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And if he could be found and
was properly positioned.
captured, would that be right? Is love
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reason enough to cage the savage
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porcupine?
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Gan, that remains a perplexing
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Noshes

suddenly Miss Israel jumped in and

took a selfie
Miss Lebanon, Saly Greige, complaining that Doron Matalon photobombed her
at the Miss Universe contest and then put the result on social media, opening her
to criticism back home.

A COMMON GOAL:

Jews on ice
and on the tube
These are the NHL
players who have at
least one Jewish parent
and were raised either
Jewish or secular: MIKE
BROWN, 29, right wing,
San Jose Sharks; ANDRE
BURAKOVSKY, 19, left
wing, Washington
Capitals (hes a Swede of
Russian Jewish descent);
MICHAEL CAMMALLERI,
32, center, New Jersey
Devils, and JASON
ZUCKER, 22, Minnesota
Wild. (DAVID WARSOFSKY, 24, briefly played
for Boston last fall and
may return.) Of local
interest: AARON KESSELMAN, a Mays Landing native, is on Princetons (Div. I) hockey
team. Note: Jewish
Sports Review aided with
this item.
I would have written
more in advance
about Backstrom, a Fox
police series that
premiered last night
(January 22) at 9 p.m.,
but the most prominent
Jewish member of the
cast, GENEVIEVE
ANGELSON, 28, is such a
relative newcomer that
she doesnt even have a
Wikipedia entry. A tip
alerted me that shes
Jewish and I was able to
dig up her interesting
family background just
this week. Rainn Wilson
(The Office) plays the
title character, Detective
Lt. Everett Backstrom, a

guy who is described as

having no filter on his
mouth. Bad behavior got
him exiled to the traffic
unit for five years, but
hes been brought back
to head up Portlands
new Special Crimes Unit,
which works the citys
most serious cases. Of
course, he has a police
chief who doesnt like his
style. Angelson plays
Detective Nicole Gravely,
who is described as the
optimistic yin to Backstroms yang and works
hard to counterbalance
his irritating behavior.
Angelson, who has
stage experience and
had a recurring role on
House of Lies, only
recently replaced Meryl
Streeps daughter, Mamie
Gummer, as Gravely. Her
father, MARK ANGELSON, 64, who grew up in
Caldwell, is an attorney
(Rutgers law school)
and businessman who
worked in high finance
and then headed up the
countrys largest printing
company. He served as
Chicagos deputy mayor
from 2011-12, streamlining
government and bringing in many private sector jobs. In a true-crime
sidelight, in 2003 Mark
discovered the bloody,
murdered body of his
business partner, Ted
Ammon, at Ammons palatial Long Island estate.
The murder was a media

Mike Brown

Michael Cammalleri

Genevieve Angelson

Beatrice Rosen

sensation, and Ammons

wifes lover was convicted of the crime. Now relocated to New York City,
Mark and his wife, Lynn,
are a major power couple
in the arts and sciences.
(Lynn was not born Jewish, and I dont believe
shes converted.)
Tweets by Genevieve,
and by her sister, JESSICA, 30, a Brooklyn midwife, make it clear that
they identify as Jewish. A
third sibling, sister MEREDITH, 32, is a lawyer
working for the Southern
Poverty Law Center in
New Orleans (the SPLC
fights racism and antiSemitism). Shes married
to successful novelist

NATHANIEL RICH, 34,

the son of famous writer
FRANK RICH, 65. The
couple are members of a
New Orleans synagogue.
BEATRICE ROSEN,
30, has a supporting, but
regular role in Backstrom
as Nadia Paquet, a foreignborn civilian who works
with the crime unit. A very
pretty lithe blonde, Rosen
was born in the States
but raised in France. Shes
been working steadily
in smallish French and
American roles since 1998.
As for background all I
know is that she said in a
French interview that her
original name, Rosenblatt, is Ashkenazi JewN.B.
ish.

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Dapper Mortdecai
bringing trilogy of
novels to screen
The mystery/thriller Mortdecai is based on the
first of a trilogy of acclaimed 1970s novels by the late
Kyril Bonfiglioli. Charles Mortdecai ( Johnny Depp) is a
debonair English art dealer of Dutch Jewish ancestry.
He is also a bit of a rogue. Johanna, his randy wife, is
played by GWYNETH PALTROW, 42. The basic plot:
Mortdecai must travel the globe in a race to recover a
stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost
bank account filled with Nazi gold. Armed only with
good looks and charm, he has to fend off angry Russians,
a terrorist, and the British MI5. Co-stars include Ewan
McGregor and JEFF GOLDBLUM, 62. Goldblum, by the
way, recently announced he was expecting his first child,
a son, with his wife, Emilie Livingston, 32. (Opens today.)
A Most Violent Year is set in New York City in 1981,
when crime still raged in the Big Apple. Oscar Isaac plays
Abel Morales, who is beset by corruption and violence as
he tries to expand his heating-oil business. His wife ( Jessica Chastain, who got a Golden Globe nomination for
her performance in this film) wonders if the family can
endure his troubles. Morales lawyer, played by ALBERT
BROOKS, 67, is also worrying. (Opens in some cities on
N.B.
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High tech, human passion, Israeli lifesaving
Jersey City launches CBEC program with United Hatzalah, Barnabas Health
JOANNE PALMER

inutes matter. When it

comes to saving lives, even
seconds matter.
When they face a medical
emergency, people call 911, and an ambulance is dispatched immediately. That system indisputably saves lives. But the EMT
technicians inside those ambulances must
negotiate snarled traffic, dangerous intersections, careless pedestrians, callous
drivers, and other road hazards. Valuable
minutes are lost.
What to do?
In Jersey Cit y,
Mayor Steven Fulop
has a solution and
it comes straight
from Israel.
The city is joining
forces with United
Jersey City
Hatzalah and the
Mayor
Jersey City Medical
Steven Fulop
Center Barnabas
Health to form Community Based Emergency Care. That is a bland name for a
clever new program aimed at bridging the
gap between the time that an emergency is
called in and when the cavalry the EMTs
and their ambulance full of equipment
can show up. It will use a combination of
human passion and goodwill and technology to meet that goal.
Basically, the program will either train
and certify or simply certify volunteers
who can provide emergency care. Barnabas offers a free 60-hour course to people
who have no medical background, and will
test and certify students who pass it, while
doctors, EMTs, firefighters, and other people with similar backgrounds can waive in
and be certified. The volunteers will be
given ambulatory life-saving equipment,
and they will be covered by Barnabass
insurance and New Jerseys Good Samaritan laws.
Thats the human part.
The high-tech part is the phone app, tied
to the citys 911 system, which automatically will alert the person who could be at
the scene soonest.
Lets say, hypothetically, that someone
has a heart attack on the 10th floor of a
building. Or that shes choking. Or having
a stroke. There might be a doctor living
on the 15th floor, who might or might not
hear the commotion, might or might not
respond, just in case.
With the phone app, though, that hypothetical doctor, who is just one elevator
ride away, would be alerted to the emergency immediately and jump into action.
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Motorcycles are specially rigged to hold volunteers gear.

You never know who is in the building
now who could help, Mr. Fulop said. You
just never know.
Talking from his car, he pointed out
that he was passing by a friends house
just then. Shes a doctor. If there was an
emergency now, shed never know but
if she did know, shed 100 percent walk to
get there, he said.
Jersey City is perfect for this kind of
technology because it is so dense, but it
already is well served by its 911 service,
Mayor Fulop said. Right now, we are
rated the top EMS in the country, with
the fastest response time. It takes a little
more than five minutes for an ambulance
to arrive. Still, it is possible to do better,
and that will save lives. In theory, the
response time with this new technology
CBEC is two minutes.
In these kinds of situations, its not
minutes that matter. Its seconds. The goal
is that when EMTs get there, you are handing off to them someone who already has
received some care.
Its the same kind of technology that

Uber and airbnb use, that has disrupted

existing ways of doing business, he added.
The program has just been launched.
One hundred volunteers have signed up
the goal is 200 and the plan is to get
them trained by February and at work by
early summer.
It is entirely funded by philanthropic
dollars, Mr. Fulop said. We were brought
the idea by Mark Gerson, the Manhattanbased entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist who chairs United Hatzalah. And
it highlights what an innovator Israel is;
how it is technologically great.
Weve been working in Israel for the
last eight or nine years, and we had over
a quarter of a million calls last year, Mr.
Gerson said. Jersey City will be United Hatzalahs first U.S. adopter. Preliminary work
on establishing it is now underway in Chicago and Boston as well. Wed love other
cities to adopt it, Mr. Gerson said.
There are as many stories of CBECs success as there are patients, but when asked
to tell one, Mr. Gerson detailed a series of
events that unfolded last month, when he

was in Haifa, and that had percolated on

the Internet. A parent had called 101
the Israeli 911 equivalent and a United
Hatzalah volunteer happened to be two
doors down.
The father ran toward the volunteer,
holding his five-year-old child, who was
choking on a balloon.
The child was unconscious. Death was
a minute or so away. If he had waited for
an ambulance it was a 100 percent chance
that the child would be dead.
The volunteer tried CPR. It didnt
work. But he was able to push the balloon
down the childs lungs, and that saved his
life. Hes fine now.
There is a video of the volunteer and
the father standing over the childs bed in
the hospital, crying uncontrollably. They
couldnt stop crying.
Although the volunteer and the child
lived so close to each other, they never had
met. Now they are bonded for life.
That was in Israel. In Jersey City last
week, I met some of the first people to
sign up on the website, Mr. Gerson said.

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It was a retired Jersey City police lieutenant and his wife, who is a nurse.
He used to work doing security at the
Holland Tunnel, and a few years ago, his
best friend died of a heart attack. It was
during a snowstorm. Someone called 911,
but it took 20 to 25 minutes for the ambulance to get there. His friend died.
Now this couple both already are
trained in CPR, and they have a defibrillator in their house. They could start right
away. In a heart attack, you have about
four minutes. And if they had been in
the system, they could have been in their
friends house in two minutes.
As in Israel, volunteers can get to victims on foot, by elevator, car, or specially
equipped motorcycles or bicycles. Hatzalah means rescue. There are many
organizations that use the word; they are
loosely affiliated at most, but all save lives
(and their mission demands that they save
all lives, not just Jews). United Hatzalah,
Israels version, was founded by Eli Beer,
whose impassioned explanation of how
he came to dedicate his life to that work,
delivered as a TED Talk, is online at www.
ted.com/speakers/eli_beer.

Boats are part of Hatzalahs rescue armada.

Because CBEC depends on the local 911
system, it can be only as big as that system.
In New Jersey, each municipality has its own
911 system; in Israel, the system is countrywide, and so is United Hatzalahs coverage. Because of the vagaries of New Jerseys home-rule system, Jersey Citys CBEC

will not work outside its borders, although

people who work in Jersey City but live elsewhere are welcome to volunteer.
More information on Jersey Citys CBEC,
including links for volunteering and
donating, is available on its website, unitedrescue.us.

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Dont bogart that joint at least not on Shabbat

Fair Lawns Shomrei Torahs study session looks at
medical ethics, medicinal cannabis, and other issues
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Just because 22 states have legalized medical marijuana, does that make it completely kosher in the eyes of Jewish law?
This timely topic will be one of the issues
explored during Torah, Text, and Tradition: An Evening of Learning and Sharing, set to take place from 7 to 9:45 p.m.
on January 31 at Fair Lawns Congregation
Shomrei Torah, 19-10 Morlot Avenue.
Nine members of the Orthodox congregation are offering lectures grouped into
three time slots. There are three choices
in each slot, providing a smorgasbord of
options free of charge to men, women, and
teenagers from the greater community.
The idea for the evening came from
Rabbi Dr. Wallace Greene, a retired Jewish educator and communal leader who
joined Shomrei Torah in 1971. He will present Medical Marijuana in Halakha, a
subject he has been writing and speaking
about for the last two years as part of his
greater interest in Jewish bioethics.
When medical marijuana was starting
to be legalized, I wanted to explore it from
a halachic perspective, he said.
His analysis raised many questions, for
example about the conflict between American and Jewish law, the permissibility of
using medical marijuana or any other
medication on Shabbat, and how far
the role of the doctor as healer ought to
extend.
As with many other modern-day conundrums, surprisingly, the Talmud has
plenty of light to shed on the issue. Rabbi
Greene cites a Talmudic discussion from
nearly 2,000 years ago concerning the
pros and cons of marijuana-type, habitforming substances known to have positive medical effects. He approaches the
discussion in the same way, citing scientific evidence on the medical efficacy of
cannabis versus its side effects.
It has been documented that marijuana is an analgesic for sufferers of nausea related to chemotherapy, appetite,

Community members attend a recent Torah class at Fair Lawns Congregation Shomrei Torah.

and weight loss related to AIDS, migraine

headaches, Alzheimers, muscle spasms,
fibromyalgia, arthritic pain, glaucoma, and
other conditions, he wrote in an article in
the Jewish Standard in April 2012.
Even where marijuana has been legalized, do its dangerous side effects militate
against its use? Does compassion for the
patient override concerns of possible longterm harm? Under which circumstances
may a patient put himself into a potentially
harmful situation? If the non-medicinal
properties of marijuana promote a feeling
of well-being so that a patient feels relief,
does that constitute a valid reason to prescribe it?
The evening program at Shomrei Torah
has another medical-related talk scheduled: Dr. Adam Karp, an internal medicine and geriatric specialist, will present
Unconventional Remedies.
Dr. Karp says he plans to discuss
whether the allowance for taking conventional medications from a non-kosher
source, or on Shabbat, applies as well to
complementary and alternative medications that have not been proven scientifically to be effective. He will also explore

the halachic permissibility of wearing

amulets such as a red string around the
wrist.
The remaining topics cover a broad
range.
Rabbi Shmuel Leifer, who works for the
New York Port Authority, will talk about
issues relating to the scribal arts. Dr. Howard Nuer will address the halachic ramifications of the two Jews, three opinions
phenomenon in deciding points of law.
Rabbi Howard Gershon, the shuls
recently retired gabbai, is to reveal the
rationales for standing during the recitation of the 10 Commandments in the
Torah portion of Yitro, to be read in synagogues worldwide on the following Shabbat. Rabbi Martin Rosenfeld, an attorney
and divorce mediation specialist, will
explore The Role of Midrash in Rashis
Commentary.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Yael Mayefsky is
to address the mitzvah of visiting the sick,
while Aliza Strassman, an elementaryschool teacher at Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus, will talk about differentiated instruction in the Torah. Zach Stern, a recent
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College in Baltimore, will delve into the

mystery of The Lost Ark and its Contemporary Relevance.
Rabbi Greene says he based the structure of the program on a successful Jewish Federation Evening of Learning several years ago, featuring public lectures
by members of the (non-Orthodox) North
Jersey Board of Rabbis. The round-robin
night of classes proved quite popular, and
he envisioned a similar event drawing on
the talents of Shomrei Torah congregants.
In our shul there is a lot of Torah learning going on all the time, every day and
night, he said. We have many members scholarly enough to give classes, so
I thought it would be nice to share some
unusual topics from a Torah perspective
with our shul and our community. I hope
that people who havent been to our shul
before might want to take a taste.
He pledges that there will be no
speeches or appeals. Were only interested in spreading Torah, he said. But
there will be refreshments and socializing
in the ballroom after the last session.
For more information, email Rabbi
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An American rabbi in Paris

NYUs Rabbi Yehuda Sarna talks about France to local shuls
LARRY YUDELSON
Two weeks ago, when four Jews were
killed in a terrorist attack at a kosher
supermarket in Paris, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna
decided to go to Paris to visit and comfort
the community
Rabbi Sarna leads the Bronfman Center
for Jewish Life at New York University
the schools equivalent of a Hillel chapter.
As a native of Montreal, he speaks
French. And as a disciple and former
intern of Rabbi Avi Weiss, his reaction to
a crisis is: When you feel a personal connection and likely nobody else will be
there, just go.
So two weeks ago, shortly before Shabbat, he posted plans to go to Paris on his
Facebook page. Within half an hour, he
had found a group of people interested in
going with him.
Then he spent that Shabbat at Englewoods Kesher synagogue as scholar-inresidence. It was the first of two consecutive scholar-in-residence weekends in
Englewood that bookended his Paris trip;
last Shabbat he was at Congregation Ahavath Torah there. Both weekends were
planned months ago and Ahavath Torah
got the better deal: Congregants there got
to hear about his trip.
Rabbi Sarna ended up traveling as part
of a group of eight. Rabbi Weiss had been
in Israel and changed his plans to join
them. Rabbah Sarah Hurwitz was among
the group, as was a Canadian student at
Rabbah Hurwitzs Yeshiva Maharat who

also comes from Canada and speaks

French. There was a rabbi from Montreal
and some former students from NYU.
Having eight people going enabled us
to split up when we needed to, Rabbi
Sarna said.
We visited three Jewish schools. We
spoke with different leaders of CRIF, the
Jewish representative council. We met
with a cousin of Yoav Hattab, one of the
four who was killed. We went to the kosher
supermarket Hyper Casher, where hostages had been taken. People were gathering and there were tehillim that were
being said. We also visited with the shul
where Netanyahu had spoken days before,
and met with a number of rabbis.
We were very, very warmly received. I
believe we were the only group of Americans who came in this capacity in the aftermath. Because we had people who spoke
French and who knew Paris and knew
members of the community, that elevated
the level of comfort people had.
Typically during a crisis people can
only see right in front of themselves. For
others to come from such a great distance
and say we care about you is a very powerful thing, he said.
Rabbi Sarna learned about the importance of these visits during his second
week as a rabbinical student intern at
Rabbi Weiss Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.
It was September, 2001.
As soon as Rabbi Weiss heard what happened on September 11, he went down to
the site. The next morning at Shacharit, he

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna outside the Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Paris.
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Rabbi Sarna left this letter, written by an American schoolchild, outside the
Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Paris where four hostages died.

came to shul covered head to toe in dust.

