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Marc Daniels selling his kippot at a Bernie Sanders rally in Union Square in lower
Manhattan.
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders

leading the candidate kippah race
Donald Trumps brand is taking
Pew reports: Your kippah counts

What would we do without Pew?
The intrepid religious survey organization has now ventured where many a Jewish man has gone before, and calculated the statistical meaning of Israeli Jewish
headgear. Theyve cross-tabulated survey questions with self-reported yarmulke
identification, and have produced a fancy table were happy to reprint in toto.
LARRY YUDELSON
What a kippah really tells you about its wearer

The Pew Research Center this week repackaged its recent findings on Israeli
Jews into an explainer, laying out what a kippah tells you about its wearer.
Pew does not exhaust all the possibilities in this field, though. Below is our
research departments guide to some styles that Pew left out. If youve ever
donned a kippah, even if only for your third cousins bat mitzvah, weve got a
category for you.
Large pink satin kippah: You are
attending Stacies bat mitzvah.
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Matching kippah-tallit set: You wore

it once at your bar mitzvah.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kippah:

You were bar mitzvahed in 1989.
By contrast, he could barely unload

three Clinton kippot at a recent getout-the vote event for her campaign.
Daniels first realized how much Sanders supporters were feeling the kippahBern when he sold 30 head coverings
at a March 12 rally for the Jewish candidate in Bloomington, Illinois.
With Bernie, Jewish or not, people
want to identify with the Jewish guy,
he said.
Last month, though, Sanders failed to
show up at the Super Bowl of candidate kippah sales events the American Israel Public Affairs policy conference leaving the field wide open for
Trump.
At the AIPAC confab in Washington,
D.C., Daniels sold 10 Trump kippot, and
had to turn down requests for about 40
more after his supply ran out. Clinton
came in next at 15, then Sanders at 10
and Cruz at 5.
Those of us whose favorite or at
least home-state candidate is no
longer in the running need not despair.
Daniels still is selling Chris Christie 2016
kippot. Hes just moved them into the
Purim 2017 category.
Candlelighting: Friday, April 29, 7:33 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, April 30, 8:37 p.m.
Puffy kippah that sits on your head

like a dumpling: You are a politician
visiting a synagogue for the first time.
Crocheted kippah that looks like a

slice of watermelon: You were the
class clown in Hebrew school.
America by storm. Bernie Sanders supporters are rising up in the streets.

Such is the state of the presidential
candidate kippah business, according to Marc Daniels. The Jewish-headcovering tycoon has been selling kippot online and at campaign rallies for
months, but the whims of the electorate remain a mystery to him.
Its strange theres such a disparity, he said, unable to offer a definitive
explanation.
On Daniels website, marcsjubilee.
com, Trump trumps everyone, with 203
kippot sold. Sanders, the Independent
senator from Vermont running as a
Democrat, is a distant second (77), followed by his rival, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton (31).
Trumps Republican competitors, Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas (23) and Ohio Gov.
John Kasich (6), come in fourth and
fifth, respectively.
At rallies, on the other hand, Sanders supporters are the biggest buyers.
Daniels sold out of all 20-some kippot
he brought to the Millennials March for
Bernie in lower Manhattan on Saturday.
Giant red kippah: You are a macher in

the Catholic Church.
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Noshes
So give your pups a piece of leftover

brisket to say thanks.
Alexandra Levine in the New York Times, quoting Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner of
Temple Emanu-El of Closter as he told the story of the guard dogs who didnt bark
that night in Egypt, when the Israelites escaped from Pharaoh.
AT THE MOVIES:
Dark tale
played out in
the Green Room
Patrick Stewart
reportedly is truly
frightening in
Green Room. He plays
Darcy, a diabolical club
owner. The story: a
raggedy punk band
agrees to play a rundown backwoods club in
Oregon. When they get
there, they find out that
Darcy and his patrons
are neo-Nazis. They play
the gig and are ready to
depart when one band
member realizes she left
her cellphone backstage
in the green room. When
she goes back, she and
another band member
witness a murder by
Darcys racist associates.
Darcy orders the death
of the band members
and the rest of the film is
the cat-and-mouse
combat between the
band and Darcys men.
All the action is played
out in and around the
backstage area, which
adds to the films
intensity. ANTON
YELCHIN, 27, co-stars as
Pat, the band member
who proves to be
Darcys most resourceful
enemy.
By the way, the Stewart versus Yelchin casting
in Green Room has
the air of a Star Trek
episode in which an evil
version of a normally
heroic series star character battles a good series
star. Stewart is best
known for his star turn

as Capt. Picard on Star
Trek: Next Generation.
Yelchins most-seen role
is Chekov in the latest reboot series of Star Trek
films.
Mothers Day is
another holiday
film directed by
Garry Marshall (who
seems Jewish, but isnt).
Like his previous flicks,
New Years Eve and
Valentines Day, it is a
collection of schmaltzy
interrelated stories
relevant to the title and
featuring a huge cast.
KATE HUDSON, 37,
co-stars as the best friend
of a woman (Britt
Robertson) who was
adopted. Hudson encourages her friend to seek
out her birth mother
(Julia Roberts). Jennifer
Aniston stars in the other
major story line. JON
LOVITZ, 58, appears to
have one of the larger
supporting roles.
DORIS ROBERTS,
best known as Ray
Romanos mother
in Everybody Loves
Raymond, died on April
17. She was 90. Her long
career included a major
supporting role that you
have to see or see
again. Hester Street
(1975) arguably is the
best film ever made
about the heyday of
Eastern European Jewish
immigration to America
Anton Yelchin
Kate Hudson
Jon Lovitz
Doris Roberts
Carol Kane
Michael Weston
(1880-1920) and the

complexity of assimilation. CAROL KANE, now
63, got a best actress
Oscar nomination for her
starring role as a pious
woman whose immigrant
husband settled on the
Lower East Side and
became very American
before sending for her
and their young son.
Roberts co-stars as a
neighbor who becomes
Kanes great friend and
invaluable guide to
America. No premium
service is now streaming
Hester Street, but you

can see the entire film for
free on Youtube. Its a
high quality copy. Just
enter the film title.
Heres most of the
publicity release
for the Fox series
Houdini & Doyle, which
premieres on Monday,
May 2, at 9 p.m.: Two
great men of the 20th
century Harry Houdini,
master magician, escape
artist and paranormal
debunker; and Arthur
Conan Doyle, prolific
writer, creator of Sher-
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forces with Adelaide
Stratton, New Scotland
Yards first female
constable ever, to
investigate unsolved and
inexplicable crimes with
a supernatural slant. In
the series debut, Houdini, Doyle and Adelaide
investigate the murder of
a nun. A witness claims
the killer is a young
woman who was tormented by the nun. The
only problem is, that
young woman has been
dead for six months.

HOUDINI (1874-1926),
born Erik Weisz, was, of
course, Jewish. Doyle
wasnt Jewish, and Stratton is a wholly fictional
character. Houdini is
played by Michael
Weston, 42. Hes a great
friend of ZACH BRAFF,
41, and has had roles in
three Braff films, including Garden State. You
may know him for playing Olivia Bensons half
brother on several Law
and Order: SVU episodes. Weston, who was
born Michael Rubenstein, is the son of JOHN
RUBENSTEIN, 69, a busy
actor whose credits include a co-starring role
in the 80s series Crazy
Like a Fox. The famous
Jewish virtuoso classical pianist ARTHUR
RUBINSTEIN (1887-1982)
was Johns father and
Michaels grandfather.
Johns mother wasnt
Jewish, and I dont think
that Michaels mother,
minor actress Judi West,
is Jewish either. One P.S.:
Arthur Rubenstein was a
famous prodigy who first
toured the world when
he was young. He was
only 19 in 1906, when he
made his debut at Carnegie Hall. Therefore, its
entirely possible that he
met Houdini and/or they
saw one and other in
performance.
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California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at

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Jewish Standard APRIL 29, 2016 5
Local
All in the family
Thurnauer director to be feted by, among others, her violinist daughter
Lois Goldrich
hen violinist Sharon Roffman

c o n c e r t m a s te r
of the Orchestre
National du Capitole de Toulouse
comes back to New Jersey next
month to play in the JCC Thurnauer
School of Music Annual Gala, she
will have a chance to do two things
at once.
First, by performing at the Gift
of Music concert which benefits
Thurnauers scholarship program
Ms. Roffman will get to play with
noted musician Joshua Bell. Thats
Sharon Roffman
Joshua Bell
something she has wanted to do for
a long time.
college and the future and all of a sudden I
Second, and perhaps equally important,
realized that was not a question I had to ask
she will get to honor her mother, Thurnauers
myself, she said. This was a realization in
founding director, Dorothy Kaplan Roffman,
and of itself. I learned a lot from that.
on her 75th birthday.
Ms. Roffman, who is now 37, started playI grew up listening and watching my mom
ing the violin when she was two years old.
teach, Sharon Roffman said. I was in lessons
The Suzuki method starts with baby steps,
with her when I was a baby. While she never
like how to hold the bow, she said. You
formally studied at the Thurnauer school
dont start playing immediately, any more
she was already settled into a music program
than children learning to talk start by saying
in Manhattan when Thurnauer was created
mama and dada. Instead, first they babble,
I grew up there, Ms. Roffman said.
gurgle, and coo.
Thurnauer, she added, is my moms passion and her life.
While the violin has been her focus, I had
Begun 32 years ago, the school has been
a brief flirtation with the saxophone, Ms.
named a major arts institution by the New JerRoffman said. We were not meant for each
sey State Council on the Arts. Its director, too,
other. I did it to be in the band at school.
has been publicly recognized, receiving a DisShe attended Tenafly High School, which she
tinguished Service award from the New Jerdescribed as amazing. I got a great education. I think back on public school educasey chapter of the American String Teachers
tion fondly, she said, adding that the school
Association. In 2013, it also won a Milestone
Certificate of Appreciation from the National
helped her arrange her schedule so she could
leave early to practice.
Guild for Community Arts Education.
I doubled up on things in my freshman
Sharon Roffman, a card-carrying Francophile, has been in Toulouse since February.
and sophomore years so in my junior year I
From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the
could get out at 1:30. I was always very serious, even as a child, she said. Still, I conOrchestre National de France. I love the life
sider myself a well-rounded person. Thats
there, she said. A versatile musician who has
important to me.
played all over the world, music is a part of
Ive never been one of those prodigies
my DNA, Ms. Roffman said.
who practices all day and never leaves their
I remember being conscious of having
room. Ive always had hobbies, interests, and
an aha moment when I was a junior in high
friends. That doesnt mean Im not serious.
school and my friends started talking about
Who: The JCC Thurnauer School of Music
What: Presents its annual Gift of Music Gala Benefit, featuring violinist Joshua Bell
When: On Monday, May 2, at 7 p.m.
Where: At the Bergen Performing Arts Center, 30 N. Van Brunt St., Englewood
Honoree: Founding director Dorothy Kaplan Roffman, celebrating her 75th birthday
How much: Tickets start at $25 for students, $50 for adults, and $90 for premier
seating. VIP seating, at $250, includes premier seating and pre and post-concert
meet-the-artist receptions
For more information: Go to www.jccotp.org/GoM
Dorothy Roffman
Ms. Roffman said that she went to the Manhattan School of Music, where her mother
has been a faculty member for more than 30
years, from the time I was two weeks old. I
went with my mom every Saturday. Taking
advantage of the many performance opportunities there and elsewhere, when she was
16 she won a concerto competition.
I left high school early to go to the University of Southern California and study with
violin teacher Robert Lipsitt, she said, crediting Tenafly High School with allowing her to
count her college credits toward high school
graduation. After one year of college I got to
graduate with my class, she said. She didnt
even have to miss the prom.
Moving on to the Cleveland Institute of
Music to study with Donald Weilerstein,
she then spent four years at Juilliard working with, among others, Yitzhak Perlman.
Hes a fantastic human being, she said. We
bonded over our love of food and wine.
After leaving Juilliard, Ms. Roffman spent
several years living in New York, playing and
doing various things, living the life of a free
musician. Nevertheless, she wanted to see
more of the world. I moved to Paris; lived
in Sydney and worked with the Australian
Chamber Orchestra; lived in Bremen, Germany, and did a variety of different things
with different groups in different countries.
Its fascinating to see how different people
work.
(Asked if Amazons series, Mozart in the
Jungle, is a realistic portrayal of backstage
orchestra life, Ms. Roffman said that while a
lot of things are ridiculously overdramatized,
it brings up some interesting points. Its a
mlange. I enjoyed its silliness.)
Ms. Roffman said that she has been a fan of
Joshua Bell since she was three. Seventeen
Magazine sponsored a violin competition,
she said. It was a famous competition and
launched a lot of careers. He won it when he
was 14. I distinctly remember my violin teacher posting [an article about
it]. It was the first time I heard of
him. I love his playing.
Hes one of my favorite violinists.
Mr. Bell has an amazing sense
of architecture when he plays, she
continued. His pacing makes sense.
A piece can have, say, 500,000
notes. If someone plays every note
the same, it becomes an endlessly
flat landscape. He creates landscapes
that make sense. Theres something
special about the way he plays.
Mr. Bell has been a friend of the
Thurnauer Music School for years,
she said. This will be his third
concert. Hes a great violinist, who
brings in an audience that bridges
generations. Hes so charismatic.
She is super-excited that she will have
the opportunity to play with him, and that
the concert falls at a time when she is able
to leave work, she added. We have a lot of
friends in common, she added, pointing out
that while she hasnt yet had the opportunity
to play with him, its likely they would have
played together at some point. She is especially pleased that the first such performance
will be at the JCC.
Thurnauer is unique because it is a community music school open to everyone, and
its also got the highest standards of an exclusive conservatory, she said. That is very
unique and what makes it stand out from
any other music school I know of. As for her
mother, youll never find a better pedagogue
either specifically for violin or for music in
general, Ms. Roffman said. Shes an unbelievably warm and nurturing teacher. A lot of
times, we in our society honor people with
big important jobs. People on the ground,
like mom teaching, talking to parents of
kids every day, talking with teachers truly
make a difference in the world. They touch
and change lives.
Music is the most effective way to teach
empathy the key to a peaceful world, she
added. When youre playing, you have to be
in touch with your emotions. The point is to
express feelings, beauty, and things you cant
say in words. It forces the music-maker and
the listener to reflect and to connect with
emotional parts of their personality. Reflection and emotion are the keys to building
empathy.
The upcoming gala has two components,
she said. For the average attendee, just
being present will offer you a great concert
with great music, great performers, and an
entertaining evening. But in addition, The
people who come will have the added benefit
of actively helping the community by making
Local
music education available to those who cant
necessarily afford it. Thurnauer never turns
anyone away. The benefit is an important
part of helping to ensure that it can always
happen.
For her part, Dorothy Kaplan Roffman
who, with her husband, Eric, has three
daughters, one son, and six grandchildren
said she has no plans to slow down her work
at Thurnauer. Its my fifth child, she said.
Because we live so close to the school, the
distinction between home and work is very
blurred. I roll out of bed and roll over there,
something she has been doing for 32 years.
And, she added, Its so much fun.
Why did the community need the Thurnauer school?
We felt that there was a need for good
high-quality music education in Bergen
County, Ms. Roffman said. (The we
includes Dr. Sandra Gold, with whom she
worked closely to create Thurnauer.) Many
private teachers are very good, and there
are programs around that are good. But we
wanted a school all in one place, where students could begin younger than age 3 with
general music classes, grow into choosing an
instrument, or into being part of a chorus, or
orchestra, or chamber [group]. There was a
need for that. We didnt think a lot about how
large it would become. We wanted to create
an important and meaningful music education for people of all ages.

The school opened in 1984; in 1987 Maria
and William Thurnauer of Teaneck endowed
it, and it took their name. Both Thurnauers
took an enduring interesting in the school;
many of Marias photos of children learning
and making music there still hang on its walls.
Both Maria and William Thurnauer have
died; Mr. Thurnauers second wife, Lilo,
who now lives in Fort Lee, maintains the
familys close and loving connection to the
school.
People are very busy, Ms. Roffman said.
I hope that we represent the ability and
opportunity for people to take the time out of
their busy lives to enjoy either making music
or listening to it. Thats something extremely
important, especially now in our history,
where theres a great deal of stress and rushing around. You have to sit back and listen,
slow down. Learning to play an instrument,
you have to slow down. I hope we are contributing to that in peoples lives.
And what is her proudest achievement?
I dont know how to answer that, she
said. I wanted always to create a community
of music lovers and music learners. I love my
faculty I love working with them and learning from them, being in it together. I wanted
to create a certain tone and atmosphere of
warmth and enjoyment of music and learning of music with a sense of cooperation and
not competition. I think thats how we all
feel.
The school serves between 450 and 500
students a year, except it didnt start that
way, she said. It started with 30, then doubled, then doubled again. It was a few years
before we plateaued at 450. And those are
just the actual students who come to school.
But in addition to teaching, We do so
many other things masters classes statewide, concerts for the entire community,
the Gift of Music, she said. People come
from all over. We impact many more than
just students who come to the school itself.
The goal of the gala, she added, is to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our
students, while raising critical scholarship
funds for children in our community who
wish to study music, but whose families lack
the financial resources.
Since the school opened, it has awarded
more than $2.6 million in need-based scholarships. Nearly 25 percent of its student
body now receives financial assistance. The
school also has sustained its 18-year Music
Discovery Partnership with the Englewood Public School District, providing a
high-quality afterschool music education to
underserved children.
Ms. Roffman said that Drs. Joan and

Alan Handler came up with the idea for
the annual Gift of Music gala 26 years ago,
and they continue to sponsor it. Were so
incredibly lucky to have wonderful artists
come as a gift to the school, she said. Its
so necessary for us to raise funds for scholarships. Josh Bell has come in 1992, 2003,
and now.
His first visit was at the beginning of his
career. Weve cherished him as a person and
as a magnificent artist. Hes a fine violinist. It
will be an evening of wonderful music.
In addition to Mr. Bell, Ms. Roffman, and
pianist Allesio Bax, the Thurnauer Symphony
Orchestra will perform it will rehearse and
play with Mr. Bell. So will violin groups from
Thurnauer, showing many levels of artistry.
The school chorus will perform as well.
Im struck by how much financial support is available at more advanced levels, Ms.
Roffman said, citing such schools as Juilliard
and Yale. I feel that support has to happen
at the very beginning, to give children the
opportunity to be as good as they want to be.
To realize their potential.
Its not about creating professionals. Its
about giving them a good music education
and making it possible for them to go in any
direction they want. It enriches their lives,
and gives them something forever.
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What does six million look like?

Linda Hooper of Paper Clip Project fame to speak locally for Yom Hashoah
It all started in 1998, when an eighth-grader
in Whitwell, Tennessee, asked teacher Sandra Roberts, What does six million look
like?
Whitwell Middle School principal Linda
Hooper had asked Ms. Roberts and associate principal David Smith to develop a
Holocaust education class for an optional
afterschool program. But the mostly white,
Christian students struggled to grasp the
hard-to-understand scale of the number
six million the number of Jews murdered
during the Holocaust.
Guided by Ms. Roberts, the educators
decided to collect six million paper clips,
each one a tangible symbol of each soul
who died. They chose the clips because
some Norwegians wore them as a silent
protest against Nazi occupation during
World War II.
On Wednesday, May 4, at 7 p.m., the eve
of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah), Ms. Hooper will speak about the
Paper Clips Project in a public lecture at
Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland Avenue in River Edge.
The project ultimately extended over
several years and culminated in the collection of 30 million paper clips, which now
are on display along with 50,000 donated
documents and other artifacts in Whitwell Middle Schools Childrens Holocaust
Memorial, housed inside a German railcar
that was used to transport Jews to concentration camps.
Ms. Hooper also will speak at River Dell
Middle School and Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County earlier on May
4, and she will make a presentation to the
River Dell Interreligious Clergy Association.
I have spoken to every type of group,
from Muslim and Jewish schoolchildren
to church groups and civic organizations
across the United States and in Australia
and South Africa, as well as at Yad Vashem
in Israel, Ms. Hooper said.
It always impresses me that when people hear this story they hear it as people,
not as different cultural groups. We have a
strong tendency in our country to divide
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I find people respond basically the same
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The Paper Clip Project began with
a group of children who learned about
something that was foreign to them, in a
community that had no experience of the
Holocaust. The message these children are
trying to give to the world is that we should
look at each other as people who suffer and
try to alleviate that suffering.

