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LETTERS
Theres evidence that Jesus observed Chanukah.

HARRY EISENBERG, GLEN ROCK
F.Y.I.
Baby born in IDF field hospital,
named Israel
At least 12 babies, most of them
premature, have been delivered
in Israels field hospital in the Philip-
pines including one named Israel.
We choose the name Israel as just
saying thank you to the Israeli people,
said Audrin Antigua, holding her new-
born son. Thank you so much.
The hospital is seeing about 300
patients a day, many injured in last
weeks Typhoon Haiyan or with
chronic conditions exacerbated by the
lack of running water or electricity.
The premature babies are being cared
for in incubators brought by the Israel
Defense Forces as part of the field
hospital.
I am not sure what would have
happened if we had not been around,
said Lt.-Col. Dr. Ofer Merin, the field
hospitals medical manager.
The IDFs 147-member medical and
humanitarian delegation and 100 tons
of humanitarian and medical supplies
landed on Thursday evening in Bogo
City on Cebu Island, one of the areas
hardest hit by Haiyan.
Long lines have become a common
sight outside the IDF field hospital
since its opening. Bogo City Mayor Ce-
lestino Martinez Jr. said, The typhoon
destroyed everything we have here,
from infrastructure to agriculture.
The field hospital capacity that the
Israelis can mobilize is top class, and
we have seen it very, very effectively in
many other crises as well, John Ging,
a top UN humanitarian official, told
ABC News.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman, an NBC cor-
respondent, wrote a long piece on
Israels humanitarian work. I asked the
IDF Surgeon General in charge why
they chose Bogo. He said it was be-
cause they were poor and their needs
were great. As I left, I walked away in
awe of this group of doctors: physi-
cian humanitarians, and medicine at its
very best, she wrote.
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Candlelighting: Friday, November 15, 4:15 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, November 16, 5:17 p.m.
Chanukah for
hobbyists
lHow better to celebrate a
holiday marked by candelight
(or oil lamps) than with an
old-fashioned snail mail card
or note?
Thats the thought behind
the new Chanukah stamp
unveiled Tuesday at the
Manhattan JCC.
The stamp the latest in a
series of Chanukah stamps that
began with a 1996 joint issue with
Israel features a photograph
of a contemporary forged-iron
chanukiah created by Vermont
blacksmith Steven Bronstein. Nine
white beeswax candles flame atop
each of the branches.
On the other hand, those looking
for a more modern touch to mark
the Maccabees miracle should
know that Evil Mad Scientist
Laboratories have expanded its line
of do-it-yourself LED menorah kits.
New kits feature multicolored LEDs,
as well as a no-solder model. Prices
start at $13.95 for a kit featuring
yellow LEDs.
Electronic hobbyists willing to
spend a little more money and time
to create a computerized menorah
that lights itself when it knows that
it is Chanukah should go to http://
welikepie.com/hanukkahasaservice
LARRY YUDELSON
lHow does it feel?
For the Israeli
multimedia
company Interlude,
it must feel very
good to be tasked
with creating an
official music video
for Bob Dylans
Like a Rolling
Stone, a mere
48 years after the
song premiered.
The video
appeared on the
BobDylan.com website this week, to
mark the appearance of a 47-disc box
set, The Complete Album Collection
Volume 1.
The video, using Interlude
technology, lets viewers choose
between 16 channels news, sports,
home design, childrens cartoon and
the like in which all of the characters
mouth Dylans lyrics.
In reality, channel-flipping is a very
passive act. Youre sitting back in your
house, doing nothing. We wanted to
make it an active thing, reediting the
song itself to make a new version, the
films Israeli director, Jerusalem-born
Vania Heymann, told Rolling Stone the
magazine.
Mr. Heymann, a graduate of the
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
and the child of French immigrants,
filmed the video in Israel, New York, and
California.
Maybe its time for some Zionist
groups to commission a video
of Dylans 1984 pro-Israel song,
Neighborhood Bully.
LARRY YUDELSON
Israelis behind new classic rock video
Israeli doctors with the first Philippine baby born in IDF field hospital.
IDF SPOKESPERSON
Joseph Yudelson of Teaneck poses with
the LED menorah he soldered together.
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Chanukah lights
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Menorah committee celebrates successful effort
LOIS GOLDRICH
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his year, for the first time, a Cha-
nukah menorah will be promi-
nently displayed in the Village
of Ridgewood, at the northwest
end of Memorial Park at Van Neste Square
on East Ridgewood Avenue.
According to Rabbi David J. Fine, religious
leader of the towns Temple Israel and Jew-
ish Community Center, while the question
of a menorah on public land was a matter
of some controversy in our community, the
upshot is that the village is simply allowing
the display, not putting up the display itself,
and that we have been able to work with the
wider Jewish community in Ridgewood in
establishing what will hopefully be a tradi-
tion in bringing together our community in
a newly imagined village.
Rabbi Fine said that during the summer
of 2012, Ridgewood Mayor Paul Aronsohn
was approached by a group of Ridgewood
residents who sought to have the menorah
erected.
Those residents Esther Zuckerman,
Michele Opper, Lara Cohen, and Nicole
Cohen had been discussing the issue
among themselves since the previous year,
gathering the information they would need
to put forward the proposal.
I went to a menorah lighting in 2011 in
Allendale and I thought, why dont we have
this in Ridgewood? Ms. Opper said. It
was so wonderful, bringing out all the Jew-
ish families as well as other people. I knew
Esther and I spoke with her about it. Then I
ran into Nicole, and she was also interested.
She brought in Lara.
The group continued to meet informally,
ultimately deciding to approach the mayor.
He put us on the path, Ms. Opper said.
For us, its always been about our fami-
lies and the way Ridgewood is now, Ms.
Zuckerman said. Its a diverse community.
We want to be able to show our children
and our families that they are represented
and included in this community.
Pointing out that it is a mitzvah to display
a lighted menorah publicly, she said, The
four of us came together and said, How can
we do this? Who do we need to reach out
to? What information do we need before-
hand to make this happen? We did a lot
of logical information gathering due dili-
gence. We did a lot of talking and listening
to different community members.
After collecting information from sur-
rounding communities taking note of
where and how their menorahs are dis-
played as well as learning more about
the history of Ridgewood and how it
has celebrated other events, the women
approached the mayor, who, in turn, called
in Rabbi Fine.
Mayor Aronsohn referred it to me in
both my role as rabbi of the synagogue and
chairman of the interfaith clergy associa-
tion, said Rabbi Fine, who together with
the mayor met with the four women. He
subsequently discussed the issue with the
clergy council, and a majority wanted to
be supportive.
But while there was no opposition to the
menorah itself, there was a feeling that the
religious life of the village should be in the
hands of the religious community of the
town, not the village government.
Going back to his congregation, Rabbi
Fine took a survey of his membership, gaug-
ing their reaction to the menorah.
We found that there was a difference
of opinion in terms of those who said we
should absolutely have it and it was a shame
that we didnt have one already, and those
who were not supportive of it either because
they were uncomfortable with blurring the
lines between church and state or because
they didnt see why there should be a need
for Chanukah to compete with Christmas,
Rabbi Fine said. Its not our high holiday.
There shouldnt be a sense of competition.
Others, he said, thought that religious
observances, in general, should be done
privately in peoples homes.
There was a real variety of views, to the
point that the synagogue couldnt advocate
strongly for or against, Rabbi Fine said.
Nevertheless, he continued to do
research and understood that the law that
has evolved from Supreme Court decisions
over the past 15 years makes it difficult to say
no. Its constitutionally protected. I came to
understand the position of the Supreme
Court, that its not a church-state question
but a question of freedom of expression. If
an individual community wishes to express
its religion, to celebrate it publicly, and is
asking for an opportunity to do that, it
would be improper for the village to say no.
Fine said that before he began his
research he had been worried about the
church-state issue, although the absence of
a menorah did not make him feel excluded.
We all approach our role as a minor-
ity differently, he said. I learned more
about the constitutional issue, and now I
also believe that this is in the interest of the
Jewish community.
Rabbi Fine stressed that while the meno-
rah and the Christmas tree will be displayed
in the same general area, they are not in
the same location.
That is important. We didnt want it next
to the Christmas tree. Theres no sense of
competition.
He noted also that neither the menorah
nor the tree are funded by tax dollars.
We didnt want a Village of Ridgewood
menorah, he said. Rather, it will be the
menorah of the Jewish community of Ridge-
wood, put in a public place with the permis-
sion of the town.
Rabbi Fine said that he has been working
closely with the rabbis of Barnert Temple
in Franklin Lakes, Temple Beth Rishon in
Wyckoff, and Temple Beth Or in Washing-
ton Township. While the menorah techni-
cally will be the property of Temple Israel,
each night the lighting ceremonies will be
conducted by a rabbi from one of these
congregations.
Its been a wonderful opportunity to
gather together with leaders of the Jewish
community and for all the Jewish residents
of Ridgewood to share their opinions, he
said. Weve seen the grassroots of the
Jewish community in Ridgewood come
together.
Rabbi Fine stressed that the menorah will
The menorah stands tall inside Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center
in Ridgewood. JOHANNA RESNICK ROSEN/CANDID EYE
be entirely funded by Ridgewood residents
no government funding, no outside fund-
ing. Its going to be completely run by the
rabbis, working together with the Jewish
community of Ridgewood.
Ms. Opper pointed out, however, that
since many Ridgewood residents attend
synagogues outside the community, they
are inviting friends, families, and fellow
congregants to contribute to the project as
well.
The menorah committee is well satisfied
with the result of its labors.
Noting that they encountered virtually
no resistance, Ms. Zuckerman said, We
worked with as many resources as we possi-
bly could public, religious, and otherwise.
We started with Mayor Aronsohn and Rabbi
Fine. Then, as the process went along, we
expanded our outreach to talking and lis-
tening tours with different members of the
private and public communities to let them
know what we were thinking.
Had their request been refused by the
council, she said, we would do what we do
one step at a time. We would have kept on
expanding our circle of supporters.
This is a grassroots effort. We would
have kept on talking to keep it in the public
eye.
Were pretty thrilled, she added, noting
that the proposal received the unanimous
approval of the five-member city council.
This is a big deal for both the Jewish com-
munity and the non-Jewish community.
A more inclusive, more embracing
community is good for everyone, Mayor
Aronsohn said. This is a very exciting
moment in the life of our village one that
underscores Ridgewoods profound sense
of community and profound commitment
to inclusiveness.
He added that he applauds the residents
behind the initiative, who advocated for
a menorah with the right mix of energy,
sensitivity, and passion. And they received
invaluable support from the leaders of
Ridgewoods extraordinary interfaith com-
munity, led by our own Rabbi David Fine,
as well as from Rabbi Elyse Frishman,
Rabbi Ruth Zlotnick, and Rabbi Kenneth
Emert, each of whom represents members
of Ridgewoods Jewish community and each
of whom played an important role in this
effort.
On Wednesday, November 27, at 5:30
p.m., the first Chanukah candle will be lit
in Van Neste Square. Mayor Aronsohn will
be there, and other council members have
been invited as well.
It will be a big celebration, Ms. Zucker-
man said. Its free and open to all.
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From left, Esther Zuckerman, Michele Opper, Rabbi David Fine, and Rabbi Elyse
Frishman put the menorah together inside Temple Israel to make sure that it
worked. It will be disassembled and then reassembled outside.
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LARRY YUDELSON
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ome people help a friend going through hard times
with a Hallmark card.
Some people say it with flowers.
Rabbi Menachem Genack sends a dvar Torah
a sermonette, in old-time television parlance.
Which, as it turns out, suited the friend President Bill
Clinton just ine.
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didate Clinton at a fundraising event in Alpine in 1992. The
rabbi, alluding to President George H. W. Bushs self-con-
fessed dificulties with the vision thing, quoted Proverbs:
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Governor Clinton thanked the rabbi. He said that he
would use the verse when he accepted the nomination at
the party convention and he did.
Rabbi Genack went on to be a regular guest at White House
prayer meetings and brieings for Jewish leaders. Each time,
he would present the president with a short piece of Torah.
In President Clintons second term, the pace picked up;
Rabbi Genack began sending the White House a dvar Torah
roughly every other week. He wrote most of them, but he
asked friends and colleagues including such modern
Orthodox notables as former Yeshiva University Chancellor
Rabbi Norman Lamm and former British Chief Rabbi Jona-
than Sacks to write some as well.
Now, around a hundred of them have been collected in a
new book, Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on
Faith and Leadership.
They were things I thought would be helpful for him,
Rabbi Genack said.
Some tied into the weeks Torah portion or an upcoming
Jewish holiday; the themes of others were dictated by the
events in the presidents political or personal life or both,
as they became uncomfortably intertwined.
If you read President Clintons memoir, he speaks about
what gave him strength during his impeachment: He would
go back and read the Bible for many hours a day, and what
he called these mini-sermons, Rabbi Genack said.
That the president of the United States should be so
engaged by this and so intrigued speaks about President
Clintons openness and curiosity.
The president responded to some of the rabbis letters,
and those responses are included in the book, which was
published by OU Press and Sterling Publishing. (Rabbi
Genack heads the Orthodox Unions kosher division.)
Rabbi Genack noted the former presidents real love of
Israel, his concern for Israel, and very special relationship
with Yitzhak Rabin.
President Clinton clearly was no Orthodox Jew. But as
a Southern Baptist, he knows his Bible. One time, Rabbi
Genack mistyped a citation and referred to Genesis 28; Pres-
ident Clinton noted that it was chapter 38.
Rabbi Genack wasnt the only preacher to be out-Bibled
by President Clinton. In the book, Rabbi Genack tells of a
meeting in the White House with Christian religious lead-
ers. One said he was praying for the president and quoted a
verse from Chronicle 1. I believe that is in Second Chroni-
cles, corrected the President, correctly.
Similarly, when speechwriters were rushing to compose
the euloy for a cabinet member who had died in a plane
crash, they paraphrased a verse of Isaiah from memory;
President Clinton was able to cite chapter and verse and
quote the King James translation from memory.
Unlike most Jewish books citing Biblical wisdom, the
Rabbi Menachem Genack shares a moment of friendship with
Bill Clinton.
letters here are arranged thematically rather than according
to the weekly Torah portion. (An index, however, makes it
possible to use it to ind a sermonette for the weekly para-
shah, as can be seen on page 46 of this weeks paper.) Topics
include leadership, sin and repentance, creation, commu-
nity, faith, dreams and vision, and inally holidays.
The inal piece is about Rabbi Akiva and the holiday of
Lag bOmer.
It was motivated by it being Lag bOmer; I wrote it
because it was relevant to him during a very dificult
period, Rabbi Genack said. The idea was that the great-
ness of Rabbi Akiva was his resilience and faith in the deep-
est circumstances.
President Clinton responded to this one, confessing his
prior ignorance of the story of Rabbi Akiva, and his gratitude
for a story both inspiring and instructive that came on a
day when I was in need of both.
Rabbi Genack recalled that once, when he hadnt sent
a letter in two months, he received a call from the White
House oficial who had been passing them on to the presi-
dent. Whats happening? she asked.
The selection of letters for this volume did not close
the story. Rabbi Genack continues to write to the former
president.
I sent him one recently about the importance of com-
promise, something which is very deicient in Washing
today, he said. That was relevant to what I thought was
happening.
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JOANNE PALMER
T
o many of us non-physicians, medicine seems
like magic; somehow doctors the superhu-
man figures we think of as they somehow
they figure out exactly how the toe bone is con-
nected to the foot bone, the foot bone connected to the
ankle bone.
They analyze how miracle drugs work, and create
new ones; they figure out how the bodys electrical and
hormonal and muscular and molecular systems intertwine
with each other. They wave their hi-tech wands, and we
are cured.
Dr. Ravit Barkama of Tenafly is not only one of them, she
is one of them on steroids (metaphorically speaking, but of
course). As executive director of the Institute for Clinical
Research at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, she
manages, directs, and oversees the research operations
at the hospital in other words, she is a physician who
manages, directs, and oversees the development of little
bits of magic.
New drugs and medical devices constantly are
developed to treat a range of disorders, but whether those
drugs and devices actually work and whether they are
safe is something that only rigidly controlled clinical
trials can determine. Without such trials, none of these
drugs and devices can win approval by the United States
Food and Drug Administration. Each has to be tested, in
a series of ever-larger and more complex settings, before
that approval is given. Dr. Barkama said
Holy Name often is part of that clinical trial process.
That means we get early experience, so we can offer it
early to our patients, and potentially enhance patient care
by offering them tomorrows drugs, Dr. Barkama said.
Because overwhelmingly most of the drugs and devices
tested at Holy Name eventually make it to market, the risk
to the patients is low, and the possible payoff generally is
fairly high.
The Institute for Clinical Research conducts trials in a
variety of clinical fields, Dr. Barkama said in cardiology,
infectious diseases, interventional radiology, multiple
sclerosis, oncology, and gastroenterology, among others.
Generally, drug manufacturers fund those studies, but
some are paid for by government agencies, chief among
them the National Institutes of Heath.
The hospital, too, supports the studies. Clinical
research enhances patient care by providing new cutting-
edge devices and drugs that otherwise we couldnt provide
to patients. The hospital often teams up with universities
in this work.
The system here is very supportive of the clinical
research program.
Although many hospitals allow research programs,
in its Institute for Clinical Research, Holy Name has an
organized, centralized research institute that oversees
the research, Dr. Barkama said. That
is why we have a lot of companies
contact us. We have to assess what kind
of studies we want; we assess for safety
and for the study design, and we look
to see if we have the patient population
that matches the criteria.