He said, Yehuda, you really should
come down with me.
I said, Why?
He said, You just have to go where the
crisis is.
I went down. Initially I didnt know
what to expect. Then I saw the way he
was providing moral support to people at
such a difficult time and saw the wisdom in
just getting there and figuring out the rest
later, he said.
What did he learn during his visit to
Paris?
I had never seen that many Jews in fear.
Ive been in Israel through the second intifada, during the war this past summer.

This felt different. It felt like there was a

hidden threat and no one quite knew when
it would strike. People feel like theyre in
the crosshairs of someones sight.
Every school we walked into had
armed soldiers in front.
We asked a class of ninth graders how
they felt and they said theyre terrified.
The group met with the head of the PTA
from a Jewish school five minutes away
from HyperCacher.
What am I supposed to tell parents?
she asked. Our school was in lockdown
while the hostage-taking was in process.
Parents couldnt get in. Kids couldnt get
out. The children are traumatized every
day. Theyre asking the question: Does
every child have to go to a school with
guns at the door?
Rabbi Sarna said that French Jewry are
anything but a weak people. Theyre very
brave, very bold. Theyre very confident,
smart and strong.
But the threat is very real so theyre
legitimately in fear. Its not that theyre
scared of their shadow. Theyre scared of
a very real threat. I think its important to
communicate that voice, he said.
On Shabbat morning at Ahavath Torah,
the topic of Rabbi Sarnas talk, agreed
upon months ago, was the future of
Muslim-Jewish relations. (Rabbi Sarnas
relationship with NYUs Muslim religious
leader, Imam Khalid Latif, was the topic of
a documentary film, Of Many.)
Much of what I said was consistent with
what I would have said previously, before
the terror in Paris and his trip there.
The argument is simply that alienation
from society is one cause not the only
cause one step toward radicalization.
With all the tensions that exist between
Jews and Muslims in the U.S., the U.S. is
still doing a pretty good job of integrating the Muslim population and providing them with the hope one can be both
Muslim and American. My experience in

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I am a Muslim who has come to share in your

mourning, reads a sign left outside Hyper
Casher.

France is that theres still a lot of work to be done in

that regard there.
Im trying to encourage the Jewish community
here in the United States to do more to reach out to
Muslim communities here.
While he was in Paris, Rabbi Sarna took advantage of his connections through NYUs Paris outpost
to organize a screening of the documentary. A lot of
students came out, a lot of faculty members. Some
local religious leaders attended. I reached out to local
Muslim clergy, none of whom were able to attend that
night, but a number of whom were eager to meet us.
That to me provided a glimmer of hope.
One of the things which surprised me that came
out from dialogue after the film screening is the strong
secularist ethic that pervades French culture, and
the advantage and disadvantages that creates, when
were talking about what is, in part, an interreligious
struggle.
In the U.S., because the fabric of our culture is religious, theres a greater comfort in talking religion from
the inside. People will talk about their faith. In France
its very different. That is a disadvantage.
On the other hand, the secularism can create a
kind of faith-blindness, where everyone is expected
to leave their religious background out of it when they
engage in the public sphere, he said.
Rabbi Sarna said that a group in New York is working to launch an association to help American Jews
help French Jewry.
We do have a role to play but we need to develop a
depth of understanding of the situation so our efforts
can really be productive, he said. The situation there
is very complicated. French Jewry has its own narrative, its own illustrious history, its own strengths.
American Jewry must be keenly aware of those.
One method of helping French Jews was suggested
by his wife, Dr. Michelle Waldman Sarna, a school psychologist, who suggested he take letters from American children to their French counterparts.
I brought sixty or seventy letters, written mostly in
English, some in Hebrew, a handful in French. I was
able to go into the classrooms there and say to children, Your brothers and sisters in the United States
have sent you these letters because they care about
you. To watch them gather around, cutting open the
envelopes, trying to translate from English to French
that was a beautiful moment, he said.
Rabbi Sarna is now organizing a massive letterwriting campaign, to ensure that all of the 167 Jewish
schools in France receive letters like that, he said.

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talk about issues we dont usually talk

about every day, especially in school
issues like racial injustice, socioeconomic inequality, diversity, and interfaith relations, he said. Usually we hear
opinions from teachers at one school.
You get into a bubble. I wanted to learn
from kids who learn differently.
Emails were sent to a variety of
schools, including the Marble Hill School
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and create and sustain relationships with
other students in the local area.
Carter said his synagogue, Temple
Beth El of Northern Valley, is an environment that is very conductive to conversations like this a place where they
encourage questions about faith, and
about different people. Its a safe environment for people to ask questions.
He wants to bring this feeling to his program. I want to apply it to things like
this, where were pushing ourselves to
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ronment, he said. While his point of

departure stems from Jewish beliefs,
we must acknowledge that others have
their beliefs as well, he added.
He said his program will be structured with three columns: connection, reflection, and action. First, we
want to connect, as students, to discuss
issues of importance to the community.
Under the reflection column we would
go out into the Bronx, visiting museums and people in the community and
then discussing the issues we ind most
prevalent. Topics for discussion will be
student-generated.
The group already has met once and
is gearing up for a second meeting, to be
held at Riverdale. Twenty-two students,
mostly juniors and seniors and pretty
evenly divided between the schools,
attended the irst time, and about the
same number are expected at the second gathering.
The irst meeting was at the Kingsbridge library, near both our schools,
Carter said. We wanted at least the irst
meeting to be in a neutral environment

not about Riverdale or Marble Hill but

a bunch of teens from different backgrounds who are so close together but
never met.
Communication between participants
from both schools has been frequent,
Carter said, noting that he and two
other Riverdale students are constantly
in contact with their counterparts at
Marble Hill.
Were in the process of talking about
what we want to do, he said, adding that hed like to build off what we
talked about last time, starting with
team-building activities to get everyone
comfortable.
For example, he said, we might
make a couple of statements and then
align ourselves depending on whether
we agree or disagree. At the last meeting, students told each other about their
schools, what they liked and what they
didnt like.
It was good in bringing the students together, Carter said. We found
commonalities and differences. [For
example] they have students from all
over. Riverdale [students are] primarily
Manhattan-based.
The teen said the group still has to
igure out a way to extend its discussions into action, whether through
community service projects or by creating a new program to allow students in other schools to talk about
these issues. He hopes that at future
meetings the group can work on speciic things, making progress on actionbased initiatives.
Its deinitely coming together as I
envisioned, he said, adding that his initial fear was that no other school would
be interested. But I found that when
I presented it to Riverdale and Marble
Hill, there was tremendous enthusiasm.
Looking forward to next steps, Carter
said the venture deinitely has been
successful.
To achieve a sense of broad knowledge and multi-perspective views, you
need to go outside your school and get
as many views as you can, he said. People want to talk, and they have strong
beliefs. The next part is not just to share
but to listen to someone elses beliefs.
That, he acknowledged, is sometimes
hard. When there are very contrasting
views, how do you accept both and ind
a compromise?
He hopes to bring more schools on
board. Were making great progress,
but we want to get in on a larger scale,
he said.
The next meeting will focus on the
Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases, as
well as on the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Its all relevant to our community,
Carter said.

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the Palisades in Tenafly are organizing a conference on New Jersey services for the developmentally disabled on Sunday, February 15, at
the JCC. The conference, held in the
middle of Jewish Disabilities Awareness Month, will address the critical
needs facing many families with people with disabilities, including housing, Medicaid/entitlements, advocacy, employment, and planning for
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State Senator Loretta Weinberg of
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Elizabeth M. Shea, assistant commissioner of the Division of Developmental Disabilities, will give the
keynote address; and Gail Levinson,
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Toronto, president of the United Way
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discussion.
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To supplement their studies, students
visited the Holocaust Museum in Spring
Valley, N.Y., and listened to Holocaust
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Editorial
High-tech nation

hat is it about Israel

and hi tech?
No matter what
else is going on in
the world that affects Jews air
strikes in Syria, murder in Paris,
assassination in Argentina, or the
barbs thrown at Israel by its enemies somehow the flow of extraordinary discoveries and inventions,
fueled apparently by brainpower,
willpower, and overflowing creativity, never seems to end.
Right now, we are focused on
something that is not at all new, but
is new to this country Community
Based Emergency Care, the program
that Jersey City has begun to implement, as we detail on page 6. It is a

TRUTH REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

way to fuse volunteers passion, GPS

technology, 911 systems, and hospital-provided training to match victims with rescuers as they wait for
fully trained EMT technicians and
fully stocked ambulances to arrive.
We are struck by the simplicity and elegance of the solution,
which seems entirely obvious, now
that someone else has thought of
it. (And that, of course, is how elegance is defined.)
We also were struck by its idealism.
The organization that is behind CBEC
in Israel, United Hatzalah and that
is joining Jersey City and Jersey City
Medical Center-Barnabas Health
in starting the program here was
created by Eli Beer, an observant

Israeli Jew. The United in its name,

he said, is meant to signal that the
service is meant for everyone, Jews,
Muslims, and Christians. A life is a
life, according to Mr. Beer and his
organization, and United Hatzalah,
is about saving people.
We are not sure what it is that
draws Israelis and for that matter,
Jews around the world to science,
technology, and creativity, but whatever it is, we know we like it
We hope that CBEC is successful in
Jersey City, that it is adopted by other
local municipalities, and that it saves
lives. We also hope that the people
who benefit from it keep in mind that
it came from Israel.


JP

Whats the deal with Argentina?

any Jews escaped

to Argentina in the
middle of the last century, and it now has
more than any other Latin American
country. Argentinian accents and
melodies and rabbis and cantors
have influenced Jewish life in North
America for decades now. Once we
get over the strangeness of Spanish
first names joined with quintessentially Ashkenazi last names, we realized that they come from a Jewish
culture not unlike ours.
In some ways, at any rate. In other
ways, it is very different.
Many Nazis decamped to Argentina toward the end of the war. Chief
among them, the supremely evil
Adolf Eichmann, who was captured,
taken to Israel, tried for crimes
against humanity, and executed.
Later, during the military junta
that ruled Argentina from 1976 to
1983, many people were disappeared, as the phrase went; many
were pushed out of airplanes or
met other terrifying fates. Jews were
prime targets for disappearance.
Jacobo Timerman, the journalist

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terribly for it, as his book, Prisoner
Without A Name, Cell Without a
Number, described.
In March 1992, the Israeli embassy
in Buenos Aires was bombed.
Twenty-nine people died. In July
1994, the local JCC, called the AMIA,
also was bombed. Eighty-five people died, and more than 200 were
wounded.
The history of the investigations
into the bombings reads like a plot
summary of an implausible downmarket thriller. It seems that Iran is
behind at least the AMIA bombing,
but two decades of Argentinian presidents and their governments have
twisted themselves into unbecoming knots to keep Iran out of it and
perhaps, at least it is alleged, have
accepted huge amounts of money
for so knotting themselves. There
have been a few low-level arrests, but
nothing more.
Recently, it seemed as if that status
quo possibly might change. Alberto
Nisman, the prosecutor assigned
to the case after the last prosecutor
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Congress evidence that he said would
implicate President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, and, with thudding
irony, her foreign minister, Jacobo
Timermans son Hector, in the coverup. (See the story on page 28.)
Here is where we go from thriller
to locked-room mystery. On Monday, Mr. Nisman, who was Jewish,
was found dead in his room, a pistol
next to his body. Government officials immediately said that he had
killed himself so very, very sad!
they said but much of the world,
including most of the countrys Jews,
disagreed. After all, Mr. Nisman had
gotten death threats. There was no
suicide note. There was no gunpowder residue on his hand.
We have no idea what happened. We know that life seldom
resembles murder mysteries or
thrillers. We know that many people died in the bombings, and that
the murderers have gone unpunished. We mourn Mr. Nismans
death, and we hope that his findings will survive him, and that
eventually justice will prevail. JP

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Why Martin Luther

King was the
greatest American
of the 20th century

was moved to tears by the movie Selma.

It captured the greatest American of the twentieth century at the height of his powers, using oratory and an army
of religious leaders who answered his call to change America. As a communal activist, the idea that Martin Luther Kings
entire career spanned just 14 years from when he was 25 to his
assassination before his 40th birthday beggars the imagination.
Martin Luther King Day was this week. To Americans it should
signify a rebirth of the principles enumerated on the Fourth of July.
The latter commemorates the formation of our country upon the values
of freedom, equality, and the infinite
worth of the human person. When we
remember Martin Luther King, however, we commemorate the man who
brought America to conform to those
founding principles, which were being
violated. Just think of an America so
great that it could cross the Atlantic
Rabbi
to fight and defeat Hitler while at the
Shmuley
same time denying a black child in the
Boteach
South the right to drink water from a
fountain on a scorching summer day.
But to Jews, Martin Luther Kings
memory is also of unique importance.
As protests waged through Ferguson and New York City these
past few months, anti-Israel activists pounced on the opportunity
to hijack the tragedies to their own ends. Mixed in with the Black
Lives Matter billboards were a handful of other signs reading Palestinian Lives Matter. What the Israel haters are trying to do is to
drive a wedge between the Jewish and black communities.
They will fail.
The relationship between blacks and Jews is one of authenticity
and depth, striking to the core of both peoples. It was not built on
a shared oppression but on a shared faith. Not upon a common
history but upon a common destiny. Not on shared interests but on
shared values. Not upon a mutual alienation from the mainstream
but upon a mutual commitment to social justice.
Faith always has been the central pillar of the black community. Far from being a simple political response to injustice and
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oppression, the civil rights movement was a religious movement
conceived in churches, led by ministers, and marched to the sounds
of old Negro spirituals.
Faith fueled the soldiers of the
civil rights movement and sacrifice sustained them. And it was
this burning faith that serves as
the true secret to their success.
The world has seen so many liberation movements succumb to
the battling egos of their leaders or
simply replace the original oppressor with a newer one: Czar Nicholas with Lenin and Stalin, Batista
with Fidel Castro, or a white-ruled
Rhodesia for a Mugabe-controlled
Zimbabwe.
The leaders of the civil rights
movement, being men and women
of deep belief and spiritual conviction, exhibited the most incredible humility. They always put the
interest of the people before any
personal lust for power. Walter
Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth
easily could have resented Martin
Luther King Jr. for his higher profile,
and King could have wanted more
for himself than to die on the lonely
balcony of a second-rate Memphis
motel. But their objective was not
personal advancement but rather
to lead Gods children toward a
promised land of equal rights and
human dignity. They put the people before their egos and placed
reconciliation with the white man
ahead of fratricidal civil war.
The same chains of slavery that
bound the Jews in ancient Egypt
and the blacks in the New World
may have imprisoned their bodies but it liberated their spirit.
Those chains taught Jews and
blacks, above all else, to see in God
the source of their salvation rather
than in any professed human liberator, be he as righteous as Moses
or as determined as Lincoln. Both
became nations to whom faith was
endemic and sustaining.
For most people, religion is a
guide to gaining entry into the afterlife, a way of avoiding hell. For African-Americans and Jews, however,
religion was a guide to finding hope
and comfort in this life, so that their
earthly existence might transcend
the hell it often was. Other religions reinforced the oppression of
the faithful by instructing them in
the divine right of kings. But Jews
and blacks always held fast to the
faith that no man was born subject
to another. To them, all men were
princes.
Other religions taught men to
accept their suffering in this world
in exchange for the comforts of
paradise, which would more than

The murderer down the street

Martin Luther King Jr. delivers

his I Have a Dream speech
from the Lincoln Memorial on
August 28, 1963.

