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ON THE COVER: Avital Laker of Monsey, Miriam van Bemmelen of Teaneck, and
Tzippora Schapiro of Bergenfield, on an adventure with the the Teaneck Ladies
Hiking Club, created by Shani Abelson, stand in front of the Whale Head Rock. The
rock is a giant glacial erratic an artifact left by a retreating glacier at the Pyramid Mountain National Historic Area in Boonton.
Kosher-forPassover poison
Who put the poison in the kosher aisle?
Thats the question sparked by this photograph which is making the rounds. It shows a
product labeled both poison and Kosher
for Passover.
Were old enough to remember when food
had to be, well, edible in order to be certified kosher for Passover or any other time.
CONTENTS
Noshes....................................................4
oPINION................................................20
cover story 26
Gallery 35
Passover gallery 36
keeping kosher 37
passover greetings 38
dear rabbi50
torah commentary 51
crossword puzzle 52
arts & culture 53
calendar 54
obituaries 56
classifieds 58
real estate60
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A quest to
recover looted art
Woman in Gold
dramatically
recounts the decadeslong campaign by
MARIA BLOCH ALTMANN (1916-2011) to
recover from the Austrian government a
collection of Gustav
Klimt paintings that the
Nazis seized from her
late uncle, FERDINAND
BLOCH-BAUER. The title
refers to the most
celebrated of the
paintings: Adele Bauer
I, the portrait of Ferdinands wife, ADELE
BLOCH-BAUER, in a gold
dress. Helen Mirren stars
as Altmann, with Ryan
Reynolds as E. RANDOL
SCHOENBERG, a Los
Angeles attorney who at
first was reluctant to
take the case. Gradually,
though, he became a
fierce and effective
advocate; he broke the
Austrians legal roadblocks to recovery one
by one as he demolished
their self-serving excuses
about why they should
benefit from Nazi theft.
(Schoenberg, 49, is the
grandson of famous Austrian Jewish composer
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG.) The story is
partially told in flashbacks to the pre-war era.
(I should note that early
reviews by reputable
critics arent good.
However, Mirren is
singled out for praise
Amy Pascal
Jack Gahan and Sigal Mamis
Ione Skye
Ben Lee
published a childrens
book, My Yiddish Vacation, about two children
who visit their Jewish
grandparents. The book
explains various Yiddish
words so a child can
understand them. In a
recent interview, she said
the book is an homage
to her Hungarian Jew-
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Asking questions, finding
your Jewish trajectory
Noted journalist to join
conversation in River Edge
and a 15-year-old daughter doing the Forward
bigail Pogreseries, going deeper into
bin recalls that
the Jewish holidays, is a
when she was
personal journey. Its the
g row i n g u p,
most alive Ive ever felt
her family frequently had
professionally.
dinner guests. Their minMs. Pogrebin said that
hag, apparently, was to
one of the wonderful
grill those guests, asking
gifts of this pursuit is that
them a lot of questions
she hears often from rabbis she had never met.
about themselves.
Abigail Pogrebin
She added that her emails
That was the Pogrebin
from River Edges Rabbi
way, she said.
Paul Jacobson have contained some of
Learning to interview people, causing
the most interesting comments she has
them to recognize that they were their
received. There are sages everywhere,
truer self, even for a moment, in that
she said. Every one of his emails teaches
interview, has served her well, allowing
me something.
her to dig deeper not only into the lives of
On writing her column, Ms. Pogrebin
others, but into her own life as well.
said, I couldnt just go through every JewA noted journalist, author, and producer, her knack for asking questions,
ish holiday and write Judaism 101. Thats
for engaging in conversation, will form
the basis of a program at Temple Avodat
Shalom on April 7, when Ms. Pogrebin
will engage in conversation with Rabbi
Paul Jacobson and answer questions from
audience members.
Dubbed Moments that Matter, the
program co-sponsored by Congregation
Beth Sholom of Teaneck, the Glen Rock
Jewish Center, the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah, Temple Beth Or, Temple Emanu-El of
Closter, Temple Emeth, and Temple Sinai
of Bergen County will be followed by
a kosher-for-Passover dessert reception,
sponsored by the synagogues sisterhood.
RABBI PAUL JACOBSON
This year, Ms. Pogrebin is writing a
series for the Forward, 18 Festivals, 1
already accessible, [from] people more
Wondering Jew, in which she considers
erudite and educated. So, she said, I
each holidays as it presents itself on the
grilled myself to make it more interesting.
Jewish calendar. The goal of her talk, she
Many people, she said, do not live strictly
said, is not only to entertain attendees but
by the Jewish calendar. But, she asked herto make them think about their own Jewish trajectory. What path am I taking, and
self, If you live by the scaffolding of the
am I finished with it?
Jewish year, what is that like? And not only
If she can, she said, she might even offer
has she done a good deal of research, but
some tips on how to go a little deeper,
she tries to take note of her own feelings,
she said. She knows how if feels to start
taking inventory of her experiences.
without much knowledge, she added. I
One of the things the series has done is
started from a non-observant place.
to show me so many levels of Jewish engagement, she said. Some people are in it up to
Ms. Pogrebin, who graduated from
their noses, fully immersed and unquestionYale, was a producer for 60 Minutes
ing. Others, like me, feel powerfully Jewish
It was an incredible education, she
and feel strongly that its not just important
said and for Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers at PBS. She said that although mothbut is in our DNA, but we havent really
erhood has proved the most satisfying
explored what a Jewish life means.
So much of Jewish identity is holiof her many pursuits she has two children, a son graduating from high school
day based, not just family based, she
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From left, the Four Firsts Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Rabbi
Sandy Sasso, and Rabbi Sally Priesand have been touring and speaking
together.
Who: Ramapo Colleges Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and
the Pascack Valley Jewish Coalition. (The coalition is a newly formed alliance
committed to strengthening and enhancing Jewish life in the region. It is made
up of Beth Or in Washington Township, Emanuel in Woodcliff Lake, Bnai Israel in
Emerson, Beth Sholom in Park Ridge, and the YJCC.
What: Will sponsor a screening of the documentary Regina
When: Wednesday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
Where: At the Bergen County YUCC, 605 Pascack Road, Washington Township
What else: Freelance writer and editor Amy Stone will lead a discussion of the
film; in Regina, British actress Rachel Weisz provides Rabbi Jonass voice. Rabbi
Priesand will speak as well.
How: The evening is free. For information, go to bit.ly/reginatherabbi or call (201)
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holidays to break the Yom Kippur fast,
for example, or to light Chanukah candles.
My journey has been an exploration of
Jewish identity by the calendar, she said.
What has it been like for me? What would
I do again? What left me cold? When was I
alienated and when inspired?
Ms. Pogrebin said her Jewish identity became important to her after she
became an adult. We were raised in a
kind of Judaism-lite, she said, though
her family did light candles and celebrate
major holidays. There was no bat mitzvah or Hebrew school. I missed the primal
years, where it gets under your skin.