For example, Dr. Barkama said,
there is a kind of diarrhea called c diff
a nasty condition, caused by the
clostridium bacteria, that develops
when antibiotics change the flora of
the intestines. The condition is not
unusual, often develops in hospitalized
patients, and can be dangerous, even
fatal. The standard treatment is more
antibiotics, but while that can stop an
outbreak, it rarely cures the underlying
problem, and the diarrhea often recurs. Merck has begun
to manufacture an antibody that helps fight both the
episode and its recurrence.
The New England Journal of Medicine published a
study that showed a decrease in recurrence from 25 to 7
percent, Dr. Barkama said. That is amazingly significant.
She is overseeing a Phase 3 test of that drug; the hospital
already has treated 50 patients with the antibody.
The institute also is studying a vaccine against c diff that
is given to patients at high risk for the problem.
Another new study Dr. Barkama finds exciting involved
the use of a drug-coated balloon in patients who have
vascular occlusions. The condition can cause great pain
and keep wounds from healing; it often is treated with a
balloon, but the drugs coating the device are a clever new
idea, she said.
New medical procedures also must undergo testing.
One such procedure, Dr. Barkama said, is designed to treat
patients who suffer from a condition known as critical
limb ischemia reduced blood flow to the leg. There
are ways to treat that condition, but they dont always
work. In the procedure now under study at Holy Name,
doctors take marrow from a patients pelvic bone, filter
out the stem cells, and then inject those cells back into the
patients blood vessels.
Sometimes we have exhausted all the regular options,
but we dont want to give up on patients, Dr. Barkama
said. By doing clinical research, we give ourselves more
options.
Dr. Barkama arrived at her position at Holy Name
through a clear-eyed, open-hearted willingness to choose
among the many options available to her.
She was born on a kibbutz in Tiberius in the late 1960s;
during the first four years of her life she was brought up as
a classic kibbutz child, in a mode that was becoming less
Dr. Ravit Barkama oversees research at Holy Name Medical Center.
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common even then and is nearly nonexistent now. She
lived in a childrens house there; she and her parents
would visit each other often, but they did not live
together and they were not her primary caregivers.
Dr. Barkama comes from an unusual family.
Her father, Dr. Gideon Bar-Kama, grew up on that
kibbutz. He was the son of a rich, well-educated
Russian Jewish family; his father, Misha Bar-Kama,
born in 1913, had grown up not in a shtetel but in St.
Petersburg.
In fact, family lore says, Dr. Barkamas grandfathers
own grandmother, Sophie Pomeranz, had been a
journalist in Vienna; her newspaper sent her to Basel,
Switzerland, in 1898 to cover Theodor Herzl and the
third Zionist Congress.
Jews were ejected from St. Petersburg after World
War I, however, so her grandfather made his way
to what was then the Free City of Danzig. He was a
pure Zionist, ideological through and through; clearly
brilliant, and marked as a leader early on. He was
sent to Sweden to learn agriculture, so that he could
work the land in the most modern way when he got
to Palestine.
He met his wife, Nomi, a teacher, in Danzig, and the
two made aliyah together in 1932. They went straight
to the kibbutz, where they could live the socialism they
already loved. He found that he did not like working
the land as much as teaching others how to do it; he
developed a specialty in teaching about the Land of
Israel; his work ranged from the politically abstract to
the entirely practical.
When they got to Palestine, the young couple
Hebraicized their last name from Kamber to Bar-
Kama; their granddaughter morphed it into one word
when she arrived in the United States.
Her other grandparents, Yakov and Tova Salzman,
also arrived in Israel in the early 1930s; they came from
a less wealthy, less ideological background. She was a
housewife, and he was a manager for Solel Bonei, then
as now Israels largest construction company. Their
daughter, Dahlia, grew up in Haifa.
When Ravit Bar-Kama was 4, the family moved to
Los Angeles so her father could earn a Ph.D. from
UCLA in behavioral science. They returned to Israel
when she was 11. That explains Dr. Barkamas entirely
fluid, completely unaccented English she insists that
her vocabulary is not quite as flawless as her accent
would lead a listener to expect, but it is difficult for
that listener to notice any such lapses.
When they returned home, though, it was to
Raanana, not Tiberius. My mother told my father
that he had to chose between the kibbutz and her,
she said. Ideology can push a person only so far.
After high school, Dr. Bar-Kama went to the army;
she was in intelligence, where she served as liaison
to the air force. Next, she went to medical school at
Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. She began a residency
in radiology, but after a year, in 1999, I decided to
transfer to the Israeli medical industry, she said. That
move is not entirely unconventional now, but it was
then. I was inspired by the opportunities, she said.
It was really exciting to be at the forefront of the
technological revolution.
For 10 years, Dr. Bar-Kama worked with medical
device companies in Israel, trying to identify clinical
needs, doing clinical trials, assisted in marketing,
attending international conferences. She did not work
directly patients because I decided that I wanted to
make a difference in peoples lives in health care on a
more strategic level, she said. She defines herself as
a health care director, a job classification that is both
large and growing rapidly.
In 2006, Dr. Barkama joined a company that focused
on software solutions for cardiac cath labs, she said.
Cardiologists at Columbia probably the number 1 group
in the world were consultants for our company. After
working for them for about two years, they pulled me out
of Israel to New York.
It was a hard and a fabulous experience.
Dr. Barkamas husband, Zafi Dayan, is a systems engineer;
they have three children, Gal, 16; Roy, 15, and Itay, 7.
Their transition to the United States was not particularly
easy, but the family now is ensconced in the large Israeli
community in Tenafly.
After she began to work at Columbia, Dr. Barkama earned
a masters in public health there. About two years ago, she
moved to Holy Name. I love it, she said.
She plans on moving back to Israel one day, but she is
very glad that her trajectory has taken her through New
York, Teaneck, and Tenafly. It has been so inspiring and
so interesting, she said. If I had to chose my career path
again, I would do it all over again.
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ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
I
n a historic first, the first five U.S.-
educated yoatzot halacha (female
consultants in Jewish law) were
certified by rabbinic authorities in
Israel in August, and graduated on Octo-
ber 27 in a ceremony in Manhattan.
Three of the women grew up in Bergen
County.
Their certification as yoatzot halachat
(pronounced yo-ah-TSOTE, or yo-EH-tset
in singular) authorizes them to advise
women on the detailed practices gov-
erning taharat hamishpacha the code
of law relating to the physical marital
relationship.
Until Chana Henkin, head of Jerusalems
Nishmat Center for Advanced Jewish Study
for Women, founded the yoetzet halacha
program in 1997, the only resource avail-
able to Orthodox wives for answering
personal questions about menstruation,
pregnancy, menopause, and mikvah the
ritual bath were male rabbis.
Now, the existence of 90 women trained
in these laws as well as in gynecology,
obstetrics, fertility, lactation, psychology,
sexuality, family dynamics, and genetics
has caused something of a revolution.
Records show a sharp rise in the number
of inquiries from women in synagogues
or communities that have employed yoa-
tzot halacha now or in the past. That list
includes Rinat Yisrael and Netivot Shalom
in Teaneck, Ahavath Torah in Englewood,
and Kesher Synagogue in Tenafly.
Over 200,000 questions have been
answered through the hot line [in Israel],
online [at yoatzot.org] and in communi-
ties, said Yoetzet Halacha Atara Eis, direc-
tor of the U.S. Yoatzot Halacha Fellows
Program for Nishmats Miriam Glaubach
Center. In 14 years since the first class
graduated its amazing to see the level
of success this program has had. Commu-
nities are demanding this.
Jerusalem was the sole address for the
training of yoatzot halacha until requests
from many American Jewish locales
prompted Henkin to pilot a U.S. program
in 2011, based at Teanecks Maayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls.
Nechama Friedman Price of Bergenfield,
33, has been teaching advanced courses in
Jewish family law for 10 years at Yeshiva
Universitys Stern College for Women. I
always wanted to do the yoetzet program,
but it was in Israel, said Ms. Price, who
grew up in Teaneck and is expecting her
fourth child.
She therefore jumped at the chance to
become certified locally, even though it
was more difficult at this point in her life.
The balancing act we had to do was
hard, but it made the experience more
powerful because we were focused on
getting the most out of our time in the
program, said Ms. Price, who delivered
the graduation address. Now we are
all getting the opportunity to help the
women in our communities, which we
would not have had without earning the
title.
In July, Ms. Price sat on a panel of yoat-
zot halacha presenting a community pro-
gram in Teaneck. Hundreds of attendees
asked so many questions that the evening
stretched to three hours. Since then, Ms.
Price has taken 160 calls for halachic
advice from local residents, and she
hopes to be hired by a shul or commu-
nity in New Jersey.
Dena Katz Block, 27, was intrigued by
the yoetzet halacha program when she
was a high school student at Maayanot,
where she now teaches Talmud and U.S.
history and directs student program-
ming. After a year of study in Israel, an
undergraduate degree at Barnard Col-
lege and a masters in Talmud from Stern
College, however, she could not take two
years off to study in Jerusalem.
When they opened the program here,
I was ecstatic to be accepted, she said. I
was able to combine my love of learning
with giving back to the community and
helping women and families.
She is the official yoetzet at the Great
Neck Synagogue and at Congregation
Kehilath Jeshurun and Mount Sinai Jew-
ish Center in Manhattan. She lives in
Washington Heights but visits the other
locations periodically for Shabbat. She
answers questions via phone and email,
and gives lectures about once a month.
From the opening event I ran in Great
Neck, it was apparent that women have
so much on their minds to talk about with
taharat hamishpacha, and need an outlet
to discuss it, Ms. Block said. People who
have called and come to my programs
thank me so profusely and have told me
how they werent so comfortable asking
these kinds of questions to their rabbi.
Englewood-raised Tova Warburg Sinen-
sky, 32, is serving as yoetzet halacha in
greater Philadelphia, based in Kohelet
Yeshiva High Schools Community Beit
Midrash. She chairs Kohelets Talmud
department and mentors new teachers.
Ms. Sinensky, who is married to a rabbi,
graduated from the Moriah and Frisch
Schools and Stern College and received
her masters degree in secondary Jewish
education from Yeshiva University. Dur-
ing two years of training to be a mentor
in the Jewish New Teacher Program, she
said, I gained many communication skills
that helped me as a rebbetzin and con-
tinue to assist me as a yoetzet. These skills
include asking clarifying questions, as well
as ensuring that women feel comfortable
and understood.
While she and her husband were serv-
ing the Albert Einstein College of Medi-
cine Synagogue, she taught family law
to many brides and fielded related ques-
tions. I began to see that the answers I
provided impacted not only womens hal-
achic observance, but also their emotional
well-being, physical well-being, and mar-
riages, she said.
When she heard about Nishmat open-
ing a certification course in Teaneck, Ms.
Sinensky was drawn in immediately. I
wanted to provide as many women as pos-
sible with the opportunity to interact with
a female halachic advisor regarding this
very personal and sensitive area of Jew-
ish life; I wanted all women to feel com-
fortable communicating their needs and
receive the counsel and assistance that
they needed, she said.
The two other graduates are Lisa Sep-
timus, the newly appointed yoetzet hala-
cha of the Five Towns on Long Island,
and Avital Weissman, yoetzet halacha at
the Young Israel of Plainview, New York,
where she is also the rebbetzin.
Rabbi Kenneth Auman is dean of the
U.S. Fellows program. The new yoatzot
traveled to Jerusalem for their certification
tests, administered at Nishmat by rabbis
Yehuda Henkin, Yaakov Warhaftig, Yitzhak
Halevi, and Yosef Tzvi Rimon.
Ms. Eis, who earned her certification in
Israel and recently made aliyah, notes that
Maayanot has two yoatzot on its faculty
Dena Block and Shoshana Samuels.
It makes an impression on high school
students to see women in their 30s going
back to Torah study, she said. Nishmat
has developed a wonderful relationship
with Maayanot, and they generously
agreed to house the program. It makes
sense geographically and its a wonderful
role-modeling opportunity.
The American course meets full time
over three summers and eight hours per
week during the school year, with supple-
mentary monthly lectures.
A second cohort of six American Yoetzet
Halacha fellows began the first year of
study with an intensive week of studies at
Nishmat in Israel this summer.
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November 11 program about building bridges
LOIS GOLDRICH
I
t all began when parents Gila
Comet and Debra Prince intro-
duced her to two local veterans,
said Dr. Eva Lazar-Sultanik, assis-
tant principal of student life at Engle-
woods Moriah School.
Dr. Lazar-Sultanik met with the two
men Daniel Creighton and Dionisio
Cucuta, both footbal l
coaches from the towns
recreation department
and arranged for them
to participate in a Veter-
ans Day program at the
school.
The day exceeded her
expectations.
I t was ver y wel l
received, Dr. Lazar-Sul-
tanik said of the November
11 program. We piloted it
in four classes and in our
early childhood program. Each of the
participating classes including students
in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth
grade had assemblies in which they had
the opportunity to learn from the vets. The
highlight of the program was the student-
led flag folding ceremony.
If the students were moved by the pro-
gram, so too were the vets who met with
them.
Mr. Cucuta said he spoke with the
youngsters about the responsibilities of
each branch of the military and what he
learned as a Marine about discipline,
respect for others, moral obligation, and
defending the rights of humanity.
The students were all involved [and
made] eye contact, listening with inter-
est, he said of the pre-K through eighth
graders who listened to him.
They were an amazing group.
I felt great, he added, noting that he
derived particular pleasure from the stu-
dents who participated in the flag-folding
ceremony. They were persistent in fold-
ing it properly.
He also was moved by the pre-K stu-
dents who called the veterans their
superheroes.
The vets spoke a lot about the impor-
tance of being part of a team and the rela-
tionships they built as part of a team, Dr.
Lazar-Sultanik said. How it forced them
to grow up and be responsible. They have
tremendous pride in that.
In addition, she said, We shared with
them the mi sheberach we recite for the
protection of American soldiers. They
were touched by knowing that we have
that as part of our prayer service.
Dr. Lazar-Sultanik said that the week
before the program, 12 students were
selected from each of the participating
grades to work with the veterans, learn-
ing how to fold a flag properly, according
to military procedure.
Those participating in the flag-fold-
ing felt special about being chosen, she
said, noting that after conducting the
ceremony in front of fellow students,
folders presented the flags to their teach-
ers, who placed them in special cases
in each classroom. The
flags commemorate this
special occasion and our
relationship with the vet-
erans, she said.
She added that for her,
one of the highlights of
the program was watch-
ing students feel success-
ful in flag folding, [show-
ing] a tremendous sense
of pride and acknowledg-
ing the fact that we are
grateful as Jewish Ameri-
cans to be part of a country that protects
us and takes care of us.
Dr. Lazar-Sultanik said that another
component of the program involved the
nursery and pre-K classes, whose teach-
ers fashioned an American flag out of the
childrens handprints to honor their
neighborhood superheroes. Each one
was decorated with red, white, and blue
handprints, she said, adding that one
class made a card for the veterans, and
later presented it to them along with the
flag.
The vets were touched by that, she
said.
Dr. Lazar-Sultanik said that while the
program was specifically for Veterans
Day, its also about connecting with
community members and having the
children start learning about people in
the neighborhood, and their contribu-
tions. Such programs help build bridges,
she said, because they also introduce
community members to the students at
the school.
Its important to us as a school to
place an emphasis not only on being
members of the Jewish community but
recognizing that were part of the com-
munity at large, she added. Our goal is
to develop mensches, but also kids com-
mitted to learning and leadership. We
emphasize civic leadership programming
to prepare our students to be leaders of
the Jewish community and have the skills
to negotiate a global and diverse work-
force. We are invested in our students
being tomorrows leaders.
Dr. Lazar-Sultanik noted that in plan-
ning this program, we were empha-
sizing the role we play as contributing
members of American society, and being
proud of it. Its important for the stu-
dents to see the merger between Jewish
identity and American citizenship.
I really enjoyed participating in the
Veterans Day program, said Jacob Nay-
owitz, an eighth-grader at the school,
who lives in Teaneck.
My family has several veterans and it
was interesting for me to be able to talk
to other vets about their experiences and
the similarities, he added. It was also
great to meet with other people from the
community. I hope we do more programs
like this.
Youngsters demonstrate the proper way to fold the American flag.
Eva Lazar-Sultanik
We shared with them the
mi sheberach we recite for the
protection of American soldiers.
They were touched by knowing
that we have that as part of
our prayer service.
DR. LAZAR-SULTANIK
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Israeli Cabinet member Naftali Bennett talks foreign policy
DEENA YELLIN FUKSBRUMER
Asserting that a bad deal will have impli-
cations for years to come, Israeli cabi-
net member Naftali Bennett called for
tougher international sanctions on Iran.
Mr. Bennett, who is in the United States
to lobby congressional leaders against an
impending agreement on Irans nuclear
energy program and who spent part of
his childhood in Teaneck addressed a
crowd Tuesday night at an event hosted
by American Friends of Yeshivot Bnei
Akiva at the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue
on Manhattans Upper East Side.
In a wide-ranging talk punctuated
by bursts of applause, Mr. Bennett,
41, touched on negotiations with Iran,
the Arab spring, Israels mission to the
world, and the challenges facing the Jew-
ish people.
The head of the newly revived HaBayit
HaYehudi party, and Israels minister of
economy, as well as of religious affairs
and diaspora-Israel relations, Mr. Bennett
stressed that America is a strong ally of
Israel and the conflict over how to handle
the negotiations with Iran is merely a dis-
agreement among friends.
