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Hummus unity in Argentina
l Shanah tovah!
The year 5778 is upon us, and we
at the Jewish Standard wish you and
yours a wonderful, healthy, happy, and
perhaps-not-quite-as-newsy new year.
Make Hummus, Not War.
That was the message behind a re-
cent cook-off that brought local Jews
and Muslims, together in Buenos Ai-
res, Argentinas bustling capital city.
On Sunday, 20 amateur chefs
participated in a hummus-making
competition at the Tetuan Moroc-
can Grill, a restaurant in the trendy
Palermo Soho neighborhood. About
300 people showed up to see judges
name a winner of what unofficially
was dubbed the First World Champi-
onship of Hummus.
The cook-off was less about com-
petition and more about bringing
people of different cultures and reli-
gions together through the food they
all love.
But there was a winner: Myriam
Kabbara, who runs an Islamic school
in Buenos Aires.
We all want to respect each other,
Beynazur Ors said. A native of Turkey,
her colorful hummus contained beet
and red cabbage.
Her husband, Burak, agreed.
We all want another event like this,
more time to cook and eat together,
he said.
Though it may have been the first
hummus competition of its kind in
Buenos Aires, the evening germinated
over the course of informal get-to-
gethers with members of the Latin
American Jewish Congress and young
local Muslims. The group started three
years ago simply by getting coffee
or tea together, but soon members
invited each other to Passover and If-
tar dinners. The hummus contest was
an offshoot of the group, but while
members of the Latin American Jew-
ish Congress attended, there was little
Page 3
Headless toads in priceless jug
l Frogs here. Frogs there. Frogs were jumping the deceased in the afterworld, they said.
everywhere. When we removed the stone that blocked
And everywhere, it turns out, means ancient the tomb opening, we were excited to discover
Canaan as well as Pharoahs Egypt. In a discov- intact bowls and jars. In one of the jars, to our
ery near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, archaeolo- surprise, we found a heap of small bones, the
gists unearthed headless toads. They found archaeologists explained. The bones had be-
them in a jug they dated back nearly 4,000 longed to at least nine toads. All the toads had
years, to the Canaanite period. been decapitated.
During excavations in the past few years, For an archaeologist, finding tombs that were
archaeologists have uncovered two settle- intentionally sealed in antiquity is a priceless
ment sites, two temples, and a number of treasure, because they are a time capsule that al-
cemeteries from the Middle Bronze Age. lows us to encounter objects almost just as they
The excavations directors, Shua Kisilevitz and were originally left, the archaeologists said.
Zohar Turgeman-Yaffe, explained their findings But some questions remained unanswered.
in a statement. Why had the frogs lost their heads? Did some-
At that time, it was customary to bury the one eat them? Or were they not preserved be-
dead with offerings that constituted a kind of cause they werent edible? For now, this remains
burial kit, which, it was believed, would serve a ribit-ing mystery. JNS.ORG
Tzimmes for Menendez
l Weve been following the trial of of that.
Senator Robert Menendez with some Abbe Lowell, the senators attor-
discomfort. He was likable the times ney, told the judge that the stew
we met him, and he has been a friend was called tzimmes, that its tradi-
Courtesy of Muslim and
Jewish Fans of Hummus
of Israel and the Jewish com- tionally served on Rosh Ha-
munity. shanah and that he would
We were surprised bring some to share
when the trial took an with the court.
unexpected Jewish Lowell on Mon-
turn. Matt Friedman, day made good
who has been cov- on that promise,
ering the proceed- Friedman re-
Beyzanur Ors, a native of Turkey,
ings for Politico, ported, bringing
won the contest.
reported that be- containers full of
institutional presence. fore the trial broke tzimmes for Walls
Instead of importing conflicts, we for Rosh Hasha- and even the pros-
are exporting coexistence, Luciano nah last Wednesday, ecution.
Safdie, who like the events other Judge William H. Walls This is a new mean-
organizers wore a Make Hummus, compared his decision on ing of serving the gov-
Not War T-shirt, said at the end of permitting certain evidence to ernment, Lowell said, as he
the night. a traditional Ashkenazi Jewish stew handed some to prosecutors.
The judges were Matias Cedar- with a little bit of this, and a little bit larry yudelson
bojm, a former Jewish contestant on
Argentinas version of MasterChef;
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food made by a mother.
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at the event. I enjoyed the spirit,
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Noshes
The rules are very confusing. You have to
be a Talmudist to figure out which program
treats gifts from family as ordinary income.
Rabbi Moshe Weisberg, the head of the Vaad, a self-governing council for the
ultra-Orthodox community of Lakewood, which as home to a flourishing yeshiva
is home to many Talmudists, as quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about the
arrest of several ultra-Orthodox families for welfare fraud.

AT THE MOVIES:

Tom Cruise plays

high-flying hustler
American Made 2003), in the film. Gladys
stars Tom Cruise as was a talented amateur
the real-life Barry Seal, a player and tennis maga-
hustler and pilot whom zine publisher who was
the CIA recruited in the critical to the founding of
Lola Kirke Doug Liman
1980s to run a huge the womens tour.
covert operation involv- Im sure the film wont
ing drugs and guns. go much into the Jewish
LOLA KIRKE, 26 (Mo- angle but heres a Jewish
zart in the Jungle), has a sidelight I found interest-
large supporting role as ing. In 1962, most tennis
the wife of a suspicious stars wouldnt even come
Arkansas sheriff. The to the U.S. Open because
director is DOUG LIMAN, they made more money
52, who directed Cruise in Europe. Officials called
in the hit Edge of Gladys for help. She
Tomorrow (2014). financed, mostly via rich Its an easy lift
Battle of the
Sexes tells the
friends, a charter flight to
New York for the play- for observant Supergirl
back story of the famous ers and got them places Sarah Silverman Kyra Sedgwick The documentary Supergirl was released on
1973 tennis match to stay in New York. The Sept. 28 (DVD and on-demand services including
between Billie Jean King big stars sold a lot of U.S. was challenging top online platform for Amazon, Itunes, and Vudu). It centers on NAOMI
(Emma Stone) and Open tickets and Gladys women players, 20 or publicly shared informa-
Bobby Riggs (Steve and her friends were paid KUTIN, 15, a Modern Orthodox girl from Fair Lawn.
more years younger, to a tion hes certain will find
Carrell). More than 90 back through those sales. singles match. After one his daughters killer. When Naomi was 9, she was the subject of a Forward
million people watched Shortly thereafter, Open star woman player lost to Ten Days in the article that explained that she was already break-
the tennis game. The officials stopped dealing Riggs, King felt she had Valley is an ABC ing records in her weight class for power weightlift-
American tennis old with Gladys. Why? Julie to play Riggs to restore mystery series that ing. Filmmaker JESSIE AURITT read the article and
guard finally accepted Heldman has an answer: the credibility of wom- begins on October 1 (10 then followed Naomi and her family for the next five
pros in the big events in She was pushy and full ens tennis, and so the p.m.). KYRA SEDGWICK, years. We see how Naomi balanced her hard training
the late 60s, but most of of ideas. Also Jewish. famous match was on. 52, stars as Jane Sadler, a (shes coached by her father, who gave her the nick-
the tournament prize Riggs, 55 at the time Wisdom of the TV producer whose life
money went to male play- of the match, had been name Supergirl) with the demands of her faith (no
Crowd is a drama gets complicated after
ers even though women a tennis champ in his that starts on CBS on her young daughter meets on Shabbos; going to yeshiva; having her bat
players drew almost as youth. He was 40 and Sunday, October 1 at disappears in the middle mitzvah). This film was highly praised when it played
many fans. In 1970, King broke when one of his 8:30 p.m. JEREMY of the night. Sundance and many other festivals.
became an icon for friends, Hall of Fame PIVEN, 52, stars as 9JKL is a sitcom N.B.
equality when she and baseball player HANK Jeffrey Tanner, a vision- that starts on CBS
eight other players set up GREENBERG, suggest- ary Silicon Valley tech on October 2; new
the first womens pro ed he play rich guys in innovator who creates a episodes air on Mondays
tour. Among the eight hustle matchesRiggs cutting-edge crowd- at 8:30 p.m. It was Feuerstein and Klein sister-in-law, who live in
was JULIE HELDMAN, would give the rich guy sourcing app to solve his created by MARK lived next door to his adjacent apartments.
now 71, a top player in the some edge and Riggs daughters murder. FEURSTEIN, 46 (Royal family. In the series, ELLIOT GOULD and
early 70s. SARAH and his opponent would Inspired by the notion Pains) and his wife, Feuerstein plays Josh LINDA LAVIN, both 79,
SILVERMAN, 45, plays bet on the outcome. that a million minds are DANA KLEIN, 43, and is Roberts, a divorced actor co-star as Roberts
Heldmans mother, GLAD- Riggs took Greenbergs better than one, Tanner loosely based on their who lives in apt. 9K, with parents.
YS HELDMAN (1922- advice. His biggest hustle develops Sophe, an real lives. In real life, his parents, brother, and N.B.

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Local
Berrie Foundation appoints new trustee
David Rosenblatt of Tenafly, former Berrie fellow, brings new vision
JOANNE PALMER
G
iving away money isnt easy.
Not if you want to do it right.
Not if you have a sense of mis-
sion and are guided by a sense
of social justice and the desire to make a
genuine difference, not simply pay lip ser-
vice to a clich.
Not if you understand that there are far
more real needs than you can meet, not
if you understand that you must remain
focused and that you must use creativity,
ingenuity, and an entrepreneurial spirit to
move in the right direction, which always
is forward but you have to figure out in
which direction forward lies.
Not if you are guided by the spirit of a
founder who believed deeply and passion-
ately in philanthropy, did it himself, and
cared about his legacy as a philanthropic
trailblazer.
Yes, this is about the Berrie Foundation,
the foundation created by the Bergen
County-based famously philanthropic,
forward-thinking, and profoundly Jewish
toy magnate Russell Berrie.
Mr. Berrie died in 2002; his widow,
Angelica Berrie, is the president of the
Russell Berrie Foundation. The founda-
tions mission is to fund projects in north-
ern New Jersey, in Israel, and that address
interfaith relations and diabetes research
and care.
One of those projects, the Berrie Fel-
lows Leadership Program working
with the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey, which administers it trains
cohorts of local, mainly midcareer, up-
and-coming Jewish community leaders,
offering them an intensive program that
not only teaches them about leader-
ship and helps them refine their already
engaged intellects and intuitions on
how and when and why to lead, but also
exposes them to each other, and to the
vibrant diversity of the Jewish communi-
ties in northern New Jersey and in Israel.
Now, for the first time, one of the grad-
uates of that fellowship program is join-
ing the board of trustees at the Berrie
Foundation.
David Rosenblatt of Tenafly, a success-
ful entrepreneur with strong ties to Israel
and a history of active involvement in
nonprofit organizations mainly but by
no means entirely in the Jewish world
has joined the five active trustees and one
trustee emeritus on the board.
Despite an impressive list of accom-
plishments hes a lawyer and earned
a Harvard MBA, and a very partial clip
from his bio shows that he is a co-founder
6 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
of the Arava Power Company, an Israeli
solar development enterprise; a former
BlackRock managing director; a founder
of QuickenLoans; and a board member of
the Technion, the Kaplen JCC on the Pali-
sades, Temple Emanu-El in Closter, and
the state JCC Foundation Mr. Rosenblatt
was moved by his stint as a Berrie fellow.
The fellowship is a big honor, he said.
How many times in your life, after hav-
ing graduated from school, does someone
want to invest money in your education?
And they did it for the best reason to build
community, to invest in new leadership.
We had to dedicate at least three or
four hours every other week to be with
the group, and then we all went to Israel,
where we continued to study and learn
about different issues there, he said. It
is a program to create leaders who know
about issues in both the local New Jersey
area and also in Israel. That completely
reflects where the Berrie Foundation is
making an impact.
It was a really wonderful experience,
he added.
One of the touches he appreciated
immensely was the way fellows are cho-
sen. Someone nominates you, but you
never know who, he said. Once a candi-
date is nominated, the process is a com-
prehensive one, with many interviews
and questions and recommendations.
That means that everyone who gets
to be a Berrie fellow really respects the
commitment and investment, and when
you invest in relationships like that, good
things happen.
The relationships include people
across the political spectrum, and also
across the Jewish spectrum, he added.
Its a real opportunity to build bridges not
only with each other but across communi-
ties, and I think that the community has
been well served with it.
When he finished the program, Mr.
Rosenblatts connection with the Berrie
Foundation continued to flourish. He and
Laura Freeman, another Berrie fellow who
now is at the Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey, worked with the founda-
tion to create the Berrie Innovation Grant,
which gives grants to Berrie fellowship
alumns doing nonprofit work.
All his work as an entrepreneur, in both
the for-profit and nonprofit worlds, as well
as his connection to Israel, situate him
perfectly for the Berrie Foundation board.
I like to think that I have some current
knowledge and experience about the polit-
ical, social, and economic challenges Israel
faces as it moves ahead, he said. And my
outlook is that the Jewish people have a
David Rosenblatt
tremendous amount to offer the world,
and it doesnt always come with a political
agenda. When you think about things like
renewable energy or higher education or
promoting the use of technology, for the
advancement of people everywhere
whether you are Jewish or not, those are
universal goods.
That is what drives me. And I will be
part of an organization that is respected
globally for its excellence, and whose
current trustees are legends in terms of
the good they have done, and the impact
they have had.
Everything the foundation does, it
does with intellectual and strategic rigor,
he continued. There is nothing superfi-
cial about what they do. They have a very
high standard.
My hope is to work with the foundation
in a productive way, in some small part,
and to try to promote Russell Berries leg-
acy, Mr. Rosenblatt said.
Angelica Berrie is confident that Mr.
Rosenblatt will be successful as he adds his
vision and voice to the foundation.
He is the thread of continuity, she
said; his having been a Berrie fellow will
allow him to weave a firsthand knowledge
of the program and the community into
the fabric of the foundation.
We didnt necessarily expect to have
a Berrie fellow as a trustee, Ms. Berrie
continued. We have criteria. It has to be
someone who has had business success in
a business they have created themselves
or been very involved in growing. Russell
was very entrepreneurial. And the person
must have had philanthropic experience,
and be very involved in the community
as a leader and a giver. And there must be
knowledge of Israel; it cant be someone
who just has been there.
Angelica Berrie
The foundation will not continue indefi-
nitely, or be allowed to fade quietly, she
added. It will wind down in about 15
years. Russell left very explicit instruc-
tions that we will sunset, she said. It will
leave behind a legacy of leadership and
innovation, with no ossified assumptions
or protocols.
The whole point is that we expect lead-
ers to fill our shoes, she said. It doesnt
matter what their means are, but they
must be able to help the community focus
strategically on the right priorities, on the
right way to connect with Israel, on the
right way to connect to being Jewish. Its
not all just about being fundraisers.
Mr. Rosenblatt can give the foundation
new vision, she continued. Sometimes
we tended to become not really jaded,
thats not the right word, but we tend to
know where people are coming from. We
wanted someone who could look with
fresh eyes.
We have a vision, and we have been
interpreting it to the best of our ability,
she concluded. David can contribute
a lot to it, with his own passion, insight,
interests, life experience, and knowledge
of the community. In a sense we lose sight
of that, because we are not down on street
level in the way that he is.
We need people his age. When he talks
about certain issues, he comes at it from
his own personal perspective.
So as the Berrie Foundation continues
to build the community, as its founder
wanted it to do working in ways that
he could not have predicted, a truth that
he would have relished, because if he
could have predicted it, then it would not
have been new, or innovative, or a fresh
response to a changed time it will wel-
come David Rosenblatt to its ranks.
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Barnerts return to Paterson

Reunion will introduce new generation to old city
Lois Goldrich cousins from the Northeast, Southeast, Cali-

