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knows when to fold them

Nazi leaders
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Luftwaffe commander, and
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Sadly for you, the
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a pair of Hitlers socks,
dresses owned by his
longtime companion
Eva Braun, and a
case that purportedly held the cyanide capsule Goering used to kill himself
before he was due to be
hanged in 1946 recently was sold to
an anonymous buyer from Argentina
by Munichs Hermann Historica. The
auction, according to the house, was an
opportunity to acquire historical documents for a better understanding of the

past. Indeed,
how can you
hope to comprehend the complexities of history without
a Nazi leaders unmentionables?
Predictably, some people were not happy. The
president of Munichs Jewish community, Charlotte
Knobloch, suggested that
the auction was evidence of
a very questionable use of our
history that is not only tasteless,
but also dangerous.
Dieter Reiter, Munichs mayor,
aimed for a middle ground, insisting
that Hermann Historica ensure that the
auctioned objects werent abused for
the glorification of Nazism which,
frankly, seems like an impossible thing
to know. What someone does with his
underwear is none of our business.
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Using money from his own pocket
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people already have registered on the

website for more information.

We are finalizing the prototype
and a manufacturing plan, and we are
in negotiations with major appliance
manufacturers around the world. We
are planning to partner with one of
them, Rozov says.
FoldiMate Family, expected to retail
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the clean laundry items clipped to
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A neat, professional-looking fold
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Rozov says.
The appliance is approximately
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FoldiMate is bound to face some
competition. A Japanese company is
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product, however, will be as big as a
refrigerator and will cost as much as
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Noshes

He even said, I dont understand. When I was

growing up, everybody said Merry Christmas.
Even my Jews would say Merry Christmas.
Former Congresswoman Michele Bachman (R-Minn.), on right-wing radio
host Jan Markells show, quoting from a conversation shed had about the
War on Christmas with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

POLITICOS BEWARE!

Seth Meyers wit

will burst
your bubble
The Republican convention runs though
the evening of
Thursday, July 21. The
Democratic convention
begins on Monday, the
25th, and runs through
Thursday, July 28. Seth
Meyers, 43, who replaced
Jimmy Fallon as the host
of The Late Show on
NBC in February 2014,
really has emerged in
2016 as a topnotch
political commentator in
the mode of JON
STEWART. He wields a
rapier-like wit as he
makes fun of political
figures or explains
political-related issues.
As you might expect,
Donald Trump is a
frequent target. Yes, he
views things from a
liberal bent. But that
does not diminish the
fact that he is objectively
funny and smart. So it
isnt much of a surprise
that Meyers is doing a
Late Night show that
will air live right after the
final night of the Republican convention (and
replay on NBC news
website and probably on
YouTube).
Meyers, whose paternal grandfather was Jewish, doesnt define himself as Jewish, but I kind
of think that the tribe is
sort of absorbing him.
In 2013, he married his
longtime girlfriend, attorney ALEXI ASHE, now
33, before a rabbi. They

had a son in 2015. Ashes

mother, JOAN, is the
daughter of Holocaust
survivors. Her father,
TOM, is a Jew-by-choice
who spoke to famous
chef JOAN NATHAN in
2010 about how he and
his wife cook together
on holidays: Since I
am a convert, Tom said,
each holiday brings back
memories of when I was
in my mid-20s and chose
Judaism. They are definitely my holidays too,
and I look forward to the
foods, the smells, and the
traditions. The Jewish
palate is more eclectic
than what I grew up with
as a young Protestant
boy in Queens. Jews
have the whole world,
from Middle Eastern to
Asian foods.
Likewise, Bill Maher is
doing special HBO coverage of the conventions
every night during the
two conventions. Mahers
mother was Jewish and
his father was Catholic.
He was raised Catholic
until he was about 12,
when his father left the
church. He is now a famous atheist. Of course,
many Jewish journalists
working for ABC, NBC,
CBS, and CNN will get
airtime. Biggies include:
CHUCK TODD, 44, of
NBC; JULIANNA GOLDMAN, 35, of CBS (shes
a Jewish day school
and Jewish high school
grad); NATE SILVER, 38,

Chuck Todd

Nate Silver

Dana Bash

Wolf Blitzer

the master pollster who

is also a special ABC
correspondent; and
over at CNN DANA
BASH, 45, JAKE TAPPER, 47, WOLF BLITZER,
68, GLORIA BORGER,
63, JOHN KING, 52, and
DAVID AXELROD, 61, a
commentator who was
President Obamas 2008
and 2012 campaign manager. (Replay on HBO
and probably YouTube.)
By the way, there is an
interesting back-story involving many CNN journalists a large number
of conversions to Judaism in their immediate
families. I am in a bit of a
Catch-22 when I mention conversions. On one
hand, a few readers always write to tell me that
Judaism severely frowns

on identifying converts
as such, lest they be considered less than people
who are born Jewish.
On the other hand; how
else to inform the Jewish
community that converts
are a big and growing
part of the community
including the famous?
So, I will note, just this
time, that Tappers mother and wife are Jews by
choice. As is John King,
who converted to Judaism before his short-lived
marriage to Dana Bash
(they had a child) and
I just learned that Borgers son, financier EVAN
MORGAN, 31, wed Mary
Anne Huntsman, also 31,
last year before a rabbi.
The Washington Post
2015 account of their
courtship mentioned

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RACHEL WOOD, 28), who live in a remote ancient forest, struggle to survive in an isolated country house after
a massive continent-wide power outage. Discovering the
world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse and
informed only by rumor, the sisters fight intruders, disease, loneliness, and starvation.
The newest entry in the Star Trek reboot film series,
Star Trek Beyond, is an emotion-laden event in that
ANTON YELCHIN, who co-stars as Ensign Chekov, died
tragically on June 19. He was 27.
N.B.

that the bride planned to

convert to Judaism after
the wedding. Huntsman,
who was raised Mormon,
is the daughter of former
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who ran for the

GOP nomination in 2012.

Finally, the daughter of
CNN commentator David
Gergen, Dr. KATHERINE
BARNETT, is a convert to
Orthodox Judaism.
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Drawing on their Jewish heritage
Dr. Maya Katz explores the roots of Soviet animation
LARRY YUDELSON

hen we think about

Soviet Jews or any citizens of greater Russia
under the Communist
regime our imaginings tend to be in
black and white. Grey photos of refuseniks; black and white photos of Moscow
under gray skies.
Dr. Maya Balakirsky Katz of Teaneck
tells a different story. She left Russia
when she was 5, in 1979. She took her
favorite books with her when her family moved to Italy and then to America,
brightly colored books with pictures of
cartoon animals she had watched on
Soviet television.
Years passed. Dr. Katz went to Touro
College, earned a doctorate in art history at Bryn Mawr, and now is an assistant professor in that field at Touro University. In a graduate course she teaches
on Jews and media, a student introduced
her to a 1979 animated Soviet film, Tale
of Tales, directed by Yuri Norstein.
The film, a beautiful, dense, allegorical
29-minute wordless story about a wolf,
has been voted in more than one competition as the best animated film ever.
The film captivated Dr. Katz.
I kept watching it for several months,
she said. I probably watched it 50 times
before I had an opinion I could write
down about it.
Dr. Katz was struck by the spiritual
and even religious content of the film. I
couldnt believe that such a religious film,
by a director who was openly Jewish, was

being shown in the Soviet Union in 1979,

she said.
I had totally bought into the image of
Soviet Jews I adopted in America. It was
totally different than the images Yuri Norstein presented on the screen as a very
proud, spiritual person.
How had Mr. Norstein come to make
the film, she wondered. And what were
the implications of his Jewishness for
understanding Jews in the Soviet Union?
The search for answers to these questions propelled Dr. Katz on an investigation. The result is her new book, Drawing The Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden
Age of Soviet Animation, published last
month by Rutgers University Press. The
story of Tale of Tales doesnt come
until the end of the book, which begins at
the founding of Soyuzmultfilm, the Moscow animation studio that was the countrys leading source of cartoons for three
generations of Soviet children.
In order to understand why Norstein
went into animation, I had to keep moving back, Dr. Katz said.
She found herself exploring the early
lives of the first Soviet animators. In the
aftermath of the Communist Revolution,
anti-Semitism was officially against government policy. Jews were able to enroll
in the art institutes that had excluded
them before the revolution but when
they graduated, they couldnt get jobs
as fine artists. But the popular new
medium of animation beckoned, and
they embraced it.
They believed they would revolutionize
the world by telling stories, Dr. Katz said.

Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka the bear were popular characters in Soviet
childrens films.
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Dr. Maya Balakirsky Katz

As Dr. Katz discovered, the field of animation became a center for Jews. They
were disproportionately represented in
Soyuzmultfilm, they were very aware of
their status as Jews, and this particularly surprised Dr. Katz they used their
creative freedom to express their experiences as Jews.
Looking through the book, it becomes
evident that Soviet animation, like New
York comic books and Hollywood films,
was a product of Jewish sensibilities and
experiences even if the resulting art
couldnt use the word Jew.
Who would have thought it was the
Soviets who first animated the Holocaust? Not only during the war but even
after the war. Using animal characters,
Dr. Katz said.
This was not the first time that Soviet
animation dealt with politics and history.
In 1932, a Soviet film attacked American
racism, she said. This was in contrast to
the attitude at Walt Disney studios, which
in 1933 had portrayed the Big Bad Wolf
in The Three Little Pigs as a Yiddishaccented Jewish peddler.
Jewish characters continue to appear
in Soviet animation. And then there were
the characters that hinted strongly of
having been modeled after Jews.
In the 1969 first episode of the popular Crocodile Gena series, an orange
bear named Cheburashka is delivered
to a greengrocer in an orange crate that
looks remarkably like those used for Jaffa
oranges. Dr. Katz writes that the bears
association with oranges hints at his
unknown roots, an idea that would have
resonated with Cheburashkas puppet
maker, Leonid Shvartsman, who changed
his own name to Israel after Israels
astounding victory in the Six-Day War.
In researching her book, Dr. Katz drew
on studies of the individual artists; on

their diaries, in some cases, and on

the Soviet Unions penchant for meticulous record-keeping. The Soviets
were amazing at keeping student and
employee paperwork. There are files
on all the students who went to the fine
arts academies. There are files on all the
employees.
I was lucky to get actual letters and
publications from the art graduates,
these heartfelt calls that theyre going to
change the world.
Dr. Katz found that idealism drove
Mr. Norsteins art. Hes a very spiritual
person, she said. He was very much a
patriot. The man does not have a cynical
bone in his body, she said.

Soviet animation,
like New York
comic books and
Hollywood films,
was a product
of Jewish
sensibilities and
experiences.
Dr. Katz interviewed Mr. Norstein for
the book; Mr. Norstein, 75, still is working
as an animator.
He really believed that as a Soviet
artist he could change the world, Dr.
Katz said. People think of the Jews
as anti-Soviet. It wasnt that way. A lot
of Jews were involved in creating the
Soviet image. He was the real thing. He
believed in it, even though I cant help
raising an eyebrow as an American exSoviet Jew.
Tale of Tales has no dialogue, just
a musical soundtrack. The occasional
songs with lyrics are helpfully subtitled
on the version on YouTube. Its beautiful to watch, Dr. Katz said. Things start

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A scene from Tale of Tales.

coming together with each additional viewing. I couldnt

help but be taken in by it.
In his words, its about all people at all times. Its
about the notion of eternity, she said. There is a wolf,
and there is the passage of seasons, and there is a poet.
There is also war depicted not with graphic violence,

speak about it like it was the golden years of their Jewish

but in the disappearance of young men and their subsequent death notices.
life, and it was right in the middle of the war. One guy
Mr. Norstein was born in 1941 to a family evacuated
said, I came alive in 1943. It sounds crazy.
from Moscow during the war.
Drawing the Iron Curtain is the second book Dr. Katz
His childhood was spent under the shadow of instituwrote. The first was The Visual Culture of Chabad. She
tional anti-Semitism, Dr. Katz said.
also edited a volume, Revising Dreyfus.
Research for the book also involved repeated viewings
The topics seem disparate. But she sees them as one
of Soviet cartoons many of which are on YouTube.
single path, of exploring how groups use media and the
Dr. Katzs four children eagerly joined in.
role it plays in religion.
You just cant help but fall in love with some of the
I think of art history as my methodology and Jewish
best ones, she said. The kids really do enjoy it, and
studies as my field of study, she said.
theyre willing to watch again
and again which I cant get
my husband to do.
Though the book is finished, Dr. Katz is continuing
to research and write about
Soviet animation. Her latest
study actually might make
the basis for an animated film,
or at least a graphic novel, in
its own right. It concerns the
period during World War
II when the animation studio was evacuated to central
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Bukharian Jewish community
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This was the most multicultural center in all of Soviet
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Learning in Fort Lee

Historian/Frisch teacher to explore diverse topics in shul lecture series
LOIS GOLDRICH

ts interesting the way things, and

people, come full circle. You leave,
and then you come back.
Eitan Kastner of Teaneck is a case
in point. A 2003 graduate of the Frisch
School, for the last four years Mr. Kastner
has been a member of that schools history
department.
In addition, Mr. Kastner who also is
faculty adviser for Frischs Model UN and
for The Struggle, the school newspaper
soon will deliver a series of lectures at
the JCC of Fort Lee/ Congregation Gesher
Shalom, where he has a family connection. My grandfather was the president in
1972 my name is on the Tree of Life, Mr.
Kastner said, adding that his father went
there most of his life and was a student at
its religious school.
A graduate of Yeshiva University, Mr.
Kastner earned his MA at the University of
Chicago, focusing primarily on American
religious history. He shares that knowledge
on a regular basis, teaching history and art
history at Frisch and working as a licensed
New York City tour guide, leading excursions with Jewish and historical themes at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In delivering talks on historical topics,
Mr. Kastner said, he takes two approaches.
The first posits that heres something you
dont know about that youll find interesting. The second suggests that you may
know a little bit about it, but Ill take it in
a direction you havent thought of. Generally, he said, people are very receptive.
In choosing topics for his four Fort Lee
presentations, Mr. Kastner saw the talks as
divided into two separate units. The first
lecture July 26 is based on the contents
of my masters thesis, he said. It stands
by itself. Called Allies or Apocalyptics?
Christian Zionists and Israel Advocacy,

Eitan Kastner

the talk will explore the religious reasons

why conservative Christians advocate for
Israel and will, he said, answer the question, Is their Zionism good or bad for
Israel?
It will have two smaller lectures in
one, he continued. First, he will look at
conservative Christians, or evangelicals, in
general, providing a fuller picture of who
they are. In the second half, Ill talk specifically about what it is in their religion that
makes them want a Jewish state. How does
it connect to their theology? How does
their theology impact the kinds of things
they advocate for?
He explained that a big part of this
kind of Christianity is biblical literalism,
a specific way of reading the Bible, dating
back to the Protestant Reformation in the
1500s. He will, he said, look at where
they get these ideas from and how they are
interpreting the Bible in ways that other
Christians do not.

Who: The JCC of Fort Lee & CSI Scholar Fund

What: Presents visiting scholar Eitan Kastner
When: On Tuesdays, July 26, August 2, 9, and 23 at 1 p.m.; following refreshments at 12:30.
Where: JCC of Fort Lee, 1449 Anderson Avenue
For more information: Call (201) 947-1735

Acknowledging that the average Jew

might be suspicious of these groups
because of the worry that the Christians
might try outreach, Mr. Kastner said that
most conservative Christians are smart
enough to know that they wouldnt be
welcome to hang around with Jews if they
tried to convert them. While the lecturer
would not answer his own question of
whether these groups are good or bad for
Israel Come to the lecture, he said he
did note that he would explore a number
of concerns these groups evoke.
In his second set of lectures, Mr. Kastner will speak about Jews in ancient times.
With the approach of Tisha BAv, which
falls this year on August 14, he will talk
about the destruction of both Temples but
will not limit his presentation to historical
texts. Im big into showing archeology
and art from antiquity, he said, adding
that the inclusion of art history will help
attendees develop a greater understanding
of the material.
In his August 2 lecture, The Surprising
World of the Greeks and the Jews, Mr.
Kastner will explore Jewish life and culture from the time of Alexander the Great
to the advent of the Common Era, with a
focus on Jewish literature from the time.
We start by learning about the Jews
in antiquity, to introduce the players
who lived through the events commemorated by Tisha BAv, he said. This will
take us up to Tisha BAv, with interesting information from novels, plays, and
works of art from antiquity. Some of
them, he said, have been published relatively recently. It will get people up
to date on the more recent material,
he said. On August 9, he will talk about
the Geopolitics of Tisha BAv, exploring the history of the destruction of the
two temples.
Im not a rabbi, Mr. Kastner said. I
will not tell people how it should impact
them theologically. Im a historian. When
you understand what happened better,
you understand more.
For his last lecture, Mr. Kastner will
talk about Jews and Space: The Changing Significance of Jewish Structures,
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synagogues throughout the centuries of

the Jewish diaspora. Focusing on the
role of the synagogue from antiquity
until today, Mr. Kastner will look at such
questions as how synagogues adapted to
the new reality that is, the destruction
of the First and Second Temples and
offer examples demonstrating different
architectural styles, functions, and how
the religion itself adapted. (In 2010, he
published an article on this topic in the
American Jewish History journal.)
The earliest synagogues excavated
in and outside of Israel found many
interesting designs that repeat over

The first lecture

will answer
the question,
Is [Christian]
Zionism good or
bad for Isreal?
and over on floors, walls, and other
spaces, Mr. Kastner said, and it is interesting to speculate on why some designs
are repeated and others are not. One
hypothesis is that they help to transition from a Temple-based to a non-Temple based religion. They depict symbols
from the Temple, bringing them to the
local synagogue.
It is important to remember that this
didnt exist before, he said. It was sort
of a new religion, for all practical purposes. This was the locus for that taking place. They were consciously doing
something new. And, he said, in making
these important changes, there was also
the question of how to justify them, since
the religion was already more than 1,000
years old.
Joking that synagogues cant function without a kiddush, Mr. Kastner also
pointed out that there is architectural
evidence going back to antiquity of a
social aspect to the synagogue.

