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Pharoah victory
good for the Jews
The horse and his rider He
has thrown into the sea, sang
Moses and Miriam after Pharaoh
and his army drowned while
chasing the Israelites.
On Sunday, though, the horse
American Pharoah (the name
was a typo in the Jockey Club
records) won the Kentucky
Derby, and the Jews were rejoicing in his victory.
The victory of American
Pharoah marked the biggest
success to date of its owner, a
Jewish Teaneck resident who
is a major figure in the racing
world: Ahmed Zayat.
Horses from Zayat Stables

had been expected to win the
Derby before but of course,
favorites dont always win.
(Thats what makes horse races.)
Mr. Zayat is a native of Egypt.
In 2002 he sold the Al Ahram
Beverages Company he headed
there to Heineken for $280 million. He soon entered the world
of horses; in 2006 he paid $4.6
million for a horse he named
Maimonides.
His philanthropy includes
a $500,000 donation to the
Frisch School in Paramus.
LARRY YUDELSON
What does Lindsey Graham

have against the word the?
A Google Street View image of 18 Yehoshua Bin Nun street in Jerusalem.
Google Street View

to map Israel Trail
In the future, youll be able to travel
the length of Israel without leaving
home.
And that future is getting very
close, now that Google Street View
has announced plans to photograph
the length of the Israel Trail, a hiking
route that runs from Israels northern
end to its southern extreme.
Google Street View is a feature of
Google Maps that merges photographs to provide a street-level view
of locations around the world. For
this project, Google Street View will
enlist hikers from the Society for the
Protection of Nature in Israel, or SPNI,
to map the 660-mile trail.
Inaugurated 20 years ago by SPNI,
the trail runs from Kibbutz Dan, near
the uppermost reaches of Israels
border with Lebanon, to Eilat on its
southern tip.
The trail will be the longest one
photographed for Google Maps, and
the first that spans an entire country.
Google is sending two cameras to
Israel for the mission.
Exposing the Israel National Trail
through Street View will encourage
tourists from Israel and abroad to
experience with their feet and their
senses the various cultures and landscapes of Israel, to fall in love with
them and to take action to preserve
them, SPNI CEO Moshe Pakman
said, according to the Israeli business
publication Globes.
Maybe. Or perhaps it will just let us
revel in the natural beauty of Israel
without leaving our couches.
LARRY YUDELSON/
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Senator Lindsey Graham

(R-S.C.) is considering a White
House run. He probably is the
candidate who is closest to the
pro-Israel community.
His ambitions and his
friendships were on display
on Monday night in Boston, where he addressed an
AIPAC dinner and said, You
will see me in New Hampshire.
He also said this: Al Qaeda, Al Nusra,
Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula Everything that starts with Al in the Middle
East is bad news.
Al is Arabic for the. Thats why
words of Arabic origin, like alcohol and
algebra, start with those two letters.
Bad news might be a broad

brush for everything that follows a definite article or the
prefix al in the Middle East.
Theres the Allenby Bridge
over the Jordan River. Theres
Theodor Herzls 1902 science
fiction novel Altneuland,
describing an imagined Jewish
state.
And, more personally, there a
woman I happen to know named Sarah
Albaldes in Izmir, Turkey, who fell hard
for a handsome guy from Salonika, now
in Greece.
Yes, my grandfather might have had a
beef with Senator Graham.
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OPINION ............................................... 22
COVER STORY .................................... 28
GALLERY ..............................................46
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 47
CROSSWORD PUZZLE ....................48
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Noshes
I would like to give a dvar Torah tribute

to [Abe Foxman]. I can do this because I have
a honorary degree from Yeshiva University.
Senator Cory Booker, speaking at Monday nights Anti-Defamation League dinner
honoring Abe Foxman, as reported on Twitter by Rebecca Shimoni-Stoil of the Times
of Israel.
GRACE AND FRANKIE:
Tomlin, Fonda
reunite on Netflix
A new Netflix
series, Grace and
Frankie, will
premiere on Friday, May
8. Per Netflix practice,
the whole first season
will be released at once.
The series stars Lily
Tomlin and Jane Fonda
(who co-starred in the
hit flick 9 to 5) as
long-time rivals who are
brought together when
their husbands announce that they are in
love with each other and
plan to marry. Their
husbands are played by
Martin Sheen and Sam
Waterston. The latters
characters first name is
Sol, and I am guessing
that he is supposed to
be Jewish.
Grace and Frankie
was created by MARTA
KAUFFMAN, 58, who
co-created Friends
with DAVID CRANE,
57. She has been married to Cranes college
roommate, composer
MICHAEL SKLOFF, 57,
since 1984, and they
have three children.
Skloff composed the hit
Friends theme song,
Ill Be There for You,
as well as the music
for other TV shows. He
also helps bring music
programs to the Los
Angeles synagogue that
he and his wife belong
to. Crane, who is gay,
is married to JEFFREY
KLARIK, who is about
55, and was a principal

writer of Mad About
You. Im pretty sure
Kauffman got some
input from Crane and
Klarik on Grace and
Frankie .
The following two
movies open in
limited release on
May 8, or a bit later. In all
likelihood you will see
publicity about them
and reviews in the
national media, but it
will be hard to find them
playing in a theater near
you. Make a note about
their Jewish connections
and catch up with them
when they come to
other media outlets, like
streaming services/DVD.
The bromance comedy D Train stars
JACK BLACK, 45,
as Dan Landsman, a
Pittsburgh-based loser
who convinces his boss
JEFFREY TAMBOR,
70, to send him to Los
Angeles. Dan sells it as
a business trip, but what
he really wants to do
is meet up with Oliver
(James Marsden), an old
high school classmate
whom Dan wrongly
believes is a successful
actor. Dan thinks that
if Oliver attends a high
school reunion that Dan
is organizing, then it will
be a success and Dans
life will turn around.
Train was co-directed
and co-written by JAR-
Marta Kauffman
David Crane
Jack Black
Albert Maysles
Iris Apfel
Bob Iger
RAD PAUL, 38, who has

been acting steadily
in smallish parts since
the 90s. The actor was
born Jarrad Paul Goldstein, and his late father
owned a deli in North
Miami, Florida. Paul
once said, tongue-incheek: I grew up in the
roughest Jewish suburban neighborhood you
best be watching your
back.
Iris is the last
documentary made
by ALBERT MAYSLES,
who died on March 5
at 88. Alone and with

his brother DAVID (who
died in 1987), he created
some great documentaries, including Gimme
Shelter and Grey
Gardens. Iris is about
fashion icon IRIS APFEL,
now 93. She and her late
husband, CARL APFEL,
long ran a high-end textile firm, and Iris gained
some fame as a consultant to White House
restoration projects.
But she became an icon
when a 2005 museum
exhibit highlighting her
style (especially the

clothes she has chosen
to wear) was a surprise
hit. While not really
covering Apfels Jewish
background, the film is a
fun and interesting look
at a long and well-lived
life.
In a previous
column, I accidentally omitted the
name of BOB IGER, 64,
the CEO of Disney, from
the list of Jews in the
Time Magazine list of
the 100 Most Influential
People. He is one of 16
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in the same column, I
made many errors in an
item on basketball the
first name of the
Sacramento Kings
player, OMRI CASSPI,
was misspelled; I said
that the number of
Jewish owners of NBA
teams had increased
with the purchase of the
Atlanta Hawks by a
group led by ANTONY
RESSLER well, the
previous majority of
owner of the Hawks,
BRUCE LEVENSON, 65,
is Jewish, too; and I
misspelled the first
name of Resslers wife,
actress JAMI GERTZ
(not Jamie).
However, a more serious error was made in
the last 10 days by a lot
of the Jewish community media but not
by this writer. Driven
by assumptions (Jewish-sounding names)
and the 24-hour news
cycle, many Jewish
media outlets reported
that Dan Fredinburg,
an important Google
executive who died in
a Mt. Everest avalanche
triggered by the Nepal
earthquake, was Jewish.
By all accounts he was a
talented mensch, and his
death is a tragedy, but
Mr. Fredinburg was not
Jewish. His last name
is of non-Jewish Dutch
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Moms Day in motion
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
sponsors 34th annual Rubin Run
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
atalya Michaels is forgoing breakfast in bed in Mothers Day.

Instead, she will go for a run
with her husband and sons
along with about 1,300 others from as far
away as Canada in the annual Rubin Run,
now in its 34th year at the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly.
Its a nice family day, Ms. Michaels said.
I like running and its what Im choosing to
do on Mothers Day.
Im doing the 10k; my husband, Adam, is doing the half
marathon; and our secondgrader, Gregory, is doing the
5K, as he did last year. Gregory
is in the JCCs youth running
clinic on Monday afternoons.
Their younger son, Alex,
a pre-kindergartner at the
JCC, was to participate in the
Rubin Romp on the Friday
before the big race.
Physical fitness is a priority
for the Michaels family, and
indeed for the borough in which they live.
The Rubin Run is a healthy family event,
whether youre 4 years old or 84 years old,
and it promotes a healthy, active lifestyle,
said Tenaflys Mayor Peter Rustin, who will
start off the race, as hes done for the past
few years. Mr. Rustin said that the Rubin
Run meshes well with the fact that since
2012, the borough has participated in the
Mayors Wellness Campaign, an initiative
of the NJ Healthcare Quality Institute. We
encourage any activity that keeps people
moving, he said.
Even beyond the importance that the

Rubin Run/Walk through Tenafly, Englewood and Englewood Cliffs has to its participants, there is an added value that the
greater community gains from it. Proceeds
from this major fundraiser support the JCCs
more than 70 monthly life-skills, therapeutic, and vocational programs for people with
special needs.
Spending a few hours together as a family
on Mothers Day is a great way for parents to
serve as role models for their kids and teach
The Rubin Run is a

healthy family event,
whether youre 4 years
old or 84 years old,
and it promotes a
healthy, active lifestyle.
A father and two happy daughters waiting for their mother to cross the finish
line at the Rubin Run in Tenafly.
MAYOR PETER RUSTIN
them about the importance of health and

wellness, the JCCs chief executive officer,
Avi A. Lewinson, said. But it also provides
our entire community with a chance to help
the JCC fulfill one of its core missions to
provide social service and healthy lifestyle
programs for children, teens and adults with
special needs.
Its a great thing the JCC is doing, and
weve participated by sponsoring our
kids through the clinic and the class, Ms.
Michaels said. She takes part in the centers
early-morning adult running clinic, and Mr.
Far left,
a motherdaughter
post-race
Mothers
Day hug.
At left, two
runners along
the route.
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All mothers who cross the finish line win a rose. Here, a son
strikes a presentation pose.
And all mothers are to receive roses when

they cross the finish line.
The morning also features a free brunch,
a childrens carnival from 9 to 11, free babysitting from 7 to noon, and music. Runners
may take advantage of pre-race stretches
and warm-ups led by professional fitness
staff from the JCC.
We provide, with our varying races,
a goal people can reach for each year in
their physical fitness, said Kaplen JCC
Director of Health and Recreation Roberto
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Michaels is a member of the JCCs triathlon club.

When she asked her son Gregory what
the Rubin Run makes him think of, he
replied, Never quit; never stop trying,
his mother reported.
Hes learning perseverance, she said
proudly. He said he looks forward to
finishing.
Medals await runners under 10 who finish the race; trophies will be awarded to
the top three winners in each age category.
Tenaflys police chief, Robert Chamberlain, and its mayor,

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race director for the fifth year. They
can do the 5K or push to the 10k or half
marathon. But the biggest thing is bringing everyone together for a great start to
Mothers Day.
The JCC offers a 12-week prep course
for the Rubin Run, dubbed Couch to
5K, which teaches preparatory steps for
that race option. We also have running
clubs for people who want to push themselves further in distance or time, said Mr.
Santiago. This is only the third year the

Rubin Run is offering a half marathon, and
you see the difference in people who have
been training for that race. Its not a matter
of just signing up and running.
Co-chaired this year by Joseph Lerner
and Suzette Josif, the annual event is
named in memory of Leonard Rubin, a
past president and founder of the JCC on
the Palisades who established this community-wide athletic event to encourage
a healthful lifestyle. It has grown larger
over the years and always attracts cheering spectators along the route.
When I first started, there were about
600 participants, and we had 1,250 last
year, said Mr. Santiago, who will be setting up with the JCC crew beginning at 5 in
the morning. We get great support from
the Tenafly Police Department, he added.
The Jewish Standard is one of 11 lead
sponsors of the event.
Though online registration closed earlier this week, last-minute participants
may register at the JCC, at 411 E. Clinton
Ave. in Tenafly, on the morning of the race.
Packet pickup and registration for the half
marathon is from 6:45 to 7:15; for the 10K
from 7:30 to 8:15; and for the 5K from 8:30
to 9:45. There are more details at www.
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You know I believe and how!

Emerson shul sets the Friday night liturgy to the Beatles music
love of Yiddishkeit, and his overwhelming musicality he adores
Broadway and has played Tevya,
a role he cherishes, in theaters
across the country. About six
years ago, when his shul was
between rabbis Mark Kiel had
retired and Debra Orenstein had
not yet arrived he decided to
set an entire Shabbat service to
the melodies of Fiddler on the
Roof. Since then, at first alone
and then with Rabbi Orenstein,
he has set the music of Billy Joel,
Simon (or, for the evening, Shimon) and Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and many
other musicians, Jewish or not,
to the words of the Friday night
liturgy. He also has used themes
football and baseball, for example. In a match that perhaps was
too easy, he used a song from
Spamalot You Wont Succeed on Broadway (if you dont
have any Jews).
Cantor Mandel has worked in
the other direction, fitting the
words to the music, as well. He
has led Adon Olam Shabbatot
aka the Cantors Challenge. You
can name any song you want
it can be an oldie, rock and roll,
folk, Broadway, anything and
I will sing Adon Olam to it, he
said.
As is well known in the Jewish
world, you can sing Adon Olam
to anything, he said. Why? Oh,
its the meter, he said vaguely.
But, he added, among the first
melodies he was invited to sing
were Oklahoma and Gee Officer Krupke from West Side
Story. They worked, he said.
Once he was stumped someone
sang Adon Olam to Walk Like
an Egyptian but he insists that
the failure happened not because
he did not recognize the tune
but because the tune was sung
unrecognizably.
There is a seriousness of purpose behind this, Rabbi Orenstein said. Not only do such
casual Shabbats, as they are
called, draw in people who otherwise tend to stay away, they
also provides her with teaching opportunities. Often, Adon
Olam, the very last song of the
service, is a sign that the Kiddush is coming, she said. In fact,
the hymn has a deep and beautiful meaning; Cantor Mandels
singing it over and over gave
people the chance to focus on
the words.
This Friday will not be the first
time that Cantor Mandel has led
Beatles Shabbat. The first time,
Ken Dashow, the WAXQ disk
jockey who specializes in classic
rock and also a Stuyvesant High
School classmate of Cantor Mandels talked a bit about each
Beatles song and its relationship
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he Sabbath Queen, the

Shechina, the female
emanation of God,
a vision of sublime,
radiant beauty, is said to live with
us from the time Shabbat begins
until we say goodbye to her at
Havdalah, when we mark its end.
Many people see this as metaphor; others might understand
it as a more literal truth. Either
way, that image is part of our Friday night liturgy. That is why we
bow toward the door as we welcome the queen in.
So how about putting Lecha
Dodi, the song we sing as she
enters our sanctuaries (define
that as you will), to the Beatles
song Something?
You know the song.
Something in the way she
moves/Attracts me like no other
lover.
Some in the way she woos
me.
I dont want to leave her now/
You know I believe and how.
Okay, so its not exact. That last
instrumental line in each verse as
the Beatles sing it dah dah dah
dah DAH DAH! needs words if
Lecha Dodi is to work. But once
you do that it flows.
Its a love song; something a
lover sings to a beloved, and a
Jew sings to the Shabbat haMalkah. On Friday night, Cantor
Lenny Mandel will sing it along
with his congregation during
Kabbalat Shabbat at Congregation Bnai Israel. It will be Beatles
Shabbat in Emerson.
Cantor Mandel is also a rabbi
we are choosing to call him
Cantor Mandel here because it
is both accurate and relevant to
this story. He became a cantor
almost accidentally a result
of his Orthodox upbringing, his
The Beatles arrive in New York for their first American tour on February 7, 1969. From left, John
Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
to the prayer set to it. It was
intense, Cantor Mandel said.
People came to shul dressed in
jeans and tie dies, and they had
their hair in headbands and do
rags.
I know that do rags were
the wrong period, he added
quickly. But we had kids there
in shorts and tie-die shirts, asking questions.
Take Something, for example. The song is all about a
woman. In Lecha Dodi, the first
two and the last two stanzas are
about the Sabbath Queen, about
keeping Shabbat, and the ones
in the middle are about redemption. Thats what the Shechina
is all about. The last two lines
of Something are Dont want
to leave her now/ You know I
believe, and how.
Next year, Cantor Mandel
hopes for a casual Shabbat that
he will call Peter, Paul, and

Lenny; he hopes that Peter Yarrow, who is Jewish, will be able to
join him on the bimah.
Casual Shabbatot are a reflection of who Cantor Mandel is,
Rabbi Orenstein said. His love of
music and his sense of fun come
through.
I also think that the Shabbatot are effective because when
ritual innovation is effective, it
causes people to look at the liturgy anew, and to consider the
juxtaposition between the familiar words and the familiar music.
It leads to beautiful new ways of
relating to it.
She remembered other casual
Shabbatot. We always try to do
something warm in the winter,
she said. One year it was Beach
Boys songs. The next year, it was
about the Jews of Curacao.
The two also have led Camp
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Shabbat. Its under the stars, Rabbi Orenstein said.
Because an outdoor service must be during the summer, when it almost always is warm enough, Shabbat
starts late, and Rabbi Orenstein and Cantor Mandel
take advantage of that by lighting a big fire in a firepit
before dark, and then singing camp songs, the rousing
ones and the dreamy ones, too. My drash is about
how Shabbat is like camp, she said; iPhoneless, but in
a good way. For six weeks, theyll go to a place with
no iPhones, because its being in nature, with friends,
developing relationships, being on your own organic
time. Thats camp and its also Shabbes.
Sometimes Rabbi Orenstein and Cantor Mandel
offer Shabbatot that focus on a theme but are not particularly casual in fact, they often are emotionally
intense. The Shabbat before Thanksgiving is Gratitude Shabbat, Rabbi Orenstein said. We used the
melody for Tis a Gift to Be Simple, and we used some
contemporary music about gratitude.
For five years, we have done Freedom Shabbat, on
Martin Luther King day, to mark both King and Rabbi
Heschel. (The yarzheit of the influential Jewish theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel usually falls right
around MLK Day. Lenny sets the words to Negro spirituals, and I have created a lot of readings, using mainly
their words.
She is even thinking about an Emerson Shabbat, as
in Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Transcendentalist poet
and essayist, even though our town wasnt named
after him, Rabbi Orenstein said. We would invite the
town council people, and consider what did Emerson
teach us that we could apply to Shabbat.
To go back to the words of the liturgy Cantor Mandel has chosen to set the words of the Shema, the
foundational prayer that binds Jews to God, to The
long and winding road that leads to your door/Will
never disappear.
Ive seen that road before. It always leads me here.
To your door!
What: Cantor Lenny Mandel and Rabbi Debra
Orenstein present Beatles Shabbat
Where: At Congregation Bnai Israel,
53 Palisade Ave., Emerson
When: On Friday, May 8, at 7:30
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At Federation Apartments,
ex-Soviet seniors pray
with Fair Lawn friends
LARRY YUDELSON
Vladamir Neplodnik, a resident

of Patersons Federation
Apartments (inset above),
in the buildings synagogue.
very other Shabbat,

Jerry Schranz crosses
the Passaic River to
keep the final echo of
Patersons once-storied Jewish
community alive.
Its a one and three quarters
mile walk from his Fair Lawn
home to East 27th Street, in
what 50 years ago was the center of Patersons Jewish life. East
27th Street was the sensible
place for the Jewish Federation
of North Jersey to build housing
for seniors: It was three blocks
away from Barnert Temple and
half a mile from the Barnet
Hospital both named for the
Jewish industrialist and philanthropist who was Patersons
mayor from 1889 to 1890. And
it was across the street from the
Yavneh Academy, Patersons
Jewish day school.
Today, Barner t Temple,
founded in 1847, is an empty
shell; the Reform congregation moved elsewhere in Paterson in 1964 before decamping
to Franklin Lakes in the 1980s.
Yavneh moved to Paramus in
1981; the building is now home
to the Rosa Parks High School of
Performing Arts.
The Federation Apartments,
however, continues to be home
to dozens of elderly Jews. Sandy
Eckstein, the buildings director, estimates that 40 percent
of the 158 residents are Jewish.
All but a handful of the tenants
are subsidized by federal Section 8 vouchers; they must be
at least 62 years old, and they

must qualify as low income. The
Jews in the building are from a
different generation than those
who moved in when the building opened in 1972; rather than
coming from Paterson, all but
eight of them were born in the
former Soviet Union. This is
because of Patersons proximity
to Fair Lawn, which became the
center for North Jerseys resettlement of Soviet Jews beginning in
the 1970s. It is not an assisted living facility there is no nurse on
staff but many residents are in
their 90s, and they have aides to
help them with some daily tasks.
Signs in the building are in
three languages English,
Spanish, and Russian. And in
the basement synagogue, across
from the boiler room, Russianlanguage prayer books fill the
shelves, and a Russian-labeled
map of Israel is affixed to a pillar.
Russians are not known to be
the most ardent of synagoguegoers; generations of official
Soviet atheism took its toll. Yet
there is a hardcore group of
seniors in the Federation Apartments who attend services. Most
of the half dozen are from the
former Soviet Union. They are
dependent on a small contingent
of outsiders from Fair Lawn, like
Mr. Schranz, to help make the
minyan, and on paid Torah readers. These days, the minyan has
a reader twice a month, so that
is how often it meets.
The seniors who attend the
minyan are enthusiastic as they
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Isak and Roza Meryam, left;

Charles Lehmann, above.
Below, Sandy Eckstein, the
buildings director, talks
with Ruben Udem, another
minyan regular.
Vladamir Neplodnik looks at the Torah scroll on loan from

Anshei Lubavitch while the minyans scrolls are being repaired.
Paterson
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show a visitor their synagogue.

