation of an
equestrian fly mask, did the trick.
She says she thought up the idea
of using the enormous face mask to
stop flies from laying eggs in Tandas
eye after seeing a similar device work
for horses suffering from a related
condition.
Gueta used special netting that
allows flies to stand on it while
preventing them from laying their
eggs inside. Despite skepticism from
the zoos veterinarians, Gueta says
she continued working on the mask

l If you want to sell, you have to speak

the language of your customers.
So the surprising thing may be
that it took this long for the Israeli
embassy in Tokyo to produce a
series of videos promoting travel to
Israel, in the anime style of Japanese
animation most familiar to American
parents from Pokemon cartoons.
Tourism from Japan certainly needs
a boost: The country doesnt even
rate among Israels 21 highest provider
of visitors. (The bottom slot, at least
in 2011, was held by South Korea.)
But did the video really need a
mascot, Shalom Chan, that looks like
a cross between a dove and an egg?
And the dancing dolphin? The
repeated draining of wine glasses by
the two Japanese sisters who travel
to Israel in the video?

Weve never claimed to be experts

on Japanese culture, so who knows.
According to Ynet, the embassy
says its working: The feedback
were getting for the project is
unprecedented. The show is receiving
massive media attention all across
Japan. The main goal is to showcase
the lighter and original aspects of
Israeli society all the while paying
homage and respect to Japanese
popular culture.
We havent actually watched the
full seven-minute video all the way to
the end, so we cant vouch for how
crazy it gets. Giant tentacled monster
at the Kotel? Youll have to watch the
video for yourself to know for sure.
You can find it on our Facebook page
at facebook.com/JewishStandard
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rabbi debra orenstein

until the finished product was ready.

Tanda was slowly introduced to
the mask by wearing it for short
spurts at a time. Now the enormous
patient waits for Gueta to arrive in the
morning to put the see-through mask
over her face for the entire day.
Before this innovative device was
ready, Tanda would rub her eyes
on rough tree bark, which would
only exacerbate the infection. Now,
though, her face is a no-fly zone.
Viva Sarah Press / Israel21c.org
Larry Yudelson

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Noshes

She is not going to worry about it and

expects it to go away.
An anonymous source close to 24-year-old rapper Iggy Azalea, who suffered a
wardrobe malfunction when her pants split while she was performing at a Beverly
Hills bar mitzvah party. Reported price tag for the party was $450,000.

MOVIE NEWS:

Whiplash hits
a high note
Whiplash, which
opens in nearby theaters today, already
has earned rave reviews
from tough critics like
A. O. SCOTT of the New
York Times. Miles Teller
(who has one Jewish
grandparent), stars
as Andrew Neiman, a
19-year-old (Jewish) jazz
drummer who attends a
top conservatory. There
he becomes the protg
of Terence Fletcher (J.K.
Simmons), a very tough
conductor. He uses every
psychological trick he
can to turn Neiman into
a perfect drummer (including, once, referring
to Neiman as a Hymie).
Neimans proficiency
soars, but the rest of his
life, including his love life,
suffers. His personality
changes so much that it
provokes a rebuke from
his very mild-mannered
father, a failed writer
(PAUL REISER, 57). The
film was written and
directed by Damien
Chazelle, 30. Expect to
hear a lot more from him
in the future. His father,
Bernard, is a Princeton
University computer
scientist. (I dont think he
is Jewish; but I am still
checking sources.)
Laggies was released
a couple of weeks ago
to mostly good reviews.
More likely than not, it
will be hard to find it in
a theater near you. Look

for on-demand/DVD
releases. It stars Keira
Knightley as Megan, a
28-year-old without a
career or a direction.
When her high school
boyfriend proposes, she
panics and hides out
at the home of Annika
(Chlo Grace Moretz), a
teenage friend, and Annikas world-weary single
dad (Sam Rockwell).
JEFF GARLIN, 52, has a
supporting role. A close
friend sent me this Jewish geography email
about novelist ANDREA
SEIGEL, 36, who wrote
the book that Laggies
is based upon as well
as the Laggies screenplay: She grew up in
Irvine [CA], had her bat
mitzvah at Temple Bat
Yahm, and graduated
from Brown.
Variety reports that
SETH ROGEN, 32, has
been picked to play
Apple co-founder Steven Wozniak in a biopic based on the 2011
WALTER ISAACSON
biography, Steve Jobs
which, of course, was
about Apples other
founder. Wozniak, by
the way, is not Jewish.
His paternal grandfather, whose last name he
bears, was Polish Catholic. The rest of his varied
European ancestry isnt
Jewish either. A friend
pointed out a funny
thing: there have been

Paul Reiser

Jeff Garlin
Lisa Kudrow

Kudrow returns

Seth Rogen

Joshua Bell

three major film depictions of Wozniak (including the upcoming film).

Wozniak has been played
in each by a Jewish actor
we couldnt think of
a similar casting trifecta
involving a real person.
The first was the original
1999 TNT movie, Pirates
of Silicon Valley, and
he was played by JOEY
SLOTNICK, now 46. Last
year, there was the movie
Jobs, in which Ashton
Kutcher played Steve
Jobs and JOSH GAD, 33,
played Woz.
JOSHUA BELL, 46, often
is called the worlds
greatest violinist. He
recently spoke to
the Sun-Sentinel newspaper in connection with
a Florida concert. About
doing a free workshop

for school kids before

the concert, Bell said:
You have to credit my
Jewish upbringing about
the importance of doing
mitzvot, that reflects how
grateful I am to be a musician. My piano teacher
(Russian Jewish violinist
JOSEPH GINGOLD) gave
me advice and taught
me the beauty of music as I became idolized
by the great violinists
such as MISCHA ElLMAN [also Jewish], who
was a contemporary of
Gingold. Bell has played
with the Israeli Philharmonic. About Israel and
his violin, he said: I am
forever recognized by
Israel as the violinist
who plays with BRONISLAW HUBERMANS 1713
Stradivarius [Huberman

The HBO series Comeback, which ran for one

13-episode season in 2005, makes an eight (new) episode
return to HBO on Sunday evening, November 9. LISA
KUDROW, 51, returns as sit-com actress Valerie Cherish.
In the original show, Cherish was a former sitcom star
who was trying to make a comeback on a new sitcom,
but was relegated to a secondary role. Meanwhile, her
comeback was being documented by a reality show.
The new series begins with Cherish trying to peddle a
new reality show to Bravo. Shortly thereafter, the action
turns to the evil producer of Cherishs 2005 comeback
sitcom. Hes trying to sell HBO a barely fictional series
about a neurotic has-been actress, like Cherish, and her
relations with a sitcom producer. The Comeback was
co-created and is co-written by Kudrow.
N.B.

was the founder of the

Israel Philharmonic]. I am
deeply respectful of the
beauty and the rich history of my violin. About
the tune, Baal Shem:
Simchat Torah, which appeared on a 2013 CD he

made, Bell said: Simchat

Torah is a time of rejoicing and I wanted to share
the happy emotions that
are celebrated on the
Jewish holiday.
N.B.

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Harmony from the holy brother
Celebrating Shlomo Carlebach across Bergen County on his 20th yarzheit
JOANNE PALMER

hlomo Carlebach was such a

huge figure such a charismatic, driven, talented, beloved,
inspired, inspirational, detested,
brilliant, intuitive, lonely man, such an
incarnation of music and soul and longing
and needs, so apparently without boundaries that although he was deeply Jewish, Jewish to his neurons and synapses,
Jewish with every breath he took it is
hard not to think of him as Shakespearean
as well.
As Julius Caesar, in fact.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a colossus. He did. But it
seems that now, 20 years after his death,
his fate will be the opposite of Caesars; in
fact, the good that he did will live far longer than he did his melodies are used in
shuls across the Jewish spectrum across
the Jewish world and are the soundtrack

for much of Jewish life and the evil, we

hope, is interred with his bones.
(There is more about his failures the
allegations of sexual abuse that dogged

him in whisper form throughout much of

his life and surfaced in detail soon after he
died later in the story.)
The local community will look at Reb

Shlomos legacy (we can try to call him

Rabbi Carlebach, but it looks all wrong) in
Give Me Harmony, billed as a tribute to
him on his 20th yarzheit. The celebration
will begin on Friday, November 7, at many
local shuls; it will continue on Friday,
November 14, again at many shuls; and
will conclude after havdalah on Saturday
night, November 15, at Temple Emeth in
Teaneck. (See box for more information.)
To start at the beginning, who was Reb
Shlomo?
Shlomo Carlebach was born into an
Orthodox rabbinic family in Berlin in 1925,
and moved to New York with his family in 1939. He was a brilliant student; he
studied, among other places, at the Bais
Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, where he
was highly valued by the rosh yeshiva,
Rabbi Aharon Kotler in fact, Rabbi Kotler is said to have called Reb Shlomo one
of the best students he ever had. Shlomo
eventually left the yeshiva world, where a

You gotta have soul

Soulfarms Noah Solomon Chase learned from his neighbor, Shlomo Carlebach
LARRY YUDELSON
Noah Solomon Chase, whose Carlebach-influenced band Soulfarm will
perform a benefit in Passaic on Sunday, doesnt ever remember not being
musical.
As a child in the mid 1970s, he sang
on the first album of the diaspora
Yeshiva Band his father, Ben Zion SolSoulfarms C. Lanzbom and Noah
omon, was the violist and a founder of
Solomon Chase
what was the first Orthodox Jewish rock
group. Born in northern California, Mr.
would be there. The quiet moshav would
Chase grew up in Moshav Modiin, the
turn into a festival.
Israeli farming village founded by Rabbi
As a teen, Mr. Chase started taking his
Shlomo Carlebach and his followers.
music seriously and took guitar lessons.
I grew up in studios and with musicians playing in my house, he said. In
When he was 16, Rabbi Carlebach saw
fact, Rabbi Carlebach was his next-door
him practicing outside and then called
neighbor.
him up on stage to play with him. Then
The community was known as the
the rabbi took him along for a concert at
Carlebach moshav, but the rabbi didnt
an army base for female soldiers.
really settle there. He was traveling his
Its pretty cool to see 2000 girls dancing to your music, he said. It helped
whole life, Mr. Chase said. He died on
solidify my idea to become a musician.
an airplane, which tells you something.
A few years later, he moved to New
During the summer, Rabbi Carlebach
York.
would spend a month or two at the
Shlomo called me and asked me to
moshav, and he would come occasionally throughout the year, Mr. Chase said.
play with him. For the last two years
It would be a Shlomo Shabbos when
before his death in 1994 I was his guitar player. I played with him all the time.
he came, he said. Hundreds of people

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The roots of Soulfarm, though, were

born back in Israel, when he met C. Lanzbom hes been going by C since he
was a little kid at a Purim party.
(Mr. Lanzbom will be part of the
Shlomo Carlebach tribute concert in
Teaneck next Saturday night.)
We started jamming there, Mr. Chase
said. It kind of clicked very quickly.
I was a little bit enamored of him. He
was a kind of superstar guitar player in
Israel. When he came and played on
the moshav, that was a big deal. I was
younger. When he heard me sing, he
said, You have a great voice.
We started getting together once a
week and writing and recording.
Roughly 20 years later, theyre still
getting together once a week, although
Mr. Chase lives in Riverdale, N.Y., and
Mr. Lanzbom lives further upstate, in
Pomona.
They put out their first album as Inasense in 1996. It featured a Chabad niggun alongside original numbers. There
is a strong Grateful Dead vibe to their
music; theyve covered the Dead on their
albums, as well as Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, and lots of Carlebach.
Soulfarm is Mr. Chases main project.
For the last ten years he has been playing

the bluegrass mandolin in bluegrass

bands; a hint of the bluegrass has definitely seeped in to the Soul Farm concerts. Irish music as well, he said.
He promises a fun night in Passaic.
Were excited to play, he said. We
havent played in New Jersey for a little
bit of time. We have a bunch of new
tunes were probably going to debut.
Soul Farm will mark its tenth annual
December 24th concert at the Highline
Ballroom in Manhattan.
Looking back, Mr. Chase said that he
learned a lot from Rabbi Carlebach.
The way he delivered music, he
said. It wasnt about him; it was about
the music going through him, about him
becoming the music. Music was a meditation for him, a vehicle to achieve a higher
level of consciousness, a more spiritual
place.
I definitely took a lot from that.
What: Benefit concert sponsored
by the Jewish Family Service and
Childrens Center of Clifton-Passaic
Who: Soulfarm
When: Sunday, November 9, 2 p.m.
Where: YBH-Hillel, 270 Passaic Ave,
Passaic.

Local
stellar career had been predicted
for him, for music, but he also
always deeply loved the study of
Torah and other texts. They were
part of his being, entwined with
his soul.
He moved to the world of
Chabad Lubavitch, where he
began to work in outreach. He and
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
who later came to pre-eminence
in the Jewish Renewal movement
and who died, in July, as another
beloved, innovative, and charismatic leader, but had neither
Reb Shlomos musical genius nor
the depth of his reach became
Chabads first two shlichim, or
outreach emissaries, on college
campuses. They were handpicked by
the Lubavitcher rebbe to do this, Rabbi
Debra Orenstein reported. Rabbi Orenstein heads Congregation Bnai Israel in
Emerson now, but for many years she
worked with Reb Zalman. Everything
that we know about Chabad functions on
campus and everything that Chabad
knows about how to function on campus
grew from that.
Soon, though, Reb Shlomo left the
Chabad world as well, and set out
as a kind of itinerant musician and

Jewish-soul-attractor. He was a musician,

singer, and composer; he was a storyteller;
he was a teacher, and he was a magnet,
picking up lost Jews, as well as Jews who
were lost but didnt look as if they were.
Im not sure that I can see the man,
Rabbi Gerald Friedman said. I see the
myth. I see him larger than life. Rabbi
Friedman, rabbi emeritus of Temple
Beth Sholom of Pascack Valley, has spearheaded the celebration. Rabbi Friedman grew up in the chasidic world, and
although he largely has left that world
his ordination is Conservative he is

a chasid of Reb Shlomos, he said. He

brought me inspiration and joy.
I saw him in the middle 1950s, in
Brooklyn, at Shabsis Pizza in Crown
Heights. A lot of young chasidic people
hung out there he had already made his
break from Chabad. And I was a young
man when I met him in the 1960s, in his
formative years, in Greenwich Village.
He would befriend the brand-new hippies just emerging then. The oilem
the world was made of so many kinds
of people, Rabbi Friedman said. Reb
Shlomo brought them together. College

kids, what he called hippelach,

Holocaust survivors... The coming
together of all these disparate people, that was part of his mission as
a Jewish teacher. He wanted to
break down walls.
Shlomo showed me that I dont
have to be only the way I grew up.
I could be that person plus. He
made you believe that your perceptions and your inner truth had
validity.
He brought intimacy to large
crowds.
When he would talk to you,
he would call you Holy Brother
or Holy Sister, and you would feel
seen. He had an extraordinary
memory, and he had laser intimacy. He didnt just have external charisma and good energy. To him, every Jew
was juicy or should that be Jew-cy
from the beginning.
He gave hope and faith to the Holocaust generation his Yiddish-inflected
English, not the show-business kind,
reminded them of home before the horror and he could reach out to modern
Jews who were looking for renewal.
Not only was Reb Shlomo a musician, he
was a gifted storyteller. He was a maggid,
Rabbi Friedman said. I was able to meet a

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Local
Give me harmony
What: A tribute to Rabbi Shlomo
Carlebach, spanning 2 Friday nights
and 2 Saturday nights.
When: Friday, November 7
Where: Congregation Bnai Israel,
Emerson; dinner and erev Shabbat
services, 6:30 (registration and advance payment necessary)
Where: Fair Lawn Jewish Center;
Kabbalat Shabbat service and oneg,
6:20
When: Saturday, November 8
Where: Congregation Beth Sholom,
Teaneck; Havdalah and melaveh
malka, 5:45
When: Friday, November 14
Where: Carlebach Community of
Teaneck at Netivot Shalom, services,
4:30
Where: Temple Beth Rishon, Wyckoff, erev Shabbat service 6:30
Where: Temple Avodat Shalom,
River Edge, memorial service and
oneg, 8
Where: Temple Emeth, Teaneck, erev
Shabbat services and oneg, 8
Where: Congregation Beth Shalom,
Pompton Lakes, Shabbat eve yarzheit service, 8
Where: Temple Israel/Congregation
Heichal Yisrael, Cliffside Park; erev
Shabbat service and dinner, 8
What: Tribute program
When: Saturday, November 15, 6:30
to 11
Where: Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck
Including: sessions led by local cantors and rabbis; other guests include
Neila Carlebach and Rabbi Chaim
Dalfin; Havdalah, at 8:30, led by
Avram Mlotek, and concert until 10
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maggid in my own lifetime.

It would be wrong to say that Rabbi
Friedman concluded a discussion about
Reb Shlomo. He couldnt. He cant. But
he did say, as the conversation, necessarily, ended, Shlomo Carlebach was not a
breath of fresh air. He was a hurricane.
A whirlwind. And somehow, at the same
time, with intimacy.
A whirlwind.
He was the sweetest singer in Israel.
Ever.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin of Brooklyn, a
Lubavitch chasid and a popular writer
and lecturer, has just written a book about
Shlomo Carlebach. The Real Shlomo
probably has generated more interest than
any other book Ive written, he said, and
hes written about 50 of them. Hes slated
to discuss Reb Shlomo from 1940 to 1965
at the community tribute program at Temple Emeth.
Shlomo Carlebach is greater than
death, Rabbi Dalfin said. He is more alive
today than he was when he was alive. And
its not only his music its what he stands
for. He had a very colorful, one-of-a-kind
personality; he had his feet in two worlds
Chabad and outside it and he was
able to balance.
Shlomo was so loving to every person.
He gave away his shirt and his soul for
another Jew.
One of the issues that separated Reb
Shlomo from Chabad was his breaking
with strict Jewish law about the mechitza
and kol isha. (In other words, the need
for a barrier between men and women at
prayer, and the question of whether men
may hear a womens voice raised in song.)
It was 1954, 1955, and the rebbe said to
him, Look, Shlomo, you cant use the
name Chabad, because we follow halacha,
and you need to hear women sing, and to
hug and kiss them in public. I cant support that, and you cant use our name.
And the Orthodox world told him the
same thing.
He was crushed, and I must say he died
feeling that way, although by the 80s he
made a turn back toward tradition on a
certain level, but the damage was done.
I can tell you from researching Shlomo
that he had a deep-seated anger, but I have
to tell you that it wasnt because he didnt
understand. My humble opinion is that at
heart Shlomo was a very Orthodox Jew.

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Not just because he wore tzitzit and a full

beard, but because his real comfort zone
was Chabad and Lakewood, and if he had
his druthers, he would have been with
those people.
He always traveled with sforim with
Jewish texts. He always traveled with the
deepest learning.
His power over the audience came
from his heart, Rabbi Dalfin continued.
I believe that it was his neshama, his
soul. He allowed his soul to embrace you.

Shlomo
Carlebach was
not a breath of
fresh air. He was
a hurricane.
A whirlwind.
RABBI GERALD FRIEDMAN

Most of us speak and sing with our minds;

Shlomo allowed it to be free-flowing. And
thats also why the hippie culture was so
natural for him.
It came from his heart.
Jay Knopf of Teaneck is a leader of a
Carlebach minyan, and he is on the committee that has put the tribute evening
together. Reb Shlomo had a melody for
every single psalm in Kabbalat Shabbat,
the first part of Friday night services, he
said. There are many for Lecha Dodi, the
culmination of Kabbalat Shabbat, when
the congregation welcomes in the Shabbat
queen; in fact, there are so many that the
minyans custom is to start with one and
end with another. There always is dancing
after Lecha Dodi, and sometimes during the service as well. It depends on the
energy of the room. In fact, whenever
the weather allows, the dancing is outside.
The idea is to bring in the Shabbat queen
with joy.
Thats the effect of Shlomo Carlebachs
music, with its deep emotion that cuts to
the heart.
What is amazing about Rabbi Carlebach is that he means so very much to so
many people, Mr. Knopf said. (His minyan, which meets on Friday nights, mostly

but not only at peoples houses, welcomes newcomers, no matter what their
background. In fact, it is in keeping with
Reb Shlomos outreach that the minyan
welcomes everyone who yearns for Jewish connection. To learn more, email Mr.
Knopf at carlebachteaneck@gmail.com.)
I met Shlomo in 1977, he continued;
he was a teenager then. But its not that
I met him he met me. I was at the Kotel,
and he literally came up to me, hugged
me, and told me to come with him. I didnt
know who he was, but I thought that he
was an interesting man.
What drew the two of them together?
The Kotel is a very spiritual place, and
for some reason he just chose me, out of
everyone there, that night. I walked back
to his house with him, and there were
about 100 people there, for a party.
I dont know why he chose me, but he
looked for people who looked like they
would be open to him.
The two stayed in touch Mr. Knopf
was among the thousands of people with
whom Reb Shlomo would maintain a relationship, he said and when I went to his
funeral, there were lots of homeless people there. They were crying. He was doing
a lot of outreach to the homeless. They
were not Jewish they were just human
beings. He would give them money, he
would give them food and he would talk
to them, and that made them feel better
because it made them feel like people.
He told one of the many stories he
knows about his rebbe.
Reb Shlomo goes to Russia. This was in
the bad old days of the Soviet Union, when
religion could not be practiced behind
the Iron Curtain, although its days were
numbered then. He brings a lot of Jewish
books, tallises, and tefillin. He gives them
all out. When he is leaving, when hes run
out of everything he brought, he gives a
Jew his own personal tallis and tefillin and
yarmulke. Now hes on the plane, coming
home, and a religious man starts yelling at
him. How dare a rabbi go around with no
yarmulke? Shlomo said that he doesnt
get angry at him. He doesnt get angry. But
he says, If only you knew where my yarmulke is.
I gave everything I had to give. I have
nothing left.
He would give his last penny to help a
homeless person, Mr. Knopf said. Thats

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immediately Shlomo said, When youre doing an aliyah,
God takes care of your yerida. When you head upward on
a holy task, in other words, God makes sure that you dont
tumble on the way back down.
Zalmen loved that story, and he told it all the time. He
used it as an example of Shlomos warmth and quickness
of wit, but also for the small miracles that always seemed to
surround him.
Its not so easy to decide whats true and whats not true

about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebachs life. Most people are complicated, so it stands to reason that the bigger you are, the
more space there is for complications. Few people are
entirely good, and it is clear that Reb Shlomo was not among
them. He left victims, and they must be acknowledged.
But he also left a huge legacy of music, stories, and love
for all Jews that we need, possibly even more desperately
now than when he died, 20 years ago. It is that legacy that
will be at the heart of the celebration on Saturday night.

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what he was about.

