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in The Lovers
The Lovers stars to see yourself in them. officer in Paris on April
DEBRA WINGER, 61, Variety also said that 20. She said: I was there
and Tracy Letts as a Jacobs wrote a great just behind the shooting
long-married couple who part for Winger and she in a car when everything
are both in the midst of made the most of it: stopped and we just
open, serious affairs and Winger has never toned waited. We must not
are increasingly commit- herself down the way she give in otherwise it is
ted to their new partners. does here, yet her radi- the terrorists who win.
But, just as they are on ance shines through; its The terrorists do not
the brink of ending their become the expression measure our capacity for
marriage, a spark of an ordinary womans resistance.
between them unexpect- fuddy-duddy despera- She also told AFP that
edly reignites their long tion, and maybe her last this July shell be film-
dormant romantic true lunge at life. Debra Winger Azazel Jacobs Ken Jacobs ing a movie in which she
coupling. Is this a new Ive rarely been as plays a Syrian Jewish
start for their marriage or moved as I was woman from Brooklyn
a coda on it? How will watching Facebook CEO whos fighting breast
they manage cheating SHERYL SANDBERG, 47, cancer. Other sources
on their new partners? discuss the death of her provide details: the film is
Lovers was written husband, tech entrepre- The Girl with Pink Hair,
and directed by AZA- neur DAVE GOLDBERG, Margulies character is
ZEL JACOBS, 44. Ive on CBS Sunday Morning Orthodox, and her char-
long followed his career (aired April 23; available acter shares her fight
because I took two col- on CBS News site). with a teenage friend
lege courses taught by Goldberg, 48, died of a who also has breast
his father, acclaimed sudden cardiac arrhyth- cancer. The director is
non-narrative filmmaker mia in 2015. SUSAN SEIDELMAN, 64
KEN JACOBS, 83. Azazel Sandberg told CBS (Desperately Seeking
has been making feature journalist Nora Dunn: Sheryl Sandberg Dave Goldberg Julianne Margulies Susan).
films since 2003 that Dave was my rock. Dave Margulies ended her
havent played in many was my best friend be- rabbi said, Lean into the tion B was coined by she would turn to him, AFP interview by ex-
theaters (including the fore we dated and then suck. Sandberg then ADAM GRANT, 35, the a friend, for advice. Hes plaining why she de-
critical hit Terri, in got married [2004] and told Dunn: It was really co-author of Sandbergs the youngest person clined to be in The Good
2011). Very good reviews then had two amazing good advice, because new book. When Sand- to become a tenured Wife sequel, The Good
for Lovers at the last children. He was the one he was telling me this berg complained about faculty member at the Fight. She said: I had to
Toronto Film Festival, who always told me ev- [Daves death and the a father/daughter event Wharton School of Fi- say goodbye to [Good
however, led a company erything would be okay. aftermath] was going to that Dave wasnt alive to nance (where he always Wife lead character]
to finance a big national And then it wasnt okay. suck so dont fight it. go to, Grant told her they tops the faculty ratings) Alicia Florrick. Alicia
opening for this film. Sandberg is famous Sandberg then de- would find an option B and hes written two best doesnt wear her emo-
Variety says its a for her 2013 advice book tailed some coping and work the sh-t out selling books. tions on her sleeves the
comedy of barbed hu- for women in business, strategies she and her of it. Actress JULIANNE way I do. I am an actress
manity and that Jacobs Lean In: Women, Work, children employed and Grant, who has a MARGULIES, 50, and a Jewish woman ...
is a filmmaker with a gift and the Will to Lead. how that led to her new doctorate in organiza- talked to the French news very opinionated and
for showing people at She told Dunn that book, Option B: Fac- tional psychology, wrote service AFP on April 21 emotional. (The last line,
their most nakedly des- Daves death sucked ing Adversity, Building articles with Sandberg and revealed that she was the AFP noted, Margulies
perate and spiritually di- and then related advice Resilience and Finding before her husbands near the site of the said with a laugh in her
sheveled and getting you her rabbi gave her. The Joy. The term op- death, so its natural that terrorist killing of a police voice). N.B.
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immigrant and refugee experience, he
n several consecutive nights said. Those were the two organizing
in 1992, American artist Shi- canvases.
mon Attie projected portions I have done many, many projects,
of pre-World War II photo- of which about a third deal with con-
graphs of Jewish street life in Berlin onto tent that is Jewish in nature, the artist
the places where they had been taken, 60 continued. All of my works, though,
years earlier. regardless of specifics of identity, deal
His goal was to recreate, however with issues related to displacement,
momentarily, fragments of the citys communal loss, and trauma, as well as
long-destroyed Jewish communal life. the potential for regeneration, at least in
Among the projections in The Writ- the realm of imagination. And because I
ing on the Wall was the 1930 image of a work in the language of an artist, theres
Hebrew bookstore on the street level of a place for wonderment, beauty, and
a residential building in Scheunenvier- aesthetics even if the content is com-
tel, which had been one of Berlins Jew- munal displacement.
ish quarters at the time. Ms. Baron said that she and her hus-
One night that I did this, a person liv- band became acquainted with Mr.
ing in the building came out in a menac- Atties work at a show he did at the
ing way and, in German, implied that I Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Con-
was trying to repossess his house, Mr. necticut, and later saw his work in Boca
Attie said. He tried to convince me that Raton and in the Jack Shainman Gallery
his father had bought the building from in Manhattan.
a Mr. Jacob in 1938. Here I He brings together past and present
am, working as an artist in Almstadtstrasse 43 (formerly Grenadierstrasse 7): Slide projection of in an interesting way, enabling people
the imaginary, and he was former Hebrew bookstore, 1930, Berlin, shown in 1992, 33X40 chro- to appreciate the past and evaluate the
taking it on a literal level. mogenic photograph and on-location installation by Shimon Attie present at the same time, and perhaps
On another night, an COURTESY OF JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK to change behavior in the present and
elderly woman opened her create a new future, she said.
second-floor window and He has described his today to present-day refugees, Mr. Attie Mr. Baron said they felt Mr. Atties
shouted No, no, no! in approach to works such as explained. body of work is very important
German at Mr. Attie, who The Writing on the Wall As the shared thread between these because hes made people re-examine
was standing across the as a kind of peeling back two stories of rescue is water, I there- the notion of memory through a wide
street with his generator of the wallpaper of today fore created an underwater installation variety of visual techniques. However,
and slide projector. to reveal the histories bur- to embody these issues. The light boxes hes never concerned just with art for
The artist at first assumed Shimon Attie ied underneath. were submerged in Copenhagens Bors- arts sake; there is always some kind of
that she was objecting to The other projects hell graven canal for six weeks. greater relevance.
what he was doing. But that wasnt it. present on screen at Beth Sholom The Amsterdam project, in 1995, was Mr. Attie said he does not have any
She explained that the bookstore was include his Portraits of Exile, under- inspired by his discovery of wartime particular takeaway message in mind
actually one meter to the right of where water light boxes in Copenhagen that footage secretly shot by people in hid- for his audiences.
I was projecting the image, he said. I show the faces of rescued Jewish citi- ing on Prinsengracht Street, often with Im an artist, not an educator or
remember, she told me. zens and modern Bosnian refugees; the aim of documenting the activities of a politician, he said. I am trying to
Mr. Attie will show images from the The Neighbor Next Door, video pro- Dutch collaborators. Mr. Attie installed create and communicate experiences,
project and talk about The Writing on jections onto Anne Franks Amsterdam huge film projectors in those hiding which is different from a message. This
the Wall and some of his other evocative street of wartime footage taken by Jews places and projected the furtively taken is an open-ended meditation on his-
works at this years annual art lecture at in hiding there; Between Dreams and footage on the street below. tory, an opportunity for each viewer to
Congregation Beth Sholom in Teaneck on History, laser projections on tene- He also will talk about Brick by reflect on the different ways in which
the evening of May 15. ment buildings in Manhattans Lower Brick, a project he did at the Cologne past, present, and future operate within
Sites Unseen: Igniting and Challeng- East Side that illuminate the immigrant Fairgrounds during Art Cologne in 1995. the same moment.
ing Memory, the 12th annual free pub- experience; and an art video he made in That fair building, during World War
lic lecture supported by the Alfred and 2016 showing frozen tableaux of Syrian II, was among other things a warehouse What: Sites Unseen: Igniting and
Rose Buchman Endowment for the Fine refugees in Europe on the backdrop of where household items confiscated Challenging Memory, a free public art
Arts, will be Mr. Atties first presentation a moving stage. from Jewish families and other dissi- lecture
in northern New Jersey. Since earning The context for the underwater dents were warehoused and auctioned Where: Congregation Beth Sholom,
his master of fine arts degree at San portraits in Copenhagen was the 50th to the public, he said. For the project, 354 Maitland Ave., Teaneck
Francisco State University in 1991, Mr. anniversary of the end of the Second Mr. Attie displayed household items typ-
When: May 15, 7:30 p.m.
Attie, who lives in Manhattan, has done World War in Denmark, and therefore ical of that era outside the building.
Mr. Attie said the decision of which For information: Congregation Beth
about 30 major projects in 10 coun- the exhibition dealt with human-rights
Sholom at (201) 833-2620 or office@
tries. He has exhibited at New Yorks challenges and stories: the heroic Dan- projects to present in Teaneck resulted
cbsteaneck.org.
Museum of Modern Art and at more ish rescue of their Jewish community from discussions with the annual art lec-
Shimon Atties website: http://shi-
than 40 other museums and galleries on fishing boats to Sweden in 1943, and tures chairs, Reuben and Joan Baron.
monattie.net
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TABC teens win halachic competition with expertise on International Date Line
LARRY YUDELSON
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hen does Shabbat fall in
the Pacific Ocean?
Take Apia, the capital
of Samoa, for example.
This Friday, sunset will be at 6:10 p.m.
Subtract 18 minutes, and you have Shabbat
beginning at 5:52 p.m. on Friday evening.
Which, because Samoa is 17 hours ahead
of Eastern Daylight Time, already has hap-
pened if youre reading the Jewish Stan-
dard on Friday evening.
But not so fast.
Up until December 2011, Samoa was on
the other side of the International Date
Line. In those days, Samoa was seven
hours behind us. That means that Shab-
bat would be yet to begin when we light
candles here in New Jersey.
To make the shift, Samoa skipped a Fri-
day and jumped straight from Thursday to
Saturday.
Would Shabbat have followed along? Or
would it continue to be seven days after
the previous Shabbat? That would mean
that Shabbat would fall on Sundays in
Samoa, at least until the International Date
Line changed again.
That wasnt a pressing question when
Samoans debated the move: Apias com-
munity of observant Jews is as non-exis-
tent as you might expect. However, the Rabbi Barry Nathan of Touro College, left, Lander College for Men Rosh Hayeshiva Rabbi Yonason Sacks, third from right,
island nation does have real communi- Dean Moshe Sokol, and Rabbi Aaryeh Manheim flank the winning team from Torah Academy of Bergen County. Left to
ties of Seventh Day Adventists, some of right: Ned Krasnopolsky 19, Joseph Solomon 17, Shlomo Korsinsky 17, Eitan Leff 18, Jonathan Yonasan Rutta 20, and
whom (but not all) now observe their Sab- Ephraim Helfgot 20.
bath on Sunday. After all, how can a vote
by the people of Samoa change the day of fell was, it was so far to the east of Jerusa- Orthodox Jews found refuge from the first Israel to try unsuccessfully to reach a
the Lords Sabbath? Yet is the new date of lem (and farther to the east of the medi- World War in Japan. It became a more conclusion.
Samoa any less arbitrary than the Interna- eval rabbis discussing this in Europe) that serious question in 1941, when hundreds Its a very complicated topic, Shlomo
tional Date Line, which first was drawn in it didnt really matter. of yeshiva students from Lithuania made Korsinsky said. There are a lot of different
1884? And yet again, how can you not have As the world was explored and mapped, their way to Japan. opinions.
a line somewhere dividing one day from it became clear that what had been an Should the refugees in Japan observe Shlomo is one of the areas leading
the next? abstract line in the 12th century passed two days of Shabbat just to be safe? Should experts on this abstruse question of Jew-
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thought experiment, not a real-life chal- zones had the same date as China, as cables contained a plethora of conflict- line in Jewish law at Touro Colleges recent
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Stanton Strong
New Bergen County womens group fights for health, reproductive rights
JOANNE PALMER
N
o matter which side of the politi-
cal or cultural or demographic
or socioeconomic or red/blue
side of the divide you fall on,
its hard to deny that this is an oddly divi-
sive time.
But something interesting is going on.
People are finding each other, making alli-
ances, seeing them turn into friendships,
and learning how to take their talents and
passions and grow into advocates for the
cause they believe in the causes that they
feel need particular attention in this fraught
and changing time.