Iran doesnt want a nuclear weapon
today, he said, explaining that its goal
instead is the capacity to produce
nuclear weapons in the future. Any talks
should aim to completely dismantle
Irans nuclear weapon building machine.
Otherwise, he fears, Iran will stop pro-
duction temporarily as a means of easing
sanctions and then at a moment when
everyone is distracted, break out and
make a nuclear experiment and the
world will have to acknowledge it and
live with it.
Meanwhile, Israel is preparing itself for
any outcome, he said, adding, Israel will
do what it has to do to defend itself.
But in spite of such security fears, Mr.
Bennett, who served in an elite Israeli Israeli politician Naftali Bennett talked about Israel, Iran, and being a light unto
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Migdal Ohr, Israels premier agency for
underprivileged, orphaned, abused, and new
immigrant children, will hold its annual gala
on Monday, December 9, at Espace in Man-
hattan. This years eventits largest annual
fundraiserwill honor supporters who have
contributed significantly to the organizations
success over its 40-year history.
Deborah and David Kahn of Teaneck and
Rifkie and Henry Bergman of Brooklyn are
the guests of honor. The galas co-chairs
include Cherie and Dr. Steven Starkman of
Englewood and Jordana and Adam Grunfeld
of New York City.
The evening includes a special program featuring Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid
Grossman, Migdal Ohrs founder and dean, who won the Israel Prize in 2004,
and Lt. General Shaul Mofaz, the guest speaker, the former Israeli former dep-
uty prime minister and minister of defense.
For more information, call (212) 397-3700 or go to www.migdalohrusa.org.
Darchei Noam dinner
More than 150 people attended Congregation Dar-
chei Noam of Fair Lawns first Dinner of the Year
at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai
Israel. Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove addressed
the honorees, Rachel and Nathan Bednarsch,
along with the guests. The couple was active in the
congregations forming, and Mr. Bednarsch was
the shuls first president. The growing Orthodox
congregation, which began on Kenneth Avenue,
recently celebrated its fourth year in its Alexander
Avenue home. For more information, go to www.
darcheinoam.com.
Day school students from the area bring smiles to ailing youngsters.
AJCs executive director
comes to Ridgewood
David Harris, the director of the American Jewish Committee, recently dis-
cussed From the Front Lines: Making the Case for Israel, at a community
gathering at Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center in Ridgewood. The
AJCs New Jersey chapter aims to create awareness of the groups global advo-
cacy work and its role as a champion of key Jewish issues through its access
to influential world leaders by hosting local gatherings. Each of its recent pro-
grams has attracted 40 to 50 members of Bergen Countys Jewish community.
Hadassah honors Women of Valor
and filmmaker Aviva Kempner
Hadassahs Northern New Jersey region will
hold its annual Myrtle Wreath awards brunch
at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck on
December 8 at 9:30 a.m. In addition to hon-
oring each local chapters Woman of Valor,
the regions board has selected award-win-
ning filmmaker, activist, and philanthropist
Aviva Kempner as this years special honoree.
The Washington, D.C.,-based Ms. Kemper
wrote, produced, and directed the critically
acclaimed Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg and the
Emmy-nominated, Peabody award-winning
film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.
She is making a documentary about how Chi-
cago philanthropist Julius Rosenwald partnered with Booker T. Washington
in establishing more than 5,300 schools for African Americans in the rural
South. For information, call (973) 530-3996 or go to www.nnj.hadassah.org/
myrtlewreath.
Dr. Joshua Holden, Temple Israels president, left, with David Harris
and Rabbi David Fine PHOTO BY JOHANNA RESNICK ROSEN/CANDID EYE
Aviva Kempner
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Chai Lifeline comes to
Teaneck for Shabbat
More than 100 sixth graders from area day
schools gathered to welcome 75 sick children,
many in wheelchairs, and their chaperones,
counselors, and medical staff, for a Shabbat
of friendship and activity organized by Chai
Lifeline and local New Milford and Teaneck
residents.
The weekend, part of Chai Lifelines Friends
n Fun Weekends program, brings groups of
Camp Simcha campers and their counselors
to communities across the United States. The
campers have a chance to recreate the support-
ive environment of Camp Simcha and Camp
Simcha Special, Chai Lifelines overnight camps
for children with cancer and other life-threat-
ening or chronic illnesses. The communities,
which house the children and provide Shab-
bat meals, get to see the Chai Lifelines work up
close and personal.
Faigy Ort of New Milford, a Yeshivat Noam
parent, organized local bat mitzvah-age girls
to participate in the experience. She recruited
girls from the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jer-
sey, Yeshivat Noam, the Moriah School, Yavneh
Academy, and Ben Porat Yosef to host Chai Life-
line guests for the Shabbaton.
The weekend included Friday night dinner at
Congregation Keter Torah. On Shabbat morn-
ing, Congregation Keter Torah was filled with
girls wearing blue sweatshirts emblazoned with
the Chai Lifeline logo and Teaneck Shabbaton.
Congregation Keter Torah hosted lunch, which
was sponsored by ATARA, its sisterhood. Sat-
urday night activities were in Yeshivat Noams
middle school gym, with music, dancing, a
photo booth, a Build-a-Bear station, pizza, ice
cream, and other hands-on activities.
The communitys rabbinic families also par-
ticipated; Rebbetzin Peshi Neuberger spoke
during the kabbalat Shabbat oneg, Rabbi Sho-
lom Baum led Havdalah for the group, and
Rabbi Ari Zahtz talked at seudah shlishit.
The program will be dedicated in memory of
Sari Ort at the organizations upcoming annual
gala on December 18 at the Marriott Marquis.
For information, go to www.chaidinner.org.
Friendship brightens young lives.
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KEEPING THE FAITH
The Iran
conundrum
T
he United States and five other nations
are trying to talk Iran out of pursuing
its nuclear development program; Iran
with a nuclear bomb poses an existential
threat to states in its immediate neighborhood and
to the rest of the world. Iran, after all, is a state
sponsor of terrorism worldwide. If it develops
nuclear weapons, it is reasonable to assume it will
share those weapons with its terrorist friends.
Israel and much of the Arab world find them-
selves allied in opposition to these talks. Iran can-
not be trusted, they say. The only way to insure
that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons is to
destroy its program, even if that involves going to
war.
Jewish law, obviously, binds none of these coun-
tries, but on which side of the debate does halacha
fall?
At first glance, it would seem to fall on the side
of the negotiators.
According to Deuteronomy 20:10: When you
come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace to it. This led
Rabbi Yosei the Galilean
to say, Great is peace,
since even in wartime,
one must not begin
[hostilities] except by
[first offering] peace.
(See Leviticus Rabbah
9:9.)
In other words, war is
the last resort.
There is a catch, how-
ever. Beginning with
the Torah, sanction is
given for the use of deadly force against a poten-
tial attacker whose intentions are not clear. Thus,
if someone invades your home in the dead of night,
and you cannot see whether he is armed, killing
that person is justifiable homicide. On the other
hand, there is no justification if the sun has risen,
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael
in Cliffside Park. Although he is the executive
editor of the Jewish Standard, the views expressed
in his columns do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of this newspaper.
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Asking why not
T
he Talmud teaches us that he
who takes a life destroys an
entire world.
Fifty years ago today, a
world was destroyed. The assassina-
tion of President John F. Kennedy
changed the world in ways we can
never know, because history does not
allow for peeks at what could have
been.
All we have is the world that is, and
that world, sad to say, is not a pleas-
ant one. Even here, in America, the
atmosphere is chilly, as we become
ever more polarized politically and
philosophically.
President Kennedy dreamed of a
better world than what we have, and
of a better America. He and his late
brother Robert F. Kennedy, who also
was assassinated a little less than five
years later, often quoted George Ber-
nard Shaw. Some men see things as
they are and ask why. I dream things
that never were and ask why not.
John F. Kennedy did not have a
chance to amass a great record of
achievements in his not quite three
years in office. He had little time to try
to change the world, but he inspired
a generation. He gave voice to our
hopes when he painted a vision of
what could be.
As our nation mourns his death
today and in the coming days, let us
recall words he spoke then; words that
are more relevant now than ever.
Let us not seek the Republican
answer or the Democratic answer, but
the right answer, he said. Let us not
seek to fix the blame for the past. Let
us accept our own responsibility for
the future.
Perhaps the best way for all of us
to honor his memory is not in revisit-
ing Camelot, or rehashing conspiracy
theories, but in dreaming things that
never were, asking why not, and then
turning those dreams into reality.
When balanced is also not fair
The deadly bombing this week near
Irans embassy in Beirut saw an all-too-
common knee-jerk reaction: Israel did
it. The evidence, of course, suggests
that the bombing was in retaliation for
Irans support of the Bashir al-Assad
regime in Syria, but that mattered little
to some.
Two weeks ago, a report by Swiss
forensic experts suggested the possi-
bility that Yasir Arafat, the late Pales-
tinian Authority chairman, was assas-
sinated. The same knee-jerk reaction
was seen then: Israel did it. The evi-
dence (in this case, the particular poi-
son found in Arafats cells) suggests
that Russia might have been involved,
but that mattered little to some.
Israel is the Middle East fall guy,
come what may.
Some of the accusations are so ludi-
crous as to be laughable, except for
one thing: In the interconnected world
of the Internet, even the most absurd
comments take on lives of their own.
There is no way to stifle free speech,
and if there was, we would want no
part of it. We do believe, however, that
journalism needs to confront a pain-
ful question: Should it report charges
when they are made, or should it wait
to see whether those charges actually
have substance?
Whatever is reported today will live
in the ether for many years to come,
and may have consequences in the
future we cannot even imagine today.
If it ever was a laughing matter, it is so
no longer.
Your pre-tax dollars at work
The end is near.
The end of 2013, that is. With it will
go any chance of reducing the amount
of taxes we will have to pay by April 15.
One way to reduce our tax bills, of
course, is to make charitable dona-
tions. At this point in the year, many
of us already are drawing up our lists
of worthy charities.
All too often, however, we look far
afield when local needs are just as wor-
thy, and from a community standpoint,
they are far more personal.
The Jewish Family Service agencies
in our area are called upon to help
people of every age group and every
walk of life. In times of natural disas-
ters, such as Hurricane Sandy, they
are there, helping people rebuild their
lives. Are they less worthy than a hos-
pital in Tel Aviv?
The Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey has a long list of agencies
and subventions that are vital to us,
and that are there when we need them.
Is JFNNJ less worthy than a yeshivah in
Maryland?
And what about our synagogues?
They are there to serve us in our times
of need, but are we there to serve
them? Are they any less worthy than
some institution thousands of miles
away?
When making up our lists this year,
let us not forget the worthy charities
far away, but let us also remember that
charity really must begin at home.
Shammai
Engelmayer
Op-Ed
meaning if you can see that he is no threat to your
life. (See Exodus 22:1-2.)
It does not end there. If you know a person is
pursuing a third party with deadly intent, you
have to stop him by any means possible, including
killing him. We derive this from the law in Deu-
teronomy 22:25-27, which states that a rapist is to
be put to death. The language is such that if the
only way to prevent a rape is to kill the pursuer,
the rodef, that is preferable to his completing
his crime. As the Babylonian Tractate Sanhedrin
73a-74a explains, if the Torah decreed that [the
potential rape victim] may be saved by the life of
her [would-be] rapist, even though she will sur-
vive the attack, how much more so does this apply
when someone is actually trying to kill another
person?
For the record, as BT Sanhedrin 74b notes, the
pursuer may be killed if that is the only way to
stop him. If you can talk him out of committing
the crime in the first place, for example, the pur-
suer may not be killed.
This brings us to two other Torah laws that also
play a role here. One, Leviticus 19:16, commands
us not to stand idly by the blood of your neigh-
bor. This is regarded as a commandment to take
direct action in order to protect another person
from physical harm, especially if that person is in
danger of being killed.
The second, Numbers 10:9, recognizes the need
to go to war in your land against an enemy who
oppresses you.
Jewish law recognizes two kinds of war oblig-
atory ones (wars against the seven Canaanite
nations) and discretionary wars with divine sanc-
tion (e.g., most, but not all, of Davids wars of
expansion).
Regarding the obligatory wars, the eternal war
against Amalek is included, since it is mandated by
the Torah. (See Exodus 17:14-16 and Deuteronomy
25:17-19.) That would seem to shut down the pos-
sibility of obligatory wars in the current day, since
neither the seven nations of Canaan nor Amalek
exist any longer. Maimonides, however, includes
as obligatory a war that is fought to assist Israel
from an enemy that attacks it (see MT, Kings, 5:1).
He offers no citation to support this. Ostensi-
bly, he based that on the two Torah verses just
cited. Maimonides does recognize, however, that
there is a difference between the Canaanite/Ama-
lek obligations on the one hand, and defending
against attack on the other. Thus, elsewhere, he
creates a subcategory, calling a defensive war a
commanded war as distinct from an obligatory
one. Other decisors since then have also made this
distinction. While there are some practical dif-
ferences in how wars in each subcategory are
fought, though, they are not substantial.
Where does this leave us? The United States and
its allies are correct in pursuing a peaceful way out
of the Iran conundrum. They also, however, must
not stand by the blood of their neighbors, mean-
ing Israel and the Arab world. Israel and the Arab
world are also correct, however, in seeing Iran as a
pursuer. They also are correct in seeing themselves
as a homeowner in the dead of night, unable to be
certain whether the burglar has a deadly intent.
Give peace a chance, but if there is a reasonable
suspicion that Iran is merely stalling until it can
develop a bomb, a military solution is the only one.
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Connected through
the web of life
G
rowing up in Philippine convent schools all my
life, I first encountered Jewish philanthropy
when I moved to New Jersey. I came to this com-
munity as a practicing Catholic who went to Mass
in the African Mission church around the corner from my
house in Englewood.
Somewhere along the way, I found myself part of an active
Jewish mishpoche a family with role models who
inspired me to stretch my wings and grow.
When I decided to convert after my husband Russs death,
it was after living and giving within this circle of support. I
was welcomed by my community, initially perhaps because
I was Russ Berries wife. But by the time I left for Jerusalem
to study for my conversion, I was a passionate participant
in Jewish communal life and resonated to Jewish values that
spoke to my soul.
Coming to Judaism was
a leap into the unknown,
after a childhood shaped by
nuns whose influence left an
imprint on my subconscious.
It was a cultural shock to go
from putting pesos discreetly
into a collection basket at
Sunday mass to standing up
and making public pledges
that actually mention how
much money you are about
to give. I learned that while
the highest form of mitzvah
is done anonymously, we also have an obligation to inspire
others to follow (acharai).
I entered the world of Judaism after I lost my husband,
sales entrepreneur Russ Berrie, whose success selling teddy
bears and trolls fueled our philanthropy. I had an immer-
sive learning experience at the Shalom Hartman Institute
in Jerusalem, studying with the all-stars of Judaism: David
Hartman, Donniel Hartman, Micah Goodman, Moshe
Halberthal....
For good measure, lunch hours were shared with geniuses
who were Israel Prize winners.
While I quailed at the prospect of studying one-on-one
with David Hartman in his library, it was an incredible initia-
tion into my new faith.
After my summer of studies ended, I felt like a small fish
about to be set loose in a vast ocean. I asked my teacher,
How do I begin? He replied: It doesnt matter. Just start
swimming!
I discovered that to be a Jew meant embarking on a jour-
ney of lifelong learning, a transformative process of becom-
ing a better person.
I faced the question of emerging identity when some
insensitive soul told me that I can never really be a Jew,
because I could never turn my back on all those years of
ingrained Catholic faith.
I asked David what he thought and he glared at me
through bushy brows and bellowed: You bring ALL of who
you are to where you are going! Those words continue to
ring in my ears.
As a newly minted Jew working on integrating my sense
of self, it was reassuring to know that honoring my past
allowed me to bring the best of who I am to my Jewish
identity.
While I often speak in Jewish communities about my jour-
ney of becoming Ruth, embracing my husbands people
and incidentally having a mother-in-law named Naomi my
sense of belonging to the Jewish people did not come at the
expense of forgetting my own roots in the Philippines.
Throughout the 22 years I have lived in the United States,
I developed an intense relationship to Israel but never had
to think about whether I felt the same about the Philippines.
Typhoon Haiyan changed all that.
This is a watershed moment for the Philippine diaspora,
myself included.
I grew up under martial law and experienced life under
a dictator, with curfews, coups detat, regime changes, and
political assassinations; stood in front of tanks during the
People Power revolution; endured corruption, and lived
through all of it. It has never fazed Filipinos to weather an
average of 20 typhoons a year, an occasional earthquake, or
even the volcanic eruption that spewed ashes all the way to
Hawaii and changed the intensity of the sunset in New Jer-
sey, displacing aborigines in the rain forests and evacuating
American military bases to make way for molten lava.
The Philippine topography is challenging, with 7,107
islands only 2,000 of them habitable with a huge per-
cent of the population living along the coast, making their
livelihood by the sea.
Our English literacy is close to 95 percent; we are the
worlds third largest English-speaking nation.
Out of a population of about 94 million people, about 12
percent live overseas about 950 migrant workers leave
every hour. That is the human flight capital of the Filipino
diaspora. Those workers are substantial contributors to the
economy, infusing about $ 8.1 billion into it in about five
years.
One of the little-known stories about Jews and Filipinos
has surfaced only recently, with the documentary on Pres-
ident Manuel Quezon, whose friendship with the Frieder
brothers, who owned a cigar company in the Philippines,
played out over poker games, led to his issuing 1200 visas
for Jews escaping the Holocaust.