Buzzy Levine of Teaneck, the owner of Lark Street
Music there and a man who is profoundly knowledgeable about guitars, guitarists, and musicians in general, is also on the committee. Thats because Reb
Shlomo is a great pivotal figure in Jewish history and
in our time, he said.
He knew everyones name. He remembered everyone. He was open to everybody.
The community tribute program, as a look at the list
of performers makes clear, includes Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews, as well as musicians, musicians, and more musicians. Reb Shlomos openness is
serving as a model there. Its a good opportunity to
have an event that appeals to everyone, across all the
lines, Mr. Levine said. We have drawn those lines,
and they have an importance too, but there is a place
for unity.
Right now we need unity.
Alone among the organizers of the tribute, Rabbi
Orenstein admits to feeling some ambivalence.
Shlomo Carlebach had been accused of sexual
abuse of women. Although the accusations were not
compiled and leveled until after his death, and he
therefore had no chance to refute them, there have
been so many stories of harassment and inappropriate behavior, including with very young women, and
those stories have been so consistent, that it is hard for
a thinking person to dismiss them. Of course, the fact
that times and assumptions were different then is true
as well, and duly recognized.
I think that it is important to honor the people who
were harmed, by never minimizing it, Rabbi Orenstein said. Teshuva on the part of the offender always
is possible, and so is forgiveness and understanding
on the victims, but that is the victims gift to withhold
or offer. We are going to have to talk about his mixed
legacy, and the people he harmed, she said. To that
end, the session that she will facilitate will be a chance
for people to share stories.
On the other hand and it is never a hand that
is stronger than the one that protects victims, she
stressed there was real power, charisma, and magic
to Shlomo.
She has two indirect stories about him.
Her father, Jehiel Orenstein, was a Conservative
rabbi. My father had a friendly, joking relationship
with Shlomo, she said. He sometimes also enjoyed
being a gadfly. So the week that I was slated to be
ordained, at the Jewish Theological Seminary, my
father happened to meet Shlomo in the street, in
New York. He said Shlomo, hello, Holy Brother,
Reb Shlomos favorite greeting and Shlomo said,
Whats new by you? My father said, Well, my daughter is being ordained, and waited to see what Shlomos
reaction would be.
Without missing a beat, Shlomo beamed, and said
Wonderful! Another Jew teaching Torah!
The other story came from her rebbe, Zalmen
Schachter-Shalomi; Rabbi Orenstein paraphrased
it from memory. Reb Zalmen and Reb Shlomo, then
both young Chabad shlichim, went to Brandeis, one
of the few campuses that allowed them access. It was
winter, and there was a very icy set of back stairs outside, Rabbi Orenstein said. People warned them not
to go down that way. It was very slippery.
But for some reason, instead of going down the
front stairs, they decided to take the slippery, tricky
back steps. The people who went down before them
fell. It was a disaster. But they went down without a
hitch.
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Letter from Israel

A roomful of heroes
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

ast Wednesday night I entered a room filled

with giants.
Not in the literal sense; some of them,
most notably Natan Sharansky, barely top
my 5-foot-1 stature.
These giants are the refuseniks people who were
grievously persecuted for trying to emigrate from the
Soviet Union during the late 1960s through the late
1980s and the international crew of ordinary Jews
responsible for prying open the Iron Curtain.
Mr. Sharansky, now chairman of the Jewish Agency,
was there with his wife, Avital. Yosef Mendelevich was
there, and Sylva Zalmanson, Dina and Yosef Beilin,
Sasha Luntz, and many others whose harrowing experiences are difficult to imagine when you see them now,
gray-haired and smiling, sitting in a Jerusalem villa sipping tea, nibbling hors doeuvres, and chatting easily in
Hebrew, Russian, and English.
The occasion for this gathering was to honor the memory of Michael Sherbourne, a British citizen who died
last June at 97. Mr. Sherbourne coined the term refusenik in 1971. He knew Russian and assigned himself the
task of phoning refuseniks daily to offer them support
and to update the Western world on their plight.
Over the course of 15 years, he placed, recorded, transcribed, and translated between 5,000 and 6,000 calls
at a time when Internet didnt exist, long-distance calls
werent cheap, and the phone lines were monitored by
the Soviets. Sometimes, uttering the name Sharansky
was enough to get the call disconnected.
Mr. Sharansky related that in his perilous and unpredictable world, the only constant was that phone call
from Mr. Sherbourne. The two men spoke at least 150
times before Mr. Sharansky was imprisoned and cut off
from humanity for the next nine years. This brilliant,
brave freedom fighter not only survived isolation cells
and hard labor, but also outlived Soviet leaders Leonid
Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
I was a senior in high school when Mr. Sharansky was

The phone lines were

monitored by the
Soviets. Sometimes,
uttering the name
Sharansky was
enough to get the call
disconnected.
arrested. By the time he was released, as the result of
unrelenting world pressure, I was married, the mother
of two little boys, whereas he was only then able to join
Avital in Israel to begin their family and their lives in
freedom. Hed been arrested the day after their clandestine wedding.
The ultimately successful campaign to free Soviet

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Natan Sharansky, Sasha Luntz, and Laura Bialis talk at the memorial for Michael Sherbourne.

Jewry was born of grassroots activism in North America

and England by good people dismissively referred to
by the Soviet authorities as students and housewives.
Many powers-that-be predicted that their demonstrations, letter-writing, phone calls, publicity stunts, and
risky visits to the Soviet Union would do more harm
than good. But they persisted until their cause was
championed by the United States government under
Ronald Reagan.
Enid Wurtman was one of the housewives whose
efforts moved mountains. Having made aliyah from Philadelphia in 1977 how could she and her husband stay
in the diaspora when they were fighting so hard for the
right of their fellow Jews to leave it? she remains close
with former refuseniks and activists.
My husband and I got to mingle with this illustrious
group at the invitation of Enid, whom we are honored
to count as a dear friend.
The emcee for the evening was Laura Bialis, a documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles whose award-winning 2007 film Refusenik brought together dissidents
and their saviors to tell this modern story of suffering
and redemption. Like many of the Soviet Jewry activists
she interviewed and befriended, Laura now lives and
works in Israel.
Feeling rather star-struck and more than a little out of
our league, Steve and I slipped into seats in the back row
as Laura and Enid began the program.
But we failed to take into account how extremely humble the Sharanskys are. They quietly took the two empty
chairs next to us rather than sit up front. So for the next
hour, flashbulbs were popping in our faces. Anyone

Truly, there is no end

to the amount of good
that can be done if
people only care
enough to get
involved.
seeing the photos must be scratching their heads over
the identity of this couple sitting with the Sharanskys.
I turned to introduce ourselves. You are my personal
heroes, I said. Natan smiled; Avital winced. I persisted,
explaining that I vividly recall her shy but impassioned
pleas on television, begging leaders and laypeople to
help get her husband and other refuseniks out of the
Soviet Union. She relaxed and smiled once I switched
the topic and mentioned that our elder son is friends
with their son-in-law.
Throughout the evening, I watched out of the corner of my eye as the Sharanskys tenderly touched one
anothers arms, hands, shoulders as if still making up
for the cruel nine years they were apart. That they
are miraculously together, that they are parents and
grandparents, is a moving testament to the extraordinary folks gathered in that Jerusalem living room.
Truly, there is no end to the amount of good that can
be done if people only care enough to get involved.

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The gift comes as the school,
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The Yocheved Orbach Campus reflects the donation
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Three of the Orbachs four children attend Moriah;
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Meyer Orbach heads a real estate firm, the Orbach
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Ms. Orbach said her mother-in-law, who lived in
Brooklyn, loved coming to Moriah, and she felt very
much a part of the Englewood community.
She never missed a siddur or chumash play for any
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For her, this was the realization of all she taught her children about community service.
She was so proud that her husband Joseph, a
Holocaust survivor was interviewed by our daughter Eve for Names Not Numbers. This past Moriah
graduation was the last school event she attended for
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Yocheved Orbach was born in Israel in 1948. Her
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treat ones fellow man. The children of Moriah will feel
her soul and spirit, and she will live on through them.
She will infuse the halls of the school with her love of
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Local rabbi resigns

from Bergen County beit din
Pruzansky opposes new RCA committee to examine Orthodox conversion procedure
JOANNE PALMER

ast week in response to the

arrest of Rabbi Barry Freundel, who is accused of having
spied on women as they prepared to immerse themselves in the mikvah attached to his Washington, D.C.,
shul, as the last step in their conversion
to Judaism the Rabbinical Council of
America decided to review its conversion
procedures.
Reacting to this news, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, spiritual leader of Congregation
Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck, announced
that he was resigning his post as the head
of the Bergen Countys Bet Din LGiyur
its conversion court. He announced his
decision in a long post on his blog, rabbipruzansky.com.
There is a great deal of history to these
decisions.
Conversion is too life-altering a process
to be made easy, but the RCA appointed a
new commission and tasked it with exploring whether more oversight over the process could make some of it less burdensome, bewildering, or expensive.
This is not the first time that the RCA,
which represents Orthodox rabbis,
has tried to adjust the way it regulates
conversions.
Until 2006, there was no overarching system; instead, the batei din the religious
courts each operated independently,
more or less like New Jersey municipalities. They all were governed by the same
halacha, but subject to no oversight on the
equivalent of the state or federal level. But
the RCAs leaders, recognizing the maturation of the Orthodox community, believed
that oversight had become necessary.
Looking back, Shmuel Goldin, the senior
rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Torah
in Englewood and the RCAs immediate
past president, acknowledges that move
was controversial. It was a tradeoff, and
imposed a layer of bureaucracy on what
had been an intensely personal process.
But it seems to have worked, he said; standardizing helped conversion candidates
because it gave them a better idea of what
to expect, and it helped rabbis because it
freed them from pressure to allow inappropriate conversions.
It is always true, however, that there
is a power imbalance in a conversion,
because converts must rely on the rabbi
or rabbis to enable them to do something
they feel is critical to their lives, Rabbi
Goldin said.
For years now there has been a sentiment within the RCA that despite the
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In a posed publicity photo, a woman is shielded by a sheet as she prepares to immerse at Mayyim Hayyim, a community
mikvah outside Boston.

positive functioning of the system, a

review of our procedures is warranted,
Rabbi Goldin said. Like any complex
system, challenges emerge and a regular
review can only be healthy. Now, however,
we feel a greater urgency to perform this
review. It has become clear to us that the
Av Beit Din of the Washington Bet Din
in other words Rabbi Freundel was able
to subvert the system without our awareness. That is true although the specifics of
his alleged crime were the work of a lone
pervert, a man corrupted by power or by
his own demons.
This event, and other events surrounding it, other issues that have been reported
and others that have not been reported,
indicated to us a need to have greater
oversight over the individual courts in our
system, Rabbi Goldin said. This is a very
complex situation.
A committee of six men, all rabbis,
and five women, two of them converts,
chaired by Rabbi Goldin, has been assembled. Its job is to look at the conversion
process not the halacha itself, but the
logistics and practicalities that surround

it and to report back to the parent

organization.
It was in response to the formation
of this committee that Rabbi Pruzansky
announced that he was resigning from the
beit din.
It has been spiritually rewarding to
serve in this capacity for the last seven
years, Rabbi Pruzansky wrote in his letter to the RCA, as he relayed on his blog.
I am extremely proud of the professionalism, sensitivity, integrity and fidelity to
Halacha of the RCBC Bet Din that I and my
colleagues established, and that successfully brought more than 100 gerei Tzedek
tachat kanfei hashechina 100 converts
into the Jewish people.
In the current climate, with changes to
... protocols contemplated, it is an appropriate time for new leadership.
Later in the post, Rabbi Pruzansky
details his reasoning. He was very satisfied
with the work of the bet din, which has
been honest, rigorous, and deeply fulfilling for its members, he said. But he fears
that with the new rules, the system could
substitute expediency for rigor, allowing

the conversion of candidates who will not

live the Orthodox lives they have promised
to live, and whose intents are self-serving
rather than pure.
He also thinks that the scandal in Washington is the work of one man, and the
reaction to it is excessive.
Much of Rabbi Pruzanskys post has garnered attention from the Jewish media,
but this one paragraph seems to have galvanized the strongest response:
The committee consists of six men
and five women, bolstering the trend on
the Orthodox left to create quasi-rabbinical functions for women. Is there a role
for women to play in suggest[ing] safeguards against possible abuse? Probably,
although it really is self-understood. But
what role can they play in review[ing]
the ... conversion process? That is halacha, minhag, psak a purely rabbinical
role.
Rabbi Pruzanskys critics have said that
his resignation from the committee is to
protest the presence of women there, but
Rabbi Pruzansky says that they are wrong.
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Mentalist coming to Teaneck

Evening will benefit PTACH scholarship fund
LOIS GOLDRICH

earning differences are

not always obvious.
But to children who
have them especially
those attending yeshivas with
a challenging dual curriculum
it quickly becomes obvious
that something is not working
for them. They need a different
approach.
These are normal, everyday
kids, said Steve Fox of Teaneck,
a board member and volunteer
for PTACH, a nonprofit organization, created in 1976, that creates programs for those children.
But they may have something
like ADD or dyslexia that prevents them from succeeding in a
regular classroom.
We believe every child has a
right to learn, reads a statement
on PTACHs website. [Our] mission is to provide the best possible Jewish and secular education
to children who have been disenfranchised because of learning
differences. Significantly, the
group stresses that the students
problems stem from differences,
not disabilities.
Fox explained that the name
P TACH h ad been c hosen
because its letters stand for Parents for Torah for All Children.
But it also works as a word, he
said the Hebrew word ptach
means open. He noted the
phrase in the siddur, Ptach libi
btorahtecha Open my heart
to your Torah.
It was the first organization to
start Jewish special education for
kids in a Jewish day school, Mr.
Fox said. He pointed out that Bergen County students are among
those served by its programs.
To accomplish its goals, the
organization has established special classes and resource centers
in conjunction with yeshivas and
Jewish day schools throughout
the United States, Canada, and
Israel. Through its model programs, affiliated programs, and
chapters, it now serves thousands of children.
Among the four programs
owned and operated by PTACH
itself are the Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA)
and the YU High School for Girls

(Central). Mr. Fox estimates that

over the past several decades,
hundreds of Bergen County students attending those schools
have benefited from PTACH
programs.
Mr. Fox noted that one advantage of situating the program in a
regular school is that PTACH students who are strong in a particular subject can be mainstreamed
for that subject, participating in a
regular class. They can also join
the rest of the school population
in clubs and on sports teams.
There are few places where
kids with learning differences
can go to get the proper attention, he said. Here the classes
are smaller and the teachers are
trained in special education. The
organization also has developed
educational materials for teaching both English and Hebrew.
One Teaneck father, whose
17-year-old son attends a PTACH
program at MTA, said one benefit of the program is that his sons
classes are small.
Its helped him a lot. He performs better in small groups,
he said, noting that his son has a
hard time with focus and concentration. Theyre doing a good
job of helping him with that.
Now in his third year of the
program, his son also has made
many friends.
They stress that everyone is
equal, and focus strongly on
everyone getting along with
one another, the father
said. They emphasize that
everyone has their own
strengths, whether theyre in
PTACH or MTA or any other
school. Thats very important.
He noted also that his son is
receiving an excellent academic
education. The teachers are very
dedicated and very available.
You can email or phone them at
any time. Theres also a resource
hour where my son goes to get
help with homework.
At the beginning of the semester, the family was notified that the
11th grader was ready to take the
Regents examinations (those are
the statewide tests high-school
students take in New York).
He took two regents and he
passed, said his father, adding
that not only is his son doing well

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and getting good grades, but that

his improvement has been continuous. When he is ready, he
will be mainstreamed wherever
possible.
They give a child self-confidence, build self-esteem, the
father said. When they do well,
they really commend them and
encourage them. This, he said,
carries through to life outside
school as well, where his son has
begun to forge new friendships.
Mr. Fox has been involved
with PTACH for some 30 years.
Drawn in initially by a desire
to help a family member,
I recruited my single
friends and said we need
to do something. So
they created a young
leadership division, running singles events to
raise funds for PTACH.

He noted that one side effect of

those events was bringing young
Jewish people together. Theres
a couple in Bergenfield who met
on one of our annual boat rides,
he said.
On November 15, PTACH will
hold a fundraiser at Teanecks
Rinat Yisrael to help provide
scholarships for local students.
The mentalist Marc Salem, who
recently moved from New York
to New Milford to be closer to

my grandkids, will be featured.

(The performer noted, however,
that he also has grandchildren in
Israel.)
Mr. Fox said he knows Mr.
Salem from way back when. We
reconnected and he immediately
said yes. He knew about PTACH
and was strongly supportive.
Im a giant fan of PTACH,
Mr. Salem said. Not only does
Mr. Salem perform, he also is an
educator, author, lecturer, and
consultant. Im a fan of most
childrens kiruv and outreach
movements, he said; indeed,
children is where I donate my
Jewish time.
Raised in an Orthodox home,
the son of an Orthodox rabbi, Mr.
Salem born Moshe Botwinick
has impressive credentials. With
an advanced degree from New
York University and a Ph.D. in

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He said he uses his training as a psychologist to help
him read people, pick up impressions. Discounting the idea that he has any kind of magical ability,
he joked that If I have a sixth sense, its a sense of
humor.
He did note that at least part of his ability is genetic.
Its 50 percent heredity, he said. My dad, a rabbi,
could read people quickly.
So with good genes and the ability to read what he
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matter of observation, of listening, of using the senses
we have to the fullest extent.
He noted that while he occasionally gets things
wrong, hes had years of practice, and thousands of
college students to practice on.
His Teaneck show, he said, is not a lecture or a lesson. In a way, Ill be the uncle and professor you wish
you had.
Mr. Salem said that while he has many strong
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show. Its a family show, he said, noting that while he
reads peoples minds, nobody is ever embarrassed.
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Israel eases conversion procedures

Orthodox rabbinic group Tzohar claims victory
LARRY YUDELSON
On Monday morning, Rabbi David Stavs
inbox was overflowing.
During an interview at a Teaneck cafe,
he apologized for looking at his phone as
the messages came pouring in. (He was in
the area after spending Shabbat at Manhattan synagogues; he is scheduled to be
scholar in residence at Englewoods Congregation Ahavath Torah in February.)
But that morning well, afternoon,
Israel time the Sephardi chief rabbi of
the State of Israel Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef
had denounced Rabbi Stav by name in
a radio interview, and his friends were letting him know.
Rabbi Stav heads Tzohar, an organization of Israeli Orthodox rabbis that tries
to bridge the gaps between Israels established Orthodox rabbinate which regulates marriage and divorce in the country
and the secular public.
The day before, the group had won a
major political victory. The Israeli government voted to make it easier to convert to
Judaism by enabling municipal rabbis to
run conversion courts. (Now only the central chief rabbinate has that power.)
This followed Tzohars legislative victory
last year, which allowed municipal rabbis
to register any marriages, even those of
couples not from their area.
The government vote was the outcome
of five years of work, Rabbi Stav said. An
earlier bill had been defeated. This year,
a bill offered by Knesset Member Elazar
Stern seemed headed to passage in the
legislature, prompting the government
ministers to act.
MK Sterns interest in the conversion
issue highlights the centrality of the issue
to the Israeli national agenda. As head of
the Israeli armys human resource division,
he had seen that a large number of draftees
came from families that had immigrated to
Israel from the former Soviet Union under
the Law of Return. Those young Israelis were not legally Jewish, because their
fathers, but not their mothers, were Jewish. He set up conversion courts under the
auspices of the military rabbinate that converted thousands of soldiers.
His proposed bill was too liberal for
Prime Minister Netanyahu, but its wide
support pressured the government to act.
In Israel, which only allows for religious
marriage and therefore renders interreligious marriage impossible, non-Jews
cannot marry Jews. Many mixed couples
fly to Cyprus to marry civilly, and those
foreign marriages are recognized by the
Israeli government.
Rabbi Stav and his group opposed
another proposal raised in the current
Knesset, which would institute civil
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Rabbi David Stav: We live in a democratic world.

marriage for people who could not marry

under Israels current framework. Civil
marriage, according to Rabbi Stav, would
threaten the unity of the Jewish people.
Most Orthodox halachic authorities,
including Rabbi Stav, require that converts
fully accept the obligations of the commandments of Jewish law. This creates a
problem, because ultra-Orthodox authorities say that accepting only modern Orthodox law doesnt count.
The result is that the conversions done
in the army, or under another special conversion court that Rabbi Stav served on,
or for that matter even by the chief rabbinate, had not always been accepted
by the increasingly charedi rabbinical
establishment.
Strict conversion requirements are a
problem for not only Russians of mixed
origin. They also make it extremely difficult for Israelis to adopt children from
overseas and if they do manage to adopt
them, for those children to be integrated
into Israeli society.
This week, Haaretz reported that more
than a third of the 15,900 Israelis who
moved out of the country in 2012 were
defined by the Central Bureau of Statistics
as other, meaning neither Jewish nor
Arab, and generally referring to Russians
of mixed origins.
The newly approved conversion plan
allows any of Israels more than 180 municipal rabbis to convert people. Rabbi Stav is
among that group: He is the rabbi for Shoham, a small town of about 22,000 people
in the center of the country.
The idea here is not to crush the chief
rabbinate, but to decentralize it, Rabbi

Stav said.
This freedom of rabbinical action continues a tradition of thousands of years
that rabbis carry out conversions, he
said. It was the centralized Israeli system
that just was superseded, he said, that
was a departure from Jewish tradition and
Jewish law.
He said that charedi leaders declarations that they will not recognize conversions done by municipal rabbis are nonsense, because they do not recognize the
conversions of the chief rabbinate. To be
honest, the vast majority of Israeli society
doesnt care what the charedi position is.
The vast majority relies on modern Orthodox rabbis.
Most probably, a regular charedi family will not have to deal with conversions,
Rabbi Stav said. Thats part of the problem. We tell them, you are not threatened
by the intermarriage threat as we are. We
go to the army together with non-Jewish
immigrants of Jewish origin, we go to
work together. You are segregated. We
are not. We have to be responsible to our
kids to at least try so that whoever wants
to come under the umbrella of Torah and
mitzvot and convert, to make it accessible for him. We have to make sure that
we make every effort to help our kids who
came back after seventy years of the Communist regime, to help them be absorbed
in Israeli Jewish society.
Rabbi Stav said that the Israeli rabbinate
has gone totally against halacha, Jewish
law, in drafting a policy of checking the
validity of each conversion according to
the persons current behavior, that is, of
saying converts who dont lead Orthodox

lives are not Jewish.

They see someone who is not observant and assume they never had the intention to accept Jewish law.
Tzohar rabbis are familiar with this practice, because the bulk of the organizations
work is helping individuals and couples
deal with the Israeli religious bureaucracy.
The group was formed 19 years ago, after
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, to help close the yawning chasm
between the Orthodox community, which
held power over private Israeli lives, and
the secular community, which responded
to the Orthodox with disdain.
It started with marriage services, to
help couples get married in an embracing way.
The groups several hundred rabbis perform 5,000 marriages a year, or about a
quarter of marriages among the Israeli
secular public.
They also help people with their problems as they try to register for marriage.
Their need to prove that they are Jewish poses a particular problem for immigrants, whether from the former Soviet
Union or the Americas.
Tzohar also has begun providing religious services in community centers
across the country, bringing in more than
50,000 people on Yom Kippur.
We were accused of being the rabbis of
the chilonim, the secular Israelis, Rabbi
Stav said. I keep on saying I could not get
a bigger compliment than being the rabbi
of the chilonim.
Other insults have arrived with more
force. In 2013, a day after Rabbi Ovadia
Yosef gave a sermon attacking Rabbi Stav,
who was running for post of chief rabbi,
a group of charedi teens attacked him at
a wedding.
Rabbi Stav traces his commitment to the
cause to his teacher, Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda
Kook, who also taught Tzohars other
cofounders.
We were taught to see the Jewish society that is gathering from the four edges
of the world to the State of Israel as a mission, he said. The process of connecting
them to Judaism would have to evolve,
Rabbi Kook taught. It wouldnt come by
hitting them or forcing them. Rabbi Kook
was a member of the anti-religious coercion league for several years. He said that
Torah could not be coerced.
Torah should be taught in a friendly
way.
Accordingly, while Rabbi Stav said he
disagreed with members of one of Shohams 15 synagogues, who decided to call
women to read from the Torah last Shabbat, we live in a democratic world, he
said. Everyone is entitled to ask their
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Battle of the Bulge

Tikkun for two young soldiers, 70 years later
hOWie mischel

ife comes with countless unanticipated twists and turns.

When we open ourselves to
these unexpected moments,
they sometimes lead to incredible opportunities to come closer to others in the
most unbelievable ways.
This is one such story. It began when I
was growing up in Queens, in the 1960s,
spending countless hours in the home
of my paternal grandparents. It recently
reached its climax in the American military cemetery in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.
Like most young boys of my generation, I was heavily influenced by my parents involvement in World War II. My
dad, Julie Mischel, was drafted right out of
high school in the spring of 1944, quickly
deployed to Belgium and ultimately into
Germany. He was part of a large contingent of infantry soldiers sent to beef
up U.S. forces following the
D-Day invasion. Qualified as a
NEW
sharpshooter during his training, he became an antitank
gunner armed with a bazooka
rocket launcher.
Although he didnt tell
us much of what happened
to him in Europe, we knew
that he had been severely
wounded when he hit a trip
wire that exploded a land
mine in Germanys Huertgen
Forest in December 1944.
It took quite some time for
him to be evacuated from
the battlefield and he had
spent months in military hospitals in Europe before being
shipped home. What he never
discussed but what I knew was
that his best friend had been
killed in action as their army
unit moved deeper into Germany in January 1945.
My fathers friends name was
Solomon Mosner, but everyone
in our family called him Sid.
They lived within a few blocks of each
other in Queens. My grandparents and
uncles would talk about him quietly, but
not in front of my dad. I cant recall my
dad saying anything at all about Sid, yet I
knew about him from the time I was very
young. Looking back, I realize that Sids
death was something very traumatic for
our entire family.
From my dads army mementos and
other sources, I pieced together a portrait
of Sid that reveals an incredibly bright
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he was even 19 years old.
Hes buried in Belgium
and almost nothing is
known about him. Now a
retired colonel in the Army
reserves, from Wayne,
reconstructs his short life
from the little information
thats available.

Julie Mischel, right, stands next to his best friend, Sid Mosner. Inset, the
issue of the Jewish Standard that inspired Howie Mischels quest.

