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Meet 113-year-old Goldie Michelson
the oldest person in the US
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has earned another
title: pita artist.
Trying to tempt her
first-grader to actually
eat the lunches that
she packed for school
each day, Orkin began
fashioning the pita
bread along with
bits of cheese, halva,
chickpeas, chocolate
and vegetables into
edible portraits of politicians and pop stars.
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creations proved so
popular that Orkin established a brand, Year
of the Sandwich. She
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116-year-old Susannah Mushatt-Jones, a

113-year-old Jewish lady named Goldie
Corash Michelson became the oldest
living person in the United States.
Goldie, as most people who know
her call her, is in great shape for her
age, but shes a little hard of hearing
these days. So, Renee Minsky, 84, talked
about her mothers extraordinary life
which has involved Jewish volunteer
work, theater, and a lot of chocolate.
Here are some of the aspects that stand
out.
1. Shes lived in Worcester, Massachusetts, for more than a century
Born to Reform Jewish parents in
Russia in 1902, Goldie immigrated to
the United States when she was 2.
Apart from her time as an infant in
Russia and a stint as an undergrad at
Pembroke College a womens college in Providence, Rhode Island, that
merged into Brown University in 1971
Michelson has lived her entire life in her
adopted hometown.
2. Theres a theater named after her
at Clark University
Goldie has a lifelong passion for
theater, which she taught to Hebrew
school students at Worcesters Temple
Emanuel (now Temple Emanuel Sinai),
Jewish senior citizens, and others for
decades. She still has a small theater in
the basement of her home, complete
with a stage, footlights, and a dressing room, which doubles as a laundry
room. When Clark University learned
that Goldie was leaving generous funding for future renovations to its theater
in her will, the school renamed it the
Michelson Theater.
3. She wrote a masters thesis about
Worcesters Jews
Michelson completed a masters
degree at Clark University in sociology,
and her thesis focused on a community
that few probably know better than she
does the Jews of Worcester. In A
Citizenship Survey of Worcester Jewry,
Goldie found that many of the citys

Jewish immigrants were intimidated by
the task of learning English and didnt
pursue American citizenship.
4. She volunteered for Jewish groups
like Hadassah and helped resettle Soviet Jewish refugees
After the borders of the Soviet Union
opened up for Jews in 1989, a new
wave of Jewish immigrants came to
Worcester. Michelson was among the
volunteers to help them settle in and
integrate themselves into American
society. Minsky fondly recalled attending the first bar mitzvah of a Soviet immigrant an experience she said was
incredible.
5. She says the key to her longevity
was walking
Goldie doesnt leave home much
anymore, but for much of her life, she
walked 4 or 5 miles every morning.
One of the great joys of life was
when I sold my car, she told Clark Universitys magazine in 2012.
However, her real secret could be being a Jewish lady named Goldie up
until last year, the presumed oldest Jew
in the world was 114-year-old Goldie
Steinberg of New York.
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Noshes
I cant wait to meet her!

TV star Pamela Anderson, about to be introduced to Elie Wiesel at the World
Values Networks recent gala in Manhattan.
MORLEY AND MIKE:
60 Minutes duo
seemed timeless
Every tribute from
his colleagues for
the late MORLEY SAFER
emphasized his talent
(both as a writer and as
an on-air interviewer), his
kindness, and his humility. Of course, they also
mentioned his remarkable longevity stats. If
you watched his 900
stories for 60 Minutes
for eight hours every day,
it would take you a
month to see them all.
Not oft noted was the
fact that Safer and his
former co-host MIKE
WALLACE (1918-2012)
worked together on 60
Minutes for almost 40
years (1970-2008).
LESLEY STAHL, 74, is the
remaining Jewish 60
Minutes host. Shes held
that job since 1991 and 25
years is a great number.
But she would have to
remain a host until she is
96 to surpass Safers
tenure. Well, as Wallace
and Safer proved, almost
anything is possible.
Safer and Stahl
arent the only aged
Hebrews with great
career longevity. It was
just announced that
BETTE MIDLER, 70, will
star in the title role of a
Broadway revival of
Hello, Dolly. It is set to
open on April 20, 2017.
David Hyde Pierce
(Fraser) will co-star.
Set to direct is four-time
Tony award winner
JERRY ZAKS, 69. His
Polish Jewish parents

survived the Holocaust
(his mother was in
Auschwitz; his father hid
his identity). They came
to America in 1948 and
his father opened a
kosher butcher shop in
East Paterson, New
Jersey. There was
nothing in his background that led him into
the theater. But he was
blown away by a musical
at college and found his
career. Hes proven to be
a very adept dramatic
and musical director
(including Little Shop of
Horrors and La Cage
Aux Folles).
The film version of
Hello, Dolly (1969)
starred BARBRA STREISAND, now 74, and the
late WALTER MATTHAU.
While its been almost
a half-century (!) since
its release, Ms. Streisand
is still wowing them. In
August, shell tour the
country playing 10 major
cities (including Brooklyn
on August 13).
If you like Neighbors, which starred
SETH ROGEN, 34, and
Rose Byrne as new
parents who go ballistic
when a noisy frat takes
over the house next door,
youll probably love
Neighbors 2: Sorority
Rising. Rogen and Byrne
have moved, but their
bad luck holds when a
sorority worse than the
frat boys takes over the
Bette Midler
Jerry Zaks
Lani Hall and Herb Alpert
Ike Barinholtz
house next door. Rogen
enlists best friend Jimmy
(IKE BARINHOLTZ, 38)
to help him, and Jimmy,
in turn, enlists former frat
leader Teddy (Zac Efron)
as their secret anti-sorority weapon.
ELISABETH Beanie
FELDSTEIN, 23, the sister
of JONAH HILL, 32, plays
one of the three principal
sorority enemies. Other
tribe members: DAVE
FRANCO, 30 (Teddys
best friend), LISA KUDROW, 52 (college dean),
and CLARA MAMET, 21,
(sorority member). Clara
is the daughter of playwright DAVID MAMET,
68, and singer/actress
REBECCA PIDGEON,
50, a Jew-by-choice.
Her half sister, ZOSIA,
28, is a Girls star. This
film opened last Friday,
Herb Alpert at 81
still shows brass
Elisabeth Feldstein
but trust me its still in
theaters.
MAYA RUDOLPH,
43, and Martin Short
are the co-hosts of Maya
and Marty in Manhattan,
a live variety show, with
music and sketches, that
premieres on Tuesday,
May 31, at 10 p.m.
Rudolph, a former SNL
star, made a moving
appearance earlier this
year on the PBS series
Finding Your Roots.
Her father, DICK RUDOLPH, 69, is Jewish,
and her late mother,
Minnie Riperton, was
African-American.
However, Rudolph knew
almost nothing about her
fathers family because
her Jewish grandfather
cut virtually all ties to his
parents.
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Meanwhile, HERB ALPERT, 81, who also became

famous in the early 1960s, is still touring because he
just enjoys performing (he is very wealthy and to his
credit, a big philanthropist). Alpert will play the Carlyle
Hotel in Manhattan from May 31 to June 8. His wife of 42
years, singer LANI HALL, 70, the mother of his daughter ARIA, 40, will accompany him. (His first wife, the
mother of his older two children, also is Jewish.)
I just found out that Alpert had an uncredited part as
a drummer on Mount Sinai in the 1956 blockbuster The
Ten Commandments. I thought that all the credited
actors have died, although I knew that Robert Man from
U.N.C.L.E Vaughn, now 83, appeared as an uncredited
Hebrew slave. Well, I checked there is a credited actor
still alive, and shes Jewish. JOANNA MERLIN, 84,
played one of Jethros daughters (not the one MOSES
married). Born Joanne Ratner, she was in the original
Broadway company of Fiddler on the Roof, but left
before the show opened to take care of her two young
children. Happily, she recovered, career-wise, and she
appeared in more than 40 films and in scores of TV guest
shots. She guested (2000-2011) in 43 episodes of Law
N.B.
and Order: SVU as Judge Lena Petrovsky.
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Remembering the hidden children
Susan Gold of Englewood tells her story, edits others, in new anthology
JOANNE PALMER
magine, if you can, being a hidden child,

surviving the Holocaust.
You probably cant imagine it, and dont
even want to try. How could you? The lucky
ones were taken away from their parents, possibly when they were too young to know what was
going on, or to remember them, and brought up
in Christian families. The luckier ones were treated
with love. Their parents survived and came back to
reclaim the luckiest ones.
And then there are the children who hid with
their parents. Children like Susan Geller, who spent
almost two years of her childhood in a dark bunker
underneath a barn floor with her parents and two
other adults, in a space too small for them all to lie
down in at once, had they ever wanted to sleep.
Children like Susan were infinitely better off
than her little brother, Janek. Their mother was
afraid to bring the 2-year-old to the bunker he
might have cried, and imperiled all of them. Her
grandmother took the toddler. Both soon were
murdered.
Susan Geller, now Susan Gold of Englewood,
edited The Hidden Child Book Club Remembers:
An Anthology of Holocaust Stories, and her story
is included in the book. Three of the other 13 storytellers also are from Bergen County. The book was
launched officially at the Skirball
Center at Congregation Emanu-El
of New York on Wednesday. (Ms.
Gold also has written a full-length
memoir, The Eyes Are The Same,
published in 2007.
Ms. Gold was born in Zloczow,
a city in a region of Poland that is
now Ukraine, in 1934. My father,
Gerson Geller, was an engineer,
and we had a regular central European upper-middle-class life, she
said. My mother, Yetta, was a law
student when my parents married.
One of my grandmothers was the
daughter of a rabbi, and of course
we observed the Jewish holidays,
but my family was very assimilated. We spoke Polish at home,
not Yiddish. In fact, she added,
she did learn Yiddish but not
until she got to the United States.
Ms. Gold does not remember
much about her childhood, just
little flashes, although, she said,
more memories came back when she wrote her memoir.
She was 9 when she went into the bunker, in a town called
Podhirce, and all I knew was that I had to keep quiet,
she said. I lived in a world of my own. I slept a lot. I had
a vivid imagination, and I dreamed a lot, about all sorts
of things, about unreal things, having to do with what life
was like before.
It was a grim and out-of-time experience, marked with
bursts of kindness. There was very little light, she said,
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They lived in a small town, where everyone

knew everyone, and they couldnt spend the
gold, whose provenance no doubt would be
traced back to Jews they were hiding.
Soon, when the war dragged on past the
few months they thought it would last, the
farmers familys found itself increasingly in
danger. The penalty for harboring Jews was
death. It was super dangerous for them,
Ms. Gold said. After the war, when we were
out of the bunker, they had a party for us
in their house, with vodka, and he got very
Susan Geller Gold as she is now, and as she
drunk and told us, You know we were going
was as a little girl in Poland. The book she
to kill you. This was going on for too long.
edited is an anthology of hidden childrens
The farmer told Ms. Golds mother and father
stories, including her own.
the plan hed devised to dispose of each of
them, but he told them no such plan for her.
and very little contact with the outMaybe I was going to be saved, she said.
side world. There was one bucket
The Gellers were liberated by the Russians as they
of food a day that came down, and
marched through the Ukraine and Poland on their way
one bucket of waste that went back
to Berlin in 1944. They were very kind, Ms. Gold said.
up. But occasionally the farmers
Those soldiers piqued her interest in Russia, which led to
wife would take me up to the barn,
a long career many years later. But still the family was in
and I would be able to see daylight
danger. We still had all these anti-Semites around us. We
through the cracks in the wall. She
had to leave at night. We went back to Zloczow, to see who
also remembers the Nazis once comwas around, if there was anybody left. Some people recoging to the barn but missing the door to the bunker, and she
nized my mother, and said, Oh! Youre still alive! Almost
remembers the time a cow fell through it.
no one else was, and the statement was made not with
They put a pillow over my head, so I shouldnt scream,
admiration but as a warning. It also was during that time
she said. They were almost done in not by a Nazi, not by
that the Gellers learned that Janek and his grandmother
an informer, but by a calf.
had been slaughtered.
We knew we had to go west, Ms. Gold said. SomeThe farmers family saved us, and they were righthing was arranged, and someone led us to the border of
teous Christians, in quotes, she said. Her grandfather had
Czechoslovakia. By then, in was 1945. The war had ended.
made a deal with them that they would hide us for five
From there, the family went to a displaced persons
gold pieces and they did. At first, there was a problem.
Local
camp in Germany, and stayed there for two years. That
was the first time in a long time that Ms. Gold had gone to
school. My father had taught me a little, and I was sort of
literate, she said. He taught me the alphabet and some
arithmetic. And I did have piano lessons in the camp my
parents still wanted to be the people they had been. She
also remembers learning Israeli songs and folk dances.
The family had no idea where theyd go next, but knew
that it might well be Israel.
It was happenstance that we came here, Ms. Gold
said. Her mother had a much older brother who had
gone to New York decades earlier. He had searched for
them. He contacted us through HIAS because he found
our name on a list, she said. So Susan, Yetta, and Gerson
Geller got on a ship and sailed across the Atlantic. All I
remember was being seasick all the time, Ms. Gold said.
I was really so out of it. So many things had happened
in those few years. Chief among them was the death of
her brother. We never talked about it, she said. Central
Europeans believed strongly in denial as being not only a
river in Egypt. It was all a matter not necessarily of lies,
but of evasions. So I had no idea what to believe.
The boat took 10 days. And then we landed, and my
uncle picked us up in his car and there was New York.
Yetta Gellers brother, Isaac Imber, lived in Washington
Heights, in upper Manhattan, with his wife and children;
for a while, the Gellers slept in his living room. Mr. Imber
made his money in real estate, his niece said, but he was
also a well-known Yiddish poet, and a big Zionist.
When the Gellers got to the United States, Ms. Geller,
the one with business acumen, somehow had $500. My
father was the intellect, Ms. Gold said. Somehow or

other, we got a loan from HIAS, and from a relative here,
and we bought a grocery store in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. My mother worked like a horse, lugging cartons, six
and a half days a week. We lived right next to the store.
My father was depressed. He would just sit at the cash
register, reading a dictionary and the English newspaper.
Although none of them spoke English before they arrived
in New York, they all learned it quickly, and by the time
they died, they were fluent, Ms. Gold said. Her own English now is entirely unaccented, although she was 13 by the
time she began to speak it.
Ms. Gold went to junior high in Brooklyn, and then went
across the East River for high school. She and her parents
wanted her to go to college, but none of us had any idea
of what an out-of-town college might be, she said. And
then she met the dean of the brand-new Brandeis University, Clarence Berger, who was in town on a recruiting trip.
It turned out that he had been an officer liberating a concentration camp, she said. I had taken some SATs, and
I hadnt done well on anything except French, but when I
told Dean Berger my story, it was like carte blanche, she
said. He didnt look at my scores. He just admitted me,
and gave me a scholarship.
This out-of-state thing was like heaven to me, she said.
My parents had no car, but my roommates parents, who
lived in Washington Heights, picked me up, in the fall of
1952, through the burning colors of the fall, after war-torn
Europe, after Williamsburg. We drove right to heaven.
Ms. Gold majored in intellectual history. It was the
1950s, and you had to get engaged by your junior year and
married right after your senior year. And I did. And I fulfilled my mothers mandate that I marry a doctor. Elliot
Gold was a radiologist; he and Susan were married, eventually moving first to Tenafly and then to Englewood. They
had three children; Peter, the youngest, died of an aneurysm in 1979, when he was 13, a death that devastated the
whole family and guided his siblings career choices. Liza
Gold, who lives in Vienna, Virginia, is a forensic psychiatrist, and Jonathan Gold of Randolph is a camp director,
because his younger brother went to camp with him,
Ms. Gold said. Both of Ms. Golds surviving children have
two children each.
Ms. Gold was a stay-at-home mother at first, and then
became a New York City permanent substitute teacher.
(Its a Byzantine system; best not to ask for details.) In
1975, when a money crunch made the city fire all its nontenured employees, Ms. Gold went to work at Chase Manhattan as a market researcher, drawing on her knowledge
of Russia and Russian to work on trade with that huge
country. Her next job often took her to Russia; she finally
ended her career by retiring from AIG as a vice president
and chief representative of its trading office in Russia.
All this equipped her for her writing career; she wrote
a novel, Norilsk: A Tale of Suspense in the Time of the
Oligarchs, soon after she retired.
But Ms. Golds heart is still with the children who were
murdered, or who survived the Holocaust with parts of
their hearts or their souls murdered. So are the hearts of
the other one-time hidden children whose stories are in
the book she just published. Those stories must be told,
and they must be remembered.
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Out-of-the-classroom thinking
Barnert Temple begins a journey to a new Jewish education
LARRY YUDELSON
ooking back, we have to wonder

how much market research was
conducted before the idea of
Hebrew school was invented.
Kids and school, after all, often go
together like felons and jails. Sure, kids
spend lots of time in school. But theyre
often counting the days and hours until they
escape. So who thought it was a wise idea to
turn Jewish religion, culture, and language
into a second shift of school?
No wonder that generations of American Jews dont have warm nostalgia for
their Hebrew school experience even if
they sent their children for a similar Jewish
education.
But why does Hebrew school have to be
so much like, well, school?
Thats the question that Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi, a former administrator at the
Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies, asked as she set about transforming
Hebrew school for the Jewish Community
Center of Manhattan and three Upper West
Side synagogues.
And the answer she came up with, as she
put together what became the Jewish Journey Project, is that it doesnt have to be.
Instead, the Jewish Journey Project envisions afterschool Jewish education as akin
to other afterschool activities, such as
music, drama, and art.
After four years, the Jewish Journey Program has 260 students and 40 different
afterschool courses.
We dont call it a school. We call it a program, Rabbi Forman-Jacobi said. We try
to meld in the modalities the students love,
like cooking, arts, and drama.
The word journey conveys a sense of
its ongoing, changing nature, she said.
We want the kids to know they can connect based on their passions. We involve
the parents and child in making a choice
of which courses to take. Its very significant. I have classes of children who want to
be there because theyve chosen the class.
Now, that model of Jewish education is
coming to Bergen County.
This fall, Barnert Temple in Franklin
Lakes is launching its own Jewish Journey
program for its students you should pardon the term in grades 3 to 6, in conjunction with the New York program
Sara Losch with students at Barnert Temple.
Barnert Temple students receive awards from the Kathie F. Williams TAG
Scholarship Challenge. Back row: John and Samantha Williams; middle, left to
right: Gabe P., Jacob M., Ben G., Ella S., Mollie G.; front: Emma G., Rebecca P.,
Noah F., and Gabby and Thalia R.
They will be able to engage in Judaism in

away that will excite them, said Sara Losch,
director of lifelong learning at Barnert
Temple.
The Barnert religious schools new configuration is designed around flexibility.
Students still will be required to take a
Hebrew class but now they can choose
which night to take it. Other options include
a course with the synagogues Rabbi Elyse
Frishman that combines photography and
theology, a cooking course focusing on holiday rituals, and a yoga course that promises to explore Jewish values and teaching
of the weekly Torah program as well as
prayer and kavanah (internal intention).
The model of a journey, rather than a
school, makes it easier to involve parents
in the process. Ms. Losch meets with small
groups of students and their parents to discuss their interests. During the year, there
will be three three-hour classes for parents
and children, focusing on Torah, avodah
(spirituality and ritual), and gemilut chasadim (acts of kindness). Its the heart and
core of what were learning, she said.
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recent years in how families were relating
to the synagogues educational programs.
In the past, when children didnt come to
school because they had sports or something else taking priority, parents would
apologize, Ms. Losch said. All of a sudden
we werent getting the sorries.
We were getting maybe 45 percent attendance on any given Sunday, given all the
other sports and family activities that all
happen on Sunday. On the weekday, we
were getting 95 percent.
This led Barnert to begin evaluating its
religious school program. It hired a consultant and set up a committee of religious
school parents. It discovered that parents
really did want to be part of a Jewish community. They wanted their children to be
Jewishly educated and to learn Hebrew.
But they also wanted flexibility.
This made the Jewish Journey program
the perfect template for Barnert to adopt.
A student who is now coming on Sunday
and during the week can get courses done
in one day with the new program, Ms.
Losch said. On the other hand, students
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The change is deeper than more flexible scheduling, however. Its not just about letting children choose
which hours they will come to religious school and
which classes they will take. Its about changing the
focus from a specific curriculum to a broad exploration
of Judaism.
And its about moving Judaism beyond the classroom.
Barnert began that shift this year with its TAG program. TAG stands for Torah, avodah, and gemilut
chasadim.
Students are given a booklet listing Jewish things they
can do, from taking part in their family seder to kissing
a mezuzah to feeding their pets. When they do them,
they write a short reflection and they earn charms
(called TAGlettes) they can wear on their wrists or hang
on their walls.
Its an incentivization program, Ms. Losch said.
The students are getting into it.
We said to the children, Did you know that feeding
your dog in the evening is a Jewish commandment, a
Jewish mitzvah? Youre doing a mitzvah at home. Putting up a mezuza or calling Grandma every week we
labeled them as Jewish and called them a mitzvah.
We did a vacation package, giving a charm for being
Jewish on vacation.
Families are surprised their children are really doing
it, she said.
Ms. Losch particularly liked a comment from one of
her students: I didnt realize how many things I do are
Jewish.
The TAG program has an added bonus that encourages kids to take it seriously: Its backed by prizes,
offered by the family of Kathie Williams, a past president of the synagogue and chair of its Lifelong Learning
Committee, who died of cancer in 2013. .
Students in third, fourth, and fifth grades can earn
$360 for a Jewish experiential program. Ten students
earned that this year. Sixth-graders can earn $3,600
toward a trip to Israel.
The TAG program was the perfect transition into the
Jewish Journey Program, Ms. Losch said.
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Taking care of Sol