In November, in response to the elec-
tions that have riveted and split the coun-
try, a bunch of us got together, Dana Post
Adler of Tenafly said. We didnt all know
each other, but we were connected through
sports and schools and kids basketball,
among other similar suburban-mom phe-
nomena. There were nine women at first,
mainly from Tenafly and Demarest; they The founders of Stanton Strong: back row, from left, Marci Ginzburg, Lainie Saban, Jill Besnoy, Galit Oelsner, and Jane Ro-
hadnt necessarily even all voted the same man; front row, from left, Katie Kahn, Jennifer Yanowitz, Dana Adler, and Noelle Tutunjian
way we come from all sides of the politi-
cal world, but no matter how we health services. It was basically So the issue is that many teenagers seek out
voted in the presidential elec- to give help to poor and under- Planned Parenthood, because anyone can
tion, we all were taken aback by served women, and it was one of just show up at Planned Parenthood with-
the outcome, she said. the highlights of the Nixon admin- out insurance cards. So it is not just poor
Most but not all of them are istration, she added. And it saved and underserved women, but also teenag-
Jewish. Were all mothers and money. Since Title X, the abortion ers who get themselves into trouble.
businesspeople and charitable rate is at a 40-year low, and that They hadnt known much of this before,
and involved in our communi- really is because women have had Ms. Adler said; now that theyve begun to
ties, but none of us had been more access to good health care know something about politics and wom-
politically active prior to the elec- and birth control. ens health, they feel it will be helpful to
tion, Ms. Adler said. (Ms. Adler, When the $7.5 million was cut teach others what theyve learned, as well
the director of Myron Corp., is from the budget, the matching as to raise money to fund womens health
the president of Womens Philan- funds that would have come from clinics, both locally, through Planned Par-
thropy for the Jewish Federation the federal Title X program van- enthood, and across the country, focusing
of Northern New Jersey; shes on ished as well. on Whole Womans Health in Texas.
the federations board and the Christie vetoed the budget They are in the process of getting 501(c)
board of JFNA National Womens seven years ago, and he has done (3) status for Stanton Strong. Theyve also
Philanthropy as well.) it every year since, Ms. Adler said. created two committees, one focused on
And so the nine of us got We dont know if there is a corre- action and the other on fundraising. Ms.
together, and we looked at each lation, but we do know that there Adler is one of the two chairs of the action
other, and we said, Okay. Now has been a rise in sexually trans- committee.
that this has happened, what This painting, by Emily Klima, will be auctioned at the mitted diseases, and that syphilis Planned Parenthood trained Ms. Adler
do we do? And so we started Stanton Strong fundraiser on May 10. is on the rise in the state. And by and another of the core members on lobby-
talking. the way, the survey that shows this ing. They put together a presentation and
Thats how Stanton Strong was born. and they really educated us about whats trend was done independently of Planned
We sat around and talked, and figured going on at the state and federal level, Parenthood. Who: Stanton Strong
out that the most pressing area for all of us Ms. Adler said. Womens access to health And 97 percent of what Planned Par- What: Holds a fundraiser and auction
was womens rights and womens health care is jeopardized. Here we are in a fairly enthood does isnt abortion. Its for other for womens health
care, Ms. Adler said. We really wanted to affluent neighborhood, and we have all the aspects of womens health care breast When: On Wednesday, May 10, from
do things that unraveled the idea that wom- access we need, but we were shocked by exams and pap smears. All in all, if we were 7:30 to 11 p.m.
ens rights and womens health care was a the fact that over the last seven years, since to forget justice and just look at spending, Where: At High Exposure, 266 Union
partisan issue. he has been governor, Chris Christie has when you are talking dollars and cents, it St., Northvale
And then we tried to figure out what to removed $7.5 million from the state budget makes no sense, Ms. Adler said. Why: To raise money for Planned Par-
do about it, she continued. The women that has been allocated to Title X. And in a place like Bergen County we enthood and Whole Womens Health
some of them artists, some of them market- New Jerseys governors have a line item are in this somewhat privileged place, but For more information: Google Stanton
ers, all of them well-educated, successful veto, Ms. Adler said, and the Title X fam- even for us many of us have teenagers, Strong fundraiser; it will take you to
professionals, all with a number of relevant ily planning program, which President and many teenagers do not have open dia- Eventbrite; for more general informa-
skills did research. They met with leaders Richard Nixon signed into law in 1970, pro- logues with their parents and do not feel tion about Stanton Strong, go to the
from the states Planned Parenthood office, vides grants for family planning and related comfortable talking to their pediatricians. groups Facebook page.
invited neighbors; over the course of three conversations with their health care pro- the East Hill, for a short time. budget, STDs [socially transmitted diseases]
meetings, they have talked to more than 80 viders, no matter what their economic She wrote the Womens Declaration of in Bergen County have gone up by 48 per-
people. Theyve begun to work with Val- backgrounds. That is a basic right for Sentiments the document that was pre- cent. Its not just poor people in the middle
erie Vaineri Huttle of Englewood, who rep- women to be able to take care of themselves sented at the 1848 womens convention in of the country who are affected. This is hap-
resents the 37th District in the New Jersey unencumbered. Seneca Falls, N.Y. and she also attempted pening right here in our neighborhood.
State Legislature, and they plan on talking Ms. Adler is not the first woman in her to vote in Tenafly, another Stanton Strong There are profoundly Jewish values at
to other legislators as well. family to feel strongly about a womans founder, Jennifer Schwab Yanowitz of play here, she said. Our value system tells
They are hopeful that change will be right to choose. Tenafly, said. Women did not have the us to stand up for people who need help,
coming soon. It will take only two or three She grew up in Englewood. When I was right to vote then, but she went down to to right wrongs that need to be righted,
votes in the state legislature to overturn the 3 years old, and my mom Arleen Post is the restaurant where the men were voting, when you have the ability to do that. Its
governors veto, Ms. Post said. Hes been her name was pregnant with my brother, drove there in her horse and buggy and easy to ignore this because its not in our
considerably weakened by scandal and she was interviewed by a local newspaper, she attempted to vote. They didnt allow it face on a daily basis, but when you pay
is historically unpopular now. There are Ms. Adler said. but the attempt was a really big deal. attention, you start to see that there is an
some Assembly people who claim that they She was very big and very pregnant, The strength of character it took the for- elite group in Washington that is making
are pro-choice but who havent voted that and she was stopped in the street. This was titude, the belief in a higher truth, when soci- decisions that are catastrophic for vulner-
way, she said. We believe that the reason 1970, right before Roe. v. Wade was passed. ety does not have her back its these prin- able populations.
they havent voted that way is because they We have pictures of it she had the whole ciples that we are honoring with the name. Abortion still is legal in the United States,
havent been asked. thing, beehive hairdo, the whole thing Ms. Yanowitz is finishing her masters she said, but you cant call yourself a steak-
A lot of people dont understand the and the reporter said, Big pregnant lady, degree in social work now, but her back- house if you dont serve steak. As a society,
power that the state Assembly has. We have what do you think about abortion? ground is in marketing, advertising, and we are saying that access to abortion is
been complacent, but this election has been And she said, Everyone has the right to communications. Shes heading the fun- legal, but we are eliminating every place
a great wake-up call. take care of her own body, and even though draising committee and supplying the that actually can provide them. That means
There are Jewish values at work here, I am the mother of one child already, and groups social media presence. that abortions arent really legal. Or maybe
she added. We believe in tikkun olam, we Im having another one, and they are both I feel that right now our government is theyre only legal for rich white people.
believe in individual human rights, and we very much wanted, every woman has the making decisions that harm a vulnerable The group is planning a fundraiser for
believe that every person should be able to right to make up her own mind. population, she said. Its a population May 10. (See box for more information. Its
look after herself, without unjust authorities That has had a profound effect on me, that doesnt have the skill set, the money, or an art auction, Ms. Yanowitz said. Weve
being involved. Ms. Post said. the power, so its disenfranchised. Theyre approached artists from across the coun-
Women are not stupid. Being a mother The women named the group after Eliz- the ones who are getting short-changed. So try, and they understand the issue and have
is the biggest decision a woman can make. abeth Cady Stanton, the first-wave femi- we are working for the women out there very generously donated their work.
Women need to be able to have free medical nist and suffragist who lived in Tenafly, on who need help. And since Christie cut the SEE STANTON STRONG PAGE 64
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the age of 8. It was casual, but because and I like that pressure.
ometimes theater is intellectually there was such commitment on her part He also is an actor, of course. Orange
challenging, getting in under your because she clearly cared so much you came around almost three years ago, he
defenses and making you consider just wanted to get to her level. You wanted said. I was supposed to do one episode.
big questions, or even reconsider to give as much of yourself as she was giv- Now hes going into the fifth season.
your established answers to them. ing of herself. It is a crazy roller coaster, he said.
Sometimes theater is emotionally That professionalism is something that It is the best job in the world, to be on a
wrenching, getting in under your defenses I am blown away by even now, 20 years show that is so well-regarded and so well-
to go straight to your core, making you later. I think that it changes you, growing
weep or shake or just simply yearn. up. Thats why this program is so good at
And sometimes theater is just plain fun, doing what it does. It teaches acting, yes,
silly and funny and engrossing. Sometimes
it just makes you happy.
and musical theater, and dance, but more
than that it teaches responsibility. And
I used to put on
Whenever theater works, its magic. thats true whether youre going to be an shows at home,
On Sunday night, the Palisades Play-
ers at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
actor or something else entirely.
Each child is treated as an individual,
with my younger
Tenafly will be going for just plain fun. The with his or her own talents, skills, inter- sister, with little
group will present a recreation of a 1945
radio melodrama, The Haunting Hour,
ests, and abilities, he said; and also we
learned to put that individuality together.
toys. Wed make
and will surround it with jingles and songs Alan Aisenberg Together you make ensembles better than our parents sit for
that might not be exactly from that period
but will be evocative, silly, and engaging. Lady, but they had no other connection to
their parts.
Mr. Aisenberg started working profes-
hours at a time,
(Were talking Snap, Crackle, Pop Rice musical theater. sionally when he was 8. I was in com- watching us.
Krispies! the Chiquita Banana song, and But they saw the signs in me. I used to mercials at first, and then I slowly started
The Good Ship Lollipop here.) put on shows at home, with my younger getting bigger parts, he said. In 2007, he
The evening, a fundraiser for the Pali- sister, with little toys. Wed make our par- went to Louisiana to film The Longshots. written. It is a show that is changing the
sades Players, will star one of the most ents sit for hours at a time, watching us. That was mind-blowing, he said. I was dialogue in society. Its the first thing Ive
prominent graduates of the JCC theater Theyd want to get up, but I would say No there for four months. I didnt work on the ever worked on where I dont even have
program, Alan Aisenberg, a 24-year-old no no! Just wait! Just two more acts! And movies every day, but I had to go to the to say anything. People just recognize me.
actor and producer who is best known then my dad went to Staples and bought a set every day for school, because I was a And its changing the dialogue about
(and in fact is very well known) for his roll of tickets for us to use. minor, so I would sit there in video village prison reform, about transgender rights,
work on the Netflix hit Orange Is the New I also wanted to play baseball, and I and watch people work. It was a $60 mil- about womens rights. And I dont have to
Black. played Little League and fall ball. lion dollar movie. I could have sat there all explain it to people because they get it.
Mr. Aisenberg grew up in Englewood I applaud my parents for giving me the day watching. Season 3 has a wonderful character arc
Cliffs, where his parents still live. chance. It is insane, how wonderfully sup- Thats when I realized that I love acting, about converting to Judaism, he added.
I started at the JCC when I was 4 or 5, portive they have been, even with things but this behind-the-scenes thing? I love it See Haunting Hour page 64
Mr. Aisenberg said. My parents signed me that are entirely outside their domain. just as much. Whether I am behind
up for a Sunday class. Id gone to the JCC They knew nothing about this world from the scenes or in front of the camera,
for preschool and summer camp, and then a professional standpoint, but they dove I just want to be in that world.
they saw a flier for the theater class. They into it for me. Back at home, Mr. Aisenberg
said, Alan, youre a ham, and they signed They are the two best people in the went to high school at Bergen Tech,
me up on a lark. world. and then he went to NYUs Tisch
That did it for him, for life. A not insignificant number of actors School. In my freshman year I
His parents have no theatrical back- have emerged from the JCC acting pro- started a production company, Dev-
ground, he said. Theyre both doctors gram that gave Mr. Aisenberg his start, erge, and I still have it today, he
from Argentina Alejandra Goodman although that is not its main focus. We said. I started it with a friend, as a
and Javier Aisenberg. They were born a had no idea that this program, which was lark. We were making a documen-
few miles apart, just a few days apart, and such a fun thing, was known for churning tary about a group called Improv
then they met in New York, 20-something out kids who were becoming professional Everywhere, and we showed it at
years later. There was always music in our actors, he said. I didnt know when I was South By Southwest. Hes main-
house my dad playing the Beatles, or my doing it that there were agents in the audi- tained a close relationship with the
mom playing A Chorus Line or My Fair ence. I think that even when I started it, improv company, and Deverge now
though, just a few years after it began, that has six full-time employees. (Did I
Who: Alan Aisenberg stars in a couple of kids had been working in the mention that Mr. Aisenberg is 24
What: The Haunting Hour, a 1945 radio city on commercials. But the people I grew years old? I believe I did, but lets
play, cushioned by songs and jingles up with in this program in Tenafly are con- repeat that here. Hes 24)
tinuing to work. I like producing because it uses
Where: At the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly There must have been something in the the same side of the brain as acting,
water. but in a different way, and it keeps
When: On Sunday, May 5, at 5:30
More seriously, he said that the some- me active, he said. I like having
What else: Its a fundraiser for the thing that makes the program different is someplace to go every morning,
Palisades Players; theres also a VIP
supplied by its longtime director, Deborah instead of living like a full-time
reception, as well as an online auction.
Roberts. Its such a healthy balance of fun actor, working out, going to the
For more information: Call (201) 408- and discipline, he said. I had the disci- gym I like the responsibility. I Alan Aisenberg when he starred in Youre a
1493 or email hharel@jccopt.org.
pline to learn my lines, to do my work; I learned it when I was 5, from Deb. Good Man, Charlie Brown at the JCC.
Eishes Chayil
A true woman of valor.
May Ed, Bruce and Linda, Ellen and Joe,
Aaron, Miranda, Jason, and Adam
be comforted among the mourners
of Zion and Jerusalem.
Display cases at the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey hold treasured The historic timeline assembled by society volunteers is displayed on the wall at
Judaica from area residents. the groups Fair Lawn headquarters.
S
ivan Shachnovitz Felder always
knew she would make aliyah.
I never really thought of myself
as a Zionist, said Ms. Felder, who
is from Fair Lawn. But I always knew I
would live in Israel. This is my home.