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when instead of finding an article about us, I saw a photograph
on the papers front page showing the gravestone of my fathers
heading to the army. He had a very close
best friend, Sid Mosner!
connection to our family, and seemed to
Marty Siegel, a retired army colonel who
be very fond of my grandmother his own
lives in Bergen County, had written a short
mother died when he was young.
article about American Jewish soldiers
The single most revealing thing I know
contributions and sacrifices in World War
about him and his friendship with my dad
II. But of all the soldiers who lost their lives
comes from a military V-gram that Sid
in the defense of the nation, what were the
wrote to my grandmother shortly before
odds that the one he chose to use as an
his death. We talked about that letter in
example would be my dads best friend?
my family but my dad never read it; it was
I immediately called the Standard to contoo upsetting for him. It sat in a box with
nect to Marty. The article lamented the
other war mementos. My father died in
fact that little was known of this all-but-for1969, when he was 43, and no one looked
gotten 18-year-old, who had died 65 years
at that box after his death until May
ago, apparently with no surviving rela2010.
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him available.
I desperately wanted to let Marty know
that there indeed was someone on this
earth who knew the name Sid Mosner, and
more importantly, had information about
his life and an understanding of who he
had been.
I learned that Marty had talked to a
young Belgian, Fabrice Dubois, who ran a
notice in the Jewish War Veteran magazine
looking for information about Sid. Fabrice
told Marty that his family had adopted Sid
Mosners grave, in the U.S. military cemetery in Henri-Chapelle. The cemetery
holds the graves of 8,000 U.S. soldiers
killed in the Battle of the Bulge.
For reasons not yet understood, Fabrice
had joined a Belgian program to adopt
and visit the graves of U.S. soldiers and
selected Sids. He wanted to learn all he
could about Sid. When we met recently,
I asked him if he really expected to find
out anything about Sid, 65 years after
the wars end. He said that he had absolute faith that it would happen and it
did. I emailed Marty and Fabrice several
scanned pages from my fathers wartime
scrapbook, which showed what a refined
and intelligent young man Sid had been.
I also sent them the final V-Mail that Sid
mailed to my grandmother before he died:
In early 2014 I realized that we were fast

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approaching the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and Sids 70th yahrzeit. Not knowing
why, I began to feel a need to go to Belgium. I felt that
I wanted to do it for my father.
I posed these questions to my two sons, who both
are rabbis. My son Elie sent me this quote from Isaiah
(30:21): And your ears shall hear a word behind you,
saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to
the right hand and when you turn to the left.
He said that Hashem often speaks to us from
behind indirectly. It is our job to tune in to the
echoes of Hashems voice. We may think were going
someplace, but Hashem has different ideas about
where we need to be.
My son Judah had a slightly different take. Speaking
in more kabbalistic terms, he got me thinking about
the concept of achieving a tikkun a correction or
repair. He explained that wherever your feet might
lead you, they are directed from above. I had to be
open to the idea that going to Belgium might be achieving a healing or transformation in this world or the
next, in ways that I might not ever fully comprehend.
I felt that I had to go on this trip, although I did not
know what to expect or what I could accomplish. I told
Marty and Fabrice of my plans.
Fabrice immediately volunteered to serve as our
guide for the two days we planned to spend in the

I had to be open to
the idea that going to
Belgium might be
achieving a healing or
transformation in this
world or the next,
in ways that I might
not ever fully
comprehend.
Ardennes. We hoped to capture a sense of the battlegrounds and to visit the cemetery.
Fabrice was eager for any information I could provide about Sid, but he especially wanted a photo of
him. Sadly, although my dads files did include a number of photos, none were labeled. I could not be sure
that I actually had Sids picture. I found a tattered
photo of his unit, but couldnt begin to know which
one of the young men pictured was Sid.
Thinking about how to get a photo, I began to focus
on where Sid went to high school. I wanted to find his
high school graduation yearbook. So began a lengthy
correspondence with the New York Board of Education and several high schools. The librarian at Stuyvesant High School was primarily responsible for solving
the puzzle. She first found two brief obituaries from
long-defunct local newspapers. They confirmed that
Sid had attended Bryant High School. Unable to find
the yearbook at school, she surprised me again with
amazing news. She had checked eBay, and discovered
that the yearbook I wanted had just gone up for sale
online. Of all the graduating classes, of all the high
schools in America, for all the years that yearbooks
were published, the very one I needed was available!
I successfully bid for the yearbook and had it shipped
to my son Elie in New Jersey. Within days an email
arrived with a photo attached.

We finally had a picture of Sid, and further confirmation

of what an outstanding student he had been. I immediately went back to my dads photos. After careful comparison, I was able to confirm that in the large army unit
photo, of course Sid had been standing right next to his
best friend, My father.
The next thing I did was share the photos with Marty
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Cowen, who lives in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. His middle name was given to him
in memory of his uncle Sid.
Just one week before my journey to
Belgium, Jim met Marty, Fabrice, and
me via a rapid series of emails and
phone calls. Jim initially found it hard
to believe that complete strangers were
working very hard to learn as much as
they could about an uncle he had never
known. Because his mother, Beatrice,
died when he was young, he never really
learned much about Sid. He did not have
a photo of his uncle.
My wife, Terry, and I flew to Brussels.
We headed east by train to Liege and
met Fabrice and his wife, Naty, at the
station. Fabrice had arranged a twoday tour using notes from my fathers
army scrapbook detailing the advance
of the 311th. Over the next two days
we drove back and forth along the Belgian-German border. We visited Liege,
Overrepen, Tongerin, Eupen, Aachen,
and Vervier. St. Trond, the town where
my dad and Sid had gone on a 12-hour
pass before heavy fighting began, and
Bickerath, the place in Germany where
Sid was killed in battle, were particularly important to me. The Ardennes
is an extensive area of dense forest
and hilly, rough terrain. It was easy to

Julie Mischel as a soldier.

Julie mischel

visualize the difficulty of mounting an

armored and infantry assault into this
area, particularly when it is covered in
deep snow.
Fabrice and Naty invited us to their
home during the evening we spent in
Stavelot. They are a warm and welcoming couple. Their house, where his
grandmother had grown up, was lovely,
but the first thing that struck me as we
entered through the front door was a
large brass Chanukah menorah on the
windowsill! I could contain myself no
further I had to understand how Fabrice connected to Sid Mosner and why
he had chosen to adopt the grave of one
of the very few Jewish soldiers interred
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Fabrice was very open, and I was
grateful for his willingness to talk to me.
He said that he had been interested for
many years. He has a deep connection
to Jewish philosophy and religious outlook and identifies with it very strongly.
He told me about a Jewish teacher hed
had, who clearly must have influenced
him. I explained to him how amazing
it was to me that he kept a Chanukah
menorah in his home, given that we
live in Modiin, walking distance to an
ancient synagogue and village, dating
back two thousand years, that many
believe is the home of the Maccabees of
the Chanukah story.
Fabrice wanted to explain what happened in Stavelot during the war. Sev-

Standing at
Sids grave, I
thought of my
dad. I was sure
that if he had
lived longer, he
would have
found his way
back to his dear
friends grave.
eral of his grandmothers family fought
in the Resistance, and one of their hiding places was in a space below the
house. A collaborator betrayed them to
the Germans and seven were machinegunned standing along the foundation
of the house in the backyard. Fabrice
pointed out that his grandmother, with
whom he had a very close connection
growing up, and Sid were the same age.
He also noted that dates on Sids tombstone corresponded to dates important
in his own life. Thats why he decided to
adopt Sids grave.
But on a deeper level, it was apparent to me that he was expressing the
very traditional Jewish value of hakarat
hatov showing appreciation for the

good that is done for us. Showing gratitude to American soldiers, who had sacrificed so much for the Belgian people,
was important to Fabrice and many others we met there.
We headed to Henri-Chapelle the next
day. I wasnt prepared for the intensely
sad and somber mood, the silence, the
immense feeling of loss and sacrifice.
There were thousands of graves young
soldiers who lost their lives in this battle
that ultimately led to the Nazis fall.
Standing at Sids grave, I thought of
my dad. I was sure that if he had lived
longer, he would have found his way
back to his dear friends grave, as I did
in his stead that day. I recited the traditional mourners Kaddish and Kel Maleh
Rachamim for the soul of the departed.
I also recited a short prayer that I had
composed just a few days before arriving in Belgium.
Amazingly, during the half hour
we were at Sids grave, the sun broke
through.
Only Hashem knows what going to Belgium accomplished for my fathers and
Sids neshamot their souls. I believe
with all my heart the need for this trip
came down to me and I have tremendous gratitude to Hashem for having
been able to do this on their behalf.
Going to Belgium has firmly connected my fathers story to my own, and
the story will continue with the grandchildren and great-grandchildren he
never knew.
My mother once told me that when
Israel first was established, my parents were recruited to make aliyah. As
staunch Zionists, they seriously considered it, but they couldnt get past the
idea of leaving their parents and siblings
behind. After my dad died I was determined to get to Israel as soon as possible,
and I became the first in our family to go
when I volunteered on a kibbutz in 1971.
This began almost 40 years of regular
visits to the land that has now become
our home.
It will always fill me with wonder
that it was our aliyah that triggered the
interview in the Jewish Standard that
further connected me to Sid Mosner,
and everything that followed from that
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Admiral to speak at JTS
The Louis Finkelstein Institute
first African American woman
for Religious and Social Studies
to command a ship in the U.S.
at the Jewish Theological SemiNavy. In 2009, she deployed to
nary will honor the U.S. military,
U.S. Central Command Theater,
veterans, and chaplains on Monwhere she commanded Task
day, November 10, at 7:30 p.m.
Force 151, a multinational counter-piracy effort. In 2010, she was
Admiral Michelle Howard, the
the maritime task force comNavys vice chief of naval operations, will speak; a question and
mander for Baltic operations
Admiral
answer session will follow.
under the 6th Fleet.
Michelle
Howard
Admiral Howard is the first
JTS is at 3080 Broadway at
COURTESY JTS
female four-star admiral in the
122nd Street in Manhattan.
history of the U.S. Navy. She
The talk is free and open to the
reported to USS Mount Hood as chief engipublic, but registration is required. Arrive
neer in 1990 and served in Operations Desat least 15 minutes early to allow time for
erts Shield and Storm and took command
check-in and have a photo ID. For more
of USS. Rushmore in 1999, becoming the
information, go to ww.jtsa.edu/veterans.

Blake Chroman, left, of Temple Emanu-Els leadership group;

professor Dan Blumberg of Ben Gurion University of the
Negev; Diane Romirowsky, the universitys American associates northeast major gifts director; and Michael Israel, also
of the shuls leadership group. 
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Homeland security speaker in Closter

Temple Emanu-El in Closter hosted
professor Dan Blumberg of Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, who talked
about 21st Century Homeland Security: Protecting Our World in the Digital

Age. The talk was sponsored by the

shuls leadership group and the American Associates of Ben-Gurion University of the Negevs greater New York
region.

JFSNJ bereavement group

for widows/widowers
The Jewish Family Service of North
Jersey is forming a spousal bereavement group to help participants cope
with their feelings of loss and to learn
how to deal with adjustment issues. It
aims to provide a safe and confidential
experience where group members can
express their feelings in a supportive
environment.

Rutgers Hillel to break ground

for new house
Hillel will have a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Eva and Arie Halpern
Hillel House on Friday, November 21, at
11 a.m., at 70 College Ave. on Rutgers Universitys New Brunswick campus. The
new home of New Jerseys flagship Hillel
will serve the nations second largest university Jewish student population. Hillel
has conducted an $18 million capital and

endowment campaign to build and operate the new 35,000-foot building.

Rutgers Hillel is a beneficiary agency of
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JNF talk in Closter

The Jewish National Fund
of the New York-based Jewish
Northern New Jersey holds its
community and coordinates its
second annual breakfast on
interfaith dialogue and national
Sunday, November 16, at Temoutreach nationally.
ple Emanu-El in Closter. RegisRabbi David-Seth Kirshner
tration is at 9:30 a.m.; the proand Rabbi Alex Freedman of
gram starts at 10.
Temple Emanu-El, Rabbi Jordan Millstein of Temple Sinai of
Amir Sagie, the deputy conAmir Sagie
sul general at the consulate genBergen County in Tenafly, Rabbi
Craig Scheff of the Orangetown
eral of Israel in New York, is the
Jewish Center, and Rabbi David Widzer
guest speaker. Mr. Sagie coordinates the
consulates political work in the tristate
of Temple Beth El of Northern Valley are
area, developing relations with national,
hosting the talk. Temple Emanu-el is at 180
state, and local officials. He also acts as
Piermont Road. The talk is free; dietary
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Melanie Lester, LSW, will facilitate the

group, which will be held at a time and
location most convenient for group members. Usually, groups are in, but not limited to, either JFSNJs Wayne or Fair Lawn
offices.
For information, call Ms. Lester at
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Local high school senior is regional

finalist for Siemens competition
Devorah Saffern, a senior at
students worked together
Maayanot Yeshiva High School
to solve an engineering
for Girls in Teaneck, was named
challenge proffered by
a regional finalist in the team
the Gildor Family Projects
division of the prestigious Sieand Inventions Competition; the team eventually
mens Competition in math, sciwent on to win the top
ence, and technology.
prize in that international
Ms. Saffern and her partner,
Devorah
Julie Eaughn of San Diego, Calif.,
competition.
Saffern
In November, Ms. Safwere chosen for their submission, Investigating the Physifern and Ms. Eaughn will go
cal Antibacterial Properties of
to MIT to compete against
the other four finalist teams from their
Graphene, Graphene Composites, and
Phase-Separated Polymer Blends,
region. One team from each of the six
a research project aimed at finding
geographic regions will advance to the
mechanical, as opposed to chemical
National Finals at George Washington
methods of bacteria destruction.
University in Washington, D.C., to compete for scholarship prizes ranging from
Five teams from each of six geographic
$10,000 to $100,000.
regions were chosen as regional finalists.
Ms. Saffern and her partner began
Other Maayanot students who have
their collaboration this summer, when
successfully competed in recent STEM
they both attended the six-week Garresearch competitions include Ilana Teicia MRSEC Summer Research Program
cher, a 2011 Siemens regional finalist;
at Stony Brook University. Ms. Saffern
and sisters Ariella Applebaum, a 2011
became interested in science research
Siemens Regional semifinalist, and Eliana Applebaum, a 2011 Siemens Regional
through a sophomore science research
semifinalist and a 2013 Intel Science Talelective offered at Maayanot. Through
ent Search semifinalist.
this elective a team of eight Maayanot

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Beit din
FROM PAGE 12

He is particularly angered by a story in the New York

Jewish Week that makes that claim, he said, and also
attempts to tie him to Rabbi Freundel.
[T]he Jewish Weeks characterization that I
resigned to protest the inclusion of women on the
committee is an absolute falsehood, as false as is their
scurrilous attempt to associate me with my colleague
in DC who has been charged with serious crimes,
Rabbi Pruzansky wrote in an email to the Jewish Standard. The former is a complete fabrication I wrote
nothing of the sort and the latter is a blatant attempt
to smear me and the hundred other rabbis who at
one time or another served on a committee with the
alleged DC offender.
If you read what I wrote, it should be clear that I
resigned because I anticipate the committee will make
substantive changes to our procedures (any committee) and to separate myself from the culture of negativity and suspicion that now pervades the conversion
process. In the seven years of our Bet Din, we always
acted with great sensitivity and integrity, and I am
proud of that.
Thats a personal decision, and I cant comment
on it, other than to say that it is a decision he has the
right to make, Rabbi Goldin said of Rabbi Pruzanskys
decision. I believe that the committee I am going to
be heading will work in conjunction with the existing
batei din to better the process.
Thats something we all want.
Meanwhile, further down on his blog, a comment
that Rabbi Pruzanky made in response to another
comment began to draw attention to itself as well.
Still enraged by what he saw as mistreatment by
the Jewish Week the paper got the name of the
organization Rabbi Pruzansky was to leave wrong,
and in correcting that mistake the writer stumbled
into another problem. Pruzansky is still a member
of the RCAs Executive Committee, where he used
to share the company of Rabbi Freundel before his
arrest, she wrote.
How is that for vicious innuendo? Rabbi Pruzansky wrote. What a despicable outrageous slander!
He has not returned phone calls from the Jewish
Week in 15 years, he continued. The paper is typical
of the sordid state of journalism today.
Then Rabbi Pruzansky continued to take aim at the
Jewish Week, and particularly at its publisher and editor, Gary Rosenblatt of Teaneck.
They should apologize, he wrote. But, I guess, to
follow their way of reporting, both the Jewish Weeks
publisher and Julius Streicher published newspapers
that dealt a lot with Jews. Same business, I suppose.
Thats bad company to be in.
Julius Streicher was the publisher of Der Strmer,
the newspaper that was one of Nazi Germanys most
virulent and potent anti-Semitic outlets; he was
tried, convicted, and executed in Nuremberg after
the war.
In an editorial slated to be published in this weeks
Jewish Week, Mr. Rosenblatt responded to the slam.
Admitting the error and acknowledging the
awkward wording to which Rabbi Pruzansky had
reacted, Mr. Rosenblatt went on to write: Der Sturmer, of course, was the central vehicle of the Nazi
propaganda machine. We find the comparison outrageous, particularly coming from a leading community rabbi and RCA executive member. And to date,
the lack of a public expression of remorse from the
rabbi and the institutions he serves, or is affiliated
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For the 17th annual Mitzvah Day, more than 1,000 volunteers spent the first Sunday in November performing
mitzvot good deeds at more than 40 sites around
northern New Jersey.
Mitzvah Day, one of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys signature events, brings together
members of the Jewish community across the denominational spectrum. Some volunteers entertained and
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homebound elderly, or worked out of doors picking up

trash and beautifying parks. Three blood drives gathered 103 pints of blood. There were also 30 different
types of collection drives that took place leading up to
and culminating on Mitzvah Day. To see the full range of
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Editorial
Thank you, veterans

he Jewish year reminds

us of our history. Beginning in the spring, at
Pesach, we commemorate the exodus from Egypt. Seven
weeks later, we mark the giving of
the Torah at Shavuot; months later,
Sukkot reminds us of the 40 years
the Israelites spent wandering in
the desert.
Other holidays remind us of less
foundational but still deeply people-building episodes in our history. Chanukah is about our struggles with the Romans, Tisha bAv
about the destruction of the Temples. More recent holidays Yom
HaShoah, Yom HaZicaron document the horrors of the recent
past, and Yom HaAtzmaut memorializes the triumph of the creation
of Israel.
The American calendar is surprisingly similar. We relive our history
each year through our civil holidays.
Columbus Day (and yes, I know
about its checkered history and
symbolism, but Im going old-school
with it here) marks the Wests discovery of the New World, and Thanksgiving allows us to feast on its plenty.

Martin Luther King Day celebrates

one of our martyrs, Lincolns Birthday another; Washingtons Birthday
allows us to remember a founding
father who died naturally. All three
of those men were almost unimaginably brave, and each of them shaped
the course of this country. Memorial
Day gives us a chance to remember
the people who gave their lives to
keep us free.
The Fourth of July, all summer
sun and marching bands and fireworks, celebrates this countrys
birth. We do hold these truths, the
truths laid out in the Declaration of
Independence, to be self-evident.
It is because of those truths the
acknowledgment that we all are created equal, endowed by our Creator
with the unalienable rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that the United States is the
beacon of hope and freedom that it
has been for two and a half centuries. Later in the summer, Labor Day
gives us a chance to honor the workers whose sweat built this land.
So now, here we are at Veterans Day, which falls on this Tuesday. It shares some of its DNA with

KEEPING THE FAITH

The votes are in:

We lost again

T
Memorial Day, but while that day,
ironically at the beginning of spring,
is a chance for us to honor the servicemen and women who died for
us, while the world flowers around
them, Veterans Day pays homage
to veterans who lived through their
military service. As we do that the
days shorten, the last leaves drop,
and the cold enters our bones, but
our veterans remind us that we, like
they, are still alive.
We would like to thank the veterans who put themselves in danger to
keep us safe. Those of us who have
never been in the military are awed
by their courage, their commitment,
and their sacrifices.
JP
Thank you.

Stop the hate

e live in a terrifyingly
connected world.
Mike Kelly, who lives
in Teaneck, wrote a
book about a bombing that had a great
impact not only on the lives it snuffed
out and the others it devastated, but
also on the thwarted hunt for peace in
the Middle East. (The story is on page
30.)
The bombings effect, and the effect
of other bombings like it, also reverberated right here, in Bergen County.
Sara Duker, who was killed in a bombing, lived here, Alisa Flatow, the victim
of another bombing, went to school

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here, and Alisas father, who lives two

counties over, practices law just to our
south.
The bombings drew us all together
in pain, and that pain continues.
The connections between us should
not be only painful. Thats why its so
very good, as Rabbi Orenstein points
out on the next page, when activities,
whether sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey or by
other groups, bring us together across
denominational lines and divides. (See,
for example, the Shlomo Carlebach
memorial and Soul Farm concerts on
pages 6 and 7.) Thats happening more

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and more. Its encouraging.

And thats also why its so very bad
when we resort to name-calling. There
might be something worse than one
Jew calling another Jew a Nazi and
not a garden-variety Nazi, but Julius
Streicher, the Nazis chief propagandist, editor of Dur Sturmer but its
hard to think what that might be.
There is a great deal of hate aimed
at us from the outside world, and it
seems to be growing. We should know
better than to hate each other as well.
And if we really cant help from hating
each other, at least we should keep our
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he votes are in, and while there are still close

races being decided, the people have chosen
their leaders.
Underscore the word leaders. In this
case, it means men and women who put the peoples
needs ahead of their own personal interests.
That is what we are supposed to get when we elect
people to public office.
Sadly, all too often it is not
what we do get, and certainly not what we have
been getting in this age of
extreme partisanship. That
political posturing is only
likely to become even more
extreme in the wake of the
election, which politicians
Shammai
and pundits alike see as
Engelmayer
nothing more than a prelude to the battle for control
of the White House in 2016.
It does not take a prophet to see what is ahead for
America in the next two years. All that is needed is
to look at what already is. This Congress is about to
go down in history as the most unproductive national
legislature in the last 20 years, and one of the most
unproductive of all time. With all eyes on capturing
the White House, Republicans will have no interest in
making Democrats look good; Democrats will have no
interest in doing the same for Republicans.
Interestingly, if Jewish law and tradition had anything to say about it, many (if not most) of the people
who ran for office on Tuesday probably never would
have been allowed on the ballot because they fail to
live up to Judaisms standards of leadership.
What makes a good leader in Judaisms ideal world?
Abraham and Moses quickly come to mind as we
look for paradigms.
When informed that his nephew and family had
been taken captive by an invading army, Abraham
took immediate and decisive action, leading his
troops and those of his allies into battle, as we read
in last weeks Torah portion. Following his victory, he
refused to profit personally from it.
He also was very caring about the needs of strangers.
Based on the opening verses of this weeks parashah,
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we deduce that he often would sit at the entrance to
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need of some sustenance. As we also see this week,
he did not hesitate to challenge God on behalf of a
most unworthy group of people, for the sake of the
few among them who might be worthy. These were,
after all, Abrahams people, in the sense that it was
his job to spread Gods message among them.
Moses, too, stood up for his people (in this case,
Israel). There is a midrash in the Babylonian Talmud
tractate Brachot (32a) that expounds on Exodus 32:10.
Says God to Moses following the sin of the Golden Calf,
Now, therefore, let Me alone, that My anger may burn
hot against them, and that I may consume them, and
I will make of you a great nation.
Moses, as the text makes clear, was having none of
it. The midrash in Brachot 32a expands on that. Said
Rabbi Eleazar: Moses said directly to the Holy One,
Clearly, if when You are angry, not even a three-legged
stool can stand before You, how much less so can a
stool stand with only one leg?
That is a flowery way of saying, God, You promised that Israel would survive on the merit of its three
ancestorsAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now You want
to break that promise. Why, then, should I believe You
when You say a nation that derives from me alone will
survive Your anger? Why should anyone?
Rabbi Eleazar did not stop there, however. He then
quoted Moses as saying, I am embarrassed before my
ancestors, for if I accept Your offer, they will be able
to say: See what kind of leader He has set over them!
He sought greatness for himself, but he did not seek
mercy for them!
Moses told God he was not in it for the glory. His
job, given to him by God, was to shepherd and protect
Israel, period.
Both Abraham and Moses share another trait: humility. Thus, we are told in BT Chagigah 5b: Our Rabbis
taught: Over three things the Holy One, Blessed Be He,
weeps every day...[including] over a leader who lords
it over the community.
The Midrash (Exodus Rabbah 27:9) also notes the
need for humility when it quotes God as saying to
the would-be leader: See that you know what to do;
and since you have undertaken this responsibility in
becoming a leader, Go, humble yourself at the dust of
the feet of princes and those greater than you....
The great chasidic master Rav Nachman of Bratislav
added yet another quality shared by Abraham and
Moses. The true leader of a generation must be holy,
he said.
Yet another trait is respect: In this case, it is the
leader who must respect those he leads, just as the
priests had their faces towards the people and their
backs to God when blessing them. (BT Sotah 40a)
All of this led the rabbis to codify these traits in setting the requirements for communal leadership. They
added the requirement (Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De-ah
256:3) that a person could not be qualified as a communal leader if his conduct in any way would have
barred him from being a dayyan (a judge). The rule
harks back to a discussion in the Talmud (BT Bava
Batra 8b) about who may collect and distribute charity funds for the community.
From a halachic standpoint and from tradition, then,
leaders should be above reproach; should put communal concerns ahead of their own; should exemplify
and spread the traits required of a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation; and should not let their posts go
to their heads.
It is a tall order, and one that is not filled easily.
It surely was not filled Tuesday night.

We need the minyan

re we getting together more?