A 2004 documentary, Paper Clips,
captured how the Whitwell students
responded to learning about the Holocaust
and inspired people to send paper clips
from all 50 U.S. states and from all corners
of the world.
I try to challenge people to do what
we challenged our own community to do:
Look around you and see what needs to be
done in your community to make it better,
said Ms. Hooper, who retired from Whitwell Middle School in 2010. She is the volunteer coordinator of the Childrens Holocaust Memorial and does other charitable
work with her husband, Edward.
When we speak with school groups,
especially middle- and high-school ages,
they are particularly interested in following
up with an activity. For instance, in Colorado one community started a tutoring program for students who did not have access
to the best education. And weve had folks
who challenged their group to do one mitzvah per person per month.
Another outgrowth of the Paper Clips
Project is the Chattanooga-based nonprofit
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Touching peoples souls

About to retire, Cantor Charles Romalis looks back at
50 years in one place, Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne
Joanne Palmer
here might have been a time and place where 50

years could go by and very little would change.
Maybe in the Middle Ages, say, in some
obscure, uncontested corner of some relatively
peaceful kingdom, far from the seat of government. The
people would change probably the life expectancy would
have been less than 50 but the primitive technology, seasonal rhythms, and basic assumptions would go on.
That, needless to say, was then.
Now, someone who has a 50-year career as the cantor in
one place and by definition that is a very unusual person
sees a head-turning number of changes.
Take, for example, Charles Romalis, the (clearly, given
the weight of the evidence) much-loved cantor at Temple
Beth Tikvah in Wayne. Cantor Romalis began his job as
the then still fairly new synagogues first full-time cantor,
straight out of cantorial school. During his nearly unprecedented tenure, he has seen changes in just about everything, from the town to the country to the shul itself.
Cantor Romalis will retire in the next few months, when
he will be given emeritus status. The synagogue has been
without a rabbi this year, and Cantor Romalis will stay on
until the new, still-to-be-voted-on-by-the-congregation
rabbi transitions into the job. Meanwhile, the synagogue
has been feting him all year with a series of celebrations
see the box for the parties and commemorations still to
come and the cantor has been taking the opportunity to
look back over the last half-century and marvel.
Charles Romalis was born in East New York, Brooklyn,
in 1944, to American-born parents, Morris and Anita Schlanger Romalis. Morris Romalis was a cantor, whose own
father was not a cantor but had a good voice, loved to sing,
and would have loved to be able to do so professionally.
Morris Romalis, who studied and was ordained privately,
had his own long stint an ultra-respectable 36 years
at one synagogue. That was in the Fresh Meadows Jewish
Center in northeastern Queens, where Charles Romalis
Susan, Anita, Morris, and Charles Romalis, here at

Charless bar mitzvah, sang together as the Romalis
Family Choir.
moved when he was 9, and where he spent the rest of his

childhood and adolescence.
The Fresh Meadows Jewish Center was Conservative,
almost Conservadox, Charles Romalis said. It was a huge
and successful synagogue, with about 800 families and
a caterer. My father sometimes did two, three, even four
weddings a weekend. (The shul since has fallen on harder
times as its demographics changed in other, more direct
words, most of the Jews moved out of the neighborhood.
Almost 15 years ago, it merged with the Flushing Jewish
Center, and even so its membership is far lower than it
had been at its peak.)
Charles Romalis always loved to sing. At Jamaica High
School, he sang in the choir; at the Fresh Meadows Jewish
Centers USY chapter, he was Albert, the lead the Dick
Van Dyke part in Bye Bye Birdie. He met his wife, Louise Rosenfeld, in choir in high school. It was love at first
sight, he said. When he was Albert, she was Rosie. (Thats
the Janet Leigh part.) Theyve been married for 51 years;
shes a recently retired social worker who began working
with women on their way out of jail and ended helping
military veterans getting back on their feet. The two still
love to sing together.
When Charles was in high school, the entire Romalis
family his parents and his younger sister, Susan would
sing together in the Romalis Family Choir, performing for
groups like Hadassah and ORT. Charles was a boy singer at
weddings. They dont have those any more, he said sadly.
The family was close. Music was a powerful shared bond.
Other than that, Charles did not particularly relish being
the cantors son. I had to be the perfect model student
which I was not, he said. I think I rebelled more than
anyone else.
That meant that when he graduated from high school,
with the war in Vietnam raging the draft scooping up
young men and depositing them to be shot at half a world
away college was a haven, a place to shelter at least for
the amount of time it took to get a bachelors degree.
The problem was Charles Romaliss grades. They were
not good enough for a public college, and my parents
couldnt afford a private college, he said. He had wanted

to be a dentist, but it was very clear very soon, at least to
him, that that career path was closed to him.
What to do?
I went to Hebrew Union College, because I thought that
it was the only place I could get into, and I thought that
it would get me out of the army. HUC, now the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, has four campuses. Cantor Romalis went to the one in Manhattan,
which had a cantorial school. That means a few things.
First, he went as an undergraduate, something that is
not possible today. Now the cantorial school is for college
graduates. Second, many cantorial students then picked
HUC only because they thought it was their ticket out of
the army. They did not intend careers as cantors, and in
fact did not have them. Third, it is Reform, and Cantor
Romalis grew up Conservative.
As it turned out, these last two points posed no problem
for Charles Romalis.
Within my first week there, I knew that this was it, he
said. I knew that this was what I wanted to do with the
rest of my life.
He lived at home, and my father and I went over the
music together every night.
As for the Reform part, my father told me that he felt
constrained by the Conservative movement. He couldnt
drive on Shabbat. If he wanted to go to a restaurant, he
could only order coffee. He told me, If you are going to
become a cantor, do it Reform.
I love the Reform movement, Cantor Romalis continued. I love the organ.
Of the 11 students in his year, he added, only two others
became cantors. And now, if you look at the directory,
you see that Im the only one from that time there.
Hes the only HUC-educated Reform cantor to hold the
same job for 50 years, he added.
It was during his time in school that Cantor Romalis first
came to New Jersey. He was the student rabbi at Temple
Sholom in River Edge.
In 1965, Charles and Louise got married, in May 1966 he
graduated from HUC, and that July they moved to Wayne,
where they have lived ever since.
When he first came to the community, Cantor Romalis
had the same sensation hed felt five years earlier, when
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Celebrating Cantor
Charles Romalis
All year, Temple Beth Tikvah has been celebrating
Cantor Romaliss 50-year tenure. There are three
more celebrations to come. They are:
On Friday, May 6, many of the approximately 2,200
students who became bar or bat mitzvah or were
confirmed under Cantor Romaliss guidance will
gather for dinner and services at the synagogue.
On the evening of Saturday, May 7, the synagogue
will host a gala in his honor at the Preakness Hills
Country Club.
On Sunday, June 5, the year will culminate in the
Jubilee Concert at the synagogue.
For information, call the synagogue office during the day at (973) 595-6565 or go to its website,
www.templebethtikvahnj.org.
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Romalis
from page 10
he began his studies at HUC. I knew that

this was where I wanted to be, he said.
I knew that I could come here, live here,
and grow with the community, and with
friends. And it all worked out exactly that
way.
My feeling is that the most important
thing is that the community should be cohesive, he said. I try to mend, not to split.
Cantor Romalis had interviewed and
auditioned in larger synagogues, including
Holy Blossom Temple, the huge Toronto
institution, which offered him a job. I just
thought that theyd eat me up alive, Cantor Romalis said. I was only 22 years old,
and those places are corporate. He also
was offered a job at a 1,000-family synagogue in Baltimore, but I didnt want to
go to Baltimore.
Beth Tikvah was a very different kind of
place; smaller, younger, not at all urban. It
was founded in 1956, by families who had
moved from Paterson, Fair Lawn, North
Bergen, and, surprisingly, Queens, among
other places, to the wide green open farmlands of Wayne. (Of course, the Romalises
also moved to Wayne from Queens.) The
shuls first full-time rabbi, Shai Shaknai,
was young, exciting, and inspirational. It
was Rabbi Shaknai who welcomed even
younger Cantor Romalis to the shul. He
was the reason why I came here, Cantor
Romalis said. He was my teacher at HUC;
he felt the temple needed a full-time cantor, and he recommended me.
He was a prince. Really a prince.
We have no way of knowing what Rabbi
Shaknai would have done, where he might
have taken the synagogue, had he not gotten sick and then died at 37, three years
after Cantor Romalis joined his staff.
Beth Tikvahs next rabbi was Israel
Dresner, a social activist who took on some
of his times burning moral issues, and
who is now the synagogues rabbi emeritus. He was a Freedom Rider, he famously
went to jail with Martin Luther King Jr.,
Cantor Romalis said. He had an agenda
that was mostly about social action, and he
let me do what I wanted to do.
So I did a lot of musical programming
while he was off doing his stuff. I covered
for him pastorally when he was away.
The next rabbi, Stephen Wylen, who
was there for about 10 years, was a different kind of rabbi, Cantor Romalis said.
It was Rabbi Wylens departure last year
that put Cantor Romalis in the position
of having to take on many more pastoral
duties than most cantors handle. It was,
however, a position for which the last 49
years had prepared him.
Over his five decades at Beth Tikvah,
Cantor Romalis has seen not only the synagogue but also the town change. When
I first came here, everything was about
growth, he said. And then people got
older. I am friendly with other people who
also have been here for 50 years; about
a third of the members are over 80, and
At left, Charles and Louise Romalis on Beth Tikvahs bimah; right, Cantor Romalis leads choir practice.
were trying to build from the other end.

Much of that situation, he added, is
a direct result of economics. Its very
expensive to live here, he said. When
a young person is starting an adult life
how do you afford to live here, unless you
have family money?
The town changed too. What once was
farmland is now almost entirely developed, he said. It used to be vegetable
farms, lettuce farms, dairy farms. There
used to be a lot of vegetable stands by the
side of all the roads. But no, there never
were any farmers who were members of
Beth Tikvah.
The synagogue has a religious school,
which now has about 100 students. When
I started, there were about 250, 275 children, Cantor Romalis said. It grew to
about 630 kids in the late 70s, early 80s,
and then people got older, and we didnt
have that influx. Forty, 50 families used to
come in each year; now we are happy getting 10 or 11. Still, he added, 100 students
is still a decent size school.
During his time at the shul, Cantor
Romalis started programs that include the
Renaissance Club, aimed at people 49 and
older. Together, we do things that range
from breakfasts with speakers to weekends away. Weve taken trips to Israel and
to Europe, weve gone on Jewish heritage
cruises, weve done a lot that has kept us
together. The group, of course, is aging,
he said ruefully; the millennials have
their own way of thinking that does not
involve trips with synagogue members old
enough to be their parents or even and
perhaps more likely their grandparents.
He also started a choir, which used
to meet once a month and now comes
together a bit less frequently. Its members, though, are fiercely loyal to him and
to each other.
Has the music he leads during services
changed? I try to do a blend, to make people feel comfortable, Cantor Romalis said.
On the holidays, I will do some big cantorial pieces, and also some Debbie Friedman in between. I have tried to make that
balance, and I think that it works.
On Friday nights, I do more of the
Reform repertoire, and on Saturday morning I do more to show the flavor of what
Jewish music is. Its very important to have
both, and I like both.
During his tenure, Cantor Romalis
taught every grade level here, from kindergarten to high school. He also trained
about 2,200 bar and bat mitzvah students.
On the side, he was the president of his
cantorial school alumni association and
has been active in the American Conference of Cantors, the Reform movements
cantorial association, holding many leadership positions there. HUC gave him an
honorary doctorate in 2000.
He also was active in the outside world.
I was a real estate appraiser, Cantor
Romalis said. I had to put my kids through
college! He and Louise have two children,
Jenny and Joshua. Jennys husband is Wes
Winters; Joshs wife is Elin Westrick, and
Josh and Elin have two sons, Taouyan Riis
and Joah.
Cantor Romalis also was involved in
Waynes Chamber of Commerce and
helped organize its first Project Graduation, which steers kids away from trouble,
in the form of drugs and alcohol, on graduation day.
Janice Paul of Wayne, who is now Beth
Tikvahs president, has been at the synagogue even longer than Cantor Romalis, so
she has known him throughout his career
there. I was raised at Temple Beth Tikvah, she said. I grew up in Wayne. Cantor Romalis came there the year I was in
kindergarten, and we shared the next 50
years. And now I am president as he celebrates 50 years here.
I have a 14-year-old son, she added.
His bar mitzvah was 16 months ago. For
Cantor Romalis to have presided over all
of my Jewish life-cycle events, and then to
preside over my sons bar mitzvah it was
just extremely special to me.
We have been to Israel together twice,
first when I was 16 and then when I was 38.
He is an integral part of my family tapestry. And my story is not unique. He has
been an integral part of so many familys
tapestries.
Arthur Barchenko of Wayne was the
executive vice president, in line to be president, when Cantor Romalis was a senior
at HUC, half a century ago.
Rabbi Shaknai and I went to the cantorial school and interviewed a number of
candidates, and we chose Cantor Romalis, Mr. Barchenko said. He came to the
temple with his lovely wife, Louise, set up
a home here in Wayne, and took over the
responsibilities of cantor and teacher at
the Hebrew school.
He matured and grew with the congregation, and through the years he and Louise played an integral role in the growth
of the temple. And this last year, when we
have been without a rabbi, he has been
both cantor and rabbi, and he helped in
the stabilization of the temple during this
difficult time.
He has been a very important part of
Temple Beth Tikvah all these years.
Mickie Strickler of Wayne, Beth Tikvahs
immediate past president, is in charge of
the celebrations of Cantor Romalis during
this year. He is very beloved by everyone
at the temple, she said. I have seen him
do everything -bar and bat mitzvahs,
weddings, funerals, baby namings. I have
been to funerals where his elegies are just
beautiful. And he lights up our services
with music every week.
Ellen Goldin of Wayne is both a member
of Beth Tikvah and the head of its Hebrew
school.
He is unique, she said. No question about it. He engages everybody. He
reaches out and touches peoples souls
with his music, his personality, his kindness, his consideration. He is just a wonderful human being.
When he conducts services, he does
a lot of reaching out to the congregation
to sing, and we are a singing congregation
because of him.
When you work with him, he is respectful and knows how to be collaborative.
He is always interested in other peoples
points of view.
I know that I sound like a Goody TwoShoes, but its true. Its been the opportunity of a lifetime, the chance to know him
and work with him, Ms. Goldin said.
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Is the death penalty moral?

In Franklin Lakes, a Jewish look at capital punishment
Joanne Palmer
here are some hot-button issues

that can destroy friendships
abortion, gun control, immigration, to name just a toxic few.
There are other issues that are just as
important, just as emotional, and that seesaw
just as precariously on the knife edge dividing
justice and mercy, but for some reason allow
people to discuss and disagree without thinking that people on the other side are inhuman
brutes.
For some hard-to-pinpoint reason, the
death penalty seems to be in that second
category. Reasonable people can disagree civilly and in fact reasonable people at times
break with the consistency of their own political positions as they take their own stands.
On May 9, Rabbi Joseph Prousers Moral
Literacy series will tackle the question of
the death penalty, asking such questions as
who is bad enough to deserve it, who is good
enough to impose it, and what does Jewish
law and tradition say about it.
Rabbi Prouser, who heads the Conservative Temple Emanuel of North Jersey in
Franklin Lakes, is a registered Republican
and describes himself as pretty conservative. But I really break with conservative
Who: Rabbi Joseph Prouser of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey

What: Presents, as part of the shuls moral literacy series, a panel on capital punishment
When: Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: At Temple Emanuel, 558 High Mountain Road in Franklin Lakes
How: Admission is free, but reservations are suggested. Call (201) 560-0200 or
email office@tenjfl.org
For more information: Go to Emanuels website, tenjfl.org
thinking on this issue. I am

the big questions, although
absolutely opposed to capiwe have well developed and
tal punishment.
evolved things to say. Our
It is not a live issue in New
voice generally isnt heard by
Jersey, he conceded. Capital
the American public because
punishment has not been
we dont raise it. Jewish
legal here on the state level
morality has been an internal
since 2007, although it still
Jewish issue, and we havent
is possible in federal cases.
felt authorized to impose our
No one has been executed
perspective on the broader
in New Jersey since 1963. But
public.
it is both legal and not infreHis own view, which I
Rabbi Joseph Prouser
quent in other parts of the
have held my entire adult
country.
life, has been shaped by Jewish sacred texts and Jewish tradition, he
And, of course, this debate is an area that
said. The Torah certainly prescribes capital
shows that Jewish tradition has an important
punishment for all sorts of things, from Sabvoice to contribute to the moral discussion,
bath violations to high crimes, but the rabbis
he said. Jewish tradition has evolved in a
so dramatically limited our ability to impose
way that should be heard by everyone. We
capital punishment that they rendered it
have an important perspective to share with
virtually nonexistent. Citing the talmudic
other Americans in this debate, but its not
idea that a Sanhedrin the Jewish court of
being heard, because Jews instinctively keep
that period that oversaw one execution in
these debates internal, so it becomes just a
seven years (or others say, in 70 years) was a
Jewish debate.
bloody Sanhedrin, the rabbis understood
We are reluctant to have a public voice on
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Nazi murderer Adolf Eichmann was executed in Israel in 1962.

that the kind of perfect moral perspective that
is required to take human life is not accessible
to us, Rabbi Prouser said. It is ideologically
presumptuous to take human life when there
are other options available. Doing so in the
heat of combat is different, and even targeted
assassinations of people plotting a terrorist
attack is different, but when you have someone who already is imprisoned, you have
options. There is no immediate compelling
moral need to take their lives.
Then, he added, there always is the chance
that when you sentence someone to death,
youll get it wrong. Israel has sentenced two

criminals to death, he said. One was Adolf
Eichmann, the absolutely and horrifically
guilty Nazi mass murderer whom Israel tried
and executed in 1962. The other was John
Demjanjuk, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible,
who was convicted of being a Nazi guard and
mass murderer at Treblinka. But the Israeli
Supreme Court overturned the lower courts
verdict, saying that there wasnt enough evidence proving Demjanjuk was Ivan. He was
released. So even Israel got it wrong 50 percent of the time, Rabbi Prouser said. And
Im not sure that Texas which executes

more prisoners than any other state uses
the same methods in correcting misguided
decisions.
I say this while acknowledging that some
crimes are terrible, and I have no problem
with locking people away for life. Im not
sure thats more merciful than capital punishment. I just think its more defensible because
its reversible. Its an expression of theological
humility. We cant be sure were right.
Rabbi Prousers panel is still being formed,
but the three speakers hes gathered so far
have interesting takes on the subject.
Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky of Congregation Ansche Chesed on Manhattans Upper
West Side is a member of the Conservative movements Committee on Jewish Law
and Standards. In 2013, he wrote a teshuva
a response to a question about halacha,
or Jewish law on capital punishment.
The question was about whether it is halachically acceptable for a Jew to participate in
the American legal system in a capital case,
whether as a prosecutor, a judge, a juror, or
a witness.
The short answer is yes.
Although the United States is the only
country in the world with a significant Jewish population that has the death penalty
leaving aside Israels special circumstances
the question is not if wed prefer that it not

be there, but if the policies are so bad that you
have to resist them and refuse to cooperate.
Because of the directive that unless there is
a compelling reason to disagree with it, dina
dmalkhuta dina the law of the land is the
law of the land, and because every state
has to create order, and that always involved
criminal justice, there is no prima facie reason to refuse to participate in this.
This is a contested question, and in
democracies the people get to decide contested questions, Rabbi Kalmanofsky said.
Its a bad policy, and they should change
it, and there are all sorts of reasons why it
should be changed not the least of them is
the not inconsiderable number of false convictions but it would not be correct to say
that the canons of Jewish law mandate not
cooperating with the state on it.
Rabbi Simon Rosenbach, who heads Congregation Ahavas Sholom in Newark, also is a
lawyer and a former assistant prosecutor in
Middlesex County.
New Jerseys death penalty was struck
down in 1972 and revived in 1982, the result
of political machinations (and the source of
many good stories best told elsewhere).
In 1982, Rabbi Rosenbach, who was (and
is) against the death penalty, found himself
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Your vocabulary, his mission

Bennett Muraskin wants to teach you the Yiddish you dont know you know
for state college workers. By avocation,
he is an enthusiastic advocate for Yiddish
culture albeit one whose own actual
spoken Yiddish is sparse and rusty. He
has published a guide to Yiddish short stories in translation, written many articles,
and even gone viral, after an article he
had written for Jewish Currents on Jewish
family names was reprinted by Slate and
proved surprisingly popular.
All of which proves that his parents got
their moneys worth when they enrolled
him in a Yiddish school when he was
growing up in Brooklyns Borough Park.
His father understood Yiddish and could
speak it to some degree. His mother
could not. But they were communists,
and the Jewish communists had a network
of after-school educational programs that
taught Yiddish or at least tried to teach
Yiddish along with various aspects of
Yiddish culture.
The International Workers Order
founded the schools in 1930. The
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sk Bennett Muraskin why you

should want to learn about the
Yiddish words that already are
part of your English vocabulary, and he is quick with the Yiddish
answer:
Why not?
But seriously: Mr. Muraskins upcoming
presentation at the weekly Yiddish class
at Teanecks Temple Emeth is part of his
wide-ranging amateur interest in Yiddish
language and culture.
By profession, Mr. Muraskin, who lives
in Parsippany, is a union representative
Who: Bennett Muraskin
What: You know more Yiddish than
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Where: Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor
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When: Monday, May 9, 10:30 a.m.
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communists were late to the game; the
Labor Zionists founded the first Yiddish
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schools across North America, and about
20,000 students.
That heyday pretty much coincided with
the Second World War. Mr. Muraskins
shule days came later. Born in 1953, he
went the school in the late 1950s through
the late 60s. There were only five or six
kids in his class. The politics had been
toned down from its Stalinist peak. They
didnt really try to indoctrinate you anymore, he said. It was more relaxed.
The school did, however, let the kids
take off if they wanted to attend an antiwar demonstration.
There were classes in Jewish history,
Yiddish language, Yiddish literature, and
even Yiddish song, with occasional ventures into Yiddish dance.
Of course, theres no such things as
a Yiddish dance, Mr. Muraskin laughs,
but dance was part of the performances
the students would put on for parents,
complete with Yiddish dialogue that Mr.
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Muraskin, at least, didnt fully understand.
I never really mastered the language,
he said.
Going to the IWO school was exciting. I
knew I was part of a subculture, an underground movement. We were different Jews
than everybody else. The other kids would
go to their regular Sunday school from
their synagogues. I didnt.
Nobody made a big deal about the difference, he said. He remembers his father
having some minor brushes with the FBI.
Nothing spectacular. They would knock on
There are
so many loan
words that have
entered into
English from
Yiddish. Some
of the more
colorful words
as well.
the door to visit the house and talk to him.

He believed they were trying to pressure
his employer into harassing him. It was
an unpleasant, hostile atmosphere. But I
didnt really suffer personally too much
from it when I was a kid.
As an adult, for years he has run adult
education for the Jewish Cultural Society of New Jersey. Based in Montclair, the
society offers a secular Jewish community,
including God-free Yom Kippur services.
But back to next weeks talk in Teaneck.
Its something I thought would be a lot
of fun and educational, he said.
There are so many loan words that
have entered into English from Yiddish.
Some of the more colorful words as well.
Its not going to teach people Yiddish, but
it will teach a lot of Yiddish expressions
that are part of their English vocabulary.
Mr. Muraskin finds it amazing that a
small group of people that never made
up more than three or four percent of the
United States contributed hundreds of
words to the English vocabulary.
In 2013, the winning word in the
national spelling bee was knaidel. Unbelievable. And some kid whose parents
were from India Arvind Mahankali
got it right.
Bennett Muraskins guides

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Bennett Muraskin is devoted to keeping Yiddish culture alive. People,
especially Jews, really enjoy and profit
from reading Yiddish literature in
translation, he said.
To that end, in 2011 he published
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This is a way for people to have
access to the Yiddish short stories,
based on topics and holidays, instead
of going to the library and picking up
an anthology and leafing through it to
find a story that might be appropriate
for the occasion, he said.
I saw an opportunity to fill what
was a pretty big gap in Yiddish literature in English translation: the lack of
any kind of sourcebook.
If were going to keep Yiddish culture alive, these books need to be
read, he said.
And he wants you to be aware of a
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big milestone coming up in two weeks.