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compensate. But the faith of Jews

and African-Americans inspired
them to challenge existing prejudices, because man is not born to
suffer. Man dare not await the paradise of Eden. His highest obligation
is to create heaven on earth.
As a Jew, my attachment to Kings
speeches has less to do with the
injustice of segregation to which
I thankfully was never subject and
from which he cured America
and everything to do with a modern preacher who brought the
ancient Hebrew prophets to life.
While studying at yeshiva I related
to Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Micah
as characters in a book. But after
listening to Kings magical orations, many of which I have tried
to memorize, I related to them as
living figures as emboldened and
animated opponents of injustice.
Like Moses, King never reached
the promised land. But like Moses,
he found redemption in a life of service over adventure, winning righteousness over recognition.
That the Jewish and black communities are distinguished by their
attachment to their faith is further
evidenced by the unique problems
faced by each upon the abandonment of that faith. The Jewish break
with ritualistic tradition at times has
led to materialism. Assimilation
has led to questioning of identity,
a futile attempt to erase distinctive Jewish characteristics, and a
misguided effort to blend and disappear into the mainstream. For
many in the African-American community, a loss of the anchor of faith
has led to a breakdown in familial
and social bonds.
Today, as we experience a sharp
rise in anti-Semitism and racism,
the Jewish and African-American
communities need each other
more than ever. They are bound by
many things, not least of which is
the memory of the greatest American of the twentieth century, the
man who restored America to its
founding vision of the equality of
all of Gods children.
The truly incomparable Martin
Luther King Jr.

f course, I havent seen him since he

I hurried through the cold from the house to the
was 9, the year I left Chicago for New
car on one of our infrequent visits from New York,
York. The only memory I have of him is
the tough lady, who no longer looked neat and put
as a dark-haired little boy, chipping golf
together, stopped us to say how wonderful Mom
balls by himself on his lawn.
was. The Jewish community had abandoned her,
I should mention here that he didnt murder just
she said, but not my mom.
The years went by. Breaks-ins became common
one person. He murdered two. His mother and his
on my parents street. We all knew who was behind
grandmother. Well call him Andy.
them. On successive visits, I saw the house grow
Andys grandmother was a tough lady who lived
stranger and more decrepit. Mom told me that the
two houses down, in a manicured sixties-era bigrandmother finally kicked Andy out for his drug use.
level, with a friendly, pear-shaped husband and a
In 1996, I was living in a two bedroom apartment
fluffy orange Pomeranian named Fritzie. I encountered this neat, put-together lady and her dog every
on 97th Street. Id just had my first child. Mom was
day on their regular walks down the street. Desperstaying with us, teaching me how to be a mother.
ate for doggie contact, I begged her to walk Fritzie,
One night, as we did the baby dance in front of
and every now and then she let me hold the leash.
the TV, rocking side-to-side and back-and-forth to
Someone else I encountered every day on his
comfort my colicky infant, a breaking news story
regular walks was a skinny, chain-smoking, bareflashed across the screen. Double murder in Chicago, a woman and her daughter. A dog. The murchested, long-haired young man. (And when I say
derer was still at large. And there, beyond the yellong-haired, I mean all the way down to his butt.)
low police tape, was Andys house, in
Naked to the waist, flicking his ash
all its crumbling glory.
onto our rosebushes, he was an
The police spoke to everyone on
extraordinary sight in my plain-vanilla
my block. Surprise surprise, they
suburban neighborhood, pacing up
all shrugged their shoulders. The
and down the sidewalk in front of our
newspeople interviewed a next-door
house.
neighbor who, surprise surprise, also
Soon, the young man disappeared.
had no idea who might have done it.
When I was old enough, my mother
No one was dumb enough to mention
explained who he was. Though I
Andy.
had never seen her, there was someHelen
one else living in that house, an only
But I think the police already knew.
Maryles
daughter. Shed been away to college
He was arrested the following day.
Shankman
somewhere far away and exotic, and
They put him on suicide watch.
had returned home with a non-Jewish
Andy had been living on the street.
husband, the long-haired young man.
As drug addicts often do, he came
The friendly, pear-shaped husband died, of hearthome looking for money. His mother refused. There
break, it was said. In a hushed whisper, my mother
was a knife. She started to scream. He needed his
explained that the daughter drank. Or drugged. Or
mother to keep quiet. Then he needed his grandsomething. In all of the 15 years that I lived at home,
mother to keep quiet, too. And the dog.
I never saw her; she never emerged from the house.
Ive thought a lot about Andy since 1996. I think
about how easy it would have been to avert the
Eventually, what did emerge was a little boy.
tragic ending. If he had gone to a different school. If
About this time, the house with the manicured
his teachers had noticed that he needed help. If hed
lawn began to take on an unkempt appearance, the
had playdates. If hed had friends. If his learning disjuniper bushes in front growing high and gnarled
abilities had been addressed. If the Jewish commuand wild, the white paint peeling off of the window
nity had gotten involved. If people hadnt turned
casements. Crabgrass and dandelions choked the
away and looked in the other direction. If someone
lawn that no one ever mowed anymore. No one
had cared enough to interfere.
came out of the house now. Except for Andy.
In every class I teach, there is bound to be a
Andy looked like many other 8-year-old Jewish
child with uncombed hair and shadowy eyes
boys; dark hair, big eyes, cute, small, vulnerable.
who looks a little haunted. Though the other
There were no friends, no playdates. I never saw
kids complain, I always give them extra attenanyone play with him at all, not his mother, not his
tion. Sometimes the people who need help the
grandmother.
most are the ones who do not ask.
As a teenager, all I wanted to do was move to New
York, and when I was 19 I did, ending regular conHelen Maryles Shankman, an artist and writer, lives
tact with the sad, busted family two houses down.
in Teaneck with her husband and four children. Her
With the shining city of New York filling my horizon,
work appears in many fine journals, including the
I forgot all about them.
Kenyon Review, Gargoyle, Jewishfiction.net, and
But Mom never forgot. When she had extra,
Cream City Review. Scribner will publish her second
she would bring them a pot of chicken soup, or
novel, In The Land of Armadillos, in spring 2016.
her homemade gefilte fish. Once, as my sister and

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Death and dignity in New Jersey

he New Jersey State Senate is due

to consider a bill legalizing and
regulating physician-assisted suicide the New Jersey Death with
Dignity Act already approved by the State
Assembly.
The law would permit qualified competent adults, whom physicians predict will die
of a terminal disease within six months, to
obtain lethal drugs in order to end their own
lives. As the New Jersey Senate (before which,
in 1861, Abraham Lincoln called Americans
the almost Chosen People) prepares for
this debate, the citizenry of the state and its
legislators can benefit profoundly from the
wisdom of Jewish tradition.
Suicide is not a sin in Judaism. Suicide is
(as Catholic theologian G. K. Chesterton said)
THE sin.
That principled, absolute opposition to
suicide was also the position of, among others, Rabbi Seymour Siegel: One can say that
the revulsion of the suicide is the hinge upon
which the whole ethical system of Judaism
turns. By disdaining the suicide, Judaism
affirms its high valuation of life and its belief
in the sovereignty of the Creator.
Chesterton elaborated on the principle
Rabbi Siegel would come to share: It is the
ultimate and absolute evil The man who
kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills
himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned
he wipes out the world There is not a tiny
creature in the cosmos at whom his death is
not a sneer.

The most insidious

deception inherent
in the proposed
law, however, is
codified in its very
name: the Death
with Dignity Act.
The fact that Jewish ethics (or Roman
Catholic doctrine) soundly condemns suicide is itself, of course, insufficient cause to
ban its practice in a secular democracy with
a religiously and culturally diverse population. Such an argument, based exclusively
on religious principle, would be theocratic in
nature religious coercion inconsistent with
our constitutional system. However, it would
be the height of folly to abandon good public
policy simply because its wisdom is acknowledged and anticipated by life-affirming religious traditions. I offer my fellow New Jersey
citizens insights from Jewish law and tradition not because they all should necessarily
be bound by that discipline. I do so because
I firmly believe that in this troubling ethical
debate, Judaism long since has articulated
eternal truths and identified moral absolutes
18 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

that transcend faith and culture and individual autonomy. I do so because Judaisms
mission to teach the absolute sanctity of all
human life has never been more urgent or
more embattled. I am grateful, too, for the
shared moral perspective taught by our sister faith.
I find the proposed Death with Dignity
act to be profoundly dishonest. While asserting a persons right to end his or her own life,
it provides that the death certificate shall list
the underlying terminal disease as the cause
of death. That is to say, the law requires that
the lethal actions for which it provides moral
and legal sanction be obfuscated. The consequences of the law must be hidden from view
and expunged from the record.
Also less than forthright is the laws assurance that a health care facility (as, for example, a hospital administered by a religious
body opposed to suicide) may bar its employees from facilitating patient suicides under
the proposed act. Such religious institutions
authority to prohibit physicians participation
in assisted suicide does not extend to actions
taken in the private medical office of a physician or other provider. Similarly, a physician
would enjoy immunity from employer bans
and punitive action when acting outside the
course and scope of that individuals capacity
as an employee. That is, an oncologist prohibited by Saint Marys Hospital from prescribing a lethal dose of narcotics to a terminal patient could circumvent his employers
directives by doing so strategically, in the privacy of his own office, or by doing so ostensibly not as an employee, but as a trusted
friend of the family, off the clock.
The very use of medication to effect
patient suicide is profoundly deceitful. Suicide by a self-administered overdose of physician-prescribed drugs is no more morally
defensible or refined than suicide by firearm or hanging, exposure to the elements,
or poison. The big lie of involving healers
and curative substances in state-regulated
suicide was addressed decades ago by Daniel Callahan, co-founder and president of the
Hastings Center, a research organization in
Westchester County:
As people have turned away from religion and elevated medicine as the supreme
arbiter of our lives, we ask for medicines
sanction. It might be argued that if a person
wants to commit suicide, they can most often
do it themselves why bring in the medical
community to legitimate it? Why? Because
we need somebody in authority to say it is
okay for us to do something that we know is
reprehensible.
The true role of medical professionals
and medication in the proposed law is not
to avoid but to mask the moral offense in
self-destruction, and in so doing, to delude
patients and their families by manipulating
the trust and esteem customarily vested in
the physician.
The safeguards built into the law are themselves illusory: A person who substantially

complies in good faith with

ill to end if not their own, then
the provisions of this act shall
the collateral suffering of loved
be deemed to be in compliones.
ance with this act desulRabbi Emanuel Rackman
tory departure from exactdiscussed the far-reaching consequences of the type of law
ing legal or medical protocols
now pending in New Jersey:
notwithstanding.
The most insidious decepThe misery of the few who
tion inherent in the proposed
might take advantage of the
Rabbi Joseph
law, however, is codified in its
legislation proposed is naught
H. Prouser
very name: the Death with
by comparison with the misery
Dignity Act. What greater
of the multitudes whom the
assault on human dignity
Leviathan will destroy when
could be perpetrated than the official deterand if we raze the ramparts which religion
mination that a persons life no longer merits
has raised for millennia around the sanctity
societys unqualified protection and esteem
of life.
as sacrosanct. There is no dignity, to borHistorically, Jewish law has responded to
row a telling term from the medical horrors
the moral offense of suicide with two complementary and carefully balanced policies.
First, the suicide is theoretically punishable
with posthumous sanctions: certain funerary
prayers and rites are withheld, burial is at a
distance from other graves, and mourners
continue daily recitation of Kaddish longer
than usual as its fullest expiatory power
is deemed necessary following so sinful a
demise.
The second historic trend in Jewish law
has been to consider only the narrowest
conceivable category of suicide as culpable:
only those people who, in a calm state and
with sound mind and judgment, clearly state
before witnesses their intention to take their
own lives, and then proceed immediately
to carry out their threatened course of selfdestruction. In other words, rabbinic tradition has, gratefully, all but legislated true
of the Nazi era, in being ruled lebensunsuicide (and any punitive measures imposed
in its wake) out of existence an expression
wertig not worthy of life nor of the
of incredulous disdain for suicide as well as a
unconditional moral immunities human life
commands.
gesture of genuine compassion for both the
Of course, those suffering with terminal
deceased and the bereaved.
illness (indeed, any who suffer) require our
The safeguard in the proposed physician-assisted suicide legislation require precompassion. By divorcing compassion from
cisely those elements that render suicide
reason and a sense of normative moral duty,
halachically culpable: establishment of psyhowever, by acceding even to a patients own
chological competence, unambiguous decladesperate urging to kill in the name of kindness, we distort the moral virtue of compasration of suicidal intent before witnesses, and
sion beyond all recognition. Permitting or
self-administered lethal action in accordance
facilitating suicide in the name of compassion
with those pronouncements. The proposed
is the wrong application of the right principle.
New Jersey law, that is to say, would remove
The argument from compassion for legalany claim to extending or exculpatory cirizing suicide is simultaneously seductive and
cumstances, and restore the tragic category
perilous. How quickly the right to suicide
of culpable suicide, thus undoing millennia of
will be perceived especially by the physiindulgent sensitivity and compassion toward
cally depleted and emotionally vulnerable
those driven to such desperate acts.
as a duty of self-destruction. Do not loved
Jews traditionally are self-described as
ones who share the anxiety of illness (as, too,
rachmanim, bnei rachmanim compassionate people, born and bred (literally,
the emotional trials, financial burdens, and
compassionate people, children of the comoften onerous demands on personal time
passionate). The call for compassion in the
and energy occasioned by caring for the terminally ill) also deserve compassion? Will not
current debate is alluring perhaps espethe absolutized principle of compassion
cially to us as Jews. Suicide, however, simply
invoked to justify physician-assisted suicide
cannot be reconciled with our ancestral tradition, our historic mission, our life-affirming
also demand selfless compassion from the
code. Let God Who gave life take it away; let
terminally ill, to alleviate the suffering of
no mortal commit self-injury. These sucthose around them? Notwithstanding its
cinct and stirring words were spoken by the
procedural safeguards, the proposed law
SEE DEATH AND DIGNITY PAGE 50
will place unjust pressure on the terminally

How quickly the

right to suicide
will be perceived
especially by
the physically
depleted and
emotionally
vulnerable as a
duty of selfdestruction.

Letters
Soul Doctors roots

While I enjoyed Juda Engelmayers January 9 essay on the

Shlomo Carlebach musical newly staged off-Broadway at the
Actors Temple Theater (Shlomo Carlebach musical has the
soul to heal frayed race relations), I would like to correct a
few serious errors that he makes. I speak as a devoted follower of Reb Shlomo for 23 years and an active member of
the Carlebach Shul.
Mr. Engelmayer confuses artistic license with historical
fact. The Carlebach musical uses Nina Simone as an artistic device to promote Shlomos (and yes, he was known to
everyone as, simply, Shlomo, not Reb Shlomo, by his
choice) love of all humankind. Although she was an acquaintance, she was not a significant influence on his musical
development, nor did he ever sit at her feet, learning how
to send spirits soaring higher and higher toward God and
a better world. According to the late Itzhik Aisenstadt,
the person who was most knowledgeable about Shlomos
music, the principal source of his musical inspiration came
from the Modzhitzer chasidim. Itzik told me that Shlomo
spent a summer in the late 1940s taking long walks with
the Modzhitzer rebbe. The Modzhitzer chasidim are considered by many to have the strongest musical tradition
among all chasidic groups. Shlomo also hung out with musicians, including black jazz musicians, heard gospel music,
and was undoubtedly influenced by them. But his major
musical influence from the beginning and throughout his
career always was in the deep Jewish roots of chasidic music.
Further, Nina Simone had nothing whatsoever to do with
Shlomos playing at the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1966 and
the subsequent formation of the House of Love and Prayer

in Haight-Ashbury. In short, Shlomos ability to send spirits

soaring came out of his own deep Jewish soul and the chasidic musical influences around him; that it bridged white
and black was due to his own deep love of God and all His
creations.
Further, Reb Shlomo (as he is now known to his followers, to show respect) did not come out of a closedoff chasidic community. His family were prominent nonchasidic Ashkenazi rabbis for many generations. Reb
Shlomo, however, was attracted to chasidism. After the
death of the Modzhitzer rebbe, Reb Shlomo spent much
time learning with the Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem
Mendel Schneerson, before he became the rebbe. Reb
Shlomo and Reb Zalman Schachter became the first
shaliachs sent out by Chabad Lubavitch to reach out to
all the lost Jewish souls. As everyone knows, Chabad is
definitely not a closed-off chasidic community, as Mr.
Engelmayer describes it.
As a more minor correction, non-chasidic Orthodox synagogues have always had communal singing in their religious
services; singing was not frowned upon, rather, it was not
engaged in to the extent of chasidic communities. Certainly
we remember Adon Olam, Aleynu, and many other prayers
being sung in Ashkenazi synagogues before Reb Shlomos
advent. And Sephardic communities have always had a rich
tradition of singing and chanting during prayer services.
Nonetheless, as Mr. Engelmayer writes, the universal
message of Soul Doctor is a message for all times and
for this time.
Leon Sutton
New York, NY

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One bullet
at a time
French priest finds graves,
unearths stories from
Europes killing fields

Father Patrick Desboiss mission to document

and preserve the mass graves of Eastern Europe
began at this site, Rava-Ruska in Ukraine.