I like this synagogue, Vladamir Neplodnik said. He came to
the Federation Apartments from
New York. Before that he lived
in Moscow; he was born in the
northern Caucasus.
I like all synagogues, he adds.
In general, expenses for the
synagogue in particular, hiring the Torah reader are split
between the Federation Apartments and the synagogues own
account. The synagogue charges
membership for High Holy Day
services, when there is a larger
turnout. Dues are $10. Members
also contribute $10 for Yizkor.
The synagogues electricity and
heat are part of the general building expenses; the buildings custodian turns out the lights after
services and disposes of the garbage from the kiddush.
Isak Meryam is in charge of the
minyan in the Apartments. On
Fridays, hell call to make sure
people are coming. He opens up
the synagogue on Shabbat mornings at 8 a.m., an hour before services begins. He leads the beginning of the service. He sets up the
table where a kiddush of herring
and shnapps will be served after

services. And finally, he cleans
up.
Mr. Meryam speaks pretty
good English it is one of his
five languages. He is from Latvia. He was wounded in the Latvian army, where he met Roza, a
nurse he soon married. That was
63 years ago. Baruch Hashem,
she is looking very nice, he says.
Roza is one of the two women
who attend services regularly.
(Holidays bring more women to
the womens section.)
Charles Lehmann is the one
American-born resident who is
a minyan regular. He grew up
in New York City and lived in a
number of places before moving to New Jersey in 1990. He has
been in the Federation Apartments for a little over three years.
And in that time, Ive been here
for every service, he said.
Before this, he was not a regular synagogue-goer.
One of the reasons I moved
into the building was to try to
get some religious education,
he said. Growing up I was not
raised religious. My parents were
of two different religions.
Mr. Schranz originally was
recruited for the Apartments
minyan by a member of his
softball team. I didnt know

where Paterson was, Mr.
Schranz recalled. It was about a
45 minute walk for me.
He became a regular.
Everybody gets involved.
Thats the essence of the shul,
he said.
A fellow Fair Lawn resident,
Sam Heller, coordinates the
minyan, arranging for the Torah
reader and making sure that
enough men will arrive to make
a minyan. (The synagogue is
Orthodox, as are most of the outsiders who attend.)
Now, though, four decades of
low-budget no-rabbi synagogue
maintenance have caught up
with the synagogue.
We were worried the Torah
was going to fall apart in our
hands, Mr. Schranz said. The
Yavneh Academy donated the
two Torah scrolls in the late 70s.
Now, the seams were coming
unsewn, the handles were falling
apart, and letters were fading.
Even the belt holding the scrolls
was going slack.
It was time for repairs.
In the spirit of the minyan, Mr.
Schranz jumped in and found a
scribe in Fair Lawn who could
make the necessary repairs.
The expec ted price tag:
$3,600.
Ms. Eckstein said the building
would put up the money. The
Torah scrolls were given to the
scribe. Anshei Lubavitch in Fair
Lawn lent a Torah for the minyan
to use in the meantime.
Mr. Schranz, though, would
like the broader community to
contribute to the repair project.

He sees his call to support the
minyan as a way of connecting
people scattered by the Paterson
diaspora the Jews of Fair Lawn
and Wayne and Franklin Lakes
and elsewhere who left Paterson,
or whose parents left Paterson.
He also looked into the history
of the two Torah scrolls. One
was donated by the Sussman
family in 1953. He tracked down
the 99-year-old daughter of the
donor, and discovered that her
grandson, Chaim Sussman the
donors great grandson teaches
at Yavneh.
Beyond the Torah repair,

Mr. Schranz would love to have
money to buy new prayer books.
I think the chairs could probably need an upgrade, he said.
You have elderly people sitting
on chairs without armrests.
How to help
For more information
and to find out whether the
minyan is meeting on any
particular Shabbat you can
go to patersonshul.com or
email JerrySchranz@gmail.
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Steve Reich and Beryl Korot will discuss Jewish influences on their work
LOIS GOLDRICH
lan Marans, the music and video

specialist at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County
is New Milford, is eagerly anticipating the tenth annual Alfred and Rose
Buchman Endowed Lecture in the Visual
Arts, a project of Teanecks Congregation
Beth Sholom.
Chaired by Joan and Reuben Baron, the
program, he said, will feature quite an
important person.
That is no exaggeration.
Musician Steve Reich, who will visit
the congregation on May 11, together
with his wife and frequent collaborator,
Beryl Korot, is widely recognized as one
of Americas greatest and most influential living composer.
At the Teaneck program A Theater
of Ideas: Exploring the Life and Legacy of
Abraham through Video, Music, and the
Spoken Word Mr. Reich and Ms. Korot,
a pioneer in the field of video art, will
describe their joint work in an innovative art form, documentary video opera.
Using excerpts from The Cave, a
piece centering on the biblical Cave of
Machpelah, the couple will participate in
a conversation on their working methods
and discuss how Jewish life and teachings
have influenced their work.
Mr. Marans, who grew up in Ridgewood and studied music composition at
Columbia University, said the recognition
of Mr. Reich as a groundbreaking composer is unusual because many composers are recognized for their contributions
only after their death. Mr. Reich is very
much alive and still hard at work.
Pointing to the composers many
accomplishments, Mr. Marans noted
that Mr. Reich was a pioneer of minimalism, which started in the 1960s and
70s. Breaking with the tradition embodied by such composers as Bach, Mozart,
and Beethoven who based their music
on the idea of a melody, and people harmonizing with that melody Mr. Reich
chose a different path, following in the
footsteps of Austrian composer Arnold
Schoenberg.
Contemporary classical music does not
necessarily provide an easy listening
What: A Theater of Ideas: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Abraham
through Video, Music, and the Spoken
Word A Conversation with Steve
Reich and Beryl Korot.
When: Monday, May 11, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Congregation Beth Sholom,
354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
Cost: Free and open to the public; no
RSVP required
Beryl Korot and Steve Reich will speak at Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck
on their collaborations as musical and visual artists.
experience, Mr. Marans said, adding that

while the old forms are still available, if
youre doing that, youre not as original as you can be. People are constantly
adapting and changing things.
For example, after learning music theory and harmony, Schoenberg began to
radicalize his understanding, creating
serialism, or patterns of melodies and
rhythms in a self-contained series, Mr.
Marans said. Toying with Schoenbergs
idea, Mr. Reich, who studied philosophy as an undergraduate and eventually
moved on to study composition at Mills
College, also started to rethink how we
envision composition.
Becoming involved in the minimalist
movement, working with people such as
Terry Riley in the experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center, he got into
this music, based on repeating patterns,
Mr. Marans said. His thing was loops,
repeated over and over again. Mr. Reich
also became interested in phasing patterns, or repeating patterns that slowly
break apart and are overlaid by the same
pattern in a different key. Its more rhythmically based.
In the 1980s, while still using phasing
ideas and tape loops, Mr. Reich began
to integrate recorded interviews into
his music. His work Different Trains
based on two sets of interviews won
a Grammy. In addition, having reconnected with his Jewish roots, learning not
only text but also cantillation, the composer began to integrate those elements
into his music as well.
Conceptually, Jewish music revolves
around the idea that the artist is putting
his Jewish self into his music, Mr. Marans

said. Different Trains, for example,
incorporates Holocaust music. But it is
not sad; instead, it tells a story, juxtaposing the composers own experience traveling on trains when he was young with
His [Jewish]
literacy enables
him to do so
much more to
instill his Jewish
values into
his music.
ILAN MARANS
the use of trains during the Holocaust.

The three-movement piece includes
material from interviews with survivors
as well as with people Mr. Reich knew
from his own childhood. The music representing his childhood experience is
calmer, Mr. Marans said, while the eastern European segment is more dissonant, or siren-like.
When he listened to the voices of
those he interviewed, Reich attempted
to re-create melodies from what they
were saying, Mr. Marans said. He
was writing conversations in musical
notation.
His video work began when he met
Ms. Korot, a visual artist. Together they
embarked on a new collaborative journey

producing video operas.
For The Cave, Reich interviewed
Christians, Jews, and Arabs about Machpelah. As he was recording those interviews, he wrote down melodies.
This is not just music, Mr. Marans
said. It goes beyond the need to make
music.
While Mr. Reichs Jewish identity was
not yet fully awakened when he composed his earlier works, today he is a
shomer Shabbat Jew. His piece Tehillim,
created in 1981, is arguably the first one
in which he draws extensively from his
Jewish background. A later piece, Daniel, composed in memory of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel
Pearl, was based on verses from the Book
of Daniel.
His [ Jewish] literacy enables him to
do so much more to instill his Jewish values into his music, Mr. Marans said. He
is the first person to have gotten to this
point a proud, learned religious Jew
who is using that to create his music.
In an article written for Mr. Reichs
70th birthday, Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald,
director of the National Jewish Outreach
Program, recalled his close relationship
with the musician.
Noting that the Village Voice called
Mr. Reich Americas greatest living composer, the New Yorker opined that he is
the most original musical thinker of our
time, and the New York Times anointed
him as among the greatest composers
of the century, Rabbi Buchwald said
that in 2006 the composer was awarded
the Praemium Imperiale Award in Music,
the equivalent of the Nobel Prize, presented in areas of the arts not covered by
the Nobel awards.
Rabbi Buchwald first met Mr. Reich in
1974, when the composer and his then
girlfriend Beryl Korot walked into the
Bible class the rabbi was teaching at New
Yorks Lincoln Square Synagogue.
Steve took his Jewish studies seriously, Rabbi Buchwald said. He decided
that he needed to learn and try to master
Biblical Hebrew. We teamed him up with
Rabbi Dr. J. Mitchell Orlian of Yeshiva
University, who became his mentor and
taught him advanced Hebrew grammar
and [cantillation.] Only later did Rabbi
Buchwald realize that Mr. Reich had
decided to include Jewish themes in his
music.
Rabbi Buchwald also credits Mr. Reich
with inspiring Shabbat beginners service at Lincoln Square. It was Steve and
Beryl who suggested to me in the fall of
1975 that they could benefit from a special Shabbat service specifically designed
for those with little or no synagogue
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In December 1975, Lincoln Square Synagogue
launched its first beginners service. Today, Rabbi
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hundred Shabbat beginners services that are conducted on a regular or semi-regular basis throughout
the U.S. and Canada.
Andrew Silow-Carroll, a CBS member and editorin-chief of the Essex County-based New Jersey Jewish
News, will moderate the May 11 conversation with
Reich and Korot.
He described the Buchman lectures as a series
that brings in people who are tops in their field [and]
say really interesting stuff about Jewishness and their
art, noting that after Philip Glass, Reich is the best
known American composer.
Mr. Silow-Carroll said The Cave tries to reflect
the cacophony of voices surrounding Machpelah.
The composer shows in musical and visual form
that these voices are clashing yet partially in harmony. Using actual tape loops of peoples voices,
he hears a melody in how we speak and composes
around that.
Reflecting on the similarities of Mr. Reichs music
to the sounds of a synagogue, Mr. Silow-Carroll noted
that in a roomful of people who are praying, sometimes theyre all on the same melody. [But] some are
chanting, some have better voices, some are faster.
You hear all those multiple voices.
He added that after experiencing Mr. Reichs performances, I started thinking in a new way about
the prayers and Torah [portions] that you read or
chant by rote. After listening to Mr. Reich, you
bring back some of his rhythms in your head when
you go back to what you do. A good visual artist can
make you visualize. As a musician, he makes you
hear things.
Its like listening to a really good cantor with a
fresh melody, who makes you understand the text
in a new way. Hes a serious Jew he wants to pull
people into the tradition. But you dont have to be
Jewish or know Hebrew traditions to appreciate his
work.
Since The Cave represents collaboration
between Mr. Reich and Ms. Korot, who are partners in this, some of Mr. Silow-Carrolls questions
to them will be about their working relationship.
He also plans to ask such questions as what art
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YBH of Passaic student Avi Rybak with Bible

Contest coordinator Rabbi Ezra Frazer and Lerone
Edalati, project manager at the Jewish Agency.
that the highlight of her time in Israel was touring the

country and meeting Israeli dignitaries in the company of 83 Jewish kids from 33 countries who share
her interest in biblical texts.
I got to be really close friends with a lot of them,
she said. Over the course of the two-week free tour she
roomed with girls from Mexico, Holland, Canada, and
Australia. She studied with Shalva and with girls from
Canada and Australia.
We were nervous
for ourselves and
everyone else,
because we were not
just competitors but
friends.
WOMEN ARE GOING PLACES
With love and pride we salute our graduating seniors on the unique
individuals they have become. Their achievements are represented by
the array of Yeshivot and colleges to which they have been accepted.
TEHILA KORNWASSER
It was great to ask each other questions and discuss

Tanach, the Hebrew acronym for the Five Books of
Moses, Prophets and Writings, she said.
As for her appearance onstage, It was very nervewracking but one of the most amazing experiences in
my life, Tehila said. We were nervous for ourselves
and everyone else, because we were not just competitors but friends. We were all singing together before
going on stage.
Tehilas parents, grandparents, and aunt flew to
Israel for the Bible Quiz, in which she provided the
correct answer to a two-part question on Ezekiel.
Though her cumulative score still wasnt high enough
to allow her to advance to the finals, she feels like a
winner for having made the top 16 four from Israel,
three each from Canada, the United States, and Mexico, and one each from South Africa, Panama, and
Belarus.
Anything is possible if you put your mind to it. I
tried really hard and it worked, she said. Learning
Tanach lets you understand the differences between
the prophets and their time periods, their tone of
voice and attitudes on destruction and forgiveness.
This is our history, and to study it in Israel, where it
all happened, is the most amazing thing.
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Local
Dignitaries applaud the raising of the Israeli flag during a ceremony at

the Bergen County Executive Building.
Melvin and Lillian Solomon
Rabbi Ely Allen
Moshe and Susan Castiel
Walter Ramsfeld
BCHJS to honor six at May 28 gala

Students from the choir at Gerrard Berman Day School get ready to
sing at last months Israeli flag-raising ceremony.
Bergen County celebrates

first annual Israeli flag-raising
Guests at the flag-raising included the
deputy consul-general of Israels consulate in New York, Amir Sagie; Assemblyman Tim Eustace; County Executive Jim
Tedesco; Freeholder Chairwoman Joan
Voss; Freeholders David Ganz, Maura
DeNicola, Tom Sullivan, and Tracy Silna
Zur; Sheriff Michael Saudino; representatives from Congressman Bill Pascrells
office; Dr. Zvi Marans and Steve Rogers
of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, who helped organize the
event, and Rabbis Shalom Baum of the
Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck
and David-Seth Kirshner of Temple
Emanu-El in Closter.
The flag of Israel flutters outside

the Bergen County Executive
Building.
Program aims to help siblings

of children with special needs
Ohel Sibshops is coming to Clifton-Passaic on Sundays, May 10 and June 14, at
11 a.m. It is partnering with Jewish Family Service of Great Clifton-Passaic to
offer fun, support, and inspiration for
siblings of people with developmental
disabilities.
Sibshops features activities in an
accepting, nonjudgmental environment.
It offers a place where children can have
questions answered and learn more
about their siblings, different disabilities,
and what the future might hold.

The Passaic-Clifton sibshops group
will be led by facilitators from OHEL and
JFS, trained by Don Meyer, the creator of
the Sibshops model.
JFS of Clifton Passaic is at 925 Allwood Road, second floor, in Clifton. For
information, call Leah Elyakin, OHEL
NJ Sibshop coordinator, (862) 686-7205
or Suzanne Miller, director, Parent
Resource Center, at (973) 777-7638 or
email njsibshops@ohelfamily.org.
The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, Bergen Countys only weekly
Hebrew high school, will hold its annual
gala on Thursday, May 28, at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI. This years honorees are Lillian and Melvin Solomon of
River Edge and Susan and Moshe Castiel
of Woodcliff Lake. Walter Ramsfeld will
receive a Distinguished Service award and
special recognition will be given to Rabbi
Ely Allen.
Mel Solomon, BCHSJS immediate past
president, is the president of Congregation
Beth Tefillah in Paramus. He also chaired
the board of the Jewish Educational Services Committee of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey. Lillian Solomon is
past president of Womans American ORT
and an active member of Hadassah. She
volunteers with the Adler Aphasia Center.
Susan and Moshe Castiel, BCHSJS Parents of the Year, have two children: Alexandra, a senior at BCHSHJS and Pascack
Hills High School, who also was part of the
second JFNNJ Partnership2Gether/BCHSJS
Young Leadership program, and Simon,

15, a freshman at both schools. The Castiels have hosted events at their home to
promote the school.
Rabbi Ely Allen of Bergenfield, a BCHSJS
former faculty member and a co-founding board member, will also be honored.
Rabbi Allen, director of Hillel of Northern
New Jersey for JFNNJ at four local colleges,
teaches at Yeshiva University and is rabbi
emeritus at Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic
Congregation of Teaneck.
Walter Ramsfeld of Teaneck, who is a
founding board member of BCHJS, served
as its board president several times during the past 40 years; he retired from the
board just last year. His daughter Miriam
was among the schools first graduates
and his granddaughter graduated from the
school in 2013. Walter and his wife, Ruth,
are members of Congregation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck.
To buy tickets or place an ad in the
online journal, go to www.bchsjsdinner.
org.
Rabbi/cantor from Israel visiting Fort Lee

educator with his musical talThe Sephardic Congregation of Fort Lee welcomes
ent and love for Sephardic
Rabbi Haim Louk, a rabbi
poetry and liturgy. He has produced scores of audio recordand cantor from Israel, to its
ings of authentic Moroccan
congregation.
Jewish liturgy and is internaRabbi Louk will lead daily
tionally recognized as a virservices at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
tuoso of classical Andalusian
and will teach an adult class
music. He has performed reciton Moroccan Jewish liturgy
Rabbi Haim Louk
als in Morocco, Israel, Spain,
on Mondays at 8 p.m.
France, Belgium, Canada,
Rabbi Louk was born in
Poland, and the United States.
Casablanca, Morocco, and made aliyah
For more information, call Sale Benito Israel in 1964. He combines his teaching in rabbinical texts and his work as an
chou at (917) 560-5052.
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Emunah spring luncheon
honors empowered women
Ellis Island event to feature

Grammy Award-winning violinist
Emunah, which evolved

of Sangha Yoga Shala;
through the efforts of a few
child and adolescent psyvisionary women in Israel
chiatrist Dr. Joyce Weg
in 1935, will pay tribute to
Rydzinski; Lisa Septimus,
Empowering Women at its
yoetzet halacha for the
May 19 spring luncheon at the
Five Towns and ManhatPrince George Ballroom in
tan communities and rebManhattan. Among this years
bitzen of the Young Israel
honorees is Dr. Micole Tuchof North Woodmere; and
Dr. Micole Tuchman
man, a dermatologist from
speech-language patholoEnglewood.
gist Susan T. Weg, all will
Sora Grunstein and Tova Gerson, both
be honored at the luncheon.
of Bergen County, are chairing the lunEmunah has been instrumental in procheon, and Cheryl Borenstein, Shaindy
tecting womens rights in Israel, operatBrothman, Ronnie Faber, Amy Gibber,
ing programs for women in business,
Felicia Hoenig, Lisa Schechter, and Debleadership lectures, and networking
bie Siegler are local committee memopportunities. Its 250 social welfare and
bers. Proceeds will support Emunahs
educational programs in Israel strive to
four award-winning girls high schools
improve the lives of children, families,
and its college for young women in
and senior citizens. The organization
Israel.
received the Israel Prize for its social,
Miriam Wallach, general manager of
educational, humanitarian, and cultural
the Nachum Segal Network and host of
contribution to Israeli society.
radio program Thats Life, will be the
For information, call (212) 564-9045,
keynote speaker.
ext. 315, or register online at emunah.
Alana Kessler, founder/owner/director
org/springluncheon.
Miri Ben-Ari, a Grammy Award-winning

violinist, will be among the 90 honorees
to receive the Ellis Island Medal of Honor
from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations on Saturday, May 9. The 29th
annual ceremony will be held on Ellis
Island at 6:30 p.m., followed by a gala dinner in the historic Great Hall.
The Israeli-born Ben-Ari, a violinist, producer, and humanitarian, has lived in Edgewater for six years. A classically trained
violinist, she studied under Isaac Stern.
She also is the founder/CEO of Gedenk,
a not-for-profit organization dedicated
to promoting tolerance to youth through
creative campaigns and raising awareness
about racism and anti-Semitism.
In 2011, she was honored at a White
House ceremony and in 2012 she was
invited to perform for President Barack
Obama. She received the first Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Israeli award from Israeli
President Shimon Peres and the first 2015
Girl Up Advocate award from the United
Nations Foundation.
I am humbled and honored to be recognized among such a distinguished group
of people who have shaped and influenced the lives of many. As a U.S. citizen
who grew up in Israel, it has helped me to
understand the importance of being true
to ones own ethical and religious heritage
and promoting tolerance, she said.
The Ellis Island Medals of Honor
embody the spirit of America in their
Straus named chairman

of Yeshiva trustees board
Yeshiva Universitys board of trustees has elected Moshael J.
Straus, 70YUHS, 74YC, of Englewood as its next chairman.
Mr. Straus, an accomplished investment executive, will begin
his term on July 1. He succeeds Dr. Henry Kressel, who joined
the board in 2005 and has been its chairman since 2009.
Miri Ben-Ari
celebration of patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood, and diversity. NECO remains dedicated to the maintenance and restoration
of Ellis Island, Americas greatest symbol
of its immigrant history. Since the medals
founding in 1986, it has honored distinguished and diverse Americans including
six U.S. presidents and Nobel Prize recipient Elie Wiesel.
The Ellis Island Medal of Honor ranks
among the nations most prestigious
awards.
Moshael J. Straus
Israeli soldier speaks in New Milford
Front row, from left, Karen Goldman, Jill Tekel, Ruth Grossberg, and Yvette
Tekel. Back row, Stephanie Bonder, Ruth Cole, and Yoram Weiss, at the April
19 Big Gifts Hadassah dinner.
Hadassah holds Big Gifts dinner