I was amazed to meet someone in Jerusalem who told me
she would not be alive today if her father had not been given
this life-saving visa. It was even more amazing to hear that
her father still spoke Tagalog like a street kid in Manila!
Today, Israelis value the quality of their Filipino caregiv-
ers, who constitute one of the largest groups of immigrant
workers in Israel. It is a new phenomenon, which raised a
challenge for the Catholic church in Israel. Church leaders
were not equipped to teach the catechism in Hebrew to Fili-
pino kids, who are growing up with the understanding that
Jesus was Jewish, who celebrate Pesach and Easter, and who
form relationships that lead to marriage.
So, what does it mean to be a Jew and a Filipino in the
wake of this devastation? Where is the intersection of values
with the potential to make a difference?
I found it interesting to hear Filipino bloggers and Philip-
pine representatives at the Global Conference for Climate
Challenge quoting Hillel without knowing who he was: If I
am not for myself, who is? And when I am for myself, what
am I? And if not now, when?
It has been heartening to learn that Israeli groups have
been among the first humanitarian organizations on the
Angelica
Berrie
Philanthropist Angelica Berrie is president of the Russell
Berrie Foundation. She recently co-authored a book on
philanthropy, A Passion for Giving: Tools and Inspiration
for Creating a Family Foundation, and she owns Kates
Paperie, an iconic New York paper specialty destination.
SEE CONNECTED PAGE 39
Op-Ed
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Christian IDF recruitment
affirms Israeli democracy
O
ver the summer,
the Israeli media
highlighted a phe-
nomenon that is
both intriguing and encour-
aging: a movement among
Israels Christian Arabs advo-
cating that their community
be drafted into the Israel
Defense Forces, along with
the countrys Jewish and
Druze citizens.
Historically, Israels Arab citizens have
been exempted from mandatory conscrip-
tion. There have been exceptions many
Bedouin, for example, have served with
distinction in the IDF but those who
actually volunteer are a tiny minority. At
the same time, many Arabs have com-
plained, not without justification, that the
exemption marginalizes them, keeping
them from participating fully in Israeli life.
That now appears to be changing,
against the background of a broader reas-
sessment of the conscription policy. Ear-
lier this year, a Knesset committee headed
by Science and Technology Minister Jacob
Perry approved measures that would draft
the majority of charedi men another
minority that largely has avoided military
service with criminal sanctions waiting
in the wings in the case that draft quotas
are not met.
But the indications are that draft dodg-
ing wont be too much of a problem when
it comes to Christian Arabs. Their commu-
nity, at 130,000 strong, makes up just less
than 10 percent of the total
Arab population in Israel. In
the weeks that followed the
formation of a new political
party, Bnei Brit HaHada-
sha (Sons of the New Tes-
tament), by a merchant
seaman, Bishara Shilyan,
whose nephew serves as a
major in the Israeli Army,
around 90 Arab Christians
enlisted in the IDF. It seems
like a tiny number, but its a threefold
increase compared to 2010. And earlier
this month, around 250 Arab Christian
youths attended a recruitment event orga-
nized by the IDF with the assistance of
Father Gabriel Nadaf, an Orthodox priest
from Nazareth and a vocal supporter of
Christian recruitment into the armed
forces.
This new mood among Christian Arabs
has worried the communists and Arab
nationalists who traditionally have played
a central role in the political leadership
of Israels Arab citizens. You can imag-
ine them tearing their hair out when they
hear statements like this one, from Father
Nadaf: Its only natural that the country
which protects us deserves that we con-
tribute to its defense.
A predictable condemnation came in
the form of a statement from Kairos, a
radical Palestinian Christian organiza-
tion that denies Israels right to exist and
promotes anti-Semitic interpretations of
Christian theology. Those who call for
recruiting Christians to the occupation
army do not represent us, do not repre-
sent our churches, and do not represent
the Christians, Kairos said. We need to
be united, we need to protect our national
identity, only our Arab, Palestinian, iden-
tity will be able to protect us, and protect
our interests.
Its true that this view once was very
common among Arab Christians. Dur-
ing the last century, Christians were an
important presence among the theorists
and political leaders of the Arab nation-
alist movement. Among the Palestinians,
the late George Habash, founder of the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal-
estine, was a Christian, as was his rival
Nayef Hawatmeh, founder of the break-
away Democratic Front, who was born
into a Christian tribe in Jordan. And the
Baath Party overthrown in Iraq during
the 2003 war but still in power in Syria
was founded by another Christian, Michel
Aflaq.
Its widely believed that by the time
Aflaq died in 1989, hed converted to Islam,
a faith he equated with revolutionary
Arab nationalism. But for Arab Christians,
Aflaqs conversion was a harbinger of the
present time, when Islam has superseded
nationalism as the main channel for dis-
content in the Arab world, leaving Chris-
tians feeling increasingly marginalized.
For that reason, the image of Arab Chris-
tians wanting to join the IDF suggests a
hitherto unprecedented fracturing of Arab
national identity. In an interview with
Inter Press Service, Bishara Shilyan neatly
summarized how this has impacted his
community: Jews call us Arabs. For Mus-
lims, were Christians, not Arabs. Were
Israeli Christians, nothing short of that.
At a time when Christian communities
across the Islamic world are facing vicious
persecution in the form of arrests, mob
violence, and church bombings, its no
coincidence that this assertive form of
Christian identity has manifested in dem-
ocratic Israel. Increasingly, Christians in
the Middle East understand that if their
faith is to have a future in the region, the
states in which they live must be governed
by the values of democracy and tolerance.
A state that is Jewish in terms of its iden-
tity, but that gives the same rights and
demands the same duties of all of its citi-
zens, is truly a revolutionary development
for the Middle East. It is also a key reason
why so many of its neighbors dream of its
destruction.
JNS.ORG
Ben Cohen
Israels prime minister, Benjamin Ne-
tanyahu, meets with Greek Orthodox
priest Father Gabriel Nadaf in Jerusa-
lem on August 5.
MOSHE MILNER/GPO/FLASH90
Giving thanks and letting go
Reading the Middle East into Thanksgiving
The confluence of Thanks-
giving and Chanukah seems
to have brought more than
the usual rush of madness
to Chanukah, which has
become a major holiday
in the United States by vir-
tue of its usual proximity to
Christmas.
Although most Thanksgi-
vukkah columns and posts
have been at least a bit
tongue-in-cheek (other than
the ones with recipes, which all look either
terrifyingly heavy, or not particularly appe-
tizing), one article I saw recently castigated
the Thanksgivukkah celebrants, pointing out
that Thanksgiving was not, and is not, a cel-
ebration for Native Americans, who remem-
ber it a bit more as the beginning of the end
of their cultures, a destruction of
their peoples, and the beginning
of the theft of their land.
Dare I say it? Its something for
us to consider that people at the
borders of cultures can see the
very same thing quite differently
and heres your dangerous
aside: Its legitimate for Native
Americans to mourn this day, just
as we celebrate it, and it is legiti-
mate for Palestinians to observe
their nakba, or catastrophe,
rather than Israeli independence without
it meaning unending hatred of either side for
the other only history that must be under-
stood and moved forward from.
Native Americans and non-native Amer-
ica have a quieter but no less fraught rela-
tionship. Native Americans still suffer from
poverty and violence. But they will never
have full sovereignty of their original lands,
which makes sympathy easier at least in
part because we have no expectation that we
will ever have to give up anything. But there
was a time when Native Americans were por-
trayed as dangerous savages, people who
would rape or steal your women, scalp you
in your sleep, or enact a number of other ste-
reotypes and everyone knew these things
as truths.
Today, there are still plenty of places where
stereotypes of Native Americans continue
not the least of which is the noble tribal elder,
or primitive wisdom hawker, no less than the
shiftless alcoholic, and there are places and
people who know these to be truths as well.
In the Middle East, our truths are just as
hard, our stereotypes just as firm, and we
are just as distant from seeing one another as
people. But we also should have hope. Per-
haps someday, Thanksgiving will come to be
a symbol of overcoming years of prejudice
and wrongs. and perhaps someday, there
will be a day that Palestinians and Israelis,
too, can celebrate together, remembering a
time when we were enemies, but were able
to make peace, and eventually became neigh-
bors, and who knowsmaybe even allies.
We are in a moment now when that
could begin to happen if. If we are will-
ing to step out of the stories that we know
to be true, and take a breath for a moment
instead of repeating the histories that are
our own perspective. Not because they
are wrong, but because at this time, in this
moment, they are not helpful. They will
be, someday, something we can talk about
together, but when we come together to
discuss how to make peace, they turn into
Rabbi Alana
Suskin
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Too open to be Orthodox
Avram Mlotek, a third year student at Yeshivat Cho-
vevei Torah, writes movingly about his efforts to pre-
pare for a career of service to the Jewish community
(Time for Torah: The open Orthodox revolution,
November 15). However, he bemoans the fact that his
yeshiva has attracted so much attention and criti-
cism recently when he writes, Is it our hashkafa,
our ideological values?
He neglects to inform your readers of the posi-
tions that have been articulated by leading individu-
als associated with his yeshiva and the open Orthodox
movement to wit, the rejection of the historicity of
Maamad Har Sinai (the giving of the Torah at Sinai)
and the claim that the biblical Abraham and Sarah
never existed.
The modern Orthodox community has been strain-
ing to maintain the inclusive big tent during a period
of Jewish history that finds the non-Orthodox Jews in
America disappearing. Tragically, the open Orthodox,
who trumpet their inclusiveness, are turning their
backs on the mesorah, tradition, and the fundamental
beliefs that underlie and define Orthodoxy. They are
rejecting Orthodoxy in every way but in name.
It is imperative that Avram Mlotek and his fellow stu-
dents confront their leadership to declare that open
does not stand for rejection and is not just a cover for
neo-Conservative Judaism.
Israel Polak
Teaneck
No justice for IDF murderer
Last week Eden Atias, 19, zl, was murdered as he slept
on a public bus on his way back to basic training. He
was killed by a 16-year-old Palestinian terrorist. Those
who rely only on local or national media most prob-
ably do not have any knowledge of this story.
The terrorist reportedly acted because two of his
uncles are in Israeli jails. They are there after being
convicted in Israeli courts. One was convicted for the
murder of two Israelis and the other for actions also con-
nected with murder. What will the youth face in the future?
Hell be tried in open court with the assistance of defense
counsel. If convicted, he will be sentenced to spend time in
an Israeli prison. There he will be able to pursue his educa-
tion from high school through college, paid for and admin-
istered by the State of Israel. He can look forward to being
freed in future prisoner releases. He will be receiving a sal-
ary from the P.A. as a reward for his actions, based on the
act he committed and the sentence he receives. This salary
is paid partially through funds donated by the U.S. to the
P.A. His family will be lauded for the heroic action that
he has taken. There are reports that his family has already
posted on their Facebook pages, writing about how proud
they are of the murder. Has anyone from the P.A. or any
other spokesmen condemned this crime? Has anyone from
the U.S. government said anything?
The silence is deafening. It was only an Israeli Jew who
died.
Howard J. Cohn
New Milford
Jesus and Chanukah
Theres evidence that Jesus observed Chanukah its men-
tioned in the New Testament, where its called the Feast of
the Dedication but no evidence of his having observed
Christmas, which isnt mentioned anywhere in the New Tes-
tament! You can check that out in a concordance, which is
an index to the Bible, and can be found in most libraries
reference sections.
Harry Eisenberg
Glen Rock
a whose-victimhood-is-more-important contest.
If we stop insisting on the stories that we usually tell
ourselves, and instead look toward the future we could
build, then it could be no dream.
We cant be Pollyannas about it. On both sides, we will
have to give things up. Not least of which is the idea that
the Palestinians have given nothing up. Not least of which
is the idea that all descendants of the Palestinians will be
able to return. But it will be worth it, because the founda-
tion of the world is built on peace, truth, and justice, as
Pirke Avot reminds us, and it is in our hands to make those
foundations firmer.
Reprinted with permission. To learn more about
Jewish life, go to myjewishlearning.com and sign up for
free newsletters.
Rabbi Alana Suskin is an educator, activist, and writer,
a senior managing editor of Jewschool.com, secretary
of Truah, and director of strategic communications for
Americans for Peace Now.
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
T
his years unusual confluence of
Thanksgiving and the first night
of Chanukah has added a new
word to our lexicon Thanksgi-
vukkah and a new kind of chanukiah
the menurkey to our windowsills.
Like every other year, however, local
day schools are using Thanksgiving as a
teaching tool to reinforce the fundamen-
tal Jewish value of gratitude. After all,
the Hebrew word hodu means give
thanks as well as turkey.
Solomon Schechter Day School
of Bergen County in New Mil-
ford took advantage of this
coincidence in several ways.
Fourth- graders combed
through the daily prayer
book to find ideas and phrases
related to gratitude, and used those
words to create centerpieces for
their families Thanksgiving
tables.
Sixth-graders are keeping
gratitude journals, and all the
middle school students will
create thankfulness chains
next week during their regular
visit to residents of the Jewish
Home at Rockleigh.
Inspired by the University
of Chicagos annual campus-
wide Latke-Hamentaschen
Debate, Schechter will host
its first-ever Great Latke-
Turkey Debate the day before
Thanksgiving. Middle school
pupils will debate the question
before the entire student body, and
every Schechter student will weigh in by
wearing a brown latke necklace or an orange
turkey necklace. Students who like neither
latkes nor turkey will wear a purple circle necklace.
Schechters head of school, Ruth Gafni, said that
the essence of Thanksgiving dovetails neatly with
Jewish tradition. We start each day by saying [the
prayer] modeh ani to express how grateful we are,
she said. And our school philosophy is to imbue a
sense of awe and gratitude. This is an opportunity to
showcase it and take it to the next level.
At the Moriah School in Englewood, the positive
psychology value of gratitude is the theme for the
Jewish month of Kislev, in which both Chanukah and
Thanksgiving fall.
Older and younger paired buddies had the oppor-
tunity to express gratitude to a variety of important
individuals in their lives: parents, school faculty
and staff, chayalim [Israeli soldiers], veterans, and
deployed troops by creating gratitude projects, Mori-
ahs principal, Kenneth Prager, said.
For example, some Moriah students decorated
and packed care packages for Israeli soldiers, while
others made lifesaving paracord bracelets to donate
to U.S. troops stationed abroad through Operation
Gratitude.
Throughout the month, our students have been
engaged in a range of in-class activities to further
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ATTITUDE OF
GRATITUDE
Local day schools celebrate
Thanksgivukkah
Yeshivat Noam students shuck corn for Thanksgiving.
This Solomon
Schechter Day
School student
holds a turkey;
the turkey holds
conjugations of the
word lhodot
to thank.
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ATTITUDE OF
GRATITUDE
Thanksgivukkah
reinforce the importance of expressing
gratitude, Prager said. Our first- and
second-graders especially enjoyed read-
ing Gratitude Soup, a beautifully illus-
trated book which emphasizes the asset of
gratitude and inspired our students to self-
reflect upon the various gifts in their lives.
At the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North
Jersey in River Edge, each grade has
approached Thanksgiving in a unique way.
We look at Thanksgiving as a day for
recognizing all the wonderful and impor-
tant things in our lives, the schools prin-
cipal, Arlene Libman, said. Truthfully, as
Orthodox Jews, we view each day as a day
to give thanks.
Third-grade boys teacher Chana Zin-
stein has her pupils writing persuading
paragraphs incorporating Thanksgiving
and Chanukah. The boys are pretending
to be the turkey and are persuading the
farmer to eat latkes this year instead of
turkeys for Thanksgiving.
They also discussed the hardships the
Pilgrims faced. I try to tie in their religious
persecution to the Jews and how this land
was a haven for both of us, Ms. Zinstein
said.
First-grade teacher Julie Nicolosi told the
story of the first Thanksgiving, read books
about life on the Mayflower, and directed
her pupils in creating thankful turkeys
and illustrating poems about turkeys and
Pilgrims.
Annie Blumenthals second-graders
interviewed their parents about what
countries their ancestors came from, and
when they came to America. Then they
charted the data into a bar graph and tally
time line. The families of the boys came
from 16 different countries and began
arriving in America in the late 1800s,
Ms. Blumenthal said. We also prepared
a Venn diagram comparing what the boys
thought their ancestors brought with them
versus what the Pilgrims brought.
Second-graders in Dina Lehmans RYNJ
class learned about the culture of the
Native Americans and the Pilgrims, and
made totem poles decorated with pictures
of people in their families for whom they
are thankful. They also composed a few
sentences describing their totem poles
and produced color-by-number Thanks-
giving pictures.
A festive early childhood pageant is the
highlight of every pre-Thanksgiving at the
Yavneh Academy of Paramus. We also
had a wonderful staff-led workshop about
ways to incorporate the themes of Chanu-
kah together with Thanksgiving, its head
of school, Rabbi Jonathan Knapp, said.
Yavnehs early childhood director, Shani
Norman, said Yavnehs preschoolers are
busy exploring, creating, writing, pattern-
ing, illustrating, baking and experimenting
when learning about Thanksgiving. For
our fabulous feast, the children crafted
their own costumes, prepared their own
foods, and chose their own Native Ameri-
can names.
Residents of the Jewish Home Assisted
Living Home in River Vale were invited to
Ben Porat Yosef in Paramus for an annual
Thanksgiving feast served by junior high
school students. The event included a
patriotic singalong.