That sentiment is given poignant voice in
a poem written by Ms. Felder and narrated
by her sister, Batsheva Shachnovitz, in the
award-winning video Olah Chadasha
(New Immigrant), which recently took
first prize in the Inspired by Israel con-
test hosted by the Israel Video Network.
The video, in which the sisters explore
their reasons for moving to Israel Ms.
Felder and Ms. Shachnovitz, together
with their mother, Sura Shachnovitz
Rosenberg, and two brothers, made ali-
yah five years ago, shortly after their
father, Yossef Shachnovitz, died shows
Ms. Shachnovitz, then a high school
senior, walking through Jerusalem, recit-
ing her older sisters words. She feels
safe in Israel, she says. She feels that she
is home. Batsheva Shachnovitz, in a still from her sisters video.
The child of an Israeli father and an
American mother whos more Israeli added, her younger sister is growing up
than some Israelis, Ms. Felder and her differently here than she would have at
siblings grew up involved in Zionist home. Israel is a place where young
organizations. While they had visited adults have so much more indepen-
Israel many times before, this time they dence. If she didnt have a car at home,
intended to stay. I thought, now is the shed be stuck. Here she can do anything
time, Ms. Felder said, adding that when- she wants. Shes growing up differently,
ever she made a choice to do one thing with more freedom and independence.
or another, I asked myself how it would Ms. Felder remembers that when she
impact the goal of making aliyah. grew up in New Jersey, she and her sib-
The entire family now is in Israel. Ms. lings were not permitted to play in the
Felders mother has remarried and lives front yard. Now my son plays outside
in Hashmonaim. One brother studies in a on the front porch and I dont fear for
kollel, while the other serves as an army his safety. Everyone is on my team. The
commander. Ms. Shachnovitz, 18, is finish- family lives in Alon Shvut , an Israeli
ing high school. settlement southwest of Jerusalem, one
Ms. Felder, who made aliyah when she kilometer northeast of Kfar Etzion, in the
was 21, is married to Jake Felder, a fellow West Bank.
immigrant from Rhode Island. The couple Its much more painful and more
has two small children, a 3 l/2-year-old boy Sivan, Jake, and Aryeh Yosef Felder beautiful here than I had thought, Ms.
and 5-month-old girl. Looking for some- Felder said. While I wouldnt want to
thing to do while on maternity leave, the Still, Its a thousand times harder than I also asked her sister to do the narration. be anywhere else, someday I may not be
video maker, who works for a production imagined, she said. I speak Hebrew flu- It was pretty quick, she said. We here. I wish to convey that to those who
company, took up her mothers suggestion ently for an American, but I envisioned a filmed in two days. I dragged her around. make aliyah. Its okay to not want to be
that she enter the contest. magical thing, that I would be welcomed She was sick with a stomach virus. here sometimes.
Growing up I always had a camcorder, with open arms. Shes sure it would have Ms. Felder, who watched every one Although she is religiously observant,
filming people on the train, making family been harder still to be here without fam- of the other video entries, said a lot of I didnt come here to colonize, she said.
videos, she said. It was a hobby. When ily. Nevertheless, I feel that my life has people talked about being inspired on a I dont try to convince people to come.
I came here I went to social work school more meaning now, that I am where I am very large scale kind of a big, faraway Im just where Im supposed to be.
and found out about someone looking meant to be. thing. Thats what was different about Judges chose the video winners from
for an assistant editor to help with wed- Ms. Felder knew she wanted her sis- ours. Its the personal experience of me the 10 submissions; for ten days, the
ding videos. I applied, and she hired me. ter to be in the video because you dont and my sister. People like to feel person- public could vote of them as well. It
After a while, I bought equipment, taught label her right away. She doesnt look reli- ally connected. was voted by the Israel Video Network.
myself the editing software, and now I gious or nonreligious she just looks like Does she miss anything from home? A total of $20,000 in cash prizes was
work full time for a professional produc- a teenage girl. I didnt want political or With a little prompting, Ms. Felder awarded to the winning videos, spon-
tion company. religious views. Just her. I told her, You acknowledged that mint chip ice cream sored by the Adam and Gila Milstein
While aliyah was always her goal, Ms. have to be in it. Suffering at the time would be nice, but otherwise, she said, Family Foundation in partnership with
Felder never assumed it would be easy. with paralyzed vocal chords, Ms. Felder theres not much difference. Still, she the 12Tribe Films Foundation.
Featuring
Jill Kargman
Author, Writer, Actress and Star of Odd Mom Out
Honoring
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More than 2,000 runners are expected to participate in a half
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participants reach their full potential.
The Rubin Run offers more than races. There also are activi-
ties for kids, as well as free babysitting. And since it is Mothers
Day, each mom who crosses the finish line will receive a rose.
Leonard Rubin gave his name, along with his support, to the
community-wide event when it began back in the early 1980s.
The motivation was to have a race for wellness awareness, to
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The Rubin Run also is a fundraiser for the JCC. With proceeds raised through the Rubin Run, the
Rochelle Lazarus, the JCCs public relations direc- JCC will be able to purchase a new passenger van
tor, said, In addition to enjoying time as a family to help people with special needs get access to
on Mothers Day, the race provides an opportunity programming.
for our entire community to help fulfill a core JCC Catherine Brown of Englewood, an active mem-
mission, which is to provide social services, voca- ber of the JCC, has participated in the Rubin Run
tional training, and healthy lifestyle programs for for the last nine years. I ran in both the 10K and
children, teens, and adults with special needs. the 5K events, usually pacing one of my children
Its very rewarding to see nearly 2,000 people for the 5K, and I ran the half marathon during its
assemble and support a cause that will help this inaugural year, she said. This year, like last year,
special population live more productive, meaning- I plan on running the 10K with my now 11-year-old
ful lives. son, and both of my daughters will be dancing at
The Guttenberg Center for Special Services the race festivities with the JCC dance company.
needs a 14-passenger van to transport people with She is has volunteered on many JCC committees
special needs who will directly benefit from pro- but was especially honored to be asked to join the
gramming at the JCC. The fundraising goal for the Rubin Run committee this year. We love having
Run is $125,000, and a portion of the proceeds will such a great community resource so close to our
be used to buy this van. home, she said.
Todd Brody of Englewood has been a runner for Individual runners and teams can register
years. He has done the Rubin Run for several of online at jccotp.org/rubinrun. Early-bird registra-
those years. This year, running has special signifi- tion runs through April 14 and you can register
cance because of where the money is going and online until May 10. Thereafter, registration is at
how the JCC has helped his family. The impor- the JCC.
tance of the Rubin Run really hit home this year, The runs lead sponsors this year include the
Mr. Brody said. My mother-in-law, who now Kaplen Foundation, Englewood Hospital and Med-
lives with us, is only able to take advantage of the ical Center, the Rubin family, the Jewish Standard,
senior programming at the JCC because they pro- and the North Jersey Media Group.
vide transportation. So I am keenly aware of the For sponsorship opportunities and more infor-
importance of having the ability to bring people to mation, call Michal Kleiman at (201) 408-1412 or
the JCC when they cannot get there on their own. email her at mkleiman@jccotp.org. A mother and daughter run together last year.
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Sharsherets annual Mothers Day flower installation in the 20-year history jected on gallery walls inside. A
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Sharsheret is a national not-for-profit tage A Living Memorial to the May 10.
organization supporting Jewish women Holocaust, by photojournalist Van Sise photographed 31
and families facing breast and ovarian B.A. Van Sise, opened April 26. Holocaust survivors who are
cancer. Assorted $20 bouquets will be It was shown in conjunction with part of the museums speakers
available for order or pick-up on Sun- a two-week commemoration of bureau and gallery educators.
day, May 14, 7 to 10 a.m., at Congregation Holocaust Remembrance Day. Each survivor will be available
Bnai Yeshurun, 641W. Englewood Ave., The installation includes 20 on the museums website and in
in Teaneck. Orders are due Friday, May very big photographs of Holo- a printed pamphlet available at
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The Jewish Community Council of Greater Teaneck held its annual Holocaust remembrance at Teaneck High School. This years speaker, Mark Schonwetter, spoke about his life
and the recent dedication of a cemetery in Brzostek, a small village in Poland.
1 2
5 6
More than 500 people attended the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jerseys Holocaust commemoration at the JCC Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah on April 23. Narrators told the stories of six survivors as
they each lit a candle. There was a photo exhibit showing each of the
honorees prewar and wartime family photos and another about life in
the Shanghai ghetto. Keynote speaker Dr. Mordecai Paldiel spoke about
Jews rescuing Jews from his new book, Saving Ones Own.
Melitta Lorsch
74 children
carried yahrzeit
candles, one for
each year since
Rabbi Arthur the Warsaw
Weiner leading Ghetto uprising
the Kaddish
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1. Holocaust survivors and Daughters of Miriam 3. On Yom Hashoah, nearly 230 people joined at the 5. The River Edge Public Library held a Holocaust
in Clifton residents Milton Yudkowitz, left, Young Israel of Passaic-Clifton for its community-wide remembrance program on April 24, co-sponsored by
and David Goldkorn, right, flank Rabbi Moshe Yom Hashoah commemoration. Sonia Klein, a survivor River Dell Hadassah, the River Edge Cultural Center,
Mirsky, DOMCs director of religious services, at of the Warsaw Ghetto, four concentration camps, Friends of the River Edge Library, and Temple Avodat
the annual Daughters of Miriam Centers Yom and a death march, was the speaker. She is pictured Shalom. The program featured a screening of Not
Hashoah Remembrance program. The April 24 showing a young attendee the number tattooed on the Last Butterfly a 2016 documentary co-produced
commemoration honored residents and tenants who her arm. COURTESY YOUNG ISRAEL OF PASSAIC-CLIFTON by a former Paramus resident, Cheryl Rattner Price.
are Holocaust survivors, as well soldiers who fought 4. The Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Next, people painted ceramic butterflies to give
against the Nazis and their allies. David Goldkorn, held a student-led Yom Hashoah commemoration voice, organizers said, to the 1.5 million children who
the featured speaker, and his wife, Marilyn, also a ceremony. Students who lost family members during were murdered in the Holocaust. The newly painted
survivor, have been living at the Center for more the Holocaust told the group their family members butterflies now are part of the ButterflyProject,
than four years. COURTESY DOMC
names and lit candles in their memory. Students (thebutterflyprojectnow.org), and will be on display
2. The kitah zayin/seventh-grade class at who had relatives who survived the Holocaust told at the River Edge Library through May and then at
Shomrei Torah in Wayne led a special Mincha their stories as well. Parents and relatives were Temple Avodat Shalom in River Edge.
COURTESY JENNIFER KELEMEN, RIVER EDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY
service commemorating Yom Hashoah for the invited to the commemoration ceremony. BCHSJS
religious school. COURTESY SHOMREI TORAH student Zach Sobelman is pictured telling his 6. The Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai
familys story of survival. COURTESY BCHSJS Israel held its annual Yom Hashoah commemoration.
COURTESY FLJC/CBI
Thinking
about
walls
Hebrew Home at Riverdales show
looks at the views from both sides
S
JOANNE PALMER day and night, heavens and earth, water
and dry land. From there, God moved on
omething there is that to the finer distinctions that separate dif-
doesnt love a wall. ferent living beings from each other.
Oh, a reader might sigh. As we have learned throughout human
Such a clich. Trotting out history, walls often divide us in ways that
Robert Frost, the way peo- we try to overcome. This exhibition is a
Tamar Hirschl, Strife #4, 2015. Acrylic on repurposed vinyl. TAMAR HIRSCHL ple always do then theyre writing about look at walls and boundaries, good and
walls. bad, factual or metaphoric, through the
But Frost knew something but of lenses of contemporary Jewish artists.
course and of course as he went on to tell The exhibition is part of the massive
us there is far more to a wall than that. Hebrew Home complex, a small set of
Something there is that loves a wall, rooms that appears much bigger that
and something there is that is deeply fas- appears massive because of the enor-
cinated by walls, by their inherent duality, mous streams of light that come through
by the way they keep in and keep out, pro- its huge windows. The view out of the
tect and imprison. By the very many ways those windows is majestic its of the Hud-
they can be defined. son River, the huge ships that ply it, and
Reba Wulkan of Englewood has been New Jersey on its far shore. The view plays
fascinated by walls, boundaries, borders, a perfect backdrop to the exhibition, show-
and the connections that bridge them for ing the natural border that is the river, the
a long time, and now she is the curator of traffic that goes north and south, using
an exhibition, Across Divides: Borders and it not as a border but a connection, and
Boundaries in Contemporary Art, at the showing as well the way the two states,
Derfner Judaica Museum at the Hebrew New York and New Jersey, are intimately
Home at Riverdale in the Bronx. connected by commerce, demographics,
Boundaries separation of one thing and family ties.
from another are an essential part of Ms. Wulkan, who has lived in Engle-
being human, and of being Jewish, Ms. wood with her husband for about 35 years
Wulkan said; there is an inherent tension shes been a member of Congregation
Sara Klar, Je Suis Juive, I Am You (Talmud Dreds and Tefillin Bindings), 2015- in them always. Ahavath Torah there for all that time, start-
2017. Acrylic, Talmud pages, tefillin case and straps and mixed media on canvas. In the Bible, God began creation with ing before the tenure of the about-to-retire
SARA KLAR binary separations of light and darkness, Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, during the time of
the formidably well-respected Rabbi Isaac After her parents death, she and her fam-
Swift grew up in Brooklyn, first in Crown ily commissioned a family chuppah by a
Heights and then in Flatbush. For as long weaver, she said. That weaver, Ina Golub,
as she could remember, Ms. Wulkan was was a well-known Jewish artist, a weaver
interested in the arts; she has sculpted and who eventually moved over to beadwork.
worked in other forms, but now, she said, The brightly colored chuppah she created
her art lies mainly in curating and catalogu- has a big star at the top for Miriam and Israel
ing collections. Wertentheil, and a star is added for each
Ms. Wulkans parents, Miriam and Israel marriage over which it stands unfurled. Its
Wertentheil, were American-born, and her been used for about a dozen weddings so
mother was very interested in culture. She far, Ms. Wulkan said.
got her masters at Brooklyn College, Ms. Ms. Wulkan was the curator of contem-
Wulkan said. She went back to school after porary art at Yeshiva Universitys museum
her children were born for that degree; in for 16 years; later, she curated a show on the
fact, she graduated with my sister, Ms. abstract painter Ruth Abrams.