20 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

LARRY YUDELSON

ather Patrick Desbois keeps all

expression off his face when
people tell him the most horrible
things.
If he let his feelings show, the people
wouldnt talk. And he wants them to talk:
He asks them questions again and again,
pinning down details. Where did this happen? What window were you watching
from? Who was there?
Listening without reacting is a core competency for a Catholic priest like Father
Desbois. But in a confession booth, the
priests face is shielded. Father Desbois
interviews people in their homes, speaking

face to face, if often through a translator.

You have a choice, he said last week.
You can express yourself or you can
know the truth.
The truth he seeks to uncover is a horrible one: the story of how more than two
million people were murdered, one at a
time, by Nazis and their Eastern European
collaborators.
This Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the day that the Soviet army
reached the gates of Auschwitz, the date
selected for Holocaust commemoration
by the United Nations. Yet the Red Army
liberated only 7,500 Jews there; tens of
thousands had been marched west by the
Nazis to Bergen-Belsen. Most of them died

along the way. In the 28 months that Auschwitz had operated as an extermination
camp, more than one million Jews had
been murdered there. Auschwitz and the
other death camps, however, were not the
beginning of the Nazi machinery of death
they were its culmination. First had
come the Einsatzgruppen, literally task
forces squads of SS officers assigned
to follow the advancing Nazi front and do
clean up, by murdering local leaders, intellectuals, communists, and Jews of all ages.
In all, the Einsatzgruppen and other
German units killed more than two million people, the vast majority Jews, one
bullet at a time. In the Ukraine alone they
killed more Jews than died at Auschwitz,

including, as always, women and children.

Every Jew was killed by one person.
Every victim saw his killer. Every killer saw
his victim, Father Desbois said.
During the war, Germans direct involvement in the murders proved too much for
many of them to handle. Auschwitz and the
other death camps were created to spare
Nazis the emotional anguish of individualized murder. Better to transport millions
of Jews by rail than to exterminate them
one by one, as had been done in Lithuania,
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Soviet
republics throughout Nazi territory in
what today are seven different countries.
After the war, only 14 Einsatzgruppen leaders were tried at Nuremberg for
crimes against humanity. However, several hundred German soldiers who were
involved were prosecuted in Eastern and
Western Germany for murder.
Now, Father Desbois works to collect
testimony from eyewitnesses and to mark
the exact location of mass graves.
Last week he was in Englewood, describing his work at a parlor meeting to raise
support for the organization he founded
10 years ago, Yahad In Unum. Yahad
means together in Hebrew, as does in
unum in Latin, and the organization
reflects cooperation between Father Desbois and his superiors in the French Catholic Church, and Jewish organizations in

JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015 21

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Yahad has posted subtitled video testimony from thousands of interviews at

yahadinunum.org.

France and America.

Father Desbois was born in 1955. This
story begins, however, in 1942, with his
grandfather who was arrested by the
Germans after the invasion of France.
He escaped from his prison camp and
then was reported to the Germans, who
deported him to a disciplinary camp
in the Ukrainian town of Rava-Ruska.
Later, he would not speak of his wartime
experience.
But, recalled Father Desbois, when we
said Rava-Ruska everyone was crying in
the family.
I said, Why do you not speak? Perhaps
you did something bad? Perhaps you killed
somebody?
He said: No. I was in a camp. We had no
food or drink. Outside was worse than that.
I thought: What could be worse than

that?
Patrick forgot the conversation as he
grew up and became a math teacher and
a priest.
Then he organized a pilgrimage to
Poland to meet Pope John Paul II.
In Poland, he got lost. Trying to find
his bearings, he heard the place again:
RavaRuska. It was the name of a border crossing; the village where his grandfather had been imprisoned was only five
miles past the border. In one night, my
life changed, he said.
He was determined to learn what
happened there. He had to know what
happened.
The facts were not hard to discover.
In that village they shot 15,000 Jews and
18,000 Soviet prisoners, Father Desbois
said.

The villagers were not eager to remember. There was no memorial. And when
he came to talk to witnesses, no one
would talk. He knew, though, that they
had known what had happened, as it
happened.
In my village in Burgundy we
killed two Germans and everyone knows.
Father Desbois didnt accept silence as
an answer.
I came back three more times to the
same village with the same question. I was
the nudnick of the village, he said.
Then came a change of regime. A new
mayor was elected, who was not affiliated
with the old Communist regime.
When Father Desbois returned, the new
mayor took him to a small hamlet outside
of town. Here, the mayor told him, was
the mass grave of the last 1,500 Jews of
RavaRuska.
And there was a surprise: a row of people, lining up to tell their stories. They
came one by one to speak because all were
present at the killing. They are not historians. They are neighbors, he said.
One guy named Martin said I was
alone with my mother, keeping my cow. I
saw a German arrive with a motorcycle,
he said.
This was how it began: One German
sent a week before the massacre, to find
out how many Jews are still alive in the village. Once they knew how many people
they plan to kill, the SS could calculate the
volume of the mass grave.
The following week, five Germans
arrived. They rounded up 30 Jews and
forced them to dig the pit.
Martin remembered everything,

Father Desbois said. He said the Germans

were worried during the digging. One was
playing harmonica and he broke his harmonica. Later with a metal detector we
found the piece of German harmonica in
the ground.
Martin remembered all the details,
Father Desbois continued. How the Germans asked the villagers for two chickens,
which the Germans grilled themselves
and ate. Then they commanded the Jews
to leave the pit, and the Germans entered
it. They laid down explosives.
After a moment the Germans said to the
Jews, now you can go on digging, and the 30
Jews exploded, Father Desbois said.

He was
determined to
learn what
happened there.
He had to know
what happened.
Then a woman named Maria testified.
I was a girl, 14. I was in my farm. The
Germans said, come to take the Jews from
the tree. I climbed into the tree and took
pieces of Jews from the tree, she told
Father Desbois. In one day and a half,
they shot 1,500 people with two shooters
and three pushers with gloves, he said.
They packed the Jews into the pit like
sardines, he said, forcing them to lie on

Eight hundred Jews are buried in this mass grave

in Ostrozhets, Ukraine. At right, a mass grave in
Kysylyn, Ukraine, where 500 Jews are buried.
These are among the sites being preserved and
memorialized by the American Jewish Committee.

22 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

Cover Story
top of the just-shot corpses. Then that new
layer of Jews was shot.
In 41 they established this rule: One
Jew, one bullet. If people were only injured
they pushed them in and buried them
alive. People say always that it took three
days for a mass grave to die, he said.
Father Desbois had finally learned some
of what his grandfather wouldnt tell him.
It could have been finished this day, he
said of this journey.
The witnesses went away. I was alone
with the mayor. He said: Patrick, what I
did for one village I can do for a hundred
villages.
When he returned to Paris, he spoke
with his superior in the church, Cardinal
Jean-Marie Lustiger, who told him: I know
the story because my Polish Jewish family was killed the same way. They set up
Yahad In Unum together with the World
Jewish Congress.
Ten years later, the organization has
a full-time staff of 25. It has interviewed
3,900 people and found 1,700 extermination sites, working in 10 countries, traveling as far east as Azerbaijan.
Yahads research starts with reports
from the Soviet Union. In 1944 the Soviets
reopened all the mass graves, took pictures,
and interviewed people, Father Desbois
said. The result was 16 million pages of documentation. Little was actually needed for
the Nuremberg trials. Yahad has scanned
and translated these archives.
It also has the typically meticulous German reports of the killings.
Before we go to a village we have the
German version and the Soviet version,
he said. The Soviets, most of the time

they have a sketch to say where are the

mass graves. We know exactly where are
the spots.
The team stays in a hotel nearby and at
6 a.m. begins knocking on doors and asking questions. Only positive questions,
because people remember the KGB, he
said.
You were here during the war? You
were during the day of shooting of the
Jews? Can you help us? Will you accept to
speak in front of the camera? team members ask.
Ninety-nine percent of the people say
yes, he said.
The interviews focus on the specifics. Where did the Germans come from?
Where did they park? Do you remember the color of their car? Who was the
translator?
Detail by detail, the team exhumes the
ghosts of memories and the memory of
ghosts. Afterward, most of them want to
go to the mass grave, he said.
There are three categories of witnesses,
he said. The first are the neighbors who
saw the shooting from their window.
The second are the people who went
out to see the slaughter. Most of them
were teenagers then. Now theyre in their
80s. They climbed trees to get a better
view. They borrowed binoculars from the
Germans.
The third category are the people the
Germans requisitioned to assist. There
were farmers who dug the mass grave.
Farmers who carried Jews in their carts.
Farmers who pulled the gold teeth from
Jews before they were shot. In all, there
were 50 categories of jobs for which local

residents were used.

And also in that third category the
group with at least some blood on their
hands are those who pulled the trigger.
One time, Father Desbois said, a man
said, I am in a Jewish house. If you want
to see a Jewish house, come.
Could the cameraman film?
Yes, yes.
Father Desbois asked how he got the
house. The man told of his family coming

to the house when he was a teenager, and

seeing bullet-ridden bodies lying on the
floor.
What did he do with the corpses? I
dont remember. I buried them far away,
he said.
It sounded strange to Father Desbois.
A woman arrived and told him Father,
hes lying. Come with me into his garden.
One yard behind the door, she stood
and said: The corpses are under my feet.

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Protecting memory
Approximately half of the Jewish community of
Kovel, which had 15,000 members before the Second World War, was shot and buried in sand pits
near the village of Bakhiv in June 1942, at right and
on the cover. Below, the memorial at Prokhid.
In all, five sites in Ukraine are being preserved
by the American Jewish Committees Protecting
Memory project, in cooperation with Yahad-In
Unum the Conference of European Rabbis, the
Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, the Ukrainian
Jewish Committee, the German War Graves Commission and the Central Council for Jews in Germany. The
project is funded by the German Foreign Office.
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to be dedicated later this
year.
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Emphasis was placed on
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maintenance.

The man said: Shes telling the truth.

Father Desbois recalled: He began with a pen to
write on the wall of his house the list of Jews buried in
his garden.
You have to show nothing, said Father Desbois,
describing his emotional response, and how much of it
he is prepared to reveal to the interviewees. As if it is
normal to have a mass grave of Jews in your garden and
your parents killed them. We need to know the truth
and where are the corpses. If they were working with
the Gestapo they are my best witnesses.
People speak. Our particularity is that we are not
Jews. They know Im a priest. They know I would not
call the police.
I recently interviewed a killer. He was 104 year old.
His memory was as good as mine. He was in a military
unit of Romanians. He himself killed 220 Jews. I asked
him, Are you sure you remember more than 200 Jews?
He said, I got a free box of cartridges when I killed 100.
He allows himself to show no emotion because you
can express yourself or you can know the truth. You
have to be more like playing poker. A family of killers
I have interviewed three times still does not know my
position.
This is the challenge of the organization. We want to
know the truth, to find the last mass grave.
Once a mass grave is located, then what should happen next?
It is a problem so vast there are so many graves
that when the Iron Curtain fell and Eastern Europe
opened up, Jewish organizations shied away from it.
Before Patrick undertook his work, many people
understood that there was an advantage to not be confronted with this problem, because its an overwhelming
one, said Rabbi Andrew Baker, director of international
Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee. He
forced many of us to confront a problem that in the past
people didnt want to confront.
Given the choice between spending money to aid

hungry elderly Holocaust survivors and memorializing

the graves in Europes killing fields, the Jewish community chose the former.
The American Jewish Committee has gotten involved.
In Ukraine, theyve started a pilot project of taking Patricks data and memorializing and protecting sites. Five
sites are involved at this stage. The AJC has sponsored a
design competition with local architects. The idea is
to have something that is modest, not expensive, that
would make it clear that its a special site and to ensure
that the full area of the mass grave is demarcated and
has proper memorial language, he said.
Every time Yahad finds a grave, the organization
transmits the GPS coordinates to the American Jewish
Committee. In most cases where we find a mass grave,
we hide it, Father Desbois said. Often mass graves are
opened by neighbors, hoping to find gold.
Preserving the graves requires marking them and then
covering them over with concrete to stop grave robberies. Sometimes, if they are not marked, the graves simply are destroyed to make room for construction. In
a city like Kiev they built a bank over a mass grave, he
said. They found bones and threw them away.
Why is this project important for Father Desbois? We
cant accept that we build modernity on the mass graves
of Jews and gypsies, he said. If we accept it, what can
we say to Rwanda and Darfur and Syria?
Another motivation is religious.
I worked a lot with religious Jews. They say these are
tzadikim, righteous martyrs. They are tzadikim buried
like animals. It is an attack on the Jewish religion and
the Christian religion. In the beginning of the Bible, the
first question of God is to Cain: Where is your brother?
Since I was a child, I hear the question, Where is
your Jewish brother? coming from Russia, from the
Ukraine, from Moldova.
He is under the bushes like an animal. We cannot
build a modern world, a modern country, and ask two
million Abels to keep silent, he said.

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the party. Possible candidates include
Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, New Jersey Gov.
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Mike Huckabee, former Texas Gov. Rick
Perry, and former Pennsylvania Sen.
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or less made up of the partys major
Jewish donors had yet to settle on
a candidate. The source echoed Erlbaums impression that for the undecided, electability was the overriding
consideration.
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proves that they can beat Hillary Clinton, win and repair our relationship
with Israel I think will get the majority
of Jewish support.
Romney and Bush in particular have
longstanding ties to top Jewish Republicans: Bush through his Florida base
as well as through his brother, former
President George W. Bush, who was
known for his closeness to Israel; and
Romney through his years of campaigning hes been vying for the GOP nod
since the 2008 elections.
Fred Zeidman, an RJC board member
who backed Romney in 2012, is close to
Perry and has longstanding ties to the
Bush family but has not announced a
favored candidate for 2016.
Youve got the folks that again have
long-term relationships that need to
maintain them, but for the most part
I think everyone is still keeping their
powder dry, said Zeidman, a Houstonarea lawyer and businessman.
Some donors may be waiting to see
who will win the support of Sheldon
Adelson, the casino magnate who is
the most influential member of the RJC
board. Adelson has proved willing to
dump tens of millions of dollars into a
race and has been both kingmaker and
spoiler in previous elections.
Adelsons spokesman, Ron Reese,
said the businessman was still looking into all the candidates and that it
was too early to tell whom he would
support.
In 2012 Adelson bankrolled Newt
Gingrich, the former U.S. House of
Representatives speaker, to the tune of
$15 million, wounding Romneys bid to
clinch the nomination early. When Gingrich dropped out, Adelson switched
his allegiance to Romney.
Longtime RJC board member and
Florida-based attorney Joel Hoppenstein said that Obamas response to the
recent terrorist attacks in Paris he did
not attend a unity rally alongside other
world leaders shows the difference
between the Obama administration
and the candidate he believes the GOP
needs to put forward.
Thats the most recent litmus test,
if you will, Hoppenstein said. That
shouldnt be something that you have to
think about. It should just come instinctively. Thats the kind of candidate Im
looking for, who knows instinctively to
do the right thing vis-a-vis Israel or Jewish issues on a global scale.
Hoppenstein said he was backing Jeb
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Bush.
Having lived in Florida for about 15 years now,
Ive gotten to observe Jeb Bush at pretty close quarters, when he was governor and in private as a private citizen, Hoppenstein said. And he has an
instinctive feel for Jewish issues. He has a lot of Jewish friends. Hes very comfortable around Jewish
people on a personal level.
Hoppenstein, also a member of the RJC board,
said that as governor, Bush was very involved in
establishing ties between Israel and the state of
Florida.
Few of the major donors appear to be considering
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, who is also expected to
announce, despite Pauls recent bid to claim a proIsrael leadership mantle with his bill to defund the
Palestinian Authority for joining the International
Criminal Court, as well as his courting RJC leaders
and his attendance at their events.
According to Erlbaum, few Jewish Republicans
feel they are ready to put their trust in Paul, who
until recently espoused a strict noninterventionist
foreign policy similar to that of his father, former
Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
Bill Schneider, a professor of public and international affairs and public policy at George Mason University, said Paul was trying to distance himself from
his fathers isolationism. Rand Paul has been backtracking for months now in expectation of a possible
run for president to make himself acceptable to the
Republican Party establishment on foreign policy,
Schneider said.
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encouraged for positive reasons, not only as a response to
persecution abroad.
We call on Jews to immigrate to Israel when theres no
crime and no other reason, said Peres, speaking exclusively to JTA from his Peres Center for Peace office overlooking the Mediterranean.
Israeli politicians, including Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, have called on French Jews to move to Israel
following the January 9 hostage siege at a Paris kosher
supermarket. The attack killed four Jewish men.
I think Zionism is a movement of rebirth, not protest.
Why should I have a negative reason? I have a positive
reason, said Peres, 91, who twice served as the nations
prime minister.
Peres declined to discuss Netanyahu or his remarks
directly.
He praised the French governments longtime support
for Israel, as well as its historical commitment to democratic ideals. Peres added that there is a European awakening to go to war against anti-Semitism, and that while
Israel should support French efforts to combat anti-Semitism, it does not need to get involved directly.
When the French prime minister comes out so
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Peres, however, called for a worldwide coalition to fight
terror, echoing recent statements by Netanyahu. He also
called on religious leaders to speak out against terrorism.
All of enlightened humanity needs to unite and put an
end to the barbarism of terror, he said. We need to be
among those who will take part in the worldwide, mutual,
democratic effort to fight this danger to all of humanity.
Also during the interview, Peres criticized the International Criminal Court for opening an examination of Israels conduct during last summers war in Gaza. He said the
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terrorist organization that governs Gaza.
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On the subject of Israels March 17 elections, Peres
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Hezbollah, Argentine government

