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The return of Steven Colbert
l Even in his new for-

Singing the RCA blues

l Orthodox Jewish feminists have been

the target of much criticism in their

community over the years.
They have responded by studying
more Torah, redoubling their
dedication, and forming organizations
like the Jewish Orthodox Feminist
Alliance.
They have not, however, argued their
case in song.
Until now.
This week, in response to a resolution
by the Rabbinical Council of America
opposing the ordination of women (see
our stories on page 8), Talia Lakritz, a
senior at Barnard College, composed a
protest song.
Dear RCA is not only the first
protest song on behalf of Orthodox
Jewish feminists, it is also probably the
first protest song directly responding to
a resolution by any Jewish organization
on any topic.
I had a lot of fun writing it, Ms.
Lakritz said. It was cathartic for me.
Ms. Lakritz wrote the song and
posted it to YouTube, from there it
made the rounds, via Facebook and
Twitter.
Musically, the song owes more to
soaring Disney ballads than to Pete
Seegers straight-ahead protests.
Lyrically, it quotes from the resolution
setting the standard for all future
organizational resolution protest
songs only to mock it. In a nod to a
characteristic of protest songs noted
50 years ago by Tom Lehrer, its not
afraid to put a couple extra syllables
into a line. Most compelling, it puts
to music and a complex rhythm the
question that all JOFA asked when it
heard of the resolution: Why now?
Why this? Is it really a crisis / When
there are women waiting for a get?
Ms. Lakritz is a native of Wisconsin,
where she graduated from the Torah
Academy of Milwaukee High School, a

girls-only strictly Orthodox institution.

Majoring in English and creative writing
at Barnard, she is interning this year
at Yeshivat Maharat, which ordains
Orthodox women and is a target of the
RCA resolution.
The song, though, was strictly her
idea.
They did not put me up to this, she
said.
But it was her first-hand encounter
with the women studying for ordination
that fueled the song.
Im inspired every day just being
around them, she said. I see how
incredible these women are and the
impact they make.
Given her experience, the RCA
resolution was upsetting though also
sort of comical. It so did not reflect the
reality of what I see. And when I have a
lot of thoughts about something, I put
it into a song.
Ms. Lakritz said theres no
contradiction between being a
feminist and being Orthodox. Ever
since Ive discovered what feminism
was, I proudly called myself a
feminist, she said. Ive always been
Orthodox. Coming to Barnard is where
I discovered Orthodox feminism.
Feminism enhances my relationship
to Judaism and God and the Torah
learning Ive been able to do because
of the feminists who fought for me to
learn at advanced levels.
I am not angry at Orthodoxy as a
whole; I just want more. I want to be
more involved. I want to do more.
She now has no plans to study to
be a maharat herself, though shes not
willing to rule it out altogether down
the line. As for us, were going to send
her the 40-odd resolutions the World
Zionist Congress approved last month
in Jerusalem, and hope that the spirit
moves her to the piano once again.
Larry Yudelson

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the star of The Late
Show with Stephen
Colbert cant shake his
New York yiddishkeit.
Talking about
Reynoldsburg, Ohio,
which this year
decided to hold
trick-or-treating on
Thursday night
which fell on October
29 the Catholic Sunday school
teacher riffed:
Whats your problem,
Reynoldsburg, Ohio? Thursday?
Really? Why? Halloween falls on a
Saturday this year. The only people
who have to trick or treat on Thursday
are Orthodox Jews trying to get

their candy before Shabbos. Thats

it. Reynoldsburg, why cant you wait
until October 31?
Reynoldsburg is in central Ohio and
probably a couple hours drive from
both Cleveland and Cincinnati and
probably the closest Orthodox Jews.
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Trumps Twitter twaddle

l Choosing a president

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America is supposed to
be a serious business.
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that is not always the
case.
The most recent
intersection of the 2016
campaign, the absurd,
and the somewhatJewy came this week.
It concerned Donald
Trumps Twitter page.
It seems the Donald retweeted
and then quickly deleted an image of
a Nazi flag alongside a photograph
of fellow Republican presidential
candidate Jeb Bush.
The image, a collage that the real
estate mogul retweeted to his more
than 4.5 million Twitter followers,
also featured an image of Bush in a
sombrero, standing next to a cactus.
This was retweeted by Mr. Trump
like hundreds of others. He did not
see the accompanying image, and
the retweet has since been deleted,
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promises to make America great
again.
In July, Trump was criticized for
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flag with his face superimposed over
the stars and Nazi soldiers featured
in one of its stripes. In August, he
fired one of his Jewish advisers for
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Noshes

#Prophecy fulfilled: water coming from

between the cracks of the Western
Wall #WesternWall
Twitter post from Disclose.tv web site, after water leaking from a burst pipe on
the Temple Mount was briefly mistaken for the miraculous messianic fountains
promised by the books of Joel and Zechariah

THREES A CHARM:

Brooklyn is new
but Bonds back
and so is Peanuts
The Peanuts
Movie is the fifth
theatrical film
based on the beloved
comic strip characters,
but the first to be
released since 1980. (We
all know the TV specials.
They began airing in
1965.) The new film
seems to be mostly a
reboot or retelling of
stories that weve seen
before in Peanuts
movies and specials.
Snoopy once again will
joust with the Red
Baron, while Charlie
Brown tries to win the
affection of the Little
Red-Haired Girl.
Charlie Browns voice
is provided by NOAH
SCHNAPP, 11. This handsome young fellow made
his big screen debut
in a small role playing
Tom Hanks son in the
STEVEN SPIELBERG film
Bridge of Spies. Noah
told AOL Online: Working with Mr. Spielberg
was just such an amazing
experience. He was always jumping in helping
me. Job offers are now
pouring in, and Noah
will appear in an upcoming Netflix series. When
AOL asked him who is
his favorite Peanuts
character, Noah replied:
Charlie Brown, because
hes the character I play
and hes so unique because he never gives up.
Most people in life, when

theyre frustrated, they

just give up.
Schnapps parents are
both Montreal natives,
and the family, including his twin sister, now
live in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Noahs father, MITCHELL SCHNAPP, a 40ish
hedge fund manager,
was interviewed with
Noah, and he told AOL:
My biggest concern
and my son is laughing right now is his
schoolwork, and Im on
top of him day and night
making sure were not
falling behind and maintaining good grades.
Noahs mother, KARINE
PEREZ SCHNAPP, 40ish,
is of Moroccan Jewish
background. Shes a senior marketing VP at the
fashion company Hugo
Boss.
Another handsome thespian,
EMORY COHEN,
25, the son of two New
York City public school
teachers, co-stars in the
1950s immigrant drama
Brooklyn. This film got
universal raves at the
Toronto Film Festival and
Variety headlined its
review this way: Saoirse
Ronan shines, but
relative newcomer
Emory Cohen is the true
breakout in this tale of a
young woman torn
between two men on
opposite sides of the
Atlantic. Ronans

Noah Schnapp

Steven Spielberg

Emory Cohen

Sam Mendes

character, Eilis, is a poor,

mousy Irish girl who
moves to Brooklyn to
study accounting and
earn money. In America.
Shes swept away by an
Italian-American plumber
(Cohen) with a zest for
life. A death requires a
return trip to Ireland,
where Eilis realizes how
much she missed home,
and that she can get a
good Irish job with her
accounting certificate.
Then a local guy courts
her. What will she do?
Brooklyn is opening
in limited release on November 6, but the stellar
reviews almost guarantee it will open near you.
When a top media outlet
like Variety compares

Cohens character and

performance to Marlon
Brando in A Streetcar
Named Desire well, to
quote the late ARTHUR
MILLER, Attention must
be paid. To be clear, Variety noted that Brooklyn is not as well-written
as Streetcar, and that
Cohens character is a lot
nicer than Brandos. Still,
the review is an amazing
tribute to Cohen, whose
best known role to date
was playing DEBRA
MESSINGs son in the
short-lived Smash TV
series. He may well be
the first actor named
Cohen to become a film
star.
Director SAM
MENDES, 50, got

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Jenna gets serious not

Yes, according to reliable sources, aged porn star
Jenna Jameson will be the subject of an Israeli TV reality show that features her conversion to Judaism before
her marriage to Los Angeles-based Israeli jeweler LIOR
BRITTON, 41.
Britton was convicted of serious insurance fraud in
2010, so its hard not to wonder if this whole relationship is mostly about free publicity for both. I have no
doubt that the conversion process will take place in Los
Angeles.
The Israeli government website about conversion to
Judaism in Israel says that 400 to 500 hours of theoretical classwork are required, and I cant imagine Jameson
doing that. Only a serious documentary maker would follow a potential convert for the three years it takes most
Israeli conversions and thats an odyssey Id like to see
on film.
N.B.

the directing job on the

Bond movie Skyfall
after a chance party
conversation with Bond
star and fellow Brit
Daniel Craig (who is now
married to RACHEL
WEISZ, 45, who once
dated Mendes). Skyfall
was a critical hit and a
huge box office smash,
so Mendes was asked to
make the next Bond
movie, which he finally
agreed to do. The new

film, Spectre, involves

Bond fighting the
nefarious Spectre
organization. The main
villain is played by
Austrian Christoph
Waltz, the two-time
Oscar winner who is
great at playing villains.
Waltzs ex-wife is an
American Jew and their
three children were
raised Jewish. Hes said
he almost became
N.B.
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Rhoda Mendelowitzs good name
Longtime Yavneh educator, early childhood specialist, died last week
ferociously wanted an education. When
her children were young, she earned a
bachelors degree and then went on to
earn three masters degrees. In the mid1960s, at the same time that she continued to pursue her education, she started
teaching at Yavneh. In time, with her early
childhood credentials in hand, she created and directed the early childhood program there, Dr. Prouser said.
I think this was a way of proving herself, Dr. Mendelowitz said. For many
years, she was a rebbetzen. Her husband
had been a pulpit rabbi from the 1950s

JOANNE PALMER

hoda Poplack Mendelowitz of

Teaneck, who died on October
29, hadnt taught at the Yavneh
Academy since she retired in
the late 1990s, but youd never know that
she wasnt there still, her son, niece, and
nephew all reported.
As soon as they heard that you were
related to Miss Rhoda, everyone would say
that theyd had her as a teacher, or their
children had, her nephew Moshe Horn
said. Shed taught hundreds of kids. She
was like a football coach, very intense,
larger than life.
If you said, I am related to Miss Rhoda,
you suddenly became special, Mr. Horns
sister, Dr. Ora Horn Prouser of Franklin
Lakes, said. (Dr. Prouser is the executive
vice president of the Academy for the Jewish Religion in Yonkers; she is married to
Rabbi Joseph Prouser of Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey.) There was always someone in the room who had been in her class,
or whose kid had, and they all loved her.
It was unusual. She made every kid and
every parent feel that they were important. She didnt let things go. She believed
that every child was important. Every kid
mattered.
Ms. Mendelowitz believed so strongly
in education, her family hypothesized,
because she had to earn it for herself.
She was born in 1929, the youngest of
four children in a proudly Orthodox family, in Seattle. Her father, Rabbi Abraham
Poplack, who had been a student at the

rigorous Slobodka Yeshiva in Lithuania,

was responsible for starting one of the
first yeshivot, her younger son, Dr. Alan
Mendelowitz, said. Her brothers went
to Brooklyn to go to school, and eventually the family which included her sister, Pearl Poplack, who went on to marry
Isaac Goldin and was the mother of Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin of Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood all moved east. But,
as Dr. Mendelowitz said, my mother was
absolutely beautiful, and her father told
her, You dont need to go to college. Youll
have no trouble finding a husband.
She did find a husband Rabbi Samuel
Mendelowitz and had two children,
Mark, a lawyer who died of cancer in 2012,
and Alan, a psychiatrist but she also

She was an
interesting mix
of very serious,
very direct, and
also wacky and
very funny.
until 1973; the last synagogue he headed
was in Ridgefield Park, where the family
then lived. His career traced the relationship between the Orthodox and Conservative worlds as they hardened the borders between them, which once had been
far more porous. Rabbi Mendelowitz, an
Orthodox rabbi, led a Conservative congregation until the movements decisions
about egalitarianism propelled him out.

Thats when the family moved to Teaneck.

And thats when Rebbetzen Mendelowitz
became Miss Rhoda.
Ms. Mendelowitz had firm opinions on
everything, Mr. Horn said, and she was
never afraid to weigh in on anything. She
was goofy and funny, into health and fitness well before anyone else was. She was
jogging in the 1960s. She eventually developed Parkinsons the disease that killed
her and I think that her Parkinsons
had the longest course ever. Twenty-three
years. I think her fitness level was a major
reason for that.
She was an interesting mix of very serious, very direct, and also wacky and very
funny, Dr. Prouser said. I think thats
what made her such a very good early
childhood teacher. She could think deeply
about what she was doing, and also sit on
the floor, and march around waving her
arms and singing silly songs.
She had real challenges in her life, and
she was strong and dignified.
A story that her aunt had told her
decades before stuck with Dr. Prouser,
and resonated more and more as she grew
older and understood more, she added.
She told me that she was in contract negotiations at Yavneh, and she said, I really
wanted risers on the stairs at the back of
the stairs, so that people, particularly little
kids, wouldnt fall through them. So I put
it in my contract that they had to do that.
I said, Really! You really want to do
that? You really can do that? And she said,
Ora, I do that at every contract renewal. I
think of something I want for the school.

Rhonda and
Rabbi Samuel
Mendelowitz at
their wedding;
years later, at a
party, and with
their sons, Mark,
left, and Alan.

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Local
Dr. Prouser also remembers
as well.
that her aunt took her shopping
My childhood memory of her
before she started her first job as a
was of someone who was very put
teacher, at the Jewish Theological
together, he continued. Very
Seminary. She bought me clothes,
professional. But you know how
because she said she was worried
childhood memories often are not
that I would go to teach in jeans
accurate.
and a T-shirt. It was her way of sayWhen I moved to Bergen
ing, I am proud of what you do.
County, in 1984, I began hearing
She always used her full self,
about my aunt. She really was a
Dr. Prouser concluded.
powerhouse. In the end, my childhood memories ended up being
My mother lived by principles
true. They ended up being who
Judaism, family, and having a shem
she really was.
tov a good name, her son said.
Its funny, Rabbi Goldin
You had to think about the way
added. When her children and
people saw you. Miss Rhoda that
grandchildren talked about her,
was her shem tov.
they said she was a short lady.
Her mark on Yavneh was indelible, he added. One of the princiPetite. I was surprised I never
pals there said, I have been there
Ms. Mendelowitz, who loved costumes, was Dorothy for Purim; dressed as a flag, she joined
thought of her as short, because
Yavneh students on Fifth Avenue for a Salute to Israel parade.
20 years, I did not overlap with
she was such a presence. When
your mother, and there has not
she walked into a room, she took
been a week when her name did not come
different, and is to be treated as a unique
it over. Talking about her as short it just
them on the phone, and talked to them.
up, he reported.
and individual person, a complete one-off.
did not compute.
Both times, the kid got off the phone smiling beaming and they never had any
He told a story that he had heard from
She felt responsible for every family, to
Moshe Horn tells a story about his aunt.
problems not wanting to go to school
two parents about two children the
every kid, he said.
I must have been in seventh or eighth
again.
same story, he said; his mother might have
Rabbi Goldin always knew, from the
grade, and I remember that I was at home.
Dr. Mendelowitz has no idea what his
worked the same miracles more times.
time I was a child, was that my aunt really
She called my mother they were sistersmother said to each child most likely
Two educators who both had their kids
was an extraordinary person, he said.
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something different
to each,
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Orthodox debate women rabbis

Local leader explains controversial RCA resolution
LARRY YUDELSON

abbi Shalom Baum didnt want to have this

conversation this week.
Rabbi Baum, who heads Congregation Keter
Torah in Teaneck, is president of the Rabbinic Council of America, the organization of Orthodox
rabbis that last week passed a resolution reiterating the
groups opposition to accepting women in the Orthodox
rabbinate.
Rabbi Baum doesnt disagree with the resolution, per
se. But he didnt see why the RCA and its more than 1,000
members should make an issue of it right now. Its the
time to be more positive as opposed to reinforcing old
positions, he said.
However, Rabbi Gil Student, originally of Teaneck, had
other plans.
It was Rabbi Student, who runs the Torah Musings blog
and by day works for AIG, who brought the resolution up
for a vote. Generally speaking, the organizations resolutions come to the membership after being approved by
a resolution committee appointed by the organizations
president. Three such resolutions passed last week by

large margins, respectively opposing racism in America,

boycotts against Israel, and the withholding of a get, or
Jewish divorce.
The resolution against women rabbis, however, came to
a membership vote through a little-used clause in the organizations bylaws that enables a member to offer a resolution if it has 50 supporters. Rabbi Student felt compelled
to bring this one to a vote because earlier resolutions had
not stopped Orthodox support for ordaining women.
The vote was closely contested, but RCA officials
declined to give the breakdown, citing the confidentiality
of internal proceedings.
If we still believe what we unanimously approved in
2010, we need to restate it, Rabbi Student emailed to the
RCAs private mailing list. There is a growing buzz to the
contrary, in favor of women rabbis in various forms.
He added: To my knowledge, two RCA members
currently have wives studying in Yeshivat Maharat, the
seminary founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss to train Orthodox
women for religious leadership.
To date, more than a dozen Orthodox women have
been ordained by Yeshiva Maharat in New York and other
institutions in Israel. Some of these women have taken the

The Rabbinical Council of America held its most

recent annual meeting in Tarrytown, N.Y., in July.

RCA

title rabbi; others have taken maharat, an acronym for

the Hebrew words meaning a leader in Jewish law, spirituality, and Torah.
Rabbi Students letter was countered by others, who
opposed the resolution as needlessly repetitive and
negative.
Perhaps the most eye-opening email against the resolution was signed by three people whose jobs make them
among the heavy hitters in Orthodox communal politics:
Rabbi Kenneth Brander, a top Yeshiva University vice
president; Rabbi Menachem Penner, dean of YUs rabbinic

Orthodox groups respond to the RCAs statement

JOANNE PALMER

hen the Rabbinic Council of America issued

its statement on women rabbis last Friday
afternoon, soon before Shabbat started,
a range of Orthodox groups, representing
that worlds full spectrum, responded to it before the workweek began.
Judy Heicklen of Teaneck is the immediate past president of
JOFA the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance.
The RCAs message is confusing, Ms. Heicklen said. They
dont want women rabbis, but at the same time they support
womens advanced learning programs, and their continued
work in the community. But they dont want anyone to give
them jobs as rabbis.
It seems funny, that focus on the name. Its not saying that
women cant be scholars, that women cant be learned. Its
saying they can do that, but dont ordain them!
We are puzzled by the red line being the title rather than
the activity.
The boundary that theyre trying to draw is very gray, she
added. And its confusing. A lot of RCA congregations have
had interns or scholars in residence or who have had pastoral duties, comforting mourners, counseling brides. Which of
these activities crosses the line?

They seem to be trying to continue to support the programs that they think are okay but while they give women
education, they dont give them power.
About 15 years ago, in his book Jew vs. Jew, Samuel Freedman predicted a split in the Orthodox world, Ms. Heicklen
said, and that split might be on its way. He predicted it
around womens issues, and whats been added into the mix
since then is the visibility of gender issues, she said. Particular with younger people, who are more comfortable with
sexual and gender fluidity, people who grew up Orthodox and
are very comfortable in the tradition. Those are the two issues
that make them say I cant buy into it.
So yes, this might be leading to a split.
As to the RCAs statement, she wondered about what the
organizations endgame might be. Do they think that they
will force a split, and then the people who split off will fade
into nothingness? Or do they think that this will scare people
into coming back? I dont know.
She is puzzled about the timing as well, but she thinks that
the only thing that has changed now is the number of women
ordained. Six from Yeshivat Maharat, and two institutions in
Israel Midreshet Lindenbaum and Midrash Harel also
ordained women as well, she said. Moreover, the women
ordained by Yeshivat Maharat were free to choose their own
titles, and a number of them chose rabba or rabbi or rav.

Rabba Sara Hurwitz, right, is the dean of Yeshivat

Maharat in New York. Since its founding in 2009, the
school has ordained 11 Orthodox clergywomen.