Hadassah Northern NJ held its Big Gifts
dinner at the home of Martha Zilbert of
Fort Lee. Yvette Tekel and Ruth Cole,
both past region presidents, were the
co-chairs. The group of 26 attendees
included other past region presidents,
including Karen Goldman and Ruth
Grossberg, along with current region
president Stephanie Bonder and current

organization vice president Jill Tekel.
The guest speaker was Professor
Yoram Weiss, director of Hadassah Hospital, Ein Kerem. More than $20,000 was
raised in support of medical research,
care, and equipment for Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem.
A panel of speakers, keynoted

loathing of Israel, are the
by Sgt. Benjamin Anthony of
norm on many campuses,
Our Soldiers Speak, talked
he said.
about Israel at a recent meetWe must tell the truth,
ing in the Solomon Schechter
despite them; we must
School of Bergen County, sponempower our children with
sored by Unite4Unity.
the knowledge that will
U4U is dedicated to bringing
allow them to face down
disparate parts of the local Jewmouth-breathing haters. He
ish community together; the
does.
evening was predicated on the
His underlying message
Sgt. Benjamin
understanding that all commuwas the need to be proud of
Anthony
nity members share a focus on
Israel, and proud of being
Israel, and all are interested in
Jewish. It is that pride that
learning how to advocate for the Jewish
underlies everything else, he said.
state.
The Schechter Schools head, Ruth
The lead speaker, Mr. Anthony, a BritGafni, introduced the panel: Jasmine
ish Jew who made aliyah and served in
Patihi of StandWithUs, Andrew Gross of
three wars in Israel, showed a film, stark
the Israeli embassy in New York, and Danin its ugliness, of the beginning of a meetiel Mizner of AIPAC. Each discussed how
ing with undergraduates at a college camhis or her work supports Israel.
pus. These students, with their reflexive
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running to enhance the lives of

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Leading doctors in the fields of Dermatology,

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Noted local and Israeli physicians from
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Mon, May 18, 7:30 pm
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Jewish Standard MAY 8, 2015 21
Editorial
Jewish life outside Bergen County
ergen County is rich in

Jewish life. It is so rich, in
fact, that at times we do
not have the chance to look
past its borders.
This week, though, we look west to
Paterson, in Passaic County, and south,
to Hoboken, in Hudson County. As we
do so, we also think a little bit about
the history of Jews in this state.
To the rest of the world, American
Jewish history began on the Lower
East Side and radiated out from there.
Yes, Philip Roths novels taught us that
Newark had its own proudly distinct
history it centered around Weequahic, a word that non-natives are challenged to spell, much less to pronounce but few outsiders know that
Paterson, too, was a separate community, and so were the river towns on
the Hudsons left bank, Hoboken and
Jersey City. They lived in the shadow of
New York, but they were the center of
their own Jewish worlds.
Paterson and Hoboken (and Jersey

City too) are going in different directions now. Jews started flowing out
of Paterson soon after World War II,
when the magnetic benefits of the
GI Bill and allure of a nice clean new
home in the suburbs, complete with
green lawn and white picket fence,
drew them as if they were iron filings.
The city they left behind continued to
be the home for new immigrants, for
people on the first leg of their climb
from poverty. It did not appeal to the
Jews who were able to afford to do
better.
Most of the Jews still in Paterson
now are elderly, if not actively old,
and most certainly not all, but most
live there because they cannot afford
to move. There does not seem to be
much of a future for the community
there. Thats why we are so heartened
to hear about the minyan we write
about on page 10, and so glad to know
that younger people from Bergen
County are working to ensure that it

keeps going.
For a long time,Hudson County
towns were enmeshed in corruption
and scandal, and they were irrepressibly urban. Jews left as soon as they
could. For decades now, young people,
including young Jews, have lived there
right after college, only to move to the
suburbs as soon as they found partners, had children, and could afford
mortgages.
Now, though, Hoboken and Jersey
City are retaining more young people,
boasting more young families, to educating more children. As we write on
page 28, United Synagogue of Hobokens building is celebrating its centennial. The shul is flourishing, and the
community is growing. Its exciting.
There is vibrant Jewish life in northern New Jersey outside the borders of
Bergen County. Were glad to be able
JP
to report on it.
Bridgegate and bullying
kay. Were a local Jewish newspaper, and we

agree that Bridgegate
isnt inherently a Jewish
issue unless, of course, the fact that
the Bridgegate Davids, Wildstein and
Sampson, are Jewish somehow make
the whole crazy episode Jewish too.
In fact, its hard not to notice that
the three people who showed up on
Monday to plead guilty (Wildstein) or
be indicted (Bridget Anne Kelly, Bill
Baroni) are representative of three of
the states largest ethnic groups. Its
almost like the beginning of a joke
a Jew, an Irishwoman, and an Italian
walk across a bridge.
But Jews sat in the insanely snarled
traffic along with everyone else, and
certainly Bridgegate is a local issue.
Its just about as local as you can get.
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So think about this. The New

York Times reported that according
to the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey,
Paul Fishman (another Jew!), the
three conspirators, working together
like villains in Hardy Boys or Nancy
Drew stories, with the same levels of
malice and juvenile idiocy, connived
to hold off on the bridge closings until
the first day of school. Why waste the
induced disaster on the relatively
light traffic of late summer? They
closed EZ Pass-only lanes, to make it
even harder for drivers. They joked
to each other about the misery they
caused. They chortled over email
about the joy they got in imposing
radio silence instead of responding
to the increasingly desperate mayor
of Fort Lee.
They planned this is an incredible
Editor
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detail to have the lane closings last

for a full month, and were enraged
when they were forced to stop after
four days.
This all was supposed to be political payback to the mayor of Fort
Lee, a Democrat, because he did
not endorse the conspirators boss,
the Republican Chris Christie. But it
seems more like a Three Stooges version of classic bullying. These jokers
had power, and they used it. It seems
as if the real reason for their use of
power was the sheer joy they took in
it (although certainly they are paying
for that joy now).
We hope it is a long time before any
other political goon decides to play
chess with an imaginary opponent,
using the rest of us as life-size pawns.
JP

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keeping the faith
Eye on a big lie
here is a reason why Jewish law insists even

true statements can be lashon hara, evil
speech. Last Sundays presentation of The
Lessons of War on the CBS News program
60 Minutes could just as well be called The Lessons
of Evil Speech.
An estimated 10 million viewers saw the report. Little of what was said in it was untrue, yet in the aggregate the report was a lie of monumental proportions.
Ostensibly, the report focused on the horrific impact
last summers Gaza war had on the children, with Palestinian children the primary focus and Israeli children receiving slightly more than passing notice. From
the beginning, however, it was clear that the true focus
was to demonize Israel as an indiscriminate murderer
of children and a destroyer
of homes and families.
A few examples suffice to
demonstrate how the CBS
program twisted truth.
According to Scott Pelley, the on-air talent who
anchored the report (on
60 Minutes, most of the
reporting actually is done
Shammai
by the producers), The war
Engelmayer
began with the murders of
three [Israeli] teenage boys.
He went on to say that on
the day after one of those youths, 16-year-old Naftali
Fraenkel, was buried, Israeli terrorists kidnapped a
Palestinian boy. Same age. Mohammad Abu Khdeir
was burned alive. Within days, it was war.
The teenagers Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Eyal
Yifrah, 19 were abducted on June 12, 2014. Fraenkel
was buried on July 1. Mohammad Abu Khdeir was murdered on July 2. The Gaza War began on July 8.
It would seem that Pelley was expressing a truth,
except that he was telling truths in a way that distorted
the truth. The war did not begin with the murders of
three teenage boys. Saying that suggests that Israel
launched a 50-day air and ground campaign against
Gazan civilians during which, according to Pelley,
Israel lost one child, [and] Gaza lost more than 500
to avenge the deaths of three Israeli teenagers.
Revenge had nothing to do with it, and the kidnappings were not the catalyst.
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
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Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
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Between January 1, and July 7, 2014, 353
rockets were launched at Israeli settlements from Gaza, forcing Israeli children
to spend many of their days that first half
of the year in fallout shelters.
That should have been provocation
enough to launch an invasion into Gaza.
There was an even greater threat that had
to be addressed, however.
On July 7, Hamas terrorists were carrying explosives through a terrorist tunnel
in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. Something set off the explosives, and seven of
them died.
The existence of an extensive tunnel
system beneath Gaza was well known by
then. As was also well known but rarely
reported, Hamas constructed the system
using money meant to rebuild Gazas
civilian infrastructure.
Supposedly, the tunnels were meant
to circumvent Israels blockade of
Gaza, meaning that they were meant to
improve the quality of life there. In truth,
the tunnels were being used as storage
facilities for weapons and as launching
sites for missiles.
The tunnels had another purpose, as
well. Some extended inside Israel itself
and were designed to launch attacks
against Israeli settlements.
One such tunnel was discovered near
Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha in October 2013.
According to a Washington Post report,
the tunnel was 1.5 miles long and 66 feet
underground. It was equipped with
electricity and contained enough cookies, yogurt, and other provisions to last its
occupants several months. Israeli forces
estimated that Hamas had dumped $10
million and 800 tons of concrete into the
two-year project.
The July 7 tunnel explosion beneath
Khan Yunis signaled to Israel that the
extensive system posed an even greater
threat than originally believed. On that
same day, Hamas unleashed 80 rockets
on Israeli targets.
The next day, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, with the announced
purpose of seeking out and destroying the terror tunnels, and putting the
launching sites out of commission.
The war had nothing to do with the
deaths of the three teenagers. Israel, in
fact, had launched Operation Brothers
Keeper on the West Bank, not Gaza, to
seek out the terrorists responsible for that
outrage.
Here is another example. Pelley said,
This summer, Hamas attacked Israel to
lift the blockade and Israel invaded Gaza
to destroy the tunnels.
He then asked a United Nations aid
worker, Scott Anderson, What are the
needs here [in Gaza] right now?
Anderson answered: The number one
need is to find a way to lift the blockade
and restore economic opportunity here
in Gaza.
Hamas, however, did not attack Israel
this summer. As noted, since January
2014 alone, 353 missiles were fired into

Israel before Operation Protective Shield
was launched. Perhaps Hamas was trying
to pressure Israel into ending the blockade, but the 60 Minutes report made it
sound like the blockade was an illegal act
meant to force Gazans to live like animals.
Pelley even quoted an elderly Gazan,
Ahmed Karim Audha, as saying even the
animals have better lives.
There is nothing either illegal or evil
about the blockade. Several years ago,
following the Marvi Marmara incident,
in which Israeli forces in 2010 boarded
a blockade-running Turkish vessel
bound for Gaza, killing nine people, a
United Nations investigation came to this
conclusion:
Israel faces a real threat to its security
from militant groups in Gaza.The naval
blockade was imposed as a legitimate
security measure in order to prevent
weapons from entering Gaza by sea and
its implementation complied with the
requirements of international law.
The United Nations is no friend of
Israels, yet it had no choice but to confirm that the blockade of Gaza is justified
under international law. The facts speak
for themselves. On March 5, 2014, just
four months before Protective Edge was
launched, Palestinians sought to smuggle
dozens of long-range missiles into Gaza
by sea. The Israeli navy interdicted the
shipment.
Israel, by the way, is not the only country blockading Gaza. Egypt has participated in the blockade from its very beginning. The United States supports both
blockades.
The virtually simultaneous blockades
were initiated after the so-called Battle
of Gaza in June 2007, when Hamas, an
internationally recognized terrorist organization, seized Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in a week-long battle that
ended in the deaths of 118 Gazans and the
wounding of over 500. Egypt imposed its
blockade almost immediately after that
happened. Israel did the same.
By leaving out the reasons for the
blockade, 60 Minutes made it seem as
though Israel does not care for the suffering of anyone but its own people.
The 60 Minutes report showed devastating footage of whole Gazan neighborhoods in ruins because of the Israeli
bombing campaign. Israel struck Gaza
with digital domination, blasting neighborhoods into seismic collapse, Pelley
said.
He said nothing, however, about why
Israel bombed these particular sites.
Hamas deliberately used these neighborhoods as launching sites for missiles.
He also did not mention the advanced
warnings Israel gave its bombing targets,
something unheard of anywhere else in
the world.
CBS and 60 Minutes did not lie on
Sunday night. They just told the truth in
a way that made it into a lie.
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Gratitude
How we all can benefit from trying it more often
his past Sunday, my husband

for us. You spent money, and I know you
and I took our children to
dont really like amusement parks. I really
Six Flags Great Adventure.
appreciate it!
My daughter was performing
I told him the truth: I may not love
with the JCC dance troupe there. I loved
theme parks, but I love going with my
watching her on stage. However, the rest
kids. His dad and I are happy to save up
of Six Flags is not my (spinning) cup of
for special outings as a family; that is our
tea. I fell off a mountain when I was 16,
joy. And his gratitude makes my heart
and I have had a fear of heights since. I
swell with gratitude. Its not just that he is
like to push myself to overcome that fear
a great kid (though, of course, I think he
occasionally, but a full day
is). Its that once someone
of roller coasters is my idea
leads you into a mindset of
of torture. So, I held the
gratitude, it seems like the
backpacks and waited at
most obvious, rightful, and
the exit ramps like a champ.
beautiful thing in the world.
I enjoyed my kids enjoying
You want to partake, reciprocate, live there.
themselves. I thanked God
By the same token, when
for my husband. And I got
you focus on how hot and
to go on safari in deepest,
sweaty you are, or those
darkest New Jersey.
Rabbi Debra
rude people who just cut
Even as we enjoyed ourOrenstein
selves on a day of leisure
the line, when you recite an
and indulgence, each meminner monologue condemnber of the family had our
ing the commercialization of
complaints. My husband expressed shock
fun, then you fall back just as quickly
at the cost of parking and kosher food,
into a complaining, impatient, entitled,
dismay at the ads and product placement
and arrogant mindset that seems perfectly normal. Live there at your peril.
everywhere. The kids kvetched about
Its easy to backslide. Gratitude is not a
standing in long lines. We forgot a hat. My
default for most people. I, for one, have
daughters feet hurt. I was disappointed
to consciously choose it. Over and over.
that people did not go in groups to fill up
I attended a conference on women in
the cable car or safari jeep efficiently, but
the rabbinate last week. I enjoyed some of
insisted on traveling only with their party.
the rides er, sessions more than othThis was American independence gone
ers. I found things to condemn and things
amok! And I was misdirected. Why didnt
to celebrate. One particular decision by
the workers know the map of the adventure park!? And this was just the litany we
conference organizers was, in my opinion, a major mistake in fact, an insult.
verbalized.
When a friend, who was among the orgaThese are not first world problems.
nizers, asked me what my reaction was,
They arent problems at all.
I gave it to her with both barrels. I was
That night before bed, my son tearfully
See Gratitude page 26
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Opinion
In every generation
On Peter Beinart, criticism of Israel, and risks for peace
ast month, we read the classic

passage from the Haggadah:
In every generation they try
to destroy us
Its a dubious distinction, being hated
by so many for so long. Inexplicable as
this attitude toward us from
non-Jews is to fathom, its
even more puzzling when its
our co-religionists often leading the charge, or adding fuel
to the fire.
Someone who has been
gaining prominence in these
efforts is Peter Beinart, the
intellectual wunderkind and
Robert
self-appointed arbiter of all
Isler
things right and wrong with
both American and Israeli
Jewry. Although Beinart is
only one person, and his influence only
goes so far, he is emblematic of the everpresent Jewish fifth column.
At a time when European anti-Semitism is soaring and when U.S.-Israel
relations hover near their lowest point
in decades, Beinart recently saw fit to
pile on by urging the Obama administration to punish Israel. Among his
suggestions Support Palestinian bids
at the U.N., join the BDS movement on
settlement goods, and freeze the assets
of certain Israeli officials. He also urged
Jews to organize protests whenever
Israeli cabinet members speak. The reason for his latest ire the Israeli public,
in democratic elections, voted to keep
Netanyahu in power.
At one point during his tirade, Beinart
takes a step back to exclaim, It means
loving Israel more than ever He may
genuinely view his approach as one of
tough love, but its employment is reminiscent of a ploy Jimmy Carter regularly used in his Mideast op-eds. Hed
open about the paramount importance
of guaranteeing Israels security, then
spend the remaining 95 percent of his
piece likening the Jewish state to the
devil incarnate.
Beinarts views stop short of those
held by Jews who question Israels right
to exist, but paradoxically that makes
him more dangerous because hes taken
seriously. At a time when traditionally
rock-solid bipartisan U.S. support for
Israel is developing serious cracks,
Beinart is doing his part to widen the fissures. He has become a media darling
and the poster child for J Street which
says it all.
So what are his views? In his book,
The Crisis of Zionism, Beinart writes
that the great American Jewish challenge of our age is saving liberal Zionism in the U.S. so that American Jews
can help save liberal Zionism in Israel
Loosely defined, his tactic for keeping

young American Jews engaged and in
the fold is acknowledging and relentlessly criticizing Israels faults.
That wouldnt top my list, but Im not
an intellectual.
Beinarts mindset is all
too familiar. In an April
9 article in Haaretz, he
wrote that it is sheer fantasy to think Israel and
the Palestinians could
reach an agreement without a return to the 1967
b ou n d a r i e s . He ad d s
that these are the only
parameters that could
lead to a deal. Its understandable that these may
be the only parameters
the Palestinians would accept, but what
about parameters necessary to increase
Israels comfort level so the process
could truly move forward? Why is that
never discussed seriously?
When the Oslo Accords began in
1993, a cautious Yitzhak Rabin insisted
that any exchange of territory for intangible promises of peace must include a
provision calling for Palestinian leaders to cease from engaging in hostile
propaganda against Jews and Israel.
Toning down the rhetoric of hate was
a necessary prelude to resolving all
other issues. Israel made an attempt to
change the status quo when it withdrew
from Gaza. It also put the West Bank
and potentially parts of Jerusalem into
play with far-reaching offers in both
2000 and 2008. What has the Palestinian establishment done to engender a
climate of trust during that time? Is it
any wonder a poll conducted late last
year by the Palestinian Center for Policy
and Survey Research found that 80 percent of Palestinians support attempts
by individual Palestinians to stab or
run over Israelis in Jerusalem, with the
overwhelming majority also in favor
of continued rocket attacks on Jewish
civilians?
While constantly taking Israel to task
for its control over the territories, why
arent Beinart and the many outspoken
Jews in media who share his views vocal
about the need for Palestinian leaders
to be held accountable for their poisonous rhetoric and actions? Even those
who sympathize with Beinarts view
have pointed out that he just doesnt
seem to grasp Israels very real concerns. If he does, he gives them little
more than lip service, instead focusing
almost exclusively on Palestinian suffering. The cause and effect that lead to
that suffering dont seem to be part of
his equation.
Peter Beinart is a contributing editor at the Atlantic magazine. His outspoken

views on Israel make him a controversial figure in the Jewish world, to which
he belongs.
Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons
Even those who

sympathize with
Beinarts view
have pointed
out that he
just doesnt
seem to grasp
Israels very real
concerns.
Beinart loves to criticize the Jewish
establishment for reflexively feeling a
need to come to Israels rescue with its
blind support. Apparently his solution
to counter their tired ways and break
the logjam in Mideast negotiations is to
club Israel into submission with threats
meant to isolate and undermine it. If
this doesnt sound very original or fair,
thats because it isnt. The liberal Zionist model that he is forever touting is
strikingly familiar to the one long held
and increasingly practiced by European
leaders, who are decidedly unsympathetic to Israels situation.
Making matters worse is Beinarts timing, given the realities of todays Middle
East.
There have been recent reports of
Hamas turning to heavy machinery to
rebuild its tunnels and of Iran increasing delivery of sophisticated weaponry
to Hezbollah. With the fortification of
these northern and southern borders,
is this really the time for Israel to allow

a potential third front to open by ceding
the West Bank, a mere stones throw (or
advanced rocket launch) away from Tel
Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport?
Even if Palestinian leaders were to
honor a deal and try to maintain peace,
the current high level of upheaval is
unusual even by Mideast standards.
ISIS and others are treating the region
like the old Risk board game. Imagine
the status and PR coup for the first
group able to wrest control of the West
Bank from the Palestinians to open a
new front? Likely, it would be a proxy
group for Iran moving in to gain a threepronged stranglehold. Must Israel set
itself up for potential national suicide
to please its critics?
Rather than American Jews heeding
Peter Beinarts advice and organizing
protests whenever and wherever Israeli
cabinet members are invited to talk, it
would be far more useful and productive to have our voices heard in protest
when he is the one speaking.
At a time when openly hating Israel,
and quite often the Jewish people as
well, has become fashionable again,
unity is our strength. To attempt to
force the Jewish States hand and at the
same time discredit most major advocacy groups from AIPAC to the AntiDefamation League is not a recipe for
maintaining support of Israel but for
destroying it.
Robert Isler is a media research director
who occasionally writes about the
Middle East and Jewish issues. He lives
in Fair Lawn.
Opinion
A tale of two societies