Ben Porat Yosefs early childhood direc-
tor, Jessica Kohn, wears a costume as she
conducts a Thanksgiving pow-wow. She
tells the story of the first Thanksgiving and
sings songs with the preschoolers, who
invite each other for a feast of Thanksgiv-
ing treats that they prepared with their
teachers.
Pre-K pupils at Yeshivat HeAtid in Ber-
genfield will make their own butter to
spread on bread at their dairy pre-Thanks-
giving feast on Wednesday.
Embracing Thanksgivukkah, HeAtid
pupils are making menurkeys from wood,
and placemats decorated for Thanksgiving
on one side and Chanukah on the other.
For the Thanksgiving side, the children
dipped their hands into different turkey-
colored paints to create a hand-printed
turkey. They also worked on their writing
skills with the use of inventive writing to
form words that remind them of Thanks-
giving, such as cranberry, turkey, and pil-
grim, said HeAtids spokeswoman, Leiku
Perles.
On the Chanukah side, the children
used their handprints to create little
dreidels and a menorah. They listed all
Yavneh students chose Native American names at their pre-Thanksgiving feast.
Children at Ben Porat Yosef learn about Thanksgiving.
Yeshivat Noam students shuck corn for Thanksgiving.
Yeshivat HeAtids students Chanukah placemats flip over to reveal Thanksgiving
mats.
Moriah
reminds
students that
It is good to
be thankful to
God.
the things that remind them about Cha-
nukah, from delicious sufganiyot to the
illuminating chanukiah. They cut out the
Chanukah brachot and pasted them onto
their placemats so they will be able to fol-
low along with their parents when lighting
the menorah.
Middle-school students at Yeshivat
Noam in Paramus will write a message
of appreciation to their current teachers,
previous teachers, and administrators as
part of a Thank You program initiated
by educator Aliza Chanales.
Noam kindergartners and their teachers
spent a day costumed as Pilgrims, gather-
ing sticks, vegetables, and other materials
outdoors to make their own soup, soap,
and brooms. They used the soap to wash
laundry, which they then hung to dry on a
clothesline, and swept the classroom floor
with their stick-and-corn-husk brooms.
Noams spokeswoman, Amy Vogel,
reported that the elementary grades took
part in an interactive Lenape museum
show to learn about the Lenape Indians
of New Jersey. Kevin Twosteps, a mem-
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inclusive Jewish community
this Chanukah
RABBI KERRY M. OLITZKY
DAVID A.M. WILENSKY
It has become popular in the engaged core of the Jew-
ish community to look down on Chanukah.
It is an unimportant holiday, some say. Others say
that celebrating Chanukah in a big way compromises
Jewish values; they worry that it is emphasized only
because of its proximity to Christmas.
We beg to differ. There is nothing wrong with fun
holidays like Chanukah and Purim. In fact, theyre a
great opportunity to engage those who have become
bored with or alienated from Jewish life.
The unimportant holiday of Chanukah has a lot
going on, something for everyone: Inspiring miracles,
military campaigns, a controversial revolt, the fight
against assimilation, a connection to other cultures
winter light festivals not to mention delectable fried
foods and fun parties and games. On top of that, its
wide popularity (regardless of whether its popular-
ity stems from the proximity to and association with
Christmas) make it a perfect gateway holiday:
Less engaged Jews and their families may already
be thinking more about their Jewish background at
this time of year because of Chanukahs high name
recognition in the broader culture. Instead of sneer-
ing at Chanukah, we should embrace it as a chance to
meet less engaged Jews and help them become more
involved in the Jewish community.
To that end, we have created this list of eight values
The beat of his Jewish heart
For Sam Glaser, music is common denominator
that cuts across all streams
JOANNE PALMER
S
am Glaser didnt start out
planning to be a Jewish
musician.
That he would be a musi-
cian at all was not a surprise. Ive
been involved with music ever since
I was a little kid, he said. I was
practically born playing the piano.
His mother is a pianist and his father
plays the trumpet, so it was just a
natural thing to do in my household.
Im the oldest of four brothers,
and we always had a big table, and
music all around it, he continued.
When I was a kid, 7 years old, I
wrote songs. That kind of freaked
my parents out. I was supposed to
write a poem at school, but I would
come home and write lyrics.
I always heard music in my
head.
Mr. Glaser will play a concert of
Chanukah music for the whole fam-
ily on Sunday in Emerson.
Mr. Glaser grew up in Los Ange-
les, where he still lives. He began
arranging music for local bands
when he was in junior high and high
school, and he was a music major
at the Berklee College of Music in
Boston. Then he transferred to the
University of Colorado, where he
studied business and wait for it
music, because I wanted a regu-
lar four-year school, he said. He
always wrote songs, and he opened
a recording studio, with the inten-
tion of producing music for other
people, but with the hidden agenda
of producing my own.
Im not sure if I chose music, or if
music chose me, he said.
None of this music was Jewish,
though. Mr. Glaser grew up in a Jew-
ish home, but his interest in Jewish
things was a casualty of my pre-bar
mitzvah education, he said ruefully.
Then, somehow, that changed. In
those pre-Birthright Israel years, Mr.
Glaser was given a free yearlong trip
to Israel, and he studied at the Aish
HaTorah yeshivah in Jerusalem for
four months. Its a place for Ameri-
cans with little or no background,
like me, he said. It gave us a real
love of Israel.
The classes were totally out of
this world. I really loved it.
As he became drawn into the
Jewish world, he started practicing
Judaism more. I was incorporating
Shabbat into my life, starting to wrap
tefillin, starting to pray as an adult
not just the rudimentary stuff I had
learned as a Hebrew school student.
And it started to affect my music,
he said.
In 1991, Mr. Glaser began writing
his first Jewish music. The first piece
was for an album Capitol Records
released to benefit Operation Exo-
dus. Next, he was asked to write
music for Hallel for services at
Camp Ramah in Ojai, California. I
had to figure out what Hallel was,
he said. (Hallel is a joyful addition
to a standard prayer service, recited
on festivals and at the start of Jewish
months; it is made up of psalms of
praise to God.) Next, he was invited
to be part of a think tank from the
Center for Jewish Culture and Cre-
ativity, an LA-based group that com-
missions music; the group sent him
to Israel. Craig Taubman, another
very well-known Jewish composer
and performer, recorded some of
his songs, and CAJE, the Jewish edu-
cators group, asked him to sing for
the first of what ended up being 17
conferences.
That did it.
He was a Jewish musician. There
was no longer any way around that
profound and by that time entirely
welcome truth.
Mr. Glaser writes much of his own
material, but he also has recorded
some of the classic Jewish songs;
he is spurred on by his realization
that many of the standards, the
absolute birthright of Jewish kids,
are being forgotten. Those songs
they include, among many others,
Erev Shel Shoshanim, Kol HaO-
lam Kulo, Bashana Habaa, and
Yerushalayim Shel Zahav were
the great common denominator
songs of my childhood, Mr. Glaser
said. I have made it part of my mis-
sion to keep them alive.
Sam Glaser
toward building an inclusive Jewish community on
Chanukah. We hope this list will help you see Cha-
nukah for the important outreach opportunity that it
is and the deeply meaningful holiday that it can be.
1. Warmth: Share the friendly warmth of the Jewish
community as the weather turns colder.
2. Light: No matter how you got here, no matter
what road you took, the light will illuminate your way
to the Jewish community
3. Faith: Many cultures have a winter light festival,
making this a great holiday to share with others from
different backgrounds.
4. Communal Memory: See yourself as part of
the collective story of the Jewish people, see how it
unfolds in the story of Chanukah, and claim it as your
own.
5. Rededication: There is a place for you in the Jew-
ish community no matter how long youve been away
or even if youve never been a part of it before.
6. Reconciliation: Leave internal conflict within the
Jewish community behind as your community cele-
brates Chanukah.
7. Accessibility: Make sure that all are not only wel-
come to celebrate, but able to celebrate as well.
8. Renewal: Adapt old Chanukah traditions so that
they continue to live and have meaning in your life.
Rabbi Kerry M. Olitzky is the executive director of Big
Tent Judaism/JewishOutreach Institute, and David
A.M. Wilensky is a program associate there.
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Mr. Glaser is proud of his ability
to move freely between the different
streams that make up todays Ameri-
can Jewish world. He is now on an
18-city tour that is indicative of how
broad it is, he said; in the Washing-
ton/Baltimore area, he performed
at both Bethesda Hebrew Congrega-
tion, which is Renewal, and Chabad
of Potomac. He also sang at a Con-
servative shul, and at a concert for
seniors. I am going to the Reform
Biennial, and I played the OU confer-
ence, he said. Thank God, Ive got
fans in all movements.
Thats extremely important to
me.
He talked about a recent wedding
in Nashville, where the groom, Avi
Spielman of Teaneck, married a
young woman whose family is Per-
sian, and the wedding combined
Ashkenazic, Sephardic, northern,
and southern Jewish strains into one
wild, ecstatic whole.
There is something so powerful
about a real Jewish community, Mr.
Glaser said.
Yael Spielman of Teaneck, the
grooms mother, agreed. She
thought that the spark Mr. Glasers
music added to the fuel that was the
joint community was tremendously
powerful; not only did she rave
about the wedding, but also about
Mr. Glaser.
Sam has a real gift for sensing
what the crowd is capable of, and
taking that energy to another level,
she said. It was like a mosh pit. Peo-
ple were lifting each other up and
dancing. The dance floor was never
empty. No one sat down to eat!
Its all about the beat, about
the level of intensity. It was just all
there.
Sam Glaser and his music captivate young and old alike.
Who: Sam Glaser
What: Will play a concert for Chanukah
When: Sunday, November 24, from 10:15 to noon
Where: Congregation Bnai Israel, 53 Palisade Avenue, Emerson
Why: To celebrate the Festival of Lights with the entire community.
Everyone is invited parents, families, people of all ages.
How: Admission is free. For information, call (201) 265-2272 or email
office@bisrael.com
For more information: Mr. Glasers website is www.samglaser.com
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A story of Chanukah
CURT LEVIANT
H
arry Samson took the Cha-
nukah lamp out of the
cabinet and stood reso-
lutely in the middle of the
living-room.
Tonight Im going to light the candles
by the front window, he announced to
his wife.
He watched his wifes eyes move
away from her book and up to his face.
Youve always lit them in the kitchen,
she said.
Not always. You remember in New
York.
These past four years have not been
New York.
Harry paced the living-room floor.
For once I dont want to hide it. So this
is a hick town in the South. So what!
The lights are supposed to be seen for
many reasons. As a reminder to a pass-
ing stranger. For everyone to see how
the Maccabeans overcame Syrian-Greek
tyranny more than two thousand years
ago.
His wife, Vera, understood. Still, she
said, But were the only Jews here. Who
will you inspire?
Harry curled his fingers around the
lamp. No more hiding. This is a holi-
day of lights. A light in the darkness is
no light at all.
They looked at each other in silence,
absorbing the words and feeling the
loneliness of four years of isolation. In
the small town in Georgia, even the peo-
ples names were so Anglo-Saxon that
you couldnt even have the pleasure of
conjecture maybe maybe hes a Jew.
Scattered in the nearby towns were a few
Jewish families, but not nearly enough to
shape a community.
So the Samson home became syna-
gogue and house of study combined. But
a house of meeting it never could be. On
the horizon stood the day when Harry
and Vera would be able to leave town,
when Harry would have a teaching job
in the big city. There they wouldnt be
island-dwellers. There they would par-
ticipate once more in communal life.
Still, Harry persuaded himself that the
gifts of the spirit were everywhere.
Their neighbors were silent, distant
people. Like Fire Chief Brown across
the street, estranged not only from the
Samsons but from his other neighbors
as well. A silent, brooding man, looking
as if some kind of guilt rode perpetually
on his shoulders. Never close to anyone,
he just did his job. Harrys other neigh-
bors too were polite but distant friends.
And so the Samsons companionship
was centered around the faculty of his
school, from whom they sustained their
social and intellectual nourishment.
It was the first night of Chanukah. As on

each holiday, their aloneness was accen-
tuated by the starkness of no one shar-
ing their joy. Harry carried the candle-
holder and placed it on the window sill
facing the street. He put the first candle
into position and lit it with the sham-
mash candle. He sang the blessings
sweetly, looking at his wife. Her eyes
were focused on the flame, as if seeking
out its mystery.
Harrys hand shook as he passed the
flame to the candle. He waited anxiously
for the next day.
Business on the street as usual. He
taught his classes in basic chemistry;
his wife ran their little arts and crafts
shop; the world remained a tiny norm.
That evening Harry Samson lit the sec-
ond candle. Still the quiver of the flame
reflected in his mind. Soon someone
would inquire. He was impatient for
someone to ask Why?
The next day a question was asked.
Fire Chief Brown stopped him on the
street, saying, Excuse me, Mr. Samson,
but, uh . . . can you tell me where you
buy those little candles? The ones . . . you
were burning in your window last night.
Harry expected him to ask, Why?
Instead he asked Where? But Harry
was ready with an answer.
You cant get them here. Harry
forced a laugh. You get them ten miles
out in the supermarket. You know. A
few Jewish families are scattered around
there. Harry watched Browns face. His
lips didnt form the word Why. In that
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case, Harry would ask him, Why did you want to know,
Mr. Brown?
Thought I would test them for fire hazard, quick
burning quality, and we cant be too careful, you
know.
They both laughed, Harry again exploding the artifi-
cial smile into a laugh. Yes, you can get them at the
supermarket, he repeated foolishly.
When he told his wife the story, she laughed and said,
Maybe hes Jewish. Harry joined in with the joke.
Maybe Im a fire chief. But underneath his tongue the
words were forming: What will he really do with them?
Two days later he saw some men talking on the street.
They were huddled together strangely. He couldnt hear
what they were saying and his sensitive mood imagined
the worst. He packs a powerful wallop, said one man,
raising his fist. But then he heard, That guy is some
boxer.
He walked by the firehouse, purposely, wanting to
meet Mr. Brown, wanting to bring the situation to its
inevitable conclusion. He saw him standing there, an
intense look on his round face, the lips puffed out, the
eyes half closed. He was about to say something. Harry
signaled his attention by lifting his head upwards in a
half nod.
Hell tell me about the fire hazard. And Ill have to
remove the candles from the window. But Mr. Brown
was silent. He just looked at Harry, made another
motion, as if to walk toward him, but then walked slowly
back into the shaded firehouse, his hands in his pockets.
The continued silence of the town hung heavily like

a curtain in Harrys mind. By the fourth night he was
ready to remove the candles from the window. All he
needed was an official excuse.
His zeal had done nothing
but set him on edge. His wife
noticed it. And maybe she was
right. All this would have been
fine in a Jewish community.
But here? Here it was just stub-
bornness. His wifes thoughts
were now, somehow and mys-
teriously, his own. With each
lit candle his head buzzed with
vague fears. Something had to
come. It was slowly building
up. He knew it. He breathed it
in the air of the streets. He saw
it in the looks of the peoples
eyes. He heard it in the rum-
blings of daily life.
As soon as he finished light-
ing the fourth nights candles
he resolved, This is the last
night. As if confirming his
decision, the phone rang.
There it is, he thought. He stood watching the candles
as his wife answered the phone. The little flames leaped
higher and higher and disappeared into the air. Yet more
flames always sprang up from the wick. Thus our peo-
ple against the tyrants, he thought. He let his eyes relax,
filling them with light, filling his whole being with the
warmth of the light.
Its for you, Harry. His heart bounced with the leap-
ing flames.
This is Fire Chief Brown, he heard the voice say. Get
those candles off the window, he thought. But instead
a soft voice said, Do those candles have to burn in the
window?
Very subtle, thought Harry. How do you mean?
Harrys voice was not his own. The cords in his throat
tightened as he spoke. The sound was in a higher, odder
pitch. He swallowed.
Mr. Brown continued. Is it part of the religious cer-
emony to do that?
Come out with it, Harry thought, and tell. Dont play
with me. Dont keep me in suspense. Tell me now. Let
me explain the significance of the candles, Mr. Brown . . .
Harry was cut short. If you dont mind, just tell me,
is it better if they burn in view?
Yes, Harrys thoughts exploded. It is better if they
are seen, if they communicate their message to the
others.
Good. Thats all I wanted to know. The message was
communicated. Thank you. And click the phone was
dead. Harry looked at the mouthpiece for a while and
set it back.
Whats the matter, Harry? his wife asked. She
stretched her hand out to him. He took her warm hand
into his and felt his fingers trembling against hers. The
nervousness leaped with the touch into her. What is it?
What did he say? The edge of her lips quivered. Youre
all upset.
I dont understand, Vera. He said, The message was
communicated.
Harry, Vera said softly. Since you started this can-
dlelighting in the window you havent been the same.
You worry about every word, every sound, every flame.
Either go back to the privacy of the kitchen, or accept
your own move.
Harry knew his wife was right, but still he felt that his
wife was deserting him, by asking about it in the open,
by verbalizing what had previously been unsaid. Gloom-
ily he looked at the candles and at the street below, scan-
ning the houses across the street mechanically. His mind
was playing tricks again. Two
of his four candles had gone
out already. In the window
opposite his, symbolically
enough in Mr. Browns win-
dow, the reflection of his Cha-
nukah lights were shining.
He looked at their reflection.
Suddenly he called his wife.
Come quickly. Im having
a vision.
Vera came running, afraid
something was wrong with
him.
Look. Look ac ros s
the street. In Mr. Browns
window.
She held her breath. They
couldnt believe it. A living
reflection.
Strangely, a third candle
appeared to be shining in Mr.
Browns window, while only
two remained in Harrys window.
Hes kindling Chanukah lights, Harry shouted.