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Symposium: Get tested for the BRCA gene!

Teaneck-based Sharsherets Elana Silber among participants at research conference in Israel
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN

symposium of American, European, and Israeli breast-cancer

researchers in Israel concluded
with the consensus that all Ashkenazi Jews, both women and men, and perhaps even the general population, should be
tested routinely for inherited predisposition
to breast cancer.
The test should not be reserved only to
those people who have a family history of
mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene.
Citing data that indicates that current international testing parameters leave out half of
people who would be found to have BRCA
mutations, the group urged a change in policy so that many more people could learn
their status and take preventive measures.
Women carrying a BRCA mutation have up
to an 85 percent chance of developing breast
or ovarian cancer in their lifetimes. Men carrying such mutations, which can be passed
down from either mother or father, also are
at increased risk for breast cancer.

The group of 30 invited participants

included just one advocacy professional:
Elana Silber, executive director of Teaneckbased Sharsheret (Hebrew for chain), a
national not-for-profit organization supporting the entire family of young Jewish women diagnosed with breast cancer
or ovarian cancer and those who are at
increased genetic risk.
Offering culturally relevant connections
with networks of peers, health professionals, and related resources, Sharsheret has
reached about 60,000 men, women, children, healthcare professionals, and college
students since its founding in 2001. On a
monthly basis, we help about 300 women
and families from across the country, Ms.
Silber said.
She explained that Sharsheret was
invited to the July 10 symposium in order
to share our expertise in addressing the
urgent concerns of individual women and
their families.
I was the only advocacy group representative among the medical professionals, and

The 30 participants in the recent Soroka University Medical Center and Israel
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Elana Silber, is at the bottom right.

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FIRST PERSON

Thoughts on traveling
in the former Yugoslavia
MIRIAM RINN

e may rank low on childmortality lists and come in

after Singapore and Finland
on math proficiency tests,
but America has conquered the world when
it comes to daily dress.
Everywhere I traveled in central Europe
a few weeks ago, the uniform was shorts,
T-shirts, and flip flops or sneakers. All those
elegantly shod women and smart-looking
men from my early travels in the last century have disappeared. They have been
replaced by people who look more and
more like us a little overweight, opting for
comfort over glamour.
I was visiting the countries that used to
make up Yugoslavia before its communist
leader, Joseph Tito died, and the Soviet
Union collapsed, and the whole thing fell
apart. Then the region had a bloody civil
war, which finally got the attention of the
world with a particularly brutal massacre at Srebrenica, and all the sides were
locked up in Dayton, Ohio, to sign a peace
accord. That was about 20 years ago, and
the peace seems to be holding, although
everyone hates everyone even more than
they did before.
The Balkans are an unhappy place, and
you can see it in peoples faces. In Croatia and especially in Bosnia, people seem
burdened by their history. How could they
not be? The guide who led us on a walk
through Sarajevos historic district spent
15 minutes pointing out the exact corner
where Archduke Franz Ferdinand and
his wife were shot and killed in 1914 the
event that precipitated World War I. The
assassin was a Bosnian Serb, supported by

the Serbian military. Everyone we met in

Bosnia and Croatia blamed Serbia for the
latest war, too. Our guide, who had lived
in Sarajevo throughout the war, was suitably professional, but there was a touch of
pride in her voice, as if to say, We may be
small and poor and easy to overlook, but
we know how to get your attention.
Sarajevo is an ugly city, still pockmarked
by bullet holes and rubble left over from
the three-year-long siege it suffered when
Bosnian Serbs shelled the city from the
surrounding hills. Supplies were smuggled
in through a tunnel under the airport. A
small part of the tunnel is open to visitors.
The United Nations controlled the airport
during the war because it had to land its
planes, so the airport was the one place
that could not be shelled.
Sarajevos historic center has its charms,
but most of the city is communist
baroque, as our guide dryly observed.
Tall or squat concrete buildings covered
in grafitti line the streets. The trees were
all cut down for firewood during the siege,
so there isnt even a sheltering canopy of
green to soften the brutalist architecture.
Still, people go about their daily lives. The
European soccer championships were on
while we were there, and people crowded
into cafes in the evening to watch that
nights match. It also was Ramadan, and
Sarajevos large Muslim population was
out strolling after dark, enjoying gelato
and Bosnian coffee. I was taken aback by
a beautiful young woman, carefully made
up and dressed traditionally with a red
hijab, sitting in front of the large mosque
and begging. We saw a lot of beggars in
Bosnia, including young children, and
people told us they were Roma, who had

Parts of the center of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, have been closed to
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come from Romania and Bulgaria. What
we didnt see were homeless people sleeping on the street.
There are two synagogues in Sarajevo,
an old one and a new one. The old one
is a museum, which houses a copy of the
famous Sarajevo haggadah. The new one,
which I didnt visit, functions as a community center. There are hardly any Jews left
in Sarajevo, so they dont need synagogues.
Theres always something poignant
for me about visiting these repurposed
buildings. You got rid of us, they seem
to say, but we refuse to let you forget us.
As long as were here, Jews will come to
visit, and thats enough. We visited a synagogue in Dubrovnik too, on Jew Street.
A tiny building, it houses a small museum
one floor up, and then a beit tefillah a
floor above that. Dark, hot, and airless,
the synagogue probably reflects the lives
the Jews led in Dubrovnik when they got
there, fleeing the Inquisition.
Sitting on a spur jutting into the Adriatic,
the medieval walled city of Dubrovnik is a
spectacular sight. I was even more excited
when I recognized it on the last episode of
Game of Thrones its the set for Kings
Landing. When I saw Cersei leaning on the
wall, looking over the expanse of red tile roofs
beneath her, it made me yell I was there!
Like many carefully preserved historic cities,
Dubrovnik now is too expensive and too
noisy for ordinary people to live in.
With tourists wandering the streets at
all hours, the residents who own property
within the walls rent it out at the height
of the season and move somewhere else.
Who wants strangers photographing your

underwear hanging on the clothesline?

Who wants them peering into your windows? As we were strolling along the wall,
we turned to see a nervous young man on
bended knee proposing to his girlfriend. As
she shrieked yes, iPhones snapped. That
proposal probably has shown up on Facebook feeds all over the world.
Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, also is a
handsome city, but it is very different from
Dubrovnik. It bears the mark of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, of which it was a
part for hundreds of years, with large open
squares and impressive classical buildings.
Not much concrete in sight. The beautiful
gothic Cathedral of St. Stephen, with its
two soaring spires, dominates one hilltop.
Croatia is overwhelmingly Catholic, and it
was a Nazi puppet state during World War
II. The archbishop during that time, Aloysius Stepinac, was beatified by John Paul II
(another zealous anti-communist) despite
his reputation as a collaborator and his
conviction as a traitor by Titos government after the war. His supporters point
out that he saved Jews and Serbs; his critics denounce him for sticking with Croatias
fascist government till the end.
Its hard to know what to make of such
men. War presents us with impossible
moral choices; the older I get, the more
hesitant I am to judge those choices. It
seemed clear that the Croats view him
sympathetically, as a man who did the best
he could in difficult circumstances. Maybe
thats the way they see themselves.
The last country we visited was Slovenia, the closest to western Europe and
now a full member of the European Union.

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The atmosphere felt palpably different

in Ljubljana, Slovenias capital more
light hearted, less burdened by the
past. A forward-looking mayor closed
the entire center of the city to traffic
about 10 years ago, creating a lovely
pedestrian-friendly city within a city.
The cobblestoned streets on both sides
of the river Ljubljanica were filled with
cafes, street performers, open air markets, and loads of young people, many of
them pushing strollers. Croatias population has declined since the war, but Slovenias seems to be growing.
Even here, there is nostalgia for Tito
and his socialist state. At a pop-up
food-and-wine-truck event that happens once a month, we sat across from
three young women, who were polishing off a bottle of rose in preparation for their night out. Their parents
spoke very fondly about the old Yugoslavia, they told us, when everyone had
a job and could go on an annual vacation. Those were good times, they felt,
even though people didnt have much
money. Although they got rid of the
country, Slovenes and residents of the
other parts of the former Yugoslavia
have kept many of the social programs
Tito established. The government runs
the healthcare system in Croatia, and
new mothers get a year off. Higher education in Slovenia is free, which is why
Michael Moore featured it in his latest
movie extolling European societies,
Where Should We Attack Next.
I dont know if the people who miss
Tito are conscious of the irony of what
they did after his death, but spending time in these murderous bloodsoaked lands made me think about

both how fragile and how powerful

national identity can be. Tito created
a country called Yugoslavia, but soon
after he was gone, the citizens of that
country decided they had never been
Yugoslavs, but always had been Croats,
Serbs, Montenegrans, Slovenes, Macedonians, and so on. They came to this
decision despite having lived together
under various rulers for a thousand
years, sharing the same Slavic ethnicity, and speaking almost the same language. The most obvious difference is
religion: the area is split among Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and
Muslims. Religion has been so politicized here that its difficult to separate
faith from nationhood.
How brilliant it was of our founders to
separate the church from the state, perhaps the best of their ideas. Our national
identity is forged from a shared set of
values rather than religion or language
or race, and it has been remarkably resilient for a long time. But there always are
forces that want to restrict that identity
to older, cruder criteria. Those people
should take a trip to the Balkans to see
where such restrictions can lead.
Its a delicate balance, finding meaning
in a national identity without demonizing those who dont share it. Can we be
fully ourselves without drawing strict distinctions between ourselves and others?
Its not a problem we have had to deal
with for that long. Until the rise of liberal
democracies, most people felt comfortable hating the other. That was how they
knew who they were. That world is gone.
With globalization, the other is
everywhere now, and we have to confront who we are. Its not an easy task.

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FIRST PERSON

Dog (and cat and fish) days

A look at the value, Jewish and otherwise, of having a pet
RACHEL OKIN

hewed-up pillows, fur all over

the couches, and mud tracks
on the floors are the least of the
hassles you have to deal with
when owning a dog, but its worth it in the
long run.
I was just 9 years old when I first met my
West Highland Terrier, Molly, and it was
right before Passover. We traveled to South
Jersey to visit Molly, who was only seven
weeks old, and the size of a snowball. Once
we met her, we knew this little ball of fur
would be our newest family member, but
she was too young to come home with us
right away, so we paid our deposit and
decided to come back after Passover to get
her. When we did, we took her home in a
little box. The whole ride home, our new
puppy was silent, and we worried that she
was too passive. However, that night, as
we put her in the kitchen, boarded off by
a fence so she couldnt get out and mark
her territory all over the hardwood floors
and rugs, we had no idea of what this night
would bring.
The crying started the second we
went upstairs. We felt bad hearing Molly

whimper, but we figured it would stop,

and we ignored it. When we left her downstairs, we had made sure she was as comfortable as a new puppy could be, and we
gave her plenty of love and toys. But now,
as she cried nonstop, my 9-year-old self
felt terrible for leaving her downstairs. I
felt that we had done her a great injustice.
None of us got much sleep that night.
We kept going downstairs to comfort
Molly. The rest of Mollys puppyhood was
a whirlwind of ruined rugs, chewed-up
shoes, and white fur over every surface.
But despite all this, Molly was here to stay.
Now, at 13, she has grown up into a loving
and much more tame adult. Yes, she still
has her puppy-like moments, but for the
most part she is calm.
Our experience with our dog has been
worth the minor hassles that dog ownership brings. We have given Molly the unconditional love and attention that she needs.
When you have a pet, you have to learn
and study the way to properly care for it.
This may be more complicated for observant Jews. On Passover, you will have to find
kosher for Passover food for your pet, and
cleaning up the house will be more challenging. However, kosher for Passover cat

Kyle, Sari, and Adyna Rosen cuddle their cat, Mischief.

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The Okin family loves Molly.

or dog food isnt too hard to find. Owning a
pet is already a major responsibility. A pet
owner should be prepared to feed, walk,
and give the pet all the proper attention that
it needs. Owning a pet may be expensive,
but it is worth it for the love and companionship pets bring to the household.
The laws for taking care of a pet are even
mentioned in the Torah: We are required to
feed our animals before we feed ourselves.
In the Bible, those who care for animals
are heroes, while those who hunt animals
are villains. Jacob, Moses, and King David
all were shepherds, people who cared for
animals. Moses was chosen for his mission because of his skill as a shepherd.
Similarly, Rebecca was chosen as a wife for
Isaac because of her kindness to animals.
When Abrahams servant asked for water
for himself, she volunteered to water his
camels as well, and thereby proved herself
a worthy wife. On the other hand, Esau, a
hunter, is portrayed as a villain.
The primary principle behind the treatment of animals in Jewish law is preventing tzaar baalei chayim, the suffering of
living creatures. Judaism always has recognized the link between the way a person treats animals and the way that person treats human beings. A person who is
cruel to a defenseless animal undoubtedly
will be cruel to defenseless people. Many
modern studies have found a relationship
between childhood cruelty to animals and
adult criminal violence.
Pets are not only cute and good companions according to doctors, there also
are real health benefits to having pets.
Did you know that dogs can help reduce
depression and anxiety and ease loneliness? Some people even get therapy dogs;

they help people with autism or Down

syndrome, and people in hospitals or
retirement homes, among others. Golden
retrievers are a particularly popular breed
to be used therapy dogs, because of their
calm and friendly nature. Most dogs, however, are capable of cheering someone up.
Sometimes, just having a pet as a companion can do wonders for someones
health. Studies have shown that pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression
than people without pets. The pet population nationwide has been growing dramatically for nearly a half century, from about
40,000,000 pet cats and dogs in 1967 to
more than 160,000,000 in 2006.
Adyna Rosen, a pet owner from Teaneck,
says, My pets have always helped me
relax and decompress after a long day.
Pets give you unconditional love. Ive had
cats my whole life, and have raised both
kids with a variety of pets in the house,
including fish, hamsters, guinea pigs, and
hermit crabs. Pets teach us how to care for
another living creature. They teach kids
compassion, kindness, and responsibility.
Randy Houston of Englewood says, No
matter how good or bad my day has been,
when I come home and am greeted by one
or both of my cats, Im the happiest man
alive. All the troubles of the world go away,
if only for those few minutes.
Now that my dog is a senior citizen, I
think back on how much she has enhanced
my life and that of my family as well.
Although we have always had to make
special considerations for her, following
not just the Jewish laws of taking care of
an animal but going above and beyond to
meet her specific needs, she has brought
us endless joy and happiness.

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Karger is award-winner
Devra Karger, director
of Principal Gifts at the
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey,
received the Howard E.
Charish award for Professional Excellence
from Jason Shames,
JFNNJs chief executive
officer, at Federations
annual meeting last
month.
The award is given
to someone who works
at a Jewish agency in
northern New Jersey,
who through his/her
professional practice,
has demonstrated the
capacity to make lasting change in the community, exemplifies
innovation and kindness, and serves as a
role model who motivates and inspires others. A stipend for a professional opportunity
accompanies the award.