Wertentheils daughter reported proudly. Ms. So she knew many Jewish contemporary
Wulkan also graduated from Brooklyn Col- artists and was ready for a dive into the
lege, with a degree in art history. Later, she question of boundaries. Which side are we
earned a masters, again in art history, from on? Which side should we be on? Need we
the State College of New York in Purchase. choose sides? Do we need boundaries? Can
Art, as her career has made clear, always we live with them? Can we live without them?
has been an important way for Ms. Wulkan The Jewish world is filled with such bound-
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lution refers to Israel as the occupying connections of the Jewish people to the
power in Jerusalem language that holy sites of Jerusalem, the U.S. official UNESCO, discredit the organization, that is meant to be impartial.
indicates it has no legal or historical ties said. and do nothing to advance Israeli-Pales- The text also castigates Israels con-
to any part of the city. These biased resolutions are coun- tinian issues, the official added. There duct, including for various construction
Such motions targeting Israel have terproductive to the core work of is no place for them in an organization projects in Jerusalems Old City, as well
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as at holy sites in the West Bank city of Hebron. It
also calls for an end to Israels blockade of Gaza and
does not mention frequent rocket attacks emanating
furs OUR
69th
from the Hamas-run coastal enclave. If you challenge us, for only the finest YEAR!
Its wording, however, was less harsh on the topic
than previous UNESCO resolutions. Unlike others, it be prepared for what FUR STORAGE
does affirm the resonance of Jerusalem to the three youre challenging us in our secure, modern
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monotheistic religions.
Also unlike previous resolutions, this one does not for, because we will controlled vaults. Protect
refer to the Temple Mount only as Haram al-Sharif, respond. The days your valuable furs
and shearlings during
or to the Western Wall Plaza only as al-Burak plaza
the respective sites Muslim names. Instead, the sites of Israel bashing warm weather from heat,
are not mentioned at all. are over. humidity, moths and
other crawling insects.
Tuesdays motion received less support than
others critical of Israel, something the U.S. official gave a thunderous speech, in which she vowed to
acknowledged. We are encouraged by the diminish- tackle the Israel bias at the world body. There is a
ing levels of support for these resolutions, and we new sheriff in town, she said. Free Pick Up
are grateful for those member nations who today If you challenge us, be prepared for what youre
voted against the resolution, he said. challenging us for, because we will respond, she & Delivery
The official would not say exactly how the U.S. will exclaimed, adding that she let her colleagues in New
respond. York know the days of Israel bashing are over.
We are disappointed these kind of resolutions Last Friday, all 100 U.S. senators signed a letter to
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around the world and also in the United States, so its not sur- In its letter to the commission, Hiddush said that
Freedom prising there would be some controversy and disagreements it was not seeking CPC status for Israel; it only wants
FROM PAGE 34
within our commission on these issues, the chairman said in the commission to look into the Israel issue as a
in Israel, where the Orthodox chief rabbinate keeps tight reply to a query on the call. means of spurring the country to make changes.
control of marriage affairs. Reese said the letters about Israel were discussed by the We fortunately do not deal with issues of arrest,
I am including this matter in my dissent, not only because commission and a majority of the commissioners did not vote murder, or deportation in conjunction with the real-
consideration of both letters was rejected by a slim majority to move forward on it, so I think its important to point out ities of religious freedom and equality, Hiddush
of Commissioners, but because it was clear from the way the that our report has bipartisan consensus on the countries that said in its letter. Instead, the group said, it was seek-
debate took place that there could be no rational discussion we do cover. ing the commissions help to raise awareness and
of this issue, Zogby wrote. He did not elaborate on why the Israel issue would defy strengthen the civil society organizations, such as
Other commissioners reacted with such vehemence bipartisan consensus, but Democrats have been more likely Hiddush, who labor to strengthen religious freedom
to criticism of Israel, wrote Zogby, that his appeals were in recent years to accommodate criticism of Israel in their on the ground in Israel.
dismissed. forums. Republicans tend to see the country as a bulwark of Congress created the Commission on Interna-
We were, in effect, bullied into silence, he wrote. Western values. tional Religious Freedom in 1998 in part as a means
In his conference call, Reese suggested that the commis- The commissions bailiwick extends beyond the worst of keeping the executive branch honest. Should the
sion with five Democrats and four Republicans could only offenders and includes critiques of parts of the world where State Department seek to downplay a putative allys
address issues productively if those issues were not subject to suppression of religious freedom has not reached the CPC religious oppression, it was thought, the commission
deep partisan differences. level. A chapter in the most recent report noted restrictions on was there to keep things real.
The issue of Israel and Palestine is a controversial issue halal and kosher slaughter in Western Europe, for example. Its not the first time, however, that the commis-
sion has been seen as politicized. When Republi-
cans held the majority, the commission was accused
of focusing intently on persecution of Christians
abroad and letting pass reports of Muslim suffering.
Zogby said the failure to hold Israel to standards
applied to other countries where occupiers are seen
as repressing religious freedoms Turkey in Cyprus
or Russia in Crimea undercuts its broader mission.
The charge that USCIRF has a double standard
particularly undermines our ability to effectively
advocate for religious freedom in Arab countries,
he said in his dissent.
Zogby would not name the commissioners with
whom he has clashed. JTA put in a query to a Repub-
lican commissioner, Clifford May, the president of
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has
sparred with Zogby in other forums, but has yet to
hear back from him.
A former commissioner, Elliott Abrams, a veteran
of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations,
whose term overlapped with Zogbys, this week told
Al Monitor, the Middle East news site, that Zogbys
sole mission was to have a go at Israel.
Jim Zogby has had one single goal in all of his crit-
icism of the commission and all his activities when
on the commission, and that is to attack Israel,
Abrams said.
Zogby rolled his eyes at the accusation when it
arose during the news conference. He said Abrams
seemed to forget the many occasions when they
worked together to address religious freedom
restrictions in other countries.
We worked on a number of issues, he said.
Israel and pro-Israel groups regard a few of the
Christian groups that signed the complaint letter as
implacably hostile to Israel. Those groups include
Engaged living...
Sabeel, a Palestinian liberation theology group that
sees a single binational state as an ideal and best
goal, but that currently embraces a two-state solu-
tion. A number of other signatories are local Chris-
tian service groups, including clubs and charitable
groups.
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This year, Sarsour has seen her profile rise nation- on this stage with Rasmea.
ally as one of the co-organizers of the Womens March
on Washington, a historically large protest for womens
The criticism extends beyond the right. Both the cur-
rent and former national directors of the Anti-Defama-
Did you vote yet?
rights and against Trump. Time magazine included Sar- tion League, a large mainstream group, have harshly
sour and three other organizers on its list of 100 most criticized Sarsours positions on Israel. In a March inter-
influential people, and in the accompanying essay, New view with the St. Louis Jewish Light, the ADLs national
York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called the four the suf- director, Jonathan Greenblatt, called the cemetery fund-
fragists of our time. raising great but said Sarsours BDS advocacy encour-
Sarsour also was recognized by President Barack ages and spreads anti-Semitism.
Obama, whose White House named her a champion of Greenblatts longtime predecessor at the ADL, Abra-
change. The accompanying biography said she shat- ham Foxman, called Sarsour bigoted.
ters stereotypes of Muslim women, which Sarsour has Shes bigoted because she loves Jews but hates
attributed to her wearing a hijab. Zionism, Foxman said. Her progressive activism, he
There are plenty of Muslim women who are back-
bones of the community, but they arent usually at the
added, doesnt excuse bigotry. If youre an advocate
for human rights, for human dignity, you should be See page 68
forefront, she told the New York Times in 2015. There
just arent a lot of me out there women in hijabs, doing
more sensitive to the human rights and human dignity
of the Jewish people.
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what I do. But progressive Jews believe she is a proven advocate
She is an outspoken opponent of Israel and Zionism. for human rights. Amid the controversy over her views
Sarsour, who is of Palestinian descent, has also been
a harsh critic of Israel. Soon after the Womens March,
following the Womens March, Rabbi Sharon Brous of
Ikar in Los Angeles tweeted, Thank you @lsarsour
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It just doesnt make any sense for someone to say, Is spoke as a surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders 2016
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be in feminism, she told the magazine in March. You Sarsour. Contemporary.
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Palestinians, or none. ish Voice for Peace, which backs the BDS movement,
Sarsour backs the movement to boycott, divest from, has described Sarsour as passionate and compelling,
and sanction Israel, known as BDS. She told NY1 that she very smart, committed and an impressive person. And
supports a one-state solution that would create a shared she has worked with Jews for Racial and Economic Jus-
country for Jews and Palestinians a solution that many tice, which focuses on domestic issues, including at the
Jews consider a formula for the demise of Israel. And in groups recent Seder in the Streets on Passover.
2012, she tweeted, Nothing is creepier than Zionism. It is hard to think of a more appropriate speaker
Jews on the left emphasize her progressive bona fides. than Linda, who has done so much, both locally and
For right-wing Jews, her anti-Zionism is a red line. nationally, to bring about a world in which everyone can
These different aspects of Sarsours record have cre- thrive, JFREJ said in a statement last week commend-
ated a divide among Jewish leaders. Progressive Jews are ing her upcoming CUNY speech. She has stood with us
willing to look past her anti-Zionism in light of her work against anti-Semitism, both in words and actions.
on behalf of women and minorities, and her fundrais- Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman
ing for the damaged cemetery. But right-wing and some Institute of North America, cites Sarsour as the test of
centrist Jews cant support her activist work in light of the choices we make about our alliances in the pursuit
her anti-Zionism. of our political causes.
Criticizing CUNYs decision to host Sarsour, Morton Kurtzer suggests that both the right and the left should
Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of Amer- drop the litmus tests that prevent them from partner-
ica, called her a bigot and divider and an extremist. ing with allies with whom they disagree on one or more
Writing in the New York Post last month, Jerusalem key issues, like Israel.
Post reporter Lahav Harkov said her anti-Zionism made Taking a cue from a quote by David Ben-Gurion,
Sarsour NYCs queen of hate. Harkov noted that last Kurtzer wrote in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, We
month Sarsour shared the stage at a conference, hosted [should] fight for our moral values in American politi-
by the far-left Jewish Voice for Peace, with Rasmea Odeh, cal life as though there was no disagreement with our
a Palestinian woman who was imprisoned in Israel for allies on these issues on Israel, and we [should] fight
her participation in two terror attacks. According to Har- on Israel with critics of Israel as though there was no
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his weeks cover story is despair over the political climate are encapsulated this week in All of its mitzvot are Gods mitzvot; all must be
about borders and barriers after the election, and now are work- a single chapter of the Torah, observed equally. Be as careful [in observing] a
and therefore also about ing together to fund health care for Leviticus 19a chapter often light precept as a heavy one, said Rabbi Judah
bridges and connections. women. Connections. One about an referred to in this column because it is, in the Patriarch, because you do not know what
When you think about it, you see academic whose politics are at odds fact, a condensed version of the entire Torah. reward attaches to observing mitzvot. (See
that almost every story is about with the women whose story is on the It begins with an exhortation: Pirkei Avot 2:2.)
borders and barriers and therefore page before hers who talks about You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, Put in contemporary terms, parking in a
bridges and connections. the way that Jewish life has been am holy. crosswalk is as much a violation of halachah as
The cover story is about an exhi- affected by the last three quarters The exhortation refers back to Exodus 19:6: not putting on tefillin every weekday morning.
bition in the Hebrew Home at River- of a century of history. Connections. You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and Mistreating counter clerks is just as much a
dale in the Bronx, a place where Theres a story about a successful a holy nation mamlechet kohanim vgoi violation as biting into a pepperoni pizza.
people who can no longer live on young actor who is coming back to the kadosh. Behavior always has been a major concern
their own can make new lives. New Kaplen JCC to help with a fundraiser. Those words were spoken to Israel at of Jewish law, starting with the Torah, and rab-
friends. New connections. There are Why? Because he got his start at the Mount Sinai as it prepared to receive the binic literature reflects that.
of course many similar wonderful JCC, and he feels deeply connected Torah, beginning with Gods According to the Babylonian
places in northern New Jersey, and there. Connections. Another story is pronouncement of the Aseret sage Abaye, for example, before
many of them are run by Jewish about the Jewish Historical Society of HaDibrot, the so-called Ten God would love a person, that per-
organizations and offer everyone Northern New Jersey, which works to C ommandments, all 10 of son had to be loved by the people
and particularly Jews places where uncover the connections between our which are contained in Leviti- he or she met each day.
they can feel comfortable. past and present. Connections. Next, cus 19, in one way or another. The Talmud then illustrates
Connections. the video from new Israelis originally (Dibrot means statements or this by offering an insight into the
The natural world outside our from Fair Lawn which won an award declarations, not command- character of no less a personage
windows is exploding in beauty in Israel. Connections. And it ends ments. The Torah has com- than Rabbi Yochanan ben Zak-
right now. Its that magic time of with the Rubin Run, where the local mandments mitzvoth that kai, he who snatched Judaism
year when the trees are all in color Jewish community runs to celebrate cover all 10 points.) Shammai from extinction when the Second
the light green of midspring, not Mothers Day, their physical prowess, In fact, the Midrash suggests Engelmayer Temple was destroyed. According
quite the baby translucent green of and the JCC whose programs they that Leviticus 19 is what was read to his peers, the Talmud says, no
April, certainly not the deeper, har- support as they run. at the Hakhel (Assembly) cer- one (not even a non-Jew) was ever
dier summertime green, but a sort In the end, of course, all Jewish life emony every seventh year, because, in the able to greet Ben Zakkai on the street before he
of effervescent green, the kind that is about connections. Even when we words of the sage Rabbi Chiya, most of the greeted them. (See the Babylonian Talmud trac-
makes you happy when you look at are most divided, there is a network Torahs essential components are contained tate Brachot 17a.)
it. (Okay, okay, the kind that makes of friendship and family that con- therein. On the other hand, Rabbi Levi said, As for the counter clerk, elsewhere in the
me happy when I look at it.) The nects us. We certainly all are walled [It is because] the Aseret HaDibrot are incor- Talmud (BT Pesachim 3a), we are taught:
trees that arent green are purple or off by our own boundaries and we porated within it. (See Leviticus Rabbah 24:5.) Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: At no time
pink or white, and when the wind need those boundaries, both per- There is so much to learn in this one chapter should a person allow a gross expression to
blows the petals scatter like theyre sonal and communal. Otherwise, we about the Torah and about our role in the world. leave his mouth....The School of Rabbi Yish-
at a wedding, tossed by a huge invis- would be unappealing amorphous For example, no hierarchy of law exists here; mael taught: At all times a person should
ible 2-year-old flower girl. blobs. But its also those walls that there is no distinction between our obligations speak in clean language....