It was only when she wrote her first
book, Stars of David, interviewing
famous Jews and grilling them about
what matters to them, that she realized
she was questioning them without having answered the questions for herself. I
wanted to know more, she said.
The book, subtitled Prominent Jews
Talk About Being Jewish, was adapted
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When I went to
the Middle East,
I was shocked,
because there
was no mention
of Jews.
Dr. Afridi grew up exposed to a huge
range of cultures. Her parents are Pakistani, but because her father worked at the
sort of high-level job that demanded that
the family move every two or three years
but afforded her access to good schools
and cultural experiences, she met and felt
comfortable around many people.
She lived in Pakistan, Dubai, London,
and Geneva. Later, she moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., where she finished high
school.
Dr. Afridi speaks an unaccented, colloquial English occasionally she will
come up with usages that are not entirely
familiar here, but that is rare. I feel very
native in English, but I learned it when
I was 9, she said. I worked at not having an accent, because as a teacher, you
dont want to sound like a foreigner. But
the language she spoke at home when
she was growing up was Urdu, she had
a tutor who taught her classical Arabic,
and she is comfortable in four or five
languages, she said.
I was raised to accept people of all
faiths, Dr. Afridi said. When I went to
the Middle East, I was shocked, because
there was no mention of Jews. There
were no Jews in my classes. They would
censor the word Jew. I asked my mother,
and she said that Jews were fine, but
Israel was a political thing.
And then we moved to Scarsdale, a
very Jewish suburb in Westchester.
I was about 14 it was in the late
80s and I felt that there was a lot of
anti-Arab sentiment, she said. Sometimes, as a kid, you get confused. Whats
going on there?
And then I went to Syracuse, where
she earned her masters degree in religious studies, and I took a class in the
Holocaust. I realized that there is a lot of
relativism and denial in Muslim society,
belittling the Holocaust. They didnt actually say that it was a fiction, but that it
was far smaller and less important than
were told. I became very suspicious. I
started to wonder what was going on.
She went on to the University of
South Africa, where she earned a Ph.D.
in Islamic literature. Along the way, her
interest in the Holocaust deepened. I
wanted to understand more about it,
she said. I also wanted to learn about
Jewish immigration post World War II,
and about Israel.
She was particularly struck by how
unique it was. It was horrific. Jews were
killed just because they were Jewish.
It was unlike other genocides each is
different, of course, and each is evil
because in Bosnia, for example, it was
terrible, the genocide, the rape camps,
but they didnt go to Albania and kill all
the rest of the Muslims. The genocide
had geographic boundaries. On the other
hand, there were camps in North Africa,
where Moroccan Jews were imprisoned
on their way to their deaths in Poland.
The Holocaust, she said, was unbounded
genocide.
Next, she realized that I had never
interviewed survivors, so I started to
interview them, she said. My daughter
had just been born, and I had decided to
work only part-time, so I had more time.
I started to interview survivors. I went to
Dachau during that time.
It was very hard. I couldnt sleep at
night.
Many of the survivors had never met
a Muslim before, certainly had never
talked to one, and it became a very interesting conversation.
Teaching about the Holocaust to mostly
Catholic students has its own challenges,
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My goal is to educate,
to create peace
and understanding
between two
very beautiful
communities with
long histories, so much
of it intertwined.
use it to say We have to kill the Jews. It is very poor
education. Muslims in America arent anti-Semitic,
but they are still very nervous about Jews. They have
these same old theories, about how the Jews control
Congress. They use the anti-Semitic tropes so familiar in the Christian world, as well as some new ones.
For me, it was disturbing to see a dramatic version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Egypt,
she said. There is all this underlying resentment.
Jews are seen by Muslims and Arabs as a colonial
force because of Israel.
Jews and Muslims have two very different, very
stark perceptions of each other, and that creates more
problems, she continued. Look at what is going on in
Europe, at Charlie Hebdo and the kosher grocery store.
But the man who rescued the Jews? Hes a Muslim.
There is really so much nuance in what is going
on, but we have no time to learn about it. We live in
sound bites. Jews also were colonized; they lived in
Arab lands. And vice versa.
There is always an underlying feeling in Middle
Eastern, Asian, and African countries that we have
to have our own voices, but the wrong voices are
coming to power.
We have to start recognizing each others suffering, she said. Thats how I went on this journey.
We have to challenge ourselves. When I talk to
Muslims and Arabs, I say look at how people view us.
It is terrible. They see us as extremists and oppressors. We are always looked at with suspicion. If you
can understand that, then look at how we are seeing
Jews. How different is that? We have to look at everything with a critical lens.
What does the Koran say? It is the most positive
book, but you can take all sorts of things from it.
We can speak up for one another. When I am in a
synagogue or in the Jewish community, I say that you
can have dinner with each other. That helps a lot.
Of course, thats not so easy. We tend not to know
each other. Even in the United States, we have segregated ourselves, she said. But if there is a place
where it can happen and this is the hope, that it
will happen this is where it can happen.
It takes courage for Dr. Afridi to do her work, and
she is quick to say that she is but one of many doing
similar things. I think a lot of it has to do with honesty and truth, she said. My goal is to educate, to
create peace and understanding between two very
beautiful communities with long histories, so much
of it intertwined.
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About a cemetery
Centerville yields rich historical data, but much remains unknown
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by private homes,
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Cemetery
FROM PAGE 10
Letting it go
She came to Barnert in 1995, Rabbi Frishman said, and within a year or so I went
over to the cemetery to try to see what
condition it was in. We found it landlocked. There was no easy way to get in
or out.
Then, and then several times after that,
we went through it to clean up the garbage tossed in by locals, she continued.
There were no defined gravesites anymore. Stones had broken and were scattered. And there were no records; it was
so long ago.
In 1887, Bnai Jeshurun bought a cemetery site in Totowa Mt. Nebo for $200.
Nathan Barnert, among others, later was
buried there. In the mid-1990s, a group
of synagogue volunteers took some of
the gravestones from Centerville, some of
which were illegible, and brought them
to the current cemetery to have them in a
place of reverence, Rabbi Frishman said.
Ultimately, because they had very limited access to the cemetery and they did not
know who was buried there or where the
graves were located, we made a decision to
allow it to return to its natural state, though
periodically members of the cemetery committee and a landscaper in the congregation
have tried to clean it up, she said
Centervilles story
is far from unique
In 2013, the Times of Israel ran a JTA report
by Julie Wiener noting that countless Jewish cemeteries across the country [are] in
varying states of disrepair. Some 40 to 50
of them are in the New York area alone.
Take for example, Congregation Shaare
Tzedek on Manhattans Upper West Side,
founder of the Bayside Cemetery in
Queens. The cemetery is in total disrepair.