fingered in death of AMIA prosecutor
Uriel Heilman
The mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman seems ripped straight
out of a crime thriller.
Nisman the indefatigable prosecutor
collecting evidence of culpability in the
1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center
in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people
was found dead in his apartment just hours
before he was to present evidence to Argentinas congress that he said implicated his
countrys president and foreign minister in
a nefarious cover-up scheme. The charge?
That the two agreed to suppress Tehrans
role in the AMIA bombing in exchange for
oil shipments to energy-starved Argentina.
Nismans body was discovered late Sunday in his 13-floor apartment with a single
gunshot wound to the head.
Officials connected to the president, Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner, quickly said
that the evidence pointed to suicide, noting
that a .22-caliber pistol and a spent cartridge
were found near Nismans body.

But the suicide theory was dismissed out

of hand on the streets of Buenos Aires and
among people around the world who were
familiar with Nisman and his work investigating the AMIA bombing. Instead, they
said, Nisman, 51, was the victim of foul play.
The suicide theory lost even more ground
on Tuesday when Viviana Fein, the prosecutor investigating Nismans death, said that
no traces of gunpowder had been found on
Nismans hand.
There also was no suicide note.
The idea of suicide I think is nonsense,
Abraham Foxman, national director of the
Anti-Defamation League, said.
The Jewish community has lost a stalwart
hero, and Argentina and all people who pursue the truth and justice with a passionate
zeal have lost a great fighter, Foxman said.
Throughout the years, all kinds of forces
have tried to put him down, to destroy
him. Every time he uncovered new stuff or
exposed some interests that werent happy,
they set the courts against him or they set
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A demonstrator at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires protesting the death of

Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman wears a sign, in French, echoing last weeks Je Suis Charlie protests, saying I am Nisman.
movimiento argentino de FotgraFos independientes aUtoconvocados

tried to put him down, he fought it, he

got up and beat them.
The investigation of the 1994 bombing the deadliest terrorist attack in
Argentine history and one of the worst
incidents of anti-Jewish violence in the
diaspora since World War II was seen
as hopelessly inept and corrupt until Nisman took over the case in 2005.
For years after the AMIA bombing,
which was preceded by the deadly 1992
bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, there were no significant
arrests. After 20 local men, including
19 police officers, were put on trial in
2001 on charges of involvement in the
Jewish center attack, the investigating
judge, Juan Jose Galiano, was caught on
video offering one of the men a bribe in
return for evidence. The case collapsed,
the police were acquitted, and Galiano
eventually was removed from the case
and impeached.
When Nisman took over, he launched
a new, more professional investigation.
In 2006, he formally charged Iran and
Hezbollah for the attack. Interpol eventually issued arrest warrants for six Iranian officials in connection with the
bombing, including Irans defense minister at the time, Ahmad Vahidi. The
Islamic Republic denied any connection
to the bombing and refused to hand over
the suspects.
In 2013, Argentina and Iran signed a
joint memorandum of understanding
to investigate the bombing. Nisman and
Jewish community leaders in Argentina
and abroad decried the deal as a farce,
and many were outraged that it was
signed by Argentine Foreign Minister
Hector Timerman, a prominent Argentine Jew whose father, Jacobo Timerman,

had been a well-respected ArgentineIsraeli human rights activist. The governments of Israel and the United States also
denounced the deal.
Nisman challenged the deal in court
as wrongful interference by the president in judicial affairs, and it never was
implemented.
A few years earlier, during a 2009 visit
to New York, Nisman said that any trial
for the AMIA bombing should be moved
outside of Argentina if it were to have
any chance of success.
Were thinking of taking this case to a
court in a third country due to the challenges of pursuing it in Argentina, Nisman said at the time, at a briefing at ADLs
national headquarters. There is a practical impossibility of doing it in Argentina
because Iran has said it wont deliver the
people we have accused. Its also been
hard for Interpol to arrest those people
because whenever they leave Iran, they
do so under diplomatic immunity.
Even outside Argentina, Nisman said,
it was highly unlikely that Iran would
submit suspects for trial, but the move
could bring some closure to the families
of the AMIA bombing victims.
Im following the wishes of relatives
and looking for a way to get them some
closure, Nisman said through a translator. I cannot give up on ways of trying
to get justice.
Among Argentinas 200,000 Jews
the largest Jewish community in Latin
America Nisman, who also was Jewish,
was seen as a crusading hero.
So who could have wanted him dead?
Many Argentines are pointing the
finger at President Kirchner. By Sunday night, thousands had gathered outside the presidential palace to protest

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Nismans death, with some holding aloft signs reading Cristina murderer. The hashtag #CFKAsesina
Kirchners initials and the Spanish word assassin was
one of the top topics trending on Twitter in Argentina
on Monday.
In Jewish and Israeli circles, analysts speculated that
Nisman may have been killed by Hezbollah, whose
operatives allegedly carried out the 1994 AMIA bombing on behalf of Iran.
Just hours before Nismans death he did not eat
dinner on Sunday night, investigators said, suggesting that he probably was shot before dinnertime six
Hezbollah fighters were killed in an airstrike in southern Syria that was attributed to Israel. Among the dead
were Mohammed Allahdadi, a general in the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard, and Jihad Mughniyeh, son of the
late Hezbollah mastermind Imad Mughniyeh, who was
killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus.
Hezbollah accused Israel of being behind Sundays
airstrike. Israeli officials, adhering to protocol in such
cases, declined to comment. But an unnamed senior
Israeli security source confirmed to Reuters that Israel
was behind the strike but said it wasnt meant to target
a senior Iranian general.
We did not expect the outcome in terms of the stature of those killed certainly not the Iranian general,
the source told Reuters. We thought we were hitting
an enemy field unit that was on its way to carry out an
attack on us at the frontier fence.
Could Hezbollah have pulled off Nismans killing so
quickly after the airstrike in Syria? It would be uncharacteristic for the Lebanon-based group, which typically has carried out its well-planned reprisals months
or years after Israeli attacks.
The circumstances of Nismans death, assuming that
he really was murdered, certainly represent a failure
of the Argentine authorities. Nisman had been under
police protection, including the positioning of police
guards outside the luxury high-rise where he was
found dead.
Nisman had made several prescient references to
the possibility of his untimely death, saying as recently
as Saturday, I might get out of this dead.
On Sunday, the guards assigned to protect Nisman
said they hadnt been able to reach him by telephone,
and his newspaper still lay untouched outside his
apartment door. His mother was called and came with
her spare key, but the lock was jammed; a key was
stuck in the other side. A locksmith opened the door,
and Nismans body was found in the bathroom.
Jorge Kirszembaum, a former president of the
Argentine Jewish communitys political umbrella
group, DAIA, said that a cousin of Nismans who visited the crime scene found a note to the maid with
Mondays tasks spelled out.
Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a Jewish leader and member
of Argentinas congress, called Nisman victim 86 of
the AMIA attack. He leaves two daughters.
Now that Nisman is gone, its not clear what will
happen with the AMIA case, or his accusations against
Kirchner and Timerman.
In another one of his eerily prescient comments,
Nisman told a TV interviewer last week, after news of
his accusations against the president made the papers,
With Nisman around or not, the evidence is there.
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Turkey, terror,
and tirades
What Paris attacks reveal
about Erdogans regime
ALINA DAIN SHARON

n Monday, the European Union announced

that it is partnering on counterterrorism
projects with Middle East countries including Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, and the
Gulf states in the wake of the Islamist terror attacks
in Paris at Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket,
HyperCacher.
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Turkish border to cross into countries where they join
Muslim terrorists. In particular, a Turkish official recently
admitted that Hayat Boumeddiene the girlfriend of
Amedy Coulibaly, the terrorist who took nearly 20 hostages at HyperCacher had crossed into Syria through
Turkey. Boumeddiene was being pursued by authorities
as a suspected accomplice in the attack.
Since Boumeddiene was not listed on any no-fly list,
there is no way that Turkey could have known to watch
her, according to Michael Koplow, program director of the
Israel Institute think tank. But at the same time, Koplow
said, Theres no question that Turkey has turned a blind
eye in a lot of ways to the rise of ISIS in Syria and jihadists who [are] crossing into Syria over their border.
In the past few months it seems that Turkey has tried
to crack down on these jihadi highways to Syria a bit,
but its difficult, Koplow said. Turkey has an extremely
long border with Syria. Its nearly impossible to police
all things, so people are going to get through. Turkey,
doesnt seem to recognize the extent of the [border]
problem, or at least doesnt want to acknowledge it, he
added.
Western nations, and Israel in particular, should be concerned that Turkey is clearly supporting radical extremist groups in the Middle East, be it in Syria, in Libya,
among the Palestinians, [or] of course, helping Hamas,
said Efraim Inbar, a professor of political studies at Israels
Bar-Ilan University and director of the Begin-Sadat Center
for Strategic Studies.
Turkey is hosting the new Istanbul headquarters of
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that governs Gaza.
Additionally, the Paris terror attacks have elicited a series
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served in the Israeli army, from which
Arab-Israelis are exempt.
I want a full State of Israel, Haskia
said. Settlements dont bother me. Its
the Jewish home. Its the Jewish state.
Its unusual enough for an Arab to run
for Knesset in a party that is not explicitly Arab. Israel now has only two Arab
and one Druze lawmakers who are not
members of the countrys three traditionally Arab parties, United Arab List,
Hadash, and the National Democratic
Assembly. Its stranger still for an Arab
to run in a right-wing religious faction
that takes hawkish positions on security
issues.
Haskias campaign was a long shot and
she fared poorly in the primary, garnering just 6,500 points a number that
reflects thousands of votes plus additional weighting given by her supporters
likely putting her out of the reach of
a Knesset seat. But despite her showing,
the political newcomer, who had virtually no campaign budget, said she felt
wonderful about the results.

I hope this vote proves we can live

together and that equality is possible,
Haskia said before the balloting. Not
every religious person needs to be my
enemy.
Haskia is one of several Jewish Home
hopefuls who come from outside the
partys core constituency of religious
Jews. Among them are Yinon Magal, a
secular journalist who is likely to take
the seventh spot on party list; Ronen
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who came in 21st. Ayelet Shaked, who

now holds fifth place on the party list, is
a secular woman from Tel Aviv who once
worked as an engineer in Israels hightech industry.
In the campaign for the March 17
elections, Jewish Home has aimed to
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Theres room for everybody, Jewish Home leader
Naftali Bennett wrote on Facebook the day after the
primary results came out. Religious, secular, whoever
doesnt apologize for loving our land.
Raised in a nonreligious family in Acre, Haskia says
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Jewish Israelis. About a decade ago, she moved to Kibbutz Yehiam in northern Israel, where she fought to
send her children to the local Jewish school and enlist
them in the Israel Defense Forces.
Over the summer, Haskia came to national prominence when one of her sons fought in the IDFs Gaza
campaign. Arabs and Jews, she said, should join together
in fighting the countrys enemies.

The war is not with Arabs and not with Jews, and not
against the Palestinians, she said in a July interview on
Israeli Channel 10. The war is against a terror organization. The time has come to fight it. The time has come
to destroy it.
Four years ago, Haskia founded the Real Voice, a nonprofit that aims to increase Arab-Israelis enlistment in
the IDF. She believes that more Arab Israelis would enlist
if not for communal pressure, and she has become a surrogate mother of sorts to Arab Israeli soldiers who dont
receive support from their own families.
All this has come at a personal cost for Haskia. Army
service is stigmatized among Arab Israelis, and she has
become an outcast in a community with which she still
identifies. After she joined Jewish Home, some of her
childhood friends called her a fascist and broke off contact with her.
There are those who dont think like me, Haskia
said. But a lot want to belong, and theyre scared to
express their opinion.
Even with her poor performance in the primary,
Haskia believes Jewish Home voters have embraced her
despite her background. Several supporters congratulated her as she left the synagogue on primary day. Her
chances of winning a Knesset seat were always slim, she
acknowledged, but her optimism was undiminished.
With Gods help, the grassroots are giving support,
she said. Then, quoting a line from Israels national
anthem, she added, I have not yet lost hope.
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of inflammatory comments about the Jewish state by

Turkish officials.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu last week
accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of
committing crimes against humanity equivalent to the
Paris attacks, citing Israels Operation Protective Edge
against Hamas last summer and the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident (in which Israeli forces were attacked by Turkish militants aboard the Mavi Marmara vessel and subsequently
killed nine of them).
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slammed
Netanyahu for attending the January 11 mass anti-terrorism rally in Paris, accusing the Israeli prime minister
of carrying out state terrorism. Additionally, a member of Erdogans ruling Justice and Development Party
[AKP], Ibrahim Melih Gkek, promoted an anti-Israel
conspiracy theory when he told a gathering of youths
that because Israel is angry with France for supporting
a recent Palestinian statehood resolution at the United
Nations, it is certain that Israels Mossad spy agency is
behind the Paris attacks.
Israel is bewildered that the U.S. and the Europeans
allow a NATO member [such as Turkey] to behave in such
a way, but we see the inability of the Americans and Europeans to call a spade a spade, Inbar said.
The Israeli-Turkish relationship has been deteriorating
since Israels Operation Cast Lead in Gaza from 2008-09.
Erdogan publicly chastised Israeli president Shimon Peres
in 2009 during a panel at the World Economic Forum in
Switzerland, saying, When it comes to killing, you [Israel]
know well how to kill people.
The Gaza flotilla incident further strained Israel-Turkey
ties, but Koplow cautions against the notion that their relations were good before 2008. Israel and Turkey had a
strong relationship in the 1990s, but it was mainly a military relationship, he said. When AKP first came to power
in Turkey in 2002, it sought to address Western skepticism
about its rise and presented a very moderate front during its first term, meaning it did not ruffle any feathers
internationally, nor did it antagonize Israel.
But when AKP was re-elected in 2007, its foreign policy
became more outward facing, and Turkey became more
involved in Middle East issues, in part by brokering talks
between Israel and Syria or the Palestinians. Erdogan
began to support the Palestinian cause, largely due to the
desire to expand Turkeys global footprint.
Theres this idea floating around that Israel and Turkey
were steadfast allies up until the AKP. Im not sure thats
an accurate picture, Koplow said. Nevertheless, Turkey
and Israel were never at each others throats until the
late 2000s and the AKP, he said.
Koplow explained that opposing Israel has political
benefits for the AKP. Turkey is in the middle of what
has essentially been a two-year election cycle, he said.
There were local elections last spring, there was a presidential election last summer, and there are parliamentary
elections coming up this summer as well. In the context of
that, it plays very well for the AKP base to bash the Israelis
and to play up the AKPs nationalism by going after Israel
and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
But Dr. Harold Rhode, a distinguished senior fellow at
the Gatestone Institute think tank and the former Turkish
Desk Officer at the U.S. Department of Defense, views the
current Turkish leaderships stances within the prism of
religion rather than politics.
Erdogan is an Islamic fundamentalist who is antiWestern and anti-American, Rhode said, noting that
both Erdogan and Prime Minister Davotoglu grew up in
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Vaccination rates decline, disease spreads at day schools