The beauty bridges winter and sometimes allow us to connect. to God and our obligations to people, or to our It does not require a great deal of thought to
summer, connects us to nature, I keep thinking about the Hud- world. Reverence for parents is followed by realize this applies to how we speak to a counter
to joy, to the possibility of hope. son River, visible in sparkling glory Shabbat observance, is followed by a ban on clerk or to anyone else, for that matter.
Connections. through the windows of the museum idol worship, is followed by rules about a sacri- Leviticus 19 has much to say about our deal-
Theres a story this week about at the Hebrew Home. It divides New fice, is followed by laws about our obligations to ings with a counter clerk.
an artist who projects photographs York from New Jersey. It also con- the underprivileged, is followed by a rule against Assume he or she gives us too much change.
of lost places, lost times, to the sites nects the two states, east to west; it misusing Gods Name for profit, is followed by a Verse 11 states, You shall not steal; you
where they had been taken, in a more also connects upstate New York to prohibition against fraud, and so on. shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one
innocent time, in prewar Europe. the harbor and then to the ocean. As At Sinai, we agreed to obey Gods mitzvot, another, and verse 13 tells us, You shall not
Connections. Theres one about it divides, it also connects. period. Whatever classification people eventu- defraud your fellow.
yeshiva students winning a contest As we all continue to respect our ally gave to each mitzvah moral/ethical/social/ If we keep that money, not only are we
in halachic reasoning. Connections. divisions, let us also connect with
One about a group of women who each other, and with the world Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael
came together in response to their around us. JP in Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
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M
y wife and I attended a wonderful modern
Orthodox wedding recently.
The bride exemplified Hillels dictum of kal-
lah naeh vechasudah the bride is lovely and
stealing from the store, we also are stealing from the charming. The groom was resplendent in top hat and tails (for
clerk, because most stores, at least, make the clerks pay which I have a soft spot, having been so bedecked at my wed-
for whatever should be in the register that is not there; ding 47 years ago). The ceremony was meaningful; the food
so we must add verse 13: The wages of a laborer shall plentiful and delicious; the hall graceful and exquisite; and the
not remain with you until morning. speeches and toasts (to the Queen, the presidents of Israel and
There are other ways this can be applied. For the United States, and the bride and groom) were thankfully,
example, we receive a letter in the mail and the post- and surprisingly, short. It was a joyous time, celebrating the
age stamp is not canceled. Can we use that stamp on marriage of the daughter of dear friends who have made ali-
a letter we mail? After all, in this case, no one gets yah, and we appreciated being able to spend time with them,
hurt, not even the clerk. though too short as always. And home by 9:30; what could
That question was asked of a contemporary posek be better? Women dance with the bride at a wedding in
by the name of Rabbi Menashe Klein (the Ungvarer But there was one small pea under the mattress. As we Jerusalem. YONINAH VIA WIKIPEDIA
Rebbe). The stamp, he ruled, represents the price entered the elegant ballroom, we saw a mechitzah splitting
for the delivery of the letter and the sender received the dance floor in half; no, not made of potted plants, but of professed belief in the need to focus on creating and
the value for his stamp. The fact that the stamp was dazzling, shimmering, translucent lights. As I expected, the institutionalizing roles for women that address the needs
mechitzah didnt prevent men and women of Orthodox Jews today, by removing barri-
jointly participating in dancing before the glow- ers that impede women from further con-
ing couple to the tune of keytzad merakdim, tributing to our community. Wonderfully
nor the family from dancing together in a later stated. But why then not remove the bar-
Because the original dance set. Yet it stood throughout the meal as a rier of barring women from participating in
symbol of . . . well, as a symbol of what exactly? holiday Torah and inspirational programs?
culprit was the Of tzniut (modesty)? Of mesorah (tradition)? Gender exclusion affects our kids too. For
negligent clerk, we Of halacha ( Jewish law)? Perhaps. Or, perhaps, example, one modern Orthodox shul invites
its message was Thats what everyones doing prominent Torah scholars to speak to, serve
make that clerk these days. as role models for, and inspire younger chil-
complicit in our crime, One problem with such mechitzot, and with Joseph C. dren. Terrific programs, as evidenced by the
separate seating at more yeshivish/chasidic Kaplan videos Ive watched online. Unfortunately,
or the clerk abetted affairs, is that they keep morphing into even only half of the shuls children are welcome
us in the commission more severe forms of gender separation. And at and benefit from them. What message is
so, men sitting on one side of a table and women on the other imparted to young girls? What does barring them from
of that crime. (which was considered frum seating when I was young) interacting with great Torah personalities and leaders tell
became separate tables, which became separate tables sepa- them about their ability as adults to fully contribute their
not canceled was due to the negligence of the postal rated by a mechitzah, which became separate entrances and individual talents to the community?
employee.[We] must tear up the stamp; [we] may coat rooms and sometimes even floors. And wedding gender Gender exclusion can arise even in the most surprising
not use it. (See his Mishnah Halachot 6:288.) separation spread beyond seating, resulting in some wedding places. Two modern Orthodox shuls, one on the Upper
Halachically, the law of the land is the law dina processions devoid of any women except for the bride, her West Side and one in Florida, recently hosted Sunday pro-
dmachulta dina. According to the law of the land, mother, and the grooms mother, and perhaps grandmothers, grams for their communities. The Florida program on par-
there is a fee for mailing a letter, payable by postage and separate male and female wedding albums and videos enting had a plenary in which a seven-person panel was
stamp. If the stamp is not canceled, the fee may or and the like. comprised only of male heads of school. At the other, three
may not have been paid, and the law may or may Leaders of other Jewish groups do not, of course, need men (and no women) spoke about fertility and egg preserva-
not have been broken. It all depends on whether we my permission to institute customs that they believe best tion. Parenting and egg preservation and neither shul could
use the stamp. If we do, then the fee was not paid. serve their communities needs. However, the result find a woman to speak? Either the planners and speakers
Because the original culprit was the negligent clerk, is that this growing extremism moves the fences for all werent thinking, or they simply didnt care. Its hard to
we make that clerk complicit in our crime, or the groups. Thus, modern Orthodox mainstream positions decide which is worse. Barriers that impede women from
clerk abetted us in the commission of that crime. have become more severe, since the center keeps mov- further contributing to our community, indeed.
Either way, halachah is violated, and the fact that ing right. For example, having separate male and female In 2016, the RCA promulgated a resolution that, in part,
we took advantage of someone elses carelessness dancing circles with no social dancing once was modern called upon Jews to embrace its unifying outlook with
ended up harming that personeven if he or she will Orthodoxys mainstream standard; now, having some passion and pride by recognizing the essential spiritual
never know itwhich is yet another violation. type of mechitzah for dancing is equally prevalent. equality of every Jewish person before God, and seek-
This Shabbat, study Leviticus 19 very carefully. But even worse than the encroaching gender separation ing, in that light, to maximize his or her religious expres-
There is so much here we need to learn, understand, in modern Orthodox life is the continuing specter of gender sion, observance and growth in private and public, and
and put into practice if, indeed, we are to be holy, as exclusion. An advertisement I saw for an evening of Torah, embracing the great human and halachic commonali-
our God is holy. music, and inspiration celebrating Purim highlights this ties between men and women, as well as their respective
problem. The top of the ad proclaimed that the NCSY Kollel unique qualities and experiences, and the halachic dis-
invites the entire Teaneck community to the event, which tinctions between them.
was being held in one of our local shuls. The bottom of the Powerful, encouraging, uplifting words.
ad made clear, however, how the Kollel defined entire (or As always, though, the devil is in the details. So I won-
The opinions expressed in this section are those of perhaps community): for men only. der what the details actually will teach about gender sepa-
the authors, not necessarily those As is well known, the Orthodox Union of which the ration and exclusion. I therefore eagerly await the RCAs
NCSY Kollel is a part recently issued its rabbinical panels and OUs prompt conversion of their positive words into
of the newspapers editors, publishers, or other
paper on female clergy, together with an accompanying concrete proposals, and more importantly, action. I hope
staffers. We welcome letters to the editor.
OU statement. Although I previously criticized the paper I wont be disappointed.
Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
and the statement, I recognize that both contain, to their
credit, significant positive elements in addition to the Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor, has been living in
parts I criticized. To take just one example, the statement Teaneck and practicing law in Manhattan for many years.
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argument that the only way achieve true integration and
ach year at around the start of to foster the ideal of globalization, where to secure the existence of defeat anti-Semitism, the Jew
May, the Jewish people cele- countries put their political and national the Jewish people is for us to needed the support of a state
brate Yom Haatzmaut. aspirations aside in order to build a supra- take care of ourselves, with- behind his or her identity.
I danced and sang for Israels national union, based on a shared eco- out any dependence on the Only then could the Jew find
69th birthday this past week as I might nomic, social, and broad cultural program outside world. Rabbi Dr. secure footing in Europe.
have at the wedding of a dear friend. Our of bringing peoples together. Globaliza- But on the other hand, the David J. Fine Only then could the Jew be
relationship with Israel is personal. We tion is an idea that surpasses its founda- vision of Zionism was of an accepted as an equal and
dance at Israels birthday because we are tion in trade and commerce. Globalization open society, not a closed with dignity.
grateful for its vitality, which we do not preaches a vision of a new type of commu- one. While Theodor Herzl envisioned the This represents the tension within
take for granted. But what are our hopes nity of nations. independent Jewish state, his dream was Herzls Zionism the Jew must be a sep-
for Israel, in a world of increasing polar- But what is the vision that Israel pro- of a state that was integrated in the orbit arate people in order to be accepted
ization? Is Israel our nationalist bastion claims? Zionism, the foundational ideol- of European culture and community. He among Europeans.
against a sea of attackers and haters? Do ogy of the state, offers a tension of multiple envisioned a German-speaking country I long have imagined the day, longed
we see Israel solely as a fortress, a Masada answers, as is, I suppose, the Jewish way. (he imagined neither the extraordinary for the day, when Israel might achieve its
or Beitar? Or is Israel still an open port On the one hand, Zionism is our national- renaissance of the Hebrew language nor destiny by being accepted as a member
to the world around it, a new springtime ism. As the other nations celebrate their the ruptures that were yet to be between state within the European Union. It is not
upon old wintered land? A Tel Aviv? uniqueness, so do we ours. As the other Judaism and Germandom), a small state enough to hope and pray for peace with
The Brexit decision in the U.K. and the nations seek to secure their existence that would be accepted in the cultural and Israels neighbors. Peaceful borders and
rise of populist movements throughout the through defensible borders and domes- economic orbit of the European powers. security from the threat of terrorism are
European Union and elsewhere raise the tic prosperity, so do we ours. If Israel is a Ironically, Herzls Zionism argued that not aspirations, they are basic human
question of the E.U.s ability to continue fortress, it is because we need a fortress. it was the means of independence that rights. As with our own loved ones, yes,
I
being a survivor had made married. If the sun reached
n the year of my brothers bar mitz- into the frigid Chicago air. her thrifty, and though Id just the right height at just
vah, I turned 23. After high school, Since I had recently learned that art- discarded the jacket years the right time of day, it
Id moved to New York to study art. ists wore black, the shopping trip was a ago, it was too good to throw beamed through the dining
By day, I was immersed in Illustra- bust. I rolled my eyes at the turquoise away. Just looking at her room window, shooting rays
tion Concepts and Life Drawing. By night, suits and sequined dresses she picked made me feel guilty. of light through Moms collec-
I made art. I slept behind a staircase in out. Piqued by the way I dismissed her As we stepped off the first tion. A million tiny rainbows
a basement room in Greenwich Village. choices, she snapped that she didnt floor escalator, she glanced Helen would dance across the ceil-
After rent, tuition, and art supplies, my know whose daughter I was, because I at me. Do you have a min- Maryles ing, turning the carpet, the
budget for food and clothing came to $20 surely wasnt hers. ute to stop by the china? Shankman shades, and the walls into a
a week. And I had never been happier. That hurt. Deep down, I longed for my she asked. Her expression kaleidoscope. Occasionally,
My parents reacted with a frenzy of mothers approval, yearned for her to cele- suggested that she was sure Mom would remove a wine-
efforts to set me up with available Jew- brate my new friends, my new apartment, Id say no. glass and flick the rim with her fingernail.
ish bachelors. My mother didnt see my my new happiness along with me. But I Um...sure, I said. When it rang like a bell, a smile of delight
life the way I did, as a joyous liberation, was a realist, in art and in life. It was never Now she bustled forward with pur- crossed her face, lighting it up like fire-
a chance to reinvent myself. She wanted going to happen. My mother was a Holo- pose, leaving me and my leisurely Amer- works. I had long ago reached the conclu-
to see me wedded, preferably to a doctor, caust survivor. Shed been hidden with ican strides far behind. sion that she loved her crystal more than
preferably living nearby. farmers, in an attic, in a castle, in a root Studies show that our living room was she loved me.