While the descendants of those buried
there are outraged, it would cost the synagogue a tremendous amount of money to
maintain the property.
There are a plethora of reasons for
Jewish cemeteries troubles, Ms. Weiner
wrote. Many are owned by synagogues,
associations, or burial societies that no
longer exist or are on their last legs. Once a
cemetery stops bringing in revenues i.e.,
fresh graves the operating budget dries
up unless sufficient money has been set
aside for the long term. At Bayside, annual
cemetery upkeep costs $90,000.
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Adding leaves
to the family tree
Marcia Minuskin of Fair Lawn, who has
joined her cousin Don Kalish in researching their family history, believes that at
least one of her ancestors is buried at Centerville. Thanks to the Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey, a ledger book from
Bnai Jeshurun was uncovered that seems
to bear out her belief.
Granted, the handwriting in the ledger,
the second part of Bnai Jeshuruns cash
disbursement book (the first part, 18471876, is missing), is flowery and often illegible and sometimes the English melds
into Yiddish but Ms. Minuskin has reason to believe that the $3 burial of Mrs.
Le in April 1886 was that of her greatgrandmothers sister, Bertha Levine. Ms.
Levines death certificate, which Mr. Kalish
now holds, cites Centerville as her resting
place.
And yes, $3 is not a typo. Nor is the $1
charge for burying children. According to
the ledger, many young people found their
way into Centerville as well.
Bertha Levine died in April 1886 at the
SEE CEMETERY PAGE 14
As this overhead Google map shot and the diagram both show, the cemetery
is entirely surrounded by houses.
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FROM PAGE 12
These headstones marked the graves of Esther, whose last name is illegible, and
of Reuban Simon.
Mr. Diamond said he and a group of volunteers had hacked down the weeds at
Centerville pretty well at one time, but
that as with many volunteer groups
we ran out of steam again. Our intention
is to find the money and restore the cemetery, he said. But he notes that the easement to the cemetery goes through someones yard and questioned how the town
had allowed that to happen.
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pro-Israeli community can be seen in the prominent
role that leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee play among the donors to his defense
committee.
Sen. Menendez congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu
on a hard-fought victory and wished wish him well
in dealing with the challenges he will face challenges
all of us share in bringing peace and stability to the
Middle East.
Let me address some of the criticism and concerns
about the prime ministers remarks about a two-state
solution that have caused such a furor.
As you know, I have always been committed to a
two-state solution. And anyone who has ever been at
the negotiating table for any deal knows that getting to
yes requires two partners, each willing and capable.
Each willing to take the deal back to their constituents and sell it. And each willing to put in the years of
implementation that will make it work.
I believe the road to peace is a negotiated two-state
solution that ensures both the security of Israel and
a sustainable future for the Palestinian people, and I
will continue to work in the Senate, with the administration, and with our partners in the region to make
sure that conditions are conducive to a viable twostate solution. That means conditions on the Israeli
side, but also on the Palestinian sideand I have my
doubts about the commitment and capacity of the current lineup of Palestinian leadership.
Notwithstanding what Prime Minister Netanyahu
said before the election, the story is not over until he
forms a governing coalition that can, in fact, govern.
And I believe there must be room for a negotiated settlement in any sustainable Israeli coalition
government.
To say otherwise, is to admit defeat of a peace process that has lasted for generations, and accept an endless cycle of violence in the worlds most dangerous
tinderbox.
My commitment to working toward a peaceful
settlement with any Israeli government, regardless of
who is in the prime ministers office, is unwavering.
Bottom line: my support of Israel transcends
changes in leadership in Washington or Tel Aviv, the
White House or Congress.
The fact is the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the
security of the Israeli people is much more important than any one person. It is sacrosanct, untouchable. It transcends faith, party affiliation, or political
philosophy.
Now, on the subject of Iran, you know where I
stand. We are at the witching hour, and Senator Bob
Corker chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and I announced last week that the Foreign Relations Committee will vote on our bipartisan
Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act on April 14th
when we return from recess.
He and I have been working together behind the
scenes to ensure that we have the strongest bipartisan
vote possible.
The bill is a good bill. It would give Congress 60
days to review any deal before it goes into effect.
During that period, Congress would have the
opportunity to hold hearings and briefings. we
could approve, disapprove, or take no action on the
agreement.
After all the work Congress has put into bringing
Iran to the negotiating table, it seems to me that Congress should at least have an opportunity to look at the
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Today, the United States is on the verge of concluding
a pact that will enable the worlds foremost state sponsor of terrorism to become a nuclear power, leaving Iran
with a military-grade, 6500-centrifuge-strong enrichment capability, along with long-range missiles. Here is
todays price for peace.
But just as there was no peace for our time in
appeasing Hitler in the 1930s, there will no peace by
appeasing the Hitler-wannabe Khamenei in the 2010s.
The comparison is not extreme. Hitler publicly promised the extermination of the worlds Jews. Khamenei
promises exactly the same.
President Obama is a historic figure, the first African-American president. Every year he honorably
conducts a Passover seder in the White House. He
is very familiar with the long, painful history of the
Jewish people, later mirrored in the painful AfricanAmerican experience.
I do not doubt that President Obama is a friend of
the Jewish people, even as he has shown unfortunate
and undisguised loathing for Israels elected leader,
Benjamin Netanyahu. But the President is a witness to
how Jews today are being murdered all the world over.
He likewise understands that just 70 years ago, one
out of every three Jews on earth was shot or gassed
and cremated.
We need him to stand up for us. We need him to fight
evil. Signing this calamitous Iran deal does precisely the
opposite.
The president must demand that Khamenei personally
and publicly repudiate all genocidal threats against Israel.
Second, he should demand that Iran, which has murdered thousands of American troops through Shia
proxies and is called by your State Department the
worlds most active state sponsor of terrorism, cease
all support of terror worldwide.
Third, Before any deals are signed, the president
should condemn stoning women and hanging gays.
America cannot legitimize a government engaged in
such barbarity.
Finally, the United States cannot sign a deal with a
catastrophic one-year-weapons-breakout period that
endangers America, Israel, and the world.
Iran now has control over five Middle Eastern capitals. President Obama himself said that its obtaining
a nuclear weapon is a game changer for the world.
Faced with a threat of this magnitude, the American
people deserve the right to have the final say on any deal
with Iran by allowing their elected leaders in Congress
to vote. The plan now calls for taking it to the United
Nations Security Council, where Vladimir Putins veto
will decide the issue.
There are now some 65 senators prepared to vote for
the Corker-Menendez-Schumer bill, which will require
Senate review of the Presidents arms-control treaty
with Iran. Indeed, in all of American history there has
never been an arms-control treaty that was not ratified
by the Senate. This would be the first one.
There are also 367 members of the U.S. House of
Representatives from both parties, and many of Irans
neighbors, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Qatar and others, who have expressed grave
concern about the Iran deal.