Sophie Helcman of Fair Lawn, 94, dies; waited for little brother
Abigail Klein Leichman
hlomo David (Sol) Adler was 13

and his sister Sophie was 17 when
they found themselves on their
own in the Polish city of Radom
in 1939.
Sophie had promised her well-to-do
parents, who later were murdered along
with another daughter, that she would
take good care of Sol. Their older brother
already had fled to Russia.
For the next six years, until the end of
World War II, the siblings and a 26-yearold neighbor, Eliezer Helcman, kept each
other one step ahead of certain death.
After the war, Sophie and Eliezer wed.
Though the promise wasnt necessarily
in force after the Nazi nightmare was over,
Sophie never stopped watching out for Sol
during the many years they lived in America he in Manhattan and she in Fair Lawn
and even after she moved to Israel, at 89,
to be near her daughter, Felicia Mizrachi.
Sol would call her after 9 p.m. on his
rotary phone, because thats when the
rates went down, Sophies son, Andre
Helcman of Fair Lawn, said. Sometimes
Andre would conference-call his mother
and uncle and put his phone on speaker
so the siblings could talk to each other
across 7,000 miles without worrying
about rates.
On the week of April 10, 94-year-old
Sophie valiantly fended off the Angel of
Death in Jerusalem, finally succumbing
on April 17, two days after Sol died of lung
cancer in New York. Nobody told Sophie
her brother was dying. No one had to.
She knew a thousand percent, Andre

said.
All week, my sister kept texting me that
moms not doing well. At 7 that Friday
morning, I got a call that Sol had died.
Four years earlier, at Sols request,
Andre and Felicia had arranged to buy
him a burial plot next to Eliezers grave at
Har Hamenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem.
The Sunday after Sol died, Andre accompanied the coffin to Israel, hoping at the
same time to see his mother one last time.
I was traveling with my uncles body
and praying for my mother to hold on, he
recalled. But it was not to be. His mother
died just before he boarded the afternoon
flight, though he did not know it until he
landed and saw the looks on the faces of
his sister and nephew at the airport.
Basically she was waiting for her
kid brother to show up, so they could
be buried together on Monday, Andre
said, explaining that in Israel the newly
deceased are interred as quickly as
possible.
If she would have passed on Friday, she
would have been buried before Shabbos,
and if on Saturday she would have been
buried Sunday. She held out till Sunday
at 10 p.m., waiting for her brother. Thank
God she was able to do that for him.
Felicia told a reporter from the Jerusalem Post: Her mission was to take her
brother up to heaven and watch over him.
According to Andre, that mission began
when the Nazi occupiers seized the Adler
house in Radom in 1939.
My mother and my uncle came from a
Gerer chasidic family. When the war broke
Sophie Helcman, center is surrounded by her family; from left, her daughter
and son-in-law, Felicia and Rony Mizrachi, and her son and daughter-in-law,
Andre and Arlene Rubin Helcman.
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The bodies of Sol Adler and Sophie

Adler Helcman lie together in Israel; they
were buried together, next to her husband, Eliezer Helcman. Inset; Sol Adler.

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out, my mothers father told them that if,

God forbid, they were ever split up, they
should know that in the basement under a
certain brick there was a fake wall. Inside
was gold or money, Andre said.
Unfortunately, that time came to pass.
The Nazis took over the house, and somehow they got back and were able to open
the fake wall and take what was left. But
now what to do? They needed help because
they were only teenagers and the streets
were crawling with SS and Gestapo men.
My uncle said, Theres an older man down
the block, and I think he can be trusted
because I see him go to shul every morning.
This was my father, said Andre. He
was going to shul every morning because
his mother had died in 1938 and he was
saying kaddish that year.
Andre does not know all the details
about how the threesome managed to survive against seemingly impossible odds.
When we were growing up, they didnt
relate very much, he said. But other survivors living in Paterson, Fair Lawn, and
Glen Rock used to come for Sunday dinner
at our house sometimes, and Id sit at the
table and hear everyones stories.
He and Felicia learned that Sophie, who
did not look typically Jewish and spoke
fluent German, obtained false papers
through an SS officer who was in love
with a gentile friend of hers. The papers
allowed Sophie to leave the Radom ghetto
to buy necessities for Sol and Eliezer and
to pay for hiding them.
Its amazing that this very chasidish girl

morphed into this other person, Andre
said. My mother, despite being small in
stature, was not bashful. She stood up for
what she believed in and had great faith.
Thats what got her through the Shoah.
Over the course of their six years on the
run in Radom, Danzig, and the countryside in between the two cities, the three
often got separated but worked out a system of secret signals and whistles to find
one another. They took shelter wherever
they could, including in ditches, toilets,
and barns. One bitter winter, Eliezer slept
in a cemetery and suffered frostbite. He
never again regained feeling in the calf of
one leg.
Sophie spent some time in a labor camp.
Once every week or two, the Red Cross
sent nurses to check on prisoners in the
camp, and this one Polish nurse walked
over to my mother and said, You should
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Elijah in Vilna
Classic Yiddish film to be screened
in Franklin Lakes
JOANNE PALMER
he last thing you might

expect of a Yiddish film
made in Poland in 1924,
a film based on the same
story as the classic Yiddish melodrama The Dybbuk, probably is
a happy ending.
But somehow A Vilna Legend
has one.
Its a simple story, Charles
Sokol of Wayne, the film buff who
collects such films and shows them
at his synagogue, Temple Emanuel
of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes,
said. He doesnt want to give away
the entire plot, which, he said, is
not complicated its a short film
but its about two dear friends,
at first married but childless, who
pledge their firstborns to each
other, should one be a girl and the
other a boy.
Needless to say, the friends
have a girl and a boy, and they
are pledged to each other but it
doesnt go well. Its a very deep
film, Mr. Sokol said. A very supernatural film. But everything comes
together in the end, because of the
intervention of Eliyahu haNavi
the prophet Elijah who appears
in the film in human form, in several different guises, depending on
who hes interacting with.
A Vilna Legend stars the Yiddish movie star Ester Rokhl Kaminska and her daughter, the Yiddish movie star Ida Kaminska, as
mother and daughter. As far as he
knows, Mr. Sokol said, it is the only
film in which they played together;

at a minimum, it surely is the only
surviving film.
The film is unusual because of
its Jewish theme, Mr. Sokol said.
Because of the anti-Semitism in
Poland, the major film companies
there even the Jewish ones
did not produce movies with Jewish themes. They did not want to
upset the general population. The
few eastern European films that did
have Jewish themes came from the
Ukraine, he added; the government
there tried to fight anti-Semitism,
and sponsored and encouraged
such films. But, Mr. Sokol said, that
didnt work.
Of course, films then were
silent. It was the intertitles (not
subtitles, which came later, and
were for translation) that were or
were not in Yiddish. When sound
came in, things changed. In 1933,
a couple of people in the Yiddish
entertainment industry decided
to add Yiddish sound and then
English subtitles were added, Mr.
Sokol said. Thats the version of
the film well be showing. There
is no attempt at lip-syncing, he
added as is clear when you see
the movie and the voices were
not the actors own.
A Vilna Legend, like many
other films in his collection, is available through the National Center
for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, which restored it. Mr. Sokol
has shown many of these films at
Temple Emanuel, and plans to
show more of them.
Information
Who: Film buff and collector Charles Sokol
What: Will screen A Vilna Legend; the hour-long film will be followed
by a sing-along.
Where: At Temple Emanuel of North Jersey at 558 High Mountain
Road in Franklin Lakes
When: On Sunday, June 5, at 2 oclock
How much: Its free and open to the public. (Of course, donations are
always welcome.)
What else: Ice cream and popcorn!
Stills from A Vilna Legend. The 1924 movie had Yiddish sound and
English subtitles added in 1933.
upcoming at
Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
JCC U Spring Term
JCCU
Professors and experts lecture on a variety of subjects.

Morning presenter is Emmy award winning film critic
and celebrity interviewer Jeffrey lyons and the
afternoon speaker is professor ronald brown
who will discuss God in the 21st Century.
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For more info call Kathy Graff at 201.408.1454.

Thur, June 2, 10:30-2 pm, $32/$40
Incredible Camp+Summer Swim

Club & Gym For Your Whole
Family=Win Win!
Sign up for 1 week or more of our incredible summer
camps and be eligible for a Camp Family Membership
with full use of the JCC for only $750, or just $250 for
those new to the JCC!
Visit jccotp.org/camps for all of our camp offerings for
children 2-18 years. Camps run 9 am-4 pm and are
ALL-INCLUSIVE! Transportation and extended care
options available.
Hurry camps are filling up. Call 201.408.1448 for
membership details.
Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA)
Its not too late to buy a share and enjoy fresh,
organic, local produce while supporting area
farmers. Runs 22 weeks from June-Nov. A full share
of vegetables will average 7-10 varieties each week.
Fruit, free-range eggs, European-style butter and
maple syrup shares also available.
Visit us online for details and registration form.
Registration deadline is June 1.
children
Therapeutic Nursery
Program
Monday-Friday, July 11-August 19, 9-11:30 am
or 12:30-3 pm, ages 3-6.
Developmental language-based parent/child
program for bright preschool children with a
variety of developmental difficulties, including
language disorders, ADHD, high-functioning
autism, social and emotional challenges as
well as selective mutism.
For more information contact Lois Mendelson,
PhD, Director at 201.408.1497 or email
tn@jccotp.org.
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Play Fore! the Kids Golf

Classic & Play Games for
the Kids
Come play with us and join the fun and enrich the
lives of hundreds of children with special needs.
Enjoy a day of golf or one of our exciting womens
events including your choice of Tennis, Mah Jongg,
Bridge, Canasta or Rummi-Q, a delicious brunch,
cocktail dinner reception, and sensational online
and live auctions.
For more information, please contact Michal
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Mon, Aug 1, Alpine Country Club, Demarest, NJ
community
Tikkun Shavuot
A unique experiential evening in preparation for
Shavuot. Get in the Shavuot spirit with a funfilled evening featuring a lecture on Megillat Ruth,
workshops related to Shavuot (offered in Hebrew
and English), wine & cheese, music, and a light fare.
Sat, Jun 4, 9:15 pm-12:30 am, $20/$25
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Having the money talk

Local financial planner Lori Sackler tries to destigmatize the taboo
LOIS GOLDRICH
hy does a young woman

planning to become a
pianist suddenly change
her major to business
and finance?
For Lori Sackler of Tenafly, who holds
a masters degree in music, the decision
simply made sense.
I lost my mother when I was in graduate school, Ms. Sackler said. It was a
defining moment for me. I needed to be
financially independent and create a new
path for myself.
Ms. Sackler first earned a masters
degree in business, became a CPA and
a CFP, and then earned a CIMA designation at the Wharton School. (CIMA is the
Certified Investment Management Analyst certification program.) She said that
in addition to her own need for financial
security, she saw a bigger need for sound
financial advice and guidance.
She decided to do something about it.
Now a financial adviser and senior vice
president and senior investment management consultant at Morgan Stanley
Wealth Management, where she leads the
Sackler Group, Ms. Sackler who is also
a longtime board member at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly noted
that women comprise less than 20 percent of the practitioners in her field.
Its been that way for some time, but
were trying to change it, she said. Morgan Stanley understands that theyll have
better success in transitioning wealth and
retaining assets after the death of the traditional male client if they can relate better to women, who not only inherit the
assets but now already control 40 percent of the U.S.s wealth and women
financial advisers are well-suited to relate
to the female client.
There are, she said, fairly big gender
differences in dealing with the issue of
money, which research links to differences in brain physiology. There are
differences in how women plan, in risk
tolerance, and in personal communication styles, she said. Women want to
talk things through and be listened to.
Ms. Sackler, author of The M Word: The
Money Talk Every Family Needs to Have
About Wealth and Their Financial Future

and now The M Word Journal, said that
statistics show that people who engage
in financial planning especially those
working with a trained professional are
more optimistic and confident and have
less anxiety and fear. Quoting John Lennon, Life is what happens while youre
busy making other plans, she stressed
that the planning process is not static.
Times have changed, and we must
change as well, she said. For example, as
responsibility for retirement falls increasingly on individuals and employees rather
than on companies, the onus is on the
individual to save more. Some clients
have sought help in managing their savings right out of college or on getting their
first job. Its the power of compounding,
she said. The longer the interest is compounded, the greater the nest egg. But,
she added, for many its more common
to seek advice when faced with big decisions or life events. These may include
changes in financial circumstances, retirement, marriage, remarriage and merging
families, caring for an older loved one, or
estate transfers.
Not all the news Ms. Sackler delivers to
her clients is good, and not all clients take
her advice. Ive seen people make emotional rather than rational decisions, she
said. They make mistakes, like the clients who used their savings to help buy
homes for their children and then, when
they suffered a financial reversal, were in
a bind. Still, she said, for the most part,
I work with those looking for third-party
advice and for whom I and my team can
have a meaningful impact. Working with
good advisers can help avoid problems.
Ms. Sackler who with husband
Michael has two grown sons, Henry and
Eliot is the creator and former host of
the radio show The M Word on WOR.
Her goal, she said, is to destigmatize the
most taboo of topics, and provide guidance for the discussions that will preserve family finances and relationships
and serve as the basis for better communication and closer connection.
In her new book, she provides families and their advisers with the tools they
need to conduct the money talk successfully. Using a step-by-step decision tree,
Who: Financial planner Lori Sackler and WNBC-TV reporter Jen Maxfield
What: Will lead an interactive dialogue
When: On June 1, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Ave. in Tenafly
Cost: $7 for members, $10 for everyone else
For more information, or to register: Call (201) 408-1457
Also: Light refreshments
Lori Sackler
she presents a detailed road map based

on a five-step plan.
The M Word Journal presents a road
map, Ms. Sackler said. It deconstructs
the process to guide the reader through
lifes transitions while focusing on three
takeaways: Identifying the information they will need, defining the how
to, including determining the obstacles
keeping their families from having productive conversations and planning, and
providing guidelines to pick the right
third-party professionals to help while
creating a process that is repeatable.
Ms. Sackler said that having enough
money for retirement seems to be peoples
major concern, even when they have sufficient resources to carry them through.
Its based on consumption patterns, she
said, calling it a humbling experience
to inform a family of limitations on future
spending. Factors such as inflation, particularly in health care, are also of concern,
though this is a bigger issue for those on
a fixed unearned income. Inflation over
time can become a big obstacle.
One problem in our society, she said,
is that we dont discuss the importance
of financial literacy. Kids are pretty smart.
They see how we spend, how we use our
money, and how we save it, but we dont
always talk to them about the topic. If
theres a disconnect, they see that too.
Millennials are more informed, she
continued. Theyve lived through 9/11
and two economic downturns; theyve
seen their families struggle; they have
unprecedented debt. Theyre more like
their grandparents than their parents.
Theyre very cautious and theyre not
particularly trusting of institutions.
In general, though, theres a problem talking about money, which often is
rooted in issues of control and trust. But
the reasons are varied and can be hidden
In both my work
as an adviser and
my personal life,
Ive seen family
stress around
money decisions,
tearing apart
both a familys
finances and
personal
relationships.
below the surface. First, it may be cultural its impolite to talk about it, she
said, a taboo dating back to our founding fathers, reflected in our language and
national character, which is both materialistic and democratic at the same time. Second, there may be an evolutionary component where its perceived as a threat.
Third, there are gender differences,
cited above. And fourth, every family has
a money history with defined personalities that can be charted across generations. Theyre deeply embedded.
While financial planners must have the
requisite financial skill set, it doesnt hurt
if theyre also adept as psychologists,
and you need to understand your clients
and their psychology, Ms. Sackler said.
Its very personal. You have to dig deep.
In both my work as an adviser and
my personal life, Ive seen family stress
around money decisions, tearing apart
both a familys finances and personal
relationships because there was not
adequate planning and communication. Theres a 70 percent failure rate in
transferring wealth across generations.
With $59 trillion to be distributed over
the next 50 years, thats a large problem.
And, she said, breakdown in communication is the biggest reason.
Ms. Sacklers books have been written to provide guidelines for overcoming
obstacles in communication, whether
due to gender, generational differences,
or other issues. On Wednesday, June 1,
the JCC in Tenafly will host an interactive dialogue featuring Ms. Sackler and
WNBC-TV reporter Jen Maxfield. The two
will explore the issues involved in having successful family conversations that
affect major life transitions.
Ms. Sackler said she wants those who
attend the June 1 meeting to walk away
with the initial tools they need to move
forward.
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From left, Mutty Stein, Dr. Reuben Gross, Marc Provisor,

and Mindy Stein.
PHOTOS COURTESY ONE ISRAEL FUND
Evy Stein and Natalie

Sopinsky
Event bolsters One Israel Fund
Members of the Senior Chorus at Five Star Premier Residences.
Fiddler rings out at Five Star

The Senior Chorus at Five Star Premier Residences of Teaneck performed selections from Fiddler
on the Roof for community members, friends, family, and residents.
Its executive director, Robin Granat,
conducts the chorus with Five Star
residents. Cecilia Brower, a former pianist with the Metropolitan
Opera Company, is a pianist with the
chorus. Area musician/keyboardist George Tuzzeo and violist Arlene