T
hird cousins Bill and Bonnie
Barnert dont remember ever
having met until last year, when
they came together in New Jersey
to plan a Barnert family reunion.
Its not impossible that they had met ear-
lier, of course. I think we met as children,
but Im not sure, Bill said. (Extended families
can be like that.)
When my mom passed, I put together a
family email list so we could connect with
each other, Bill said. Hes a computer inter-
face designer living in Cambridge, MA. Post-
ing the list on a family webpage, he suggested
that the now far-flung Barnert family have a
reunion.
Until now, there had been only one gen-
eration of reunions, my father and some
cousins, Bill said. The subsequent genera-
tion his and Bonnies have not yet come
together. That was part of the impetus for
having another one, he said.
Bonnie, who lives in Atlanta, responded
positively to Bills suggestion, indicating her
fornia, and other locations, Bill said. The
reunions I remember from my youth were
in New Jersey, because thats where the hosts
were. There are only a few Barnerts left in
New Jersey, but there is so much history there
that people were willing to travel.
Apparently, there is another advantage in
coming to Paterson. Said Bonnie, It may
sound crazy, but I will admit that its a kick
to be in places where everyone knows how
to spell, and actually pronounce, my name.
Fortunately, the cousins work well
together. Bill and I seemed to click in doing
this kind of thing, said Bonnie, the mother of
two daughters, who does creative craft work,
including scrapbooking and card-making.
Thats how I think, seeing what there is to
see and what could be made of it, she said.
When she and Bill came here last August on
their planning trip, she saw that it was a nat-
ural fit.
Interestingly, none of the Barnerts on Bills
email list are direct descendants of Nathan,
the larger-than-life figure who came to the Bonnie Barnert stands between pictures of her ancestors at the Jewish Histori-
United States in 1849, a poor child from Prus- cal Society of North Jersey courtesy jhnj

willingness to help organize the gathering.
The two then surveyed family members
about where they should meet.
Paterson won, hands down.
Two Barnert families still live in New Jersey
one in Lake Hopatcong, one in Harrington
Park. There also are cousins living in New
York City, where Bill grew up.
We picked Paterson after polling the
sia, and established a lucrative silk mill in
Paterson. Nathan Barnert won two terms as
Patersons mayor, and he contributed much
of his wealth to establish and support a wide
range of charities. Bill learned only recently
that Nathan and Miriam Barnert did not have
children. (Bonnie seemed to recall reading
that they had two children who did not sur-
vive, but that could not be verified.)
Among other ventures, Nathan Barnert
founded Barnert Hospital (now Barnert Medi-
cal Center); Barnert Temple (originally Bnai
Jeshurun in Paterson), now in Franklin Lakes;
the Miriam Barnert Hebrew Free School, now
closed; and the Daughters of Miriam Home
for the Aged and Orphans still very much
alive, although the orphanage was phased
out around 1948. Indeed, Nathan Barnert
was so important to the city of Paterson that
in 1925, the town honored the then-87-year-
old philanthropist by erecting a bronze statue
that still stands in City Hall Plaza.
Not surprisingly, said Bill who traces his
family lineage back to Nathans brother Boas
Nathan was something of a legend in
the family. Bonnie whose line goes back to
Morris, Nathans other brother also recalls
hearing a good deal about her distinguished
great-granduncle. Most of those family stories
came from her father, Ellis, and her grandfa-
ther, Isadore.
They always went to Lake Hopatcong
which she called the familys place to go,
and where the stories were shared, Bonnie
said. Still, she admitted, she was only a child
at the time and she was not very interested in
what she heard. When one is young, one is
typically interested in things other than gene-
alogy. Now I am hungry for all that!
The cousins have been doing research in
preparation for the reunion. Bonnie learned
that Nathan Barnert came to the U.S. as a
child and headed west as a merchant dur-
ing the gold rush. He made enough to come
back and start the silk industry in New Jer-
sey. Clearly, she was inspired. How can we
compete, much less even comprehend, the
bravery and guts it would have taken to board
a boat as a teenager, by yourself, and with
only your wits to survive, and sail around a
continent to the other side of your country
in an attempt to feed your entrepreneurial
spirit, earning money for your family in the
process?
Bill was inspired as well, and he has a cer-
tificate on his wall marking t Nathan Barnerts
installation as mayor of Paterson.
According to Bonnie, some things kind of
fell into place when we saw the Barnert Mill

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ville, FL, with a silk shop, she said. She wonders now if
there were some kind of business connection. If they

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fun than having it in someones backyard, Bill said. He
Co-s Sunday
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he recalled that when Barnert Temple moved to Frank-
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ried there in 1954 were part of the procession carrying RSVP
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So going back now, having not been very connected to Our Sundays@Schechter
Paterson for decades, it was really interesting to go back
on a reconnaissance mission and see not only the Barnert program features Solomon Schechter
buildings but Paterson itself, and Alexander Hamiltons
MusicTalks, an ensemble of
connection to it, he said. Now, he added, he and Bonnie
will turn around and show it off to other family members. renowned young musicians
Day School of
During the cousins scouting mission, they met with
Jerry Nathan at the Jewish Historical Society of North Jer- who make music talk Bergen County
sey and were amazed to see all the Barnertobilia they
had. A photo I took of Bonnie standing between the por-
through an interactive blend 275 McKinley Avenue,
traits of Nathan and Miriam Barnert became part of the of music and conversation. New Milford, NJ 07646
invitation to the other Barnert cousins.
Jerry Nathans was very welcoming and informative
about our family, and shared pictures and stories which I
knew nothing about, Bonnie said. Then we were invited Join Us at our Open House for
to the home of a wonderful woman, [Barnert Temple
member] Cipora O. Schwartz, who authored An Ameri- Parents of Prospective Students
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FIRST PERSON

Lessons learned
Teaneck woman talks about the lessons she learned
as she completed her first Half Ironman
Sunni Herman

I finished. In 7 hours and 37 minutes, I completed

my first Half Ironman 70.3 (IM70.3) triathlon. The
experience pushed me to achieve beyond what I
ever imagined possible.
When my dad was 40, he leased a bright red two-
door Ford Probe. It was totally out of character for
an Orthodox father of six from Boro Park. When
I was 40, I decided to complete a triathlon. Not
simple for someone who couldnt run more than
half a block nor swim one length of the pool. As I
trained these past three years for the Atlantic City
IM70.3 (a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike ride and then
half marathon), I kept a list of aha moments, of les-
sons learned.
Here is the list for my friends who stuck by me,
for my community who cheered me on, and espe-
cially for my amazing family, without whose sup-
port this never would have been possible.

10. Enjoy the journey

Early on, my brother Magic Mike called me from Crossing the finish line with son Jakie,
his work at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem and told left, finishing the swim, above, and on
me, Its not about the destination but the journey. the bike, lower left.
And what a journey it has been! Incredible peo-
ple along the way have included lifeguards at the pouring rain in CitiField as if it was a bar. I
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, RTA Triathlon Club, took the message personally. The large com-
Rockland Road Runners, LIV Ladies group ride out petition would be manageable if I pretended
of Westwood Cycle Shop, the it was a walk in the park.
Palisades Running Group, Tri-
Friends with moonlit swims 5. Scars are really tiger stripes
at the Wayne lake and the Despite being a biker, boxer, and scuba diver,
world champion Croton on I really wasnt athletic. The intense training
Hudson IronMen crew. these last months was physiologically brutal
on me. I developed allergic reactions to the
9. Break things into bathing caps and goggles, to salt water pools,
achievable pieces and finally to the sun. (Yes, ironically, my real
The JCC pool is 64 lengths for name is Sunni.) My arms oozed. I showed my
1 mile and the 24-Hour Fitness newly formed scars to an experienced runner. She said,
pool (where I also practiced) 7. Dont look back Those arent scars. You earned those stripes.
is 72 lengths. I remember the During the JerseyMan sprint this May, I
first day I went to the 24 Hour made the mistake of looking back dur- 4. Stay within the box
pool and said to myself, 72 ing the lake swim to see where I was A month before the IM race, while I was running on the
lengths. How am I going to compared to others. There was no one Teaneck High School track, I heard and felt a crack under
do this? I swam one length. behind me. I panicked, knowing I was my ankle. At that point I was training 17 to 20 hours a
Then I swam two. Then three. going to be last. My heart raced. I flipped week, and my body could not take it anymore. I stopped
I got up to seven and I said, to my back, calmed down, and said training for a full week to heal. I had outpatient rehab at
I did 1/10th. Got up to nine to myself that Ive got to keep looking the Jewish Home, where I had to relearn how to walk. I
lengths and said, I did 1/8th. forward. received electric stimulation to my leg three days a week,
All of a sudden, by breaking and I wondered if I would end up walking the run or even
down the process, it became 6. Play a bar like a stadium stopping after the bike. An Ironman told me about the Gal-
more manageable. and a stadium like a bar loway method you jog for two minutes and then walk for
There are four triathlon distances 30 seconds. He told me to stay in my box and stick to this
8. Trust the process sprint, Olympic, half (70.3 miles), and plan. I methodically followed the 2:00/:30 approach the
I had seven different coaches full (140.6). Each competition is twice as entire 13.2 miles.
over the course of three years. To get me to the finish long as the level below it; the full triathlon is 140.6 miles.
line, I had to trust the direction I was given. After all, they Three weeks before the 70.3 race a half I went to see 3. Stop to pray
had the years, experience, and know-how to achieve the Lady Gaga, whose music kept me going during the long Right before the IM race started and I was going to jump
impossible. I thank each of them for being patient with me hours of indoor rides on my bike trainer. Lady Gaga talked off the pier into the Atlantic City bay, I slowly walked the
as they showed me the way forward. about her days playing to near empty bars and imagin- perimeter of the participants. I concentrated on my breath-
ing that she was at a stadium. I heard her singing in the ing and calming my heart rate. I then cut straight through

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the middle of the crowd, and there was Camelia, a dear
friend. This also was her first 70.3 race. We looked at
each other, walked to the side, sat on the grass, and
held hands as I said Shma out loud. At that moment,
there was no other noise. I felt totally calm. And Cami
answered, Shana Tova.

2. Kill it with a smile

Celeste, a registered nurse, was my angel of a Sherpa
during the Ironman. She called my family during the
transitions to report back on how I was doing. She told
me before I started that no matter what happened
during the race, no matter how much pain I was in,
I should keep smiling. And I smiled. I cheered for the
police along the bike route and danced with the vol-
unteers on the boardwalk to Beyonc. This was my
first Ironman race; it was going to be my personal best
time, so I was enjoying it to the fullest.

1. Family first
The night before the IM70.3, my son Jakie cried hys-
terically. He said that he was afraid I would die dur-
ing the race. Jakie was scared that I would drown in
the swim or be hit by another bike on the course.
I bent next to him, put out my pinky, and said, I
swear I will live. I will run down the chute to the fin-
ish line, and you will run on the other side of the
fence, and we will finish together. The day of the
race also was his birthday, so I asked him, What
do you want for your birthday? He said that what
he wanted was for me to live. I asked what else he
wanted, and he said $20.
When I approached the carpet for the final stretch
of the race, I eyed Jakie on the other side of the fence.
He looked at me, ran through an opening, grabbed
my hand, and sprinted across the finish line with
me. I knelt beside him and said, Jakie, I love you
Im alive. I took out a bill from the back pocket of
my shorts and I said, Happy birthday! Heres $20.
I know it is against Ironman rules to have someone
with you in the chute but I would never change that
aha moment, my realization that my son really does
come first.
So whats next? Jakie, my daughters Yael and Chani,
and I have been picking different fun races to do
together superhero runs, color runs, hot chocolate
runs. Our plan is to spend more time together training
and racing. During this journey, passing the torch to
the next generation, becoming aware of the gift of aha
moments all around us that just may be my greatest
lesson learned.

Sunni S. Herman of Teaneck is the executive vice

president of the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.

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Local hero
Jewish Fair Lawn Marines proud father talks about his son
Joanne Palmer Why did his son join the Marines? said. The infantry are the guys who knock

I
ts not easy to go through the training at Parris Island,
the South Carolina military installation that turns
recruits into Marines.
Its a process that is too intimidating, if not actively
terrifying, for many of us even to think about. But there are
some physically and emotionally brave, gifted 18-year-olds
who try it, and many although not all of them come out,
12 isolated, grueling, character-forming weeks later, ready to
fight Americas battles.
Not many of them are Jewish but some are. Their ranks
include David Carr of Fair Lawn, a 21-year-old graduate of the
Yavneh Academy of Paramus, Fair Lawn High School, and
Parris Island. Earlier this month, Fair Lawn honored Mr. Carr
or to be formal, Lance Corporal David Solomon Carr on
Lance Corporal David Solomon Carr Day, and the towns
mayor, John Cosgrove, presented the Marine with a plaque,
along with the towns best wishes.
Mr. Carr is now on his way to the Middle East, first to Kuwait
and then to Iraq, to take part in Operation Inherent Resolve,
his father, Sam Carr, said. (David is out of touch during his
travels, his father added.)
David always has been idealistic, Sam
Carr said. When he graduated high
school, he felt he wasnt ready to go to
college yet. Instead, he debated join-
ing either the Marine Corps or the Israel
Defense Forces. It was a hard decision, his
father said, but his son cares deeply about
the United States and Israel, and part of
his choice was practical. The Marine
Corps is going to pay him $3,000 a month
toward college after he leaves, Mr. Carr
said. And there are a lot of other benefits David Carr
as well. Still, his son hopes to do some-
thing in the future for Israel.
After he left Parris Island, Mr. Carr was sent to Califor-
nia, where he worked at headquarters. Hes an ammuni-
tion technician, his father said. He is in charge of inven-
tory ordering, supplying, and dispensing ammunition
and weapons systems. Its a lot of responsibility.
David Carr has that job because he acceded to his fathers
request and did not pursue joining the infantry. I said what-
ever it is that you do, I really dont want you do that, Sam Carr
down doors in Iraq, and so many kids are get-
ting killed. So instead he is behind the scenes,
issuing the weapons and weapon systems. He
respected my request.
David Carr will be in the Marines for
another 14 months, his father said. (But whos
counting?) After that, hell go to college; he
hopes to earn a bachelors degree in business
and then maybe go on for an MBA or go to
law school. He will be aided in his studies by
the knowledge and experience he will have
gained in the Marines, his father added.
One thing that Sam Carr found surprising
and reassuring is that his son has told him that he has
not encountered any anti-Semitism in the Marines. The fam-
ily supports their local Chabad, and David went to the Chabad
shul in Teaneck with his father before he joined the Marines.
David makes very clear that he is Jewish, and that he is a
proud Jew, Sam Carr said. That has gotten him nothing but
respect in the Marine Corps.
Both father and son feel strongly about the United
States. We as Jews are very fortunate to live in this

Shakshooka on wheels
Two Israeli-born entrepreneurs sell the eggy treat from a truck
Banji Ganchrow

F
ood is a way of bringing us to places that we
wish we could go to.
French restaurants, Italian cuisine, good old
American burger and fries all their tastes
and smells can transport you to almost anywhere. And
then there is the place that many of us wish we could
travel to more often Israel. The Jewish homeland.
There are many specific foods that remind us of Israel.
Yuval Granevitz of Teaneck and Boaz Nuriel of Fort Lee
want to bring the taste of Israel to your street. Literally.
And they are doing that with the only kosher food truck
in the area.
These two gentlemen are the proud proprietors of
the Shakshooka food truck. You might have noticed it
parked behind the Avenue Event space on Queen Anne
Road in Teaneck. This is because for the past five years,
Mr. Granevitz has owned this establishment. Now he
and his business partner are adding Shakshooka.
Shakshooka is a mixture of eggs, tomato sauce, veg-
etables, and spices. Originally created in Libya, the dish
has become a popular breakfast food and now a food
that can be eaten any time of the day. We serve it with
all different toppings and it is pareve and vegan, Mr.
Granevitz said. He and Mr. Nuriel also serve authentic Boaz Nuriel, left, and Yuval Granevitz stand by their food truck.
Israeli falafel. If you close your eyes, you can almost
imagine that you are eating it in Israel, he said. Mr. Granevitz, who was born in Petach Tikva, and Mr. all of the food is served. There are never any leftovers,
Mr. Nuriel added that they decided to open this food Nuriel, who originally hails from Herzelia, both thought because we want to keep everything fresh. Some cus-
truck because there was no shakshooka at all in the area. that a shakshooka truck would fill a real need. We are tomers have even requested to buy the sauce that we
As an Israeli, I needed to share that delicacy with oth- not like a regular restaurant, Mr. Granevitz said. We make especially for our shakshooka.
ers, he said. open every Thursday at 11 a.m., and we stay open until The truck also has made its way to various high