Winston Churchill prophetically warned Neville Chamberlain: You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.
The shortest road to war is always the path of
appeasement. It is a road we dare not choose, so
that we are not confronted shortly with a much more
ruinous Middle East war. Iran cannot be allowed to
become a nuclear power.
hametz, loosely translated as leavening or leavened products, brings us into a world of binary
opposites.
Chametz is perfectly permissible all year
round. On Pesach, however, the smallest amount of chametz in food, cooking vessels, or utensils renders them
totally unusable.
Given the stringencies surrounding even owning chametz, you would have imagined that the central symbolic
food of the Pesach holiday, matzah, would be made only
of grains that never could become chametz. Exactly the
opposite is true. If a particular species of grain cannot
become chametz, it cannot be used to produce matzah.
Matzah also is characterized by a binary opposite. It is
at once lachma anya, the bread of the affliction of slavery, and at the same time the symbol of freedom and
redemption.
There is a message in the binary opposites that characterize chametz and matzah. The message is that to be
healthy spiritually and emotionally, a person must integrate binary opposites and have them interact with each
other in a way that is fruitful.
That message has become even more poignant now,
after the elections in Israel.
I have close friends and relatives who in aggregate present
a binary opposite. They cover
the full spectrum of opinions
and ideologies in Israeli society. These people represent
the far, far left and the far, far
right. They run the gamut from
dyed in the wool secular Jews,
Rabbi Dr.
who cannot fathom why anyMichael
one would be religious, to chaChernick
redim who cannot fathom how
anyone lives without faith in
God. And of course, there are
all the Israelis who inhabit the middle of this continuum.
Since the elections, these Israelis are living a binary-opposite life.
The left and center-lefts binary opposites look something like this: Within three days before the election, the
polls were suggesting the possibility of a left and centerleft win. When dawn broke on Wednesday, March 18, the
left and center-left discovered itself trounced by the rightwing Likud and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu.
My friends in that leftist camp virtually sat shiva. The
existential binary opposite they now feel is that they
deeply love their country, would never think of leaving it,
and even would die for it, but they detest what they feel it
is becoming derisive of democracy, tangibly racist, and
less committed to the moral, ethical, and humanistic values of what they understand Judaism to be. The greatest
disappointment for them is that the newly elected governments proclaimed stance that there will be no Palestinian
state during its time in office provides no vision of how
to prevent more violence and death for both Israelis and
Palestinians.
Most of all, they have had to come to grips with the fact
that the largest percentage of the vote went to right-wing
nationalist or ultra-Orthodox parties.
The right, which has become primarily the far right, also
presently is living a life riddled with the self-contradiction
inherent in binary opposites. It constantly projects a tough
muscular image of itself, and claims that its strength is the
only hope for the security of the state and its people
but the right-wing government that has been elected came
into power not because Bibi spoke to the Israeli peoples
self-confidence. Rather, it was his scare tactics, addressed
to the peoples abject fears and insecurities, that brought
them to the polls to vote for him and the Likud.
Bibis campaign on the last day of the election came to
be known in the press as the Gevalt campaign. Gevalt!
The Arabs are coming to the polls in droves! You better get
out and vote for Likud. Gevalt! The left will give away the
country unless you vote me in! The binary opposites of
the New Israeli Jew, whose characteristics are courage,
autonomy, and self-assurance, and the golus Yid, the powerless, vulnerable, dependent, and insecure exile Jew,
were both at play in the rights victory.
Though not a binary opposite, the voting patterns of
Israels Jewish electorate present an internal contradiction. The left, which still represents the socialist values of
early Zionism, is made up mostly of educated, upper-middle-class to moderately wealthy people. They vote against
their own interests, as do many affluent, educated American Jews who vote Democratic. That is, they vote for more
benefits to the socially and economically marginalized. Yet
it is primarily the marginalized and the newly made billionaires who vote for the right.
I understand why the nouveau riches vote right. After
all, the right under Netanyahu has vigorously encouraged
an economic platform that favors a free-market orientation. This orientation has made Israel one of the major
start-up nations in the world, which is basically good.
Unfortunately, the extremes that this orientation has
allowed has been a disaster for the middle class, who went
to the streets two years ago to demand reasonably priced
housing, education, and food.
The middle classs situation, as bad as it is, doesnt begin
to compare to the yawning chasm that now exists between
rich and poor in Israel. Poor here is truly dirt poor.
Why do those who do not benefit from a right-wing governments social and economic policies vote for it?
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reduced to one word: Nothing. Like the pharaoh we all will read about this weekend, the
president has hardened his heart. He will not
be swayed.
It is small comfort that Israel is not the only
nation finding itself unable to rely on its traditional alliance with the United States. American inaction as ISIS marches through Syria
and North Africa and Iran-backed forces take
over Iraq and Yemen has left the Saudis, Jordanians, and Egyptians equally adrift, much
like Yemens President Hadi, who had to flee
the country by boat in the face of Iran-backed
Houthi attacks.
Although there is much at stake in the 21
months ahead, we know that this pharaohs
term will pass. Yet many American Jews
remain enslaved to their own false ideas
about what Israel must do going forward.
On this eve of Passover, we should reflect
on these ideas and attempt to break free.
The Torah powerfully demonstrates that
our ancestors enslavement went far beyond
their physical reality, beyond anything pharaoh could impose. Long after their bodies had exited Egyptian soil, Jews were still
slaves in their minds, asking again and again
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noise of their mutual dislike. The issue is not a
matter of relations between leaders, Obama said.
And he is right. Ultimately, Israel maddens Obama
because its people and its leaderswhatever their
disagreements over how Netanyahu has handled
his personal relationship with Obamaare rightly
wary of his strategy of enabling Iran to become the
dominant power in the Middle East, among the
many consequences of which is that many Sunni
Arabs turn to groups like the Islamic State terror
entity in response.
What this reveals quite sharply is that Obama has
never really empathized with the emotions that govern Israeli perceptions of the wider regionoutrage
that nearly 70 years after the Jewish states creation,
the Arab and Muslim world remains consumed by
anti-Semitism and eliminationist ambitions towards
Israel; impatience when it comes to a peace process
that promises so much and requires so many sacrifices, like the 2005 evacuation of Gaza, and yet
seldom, if ever, makes good; fear of a nuclear Iran,
and contempt for the negotiating process that is
abetting it.
permanent metaphor for a failed policy, Obamas contribution on that score will have been decisive. But he will
choose to blame Israel and its outspoken leader instead.
That, after all, has been one of the few constants of this
administrations Middle East policy.