I spent most of winter break at home in cellar, in a coffin-sized hole under a cow pretty typical for an immigrant family. We She came to a stop in front of the shelves
my room with the door shut, sulking. My pen. Shed been marched into the forest to had a painting of rabbis arguing at a table. of china. Her expression softened. Pink
mother was a mystery to me; she seemed be shot, and rescued at the last minute by Wall-to-wall carpeting. Plastic-covered fur- came into her cheeks.
genuinely happy cooking, cleaning, and the kommandant of her labor camp. After niture. And an imposing china cabinet. I like this one, she said shyly, point-
doing laundry, and was perplexed that the war, shed shuttled from one displaced Inside this cabinet balanced delicate ing at a creamy white dinner plate. Eng-
I, her flesh-and-blood daughter, did not persons camp to another for the better porcelain plates featuring vignettes of lish roses rambled around the rim. What
share her interests. When I wasnt busy part of a decade. Mom had endured too 18th-century noblemen romancing 18th- do you think? She seemed to be bracing
painting, I had my nose buried in a book. many terrifying surprises over the course century debutantes. A beautiful porcelain herself for me to mock her taste here, too.
We had nothing in common. of her life, and she found comfort in the lady leaned coyly out the window of a deli- It was pretty. I like it, I said, surpris-
One night, I heard a knock on my door, conformity and regularity that made me cate porcelain coach pulled by six pranc- ing myself.
and Mom poked her head in. Do you want to run far, far away. ing porcelain horses. An ocean of faceted She looked as astonished as I felt. What
have anything to wear to the bar mitz- After Id rejected the last dress, she con- lead crystal lined the shelves, fruit bowls about this one? She pointed to another
vah? she asked. ceded defeat, her face a mask of irritated and platters and urns and pitchers and plate, with gold flowers imprinted on a
I hadnt even thought about it, and I told disappointment. Miserably, I followed her wine glasses and tumblers. translucent robins egg blue.
her so, with a certain proud defiance. She down the escalator, awash in an awful, After World War II, as my grandmother Its beautiful, I said. You should get
ignored my provocation. Lets go to Lord incommunicable slush bucket of feelings; waited for the familys immigration appli- it. Something in me stirred. I loved that
& Taylor, she said. wanting to justify myself, wanting her to cation to be approved, she did a brisk plate. I wanted that plate. I desired that
Staid, traditional Lord & Taylor was the understand, wanting to please her, terri- business in the black market, trading with plate. Why had I never noticed how beau-
last place in the universe I wanted to visit, bly sorry for hurting her feelings. She was Germans who lived near the DP camp in tiful a household object could be? That a
the antithesis of the groovy new me I was wearing a plaid jacket with fleecy lapels Foehrenwald. Coffee and cigarettes were plate, too, could be considered art?
trying to create. But other than sulking, I that Id insisted on buying when I was 13 exchanged for crystal vases, sugar bowls, My mother looked at me as if shed
had nothing planned, so off we trudged because one of the popular girls owned or the odd piece of Dresden china. Some never seen me before, then smiled. Id
economic cooperation and security. To be equal among Europeans will mark the frui-
accepted within that circle would seem to tion of the Zionist dream. Moving beyond
I
am proud to be a modern Ortho- and New York state governments. I obvi- and technological trends in residents provided, and I
dox Jew. ously watch television, or I would not have communication platforms also remember the times
I am proud to be a Jew who seen Mr. Aslans work. While certainly my or otherwise. According to when their eldest son, Ari,
believes that part of our relation- full-time occupation has not been Torah Mr. Aslans own highly criti- would come home on army
ship with God entails being fully engaged learning since my gap year after high cal words, Israel is in trouble furlough just before our
with the world. To me, this means being school, I seek to have an appropriate bal- because the Orthodox want meal, with both his rifle and
productive in the world around me. I also ance between my responsibilities of sup- to contain society within a his tzitzit hanging by his side.
am proud to be a Jew who believes that all porting a family financially through my set of parameters that were He now is the Israel direc-
members of the Jewish people are broth- career and serving God in accordance appropriate only in antiq- tor of the Orthodox Union,
ers, regardless of their individual level of with halacha. Still, I am a functioning, con- uity. Therefore, I presume Michael but I guess that according to
religious practice. tributing Orthodox Jew; according to Mr. that the Simon Wiesenthal Cohen Mr. Aslan he simply does not
I am infinitely troubled by Reza Aslans Aslan, I simply do not exist. Center does not exist either. exist either. Nor does Nachal
CNN documentary Believer, which my The Simon Wiesenthal Center created According to Mr. Aslan, Haredi the Israel Defense
wife and I watched the other night. It is a its Moriah Film division decades ago. The there is a growing resentment because the Forces ultra-Orthodox units.
work that would lead you to believe that I only film studio of its kind; so far it has Orthodox world simply does not send its To those who understand the beauty
simply do not exist. produced 16 full-length films, endeavor- children to fight for the defense of Israel, of the diversity within the Jewish people,
Mr. Aslan surmises in his concluding ing to combat anti-Semitism through edu- preferably sending only young secular both in Israel and in the diaspora, we must
remarks that Israel is in serious trouble. cation on issues such as the Holocaust and Jews into harms way. During my gap year ask if Mr. Aslan had a distinct agenda. Or
Having sought out only the extremes of modern Israel. The Simon Wiesenthal Cen- in Israel, I vividly recall spending many did his pre-existing prejudices obstruct
our people, he tells the world that the Jew- ter was founded by an Orthodox rabbi and a Shabbat dinner at the home of Tuvia his ability to report responsibly? Which-
ish state is headed to a naturally combus- functions at the direction of two Orthodox and Rina Berman, friends with a multi- ever the case may be, we must suggest that
tible decision point between democratic rabbis. According to Mr. Aslan, there is generational relationship with my fam- CNN remove the word documentary
atheism and totalitarian theocracy. no connection between Orthodoxy and ily. I remember the delicious American- from this piece, as it suggests balance and
Spending roughly a quarter of his modernity, no acceptance of religion style food that the former Staten Island objectivity. Instead, it reflects Mr. Aslans
reporting on selling to the world that the apparently uniformed perspective.
only hope for a middle ground lies in the It is Mr. Aslans purportedly concrete
hands of the Na Nachs, the Breslover cha- assertions, upon which he builds his
sidic sect that, as Mr. Aslan details, has
only a rough 1,000 fully dedicated adher-
I seek to have an appropriate deceiving conclusions, that simply do
not exist.
ents, is sheer lunacy. If he were seeking out balance between my
a chasidic sect that has a global imprint,
why not speak to the astronomically larger
responsibilities of supporting Michael Cohen of Englewood is the
eastern regional director of the Simon
and impactful Chabad? a family financially through my Wiesenthal Center. He represents his citys
Prior to my privileged work with the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, I spent more
career and serving God in second ward on Englewoods City Council,
and he belongs to Congregation Ahavath
than 15 years working for both the federal accordance with halacha. Torah there.
Letters
Cant we agree on anything? If the state and the chief rabbinate of Israeli Independence Day, on the day that referred to involves coal-mining areas in
For 37 years we have maintained mem- Israel have decided on the correct date the rest of the Jewish world observes Yom the country. The states involved have the
bership in our spiritual and social base, for universally mourning and recogniz- Hazikaron is just that divisive, fractious, responsibility and the authority to con-
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, and have ing our brave sisters and brothers, chil- and insensitive. And, for those of you who trol clean water in their water sources.
endeavored to ignore, with success, most dren and parents, who are we to make consider yourselves sage and are sharp- Coal presently is being exported to
of the petty controversies and ignomini- our own isolated determination as to the ening your pencils in order to refute the China and is to be used in bringing back
ous political flare-ups that have arisen more appropriate date? above with a Rashi or whoevers opposing steel production to our country. Wind-
over those years. Yes, I know that certain well recog- view, dont bother, because nothing you mills and solar panels will never have the
But today I came home from Shacharis nized, highly respected American rab- can say can possibly negate the visceral capacity to provide adequate electricity
(morning prayers) nauseated, and I was binic scholars have supported this errant sadness and frustration Bnai Yeshuruns for industry and other human uses. It is
forced to give serious consideration to conclusion, and though I am quite dis- actions evoke. interesting that no one has mentioned
terminating our membership. Cant we tant from being a halachic scholar, I still Lenny Fuld that atomic energy supplied by atomic
Jews agree on anything? ask: Whatever happened to the prohibi- Teaneck fusion could solve our energy problems
Why on the very date, called Yom Hazi- tion of lo titgodedu, which proscribes without any danger to our health. Power
karon (Day of Remembrance), on which creating factions among Jews (Parashat The waters fine from three atomic submarines could ful-
the State of Israel officially remembers Reeh/Deut 14:1), and which the Rambam The we cited by Steven Rothman lost fill the energy requirements of a city the
the courageous heroes and heroines (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of the election (We demand that Trump size of Tacoma, Washington! The EPA
who sacrificed their lives defending the Idolatry, 12:14) claimed is to prevent stop threatening our drinking water, exceeded the authority granted by Con-
State and the Jewish people, are we one the religious discord and social dissent April 28). Therefore, there is a differ- gress and President Trump corrected this
of the very few shuls singing Hallel ( joy- that precipitate disunity and internecine ent voice in the country. By citing the assumption of power. There will be pure
ous psalms of praise and thanksgiving conflict? N.Y. Times, the Washington Post, and water, despite Mr. Rothmans pessimism!
recited on holidays) and celebrating with Well, Bnai Yeshuruns relatively isolated the Sierra Club, Mr. Rothman shows his Shel Haas
a Kiddush (reception) of food and drink? decision to observe Yom Haatzmaut, liberal bias. The only drinking water Fort Lee
F
or much of this year, defenders have sought to
a bitter debate has downplay the uncompro-
raged over the char- mising, violent nature of
acter and opinions Horthys Jew-hatred, on the
of Sebastian Gorka, who was grounds that, in essence,
appointed as a deputy adviser he wasnt as bad as Hitler.
to President Donald Trump Since only a handful of
shortly after his inauguration dictators Stalin, Mao, Syr-
in January. ias Assad dynasty bear
Reports emerged at the Ben Cohen even a passing resemblance
end of last week saying that to Hitler, that strikes me as
Gorka would be removed a disingenuous defense.
from his White House post, possibly for When it comes to anti-Semites, none
a new role within the administration. As have been as foul as Hitler.
of Wednesday, those still unconfirmed The age-old human desire to make
rumors continue to swirl. the narrative of the past fit with our cur-
Until now, I have resisted the tempta- rent imperatives disables, rather than
tion to dip a toe into this dispute. Many enables, a calm historical inquiry into
of Gorkas detractors call him an anti- what Horthy actually believed, and what
Semite, citing his documented links it is that he did. If your sole purpose is
with far-right organizations in his native to prove Horthy wasnt Hitler in order to
Hungary. His defenders have angrily defend Gorka, your predispositions are
described the accusation as a smear. going to blind you to the importance of
And so, inevitably, a cycle of barbs has certain facts.
begun, with the usual ad hominems Like it or not, to understand the conflict
embedded into political exchanges. around Gorka, you need to understand
Its undignified, and it reminds me of Horthy and by extension, you have to
similarly frustrating arguments about understand nationalism in Hungary.
whether certain people on the left are Sir Isaiah Berlin, that great historian
trading in anti-Semitic tropes. of ideas, observed in one of his lectures
So let me say at the outset: I have never that there was a tremendous surge in his-
met Gorka, I have never spoken with torical studies during the 19th century, at
him, and I cant say Im hugely familiar the same time that technological innova- Sebastian Gorka GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
arguments during the Gorka affair has different social classes like no other polit- in 1920. At least 5,000 Jews were slaugh-
concerned his involvement with Vitezi ical force liberating for those waving tered in the subsequent pogroms. Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.
Rend, an ultranationalist organization flags, but all too often harsh toward those There was anti-Semitic legislation, org and the Tower magazine, writes a
founded by Miklos Horthy, the Jew- minorities caught on the wrong side of a too. Horthys numerus clausus policy weekly column on Jewish affairs and
loathing Hungarian leader who ruled the national border. severely restricted Jewish attendance at Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
country from 1920 to 1944. Depending on where you were in universities. His prime minister, Gyula published in Commentary, the New York
No serious historian disputes Hor- Europe, national pride could be indis- von Gombos, enthusiastically pushed Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street Journal,
thys anti-Semitism. Yet many of Gorkas tinguishable from plain bigotry. But this Hungary into the camp of Nazi Germany. and many other publications.
