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We love putting it together as a family, we love
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After the hurricane, relief
San Juans Chabad receives timely assistance from northern New Jersey
LARRY YUDELSON
R
abbi Mendel Zarchi and his
wife, Rachel, had prepared
hundreds of meals for Rosh
Hashanah. Their Chabad of
Puerto Rico usually hosts many tourists
in San Juan during the high holidays. But
with Hurricane Maria hitting the island
on the eve of the Rosh Hashanah, the
tourists canceled.
Instead, the Zarchis and volunteers
handed out the meals to hungry resi-
dents of San Juan as the post-storm relief
efforts began.
The Chabad building in San Juan, inau-
gurated last year, weathered the storm with
little damage. It has its own generator and
its own water cistern, so Rabbi Zarchi was
able to work on helping his neighbors.
And as the relief efforts got under way,
they received important assistance from
northern New Jersey.
For one thing, Rabbi Zarchis brother-in- every Shabbos. This is the first time in
law, Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, who is mar-
ried to Mimi Zarchi Kaplan, lives in Franklin any day this week.
Lakes, where he runs the Chabad Center of
Northwest New Jersey. After the hurricane,
he pitched in to coordinate relief efforts.
That included sending three planeloads
of supplies as well as dozens of pallets of
supplies sent by ship, Rabbi Kaplan said.
Some were to be distributed by Chabad,
Rabbi Zarchi and a Puerto Rican hurricane survivor
share a hug.
6 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 6, 2017
others by an organization called PR4PR,
which has run summer camps in underpriv-
ileged San Juan neighborhoods for 14 years.
That organization was founded by Harry
Orlinsky of Teaneck, who also was one of
the people behind the founding of Chabad
Puerto Rico 18 years ago.
Our plan is to coordinate with local reli-
gious entities, together with PR4PR, to have
them distribute the supplies from their cen-
ters, Rabbi Kaplan said.
Rabbi Kaplan also has been coordinat-
ing fundraising for the relief efforts and
maintaining Chabad Puerto Ricos web-
site. Theyre off the grid, he said. And, he
added, All the banking is down there.
The Chabad center is two blocks from
the beach, between the Hilton and the
Ritz Carlton hotels.
It is heavily attended by the tourists
who are coming through, Rabbi Kaplan
said. They offer a minyan three times
a day and usually have packed services
years that nobody has come for services
The Chabad house sustained some
damage, mostly from rain that came
through the windows. The roof of Rabbi
Zarchis house collapsed. Still, he is work-
ing on relief efforts to help others.
Chabad has a crew of volunteers who
have been trying to determine where these
people are and if they are
in fact safe, Rabbi Kaplan
said. Theyve been deliv-
ering food all over San Juan,
out to the suburbs, as far as
they can go.
One of the limitations of
the relief efforts is that there
is gas rationing. You cant
travel to the furthest sites.
People are trying to locate
family they havent heard
from, but to drive an hour
and a half to locate a person
is impossible.
As the situation in San
Juan improved early this
week, Chabad organized
an eight-person team to
venture into the more iso-
lated parts of the island,
which had not seen much
improvement.
Portable electric gen-
erators are among the
supplies Chabad has dis-
tributed, and Rabbi Zar-
chi hopes to buy and give
away more of them. Hes
hoping to raise money
Rabbi Mendel Zarchi chats with San Juan residents after distributing a bag of
relief goods.
and get donations of a few hundred gen-
erators, Rabbi Kaplan said.
If the expectation was they would be
without power for a week or two weeks or
a month even, that could be survivable, he
added. But most of the water on the island
is electrically pumped. Without electricity
there is no water, no communications. Peo-
ple are saying it will likely be six months to
be completely restored.
Mr. Orlinskys involvement with Puerto
Rico began 25 years ago. He went down with
a bunch of potential real estate investors,
but he was the only of them who decided
to invest. He had real estate holdings on the
island until three or four years ago.
From the first time he went to Puerto
Rico, he felt the lack of an Orthodox com-
munity there. I wear a yarmulke all the
time, he said. People would approach me
travelers and people living there. There
was no Jewish support. Theres a Reform
shul and a Conservative shul, but when I
reached out to them I got no response.
Then he got in touch with Chabad in
Brooklyn.
Nineteen years ago, they told me theyre
coming down, Mr. Orlinsky said. The most
amazing young couple came with a baby.
Now the family the Zarchis has grown
to include six children. During the storm,
only the youngest was with the parents. The
rest were studying in New York.
Theyve created a most amazing
environment of chesed, Mr. Orlinsky
said. Its really a great example of what
Chabad does.
Saul Scherl of Englewood worked with
Rabbi Zarchi and Mr. Orlinsky to raise the
money for the Chabad house that opened
last year. Mr. Scherls company managed
the construction.
I had a real estate company that did a lot
of work in Puerto Rico, Mr. Scherl said. I
used to go pretty much weekly. Now I prob-
ably go once a month.
Ive enjoyed doing business down there.
Its a nice place to work. The people are really
nice. Even before the storm theyve been
going through really tough economic times.
Thats been a struggle for the residents and
all the businesses.
After the storm, Its going to be a long
haul back, he said.
People are trying to get back to work. On
the construction side, they are limited by the
materials. None of the credit card machines
are working. Its been a real struggle.
Mr. Scherl has been working to raise
money for Chabads relief efforts. Ive been
reaching out to Jewish organizations and syn-
agogues, he said.
Chabad planned its building to withstand
hurricanes. The concrete structure was
designed to weather most storms.
Unfortunately, we didnt put hurricane
shutters on all the windows on the second
floor, he said. We ran out of money.
Now, It is something well definitely do.
My heart goes out to the people of
Puerto Rico, he said. The pictures are
devastating. A lot of people on the island
started with very limited resources and
were really affected by this. People lost
their homes and everything they had.
Whoever can help should help. The
pictures speak for themselves. Its heart-
wrenching. Hopefully theyll get the support
they need. Rabbi Zarchi is worried. Its hard
to watch people leave. He knows in the long
term hes going to come back and be stron-
ger, but its going to take some real effort to
get there. His ability to go out and help peo-
ple is remarkable.
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Adams Animals
Leonia rabbi, JPS editor in chief writes childrens book about Genesis I
JOANNE PALMER subscribe to PJ Library. Every Sunday morning I tell them about the portion of

R
And exactly how does he do all this? the week, and I began making up stories about the animals
abbi Barry L. Schwartz is the edi- I have a strong work ethic, he said. And in this portion, he said. That gave me the idea of writing
tor in chief and CEO of the ven- I feel very blessed to do the work. a whole cycle of stories about animals in the Torah. This
erable Jewish Publication Soci- Rabbi Schwartz was ordained at the is the one I decided to publish.
ety, the nonprofit publisher that Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Will any of the others be published too? Well see, he
produces consistently well-respected, often Religion in New York in the mid-1980s. He said.
actively invaluable translations and Torah has been in Leonia for seven years, and he Its a very simple story, meant for very young readers,
commentaries, as well as other works of Jew- has headed JPS for eight. he continued.
ish scholarship. He began his work with the publisher as a Rabbi Schwartz has been an environmentalist all
Rabbi Schwartz also is the full-time rabbi Rabbi Barry L. board member, he said, and a rarely quiet, my adult life, he said. I have done a lot of work in that
of Congregation Adas Emuno, a Reform syna- Schwartz often questioning, occasionally obstreperous regard. And this book is a celebration of the biodiversity
gogue that began in Hoboken more than a cen- board member at that. Although he did not of Gods creation.
tury ago and now, snug in Leonia, is housed in a charming think that such a persona would have endeared him to Adams Animals tells the story of creation, as told in
red-brick building with a lovely, serene, Zen-like garden in JPSs leaders, he was wrong; it led to the job offer, which the first chapter of Genesis. It focuses on Adams task
the back, always filled with the murmur of little waterfalls, he accepted with gratitude and excitement. naming the animals. The animals are presented in alpha-
occasionally home to poetry readings. But JPS is in Philadelphia. When he began his work in betical order, a menagerie of fantastical but real beasts.
Oh, and he just published a childrens book, Adams Leonia, he commuted to Philadelphia every week; the There are lions and tigers and bears; there also are aard-
Animals, with his longtime publisher, Behrman House, next year he went every month, and by now he goes just varks and bandicoots and dik-diks and xenopses and
through its new childrens imprint, Apples & Honey once a year. Most of his work is done remotely, he said, xeruses and yaks and yapoks. Theres an unappealing
Press. The book is about to be sent out to the thousands and by far more meetings happen in New York than in blobfish and a regal jaguar.
of families in North America and the United Kingdom who Philadelphia anyway. And at the end, there is a human companion for Adam,
Rabbi Schwartz loves telling stories, particularly to chil- a companion who he does not get to name, but who comes
To read more about JPS new Torah commentaries, dren, he said. Adams Animals is one of them, a story with her own name. Adam gets to meet Eve.
Rabbi Shai Helds The Heart of Torah, go to page 10.
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The Heart of Torah
Rabbi Shai Held talks about his commentaries, just published by JPS
JOANNE PALMER
A
s the editor in chief at the Jew-
ish Publication Society, Rabbi
Barry Schwartz selects the
books that the house will pub-
lish. (See story on page 8.)
Our books are mainly academic and
what we call popular academic, he said.
The term I like is accessible academic.
We are the oldest Jewish publisher in the
country, and we are best known for our
biblical translations and commentary. We
also publish Jewish history and theology.
Most of it is for adults, but we also publish
some material for teens and young adults.
We just published the first-ever bnai
mitzvah Torah commentary. But we do
serious work, and classics and Bible com-
mentary still is the core of what we do.
He knows that he cannot wait for
authors to submit unsolicited manuscripts
to him, he said. Instead, he has to be alert
to possibilities.
That led him to Rabbi Shai Held.
Rabbi Held who grew up Orthodox in
Monsey, went to the Ramaz School in Man-
hattan, earned an undergraduate degree
and eventually a doctorate in religion from
Harvard, was ordained at the Conserva-
tive Jewish Theological Seminary, and is
a founder and now the dean of the non-
denominational Mechon Hadar wrote,
emailed, and posted Torah commentary
online for two years.
As a rabbi and as a publisher, you can
imagine that I read many Torah commen-
taries, Rabbi Schwartz said. From the
first time I read them, Shais struck me
with their depth and their compassion.
So when he encountered Rabbi Held,
whom he had not known, at a Bergen
County day of study, I introduced myself
to him, Rabbi Schwartz said. I said I want
to publish them. And the rest was history.
Because it was published first online,
readers could react to it, and they did.
They sent Rabbi Held many suggestions
and citations, and he was able to include
many of them in the hard copy (albeit soft-
cover) version. (And there is a hard-cover
gift set available, and it has sold well, Rabbi
Schwartz said.)
As it turns out, there were too many
commentaries to fit into one volume, so
they have been divided chronologically
into two. The book has had a wonderful
reception, Rabbi Schwartz said.
It is both academic and very accessible.
It is no accident that we named it The Heart
of Torah. We meant that in several ways.
The Heart of Torah is a generous and
open-hearted work. Thats a conscious
choice, based on Rabbi Helds beliefs, per-
sonality, history, and experience. At some
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Rabbi Shai Held speaks at Limmud NY,
held in Princeton in February.
level, everyone decides on how to read in
light of what you consider central, but eth-
ically and theologically, Rabbi Held said.
Which means, for example, that when
talmudic sages suggest that loving your
neighbor as yourself or that humans are
created in the image of God is the greatest
principle of the Torah, they are choosing
that orientation. They are choosing love.
When the midrash says that the begin-
ning and the end of the Torah is loving-
kindness, what they are saying is that
Torah is the light of a life of lovingkindness.
I am continuing on the path that they
laid down.
Not that he wants to sugarcoat, he said.
It is important that this book also talks
about difficult texts, and that it does not
pretend to solve them. This is not apolo-
getics. For example, he said, take Ama-
lek, the great enemy of the Israelites, and
of the Jews who followed. It is one thing
to say that someone who is guilty of harm-
ing you is an enemy but it is another to
say that his great- great- grandchildren are.
I want to write about that problem, not to
let it go.
Another difficult issue he addresses is
metzorah the scaly skin disease. The
idea in the Torah that you take a person
who is suffering from illness and you are
legally obligated to isolate that person fur-
ther that bothers me.
But the book is overwhelmingly gener-
ous, loving, and open.
It is a theology of love, he said; love in
the face of doubt and despair, love that
cannot always be defended logically but
does not always have to be.
I am not sure that if I looked at the
world empirically, I would think that yes,
God is good, but I am wrestling with a
commitment to what we learn from rev-
elation, Rabbi Held said.
I think that one of the central claims of
biblical theology is that there is a God who
is concerned with love and the dignity and
well-being of human beings, he contin-
ued. There are many texts that stand in
tension with that, but I am deeply commit-
ted to the task of reading the whole canon
in light of that.
If you want to do theology in this day
and age, it is important, I think, to wres-
tle honestly with the text and your own
doubt. There are good reasons not to
believe. I think that it is totally impossible
for believers to speak with condescension
to and about nonbelievers. The world is
just too ambiguous for that.
As Rabbi Schwartz pointed out, although
The Heart of Torah is academic, it is writ-
ten in an extremely accessible way, as if
your really smart, really sweet friend were
talking to you. The accessibility wasnt
accidental, Rabbi Held said. I wanted
to write as me. I didnt want an assumed
authorial voice, the author as character. I
wanted to write in the voice of someone
who loves Torah, has his eyes open to the
world, and also always tries to be attentive
to the truth of peoples suffering.
To me, the philosophical and the pasto-
ral are always shaped and modified by the
pastoral, he continued. How does what
I say land with someone who could have
lost a spouse when they were 32? Have lost
a child? That matters a lot to me.
One of the things I have said in lec-
tures is that as Ive gotten older, Ive got-
ten much more wary of the project of
theodicy. I dont want to fall into the trap
of steamrolling over someone elses pain.
I like to believe that the God I believe in
wants it that way.
There are other, better ways of helping
someone in pain than producing clichd
explanations or solutions, he said. There
are times when it is best just to shut up. To
stop talking. Just to be there.
Rabbi Held looked back on some of the
experiences that led him to this conclu-
sion. One of my first pastoral experiences
was with a woman who was talking about
how her father was in jail for murdering
her mother, he said. I wondered what
my responsibility here was, and I realized
that it was just to make her feel heard. Not
to explain her experiences to her, but to
affirm her, to affirm her experiences, and
not to be afraid of her.
Thats the way I try to be with all
people.
Not that its always easy, he added.
When I was a Hillel rabbi when he
worked on his doctorate, Rabbi Held was
the egalitarian rabbi at Harvard Hillel
a student came to me. He had become a
baal teshuvah, and discovered that he was
a kohen. He asked me what he should do.
(He was dating a non-Jewish woman and
Orthodox halacha says that a kohen may
not marry a convert, let alone a non-Jew.)
I took the opportunity to explain to
him the divisions all over the denomina-
tional map. What different people thought
of it. What answers they had. He was exas-
perated by this conversation, and he went
upstairs to the Orthodox rabbi, who said
Just break up with her. And he did, and
he was happy.
Not everyone is happy in this ambig-
uous world that I have to live in, and I
understand that. Sometimes I wish that
I didnt have to live in it. But I have no
choice but to live in it.
Rabbi Held quoted Rabbi Yitz Green-
berg, who wrote the introduction to The
Heart of Torah and maybe here is as
good a place as any to add that the blurbs
for his book come from a wide range of
scholars, from Jon Levenson at Harvard to
Rabbi Asher Lopatin to Rabbi Aaron Pan-
ken to Tovah Hartman to Rabbi Sharon
Brous to Rabbi David Wolpe, to name just
a few of many. He said that the difference
between a theist and an atheist is not how
much but how often they doubt.
So do I believe? Sometimes I believe
totally. Sometimes I do not believe at all.
These questions matter to me, because
at the end of the day I am trying to help
people who care about these questions to
find ways to talk about them, and to wres-
tle with them in Judaically grounded ways.
Sometimes I am torn between being an
advocate and being a facilitator, he contin-
ued, a bit ruefully. That is, an advocate for
the God of love, who summons us to live
lives of love, and a facilitator for the con-
versations about what we mean when we
say God. Both those voices matter to me.
In the book, the advocate is stronger
than the facilitator, because here I am
explaining texts, he added.
Rabbi Held has been touched by the
responses his essays have evoked. Its
been moving, listening to the conversa-
tions, he said. As he continued to post
them, the range of readers continued to
expand. Ive been hearing from the entire
range of Jewish denominations, he said.
And there are a growing number of Jews
who identify as secular, and also a growing
number of Christians.
Ive had right-wing semi-charedi peo-
ple saying I read your essays, but I dont
tell my friends, he said. I feel enor-
mously grateful for that.
I do not take for granted that I can sit at
my desk and write about how I feel about a
parsha, and have people around the world
read it and react to it. That is a blessing
that I did not earn.
upcoming at Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
NEW! JCC Film Forum
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The JCCs very own JoJo adds an Asian twist to the
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Helping the uninsured
Volunteer group, driven by Jewish values, provides health care to local working poor
LOIS GOLDRICH
N
early a decade ago, when she was at Friday night
services at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, Carole
Feingold of Fair Lawn heard something that
immediately caused her to sit up straight.
Dr. Samuel Cassell of Wyckoff, a retired family internist
who had worked in Fair Lawn for many years, was speaking
from the bimah, inviting others to share his dream. His goal,
she said, was to provide primary care to low-income Bergen
County residents who are working but dont have insurance.
When I saw him at the oneg, I said he must need help and
I was interested. Youre in, he said.
Dr. Cassells dream, which culminated with the launching of
the Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative in 2009, did not spring
to life overnight. It took a lot of work behind the scenes,
Ms. Feingold said. In addition to recruiting volunteers and
securing funding, Dr. Cassell connected with the Burlington,
Vermont-based Volunteers in Medicine, learning from experts
who had dealt with the challenges of developing free clinics
at the local level.
We learned a lot from them on how to proceed, Ms. Fein-
gold said. As for the volunteers whom Dr. Cassell buttonholed,
as she put it, they came from knowledge, she said. They
were very valuable people, in fundraising, leadership, medi-
cal knowledge. Everybody sat at meetings and helped form
BVMI.
Today, the medical center housed in Hackensack, origi-
nally on Moore Street and now in a larger facility on Essex
Street has 55 clinicians who come on-site to BVMI, and a
network of over 200 referral specialists who have agreed to
see our patients in their own offices, said Samantha Poremba,
BVMIs development coordinator. We also have relationships
with all five hospitals in Bergen County, who have agreed to
see our patients.
Ms. Poremba said that in 2016, the center served nearly
1,000 patients in more than 6,200 visits. We have seen a 17
percent increase since moving to our new space and now have
almost 1,100 patients, she added. The facility is open five days
a week, she added.
Clients must show proof that they live in Bergen County,
that they are working, and that they meet income require-
ments. Ms. Feingold pointed out that the center does not
accept any insurance. If we didnt exist, our clients would
have no place to go for health care, she said. Were their only
stop health-wise.
According to BVMI requirements, clients can earn up to
300 percent of the federal poverty level. Thus, one person
can earn up to $36,180, and a family of four can earn up to
$73,800. The center does not see children because New Jersey
maintains the Childrens Health Insurance Program, or CHIP.
BVMI does not receive any government funding, is not reim-
bursed by insurance companies, and does not charge patients
for services it provides. Rather, it relies entirely on contribu-
tions from individuals, corporations, and foundations.
While people come in with a variety of medical complaints,
40 percent of BVMIs patients are pre-diabetic or have diabe-
tes, Ms. Poremba said. The facility has a diabetes care and
education program, led by diabetician Dr. Charlotte Sokol of
Paramus. The program provides care to almost 450 patients.
Except for a few medical workers and members of the office
staff, BVMI is run by a cadre of more than 100 clinical and
nonclinical volunteers, including Dr. Sokol. A retired physi-
cian, both my husband and I were looking for something to
do, she said. When she saw an article in the Jewish Standard
about Dr. Cassell and his vision for medical care, it inspired
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Dr. Charlotte Sokol with a patient, John.
If we didnt exist, our
clients would have no
place to go for health
care. Were their only
stop health-wise.
me to do it, she continued. I went to the first meeting long
before [BVMI] started. Much of the staff is made up of retired
physicians, she noted. Its very rewarding.
Dr. Sokol, who works one day a week, said that when she
began her work there, I probably didnt know, and I still dont
think we know, the extent of the need for such services. She
believes that people in our area dont know about it, because
were not busy enough. I dont think we know how many peo-
ple need us. For some reason, we have not been able to reach
them. I dont know all the reasons.
The doctor believes that the largest group of volunteer
physicians at the center is Jewish. Of course, she pointed out,
there are many non-Jewish volunteers as well. I dont know if
its the nature of our upbringing that we feel we have to serve,
she said.
Dr. Sokol works solely with diabetics, because thats what
I did before, and I prefer to do what I know best. She also sat
on the BVMI board until recently. Asked what she perceived to
be patients greatest need, she said immigration reform and
protection. This is the most abused and overused population
group. Theyre not starving, but their working conditions are
dreadful.
Her patients, she said, work long hours, many days a week,
and receive no benefits. Just making an appointment is hard
for them, and they all walk, since they have no transporta-
tion. Still, she said, despite their hard lives, their money goes
for the same things our own immigrant parents and grandpar-
ents saved for sending their kids to college.
Ms. Feingold, like Dr. Sokol, brings a good deal of experience
COURTESY BVMI
to BVMI. I was a registered nurse but had let my license lapse
so I could not work there, she said. You must have an active
license to do hands-on work. But because she spent 21 years
working for a pharmaceutical company, she had a good deal
of knowledge in that area.
The pharmacists on the volunteer planning committee dis-
cussed whether they should have a pharmacy on location at
the very beginning of the process, she reported. We all said
absolutely not. Legally, we would have to be licensed. We
decided not to go that route. Instead, she created a formu-
lary of what drugs we would be writing for. It was not good
enough to say, for example, antibiotics. Rather, they had to
be specific. It didnt come off the top of my head, she said.
I went to various pharmacies and asked their opinions. Ms.
Feingold recalls spending about 10 hours a week engaged in
that process.
Ms. Feingold, who is a longtime member of the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center and a past officer of the towns now-defunct
chapter of American Jewish Congress, said that early in her
career, when she was a new nursing school graduate, I
worked in the outpatient clinic of Barnert Hospital. I realized
that these people do not get medical care. From that point on,
I had a feeling for under-served populations. We all do, she
said of fellow volunteers. Anyone who works with us wants
to be there.
As Jews, we need to help, she continued. No one helped
us. We need to be aware of persecution. Saying, throw them
out; they dont need health care is not a way to live your life
or act as a role model for your children. Her own two chil-
dren, she said, have learned that lesson well.
Ellen Menschel of Glen Rock has been volunteering at BVMI
for just over five years. I read something in the Jewish Stan-
dard, and I also got emails from Jewish organizations describ-
ing volunteer opportunities, she said.
Ms. Menschel, a nurse, works at the Hackensack facility one
day a week. I take patients to a private room and take their
vital signs, get their current history, medications, and why
theyre there, she said. Then I report to a doctor and enter
it in the patients record. Generally, she works with a specific
doctor, but she may assist other doctors or nurse practitioners
if they are particularly busy.
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Exploring water
Flamholz family remembers Jack on Sukkot with Liquid Earth day at Teaneck Creek
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
W
hen the Holy Temples stood in Jerusalem,
the priests performed a water-drawing
ceremony every morning of Sukkot. The
celebration continued every evening,
with song and dance, as part of the nations communal
prayers for abundant rain in the coming rainy season.
The Flamholz family of Teaneck chose this water-cen-
tric ritual called Simchat Beit Hashoevah as the sym-
bolic basis for the multicultural Liquid Earth day of
water exploration at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy on
October 8, during the weeklong Sukkot holiday. (See box.)
Participants of every age, religion, and ethnicity are
invited to dance, draw, and learn about water, courtesy of
the Teaneck Creek and the Jack Flamholz Water Sustain-
ability Project.
Thanks to that project, during the last school year large
Israeli-made rain-collection barrels were installed at the
conservancy as well as at the Hawthorne Elementary
School in Teaneck and at the Flamholz home. They show
how rainwater may be collected, conserved, and used
safely for any purpose but drinking. Guided tours of those
installations, led by the Israeli inventor of the barrel sys-
tem, will be available at the end of the day.
My husband was a very proud American and Jew,
said Beverly Luchfeld, Jack Flamholzs widow. He really
Clifton Jewish Center raises funds
for Druze police officers killed in Israel
R
abbi Bob Mark and his congregants at
the Clifton Jewish Center felt that it was
important to honor Advanced Staff Sgt.
Maj. Hayil Satawi, 30, and Advanced Staff
Sgt. Maj. Kamil Shnaan, 22. They were the two Druze
police officers killed by terrorists at the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem in July.
On September 26, Israels deputy consul general,
Amir Sagie, and Police Commander Yitzchak Almog,
Israels police attach to North America, came to Clif-
ton, and Rabbi Mark presented them with the funds
the shul community had collected. A third check
went to the officer who was severely wounded in the
same attack.
Most of the officers who protect the Old City are
not Jewish, and so Rabbi Mark felt it even more
important to honor them and their sacrifice.
Eric Mark, Rabbi Marks son, read a statement from
the families. In the past year our families have suf-
fered greatly from the loss of Kamil and Hayil. They
fell while protecting Jerusalem in July 2017. It has
been a heavy and difficult loss from the beginning.
From then on we were wrapped in love and special
warmth from the many Jews in Israel and abroad,
wonderful people who have shown the world their
splendor and their glory. Israel is the Jewish national
home and we the Druze protect and will continue
to protect her. Your love and support helps us in
mourning and gives us the feeling that our sacrifices
have not been in vain. Be healthy and strong with us,
We love you! Thank you for this initiative, thank you
for thinking about us, thank you for your love. Thank
14 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 6, 2017
Amir Yechieli, left, and Jon Salamon install barrels at Teaneck Creek.
was grateful to the local community as well as the Jew-
ish community and felt he had to give back. His passion
was water sustainability. He wanted to start small with a
local school and the Teaneck Creek Conservancy, where
he volunteered and get it right, and then maybe expand
from there if others could contribute to the effort.
From left, Eric Mark, Vice Consul Amir Sagie,
Commander Yitzchak Almog, and Rabbi Bob
Mark at the Clifton Jewish Center.
 RABBI BOB MARK
you for continued Jewish Druze cooperation. To cele-
brate the Jewish New Year, I want to thank you all for
standing by our side, may all of you have a blessed
year a meaningful year, full of love and success. We
will continue to march together in the pursuit of life.
May all of you and your households be blessed.
Rabbi Mark will continue to accept donations for
the Druze families until mid-December, when he will
go to Israel to deliver them personally. Checks can be
made out to CJC Rabbis Fund; the memo line should
say Druze. No funds are deducted for expenses or
travel. Checks made out to CJC are tax deductible.
When Mr. Flamholz died in October 2016, the idea was
in its initial stages, his daughter, Eta said. We found his
notes and decided to make it happen.
Sustainability, like charity, begins at home, so lets start
with small affordable, achievable, demonstration projects
on the grounds and in the building (on it too), Mr. Flam-
holz had written in his notes to the conservancy.
Liquid Earth will open with interpretive dance and
music by the Nikki Manx Dance Studio and Englewinds
oboist Sarah Davol at the conservancys Five Pipes Mural.
Musician and storyteller Lauren Hooker will tell the his-
tory of the local Lenape with Native American flute music,
percussion, interactive sign language, and songs.
Teaneck Creek Conservancy volunteer Dr. George Res-
kakis will lead a session on the history of water use in
Teaneck and Bergen County, previewing an opportunity
to see the new barrel collection system. Children will be
invited to work with the conservancys Eco-Art Committee
to design murals for the four barrels. Afterward, a shut-
tle tour of the other locations will set out from the creek,
weather permitting.
My dad had internalized environmental and sus-
tainability issues and he wanted people to see concrete
examples to understand how logical they are, said Eta
Flamholz, who recently moved to San Francisco but was
planning to fly into New Jersey for Sukkot.
Ms. Luchfeld explained that in 2010, her husband and
their sons, Avi and Bitzy (David and Bezalel), had vis-
ited Israeli water-conservancy sites, including some of
the 123 schools at which Amir Yechieli installed his bar-
rel system to harvest rainwater for garden irrigation and
toilet-flushing.
Most barrels are flat on the bottom, so the sediment
settles and can make the water unfit for use, she said.
Whats unique about Amirs barrels is that they come to a
point at the bottom, and have a spigot at the point to drain
out sediments.
The system can operate on gravity or use pumps to bring
the harvested water to wherever it will be repurposed.
In addition to the two barrels at the conservancy,
another eight for the Hawthorne School and two for the
Flamholz backyard were shipped from Israel. Each holds
approximately 700 gallons. They are set up in pairs, so
that when one barrel is filled halfway it starts filling the
other to avoid an overflow.
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Its a way for Israel to be a role model here a
small country that should be a desert but has a sur-
plus of water today, she said. If the barrel project
takes off and there is sufficient demand, wed look
into manufacturing them here.
Mr. Flamholz, a physicist and computer scientist,
also had a strong interest in Jewish history. He had
delved into the writings of 14th century talmudic
scholar Rabbi Nissim of Gerona, whose Drashot
HaRan discussed the factors that allowed Jews to
prosper in medieval Italy and Spain. Mr. Flamholz
compared that to the Federalist Papers, looking for
similarities in the writings of the American found-
ing fathers.
Based on that interest, the Flamholz family is orga-
nizing a day of study at Manhattans Drisha Institute on
November 12, exploring how we as Jews in America
have prospered, and why there may be changes in the
wind, Ms. Luchfeld said.
That this day of study will happen in November is
not accidental. One of my husbands favorite holidays
was Thanksgiving, Ms. Luchfeld said.