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The with-luck-not-toolonely woman of faith
Local hiker joins love of Judaism and wilderness to create walking adventures
local Conservative shul, Beth El. Ms. Abelsons father, Shel (yes, she said, her parents really are Shelley and Shel) grew up
in Worcester, Mass., a blue-collar town,
where his father was a postal carrier. They
belonged to an Orthodox shul, and spoke
about it with respect, but did not visit it
often. Sheldon Abelson was poor but
smart; he says that Jewish boys who were
good at math and science became doctors
or lawyers, Ms. Abelson quotes her father.
If theyre poor and good at math and sci-
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It is not so
much about the
destination.
It is about
the journey.
Shani Abelson holds a box turtle. It is a protected species; Ms. Abelson and her
brother found it on a trail and moved it to safety.
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Abelson started looking around for ways
to get outside. She spent some time with
the Jewish Outdoors Club, but although
she loved it, she found it a bit too daredevil for her tastes. She remembers one of
its members, an adrenaline kind of guy,
wire skinny, who had an event where you
jumped out of a plane with a huge kite. It
sounds thrilling, but I dont think he got
anyone to go with him, she said.
The club is fantastic, she said. It is
not a singles group, but it has produced
many shidduchim. That is not accidental.
There is no artifice in the forest. Insects
and bears are attracted to scents why do
you want to be more attractive to insects
and bears? In place of artifice there is true
feeling, she said.
Ms. Abelson still wanted to hike, and she
did not want to hike alone not only is
that less gratifying, it is also actively dangerous. And I am not exactly a paragon
of fitness, she said ruefully. The joke in
my group is that I am usually the one least
in shape. So its good that Im the leader.
But I said that if I can do this, I can get
other women to do it too.
In 2003, she put a notice on Teaneck
Shuls, the local listserv, asking for women
who were interested in hiking. I got a
huge response and then three women
actually showed up.
Why women? I feel that women in general and particularly Orthodox women
are reluctant to carve out time for themselves, she said. But a human being
should have some alone time, some time
to consider who you are, and why you are.
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dangerous ones they are not called ursus
arctos horribilis for nothing. The black
bears they see are happy to avoid hikers if
they are given the chance.
Hikers face some man-made perils as
well. New Jersey was the iron mining
capital of the United States from the Revolutionary War until the Civil War, Ms.
Abelson said. And we have no old growth
forests. They were all cut down to make
charcoal for the iron furnaces. Thats why
all northern New Jersey forests are second
or third growth. The pits were deep, and
although they have been filled in by leaves
and other debris over the last century and
a half, careless hikers still can tumble in,
although they do not fall to the bottom.
And then there are the mysteries. Some
are the result of human activity. Sometimes we will come across an old car from
the 30s, she said. Just in the middle of
the woods, nowhere near any road. Theyre
usually stripped. And one time I was in
Rockland County and I saw a kids bicycle, 20 feet up in the air, in a tree with no
branches. Why? We have seen old moonshine equipment. That one, she gets.
Other mysteries are geological. You see
trees growing out of rocks. How does that
happen?
One of the things we often see is glacial erratics. That is a big boulder that
is perched in a very unlikely way. Why
is it there? How did it get there? At the
end of the last ice age, when the glaciers
retreated, it was dragged under the ice
and then dropped ungracefully. Pyramid
Mountain in Morris County is well known
for its glacial erratics, she said.
Ms. Abelson dresses carefully, and
advises the other hikers to do so as well.
Hiking boots are necessary. Although
many of the hikers wear pants, she does
not, although she is careful to wear thermal leggings or bicycle shorts underneath
her skirts, and you always have to spray
yourself with bug spray, she said. There
is not a huge market for tzniusdik adventure-wear. I am always on the lookout for
it. She wants skirts that look like something youd wear in the Little House on
the Prairie or on the steppes. It should
be loose but not so loose that it flaps.
Sometimes I think I was born in the
wrong century, she said. I should have
been born in the 1870s. And camping and
hiking is trying to recreate a more primitive, even primal experience.
The group the Teaneck Ladies Hiking
Club usually draws six to 10 hikers. She
has walked with as many as 11; more, she
said, would make the tranquility that is her
goal harder to reach. At 46, Ms. Abelson
usually is the youngest member, although
occasionally teen or even preteen sons or
daughters come along as well.
She holds walks just about every other
Sunday unless it is a Jewish holiday, over
80 degrees, or otherwise meteorologically unappealing. She picks them from
the trail maps sometimes they are walks
she knows, other times they are not, and
In December 2012, hikers skirt fallen branches on the Bearfort Waters trail above Buckabear Pond in the Pequannock
watershed in Passaic County.
Seventy miles of the Appalachian Trail are in New Jersey. Here, in Wawayanda State Park in Sussex County, it crosses a
cow pasture.
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then she is as surprised by their reality, as opposed to their
appearance on the map, as everyone else is.
In order to hike with Ms. Abelson, you have to call her
first. She gets a feel for potential hikers who need not be
Orthodox and discourages or even turns down the ones she
knows will not enjoy the walks. They are not fast, but they
are not easy either. The long, slow rambles encourage trusting, talking, and eventually sharing; I have brought people
together, she said.
There is something both profoundly universal and quintessentially Jewish about the experience of being in nature,
according to Ms. Abelson. When you are in the forest, and
you behold a beautiful vista we have a saying, Mah gadlu
maasecha Yah How great are your works, Hashem. If there
is any place to behold God there is a shul, there is a beit
midrash a study hall and there is the woods.
There is a chasidic saying that God is not to be found in
the city, she continued. Cities in those times were dirty,
cramped, uncivil places. You feel God in the woods.
Ms. Abelsons group has a Facebook page go to Facebook
and type in Teaneck Ladies Hiking Club. She hopes to offer a
walk during the middle of Pesach April 6, 7, or 8. For information, and to find out if you would like to walk with her,
email her at slabelson@gmail.com.
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not reached by the June 30 deadline. But if Congress
strengthens sanctions first and the Iranians balk at
returning to the negotiating table, the most likely outcome is that Obama goes back to Chicago without an
agreement when his term expires in 22 months, leaving
the problem for the next U.S. president to resolve.
How is the rest of the Middle East reacting to a prospective Iran deal?
There is great concern among the regions Sunni
Arab regimes (Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Persian Gulf
nations) that Washingtons pursuit of a deal with Tehran
is widening Shiite Irans regional influence and power.
Since the 2003 Iraq War, Iranian allies have taken over
in Iraq, Lebanon, and now Yemen. While Sunni Arab
governments regard the Sunni extremists of the Islamic
State as a threat, they dont want them replaced with
Iranian proxies either.
Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt long have relied on
cozy relationships with Washington, but things have
cooled in tandem with Washingtons negotiations with
Tehran. The relationship between Obama and Netanyahu has devolved into bitterness and dysfunction;
Cairo has been kept at arms length since the Egyptian
military deposed the democratically elected Islamist
president, Mohamed Morsi, and installed Abdel-Fattah
al-Sisi in his place; and Saudi Arabia feels it doesnt have
the U.S. administrations ear when it comes to Iran.