ANTHONY WEISS
LOS ANGELES A recent measles outbreak originating at Disneyland that has
infected more than 50 people has returned
the issue of declining immunization rates
to the national headlines.
California health officials report that
the outbreak began at the Anaheim theme
park in mid-December and quickly spread
throughout the country, helped along in
part by the growing influence of the antiimmunization movement, which, despite
the science that clearly disproves such
links, sees vaccines as unhealthy and
linked to disorders such as autism.
As a number of newspaper and magazine articles have noted, parents who
refuse to vaccinate their children tend to
be concentrated in affluent, well-educated
areas of major U.S. cities areas that also
encompass the majority of Jewish day
schools, several of which have non-immunization rates as high as 26 percent.
According to a compilation of state data
by the San Francisco-based radio station
KQED, 26 percent of kindergarten students
last year at the Chabad Academy of San

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Diego and Beth Hillel Day School in Los

Angeles opted out of vaccines. In 2012, 14
percent of kindergarten students at the
Seattle Hebrew Academy in Washington
state opted out, according to the radio station KUOW in Seattle.
The statistics are not a perfect guide to
immunization rates. For example, Beth
Israel principal Seth Pozzi said that the
seemingly high rate of non-vaccination
was because several of the children in
transitional kindergarten were too young
to complete their vaccines. Pozzi said since
then all have been vaccinated.
The Chabad Academy of San Diego and
Seattle Hebrew Academy did not return
multiple calls requesting comment.
Nonetheless, there is broad consensus
among health experts that vaccination
rates have been falling, in part due to parents refusing to vaccinate their children.
Variations in state law limit what schools
can do about parents who decline vaccinations for their children. In New York,
private schools may ban unvaccinated
students. But schools in other states have
fewer options. According to California law,
individual schools have no right to force

Jewish schools with low and high opt-out rates for vaccinations range across
denominational lines from community to Orthodox institutions.
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parents to immunize their children and

must accept any student whose parents
submit the proper waiver form claiming
religious, philosophical, or health-related
exemptions to immunization. Washington

state allows school districts to set more

restrictive policies; none have.
You have a conflict of what state law
allows you to do versus what you may
want to do individually, said Donald

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Zimring of Brandeis Hillel Day School, a

community school whose Marin County
campus in northern Californias Bay Area
had a 15 percent opt-out rate in 2013. It
would be my personal preference to only
admit youngsters who are immunized.
At Brandeis Hillels San Francisco campus, only 5 percent of students opted out
in 2013. But even schools with relatively
low opt-out rates can pose dangers.
To be effective, vaccines rely upon what
is called herd immunity. In the case of the
most contagious diseases, like measles
and whooping cough, roughly 95 percent
of the population must be immunized to
ensure that if an infected person should
appear, the disease will not spread. This is
particularly important to protect the less
than 1 percent of the population who have
an adverse physical reaction to vaccines,
including anaphylaxis, and thus cannot be
vaccinated.
We eliminated measles transmission in
the U.S. in 2000, said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and a
strong advocate for universal vaccination.

But, he added, When you have an erosion

of herd immunity, the most contagious diseases come back first.
In New York, private schools have
much greater freedom to decide whether
to accept parental objections to vaccinations on religious grounds. At the Ramaz
School, a modern Orthodox day school in
Manhattan, principal Rabbi Haskel Lookstein issued a ruling that vaccinations
are considered pkuach nefesh, a Jewish legal standard under which religious
requirements are suspended to protect
human life.
Its a condition of attending Ramaz,
Paul Shaviv, its head of school, said of vaccinations. Its absolutely required for the
protection of the health of the students.
In 2005, the Conservative movements
Committee on Jewish Law and Standards ruled unanimously that vaccination was required under Jewish law, save
for medical exceptions. But elsewhere
in the country, the rules are not so strict
or the community is not as supportive of
immunization.
Last August, Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky,

Its [vaccination]
a condition of
attending Ramaz.
Its absolutely
required for the
protection of
the health of the
students.
PAUL SHAVIV

an influential charedi rabbi in Philadelphia, told the Baltimore Jewish Times,

I see vaccinations as the problem. Its a
hoax. Even the Salk vaccine [against polio]
is a hoax. It is just big business.
In Oregon, only about 1 percent of the
student population at the Portland Jewish Academy have vaccination exemptions, according to executive director

Steven Albert. But the school is host to

afterschool programs that bring in students from other schools, and Albert said
it would be impossible for his academy
to institute its own vaccine policies for
those students.
The issue cuts across denominational
lines. Schools with low and high opt-out
rates for vaccinations range from community schools to Orthodox. Suspicions
that vaccinations lead to ill effects such
as autism a concern, based on a paper
that later was retracted as a hoax and disproven conclusively by scientific research
affect both wealthy, liberal areas such
as Marin County and some parts of the
charedi Orthodox world.
But Offit of Childrens Hospital argues
that exemptions on both philosophical
and religious grounds should be eliminated from state laws, noting that Mississippi and West Virginia offer no exemptions of any kind, save for medical ones,
from vaccination requirements.
The choice to put a child in an unnecessarily risky position is an unreligious
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schools in Turkey that preach a form of Islam that is

doctrinaire. That doctrine, he said, teaches that Islam
is the only way.
The modern Turkish republic was founded by Mustafa
Kemal Atatrk, who tried create a secular geographic
entity. Before Atatrk formed what is today known as
Turkey, the Ottoman Empire promoted Sunni Islam there.
Although Atatrk had some success in secularizing Turkey, Rhode described a mistaken tendency in the West to
think that once Atatrk snapped his hands, that all Turks
began to think in a different way.
Islamic fundamentalists first came to power in Turkey
in the 1990s under prime minister Necmettin Erbakan,
who Rhode called the intellectual godfather of President
Erdogan, former president Adbullah Gul, and the present
Prime Minister Davotoglu.
Erbakan tried to re-Islamify the society quickly but
the military overthrew him by what the Turks call an
e-coup, an electronic coup, Rhode said.
Erbakans failure taught Erdogan not to confront secular authorities and risk immediate defeat; therefore, Erdogans method was slowly but surely to push, and push,
and push Islamization, Rhode said. In his estimation,
Erdogan was always a vicious anti-Semite and very intolerant of religious diversity in general.
I speak Turkish and I have a personal experience
standing with him [waiting to be introduced to Erdogan
by a friend], when he thought I was just one more dumb
American bureaucrat, and he had no idea I was understanding exactly what was going on in the conversation.
One of his advisers and he are having a discussion
and all of a sudden he blurted out, Alevi (another branch
of Islam) Kpek. Kpek means a dog, which is a horrible
thing to call someone in Turkey, Rhode recalled.
America chose to put its head in the sand about Erdogans true views as did many past Israeli leaders while
Erdogan pulled a fast one on the outside world and on
many Turks who desperately wanted to see him as an
Islamic reformer, Rhode said.
Yet despite their diplomatic dysfunction, trade between
Israel and Turkey is at an all-time high. Last July, a report
in Haaretz cited Israeli Ministry of Economy figures showing that Israeli exports to Turkey in the first four months
of 2014 had climbed nearly 25 percent (to $949.2 million) from the same period in 2013. Israels imports from
Turkey grew to $956 million over that span, a 21-percent
growth from the first four months of 2013.
Neither Israel nor Turkey has an interest to stamp out
trade between the two countries because it benefits both
economies, especially because Turkey is not energy independent, the Israel Institutes Koplow said.
Below the government level theres been a lot of
effort to try to figure out a way for Israel to export natural
gas to Turkey, he said.
On the political level, BESAs Inbar believes there is a
struggle over the soul of Turkey within Turkey.
This is an issue of identity, [of] where Turkey is going,
he said. I am not optimistic, but there is a possibility that
maybe the more Western elements of Turkish society
will gain the upper hand, and then of course we will see
entirely different relations between Turkey and Israel, and
Turkey and the West.
Rhode is even less optimistic, offering an analogy on
the increasingly contradictory behavior of the Turkish
government.
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EU to appeal removal
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The European Union will appeal a December ruling by
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list of terrorist groups.
The court had explained that the procedural decision
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IDF braces with Iron Domes

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Following reports of an Israeli airstrike in Syria on
Sunday that killed six members of the Lebanon-based
terrorist group Hezbollah, Israel deployed Iron Dome
missile defense batteries in the north of the country in
preparation for a possible counter-strike.
On Tuesday morning an Israel Defense Forces rapid
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Metula after civilian vehicles bearing Hezbollah flags
were spotted close to the Israeli border in the Lebanese
town of Khiam. A number of shots were fired from the
vehicles, but an investigation revealed that the gunfire
was part of a funeral procession for one of the Hezbollah
members killed in Sundays strike.
On Monday, Israeli defense officials met to assess the
situation. While the majority opinion in security circles
is that Hezbollah will not initiate a large-scale confrontation with Israel, officials fear the possibility of escalations that could lead to such a scenario.
Hezbollah vowed to avenge the Israeli airstrike. Hezbollahs leadership cannot accept the blow it received
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containing a slew of false information, including that a

group of Jews had stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque and tried
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Palestinian men and women were praising Allah
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Iran confirms general

killed by Syria airstrike
Iran confirmed that a general in its Revolutionary Guards
was killed in the Israeli airstrike in Syria on Sunday.
In a statement published on the Revolutionary Guards
website Sepahnews, Tehran confirmed that General
Mohammad Ali Allah-Dadi was martyred while defending the shrines and innocent people of Syria.
The commander was in Syria to provide advice to the
nation to confront the Salafist-takfiri terrorists, added
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
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actions of the Zionist regime as well as all acts of terror.
According to reports, an Israeli Air Force helicopter
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the border with Israel in the Golan Heights, reportedly
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Mughniyeh, as well as several members of the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards.
Hezbollah and Iranian forces were reportedly in the
Quneitra region to help the Syrian government recapture the area from the al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group alNusra Front, which seized the region late last summer.

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Dvar Torah

Parashat Bo: Kosher bugs and ethical tomatoes

ocusts are bad news. In this weeks parashah,

God deploys a swarm of locusts as the eighth
plague: They ate up all the grasses of the field
and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had
left, so that nothing green was left in all the land of
Egypt (Ex. 10:15). The thick mass devastates, pillages,
and destroys, leaving nothing in its wake.
No wonder the Amalekites are referred to as a swarm
of invading locusts ( Judges 6-7). No wonder locusts are an

evocative metaphor employed when Jeremiah describes

the Babylonians ( Jer. 46) and Nahum describes the Assyrians (Nah. 3). No wonder they are a curse against treacherous Israelites (Deut. 28:38) and an image of the End of
Days ( Joel 1-2).
Why, then, are we explicitly allowed to eat them while
almost all other insects are forbidden (Lev. 11:20-22)?
What is to be learned from our permission to consume
that which devours everything in its path?

NEW
VOLU
ME!

Mutual responsibilities.
Financial agreements.
Marriage. Divorce.
And everything in
between.
NO WONDER THE SAGES
CALLED IT SHAS KATAN.

Heres one possible

answer: Making locusts
kosher redeems them
from their ignominious
reputation. Theres still a
lot to be concerned about,
but ultimately theyre not
all bad.
The same is true today
Rabbi Daniel
of the produce we eat in
Kirzane
our daily lives. Much of
Beth Haverim Shir
the fresh produce we conShalom, Mahwah,
sume is hand-picked by
Reform
laborers whose working
conditions often fall below
the minimum standards
required by law. Take tomatoes for example: Until
recently, any fresh American tomato you found in
a grocery store, restaurant, or cafeteria between
November and May probably came from Florida,
and it was probably picked by someone living in the
town of Immokalee. These tomato workers who
are the same people who pick strawberries, oranges,
watermelons, and more throughout the year have
been paid less than minimum wage, and their basic
human rights to health and safety have historically
been jeopardized. You might rightly feel guilty eating
food from a system that regularly abuses its workers.
But now, many tomatoes are fair, just as locusts
are kosher. The worker-organized Coalition of Immokalee Workers has implemented a phenomenally
successful Fair Food Program that secures fair pay
and decent conditions for nearly all of Floridas farm
workers. Restaurants such as Burger King, McDonalds, and Chipotle and grocery stores such as Whole
Foods, Walmart, and Trader Joes have agreed to pay
farm workers more and to ensure the protection of
their basic human rights. Visit www.fairfoodprogram.org to learn more and be on the lookout soon
for a Fair Food label just like you might look out for a
kosher label. This will tell you the tomato came from
an ethically stable American farm!
As Jews, we seek food thats kosher or fit for
our consumption. Remembering the plight and
redemption of the locust can remind us that even
when something seems overwhelmingly negative,
theres always a ray of light we can latch onto. And
that holy connection can bring each of us, bite by
bite, a tiny bit closer to the ultimate Source of our
sustenance.

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CHALLENGING PUZZLE: OBSERVATION POST

BY ALAN OLSCHWANG, EDITED BY DAVID BENKOF

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5. Singer Elliot of The Mamas and the
Papas
9. The Jerusalem Post is part of it
14. Obama Cabinet member Duncan who
co-founded the Ariel Community
Academy
15. Tennis great who decried the enmity
in certain quarters between blacks
and Jews
16. Measure used in a noodle kugel recipe,
perhaps
17. How Seinfeld can be viewed on TBS
reruns
18. The Goldbergs tube, slangily
19. Ingredient like frankincense or galbanum used in the Temple
20. Spring observance
23. Path in the park where Marcel
Marceau can perform
24. Bomber pilot in Hellers Catch-22
25. Gene Simmonss is called the Punisher
Rig
28. Fall observance
33. Like meat from an animal that does
not chew its cud
34. Jong who wrote Fear of Flying
35. Emulated former offensive lineman
Alan Veingrad
39. Let me now be partial to no one, nor
___ any man (Job 32:21)
41. Scientist associated with J. Robert
Oppenheimer
42. Baseballs Ian Kinsler, e.g.
43. Fall observance
48. U.S. equivalent of a mispar zehut
49. Easy way to get from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem
50. A behemoth
53. Spring observance
57. Violate the 8th commandment
60. The Producers temptress
61. Bitter seder substance
62. Adjective for Ira Levins Rosemarys
Baby
63. American term for a resident of what
Israelis call a caravan
64. Language mentioned in James
Joyces novel about Leopold Bloom
65. Benjamin Disraeli, et al.
66. Goliaths shoes, at a minimum?
67. Plant growing where baby Moses was
found

1. Israels third-largest city

2. Journey lead singer Pineda who grew
up in Manila singing Streisand
3. How matzah is broken to form the
afikoman
4. It gets split in the most exciting Ten
Commandments scene
5. ___ Shalom (synagogue in Mexicos
premier resort town)
6. Renew our days ___ old
(Lamentations 5:21)
7. Display ones bar mitzvah suit
8. Lilith in Lilith
9. 33-Across food
10. Has a feeling appropriate for Yom
Kippur
11. Rank of sailor Ira Jeffery, who died at
Pearl Harbor: Abbr.
12. Focus of the Weizmann Inst.
13. Barbara Boxer, for one: Abbr.
21. It can alert you that you might host a
bris in several months
22. Preposition suitable for one of Isaac
Rosenbergs poems
25. What Noahs ark did on Mt. Ararat
26. Jews, as represented in Art
Spiegelmans 1991 graphic novel
27. His big break came as Bennys summer replacement in 1947
29. Italian equivalent of shalosh
30. It can define whats kosher: Abbr.
31. Famines
32. Pauls partner in performing I am a
Rock
35. Like David and Jonathan
36. Newly elected Republican congressman Zeldin and others
37. Algerian city where refugees from
Spain settled
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39. Polly Holliday played her in a sitcom
starring Linda Lavin
40. Bert Lahrs sign, appropriately
42. At Kol Nidre, Jews ask God to do this
to them
44. Drs. who often circumcise babies
45. Subject for a prophet
46. And Saul said, Bring ___ a burnt
offering... (1 Samuel 13:9)
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Holocaust: We didnt want to represent any political resistance ___...
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seem to do
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57. Be observant?
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59. Mention Abels murder of Cain

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Arts & Culture

Meet Stefan Zweig
Jewish novelist who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel is having a comeback
GABE FRIEDMAN

es Andersons whimsical
film The Grand Budapest
Hotel was nominated for
nine Academy Awards last
week, just days after winning the Golden
Globe for Best Comedy or Musical.
Named one of the best films of the year
by several top critics, it could earn Anderson, a director whose cult following has
steadily grown over the past decade, his
first Oscar.
It also is likely to raise the profile of
Stefan Zweig, the Austrian Jewish novelist who, Anderson has said, inspired the
films quirky Eastern European setting and
several of its characters.
Indeed, a new book about him, The
Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End
of the World, just won the Jewish Book
Councils National Jewish Book Award for
Best Jewish Biography.
During the 1920s and 30s, Zweig was
one of the worlds most prominent novelists. Born to wealthy Jewish parents in
1881, he earned a doctorate in philosophy
at the University of Vienna in 1904 and fell
in with the Austrian and German literary
intellectual crowds of the time. Although
he was not a practicing Jew, he became
friends with Theodor Herzl, who published some of his earliest essays in the
Neue Freie Presse, then Viennas leading newspaper. Later, during his peak
decades of popularity, Zweig became
close with Sigmund Freud, whose psychoanalytic theories influenced his fiction. (Zweig even gave a eulogy at Freuds
funeral in 1939.)
In 1942, after years of unhappy emigration though England and South America
forced upon him by Hitlers rise to power,
Zweig and his wife committed suicide by
overdosing on barbiturates.
It is unclear why Zweigs famous works,
such as Beware of Pity and Confusion
of Feelings, fell into such obscurity in
the years after World War II. Some critics, including the New Republics Adam
Kirsch, have noted that Zweig symbolized
a liberal prewar state of mind and was
intensely nostalgic. Perhaps it was not a
coincidence that Zweigs autobiography
was called The World of Yesterday.
The Grand Budapest Hotel and the
award-winning biography are not the only
examples of Zweigs recent re-emergence.
The New York Times has reported that
new translations and editions of Zweigs
work have gradually reappeared over the
past few years before Andersons film,
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A scene from Grand Budapest Hotel.