URIEL HEILMAN

That means that in one year we tripled the number of

ordained Orthodox women, Ms. Heicklen said. That might
have pushed the RCA into saying something.
The International Rabbinic Fellowship, which represents the branch of modern Orthodoxy often called open
Orthodoxy, also put out a statement, in which it celebrated

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for the Jewish Future.
YU does not ordain women as rabbis. Institutionally,
it is pitted against Rabbi Weisss more liberal Orthodox seminary, Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, which accepts
only men, but whose leaders have mused about opening its doors to women.
According to two members of the RCA familiar with
Rabbi Students petition and the internal email discussions, the bulk of the support from the resolution
did not come from rabbis holding synagogue leadership positions, but rather from rabbis whose jobs do
not put them in touch with the concerns of the wider
community.
Myself and most of the officers didnt feel it would
be a productive resolution, Rabbi Baum said, pointing to the negative outcry with which it was greeted.
He said that while there may be a few rabbis within
the RCA who support womens ordination and some
who are undecided, the overwhelming sentiment of
the organization is against rabbinic ordination.
Personally, I dont really see what was added by
this resolution, he said. The supporters said it adds
that women should not be hired into a rabbinic position. I think that was already implied.
Rabbi Baum said he does not expect the resolution, which it is now his responsibility to enforce, will

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scholars but did not address the question of whether they
could be ordained as rabbis. Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot of
Teaneck, who heads Congregation Netivot Shalom, is an
active IRF member.
The statement is to reaffirm a number of statements
weve made in the past, celebrating womens leadership
and learning, and encouraging people to expand those
opportunities as well as to celebrate the growing participation of women in the Orthodox community in religious
life, and their growing participation in spiritual leadership, he said. (The online statement includes links to a
number of earlier ones.)
It affirms things weve written before, he added. It
doesnt go into detail. It doesnt talk about titles. Thats
not its purpose. And given that there are those who are
criticizing the growing participation of women as spiritual leaders in synagogues and schools, we thought it was
important to reaffirm our support for it.
We think its a blessing for the Jewish people.
When pressed on the question of calling women rabbis,
Rabbi Helfgot pointed to text on the groups home page,
internationalrabbinicfellowship.org. The IRF is a group
of Orthodox Rabbis, Clery and Spiritual leaders it
reads. Its members include both men and women, Rabbi
Helfgot noted.
The RCAs statement was regrettable, he added. I
think that many people, both inside and outside the RCA,
think that, but the statement is the RCAs own internal
matter.
We are not attacking anybody. We are not criticizing
anybody, he said. We are affirming.
Does he think that this is an issue that will cause a
schism in the Orthodox world? I dont think so, and I
hope not, he said.
Meanwhile, Agudath Israel of America issued a document that disassociates itself from the IRF very clearly.
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Learning from those who dont get cancer

A conversation with the head of Hebrew U.s Lautenberg research center
LARRY YUDELSON
In a laboratory overdue for a remodeling
on the outskirts of Jerusalem, there might
be a cure for cancer with the late Senator
Frank Lautenbergs name on it.
Or more likely there is not. You can
never tell with cancer research.
Theres no way to predict what will
happen in basic cancer research in another
two years, said Dr. Eitan Yefenof, head of
Hebrew Universitys Lautenberg Center
for Immunology and Cancer Research. It
will depend on the data that will be accumulated in the next two months.
Dr. Yefenof earned his doctorate in
tumor immunology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He was in New Jersey
last week as part of a fundraising drive; his
center hopes to relocate to renovated and
more spacious quarters if it can come up
with the funds.
Mr. Lautenberg put his name on
the center long before becoming
senator in 1982. Dr. David Weiss,
who came from Berkeley to Jerusalem to head the center back in
1967, was married to Mr. Lautenbergs first cousin, Judy. The family connection led to the funding.
We are very proud of the affiliation, Dr. Yefenof said. Its a big
honor and pride to have his name
on his center. During his trip, Dr.
Yefenof met members of the Lautenberg family. They pledged to
help us both financially and morally, he said.
Besides running the cancer center, Dr. Yefenof teaches immunology and cancer biology at Hebrew Universitys medical school
Our field is extremely dynamic, he
said. I tell my students that in another
ten years a large part of what Im teaching
wont be relevant any more but I dont
know which part. Scientific progress in
biological studies means you throw away
all dogmas and create new ones that will
exist for another 15 or 20 years.
When he decided to study cancer in the
early 1970s, it was believed that cancer
was caused by a virus. Thats why he specialized in immunology.
It turned out that wasnt the case.
The bottom line is that most cancers
are not caused by a virus, but viruses can
teach us an important lesson about how
cancer cells behave, Dr. Yefenof said.
Both cancer cells and viruses need to protect themselves from the same defenses of
the body and use the same strategy.
There are no shortcuts, he said. You
have to do all the investigations. If you
have a theory that is based on the evidence, you have to study it. The truth is
10 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Dr. Eitan Yefenof and associates at Hebrew Universitys Lautenberg Center for
Immunology and Cancer Research discuss their findings. Dr. Yefenof, inset, with
the late Senator Frank Lautenberg.

that 20 percent of cancer is caused by a

virus. The hepatitis B virus can create
chronic inflammation, which will lead to
cancer. It took years to find that out.
The center and its nine laboratories are
particularly focusing their research on the
bodys natural defenses against cancer.
One of three individuals today dies
of cancer. That figure has not changed
since the 1970s. In focusing on why people get cancer, we ended up knowing so
much about cancer genes and how cancer
develops and gaining little benefit to the
patient. We figured out that we should ask
why two out of three of us remain cancer
free.
All of us have cancer genes that can be
easily activated. Why do we not all die of
cancer at a very young age? It we means
we have robust protection abilities.
We are now turning our attention to
the two out of three that remain cancer
free. What are the normal mechanisms
that prevent them from getting it? Then we
can translate that back to cancer patients.
We have found a number of factors.

There is a set of white blood cells that

are called NK lymphocytes that are natural
killer cells, he said. Their job is to circulate in the blood. They dont touch normal
cells. When they see a dangerous change in
a cell, they will find it and kill it.
These natural killers attack cells infected
with viruses and cells that have become
cancerous.
One group of Hebrew University
researchers identified the receptors on
the NK cells and the molecules that those
cells use to identify an infected cell. With
this information, its possible for scientists
to create NK cells trained to recognize the
proteins of cancer cells they otherwise
would miss. It turns out this has important implications for other diseases, like
juvenile diabetes, Dr. Yefenof said.
In type 1 diabetes, we found that those
natural killer cells are recruited into the
pancreas by an unknown mechanism
to kill the cells that make insulin. When
it comes to cancer, we want to enhance
the activity of natural killer cells; when it
comes to autoimmune diseases, we want
to inhibit them.
Learning to suppress the natural killer
cells wouldnt help just people with diabetes it could help women who repeatedly miscarry because their immune
systems attack the fetus. And it could
lead to a targeted replacement for the

immunosuppressive drugs taken by transplant patients.

From one perspective, this has taken
him far afield from his youthful desire to
cure cancer.
Thats the reality we have to cope with
when we do science, he said. Its done by
way of serendipity. The music of science
takes us from disease to disease.
The tools of science have changed over
the course of Dr. Yefenofs career. When
I was a young scientist, all we had and
all we needed was a microscope and an
incubator to do some tissue culturing, he
said. Today we have flow cytometers and
genetic manipulations and of course stem
cell technologies. We master all of them
but we are dependent on equipment that
needs to be operated.
And the equipment needs space
which brings Dr. Yefenof to the hopedfor upgrade of the Lautenberg Centers
facility.
We need to integrate all the new technologies that did not exist in the 60s,
when his laboratory space was built. The
new space will also make the center more
attractive to young scientist. Its two new
labs can help attract young researchers.
The center, Dr. Yefenof said, has been
promised that if we continue to recruit
outstanding individuals, we will get to add
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Duduaim, Destiny
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Presentation by
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Monday
November 16, 2015
7:30 pm

Shani
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The Miriam and Daniel Michael Distinguished
completed
Speakers Series was established to provide Frisch
a B.A. and M.A.
students with opportunities to enhance their
in Tanach and Talmud
at Bar-Ilan University. She is
understanding of Jewish thought through exposure to
currently pursuing her Ph.D in
renowned Jewish scholars of a variety of disciplines. The
Tanach while serving as Ram and
Speakers Series, open to students and their families,
coordinator for Tanach studies in
Midreshet Lindenbaum. She also
seeks to inspire intellectual and religious growth in
teaches collegiates and adults at
its participants, by facilitating greater
MaTaN, Sha'alvim for Women, Migdal
thoughtfulness and reflection of the great
Oz, Midreshet Torah VeAvodah, and the
ideas of the Jewish tradition. Leading
Womens' Batei Medrash in Efrat and
Ramat Shilo. During the summer she serves
thinkers will discuss contemporary
as director of the Womens Beit Medrash
issues in an effort to advance
Program in Camp Moshava, Pennsylvania.
the Jewish future in the
Shani is a graduate of Nishmats Keren Ariel
modern age.
Program for certification as a halachic advisor in
issues of family purity law. She lectures throughout
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religious council dealing with issues of Jewish law and
education. Shani lives with her husband Reuven,
and six children in Alon Shvut, Gush
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Jersey elders in the Old City

Jewish Home Family takes elderly residents to Israel
Abigail Klein Leichman
Harold Cohn is 87 and in fragile health. But
when he was wheeled across the ancient
cobblestones to the Western Wall the
Kotel in Jerusalem, he asked to be helped
from his wheelchair so he could stand at
the holy site and kiss its worn stones.
Isnt that why were doing this, for
him to have that opportunity? said Carol
Silver Elliott, president and chief executive officer of Jewish Home Family, as she
described the emotional scene at dinner
that night in Jerusalems Dan Hotel.
It was Day 7 of the first Jewish Home
Family Centennial Mission to Israel, which
ran from October 19 to 28 and brought a
contingent of 20 to Israel. That included
seven men and women from the Jewish
Home facilities in Rockleigh and River
Vale, 11 staff members, and two
spouses, including Ms. Elliotts
husband, Tom, who had never
visited Israel before.
Despite their walkers and
wheelchairs, the seven seniors
and their companions navigated
to the top of Masada, played
wheelchair basketball with disabled veterans, hiked to the
waterfalls of Ein Gedi, floated
in the Dead Sea, toured Roman
ruins in Caesarea, lunched in
a Druze village, sampled wine
at the Golan Heights Winery,
planted oak trees in the JNF
National Forest, learned about
organic farming at Kibbutz Sde
Eliyahu, sailed the Sea of Galilee, rode a tractor through the
Agamon-Hula bird sanctuary,
toured Israeli history museums
in Tel Aviv, and did many other
activities they may not have
believed they could enjoy at this
stage of life.
Top, the whole group at Ein Gedi; above, planThis visit, in essence, is my
ing a tree in the JNF National Forest.
last hurrah, said Rabbi Ronald
Millstein, 84, who lives in the Jewish Home Assisted Living Kaplen Senior
I was able to receive enough help from
Residences in River Vale.
the staff members to make this kind of
Rabbi Millstein, whose son, Rabbi Jorjourney. Theyre a remarkable group of
dan Millstein, leads Temple Sinai of Berpeople to take this on with aged seniors.
gen County in Tenafly, said that this was
Ms. Elliott had led three missions to
his 12th visit to Israel. His first, when he
Israel when she was CEO of the Cedar
was a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union
Village Retirement Community in Cincinnati, the job she held until she came to
College, was in the 1950s.
Rockleigh last year. When she floated the
I dont anticipate that I could possibly
idea at Rockleigh, she shared videos from
do this again, and Im only doing it now
those trips to show that such an undertakbecause of the assistance of the Jewish
ing is possible with proper planning and
Home, at which I live with my wife, Rabbi
organization.
Millstein said. She was not able to participate, but she knew how much I wanted to
Many people said they couldnt imagine how it would work; how wed get to the
go, and because she is well taken care of
top of Masada, how wed get to the Kotel,
at the Jewish Home, she was very willing
she said. I kept saying, Trust me. We
to let me go.
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They also played wheelchair basketball with disabled veterans.

Courtesy of the Jewish Home Family

say and believe that age is just a number

and were very committed to enhancing
quality of life and giving people a full and
meaningful experience whether theyre 75
or 90.
The opportunity to learn and grow and
achieve is still there.
One of the many details involved in
planning the experience over the past
six months was choosing support staff to
accompany the group from home and on
the ground. Ms. Elliott hired Israeli tour
guide Yaakov Sivek, 74, who had led the
Cincinnati missions. Mr. Sivek said he has
specialized in guiding Jewish senior citizens groups since 2002.
We have to take into consideration

their age and capacity, he said. We try

to maintain a normal, classic visit to Israel
according to their abilities.
Because this group included some nonJewish staffers from the Jewish Home, Mr.
Sivek arranged for them to tour Jerusalem
Old City Christian sites on Shabbat. As for
the tense security situation in the capital
city, he said no changes in itinerary were
necessary because of the increased police
and army presence. We barely even
talked about it, he said.
Indeed, only one would-be participant
decided against making the trip, and Ms.
Elliott reports that this person now regrets
the decision.
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Palisades Players take the stage

Tenafly JCC hopes to build semi-professional theater company
MIRIAM RINN

nything that happens

in life/can happen in a
show./You can make
em laugh/You c an
make em cry/Anything, anything goes.
So said Arthur Schwartz and Howard
Dietz in their great song Thats Entertainment, which they wrote for The Band
Wagon. And so say Deb Roberts and Julian
Millstein, as they dream of building a semiprofessional community theater company
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. Their initial production this weekend will tell them and the audience if they
are on the right track. Broadway, A Jewish
Experience will also serve as a benefit for
the new company, the Palisades Players.
The musical revue showcases the works
of Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, and many other songwriters,
reflecting what was going on in the lives of
American Jews at the time the songs were
popular. Using a play-within-a-play structure, Broadway: A Jewish Experience
covers decades of great theater music,
most of it written by Jews. The cast of 39
includes actors with years of professional
experience on and off Broadway, as well
as the best local talent. The show has been
conceived and directed by Deborah Murad
Nesser, who has played lead roles such
as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Hodel in
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While the JCC has a successful youth
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explained that for a long time she has

Susan Vardy, Rebecca Lopkin, and Sarah Feinmark rehearse for Broadway: A Jewish Experience.

wanted to launch a high-quality theater

on this side of the river.
Perhaps she needed the right partner.
As Mr. Millstein, a technology lawyer who
lives in Teaneck, began to think about
making the transition into retirement, he
remembered how much he had enjoyed
acting as a student at Brandeis University, where he was the president of the
Gilbert & Sullivan Society. After graduation, he had taken classes at the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts. I acted with
Tyne Daly and Josh Mostel, Mr. Millstein
recalled, before practical needs took him
to law school.
When he signed up for some

Tim Connell coaching a scene from the show with cast member Ariel Abergel,
as he is about to sing You Wont Succeed On Broadway, a song Tim sang in
Spamalot on the Broadway Tour.
14 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

play-reading classes at the JCC with Ms.

Roberts, that dimmed theatrical light was
reignited. He loved the feeling of becoming
different people. It was a new experience
through another character every time he
read another role, Mr. Millstein said.
After long discussions about the possibility of a community theater with a Jewish
focus, Mr. Millstein and Ms. Roberts took
the plunge last June. They put notices in
the local papers, inviting anyone interested to come to a meeting. About 20
people, ranging in age from 15 to over 70,
showed up. Some had performed professionally, several were from the scene-reading class, and others were amateurs with a
desire to perform.
The companys mission is to produce
musicals, plays, and comedies that illustrate Jewish culture and tradition, and to
highlight the work of Jewish playwrights.
Ms. Roberts is interested in introducing
new work by Jewish writers as well, and
she and Mr. Millstein are toying with ways
of doing that. Maybe we can get someone
to fund a prize, Ms. Roberts mused.
Ms. Roberts believes that Palisades Players has the potential to bring something
new to the local community theater scene.
Because we have the possibility of having
Equity actors on stage, she said, the productions can be of very high quality. Mr.
Millstein agrees that the northern Bergen
County community boasts a wealth of performing talent. We are close to Broadway
and we can attract some great talent, he
said. We want to be the center of Jewish
theater in the New York area.

Jay Greenspan practices his number.

What: The Palisades Players presents
its first production, Broadway: A
Jewish Experience
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave. in
Tenafly,
When: On Saturday, November 7,
at 7:30 p.m., and again on Sunday,
November 8, at 2:30 p.m.
How much: Tickets are $18. Buy them
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Local expert testifies before Congress

Dr. Leonard Cole talks about bioterrorism and biodefense
JOANNE PALMER

n Tuesday, Dr. Leonard Cole of

Ridgewood, the director of the
program on terror medicine
and security at Rutgers medical school in Newark, spoke to the House
Committee on Homeland Security.
He testified alongside Tom Ridge, the
Republican former governor of Pennsylvania, who was the United States first secretary of Homeland Security, and Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned Independent
former Connecticut senator who also was
the first Jewish candidate for vice president. The two men, co-chairs of a bipartisan blue ribbon panel, had just completed
overseeing a new report, A National Blueprint for Biodefense.
It was, Dr. Cole reported, an exemplary
display of bipartisan agreement.
I think that Lieberman and Ridge are
very much intent on having something
happen as a result of this report, he said.
Everyone knows about reports being
issued, and everyone says yes, yes, yes,
and the nothing happens. They really
want to see something happen. They want

to have something enacted as a result of

this report.
Dr. Cole, who was sent an advance copy
of the report, spoke to bolster its findings,
which of course would advance that goal.
There are three major observations
that the report makes, he said. First, the
possibility of a biological threat is real,
and a worst-case scenario could be catastrophic. Naturally occurring pandemics
have had disastrous results; the flu pandemic of 1918-19 killed an estimated 50 to
100 million people across the world, and
in the first half of the 20th century, smallpox killed about 300 million. (In what was
probably the greatest public health victory in human history, smallpox was eradicated by 1980, he added, but smallpox is
unusual in that it exists only in human
beings. Anthrax, on the other hand, can
survive, as an inert, hard spore, virtually
forever.)
Not only is it necessary to guard against
bioterrorism, Dr. Cole added, but measures that protect people from it also
are likely to protect against other disease epidemics as well. For example, the
recent outbreak of Ebola was not an act

appointment of a czar on
of terrorism, but the virus
biodefense issues, who
itself is a potential bioterrorism agent, he said, and
speaks with the authority
the medical needs would
of the president, he said.
be the same whether the
Otherwise , the concern
genesis of the disease was
is that the Blueprint recommendations will sit
deliberate or not. And
on a shelf, with no action
the response to the Ebola
taken.
threat was unimpressive;
According to Dr. Cole,
Newark University Hospital, which was said by
the repor ts greatest
Dr. Leonard Cole
a World Health Organizaweakness is its top-down
tion official to be a model
nature. It states all the
for other hospitals, could treat a grossly
things that can be done on the federal
unimpressive two patients at a time.
level, and pushing down, you might have
The reports second point is that scores
cooperation on a state or local level. I
of government agencies handle all sorts of
think youd want bottom-up motion too.
biodefense activities, but those activities
Thats where his experience in teaching
are not coordinated, are often redundant,
terror medicine comes in.
The field of terror medicine, which
and do not serve the public well.
Therefore, the report suggested,
includes aspects of disaster and emergency medicine, focuses on distinctive
one person, someone very high up in
features of a medical response to a terthe government and granted authority
rorist attack, he wrote in a summary
directly by the president, should oversee and coordinate all of the countrys
of his statement to the committee. A
biodefenses. Dr. Cole was gratified by the
healthcare provider is likely to be the
response to this point. Committee memfirst professional to identify a patients
bers, Demcrats and Republicans, support
illness as potentially related to biological

Lone soldier brings the message home

IDF member visits students in Wayne
LOIS GOLDRICH

ometimes, even when you tell

children they are doing a mitzvah, they dont really get it. But
sometimes when they see the
results of their efforts they do.
Judith Kuper Jaffe, director of congregational learning at Shomrei Torah Wayne
Conservative Congregation, gives the
shuls religious school children there
are about 70 of them an opportunity to
perform mitzvot every week. But shes the
first to agree that sometimes theres a disconnect in their lives between what they
learn, what we pray, and what we do.
Ms. Jaffe started introducing weekly
mitzvah projects years ago, coming up
with the ideas on her own and ensuring that each project would be tactile.
One of those projects is writing notes of
prayer and gratitude to the lone soldiers
of the Israel Defense Forces. When one of
those soldiers came to the school to thank
the students, the mitzvah took on a whole
new meaning.
The school sends its letters either
through the Package from Home project
or through Friends of the IDF. We tried
16 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

to collect items as well, but we dont have

volunteers to help, Ms. Jaffe said. Now
we just send letters.
Former Manalapan resident Eldad
who requested that his last name not
be used received a note from one of
our upcoming bnai mitzvah and was so
excited that the note came from his home
state of New Jersey, she said. The soldier
asked his mother to track us down so he
could come and say thank you. He wanted
to come and personally thank our students
and the student who wrote to him.
Thats why Ms. Jaffe received a phone
call from someone in Manalapan in August.
I was told it was a woman with a Russian
accent, and she was crying, she said. She
told me that her son saw that the card was
from New Jersey. He asked her to find the
school and since he would soon be coming home on a vacation arrange a visit.
His mother accompanied Eldad on his
visit to the school.
Although her students did not expect
replies according to Ms. Jaffe, one soldier
had replied some 15 years ago they were
delighted to get one. And, she said, they
used the opportunity of the soldiers visit
to ask him all kinds of questions. Those

Judy Kuper Jaffe, Joshua Spodek, Eldad, and Rabbi Randall Mark at Shomrei
Torah in Wayne.
SHOMREI TORAH

questions, from third- through seventhgraders, may not have been profound
including such issues as whether tanks are
air-conditioned, if army food is good, and
how it feels to hold a gun but they meant
a great deal to Eldad and to his mother,
who beamed with pride the entire time.
After Eldads visit, most of the kids
now understand what we were doing,
she said. In conversations with students
afterwards, they used the word happy.
They said, We made the guy so happy.
He really opened the letter and it meant
something. Even the third-graders got

that. The feeling was mutual. When the

kids saw him, he could have been a rock
star, Ms. Jaffe said, adding that Eldad has
been in the IDF for 10 months.
Eldad arrived at the school with the letter he received all folded up in his pocket.
He was so excited to share it with the religious school students, and curious to meet
the child who wrote to him. Since the note
was not signed and was written in cursive,
we passed it around to the older elementary and middle school students.
Suddenly a shriek was heard, and
13-year-old Joshua Spodek, who recently

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terrorism. This was illustrated in 2001, when victims

of the anthrax letter attacks began to show up in doctors offices and hospital emergency rooms. That
was soon after the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon made the entire
country realize how vulnerable we all were, and
set everyone even more on edge with its personal,
intimate threat death not from the skies but from
within.
Yet even years after those attacks, many physicians, nurses, and others in the medical community
feel unprepared to deal with medical or other forms
of terrorism, Dr. Cole continued.
For the past two years, the Rutgers New Jersey
Medical School has offered a course on terror medicine to fourth-year medical students. The curriculum includes lectures, videos, and hands-on simulation exercises involving biological and other terror
threats. Students who have taken the course are
enthusiastic about it, he added, and he hopes that
administrators and legislators will take the idea
seriously. Familiarizing the medical community
throughout the country with the essentials of terror
medicine would provide a bottom-up approach that
would combine with the goals of Mr. Ridges and Mr.
Liebermans report to protect the country both from
the top down and the bottom up, Dr. Cole told the
congressional panel.

became a bar mitzvah, identified his own handwriting. He wrote it last spring.
Joshua later told Ms. Jaffe that he always participated in the letter-writing because it was a nice thing
to do and the right thing to do. It feels good. Still, she
said, Josh emphatically responded no when asked
whether he ever imagined a soldier receiving it, or
even that his note would make it to Israel.
Joshua said he really didnt understand what a lone
soldier was until he met and heard Eldad, Ms. Jaffe
reported. Now that he does, she added, he enthusiastically agreed that he would put more umph into the
activity, because he now understands that a real person receives it and feels good getting it. Meeting Eldad
was very uplifting and very real, he told her.
He was very excited to shake his hand and meet
someone who was defending Israel, Ms. Jaffe said.
And most of all, Josh loved his beret.
How often do you get to make that real connection? she mused. You never know what is going
to resonate with a kid and at what age. Eldad talked
about his experiences, and even if they didnt get the
whole story, the students at least got a piece of it.
I learned something, too. A tank seats 12, but there
are only four in it at a given time.
In addition to writing letters to lone soldiers,
Jaffes students have written letters in connection
with blood drives and participate in a group called
Comedy Cures, writing jokes for the organization.
(An example of the jokes: Why is a tomato red? It saw
the salad dressing.)