A
(Leviticus 19:1-2)
which seemingly appear out of nowhere. It 2. Keep the Sabbath: The moment we give
s a child, I used to wonder what it means to be feels as if they were handpicked and planted ourselves permission to let go of the every-
holy. It sounded like such a big, unearthly in the center of this discussion, not even in day meshugas for example, the moment
word. I imagined that a holy person was a the order in which the Ten Commandments we acknowledge that enjoying and appre-
man adorned in a long white gown with a giant were originally given to us! ciating nature brings us closer to ourselves
white kippah covering most of his head. I also imagined he As the Portuguese scholar Rabbi Don Isaac and nature we can then let go of the mun-
would always walk around with arms covered with long, ben Judah Abravanel [1437-1508] asked: Rabbi/Cantor dane, the to-do lists, and let Gods peace
flowing sleeves, his two palms pressed together in the Why did God think it necessary for Moses Meeka Simerly surround us. Our way of keeping Shabbat,
prayer gesture, while blessing everyone with holy words to speak to the whole of the Israelite Com- Temple Beth then, becomes holy, nearer to God.
of wisdom. I now understand that my childhood image munity and repeat the Ten Commandments Tikvah, Wayne, 3. Refrain from worshiping idols. No other
Reform
basically reflected the Pope; an image I saw on our old to them? And why are they not given in the human should be worshipped. At the age of
black and white TV. order they were given in Exodus 20? 45, for example, looking at yourself in the
Now, as an adult, that childhood image is no more. I The three commandments are: mirror and comparing yourself to a 15-year-old model
think I may have a little better understanding of the 1. Revere your mother and father. could make you do horrific things to your own body,
Hebrew word kadosh itself, and the message deliv- 2. Keep my Sabbath. sometimes even risk losing your life. When we do things
ered to each of us in this excerpt from Parshat Kedoshim 3. Do not worship false gods. like tucking this, injecting that, cutting/inducing/eliminat-
(though as often happens, this idea may also change as I On the surface, this sudden insertion is not connected ing this that or the other, in order to look like her/him, we
grow older). To me, the word kadosh reflects the essence to any of the verses that come before or after it. are subjecting ourselves, our bodies Gods magnificent
of relationships: with ones self and with other humans. The more I read and meditated on the verses, it dawned creation to destruction. That is one of many examples of
It ultimately leads to a deeper spiritual connection with on me that this is a highly psychological instruction, a syn- idol worship which distances us from our God.
The One. Let me explain. opsis of how to transition from childish behavior and an Feeling holy to God is subjective and relative. One
The beginning of Parshat Kedoshim is enigmatic. The infantile outlook on life to a mature relationship. Only persons idea of holiness will differ from someone else;
previous chapter ends with the words I am Adonai your after we achieve these goals can we be free to move up on theres no right here, nor wrong. There are only con-
God. Parshat Kedoshim then starts with a new idea, a new the ladder of spiritual existence. Bringing the examples sequences to our actions. Feeling holy to God is an indi-
verse that also ends with, I am Adonai your God. With into a present context: vidual experience. The three commandments above are
no further elaboration about what it means to be holy to 1. Honor your parents: When we stop blaming our examples, a road map that summarizes one way to reach
God, we are told, God spoke to Moses saying: Speak to parents for all the wrongs that were done to us, the a mature connection with God.
the whole Israelite community and say unto them: You moment we take responsibility for our own actions, as On this Shabbat, we are invited to examine our own
shall be holy, for I, God your God, am holy. we learn to accept our parents human attributes, to see code of moral behavior. We must ask ourselves: Which of
But what is holy? If God wants us to be holy because and love them for who they are thats the moment we the results of our behavior make us feel holy to God?
BRIEFS
Am I toast? Part I
BANJI GANCHROW I showed up at the first
P
meeting and was pleas-
eople might think antly surprised that I
that because I often didnt know one person
speak my opinion there. Not only didnt I
that I must be a good know anyone, I had never
speaker. This is #FALSE. People seen anyone in the room
think that because I write a col- before in my entire life.
umn that I must also be a good Good start. But maybe
speaker. This is #FALSE. People Banji bad, because there was
think that I think very highly of Ganchrow still the possibility of both
myself because I have a col- cult membership and
umn. This is #FALSE. People white slavery but I sat
think that I know how to use a hashtag. down because everyone was looking for
This is #FALSE. (Clearly.) me, and after taking inventory of the other
I hate public speaking. This might have members, I saw I was the largest one in the
something to do with the fact that I am not room. Which I guess was a good thing, in
too fond of the public in general, but that case they did try to kidnap me.
is for another time and another column. I Turns out, it was a surprisingly pleas-
was given the opportunity to speak over ant experience. I was called up for some-
Passover. This was a great chance for me thing called Table Topics and I was
to conquer my fear of public speaking. For supposed to discuss my favorite part of
those lucky guests of son #2s bar mitzvah, Christmas. I told everyone that my favor-
they got to witness the episode of Big Girl ite part was going to see the Rockefeller Across Down
1. Where many matzah crumbs land 1. Kiddush ___ (monthly prayer)
Almost Passes Out, and not because she Center Christmas tree because that is
4. Chuck Schumer, e.g.: Abbr. 2. Cars that appear in several Marvel
had too much to drink. It was frightening. where husband #1 attempted to ask me 7. Like one with good midot films
Frightening for me as the speaker, and to marry him. I say attempted because 13. ___-friendly (like Israels new tax ini- 3. Like many European Jews in the
frightening for the front row, who almost tiative) 1930s
14. State of one who saw the Red Sea 4. King before David
had the large speaker collapse on them.
split 5. JFK alternative when flying to
Not a pretty picture. 15. Brie of Community and Mad Men 61-Down
But a happy ending because I lost four 16. Bird accused by Lebanon of being an 6. Schindler portrayer
pounds in one afternoon. I was called up Israeli spy (seriously)
18. Daniel Radcliffe played one in several
7. Scraped, as with hoofs
8. New Jews (in Israel)
In any event, a friend of mine on Face-
book (because that is where most of my for something movies
19. Israels Sharon
9. Screenless monitor found around
Beer Sheva, e.g. ?
friends live) had started posting things called Table 20. Nightly (and daily) Jewish prayer
22. Yiddish spouting tennis pro on Red
10. Biblical bk. after Kings II
11. AL home of Kevin Pillar
about joining this club, called Toastmas-
ters. She said that she was going to start Topics and I Oaks 12. Make Havdalah, e.g.
17. Hummus ingredient
was supposed
23. Syrian Spadefoot, e.g. (rare amphib-
having to give speeches for her job, and ian rediscovered in Israel) 21. Israeli port
this club was going to help her learn to be
a better speaker. I was intrigued. Intrigued to discuss my 24. She played Carla on Cheers
28. Rav who was first editor of the
23. What mom might assign when get-
ting ready for a Seder
enough to google Toastmasters. Wouldnt favorite part of Babylonian Talmud
29. ___ ledodi, vdodi li
25. Tony who has won Emmys with
Dreyfus for Veep
you know it, there was a Toastmasters
club right in Bergenfield? This was too Christmas. 30. Belonging to an Eden resident
31. Shekel letters
26. Parsha next to BeHar
27. Sun Devil sch. where Al Michaels was
33. Do not fear, ___ I am with you a sports writer
easy. The kind man on the phone told me
(Gen. 26:24) 30. Fine works of Max Weber and Max
where to go, when to show up, and how he never actually asked, he just kind of 35. Reed of rock Lieberman
much it would cost if I decided to join. I stared at me, possibly hoping that I would 36. Social justice fighter for Sephardic 32. Summer Shabbat dessert
was intrigued, but also a little hesitant. It say no, but in any case, I told that story and Mizrahi Jews in Israel 34. Where Coors or HeBrew might be
40. Sound from a sacrifice found?
all seemed too easy. Was I going to be kid- with little to no sarcasm (which was pain-
41. Rehovot to Bet Shemesh dir. 36. Physicist Niels
napped and sold into white slavery? Was I ful for me, but I need to ease into new 42. Org. that statistically isnt as good as 37. Singer Lisa who has released four
walking into a cult? Would I soon be chant- crowds. Dont want to be scaring any- El Al security childrens albums
ing mantras like, My husband is the king one right off the bat). Everyone clapped 43. Susie Fishbein and Gordon Ramsay, 38. Nut no-no at many Jewish camps
e.g. 39. Last name of singer Beck
and I am his humble servant or I love (they do that for everyone) and then I sat 45. Agcy. co-founded by Michael Ovitz 40. Stage name of Beastie Boy Adam
cleaning toilets? Who knew what was in down. Maybe this is just what I need, pos- 47. Larry Brown won this championship Yauch
store for me. itive affirmationhmmm. in 1988 for KS 44. Sooty, e.g. (bird of prey found in
But my fear of public speaking over- So, did I end up joining a cult? Have I 51. 4 the Negev)
52. American elitist stereotype hardly 46. ___ it (in my opinion)
shadowed my hesitation to join a cult. learned how to speak? What is Toastmas- found in Israel 48. ___ arms (possible declaration from
Maybe I would look better with a shaved ters, really? Tune in next weekwhen the 53. Mineo and Goodmans Gal David against the Philistines)
head and a tattoo of an eagle. I was speak- questions and answers just keep on coming! 54. Sandlers Spanglish co-star Ta 49. Steve and Woody
ing in front of people who didnt know 56. Blabs (some Lashon Hara) 50. Give the value of (a German colony
57. Flying item in a Spielberg film home)
me, and I had to learn how to do it with- Banji Ganchrow likes the name 60. Legendary creator of the starred 52. Like Aaron Sorkins dialogue
out falling on anyone or sweating to the Toastmaster because it makes her think of characters in this puzzle 55. Tref Eilat swimmers
point of dehydration. Though still wary of toast, especially cinnamon toast, which is a 62. Star in Ivan (Reitmans) Twins 56. Talmudic ___ (lore)
63. Start of Lag BaOmer? 57. Mourned, in a Jewish way
the whole white slavery scenario, I did ask no-fail comfort food. In addition, she would
64. Wts. of containers arriving in Haifa 58. Woe unto us! For we ___ spoiled
a friend of mine if he would join me, but like to give a shout out to son #2 and his 65. Like Israel, compared to Russia (Jer. 4:!3)
he declined because of work (and because classmates, who walked from Shaalavim 66. She must have had daughters 59. Echad, at the Louvre
he probably didnt want to join a cult) and to Jerusalem this week. Its more than 30 67. Spy org. that ceased operating 61. Ben-Gurion letters
before Mossad was born
since I hate rejection, I didnt ask anyone miles. She doesnt know why they did this,
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 67.
else. So this big girl was on her own. but she is happy they all survived.
Peter Scolari plays Emile Zola in the Brooklyn Academy of Music production. SHIRIN TINATI
T
cert, which incorporates dialogue, spoken land. The phrase jaccuse has become on their immigrant experience. Judging by
he notorious case of Alfred letters and diaries, live music, video pro- shorthand for the struggle against gov- Old New Year, their fifth original produc-
Dreyfus, the Jewish French mili- jections, opera, and dance. A string quar- ernment obfuscation and manipulation. tion, they still have a way to go.
tary officer falsely accused of tet onstage is joined by a flutist and a pia- Peter Scolari gives an impassioned perfor- In the play, a group of attractive young
treason, imprisoned on Devils nist at times, and there are selections on mance as Zola, a superb balance to Max actors tries to tell the story of intersecting
Island, and then released, has haunted the the organ and harpsichord. Cast members von Essens touching and sensitive por- characters who are struggling with the
Jewish world as well as France for over a sing arias from Fromental Halevys opera trayal of the tormented Dreyfus. Other standard problems of young adult life. In
century. It inspired Theodore Herzl, then a La Juive, as well as Maurice Ravels standouts are Meghan Picerno as Lucie that sense, Old New Year is not much
young journalist covering the trial, to seek Kaddish. The classically trained voices Dreyfus, the Jewish officers devoted wife, different from a lot of television dramas
in Zionism a solution to the intractable are gorgeous and deeply moving, and the and Mark Evans as Mathieu Dreyfus, the where, after a while, you realize the
hatred of the Jews he saw there. It reinvig- musicians excellent. The only aspect of brother who never ceased to try to prove characters are connected in somewhat
orated the native anti-Semitism among the the piece that didnt work for me was the Dreyfuss innocence. unexpected ways. The cast seems to be
French right-wing, which clearly is flour- dancing, which seemed extraneous and Its astonishing how relevant this one- talented, but its hard to tell because of
ishing today. It mobilized the forces among took up too much time in an already long hundred-plus-year-matter feels, what the directorial choices. For some reason,
the left and the right across Europe that and demanding performance. with the conspiracy theories and per- all the characters perform at the same
would clash violently in the 1930s. The Wolf s script traces the convolutions haps real conspiracies swirling about. It level of hysteria throughout the show.
case came to symbolize the corruption of the Dreyfus case through dialogue and is a reminder that factionalism what we Perhaps the warehouse-like theater
and injustice of the state or the perfidious explanatory video notes, while the musi- now call partisanship can have disas- space added to the uniformity of sound,
conspiracy of alien powers, depending on cal selections explore the emotional mael- trous consequences. BAM Fisher is a 321 but it seemed everyone was screaming all
your point of view. It offered something to strom that tore through the country and Ashland Place in Brooklyn. Information is the time at the performance I saw. The
outrage everyone. the participants. Its an astonishingly com- at www.bam.org or (718) 636-4100. interesting set design was a plus, and the
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century plicated story with many people involved actors worked hard to give their charac-
is presenting a multimedia examination spies and double agents, a corrupt gen- Old New Year ters some individuality. Still, the 100-min-
of The Dreyfus Affair at the Brooklyn eral staff, forged documents, mysterious The Lost & Found Project is a work in prog- ute play seemed a lot longer. The Jewish
Academy of Music Fisher Space. It is well suicides, and more. The climax of the ress. A resident company of the National aspects of the play included a sweetly
worth the trek to downtown Brooklyn for Dreyfus affair in many ways came with Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Lost & Found sung Yiddish lullaby and a discussion of
music lovers as well as anyone else who Emile Zolas impassioned denunciation, became a core affiliate of FolksbieneRU in the value of a bris.
is intrigued by novel theatrical projects. Jaccuse, published in the French news- 2013, a partnership initiative of the Genesis Performances are through May 13 at 345
Eve Wolf, the founder and artistic direc- paper LAurore on January 13, 1898. This Philanthropy Group and Folksbiene. The East 104th Street. For tickets, call (212)
tor of ERC and a renowned pianist, has open letter to the French president led to group works to engage Russian-speaking 213-2120.