May 13 marks the 100th anniversary of
Sholem Aleichems death.
He was the most famous Yiddish
writer who ever lived, and the most
translated, Mr. Muraskin noted.
So what Sholem Aleichem work
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The Adventures of Mottel, the Cantors Son, he said. I think it is the best
thing he ever wrote. Its the last book
he wrote. Its about the whole immigrant experience through the eyes of
this little nine-year-old mischief maker,
as he and his family leave the shtetl,
make their way from country to country, finally travel on the steamship that
takes them to New York, and then getting adjusted to the new life.
Its a fantastic book for children and
adults alike. I read it to my daughter.
She loved it. When it ended without
an ending because Sholem Aleichem
died while writing it she cried.
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Zerowins are
Fair Lawn honorees
The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel will honor Roni and Jeff Zerowin
at a gala luncheon on Sunday, May 22. The
couple will be feted for their years of service
to the congregation and to many charities.
Roni and Jeff, who have been married
for 50 years, will be joined by their children, Eva, Jill, and Eric, and their spouses,
Lorenzo, Robert, and Rebecca, and their 10
grandchildren, along with congregants and
friends. For information, call (201) 796-5040.
NJ Supreme Court head to speak at

Yom Hashoah program in Fort Lee
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Federation marks Yom Hashoah May 5

Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey will hold its annual Yom Hashoah
commemoration on Thursday, May 5, at
6:30 p.m., at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel. The governors office and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education have
designated the program, which started
in Paterson in the late 1940s and is
believed to be the oldest in the country,
as the official commemoration for northern New Jersey.
Guest speakers include the associate
director of the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, Dr. Joan Rivitz, and the
federations president, Jayne Petak. Zalmen Mlotek, the artistic director of the
National Jewish Theater Folksbiene, and
his daughter Sarah will perform Songs
of Spiritual Resistance. Survivors will
light a candle and a young person will
narrate their stories.
A childrens candle procession will

be followed by a procession of Torah
scrolls rescued from the Holocaust and
now housed in local synagogues, including the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/CBI,
Congregation Shomrei Torah of Wayne,
Congregation Gesher Shalom in Fort
Lee, Temple Avodat Shalom in River
Edge, Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes,
Temple Emeth in Teaneck, and Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn. Sima Alper
will give a second-generation response,
and Dr. David Braun will offer a Yiddish
reading. Zalmen and Sarah Mlotek will
join the second and third generations
in leading the Partisan Hymn, survivor
Herman Weinstein will chant El Maleh
Rachamim, and survivor Hy Miklacki will
lead the recitation of Kaddish. The shul
is at 10-10 Norma Road. For information,
call (201) 797-2164.
Teaneck Holocaust commemoration

The Jewish Community
A reception for survivors
Council of Greater Teaneck
and their families will be
will hold its annual Yom
held in the high schools
Hashoah observance on
media room, beginning at 6
Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30
p.m. Light refreshments will
p.m., at Teaneck High
be served and Yitzy Glicksman will perform Hebrew
School. Helga Marx Silbermann is this years keynote
and Yiddish music. For
speaker. In 1938, 13-year-old
information, go to teaneckyomhashoa.org or call Steve
Helga and her grandfather
Helga Marx
Fox at (201) 362-6776. To
ran into their burning shul
Silbermann
attend the reception for surto rescue a Torah scroll.
vivors and their families, call
During the war, she was
Dena Levie at (917) 334-0937.
able to warn Jews destined for death,
During May, the Teaneck Public
thus saving many lives. The musical presentation will feature pianist/vocalist
Library will feature Holocaust-inspired
Jonathan Rimberg and violinist Stephaartwork by past and present Teaneck
nie Kurtzman. They will be joined by
High School and Yavneh Academy students. The artwork was exhibited at the
the Yavneh Academy choirs, directed by
Bergenfield Public Library during April.
Marsha Motzen, for a performance of the
Hymn of the Partisans.
N.J. State Supreme Court

Rabner, who grew up in
Chief Justice Stuart RabPassaic, was the chair of
ner discusses Holocaust
the Holocaust Resource
Remembrance for the
Center of the Jewish FedNext Generation at Young
eration of Greater ClifIsrael of Fort Lee, beginton-Passaic. He graduning with Mincha, on
ated summa cum laude
Thursday, May 5, at 6:45
from the Woodrow Wilp.m.
son School of Public and
Chief Justice Rabner,
International Affairs at
Chief Justice
Princeton University and
the son of Holocaust surStuart Rabner
vivors from Poland, is the
cum laude from Harvard
eighth chief justice to lead
Law School. Chief Justice
the New Jersey Supreme Court. He
Rabner and his wife, the former Deborah Wiener, have three children.
was nominated to the Supreme Court
The synagogue is at 1610 Parker Ave.
by Governor Jon S. Corzine and was
For information, call (201) 592-1518 or
nominated for tenure and sworn in by
go to yiftlee.org.
Governor Chris Christie in 2014. Mr.
Women for Israel reception

Jill Oron, a project coordinator for the Red
Mountain Therapeutic Riding Center, will
speak at a Women for Israel reception on
Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., at a private
home in Tenafly.
Original artwork by Vivian WeinsteinBrisman, including oils, watercolors,
mosaics, and costume jewelry, will be for

sale. Ten percent of sales will be donated
to JNF.
Space is limited. For reservations, email
rsvpnnj@jnf.org with WFI in the subject
line or call (973) 593-0095, ext. 823.
Annual NYC gathering of remembrance

New Yorks oldest and largest communitywide Yom Hashoah commemoration,
sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization, and the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, is set for Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m.
More than 2,000 people, including
survivors and their families, elected officials, and other members of the community, will join in a memorial service at
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New
York. The shul is at Fifth Avenue and 65th
Street.
For information, call (646) 4374227 or go online at www.mjhnyc.org/
annualgathering.
Tenafly Holocaust commemoration

To commemorate the Holocaust, the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly will screen
the film Besa: The Promise, on Wednesday,
May 4, at 7 p.m.
The film combines the first-person
accounts of Norman H. Gershman, a JewishAmerican photographer who documented
the lives of some of the Albanian Muslims
who rescued Jews during the Holocaust,
and Rexhep Hoxha, who sought to fulfill the
promise his father made to a Jewish family
by returning a set of Jewish books they left
behind.
The commemoration concludes with the
presentation of the Abe Oster Holocaust
Remembrance award to a high school student who creates a work of fine art that conveys the continuing relevance of the Holocaust in the 21st century. A candle-lighting
ceremony will be included as well.

Some of Mr. Gershmans black-and-white
portraits of Jews who were rescued in Albania
and Kosovo during the war will be on display,
and it will remain up in the Waltuch Gallery
at the JCC in May.
The annual program is made possible
through the Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan Holocaust Education Institute. For
information, call (201) 408-1418 or email
ryung@jccotp.org.
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Editorial
Remembering
Arthur Hertzberg
lmost exactly 10 years ago

on April 16, 2006, and
also chol hamoed Pesach,
19 Nisan, 5776 Rabbi
Arthur Hertzberg of Englewood died.
The world misses him. I care about
that in the abstract. But also I miss
him, and I care about that in the
specific.
Even in his later years, when I got
to know him, Rabbi Hertzberg was a
formidable presence. When I try to
picture him now, I see a short, firehydrant-shaped-man with energy visibly emanating from him, huge bright
thunderbolts, piercing through anyone he considered unworthy, illuminating the world in great fiery flashes
for the lucky (if a bit cowed) rest of us.
Rabbi Hertzberg was a genuine intellectual, a man who lived among ideas
as if they had physical presence. Its
not as if he didnt notice the physical world. He did. He loved to eat; by
the time I knew him his diet was constrained and monitored, and he took
great pleasure in evading those restrictions. He listened, too, although by
then his hearing was partially gone. I
remember once going to his house and
hearing cantorial music screeching out
to the sidewalk in lachrymose bellows.
I do not like cantorial music at all, and
Rabbi Hertzberg was not particularly
musical. But he put the music on as
loud as it could go because he was bedridden upstairs and it was downstairs,
and because it reminded him of home.
Not Baltimore, where he grew up, but
Poland, where he was born, and which
he left when he was a small boy.
I sat with him and he explained
what he was hearing, and the magic of
his memories and the words he used
to describe them let me hear it too.
For that short time, the sounds that I
confess I usually hear as unappealing
whines and shouts and nasal whimpers became intimate and majestic
and soul-touching and the way into a
world I had not known existed.
And then, of course, it ended, and
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I went home, and I never was able

to hear it again. But Rabbi Hertzberg
could.
And the ideas they were real for
him, tangible, physical things, and he
moved among them, building with
them, moving them around, assessing
and including new ones, tossing out
discredited old ones. It was extraordinary and extraordinarily exciting
to watch Rabbi Hertzberg think.
He would be able to take ideas that
seemed to have nothing to do with
each other alternate realities, existing in parallel never-touching worlds
and bring them together. He was
immensely creative, and what he created was ideas, made of other ideas
that had changed and come together
in the furnace of his mind.
He used that skill to describe the
Middle East and the ever-worsening
situation between Israel and its neighbors. Both Israels reality and the
Palestinians were real, he said; their
directly conflicting narratives both
held truth. He was a proud Jew, and
his loyalty was with his people, and
he was absolutely clear and eternally
unyielding about that, but that did not
blind him to the reality of other realities or loyalties.
When something happened in
Israel, hed call; unless it was something really terrible hed open the call
by saying This is Yasser Arafat. Then
he would explain what happened, in a
way that always made sense, and that I
had not been able to see before.
I still long for the phone to ring,
both because I miss him and because
I miss his explanations, his syntheses,
and his clarity.
We at the Standard are proud to be
able to reprint one of his essays, written before the September 11 attacks
but published the week after. It was a
happy discovery.
Ten years after his death, we can
say with some confidence that Arthur
Hertzbergs memory is a blessing.

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erusalem The Jewish Week has just

reported that not one but two Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions resolutions
passed recently at New York University.
This is an absolute disgrace. NYU has more
Jewish undergraduates than any other private
university in America. That these BDS resolutions have been voted in by the student union
betrays not only growing anti-Semitism in the
very heart of New York City, but an utter lack
of leadership among the Jewish campus professionals and students.
This is something I wrote about extensively
in the New York Observer when my son was
an NYU undergraduate before
joining the IDF, where he currently serves as a lone combat
soldier. Our family is in Israel
visiting him for Passover.
How could rabbis on campus
not mobilize the Jewish students to oppose the BDS resolution? How could approximately
6,000 Jewish students allow
Israel to be maligned on their
Rabbi
campus in such an extreme
Shmuley
way?
Boteach
The sole purpose of BDS is to
destroy Israel. It has no interest whatsoever in Palestinian rights. If it did,
it would be boycotting Egypt for destroying
hundreds of Palestinian homes on the Gaza
border in October 2014 to stop Hamas from
smuggling weapons. If BDS was about Palestinian rights, it would be boycotting Mahmoud
Abbas for becoming a dictator and running a
kleptocracy in the Palestinian Authority. If
BDS were about Palestinian rights, it would
be boycotting Hamas for its honor killings and
assassinations of Palestinians who protest its
brutal rule.
BDS has no interest in protecting Arab life.
Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the author
of 30 books, winner of the 1999 London
Times Preacher of the Year Competition
and a recipient of the American Jewish
Press Associations award for excellence in
commentary. He soon will publish The Israel
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If it did, it would be boycotting Syria for murdering 250,000 Arabs.

BDS has no interest in protesting an occupation. If it did, it would be boycotting China for
occupying Tibet since 1950.
BDS has no interest in promoting Arab
human rights. If it did, it would be divesting from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar,
Syria, Lebanon, and every other Arab country
where Arabs are denied the most basic rights
like freedom of press, freedom to protest their
government, and the freedom to vote, all of
which are guaranteed to Arabs only in Israel.
BDS trades in anti-Semitism. Its primary
objec tive is the economic
destruction of Israel the
worlds only Jewish state and the
Middle Easts only democracy.
So why arent the Jewish students and Hillel and Chabad
openly fighting BDS at NYU?
Pressure must come from
pro-Israel donors to NYU to stop
the rampant Israel hatred and
anti-Semitism that is coming to
define New York University a
school that sits in the middle
of a city with more Jewish residents than any other.
For BDS to pass in Jew York betrays a
Jewish unwillingness to stand up for Israel.
I have a question to my esteemed rabbinical colleagues at Chabad of NYU, Hillel at
NYU, and many other Jewish organizations
that exist to promote Judaism and the State
of Israel on campus.
Really? We were outmaneuvered by a
group of students from Justice in Palestine,
a group that is tiny in comparison to the Jewish student population?
Guys and I say this very respectfully
do you not understand that BDS passing at
your campus brings you discredit? Dont you
understand how this just emboldens Israels
enemies, making them feel that nothing is
beyond their reach? If they can pass BDS
resolutions in New York, then whats to stop
them for passing them in New Orleans, St.
Louis, and Seattle?
When my son Mendy first started at NYU
in September 2014, Mahmoud Abbas gave
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Opinion
Of legend and legacy

How could
approximately 6,000
Jewish students allow
Israel to be maligned
on their campus in
such an extreme way?
a speech at the Cooper Union Great Hall to a group
comprising mostly NYU students. Most estimates of
those who attended assume that hundreds of Jewish
students were present. At the speech Abbas lodged his
blood libel against Israel, fraudulently and brazenly
alleging that Israel perpetrated a genocide of the Palestinians during the Gaza war earlier that summer.
And what was the reaction to his disgusting lies
about the Jewish state and the Jewish people? About
22 standing ovations.
If you want to know how he got away with it, consider this conversation, which I had with a student
who is a pro-Israel activist on campus. I asked him why
he attended the lecture. Why had he not joined my son
Mendy and six of our other children, who were virtually the only ones to protest Abbas lies and speech
outside the hall? He told me, I went in to lodge my
own form of protest. When all the other students gave
Abbas a standing ovation, I continued to sit.
Im sure Abbas was devastated.
Thats what sometimes passes for Jewish student
protests at NYU.
Mendy spent the next few months organizing massive counter-events to Abbas libel, like bringing Elie
Wiesel and Ambassador Samantha Power to respond
to the false accusations of genocide in the very same
hall. He brought 800 people to hear Israels ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor, deliver an
eloquent rebuttal of these disgusting lies about the
Jewish state. Mendy organized large demonstrations
against the Israel apartheid wall and Israel apartheid week, and he held an Israeli flag aloft during the
entire speech of Janin Zoabi, the Arab Israeli MK who
is one of the worlds foremost Israel-haters. Zoabi lost
her cool in response and said that Jews were stupid,
thereby demonstrating that she is not just anti-Israel
but deeply anti-Semitic as well.
These kinds of effective, in-your-face peaceful demonstrations that never disrupted SJP events but called
on Jewish students to stand proudly for Israel is exactly
what is needed at NYU. There has to be a public and
overt Jewish presence that galvanizes Jewish students
to stand up for Israel.
It will happen only if the Jewish leadership on campus overcomes its fear of being labeled controversial
and stands up proudly for Israel, motivating both Jewish and non-Jewish students to follow suit.
Gentlemen. Ladies. This is your job. Youre communal professionals, and the students need your
leadership.
And as Hillel famously said in the Talmud, if not now,
when?
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ore than any other time of year, Passover is a

it to the annals of Glass Family legend?
time of retelling and reflection.
From page 9: Every time someone at the seder asked
The story of the Exodus. Obvious. Required.
what page we were on, cousin Jeff would reply, Paganini. (Page nine.) Cousin Jeff died in 2001. He is rememThe reflections on Passover seders past.
bered well at this seder. His cheek bones are so noticeable
What did it smell like? Taste like? Feel like? To whom did
on the stunning face of his daughter. My son and three
you ask the four questions? Who asks those questions now?
of Jeff s grandchildren all sport J names in his loving
As the youngest of my generation of cousins, I was the
memory. From page 12: Did you make them on seltzer
asker for a long long time. I was the youngest childs youngest
was an annual inquiry into the provenance
child. I then married the youngest childs youngest child. (Being two years younger than he is,
of the matzah balls by Uncle Freddie zl.
I found myself as the new girlfriend being
(Uncle Freddie died right before I met my
asked to sing these questions to a room full of
husband, but his memory is recalled with
strangers. Awkward but I digress.)
many a giggle each year when this line is
Our seder table has changed much in the
recited.) Its a cool thing, this family haggadah. Complete with a family tree, which is
last 16 years. We welcomed a son (who thankfully inherited his singing capabilities from his
updated yearly. Fiances are added in parenfathers side). The children of first cousins marthesis (which are removed after marriage).
ried. They were fruitful and multiplied. Our
Babies are nestled in under parents. It is a
Lisa Harris
visual progression of life.
group included babies and bellies (bshaah
Glass
tovah). And so we sat, at this years seder table,
Legacy is a heavy thing to think about.
with a gaggle of 1- to 4-year-olds. It was time to
Natural to do. A little scarier to do when you
ask the questions. The gaggle shyly began (with
realize you likely have more Passover seders behind you than in front of you. What is it that I want
support from their parental units) to sing the four questions.
people to say about me? To remember about me?
What commenced with some vigor petered out after ... kulo
Ive spent a lot of effort and care in cultivating that
matzah.
legacy for my children. About communicating my ethical
My heart began to race. My eyes darted nervously around
will. About leading by example. I know that my recipes
the room. Then, before I realized it, I had joined in. And so
will live on. I hope our predilection for large holiday celhad my husband. And our son. And my nieces fiance. In fact,
ebrations sticks.
it seemed that all of the eternally youngest children, those
These people, my loved ones, these memories, this is
babies babies who had owned the question-asking obligation/
my opus. It is a work in progress. But if Im taking stock,
privilege for so long, and for whom it was so ingrained, had
Id say Im satisfied with its direction.
jumped in to fill the void.
I looked around the room. I wondered if this moment
Lisa Harris Glass is the managing director of community
would make it into our familys Passover lore. So many stories
planning and impact for the Jewish Federation of Northern
of seders past. Each preserved in a personalized family haggadah (courtesy of cousin Susan). Would this moment make
New Jersey.
Whos at the table?
or those interested in active, experiential

learning, the seder and the Passover requirement to see ourselves as if we have left Egypt
easily lend themselves to all sorts of opportunities to enact the Exodus story.
I scroll through my Facebook feed before the holiday
and see friends and acquaintances dressed
like Pharaohs and ancient Egyptians, setting tables adorned with objects and animals that represent the ten plagues, and
even engaged in pre-Passover water fights
that resemble the parting Red Sea. I love all
of the ways people are finding to make the
holiday a fun one.
In fact, before Passover, I was in a few
email threads with colleagues and educaTikvah
tors who were sharing ideas for games and
Wiener
activities that would capture the attention
of the many participants at their seder
tables. My colleagues werent concerned
only with making the night a fun one, but also with
making sure learning happened in a meaningful way. I
was struck by the way my peers considered the ages and
interests of those at their seder tables, as they crafted a
night that took both into consideration.
And it was another colleague who made me aware
that preparing for Passover can mean something else

entirely. Before the holiday, I spoke with Rabbi Shmuel
Feld, managing director of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge. His son has autism and relies heavily on technology to keep himself occupied. Before each
Sabbath and holiday, Rabbi Feld and his wife prepare
their son to unplug from his devices, even
as they know that by the second day of a
holiday, hell enter into a line of questioning that Rabbi Feld explained with good
cheer would be all about when the holiday
is over.
Considering the needs of everyone at
the seder table is clearly something the
rabbis had in mind when they crafted the
haggadah. No sooner are we exhorted to
invite anyone who needs a seat at the table
to our sedarim, do we sit down, recite the
four questions, and launch into an analysis
of the types of children we might be surrounded by: the wise son, the wicked son, the simple
son, and the one who doesnt know how to ask.
This year, I struggled with the response we give to the
wicked son. The wicked son, were told, asks, What is
this service to you? and makes it clear hes excluding
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himself from the activities of the night, and particularly from partaking in the sacrifice of the Paschal lamb.
Were told that because the wicked son removes himself
from the community and is a heretic, we should blunt
his teeth, that is, speak to him sharply.
I entered Passover thinking not only about the joyous and careful ways my colleagues, family, and friends
were preparing for it, but also about the deep sensitivity
they were showing those in their lives. I was particularly
thinking about my conversation with Rabbi Feld, whose
son would be peppering him with questions not about
the details of the Paschal lamb offering but about when
the holiday would be over.
So how was it that we were to sit down with someone
at the seder table and speak sharply to him or her? I was
surrounded by people engaged in the exact opposite,
people who were going out of their way to make others
feel comfortable, no matter how challenging their needs
might be.
One of the most important aspects of the learning-bydoing pedagogies schools are adopting now is the notion
that learning must take into account student voice and
choice. This means that educators should find out what
students need, by talking to them and to their parents,
and by finding out about any learning differences they
may have. It also means that educators must find ways
to let students make choices, large and small, in their
learning. For example, teachers might allow those students who are interested in the arts to have opportunities to create art out of their learning, those who are proficient with technology to create digital products, and
those who are good at building to craft something from
what theyve learned.
In sum, we create a responsive classroom, one that
looks like, well, a lot like the seder tables that naturally form around the world: places where there are all
types of learners and where we find ourselves, as my
colleagues were, naturally making adjustments so that
everyone is interested and

involved in the learning.
In education, we call this
the fully inclusive classroom,
and its a place where every
type of learner the one who
is neurotypical and the one
who has learning differences
can thrive. The Yavneh
Academy in Paramus has a
full inclusion program and has
been discovering the power of
having two teachers in a classroom, a regular and a special
education teacher. The latter
sometimes will lead the lesson, allowing the strengths of
those students with learning
differences to emerge, and
enabling the entire class to
benefit from learning strategies that are visual, auditory,
and movement-based.
So when the class is finished
with a heavily text-based or
numbers-based lesson, for
example, the students might
move to a Maker space and
discover that the student
who struggled in the more
traditional lesson has a spatial reasoning capability that
outshines his peers and is
able to build something far
more complex than his classmates can. Suddenly, the student who perhaps saw heror himself as less-than is the
The Four Sons of the Haggadah, as imagined by Polish artist Arthur Szyk in
superstar!
the early twentieth century.
My colleague Dana Keil,
who founded and runs Room
on the Bench, a resource for Jewish day schools wanting to meet the needs of diverse learners, talks about
the importance of tailoring education so that every student thrives in school. Room on the Bench focuses on
expanding educators toolkits, so teachers can better
meet students holistic needs. Dana says, Our goal as
educators isnt solely academic growth, but also social,
emotional and behavioral growth as well.
Student voice and choice means, then, finding out
what students strengths are, placing an array of choices
in their learning before them, and developing weaknesses by making learning a holistic experience, one
thats rigorous and challenging and something each stufrom others. You must be an active participant in what
dent can do and grow from in multiple ways.
were all doing, creating, and building together.
Many in Israel pity those of us in the diaspora who
have to partake in two sedarim, but this year, the secViewed in this way, Passover is more than just one
ond night became the perfect opportunity to talk out my
or two nights or even eight days. When we think of all
concerns about how we were to address the wicked son.
we do for the seder, sharing recipes and making them,
I raised the issue at the second seder, and a lively conselling chametz, enlisting our children in cleaning the
versation ensued. The group of us in our sixties, forhouse, running school car washes, inviting guests from
ties, twenties, and teens came to feel that the problem
all over Im currently in L.A., enjoying the hospitality
with the wicked son isnt that he has a question or that
of close friends creating games and activities to make
he sees the world in a different manner: It is his mocking
the sedarim more lively and informative or the holiday
and condescending attitude.
easier for someone whos counting down until it ends,
Learning can happen in multiple ways and in many
the seder, and Passover itself, begin to seem like, well,
modalities, but it requires patience, care, and sensitiva lot like a fully inclusive classroom, one that we can all
ity. Theres no room for mockery and condescension
thrive in and grow from, individually and as a people.
in learning, and the haggadah tells us we must blunt
the teeth of those who come to the seder table with
Tikvah Wiener of Teaneck is co-founder and director of
a scornful or smug manner. If youre at the table, you
the I.D.E.A. Schools Network and chief academic officer
must be open and receptive, willing to learn with and
at Magen David Yeshivah High School in Brooklyn.
Considering the needs

of everyone at the
seder table is clearly
something the rabbis
had in mind when they
crafted the haggadah.
Having fun with the seder table.