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TABC faculty member honored
with Chamber education award

Ohel plans tribute

to Bruce Prince

Nancy Edelman, who is on

arts to hundreds of young
the faculty of Torah Acadmen at all grade levels; she
emy of Bergen County in
has taught courses including Introduction to LiteraTeaneck, received the Educator of the Year award at
ture; British and World
the Teaneck Chamber of
Literature; American Literature; AP English Literature
Commerces annual Community Awards dinner. This
and Composition, and Art
is the first time the groups
Appreciation.
educator of the year award
She also is the director of
Nancy Edelman
was given to a Jewish day
curriculum and educational
COURTESY TABC
school educator.
technology at TABC. She has
Ms. Edelman has been an
taken her art appreciation
English teacher for 23 years, 17 of them
class on field trips to a number of New
at TABC. She offers her strong knowlYork Citys museums, enriching their
edge of world literature and love of the
appreciation of the fine arts.

Bruce Prince of Englewood, a dedicated

Team Ohel runner, will be honored at
Ohels 46th annual gala dinner on November 22 at the New York Marriott Marquis
at 5 p.m.
For the last half decade, Bruce has
run the New York City Marathon as part
of Team Ohel. He runs in memory of his
brother David, who battled mental illness,
and in memory of Chana Tova Poupko, the
young daughter of Dr. Shoshana and Rabbi
Chaim Poupko, who died of cancer.
Tamar Sicklick and the Levi family also
will be honored; both have family members who live locally.
To make reservations or place a journal
ad, go to www.ohelfamily.org/gala, call
(718) 972-9328, or email gala@ohelfamily.
org.

Goldins will accept YU award

at Lincoln Center celebration
Rabbi Shmuel and Barbara Goldin of
Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood will receive the Presidents Society Torah Chesed award at the Yeshiva
University Womens Organizations
70th Jubilee Performance and 33rd dinner gala. The celebration on Saturday,
November 14, at 8 p.m., will be at Lincoln
Centers Grand Promenade-David Geffen

Philanthropist/Team Ohel athlete

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Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall) in Manhattan. It includes a Rachmaninoff concert by the New York Philharmonic.
Dr. Yonah and Lauren Bardos will
receive the Future Builders Collegiate
Young Leadership award.
For reservations, call (212) 960-0855
or email yuwo@yu.edu.

JFS marking 63 years at dinner

The Jewish Family Service of Bergen and
North Jersey will celebrate 63 years of
service to the community at a dinner on
Sunday, November 15, at the Rockleigh.
Cocktails and a strolling dinner are at
5:30 p.m., followed by dessert and the
award presentation at 7:30.
Geoffrey Lewis will be honored for his

leadership, support, and dedication to

JFS. Beth Nadel is the event chair; Debbie
Harris is sponsorship chair, and Suzette
and Harold Diamond are journal chairs.
For tickets, journal ads, or sponsorship opportunities, call Jaymie Kerrat at
(201) 837-9090, email her jaymiek@jfsbergen.org, or go to www.jfsbergen.org.

Some of the riders participating in the 54-mile ride as part of Tour de

Schechter stopped at the Croton Reservoir to take in the view. Richard
Greenfield, center, in blue, was an event co-chair.

Schechter Westchester benefits

from the Tour de Schechter
Despite mid-Octobers cold weather,
97 bikers raised nearly $10,000 for the
Solomon Schechter School of Westchesters annual fund on the Tour de
Schechter, a community-wide, familyfriendly bike ride that took riders on

Miriam Peretz

Miriam Peretz visits Ben Porat

Miriam Peretz, a representative of the One Family Fund and mother of fallen Golani
Brigade soldiers Uriel and Eliraz Peretz, visited Ben Porat Yosef last week. She spoke
to community members on Sunday evening, and then to BPY students on Monday
morning.
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different routes through Westchester

County. It was part of a yearlong calendar of celebratory events to commemorate the Hartsdale schools 50th
anniversary.

The Katz,
Yankwitt,
and Ogihara
families
leaving for the
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Rutgers Hillel and OU offer
genetic awareness screening
The Orthodox Unions Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Rutgers and Rutgers
Hillel recently taught about Jewish genetic
illness, and screened for them. More than
80 students learned about Jewish genetic
diseases, the role of genetic screening,.
and the Jewish perspective on testing and
intervention.
Sara Frieberg, co-director of OU-JLIC at
Rutgers, welcomed the students and introduced Elena Ashkinadze and Molly Ciarlariello, genetic counselors in the Department
of Genetics at the Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School. The counselors presented
an overview of their field and highlighted
some genetic diseases common in the general population and those more common
in the Jewish community. They discussed
the importance of knowing your carrier status before marriage and conception that

NCJW affluence and poverty forum

knowledge empowers a couple to make

educated decisions.
Rabbi Shaul Rappeport of the Puah Institute, an organization dedicated to providing support for Jewish couples with fertility and genetic challenges, spoke on the
Jewish-ethical aspects of genetic screening.

Life care planning for a special needs child

The Jewish Family Service of North Jersey and
the Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities offer a joint program on November 11,
at 7:30 p.m., at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/

CBI, and on November 18 at the Wayne YMCA.

A panel of experts will discuss advocating
and navigating the maze of services for special needs children; funding a supplemental

of Teaneck will moderate

In Bergen County, many
the discussion. The panel
people live in poverty, and
will include Lizette Parker,
many children go to bed
supervisor of the Bergen
hungry every night. With
Count y Board of Social
that in mind, the National
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Council of Jewish Women
Teaneck; Lynn Bartlett,
Bergen County Section will
executive director of Bergen
present a community-wide
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ity; Julia Orlando, director
lack of affordable housing in
of its Housing, Health and
Loretta Weinberg
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Duggan, director of Family
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A panel of experts from Bergen County
issue.
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Editorial
Being yourself, supporting Sinai

his isnt the first time that

we have noticed that there
are themes that seem to
surface in more than one
story in the paper in a particular
week.
In some ways thats not surprising.
The themes tend to be basic human
refrains, ideas about how best to
live, how to be authentic, to be Jewish, to be American, to be alive. But
its still often striking to us.
This week, the idea of learning
who your true self is and working
to free it from the constraints that
hold it back, while at the same time
retaining the constraints of the community in which you live and that
you love, has repeated itself.
Its clear in the life of Rhoda
Mendelowitz, who died last week.

Although she was brought up to

marry rather than to study and
although she did marry, happily and
forever she had to get an education,
and she did. She used that education
not only to express herself but also to
teach the hundreds and hundreds of
children at Yavneh Academy whose
lives she touched about the need to
discover themselves.
And as she did that, she never lost
her connection to the Jewish world
that provided her with her oxygen
and was both the background and
the foreground to her life.
The Sinai Schools and Holy Name
Medical Center have partnered,
sharing forces so that Holy Names
resources can be used to help
Sinais children, and Sinai can use
its expertise wherever it can help.

Sinai is remarkable in many ways,

but undergirding every single one of
those ways is its steadfast insistence
on seeing each child as unique. Not
a special snowflake, please note;
there is nothing sentimental about
the schools vision. It is, instead,
adamantly clear-eyed and realistic.
The schools leaders insist that each
of its students, like every student
in all five of the schools that house
its programs, like every student in
every school everywhere, like every
person everywhere, is a specific person, with real needs, similar but far
from identical to everyone elses.
Sinais programs begin with that
worldview, and Holy Name Medical
Center is helping.
We urge our readers to support
JP
Sinai Schools.

Kristallnacht and Veterans Day

aving Kristallnacht
and Veterans Day fall
two days apart is most
likely done neither
accidentally nor on purpose.
It was the Nazis who chose the
date for Kristallnacht, their foul
destructive rampage through Jewish neighborhoods that ironically
had at least one good if unanticipated effect it convinced some
wavering Jews that the time to run
had come. In fact, if they did not
run soon, it would be too late.
(Every year at this time, I am
reminded of a woman I knew
from shul, a beautiful, graceful
woman who began life, rich and
cosseted, in Germany, the daughter of a judge. Her parents got
the family out right after Kristallnacht; their daughter, then about
6, remembered bits of their life in
Germany but nothing of that terrible night. But she happened to
be near the World Trade Center

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on September 11, 2001. The horror of what she saw brought back
memories of Kristallnacht. It was
the sounds of breaking glass, she
said, the terrifying sounds of
screams and thuds and crashes
and the unholy amplified tinkling
of unimaginable sheets of breaking glass.)
And then there is Veterans
Day, when we remember the servicemen and women who have
fought, and suffered, and often
died, keeping the rest of us safe.
There are the oldest ones, who
fought in World War II, when
there was absolutely no question
of which side was the right one.
We are lucky in that many of those
veterans are still around many
of them Jewish and every single one of them has a story. Ask
them their stories! If you havent
heard a veteran talk about his or
her war, you might be surprised
by the intensity of the story and

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the telling.
Then, of course, there are the
Korean War veterans, whose conflict is not so well remembered
now, although of course North
Korea is a country run by cartoonlike villains, thoroughly evil buffoons. And then Vietnam, a war
whose internal conflicts come
down to us through the various
culture wars still with us. And
then we get into the murkier conflicts the Gulf, Iraq, Afghanistan
whose still-young fighters have
been marked by what they have
seen in ways the rest of us cannot
imagine.
Talk to those veterans too. Listen to their stories.
And then be sure to thank them.
The veterans fought so the rest of
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eternally thankful to them.
Thank you, everyone who has
fought for our country, for freedom, for us. Thank you.
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Bibi unleashes
the danger of
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s the evil inclination the yetzer hara a bad thing?

Do not be too quick to answer that question.
Envy, greed, desire, pride all of these are elements
of the evil inclination, the yetzer hara. They lead to
terrible things, all too often with tragic consequences.
Yet a midrash offers a different perspective (see Genesis
Rabbah 9:7). Six times in Genesis 1, we are told, God saw
[what He had created] and it was good. Toward the end of
the Sixth Day, however, God looks at all of His handiwork
and found it very good.
Said Rabbi Nachman bar Shmuel: And found it very
good. This is the evil inclination. If not for the evil inclination, after all, no man would
build a house, marry, have children, or pursue a livelihood.
In simple terms, the elements
of the yetzer hara are essential
for human progress. The key is
to know when to hit the brakes.
As the philosopher Martin Buber
Rabbi
explained, the yetzer hara is evil
Shammai
only when it is separated from
Engelmayer
the yetzer hatov, the good inclination (see The Face of Man,
p. 345). Only good can come
from the two inclinations working in tandem.
This is a lesson Israels prime minister desperately needs
to learn.
Benjamin Netanyahu has a desire born of envy and pride.
He wants to be prime minister at least until September 24,
2018. That day will mark his 4,576th day as Israels head
of government. That day he will beat out Israels founding
father, David Ben-Gurion.
Netanyahu, it seems, is much too caught up in this goal.
Holding on to power is all that matters, whatever the cost.
On Election Day last March, for example, Netanyahu was
at strong risk of losing his job. To keep it, he resorted to
inflammatory, racist rhetoric meant to scare otherwise apathetic right-wing voters to the polls. It worked.
The right-wing government is in danger, he declared in
an Internet video that went viral that morning. Arab voters
are going en masse to the polls.
We only have you, Netanyahu said. Go to the polls,
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of Congregation Beth
Israel of the Palisades in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El
of North Bergen.

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bring your friends and family, vote Mahal [Likud] to close
the gap between us and Labor [Zionist Union].
What Netanyahu did was wrong, and he was quick to apologize for it a few days later. I know the things I said a few
days ago hurt some citizens in Israel, the Arab Israeli citizens, he said. This was not my intention, and I am sorry.
The damage, however, was done.
In mid-October, Netanyahu allowed his evil inclination
to break through in an even more egregious way.
The current series of murderous attacks by random Palestinians has put him in the middle of a pressure cooker
located on a front burner with high heat, and it threatens to
blow him out of office if it continues.
As Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah learned long ago, the
Israeli public is quick to turn on any national leader who is
unable to keep it safe. In early 1996, as national elections
loomed, Prime Minister Shimon Peres and his Labor party
were leading in the polls by as much as 20 percent. Because
the terrorists opposed the peace process, they opposed a
Peres victory. They launched a series of high-profile terror
attacks before Election Day that left 59 Israelis dead. Peres
and Labor lost, the attacks stopped, and the peace process
stalled.
When the second intifada broke out in 2000, it ended any
chance that Prime Minister Ehud Barak would be re-elected.
Now it was Netanyahus turn. He needed to release some
of the pressure, and he used the recent World Zionist Congress meeting to do that.
Israel has always evoked the Shoah as a reason why it
must act decisively to protect itself. Netanyahu is a master
of such Shoah rhetoric, as witness his controversial speech
to the U.S. Congress a week before Israels national election.
I can guarantee you this, he said that morning (presumably
addressing Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who was in the
balcony), the days when the Jewish people remained passive in the face of genocidal enemies, those days are over.
Israel will stand.
Last month, though, Netanyahu used the Shoah evocation
as a way of releasing at least some of the pressure on him.
In his speech, he referred to a meeting that took place
in 1941 between the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin alHusseini, and Adolf Hitler. Said Netanyahu unashamedly,
Hitler didnt want to exterminate the Jews at the time; he
wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went
to Hitler and said, If you expel them, theyll all come here
[to Palestine].
According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: What should
I do with them? and the mufti replied: Burn them.
Not even Germany, which should have been thrilled
finally to be let off the hook by an Israeli leader, was willing to let that horrific statement pass. Chancellor Angela
Merkels spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said, We know that
responsibility for this crime against humanity is German,
and very much our own.
Anyone who has read Hitlers Mein Kampf knows the
death of the Jews was something near and dear to his heart
for his entire adult life. In the book, which was published a
decade before he seized power, Hitler declared that the Jewish goal was destruction for the inhabitants of this planet.
The Jews victory crown will be the funeral wreath of
humanity and Earth will move through the ether devoid
of men, he wrote.
He added: By defending myself against the Jew, I am
fighting for the work of the Lord.
Haj Amin al-Husseini did hate Jews, with a passion, and
undoubtedly cheered on the Final Solution, but he did not
instigate it.
Transferring the blood of the six million from German
hands to Arab ones, if it succeeded, can have explosive consequences, and Netanyahu must know that.
It is a very high price for us to pay for one mans inability
to control his yetzer hara.

Restating the fundamentals

of modern Orthodoxy

ot very long ago, modern Orthodox Judaism

was confident and largely cohesive.
There was much for which to be proud. In
the decades following the Second World War,
modern Orthodoxy in the United States based loosely on
European models, but uniquely American in character
achieved what was once unimaginable: an uncompromisingly traditional, professionally successful, and culturally
integrated American Jewish community. For members of
this branch of traditional Judaism, the future seemed bright.
But in recent years, self-assurance has given way to nagging self-doubt and disillusionment. Many who once identified with modern Orthodoxy, especially to the right and
left of its center, have broken ranks. Like many ideological
expatriates, they believe the movement has lost its way,
and that they alone remain true to its vision. Some have
come to reject the vision altogether.
The result is a variety of
nascent sub-Orthodoxies.
In place of the Orthodoxy
formerly known as modern,
we now have open Orthodoxy,
neo-chasidism, centrist Orthodoxy, and right-wing modern
Orthodoxy. No doubt others
will follow. For the most part,
the splintering is driven by
David S.
a general identification with
Zinberg
modern Orthodoxys mission,
but deep disagreement over
its practical implementation
and philosophical direction.
Some are predicting an imminent schism between the
left and right wings of the community. A series of measures and countermeasures (or counterattacks) by rabbinic groups may represent the beginnings of a permanent rift. There are leaders on both sides who appear to
welcome it.
But many of us who were raised in modern Orthodox communities question the need for a split, or even
for a major course correction. I and many of my generation have not given up on the beliefs and practices of our
youth. We believe that modern Orthodoxy lies on solid
ground and requires no apologies. We also believe that its
center can hold.
I am not advocating a bourgeois complacency that
champions mesorah (tradition) above all else. The modern Orthodox mandate, by definition, is to partner with
humanity in its intellectual, scientific, and social progress;
we believe this is a moral and religious obligation. True
centrists recognize not only the need, but the value of
adapting to contemporary reality (see, especially, items
1 and 12 below).
Instead of a breakup, our community would be better
served by a renewal of vows. These are confusing times
a restatement of core values could help us all remember
what brought us together in the first place.
What, then, are the defining principles of classic modern Orthodoxy?
Below are 12 positions necessarily broad and oversimplified that I believe represent the essential values of the
modern Orthodox community. The list is illustrative, not
exhaustive. But this is a minimum standard. These fundamentals could be really, they already are the basis of
a renewed, center-oriented modern Orthodox platform.
This is the modern Orthodoxy that many of us call
home and have no plans to abandon.

We believe that
modern Orthodoxy lies
on solid ground and
requires no apologies.
We also believe that its
center can hold.
1. Halachah
While anchored in the Torah, Talmud, and rabbinic tradition, halachah is shaped by, and responds to, historical and
cultural circumstances.
2. Ethics
Halachah demands adherence to the highest moral standards. Proper behavior is dictated by traditional Jewish values and modern ethical norms.
3. Torah study
Torah study is a primary Jewish value. Such study almost
always should be pursued in conjunction with self-sustaining employment. Full-time Torah students are not automatically entitled to financial support by the Jewish community.
4. Work
Work is an ennobling pursuit. Work should not be viewed
as a necessary evil, whose purpose is limited to earning a
living.
5. Secular knowledge and culture
The best of secular learning and culture has inherent
value beyond any economic benefit.
6. Science, creation, evolution
The earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Evolution
is the best scientific explanation for the development of life
on earth. The account of creation in the Book of Genesis is
religious, rather than scientific. Since the Torah is not a scientific work, scientific fact and theory neither conflict with
nor confirm the Torah.
7. Theodicy
Theological justifications of evil for example, that the
Holocaust was Gods punishment for Jewish assimilation
are wrong and offensive.
8. Zionism and Israel
Both secular and religious Zionism are legitimate ideologies. The State of Israel is the fulfillment of religious and
secular aspirations for an independent Jewish homeland in
the Land of Israel.
9. Non-Jews
All human beings are created equally in the image of
God. The Jewish community must work in fellowship with
its non-Jewish neighbors toward the betterment of society.
10. Non-Orthodox Jews
There is one Jewish people. We share a common destiny
and many religious values with non-Orthodox denominations, and we must cooperate on issues of mutual interest.
11. Dress
Dress is a matter of individual taste, within the bounds of
propriety determined by local custom.
12. Women
Women are free to pursue careers of their choice. They
may attain the highest levels of Torah scholarship and
assume leadership roles within the Jewish community.
David S. Zinberg lives in Teaneck with his wife and three sons.
He works in financial services.
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At home
Thoughts on a recent congregational trip to Israel

s I sat down to
Friday afternoon, Machneh
write this colYehudah in Jerusalem was
umn, the Times
less crowded than usual, with
of Israel reported
extra and highly visible security. The same was true for the
that a 19-year-old Palestinian
Western Wall that evening.
from Hebron stabbed three
An old family friend, Lee
people in Rishon Letziyon,
Levine, professor of Jewsouth of Tel Aviv. Among the
ish history and archaeology
injured was an 80-year-old
Rabbi Debra
at Hebrew University, had
woman.
Orenstein
graciously agreed to be our
The stabbings are the very
guide in Tzipori. (He literally
definition of terrorism: Random. Designed to incite fear
wrote the book on the ancient
and inhibit normal activities. Aspiring to
synagogue; its called The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years.) Lee was
inflict maximum damage, drive people
almost prevented from joining us, however,
away, and even destroy a society.
because of two separate stabbing incidents
I led a congregational trip to Israel that
that occurred that morning in Raanana,
began soon after the first stabbings. During
where he was visiting his children and
our travels in the Holy Land, several more
grandchildren.
stabbings occurred. My fellow travelers
Raanana, technically a city of 80,000 in
and I would have followed the events and
its own right, is considered an outer and
mourned the losses no matter where we
generally very quiet suburb of Tel Aviv,
were, but it was different being in Israel. We
about 35 minutes by car or bus from the
experienced shock and uncertainty at the
city center. Due to the attacks, traffic was
epicenter of shock and uncertainty.
restricted and then delayed, which resulted
In concrete terms, our trip was slightly
in Lee spending hours in his car. This was a
different because of the attacks. We changed
minor inconvenience relative to the tragic
our entry point into the Old City of Jerusalem from Damascus Gate, where there had
events. But it gave everyone on the tour a
been multiple stabbings, to Jaffa Gate. On
small taste of terrors chilling ripple effects.