Jack Flamholz stands in front of his sukkah.

What: The Jack Flamholz Water Sustainability

Project Day of Water Exploration & Celebration
Where: Teaneck Creek Conservancy, 20 Puffin
Way, Teaneck (in case of rain, it will be moved
indoors to the Puffin Cultural Forum)
When: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. October 8
How: RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/LiquidEarth
And also: Snacks will be provided and
picnickers may bring lunch. There is no sukkah
on the premises

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Girls in the fourth through sixth grades enjoy exploration in one of the afterschool programs established through STEM You Can!

Spreading the science love

Haworth student wins $36,000 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam prize
LARRY YUDELSON Kids really love the exper-

S
iments, Ms. London said. I
abina London of Haworth can thank the girls love it when kids come up
who didnt sign up for chemistry at Northern to me and say, I wish we
Valley Regional High School in Demarest for could do these experiments
the $36,000 prize she received from the Helen in school.
Diller Family Foundation this summer. T h e H awo r t h l i b r a r y
It was the dearth of girls among the Bunsen burn- helped with the program
ers that sparked Ms. Londons idea for a week-long its first year. After that, Ms.
science camp she called Girl Science Interactive for London applied for grants,
younger girls. reaching out to mayors and
She was only going into 10th grade then, in the sum- public officials. She also
mer of 2013, but that didnt stop her. started training other high
Now the camp she created has expanded into a pro- school students in how to
gram, STEM You Can!, which offers free afterschool run the program.
and summer science programs for girls entering fourth The training is all online.
through sixth grades in 45 sites in 14 states. She trains regional directors
And for her initiative, she was one of 15 teens honored for the different states, who
by the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards this year. in turn run webinars with
I knew if there was a way to get girls interested with the camp directors. They
hands-on experiments, it would boost their confidence, learn how to implement the
Ms. London said. curriculum. And she teaches
Now, at 19, a freshman at the University of Pennsylva- the regional directors how to Sabina London, inset, began formulating plans for
nia, where she is thinking of majoring in neuroscience apply for grants to keep the her Girls Science Interactive when she was in the
with a minor in engineering entrepreneurship, she looks programs free. 10th grade.
back on the camp. I spent a year developing it, she This year, there were 20
said. Finding experiments, figuring out what girls this summer camps, many in low-income neighborhoods. the camp, and convincing them they can actually do it.
age like to learn. Each camp had about 20 girls. She hopes to expand the program into classrooms.
STEM You Can!s interactive science experiments Recruiting kids isnt a problem. Once we put out the We found a teacher in Arizona requesting donations
range from balloon rockets to powering an electric clock program or reach out to schools, we get the kids pretty for materials to do experiments, she said. I mailed him
with the energy of two lemons. Topics covered included quickly, Ms. London said. Most of the work is prepar- our materials and he was able to run the experiments in
chemistry, neuroscience, and global warming. ing high school and college students to actually teach in his classroom. The kids really loved it.

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Yeshiva High School
Open House Programs
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Science participants take a snack break from

their experiments.

When I first started, I didnt realize it would The Frisch School

grow so big. Im so amazed. I remember how dif- Torah Academy of Bergen County The Henry & Esther Swieca Family Campus
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 Cover Story

The new and the old: Above, Michael Maron,

Elana Silber, and Dr. Sharyn Lewin. Below,
what hospital care used to look like.

Fighting
cancer
together
Sharsheret, Holy Name Medical Center
partner to provide holistic care

Y
Joanne Palmer
ouve probably seen pic-
tures of old hospital wards.
Those photographs usu-
ally show beds lined up on
both sides of a long room,
a patient lying in each
bed, each one covered by a white sheet,
the old photo lacking the focus to show
each patient as anything other than a blur,
indistinguishable from the one in the bed
to the right, or to the left, or across on the
other wall.
Hospitals then, as recently as a century
or so ago, when medicine still was fairly
primitive and its outcome likely to be dis-
mal, provided an assembly-line kind of
health care. State-of-the-art assumptions
then were that each patient was like the
next patient. Bodies were similar, prob-
lems were similar, solutions were similar.
Although the goal was to preserve
human life, and sometimes it did, much
about it was inherently and perhaps nec-
essarily dehumanizing.
Medical care is not like that now, but
many patients find it is dehumanizing in
a different way. Doctors and other health
care workers, laboring under the very real
need to make as much money as possible
for the massive systems for which they
work, are allotted only a finite amount of
time to spend with each patient. The elab-
orate battery of tests and machines and
procedures they have at their disposal are
extraordinary in their ability to enhance
and prolong life, but they also can dehu-
manize in their ability to get in between
the health care provider and the patient.
The need to bring back humanism, to
bring back an awareness of human emo-
tions, particularly around health care, a
subject likely to evoke fear and feelings of
shame and helplessness and at the same
time to make sure that the medical care
is high level has driven some hospitals,
some social workers, and some former

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I was pleased
to come to a
Catholic hospital
and find a
Shabbat elevator.
patients to come up with new ways to
create relationships with people who are
undergoing medical care.
Sharsheret, a Teaneck-based national
nonprofit organization, defines its core
mission as helping young Jewish women
and their families deal with every stage
of the experience of having cancer, par-
ticularly breast and ovarian cancer. (That
description, although accurate, is a bit
reductionist. Sharsheret defines young
broadly basically, to Sharsheret, young
is a self-defined category works with
people with a range of cancers, and does
not restrict itself to Jews.) Sharsheret does
not refer patients to doctors. Instead, put-
ting its name into action sharsheret
is the Hebrew word for chain it allows
the women to become links, gaining
emotional support from others who have
gone through the experience before them,
and then, if they want to, providing sup-
port to people newer than they to the chal-
lenges of cancer.
Sharsheret has worked with local hos-
pitals and other organizations since it was
founded in 2001. Now, it has entered a for-
mal partnership with Holy Name Medical
Center, another Teaneck-based nonprofit
organization, and with Dr. Sharyn Lewin,
who is the medical director of gynecologic
oncology there.
Holy Name has been working hard on
treating an entire patient rather than her
illness, and Dr. Lewin, who is both a clini-
cian and a researcher, focuses intently on
that approach. Sharsheret provides support
for the patient. Joining forces gives them all
more reach and therefore more chance to
help improve outcomes and lives.
Dr. Lewin is now on Sharsherets medi-
cal advisory board. I am very excited and
honored, she said. She plans to be an
adviser for Sharsherets medical endeav-
ors, write for its blog, be involved in speak-
ing engagements and in webinars, she
said. My role will be mainly educational.
She is particularly interested in
Sharsheret as a woman, as a Jew, and as
an oncologist who takes care of women
with ovarian cancer, she said. Also I
have a real interest in hereditary genet-
ics, so educating the community about
the importance of genetic testing has been
part and parcel of my being for a long
time. I feel that our missions Sharsher-
ets mission, that is, and her own personal
one align.
Dr. Lewin came to Holy Name in 2014;
she grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the
daughter of academics (and the grand-
daughter of a gynecologist, a very strong
and unusual woman who overcame the
constraints of her time). She trained at
Memorial Sloan-Kettering and then prac-
ticed at Columbia Universitys New York
Presbyterian Hospital.
She and her team draw patients from
Bergen County, from northern New Jer-
sey, from the tristate area, and from
around the country. Its from referrals, like one in 500 of the general population
she said. Its word of mouth about the
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At left, Dr. Sharyn Lewin
in the operating room;
below, she performs robotic
surgery, a minimally invasive
procedure that leads to a
shorter recovery time, less
discomfort, and a reduced
risk of scar tissue formation.
quality of care. Shes gotten a lot of Jew-
ish women from a group called the Echo
Institute for Health; many rabbis refer
congregants there, and Echo sends them
on to her.
She finds Holy Name culturally sensi-
tive, Dr. Lewin continued. I have a lot
of patients of a lot of faiths. A lot of them
are Jews, because of the Echo referral net-
work and because this is Teaneck. This is a
unique environment.
I was pleased to come to a Catho-
lic hospital and find a Shabbat elevator,
she added.
It is particularly important for Jews to be
aware of their risk of cancer. One in 40
Askhenazim has the BRCA mutation, she
said. (Mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2
genes, which are so tragically common
among Jews they exist in something
increase the likelihood of developing
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breast, ovarian, or related cancers; men,
like women, can get breast cancer.)
Probably, Ashkenazim are so prone
to BRCA mutations because one of the
things that saved the community and kept
it intact its resistance to outmarriage
meant that once there was a line of carri-
ers who handed it down unknowingly to
their children, and their children did the
same, it was hard to eradicate in an age of
scientific ignorance.
Even today, Ashkenazi Jews who get pre-
natal tests are not necessarily as okay as
they think they might be, Dr. Lewin said.
The misconception that young couples
have is that if they get prenatal testing and
it shows that the baby doesnt have Tay-
Sachs, theyre okay.
Those tests are only for diseases that
babies and young children get. They are
not genetic tests. They do not look for the
BRCA gene.
Those genetic tests are far more expen-
sive. They are not usually standard,
although if you are Ashkenazi and you
have a family history of cancer, they might
be, Dr. Lewin said. She urges everyone
who can to be tested.
It is one of my missions in life to help
stamp out hereditary cancers, she said.
If we identify them early, we would win
a huge war.
The tools to fight that war are primitive
now. If we can identify women with the
mutation, if we can get them tested when
they are between 25 and 30, then cancer
can be detected early and treated early.
We do not now have the technology to
remove the gene, but early detection is
so important.
Women with the BRCA mutation
should have their ovaries removed when
they are finished having children, Dr.
Lewin said. That is a huge thing. We know
that a lot of ovarian cancers start in the Fal-
lopian tubes, so if women are having their
ovaries removed, the tubes should go too.
This sounds harsh necessary, but
harsh. Another part of Dr. Lewins job is
to cushion that harshness with kindness,
gentleness, and understanding.
It is hard to choose the lifesaving option
from among a range of distasteful options,
but it is worse not to make any choices,
Dr. Lewin said. Knowledge really is
power. When you are armed with knowl-
edge, you are armed to make decisions. I
encourage people to gain knowledge and
make decisions.
If they are tested and learn that the
genes are all negative, thats great. But
if they are not, they are empowered to
make decisions, she said. Our mission
is to provide high-level, accurate medical
information to patients, to families, to the
community, while also providing all those
other aspects that make their quality of life
so high.
Thats where her mission and Sharsher-
ets dovetail. In cancer care, the medical
aspect is so important, of course, but you
also have to take care of the person and
22 Jewish Standard October 6, 2017
A patient and a nurse in Holy Names infusion center look over one of
Sharsherets kits.
the family, their financial and psychologi-
cal and social well-being, Dr. Lewin said.
Statistics show that one in three women
and one in two men will develop cancers
in their lifetimes, she said; she stressed
that that will not necessarily be a fatal
development. Still, anything that people
can do to modify that risk is huge. The obe-
sity problem is a big risk for cancer.
Almost half of all cancers can be pre-
vented by lifestyle change, she continued.
A study in one of the top peer-reviewed
journals showed that doing things like
exercising for 150 minutes a week thats
30 minutes a day by not smoking, by
limiting alcohol, by having a health body
weight just commonsense things
make a difference. It really speaks to how
important nutrition and weight manage-
ment are. So I hope that as an ambassador
for Sharsheret, I can talk not only about
hereditary genetics but also about those
lifestyle changes.
Dr. Lewin thought back to a patient,
a frum Orthodox woman who lived in
Brooklyn. She had a cancer, because of
her lifestyle, she said. I explained it to
her after the surgery, and she changed her
life, and the last time I saw her she had
dropped nearly 50 pounds. She changed
the way her whole family ate. That meant
a whole new approach to the calorically
laden Shabbat dinner.
Its not all lifestyle changes, though.
There is also the cutting-edge medicine,
the stuff that seems like magic. We are
doing a lot of really innovative things
here, Dr. Lewin said. Pretty incredible
things for a community hospital. In fact,
pretty incredible things for any hospital.
Among those things is the hot chemo-
therapy bath. Thats a new procedure,
barely six months past the approval stage,
that takes patients with ovarian or other
We will not
ever allow the
small barbs that
come with
diversity to grow
and divide us and
keep us apart.
forms of abdominal cancer, when they are
still in the operating room, their tumors
just removed, their bodies still open, their
senses still anesthetized, and then bathes
their insides with chemotherapy. Data
show that it helps delay or even prevent
cancer recurrence, Dr. Lewin said.
Then there is a brand-new procedure
that just changed the life of a 29-year-old
patient who had early-stage cervical can-
cer. Instead of a hysterectomy, she had a
radical triachelectomy, Dr. Lewin said.
We remove the cervix and the tissue
around the cervix, but then we sew the
uterus back to the womans vagina, so she
can have children. Pure magic.
We are providing all the science you
can get at Sloan Kettering, state-of-the-art
surgery and chemo, and also the incred-
ible team we have provides compassionate
personalized care.
Dr. Lewin also heads the Lewin Fund,
started by a grateful (and anonymous)
patient who willed Dr. Lewin money to
use to educate patients in the fight against
cancer. The fund, which has supported
Sharsheret, has as its mission Helping
women with cancer and their families.
The fund will present a panel discussion
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades on
November 12. (See the box on page 25 for
more information.)
Holy Name Medical Center is a Catholic
institution with deep roots in the north
Jersey community and an equally deep
commitment to supporting the diversity
that flourishes in north Jersey. The seam-
less way it integrates its ideals is on view
this time of year in the serene garden that
the hospitals main building encloses. On
a recent visit, the early autumn light, all
honey gold and green, made the garden
glow. A statue of its patron saint, St. Joseph,
stands near one wall. Off another wall, the
hospital sukkah welcomes visitors.
There are some misconceptions about
Holy Name that hed like to address and
deflate, its president and CEO, Michael
Maron, said.
First, the misconception that because
we are a Catholic-sponsored organization,
that would affect the experience of being
a patient, he said. Can I be comfortable
at Holy Name? Will Holy Name respect
my values and my faith, or will it look at
me askance?
But that is far from the truth. That is
not how we define our Catholic identity.
So when we can partner with a highly
respected Jewish organization as we rede-
fine the scope of health care, we want not
just to partner but to embrace them.
We want people to know that there is
far more that unites us than divides us.
And right now that is a particularly impor-
tant message. We will not ever allow the
small barbs that come with diversity to
grow and divide us and keep us apart.
Whats the other misconception? If I
have cancer, that I need to be at a large
academic medical center, Mr. Maron
said. From our perspective, treating the
whole person, which means understand-
ing the whole person, is a critical com-
ponent of care. We do not believe that
women who need cancer care should
ever confine that to the acute episode. It
is instead a lifelong relationship.
Holy Name is a proudly local institu-
tion. Mr. Maron is proudly local as well.
The hospital was founded in 1925 at the
impetus of two local doctors who decided
that the Teaneck area needed its own hos-
pital. They reached out to the sisters of
St. Joseph of Peace, which is a canonical
religious body recognized by the Vatican
as being official representatives of the
Catholic church. It, too, is a local group;
its headquarters are in Englewood Cliffs.
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When Holy Name was founded, the sisters
became its nurses and administrators.
One of the first things that the sisters
did after we opened was to realize that
they needed to open a school for nurses,
Mr. Maron said. The Holy Name School of
Nursing is still here on campus. It gradu-
ates about 70 nurses a year. Its students
were first-generation Americans, and that
legacy lives on. Today, a lot of second-
career people come to us. We can train
them in a two-year program, and they
spend a lot more time doing clinical work
at patients bedsides instead of didacti-
cally, in the classroom. And the schools
performance is nothing but exemplary.
At its heart,
Sharsheret
gives women
the chance to
them in Jewish day schools and tailoring
an education specifically for each child.
If you dont look beyond the handicap,
the physical, the superficial, and see that
there is a person in there, and the person
is screaming Look at me. Dont define me
by what you see outside. Define me by
whats inside. If you dont take the time to
see me, my purpose in life will be limited.
To me, that is the message also when you
look at a patient, a woman who is fighting
cancer or is beating cancer.
It is our job to help them find the
strength. Some of those children have
incredible ability, and it just has to
be found.
That is why we embrace Sharsheret
and the Sinai Schools. We hope that this
will be the seed that will bring other orga-
nizations to knock on our door and ask,
How can we work with you?
That is why we are here. We cant not
look beyond the obvious. We cant not
see the humanity. If we succumb to the This piece of art, created by a Sinai Schools student, is part of a collage in
business of health care, if we ignore the
humanity and the humanism in health
Michael Marons office. It expresses Holy Names ethos perfectly, Mr. Maron said.