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great country, Sam Carr said. David
is protecting our country. We take it for
granted we are so big, so prosperous,
and we dont always have to keep look-
ing over our shoulders.
I went to Madrid recently, and there,
in order to go to shul, you have to come
the day before with your passport. And
then, at shul time, they have policemen
with machine guns escorting you out and
back to the street. Thats no way to live.
Here, we have a great life, with peace
and prosperity, he continued. Hes proud
of his son for working to protect it. His
father was in the Air Force, he said, as were
many of his uncles, and Im proud that my
son is continuing in that tradition.
Still, he added, he knows that its not
what Jews usually do, and he doesnt
mind teasing them a bit. Usually, when
I tell people that my son is a Marine, they
expect the word after marine to be biolo-
gist, Sam Carr said.
schools in the area, bringing delicious
and maybe as importantly, economical
lunch specials to students. The truck
is in Teaneck every Thursday. During
the rest of the week, it goes around
New Jersey. (Thats one of the advan-
tages to its being a truck!) The Shak-
shooka truck even was at Votee.
Mr. Granevitz sees to Shakshookas
management. He is responsible for all
of the many required permits and for
its kashrut certification, which comes
from Chabad of Monsey. Mr. Nuriel is
the trucks official driver and he also is
the chef. I have always loved cooking,
he said. Now I can do it as a profession
and to give others the taste of Israel
that I love. The duo pride themselves
on using only natural ingredients and
on serving the freshest food possible.
Any new business is risky, but Mr.
Granevitz and Mr. Nuriel have decided
to assume those risks. They knew that
there had been a Shakshooka truck in
New York City, but it closed soon after
opening. Undeterred, they found a
truck on an online truck site, and they
bought it.
The trucks inaugural event was this
Purim, for Rabbi Ephraim Simon and
the Chabad of Teaneck. From there,
word of mouth helped get the truck
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The Shabbos Squabble
Local author fulfills a childhood dream, has a childrens book published
Banji Ganchrow
What do you want to be when you
grow up?
This seems to be the question were
all asked when we are little. A doctor? A
fireman? An astronaut? Most kids have
an answer, and most of them change that
answer frequently.
Unless, that is, you are Lisa Lesnick of
Teaneck, and your answer is, I want to
write a childrens book. In that case, the Lisa Lesnick
answer you gave when you were a kid
becomes your dream, and then your dream of being an
author becomes your reality.
Of course, it may take more than 40 years to get there.
Ms. Lesnick, who grew up in Flatbush and graduated
from the Yeshiva of Flatbush, came to want to write
through a logical maybe inevitable process. To write,
first you have to read, and she did. Constantly. She loved
it. Reading was always an escape for me, Ms. Lesnick
said. I was a voracious reader as a kid. Every Friday after actively pursue childrens book writing, Ms. Lesnick said.
school Id take my little sister Michal to the library after I joined SCBWI thats the Society of Childrens Book
our piano lessons, and Id hunker down on the floor and
go through all the shelves and pick out a stack of books to and went to their conferences.
read for Shabbat. Sometimes Id reread my favorites over
and over.
My parents always fostered a love of literature in me
and my siblings. My father always had a book in his hand.
I vividly remember one Chanukah asking for a gorgeous
set of Louisa May Alcott books. I kept them on my shelf
and treasured them and wouldnt open or touch them.
Ms. Lesnick graduated from Yeshiva Universitys Stern
College for Women with a shaped major with FIT in
other words, she took fine arts classes at Stern and mer-
chandising classes at the nearby Fashion Institute of Tech-
nology and then she worked in the garment district.
Next, Ms. Lesnick spent 15 years working at the Yavneh
Academy, in Paramus. She worked there as a shadow, then
as an assistant teacher, and eventually she ran her own
kindergarten classroom.
But she always wanted to write a childrens book.
Now, she has written The Shabbos Squabble. The
book is her pride and joy. (As are her sons Jonah, 23, and
Benny, 20, and so is her husband, Glenn.) Its published
by Feldheim.
Shes particularly fond of the main character, the Wise
Mezuzah, who was inspired by her father, Rabbi Abra-
ham Warhaftig.
Ms. Lesnick talked about the inspiration she got from
her father. In March 2001, my father was diagnosed
with stage four colon cancer. My father was my hero. He
was a tireless community leader. He worked as a teacher
and guidance counselor at the Yeshivah of Flatbush High
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School and was the Director of Camp Mora-
sha for many years. He also served as princi-
pal at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School
the last year of his life.
Throughout the five years that my father
was sick I spent a lot of time with him, going
to doctors appointments and keeping him
company during his chemotherapy treat-
ments, she continued. In order to keep his
spirits up, Id share snippets of my writing
with him. He particularly enjoyed my writ-
ings about my two boys and would laugh out
loud at their mischievousness and my frus-
trations with them. At one point, he looked at me and said,
I would be so proud if you became a published writer.
And there it was; a dying mans wish. Game. On. I
pushed even harder.
He died in 2005. Her mother, Joyce Warhaftig, still lives
in Brooklyn.
As a result of her fathers illness, and his urging, and
their shared love of books, About 15 years ago I began to
Writers and Illustrators. I followed all their newsletters
After being a stay-at-home mom for eight years, those
conferences were an amazing outlet for me. They were
interesting and exciting. The keynote speakers inspired me
and got my creative juices flowing.
But not only was the childrens book world exciting, it
also seems to be out of her reach, Ms. Lesnick continued.
Unfortunately, the mainstream childrens book indus-
try is enormous, and with the success of many celebrity
writers it became highly competitive and extremely dif-
ficult to break into, she said. I submitted many manu-
scripts and each rejection letter stung.
Then I heard about the Jewish childrens book writ-
ers and illustrators seminar, and I figured that maybe
the Jewish childrens book market would be a smaller
playing field, so I started to go to those conferences for
information and inspiration. Though they were consid-
erably smaller than the secular book conferences, they
still werent exactly handing out book contracts to hope-
ful writers.
I tried hard not to be deterred and discouraged, and
I continued to write.
As a teacher, Ms. Lesnick saw, firsthand, that children
learn best through books. This also helped motivate her to
continue to submit manuscripts to publishers.
The Shabbos Squabble takes place in a Jewish home,
just before Shabbat begins, Ms. Lesnick said. The table is
set. The kiddush cup, the candlesticks, and the challahs
all are on the table, ready to be used, when an argument
breaks out about which of them is most important to
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Shabbat. The Wise Mezuzah, who was always the voice
of reason, Ms. Lesnick said, explains why each one of
them is unique, and the special importance that each
one has to Shabbat.
According to Ms. Lesnick, the Shabbat Squabble is
based on reality. We were four children with very large
personalities in a very small and cramped apartment,
she said. Loud arguments often ensued. My fathers
mantra was always Shalom Bayit about keeping the
peace in the home. His gentle teachings of peace also
carried over to hundreds of his students and campers.
When Feldheim accepted her manuscript in 2014,
it paired Ms. Lesnick with an Israeli illustrator named
Dov Ber Cohen. Dov Ber and I never met in person,
Ms. Lesnick said. We communicated the entire time
through emails. We never spoke.
I had a very clear vision of how I wanted the charac-
ters to look and I sent him inspiration photos and asked
him to copy expressions, glasses, and other minute
details. He was so patient and open to all of my sugges-
As a teacher, Ms.
Lesnick saw, firsthand,
that children learn
best through books.
This also helped
motivate her to
continue to submit
manuscripts to
publishers.
tions, and I have such appreciation for his willingness
to collaborate with me and take direction as well as his
enormous talent.
I think he did an exceptionally beautiful job bringing
my words to life.
It was especially important to her that the Wise Mezu-
zah, was based on her father, because he was drawn
based on photos that she sent the illustrator. She wanted
to truly capture her fathers essence, albeit in an illus-
trated form.
Whats her message to other people? If you have a
dream, keep at it, because even at age 46, it can become
a reality, she said.
The Shabbos Squabble is available on Amazon,
Feldheims website, and Jewish bookstores in Bergen
County.
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Shabbat music in Paramus Chessin Carpe, and board president Pamela Scheininger.

Naomi Less recently presented a musical program, Hachana Le Shabbat, before
Shabbat services at the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. A large, multigen-
erational audience came for the meditative, musical entry into Shabbat. Ms. Lesss
husband, Glenn Grossman, accompanied her on drums.
Norpac hosts
Nebraska senator
Earlier this month, Marion and Billy
Weiss hosted a Norpac pro-Israel meet-
ing for Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE) at
their Englewood home. Ms. Fischer,
who was elected to the U.S. Senate in
2012, is Nebraskas senior senator. She
is a member of Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnells leadership team
Billy and Marion Weiss, left, with Sena- and chairs the Senate Armed Services
tor Deb Fischer. COURTESY NORPAC Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. She
will run for re-election in 2018.
Yavneh carnival kicks off
its 75 year celebration
Yavneh Academy began its 75th anni-
versary year on September 17 with
a carnival, brunch, and tours of the
schools newly renovated spaces. Par-
ents, students, grandparents, alumni,
and friends all came to celebrate.
Yavneh middle school students ran
the carnival games for younger stu-
dents and acted as tour guides for par-
ents and alumni. Kickoff chairs Chai-
kie Berg, Naomi Berkowitz, and Keren
Nussbaum planned the event.
The day began with a performance
by the Yavneh chorus, followed by
greetings from the head of school,
Rabbi Jonathan Knapp; Rachel Jacobs,
who is a Yavneh alumna and parent, as
well as president of its parents asso-
ciation, and board president Pamela
Scheininger. Saragail Chessin Carpe,
Judy Blake, and Ruth Brooks, children
of Yavneh founding members, shared
memories of Yavnehs earliest years.
The school began in 1942 with five
kindergarteners, and it now has 850
students.
Trudy and George Stiefel and their
son Marvin presented the school with
a check for $150,000. Its a gift from
Congregation Bnai Israel Ahavath
Joseph in Paterson, which has closed.
The schools roots are in Paterson and
the shul had a special connection to it.
The shuls remaining members hope
its contribution will help Yavneh con-
tinue its longstanding tradition of aca-
demic excellence and its commitment
to Torah and middot in a warm and
supportive environment.
The school hopes to connect with
alumni and their families as it cele-
brates this milestone year.

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From
festivals
to
feastsFour of the top
Sukkot events in Israel
ADAM ABRAMS

S
ukkot in Israel is high
season for tourism, as OCT. 1 to NOV. 16
visitors from around the
world show up to enjoy Jerusalem Biennale for
the plethora of cultural and reli-
Contemporary Jewish Art
gious festivities surrounding this
The third annual Jerusalem this year.
biblically mandated festival. It is
Biennale explores how con- In 2013, we had around 60 partici-
considered one of the happiest temporary art intersects with pating artists and only 10 of them were
times of the year. the Jewish world. from outside Israel, he noted.
The 2017 biennale is consid- This years biennale will showcase
This year, Sukkot begins be- ered to be an upgrade from 200 Israeli and international artists
fore sundown on Wednesday, previous years because of the in dozens of exhibitions held in eight
October 4 and in Israel it con- quality of the exhibitions, venues in Israels capital, and will see
Rami Ozeri, the events founder, Jewish artistic representation from the
tinues until sundown on Octo- said. Another improvement, United States, India, South America,
ber 11. (In the United States, the Ozeri said, is how interna- Russia, and elsewhere in Europe.
entire holiday season ends as tional the biennale really is The Jewish Arts Salon, which is

Simchat Torah draws to a close

the evening of Friday, October
13, which of course leads direct-
ly to Shabbat.)
In Israel, government offices
are closed, schools are on vaca-
tion, and many businesses oper-
ate on abbreviated work sched-
ules so that parents can enjoy
the holiday with their families.
Here are some of the top
events taking place in Israel dur-
ing Sukkot 2017. JNS.ORG
Above, Miriam Stern of Teaneck
is at the Jewish Art Salons show
as it goes up at the Machtarot
Museum in Jerusalem. She has two
pieces in the show.
At right, Joel Silverstein of
Mahwahs 10 Commandments
also is on exhibit at the Biennale
as part of the Jewish Art Salons
show.

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OCT. 6 to 11
Feast of
Tabernacles
celebration
Christian-Zionist tourists visiting Israel
are sure to enjoy the annual Feast of
Tabernacles celebration, which is hosted
by the International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem.
The Feast of Tabernacles draws thousands
of Christians from around the world to Israel
every year to experience a dynamic worship
experience, according to the events website.
Its the largest annual Christian gathering
in Israel, David Parsons, vice president and
senior spokesman for ICEJ, said.
For most of the pilgrims, the biggest high-
light is the march through the streets of Jerusa-
lem, which sees as many as 8,000 evangelical
Christians from about 100 countries join the
parade, he said. In 2011, the crowds filled the plaza for the Birchat Cohanim. YOUTUBE

Parsons noted additional aspects of the

Feast of Tabernacles such as worship and
teaching as well as a solidarity night with
our Israeli guests.
In recent years, weve been getting around
1,500 Israeli guests in the Jerusalem basketball
arena, he said.
headquartered in Manhattan, has an exhi- Jewish communities throughout the Mus-
bition at the Machtarot Museum. Miriam lim world.
Stern of Teaneck, an artist whose work has Israeli architect and artist Avner Shers
been featured as a cover story in the Jew- Alternative Topography exhibit will be
ish Standard, is among the artists whose hosted in the Old Citys Tower of David
work is included there. Museum. It explores tension between
Another of the exhibitions is Home- permanence and the ephemeral in
lands, which explores artists con- the spiritual and urban geography of
templations on the dispersion of Jerusalem.
OCT. 8
Get a blessing from
the priests at the Western Wall
For those people who are looking for
an unusual spiritual experience dur-
ing Sukkot, dont miss the traditional
birkat kohanim the priestly blessing
at the Western Wall.
The blessing itself is performed on a
daily basis in synagogues throughout
Israel, but twice each year, during the
intermediate days of Passover and Suk-
kot, crowds numbering in the tens of
thousands come to the Western Wall
for the mass event.
Covered in white prayer shawls, hun-
dreds of Jews who consider themselves
descendants of the high priests raise
their hands to bless the nation of Israel.
It is one of the only times during the
year when Jewish prayers are broad-
cast over loudspeakers in the Old City.
In contrast, the Muslim call to prayer is
heard five times a day throughout the
year, all over Jerusalem.
The recitation of the priestly blessing
at the Western Wall was initiated by the
late Rabbi Menachem Mendel, based
on an 800-year-old teaching that when
300 kohanim deliver their blessing
together, it is a sign that the Third Tem-
ple soon will be rebuilt in Jerusalem.
More than 100,000 people attended
the most recent mass priestly blessing
during Passover this year. This years
blessing during Sukkot will take place
twice at the Western Wall on Sunday,
October 8 first at 9:30 a.m. during
Shacharit and then at 10:30 a.m. during
Musaf. You should arrive at least an hour
early if you want to snag a place in the
Western Wall plaza. Think twice about
going if you dont like jostling crowds.

In 2015, a white bridal dress floats in the air near the Tower of David as part of the
2nd Jerusalem Biennales installation, called Betrothal.
OCT. 11 to 12
Neverland Electronic
Music Festival
For young tourists and Israeli locals looking to attend one of Israels famed
nature parties during Sukkot, the high-energy 24-hour Neverland Elec-
tronic Music Festival is likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
The annual festival was founded in 2011 and takes place on the scenic
banks of the Jordan River in northern Israel. Festival-goers camp on the
event grounds and dance nonstop on three dance floors to music mixed by
some of the best DJs from Israel and around the world. The party is limited
to adults, 23 and older. Ticket prices range from $65 to $95.
RICKY RACHMAN