When the PA presidents hero is a terrorist
he president of a normal, civilized

country naturally is anxious to
distance himself from any suspicion of ever having had a connection to a terrorist.
Thats how President Barack Obama
reacted when the Bill Ayers
controversy erupted. But the
recent decision by the Palestinian Authoritys president to
give awards to three Arab terrorists reminded us that some
governments are neither normal nor civilized.
Ayers, the co-founder of an
American terrorist group, the
Stephen
1960s Weather Underground,
Flatow
was involved in planting
bombs at New York City police
headquarters, the United
States Capitol building, and the Pentagon
from 1970 to 1972. It was just by pure chance
that nobody was injured in those attacks,
which caused extensive damage.
During the 2008 presidential campaign,
journalists revealed that Ayers had hosted the
first-ever fundraiser for Obama, then a candidate for the Illinois state senate, in his home.
Obama quickly distanced himself from Ayers,
whom he described as just some guy in our
neighborhood. Ayers subsequently said that
he never had any contact with Obama, either
during the campaign or after
his election as president.
Whatever the details of the
Ayers-Obama connection,
candidate Obama wanted
to make it crystal clear that
he had no admiration for
Ayerss views or deeds, and
did not want to be associated
with a terrorist in any way. In
M.
American society, terrorism is
regarded as evil. A connection
with a terrorist spells the end
of any politicians career.
Not so in Palestinian society. There, even
the most heinous terrorists are considered
heroes, and the president rushes to heap
honors upon the killers and their families.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas celebrated Palestinian
Prisoners Day on April 17 by bestowing

medals upon three notorious terrorists
the first female and male Fatah terrorists
jailed by Israel and the first Fatah terrorist killed while trying to murder Israelis.
Abbas is also chairman of Fatah, which is
the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The first female Fatah terrorist captured
by the Israelis was Fatima Bernawi. In October 1967, Bernawi placed a bomb in the Zion
Cinema in Jerusalem. Note, by the way, that
the attack did not take place in occupied
territory, except in the sense that Fatah
considers even pre-1967 Israel to be occupied Palestine.
By sheer chance, the bomb did not
explode. Bernawi was captured and sentenced to life in prison for attempted mass
murder. Unfortunately, Israel released her
after 10 years as a gesture in honor of Egyptian president Anwar Sadats visit to Israel.
That was a terrible mistake by the Israelis. It helped create an expectation about
releasing terrorists, when in fact Israel
See Two Societies page 26
Michelle and Barack Obama flank

Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas. The two presidents
react very differently to terrorists.

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should have always maintained that Arab

leaders who are against terrorism surely
would not want terrorists to be set free.
Shortly after the PA was established
in 1994, Bernawi was rewarded with the
position of chief of the womens section
of the PA police. That, too, was an outrage. The PA should have been told in no
uncertain terms, by both Israel and the
United States, that no terrorist should be
rewarded with a government job. Such
rewards send a message that terrorists
are heroes and should be emulated.
That is exactly the wrong message to
send to young Palestinians.
The fact that the United States helped
train the PA police makes the situation
even more outrageous. American government personnel were training a convicted bomber. Imagine if Bill Ayers were
to apply for a position in his local police
department. Would anyone in his right
mind say he should be hired?
Bernawi, like Ayers, never expressed
any regret for her terrorism. To this day,
she regards planting a bomb in a movie
theater as an act of heroism.
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calm, but very disapproving. I also

expressed gratitude for her efforts, but
the main message was my upset.
Just then, a rabbi who had taken my
class on gratitude at the Rabbinic Training Institute a couple of years back
came up to me and said, Thank God! I
thought you were so perfect. Its good
to see that you complain, too.
I felt the righteousness of my complaint and of her observation. It was
a humbling, human moment.
I saw two perspectives, clearly and
simultaneously. The first: The organizers were wrong in what they did, I
was wrong in calling my friend out on
that error so vociferously, and my colleague and former student was wrong
for embarrassing me.
The second: the organizers had
been trying to honor the first cohort of
women rabbis; though I do believe they
were in error, I also believe they were
doing their best. I was in pain, and
managed to be funny and self-deprecating while delivering a difficult but necessary message. My timing may have
been lousy I responded to what I am
sure my friend thought was a casual,
pass-you-in-the-hall question with
strong opinions that demanded her
full attention. But I was doing my best.
My friend on the organizing committee
received my message without defensiveness and asked me to please give
my feedback to the other organizers as
Fatahs official website, announcing

Abbass decision to present Bernawi
with a medal, hailed her as one of the
first Palestinian women to adopt armed
self-sacrifice operations after the start
of the modern Palestinian revolution.
(Translation courtesy of the Middle East
Media and Research Institute.)
So there you have it. An American
president who distances himself from a
terrorist, and an American society that
utterly rejects terrorism. A Palestinian
president who embraces terrorists, and
a Palestinian society that treats mass
murderers as heroes.
Two societies, two different sets of values, two different ways of life. Perhaps
there is nothing Americans can do to
change the PA. But why must $500 million in U.S. aid continue to be sent to the
PA each year?
American taxpayers would not want
to subsidize Bill Ayers; so, why is their
money being used to subsidize Fatima
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Bernawi?
Stephen M. Flatow of West Orange, an
attorney who practices in Fairfield, is the
father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered
in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.
well. She reflected on her own process

of decision-making, explaining why
she didnt intervene when she perhaps
should have. She was doing her best.
My student had graciously told me
many times how inspired she had been
by my teachings on gratitude. Apparently, she also felt inadequate in the
face of them. She was relieved when
she saw me complain and felt friendly
and close enough to me that she could
say so. She, too, was doing her best.
Its harder to capture the second perspective. I am sure I didnt get all the
words or summaries right. But the feeling, I hope, is conveyed. It was a peaceful feeling. My mind seemed to say:
there is fault in everything and everyone, and everything/everyone is also
fine and beautiful.
I dont mean to suggest that all complaining is wrong. Righteous rebuke
is holy. Spiritual dissatisfaction is the
most frequent motivation for repairing
the world. But almost everyone could
benefit by expressing complaints less
and gratitude more. Myself, of course,
included.
Here is one way to express gratitude: Thanks, Six Flags Corporation
and employees, for doing your best.
Thanks, family, for the same. Thanks,
fellow rabbis. Just. Thanks.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual
leader of Congregation Bnai Israel
in Emerson, as well as a scholar-inresidence. Go to RabbiDebra.com for
more on gratitude.
Letters
Israel dodges truth
of Armenian genocide
I read Rabbi Shmuley Boteachs May 1 column, Dress rehearsal for the Holocaust?
under the logo Truth Regardless of Consequences, with great amazement.
The column criticized President Barack
Obama and, in particular, Ambassador
Samantha Powers for not labeling the
massacre of the Armenians by the Turks
as genocide. Rabbi Boteach rightfully criticized this indefensible decision, calling it
the final indignity, and said that the victims are now robbed of the chance to be
remembered.
You can imagine my shock when a colleague brought to my attention that Israel
also will not recognize the Armenian massacre as genocide. I couldnt believe it. My
colleague showed me a news report from
Haaretz, dated January 9, 2015, http://
www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacydefense/1.636058, in which Rafael Harpaz, Israels ambassador to Azerbaijan,
said that because it wants to improve relations with Turkey, Israel will not call the
massacre genocide. Ambassador Harpaz
was quoted as saying: There are enough
common interests and issues in the world
for us to cooperate. I would like to take
an example of Turkish Airlines. Turkish
Airlines is the biggest foreign airline which

is active in Israel. Istanbul is the biggest
hub for Israelis. The same goes for tourism, trade which is up. We hope that
our political relations with Turkey will
improve.
I hope that Rabbi Boteach will comment
on the Israeli action, given that he advocates truth regardless of consequence.
If the U.K. or some other country refused
to acknowledge the Holocaust because of
trade relations with Germany, we would
call it anti-Semitic. What do we call Israels conduct? There is only one word.
Shameful.
Ben Kaplan, West Orange
community. Yes, you read that right. Every

single one of them. Embraced. Even by the
Orthodox Jewish community.
That doesnt mean we cant debate
about the permissibility of certain acts.
It does mean that we can no longer make
sweeping generalizations about the lifestyle of gay people. It does mean we cannot pretend that the Torah prohibits a gay
lifestyle when in fact no such expression
can be found in the Torah. And it most
definitely means that we can no longer
tolerate expressions of bigotry even, and
especially, when they cloak themselves in
the language of saintliness.
Adam Schorr, Englewood
Respect for gays

in the Orthodox world
Kudos to Joy Kurland
Im not so sure, though, that the question of homosexuality in the Orthodox

community has been exhausted, despite
what I read in Respect, not discord (Letters, May 1). I suspect our gay brothers
and sisters who do not yet feel accepted as
human beings and Jews within their communities would not feel the issue has been
exhausted. Exhausting perhaps. But not
yet exhausted.
And it will not be exhausted until every
gay man and woman is embraced by their
Count me as one of the many saddened to

hear of Joy Kurlands departure from Federations Community Relations Council
(Thank You, Joy May 1).
I agree with Rabbi Neal Borovitz about
1) the difficult challenge in replacing her,
and 2) the rise of conflict and competition
between and among religious and ethnic
communities.
Thats how I met Joy Kurland two years
ago.
Palisades Park is a small town that once
had a large enough Jewish population
to first support then expand the Sons of

Israel congregation. In the 1940s, when
my immigrant grandparents opened a
store on Broad Avenue, they sought to be
good Americans. The store signs were in
English and they employed every type of
person who lived in the primarily ItalianAmerican town for the 50 years they did
business here.
No more. Todays Jewish population
is a mere handful. The majority Korean
population considers it acceptable to put
store signage/menus in Korean only and
to employ only Korean speaking staff.
The ItalianAmericans, who still hold the
majority of municipal positions, do nothing to address this form of discrimination.
Korean-only signage is now moving northward and can be seen in Leonia. Where
next?
In addition, theres a growing movement
to attach the WWII issue of the so-called
Comfort Women (aka sex slaves of the
Pacific War) onto Holocaust exhibits and
institutions across America. The Comfort
Women, numbering perhaps 200,000,
were the tragic spoils of war, as were millions of other abused women. But they
were not victims of a sustained campaign
of genocide.
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100 years
in Hoboken
United Synagogues building
celebrates its centennial
Joanne Palmer
oboken is surprisingly small,

given its outsize reputation.
Its only got 50,000 residents, and its nickname, Mile
Square City, is roughly accurate. (It actually covers an area of two square miles
when including the under-water parts in
the Hudson River, Wikipedia helpfully
tells us. Its hard to understand why anyone would want to count the underwater
parts.)
Its a city with a storied history Frank
Sinatra, On the Waterfront and therefore Marlon Brando, gangsters, music,
angst, longshoremen, gritty local color.
The synagogue,
which is
Conservative,
is booming.
Its preschool
is bursting.
Its lack of parking, which makes finding
a space in Manhattan seem relatively as
easy as finding one in, say, Montana, is
legendary.
For the last few decades, Hobokens
been home to young people who work in
Manhattan but dont want or cant afford
to live there; it pulses with singles, who
might make noises about staying but have
tended to move once theyre married and
certainly once they have kids.
Hoboken also has a more recent history
of apparently being on the cusp, the verge,
the very sharp tip of change, but somehow
not quite making it.
Thats all changing now, though, for
real. The citys population has been growing. More and more people have been
choosing to stay, and to bring their children up in the city.
There always have been Jews in
The 100-year-old buildings sanctuary was renovated in 2000; its plain windows since have been replaced with stained glass.
Hoboken. United Synagogue of Hoboken

is about to celebrate its buildings centennial; the congregation itself is almost
a decade older, although it has changed
shape considerably in that time. The synagogue, which is Conservative, is booming. Its preschool is bursting. People of all
ages and of a range of Jewish backgrounds
find themselves at home there. Its sense of
community is palpable. It has a great deal
to celebrate.
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg arrived at
United Synagogue in 1997; he is believed
to have set the tone for the synagogues
revival, although he is too modest to
claim that credit for himself. Instead, he
talks about the distinct challenges and
opportunities the shuls densely packed

urban environment provides.
Hoboken is small, but it is routinely on
the list of the five most densely populated
areas in the United States, he said. (That
explains the parking situation.) Although
it is less packed with people than its neighbors Union City and West New York, it
is way ahead of New York City, although
probably not Manhattan separately, he
continued. And compared with Jersey City
or Bayonne, which also has a synagogue,
it is more urban in feeling. Members of
United Synagogue primarily live in apartments; some are in brownstones. Almost
nobody is in a detached house.
The shul is a medium-size community,
with about 320 households. The scale

makes it hard to get lost, Rabbi Scheinberg said. Its probably still more transitory than most, but he sees that as an
advantage: There will always be a steady
stream of new people. Thats useful and
good for the vitality of the community.
Both the stable population and the
more transient people are at our core.
One of the adjustments the community
has made to that fact of its life is supremely
practical. Because many people believe
that to become a member is to commit to
staying in the city, and because they often
are not ready to make that commitment,
at least not right away, We never have
had a building fund, Rabbi Scheinberg
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said. We dont want people to feel that
joining a synagogue has to be a multiyear
proposition.
That is the approach the shul takes to
cultivating its leadership. We want to
identity people who are potential leaders
within six months of their arrival, because
we want them on the board by Year 2.
They might be in the suburbs by Year 3.
That is changing, however. Now,
though, the stable part of the community
is growing, so that more of our synagogue
leadership is from that group. But we try
to make leadership opportunities available
for people who are not sure that they will
stay in the area.
Another difference that sets us apart is
that the average age here is a lot younger
than in most other places, Rabbi Scheinberg said. And we are also seeing a lot
of empty nesters, young retirees. That is
a growing segment of the community.
Overall, he estimated, the average age of
his congregants is probably somewhere in
the early 40s. Younger than I am Im in
my mid-40s, he said, a bit ruefully.
There are not many synagogues in the
area. Chabad opened one recently, and
there is a Reform shul in Jersey City that
attracts a few Hoboken residents, but for
most of United Synagogues long history
its been the only game in town.
United Synagogue of Hoboken is
an informal place, Rabbi Scheinberg
Once the contract was signed in 1914, work on the building began.
continued. Its one of my goals that no

matter what someone wears a suit and a
tie, or anything else that they should feel
comfortable. They should feel that theyre
not being judged by what theyre wearing.
We strive to be informal and inclusive.
Another aspect of the shuls informality
is the rabbis approach to sermon-giving.
Instead of a sermon, I lead a discussion of
Artist Susan Klein designed the new stained glass windows, which incorporate found objects to illustrate the seven days of creation.
the parasha, the Torah reading, he said.

Other demographic distinctions are the
number of couples where one partner
is Jewish and the other is not, and also
the number of people who are involved
in the conversion process, or who have
converted. This correlates with the ethnic
diversity in the community.
Some of these things may have made us
more distinctive 20 years ago than it does
today, he conceded. There is not a single
role in Conservative life that has not been
played by someone who converted. We are
the location for the Introduction to Judaism course run by the Rabbinical Assembly of New Jersey the association for
local Conservative rabbis. Thats because
courtesy Hoboken Historical Museum
we always have so many people looking to

convert.
Lauren Sapira, an active member of the
shul who works in publishing, tells a story
that echoes some of the themes Rabbi
Scheinberg brought up. I have been here
in Hoboken for 21 years, she said. When
I first moved here after college, I assumed
that it would be for just a few years.
I grew up in Livingston, and I always
assumed that I would move to the suburbs.
I definitely can say that the thing that
has kept me in Hoboken is the synagogue
and the community, she continued. It
is a unique community. People are here
because they want to be here, not because
they feel that they should be here.
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I am amazed every year at Neila the
emotionally and spiritually draining and
exhilarating service at the end of Yom Kippur how the place is just packed. After
we have finished, after the last shofar
blast, nobody leaves.
Everybody stays for Havdalah. Nobody
has eaten for 25 hours, and everybody
stays so we can all do Havdalah together.
Its that kind of place.
Ms. Sapira is a product of the Conservative movements United Synagogue Youth,
and then of Hillel at Cornell University, so
once she graduated from college she knew
that if she was to feel at home somewhere,
she had to be part of its Jewish community. When she got to Hoboken, she found
one that was small and intimate, but also
struggling.
When I first started going to the synagogue, there wasnt much in terms of
young people, she said. That was a little
discouraging at first. I was asked if I would
help run singles events, even though I
didnt really like the idea, because the
whole idea of singles events is to meet people so you never have to go there again.
Because she knew that people in their
20s often do not want to affiliate with a
synagogue but she also knew that she
wanted a peer group for herself, Ms.
Sapira and some friends put together Jewish events that met in other places. The
first event was a Purim party in a bar in
town, she said. We purposely kept it out
of the synagogue for a number of years.
We liked going to Friday night services, so
people started coming along, and we built
up a whole Friday night community, and
then Saturday morning at times.
At first, the group would go to services
and then to a restaurant for dinner; soon
they graduated to pot-luck dinners, and
then to full-on Shabbat dinners in each
others homes. At that point, people
wanted to be part of a community, she
said.
The shul is named United Synagogue of
Hoboken for the most straightforward of
reasons. It was formed by the merger of
two earlier communities, the Star of Israel,
which had been Orthodox, and the Hoboken Jewish Center, which was Conservative. After the merger, the community
used both buildings, the Jewish Centers
brownstone and the Star of Israels larger
structure. In the 1970s, when the community reached its nadir, they almost sold
the Star of Israel building, Ms. Sapira said.
They could have gotten good dollars for
it. But they decided not to.
And then, in the late 90s, we made a
momentous decision that we needed to
consolidate everything, that we were better off selling the brownstone, consolidating, expanding, and putting in a preschool.
I was 29, and I on the board. I said
Why build a preschool? No one will stay
here. No one will use it. What did I know?
We built it and people stayed.
That was in 1997 or 98. The preschool
started in 2000. When I had my son, in
Rabbi Robert Scheinberg
Lauren Sapira with her husband, Valdi,

and their children, Sammi and Josh.
2003, all of a sudden we thought We dont

have to move!
When they decided to build, I thought
they were crazy, and then I became one of
the first to say that we should stay. Now
the Sapiras have two children. Both are
graduates of the nursery school and now
in the shuls religious school.
It is not only United Synagogue of Hoboken that has changed over the last two
decades, Ms. Sapira said. Hoboken is different too. When I moved to town in
1994, it was all about the bars. The bars
are still here, but now they are allowed
to serve food, and look at how many high
chairs there are!
Wolfgang Puck, the famous restaurateur, opened a restaurant in Hoboken in
2004, called Wolfgang Puck Express, Ms.
Sapira said. Its closed now. But we went
there when it was open, and asked for a
high chair, and he said We keep running
out of them. Nobody told me wed need so
many high chairs.
While he was waiting for the building the restaurant was in to go up, he did
research on the neighborhood. It took two
years, and by the time the community had
changed so much.
Now there are kids activities all over
Alexander Gorlin
the place. Theater, dance, sports all of