talk to other
women who
have had similar
experiences.
That focus on the patient on the whole
patient is in the hospitals DNA.
We get no funding from the church,
Mr. Maron said. As a faith-based organiza-
tion, our drive is to care for the entire indi-
vidual the spiritual and the emotional as
well as the physical and just like our can-
cer specialists, we want to go beyond. We
want to help people reconnect.
When you are diagnosed, you realize
that you are part of something else, and
that realization unequivocally, absolutely
accelerates the healing process. If you
understand where people come from,
and respect it, if you help people under-
stand that their lives have a purpose that
all lives have a purpose that can start a
whole host of physical changes. People get
healthier because strength comes from
the realization.
It is important to look beyond the obvi-
ous, Mr. Maron continued. Holy Name
works closely with the Sinai Schools, a Ber-
gen County-based organization that edu-
cates children with special needs, housing
care, then we have lost our way. Then we
shouldnt be here. We at Holy Name are
strong, and it is our job to keep us strong,
so we can continue to be the beacon of
light that the founders of all faiths call us
to be. We are part of something far big-
ger and more important than any of us
are individually.
Mr. Marons passion about his hospitals
calling has grown organically, and surpris-
ingly. His connection to it, and to north-
ern New Jersey, is lifelong. He was born in
Holy Name and grew up in Oradell; he still
lives there, in a house around the corner
from where I grew up, he said. In high
school, I would have been voted most
likely to have gone somewhere else yet
here I am.
Its been Holy Name that kept him here.
I have been at Holy Name for 30 years,
he said; although certainly that is not news
to him, he seems astonished by it. It wasnt
supposed to be that way. Hospital leaders
never stay around that long. And they
arent expected to feel as deeply about it
as he does.
My background is in finance, he said.
I have an MBA from Columbia, and I
came up through the financial ranks. I am
supposed to be the business guy.
But my time at Holy Name, the people I
have been exposed to and many of them
are prominent in the Jewish community
have instilled in me the sense of faith and
purpose, and the understanding that those
of us who have the ability to lead also have
the responsibility to fulfill that purpose.
I was awakened, he continued.
It was, among many others, Rabbi Yis-
rael Rothwachs and Sam Fishman and the
leaders of the Sinai School; Angelica Ber- size. Researchers at big places often can
rie of the Berrie Foundation, and Drs. San-
dra and Arnold Gold of the Gold Founda-
tion for Humanism in Medicine who have
inspired him, he said.
This is a special place, he said. The zations like this one.
staff is committed to help not for business
but for compassion, for empathy for their
fellow man. When you turn the lights off
and go home at the end of the day, there is
a sense of satisfaction that you have made
a difference in peoples lives. That is more
important than a pay check or the bottom
line. Thats true, and it matters.
Thats why Holy Name remains indepen-
dent, he added. It has not merged with any
place else.
And it also attracts world-class doctors,
he said; their roster is filled with people
who logically should be somewhere else.
Somewhere bigger. Somewhere more
on the radar. But they chose Holy Name.
They are world-class physicians, who
could practice anywhere, but they have
chosen to be here, he said. That is
because they absolutely connect with the
sense of purpose. And its also because
we have created an efficient and creative
and friendly place for them to practice
their trade.
We have a division of clinical research,
and that is not common in a hospital of this
get frustrated by the bureaucracy and the
slowness of large academic centers where
research is thought to reside so they often
look for more nimble, responsive organi-
We want people to judge us not by our
size but by our talent.
You realize that there are seeds of light
that need to be nourished, and that even
now, in these dark times, there is that
light, Mr. Maron said. I am a firm believer
that no matter how dark it gets, at the end
of the day the light always will prevail.
Elana Silber is Sharsherets executive
director. Sharsheret is all about enhanc-
ing the patients experience, she said.
We address the psychosocial problems
they struggle with. We give women an
opportunity to share their experiences
with other women.
At its heart, Sharsheret gives women the
chance to talk to other women who have
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say, and youve been diagnosed with breast cancer. Talk
to someone else your age! But its not that simple.
Sharsheret has a huge and growing database that
allows it to link women with a much greater degree
of specificity. Each patient is different; each diagno-
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and strategies can be tailored with great sophistication.
Sharsheret is unique in that we have a national peer
support network with more than 8,000 people, Ms. Sil-
ber said. Medicine today is so individualized that it is
hard to find two women with exactly the same diagno-
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find women of similar backgrounds and experiences
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cancer, or a BRCA mutation, Sharsheret has a program
for you. If you are newly diagnosed, or if you are a survi-
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It does not help only the women who are diagnosed
with cancer, but has programs aimed at her family
husband, children, parents as well.
Among its programs are the kits it sends; physical
objects, things that can help women and their families.
Those kits are tailored for the recipients women with
children, say, not only get toys for their children, but get
toys that are aimed exactly at children their childrens
ages. Sometimes people need advice Sharsheret also
provides advice on such upsetting but absolutely neces-
sary topics as financial planning for illness but some-
times they need things. Sharsheret sends makeup and
skin-care items too. It helps with wigs, as well as the
emotional problems that come with chemotherapys
often devastating effects on both hair and self-image.
Everything in Sharsheret is customized, Ms. Sil-
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Sharsheret respects confidentiality, she contin-
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Sharsheret is open to everyone. Its
expertise is with the cancers that are most
common in Jewish women, and with the
particular challenges imposed by obser-
vant Jewish life, but it is open to anyone it
can help. Fifteen percent of the women
we serve do not identify as Jews, but they
turn to us because they love the one-on-
one support we give, she said. And the
other reason young women who are not
Jewish come to us is genetics. If they are
dealing with a hereditary cancer, they
recognize our expertise.
Sharsheret does not recommend
doctors or treatments, but it can steer
women toward organizations that make
referrals, and the more its counselors
know about treatments, the more they
understand their clients.
The groups expertise has not gone
unnoticed; We do work with the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Preven-
tion, and we are on the federal advisory
committee on breast cancer in young
women, Ms. Silber said.
She is excited about the partnership
with Holy Name. Dr. Lewin is a great
asset, she said. We have worked with
Sharyn before, but now shes on our
medical advisory board, Ms. Silber said.
We do very different things than doctors
do, and the collaboration works toward
a more holistic approach to the patient.
The collaboration will provide Holy
Name patients with more opportunities
to participate in Sharsheret, she contin-
ued. They will learn about the peer sup-
port network. They will learn about the
kits. And if they order a kit, that might
also open up a conversation about, say,
how to talk to a child in middle school.
We will also share information on the
blog. We will share and like each others
posts on social media. All of those tech-
niques will use Holy Names reach to
extend Sharsherets as well. Doctors should
We partner with other hospitals, but
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Orthodox (12 percent), Liberal Mod-
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Although Nishma Research, the Jewish
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Modern Orthodoxy, the term tends to
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ish day schools, and make incomes well
above the national average.
Here are five key takeaways from
the survey.
More than 90 percent
keep kosher and Shabbat.
Unsurprisingly, Modern Orthodox Jews
observe Jewish ritual at high rates. More
than 90 percent observe the sometimes
Byzantine rules of kashrut and Shab-
bat, with nearly two-thirds saying they
observe both strictly. Nearly three-quar-
ters of men put on tefillin all or most
days, and four-fifths of married couples
observe the Jewish laws surrounding
Nearly all men, and most women,
attend synagogue almost every Saturday
morning. Moreover, the study found that
40 percent of respondents became more
observant over the past decade, while
only 23 percent became less observant.
Modern Orthodox Jews also have the
traditionalist beliefs to match their prac-
tices. Ninety percent either believe fully
or tend to believe that God created the
world, and more than three-quarters
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Large majorities also believe God wrote
the Torah and the Jewish oral law, an
expansive set of rabbinic writings and
dictates that includes the Talmud.
But adherence to traditionalist beliefs
and observance decline on the liberal
side of the spectrum. Only 58 percent
of open Orthodox respondents believe
God wrote the Torah, and less than
half of open Orthodox men regularly
put on tefillin. And theres a widen-
ing gulf between the left and right: The
study found that open and liberal Mod-
ern Orthodox Jews tended to become
less observant over the past decade,
while centrists and those on the right
increased their observance.
They make almost
three times the median
U.S. household income.
Modern Orthodox Jews are affluent. The
study found that the group had a median
household income of $158,000, nearly
triple the American median of $59,000
in 2016. The highest earning were the
open Orthodox, at $185,000.
A large portion of that income is dedi-
cated to day school tuition, which in
some places can top $40,000 per child
per year. The survey found that 83 per-
cent of Modern Orthodox parents send
their kids to Orthodox day school; 90
percent of respondents called the cost
of tuition a serious problem.
The group also is highly educated.
More than 90 percent attained a bach-
elors degree, and more than 60 percent
have a postgraduate or professional
degree. And nearly one-fifth attended
Yeshiva University, the flagship aca-
demic institution of Modern Orthodoxy.
And while Orthodox Jews may have
gotten a reputation recently for politi-
cal conservatism another study found
a majority supports President Donald
Trump this study found that Modern
Orthodox Jews are almost evenly split, 52
to 48, between Republican and Democrat.
The vast majority of non-Orthodox Ameri-
can Jews, by contrast, vote for Democrats.
Seventy-one percent of all Jews voted for
Hillary Clinton last year; the Orthodox
community leaned toward Trump.
Most want an expanded role
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support some type of title signifying a womans rab-
binic authority.
Most support admitting
gay synagogue members.
The survey did not ask about attitudes regarding
same-sex marriage or other LGBT issues. But it did
note growing acceptance of gay people in the Modern
Orthodox world. Fifty-eight percent of respondents
supported synagogues accepting gay people as mem-
bers, with 12 percent opposed and the rest unsure.
One-third of respondents said their attitudes toward
sexuality have changed in recent years. An open-
ended follow-up question found that a plurality cited
increasing acceptance of gay people and more open-
ness in general.
Fifty-eight
percent of
respondents
supported
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and the
rest unsure.
Young Modern Orthodox
Jews are less attached
to Israel than are their elders.
Modern Orthodox Jews form the core of the religious
Zionist settlement movement in Israel, and their coun-
terparts in the United States tend to have right-wing
views on Israel. But the younger generation in the
U.S. is less committed to the Jewish state, according
to the survey.
Overall, more than three-quarters of respondents
strongly support a unified Jerusalem (presumably
under Israeli control) and a majority strongly sup-
ports West Bank settlement building. Only 17 percent
strongly support even considering a negotiated two-
state solution, which under most models would entail
a withdrawal from much of the West Bank. By con-
trast, the Pew study of American Jews found that only
17 percent overall feel settlements help Israels secu-
rity, and 60 percent are optimistic about the chances
for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
But on the Modern Orthodox front, this study found
that younger Modern Orthodox Jews are less attached
to Israel than their parents. While 87 percent of those
over 55 say their emotional connection to Israel is
very important, the number drops to 65 percent for
those aged 18 to 34. In the younger group, only 43 per-
cent feel its important to be personally active in sup-
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In the wake of the shooting Sunday night
in Las Vegas that left at least 58 people
dead, a rabbi from Westfield has used a
Jewish poem as a vehicle to argue against
gun violence.
Everyone who was in shul on the
High Holy Days most likely said, read,
or otherwise encountered the Uneta-
nah Tokef, which describes how, at the
beginning of each Jewish new tear, God
decides who will live and who will die.
On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed/
And on Yom Kippur it is sealed/ How
many shall pass away and how many
BRIEFS
Israeli official makes private trip to Cuba
Israels Minister of Culture and Sport,
Miri Regev, has embarked on a private
visit to Cuba, Haaretz reported.
Regevs visit to the country, which has
no diplomatic ties with Israel, marks the
first such visit by a sitting Israeli minis-
ter to Havana since 1973, according to
senior Israeli officials.
The minister had no official meetings
scheduled during her stay, and the Israeli
cabinet secretariat was notified of the trip
ahead of time in accordance with official
procedure, Regevs office said. Yet Isra-
els Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu were reportedly not
informed about the trip.
While the communist regime of Fidel
PA prime minister visits Gaza
to initiate power transfer from Hamas
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister
Rami Hamdallah arrived in the Gaza Strip
Monday for the first time since 2014, as
the PA and its rival, the Gaza-ruling terror
group Hamas, initiated the first steps in
forming a unity government.
Hamdallahs visit is intended as the
first symbolic move toward transferring
custodianship of the coastal territory
from Hamas to the PA.
Upon arrival, Hamdallah and his
30-vehicle motorcade were greeted by
Hamas members as well as members of
the PAs ruling party, Fatah. A crowd of
2,000 people gathered to hear the high-
ranking PA official deliver an address.
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shall be born/ Who shall live and who
shall die/ Who shall reach the end of his
days and who shall not/ Who shall per-
ish by water and who by fire, reads the
most recognizable part of the poem,
which goes on to list different ways peo-
ple can die.
The version by Rabbi Douglas Sagal
of Temple Emanu-El, a large Reform
synagogue, substitutes gun models and
makes for the causes of death: who
by full automatic fire, and who by semi
auto; who by AR, and who by AK; who
by pistol and who by revolver.
Castro initially had a warm relation-
ship with Israel shortly after the Cuban
Revolution in 1959, Cuba unilaterally
cut ties with the Jewish state in 1973 as
Castro sought to increase relations with
third-world countries in the Non-Aligned
Movement, including Arab nations
opposed to Israels existence.
Cubas harsh stance on Israel in inter-
national forums, its ties with Iran and
Venezuela, and the U.S. embargo on
Cuba also led to the deterioration of the
Cuban-Israeli diplomatic relationship.
Nevertheless, Israelis often visit Cuba
and have contact with the countrys
small Jewish community.
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The only way to statehood is through
unity, Hamdallah said. We are coming
to Gaza again to deepen the reconcilia-
tion and end the split.
The government began to exercise its
roles in Gaza from today, he said, prais-
ing Hamas for agreeing to hand over gov-
ernance of the territory to the PA, and
lauding Egypt for mediating the recon-
ciliation deal.
The latest move toward Palestinian
reconciliation comes after months of eco-
nomic and political pressure applied by
the PA against Hamas, including the PAs
decision to significantly cut its subsidiza-
tion of Gazas electricity bill.  JNS.ORG
But unlike the Unetanah Tokef, in which
the reader is comforted to know that repen-
tance, prayer and righteousness avert the
severe decree, Sagal ends by saying that
those actions will do absolutely nothing to
avert the decree, nothing, for our politicians
are too frightened.
This is what Rabbi Sagal tweeted:
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who shall be scarred for life, and who shall be
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who by AR, and who by AK;
who by pistol and who by revolver;
who by Ruger, and who by Smith and Wesson;
who by Sig Sauer, and who by Colt;
who by Kimber, and who by Springfield
Armory;
Who by CZ, and who by Beretta;
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But repentance, prayer and charity, will
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nothing,
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American university meets in eastern Jerusalem with Pal-
estinian students on the campus of Al-Quds University,
named for Jerusalem, the city Palestinians hope will one
day be their capital.
Its the kind of encounter that once might have sent
Sheldon Adelson and other right-wing pro-Israel givers
into a tizzy. But now its the casino magnate and philan-
thropist who is funding the meeting.
Two years ago, when he launched the Maccabee Task
Force to fight the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
movement against Israel on campus, mainstream pro-
Israel student groups were wary of Adelsons reputation
as a hardline right-winger. Now the organization is quietly
making inroads among progressives on campuses that
have been the focus of anti-Israel activity.
Moreover, the group, helmed by David Brog, who main-
tains an executive role at Christians United for Israel, is
working with Hillel, one of the establishment groups that
initially held Adelson and his initiative at arms length.
We are very grateful for the really impactful activi-
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political and cultural viewpoints.
That impression is the opposite of what observers took
away from the rollout of Adelsons initiative two years ago.
At a weekend retreat held in June 2015 in Las Vegas, Adel-
sons home base, presenters lined up to prove they had
the best plan for spending the magnates money.
Most of the presenters were on the right. They included
the Clarion Project, a secretive group dinged in the past
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community about Israels people, culture and history,
said Hillels spokesman, Matthew Berger. With their
support, our students are able to create the programs
they feel will have a real impact on campus.
Not everyone is convinced.
Catie Stewart, the deputy director of J Street U, says
her organization is still non grata: Maccabee Task Force
wont have anything to do with the campus adjunct of
the national liberal Middle East policy group, which
emphasizes the two-state solution, supported the Iran
nuclear deal, and often criticizes the Israeli government.
Adelson reviles the groups and has made that clear.
Our students would attend Maccabee Task Force
meetings, and [MTF officials] would tell the students,
OK you guys, you can do whatever you want to do! And
we would say Great! and they would say, Not you, you
cant do what you want to do, she recalled.
Stewart said the task force was immediately alien-
ating some of the most committed pro-Israel stu-
dents on campus.
It was a classic example of taking a step back,
she said. (Hillel continues to work with J Street U on
most campuses.)
Ariana Jahiel, a student at Macalester College in St.
Paul, Minnesota, who is active with the Jewish anti-occu-
pation group IfNotNow, said the anti-boycott thrust of
the Maccabee Task Force is beside the point for Jew-
ish students living with the specter of renewed white
supremacism. She noted the proliferation of expres-
sions of support for white supremacists since the elec-
tion of President Donald Trump, whom Adelson backed.
Last week, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur, there were swastikas found on my campus,
Jahiel said. My immediate thought was that the
people putting these up were not progressive stu-
dents but white nationalists. If Sheldon Adelson and
the Jewish establishment really cared about Jewish
students, they would be fighting swastikas, not BDS.
Instead, they are cozying up with the Trump admin-
istration and its continued support of Israel.
Brog, meanwhile, suggests that some on the far left
are trying in turn to connect Israel to white supremacy
as a way to justify their own pet hatred of Zionism.
The campus left is now laser-focused on claims of
white supremacy, police brutality and anti-immigrant
racism so Israels campus detractors are changing
their rhetoric, updating their slogans and aggressively
inserting themselves into every new protest, he told
JNS.org last month.
The groups modus operandi now is to send a team
of Maccabee Task Force advisers to a campus at the
beginning of the academic year. The team, usually two
people, offers its own ideas, solicits ideas and suggests
tweaks but no major changes and figures out fund-
ing. Funding per campus, according to a task force offi-
cial, is in the low six figures per academic year.
Students bring in speakers and organize on-campus
Israel weeks. They usually are timed for Israels Inde-
pendence Day, which usually falls in May. But by far the
most successful initiative, participants say, are Israel
trips for campus leaders. The only criteria Macabee Task
Force sets is that the participants are leaders in a cam-
pus group and in their junior year or earlier, allowing
the student time to counter anti-Israel activity.
Hillels organize two to three trips a year, each with
20 to 25 students. Staff from the Hillel, often including
a Jewish Agency Israel Fellow, the program that sends
post-army young Israelis to Hillels throughout the
United States, accompany them.
It was enriching because it was not a brainwashing
experience, Sarna said of the three tours that students
on his campus did last academic year. Many people
Jewish World
were social justice oriented working for minority causes,
womens rights.
The tours organized by the campus Hillel and the
task force, lasting 10 to 11 days, include stops at Pal-
estinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah and
a meeting with a PA official. Also on some itinerar-
ies are meetings with African refugees in Israel a
Wishing
touchy subject there, with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahus government facing accusa- all of Klall
tions of cruel and discriminatory treatment.
The purpose was to show them a lot of narratives on
the Israeli-Palestinian narrative as opposed to campus,
Yisroel a
where everything is very one-sided, very sound bite,
said Noa Shemer, a Jewish Agency Israel Fellow who
until recently was assigned to the San Jose campus.
Lipaz Ela, until recently the Jewish Agency Israel Fel-
low at UCLA, helped organize the trip that included the
encounter on the Abu Dis campus of Al-Quds University.
She said many of the meetings are open-ended. Neither
Hillel nor the Maccabee Task Force necessarily knew
what interlocutors were going to say.
You dont know where they are coming from, she
said of the Israelis and Palestinians they meet. Some-
times Palestinians supported one-state solution, two-
state solution, no state solution.
To be sure, the itineraries are Israel-heavy, and
students are bound to come away more besotted
with Masada sunrises, Tel Avivs cafe society, and the
nations embrace of the LGBTQ culture than they are
with a critical outlook. And thats still the point: get-
ting across the pro-Israel narrative, Brog said in a more
recent interview.
Israel, as imperfect as it may be, agree with Netan-
yahu or not the story of Israel is compelling, he said.
Ela said an important component of the program is
creating a mix of students, including known on-campus
critics of Israel as well as Israel supporters, in order to
keep the arguments going throughout the trip.
We created a dynamic to have open emotional con-
versations, to bring that back to campus, he said. (Hil-
lels guidelines do not allow joint programming with
groups that back BDS, but do not proscribe participa- Traditional. Modern. Contemporary.
tion in Hillel programming by individuals who back the
boycott movement. Its not clear if any of the task force
tour participants backed BDS.)
Response on the San Jose campus, Hillels Bronstein
said, is such that there are four times as many students
who apply for the trips as there are spots. She has insti-
tuted an essay question to winnow the applicants not
to assess bias for or against Israel but to see how passion-
ate they are about the subject, whatever their opinions.
Its based on how much effort they put into the
assignment, not so much what they wrote about, she
said. We want people who are in the middle of the con-
flict, but people who are insightful and critical.
Retention is strong, the Hillel directors said.
Conversations on campus change, many of the
students who went on the trip keep coming for Shab-
bat dinners, Bronstein said. One of the students is
vice president of the student government. If a BDS
resolution came up today, she would not be rushing
in to vote for it.
Stewart said the effect of the Maccabee Task
Forces programs on progressive students would
be shallow, lacking in the long-term specialized alli-
ances J Street U aims for.
Progressive students care about Israels future as
a democratic state, anti-democratic trends in Israel
and the United States, two states and two peoples,
she said. If you try to pretend you care about those
things and create a narrative out of nothing, you wont
get anywhere. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Jewish World
This Torah study tool is everywhere
but you may have never heard of it
Andrew Silow-Carroll
O
ne of these days, maybe before
Simchat Torah, you are going to
attend a Jewish studies class. Or
not. But lets say you do.
Youll sit in a classroom, or a lounge, or in
the front row of a synagogue. There will be
a teacher, and he or she will pass around a
stapled packet of papers maybe two sheets,
maybe five with various biblical verses, tal-
mudic excerpts, examples of Jewish law, and
perhaps a snippet of a contemporary essay or
a quote from Martin Buber or Hannah Arendt.
I want to talk about these sheets, why they
may be uniquely Jewish, and why they may
be the most important and ubiquitous exam-
ple of Jewish educational technology that you
probably take for granted or never heard of.
The packets are known as source sheets,
and theyve been with us since ... well, at least
since the widespread use of the mimeograph
machine in the 1950s. Before that, rabbis or
teachers might quote from a pile of Jewish
books they kept in front of them, and perhaps
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refer students to a similar pile on their desks.
But once teachers could cheaply copy frag-
ments of Jewish text, and cut and paste them
in any order they wished, the source sheet
became a tool for flexibility, convenience,
and ingenuity in the Jewish classroom. And
their current dominance is an example of how
technology transformed tradition and con-
tinues to do so in the digital age.
When you are weaving together different
threads from different texts composed dur-
ing vastly different times and places, the best
way is to pull excerpts from different texts,
said Sara Wolkenfeld, director of education
at Sefaria.org. There is an art form to it. The
way you pull and combine helps express the
story you want to tell in the class you are
teaching.
Sefaria, a nimble online database of Jew-
ish texts in both their original language and
in translation, is rapidly becoming the red-hot
center of the source sheet universe, which
I assure you is a thing. Since Sefaria was
founded in 2013, more than 12,000 people
have made some 74,000 source sheets using
Young leaders study Torah from source sheets at a Hillel International
convention.
the sites handy source sheet builder. Of
those, 7,200 of their creations are avail-
able online. (Disclosure: Daniel Septimus,
one of Sefarias founders, sits on the board
of 70 Faces Media, JTAs parent company.)
And the range of subjects is testament
not only to the depth of the Jewish canon
but to the breadth of Jewish obsessions.
There are sheets for lessons on sex, death,
love, money, family strife and sibling
rivalry, and Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton. For Simchat Torah, which begins
this year on the evening of October 12,
theres a sheet on the rules about women
dancing with a Torah scroll. Theres even
a sheet about whether or not Jews should
take part in Halloween.
Other sites share their source sheets
online. The Shamayim VAretz Institute
posts sheets on animal welfare. American
Jewish World Service offers material on
social action. The Orthodox NCSY youth
group has sheets on a range of topics.
Rabbi Dan Epstein, the senior Jewish
educator at the George Washington Uni-
versity Hillel, refers to creating a source
sheet as an art form. Epstein should know:
Hes shared nearly 100 source sheets on
Sefaria, and theyve been viewed collec-
tively more than 72,000 times.
To teach a lesson on Jewish views on the
afterlife, for example, he might include
verses from the Bible; talmudic passages
known as Mishna or Gemara; perspectives
from the medieval sages Maimonides and
Saadia Gaon about the soul and reincarna-
tion; and a teshuvah, or rabbinical ruling,
from the 20th-century Modern Orthodox
authority Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. These
would form the basis for a guided class-
room discussion, perhaps after the stu-
dent had a chance to review the material
and a few key questions in chavruta that
is, in pairs or small groups a staple of
yeshiva education going back centuries.
Hillel International
Epstein might not get to every text in a
lesson, but thats OK.
The lesson is like a concert and the
source sheet is more like a set list, he
explained. Youll get to it, but maybe
youll cancel some songs or just play a few
of the longer songs.
The key, he said, is knowing your
audience the languages they under-
stand, their level of knowledge, and their
interests.
You need to make the student feel con-
nected and touch the head and the heart
and the hand, Epstein said. And not just
teach them new info, but teach them to
do something. Thats what I based my les-
sons around.
Rabbis and teachers had always done
this kind of layered Jewish teaching, build-
ing an argument or lesson out of centuries
of Jewish writing on a topic the way a geol-
ogist describes a mountain by pointing to
the layers of rock beneath the surface.
But the source sheet revolutionized Jew-
ish learning by making sure every student
was literally on the same page.
Many educators credit Nechama Lei-
bowitz, a legendary Israeli teacher, with
popularizing and democratizing Torah
study in Israel with the distribution of her
mimeographed work sheets, or gilyonot.
Sent to subscribers by mail between 1941
and 1971 (and later collected between hard
covers), Leibowitzs work sheets offered
Torah verses and rabbinic commentary,
and questions quizzing students on the
connections between them.
Leibowitz, who was teaching nearly
up to the moment she died in 1997 at 92,
would comment on the students answers
and mail them back.
Barry Holtz, the Theodore and Flor-
ence Baumritter Professor of Jewish Edu-
cation at the Jewish Theological Seminary,
remembers learning Torah from original
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texts and all-Hebrew textbooks in the 1950s
at Congregation Kehillath Israel in Brook-
line, Massachusetts. But the assistant rabbi
there, Joseph Lukinsky, introduced new
ways to teach his Hebrew school classes.
He was an incredibly creative young
rabbi, maybe ahead of the curve, Holtz
recalled. He must have been one of the first
people to introduce a tikkun leyl Shavuot
an all-night study session on the spring holi-
day of Shavuot outside of the Orthodox
world, in 1962, just for the teenagers.
Its weird that I can remember this, but
he had created a packet I suspect is some-
place in a closet in my house, with texts
that we studied all night long, and the title
was Gods Jews have known, and Jews God
has known. It was so radical and amazing
and interesting at the time.
Lukinsky became a revered professor of
education at JTS; he died in 2009 at 78.
Source sheets have spread to all the
Jewish movements, and to classrooms
where the often esoteric talmudic texts
and medieval commentaries may be
daunting or unfamiliar.
I am a lover of rabbinic text par-
ticularly in the Reform movement that
often finds it less accessible, said Rabbi
Sari Laufer, director of congregational
engagement at the Stephen Wise Temple in
Los Angeles. People arent as familiar [with
Talmud or rabbinic text] or feel that it is not
ours in some way. I am very committed to
using and unlocking a lot of rabbinic text.
A prolific poster to Sefaria, Laufer has
created source sheets on work-life bal-
ance, the theology of food and seduction,
and the imagery of darkness in Jewish
thought, among many others.
Working though the multiple layers of
Jewish learning, she said, grounds us in
an entire history a great reminder that
questions we think of as modern are ques-
tions people have been asking for thou-
sands of years with incredible insight.
And sometimes a list of sources can be
a powerful tool for conversation and
even change.
Abby Stein, a transgender activist and
teacher who grew up in a prominent cha-
sidic family in the Williamsburg section of
Brooklyn, uses a source sheet in classes she
teaches on Judaism and gender. The sheet,
titled Changing the Conversation: Jewish-
Gender IS Queer ... and Feminist, is available
on Sefaria and linked to her Facebook page.
After everything I had done to enrage
the chasidic community, the most nega-
tive, most hate I ever got was for that
Torah sheet not media, not transition-
ing, but for publishing that source sheet,
Stein recalled. It threatens them the most
because it is using their own text.
Usually they are very dismissive. Here
when I show them a text from a chasidic
rabbi saying a man [can be] in the wrong
body, or from Zohar saying an ideal per-
son has to balance femininity and mascu-
linity at all times, or a wife cant have kids
because she is a male, they cant just dis-
miss it as BS.
Sefaria is trying to chart a future for
a study tool that is itself the product of
a mid-20th century information revolu-
tion. Its library of online source sheets
is interactive that is, every source on
a sheet links to the database of myriad
Jewish texts.
When you put a bunch of sources on
paper, the audience can only see whats on
the sheet, Wolkenfeld said.
Using the database, however, you are
in control of the story. You can open up
a chapter and see the larger context, she
said. From three commentaries I can nav-
igate to 10 others.
And if students have tablets or laptops,
they can do all that exploring during the
lesson itself.
Holtz warns that if there is a downside
to the source sheet, its the temptation by
a teacher to pick and choose from the wide
and woolly corpus of Jewish text to prove
a dubious point.
Some would argue that you dont
cherry-pick, said Holtz, who wrote a pop-
ular beginners guide to studying Jewish
text, Back to the Sources. And Jewish
study according to this argument should
not be about all the good parts or the cool
parts or obviously meaningful parts, but
you should work hard through all the parts
as you encounter them.
And as seductive a tool as source sheets
can be, many teachers dont want them
seen as substitutes for the real thing.
A source sheet, as critical as it is, is
a tool but no replacement for the text
in the original, said Tzvi Sinensky,
the rosh beit midrash, or dean of Jew-
ish learning, at the Kohelet Yeshiva
High School in suburban Philadelphia.
We want our students engaging with
the original texts and have the skills to
parse the Gemara not to know about
the text, but to know it.
The source sheets Sinensky has posted
to Sefaria have been viewed nearly
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Editorial
Reflections on this week
T The real tragedy
his certainly is a complicated
week to be an American Jew.
We have just completed
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip-
pur, in all their white-draped abstrac-
tion, and turn to the physicality of Suk-
kot, with its harvest symbols and waving
branches and the delicate yellow scent
of the etrog, with all the meals, often
heavy and rich to ward off the October
chill. Beyond that, we turn to the joyous
physicality of Simchat Torah, with its
dancing and joy, and its knowledge that
this is it, the last of the holidays, and the
turn toward winter.
Thats the Jewish part.
In the outside world, there seems to
be nothing but devastation. Puerto Rico
a place many of us have been to and
can visualize in its prelapsarian state
is demolished. It makes the destruction
of Houston and Florida, which was bad,
seem to be not such a big deal, at least
by comparison. (I know, its easy to say
that from the safety of the Northeast.
Superstorm Sandy was a big problem for
us, but not nearly as huge a problem as
Maria, and anyway it was five years ago.)
As our president has reminded us, it is
hard to help Puerto Rico because, as he
put it, it is surrounded by water, big
water, ocean water. Who knew?
And then the impossible-to-assimilate
evil of Las Vegas, of a man so unimagin-
ably devoid of humanity that he was able
to shoot through a 32nd-floor window to
the happy unsuspecting crowd below as
if he were playing a video game.
As of this writing, we have no idea
why he did what he did. All we know
is that there is no obvious reason. We
might never be able to understand his
diseased thinking well enough to under-
stand it, and we might not want to be
able to enter that putrid stinking brain
long enough to try.
But we do know that he had an arsenal.
The Washington Post reported on Tues-
day that he had 23 guns with him in the
hotel room; 12 could fire automatically.
He had 19 other weapons at home, as well
as ammunition and explosives. His truck
held ammonium nitrate, a chemical that
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continued.
Even if we do not and cannot know
why he wanted this devils cache, we do
know why he was able to have it. We do
not know if all of it was legal, but we do
know that the gun lobby has made sure
that guns are never far from the hot,
imprudent hands of almost anyone who
wants them.
Why?
Its the Second Amendment, were told.
This is the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being neces-
sary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed.
I understand that as time passes, the
kernel of a law often gains accretions,
ways of understanding it, and putting
it into practice. Halacha, Jewish law,
works that way. Over the course of mil-
lennia, the original Torah prescriptions,
against, say, boiling a kid in its mothers
milk have become the elaborate laws of
kashrut that govern what and when and
how observant Jews eat. The connec-
tion between the Torah law and the din-
ner plate may not always be clear, but it
always is traceable.
So what about the Second Amend-
ment? It is newer by millennia than
Torah law, but it seems to bear about as
much resemblance to the Las Vegas mass
murderers cache as the Torah law does
to halacha.
I am not a lawyer. I dont know how
legal reasoning works. But I do under-
stand close reading of text, and I do not
see what a well regulated militia has to do
with that monstrous arsenal.
It is time to rethink our blind allegiance
to the accretions on the Second Amend-
ment and to restore our clear-sighted
allegiance to the Declaration of Indepen-
dences promise of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness none of which
you can have if you are mown down by
an assault rifle by stripping those accre-
tions away.
The NRA should not have the final word.
That should belong to we, the people.
Chag sameach. JP
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Gun violence:
W
hat happened in Las Vegas are killed each year in the United States
last Sunday evening was because of gun violence, and especially the
a tragedy of monumental number of children who die by the gun.
proportions. Earlier on Sunday, three people were
Our politicians immediately jumped on it killed and two were injured in a mass
in predictable ways. Republicans and Dem- shooting in Lawrence, Kansas. Between
ocrats expressed sympathy and bemoaned September 23 and September 30, eight
the horrific act that took nearly 60 lives and people were killed and 39 injured in 10
injured over 500 people all within 15 min- separate mass shooting incidents in New
utes but no Republicans and too few Dem- York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
ocrats showed any desire to do anything pos- Maryland, Illinois, Tennessee, and Louisi-
itive to keep such tragedies from recurring. ana. Since the start of the year, there have
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a been 273 mass shooting incidents. Most of
Democrat, made that sad us heard nothing about any
point on Monday morning. It of these tragedies.
is positively infuriating that my There have been 46,595
colleagues in Congress are so cases of gun violence of all
afraid of the gun industry that sorts reported since January
they pretend there arent pub- 1. In all, 11,652 people died
lic policy responses to this epi- in those incidents so far this
demic, he said in a statement, year, while 23,516 people
adding, Its time for Congress were injured. Among chil-
to get off its [seat] and do dren up to 11 years old, 545
something. Shammai were either injured or killed
After lamenting the cow- Engelmayer so far in 2017; among teenag-
ardice to act among his col- ers from 12 to 17, that number
leagues, Murphy listed a num- is a staggering 2,433.
ber of things he has been pushing Congress According to a Centers for Disease
to do for several years now, including closing Control study published in early June in
loopholes in the background-check system the journal Pediatrics, Firearm-related
and limiting access to high-capacity maga- deaths are the third leading cause of
zines and assault weapons. death overall among U.S. children aged
For his part, Massachusetts Democratic 1 to 17 years, surpassing the number of
Representative Seth Moulton said he would deaths from pediatric congenital anoma-
refuse to take part in a moment of silence on lies, heart disease, influenza and/or pneu-
the House floor as long as Congress did not monia, chronic lower respiratory disease,
act on gun control, because that would be and cerebrovascular causes. They are the
hypocritical of our national legislators. second leading cause of injury-related
The scenes out of Las Vegas were hor- death in this age group, surpassed only
rifying, but even more horrifying was the by motor vehicle injury deaths.
response by too many legislators of either The CDC study found that nearly 1,300
party on every governmental level. children die annually in the United States
There is a greater tragedy, however, that from gun-related injuries, while another
does not get wall-to-wall media treatment, 5,790 children are treated for gunshot
and almost never garners comments of any wounds. That averages out to 3.6 children
kind on Capitol Hill or in any other legis- dying from gun violence every day, and
lature and it should trouble us the most. nearly 16 children injured.
That tragedy is the number of people who These are facts but they do not get
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wall-to-wall media coverage, and our legislators on all