Members of Congregation Bnai Israel of Emerson visit an IDF base.

Lee had been so close to the attacks. Lees
grandchildren were so close. Plans had to
change. Time and confidence were lost.
We witnessed hopeful signs, along with
fear and tragedy. On our first day, right off
the plane, we went to Jaffa, where there had
been stabbings. At a falafel joint, Muslim
and Jewish servers wore brightly colored
T-shirts proclaiming their desire to work,
in peace, together. Our Jewish tour guide
hugged and high-fived Israeli Arab vendors
in Jaffa, Safed, and Jerusalem, greeting them
warmly in Arabic. At the Western Wall, leading up to an erev Shabbat service on October 16, a group of modern Orthodox young
women sang Od Yavo Shalom Aleynu,
with its chorus in Hebrew and Arabic:

Shalom, Salaam. They got a few strange

looks, but the popular song was accepted
as a prayer.
On one of our last nights in Israel, we had
a private seminar (thanks to a connection of
one of our synagogue members) with Professor Shlomo Hasson of the Shasha Center
for Strategic Studies. He talked about peacemaking efforts and intergroup dialogue
that he has been conducting for the past 20
years. Today, Dr. Hassons focus is on creating social and economic connections, along
with political separation, between Israelis
and Palestinians. Despite the news, and perhaps despite the odds, he remains optimistic and full of energy.
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J.K. Rowling and the Evil Israelis

.K. Rowling recently

joined a number of
British intellectuals
who refused to support
a cultural boycott of Israel.
In her defense, she made
an ethical case for continuing to share art and literature
with Israel. But she also made
Liz
Israelis sound like Death EatPosner
ers, the pure blood supremacist followers of the evil Lord
Voldemort, and Jewish Harry
Potter fans should take offense at this.
Im about as big a Potter fan as they
come. Perhaps my strongest credential is
the lightning bolt tattoo on my shoulder.
But Rowling broke my heart the other day
when she compared Israel to Voldemorts
Death Eaters, a group of murderous dark
wizards who seek to destroy all non-magical people. As a child, when I read the
Potter books, I imagined an allegory of
good and evil, of fascism and democracy.
Like many others, I always envisioned
the Death Eaters as Nazi soldiers, Voldemort as Hitler, and the Jewish people as
Muggleborns.
Now, hearing Rowling compare the
Israeli government to a group of murderous extremists, I cant help but feel
offended. Rowlings work always helped
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me understand the violent,

chaotic real world. Weve all
got both light and dark inside
us, she writes in Order of
the Phoenix. What matters is the part we choose to
act on. Thats who we really
are. The characters in Harry
Potter are complex; almost
all of them are capable of
love, violence, hatred, loyalty most, a combination
of all these. Now, Im afraid
Rowling has let her fictional categories
usurp the beautiful nuance of human motivation in her books. By alluding to Israelis
as Death Eaters, shes letting her terms get
away with her instead of letting the story
speak for itself.
I have the utmost sympathy for the
plight of the Palestinian people, and Netanyahus government has undeniably made
many mistakes. But I also believe the Palestinians have been made into a scapegoat
by their own government, sacrificed and
hidden behind for political gain. But this is
not an essay about politics or victimhood.
I just disagree with the many readers
who, according to Rowling, wrote to the
author comparing Israelis to Death Eaters,
a comparison it seems she condones. The
Nazis attempted to wipe out several ethnic

groups through mass cleansing and slaughter. Jewish Israelis never sought this fate
for the Palestinian people or Arab-Israelis.
For this reason, its a truly unfair and dangerous comparison that Rowling should do
everything in her power to repudiate.
There is no secret gathering of highpowered Israeli Jews, sitting around a table
plotting the downfall of the Palestinian
people. The enemy is not a hideous villain
who murders for pleasure. The enemy is
xenophobia. It is fear inspired by terrorism. The enemy is hatred for the other,
stewed over generations of mutual blame.
Israelis are not evil, Arabs are not evil, we
gain nothing from accusing each other of
acting as the villain, and it must stop.
Rowling says in her essay that the most
dangerous aspect of an Israel boycott
means refusing to engage with some of
the Israelis who are most pro-Palestinian.
This is quite unfair; a cultural boycott of
Israel would deprive the rest of the world
of invaluable art from the region, proPalestinian or not. Shes completely right
that only understanding creates peace.
But we cant choose what we hear once
we decide to listen to one another. Once
we open the Pandoras box of a countrys
culture, everything surfaces. Ms. Rowling,
this means we may hear some Zionist narratives that deserve to be heard as much as

any pro-Palestinian view.

Cultural boycott is simply not the way
to go. Silencing the voice of a people is
an action historically taken by totalitarian regimes for example, North Korea,
Cuba, and Iran. Economic boycotts are a
different matter. If youre a British citizen
and you feel passionately that the Israeli
government is committing an atrocity,
fair enough. Put your money where your
mouth is, dont buy your girlfriend a Soda
Stream this Christmas, deny the Netanyahu government your tax dollars, and
thereby stick it to the man. But the poets,
musicians, rappers, painters, novelists,
muralists, designers, television producers
of Israel they are not to blame for the
plight of the Palestinian people.
Cultural boycotts are not what free societies do. As Rowling herself says, no good
comes out of limiting the exchange of
information. In fact, its something Voldemort would do himself. Before Death Eaters took over the Hogwarts School in Book
7, young witches and wizards studied the
history and culture of non-magical people
in the class called Muggle Studies. After
the dark takeover, Voldemort turned that
same class into a training legion for students to target and destroy Muggles. In
her typical brilliance, Rowling holds up
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You gotta believe

Great nostalgia and interesting perspective on the difference

between the Mets and Yanks fanbase (Meet the Mets, October 30).
I remember the 69 Series well. Even us non-New York
Tri-Staters were rooting for them. I think it was the late Tug
McGraw who said it best back then: You gotta believe! Timeless sage advice.
Richard Macales
Division of Marketing and Communication,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

East Ramapo chasidim supported

First of all , I wish to point out that it is a shame that your

reporter has decided to join a line of individuals starting
with NPR who has decided to demonize the chasidim
(Liberal rabbis take on East Ramapo, October 30).
Secondly, had the reporter checked neighboring villages
and towns, he or she would have found the same draconian
cuts in school budgets that you see in East Ramapo. The
source of the problem is not the chasidic control of the Board
of Education but is the archaic source of funding for education
in the State of New York property taxes and the fact that
the real estate tax base has been dramatically shrinking over
the past thirty years. If the NAACP wants to improve education funding in East Ramapo schools, it should advocate a better source of funding.
Thirdly, there are suggestions that somehow the chasidim
manipulated the system. This is absolute nonsense. They
acquired control by moving there and voting. Chasidim
replaced secular Jews who moved out.

The fact of the matter is the children in chasidic yeshivot

now represent the majority of the school-aged students in East
Ramapo. Under the law, they are entitled to certain educational services. However improper some of the actions of the
current Board of Education of East Ramapo may have been,
the actions of the previous Board of Education and the desires
of the protesters to deny all educational benefits to the students in yeshivot is also wrong. Again, I ask you since when is
democracy and voting subversive.
Fourthly, the actions of certain rabbis, including one
modern Orthodox rabbi in support of the protesters in East
Ramapo, are thoroughly disgusting.
You may have turned a somewhat complicated situation
into a simple one without really examining the facts. It also
represents a certain prejudice against charedim and chasidim.
However politically incorrect their beliefs may be, they are
entitled to be treated just as other American citizens. If the
situation were reversed and the rhetoric was used against Hispanics or African Americans, there would be justifiable outrage. Scapegoating is wrong no matter who it is.
As a last comment, I must state that I am neither a chasidic
or charedi Jew but I am outraged at the type of scapegoating
that the situation in East Ramapo represents. It sadly is reminiscent of one we as Jews were treated to in the early part of the
twentieth century in this country or in pre-holocaust Europe.
Alan Levin
Fair Lawn

In favor of the Iran deal

I would like to applaud Congressman Bill Pascrell for supporting the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA

nuclear agreement) with Iran. In doing so he is in agreement with many arms control experts, nuclear scientists
and military officials.
This deal was negotiated with Iran and the European
Union, Russia, China and other countries. It may not have
been the best one that we could have obtained but it was
the best one under the circumstances. And if the deal
had fallen through a military action might have been the
only alternative because otherwise Iran could have built a
nuclear weapon in less than a year. And an attack on Iran
would only set back their program a few years.
With the JCPOA Iran is prevented from advancing their
nuclear program for 15 years and allows for strict monitoring and verification provisions.
As the congressman has so eloquently stated:
While we all might not like how we got here today, we
must not lose sight of the most important issue at hand
preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Rejecting this agreement leaves us with a crumbling sanctions regime, a weakened standing for our nation on the
global stage, and most critically with Iran only months
from completing the development of a nuclear weapon.
Moving forward with this agreement is most certainly not
the last step, but the first because it commits the international community to ensuring that Iran does not become
a nuclear weapons state.
This is a deal worth having and I am glad that Congressman Pascrell supported it.
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Its official in France:

BDS is hate speech

few years ago, the British antione of these many supermarket invasions
Semitism scholar David Hirsh
shows the protesters thuggishly chanting in
remarked that while Israel was
favor of the boycott as they surround custhe ostensible target of the Boytomers and staff, sealing off aisles where
cott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,
Israeli products are on sale.
diaspora Jews were first in the firing line.
By any standards of decency, these proThis shouldnt be surprising if you contests were both physically threatening and
sider it carefully Jewish organizations typbigoted in their expression; few people
ically are called on by the media to defend
would want to be caught by this rabble in
Israel, particularly during times of conflict,
the act of buying an Israeli avocado. In the
and many individual Jews have faced ostraeastern city of Mulhouse, 12 activists were
cism within their own professional commucharged with incitement after they distribnities for speaking in support of Israel and
uted leaflets urging Long Live Palestine,
against the boycott.
Boycott Israel, with another
So, when I learned the
one warning customers that
news that the highest
buying Israeli products
appeals court in France
means legitimizing crimes in
had upheld fines imposed
Gaza.
on anti-Israel activists for
After a local court found
inciting hate or discriminain favor of the prosecution,
tion during a demonstraimposing a collective fine of
tion promoting the boycott,
$14,500 plus court expenses,
I was reminded immediately
the activists took their case to
Ben Cohen
of Davids insight. For what
appeal. Its that appeal that
the French court decision
has failed in recent days. In
demonstrates and too
ruling against the activists,
many people in the Jewish community,
who had based their case on freedom of
especially in Israel, still dont properly
expression, the court cited the French
understand this is that BDS is essentially
republics law on Freedom of the Press,
a domestic form of anti-Semitism that
which prescribes imprisonment or a fine
attacks local Jews through the demonizing
of up to $50,000 for parties that provoke
of the Jewish state. The only way for Jews
discrimination, hatred or violence toward
to remove this stain is through publicly
a person or group of people on grounds
dissociating themselves from, and loudly
of their origin, their belonging or their not
condemning, the State of Israel. Quaranbelonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a
tining Israel in order to eliminate it may
race or a certain religion.
be BDSs stated goal, but its immediate
BDS is on pretty shaky ground with most
and often only impact is upon those Jews
of those categories. Ultimately, that is why it
in the vicinity of the movements propais now legally regarded in France as a form
ganda activities.
of hate speechand while we live in a counHeres the story of what happened in
try that guarantees all forms of speech, that
France. In 2009 and 2010, mobs of BDS
shouldnt prevent us from recognizing BDS
activists began descending on supermaras hate speech nonetheless.
kets and forcibly removing Israeli products
Thats why its worth thinking about
many of which were available, for obvithe recent history that led to the French
ous reasons, at the kosher counter, meant
decision. Ten years ago, when the camfor Jewish customers. Video footage of
paign in British universities to boycott

I
Opinion

JK Rowling

of Dumbledore and Snape have been

played by Yitzak Rabin, Bill Clinton,
Shimon Peres, Tony Blair, Yaser Arafat,
Netanyahu, Fatah, Hamas, Ariel Sharon. So many leaders pure, corrupt,
however you view them have climbed
the hilltop to seek peace. As much as
our inner child wants a black and white
version of good and evil, the shades of
grey are infinite in the Middle East.
We cant draw a simple literary analogy to say who is right and who is wrong.
In fact, its dangerous even to try.

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a mirror to an eternal human fact: when

you want to punish an entire people,
you cut off their history, culture, art,
and writing. When you want to punish
a government, though, youre better off
hitting it in its wallet.
Rowling draws the following metaphor in her essay on Twitter. In the final
Potter book, readers learn that when
Harry was an infant, Dumbledore went
to a windy hilltop at nightfall to meet
with Severus Snape, then a Death Eater.
They struck a deal that would end up
bringing about the downfall of Voldemort. Here, Rowling claims that Western
nations should, like Dumbledore, meet
their enemies (i.e. Netanyahus government) at the hilltop, maintaining that
certain channels of communication...
always remain open.
I couldnt agree more. But history
complicates the simple metaphor Rowling attempts to create. In the 70-plusyears of Israels existence, the roles

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org

and the Tower magazine, writes a weekly
column on Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics for JNS.org. His work
has been published in Commentary, the
New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.

Liz Posner of Cliffside Park is a news

writer for Bustle and a contributor
to the blogs TeacherPop and the
Elizabethian. She recently completed
a novel based on her experience as a
Spanish teacher through Teach for
America. Her work has been published
on 50 Word Stories and Dead Snakes,
and her story Habibi received
Honorable Mention in Memphis
Magazines 2015 Fiction Contest. She
also wrote and produced two plays that
were performed at Brandeis University.

the Palestinians is not really focused on

the Palestinians at all. Just as the Arab
states turned on their own Jewish communities after failing to defeat Israel on
the battlefield, the BDS movement compensates for its futile gesture politics by
placing local Jewish communities in its
sights. The elements involved in the act
of boycotting Israel picking a particular store at which to demonstrate, selecting products to place warning stickers
on, waving symbols equating the Star
of David with the swastika, repeatedly
chanting insults against Israel, a word
that originates in the Jewish Bible after
all all carry the prospect of confrontation with local Jews before anything
else. Therefore, what the BDS movement
would have us believe is solidarity with
the Palestinians is, for the vast majority
of Jews, a form of harassment.
Small wonder, then, that the French
appeals court came to the decision that it
did. And note well: that decision doesnt
mean the Palestinians cant advocate for
their cause in France, a country where
their plight has always attracted sympathetic attention. Visceral criticism still
can, and will, be directed at Israels policies. Its when that criticism turns into
incitement a term that captures the
essence of the BDS movement inside
and outside France that the law gets
JNS.ORG
involved.

Israeli academics became an international news story, the BDS movement

was on the verge of achieving something
that previous incarnations of anti-Zionism had failed to gain the insertion of
its skewed, mendacious presentation of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into mainstream liberal discourse. For a while,
particularly in left-leaning media outlets,
this strategy seemed to be meeting with
success; it even started to pick up support from fraying celebrities like Roger
Waters of Pink Floyd, gaggles of parliamentarians and columnists in Europe
and America, and the odd prominent
academic.
But here is where BDS has failed and
continues to fail. It has had virtually no
impact on Israels economy, which continues to flourish. The same goes for Israels academic sector, which continues to
benefit itself and its partners through
joint research programs and other international cooperation. Crucially, it hasnt
delivered a single tangible benefit for the
Palestinians. If ordinary Palestinians living in places like the Jelazoun or Shuafat
refugee camps in the West Bank are to
have even a hope of acquiring the kinds
of villas and mansions owned by the Palestinian elite around Ramallah, they certainly wont get there through BDS.
As each of these failings has become
more painfully apparent, the BDS movements rhetoric and tactics have become
uglier. What the French court decision
does, therefore, is offer unprecedented
clarification of what constitutes acceptable speech, as distinct from hate
speech, in the context of BDS.
Increasingly, its clear that a movement whose formal goal is solidarity with

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Cover Story
Refining a partnership
Sinai Schools and Holy Name Medical Center work
together in a big way to help students with special needs
Joanne Palmer

ou know those big signs on

Route 4, near Riverside Square
in Hackensack?
The big electronic billboards,
the ones that usually show images from
Holy Name Medical Center, but include
some pictures of kids in its regular rotations? One happy-looking kid at a time,
standing next to huge letters spelling out
My Challenges Dont Define Me, pointing
to a sign with a self-definition? A sign saying I Am Smart, for example. Or Beautiful.
Or Hard-Working. Or Cool.
Those kids are students at the Sinai
Schools, and the billboards, which feature
Sinais name next to Holy Names, are just

28 Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 6, 2015

one of the manifestations of the growing

relationship between the two nonprofit
institutions, both dedicated, each in its
own way, to helping people heal and grow.
Sinai, headquartered in Teaneck, is not
as much a physical school as an organization that runs schools within schools,
placing children with a wide range of special needs inside five day schools, four
in Bergen County and one in Livingston.
There, Sinai students spend most of their
time working with their own teachers on
individually tailored programs but have a
chance to interact with the mainstream
students in nonacademic settings, thus
enlarging not only their own understanding of the world but the less challenged
students as well.

For about 15 years, Sinai has placed

some of its older students in jobs in local
stores and other places, thus allowing
them to develop life skills. For many years,
one of those places was Holy Name Medical
Center. Last February, Sinai honored the
medical center and its president, Michael
Maron, at its annual dinner, for providing
that opportunity. Holy Name welcomed
our students, treating them, like any other
employee, with dignity and respect, Sam
Fishman, Sinais managing director, said.
His interest piqued in a relationship
about which hed known relatively little
until then, Mr. Maron looked more deeply
at Sinai, and what he saw moved him
deeply. Really, something magical happened then, at the dinner and the process

leading up to it, Mr. Fishman said. Mike

visited our students and schools, and he
witnessed the attention and innovation
and love of our professionals in the classroom, and the community outpouring of
solidarity and support there were more
than 800 people in the packed ballroom
that night. Mike was clearly moved by the
experience.
As the dinner was coming to an end,
Mike said that this was just the beginning
of the relationship, a launching point.
He invited me and Dean Rothwachs
thats Rabbi Dr. Yisrael Rothwachs to
come visit him at Holy Name. We did
and we were just floored by what he had
to say.
M i ke Ma ro n o f fe re d t h e S i n a i

Scenes from last years dinner: inset,

Holy Names Michael Maron, left, and Sinais
Sam Fishman; below, Mr. Maron with one of
Sinais founders, Rabbi Mark Karasick.

administrators access to the considerable resources of HNMC, to help us in

many ways, Mr. Fishman said.
That help is wide-ranging.
The schools financial needs are huge.
Our student body is 80 percent larger
than it was six years ago, Mr. Fishman
said. Because each student has different
needs, and most of them are highly labor
intensive, tuition is well out of the reach
of most families, so it must come from
other sources.
At our meeting with Mike, one of the
many things he said he would do was to
write a check for $100,000, to establish
the Holy Name Medical Center scholarship at Sinai. He said these were his
words that he would be starting small.
He said that this was an annual gift. The
funding comes from the medical centers
community outreach budget line.
Mr. Maron is able to offer the scholarship funding because of the medical centers mission. We believe that we are a
community nonprofit organization, he
said. There are health-related issues
associated with students, families, and
faculty of Sinai Schools. But there is also
public good, and that falls within the
scope of our charter.
The power of our participation in programs like the Sinai Schools, Asian Medical Program, Hispanic Medical Program,
Hopital Sacre Coeur in Haiti, Villa Marie

Claire and others is that we have to sacrifice to make it work.

The passion generated stems from
that sacrifice. Well accept all the donations we can get, however, our hope is
that others will see this selfless act as an
inspiration and motivation for them to
respond accordingly.
Mr. Fishman recalled another conversation with Mr. Maron. As part of his
getting-to-know-us process, he asked me
what my biggest challenge at Sinai is, and
I said it is financing these childrens education, he said. And Mike said to me
that if I ever found myself stuck, that if a
family were to come in with a child who
needs our help and it was beyond what
we could do, to call him. He said that he
does not want us to turn children away.
Already, on the basis of the gift he
gave us, there are seven children who we
would have been hard-pressed to take;
children with complex and multiple special needs, who clearly needed us, and
who clearly we could help, but whose
families were so limited that it would
have stretched our scholarship beyond
our limit.
Thats where we used our first
$100,000.

And then, in late August, we received

an application from a new family.
It was just a week before school
started. It was a family of nine children,
they were beyond financially strapped,
and they came to us with their daughter.
For far too long they had avoided getting
her the special education she needed.

So, as a young teenager reading on a second-grade level, she had a range of other
issues, some of which stemmed from her
failure in school.
Our classes already were full, but our
program director at the school that was
right for her said she would stretch, and
was prepared to rearrange resources

My Challenges
Dont Define Me.

My Challenges
Dont Define Me.

My Challenges
Dont Define Me.

My Challenges
Dont Define Me.