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Shaking your lulav,
eating your etrog
LINDA MOREL
E
very Jewish kid in the area
wants to visit our sukkah,
says professional baker and
restaurant bakery consultant
Marcy Goldman of Montreal. Preparing for
a deluge of tourists of all ages, she and her
three sons decorate their hut to the hilt.
Were the most popular stop on the field
trip list.
Besides the outrageous abundance of
fruits and vegetables they hang on walls,
they are not shy about spreading etrogs
inside. A variety of the citron, etrogs
appear in every sukkah, but usually in
ones or twos.
Because Sukkot began as a holiday for
gathering fruit, today Jews decorate tem-
porary huts with produce. No celebration
would be complete without examples of
the Four Species, which once represented
all growing things in the world.
Among those species are a lulav the
youngest branch of palm trees a willow
branch, a myrtle bush branch, and an
etrog.
The willow and myrtle branches are
bound to the lulav, and the etrog is kept
in a special, well-padded container, which
may be a simple wooden box with a straw
lining or an ornate model with intricate fil-
igree and a hinged lid. Holding both lulav
and etrog, participants shake the lulav in
all directions and say prayers of thanks to
God for all the good things they receive
from the earth.
Etrogs became part of Sukkot festivals
because of the biblical commandment in
Leviticus 23: And ye shall take you on the
first day the fruit of a beautiful tree and
ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God
seven days. The Hebrew phrase pri etz
hadar, literally the fruit of a beautiful
tree, always has been identified with the
etrog.
A rare commodity in North America,
etrogs are mysterious to many people,
who dont know what they look like or that
they add surprising snap to recipes.
Actually a fresh etrog resembles a very
fat lemon as big as a grapefruit, says
Goldman, author of A Treasury of Jew-
ish Holiday Baking. Etrog juice is scant
because the pulp is meager, so she culls
the tastiest part its thick skin.
Scrape away a bit of the zest, and youll
find a heady citrus bouquet, reminiscent
of lemons and limes blended together in
a tropical, citrusy perfume, she says. One
whiff conjures up the Garden of Eden.
The etrog, which is the citrons Hebrew
name, has played a part in Jewish history
18 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
since ancient times. Originating in India,
by 600 B.C. the citron had traveled to
Persia. Eventually it reached Babylonia,
where it was adopted by exiled Jews, who
later carried it back to Palestine.
Because Jews were the only people in
the Middle East to use etrogs in harvest
festivals, the fruit evolved into a symbol of
national identity, stamped on coins, mon-
uments, and gravestones. After the fall of
the second Temple in 66 C.E., when Jews
were scattered throughout the Roman
Empire, they planted etrogs wherever
they took root.
Although today production is small,
etrog citrons are in heavy demand in Jew-
ish communities at Sukkot. The main pro-
ducers are Italy, Greece, Corsica, Morocco
and Israel.
While local synagogues may arrange
for members to obtain imported etrogs,
sometimes they can be found at gourmet
food stores, often labeled citrons.
Passionate about baking with etrogs,
Goldman believes in eating a food of
memory, one intertwined with Judaism
for centuries. By doing so, she is teaching
her sons to revere their history.
Should etrogs prove difficult to find,
lemons yield excellent results in her rec-
ipes. The Etrog or Lemon Lime Sukkot
Cake is a moist confection with fabulous
fragrance. For a festive look, Goldman sug-
gests garnishing the cake plate with citrus
or myrtle leaves, as well as palm branches.
The Lemon Dairy Cheesecake is a
smooth and creamy, yet zesty ending to
dairy meals during Sukkot.
Friday Night Banana Cake aka Gotta-
Do-Something-With-Those-Bananas-On-
The-Counter Bundt Cake is really what
Goldman calls this recipe in her cookbook.
This is one of those split-second-to-make
cakes, she says, realizing its in harmony
with Sukkot this year, which starts on a
Shabbat. A fine-grained pareve cake, it
derives its flavor from a tart lemon glaze.
If you always designate etrogs for cen-
terpieces but would rather not, Goldman
offers two ways to preserve them after
Sukkot: Make marmalade by substituting
a couple etrogs for the Seville oranges usu-
ally called for in recipes. Or shave etrog
skin into tiny curlicues with a zester, freez-
ing them for later baking projects.
Whatever you do, dont waste them,
says Goldman, who has a website (www.
betterbaking.com) in which she answers
recipe-related questions.
Meanwhile, she and her boys are build-
ing and filling another dynamite Sukkah
with etrogs and the biblical fragrance of
baked goods galore.
Etrog or lemon lime
Sukkot cake
Yield: 8-10 servings
CAKE BATTER
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp. finely minced etrog zest,
or lime zest, or a lemon/lime
combination
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp. lime oil or extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Gener-
ously grease an 8-by-4-inch loaf pan.
2. In a mixing bowl cream the but-
ter, sugar and zest together until well
blended. Stir in eggs.
3. Add the milk, vanilla, lemon and
lime juices, and lime oil to combine
well. Fold in the remaining dry ingre-
dients to make a smooth batter.
4. Spoon the batter into the prepared
pan and bake until the cake is evenly
browned and slightly cracked on top
(30 to 35 minutes). Cool well before
removing from pan.
LEMON LIME GLAZE
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
1/4 cup sugar
In a small saucepan, heat the juices. Stir
in the sugar until dissolved. Cool well.
Using a cake tester, poke holes all over
the cake and drizzle the glaze on top.
Friday night banana cake aka
gotta-do-something-with-those-
bananas-on-the-counter bundt cake
Yield: 12-14 servings
remaining ingredients. Fold these dry
CAKE BATTER
2 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 cups mashed bananas
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
(optional)
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Generously grease and flour a 10-inch
bundt pan.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the
sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, and lemon
juice until smooth. Stir in the mashed
bananas.
Lemon dairy
cheesecake
Yield: 10 servings
BOTTOM CRUST
1 1/4 cups vanilla wafer or
graham cracker crumbs
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
In a medium sized bowl, mix ingredi-
ents together with a fork until evenly
moistened. Press them into the bot-
tom of a greased 9-inch springform
pan.
CHEESCAKE FILLING
1 pound pot cheese
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup plain yogurt or sour cream
4 eggs, plus 1 yolk
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp. finely minced etrog or lemon
zest
1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the
cheeses until smooth. Then add sugar
and flour. Blend in the yogurt.
3. Add the eggs, yolk, lemon juice
and zest, combining until smooth and
thoroughly incorporated.
4. Pour the batter into the prepared
pan and bake for 15 minutes. Reduce
heat to 225 degrees and bake for
another 40 minutes. The cake will be
set in the middle and slightly golden
in color.
5. Cool well. Cover the top of the cake
with plastic wrap and chill it overnight.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the
ingredients into the batter and blend
well. Scrape the bottom of the bowl
to ensure there are no unincorporated
ingredients.
4. Pour the batter into the prepared
pan and bake for 55 to 70 minutes, or
until the cake springs back when gen-
tly pressed. Cool for 10 minutes, then
invert onto a serving plate and cool to
room temperature.
LEMON GLAZE
3/4 confectioners sugar
2-4 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
In a bowl, stir the sugar together with
the other ingredients, adding water as
required to achieve a thick, but pour-
able glaze. Spoon or drizzle the glaze
onto the cooled cake.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Try this tasty Spiced lamb and

mix of lamb butternut squash burekas
and butternut squash INGREDIENTS:
2 sheets store-bought puff pastry, left to thaw
at room temperature around 30 minutes
SHANNON SARNA

B
y the time Sukkot arrives, and we are three weeks into non-
stop Jewish holiday mode, some people might be a little
tired of cooking. I dont blame these people one bit.
But Sukkot probably is my favorite holiday of the season
to cook for. I love sitting outdoors in the brisk autumn air, enjoying
harvest-inspired dishes with friends and family.
This dish is pretty easy, totally unique, and absolutely delish. My
husband, who is by far my harshest critic, is in love with this recipe,
and he begged for me to make another batch.
Burekas are an easy appetizer to throw together using store-bought
puff pastry. If you dont like ground lamb, substitute ground beef. You
also can make a vegetarian version by using tofu or feta cheese with
the squash. You can make burekas ahead of time, freezing them once
they are assembled, but before you do the egg wash.
Before the holiday or when you are ready to bake, glaze them with
egg wash and pop them in the oven per the directions below. They
also reheat well in the oven at a low temperature even and can be
served at room temperature. THE NOSHER VIA JTA WIRE SERVICE
1/2 pound ground lamb
2 cups cooked pureed or mashed butternut
squash (can also use sweet potato or frozen
butternut squash)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander a medium bowl.
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Pinch red pepper flakes
Roll out each sheet of puff pastry. Cut each
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg beaten for glaze sheet into 9 even squares. Using a rolling pin,
roll out each square slightly.
Sesame seeds, nigella seeds or poppy seeds
(optional) Scoop 1 heaping tablespoon into the corner of
each square. Fold puff pastry over filling, form-
Heat olive oil in a saut pan over medium heat.
ing a triangle.
Saut onion until translucent. Add spices to
pan and cook until toasted, around 1 minute. Using the tines of a fork, crimp the edges.
Add ground lamb and cook until no longer Repeat with second sheet of puff pastry.
pink, breaking up into small pieces with a Brush each bureka with beaten egg. Top with
wooden spoon as you cook. Remove from heat sesame seeds, nigella seeds or poppy seeds if
and allow to cool slightly. desired.
Combine butternut squash and lamb mixture in Bake 18-22 minutes, until golden on top.

Shannon Sarna is editor of the Nosher

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Mystical lulav movements from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
Theres more than just shaking going on
LARRY YUDELSON
T
he custom of shaking the lulav in all directions
to each of the four points of the compass, and
then up and down, to the sky and the earth orig-
inally symbolized an acknowledgment of Gods
all-encompassing presence.
But the practice took on other symbolic, spiritual meanings
in chasidic thought. chasidism brought the mystical teachings
of the Kabbalah to the masses, reinterpreting longstanding
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traditions and imbuing them with spiritual meaning.
For Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the act of shaking the lulav
was a meditation that could last half an hour. Each direction
had significance. Each represented a different prayer, the
wish for a different blessing for the coming year. And in the
years that I prayed at his synagogue before his death in 1994,
the lulav ceremony was, for me, the most meaningful of the
services of this holy day season.
I have adapted his teaching as I remember hearing it.
First, face right. Right in kabbalah signifies the attribute
s
of chesed kindness, mercy, overwhelming benefi-
cence. Its a reminder of Abraham, master of hospital-
ity. Facing right, slowly shaking the lulav in and out
three times, think about all the chesed, the giving in
your life, and pray to God to perfect it.
Do you find it too hard to be generous? Or are you
suffering from an excess of generosity, of kindness, of
love? We dont know when to love and how to love,
and we always put so many borders in the wrong
place, Carlebach said. Facing right, pray for God to
grant you the proper measure of chesed.
Then face left. Left in Kabbalah is gevurah
strength, strict judgment, limits. Gevurah is symbol-
ized by Isaac bound to the altar for sacrifice on
Mount Moriah, unflinching, accepting, not judging.
Take this opportunity to think of the limits, the judg-
ments in your life. Are your circumstances too confin-
ing? Do you need more boundaries, or fewer? Do you
need more strength? This is an opportunity to invite
God to help you fix the limits in your life.
Next, face straight forward, the direction symbol-
ized by tiferet, or beauty. This is the ideal of balance,
where the beneficence and the boundaries are in their
proper proportions. It is symbolized by Jacob, who
fathered the Jewish people. Reflect: What do you need
to bring balance in your life?
Then look up. Can you connect with God? Whats
the holiness you need in your life? How high can you
rise this year?
Then aim down. This is a chance to pray for ground-
edness, to reflect on your foundations. And its about
your ability to find the buried treasures under your
feet; the truths buried in the dirt.
Finally, face backward and wave the lulav in that
direction. The essence of repentance, Carlebach taught,
is being able to go back and fix your past. This is a prayer
that your past be fixed by your coming to terms with it.
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I
know something about most Jew-
ish holidays.
I can tell you that Chanukah is
about miracles, Passover is about
slavery and freedom, and Shavuot is
about cheesecake. (I have no idea why,
but when it comes to matters of cheese-
cake, it is not mine to question.)
The one holiday that has baffled me
for years is Shemini Atzeret. I cant
remember the first time I became aware
of it, and to be honest, I didnt care
much about it until last year when my
older daughter started attending Jewish
day school.
I understood why we needed two days
off for Rosh Hashanah and to get out of
school early on the day before Yom Kip-
pur. I was even willing to accept the two
days off at the beginning and the end of
Sukkot and Passover.
But Shemini Atzeret?
I started asking around, and I heard
a variety of fairly uninspiring responses,
most of them about Shemini Atzeret
being the eighth day of the seven-day
holiday of Sukkot.
I didnt buy it. Judaism is all about nar-
ratives and meaning and symbolism. I
just couldnt believe that we would have
a holiday that was nothing more than an
extra day.
A little online research gave me some
more information about the holiday, all
of which was helpful but not entirely
clear. Shemini Atzeret clearly is con-
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activities in which were supposed to engage to honor
the holiday (eat matzah, light the menorah, and the
like.). Shemini Atzeret doesnt have any of these. What
it does have is a word atzeret which many peo- To just chill and take it all in, to stop, pause, hold back,
ple define as assembly, although as Rabbi Paul Stein-
berg notes, The inherent problem is that no one really
knows exactly what atzeret means. It is possible it
comes from the Hebrew atzar, a verb that variously
has been translated as to stop, to pause, to hold back,
or to keep in.
The midrash basically says that Shemini Atzeret is like
Gods afterparty with the Jewish people. Weve just been
through the World Series of Jewish holidays, and we
were seriously busy. We were eating too much, not eat-
ing at all, praying really a lot, building our sukkahs, and
then welcoming everyone in town to come dine with us.
There are so many messages, so many ideas, so many
lessons and learnings that happen through all of this
about gratitude and blessings and the errors of our ways
and the joys of redemption and the transitory nature
of life and the importance of welcoming neighbors, all
the while celebrating the crazy, chaotic, unpredictable
beauty of this world we live in.
Needless to say, its a lot.
Shemini Atzeret is the vacation to recover from the
holiday. (If youve ever gone on a trip with kids, you
know exactly what Im talking about.) But in this case,
were not doing laundry and shopping for groceries.
Were just taking it all in. The story is that after we just
spent seven days rejoicing in the beauty of nature during
Sukkot (after all, whats more welcoming than building
a little house with no door on it?), now God wants one
more day with us, the Jewish people, to just be together.
and keep in.
According to my friend Rabbi Ariel Burger, this is a
Celebrate Sukkot With Us!
day of just being, an opportunity to process everything
that has happened, to integrate what we have struggled
with and learned.
I dont know about you, but that makes my little social
work heart soar.
It turns out it is just an extra day after all just the
kind of extra day that most of us need.
Im not sure how, or even if, well honor Shemini
Atzeret this year in my house. Its true that my girls dont
have school, but Id already planned to take them to visit We are open
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this: Shemini Atzeret has gone from two words that
meant nothing to me to a day that forever will remind Come Dine in our
me that sometimes I do need to stop doing and just be
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What you need to know about

the far-right Alternative for Germany party
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hancellor Angela Merkel clinched
her fourth term and her center-
right Christian Democratic Union
party maintained its parliamen-
tary majority in the German national elec-
tions last Sunday.
The victory, however, hardly was a land-
slide. With some 6 million votes, the populist,
far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, fin-
ished in third place, securing 94 seats in the
federal government.
With a platform focused on Islam and
migration, and rhetoric tinged with Nazi
tropes, the AfD garnered some 13 percent of
the vote. Thats nearly three times better than
it did in 2013, the year of its founding.
The unprecedented showing for a far-right
party in postwar Germany alarmed Jewish
and Muslim leaders.
A party that tolerates right-wing extremist
ideas in its ranks has managed not only to win
the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said to President Donald Trumps
in a statement. America First position and
Schuster expressed the urgent wish that the U.K.s rejection of the
German democratic leaders reveal the true European Union, the AfD
face of the AfD, and expose its empty, popu- promotes a pro-Germany
list promises. stance, even going so far as
Here is a look at the AfD: its history, its lead- to urge citizens to have more
ers and backers, and where the party stands babies made in Germany.
on key issues.
Who are the
When was the AfD founded, partys leaders?
and why? The party has a moderate
Riding a wave of popular resentment against and a far-right fraction. Head-
German bailouts of bankrupt European Union ing the latter is Alexander
member states, the party was launched in Gauland, a 76-year-old attor-
April 2013. The AfD since has developed into ney and journalist who left
an anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, and euro- the conservative Christian
skeptical party. Democrats after 40 years to
The party gained popularity primarily for co-found the AfD. His moder-
its attacks on Merkels liberal policy toward ate counterpart is Alice Wei- Alice Weidel, a co-head of the far-right Alter-
refugees since 2015, Germany has opened del, a 38-year-old economist. native for Germany party, is in Berlin after the
its doors to more than 1.5 million, mostly Mus- Gauland recently said that election.  SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES

seats in almost all our state parliaments, but
lims and for its xenophobic and nationalistic
Germans dont have to be
held accountable anymore
for those 12 years [of the Nazi regime].
They dont affect our identity today any
longer. And were not afraid to say so.
members believe that Jews are the mas-
terminds of all evil, Riebe said. So, in
that sense, anti-Semitism does play an
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parties have their share of anti-Semites
as well and should be scrutinized in that
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particular, they say, left-leaning parties
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Martin Hohmann, former member
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Editorial
More about the eruv
Truth regardless of consequences

Have we been that bad?