levels seem unconcerned about them. Celebrate, introspect, celebrate

This is not about the Second Amendment. This is not
about the right to bear arms. To use a favorite argument of
the strict constructionists on the political right, it is about
what our founding fathers meant when they wrote the
Second Amendment. They had single-shot rifles and guns
in mind. They could not even have conceived of an auto-
matic weapon that can shoot 800 rounds per minute, over
13 rounds per second, as the AR-15 can do, for example.
Does anyone seriously think they would have written
the Second Amendment the way they did if they could
have conceived of such weapons?
Besides, does anyone really need to shoot 800 rounds
to down a quail? Does anyone really need to shoot 800
t rounds to shoot cans off a fence in target practice?
Obviously, the National Rifle Association thinks people
w do. Obviously, so do many members of Congress, includ-
, ing some Democrats and just about every Republican.
- So do the gun manufacturers. Just look at the ads they
run to promote their assault weapons and that is what
f they are, ASSAULT weapons. The gun companies do not
y hide the fact, even if the NRA loves to do so.
In one full-page ad, Bushmaster, which makes the
5 AR-15, had almost nothing written on the page. The ad
had a white background, with a photo of an AR-15 on the
y right top third of the page, and just five words beside it to
the left: Consider your man card reissued. Imagine; we
need a weapon that shoots 800 rounds a minute to estab-
lish our manhood credentials.
- Bushmaster has other ads, one of which is for some-
5 thing called an ACR, which should be a strictly mili-
tary product for military usethe letters ACR stand for
- Adaptive Combat Rifle. Remington claims its ACR is
r manufactured for military use in its advertisements.
Bushmaster does not even bother to hide its intended
audience. Its ACR ad carries this line: In a world
where survival of the fittest can mean survival at all,
T
his is the season both of the Jew- it comes to political election season as well,
ish High Holy Days and of political lest we repeat the mistakes of the past. This
elections in the State of New Jersey. is what brought me to run for city council
As a community, we Jews are in Hoboken the desire to avoid doubling
instructed to celebrate Rosh Hashanah (the down on the bad policies that have made life
new year), engage in introspection on Yom in my city harder and more expensive for the
Kippur, and celebrate our exodus from Egypt people. We must review our past political
and the receiving of the Torah on Sukkot and choices and judge them by their results. We
Simchat Torah respectively. must look not only at how they made us as
On the political side, we should do the same Joshua individuals feel but how they have and will
celebrate, introspect, and celebrate. Sotomayor- impact others.
We should celebrate, as if its Rosh Hasha- Einstein As the old adage goes, those who forget his-
nah, the fact that we live in a country with free tory are doomed to repeat it.
and fair elections that make a difference. In Lastly, we must celebrate as if it were Suk-
most of human history, governmental decisions have been kot, because in most of history we were mere subjects under
made by an elite few for the benefit of that same group. governments that ruled us but which were not in our name.
Undoubtedly, even in democratic nations there exists an And we must continue celebrating as if it were Simchat
elite political class that pursues its own agenda. But here, Torah, because we have been blessed to be the recipients of
now, through elections, we have the ability to reprioritize a government of, for, and by the people.
the agenda to suit the needs of the people. Our ability to With the doom-and-gloom politics of hysterics in vogue
throw the bums out if we do not like our political leader- today, applying the roller coaster of this Jewish holiday
ship is cause for celebration. season to the political arena helps puts things in a healthy
Moreover, the limited role that our political leadership perspective.
has, constrained by our constitutionally guaranteed rights, Chag sameach.
is even greater reason to celebrate.
Not only can we elect new leadership to correct the course Joshua Sotomayor-Einstein is a member of the Hudson
if we disagree with the policies pursued by current office County Regional Jewish Council, a Republican State
holders, but even if we should be in the minority, our fun- committeeman, and an independent candidate for
damental and basic individual rights are protected legally. Hoboken City Council. He founded the Moishe House in
As we reviewed our past actions on Yom Kippur, and Hoboken in 2007 and has been published in more than 13
asked forgiveness for them, we need introspection when papers and websites.