So these countries have been taking matters into their
own hands. Netanyahu has bypassed the White House
in trying to marshal U.S. opposition to an Iran deal. In
Yemen, Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes with support
from Egypt and Gulf regimes to counter the Iranianbacked Houthi rebels who overran the U.S.-backed
Yemeni president and prompted U.S. officials in the
country to flee.
If these Sunni Arab regimes now believe they cant
rely on the United States to stop Iran from acquiring
nuclear weapons, theyre likely to pursue nuclear weapons, too. So might Turkey, igniting a regional arms race.
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matter of fact, I made a batch last night with a friend and
it came out perfectly. (See photo.)
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Fry the onions and get rid of the liquid. Fry the
mushrooms. Mix it all together with the pieces of fried
matzah. Pour into a large baking pan.
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Dear Rabbi
Your Talmudic Advice Column
Dear Rabbi,
At a family dinner, after I criticized Israeli
policies and Bibi Netanyahus politics, my
uncle accused me of being a self-hating Jew.
I am a proud Jew, with my own opinions.
But I was caught off guard by his caustic
remark to me. I had no comeback. What
should I have said to him?
Loving My Jewish Self in Lodi
Dear Loving,
From novelist Philip Roth in the sixties to
TV personality Jon Stewart today, numerous Jewish writers and commentators
who are critical of particular Jews or who
depict negative Jewish stereotypes have
been accused of self-hatred. After publishing his early fiction, which was peopled with controversial and comical Jewish characters, Roth often was accused of
self-hatred. Back then, people apparently
mistook Roths fiction as philosophy, and
his theatrical characters as theology, and
called him by a nasty name, self-hating
Jew. And lately people mischaracterize
Stewarts comedy as political dogma and
go on to label him the same way.
It would be accurate to depict writers
like Roth and Stewart as comical Jews, selfberating Jews, self-critical Jews, self-analytical Jews, or even simply as self-conscious
Jews.
But I cannot accept the hating side of
the term. Its rude and pretentious to pretend to know another persons emotional
state, to say someone is hating. And in
fact, few people can maintain the emotion
of hatred for more than a little while. To
characterize a person as a hater is rarely
true and not at all helpful.
Aside from that, our sacred Jewish literature, the Tanach, Talmud, and midrash,
are full of negative stories about Jews
behaving badly and Jews scathingly criticizing other Jews. The editors of those
works, who gathered and published such
narratives and accounts about those
Jews of the past, are highly venerated
and respected in our tradition. I cannot
remember hearing anyone use the term
self-hating midrash.
It seems that your uncle is ignorant of
the dynamics of Jews criticizing Jews in
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Tonight is Pesach.
he theme the Rabbinic sages chose to emphasize for the festival of Pesach is zman cheruteinu the time of our freedom. We use this
expression in the holidays Amidah and in its
Kiddush. Obviously, the attention and focus of Pesach is to
be centered on freedom, and what it means to us as Jews.
We should know. Our freedoms have often been curtailed. But while most are familiar with that memorable
battle cry Let my people go, used to protest the Soviet
Unions unfair treatment of Jews, not too many can finish
the sentence. It was first used by Moses who challenged
Pharaoh to let the people go. But the message did not stop
with those words.
The complete statement goes like this: Let my people go, so that they can serve me (God) in the desert.
The people were to swap
the ruthless and merciless
slavery of Egypt with divine
worship. While Egyptian
bondage carried no reward,
only suffering, divine servitude would bring benefit and
gain. By establishing a relationship with God at Mount
Sinai, the people would be
able to lead a life of blessing
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This was highlighted by
Chabad of
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Hoboken,
Orthodox
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the Ten Commandments.
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engraving is spelled the same way as the word for freedom. The engraved writing was a reference to the freedom that is accomplished by keeping and observing the
commandments.
Jewish freedom is thus defined as, first, freedom from
physical slavery, but also, using that freedom to become
subservient to a higher supreme being God.
In truth, most people dont see it that way. Religion is
viewed by many as the greatest burden of all. Religious
commitment is seen as being far removed from being
free. Perhaps the following story will help to clarify why
this approach is misguided.
A man was seen struggling with a heavy sack slung
over his shoulder. The weather was hot and humid,
making his task arduous and tiring. To compound his
misery, the road began to slope upwards. A passer-by,
clearly intrigued by this individual, asked him what was
in the sack. The man replied that he was carrying rocks
and stones.
He persisted to inquire as to the weight of the sack.
The reply was not long in coming; it was quite heavy and
laborious, he said with a long sigh. To his exasperation
and annoyance, the man then asked him if he would
be interested in having some more stones added to the
load. The reaction to this ridiculous suggestion is totally
predictable and understandable!
Now lets imagine the same man walking along, in the
same heat and in identical conditions. But this time, in
response to the question about the contents of the sack,
he replies that he is carrying diamonds, rubies, and
other precious stones. When asked if the sack is heavy,
again the reply is in the affirmative. But when asked if
he would like to have more added, how do you think he
would react? Of course, it would be an emphatic yes!
The different reactions in the two stories are reasonable and logical. Although the man was carrying a substantial load on a very warm day, and up a hill, the contents of the sack were highly influential to his condition
Dvar Torah
and well-being. When it was mere rocks, it was a real effort,
but the knowledge that a great fortune was in the bag helped
to lighten that burden.
In the same way, the reaction we have towards our responsibilities, particularly to the mitzvot that we are directed to
perform, depends entirely on our approach to them. They
could be burdensome like rocks or treasured like precious and
expensive diamonds.
Indeed, we are encouraged to view mitzvot as just that; precious and special. Yes, it is not always easy to observe Shabbat, to eat kosher, to pray, or to study Torah. But the knowledge that we are accumulating precious cargo is surely the
best stimulus to overcome any and all doubts.
Yes, Judaism makes one free. But first one must liberate the
mind and realize just how valuable its opportunities are. It is
why freedom was chosen as Pesachs symbol.
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30 Way to prepare a brisket
31 The Jewish War Veterans have an
award for cadets in this prog.
33 Chanukah candles are lit earlier
because of it: Abbr.
35 Musical instrument referred to in
the title of Roman Polanskis 2002
Holocaust film
39 Setting for David O. Selznicks Gone
with the Wind
40 Seder bone
43 Tel follower
44 Ten Commandments physical descriptor
46 Something Zsa Zsa Gabor liked to
wear around her neck
47 Foch who played Pharaohs daughter
in The Ten Commandments
48 Where some might watch The
Goldbergs
51 Letters that might stop a gonif
53 Casspis target
54 Prepare for Passover
57 Ahava ingredient
59 ___ Jewish? (Avi Hoffman one-man
show)
60 Sat. delivery in shul
61 Prepare for Passover
67 Genre for folk musician Regina Spektor
68 It covered Noahs Ark
69 First name in commentators?
70 The Jewish calendar has six main ones
71 Like Hodel (at first) in Fiddler on The
Roof
72 Jerusalem zoomed in on a map, e.g.
The solution to last weeks puzzle
is on page 59.