Locola of Oradell also accompanied
the group.
Encore performances will be held
at several skilled nursing facilities
and senior groups in Bergen County.
For information, call Ms. Granat at
(201) 836-3634.
Mindy and Mutty Stein of Teaneck

recently hosted an event with representatives of One Israel Fund. Marc Provisor, its director of security projects, and
Natalie Sopinsky, its director of community development, talked about what life
is like on the front lines of terror in the
West Bank.
Natalie Sopinsky lives in Susya, 12 kilometers from Otniel, where Daphna Meir
was recently murdered.
Marc Provisor is also a counterterrorism expert who works with the IDF,
which recently adopted his specially
designed anti-ballistic vest. To date,
more than 300 vests have been donated

at a cost of $1,450 each. Mr. Provisor conducts security assessments throughout
the West Bank, recommends technological security upgrades, and raises funds
to get needed equipment, including surveillance and thermal cameras, burn kits,
and emergency medical equipment for
intensive-care ambulances.
The One Israel Fund also raises donations for playgrounds and community
centers for the Jewish residents of the
West Bank. For information, call Ms.
Sopinsky at (516) 239-9202, ext. 22, or
email her at Natalie@oneisraelfund.org.
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Migdal Ohr plans NYC dinner

Migdal Ohr, which works with underprivileged, orphaned, and abused Israeli
children, as well as with the children of
new immigrants to Israel, will hold its
annual gala dinner on Monday, June 6,
at Tribeca 360 in Manhattan. This years
dinner will honor distinguished supporters who have contributed to the organizations success over its 43-year history.
Honorees include Dr. Arthur Henry
and Adina Gerber of Lawrence, N.Y., and
Louis and Anat Menaged of New York
City. Rabbi Allen and Alisa Schwartz,

also of New York City, will receive the
Rabbinic Partnership award. The evening will include a program featuring
Migdal Ohrs founder and dean, Rabbi
Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, who won the
Israel Prize in 2004. Prominent criminal
defense attorney Benjamin Brafman is
the master of ceremonies. For information, call (212) 397-3700 or go to www.
migdalohrusa.org.
Celebrate Naamats 90th anniversary

Naamat USA will mark its 90th anniversary and install its new national board on
July 29-30 at the JW Marriot Resort and
Spa in Las Vegas.
Danny Danon, Israels ambassador to
the United Nations, and Professor Shula
Reinharz of Brandeis University will be
the keynote speakers. Other speakers

include Judy Telman of Naamat Israel,
Linda Meisel of Jewish Family and Childrens Service of Greater Mercer County,
and Dr. Nick Spirtos of the Womens Cancer Center of Las Vegas. For more information, go to www.naamat.org.
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The JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah will hold its annual journal dinner
dance on Sunday, June 26, at 4:30 p.m.
Two couples will be recognized for their
years of service to the congregation. The
dinner dance honors congregants and a
commemorative journal is published in
conjunction with it.
This years honorees are longtime
members Laurie and Larry Rosman and
Olinda and Larry Sturm. Both couples
and their families have contributed in
many ways to the growth of the JCCP/CBT.
Along with being a sisterhood co-president and former board member, Laurie
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house, and dinner dance. Larry Rosman
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Sinai Schools art show set for June 1
Art is a powerful tool for self-expression,
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significant breakthroughs with her students, and has helped them create astonishing, beautiful artwork.
The community is invited to Unique
Inspirations, a free student art show.
There, the school will auction some of the
works Sinai students made over the course
of this year through its groundbreaking
art therapy program. The show is sponsored by Bear Givers, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering children
who have special needs.
Sinai Schools encourages the community to meet the young artists, and
to support Sinai by buying artwork or
commissioning a canvas. The show
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Daughter of Orangetown Jewish Center rabbi
talks about making aliyah, working with lone soldiers
JOANNE PALMER
arah Drill knew she wanted to

make aliyah, and she knew that
she would be a lone soldier, but
she never thought that her IDF
career would include a stint as a sniper
instructor.
The IDF, though, tests both its recruits
and its draftees thoroughly. It figures out
new soldiers talents, asks them their interests, and does its best to match them. Ms.
Drill, it turns out, can combine intense
focus and extreme coordination with the
ability to pass that skill on to others.
Who could have known?
Ms. Drill was able to parlay that experience, along with the rest of her knowledge, talents, and worldview, into a job
that uses her talents, in Israel, through a
program called Wings.
Last month, Ms. Drill, the daughter of
the Orangetown Jewish Centers Rabbi
Paula Mack Drill, came to Rockland
County and talked to an audience of about
80 people about that 10-year-old but still
inadequately known program.
Wings helps young people from before
they arrive in Israel through two years
after they are released from the IDF, Ms.
Drill said. Thats what makes it unique.
About three months before they are
Sarah Drill and her youngest brother, Josh, stand together at Joshs swearing-in
ceremony at the Kotel in Jerusalem.
SARAH DRILL
released, we put them in a five-day workshop run, of course, in coordination with

the IDF and the workshop starts preparing them for what it means to become a
civilian in Israel.
Part of the workshops function is to talk
to the group about the benefits to which
they are entitled as former soldiers, as new
immigrants, and as lone soldiers, including
scholarships, and the tax implications of

any decisions they make, Ms. Drill said.
Also, each lone soldier is matched with a
professional career counselor, who is also
a psychologist. You, as the lone soldier,
meet with the career counselor as many
times as you want to, for up to two years.
The career counselors also help the lone
soldiers write resumes; even before that,
On International Womens Day, Wings had a program for female lone soldiers. Sarah Drill is in the front row.
SARAH DRILL
they help sharpen their charges ideas

about what theyd like to do once theyre
out of the army. Its entirely individualized. You cant make one plan and expect
it to work for everyone, Ms. Drill said.
The career counselors are not volunteers. Wings pays for the professionals;
the lone soldiers get all these services for
free, Ms. Drill said.
Overall, in both the before and after
programs, we have helped over 6,000 lone
soldiers up to this point, Ms. Drill said. Its
usually about 800 lone soldiers a year.
Wings is a program of the Jewish Agency
for Israel and the David and Laura Merage
Foundation, Ms. Drill said. The Merages,
both Iranian Jews, came to the United
States separately, when they were young,
almost half a century ago. They really
understand and feel for lone soldiers,
what it feels like to come to a new country,
when its not your language and its not
your culture, she said. He loves Israel,
and wants to be part of having these young
people stay in Israel.
The Jewish Agency recognized the high
potential in the young people coming to
Israel and serving as lone soldiers, she
continued. They looked at statistics, and
saw that about 95 percent of them have
potential for higher academic studies. If
you compare them to the regular Israeli
population, that is a very high percentage.
But the Jewish Agency and particularly Mira Kedar, who worked there
noticed a pattern, with people going back
to where they had come from, because
they werent able to find their whole
potential in Israel. They wanted help. Mira
Kedar recognized the issue, and she created the Wings pilot program, along with
the Merage Foundation.
Lone soldiers come from all over the
world; most right out of high school, at 18
or 19, Ms. Drill said. When they first arrive
in Israel, most do not speak fluent Hebrew,
so the services Wings offers them are in
their native tongues. The most frequently
offered languages are English, Spanish,
French, and Russian. By the time they are
ready to write their resumes, though, they
are ready to undertake that task in Hebrew.
Her own story is somewhat anomalous,
she added, because she joined the IDF
after she graduated from Muhlenberg University. I majored in English, with minors
in Jewish studies and photography, she
said. I had a really great experience at
Muhlenberg. I knew even before I started
college that I wanted to make aliyah, but it
was something that came to me after I was
accepted there, so I decided to continue
on my path. I said that if after four years
I still wanted to make aliyah, I would do it
then. She still wanted it. She made aliyah
right after college, in 2012.
Once she and the IDF agreed that shed
become a sniper instructor, she had three
more months of sniper training. You
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The Orangetown Jewish Centers senior rabbi, Craig Scheff, performed the
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SARAH DRILL
have to be certified as a sniper before

you can be certified as a sniper instructor, she said. It is intense. It takes a
lot of focus. A lot of patience. And, of
course, a good eye and a steady hand.
It was a shock. Shed come from a gunfree environment. My mother joked
that shed always confiscated water guns
after birthday parties, Ms. Drill said. I
loved it. I found it to be really meaningful service.
Ms. Drill was in the IDF in the summer
of 2014, when Operation Protective Edge
took soldiers into Gaza. She worked on
Tzeelim, the Israeli training base in
the Negev that is the countrys largest.
Essentially, every soldier who went
into Gaza came through there, she said.
We were able to give them that last lesson before they went into Gaza. We gave
them everything we had.
Her IDF service ended just as Protective Edge did. I had about a month left,
and I panicked, she said. I wondered,
what am I going to do? I realized that
there were people who wanted to make
sure that I would stay in Israel, so I went
to the Wings workshop, and I came out
with a resume.
I had a resume from college, a good
one, in English, so I thought I could
just translate it into Hebrew, but its not
entirely the same thing. My Hebrew one
is definitely shorter, and a very important piece of the workshop was having
them show me how to use my army service on the resume.
Ms. Drill moved to Budapest with her
fianc, an Israeli whom she met while
they were both in the army. Hes a student, studying electrical engineering in
Tel Aviv, she said. When they returned,
she applied for jobs, using the resume
shed worked on with Wings. She knew
she wanted to have a job that made me
feel good at the end of the day, she said.
Coincidentally, that job ended up being
with Wings. Whats really kind of cool is
that I am about to look out for the future
of lone soldiers and my youngest

brother, Josh, is a lone soldier right now.
Thats a big motivation for me.
Ms. Drill came home in April, and therefore was able to talk about Wings at the
Orangetown Jewish Center, because she
was celebrating the first of two wedding
ceremonies. She and her now-husband,
Sagi Fainshtain, got married last month,
and will remarry in Israel next week.
Her parents, Richard and Rabbi Paula
Mack Drill, are in Israel for the wedding
and also to celebrate their own 31st
anniversary.
Two things were very clear to us
from the time Sarah was in high school,
Rabbi Drill said. Her Zionism was so
powerful that she was likely to end up
living in Israel, and her sense of purpose
and drive was so strong that she would
one day be doing something important
for Israel. All of that has come true in her
work for Wings for Lone Soldiers.
We have been proud of Sarah
throughout her many trips to Israel:
her high school trip, three different JNF
alternative spring breaks, her semester
abroad at Haifa University, and her ultimate aliyah. Throughout it all, the common thread has been that she wanted
to become part of Israeli society in a
meaningful way. This goal was clear in
her choice of army service as a sniper
instructor. And now it is clear in her chosen work for Wings.
During her most recent trip back to
the States so that Rabbi Scheff could
officiate at her marriage to Sagi Fainshtain Sarah spent a morning speaking at our synagogue, Orangetown Jewish Center. (Thats Rabbi Craig Scheff,
Orangetowns senior rabbi.)
In that amazing hour, I saw my daughter as a professional woman, speaking
with passion and clarity about her work
on behalf of lone soldiers, including her
brother Joshua.
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at all levels of Holocaust and human rights education.
Fall programs include How Trauma and Resilience
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West Clarkstown Jewish Center in New City, at 7 p.m.
The museums annual benefit brunch is planned for
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Center at Rockland Community College in Suffern. A
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evenings celebration will include the graduation from the Leadership Development Institute
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Memorial Day musings
ou know how Jewish holidays often have more than

one meaning?
One meaning often is tied
to the natural world and our relationship to it, and the other has more to
do with our history as a people
Shavuot, for example, which is
fast approaching, is both a harvest
festival and the anniversary of the
time when the Israelites were gathered around Mount Sinai as they
saw thunder, heard lightning, and
received the Torah.
Sukkot, similarly, marks both
another harvest (there are many harvests, for different kinds of crops, to
the annual surprise of us non-pastoralists) and the Israelites 40-year-old
desert wandering.
Memorial Day also has come to
have more than one meaning.
It marks the sacrifice of those
Americans who gave their lives to
protect us and our freedoms, and
of those Americans who risked their

lives and still managed to return to
us. It also marks the cusp between
springtime and full-on summer, of
barbecues and golden long-shadowed afternoons and the smell of
charcoal and chlorine and sandin-the-bathing-suit beach trips and
ghastly Sunday afternoon traffic.
Those two meanings summer
and sacrifice go together awkwardly, but perhaps appropriately.
They meet in parades and poppies.
It is fitting for us to think about
the courage of the soldiers and sailors and marines who protect us and
who have died for us. It is good for us
to say thank you to them.
So, thank you to the members of
the Jewish War Veterans of America,
and to all veterans of all our conflicts,
who have sacrificed so the rest of us
dont have to. May we never grow
complacent enough to forget them
JP
or their sacrifices.
Unleashed anti-Semitism
or a few years now, really

quite a few years, we have
watched with horror as the
anti-Semitism those of us
lucky enough never to have encountered in person which, thankfully, is
most of us has resurfaced in Europe.
Now it is appearing in this country
as well. Just in spurts, of course, in
little bits, oddly, surprisingly, horrifyingly. It seems to have been drawn
out of its dank pit by Donald Trumps
campaign.
Mr. Trump evokes many feelings;
for many of us, those feelings are
not positive, although we know that
he also has many supporters in the
Jewish world. This is not about Mr.
Trump, though, except indirectly.
He does not seem to be anti-Semitic,
and yes, we know about his Jewish
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them seem racist, but none of them
are anti-Semitic.
Some of his followers, though,
seem to be motivated not only by
admiration for Mr. Trump but also by
Jew-hatred. Journalists who have written about him, and who are Jewish,
have been bombarded by foul tweets
and disgusting images by his suupporters. Renegade Jew, for example, to chose among the more printable epithets, and an image of a trail
of dollar bills leading to an open oven.
Mr. Trump has not said anything
about the anti-Semitism he has
evoked. He has not asked his followers to stop it. He has not told them
that they are wrong. We very much
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J Street: For sale

to the highest bidder
hile it never was monolithic, the

pro-Israel community mostly
has been unified since Israel
became independent.
That has all changed since the emergence
of J Street as a lobby that explicitly set out to
challenge the establishment. The group claims
it is pro-Israel, but it is fundamentally divisive
and philosophically more in tune with the Arab
lobby than the pro-Israel lobby.
This was most recently apparent when J
Street decided to support President Barack
Obamas catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran,
despite the opposition of the Netanyahu government, the opposition Labor Party, and
according to the polls, approximately 80
percent of both the Israeli and American
populations.
Now we learn that its campaign to mislead
Congress and the American public about the Iran deal was paid
for by the Ploughshares Fund.
Ironically, Ploughshares seeks
to eliminate the worlds nuclear
stockpiles and yet supported
an agreement that encourages nuclear proliferation. The
fund paid J Street an astounding $576,500 the equivalent of
Rabbi
nearly one-third of the lobbys
Shmuley
entire 2014 budget to help the
Boteach
Obama administration undermine Israels security.
According to deputy national security
adviser Ben Rhodes, the Ploughshares Fund
was a key partner in the campaign to recruit
nongovernmental organizations, proliferation
experts, and friendly reporters to create
an echo chamber to support the Iran deal.
J Streets executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami,
had numerous meetings with White House officials, including Rhodes, and the organization
created a website, Iran Deal Facts, to echo the
administrations talking points. Blogger Elder
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood is the
founder of The World Values Network and is the
author of 30 books, including his just published
The Israel Warrior: Fighting Back for the
Jewish State from Campus to Street Corner.
Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
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of Zion described J Street succinctly as nothing but a paid shill for the White House to split
the U.S. Jewish community and put it at odds
with how Israelis feel.
The Iran case is just one example, however,
of J Streets malevolent influence.
When President Obama criticized Israel for
building homes in its capital, Elie Wiesel published an ad calling for support for the unity
of Jerusalem. In response, J Street published
its own ad, reprinting an article from Haaretz
by Yossi Sarid calling for the division of Israels
capital. Sarid summarized J Streets philosophy by asking President Obama to use his clout
to save us from ourselves.
This idea that Israel must be saved from
itself is not new. It has been a staple of Arabist
thinking at the State Department for decades
and was reflected in an article written by
former undersecretary of state
George Ball called How to save
Israel in spite of itself. The view
always has been popular among
critics of Israel who, like J Street,
believe that Israelis are either stupid, immature, or too foolish to
know what is best for them and
therefore must be helped to see
the error of their ways by Americans, who know better from
the safety and comfort of their
homes, 6,000 miles away.
The followers of this school like
to assert that they represent the true opinion
of Israelis. Yet when Israelis have the opportunity to vote their preferences, they do not
choose governments that have the policies of J
Street. Could it be that rather than being foolish and immature, Israeli voters actually know
their history and make decisions based on
their experience?
One of the early examples of J Street being
out of step with the pro-Israel community
was the groups opposition to Israels policy
toward the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Hadar Susskind, vice president of policy and
strategy for J Street, wrote in the Washington
Post that the issue was not whether Israel had
a right to enforce the blockade of Gaza, but
whether it makes Israel more secure. It does
not, he asserted.
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Israelis, who have caught Hamas smuggling rockets and other weapons, disagree.
And, by the way, so does Egypt, which
enforces its own blockade, and without
which Israels would be ineffective.
The Washington Times revealed that at a
time when Israel and the pro-Israel community were documenting the bias and inaccuracy of the Goldstone report, which alleged
that Israel committed war crimes while
defending itself against thousands of Hamas
rockets ( Judge Goldstone later recanted), J
Street was arranging meetings for Goldstone
on Capitol Hill. When confronted, Ben-Ami
denied its involvement, but the Times had a
recording of an interview with J Street supporter Colete Avital proving their report was
accurate.
J Streets campaign financing arm also
undermines Israels security. For example,
in 2014, 11 members of the House of Representatives supported by J Street refused
to support, or voted against, funding for
the Iron Dome anti-missile system that has
saved thousands of Israeli lives.
There is a fundamental distinction
between the consensus of the pro-Israel
community and those who claim to represent Israels best interests. The former do
not substitute their judgment for that of
Israeli citizens, who must live with the consequences of policy decisions, and who must
fight and sometimes die for their country.
Even more critically, J Street chooses to
ignore Middle East history and all of the
complex factors religion, geography,
history, politics, psychology that make
the conflict in the region so enduring and
reduce the problem to Israels presence in
the West Bank. It is particularly ironic that
J Street emerged after the disengagement
from Gaza, which should have put to rest
once and for all the myth that occupation
and/or settlements are the reasons that the
Middle East is not Eden.
The Washington Post editorialized about
the naivet of those who adopt the J Street
line that peace would follow from American pressure on Israel: Its easy enough
for global leaders to issue flowery appeals
for action on the Middle East or to imply
that progress would be possible if only the
United States used its leverage with Israel.
The stubborn reality is that there can be no
movement toward peace until a Palestinian
leadership that is ready to accept Israels
existence as a Jewish state appears.
Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud
Abbas has refused, however, to negotiate
with Israels prime minister for the last seven
years, and the PAs chief negotiator admitted
that if Israel offered the Palestinians 100 percent of what they demand, it still would not
satisfy them. The Palestinians have no interest in recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, or
coexisting with Israel, even if a Palestinian
state were established tomorrow. Such facts
are critical to Israels survival, but of no
importance to J Street.
Yet another example of J Street chutzpah is to call itself the pro-peace lobby,
which clearly suggests that everyone else
is anti-peace or pro-war. Of course, AIPAC

and the rest of the pro-Israel community has
been working for Middle East peace since
before Ben-Ami was born, but the lobby that
truly represents Americans who believe in
peace and a strong U.S.-Israel relationship
insists that Israelis should decide policies
related to their security.
J Street maintains that it speaks for a constituency that has been silenced, but this is
nonsense as well. It is the argument made
by the losing side of a debate, as in the case
of professors Walt and Mearsheimer, and
the other detractors of the Israeli lobby who
cannot accept the idea that their views are
considered but ultimately rejected because
they do not represent the national interest.
Another myth propagated by J Streeters is
that their actions help Israel, not hurt it, but
this shows a total ignorance of the nature of
interest groups. Like it or not, as Alan Dershowitz observed, whatever Jews say comes
through a megaphone, and J Streets views
are magnified and often misinterpreted as
the position of most American Jews. State
Department Arabists long have exploited
such critics to defend anti-Israel policies by
saying, in effect, even the Jews agree with
us. J Street proved to be similar useful
idiots to the Obama administration in the
lobbying campaign for the Iran deal, and
during its pursuit of the disastrous J Street/
Arabist approach to peace-making that has,
predictably, failed.
But only now did we discover that J Street
was basically bought off to lobby for the
Iran deal with nearly $600,000, proving
once and for all that J Streets problem is not
having the wrong policies but rather having
policies that are sold to the highest bidder.
The pro-Israel community votes with its
feet and its wallet, and that is why 18,000
people attended this years AIPAC policy
conference. AIPACs budget is roughly $100
million, compared with J Streets $2 million.
Rather than representing the alleged mass
of disaffected Jews, it turned out that the
groups largest initial funders were a lady in
Hong Kong and George Soros. The former,
apparently a non-Jew with no connection
to Israel, gave a whopping $811,697 to the
group. Soros is a billionaire known for his
virulent criticism of Israel, who originally
was rumored to be the money behind the
group, but then reportedly decided not to
finance J Street for fear of tainting it because
of his reputation of hostility toward Israel.
J Street lied about its dependence on Soros
until it could no longer hide the evidence.
According to blogger Lenny Ben-David,
the groups political action committee
took money from proSaudi activists,
ArabAmerican leaders, Muslim activists,
State Department Arabists, a Palestinian
billionaire, and even a Turkish American
who helped produce the anti-American
and anti-Semitic film Valley of the Wolves.
These do not appear to be the silent majority of pro-Israel Jews J Street claims to
represent.
Pro-Israel? Pro-Peace? Nah, just for sale to
the highest bidder.
Five generations
On new friendships, old friendship,
and the depth of those bonds
irkei Avot the Ethics of the