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no rifle is a better fit than the one of-a-kind, all-new
Bushmaster ACR. Working to save the J-1 visa program

Ask yourselves what survival of the fittest is supposed
f to mean. You may be even more horrified if you do.
- Most of the deaths of children, and many other deaths
- related to guns, could be avoided with proper safety built
, into those guns. Is it so terrible that a gun needs finger-
print verification to fire? How many children would be
protected by that simple safety device that even iPhones
y have built them in?
Jewish law, as this column has noted too often in the
past following similar tragedies, would seem to require
such devices. The so-called law of the parapet (Deuter-
r onomy 22:8) does not even allow us to have broken step-
t ladders in our homes, much less weapons that are easily
accessible and instantly usable.
Guns kill more children in the United States every year
than most diseases. Over 11,600 people have died so far by
t gunshots. These are the facts we should concentrate on.
These are the facts that should horrify us.
So why are we not horrified enough yet to act?
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Send them to jstandardletters@gmail.com.
A
n unexpected call in late August
interrupted my end-of-summer
vacation and has consumed sig-
nificant amounts of my time over
the last six weeks.
It has reminded me of my own experi-
ences on Capitol Hill many years ago, and the
privilege, imperative, and responsibility we
all have for participating in our democratic
process. Jeremy J.
Earlier this spring, President Trump issued Fingerman
an executive order, Buy American and Hire
American, to encourage businesses to pri-
oritize employing Americans. A White House interagency
task force has been working for the last few months to
fully define the implementation of this executive order.
We learned in late August that the administration may
be considering recommendations that would radically
reduce or eliminate the Camp Counselor and Summer
Work Travel cultural exchange programs.
This would have a drastic impact, both educationally
and operationally, on the 300 summer programs we sup-
port, which serve more than 200,000 children, teens, and
college-aged young adults each summer.
The participation of Jewish counselors and staff from
Israel and other countries in the J-1 Camp Counselor and
SWT programs is critical to the mission of the Jewish camp Congress.
field and to the American camp experience as a whole.
Our camps use these programs to bring cultural exchange
staff who hail from as far away as Australia and New Zea- by the professional and lay leadership of the Jewish
land, and as close as across the border in Canada. Jewish
camps rely extensively on Israeli shlichim
emissaries who participate in daily camp
life, sharingJewish traditions, teaching
about Jewish and Israeli culture, and serving
as role models for our campers.
Creating a vibrant Israel presence is a key
point of differentiation for Jewish camping.
The international staff who come to the
United States create a bridge to the wider
world, not only for our campers but also for
our college-aged counselors. American staff
who comprise more than 90 percent of
camp teams work hand in hand with inter-
national staff, providing a fully cultural experience.
Camps also need these international counselors to aug-
ment the growing competition locally from internships,
school commitments, and summer educational programs.
They are too important an asset and opportunity to do
without.
Since receiving that alarming call in late August, we
have taken action to mobilize the Jewish camp community
to save the J-1 Visa Camp Counselor and SWT programs
that are vital to our many Jewish camps.
We have partnered with the American Camp Associa-
tion to bring this issue to the attention of White House and
State Department officials, U.S. senators, and members of
In early September, my board chair, Peter Wei-
dhorn, and I sent a letter to President Trump, co-signed
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Opinion

Recalibrating the tolerance-intolerance scales

I
n the 1980s, I spent three
wonderful (non-consec- c
utive) years serving as a J
(very part time) fellow o
at Shma Journal: A Journal J
of Jewish Responsibility. The s
magazine then was under the t
editorship of its founder, the C
late Rabbi Dr. Eugene Borow-
itz, one of the leading Reform Joseph e
theologians of the past century. Kaplan c
While Shma had a decidedly
liberal bent, it also was known d
for providing a forum where voices from all segments and b
ideologies of the Jewish community could be heard on a a
wide range of controversial topics. f
Once, because of the fierce commitment that Gene (as
he asked me to call him) had to the concept of freedom of t
expression based on the belief that, in Holmes words, o
the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get M
itself accepted in the competition of the market he I
published a piece by Meir Kahane, every word of which N
he vehemently disagreed with including, probably, the
commas and periods. This evoked a strong reaction from C
many Shma readers, who were dismayed to see Kahanes c
words in their beloved magazine. Some of them even can- S
celed their subscriptions over this issue. t
When I discussed the controversy with Gene, he told r
me that he had spoken with Kahane about it. In that con-
versation he asked whether, if Kahane ever became Isra-
els Prime Minister, he would allow a Borowitz article to be White supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12, 2017. RON KAMPEAS

published in an Israeli newspaper. Kahane replied (and I

paraphrase): I understand, Prof. Borowitz, that you have
certain principles, and I respect the fact that you live up
to them.
Im sure you understand that I too have principles and
trust that you would respect the fact that I would live up
to them as well.
The issue that Prof. Borowitz and Kahane were cleverly
dancing around is the question, as Michael Walzer articu-
lated it: Should we tolerate the intolerant? As you might
expect, the answer is not straightforward.
The philosopher Karl Popper even gave a name to this
dilemma: the paradox of tolerance. As he put it: Unlim-
ited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of toler-
ance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who
are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a toler-
ant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then
the tolerant will be destroyed and tolerance with them.
But he added the following caveat: I do not imply, for
instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of
intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them
by rational argument and keep them in check by public
opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.
John Rawls seemed to come to the same conclusion,
though starting from the opposite direction. He posited
that a just society must tolerate the intolerant, for oth-
erwise it would be intolerant and thus unjust. Justice is
worth the price of the paradox. But he too added a caveat;
that societys right of self-preservation supersedes the
principle of tolerance, and thus, when society sincerely
and with reason believes that its own security and that of
the institutions of liberty are in danger, it cannot afford
to tolerate the intolerant.
So the answer to Walzers question for some seems to
be a qualified yes; we do tolerate the intolerant unless
intolerance seems to be gaining the upper hand. In that
instance, however, preservation of liberty requires, para-
doxically, intolerance.
In constitutional terms, tolerating the intolerant is
similar to the protections the First Amendment gives to
intolerant and evil ideas. And that ideal was put to the
test as we all watched the frightening sight of Nazis and
white supremacists recently marching in Charlottesville
with torches and swastikas, toting assault rifles, and
chanting anti-Semitic and racist slogans. African-Amer-
icans were beaten, shots were fired, shuls were threat-
ened. Can we afford to tolerate this type of intolerant
hate group?
As a lawyer, Im trained to look for precedent, and so
I did. In 1977, the ACLU successfully defended the Nazis
right to march in Skokie. I supported both the ACLUs
and the courts decisions, and I continue to do so. But
lawyers also are trained to distinguish cases, and the
Nazis/white supremacists march 40 years later is sig-
nificantly different from the one in Skokie. The reason
can be summed up in one word: Heller the infamous
Supreme Court decision that found a constitutional right
for individuals to bear arms.
Heller, of course, remains the law until its overturned
(until being a prayer and not a prophecy). But as long
as it is the law, it seriously changes the First Amendment
dynamic. When they were marching in Skokie, the Nazis
wore uniforms emblazoned with a swastika but they
didnt bear arms. They bore only words and symbols
hateful, vile, stomach-turning words, to be sure but
words their opponents could and did challenge with
their own words of equality, justice, and peace.
And in that marketplace of ideas, the good guys won
the battle.
In Charlottesville, though, rather than words against
words there were guns against words. Thus, while our
America ethos is based, in large part, on the ideal of tol-
erating those who express ideas the majority disagrees
with, that may not be the case when they are expressed
by armed militants. When guns are brought into the
We do tolerate the
intolerant unless
intolerance seems
to be gaining the
upper hand. In that
instance, however,
preservation of
liberty requires,
paradoxically,
intolerance.
equation, our security and the institutions of liberty are
in danger, and thus the right of self-preservation may
supersede the principle of tolerance. As Mark Stern and
Dahlia Lithwick recently wrote, bringing assault rifles
to Charlottesville effectively silenced the many people
whod assembled to peacefully express their opposition
to racism, which diminished First Amendment values
and supplanted discussion with disorder.
The pen may be mightier than the sword in the world
of aphorisms, but in the real world, while words can
educate, illuminate, inspire, and convince, the sword
or its 2017 equivalent, the assault rifle can, and
does, kill.
We must demand a fair fight, and Heller has corrupted
the battlefield.
Joseph C. Kaplan, a regular contributor, has been living in
Teaneck and practicing law in Manhattan for many years.

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J-1 Visa
FROM PAGE 35
camping organizations, including the
Jewish Community Centers Association
of North America, the Union for Reform
Judaism, the National Ramah Commis-
sion, Habonim Dror North America,
the Association of Independent Jewish
Camps, and Young Judaea Global.
Many of our camps have initiated
efforts from their camp communities to
contact their local representatives.
These advocacy efforts are making a
difference. We have heard from a num-
ber of congressional offices expressing
awareness, understanding, and support
for our positions.
Just a few weeks ago, the Federa-
tion for Jewish Camp had the honor
of welcoming to our N.Y. office Daniel
M. Donovan, who represents Staten
Island and parts of South Brooklyn
New Yorks 11th Congressional District
in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congressman Donovan, a Republi-
can, serves on the House Homeland
Security and Foreign Affairs commit-
tees. We briefed him on our concerns
related to the J-1 visa issue.
From left, the Federation of Jewish Camps Jeremy Fingerman, Congressman Daniel Donovan, (R-11th Dist.), FJC
board chair Peter J. Weidhorn of Tenafly, and FJC board member Scott Brody, who chairs the American Camp
Association Government Affairs Committee.
All of this activity in the last few weeks
as we tried to save the J-1 visa program
has reminded me of the time I spent
working in Washington as a legislative
assistant for a member of the U.S. House
of Representatives from my hometown
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
These advocacy efforts are
making a difference. We have
heard from a number of
congressional ofces expressing
awareness, understanding, and
support for our positions.
The policies and procedures of our
federal government sometimes have
unintended consequences. Letters
and calls (my days on Capitol Hill pre-
dated emails) do make a difference
to our democratically elected repre-
sentatives. Informed viewpoints and
well-argued positions are reviewed
and appreciated. Standing up for your
beliefs is a valued and fundamental
right of our democracy.
Opinion
Now that we just have concluded the
High Holy Days, we prepare to enter our
Sukkot, with a tradition of each evening
welcoming different ushpizin, our spe-
cial guests. Our holiday is enhanced by
including and sharing with others. So,
too, our camp experiences are enriched
and improved when shared with summer
ambassadors from around the world.
To take action on this issue, go to jew-
ishcamp.org/take-action.
Jeremy J. Fingerman is the CEO of the
Foundation for Jewish Camp. He lives
in Englewood with his family; he is vice
president of Congregation Ahavath
Torah there. Write to him at Jeremy@
jewishcamp.org.
Letters
Kosher and halal
differ profoundly
While recognizing that the opinion pages
are merely individuals views, I am com-
pelled to point out a serious error in a
statement presented as fact by the well-
meaning Rabbi Dr. Chernick (Kosher/
halal, September 15).
When comparing the kosher and halal
methods of ritual slaughtering, he states
that Muslim form of ritual slaughter for
meat is exactly like shechitah As an
authorized shochet who has observed
both methods of ritual slaughter numer-
ous times, I can definitively state that
they are not at all exactly like, other
than both employ knives against the
necks of the animals. The technical rules
that shechitah demands (e.g., regarding
the slaughterers religious observance,
training, and skills, the knife blades
sharpness and smoothness, the checking
of the incisions outcome and the health
of the animal, etc.) in each and every
case goes far beyond anything that the
halal practices even remotely require.
No one who has studied shechitah
would ever suggest that the two methods
are the same.
Len Fuld
Teaneck
Kneeling is not disrespect
Banji Ganchrow misses the point! (To
love or accept, September 29.)
Colin Kaepernick didnt disrespect
anyone. He was saying that the USA
doesnt stand up for what those people
fought for!
What our country purports to believe
in is liberty and justice for all. How
many innocent black people have been
murdered for nothing? A child going out
for a treat, another playing with a toy
gun something that shouldnt hap-
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Opinion

Trump betrays Kurdistan with hypocrisy

I
t is difficult to look at
the scandalous inter-
national response to
the Kurdish indepen-
dence referendum and not
think, at the same time, of
the betrayals that the Zion-
ist movement endured in the
decades after World War I.
In 1917, Britain issued the Ben Cohen
Balfour Declaration, promis-
ing a Jewish national home-
land in Palestine. What people forget is that in 1939, on
the eve of the Holocaust, Britain issued a White Paper
limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine to a paltry
75,000 souls over five years.
People also forget that as late as 1947, British troops
at Haifa docks were locking Holocaust survivors who
had escaped to Palestine in barbed wire cages, and
then shipping them back to displaced persons camps
in Germany.
A similar sorry state prevails with the Kurds a pre-
dominantly Muslim nation of 25 to 35 million people
now divided between Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
Last week, the Kurds in Iraq voted for independence.
The vote was 93 percent in favor.
Kurdistan should have come into existence a cen-
tury ago, when Britain and France agreed that the
Kurds newly liberated from the Ottoman Empire
could hold a referendum on independence in about President Donald Trumps image is projected on the screen as he addresses the United Nations General
one quarter of the territory on which they live. But Assembly on September 19. U.N. PHOTO/ARIANA LINDQUIST

even that arrangement was too much for the Turks,

and the western imperial powers caved in, paving the
way for 100 years of political and ethnic repression,
military campaigns targeting Kurdish civilians, and
even genocide.
Just as the Zionists were given false hope, so were
the Kurds. Just as the Zionists had to fight for self-
determination at a time when the world frowned on
the idea of a Jewish state, so now are the Kurds.
At least in 1948, when the entire Arab League tried to
stomp on Israel at birth, the independence of the Jew-
ish state was recognized by that eras great powers, the
United States and the Soviet Union. To date, only Israel
publicly has backed the independence referendum in
Kurdistan. The rest of the world including, with woe-
ful hypocrisy, the Brits, fresh from their own Brexit
referendum on leaving the EU has lined up behind
the demand of Turkey, Iran, and the Iranian-proxy
regime in Baghdad that Kurdistan never can claim its
right to be recognized on the map of the world.
Most shameful of all, though, has been the response
of Washington because, quite frankly, we are entitled
to expect much better.
It shouldnt be surprising that the progressive activ-
ists who flock to the Palestinians act as if the Kurds
dont even exist, or that most Americans dont know
anything about the Kurds in the first place, or that
Europe is continuing its noble foreign-policy tradition
of betraying the cause of freedom in the post-colonial
world.
But it should be surprising, at the very least, that the
Trump administration whose strategy of eliminating
The Kurds should not
have to put up with
these kinds of insults,
which demonstrate no
sensitivity to their
history and no love for
the enormous sacrices
they have made on
our behalf.
Department spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, on the
day of the referendum. The United States is deeply
disappointed that the Kurdistan Regional Government
decided to conduct today a unilateral referendum on
independence, she said. The United States historic time as Kurdish independence advocates waved Israeli
relationship with the people of the Iraqi Kurdistan
Region will not change in light of todays non-bind-
ing referendum, but we believe this step will increase
instability and hardships for the Kurdistan region and
its people.
Nauert seems to be saying that while we have a
historic relationship with the Kurds, we shouldnt
let that get in the way of making the right decision
better off remaining in the same unified Iraq that in the
late 1980s engaged in a campaign of genocide known
as the Anfal. In that campaign, thousands of Kurds
were exterminated, slaughtered by Saddam Husse-
ins chemical weapons. And it means pretending, a la
Heather Nauert, that the failed state of Iraq really is on
the way to becoming, in her words, united, federal,
democratic and prosperous.
The Kurds should not have to put up with these
kinds of insults, which demonstrate no sensitivity to
their history and no love for the enormous sacrifices
they have made on our behalf.
I was proud that Israel took the lonely stance it did.
By the same token, I was disappointed that Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu then issued an instruction
to stop talking about the referendum, because it was
the right thing to do. And because the Turkish dictator
Erdogan and the mullahs in Iran are correct that an
independent Kurdistan will be a strategic Muslim ally
of the Jewish state.
Who leaned on Netanyahu to call time on the out-
pouring of support in Israel for the Kurds, at the same
flags alongside Kurdish ones? It is sensible to look in
the direction of Washington, and also to Ankara
which has an army of lobbyists and public relations
consultants in America (including not a few Jews who
claim to be friends of Israel) eager to do its bidding.
But no spin can mask the stench of betrayal over
Kurdistan emanating from the White House and the
State Department. JNS.ORG

Islamic State involved the loss of thousands of brave
Kurdish fighters should address the independence
referendum in a tone marked by profound ignorance
and shocking ingratitude.
Take this nonsensical statement issued by the State
which, in this case, means kowtowing to the Turkish-
Iranian-Iraqi alliance. It means telling the Kurds that
while some nations, including our very own, have
the right to separate from other nations, they dont.
It means unbelievably! telling the Kurds they are
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.

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With Americas blessing,
Abbas signals reconciliation with Hamas
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON The Trump adminis-
tration is encouraging the Palestinian
Authority to assume control of the Gaza
Strip and it is leaving the door open for a
role by Hamas in the subsequent Pales-
tinian government.
But if such a move once was seen as a
traditional predicate to a two-state solu-
tion, now top Palestinian leaders are
hedging their bets, saying they would
not rule out a one-state solution in
which Palestinians have the same one-
person, one-vote rights as Israelis. Israeli
leaders long have said that would mean
the end of the Jewish state.
Palestinian Authority government
officials returned this week to the Gaza
Strip, the first en masse visit by Cab-
inet and security officials along with
top bureaucrats since Hamas bloody
ouster of PA President Mahmoud Abbas
Fatah movement a decade ago.
It was a visit twice blessed by the
Trump administration, first through a
statement last week by the Quartet, the
grouping of the United States, Russia,
the European Union, and the United
Nations that guides the peace process,
and again Monday with a statement from
Jason Greenblatt of Teaneck, Trumps
top international negotiator.
The United States welcomes efforts
to create the conditions for the Palestin-
ian Authority to fully assume its respon-
sibilities in Gaza, as noted in the Septem-
ber 28 Quartet statement, Greenblatt
said in a statement he posted on Twitter.
The Quartet statement, while itself
also abjuring mention of two states,
made it clear that it foresaw a single Pal-
estinian entity under PA rule. It urged
President Donald Trump and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Ab-
bas in Bethlehem in the West Bank on May 23, 2017.
Jewish World
the parties the Palestinian Author- to concerns about Hamas, a State Depart- bureaucracy.
ity and Hamas to take concrete steps ment-designated terrorist group, but in We expect everyone who talks about
to reunite Gaza and the West Bank under language vague enough to accommodate a a peace process to recognize the State of
the legitimate Palestinian Authority. Hamas role. Israel and, of course, to recognize a Jewish
This weeks PA visit to Gaza, brokered Any Palestinian government must unam- state, and we are not prepared to accept
by Egypt, a key ally to the United States biguously and explicitly commit to non- bogus reconciliations in which the Palestin-
and Israel, is only for several days, but violence, recognition of the state of Israel, ian side apparently reconciles at the expense
Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Wash- acceptance of previous agreements and obli- of our existence, Netanyahu said in Maale
ington and a top Abbas adviser, antici- gations between the parties, and peaceful Adumim, a settlement of 40,000 just east of
pated a consolidation of the Palestinian negotiations, Greenblatt said. Jerusalem.
Authority presence there. That elides over earlier Israeli demands Whoever wants to make such a reconcili-
Zomlot, speaking to reporters here on that not just a Palestinian government, but ation, our understanding is very clear: Rec-
Monday, noted that Hamas dissolved its all of its components, must renounce vio- ognize the State of Israel, disband the Hamas
governing body last week and said the lence and recognize Israel. military arm, sever the connection with
Palestinian Authority expected this week Netanyahu, speaking to a Likud party Iran, which calls for our destruction, and so
that Hamas would formally hand over meeting in the West Bank last week, main- on and so forth. Even these very clear things
governance of the strip. The final stage, tained at least in part a tough line on must be clearly stated, he said.
he said, would be elections. the terms of a reconciliation acceptable to Without mentioning the two-state goal,
The return of the Palestinian Author- Israel. He said Hamas must be disarmed, but Greenblatts statement nevertheless called
ity to Gaza is a milestone for the Pal- did not count out explicitly keeping Hamas on the Palestinian government to abide by
estinian Authority and of President figures within the Palestinian Authority SEE HAMAS PAGE 52
Trumps deal of the century, Zomlot
said, using a phrase Abbas used in a
meeting with Trump on September 20.
A signal of the White Houses serious-
ness is the likelihood that Hamas will
continue to play a role in governing
the strip. Trumps predecessor, Barack
Obama, heeding Israeli concerns,
rejected any role in Palestinian gover-
nance for Hamas, and Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly
has said that it would be a deal breaker.
Now, however, careful phrasing by
U.S. and Palestinian officials strongly
suggests that Hamas will not fade into
the night. Zomlot called the changes in
Gaza the return of the consensus gov-
ernment, the joint Hamas-PA venture
that existed uneasily in 2006-07 and
infuriated the administration of George
W. Bush.
In his statement, Greenblatt nodded
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Keeping Kosher
Noshers Shannon Sarna
publishes first cookbook
BETH CHANANIE
Shannon Sarna, a celebrity
food guru, author, and brand
ambassador and former
spokesperson for Every Bite
Counts, Hadassahs nutri-
tion program, has published
her first cookbook, Modern
Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka,
Bagels, & More with Shannon Sarna
Countryman Press. It was
released in September.
Ms. Sarna is the edi-
tor of the popular Jewish
food blog The Nosher,
and she is a contribut-
ing writer to Kveller.com.
She comes by love of
food honestly her Ital-
ian mother loved to bake,
her Jewish father loved
to experiment, and her
grandfather was a food
chemist. Loving and
ex p e r i m e n t i n g w i t h
diverse foods was in her blood. Her col-
umns and recipes have been featured in
Tablet Magazine, JTA News, New Jersey
Monthly Magazine, the Jewish Week, Joy
of Kosher Magazine, Vinepair, Modern
Loss, and Buzzfeed.
On the local level, she is married to Jon-
athan Goldberg, the son of Jodi and David
Goldberg of Englewood, formerly of Para-
mus and Fort Lee. Shannon, a Smith Col-
lege graduate, lives in South Orange with
her husband, their two young daughters,
and their two rescue dogs.
On a personal level, I am so proud to
Boys Town Jerusalem chef offers
a delicious seared tuna recipe
Make your traditional Sukkot fish meal a
spectacular hit with this easy-to-prepare
marinated seared tuna steak recipe from
chef Avi Chemal of Boys Town Jerusalem.
These steaks alone are quite tasty, but
serving them atop a colorful fresh salad
gives a very special added touch, Avi says.
Every week when we sit to plan the
meals 1,000 portions a day for our
students at Boys Town Jerusalem, were
guided by a simple set of requisites: a
healthy, nutritious main course combined
with an abundance of fresh and cooked
vegetables, so tasty that it brings a smile
to our boys. The same demands go into
planning my own familys holidays menu,
and this marinated seared tuna steak
recipe is a perfect solution, promised
the chef.
40 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 6, 2017
feature this cookbook in
our Keeping Kosher pages.
I have known Shannons
husbands family for more
than 30 years and truly was
EMILY GOODSTEIN
kvelling to see this book
published. Shannon and
Jonathans young children
are the same age that Jona-
than and my children were
when they first met
in nursery school.
I bought copies for
my daughter and
d au g h te r s - i n - l aw
at Barnes & Noble,
s m i l i n g p ro u d l y
when I went to pay.
Of course, I told
BETH JANOFF CHANANIE
the clerk to order
more as this was
truly a great book!
Even more special
was that Shannons
sister-in-law, Becca
Goldberg, helped
with the books styling; one truly amaz-
ing family.
She has received an amazing response
to the book; so many of all ages have
posted photos and positive comments on
all the recipes they have made.
Heres a yummy recipe Shannon shared
especially for the Jewish Standard readers.
It will be perfect in your sukkah or on a
Shabbat table. Just imagine how delicious
the aroma in your kitchen will be.
Check local Judaica shops for the book;
it also available at Barnes & Noble and on
Amazon.
Boys Town Jerusalem is one of Israels
premier institutions for educating the
countrys next generation of leaders in the
fields of technology, commerce, educa-
tion, the military and public service. Since
its founding in 1948, BTJ has pursued its
mission of turning young boys from lim-
ited backgrounds into young men with
limitless futures. From junior high through
the college level, the three-part curriculum
at Boys Town academic, technological,
and Torah is designed to turn otherwise
disadvantaged Israeli youth into produc-
tive citizens. Boys Towns 18-acre campus
is a home away from home for its more
than 900 students. More than 7,000 grad-
uates hold key positions throughout Israeli
society. For information on Boys Town
Jerusalem, go to boystownjerusalem.org.
Rosemary
garlic challah
When I started experimenting with
challah varieties, rosemary and garlic
was one of the first flavor combina-
tions I tried, a nod to my dual Italian-
Jewish heritage. The rosemary and
coarse sea salt on top is not only deli-
cious, but the combination produces
a strikingly beautiful, but simple, chal-
lah. You dont have to use fresh rose-
mary it is just as beautiful if you use
dried rosemary. Shannon
Yields 2 medium loaves
DOUGH:
11/2 tablespoons dry active yeast
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons
+ 1/2 teaspoon sugar
11/4 cups lukewarm water
41/25 cups unbleached bread flour
(preferably King Arthur)
11/2 teaspoons table salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tablespoons dried rosemary
1 tablespoon jarred minced garlic in oil
2 large eggs
For the dough: In a small bowl, place
the yeast, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, and
lukewarm water. Stir gently to mix.
Allow to sit 5 to 10 minutes, until it be-
comes foamy on top.
In a large bowl or stand mixer fit-
ted with the whisk attachment, mix
together 11/2 cups of the flour, salt,
and 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar.
Add the water-yeast mixture, oil, dried
rosemary, and minced garlic to flour.
Mix thoroughly.
Add another 1 cup of the flour and 2
eggs and mix until smooth. Switch to
the dough hook attachment if you are
using a stand mixer.
Add another 11/2 to 2 cups of flour,
mix thoroughly, then remove from the
bowl and place on a floured surface.
Chef Avi Chemals special tuna
 COURTESY BOYS TOWN
Marinated seared
tuna steak
1 pound tuna (5 steaks)
Marinade:
1/4 cup soy sauce
SAGE MCAVOY
Knead the remaining 1/2 cup flour into
dough, continuing to knead for about
5 minutes.
Place dough in a greased bowl and
cover with a damp towel. Allow to rise
at least 3 hours.
Divide the dough in two and braid the
challahs into desired shape. See pages
3245 for braiding.
Place braided challah on a baking
sheet lined with parchment paper or
silicone baking mat. Allow the challah
to rise another 45 to 60 minutes, or
until you can see the size has grown
and the challah seems light. This step
is very important to ensure a light and
fluffy challah. Preheat oven to 375 de-
grees while the dough rises.
TOPPING:
2 egg yolks (or 1 whole egg)
1 teaspoon water
1 teaspoon dried rosemary or 34
fresh rosemary sprigs
1/2 teaspoon minced, dried
garlic flakes
1/4 teaspoon coarse sea salt
In a small bowl beat 2 egg yolks with
1 teaspoon water. Brush the egg wash
liberally over the challah. Sprinkle with
the additional dried rosemary, minced
garlic flakes, and coarse sea salt. If
using whole fresh rosemary sprigs,
run them under cold water briefly and
pat dry gently. For a particularly artful
presentation, place the whole rose-
mary sprigs on top of the glazed chal-
lah.
Bake 24 to 26 minutes, or until the
color is golden.
1/3 cup sesame oil
5 garlic cloves, minced
4 tablespoons date honey
(regular honey will work)
ground black pepper
onion and chives, chopped
Whisk marinade ingredients together,
add fish steaks, and refrigerate for half
a day.
Heat oil in skillet (can use a cast-iron
ribbed grill pan). Sear the tuna steaks
on both sides for 5 minutes. To sear the
tuna on a grill, lightly oil the grate and
cook steaks for 5 minutes. Baste with
marinade and cook for 5 more minutes.
Serve over a fresh salad of green and
colored lettuce with julienne veg-
etables including carrots, cucumbers,
and colored bell peppers. Garnish with
cashew nuts.