Tuesday
Media continuing a
series, A Lens on Israel:
Judaism. 950 Queen
Anne Road. (201) 836- NCJW to screen Holocaust film
MAY 9
The Birth, Growth,
and Development of
6210 or www.bethaaron.
org. with follow-up talk by director
a Society Through its The Bergen County section territories. He saved more
Talking about spies:
At a meeting of REAP
Cinema. Refreshments
at 12:30 p.m.; program
Sunday of the National Council of than 1,000 Jews from
(Retired Executives and at 1. 1449 Anderson Ave., MAY 14 Jewish Women will host a almost certain death in the
n Active Professionals) Fort Lee. (201) 947 1735. screening of Orchestra of Holocaust.
at the Kaplen JCC on Tehilim series in
the Palisades in Tenafly, Remembering the Exiles on Monday, May 8, The following Tuesday,
Englewood: Kehilat
Dick Burnon talks about Six-Day War: Chabad of Kesher/Community at 2 p.m., at Temple Emeth May 16, the films director,
Historys Famous Spies, NWBC in Franklin Lakes Synagogue of Tenafly & in Teaneck. The film tells the documentary filmmaker
10:45 a.m. 411 E. Clinton marks 50 years since Englewood concludes story of Bronislaw Huber- Josh Aronson, will discuss
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or the Six-Day War, with a three-part lecture
www.jccotp.org. a new course, Survival man, the Polish violinist Orchestra of Exiles at a
on tehilim with Rabbi
of a Nation: Exploring Shai Held, 8:30 p.m. who founded the orches- second NCJW BCS meeting,
Israel Through the Lens Discussion, Al Naharot tra that would become the Josh Aronson this one at 12:30 p.m., also
of the Six-Day War, Bavel Is There a Place Israel Philharmonic. In cre- COURTESY NCJW BCS at Temple Emeth. The syn-
7:30 p.m. 11 Harold St. for Rage in the Religious
(201) 848-0449 or www. ating the orchestra, Huber- agogue is at 1666 Windsor
Life? (Psalm 137). 509
chabadplace.org/jli. Engle St. (201) 227-1117 or man arranged for the best Jewish musi- Road in Teaneck. For more information,
www.keshernj.com. cians to emigrate from Nazi-threatened go to www.ncjwbcs.org.
Friday
MAY 12
Molly Picon Plant sale: The Garden
Club of Englewood holds
Salute to Molly Picon: its annual plant sale,
The JCC of Fort Lee/ rain or shine, in Veterans
Congregation Gesher Memorial Park at Depot
Shalom hosts A Musical Square in Englewood,
Salute to Molly Picon, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Garden
Star of the Yiddish club members will be on
Theatre, a lecture/ hand to assist customers
concert by Dr. Diane with selection and give
Cypkin, a CSI Scholar advice on planting,
Fund program, 1:15 p.m.; care, and arrangement.
refreshments at 12:30. Proceeds will benefit the COURTESY JCCOTP
1449 Anderson Ave. (201) clubs many community
947-1735. projects. Benefit run in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on the
Life care planning: Shabbat in Ridgewood: Palisades hosts its USTF-
Jewish Association Temple Israel & JCC hosts authorized annual Rubin
for Developmental a camp-style Shabbat Run, a family-friendly
Disabilities continues for Lag BOmer, with a community race. Half
an ID/DD informational barbecue, service with marathon, 7:15 a.m.; 10K
workshop, School to guitar accompaniment, at 8:15; 5K at 10. Race
Adult Transition, with and dessert around the day registration available.
speaker Nieves Pimienta, bonfire. 6 p.m. 475 Grove Breakfast, giveaways,
6:30 p.m. Next workshop, St. (201) 444-9320 or free babysitting, warm-
May 23. 190 Moore St., synagogue.org. ups, and trophies. Lead
Suite 272, Hackensack. sponsors include the
(201) 457-0058, ext. 12, Shabbat in Parsippany: Kaplen Foundation,
or events@j-add.org. Author and journalist Englewood Hospital
Jonathan Alter will & Medical Center, the
Judaism 101 in Spanish: look at The Fragility of Rubin family, the Jewish
Rabbi Aaron Katz leads a
Spanish-language class,
Democracy, and discuss
the threat that present
Standard, and the North
Jersey Media Group. 411
Local artists display in Closter
Judaism 101, focusing political trends pose to E. Clinton Ave. (201) 408- Garden of Prayer, collaborative works by Carolyn Kaldy and Jay Greenspan, are on
on history, philosophy, world peace and the 1412, mkleiman@jccotp.
and Jewish culture, at future of the Jewish org, or www.jccotp.org/ display at the Art Wall at the Closter Public Library through June 30. The library is at
Bnai Jacob in Jersey people, at Temple 280 High St. For information, call (201) 768-4197 or go to closter.bccls.org.
rubinrun.
City, 7 p.m. 176 West Side Beth Am, 7:30 p.m. 879
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or Beverwyck Road. (973)
www.bnaijacobjc.com.
Remembering the
887-0046.
Singles
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Six-Day War: Lubavitch
on the Palisades of
Tenafly marks 50 years
Rabbi Sam Frankel,
middle school rabbi
Friday JHF golf/tennis/card outing May 22
at Yavneh Academy MAY 12
since the Six-Day War and individual/ The Jewish Home Foundation holds p.m., there will be a tennis round-robin
with a new course, Shabbaton: Sharon
Survival of a Nation:
family therapist, is the its 23rd annual Golf, Tennis, and Card tournament. Cards and other games,
scholar-in-residence Ganz & Friends host a
Exploring Israel Through Outing on Monday, May 22, at the Mon- including mah jongg, and social and
at Congregation Beth Shabbaton for Jewish
the Lens of the Six-Day Aaron. At 9:15 p.m., he singles, 30s-40s, at tammy Golf Club in Alpine. A.C.B.L.-sanctioned bridge, also will be
War, 8:15 p.m. 11 Harold will discuss How to Young Israel of Avenue This years event honors Robert available. Cocktails will follow at 5:30,
St. (201) 871-1152, ext. 501 Activate Your Free Will. J in Brooklyn, through
or www.chabadlubavitch. Peckar for his many years of dedication. the reception at 6:15, and dinner and
On Shabbat morning he Saturday night. Fee
org. will give a drasha after includes three Shabbat
Howard Chernin and Warren Feldman the auction at 7. The daylong fundraiser
davening in the main meals, Brooklyn tour, and are the outing co-chairs; Howard Blatt will benefit the programs and services
Wednesday minyan. At 5:40 p.m., he Saturday night party. 1721 and Marc Blatt are the golf co-chairs, the JHF provides to the elderly in the
will consider Enjoying Avenue J. (646) 529- and David Edelberg, Howard Lippman, community.
MAY 10 Every Bite A Mindful 8748 or (718) 575-3962.
Approach to Healthy Susan Penn, and Barry Wien are the ten- Companies can sponsor the event or
Lens on Israel: The Eating Habits and nis co-chairs. send participants. For more informa-
CSI Scholar Fund of Achieving Your Weight The day will begin with brunch and tion, call Molly Shulman at (201) 784-
the JCC of Fort Lee/ Goals, and again at
Congregation Gesher a program at 9:45 a.m.; golf will begin 1414, ext. 5539, or email her at mshul-
6:40 between Mincha
Shalom presents Jewish and Maariv, he will with a shotgun start at 11:45 a.m.; at 1 man@@jewishhomefamily.org.
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bergenPAC to host the sounds of music for JCC Thurnauer School gala benefit
The Kaplen JCC Thurnauer School of Music will celebrate 33 Thurnauer prides itself on providing this best-
years of music on Wednesday, May 10, at 7 p.m., at the Ber- start education and this is what really sets us
gen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, at its 27th annual apart. The music school introduces young chil-
Gift of Music gala benefit. dren to the incredible world of music, excites
The concert features world-renowned Anthony McGill, them about all the possibilities and provides
principal clarinet, New York Philharmonic; Mindy Kaufman, them with an education where they can get it
piccolo and flute, New York Philharmonic; and Michael right from the beginning. Our honorees know
McHale, international piano soloist, plus Thurnauers stu- this firsthand. Between them, they have eight
dent ensembles. children who studied at Thurnauer and credit it
The gala will also honor two local families, Karen and for enriching their lives.
Michael Neus and Heidi Chen Lauring and Brett Lauring, who The annual benefit concert serves as the Mindy Kaufman Anthony McGill Michael McHale
have generously helped make community music possible by schools major fundraising event and pri- CHRISTIAN STEINER COURTESY JCCOTP COURTESY JCCOTP
dedicating their time and efforts to Thurnauer for years. mary source of scholarship assistance for
Most major conservatories dont take young beginner those who cannot afford the cost of tuition. It was estab- For information on the concert and the featured artists,
students, but a child interested in studying music needs to lished by Drs. Joan and Alan Handler to bring the joys of or for journal and sponsorship opportunities, go to www.
start somewhere, and with the best possible music educa- music-making to a broad student population in a nurtur- jccotp.org/gom or email Nina Bachrach at nbachrach@
tion, said Thurnauer director Dorothy Kaplan Roffman. ing and supportive environment. jccotp.org, or call her at (201) 408-1406.
This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City New York State Council on the Arts with the support of pr@jewishmediagroup.com 201-837-8818 x 110
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groups founders, also has a background sister-in-law live in Alabama, and I have candidates to run for office, and about
Stanton Strong in marketing and branding, and she has been there for Shabbat dinner and heard having our voice heard.
FROM PAGE 11
run her towns school fundraisers for the amazing stories. Jewish values are all about taking care
Art is political, she added. Art is a last five years. Shes working on Stanton Its upsetting, she said. I feel that the of others, Ms. Besnoy said. I feel that in
commentary and a reflection of our soci- Strongs fundraiser, which has been put best way to have an impact is to give the Jewish religion, women are respected.
ety of our time, of our issues. together very quickly. money. It all costs money. Clinics are clos- Women run the house. I think that I always
She sees some good coming from these I really wanted us to do it sooner rather ing. Its also important to give both at have felt very confident as a woman. I
turbulent times. Rather than allow this than later, to build on the anger that a lot home and farther away, she added. never felt like less than anyone. But now
shift to be divisive, we are trying to flip of women feel, she said. We are focusing on fundraising, I dont like this feeling that my country is
it and use it as strength, she said. As a The problems not nearly as bad in but we also are focusing on educating making me feel.
uniting force. And I think its happening all Bergen County as in other places, she women. There are so few women can- That why she, along with the rest of
over the country. said. I know that we are in a little bit of didates we plan on meeting with peo- Stanton Strong, is working to overcome
Jill Besnoy of Demarest, another of the a bubble here. But my brother-in-law and ple and talking about how to get women that feeling.
the political rationale for it? Dr. Wisse said. And why the Republican look at the world as inescapably run by
Realities Dr. Wisse thinks about very broad ques- party as it is constituted today is a pro- political forces. I understand from it
FROM PAGE 12
tions; when she speaks to congregations, Jewish party. This is not a joke. It is your why there are some Jews who are tem-
does it mean to teach the Holocaust? It she says, she has to break off small bits responsibility to understand it. peramentally incapable and so unwill-
means nothing. Because we havent really of her thoughts, because otherwise there I dont care whether you choose to ing to recognize a certain kind of reality
done it havent analyzed how it worked could not possibly be enough time. remain in one party or the other, but you that they wouldnt know how to live in
politically, why anti-Semitism developed, A subject that is occupying her a great have to account for it. What does it mean the world if they had to see it that way,
why Hitler could go into one country after deal now is Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambas- that you are not willing to explain your she said. So denial becomes their reli-
another, and no matter how much they sador to the United Nations, whom she decision? You have to explain why you gion. And many retreat to the synagogue.
hated Germany, he let them kill the Jews sees as a great improvement over her pre- think that Democrats act in a certain way I think that the synagogue is wonderful,
and it was a great gift to them. And why decessor, Samantha Power, and over the and Republicans act in another way. This and that the number of people who join
were the Jews set up so they had no idea administration Ms. Power represented. is what Jews are reluctant to do. I under- is wonderful but I think that if your
about what was happening to them? You have to understand why at least one stand it the truth can be very difficult. synagogue life is devoted to denying or
It is our responsibility to ask the third of the Democratic party today is anti- Dr. Wisse goes back to Yiddish litera- escaping from political reality, then this
questions. Why does it happen? What is Israel, in a very classic way anti-Jewish, ture to explain why it is necessary to too has to be acknowledged.
For him, he added, being Jewish means to be part of this group of people who had JCC, despite her decades of work there.
Haunting Hour being part of a community. He went to public this connection to each other. I play a bunch of different parts, Ms.
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school in Englewood Cliffs until it ended, in Because of his ties to the JCC, and his Roberts said. The best friend, a spooky
It was beautifully done. Black Cindy, played eighth grade, and there were maybe 30 or deep affection for Deb Roberts basi- waiter, a French maitre d which is really
by Adrianne C. Moore, comes to terms with 40 kids in my grade, and only two of us were cally Im doing this radio play because fun! and a stage manager. It is just fun
religion. First she wants to convert because Jewish. That made me feel part of a commu- Deb asked me to, and I will do anything to do this!
she wants the kosher meals, and then she nity; it separated me in a way that I felt proud she asks me to do, he said hell be at the Its terribly exciting, she added. Its
slowly starts understanding what the religion of. Maybe 80 percent of the other kids were JCC on Sunday evening. thrilling to be on this stage. Its almost like
is about. By the end, when she converts, she Italian, and I was Jewish, and going to the JCC So will Ms. Roberts, who has been acting an aphrodisiac. Its lovely fun, and Im
cries. It is so poignant and beautiful. on Sundays solidified that. It made me proud most of her life, but has never acted at the enjoying it tremendously.
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