Fathers instructs us that it
is as essential to form relationships with friends (kenei
lecha chaver) as it is to find a rabbinic
guide (asei lecha rav).
In Taanit, the Talmud goes a step
beyond, and teaches that we have a
choice of either friendship or death,
and Elie Wiesel said friendship marks
a life even more deeply than love.
Friendship, of course, is a universal
value, with, for example, Thomas Aquinas writing that there is nothing on
this earth to be prized more than true
friendship. To me, friends are people
who like, care about, are considerate
of, and interested in each other; who
during services, the last two times my
enjoy talking, arguing, laughing, and
shul built a new sanctuary I purposely
spending time together; who have comchose a seat in a section where I had no
mon interests and values;
friends, thinking I would
who are trustworthy and
have no one to talk to.
dependable; who do not
And it actually worked
only listen but also pay
for about a year or two.
attention; who cheer your
Then I learned, to my
victories and give support
detriment/pleasure, that
and encouragement in
you become friends with
times of need; who help
the people you sit next to
each other grow to be
every Shabbat and yom
their best selves.
tov. And so, at a stage in
Joseph C.
Yet experience teaches
my life when I am usually
Kaplan
us that the nature of
invited to bar mitzvahs
friendship and the means
only of relatives and the
of forming friendships difgrandchildren of friends,
fer under varying circumstances and
I found myself attending a bar mitzvah
life stages. Young children new to the
of a child of a shul friend.
neighborhood seem to make friends
I also have learned that friends from
within minutes of arriving at the playschool whom you have not seen in
ground, while their parents struggle to
decades fit into two categories. There
find a place. Thats not because people
are those who, after a warm greeting, you begin chatting with and the
are cold and unfriendly, but with their
next thing you know two hours have
obligations to children, career, and
passed. The years have washed away,
other demands of modern life, they
and youre back in school or camp
dont have enough time to spend with
or the old neighborhood. You may
the friends they already have, much
not see them again for years, but you
less make new ones. Thats a dilemma
understand that in important ways
of which I have been on both sides.
youre friends for life. There are others,
And so new residents often make
though, who, after a warm greeting,
friends with the parents of their childrens friends, with whom they caryou begin chatting with and the next
pool and arrange play dates. Or they
thing you know its been only two minutes and neither of you has anything
become friends with other new residents, who also are looking for, and
left to say. Its at that point that you
having difficulty making, new friends.
wonder how you were ever friends in
Some of these friendships of convethe first place, and chalk it up to youth.
nience develop into meaningful ones
In the 21st century there are, of
and endure, while others wither on the
course, virtual friends you know only
vine as time passes, children graduate,
from an online profile, whose spouse
and new residents become old-timers.
and kids you never met, whom you
Then there are shul friendships.
wouldnt recognize in a crowd, whose
Since I know Im not supposed to talk
SEE FIVE GENERATIONS PAGE 26
Yet experience
teaches us that
the nature of
friendship and the
means of forming
friendships differ
under varying
circumstances
and life stages.
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Persisting doubts about the Iran nuclear deal
ardly a week has passed since

last years introduction of the
Iran nuclear deal without
reports of an unsavory Iranian action or an American surprise disclosure or obfuscation.
A previous weeks surprise was about
White House manipulations to gain support for the agreement. Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser to President
Obama, admitted that the administrations touting of a new moderate Iranian
leadership had been a deception. It was
largely manufactured for the purpose of
selling the deal. Further, he boasted that
freshly minted experts and compliant
reporters had echoed whatever talking
points the White House gave them.
A hoped-for benefit beyond curbing
Irans nuclear program was that the deal
ultimately would change Iranian behavior. Although the agreement was struck
last July, implementation officially began
in January 2016. In exchange for billions
of dollars made available by the lifting of
sanctions imposed by the United States

and others, Iran has curtailed some weapons-intended activities. It has dismantled
equipment at several nuclear facilities,
including the core of a nuclear reactor and
centrifuges that enrich uranium fuel. But
continuing Iranian belligerence and American concessions have been dismaying.
The rush by so many countries to discard previous inhibitions about engaging
with Iran makes the reversal of this new
reality unlikely. Days after implementation, an array of post-sanctions activities
were undertaken. Besides sanctions relief
by the United States, the United Kingdom
ended its ban on 22 banks and companies previously blacklisted for engaging
in nuclear-linked financing; Germanys
trade arrangements with Iran rose by 33
percent; China signed contracts to help
build five more Iranian nuclear reactors;
Russia began delivery to Iran of S300 antimissile systems; France sent a 100 member delegation to Iran in search of business contracts. The United States pre-deal
assurance that sanctions

In March, Iran added a new
could be snapped back if
twist to its defiance by not
necessary now seemed more
only test firing long-range
a wish than a possibility.
missiles in violation of a UN
When the implementation
Security Council resolution.
began, Robert Gates, secreThe missiles were inscribed
tary of defense under George
in Hebrew: Israel must be
W. Bush and Barack Obama,
wiped off the Earth.
put a damper on prospects
The American response
Dr. Leonard
for success. The belief that
hardly was satisfying. SecreA. Cole
tary of State John Kerry said
over time, Iran will abandon
that the United States would
its theological revolutionary
continue to lift sanctions
underpinnings, its aspirations in the region, or even its aspirations
as part of the nuclear accord, even while
for nuclear weapons is unrealistic, he
imposing new sanctions in response to
said. He rued the Obama administrations
Irans missile tests. This posture was akin
concessions to get Iranians to accept the
to hosing a single room in a burning building as fire rages throughout the building.
deal, including dropping the administrations earlier insistence on anytime anyEvents last month were especially diswhere inspections.
heartening to those who had hoped for
Thus far, Irans behavior has validated
better from Iran. Yousef al Otaiba, the
Gatess skepticism. Iran continues to
United Arab Emirates Ambassador to
export terrorism, call for the annihilathe United States, observed that Iran is
tion of Israel, and develop long-range misas dangerous as ever. It remains hossiles that could carry nuclear warheads.
tile, expansionist [and] violent. Reports
An old tradition
Honoring the very oldest among us
Childrens children are a crown to the aged,
and the glory of children is their elders.
f we take this teaching from the

Book of Proverbs (17:6) to heart, the
Jewish people todays children
of Israel have a great deal indeed
in which to glory of late. In March of this
year, the Guinness Book of World Records
confirmed that Israel Kristal, a 112-year-old
resident of Haifa, is the worlds oldest living man.
Mr. Kristal, born in Poland in 1903, is a
survivor of Auschwitz, where his first wife
and their children perished, and where
he toiled as a slave laborer. That a survivor of the genocidal efforts of the Nazi
regime has lived not merely to old age,
but to be recognized as the oldest man
in the world, is a fact of profound historical and spiritual significance: a milestone
of biblical proportions. The more they
were oppressed, the more they increased
and prospered (Exodus 2:12). Given Mr.
Kristals professional life as a confectioner
in the sovereign Jewish state, it is particularly apt to describe his legacy as one of
sweet revenge. It is reported that he continues his life-long devotion to daily prayer
and the mitzvah of tefillin. With long life
I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation (Psalms 91:16).
Mr. Kristal humbly put his achievement in perspective: I dont know the
secret for long life. I believe that everything
is determined from above, and we shall

never know the reasons why. There have
been smarter, stronger, and better looking men than I who are no longer alive. All
that is left for us to do is to keep on working as hard as we can and rebuild what is
lost. Mr. Kristal was surrounded by his
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren as he was recognized formally by
Guinness for his longevity. Clearly, he has
practiced what he preaches about rebuilding the Jewish people.
The Jewish people and specifically the
American Jewish community can glory
still further in the more recent announcement that 113-year-old Goldie Michelson
of Worcester, Massachusetts, is the oldest
person living in the United States, and is
believed to be the oldest Jew in the world.
Mrs. Michelson is an alumna of Clark University in Worcester. My son, Ayal, graduated from Clark some 80 years after Mrs.
Michelson, and attended the university at
the same time as her great-granddaughter. Mrs. Michelson credits her longevity
in part to the salutary effects of extensive
walking and of chocolate. On a variety
of levels, she has much in common with
Israels long-lived confectioner!
That the Jewish people now count both
the worlds oldest man and the United
States oldest resident among our number is a moment of history not to be taken
for granted. The Jewish peoples historical
mission our national raison detre long
has been to bring a greater

person dies, a library burns
awareness of God and of
to the ground. This dramatic
Gods universal demand for
image should be particularly
moral conduct to humanity.
compelling to the People of
How we are to view old age,
the Book. The elderly have
and how we are to relate to
borne witness to history,
the aged, represent a critiacquired life experience, and
cal aspect of Jewish moralabsorbed wisdom and infority. Perhaps, in light of Mr.
mation not readily evident
Rabbi Joseph
Kristal and Mrs. Michelsons
to the more vital and active
H. Prouser
celebrated longevity, the
younger generations. Rabbi
Jewish community should
Yossi ben Yehudah taught:
rededicate itself to the study
He who learns from the
and practice of our traditions principled
young, to what may he be compared? To
reverence for the elderly.
one who eats unripe grapes or drinks wine
When better to do so than on the
from the vat. But one who learns from the
approaching festival of Shavuot, with
old, to what may he be compared? To one
its communal programs of learning,
who eats ripe grapes or drinks properly
and the reading of the Decalogues comaged wine (Pirkei Avot 4:26). The advice
mandment: Honor your father and your
of both Yossis on age? Sage.
mother, that you may enjoy length of days
Rabbi Haskel Lindenthal, of blessed
on the land that the Lord your God is givmemory, a congregational rabbi, a
ing you (Exodus 20:12). It is no coincischolar trained in the yeshivot of Vilna
dence that the reward for devotion to our
and Hebron, a poet, mohel, shochet, and
elders is itself long life (see also Deuteroncherished rabbinic mentor over 50 years
omy 5:16).
my senior, would wryly quip in his tenth
The sages taught that deference is due
decade that his Galilean forbear was
the elderly because of the wisdom born of
correct: ziknah indeed was an etymologically significant acronym (ZKNH), but
life experience. Rabbi Yossi the Galilean
it stood for the Yiddish words Ziftzen,
posited that the word ziknah (old age)
Krechsen, Niftzen, and Huftzen, which he
is derived from the phrase kanah chochmah one who has acquired wisdom
translated roughly as sighing, moaning,
(Kiddushin 32B). This insight is mirrored
groaning, and crying. While biblical and
in the proverb, generally identified as
rabbinic literature is similarly replete with
African in origin, that says When an old
observations conceding the challenges
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of more U.S. concessions appeared. The

administration was yielding leverage by
incentivizing banks to lend to companies
doing business with Iran.
After concessions to get the deal, the
Obama team was still making concessions
to keep it.
Two more troubling reports surfaced
at the end of April. The first, described as
a loophole in the deal, could allow Russia and China to procure materials and
renovate Iranian nuclear facilities without
informing Western powers. The second
was the news that the Obama administration had agreed to buy heavy water from
Iran. Heavy water can be used to develop
nuclear weapons. The deal had called for
Iran to reduce its supply, though it did not
say that Iran should receive remuneration
for doing so. The American payout of $8.6
million for 32 tons of the material reportedly was made to encourage Teheran to
stick to the nuclear agreement.
The passionate intensity of opposition
to the Iran nuclear deal has subsided since
Congress failed to block it last September,

but its opponents worries have not. In a
recent U.S. poll only 30 percent of respondents approved of the agreement and 57
percent disapproved. The sentiment has
changed little since the eve of the Congressional vote, when 56 percent of surveyed
Americans believed Congress should
reject the deal.
Longstanding and broad-based Jewish
organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish
Committee, and more than two dozen
Jewish federations across the country,
issued statements of opposition. While
taking no formal public position, many of
the other 100-plus federations expressed
concern. None issued a statement of
support.
Most members of Congress were in
sync with the public, and voted against
the agreement. In the House the margin
was 269 to 162, and in the Senate, 58 to
42. Yet the deal went forward because
the Senate majority fell two votes short of
and difficulties of aging (See Shabbat 52A),

Judaism is unambiguous concerning our
obligations to the elderly.
Anyone who has been a passenger on
an Israeli bus is familiar with the biblical
injunction lifnei seivah takum: You
shall rise before the aged (Leviticus 19:32).
Not only is this verse actually posted on
public conveyances in Israel (a wonderful
example of the nexus between biblical literature and modern Jewish state), but its
spirit has been embraced by the diverse
Israeli public. Woe to that youthful passenger who neglects to surrender his seat
to a deserving elder! It should be noted

that the verse traditionally is understood
not exclusively to prescribe surrendering your seat, but to require the relatively
youthful to rise in salute and deference at
the mere approach of the elderly, whether
or not that persons seat or other act of
practical service is needed (See Chofetz
Chayim, Sefer Mitzvot Ha-Katzar, Positive
Commandment #17).
The second half of the same Leviticus verse reads Vhadarta pnei zaken,
which is translated as Show respect for
the elderly (NIV) or Honor the face
of an old man (King James Version)
or Honor the presence of an elder
(NET Bible) or Show deference to the
old ( JPS). The root of the verb hadarta (HDR) frequently is associated
with beauty (as I learned as a youth at
Connecticuts Camp Hadar). Countless
chalutzim and Zionists have cited Isaiah
35:1-2: The arid desert shall be glad. The
wilderness shall rejoice and shall bloom
like a rose It shall receive the glory of
Lebanon, the beauty (hadar) of Carmel
and Sharon. Similarly, the principle
of hiddur mitzvah calls on the devoted
practitioner to lend added beauty to
religious observance, beyond the minimum requirements of the law. (That is
why we decorate the sukkah, we seek
out a beautiful etrog, we wear a fancy tallis.) Vhadarta pnei zaken thus can be
understood to beckon us to perceive the
In 2008, Goldie Michelson sits outside

the theater named for her at Clark
University in Worcester, Mass.

COURTESY OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
the 60 required for rejection. As reported

in the New York Times, most Democrats
voted their loyalty to President Obama
rather than to their constituents.
Therein lies the core fallacy of the
debate on the nuclear issue. The outcome was and still is perceived by many
as determined by loyalty to the president
and to the enhancement of his legacy.
The matter should have been seen
as beyond partisanship. Too bad that
Obama also has framed it as a matter
of legacy. If the deal ultimately fails to
prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear
weapon, he said in a much publicized
Atlantic interview, its my name on this.
Apart from national security, I have a
personal interest in locking this down.
To Obama, a key risk of a failed policy
appears to be a bruise to his ego. Unmentioned in the interview is the catastrophic
risk of a nuclear Iran to the international
order, or to fulfillment of Irans threat to
wipe out Israel.
Of course, several of the deals
supporters said that it was the best

option available, regardless of partisan
considerations. They also admitted their
decision was a close call. Now we may
wonder which lawmakers might have
voted differently had they known of the
administrations manipulations, or the
continued intensity of Irans belligerence.
Whether or how long the nuclear deal
will hold remains uncertain. But skeptics,
like Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ),
believe its demonstrated flaws already
have validated their opposition. Menendezs wise words deserve repetition:
Legacy is not a policy, and hope is not a
national security strategy.
Dr. Leonard A. Cole of Ridgewood is a
past president of the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey, an adjunct
professor of political science at Rutgers,
and of emergency medicine at Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School, where he is
the director of the program on terror
medicine and security.
Israel Kristal, who lives in Israel, is a 112-year-old retired confectioner and