Cedar Market adds holiday offerings
Following the success of Cedar Markets Sale-A-Bration
to mark its fourth anniversary last month, the Teaneck
store has geared up for Sukkot. Holiday decorations
and recipe cards are available near customer service.
The store has expanded its cut vegetable and fruit line,
adding more variety to its selection. New items include
Kashi peanut butter granola bars, Knorr instant soup,
Herrs mild peach mango sauce, Tammi pitted dates,
Mehadrin YoSmart yogurt, Breyers homemade vanilla
ice cream, and Pardes Farms asparagus.
Be sure to sign up for Cedar Markets emails and
Rice, lentils, and squash partner perfectly
ALY MILLER
One of my favorite weeknight meals to make these days
is mujaderra just rice and lentils cooked together and
topped with a glistening pile of sauted onions. Its easy
to see why mujaderra is known as Middle Eastern com-
fort food. There are so many variations of this recipe,
but my favorite involves a mere five ingredients rice,
lentils, olive oil, salt, and onions.
Jewish traditions of mujaderra come from Syria and
Egypt, where it was often prepared as a Thursday-night
meal before Shabbat. The recipe dates back as far as the
13th century some variations are porridge-like, and
others (like this recipe) yield a pilaf with rice and lentils
that are distinct.
I wondered if there would be a way to bring some
seasonal produce into this dish without disrupting the
Mujaderra stuffed
kabocha squash
INGREDIENTS:
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup brown lentils, rinsed and sorted
1 cup brown rice
2 1/2 cups water
2 large white onions, sliced thinly
Paprika to taste
2 kabocha squash, cut in half and seeded
Tahini dressing (optional):
1/2 cup tahini
Juice of 1 lemon
1 clove garlic, minced
Salt to taste
Water as needed to thin
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the farmers market for inspiration and returned with a
few kabocha squash, a Japanese pumpkin variety. They
are as decorative as they are delicious. But you could
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Jewish World
Why Orthodox Jews are flocking
to this gritty English town
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
GATESHEAD, ENGLAND Its lunchtime,
and as they wait for their sandwiches at a
kosher deli, five young charedi Orthodox
men have a lively discussion about Jewish
texts in Yiddish.
Such a scene may be mundane in Jerusa-
lem or New York, or even Antwerp or Lon-
don. But its not a sight that many outside
Britain would associate with Gateshead, a
gritty miners town in northern England.
Thats a region that has seen its once large
Jewish communities decline dramatically
in recent decades.
Yet due to a unique set of circumstances,
Gateshead, which sits directly across the
River Tyne from the city of Newcastle,
has become home to the United King-
doms fastest-growing Jewish community.
A tight-knit congregation of 8,000 cha-
redi residents now calls Gateshead home,
and its size is not its only unusual aspect:
The Jewish community here also has an
unusual marriage of intellectualism with
insularity and suspicion of foreign cul-
tural influences.
Why has the Jewish community in Gates-
head doubled in size since 2008?
Opinions vary and there are many fac-
tors. Locals cite everything from relatively
low housing prices and the leadership of
the local chief rabbi to Gatesheads more
longstanding qualities, notably its commit-
ment to educating religious women along-
side its renowned yeshiva for boys, one of
Europes largest.
Whatever the reason, residents and
other observers agree that the Gateshead
Jewish community has achieved spectacu-
lar success in an unlikely setting.
To Jonathan Arkush, the president of the
Board of Deputies of British Jews, Gates-
head has become the charedi equivalent
of Oxford: a unique university town for
the very devout and a citadel of Ortho-
dox intellectualism.
The most prestigious institution of edu-
cation in town is the Gateshead Yeshiva, a
seminary founded 88 years ago. Its student
body now is made up of about 300 young
men from 15 to 23 years old. They study
for 12 hours a day and live in dormitory
rooms; each room houses either three or
four students.
The Gateshead Yeshivas reputation
opened the door to at least five other
yeshivas that are widely regarded as excel-
lent. This, in turn, created the nucleus of
a community of teachers who live here
permanently. And that has helped make
Gateshead into a major hub of intellectual
activity in the charedi world, alongside
the towns seven Jewish bookstores. (The
biggest, Lehmanns, is a well-known com-
munal institution with 40,000 volumes
42 JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 6, 2017
in stock.)
Several students said that graduating
from the Gateshead Yeshiva will improve
not only their knowledge of the Talmud
but their prospects of finding a quality
shidduch, or match for a wife.
Studying here will definitely affect who
we marry, said Yishai Rose, 20, of Lon-
don. A girl wants someone whos well-
developed in his learning, a very, very
good student. Well, if you went here and
did well here, the better girl youll get.
This wasnt always the case, according
to Joseph Schleider, a former leader of the
Gateshead Jewish community. He is a his-
torian who has studied the local Jewish
community since its establishment in the
19th century by Jews fleeing persecution in
czarist Russia.
In Lithuania, nobody wanted to marry
a rabbi. It meant poverty to women who
were not brought up inside the charedi
education system, Schleider said.
But in Gateshead, this began to change
in the 1940s, when a seminary for women
and girls opened. That provided a nucleus
of 400 girls who want only someone with
rabbinical status, he said.
This was a very powerful development
that changed the face of the Gateshead
Jewish community more than anything
else, he continued, and it laid the founda-
tion for the communitys current renais-
sance, as Schleider called it. Another sem-
inary for women opened in 1998.
Still, Gateshead had a far smaller Jewish
community less than a decade ago, when
there was one small kosher bake shop and
little spiritual activity outside its main syn-
agogue, which is set behind the yeshiva. It
did not have the amenities to pull in young
couples or retain yeshiva graduates who
wanted to start their families.
Those amenities started popping up in
Gateshead shortly after the arrival in 2008
of its chief rabbi, the New Jersey-born
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman. Hes
known here simply as the Rov, a Yiddish
pronunciation of the word rabbi.
Before the Rov, things had been the
same for many, many years, said Shi-
mon Guttentag, a senior administrator
at the yeshiva, adding that the change
has improved the quality of life for Jews
tremendously.
Schleider said that Zimmerman who
declined to be interviewed, citing a busy
schedule opened up the community,
which Schleider said was more averse
then than it is now to interacting with
the outside.
For all of many years weve been here
at Gateshead, the Jewish community
essentially was isolated, Schleider said in
an interview last month, referring to the
insular attitudes. During the interview,
Yishai Rose crosses the street at the Gateshead Yeshiva. 
he also noted that men wearing jeans is
frowned upon by some members of his
deeply conservative community.
Schleider said that the insularity
changed somewhat under Zimmermans
leadership, as he decided hes not going
to be buried in the synagogue but be a
communitywide rabbi.
One of Zimmermans reforms was to
allow the opening of Gatesheads first
kosher restaurant, Blooms, a takeout
place. Earlier rabbis had opposed the
opening of such a shop to avoid unsuper-
vised interaction between the sexes. But
Zimmerman approved it on condition
that men and women be served at sepa-
rate hours.
More critically, Zimmerman led a mas-
sive investment in education for small chil-
dren with the help of donors from outside
the relatively impoverished community
of Gateshead, transforming the town into
an attractive option for large families. He
also created couples counseling and other
social services programs especially suited
to charedi recipients. And under his lead-
ership, communal representatives began
to interact more closely with municipal
officials, locals say.
Yet this relative openness notwithstand-
ing, the Gateshead Jewish community and
its leader remain ultra-conservative, to the
right of the majority of British Jews. The
community shuns most media and cul-
tural influences that are deemed foreign
and morally corrupting. In June, Zimmer-
man called for the removal or resignation
of another Orthodox rabbi from London,
Joseph Dweck, over Dwecks assertion that
the growing acceptance of homosexuality
in society was a fantastic development
for humanity.
For many charedim, Gatesheads appeal
is an economic one: With housing becom-
ing unaffordable in London, many reli-
gious Jews are looking northward for solu-
tions. In recent years, some have moved to
Manchester, the only other city in England
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
that has seen its Jewish community grow.
But now, even prices in Manchester
are rising, leading many charedim to con-
sider Gateshead, said Guttentag, a father
of 11 whose family was among the first to
settle in the town.
Gateshead also is one of the few places
in Britain with a large Jewish commu-
nity where anti-Semitism is not a pri-
mary concern.
The Gateshead Yeshiva doesnt have any
guards, or even a perimeter fence.
We are mindful of the situation today
but thankfully, weve not had serious inci-
dent and its not a major problem affect-
ing us, said Rabbi Gershon Miller, a senior
educator at the yeshiva.
Schleider said that part of this real-
ity is the relative scarceness of ethnic
populations a reference to Muslims.
According to a recent poll, Muslims in the
United Kingdom are significantly more
anti-Semitic than the general popula-
tion. Muslim extremists are responsible
for about half the anti-Semitic attacks in
the kingdom.
The combination of all these factors and
more including the proximity of New-
castle International Airport, an important
amenity for charedi families with large
numbers of relatives in Israel, the United
States and beyond have transformed
Gateshead from an old, sleepy community
to a magnet for charedi families.
But progress came with a price, said
Schleider, who misses the more per-
sonal nature of the community when it
was smaller.
Whereas Zimmermans predecessor,
Bezalel Rakow, who led the community
for 40 years until his death in 2003, was
like our father, Zimmerman is more like
an executive director, he said.
The community has seen tremendous
growth, Schleider concluded, but has
also become big, impersonal, and less old-
worldly for people like me.
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 Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Your talmudic advice column

Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
My neighbor is Jewish, but from many of the
things he says about Jews and Israel, I think
he is an anti-Semite, who expresses antago-
nism toward anyone who is not an Orthodox
Jew. Lately he has invoked the policies of the
State of Israel toward the non-Orthodox to
support his attitudes.
First, how is that possible? Can a Jew can
be such an open anti-Semite? And more
important, what can I say or do to bring this
person back in line?
Buffering the Bigot in Bergenfield
Dear Buffering,
Yes, it is a terrible fact that a Jew can be an
anti-Semite.
There are gradations of one Jews anti-
Semitism toward other Jews. There is the
personal hatred or animosity of one Jew
for another. There can be a scenario of a
group of Jews collective self-hatred toward
other Jews. And beyond that, there are cir-
cumstances in which a Jewish institution
or political entity legislates or authorizes
policies of anti-Semitism.
This should not be a surprise, though.
Our sacred Jewish body of literature, the
Tanach, Talmud, and midrash, are full
of negative stories about Jews behav-
ing badly toward other Jews, and of Jews
scathingly criticizing other Jews. The edi-
tors of those works, who gathered and
published those narratives and accounts
about those Jews of the past, are highly
venerated and respected in our tradition.
I cannot remember hearing anyone use
the term self-hating Bible story or anti-
Semitic midrash.
The dynamics of Jews criticizing Jews
is prominent in both the classical pro-
phetic tradition in the Tanach, and in the
entire body of talmudic argumentation
and criticism.
Condemnation of some types of Jews
by one or more other types of Jew surely
is not rare. And there can be official poli-
cies made by Jews in synagogues, other
organizations, or in the State of Israel that
are bigoted, hateful, or discriminatory to
some other Jews.
Recently, we saw in print the surprising
unfolding analysis of one prominent Jew-
ish professor of history, arguing that the
State of Israel was anti-Semitic in its official
policies toward a large number of Jews.
Professor Yehuda Bauer posed this ques-
tion in an article in Haaretz in August (Is
Israels Government anti-Semitic?). In
the Western world, even in its less laudable
parts, violating the rights of religious Jews
to pray according to their own custom is
considered a clear sign of anti-Semitism,
he wrote. As is known, the Israeli govern-
ment has withdrawn from the agreement
to allow non-Orthodox Jews to pray in
the area at the southern end of the West-
ern Wall which is not part of the space
controlled by the Orthodox and ultra-
Orthodox. Can we say, therefore, that the
Israeli government has adopted an anti-
Semitic policy?
Bauer goes on to investigate a second
angle on this question of discrimination
against the 90 percent of the worlds
Jews who are not Orthodox., In addi-
tion, non-Orthodox Jews in Israel cannot
marry or divorce, except in an Orthodox
context, he wrote. The insult to most
of world Jewry and the denial of the right
of [non-Orthodox] Jews to enjoy their
basic freedom and to marry according
to their worldview is a unique phenome-
non. Israel is the only Western country in
which the government adopts such anti-
Semitic positions.
Ive always insisted that we must differ-
entiate between rhetorical anti-Semitism,
which is loathsome but not imminently
dangerous, and policy anti-Semitism,
where hatred, discrimination, or the
denial of civil rights to Jews is enacted into
law and practiced in a community.
Bauer tempers his conclusion at the
end, but his alarm is evident in this essay.
It would be an exaggeration to say theres
an anti-Semitic government in Israel. But
it probably wouldnt be a mistake to say
this is a government thats adopting a
policy that shows clear signs of anti-Sem-
itism toward the vast majority of the Jew-
ish people.
What should we do about things like this?
All of us need to be especially alert for the
policy forms of official anti-Semitism. When
you think you see it, you need to raise the
alarms, and then go on to engage in activism
against it the best way that you can.
We are, after all, a tiny nation, with
many external enemies, and we simply
cannot afford to tolerate internal hatreds
and divisions.
Dear Rabbi Zahavy,
I am worried and confused about my fate
in the world to come, where my soul will go
when I die. My rabbi gave a talk on this sub-
ject, but it did not answer my questions. Can
you please advise me on this?
Muddled Mortal in Montclair
Dear Mortal,
Sure, we all face the essential question,
where does that source of
life energy go when a person
dies? Its not comforting to
imagine that the forces of our
life cease to exist. They must
go somewhere else.
And indeed, the stories
of the next world abound in
the cultures of the earth. My
dear late colleague, Professor Rabbi Tzvee
Alan Segal, wrote a masterful Zahavy
880-page book on the sub-
ject, Life After Death: A His-
tory of the Afterlife in Western Religion.
Surely, to cover what all the worlds reli-
gions say on this subject would be a more
immense task.
And you want to know which version tainty, to secure a place for a departed soul
of that narrative about the afterlife is the in the community of Israel, many Jews
real one?
As you can imagine, there are multiple
possibilities based on the strands of Jew-
ish religious traditions. The great medi-
eval rabbi Maimonides presented us with
a visualization of Gan Eden, a heavenly
depiction based on the Talmud that always
has seemed generally comforting as a start-
ing point for me, in a philosophical way.
In the world to come, there is noth-
ing corporeal, no material substance,
the Rambam wrote. There are only souls
of the righteous without bodies like the
ministering angels... The righteous attain to continuous duplex immortal life of the
a knowledge and realization of truth con-
cerning God to which they had not attained
while they were in the murky and lowly
body (Mishneh Torah, Repentance 8).
In some talmudic views, the Garden
of Eden is the eternal destination for the
righteous. In that realm of joy and peace,
the Talmud in some instances describes
golden banquet tables (Talmud, Taanit
25a), stools of gold (Talmud, Ketubot 77b),
lavish feasts (Talmud, Baba Batra 75a),
celebrations of the Sabbath, basking in
sunshine, and engaging in sex (Talmud,
Berakhot 57b).
In other views (which Maimonides
seems to prefer) Talmudic rabbis declare
that in Gan Eden there will be no eating,
drinking, procreation, or commerce, no
envy, hatred, or rivalry. The righteous
will sit in Gan Eden with crowns on their
heads, and bask in the light of the Shekhi-
nah (Talmud, Berakhot 17a).
Indeed, our tradition teaches us that
if you lead a good life, and follow the
proper procedures, your Jewish soul will
be immortal. for being silent on earth in the face of ter-
And that immortality as I see it will rible disappointments and tribulations,
be duplex. That means that the soul of a
departed Jew will live on
in a vertical immortality in
Heaven and in a horizontal
immortality as part of the
collective of the eternal Jew-
ish people.
You ask about your verti-
cal afterlife. But please con-
sider pondering how every
Jewish soul achieves a hori-
zontal immortality, going
forward eternally through
time into the future, by its
membership in the people of Israel.
To make sure that membership of the
soul of the departed Jew after his or her
death in the community of Israel is a cer-
believe that you must recite the daily Kad-
dish in the synagogue for eleven months
after the person dies. By doing that, you
firmly embed the soul of the departed
into our community. And while that com-
munity, that people, endures, that soul
will have a horizontal immortality as part
of the collective body of Israel. That soul
will be recalled explicitly and collectively
in Yizkor on the holidays and personally
on yahrzeits each year with the recitation
of the Kaddish in public in the synagogue.
In these ways, we feel confident in the
souls for ourselves and for our people, in
the eternity of heaven and in the everlast-
ing historical perpetuation of the Jewish
people on earth.
Yes, surely Rambams images of a sort
of heavenly yeshiva project his values onto
the world to come in a serious and philo-
sophical mode.
And less seriously, I could tell you a
few good Jewish jokes on the theme of
whether there are beautiful women wait-
ing in heaven as rewards for righteous
Jewish men, or on whether there is golf up
in heaven.
And in a grim vein, weve all heard
about the promises made to Islamic terror-
ists that 70 virgins await them as rewards
for their evil, in their version of heaven.
And who can forget the famous charm-
ing and alarming story of the simple Jew,
Bontsha the Silent One, by the famed
Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz? In that
tale, we are regaled with Bontshas judg-
ment in heaven. Before being admitted to
heaven, he is both defended and accused
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the varieties and denominations of Judaism. You can find it here on the first
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Tzvee Zahavy received his Ph.D. from Brown University and his rabbinic ordination from
Yeshiva University. He is a prolific author and has published many books about Judaism
and Jewish texts. He teaches advanced Talmud and Jewish law codes at the Academy for
Jewish Religion in New York. He also is head of Halakhah.com, a site that distributes for free
more than 600,000 English translations of the Talmud and other Judaic books a year on a
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JEWISH STANDARD OCTOBER 6, 2017 43

Dvar Torah
Sukkot: Be happy!