It seems to me that we have more communitywide enterprises now than formerly. Maybe, after
four years in the area, I simply am more in the
know, but I also think that there is a trend toward greater communal bonding and cooperation.
My little hamlet, Emerson, was one of 212 cities in 33 countries that participated in the Shabbos Project over October
24-25. On October 30, I took part in the panel that launched
CoNNectJ, the new umbrella for adult Jewish education in Bergen County, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey. Give Me Harmony, a countywide program honoring Rabbi Shlomo Carlebachs 20th yahrzeit, will take place
over the Shabbat of November
14-15. The sponsors and planners represent a wide range of
backgrounds, perspectives, and
movements. The Golem and the
Jinni, the book for the federations One Book, One Community
program, has Jews in our catchment area on the same page,
both literally and figuratively.
Rabbi Debra
The Pascack Valley Thanksgiving
Orenstein
Interfaith Service, scheduled for
Sunday, November 23, at Temple
Emanuel in Woodcliff Lake, is an
annual ritual that connects people of different faith traditions.
This year, the sense of community is enhanced, as people are
coming together, also, to honor Cantor Marc Biddleman, who
is retiring as a leader in the Pascack Valley Clergy Council, and
after 48 years of service to the Jewish community.
And that is my keyword and theme for this column:
community.
In casual conversation, a friend recently felt the need to
qualify that word by saying, I mean community community,
not virtual community. It was not the most artful phrasing,
but I knew what she meant. Even with all the convenience and
accessibility of online communication, there is no substitute
for sharing experiences in real time and getting together live.
In 2001, Rabbi Avram Reisner wrote a futuristic responsum
about whether or not it would be halachically permissible to
gather a minyan on the internet. (Its hard to remember those
olden days, but Skype wasnt even launched until 2003.) His
answer was that the quorum must be gathered live, in a particular place. In other words, a minyan requires community
community. Once a minyan is constituted the old fashioned
way, people in other locales can then join together with that
minyan through any technology available. In Reisners opinion, they are even permitted to recite Kaddish or hear the
shofar through the efforts of those who gather in person. Of
course, all this applies to weekdays. The use of technology on
Shabbat opens up a whole new set of questions, and the Conservative movements Committee on Law and Standards has
produced eight responsa related to audio and video monitors
and taping on Shabbat and holidays.
This may seem a bit heady and theoretical, but in recent
weeks real and virtual minyanim were the subject of two
encounters at my synagogue. The first was a conversation
broached by a retiree in my synagogue who watches the live
stream of Central Synagogues Shabbat services when he does
not feel up to coming to shul. He had some questions about
the technical halachic issues surrounding a livestreamed minyan, but his major concern was connecting to community. As
much as he appreciates the broadcast, he doesnt feel himself
to be part of the minyan, and it is a second-best substitute.
A few weeks ago, on a Shabbat morning, a recent bat mitzvah happened to be the tenth person in the building, and
she made the minyan. We had talked many times about bat

mitzvah as a new adult status. She even had mentioned in

her bat mitzvah speech that counting in a minyan would be
part of her Jewish future. But this was the first time that she
experienced it live, in community. In that moment, in that
minyan, she felt embraced, mature, accepted. Her face shone
with pride.
Sometimes, community seems like one more constituency
to satisfy. Do I really need the demands, the obligations, the
aggravations? In a word: yes. Because with those also come
the gifts, the support, and the shared memories and endeavors that shape our lives.
Last Shabbat, Lorraine Breitman Eras died. She was a consummate community member. When I moved to town, she
was the first person to reach out to me. She regularly contributed time, energy, and ideas to friends and neighbors,
old and new, and as a volunteer for Temple Beth Sholom of
Teaneck, Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County,
professional associations, womens groups, and charities. The
outpouring of support for her and her family was not mere
reciprocity She was there for us, so we will be there for
them. It was a response born of the kinds of connections that
can be forged only in community: She was part of us, and we
are part of them.
We feel the power of community most potently during
major lifecycle events both tragedies and simchas. But it
operates continually, sustaining us and others in ways we
cannot always name.
Imagine Kol Nidrei without the crowd. Imagine Thanksgiving dinner alone. Of course, its possible to atone and to give
thanks in private. It may even be easier that way. But a minyan
adds more than numbers.
Years ago, I attended my first silent meditation retreat. It
was a five-day commitment. As a rabbi who spends a great
deal of time in community, I looked forward to the silence as
restorative and to this new experience as an adventure. But
five days is a long time.
My mother thought the whole enterprise was hilarious. She
is the wife, mother, niece, cousin, daughter, granddaughter,
great-granddaughter, great-great-granddaughter (you get the
idea) of rabbis. When she learned that 35 rabbis were getting
together to not talk, she sat down and laughed until she
cried.
That retreat turned out to be one of the most powerful spiritual experiences of my life. At the end of five days, I didnt
know half the peoples names, but I loved them. I felt their
effort, their energy. We had uplifted one another, and we
shared something profound. I know deep in my bones that
meditating silently by myself for five days even if I could
have mustered the grit to persevere in that discipline would
not have been the same. Not even close.
During that same retreat, I was amazed when I dreamed
Sylvia Boorsteins meditation talk, word for word, each night
before she delivered it. I later told her about my dreams, and
she observed, unruffled: Once you clear away the chatter
and the clutter, its much easier to tap into what connects us.
That is not only a description of mindfulness; its also an
insight for living in community. We have so much to connect
and unite us. Yet relatively minor differences in experience,
approach, needs, or affiliation can send us to our separate
silos.
At community-wide events and at home, at your local synagogue and online, in conversation and in silence, lets tap into
what connects us. As Rabbi Zalman Schacther-Shalomi liked
to say, The only way to get it togetheris together.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual leader of Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson. Her major community project this year is
to join together with Jews from all backgrounds to free 1,000
slaves by Passover. Learn more at RabbiDebra.com.
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Opinion

Game of chicken
Hostile words precede hostile action

he Obama administrations contempt for Israel reached a new

low when a senior administration official told Atlantic Monthly
reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, The thing about
Bibi is, hes a chickenst.
A second senior official called Israeli Prime
Minister (and former elite special ops commando) Netanyahu a coward for obliging
U.S. policy-makers and not bombing Irans
nuclear infrastructure.
I wish I could believe these were just staffers behaving badly. But Goldberg often is the
preferred choice to pen deliberate leaks
the administration wants to disseminate but
is too, well, chicken to state directly. And in
fact, the White House has, as of this writing,
neither apologized, nor publicly condemned
the remark, nor fired the source all of which
should be demanded loudly and clearly
by all supporters of Israel but merely has
termed the comments inappropriate and

First and foremost, Iran

counterproductive. Every
negotiations are drawing close
Beltway insider I spoke with
to their deadline, and the
privately identified the same
United States most likely will
few possible sources, and there
cave to an impotent deal that
is no doubt that the administration not only knows who said
leaves Iran within months of
it but approves the message,
achieving a weapon, its clear
their mild protestations notintent. And even during this
withstanding. Indeed, public
courtship period Iran has
Laura Fein
scorn for Israels leaders is the
thwarted UN inspections. In
calling card of this administrayet another abuse of executive
tion. The latest insult is simply
privilege, President Obama has
a continuation of the disrespectful if not
directly stated his intent to circumvent the
intentionally humiliating actions in which
need for congressional approval to suspend
this hostile administration has consistently
sanctions, if a deal is reached.
engaged.
By calling Netanyahu chickenst and
Still, open malice to an ally usually is not
a coward for deferring to U.S. policy and
cultivated in a vacuum, especially a week
refraining from military action to stop Iran,
before the U.S. midterm elections. Outrathe administration is preemptively smearing the most credible critic of its disastrous
geous speech often precedes outrageous
Iran negotiations. This serves to deflect attenaction, and we need not look far to see what
may be coming soon.
tion from its own imperious governance and

deplorable policies, just as it demonstrates

just how pointless it is for Israel to submit to
U.S. pressure.
A second reason to undermine Netanyahu
personally is to punish him for recent statements supporting Jewish building in Jerusalem, even in areas that never would be ceded
under any potential agreement. Netanyahu
previously complied with the U.S. request to
freeze construction in Judea/Samaria, but as
the American-sponsored negotiations disintegrated and the administration has grown
more overtly hostile to Israel in both word
and deed (airport closing, stopping routine
weapons transfer mid-war), Netanyahu has
publicly supported building permits and
said: Im not going to say to Jews not to buy
[homes] in Jerusalem.
The administrations reported fury over
potential construction of a few hundred
homes in an existing Jewish neighborhood is
as disturbing as its complete indifference to

Susan Rice, Israel, and the midterm elections

he results of the November

4 midterm elections validate
Israels policy of courting both
Republicans and Democrats
when it comes to issues such as Irans
threats of genocide. Yet the Israelis this
week found themselves being berated for
wooing both partiesand the criticism came
from a U.S. official who, ironically, once
argued that intervening against genocide
would hurt her party in that years midterm
elections.
Just two days before the midterm races,
National Security Adviser Susan Rice
reportedly said the reason she has still not
met with Israels ambassador to the United
States, Ron Dermerwho was appointed 16
months agois that hes too busy traveling
to Sheldon Adelsons events in Las Vegas.
According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, Dermers action served to prove to Obamas
aides that Dermer is a sympathizer with
the red, Republican side.
The reference was to Dermers speech
at a Republican Jewish Coalition event in
March. For the past year, Israeli officials,
including Dermer, have been trying to persuade Democrats and Republicans alike
that Irans threats of genocide against Israel
are serious and that Teheran should not
be permitted to continue building nuclear
weapons.
Presumably, if the National Jewish Democratic Council decided to invite Dermer,
he would speak to them too. Maintaining
friendly relations with both parties has
been a cornerstone of Israeli and Zionist
policy going back to the days before Israel
28 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 7, 2014

even existed. In 1944, Jewish

activists (led by Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, the father of
the current prime minister)
helped convince the Republican Party to include in its platform a first-ever plank calling
for the rescue of Europes
Jews and creation of a Jewish
Rafael
state. Other Jewish leaders
Medoff
then persuaded the Democrats to match that pledge in
their own platform. Bipartisan support for Zionism and Israel has been
an integral part of American political culture ever since.
For Susan Rice, of all people, to have
made such a charge on the eve of midterm
elections is rich with irony.
In the spring of 1994, Rice was director of
Africa Affairs for the National Security Council, under President Bill Clinton. Reports
began pouring in about machete-wielding
militias of the Hutu tribe in Rwanda carrying out nationwide massacres of the countrys ethnic minority, the Tutsis. What were
Susan Rice and other U.S. officials saying
about all this behind the scenes?
Samantha Power gave us the answer.
Before she became Americas ambassador to
the United Nations, Power wrote a Pulitzer
Prize-winning book called A Problem from
Hell, concerning Americas responses to
genocide. She found a Defense Department
memo revealing that the State Department
was worried that acknowledging that genocide was underway in Rwanda could commit [the U.S.] to actually do something.

Rice was quoted as saying to

her colleagues, If we use the
word genocide and are seen
as doing nothing, what will be
the effect on the November
[midterm] elections?
When Rice was nominated
in 2012 to become President
Barack Obamas National
Security Adviser, she was
asked during her confirmation hearings about that
Rwanda-midterms remark.
She replied that she did not recall having
made that statement.
Israelis, with their keen sense of history, may recall how the State Department
responded in 1942, after receiving overwhelming evidence that the Germans were
annihilating millions of Jews in Europe.
The British government suggested to the
United States that they issue a joint statement acknowledging and condemning the
mass murder. One Roosevelt administration
official objected on the grounds that if they
issued such a statement, the Allies would
expose themselves to increased pressure
from all sides to do something more specific
in order to aid these people.
Rice has suffered more than one memory lapse when asked about genocide. A
WikiLeaks cable in 2010 quoted a disturbing exchange between Dr. Rice and the chief
prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court concerning Sudanese president Omar
al-Bashir, architect of the Darfur genocide.
The ICC prosecutor told Rice that Bashir
had amassed a secret $9-billion stash. The

prosecutor wanted to publicize that information in the hope of turning the Sudanese
public against Bashir. But the U.S. never
publicized it. After the cable was leaked to
the press, a reporter asked Rice about it.
She replied that she didnt recall being
told about the $9 billion.
Last year, Rice visited Rwanda. Afterward,
she described how in 1994, six months after
the genocide ended, she walked through a
church and an adjacent schoolyard where
one of the massacres had occurred [and]
the decomposing bodies of those who had
been so cruelly murdered still lay strewn
around what should have been a place of
peace. We saw first-hand the spectacular
consequences of the poor decisions taken
by those countries, including my own .
What keeps Dermer and other Israeli officials up at night is the fear of history repeating itself. In the wake of the midterm elections, America is still deeply divided, with
the Democrats in control of the White House
and the Republicans holding a majority in
Congress. Naturally, the Israelis will continue
seeking support from both parties for action
to pre-empt Iranian genocide. The alternative is the grim prospect that one day, some
State Department official will stroll amidst the
rubble of the former State of Israel, expressing belated remorse about not having acted
JNS.ORG
before it was too late.
Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of the David
S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies,
in Washington, DC. His most recent book
is FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of
Faith.

Opinion
the recent Palestinian terror attacks in Jerusalem, including the attempted assassination
of American Rabbi Yehuda Glick, who seeks
Jewish access to holy sites, and the killing of
an American baby girl (along with an adult)
by a terrorist who drove his car into a crowd.
Anger over housing but not over murder?
The contemptuous comments are paving the
way for more contemptible actions.
Finally, the administration may be signaling a future policy of recognizing a Palestinian state. In his venomous UN speech last
September, Palestinian Authority leader
Mahmoud Abbas abandoned even the pretense that he will pursue a negotiated peace
and indicated that he will soon seek UN
recognition of a self-declared state. Several
countries have already recognized such an
entity. While previously it was unthinkable
that the United States would not block official UN recognition in the Security Council,
many observers now question this assumption and envision Obama slamming the door
in Israels face as he exits the Oval Office. The
Wall Street Journals Bret Stephens suggested
as much recently, and even Jeffrey Goldberg himself, in the same Atlantic article,

entertains the possibility when he states that

he imagine[s] that the U.S. will still try to
block such a move implying the opposite
is not inconceivable. Many in D.C. consider
it inevitable. Today U.S. officials insult Netanyahu to his face; tomorrow will they stab him
in the back at the UN?
Perhaps another purpose of the vulgar
insults is to test the strength of the U.S.-Israel
bond, including the power of the Jewish communal organizations that shepherd that relationship. Once again, this administration has
spewed its greatest hostility on Americas
most loyal ally. Certainly Mahmoud Abbas,
who celebrated the recent terror attacks
and called for a day of rage and violence
in Jerusalem, does not attract such ire. Yet,
other than ZOA, I could not find a statement
by any major Jewish organization calling for
firing the officials, or demanding an apology.
This has to change, and soon. Continued
polite restraint risks more than our dignity.
Israels fundamental security is at stake, and
both friends and foes will take cues from our
response. Israels supporters must demand
that Israels elected leaders be treated with
respect, lest the next offense be actions

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the U.N. General Assembly in September, shows a photo of a rocket launcher in a civilian area of Gaza
with children nearby.
ANDREW BURTON/GETTY IMAGES

instead of mere words. And we must mobilize to fight a nuclear Iran and a UN-created
Palestinian Arab state before it is too late.

Laura Fein, Executive Director of ZOA-NJ,

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Cover Story

Bus, bomb, book

JOANNE PALMER

ccording to Jewish tradition,

every person is an entire world.
The death of any one person
is the disappearance of that
world, and all the other touching, interlocking worlds are left infinitely poorer.
Mike Kelly of Teaneck, a columnist for
the Bergen Record, has been in a small
room with a man who killed 46 people
in three separate bombings. A man who
obliterated 46 separate worlds. And who
seems to be proud of it.
Mr. Kelly has written a book, The Bus
On Jaffa Road, that focuses on one of
those bombings, the one on the Jaffa Road
in Jerusalem in 1996 that killed 26 people,
including Sara Duker, also of Teaneck, and

Mike Kelly stands outside

the Damascus Gate in
Jerusalems Old City.

Matthew Eisenfeld, her boyfriend, who

came from West Hartford, Connecticut.
He also focuses on Steven Flatow of South
Orange, whose daughter Alisa was killed
in another bus bombing the year before,
and who was instrumental in the story as
it unfolded.
Mr. Kelly tells the story on two levels. On
the personal level, he acquaints his readers with the young people who should
have gone on to lives of joy, love, work,
and accomplishment, and who were both
gifted and entirely normal. Alisa was on
the bus that morning because she was
going to the beach; a young Orthodox
woman spending her gap year in Israel,
she wanted both a Jewish life in her spiritual homeland and a tan. Sara, who was
going to be a research scientist, and Matt,

a Conservative rabbinical student, had

serious academic and professional ambitions but were spending a vacation day
together, going to Jordan to see the romantic rose red city of Petra,
newly opened to Jews.
Once the buses were
blown up, politics took
over. Steven Flatow,
an extraordinary man
driven by love and
anguish and a sort of
last- ditch ideali sm
a man who might
have appeared ordinary until he no longer had the luxury
of that disguise
fought civil suits in

American courts because that was the

only avenue open to him. The Dukers
and the Eisenfelds, who are not lawyers,
as Mr. Flatow is, and who did not have
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drive that he did, followed his lead.

Just as the story changes from the direct
and personal to the politically complicated
and legally arcane and then back again,
so does Mr. Kellys book. He manages to
weave all these threads together, going
from the emotionally intense to the more
distanced sections as if to provide readers
with a bit of space, and perhaps the time
to sniffle quietly to themselves.
Mr. Kellys interest in terrorism began
on September 11, 2001, and continued
through many assignments to the Middle
East, including both Israel and Gaza. It
led him to interview Hassan Salameh, the
man who began as an enforcer for Hamas
like a Mafia thug, Mr. Kelly said beating up or killing suspected collaborators,
and went on to become a bomb maker for
them.
It is up to convicts in Israeli prisons to
decide if they wish to speak to visitors,
who present themselves there without
giving the prisoners advance notice, and
then hope for the best. (Whatever the
best might mean in those circumstances,
of course.) That was how Mike Kelly met
Salameh.
The convicted bomber agreed to talk
to Mr. Kelly; in fact, Mr. Kelly said, he
appeared to welcome the chance to tell
his story. I think that I was hoping to see
some remorse, or at least some reflection on what he had done, Mr. Kelly
said. Lets be honest. He killed 46 people in three separate bombings. He built
the bombs that killed innocent unarmed
people and he recruited the suicide

MIKE KELLY

Matthew and Sara in Jerusalem, a few

months before they died; the Jaffa
Road stop where they boarded the
Number 18 bus.

bombers whose stupidity or blind ideology led them to their own deaths as well.
I have interviewed my share of criminals
before. Over the years, they start to have
some remorse. They start to reflect. Sometimes they have an enormous amount of
remorse sometimes you just see a little
crack.
With Salameh, I saw no crack. Nothing.
Zero. Nothing at all.
When he was asked if he recognized
Sara Dukers name, he said he did; when
he asked why he killed her, he said that she
had been in the wrong place at the wrong
time.
It was almost as if he was proud of the
fact that he had killed those people, Mr.
Kelly said. He had absolutely no remorse.
He was a stone cold killer; in fact, I think
there was a certain joy he felt in killing.
And then he turned around and justified
it, all in the name of God, as if this was
Gods work.

But when you break it down, it had

nothing to do with politics, with religion,
or with theology, unless you have a very
perverted theology.
It turns the stomach of any reasonable
person.
This says a great deal not only about
Salameh but about Mr. Kelly as well. Mike
Kelly is a seasoned journalist who has
reported many tough and sad stories. He
knows well how to distance himself. But
he also is a person, and he knows how to
filter human emotions through that dispassion. It leads to good writing, to intuitive
thinking, and to good journalism. (It can
also lead to nightmares.)
Mr. Kelly decided that to write the story
accurately, he would have to go to the
morgue and look at the pictures of the
bombing victims, to see what a bomb,
packed with shrapnel and hate to create the most damage possible would do,
as if straightforward death would not be

enough. It was one of the hardest things I

ever did, he said. As he already knew from
reading but saw graphically at the morgue,
the bombers head was detached entirely
from the body, and found, intact, not particularly close to the shredded neck.
You cant walk into a story like this
without feeling some personal attachment, Mr. Kelly said. I have pictures
of Sara and Matt and Alisa on my desk,
because I want to remind myself of who
was at the center of this.
My book is an attempt to break down
terrorism to see how it affects ordinary
people, he continued. You cant get away
from the fact that it is really nothing more
than wanton murder. I dont care how you
feel about Israel or the Palestinians. I have
an enormous amount of sympathy for
some of the Palestinian causes. But I draw
the line at murder.
We describe terrorist incidents now as
body counts; 50 people were killed, such
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and such an obscure group claims responsibility for such and such a reason. But in
the end, for the family of the victims its
not about politics. Its about Who killed
my daughter?
Salameh, meanwhile, had managed to
construct some meaning for himself.
I think that murder brought meaning
to his life, Mr. Kelly said. He was a loser,
and then he found meaning as an enforcer
and a mass murderer. Now, he added, Salameh has managed to redefine his murderous career to himself as a religious obligation, but does he believe it in his heart
when hes alone with himself which he
is most of the time? Although he doesnt
know the answer to that question, Mr.
Kelly said, he doesnt think so.
Until recently, suicide bombing had
not been seen as acceptable, much less
desirable, by most Muslim theology. But
right around the time of the Oslo peace
accords, in 1993, which was a critical
time, suicide bombings sort of jumped
the tracks.
Until then, it had been the work of Shia
Muslims. But in the early 1990s, largely
because a lot of Hamas operatives, who

A memorial to the victims, made of

pieces of bomb debris, stands in Jerusalem. 
MIKE KELLY

Steven and Alisa Flatow

are Sunni, had spent time with Hezbollah, who are Shia, Hamas took up the tactic as well.
Hamas started to embrace suicide
bombing as a military tactic in a big way,
he said. It became pretty much their primary tactic through the 1990s until the
mid 2000s.
The terrifying ideology behind it is a
complete redefining of martyrdom in the
Western world, Mr. Kelly said. For most
major religions Judaism, Christianity,
Hinduism, Buddhism this is a turning
on its head of what martyrdom is. For
all these religions, martyrdom is a last
resort; a person kills himself when there
is no choice other than self-inflicted death
or religion-specific dishonor. But for this
new Islamic theology, martyrdom involves
killing other people.
How widespread is this ideology among
Palestinians? I dont think its widespread, Mr. Kelly said. But it is nuanced.
I dont think that most Palestinians would
want to become suicide bombers. But
there is a passive tacit approval of these
kinds of attacks, not just by Palestinians but across the Muslim world. Many
of the people who believe that would be
regarded as good people, but they excuse
this behavior in the name of politics or the
oppressed. Thats where I think the issue
of terrorism needs to be attacked.

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There has to be some sense that yes,

you can disagree with people over the
Israel/Palestinian issue, but at the same
time dont tacitly approve of mass murder,
or of murder at all. Thats what I think is
really driving so much of the Middle East;
this overall issue of tacitly approving the
beheading of innocent people, the execution of all these small religious sects.
The question of whether this is inherent to Islam is the 800-pound gorilla in the
room. Nobody really wants to examine it.
But that examination cannot come from
the Western world. It has to come from
the Muslim world.
If this kind of terrorism is going to stop,
the Muslim world needs to really take a
look at itself, and ask what it can do to stop
this. Period. Thats what has to happen.
There are plenty of people in the Muslim
world who want to stop it, but they have to
stand up and say we want it to stop.
Meanwhile, there is Salameh, in prison.
I asked Salameh why he didnt do the
bombing himself, Mr. Kelly said. He said
That was not my role. I said, You are a
coward, and he said, Oh no, I am not a
coward. My role is to be a bomb maker.
He is ultimately closer to Charles Manson than he probably thinks he is.
Mr. Kelly also interviewed the father
of the suicide bomber, who was one of

nine children. The father grieved his sons

death without being able to understand
the choices that led him to embrace it.
Heres the great mystery, Mr. Kelly said.
The father is still struggling with why did
my son, who I thought was just a normal
kid, suddenly switch gears and become
a mass murderer? I dont think his parents were among the ones who tacitly
approved of suicide bombing, and I do
know that they are still struggling with the
fact that their son killed himself and 26
others. It is deeply unsettling to them. On
the one hand, they are devoted Muslims,
who believe that their son is in heaven, but
on the other hand, they know what he did
was terribly wrong.
Most of Mr. Kellys book is an examination of what happened after the bombings.
It is a convoluted legal and political saga.
Salameh was not tried in the United States
part of the problem is that Israels muchvaunted quick cleanup of crime scenes
destroys much of the evidence that would
lead to convictions.
But there also was little political will
in this country to pursue the murderers
of American citizens, for a set of complicated political reasons. Following the killers meant tracing the money and training
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were still going on then, although not
very actively, and politicians did not
want to disrupt them.
Meanwhile, Steven Flatow began his
fight in the civil court system, demanding damages for his daughters death
from the countries that had funded it.
Soon, Arline Duker and Vicki and Lenny
Eisenfeld joined the fight. The politics
that Mr. Kelly chronicles are Byzantine.
They wind through Cuba, pair unlikely
allies Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
with Senator Connie Mack (R-Fla), and
eventually see Hilary Clinton, then running for her first term as a senator from
New York, publicly disagreeing with her
husband, the president, on the issue.