Jason Shames and Devra Karger. Courtesy JFNNJ

North American immigrants

move to Israel via Nefesh BNefesh
Frances and Robert Wolf and family of Clifton, David and Penina
Rabinowitz of Englewood, Julie
and Philip Goldstein and family of
Fair Lawn, and Ahuva Shafier, 19,
Sara Kinstlinger, 20, and Abigail
Sarah Yucht, 19, all of Teaneck,
were among 218 North American immigrants who moved to
Israel this week. They left on an
El Al Boeing 777 chartered by
Nefesh BNefesh and arrived at
Sara Kinstlinger 
hahar Azran
Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv. The
group of new immigrants hailed
to welcome them. Guests included
from 17 U.S. states and two Canadian
Sofa Landver, Minister of Aliyah and
provinces. The flight was facilitated in
Immigrant Absorption; MK Avraham
cooperation with Israels Ministry of Aliyah & Immigrant Absorption, the Jewish
Neguise, chair of the Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and
Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, and JNF-USA. Passengers included
Diaspora Affairs; Natan Sharansky, chair
a diverse mix including former serviceof the Jewish Agency for Israel; Danny
men from three different U.S. Armed
Atar, world chair of KKL-JNF; and Rabbi
Forces units, families of all sizes, and
Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart, founders of Nefesh BNefesh.
young professionals.
A ceremony took place for the
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Inclusion and exclusion

his week, we write about

Matan, a nonprofit organization that trains Jewish
leaders to include children with
special needs in their education
programs, whenever its possible,
and by extension to include all people with special needs in all their
programs, whenever its possible.
We often have written about the
Sinai Schools, a nonprofit organization that takes Jewish children
with special needs and works with
them so they can go to day schools
and be included in at least some
social programs, and in classes
when its possible (and to have
specially tailored educational programs when its not).
Both Matan and Sinai come from
a historically hard-earned understanding of what it feels like to be
an outsider, and how important it is
to have a community where you can
be yourself. Where you can breathe
freely. Where you can just plain be.
We now find ourselves at a dark

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point in our history, where groups

are pitted against each other. We
know that the Republican and
Democratic conventions are meant
to invigorate party members, to get
them not only to vote themselves
but to convince their less passionate
friends and neighbors of the essential rightness of their candidates.
This year, though, at least from
what weve seen so far, theres
something else at work. Republicans and Democrats seem to live
in different worlds, speak different
languages, breathe different air, and
certainly dream different dreams.
If you are in one party, without any
question you are so far from the
other that you cannot co-exist.
We all have to co-exist. We live
in one world, one country, one
nation, indivisible. Lets not divide
into red and blue, black and white
and blue. Weve been gloriously
multicolored; lets stay that way.
Lets take the lessons of Matan
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And the little dog, too!

e also write this week

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Trump and Clinton are

incapable of ever saying sorry

uth Bader Ginsburg recently apologized

for her highly inappropriate comments
about Donald Trump. Whether she did
so because she regretted her actions or
because of all the incoming condemnations, even
from leading liberal outlets, is beside the point.
The mere fact of an apology from a public official
in America has become so rare as to merit mention.
Politicians are always looking for a theme song for
their campaigns. Well, Ive got one that fits both the
Clinton and Trump campaigns, Elton Johns Sorry
seems to be the hardest word. Both candidates are
struggling with historically off-the-charts unpopularity. And I think that one of the reasons is that
both seem to have a problem uttering the simple
words Im sorry.
One of the holiest actions in Judaism is to say Im sorry for my transgressions. This is what Jews all say
on Yom Kippur, and we believe that
God accepts our apologies. Strong
men and women are those who
believe in accountability and are not
remiss in taking responsibility for
their actions. To apologize is to show
conviction and strength of character. Rabbi
To withhold an apology is to pro- Shmuley
Boteach
mote the fraudulent belief that we
somehow are infallible. Its to deny
our essential humanity.
In this foul election season, politicians of all
stripes seem to believe that admitting a mistake is a
sign of weakness rather than of vigor and integrity.
It is not a sign of feebleness to admit mistakes.
All humans are imperfect, and while popes may be
expected to be perfect, presidential candidates and
elected officials are not.
In Judaism we are enjoined to avoid not just
wrongdoing but even the perception thereof. This is
especially true of public officials whose actions are
meant to inspire the masses. To apologize is not to
admit culpability but rather to respect the publics
sense of woundedness. But to our politicians today,
an apology is an admission of guilt.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump seem to
share this stubbornness.

Hillary will offer a non-apology apology when she

is cornered, as in the case of her email debacle. She
may not be in legal jeopardy, but the FBI investigation proved she misled the public on numerous
occasions about various aspects of her emails, such
as whether any were classified. The investigation
into her handling of the events in Benghazi did not
reveal any evidence of misconduct, but the perception remains that she was less than forthcoming about her responsibility. The ties between her,
members of her staff, her husband, and donors to
the Clintons foundation also dont pass the kosher
test, even if nothing was illegal.
For this and more Hillary should come before the
public and say she is sorry for losing the publics
trust. She should take full responsibility for her actions and prove to her
critics that she does not believe she is
above the law.
Donald Trump maintains that he
has nothing to apologize for no matter what he says or tweets. Instead of
debating whether he tweeted a Jewish
star or a sheriffs badge, Trump easily
could have apologized for retweeting
an image that apparently came from a
white supremacists social media feed.
He definitely is better than that. I do
not believe for a moment that Trump
harbors any anti-Semitism. But hes
got a lot of Jew-hating crazies who are ardent supporters, and he should have put distance between
himself and them long ago. He should do it now and
declare he regrets not doing it earlier.
Trump finally should apologize for the absurd
criticism of universally acclaimed war hero Senator John McCain, who suffered unspeakably for his
country. And finally, he should apologize for suggesting that Mexican immigrants are thieves and
rapists.
Let me be clear. I do not think that our entire
presidential campaign should be reduced to a series
of Im-sorries. Rather, in suggesting the various
issues for which both Hillary Clinton and Donald
Trump owe the public an apology including the
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Sorrowful words
Rethinking parts of a relationship to the RCA and the OU

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: No apologies

just begin the process of taking public
responsibility for their actions. They
owe it both to the American people
and to the high office they seek.
I do not expect the candidates to
go on an apology binge like President
Obama, who apologized to the Europeans for our arrogance, to the Islamic
community for American imperfections, and to the Turkish parliament
for the darker periods in our history.
There also is a big difference between
apologizing to people from foreign
countries, especially for policies that
many Americans do not believe were
mistakes, and telling Americans that
you are sorry for actions at home.
I also recognize that as an American,
as a rabbi, and as a human being, I cannot dish out the advice without practicing it myself.
I have been thinking about the
importance of apologies since the
first potshots were fired early in the
campaign, but the issue really hit me
upon the recent death of my mentor,
friend, and inspiration Elie Wiesel.
While the Holocaust turned six million
Jews to dust, this one courageous man
stood up as a witness to ensure that
the horror of that era is never forgotten. Elie was forever associated with
the mass murder of Jews, but he also
was a spokesperson for all the victims
of genocide. He was not afraid to speak
truth to power and to decry the worlds
silence while people are massacred in
Rwanda, the Sudan, or Syria.
Knowing that Reb Eliezer, as I affectionately called him, enjoyed the most
sterling reputation as one of the most
respected human beings alive, I was
always conscious of the great gift I had
in his friendship, and the responsibility
I carried never to tarnish that standing
even to the most infinitesimal degree.
I was fortunate to be one of the people who was with him in his last hours
and to do what little I could to comfort
him. I attended his funeral but was tortured by the sense that I had not apologized to him for those times when we
disagreed and I may have hurt him.
In Judaism, we are obligated to seek

atonement, even if the person we have

wronged is no longer alive. It was for
that reason that at his burial, I waited
for the gathered mourners to leave and
then stood alone over his grave and
engaged in the ancient Jewish custom
of asking the deceased for pardon and
forgiveness for any transgression I may
have been guilty of in our friendship.
As I sat at his funeral and heard a
celebrity speaker divulge a private conversation he recently had with Elie, I
pondered whether I had been guilty of
the same, including in a Facebook blog
I wrote as soon as the Sabbath went out
on the day of his passing, where I spoke
of the words of comfort I had offered
him. Perhaps this too was a breach of
confidentiality, and I apologized to
Elie as well as to his son Elisha, a dear
friend who granted me the unique
honor and privilege of being with his
father in those last trying hours.
I repeat the apology again, especially
to my dear friend Elisha.
And if its important to atone to
those whom we have lost, it is all the
more important to apologize to people
who are still alive and can accept our
apology.
Our presidential candidates are
diminishing the grandeur of our
great country and souring the people on the political process with a
presidential race that all the polls
show is turning off Americans, even
as it provides endless entertainment.
While I can speak only for myself, I
would guess that a principal cause of
this growing disillusionment stems
from the utter inability of candidates
to show remorse.
The campaign is far from over, so
there is still time for both Clinton
and Trump to admit their fallibility and to ask the public to forgive
their imperfections. The candidates
would like to move on from controversies, but they will linger until
November if they are not addressed
forthrightly. Americans are not God,
but they are a famously forgiving
people when presented with a heartfelt, sincere, and simple Im sorry.

ve always felt sincere

it began amazingly with a
warmth towards the Rabdeclaration of appreciation and
binical Council of America.
support of the Israeli chief rabbinate, which, although supWhen I was a teenager,
porting a reversal of this one
my mother worked for the RCA
decision, is complicit in Israels
as a secretary/bookkeeper, and
lack of recognition of many
she often would share stories of
valid American modern Orthohumorous rabbinic foibles, coupled with examples of the sound
dox conversions. The few banal
Joseph C.
judgment, wisdom, and kindness
and perfunctory regrets tacked
Kaplan
of its then executive vice presion at the end of the statement
dent, Rabbi Israel Klavan. We subabout angst to converts did not
scribed to its journal, Tradition,
begin to address the damage
which I read avidly, and I continued that tradicaused to one of its leading members and the
tion for many years in my own home.
hurt to the righteous convert.
And so I write with personal sorrow of
And the RCAs public reaction to the SRCs
my recent disappointments with the RCA,
blackmailing of the convert by forcing her
beginning with the establishment in 2007 of
to undergo another conversion in order to
its Geirus Policies and Standards conversion
proceed with her already delayed marriage?
system, or GPS, meant to standardize conAs of Monday night when I submitted this
versions done by its members. Upon reading
column complete silence.
the GPS, I was dismayed to learn that those
overly strict procedures seemingly would put
up barriers to conversion rather than help
people convert a concern shared by at least
one highly respected RCA member. Not being
shy, I emailed my concerns to the then chairman of the GPS committee, whose prompt
response was unsatisfactory. My follow-up
email received no response at all.
Years later, after the arrest of the GPS
chairman, the RCA that realized it had a serious problem and formed a GPS review committee. In June 2015, the committee issued a
report to the RCA executive committee, recommending changes.
I had been impressed with the makeup
of the review committee and thought the
recommendations showed promise, but I
Another problematic RCA statement is its
understood that the devil is in the details.
recent condemnation of the Orlando massacre of innocent people and patrons of
So I avidly looked forward to those details,
the Pulse nightclub, in which it carefully
to no avail; its been more than a year and
eschewed any mention that the victims were
still there has been no announcement of any
gay. Just imagine the uproar in our commuchanges. Thus, prospective converts continue to confront a system that the RCA itself
nity had, God forbid, a synagogue been the
recognizes is problematic.
target of such an attack, and denunciations
And then there are the shameful recent
of that attack included no reference to the
events concerning the Petach Tikvah Beit
Jewishness of the victims. Compare this to
Dins rejection of a conversion overseen
the statement by the RCAs sister organization, the Orthodox Union, which forthrightly
by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, a leading modern Orthodox rabbi and RCA member
said that the victims were targeted because
for decades, and the action of the Israeli
of their identification with the LGBT community. Or compare the RCAs churlish and blanSupreme Rabbinical Court that essentially
ket rejection of the Supreme Courts same-sex
affirmed that decision. The RCAs statement
marriage decision to the OUs thoughtful dison the PTBD travesty didnt express strong
senting statement, which also carefully recogsupport for its colleague, whom it barely
nized that decisions on social policy remain
mentioned in passing, or outrage over his
with the democratic process, and today the
mistreatment. Nor did it insist that the Israeli
process has spoken and we accord the prorabbinical system treat its members with
cess and its result the utmost respect.
respect, or urge the immediate reversal of
SEE SORROWFUL PAGE 17
this insulting and egregious decision. Rather,

So I avidly looked
forward to those
details, to no avail;
its been more
than a year and
still there has been
no announcement
of any changes.

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The double-edged sword

Words, incitement, and action in a dangerous world

eading the news

lately has become
an act of daring.
Like many of my
peers I feel depleted, defeated,
as though the gut-punch from
the headlines were physical and
not merely emotional. I worry
that my children will grow fearLaura Fein
ful, or, worse, that they will
come to consider the wave of
murders at home and abroad as
normal. I worry that nihilism will result as more and more
people, subject to ever more frequent tragedies with ever
diminishing recovery times, decide it is too overwhelming
to attempt to understand or to care.
In attempting to comprehend the massacres inspired
by ISIS in Orlando and Nice, the brutal murders of Hallel
Yaffa Ariel and Miki Mark in Israel, and the attacks on police
in Dallas and Baton Rouge, I see a common thread the
impact of incitement on riling emotions and transforming
them into deadly action. So-called lone wolves are anything but alone; instead they are part of a global community that communicates not only despicable hate messages
but also deliberately incites followers to express their hatred
through stabbings, bullets, and cars driven into crowds.
This weeks parsha aptly reinforces the power of words.
King Balak repeatedly asks the prophet Balaam to curse the
Jews, and Balaam responds over and over that he can say
only words that reflect Gods will. Ultimately, he is unable to
pronounce a curse against the Israelites, and instead mouths
a blessing that is part of our daily liturgy.
But if Gods will is inevitable, why are Balaams words
whether blessing or curse given such importance? It
seems that the act of speaking, for good or for evil, inspires
others, and thus has independent power to make those
words become fulfilled by human actions.
This power is not always readily acknowledged. As children, we learn to distinguish between sticks and stones
and the words that can never harm us. But as the link
between inciting words and menacing acts grows stronger, and the proliferation of words on social media means
that potential actors are exposed to an avalanche of inciting messages that previously had been unimaginable,
we need to re-examine our notions about when speech
becomes something more.
Incitement played a critical role in recent attacks in Israel,
including the murder of 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel. The
teenager who carried out this unimaginably brutal, bloody
slaughter was an avid (and vulnerable) consumer of media
messages, including those regularly distributed by the
Palestinian Authority and its highest levels of leadership.
Repeated calls for violence against Jews, language that portrays Jews as subhuman, and praise and rewards for those
who carry out attacks come from PA President Mahmoud
Abbas himself, as well as from PA officials at all levels. A
measurable increase in online slogans urging terror corresponds directly with the wave of violence that began last
fall and has claimed dozens of victims lives. And this says
nothing of the social and human costs to Palestinian Arabs.
It is a particularly vile form of child abuse to raise children
to murder their peers.
There was a positive step forward in May, when the EU
and many major IT companies agreed to establish a code of
conduct to ensure that online platforms do not offer opportunities for illegal online hate speech to spread virally. This
month, the Middle East Quartet (the United Nations, the
16 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 22, 2016

Israeli ZAKA emergency response volunteers at the scene of the fatal Palestinian terror attack in Kiryat
Arba last month.
NATI SHAPIRA

United States, the European Union, and Russia) issued a

report clearly condemning Palestinian incitement and its
role in escalating violence. According to the Times of Israel,
[T]he report goes to considerable length in describing how
Palestinian terrorists are glorified and takes Palestinian
leadership to task for failing to curb the ugly phenomena.
It remains to be seen if the code of conduct will cover the
speech referenced in the Quartets findings.
In the meantime, Knesset members are weighing
laws mirroring those in Europe, which allow judges to
order sites to remove content and hold internet services
accountable for failure to remove the material. An Israeli
non-profit, Shurat HaDin, has filed suit against Facebook
on behalf of American victims of Palestinian terror. It
seeks $1 billion in punitive damages for providing material support and resources to perpetrators of terror, such
as use of the platform, failure to remove dangerous posts,
and algorithms that foster connections between potential
perpetrators and those who seek to inspire them. Similar
suits have been filed by families of ISIS victims in Paris,
and surely suits by families of recently murdered American police officers will follow.
Both the laws and the lawsuits require leaders to grapple
with the line between protected political speech and incitement to commit crimes, addressing fundamental questions
of the limitations our free society faces in fighting those who
use cherished freedoms to launch attacks.
What can we as individuals do to fight against incitement
and create a more positive discourse? First, we need to
make it clear that the hateful rhetoric must be tamed. This
involves actively reporting incidents of hate speech and
urging media executives to enforce their own standards.
Second, we must actively express our intolerance for hate
speech, and more actively call out those who express racial

A measurable
increase in online
slogans urging terror
corresponds directly
with the wave of
violence that began last
fall and has claimed
dozens of victims lives.
or religious prejudice. Just as social support gives potential
criminals the courage to act on their evil impulses, so too
can social condemnation discourage it. Finally, we can practice affirmative compassion in our own lives, using speech to
build trust and bonds between groups.
In The Town Beyond the Wall, Elie Wiesel wrote:
Words are a double edged sword. To some they bring light,
from others they withdraw it. They urge some to salvation,
and others to ruin. It is through the word that God created
the universe, and it is by the word that man is destroying it.
Let us consciously strive to silence words that injure and
to use our voices to make positive change.
Laura Fein is the director of the Jewish Community
Relations Committee at the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey. She speaks frequently about Israel, BDS,
and strengthening Jewish communal relations with
government and intergroup partners.