E
very year when I
take the sukkah
pieces out of stor-
age, start untan-
gling the lights, sort through
the decorations, and plan
the meals, my excitement
grows and my joy increases.
I love Sukkot. Erecting the
sukkah with my family, care- Rabbi Sharon
fully hanging each gourd and Litwin
welcoming guests, both spiri- Director of
Congregational
tually and literally, gives me Learning,
great pleasure. Congregation Bnai
I dont know how others Israel, Millburn,
Conservative
feel, but I remember when
I was a child, someone tell-
ing me that when she lit her
Christmas tree every year, she felt like
everything was right with the world. I
think the same applies to Sukkot. When we
turn on the lights, bring in the candlesticks
and wine for Kiddush, I feel like all is right
with the world. We have gotten through
the contemplative and awe-inspiring days
of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and
now its time to celebrate.
The Torah teaches us
vsamachta bchagecha, assures us that we will be happy.
you must be happy on your
holiday. Not just the males
among you, but every-
one, your sons and daugh-
ters, your male and female
servants, the Levites, the
strangers, the windows
and the orphans. Everyone
is required to rejoice for
seven days and the reward
for rejoicing is that God will
bless all your crops and the
deeds of your hands and you
will have nothing but joy!
What an incredible mitzvah
we have been given, to only
be happy for a whole week!
Rashi, the famous medieval French
rabbi and author of a comprehensive com-
mentary on the Torah, comments on this
mitzvah to be only happy: According to
its simple meaning, this is not an expres-
sion denoting a command, but rather an
expression of an assurance (i.e., I promise
you that you will be happy.) Its not that
you have to be happy, but rather that God
we sit in the synagogue, learning and pray-
Happiness is no easy achievement. In
his groundbreaking work on positive psy-
chology, Dr. Martin Seligman suggests
that there are six elements in life that can
help us to flourish and find happiness. He
suggests that we need positive emotion,
engagement, relationships, meaning, and
accomplishment. Seligman states, These
elements, which we choose for their own
sake in our efforts to flourish, are the
rock-bottom fundamentals to human well-
being. What is the good life? It is pleas-
ant, engaged, meaningful, achieving, and
connected.
I would argue that this holiday season
gives us the vehicle that Dr. Seligman sug-
gests all human beings need in order to
flourish. On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip-
pur, we confront our emotions and relation-
ships, working hard to repair those which
are broken and seeking forgiveness for the
wrongs we may have done to ourselves
and to others. We create positive emotions
by asking for forgiveness and by granting
forgiveness to others. We engage, on an
intellectual, spiritual, and emotional level as
ing together. We connect to others, sitting
at the table eating together, discussing the
rabbis sermon, or a favorite melody, or an
insight from the Torah, and we have a sense
of accomplishment, having lived another
year, counting our blessings, and feeling our
meaningful place in the world.
And so, we may not be finishing the
fall harvest and staring at a bounty crop
as our ancestors in the Torah might have
experienced. Their happiness was prob-
ably based on the fact that they knew they
would survive the winter with enough food
to eat. But, we have come through this
year, with bruises and brushes with sad-
ness, despair, and hopelessness and now
we must be happy. We are flourishing. We
have atoned, prayed, forgiven, eaten, cared
for, and been cared for. As Rashi taught,
God assures us that we will be happy.
When we turn on our lights in the sukkah,
all we be right with the world (at least for
this week!). Vsamachta bchagecha now
we must rejoice! Chag Sukkot samayach a
very happy Sukkot for us all.

BRIEFS Lennon said he favors total transpar- agricultural sector. Without this depen- has increased the Mossads budget, allow-
ency for school curriculum materials and dence, primarily on imports from the ing it to widen its operations and its use
Boston-area has no objection to making that informa- United States, Israel would be ranked of cutting-edge technology. JNS.ORG

candidates back
transparency in
possibly anti-Israel
school texts
The two candidates running for mayor
in the Boston suburb of Newton, Mass.,
the site of a years-long controversy about
bias on Israel in curriculum materials,
are pledging to put high school textbooks
online for public viewing.
Newton City Council members Ruth-
anne Schwartz Fuller and Scott F. Lennon
are running for mayor to replace Setti
Warren, who is not seeking a third term.
Residents go to the polls November 7.
Fuller, who is Jewish, told JNS.org she
is committed to having all our textbooks
available online for our parents and the
public to see. It will be a priority of mine
to convince the schools committee and
the superintendent to make sure our
books are available online.
Newtons mayor sits on a nine-seat
school committee that makes decisions
for the school district.
Its disturbing to have anti-Semitic
actions here in Newton, and Im commit-
ted to making sure this is a welcoming
city, Fuller said.
tion available online for the public.
Earlier this year, Camera, a pro-Israel
media group, published a 108-page
monograph describing how, begin-
ning in 2011, Newtons high schools
have used such biased texts as the Arab
World Studies Notebook.
While school officials said the Arab
World Studies Notebook had been
removed, an investigation a year later
revealed it was still in use. Newton has
not yet listed its curriculum materials
online, a practice many school districts
have adopted nationwide.
JNS.ORG
Israel is ranked
19th-most food
secure nation in U.N.
global hunger report
The United Nations ranked Israel 19th
in its 2017 report on how well countries
can feed their populations.
The State of Food Security and Nutri-
tion in the World report ranked more
than 180 countries. The report noted
that Israels ability to feed its own peo-
ple largely is dependent on imports
of food, grain, and energy sources
required to sustain a large portion of its
higher on the U.N. index.
The five most food secure countries,
according to the report, are Ireland, the
U.S., the U.K., Singapore, and Australia.
Food security, as measured in the
report, is a measure of the viability
and accessibility of food for people in a
given country, and the nations ability to
prevent hunger on a mass scale. JNS.ORG
6 Mossad teams
chosen to receive
commendations for
secret missions
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
decided to institute a tradition of award-
ing commendations of merit to the Israeli
Mossads intelligence and special opera-
tions teams.
For the first time, such honors will
be awarded not by Israels president,
but instead by the prime minister,
with Mossad Director Yossi Cohen in
attendance.
The commendations will be awarded
to six Mossad teams for operations car-
ried out this past year, all in secret and
across the globe.
During his years in office, Netanyahu
Israeli officials
condemn Las Vegas
shooting massacre
Israeli officials condemned Sunday
nights mass shooting in Las Vegas, in
which at least 58 people were killed and
more than 500 were wounded.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said following the deadliest mass shooting
in U.S. history, On this terrible day, the
people of Israel stand shoulder to shoul-
der with the American people in mourning
and sorrow. Our hearts go out to the vic-
tims families and we wish a speedy recov-
ery to the wounded. We grieve with you.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin Mon-
day sent a letter to President Donald
Trump, saying, We stand with you as
you mourn the terrible loss of life and
injury following this senseless attack
on people who had merely gathered
together to listen to music.
Israeli diaspora Affairs Minister Naf-
tali Bennett, Hatnuah party leader Tzipi
Livni and Yesh Atid party leader Yair
Lapid were among the other Israeli offi-
cials who conveyed their condolences
after the shooting. JNS.ORG

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WHATS HANGING? BY YONI GLATT
KOSHERCROSSWORDS@GMAIL.COM
Across
1. Kosher or Yoni
6. Common January vacation spot for
many Jews
11. Man word
14. Tyler who dated 56 Across on
Friends
15. Talking Narnia lion
16. Elviss record label
17. Whats hanging?
19. Gadot in The Justice League
20. __air (El Al alternative)
21. Sch. in eastern Virginia with Demon
players
22. Ponder, with over
23. Whats hanging?
26. Yom Kippur, e.g.
28. ___-Cone (treat on a hot Shabbat)
29. ___ Gedi, Israel
30. Sid Rosenberg does sports on his
radio show
32. ___-ho, like one psyched to make
aliyah
35. Move like Mick Jagger or Paul
Stanley
39. Whats hanging?
42. Lauder of cosmetics
43. Danielle, Este, and Alanas band
44. What many Israel supporters
Stream?
45. Ernie of 47-Across
47. Something Daniel Berger or
45-Across shoot for
49. Israeli name similar to a request
from Oliver Twist
50. Whats hanging?
56. Chandlers brother-in-law
57. Sports nutrition brand with many
kosher products
58. ___ Were a Rich Man
59. Matterhorn, e.g.
60. Where 17, 23, 39, & 50 Across are
hanging?
65. Snider of Twisted Sister
66. Myers and Posner
67. Historic rabbinic sage or
Screenwriter Goldsman
68. Lenny Bruces was 567-48-8307;
Abbr.
69. Make like one of Spielbergs
Gremlins
70. One avoiding a gremlin or a seeker
The solution to last weeks puzzle is on page 51.
Crossword
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: EASY(ISH)
Down
1. Feature of Alfred E. Neumans smile
2. Name that also makes Dah, Ma and Ta
a name
3. Moses staff might have turned into
one
4. A League of ___ Own
5. Paul of ___ (Jew that changed the
world)
6. What?, to Bibi
7. ....if ___ out of tune (The Beatles)
8. Fineman whose name means Joyful
in Hebrew
9. Waste hated by Biff Tannen
10. Walk-___ (surprise shul attendees)
11. Military organization headed by
Menachem Begin
12. Spill hot coffee on (Kramer), say
13. Wedding and bat mitzvah locales
18. What some might do watching
Curb....
22. Bug that prays?
23. Fig or date, e.g.
24. What one who is Shomer Negiah
wont do
25. Schindler made an important one
26. Leah to Jacob
27. Author Oz of Israel
31. Observes Shabbat, perhaps
33. Daughter who inherited land in the
Bible
34. Grabs onto (a Torah when doing
hagbah)
36. The King David has them
37. Bring to ruin
38. Anti-Semite Nicholas II, e.g.
40. Remove, as text
41. Expensive strings for Itzhak Perlman
46. Like the route to the Dead Sea
48. ___ shlema
50. Those who finish Bar-Ilan, for short
51. Parts for Dustin Hoffman
52. Ski town with a Chabad
53. Chanukah food
54. One walking to a chuppah
55. Tikki-Tavi that might eat a 3 Down
60. Use Facebook Chat, briefly
61. Tel Aviv to Jerusalem dir.
62. Kosher child?
63. Brooklyns J with many kosher eat-
eries; Abbr.
64. ___ Sinai
The Frazzled Housewife
Temperature
I
t isnt easy making peo-
ple happy.
Years ago, a lovely
man from my com-
munity used to say, Is there
anything that is making you
happy? If you wanted to, you
could complain about abso-
lutely everything. But where
do the complaints stem from Banji
the most during this time of Ganchrow
year? The time of year when
we spend a lot of time inside
a synagogue?
You would think it would be who gets
to lead the services. From what I hear
from synagogues all over the country
(and probably the world), this becomes a
big bone of contention. People who have
led services for years who were asked to
step down. People who should be asked
to step down but arent. People who lead
the services but shouldnt because they
are the last person you want representing
you before God
Perhaps they should have a reality show
like American Idol for chazzanim, but, alas,
that is not the topic of this years complaint to save money on the heating/cooling bill.
winner. This year, the Oscar for Most Epic
Fail in Synagogue isthe temperature.
Not the temperature outside, mind you,
but the temperature inside. the air conditioner on. Actual steam. And
I will only be discussing my synagogue, everyones teeth have to be chattering
specifically, because I wasnt in your syna-
gogue. For all I know, in your synagogue
the temperature is regulated according to
each individuals needs. The thermostat
senses you are eight months pregnant and
overheated? The air automatically goes on
full blast. The thermostat senses that you
are a bit chilled? Out comes some heat.
Yes, perhaps that is what your syna-
gogue is like. But not mine.
It seems that not many people were
happy this High Holy Days season. Over
Rosh Hashanah, it felt like the tropics. I
brought along my handy dandy hot flash
cloth because it looked like I was running
a marathon while standing still a neat
trick, by the way. And over Yom Kippur,
while praying for all that you pray for, I
thought that it was going to snow. Inside.
Also a neat trick.
The fun thing about when it is too cold
in my synagogue is the fashion show
of wraps and shawls. As opposed to the
overall fashion show of what everyone
is wearing. Everyone but me, of course.
(Without my fake crocs and J Jill dresses,
who am I?) Different colors and patterns.
Flattering ones, unflattering onesa bevy
But next time you want to
complain about something,
maybe smile first and see if the
complaint goes away.
of styles. Heavy wool, light-
weight cotton you name
it and someone is wearing
it. But for the men, appar-
ently, it is a whole different
ball game.
Men, for the most part,
wear suits. So if it is cold
the jacket stays on, and if it
is hot, off comes the jacket.
Apparently, many of the
men werent happy with
the temperature either.
Though when I heard of these complaints,
I was wondering if these men got an earful
from their wives and that is why they were
complaining in the first place. Maybe I am
mistaken, but I have never heard a man
complain about the temperature. In any
event, that was the main complaint.
So I ask these people what is the syna-
gogue supposed to do? Send out a survey
asking people their ideal room tempera-
ture? As someone who is married to an
individual who is on the frugal side, the
temperature inside our house is probably
a lot warmer or colder than most, in order
Many years ago, I wrote a column about
how actual steam has to be rising from
the carpet in order for husband #1 to put
simultaneously for the heat to be turned
on. Everyones teeth. (And someone may
or may not have to develop and actual
cold or flu.) Yup, good times.
I am still not sure how they are going
to fix the situation with the temperature.
There is no good answer because some-
one will always find fault with whatever
solution arises. But that is the way it is.
Studies have been done showing that
when you have a positive mindset, you
become a more positive person. Smiling
actually helps release chemicals in your
brain that put you in a better mood, and
when you compliment instead of criticize,
everyone feels better. Yes, if only people
followed these studies.
What lesson do we learn from this? I
have no idea. Studies usually are wrong.
But next time you want to complain about
something, maybe smile first and see if the
complaint goes away.
Or just put on a coat.
Banji Ganchrow of Teaneck is getting ready
for her favorite time of year, when eating
meals outside in the sukkah means having
the neighbors hear all of your screaming...
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Film in Teaneck: Temple
Shabbat in Closter: Emeths adult education
Temple Beth Els group screens a Jewish-
family service includes themed movie, 7:30 p.m.,
Sukkot pie-tasting at as part of its Movies
the oneg, 6:45 p.m. 221 That Matter series.
Schraalenburgh Road. Popcorn. 1666 Windsor
(201) 768-5112. Road. (201) 833-1322.
Shabbat in Jersey City:
Congregation Bnai Wednesday
Jacob hosts Millennial OCTOBER 11
Shabbat in the sukkah
for Jewish millennials Hadassah meets in
(professionals, singles, River Edge: Geri
couples, and friends, Lipschitz, Hadassah NNJ
20s-40s), with food, vice president, discusses
conversation, and Whats Happening in
celebration, led by Rabbi Hadassah: An Update
Aaron Katz, 7-9:30 from the National
p.m. 176 West Side Ave. Business Meeting, for
(201) 435-5725 or www. River Dell Hadassah in
bnaijacobjc.com. the sukkah at Temple
Avodat Shalom, 12:30
Saturday p.m. Refreshments. 385
Howland Ave. (551) 265-
OCTOBER 7 1573.
OCT. Caf Europa, a social program for Holocaust survivors
Sukkot in Wayne: The sponsored by Jewish Family & Childrens Services of Northern Erev Simchat Torah

10
Senior Daytime Series at in Pearl River: Beth
Temple Beth Tikvah has New Jersey and funded in part by the Claims Conference and Am Temple holds its
brunch in the sukkah, the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, meets at the Fair annual reading and
noon. 950 Preakness Ave. learning Torah service,
(973) 595-6565 or www.
Lawn Jewish Center/CBI on Tuesday, October 10. The program, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., 7 p.m. Everyone can
templebethtikvahnj.org. includes kosher lunch and a musical performance by the Rishon Trio, from participate by helping
Film in Jersey City: Bnai
left, Jane Koch, Gale S. Bindelglass, and Cantor Ilan Mamber. 10-10 Norma with the ceremonial
Ave. Shari Brodsky, (201) 837-9090, ext. 237, or sharib@jfcsnnj.org. unrolling of the Torah
Jacob has movie night, scroll accompanied by
with popcorn and soft singing and dancing.
drinks, 7 p.m. 176 West 60 East Madison Ave.
Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Snacks. 262-9898, or www. www.chabadplace.org/ (845) 735-5858 or www.
or www.bnaijacobjc.com. Pack a lunch. If it rains, ssdsbergen.org/sundays. pizzasukkah. bethamtemple.org.
program will be inside
BBQ in Teaneck:
Sunday at the Puffin Cultural
Forum. (201) 836-2403. Congregation Rinat Monday Thursday
OCTOBER 8 Yisrael hosts the OCTOBER 9 OCTOBER 12
Sukkot in Fair Lawn: Bris Wandering Que, a
Technology and aging Avrohom celebrates with kosher Texas-style Lunch and learn: Rabbi
a petting zoo, pony rides, wood-burning pop-up Simchat Torah/Yizkor in
expo: The Gallen Day Aaron Katz leads a Closter: Temple Beth El
Center at the Jewish holiday crafts, and buffet smokehouse barbecue discussion over lunch in
lunch in its 1,200 square in the shuls parking lot; holds a Simchat Torah/
Home at Rockleigh the sukkah on current Yizkor service, 10:30
offers the Vibrant foot sukkah, 11 a.m. with tables in the sukkah, topics at Congregation
30-02 Fair Lawn Ave. 1-8 p.m. 389 West a.m. 221 Schraalenburgh
Aging Technology Family program in Bnai Jacob in Jersey Road. (201) 768-5112.
Fair, 10 a.m.-noon. (201) 791-7200 or www. New Milford: Solomon Englewood Ave. (201) City, noon. $10. 176 West
Includes brunch. jewishfairlawn.org. Schechter Day School of 837-2795. Side Ave. (201) 435-5725 Yizkor/Simchat
10 Link Drive. (201) Bergen County continues or Info@bnaijacobjc.org. Torah in Jersey City:
Sukkot in Woodcliff Sundays at Schechter, a Sukkot in Franklin
750-4238 or Gallen@ Congregation Bnai
Lake: Temple Emanuel Lakes: The Chabad
JewishHomeFamily.org.
of the Pascack Valley has
community-wide Jewish
themed interactive Jewish Center of NW Tuesday Jacob has a Yizkor
service, 5:15 p.m., and
Water exploration: its annual sukkah social, family series, with a Bergen County has a OCTOBER 10
11 a.m.-1 p.m., rain or community childrens celebrates Simchat Torah
Families are welcome sukkah bash. The event at 6:15. 176 West Side
to the Teaneck Creek shine. DJ entertainment features MusicTalks, pizza party in the largest
Hot topics in Bayonne: Ave. (201) 435-5725 or
Conservancy for by DDM Entertainment, an ensemble of young sukkah in the town, 5
Temple Beth Am www.bnaijacobjc.com.
Liquid Earth A Day music, dancing, bounce musicians who make p.m. Event includes
continues a Point/
of Water Exploration, house, and food. 87 music talk, 1-3 p.m. pizza-making, carnival Simchat Torah in
Counterpoint series, a
in association with the Overlook Drive. Free with Prospective open house foods, crafts, music, Hoboken: United
Jewish take on current
Jack Flamholz Water reservations, (201) 391- November 6, 7-9 p.m. and a raffle. 75 Pulis Synagogue of Hoboken
events, led by Rabbi
Sustainability Project, 0801 www.tepv.org. 275 McKinley Ave. (201) Ave. (201) 848-0449 or has services, 6:30 p.m.,
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followed by celebrating
and dancing in the
streets. 115 Park Ave.
Sunday
(201) 659-4000 or OCTOBER 15
hobokensynagogue.org.
Israeli advocacy:
Simchat Torah in Dr. Sharon Goldman,

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Fair Lawn: Bris
Avrohom celebrates
with dancing with the
Torah. At 7 p.m., after
a welcoming, candle
lighting, and kiddush
with refreshments
and drinks, Fair Lawn
Avenue will be closed
between Radburn Road
and Well Drive for the
celebration. Hot buffet
dinner and goody bags
for children at 8. (201)
791-7200 or www.
jewishfairlawn.org.
deputy director for
AIPACs Northeast
region, discusses Being
an Israeli Advocate in
Sharon Yamada 2017: Navigating the
Challenges as American
Zionists at Temple
Emeth in Teanecks
Byachad breakfast,
10:30 a.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. Breakfast
reservations, (201) 833-
Marlon Sobol Tali Yess
1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Sukkot at Chabad will be rocking