Holocaust survivor.
beauty in old age: You shall rise before

the aged, and recognize the inherent
beauty of the elderly.
We are living at a unique moment in
Jewish history. A beautiful moment.
The divine blessing of long life has been
bestowed in all but unrivalled measure
upon two venerable members of the Jewish people. It is left to the rest of us to
marvel at the beauty in the lives and in
the presence of Goldie Michelson and
Israel Kristal. In a culture that in many
ways idolizes youth, the message of our
tradition concerning old age and long
life is increasingly urgent. Lifnei seivah
takum: May we rise to the occasion.
The Torah records that Gods prophet,

his most faithful servant, Moses, was
granted a life of 120 years. Other notable
biblical personages are said to have lived
longer, but it is Moses 120 years that
became the gold standard of Jewish blessing. Given their already prodigious ages, I
hope it is not ungenerous or less than lavish, therefore, to invoke the customary
blessing on Mr. Kristal and Mrs. Michelson:
Ad meah vesrim! Bis hundert zvantzig
yohr! May they live (at least!) to 120 years.
And may all the years ahead be sweet.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple
Emanuel of North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
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Jews should be conservative
s a member of the tribe

involved in Jewish communal
life, the fact that the Jewish
community swings left is no
surprise to me.
From Jewish groups advocating for
the related issues of open borders,
amnesty for illegal aliens, and taking
in un-screenable Syrian immigrants to
Second Amendment infringements and
free association limitations, our community seemingly has never met a government dictate it didnt like. Indeed, if
one could personify the overwhelming
stances of the Jewish community in a
contemporary political leader, it would
be named Bernie Sanders.
Yet, from the perspective of this Jew, a
young-ish, frie (Yiddish, literally meaning free, used as secular), involved
member of the Jewish community, it
seems that our values are more in sync
with conservatism. The command economics and top-down politics of the
mainstream left (and the fringe right)
are antithetical to the Jewish tradition of
pluralism, diversity, and civil disagreement. From the minhagim (traditions)
of different Jewish communities, to the
rabid but mostly cordial disagreements
of our sages, to the present-day war of
ideas between our current denominations, none could argue that, at least
amongst ourselves, we are committed to
the common sense conservative values
Five generations
FROM PAGE 23
voice you never heard, and whose heart

never touched yours. But every once in a
while you find one who not only shares
your political and religious views, but
also, like you, misses Phil Ochs, the 60s
troubadour whos been gone for half
a century, and still listens to his songs.
And when he posts a picture of Central
Park on his Facebook timeline, you realize hes visiting New York, and the next
day the virtual becomes real as you share
a lunch in midtown.
And there are serendipitous friendships that arise at an age when you think
youve made all the friends you ever will.
It turns out that you and the editor of the
paper that publishes your column have
a slew of overlapping relationships with
friends and relatives, and, as you dig a bit
deeper, strong overlapping sensibilities
Conservative
values
dissent,
tolerance, free
association,
self-defense,
free speech and
more are
Jewish values.
of non-coercion and the right to defend
ourselves in the public sphere.
These values, essentially the golden
rule of do not do unto others as you
would have them not do unto you,
should translate into the positions of
the Jewish community and organizations on issues facing our country. On
unrestricted immigration, which so
many Jewish organizations support
would you support the wholesale outsourcing of your industry? If not, then
why support illegal immigration and
H-1B visa expansion when they undermine the economic leverage of, and disadvantage, the working poor and the
middle class? Whether they are blue or
on areas of life that are important to you

both. You even have similar senses of
humor. And when you inveigle an invitation for a chat over coffee from the
educator whose scholarship and ideas
you deeply respect, you learn that your
brother is a favorite scholar of his, your
daughters were in school together and
are good friends, and you disagree about
many areas of life that are important
to you both yet in ways so civil and
thoughtful that the disagreements are
enjoyable and meaningful.
But the most cherished friendships
are those that begin in childhood and
continue unabated to the present. The
sweetness of such relationships sometimes hits you when it turns a tad bittersweet, and your long-time friends decide
to downsize and move to a new neighborhood to be closer to their grandkids. Or,
like this Pesach, when one of our guests
was a friend a bit shy of seven decades
our right of free association

white collar, Americans are
(which includes the right
hurt when foreign workers
not to associate)? If not,
are imported to do jobs at
why then do Jewish groups
lower wages.
not take a stand when
If we in the community
mom and pop bakeries and
value the right to defend
photographers are forced
ourselves assertively
under legal penalty of masfrom unwarranted attack,
sive business-killing-fines
whether in the world of
Joshua
to participate in events
writing, the government
Sotomayorthey find objectionable?
subsidies we receive to
Einstein
From the right to choose
harden communal buildwho we associate with to
ings against potential terthe right of self-defense,
rorist attack, and as demand on immigration, it seems the
onstrated by our support for the state
stances of the organized Jewish comof Israel, should we not also support the
munity are in conflict with the position
right of all Americans to defend themit and its members take internally and
selves? While synagogues can afford
in their daily lives. From the perspecto post a police officer outside during
tive of a loud and proud Jew, the Jewservices, is it not hypocritical for us
ish community has its politics all wrong.
to deprive the same right to an armed
Conservative values dissent, tolerdefense to a single mother in a rough
ance, free association, self-defense, free
neighborhood? No one should have to
speech and more are Jewish values.
wait 10 minutes (the average national
911 response time) hoping that a burglar,
Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is originally
potential rapist, or murderer is delayed
from Teaneck and has lived in Hoboken
by a closed and barricaded bedroom
for 9 years. He founded Moishe House
door.
Hoboken in January 2007, is the
Would our community want a governchairman of both the Hudson County
ment mandate forcing all Jewish instituRepublican Club and the Hudson County
tions (such as JCCs or shuls) that have
Young Republicans, is on the board of
event spaces to rent to anti-Israel Boythe Jewish Federation of Northern New
cott and Divestment groups and those
Jersey, and enjoys reading and science
that deny Israels right to exist? Would
iction.
they tolerate such a massive violation of
But the most

cherished
friendships are
those that begin
in childhood and
continue
unabated to the
present.
duration, whose bar mitzvah parsha,
and precisely how he layned it, are forever engraved in my memory. I know not
only his kids and grandkids, but I knew
his parents and grandparents as well, and
he could say the same about mine. Five
generations.
We share memories of people and

events; easy laughter often accompanies our conversations; we dont need to
explain references or cultural allusions;
we frequently care about similar issues.
And yes, on rare occasions we even
briefly may not like each other. But we
quickly see beyond the flaws, and realize
how little they really mean.
With these friends, we know each
other for who we were, who we are, and
how weve gotten from then to now, from
there to here. As that Talmud in Taanit
suggests, in choosing such lifelong friendships we have fulfilled the Torah dictum
of uvacharta bachayim.
We have chosen life.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor
who has lived in Teaneck for more than
30 years, is a frequent writer of essays
for Jewish publications when he is not
practicing law in Manhattan.
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Talking about that elephant
I feel compelled to respond to Shmuel Goldins

essay (Understanding Orthodoxy, May 20). It all
sounds quite wonderful if you dont actually stop
and think about it, but quite absurd if you do.
You cant judge Judaism by the Jews? Are you
kidding me? By what other standard could you possibly judge it? How beautifully typeset the Torah is?
How luscious the parchment feels? Judaism is a system of belief and behavior designed to improve the
way people live their lives. If it doesnt lead people
to live good lives, then its no better than a fad diet
that doesnt help people lose weight.
Next up, this gem: Religious coercion is antithetical to Jewish thought Really? Did we all
learn the same Torah? The one I learned obligates
Jewish courts to engage in all sorts of religious coercion. Fines, lashes, imprisonment, even stoning
to death are all required methods of encouraging
compliance with Jewish law.
Sure, we dont have this system today. But do
Rabbi Goldin and all who believe as he does not
pray every day for the moshiach to come, for the
beis hamikdash to be rebuilt, for the Sanhedrin
to be reinstated, along with the legal system that
includes whipping people who violate certain
laws?
Maybe Im splitting hairs here, but since were
addressing the elephant in the room
Adam Schorr
Englewood
Transliterating into Arabic
I was intrigued by your Page 3 story, Wanted: A legion of

proofreaders, on May 13.
Representing the Hebrew original in other languages poses
a dilemma: Should the Hebrew be translated or transliterated? In the present case, the decision was made to transliterate Hagdud Haivri (The Hebrew Legion) into both English and Arabic. Other than the obvious typographical error,
the transliteration into English was not difficult, with the
exception of the Hebrew ayin (the first i in Haivri), the
sound of which exists only in Hebrew and Arabic. The substitution of the English i appears to be a reasonable choice.
The transliteration into Arabic poses greater difficulties.
The second letter (from the right) in the middle word was
designed to duplicate the sound of the hard g in Hagdud.
This sound usually is approximated in Arabic either by the
Arabic letter kaf (pronounced, as the Hebrew kaf, more
harshly than the g) or by the Arabic letter jim. The latter
letter works well in Egypt, where it is indeed pronounced as
a hard g (as in Gamal). Unfortunately, it is pronounced j
(as in the English jam) in the countries of the eastern Mediterranean littoral (including Israel), so would not be a good
substitute for the hard g on a Jerusalem sign. Moreover, the
actual letter on the sign is neither a kaf nor a jim. It is, in
fact, not Arabic at all. In the process of transliteration, Arabic
occasionally borrows letters from cognate languages, when
the required sound is not part of the Arabic alphabet. The letter on the sign was taken from Persian/Urdu, apparently for
this purpose. Regrettably, the letter chosen is not pronounced
as a hard g but rather as ch (as in the English chair). It
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A message to Trumps
Jewish supporters
es not Hitler. He wants

Those all are positions that deserve to
to help America.
be considered and debated rationally.
Melania Trumps
Jewish supporters of Trump have a
comment about her
point when they say that the reality TV
husband, GOP presidential candidate
star is well-poised to win the election,
Donald Trump, will go down as one of
and that therefore we would be wise
the more memorable quotes in an electo engage him. But equally, they have
tion cycle that has had its fair share of
to understand that historically, Jews
gaffes, outbursts, and the like.
invariably have oriented toward the
While her second sentence is debatcenter of politics. Demagogues articuable, the first one undoubtedly is true. If
lating strident messages that translate
you are looking for this eras aspiring Hituneasily into policy are the polar oppolers, you will not find them in America.
site of the experienced establishment
In another country and
political figures who tradiin another political systionally have won Jewish
tem, Donald Trump quite
support.
At issue here, moreconceivably could become
over, is not just Trump, but
a dictator. Given his admiTrumps supporters. As I
ration for the collection of
said, even if Trump wants
clowns and thugs who now
to imitate Russian Presifit that political descriptor,
dent Vladimir Putin, conhe clearly has the right perditions in America mean
sonality. And even if the
Ben Cohen
that he cannot do so. In a
strength of our democratic
country like Russia, Putin
structures means that
can court the far right
Trump cannot become an
like the Rodina party, whose Tiger
American caudillo, the fact that we can
youth wing pledged allegiance to Putin
easily picture him enjoying such a role is
in 2015 from the depths of a nuclear
a critical reason why so many Americans
bunker in central Moscow without any
shudder at the thought of Trump in the
political cost. Contrastingly, in AmerWhite House.
ica, a would-be president is expected to
While most American Jews share that
act like a statesman. By that logic, and
visceral reaction, there are a growing
sooner rather than later, Trump should
number who dont, and who are going to
disavow, explicitly and unreservedly, the
campaign for and vote for Trump. Those
semi-literate Klan-like rabble that is ridIve spoken to all have said that they
ing his coattails.
cant stomach the thought of a Hillary
Crucially, nobody has given him an
Clinton presidency after eight years of
incentive to do so yet. That incenPresident Barack Obama. They list positive can, realistically, be provided only
tive reasons, too. They think that Trump
by Trumps Jewish supporters, since
will be receptive to Jewish concerns, that
he never listens to his adversaries. If
hell be tough on national security, and
these Jews are going to give him legitithat he should be applauded for standing
macy, and assist him in resisting the
up to the same progressive Democrats
false charge that hes an anti-Semite,
who treat Israel as an enemy instead of
then their voices have to be heard on
an ally.
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of Jewish critics
Julia Ioffe, a prominent journalist whose GQ
magazine profile of Melania Trump earned
her the enmity of the Trump campaign,
was bombarded with sickening anti-Semitic
messages from pro-Trump trolls on social
media. Nazi imagery aimed at Ioffe was
richly in evidence, as it has been with other
Jewish critics of Trump, like John Podhoretz
of Commentary magazine (Are you gonna
flee to Israel after TRUMP is elected president?! LMAO KIKE!! read one message)
and Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro, whose
newborn baby was described by one sociopath, in the fashion of Der Strmer, as a
cockroach. In public at least, Trump has
been unmoved by any of this, and even has
ventured that these critics brought this foul
invective upon themselves.
As a Jew apologetics
When I read the vile attack Breitbart.com
carried against Weekly Standard editor Bill
Kristol, which identified him as a Renegade Jew, I wondered whether this would
Many of these
people are
Holocaust deniers,
baiters of the
disabled, and
similar malcontents.
They all have lined
up behind Trump.
be an isolated example or the harbinger
of a new phenomenon. The author of
the piece, David Horowitz, has embraced
Trump with the same dogmatic fury that
he employed in embracing the far left in
the late 1960s. In highlighting the irrelevant fact that Kristol is Jewish, Horowitz
trod the same ground as those forelocktugging Jewish leftists who ingratiate themselves with Israels enemies by disavowing
the Jewish state.
I am a Jew who has never been to Israel
and has never been a Zionist in the sense of
believing that Jews can rid themselves of Jew
hatred by having their own nation state,
Horowitz implored pathetically. For good

measure, he added that he is an American
(and an American first) thereby insinuating that the remainder of the Jewish community is compromised fatally by a greater
loyalty to Israel. Are there other Jews on the
right who are going to follow the shabby
example of those on the left by presenting themselves as the good Jews? Does a
Trump supporter who invokes the dual
loyalty smear get a free pass?
The rise of the alt-right

The alternative right, to give its full
name, is a toxic cluster of blogs, websites,
and one-person think tanks that fuses
old-style white power nationalism with
what its followers mistakenly regard as
witty ripostes to political correctness on
race and gender. Many of these people are
Holocaust deniers, baiters of the disabled,
and similar malcontents. They all have
lined up behind Trump. Are Jewish supporters of Trump really going to employ
the same argumentation as those on the
far left, soothing themselves that we have
nothing to worry about because his daughter converted to Judaism and some of his
best friends are Jews?
If theres one lesson we have learned
in dealing with the left-wing anti-Zionist

onslaught of the last decade, its that some
very ugly fringe memes can emerge suddenly in mainstream discourse. There is
no reason why that should be any different on the right. That the Jew-hatred is not
confined to Trumps supporters the billionaire Koch brothers, who are opposed
to Trump, are financing a conference featuring the anti-Semitic academics John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of
the discredited book The Israel Lobby is
even more cause to act quickly to prevent
the mainstreaming of this poison.
Here, therefore, is my challenge to Donald Trumps Jewish supporters.
Will you seize the opportunity to display
the same toughness youve shown toward
the left with your favored presidential candidate? Will you tell Trump that he needs to
ditch this faction of his supporters?
Your answer is eagerly awaited. JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org
and the Tower magazine, writes a weekly
column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal, and
many other publications.
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Milts BBQ for

the Perplexed
Bergen County transplant does
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Joanne Palmer
magine a small, close-knit neighborhood, a small town really,
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Its got a view of a huge lake
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Yeah, right? And the women are strong,
the men are good-looking, and all the kids
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So maybe this is a little bit idealized,
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city of which they are a part, is having a
Jeff Aeder, right, stands at Milts with Rabbi Asher Lopatin,

who now heads the Bronx-based Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
but before that was Mr. Aeders neighbor and rabbi.
particularly hard time right now its politics are seamy, its mayor, the picturesque,
controversial, notoriously foul-mouthed
(and Jewish) Rahm Emanuel, is reaching
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are terrifyingly, hideously up.
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Real-estate investor and philanthropist
Jeffrey Aeder, who was born in Hackensack Hospital in 1962 and grew up in Upper
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Saddle River, has a lot to do with Lakeviews Edenic affect. Hes the owner of the
spectacularly named Milts Barbeque for
the Perplexed, the restaurant whose profits go to charity.
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from Northern Highlands Regional High
School in 1980. The next year, his sister
also graduated, and his parents, Arthur
and Wilma, moved to Manhattan. We
belonged to a shul in Ramsey, right on the
train tracks, thats probably been closed
for 30 or 40 years, he said. Most of the
year his family would drive to services,
but I remember the long walk from our
house to Ramsey on Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur, he said.
My parents were very involved in Jewish organizations, Mr. Aeder said. They
were very involved in the federation,
in AIPAC, and in many other groups.
(Once they moved to the Upper East Side,
Arthur and Wilma Aeder joined Congregation Or Zarua, a Conservative synagogue
whose rabbi, Scott Bolton, used to live in
Teaneck. Rabbi Boltons wife, Rabbi Amy
Bolton, comes from Lakeview. The whole
Jewish world is connected.)
Mr. Aeder graduated from NYU, and

then I was unsuccessful in finding a job in
New York, so I went to Chicago for a year,
he said. He got a job working for a big real
estate company, one thing led to another,
he started his own firm with a partner
I love doing
these things.
They make me
happy. Thats
why I do them.
in 1988 and now, in 2016, obviously
immensely successful (as he absolutely
does not say but his life makes clear), hes
still in Chicago.
Mr. Aeder always has what he calls
projects going. One is the restaurant;
another is a college prep school for
bright high school kids who learn differently, founded so that his daughter
would not have to go to a boarding school;
yet another is the new website featuring
Jewish baseball memorabilia, which might
end up in brick-and-mortar form should it
prove popular enough, and still another is

his work for United Hatzalah, the Israeli
emergency response network that has
started a service in Jersey City.
Lakeview is the heart of the city, where
young single people and young families
and more established families live, he
said. Its a very vibrant area, but it had a
dearth of kosher restaurants. Most of the
observant community lives farther north,
in West Rogers Park, where there are many
such restaurants. I thought that I wanted
to open a community center, and the only
way that people would come to it would be
if I turned it into a restaurant, and it had
good food.
My principle is that if you are going
to do it, do it well. I wanted to make it
a beautiful, hip place, with great food,
which youd love whether or not youre
Jewish. Weve been open about 3 1/2 years
now, weve gotten great reviews, and its
always packed.
Its also run for inclusivity. Its CRC-certified kosher thats the Chicago Rabbinical Council, the local Orthodox organization and its fleishig but with nut-free
and gluten-free and vegetarian options.
Everyone can eat here.
We have speakers, we subsidize meals,
we have pre-paid Friday night dinners for
bar and bat mitzvah and wedding guests
and other parties, and 100 percent of the
proceeds go to tzedakah.
We have a charity of the month my
wife is in charge of that we pick a different charity, primarily local ones, either
Jewish or non-Jewish, and we do some sort
of project with it. This month we gave to a

grade school in a low-income area, and we
also did a school supply drive with them.
And then theres what we call Milts
Night Out. We have people who donate
tickets to sporting events or concerts or
shows or other events, or they can get us
comps, and we call social service agencies
and they find people we can take as guests,
after we have them to the restaurant for a
free dinner.
Why does he do this? I get a lot more
happiness out of it than it costs me, Mr.
Aeder said. I love doing these things. They
make me happy. Thats why I do them.
He and his wife, Jennifer Levine,
founded the Wolcott School in 2012. I
was not much of a student growing up,
Mr. Aeder said. I struggled. He didnt
want his children to have to feel out of
place, as he did, instead of being able
to attack their studies directly, as all students should be able to do. I always say
that if you are going to take on a project,
you should do it first class. So instead of
starting in some rented place, and growing slowly, we built what I think is a gorgeous school, with the best technology
and the best faculty.
The vast majority of the kids there have
struggled in school. A lot of people say that
they believe in the integration model, but
I believe in what works. If they feel good
here, they should stay here. If not, they
should not stay.
Its not a school where students parents are pushing them to come. Its a
school where students say This is where
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I want to be. We have attracted an unbelievable caliber of
faculty and students we have 35 masters degrees and
five Ph.D.s among our faculty, which is pretty amazing for
a school with 88 students. And our first graduating class
went to great colleges to the University of Michigan, to
Lake Forest, to the University of Denver.
He was able to attract funding because if you have a
tremendous amount of passion, and you put your whole
heart into it, then other people will sense that. They sense
that you are a serious person, and that your vision is one
that they can identify with.
We have no more than 10 students in a classroom. We
are very big on inclusivity we admit students based on
their ability to thrive in school, not on their ability to pay.
We offer enough financial aid so that everyone who we
admitted we enrolled. In other words, the school was
able to offer scholarships to everyone who needed one.
The school, built in the old Union League Boys Club
building, which was gut renovated, is designed to max
out at about 150 students, Mr. Aeder said. We are building a new gym and theater. It is open to everyone who
needs it and it can help, Jews and non-Jews alike.
Why did he and Ms. Levine start this school? Partly
to spare his oldest daughter, who is graduating in a few
weeks, from having to choose between leaving home in
ninth grade for a boarding school that would suit her needs
or staying at home and going to a school that would be illsuited to her. Partly because he knew that another two of
his four children also would benefit from the school. And
partly, he said, because everything I do is based on the
principles I learned from my Jewish heritage.
You have to try to leave the place this world, that
is better than it was when you found it.
What about the baseball museum? I happen to be a
huge baseball fan, Mr. Aeder said. A Cubs fan, of course,
also a fully converted from the Mets fan.
I started assembling a collection of Jewish baseball
memorabilia, and I did some research, and I started to
become more and more obsessed. I decided that I should
open up a Jewish baseball museum, because the history is
so interesting. There were so many great Jewish baseball
players, and so many Jewish baseball players who were
great people. There were so many stories. I thought it
would be a great thing to share. So, with help, I designed
a museum.
And then my wife said to me, What happens if you
are the only person who is interested in this? And I said,
Thats an interesting question.
So I decided that I would start the museum online. It
launched about a month ago. You can spend an entire day
on it. Its huge! And you can sign up for
updates. I had people do interviews and
stories, and I will probably be almost doubling what we have on it. Were probably
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld and Rabbi David Wolkenfeld with their children.
only about halfway done with it. Its just tons of fun.
He will gauge the response to the virtual museum, at
jewishbaseballmuseum.com, and use that information
Scenes from the Wolcott School in Chicago,