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The RCBC responds

The Rabbinical Council of Bergen County (RCBC) would

like to correct the record in light of Shammai Engelmayers July 15 column, When being right is wrong: Local
ban on Israeli produce. The RCBC has no policy prohibiting produce from Israel. Halachic intricacies posed
by Israeli produce demand far greater supervision than
what many establishments can practically maintain.
As such, our policies are consistent with industrywide kashrut practices across North America regarding
produce from Israel.

RCBC rabbis are vigorous supporters of the State of

Israel and encourage our synagogue members to support Israel and her economy. The mere mention of the
BDS movement in a discussion of RCBC practices is
wholly irrational and offensive.
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Why do we mourn a building?

God enabled the fall of two temples. Dont you think God
had a reason? We Hebrews asked for a temple like all the
other nations and religions of the time possessed. God
gave it a try and the idea was a negative. We asked for
kings and God saw that that was a negative.

Sorrowful
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While I have no youthful memories of the OU, I personally knew some of its past presidents and have a relationship with, and strong admiration and respect for, its current executive vice president/CPO who has been a friend
since childhood and the CEO of its Kosher Division, with
whom I share a love of Civil War history. So I wish I could
end this column here.
Unfortunately, though, there were two recent events
concerning the OU that trouble me.
First, one of its rabbinic coordinators has taken
upon himself the task of attempting to convince the
Orthodox world that open Orthodoxy and others with
whom he disagrees are not Orthodox. The extreme,
vituperative, and steady nature of those attacks has
caused some to demand his dismissal. The OU, believing in freedom of expression and speech, rightfully
has declined to do so. But the OU also has freedom
of expression and speech, and should have exercised
that freedom by, at the very least, disassociating itself
from the strident and insulting tone of his essays. Its
silence, however, is bringing its own reputation into
question in some quarters, and it is causing unease
among some of its supporters.
The second issue concerns a major kashrut expert
who before his recent death had been an halachic
consultant to the OU. A number of years ago, he
defended a confessed sexual abuser in the Orthodox
community and severely denounced the victims parents for going to the police, resulting in the family
being forced to move from their community. The OU
did not rebuke or take any action against its consultant, although it said that while it had high regard
for his expertise in kashrut, it profoundly disagrees
with his conclusions and whatever actions he may
have taken in connection with that case. The Jewish
Week reported that OU insiders said that because his

Why mourn something that God found necessary to

terminate? Let us not get caught up in memories of what
was. Let us rise and work toward what should be! Our Ten
Commandments should lead us in the right direction.
Shel Haas, Fort Lee

kashrut expertise was highly respected in the charedi

community, there was concern that if he were terminated or called out publicly, a major outlet might
look elsewhere for its kosher supervision.
While several prominent modern Orthodox rabbis disagreed with the OUs position, its possible that such pragmatism is defensible. Whats not defensible, however, is
glorifying and holding up this enabler of sexual abuse as a
role model. There have been four cover stories about him,
including one in the most recent issue of the OUs Jewish
Action magazine. Referring to his greatness and describing him as the consummate American gadol were both
jarring and inappropriate. The thoughtful and careful
analysis that went into the OUs statements on the Orlando

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I began my first column in this paper with a proud declaration of my lifelong membership in the modern Orthodox community. I only wish that some of our leading MO
organizations would return to regularly being sources of
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Children in a Matan program celebrate Sukkot.

Matan, run by Dori Kirshner of Closter,

teaches inclusion to educators

Joanne Palmer
heres nothing like growing up as a Jew in the
American South to make you identify with
outsiders.
And theres nothing like feeling like an outsider to make you an impassioned advocate
for inclusion.
Dori Frumin Kirshner, who lives in Closter now but is
a third-generation Southern Jew, hastens to refine that
position. Its not that she wasnt accepted in the South,
its not that she wasnt happy, its not that her parents,
who still live there, arent happy still. She was, she was,
and they are.

Its that youre still an outsider, she said, and that gives
you a kind of radar. An extra sensitivity. An invisible
antenna that quivers when someones being left out.
In Ms. Kirshners case, it led her to combine her passion for Jewish life with her yearning toward inclusion
and eventually made her executive director of Matan, the
organization that calls itself the national voice in Jewish
special education. Its driven her to make sure that just as
the Jewish community gave her a haven as she was growing up, it will keep its doors open for others.
Ms. Kirshners family history is a classic southern Jewish story.
Her mother, Charlett Ritman Frumin, was born in
Shreveport, Louisiana. Charletts father, Morris Ritman,

made his way to Shreveport from a small shtetl in Poland

through the southern Texas port city of Galveston. In
Shreveport, he met and married Freeda Ritman, whose
own Bialystock-born father was an avocational chazzan
who found high holiday pulpits in such places as Denver.
My grandfather had owned a liquor store, but he became
very successful with real estate investments, Ms. Kirshner
said. My grandparents had a very happy life there.
Still to this day, my mothers best friends are all from
Shreveport, she continued. Theyre like the Jewish
YaYas; theyre amazing women who call themselves the
Big Six. They were all active in Young Judaea; they met at
Tel Yehuda, Young Judaeas summer camp.
Ms. Kirshners father, Marshall, was born in Milton,
Florida. They were the only Jewish family in town, Ms.
Kirshner said. So they moved to Chattanooga when my
father was in eighth grade, and my grandfather took over
the family business, in scrap metal.
My bubbe, Sylvia Frumin, was born in Brooklyn
in Brownsville but her family moved to Birmingham
when she was a few months old. Once she was married
and installed in Chattanooga, she lived a Southern Jewish life. She raised her three kids, kept a kosher home,
and sent her children to a very WASPy prep school. My
dad was salutatorian.
When her grandparents spoke in Yiddish, it was with a
southern accent, Ms. Kirshner said, but if you were just to
meet them, youd have no idea they were Jewish. You just
didnt expect it. They had strong southern accents, and
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no one really cares where you go to shul.

The Jewish community is very tightknit. You know youre a minority, and that
you have to stick together.
My school was pretty xenophobic at
the time I was there, she continued. I
dont think that children who were Indian
or Asian felt very different about that.
There were about 100 kids in my graduating class, and 10 to 15 of them were Jewish,

Were not as
divided. Youre
not this kind of
Jew or that kind
of Jew. Youre
just a Jew. If
youre willing to
identify yourself
as a Jew, no one
really cares
where you
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so do my parents. I never thought about it

when I was young, but now I hear it.
She does not have a southern accent
most of the time, but David says that my
accent comes out when Im around my
family, she reported. (David is her husband, David-Seth Kirshner, the Conservative rabbi who heads Temple Emanu-el
of Closter.)
Dori was born in Memphis, where her
father was in medical school; the family,
which eventually included her younger
sister, Kim, also lived in Baton Rouge and
Shreveport before they moved to Houston, where Marshall Frumin is an orthopedic surgeon.
Dori went to Jewish day school until
sixth grade; in seventh grade I went to
Kincaid, a ritzy prep school in Houston,
she said. The new school was a stark
contrast to the Jewish life at her middle
school, and at home. Youd step outside the house, and feel the difference,
she said. You had different holidays that
you were constantly having to explain.
I was the kid who brought matzah to
school every year, and every year I had to
explain what Passover is, and why I was
out for holidays.
Some of the kids at my school prayed
for me, because I was going to hell. They
were friendly to me, but I always felt
different.
And that, she added, was despite her
looks; shes small, blonde, pretty, and nonethnic-looking. Visually, I fit in, she said.
Still, some incidents linger. I think back
to ninth grade, when I turned a corner in
the hall and saw this person drawing a
swastika on my locker. When he saw me,
he threw down the marker, and went off,
running away with his friends. I had to go
to my next period class. It was English.
None of my friends knew what to say to
me, and I remember thinking Hmmm. I
could either run toward my Jewish identity
or run away from it. I ran toward it.
School was academically both rigorous and rewarding, she said, but her
emotional life was elsewhere. I lived on
the Jewish side of town, and I was very
involved in BBYO, and I went to a URJ
camp, and a Conservative shul. The
camp was Henry S. Jacobs, the Reform
movements Deep South outpost in Utica,
Mississippi, near Jackson. The shul was
Congregation Beth Yeshurun, the largest Conservative synagogue in North
America. And my parents met at Young
Judaea, she added. In the South, you
kind of take whats available. Were not
as divided. Youre not this kind of Jew
or that kind of Jew. Youre just a Jew. If
youre willing to identify yourself as a Jew,

Matan teaches educators how to work with children with different learning
styles, as seen above and below.

Dori Kirshner

and not all of them identified as Jewish.

Thats why, when it was time to pick a college, she chose Emory, which is southern
its in Atlanta but has many more Jews.
I wanted to be somewhere where being
Jewish was more normative, she said.
I learned that northeastern Jews
didnt feel other, Ms. Kirshner said.
They didnt feel unusual. And even the
people at Emory who werent Jewish but
were from New York or the northeast, the
ones who were Greek or Italian, knew
about Judaism.
It took a while to get used to being
openly and comfortably Jewish, to be able
to keep her Jewish star necklace visible
instead of making sure that it was tucked
inside her shirt, she added. David still
teases me that sometimes I whisper things
about Judaism.
Although she had not decided what
she would do after college but was toying with the idea of earning a masters
degree in public health, her Hillel rabbi,
Louis Feldstein, encouraged her to earn
a degree in Jewish education. I started
laughing, because I didnt know that a
degree in Jewish education existed, she
said. In fact, very few institutions granted
it then, in the 1990s. He said, You need

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to go to graduate school for this and
that changed my life.
One of Ms. Kirshners teachers at Emory
was the historian Deborah Lipstadt, who
specializes in modern Jewish history and
Holocaust studies (and who was sued by
Holocaust denier David Irving, and because
sometimes the truth prevails, she won big).
Dr. Lipstadt also strongly encouraged Ms.
Kirshner to become a Jewish educator. She
said, Thats what you need to do, Ms. Kirshner recalled. Thus charged and energized, Ms. Kirshner headed off to the Jewish
Theological Seminarys school of education
(which was not yet called Davidson).
As part of her academic work, Ms. Kirshner spent a year in Israel. I lived with Israelis, and I got a job at an all-womens gym,
where I answered the phone and that
really taught me Hebrew, she said. And I
got to walk in the street when there was no
traffic on Yom Kippur, and to experience
Pesach and Shavuot and Sukkot there. It
was amazing.
It was that feeling of being normal, of
being accepted, that she got at Emory, in
New York, in Israel, that led her toward
special needs education. She was drawn
toward the educator Howard Gardners
influential work on multiple intelligences.
I always assumed that everyone has some
sort of intellect, some kind of gift, some
way of being successful, she said.
Ms. Kirshner had a fellowship to JTS that
obligated her to teach in a day school in
the diaspora for two years; she fulfilled it
by working at the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Manhattan, then housed at the
Park Avenue Synagogue. It was amazing
in a lot of ways, but it was not really serving children who learn differently because
it was just too small, and we werent
equipped for it, she said.
From there, Ms. Kirshner moved to
the Commission on Jewish Identity and
Renewal, run by UJA Federation of New
York, and then moved to the federations
fundraising department, where she worked
on the always nagging problem of how to
entice the next generation of wealthy Jews
not only to identify but also to give.
When the leaders of Matan, an organization founded in 2000 to help Jewish children with special needs get a Jewish education, looked for funding, they went to
Solelim, a venture philanthropy fund Ms.
Kirshner ran through UJA. A little later,
when they needed an associate executive
director, they tapped her; a little later still,
the executive director left and Ms. Kirshner took over that position.
Ms. Kirshners work with Matan began
in 2007. Coincidentally, that was when the
Kirshner family moved from Manhattan
to Closter, so Rabbi Kirshner could take
the bimah at Emanu-El. (Dori Frumin and
David-Seth Kirshner first met at JTS, where
he was ordained; their daughter, Evie, is
now 12, and their son, Elias, is 9.)
Matan was started by three women;
one a neuropsychologist, one a special
educator, and one a Jewish educator, Ms.

Educators, like their students, get to play.

Kirshner said. They felt that too often, the

Jewish community was saying no. No, we
cant accommodate you; no, your daughter cannot stay in the day school; no, we
have no place for your son in our afterschool program. There was no support,
and no mandate, and very few programs
that made it possible for children who
learn differently to remain in a Jewish educational setting.
One of these women, Meredith Polsky, has a masters degree in social work
and another in special education; it was
Ms. Polsky who secured one of Matans
first fellowships, a Joshua Venture award.
Meredith was a rosh edah a division
leader at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, and she had this kid who for the
first week of the session was her favorite
camper, Ms. Kirshner said. Because he
had significant ADHD and learning difficulties, they ended up spending a lot of
time together.
At the end of the week, the camp
decided that they should send him home,
because he was taking up too much of her
time. She was devastated. And that was
her light-bulb moment. She said that this
should not be happening. She said that
every other kid in his family was getting
the best of what the Jewish world had
to offer, but this kid was just not being
allowed in.
That was when she committed to doing
whatever she could to change the landscape, and so, when she was in her 20s,
she basically wrote the blueprint for what
would be Matan.
In the beginning, Ms. Kirshner said,
Matan focused on creating freestyle
options at JCCs in Scarsdale, Manhattan, and Riverdale, and at supplementary schools in Manhattan, the Bronx,
and Westchester County, for children
who were not being supported or able to
enroll in Jewish supplementary education
programs. In other words, Matan was a
direct service organization, working
with children who had been diagnosed

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on the Aspergers/autism spectrum or had

some other developmental disorder. We
worked with shuls and JCCs, and we were
the bridge between the families and their
communities, Ms. Kirshner said.
There was a problem, though. Families
still did not feel part of the larger community. Their welcome was provisional, based
on the existence of special, side programs.
When Ms. Kirshner became Matans
executive director, in 2009, the grants
that had supported it had dried up the
2008 financial crash had a serious impact
on Matan, as it did on so much else and

Ultimately,
I would love for
there to be a day
when Matan
does not have
to exist any
more, because
everyone gets
it right.
Dori Kirshner

the organization was in serious financial

need. In 2010, we engaged in a strategic planning process with the board and
a consultant, and we worked with focus
groups. It was clear, both in my kishkas
and through the focus groups, that people
were using Matan like a Band-Aid. Nothing
was changing about Jewish education or
educational leadership.
I was having conversations with Jewish
educators at shuls, and they didnt know
much about how to be supportive of differences. Theyd push it off they said
that theyd hire Matan to do it for them.
So the board and I decided that in order to
change the way that the Jewish community

was thinking about special needs and Jewish education, we would have to train
Jewish educators to become part of the
solution.
Supported by grants she was able to
secure in 2011, including seed funding
from the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey and the North Jersey-based
Adler Family Foundation, Matan went in
a new direction. We wanted to create
something brand new, Ms. Kirshner said.
We wanted not only to be innovative, but
to really make change. We wanted to have
a significant impact on the field.
We dont do direct service any more,
she continued. We dont even believe in it
any more. What we want is for everybody
who has a position of leadership, who runs
a school, who is responsible for administering a school and interacting with families
we want them all to take responsibility.
We dont want them to be experts
they cant all be experts but we want
them to be part of the solution.
This issue used to sit on the shoulders of parents, and it was only if the
parents had the energy to fight that anything would happen. I kept saying, Why
should they have to fight? The Jewish
community should be there. This should
not be hard.
Ultimately, I would love for there to
be a day when Matan does not have to
exist any more, because everyone gets it
right. I feel that about 85 percent of what
we do in the community is attitude, and
only about 15 percent is the skill set that
you really need. Because if you have the
attitude that says, okay, I dont have all the
answers, but lets talk about it, youll get a
lot more done.
Remember, she added, when you lose
one student, you are losing that family.
Matan now trains educators to include
children with special needs whenever
possible; not to shunt them off to the side,
into programs that are both well-meaning
and effective but still are peripheral, but
to incorporate them into the larger whole.
That is of course easy to say. How do
they do it?
We have become the place where
you go for deep training, Ms. Kirshner
said. All sorts of Jewish educational leaders, the people who run supplementary
schools, summer camps, early childhood
programs, youth group leaders, or now,
increasingly, day schools, are finding their
way to Matans training institute.
Matan provides cohorts of educational
leaders with in-person training, online follow-ups, mentoring, as many consultations
as necessary, and a network of peers that
offers all sorts of help, both practical and
spiritual. We require that the directors
who are trained go back and teach their
faculties and lay leaders, Ms. Kirshner
said. Its not that you just go to a conference and get a binder and put it on a shelf.
Its about shifting behavior and ideology.
It has to be collective or it doesnt work.
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real-world problems. Our mentors consult with people who are determining
how to start an inclusion committee,
how to support a family whose child is
nonverbal through a bar or bat mitzvah, how to train your faculty before the
school year starts, how to communicate
with parents during the year, how to talk
to the person who does membership at
your shul, how to see whether inclusion
is clear enough on the shul website.
The more you work to be inclusive,
the more people you draw in. Rabbis
used to say, We dont have any people
with special needs in our community,
Ms. Kirshner said. They dont say that
as much any more. When they do, the
answer in Matan is How do you know?
They havent tried to get in.
We want people to know that until
rabbis speak about this from every
bimah, peoples attitudes arent going to
change. Yes, change starts at the bottom
up, with parents and siblings, but it also
has to come from the top down. Rabbis
have to say Yes, this is normal. These
are our values. This is how we live.
Matan has worked with many local
educators. Rabbi Sharon Litwin of
Teaneck, who is the educational director at Congregation Bnai Israel in Millburn, was a Matan fellow three years
ago, when she had the same position at
Temple Israel in Ridgewood. I did the
program became I noticed that there
were more and more children in the
religious school who had learning needs
that we were not meeting, she said. I
had no training in special education, so
I basically was just doing the best I could
for them, using my intuition.
Intuition can only take you so far;
Rabbi Litwin realized that she needed
training. We had a wide spectrum of
students, kids with everything from dyslexia or ADHD to autism and other kinds
of sensory disorders. Sometimes parents would detail their childrens challenges, sometimes theyd kind of casually tell me about them, and other times
parents would say nothing at all, leaving
the staff to figure it out.
Matan gave us actual tools, with
actual research behind it, to help us
include the students as much as possible, Rabbi Litwin said. Intuition sometimes allowed us to put on Band-Aids,
but not to do anything structural. Matan
showed the way to structural improvements. The thing that has had the most
impact is that when I work with teachers, I have a better understanding of
the different learning styles in our classrooms. If you have a student who has a
or b or c behavior, these are the tools to
help them.
Matans network also helps. If I have a
question, I have a whole group of people I
can ask for an answer, Rabbi Litwin said.
Glenn Graye of Cresskill, who belongs
to Temple Emanu-El, is a strong supporter of Matan, and of Dori Kirshner.