Not only are the murdered students

characters in the book, so too is the
passage of time. Alisa, Matt, and Sara
were young when they were killed; they
would be nearing middle age now. It
is a story that in some ways is frozen in
time, but takes place over two decades,
Mr. Kelly said. I visited many of Sara
and Matts friends. They were in their
early 20s then. Now they are in their
early 40s, and their lives are set. Many
are working in high-end jobs as psychiatrists, lawyers, doctors who have
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to one was in China and no matter
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lives by these young people who were killed.
Tears would well up in their eyes as I talked to them.
They knew that Matt and Sara were going to be married,
and they knew that they would be immensely successful.
Sara would be a research scientist, and Matt would be a
highly acclaimed rabbi, thinker, and talmudic scholar.
And they wouldnt only be highly successful. The two of
them both had such a generosity of heart that their friends
looked up to them. They would have had children, and

eventually grandchildren. It is still deeply sorrowful to their

friends that these two people, who both had so much potential not just professionally but personally, were cut down,
simply because they wanted to take a bus trip.
Among the friends to whom Mr. Kelly talked was Rabbi
Shai Held, who had been close to Matthew for years, and
through him also came to know Sara well. Rabbi Held, who
is now co-founder, dean, and chair in Jewish thought at
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incredibly special in that way. On the day after Matt
died, a New York Times reporter asked me a very poignant question why did you love Matt so much? And
I said that Matt always loved books but he always
remembered to love people more.
They were both like that in really moving ways. As
for Mike Kelly, Its pretty clear that this story touched
him in some really profound ways, Rabbi Held said.
Arline Duker found it hard to read The Bus On Jaffa
Road I would read 30, 40, 50 pages at a time, and
then say okay, thats enough but she did. I found
things in it that I hadnt known, she said.
Part of that is due to Mike Kellys skill. Hes a wonderful writer, and a genuinely kind, sensitive human
being, she said.
And part of it was because he was able to organize
information to which she had no access, or that she
was in no emotional condition to process, she said.
We decided to learn from Steve Flatow and see what
was possible, but there were so many twists and turns,
and honestly I was in no shape to take notes. I kept a
file but things kept happening, and this would fall
through or that senator would decide to do this or that
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not known each other well, became very close, and
they remain very close today. Arline Duker, who since
has remarried, had been widowed very young, with
three young daughters to raise. When Sara died, she,
her daughters, Vicki and Lenny Eisenfeld, and their
daughter melded into a new family.
The work that she had to do for the court case was to
show her daughter as a real person, not a faceless victim. Putting that information together was both painful and healing, but it was necessary. It was a shot at
doing something, Ms. Duker said. Making some kind
of statement. We never knew that our kids wouldnt
be coming home from Israel. You never know. But we
wanted to do something that someone could build on.
Doing nothing was not an option.
Steven Flatow is constitutionally incapable of doing
nothing.
Ive been doing things incrementally, but now that
this book has forced me to look back, I look at Alisas
picture, and I think that this kid really accomplished a
lot, Mr. Flatow said. This was her 20th yarzheit, and
shell be 40 next week.
Mike is an excellent reporter, he continued. Coincidentally, I thought Id get a copy of his book about
Teaneck that was Mr. Kellys first book Color Lines:
The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town, about the shooting of Phillip Pannell, the
case that shook Teanecks self-assurance about questions of race and class. It was the same year that Alisa
was murdered. I took it out of the library it is a big,
thick heavy book. I started reading the introduction,
and I said to myself, Boy, this will be a drag. And then
I read about Loretta Weinberg standing in front of
Town Hall in Teaneck, being hit in the head by a rock,
and he had me.
It was hard to put down, because of the chronological way that he approached things. It was not a
flat story. This is absolutely true of The Bus On Jaffa
Road too.
And the opportunity he had to interview Salameh
brings something different to the table, Mr. Flatow
continued.
It was a hard book for me to get through. I have it
on my desk; I have picked it up and put it down, read
a page here and there. I have to steel myself to read the
book from beginning to the end.
The legal fights around terrorists assets still are

going on; in fact, with recent court wins for Mr. Flatow
and then for another family fighting terrorists in court in
Brooklyn, it has heated up.
It also echoes in odd and moving ways.
Last school year, Avinoam Sharon, an Israeli who had
worked for years as a military prosecutor, and who had
prosecuted Hassan Salameh, left the military, studied,
and was ordained as a rabbi. Wanting still more engagement with the classical texts, he entered graduate school
at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan. It was
a surprising move, but Rabbi Sharon felt compelled to
make it.
He went downstairs in the seminary, as Mike Kelly tells
the story, and walked into the beit midrash, the study hall.
The plaque over its entry reads, Study is great for it leads
to action, and it was dedicated to the memories of Sara
Duker and Matthew Eisenfeld.
Rabbi Sharon told his story to the students sitting there,
who had been small children when Sara and Matt were
murdered. Weve come full circle, he said.

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It is April 1920, and violence erupts in the Old City of Jerusalem; violence in an area where for many decades Jews
& Arabs lived together in peace and harmony.
In the Jewish quarter, a young man and a young lady
meet for the first time. Each had volunteered separately
to come to the aid of the beleaguered Jews in the Jewish quarter. He angrily demanded that she tell him what
she was doing in this dangerous place, where 11 people
recently had been killed and more than 200 injured.
She retorted that it was none of his business, and made
an effort to grab his gun.
Their strident Yiddish attracted the attention of the British police, who separated them.
But their acrimonious encounter ended in romance
and marriage, and a son, Yitzhak Rabin, was born to them
in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922.
The man was Nehemia Robichov, born near Kiev in
1886. He immigrated to America and settled in Chicago
when he was young. He was active in Zionist Socialist circles, and loved the life there. In 1917 he volunteered for
service with the Jewish Legion of the British army, but he
was rejected for foot problems.
He was determined, however, so he changed his
name to Rabin, went to a different recruiting office, was
accepted, and went. On demobilization, he elected to stay
in the Yishuv .
Yitzkahs mother, Rosa Cohen, born in Russia in 1890,
was a non-Zionist, but very much devoted to socialism.
She fell foul of the Communist regime, though, she she
fled to Odessa, where the only ship in the harbor was
bound for Palestine. Once there she joined a kibbutz,
Kvutzat Kinneret, where she contracted malaria, and
went to Jerusalem to recuperate.
Shortly after Yitzhaks birth, the family settled in Tel
Aviv. Both parents worked and both were imbued with
a sense of duty. Rosa, in particular, with her strong will
and boundless energy, devoted most of her spare time to

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helping others. So Yitzhak and his sister Rachel, who was
born in 1925, seldom saw their parents. They led a Spartan
existence. It was only on Friday nights that the family sat
together for a meal.
Yitzhak was educated at Beit Hinuch, a school for workers children. The schools goal was to produce agricultural workers, who would establish new kibbutzim. This
was something of a national passion those days, especially
for youngsters raised in the labor movement.
After Beit Hinuch and an intermediate school, Yitzhak
went to the Kadouri Agricultural School, where he did
very well, and at his graduation the British High Commissioner handed him a diploma declaring him the best pupil
in the class. He also received a scholarship to study hydroengineering at the University of California in Berkeley. He
was tempted to accept, but he worried about defence
problems in the Yishuv, and it was during World War II,
so he declined the offer.
In 1941 the Haganah decided to establish special units
of permanently mobilised volunteers, known as the Palmach. Yitzhak Rabin joined, and it became his full time
occupation until the units were disbanded to become an
integral part of the Israel Defense Force. He rose in its
ranks from platoon leader to battalion chief instructor
and eventually brigade commander.
In June 1945, with World War II at an end, illegal immigration became a top priority. Rabin was the deputy
commander of an operation that rescued 200 illegal
immigrants from a British prison camp at Atlit. He was
arrested, and spent five months in a prison near Gaza. On
his release, he was given command of Palmachs second
battalion, and then he was appointed as deputy commander under Yigal Allon.
To the jubilation from Jews both in Palestine and the
rest of the world, on November 29, 1947, the United
Nations decided to partition Palestine into Jewish and
Arab sections, keeping Jerusalem as an international
enclave. The Arabs, however, rejected this decision,
and the war started then, although officially the War of

Independence began on May 14, 1948.

From November 1947 to July 1948, Rabin, the commander of
the Palmachs Harel brigade, was preoccupied with the battle
for Jerusalem. The main road to Tel Aviv, which ran through
and near many Arab villages, was a problem, and so was the
city itself, with its 90,000 beleaguered Jewish inhabitants. More
than 200 soldiers in his brigade lost their lives, and 600 were
wounded. Although they failed to take the Old City, Rabin and
his men secured unbroken control of West Jerusalem. In the

wars last stage, Rabin, as chief of operations of the southern

front, drove the invading Egyptian forces out of the Negev and
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When the war ended Rabin decided that he would remain in
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officers, he felt he owed a debt of honor to the 6,000 who

died in the war, and to those whose courage and sacrifices
had blocked the Arab advance. He dedicated himself to
building a mighty army. He soon rose in the ranks, often
working from 18 to 20 hours a day to improve the quality
of combat units.
In the early 1950s the army had to deal with an urgent
non-military problem, helping with the absorption of tens
of thousands of Jews from North Africa by providing medical and other services to improve the camp conditions.
The battle of the transit camps would be recorded
as one of the army`s splendid victories, he wrote in his
autobiography.
Rabin was promoted to major general, and in 1956 he
became head of the Northern Command. (Because he was
in that area, he did not take part in the 1956 Sinai campaign.) In 1964 he was promoted to become chief of staff
of the Israeli army.
In May 1967, Egypt ordered United Nations troops out
of Sinai, and later it blocked the Straits of Tiran to Israeli
shipping. It was an act of war, but Israels political leaders
hoped that the United States, or the international community, would step in to open the Straits.
On June 4, the cabinet , which included Moshe Dayan
as defense minister, voted for war. Within three hours in
the early morning of June 5, the Israeli Air Force totally
destroyed Egypts air force and bases, and within six
days the Old City was in Jewish hands and Jerusalem was
united.
The West Bank, Gaza, the Sinai desert, and the Golan
heights were captured, and the Israel Defence Force captured three times as much territory as Israel had controlled a week before. However, it also had to contend
with a hostile population of one million Arabs, and with
its territorial conquests Israel would not be left in peace.
That was the Six Day War; it was Yitzhak Rabin, as chief
of staff, who planned and was in command of it. It was
Israels most outstanding victory.
With the war at an end, and his term as chief of staff
completed, Rabin asked Prime Minister Levi Eshkol to
nominate him as Israel`s ambassador to the United States.
Eshkol was amazed. Hold on to me, Yitzhak, or Ill fall out
of my chair, he said. Rabin was ambassador from 1968
to 1973.In spite of his lack of diplomatic finesse and protocol, his shyness, and his dislike of cocktail parties, his
straight talk and sincerity appealed to many. Of course,
being the architect of Israels stunning victory in the Six
Day War greatly enhanced his prestige and opened many
doors to him. He was held in high esteem, and had excellent relationships with President Nixon, Henry Kissinger,
Senator Henry Scoop Jackson, and many others. He was
very successful in convincing the Americans that it was in
their interest to help Israel defend itself, so that the Soviet
Union would not get the upper hand in the Middle East.
By the time he left, the relationship between Israel and
the United States was strong, and the United States saw
Israel as a strategic asset in the Middle East.
On his return to Israel in March 1973, Rabin entered
politics. He was the 20th slot in the Labor Partys list
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and Shimon Peres, center, on winning the Nobel
Peace Prize.
The war cost Israel many lives, and it caused the public
to lose confidence in the countrys political and military
leaders. A commission was established to investigate the
causes of the war, and although Prime Minister Golda
Meir was found to be blameless, she resigned. Rabins role
in the war was was minimal, so he was the only Labor
Party representative who was not responsible for any failure. Rabin beat Shimon Peres in the partys leadership
election, and he became prime minister in 1974, at 52.
During his three years in office, Henry Kissingers shuttle
diplomacy led to an interim agreement between Israel
and Egypt, and that led to the opening of the Suez Canal,
closed since 1967.
July 1976 saw the raid on Entebbe; more than 100 Israeli
hostages were rescued. Rabin`s popularity skyrocketed.
It was election time again, and Rabin was chosen as the
Labor Partys candidate. But when it became known that
Leah Rabin held a foreign currency account in Washington, which was illegal at the time, Rabin resigned to stand
at his wifes side. The elections were held a month later,
but Likud won. Menachem Begin became prime minister
in 1977.
In 1981 Labor again lost to Likud. After the 1984 elections Peres became prime minister for two years, and
Shamir for the next two. Rabin was minister of defense
throughout that time. Although Rabin initially took a
tough stance on the war in Lebanon, he was no hawk. He
was interested only in Israels security. In 1985 he formulated a plan for a staged withdrawal from Lebanon, with
a small force in the security zone north of Israels border.
In December 1987 the first intifada erupted, and Rabin
decided that if the Palestinian question were to be settled,
he would have to find negotiation partners among them.
Those partners were Arafat and the PLO. Rabin never
expected to hold onto the territories forever. He knew that
the Arabs who lived there were hostile to the occupation.
In the 1992 elections Rabin again became prime minister,
and he and Peres worked closely together. They shared
the same ideal peace but the road to peace with security was no bed of roses.
The Madrid peace conference met for the sixth time in
September 1992, but again failed to achieve any tangible
results but within a year a peace treaty was signed at
the White House. A first step toward that goal was Peres
mooting the Gaza First plan. Rabin also made clear that
he was prepared to make major territorial concessions for
peace, and called a halt to more housing construction on
the West Bank.
Without telling either Rabin or Peres, Israels deputy
foreign minister, Yossi Beilin, managed to set up a secret
channel of communication in Oslo between Israel and the
Palestinians. Norwegian officials were the intermediaries.
The idea of self-rule in Gaza became an acceptable starting point for negotiations there. Later, this was extended
to Gaza and Jericho first. Rabin balked at the thought of

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negotiating with Arafat at the beginning,

but soon he came to realize that if a deal
was to be struck, it had to be with Arafat.
With the help of the Norwegians, Israel
made more contacts with the PLO. A declaration of principles providing for troop
withdrawals from Gaza and Jericho and
eventual self-rule was formulated. That was
hard for Rabin, and he insisted that the PLO
had to recognize Israels right to exist and
undertake to stop all violence. In return
Israel had to recognize the PLO as the sole
representative of the Palestinians.
Early in September 1993 the Norwegian
intermediary brought a signed letter of
acceptance of the negotiations from Arafat,

We will continue
with our efforts
towards peace
as if there is no
terror, and we
will fight terror
as if there is no
peace process.
YITZAK RABIN

and Rabin countersigned it. On September

13, 1993, in a widely televised ceremony at
the White House, the document known as
Oslo I was signed.
In his speech, Rabin said, We who have
fought you, we say to you today in a loud
and clear voice, enough of blood and tears.
Enough! Reluctantly, he shook Arafats
outstretched hand.
But despite the fanfare and the speeches,
the success of the peace treaty depended
on the absence of violence and a good
working relationship between Rabin and
Arafat, which gradually developed.
The dove of peace was being fired
upon from all sides, though. The massacre of 29 Arabs in Hebron, and the
many suicide bombing attacks on targets in Israel, almost put paid to further
talks. But both sides were determined to
continue their efforts toward peace. As
Rabin said, We will continue with our
efforts towards peace as if there is no terror, and we will fight terror as if there is
no peace process.
King Hussein of Jordan, who had met
Rabin and others secretly many times,
now indicated his willingness to sign a
peace treaty between Israel and Jordan.
This was done on October 26, 1994, at a
border point in the Arava dessert. Hussein promised that it would be a warm
peace, unlike the cold peace with Egypt.
For their efforts as soldiers for peace,
Rabin, Peres, and Arafat shared the 1994
Nobel Peace Prize.

During the next two years the two sides

met many times. Self-rule was extended to
many other cities on the West Bank, and
a second peace agreement, Oslo II, was
signed at the White House on September
28th September 1995.
Tangible results of the peace process
were clearly evident. Many countries now
wished to establish diplomatic relations or
near diplomatic relations with Israel. This,
along with Israels growing participation in
international bodies, was a sure sign of its
enhanced status, The peace process had
reconciled much of the Arab world to Israels existence.
But in Israel, the divide between proponents of the peace process and those who
distrusted it widened considerably. In the
Knesset, the agreement was passed with
an extremely narrow majority: 61 for, 59
against. Public opinion polls showed that
support for the peace process had waned.
On the evening of November 4, 1995, at
a well attended peace rally in Tel Aviv, a
young religious Jewish student, Yigal Amir,
fired a fatal shot at Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
The assassination shocked the whole
nation. How could a sane religious Jew feel
himself justified in killing a fellow Jew? Killing the democratically elected prime minister? Were the differences dividing the
nation so wide, so unbridgeable, that it was
necessary to resort to bloodshed?.
Representatives of 80 countries were
at Rabins funeral on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Many were from Arabic-speaking
countries. This was a sure sign that the tiny
state of Israel had taken its place among
the nations of the world and a sign of its
recognition as a legitimate Middle Eastern
nation.
King Hussein was among the speakers
at the funeral. In an emotional voice, he
said, You died as a soldier for peace, and
I believe that it is time for all of us speak of
peace between Jews and Arabs for all time
to come.
President Clinton said, Look at the
leaders from all over the Middle East and
around the world who have come today to
pay homage to Yitzhak Rabin and for his
efforts to secure peace. Your prime minister died as a martyr for peace, but a victim
of hate. Now it is up to us who love peace to
carry on the struggle for peace.
Noa Artzi-Pelossoff, Rabins granddaughter, made an emotional speech eulogising
her grandfather. Her speech was highlighted on television broadcasts not only in
Israel, but across the world.
Peace, peace with security, will be a lasting memorial to his life, his tragic demise.
May his memory be blessed.
Jack Reisner of Fort Lee was born in Riga,
Latvia, and grew up in South Africa. He and
his wife, Hilda, made aliyah to Israel in 1990
and left for the United States in 2001 to be
with their children and grandchildren. Mr.
Reisner has lectured on Rabin and on Zionist
subjects in both Israel and the United States.

The chicken gate fallout

for America, Israel,
and the Middle East
in Damascus has resulted
directly in the deaths of
aftali Bennett,
thousands of innocent SyrIsraels econians. Blissfully dismissive
omy minister,
of their own failings, they
got it 100 perround on Netanyahu, a
cent right in a Facebook
man who served with disposting just a few hours
tinction in his countrys
after the latest blow to
elite Sayeret Matkal army
Ben Cohen
American-Israeli relations
unit, by calling him, of all
aka chicken gatesurthings, a coward!
faced in the media.
And thats not the only
Responding to the anonyepithet. As Goldberg
mous senior Obama administration offipointed out, Over the years, Obama
cial who told the Atlantic correspondent
administration officials have described
Jeffrey Goldberg that Israeli Prime MinisNetanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myoter Benjamin Netanyahu was chicken ,
pic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering,
Bennett said, Cursing the prime minister
pompous, and Aspergery. (For those
and calling him names is an insult not just
unclear as to what that last term means,
to him but to the millions of Israeli citizens
its a pejorative description for people
and Jews across the globe. The leader of
with Asperger syndrome, a form of
Syria who slaughtered 150,000 people
autism, and its as nasty as calling somewas not awarded the label chicken . Neione a retard. Remember that next time
ther was the leader of Saudi Arabia, who
you hear another kumbaya lets heal
stones women and homosexuals, or the
speech from Obama.) You have to think
leader of Iran, who murders freedom
that sooner or later, the administration
protestors.
will join the chorus of confirmed IsraelI would have also added Qatar into the
haters by labeling Netanyahu as a baby
mix, as that terror-financing, slave-ownkiller and a war criminal.
ing Gulf emirate is also fawned over by
Sure, the Obama officials will say
the Obama administration, but Bennetts
that the Israelis started it, by citing the
point stands nonetheless. Our officials in
injudicious comments about Secretary
Washington come across as a vindictive
of State John Kerry said in private by
and petty bunch, accusing an ally of cowIsraeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.
ardice while hiding behind anonymity,
But Yaalon was man enough to apoloand guilty of hypocrisy in its rankest form.
gize for what he said, and that still didnt
Chicken ? Thats rich, coming
stop the administration from pursuing a
from an administration whose fear of
private vendetta against him, blocking
Vladimir Putin is the subject of derisory
him from meeting with key officials like
mirth in the Kremlin, and whose cravenVice President Joe Biden during his recent
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Chickengate
FROM PAGE 41

visit to Washington. And while the Israelis wish they could turn back the clock
on Yaalons advice to Kerry to take his
Nobel Prize and leave us alone, Obamas
appointees see nothing wrong with insulting Netanyahu in such a grotesque manner because, you see, they are Right with
a rolling, upper case R, and therefore
anything goes.
Ive argued many times in this column
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Obama administration is a lost cause. The
only question now is how much damage
they will do before Obama departs the
White Housea day that cant come soon
enough, frankly.
The immediate danger lies on two
fronts. Firstly, the Palestinians. Any
doubts that the Obama administration
believes that Israel is responsible for the
stalemate with the Palestinians will have
been dispelled by Goldbergs revelations.
As far as Obama, Kerry, and company
are concerned, the primary problem is
Israels insistence in building new housing units in its undivided capital, Jerusalem. Their impatience could reach the
point where the United States no longer
backs Israel at the United Nations, thereby
allowing Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbass crusade for unilateral
recognition to reach fruition. In the event
of such an outcome, Israel could find itself
worryingly isolated, as the European governments are anxiously awaiting a signal
from the Americans that its okay to abandon the Jewish state. If so, we will then be
confronted with the edifying spectacle of
the worlds democracies aligning themselves with tyrannies from Venezuela to
Iran in singling out Israel for opprobrium.
Secondly, the Iranians. The deadline for
a final deal over the mullahs nuclear ambitionsNovember 24is upon us. Perhaps
Obama thinks that cursing Netanyahu
will persuade Irans Supreme Leader, the
brutal Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to accept

a deal. Judging by the breathlessly excited

manner with which the regimes Englishlanguage outlet, the Holocaust-denying
Press TV, greeted chicken gate, the president might be onto something.
But what benefits will a historic accord
with the Iranians bring us? Very few,
whereas the costs will be enormous.
For a start, this isnt just about Israel.
We will alienate the conservative Arab
states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, all of
them already angry and frustrated with
Obamas kowtowing to Tehran. We will
permit an Islamist state to become a
nuclear power, at the same time that it
backs terrorist organizations like Hamas
and Hezbollah with money and weapons. We will lose our leverage over the
Iranians, in the form of biting sanctions,
with few resource at our disposal to compel them to cooperate with international
nuclear inspectors when they startas
they inevitably willobstructing them
at every turn. And we risk, again, the
prospect of an Israeli pre-emptive strike,
because whatever else Netanyahu might
be, hes no chicken .
Umpteen immediate questions remain.
Among them: Will Obama apologize for
the chicken remark? Will he publicly
name and discipline the officials who
showered Netanyahu with insults? What
will he do if the Iranians decline to make
a deal?
But the biggest question of all is a longterm one. What will the strategic map of
the Middle East look like once Obama
is done? Thats what should be occupying the minds of Israels leaders, who
are painfully aware that Obamas peace
efforts can only lead to more conflict and
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TEL AVIV Anna Varsanyi was married in
an Orthodox Jewish ceremony conducted
through Israels Chief Rabbinate in 2012.
Two years later, the Hungarian immigrant has made a life in Israel, settling
with her husband in the central city of
Modiin and working a desk job in a hospital. She is weeks away from having her
first child.
But the baby wont be Jewish, according
to the State of Israel.
Varsanyi, 30, is the victim of an unusual
bureaucratic mix-up.
Israel abounds with immigrants who
are considered Jewish by the state but not
by the Orthodox chief rabbinate, under its
stricter qualifications. Varsanyi is the rare
case in which the opposite is true.
Born to a Jewish mother, Varsanyi
meets the chief rabbinates standards for
who is a Jew. But Israel claims Varsanyi
isnt Jewish because her mother converted to Christianity.
Varsanyi says her mother is Jewish and
it was her great-grandmother who converted in 1930.
Its like they tell you, Come, make
aliyah, youre Jewish, youre one of us,
Varsanyi said. But when youre already
here, they say Youre second-class, youre
not one of us. So you might as well leave.
Born under Hungarys Communist
regime to a Jewish mother and a nonJewish father, Varsanyi grew up barely
aware of her Jewish heritage. But a growing interest in her Jewish roots led her to
study Yiddish literature and culture at university and to register for a 10-day Birthright Israel trip. Next came a year abroad
at the University of Haifa, where she met
her Israeli future husband. After a stint
working for the Jewish Agency for Israel
in Budapest, she immigrated in 2011.
Varsanyi gained citizenship under the
Law of Return, which requires only one
Jewish grandparent for an immigrant for
automatic citizenship. Varsanyis maternal
grandfather was unambiguously Jewish.
But when Israels Interior Ministry
saw a document concerning her greatgrandmothers conversion, they refused
to register her as Jewish, claiming she
was raised Christian. To be recognized
as Jewish, the ministry told Varsanyi, she
needed to convert.
Except Varsanyi cant convert because
she is already Jewish according to Jewish law, which doesnt recognize conversions to other religions. The chief rabbinates of both Israel and Hungary consider
Varsanyi, her mother, her grandmother,
and her great-grandmother to be Jewish.
Its hard to imagine anybody more
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someone like Anna, said Rabbi Seth Farber, the founder of Itim, an Israeli organization that guides people with religious
status issues through Israeli bureaucracy.
Theyre simply not looking at the facts.
This womans basic rights are being violated, and those of her unborn child are
being violated.
At first, the Interior Ministrys decision
had little effect. Varsanyi already had citizenship and was married, the two areas in
which issues of personal religious status
are most likely to cause problems.
But last year she began petitioning
the ministry for a change in status, worried that her future children would not
have their marriages recognized by the
government.
I think its ridiculous, Varsanyi said.
Why would they force me to convert
when Im Jewish? If I didnt have principles or problems Id say let them win. But
I wouldnt be able to face myself.
The ministry has rebuffed her requests,
claiming that her mother converted from
Judaism before she was born. Varsanyi
says this is not true, that it was her greatgrandmother who converted.
The ministry also has refused to rely
on the chief rabbinates recognition of
Varsanyi as Jewish, despite a 2012 law
allowing it to do so. Interior Ministry
spokeswoman Sabin Haddad said that the
ministry has asked the rabbinical court
that declared Varsanyi Jewish for an explanation but has yet to receive a response.
After several rejections, Varsanyi has
come to feel like the ministrys employees
dont give a crap. She said she once met
with a ministry official, who after reading
her papers said, I dont know what you
want because youre not Jewish.
It was traumatic , she said. I almost
cried. Like, Welcome to Israel: Youre not
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Where is Jerusalem?
Supreme Court considers congressional role in foreign policy
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON A lawyer for a boy born in
Jerusalem whose parents want Israel listed
as the birthplace on his U.S. passport tried
mightily this week to make a Supreme Court
hearing mainly about their wish, but the justices kept upping the ante.
That might mean bad news not just for
12-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky and his
folks. It also could present a problem for the
prospects of U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as
Israels capital should the court defer to the
Obama administrations argument that a 2002
law allowing the Israel listing infringes on the
presidents prerogative to set foreign policy.
Alyza Lewin, the lawyer who represented
Zivotofsky in oral arguments at the court Monday, acknowledged that the tenor of questioning indicated support among the justices for
the idea that the case hinges on the separation
of powers between the executive and legislative branches.
But in gamely parrying some tough questions in her first appearance before the