Learn more at www.SinaiSchools.org

Learn more at www.SinaiSchools.org

Learn more at www.SinaiSchools.org

Learn more at www.SinaiSchools.org

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Cover Story
and hire more staff. But the child would
require about $70,000 in financial aid
and that was about $50,000 more than I
had left.
I was thinking to myself should I call
Mike? Shouldnt I call Mike? Hed already
given us $100,000, and I dont want to be
a pig. But if I have learned anything about
Mike, its that he means what he says. So
I reached out to him, sent him an email,
and he emailed back saying he was sorry
that he had taken so long to respond. Hed
been on a plane, and it was the same day.
He said yes, of course, and that wed
have a check for $50,000 the next day.
And we did.
He sent someone to walk it over.
It was so beautiful. And I wish I could
capture the telephone call I had with the
girls father, when I said yes to him, yes I
can do it, and yes in large part because of
the generosity of Holy Name and Michael
Maron. The father was moved to tears. He
said, How can someone who never met
my daughter or me be so kind to us?
And Mike really wants nothing in
return. Just keep on doing what youre

The father was

moved to tears.
He said, How can
someone who
never met my
daughter or me
be so kind to us?
doing, he told me, Mr. Fishman said.
Just keep on doing what youre doing.
The relationship between Sinai and
Holy Name is not only about money,
though.
When we first sat down with Mike, and
he opened all of Holy Names resources to
us, I sat there feeling like we were going
to receive all this generosity, Rabbi Rothwachs said. What could we give to Holy
Name in this partnership? And then I
thought that we are experts in special
education, so maybe we could offer some
kind of sensitivity training about disability
awareness.
He jumped at the idea right away,
about partnering in simulation training.
The medical center has a state-of-theart simulation center, opened in 2013 and
expanded and fueled this year by a $5 million grant from the Berrie Foundation.
(The hospital honored Angelica Berrie of
Englewood for this gift, among many others, last month.)
Some of the simulation techniques are
jaw-droppingly high-tech, but others are
absolutely no-tech; simulation is a tool,
not an end. Sinai will be able to use all of
it, as needed, in a program, slated, with
luck, to begin in a few months, to train
30 Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sinai staff learn CPR with sophisticated simulation devices from

Holy Name.

to go to specialists two or
three times a year. They
talk about their experiences addressing their
guardians, not them; not
making eye contact with
them, using the wrong language. There are a whole
bunch of different things.
It would be so much for
these people to have doctors who are sensitive
to their needs not just
their medical needs, but
their social and emotional
needs as well.
He and Sinais president, Avi Vogel, have been
working closely with the
centers director, Cedar
Wang, to concretize what
we want, Rabbi Rothwachs said.
Holy Name now provides CPR and AED (defibrillation) training for our
entire teaching staff, more
Rabbi Yisrael Rothwachs and Michael Maron at an
than 100 students, Rabbi
elementary school Sinai classroom.
Rothwachs said. His students are not more likely
to need those services than anyone else,
medical staff on what it means to be a true
but it is important for everybody.
provider of services in a humanistic way
We were relieved, he added. When
for people who have disabilities, Rabbi
we make a commitment to parents that
Rothwachs said. We have interviewed
we will educate their kids, its not just to
adults who have developmental disabilities, and we are going to interview parlook after their emotional and academic
ents of adult children with disabilities. We
growth, but also to make sure that they
want to learn about their experiences at
are safe. And, of course, all the students
doctors offices, during routine visits, durand teachers in the schools in which Sinai
ing ER visits. These are people who have
is housed are protected by the training.

Holy Name has reinvigorated the volunteer work programs that started the
relationship. It used to involve the usual
maze of paperwork that any such program entails, and that often repels wouldbe participants. They have cut out all
the red tape, Rabbi Rothwachs said.
They have streamlined the process,
made it easier for them to start and easier to continue to volunteer. The medical
center also has instituted an effective way
to match participants to jobs.
The hospital really is a little city, and
we have been given the opportunity to
sit around a table and discuss each students particular needs, he said. That
has been a big help.
Three of Sinais early graduates, who
aged out of the program but needed
somewhere to live, live in a house that
Sinai provides to them. As these men,
who are close to or in their 40s, age, they
require more medical services. We have
been exploring different ways of meeting their needs through partnering with
Holy Name, and it is installing a telephone line that goes straight to its paramedics, bypassing 911, Rabbi Rothwachs
said. And we plan to bring the residents
into the ER for a tour, so they can get to
know the staff, and the staff can get to
know them. If anything happens, it will
be a little more comfortable, a little less
intimidating for them.
And then, of course, there are the billboards. Our message is simple, but the
deeper meaning of Sinai students on
those billboards is profound, Mr. Fishman said. For too many years, the Jewish
community hid away their children with

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special needs. Swept them under the rug.
And so many children and families have
suffered because of the stigma.
The billboards on Route 4 take these
children, who at one time might have
been hidden away, and holds them up,
larger than life, and celebrates them as
jewel in our community.
We see these children as children,
and for all the good and all the potential
within them.
Mr. Fishman is awed by Mike Maron. I
dont know whether the right word to use
about him is saint or tzadik, but he is such
a giving man, he said. Every time I meet
with him, I see the sincerity and purity of
his heart. He is in it to give, and to help,
and to make the world a better place.
Rabbi Rothwachs agrees. He is such
a sincere, spiritual person, who cares
deeply for everybody, he said.
Why does Mr. Maron do what he does?
Because someone has to, he said.

We see these
children as
children, and for
all the good and
all the potential
within them.
Its not all talk for Mr. Maron, who is
a devout Catholic and at the helm of a
Catholic institution. He does not just
write checks. He works.
Everyone who talks about Mr. Maron
mentions his frequent trips to Haiti. That
began, he said, well after the hospitals
connection to that impoverished country.
Dr. David Butler, one of our obstetricians, who is on the board here, has been
going to Haiti for 25 years, Mr. Maron
said. The hospital always was involved
every year hed come and say Can I get
some supplies, and wed give him a few
duffle bags of supplies, pat him on the
back, send him off, and thank him when
he got back.
And then, after the earthquake, in
2010, he came back visibly shaken, and
asked us to get more involved, and we did.
February and March of 2010 was my
first trip to Haiti, and it was a wake-up
call for me. I saw that us giving him duffle
bags all those years was kind of embarrassing. There was a lot more that could
have been done, should have been done,
and we all were too busy to notice.
I go to Haiti every six to eight weeks
now because American Airlines put in
this great new flight, that allows me to do
it. I stay for three or four days in the hospital. We are now the largest sponsor of
the largest hospital in northern Haiti, the
Hopital Sacre Coeur. When he is there,
Mr. Maron uses his experience and skills

as a top hospital administrator to organize and run the hospital.

When medical staff members here
challenge us, and ask why we took it on,
when they say What made you choose
Haiti? my response it that we didnt
choose Haiti. Haiti chose us. We just
chose to listen.
In many ways, its the same thing with
the Sinai school.
He did not know much about the students in the volunteer work program, he
said. I always knew that we had developmentally challenged individuals, but I
never really knew about Sinai. I just figured that they were somehow connected
with us. So we supported it, but never
focused on it.
When Sinai proposed to honor him
and the medical center for what he felt,
queasily, was not a good enough reason,
and then they invited me to come visit
them, it was kind of like my first trip to
Haiti. I was blown away by the professionalism, the compassion, the sense of
service, the way the put others ahead of
themselves.
I thought that it was a brilliant model,
and I was embarrassed that we hadnt
paid more attention to it, or done more,
sooner, of our own volition. And I vowed
then and there that we can help them
in many ways, not just financially but in
helping train their staff and provide medical services.
Despite Sinais being Jewish and Holy
Name Catholic, the bedrock faith upon
which both are based provided common
ground.
For us, our faith tells us that every
life matters, Mr. Maron said. Every life
is important. And all of us are here for a
reason. There is a purpose, and that purpose actually can unite us.
I said to Sam, You know what? We
follow different religious traditions, but
the foundational principles of our faith
are the same. Those of us who have been
blessed are responsible to those less fortunate. A life of service, spent helping
others, is a much more rewarding life.
You can change the world, one life at
a time. Here at Holy Name, everything we
do is meant to touch someone, and hopefully they will pay it forward.
Thats what we do in Haiti, and with
Sinai, and with end-of-life care. There is
no profit for it, but we do it for a bigger
purpose. That message gets drowned out
every day, but we have a responsibility
to remind people that there is a greater
purpose. If we could all think of that, just
once in a while, just think of how much
better the world would be.
Rabbi Rothwachs agrees. Its not
about our being two religions together.
Its not about religion. Its about people
who are big enough to see beyond differences, and to do what we were placed on
this earth to do to help other people.
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www.sinaischools.org.

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Jewish World

New Pew survey

57% of U.S. Jews eat pork; Torah study gaining in popularity
URIEL HEILMAN

o you experience feelings of peace and wellbeing at least once a week? Did God write the
Torah? Do you eat bacon?
If these questions seem a little personal, dont

fret. Theyre all part of a new Pew Research Center survey

on American religion, released on Tuesday, that shows
moderate declines in religious beliefs and behavior among
Americans generally, but growth among Jews in some key
religious categories.
Some 847 of the 35,000 Americans in the Pew telephone

survey between June and September 2014 identified

themselves as Jews by religion. Thats far fewer than
the 3,475 Jews interviewed for Pews landmark 2013
survey of U.S. Jewry. (Unlike the new survey, the 13
study also counted as Jews those of no religion who
identified themselves as Jewish by ethnicity, parentage
or feeling.) But theres still plenty of interesting data
on Jewish beliefs, practice and voting patterns in the
new survey.
Here are some of the studys more interesting
findings:

Growing prayer and Torah study

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Compared with the last time Pew surveyed Americans

about religion, in 2007, the percentage of Jews who
said religion is very important to them grew from 31
percent to 35 percent. Similarly, the percentage who
said they attend religious services at least weekly grew
from 16 percent to 19 percent, the proportion of Jews
who said they read scripture at least weekly grew
from 14 percent to 17 percent, and the percentage of
those who said they participate in prayer groups or
religious study groups at least weekly grew from 11 percent to 16 percent.
However, its important to note that most of those
increases are within the surveys margin of error for
Jewish respondents, which is 4.2 percentage points.
On the question of the proportion of Jews who attend
religious services at least weekly, for example, there
is inconsistency between this surveys finding of 19
percent and Pews 2013 finding of 14 percent. Alan
Cooperman, Pews director of religion research, said
that the numbers are within the two surveys combined margins of error, but that the questions also
were asked slightly differently, so direct comparisons
are tricky.

Jews arent that concerned

with the meaning of life
Jews think about the meaning and purpose of life less
than American Christians or Muslims 45 percent of
Jews compared to 64 percent of Muslims, 61 percent
of Protestants, 52 percent of Catholics, and 59 percent
of Buddhists. The survey found that 70 percent of Jews
feel a strong sense of gratitude at least once a week.

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Eleven percent of Jews believe the Torah is the literal

word of God. Thats about the same proportion as of
Orthodox Jews within the U.S. Jewish population overall. An additional 26 percent of Jews believe the Torah
is the non-literal word of God and 55 percent believe
the Torah was written by human beings. Compared to
other religious groups in America, Jews have the lowest proportion of adherents who believe God wrote
the Bible (except for Buddhists, who dont believe in
the Bible).
Jews also read the Bible less than other religious
Americans. Among Jews, 17 percent of respondents
said they read the Bible outside of services at least
weekly, compared to 35 percent for all Americans, 52
percent of Protestants, and 25 percent of Catholics.
Meanwhile, belief in God fell slightly among Jews,
from 72 percent in 2007 to 64 percent in 2014. (Thirtyseven percent said they were absolutely certain God
exists, and 27 percent said they were fairly certain.)

Right or wrong?
Jews use common sense
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percent to science. Twenty-one percent of
Jews believe in absolute standards of right
and wrong, and 76 percent say it depends
on the situation.
Forty percent of Jews say they believe
in heaven, up from 38 percent in 2007,
and 22 percent say they believe in hell, the
same as in 2007. By contrast, 72 percent
of all Americans believe in heaven and 58
percent believe in hell. Seventy-nine percent of Jews believe other religions can
also lead to eternal life a higher proportion than among Christians (66 percent) or
Muslims (65 percent).

Jewish women pray more

than Jewish men
Most Jewish survey respondents 53 percent said they belong to a local house
of worship (the survey did not break
down results by religious denomination).
Though 19 percent of Jews surveyed said
they attend services at least once a week,
29 percent said they pray at least once a
day (up from 26 percent in 2007), 24 percent said they pray weekly or monthly, and
45 percent said they seldom or never pray.
While there is a significant divide between
the sexes among Americans generally
when it comes to daily prayer 64 percent of American women vs. 46 percent

of American men pray daily among Jews

the gender difference is slight: 31 percent
of Jewish women compared to 27 percent
of Jewish men pray daily.

Most American Jews

reported eating pork
When it comes to observing religious
dietary restrictions, Jews are less fastidious
than Muslims or Hindus. While 90 percent
of Muslims surveyed said they abjure pork
and 67 percent of Hindus said they avoid
beef, only 40 percent of Jews abstain from
eating pork. Fifty-seven percent of Jews
surveyed affirmed they eat pork. (One percent of Jewish respondents said they were
vegetarian; the survey did not ask Christian respondents about vegetarianism.)

Jews are not at peace

with themselves
While 59 percent of all Americans said
they experience deep feelings of spiritual
peace and well-being at least once a week
(68 percent of Protestants, 57 percent of
Catholics, and 64 percent of Muslims),
the figure for Jews was only 39 percent.
But that was still more than agnostics and
atheists, who experience those feelings
weekly at rates of 37 percent and 31 percent, respectively.

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Eighty-eight percent of Jews said their
houses of worship and other religious
organizations bring people together and
strengthen community bonds, but only
63 percent said those institutions protect and strengthen morality in society.
By contrast, 83 percent of Christians and
Muslims said their institutions protect and
strengthen morality in society.
At the same time, 54 percent of Jews
surveyed said religious institutions are too
concerned with money and power (compared to 52 percent of all Americans), 59
percent said they focus too much on rules
(51 percent among all Americans), and 59
percent said theyre too involved with politics (48 percent among all Americans).

Jewish Republicans gain,

but so do Jewish liberals
Although the increase in Republican Jews
is within the surveys margin of error for
Jews, the percentage of Jews who identified as Republican or leaning Republican
grew by 2 points between 2007 and 2014,
from 24 percent to 26 percent. Concomitantly, the proportion of Jews who identified as Democrats or leaning Democratic
fell from 66 percent in 2007 to 64 percent

in 2014. However, while the percentage of

Jews who identify as politically conservative stayed constant during that time, the
percentage of Jews who identify as liberal grew from 38 percent to 43 percent
mostly defectors from the moderate
camp.
Among Americans generally, the change
between 2007 and 2014 was a 3-point
growth for Republicans and a 3-point
drop among Democrats. Nine percent of
Jews surveyed in 2014 identified as independents, compared to 17 percent among
Americans generally.

Jews are more accepting of

gays than other Americans
Acceptance of homosexuality in society
grew among all Americans between 2007
and 2014, from 50 percent to 62 percent,
and among Jews from 79 percent to 81 percent. The religious groups least tolerant
of homosexuality in society are Mormons
(only 36 percent favor societal acceptance), Jehovahs Witnesses (16 percent),
and Protestant evangelicals (36 percent).
Buddhists were the most accepting at 88
percent. Seventy-seven percent of Jews
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Jewish World

Eastern Jerusalem tense

Arabs and Jews hunker down in fortress-like neighborhoods
BEN SALES
JERUSALEM To get to the Jewish compound in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, residents arrange in
advance for an armored van to pick them
up at a spot adjacent to the walls of the Old
City.
With a metal grate over its windshield
and an armed guard sitting beside an
armed driver, the van rumbles along steep,
bumpy roads lined with Arabic graffiti for
seven minutes. It stops next to a police
van, across from a six-story building towering over the street. An Israeli flag hangs
from a window.
An armed guard stands at the door; a
second sits inside. In an adjacent room, a
group of Israel Border Police officers relax
as they eat their lunch. When the children
who live there want to play, they ascend to
the roof, where theres a small playground
surrounded by a metal cage on three sides.
The building is the largest structure in
what its residents call Yemenite Village,
a collection of buildings that is home to
religious Jews who have lived in this part
of Silwan since 2004. The enclave began
with just a few families, but will expand
to 22 in the coming months. Providing
private security for them and residents
of other nearby Jewish enclaves costs the
Israeli government up to $16 million a year,
according to Daniel Luria, the director of
Ateret Cohanim, an organization devoted
to strengthening the Jewish presence in
Arab areas of Jerusalem.
Theyre ideologically driven, Luria
said. Theyre not going to let the security situation create havoc in their lives.
Theyre actually used to stones being
thrown at the vehicle, or a Molotov
cocktail.
The number of Jews living in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalems Old City and its
environs has increased by 40 percent
since 2009, according to Ir Amim, an organization that advocates for Silwans Arab
residents. Some 2,800 Jews now live in the
area, which residents refer to as the Holy
Basin, a fraction of the nearly 200,000
Jews who live in eastern Jerusalem as a
whole, almost all of them in Jewish areas
built after the 1967 war that form a ring
around the citys Arab neighborhoods.
As the Jewish population in eastern Jerusalem has grown, so have tensions with
its Arab neighbors. Both sides complain
about frequent harassment from the other,
from stone-throwing and Molotov cocktails to police abuse. Neither side feels safe
walking the streets, and both insist theyre
not going anywhere no matter how bad
the violence gets.
Itll be like this all of our life, said Kassem Nader, an Arab cab driver. It will go
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An Israeli Jew raises a flag near the Old City of Jerusalem. The number of Jewish residents in the Old City and predominantly Arab areas nearby has increased 40 percent since 2009. 
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up, go down, there will never be peace.

We got to a place where you cant walk the
street.
The Jews inside the Holy Basin consider
it an inseparable part of Israels capital and
see no problem living there. In 2011, Yishai Fleisher, who was born in Israel and
raised in New Jersey, moved with his family from the West Bank settlement of Beit
El to Maale Hazeitim, a Jewish settlement
inside the Arab neighborhood of Ras alAmud, adjacent to the Mount of Olives.
We think were living in the ancestral
homeland and we think we are protecting Jerusalem from being overrun, said
Fleisher, a columnist and radio host who
appears regularly on Al Jazeera, and who
was the subject of an October 22 Jewish
Standard story, Feeling the river of history flow. One could conceive of us as
settlers living dangerously amongst Arabs,
or one could see us the way we see ourselves as Jewish people coming back to
our ancestral homeland, living in the most
natural place that we could be, he added.
Down the street from the Yemenite Village, Abdullah Abu Nab, a handyman and
father of five whose family has lived on this
street for generations, looks weary. The
heavy Israeli security presence, placed
there to prevent terrorism and protect
the Jewish residents, has created an atmosphere of fear, he said. Israeli security

forces have stopped his children from

playing in the street, and Abu Nab says
Arab kids have been punched by police.
In the past, you would hardly feel
them, see them, Abu Nab said. Now
there are more soldiers than neighbors.
Now every day is crazy.
Until this year, Abu Nab lived in a compound with 10 other relatives brothers,
wives, sons and daughters. But the compound is now entirely in Jewish hands.
Before 1948, the building had been a synagogue, and representatives of the original
owners sued the Abu Nab family to get
back the property.
Earlier this year, representatives of
the Jewish owners paid part of the family to leave one-third of the building. Last
month, an Israeli district court ruled in the
Jewish owners favor and evicted Abu Nab
from the remaining two-thirds.
Abu Nab says that during the eviction,
his property was thrown onto the street
and his work tools were stolen. Now, sitting in an apartment hes renting from
friends, he can see his old home from his
living room window.
If someone comes and takes your house,
is that coming in peace? he said. You were
there 70 years. You were born in that house,
and they say its their house, and the court
gives it to them. Is that peace?
Arab residents complain that they are

neglected by the authorities even as millions are spent to protect their Jewish
neighbors. Although its only blocks away
from Jewish western Jerusalem, the citys
Arab half looks different. Many of its dirty,
narrow streets lack sidewalks, signage or
proper paving. Trash collection is spotty,
with piles of garbage gathering outside
homes. According to a report by Ir Amim,
as of 2012, 75 percent of Jerusalems
approximately 300,000 Arabs live below
the poverty line.
This government doesnt do the right
things, said Zoheir Rajabi, who lives near
the Yemenite Village. So now every person sees that this state treats Jews specially
and gives them all their rights, but Arabs
who are citizens of Jerusalem dont get
those rights.
Eastern Jerusalem has been experiencing frequent unrest since last summer,
when Jewish extremists murdered an
Arab teenager, Mohammad Abu Khdeir, in
retaliation for the murder of three JewishIsraeli teens. Since then there have been
intermittent riots and what Jewish residents describe as constant stone-throwing
at their apartments. Luria said one family had stones thrown at its apartment
126 times over four months. Many of the
assailants in the recent rash of stabbing
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neighborhoods and placed checkpoints on their
roads. One checkpoint, a row of cinderblocks manned
by a Border Police unit, sits just yards from Fleischers
apartment complex. A metal gate blocks the entrance
to the apartments, and inside it, residents had set up
a coffee corner for the police officers. A poster on the
gate said: The eternal nation is not afraid.
Individual residents also take their own precautions. Fleisher, Luria and others carry guns, and many
have rock-proofed their windows. But Fleisher and his
wife, Malkah, insist their life is mostly normal. Their
biggest problem of late, they said, has been traffic jams
from the road closures. Their eldest daughter now finishes school a half-hour earlier on Fridays because of
the congestion, and makes sure to go to the bathroom
before the ride home.
We get information about how to travel, how to
come back home, live as much as possible a normal
life here, Fleisher said. The change here hasnt felt
as dramatic because we are from the get-go more
prepared.
Arab Jerusalemites have many of the same complaints. Nader said drives that used to take 10 minutes
now take two hours. His block is dotted with checkpoints, and a soldier recently held him at gunpoint
and demanded to see identification. He worries that
when his two young adult sons leave the house, theyll
be mistaken for terrorists and shot. Save for work, he
hasnt gone out in a week.
Theyll shoot someone who walks in the street, he
said. The situation is scary. They began with knives,
[and] its scary for everyone.
Neither side expects conditions to improve soon.
Jews and Arabs both express a desire for normal relations, but both also seem resigned to the possibility
that violence will continue for years or decades.
Were cousins, man, were sons of Abraham,
Nader said. The young generation doesnt want to get
close. It wants to build a fence in the neighborhoods
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Thousands attend rally

to remember Rabin
Images and messages
are decidely mixed
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV Some 100,000 people came
together in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to
pay tribute to slain Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin but they were divided over what
exactly they were rallying for.
The demonstration, which marked the
20th anniversary of Rabins assassination by
a Jewish extremist incensed by his governments efforts to reach a peace accord with
the Palestinians, was called Remembering
the murder, fighting for democracy. That
was a nod to the slayings universal lesson of
respecting the rule of law and the countrys
elected leaders, no matter their politics.
But some of the events speakers were
interested in a different cause. The topbilled speaker, former U.S. President Bill
Clinton, devoted much of his address to
praising Rabins dedication to the peace
process, and he concluded with a call to
finish Rabins work.
The next step will be determined by

whether you decide that Yitzhak Rabin was

right, Clinton said. That you have to share
the future with your neighbors, that you have
to give their children a chance, that you have
to stand for peace, that the risks of peace are
not as severe as the risks of walking away
from it.
President Barack Obama struck the same
chord in a video address, where he lauded
Rabin for relentlessly pursuing peace. The
Obama speech sounded like a thinly veiled
jab at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
who recently told lawmakers that Israel
would not withdraw from territory in the
foreseeable future and would live forever
by the sword.
Yitzhak Rabin understood the dangers
Israel faces, but he also said the Palestinians
are not to be ruled over forever by force,
Obama said. Like a true statesman, he was
willing to exhaust every opening, every possibility for peace. In these difficult days, his
life, his dream, can inspire us.
The addresses that did focus on social
solidarity and respect for democracy in
turn made little mention of the peace process. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin thanked

Israelis for their resilience and having himself received death threats declared that
leaders fighting extremism are not afraid.
But in praising Israeli democracy, he also
obscured the distinction between Israel and
its West Bank settlements.
Even in the midst of the current bloodshed, even in the face of the heinous terrorism which does not distinguish between Tel
Aviv and Gush Etzion, Beersheva and Kochav
HaShachar, Israels democracy has not
ceased to realize its strength and resilience,
Rivlin said, naming a pair of Israeli cities and
a pair of settlements. And for this we are
today filled with pride.
Even the signs in the crowd were split.
Some read: It is forbidden to raise a hand
against democracy. But others, sponsored
by Peace Now and Israels left-wing parties,
carried slogans like Rabin understood: two
states, or a sign with Rabins face and the
word leadership on one side, and Netanyahus face and the word cowardice on the
other.
Tal Segev, 15, a member of the Scouts
youth group holding a Peace Now sign, said
he came to the rally to emphasize that the
message wont be forgotten, the message of
peace.
But Eliad Avreki, 35, one of the few men
in the crowd wearing a kippah, said the rally
was not a matter of right or left. The focus,

Some of the tens of thousands at a Tel

Aviv rally marking 20 years since the
assassination of Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin on October 30.