Mr. Grayes 26-year-old son, Maxwell,

is autistic. Mr. Graye decided, when Max
was a child, that despite his challenges
he would become bar mitzvah and that
the family would become and stay active
members of the shul community.
It was a struggle. But now, many
years later, we are part of the footprint
of the temple, he said. We go every
Friday night. It used to be that people
would turn their heads. Now, everyone
says hello, and they give us a hug.
Matan is too late for Max and his family, but Mr. Graye sees great hope in it.
The only way a handicapped child
and parents can feel a part of the community is through inclusion, he said.
You are always segregated there are
many things you cant do. What they are
doing is having the disabled community
become part of the mainstream in places
where they can, and that way the regular
community can learn from the special
needs community, and vice versa.
They are opening up the world, and
opening up eyes, by having the special
needs community be part of the community. I am touched by it, because I never
had it.
Without leaders stepping up to the
plate, you are just lost in your own little
world. I see the way the rabbi embraces
my son, and my son embraces him
back. The tendency, when you say hello
to someone who doesnt know how to
say hello back, who looks at you with a
funny expression, is not to keep doing
it. The rabbi keeps doing it, keeps saying
hello, and with a smile.
It makes me so proud.
Dori Kirshner and Matan are doing
great work, he added. What Dori is
doing is going to open up the future for
the next generation. I applaud and support it. I am overwhelmed by the effort
that goes into it.
When my son was young, I wondered
why he couldnt eat lunch with the regular kids, so that the regular kids can
understand the special needs community. Thats part of what Matan is doing.
For Dori Kirshner, it all goes back to
what she absorbed as a child in Houston. People dont want to be known
or defined by their disability, she said.
They want to be a person first. There has
to be a place where they can let that out.
For me, the nexus of the Jewish community and disability, the reason its so
important to me, is that the Jewish community was my place, the place where I
could be seen. The place where I didnt
have to hide who I was.
The Jewish community should be
there for everyone, whether or not they
have disabilities. Historically, it hasnt
been that way. Thats why her lifes
work is to make the community a safe
place for every Jew.
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killed when a grenade exploded in his
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Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow of Passaic, 20,
was one of two soldiers who died in the
incident Sunday, which is under investigation by the Israel Defense Forces.
The other was an Israeli-Druze reserve
soldier, Staff Sgt. Husam Tafash.
The Hebrew-language news website Walla estimated that 3,000 people
attended the funeral in Netzer Hazani
near Rehovot in central Israel. Ynet put
the figure at 2,000.
On Monday morning, Rindenows
brother, Jeff, in an interview with Israels
Channel 2, called on the Israeli public to
attend the funeral.
For most of the course of his [army]
service my brother was alone, Jeff
Rindenow said. He volunteered to the
army because he wanted to be a warrior. We are requesting that at least for
his final departure he wont be alone.
Rindenows parents, Mordechai and
Mindy, arrived in Israel on Monday for
the funeral. Ynet reported that Rindenow was buried in a non-military plot at
the request of his parents, who want to
be buried alongside him in the future.
Rindenow has nine siblings, and is one
of five brothers who moved from Passaic
to volunteer in the IDF. He spent a year
volunteering with a search and rescue
organization in Israel. Another brother
reportedly now is serving in a paratroopers unit.
Shlomo would get into his head that
he wanted to do things and then hed

just do them, his brother Baruch reportedly said at the funeral. He decided to
come to Israel, learn Hebrew within a
few months and get into the unit in the
army he wanted. And he did it.
I admired him so much, and I dont
think I even told him that. I told other
people, I bragged about my brother, but
Im not sure if I told him.
His sister Yocheved reportedly said,
You were wise like your namesake, King
Shlomo, wise beyond your years. More
mature than all of us. You loved us all
so much, and Im so sorry for what happened to you.
When Shlomo joined the army, we
werent even as worried as you would
think. He was so responsible that we just
assumed hed be safe whatever he did.
You taught us how to live with a pure
and open heart. Youre part of our hearts
and you always will be. Im grateful that
you were my brother.
Avraham, his oldest brother, said, My
little brother was full of life and always
smiling, and he never complained. He
was the little guy of the family. He told
me I want to go into the IDF. He came to
Israel and now hes here because he was
serving all of us.
The explosion occurred near Majdal
Shams, a Druze village near Mount Hermon in northeast Israel.
Tafash, 24, a reservist from the Druze
village of Beit Jann, was buried on Monday morning. He was the jeeps driver,
and reportedly was holding the grenade
when it exploded. Three others were
injured.
The army said it was not clear why the
soldier was holding a grenade. The soldiers were part of a combat engineering
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Jewish World

Jewish Republicans wonder how

to vouch for Trump when he wont help out
RON KAMPEAS
CLEVELAND Donald Trumps campaign
for the presidency rolled out its Israel
Advisory Committee last week.
No one noticed.
Blame the unrelenting news cycle, if
you will: July 14 was the day of the hideous
mass killing in Nice, France.
But also, Trumps Israel Advisory Committee consists of exactly three men, all
Jews, including two who work for him.
Move along. Not much news here.
Trumps unusual campaign extends to
its Jewish outreach, or rather his lack of
Jewish outreach, in that it does not resemble anything that has come under that
rubric in other campaigns.
Campaigns routinely distribute talking
points to Jewish supporters and cultivate
them as validators, people who will
appear in the community on their behalf
and make their case to the Jewish media.
But insiders say that Republican Jews who
want to support Trump within their community have heard crickets.
No talking points. No invitations to
speak on his behalf to their communities. And calls by potential supporters and
donors on behalf of daughters and nephews who want to volunteer go unreturned.
(Like JTAs request to the Trump campaign
for comment on this story.)
Tevi Troy, a deputy secretary of health
under President George W. Bush and a
formidable Jewish community validator for past Republican candidates, said
that no one has been in touch this year,
but that may be because hes not on any

Joel Pollak of Breitbart News is at the

Republican National Convention in
Cleveland. 
RON KAMPEAS
26 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 22, 2016

of the relevant lists. Troy had opposed

Trump during the primaries, but once it
became clear in May that Trump would
be the nominee, he said he was open to
persuasion.
I dont think theyre targeting messages specifically to the Jewish community, he said.
That could cost Trump significant
advantages, both in much-needed funding
for his campaign and in votes.
Theres a fundraising component to
Jewish outreach, Troy said. There are
Jewish populations in certain swing states
in 2004 that really helped Bush win
reelection, he added; he was talking about
Ohio and Florida.
On the other hand, Troy said, how someone validates candidates may be changing,
with more people going to social media to
solicit information and opinions. The
Jewish community is a vocal one, there are
a lot of bloggers, a lot of tweeters pushing
out the pro-Trump message, he said.
Troy said that Trumps pick of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as a running mate
could reassure conservative Jews who are
acquainted with Pences long history of
friendship with Israel, not just as governor
but when he was in Congress.
Perhaps the biggest Jewish validator of
all, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, was
scheduled to attend a Republican Jewish
Coalition event during the convention.
But after pledging to contribute as much
as $100 million to the Trump campaign,
Adelson has yet to make a significant contribution. Nor has he convinced other proIsrael donors to chip in.
On Tuesday evening, Michael Mukasey,
the Jewish attorney general under President George W. Bush, was scheduled to
speak at the convention. Mukasey, who
advised Jeb Bushs presidential campaign,
is known for his warnings about radical
Islams spread in the United States. Thats
a message that jibes with Trumps own
broad-brush comments about Muslims.
The names on the campaigns Israel
Advisory Committee included Jason
Greenblatt of Teaneck, the Trump Organizations longtime general counsel, and
David Friedman, who has represented
Trump in bankruptcy cases, also for many
years. The third name was Richard Roberts, a pharmaceutical executive and a
benefactor of a major Lakewood yeshiva,
who is also a Republican fundraiser.
Trumps difficulties among Jews have
much to do with his broadsides against
minorities, the disabled, and women; his
refusal to disavow some of the anti-Semites who have attached themselves to his
cause, and his back and forth on whether
he would be neutral on Israel.
Their ambivalence was in evidence on

Jason Dov Greenblatt of Teaneck, the Orthodox Jew who is Donald Trumps top
real estate lawyer, is one of three members on the Republican nominees Israel
Advisory Committee. 
URIEL HEILMAN

Monday morning at the Ohio delegations

breakfast, which was emceed by Josh
Mandel, the state treasurer and a national
Jewish GOP star. Mandel did not mention
Trumps name once, explaining at one
point that he preferred to focus on close
congressional races.
Mandel had invited Joan Synenberg, a
judge whose husband, Roger, is a leader
in the Cleveland Jewish community, to
deliver the invocation before the program began.
We praise a God who is black, white,
red, and every other color, Synenberg
said. We seek that before we lash out, we
reach out, we come together, whatever
our differences, describing what might
be the antithesis to the Trump ethos.
Im here today because Im with Him,
Synenberg said, pointing skyward.
Joel Pollak, a senior editor at Breitbart,
a conservative news site, said that the
Trump campaign has to overcome negative perceptions specific to the Jewish
community.
The challenge of making Trumps case
is primarily that there are a bunch of people shouting Nazi and shanda for no real
reason, he said, using the Yiddish word
for an embarrassment.
Pollak, speaking to JTA via Twitter direct
message, outlined a three-point strategy
for overcoming complaints about Trumps
difficulties with minorities and the allegations that he flirts with white supremacists.
The argument for Trump among
Jews boils down to: 1. (daughter) Ivanka
Trumps Orthodox conversion; 2. His
long association with people like (Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu; 3.
A list of Hillary Clintons failings, plus the

Democrats leftward shift, he wrote.

Nick Muzin, a senior political adviser to
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, said that Trumps
overarching message that Clinton
assumes office at Americas peril was
one that would resonate within the Jewish community and did not necessarily
need tweaking.
People are coming around to the fact
that we want to defeat Hillary Clinton,

The challenge of
making Trumps
case is primarily
that there are a
bunch of people
shouting Nazi
and shanda for
no real reason.
JOEL POLLAK

said Muzin, an Orthodox Jew who wrote

an essay for JTA in support of Cruz for
president. The idea of the Democratic
Party and where its drifted on Israel, and
on the Iran nuclear deal we cant afford
not to have a change.
At a Trump fundraiser in the Hamptons,
the group of tony seaside communities on
Long Islands eastern end, Muzin said he
told donors this: Im seeing people say
Donald may not be their first choice, but
Donald is the choice we have considering
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Jewish World

RNC shuts down

live chat due
to barrage
of anti-Semitic
comments

Anti-Semitic comments on the RNCs

live YouTube chat,
made during a
speech by Jewish
former Republican
Hawaii Gov. Linda
Lingle.  SCREENSHOT OF

he Republican National Convention disabled the live chat feature on its official live
stream YouTube page on Monday, the first
full day of the Republican National Convention, after the chat was bombarded with anti-Semitic
comments.
The comments were made during a speech by Linda
Lingle, who is Jewish, Republican, and a former governor of Hawaii.
Lingle spoke about the division in Democratic leadership on support for Israel. She contrasted it to the
Republican Partys position on the Jewish state.
On one issue after another, from Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, to the Iran nuclear agreement,
to the very legitimacy of Israel, theyre divided, Lingle said about Democrats, continuing that those that
dont care for Israel [are] getting stronger in the Democratic Party. Youll find no such divisions in the Republican Partys leadership.
As she spoke, several people contributed such comments as, Ban Jews, Kike, Press H for Hitler, and
Oy Gevalt, Rawstory.com reported, and provided
captured screen shots of the comments.
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Jewish World

At GOP convention, Jewish delegates

cite Israel, style in backing Trump
BEN SALES
CLEVELAND On the day Donald Trump
wrapped up the Republican primaries,
Marc Zell was ready to resign his position
as vice president of Republicans Overseas,
the partys expatriate group.
Zell, who lives in Israel, was put off by
Trumps inconsistent statements about
the country. In particular, he felt insulted
when Trump, at a Republican Jewish Coalition forum last December, said, Youre not
going to support me because I dont want
your money. He felt then that the Republican front-runner preferred boasting about
his own prowess over concrete discussion
of policy. Supporting him felt too risky.
Now, sitting in a downtown hotel here,
Zell wears a Trump pin on his suit jacket
lapel and defends the presumptive nominees positions on Israel with passion, his
eyes focused and his voice intensifying.
The Obama administration has allowed
daylight to appear between the two allies,
said Zell, who also is co-chairman of
Republicans Overseas Israel, a branch of
the larger organization. Trump is against
that, and hes said it more than once. Hes
shown a sensitivity to the Israeli position
that we never saw before a month ago.
Zell isnt alone in his transformation
from Trump doubter to ardent supporter.
Interviews with some 20 Republican delegates and convention participants Jewish and not showed party loyalty and
optimism about Trump. Even more common was the distaste for his opponent,
presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, and that overshadowed any
ambivalence about Trumps more inflammatory statements.
These supporters see Trump as a
refreshingly honest voice and they also
see him as a successful businessman.
Echoing Trump backers nationwide,
the delegates said that they appreciated
his departure from the kind of cautious
speech they called political correctness. A few said he understands the
anger of his voters as few other politicians have. Kenneth, a delegate from
Texas who declined to give his last name,
said Trump speaks for the Americans
fed up with government.
Several said they see him as more trustworthy than experienced politicians,
someone who wont be hesitant to fight
corruption. Delegates called him fresh,
independent, and someone who tells it
like it is.
I am all in, said Judy Jackman, an alternate delegate from Texas who is a member of Christians United for Israel. Next to
her bejeweled American flag pin, she wore
another, which crudely compared Clinton

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Peter Goldberg, who lives in Alaska

but grew up in Brooklyn, says that
Trumps brash speaking style appeals
to him.
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Judy Jackman, a member of Christians United for Israel from Texas, says she
appreciates what she calls Trumps honesty and outsider status.

to a fried chicken.
What is wrong with giving a businessman a chance to deal with the corruption
in D.C.? she asked. I like that he knows
how to say youre fired. There are too
many people who are bought and paid for.
And Trump is good for Israel, delegates said or at least better than Clinton, whom they see as a threat to the Jewish state. Even as they defended Trumps
Israel policy, delegates spent more energy
lambasting his rival and the Democratic
Party for what they see as betraying Israel.
(Pro-Israel supporters cite as an example
the deal meant to curb Irans nuclear program, which was approved largely along
party lines.) Republicans, in their view,
would do no such thing.
I think the Jewish community should
look at the big picture, said Gary Howell,
a delegate from Michigan. The Democrats, the last eight years, have not been
friends of Israel. Republicans are much
more prone to support Israel.
Trump, who alarmed the pro-Israel community at the outset of his campaign by
speaking about being neutral in IsraeliPalestinian peacemaking, chose as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who is
more typical of the hawkish pro-Israel supporters in Congress. The Republican Platform Committee also approved last week
a plank removing the partys commitment
to a two-state outcome, to the delight of
right-wing pro-Israel delegates.