Opinion
Trump is a liar
comment on Rabbi Pruzanskys blog (the comment was

subsequently removed). Part of the comment reads as
follows:
The manner in which we express our Torah values
must be guided by compassion, ESPECIALLY compassion to those who have already been hurt and victimized.
I know what your point was, Im not even addressing it.
What I ask of you is this, is it worth making a political point
if it comes at the expense of hurting an innocent victim, of
tearing open old wounds and creating new ones?
Thank you, Rabbi Simon.
David Zinberg
Teaneck
There are many reasons why a virtuous person, above all a

person of faith, would not associate himself with Donald J.
Trump (Meet Trumps Israel adviser, April 22).
I will cite just one. In 2011, Mr. Trump told Greta Van
Susteren that he had sent people to Hawaii to look into
President Obamas birth certificate and that you would not
believe what they discovered there. Here it is, five years
later, and we still have not heard anything about what they
discovered. We cannot but infer that Trump was lying either
about sending the investigators or about their finding anything. My question for Mr. Greenblatt (who was a very good
student of mine in 1990 at Yeshiva College) therefore is:
Would you go into business with a known liar?
And if no, would you vote for such a person even for the
post of dog catcher?
Manfred Weidhorn
Professor Emeritus, Yeshiva University
Fair Lawn
Defending Trump
It was with great sadness that I read the April 22 letter

Trump and Hitler : Obvious parallels. Sadness in the vitriolic choice of words and sadness in knowing that there
are vast numbers of individuals who have swallowed and
believed these facts. His words, calling Trump a fascist
demagogue and his campaign tactics Hitler-like or Nazilike, border on the obscene..
Mr. Trump has neither encouraged nor condoned violence at his rallies. In fact it has been reported that at the
start of many of his rallies, statements have been made to
his audience that they should not be violent. We have seen
numerous groups anti-Trump in nature attempting to infiltrate his rallies to disrupt and instigate physical confrontations. One can count on one hand and have fingers left over,
Thank you, Rabbi Simon
Cheryl Rosenberg of Ben Porat Yosef accurately describes

the disappointment many of us feel at the silence of our
much of our local leadership in response to Rabbi Pruzanskys latest outrage (Teaneck rabbis blog posts provoke
controversy, April 22).
One of the notable exceptions who was not mentioned
in your article was Rabbi Ephraim Simon of Teaneck
Chabad. Rabbi Simon posted a long and respectful
We cannot but infer

that Trump was lying
either about sending
the investigators
or about their
finding anything.
the number of physical confrontations between his supporters and those against him within the walls of his rallies.
What people have swallowed and repeat are the distortions and inaccurate quotes attributed to Mr. Trump.
Two are found in reports where references to illegal immigrants are shortened to immigrants and where he states
that he is for the temporary banning of Muslims entering
the U S. until they can be properly vetted, and the words
temporary and vetted are omitted. There are many more
instances but these will suffice.
Trying to parallel the current Trump campaign
with the rise of Hitler does not just trivialize the history
of the Holocaust but uses it for baseless and inaccurate
portrayals.
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Lies, damn lies, and faculty lies
o understand the significance of the newly

announced legal challenge against the American Studies Associations academic boycott of
Israel, we have to go back around 18 months.
It has been that long since the anti-Zionist fanatic Steven Salaita left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under a cloud. Salaita, who teaches American studies, departed the school following a bitter struggle that
resulted in an offer of a tenured professorship being
retracted.
His supporters claimed, as is their habit, that Salaita was
being punished for his support of the Palestinians. A more
detached reading of the case suggests that Salaita was
denied tenure because of a series of bizarre Twitter rants
in which he stated, inter alia, that anyone who defends
Israel is hopelessly brainwashed, that Zionism had made
anti-Semitism honorable, and that nobody would be surprised if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were
to don a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian
children.
The Salaita affair was a salutary reminder of just how
low standards at American universities have fallen. Salaita
was simply one more example of how anti-Zionist advocates abuse academic departments by masking their eliminationist agendas under the cover of academic research.
This trend, of course, hardly is new. But what is new,
relatively speaking, is the existence of social

reproducing the trend of persecuting scholmedia platforms in which the true characars who condemn the injustices committed
ters of people like Salaita are revealed in
in Palestine.
their own words. After all, Salaita is not the
One of Salaitas closest collaborators, Corey
only academic to have advocated for Israels
Robin of Brooklyn College, even compared
destruction from the safety of a computer in
the ditching of Salaita to the purging of lefthis study. More recently, Joy Karega, an assisist scholars from American academia during
tant professor of rhetoric and composition at
the Cold War. If youre wondering whether
Oberlin College, has drawn fire for postings
Robin is similarly outraged by the banishBen Cohen
that make even Salaita look sensible, blaming
ment of Soviet dissidents into gulags during
Israel for the 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo atrocithe same period, dont hold your breath; the
ties, and accusing in classic anti-Semitic
Soviet Union was progressive, you see.
fashion the Jewish Rothschild banking dynasty of engiCould it really be the case that AUB is getting rid of facneering every financial crisis since the era of Napoleon
ulty members because of their support for the PalestinBonaparte. (No, Im not making that up.)
ian cause? Remember, this is a university with a virulently
All things considered, though, Salaita did pretty well out
anti-Zionist tradition that goes back decades. In 1955, for
of the University of Illinois scandal. After he filed a lawsuit,
example, AUB hosted the American Jewish anti-Zionist
the university agreed to pay him $875,000 in an out-ofactivist Alfred Lilienthal, a man regarded as a crackpot at
court settlement. He was also appointed to a position at
home but feted as a reliable and obedient Jew in the Arab
the American University of Beirut and arrived in Lebanon
world. Fast forward to 2013 and you will discover that one
about a year ago.
of AUBs celebrated guest lecturers was Richard Falk, a
You might think that would be that. But no. This month,
former U.N. envoy for Palestinian rights who has openly
AUB announced that it was severing ties with Salaita, and
praised terrorism against Israel, among other offenses.
So the notion that the AUB has somehow been penthat consequently he would not be appointed as direcetrated by Zionists, and that this is what led to Salaitor of its Center for American Studies and Research. Pretas ejection, is both laughable and fanciful. According
dictably, his supporters again began railing that AUB is
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Steven Salaita, the anti-Zionist professor of

American studies who used to work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Facebook
to Fadlo Khuri, AUBs president, Salaitas supporters

had manufactured a malicious distortion of the facts
involved in this case. Khuri then explained that the bid
to appoint Salaita to a permanent position was riddled
with procedural irregularities, such as the conflict
implied by the current incumbent chairing a committee
to find their own successor.
Here we get to the heart of the matter, whether in
America or in Lebanon. We know very well that antiZionist academics exist in a self-sustaining world of
conspiracy theories and outlandish interpretations of
history, and that when challenged, their stock-in-trade

response is to cry Persecution!
Less understood is that this kind of self-righteousness leads naturally to procedural violations of the sort
described by Khuri. We and only we are right, their logic
goes, and therefore we are morally justified in ignoring the
rules that apply to ordinary mortals.
What AUBs decision over Salaita represents, therefore,
is a recognition that this tactic can no longer be tolerated.
And here in America, the American Studies Association
may be about to learn a similar lesson.
Back in 2013, the ASA became the first major faculty
association to pass a resolution favoring an academic
boycott of Israel. Salaita, not coincidentally, was a prime
mover of this resolution, which illegally discriminates
against Israelis on the basis of their national origin.
Now, four distinguished professors who are members
of the ASA have filed a lawsuit against the organization. A
press release from the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human
Rights Under Law, which combats campus anti-Semitism,
pointed out that the lawsuit alleges ASA is in violation of
the D.C. Non-Profit Corporation Act, which requires that
an organization operate only within the provisions of its
charter. Under D.C. law, the charter is a contract intended
to protect members from those who seek to co-opt a nonprofit for purposes outside the boundaries of its charter.
Boycotting Israel clearly is outside those boundaries.

The charter of the ASA restricts its activities to the universe of American studies, which like any other discipline requires academic freedom and not bigoted, selfimposed academic restraints in order to flourish.
A successful legal campaign against the ASA boycott
likely will rebound onto the other faculty associations
that have endorsed this insidious campaign. The boycotters will repeat over and over again that such action
encroaches upon their First Amendment rights. Like
every single one of their assertions, this too is a lie.
Nobody is questioning their right to preach this coarse
and hateful discourse. Implementation of their political
program, however, is a vastly different story, as it involves
active discrimination and requires civic organizations to
ditch their own charters. Now that theyve figured that out
in Beirut, university administrations and faculty associations here in America have no excuse not to do the same.
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on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work
has been published in Commentary, the New York
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Zionism
Messianic movement or
tool for Jewish survival?
world through lovingkindness. The force
of the essay to which I have written this
sad but hopeful introduction is to insist
that those who are on the side of decency
might have to keep a sword in one hand
but they must never forget that they are
rebuilding a temple with the other.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
September 13, 2001
Rabbi ARTHUR HERTZBERG

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Hertzberg of Englewood
died 10 years ago, during Pesach 2006. (For
more about him, see the editorial on page
20.) The author of the seminal work The
Zionist Idea, a man whose first trip to Israel
was taken very soon after it became a state in
1948, Rabbi Hertzberg was deeply connected
to the country.
He wrote this essay for us in 2001; the
week that it was to be published, in September was the week of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He opens the essay with an
acknowledgment of that atrocity.
We found this piece as we looked back
through our archives, and we invite you to
read it and see what has changed and what
has not and to join us in remembering
--JP
Rabbi Hertzberg.
ow should we react to the

unspeakable horrors of Tuesday, September 11?
We must not declare war,
not even in our hearts, on another people
or another religion. This horror was perpetrated by an angry and hating minority. The angry haters must be isolated and
punished, but we must make every effort
to keep lines of communication open with
all those who want to live in peace, regardless, as we Jews are so often fond of saying,
of ethnic identity and of religion. We have
been for too many centuries the victim of
indiscriminate hatred to want to inflict it
on others.
I once heard a very great man, Dr.
Joseph B. Soloveichik, declare that the
essence of Jewish identity is not anti-antiSemitism. He insisted that being Jewish meant that we were utterly devoted
to affirming the values that our religious
tradition has taught us. There is a great
danger now to the inner soul of the Jewish people that we shall make the war with
our enemies into the central purpose of
Jewish existence. We dare not do this. Yes,

we must resist and fight back, and bring
the wicked to justice, but we must remember that the people from whom they come
are as much Gods children as we are. Did
not Amos tell us that in the sight of God we
are as much his children as the Ethiopians,
and, even, the Philistines?
The consistent Jewish teaching throughout all the centuries is that after every
disaster we do Gods work by having the
courage to rebuild. We have never taught
hatred as the answer to hatred. We continue to try to change the world by learning and relearning from our religious tradition that God wants us to redeem the
he fundamental question before the Jewish

people today, both in
Israel and in all the diasporas, is: where are we
in Jewish history? Are
we experiencing the
pains of the wars of Gog and Magog, the
inevitable disturbances that are the preamble to the glory of the coming of the
messiah, or are we in another replay of difficult times? Shall we bet the future of our
people on the belief that the history of the
Jews is now reaching its appointed end,
or do we think that we are living through
another era of trouble in which our greatest victory can only be our survival, and
the strength that we muster to carry on as
a people?
The choice between these two options
is not an abstract matter. It is not a subject
for discussion only for those who spin out
theories about history. The basic choice
that we make has profound and irretrievable consequences, now, for the life of
Israel and of the diaspora. If we are living in messianic times, then the diaspora,
and even some of the people who dwell in
Zion, are expendable, because whatever
is lost will soon be retrieved, and more
besides, in the great glory that is to come.
But if we are again, as so long before, fighting the war of survival, to find the will and
create the conditions to go on as a people,
then no part of ourselves anywhere, in
Israel or in the diasporas, is expendable.
Our task is not to force the hand of the
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Judah Alkalai
Theodor Herzl
messiah but to find ways of being Jews in

a new time.
What is Zionism? Is it a messianic movement to bring redemption now, or is it
a new tool to help us survive until God
redeems us?
These questions did not begin today.
They already existed at the very beginnings of modern Zionism; they will inevitably become more complicated, and often
more desperate, in the years to come. The
question of Israel-diaspora relations can
be analyzed only in the light of a much
more fundamental issue. Can we really
bring the messianic end of Jewish history?
I am tempted to use the clich, let us begin
at the beginning, but the beginning is to be
found some twenty-six hundred years ago
in the interchange between the prophet
Jeremiah and some of the exiles who had
lost hope immediately after the destruction of the First Temple and the end of the
kingdom of Judah in 587 BCE. Many Jews
were sure that Jewish history was now
at an end. The prophet Jeremiah commanded them to build houses and plant
vineyards, to settle down wherever they
were to await the unknown day when God
would permit them to return to their land.
For our present purpose, it will be
enough to begin one hundred seventy
years ago with the first stirring towards

modern Zionism. The movement began
near the dawn of the age of nationalism
in Europe. Two rabbis, Yehudah Alkalai
(a Sephardi) and Zvi Hirsch Kalischer (an
Ashkenazi) asserted in the 1830s that the
Jews, the oldest of all the nations in the
world, should certainly become part of the
revival of nations which was then sweeping Europe. Alkalai and Kalischer were
very careful to hold on to their religious
Orthodoxy by denying vehemently that
they intended to begin an action by the
Jewish people to reconstitute themselves
by their own strength in the Holy Land.
That could come only through divine miracles, but the Jews could at least prepare
for such a possibility by bestirring themselves towards reviving their own national
consciousness.
More than a half-century later, around
1900, the movement for religious Zionism defined itself as the heir to the spirit
of Alkalai and Kalischer. This element
allied itself within the political movement
that Theodor Herzl had just founded, but,
unlike him, the religious Zionists did not
seek to lead a total revolution within the
Jewish community. The religious Zionists were largely a defensive, conservative
group; they fought for a decent respect for
the inherited religious tradition among
the Zionists and, later, in the State of
Israel. To be sure, after the creation of the
State of Israel this element did include
in its prayers the phrase describing the
new State of Israel as the first root of our
redemption, but this faith remained a
pious hope and not a call to active politics
until after the Six Day War of June 1967.
The earliest root of religious Zionism was
a tactful spirit which wanted to do for the
Jewish religion among the Jews, and for the
Jews among the Gentiles, the best that was
possible without provoking bitter conflict.
The counter-theme, that ours is the time
of messianic redemption, appeared among
the religious Zionists in the early years
of the twentieth century in the mystical,
ecstatic writings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac
Kook. He had no doubt whatsoever that
the First World War, in which the nations
of Europe were slaughtering each other,
was the war of Gog and Magog. He was
certain that the secular Zionists, some of
whom were creating antireligious farming
communities, were instruments in Gods
hands. They were preparing the Holy
Land for its divinely appointed future that
would soon become manifest. Thus, whatever was happening, or might happen, to
Jews in contemporary times belonged to
the drama of redemption. Kook was personally a holy man and a man of peace,
but his basic assertion, that Jewish time
is to be measured not in ordinary human
numbers but on a messianic clock, is the
single most explosive Jewish religious

doctrine to appear in the last hundred
years. Some of his disciples learnt lessons
from him that he almost certainly did not
intend, but these lessons are very much
alive: we no longer need to measure our
actions by the consequences that they are
likely to have in the world as it is, for that
world is being swept away. So, for example, we have no right to assess with human
prudence the cost of maintaining and
defending an island of some five hundred
Jews in the hostile city of Hebron. The
only true measure of this effort is what it
contributes to the ultimate redemption by
Jews of all of the Holy Land. The messian-
Our task is not

to force the hand
of the messiah
but to find ways
of being Jews in
a new time.
ists insist that no political power has any
right to obstruct and deny their purposes,
because they, and they alone, are the bearers of Jewish history.
The founders of modern political Zionism, Theodor Herzl and his most famous
disciple and colleague, Max Nordau,
agreed that they wanted to make an end of
the Jewish exile, and to do it dramatically
and immediately, but even so there were
deep differences between them. Herzl
was sure that the normalization of which
he dreamt would take no more than fifty
years to create. He foresaw that all Jews
who wanted to belong to their Jewishness
would come to the Jewish state, but he
also expected, and even urged, those who
wanted to live in the diaspora to assimilate,
totally and quickly, to the majority cultures
in the lands in which they chose to remain.
The Jewish question, the eternal hatred
that an eternal minority attracts, would
come to an end. Nonetheless, Herzl had no
illusions that the Zionists would turn militant and warlike to force the desired end.
Herzl spent his life teaching a new assessment of anti-Semitism, that it was forever
a problem to the gentile world as a whole.
The political powers that dominate Europe
and world politics could, therefore, be persuaded to help the Jews be normalized
in their own country. The gentile states
would avoid the tensions that hatred of
Jews created for all of society. But Herzl
never had any illusion that he could create
the Jewish state by defying the world. On
the contrary, even on a seemingly small
mater, of getting Jewish settlements built

without any real agreement by the Turkish authorities, he was unhappy that some
of his followers disobeyed him and proceeded without permission.
Max Nordau had a more dramatic vision
of the direction that Zionism ought to take.
He was not willing to beg for approval from
the powers of the world; the Jews could
not afford to wait to be transformed into
a respectable, bourgeois European-style
nation. At the end of the First World War,
mass pogroms were taking place during
the border war between Poland and the
Ukraine. Nordau proposed the immediate evacuation of hundreds of thousands,
or even more, to Palestine. Preparation
for the arrival of these masses, even food
and shelter, was unimportant. This flood
of people should move without regard
to the wishes of any of the governments
that might want to stop this exodus. This
should overwhelm the restraints that
the new British government might try to
Max Nordau
Vladimir (Zeev)
Jabotinsky, left, posed
with a Jewish officer in
the French army in 1918
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impose. Many of these Jews might not survive on the beaches, but they would have
transformed the population of Palestine
by creating an instant Jewish majority.
Nordaus proposal was not followed - it
could not be - but in its melodramatic
way it represented an element in Zionist
thought and feeling. The leader of the next
generation who expressed this emotion
- that Zionism was militancy, resistance,
and national transformation by all the necessary force - was Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Nordau and Jabotinsky were both very
secular men who could not imagine that
messianic miracles sent by heaven were
about to appear. They believed that the
Jews had to push, violently if necessary,
for themselves. A normal people does not
depend on others to hand it equality as a
nation; it takes the lead in fighting its own
battles and it makes others listen to the
cadence of its own music. No people has
ever arisen, or regained what it has lost, by
behaving with gracious manners. Jabotinsky taught his followers to sing the hymn
of his Zionist party, the Revisionists, with
great fervor: Judah fell in blood and fire; it
will arise again in blood and fire.
But what if such a messianic uprising,
whether religious or secular, fails? Perhaps
worse still, what if it neither fails nor succeeds, but must muddle along in a painful
world of no conclusion? There is a precedent in the history of the Jews of such a
problem. It occurred nearly two thousand
years ago among those Jews who chose
to follow Jesus of Nazareth. They were
assured that he would reappear soon and
usher in the glorious age of peace and
love, but the years went by and he did not
come back to transform society. His disciples, and their disciples, explained to the
believers that he had indeed changed the
world by proclaiming his vision and that
mankind would have to wait indefinitely
until his teaching ruled over all of humanity. I have no doubt that the messianic Jewish believers today will offer an answer to
doubters that resembles the theology of
the early Christians. They will tell us that
their insistence that all the Holy Land must
be redeemed for the Jews is an activist
faith that they cannot relinquish, no matter what it costs every day in the lives of
Asher Ginzberg (Ahad Haam)

Rabbi Hertzberg reads Torah at a morning minyan in Englewood, flanked by Leo

Herson, Louis Greenwald, Sol Kaplan, and Gabe Schlisser.
Jews and in their quality of life. Whether

the victory comes now or generations later
is unimportant. The struggle must continue and its costs must to be borne.
This activist, and warlike, vision can be
defended by evoking other long-standing
ethnic quarrels. Why cannot the Jews and
the Palestinians continue to skirmish in
guerrilla warfare as the Protestants and
Catholics continue to assault each other
in Northern Ireland? Must there necessarily be more peace between the Jewish and
the Arab worlds than the Hindus in India
and the Muslims in Pakistan can find? A
long, drawn out, and even nasty war in
and around the Holy Land should not be
unthinkable, especially if you hold before
you a glorious vision and insist that it cannot be achieved without a long preamble
of militancy and sacrifice.
The trouble with this vision is that a
drawn out and inconclusive war can lead
only to the gravest disaster. It is most obvious that the seemingly endless supply of
young men who are willing to blow themselves up in order to kill or harm Jews
will not always be limited to conventional
weapons. Does anyone know, with any
semblance of certainty, when the baggage
that such a suicide bomber will tie around
his body will become much deadlier? Biological or atomic weapons, miniaturized
Martin Buber
into suicide vests, are technically feasible.