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he said, should be on promoting civil dialogue to prevent extremist acts. A coordinator for the religious Zionist, pro-settlement
youth group Bnei Akiva, Avreki said he went
to anti-peace process rallies before Rabins
assassination, but sobbed when he heard
about his death.
I opposed his path, Avreki said. But I
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Abbas goes to Europe

Gets red carpet treatment and some hard questions
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS On his
way to several meetings with Dutch parliamentarians last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his
entourage passed 300 demonstrators flying Israeli flags.
Like the Israeli government, the protesters, who convened outside at the urging
of Dutch Jewish and Christian pro-Israel
groups, accused Abbas and his government of supporting deadly attacks against
Jews. Incitement by Abbas and others, they
charge, is a major catalyst for the recent
wave of Palestinian terrorism in which 11
Jewish-Israelis have been killed and more
than 50 Palestinians have died, including
dozens identified by Israel as assailants, in
Israels attempt to stem the violence.
Their argument echoes one that Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
his European envoys have been making
regularly since September, when the latest round of unrest began. But neither
appears to have had much impact on how
the Palestinian leader is received by European leaders.
On his recent trip to the continent, Abbas
visited Switzerland, Belgium, and the Netherlands, meeting with top EU leaders and
receiving the honor of an audience with
Dutch King Willem-Alexander. In September, the mayor of Paris bestowed on Abbas
the Grand Vermeil medal, the citys highest
honor, for his efforts to achieve peace.
Such gestures have angered many Israel
supporters in Europe, particularly in light
of recent comments seen as encouraging
violence against Jews.
We welcome every drop of blood
spilled in Jerusalem, Abbas said on Palestinian television in September.
The organizers of the anti-Abbas demonstration in the Hague wrote in a statement:
It defies logic that the Dutch government
should receive with all honors the Palestinian Authority, which urges its population
to kill Jews.
European leaders remain willing to
embrace Abbas because they fear the
alternatives could be worse, according to
Uri Rosenthal, who served as Dutch foreign minister from 2010 to 2012. It is not
because the Palestinian record is so great,
but out of a political calculus in which Abbas
is seen as the only [other] option to Hamas
or to chaos, Rosenthal said.
Beyond this lies growing resentment
in European capitals toward Netanyahu,
who has alienated many European leaders with his hardline stance on peace talks,
his refusal to halt settlement construction,
and most recently his controversial claim
about the role of a Palestinian leader leading up to the Holocaust.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte meet in the Hague on October 29.

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It defies logic
that the Dutch
government
should receive
with all honors
the Palestinian
Authority, which
urges its
population to
kill Jews.
All of these things, all that mistrust
toward Netanyahu, means his voice about
Abbas and other matters is not heard in
Europe, said Gil Taieb, a vice president of
CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish
communities. It just doesnt count.
That view was endorsed by a senior
European diplomat, who spoke to JTA
on condition of anonymity, citing regulations prohibiting officials from expressing
private views. Netanyahus inflammatory
rhetoric, including his warning on the eve
of Israeli elections in March that masses
of Arabs were coming out to vote,

diminished European good will toward the

Jewish state and its receptiveness to Israeli
complaints, the diplomat said.
Adding to the problem is the perception
that Netanyahu is looking for any excuse to
avoid making progress toward peace.
For a long time, this has been the one
issue that Israel presented as the main
problem to moving forward with peace
talks simply because it was the only thing
Israel could think of to stall progress, the
diplomat said.
In his talks in Europe, Abbas used Netanyahus rhetoric and settlement policy to
deflect criticism. Settlement construction
and Israeli occupation drive Palestinian
violence not any words spoken by a Palestinian leader, Abbas told a delegation of
the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, the Dutch Jewish communitys main pro-Israel lobby and watchdog
on anti-Semitism.
As for incitement, Abbas said at the
October 30 meeting, it is not only coming from the Palestinian side, adding that
he would be willing to discuss all incitement, Israeli and Palestinian, with Israel
and the United States, but that Israel is not
interested.
Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator who also attended the CIDI meeting, described as shameful and inciting Netanyahus statement on October

20 that Haj Amin al-Husseini, a pro-Nazi

Palestinian leader, advised Adolf Hitler to
burn the Jews. Netanyahu subsequently
said he did not mean to diminish Hitlers
responsibility for the Holocaust.
The European official noted that Palestinian incitement is more prevalent and
pronounced than in Israel, and added
that EU leaders repeatedly bring up
this subject in their talks with Abbas.
Still, he said, there is a case to be made
for examining Israeli incitement also by
Netanyahu, but especially from ministers
around Netanyahu.
At the CIDI meeting, the delegation
patiently listened to Abbas complaints
about Netanyahu. When he was finished,
Joep de Geus, the 22-year-old chairman
of CIDIs youth department, read to him
a quote from Fatah Central Committee
member Jamal Muhaisen, who on October 7 said that the murder of a settler
couple the previous week in front of
their children was a case of one fulfilling his national duty voluntarily, as best
as one can.
Looking at Abbas, de Geus asked: Your
excellency, do we really need a trilateral committee to tell us whether this is
incitement?
We the Palestinians are not perfect,
Abbas replied, but these things need to
be discussed as a whole

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Chef Elizabeth Kurtz offers a new book,
Celebrate Food Family Shabbos, which
has 200 amazing recipes easy enough for
every day and special enough for Shabbat.
Beautiful, mouth-watering photographs
accompany most recipes.
A home-cooked meal is something
to be cherished and remembered forever, said Chef Kurtz, creator of Gourmet
Kosher Cooking, a website for kosher recipes, wine, and more.
Proceeds from sale of the book benefit
Emunahs childrens homes in Israel.
The book includes such traditional sections as soups, salads, poultry, meat, and
dessert, and special sections for challah,
Kiddush, shalosh seudos, and the pantry.
There are also Passover conversions for
more than 120 recipes and make-ahead
tips, prep-ahead instructions, and freezing options for everything.
Some of the tempting recipes include
Turkey Basted with Coffee Liqueur; Fresh
Caramelized Apple and Cranberry Noodle Kugel; Sweet Challah with Streusel

Topping; Butternut Squash Soup with

Curry and Sweet Apples; Salmon Ceviche;
Horseradish Meringue-Topped Salmon;
Mini Moroccan Burgers in a Grilled Pita
with Tzatziki Sauce; Mexican Chicken
Salad; Root Beer Braised Beef Ribs; Lamb
Chops with Savory Pear Relish; and Hazelnut-Mocha Crunch Mousse.
Try this fall recipe from Celebrate for
Thanksgiving or anytime.

This is a wonderful pudding-like

souffl for a winter night. The
cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves are a
natural pairing with pumpkin and the
warm spices adding depth to every
bite of souffl. Prepare in an attractive
oven-safe dish, as you will be serving it
directly from the baking dish. It should
have tall sides as well so that the edges
are cake-like, while the center remains
a loose, warm pudding consistency. An
8 X 8-inch dish or standard loaf pan
both work well. Serve warm for the
-EK
most oohs and aahs.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease an oven-to-table loaf pan or 8 X
8-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk eggs and sugar
together. Add pumpkin and mix until
combined. In a separate small bowl,
whisk flour, baking powder, baking

40 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sisters and Sharsheret supporters

Sharon Wieder and Adeena Sussman once again will organize Pies
For Prevention, the seventh national
Thanksgiving bake sale in local
communities. Proceeds benefit the
Stephanie Sussman and Ann Nadrich Memorial Jewel and Sharsherets ovarian cancer program. The
program allows supporters to buy
delicious homemade pies and other
baked goods for their holiday meals
Sisters Adeena Sussman of Manhattan,
and support a great cause at the
left, and Sharon Wieder of Teaneck.
same time.
The sisters mother and grandmother died of ovarian cancer; the Pies
many places, including Teaneck, Bergenfield, and Englewood.
For Prevention fundraiser is in their
For information, email srwieder@
honor. This years Pies for Prevention
optonline.net or adeenasussman@
is also in memory of Rochelle Shoretz,
gmail.com, or go to www.sharsheret.org.
Sharsherets founder. Pies are available
from California to Jerusalem; locally, in

Kosher Baker
Paula Shoyer
named JWI
Woman to Watch
Jewish Women International has named
Paula Shoyer of Washington D.C., known
as the Kosher Baker, as one of its 2015
Women to Watch. JWIs annual list honors the extraordinary accomplishments of
10 outstanding women who are making
a significant mark on the world through
their vision, leadership, and commitment
to their work, families and communities.
Ms. Shoyer will be honored at a gala luncheon and awards ceremony on December
7 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington.

Pumpkin Souffl

Serves 8 to 10
6 eggs or 1 1/4 cup egg beaters
1 cup sugar
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin pure
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Pinch nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt

Sharsheret pies for Thanksgiving

Paula Shoyer

soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and

salt. Add to pumpkin mixture and stir
until moistened. Pour into loaf pan and
bake for approximately 22 to 25 minutes, or until the edges are set, but the
center remains loose and pudding-like.
Serve warm.
Passover: substitute 1/2 cup potato
starch plus 1/2 matzo cake meal for 1
cup flour. Prepare as instructed.
Make ahead: Can be prepared 2 days
ahead of time. Store, covered in the
refrigerator or freeze up to 3 months.
Defrost in the refrigerator. Rewarm,
covered in a warming drawer or 300
degree oven.

COURTESY PAULA SHOYER

Yachad program delivers pizza

to IDF soldiers at their bases
Yachad Israel is supporting the Israel
Defense Forces with its new pizza4soldiers project.
Yachad, a program of the Orthodox
Union, is dedicated to providing unique
social, educational, and recreational initiatives for people with learning, developmental, and physical disabilities, to
aid their inclusion in the Jewish community. In the new program, Yachad staffers and clients will make and deliver pizzas to IDF soldiers.
Yachad is calling on its North American constituency, as well as on Israelis,

to support the program by making a $36

donation for each pie. Along with the
pizza, the donation will provide transportation for Yachad members to and
from the kitchens where they will bake
the pizzas, as well as to and from the
army bases where they deliver them.
Remaining funds will be used for Yachad
Israel programming.
Donors will receive notifications and
pictures once the pizzas are delivered.
So far, more than 400 pizzas have
been sold. For more information, go to
www.ou.org or www.yachad.org.

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Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Your Talmudic Advice Column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
to recite to correct for trouTalmud, write an advice column, or get up
bling dreams, Im not recomI often have vivid and draand wrestle with an angel into the wee hours
matic dreams. When I wake
mending that you try them,
of the morning. There simply is no use in
up I remember the details. At
unless you believe they will
stressing out about getting too little sleep.
times this disturbs me, because
help you.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
I dont know whats going on
You live in the here and
My shuls board of directors has become
in my head and what these
now. When you wake up after
secretive about some details of the annual
dreams mean. Do you have
a torrid night of dreaming
budget and finances. Recently the controlany special talmudic insights
lucid or otherwise perhaps
Rabbi Tzvee
ling group of the board approved spending
that will help me?
you can say to yourself with
Zahavy
Seeking Interpretation
more than was allocated by earlier budget
amusement, Wow, that was
in Tenafly
votes. I feel worried and somewhat angry
an interesting story episode in
Dear Seeking,
about the way they are handling these matmy personal dramatic series.
ters. Whats my best course of action?
We Israelites certainly have claimed for ages
Our private dream reveries can be exciting,
Ought We Audit in Teaneck
to have some special insights into dreams.
scary, upsetting, enigmatic, or just entertaining. Own your dreams for a few minDear Audit,
Ancient interpreters among us believed that
utes, relish and appreciate them, and then
A synagogue is most commonly both a comdreams were portents of the future. And
munal organization and a not-for-profit
move on to attending to your daily affairs.
modern Jewish interpreters have insisted
charity. If your shul is such an entity, you
that a persons dreams reveal the workings
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
are justified in objecting if it is not fully
of the unconscious psyche.
Often I have trouble sleeping. Some nights I
transparent about financial matters and
If not for the grandiose dreams of our
get only 4 hours of sleep. What can I do to
not totally frugal about keeping within the
ancestor Joseph, he never would have been
fix this?
bounds of its voted and projected budget.
sold to slavery in Egypt. And if not for his
Wide awake in Wayne
If the controlling directors of the institurise to power after his predictions of years
Dear Awake,
tion deviate from those paths, perhaps they
of plenty and years of famine based on Pharaohs dreams, our biblical ancestors likely
I believe sleep is way overrated. You get
have a good reason for doing so. Whatever
would have perished in famine, and we Jews
what you can, and unless you operate heavy
the situation, you should realize that anger
would not be here today.
machinery or pilot a plane, you will make it
and worry will get you nowhere.
More recently, a great Jew, Sigmund
through the day with as much or as little as
If you feel strongly that your shul is acting
Freud, revolutionized psychology with his
you can get. Even if you get too little sleep
improperly in financial matters, you have a
insistence that dreams provide windows
and get a bit drowsy at 2 p.m. the next day,
few choices. You can accept the messy way
into our past experiences that trigger our
you wont face any real danger.
things are, or you can walk away and join
fears and phobias. He proposed as well that
Sure, there is an idea afoot in our society
another shul. Or you can try to fix the situation, to make it right.
our dreams can be a source of self-knowlthat you should get seven or more hours
edge into our deepest hopes and aspiraIf you opt for the latter path, know that
a night of sleep. And there is a prevalent
tions. Some believe that dreams emerge
your chances of success will be small. Keep
notion that modern life and its inventions
from the unconscious mind as it processes
in mind the principle that my very favorhave made getting enough sleep more
ite biblical verse, Kohelet 1:15, tells us:
the days activities, as well as concerns,
difficult.
That which is crooked cannot be made
stresses, and emotional pressures.
But in story the Times published on OctoThe Talmud has a handbook approach to
ber 15, Do We Really Need to Sleep 7 Hours
straight, and that which is wanting cannot
dream meanings in Berakhot. A dream folA Night, the paper reported on scientific
be numbered.
lows its interpretation is one of the sages
studies of primitive tribes who had no electrical or technological innovations in their
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
well-known principles. It seems to mean that
societies. The studies found that the averAfter my uncle died my family decided to
a person ought to go to a good dream interpreter to get an optimistic forecast for those
age amount of sleep in these people was
delay for several days before telling my
mini-revelations of personal future events.
well under what is recommended to us as
father his brother about it because my
According to the talmudic approach,
adequate sleep, and these were very healthy
father was in the hospital after having surgery. I feel that concealing that loss from
dreaming about specific rabbis had differpeople who are not suffering chronic disent meanings. If you dreamed about the
ease and insomnia.
him was wrong. Shouldnt we always be
Famous insomniacs in our tradition
patriarch Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah, for
upfront, regardless of the circumstances?
Forthright in Fairlawn
include Achashverosh, who during a sleepinstance, that meant youd be rich. Back
less night discovered that Mordechai had
Dear Forthright,
when I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on the rabbinic traditions about that rabbi, I spent day
been the person who saved his life from an
Many families have had analogous situations where some bad news was withheld
and night learning about him and certainly
assassination attempt. King David also slept
from someone for one reason or another.
I did dream about him. Im still waiting for
very little, as did the Gaon of Vilna, who
Occasionally a story of this kind of omisthe promised meaning to be realized.
reportedly slept only two hours a night. In
sion is quite a public matter. Just recently
You are lucky if what you call vivid
addition, we have mandated sleepless nights
Kansas City Royals baseball player Edinson
dreams are in fact lucid dreams, meaning
in particular the first night of Shavuot,
Volquez pitched six innings in Game 1 of the
dreams in which you participate actively
when many stay up all night to learn Torah.
World Series. Not until he was done was
in adventures as if you were somewhat
So sleep seven hours a night if you can.
he was told that his father had died shortly
awake. Few people are fortunate enough to
And if you cant, go with flow. Do some
before the game.
have that kind of interactive dream activity
crossword puzzles, read a book, study some
regularly.
My advice is not to fret about finding
The Dear Rabbi Zahavy column offers timely advice based on timeless
deeper meanings. Pay no heed to the great
talmudic wisdom. It aspires to be equally respectful and meaningful to all
interests and impacts of the dream interprevarieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first
tations that came before you in our peoples
Friday of the month. Please mail your questions to the Jewish Standard or
history.
email DearRabbi@jewishmediagroup.com.
And although there are rabbinic prayers
42 Jewish Standard NOVEMBER 6, 2015

There may be good reasons to justify

withholding bad news. In Volquezs case,
the family decided that he should not be distracted from his lifes dream by bad tidings.
They believed he would have ample time to
mourn a few hours later.
In Jewish law, in the period before the
burial of a dead relative, a mourner is
exempt from all mitzvot. It is presumed that
his or her grief poses an inescapable distraction, and creates an emotional state that has
an immediate and personal impact on the
bereaved. In such a state a person cannot
and need not perform religious obligations.
Its not universal, though, that a report of
a loss will impede an athletes performance,
or even, for that matter, a sports teams or a
troop of soldiers performances.
There is a famous story that football
coach Knute Rockne, hoping to inspire his
team, Notre Dame, told the players of the
tragic death of their hero, the great player
George Gipp. Win one for the Gipper, he
said, and sent the team out to beat Army in
a 1928 game.
In the realm of the military, accounts of
heroic martyrs often are used to stir soldiers to bravery and passion in battle, precisely because the dramas can hit emotional
chords and trigger strong reactions.
Your family was actively dishonest in
withholding the sad news, as was Volquez
family. In each case they justified the decision not to tell the bereaved.
I hope that Kansas City Royals management did not actively convince the family to
delay telling Volquez. A baseball team has
a primarily financial motive for having its
best-prepared ace go out and pitch a good
game. Thats not a factor I would want to
have thrown into the decision-making process about informing a person about his
fathers death.
In the realm of medical practice, truth
telling, or veracity, is an important bioethics principle. But so is non-maleficence
or do no harm. When the two principles
conflict, sometimes it is appropriate to withhold information that might affect someones health and well-being.
My bottom line advice is that we do not
always have to be honest if it may cause
harm. Sometimes physical and emotional
health or a persons lifes dreams or the
national honor may be at stake. Each situation should be examined with a cool head,
keeping the well-being of the bereaved at
heart.
Tzvee Zahavy earned his Ph.D. from Brown
University and his rabbinic ordination
from Yeshiva University. He is the author of
many books, including these Kindle Edition
ebooks, available at Amazon.com: The Book
of Jewish Prayers in English, Rashi: The
Greatest Exegete, Gods Favorite Prayers
and Dear Rabbi Zahavy which includes
his past columns from the Jewish Standard
and other essays.

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DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY

The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 51.