Down
1 Michael Mukasey and others with the
same Cabinet position: Abbr.
2 The Dead Sea, geologically
3 Samuels mentor
4 Sometime Yiddish transliteration for a
German anti-Semite
5 Get the schmaltz out of the sink
6 Part of the Jerusalem Posts web
address
7 A minor prophet
8 Where some Jews once fought for sport
(or their lives)
9 CBS show produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer
10 Josephus, e.g.
11 They might be felt the day after running
the Jerusalem marathon
12 Swedish superstore with locations in
Netanya and Rishon LeTzion
13 A Friend
18 Acts aggressively like a Forward
reporter might toward a Jewish leader accused of bribery
19 Make like a Jewish mother
23 Krustys number-one fan, and others
24 German W.W. II menace
25 Father-in-law of Moses
26 Try to get into AEPi
27 Shoot Han Solos gun
32 Like a Shabbat table
34 Part of a Dr. Browns can
36 ___ Malkeinu
37 With the, a number to dress to under
the chuppah?
38 Like a ball used by quarterback Jay
Fiedler
41 The oldest man on Earth, four thousand years ago
42 Seder starting step
45 ___-haw! (interjection from Kinky
Friedman and the Texas Jewboys)
49 Org. Israel is an ally but not a member of
50 Where some treif animals oink from
52 Rabbi Isaac Luria
54 Bubbie might make Jewish penicillin
(chicken soup) to treat them
55 Prime Numbers setting?
56 Suze of CNBC
57 Alicia Silverstones Clueless catchphrase
58 Girls girl Dunham
62 Amen!
63 Sound at a bris
64 Middle of Jerusalem?
65 Start of 189 Seinfeld episode titles
66 You wont find one on Adam Levines
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e are either a
Jewish state or
we are nothing,
says the Hebron
settler Tsadok ( Jonathan Raviv) in Misha
Shulmans earnest and compelling play,
Martyrs Street, now at the Theater for
the New City in the East Village.
Tsadok is prepared to offer a blood sacrifice if that is required to bring about the
Israel he imagines. As he tells the Arab terrorist bomb-maker he pays for a suicide
vest, We are both fighting the same thing
peace. A Jewish terrorist, Tsadok hopes
to catapult the country into civil war.
Director Ian Morgan establishes the
central conflict in the play immediately
through the set designed by Stephen
Dobay and Caleb Levengood, two rooms
side by side on the stage, separated by a
narrow alley. On the right is an illegal Jewish outpost used as a religious center by
Tsadok, his cousin Dvorah (Nicole Kontolefa), and members of Tsadoks group,
Hand of God. On the left lives Noor (Maria
Silverman), a widowed Palestinian sociology professor, and her teenage daughter
Aisha (Dahlia Azama). Noors house is also
in legal limbo; she has no official authorization to build, but she has long had
the protection of an Israeli official who
was a friend of her late husband. But the
Israeli has retired, and Noor has received
a notice that the army wants to demolish
her home. Her Jewish neighbors also are
worried that the government will destroy
the building they have taken over.
Shulman tries to avoid a simplistic symmetry between the two sides by giving his
characters nuanced histories. Dvorah is an
American Jew who has come to Israel to
find a transcendent meaning for her life.
She does not want normality; she wants a
heightened and deepened reality, which
comes through war and violence. She has
fallen in love with the kind-hearted Israeli
Eliyahu (Amir Babayoff ), a close friend
of Tsadoks and a former group member,
but she believes in Tsadoks apocalyptic
visions much more than in Eliyahus reasonableness, and she wont leave. Because
hers is perhaps the least fully developed
character in the play, Dvorahs actions
dont always seem credible, particularly
her behavior with Noor.
Eliyahu visits the group for Chanukah
and tries to warn Tsadok and Dvorah that
the government will not stand for violence,
especially against Jews. Embedded within
the debate (and it does feel like a debate)
between Eliyahu and Tsadok is one of the
plays most intriguing questions: Just what
A Jewish terrorist and an Arab bomb maker display a strange symmetry in Martyrs Street.
is the relationship between the Israeli government and the nationalist settlers? Does
the government encourage and support
the settlers violence toward the Palestinians? After all, as Tsadok smugly points out,
they have never done anything much to
stop them. Martyrs Street itself, the central
commercial street in Hebron, was closed
to Palestinians after the attack on praying
Arabs by Baruch Goldstein. The settlers,
on the other hand, can move freely. Does
the government and Israeli public tolerate
the settlers aggression because it provides
an excuse to apply harsh measures? It is
impossible to avoid such thoughts after the
last Israeli elections.
Noor is the sort of secular intellectual
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Childrens program
in West Nyack: The
Friday
april 3
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers Sifriyat
Pijama BAmerica Hebrew
story time with activities
and the Pizza Palooza,
5-6:30 p.m. April 12. 450
West Nyack Road. Judy
Klein, (845) 627-0010,
ext. 104, www.
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april 4
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers services led by
Rabbi Kenneth Emert
and Cantor Ilan Mamber,
with participation
by its mens club,
10 a.m. 585 Russell Ave.
Passover lunch follows.
(201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Tuesday
april 7
Wednesday
april 8
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically frail or
people with Alzheimers
disease meets at the
Gallen Adult Day
Health Care Center at
the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal toll
of caregiving. Shelley
Steiner, (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5340.
Yom HaShoah
commemorated: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
and its Mens Progress
Club offers a candle
lighting ceremony and
will honor Holocaust
survivors, World War II
liberators, and veterans,
7:30 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
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Shabbat in Teaneck:
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Temple
Saturday
april 11
Susan Dworkin
Author in Teaneck:
Susan Dworkin discusses
her book, The Nazi
Officers Wife: The
Amazing Story of Edith
Hahn, at Temple Emeths
Byachad group bagel
breakfast, 10:30 a.m. 1666
Windsor Road. Breakfast
reservations, (201)8331322 or www.emeth.org.
Moshiach meal in
Tenafly: Lubavitch on
the Palisades hosts its
moshiach meal at the
Chabad House, 6:30 p.m.
It was the Baal Shem
Tovs custom to eat three
meals on the last day of
Passover; the third meal,
late in the afternoon, was
called the moshiach
meal. 11 Harold St.
(201) 871-1152 or www.
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Israeli correspondent in
Paramus: Herb Keinon,
author and Jerusalem
Post correspondent,
tackles Israels 2015
elections: The country
spoke, but what in the
world did it say, and
what in the world does
it mean? at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 7 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Monday
april 13
Support group in
Tenafly: The Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
offers a four-session
bereavement group with
therapist Judy Brauner,
Widows and Widowers:
You Are Not Alone, at
6:15 p.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1456.