Can anyone be certain that they will never
be used? Not much more is required than
a few madmen with degrees in physics
or in biochemistry. This is, of course, an
assessment based on fear. But perhaps
such disasters will not happen because
perpetrators of such outrages cannot be
certain that the atomic fires or the diseases
that they spread about will harm only Jews
and not invade their own centers. Those
who send such young men certainly know
that in the balance of terror, the Israeli
response would be devastating to much of
the Arab world.
But I have even deeper fears. Because I
am writing for Jews, let me largely lay aside
what this continuing war is doing to the
feeling and mentality of the Palestinians
and of the Arab world as a whole, but one
cost is obvious and it must be mentioned.
Zionism came into the world to make the
Jews into a normal people by ending European anti-Semitism. The duration and
growing intensity of the Jewish-Arab conflict has translated anti-Semitism into a
new venue, the Arab-Muslim world. It has
also decreased the admiration for Israel in
the West. Many of its admirers still hold,
firmly, to the assessment of Israel as the
only democracy in the Middle East, but
the numbers are increasing of those who
Judah Magnes
see Israel as a military power that dominates the area and uses some of its capacity to punish its enemies with unnecessary force. The support for Israel is still
very strong in the United States, in large
measure because the Jews of America are
a significant power in American public
life, but Israel is much less secure in the
hearts and minds of the Europeans, in the
very societies that owe the largest debts to
the Jewish people because they were the
breeding ground of anti-Semitism through
the centuries, and of the Holocaust. One
can imagine that these problems will
lessen and even disappear if a decent
peace, or at least a set of arrangements to
make it possible to live together without
killing each other, somehow does appear
in the Middle East.
But, while the violence continues, we
Jews have to ask the question: what is this
doing to ourselves, what change is this
making in our character and in the life of
our people as a whole, both in Israel and
in the diaspora? The answer that comes
to mind quickly is that the exercise of violence hardens hearts. It becomes more
matter of fact to shoot at the next group
of stone-throwers, even if they are young
teenagers who have been pushed forward
by older militants who are daring Israeli
defenders to use force - but this is only
the most obvious part of the problem.
The much more fundamental affect on
the Jewish people as a whole is that this
ongoing war has polarized us, both in
Israel and in the diaspora, as never before.
We are today a sullen people with angers
at each other on the surface of our consciousness, or very near it, because so
many of us are angry with ourselves. Many
of us are wrestling with moral dilemmas
for which we have no easy answers, or
we are making moral choices that often
sound more shrill than convincing. Some
in the peace camp have been recanting their previous sins and proclaiming themselves converts to the notion that
the Arabs will never let us live in peace,
and that they will back down only when
confronted by great force. Others think
now that we should be withdrawing into
a kind of fortress Israel, locking the gates
of the borders on all the Palestinians and
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replacing the workers who will no longer come
across the border by importing them from Romania, the Philippines and Thailand, and other reservoirs of cheap labor. A minority remains committed, with some desperation, to the idea that
if Israel behaved better toward the Palestinians,
beginning with those inside Israel who are citizens and have been long neglected, the Jews and
Arabs would move toward more peaceful paths,
but there are critics of this notion who insist that
it is now too late for an approach that should have
been tried, seriously and consistently, years ago.
To be utterly blunt with ourselves, the notion
that today is on a messianic clock is not uniting the
Jewish people but dividing it into more and more
factions. I write with great pain as I remember that
this has, alas, been the recurrent response of our
people to great crisis: not unity but factionalism.
In the cellars of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, those
who made the final desperate revolt were fighting
with one another to the very end over who should
lead and which faction should occupy which position. When the Romans were besieging Jerusalem
in the year 70, the turmoil within the walls of the
city that was about to fall was such that the zealots
could not be trusted even to let a moderate, like
Johanan ben Zakkai, the leading rabbi of that day,
remain alive. For his safety, he had to be sneaked
out of Jerusalem. The assassination, in our time,
of Itzhak Rabin was prefigured 26 centuries ago
by the murder of Gedaliah, the governor of Judea,
who has been appointed by the Babylonian conquerors. Armed zealots, today as in ancient times,
will kill other Jews, for the sake of God, and the
longer they must wait for the messiah who tarries,
the more violent they are likely to become. It is no
accident that when the rabbis of the Talmud heard
of the pains of the messiah, the disorder and the
terror that would supposedly precede his advent,
they responded by saying: Let him come, but we
will not receive him.
This divisiveness is having different effects in the
Jewish communities of Israel and of the diaspora.
In Israel the political and the moral discourse has
become ever more embittered, but this is the bitterness of a people with no options but to remain
in place. Individuals may be deserting by leaving
David Ben-Gurion
the land but this has not become a large wave of

defection. Never mind the messianic theories of
religious or ultranationalist ideologues; the mainstream of Jewish society in Israel is living out a
decision to suffer the troubles and to survive, for
a better day.
The divisiveness that is really dangerous to the
future of the Jewish community is in the diaspora.
To be sure, it does not look that way, because the
largest noises are being made by those who support Israels right-wing movement. Israels present government can keep assuring itself that the
Jewish world is with us. This does not begin to be
true. The majority of the Jews in the United States
(it is the largest diaspora community by far, and the
one I know best) are liberal in their politics. They
are very concerned that their commitments to
Israel and their belonging to a politically correct
universalist moral outlook not be in conflict. To put
it even more pointedly, the mainstream of American Jews gloried in their connection with the cause
of Israel when it was accepted almost universally
as a democracy without moral blemish. The erosion of this image, as the media in America is making ever fewer distinctions between armed settlers
firing at Arabs and Arabs firing at the settlers, and
at all the Jews in Israel, has created great upset.
It is important to understand that there is a critical difference in the form and the intensity of the
expressions of this deep division in the diaspora.
The minority that supports the Israeli hardliners is
an intense, one-issue community. It engages in no
other task but to defend whatever the Israeli hardliners might want to do. Those who dissent, and
every poll has shown us that they are the majority, are not spending all of their time in defending their various versions of moderation. These
are people who also belong to the American Civil
Liberties Union, are feminists (the bulk of that
movements leading figures are Jews) and have
time and deep concern for the defense of the environment. They are Jews, and Israel is very much
on their agenda, but they can think of it only in the
spirit and rhetoric of all their other commitments.
This division is caused, in large part, because of
a deep sociological factor. Many of the supporters
in the diaspora of the Israeli hard line are Holocaust survivors themselves or their children
but the bulk of the American Jewish community
now consists of the grandchildren, and increasingly of the adult great grandchildren, of those
who came to the United States as immigrants a
century or so ago. This third and fourth generation of American Jews is not breeding many people who will choose to die for the sake of messianic principal on the road between some isolated
settlements in Gaza or Samaria. The proof of what
I am saying is that that movement within the spectrum of American Jewish life, the Reform Jews,
which is most Americanized had so many individual cancellations in their summer programs in
Israel this year that its leaders had no choice but
to cancel. This action created an outcry, but, to
my certain knowledge, a number of summer programs sponsored by the Jewish establishments on
major campuses were quietly abandoned because
the young people, fourth-generation Americans
and children of third-generation Americans, were
ever more hesitant to join the battles in Israel.
These happenings remind the historian in me of
the presumption in Judea in the sixties of the first
century, when the Zealots forced the revolt against
Shaking hands with

President Gerald Ford
and with President

Jimmy Carter
Rabbi Hertzberg with,

among others, President
Richard Nixon
Rabbi Hertzberg, left,

and Prime Minister Golda
Meir, in black, with three
Kissingers, Louise, Paula,
and Henry.
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Rome, and again in the next century in the revolutionary
actions that culminated in the temporary successes of Bar
Kochba, that the Jews of the diasporas would come flocking
to Israel to join the fight, but they did not. In our day Jews
did come from everywhere during Israels War of Independence, and again in 1967 when Israel seemed in mortal danger, but on both those occasions almost all Jews, from right
to left, agreed that these were wars of the entire people. The
choices today are factional and the diaspora has voted and is
voting that this factional vehemence does not speak for it. It
belongs to its ideologues, to a minority, and to them alone.
But the messianists, in all their several varieties, continue
to insist with ever-increasing vehemence that they are the
only true voice of Zionism but are they? Theodor Herzl
himself never really conquered all or even most of the Zionists. Many of his followers were thrilled to dream of a Jewish
people that would bear no resemblance to the one that had
been fashioned in the many centuries of the exile, but the
mainstream of the Zionist movement, including even many
of the believers in Herzls political Zionism, knew very
well that this was a dream, that the long-existing way of life
would not disappear any time soon, and that the millions of
Jews in the diaspora would neither move to their old-new
homeland or simply vanish.
Theodor Herzls principal opponent among the Zionist leaders of his generation was Asher Ginzberg (Ahad
Haam) who has usually been identified as the father of
cultural Zionism, in opposition to Herzls political Zionism. Ahad Haam regarded the main purpose of Zionism
as finding cultural substitutes for the religious faith that
was ebbing in the modern era. A contrast between Herzl
and Ahad Haam still continues to be repeated: Ahad
Haam was an East European cultural elitist and Herzl
was a political visionary. This description misses the point
of Ahad Haam, and, indeed, of his conflict with Herzl.
The new energies that Ahad Haam proposed to generate through cultural Zionism would be a new support
for the Jewish people, the necessary replacement for the
inherited Jewish religious faith that had long been the
principal prop for its morale and survival. Contrary to
what has so often been said or implied, Ahad Haam was

not opposed to the creation of a Jewish political state. On
the contrary, as advisor to Chaim Weizmann as he negotiated with the British about the language of the promise
that they would make in the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, Ahad Haam was unbending in insisting that the
British had to be pushed to agreeing to the creation of Palestine as a Jewish state. Even so, Ahad Haam saw such a
state as the home for a reborn Jewish spirit, not as an end
The crucial turn away

from messianic
Zionism was taken in
the very earliest year of
the existence of Israel
by no less a figure than
David Ben-Gurion.
in itself. He did not believe that the history of the Jews
could be transformed. He saw only a new stage in the ageold journey of the Jewish people.
Ahad Haams Zionism was, thus, defensive of the Jews
as they are rather than messianic. He saw the problems
of the present day clearly and he did not brush them aside.
Ahad Haam was one of the first to insist that the new Zionists could not appear in Palestine in any numbers without
quickly encountering angry opposition from the Arabs who
were in the land. The Zionists would be able to achieve their
minimal and indispensable purpose, to provide a haven for
a changing and renascent Jewish culture, only if the Jews
found ways of coming to terms with the resident majority.
This concern was taken up by a number of lesser figures
who kept telling the Zionist pioneers that the Arab question would not go away. This realism was expressed not
only by intellectuals and people whom today we would

call bleeding hearts. It became the political program
of the most radical element among the founders of the
kibbutzim, the collective farming settlements. These
young people were revolutionary socialists and one
element even strove in the 1920s to belong to the
Comintern, the international Communist movement.
Its political program for the future of Palestine was a
binatural state, a parity between Jews and Arabs. This
complicated doctrine clearly did not imagine that the
ingathering of all the Jews and their messianic transformation into a new people could happen within the
small borders of a binational Palestine. The rest of the
Jewish world was being left to fend for itself. No doubt
some of these revolutionary socialists hoped that a glorious success in Palestine would invigorate the Jews of
Chicago and Milwaukee, and of Warsaw and Berlin, or
at least some of them.
The idea that a visibly moral Zionist settlement,
one that took great pains to avoid injury to the Arabs,
would be a light to the Jews and to the world was central to the thoughts and feelings of the intellectuals
who founded Brit Shalom (the Covenant of Peace)
in the 1930s. Martin Buber, Judah Magnes, and Gershom Scholem were among the most visible leaders.
This group had no plans for the diaspora. It wanted
to settle the Jews who were already in Palestine into
a high moral framework that could bring peace with
the Arab. This Zionism did not pretend that it was
about to rescue the diaspora from its physical dangers. It offered only the hope that the Jewish people
could be recalled to its highest ideals, of peace and
justice, which it had once learnt from the prophets in
the Bible, and so the Jewish people as a whole would
find the courage to continue.
The crucial turn away from messianic Zionism
was taken in the very earliest year of the existence of
Israel by no less a figure than David Ben-Gurion. To be
sure, he continued to speak and write to the very end
of his days about the illegitimacy of the diaspora and
the moral requirement that all Jews come on aliyah,
that is that they ascend to Israel but in the early
1950s David Ben-Gurion pacified Jacob Blaustine, the
leader of the non-Zionist American Jewish Committee, by agreeing to stop badgering the Jews of America
to pack up and come to Israel. Ben-Gurion made the
bargain in return for the promise of enough financial
and political support to help establish the new Jewish
state on firm foundations. No matter that Ben-Gurion
kept saying to the Israeli community and to his own
messianic Jewish conscience that he was making
only a contemporary tactical concession: the Jews of
the world would inevitably come to the Jewish state or
they would disappear as Jews. He had done more than
that; he had agreed that the main task of emissaries
of the Zionist state, especially in the West where Jews
lived in democratic societies, was not to lead them out
of Exile; it was to gather as much support as could be
found for Israel.
With this step the transformation of the mainstream
of Zionism was not yet complete. In the 1950s and into
the 1960s, Israel was still, for Zionists, the center of
the Jewish world, and its purposes were predominant
in establishing the agenda of all the Jews in the world.
Israels centrality meant that the diaspora would
derive its strength and its will to live on by contemplating and sharing the glories of Israels army and the
creativity of its society. The labors for Israel were seen
as the guarantee of the Jewish life and Jewish continuity of the diaspora.
This broke down in the 1970s, when the rate of
intermarriage, and of attrition from Jewishness, rose
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radically in the western diaspora. The
labors for Israel were not, in themselves,
enough to preserve the continuing Jewishness of the diaspora. In those years, the
1970s, the balance between Israel and its
supporters and admirers all over the Jewish world changed radically. Increasingly,
and ever more insistently, the root question in the Jewish world was: How can the
diaspora be preserved? Israel could no
longer simply look to the diaspora to keep
helping the Jewish state. It was now being
asked to become the chief rescuer of the
very diaspora that Herzls political Zionism, in all its variations, had come to help
die, quickly, and decently.
Let it be made very clear that the central question for the bulk of the Jews of the
diaspora, as they think of Israel now, is:
How can Israel be enlisted to help Jews all
over the world, wherever they choose to
be? This present question has its deepest
roots in many centuries of Jewish defensive posture. It presumes that messianic
visions and messianic certainties cannot
protect us: we must be guided by human
prudence and human wisdom. We must
live by the time that we see on the age-old
sober Jewish clock. The Jewish agenda for
this day must be determined, as it always
has been, except when we have gone off
on messianic adventures, by prudence.

In our external politics, there is almost
no possibility that Israel and the Palestinians can agree to a formal peace that will
end the century of war between them.
Israel cannot commit suicide by offering
to take in millions of refugees, or the children and grandchildren of refugees, but
prudence commands that Israel must also
stop all of its contributions to provocation. It must stop absolutely the creation
of more settlements in the West Bank and
Gaza or of thickening the population of the
settlement blocs that already exist. Such
decisions on the part of Israel will anger
many Jews, and it will not bring peace with
the Palestinians, but it might offer the possibility for some pragmatic dtente. Such
a policy could be announced and followed
only if there were assent by the bulk of
Israels Jews that we are not living in a messianic era and that any effort to act on the
contrary can only backfire disastrously.
It might bring again the heroic glory of
Masada, but we who are alive today as Jews
are the descendants of those who chose
not to die
The other fundamental change in our
agenda must be a clear redefinition of our
central Jewish purpose. We are here not to
make holy wars, but to continue, and to
keep rethinking, our Jewish heritage. Fundamental to this endeavor is a program of

education in which we insist, with all the
influence that the Jewish world can muster, that all parts of the Jewish people share
again in some common education in the
fundamental texts of our traditions, and
in some awareness of the tension between
the teaching of these texts and the problems that we must confront in the larger
world as it is and as it is becoming. Factionalism, of which we are, unfortunately, past
masters, breeds isolation from each other.
The future of the Jewish people commands
us to breach the walls of these various subghettos. Let Jews cease being strangers in
each others enclaves.
Many people of good intention have
become increasingly aware of this central problem and they have created innumerable institutes and study programs to
try to bridge the gaps. What we need as a
people is not more of the same. The problem will not be cured by another institute
or another non-denominational study
center. At the very root, we need a turning of the heart. The increasing poverty
in the ultra-Orthodox community and the
increasing ignorance of the classic texts of
our heritage in the secular community are
not two separate problems. Each of these
difficulties affects the other; unless they are

solved, together, we are deeply diminished
as a people. The Orthodox poor must be
led and taught to cease living on a national
dole and to start earning their living in the
very secular world that they keep far away.
The secularists must acquire respect for
the faith of their ancestors, whose courage
has kept alive the Jewishness of which they
now know much too little.
The mode of Jewish leadership must
change, radically, at the top. A central
overarching organization of the world
Jewish community, to set the tone and
policy for Israel and the Jewish world
as a whole, has to be created as a plans
board to ensure our spiritual survival. It
is no longer enough for Jewish communal careers, not only in Israel but even in
the diaspora, to be made in political bodies. Our external affairs will continue to
be important but fundamentally they are
now a holding action. We are not going
to conquer the Palestinians and they are
not going to push us out of the land. It
may take a long, and bloody, wait, but
pragmatic compromise will inevitably be
found. What is in our own hands is the
inner life of our people. This is the time
for such a policy if we look at the true
clock of our people.
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Rabbi Paul Jacobson of Temple Avodat Shalom said long-time synagogue member Phyllis Roth told him about hearing Ms. Hooper
tell the story of the Paper Clips Project years
ago.
Realizing that Ms. Hoopers message of
changing the world and of making a positive difference is as timely today as it was
when she created the Paper Clips Project, we
decided it was crucial to bring Ms. Hooper to
address our community directly, he said.

We are encountering so much prejudice, racism, anti-Semitism, and general
distrust of and disgust towards people who
are different, people whom we perceive as
other. We hear such comments not only in
our workplaces and our schools, but also in
the media, and also throughout this years
presidential campaign, Rabbi Jacobson
continued. Something needs to be done
to change the level of discourse, the nature
of discussion, and the amount of awareness that we have regarding people we do
not know.
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Hoopers message, and the message

of the work of her students in creating
the Paper Clips Project. Her students
had not known about the Holocaust,
yet it was education and eyewitness
accounts that opened their eyes to the
horrible things that humans can do. Ms.
Hooper will inspire us to think and to
act differently.
The talk at Temple Avodat Shalom is
being co-sponsoring by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, the Solomon
Schechter Day School of Bergen County,
the Jewish Community Center of Paramus-Congregation Beth Tikvah, Temple
Emanu-El of Closter, and the Glen Rock

Jewish Center.
Ms. Hooper said that she sees her mission as keeping people aware that hatefilled speeches occur all over the world,
and genocide can happen anywhere. We
have to involve our young people in activities that allow them to see how easily
their actions could lead to another horror like the Holocaust.
Things like this dont start with big
events but with putting people down and
blaming different groups for this or that.
Every day, we must be conscious of what
we say and do.
Death Penalty
Moreover, its against Jewish law to commit suicide, even in the case of terminal illness, because its not your body. You might
inhabit the body, but its not yours. Its
Gods. So who are we to execute someone?
Its not his body. Its Gods.
Plus, he said, it is expensive to prosecute
capital cases. On the other hand, Its crass
and immoral to argue that we should execute people because its cheaper than keeping them alive, he said.
David Feldman, an Essex County assistant prosecutor, defines himself as Rabbi
Prousers mirror image. I tend to be pretty
liberal on most issues, he said. But having
spent as much time in the court system as
I have, I know that there are some people
who are not redeemable, and some acts
that are so heinous, that to me there is a
place for capital punishment.
Everyone has to come to terms with
their own moral compass, he added.
Yes, mistakes happen, he said, but
despite what we hear, they are rare. The
thought of putting an innocent person in
jail keeps me up at night.
The second I get wind that I might have
the wrong person, I do everything possible, I explore every avenue, to find out the
truth.
Thats a position that the prosecutors he
knows share, he added. Our motto is to do
justice. To seek justice. It is not to get convictions. It is to protect the community. We
have to get both those things right.
And if we convict someone who did
not do the offense, we are not getting the
person who did do it. These, he said,
are strong safeguards against mistakes,
although, he added, he knows that some
mistakes are inevitable, and that is a terrible truth. There is nothing you can say
to a person who has lost someone wrongly
to the death penalty, he added.
I am sure that there are people who
would find my position morally repugnant, Mr. Feldman said. It is a deeply personal, deeply emotional topic, and there is
no one right answer to it.
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arguing for it in court, in charge of death