T Affirming Jewish
he eruv fight in Mahwah is becoming
uglier and uglier, and we watch it with
dismay.
To some extent, it is a microcosm of
the anger and fear and hatred and bigotry that is
bubbling all around us. If even football players
can be under attack (and to be honest, Ive never
and found themselves in a school district stripped
of most resources, apparently by a large chasidic
community that at least seemed not to care about
them. The story is murky, but the one thing that is goodness on the
High Holy Days
clear is that it is not good.
No one wants her school district to turn into an
East Ramapo.

understood the allure of the oversize over-padded
waddling eye-blacked behemoths, running into
each other and grunting, but I know Im in a minor-
ity on that one), then why not eruv supporters?
But the situation is complicated, and we watch
helplessly as it is turned into a black-and-white,
good-versus-bad, cartoon version of real life. (And
of course which side is good and which is bad,
which is all virtue and which is the cartoon demon,
entirely depends on where you stand.)
First, it is hard to explain what an eruv is. A
few weeks ago, I wrote that an eruv is a legal fic-
tion, and that I knew that no one would be happy
with that wording, but its the most accurate way to
explain this odd phenomenon, the stripes marking
poles and strings connecting them that demarcate
private space for observant Jews and allows them
to carry things and push strollers and wheelchairs
on Shabbat.
Non-Jews and less observant Jews cannot help
but be put off by the idea of an eruv because they
assume and logic and common sense are on their
side as they make that assumption that somehow
their own private property is less theirs if it is sur-
rounded by an eruv.
That of course is not the case.
Observant Jews bristle at the idea that an eruv is
a legal fiction they insist that it is symbolic, not
fictitious, making a distinction so fine that it loses
its meaning easily because if it is, they say, it does
not work.
As I expected, I got an angry letter telling me
that I am breathtakingly ignorant because I used
the term legal fiction. It is exactly that approach
the Im-right-and-so-youre-wrong-so-why-dont- community that an eruv fosters. Thats no small
I-just-call-you-names approach that leads to so
much trouble.
Its not an Im-right-and-youre-wrong issue.
Eruv supporters must understand that it is not
inherently anti-Semitic not to want an eruv.
The eruv struggle is not happening in a vacuum.
There is history just over the state border. The
specter of the East Ramapo school district looms. It
is a tragic story the working class, striving, largely
immigrant or minority parents who moved to
Rockland County to give their children better lives,
It is also true that it is possible to fight against
an eruv, bring in lots of outside lawyers, fight in
court, lose, fight again, lose, fight again, lose, and
eventually give up and get an eruv. And then watch
as absolutely nothing happens. So theres an eruv.
So what?
Thats what happened in Tenafly more than 10
years ago. The town fought the eruv, anti-Semitism
spewed, lots of money was spent, and it lost, and
now it has an eruv. And Tenafly continues to have
a wonderful school district; it also has many Jews,
some Orthodox, some Conservative, some Reform;
many non-Jews, representing a wide range of eth-
nicities, and very few problems.
That could happen in Mahwah too.
On the other hand, eruv opponents must under-
stand that it doesnt sound like theyre opposing
just an eruv. More and more, as tempers stretch
and patience and understanding run out and old
elemental hatreds bubble up, it sounds like theyre
opposing Jews.
It is starting to sound like pure anti-Semitism.
Social media just makes everything worse. It
used to demand either middle-of-the-night stealth
or pure brazen guts to call someone a name or
leave a nasty or threatening note in someones
mailbox. Now theres another way. Go online, and
let the venom spew.
This has to end.
This is a dream, of course, a mad wild dream, but
wouldnt it be wonderful if the adversaries could
talk to each other? Really talk? The eruv supporters
could explain how the eruv would make their lives
significantly easier, and also could talk about the
thing.
The opponents could talk about their real fears
without couching them in anti-Semitism. Maybe
their fears could be assuaged. Maybe they too
would feel the powerful pull of community.
As Yom Kippur approaches, we hope that every-
one involved will be able to pull back from the
fight, disengage their emotions, engage their logi-
cal facilities, and then fall back on their basic good-
ness. Yes, apologize to each other, and then move
forward together.
A
s Jews across the world
prepare for Yom Kippur,
its time to reexamine the
nature of the High Holy
Days and whether their purpose is for
us Jews to lament how sinful we are.
The Jewish New Year doesnt
embrace a particularly festive form.
We dont hit the bars
the way New Yorkers
do on January 1st. Nor
do we parade down
the streets with a mas-
sive paper dragon as
they do in Beijing. And
no, we wont even
have a Buddha-themed
citywide water-fight
the way the Thai do on Rabbi
Songkran. Shmuley
What do we do? Boteach
We pray.
For most of the day.
For two days straight.
It doesnt sound all that much fun,
and I wont pretend that I enjoy it as
much as Judaisms more festive holi-
days, which offer a lot more celebra-
tion, singing, and dancing. But what I
can say about the Jewish New Year is
thats its beautiful because on these
days we re-commit to our relation-
ship with God, drawing ourselves ever
closer into his divine embrace. we too often relish exercising. And
But Rosh Hashanah is not meant to
be a day where we wallow in sin and
feel ourselves to be spiritually inad-
equate. Judaism has no concept of
original sin or of humanity perpetu-
ally falling short, concepts that are
central to Christianity. Would anyone
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of the World Values Network and the
author of 31 books, including The Israel Warrior. Follow him on Twitter @
-JP RabbiShmuley.
really imagine that on the three holi-
est days of the year God wants us to
see ourselves as worms who can do
nothing right?
Still, there are those who see it
differently.
In an op-ed published last week
in the Wall Street Journal, the for-
mer chief rabbi of Eng-
land, Lord Jonathan
Sacks, offered a more
rigid conception of the
Jewish High Holy days.
The question posed
by the festival, writes
Rabbi Sacks, is not
why we continue to
have faith in God, but
why God continues to
have faith in us.
The Jewish high holy
days, he argues, are
less days of holy love
than of holy judgment. They pres-
ent a courtroom drama like no
other, one where the judge is God
himself and we are on trial for our
lives. Stranger than the idea of Rosh
Hashanah being only about trial and
judgment is the fact that we may be
found guilty. After all, in an other-
wise law-governed universe, we are
able to break the law a power that
so, all we can do is ask God to for-
give us. Which he does, because hes
God, and he always gives us another
chance. Thus, Rabbi Sacks argues,
these days prove Gods incredible
faith in us despite our shabby and
threadbare moral record.

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Shabby and threadbare? Find me one nation more
devoted to God throughout history than the Jewish
people. Find me one nation that has stuck with God
despite pogroms, auto-de-fes, expulsions, inquisitions,
ghettoization, non-stop persecution, and ultimately
the Holocaust. Find me a people that continues to
honor the Sabbath, put on tefillin, affix mezuzot, keep
kosher, marry Jewish, build synagogues, go to mikvah,
even after their parents and grandparents were turned
into ash at Auschwitz.
Find me a nation like the State of Israel, that honors
the complete rights of its 1.5 million Muslim citizens in the
heart of the Jewish state. Find me an army that is more
moral than the IDF, despite having genocidal enemies
- completely encircling them. What threadbare moral
record? The very idea is a calumny.
Yes, Rosh Hashanah, and especially Yom Kippur, are
known as days of judgment. And yes, humans can be sin-
t ful. And the fact that God forgives us for our sins deserves
our humble recognition and gratitude.
k
-
But theres another question we ought to ask. Have we
really been that bad?
- I imagine some of us might have fudged the lines of
Judaisms dietary laws. Perhaps we didnt wait six hours
after eating meat before putting milk in our coffee. Some
may not have prayed with full concentration. Others
. might not have prayed at all. On the micro level, we are
not without our errors.
But in the wider spectrum, at the macro level, the Jew-
t ish people have shown a faith in God more fervent and
formidable than any commitment ever held by man or all
t mankind toward anything at all.
We suffered two brutal centuries of slavery in Egypt,
and still circumcised our sons.
y We watched twice as our holy Temples burned, and still
our love of Judaism kept burning with it.
We were marched off to Rome as slaves, but never for-
- got our true master above.
For nearly two millennia afterward, we lived scat-
tered throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia, always as
r second-class citizens subject to relentless oppression
and blood libels. And still, our own blood ran strong
with a devotion to our faith and our fellow man.
In 1492, when forced to publicly abandon our faith,
- we preferred to board our families onto ships rather
than follow the impossible Spanish orders to abandon
t our faith.
In the seventeenth century, the Jewish people would
- see as many as half a million of their brethren put to
the sword by the Polish warlord Bogdan Khmelnitsky.
r Remarkably, what followed was a popular explosion of
, religious love and zealotry, with millions of Jews taking
upon themselves a new enthusiasm for God and Juda-
ism in what we now call the chasidic Revolution.
And never has Jewish commitment to God been so bril-
liantly displayed as it is today, where, just a generation
after the Holocaust, weve continue to march forward
with love for and pride in our identity as Jews across the
world and in our own state.
The untouchable faith in God held by his people is, in
my opinion, at least as impressive as Gods faith in us.
So this year, lets celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur more with love than with fear, more joy than with
dread. Lets experience Jewish grandeur rather than Jew-
ish inadequacy, Jewish light rather than a fraudulent belief
in Jewish defectiveness.
Enough of Jewish self-hatred. The Jewish people have
been the great light of humanity for 3,300 years, and its
time we recognized and celebrated it.
If, after everything weve been through as a people
youve still made it to the synagogue, God knows, youre
pretty damned amazing.
Opinion
Tone down the rhetoric
around the eruv, please
E
nough is enough.
We have all seen the articles
and Facebook posts reporting
the events surrounding the
installation of an eruv in the Mahwah
area. Many of us have watched from
afar, secure in the knowledge that our
countrys commitment to freedom of
religion would ensure the right to install
this religious boundary. Other towns Jason
in Bergen County have gone through Shames
this debate and it was settled locally.
However, in this case, the dialogue has
quickly reached an unacceptable level of discourse.
What seemingly started out as a local movement has
transformed into something else: an angry mob, com-
plete with virulent anti-Semitic language and rhetoric. The
opponents of the eruv in the Mahwah area, on the other
hand, contest this view, insisting that it is not anti-Semitic
at all. They cant seem to understand why being called
you people or having an agenda item on a town coun-
cil meeting listed as Township Parks; Badges and Arm
Bands; Discussion offends our sensibilities.
So lets be clear. If we, the Jewish community, feel
threatened, or find language and policy to be anti-Semitic
or offensive, we have an obligation to say so and to fight
back. Hate speech is simply not acceptable. It is our moral
and ethical right to combat it. Its a Jewish responsibility
and one we cannot and should not ignore.
Jews have been living in these towns for a long time
and with general acceptance by the community at large.
Mahwah has a large, vibrant Jewish congregation, Beth
Haverim Shir Shalom, and there are other synagogues in
the adjoining communities. While we can acknowledge
that anti-Semites exist in northern Bergen County, we
also can acknowledge that their views remained under
the radar screen until now.
There is no play book that gives us the right solution.
We, the Jewish community, must search for answers, new
strategies, and new tactics to create civil discourse on these
challenging issues. Regardless of our personal practices,
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differences, and viewpoints we must stand united
in this forum. What we need to agree upon is that
the language filled with hate and bias that is being
used in this discussion needs to stop. There is no
room for hateful language in our community.
So what should we do
For one thing, the organized Jewish community
must be on the same page. The Jewish Federation
and the two local Jewish rabbinical boards need to
act as one. We need to diminish the emotion and
elevate the level of debate. Our resources (human
and capital) should be pooled to maximize our
effectiveness. Local rabbinic and Jewish Federa-
tion leadership strongly recognize the need to be unified
in order to begin to reduce the level of discourse, and we
already have begun to make progress on this front. I am
confident that in a short time we will have made improve-
ment in this area.
The other sorely needed course of action is for our
elected officials and law enforcement agencies to join pub-
licly with us. It would be even better if they could lead us
in this fight. This issue today may be anti-Semitism, but
as one leading local rabbi reminded me, its xenophobia
at its core. Its Jews today, but it could be African Ameri-
cans, Asians, or Hispanics tomorrow. This is where we will
leverage our relationships in Trenton, Hackensack, and
beyond, as we work together to stand up for all of society
and fight hate and bigotry in all forms.
Understand the call to action here. It must be clear and
decisive. Anti-Semitism and hate and bias speech cannot
be tolerated. Civil discourse and dialogue must be encour-
aged. Every one of us has a role to play, and I strongly
encourage you to implore your elected officials to do
everything in their power to reduce the rift being created.
We cannot fight this alone.
Shabbat shalom, shana tovah to you and your families,
and have an easy fast.
Jason Shames is chief executive officer and executive
vice president of the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey.
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Opinion
Dont let first downs distract
from real threats to the First Amendment
R
ecent conversations about
free speech have revolved
around whether it is proper
to criticize or boycott foot-
ball players for kneeling during the
national anthem.
At the same time, however, there is a
much more important albeit less pub-
licized battle going on over the future
of the First Amendment and protect-
ing our rights to live free of government
coercion.
Take the case of Joe Kennedy, a foot-
ball coach at a public high school in
Washington State. He was fired by the
school district for praying silently on the
sidelines after a game. When he sued,
arguing that government entities may
not ban private, whispered prayers, the
school district responded that Kennedy
lost his ability to pray privately when-
ever students might be watching.
Then there is a case from Colorado in
which the state brought its enormous
resources to bear against Masterpiece
Cakeshop, a tiny family bakery, trying
to force it to produce custom cakes for
same-sex weddings. While this likely is
a violation of the bakers religious rights
(i.e., his right to abstain from commerce
Reintegration and repentance a personal perspective
M
aimonides teaches in Laws
of Repentance 7:8 that it
is prohibited to remind
repentant sinners of their
past deeds, or to mention those deeds
in their presence to embarrass them.
Nearly four years ago, certain aspects
of my past were published and broadly
publicized in our community and on
the internet, stigmatizing me ever since.
During this period of the High Holy
Days, I want to share my painful expe-
rience, to describe how I strive to rise
above those stigmas and to be re-inte-
grated into the community, and how
various segments of the community
have responded.
Having been ostracized temporarily by
the community, I engaged in a great deal of
thought, self-reflection, and soul-search-
ing. Not a day has gone by that I have not
thought of my actions of 23 years ago and
28 Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
that violates his religious beliefs), it
unquestionably is a violation of his free-
dom of speech. The government is forc-
ing him not merely to provide cakes to
all customers, but to design cakes spe-
cifically intended to congratulate same-
sex couples. This would be akin to forc-
ing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish baker
to bake a cross-shaped cake with the
inscription Jesus Died for Our Sins.
The First Amendment is intended to
protect our right to say and not to say
what we please, regardless of how
unpopular our positions might be. If
the First Amendment merely protected
politically correct speech, which no one
would try to ban, it would not serve a
useful purpose.
The Supreme Court is about to hear
the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, but pro-
gressive organizations by and large have
not seen this as an instance in which the
fundamental importance of freedom of
speech needs to be protected. Instead,
many have argued that non-discrim-
ination for same-sex couples will be
achieved only when governments force
people to write messages that violate
their beliefs, and that even First Amend-
ment rights are subordinate to this goal.
I hope
that I have
become a more
empathetic and
caring person
because of
my past.
the impact they had on my victims.
I hope that I have become a more
empathetic and caring person because
of my past. That is why I have always
strived to help and assist those in soci-
ety who need second chances. In accor-
dance with repentance rituals within
Religious Christians have
led this fight against com-
pulsion. And they have not
focused merely on Chris-
tian problems. Religious-
liberty organizations with
mainly Christian members
defend Jewish civil liber-
ties not to mention those
of Sikhs, Muslims, Native Rabbi
Americans, and others Mitchell
with equal vigor and deter- Rocklin
mination. Jews ought to
take notice, as these issues
already are beginning to affect us more
than many realize.
Jews have been on the receiving end
of assaults on religious liberty for cen-
turies. Now, in Europe, they are vic-
tims of efforts to ban kosher slaughter
(shechitah), arising from both leftist
and rightist circles. Six European coun-
tries now ban shechitah and Muslim
halal slaughter (Norway, Iceland, Swit-
zerland, Lichtenstein, Denmark, and
Sweden). There have been efforts to
ban these rituals in other countries,
including Germany and Poland. (Note
that Germany banned kosher slaughter
in 1933, citing its alleged cruelty, and
the Jewish tradition I first
confessed to myself and to
God that my actions were
sinful and inappropriate.
I regretted them, sought
help, and took measures to
insure that they would not
recur in the future. Recog-
nizing my flaws, I commit-
ted myself to working on Akiva D.
continual improvement. Roth
Teshuvah repentance
is a lifelong process. As
with the aftermath of a heart attack,
time may pass and a persons behaviors
might change, but the small yet indel-
ible scar of his iniquity still remains.
God is able to regard a sin as if it never Englewood and Tenafly eruvs. I lead ser-
occurred, and sutures a wound in a way
that does not leave scars, but it is not so at various area synagogues. I have suc-
easy for human beings to do the same.
Reviewing past actions and assessing how
Poland did so later in the
same decade.) Flanders,
the region of Belgium that
includes Antwerp, with its
large population of Ortho-
dox Jews, just decided
to ban kosher slaughter,
despite significant opposi-
tion from Europes Jewish
leadership.
Until recently, Jews in
America have been for-
tunate enough, most of
the time, to be safe from
these types of attacks. But the ritual of
kapparot (or kapporos), which for
many ultra-Orthodox and Persian Jews
involves slaughtering chickens, has
come under legal attack for the third
time in three years. Sometimes, animal-
rights organizations have alleged ques-
tionable legal compliance or alleged
mishandling of animals, and sought to
ban the entire practice. In 2016, they
successfully hindered the ritual by using
an obscure consumer-protection law
in California to achieve a temporary
ban from a court on the taking of money
for payment for performing the ritual,
a ban that was ordered and then lifted
one might act differently is
the process that each and
every Jew needs to under-
take during the month of
Elul and during the time of
heightened focus on repen-
tance in the Days of Peni-
tence between Rosh haSha-
nah and Yom Kippur.
Despite the challenges
resulting from negative
Google searches based on
my past actions and the
resulting stigma, I have been able to
begin to re-invent myself in various ways.
Every week I meticulously check the
wires and lechis (poles) that comprise the
vices and read from the Torah regularly
cessfully translated articles, essays, and
book chapters from Hebrew to English