Herb Keinon
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Author in Teaneck:
The sisterhood of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel is sponsoring a walking tour of Manhattans Lower East Side on Sunday, April 19. A bus
will leave the FLJC at 10 a.m., for the 2- to 3-hour tour,
which will be followed with lunch at Buddha Bodai, a
kosher vegetarian restaurant on Mott Street. The bus
returns to the center about 5 p.m. It costs $50 a person
and includes transportation and lunch. For information, call (201) 796-5040 or email office@fljc.com.
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Zionist vintage
poster exhibit
Israels Attic: Yesterday, Inspiring Tomorrow, an exhibition of 18 authentic posters
dating from pre-state Israel through its early
years of independence, will be on display this
month at the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades.
More than a historical record, the collection offers an insight into the atmosphere
and spirit of the times. Intended as a source
of inspiration for fulfilling the Zionist dream,
each poster is inscribed with a brief description (in Hebrew, English, Spanish, and
French) with context and background.
Admission is free and open to the community. For information contact Gili Grady, (201)
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when they think were not looking, just as they have in the past
and they are going to parse the
words of this agreement and argue
as they have already about
whether a nuclear advancement
technically violates the agreement.
At the end of the day, we must do
all we can now to get an agreement
that dismantles Irans illicit program
and ensures that it will not have to
be a military response.
A good deal, not just any deal, is
what we need.
That said, today let us reflect
on one overriding fact as Passover
approaches and we celebrate the
emancipation of the Israeli people
and that is that Israel has always had
the right to exist the right to live in
peace and security in the homeland
of the Jewish people.
Even now, you can see as record
numbers of European Jews make
the decision to make aliyah to Israel
a country that stands for justice
and protection in a world that even
now is filled with anti-Semitism,
brutality, ignorance, and suffering a new wave of anti-Semitism
that weve seen rearing its ugly
head everywhere in example after
example.
In May, a gunman killed four
people when he opened fire at
the Jewish Museum of Belgium in
Brussels.
In July, Molotov cocktails were
thrown at the synagogue in Germany which had been burned to
the ground by the Nazis during the
1938 Kristallnacht and was rebuilt
as recently as 2002.
And on January 9, four members
of Frances Jewish community were
murdered in an attack on a kosher
supermarket following the terrorist
attack on the Paris offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo. And the list
goes on. The fact is that anti-Semitism is alive-and-well in too many
places. Violence is thriving in too
many parts of the world. And hatred
and intolerance continue against
the Jewish people everywhere. Our
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his friend left for Greece and then Turkey in January, and
eventually arrived at an Islamic State safe house on the
Turkish-Syrian border. There, with other Islamic State
recruits from around the world, the two were smuggled
into Syria. Khalil returned several weeks later to Israel,
where he was arrested.
The Shin Bet noted that the arrest was part of a
trend of Israeli Arabs interested in joining Islamic
State. About 40 Palestinians and Israeli Arabs have
gone to Syria to fight with terror groups there amid
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As far as I can see, the answer is that the poorer elements of Israeli society tend to be more committed to a
traditional understanding and observance of Judaism,
even when that does not conform to Orthodox standards.
This population views the left as less Jewish because the
left is in fact more cosmopolitan and universalistic in outlook, and it is not always as respectful or knowledgeable
as it should be of pre-State Jewish history, Jewish observance, and the traditionalist communitys sensibilities.
For one unfortunate example, the artist Yair Garbuz used
his bully pulpit at a rally on behalf of the left and center-left parties to call the religious and tradition-oriented
Israeli population idolators (Haaretz, March 9, 2015).
During the election campaigns, Likud and the other rightwing parties successfully demonized the left as antiZionist, that is, anti-Jewish (Netanyahus remark cited
in Haaretz, January 2015, when Herzog and Livni created
the Zionist Union Party). Thus, Zionism itself is now a
binary opposite in that the left and right both claim to be
its true representative, though they have completely different understandings of what the term means. In typical
Jewish fashion they are both in some ways right (or left).
Unfortunately, rather than integration, this kind of
polarization has been the hallmark of Israeli politics since
the states beginning, and it reached another one of its
heights in this election. If, as Karl Jung held, striking a
balance between binary opposites is the key to emotional
and spiritual health, then Israel has a long way to go in
order to become a truly whole society.
When or if the people of Israel can find sufficient commonalities to come together to make peace with themselves, that will be the prelude to making peace with the
Arab Other.
It is clear that the Israeli elections had a serious impact
on the American Jewish community. Our binary opposite
situation is now this: In general, Jewish America, at least
as much of it as is represented by Jews 50 years old and
older, wants to speak on behalf of Israel, its people, and
its policies. This sector of American Jewry now is caught
in a position in which supporting Israel means supporting
a one-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a
resolution with which most American Jews disagree. No
matter how Benjamin Netanyahu (under pressure) has
reinterpreted his own statement about no Palestinian
state on my watch, he and his right-wing government confreres have, little by little but consistently, created facts on
the ground that make a two-state scenario less and less
feasible. Further, this prime minister is a man whose political methods and style in Israel and abroad are distasteful
if not abhorrent to a great swath of American Jewry.
How will major Jewish organizations support him and
his government without compromising themselves? And
if they do not support him and the policies his government creates, what will support of Israel mean in the
near future?
Pesach, our Festival of Freedom, confronts us with
the tensions that binary opposites and multiple truths
engender. It is Passovers purpose to set us on the road
to confronting and resolving these tensions, not by taking the easy way out and acknowledging only one side of
multifaceted truths, only lefts or rights. It is this holidays
purpose to bring us back to the heart of the Jewish tradition the tradition of questioning, debating, and listening to a narrative that begs us to use our freedom to
redress injustices like those we suffered when we were
slaves in Egypt.
An Israel committed to that tradition would not view
Jewish and democratic as binary opposites, in conflict
with each other a dichotomy that is a commonplace
in todays left-right discourse. Rather, it would see these
aspects of Israeli statehood as interfacing and mutually
enriching. But this would mean listening to the Other, and
this has not been typical of how the Israeli polity behaves.
The secret of redeeming this situation lies in a practice
that is part of the seder. On Pesach night we open our
doors to Eliyahu ha-Navi, Elijah the Prophet, who heralds
the world of messianic peace.
As we open our doors to him let us open our hearts
to each other in compassion and mutual respect. In the
merit of such an act of love may God grant us the full
redemption of our people and of all the peoples who
inhabit Gods world.
Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck holds the Deutsch
Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at
the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New
York. Professor Chernick received his doctorate from the
Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic ordination
from R. Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He has written
extensively about Jewish law and lore and has lectured on
these topics in the United States, Europe, and Israel.
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