Across
1. Blessing response
5. What some yell off of Masada
9. Actor Segal
14. Deli spread
15. Yankee who played with Youkilis
16. Like Moses, when he first left Egypt
17. Some votes that mean ken
18. Lamented
19. Fire called for, at times
20. Nursery game played in Eden?
23. Holy cow
24. Sukkah nuisance
25. Terem personnel, Abbr.
26. Unkosher home?
27. With 2-Down, nursery rhyme based on
the 5th Commandment?
31. ___ ever! (Betach!)
33. Polytheistic book
34. Nursery game based on a bossy son of
Jacob?
40. ___ anothers cup (Seder action)
41. Non-lethal weapon
42. Bottom tip of Israel: Var.
43. With 27-Across, nursery game based on
the Jews in the desert?
45. Part of Yom Kippur
46. Kosher Caps
47. See 43-Across
48. Part of an infamous name
51. Ben Gurion posting: Abbr.
53. ___ Shorty, Sonnenfeld film
54. It might show a genetic link between
some Jews
55. Items from a Seder used for nursery
games?
61. The youngest Haim sister
63. It might be brushed off before Shabbat
64. Kind of Torah
65. Adams lack?
66. Frank of note
67. ___ mortals
68. Orlando Bloom bickers with one in several films
69. Prepare the shank bone
70. Like Judah Maccabee

Down
1. Ones about half a yard
2. See-47 Down
3. Got a good look at
4. Schnoz
5. Parnasa maker
6. Like Andrew Dice Clays humor
7. Toils the soil at a kibbutz
8. Dustin Diamonds Screech, compared to
the other Saved by the Bell characters
9. The Michael ___ Tapes, Boteach book
10. Drink thats chometz
11. Flies (El Al)
12. Genesis
13. Tzedakah recipient
21. Where Sisera is when Yael kills him
22. Locale of a biblical witch
27. Drive meshugah
28. Cholent, essentially
29. Toil the soil at a kibbutz
30. Bat Mitzvah locales
32. ___ man in your future... (declaration
from a false prophet)
34. Joined a Shabbat meal
35. The Chazon ___
36. Johanssons We Bought a Zoo family
name
37. Put ___ on it! (Sheket!)
38. School with Hebrew in its seal
39. Magen, symbolically
41. ___ beam up, said Spock with Kirk
44. Sixty Knesset seats, e.g.
45. ___ profit (make some kessef)
47. Bet or nun
48. Hebrew National, e.g.
49. Isaac to Leah
50. Beautiful girls name
52. He shrugged, according to Rand
53. Were Not ___ Take It, song written by
Dee Snider
56. Wood used in Solomons temple
57. Josephs was recently damaged by terrorists
58. Cookie that wasnt always kosher
59. Benjamin Disraeli, e.g.
60. Downhill racer rarely used in Israel
62. Theres often one over a bimah

JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015 43

Arts & Culture

Not In Gods Name:
Confronting Religious Violence
AVRAHAM BRONSTEIN

n 2002, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks met

with controversy when his recently
released book, The Dignity of Difference, was condemned by several
influential Orthodox leaders, including
members of the religious court in London
he led as chief rabbi. When he wrote In
heaven there is truth; on earth there are
truths. No one creed has a monopoly on
spiritual truth, they felt that he denied
the unique status of the Jewish people
as a chosen nation, a position bordering on heresy. In response, Sacks backed
down, rewording several key passages and
including an apologetic preface in a second edition.
Having since retired from his position as
chief rabbi and emerged as a global public intellectual, Sacks makes his sweeping
counterargument in Not In Gods Name:
Confronting Religious Violence. With
characteristically dramatic flair he raises
the stakes, shaping an innovatively pluralistic conception of a chosen nation into
both a powerful condemnation of violence
carried out to advance religious influence
and a passionate argument that the very
core of the Abrahamic tradition, encompassing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is
universal empathy and respect for human
dignity. In doing so, he recasts an arcane
philosophic argument into a contemporary response to religious extremism.
The books central theological assertion is a dual covenant between man and
God. Most fundamentally, the Noahide
covenant emphasizes the universal value
of humankind created in Gods image. On
the other hand, the Abrahamic covenant
speaks to a particular groups own unique
culture and tells the story of its relationship with the divine. Sacks tries to find
a middle ground between tribalism, in
which each group fights for domination,
and universalism, in which those who do
not conform to a single standard are discriminated against, or worse. Past readers
of Sacks might see that this is essentially
the same approach that he developed in
The House We Build Together, a way to
maintain a cohesive democracy in a multiethnic country made up of diverse cultural
communities. This time, though, the language is explicitly religious.
Going a step further, Sacks asserts that
the chosenness of Israel in the Bible is
essentially a template for all groups and
civilizations to follow. Abraham and his
chosen descendants are not particularly
powerful, wealthy, or influential, nor do
they possess a monopoly of virtue. That
44 JEWISH STANDARD NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

God bestowed his love upon them actually demonstrates that any group or society can be blessed, so long as it recognizes
that common humanity precedes our religious differences.
Sacks supports his claim with a rereading of the remaining narratives in Genesis,
which commonly are understood as a
series of triumphs by younger sons, who
are chosen despite their inferior birth
positions, and the corresponding rejection
of older siblings despite their innate right
to the succession. This zero-sum understanding, he argues, was necessary for
strengthening Israels identity in its formative years, but was misused by Christianity and Islam, each of which claimed to be
the younger child chosen over older, castaside siblings. In both cases, the result was
interreligious violence.
As a result, Sacks asserts that the traditional understanding the one supported
by the London Beth Din 13 years ago can
not be considered valid today. In an interconnected, globalized world, it only can
cause further conflict. Instead, he says,
the 21st century summons us to formulate
a new reading, in which Genesis actually
builds toward the rejection of rejection.
Beginning with Abraham, each successive episode of sibling rivalry features ever
more rapprochement between chosen
and unchosen brothers. Ishmael and Isaac
reunite to bury Abraham together, but
never explicitly resolve their differences.
Jacob and Esau do make their peace,

but go off in separate directions. Finally,

Joseph and his brothers are reunited and
live out their lives as a cohesive family. Various statements by the classical rabbinic
sources explore different aspects of Sacks
reading. He blends them artfully to present a compelling case that although the
Torah focuses on the chosenness of the
Jews, it also repeatedly emphasizes that
nobody actually is rejected.
In a similar vein, Sacks hails Nostra
Aetate, the remarkable statement by the
1962 Second Vatican Council that changed
long-standing Catholic doctrine by affirming the chosenness of the Church while
also recognizing the Jews own covenant
with God.
Much of Sacks analysis will be familiar
to readers who have followed his work,
particularly his Covenant and Conversation column on the weekly Torah portion. For those readers, Not in Gods
Name will feel like a culmination of sorts,
the explicit formulation and presentation
of a comprehensive approach that Sacks
has honed and sharpened over the years.
For new readers, his approach will be
bold and thought-provoking. As always,
he is articulate, inspiring, and wellsourced, and includes extensive notes and
bibliography.
That said, Sacks is shakiest when it
comes to setting an agenda. Noting a
global turn to religion in an age when secular society no longer provides a strong
sense of identity, purpose, or meaning, he

laments without explanation

that the style of religion in the 21st century
is so often adversarial and aggressive.
To remedy this, he suggests an organized,
well-funded, and long-term international
campaign to promote the teaching and
preaching of tolerant, pluralistic religious
ideals such as the ones he lays out.
In contrast, as Karen Armstrong pointed
out in Fields of Blood, her own book
on religious violence, the way a society
expresses itself religiously often is a reflection of how it perceives itself. By limiting
his focus to the world of ideas and explicitly separating religion from state power,
though, Sacks almost explicitly refuses to
consider the extent to which religion is a
natural language that expresses political,
social, or economic conflicts. In a world
still grappling, for example, with the
demons of imperialism, colonialism, globalization, two world wars, and a cold war,
large segments of the world understandably feel adversarial and aggressive. In
societies that feel like objects, not peers,
within stronger countries foreign policies, it stands to reason that belligerent,
triumphalist religious teachings would be
appealing. In this context, Sacks Noahide
covenant, affirming the inherent dignity of
all people, might be a good place for our
politicians and business leaders to begin,
as well as providing advice for our rabbis,
priests, and imams.
Rabbi Avraham Bronstein writes often on
contemporary politics and culture, Jewish
thought, and their intersection. He was a
rabbi at the Hampton Synagogue and Great
Neck Synagogue and now lives with his
family in Scranton, Pa.

Calendar
Friday
NOVEMBER 6
Shabbat in Paramus:
Young Jewish Families
Club of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah holds
family services, followed
by refreshments and
gym time, 7:30 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691,
jccparamus.org, or yjf18@
hotmail.com.

Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth has
family services, 7:30 p.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.

Saturday
NOVEMBER 7
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El of
Closter offers services
and Playroom With
Parent, both at 9 a.m.
Scholar-in-residence
Michael Hollander
will discuss Israels
Social Climate during
services. Kiddush follows.
180 Piermont Road.
(201) 750-9997 or www.
templeemanu-el.com.

Rummage sale
in Washington
Township: Temple
Beth Ors sisterhood
holds a rummage sale,
7-9:30 p.m.; and again
on Sunday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
56 Ridgewood Road.
(201) 664-7422, ext. 10,
or www.templebethornj.
org.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 8
Run/walk in Paramus:
Yavneh Academy holds
its 11th annual Benjamin
Schwartz Memorial
5K/1 Mile Fun Run at
the Westfield Garden
State Plaza, beginning
at 8:45 a.m. www.
yavnehacademy.org and
click on Fun Run/Walk or
call (201) 262-8494, ext.
309.

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

Childrens program in
Fort Lee: Congregation
Gesher Shalom/JCC
of Fort Lee offers a
Shalom Baby playgroup,
in conjunction with the
Jewish Federation of

Northern New Jersey,

9:30 a.m. For children,
newborn to 3 years
old, and their parents.
1449 Anderson Ave.
Jessica, jessicak@jfnnj.
org or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.

Selengut, a St. Ottilienborn Holocaust

educator, is the guest
speaker. Refreshments.
Sponsored by the Kovacs
family. 19-10 Morlot
Ave. (201) 791-7910 or
mediahappenings@
gmail.com.

Tuesday
NOVEMBER 10

Monday
NOVEMBER 9
Marking Kristallnacht
in Mahwah: Dr. Joanne
Intrator speaks about
the fight for restitution
from Germany at
Beth Haverim Shir
Shalom in Mahwah
at a commemoration
co-sponsored by
Ramapos Gross Center
for Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, 7 p.m.
280 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 512-1983,
(201) 684-7409, or www.
bethhaverimshirshalom.
org.

Rabbi Uri Regev

Religious pluralism:
Rabbi Uri Regev,
founder and president
of the Israeli-Diaspora
Partnership, discusses
Are We Serious About
Advancing Religious
Pluralism in America
for the Distinguished
Speaker series at Temple
Beth Rishon in Wyckoff,
9:45 a.m. Breakfast
buffet. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.

Film in Paramus:

Book club in Paramus:

Dina Stein facilitates a
discussion on Fannie
Flaggs book, The AllGirl Filling Stations Last
Reunion, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 10 a.m.
Refreshments. 304
East Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.

Marking Kristallnacht
in Jersey City:
Congregation
Bnai Jacob marks
the anniversary of
Kristallnacht during
Lox n Learning, 10 a.m.
Second- and thirdgeneration Holocaust
survivors discuss growing
up with their parents and
grandparents. 176 West
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725
or bnaijacobjc.org.

Cantors Yanky
Lemmer and Yaakov
Motzen will be
accompanied by
Cantor Daniel Gildar at a cantorial
concert at Congregation Rinat
Yisrael, 8 p.m., on Saturday,
November 14. They will sing
the cantorial classics of Yossele
Rosenblatt, Moshe Koussevitzky,
Pierre Pinchik, Leibele Waldman,
Mordechai Hershman, and Zavel
Kwartin. 389 West Englewood
Ave. (201) 837-2795, www.rinat.
org/concert, or concert@rinat.org.

NOV.

14

Honoring veterans: The

Mens Club of Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair
Lawn hosts a program in
recognition of Veterans
Day featuring World
War II veterans and
congregants, Irving
Bienstock and George
Kannry, 10:30 a.m. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. (201) 7979321 or mensclub@tbsfl.
org.

Hoboken art tour:

For the second year,
United Synagogue
of Hoboken will be a
stop on the Hoboken
Artists Tour Day,
noon-6 p.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.

Education Institute.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1418.

The JCC of Paramus/

Congregation Beth
Tikvah shows Crimes
and Misdemeanors
as part of a Jewish
Film Festival, hosted
by Cantor Sam Weiss,
7 p.m. Popcorn. Series
continues November 15
and 23. East 304 Midland
Ave. (201) 262-7691.

Marking Kristallnacht in
Englewood: Nazi-hunger
Dr. Efraim Zuroff talks
about his experiences
at the Moriah Schools
Library Benefit. Dinner at
7:30, talk at 8:15. $60 per
person in advance, $75
at the door, or edauber@
gmail.com.

School open house

in Teaneck: Yeshivat
HeAtid, a Bergen County
yeshiva, holds an open
house at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael, 8 p.m.
389 W. Englewood
Ave. (201) 374-2272,
orakornbluth@
yeshivatheatid.org, or
www.yeshivatheatid.org/
open-house.

Edith Sobel
DORIS LEVIN

Journalist/critic/
commentator in
Fort Lee: Edith Sobel
discusses Jewish
Gangsters with the
Englewood & Cliff
Chapter of ORT America
at JCC/Congregation
Gesher Shalom,
12:30 p.m. Refreshments.
1449 Anderson Ave.
Gloria, (201) 944-8257.

Toolbox for caregivers:

The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly and
the Jewish Home host
Toolbox for Caregivers
Providing People with
the Tools They Need &
the Skills to Use Them at
the JCC, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Boxed lunch served. Judi
Nahary, jnahary@jccotp.
org or (201) 408-1450,
or Susan, slilly@
jewishhomeathome.org
or (201) 750-4247.

Jewish holidays in
Franklin Lakes: The
Rosh Chodesh Society
of the Chabad Jewish
Center of NWBC begins
a seven-week womens
course, A Reason to
Celebrate: Illuminating
Our Lives through
the Jewish Holidays,
10:30 a.m. 375 Pulis Ave.
(201) 560-2502 or www.
chabadplace.org/rcs.

Blood drive in
Ridgewood: The
American Red Cross
holds a blood drive,
3-8 p.m. 74 Godwin
Ave. (800) RED CROSS,
(800) 733-2767, or
redcrossblood.org.

Book group in Fort

Lee: Sisterhood of

Marking Kristallnacht in
Tenafly: The Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades screens
the film In Darkness,
directed by Agnieszka
Holland, as part of its
annual Kristallnacht
commemoration,
7 p.m. Sponsored by
the Richard H. Holzer
Memorial Foundation
and presented by the
Martin Perlman & JoAnn Hassan Holocaust

Marking Kristallnacht in
Fair Lawn: Congregation
Shomrei Torah screens
Displaced: Miracle at St.
Ottilien for its annual
Susan Nelson Glasser
Memorial Kristallnacht
commemoration,
7 p.m. Yetta Marchuck-

Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee meets to discuss
Anita Diamant s book,
The Boston Girl,
with Kathy Grazian
and Naomi Altschul,
8:15 p.m. Refreshments.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.

Tamara Freeman
Marking Kristallnacht
in New Milford: The
Morris and Ruth Kotek
zl Holocaust and
Heritage Research
Center, Solomon
Schechter Day School of
Bergen County holds its
Kristallnacht community
commemoration,

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at SSDS, 7 p.m. 275
McKinley Ave. (201) 2629898, ext. 203, or www.
ssdsbergen.org.

Tuesday
NOVEMBER 10

Ely Allen
Holocaust survivor
group in Fair Lawn:
Cafe Europa, a social
program the Jewish
Family Service of North
Jersey sponsors for
Holocaust survivors,
funded in part by the
Conference on Material
Claims Against Germany,
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
and private donations,
meets at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel,
11 a.m.-1 p.m. Rabbi Ely
Allen, former director
of Hillel of Northern
New Jersey and Teen
Connections for Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, who made
aliyah with his family
this year, will present
Rabbi Elys Adventures
in Israel. Light lunch.
10-10 Norma Ave.
Transportation available.
(973) 595-0111 or www.
jfsnorthjersey.org.

Wednesday
NOVEMBER 11

Genealogical Society,
1 p.m. Refreshments.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 585-8546.

Planning for a special

needs child: Jewish
Family Service of
North Jersey and the
Jewish Association
for Developmental
Disabilities begin a twopart program Planning
for Your Special Needs
Child, for parents of
children with a cognitive,
physical, emotional, or
psychiatric impairment.
Program at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center/CBI, 10-10
Norma Ave., 7:30 p.m.
Also November 18 at
the Wayne YMCA, 1 Pike
Drive, 7:30 p.m. Program
continues December 16.
JFSNJ, (973) 595-0111 or
(201) 796-5151 or email
info@jfsnorthjersey.org
or sshapiro@j-add.org.

Thursday
NOVEMBER 12
Reimagining life:
National Council
of Jewish Women
Bergen County Section
offers a study group,
Reimagining Life, led
by romance authors
Ruth Seitelman and
Jean Joachim, at the
Conference Center on the
lower level in the Shops
at Riverside Square Mall
in Hackensack, 1 p.m.
www.ncjwbcs.org.

Jewish Home at Home

talk in Park Ridge:
Temple Beth Sholom
offers a talk by Shelley
Steiner of the Jewish
Home at Home, Gallen
Adult Day Health Center
in Rockleigh, on its
programs, including a
new one for elder care,
and the Elder Care
Abuse Center, 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments. 32 Park
Ave. (201) 391-4620.

Danit Sibovits

Friday

Israel advocacy talk

in River Edge: Danit

NOVEMBER 13

Sibovits, director of
the Center for Israel
Engagement at the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
discusses My Work as
an Attorney Confronting
anti-Semitism and AntiIsraelism on College
Campuses for River
Dell Hadassah. Program
at the Temple Avodat
Shalom, 12:30 p.m.
Dairy refreshments.
385 Howland Ave.
(551) 275-1573.

Jewish genealogy
in Paramus: Tri Boro
Hadassah meets at
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah to hear Barbara
Ellman of the Jewish

Shabbat in Closter:
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 Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
offers a music-filled
Carlebach Shabbat,
in commemoration
of his 21st yahrzeit,
7:30 p.m. Led by
Cantors Ilan Mamber
and Summer GreenwaldGonella and Rabbis
Ken Emert and Lois
Ruderman. 585 Russell

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Ave. Refreshments.
(201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.

Shabbat in River Edge:

Evie Litwok, a consultant,
writer, social activist,
and former convict, talks
about prison reform
during services at
Temple Avodat Shalom,
8 p.m. She is a 2015
Just Leadership USA
Leading with Conviction
leader, an active member
of NYC Jail Action
Committee, and serves
on the Federal Criminal
Justice LGBT Working
Group. 385 Howland Ave.
(201) 489-2463.

Saturday
NOVEMBER 14
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El has
services and Playroom
with Parent, 9 a.m.,
and Shabbat Beyachad
and Shabbat Havurah
for kindergarteners to
sixth-graders at 10:15. At
12:30 p.m., Rabbi Alex
Freedman leads Living
Law: From the Talmud
to Today. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997 or
www.templeemanu-el.
com.

Concert honors cantor:

Temple Beth Tikvah in
Wayne marks the 50th
anniversary of its cantor,
Charles Romalis, at its
annual concert, featuring
Rebecca Schwartz,
at a private home in
Wayne, 6 p.m. He is the
only Reform cantor in
North America to have
achieved 50 years in
one congregation. Ms.
Schwartz is a cantorial
soloist, singer, guitarist,
and award-winning
songwriter. She will
also perform an original
composition dedicated
to Cantor Romalis.
(973) 694-1616.

Music in Wayne: The

Wayne YMCA holds
its gala Broadway
Jukebox, performed
by top Broadway and
cabaret artists, 7:30 p.m.
Produced, written,
and narrated by Scott
Siegel. Opening act, the
Paper Mill Playhouse
Broadway Show Choir.
Also featuring the Wayne
Valley High School
Chamber Choir. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 259.

Comedy in Fair Lawn:

The Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel holds
Comedy Tonight 2015!
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Show features Record
writer and satirist Bill

Ervolino and comics

Marla Schultz and Scott
Blakeman. BYO kosher
beverages. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040 or
email ComedyTonight@
fljc.com.

Emeths Byachad
breakfast, 10:30 a.m.
1666 Windsor Road.
Breakfast reservations,
(201) 833-1322 or www.
emeth.org.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 15
Fall boutique in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades offers
a vendor boutique
including jewelry,
womens fashions,
stationery, sunglasses,
childrens clothing, and
tabletop accessories,
10 a.m.-5 p.m., and
again on Monday,
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Proceeds
benefit the early
childhood department.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1435 or
fpopper@jccotp.org.

Book sale: The JCC of

Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah sells its
librarys inventory of
books, movies, and CDs.
Today, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.;
Monday, noon-4 p.m.;
Tuesday, 2:30-6 p.m.;
and Wednesday, 2-6 p.m.
Donations accepted.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691.

Play group in Emerson:

Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers a
Mommy-and-Me-style
class for family members
and other caregivers
with children, newborn
to 3-year-olds, at
Congregation Bnai Israel,
10 a.m., followed by an
Israeli music concert
with Mama Doni. 53
Palisade Ave. www.
jfnnj.org/shalombaby or
JessicaK@jfnnj.org.

Saturday
NOVEMBER 14

Judaica craft show in

White Plains: Bet Am
Shalom Synagogue
in White Plains, N.Y.,
holds its 22nd annual
Judaica craft show with
50 vendors, including
23 from Israel, 8-11 p.m.;
and again on Sunday,
10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 295
Soundview Ave. $1
off admission with
Jewish Standard ad.
Sunday re-entry free
if paid Saturday night.
(914) 946-8851 or www.
betamshalom.org/
judaicacraftshow.