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nations highest court, Lewin sought to downplay the significance of recognizing Zivotofskys birthplace as Israel, saying it was an
issue of personal choice and not an attempt
to interfere with the presidents right to recognize foreign governments.
We gave the court alternative arguments,
that what you put on a passport does not
amount to recognition, Lewin said.
Monday marks the second time that the
Supreme Court has heard arguments on the
constitutionality of the 2002 law, which allows
U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel
listed as their birthplace on their passports.
The measure was enacted by President
George W. Bush, but both he and Obama
have declined to enforce it. The Zivotofskys
filed suit after the State Department refused
their request to list Menachems birthplace
as Israel.
In 2009, an appeals court ruled that the
passport question was a political issue beyond
the scope of the judiciary to decide. Three
years later, the Supreme Court overruled that
finding and ordered the lower court to rehear

Menachem Zivotofsky, left, and his father, Ari, stand in front of the Supreme Court
with their attorney, Alyza Lewin, and Lewins father, Nathan.
RIKKI GORDON LEWIN

the case. Last year, the appeals court

ruled that the executive branch prevailed
on matters of foreign policy, prompting
Zivotofsky to appeal again.
The justices seemed skeptical of
Lewins claim that the Zivotofskys bid did
not challenge the presidential recognition
prerogative.
What is the effect of this statute other
than something that goes to recognition?
Justice Elena Kagan asked.
This statute is a statute that was created to give individuals the right to selfidentify as they choose that they were
born in Israel, Lewin replied.
Kagan said that if that were true, this
is a very selective vanity plate law, noting that Americans born in Northern Ireland could not identify as being born in
Ireland. And for that matter, Kagan said,
if you are an American born in Jerusalem today, you cant get the right to say
Palestine.
Anthony Kennedy, often the swing justice on the nine-member court who more
often than not sides with the conservative
wing, also seemed skeptical of Lewins
claim.
Do you want us to say in our opinion
that this is not a political declaration? he
asked.
Lewin answered in the affirmative.
Well then, Kennedy said. Im not
sure why that Congress passed it then.
Like Bush before him, Obama maintains that changing the wording on passports would damage the American role
as a peace broker in the Middle East by
favoring an Israeli claim to Jerusalem.
Since Israel declared independence in
1948, the United States has maintained
that no country has sovereignty over
Jerusalem and that the citys status must
be determined by negotiations.
A win for the Obama administration
would inhibit Congress ability to affect
foreign policy, said Marc Stern, the general counsel for the American Jewish
Committee, which filed an amicus brief
on behalf of Zivotofsky. Such an outcome
could have an immediate impact by, for

example, limiting congressional ability

to restrict the dimensions of a nuclear
deal with Iran, he said.
It wont be just a decision on presidential power around the world, it will also be
understood as undercutting Israeli claims
to Jerusalem, Stern said. In the real
world it will have impact and well have to
figure out what to say at that point. What
does that mean for what the administration says about a final settlement, and is
west Jerusalem up for grabs?
Lewin said she was not concerned that
a decision, even one that goes against
her client, would have such broad ramifications. The Roberts court has been
known for narrowly casting its decisions
and avoiding far-reaching constitutional
conclusions.
I dont see this court writing an opinion giving the executive branch such
broad power in foreign policy that it cuts
out Congress from that role, said Lewin,
the daughter of seasoned Supreme Court
lawyer Nathan Lewin.
Alyza Lewin did acknowledge, however, that the ruling could have far-reaching import for Jews and their attachment
to Jerusalem.
Getting this practice changed is very
important psychologically, regardless of
separation of powers, she said. And
this case has raised awareness. Before
this, many people were unaware that
the formal position of the United States
is not recognizing Israels capital as
Jerusalem.
Nathan Diament, the Orthodox Unions
Washington director, which filed an
amicus brief on behalf of Zivotofsky, said
that while Lewin was casting her case as
being about one persons choice, it had
broader meaning.
There are many American Jews and
other Americans who think its absurd
that the United States and other world
governments do not extend to Israel the
courtesy they extend to other countries
by recognizing where its government
sits as its capital and has not located its
embassy there, he said. JTA WIRE SERVICE

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BRIEFS

U.S. Jewish day school

enrollment rises,
non-Orthodox enrollment down
Enrollment at American Jewish day schools has increased by
12 percent since the last study on the issue in 2009, and 37 percent since 1999. Enrollment at non-Orthodox schools, however, is down, according to The Avi Chai Foundations newly
released fourth census of Jewish day schools.
Enrollment at chasidic schools has grown 110 percent and
enrollment at yeshivas has grown 60 percent, the census
shows. Non-Orthodox enrollment, meanwhile, now accounts
for only 13 percent of total Jewish day school enrollment in the
United States, a decrease of 20 percent since 1999.
There are 861 Jewish day schools in 37 states across the U.S.
and the District of Columbia. In New Jersey and New York,
enrollment has grown by 116 percent and 45 percent, respecJNS.ORG
tively, since the 1999 census.

Knesset passes bill preventing

leniency for terrorists
The Knesset on Monday approved a bill to prevent leniency
for convicted terrorists. The legislation says that the Israel
Prison Service Parole Board will be unable to discuss the early
release of terrorists, especially those whose cases entailed
aggravating circumstances, unless they had already served at
least 15 years of their sentence.
The parole board will also be barred from commuting life

sentences imposed on terrorists for a period of under 40

years, while the government cannot release terrorists as part
of what the bill calls foreign relations and security matters. The presidents pardoning authority, however, is not
affected by the measure.
MK Shuli Mualem-Rafaeli (Habayit Hayehudi) said the legislation strives to ensure that terrorists who committed heinous murders would no longer be eligible for early release,
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even by the government.

Netanyahu secretly meets Jordans

king over Temple Mount tension
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordans King Abdullah met secretly in Amman on Saturday in an effort to ease
tensions over the Temple Mount.
According to a report published in Kuwaits Al-Jarida newspaper on Monday, the two leaders agreed to increase coordination between the Israeli government and the Jordanian
Waqf, which oversees the Temple Mount site under the terms
of the 1995 Israel-Jordan peace treaty.
The report also said that Netanyahus statement on Saturday night calling on Israeli politicians to ease their rhetoric on
the Temple Mount was directly related to his meeting with
Abdullah.
Last week, Israel temporarily closed the Temple Mount to
all worshippers after an Arab man attempted to assassinate
activist Yehudah Glick, a promoter of Jewish access to the
Temple Mount. The move came following weeks of Muslim
riots and assaults on Jewish residents, including the recent

attack on a Jerusalem light rail station that killed two people.

But after pressure from U.S. and Muslim leaders, the Israeli
police decided to re-open the Temple Mount ahead of Muslim
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prayers on Friday.

Syrian state-run news agency

launches Hebrew-language website
The Syrian governments official news agency, SANA, has
launched two news pages on its website in order to convey
the truth about what is taking place in Syria to readers in
Israel and Iran.
SANA officially launched versions of its website in Hebrew
and Persian, joining the existing pages in Arabic, English,
French, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, and Spanish.
The editor and translator of the Hebrew page, Khalid alHamad, said that it is necessary to address Israel in its own
language, which can far better serve the Resistance and its
project against the occupation, Haaretz reported.
Al-Hamad added that the new website would help expose
the role Israel has been playing in Syrias civil war. The Syrian government has long blamed outside entities for instigating the rebellion, including Israels Mossad and Americas
CIA.
Israel has tried to avoid getting involved in the Syrian civil
war and has only launched limited strikes when its interests
are directly affected, such as responding to stray artillery
fire in the Golan Heights or striking weapons conveys destined for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
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Keeping Kosher
Healthy eating
to survive the
holidays
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades hosts the Womens
Enrichment for Longevity and Life Symposium (WELL)
on Friday, November 21. It is co-chaired by Debby Bacharach and Fran Weingast.
The program, Healthy Eating to Survive the Holidays,
offers helpful tools on how to overcome temptations to
overeat and overindulge during the holidays, stock a
healthy pantry, and prepare holiday menus that will be
delicious and nutritious.
Presenters include Stephanie Middleberg, MS, RD,
CDN, nutritionist/founder, Middleberg Nutrition, New
York City; and Amie Valpone, editor-in-chief of thehealthyapple.com, personal chef, culinary nutritionist,
and food photographer.
The JCC features two WELL events each year. The
forums are a place where women can ask questions
and get the answers they need from experts who can
empower them to make better-informed decisions.
Register online at www.jccotp.org. For information,
call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408-1405 or spotolsky@
jccotp.org.

Stephanie Middleberg

Bergen County pastry chef

creates award-winning OU-certified
gluten free flour
Glatt, Cedar Market, and Glatt Express in
Teaneck, Grand and Essex in Bergenfield,
and the Tenafly Gourmet Farm. In Rockland County it is at the Evergreen Kosher
Market, in Passaic it is at Kosher Konnection, and you can find it online at Blendsbyorly.com and Amazon.
Below is Ms. Gottesmans recipe for
gluten-free challah.

Gluten free challah

Amie Valpone

Makes one challah loaf or 10 mini rolls

rly Gottesman, a.k.a. Orly the

Baker, a 27-year-old French
pastry chef who trained at Le
Cordon Bleu in Australia, recognized a
void in the gluten-free market for flour
mixtures and created Blends by Orly.
Raised in Englewood, Ms. Gottesman
went to the Moriah and Frisch schools
and New York University. She commutes between New Jersey and Sydney,
where her husband, Josh, who cant eat
gluten, is based.
Blends by Orly won the new product
competition in the new mixes category
for this years upcoming Kosherfest.
Her award will be given at a ceremony
and breakfast on Tuesday, November
11, at Kosherfest at the Meadowlands
Expo center.
Blends by Orly is a line of five glutenfree flour blends made of all natural
ingredients. When used for baking,
the flour mimics the taste and texture
of baked goods made with wheat flour.
It is used as a one-to-one substitute for
wheat flour in recipes. Five different
flour blends are used to optimize flavor
in gluten-free baking. For example, a
baker will use London Blend for cookies and biscuits and Manhattan Blend
for challah.
Blends by Orly is sold all over the New
York metropolitan area. Locally it is at Best
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COMBINE THE FOLLOWING THREE

INGREDIENTS:
1 l/4 cups warm water
3/4 ounce or 1 tablespoon dry yeast
(one packet is 3/4 ounce)
1 teaspoon sugar
Let sit for 5 minutes until the yeast
bubbles slightly.
ADD AND MIX TOGETHER THE
FOLLOWING WET INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup honey
1 large egg
1/3 cup oil
MIX THESE DRY INGREDIENTS
TOGETHER SEPARATELY:
3 1/3 cups (16 ounces) Blends by Orly
Manhattan Blend
1/3 cup oats
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
Add the dry ingredients to the wet
mixture and mix together (Orly likes
to use a stand mixer with the paddle
attachment) until all ingredients are
incorporated about 30 seconds.
The mixture should not be wet like a
batter; it should be sticky.
Cover a workspace with Manhattan Blend or white rice flour since the
dough is sticky, shape the challah, and
put the dough into an oil-sprayed loaf
pan - or evenly distribute the mixture into 10 balls/rolls using a large ice
cream scoop onto a baking pan with
parchment paper.
Let the dough sit in a warm and
moist area for 30-45 minutes covered
with a warm wet towel to let it rise.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Brush the top of the risen challah (or
rolls) with a lightly beaten egg and
bake for approximately 30 minutes, or
until the color is a golden brown and
the outside is crispy.

Keeping Kosher

Discussion of
Jewish soul food
at Manhattan
museum

Manischewitz debuts
newest products at
Kosherfest
The Manischewitz Company will showcase new products for Thanksgiving, Shabbat, Passover. New products include Season Sardines, which are now skinless,
boneless, and in hot sauce; gluten-free options for Passover and year-round, including crackers, matzahs, matzah ball mixes, brownie mix, noodles, and carrot cake
macaroons. There are also raisin and spcie cookies,
an expanded Kitni line, and non-GMO certification for
some Manischewitz products.
Go to the companys new website, www.manischewitz.com, for kosher recipes, new contests, and more.

anna Gur, author of Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk

to Marrakesh, will join James Beard-nominated
cookbook author Jayne Cohen for a lively discussion about Ms. Gurs new book. The talk will be at the
Museum of Jewish HeritageA Living Memorial to the
Holocaust on Sunday, November 23 at 2:30 p.m., as part
of the popular 92Y @MJH book series.
Tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by
calling the museum box office at (646) 437-4202.
Below is a recipe from Ms. Gurs book

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OVER RED RICE (IRAQI)
FOR GARNISH (OPTIONAL)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/3 cup blanched almonds (halved or slivered)

First the chicken is cooked in water, tomato paste,

and spices, then the spiced cooking liquid is used
to make delicious red rice. While the rice is cooking,
the chicken is shredded; slowly sauted with onions,
almonds, and raisins; and then served over the rice.
Save any leftover red riceit makes a delicious side
for beef, chicken, and fish dishes.
-JG
serves 4 to 6
4 chicken legs (thighs and drumsticks)
5 cups water
7 ounces tomato paste
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon sweet paprika
pinch of hot paprika or cayenne pepper (optional)
salt
2 cups long-grain white rice
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 large onions, thinly sliced
pinch of hot paprika or ground turmeric (optional)
1 teaspoon baharat spice mix (see recipe below or
store-bought)
1/2 cup blanched almonds (halved or slivered)
1/2 cup golden raisins

Place the chicken legs in a medium saucepan. Mix

the water, tomato paste, cumin, paprika, and cayenne
(if using) in a bowl. Pour over the chicken. Partially
cover, bring to a boil, and simmer for about 1 hour over
low heat until the chicken is tender. Toward the end of
cooking, taste and season with salt.
While the chicken is cooking, soak the rice in water for
15 minutes. Rinse in cold water several times until the
water runs clear. Drain in a colander.
Remove the cooked chicken to a plate with a slotted spoon and set aside to cool. Measure 3 cups of
hot cooking liquid and return it to the saucepan. Add 1
heaping teaspoon salt. Add the rice and bring to a boil.
Lower the heat, cover tightly, and simmer over low heat
for 20 minutes. Open the lid, fluff the rice with a fork,
cover, and let stand for 5 to 10 minutes.
While the rice is cooking, heat the vegetable oil in
a large shallow saucepan. Add the sliced onions and
saut over medium-low heat until soft and golden, at
least 10 minutes. Season with salt, a dash of turmeric (if
using), and the baharat.
When the chicken is cooled enough to be handled
with bare hands, remove and discard the skin and the
bones. Shred the meat into small pieces and add to the
onions. Add the almonds and saut for 5 to 6 minutes
over medium heat. Add the raisins and saut for another minute.
Prepare the garnish (if using). Heat the vegetable oil
in a small frying pan and toss the almonds until golden
and crisp. To serve, mound the chicken and onion mixture over the rice and garnish with toasted almonds.

Homemade baharat
Baharat spice mix is available at Middle Eastern grocery stores, specialty markets, and online. You can
also make your own. Grinding whole spices is ideal,
but preground ones are fine, too.
-JG
1 tablespoon ground cardamom
1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons ground allspice
1 1/2 teaspoons ground nutmeg

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

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Dear Rabbi
Dear Rabbi: Your Talmudic advice column
Dear Rabbi,
Many of my Orthodox male friends will not
listen to a woman sing. What is that about?
Humming in Hackensack
Dear Humming,
Bans or prohibitions against certain
actions deemed dangerous or socially
unacceptable are common in all societies
and religions. Every town has a speeding
limit. And we know that Jews are not supposed to eat pork.
Your simple direct question penetrates into one troubling taboo directed
at women but not at men. In parts of the
Orthodox Jewish world, men may sing for
women, but women may not sing for men.
Any observer can identify such an
injunction as uneven and one-sided.
Not surprising. Within synagogues in
nearly all Orthodox Jewish communities,
women are segregated from men. They
are instructed to sit behind a curtain or
divider. In many arenas of Orthodox society women also are told to dress modestly
and cover up their arms and legs.
To me it seems that a modesty dress
code is another form of the segregation of
women from the presence of men.
And you do not have to be a feminist to
reckon that the ban on women singing is
yet an added extension of segregation, an
act of discrimination, one more denial of
rights directed solely at women.
Now we know in general that the explanation or rationalization of taboos can
be extensive and interesting to hear and
even compelling in its substance. In this
case, the rabbis propose that the ban on
women singing to men is to regulate the
degree of sexuality that may be expressed
and exposed in public. All good and well.
I have no argument about whatever basis
people of faith choose to justify their
actions or proscriptions.
The trouble with the taboo you ask
about is that it applies in one direction and
not the other, that women may not sing for
men.
If this ban is based on sexuality, then
the stricture says to us that figuratively a
womans singing voice is an extension of
her vagina, which of course she cannot
display in public. Is it not fair then to ask,
Is a mans singing voice a manifestation of
his penis? Is it okay for a man to parade

around his sexuality but the same is not

allowed for a woman? Or is singing not at
all a sexual display? Which one is it?
If you think that such questions about
Jewish men and women are ludicrous,
try these. Are we ever going to say that
the men are allowed to eat pork, but the
women are not? That the men are permitted to steal, but the women are forbidden?
You asked what the singing taboo is all
about? Its reasonable to say that it is about
segregation based on gender, the denial of
equal rights to women, and discrimination
against women. You may ask then, Arent
all of those practices unacceptable in our
modern Western societies?
Ye s s i r. Ye s m aa m . T h e y a re
unacceptable.
Dear Rabbi,
My friend gets up early every morning to
study a daily Talmud page. By doing this he
will go through the entire Talmud in seven
years. His daily lesson lasts 30 minutes.
I know the value Judaism places on Torah
study, but I wonder about the quality of such
hurried study. In my experience the contents
of the Talmud are complex and nuanced. Of
what benefit is it to rapidly recite passages
and to speed-read through their meanings?
Skim Free in New Milford
Dear Skim,
You touch on a sensitive issue. Many Jews
believe that learning Talmud is the epitome of studying Torah. In turn they consider that practice to be the apex of all
the commandments. Torah-study is an
enriched ritual because serious learning
may lead to inner cognition, to increased
knowledge, and even to expertise. The
highest goal of Talmud study is to become
a lamdana learned master of the Talmud.
With that in mind, let me pose a few
pointed talmudic questions to extend your
inquiry. Can anyone become a lamdan
through Daf Yomi study alone? Unlikely.
It often takes weeks of intensive study to
get through the study of the Tosafot, Rishonim, and Achronim (i.e., the major commentaries) on a single side of a page of the
Talmud.
And it is fair to ask, What is the content
retention rate of the average page-a-dayTalmud student? Probably low. And so
if they do not become lamdanim, what

The Dear Rabbi column offers timely advice based on timeless Talmudic
wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all varieties
and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first Friday of the
month. Send your questions to DearRabbi@jewishmediagroup.com.

48 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 7, 2014

ritual is how the mikvah

do they get out of the daily
connects them in a magical
study? We can reason that
way to the innermost lives
after seven and a half years
of their mothers, who pracof plowing through every
ticed the same formal mikpage of the Talmud, some of
vah procedure.
them do absorb a great deal,
Dipping in a mikvah also
while others actually retain
is an integral rite in a conlittle and remain unenlightversion to Judaism. And that
ened about the bulk of the
Rabbi Tzvee
is where the latest scandal
contents of the Talmud.
Zahavy
Does everyone who
occurred. To many of us, the
accomplishes the goal of
bad acts of a rabbi were troubling enough to disrupt the
going through the whole Talmud feel good about themselves? Probmagic of the ritual, that tacit allowance we
permit ourselves that makes a bath into
ably yes. To use sports metaphors, even
an enchanted personal transformation. A
those who do not run the whole race can
feel a sense of accomplishment just by pardebauched rabbi violated the privacy of
ticipating in a marathon. Even those who
the immersion of numerous women converts. For many who heard it, the sad news
go to the practice batting cage to hit softof those acts poisoned the sacred well of
balls can imagine they are at bat in a major
the mikvah.
league game in Yankee Stadium.
Of this we can be certain. The extensive
I tried to understand the plight of my
time allotted daily to Talmud study is quite
sisters by thinking in terms of an analogy.
a hefty way for people to say to themselves
As an avid daily lap swimmer for many
and their families and communities: these
years, I know how refreshing and invigorating and healthy a workout in the pool
are my precious values and I invest a lot of
can be. And yet I also discovered that at
my time and energy in them.
times, the positive values of water can be
Yes, frequent attendance at daf yomi
disrupted. Sometimes because of errors or
or at other adult education opportunities
ineptness, the pool I swim in gets too hot
in synagogues and communities are worthy endeavors. Please do keep in mind
for comfortable lap swimming or the chlorine chemical level gets too high and the
also that becoming a learned Jew through
water becomes toxic. That for sure spoils
deeper toil and study is an even more worthy undertaking.
the enjoyment of my swimming. And it
can affect my health. But I work hard to
Dear Rabbi,
get that fixed. And I keep coming back to
On the one hand, after reading about a rabbi
swim. Its a consistent, even a constant
who repeatedly used the ritual of women
part of my life.
immersing as an opportunity to engage in
Sure, I know that my inconveniences
voyeurism, Im turned off to the whole idea
in lap swimming are not anywhere near
of ritual bathing in a mikvah.
equivalent to violations of a womans intimate privacy during her performance of a
On the other hand, I know Ill feel guilty
religious ritual. But my suggestion to you,
about abandoning one of my religious practices, which had meaning for me in the past.
via my loose metaphor, is that you try your
What should I do?
best to continue to do those healthy posiSlams Dunking in Teaneck
tive things that you do, those activities of
your life that in crucial ways define you.
Dear Slams,
When the motions of your life are disrupted, when you get distracted from
Rituals are a potent part of your relationthe poetry of your religion, I urge you to
ship to your culture and heritage. And spebounce back, and to strive with vigor to
cial relationships are fragile. They hinge
set your faith and practices straight and to
both on predictable consistency and on
intangible magical elements.
restore the magic to your rituals.
The relationships embedded in the
Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy of Teaneck has
most prevalent mikvah-bath ritual are as
published several new Kindle Editions
complex as a double helix. One strand of
at Amazon.com, including The Book
complexity is that the mikvah bath permits Orthodox women, who refrain from
of Jewish Prayers in English, Rashi:
sex with their husbands during menstruaThe Greatest Exegete, Gods Favorite
tion, to resume the intimate sexual porPrayers and Dear Rabbi: The Greatest
tion of their relationships. And for women
Talmudic Advice, which includes his past
from long-standing Orthodox family lines,
columns from the Jewish Standard and
another strand of the complexity of the
other essays.