sudden everythings everywhere, and you
cant possibly keep up.
United Synagogue of Hoboken is kidfriendly, she said. Every Shabbat, children
are invited to follow the Torah in the procession as it is taken out of the ark, and
when they get back, they go up on the
bimah, kiss the Torah, and then everyone sings Hinei Ma Tov how good and
pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to
live together. Later, they come back on the
bimah. The rabbi thanks every single one
of them by name, she said. He knows
every single one of them by name. That
makes them feel like its their home.
There are anywhere from 30 to 60 children any given week, she added.
When synagogue leaders decided to
plan the upcoming celebration, they
decided that the community and the building it calls home could not be teased apart,
so they focused on the building itself.
Alexander Gorlin, a Manhattan architect
who specializes in synagogues and other
places of worship, oversaw a major renovation in 2000.
We restored the interior to its original glory, he said. We decided to create
a color palette that would be in keeping
with the original date of the building. It is
a series of sky blues and creams, based on
19th century Victorian palettes.
The building, which sits very close to the
street, in touch with the outside world, is
compact and vertical. It is clearly a town
synagogue, Mr. Gorlin said. It is appropriate to the size of Hoboken, kind of a
complementary province to the city just
across the river. It is definitely an urban
building. Its charm comes in part from the
exotic onion domes, the Byzantine style
that became appropriate for Jewish congregations in the 19th century.
It has an intimacy that is charming,
and almost recalls the Jewish experience
in Europe before the war.
It is to be cherished as a neighborhood
landmark; even apart from its function as
a synagogue it gives character and identity
to the immediate neighborhood.
Susan Klein has been a member of
United Synagogue of Hoboken since 1987.
She is also an artist. Joining those two

identities, she has restored or created
the buildings old windows, removing the
bars that held them together, using stronger, more modern lead and also her own
vision producing original, compelling
stained-glass artwork.
She is providing the direction; other synagogue members work with her, experiencing the hands-on pleasure of creation.
All are volunteers.
Some of the windows in the sanctuary
had been plain glass. Ms. Klein is replacing them with artwork showing the seven
days of creation. She incorporated found
objects into the glass, making the windows
a marvel of texture as well as shape and
light, rendering them surprising as well as
beautiful.
She had never used this technique
before, but she had the materials and the
idea demanded some experimentation.
I had the bottom of an Israeli bowl that I
had bought when I was a kid, and broken
years ago, she said. She is using that as the
center of a nebula in the window showing
the first day of creation. There are swirly
blobs of glass, a swirly bubbly thing.
On the fifth day, the Bible tells us, Gods
creations include fish. Ms. Klein included
shells and a really gorgeous mother of
pearl piece that sticks far out of the
frame for that days window.
Ms. Klein has taken the opportunity of
making the windows to comb through her
store of interesting or beautiful objects,
and to go on shopping expeditions to
find more. Her finds often end up in the
sanctuary.
Next weekend, United Synagogue of
Hoboken is going to celebrate the buildings centennial by acknowledging its
three identities as a beit tefilah, a house
of prayer; a beit midrash, a house of study,
and as a beit am, the peoples house and
the communitys center. It also will celebrate the communitys sturdy, stubborn
independence and resolve, the Hobokenlike virtues that are likely to see it well into
its second century.
What: United Synagogue of Hobokens
celebration of its buildings first century
When: On Friday, May 15, from 6 to 9
p.m., a Special Kabbalat service and
oneg will showcase the building as a
beit tefilah a house of prayer
On Saturday, May 16, from 1 to 6 pm.,
the Learning Center will celebrate during Shabbat services and the kiddush,
showing the building a beit midrash
a house of study.
On Sunday, May 17, from 1 to 6 p.m. a
block party, guided tours of the Star of
Israel historical museum, and a concert
by Paula Valstein emphasize the buildings function as the beit am the
house of the people.
Where: United Synagogue of Hoboken, 115 Park Ave., Hoboken.
For more information: (201) 659-4000
or www.hobokensynagogue.org
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After anti-Israel pressure, the Virginia State Bar canceled a planned seminar at the David Citadel Hotel in
Jerusalem.
IGORSHIMANOVVIAWIKIMEDIACOMMONS
BDS movement infiltrates

the Virginia State Bar
or just more than a month now,

religious, and national origin grounds,
the Virginia State Bar which, it
and effectively prevents Arab, Muslim,
should be noted, is a state body
and Palestinian members of the VSB from
working with the legal profesattending.
sion in Virginia has been embroiled in a
I will deal with the substance of these
nasty political row over its apparent boyclaims further on, but for now its imporcott of Israel.
tant to record what happened next. On
I say apparent because this hasnt
March 27, the petition was sent to the VSBs
been the kind of run-of-the-mill boycott
council members. By late afternoon on the
Ben Cohen
row you encounter on college campuses.
same day, VSB members were receiving
Leading VSB officials are insisting that they
emails from the state agencys president,
are not boycotting Israel and that, moreKevin Martingayle, announcing that the
over, they were not even aware of the Boycott, DivestJerusalem trip had been scrapped.
ment and Sanctions movement until this whole unfortuCertain members of the Virginia State Bar and other
nate business began.
individuals have expressed objections to the VSBs plan
Take it from me, this is a complicated story, so lets
to take the Midyear Legal Seminar trip in November to
begin with a chronology. On February 27, the VSB
Jerusalem, Martingayle wrote. It was stated that there
announced that it would be holding its 42nd annual
are some unacceptable discriminatory policies and
midyear legal seminar, scheduled for November, in
practices pertaining to border security that affect travthe refined surroundings of the David Citadel Hotel in
elers to the nation. Upon review of U.S. State DepartJerusalem. Anti-Israel activists quickly learned of the
ment advisories and other research, and after consultaplanned trip to the Jewish state, and by March 23, a
tion with our leaders, it has been determined that there
change.org petition demanding its cancellation was live.
is enough legitimate concern to warrant cancellation of
Signed by exactly 39 of the VSBs almost 50,000
the Israel trip and exploration of alternative locations.
members, the petition was careful to sound like a stateInevitably, Martingayles email sent on a Friday
ment of concerned professionals. Unlike the unhinged
night, traditionally regarded as a good time to dump
screeds that circulate on campus, it didnt contain any
problematic news down a black hole met with a furireferences to Israeli war crimes or apartheid, nor
ous response, much of it coming from VSB members
did it even mention the BDS campaign. Without pointappalled that the organizations president could so easing out that Israel is a Jewish state as is common
ily fall for these astonishing accusations without doing
among anti-Zionists the petition grounded its demand
his due diligence.
for cancellation on the claim that Israel discriminates
I feel that it is very important that every agency of
against those of Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab origin at
the Commonwealth take steps to demonstrate our comits border entry points. Citing advice from the U.S. State
mitment to Israel and its people, William J. Howell,
Department and the American Consulate in Jerusalem,
speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, told Martinthe petition concluded, It is unacceptable that the Virgayle in one of many letters of protest. This decision
ginia State Bar has decided to hold a conference in a
does the opposite.
location that actively discriminates on the basis of racial,
Authoritative legal blogs, like the Volokh Conspiracy
Opinion/Letters
and Legal Insurrection, began pushing the story. Various
local and national Jewish organizations condemned the
decision and the story started to creep into the national
press a reminder, perhaps, that releasing bad news
just as the weekend kicks in doesnt guarantee that no
one will notice.
Aware of the escalating scandal, on March 29 Martingayle sent out a second email to VSB members. While
he reiterated his earlier point that the seminar had been
canceled based on a U.S. State Department advisory,
he introduced another reason into mix. We were well
short of the required number of confirmed attendees
necessary for the trip to proceed, Martingayle said.
This, however, doesnt explain why the VSB had sent
an email four days earlier encouraging sign-up, nor
does it account for the fact that the trip, priced at a full
$7,000 per head, had only been announced one month
previously.
Martingayle then added that he and VSB Presidentelect Edward Weiner had been in touch with the Israeli
embassy over security protocols. According to Legal
Insurrection, this contact seems to have consisted of
a single phone call asking whether entrance into Israel
was guaranteed for VSB members. Of course, without a
list of the travelers available, the Israeli representative
wasnt in a position to say yes or no!
Much as Martingayle might wish that this issue would
disappear, the reverse is happening, and more layers of
complexity keep appearing. For example, it now seems
that Donald W. Lemons, chief justice of the Virginia
Supreme Court, participated in a conference call with
the VSB leadership just hours before the cancellation
was made public. Yet beneath all this intrigue, a basic
question remains: Has VSB signed up to the boycott of
Israel or not?
Sadly, the VSB leadership has refused to engage with
outsiders, including representatives of the local Jewish
community. Robin Mancoll, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Virginias Tidewater region,
told me that VSB still hasnt responded to a request for
an apology that, she added, must acknowledge that the
VSB leadership has no reason to believe that any VSB
Letters
FROM PAGE 27
Worst of all, in Palisades Park, the public library

devotes resources both inside and out to elevating the
Comfort Women issue out of all scale to the overall
events of WWII. Pre-Joy Kurland, this shameful public
library never acknowledged the Holocaust.
Last winter, following events too long to detail here,
Joy Kurland and two local rabbis traveled to the Palisades Park library. Thanks to Ms. Kurlands efforts,
the library board agreed to put up a display about the
Holocaust the federation supplied the materials.
They also hit Ms. Kurland up for a donation of books.
(My family has paid taxes on our store, our home and
employee taxes for more than 50 years, so I find this
offensive. This library can afford to buy books.)
Last fall, the library snubbed any mention of D-Day.
Last month they put up a half-hearted exhibit to commemorate the Holocaust. Will they even acknowledge
V-E Day? Dont hold your breath.
Palisades Park remains an excellent example of what
happens when history is re-written to suit a changing
population demographic. And its very scary.
So thanks Joy Kurland. Ill never forget.
Robin Katz, Palisades Park
member would be denied admission to Israel for any

improper reason, because Israel does not discriminate.
Mancoll said, We hope that VSB will take us up on
our offer to work closely with us, in partnership with
other pro-Israel communities around the state, to offer
an educational program within the next twelve months
targeted at informing VSB membership on the nefarious
nature and dangers of the BDS movement.
I hope they will too, because then VSB will learn two
things. Firstly, Legal Insurrections Professor William
Jacobson has rightly talked about the infiltration of
the BDS movement into the VSB case. At least 40 proBDS groups, all of them committed to the elimination of
Israel as a sovereign Jewish and democratic state, loudly
praised the VSBs decision. Additionally, one of the organizers of the petition, VSB member Ashraf Nubani, has
represented Hamas terrorist leaders as well as a charity with links to al-Qaeda. So what Martingayle and his
colleagues must understand is that at a minimum, VSB
has been co-opted by a virulently anti-Zionist political
agenda.
Secondly, they will learn that Israel is a normal country with heightened security concerns that affect its
entry and exit policies. Whatever half-truths the VSB
petitioners may have concocted, there is no law mandating Israeli border officials to scrutinize or bar Muslims and Arabs more than anyone else. Indeed, 250,000
Muslim and Arab visitors from countries with no relations with Israel have visited the Jewish state since 2009.
Additionally, both Israelis and Americans know from bitter experience that terrorist outrages are often committed by those entering the country as tourists. Why then,
Martingayle should ask himself, are Israels security precautions equivalent to discrimination?
This whole unfortunate episode can, I am sure, be
resolved through dialogue. Over to you, Mr. Martingayle.

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affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
Speaking out against Islamists
About ADL, Jewish Dems slam congressmen for inviting Dutch pol seen as anti-Muslim (May 1). The radical
Islamists are now beheading and crucifying Christians
in the Middle East in a Christian Holocaust, and chant
Death to Israel and Death to America every day. Geert
Wilders speaks out against these militant Islamists and by
so doing he receives death threats on a regular basis.
He is a hero who is defending the Jews and freedomloving people across the globe. Abraham Foxman and the
ADL no longer defend the Jews when they talk about living up to Americas ideals of tolerance when it comes to
these murderers.
Rosalie Greenberg, Teaneck
Saying Yizkor
I will say Yizkor on Shavuot remembering my relatives

who were murdered by good Christians in the first half of
the twentieth century. I also will remember the millions
of Jews who were slaughtered by good Christians during
the last 2,000 years (The persecution of Christians and
the moral challenge for Jews, May 1).
If Rabbi Prouser has no one to remember, he might say
Yizkor for the Jews who were randomly killed in Paris.
It is a shame that we vote for anti-Semites. It is outrageous to ask us to remember them fondly.
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Back in power, charedi parties aim

to dismantle religious reforms
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TEL AVIV Israels last governing coalition, divided on war, peace and economics, did agree on one thing: Israels religious policies had to change.
Now it appears that the incoming coalition will be organized around the opposite
principle: Those changes must end.
A coalition agreement signed last week
between the Likud party led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the charedi
Orthodox United Torah Judaism faction
promises to dismantle a raft of legislation
enacted in the last two years that chipped
away at several longstanding entitlements
enjoyed by the charedi community. Shas,
the Sephardic charedi party, signed its
own coalition agreement with Likud this
week. That will cement the power of religious parties in the next government.
Led by the upstart Yesh Atid party, the
last government passed laws to include
charedim in Israels mandatory military

draft and encourage the teaching of math
and English in government-funded charedi
schools. The government, which did not
include the charedi parties, also allowed
dozens of municipal Orthodox rabbis to
perform conversions, vastly increasing
the number of conversion courts from the
four controlled by the charedim. Other
laws cut subsidies to charedi yeshivas and
large families, many of whom are charedi.
The Likud-UTJ agreement promises to
repeal the conversion decision, increase
subsidies to yeshivas and large families,
and relieve charedi schools of the obligation to teach secular subjects. The agreement also gives the incoming defense minister sole authority to decide whether to
implement the draft law, effectively allowing him to choose not to enforce it. A UTJ
lawmaker will head the powerful Knesset
Finance Committee, while Shas will control the Religious Services Ministry, which
handles most religion-state policies.

In the last Knesset, people tried to blur
Judaism and to strengthen democracy at
Judaisms expense, said Yair Eiserman, a
spokesman for UTJ lawmaker Uri Maklev.
We have an opportunity in the present
government to strengthen Israels definition as a Jewish state.
Charedi Israelis are celebrating the
agreements as a return to a comfortable
status quo, but advocates for religious
pluralism are struggling to figure out how
to advance their cause, which has significant public backing. A September poll
by the religious pluralism advocacy NGO
Hiddush found that two-thirds of JewishIsraelis back legalizing civil marriage, and
64 percent support recognizing Conservative and Reform conversions. A 2011 Hiddush poll found that 87 percent of JewishIsraelis supported drafting charedim into
the Israel Defense Forces.
The public needs to tell its leaders what
it wants, Knesset member Ofer Shelach of

Yesh Atid said. The publics role doesnt
end with voting in the election. The public needs to make clear that if a majority of the public thinks there needs to be
partnership in IDF service and work, they
need to express it.
The draft law, which passed in March
2014 despite mass charedi street protests, aimed to right a historic imbalance
in Israeli society. Mandatory military service is a rite of passage for most Israelis,
one from which charedi Israelis had been
exempt since the states founding in 1948.
Yesh Atids chairman, Yair Lapid, touted
the law as a realistic compromise that
would equalize the burden in Israeli
society.
But the three-year delay in its implementation its toughest provisions were
not due to go into effect until 2017 made
many Israelis skeptical about whether
the law would ever have a real effect.
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Charedim argued that the law threatened

to antagonize moderates who might have
joined the IDF voluntarily. The year the law
was passed, charedi enlistment increased
only 11 percent. That was a substantial

decline from the 28 percent increase from
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Shmuel Drilman, CEO of WeBetter, a new
media company focused on charedi advocacy. Its a process, and United Torah Judaism is committed to it, as opposed to Lapid,
who just wants to fight.
When he called elections last year,
Netanyahu said he wanted to partner
with the charedi parties, which have long
protested Yesh Atids reforms. Now religious pluralism activists who welcomed
the reforms hope to forestall their repeals
through grassroots mobilization, lobbying,
and legal action. Hiddush CEO Uri Regev
hopes that Israels Supreme Court will rule
a renewed charedi draft exemption illegal,
as it did in 2012.
There will be multifaceted litigation
launched on a variety of issues, Regev
said. The coalition agreements are violating core principles of Israeli constitutional
law and any notion of equality.
But Yizhar Hess, CEO of Israels Conservative movement, said the reforms
hardly affected non-Orthodox Jews, so
neither will their repeal. The conversion
reform only expanded Orthodox conversion, keeping Conservative and Reform
ceremonies unrecognized. Yesh Atid have

focused on civil unions rather than the
draft, Hess said.
They should have been insisting on
a reform in marriage, he continued. If
there were civil unions, it would have
touched the lives of so many Israelis that
no government would have been able to
change it. Instead they dealt with things
that were marginal.
Shelach said that Yesh Atid hopes to
mobilize the Israeli public to oppose the
coalition agreements, but secular Israelis
have yet to fill the streets in protest. To
pressure the Israeli government, Regev
and Hess instead are looking across the
ocean. They hope the coalition agreements will convince American Jewish leaders, who began to organize a campaign for
Israeli marriage reform in 2013, to increase
their activism.
Hiddush plans to partner with Jewish
diaspora leadership and American leadership in pointing to the fact that these issues
are not just an Israeli concern, Regev
said. They are a matter of global concern
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Talking with Alan Dershowitz

Lawyer blames Obama for falling out with Bibi
WARREN BOROSON
ome years ago, Bibi Netanyahu

was chatting with the noted
criminal lawyer Alan Dershowitz
in Israel. He took him aside and
asked, in a whisper, So, did O.J. do it?
Dershowitz, now retired from Harvard
Law School, had joined O.J. Simpsons
defense team after Simpsons wife was
murdered and O.J. was charged with her
death.
The lawyer thought about Bibis question, then responded, also in a whisper, Tell me. Does Israel have nuclear
weapons?
Although hes been friendly with both
men, Dershowitz who calls himself a
Zionist is foursquare behind Netanyahu
in his feud with President Barack Obama.
In a recent telephone interview with this
newspaper, Dershowitz explained why he
sides with Netanyahu and answered
such questions as Why do lawyers have
such a bad a reputation? And Would he
have defended so evil a man as the Nazi
physician Josef Mengele? Or the convicted Soviet spies, the Rosenbergs?
Dershowitz is quick-thinking, funny,
Alan Dershowitz thinks President Barack Obama acted out of personal pique
toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
courteous (hearing me start to say something just as he did, he always let me go

first), and surprisingly candid. Many of
his positions are well-known: He favors a
two-state solution with the Palestinians,
has criticized Israel for its expanding settlements, endorsed Obama for president,
favors (limited) animal rights, and wants
almost complete freedom of expression.

Q. Could you have predicted a fallingout between Obama and Netanyahu?
AD: Yes. Theyre both very strong personalities, both no-nonsense types. But I
think the falling-out is almost exclusively
the fault of Obama. He has acted childishly. There may have been opportunities
for private criticism, but Obama has taken

every opportunity to publicly insult Netanyahu, either directly or through his surrogates. And its a very serious failing on the
part of Obama, and his foreign policy, to
make this issue [keeping Iran from making nuclear weapons] so personal and to
be so petulant.
Q. Can there still be a reconciliation?
AD: Between the two countries, obviously. I dont know whether there will be
any personal reconciliation.
Q. If Hillary gets elected, might she have
similar trouble with Netanyahu?
AD: Not at all. I believe that Hillary will
learn the lessons of the Obama administration. Look, any objective observer and
Ive heard this from Democrats, Republicans, and close friends of Obama
believes that hes acted immaturely toward
Netanyahu. And he has personalized it far
too much. Ill give you an example.
When Prime Minister Netanyahu said
that during the election that this is no time
for a two-state solution, and after the election he said hes still open to a two-state
solution, Obama instead of welcoming
the second point repeatedly condemned
the first point. That was just dumb. And
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Some misconceptions cleared, some questions clarified
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So many misconceptions have been
floating around about Alan Dershowitz that its hard to know where to
begin.
Accusation: He will blindly defend
Israel against any criticism whatsoever.
Actually, he has written about (for
example) the misguided continued
occupation and the wrong-headed
expansion of settlements.
Another accusation: He will defend
anyone so long as he gets a huge
fee.
Actually, he turns down lots of potential clients professional criminals, such as drug dealers and gang
leaders. And he takes on about half his
cases on a pro-bono basis (no fee).
Other things you may not know
about Dershowitz:
He helped John Lennon avoid
deportation on charges of using
marijuana in 1975. (His fee: a record
album signed by Lennon. Alas, it was
lost.)
He declined to represent the man
who killed Lennon: I didnt feel comfortable helping a defendant who had
killed my former client. He also declined to defend Yigal Amir, accused
of assassinating Yitzhak Rabin, prime

minister of Israel. One reason: He
deeply admired Rabin.
He discouraged Frank Sinatra from
hiring him to bring suit against Kitty
Kelley, who had written an unflattering
book about the singer.
Norman Mailer, the late novelist,
asked Dershowitz to represent Jack
Henry Abbott, who was serving time
for murder and who became a bestselling author. Dershowitz once asked
Abbott whether he had snitched on
other prisoners, as was rumored.
Abbott leaped across the table and
grabbed Dershowitz by the neck. The
guards rescued him, but his last words
to Abbott were: No way Im becoming your lawyer!
He was consulted by the lawyers
for Edward Kennedy after the Massachusetts senator drove his car off a
bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick, resulting in the death of a young
woman. If the full truth were to be
known, he has written, it would not
tarnish the senators well-deserved
reputation as one of the great political
figures of the last half century. (Later,
he worked closely with Senator Kennedy on various legal matters.)
He helped represent O.J. Simpson,
who never paid his fee.
He also was consulted about Angela
Alan Dershowitz was on O.J. Simpsons defense team; the football player
was acquitted, to most onlookers chagrin. Jeremy Irons played Claus von
Bulow, whom Mr. Dershowitz defended on appeal, in Reversal of Fortune.
Mr. von Bulow was acquitted.
Davis, a leader of the American Communist Party, when she was charged
with being an accessory to murder
in connection with a shootout at a
courthouse. Years later, while she was
visiting the Soviet Union, Dershowitz
wrote to ask if she would help a list
of (mainly) Jewish Soviet prisoners.
Some were charged with trying to
immigrate to Israel. Daviss secretary
called back to say that the people
on the list werent political prisoners:
They are all Zionist fascist opponents
of socialism.
Yes, he has lost cases. He was the
appellate lawyer for Mike Tyson in his
prosecution for rape, suggesting that
the young woman who had accused
him had been out for money.