only minutes before Yom Kippur, the
last possible moment when the ritual
may be performed.
PETA, meanwhile, has made an all-
out attack on shechitah a significant
agenda item. If attacks on kapparot are
successful, kosher slaughter will be the
next major agenda item.
Nor will attacks on Jewish religious
liberties be confined to how we obtain
kosher meat. Circumcision already has
faced attacks in Europe and some Ameri-
can local jurisdictions such as San Fran-
cisco and Santa Monica. And opposition
to this central ritual is unlikely to wane,
as our society emphasizes personal
choice and sexual liberation over per-
sonal liberty and familial and religious
tradition.
And just who has been defending kap-
parot? Most Jews havent even heard of
the ritual. Even many Orthodox Jews use
money, rather than live chickens, to per-
form it. Indeed, it is quite possible that
most Jews who have heard of the ritual
find it distasteful, if not worse. But these
are not reasons Jews shouldnt defend
their coreligionists right to maintain
their traditions. It took a courageous
attorney named Aryeh Kaufman, along
for various rabbis and Israeli academ-
ics. I have worked with several adults
in the community to further hone their
skills in Jewish textual study and liturgi-
cal endeavors.
During the last two years, I also under-
took a personal project, writing divrei
Torah (words of Torah) on each para-
shah and for each holiday, which I have
sent to a group of friends near and far. It
not only has served to allow me to look at
text with new eyes, but has been thera-
peutic as well. These pieces delved into
the Torah text, but also offered unique
and novel interpretations based on life
experiences. I hope that those who read
my pieces also benefit from my personal
perspective on Torah and holidays.
Though I have worked to redefine
myself as a person and to be re-inte-
grated into the community, I never
could have accomplished positive
with University of Houston law profes-
sor Josh Blackman and the consider-
able efforts of the First Liberty Institute
a largely Christian organization that
defends the religious liberty of all types
of Americans to defend kapparot in Cal-
ifornia courts. First Liberty has devoted
an enormous amount of pro bono
resources to this cause. Together with
other non-denominational and Christian
groups, like the Becket Fund for Religious
Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom,
First Liberty has been carrying much of
the burden of defending Jewish religious
liberty, not only in this case, but in oth-
ers as well.
There have of course been many Jews
who have done, and continue to do,
amazing work in this field, and this trend
has been growing as this issue becomes
more public. In the Colorado bakery case
mentioned above, for instance, there
were several Jewish legal briefs filed
in support of the bakery, from groups
including the Orthodox Union, Agudath
Israel, COLPA, and Jews for Religious
Liberty. But there still are not enough
resources committed to this rapidly
escalating battle. It is time for the Jewish
community to recognize the assault on
Reviewing past
actions and
assessing how
one might act
differently is
the process that
each and every
Jew needs to
undertake.
results without the concern and support
of a close group of devoted friends and
professionals during this ordeal. These
selfless souls were my community dur-
ing my nearly ten weeks of suspension
The First Amendment is
intended to protect our right to
say and not to say what
we please, regardless of
how unpopular our positions
might be.
religious liberty as a crisis that does not
threaten merely a few Orthodox prac-
tices, but all American Jews.
We often are reminded of Jews role at
the forefront of fighting for the rights of
others. Take the civil rights movement
of the 1960s, for instance. Some would
argue that Jews have a special reason
to engage in these battles, not merely
because they are just, but because a gov-
ernment that persecutes one minority
group today could go after Jews tomor-
row. In this current fight, one need not
even argue that Jews are next, as the
lawsuits over kapparot and shechitah
demonstrate. Jews ought to understand
that, even if they dont swing chickens
around their heads before Yom Kippur,
from the local synagogues four years
ago. These people have helped me to
understand myself better and to reflect
upon how I am perceived by others. I
have become very cognizant of percep-
tions and have worked assiduously since
then to make the community comfort-
able with me.
Nevertheless, while I have enjoyed
widespread communal reintegration, I
have faced some resistance due to lin-
gering perceptions in the community
and beyond, which have hindered my
ability to secure regular employment
and have hampered my full social
inclusion.
In this time of the year we focus on for-
giveness and moving on from the past.
We need to acknowledge that we are
all sinners, and take ownership of our
repentance. In the words of Solomon
at the dedication of the Temple (I Kings
Jewish Standard SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 29
Opinion
and even if they dont keep kosher, they
should care about their religious free-
dom as Jews. And in this case, guard-
ing our own freedom necessarily also
requires caring about the religious
rights of Catholics, Evangelical Chris-
tians, Muslims, Hindus, and anyone else
whose First Amendment rights to free-
dom of religion are being threatened.
Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin is a resident
research fellow at the Tikvah Fund. He is
also a chaplain with the rank of captain
in the New Jersey Army National Guard
and a doctoral candidate in U.S. history
at the City University of New York. He
lives in Teaneck with his wife and two
daughters.
8:46): There is no person who does not
sin. Let us embrace the Divine dictum
of your hand is outstretched to receive
repentants, and make it our communal
credo. If God can forgive those who trans-
gress and re-accept them, should this not
hold true for mortals?
In these Days of Awe, may we find it
in our hearts to forgive those who have
caused hurt and pain, and may we merit
to be inscribed in the Book of Life and
allow the sweetness of the honey to
enhance our lives, the lives of those in
our families and our communities, and
indeed all of the People of Israel.
Akiva D. Roth is a writer, Hebrew
translator, and editor who reflects a
pluralistic yet halachic approach to
communal Jewish life. His avocation
from a very early age has been American
political affairs.
Opinion

Creating art and thought and beauty and joy in the new year

A
t the 2016 West Coast Sum-
mer Sandbox, one of the pro-
fessional development con-
ferences on Project-Based
Learning and educational innovation that
I run, artist-in-residence Ruthie Matanky-
Skaist introduced me to the work of Lynda
Barry, the long-
time Village
Voice cartoonist
who now is an
interdisciplin-
ary professor
of writing and
the visual arts
at the Univer-
sity of Wiscon- Tikvah
sin-Madison. Wiener
(Barry doesnt
credit herself
with this, but Ill add that her work is phil-
osophical as well.)
Ruthie brought Dr. Barrys book, Sylla-
bus, to the Sandbox. It is a marble com-
position notebook that presented assign-
ments and thought-provoking questions
in whimsical, colorful, highly creative
collage.
I was hooked immediately. Ruthies goal
was to create a Syllabus for the Sandbox,
which we did, but it also caused me to buy
Barrys memoir and philosophical treatise,
What It Is, and to start writing, doodling,
and drawing more. It also sparked my
interest in cephalopods, a common motif
in Barrys books, and when the Wall Street
Journal reviewed Peter Godfrey-Smiths
work Other Minds, about octopus con-
sciousness, cmon, I had to buy it.
My son sometimes chastises me for read-
ing too many books at once, and Ive tried
to quit this awful habit and read. one. book.
at. a. time. But I dislike doing so. Reading
lots of books simultaneously causes them
to start talking to each other in my head
(are those the voices Im hearing? :), and
coupled with the permission Barry gives in
her works to be creative and let your imag-
ination loose, I was inspired to create the
following visual, Barry-like op-ed. (Thanks,
Joanne, for letting me.)
In her books, Barry challenges readers
to think about when they stopped creating
art, singing to themselves, making music,
and dancing, and she invites them to have
the courage to re-engage in those activi-
ties. So not only do I hope youre inscribed
in the Book of Life this year, but that you
allow your thoughts and creativity more
freedom in 5778, so they start taking you
again on the imaginative and inspiring
journeys they once did when you were a
child.

Tikvah Wiener is head of school of the Idea

School, a co-ed Orthodox high school opening
in Bergen County September 2018. Learn
more at www.theideaschool.org.

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On becoming an American
T
his week, I became
an American citizen.
As I intently stud-
ied my naturaliza-
tion certificate after the oath-
taking ceremony, it struck
me how fortunate I am to be
accepted into this nation on
the eve of Rosh Hashanah, of
all occasions. Ben Cohen
I should stress that my own
story is rather routine and
uninteresting. I came to the United States from the
United Kingdom with my family, I had a job and a home
in New York, and as the years went by, I progressed from
a work visa to a green card to full citizenship. Along the
way, I did nothing more dramatic than fill out lots of
forms and attend periodic interviews with immigration
officials.
But there were 199 other people in the room with me,
from 60 different countries, and with vastly different
experiences that, nonetheless, led us all to this single
moment.
As I wound my way to my seat, climbing as delicately
as possible over the outstretched knees and handbags
on the narrow floor between the rows in the auditorium,
I said hello to people I learned were originally from New
Zealand, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines.
When we went up to the stage to collect our naturaliza-
tion certificates, it felt as if the entire world had been
locked in the embrace of American democracy: a fellow
from Cote dIvoire, another from Mali, a young woman
from Bangladesh, an older woman from Ukraine, even a
couple of people from Israel, just moments after we all
swore the same oath of allegiance before the same flag.
For me, taking the oath was the most powerful part of
the ceremony. It was the clearest reminder that America
is built upon the idea of liberty, and the most compel-
ling signal to all of us present we now were participants
in the American republic. Consider, if you will, the last
clause of the oath: ...and that I take this obligation
freely without any mental reservation or purpose of eva-
sion; so help me God. Is there any pithier expression of
the idea that we are, as humans, bestowed with individ-
ual consciousness, along with an innate ability to think
Repentance
I do not ask for forgiveness. I never have. I will not
repent for what I did not do. Think me arrogant.
I only ask for acceptance, which somehow I do not get.
Why must I beg for it, and then supplicate?
Should I ask a nameless god to forgive me for loving my
children, who do not care what I have sacrificed?
Must I ask to be forgiven for gestures I made reaching
out to others who turned away?
My husband died a long ugly death. Should I ask for for-
giveness? Was it my doing??? Some cause me to feel not
their lossthey think themselves lucky it did not touch
them yet. Death of a loved one.
I am a good person; honest to a fault. Do I ask slichot for
those honest statements I make that push others away?
No, I do not repent. I am angry on Yom Kippur. I am
angry at this custom of begging forgiveness when I have
nothing to repent.
I am alone. Alone and angry at the empty promises that
In 2010, grand canyon national Park hosted a naturalization ceremony for new american citizens.
and speak freely and make our own decisions, so long
as the circumstances allow? Does any country represent
and respect that idea better than the United States?
More than two centuries after the American Revolu-
tion, we accept this idea as commonplace. But the cer-
emony reminded me of just how revolutionary it is.
Thomas Paine a son of Norfolk, England, who came to
these shores in 1774 wrote in his splendid pamphlet,
Common Sense, that the independence of America, writer Alexis de Tocqueville to note in 1831 that Amer-
considered merely as separation from England, would
have been but a matter of little importance, had it not
been accompanied by a revolution in the principles and
practice of governments.
These principles have been considered utopian, but
I believe they also reveal a fundamental truth about
how humans should be governed. We are imperfect,
we are selfish, we always will clash, but we have as well
common principles and common beliefs that bring us
together. The task of government, therefore, is to recon-
cile those two poles in a manner that is lawful and liberal
in the classical sense of that term.
For all the bitterness of our current politics, who
wants to live in a society where beliefs and opinions are
imposed from above? Id rather be free to pick my way
through the drek of social media than have my access
blocked by the government. Id rather be free to express
disappointment in the society I live in silly and unjus-
tified or eloquent and persuasive than be compelled
by my rulers to toe the line. That is a key element of the
others have made to me to help as they then disappear.
Or perhaps my family, which disregards the depth of
my loneliness and wants me gone from their circle.
I cannot ask forgiveness for being kind and giving and
raising children who abuse me with words and do not
understand or want to give back.
Where is repentance when I live by a rule of integrity
that distresses others?
I watched my grandmother beat her breast during sli-
chot. I could not understand even then, as a child, why
she would do that. She prayed all the time. She prayed,
but for what??
I am not a supplicant. I am no better or worse than
another. But I will not, cannot beg forgiveness for sins
against others or against a god who is not there for me.
I suffer. I suffer from depression. I suffer from loneli-
ness. I suffer from being misunderstood. I suffer from the
turned-away faces who promise me something, and then
simply forget their empty words
Opinion
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
historic promise the United States continues to offer.
In his speech to the U.N. this week, President Donald
Trump quoted John Adams, the second U.S. president,
observing that the American Revolution was effected
before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the
minds and hearts of the people. That collective sense
of freedom which breeds furiously divergent opinions,
rather than dull uniformity is what led the French
icas free press contained such a strange mixture of
good and evil that, without its presence, freedom could
not thrive and with its presence good order could hardly
survive.
That ever-present tension, perhaps, is part of free-
doms very nature. But as the years have progressed,
good order has become more stable, with no discern-
ible cost to our revolutionary liberties. And its that same
good order that allows us to take for granted what our
forefathers in foreign lands certainly did not: the right
to spend a peaceful Rosh Hashanah with your family in
a land with no established religion.
This year, I will do that as an American for the very
first time. Shana tovah.
Ben Cohen writes a weekly column on Jewish affairs and
Middle Eastern politics. His work has been published in
Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, the Wall Street
Journal, and many other publications.
Letters
I suffer from a religion that is not accepting. I suffer from
a day in the year when all is forgiven and the liars and
cheats and betrayers of flesh and blood turn away from me.
And I do not forgive them.
The men who turned away because I was burdened and
honest. Those who wanted easy when easy is too hard.
You think me a deviant, that I despise this time of the
year. I have no one to lean on and no one to cry to. I have
no family left, that I raised with nothing spared. I gave and
gave and now I am empty. Those who loved me uncondi-
tionally, gone. I thank God for their existence.
No, I will not beat my breast and beg for forgiveness.
The hypocrites can do this with pleasure. Not this solitary
woman. Go swing your chicken and kill it. An ugly act of
passing your sins to another
This woman, the one who speaks now in anger, will not
repent.
sandy steuer cohen
Teaneck
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Dvar Torah
Yom Kippur: A reading list

O
n Yom Kippur in Europe and most of the
morning and early ones in the United States
afternoon we will retained Leviticus 16 as the
all read a portion morning reading until the pub-
of Torah and a selection from lication of the original Union
one of the neviim (prophets) Prayer Book in 1894. In place of
as a haftarah. While, except the description of the Temple
for a few instances, we will not ritual from Leviticus, a selec-
all be reading the same Scrip- tion from Nitzavim, Deuter-
tural passages, all these texts Dr. Bruce onomy 29:10 30:6, was read.
will reflect salient themes of S. Block Subsequent editions amended
this Day of Atonement. So we Rabbi Emeritus, it to Deuteronomy 29:9-14
Temple Sinai of
might do well to peruse the list Bergen County, and 30:11-20. These passages
and see what our fellow Jews Tenafly, Reform emphasize the unity of our
our friends, neighbors, and people across the generations
relatives will be reading. We and all walks of life, and the
might even decide to read what theyre read- proposition that our Creator has endowed
ing in addition to what is being read in our us with the capacity to know the difference
own synagogue. That way, we might deepen between good and evil and the ability to
our own spiritual reflection on this Day of choose between them. And we are urged to
Days. choose life. This was the prescribed reading
The Mishnah (Megillah 4:5) lists Leviticus through subsequent revisions of the Union
16 as the Torah reading for Yom Kippur morn- Prayer Book and its successor Machzor, Gates
ing. In it we find a description of the Yom of Repentance, and is still the morning Torah
Kippur ritual as practiced in the Mishkan reading in most Reform synagogues.
(Tabernacle), and later, the Beit Ha-Mikdash However, the newest Reform Machzor,
(Temple). The so-called scapegoat ritual Mishkan Ha-Nefesh, offers an alternative
expresses our deep desire to remove sin from reading: Genesis 3:22 4:18, Adam and Eves
the community, driving it away, so that we expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Accord-
can begin afresh, cleansed of iniquity. While ing to Rabbi Sarasohn, the relevance to Yom
the ritual is ancient, it is a memory, as it has Kippur is the consequence of transgres-
not been practiced since the destruction of sion and the possibility of repentance and
the Temple. But the desire it expresses still reconciliation.
resides within us, and the memory reminds Orthodox and most Conservative con-
us. That is the Torah reading for Yom Kippur gregations read verses from Numbers 29
Morning down to the present day in Ortho- from a second scroll. This is omitted from
dox, Conservative, and Reconstructionist Reform services. This reading is prescribed
congregations. in the Tosefta (Megillah 3:7), and is a fur-
Torah readings for Yom Kippur in Reform ther description of the Yom Kippur ritual in
congregations have varied. According to ancient times.
Rabbi Richard Sarasohn (professor of rab- All our synagogues Reform, Reconstruc-
binic literature and liturgy at Hebrew Union tionist, Conservative, Orthodox read the
College Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincin- same Haftarah on Yom Kippur morning. It
nati), all of the major Reform prayer books is Isaiah 57:14 58:14. This passage reminds
us that ritual alone will not redeem us. God
also demands that we pursue social justice.
Our fast should awaken compassion for the
oppressed. If our worship, our prayers and
our fasting are to mean anything, then we
must feed the hungry, free the oppressed
and break every yoke. It is a counterpoint to
the ritual described in Leviticus and an expli-
cation of the kinds of choices Deuteronomy
reminds us we have.
The afternoon Torah reading is first men-
tioned in the Talmud (B. Megillah 31a). It is
Leviticus 18, a listing of forbidden sexual
relations (incestuous and adulterous) which
would render a community unclean before
the Eternal.
Why read such a passage on Yom Kippur?
According to the Sages, the entire com-
munity must stand before God in a state of
purity. Hence, this Torah reading serves as
both a reminder and a warning about the
larger implications of these improper sexual
acts.
In Reform Yom Kippur worship, however,
other Torah readings were substituted for
Leviticus 18 in the afternoon service. Accord-
ing to Rabbi Sarasohn, the early Reformers
did not find the listing of illicit sexual relations
to be spiritually edifying. Beginning with the
prayer book of the Hamburg Temple Associa-
tion in 1819, selections from Leviticus 16, 17,
and 18 were prescribed. Abraham Geiger was
the first to prescribe Leviticus 19: 1-18, The
Holiness Code from parshat Kedoshim in
his prayer book for the Breslau congregation
published in 1854. This selection ultimately
became standard for Reform congregations
in North America.
But in 19th century America only David
Einhorns High Holy Day Prayer Book had
this as the afternoon reading. Einhorn had
been influenced by Geiger in Europe.
Elsewhere, Leo Merzbacher of Temple
Emanu-El, New York, in his 1855 prayer
book, and Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati in
his prayer book, Minhag America (1864), sub-
stituted portions from Exodus 32-34, in which
Moses pleads with God to forgive the Israel-
ites sin of the Golden Calf. In this section,
God eventually reveals to Moses the Divine
attributes of mercy and compassion (Adonai,
Adonai, Eil rachum vchanun, which verse
is also recited in the Yom Kippur liturgy).
This became the prescribed afternoon Torah
reading in earlier editions of the Union Prayer
Book for the Days of Awe. But the newly
revised edition of 1945 replaced this with
Leviticus 19:1-18. Thus, this became the stan-
dard Torah reading in Reform congregations.
Gates of Repentance, the successor Machzor
to the Union Prayer Book, continued with
this as the afternoon Torah reading. Recon-
structionist congregations also read Leviticus
19 in the afternoon service.
The haftarah for Yom Kippur afternoon is
the book of Jonah. We shall all be reading it
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Recon-
structionist. Its message is clear: the Eternal
is quick to forgive those who truly repent,
resolve to mend their ways, and then do so. If
the Holy One will forgive the people of Nine-
vah, should the Holy One not also forgive the
children of Israel?
So, heres my recommendation for this
Yom Kippur. In addition to reading the Scrip-
tural passages read in your synagogue, try
to find some time to read what is being read
in your friends, neighbors and/or relatives
congregations, too. So, if youre Orthodox
or Conservative, take a look at what Reform
Jews have been reading. If youre Reform,
take a look at what Orthodox and Conser-
vative Jews have been reading. And, if you
happen to meet one another at a Break the
Fast, just imagine what a wonderful, stimu-
lating conversation you can have.
I wish you all a tzom kal (an easy fast) and
a gmar tov.