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which was released in March 2014.

New editions of his fiction, including his collected stories, are being
published; some are appearing in English for the first time. Movies are being
adapted from his writing; a new selection of his letters is in the works; plans to
reissue his many biographies and essays
are in motion, and his complicated life
has provided inspiration for new biographies and a best-selling French novel.
Some of these examples include the
2013 French film A Promise, which
is based on Zweigs novella Journey
Into the Past, and the Swiss film Mary
Queen of Scots from the same year,
which is based on Zweigs novel Maria
Stuart. Publishers such as the Pushkin
Press have published editions of over
20 of Zweigs fictional works in recent
years.
So regardless of how The Grand
Budapest Hotel fares at the Oscars,
we could be seeing (and reading) a lot
more of Stefan Zweig in the years to
come.
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devoted to Schubert.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1465 or jccotp.
org/Thurnauer.

Temple Emanuel of the

Pascack Valley screens
Snow in August in
conjunction with this
years book selection,
The Golem and the
Jinni by Helene Wecker,
7 p.m. Refreshments.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.

Caf in Fair Lawn: The

Mens Club of Temple
Beth Sholom sponsors
its third annual Caf
Night with dancing to the
music of Touch of Gray
and Plaza North, 8 p.m.
Snacks and dessert.
BYOB kosher. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321
or mensclub@tbsfl.org.

Sunday
JANUARY 25
Challah baking in
South Orange: Temple

Bang on a Can: Beauty Is Power, a

concert featuring cellist Maya Beiser,
is at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan,
Thursday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. The
performance is in conjunction with the museums
exhibition, Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power.
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.

JAN.

29

Friday
JANUARY 23
Childrens program
in West Nyack: The
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers a Sifriyat
Pijama BAmerica
Hebrew story time with
activities and a snack,
1:30 p.m. Sifriyat Pijama
continues on March 6
and April 12. 450 West
Nyack Road. Judy
Klein, (845) 627-0010,
ext. 104, www.
rocklandjewishacademy.
org, or kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.

Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
offers family services
for 4 to 13-year-olds,
led by Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg on her guitar,
7 p.m. Oneg Shabbat
follows. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.

Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a service led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman, with
organ accompaniment,
to commemorate the

second bar mitzvah

of Marlowe Marcus of
Haworth, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Jersey City:

Temple Beth-El hosts its
30th annual service, led
by Rabbi Debra Hachen
and student cantor Elaya
Jenkins-Adelberg, in
tribute to Martin Luther
King, Jr., 7:45 p.m. U.S.
Sen. Cory Booker is
the guest speaker. A
bone marrow drive
jointly sponsored by the
synagogue and the Love
of Jesus Family Church
will be held during the
oneg, sponsored by
the Pesin family. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229 or www.
betheljc.org.

Temple Israel and JCC

and the Academies at
Gerrard Berman Day
School in Oakland
offer PJ Havdallah for
Tots, led by Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg on
her guitar, at Temple
Israel. Crafts and pizza,
6 p.m., followed by
Havdalah. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.

42 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

Concert in Wayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
continues its Backstage
at the Y Series with
Romanticism Then
and Now, performed
by pianist Carolyn
Enger, 11:45 a.m. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.
Friendship Circle of
Passaic County offers
a bowling league for
special needs children
at Van Houten Lanes,
1:30 p.m. Volunteers
will be on hand to
assist the children.
Siblings welcome. $5.
564 Van Houten Ave.
(763) 228-8570 or www.
FCPassaicCounty.com.

Bi-lingual
entertainment in
Tenafly: The Yeladudes
Theater presents
The Three Challas, a
bilingual show at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 10:30 a.m.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1465.

Lisl Malkin
Holocaust survivor
tells story: To mark UN
Holocaust Remembrance
Day, Holocaust survivor
Lisl Malkin of Tenafly
shares her story of
survival and discusses
her book, An Interrupted
Life, followed by a
screening of Words of
Wisdom: Lisl Malkin,
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
5:30 p.m. (201) 569-7900
or www.jccotp.org.

Teens talk with rabbi

in Woodcliff Lake:

Steven Masi
Schubert in Tenafly:
Steven Masi performs the
music of Franz Schubert
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades Thurnauer
School of Music, 7 p.m.
The opening concert,
An Evening of Chamber
Music, launches a new
multiyear music series

Rabbi Benjamin Shull

leads a Teen Talk
session with The Case
for the Jewish State of
Israel, for all eighth to
12th graders, at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley, 11:15 a.m. Bagel
breakfast. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
Margie@tepv.org.

The Rohr Jewish

Learning Institute
continues a course,
The Art of Parenting,
led by Rabbi Avrohom
Bergstein, at Anshei
Lubavitch Outreach
Center in Fair Lawn,
8 p.m. Course continues
Sundays, Feb. 8, 15, 22,
and 29. 10-10 Plaza Road.
(201) 362-2712, Rabbi
Bergstein@flchabad.com,
or www.myJLI.com.

Monday
JANUARY 26

Bowling in Clifton: The

COURTESY JCCOTP

Rabbi Benjamin Shull

JANUARY 24
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
offers Club Shabbat for
second to sixth graders,
and Torah Tots, for
3- to 6-year-olds with
their parents, 11 a.m.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.

Carolyn Enger

The Three Challas

Shabbat in Ridgewood:

Saturday
Shabbat in Fort Lee:

Sharey Tefilo-Israel
hosts Cooking with
the Cantors, 9:30 a.m.
Participants will learn
about challah baking and
Jewish food history with
TSTI Cantors Rebecca
Moses and Joan Finn.
Snow date March 1.
Participants will sample
challah and get dough
to bake at home. 432
Scotland Road. www.tsti.
org.

Navigating parenthood:

Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues its Smile on
Seniors program with
brunch, social time,
and a screening of
The Book Thief, at the
center, 11:30 a.m. Light
brunch. $5. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.

Hadassah meets in Fair

Lawn: Bernard Roth
discusses Embracing
Yiddish Culture and
Values; What Our
Grandparents Knew But
Failed to Tell Us for Fair
Lawn Hadassah at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
1 p.m. Refreshments.
10-10 Norma Ave. (201)
791- 0327.

Tuesday
JANUARY 27
Domestic issues:

Film/book discussion
in Woodcliff Lake:
As part of the One
Book One Community
project, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,

National Council of
Jewish Women Bergen
County Sections
study group presents
a program with Lil
Corcoran of the Center
for Hope and Safety
(formerly Shelter Our
Sisters), 1 p.m., in the
conference room at
the Shops at Riverside
Square in Hackensack.
Discussion includes
mental health issues,
physical safety, shelter

Calendar
and food needs,
and immigration
legal problems.
ruthseitelman@gmail.
com.

Navigating parenthood:
The Rohr Jewish
Learning Institute
begins a course, The
Art of Parenting, led
by Rabbi Mordechai
Shain, at Lubavitch on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
8 p.m. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
myJLI.com.

Wednesday
JANUARY 28
Navigating parenthood:
The Rohr Jewish
Learning Institute begins
a six-session course,
The Art of Parenting,
at the Chabad Jewish
Center in Franklin
Lakes, 10:30 a.m.; a
second session will start
on Sunday, Feb. 1 at
9:45 a.m. 375 Pulis Ave.
(201) 848-0449, www.
chabadplace.org, or
www.myJLI.com.

Whole grains: Danielle

Cinnante of the Valley
Hospital offers a talk
about cooking with
whole grains, Amaranth
to Quinoa and Everything
in Between, at the
Bergen County YJCC,
7 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. (201) 666-6610,
(800) Valley1, or www.
valleyhealth.com/events.

Thursday
JANUARY 29
Adult bnai mitzvah
class: The JCC of Fort
Lee/Congregation
Gesher Shalom begins
an adult bar/bat
mitzvah class, 10:30 a.m.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.

Hadassah meets:
The Pascack Valley/
Northern Valley chapter
of Hadassah meets
at the Jewish Home
Assisted Living in River
Vale, 2:30 p.m. The
chapters Hadassah
Players perform a
musical, Beautiful
The Story of Hedy
Lamarr. Refreshments.
685 Westwood Ave.
Coffee and dessert.
(201) 664-1488 or
(201) 880-4614.

Friday
JANUARY 30
Rabbi Arthur Weiner
Zionism in Paramus:
Rabbi Arthur Weiner of
the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah begins a six-week
class, The History of
Zionism, The Jewish
National Movement,
at 3 and 8:15 p.m. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.

Shabbat in Wayne:
The Chabad Center of
Passaic County hosts its
pre-Super Bowl Shabbat
dinner, hosted by
Hebrew school students,
6 p.m. Childrens
program included. 194
Ratzer Road. Chani,
(973) 694-6274 or www.
jewishwayne.com.

Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
are joined by Rinat
Beth El Junior Choir
for a family friendly
service, 6:45 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.

Shabbat in Wyckoff:

Talia Tzour
Cooking & conversation:
Talia Tzour, Jewish
National Funds
chief Israel emissary,
leads Cooking &
Conversation, a program
for JNF Women for Israel,
6:30 p.m., at a private
home in Norwood. jnf.
org/nnjcooking or call
(973) 593-0095, ext. 823.

Temple Beth Rishon

offers Shabbat Shirah,
a service in song, 7 p.m.
Led by Cantor Ilan
Mamber and featuring
the Kol Rishon Choir
with soloist Jo-Ann
Skiena Garey and
Summer GreenwaldGonella, the shuls
cantorial intern from
the Jewish Theological
Seminary; instrumental
accompaniment by Ilan
Mamber, Itay Goren, Mark
Kantrowitz, and Jimmy
Cohen. Dessert and
coffee. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.

Shabbat in Tenafly:
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County hosts Sabbath
of Song with composer/
pianist Ronn Yedidia,
jazz flutist Itai Kriss, and
percussionist Yuval Edut,
7:30 p.m., 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.

Saturday
JANUARY 31
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
offers tot Shabbat
led by Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg on her guitar,
11 a.m. Youngsters, with
their families, join the
service in the sanctuary
for concluding hymns,
followed by kiddush
lunch. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.

Shabbat in Fair Lawn:

Congregation Shomrei
Torah hosts Torah,
Text, and Tradition: An
Evening of Learning and
Sharing, 7-9:45 p.m.,
including three sessions
with three choices. No
speeches. 19-09 Morlot
Ave. Rabbi Wallace
Greene, wmg14c@gmail.
com or (201) 791-7910.

Super Bowl special

needs program: The
Chabad Center of
Passaic County offers
Saturday Night Live,
a Super Bowl themed
program for children
with special needs, with
their siblings, 7 p.m. Sub
sandwiches served. $10
per family. 194 Ratzer
Road. (763) 228-8570 or
jewishwayne.com.

Havdalah in Haskell:
Filmmaker/musician/
author David Nesenoff
presents A Funny
Thing Happened to me
at the White House at
Chabad of Upper Passaic
County, 7:45 p.m. Musical
Havdalah ceremony with
guitarist Jeff Goldstein.
1069 Ringwood Ave,
Suite 101. 201-696-7609
or info@JewishHighlands.
org.

Zumba in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades hosts
a 75-minute Zumba
Fitness Party with exotic
rhythms, high energy
Latin and international
beats, and easy-to-follow
moves, for those 12 and
older, 8 p.m. 411 East
Clinton Ave. Barbara,
(201) 408-1475.

Sunday
FEBRUARY 1
Games in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
hosts Jewpardy
Breakfast, 9:15 a.m.

$7 for breakfast. 385

Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463
or administrator@
avodatshalom.net.

Baseball columnist in
Teaneck: Bob Klapisch,
the Records baseball
columnist, speaks at a
Mens Club breakfast
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, 9:30 a.m. He
will preview the 2015
baseball season, discuss
A-Rod and the Yankees,
whether the Mets can
be competitive, and the
Hall of Fame vote; q-&-a
session follows. Breakfast
served. 950 Queen Anne
Road. (201) 836-6210 or
www.bethaaron.org.

Used book sale: The

Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel holds a sale,
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Childrens
books, 50 cents; adult
paperbacks, $1; and
hardcover books, $2.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.

Mishloach Manot for

the IDF: Congregation
Kol HaNeshamah in
Englewood assembles
mishloach manot
packages for lone
soldiers in the Israel
Defense Forces at
St. Pauls Church,
24 p.m. (201) 816-1611,
tikkunolam@khnj.org, or
www.khnj.org.

Monday
FEBRUARY 2
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.

In New York
Sunday
JANUARY 25
Film in NYC: The
Museum of Jewish
HeritageA Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust and the
Primo Levi Center copresent Oro Macht
Frei (Gold Will Set
You Free), in English
and Italian with English
subtitles, 2:30 p.m. The
new film sheds light on
the persecution and
deportation of the Jews
of Rome. Alessandra Di
Castro, director of the
Jewish Museum of Rome,
will speak. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.

Tuesday

Singles

JANUARY 27

Sunday

Commemorating the
Holocaust: The Museum

JANUARY 25

of Jewish HeritageA
Living Memorial to
the Holocaust marks
Holocaust Remembrance
Day and the 70th
anniversary of the
liberation of AuschwitzBirkenau with children
of Holocaust survivors
sharing their stories
of regeneration,
7 p.m. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.

Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
for lunch and to socialize
and play games at
Congregation Agudath
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Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.

Winter dining in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Mosaic Outdoor
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New York meets at
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Vegan and kosher. 473
Cedar Lane. www.
mosaic-gny.org.

Registration open
at Kaplen JCC U
The JCC University at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly begins a new winter
program, featuring an array of
topics. The four-session term
will be taught by top professors and experts in their fields.
Gail Sheehy, a trailblazer in
journalism, and Tobi Kahn, a
major voice in contemporary
Gail Sheehy
art, are among the presenters.
Classes are on Thursdays, January 29, February 12 and 26,
and March 12.
On January 29, Dr. Josh
Gleis, an international security consultant and political
risk analyst, will discuss ISIS:
Short Term Threat or Long
Term Challenge. On February
12, Dr. Richard Roberts, proTobi Kahn
fessor emeritus of medicine at
Weill Cornell Medical College
and adjunct at Rockefeller University, will talk about
Ebola, and Tobi Kahn will offer Looking at Art Now
with Tobi Kahn.
On February 26, Fred Gardaphe, distinguished professor of English and Italian studies at Queens College,
will talk about From Wise Guys to Wise Men: The
Image of the Italian American Gangster, and CUNY
sociology professor and author William Helmreich will
talk about The New York Nobody Knows: Walking
6000 Miles in the City. On March 12, Ronald Brown,
associate professor at Touro College and the Unification Theological Seminary, will talk about Divine New
York: A Religious History of New York City, and Gail
Sheehy, the author of Passages, will talk about Daring: My Passages.
For information, call Kathy at (201) 408-1454 or email
her at kgraff@jccotp.org.