created by Mr. Aeder and Ms. Levine.
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to decide whether to go real with it
as well. Meanwhile, he continues
to amass objects, which now sit in
storage.
Mr. Aeder is deeply involved in
Israel. Starting in 2002, during the
Second Intifada, I would take groups
of six to 16 guys to Israel for short
trips every six months or so, he
said. I did it because I love Israel,
and I felt that it needed our support,
and that people should go and show
Israelis that they werent alone. I love
the country, I love the spirit there, I
love the energy.
Im also involved with United
Hatzalah, he added. Im very
close with Eli Beer, its founder.
Of all the people Ive met, I think
hes the most impressive. Hes got
a real game-changing organization,
and at a time when Israel always
struggles with how to tell the story
of how special the country is and
there is an organization there that
has 3,000 volunteers and 35 paid
employees, Christians, Muslims,
Druse, and Jews, and they are all
about saving lives.
Theyve taken it to Jersey City and to Detroit, and in
the next 10 years I think it will be all over the world. Its
great for Israel, and its great for the world.
The good news is that I am 54 years old, and I am
planning a lot of new projects, Mr. Aeder said. I dont
have a political agenda at all. I think that when you do
The good news is

that I am 54 years old,
and I am planning a
lot of new projects.
something thats good for everyone, and that makes
everyone feel welcome, it just makes the world a better place.
I dont know what projects next. I dont look for
them. They come to me.
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld grew up in Teaneck; her
husband, Rabbi David Wolkenfeld, leads Anshe Sholom
Bnai Israel, the modern Orthodox shul in Lakeview to
which Mr. Aeder and his family belong.
The Jewish community in Lakeview is almost like a
throwback, Ms. Wolkenfeld said. Everyone gets along.
Its not just toleration its more than that. People dont
feel labeled. Its great. In fact, she said, her shul and the
local Conservative and Reform ones are joining forces
for a tikkun leil Shavuot program.
Shes a big fan of Mr. Aeders restaurant, Milts, which
opened just before she and her family moved to Lakeview. They catered the Kiddush for our interview weekend, she said. It was really funny. Everyone said, We
really should be interested in meeting you guys, but
were really interested in the food.
Its a great meet-up spot. We post to Facebook, and
we say were going to Milts, and if you want to meet us
there, come over. Milts hosts community events; they
had a speaker for Martin Luther King Day and they had
a kids party for New Years Eve. They invited everyone
Mr. Aeders Jewish baseball

memorabilia includes Sandy
Koufaxs 1963 uniform, Ron
Blombergs bat, Moe Bergs
catchers mitt, and Hank
Greenbergs hat.
to come at 5 p.m. which is midnight in Israel and for

$10 a person everyone got hats and noisemakers, and
food, and he put New Years Eve in Israel on the TV. It
was great.
My kids love it. Sara and David Wolkenfeld have four
children Noam, Hillel, Akiva, and Sophie. Sophie is 4,
she and Jeff danced together at a bar mitzvah once, and
she has a major crush on him.
My kids love going there. Its the biggest treat in the
world for them. And Jeff is a major presence there.
David Wolkenfeld moved to Anshe Sholom Bnai Israel
to replace Rabbi Asher Lopatin, who is now in Riverdale,
N.Y., heading Yeshivat Chovevei Torah.
Jeff is really committed to the Jewish people, Rabbi
Lopatin said. This restaurant is committed to his vision
of a Jewish center.
Understand that its not just about people filling
their stomachs. The key is that kosher is not just about
certain random laws that God told us. It is a way of
connecting Jews.
The restaurant is a vessel. Its under impeccable rabbinic certification. It can be open on Friday nights
always for prepaid, prearranged dinners and the shul
has events once a month. Its an amazing thing. The
food is as inexpensive as a kosher restaurants food can
be, Rabbi Lopatin added, and it is very classy. Not at all
shleppy. Top notch.
People go to Milts from the charedi world, the ultra
Orthodox world, the modern Orthodox world, the
Conservative world, the Reform world, the non-Jewish
world, he said. It is an amazing gathering.
One of the hallmarks of Mr. Aeders thinking is the way
he values both Jews and non-Jews; his work bolsters all
sorts of communities. He is very community-minded,
Rabbi Lopatin said. That is the ideal of the modern
Orthodox Jew. You are a citizen of the world. Your family is the priority, but that doesnt keep you from caring
about the entire world.
Jeff does it in the way that the rabbis talk about. The
poor people in our city come first so first Lakeview,
then Chicago, then broader causes. He is very sensitive
to that, and it comes from his rock-solid sense of his
identity as a Jew and as a citizen of the world.
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They went into a shed and switched clothing, and my
mother walked out wearing a nurses outfit.
The siblings each recall that when they were children,
their mother regularly sent money, gifts, and clothing
to a woman in Poland. Felicia believes it was the friend
who helped Sophie get false papers. Andre thinks it
was the nurse. Either way, both these righteous gentile
women deserved gratitude.
Nevertheless, Sophie once told her son that most of
the Polish people she knew were as bad or worse than
the Nazis; they would turn in a Jew for a kilo of sugar.
Eliezer and Sophie married in a displaced persons
camp after the war. They were denied entry to the
U.S. having a sponsor didnt help so they went to
France, Andre said. He was born in Paris in 1949.
Any townspeople from Radom who survived lived
with my parents in Paris, six or eight people at a time,
and my father was the only breadwinner in the household, he continued. One of his sisters survived, and
my parents were able to make a wedding for her in
France when I was about a year old.
Andre recalls his father as a quiet doer, raised in a
well-heeled Jewish family. As a teenager in Radom, he
told his son, he had physically defended fellow yeshiva
boys from beatings at the hands of ruffians.
When his father died in 1982 at just 68 years old, a
woman the Helcman family did not know asked to speak
at the funeral, which was held in Louis Suburban Chapel in Fair Lawn. She told the mourners that when she
was 13, in a DP camp with her younger brother, Eliezer
came over to see why the little boy was crying. Hes
upset that we have no place to go and no money and we
dont know anybody and were going to die here, the
girl told Eliezer.
My father asked about family, and she said there were
relatives in Queens. To get out of a DP camp you needed
money, so my father took out a gold coin, gave it to the
girl, and said, This will get you and your brother to
America. She said, But what are you going to do? And
my father said, Listen, Ill be able to take care of myself,
but you need to get to Queens. To this day I dont know
how she found out about my fathers funeral.
The Helcmans and Sol Adler also made it to America
eventually, and Felicia was born in Brooklyn. The Helcmans moved to Paterson around 1963 and then to Fair
Lawn in 1972.
This was just three years after Yeshiva University sent a
young rabbi named Benjamin Yudin and his wife, Shevi,
to Fair Lawn to develop an Orthodox synagogue there.
My mother took to them right away, Andre said.
With full confidence in their abilities, she prodded
the few dozen founding families to open their pocketbooks to buy a property on which to build a proper shul
building.
Shevi Yudin gets choked up when she talks about
Sophie. We were a very small congregation then, and
our members were nervous about raising funds for
a building, she said. I can still hear Sophies voice;
she said, I dont understand you people! You have an
opportunity in a free country to build a synagogue and
youre hesitating? If you have the faith to vote for this,
God will help us do it. Sure enough, thats exactly what
happened.
Ms. Yudin described Sophie as the most incredible
person, and an unbelievably committed Jewess. It was
an honor for me to sit next to her in shul every Saturday morning. She loved everything about her religion.
She used to come to classes all the time, and she would
be there for every big thing we did, encouraging us to
build a mikvah, build a shul, raise charity for someone

in need. She helped us get wherever we needed to go.
She really believed in God after the Holocaust and was
thankful that she was saved and felt that because of that,
she had a responsibility to do her part.
My mother was not only a big believer but was driven
by doing good things and never saying anything bad
about people, Andre added.
Eliezer, who owned a shoe store, also encouraged the
men to step up in support of Shomrei Torah, but more
behind the scenes, his son said.
And of course the couple remained close with Sol,
who spoke six languages and worked as a translator. I
liked hanging out with him when I was in high school
and college because he was part of the intelligentsia in
Manhattan, Andre said. He and other well-read survivors used to hang out and talk in a bagel shop, and I
enjoyed being with them.
Felicia married an Israeli she met in New York, and
they made aliyah with their three children in 1995.
Andre was surprised that it took his mother 16 years to
follow her.
Knowing that the messiah will come first to Jerusalem, she felt there was an imperative that everybody has
to live in Israel, he said. Yet for years she had excuses.
For one thing, she worried about me and about Sol.
A little more than five years ago, as her physical health
began failing, Sophie agreed to go live with Felicia,
though it was hard for her to leave her son and brother
in America.
After a couple of years she moved to an assisted-living
apartment in Neve AMIT in Jerusalem. She was mobile
and had all her faculties to the end, said Andre, who
sent her tulips on her 94th birthday in March.
Every morning she would pray before eating breakfast. When she got to Neve AMIT, she didnt care when
breakfast was served; shed always daven first. So they
made sure she had food no matter when she finished
davening. Sometimes she was the only one in the dining
room at 11 in the morning.
Longevity apparently runs in the Adler family. Sophie
and Sols older brother, who had fled to Russia before the
war and later raised a family in Brooklyn, died less than
two years ago. He was about 100 years old. Andre and his
first cousin Aryeh took the responsibility of keeping an
eye on Sol; Aryeh more than me, Andre insists.
My uncle was fit going into his 90s, he continued.
He read the New York Times front to back every day
and never wanted to visit a doctor. He would say, If it
aint broke, why fix it? And then about a year ago, I saw
the age beginning to creep up.
Sol was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer only about
a month before his death. To the end, I would sit with
him and ask if he was in pain and hed say no, Andre
said. He and my mother were never complainers. My
mother had two heart attacks in Israel and insisted she
was fine. I could only tell how she felt by the strength of
her voice.
Andre acknowledges that it is difficult to adjust to the
sudden absence of these two towering personalities. I
take my mothers line and try to power through it, he
said.
My mother was one of the most righteous women I
have ever met, embodying faith and charity and goodness, and always so positive. If you showed my mother
a gentleman of the same generation and said he was a
Nazi, I would bet a million dollars shed say, He was a
young boy and he didnt know what he was doing. She
found the good in everyone.
And she was a woman of her word, Felicia said. She
vowed to her parents that she would take care of her
brother until the end.
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The Obama administration has expressed skepticism
over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus
call for direct peace negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinians.
We of course support meaningful negotiations
and we continue to believe that this conflict can only
be resolved through direct negotiations between the
parties. We do not believe in negotiations just for
the sake of negotiations, a senior U.S. State Department official told the Jerusalem Post.
As weve said many times, it is up to the parties to
decide if they are ready to make the tough decisions
necessary for successful negotiations, the official
added. For our part, we continue to call on both
sides to demonstrate with policies and actions a genuine commitment to a two-state solution.
The Obama administrations statement comes
as France is organizing a meeting of world leaders
in early June to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Netanyahu has opposed the French approach,
telling French Prime Minister Manuel Valls that he
prefers direct negotiations between the Israelis and
Palestinians.
France plans to use the meeting to help plan a
larger summit next fall on the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, and to introduce a United Nations Security
Council resolution on the issue.
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Egypt reportedly moving on

plans for Israeli-Palestinian
peace talks
Egypt is reportedly moving forward with plans
to hold a trilateral summit in an effort to forge an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo on Sunday
on behalf of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
order to arrange a meeting with Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Palestinian news agency
Maan reported.
The delegation is reportedly led by Aviva Raz
Shechter, the director general of the Foreign Ministrys Middle East Division, as well as other high-ranking officials.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the last few days
have seen significant diplomatic efforts that have
been led by Egypt to organize a summit between
Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Last week, El-Sisi said he saw a real opportunity
for Israeli-Palestinian peace, and that such a deal
would give safety and stability to both sides. If this
is achieved, we will enter a new phase that perhaps
no one can imagine now.
As opposed to a separate French initiative that
seeks to involve the international community and
exclude Israeli or Palestinian representatives, Netanyahu has said that he welcomes El-Sisis plan for
direct talks and his willingness to invest every effort
to advance a future of peace and security between us
and the Palestinians.
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Israel and South Korea announced that they will hold
free trade negotiations in Seoul two months from now.
A free trade agreement between Israel and South
Korea will be a significant milestone in trade relations
between the two countries and carry significant economic potential for them, as well as economic relations
between Israel and Asian countries in general, Israeli
Economy Ministry Director-General Ami Lang said.
The decision resulted from a meeting in Jerusalem
on Monday between Lang and South Korean Deputy
Trade Minister Tae Hee Woo, in which they discussed
expanding bilateral trade and investment as well as
cooperating in the technological, agricultural, and
industrial sectors.
In the last few months, Israel has also announced
free trade talks with China and Vietnam. Israels Economy Ministry expects the Jewish states exports to
Asia to grow from 21 percent in 2013 to 24.5 percent
by 2018. Israeli-South Korean trade reached $1.7 billion
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fight BDS
Israels ambassador to the United Nations, Danny
Danon, will host a summit on fighting the BDS movement on May 31. He is expected to draw a crowd of
more than 1,500 students, diplomats, academics, legal
professionals, and activists to the U.N.
BDS is the modern incarnation of anti-Semitism,
Danon said. Holding this anti-BDS summit in the U.N.
General Assembly will bring together an international
coalition against the boycott movement, and will send
a clear message to all of our adversaries Israel will
not relent and will continue to reveal the lies propagated by the BDS movement.
Participants will learn about various aspects of the
campaign against BDS from panelists including Ronald
Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress; Justice Elyakim Rubinstein, vice president of the Israeli
Supreme Court; and Jay Sekulow, chief legal counsel of
the American Center for Law and Justice (and a former
Jew who now is Christian). Attendees also will receive
an ambassadors against BDS toolkit that will provide
suggestions and contact information to help them fight
BDS on the practical level.
They will return to their campuses fully equipped
and ready to take on the lies of the BDS movement,
Danon said.
The Israeli envoys Building Bridges, Not Boycotts
conference will include a performance in the U.N.
General Assembly by Jewish reggae star Matisyahu,
who experienced BDS firsthand in 2015 when a Spanish music festival initially decided to disinvite him in
response to BDS pressure. The festival ultimately reinstated his performance.
The U.N. conference is a partnership between Israels Mission to the U.N. and organizations including
the World Jewish Congress, Keren HaYesod, the American Center for Law and Justice, the Anti-Defamation
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In the summer of 2011, young Israelis camped out on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to protest high
housing prices.
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Fearing economic future, Israelis

want Scandinavian-style government
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV On one hand, most Israelis say their financial situation is good and getting better. On the other
hand, theyre worried they wont be able to provide
for their children.
On one hand, they want significantly more government spending in a wide range of public services. On
the other hand, they say they pay too much in taxes.
These are among the confused results of a wideranging economic survey by a think tank, the Israel
Democracy Institute. The survey results show widespread Israeli positivity when it comes to personal
finances, disappointment in government, and a desire
for a broader welfare state on the Scandinavian model.
These are people who, in the present, have a reasonable situation, but because of all of the change in
the global arena, theyre very scared of the future,
Tamar Hermann, the studys lead author, said. Its
not that someone is scared of the future because of
his present situation. The situation isnt totally bad;
its pretty good. But we dont know what will be in the
future.
Israel has had a relatively strong economy in recent
years. The country joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of
wealthy nations, in 2010. Its unemployment rate is
around 5 percent, and its per capita GDP has risen
from $26,500 in 2010 to $34,300 in 2015. The economy is growing 3 percent annually, according to the
Bank of Israel.
The situation isnt

totally bad; its pretty
good. But we dont
know what will be in
the future.
TAMAR HERMANN
But at the same time, Israelis have become increasingly frustrated with their economy. The last two
Israeli elections have seen centrist, bread-and-butterfocused parties gain significant followings. In 2011, half
a million Israelis took to the streets as part of a summer-long protest over the high cost of living. Smaller
demonstrations took place the following summer.
Study author Hermann said the protests stemmed in
part from the debt Israelis feel the government owes
them in return for their mandatory military service.
Most Jewish-Israeli men serve three years in the army;
women serve two.
People say, I pay with my life, in years of my life,
she said. They say, We pay taxes and serve in the
army. The state should take care of us. The feeling is
the state isnt giving enough.
Recent data in some ways show an unequal economy. According to a report by Israels Taub Center for
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Social Policy Studies, Israelis spend more on consumer
goods particularly food in comparison to the residents of other OECD countries. Only three countries
in the OECD have greater income inequality, defined
by the group as the difference in income between the
richest 10 percent and the poorest 10 percent. More
than one-fifth of Israelis live under the poverty line.
Frustration amid prosperity has resulted in contradictory attitudes, the survey shows. Despite the economic challenges, the majority of both Israels Jews
(59 percent) and Arabs (58 percent) are happy with
their financial situations. More than three-quarters of
both populations believe their economic situation will
improve in the coming years.
But at the same time, majorities of Jews and Arabs
worry that they wont be able to provide for their children or save money for the future. More than a quarter
say they have trouble making ends meet each month.
Nearly a third of Jews and a majority of Arabs say they
probably will be unemployed at some point before
they retire.
The work market has changed, Hermann said.
You dont have tenure anymore. In high tech, from
age 45 on, youre obsolete. Theres an element of fear
here. Maybe difficulties wont happen, but the fear is
it will happen. Thats not even to mention wars and
things like that.
Israeli Jews in particular, according to the survey, look
to the government to better their lives. Nearly 60 percent
new
Majorities of all
Israelis also want the
government to spend
more on health, police,
education, academia,
transit, welfare,
and housing.
of Jews prefer a Scandinavian model economy, with
high taxes and a robust welfare state, over an American model, with lower taxes and fewer government services. Nearly half of Jews 45 percent say they want
more government involvement in the economy.
Majorities of all Israelis also want the government to
spend more on health, police, education, academia,
transit, welfare, and housing.
But most Jews are critical of their government, according to the survey. Almost 62 percent say their tax burden
is unfair. Most rate Israels civil service poor or very
poor when it came to areas like efficiency, transparency, and quality of service. And most say government
improves when experts from the private sector join the
civil service.
Israelis are unlike some in the U.S. that consider

the government part of the problem, IDIs president,
Yohanan Plesner, said. In Israel, people have very
high expectations of the government to be involved
and take responsibility. It means theres a much
greater need to ensure the government is effective in
the provision of services.
Israeli Arabs, on the other hand, report higher levels
of satisfaction with the government than do Jews, but
a majority 63 percent prefer the low-taxes, fewerservices American model of government. Only about
a quarter want more government involvement in the
economy.
While Israeli Jews and Arabs differ on the role of government, neither trusts Israels political institutions. A
2015 IDI survey found that less than half of Jewish and
Arab citizens trust the government, the Knesset and
Israels political parties.
Plesner said Arabs may prefer fewer government services because, unlike Jews, they feel the government
discriminates against them and is not built to serve
their needs.
There is perhaps less trust that if the government
has a major role, that Arabs as a minority would benefit from it, Plesner said. Jewish Israelis have low
trust, but high expectations.
The poll surveyed 500 Israeli Jews and 100 Israeli
Arabs from March 29 to April 3, and has a 4.1 percent
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n 1 Rabbi Steven Sirbu celebrated his 13 years at Temple Emeth in Teaneck at the synagogues Spring Gala
dinner dance in his honor. The evening included dinner, dancing, and tributes. Loretta Weinberg, the New
Jersey State Senates majority leader, who belongs
to Temple Emeth, presented Rabbi Sirbu with a proclamation from the state. COURTESY TEMPLE EMETH
n 2 Nearly 2,500 people attended the Yom Haatzmaut
ceremony at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Israels 68th birthday celebration featured arts and crafts,
live performances, Israeli dance, and youth activities
sponsored and run by Israeli Scouts, and an Israeli shuk
(market), as well as food vendors. The program was offered in partnership with the Israeli-American Council
and other community organizations. COURTESY JCCOTP
n 3 Movin On, the Glen Rock Jewish Centers group

for widows and widowers, meets monthly for lunch
and a speaker or discussion. The next meeting is
Thursday, June 16, at 12:30 p.m. COURTESY GRJC
n 4 Sisterhood of Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn held a
dinner and spring fashion show with clothing by Chicos of
Ridgewood. Emcee Liz Schwarz, left, is shown with models Esther Wertlieb, Linda Ames, Tracey Cohen, Suzanne
Berman, Michele Shaloff, and Janet Singer. COURTESY TBS
n 5 New Jersey Assemblyman Joe Lagana (D-38th Dist.)
recently spent a morning at Yeshivat Noam with students, staff, and parents. After touring the campus, Mr.
Lagana spoke to students and answered questions about
education affordability and local government. The visit
was initiated and directed by Teach NJS, an organization created by the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center.
It is a partnership of 20 Jewish day schools, including