penalty litigation, motions, and appeals.
This was a new adventure, he said.
The defense attorneys made every challenge that had already been rejected in
the U.S. Supreme Court because maybe
it would be accepted by New Jersey
courts.
There was a very narrowing set of factual surrounding circumstances that
kept all but the most egregious criminals
from being eligible for the death penalty,
Rabbi Rosenbach said. If you killed a law
enforcement officer, or if you kill for hire,
or if you hire someone as a killer. If you
killed someone in a barroom brawl, you
probably werent getting the death penalty,
but if you hired someone to kill your wife,
or if you were the hired killer, you would
be eligible.
Next, in the penalty phase, aggravating
factors would have to outweigh mitigating factors for capital punishment to be
imposed. And of course all this took time.
By 2007, when capital punishment again
was stopped, no one had been executed in
New Jersey. (Or at least not by the criminal justice system, Rabbi Rosenbach said.
Maybe by fellow inmates in jail.)
Although Rabbi Rosenbach was opposed
to the death penalty, I thought it was not
something that reasonable minds could
not differ about. It is an individual persons
moral judgment, but it doesnt mean that
society as a whole is morally bankrupt for
executing it.
Like Rabbi Prouser and Rabbi Kalmanofsky, Rabbi Rosenbach talked about the
real possibility of mistakes, and the irrevocability of the punishment. Although it
wasnt true in New Jersey, where a full web
of safeguards were in place, thats not so
true in other parts of the country, where
many people are executed, some of them
wrongly. A lot of institutions, like the Innocence Project, show us that we make mistakes a whole lot of times, he said.
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously
rejected recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Golan Heights will permanently
remain under Israeli sovereignty.
Council members expressed their deep concern over
recent Israeli statements about the Golan, and stressed
that the status of the Golan remains unchanged, Chinese Ambassador to the U.N. Liu Jieyi, president of the
15-nation Security Council this month, said following a
closed-door meeting, Reuters reported.
Jieyi further said that Security Council Resolution 497,
which was passed in 1981 when Israel extended civil law
over the Golan Heights, means that Israeli administration
in the Golan is null and void and without international
legal effect.
The decision was unanimously adopted by the Security
Council, including the United States. Israeli Ambassador
to the U.N. Danny Danon said the Security Councils statement completely ignores the reality in the Middle East.
While thousands of people are being massacred in
Syria, and millions of citizens have become refugees,
the Security Council has chosen to focus on Israel, the
only true democracy in the Middle East, said Danon,
who added, Its unfortunate that interested parties are
attempting to use the council for unfair criticism of Israel.
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role over Facebook post on
Israels relocation
A British Member of Parliament who suggested that Israel
should be relocated to the United States as a solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has quit her post as parliamentary private secretary to Shadow Chancellor of the
Exchequer John McDonnell, the British Labour party confirmed on Tuesday.
Labour MP Naz Shah who is staying in the parliament despite quitting her role in the United Kingdoms
shadow cabinet (the parliamentary oppositions alternative cabinet to that of the ruling coalition government)
unreservedly apologized for a 2014 Facebook post that
included an image of the country of Israel superimposed
on a U.S. map, with the comment solution for the IsraelPalestine conflict. The Guido Fawkes political website
was the first outlet to report on the post.
Problem solved and save u bank charges for 3 BILLION you transfer yearly! Shah wrote in the Facebook
post.
The post gives a list of reasons for why Israels relocation plan would be beneficial, such as Palestinians
getting their land and life back.
This post from two years ago was made before I was
an MP. [It] does not reflect my views and I apologize
for any offense it has caused, Shah said in a statement.
I made these posts at the height of the Gaza conflict
in 2014, when emotions were running high around the
Middle East conflict. But that is no excuse for the offense
I have given.
Additionally, Londons Jewish Chronicle cited antiSemitic posts Shah made on Twitter in 2014, alluding that
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advocates for old-style, self-critical Zionism
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WASHINGTON When a pro-Israel
U.S. lawmaker greeted a member
of Israels Knesset here earlier this
months, the former may not have
anticipated the latters candor.
Give me good news, Rep.
Ted Deutch, (D-Fla.), told Merav
Michaeli on April 13, a typical
request when the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives Middle East subcommittee
meets Israelis.
Moshe Katzav is still in jail,
Michaeli replied. His sentence
was not shortened.
It may not have been the answer
that Deutch, a leader on sanctioning Iran who has made Israels
security a central plank of his
political reputation, expected.
But for Michaeli it makes perfect
sense: How Israel holds accountable a convicted rapist, especially
one who once was her countrys
president, is every bit as important
as how it handles issues of defense
and security.
Im an Israeli, an Israeli member of parliament. I have a responsibility for how Israel treats human
beings, the Zionist Union lawmaker said.
(A spokesman for Deutch confirmed the exchange, and said the
congressman and Michaeli discussed strategies for combating
sexual assault in the military, a
concern they share.)
Michaeli, 39, is an outspoken
advocate for a Zionism that she
frets is outmoded. Its hallmarks
are self-criticism, rejecting victimhood, and finding Israels place
among the nations through shared
universalist values.
Getting out this message of an
Israel that still needs improving
was Michaelis goal during her visit
to the United States this month,
which included meetings with lawmakers like Deutch and the gamut
of pro-Israel groups, although she
says its not her place to ask American Jews to advance a more selfcritical Israel.
I dont feel I have any right or
business telling American Jews
what they should or should not
do, Michaeli said on a day when
she had just met with the New
Israel Fund, whose North American supporters are not shy about
telling Israel how it might improve,
and the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, which reflects
the Israeli governments policies
Merav Michaeli, shown in the Knesset, came to the United States with
the message that Israel is still improving.
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when telling American Jews what

they should and shouldnt support
regarding Israel.
Instead, Michaeli, who also met
with J Street, wants to reassure
American Jews that the pluralism she supports encompassing
divergent views on religion and
peacemaking is not just good for
them but also good for Israel.
I see Israel as the safe haven
for Jews all over the world, she
said. And as such it must have its
rules reflect that and be a place
that enables every Jew to be a Jew
whichever way they should be Jewish. Its important for people to
know Netanyahu is not all of Israel,
important for people to know
there are different faces to Israel.
Her thorny, proud Zionism
infused her maiden speech to the
Knesset in 2013, which went viral
among Israelis. Michaeli praised
her grandfather, Rudolf Kastner,
who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann and bought the lives of 1,684
Hungarian Jews, only to be assassinated in Israel in 1957 after he was
smeared as a Nazi collaborator.
If theres something I learned
from my grandfathers story, it is
not to be a victim, she said in her
Knesset speech.
I have the great privilege to
be part of the flow of generations
committed to this project, the
State of Israel, and the way it holds
together the people dispersed
through the understanding that we
have no other place but this place.
But from inside this place is where
criticism grows.
Its soaring rhetoric, but hard to
compress into soundbites, which
she acknowledges makes political
success easier for Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu.
The policy of our current government and the prime minister
is that we have no responsibility to do anything, she said. Its
extremely difficult to compete with
a message that there is someone
else to blame for every problem.
Michaeli is referring to how
Netanyahu deals with the Palestinians, in itself unusual for the Zionist
Union, which has focused emphatically on domestic issues since 2011,
when Israels housing crisis sparked
a summer of protests. Her criticism
of Netanyahus peace policies dovetails with her party leader Isaac Herzogs foray into peace plan proposals in February.
A former journalist and an
advocate against violence against
women, Michaeli said shes enjoying her Knesset gig, three years in.
Politics is the super profession,
she said. It is the most complicated, demanding, challenging.
Its overtaking you completely. Its
fascinating and you get to do really
good stuff every now and then,
more than I expected.
Such as?
Michaeli just launched a bill
that would mandate term limits
for prime ministers, and through
coalition building she also has
passed bills that protect people in
debt and create mediation avenues
for couples seeking divorce.
Not the stuff of headlines or
soundbites, but Michaeli seems to
revel in the drudgery of governance.
You can be political until you
are elected, and once you are
elected you are obligated to everyone, she said.
JTA Wire Service
Jewish World
Unpacking the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

and its ripple effect on Israels region
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
Anyone with a vested interest in the Jewish state is
accustomed to tracking developments related not only
to Israel, but also to such Middle East players as Iran,
Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. But much global attention
recently has focused on the Caucasus region at the
Europe-Asia border, and particularly on the suddenly
intensified violence between Azerbaijan and Armenia
in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh area of western Azerbaijan.
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, while not taking
place in Israels immediate neighborhood, does have
what one scholar called potential ripple effects on the
Middle East.
Several dozen (if not hundreds) of soldiers and
civilians were killed in early April before a Moscowbrokered cease-fire was implemented in the disputed
Nagorno-Karabakh region. This is not a new war.
Much like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began
before the establishment of the State of Israel, fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been going
on for decades. The conflict started more than 30
years ago in the late 1980s and escalated into a fullfledged war in 1991, upon the collapse of the Soviet
Union. More than 30,000 people were killed before
a cease-fire was instituted in 1994, leaving more than
20 percent of Azerbaijans internationally recognized
territory occupied by Armenia.
Azerbaijan is the side that lost its territory, and it
wants to win it back, said Amberin Zaman, a Turkish-born public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Azerbaijan
has been arming itself to the teeth for more than a
decade.There may be a point where they feel confident to do something [militarily] about their land.
But Azerbaijans ambassador to the United States,
Elin Suleymanov, said of the latest flare-up with Armenia, We dont want this escalation.
Suleymanov said that Azerbaijan is looking for international support toward attaining a peaceful settlement between his country and Armenia, and that the
United Nations Security Council has recognized Azerbaijans right to this territory with Security Council
Resolutions 822, 853, 874, and 884, among others.
Armenia has continued to ignore the resolutions
and the world has been comfortable with the status
quo, Suleymanov said. There is so much conflict
around the world. As long as our conflict did not move
to active warfare, it was easier just to ignore it or to
refrain from putting pressure on Armenia to move
toward demobilization.
While the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been a
source of conflict, Azerbaijan has succeeded in moving itself forward on several fronts. First, in terms of
tolerance, Azerbaijan is considered a pioneer among
its autocratic neighbors Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Established in 1918, Azerbaijan is the
first secular Muslim-majority country built on the principles of a Western-style democracy. The first draft of
its constitution granted equal rights to all citizens,
including voting rights for women. Israels ambassador to Azerbaijan, Rafi Harpaz, has been quoted
many times as saying that there is no anti-Semitism
in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan has championed the $45 billion
Azerbaijans ambassador to the United States, Elin Suleymanov, said We dont want this escalation about his
countrys conflict with Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Azerbaijan America Alliance
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significant and ambitious undertaking yet.
The U.S. government has made more than $10 billion in

economic investments in Azerbaijan in recent years. In fact,
the first large-scale Armenian attack in the recent NagornoKarabakh conflict took place while Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev was in the United States to attend the fourth
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of the Russian military in the region, he said; in recent
months, the country announced that in addition to joining the Eurasian Customs Union (the Russian-led alternative to the European Union) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (the Russian-led alternative to
NATO), it would coordinate all foreign affairs with Moscow. This comes on top of the $200 million export loan
Russia provided Armenia in February to finance the
delivery of Russian military products, including Russian Smerch rocket launchers and ammunition, Igla-S
air defense missile systems, RPG-26 grenade launchers,
and more.
We actually pay for what we buy, Azerbaijans
Suleymanov said. The Armenian side gets them subsidized or for free. This is an issue that Azerbaijan has
raised with its Russian counterparts. We want Moscow
involved, but we cannot just have one side involved in
the forming of a comprehensive settlement. We need
Russia, the United States, and France to produce a balanced settlement.
Sporadic efforts have been made by the Minsk Group
co-chaired by France, Russia, and the United States to
find a peaceful solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict since the original regional cease-fire in 1994.
According to Woodrow Wilson Centers Zaman, Russia has managed to play a double game, arming both
sides and ensuring that no other regional powers step in.

She also explained that Turkey and Azerbaijan have had
historically strong relations, while Turkey and Armenias
relations historically have been strained. Thats because
Turkey has refused to label the massacres of Ottoman
Armenians in 1915 as genocide. Tensions between Russia
and Turkey also have been on the rise in recent months,
especially since Turkey admitted to shooting down a Russian warplane that violated its airspace last November.
There was a moment when people thought Armenia
was moving away from the Russian orbit, Zaman said,
recalling a period when Turkey considered opening its
border with Armenia, which would have allowed more
Armenians to work in Turkey, among other benefits. But
the deal never went through, and the Turkish-Armenian
border has remained closed since 1993.
Trade between Turkey and Armenia would have
been to Azerbaijans benefit, Zaman said. One of the
reason Armenia is sort of hawkish about Nagorno-Karabakh is because it fears a Turkey-Azerbaijan alliance
against it, which is rooted in reality.
Zaman said she expects it will be a long time before
this conflict is solved, and that there will be more violence, unless the Minsk Groups three nations can act
together. She said there is no one country that on its
own could be an honest broker.
Yet Israel, Zaman believes, has the potential to influence both Azerbaijan and Armenia positively.
Israel has always had extremely good relations with
Azerbaijan, she said. But if you look at history, I think
there needs to be greater [Israeli] awareness of where
Armenians are coming from in all of this. Lets not forget
[the] 1915 [genocide]. The Armenians sense of insecurity is surely one Israelis can relate to.
Zaman argued that while Israelis first must consider
their own security situation by recognizing Azerbaijan
as a strategic ally in the battle against Iranian nuclear
proliferation, Israelis should also feel empathy for this
other country Armenia that suffered horribly in
the way Jews did later in the century, and perhaps use
its influence to promote peace in the region.
If indeed we have a full-fledged war between these
two, it is not hard to imagine Turkey involved in some
way on the Azerbaijani side, she added. Then I can
see Iran helping Armenia. Instability in the Caucuses
region is always going to be very destabilizing for the
wider region. There would be multiple negative ripple
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A recent examination of Israels nuclear reactor site in
Dimona has revealed signs of 1,537 defects to the sites
aging aluminum core, according to a study released at a
scientific forum held in Tel Aviv, Haaretz reported.
According to the report, the reactor core, which
houses the fuel rods where nuclear fission takes place,
has absorbed a great deal of heat and radiation over the
years, raising questions over its ability to operate.
France supplied Israel with its nuclear reactor in the
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operational for only 40 years.
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minister.
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former deputy director of the reactor Prof. Eli Abramov
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because it was built as a solitary unit. As such, a new
reactor must be built.
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resources to build a new reactor, and that it is unlikely
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n April 22, 196 nations across the world

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Israeli water experts say that a combination of water

conservation technologies has made Israel nearly
drought-proof. In a quest to conserve water while watering plants, Simcha Blass discovered drip irrigation in
Israel in the 1930s. He realized that instead of watering
land with uncontrolled amounts of water, he could create a device that uses friction and water-pressure loss to
regulate small leaks. The Israeli company Netafim established its first production facility in 1965 and eventually
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Today, Netafim operates in 120 countries.
Israel also is known for desalination, the process of
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In February 2016, the Israeli government signed
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Authority regarding a plan to desalinate and share
approximately 120 million cubic meters (about 32 billion gallons) of water from the Red Sea. A new desalination plant in the Jordanian city of Aqaba will be built for
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Israel treats more than 86 percent of its sewage
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This month, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz

(in front, second from right) tours Israels Sorek
seawater desalination plant, the largest facility of
its kind in the world. Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv
the roots and resulting in savings of at least 50 percent

in both water and fertilizer.
According to Israel NewTech, a national program led
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Recycling
Th0e latest statistics from Israels Ministry of Environmental Protection show that the country recycles about
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treatment facilities.
The Israeli company HomeBioGas has developed a
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cooking gas and liquid fertilizer. According to the companys website, using the system reduces both deforestation and the amount of methane that escapes from
organic matter into the atmosphere, a concern pertaining to global warming. A typical family using the system, which is not powered by electricity and therefore
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cook three meals a day.
Another Israeli invention is a bicycle made entirely
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tires. The bicycle, invented by Izhar Gafni, is durable
enough to carry up to 300 pounds. Gafni plans to sell
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thousands of Orthodox Jews who

flocked to the popular park this week,
in what has become an annual Passover
tradition.
I used to come every year when I
was a kid, said Yocheved, a 35-year-old
mother of two from Teaneck who was at
the park on Monday with her husband,
kids, and two nieces from Sharon, Massachusetts. I cant turn the corner without seeing someone I know.
Kid-friendly amusements all around
metropolitan New York tend to be
jammed with Jewish children on Passover, from the Bronx Zoo and the neighboring New York Botanical Garden to
the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk,
Connecticut.
But nothing compares to the annual
Passover pilgrimage to Six Flags, which
some years is open exclusively to visitors from the Orthodox Unions National
Conference of Synagogue Youth, the programs organizer.
Passover at Great Adventure, a mainstay since 1983, also is the years biggest
fundraiser of the year for NCSYs New
Jersey chapter, which usually raises
more than $100,000 after expenses.
NCSY buys tickets in bulk and resells
them for 30 percent off regular admission price, markets the program, organizes busing to the park, and coordinates
with park administrators to accommodate Orthodox needs. The park offers
kosher-for-Passover food concessions,
and NCSY puts on a concert featuring a
popular Orthodox singer. This year the
entertainer is Baruch Levine.
Every kind of Jew ends up coming here during Pesach, Rabbi Ethan
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coordinator of the Passover program, said.
Depending upon the time of year, we bring
public school kids together with Orthodox,
non-Orthodox, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, kids
with kippot, kids without, poor kids, rich
kids, special-needs kids, Its a tremendous
kiddush Hashem sanctification of Gods
name for so many Jews to be together in
one place for such an amazing event.
On Monday, a beautiful, sunny day with
temperatures in the high 70s, more than
4,000 park visitors bought tickets through
NCSY, Katz said. That comprised more than
one-third of all visitors, according to a park
representative, and many more Jewish visitors came on their own.
At the 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel, wig-wearing mothers in ankle-length skirts, helming double strollers, lined up surrounded
by broods of children dressed in identical
outfits. At the 15-story giant swing, modern Orthodox teens in jeans and T-shirts
who had taken off their kippot for the ride
seemed in no hurry to put them back on.
Near the kosher food concession, a group of
men held an impromptu afternoon prayer
service.
Yeshiva students from the nearby Orthodox stronghold of Lakewood congregated
around the basketball throw, removing
suit jackets and ties to take shots, drawing cheers from casually dressed generaladmission visitors when they sank their free
throws.
At the gondola that ferries visitors
around the park, an Asian-American
staffer named Josiah did his best to wish
Jewish visitors a happy holiday.
Are you guys Jewish? he bellowed,
offering a mangled version of a YiddishHebrew Passover greeting when they nodded in assent. Did I say it right? he called
out as the gondola rose into the air.
Staffers practice some deference when
it comes to asking visitors to remove hats
and yarmulkes on rides though only
an act of God could save a head-covering
from flying off on rides like Kingda Ka, a
roller coaster that goes from zero to 128
miles per hour in 3.5 seconds.
Pam Nuzzo, general sales manager for
Six Flags Great Adventure, said that after
doing Passover for so many years, staffers
are familiar with Orthodox needs.
Passover is part of the parks history. Its one of our bigger special events
throughout the year, she said. Its good
for the park. It brings a lot of people.
NCSY also brings groups throughout the
year, including on middle days of Sukkot.
But Passover, when Jewish schools stay
closed and many Orthodox parents take
off, is the biggest draw. This year, because
Passover coincides with many public
schools spring holidays, the park also is
open to the general public.
Once, when NCSY had exclusive
rights to the park, Katz recalled that the
The Orthodox Unions youth organization sold more than 4,000 tickets to Six Flags Great Adventure on the first day of
chol hamoed this year.
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Pinchas Cohen, a restaurateur and father of nine from Brooklyn, brought his own
box of handmade shmura matzah to Great Adventure.
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administration made the faux pas of

including Wonder Woman among the costumed characters entertaining visitors.
The woman walking around in her underwear disappeared once staffers realized
their blunder. NCSY also has organized allboys days at Great Adventures water park,
Hurricane Harbor, for those whose religious observance precludes mixed-gender
swimming. All the lifeguards that day are

male. (An effort to organize an all-girls day
so far has been unsuccessful.)
We work a lot on bridging gaps, especially so the ultra-Orthodox can come here
and have a great experience and feel very
welcome and at home, Katz said. Its
a very positive Jewish environment for
everybody.
Dovid Kessner, a Lakewood father of

seven, came to the park on Monday along
with his family and those of two of his siblings, with 23 or 24 children among the
three couples. A first-timer, Kessner said
he decided to come after seeing an ad in
his local Jewish weekly.
Im not such an amusement park guy,
said Kessner, who obtained a group rate
for his crew. I usually take my kids boating or fishing on the Jersey Shore.
Great Adventure forbids bringing in
outside food or drink, and many Orthodox families picnicked right outside the
gates. But Kessner said attendants didnt
give him a problem bringing in provisions.
I told them I needed to bring in some
food for the kids. They didnt give me a
hard time, he said. I didnt try to sneak it
in. Thats not what I want to teach my kids.
At the Passover concession, Reubens
Glatt Spot, menu items included $7.25 hot
dogs (on Passover buns), $16 chicken nuggets, $7 French fries, and 2-liter bottles of
Coke for $9 apiece.
The hot dog buns dont really hold
the hot dogs well. It keeps slipping out,
said Sarah Ifrah, who was in town from
Toronto to visit her sister in Woodmere,
New York. Its also a little on the expensive side, but were glad they have it. Who
comes to an amusement park on Pesach
and can buy some food? Its great.

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Dvar Torah
Pesachs spirit of freedom reaches into May
ith the matzah from Pesach still being

digested, we are about to face a series
of celebrations and commemorations
related to freedom and independence as
Jews and as Americans.
First we commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Memorial Day. We remember the six million Jews murdered by the German Nazis during World War II and the
bravery of the fighters of the ghettos, young men and
women who risked and gave their lives for the hope of living in freedom and dignity.
I have issues with some of the terminology we use when
we talk about those tragic events. While Im not suggesting
that we change the names of any events, we should understand that Holocaust is a word that describes a sacrifice, a
death for a higher purpose or cause. It is a word used by
many translators of the Bible to describe the sacrifices at
the Temple altar in ancient times. For example, in William
Tyndales 1526 English translation of the Bible, the word
korban-olah is rendered as holocaust. And in 1646, Sir
Thomas Browne wrote in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica
about the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses...
For me, the word genocide is a more accurate term to
describe what happened to the Jews during World War II,
because the goal of the Nazis was the total annihilation of
the Jewish nation.
Another word I object to is liberation concerning the
death camps. I ask myself, what liberation? The fight was

to liberate Europe, and only after that happened were the
camps opened.
There is no documentation of any army or any country fighting specifically to liberate any of the concentration camps. We recall battles to liberate cities and villages,
but even the railroads that transported the Jews to the gas
chambers were not targeted by the Allies because they
were not seen as military targets. In the meantime, six
million Jews were massacred.
We can understand now why a week after Yom HaShoah
we get so excited with Yom HaAtzmaut, Israels Independence Day. It is because the Jewish people got their destiny
back in their hands. After 2,000 years of a cruel diaspora,
we went from being powerless to becoming powerful. We
came back to our homeland, to build this beautiful Jewish
reality called the State of Israel.
We pay tribute to those who gave their lives for that to
happen, and for the defense of our Jewish State, on the
day before Yom HaAtzmaut, when we observe Yom HaZikaron, Israels memorial day.
In Israel, twice during the year the sound of sirens
marks the moment everything stops. Even drivers in the
middle of roads and highways come to a halt. People get
out of their cars and stand in silence, commemorating first
Yom HaShoah and later Yom HaZikaron.
The fight for freedom and independence brings us
Adele Rebell Memorial Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat
"Reconstructionist Judaism in the Age of Invitation"

with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.,
President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Jewish Reconstructionist Communities
Friday, May 6 & Saturday, May 7

At Temple Israel & JCC
Saturday, May 7
9:00 am Shabbat Text Study: On the Road to Yavneh,

a look at the dramatic events leading to the establishment of
the first rabbinic academy; the challenges and opportunities
that are present in volatile times, and the evolution of the
Reconstructionist seminarys curriculum.
10:00 am Shabbat Morning Services
12 noon (approx.) Lunch & Learn: Beyond Boundaries in the
Age of Invitation examines the boundaries that remain relevant
in our open, inviting society, those we may choose to look
beyond, and how to sustain relevant, substantive Jewish living.
Join Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ

and Kean University Holocaust Resource Center
Annual Yom Hashoah

Holocaust Commemoration
Justice After The Holocaust
Keynote speaker
Friday, May 6
8:00 pm Joint TI/RCBI Service: Dr. Waxman will discuss

From 20th to 21st Century American Judaism: Embracing the
Age of Invitation. New understandings of Jewish peoplehood
as Reconstructionist and American Jews, and the emergence of
post-ethnicity in the early 21st century.
to another date in the Jewish calendar during May: Lag

BaOmer, the 33rd day in the counting of the Omer. When
the Roman Empire occupied Judea, the students of Rabbi
Akiva joined the rebellion led by Bar Kochba. A plague
erupted, killing many of them, but the plague stopped on
Lag BaOmer.
We learn about the bravery of those students who risked
their lives not just for independence but also for Jewish
continuity. The Romans forbade the study of the Torah
but they continued to do study and to teach regardless,
knowing that if a generation of Jews stopped learning and
living a Jewish life, even if physically alive, as Jews they
will disappear.
At the end of May, on American Memorial Day, we
gather to pay tribute to those who made the ultimate
sacrifice for the freedom not only of their own country, but for many other human beings around the world.
They carry the message of freedom and human dignity
for all humanity, as this is one of the core values in which
the United States of America was created and stands. A
country that is among the first to offer help when natural disasters happened at any place of the world, making
people free from hunger and desperation.
As we are at the end of zman cheruteinu, our festival of
freedom, may the lives of all those who fought for a better future continue to be an inspiration for all of us to do
our part.
ABE FOXMAN
Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D.
National Director Emeritus,

Anti-Defamation League and
Director and Chairman of
Center for the Study of
Anti-Semitism at
Jewish Heritage Museum
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 6:45 p.m.