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Calendar
Lucky Break
performs
this Sunday
Jerry Wicentowskis
bluegrass band Lucky
Break peforms in concert on Sunday, Jan. 25,
at 7 p.m., at Davar in
Teaneck. Featured will
be traditional Jewish
tunes and bluegrass tunes performed by world class musicians. It costs $15 in advance
and $20 at the door. Davar is at 1500 Sussex Road. For reservations, call (201) 287-1959.

SuperBowl kosher halftime

show features Soulfarm
Jewish radio icon Nachum Segal of the
Nachum Segal Network will host this
years Kosher Halftime Show during
Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, February 1.
The program will stream and be available
on www.nachumsegal.com. The show is
a family-oriented alternative to the pop
culture musical and dance performance
on television.
The program will feature Soulfarm,
led by Grammy Award-winning guitarist
C Lanzbom and lead singer Noah Solomon Chase. Together with drummer
Ben Antelis and Grammy Award-winning
bassist Mitch Friedman, Soulfarm will
debut Shalom Lach Eretz Nehederet
and perform two other songs.

Following the game, the new song

will be available on iTunes, along with
the rest of Soulfarms catalogue, and
the entire Kosher Halftime Show will
be available on demand on NSNs website and the NSN YouTube channel
NachumSegalNet.
The programs presenting sponsor is
the Friends of the Abe Naymark Foundation. Big game commercials include
Royal Wine Corp., American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in
Jerusalem, and the Religious Zionist Slate
(www.votetorah.com). Ables & Heyman
and Gourmet Glatt also are sponsors.
To learn more, go to www.nachumsegal.com or www.soulfarm.net.

Englewood artists works on display

SAVED: Recycled Artist
Books by Irmari Nacht
will be on display at the
second floor display space,
Balcony Cases, at Brooklyn
Public Library, from February 12 to April 5.
Ms. Nachts recycled
book series, SAVED,
uses books that otherwise
might have been discarded
and transforms them into
artworks. The books are
cut, sometimes into slivers
Englewood artist Irmari Nachts Books39Isaiah.
that curl and return to the
tree-like shape from which
the paper was made. The artwork uses
Palisades in Tenafly, the Belskie Museum
the book as a metaphor.
in Closter, and the Intermezzo Gallery at
Ms. Nachts Books39Isaiah, picbergenPAC in Englewood, among many
tured, uses words from the prophet Isaother places. Her art has been exhibited
iahs writings. According to her, In my
internationally and nationally and is in
recycled artist book, I am fascinated by
several corporate and public collections,
the beauty of the Hebrew letters as they
including AT&T, PSE&G, ADP, Newark
reach out to the viewer. The words are
Museum, International Museum of Collage, Rutgers University, Cleveland Art
not immediately readable, but give an
Institute, Bowdoin College, Jimmy Carter
impression of content. The words are
Museum, and Yale Art Museum.
displaced from the book, much like the
An opening reception is set for ThursNazi victims who were removed from
day, February12, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the
their homes. But there is hope; in its
Dweck Center Lobby at the Brooklyn
recycling, the torn pages take on a treePublic Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza,
like shape, and a tree is life.
Brooklyn. For information, go to www.
Locally, Ms. Nachts work recently was
bklynlibrary.org.
shown at the at the Kaplen JCC on the
44 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

PHOTOS COURTESY MJHNYC

Museum program features director

screening/discussing Jewish pilots film
Director Roberta Grossman screens and
discusses her latest film, Above and
Beyond, at the Museum of Jewish HeritageA Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
on Wednesday, January 28, at 7 p.m.
The film tells the story of a group of
Jewish American World War II veterans
who volunteered to fight for Israel and
smuggled planes out of the United States
during the 1948 War of Independence. As
members of Machal volunteers from

abroad the group laid the groundwork

for the Israeli Air Force. The film includes
interviews with surviving pilots, scholars,
and statesmen, including Shimon Peres;
archival footage, and special effects by
George Lucas Industrial Light & Magic. It
is the first major documentary about the
subject.
The museum is at 36 Battery Place in
New York City. For information, call (646)
437-4202 or go to www.mjhnyc.org.

PHOTOS COURTESY BERGENPAC

Connections by Marilyn Deitchman.

Art featured at bergenPAC

The Bergen Performing Arts Center in
Englewood presents Life Forms: An
Exhibit of Acrylic Painting by Carole Goldstein & Marilyn Deitchman, from February 1 to 28. An opening reception is set
for February 11 at 5 p.m. in the centers

Intermezzo Gallery. The gallery is open to

the general public during box office hours.
Bergen PAC is at 30 North Van Brunt St.
in Englewood. For information, call (201)
227-1030 or go to www.bergenpac.org.

Obituaries
Alvin Goldfarb

Alvin Goldfarb, 89, of Fort Lee died on December 5.

Born in New York, he was a U.S. Army veteran of
World War II.
He is survived by his wife, Anita, and was a father
and a grandfather. Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.

Eileen Landau

Eileen Landau, ne Triebit, 78, of Fort Lee died on

January 20.
Born in the Bronx, she was member of the
Fordham Affiliate Association in the borough
She is survived by her husband, Murray, children,
Denise of Fort Lee and Keith of Milford, Pa.; sisters
Edna Horwitz of the Bronx and Shirley Maldanado of
Brooklyn, and two grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Stanley Rubenstein

Stanley Rubenstein, 87, of Deal and Pompano Beach,

Fla., died on January 18.
Born in North Bergen, he was an Army Air

Corps veteran of World War II, a retired real estate

appraiser, and a member of Congregation Agudath
Sholom in Jersey City.
He is survived by his wife, Elaine, ne Jacobowitz,
sons, Mark of Ocean, James of Fort Myers, Fla., and
Paul of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a brother, Robert
of Boca Raton, Fla.; seven grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

Edith Silber

Edith Silber, ne Rickard, 89, of Westwood, formerly of

Tenafly and Boynton Beach, Fla., died on January 17.
Born in Brooklyn, she was a Hunter College
graduate and earned a masters from Montclair State.
She was a member of Temple Sinai of Bergen County
in Tenafly.
Predeceased by her husband Frank in 1991, she
is survived by her sons, Robert (Karen) and Fred
(Randi) of Tenafly, and Tom (Candace) of Madison,
Wis., and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.

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Gallery
1

n 1 Rabbi Randall Mark, right, leads a family

Havdalah program at Shomrei Torah in Wayne.
n 2 Teacher Shoshana Ishayik helps fourth and fifth
graders at Temple Emeth in Teanecks religious school
discover the history of the Hebrew alphabet.
n 3 Debbie Bessen, center, a registered dietitian and the
oncology dietitian for the Cancer Center at Holy Name
Medical Center in Teaneck, spoke to the Jewish Community Center of Paramus/ Congregation Beth Tikvah
sisterhood about how to improve our eating habits,
one step at a time. Sisterhood president Wendy Steinberg, left, and Sue Kaminer, sisterhood member and
registered dietician, join her here . COURTESY JCCP/CBT
n 4 Students at Gan Rina explored the snow and
cold on a winter nature walk. Indoors, they reenacted the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears
during a hibernation party. COURTESY GAN RINA

46 JEWISH STANDARD JANUARY 23, 2015

n 5 Lubavitch on the Palisades Elementary School held

its second annual hands-on/interactive science day, culminating in the Big Egg Drop contest. Students created
contraptions to protect an egg, pictured. COURTESY LPS
n 6 Arnold Grodman, a co-president at Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC Fort Lee, made applesauce
with Hebrew school students. COURTESY GESHER SHALOM
n 7 Mahmoud Hamza, right, communal leader of the Muslim Society of Ridgewood, spoke to a capacity crowd at
Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood on Sunday, January 11. Here, he is with Temple
Israels rabbi, Dr. David J. Fine, holding a family tree showing Prophet Muhammed as a descendant of Adam and
the Jewish patriarchs. Hamza serves with Rabbi Fine on
Ridgewoods Interfaith Religious Council. COURTESY TIJCC
n 8 Dr. Shalom Holtz, Yeshiva University professor, Assyriologist, author, and Ben Porat Yosef parent, taught BPY
sixth graders about daily life in Mesopotamia. COURTESY BPY

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New York metropolitan area Ashkenazi Jewish women and
men aged 25 and older can now opt to undergo testing for
the three common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA founder mutations at a fraction of the commercial price. That is thanks to
a new, philanthropy-based initiative from the Program for
Jewish Genetic Health (PJGH), a not-for-profit organization
affiliated with Yeshiva University and Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, in conjunction with Montefiore Health System.
This initiative, the first of its kind in the United States, makes
testing available to all Ashkenazi Jewish individuals, regardless of their BRCA-related cancer histories or their insurance/financial situations, both of which have been barriers
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We at the Program for Jewish Genetic Health are not
willing to wait for that.
Approximately one in 40 individuals of Ashkenazi
Jewish descent carries one of three founder mutations in
the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, a carrier rate tenfold higher
than that of the general population. Females carrying a
BRCA mutation face a significantly higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer in their lifetime, while
male BRCA mutation carriers are at higher risk of developing prostate and breast cancer, among other cancers.
BRCA carriers also have a 50 percent chance of passing
the altered gene on to each of their offspring, who in
turn will have an increased susceptibility for these cancer types. Individuals who find out that they are BRCA
carriers through genetic testing have cancer risk-reducing and reproductive options.
Today, most health insurance policies cover BRCA
testing only for those who are considered at high risk
to have a BRCA mutation those with a significant personal or family history of these cancers. However, individuals who are at low risk to have a BRCA mutation
those who do not have a significant personal or family history of cancer along with those with no health
insurance, are faced with steep out-of-pocket costs.
Testing for the three common Ashkenazi Jewish BRCA
founder mutations via the traditional, commercialbased process can cost more than $600 for these low
risk and uninsured individuals. The Program for Jewish
Genetic Health is now providing testing for $100, along
with complimentary pre-test genetic counseling courtesy of Montefiore.
According to the PJGH, one of the primary goals of
the new initiative, that also includes a research component, is to identify new BRCA mutation carriers in this
low-risk group who otherwise would have gone undetected. Recent studies from Israel have reaffirmed that
the one in 40 carrier rate in Ashkenazi Jews also applies
to these low risk individuals, and suggest that the risks to
develop cancer in BRCA carriers coming from both low
risk and high risk families may be more equivalent
than originally thought.
Interested participants aged 25 and older who selfidentify as Ashkenazi Jewish will begin by visiting
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then be directed to complete a detailed demographic
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and assign each participant into one of two groups.
Those who meet National Comprehensive Cancer
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for appointments at the PJGHs clinical affiliate, the
Division of Reproductive Genetics at Montefiore, or
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When test results are available, all participants in
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to review their results. These individuals will be counseled about screening and risk-reducing and reproductive options, advised to inform their at-risk relatives
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genetic testing.
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Yeshiva University students

present annual Seforim Sale

How to cut clutter and

take back your home

North Americas largest Jewish book event

will run from February 1 to March 1

Youve reached your breaking point.

Youve tripped over the same thing in
the living room too many times. Now
youve picked it up to finally put it away
and you realize you have nowhere to
put it. You have too much clutter in your
home. So what do you do? How do you
decide where to start so you can reduce
the clutter and make your walkways safe
once more?
Getting started is easier than you think.
If you want to take control of clutter, get a
few boxes start with one for each room in
your home and begin organizing one room
at a time.
Begin this initiative by removing everything on top of your cabinets, tables and in
bookcases, and then place it all in a box,
says Keith McCleary, academic director of
Interior Design at The Art Institute of York
- Pennsylvania. If there are other random
accessories in the room, remove those,
too. Keep just the basic furnishings. Now
sit with the room in its simplest form for
a short time.
In room design, make good decisions
about what you choose to put in the room
and, often more importantly, in what you
choose to leave out, McCleary says. Simplicity and clean lines make a room feel
livable, and thats what its really all about:
comfortable living. Think about the kind
of focal point youre trying to create. How
should you orchestrate this space and show
off your special pieces in terms of size,
scale, color and texture?
After a day or two has passed, go back to
the box and look for items that define your
personality, or will be noticed by guests
visiting your home. Ask yourself: when is
enough, enough? says McCleary. Each
piece of furniture in the room can function

to complement. Accessories and works of

art should contrast.
When you look at your well-designed
room, you should see positive elements, as
well as appreciate the possibility for negative space by removing unnecessary pieces
that dont add to the design composition.
Interior design students at The Art Institute of York - Pennsylvania are taught to
help their clients step back and ask themselves: Is it finished now? You can err when
you go shopping and purchase nice pieces
for your home, because before long you
may have accumulated too many of those
nice things. Take a hard look at some of
those things you dont really want or need;
it might be time to share that stuff with your
local Goodwill.
Sometimes, you might think you have to
keep memorabilia or outdated gifts from
Aunt Ethel in your home all the time. Not
so, says McCleary. Its perfectly acceptable
to remove those items when you do your
box exercise. If you get a call from Auntie
when she plans her next visit, head to the
attic and put those old Beanie Babies she
gave you when you were a fanatical collector decades ago on a shelf in your den
temporarily. Shell be happy for the gesture.
When she leaves, feel free to put them back
in the box of memories until her next visit.
After you complete this exercise in each
room in your home, youll notice that the
clutter has disappeared. Now you can recognize how attractive the remaining items
are in that same space. This initiative takes
determination and focus, but when youve
completed the exercise, your focus can
be on the lovely space youve recreated.
To learn more about The Art Institutes
schools, visit www.artinstitutes.edu/nz.

Death and dignity

day, she had given birth to me. My father

attended her throughout her final illness
with heroic devotion. With only hours or
days to live, she certainly would, alas, have
qualified as a candidate for New Jerseys
physician-assisted suicide law. She awoke
in her bed, surprised to have been granted
another day. Though by no means generally given to theological speculation, she
turned to my father, and with inspiring
moral clarity, said, I guess God doesnt
want me to die yet. Taking her by the
hand, my father tenderly and insistently
assured her, Of course not.
Hanina ben Teradyon could not have
said it better himself.
Rachmanim bnei rachmanim.
May our elected officials and the
almost Chosen People of our state
awake to similar wisdom and compassion.

Yeshiva University students will hold

their annual Seforim Sale, North Americas largest Jewish book event, from February 1 to March 1 in Belfer Hall, 2495
Amsterdam Ave., on YUs Wilf Campus
in Manhattan.
The sale is operated entirely by YU students from ordering to setting up the
premises, marketing, and all the technology the project entails.
Last year the acclaimed Judaica event
drew more than 12,000 people from
the tristate area and grossed more than
$850,000. The annual sale provides discounted prices on the latest of more than
10,000 titles in rabbinic and academic literature, cookbooks and childrens books.
The upcoming Seforim Sale will also
offer a wide range of music and Judaica
options from around the world.
The event has become a highlight for

the university, as students, alumni, and

members of the community visit their
alma mater, see old friends, and add
books to their personal libraries. Proceeds support various initiatives, including student activities on campus and
undergraduate scholarships.
Seforim enlighten us and our communities, helping us grow intellectually
and spiritually, said Shalom Zharnest,
president of the Seforim Sale, using the
Hebrew word for books. We hope this
year to see many new and old faces as we
plan for the best sale yet.
Those who cannot attend can take
advantage of the prices and catalog selection by ordering online on the Seforim
Sales website. For a complete listing of
dates and times, to purchase gift certificates or to view the online catalog, visit
www.theseforimsale.com.

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wrapped in a Torah scroll by his Roman
tormenters. He was responding to the
despairing pleas of heartbroken disciples, witnessing his agony, who urged
him to inhale the flames, so as to expedite his death and end his own suffering.
Haninas death is recalled each year in
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principles, on the holiest day of the year.
As I am moved each year by Yom Kippurs martyrology, I am reminded by
Rabbi Haninas dictum of the last words I
ever heard spoken between my parents, of
blessed memory. My mother, who would
die just 24 hours before Kol Nidrei, was in
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