Dvar Torah
Vayera: When is the time?

ates are important in Judaism. There are set calendrical

dates standard to our tribe
and personal dates unique
to our familial orbits and ourselves. We
know each new moon brings a countdown
to particular holidays. We also know that
birthdays, anniversaries, and other milestones are important markers that we usually can plan.
The one thing we usually cannot plan
however is our date of death. That is, until
Brittany Maynards case.
Ms. Maynard was 29 years young,
beautiful inside and out according to
those who knew her well, and a proud
wife and devoted friend. Earlier this
year, she was diagnosed with a brain
tumor that caused violent seizures and
excruciating headaches along with strokelike symptoms and severe neck pain. The
doctors told her that she had six months
to live. Ms. Maynard then decided she
would create a bucket list of things to
accomplish and would terminate life on
her terms. She chose November 1, 2014.

She even changed residency

not the date she kept. She
to Oregon where there is
chose to stay alive a little
legislation allowing people to
longer, two days after
terminate their life in what is
her husbands birthday.
called The Death with Dignity
Perhaps she still had more
Act.
living to do. Perhaps she
This case has stoked all sorts
was afraid to die. Perhaps
of questions and debates in
she chose life a little longer.
the ethical world. Many Jewish
Who knows?
Rabbi David
leaders have weighed in to the
In this weeks Torah
Seth Kirshner
conversation. There are too
portion of Vayera, Isaac
Temple Emanu-El,
many opinions to share all.
is prescribed a time and
Closter,
It is hyper-complicated and
place to die, a sacrifice
Conservative
very nuanced. But, the major
on Mount Moriah. Most
opposing views are simple:
accounts tell us he had
We are all given free choice and can make
no idea that it was the end of his term.
the selections we want, while at the same
In fact, his question since we have all
time we are told that our lives are gifts
the accouterments for a sacrifice, where
from God and to control something that
is the animal? indicates his innocence
is supposed to be in Divine hands is not
to the moment. If he knew the time was
the Jewish way. Some even argue that Ms.
imminent, would he have fled and chosen
Maynard did not end her life, cancer did.
to live longer? Would he have written a
There was no decision to die since she had
bucket list of things to do? As the story
already begun the process. Both sides can
teaches, Isaac has his lease lengthened by
be heard clearly in my ears.
the presence of a ram and the voice of an
The date set to die by Ms. Maynard was
angel. His time was not yet up.

BRIEFS

Give Me Harmony

Israeli Arab man jailed for fighting

for Islamic State
An Israeli Arab man was sentenced to 22
months in prison for illegally entering
Syria and fighting for the Islamic State
terror group.
Umm al-Fahm resident Ahmad Shurbaji, 23, was sentenced by Haifa Magistrates Court for illegal exit to an enemy
state and illegal military training.
The indictment against Shurbaji,
first presented in May by Haifa District
Attorney Meital Chen, said Shurbaji and
three of his friends decided to leave
Israel to join the Syrian rebels in their
fight against Syrian President Bashar alAssads forces in January 2014.
Shurbaji and his friends joined an

As a rabbi who is regularly near when

loved ones are on their deathbed, I am
often asked questions about planning for
death before it even occurs. When could
the funeral be? How long is shiva if they
die tomorrow? Most of these questions
come from nerves and an effort to gain
some control over the uncontrollable.
I usually respond: This is a time where
we submit to God. God chooses when this
person will leave this world, not us. Our
job is to be sure they are free from pain
and feel our presence, love, and support.
Golda Meir once said she wanted to
govern time, not be governed by time. We
all try to govern more in our lives and to
gather more control. The case of choosing
our circumstances for death is complex
and knotty. I cannot purport to offer one
solid answer that fits for every person and
every Jew. We do not live in a world with
religious uniformity; should we die with
it? Nonetheless, it is important to glean
from Vayera that divine providence and
submission to God can be a worthy path
when dying and even when living.

armed rebel faction with connections to

Islamic State and were then recruited by
the group to participate in military training, which provided them with theoretical and practical knowledge in weapons
and terrorist strategies.
On returning to Israel in April, Shurbaji was arrested at Ben-Gurion International Airport. While in Syria, he took
part in several battles, participated in
military tours, and was posted at checkpoints under Islamic State control,
according to the charges. He is one of
at least 10 Israeli Arabs that Israels Shin
Bet security agency believes have joined
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Islamic State.

Bergen County Tribute

to Reb Shlomo Carlebach
on His 20th Yahrzeit
Saturday, Nov. 15 6:30-11pm
Temple Emeth 1666 Windsor Rd, Teaneck
(call 201-833-1322 for directions)
Musical Havdalah led by Avram Mlotek;
Learning sessions with special guest
teachers (including Neila Carlebach);
Concert with C. Lanzbom of Soul Farm and
Nochi Krohn; and a jam session with local musicians.
Refreshments will be served.

French kitchenware companys website

lists Israel as Palestine
The French kitchenware company Tefal,
which is known for its nonstick pans, is
directing customers to Palestine for a
store that is located in Israel.
Although Tefals Jerusalem store is in
the Atarot industrial zone, which is not
under Palestinian sovereignty, the dropdown menu for the Middle East portion

Learning sessions, Havdalah, concert, and

jam session will be mixed seating and singing.

of the Tefal websites Where to buy

section lists Palestine as an option, but
not Israel.
Newpan, the company that imports
Tefal products to Israel, said the website
issue will be handled as soon as possible, Israel Hayom reported.


JNS.ORG

Tickets are $18 for adults, $10 for college students,

and free for children high school age and younger.
For more information: Rabbi Gerald Friedman rebyossel@verizon.net
OR Nancy Passow nancy.passow@bisrael.com

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Across

Down

1. Tom who was succeeded by Michael

Chertoff as U.S. Secretary of
Homeland Security
6. American Jewish Historian at Brandeis
11. Point an Uzi
14. Chabad Lubavitch of ___ (Boise
institution)
15. Doe, ___... (lyric in The Sound of
Music)
16. Google may ask its employees to sign
one (abbr.)
17. Mel Brooks film with an easy script to
memorize
19. With The, Sidney Lumets film with
the song Ease on Down the Road
20. Fix up the Baltimore Jewish Times
21. Kind of failure Leon Uris died of
22. Wrestler once known as Dr. Isaac
Yankem
23. God to Moses: Take ___ tablets...
25. He is said to have created a golem
27. Samuel and Joshua, but not Joel
32. State of Salem (Eng. version of
Shalom)
33. One of 40 in the desert
34. Uses a pelephone
37. Yellow Sesame Street character voiced
by Frank Oz
39. Be a gonif
42. Modern Orthodox journal that was
taken over by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
43. Sarah, once
45. Theres a Hebrew Union College there
47. Something one might say while
pointing to oneself
48. Bays, e.g.
52. Like seven cows in Pharaohs dream
54. He wrote lyrics for George
55. With The, Leah Remini comedy show
about divorce
56. Pleasure does not ___ a fool...
(Proverbs 19:10)
59. Sheitel material, sometimes
63. Elena Kagans field
64. Rabbi who always did his Besht?
66. Second Temple Period period
67. Religion of 35% of Jerusalemites
68. Klezmer instrument
69. King George and Yafo (abbr.)
70. Does Shabbat
71. They prepare campaigns for the
Forward

1. The ___ of David Levinsky (Cahan

book)
2. What ___ for Love (Chorus Line
ballad)
3. Agam alternative for modern art
4. Vilna or Kovno Holocaust site
5. Thanksgivukkah happens every one of
these
6. ___ Heart (Israels entry in the 2014
Eurovision Song Contest)
7. First word of the last prayer on Shabbat
morning
8. Make major changes to a synagogue,
e.g.
9. Service with an open ark
10. Billy Joels Just the Way You ___
11. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel
Nassers VP
12. Queen Elsa from Frozen
13. Name of a magazine whose motto is
Celebrating Thirteen
18. Haftorah and Torah tunes
22. Couric or Holmes
24. Like some Jewish humor
26. I knew a man Bojangles and ___
dance for you... (lyrics from a Bob
Dylan cover)
27. They carry out pogroms
28. Acre, e.g.
29. MDA VIP
30. Sammy Davis, Jr.s pack
31. Cookies containing lard before 1998
35. Penny ___ (song by a band Brian
Epstein managed)
36. ___ LaShalom (Rabins final song)
38. Jerusalems feral cats have them
40. A patient might say it to her doctor at
Mt. Sinai Hospital
41. Feminist Magazine since 1976
44. USMC alternative
46. Contraction for Emma Lazarus
49. Treat Jews like outsiders, as in the
Middle Ages
50. Peace and justice, in Judaism
51. He learns from a melamed at a cheder
52. Family of Pinchas Zukermans wife
Tuesday
53. Hallel verse: I shall ___ you
57. Quality of matzah or old Maccabee
beer
58. Support for Israel and hatred of Jews
60. Niels Bohr had a model of it
61. Kevin played him in De-Lovely
62. The Wrestler actress ___ Rachel
Wood
64. ___ Zeit University near Ramallah
65. She was married to Adolf for about
two days

The solution for last weeks puzzle is

on page 59.

Arts & Culture

Teaneck
Film Festival
in its ninth year
ERIC A. GOLDMAN

here has been a proliferation of

regional and town film festivals
across the country these last
two decades.
Nine years ago, Teaneck joined them.
Because of the towns unique demographic
makeup, its directors have tried to provide films that reflect its diversity. From
the beginning, that has meant including
films on Jewish subjects. The gala fundraising event is now on a Saturday night,
so that everyone in the community can
participate.
Given Teanecks large and growing
African-American and Jewish population,
I found this years choices most appropriate. Three of the four films that tackle
Jewish subjects look at the interaction
of Jews and people of color and provide
Eric Goldman lectures and writes about
Jewish cinema and teaches at Fairleigh
Dickinson and Yeshiva University. In
September, he co-hosted a television series
on Turner Classic Movies on the Jewish
experience in film.

fascinating historical and contemporary

studies. The fourth film takes a hard look
at how the gap year in Israel affects young
people from traditional homes.
The community of Sosua in the Dominican Republic was a town where Jews fleeing Nazi persecution during World War II
found safe haven. Dictator Rafael Trujillo
allowed immigration to his country during the war, while the world, including the
United States, had a closed-door policy
for Jews. More than 800 refugees settled
in Sosua, where they founded a unique
society. Some created a Jewish community; others intermarried with locals,
while most left over the next two decades
as visas to the United States became available. Filmmakers Harriet Taub and Harry
Kafka explored this phenomenon in their
1981 film Sosua. (I was so moved by that
film that the next vacation my wife and I
took was to the Dominican Republic, with
a stay and exploration in Sosua.) Now,
Peter Miller and Renee Silverman, who
will be at the screening, tell the story of
how Jewish and Dominican teenagers in
Washington Heights, under the direction
of the highly talented Liz Swados, put on

a musical production about the Dominican rescue. Teaching at Yeshiva University, I was always caught by the special
connection that my students had with the
local Dominican community. It is no coincidence that I would always find YU students participating in the Dominican Day
parade.
All too often we forget the unique relationship that Jews and African-Americans
have enjoyed in this country, and the Jewish communitys strong participation in
the civil rights movement. Some point to
Jews social consciousness as a reason for
this deep involvement, but there was also
a clear understanding that our place in
American society would not be secure and
firmly rooted until all minorities enjoyed
equal rights. We can point to several people who worked hard to make it happen.
There were the Freedom Riders, the three
young men Michael Schwerner, James
Chaney, and Andrew Goodman who
gave their lives for this cause, and the
rabbis like Abraham Joshua Heschel and
Joachim Prinz who marched and spoke
articulately for the cause. The remarkable
story of the Berlin rabbi who was expelled
from his native Germany by Hitler and
wound up becoming the spiritual leader
of Temple Bnai Abraham in Newark is
the subject of Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not
Be Silent. Filmmakers Rachel Fisher and
Rachel Pasternak do a superb job in telling the story of the dynamic Prinz, who

came to this country in the mid-1930s and

from his first moment here called for freedom and human rights, first for Germanys
Jews, then for Americas African-Americans. Prinz worked tirelessly to speak to
power and to demand that all Americans
receive what our Constitution guaranteed.
As president of American Jewish Congress, he provided a Jewish voice at the
1963 March on Washington, and throughout his life he stood by Martin Luther King
and other black leaders in seeking justice.
I am honored to be moderating a postscreening discussion with the producer,
Rabbi Prinzs daughter Deborah, and the
directors.
Most historians and sociologists note a
break between black and Jewish civil rights
activists as Jews were disinvited from the
movement in the late 1960s. Jews and African-Americans increasingly sought out
their own identities over the next decades.
In Little White Lie, Lacey Schwartz tells
her story as a woman growing up in a middle-class home in Woodstock, N.Y., with
loving parents and a strong sense of Jewish identity. Over the course of her nicely
developed self-portrait, we learn that her
story is not ordinary. Her relationship with
Jews and blacks will be deeply impacted by
stunning discoveries she makes when she
leaves home for college. There, she will
come into contact with a world she had not
known and her universe will be changed as
SEE FILM PAGE 56

From left, Little White Lie, Unorthodox, Joachim Prinz, and Sosua.

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Calendar
Jewish values: Temple

Friday

Beth Sholom in Fair

Lawn continues an adult
education series, A
Time for Peace, A Time
for War, led by Rabbi
Alberto Zeilicovich,
10:30 a.m. Lecture,
Women Warriors in
Jewish Tradition. Series
concludes Nov. 16.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321, ext. 415
or AdultEd@tbsfl.org.

NOVEMBER 7
Carlebach Shabbat:
Give Me Harmony, a
Bergen County tribute to
Reb Shlomo Carlebach
on his 20th yahrzeit
begins. Individual
synagogues/groups will
hold programs including
services, a meal, an
oneg, teachings, songs,
and stories. Also Nov. 14
and 15. For information,
Rabbi Gerald Friedman
at (201) 394-5019 or
rebyossel@verizon.net, or
Nancy Passow at nancy.
passow@bisrael.com.

Depth of prayer:

Shabbat in Jersey City:

Temple Beth-El sponsors
Eat, Pray, Shabbat.
Potluck dinner, 6:30 p.m.,
followed by services.
A discussion, Beyond
the Food Pantry, with
Samuel M. Chu, national
synagogue organizer
for Mazon A Jewish
Response to Hunger.
2419 Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229 or
office@betheljc.org.

Shabbat in Fort Lee:

Cong. Gesher Shalom/
JCC of Fort Lee has a
Shabbat Together
musical service, 7 p.m.
1449 Anderson Ave. (201)
947-1735.

Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds a
service led by Cantor
Rica Timman with
organ accompaniment
to commemorate
Kristallnacht, , 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.

Zalmen Mlotek, an international expert on

Yiddish folk and theater music, will perform
on Tuesday, Nov. 11, for Cafe Europa, a
social program the Jewish Family Service
of North Jersey sponsors for Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the Conference on Material Claims
Against Germany, Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey, and private donations. It meets at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel at 11 a.m. Light
lunch. 10-10 Norma Ave. Transportation available. (973)
595-0111 or www.jfsnorthjersey.org.

11

Saturday
NOVEMBER 8
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai
Jacob offers services at
9:15 a.m., followed by a
workshop for children
and Torah lessons for
adults at 10:30. Kiddush
follows. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.

Temple Emeth offers

services for families with
young children, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.

Bnai Jacob marks the

76th anniversary of
Kristallnacht during
Friday Night Live!
musical services, 8 p.m.
176 West Side Ave.
(201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.

Marking Kristallnacht
in Fair Lawn:

NOV.

Shabbat in Teaneck:

Shabbat in Jersey
City: Congregation

Chabad Center of Passaic

County screens The
Cheburashka Project,
about Russian Jews who
immigrated to the U.S. as
children. Chinese buffet
dinner at 4:30 p.m.,
film at 5:15, discussion
with films director at
6:15. Childrens program
during film screening.
194 Ratzer Road. Chani,
(973) 964-6274 or www.
jewishwayne.com.

Cantor Caitlin Bromberg

continues an eightsession series, Seeking
the Spirit Within Ritual,
at Temple Israel & JCC in
Ridgewood, 10:30 a.m.
Course through May
17. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320.

Shabbat in Montebello:
Congregation Shaarey
Israel offers a Shabbat
of Welcoming. Services,
6 p.m., and kosher
catered dinner at 7.
18 Montebello Road.
(845) 369-0300 or www.
congshaareyisrael.org.

Film in Wayne: The

Kristallnacht
commemoration in
Mahwah: Dr. Peter
Appelbaum discusses
his book, Loyal Sons
Jews in the German
Army in the Great War,
at Temple Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom, 7 p.m.
280 Ramapo Valley
Road (Route 202).
(201) 512-1983 or www.
bethhaverim.org.

52 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Rummage sale
in Washington
Township: Temple
Beth Ors sisterhood
holds a rummage sale,
7-9 p.m.; and on Sunday,
9:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 664-7422, ext. 10 or
www.templebethornj.org.

Chamber music in
Tenafly: The Thurnauer
Chamber Music series at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades opens its 22nd
season with Musical
Moods, performed by
the JCCs ensemblein-residence: Sharon
Roffman, violin and
artistic director; Meena
Bhasin, viola; Clancy
Newman, cello; David
Kaplan, piano, 7:30 p.m.
Reception follows. Series
funded by a contribution
from Eva Holzer and
the Konikow Chamber
Music Endowment.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1465 or jccotp.
org/thurnauer.

Dine-a-round in
Montebello: The
sisterhood of the
Montebello Jewish
Center hosts a dinner
where participants
move to another

home for each course,

7:30 p.m. 34 Montebello
Road, Montebello, N.Y.
(845) 357-2430.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 9
Rummage sale in
Closter: The sisterhood
of Temple Beth El
of Northern Valley
holds its semiannual
rummage sale, 9 a.m.noon and 1-3 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.

Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and snacks
to pre-k students and
their parents, 9:30 a.m. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-3035.

Camp fair in
Englewood: The
Moriah School holds a
camp fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Representatives on
hand from sleep away
and day camps. 53
South Woodland St.
(201) 567-0208 or www.
moriahschool.org.

Harry Ettlinger

Congregation Shomrei
Torah screens The Best
of Men for its annual
Susan Nelson Glasser
Memorial Kristallnacht
commemoration, 7 p.m.
Refreshments. Sponsored
by the Kovacs family. 19-10
Morlot Ave. (201) 791-7910
or mediahappenings@
gmail.com.

Honoring veterans: The

Mens Club of Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn hosts a program in
recognition of Veterans
Day featuring guest
speaker Harry Ettlinger,
one of the few remaining
Monuments Men,
11:30 a.m. Light breakfast.
All veterans welcome
to join in presenting the
colors. 40-25 Fair Lawn
Ave. (201) 797-9321 or
mensclub@tbsfl.org.

Military bridge in
New City: The West
Clarkstown Jewish
Center offers a military
bridge game, noon.
Prizes and refreshments.
195 West Clarkstown
Road. (845) 352-0017.

School open house in

Paramus: The Frisch
School holds an open
house, 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
120 West Century
Road. Dr. Shira
Weiss,(201) 267-9100,
admissions@frisch.
org, or www.frisch.org/
OpenHouse.

Film in Paramus:
The JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah continues
its annual Jewish
Film Festival with a
screening of A Serious
Man, 1:30 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.

Marking Kristallnacht
in Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
screens Return of the
Violin as part of its
annual Kristallnacht
commemoration,
7 p.m. Violinists Emma
Barnett, 17, and Mikayla
Benson, 12, students at
the Thurnauer School
of Music, will perform
Oifn Pripitchik and
Eili Eili. Sponsored by
the Richard H. Holzer
Memorial Foundation
and presented by the
Martin Perlman & JoAnn Hassan Holocaust
Education Institute.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1426.

Monday
NOVEMBER 10
Fall bazaar in
Washington Township:
The Bergen County YJCC
holds its annual boutique,
including unique gift

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items for the holiday,
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Proceeds
will help support
programs for children
and adults with special
needs and other
YJCC programming.
605Pascack Road.
(201) 666-6610.

Township. Refreshments,
2:30 p.m.; meeting at
3. 605 Pascack Road.
(845)753-5025.

Tuesday
NOVEMBER 11
Remembering
McCarthy: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
talks about McCarthy
Witch Hunt: A Not-SoFunny Reminiscence
at a meeting of Retired
Executives and Active
Professionals at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
10:45 a.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.

History lecture in Fort

Lee: Dumont historian
Dick Burnon talks
about Dolley Madison
at the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom, 1 p.m. 1449
Anderson Ave. Naomi,
(201) 568-9274.

Book discussion in
Fort Lee: Sisterhood of
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee meets to discuss
Karen Macks book,
Freuds Mistress,
8:15 p.m. Refreshments.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.

Beautiful skin:
Dermatologist Dr. Tamar
Zapolanski of the Valley
Medical Group-Park
Ridge Medical talks
about Beautiful Skin for
All Ages, presented by
the Valley Hospital, at
the Bergen County YJCC,
7 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610,
(800) Valley1, or www.
valleyhealth.com/events.

Womens forum on
fitness: The sisterhood

Benji Lovitt
Comedy in Hoboken:
The United Synagogue
of Hoboken offers
Because the Middle
East is Funny, a comedy
night for young adults,
featuring AmericanIsraeli comedian and
writer Benji Lovitt,
7:30 p.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or www.
hobokensynagogue.org.

Encounters with God:

Congregation Bnai
Israel in Emerson hosts
Personal Encounters
with God, 7:30 p.m.
Attendees will explore
and cultivate encounters
with God using varied
texts. Also Nov. 18.
53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272

Wednesday
NOVEMBER 12
Hadassah meets: Mike
Kelly, an award-winning
columnist for the Record,
will discuss his newly
published book, The
Bus on Jaffa Road, for a
Pascack Valley/Northern
Valley Hadassah meeting
at the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington

London, a licensed
clinical social worker
and licensed nursing
home administrator,
6:30 p.m. She will
also lead a continuing
education class on
Everyday Ethical
Dilemmas in Geriatric
Care on November 18
at JHAL. 685 Westwood
Ave. (201) 666-6696 or
amcgarity@jhalnj.org.

of the Fair Lawn Jewish

Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel supports the
Professional Womens
Network with a forum
on fitness at the shul,
8 p.m. Professionals
will demonstrate yoga,
Feldenkrais, Tai Chi
Chih, belly dancing,
and Zumba. Dress
to participate. PWN
welcomes women who
want to meet others in
a variety of fields and
stages of their lives and
careers for conversation
and skills development.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.

Thursday
NOVEMBER 13
NCJW meets in
Hackensack: Linda
Lohsen, life coach and
nurse at Holy Name
Medical Center in Teaneck,
shares ways to engage
our senses daily and have
fun with brain teasers
at a meeting of the
NCJW BCS at Riverside
Mall Conference Center
(downstairs near the spa),
1 p.m. (201) 836-2916,
ruthseitelman@gmail.com,
or www.ncjwbcs.org.

Caregiver workshop in
River Vale: The Jewish
Home Assisted Living
holds a workshop, The
Family Caregiver: Finding
the Balance, with Barbra

Critical issues facing

Israel: M.K. Rabbi Dov
Lipman is the adult ed
scholar-in-residence at
Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood,
7 p.m. He will discuss
Driving Change in
Israeli Society: The
Critical Internal Issue
Facing Israel Today and
How We Can Make a
Difference. An author, he
was elected to the 19th
Knesset as a member of
the Yesh Atid party led
by MK Yair Lapid and is
the first American born
MK in 30 years. Light
refreshments. 240 Broad
Ave. (201) 568-1315 or
www.yeshatidus.org.

Friday
NOVEMBER 14
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel welcomes Shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an intergenerational
drumming circle,
7 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.

Shabbat in Fair Lawn:

Sharon Keller, Ph.D.,
biblical scholar and
educator, is the scholarin-residence at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
for the weekend. She
will discuss aspects of
marital and nonmarital
relationships in the
biblical text. She teaches
at Hofstra University
and has held faculty
positions at Hebrew
Union College, JTS, and
NYU. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.

Saturday
NOVEMBER 15
Shabbat in Englewood:
Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah holds Gan

Shabbat, services for 2to 6-year-olds, 11 a.m., led

by Leona Kleinstein, an
early childhood teacher.
On the premises of St
Pauls, 113 Engle St., www.
KHNJ.org, or info@KHNJ.
org, or call (201) 816-1611.

Celebrating Reb
Shlomo Carlebach in
Teaneck: Temple Emeth
hosts Give Me Harmony,
the Bergen County
Tribute to Reb Shlomo
Carlebach on his 20th
yarhzeit, 6:30-11 p.m.
Musical Havdalah led by
Avram Mlotek, learning
sessions with guest
teachers including Neila
Carlebach, concert with
C. Lanzbom of Soul Farm
and Nochi Krohn, and
a jam session with local
musicians. Refreshments.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322,
(201) 394-5019,
rebyossel@verizon.net, or
www.emeth.org.