Vera, do you know what that means? Chanukah lights
by Mr. Brown?
Across the street, the lit candle illumined Mr. Browns
shadowy, brooding features, and the flickering flames
cast a glow on his face as he lit the fourth candle.
A light from the darkness, Vera whispered. Another
miracle.
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How the early Christians
helped save Chanukah
RABBI BARRY L. SCHWARTZ
The holiday of Chanukah
almost disappeared from
the Jewish calendar.
The early Chri stian
community had a role in
helping save it.
Therein lays a complex
and ironic tale, but one
well worth recounting.
The churchs rol e i n
t he preser vat i on of
ancient Jewish writings excluded from
the Hebrew Bible is remarkable and
underappreciated. I have only recently
come to a fuller awareness of this
historical phenomenon as publisher
of a new three volume anthology of
Second Temple literature, Outside the
Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related
to Scripture. (The Jewish Publication
Society will publish the book next
month.)
How did it come to pass that Chanukah
almost disappeared? As a new
holiday, not commanded in the Torah,
Chanukahs status was shaky from
the start. Indeed, I and II Maccabees,
the earliest sources that mention the
festival, portray the first Chanukah,
in 164 B.C.E., as nothing other than a
belated celebration of the all-important
eight-day holiday of Sukkot. The name
Chanukah nowhere appears; instead,
the festival is called Sukkot in Kislev.
When the text says that Judah, his
brother and the entire community
of Israel decreed that the days of
rededication of the altar should be
celebrated with a festival of joy and
gladness at this time every year (I Mac.
4:59) it is likely hinting that subsequent
Hasmonean rulers desired
to establish a new festival to
perpetuate the memory of
their exploits. That this did
not sit well with the Pharisees
and their rabbinic heirs is
quite evident. Chanukah
as a special name for the
holiday only appears in the
first-century C.E. Megillat
Taanit, which already was
two hundred years after the Maccabean
revolt. Josephus refers to a Festival of
Lights but is unsure about the names
origin. The well-known miracle story of
the little jar of oil that lasted for eight
days still is unknown to him; that story
does not make its first appearance in the
sources until the Talmud, more than 500
years after the revolt.
The Talmud declines to give Chanukah
its own tractate, like the other holidays.
Discussion of the festival is embedded
in Tractate Shabbat, with the telling
opening Why Chanukah? That is where
the miracle story emerges, perhaps
to justify the popular practice of the
holiday and to draw attention away from
the Hasmoneans militaristic exploits.
Elsewhere in the Talmud, a story records
how two prominent sages, Rabbi Eliezer
ben Hyrcanus and Rabbi Joshua ben
Hannaniah, went out of their way not
to comply with a fast declared during
Chanukah, and castigated the community
that wanted to do so. A thorough survey
of the evidence, Professor Moshe
Benovitz writes, suggests that despite
the origin of the festival in Israel
Chanukah was not widely observed in
rabbinic circles in the land of its origin
The painting Maccabees by Wojciech Stattler (18001875).
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from the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE until the
third century.
To add insult to injury, the sages excluded the Books
of the Maccabees from their biblical canon, thereby
proscribing the key historical source relating to the
holiday. To this day, many Jews are surprised to learn
that the Maccabees are mentioned nowhere in the
Hebrew Bible.
And this is where the role of the Jewish diaspora,
and the early Christian community that arose in it,
enters the tale.
For the Jews in post-destruction Judea, it is
understandable that a festival proclaimed by the very
rulers who dragged the country into chaos would be
suspect. It is likewise understandable that whatever
popular sentiment clung to the celebration was
extinguished after the catastrophe of 70 C.E. As Dr.
Benovitz adds, Is it conceivable that in the shadow of
the destruction Jews would continue to joyously mark
a period of independence that ended 107 years earlier,
when all hope for its renewal has been shattered?
But popular backing for the holiday remained
largely intact in the great Jewish communities of
Egypt and Babylonia. When the Jews of Alexandria
translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek, they retained
the Books of Maccabees. The earliest Christians
adopted this Hellenistic biblical canon. The original
Hebrew version of I Maccabees and the original Jewish
II Maccabees written in Greek disappeared from
history, but the church preserved them in its own
copies of the Septuagint the Greek Old Testament.
Clement of Alexandria commented on them in the
second century, and Origen did the same in the
third; we have surviving texts from the fifth-century
Alexandrinus Septuagint and the eighth-century
Venetus Septuagint.
In another ironic twist, the early church saved
another text that the medieval Jewish community
in Europe later used to bolster its celebration
of Chanukah. The Book of Judith, written in the
Maccabean period, also was excluded from the
Hebrew Bible. Jerome translated the popular text from
the Greek (or possibly Aramaic) into Latin. In the tenth
or eleventh century, Jews availed themselves of the
Latin Vulgate to render the story back into Hebrew. At
the same time, they rather audaciously reinterpreted
the tale, set during the Assyrian conquest, into a
Maccabean exploit. Judith became a central figure in
prayers and stories about Chanukah, and even became
a common figure adorning European Chanukah
menorahs.
These scriptures and
commentaries would
have been lost to
history. Instead, the
sacred library of
ancient Israel is once
again coming to light.
Maybe that too is
part of the miracle
of Chanukah.
In the last 50 years, scores of remarkable Second
Temple-era Jewish texts have come to light with the
discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah.
The manuscripts found in remote monasteries around
the world, like Santa Katarina in the Sinai desert, are less
well-known.
Were it not for the church, these scriptures and
commentaries would have been lost to history. Instead,
the sacred library of ancient Israel is once again coming
to light. Maybe that too is part of the miracle of Chanukah.
Barry L. Schwartz is director of the Jewish Publication
Society in Philadelphia and rabbi of Congregation Adas
Emuno in Leonia.
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LOS ANGELES If the Pilgrims are
lighting menorahs and the Macca-
bees are chasing turkeys, it must be
Thanksgivukkah, as some have come
to call the confluence of Thanksgiv-
ing and Chanukah that will happen
this year on November 28.
Its a rare event; it wont happen
again until 2070, and then again in
2165. Beyond that, because the Jewish
lunisolar calendar thats lunar with
solar adjustments is very slowly
getting out of sync with the solar cal-
endar, the Chanukah-Thanksgiving
confluence wont happen again by
one calculation until the year 79811
when turkeys presumably will be
smart enough to read calendars and
vacation in space that month.
How do we celebrate this rare holiday
alignment? Do we stick candles in the turkey
and stuff the horns of plenty with gelt? Put
payes on the Pilgrims? What about starting
by wishing each other gobble tov and then
changing the words to a favorite Chanukah
melody:
I cooked a little turkey,
Just like Im Bobby Flay,
Pass the cranberry latkes
What to do when holidays collide
And when its sliced and ready,
Ill fress the day away.
The holiday mash-up has its lim-
its. We know the Macys Thanksgiv-
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carrying a Maccabee. But it has cre-
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hand if you plan to wait until the post-
Thanksgiving Day sales for your Cha-
nukah shopping.
Ritually, just as weve figured out
that we add candles to our menorahs
from right to left and light them from
left to right, a new question looms
this year: Should we slice the turkey
before or after?
For our household, the dreidel-
wishbone overlap means that our son
at college who always comes home
for Thanksgiving will be home to light
the family chanukiyah, too.
I think its wonderful, said Dr. Ron
Wolfson, whose book Relational Juda-
ism speaks to how our communal rela-
tionships how we listen and welcome
can make our Jewish communities
more meaningful. This year is about
bringing friends and family together.
Wolfson, who also wrote The Hanuk-
kah Family Guide to Spiritual Celebra-
tion, said in a recent interview that this
years calendrical collision was a way to
enhance Thanksgiving, beyond football
and a big meal.
In our land of commercial plenty,
the confluence certainly has served
up a feast of merchandise. There are
T-shirts saying 8 Days of Light, Liberty
& Latkes, and a coffee mug picturing a
turkey with nine burning tail feathers.
And then theres the ceramic menorah
in the shape of a turkey a menurkey,
created by 9-year-old Asher Weintraub
of New York.
But being more of a do-it-yourselfer,
I recycled an old sukkah decoration to
create my own Thanksgivukkah center-
piece the cornukiyah.
For the holiday cook trying to blend
the two holidays flavors, theres a recipe
that calls for turkeys brined in Manisch-
ewitz, and I found another for cranberry
latkes. But what about a replacement
for the now infamous Frankenstein of
Thanksgiving cuisine, the turducken?
How about a turchitke, a latke inside
of a chicken inside of a turkey?
For Dr. Wolfson, who largely has
ignored the merch and wordplay, this
year simply is an opportunity to change
the script. At his Thanksgiving dinner,
he is going to combine Chanukah ritual
with holiday elements found on Free-
domsFeast.us, a website that uses Amer-
ican holidays to pass on stories, values
and behaviors.
Searching the site, I found a Thanks-
giving Service for Interfaith Gatherings
by Rabbi Jack Moline that includes a
reading that also could work for Cha-
nukah a holiday of religious freedom
as it celebrates many of the occupa-
tions that we can do when we are free,
including working as activists, writers,
artists, entrepreneurs, even journalists.
For our own celebrations, Dr. Wolfson,
the Fingerhut professor of education at
the American Jewish University in Los
Angeles, wants us to consider the simi-
larities of the stories at the heart of each
holiday.
The Pilgrims were escaping religious
persecution in Europe, Dr. Wolfson
said. They did not want to be assimi-
lated. He added that the Maccabees
were fighting against Hellenization,
another form of assimilation.
Counter to the usual December
dilemma for the intermarried whose
numbers have increased to 58 percent
since 2005, according to the recent Pew
study Dr. Wolfson noted the oppor-
tunities and challenges presented this
year by Chanukah and Christmas not
coinciding.
We usually feel the tension between
the two holidays, he said. This year we
can feel the compatibility of the two.
The early Chanukah will help people
to appreciate its cultural integrity, Dr.
Wolfson said, adding that he would not
be surprised by a spike in candle lighting
this year.
But for others in the Jewish commu-
nity, the pushing together of the Festi-
val of Lights with Turkey Day has forced
other changes, some unwanted.
Rabbi Steven Silver of Temple Meno-
rah in Redondo Beach, Calif., is cancel-
ing his synagogues traditional Friday
night Chanukah dinner.
That holiday weekend will be vaca-
tion time, people will be out visiting
family and friends, he said. The rabbis
wont have anyone in front of them that
weekend, and thats a problem.
Yet Rabbi Silver also has found the con-
fluence has presented an opportunity.
The day before Chanukah, members
of his congregation are planning to
attend an interfaith Thanksgiving service
at a Catholic church.
There will between 800 and 900 in
attendance, from Buddhists to Sikhs,
and three Jewish congregations Rabbi
Silver said. We are planning to bring a
6-foot-high wooden menorah and sym-
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The holidays overlapping, he said,
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I
remember being dragged by my fa-
ther to the Rovno Society, a group
to which he belonged made up
of his townspeople, survivors of the
Shoah like him. I was young, and these
Sunday meetings where someone
talked for what seem like an eternity
followed by a rubber chicken lunch,
felt like an interruption from more im-
portant activities, like shopping at the
mall or hanging out with friends.
But my father wanted me to go.
The Rovno Society was important to
him. So I went. And I sat. And I listened.
And I picked at the rubber chicken.
Little did I know that Id be taking
my own daughter, Shaina, to the Rov-
no Society decades later.
My father, of blessed memory, was
very attached to the Rovno Society.
Offcially, it was known as The First
Rovner Sick & Benevolent Association,
founded in 1897 to serve as a support
to the waves of immigrants that came
from Europe onto the shores of the
United States, like so many other Jew-
ish organizations.
But after the Shoah, the Rovno So-
ciety, became something else entirely.
It was a touchstone for the Jews, like
my father, who survived.
Rovno, now Rivne, was once a
thriving town of 30,000 70 percent
of whom were Jewish. It is now in the
Ukraine. When my father was born, it
was Poland. In 1939, the Soviets took
over. In 1941, the Nazis came. After the
war, there were 2,000 Jewish survivors.
When they had their meetings, the
members of the Rovno Society gath-
ered to mark sober occasions, like
the yartzeit of the Jewish massacre at
Sosenki, a pine park outside of the city
where my father can remember pic-
nicking with his friends on the Jewish
holiday of Lag BOmer. Some 17,500 of
Rovnos Jews were killed by the Nazis
during a two-day spree on November
67, 1941. Early each November, the
Rovno Society would meet usually
in Brooklyn to commemorate those
days.
The Rovno Society would also
have social meetings, parties of ca-
maraderie, of fraternity, of family, be-
cause after all, it was like family, even if
you were not blood relatives some-
one from your hometown could re-
member who your father was, or the
street where you lived, or the school
that you attended.
Rovno came into sharp focus for
me not too long ago. Some years ago,
I had the privilege of visiting Rovno
with my father. Of walking the streets
he walked. Of hearing the tales he re-
called. Of seeing the once great and
glorious synagogue, which was now
being used as a sports center. We
searched for my fathers house to no
avail. But that trip put Rovno on the
map in my heart.
That trip gave me Rovno pride.
For the people of Rovno were strong,
loyal, and survivors in the best sense.
So when the longtime president of
the Rovno Society, Gerald Grossman,
who is nearly 90 and going strong,
asked me to be a member of the execu-
tive board, as my father had been, and
the groups recording secretary, I said,
of course.
I remember the frst meeting in my
new role as recording secretary, a role
I took seriously in writing the minutes.
Oh, remarked Mr. Grossman, a
bit surprised. I dont think anyone
has taken these many notes before.
At our last meeting, I brought along
Shaina. It was the yartzeit meeting.
Yehuda was with Jeff attending an
open house for a high school.
So it was just Shaina and I.
At that meeting there were far few-
er people. The meeting was shorter.
And instead of rubber chicken, there
were bagels, cream cheese and lox
sandwiches and boxes of Joe from
Dunkin Donuts.
I took my notes. I chatted with the
other members, and I wished every-
one well.
Before we left, one of the members
spoke with Shaina. Shaina admired a
pin she was wearing.
Please take it, she said, unfasten-
ing it from her blouse.
Oh, no, Shaina said.
Its okay, I told her.
So she put the sparkly fower pin
on Shaina.
The pin was beautiful. And the mo-
ment symbolic.
I gave Rovno to my daughter, as
my father had given it to me.
Cheers,
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er called home she was reassured it was
just Elis way with words.
Eli says hell visit you in New York,
but not go on a trip, his father tells us.
Okay, fne.
But he wants one of his brothers to
come too. Apparently even a rival sib-
ling is reassurance of home.
No, this is a time for us to be with
just Eli.
The negotiations continue. Finally
agreement. Eli will spend three days
with us in New York. We fx up a spare
bedroom for him. Were told he may
want to sleep in our room with us, but
he gets through the night all right alone.
What was it like being eight years
old? My mind tumbles back 75 years. I
can remember a dramatic and traumatic
event. My brother was born! My mother
stayed in the hospital about a week, and
I stayed with my grandparents. In those
days children were not allowed to visit a
hospital. I was homesick and desperate
to see my mother. I wrote her a tearful
letter, my only contact with her until she
came home.
I tell this story to Eli. He thinks about
it, but no response.
That night, Grandma watches The
Antiques Road Show. Eli is fascinated
by the lamp worth $3,000 and would be
worth more if the gold fnish had not
worn off. And the jewelry diamond
broach and earrings and pearl necklace
tens of thousands, and the painting
also worth thousands. Eli looks around
our apartment to see if we have anything
worthy of The Antiques Road Show, and
he wants to know if the program is on
again the next night.
We visit Barnes & Noble. Eli reads
about Star Wars and The Hobbit. We
start to go but he decides hes neglected
Lord of the Rings. After two hours, we
leave the bookstore for lunch, and then
the Lego store at Rockefeller Center.
There are spectacular Lego sculptures
of skyscrapers, the Statue of Liberty and
a monstrous dragon suspended from
the ceiling, but Eli is more interested in
a Lord of the Rings set. At $65 its out of
reach, but we devise a plan.
Eli cant swim. Hes nervous in the
water, but if he tries and has
any success, he gets the cov-
eted Lord of the Rings Lego
set.
I teach Eli how to play
chess. He catches on to the
moves quickly, even the
tricky knight. He loves to cap-
ture pieces, even if it means
losing a more valuable piece
of his own. He has one of my
knights and wants to sacrifce
a rook to get the other. I point
out that at this late stage of
the game the rook is more im-
portant, but he holds up the
horse-shaped knight and says
fondly, I want them both for
my collection.
The Bronx Zoo is next, a
scorching hot day with mas-
sive crowds. We hike to the
gorillas, an Eli priority, and
then retreat to the air-con-
ditioned caf. The crowd is
overwhelming, but we man-
age to fnd a table. After lunch
we leave but realize weve
lost Eli. Panic! There are hun-
dreds of kids and their par-
ents swirling around us in the
caf and outside on the plaza.
How do you fnd a lost child in
the vast acreage of the Bronx
Zoo? Is this a place that at-
tracts pedophiles? Then mag-
ically he appears.
Where have you been? I
ask harshly.
He logically had exited the caf
through the same door where we had en-
tered, while we, not thinking, had gone
out the opposite door without watching
him.
The Childrens Zoo is nearby. Eli
puts on the sensitive ears that simulate
the desert fox, pokes his head into the
bubble that surveys the prairie dog vil-
lage, tries to jump as far as a bull frog,
climbs an imitation spider web, and from
a tree house he whirls down a corkscrew
sliding pond.