Still, Trumps critics have charged that

hes been dog-whistling to white supremacists throughout the campaign and has
not done enough to disavow the support
of such anti-Semites as David Duke, the
former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
Trump brewed controversy earlier this
month when he tweeted an image of a
Star of David and piles of money that many
viewed as anti-Semitic; the image originated with white power web users.
But Trumps Jewish supporters look past
the controversies to see him as someone
with a record of working with a range of
people, regardless of religion or race. A
New York businessman, a few said, will be
able to work with anyone. A few noted that
he has senior employees and a daughter
who observe Shabbat.
Hes always promoting people whether
they be African-American, gay, Jewish,
said Jeff Sakwa, the co-chairman of the
Michigan Republican Party, who is Jewish.
He has minorities that represent him.
Hes been so successful in New York, which
is one of the most liberal states around.
Not all delegates have reconciled themselves to Trump. Mike Goldman, an
adviser to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott who
serves on the states Republican Executive
Committee, supported Sen. Ted Cruz of
Texas in the primary and said he wasnt
sure who would get his vote in November.
Most of the invective has been against
Hispanics and Muslims, but when you

Marc Zell, vice president of

Republicans Overseas, opposed
Trump as recently as May, but he now
supports his partys candidate.

start singling groups out, its only a matter

of time before someone goes after us, he
said, referring to Jews. Were less than 2
percent of the population.
But Peter Goldberg, an Alaska delegate
who describes himself as having been
raised Jewish in Brooklyn, said that he
identifies with Trumps provocative way
of speaking. Trump, he said, just reminds
him of his childhood neighbors in the Flatbush neighborhood.
Hes a New Yorker, Goldberg said.
Doesnt he talk like a New Yorker typically talks? He comes across brash. Thats
just New York. Thats good by itself. I can
relate to it, but I can understand why people outside of New York might not.
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Jewish World

Its not a bird its SuperMeat

Israeli startup aims to grow meat without the animal
ANDREW TOBIN
The future of vat-grown, animal-free meat
is getting closer and the discussion of
whether its kosher is starting in earnest.
The founders of an Israeli food tech
startup have enlisted Orthodox rabbinic
support for their proposition that cultured meat, bioengineered from animal
cells, will be not only tasty and crueltyfree, but also parve.
SuperMeat, which began an online
crowdfunding campaign last week, has
the tagline, Real meat, without harming animals.
It imagines a chicken breast without
the chicken, developed in a machine,
grown from cells taken from a living bird
and cultured in a nutrient-rich stock.
The company has won notice in Israel
with slick marketing, celebrity endorsements, and news coverage. But the
increased awareness has raised tough
questions for two highly principled
groups of Israeli eaters: kashrut observers and vegans.
SuperMeats co-founder and co-CEO,
Koby Barak, a longtime vegan and animal rights activist, said his companys
cultured meat will be both kosher and
vegan-friendly, and he has the supporters to prove it.
I have spoken to about 10 rabbis and
I dont see any problem, Barak said. It
will be kosher. The vast majority of the
vegan-vegetarian movement is very supportive, and we thank them for really
supporting us.
Among rabbis and vegan activists,
though, the debate over exactly what to
make of SuperMeat, and cultured meat
in general, is far from resolved.
SuperMeat is not the first cultured
meat company, but it is the first to focus
on chicken. Others have already produced beef, and at least one is working
on pork. Mark Post, who made headlines
with the first cultured hamburger in
2013, said that he hopes to be the first to
get his product, recently branded Mosa
Meat, to market, in four to five years.
What SuperMeat thinks makes it
unique is its patented technology, which
is being developed by a company cofounder and its head of research, Yaakov Nahmias, a biomedical engineer at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Chickens would be spared with a

bioengineering method being developed by the Israeli food tech startup
SuperMeat.
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Production is to work like this: Cells

will be taken from a chicken, causing it no
harm. The cells will be put into a machine
that simulates the birds biology, allowing
them to self-assemble into meat.
Barak said that the process could revolutionize how the world eats, striking a
major blow against environmental degradation, animal suffering, and global
health pandemics. Other meats could be
made using more or less the same process, he said.
The Indiegogo fundraising campaign
has nearly raised its $100,000 goal,
which Barak hopes will demonstrate
consumer interest to investors, from
whom it will need to raise millions more.
Science aside, SuperMeat certainly
stands out for its marketing. Between
the videos of actors and models on the
companys Facebook page are taped testimonials by charedi Orthodox and religious Zionist rabbis.
Dov Lior, the chief rabbi of Hebron
and Kiryat Arba in the West Bank, and
Yuval Cherlow, a Ranaana rabbi who
helped found the religious Zionist rabbinical group Tzohar, argue on video
that SuperMeat will be parve. They say
animal cells dont count as meat, and
that anyway SuperMeats process transforms the cells into an entirely new
substance. Based on similar logic, they
say, gelatin derived from pigs is kosher.
Thats a position with which many other
Orthodox rabbis disagree.
Here, from the beginning its not considered meat because its a microscopic
thing. And even if it were really meat,
because it changed its form, a new face

has arrived here and its not considered

meat, and its clearly parve, said Lior, using
a Talmudic expression meaning that something that had previously been forbidden is
no longer forbidden because circumstances
have changed so entirely.
On the other hand, Yisrael Rosen, head
of the Zomet Institute, which works to reconcile Orthodox Jewish law and technology,
says that SuperMeat is meat, and suggests it
will need rabbinic supervision.
Cherlow said that he expects charedi
Orthodox and religious Zionist rabbis to be
divided on this issue. He said thats partly
because religious Zionists are willing to consider extralegal factors, like the welfare of
the planet, more than charedi Orthodox rabbis would. Israels chief rabbinate will err on
the side of the charedim, Cherlow predicted.
The rabbinate is trying to include everyone, so therefore it will go to the more
extreme opinions, he said. But I think
when there is a big need, I think most of the
rabbis will say you should accept the more
lenient position.
Asked if cultured pork would be kosher,

Cherlow said: Emotionally its more difficult. But logically its the same answer.
The New York-based Orthodox Union
has yet to take a position on cultured meat.
(The group doesnt recognize pig gelatin as
kosher.) But Rabbi Moshe Elefant, the chief
operating officer of the OUs kashrut department, suggested that the product sounded a
lot like meat. He also confirmed that the OUs
position would be based solely on Jewish law.
We of course are very concerned about
the environment, but our first consideration
is always halachah, he said.
SuperMeats concerns are more in line
with those of vegans and animal activists.
After all, much of the companys staff comes
from that world. Like Barak, SuperMeat cofounder and co-CEO Ido Savir has been a
vegan and animal rights activist for nearly
two decades. Both men left jobs in Israels
high-tech industry to join the company and
focus full time on the cause of cultured meat.
Nahmias, the scientific brain behind
SuperMeat and a rare omnivore on staff,
said that his work is motivated by his love
of schnitzel, an Israeli staple that he said is
becoming increasingly unsafe to eat.
As a kid, I was eating what my mother
and my grandmother were cooking. And I
want my kids to be able to eat the same kind
of schnitzel, he said. Thats the reason that
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Jewish World

Meet Brandeiss new president

Discomfort is an important element of education, Ron Liebowitz says
BY PENNY SCHWARTZ
BOSTON After 32 years at Middlebury College, the last
11 as its president, Ron Liebowitz is calling Brandeis University his new academic home.
On July 1, the 59-year-old New York native took the reins
as the ninth president of Brandeis, a Jewish-sponsored
nonsectarian research university in suburban Boston with
an enrollment of 3,600 undergraduates and more than
2,000 graduate students. Liebowitz was appointed to the
position last December.
Yeah, Im nervous in some ways, Liebowitz acknowledged with a chuckle.
But any new-job jitters are tempered by decades of
experience as an acclaimed leader in higher education. A
scholar of political geography who specializes in Russia,
Liebowitz rose from faculty member to provost at Middlebury before being tapped for its highest position in 2004.
In 2009, Time magazine named him one of the 10 best
U.S. college presidents.
Liebowitz said he was attracted to Brandeis because of
its strong liberal arts education, combined with its investment in high quality research. But discovering more about
the schools founding by the Jewish community in 1948
was very persuasive as well, he said.
It was formed to give Jewish students the opportunity to come to a first-rate institution, but also underrepresented students from across the spectrum, he said.
Being open to all has taken on new meaning. It was very
compelling. Today its as relevant as ever.

Im a firm believer that

any institution benefits
in terms of the quality
of education if
its diverse, if it has
people from many
backgrounds, different
life experiences,
different perspectives
talking to one another.
Liebowitz, his wife, Jessica, and their three children live
in Newton, Massachusetts, near the Brandeis campus in
Waltham. The couple is collaborating on research on the
future of U.S. doctoral education. Theyve been warmly
welcomed at Congregation Kehillath Israel in nearby
Brookline, Liebowitz reported. His children attend a local
Jewish day school.
He has taken the helm following a few years when
Brandeis made national news on the hot-button issues
of campus free speech and racial diversity: In 2014, the
university withdrew a speaking invitation to human
rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali over comments she had
made criticizing Islam, and last year the campus was
divided over inflammatory comments tweeted by an
African-American student after the funeral of two slain
New York police officers and the critical response by a
30 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 22, 2016

conservative Jewish student.

He succeeds Frederick Lawrence, who left after four
years on the job, and Lawrences interim replacement,
Lisa Lynch.
A warm and congenial leader, Liebowitz talked about
diversity, free speech and anti-Semitism during a conversation in his office at the Irving Presidential Enclave,
where the bookshelves still were nearly bare and some
boxes still remained unpacked.
Below is a condensed and edited version of the
interview.
JTA: What does being open to all students mean today?
Liebowitz: Im a firm believer that any institution benefits in terms of the quality of education if its diverse, if
it has people from many backgrounds, different life experiences, different perspectives talking to one another. If
done properly, if there is really a mix of students brought
together on campus, its an incredible learning environment, and thats what we aspire to.
JTA: How do you envision continuing Brandeis historical connection with the Jewish community?
Liebowitz: The institution never lost its founding spirit
and the Jewish values established here of academic excellence and critical analysis. Id add to that being self critical.
The third is tikkun olam, healing the world. I see that in
our student body. They are extremely engaged locally and
also globally.
JTA: What about specific Jewish practices on campus,
such as the schedule and food?
Liebowitz: We want to continue being the place where
all Jews feel comfortable on this campus. That requires us
to respect some aspects of Jewish life like diet, holidays,
and so forth. I see us continuing in that vein.
JTA: An online survey last year by Trinity College and
the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law
[unrelated to Brandeis University] found that more than
half of Jewish students in U.S. colleges reported experiencing anti-Semitism. Is that reflected at Brandeis? What role
does Brandeis play in that conversation?
Liebowitz: Anti-Semitism is unfortunately showing itself
everywhere, in Europe and in the U.S., and on college
campuses. There was a survey of students at Brandeis.
One of the more heartening issues is that students who
identified themselves as Jewish noted their level of comfort was extremely high. I think Brandeis is a beacon and
can be a model. The BDS issue, which is generating a lot
of these issues on other campuses, seems to be much less
of a factor. There is a BDS presence, but here its not seen
as a major issue.
JTA: What are your views on the debates over free
speech on campus? Are students too fragile?
Liebowitz: Im a big proponent of free speech, especially
in an educational environment. It comes with rules about
how people interact. You cant hurt. You can insult with
your ideas. I think students need to be free to speak. Faculty need to be free to speak. But respect is needed as well
as civility. Those two things are very crucial. With intimidation tactics that weve seen or heard about, you really
lessen the educational quality.
JTA: Are you going to address this issue?
Liebowitz: Oh yes. We will have this on the agenda for
sure. The University of Chicago is noted for its free speech
policy statement, which I find compelling. We want to
protect students, but we also dont want to shield them
from ideas they might not think about. Theyre not here to
get insulted, but they are here to hear things. Sometimes

Ron Liebowitz comes to Brandeis after earning

acclaim for his 11-year tenure as president of
Middlebury College.
COURTESY OF BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

discomfort is an important element of education.

JTA: There was a 12-day sit-in last year by Brandeis students protesting a lack of racial diversity. What is the
status of the agreement negotiated between the administration and the students?
Liebowitz: Before she went back to the Provosts office,
interim president Lisa Lynch sent out an update on the
recommendations. Well engage each one of those.
There are real challenges when it comes to diversity.
There are creative programs out there to bring more
recently minted Ph.D.s into institutions like Brandeis.
But keeping them is difficult because they are easily
raided by wealthier and larger institutions. So we have
to do this in a creative way.
JTA: Is being Jewish important in the role of the Brandeis
president?
Liebowitz: Its an interesting question. When it was
announced that I was president of Middlebury, in 2004,
the first call I got was from a reporter who asked, Are you
the first Jewish president of Middlebury? [He was.] It may
be important. It may not be important. I think its very
important to certain Jewish constituents.
JTA: Does it matter in terms of fundraising?
Liebowitz:Its important for a particular group, but I
think we also have to be much broader in our fundraising. Brandeis has really thrived for 68 years with incredible philanthropy from the Jewish community. But we also
want to reach out to the alums, more and more of whom
over the years will be non-Jewish. Thats really been the
demographics.
JTA: What are you planning to say when you welcome
incoming freshmen?
Liebowitz: I think we should be aspirational in how we
engage students as they set out on their college career. At
Middlebury, I left the advice to the people who do orientation. I try to stay at a higher level about the full four-year
experience. But I need to learn more about Brandeis to
tailor some of the comments I will make.  JTA WIRE SERVICE

Dvar Torah
Balak: The blessing and beauty of privacy
Mah tovu ohalecha Yakov mishkenotecha Yisrael
How fair are your tents, O Jacob
Your dwelling places, O Israel

What was it that made Israel as observed

worthy of such a blessing? The most famous
answer is that given in the Talmud (Rosh
Hashanah 60a), which teaches that Balaam
observed that the Israelites arranged their
homes in such a way that no door or window of one home directly faced the doors
and windows of another home. No one had
to fear that their neighbors were observing
them while they were conducting their private affairs in their own home. Through this
rabbinic legend, our rabbis and sages were
trying to teach us about the importance of
privacy. This teaching reminds us that we
need a place where we can do things and
even say things which would not necessarily be as acceptable if we were to conduct
those same actions or conversations in the
public realm.
They similarly offer a Jewish legal view
that is at great variance with the prevailing
norms of American culture. It is not only
the individual that must take precautions

to guard their privacy, but

simply not for us to view, no
the responsibility of the
matter how fun or scandalous it might be. That we find
larger community to assist
it interesting is not legally
in this effort as well. Even
significant from the point
an individuals careless or
of view of Jewish law, makcavalier attitude toward their
ing our rabbis understandown privacy does not free
ing of Balaams blessing is
their family members, neighbors, or larger community
as important today as it ever
Rabbi Arthur
from nonetheless respecting
was. Maybe more so.
Weiner
the boundaries that need to
Certainly reasonable intruJewish Community
sions on personal privacy are
exist, and that we abandon at
Center of Paramus,
also part of the discussion.
our own peril.
Conservative
We live in a time of elevated
Privacy has been a Jewish
security concerns, and must
concern for thousands of
at times sacrifice some privacy for the sake
years. Our sages would be horrified not
of national security. How much so is one
only by the willful invasion of privacy so
of the great legal and moral questions of
common in American society (and especially in our time, made far easier by all
our time. The recent attempts of the FBI to
sorts of technology designed specifically
gain access to the iPhone of the perpetrators of the horrendous terrorist incident in
to do so) but also how easily we throw
San Bernardino last December, and Apple
our privacy away. A quick internet search
Corporations public opposition to it was
will provide links to thousands of websites
an excellent example of the important
revealing all sorts of personal information
values and concerns the issue of privacy
as well as private pictures of famous people. And it is wrong. Photographers literraises, and the hard choices that must be
ally endanger themselves and the public at
made. Like innocence, privacy, once lost,
large trying to get that picture of a movie
is not easily regained.
star on vacation, or that musician with
This column does not allow for full
their children. These websites and gossip
exploration of the issue of privacy and its
magazines exist, and photographers and
importance in Jewish law and lore. But
journalists publish this garbage, because
let us understand exactly how our rabbis
the American public demands it. After
understood Balaams blessing. Respect
all, for a generation now we have been
for privacy is important, beautiful, and
taught that we are entitled to it. Our Torah
bestows blessings upon the individuals
begs to differ. Such private information is
and communities that safeguard it.