Simchat Torah in Park
Ridge: Temple Beth
Sholom of Pascack
Valley welcomes
participants to dance
with the Torahs, 7:30
p.m. (201) 391-4620
or www.temple-beth-
sholom.org.
Friday
OCTOBER 13
Simchat Torah for
women: Teaneck
Womens Tefillah has
its annual celebration
beginning with
Shacharit, 8:45 a.m.,
followed by hakafot,
Torah reading, Musaf,
and kiddush. For
location information,
email teaneck.womens.
tefillah@gmail.com.
Keisuke Ikuma Singles Valley Chabad will hold the Rockin in The duo, Tali Yess and Marlon Sobol. Food
Park concert to celebrate Sukkot at Wood from Judd Memphis BBQ. The day also
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El has its Wednesday Dale County Park in Woodcliff Lake on marks Valley Chabads 18 years in Wood-
Guest Artist Shabbat OCTOBER 18 Sunday, October 8. The free community cliff Lake and the Pascack Valley.
service, led by Rabbis concert, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., For more information, call (201) 476-
David Widzer and Beth Seniors meet in includes music by the Jewish folk band 0157 or go to valleychabad.org.
Kramer-Mazer and Orangeburg: Singles
student cantor Julie 65+ from the JCC
Staple and featuring Rockland meet for
violinist Sharon Yamada
and Keisuke Ikuma on
dinner at Hogans Diner
in Orangeburg, N.Y., 6
Community carnival in Teaneck
the English horn and p.m. Individual checks.
oboe, 7:30 p.m. 221 CareOne at Teaneck offers a fall festival community carnival on Sunday, October 8, from
17 Dutch Hill Road.
Schraalenburgh Road. Gene, (845) 356-5525. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The carnival will include food, games, prizes, giveaways, a petting zoo,
(201) 768-5112 or www. face painting, a bounce house, balloons, and music. It will be in the main parking lot,
tbenv.org.
Friday 544 Teaneck Road. All food will be kosher and the sukkah will be up. For information,
call (201) 862-3300.
Saturday NOVEMBER 3
OCTOBER 14
Shabbaton: Sharon
Ganz & Friends host
Shabbat in Washington a Tachlis Shabbaton
Township: Temple for Jewish singles,
Beth Or holds an open late 20s-30s-40s, at
house for a community Young Israel of Avenue
Taste of Torah, 8:30 a.m. J in Brooklyn, through
Rabbi Noah Fabricant Saturday night. Fee
leads a discussion of includes three Shabbat
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on the haftarah. Bagels 529-8748 or (718) 575-
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JCC to host talent auditions

The School of Theater Arts at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades is Tenafly is schedul- Members of the Friends of the Englewood Library sort and shelve
ing auditions for a talent search on Sunday, books for the sale. PHOTO PROVIDED

October 15, beginning at 2 p.m. The search

offers the opportunity for New Jersey and
New York City agents to discover local
Book sale readied in Englewood
performers. The Friends of the Englewood Library signed books, and collectibles.
Actors, singers, improv artists, and mod- hold their bargain fall book sale on Octo- Our book sale success is partly due to
els ages 3 to adult will have a chance ber 13, 14, and 15. One of the largest, most the people who donate regularly and gen-
to perform for industry professionals and comprehensive events of its kind in north- erously, and to the fact that we cull books
agency scouts, who will make constructive ern New Jersey, the Englewood Library immediately after a previous sale, resulting
suggestions and provide more opportuni- book sale also is known for its friendly staff in books that are in good condition and up-
COURTESY JCCOTP

ties to audition for local talent agents, cast- and well-organized shelves. The books are to-date, Friends president Ella Urdang said.
ing directors, and managers who special- sorted into categories fiction, Judaica, On Friday all adult, young adult, and
ize in theater, film, television, modeling, art, history, biography, cookbooks, chil- childrens books will be $2 (3 for $5), and
print work, and voice-overs for video and drens, African-American studies, foreign mass-market paperbacks will be 5 for $1.
internet games. Those who qualify will be language, gardening, poetry, nature, sci- As usual, there will be some individually
invited to a special agent audition on Sunday, November 5. ence, sports, psychology, self-help, busi- priced specials.
All auditions will be held in the Eric Brown Theater on the second floor of the JCC. ness, and Americana. The sale also fea- Call (201) 568-2215 or email librarybook-
For an audition time and details, call Hagit at (201) 408-1493. tures CDs and DVDs, classical records, sale@hotmail.com for more information.

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Jewish World

Television icon and philanthropist Monty Hall, 96

Ryan Torok

F
or decades, Monty Hall lived a
double life: ebullient game show
host and celebrity to millions by
day, and when not on camera,
indefatigable fundraiser and philanthro-
pist for Jewish and other causes.
Renowned for co-creating and hosting
Lets Make a Deal, Hall was equally if not
more proud of raising, by some estimates,
more than $1 billion for charity.
Monte Halparin was born on August
25, 1921, in Winnipeg, Canada, the son of
Rose and Maurice. His Orthodox family
was in the kosher meat business, and Hall
grew up delivering orders on his bicycle.
His mother, Rose, was a schoolteacher,
performer and Hadassah regional presi-
dent who Hall once called a combina-
tion of Golda Meir and [Yiddish actress]
Molly Picon.
The family struggled and lived in close
quarters. Hall couldnt afford to stay in
college, so he dropped out. Fortunately,
a Jewish businessman and friend of the
family, Max Freed, altered the trajectory
of Halls life. When Hall was 19, Freed,
10 years Halls senior, offered to pay for
Halls college education, but with three
conditions: His grades had to be B-plus
or higher, he had to report regularly on Monty Hall receives the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on June 16, 2013. The
his progress to Freed, and, most impor- presenter is Wayne Brady, his successor as host of Lets Make a Deal.  QKevin Winter/Getty Images
tantly, he had to promise that one day
he would do the same for a kid who
needed help. Additionally, the shows legacy was its the American Committee for Shaare Zedek
Hall seized the opportunity. He re- inclusiveness, Hall said. I think what Medical Center, and the Jewish Home for
enrolled at the University of Manitoba, fre-
quently checking in with Freed to inform
Lets Make a Deal was the first televi-
sion show that used black people, brown
you do with the Aging (now the Los Angeles Jewish
Home), among countless others.
him of his grades. In 1945, he earned people, yellow people, old people, fat your life is In a 2014 Jewish Journal video series
his degree.
While he was in college, Hall per-
people, skinny people, because we felt
this was a cross section of America, Hall
your epitaph. titled Mondays With Monty, Hall
recounted an exchange with his father,
formed in musical theater productions told the Archive of American Television in whod stopped going to synagogue. His
and worked an evening job as a radio disc a 2002 interview. very normal upbringing. It just happened father told him that he expressed his
jockey. After graduating, he moved to Among Halls other claims to fame, to be that at certain times of the day, youd religion through his devotion to his fam-
Toronto, where he worked at a radio sta- Lets Make a Deal gave rise to a classic turn on the TV and thered be my father. ily. Hall said he couldnt argue with that.
tion. There, his boss told him to shorten probability puzzle. After a contestant has In 2013, Hall was honored with the Life- In fact, in the 2002 interview with the
his name from Halparin to Hall. Restless chosen one door, and then the host offers time Achievement Award at the 40th Day- Archive of American Television, he said he
and looking for bigger opportunities, Hall him the opportunity to change his mind time Emmy Awards ceremony. He received wanted to be remembered for being some-
moved to New York in 1955 and transi- and choose another, should he? Would a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one who did his best for his family.
tioned to television. Five years later, he changing his mind put the odds of a better in 1973. Hall more than lived up to his prom-
moved to Hollywood. prize in his favor? Hall himself once said Hall had a lifelong commitment to Juda- ise to Max Freed to help others in need,
While he was in Hollywood, his big that in The Monty Hall Problem, as it ism. He was a longtime friend of the late becoming a major fundraiser for count-
break was co-creating Lets Make a Deal came to be called, the contestants choice Rabbi Jacob Pressman of Temple Beth less charities.
with Stefan Hatos. Lets Make a Deal was matters less than the way the host manipu- Am, where the family belonged. In 2005, Id like to be remembered as somebody
a game show inspired by the Frank Stock- lates the player. Hall had his second bar mitzvah at Tem- who cared, who cared for other people,
ton short story The Lady, or The Tiger? Hall and his late wife, Marilyn, who died ple Shalom for the Arts today known who did his best, who did his best for his
in which a mans choices result either in in June, raised three children: Richard, a as Temple of the Arts. In later years, he family, for his friends, for the community,
love or death. Lets Make a Deal debuted television producer; actress Joanna Glea- attended IKAR. for the country and continued to do it,
in late 1963 in NBCs daytime lineup. It son; and Sharon, also a television pro- Hall credited his commitment to Juda- Hall said. I think what you do with your
aired until 1968 before it moved to ABC, ducer. The couple was married for nearly ism and his mother for his devotion to life is your epitaph.
where it ran until 1976. 70 years. The Halls met in Canada, wed charitable giving. He spent much of his Hall is survived by his children, Joanna
The show became one of the most suc- in 1947, and moved to New York together, life raising money for charity. Causes he Gleason (Chris Sarandon), Richard Hall,
cessful in television history. Hall hosted before finally settling in Beverly Hills. supported included the childrens charity and Sharon Hall (Todd Ellis Kessler), and
4,700 episodes of the show. Marilyn Hall was as an actress, writer, pro- Variety International, Cedars-Sinai Medical his grandchildren, Aaron David Gleason,
Part of the appeal of Lets Make a Deal ducer, and philanthropist. Center, and Israel Tennis Centers. He also Mikka Tokuda-Hall, Maggie Tokuda-Hall,
was the audience members who dressed My parents kept show business as far was a regular presence on the gala circuit, Jack Kessler, and Levi Kessler.
up in costumes in hopes of being picked away from our house as possible, Gleason emceeing events benefiting Hadassah, the  Reprinted with permission from

by Hall to appear on the show. once told the magazine Playbill. It was a Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

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Anna Baker
Anna Baker, 87, of the Bronx died
September 30.
Born in New York City, she was
a member of The Workmens
Circle.
Predeceased by a daughter,
Shavonne, she is survived by her
husband, Leon, a son, Martin of
New Hampshire, daughters Leslie
and Margot, both of New York
City, and two grandchildren.
Far-right partys rise challenges German Jews
ALINA DAIN SHARON
The rise of the right-wing Alternative for
Germany party in the countrys recent
election has been described as a politi-
cal earthquake.
Jewish leaders immediate reaction
was to express concern about AfDs
views. But what are the broader impli-
cations of the partys electoral showing
for German Jews and for Israel?
In late September, AfD won 12.6 per-
cent of the public vote, in the first time
a German far-right party won seats in
the countrys Bundestag legislature in
decades. Chancellor Angela Merkel,
head of the center-right Christian Demo-
cratic Union party, retained her nations
leadership for a fourth term.
AfD founded in 2013, largely to pro-
test the issue of bailouts for financially
struggling European Union member
states has adopted an increasingly
hard line against NATO, the EU and the
United States, as well as against immi-
gration and Islamic terrorism.
Germanys Jewish community is
worried about the influx of mainly Mus-
lim immigrants, many of whom are
hostile to Jews and Israel, said Konstanty
Gebert, a prominent Polish Jewish activ-
ist, journalist and expert from the Euro-
pean Council on Foreign Relations.
If AfD influences the German gov-
ernment to tighten immigration laws,
some Jews might feel relieved. On the
other hand, if Germany becomes more
unwelcoming to non-ethnic Germans,
this may concern Jews.
Some AfD politicians have made bla-
tantly anti-Semitic remarks. In 2016, AfD
politician Wolfgang Gedeon claimed
Holocaust denial is a legitimate opin-
ion. Gedeon has called the infamous
anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion a brilliant concept
of domination. Another AfD politician,
Bjrn Hcke, has said in reference to
the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Ger-
mans are the only people in the world
who plant a monument of shame in the
heart of the capital.
AfD politician Nicolaus Fest recently
defended his party against accusations
of anti-Semitism, telling i24NEWS, The
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Josephine Block
Josephine Block, 87, of Pompton
Lakes died September 26.
She attended Rutgers University
and worked in finance, real estate,
day care, and for Cablevision for
25 years. She volunteered at the
Pompton Lakes Library and Chilton
Memorial Hospital and was a
AfD is mostly concerned about imported
terrorism and imported anti-Semitism.
I think most Jews should vote for us
because the imported anti-Semitism is
mostly a Muslim problem.
Josef Schuster, president of the
Central Council for Jews in Germany,
said that the entry of the AfD into
the German Bundestag is really wor-
rying for our whole country and for
the Jewish community.
Currently, the AfD is focused on
Muslims, he said. But their agitation
against Muslims can easily change into
propaganda against Jews, if it seems
politically opportune to do so. So we
will follow any further developments
of this party closely. But I am con-
vinced that it is possible to counter the
AfD and to show its true face.
Deidre Berger, director of American
Jewish Committees Ramer Institute
in Berlin, said that the hallmarks of
post-WWII German democracy, includ-
ing tolerance and inclusiveness, are
threatened by the rise of a far right-wing
group. There is considerable danger that
once the lid is opened on a Pandoras
box of anti-Semitic stereotypes, age-old
tropes will spread and multiply.
Schuster said that the AfD isnt
an extreme right-wing party, but a
right-wing populist party which tol-
erates members with extreme right-
wing views.
Benjamin Weinthal, a Berlin-based
fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies, said that the AfD is not a
neo-Nazi party in the tradition of Ger-
manys National Democratic Party; its
members include leaders such as Alice
Weidel, who is openly gay. On the other
hand, he noted, some AfD members do
glorify Nazism.
Despite assurances by AfD leaders
that their policies will not harm Jewish
life, the climate of hostility and hatred
engendered by AfD politicians does
not portend well for the security of the
Jewish community and other minority
groups, Berger said.
Gebert said he does not believe it is
possible for Jews to trust the extreme
right to stop at what is only necessary
for the fight against [Islamic] terrorism
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Local/Jewish World/Dear Rabbi Zahavy

Adams Animals
from page 8
The illustrator, Steliyana Doneva, has
done a wonderful job, Rabbi Schwartz
said. He never met her, he added; she is
not Jewish, and she lives in Romania. Her
English is sketchy at best. But it doesnt
matter. She understands his text com-
pletely, he said, and she has brought it
to life.
It was so much fun, from beginning
to end, he added. Doing the research,
writing it, all of it.
And I found out that the book was
going to be published when I was on
safari in South Africa, seeing so many
animals.
Dear Rabbi
from page 43
never raising a single complaint. And
when he wins his trial, and is offered all
the bounties of heaven, he asks for just
one reward a warm roll with fresh but-
ter for breakfast every morning.
The best answer I can sum up for you
is that honestly, nobody knows if there
is a heaven, or what that heaven is like.
A rabbi who tells you with certainty the
details of the world to come is not a
credible witness, even if he cites for you
centuries of midrashic and kabbalistic
sources. Those texts were meant to be
Not that going on safari is an everyday,
or even every-year, experience for him,
he added. It was instead the culmination
of an environmentalists lifelong dream.
In Adams Animals, Adam is not
white. That is not accidental. The story
was written to express diversity in many
different ways, and in ways that appeal
to someone who comes from a differ-
ent faith background, or no faith back-
ground at all.
We are all on this planet together,
and we have to figure out how to take
better care of it together.
Environmentalism unites us, he
said.
tentative and allegorical, not absolute
and factual. You were right intuitively to
mistrust the literal certainty of the rabbi.
And so you will have to wait to find
out the answer to your heavenly ques-
tions for yourself, hopefully after 120
years of a fulfilling and righteous life.
Regardless of the destination for you in
the afterlife, rest assured that a life of
good deeds has its own inherent value
in this world, and it is the right path to
whatever lies beyond it. Be well and
continue to do mitzvot, and be sincere
in all your dealings in this wonderful
universe in which we live right now.
Hamas
from page 39
previous agreements. These would pre-
sumably include the 2003 road map
that was to have culminated in Palestinian
statehood.
Still, Zomlot said the Palestinians
wanted more clarity from the Trump
administration.
We cannot travel a journey without
knowing a final destination, he said. Zom-
lot referred to Trumps news conference
with Netanyahu in February, when the
president said, Im looking at two-state
and one-state, and I like the one that both
parties like.
From the launch of the Oslo process in
1993 until now, Palestinian Authority offi-
cials have spoken of a one-state outcome
only in pessimistic terms, casting it as a
dystopia engendered by a failed process.
Last month, addressing the United Nations
General Assembly, Abbas in a first for a
Palestinian leader, said that if the two-
state option collapses, Palestinians could
embrace one state. It would not be a pre-
dominantly Jewish state covering Israel
and most of the West Bank, an outcome
popular among the Israeli right, but a bina-
tional state in which West Bank and Gaza
Palestinians have full rights as citizens.
Abbas warned in his U.N. address that in
the failure of a two-state solution, neither
you nor we will have any other choice but
to continue the struggle and demand full,
equal rights for all inhabitants of historic
Palestine. This is not a threat, but a warn-
ing of the realities before us as a result of
ongoing Israeli policies that are gravely
undermining the two-state solution.
Zomlot expanded on that possibility at
his news briefing Monday.
As long as we mean one man and one
woman, one vote, we are fine with this,
he said, adding however that the two-state
solution remains absolutely the best
option.
Zomlot also addressed the Taylor Force
Act, legislation named for an American
stabbed to death last year by a Palestinian
terrorist that would slash funding to the
Palestinian Authority as long as it contin-
ued to subsidize the families of Palestin-
ians jailed for or killed attacking Israelis.
Palestinians say the payments mostly go
to the families of the wrongfully impris-
oned. Zomlot said the Palestinians pro-
posed a tripartite commission, to include
the United States, Israel and the Pales-
tinian Authority, that would consider
whether to remove some families from
the payrolls.
We have engaged with the administra-
tion, we have a trilateral commission, he
said. We would offer to the United States
to be the sole arbitrator and we will accept
[the decision]. Guess who rejected it?
Israel.
A senior Trump administration official
suggested that Zomlot was overstating the
offer.
We only received a brief general outline
about this proposal which did not answer
key questions or present a viable solution
to the real problem, which is the official
policy of paying terrorists and their fami-
lies, the official said.
A senior Israeli official said that the offer
missed the point the Palestinians can
stop the payments on their own.
The Palestinians dont need Israel, the
U.S. or anyone else, they just need to do it,
the official said. Unfortunately they wont.
 JTA Wire Service

Briefs
Innovation Authority aims
to double high-tech workforce
The Israel Innovation Authority released its 2017 annual
report Monday, detailing the governments plans to dou-
ble the countrys high-tech workforce during the next
decade.
According to the report, Israels high-tech industry is
experiencing unprecedented success. Yet at the same
time, the Israeli economy risks grinding to a halt, and the
so-called start-up nation is in danger of losing its coveted
status as one of the worlds foremost high-tech innovators.
With this in mind, the Innovation Authority aims to
boost Israels current 270,000 high-tech employees to
more than half a million.
Israel is currently ranked first in the world in research
and development and venture capital investments as a
percentage of gross domestic product, with more than
600 new start-up companies being founded in the country
every year. The Jewish state is also home to more than 300
R&D centers belonging to tech giants such as Facebook,
Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM and Apple.
To boost high-tech employment, the Innovation Author-
ity suggested further integrating certain sectors of Israeli
society into the high-tech arena namely, groups that are
underrepresented in the field, including charedi Jews,
Arabs and women. JNS.ORG
Israeli pro tennis player
Dudi Sela quits mid-match
to mark Yom Kippur
The top-ranked Israeli professional tennis
player, Dudi Sela, walked off the court during
the third set of a quarterfinal match in the ATP
Shenzhen Open tennis tournament last Friday
due to the imminent start of Yom Kippur, the
holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
The 32-year-old Israeli player, ranked 77th in
the world, quit his match against Ukraines Alex-
andr Dolgopolov after losing the first set, but
winning the second.
Sela had reportedly asked that the match be
scheduled earlier in the day due to Yom Kippurs
start at sundown, but his request was purport-
edly declined, prompting him to exit before its
completion.
No one forced him to retire, said the players
brother, Ofer Sela. He didnt do it because he
was afraid of anyone, or because he was asked
to. He did it only because he respects Yom Kip-
pur and the country which he represents.
By withdrawing, Dudi Sela forfeited $34,000
in prize money and the chance to improve his
global ranking.  JNS.ORG
Hamas agrees to prisoner swap
and that ball is in Israels court
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar declared that the Palestinian terror
group has accepted an Egyptian outline for a prisoner exchange
deal with Israel, media outlets affiliated with Hamas reported
Thursday.
The reports did not detail the specifications of the Egyptian pro-
posal. It was noted, however, that the groups leadership accepted
the prisoner exchange outline during a recent visit to Cairo.
The proposal has supposedly been passed on to Israel by
Egyptian intelligence officials.
The ball is in Israels court and the decision whether to make
a deal is in its hands, a senior official with the terror group told
Hamas-affiliated media.
According to the reports, Sinwars announcement was accom-
panied by a warning directed at Israel. I can launch in 51 min-
utes the same amount of missiles that I launched over the course
of 51 days during Operation Protective Edge, he said, referring
to the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, in which nearly 70
Israelis were killed.
In July, Arabic-language media reported Israel and Hamas
were holding secret negotiations meant to yield a prisoner
exchange deal that would see the Gaza-ruling terrorist group
release several Israeli civilians and return the remains of two
soldiers in exchange for the release of Palestinian security pris-
oners. JNS.ORG

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Black Box Performing Center presents Hand to God

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Okin, produced by Black Box Studios, and October 8; Thursday, October 12; Friday,
features a cast of BBPAC mainstays: Shari October 13; Saturday, October 14; and Sun-
Cohen, Michael Gardiner, Sara Giacomini, day, October 15.
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Intel brings Israeli-made 3D tech to 11 more NFL stadiums

Brian Blum Browns, Indianapolis Colts, Kansas City where an Intel production team virtu- in 2011. Intel began partnering with

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