Barnerts
FROM PAGE 9
to learn about Rabbi Elyse Frishmans
contribution as editor of the prayer book
Mishkan Tfilah felt like a feather in
Barnerts cap.
Bonnie also expressed gratitude to Barnert
Temples executive director, Vicky Farhi,
who took the cousins on a tour of the syna-
gogue and has helped them plan the upcom-
ing gathering. I dont know what we would
have done without the knowledge that she
was there with whatever we might need,
Bonnie said.
Do other people know that the Barnerts
are coming? Yes, Bonnie said. The word
is apparently out! We have received com-
munications from so many people con-
nected with Paterson. For example, out of
the blue I received a phone call from Nancy
Garson, who introduced herself by sharing
that she was a born-and-bred Patersonian
whose family has extremely deep roots in
Paterson. She had so much to offer, includ-
ing contacts to further our planning of the
reunion. Members of her family have been
cantor, president, and sisterhood members
of the Barnert Temple, and also president of
Barnert Hospital.
The reunion will be held over Columbus
Day weekend. On Friday night, family mem-
bers will attend services at Barnert Temple
and then join the congregation for a potluck
supper. A bus tour the next day will include
a stop at the Barnert Medical Arts Complex,
where Douglas Barnert, who was closely
involved with the hospital, will show us some
items of interest, Nathans statue at City
Hall, prior locations of Nathans home and
the synagogue, property he owned (which
housed my grandparents, great aunts, father,
and uncles), Mount Nebo Cemetery, some
real Barnert Avenue streets, the Daugh-
ters of Miriam building, and the Paterson
Great Falls, which enabled production in the
Barnert Mill, Bonnie said.
Until I delve further into our family tree,
Nathan Barnert is the oldest relative whose
name I know, Bonnie added. I am proud
to be able to look back, feeling honored
that I am a member of a strong, respected
family.

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Crossword
PROMISES, PROMISES BY YONI GLATT
The Frazzled Housewife
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: MANAGEABLE
To love or accept

A
s a mom only of boys, I have have no idea what is going on in the world
learned to both love and accept unless someone posts it on Facebook. I
many things. know that there are many things wrong
I have learned to love ironing with that but we wont get into it.
pants. I have learned to love the ease of So if I only accept football and I dont
shopping for boys, both online and in the like getting political, what am I trying to
mall (since I hate shopping and really hate say? Football and politics dont mix. The
going to malls). I have learned to love bat- national anthem is not political. In my
ting practice and sitting in the car to reach opinion, isnt the national anthem a musi-
baseball stadiums in faraway places. I have cal homage to all those who have fought
learned to love the myriad of for our freedoms? Who sac-
boys who come in and out rificed life and limb to keep
of my house, treat the snack us safe? That isnt political.
drawer like it is their own And isnt football a game
personal canteen, and help that revolves around a ball?
themselves to anything in And running? And possibly
the refrigerator (except for feet? (It is called foot ball.)
the kid who ate all the choco- Over a year ago, a player I
late I bought myself in Israel. had never heard of, since
And no, he wasnt eating it so he wasnt on the Vikings,
I wouldnt put on weight) Banji Panthers, or Rams, oh my,
I have learned to love the Ganchrow Colin Kaepernick, took a
fact that son #2s room has knee during the national
been turned into a hotel anthem because he didnt
room since he has been in Israel (and want to show pride in a flag for a country
really love the fact that I have so many that oppresses black people and people
pillow cases and sheets that keep being of color. (This was a quote that I found
Across Down washed, dried, and changed). I have when I googled the correct spelling of the
1. Promises 1. Shifrahs partner learned to love the seat always being up players name.)
6. Lapid of Yesh Atid 2. Rav Ammis (Torah) contemporary (and really love and appreciate the fact By doing this, didnt he disrespect all
10. He was the Man 3. Say some nivul peh that husband #1 always puts the seat back those people of all colors who fought for
14. Jews arent supposed to charge it to 4. ___TV, airer of Billy on the Street down in our bathroom. See, I give credit their country? Which is his country, the
each other 5. Damascus land: Abbr.
where credit is due!). And I have learned country that pays its football players way
15. Ye ___ Shoppe 6. Entebbe hero, familiarly
16. What the U.S. declined to do to a UN 7. Where Angels hope to play in Oct. to love the fact that the only person who too much money?
resolution against Israel in 2016 8. An easy fast, e.g. gets really cranky every month still is me Sports are the great American pastime.
17. Promise 9. ___ judicata (Was that crossing a line?) Sports are supposed to unite us. No poli-
19. Little antihero on Simons The 10. Promises Wow, it seems that I have learned to love tics. Just people from all backgrounds
Wire? 11. Lilith, in lore, e.g.
a lot of things! coming together to cheer on their team.
20. Tell of all ___ wondrous works 12. Girls name thats a crown
(Psalm 105) 13. ___ Nevuchim (Rambam) So you might be wondering what I have Do I think it is a total waste of time? Some-
21. Getting one to Libya is difficult for 18. See 32-Across learned only to accept. (Are you really
an Israeli 22. Miriam or Elisheva, e.g. wondering that? Are you still reading this?
22. Promised 23. In the past I hope so) Sports are
the great
23. Disney prince voiced by Scott 24. Comic Kudrow
Football. I do not love football. At all. I
Weinger 26. Put away
dont understand it, I never have played
25. ___ Haba BYerushalayim
27. One after Yom Kippur, ideally
27. What many Jews do in 10 Tishrei
28. Besamim should have a pleasant it, and I just dont get it. I accept the fact American
32. With 18-Down, home of Silicon Wadi
33. Shalom, to Juan
one
29. Gila ___
that for the next several weeks, I will have
no place to sit on Sunday afternoons.
pastime.
34. Jay Uncle Leo watched Jerry talk to
36. Cholent, more or les
30. Fanning in Abrams Super 8
31. When Israel lost a war?
Husband #1 takes over my woman-cave Sports are
40. Nathan to David 35. Job that doesnt pay? (which we call the bunker), Son #1 stops
learning long enough to watch his team in
supposed to
unite us. No
41. Kol Nidre....or another title for this 37. J-___ (Jerusalem nickname)
puzzles theme 38. Brother-in-law of Jared (Kushner) the family room, and son #3 takes over my
44. Name that means my light
45. Esau could probably set a good one
39. Seder need
42. Test for pre-law YU students
room (which is also husband #1s room). I
have learned to accept all of these things
politics.
47. Has a prophecy 43. Elitist with bad midot
48. Jordans situation on June 10, 1967 46. Promises (and also that it is a really good time to go
50. Michele of ABCs The Mayor 49. Some product symbols to Trader Joes and Shoprite) times. (Except for hockey, because those
52. ...and the next Yom Kippur, we pub- 51. Places for 58-Across, at times I also have accepted the fact that the players are really nice to look at.) But
licly ___.. 53. Heartburn author Ephron world seems to be falling apart. I have sports definitely shouldnt be political. So
54. Promises 54. Gen. and Deut., e.g.
accepted the fact that our president has to all of those football players who decided
58. Labor day figures? 55. Jack Black and Slash may shred
59. Promises them a tweeting problem, but that some of the to make it political, thank you for making
60. ___ about (circa) 56. 35-Down issues that have happened as of late, also my decision not to love you an easy one.
63. Name abbrs. rare to Jews 57. Matzah ball and onion happened when we had a different pres- Please give me my Sundays back!!
66. Mayim Bialik writes one for Kveller 61. One can be used for a mezuzah ident. Yes, I am talking about the what
67. Promises 62. Dairy black and white cookies
football players do during the national Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck hopes this
70. Lecherous guy 63. Pull a shtick
71. 60s TV boy 64. Parsha before Shoftim anthem problem. piece didnt offend anyone. She is more
72. Eppes follower 65. 9-digit IDs I dont like getting political for many than grateful to the VA for all of the
73. They could fly to TLV in record time 67. Honey looks like it reasons, one of them being that my house wonderful services they have offered her
74. Notable Accords 68. Prefix with orthodox or natal receives only the New York Post, and we father and veterans of the armed forces of
75. Promises 69. Org. that checks Tefillin?
only get it on the weekends, so I really this great country of ours!
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 39.