Yeshivat Noam, Ben Porat Yosef, Frisch, Lubavitch on
the Palisades, Maayanot, Moriah, Rosenbaum Yeshiva of
North Jersey, Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen
County, Torah Academy of Bergen County, Yavneh, and
Yeshivat HeAtid, as well as two federations, the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey. COURTESY YESHIVAT NOAM
n 6 In honor of Israels 68th birthday, Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys religious school students celebrated with an array of Israeli-themed activities. Students learned krav maga (Israeli martial arts), made
Israeli salad, fruit kebabs, and crafts, and played Israeli
games. Lt. (Res.) Amir Shuker led students on a walk
through Israel on a giant floor map. Elena Rosenbaum
of American Friends of Leket Israel, Israels national
food bank, made a presentation. COURTESY TEPV
Jewish World
Dems panel drafting platform includes critics of Israel,

friends of Israel and a BDS backer
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON The Democratic Party platform drafting committee is top-heavy with veterans of political
battles over Israel. Some are friendly, some are critical,
and at least one is a major backer of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
The Democratic National Committee named the committee on Monday, a day after reports emerged that
Bernie Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont
running for the Democratic Partys presidential nomination, wants the platform to elevate the issue of Palestinian rights.
The names signal that the robust debate on Israel that
has rattled the partys relationship with the mainstream
pro-Israel community over the last two years will continue
through the party convention in Philadelphia in July.
Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party
nominating contests, named five of the committees
members, while Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of
state and frontrunner in the partys presidential primaries, named six. The remaining four were named by the
DNCs chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
D-Fla., who is one of the most prominent Jewish leaders in the party.
Three of the Sanders backers on the committee Cornel West, a philosopher and social activist, James Zogby,
the president of the Arab American Institute, and Rep.
Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to Congress are known in part for their criticisms of Israel.
West is a prominent BDS backer, and Zogby has spoken forcefully against attempts to marginalize the movement. Ellison has called for greater consideration of Palestinian rights, but also has close ties to his home state
Jewish community and says Israels security must be
taken into account.
The standout appointment is West, a fiery speaker
who has called the Gaza Strip the hood on steroids
and, in 2014, wrote that the crimes of Hamas pale in
the face of the U.S. supported Israeli slaughters of innocent civilians.
Zogby and Ellison are longtime insiders who have
taken leadership roles in the party, so their inclusion is
not extraordinary.
Among the six Clinton backers is Wendy Sherman,
the former deputy secretary of state who was a lead
negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks. Sherman, who has
spoken lovingly of her involvement in Jewish life in suburban Maryland, was wounded by the tough criticisms
of the deal from Israels government and centrist proIsrael organizations.
Wasserman Schultzs picks include Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who will be the committees chairman.
Cummings is close to his states Jewish community and
for years has run a program sending a dozen or so black
high-schoolers from the Baltimore area to Israel.
Another of her picks is Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif.,
who also is close to the pro-Israel community. Berman
shepherded far-reaching Iran sanctions through Congress in 2010, when he was chairman of the U.S. House
of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., also a Wasserman Schultz
pick, has been critical of Israel in her career, joining 59
House members in a letter after the 2009 Gaza war urging the Obama administration to pressure Israel to allow
increased humanitarian relief into Gaza. She also spoke
against a resolution condemning the 2009 U.N. report
on the war, which was reviled by Israels government and the

mainstream pro-Israel community.
The drafting committee presents the document to the full
platform committee, which votes on it during the convention.
Usually there are few objections. In 2012, however, the drafting committee omitted recognition of Jerusalem as Israels
capital from the draft platform. New language including the
recognition was passed during the meeting of the full committee, but not without objections and boos.
All four of the Congress members on the drafting committee Cummings, Lee, Ellison, and Rep. Luis Gutierrez,
D-Ill., a Clinton appointee are endorsed by the political
action committee affiliated with J Street, the liberal Middle
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in November.
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Lag Baomer: Better than fame
ere in the United

it cannot be ignored that it
St ate s, elec tion
occurs in a period of mourning for the 24,000 students
season is well
of Rabbi Akiva who perished
underway. Three
during this time (an indecandidates have had ample
scribable loss). The cause of
opportunity to answer questions as well as to convince the
their demise was their lack of
American public audience why
respect towards each other.
they are deserving of their vote.
In truth, they were good peoRabbi Moshe
ple, fine scholars and comWith so much at stake, it is
Schapiro
panions. But they couldnt
perhaps understandable that
Chabad Lubavitch
accept each others point of
some negativity should creep
of Hoboken,
view. They were adamant that
in. Although it is reprehensible,
Orthodox
their view was correct and
some of those campaigning for
would not tolerate dissent.
office will descend to any depths
To seek recognition is one
in an attempt to raise ones profile and fame at the expense of others. The
thing. To do so at the expense of others is
tragedy is that this behavior is not restricted
shameful and demeaning. To paraphrase a
to politicians. Most people wouldnt think
story I heard as a child: one can either stand
twice about saying, or implying, something
tall by pushing someone else to the ground,
derisive about another individual particuor by climbing onto a chair. I know which
larly if they feel that there is something to be
one I would choose. Lag Baomer emphasizes this concept. To be courteous, respectgained from it.
ful and kindhearted towards others in
This is the key lesson of Lag Baomer,
their presence and even in their absence.
which just took place on Thursday. While it
Fame will have to come from elsewhere.
is a day of tremendous joy and celebration,
BRIEF
Israeli Foreign Ministry falls short

of goals in BDS fight, government report says
A new report issued by the Israeli state
comptroller says that the countrys
Foreign Ministry is failing to achieve its
designated goals in the fight against
the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement.
Foreign Ministry projects meant to
improve Israels image in target communities around the world are lacking in their planning, management,
and implementation, and are failing
to achieve their designated goals, said
the report, issued by State Comptroller
Yosef Shapira.
While there have been some efforts
to combat the BDS movement, overall
the Foreign Ministry has a hard time
presenting achievements relating to
efforts to delegitimize Israel around
the world: in academic circles, culture,
trade unions, and the general public in
the target countries, the report said.
The report specified a number of
failed strategies, including those of
Israels relatively new Ministry of

Strategic Affairs and Public Relations,
which was tasked in 2013 with countering the BDS movement and has had
problems cooperating with the Foreign
Ministry.
As of 2015, the Ministry of Strategic
Affairs and Public Relations has still
not put into place its own operational
work plans and still lacks the operational advantages that are built into the
Foreign Ministry, including the professional knowledge and experience
required to manage a campaign effectively against BDS, the report said,
adding, Reports from missions abroad
have made it clear that the problems
in this area have steadily exacerbated.
The report also said that only about
8 percent of the Foreign Ministrys
annual budget is used for diplomatic
activity, including development aid,
conference, and hasbara (public diplomacy).
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A supplement to
The Jewish Standar

d Summer 2015
Arts & Culture

To Life
French-Jewish
filmmaker
Jean-Jacques
Zilberman looks
at three Holocaust
survivors
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
re there too many movies that

deal with the Holocaust?
Not according to French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Zilbermann,
who wants us to understand that
for Holocaust survivors, and for
their children and the childrens
children, the Shoah always remains
a part of their lives. And those of us
who have no immediate family connection that we known about just
as if it is necessary for us to feel as
if we personally have left Egypt on
Passover it is imperative for us to
connect with those who survived
the terror that was the Shoah.
There was a time in America
when no filmmaker dared tackle
the subject of the Holocaust. In fact,
there is no concentration camp
scene in an American film until we
watch American soldiers liberate a
camp in the 1958 film The Young
Lions. In France, where French
collaboration with the Nazis left an indelible scar for decades, the Shoah was a subject long avoided. Then, in the aftermath
of the 1968 upheavals in France, Marcel
Ophuls released his groundbreaking 1970
film The Sorrow and the Pity, shattering historical myths and engendering an
outpouring of soul-searching and Holocaust filmmaking. Now, more than a generation later, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann,
a French child of Holocaust survivors,
takes a look at survival and adjustment
to life after liberation.
With his latest film, To Life, Zilbermann has us join three Holocaust survivors as they try to move forward with life
while struggling with the trauma within
themselves.
Children of survivors have come forward these last decades with a powerful
outpouring of films about their parents
experiences and how those experiences
Above,
Lily, Rose,
and Hlne
reunite in
Jean-Jacque
Zilbermans
To Life.
Below,
the Shoah
survivors
relive the
memories.
affected their own lives. Dozens of documentaries have looked at testimony,

survivors return visits to Europe, their
trauma and psychological damage, and
their post-war survival. Some filmmakers, like Andrew Jacobs in his 2008 Four
Seasons Lodge, celebrated survivors and
the ways in which they were able to overcome the past and create a beautiful community for themselves. Other moviemakers, like Chantal Akerman, focused on
survivors displacement and their inability to come to terms with the present. Last
spring, Akerman completed No Home
Movie, a film about her mother, Natalie
Akerman, an Auschwitz survivor. Natalie
Akerman died soon after the movie was
completed; Chantal Akerman, suffering
from depression, committed suicide just
days before the films U.S. premiere. The
process of movie-making can be cathartic
or dispiriting.
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann already had

made Irene and Her Sisters, a documentary about his mother, an Auschwitz
survivor. After Irenes death, the filmmaker must have felt more comfortable
about sharing parts of his mothers life
than he could have while she was alive.
With la vie, being released here as
To Life, he has created a film narrative
about how, by reconnecting with fellow
inmates of the camps, his mother found
solace and comfort and a safe place from
which to move forward and enjoy life. In
the film, Irene becomes Hlne, and we
first see her on screen as she, with her
friends Lily and Rose, seeks a way to survive the January 1945 death march from
Auschwitz. Rose can barely walk and
Hlne and Lily believe that their friend
cannot survive.
We meet Hlne ( Julie Depardieu) six
months later, as she returns home and
tries to pull her life together, reconnecting with her former world as well as she
can and moving back into her apartment,
which clearly she had left in a hurry, years
before. Now, with the war over and no
family left, Hlne sets out to find Lily
( Johanna ter Steege), with whom she
had lost contact after being liberated.
They believe that Rose is dead. Fifteen
years and countless newspaper ads later,
Hlne and Lily are to be reunited. They
are to meet for a weekend get-together at a
French seaside resort, Berck-sur-Mer. The
surprise is that Rose (Suzanne Clment)
somehow has survived the war.
This is not your typical Holocaust film.
There are no scenes of Nazi terror. Rather,
it is a celebration of life. It is the story of
how three women, who met in the most
horrific of situations, became lifelong
friends and were able to help each other.
Their deep dark past remained embedded
within themselves, and with their coming
together in Berck they come face-to-face
with each others traumas. Their shared
experience and mutual support helps each
move forward in tackling and unleashing
her own personal demons.
Performances by the French Depardieu,
the Dutch ter Steege and the French Canadian Clment are strong, and director Zilbermann gives us the gift of a feel good
film about survivors of the Shoah. The film
opens today in New York.
Eric Goldman teaches cinema at Stern
College for Women. He is founder of Ergo
Media, a distributor of Jewish cinema.
Calendar
In New York
Sunday
JUNE 5
Israel parade: New
Chanie Apfelbaum
Dairy cooking demo:
Manhattans Jewish
Museum offers
George Gershwin
in conversation with
Jens Hoffmann on Tuesday, May
31, at 6:30 p.m. Hoffmann, the
museums deputy director of
exhibitions and public programs,
will talk to Gershwin, as
portrayed by pianist/playwright
Hershey Felder, who will perform
beloved Gershwin works. Fifth
Avenue and 92nd St. (212) 4233200 or TheJewishMuseum.org/
programs/families.
MAY
31
Chabad Womens Circle

of Teaneck offers a
pre-Shavuot cooking
demonstration, 8 p.m.
Food blogger Chanie
Apfelbaum of Busy in
Brooklyn and Shaina
Trapedo will lead
Order in the Court: A
Dramatization of the Har
Sinai Summons. Dairy
desserts and samplings.
513 Kenwood Place.
(201) 907-0686 or
rivkygoldin@gmail.com.
Thursday
JUNE 2
Israeli history in Jersey

City: Congregation
Bnai Jacob continues
its Lox n Learning
series with The State
of The State of Israel, a
presentation, including a
film, led by Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, 10 a.m. Bagels
and lox. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
bnaijacobjc.org.
Tuesday
MAY 31
Baseball lecture in
Tenafly: Baseball buff/
Dumont historian Dick
Burnon gives a lecture,
Baseball During
World War II, to the
Retired Executives
and Professionals
(REAP) group at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 10:45 a.m.
411 East Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900, ext. 235,
or info@jccotp.org.
Joshua Cohen
COURTESY NCJW
Global anti-Semitism:
Joshua Cohen, director
of the Anti-Defamation
Leagues New Jersey
regional office, is the
guest speaker at the
general meeting of
the Bergen County
section of the National
Council of Jewish
Women at the Shops of
Riverside in Hackensack,
1 p.m. The meeting,
including an interactive
audiovisual presentation
is at the lower level
conference center. Light
refreshments. www.
ncjwbcs.org.
Jeremy Dauber is the

scholar-in-residence at
the JCC of Fort Lee/
Congregation Gesher
Shalom. After Barbecue
Before Barechu at
6 p.m. and services at 7,
he will discuss Jewish
Comedy: A History in
Five Jokes. During
Shabbat services at
9 a.m., he will talk about
Jewish Storytelling
and Tikkun Olam: The
Case of Nachman of
Bratslav. After Kiddush
at 12:45 p.m., the topic
will be A Brief, Yet
Helpful, Guide to Jewish
Monsters; or Everything
You Wanted to Know
About Dybbuks but
were Afraid to Ask. Call
for dinner reservations.
1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735 or
geshershalom.org.
JUNE 5
JCC of Fort Lee/

Congregation Gesher
Shalom celebrates Yom
Yerushalayim with a
screening of Beneath
the Helmet: From High
School to the Home
Front, 6:45 p.m. 1449
Anderson Ave. (201) 9471735.
MAY 29
Shabbat in Fort Lee:
Sunday
Celebrate Israel
in Fort Lee: The
Sunday
Jeremy Dauber
Friday
JUNE 3
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Emanu-El
has its Blue Jeans &
BBQ congregational
dinner, 6 p.m.,
followed by services
at 7. 180 Piermont
Road. Reservations,
(201) 750-9997.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israel holds a barbecue,
6:30 p.m., followed
by services under the
stars. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Cantorial music in
Wayne: Temple Beth
Tikvah holds a jubilee
concert for Cantor
Charles Romalis, 4 p.m.,
featuring the New
Jersey Cantors Concert
Ensemble, the Temple
Beth Tikvah Choir, and
surprise guests. The
American Conference of
Cantors will honor Cantor
Romalis for serving as
the shuls cantor for 50
years. Reception follows.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Monday
JUNE 6
Book discussion: The
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
holds its Book of the
Lunch program with a
discussion by Marlene
Markoff on Trudi Alexys
book, The Mezuzah in
the Madonnas Foot,
noon. Lunch served.
10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Yorks Celebrate Israel