We were gratified to hear much agreement among a diverse group of experts

from the U.S., Europe, and Israel all key
regions in this issue, Dr. Norton said at
a press conference in Jerusalem the day
after the meeting.
We found that if you are in certain
groups, not having a family history does
not mean that you should not be tested
since you might have a cancer-causing
mutation. Indeed, testing all Ashkenazi
Jews, as an example, finds twice as many
people with mutations as testing just
those with family histories.
Dr. Norton urged a change in rules for
testing. Knowing that one has a dangerous mutation could well be lifesaving
since one can do things that minimize
ones risks, he said. At the same time, he
acknowledged that the psychological,
medical, and economic consequences of
broader testing need to be evaluated.
While Sharsheret does not provide
medical advice or referrals, Ms. Silber
said that in response to the symposiums

recommendation, we are ready to serve

as the national resource for women and
families debating about genetic testing.
We have skilled professionals in our clinical team to address any questions about
genetic counseling and testing.
We also have the opportunity through
our peer support network to have
women talk to others who have contemplated and considered preventative measures when they discovered they carried
a BRCA mutation.
The Basser Center at the University of
Pennsylvania partners with Sharsheret to
share information with patients and advocates about BRCA mutation research,
including informational resources for
rabbis and congregations participating in
the annual Sharsheret Teal/Pink Shabbat.
Sharsheret also is working with the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control to amplify
and scale up programs and messaging for
young Jewish women with breast cancer,
Ms. Silber said.
Based on the recommendation of

(NUMBERS 24:5)

arshat Balak provides us with

one of the most famous verses
in the entire Torah. It is the
basis for the first prayer that
many of us learned in yeshiva or Hebrew
School. In many congregations, it remains
the prayer often said first upon entering
the synagogue.
Balak, the king of Moab, fears the large
Israelite nation approaching his borders.
He is aware of the military victories that
they achieved in previous battles. Hoping to avert similar disaster, he seeks out
Balaam, a seer with the power to both bless
and curse, and asks him to curse Israel. The
great drama in the parshah is whether he
will or will not do what Balak asks.
Ultimately, and I might add, fortunately,
Balaam does not curse Israel at all. In fact,
when it is his turn to offer his imprecation
he does the opposite. He looks out into the
Israelite camp, and blesses them. Balak,
angry at this betrayal, takes him to another
vantage point, to perhaps gain a perspective that would help him provide the curse
that Balak wants, yet again Balaam blesses
Israel. Enraged, Balak takes Balaam to a
third location. At this point the Torah tells
us that the spirit of God came upon him.
(Numbers 24:2). And in the course of this

BRCA
FROM PAGE 9

Chaired by Dr. Larry Norton, medical

director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast
Center of Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center in New York, the symposium
was sponsored by the Cure Breast Cancer
Foundation of Clifton. The foundations
founder, Andrew Abramson of North
Caldwell, previously supported a study
at Soroka University Medical Center in
Beersheba on the possible links between
breast cancer and bone health. That
study also involved Dr. Norton.
Mr. Abramson said that the hospitals
diverse and stable patient population in
Israels Negev region provides a unique
opportunity for retrospective studies.
This years symposium was held in cooperation with Soroka and the Israel Healthcare Foundation, an independent American
non-profit organization that promotes and
represents Clalit, Israels largest healthcare
network. Soroka is a Clalit hospital.

third blessing offers the very words which I

referred to at the beginning of this column.
How fair are your tents O Jacob
Your dwelling places, O Israel


(NUMBERS 24:5)

the symposium participants, Ms. Silber

expects Sharsheret to have an increasingly important role in providing guidance to Jewish families considering
genetic testing.
We are the first call you should make
whether or not you have a family history, Ms. Silber said. Were always
here for you as you respond to the recommendations offered by the experts in
the field. Ultimately, saving lives is a team
effort of the medical and advocacy communities coming together.
The researchers said they will write a
paper summarizing their findings and
plan to meet again for follow-up work.
Among those present were Dr. Ehud
Davidson, director-general of Soroka
University Medical Center; Dr. David
Geffen, chief of breast oncology services at Soroka; Dr. Kenneth Offit, head
of clinical genetics at Memorial Sloan
Kettering, and Dr. Judy Garber, past
president of the American Association
for Cancer Research.
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Briefs

Crossword
HOMOPHONES BY YONI GLATT

Israeli high schoolers win medals

at international physics and math competitions
The Israeli delegation to the 47th International Physics Olympiad for high school students in Zurich, Switzerland, which ended
Sunday, won four medals three silver and
one bronze and an honorable mention.
Israels team included Omry Cohen, who
tied for 63rd place and received a silver
medal; Iddo Friedman, who tied for 68th
place and received a silver medal; Chen Dan
Mechel, who came in 101st and was awarded
a silver medal; Nir Yosef May, who came
in 131st to get a bronze medal; and Nitzan

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Shapria, who came in 221st place and earned

an honorable mention.
Israel was ranked 19th among the 87 countries that participated in the Physics Olympiad. At the Mathematical Olympiad for high
schoolers in Hong Kong, Israelis Yaron Brodsky, Omri Peer, and Yoav Avidan won silver
medals, while Boaz Buberman, Dor Mezer,
and Liam Hanany brought home bronzes.
Israel was ranked 22nd among 109 countries
that took part in the Mathematical Olympiad,
JNS.ORG
which wrapped up Sunday.

Flag burners face up to 3 years

in jail after Knesset amends law
The Knesset passed an amendment to
Israels Flag and Emblem Law that makes
burning the Israeli flag a criminal offense
punishable by a roughly $15,000 fine or up
to three years in jail.
The amendment passed a second and third
hearing by a vote of 38 to 12. Under the previous law, the maximum penalty for desecrating the flag was one year in jail or a fine of $78.
The amended legislation also gives courts
discretion to deny an individual convicted of

burning the flag certain state-funded benefits

including scholarships as well as health and
social security benefits for up to six years.
MK Nava Boker of Likud, who sponsored the bill, said in March, I presented this bill following the incitement
and riots we have been seeing in Arab
towns in Israel. It is time to impose a
harsher sentence and a hefty fine to end
this disgraceful phenomenon.

JNS.ORG

Former Turkish military attach

to Israel admits he organized failed coup
The former Turkish Air Force chief and the
countrys former military attach to Israel,
Akn Ozturk, has admitted organizing the
failed military coup in the country over the
weekend, according to Turkeys state-run
Anadolu news agency.
The report said that Ozturk confessed to
the plot in an interrogation, and photos have
been released showing him shackled and
with a number of injuries.
In earlier statements to the media, Ozturk

had denied involvement in the attempted

coup against the government of Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. I am not
someone who has planned or directed the
coup attempt...I dont know who did, he
had initially said, the Turkish broadcaster
NTV reported.
Oztur was in charge of the Turkish Air
Force from 2013 to 2015, and served in Israel
from 1996 to 1998.
JNS.ORG


Reinstated British MP denies being

anti-Semitic, admits using anti-Semitic language
British Member of Parliament Naz Shah
who was suspended from the Labour Party
in April for suggesting that Israel should be
relocated to the United States as a solution to
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and later was
reinstated told BBC Radio 4 that she is not
anti-Semitic, but admitted she had used antiSemitic language.
Shahs initial comment sparked a scandal
that resulted in the suspension of at least 50
other Labour members. In the new radio

interview, Shah reflected on how stupid I

was and how ignorant I was when she made
her comment about relocating Israel.
I didnt get anti-Semitism as racism, said
Shah. I had never come across it. I think
what I had was an ignorance.... And I had
to really question my heart of hearts. Yes, I
have ignorance, yes everybody has prejudice,
subconscious biases, but does that make me
anti-Semitic? And the answer was no, I do not
JNS.ORG
have a hatred of Jewish people.

IDF fails to shoot down Syrian

drone that entered Israeli airspace
Israel fired missiles toward a drone that
entered Israeli airspace from Syria on Sunday, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Two Patriot air defense missiles were fired
towards a drone that infiltrated Israeli airspace in the central Golan Heights. The drone
returned to Syria, the IDF said in a statement.
32 JEWISH STANDARD JULY 22, 2016

The missiles were unable to intercept

the drone, which led to shrapnel falling
in Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar in the upper
Galilee region. A 14-year-old girl was lightly
injured and taken to the hospital. Israeli
fighter jets were dispatched, but also did
JNS.ORG
not hit the drone.

Across
1. Usual time for YC
5. Herzog option
9. Kohanim remove them, at times
14. Hebrew U attendee, once
15. Siddur alternative, nowadays
16. Asian city where Beth Israel
Synagogue was founded in 1894
17. Tropicana races?
19. Ford parts?
20. Org. Al Jolson toured for
21. Bone wrapped in tefillin
22. Gamma and Israel followers
23. Name of two Prime Ministers
25. Bovine beach?
28. Sof zman
30. Like Tal Ben Haim or Eran Zahavi
31. Man-mouse link
32. Like the walk from Egypt to Jordan
33. It has South Americas largest
Jewish pop.
34. Bob Hoskinss role in Spielbergs
Hook
35. Where Meyer Lansky got his bread?
38. Essenes, e.g.
40. Foul for Braun but not Casspi
41. Funny Rickles
42. Jewish Press press
43. These, to Sarah Bernhardt
44. Women outside need one in Saudi
Arabia but not Israel
48. Tune for wool cutting?
52. Dylans ___ (Tales of Yankke
Power)
53. What Joshua did to the land
54. The ___ Love (Gershwin tune)
56. Tool that might get little work every
seventh year
57. Miriam, to Elisheva
58. Question a camels cousin?
60. Bit of work for Feldshuh
61. Ancestor of Haman
62. Girl opposite Lauren Cohans Maggie
on The Walking Dead
63. Actress Sofer, and others
64. Team with Madoff connections
65. Great Synagogue in Nachlaot

Down
1. Judges prophet
2. Kings prophet
3. End havdallah
4. Site and show thats big on lashon
hara
5. Cambodian coin worth a mere fraction of a Shekel
6. Unwraps (on Chanukah)
7. Tractate for a cheater
8. Some Jer. Post staffers
9. Eichners Billy on the ___
10. Night sounds in the Borscht Belt,
perhaps
11. First Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
12. The Hiriya landfill was considered
one (visually)
13. Israeli Childrens Villages
18. Additional prayer
22. Golani, e.g.
24. Make the cholent lean
26. Haza who prematurely passed
27. The Facts of Life actress
29. Hes a doctor! among dating feedback for a Jewish woman
33. Rick Recht might use one
34. ___ You Went Away (hit Selznick
film)
35. Actor who has played a Holocaust
survivor and a Nazi
36. Org. Kirk Douglas made a generous
donation to
37. Significant Arava Valley find in 2012
38. Michal to Jonathan, for short
39. Elevate (a mitzvah)
43. Cameron of Roadies and Russell of
Noah
45. Available, like a worker at the Inbal
46. One sharing a room at Bar Ilan
47. Naot bottoms
49. A Haim sister
50. One featuring Refaeli or Ginzburg
51. ___ Gan
55. Noodges
57. Hebrons home: Abbr.
58. Book by Jeremiah: Abbr.
59. Michele of Glee

The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 39.

Arts & Culture

Good
evil
H
examines
to

MIRIAM RINN

ow do ordinary, seemingly normal people end

up complicit in evil?
Is it through some
personal character flaw,
or is it pressure from
external forces that distorts their judgment? Could it be part of
our human nature just to follow events,
just to go along, because it is easier at the
moment than resistance?
Those are the questions at the center
of C.P. Taylors disturbing drama Good,
now being revived at the Atlantic Stage 2
on West 16th Street as part of the Potomac
Theatre Projects 30th anniversary season.
The play is in repertory with Howard Bakers No End of Blame.
Good originally was produced in 1981
as a commission for the Royal Shakespeare
Company, and it has been mounted all
over the world since then. Taylor was a
Scottish Jew with socialist leanings, and
many of his plays have Jewish themes.

path

In Good, he follows the liberal German

literature professor John Halder (Michael
Kaye) from the early 1930s, as he slowly
but inexorably accommodates himself to
the rise of the Nazis, through their increasingly violent anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism, and eventually to the Final
Solution. At each step, Halder must rationalize his decisions to betray his wife, to
join the party, to abandon his best friend,
a Jewish psychoanalyst, to condemn his
demented mother, and to condone burning the books he loves.
Somehow, he manages it all.
Halder is a sympathetic character at the
opening of the play, a mild-mannered,
somewhat dithering man dealing as best
he can with an emotionally crippled wife
(Valerie Leonard) and a mother in the grips
of dementia ( Judith Chaffee). He grouses
to Maurice (Tim Spears), his psychoanalyst
friend, about his impotence, and about
the soundtrack thats running in his head.
Popular music of the day seems to mirror
what is going on in his life. When Maurice
complains about the growing power of the

Michael Kaye, as John Halder, meets Adolf Eichmann, played by Adam Ludwig.

Michael Kaye plays Professor John Halder in Good.

Nazis, Halder assures him that their antiSemitic pronouncements are just sops to
the masses, and that in the end they will be
sensible and realize that Germany cannot
exist without its Jews.
Maurice does his own rationalizing. He
sees the dangers ahead, but he cannot
separate from the Germany he loves. His
family has been there for generations, he
says, his father fought in the war, and he
gives all the other reasons German Jews
gave for staying put. As Maurice becomes
more desperate, and begs his friend for
help, Halder digs in more deeply. In the
end, expediency puts the professor into
an SS uniform.
At every turn, Halder chooses his own
advancement and safety. His decisions are
the opposite of irrational; on the contrary,
they are carefully considered. They make
perfect sense, from the perspective of a
man who is taking care of himself. When
he falls in love with a young student, he
convinces his wife that shell manage just
fine without him. When his new wife urges
him to join the party, he tells Maurice that
it will make his life easier.
Its not news to anyone who has been

PHOTOS BY STAN BAROUH

paying attention that the majority of Germans went along with the decrees of the
Nazis, with next to no complaint. We
know that they supported the regime,
and that after they lost the war many
Nazis slipped right back into their old
jobs and roles. Director Jim Petosa tries
to make the play relevant to todays political scene, but he might have emphasized
that point more firmly, which would have
made the production feel timelier and
more pertinent.
Haldar excuses the excesses of the Nazis
in the same way we hear commentators
explaining Donald Trumps wilder statements: hes inexperienced, hes feeling
his way, once he establishes his rule hell
settle down. He can get us back our own
country, a character says.
Despite its clear setting in prewar Germany, the questions Good asks should
make us as uncomfortable today. At what
point does a person say that enough is
enough?
A strong overall cast and crisp direction
keeps things moving in the PTP production, and Good can still stand as a warning to us all.
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Calendar
Traders Club of Wayne
offers whiskies for tasting
and will talk about their
origins. (973) 694-6274
or jewishwayne.com.

Friday
JULY 22
Shabbat on the
Palisades: Temple

Alzheimers support:

Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter invites
the community to the
informal Prayers on
the Palisades Shabbat
service led by Rabbi
David Widzer of Beth
El and co-hosts Rabbi
Steven Sirbu and Cantor
Ellen Tilem of Temple
Emeth in Teaneck at
6:30 p.m., at the State
Line Lookout off the
Palisades Parkway.
The exit is northbound
on the PIP two miles
north of Exit 2. Bring
a lawn chair and bug
spray. If the weather is
inclement, services will
be held at the shul, 221
Schraalenburgh Road,
Closter. Next service
Aug. 19. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.

Alzheimers New Jersey

offers a community
education program,
Healthy Aging: Tips
for Your Body and
Brain, at the Fair Lawn
Public Library, 7 p.m.
10-01 Fair Lawn Ave.
(973) 586-4300 or www.
alznj.org.

Monday

Temple Israel and JCC

of Ridgewood continues
its Summer Music
Friday concert series
with a performance
by congregants Irene
Bressler on harp and
Artie Bressler on
woodwinds. Doors open
at 6:45 p.m.; recital is at
7, followed by services
and a festive oneg. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.bisrael.com.

Golf in Demarest: The

Seniors meet in West

Nyack: Singles 65+
meets for a get-together
with refreshments, at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m. All
are welcome, particularly
from Hudson, Passaic,
Bergen, or Rockland
counties. 450 West
Nyack Road. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.

The Summer Concert series at the Wayne

YMCA continues with a performance by
Jenna Esposito, accompanied by her band,
on Thursday, July 28, at 7 p.m. Ms. Esposito
will pay tribute to New Jerseys own Connie Francis.
The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a partner of the
YM-YWHA of North Jersey. 1 Pike Drive. (973) 5950100 or www.wayneymca.org.

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Sunday
JULY 24

JULY 23

Foundation for Mill

House acts to preserve
the 300 year-old Gomez
Mill House the oldest
standing Jewish house
in North America. 11 Mill
House Road, off 9W.
(845) 236-3126 or www.
Gomez.org.

Tuesday
Growing fruit in the
Hudson Valley:

Drop City: A New

Documentary by Joan
Grossman and Tom
McCourt is screened
at Congregation Adas
Emuno, 7:30 p.m. Part of
Summer Movie Nights
that focus on the Sixties
and the Counterculture.
Refreshments. Next film,
Aug. 6. 254 Broad Ave.
(201) 592-1712 or www.
adasemuno.org.