Casino event in
Paramus: The JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah hosts a
casino night with game
tables and silent and
live auctions, 7 p.m.
304 East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or
jccparamus.org.

Concert in Wayne:
Eaglemania, an Eagles
tribute band, performs
for the Rock Tribute
series at the Wayne
YMCA, 7 p.m. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of The
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100.

Comedy in Fort Lee:

The JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom holds Showtime
Tonight: An Evening of
Laughter and Song,
starring the comedian
Modi, award-winning
recording artist/composer
Cantor Paul Zim, and
singer/pianist Lisa Yves,
7:30 p.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735
or geshershalom.org/
concert.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 16
Jewish womens health
symposium/brunch
in Teaneck: Holy Name
Medical Center hosts a
Jewish womens health
symposium and brunch
at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin,
gynecological oncologist
and womens health
specialist, and Dr. Joshua
Gross, board-certified
radiologist specializing
in breast imaging, are

guest speakers. Kosher

brunch. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-3336 or
HolyName.org.

Early childhood fair

in Teaneck: Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Early
Childhood Education
Fair is at Windsor Hall
World of Wings, 10 a.m.noon. Families receive
50% off admission at
the World of Wings
butterfly exhibit. 1775
Windsor Road. Ellen,
(201) 820-3917 or ellenf@
jfnnj.org.

Fall boutique in Tenafly:

The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades offers a vendor
boutique with jewelry,
womens fashions,
stationery, sunglasses,
childrens clothing, and
tabletop accessories,
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on
Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the Early
Childhood Department.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1435 or email
fpopper@jccotp.org.

Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten
in September 2015,
10:15 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801,
ext. 12.

Author in Ridgewood:
Yascha Mounk, instructor
of political science
and writing at Harvard
University, a Jeff and
Cal Leonard Fellow
at the New America
Foundation, and author
of Stranger in My Own
Country: A Jewish Family
in Modern Germany,
speaks at Temple Israel,
10:30 a.m. Co-Sponsored
with Ramapo Colleges
Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320.

Jewish values: Temple

Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn concludes an adult
education series, A
Time for Peace, A Time
for War, led by Rabbi
Alberto Zeilicovich,
addressing Jewish values
in relation to peace and
war, 10:30 a.m. Lecture,
The Problem of Power in
Times of War and Peace.
40-25 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 797-9321, ext. 415,
or AdultEd@tbsfl.org.

Breakfast in Teaneck:
Byachad, Temple
Emeth of Teanecks
mens and womens
group, meets for a
discussion with Steven
Goldstein, The Jewish
Community As a Force
for Equality, 10:30 a.m.

$6. 1666 Windsor Road.

(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.

In New York
Saturday
NOVEMBER 8
Ramaz School open
house: Ramaz School
Rabbi Joseph H.
Lookstein Upper School
of Ramaz holds an
open house. Doors
open at 7:30 p.m.,
program at 8. 60 E.
78th St. (212) 774-8093,
admissions@ramaz.
org, or www.ramaz.org/
preregister2014.

Film screening: The

Hebrew Institute
of Riverdale hosts
the premiere of an
independent film,
Righteous Rebel:
Rabbi Avi Weiss,
about the life and times
of one of Americas
most influential rabbis,
7:30 p.m. Rabbi Weiss
is founder/president of
Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
and HIRs senior rabbi.
3700 Henry Hudson
Parkway East, Bronx, N.Y.
www.thebayit.org/film.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 9
YU High School open
house: The Yeshiva
University High
School for Boys (MTA)
holds an open house,
9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 2540
Amsterdam Ave. David
Leshaw, (212) 960-5400,
ext. 6676, or info@yuhsb.
org.

Singles
Sunday
NOVEMBER 9
Senior singles meet
in West Nyack:
Singles 65+ meet for
a social get-together
at the JCC Rockland,
11 a.m. 450 West Nyack
Road. $3. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.

Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
to see the documentary
Into the Arms of
Strangers: Stories of
the Kindertransport
and have lunch at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12:45 p.m. $10.
20 Academy Road.
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.

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Film festival showcases lives of people with disabilities
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
presents Reel Abilities, a film
festival showcasing the lives and
artistic expressions of people with
disabilities.
As a member of the REEL Abilities, NJ consortium, the JCC will host
the five-day festival, featuring awardwinning feature films and shorts. The
umbrella organization, REEL Abilities,
is the largest film festival in the country dedicated to promoting awareness

and appreciation for the lives, stories,

and artistic expressions of people with
disabilities. The films are intended for
all audiences and designed to bring the
community together to discuss and
celebrate the diversity of the human
experience.
Film screenings can be attended
individually or as a series at 7 p.m.
Praying With Lior will be shown on
Sunday, November 16; Its All About
Friends on Monday; Mary & Max on

Tuesday; Stand Clear of the Closing

Doors on Wednesday; and AKA Doc
Pomus on Thursday at 2 p.m. Reel
Encounters/Do You Believe in Love?
will be screened on Thursday, November 20, at 7 p.m.
There is no admission charge; a $5
donation is appreciated. Continuing
education credits are available. Call
Shelley Levy at (201) 408.1489 or email
her at slevy@jccotp.org.
From Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.

Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin

Dr. Joshua D. Gross

Synagogue open house

festival in Fort Lee

Special ed conference
for educators

The sisterhood of the New Synagogue of Fort

Lee is planning a fall open house celebration.
The event on Sunday, Nov. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m.,
includes family friendly activities including folk
art demos, Judaic crafts, klezmer and cantorial
music, scribal arts, mah jongg, food, and tours of
the shuls Holocaust memorial exhibit.
The synagogue is at 1585 Center Ave. For information, call (201) 947-1555.

The Orthodox Unions Yachad/National Jewish Council for

Disabilities and the International Jewish Resource Center
for Inclusion and Special Education will present Maybe
We Should Teach the Way They Learn, a special education conference for yeshiva and day school educators
from across North America. The conference will be held
on Veterans Day, Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 9 a.m. at Manhattan
Day School, 310 West 75th Street, in New York City. Child
psychologist Dr. Ross Greene, the keynote speaker, will
discuss Collaborative and Proactive Solutions.
To register visit www.yachad.org/specialedconference
or contact Batya Jacob, (212) 613-8127 or batyaj@ou.org.

Jewish womens health

symposium/brunch
Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck hosts a Jewish womens health symposium and brunch at the Jewish Center of
Teaneck on Sunday, Nov. 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Guest
speakers are Dr. Sharyn N. Lewin, gynecological oncologist and womens health specialist, and Dr. Joshua Gross,
board-certified radiologist specializing in breast imaging.
A kosher brunch will be served. The synagogue is at 70
Sterling Place in Teaneck. To register, call (201) 833-3336
or HolyName.org.

Artists beit midrash

in Teaneck
Participants are welcome to join Congregation Beth Sholoms 10th annual Artists Beit Midrash, beginning on
November 30. This years theme is The Jew and the
Other: Exploring the Book of Jonah. All texts will be presented in English and Hebrew.
Participants will work with instructors to explore the
theme through their own creative approaches and contribute to a public exhibit in May.
The class meets on six Sundays through Jan. 18 from
10 a.m. to noon. It costs $200. Instructors are Rabbi Gary
Karlin, who has worked as a day school rabbi, a teacher
of Bible and rabbinic literature, and is writing a curriculum on the book of Jonah for the Schechter Day School
Network; and artist Harriet Finck, who was trained as an
architect and is a collagist.
Call (201) 833-2620 or email suesuebird@aol.com. The
synagogue is at 354 Maitland Ave. Go to www.cbsteaneck.
org

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Shoah to be screened online

SundanceNow Doc Club, a member-based advertisingfree streaming video service dedicated to documentaries, will show the exclusive digital premiere of Claude
Lanzmanns groundbreaking Holocaust saga, Shoah.
Named the number two Greatest Documentary of All

Time by Sight & Sound Magazine, Shoah reinvented

documentary cinema by using survivors first-person
accounts rather than archival footage. The film will
stream exclusively on SundanceNow Doc Club beginning on Sunday, Nov. 9. Go to www.DocClub.com.

Please join us in Celebrating 62 Years

of Programs and Services
Jewish Family Service of Bergen and North Hudson
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Cocktails & Strolling Dinner
5:30pm

Dessert & Award Presentation

8:00pm

The Rockleigh
26 Paris Avenue, Rockleigh, NJ

Honoring

Dr. Terri Katz

Lisa Oshman

Please show your support as we honor

Dr. Terri Katz, Mrs. Lisa Oshman and
Theresa de Leon for their
leadership, support and dedication
to JFS .
Please contact Jaymie Kerr, Development
Associate for information at
201-837-9090 or jaymiek@jfsbergen.org

Theresa de Leon
Event Chair:

Beth Nadel

Honorary Chairs:

Elaine & Mike Adler

Bernie Koster
Norma Wellington

Sponsorship Chair:

Debbie Harris

Journal Chairs:

Harry & Suzette Diamond

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Jewish World

Everything you need to know about

SodaStreams move
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV SodaStream, the Israeli
at-home seltzer machine company,
announced last week that it would be
closing its West Bank factory and moving the facilitys operations to southern
Israel next year. Heres what you need
to know about SodaStream, the controversy that has bubbled up in its midst,
and what the actress Scarlett Johansson
has to do with it.
What is SodaStream?
SodaStream is an Israeli company that
makes and sells seltzer machines for
home use. Since it was founded in 1991,
the company has sold more than 10 million machines in 39 countries. The footand-a-half-tall machines turn still water
into seltzer in 30 seconds. The company
also markets dozens of mix-in flavors,
such as cola, ginger ale, lemon-lime and
fruit punch.
Why is SodaStream controversial?
Until this week, SodaStreams main factory was located in Mishor Adumim, an
industrial park in the Israeli West Bank
settlement of Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem. Because the settlement is likely to
be included in Israel in any future peace
deal with the Palestinians, many Israelis
dont view it as all that controversial.
But groups that oppose Israels occupation of the West Bank have called
for boycotts of SodaStream because of
where the factory is. The debate over
SodaStream gained attention earlier this
year when the actress Scarlett Johansson
became the face of the company, appearing in a SodaStream ad during the Super
Bowl. Johansson ended up resigning as a
spokeswoman for Oxfam International,
an anti-poverty group that opposes the
West Bank factory, after it criticized her
involvement with the company.
What is SodaStreams position on its
West Bank factory?
SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum
has touted the Mishor Adumim factory,

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she delves into a family lie. Schwartz, who

will be present at the screening, shows an
incredible amount of courage in putting out
a stunning and beautifully crafted biopic.
She will join Rabbi Steven Sirbu and Sandi
Klein at the screening.
A generation ago, when I went off to
Israel for a year before attending college,
it was considered unique, even unwise.
Now, many young people find this year
56 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 7, 2014

which has been there since 1997, as a

successful example of Arab-Jewish coexistence in the West Bank. About 500 Palestinians work at the factory alongside
Israeli Jews, and Birnbaum says he pays
them well and treats them as equals with
their Jewish co-workers, though pro-Palestinian groups allege that the Palestinian employees are treated poorly. The
factory includes a mosque for Muslim
employees. Closing the factory, Birnbaum says, could mean putting hundreds
of Palestinians out of work.
Birnbaum is a proponent of a two-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has noted that Mishor Adumim
is defined as an area under Israeli control by the 1993 Israeli-Palestinian Oslo
Accords, and argues that Israeli industry
there thus is not a violation of international law.
The company drew more criticism
this summer after it fired 60 of its Muslim employees, claiming they refused
to work. The employees countered that
SodaStream did not provide them with
sufficient meals following the Ramadan
fast and therefore they were unable to
operate machinery safely.
So what caused the move?
SodaStreams third-quarter revenue
dropped 13 percent, and sales in the
Americas dropped 41 percent numbers
the company says are unrelated to the
boycotts.
Moving to Lehavim, a town in southern Israel, near Beersheba, will yield
savings of 2 percent, according to a brief
SodaStream statement about the move.
The Israeli government gave SodaStream
a $20 million grant for the new facility,
part of a larger government effort to
incentivize business growth in the countrys South.
The company claims the motive for
the move is purely commercial, though
Birnbaum told the Forward this year that
the Mishor Adumim factory is a pain in
the ass.

Birnbaum said in the statement that

hes working with the Israeli government
to obtain work permits that would enable
his Palestinian employees to work at the
relocated plant. However, the new facility is 60 miles away from the Mishor Adumim workplace.
While we are enthusiastic about our
new Lehavim facility and the exciting
promise it brings to our company, we are
committed to doing everything in our
power to enable continuity of employment to our family of employees, Birnbaum said in the statement.
What are protest groups saying about
the move?
They have praised the decision but
theyre still boycotting SodaStream.
Activists say that the Mishor Adumim
factorys closure is evidence that the BDS

movement, which aims to boycott, divest

from and sanction Israel, is working.
Todays news is just the latest sign
that these global BDS campaigns are having an impact on changing the behavior of companies that profit from Israeli
occupation and apartheid, said Ramah
Kudaimi, membership and outreach
coordinator for the U.S. Campaign to End
the Israeli Occupation, which represents
400 organizations.
But Kudaimis group, as well as the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, say they will
continue to boycott SodaStream because
they claim its new factory abets dispossession of Bedouin land in Israel, even
though the factory will be in an existing
industrial park.
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away as an opportunity for growth, study,

and exploration. For a traditional young
person, a year spent in Israel has become
almost inevitable. But for Anna Wexler,
it was a decision she chose not to make
as she struggled with her frumkeyt,
her commitment to a modern Orthodox
Jewish life. Together with Nadja Oertelt in Unorthodox, she uses cinema
to explore what kind of transformation
happens when three teenagers go off
to Israel, in an attempt to better understand how young peoples lives change

as a result of the experience. One of the

more compelling stories is that of Tsipi,
who underwent a variety of changes during her turbulent year abroad. Tsipi grew
up in Teaneck, and will join the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion with
Rabbi Larry Zierler.
The Teaneck International Film Festivals theme is Activism: Making Change.
It will showcase 24 films in three different venues. Kudos to executive director
Jeremy Lentz, the organizers, the committed committee members and the

Puffin Foundation for bringing this special event to the community. The festival
will take place from November 7 to 9; the
Jewish films are scheduled for Sunday.
Unorthodox will screen at noon, at
the Teaneck Cinemas; Sosua at 2:30 at
the Puffin Cultural Center; Little White
Lie at 4:05 (sic) at Temple Emeth, and
Joachim Prinz at 6:30, also at Temple
Emeth. For more schedules and other
information, go to www.teaneckfilmfestival.org. You can buy tickets at the
Teaneck General Store.

Some of the hundreds of Palestinians who work at SodaStreams West Bank factory, which will be shut down. They could be put out of work when it moves to
southern Israel.
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Obituaries
BRIEFS

Hugo Press

IDF officer sees continued

instability on Israels
northern front
Israel Defense Forces Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi replaced
Maj. Gen. Yair Golan as General Officer Commanding
the Northern Command on Sunday. Kochavi said at a
ceremony in Safed that Israels northern front, which
he is now in charge of protecting, is at the center of
the storm raging in the Middle East.
This area shows the struggle between religions,
ethnic groups, and superpowers, and has become
more out of control, more Islamist, and more violent,
Kochavi said. All of this ensures continued instability on the [northern] front. The radical axis of Iran,
Syria, and Hezbollah may be joined by other terrorist groups, drenched with ideological extremism, who
could change their goals and turn the state of Israel
into a target.
Kochavi, the Israeli armys former military intelligence chief, added that the IDF must continue to
prepare our forces in a manner that will lead to a
response that is surprising, powerful, and unequivocal
JNS.ORG
in terms of its result.

Abbas: man who shot Jewish

activist a martyr
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent
a condolence letter to the family of Moatez Hijazi, the
Islamic Jihad member who shot Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick last week in an attempted assassination. Hijazi was later killed in a shootout with police.
It is with anger that I received news of the crime
carried out by the killer terrorist gangs of the Israeli
occupation army against your son Moatez Ibrahim
Hijazi, who has gone to heaven as a martyr for the Palestinian people, Abbas wrote.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, When
we are trying to calm the situation, Abu Mazen (Abbas)
sends condolences over the death of one who tried
to perpetrate a reprehensible murder. The time has
come for the international community to condemn
him for such actions.
Hijazi, 32, had spent 11 years in an Israeli jail and was
JNS.ORG
released in 2012.

Hugo Press of Paramus died November 2.

Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.

Sheri Simon

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n 1 During Sukkot, Chai4ever children and

their parents from several East Coast cities
visited Hershey Park and had lunch in the
private Chai4ever sukkah. Chai4ever, based
in Lakewood, provides help and support
to families where a parent has been diagnosed with cancer or other chronic or lifethreatening illnesses. COURTESY CHAI4EVER
n 2 Children and teachers at the Helen
Troum Nursery School and Kindergarten at Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn
wore pajamas to school as part of their
participation and support for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Societys School and
Youth Program Pajama Day. COURTESY TBS
n 3 The annual Rachel Coalition Women
to Women luncheon was at Crestmont
Country Club in West Orange. Reuben
Rotman, left, the executive director of
Jewish Family Service MetroWest, which
overseas the Rachel Coalition, is pictured
with David Roszmann, COO of Chicken of
the Sea, which gave a $10,000 gratitude
award to the Rachel Coalition. The writer,
lawyer, and activist Joshua Safran was the
keynote speaker. JFSMW has a Hudson
County office in Jersey City. For information, call (201) 604-999. COURTESY JFSMW

n 4 Former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman

discussed Judaism and Public Service in
front of hundreds of Yeshiva University students, faculty, and staff. The lecture, the first
of a series, inaugurated Mr. Liebermans role
as the Joseph Lieberman Chair in Public Policy and Public Service at YU, a position made
possible through a gift from university benefactors Ira and Ingeborg Rennert. COURTESY YU
n 5 From left, Valley Chabads director, Rabbi
Dov Drizen; the executive director of the
Jewish Home Assisted Living Lauren Levant;
speaker Eva Schloss; Rabbi Yosef Orenstein;
and the CEO of Jewish Home Family, Charles
P. Berkowitz, at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton.
Ms. Schloss is a Holocaust survivor and the
stepsister of Anne Frank. The program with
over 800 attendees, was co-hosted by the
Bergen County YJCC and by Valley Chabad
of Woodcliff Lake as part of its Eternal
Flame Holocaust Education Program. The
Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale
was among the sponsors. COURTESY JHAL
n 6 During their weekly mitzvah time, religious school students at Shomrei Torah
Wayne Conservative Congregation bagged
more than 100 bags of detergent to donate
to Family Promise. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH

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TEANECK OPEN HOUSES

Real Estate
Village Apartments
to hold open house for
seniors and their families

VERA AND NECHAMA REALT Y

A DIVISION OF V AND N GROUP LLC

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 9TH OPEN HOUSES

Village Apartments of the Jewish Federation, a senior

living community in the heart of South Orange, will
hold an open house event on Thursday, November 13,
from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The open house is free and open
to all area seniors and their families who want to find
out more about the various housing options and programs available at the senior living community. Attendees will tour the residence, enjoy complimentary hors

1285 Hastings St, Tnk

$1,395,000
349 W Englewood Ave, Tnk $587,900
1275 Princeton Rd, Tnk
$549,000
43 Rector Ct, Bgfld
$985,000
83 Cameron Rd, Bgfld
$383,000
1116 Korfitson Rd, N Mlfd $399,900

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$1,395,000 - 1285 Hastings St
5 bedrooms, 6 baths
$1,495,000 602 Maitland Ave
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To be Built

SEE VILLAGE PAGE 62

THE FLORIDA LIFESTYLE

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1BR 1.5 Baths. Renovated kitchen and
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2BR 2.5 Baths. Low floor. Largest 2 BR.
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$389,900
2BR 2 Baths. Gut renovation. Redesigned
open kitchen. High floor. River view.
$595,000
Serving Bergen County since 1985.
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Broker/Associate

201-461-6764 Eve
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$399,900

882 Helen St.

$319,900

1-3 PM

Charm Tudor Colonial. Oak Inlaid Flrs. Gracious Ent Foyer, LR/
Fplc, FDR, Kit/Bkfst Rm. 3 Brms 1.1 Baths. Fin 3rd Flr & Fin
Game Rm Bsmt. Stained Glass Windows, Front Patio, 2 Car
Gar, Deck. Close to Cedar Ln.

$399,900

1-3 PM

Custom Brick Expanded Cape. Great For Extended Families.

LR/Fplc, Din Area/Kit, Lg Sunlit Fam Rm. 3 BRs, 2.5 Baths.
Fin Bsmt. 2 Car Gar. C Club Area.

$275,000

1-3 PM

$327,000

1-3 PM

Country Club Area. 3 Brm Colonial. H/W Floors. Entry Foyer,

Liv Rm/Fplc, Form Din Rm, Eat In Kit, Screened Porch. Walk
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310 Marine Ct.

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Open House, Sunday 1-4. Approx. 1750 sq ft of living space on one level.
Unique loft-like 2Br, 2Bth unit with 12' ceilings, oversized windows, NEW
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18F&19F
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1-3 PM

Cape Cod on 110' X 100'Prop on Cul-de-sac. Room to Expand

up & out! Spacious 1st Flr/ LR open to DR leading to wrap
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111 Merrison St.

$399,900

1-3 PM

Priced to Sell! Mint Cond English Tudor. Chestnut Woodwork.

Tile Flr Glass Encl Reading Rm, LR/Fplc, Din Rm, Lov Kit/Bkfst
Rm, 3 BRs, Updated Baths. Fin Bsmt/Wood Flr. C/A/C. Beaut
Flowering Gardens. 2 Car Gar.

271 Queens Court

$399,900

1-3 PM

Col/75' X 195' Lot. Lg Liv Rm/Fplc, FDR, Den/Fplc, Eat In Kit,

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Flr + 1.5 Baths. H/W Flrs, C/A/C, 2 Car Gar.

565 Northumberland Rd.

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380 Broad Ave, Englewood

Welcome to Century Tower

1600 Parker Ave, Fort Lee

12-2PM

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2nd Flr MBR/Bonus Rm + 2 more spacious BRs. H/W Flrs,
2 Car Gar.

920 Commonwealth Dr.

313 Broadway, Westwood, NJ

Each Office Independenty Owned and Operated

1-3 PM

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2.5 Baths. H/W Floors. Pool Onsite.

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516 Tilden Ave.

142 E Maple St.

Sales Associate
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Village
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doeuvres, and be entered in a raffle for

a free digital camera.
Village Apartments is located at 110
Vose Ave., walking distance from the
many dining, shopping, and entertainment destinations of downtown South
Orange and a short drive to many area
attractions. The residence offers a
range of housing options, services, and

amenities for independent seniors,

including social, cultural and enrichment programs throughout the year. It
is one of four senior living communities in Essex and Morris counties that
are owned and managed by The Jewish Community Housing Corporation of
Metropolitan New Jersey.
For information about Village Apartments, contact site manager Cheryl
Kasye at (973) 763-0999 or visit www.
jchcorp.org.

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The Teaneck Community Chorus has

announced auditions for its annual
Teaneck Teen Idol contest which is
open to all teens 13 to 18 living or going
to school in Teaneck. Auditions take
place at Teaneck High School, Tuesday,
November 18, and Wednesday, November 19, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in room 244.
Auditioners will sing a song of their
choice, a cappella, for two minutes.
We work to make it comfortable
and supportive for the kids, said Gail
Smith, co-producer. The contest
gives teens a wonderful performance
opportunity. Some have never been
on the stage before others have. Kids
come for the experience and have a
great time doing it. Last year, we had
teens from the widest range of schools
in our history. The contest was won
by a student from Maayanot Yeshiva
High School, and finalists were from

Teaneck High School, the Community

School, The Teaneck Charter School,
and Yavneh Academy.
New auditioners are encouraged to try
out. Approximately 12 to 15 semi-finalists
will be chosen. Each receives vocal and
performance coaching from Ms. Smith
and William Wade, a gifted accompanist
and instructor who teaches at Julliard
and also runs performance classes for
kids. This years show is on January 17 at
Teaneck High School, said Jack Aaker, coproducer of the show.
The top three winners will receive
cash prizes.
Any Teaneck teen who auditions should
bring proof of age, residency or school
attendance, and a $5 registration fee.
More information is available at TeaneckCommunityChorus.org and on Facebook.
For questions, call 201-390-8683 or email
jaaker@mac.com.

State legislators recognize

Breast Cancer Awareness Month
at Holy Name Medical Center
State Legislators attended a breast cancer forum at Holy Name Medical Center to
emphasize the need for annual screenings and early intervention during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

3 Bedrooms / 2 Bathrooms
$539,000

Paramus / Maywood
946 Spring Valley Rd
Maywood, NJ 07607
201.636.7200

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Pictured from left to right: breast cancer survivor Laura Ayala; Dr. Benjamin
Rosenbluth, chief of radiation oncology; Dr. Raimonda Goldman, medical
oncologist; State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg; Assemblywoman
Valerie Vainieri Huttle; State Senate President Stephen Sweeney;
Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi; and Michael Maron, president and CEO of
Holy Name Medical Center.

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26 oz

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ravioli

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9
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475

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