Parade, the worlds
largest public gathering
honoring the State of
Israel, marches up Fifth
Avenue from 57th to 74th
streets, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Cast members from the
Broadway production
of Fiddler on the Roof
will perform songs from
the musical. Check
local synagogues, JCCs,
and organizations for

participation information.
Go to celebrateisraelny.
org or (212) 983-4800.
Singles
Sunday
JUNE 5
Seniors meet in
Pomona: Singles 65+
of the JCC Rockland
meets for lunch at Ocean
Empire, noon. 340
Route 202, Pomona, N.Y.
Individual checks. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

to sing in Englewood
Mary Chapin Carpenter performs with special guest
Rose Cousins at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in
Englewood on Tuesday, June 28, at 8 p.m.
Over the course of her career, Carpenter has
recorded 14 albums and sold more than 14 million
records. With hits like Passionate Kisses and He
Thinks Hell Keep Her, she has been nominated for
15 Grammy Awards and won five of them; shes also
won two CMA awards and been given two Academy of
Country Music awards for her vocals. She is a member
of the Nashville Sonwriters Hall of Fame.
Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or at
the box office, (201) 227-1030.
Musicians of all ages

welcome to tryouts
The JCC Thurnauer School of Music invites musicians
from the tristate area to its spring ensemble auditions
on Sunday, June 5, for the upcoming school year. Auditions will be held for participation in chamber music
ensembles, the String Camerata and Thurnauer Symphony Orchestra, the TeenTown Jazz Big Band, and
the Young Peoples Chorus @ Thurnauer.
We are very excited for our 33rd season at the
JCC Thurnauer School of Music, its founding director, Dorothy Kaplan Roffman, said. We invite musicians of all ages and abilities to share their talents
with us, and see how they can grow and thrive at the
music school under the guidance of our outstanding
faculty.
Thurnauer ensembles rehearse weekly and are
led by skilled and dedicated teachers. Each ensemble performs several times throughout the year and
has unique opportunities, including performing with
renowned guest artists such as violinist Joshua Bell,
New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert,
legendary jazz guitarist Larry Coryell, jazz artist and
former New York Yankee Bernie Williams, and the
artistic director and founder of the Young Peoples
Chorus, Francisco J. Nez
Auditions are by appointment only. To schedule
one, call (201) 569-7900, ext. 375, or email rsearles@
jccotp.org. Alternate dates or video auditions may be
arranged if you are unable to attend on June 5. The JCC
Thurnauer School of Musics year begins on Sunday,
September 25.
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TORAH GREATS
BY YONI GLATT, KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: CHALLENGING
Director Yvan Attal, right, with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Dany Boon
during the filming of The Jews
in Paris.
COURTESY OF WILD BUNCH PRODUCTIONS
FIRST PERSON
French Jews react to first

screening of buzzy, irreverent
comedy on anti-Semitism
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
Across
1. Miss Universe winner Mor or dancer Schenfeld
5. She can show you any verse in the bible
9. As you teach you learn, e.g.
14. Barbras Funny Girl co-star
15. Rebbi Nachmans land
16. Sin city
17. Like Kerri Strug
18. Tense of the Torah
19. Right wing party that merged with Likud
20. Founder of Bais Yaakov
23. Abbis Broad City comic partner
24. Saul feels it for David, at times
25. Kvetch
27. Former team of Farmar
28. Org. where one might learn Torah and have
a dip
31. With 39-Across, Author of the New
Studies... parsha series
34. Einstein had a good one or two
36. Written, e.g.
38. Sacha Baron Cohen Show
39. See 31-Across
42. Other first name for Rabbi Moshe Sofer
45. Sharon Osbourne, ___ Levy
46. Hashomer ___ anochi?
50. Historic Judge
52. Hellenistic or Hasmonean
54. Make like manna after a day (other than
Shabbat)
55. Many preparing for a yr. in Israel
56. McGraw who was a Met with Art Shamsky
58. A Lannister on Weisss Game of Thrones
60. Significant 19th Century chasidic leader
(and miracle worker, according to some)
65. Jonathan showcased it
66. Show with Rachel Berry
67. Like Jonah, at times
68. Ideal hole for Morgan Pressel or Dinah Shore
69. Scripture says its guarded by two cherubs
70. He played Malph on Happy Day
71. Namesakes of a Salinger girl
72. Some characters in An American Tail
73. Chip in for an Adelson establishment?
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 47.
Down
1. Moses in Egypt composer
2. Like a shish kabob
3. Make like Kohelet in Ecclesiastes
4. Nazi race
5. Eats at a seder
6. Apple not used by Orthodox jews on Rosh
Hashana
7. His children were notable Torah scholars
8. Future Einstein resident
9. Rav who was the head of the Sura Academy
10. ...and plentifully rewarded the proud ___
(Psalms 31:23)
11. Gland that might kick into gear on a Segens
mission
12. Kosher kissing aquarium fish (generally not
eaten)
13. MDA volunteer
21. Uris novel, with The
22. One requiring more tzedakah
26. Possible order from Kagan
29. The Negevs is often dry
30. Many a Mercedes in Israel
32. Common quadruped in Israel
33. Singer Ofra
35. Range for Dianna Agron
37. Made like Israel in 1948
40. Where a Hebrew slave might have shown
his devotion to his master?
41. Israel, compared to most other Middle East
countries
42. Alts. to Israel Bonds
43. Wouk and Melville
44. Rebellious son in Samuel II
47. Color of the flag Rahab hung outside her inn
48. Most inviting Shabbat house
49. Say Kol Nidre, say
51. Feeling on Tisha BAv
53. It includes the Ziegler Sch. of Rabbinic
Studies
57. Meir who taught at a Folks Schule
59. Israeli earth
61. Actress Skye
62. Rap Dr. and Smiths role in Weintraubs The
Karate Kid
63. Everybody gonna move their ___ (Kiss)
64. Bruce and Kravitz, for short
65. Contend, like Yuri Foreman
PARIS When the French-Jewish film

director Yvan Attal titled his muchhyped comedy about anti-Semitism
They Are Everywhere, he was referring to how some anti-Semites feel
about Jews, and vice versa.
But the French-language title applies
in another way, too: Though the film
has not yet been released, Attal and the
star-studded cast have been all over the
French media, which are abuzz over
the irreverent take on a problem thats
seen by some, at least as a scourge
of French society.
The Jews the English title for
the film stars Attal, an Israel-born
actor-director who grew up in Paris,
and his life partner, actor-singer Charlotte Gainsbourg. The mere fact of the
films existence has been the subject of
dozens of news articles by major publications in recent weeks, including Le
Figaro, Paris Match, and the Agence
France-Presse.
The cast including famed comedians in France like Dany Boon, who is
Jewish, and Benoit Poelvoorde have
appeared on several prime-time talk
shows.
Given the movies high profile, I
could hardly believe my luck when
CRIF, the umbrella group of French
Jewish communities, invited me to
a pre-premiere of the film followed
by a Q&A with Attal. When I saw it, it
had not yet been screened before any
audience.
In the movie, Attal attempts to
deconstruct or spoof major antiSemitic myths, such as Jews killed
Jesus, Jews have money, and Jews
play up the Holocaust. Each stereotype provides the theme for a short
cinematic tale. The seemingly disparate stories are connected by a narration by Attal, who portrays himself in
therapy discussing his obsession with
Jews and anti-Semites.
The security outside the cinema
rented for the May 17 screening was
tight. Our bags were inspected at the
entrance; some people were patted down and questioned. A casually
dressed Jewish man in his 50s the
main age group represented swore to
the guard he wasnt smuggling in any
homemade popcorn before opening
his bag with a smile.
Such security has become commonplace at Jewish events; its now
a standard precaution. Since 2012, 12
people have been murdered in jihadist attacks on Jewish targets in France
and Belgium. Hundreds of nonfatal violent hate crimes against Jews have been
recorded in Paris since that year, when
an Islamist killed three children and a
rabbi at a school in Toulouse.
It was the school tragedy that indirectly inspired the movie, Attal said at
the post-screening Q&A.
I was in a taxi not long after Toulouse, listening to the news about the
arrest of some Islamist ring, when
the taxi driver said, one of these days
they will attack a school. When Attal
reminded the driver that they already
have, he shrugged and said, yeah,
youre right.
The exchange inspired Attal to make
a film for non-Jews that he said would
draw attention to the anti-Semitic
myths that serve to legitimize attacks
on Jews on one hand and desensitize
some observers to the true horror of
these attacks on the other hand.
The first story in the movie is about
SEE FRENCH JEWS PAGE 44
Jewish World
French Jews
perceived indifference of French society

to the killings in Toulouse, compared to
a nationalist politician whose ambitious
the national mobilization that followed
husband discovers hes Jewish. He uses
the murder of Charlie Hebdo staffers in
the secret to blackmail his wife into
2015.
feigning cancer and thereby replaces her
The really courageous act, though, was
at the partys helm. Styled after Frances
showing the film to a bunch of Jews, Attal
far-right politician Marine Le Pen, the
said. He also urged the crowd to keep
character stares at her own reflecin mind that they ultimately are not the
tion, looking defeated. Her haircut and
intended audience.
pajamas are evocative of an Auschwitz
I know you: Two Jews, three opinions,
prisoner.
and I just know youll slam me for this
Another controversial scene involves
or that right after you see it, said Attal,
a womanizing Mossad agent who is sent
who wore a T-shirt and chewed gum as
back in time to kill baby Jesus. He ends
he spoke. Honestly, this right here is my
up instead falling for the biblical Mary,
worst fear.
who is depicted as the town floozy and a
His concerns were just partly justified.
cheat. Attal said he removed a sex scene
While largely positive, some viewers said
between the agent and Mary from the
they feared his comedy was too highbrow and that its nuances would be lost
final edit to avoid offense to Christians.
on viewers in the suburbs (read: MusThe scenes and dialogues are snappy,
lims), who would take the film as affirmcontaining some slapstick along with provocative statements about the Holocaust,
ing the very stereotypes it cleverly seeks
French politics, and Christianity.
to destroy. Another remarked that those
The audience seemed to enjoy the film
same viewers are more likely to watch
at the CRIF screening. Viewers particuAmerican action films as an escape from
larly liked Attals narration sequences.
the grinding reality of life as second-class
In the deeply personal monologues It
citizens in Frances violent ghettos.
would be dishonest to hide behind some
Attal conceded that he believes the film
character, hes pretty much me, he told
probably will not reform hardened antithe crowd Attal, 51, talks about being a
Semites but might raise question marks
Jewish filmmaker who is obsessed with
among the undecided.
Jews and anti-Semitism, and who is marAnother critic said that while the film
ried to a woman whose father is Jewish
addresses anti-Semitism by the far right,
(the legendary Serge Gainsbourg).
he avoided the most difficult problem
The crowd roared at Attals Jewish
right now: Muslim anti-Semitism.
jokes: I get why people hate us rude SepBut the absence of Muslims from the
hardic Jews, but the poor Ashkenazis?
film was a deliberate omission, Attal said.
Theyre practically goyim! They nodded
The inclusion, he said, wouldve meant
pensively at some of Attals more serious
being labeled Islamophobic, backfiring,
musings, including about his connection
and exposing us to attack.
to his Algeria-born Orthodox parents,
We didnt want to fall into clichs
despite his linguistic, religious, and culwhile trying to debunk them. You have
tural disconnect from their reality.
to walk a fine line between provoking
Several viewers commended Attals
thought in your audience and alienating
courage in making the film, despite prothem.
ducers reluctance to fund it. There was
And yet, Attal said, he tried to show in
pressure as well from some distributors,
the film that attacks on Israel and by
asking him to broaden the films scope to
extension, its people and supporters
include other types of racism an underare at least partly motivated by hatred of
standable instinct in a country with a
Jews. He drives the point home at the end
strong universalist ethos.
of the film.
It wasnt easy, Attal confirmed.
In the concluding story, France votes
Its a problem seen as too sensitive,
to become a Jewish state, following a
people dont want to talk about it, he
referendum led by an unpopular president who is desperate to revive the
said of anti-Semitism. Its a sentiment
economy. (He figures
France will get rich by
doing so because all
Jews are rich.)
But all does not go
as planned. The films
shocking final shot is
a birds-eye view of
Paris. An oscillating
siren blasts from the
speakers, and a large
surface-to-surface missile descends near the
Eiffel Tower in slow
Yvan Attal, right, and Gilles Lellouche during filming
motion.
of The
Jews
in Israel
in critical
2014. of the

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Obituaries
Walter Cohn
Walter Cohn, 92, of Cedar

Crest Village, formerly of
Saddle Brook and Wyckoff, died May 20.
Born in Germany, he
emigrated to the U.S.,
and served his country in
World War II.
Predeceased by his
wife, Sonja, he is survived by his children,
Jeffrey, Arlene, and
Randy (Lucie); grandchildren, Rebecca Zipp
(Daniel), Melanie Davidson, Daniel, Mason, and
Michael Cohn, and two
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent
to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum,
Washington, D.C. Arrangements were by Robert
Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Arthur Lessack
Arthur J. Lessack, 92, of

Saddle Brook, died May 19.
He served as a pilot in
the Army Air Force during
World War II and was a
self-employed real estate
broker and accountant
before retiring. He was
a member of American
Legion Post #170 and The
Seniors, both in Rochelle
Park.
He is survived by his wife
of 47 years, Rosemary, children, Michael (Larisa) and
Fran Greenwood (Mark);
seven grandchildren, and
four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Robert Nathans
Robert Marc Nathans, 60,

of Florida, died April 27.
A professional artist,
he studied painting and
drawing and earned a
masters degree in fine

arts from the University of
South Florida in Tampa.
He worked with the Chautauqua Institute, the Broward Art Guild, and the
Art and Culture Center of
Hollywood, Fla. He served
as an adjunct professor
for Broward Community
College, and was involved
with the Stonewall Library
in Fort Lauderdale.
Predeceased by his
mother, Rita, ne Kitzis,
and a brother, David, he
is survived by his father,
Jerome Jerry; siblings,
Sari Nathans McIntyre and
William (Claudia); a niece,
Joanna Rita Opel, and a
nephew, David Nathans.
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Charles Roman
Charles Martin Roman, 89,

of Teaneck, died May 10.
GeorGe Starkman
George Starkman 98, of Englewood, and
formerly of North Bergen, died May 18.
Born in Kalisz, Poland, he was the grandson
of HaRav Hagaon, Yosef Mayer Starkman,
and survived many Nazi concentration camps
and death camps including Guntkriechen,
Matthausen, and Maidanek. He and
his brother escaped from a transport to
Treblinka by jumping from the train and
trudging through snow at night to his home
town where he was later recaptured.
He was liberated by the American forces in
1945 and contended with pleurisy, gangrene,
and severe malnourishment. Tenacious
and possessing a strong will to survive, he
reconstituted his life soon after arriving in
New York on August 31, 1946 under the
sponsorship of his uncle Jack Heber of West
New York. He married another Holocaust
survivor, Jean (Genia) Sztuzaft and started
a successful embroidery manufacturing
business. Mr. Starkman was a member of
Temple Beth El in North Bergen, and more
recently Congregation Ahavath Torah in
Englewood.
As his ultimate victory over the Nazis:
he is survived by his three children: Jay,
of Atlanta, Georgia; Frances (Greenfest),
of Teaneck; and Steven of Englewood,
twelve grandchildren, and nineteen great
grandchildren.
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A Holocaust survivor, he
was a veteran of the
Korean War.
He is survived by his
wife, Inge, daughter, Carol
Cohen (Charles), and
grandchildren, Matthew
and Erica.
Contributions can be
sent to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., or the Friends
and Alumni of OSE-USA,
Livingston. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and
Musicant Funeral Directors
in Hackensack.
Theodore Russak
Theodore Russak, 74,

of Paramus, formerly of
Wayne, died May 17.
He is survived by his
wife of 45 years, Carol,
ne Levin, a son, Bradley (Nicole); a sister,
Barbara Simowitz, and a
granddaughter.
Robert Schoems Menorah
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Audrey Brodsky
Audrey Brodsky, formerly of East Northport
and Port Jefferson, NY was born on May 11,
1947 and passed away on May 21, 2016.
Loving mother of Amy Gordon (Garry),
Jill Brodsky, and Jason Brodsky (Cheryl).
Grandmother of Daniel, Emma, Zachary,
Jacob, Chloe, and Dana.
Services were held on Tuesday, May 24,
2016 at Bernheim Apter Kreitzman Suburban
Funeral Chapel, 68 Old Short Hills Road,
Livingston, NJ. Interment followed at
Wellwood Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY.
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funeral home at (973) 422-0600.
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Ruth (hochheimeR)
hoffman
Ruth (Hochheimer) Hoffman departed us
on May 19, 2016 surrounded by her friends
and family at her California home. She was
a longtime resident of Cliffside Park, New
Jersey and an active member of Temple Israel
of the Palisades where she married Paul Leo
Hoffman in 1958. We will remember her for
her unwavering love and commitment to her
family and friends. She had an incredible sense
of humor and loved to laugh, smile, and tell
and listen to jokes. She loved to travel and
continued her love and interest in biology
(her college major) and plants throughout
her life. She was a graduate of City College in
New York City. She was predeceased by her
parents Fred and Cecilia Hochheimer and her
husband Paul. She is survived by her children,
Laura (Hoffman) Davis, Michael and David
Hoffman, five grandchildren, and Shlomo
Ziv, her significant other. Contributions in her
memory can be sent to the Jewish National
Fund or The Elizabeth Hospice Foundation.
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Enjoy Pennsylvania Amish Country
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discount coupons of $20 to those senior
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than 600 gathered at MetLife Stadium last Wednesday
to celebrate 75 years of excellence at the Jewish Educational Center.
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inaugural class of only 12 students to a flourishing school
of three divisions the Yeshiva of Elizabeth, Rav Teitz
Mesivta Academy and Bruriah High School that educate nearly 900 students.
Attendees experienced everything from nostalgia to
excitement as they witnessed the manner in which JEC
students are empowered to achieve outstanding success
academically, spiritually, socially and personally.
Parents, faculty, students, supporters, and alumni
spanning the decades, came out to pay tribute to Rav
Teitz, and his son, the current dean, Rav Elazar Mayer
Teitz, under whose tutelage the school has continued
to flourish, and to celebrate the decades of leadership,
achievement and prominence that the institution has
achieved in New Jersey and beyond.
Jewish Education is really the best way to ensure a
Jewish future, to make sure our children and generations to come receive Torah education, said JEC alumnus Mark Wilf. And the JEC represents the best of those
values. We will do whatever we can to support that the
JEC remains strong and vibrant and continues to educate hundreds of Jewish young men and women. Were
very proud of our connection to the JEC and we wish it
well for generations to come.
The theme of the evening, Celebrate the Past and
Embrace the Future, was woven through each presentation. Guests were greeted by a wall of photos old black
and whites interspersed with current scenes depicting
the JECs years of excellence in Torah, general education, staunch commitment to Israel the land, the people and the state and social/communal responsibility.
As they moved through the venue toward the a
dinner buffet, guests encountered opportunities for
engagement, including a golf tournament pavilion for
the schools upcoming first annual golf outing on July 11;
a promotional table for the schools annual PTA Walkathon & Family Fun Day, which took place this past Sunday; a red carpeted photo booth and video interview
area reminiscent of an Academy Awards pre-show; an
alumni network welcome area; and selections from the
2016 Bruriah Holocaust Museum, created completely by
11th grade students.
Also, three separate interactive STEM displays by the
three divisions, which included stimulating features,
including multiple 3-D printers that produced commemorative 75th anniversary logo keychains for guests,
do-it-yourself production of mini-flashlights, and a JEC
version of the popular Are You Smarter Than a 5th
Grader? television game.
TV monitors displayed a photographic slideshow of
the history of the JEC and journal advertisers could see
their tribute and ads displayed prominently on the stadiums jumbotrons overlooking the playing field.
The evening paid tribute to the life and legacy of Rav
Teitz, who dared to dream that a Torah community
could take root in the small town of Elizabeth.
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rendition of My Yiddishe Mama as a
tribute to the millions of mothers who
perished in the Holocaust.
The final award of the evening was
conferred upon the Early Childhood divisions coordinator, Morah Lisa Bond, and
her faculty. Under her leadership, the EC
department has grown to capacity with a
waiting list for the past several years. Her
staff adapts to new technology and programs and regularly takes advantage of
professional development opportunities
offered by the JEC.
The evenings MC, Brian Ness, who is
a parent of students in the various JEC
divisions, an active member of the JECs
board of trustees, and a partner in PwC,
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Because of your commitment, your
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Holocaust survivors who came to the

area as orphans and began to rebuild
their lives, sent their children to the JEC,
many on full scholarships. This eminent
group became known as The Builders,
who quite literally supported the development of the school as it grew to what
it is today.
The evenings guest of honor was Dr.
Steven Singfer, the son of survivors and a
distinguished alumnus from RTMAs Class
of 1973. Dr. Singfer is serving his second
term as president of the JECs Board of
Trustees and is known for his service to
the JEC and greater Jewish community.
Each year the JEC awards a Lev Tov
recognition, and this year, Edward and
Cecile Mosberg were recipients. Survivors of the Holocaust and internationallyprominent philanthropists, the Mosbergs
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