Its interesting how Tyson chose
him as his lawyer. When Dershowitz
met with him, Tyson asked: What
do you think of me? Replied Dershowitz, If youre innocent, youre a
schmuck. For visiting a woman in a
hotel at 2 in the morning without any
witnesses, a woman who could accuse him of rape. Tyson turned to his
entourage and said, This mans calling me a schmuck. Hes right. I want
to know why you guys didnt call me a
schmuck. Hes hired. I need somebody
whos willing to call me a schmuck
when I am a schmuck.
The judge in the case seems to been
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Obama is very smart. So you cant explain
that on the basis of policy or intelligence.
It can only be explained on the basis of the
fact that Obama has put personal pique
ahead of national policy.
Q. What do you think of the U.S. governments recent agreement with Iran with
regard to nuclear weapons?
AD: I think its a terrible deal, and I
think the way it was negotiated put us
in an extraordinarily weak position to
either accept a bad deal or to reject it. Its
the process of negotiation that has been
so amateurish. What mostly concerns me
about Obamas foreign policy is its amateurism. It seems to be based more on
personal considerations rather than the
national security of the United States.
Q. Youve said you hope that Hillary
doesnt approve of the agreement?
AD: I hope she doesnt.
Q. Do you want Hillary elected
president?
AD: At the moment I do. I favored her

when she ran against Obama.
Q. What about Elizabeth Warren?
AD: I would not vote for Elizabeth Warren. Because she would not attend Netanyahus speech. And for me that was a disqualifying act.
Q. You object to the agreement partly
because you dont think Iran can be
trusted?
AD: Even the Obama administration
knows that Iran cant be trusted. They
think that they can postpone the inevitable, Irans getting a nuclear weapon, by
eight or 10 years. Its a change.
When President Obama called me into
the Oval Office and sat with me eyeball
to eyeball, and told me that the policy of
the United States was that Iran will never
develop nuclear weapons, I think he
meant it at that time, but that that policy
has been changed and its been changed
without the consent of the American
people or the Congress. And I think its a

terrible mistake. I think the policy should
still be that Iran should never develop
nuclear weapons. And I think this administration has now said, we shall not stop
them from developing nuclear weapons
after a period of time.
Q. Youre still in favor of a two-state
solution?
AD: I am, and I think its not only possible, but that it will happen. I think its the
only plausible result, and Ive advocated
that since 1970, well before the Israeli government advocated that.
Q. Why have you never run for public
office?
AD: Im too controversial.
Q. Have you ever been asked?
AD: Sure, when I was young. But I like to
be controversial, I like to express my views
openly and not worry about any impact
my views might have on any election.
Q. I read that you turned down Bobby
Fischer, the chess champion, as a client.

[Fischer wanted Dershowitz to represent him at no cost; but he wouldnt play
a quick game with one of Dershowitzs
young sons.] Any there any other famous
people youve turned down?
AD: Ive turned down a lot of famous
people who wanted me to do things for
them that I didnt think was in their best
interest. I never make the decision to take
a case based on someones celebrity.
Q. Would you have turned down someone like Josef Mengele, the monstrous Nazi
physician?
AD: I probably would have strangled
him before he had the opportunity to ask
me the question! Then Id need someone
else to defend me.
Q. Is there anyone in history you wish
you had had an opportunity to defend?
AD: Of course. Jesus. Imagine if a Jewish lawyer had won an acquitted for Jesus!
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avoided. No Crusades. No Inquisition! So
I would love to have defended Jesus in
front of the Roman authorities.
Q. What would your defense have
been?
AD: Free speech. He was a Reform
rabbi basically, calling for changes in
Jewish law. He said, I come not to destroy
the law but to validate it. So he had the
right to say what he said. Much evil has
been done in his name, and much good,
but Jesus himself was just a nice Jewish
boy from Nazareth who didnt like some
of the rabbis. I understand that very
well. I didnt like some of my rabbis.
Q. Would you like to have defended
the Rosenbergs?
AD: Yes, but I would have put on a
very different defense. Julius Rosenberg
was clearly guilty, and Ethel was not.
And I think I could have saved Ethels
life Im not so sure about Juliuss.
Q. Why are so many liberal Jews
against Israel?
AD: First of all, theyre not liberals.
Its radical leftist Jews who are against
Israel. Im a liberal Jew. Most of my liberal friends are supportive of Israel.
Usually its the same radical left that
hates America that hates Israel, and
often they hate Israel because Israel is
so close to America. That would be true
of [Noam] Chomsky, [Norman] Finkelstein all of them hate America, and
their hatred of Israel is derived from
their hatred of Western values. I think
that recently there have been some
liberal Jews, like J Street, who are antiIsrael but they dont admit it. Take their
position on Iran. Theres virtually no
Dershowitz
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blatantly biased against Tyson; she

refused to admit exculpatory evidence. An appeal was turned down.
In his career, Dershowitz has written, he has never seen a less fair
trial and appeal than that accorded
Mike Tyson.
Among the other people whose
defense he joined: Michael Milken,
the money manager who went
to prison; Patty Hearst, the kidnapped heiress convicted of bank
robbery and using a firearm in a
felony; Claus von Bulow, accused
of murdering his wife, Sunny; Mia
Farrow against a lawsuit brought
by Woody Allen; Leona Helmsley,
the real-estate tycoon, who (he has
written) was boring and rather
stupid, and Natan Sharansky, a Soviet dissident arrested in the Soviet
Union in 1977 on charges of spying
for the United States. (Dershowitz
may have saved Sharanskys life.)
Born in Brooklyn 76 years
ago, Dershowitz graduated from
Brooklyn College, then from Yale
Law School, where he was first in
his class. He joined the faculty of
one in a leadership position in Israel

who likes the deal. J Street supports the
deal. I dont think its fair for J Street to
call itself pro-Israel when it doesnt represent even the liberal part of the Israeli
political spectrum.
Q. Any comments on the causes of
anti-Semitism?
AD: I think that anti-Semitism often
results from jealousy of Jewish success.
I think it often grows out of hatred for
Israel for example, Muslim anti-Semitism, which is rampant in many parts
of the world. Many Muslim extremists
take the view that even if Israel were the
size of a postage stamp, it would be in
violation of Islamic law, that there cant
be even a tiny Jewish state on what is
regarded as holy Muslim land. There
are some Jewish extremists who take
the same view about Muslims, that there
should be no non-Jewish presence or
sovereignty over the land that was historically part of Israel. And I think that
both of those extreme views have to be
rejected.
Q. Another general question: Why
do lawyers in general have such a bad
reputation?
AD: Because they deserve it! Too
many lawyers are just in it for the
money and dont pay adequate attention to their clients needs. There are
just too many bad lawyers out there,
and the bar doesnt do a good enough
job in monitoring them bad lawyers,
crooked lawyers, deceptive lawyers,
lawyers who cheat their clients, lawyers
who victimize people. So I think the bar
has to do a better job.
Harvard Law School and in 1967

became, at 28, the youngest full
professor in Harvard Laws history.
He retired from Harvard in 2013.
Dershowitz has a good sense of
humor, too which helps account
for the fact that a few of his many
books, like Chutzpah, have been
best-sellers.
Hes a a secular Jew, but he and
his family observe Jewish holidays.
At one time he defended the
preacher Jim Bakker, and in gratitude Bakkers then wife, Tammy
Faye, sent him a Passover Haggadah. It had been written, as it
turned out, for use at seders conducted by Jews for Jesus.
At a Dershowitz seder, he mischievously had one guest solemnly
read from Fayes Haggadah: This
is the bread of affliction that the
people of Israel had to eat when
they fled from Egypt. Then the
reader continued: The holes in the
matzoh represent the wounds on
the body of our Savior, Jesus Christ,
who in his body was punctured
during his crucifixion.
The seder was delayed for quite
a long time, derailed by hysterical
laughter.
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WASHINGTON From roundtable discussions to protests and prayers to candid
talk with law enforcement officials, Jewish communities are joining in the debate
about community policing in the wake of
several high-profile deaths of unarmed
black men while in police custody.
Officials were short on specifics, but
several said that protests in Baltimore in
response to the death of Freddie Gray on
April 19 have sparked a determination to
confront the tensions between police and
minority communities.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs,
the umbrella public policy body, last week
called for a new national conversation
about police tactics.
At this critical time in our nations history, it is abundantly clear that a conversation not only needs to be had between law
enforcement and disenfranchised communities, particularly the African American
community, but within our own communities, JCPA President Rabbi Steve Gutow
said in a statement.
In several communities, Jewish organizations with strong ties to both the AfricanAmerican community and law enforcement see themselves as well positioned to
help bridge differences.
In Baltimore, where violent protests
led the mayor to impose a curfew on the
city for several days after Grays death,
the local chapter of Jews United for Justice
appealed to its members in the legal profession to volunteer as a legal observer,
jail care, or hotline volunteer during the
protests.
In Detroit, the Michigan Round Table,
an umbrella body for minorities in which
local Jewish groups take part, called an
emergency meeting in response to the
Baltimore protests. Heidi Budaj, the AntiDefamation Leagues regional director,

said the meeting mainly was an opportunity to share reactions to what was unfolding in the Maryland city.
These incidents are bringing to the
forefront in our discussions feelings that
may have been hidden for many, many
years, Budaj said. All of us want to
resolve any issues before it turns into Ferguson or Baltimore.
Through its various law enforcement
training programs addressing bias and
hate crimes, among other topics, the ADL
long has forged close relations with local
police departments. At its national conference here over the weekend, the ADL featured a session about police-community
relations and the organizations role in
improving them.
In Detroit, Budaj said the Jewish community is also part of a coalition, Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust, that has held monthly meetings
with area police about police brutality
and other touchy issues. The group rallied
members, including 14 rabbis from Baltimore and Washington, to join in protests
in Baltimore on May 1.
In Ferguson, in suburban St. Louis, protests following last summers shooting
of Michael Brown by a local police officer were a major catalyst for a renewed
national debate about police relations with
the African-American community.
What were focusing on is healing
whats broken and building a St. Louis that
is safe, equal, and just for all, said Batya
Abramson-Goldstein, the executive director of the Jewish Community Relations
Council in St. Louis, which helps organize
an annual 9/11 commemorative concert
that last year made reconciliation its focus.
The Ferguson protests also drew attention to the increased militarization of local
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police departments.
To suggest we need police looking
like they did in Ferguson, its outrageous, Gutow said. When you see the
blue uniform of police it should be a sign
of friendship.
The expanded availability of militarygrade hardware to local police departments coincided with a growing concern about counterterrorism following
the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. John Cohen,
who until last year was a senior counterterrorism official at the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security, said the war footing police departments adopted after the
attacks put community policing on the
back burner.
After race riots in the early 1990s,
there really was a broad and energized
movement within the policing discipline
to expand local community cooperation
focused on preventing crime, improving life, said Cohen, now a professor at
Rutgers Universitys School of Criminal
Justice, who is helping to direct a project
examining attacks on faith communities.
But after 9/11, he said, there was a shift
in priorities.
Jewish groups benefited greatly
from the shift, according to Paul Goldenberg, the director of the Secure Community Network, the security arm of the
national Jewish community. Concerned
that Jewish institutions were prime targets for terrorism, Jewish groups won
significant grant money from the Department of Homeland Security including 97 percent of all funds doled out in
2012 under the departments Non-Profit
Security Grant Program, according to a
report that year in the Forward.
Goldenberg praised law enforcement
agencies for the extraordinary amount
of time spent assisting Jewish communities. A degree of militarization was
inevitable, he said, to face terrorists at
home and abroad.
Police officers a decade ago were carrying 357s with six shots and rounds on
their belts, and they found themselves
being confronted by adversaries with
automatic weapons, Goldenberg said.
The paradigm has changed.
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intersection and then marching down Tel Avivs central Ayalon highway.
Protesters chanted slogans like Whether black or
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was rocked by unrest Sunday after a video of a uniformed Ethiopian-Israeli soldier, Demas Pakada, being
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demonstrations.
A police beating sparked the protests.
The video that triggered the Tel Aviv protests shows
Pakada holding his bicycle on an empty sidewalk. A
police officer approaches him, grabs him, punches
him, and pushes him to the ground. Pakada then stands
up and exchanges words with the officer.
Chanting on Sunday in Tel Aviv, protesters invoked
the name of Yosef Salamsa, a 22-year-old EthiopianIsraeli man who committed suicide in July. Salamsa
killed himself four months after police approached
him in a public park and accused him of breaking into
a house, then tased him before he was released. Shlomi
Salame, the deputy mayor of Salamsas coastal hometown, Binyamina, said the police broke his spirit,
according to the Israeli news website Walla.
But unlike the United States, where a series of highprofile law enforcement killings of unarmed black
youths and men have made headlines, until now there
have been no known parallel cases with Ethiopians in
Israel.
On Monday, Pakada met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with a delegation of EthiopianIsraeli community leaders.
But the protests also are responding to Ethiopians
systemic challenges.
Pakadas beating triggered protests, including one
in Jerusalem several days earlier, but it also unleashed
long-simmering grievances in the Ethiopian community. Protesters said they were troubled by lagging educational opportunities, discrimination when applying
for government jobs, and high rates of Ethiopian-Israelis in military prisons.
Israel has celebrated the approximately 125,000
Ethiopian immigrants who arrived beginning in the
mid-1980s through 2013. And Israels government has
provided a range of benefits to Ethiopian-Israelis, from
free college tuition to lower mortgage rates. But challenges remain.
Ethiopian-Israelis are overrepresented in military
prisons and underrepresented at the nations universities. And in 2012, the average Ethiopian familys income
was just over half the Israeli average.
We want to receive rights just as we fulfill our
duties, said Yosi Minyuv, 27, an Ethiopian-Israeli who
served four years in the Israeli army, including as a combat officer. Were second-class citizens. We want good
work and they block us.
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ended in violence.
When protesters Ethiopian and others first
gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday afternoon, they
chanted and held signs as police stood at a distance.
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Jewish artists Lincoln portrait

gets a brief moment in the sun
PENNY SCHWARTZ
BOSTONMost days, a little-known 19thcentury portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1895) is tucked
away in archival storage at Brandeis Universitys Rose Art Museum.
But on April 28, the deeply allegorical
portrait, painted in 1865 by the AmericanJewish artist, made a rare public appearance, the first in a decade. The painting is
the only known portrait of Lincoln by a Jewish contemporary.
The occasion was a home-turf book
launch for Brandeis professor Jonathan
Sarnas Lincoln and the Jews, co-written
with Benjamin Shapell, a collector of rare
manuscripts and historical documents
and the founder of the Shapell Manuscript
Foundation.
The rich allegorical painting, which is
reproduced in Sarna and Shapells book,
reveals the cultural milieu of Carvalho,
an observant Jew of Spanish-Portuguese
descent. Born in Charleston, South Carolina,
in 1815, Carvalho was part of a highly cultured and esteemed family, Sarna said.
The 44-by-34-inch oil painting captures a
deeply somber Lincoln, seated, gazing away
from viewers. In his right hand, he clutches
a scroll with the words from his famous second inaugural address, with malice toward
none, with charity for all. To his left, a
statue of George Washington looks over his
shoulder. To his right, beyond the folds of a
deep burgundy drape, is the ancient Greek
Cynic philosopher Diogenes, who has suddenly dropped his lamp in amazement, a
reference to his endless search for an honest man. In the far distance, the dome of the
Capitol is bathed in golden light, suggesting
an allusion to national unity.
The dramatic portrait anticipates many
themes now taken for granted, Sarna noted:
The pairing in national stature of the first
president and Lincoln, and the exaltation of
Lincolns second inaugural address, something that was not clear in March 1865, when
he delivered it.
Theres some debate about whether the
painting was completed before or after
Lincolns assassination. If it was completed
post-assassination, it echoes an earlier
work Carvahlo did of his childhood synagogue Beth Elohim, which he painted in
extraordinary detail from memory after
it burned during Charlestons great fire of
1838, Sarna said.
Carvahlo, who was living with his wife,
Sarah, and their four children in New York
City and working as a portrait artist and photographer in 1865, had an unusual career. In
1853, he joined explorer John Fremont on
his search for a western railroad route to the
Pacific Ocean. That made him the first Jew
Above, at a Brandeis event on April

28, visitors look at Solomon Nunes
Carvalhos portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
ASHLEY MCCABE, COURTESY OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
At right, Jewish artist Solomon Nunes
Carvalho, whose portrait of Lincoln is on
display.
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appointed as an official photographer for an

exploration of the American West, according to Arlene Hirschfelder, author of Photo
Odyssey: Solomon Carvahlos Remarkable
Western Adventure.
While his collection of daguerreotypes
from the expedition have been lost, the
Lincoln portrait, initially in private hands,
eventually was acquired by Justin Turner of
Los Angeles, who, with others, donated the
painting to Brandeis in 1958.
The painting was on display for years
at the American Jewish Historical Society,
when the organization was housed on the
Brandeis campus. Since AJHS relocation (it
is now in New York City), the painting has
been in storage. Sarna thanked outgoing
Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence for
arranging for the paintings display.
Its wonderful to bring it back for this
anniversary, he said, referring to the 150th
anniversary of Lincolns assassination. The
painting, he said, is an important example
of how Jews participated in the history of
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Gifts from mom that money cant buy

EDMON J. RODMAN
LOS ANGELES What gifts do our mothers give us?
Not the kind we see in the mirror. Like me, youve probably already accounted for where your eye color, nose
shape, and eyebrows that seem too close to each other
come from.
Im talking inner gifts, those money cant buy our proclivities, opinions and even character traits, called middot
in Hebrew.
One year on Mothers Day, in an 11th-hour hunt for a
gift at the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts store, I
found myself drawn to a beautiful umbrella printed with
a design taken from a painting by the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. But as I stood in the checkout line
admiring my find, I wondered: Was I buying this for my
mother or myself?
Yes, Ive seen the articles about women who are horrified to suddenly realize that they have become their Jewish mothers. But I was trying hard not to buy into that. Just
because I loved Impressionist art didnt mean I shared my
moms taste. Well, maybe a little. OK, a lot. But even so,
was that reason for panic?
One of the Ten Commandments does tell us to honor
thy father and mother, I reasoned, and in Leviticus the
order is reversed, if we needed a reminder of who comes
first. Recognizing the things that our mothers have passed
on to us I think is a way of honoring, as well as reckoning
with, their influence.
For me, the gift list begins at the supermarket. Every
time I go shopping, my mother, Pearl, is with me, even
though she died a few years ago. She was never a lover of
packaged bread, and as I push the cart down the bakery
aisle, its almost as if I hear her epithet for many of the
products she found there vile coming from the PA
system. Thus I usually frequent Jewish bakeries, where
the sound I hear is more like kvelling.
Its the same at department store sales. Even though
she wasnt particularly thrifty, when Mom found something she thought useful and stylish, the credit card came
out. As a teenager, I vividly recall her reaction when she
brought me before a sales rack of perfectly fine clothes
but I couldnt find anything to my taste. In total frustration she tossed several shirts and pants to the floor and
walked away.
Today, to make amends, I find it difficult to pass up a
sale and have a closet of tasteful yet somehow slightly offcolor and oddly patterned apparel to show for it. And in
what I believe to be a twist from the usual husband-wife
arrangement, Im the one exhorting my wife to buy things
at a good sale. Why is it that she sometimes walks away?
Mom also comes with me to shul, where she was an
unapologetic shusher. Woe to anyone talking in her
vicinity.
As an adult I feel compelled to uphold my heritage. Not
a shusher, I am more of the fish eye type or, if that is
ignored, a cold stare guy. Lets not even talk about my
reaction to your cellphone going off.
In terms of middot, Rabbi Yisroel Salanter (Lipkin), the
founder of the Musar movement, encouraged people to
work on a list of traits that includes honor, patience, and
humility. Without being exposed to his teachings, Mom
had me working on these three, as well as a few others.
Like Rabbi Salanter, tops on her list was truth, and
she definitely was one to tell it like it is, especially if she
thought you were falling short in some area or werent
coming clean about something, like What was that explosion I heard coming from your bedroom?
Mom also was big on two additional traits from the
rabbis list: cleanliness and order. In her home, every room was
dust free and every box labeled. She tried her best to mold me
in her pattern, but apparently only influenced me to go in the
opposite direction. Where she liked clear tabletops, I have stacks
of books, papers and broken bibelots. Where she had drawers of
neatly folded wrapping paper, boxes of note paper and thankyou cards, my tastes run more to stationery store in a twister.
Have I passed on any of these traits to the next generation,

my own children? A few, I hope. But isnt that what ldor vdor
is all about?
As for the art-covered umbrella, I have it now. But that day,
understanding the influences that had drawn me to it, I gave
it to my mom. Every time I open it, the umbrella reminds me
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Free-spending Miami Marlins

Sabbath-observing exec says it now makes sense
HILLEL KUTTLER
MIAMI For Joel Mael, the Shabbat-observing vice chairman of the Miami Marlins, the
teams free spending in the offseason was
wise from a financial perspective.
Signing Giancarlo Stanton, 25, to a record
13-year, $325 million contract, and fellow
outfielder Christian Yelich, 23, to a 7-year,
nearly $50 million deal were parts of a
plan to retain the clubs budding talent and
vault it into playoff contention while saving
money down the line.
But this was the Marlins, who had a track
record of dumping high-salaried players
or those about to reap riches. The Stanton
contract stunned the Major League Baseball
community.
The Marlins offseason also included
hefty contract offers to such young stars-inthe-making as pitcher Jose Fernandez, 22,
outfielder Marcell Ozuna, 24, and infielder
Adeiny Hechavarria, 25.
We assembled a group that we think has
real all-star talent on it, and the way salaries
have been going and the way the market
has been going, some of these numbers will
get even higher as you go down the road,
Mael said during an offseason interview in
the spacious office he shares at Marlins Park
with team president David Samson. Were
willing to take the risk of buying them out
of a couple of years of free agency and their
arbitration years.
Mael, 57, is neither a lifer in the game
nor a raw finance-industry professional
recruited for the sports analytics revolution. He brings a Wall Street sensibility as a
partner in two investment companies and
a career in the junk bond business. The
Marlins new philosophy involved input
throughout the franchise, he said, primarily the baseball department.