Were at the far end of the zoo, but
we contrive to get a ride in a golf cart, a
thrill for Eli. Only one experience can top
it a camel ride. However, a child cant
ride alone, so Im Elis camel companion.
The ride rocks and rolls like a lifeboat
bucking the waves. Though he has trou-
ble in the water, Eli has no problem sit-
ting astride the turbulent camel saddle.
I cling desperately to the saddle bar and
wonder how the heck did Lawrence ride
this thing across the Arabian desert?
At home Eli sets up the chessboard,
while Grandma heats up Wacky Macs, a
concoction of macaroni and cheese. I tell
Eli Ill play the next chess game without a
queen to make the odds more even, but
Eli refuses. As it turns out, he manages
to take my queen anyway. And were
both queenless.
Eli continues his travels from room
to room, but in our apartment, the mezu-
zahs are too high for him to reach so he
has to jump as he passes through each
doorway.
At the Museum of Natural History
Eli doesnt want to go to the Imax movie.
Hes put off by loud noises and oversized
images but he fnally agrees. Its a de-
lightful story about penguins, and Eli is
beguiled as they waddle about.
Riding a golf cart and a camel are
exciting, but the ultimate is Amtrak.
We take the train to Baltimore. Were
in the quiet car and we caution him
only whispering is allowed. Thats okay.
He spends most of his time with a lap-
top computer game, and occasionally
checks the passing scene out the win-
dow. The car has two rest rooms, and
he must decide which one to use, He
notes that the water fountain has cups
shaped like ice cream cone holders. We
can move from car to car remarkably by
pushing a panel in each end door. And
we visit the caf car, which offers a won-
drous array of choices. Eli picks a bag of
pretzels and says, I like the train, a rare
accolade from him.
We tell Eli about the bargain, the
prized Lego set if he learns to swim, or at
least tries. He says no, hell pass up the
reward, and locks himself in his room.
Grandpas trying to make me swim,
and I never will. We point out that he
has nothing to lose by trying. He reluc-
tantly agrees, swimming lessons will be
his summer project. I hope he has some
success because I have already bought
the Lego set, and dont want to be stuck
with it.
Our next visit we ask Is Eli swim-
ming? No, his mother says, but he can
kickboard his way across the pool.
Thats wonderful, Eli. I get the Lego
set from the closet hiding place. Keep
up the good work.
Ed Silberfarb was a reporter for the Bergen
Record in New Jersey, then the New York
Herald Tribune where he was City Hall
bureau chief. Later, he was a public infor-
mation ofcer for the New York City Transit
Authority and editor of one of its employee
publications.
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is not getting enough from his or her food, especially if
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ight about now, youre prob-
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faraway exotic place? An ingredient
that takes a regular comfort dish
and adds a unique dash of taste is
coconut. The coconuttiness in the
following recipes is relayed as more
of a hint than an exclamation. But its
a suggestive hint that speaks of sun-
shine and tropical climates. Its the
perfect thing to perk up tired taste
buds.
The versatility of coconuts
makes it the wonder ingredient. It is
available in a variety of forms: milk,
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cessfully in both sweet and savory
recipes. In liquid form, it is rich and
creamy. As an oil, its an ideal swap
out for margarine. When faked, it
adds a nice chew to a recipe.
Chicken Noodle Soup gets a
boost by stirring in a couple cans of
lite coconut milk. If you need even
more of a spicy nudge, add a thinly
sliced habanero chili. This full-fa-
vored and creamy soup is a meal in
a bowl with the addition of slippery
rice noodles and shreds of chicken,
both comforting and unusual at
once.
In the garlic-herb salad dressing,
full-fat coconut milk grants a creamy
(read: dairy) and rich texture to a
pareve dressing. The garlic, herbs,
and seasonings in this dressing co-
operate nicely with the rich and
slightly sweet coconut milk.
The Banana Coconut Coffeecake
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is dressed up with coconut fakes.
The streusel layer is made crumbly
by using cold coconut oil spread and
chopped walnuts or sliced almonds.
The Coconut Rum glaze tops this
pleasing dessert with added tropical
appeal.
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Coconut Banana Coffee Cake
with Rum Coconut Drizzle
3 cups all-purpose our
cup aked coconut
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup coconut oil spread
cup granulated sugar
cup packed brown sugar
4 eggs
3 ripe bananas, mashed
cup strong brewed coffee
cup coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Nut Streusel
cup all-purpose our
cup packed brown sugar
teaspoon cinnamon
cup cold coconut oil spread
cup chopped walnuts, pecans, or sliced
almonds
Rum-Coconut Drizzle
cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon coconut milk
1 tablespoon rum
Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a 13x9x2 bak-
ing pan. In a medium bowl whisk together
3 cups our, coconut, baking powder, bak-
ing soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl beat the coconut oil
spread together with the granulated and
brown sugar with an electric mixer until light
and uffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating
well after each addition. Add the mashed
bananas, coffee, and vanilla and mix on low
speed until just combined.
In three additions beginning with the our
mix; the our to the wet mixture, followed by
half the coconut milk; repeating the process
and ending with the our mixture. Beatbeat
on low speed until just combined. Spoon
batter into the baking pan, spreading evenly.
Streusel: In a small bowl stir together the
our, brown sugar, and the cinnamon. Using
a metal fork, or a pastry blender if you have
one, cut the cold coconut oil spread into the
our mixture until it resembles bean-sized
crumbs. Add the nuts, and then sprinkle
over the batter.
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick
inserted into the cakes center come out
clean. Cool for about 45 minutes.
In the meantime make the rum-coconut
drizzle: In a small bowl mix together pow-
dered sugar, coconut milk, and rum until
thick and smooth. Drizzle over cake.
Makes 8 to 10 servings
Coconut Chicken Noodle Soup
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 onion, nely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 teaspoon fresh ginger, grated
1 small habanero chili, thinly sliced
(optional)
3 garlic cloves, minced
5 to 6 cups vegetable stock
2 x 15-ounce cans lite coconut milk
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
4 teaspoons soy sauce
1 to 2 tablespoons lime juice
1 to 2 teaspoons sesame oil
pound uncooked chicken breasts, cut into
thin strips or approximately 2 cups leftover
chicken chopped or shredded.
4 to 6 ounces rice noodles
In a large stockpot heat oil over medium-high
and saut onions until soft and translucent
(3-4 minutes). Stir in fresh ginger, sliced chili
(if using), and minced garlic. Cook for 1-2 min-
utes, until fragrant.
Pour in vegetable stock and coconut milk. Mix
in Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, lime juice,
and sesame oil. Let soup come to a boil, add
chicken mix well and then reduce to a simmer.
Let simmer for 30-35 minutes.
Adjust seasonings to taste. Add the rice noo-
dles and continue to cook until soft. Serve hot.
Makes 6 servings
Garlic Herb Coconut Milk Dressing
cup well-shaken full-fat coconut
milk
2 teaspoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
teaspoon parsley akes
Salt & pepper, to taste
Put all ingredients in a jar with a tight
tting lid and shake vigorously, taste
and adjust salt and pepper to taste.
Makes cup of dressing
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not eating a well-rounded diet, they may recommend a
childrens multi and possibly calcium plus D. If a
child is doing fne, they try to reassure the parent that
a multi isnt needed.
If a parent does decide to give the child a multivi-
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and Freeda Vitalets.
Bauer advises to follow the dosage listed on the
label, keep the jar tightly capped on a high shelf, and
make sure your kids know that vitamins are not candy.
Children can overdose on vitamins.
After multivitamins, calcium supplements are what
parents ask about the most. While youngsters dont
drink as much milk as they used to and therefore
arent getting calcium from one of the best sources
around. The response to less milk consumption has
been kid-friendly food that is now fortifed with calci-
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parents should do a weekly calcium tally with their
children to determine whether its needed, Bauer says.
Ari Singer, the managing partner of The Natural
Spot in Teaneck, agrees that children would do well tak-
ing a multivitamin because people dont eat the way
they should.
Even better than taking the commonly known mul-
tivitamins, he says, are the whole food multivitamins,
brands such as Blue Bonnet and New Chapter, both of
which are kosher. The whole food vitamins are supe-
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exactly like food would because they are made from
food and not chemically isolated nutrients.
In addition, Singer recommends that youngsters
get calcium, vitamin D because nobody is in the sun
anymore and Omega 3, which can help moods, skin
and nails and cognitive functioning.
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It is Balloon!
What can be better than the Macys
Thanksgiving Day Parade? The blowing
up of the balloons. The famed Macys
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giving eve, Wednesday, Nov. 27 and goes
until 10 p.m. The fun begins at 79th Street
and Columbus Avenue around the Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History where
Spider-Man, Ronald McDonald, Greg Hef-
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year, a dreidel balloonicle because Cha-
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get ready for the 87th annual Macys
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The Ice Vault Skating Arena offers ice rentals, recreation
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In addition to its regular great exhibitions, The
Liberty Science Center has an exhibition Grid-
iron Glory, which combines sports, history
and culture into an exciting, interactive expe-
rience, bringing the history and vigor of this
all-American sports phenomenon to guests of
all ages with rare historical artifacts, hands-
on fun, and chances to meet NFL alumni. The
exhibition even features a Hometown Heroes
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Also, youngsters will love the Bob the Builder
exhibition where they can help Bob and his
friends build, dig and have a jolly great time.
Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, 222
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ive theatre, music and dance per-
formances have taken center stage
with families. Today there is an
abundance of entertainment options for
youngsters from the toddlers through
the teens. To begin fostering a love for
the performing arts, experts suggest par-
ents start early and plan ahead.
Theres no set age to begin taking
children to live performances, says en-
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start with age-appropriate programming
that caters to childrens interests and at-
tention spans and build from there.
Thats what Ann Hobbs did. Around
age 3, we started taking our younger two
to the childrens theater, says Hobbs
of Mary, now 17, David 12 and Natalie 8.
From there we checked out other family
programs, high school productions and
eventually shows with more detailed
plots.
Jennifer Abramczyk wasted no time
getting her daughters acclimated to the
stage either. And by age 4 her young-
est was ready to see her frst Broadway
production, Beauty and the Beast. At
that point both girls knew the storyline,
but we still prepped them by reading
the book and listening to the music on
tape before going, says Abramczyk of
Raley now 11 and Annie 8. Since then
they have gone to a number of music,
theatre and dance performances in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other
big cities.
Experts agree its a good idea to start
with programs based on familiar stories
and characters.
Read the parallel book and listen to
the songs on CD so your child can make
the connection, says Marie Swajeski,
childrens theater educator and program
director. But dont discount unfamiliar
programs if the content is interesting
and engaging.
Abramczyk didnt. Several years
ago the local symphony had an organi-
zation come that featured the story of
Beethoveens life and music, she says.
Although my kids werent acquainted
with this composer, they were mesmer-
ized by the performance and retained
what they had learned.
Before purchasing tickets, inquire
about audience participation and other
activities associated with the program.
Some musical venues hold an in-
strument petting zoo before family con-
certs, says Holly Grasso, education and
entertainment programs coordinator.
They bring in an array of instruments,
have various stations where musicians
demonstrate how to play the instru-
ments and then invite the children to
test them out. The families love it!
Also ask about backstage passes as
this can enhance the experience.
One of the most memorable times
weve had was when we got a backstage
tour of The Nutcracker, says Abram-
cyzk. The girls were able to see the
sets and lighting, meet the characters
and learn interesting tidbits of informa-
tion. The tour guide then gave each of
the children an old pair of ballet shoes
so they could get of all the ballerinas
autographs.
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programs if the content is interesting
and engaging.
Abramczyk didnt. Several years
ago the local symphony had an organi-
zation come that featured the story of
Beethoveens life and music, she says.
Although my kids werent acquainted
with this composer, they were mesmer-
ized by the performance and retained
what they had learned.
Before purchasing tickets, inquire
about audience participation and other
activities associated with the program.
Some musical venues hold an in-
strument petting zoo before family con-
certs, says Holly Grasso, education and
entertainment programs coordinator.
They bring in an array of instruments,
have various stations where musicians
demonstrate how to play the instru-
ments and then invite the children to
test them out. The families love it!
Also ask about backstage passes as
this can enhance the experience.
One of the most memorable times
weve had was when we got a backstage
tour of The Nutcracker, says Abram-
cyzk. The girls were able to see the
sets and lighting, meet the characters
and learn interesting tidbits of informa-
tion. The tour guide then gave each of
the children an old pair of ballet shoes
so they could get of all the ballerinas
autographs.
But close encounters may be fright-
ening for some youngsters.
Some childrens perfor-
mances allow kids to meet the
performers and get their pro-
grams signed after the show,
says Hobbs. For Natalie, this has
always been a highlight of attend-
ing these type performances and
shes saved every autograph. But
one time after A Christmas Carol,
she got an up-close look at Marley
wrapped in chains and it scared
her. She was brave though, and
in keeping with tradition, went on
to get his autograph. After that
she was fne.
Once the performance is
over, share impressions.
This is a great way to con-
nect with your kids and increas-
es the likelihood they will retain
the experience, says Fields. Ask
open-ended questions: What
was your favorite part? What
characters did and didnt you
like? Why? What did that song
remind you of?
Swajeski agrees. Parents can
glean a lot from this and fnd out
what their children did and didnt
understand about the show, she
says. It may also initiate conver-
sation about other topics. For
example, many childrens shows
have a moral, so this is a good
time to talk it over and reinforce
what your child learned.
Abramczyk does this. When
the girls were younger we would
go around and each person
would say what we liked about
the performance mainly about
the characters, music and out-
fts. Now theyve become more
discerning viewers and were
discussing things like sets and
choreography: If you were the di-
rector, would you have changed
anything? Would you have put
that movement in?
Hobbs kids have fne-tuned
their viewing skills too. And now
they are getting in on the act. Af-
ter seeing Annie, Mary thought
shed like to start auditioning for
shows and landed roles at a cou-
ple of community theatres, her
high school production and All-
State Theatres Les Miserables,
says Hobbs. Natalie has done
a few things with childrens the-
ater too and really enjoys it. But
what she really thinks is cool is
after the performance when the
children come up and ask for her
autograph.
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fensive and more territorial. They dig
their feet in and wont budge.
It is more effective for parents to
refect their childrens feelings on how
diffcult it is to live and get along with
others even our own family members.
Validating childrens feelings and
naming them helps kids to think clear-
ly. It also helps them see the problem
from their siblings perspective. There
is an added beneft; it also helps par-
ents actually see both sides of the
story. It keeps us parents calm and helps us discipline
without yelling and accusing.
Child: I didnt do anything!
Instead of judging like this: If you didnt do anything
then why is she crying? You need to stop bothering her!
Try this: Oh, boy, sometimes it can be hard to get
along with your sisters. You are not sure what happened
to get her so upset, sometimes we say things we dont
realize can be hurtful
Child: He always starts with me!
Instead of judging like this: Well if you started it, you
need to go to your room!
Try this: It sounds as if you guys are angry at each
other. That sometimes happens between brothers. It can
be hard to get along with the people we live with.
Children especially the more sensitive ones of-
ten feel bad about fghting. They think, I am so mean!
Why is it so hard for me to get along with my siblings?
Maybe I am a bad person. Others might think, My sib-
ling is the worst, he is always starting with me!
Letting them know fghting is a part of family life
helps the sensitive children to feel better about his feel-
ings he is normal, not mean. It also lets them know that
their siblings are not the worst, just really frustrated.
All this lays the groundwork for the next step:
2. Help them focus on solutions
Once we have spent a bit of time refecting our childrens
feelings, we can try to move them towards resolving the
confict. We can gently suggest that they think of solu-
tions on how to get along.
We can say: Trying to fgure out how to share a toy
can be diffcult. Do you have any ideas that might work?
What can you guys do to fx this problem?
Are you guys ready to think of some solutions on
who is going to sweep the foor or are you still too mad?
What do you do if the children dont want to offer
any solutions?
Go back to refecting feelings, then name the prob-
lem and offer some suggestions with a neutral tone:
Two children and one toy! It is tough to share! Do
you want to hear what some other children do? Some de-
cide to take turns, each person taking fve minutes each.
Some decide to fnd other toys to play with
This is tough one, two children who dont want
to sweep the foor and one mom who needs it to get
done. Can I offer some suggestions that might work for
you? Ben you do half the foor and Eli you do the other
halfHow about Eli you do it today and Ben you do it
tomorrow?
We also need to remember that parenting is a slow
process. You are setting the stage for how they will han-
dle confict later as they grow. They might not come up
with solutions right now in this situation, but you are
building a problem solving mindset.
3. Dont let children get stuck in negative roles
Many times children get placed in negative roles either
by their siblings or even their parents. The show off,
the crybaby and the meanie are
just some examples of the derogatory
labels that families may use to de-
scribe children. This can unwittingly
exacerbate the sibling issue.
When we see children exhibit a
behavior that we fnd off-putting we
tend to point it out to that child. We
might say, You are acting like a show
off! The other children may or may
not have picked up on the annoying
behavior. But now that you have men-
tioned and labeled the behavior, they
certainly will. At this point the whole family will most
likely jump on the bandwagon and start calling he/she
a show off. Everyone will start to view this child in a
negative way.
Unfortunately, s/he also begins to think of them-
selves in that way. Children often become the labels that
they are called. A child thinks, If my parents and siblings
think Im a show off, then it must be true. It becomes a
part of their self-image. S/he then naturally works to per-
petrate that role. This only adds fuel to the fre of teas-
ing, fghting and the bickering between siblings.