Kean University
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Free and open to the public
For more information call (973) 929-3194
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Arts & Culture

Climbing the slippery pole
Yales Jewish Lives series takes on Benjamin Disraeli
Jonathan Lazarus
Jonathan E. Lazarus is a former news

editor of the Star-Ledger and a proofreader
for the Jewish Standard.
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e charmed a glacial Queen

Victoria with flattering attention and love of empire and
by securing the title Empress
of India for her. The monarch, initially
wary of the exotic prime minister,
returned the favor by naming him a peer,
thus relieving decades of crushing debt
despite his constant seductions of the rich
and famous and a marriage to the older,
wealthier widow of a creditor.
He had tasted life as a bon vivant, a fabulist, an indifferent lawyer, a reckless newspaper and mine investor, a continental
traveler, and a visitor to the Levant before
turning his attentions to elective office,
more as a way to avoid debtors prison
than as a path to uplifting the greater
good. And he failed abysmally in his first
few tries at Parliament, despite switching
political beliefs and election districts as
only the opportunistic can.
When he did finally arrive as a so-called
new Tory in 1837, he was shunned by many
in his own party, as much for his foppish
dress and demeanor as for his backstabbing and vacillating on the issues. His
maiden speech flopped, his own leaders
spurned his first few cabinet attempts, and
he seemed relegated to life as an eternal
backbencher.
The lone constant to his career trajectory came from churning out novels with
fantastic political, racial, and religious
creeds expressed through characters in
outlandish plots. Yet the writings succeeded in keeping the name of this Victorian rebel before the public, despite the
odor and disrepute attached to his reputation. For someone who sought fame and
wealth as ends in themselves, the results
proved gratifying.
In addition to this frothy resume, Benjamin Disraeli also was Jewish. And while
being Jewish in Britain during this period
was incomparably better than being Jewish on the continent, Jews still were limited in their memberships on the stock
exchange, in professional organizations,
and in medical societies.
The Jews were expelled from England by
Edward I in 1290. Oliver Cromwell allowed
them to return in 1656, but they remained
classed as non-Christian aliens who had
to swear fealty to the Anglican church if
they were fortunate enough to make it
to an office or career that required the
This photograph of Benjamin Disraeli, by W&D Downey, was taken around 1878.
oath of abjuration. Their collective limitations were classified euphemistically as

disabilities.
Despite all the baggage and negatives
inherent in his behavior and religious
background, Dizzy, as he was called, went
on to become one of the notable prime
ministers and power brokers of his age,
mastering the byzantine ways of Parliament through calculation and callousness.
And he accomplished this as the first and
still the only member of his faith to occupy
10 Downing Street.
The confounding and compelling twist
is not so much that he was Jewish and
became prime minister, but that this
particular Jew was the one to ascend the
heights. While never denying his religious birthright, Disraeli spent his entire
life dodging, circumnavigating, or even
flaunting his Jewishness, depending on

the situation and the political capital to be
gained.
Several historians have tried to unlock
the intricate tumblers of the Disraeli narrative, bringing along their biases and clarities. Now David Cesarani, perhaps better
qualified than previous biographers, adds
to the canon with his aptly titled and
double-word play Disraeli: The Novel
Politician.
Dr. Cesarani distinguished himself as
professor of history and director of the
Holocaust Research Center at the University of London until his untimely death last
year. In 2006, he won the National Jewish
Book Award for Eichmann: His Life and
Crimes. And now, posthumously, Disraeli becomes the latest addition to the
flourishing Jewish Lives series from Yale
University Press.
The cover photograph is riveting, showing the subject in nearly three-quarters
pose, his arms folded, wearing a rich,
tightly checked waistcoat. His thinning
hairline is painstakingly arranged with spit
curls suspended at his temples, the most
prominent one bisecting his forehead. But
it is the eyes that mesmerize, somewhat
world-weary but aware of everything.
Dr. Cesarani meticulously aligns his subjects Jewish roots to the Sephardic diaspora after their expulsion from Spain and
Portugal in the late 15th century. So calculating by nature was Disraeli, that his version of the family migration asserts that his
grandfather, Benjamin DIsraeli (note the
apostrophe), came from upper-class Venice. In fact, he was from the humbler Jewish community in Livorno.
Ever the social predator, Disraeli may
have fudged his geography and pedigree
in an attempt to put his forbears on par
with the Rothschilds. Lionel Rothschild
and Disraeli were political frenemies, with
Dizzy inextricably bound to the British
branch of the dynasty through loans and
friendship with the women of the family.
But where the Rothschilds boasted
cachet and entree, Disraeli floundered in
notoriety and the contemporary perception of otherness. Yet Dizzy condescendingly held it against the clan that they
didnt act Christian enough, something
he and his forbears had cultivated since
grandfather Benjamin arrived on British
shores in 1748 and went on to develop a
thriving trade in coral.
His son, Isaac, spurned entreaties to
join the family enterprise and morphed
into a literary critic and scholar of some
repute. Isaacs skepticism, cosmopolitanism, and ultimate hostility toward Judaism
crested with his break from Bevis Marks
synagogue, which the family had helped
to sustain, over a dues and office-holding
disagreement.
Isaac married a Jewess, just as his father
did, and bequeathed a tribal birthright to
his son, Benjamin, in 1804 by having him
circumcised. Following the shul dispute,
an all-too-eager gentile friend convinced
him that baptism would free his children
from the restrictions attached to British
Jewry. Thus Benjamin Disraeli (apostrophe dropped) was immersed in the waters
of Christian profession at a time when
he should have been studying for his bar
mitzvah.
The effect of his fathers decision,
according to Dr. Cesarani, allowed Disraeli
both admission and propulsion (though at
See disraeli page 53
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Service led by Rabbis
Dr. David J. Fine, senior
rabbi of TI-JCC, Rabbi
Jacob Lieberman of
the Jewish Centers
Reconstructionist
Congregation Beth
Israel, and Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Friday
APRIL 29
Shabbat in Parsippany:
In commemoration of
Yom Hashoah, Holocaust
scholar Dr. Debrah
Dwork gives the
annual Joseph Gotthelf
Holocaust Memorial
lecture at Temple Beth
Am, after services that
begin at 7:30 p.m. She
is the Rose Professor of
Holocaust history and
the founding director of
the Strassler Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies at Clark
University in Worcester,
Mass. 879 Beverwyck
Road. (973) 887-0046.
Monday
MAY 2
Jobs after college:
Norma Brecker, Ph.D.,
an organizational
psychologist, holds a
free, one-hour HRCA
seminar addressing
the reasons why many
college graduates are
unable to find a job and
offers strategies and
tools to strengthen skills
and build confidence.
Program at the JCC of
Paramus/CBT, 7:30 p.m.
East 304 Midland Ave.,
Paramus. Reservations,
email NDrucker@thehrca.
com.
Sunday
MAY 1
Cantors Mark Biddelman and Ilan Mamber

perform for the 14th annual Myrna and
Alan Cohen Spring concert, an afternoon
of Yiddish, Israeli, Hebrew, and Broadway
songs for the family, at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh on
Sunday, May 1, at 2:30 p.m. 10 Link Drive. (201) 750-4231.
MAY
Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson

Wealth and Judaism:
Rabbi Dr. David
Ellenson, chancellor
emeritus of Hebrew
Union College Jewish
Institute of Religion,
discusses Something
Old, Something New:
On Intermarriage and
Conversion in the
19th Century and its
Significance for Liberal
Judaism Today for
the Food for Thought
Distinguished Speaker
series at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff,
9:45 a.m. Breakfast.
Sponsored by the Fred
Emert Memorial Adult
Education Fund with
TBR patron support.
585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Book discussion: The

Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel sisterhood talks
about Nomi Eves novel,
Henna House, 10 a.m.
Breakfast. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Barbara Stark-Nemon
Author in Ridgewood:
Barbara Stark-Nemon
Tuesday
MAY 3
discusses her novel,

Even in Darkness, at
Temple Israel & JCC in
Ridgewood, 10:30 a.m.
Books will be available
for sale and signing. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.synagogue.org.
Cocktails/book
discussion: The Glen
Rock Jewish Center
serves late morning
cocktails and a discussion
of A Backpack, a Bear
and Eight Crates of
Vodka, a memoir by
Lev Golinkin, as part of
this years JFNNJs One
Book One Community
programming, 11 a.m.
(201) 652-6624or www.
grjc.org.
Bridal showcase in River

Vale: Everything Bridal
holds a fashion show
with live entertainment,
dance party, and food
sampling at a bridal
showcase at Edgewood
Country Club, 1-4 p.m.
Win a honeymoon;
prizes every 20 minutes.
Register at www.
everythingbridalshows.
com.
Klezmer in Teaneck:
T-Klez, a new group
featuring drummer
David Licht, accordionist
Psachya Septimus, and

clarinetist Dobe Ressler,
plays at the Teaneck
Public Librarys annual
gala, at the library, 840
Teaneck Road, 2 p.m.
Kosher refreshments.
(201) 837-4171 or
teaneck.org.
Klezmer in Franklin
Lakes: Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey shows
a video of the Hakashet
Klezmer Band of
Oradea, Romania,
2 p.m. Refreshments
and ice cream. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Yom Hashoah in Jersey

City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob, Temple
Beth-El, and the United
Synagogue of Hoboken
commemorate Yom
Hashoah at Bnai Jacob,
3 p.m. Holocaust survivor
Frances Malkin, whose
story is told in the
film No. 4 Street of
Our Lady, will speak.
Program includes
prayers, readings, musical
selections, candlelighting,
and reception. 176 West
Side Ave. (201)435-7525
or www.BnaiJacobjc.org.
Yom Hashoah in
Emerson: Congregation
Bnai Israel marks
Yom Hashoah by
telling the story of
a Torah scroll saved
from the Holocaust,
which went first to the
Hillcrest Jewish Center,
where Rabbi Debra
Orensteins grandfather
served for 50 years, to
Congregation Bnai Israel,
which she heads now,
7 p.m. Rabbi Ari Kornblit
of the International
Synagogue will deliver
the scroll and speak.
Also, survivor testimony
and candlelighting.
53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Yom Hashoah in
Ridgewood: Holocaust
survivor/author Inge
Auerbacher is the Donald
and Helen Fellows
Memorial Holocaust
Education Endowment
speaker at Temple Israel
& Jewish Community
Center, 7:30 p.m., at an
interfaith service with
members of Ridgewoods
Interfaith Clergy Council.
Tamara Freeman, a
music educator and TIJCC congregant, will
lead an interfaith choir.
Or and the Pascack

Valley/Northern Valley
chapter of Hadassah
host a Yom Hashoah
commemoration
program at Temple
Emanuel, 7 p.m. John
Gunzler, a member of
the advisory board of
Ramapo Colleges Gross
Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies,
tells his familys story of
surviving the Holocaust
in Hungary. Coffee and
dessert. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801
or email ronniebsilver@
yahoo.com.
Wednesday
MAY 4
Yom Hashoah in
Englewood: The
Englewood Library
screens the film
Schindlers List,
6 p.m., to commemorate
Holocaust Remembrance
Day. 31 Engle St.
(201) 568-2215,
ext. 244, or www.
englewoodlibrary.org.
Yom Hashoah in Fort

Lee: N.J. Supreme
Jewelry show/sale
in Tenafly: Norma
Wellington, a prominent
international jewelry
designer, offers her silver
anniversary benefit
show/sale at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades,
9 a.m.-6 p.m. A large
percentage of sales will
benefit the Kaplen Adult
Reach Center, a day
care program for seniors
with Alzheimers disease
and related forms of
dementia. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1450 or
jnahary@jccotp.org.
Games in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley
Sisterhood hosts a
game night fundraiser,
7-9:30 p.m. Games
include mah Jong,
canasta, and Scrabble.
Refreshments.
Proceeds benefit the
organizations supported
by its sisterhood. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112, www.
tbenv.org, or jcoop1054@
aol.com.
Community Yom
Hashoah in Woodcliff
Lake: The sisterhoods
of Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
and Temple Beth
Court Chief Justice

Stuart Rabner
discusses Holocaust
Remembrance for the
Next Generation at
Young Israel of Fort Lee,
beginning with Mincha,
6:45 p.m. 1610 Parker
Ave. (201) 592-1518 or
yiftlee.org.
Yom HaShoah in
Mahwah: Alan Moskin
of Nanuet, N.Y., talks
about his experiences
liberating a Nazi
concentration camp as
a young United States
G.I at the Yom HaShoah
commemoration
at Temple Beth
Haverim Shir Shalom,
7 p.m. Sponsored
by Ramapos Gross
Center for Holocaust
and Genocide Studies.
280 Ramapo Valley
Road. (201) 512-1983.
Community Yom
Hashoah: Temple
Avodat Shalom, the
JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah, Glen Rock Jewish
Center, Temple EmanuEl, Solomon Schechter
Day School of Bergen
County, and the Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offer a
joint commemoration
at Avodat Shalom in
Calendar
River Edge, 7 p.m. Linda
Hooper, creator of the
Emmy Award-nominated
film Paper Clips, is the
guest speaker. Program
includes a memorial
service. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463.
Yom HaShoah
in Englewood:
Congregation Ahavath
Torah, East Hill
Synagogue, Kehillat
Kesher, Congregation
Kol HaNeshamah, and
the Moriah School join
for a commemoration
at Ahavath Torah,
7:30 p.m. 240 Broad Ave.
(201) 568-1315.
Thursday
MAY 5
Yom Hashoah in
Teaneck: The Torah
Academy of Bergen
Countys Yom Hashoah
program speaker, Frima
Laub, a hidden child
during the Holocaust,
will speak, 10:15 am.
1600 Queen Anne Rd.
(201) 837-7696
Yom Hashoah in
Fair Lawn: The
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey
and the Office of the
Governor and New
Jersey Commission on
Holocaust Education
hold the annual
statewide Holocaust
commemoration
program at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
CBI, 6:30 p.m.; photo
exhibit at 6. Zalmen
Mlotek, artistic director
of the National Yiddish
Theater Folksbiene,
and his daughter, Sarah,
will perform. 10-10 Norma
Ave. (201) 873-3263.
(201) 261-1663.
Yom Hashoah in
Pompton Lakes:
Holocaust survivor
Eric Mayer will speak
at a commemoration
program at Congregation
Beth Shalom,
7:30 p.m. 21 Passaic
Ave. (973) 835-3500 or
BethShalomNJ.org.
Her Past, an awardwinning documentary

on the life of Holocaust
survivor Sonia Reich, is
shown at the River Edge
Public Library, 7 p.m.
Dr. Michael Riff, director
of the Gross Center for
Holocaust and Genocide
Studies, Ramapo
College, introduces
the film and lead a
post film Q & A. Cosponsored by River Dell
Hadassah, The Friends
of the Library, and the
River Edge Cultural
Center. 685 Elm Ave.
MAY 8
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Rabbi Deborah
Waxman, president of
the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College and
Jewish Reconstructionist
Communities, is the
Adele Rebell Memorial
scholar-in-residence at
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center. The
weekend is themed
Reconstructionist
Judaism in the Age of
Invitation. There will
be talks and teachings
during Friday night
services, 8 p.m.,
community dinner at
6:30; Saturday morning
text study, 9 a.m.; and a
lunch and learn at noon.
TIJCC is home of two
worship communities,
egalitarian Conservative
and Reconstructionist.
475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a sisterhood Shabbat,
7:30 p.m. Oneg follows.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers Town Hall, a
service with a discussion
on contemporary
issues led by Rabbi
Debra Orenstein,
8 p.m. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Comedy in Jersey City:

Temple Beth-El holds its
annual benefit Night of
Comedy, hosted by Phil
Rivo, starring standup
comedian Judy Gold,
with local talent and
music by Lauren Shub,
8 p.m. Drinks, appetizers,
and desserts. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard.
www.betheljc.org/
borscht.
Coffee house: The Glen

Rock Jewish Center hosts
its annual coffee house,
with music by Rabbi
Jennifer Schlosberg,
9 p.m. Performers
welcome. Coffee and
dessert. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
Jongg Table Talk Tale, is

at a mah jongg session
hosted by sisterhood
of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/CBI, 8 p.m.
Bring mah jongg sets
and be prepared to
play. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Film in Closter: The
MAY 6
MAY 7
Yom Hashoah in River

Edge: Prisoner of
Sunday
Friday
Saturday
Dr. Michael Riff
rweiss@mclaughlinstern.
com.
Benefit run in Tenafly:

The Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades hosts its annual
Rubin Run, a familyfriendly community race.
Half marathon, 7:15 a.m.;
10K at 8:15; 5K at 10. Race
day registration available.
Breakfast, giveaways,
free babysitting, warm
ups, and trophies. Lead
sponsors include the
Kaplen Foundation,
Englewood Hospital
& Medical Center, the
Jewish Standard, and
Tenafly Suburbanite.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1412,
mkleiman@jccotp.org, or
www.jccotp.org/rubinrun.
Blood drive in Emerson:

Congregation Bnai
Israel holds a community
interfaith blood drive,
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cosponsored by churches
in Westwood and Park
Ridge, including the
Lebanon Baptist Church,
Parkside Community
Church, Zion Lutheran
Church, Westwood
Methodist Church,
Grace Episcopal Church,
St. Andrews Church,
and the PPT Worship
Center. Mothers Day
plants and flowers will
be sold. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Family fun day in East

Rutherford: Meor
hosts the Ultimate OnField Family Fund Day
at MetLife Stadium,
noon-5 p.m. Activities all
day, meet NFL players,
and barbecue buffet.
www.meor.org/events.
Monday
MAY 9
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai
Israel continues its Book
and Lunch program
as Rabbi David Fine of
Ridgewood discusses
E.L. Doctorow s novel
The Book of Daniel,
noon. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or www.
fljc.com.
Mah jongg maven in

Fair Lawn: Karen Gooen,
author of Searching
for Bubbe Fischer and
Small World: A Mah
Jewish Home Family and

Temple Emanu-El host a
screening and discussion
of Being Mortal, based
on work of Dr. Atul
Gawande, at Emanu-El,
7:30 p.m. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997.
In New York
Tuesday
MAY 3
Films in NYC: The
Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living
Memorial to the
Holocaust screens
Voices from the Attic
and Echoes from the
Attic, 4 p.m. Postscreening discussion
with director Debbie
Goodstein and Holocaust
survivor Sally Frishberg,
whose story is featured
in the films. 36 Battery
Place. (646) 437-4202 or
www.mjhnyc.org.
Wednesday
MAY 4
Dana Robbins
Poetry in Manhattan:
Award-winning poet
Dana Robbins, originally
of Teaneck, is among
the performers at Word
Medicine by the Russell
Road Writers at the
Cornelia Street Caf,
6 p.m. Ms. Robbins,
who had a stroke at
23 and writes about
her experiences, will
read from her book of
poetry, The Left Side
of My Life. Her poetry
has appeared in many
publications, including
the Jewish Womens
Literary Annual and the
Examined Life Journal
of the Carver College
School of Medicine
of the University of
Iowa. She has spoken
to pastoral students at
the Jewish Theological
Seminary. 29 Cornelia St.
(212) 989-9319 or www.
danamartinerobbins.com.
Thursday
MAY 5
Yom HaShoah in
Manhattan: The Museum
of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust
holds a day-long Yom
Hashoah observance,
10 a.m.-5:45 p.m.;
survivors and artifact
donors will be in the
galleries until 2. At 4, join
Lab/Shul for a Sew-In:
Patchwork Prayer Shawl
Project, to stitch, sew,
knot, donate fabric, and
witness the co-creation
of ritual art transformed
out of memories, stories,
and the woven narratives
of collective histories.
Presented in conjunction
with the museums
special exhibition,
Stitching History
From the Holocaust.
36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Singles
Sunday
MAY 1
Seniors meet in West
Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a social gettogether with music
by DJ Jeff Sherer and
refreshments at the JCC
Rockland, 11 a.m. All are
welcome, particularly
from Hudson, Passaic,
Bergen, or Rockland
counties. 450 West
Nyack Road. Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
Touro hosts lecture on

recovering stolen Jewish art
Lawyer Mel Urbach gives the
Touro College and University
Systems Presidential Lecture,
Recovering Nazi Looted Art:
The Last Prisoners of the
Shoah, in observance of Yom
Hashoah on May 4 at 7:30
p.m. The talk will be at the
Lander College for Men, 75-31
150th St., in Flushing. AdmisMel Urbach
sion is free and refreshments
will be served.
Mr. Urbach devotes his legal practice to helping
Holocaust victims recover artifacts stolen during the
years of Nazi terror, using a combination of international law, arbitration, mediation, and dispute-resolution techniques. He represents World War II victims
and during the last two decades he has participated
actively in recovering several billion dollars for his clients. He also has recovered stolen artwork and artifacts, which include porcelain collections and Judaica.
Dr. Alan Kadish of Teaneck, president and CEO of
Touro College, said that returning the artwork goes
beyond the responsibility to reclaim stolen property.
As the number of living Holocaust survivors dwindles, it is ever more important to protect the legacy
of its victims, Dr. Kadish said. Mr. Urbach points us
toward a path of continued advocacy for our people
and its history. We must be active in the present in
order to honor our past and ensure our future.
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Multi-religion friendship
lecture series in Wayne
The Wayne YMCA begins Building
Bridges, Building Friendship, a iveweek lecture series, on Tuesdays, May 3
to 31, at 1 p.m. The free series is sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Weeks one and two, led by Emily
Schuman, will focus on Our Father
Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian
Faith. Week three, Judaism and Hinduism The Similarities are Fascinating, will be led by a representative of
the Vivekananda Vidyapith Academy
of Indian Philosophy & Cultures. The
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fourth weeks lecture will be Judaism

and Islam One Seed, Two Religions,
given by a representative of the Muslim
community. The last session, Judaism
and Catholicism One Seed, Two Religions, will be led by Rabbi Randall Mark
of Shomrei Torah in Wayne and Father
Michael Lombardo of Our Lady of Consolation Church, both in Wayne.
The Wayne Y is a branch of the Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges and is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. For information call (973) 595-0100.
Discussing Earth Day issues