Mael spoke while visiting Miami, where
he goes twice monthly, staying in hotels,
which he prefers to having a second home
here. He lives with his family in Lawrence,
a Long Island suburb in the heavily Jewish cluster known as the Five Towns; he is
the towns deputy mayor. Mael is an active
member of the Young Israel of Lawrence,
and his four children graduated from a local
Jewish school.
Shabbat observance kept Mael from
attending the 2009 groundbreaking for
Marlins Park and from watching key games
on television over the years. Nor will he
walk to games, at home or on the road,
from nearby hotels doing so is not in the
spirit of Shabbat, he said.
Since Ive been [Shabbat observant] my
whole life. I dont find it a challenge at all,
the Boston-raised Mael said. Its a red line
I dont cross.
Last summer, his passion for bicycle riding Mael estimates logging 3,000 miles
in 2014 included a 185-mile overnight
trek from New Jersey to the Pennsylvania
camp of Chai Lifeline, a Jewish organization that assists seriously ill children. He
raised $41,888 in the charity ride, in which
more than 300 bicyclists participated. That
effort his daughter had worked at the
camp and the Marlins charitable efforts
are something we need to do as Jews and
as involved citizens, Mael said.
Hes a solid community guy, with a good
reputation and he has a World Series ring
and I dont, said Stuart Mehl, a neighbor
who rides occasionally with Mael.
On this day, Mael wasnt wearing that
Marlins 2003 World Series championship
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Joel Mael, at Marlins Park in Miami, predicts long-term success for his club.

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ring, earned soon after Jeffrey Loria

bought the team and brought Mael with
him from Montreal, whose Expos Loria
had owned. But Mael enjoyed discussing his teams quest for more jewelry.
With Fernandez, the National
Leagues 2013 Rookie of the Year, who
made just eight starts in 2014 before suffering an elbow injury requiring Tommy
John surgery that will sideline him into
this season, what youre risking ...
youre making up with the [character]
of this kid, said Mael, speaking admiringly of Fernandezs escape from his
native Cuba.
The kid is just a very, very special
person, he remarked.
As to locking up Stanton, runner-up
in the N.L.s 2014 Most Valuable Player
Award voting, Mael said, We needed to
gain credibility back in the market. He is
going to be the main piece we are putting into place, and then were going to
sign around him.
Following the Marlins championships in 1997 and 2003, though, the
organization unloaded their best, highest-salaried players.
Fans were miffed, and the lower
attendance accentuated a self-fulfilling
prophecy that Florida cannot be a baseball region. Then, within months of its
2012 move to the new, publicly funded
Marlins Park, Miami did it again, jettisoning stars like shortstop Jose Reyes
and starting pitcher Mark Buehrle.
But youngsters like Hechavarria,
obtained from Toronto in the ReyesBuehrle trade, have returned the team
to respectability. Despite opening this
season with two losses the opener

attracted a sellout crowd, and that was
followed the next night by a Passover
at the Park promotion featuring a pregame performance by the Maccabeats a cappella band the Marlins now
appear ready to contend. Last year it
finished second in the N.L. East with a
77-85 record, 15 wins more than in 2013.
The Marlins latest rebuilding plan is
brilliant, veteran baseball journalist
Mel Antonen said.
They potentially have one of the
best teams in the National League,
Antonen said. I think there should be
renewed excitement in southern Florida, because its fun to watch a young
team grow.
Mael sees things similarly.
The off-season moves were a financial decision as [much as] a credibility
decision, he said, adding that signing
up-and-comers to long-term deals carries risk, but could be much more economic over time.
With that, Mael led a visitor downstairs. The late-afternoon sun shone
through an open roof and onto grass
being irrigated by sprinklers. Mael
lifted the cover of an enormous tank
near home plate and peeked at the fish
swimming there.
He ducked into the dugout, strolled
past an indoor batting cage, and arrived
in the Marlins clubhouse. Mael turned
on the lights, darkness giving way to
empty lockers whose occupants could
soon fill the room with more victory
cheers than the Marlins have recently
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Hamas cracks down

on pro-Islamic State groups
Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that governs the Gaza Strip, has launched a widespread crackdown on pro-Islamic State groups in Gaza. The crackdown includes the deployment of masked gunmen into
Salafi extremist strongholds and the establishment of
checkpoints, the Associated Press reported.
The tensions between the two terrorist groups began
on May 3 when Hamas destroyed a mosque belonging to
a group known as the Supporters of the Islamic State in
Jerusalem. The group responded by issuing a statement
in which it threatened to kill Hamas members unless
Hamas released several men, including a local Salafi
sheikh, who were detained by Hamas.
In a statement, the Salafi group said Hamas had
demolished the mosque in a manner that even the Jewish and American occupation has not done, the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm reported.
The Salafi group added that in the light of Hamass
new behavior, we renew our loyalty to Abu Bakr alBaghdadi [leader of the Islamic state] and call on him
to strengthen his influence and to launch a campaign in
Palestine and to unite in the fight against the Jews and
their accomplices.
Ironically, the pro-Islamic State Salafi groups consider Hamas, which fought a 50-day war against Israel
last summer, as being too soft on Israel and for failing to
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Lauryn Hill bows to BDS,

cancels Israel concert
American hip-hop and R&B singer Lauryn Hill
announced the cancellation of a scheduled concert in
Israel only three days before the performance, following
pressure from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement.
Ive wanted very much to bring our live performance
to this part of the world, but also to be a presence supporting justice and peace, Hill said in a statement on
her website. It is very important to me that my presence or message not be misconstrued, or a source of
alienation to either my Israeli or my Palestinian fans.
Hill added that she would seek a different strategy to
bring my music to all of my fans in the region.
After rising to fame in the 1990s as a member of
the hip-hop group The Fugees, Hill won five Grammy
Awards for her solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998.
Pro-BDS groups have pressured many artists, musicians, and academics to boycott Israel over its policies
toward the Palestinians. But a number of prominent
musicians and bands such as Madonna, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and the Rolling Stones have rejected
those calls and forged ahead with performances in the
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Islamic State claims

responsibility for
attack in Texas
The Islamic State terror group claimed responsibility
for the shooting attack at a free speech event in Texas
on Sunday night that featured cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad, marking the first time the group has admitted to carrying out an attack on U.S. soil.
Two of the soldiers of the caliphate executed an
attack on an art exhibit in Garland, Texas, and this
exhibit was portraying negative pictures of the Prophet

Muhammad, Islamic State said in a statement broadcast on
its official radio station.
We tell America that what is coming will be even bigger
and more bitter, and that you will see the soldiers of ISIS
(Islamic State) do terrible things, the group added.
On Sunday, two gunmen opened fire at an event hosted
by the American Freedom Defense Initiative called Jihad
Watch Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, in
Garland. One security guard was wounded, and the gunmen were subsequently killed by police officers.
The FBI identified one gunmen as Elton Simpson from
Phoenix. Simpson was previously charged in 2010 by federal prosecutors for attempting to travel to Somalia for the
purpose of engaging in violent jihad. The other gunmen is
identified as Nadir Hamid Soofia, 34, from the same apartment complex in Phoenix.

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n 1 Gan Aviv Fair Lawns Dvorim class showed their

pride in Israel for Yom Haatzmaut. COURTESY GAN AVIV
n 4 Sinai students at Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy celebrated Yom Haatzmaut. COURTESY SINAI
n 2 The Anshei Lubavitch Womens Circle in Fair Lawn enjoyed a challah-baking workshop. COURTESY ANSHEI LUBAVITCH
n 5 To celebrate Israels Independence Day, students in the Paul and Shirley Pintel preschool at
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI visited a kibbutz and made orange juice. COURTESY FLJC/CBI
n 3 Seventh grade religious school students at the JCC of

Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah learned about the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies. Adults, in back
row, from left, are the schools principal, Bess Adler; Rabbi
Arthur Weiner, teacher Ellen Azizollahoff, and the director of
the JCCs religious school, Marcia Kagedan. COURTESY JCC/CBT
n 6 Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed at Five

Star Premier Residences of Teaneck on April 16. Because
many residents are Holocaust survivors, poems, songs, and
personal stories were shared. Resident Jean Strauss, joined
others in lighting yahrzeit candles. COURTESY FIVE STAR
Dvar Torah
Emor: We are not alone
ver the past 10 years, I have

attended six AIPAC Policy
Conferences in Washington
D.C. This annual gathering of
pro-Israel supporters offers an outstanding array of experiences. You hear and
meet important world leaders and key
decision makers. You learn from experts
on almost any topic affecting the Middle
East, Israel, and U.S.-Israel relations.
You marvel at demonstrations of Israeli
technology and know how. But the experience that always leaves the deepest
impression on many is the presence of
so many articulate and caring non-Jews
in the crowd and on stage.
There are
strangers among
us whom we
should not fear.
There are
strangers we
should welcome
and thank.
Yes, AIPAC does a great job recruiting
people of many different backgrounds
to attend its Policy Conference. Presidents of student bodies from colleges
around the country are recruited. African American leaders, young and old,
are recruited. Representatives of the
Hispanic community are recruited. They
come, learn, support, and contribute.
And, truly, they come not only because
they are recruited, they come because
they care deeply about Israel and the

Jewish people.
Its amazing. After six years of attending the largest annual gathering of Jews in
the Western Hemisphere, I am still most
impressed by the presence of so many
non-Jews. And I am not alone. When I
asked some of our college students who
attended what impressed them the most
about the Policy Conference, they also
said the presence of so many non-Jews.
Why is this case? Why are we so
amazed when non-Jews show love and
support for Israel and the Jewish people?
I suppose its because we Jews are convinced that we are alone. The prophecy
of Balaam has proven true. The Jews are
a nation that dwells alone Ahm lvadad
yishkon. Of course, our history has given
us good reason to feel this way pogrom,
expulsion, and Holocaust. But, the truth
is, and its an important truth, a vital
truth, we are not alone.
There are strangers among us whom
we should not fear. There are strangers
we should welcome and thank. There are
strangers among us who are a blessing.
And, of course, we Jews ask Why?
Why would a non-Jew join our cause,
support our people, defend our nation?
Its difficult for we embattled Jews to
understand. But understand we must.
For if we misunderstand their motivation, we might come to reject their help
and that would be very dangerous. The
simple truth is that we cant survive without them
Why would a non-Jew support our
cause and stand by our side. Our Torah
portion gives us an answer. Leviticus
22:18 says Eesh eesh mibayt Yisrael
oomin hager byisrael asher yakriv korbanoh When any man of the house of
Israel or of the stranger in Israel presents
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not understand. Even when
Israelites will be motivated
I am called a Jew lover in a
to worship the God of Israel
negative sense. I will continue to stand with Israel
and their offerings will be
and the Jewish people.
welcome.
Rabbi
Israel needs friends who
Non-Israelites, gerim,
Benjamin
are not Jewish and who
strangers among us, will be
Shull
can lobby Congress on her
motivated to worship the
Temple Emanuel of
behalf. Relationships matGod of Israel. I understand
the Pascack Valley,
ter. And so as long as I have
this to mean, in modern
Conservative
breath in my body, I will
parlance, that when nonalways be a friend to Israel
Jews get to know us and
and never, ever turn my back on the land
come close to us, they will be motivated
of Israel, nor the people of Israel.
by the God we worship that is, our values, our practices, our most cherished
Rev. Flowers loves Israel because he
ideals. Thus we Jews, when we are most
was a devotee of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jewish, not when we are assimilated, but
who loved Israel. Rev. Flowers loves
when we are worshipping our God, when
Israel and the Jewish people because he
we are living our highest ideals, then and
has known Jews living out their highest
only then will we be an inspiration to the
ideals by helping his community through
strangers among us, not all but many,
riots and earthquakes. Rev. Flowers loves
and those strangers will become friends.
Israel and Jews because the God he worships has an enduring covenant with
I believe this with all of my heart. We
the people of Israel, a covenant that is
Jews are most influential when we are
eternal.
living out our highest ideals. Those hundreds of non-Jewish leaders at AIPAC
Israel faces many daunting challenges
and, yes, the thousands, even hundreds
an almost-nuclear Iran, terrorists at
of thousands, even millions of non-Jewthe borders, hostile neighbors, millions
ish Zionists, Christian Zionists, Evangeliwho will undermine her very reason
cal Christian Zionist support us because
for being. AIPAC certainly does a good
they are motivated by our God.
job of reminding us of these challenges.
The following are the words of Rev.
But AIPAC also reminds us that we Jews
Kenneth Flowers, a black pastor from Los
and the Jewish state have many friends,
Angeles, who spoke at a past conference:
from powerful politicians to thoughtful young people. They are our friends,
God has ordained me as one of his
not because they want to convert us or
ambassadors to Israel and to the Jews,
undermine us; they are our friends, the
and for that I am eternally grateful. I cannot help but speak out on behalf of Israel
strangers among us, because they are
and the Jewish people because it is in my
motivated by our God and by us living
DNA. And I will continue to be a friend
out our highest ideals.
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1 Sound heard eight days after many births
2 ___ Sol: Israeli electronics company
3 Body known for its parting
4 ___ Gen: Sharons rank during the Six
Day War
5 Slow down the first plague, perhaps

6 See 24A
7 Sen. Ron Wydens state
8 Word with archaeological or Web
9 ___ Kwon Do (Sport in which Israel won
gold in the 2010 Youth Olympic Games)
10 One ___ Jump: Jazz standard frequently played by Benny Goodman
11 Toast served with chopped chicken livers

12 ___-eyed (kind of priest disqualified
by Leviticus)
13 Hotel known for the performances of

Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr., etc.
19 De Carlo who performed with Al Lewis

in The Munsters
28 First female American astronaut

33 Map close-up of central Jerusalem, say
34 Chris who starred with Ari Graynor in
21 What Leona Helmsley was in 1989

25 Cousin ___: Character along with Carolyn
Whats Your Number?

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38 Jacob and the angel did it in the break
of dawn
39 It might relieve you after listening to
a yenta
40 Deuteronomy directive
41 Bond girl player Green
42 When Tu bShvat sometimes occurs in
Madrid
43 Maker of the golden calf
44 First American female cantor
46 Optimistic comment by girl receiving
well wishes before her bat mitzvah
service
49 Mount from which Moses saw Canaan
50 Judahs second son
51 Tel Aviv vis-a-vis Haifa on a map,
poetically
55 Followers of Zion?
58 First Jewish Miss America
61 Georges lyricist brother
62 Ulan ___: Capital city nearly 5,000
miles NNE of Jerusalem
63 Herbie Flam contemporary Fraser
64 Israeli hill
65 Its apparent in some sermons
66 Where some sukkot are built
67 Not ___ (Franz Rosenzweigs answer
whether he wears tefillin)
27 Leah to Rachel, briefly

28 Ghetto language other than Yiddush
29 Technion Israel Institute of
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 55.
Joness Morticia in a 60s TV series
Technology, briefly
30 Keep the tenement rented

31 2010 Liev Schreiber movie ___ Day
32 Enjoy some schnapps
35 Feeling that motivated Eve to bite into
the forbidden fruit
36 Musk who succeeded Zeev Drori as

CEO of Tesla Motors
37 Key component at the Wise

Observatory in the Negev
39 Burtons character opposite Taylors

Cleopatra
40 Hes at your service

42 Some Brandeis grads
43 Vigoda of Barney Miller
44 First sitcom for Seinfeld
45 Like a devout persons work during
the Shabbat
46 Bernard Malamuds Natural Roy

47 Ryan of Love Story
48 Kugel ingredient, perhaps
52 Start of a decision as to who gets to eat
the last hamantasch
53 Israels is just slightly larger than New

Jerseys
54 Nicholas who introduced the Cantonist

Decrees, e.g.
56 Forbidden fruit holder

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59 A star of Joel Schumachers D.C. Cab
60 Super ___: game console featured on
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Arts & Culture
Horst von Wachter, left, and Niklas Frank at the site of a mass grave outside Zolkiew, Ukraine. Philippe Sands is in the background.
A Nazi Legacy
Two sons diverge on mass-murdering fathers
URIEL HEILMAN
ts hard not to get emotional watching the superbly rendered A Nazi

Legacy: What our Fathers Did.
But unlike many Holocaust documentaries, the overwhelming feelings arent
sadness and loss, though there are those,
too. They are exasperation and anger.
In the film, which premiered at the
Tribeca Film Festival in New York last
month, British-Jewish lawyer Philippe
Sands tells the story of two men, both the
children of high-ranking Nazi figures.
Niklas Frank is the son of Hans Frank,
Hitlers lawyer and the governor-general
of Nazi-occupied Poland. The elder Frank
was hanged in 1946, after being found
guilty at Nuremberg for complicity in the
murder of Polands 3 million Jews.
Horst von Wachter is the son of Otto
von Wachter, an Austrian who served as
the Nazi governor of Galicia (now Lviv,
Ukraine) and died in hiding in 1949 while
under the Vaticans protection.
Frank, an author and journalist, is well
known in Germany because of his controversial 1987 best-seller, The Father: A Settling of Accounts, which detailed his revulsion toward the man who became known
as the Butcher of Poland. Frank keeps a
wallet photograph of his fathers corpse
taken right after he was hanged.