Ave. Avi Matansky,

(212) 960-5400, ext.
6676, info@yuhsb.org, or
yuhsb.org/openhouse.

Big Night Out

fundraiser: The Kaplen

Hussein Aboubakr
Former Muslim/
Egyptian prisoner
speaks to families:
Join teens and parents
at Bergen County
High School of Jewish
Studies to hear Hussein
Aboubakr, a speaker
from StandWithUs,
at the Moriah School,
11 a.m. Mr. Aboubakr
shares his connection
to Israel as a former
Muslim and Egyptian
prisoner, imprisoned for
studying Hebrew, and
surviving torture and
his family disowning
him. BCHSJS@Moriah
School, 53 S. Woodland
St., Englewood.
(201) 488-0834 or
studentactivities@bchsjs.
org subject line RSVP
Nov. 15.

In New York
Saturday
NOVEMBER 7
Ramaz School open
house: Ramaz Upper
School holds an open
house beginning at
7:15 p.m.; program
at 8. 60 E. 78th St.
(212) 774-8093,
admissions@ramaz.
org, or www.ramaz.org/
preregister2015.

Sunday
NOVEMBER 8
YU High School open
house: The Yeshiva
University High School
for Boys (MTA) holds an
open house. Registration,
9 a.m.; program at
9:30. 2540 Amsterdam

JCC on the Palisades

in Tenafly celebrates
Strong Women, Strong
Community at its
annual Big Night Out
fundraiser at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to the
Holocaust, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton,
Gayle Gerstein, and Eva
Rubach are honorees.
Jen Maxfield, weeknight
reporter for NBC 4
New York, is master
of ceremonies. Also a
guest performance by
Grammy Award-winning
Israeli-born violinist Miri
Ben-Ari. www.jccotp.
org/bignightout, or (201)
408.1405.

Singles
Sunday
NOVEMBER 8
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social get
together with music by
Jeff Sherer at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly
those from Hudson,
Passaic, Bergen, or
Rockland counties.
450 West Nyack Road.
Refreshments. Gene
Arkin, (845) 356-5525.

Friday
NOVEMBER 13
Meet in Motown
Shabbaton: Orthodox
singles, 35-50, are invited
to Meet in Motown in
Oak Park, Mich. Food,
speakers, activities, and
a meeting with Saw You
at Sinai matchmaker
Tova Weinberg.
Visit tinyurl.com/
MeetInMotownShabbaton
or email MeetInMotown@
gmail.com.

Holiday boutique in
Teaneck: The sisterhood
of Congregation
Beth Sholom holds a
boutique with vendors,
10 a.m.-3 p.m. 354 Maitland
Ave. (201) 833-2620.

Holocaust music in
Teaneck: Dr. Tamara
Freeman presents
a Holocaust music
lecture/recital at Temple

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Photographs on display in Tenafly

Shop at Jewish Home on Black Friday

The Joy of Seeing, photographs by Susan Fried McTigue

of Closter, is on display in the
Waltuch Art Gallery of the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly through November 25.
Ms. McTigue has held curatorial positions at the Hudson River
Museum in Yonkers, the Museum
of the City of New York, and the
Neuberger Museum at SUNY Purchase, where she was the director. She has exhibited at the Belskie Museum, the Closter Library,
and Closter Borough Hall.
For information call Jessica
Spiegel at (201) 408-1426 or go to
www.jccotp.org.

The Jewish Home Assisted Living in River

Vale is holding a sale on Friday, November 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event
includes raffles every half hour and items
including jewelry, adult and childrens

Reflection and Ropes,

by Susan Fried McTigue.
COURTESY JCCOTP

Womens League day of study

The Garden State region of the Womens
League for Conservative Judaism will
hold its Day of Study on Sunday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m., at the Pine Brook
Jewish Center in Montville.
The program focuses on this years
Womens League theme, She Plants
a Vineyard. Lisa Kogen, WLCJs program and education director, will lead
an interactive study session, From
Eve to GoldaSeductive, Saucy, and
Strident. Benjamin Goldberg, a third

year rabbinical student at the Jewish

Theological Seminary, will talk about
his experiences at the school. Womens League will present its Torah Fund
awards to individual sisterhoods for
their fundraising efforts at the seminary.
Abby Finkel and Teresa Samtur are
event co-chairs. To register and for
information, email Lynette at LynetteSeader59@gmail.com or call (732)
254-4966.

clothing, handbags, accessories, candles,

makeup, chocolate, and silver.
In addition, there will be tours of the
facility, at 685 Westwood Ave. For information, call (201) 666-2370.

Its all about

Picasso

Kids to cook
and learn

Dor LDor at Congregation Ahavath Torah

in Englewood offers a talk on Pablo Picasso
by art historian Sheryl Intrator Urman,
followed by brunch and then a trip to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the
exhibit Picasso Sculpture. The event is
set for Monday November 16, at 10:30 a.m.
It costs $48 for the full program with lecture, brunch, transportation, and MOMA
admission and $15 for the brunch and lecture at the shul, 240 Broad Ave. Reservations are due Nov. 11. For information, call
(201) 568-1315.

The Chabad Center of Passaic County

in Wayne offers a cooking class for 3-to
10-year-olds on the culinary and cultural traditions of different nations.
Participants will sample the prepared
meal. Each class costs $8 per child.
Sessions are at the Chabad Center, 194
Ratzer Road, on November 11, Deccember 16, February. 17, March 16, and
May 18 at 4:30 p.m. call (973) 694-6274
or go to jewishwayne.com.

thejewishstandard.com

OU unveils Torah app for iPhones

The Orthodox Union offers a Torah
app for an iPhone or iPad that will offer
instant access to the world of Torah on
OUtorah.org. With a single click, users
can follow along with the OUs many
daily learning programs, including Daf

Yomi, Nach Yomi, Mishna Yomit, and

Mishnah Brurah Yomi, and insightful
and thought-provoking shiurim on each
weeks Torah portion. The OU Torah app
is available on iTunes.

Three Dog Night at bergenPAC

The legendary pop
group Three Dog
Night celebrates its
fourth decade at the
Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood on Thursday,
January 28, at 8 p.m.
(This is rescheduled
from the original date,
November 5.) The
groups songs include
Mama Told Me (Not
To Come), Joy to
the World, Black
a n d W h i t e , a n d
Shambala.
Tickets for the Grammy Award-nominated band are available at www.ticketmaster.
com or www.bergenpac.org or at the box office, (201) 227 1030.
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Mendelowitz
FROM PAGE 7

I remember that it had snowed, and my

friends had gone sledding, but I hadnt come.
I had homework to do. I told her that, and I
remember her yelling at me. She said, Whats
wrong with you? Go out and go sledding!
In 20 years you wont remember anything
about your homework, but youll remember
being with your friends, on your sled.
His mother could do just about anything,
Dr. Mendelowitz said. She taught me how to
throw a baseball, how to hit a baseball, how
to ride a bike, how to drive a car, he said.

She played baseball. She also taught me how

to bake and cook.
She loved art, music, style, Broadway, he
continued. She had no fear. She was tough
as nails. And everything she did was out of
love.
Ms. Mendelowitzs husband, Rabbi Samuel
Mendelowitz, who became a marital therapist after he left the pulpit, died in 2008. Her
survivors include her son, Alan, her daughter-in-law, Francine, and her grandchildren,
Rachel, Dylan, Elana, David, Joshua, and
Alyssa. They also include her nieces and
nephews, and the children and parents
whose lives she touched and made better.

RCA
FROM PAGE 9

have shown countless times that they

reject the basic tenets of our faith, particularly the authority of the Torah and its
Sages. Accordingly, they are no different
than other dissident movements throughout our history that have rejected these
basic tenets, reads the statement.
We therefore inform the public that in

At Home
FROM PAGE 24

Jewish Home
FROM PAGE 12

My son was a little upset about my going

at first, but then he saw that it was the right
thing to do, said Phyllis Schwartz, 75, a client
of the Jewish Homes Gallen Adult Day Care
program. I thought it was a good opportunity to see Israel. My whole family had been
here and I wanted to go. She singled out the
Dead Sea and the Western Wall as special
highlights.
Ms. Elliott arranged for Kotel replicas to be
erected at the Rockleigh and River Vale campuses a month before the trip, and residents
and staff were encouraged to write notes and
tuck them between the stones. It is a popular tradition to insert prayers and wishes into
the Western Wall, which is the only intact
remnant of the Second Temple compound
destroyed by the Romans around 70 C.E.
We very carefully collected and Ziplocked
all those notes and brought them with us,
she said. We handed them out, and people
went down to the Wall and were able to place
them in the cracks.
One of our African-American staff members had a big bag of notes from her church.
There is no way to describe the power and
spirituality of being at the Kotel; you just have
to feel it.
We all did, whether we were Jewish or
not, and there were both tears and hugs as
we shared this moment together.
Bob Bardach, the Jewish Home at Rockleighs assistant administrator, said that he
also was moved by the groups encounter at
Beit Halochem, a rehabilitation and sports
center for wounded soldiers. Former IDF
combat officer Roei Ben-Tolila told the visitors that he was permanently paralyzed as
a result of accidental friendly fire during a
raid to arrest Arab terrorists, yet he has real
sensitivity for the Arab people, said Mr. Bardach, who joined other mission participants
in a wheelchair basketball game with their
host. I was moved by his whole approach
to life.
Id never been to Israel and I thought as a
Jew I should go, and I was fortunate to have
this opportunity, he continued. I have been
surprised at how well, from my observations,
everyone gets along: Arabs, Jews, Druze.
I learned that there are Arab doctors and
nurses in all the hospitals. The perception of
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Americans is very different than the reality

here, and it was very enlightening to me.
A visit to Yad Vashem, Israels national
Holocaust memorial museum, was another
high point for many participants. We had a
remarkable tour made even more poignant
by the fact that one of our staff members is
the daughter of a survivor, Ms. Elliott said.
Her mothers picture is in the Auschwitz
album that was found after the war. As
we stood at that exhibit, and photos from
the album flashed by us, the photo of her
mother and aunt appeared on the screen.
It was an emotional moment, and we felt
incredibly moved and privileged to share
this with her.
Joel Schwartz, an 84-year-old resident at
River Vale, had been to Israel many times
before and took this opportunity to visit his
brother and first cousins during some free
time. It would have been difficult to undertake this trip on my own, he said.
Miriam Goldfarb, 87, was able to see her
grandson, who is studying in Israel this year,
as well as her niece and great-niece in the
evening hours. Weve been having so much
fun, she said. What made the trip special
was Carol arranging everything to a tee.
The other two participants were Abraham
Sopher, 87, and Roy Blumenthal, 77.
Melanie Cohen, the Jewish Home Foundations executive director, explained that the
mission was financed entirely by donations
from 18 people from Bergen County. Most of
them are Jewish Home board members.
Weve been videotaping throughout the
trip and will edit it into a short video to give
the donors as a token of our appreciation,
she said. But unless youre here to see it, you
cant possibly capture the emotion of experiencing it with this group of people knowing its most probably their last time. Its very
heartwarming to see seniors like Harold, who
have never been here before, fulfill a bucketlist item, a lifetime dream.
Ms. Elliott says that if there is enough interest, the Jewish Home might offer an Israel
mission again in two years.
As the trip wound to a close, Rabbi Millstein said, Not only am I saying goodbye, as
it were, to the state of Israel, I also said goodbye to some of my closest living friends from
rabbinical school who are living here.
Im grateful I could include this trip in the
last chapter of my life.

There were moments of horror and

moments of hope sometimes in the same
hour. In that sense, it was a normal time
in Israel and, for that matter, in Jewish
history.
What struck me most of all was that
everyone in the group felt at ease, despite
the ongoing stabbings. First-time visitors
were as comfortable as those of us who
had been to Israel many times. Some of that
comfort came from the intellectual awareness that, still and all, there were more violent attacks in New York City than in all of
Israel during our travels. But primarily the
comfort came from identifying with the
people and the place.
We felt at home.
On our free evenings, people looked
up cousins and friends. The game of Jewish geography went international, as we
renewed old connections and made new
ones. At the synagogue where we prayed
on Shabbat morning, we met a rabbi from
Rockland County. In the restaurant where
we dined on motzei Shabbat, the friendly
chef struck up a conversation about food
in the Bible. We discovered that we had
friends and future plans in common.
My father used to say, Just walk down
Ben Yehudah Street, and eventually youll
meet every Jew in the world.
At Kibbutz Ginosar, we spent an evening
with the family who hosted a beloved member of our synagogue while he served as a
lone solider in the IDF. They became not
only his hosts, but his second family. By the
transitive law of relationships, they are now
mishpocha to our entire synagogue.
On the way to Israel, perhaps because
I was thinking about the stabbings, I took
special note of El Als tag line: hachi babayit
baolam literally, the most at home in the
world. It was reassuring, and as it turns
out, it was true.
One of the most memorable experiences of this trip was the time we spent
on an army base. We saw a tank demonstration and a memorial to fallen
soldiers, but the main event was a barbeque. The rich Americans provided
a catered dinner (a food upgrade compared with army fare) and had the
opportunity to visit with, ask questions
of, and encourage Israeli soldiers.
But, Jews being Jews, the soldiers

our considered opinion, Open Orthodoxy

is not a form of Torah Judaism (Orthodoxy),
and that any rabbinic ordination (which
they call semicha) granted by any of its
affiliated entities to their graduates does
not confer upon them any rabbinic authority, it concludes.
The Agudah are in a different place,
Ms. Heicklen said. If they say Look, this
is crazy for our community, then they
are right.

answered us with questions of their

own. One soldier wanted to know,
What are you doing about the media
bias against Israel? Many soldiers were
curious about our personal histories and
connections with Israel. Two questions
came up most frequently: Arent you
scared to be in Israel? and Why did
you come to the base?
One young woman expressed concern
for our safety and asked repeatedly if we
were afraid. It came out in conversation
that she had just returned from Hebron.
Youre serving in Hebron, and you are
asking us if we are afraid!? I exclaimed.
We both laughed. Then, more seriously,
she told me that she is fine as long as she
remains in officer mode. She also said
that her mother worries. Obviously.
To the question, why did you come
here? we answered variously: To support you. To learn about what you do.
To let you know that you have friends in
the United States. To bless you.
Just as we were preparing to go, one
young man asked again, But really, why
did you come to the base? He seemed
mystified, as if he were trying hard to figure
it out, but simply couldnt. Was our motive
so rarely expressed that it was utterly foreign to him?
Perhaps because he was wearing a kippah, perhaps just to state the same intention in a different way, I quoted the prayer
for Israel: chazek et yedei meginei eretz
kodsheynu strengthen the hands of those
who defend our holy land. He teared up.
The buddy standing next to him teared up.
And then, of course, I teared up, too. We
hugged our goodbyes.
I cant be sure what those words mean
to a 20-year-old soldier who just returned
from the Syrian border. There is a divide
between my experience and his, my perspective and his, and shared language
doesnt suffice to bridge the gap. But I do
know this: In the words of the prayer, and
in the unspoken language of our hearts, it
is our holy land.
Mine and his. And yours, too.
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Marcie Ackerman

Marcie Dawn Ackerman of

Rutherford died on October 21.
She was a bookkeeper.
She is survived by her mother,
Rita, her father Marc (Stephanie),
a brother, Scott (Emily), and a
nephew, Caleb.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.

Lillian Epstein

Lillian Esther Epstein, ne Klyde, of

Bergen County and Lee, Mass., and
raised in Passaic, died on November 1.
She attended the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, graduated
from Barnard College, and earned
a masters degree from Fairleigh
Dickinson University. She founded
the Bergen County PFLAG chapter,
which was started as an advocacy
and leadership group for LGBT rights.
She received a Lifetime Achievement
award from the New Jersey Lesbian
and Gay Coalition. She worked at the
Health and Welfare Council of Bergen
County, Bloomfield College, and
Fairleigh Dickinson University.

She is survived by her husband

of 58 years, Shelly, children,
Meryl Epstein (Trish Nuzzola) of
Massachusetts, Divya EpsteinLubow (Gary) of Rhode Island,
Kenny (Wendy) of Connecticut,
and Rachel Schapiro (Danny) of
Ridgewood; a brother, Joseph Klyde
( Judy) of Englewood Cliff, and 10
grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel,
Paramus.

Gloria Jordan

Gloria Jordan, ne Lampert, died on

November 1.
Born in Mount Vernon, N.Y., she
was a copy editor of journals and a
member of Temple Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter.
Predeceased by her husband, David,
she is survived by a daughter, Eve
Gendron (Bruce), and grandchildren,
Hannah, Selamu, and Hadami.
Contributions can be made to
Doctors Without Borders or WYNC.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.

Rhoda Mendelowitz

Rhoda Mendelowitz, ne Poplack, of

Rockleigh died on October 29.
She was a longtime Jewish
educator and a teacher at Yavneh
Academy in Paramus.
She was predeceased by her
husband, Rabbi Samuel, a son,
Moshe; siblings, Rabbis Alvin and
Kenneth Poplack, and Peina (Pearl)
Goldin, and is survived by a son,
Dr. Alan (Fran), and grandchildren,
Rachel, Dylan, Elana, David, Joshua,
and Alyssa.
Contributions can be sent
to Project Ezra of Englewood.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.

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on board, one of the victims was identified as an employee
of Hillel International, the Jewish campus umbrella
organization.
Anna Tishinskaya, 27, was a former program director of
St. Petersburg Hillel.
On behalf of everyone at Hillel, I extend my condolences
to Annas family and our colleagues at St. Petersburg Hillel,
said Hillel International President and CEO Eric Fingerhut.
Anna represented the best of what Hillel hopes to achieve
rising from an engaged student to a Hillel professional and
then becoming a leader within her community. Her loss will
be felt by our Hillel family and the entire Jewish people.

Annas creative energy was boundless she was a talented artist, singer, and photographer who strove to make
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that the terrorist group had brought down the airplane,
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Thousands of friends, neighbors, and family members
attended the shloshim traditional 30-day memorial
ceremony for terror victims Eitam and Naama Henkin in Jerusalem on Sunday, where Eitam was remembered as a hero for saving the couples young children.
The Henkins were murdered in front of their four
children Itamar, 6 months, Neta, 4, Nitzan, 7, and
Matan, 9 when Palestinian terrorists attacked them
while they were driving on a West Bank road in early
October. Their children now live with their maternal
grandparents, Hanan and Hila Armoni, in the community of Peduel.

Hila Armoni spoke of the challenges in raising the

four newly orphaned children and said, They were
saved by their courageous fathers heroic actions.
Police investigations revealed that after the first
round of gunfire stopped the car, the gunmen came up
on both sides of the vehicle to ensure they had killed
the family. Eitam Henkin got out of the car and began
to fight one of the terrorists. The second gunman tried
to shoot Eitam, but instead accidentally hit his partner, injuring his arm. The two terrorists then fled. The
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result in the expulsion of members. That, he said, would

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for alleged egregious immoral behavior. And very
often the member ends up resigning before they are
expelled.
Rabbi Weiss already has resigned from the RCA, over
its refusal to accept the men he has ordained as members. The International Rabbinic Fellowship he helped
found has more than 200 members, male and female.
Rabbi Baum wants to focus on the positive, he said.
Yeshiva University has given more than 100 women a
graduate degree in talmudic and biblical studies. Many
of those women have gone on to become yoetzot halacha halachic advisors who work in Orthodox synagogues. These jobs, the resolution maintained, do not
count as banned rabbinic ordination.
If the resolution was motivated by a desire to draw
fast and clear lines between what was prohibited and

what was permitted, Rabbi Baum is by no means eager

to throw anyone out of the Orthodox camp.
Just as I respect people who felt the need to vote for
the resolution, as more ordinations of women are taking place, I so too respect those who are hiring women
rabbis, though I believe it is contrary to halacha, Jewish
law, he said. The women are well-motivated and sincere, even if I disagree.
The rabbis of the RCA are not against women, God
forbid. We ultimately have a halachic decision. To make
a decision that is inconsistent with how the norms have
been we would really need the greatest rabbis of the generation to encourage those movements away from the
status quo.
At the same time, we are encouraging the women of
our communities to learn as much Torah as possible,
to accept and be accepted in appropriate positions.
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n 1 One of the youth groups of Temple Beth Rishon in

Wyckoff, including, from left, Taylor Jacoby, Mackenzie Jacoby, Zohar Arad, and Jordyn Schwartz, makes
a thankful tree. Participants trace their hands, say
what they are thankful for, and then hang the handprint on the tree in the temple. COURTESY TBR
n 2 The Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School
co-sponsored Shalom Sesame Goes to School with
Temple Beth Rishon of Wyckoff and Shalom Baby/
Federation of North Jersey. More than 100 guests
sang Hebrew Sesame Street songs, made picture
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n 3 A womens lunch and learn at Chabad of Passaic County in Wayne met to discuss current topics.
The next session is December 1. COURTESY CHABAD
n 4 About 50 people attended the first part of sixweek series, JLI: Journey of the Soul, at Lubavitch
on the Palisades in Tenafly. COURTESY LOTP
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funds for Sharsheret in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by selling pink cupcakes, cookies, and lemonade. The teens also led a pink project with all the
religious school grades. COURTESY TEMPLE EMANU-EL

n 6 At a Chai Caf sing-along, participants joined

June Sturz and the Bayonne Senior Orchestra. Chai
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n 7 Moriahs nursery Hebrew class continued
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aquacize.
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Bergen Performing Arts Center

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$396,000
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$899,900

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560 S Forest Ave.

$695,000

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713 George St.

$348,900

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34 Minell Pl.

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at upcoming Kosherfest
KLBD Kosher will present a variety of
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of only two overseas kosher certification

agencies that will exhibit there.

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