Temple Israel and Jewish Community
At 11:30, Nancy Gazda of Home Enery
Center in Ridgewood offers a mornSolutions in Ridgewood will talk about
ing of Earth Day events
the importance of home
for adults and children on
enery audits to reduce
Sunday, May 15, starting at
home enery use. Elaine
10:30 a.m. Rabbi Lawrence
Silverstein of NatureSurTroster of Teaneck, the keyrounds, a Glen Rock-based
note speaker, an eco-theolohorticulturist who specialgian and religious environizes in environmentally
mental leader, will discuss
friendly gardening techEnvironmentalism and
niques, will give steps homeJewish Values, teaching
owners can take to care for
Rabbi Lawrence
how important it is for peotheir lawns in a sustainTroster
ple of faith to take care of the
able way to reduce stress
earth. Breakout sessions will
on the land and water supinclude practical steps that
ply. Michelle Taormino,
homeowners can take to implement
watershed ambassador for the Pascack
these values.
River watershed, will share an interacRabbi Troster is the founder of Shomtive model with children to demonstrate
rei Breishit: Rabbis and Cantors for the
where water comes from and how we
Earth, and he is the rabbinic scholar-incan all help keep it clean.
residence at GreenFaith, New Jerseys
For information, call (201) 444-9320 or
interfaith environmental coalition.
go to www.synagogue.org.
Yom Hashoah program for professionals

The Young Friends of the Museum, a
member group of young professionals,
and the Manhattan Jewish Experience
host a community gathering for remembrance on Wednesday, May 4, at 7:30
p.m. It will include a candle-lighting ceremony and testimony by Auschwitz survivor Stefania Hecht, who lived through
the postwar Romanian communist

regime. The evening, co-sponsored by
3GNY, Brotherhood Synagogue, JICNY,
Columbia-Barnard Hillel, and Hillel at
Baruch College, is for people in their
20s and 30s.
For information, go to www.mjhnyc.
org/yfyomhashoah.
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1. Nielsen in Zuckers The Naked Gun
7. Bypass Jericho
12. Grind up matzah
16. Where Gal Friedman won gold
17. The population in Boro Park, Brooklyn e.g.
18. Like latkes
19. Singers that had a #1 hit on Billboards
Hot 100 in 1966
22. Theyre guarded in the Israeli Premier
League
23. Flair in English or tree in Hebrew
24. Bevadai
25. I could ___ horse! (something 8-Down
wouldt do)
26. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, e.g.
27. Chips in Edgar G. Robinsons The
Cincinnati Kid
28. A plague in 74-Across
31. Form of idolatry in 74-Across
35. G-d: Sp.
36. Made like the five kings after being
defeated by Joshua
37. Unlike King Saul towards his end
38. Tu follower (date)
41. Jewish education Institute in Manhattan
44. Where one can perform the mitzvah of
Shiluach HaKan
45. Stat. for Braun
46. Band that had a 2016 #1 hit on Billboards
Mainstream Rock chart covering
74-Across
49. Goldbergs is muscular, slangily
50. Perlmans female Cheers co-star
52. Jew originally from Sanaa
53. Many switch positions for the Sabbath
observant
54. Liam Neeson movie released 364 days
after Schindlers List
55. Arrange, as Arnold Rothstein may have
done to the 1919 World Series
57. Freuds home, to natives
59. Fervent Israel supporter and lead singer
of 46-Across
61. 1967 film featuring 74-Across (with The)
65. Tick-___ (nickname for Murder Inc. hitman Albert Tannenbaum)
66. ___ Lingus, carrier to see the Irish Jewish
Museum
67. Sound on a game show hosted by Chuck
Barris
69. What Stoller and Glickman were excluded from doing in Berlin in 1936
72. Away from the storm (like the other sailors after Jonah was tossed over)
73. What Hapoel Tel Aviv players hope to
score (2 words)
74. See 19 & 46-Across
77. Bob Dylans It ___ Me Babe
78. Rabbis debate if Jacob was ___ that
Joseph was not dead
79. Virtuous midot
80. Tref letters at diners
81. Silverman joke that warrants a ha rather
than a LOL!, e.g.
82. Levy, as taxes
Down
1. Hallstrm who directed Paul Rudd in The
Cider House Rules
2. Carrier that denied removing Israel from its
maps in 2014
3. Its cyclical in Israel
4. TV friend of Howard (Wolowitz)
5. Rahab ran one (et al.)
6. ___ Einai
7. What Kubricks 2001 does to many viewers
8. They (basically) keep kosher
9. Punished son of Judah
10. ___air
11. Established (Israels borders)
12. Make like a childrens siddur
13. Explore Beeri Forest
14. Robert who served the Confederacy with
Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin
15. ___ Stallyns, band in Ed Solomons Bill &
Ted movies
20. Newman, to Jerry
21. Psalms preposition
27. ___ Ledodi...
29. Like the rides in Kif Tzuba
30. Emerald Cove kosher sushi sheets
32. Lubitschs Ninotchka star
33. Bagel choice
34. Sandler title role
36. What Iran means to cause Israel
38. Mrs. Adler is one of Manischewitzs
39. Like Solomon as king, compared to his
son
40. Caesarea vacation rental
42. Missiles in the Yom Kippur War or a rock
band
43. Peach or orange one wouldnt make a
bracha on
44. Shalom, to Jaques
47. Stays alert on the Syrian border
48. Teenage girl in scenes with Lauren
Cohans Maggie on The Walking Dead
51. Those who will only eat a particular brand
of Israeli candy?
55. What the existence of King Hezekiah was
recently proven to be
56. Its black on a Torah
58. People who annoy you (kvetchers)
60. Disease a teen who isnt shomer negiah
might pick up
61. Aplenty, like etrogs around Jerusalem
before Sukkot
62. Hashish
63. Canadian coin worth 5.8 shekels on
January 1, 2016
64. Passes, like the Knesset
68. Sharon who played Cagney
69. What Yael did to Sisera
70. Main character in Harold Ramis
Groundhog Day
71. Jonathan Larson musical
72. Motherless man
73. Drinks in Jerusalem and Maale Adumim?
75. Rap band managed by Jerry Heller
76. ___ Believer (The Monkees hit written
by Neil Diamond)
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Akko, mixed Jewish-Arab city, is unpolished diamond

ORIT ARFA
uhammad Abu Marwan takes me through

the refined, artsy living room of Arabesque: An Arts and Residency Center in
the Old City of Akko, Israel, with the noble
air of an effendi, as if he were the proud owner.
Leading me into a beautifully tiled, luxurious guest
room furnished with antiques, he explains how the room
once was a stable for his sons horses, which were sold
not long after Arabesques owner, American-born novelist and artist Evan Fallenberg, bought the neglected,
centuries-old property, hoping to turn it into a retreat
space for intellectual types.
I consider him my partner even though hes really a
neighbor, Fallenberg said, a few days after Arabesques
April opening.
Abu Marwan is not an employee of Arabesque. His day
job is as a custodian at a local school.
Were good neighbors together, Abu Marwan says
in Hebrew. You wouldnt believe
how it was before. The minute Fallenberg bought it, he cleaned it up.
A b u M a r w a n s r e n o v a t e d
kitchenwhere he happily introduces me to his wife, as well as
his visiting daughters and grandchildrenoverlooks the sparkling,
An aerial view of Akko, Israel.
peaceful courtyard. Over the years,
Abu Marwans home had extended
into the for-sale property.
he could conjure up when he
I decided the best way to
heard of Akko was good hummus, but when he came on a
become a new member of this
tour with a real estate agent,
neighborhood was to say, Im
he discovered what he calls an
going to cede that land and I will
unpolished diamond.
be content with my share of the
We came up with an idea
courtyard, and they were only too
to buy some more properties
happy to have those rooms, Fallenberg says.
and to renovate them, and
Arabesque is just one example of
to make them tourists sites,
the kind of transformation taking
Davidson said, standing on the
place in what were once neglected
roof of an Ottoman building he
Muhammad Abu Marwan stands in a
properties in the historic Old City
had bought and refurbished
guest room in Akkos Arabesque: An
of Akko, or Acre, a Western Galilee
to include his own home and
Arts and Residency Center.
ORIT ARFA
municipality famous for Crusadera chic B&B unit. And the concept is, when normally people
Muslim showdowns and Napogo to vacation, they usually take a room in the hotel, but
leons failed attempt to take its port from the Ottomans.
the hotel is a unit in and of itself, not involved with the
In 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, better known as UNESCO, named
community and neighborhood.
Acre as a World Heritage Site, a designation that spurred
Davidson is among the few Jews who live in the Old
the municipality to cultivate world-class tourism attracCity, where most of the residents are Muslim Arabs. In
tions. But Akko didnt have the high-end accommodathe modern city of Akko, however, Jews comprise about
tions to match the prestigious U.N. designation until
70 percent of the population. Davidson moved to Akko
now.
to get a feel for the city, to ensure that changes are made
More and more, creative entrepreneurs are realizwith sensitivity to the local culture and with the resiing how this mixed Jewish-Arab city offers a model of
dents cooperation, and also for the breezy seaside view.
coexistence, at a time when Muslim-Jewish tensions are
Working with the community is very important to
heightened in response to the stabbings and other terus, Davidson said. Were not coming to change the
ror attacks against Jews in the streets of Israel. With its
city, clean up the citywere coming to the city.
stone seawall recalling the citys days as a fortress and
Chen Carmi, a real estate agent whose HouseStory
its lively port, Akko exudes the antique charm of places
agency specializes in Akko Old City properties, believes
like Jerusalem and Jaffaminus the commercialization.
that for the most part, Arab residents welcome these
These entrepreneurs have no intention of gentrifykinds of bottom-up initiatives. The renovations create
ing Akkos Old City or tearing down any of the dilapan economic ecosystem that infuses new sources of
idated centuries-old buildings to make way for big
income into the city. Most investors hire local contractors, technicians, and custodians to revamp the properdevelopments.
ties from ancient dumps into rooms that would befit a
Real estate investor Meir Davidson hadnt been to
Turkish pasha. Davidson plans to operate about 20 B&B
Akko since he was in third grade, when a friend told him
units, although breakfast will not exactly be served.
about unconventional real estate opportunities here. All
ISRAEL TOURISM VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Hell encourage visitors to take advantage of the local

shuk (Arab marketplace) and the restaurants that have
recently made Akko a culinary tourism destination.
Compared to the costs of apartments for sale across
Israel, the initial investment comes off as a bargain. For
example, Carmi showed me a 115-square meter (about
1,238 square foot), two-story compound, complete with
stone Ottoman arches, that is in the process of being
turned into two guesthouses. The property cost the
buyer NIS 345,000 (about $93,000), not including the
NIS 300,000 (about $80,000) renovation. Investors never
know what kind of architectural and even archaeological
treasures they might find after some digging. Stonework
and even windows are often discovered only after peeling off drywall or plaster. The Israel Antiquities Authority
then regulates how Old City properties are restored.
There is a type of person who values the uniqueness
of antique properties, said Carmi, whose clients include
investors from the U.S. and Europe. But there are also
more expenses in maintaining such properties.
To make a good return on investment, an investors
best bet is to turn these properties into a tourism operation, like a guesthouse or gallery, since monthly rent in
the Old City amounts to about the cost of a few nights
in a high-end hotel room. Some of Carmis clients have
turned their property into a vacation home by the sea.
While Davidsons tourist units are in a trial phase, he
believes that Akko has been shielded from the violence
plaguing cities like Jerusalem, and hes optimistic that
the charm of Akko will trump fears people may have
about venturing into a mixed city. As a new resident
and developer, he has not experienced hostility or complaints from locals, who largely recognize the benefits of
peace between neighbors.
The encounter people have with Arabs via the
media is violent and difficult, but whoever can be
open, and see that they are good people and great
neighbors and people with good hearts, will come here
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From the staff of
the Jewish Standard
Carol E. Book
Carol E. Book, 79, of Fair Lawn, died April

20. Arrangements were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Hilda Reutlinger
Hilda Reutlinger, ne Schaller, 95, of Englewood, died April 8.

She is survived by her children, Joan (Dov),
and Bruce; and grandchildren, Avi and Kayla.
Donations can be sent to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, American Society for
Yad Vashem, PBS station Thirteen, or VNA of
Englewood Hospice. Arrangements were by
Eden Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Helen Schoenberg
Teaneck is richer because she was in it.
The Jewish Community Council of Greater

Teaneck mourns the passing of Mayor Lissette
Parker, an inspiration to us all. Ms. Parker was
a modest and generous soul, who espoused
altruism at its finest. She was an accomplished
and special force and always worked to maintain
a balance, so all who came before her were
treated with fairness and kindness.
We will always be indebted to her for her
assistance in helping advance the cause of
establishing a Garden of Mutual Understanding
that will include a Holocaust Memorial and
a Memorial to Enslaved Africans on the
Township Green.
We will miss her dearly. May God comfort her
family and many friends in our community.
Helen Schoenberg, ne Koniecpolski, 92,

died April 26 at Villa Marie Claire Hospice in
Saddle River. Born in Poland, she was a member of Workmens Circle NYC.
She was predeceased by her husband,
Irving, 30 years ago, and is survived by
daughters, Rita Levin of Riverdale, N.Y., and
Monica Gordon of Teaneck; four grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial
Chapels, Fort Lee.
Robert Sokolski
Robert Sokolski, 91, of Paramus, died April 19.

He escaped the Holocaust on a Kindertransport, taught airplane mechanics for the
Army at Keesler Air Force Base, and was a
Fairleigh Dickinson University graduate.
Predeceased by a sister, Nelly, and a son,
Daniel, he is survived by his wife of 62 years,
Gertrude; a daughter, Linda (Peter); daughter-in-law, Paola; and four grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the Highlands
Nature Friends, Ringwood. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
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n 1 About 15 volunteers from

the United Synagogue of Hoboken and Temple Emanu-El of
Bayonne delivered Passover
packages to 40 homebound
seniors in Bayonne, Jersey City,
and Hoboken through Carelink. The volunteer program,
sponsored by Jewish Family
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by donations from community
members. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 2 Sam Terdiman, left, Brielle
Berger, and Brandon Berger
were among the students from
the Academies at Gerrard Berman Day School in Oakland who
helped organize a collection
of 20 boxes of Pesach food for
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nonprofit grassroots organization serves the frail elderly on
New Yorks Lower East Side.
GBDS collected money to buy
the food to donate. Several
members of the school went
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boxes of food and interact with
Jewish seniors. COURTESY GBDS
n 3 Bris Avrohom distributed hand-baked shmura
matzah from Israel to the
children of its Cett Hebrew
school in Fair Lawn. Public of-
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Religious Freedom. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 4 Religious school students at Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valleys religious school
made seder table matzah covers. COURTESY TEPV
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a slight remove) to the education, investment opportunities, writing, traveling, idling, and political circles of
the English post-Enlightenment elite. It was during this
period when he developed bizarre racial theories positing Jewish superiority and Christian completion,
scrambling history and theology in the process. He also,
like his father, suffered a nervous breakdown.
It is quite instructive to note that when Disraeli was at
the height of his powers and could most help his people
he failed a crucial litmus test. During the years-long Parliament debates on Jew Bills (his diary entry), sparked
by Lionel Rothschilds refusal to take the oath of an MP
on the faith of a true Christian, Disraeli chose silence
and dissembling over clarity and leadership. As Dr. Cesarani tartly observes: One can only conclude that the
achievement of Jewish emancipation did not matter that
much to him.
But fame and legacy certainly did, and when the Balkans exploded during the 1870s Disraeli played the diplomatic and military bluffing game to the hilt, bringing
Britain to the edge of war but convincing the Russians
to back down on their territorial claims and extracting
guarantees for and from the decaying Ottoman empire.
He also delighted Queen Victoria by snagging Crete in
the bargain.
Yet even these exertions seem tainted with self-aggrandizement. His actions were largely interpreted in Britains Jewish community as more a boon for the Christians of the region than as a shield for their beleaguered
In this 1880 political cartoon, William Gladstone beats a dog with Benjamin Disraelis face as the creature
slinks off to Cyprus.
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Jewish neighbors, an uncomfortable reminder of his

previous amnesia toward his co-religionists during his
Mideast visit years earlier.
While it is difficult to peg Disraeli on the
BRIEF
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job establishing him as sui generis. Despite a deeply flawed
character and a distinct discomfort with his religion, he
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Iran threatened to take legal action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the United
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We hold the U.S. administration responsible for
preservation of Iranian funds and if they are plundered, we will lodge a complaint with the ICJ for
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In a 6-2 decision last week, the U.S. Supreme
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families to collect compensation from a pool of $2
billion in frozen Iranian assets. The decision affects
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In recent months, Israel faced a controversy over renewed findings relating to air pollution in the northern city
of Haifa, where several oil refineries,
power plants, and other chemical plants
along the citys port are known to cause
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We will ensure that the trend we
have embarked upon to clean Haifa of
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health of the Haifa Gulf residents, Israeli
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the countrys emission of greenhouse
gases and improve energy efficiency,
which would help the Jewish state meet
the goals of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference. Under the
plan, Israel will allocate NIS 500 million
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programs, and another NIS 300 million
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and medium-sized businesses working in the field. The Israeli government
estimates that this will save the Israeli
economy about NIS 30 billion ($8 billion), bringing Israel closer to meeting
the goals set at last Decembers U.N.
conference in Paris. In addition, Israel
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renewable sources and to remove barriers in the clean-tech industry.
Two wind farms housing 25 wind
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villages of Ramat Sirin and Maale Gilboa, have been built by Afcon Holdings.
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energy an hour.
The worlds tallest solar power plant
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estimated to cost $773 million and is
expected to be completed next year.
The plant will use 50,000 computercontrolled mirrors to focus solar rays on
the tower, producing 121 megawatts of
power about 1 percent of Israels electricity needs. Additionally, the Ketura
solar field, situated in Israels largest
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In November 2015, the U.S. Department of Energy and Israels Ministry
of National Infrastructure, Energy and

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Research and Development Energy program. Among the programs selected
start-ups is a company aiming to develop
smart electric grid solutions for industrial and commercial buildings, as well
as companies working to reduce the cost
and improve the production of solar
energy systems deployed over water.
The Israeli
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the countrys
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greenhouse
gases and
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efficiency.
Another start-up in the program aims
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impact of wind turbines on birds, allowing for the development of more wind
energy without hurting birds and bats.
Outside of Israels borders, in February the Israeli start-up BreezoMeter,
which developed a way to provide realtime data about air pollution, expanded
to nine new countries, including countries like China that are grappling with
major air pollution.
The American-Israeli firm Gigawatt
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increase the countrys electricity production by 15 percent. The USTDA grant
is part of the U.S. governments Power
Africa Initiative. Gigawatt Global has
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The funding for the Burundi project
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Onion Crusted
Chicken
Cutlets
$ 99
Glicks
High Gluten
Flour
4 $5
18.3 OZ.
FOR
FOR
Ungers
Chulent
Mix
16 OZ.
Yellow, Chewy Fudge

or Devils Food Only
YoCrunch
Yogurt
Organic
Earthbound
Salads
Shoulder
Roast
In Water
FOR
Duncan Hines
Cake Mix
2 5
2 $7
2 $7
FAMILY PACK
46-48 OZ.
$ 99
4 PK.
USDA Organic
$ 99
Lb
Beef
Stew
Natural or Original
Regular Only
Assorted

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FOR
FOR
Breakstones
Cottage Cheese
69
LB.
6 OZ.
2 $6
FOR
YOUR
CHOICE
Ground
Turkey
Dark Meat
Frenchs
Fried
Onions
8.8 OZ.
2 $5
Lb
Osem
Mini
Croutons
59 OZ.
2 5
$
GROCERY
Assorted
Melons
$ 49
Lb
Tree Ripe
Orange Juice
Jumbo Magnificent
$ 99
99
DAIRY
Fresh
Ginger or
Baby
Bok Choy
FOR
Boneless
Cholent
Meat
Shoulder
London
Broil
Golden Sweet
Chicken Combo
Drums & Thighs
FAMILY PACK
Lb
FOR
Pineapple or
Chicken
Cutlets
Chicken
Split
SINGLE PACK
5 5
$
MARKET
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The Freshest Poultry... Our Dedicated Butchers Will Custom Cut Anything For You... Just Ask!
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Butterfly
Whole
$ 99
or English Hothouse
Cucumbers
YOUR
CHOICE
FOR
LB.
Meat Department
Grape Tomatoes
49
YOUR
CHOICE
Loyalty
Program
3 2
YOUR
CHOICE
Green Zucchini
Squash or
Mixed Green
Peppers
Sunday Super Saver!
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Mexican or
Ataulfo
Mangoes
FOR
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Sweet
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Cool
Crisp
Cucumbers
Loyalty
Program
Mango Madness
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change or rescind the terms and conditions of the Cedar Market loyalty program at any time, and
without notice. By using this card, the cardholder signifies his/her agreement to the terms &
conditions for use. Not to be combined with any other Discount/Store Coupon/Offer. *Loyalty Card
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Chopsies
Cheese
Pretzel
4 99
2 PK.
Amnons
Pizza
Original Only
8 SLICES
99
Yonis
Cheese Ravioli
30 OZ.
$ 99
Heinz
Chili
Sauce
Original Only
2 $1
12 OZ.
2 $4
FOR
FOR
Apple & Eve

Apple
Juice
General Mills
Cookie
Crisp
64 OZ.
2 $5
15.6 OZ.
$ 99
FOR
Imani
Chop Chops
Pretzel Bites
Almondina
Biscuits
Original Only
10 OZ.
4 OZ.
2 $5
$ 99
FOR
PROVISIONS
Eggo
Assorted
Mini Pancakes Hod Lavan
2 $5
40 CT.
FOR
Sliced
Turkey
2 $6
FOR
Assorted
Spring Valley
Cocktail Franks Hod Lavan
Turkey Breast
In Blankets
6 OZ.
$ 99
Chloes
Fruit Pops
Assorted
399
4 PK.
Mini Chunk
$ 99
LB.
Solomons
Beef
Franks
$ 99
12 OZ.
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