AUG. 7

JULY

Saturday

Films in Leonia:

Sunday

J. Stephen Casscles
discusses the History
of Fruit Growing in
the Mid-Hudson Valley
and Local Breeding
of New Varieties of
Grape, Raspberries, and
Strawberries, at the
Gomez Foundation for
Mill House in Marlboro,
N.Y., 1 p.m. He will sign
and sell copies of his
book, Grapes of the
Hudson Valley And Other
Cool Climate Regions of
the United States and
Canada. Wine tasting of
local vintages follows the
presentation. The Gomez

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JULY 26

Rabbi Chaim Poupko

Lunch/learn in
Englewood: The
Dor LDor group at
Congregation Ahavath
Torah offers a pre- Tisha
BAv talk, Heroes and
Villains: The Personalities
Behind the First
Churban, by Rabbi
Chaim Poupko, the shuls

JOSH KASHMANN

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Refreshments at 12:30.
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Sunday programs for people with special needs

Art in Englewood
Judi Brice will display the paintings in her
Ultramarine Series, along with collages,
including Remembrance, about Yom
HaShoah, shown here. The exhibit is in
the Leonard J. Hansen Gallery at the Englewood Public Library through August 20.
Last year, Ms. Brice had a solo show at
the Waltuch Gallery at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly, where she is a
member. She and her family were members of Temple Beth El in Closter for nearly
20 years.
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What about Israels right-wing laws?

Are they a threat to democracy or much ado about symbolism?
ANDREW TOBIN
TEL AVIV Israels government, sometimes called its most right-wing ever, is on
a roll.
The Knesset is set to pass a law allowing
lawmakers to oust their colleagues from
office for supporting terrorism or inciting
racism. Thats the third new governmentbacked law targeting anti-Zionist expression and leftist activism in eight days.
The other laws upped the penalty for
desecrating the Israeli flag and required
nongovernmental organizations to declare
explicitly whether they get more than half
their funding from foreign governments.
None of the laws, passed just before the
Knessets summer recess, are expected
to have much real-world impact. But
both the left and the right are seizing on
their symbolism.
For the right, the laws set red lines that
protect Israels sovereignty from foreign
meddling and its democracy from those
who would undermine it.
Left-wing Knesset members and liberal observers worry that the legislation
already is harming Israels democratic
institutions and whipping up public sentiment against Arabs and leftists.
The latest bill, a response to Israeli Arab
lawmakers who visited the families of Jerusalem terrorists who were killed carrying
out attacks, is an amendment to Israels
Basic Law. It would allow the Knesset to
expel any member who supports armed
struggle against Israel, or who incites
racial hatred, if a three-fourths majority of
its 120 members agree with the expulsion.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and other supporters of the law have
argued that democracy must be protected
from itself.
I praise this, since we need to ensure
basic standards for behavior so our
democracy doesnt turn, in the words
of a great American jurist, into a suicide
pact. It needs to look after itself and protect itself, Netanyahu told the Knesset
in response to his coalition unanimously
backing the bill in February. The suicide
pact phrase was used by U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Robert Jackson in a 1949 case
about inflammatory speech.
Before the vote on the expulsion law, as
some are now calling it, Isaac Herzog, the
leader of the political opposition, countered that it would be the end of Israels
democracy.
The impeachment bill that the coalition is advancing is a bullet between the
eyes of Israeli democracy, Herzog, who
heads the center-left Zionist Union, said
last week. The coalition, he said, wants to
dismantle what was built here and build a
new state that is racist, violent, conflicted
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Hanin Zoabi, the Israeli Arab lawmaker at the center of a controversial bill to oust
Knesset members, stands in the Israeli parliament last week. YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90

and torn apart a Wild West in which

every Smotrich is a sheriff with inexhaustible powers.
Betzalel Smotrich, a member of the
religious-nationalist Jewish Home party,
has been admonished by members of his
own party for his bellicose statements
about Arabs.
Aymen Odeh, the head of the Arab Joint
List, put out a statement that said that
Netanyahu was trying to disenfranchise
Israeli Arabs.
The Prime Minister has a clear objective that this bill is just one part of fulfilling, it reads. Netanyahu does not want
Arabs to vote and he does not want us to
be a legitimate political force. Netanyahu
wants politics for Jews only. That is why he
is blatantly inciting against the Arab public
and against its elected representative.
A raft of right-wing legislation has been
proposed since the hawkish 20th Knesset
was sworn in. Most of these bills, though,
have not become law, and those that have
were softened during the legislative process.
The expulsion bill and the two other
laws passed last week are no exception.
Even the harshest critics of the NGO law,
which was passed last Monday, acknowledge that in the end, it does not require
the left-wing groups it singles out to reveal
any new information. And the flag desecration law, also passed Monday, simply
increases existing maximum sentences.
On its face, the expulsion law looks more
serious than the others. The catch is that
the bar for impeachment is high. Ten of the
70 Knesset members who initiate the process must be from the opposition, threequarters of the House Committee must sign

off, and 90 lawmakers must ultimately vote

to make it law. Also, the process cannot be
initiated during election season.
Even assuming that lawmakers manage to impeach one of their own, the
ousted parliamentarian can appeal to
the Supreme Court, which is likely to be
sympathetic. The Knesset Elections Committee has used Basic Law that the expulsion law amends to disqualify candidates
and parties from running. The Supreme
Court only upheld one ban by the committee of the ultranationalist Rabbi Meir
Kahane, whose Kach party was deemed
anti-democratic.
At least one member of the governing
coalition has complained that such changes
render the expulsion law largely symbolic,
anonymously telling Haaretz in February
that Netanyahu doesnt care what the law
says, he just wants a law like this on the
books. If you check carefully, you find that
you will never be able to suspend any MK
on the basis of the new version.
So whats the big deal?
Critics of the law have said it singles out
Arabs, and creates a mechanism for Knesset
members to harass and delegitimize them.
The main target of the expulsion law
seems to be firebrand Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi, who has made a political career of outraging Israelis. The legislation was initiated after she and two
other members of her Balad party, which
is part of the Joint List, visited the families
of Palestinians killed while attacking Israelis and observed a moment of silence in
their memory.
Following public outcry, Netanyahu
called for action against the Arab Knesset

members. He subsequently spoke repeatedly in favor of the expulsion law. After

Zoabi called Israeli soldiers murderers in
a June Knesset address-turned-brouhaha,
Netanyahu even considered swapping the
law for one focused solely on expelling
Zoabi from the Knesset.
The Knesset Ethics Committee suspended Zoabi from addressing the parliament for four months for her February
house call and may suspend her again for
her June speech.
Amir Fuchs, an analyst at the Israel
Democracy Institute, a leading think tank
here, noted that she or any other lawmaker already could be prosecuted for
supporting armed struggle or incitement
to racial hatred. But with the expulsion
law, the Knesset effectively has circumvented the justice system, making itself
accuser, investigator, judge, and executioner, he said. Arab lawmakers, he said,
will be public enemy No. 1.
According to Fuchs, the expulsion law
is part of a populist wave of nationalist
legislation unprecedented in Israeli history, including under right-wing prime
ministers such as Menachem Begin and
Yitzhak Shamir.
I think in the last years, theres some
kind of a circle that the politicians become
more and more populistic, he said. They
see that attacking Arabs or the extreme left
is popular, so they try to show achievements in this field, and the public is hearing this from its leaders and becomes more
and more extreme.
Yoaz Hendel, the chairman of the Institute for Zionist Strategies, a right-leaning
think tank, said that he agrees that the
expulsion law is all about Zoabi. In a way,
he said, Zoabi is responsible for much of
the legislation decried by the left.
Hanin Zoabi has become the political
reaction center in Israel, Hendel said.
She is the character behind all those bills,
and she becomes an excuse for for not
dealing with poverty or for your political
party to come to power.
Hendel calls the expulsion law a step
in the right direction, however. While the
Knesset ideally would legislate well-considered red lines on what is acceptable in
democracy and what is not, he said, in no
way do they threaten Israeli democracy.
The real threat, in his opinion, are the
Arab Knesset members who are strategically damaging the coexistence with Arabs.
When Hanin Zoabi is cooperating with
terror organizations, what do you think
its doing for Israeli democracy? he asked
rhetorically. Its damaging more than any
bill you can imagine. This bill is one small
step, that can maybe deliver a message
and has very limited impact.
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Sydelle Caspary

Sydelle Caspary of Wyckoff, formerly

of Cliffside Park, died July 13. She
was a former fashion model and
businesswoman.
Predeceased by a son, Randall,
she is survived by a daughter,
Roxane. Donations can be sent to
Southern Animal Rescue, Georgia.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.

Stanley Edelstein

Stanley S. Edelstein, 86, died

July 18.
He co-owned and was president
of Edelstein Office Furniture
from 1955 until it closed in 2006.
He was president of Fair Lawns

Congregation Bnai Israel and

was honored for philanthropy
and leadership, along with his
wife Bernice, by the shul, Jewish
Theological Seminary, and other
Jewish organizations. He was a
veteran of the Korean conflict.
He is survived by his wife of
61 years, Bernice, ne Genis;
children, David ( Jennie Berkson),
Ellen Zimmer (Lon), and Barry
(Hilit Shifman); a brother, Jacob;
six grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren.
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to the Chabad Jewish Center,
Wanaque. Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah
Chapel, Paramus.

David Lacoff

David Lacoff, 92, died July 11.

A U.S. Army World War II veteran,
he graduated from CCNY and
started the Mechanical Development
Corp. with his brother, Hy, building
mainframes for global computer
manufacturers.
He is survived by his wife, Gloria;
children, Dan (Helene) and Lakey
Oren (Nadav); grandchildren, Allison
Aspis (Ilya), Lauren Lacoff, Gilad and
Kineret Oren, Nava Oren, Irit Oren,
Benny and Adi Oren, and Anat Oren;
and three great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to ORT
America. Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.

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information provided by funeral homes.
Correcting errors is the responsibility
of the funeral home.

Rabbi Yaakov Thompson, once of Fair Lawn, dies at 61

Yaakov Thompson, a popular Conservative rabbi in South
Florida who was born Protestant and converted to Judaism in
college, died suddenly at 61.
Rabbi Thompsons family said that he died of a heart attack
on July 6.
Born Rick Thompson and raised in St. Marys, Ohio, the
future rabbi had never met a Jewish person until he got to college, at Ohio State University, the Sun-Sentinel of Broward and
Palm Beach counties reported.
I had been studying a lot about religion and ancient history, and then as I learned more and more about Judaism,
I discovered it as a faith I wanted to live by, not just study or
learn about, he told the Forum, a local newspaper, in 2010.
After college, Rabbi Thompson studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and Israel. From
1988 to 1996, he was the rabbi of Congregation Bnai Israel
in Fair Lawn, which later merged with the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center.
After 20 years in the tristate area, he moved to Florida and
joined Temple Beth Israel in Sunrise in 1996. He was its rabbi
from 2005 through 2011. Next, he became the rabbi of the
Cuban Hebrew Congregation of Miami Beach.
They loved him, his wife, Sarah, said of his congregants.
He treated me like a queen, she added.

Rabbi Thompson also loved rock music and played guitar,

posting his original music and a schedule of live performances
to his website, radioyaakov.com.
Along with his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Adina,
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n 1 Members of the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey stand together at the annual meeting of the N.J. State
Association of Jewish Federations. From left, Lori Fein, the
director of JFNNJs Jewish Community Relations Committee; Ron Rosensweig, JCRC chair and JFNNJ board member;
Gordon Haas, president of the State Association; Susan Penn,
its secretary and JFNNJ board member; Deanne Penn, chair
of the JFNNJ Partnership2Gether Physician Exchange; Ruth
Cole, State Association past president and JFNNJ board
member; JFNNJ past president Leonard Cole, and Jack
Toporek, executive director of the N.J. State Association of
Jewish Federations. The July 12 meeting was at the Wilf Jewish Community Campus in Scotch Plains. PHOTO PROVIDED

n 2 The religious school at Temple Sinai of Bergen County

held a ceremony for its confirmation class on Shavuot. Here,
in the front row, from left, are Cantor Nitza Shamah, Susannah
Abrams, Emily Matteson, Billie Singer, and Sophia Wolmer.
Maya Simon, Kate Klein, Bailey Kaplan, Alexa Miller, and Rabbi
Jordan Millstein are in the middle row, and school director
Sara Kaplan, William Goldman, Aidan Kluger, Eli Gold, Lucas
Goldman, and Zachary Benjamin are in the back. COURTESY SINAI
n 3 A group of more than 50 people from Lubavitch on
the Palisades of Tenafly went to the Lubavitcher rebbes
grave in Queens to mark his 22th yahrzeit. After a learning session on the bus with Rabbi Mordechai Shain,
participants wrote a letter to be read and placed at
the grave. www.chabadlubavitch.org. COURTESY LOTP
n 4 BergenPAC in Englewood treated participants from the
Gallen Day Center, including Cathy ODonnell, pictured, to
a performance of Jessies Girl. This was part of an ongoing partnership with the Jewish Home Family. The adult
day program specializes in giving a stimulating array of
activities and programming to people with Alzheimers,
Parkinsons, MS, and other conditions. COURTESY JHF

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n 5 Lisa Traiger of Passaic, a social worker at JFS of Metrowest, received the Lester Z. Lieberman Humanism
in Healthcare award from the Healthcare Foundation
of New Jersey this month. The award is given annually
to employees, students, and faculty in health care who
demonstrate extraordinary compassion and kindness in
their treatment of patients and families. COURTESY JFS

n 6 Campers at Gan Yaldenu in Teaneck had

the chance for parachute play with their stuffed
bears for Bears Week. COURTESY GAN YALDENU

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as CDs and DVDs. It is especially interested in lightly used
childrens books. All donations should be brought to the
library during library hours and left under the piano in
bags or boxes.
The sale is known for the quality and condition of the
books and will not accept cassette and video tapes, magazines, textbooks (except for math and science), encyclopedia or reference books, law and medical books or
any outdated materials or business books more than five
years old. Additionally, any damaged, underlined, torn, or
moldy books will not be accepted.
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Shahar Azran

Nefesh BNefesh flight

with five sets of twins lands in Israel
EL AL Israel Airlines recently flew more
than 200 olim to their new home in Israel.
Among the passengers moving there were
five sets of twins with their families who
are from New York, Virginia, California,
and Massachusetts.
With the youngest oleh only four
months old and the oldest 71, the EL AL
777 flight carried a diverse group of passengers from all over the USA, representing twenty states. This was the first of two

dedicated EL AL Nefesh BNefesh flights

that will take off this summer from JFK
International Airport to Israel.
The groups are organized by Nefesh
BNefesh in cooperation with the Ministry of
Immigrant Absorption, The Jewish Agency
for Israel, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, as well
as the Israel Scouts Tzofim Garin Tzabar
program. More than 5,000 Jews from all over
the world have moved to Israel this year and
more than 35,000 in the past 10 years.

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Dudu Fisher

Dudu Fisher, the voice of Jerusalem

and Broadway, earned international
acclaim for his starring role as Jean
Valjean in the Broadway production of
Les Miserables.

Teaneck Chamber announces honorees

The Teaneck Chamber of Commerce has
chosen honorees for
this years Community Awards Dinner on
Thursday, September
29, at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe.
The honorees
include Michael
Maron, president and
Michael Maron
chief executive officer
of Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, who has been
named Humanitarian of the Year. and
Dr. Sharyn Lewin, Holy Names medical
director of gynecologic oncology, named
Healer of the Year.
The Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe
will be honored as the Business of the
Year and Fairleigh Dickinson University
is Educator of the Year.
Jennifer Glass, the Chambers vice
president, said Our list of honorees just

Photos courtesy Holy Name

Four sets of twins

shown at JFK
International Airport
prior to boarding their
EL AL Nefesh BNefesh
flight to Israel holding
signs saying they are
moving to Israel.

Last week, nearly 1,000 people from 61

Bergen and Hudson county towns gathered at bergenPAC in Englewood for
a community event and concert with
Israeli tenor Dudu Fisher. The program
was sponsored by the Chabad centers
in Woodcliff Lake, Fort Lee, Teaneck,
Tenafly, Paramus, Hoboken, Franklin
Lakes, Fair Lawn, and Old Tappan.
It was a modern celebration of
Hakhel, an ancient biblical tradition
in which the Jewish nation adults,
children, and even infants would
gather in Jerusalem for a re-enactment
of the revelation at Mt. Sinai and to
invigorate their Jewish devotion and
commitment.
Rabbi Moshe Bryski, director of
Chabad of the Conejo in California, gave
a tribute to the Lubavitcher rebbe, the
late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, to
mark his 22nd yahrzeit.

Dr. Sharyn Lewin

keeps getting better and better. Each

year, the number of nominations that
come in from the community-at-large is
amazing, and choosing who to honor is
an incredibly difficult decision to make
since all of our nominees do so much for
our community.
For information, go to www.
teaneckchamber.org; call (201) 801-0012,
or email info@teaneckchamber.org.

Senator Mark Kirk,

left, with Scott
and Abigail Herschmann

Courtesy Norpac

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Rafael Dayan

Sellout concert
unites crowd
in Bergen

Senator at Norpac Englewood event

Abigail and Scott Herschmann and Roni
and Yehuda Blinder hosted U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) in Englewood for

a pro-Israel Norpac meeting last week.

Mr. Kirk is running for re-election in
November.

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