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Calendar or Valleychabad.org/ 2:30 p.m., afternoon
highholidays. service, 3:45, Yizkor at
5:30, and Neilah at 6.
Yom Kippur in 1666 Windsor Road.
Rockleigh: The Jewish (201) 833-1322.
Home at Rockleigh
welcomes the community Yom Kippur in Closter:
to join residents for Temple Beth El has a
services, 10 a.m., Yizkor family service for young
at 11, Neilah at 4 p.m., and children, 2:30 p.m.,
Maariv at 7:15. 10 Link and afternoon/Yizkor/
Drive. (201) 784-1414. Neilah at 3:30. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
Yom Kippur in Wayne: (201) 768-5112 or www.
Temple Beth Tikvah has tbenv.org.
family-friendly services,
11:45 a.m. 950 Preakness Yom Kippur in
Ave. (973) 595-6565 or Woodcliff Lake:
templebethtikvahnj.org. Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley offers
Yom Kippur in community Yizkor,
Montebello: 3 p.m. 87 Overlook
Congregation Shaarey Drive. Reservations,
Israel offers community (201) 391-0801.
Yizkor services,
11:45 a.m. 18 Montebello Yom Kippur in
Road, Montebello, Paramus: The JCC of
N.Y. All welcome. Paramus/Congregation
(845) 369-0300 or www. Beth Tikvah offers a
shaareyisraelrockland. community Yizkor
org. service, 4 p.m. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 262-
Yom Kippur in Emerson: 7691 or www.jccparamus.
Congregation Bnai Israel org.
of Emerson has Yizkor
services, 12:15 p.m., Yom Kippur in Park
OCT. Join film critic, radio/TV personality, and writer/producer- family service at 3:30, Ridge: Temple Beth
and concluding service Sholom of Pascack
director Mike Sargent for a screening and discussion about
16
at 4:45. 53 Palisade Ave. Valley has Mincha, 5 p.m.;
Think Twice at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, Guests must pre-register. Neilah, 6; and a break-
Monday, October 16, 7:30 p.m. It opens the JCCs Film Forum, (201) 265-2272 or www. fast at 7:15. 32 Park Ave.
bisrael.com. (201) 391-4620 or www.
a monthly series. Go to www.jccotp.org, call (201) 569-1496, or email temple-beth-sholom.org.
emazor@jccotp.org. Yom Kippur in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon has Yom Kippur in Fair
community Yizkor, 1 p.m. Lawn: The Fair Lawn
residents for services, break-fast at 7:30 p.m. 585 Russell Ave. (201) Jewish Center/CBI hosts
Kol Nidre in
Friday 4 p.m. 10 Link Drive.
(201) 784-1414. Orangeburg: Chabad of
(201) 767-4008 or www.
chabadot.org.
891-4466 or bethrishon.
org.
a family community
Neilah service with
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Kol Nidre in Emerson: at the Holiday Inn in Yom Kippur in Yom Kippur in Glen 7:10 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Yom Kippur chessed in Congregation Bnai Israel Orangeburg, 6:30 p.m. Englewood: The Torah Rock: The Glen Ave. (201) 796-5040 or
Teaneck: Areyvut invites of Emerson has Kol Nidre (201) 767-4008 or www. Links Center for Jewish Rock Jewish Center www.FLJC.com.
pre-kindergarteners services, 5:45 p.m. 53 chabadot.org. Identity of Northern offers a community
Yizkor service,
through 4th graders
to its annual erev Yom
Palisade Ave. Guests
must pre-register. Kol Nidre in Closter:
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Kippur program at (201) 265-2272 or www. Temple Beth El in Closter services at Congregation at 6. 682 Harristown OCTOBER 1
the Jewish Center of bisrael.com. invites the community Ahavath Torah, Road. (201) 652-6624 or
Teaneck, 9:30-11:45 a.m. for services, 7:30 p.m. 221 10:15 a.m. 240 Broad Ave. office@grjc.org. Athletic scholarship
Create chessed projects Kol Nidre in Englewood: Schraalenburgh Road. (484) 620-6187, yw@ deadline: The Kaplen
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Yom Kippur in Mahwah: JCC on the Palisades in
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org/high-holidays.
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lead music and dance.
(201) 244-6702, info@
offers short, sweet,
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and Yizkor at 5:30.
awards for one female
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areyvut.org, or www. at Congregation SEPTEMBER 30 Chabad has a family 280 Ramapo Valley Road. senior athlete who live in
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Why some rabbis bashed Trump
in their sermons and others didnt
BEN SALES
A
s spiritual leader of one of the most widely
known Reform synagogues in America, Rabbi
Joshua Davidson tries not to be divisive on the
holiest days of the year.
So on the High Holidays of years past, when he stood
before thousands of congregants at Temple Emanu-El in
Manhattan, Davidson stuck to universal and uncontrover-
sial topics. In 2015, he talked about the synagogues his-
tory and mission. A year ago, in the heat of an acrimoni-
ous election, he talked about civic duty and the value of
political participation.
But this year, Davidson criticized President Donald
Trump.
His Rosh Hashanah sermon last week was on trying to
lift ourselves above the dishonesty, the incivility, the inde-
cency which so many feel has become the societal norm,
he said. One of the hallmarks of that indecency, according
to Davidson, was Trumps response to the August white
supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I certainly mentioned the president in certain con-
texts, he said. I mentioned his response to Charlottes-
ville and condemned it. We have to condemn any sort of
equivocation when it comes to bigotry in the strongest
terms. His response was an affront to decency.
Whether or not to use the bimah as a bully pulpit has
become a particularly burning issue in the first year of the
Trump presidency, which even his supporters acknowl-
edge has been unusually divisive. Non-Orthodox Jews,
who make up the vast majority of American Jewry, voted
against Trump in wide margins. According to a recent poll,
a majority of Orthodox Jews voted for him and approve of
his performance.
But rabbis disagree when it comes to talking politics
from the pulpit, especially when more Jews show up in
their synagogues than they do at any other time of the
year. For every rabbi who insists on taking clear stands,
others worry about alienating congregants who may
disagree.
Rabbi Shalom Baum of Teaneck advocated policies as
a past president of the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of
America. But he avoids discussing politics from his pulpit
at Congregation Keter Torah. The High Holidays, he said,
are a time to rediscover the good in other people, not to
Rabbi Joshua Davidson delivers a High Holidays
sermon at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan.
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36 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Rabbi Sharon Brous of Ikar, an independent congre-
gation, delivering an invocation at the inauguration
of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in July 2017.
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find more reasons to disagree.
Its a time for spiritual growth, which increases both
our connection to God and our connection to people, he
said. When it comes to the way we view other people I try
to focus, on the High Holidays, on whats right with other
people, as opposed to the things that divide us.
Other politically active rabbis agree that partisan politi-
cal opinions dont belong in a sermon and especially not
on the holiest days of the year.
Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of Ohev Sholom-The National
Synagogue in Washington, D.C., protested Trumps
2016 speech at the AIPAC conference while wearing a
prayer shawl. But he studiously avoids talking politics in
synagogue.
Herzfelds first sermon focused on his experience volun-
teering to clean up Houston after Hurricane Harvey. His
Yom Kippur sermon will be about the Charlottesville rally,
but it wont mention Trump. And though he has titled the
sermon Removing Our Walls, Herzfeld insisted that he
is not alluding to the border wall with Mexico that Trump
has proposed.
This group of Nazis was trying to put up walls between
different communities, he plans to say in the Yom Kip-
pur sermon, referring to the marchers in Charlottesville.
If we are an us against them world, an us against them
country and an us against them community, then we are
all in big trouble.
Davidson is one of several prominent rabbis who used
their pulpits on the holiest days of the year to criticize the
president. Some are open about their politics and said
opposition to Trump either was a matter of consensus in
the congregation, or that his actions have been too egre-
gious to ignore.
This isnt a time for us to be silent or to be too care-
ful not to offend anybody, said Rabbi Sharon Brous of
Ikar, an independent congregation in Los Angeles. But
instead, its a time for us to speak as clearly as we possibly
can about the dangers we are facing as a community and
a nation.
On her sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Brous
accused Trump of making America a place in which anti-
Semitism is condoned by the state. She also criticized
establishment Jewish organizations for not speaking out
enough against Trump for what she said are rhetoric and
actions condoning the white supremacists.
Brous has opined publicly about her politics in the
past and she delivered an invocation at President Barack
Obamas 2013 inauguration. Her second-day Rosh
Hashanah sermon this year advocated reparations for
African-Americans.
Many of our Jewish institutions failed to find the words
to condemn the spike in anti-Semitic attacks that coin-
cided with the 2016 presidential campaign, Brous said in
the first-day sermon, adding that they failed to speak out
against white nationalist sympathizers men who have
trafficked in anti-Semitism and racism for years becom-
ing senior White House officials.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of Congregation Beit Simchat
Torah, an LGBT synagogue in Manhattan, also accused
Trump of cozying up to anti-Semites. Her whole congre-
gation opposes the president, she said, so calling him out
was not a risk.
I dont think everyone agrees with me on everything,
but overall our congregation is horrified at whats happen-
ing in our country, Kleinbaum said. As Jews who are all
immigrants, were horrified. As gay people, were horri-
fied at the gender violence.
In May, Trump signed an executive order allowing
clergy to endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit.
The order effectively repealed the Johnson Amendment,
which threatened the tax-exempt status of religious insti-
tutions if they appeared partisan.
While a range of Jewish groups criticized the order as
eroding the separation of church and state, Trump char-
acterized it as an expansion of freedom of religion.
Another rabbi unafraid to get political, Menachem
Creditor of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, Cal-
ifornia, sermonized about not becoming ensnared in the
now-endless stream of headlines and presidential tweets.
While he stressed that his point was not to be consumed
by any one issue, his sermon did criticize Trumps policies
on immigration and climate change.
He also spoke about the virtue of mixing religion and
politics, which has been a hallmark of his career. An out-
spoken advocate for immigrant rights and gun control,
Creditor announced recently that he would be leaving his
pulpit to become a full-time activist.
I think the posture of religion has always been within
the world, he said. Even the most devout of religious
communities all band together to vote in certain patterns,
act in certain patterns to influence the world. To abdicate
that responsibility is to become islands and ultimately self-
idolize.  JTA WIRE SERVICE
Rabbi Menachem Creditor speaks to his Congrega-
tion Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, Calif.
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Teacher of Teachers
Rita Ezor, 81, of West Orange, died September 20,
2017. Born in Newark, she lived in New York City,
Rita Eckstein owned Meadtown Card & Gift Shop were by Robert Schoems Menorah Maplewood, and Fair Lawn before moving to West
Rita Eckstein, ne Gotfried, of Fair in Kinnelon. Chapel, Paramus. Orange two years ago.
Lawn, formerly of Paterson, died Predeceased by his wife, Marilyn, Rita was the first girl to graduate from the Yeshiva
September 20. ne Sikeman, he is survived by Teri Schwartz of Newark, now known as the Joseph Kushner
Before retiring, she was a children, Amy Feldman (Paul Teri Gayle Schwartz, ne Frank, 71, Hebrew Academy. She received a degree from Jersey
bookkeeper for Passaic County Tollin) of River Vale, and Sheri of Raleigh, N.C., died September
City State College and earned most of the credits
Welfare in Paterson. She was an Feldman of Cliffside Park; and a 20. She worked for many years at
toward her masters degree from Newark State
active member of the Fair Lawn grandson, Adam Tollin. AT&T.
Teachers College now known as Kean University.
Senior Center and a former Donations can be made to the Prececeased by her husband of
Early in her career, Rita taught social studies at
member of the Fair Lawn Jewish American Diabetes Association. 45 years, Edward, and siblings,
junior high schools in New York City and Scotch
Center. Arrangements were by Louis Jerry Frank and Helen Stearns,
Prececeased by her husband, Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. she is survived by children,
Plains and supervised student teachers at Kean
Norman, she is survived by Debbie Pellegrini ( Jim) of North College. Rita then spent more than 20 years training
children, Phyllis Weinstock Fred Rosenberg Carolina and Howard (Michele) of teachers as part of a writing project, Individualized
( Jeffrey) and Susan (Karen Bingert); Fred Fritz Rosenberg, 92, of Fort Florida; a brother, Richard Frank Language Arts the Weehawken Project, created by
three grandchildren, nieces and Lee, died September 23. of Westwood; and grandchildren, her husband, Edwin. Working with teachers on U.S.
nephews. Born in Germany, he was a Emily, Courtney, Marissa, Noah, Army bases in Germany, in Bahrain, and the Virgin
Donations can be made to the World War II veteran and among and Zachary. Islands, Puerto Rico, and in most of the 50 states,
National Parkinsons Foundation. the founders of airport duty free Donations can be sent to the Rita taught thousands of educators how to teach
Arrangements were by Louis International Shoppes. Duke Cancer Center, www.gifts. writing to their students.
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn. Predeceased by a daughter, duke.edu/dci. Arrangements were She was a longtime member of Congregation Beth
Arlene DaSilva, he is survived by by Robert Schoems Menorah El, South Orange, and had been active on its school
Irving Feldman his wife of 69 years, Marianne; Chapel, Inc., Paramus. board.
Irving Feldman, 91, of Paramus, children, Joanne Halpern (Michael) Predeceased by her husband Edwin, she is survived
formerly of Paterson, died and son-in-law Orlando DaSilva, all by her daughter Martha Resnick and her son-in-law
September 19. of New York; grandchildren, Scott Rabbi Paul Resnick of Teaneck; daughter Donna
An Army World War II veteran, Halpern (Melissa), Cara Halpern, Obituaries are prepared with
Stolzer and her son-in-law Howard Stolzer of
he was awarded the New Jersey Alexandra DaSilva, and great- information provided by Basking Ridge; son Jonathan Ezor and daughter-in-
Distinguished Service Medal and grandchildren, Max and Charley funeral homes. Correcting law Stacy Ezor of West Hempstead, N.Y.; and seven
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Jewish World
Is Bernie Sanders the Democrats
new foreign policy maven?
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Bernie Sanders, a sena-
tor from Vermont, is still an Independent,
but hes no longer an outsider.
That became clear this month, when
some Democratic establishment stalwarts
in the Senate signed on to his Medicare-
for-All bill. That bill would establish a sin-
gle-payer system for health care.
Hillary Clinton is on a book tour and
Barack Obama is mostly silent, so for Dem-
ocrats, Sanders for now is the partys It Guy
battling against President Donald Trump.
The first Jewish presidential candidate
to win nominating contests in a major
party took his newfound status and ven-
tured into foreign policy last week, deliv-
ering a speech at Westminster College in
Pennsylvania on September 21. Its the
same place where Winston Churchill laid
out his vision for the West in the postwar
period. (It was a robust antagonism toward
communism largely emulated by Western
democracies in subsequent decades.)
Would Sanders have the same impact?
To see where the party may be heading,
the pro-Israel community and Democratic
insiders closely studied the speech, as well
as an expansive interview on Middle East
policy, published the next day in the Inter-
cept, in which he repeated tough criti-
cisms of decades of U.S. policy.
The tentative conclusion: The speech
was mostly rehash.
It decried the 2003 Iraq War that many
Democrats see as the precipitator of the
turmoil now besetting the world, but it
also rejected Trumps isolationism. It
didnt break new ground. Sanders listed a
litany of failed postwar U.S. military inter-
ventions in Latin America, Southeast
Asia, and the Middle East while noting
that the signature success was the Mar-
shall Plan, which used diplomacy and eco-
nomic assistance to help build a peaceful
Europe. He held up the 2015 Iran nuclear
deal reviled by Trump and Israels prime
minister as a model for engagement.
The Iran nuclear deal advanced the
security of the U.S. and its partners, and
it did this at a cost of no blood and zero
treasure, he said of the agreement, which
swaps sanctions relief for a rollback of Irans
nuclear program. What the Obama admin-
istration and our European allies were able
to do was to get an agreement that froze
and dismantled large parts of that nuclear
program, put it under the most intensive
inspections regime in history, and removed
the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon
from the list of global threats.
Tamara Cofman Wittes, a top Middle
East official in Obamas first term, said
the speech was nowhere near the radi-
cal departure that Sanders single-payer
40 JEWISH STANDARD SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
From left, Democratic leaders House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate
Minority Leader Charles Schumer, and Sen. Bernie Sanders stand at a Capitol
Hill news conference on May 25, 2017. 
bill represented attaching the Demo-
cratic Party to a Canadian- and European-
style system it has resisted embracing for
decades.
As I read the speech, the substance
of it was Barack Obamas foreign policy,
Wittes, now a senior fellow at the Brook-
ings Institutions Center for Middle East
Policy, said in an interview. I didnt hear
anything that was a big departure.
She was amazed that Sanders did not
address a topic that would be a natural
for an economic populist trade. Does
he like it or not like it, how does it fit into
the international liberal order? she asked.
For all the pomp that preceded the
speech Sanders staff and acolytes did
not miss a chance to note the Churchill
connection its tone was hesitant and the
parameters Sanders said he was setting
down were squishy and vague.
As the wealthiest and most powerful
nation on earth, we have got to help lead
the struggle to defend and expand a rules-
based international order in which law,
not might, makes right, Sanders said.
We must offer people a vision that one
day, maybe not in our lifetimes, but one
day in the future, human beings on this
planet will live in a world where interna-
tional conflicts will be resolved peacefully,
not by mass murder.
Sanders supporters in the party
acknowledged that he was not so much
breaking new ground as staking out the
traditional Democratic foreign policy val-
ues diplomatic engagement with use of
the military as a last resort in a public
arena that seems preoccupied with inter-
necine Republican warfare.
If you turn on the Sunday talk shows,
you have neoconservatives and isolation-
ists, said Ilya Sheyman, the executive
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director of MoveOn.Org, the grassroots
organization that backed Sanders in his
losing primary battle against Clinton.
Barack Obama was elected on a platform
to pursue diplomacy, but that posture has
receded as Democrats are preoccupied
with winning the next elections and with
domestic issues.
When you have the most popular
politician in America making the case for
diplomacy first, others will pay attention,
Sheyman said, referring to recent polls
ranking active politicians.
James Zogby, the Arab American Insti-
tute president who was a Sanders delegate
to the Democrats platform drafting com-
mittee last year ago, said the speech was
an opening shot.
Hes still shaping thoughts; these are
issues he will expand on, Zogby said.
Democrats have been notoriously weak
on foreign policy.
Unlike the single-player proposal, the
speech did not resonate much throughout
the Democratic establishment.
Typically strong Jewish voices in the Sen-
ate, including Charles Schumer of New
York, the minority leader, and Ben Cardin of
Maryland, the top Democrat on the Foreign
Relations Committee, declined comment
when asked for remarks on the address.
One establishment Democrat, Chris
Murphy of Connecticut, welcomed it.
Glad that my friend Senator Sanders is
joining the fight for a progressive foreign
policy, he tweeted.
In the Intercept interview published the
day after the speech, Sanders grudgingly
addressed an issue he omitted at Westmin-
ster: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The
senator said, as he had in the past, that he
favors less U.S. defense assistance to Israel,
and that the United States should be more
evenhanded in dealing with the issue.
But the Intercepts Mehdi Hassan, a
tough critic of Israel who favors Palestinian
rights, seemed intent on getting Sanders to
say that the United States is complicit in
Israels occupation, and that military aid
and arms sales were perhaps the main
obstacles to resolving the conflict.
Sanders wouldnt go that far.
Certainly the United States is complicit,
but its not to say that Israel is the only
party at fault, Sanders said. In terms of
Israeli-Palestinian relations, the United
States has got to play a much more even-
handed role. Clearly that is not the case
right now.
Hassan pressed Sanders on reducing aid
to Israel.
The U.S. funding plays a very important
role, and I would love to see people in the
Middle East sit down with the United States
government and figure out how U.S. aid can
bring people together, not just result in an
arms war in that area, Sanders said. So I
think there is extraordinary potential for the
United States to help the Palestinian people
rebuild Gaza and other areas. At the same
time demand that Israel, in their own inter-
ests in a way, work with other countries on
environmental issues.
Only then, Hassan wrote, did Sanders
answer the question about reducing aid.
So the answer is yes, the senator said.
Despite Sanders obvious reluctance,
the answer would alarm pro-Israel cen-
trists in the party, said Robert Wexler, a
former Florida congressman who cam-
paigned for Clinton.
Certainly Senator Sanders has influ-
ence at the grassroots level, and thats why
I respect his views so much, and thats why
he should be more judicious in the presen-
tation of his views, Wexler said.
Still, he was not concerned about Sand-
ers having much traction.
Lets be real, Chuck Schumer is the
Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, he
said, noting Schumers firm footing in the
centrist pro-Israel camp.
More puzzling for Wexler was Sanders
decision to deliver a key foreign policy
speech on Rosh Hashanah, when many
Jewish Democrats were unable to watch
and listen in real time.
I wish that Senator Sanders would
make as great an effort to understand the
legitimate concerns of the American Jew-
ish community as he does with other com-
munities, Wexler said of a community
that votes overwhelmingly Democratic
and that contributes much to the party in
terms of donations, volunteering and per-
sonnel. Until he does that, I dont think
hes eligible to lead the Democratic Party
on these issues.
 JTA Wire Service
 Real Estate & Business

Sukkot wines and spirits to

cool off the body or to warm up the soul

Gabriel Geller

S
ukkot this year looks more of a dilemma than will enhance the meal tremendously.
ever when it comes to menu planning and wine With so many meals and so much food, a nice way to relax
picking. while learning or before taking a nap is to drink a digestif. A
These past few weeks, we have indeed been
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digestif is a type of spirit that is customary in Europe to help
digest a meal. The world-class Slivovitz from Jelinek is well-
Gmar Tov
outside temperature. It wont be easy to decide between worthy of consideration with its hints of fresh almonds and
the chicken salad and the French roast. Especially when juicy plums. Served ice-cold, it is a classy refreshment but if
we do not even know if we will be eating outdoors in the it is chilly outside, it will also warm you up served at room
sukkah or, chas vshalom, indoors in the dining room. temperature. Last but not least, nothing is more distinguished
Thankfully, wine rejoices the heart of man (Tehilim, on yom tov than some Cognac. Either sipped on its own or
104:15). So no matter if it will be hot or cold, and whether with light snacks such as caramelized pecan or salted pea-
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satisfaction.
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Liberty Science Center
to offer giant sukkah to public
For the irst time ever, Liberty Science
Center will offer a giant sukkah for the
general public over the upcoming Suk-
kot holiday, October 3-7.
The Science Center, famous for its
hands-on exhibitions attracting thou-
sands of children and adults daily, will
feature a giant sukkah, kosher refresh-
ments, and a lulav-and-etrog stand.
The center has partnered with Chabad
House at Rutgers University and expects
more than ten thousand visitors to its
sukkah over the holiday.
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