By contrast, Wachter holds his own father
in high esteem, refusing to acknowledge his
role in the mass murder of the Jews, even as
Sands presents him with increasingly clear
and disturbing evidence of it.
Sands, whose grandfather is from the
area that fell under Wachter and Franks
command, and who lost most of his family during the Holocaust, narrates the story
of what happens when a sons love for his
father collides with the immutable facts of
history.
Both Frank and Wachter who knew
each other as children and have remained
friends were born in 1939. Wachter
describes an idyllic childhood shattered
by Germanys defeat in 1945. In his home,
he shows Sands a family photo album that
intersperses shots of family outings with
photos of his father and his Nazi associates. Theres his father with Heinrich Himmler, the SS military commander. Under
another photo, the scrawl reads A.H.
for Adolf Hitler.
I was transported back 70 years to the
heart of an appalling regime, but Horst
was looking at these images with a different eye from mine, Sands narrates. I
see a man whos probably been responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of
Jews and Poles. Horst looks at the same
photographs and he sees a beloved father

playing with the children and hes thinking
that was family life.
By contrast, Franks memories of his
parents are mostly bitter. The couple had
a loveless marriage, and his father wanted
a divorce. But Franks mother appealed to
Hitler, who forbade the divorce until after
the war. Hans Frank obliged.
My father loved Hitler more than his
family, Frank says.
Frank recalls visiting the Krakow ghetto
as a young boy with his mother, who went
to shop for furs because she knew the
Jews could not refuse whatever price she
named. Frank is unsparing in his assessment of his father.
My father really deserved to die at the
gallows, he says.
The film intersperses interviews with
Frank and Wachter with film and photos
from the war. Some of the archival material is astonishing, including footage of
Hitler and other top Nazis. Sands goes
with Frank to the cell at Nuremburg that
held his father until the day of his execution. The three men visit the remains of
the synagogue where Sands own family
likely spent their last Shabbat before the
Nazis, under Wachters fathers command,
burned it to the ground.
Wachter cannot bring himself to
acknowledge his fathers crimes at any

point, offering one excuse after another
and relying on vague generalities to rebut
evidence that he bore responsibility for
the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews.
For us, the facts are irrefutable. Otto von
Wachter established the Jewish ghetto in
Lviv, then known as Lemberg. He ran the
transportation that shipped Jews off to concentration camps. He passed up Himmlers
offer to return to his native Vienna, choosing to stay put and see his job through.
For Wachter, none of that is enough to
change his fundamental belief that his
father was a good man, who played but a
small part in the Nazi regime.
He was absolutely somebody who
wanted to do something good, Wachter
says. His fault was that he believed Hitler
would change his politics.
Several pivotal scenes anchor the film,
each intensifying the effort to get Wachter
to come to terms with his fathers crimes.
In one, a panel discussion with Sands,
Frank, and Wachter, the audience turns
on Wachter for his unapologetic admiration of his father. Wachter squirms in his
seat but holds firm.
In another, the three men visit the hall
in Lviv where Franks father announced
the implementation of the Final Solution
in 1942, crediting Wachters father for
his work. Within a month of that speech,
75,000 local Jews were killed.
In the third, the three men visit the killing field in Galicia where some 3,500 Jews
were shot by the Nazis, and Sands own
family members met their fate. Wachter
wanders around, maddeningly resisting
all efforts to admit his fathers culpability
in the mass murder.
There must be tens of thousands of
Austrians lying dead around here, too,
Wachter argues. I see this as a battlefield,
you see.
The film has its flaws. Were told practically nothing about Frank and Wachter
apart from the war, including what they do
for a living or anything about their spouses
or children. But these shortcomings arent
central to the narrative.
Near the end of the film, the three men
attend a memorial ceremony for Ukrainian
nationalists who fought the Soviets during
World War II. They talk with a middleaged man who wears a swastika around
his neck and tells them how proud he is of
his divisions wartime legacy.
Then they run into an elderly World
War II veteran. When the man is told who
Wachters father was, he shakes his hand
enthusiastically, telling him that his father
was a decent man.
Wachter, pained for so much of the film,
finally seems at ease. He smiles.
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Calendar
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. In
conjunction with the
centers monthly simcha
kiddush. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515 or
www.jcot.org.
Moroccan Cooking
with Merav Dahan at
Chabad of Teaneck,
8 p.m. $25. 513 Kenwood
Place. (201) 907-0686 or
rivkygoldin@gmail.com.
Thursday
MAY 14
Sunday
MAY 10
Benefit run in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades hosts its annual
Rubin Run, a familyfriendly community race.
Half marathon, 7:30 a.m.;
10K at 8:30; 5K at 10.
www.jccotp.org/rubinrun
or email rubinrun@
jccotp.org. Race day
registration available.
Breakfast, giveaways,
free babysitting, warmups, and trophies.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1412 or
mkleiman@jccotp.org.
Three-time
Emmy
nominee,
comedian,
writer, producer, and actress Carol
Leifer, is guest speaker at the
upcoming Womens Philanthropy
events in Rockleigh. The Jewish
Federation of Northern New
Jersey holds its annual spring
philanthropy lunch on Tuesday,
May 12, at 10:15 a.m. Reservations,
(201) 820-3958 or loisg@jfnnj.
org. Womens Philanthropy, a
division of the Jewish Federation
of Rockland County, hosts a
spring outreach and fundraising
event on Thursday, May 14,
at 6 p.m. Reservations, www.
jewishrockland.org/spring-gala.
Both parties are at the Rockleigh,
26 Paris Ave., Rockleigh.
MAY
12 & 14
Friday
MAY 8
Shabbat in West
Nyack: The Rockland
Jewish Academy offers
Pancakes & Pajamas
Preschool Shabbat,
5 p.m., at RJA on the JCC
Campus in West Nyack.
Email orlee.krass@gmail.
com.
Shabbat in Tenafly: The

Temple Sinai Rock Band
performs during services,
7:30 p.m. 1 Engle St.
(201) 568-3035.
Toddler program
in Tenafly: As part
of the shuls Holiday
Happenings program,
Temple Sinai of Bergen
County offers music,
stories, crafts, and snacks
for pre-k students and
their parents, 9:30 a.m. 1
Engle St. (201) 568-3035.
Saturday
MAY 9
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers services at 9 a.m.;
then congregant Barbara
Schneider moderates
a discussion, Whats
in a Jewish Name? as
part of the Three Cs
One Book One

Community climax
in Teaneck: Helene
Wecker, author of this
years Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book One
Community selection,
The Golem and the
Jinni, discusses her
book at Temple Emeth,
7 p.m. Dessert reception
follows. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 820-3904,
nancyp@jfnnj.org, or
www.jfnnj.org/oboc.
MAY 12
Tribute dinner in
Washington Township:
The Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey
honors Moe Liss at its
annual dinner at the
Bergen County YJCC,
6:30 p.m. 605 Pascack
Road. inahar@optonline.
net.
JoJo Rubach
Cooking in Tenafly:
Chef JoJo Rubach
teaches Mediterranean
Vegetarian Made
Easy at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
7 p.m. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1457.
Get rid of clutter:

Pascack Valley/Northern
Valley Hadassah says its
Time to Get Organized
with Gayle Gruenberg,
at the Bergen YJCC,
7:30 p.m. Refreshments.
605 Pascack Road.
Susan, (201) 573-8351.
COURTESY CHABAD
Friday
Decoding Judaism in
Woodcliff Lake: Valley
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi Dov Drizin
Chabad continues a sixsession course, Judaism

Decoded: The Origins
and Evolution of Jewish
Tradition, led by Rabbi
Dov Drizin at Chabad,
7:45 p.m. 100 Overlook
Drive. (201) 476-0157
or ValleyChabad.org/
AdultEd.
Moroccan cooking in
Teaneck: The Chabad
Womens Circle presents
Saturday
MAY 16
Music in Leonia: Eugene
Marlows Heritage
Ensemble performs
original compositions
and arrangements
of Jewish melodies
in various jazz, AfroCaribbean, Brazilian,
and classical styles at
Congregation Adas
Emuno, 7 p.m. Featured
band members include
Grammy Award-nominee
Bobby Sanabria and
Michael Hashim. Wine,
coffee, and dessert. 254
Broad Ave. (201) 592-1712
or www.adasemuno.org.
Comedy and theater

in River Edge: Temple
Avodat Shalom
presents a collection
of hilarious one-act
plays and surprises
from The Company
Theatre Group, 8 p.m.
Dessert reception. $18.
385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463
or Brotherhood@
avodatshalom.net.
Comedy in Emerson:
Tuesday
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El offers
confirmation services
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer and Cantor Rica
Timman, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Helene Wecker
1666 Windsor Road.

(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.
MAY 15
Temple Beth El offers
services led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman with
the Shabbat Unplugged
Band, featuring
congregants, 7:30 p.m.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
musical services, 8 p.m.
Congregation Bnai
Israel hosts three
comedians from Headline
Entertainment, Moody
McCarthy, Robyn Schall,
and Johnny Lampert,
8:30 p.m. Tickets include
two margaritas or
beers. Soft drinks and
munchies. BYO kosher
wine. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
recovered precious art

and artifacts stolen by
the Nazis during WWII.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten in
September, 10:15 a.m.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801, ext. 12.
Family concert in
New City: Rick Recht
performs at a Yom
Yerushalayim (Jerusalem
Day) family concert for
PJ Library in Rockland
County at the New City
Jewish Center, 1 p.m.
47 Old Schoolhouse
Road. (845) 362-4200,
ext. 180 or lepstein@
jewishrockland.org.
Homage to the Catskills

in Franklin Lakes:
Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey salutes
the Catskills, aka the
Borscht Belt, with a
screening of Rise and
Fall of the Borscht Belt,
2 p.m. Refreshments.
The second and third
parts of the series will be
shown in June and July.
Ice cream and popcorn.
558 High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
In New York
Monday
MAY 11
Sunday
MAY 17
Benefit walk in Wyckoff:
The Temple Beth Rishon
community hosts the
annual Murray Prawer
walk; later, congregant
Stephanie Naphtali talks
about living with MS for
20 years. All funds raised
benefit the Multiple
Sclerosis Center at Holy
Name Medical Center
in Teaneck. Registration
begins at 9 a.m.; walk at
9:45. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466.
Monument Man
speaking in Paramus:
Harry Ettlinger, the
last of the original
Monuments Men,
speaks at a breakfast
sponsored by the Mens
Club of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 9:15 a.m.
The Monuments Men
Mark Podwal
Podwal at JTS: Artist,
author, physician, and
former New York Times
op-ed illustrator Dr. Mark
Podwal discusses his
exhibit, featured at the
Ghetto Museum at the
Terezn Memorial in 2014,
at the Jewish Theological
Seminary, 7:30 p.m.
Preceded by a screening
of All This Has Come
Upon Us, a documentary
by Jaroslav Hovorka that
offers a glimpse into the
creative process behind
Calendar
Dr. Podwals artwork.
JTS, 3080 Broadway
(at 122nd Street) in
Manhattan. Reservations
and photo ID required.
Email heguzman@jtsa.
edu to register. www.jtsa.
edu.
Thursday
MAY 14
Choir at Carnegie Hall:
The 30-voice Dessoff
Chamber Choir is
featured in the world
premiere of The Ethics
by acclaimed Israeli
violinist/composer Ittai
Shapira at Zankel Hall in
Carnegie Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Concert commemorating
the 70th anniversary
of the liberation
of Theresienstadt
concentration camp.
CarnegieCharge,
(212) 247-7800 or go to
carnegiehall.org.
Singles
Saturday
MAY 9
Lag BaOmer in NYC:
JSTF (Jewish Singles
Thirty Five to Fifties)
celebrates Lag BaOmer
at 230 Fifth, the 20th
floor ballroom at 230
5th Ave., Manhattan,
10 p.m.-3 a.m. DJ
entertainment, cash
bar, dancing, snacks,
and novelties. www.
JSTFEVENTS.com.
Sunday
MAY 17
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meets for a social
get together at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m.
450 West Nyack Road.
Refreshments. $3. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meets
for fun, an original group
game with prizes, and to
mingle at Congregation
Agudath Israel, 12:45 p.m.
$10. 20 Academy Road.
Sue, (973) 226-3600, ext.
145, or singles@agudath.
org.
Middle Eastern food/

mingling in Manhattan:
YUConnects, in
conjunction with the
Yeshiva University
Sephardic Community
Program, presents Dine,
Chat, Meet, for modern
Orthodox singles, 22-32,
at the Edmond J. Safra
Synagogue, 5:30 p.m. 11
E 63rd St. yuconnects.
com/upcoming-events or
yuconnects@yu.edu.
Rabbi Saul Berman
Program commemorates
the Voting Rights Act
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the
Bergen County NAACP invite the public to a free program
commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of
the Voting Rights Act, at the Dr. John Grieco Elementary
School on Monday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m.
Rabbi Saul Berman, an active participant in the civil
rights movement who was present during the 1965 demonstrations in Selma, Ala., and Richard Smith, New Jersey
State NAACP Conference president, will speak.
The school is at 50 Durie Ave., Englewood. For information, call Natalya at (201) 227-1875.
This Jewish Home Outing golf foursome includes, from left, Paul Traub, Steve Jutkowitz, event co-chair
Warren Feldman, and Woodcliff Lake Mayor Jeffrey Goldsmith.
COURTESY JHF
Golf/tennis/card outing will bolster the JHF

The Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey holds its
21st annual Golf, Tennis, and Card Outing at the Montammy Golf Club in Alpine on Monday, May 18. This
years outing honors the centennial of the Jewish Home
Family. Howard Chernin and Warren Feldman are the
outing co-chairs, Howard Blatt is the golf co-chair, and
David Edelberg, Susan Penn, and Barry Wien are the
tennis co-chairs.
The day begins with brunch at 9:45 a.m.; golf begins
with a shotgun start at noon; and tennis is at 1 p.m.
Cards and other games, including mah-jongg and social
and A.C.B.L.-sanctioned bridge are at 12:45. Cocktails
and dinner follow at 5:30. The daylong fundraiser will
benefit the programs and services the JHF provides to
the elderly in the community.

Companies can sponsor the event or send participants. Personal support can be doubled if a company
has a matching gift program.
The Jewish Home Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-forprofit organization responsible for aiding and supporting the Jewish Home at Rockleigh, the Jewish Home and
Rehabilitation Center, Jewish Home Assisted Living,
Jewish Home at Home, and the Gallen Adult Day Health
Care Center.
For information, call Molly Shulman at (201) 784-1414,
ext. 5539, or email her at mshulman@jewishhomefdtn.
org.
Play depicts Jewish soldier

who fought for Hitler
The Mitzvah, an original
one-person Holocaust drama
conceived, co-written, and performed by Roger Grunwald, an
actor who is a child of a Holocaust survivor, tells the story of
a German half-Jew who became
a decorated officer in Hitlers
army. The play is co-authored
and directed by a Broadway
veteran, Annie McGreevey.
Roger Grunwald
It will be performed on
Thursday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Hilton Woodcliff Lake, and is sponsored by Eternal
Flame at Valley Chabad, an organization by the George and
Martha Rich Foundation and Valley Chabad committed to educating the next generation of the Holocaust.
Valley Chabad teens who have participated in the Eternal
Flame fellowship program also will be honored. There will also
be a post-performance lecture.
Tickets on sale
for Itzhak Perlman
and David Sedaris
Tickets went on
sale this week for
upcoming shows
at the Bergen
County Performing Arts Center.
David Sedaris is
appear on Saturday, October
10, at 8 p.m.,
and Israeli-born
Itzhak Perlman
violin virtuoso
Itzhak Perlman
will perform on
Sunday, October 11, at 7 p.m., as part of the
Wilmington Trust Cultural Arts Series. For
information, call (201) 227-1030 or go to www.
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Obituaries
Carmen
Esquero-Eskenasy
Carmen Esquero-Eskenasy,
ne Russo, of Harrington
Park died on April 28.
Born in Paris, she was
a Holocaust survivor and
came to New York at age
18. She was vice president
of exports for Dedeco
International Inc., in Long
Eddy, N.Y., for over 20
years before retiring.
She is survived by a son,
Alan Russo (Patricia Massimo) of Harrington Park,
nieces, and a nephew.
Donations can be sent
to the Humane Society or
the ASPCA. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Henry Hamburger
Henry Isaac Hamburger,

81, died on May 2.
He graduated from
Haverford College and
Columbia University
School of Law and was a
labor lawyer. He worked
for the National Labor
Relations Board and was in
private practice representing labor unions in New
York and New Jersey.
He is survived by his
wife, Teresa, children,
Martin, Eleanor, Susan,
and Sarah Bowman, and
six grandchildren. Donations can be sent to HOPE
Community Services, New
Rochelle, N.Y. Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels,
Fort Lee.
David Lipkin
Dr. David I. Lipkin, 82, of

Washington Township, formerly of Hackensack, died
on May 5.
He was a Cornell University graduate and received
a doctorate in dentistry
from Temple University.
He served as a captain
in the U.S. Army before
opening a dental practice
in Washington Township
in 1959. He was a trustee
and volunteer at the David
Goldberg Childcare Center
and was its Man of The
Year in 2003.
He is survived by his wife
Carol, ne Lazovick, his
children, Larry (Sherry),
Susan Stine (Richard), and

Robert (Illisa), and grandchildren, Jeff, Elana, Jared,
Sara, and Lindsay.
Donations can be sent to
Pascack Valley chapter of
Hadassah or the National
Parkinsons Foundation.
Arrangements were by
Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.
Jocelyn
Nissenbaum
Jocelyn Levner Nissenbaum, 41, of Oakland, formerly of South Fallsburg,

N.Y., died on May 4.
She graduated SUNY
Geneseo and received
a masters from Nova
Southeastern University in
Florida. She was a speech
pathologist in New York
and in the Elmwood Park
schools.
She is survived by her
husband, Eric, her parents,
Howie and Dolly Levner, a
6-year-old son, Sam; brothers, Joe ( Julia), and Jeremy,
and a niece.
Services were at Temple
Avodat Shalom, River
Edge. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Jean Robbins
Jean H. Robbins, ne
Cohen, of Fort Lee,
formerly of Newark and
Teaneck, died on April 29.
Born in Newark, she
volunteered for ORT and
Meals on Wheels.
Predeceased by her
husband of 53 years, Jack,
an original owner of J&J
Pharmacy in Teaneck, and
a sister, Ruth Baron, she is
survived by her children,

Marc (Renee), and Susan
Barish (David); a brother,
Leonard Cohen; grandchildren, Jason, Joshua (Pam),
Amy Kelly (Matt), and
great-grandchildren, Jack
and Sarah.
Contributions can be
sent to ORT, Meals on
Wheels, or a charity of
choice. Arrangements were

by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Anne Schupak
Anne Irmgard Schupak,

ne Gunzenhauser, 93,
of Coconut Creek, Fla.,
and Bergenfield died on
April 14.
Born in Germany, she

was a dental assistant.
Predeased by her first
husband, Willi Sachsendorfer, she is survived
by her husband, Irving
Schupak, children,
Judy Lempert, Edward
Sachsendorfer, Debra
Mendeloff (Gary), stepchildren, Steven Schupak,
Daniel Schupak (Barbara),

and Michele and Lenore;
and grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be
sent to Congregation Beth
Shalom, Cocount Creek,
Fla. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
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184 Johnson Ave. $479,000
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Milestones are marked

by two Fountain Spas
The Fountain Spa was one of the first pioneers to venture into the true day spa business. Each location has 24
treatment rooms, private Jacuzzis for two or one, luxurious locker rooms with steam rooms, relaxing tranquility rooms where a client can rejuvenate in serenity with
light refreshments or have spa cuisine. It offers couples
experiences with side-by-side massages, body treatments, and facials.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of its Ramsey
location, and the 10th anniversary of its opening in Hackensack at The Shops at Riverside.
In Ramsey, the celebration will take place Monday,
May 18, from 5 to 9 p.m. At The Shops at Riverside, the
celebration will be two weeks later, on Monday, June 1,
from 5 to 9 p.m.
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services, including chair massage, mini facials, mini makeup applications, mini eyelash extensions, airbrush tanning (face or legs), hair and hair extension consultations,
hand treatments, hand reflexology, foot reflexology, and
product samples.
Vendor tables will feature Botox, fillers and laser information, permanent makeup demonstrations, blood pressure and body composition, life-coaching information,
tennis camp information, and advanced performance
wellness demonstrations with RRT for relieving muscle
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There will be snacks and beverages, drawings for spa
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ZingCycle offers state-of-the-art spinning studio in Tenafly
Combining style with a killer workout, the ZingCycle studio
looks and feels like a New York City nightclub.
ZingCycle was founded by two long-time spinners, Laurie
Spiropoulos and Lior Haramaty. Realizing there was a need
for a high-end cycling studio in the area, they decided to
open their own boutique in Tenafly dedicated exclusively to
indoor cycling.
Ms. Spiropoulos brings decades of fitness experience and
knowledge to ZingCycle, including many years as a group fitness instructor, sporting events manager, and professional
organizer. Mr. Haramaty contributes over 30 years of entrepreneurship and business experience combined with vast technical and design knowledge.
The result? A modern state-of-the-art cycling studio. At
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which provides rpm and power measurements. Every rider
also enjoys plenty of comfortable space and an excellent
view of the instructor. The customized audio system features a twelve channel power amplifier and mixer. Each
loudspeaker can be balanced individually to create the perfect audio experience for each rider.
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Modern dcor, towel service, convenient parking, inviting cool down areas, and large locker rooms with showers provide top-notch service.
We wanted to create a place we can enjoy ourselves,
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We have designed an exciting and unique studio space
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amazing experience, she said.
ZingCycles website is www.ZingCycle.com and currently offers unlimited $5 classes for your first week of riding. ZingCycle is located at 145 Piermont Road in Tenafly.
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of the Jewish Federation attend
a senior prom hosted by
students at Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University was the site for
the first South Orange Senior Prom,
hosted by the advocacy group South
Orange Seniors (SOS) and the universitys Division of Volunteer Services
(DOVE) on April 12. Approximately
40 residents from Village Apartments
of the Jewish Federation and South
Orange Bnai Brith Federation House
attended the event. Both senior residences are owned and managed by
the Jewish Community Housing Corporation of Metropolitan New Jersey
( JCHC). South Orange Bnai Brith Federation House residents Nan Samons,
Peg Cinberg and Tonia Moore, who are
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who worked with the DOVE office to
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There were refreshments, dancing
and musical entertainment by singer
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a NY1 television personality; the couple
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a DJ who played tunes specially selected
by Mark Pressel, a former Broadway
musical director and resident of Village
Apartments of the Jewish Federation.
Admission was free with the donation of
a can of non-perishable food for the Our
Lady of Sorrows food bank, which is supported by Seton Hall University.
We found that older people really
wanted a social activity and without
question, the South Orange Senior
Prom filled a need in the community,
said co-coordinator, Nan Samons. It
was spectacular and everyone walked
out with a smile on their face. People

already want to sign up for next year.
The Senior Prom provided an opportunity for older adults to socialize with
their peers as well as foster a stronger
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SOS coordinators worked with Michelle
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dance. This winter, student volunteers
from DOVE shoveled out residents cars
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on its regular courses and also offers
classes specifically for area seniors.
We are thrilled to be working with
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Efforts. DOVE aims to serve our community through love and outreach. Our
collaboration with SOS has been a wonderful experience for the seniors and
Seton Hall students alike.
Samons agreed. Of the 25 or so college students who participated, she
noted that, The kids who volunteered
helped make the day; there was a
wonderful intergenerational feeling
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generated. It was just incredible. She
added that SOS hopes to continue holding intergenerational programs, either
with Seton Hall or with Columbia High
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