As parents we need to avoid using negative labels
to describe our children, and once we have, we need
to work hard to eradicate the role in which that child
has been placed. This may sound counterintuitive, but
to change a childs behavior, we need to focus on their
positive behavior, what he or she is doing right instead
of what he or she is doing wrong.
You need to launch a campaign to change your
childs negative image. To do that you need to fnd the
times that she is acting right and point it out to her and
everyone around her.
For example, when she does not act like a know it
all or a show off you want to make a big deal about it
and point it out to her.
For the show off, instead of saying, Sara, stop be-
ing such a show off! Let Eli have a chance to talk!
Try this: (Even if she just stopped talking to take a
breath) Sara you stopped your story to let Sam have a
turn to talk
For the crybaby, instead of pointing out all the times
he cries: You always cry about everything point out
the times he handles life with equanimity: You were dis-
appointed when Zac, cancelled your play date, but then
you just invited Max over instead.
Finding the times your children act right can be a
challenge but it can help reduce the sibling rivalry in
your home and help kids get along.
4. Have pat phrases to keep the peace
Oftentimes we just need some catchy phrases to keep
the peace in our families. There are some one-liners that
succinctly let our kids know that getting along is impor-
tant to us. Children appreciate when we use them be-
cause they we get our point across without a long drawn
out lecture.
So when our children are fghting, teasing or putting
each other down we can simply but frmly say:
Our family strives to support each other.
Teasing hurts feelings.
Hands to yourselves!
You have the superior capacity to be kind, use it!
Sibling rivalry can be a challenge but you can help
your children get along by refecting their feelings, mov-
ing them toward solutions and avoiding labels.
Adina Soclof is the director of Parent Outreach for A+
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ibling rivalry is one of the toughest challenges
of parenting. Even my attorney friends dont feel
equipped to mediate the conficts that arise over
who gets to press the button in the elevator, or what to
do when the juice in their childrens cups are not ex-
actly even.
It is tough to watch and manage, but most experts
agree that fghting between siblings is normal and can
even be healthy way to learn how to manage confict.
Here are four simple ways to help our children get
along.
1. Drop the role of judge and just reect
their feelings
When siblings fght, parents will often act as referee and
say, If you cant share no one is getting the toy. He was
playing with it frst so he gets it or How would you like
it if someone took your toy? Although it feels right, it
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course like twists and turns, climbing walls and more. A space so vast and physi-
cally interesting, that a visitor can scale the entire breadth without touching the
ground. Welcome to Billy Beez, the just opened massive indoor playground at
the Palisades Center. The goal is to promote physical tness and fun, says Elena
Slorian, assistant general manager, who added that parties and classes will also
be part of Billy Beez offerings. The soft-play environment ensures that safety
goes hand in hand with fun. Billy Beez is located at Palisades Center, on Level
1 next to Best Buy, 1000 Palisades Center Drive, West Nyack, N.Y. 845-535-
9277 http://us.billybeez.com
Kids in the Kitchen
New Easy Cookbook
Leah Schapira and Victoria Dwek have done it again. The dynamic duo
behind the Made Easy series of cookbooks have created a new cook-
book with kids in mind. Kids Cooking Made Easy (Artscroll). The new
book features 60 easy-to-make
kosher recipes. Theyre fun to
make, and the instructions are
easy to follow. Every recipe has
a photo, and additional step-by-
step photos and Cooking School
tips teach young cooks many new
techniques, like how to simmer or
saut for dishes that are totally
sensational. Its enough to give the
apron to the kids for good.
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Sunday, November 24
Hands On Chanukah: Learn to light the menorah
and explore the origins and customs for the holi-
day. Discuss the holiday conundrum. Learn music.
Sessions start at 10 a.m. Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Drive in Woodcliff
Lake. 201-391-0801,www.tepv.org.
Chanukah Family Day at Jewish Museum:
Day of activities from 11:30 to 4 p.m. includes
concert by Yosi and The Superdads, themed art
workshops, including edible cookie art and fam-
ily guided museum tours. Free with museum
admission. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth
Ave., at 92 Street, Manhattan. 212-423-3200,
www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Menurkey Maker: Meet Asher Weintraub,
the fourth grader who created the Menurkey,
a menorah shaped like a turkey at 11:30 a.m.
during Chanukah Family Day at The Jewish
Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., at 92 Street, Manhattan.
212-423-3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Book Fair & Family Fun Day: Rockland Jewish
Academy sponsors a day of fun for the whole
family. 1-4 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Palisades Center,
W. Nyack.
Wednesday, November 27
Chanukah Menorah Lighting in Glen Rock:
Lights, blessings and snacks at the Glen Rock
Jewish Center. 5 p.m. 682 Harristown Road, Glen
Rock. 201-652-6624.
Franklin Lakes Menorah Lighting: Join Chabad
and Mayor Frank Bivona for the rst lighting
at 6 p.m. on the front lawn of Franklin Lakes
Borough Hall, 480 De Korte Drive, Franklin Lakes.
Sunday, December 1
Family Art Project: Gather fall leaves, cones,
pods and seed heads and weave them together
to create a decorative wall hanging for the season.
Wave Hill House, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wave Hill, 675
W. 252 St., New York, 718-549-3200.
Ben Rudnick & Friends Concert: In a funky
blend of styles, this group will celebrate Chanukah
and entertain youngsters 3 to 7 years old. 2 p.m.
$18 adults, $13 children. The Jewish Museum,
1109 Fifth Ave., at 92 Street, Manhattan.
212-423-3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Ringwood Menorah Lighting: Chabad of Upper
Passaic County hosts the menorah lighting with
latkes, donuts and gelt 5 p.m in front of Wells
Fargo Bank, 110 Skyline Drive, Ringwood. Rabbi@
JewishHighlands.org or call 201-696-7609.
Monday, December 2
Wanaque Menorah Lighting: Chabad of
Upper Passaic hosts Wanaque menorah light-
ing with the mayor 7 p.m. at Wanaque Municipal
Building, 579 Ringwood Ave., Wanaque. Rabbi@
JewishHighlands.org or call 201-696-7609.
Chanukah On Ice NYC: Join the fun of a night of
ice-skating at Wolman Rink in Central Park. Giant
menorah lighting, music by the Maccabeats, food
and skates included. $22 adult/$18 child online.
www.chanukahonicenyc.com.
Tuesday, December 3
Chanukah Bash in Brooklyn: Volunteers
with Friendship Circle join others for a bash
at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The event
includes a Nets basketball game, public menorah
lighting and the Maccabeats at half time. $40
per person includes the game and transportation.
973-694-6274 or chanig@optonline.net.
Popcorn Chanukah Party: Ventriloquist John
Pizzi makes you laugh at the event in which a
giant popcorn menorah is lighted. 7 p.m. at the
Haskell Towne Center, 1069 Ringwood Ave.,
Suite 202, Haskell. 201-696-7609, rabbi@
jewishhighlands.org.
Wednesday, December 4
West Milford Menorah Lighting: Chabad of
Upper Passaic hosts menorah lighting 5:15 p.m. at
West Milford Town Hall, 1480 Union Valley Road,
West Milford. Rabbi@JewishHighlands.org or call
201-696-7609.
Moms Spa Night Out: Special Chanukah-
themed spa night for moms of special needs
children. 6:30 to 8:30 at Faces Plus Salon, 229
Berdan Ave., Wayne. $5 includes a manicure and
skin consultation. Discounted haircuts are avail-
able. For more information, 973-694-6274.
Wrap it Up: Friendship Circle Action and Flames
of Giving host evening to wrap toys to be donated
to children. 7 to 8:15 p.m. at Chabad Center, 194
Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973-694-6274 or chanig@
optonline.net.
Friday, December 6
Post Chanukah Playgroup: Temple Emanuel
Playgroup, a free program for parents and chil-
dren from infant to 12 months, will celebrate
with singing, socializing, and snacks. Drop-in
between 10 and 11:30 a.m. Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley, 87 Overlook Drive, Woodcliff
Lake. 201-391-8329 or lisa@tepv.org.
Family Chanukah Concert: Service and
concert starting at 7 p.m. Open to all in the
community. Temple Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley, 87 Overlook Drive in Woodcliff Lake.
201-391-0801,www.tepv.org.
Family Shabbat Service: Beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck,
201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
Saturday, December 7
Family Service in Orangetown: Children grades
1 through 6 and their families invited to enjoy
Shabbat. Service at 10:30 a.m. Orangetown
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The Good Life With Kids
Angelina Ballerina at bergenPAC. See Dec. 15
Menurkey Maker. See November 24.
Character Tot Shabbat. See Dec. 13.
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Jewish Center, 8 Independence Ave., Orangeburg,
N.Y. 845-359-5920.
Shabbaba Shabbat in Orangetown: Families
with children up to ve for songs, stories and
treats invited for Shabbat program start-
ing at 11 a.m. Orangetown Jewish Center,
8 Independence Ave., Orangeburg, N.Y.
845-359-5920.
Sunday, December 8
Mindful Parenting: Temple Beth Or hosts semi-
nar with Jewish Wellness Center of North Jersey
co-founders Rex Perlmeter and Beth Sandweiss.
9:15 a.m. Temple Beth Or, 56 Ridgewood Road,
Township of Washington. $18 fee. 201-664-7422.
Bagels-N-Blox: Join an hour of music for children
six weeks through 3 years from 9 to 10 a.m. at
Temple Beth Torah. Non-members welcomed.
Temple Beth Torah, 330 North Highland Ave., (Rt.
9W), Upper Nyack, N.Y. 845-358-2248.
Bullying Education: A session on bullying and
what parents can do facilitated by clinical social
worker Marcia Simon at Temple Beth Torah.
9:30 a.m. Non-members welcomed. Temple Beth
Torah, 330 North Highland Ave., (Rt. 9W), Upper
Nyack, N.Y. 845-358-2248.
Auditions for Teen Theater: Black Box Studios
will hold auditions for its Teen Musical Theater
and Teen Drama Ensemble Workshops for spring
14, to be held at the Performing Arts School
at bergenPAC in Englewood. Register at www.
blackboxnynj.com/new to receive an audition slot
for Stephen Sondheims Company and/or Sam
Shepards Buried Child. For information tzippy@
blackboxnynj.com or 201-567-6664.
Monday, December 9
Baby Bootie and Wrap Up: Learn how to wear
baby for optimum attachment. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Destination Maternitys Learning Studio, Neptune
Plaza, 332 Route 4 East, Paramus. $20 per per-
son; $30 couple. 201-291-6151.
Barnert Temple Kindergarten Open House:
From 9:15 to 10:30 a.m., parents can check out a
class in action and learn what the school is about.
Barnert Temple, 747 Route 208 South, Franklin
Lakes. 201-848-1027.
Camping Fair: Learn about the different Modern
Orthodox day and sleep-away camp options
in the area at The Moriah School, 53 South
Woodland St., Englewood. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
ekessler@moriahschool.org.
Friday, December 13
Shabbat Yachad: Unique service of together-
ness presided over by Cantor Mark Biddelman.
8 p.m. Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley, 87
Overlook Drive, Woodcliff Lake. 201-391-0801.
Character Tot Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: Join
Sponge-Bob, Elmo, Spiderman and Tinkerbell
for Character Tot Shabbat from 4 to 5 p.m. with
songs, dinner and a playful way of learning about
Torah at the Chabad Center, 375 Pulis Avenue,
Franklin Lakes. 201-848-0449.
Saturday, December 14
Tot Shabbat Service: Beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Temple Emeth, 1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck,
201-833-1322, www.emeth.org.
Sunday, December 15
Science Spectacular: Biodiversity for youngsters
6 to 11 years old. Learn how the Earth supports
plants and animals that live together and sup-
port each other. 10 a.m. to noon. 92 St Y, 1395
Lexington Ave., Manhattan. 212-415-5500,
www.92StY.org.
Angelina Ballerina: Bergen Performance Arts
Center presents Angelina Ballerina in A Very
Merry Holiday Musical, 8 p.m. bergenPAC, 30
North Van Brunt St., Englewood. 201-227-1030,
www.bergenpac.org.
Gustafer Yellowgold Concert: For young-
sters 3 and up, live music and original anima-
tion described as a cross between Yellow
Submarine and Dr. Seuss. 2 p.m. $18 adults,
$13 children. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth
Friday, December 20
Tot Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: Family-friendly
service for pre-readers. 5:30 p.m. Barnert
Temple, 747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes.
201-848-1800, www.barnerttemple.org.
The Macaroons in Concert: Big harmonies
and great melodies from this popular band.
Shows at 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. $20 adults,
$15 children. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth
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Chabad Hebrew School of Upper Passaic
County will be organizing a Chanukah
toy drive in honor of the holiday. All toys
donated will be distributed to children
in the hospital, their siblings, and chil-
dren in need. All toys should be new and
unwrapped. Toys can be dropped off at
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Haskell or brought to the Popcorn Cha-
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Become a partner. See how much more we can do together
The roads to healing are many
Chai Lifeline makes the journey easier for more than 4,300 children and
families every year. Join us in celebration and gratitude on December 18.
Chai Heritage Award
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N.Y. charter
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Brooklyn schools failing
grade unusual among
Hebrew charter schools
JULIE WIENER
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n a bright autumn morning, Hebrew songs
and phrases fill the sun-drenched, freshly
painted blue and white classrooms of New
Yorks Harlem Hebrew Language Acad-
emy Charter School.
A group of kindergartners, representing such an
even mix of black and white children that they resem-
ble a 1980s Benetton ad, clasp each other by the waist
and dance in a rakevet, or train, stopping every few
moments to add a new child who, as the teachers
explain in Hebrew, is sitting nicely on his or her tussik.
In another room of the new institution, set in a
former Catholic school on a gentrifying block in Har-
lem, first graders place red and yellow chips on Bingo
cards, each space designating a colored item of cloth-
ing to be identified in Hebrew. Children who lapse into
English receive a gentle reproof from the teacher say-
ing in Hebrew, I hear English. Oy va voy!
But while students at Harlem Hebrew were bask-
ing in the good vibes, its sister school, the 4-year-old
Hebrew Language Charter School in Brooklyn, was
dealing with the F it received a day earlier in the New
York Department of Educations annual grading of city
schools.
Despite the Brooklyn school being named a van-
guard school by the Hebrew Charter School Cen-
ter, the national network with which both New York
schools affiliate, leaders of the center say the poor
showing doesnt reflect on the quality of the Brooklyn
school or on Hebrew charter schools generally.
Its in no way a setback for the movement, said
Rabbi David Gedzelman, a board member of both the
Harlem school and the Hebrew Charter School Cen-
ter and the executive vice president of the Steinhardt
Foundation for Jewish Life, one of the centers pri-
mary funders.
The F grade is an unusually poor showing for a
The student body at the Harlem Hebrew
Language Academy Charter School in New York
is approximately 40 percent white, 40 percent
black, and 20 percent Latino.
HARLEM HEBREW LANGUAGE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL
SEE CHARTER SCHOOL PAGE 35
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Steven Masi Performs
Beethovens 32 Piano Sonatas
Join us on a musical journey as renowned
pianist and Thurnauer faculty member Steven
Masi performs Ludwig van Beethovens 32
masterful piano sonatas. A joint project of the
JCC Thurnauer School of Music, Forte Piano and
the Pufn Foundation. Concert takes place at
Pufn Foundation, 20 Pufn Way, Teaneck, NJ.
Call for tickets 201.836.3499, $10 suggested
donation.
Sun, Nov 24, 4 pm
A Chanukah Celebration
Come enjoy the many beautiful melodies written to
observe Chanukah, one of the most celebrated holidays
in the Jewish calendar. The Cantorial Concert is funded
in part through the generous support of the Weinash
Family Cantorial Concert Endowment Fund.
Sun, Dec 1, 2 pm, $8/$10 in advance; $10/$12 at the door,
Children free
My Family Story:
A Collaboration
WITH BEIT HATFUTZOT ISRAEL
In English and Hebrew, for Ages 11-13. Use
multimedia and comics to connect to personal,
family and Jewish histories; show your work in a
community-wide exhibition. Ten nalists will win
trip to Israel to compete internationally. Brought
to you by the Israeli Center.
Free Intro Session: Sun, Nov 24, 6:30 pm
5 Thursdays, Dec 19, Jan 23, Feb 13, Mar 13 & Apr
24, 5 pm & Sun, Feb 23 at 6:30 pm, $70/$85
Exhibit: Tue, May 6, 7 pm
Candle Lighting Traditions
CHANUKAH SEMINAR
WITH RABBI REUVEN KIMELMAN
Theres more than one way to light a menorah.
Come learn how Ashkenazim and Sephardim do it
diferently, and why.
Wed, Dec 4, 8:15-9:45 pm, FREE
JAMES H. GROSSMANN MEMORIAL JEWISH BOOK MONTH
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots
WITH AUTHOR JESSICA SOFFER
This lyrically-written novel is about two women adrift in
New Yorka widow and an almost orphan, who learn
that even in moments of grief and darkness, joys might
be waiting just around the corner. This program is co-
sponsored with Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
Women's Philanthropy; and is supported by the Kurt &
Henry Mahler Fund for Jewish Book Month.
THUR, DEC 5
7 PM: $36, includes book and wine + cheese reception with
the author, followed by author presentation at 8 pm.
8-10 PM: Author presentation $8/$10
Cantors and Candles:
ANNUAL CANTORIAL CONCERT
By some measures,
the Hebrew Language
Academy has
been a success.
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Monday, November 25th, 5:00-6:30pm
at Gerrard Berman Day School
High-Energy, Interactive Childrens Entertainment
with Dassi Rosenkrantz-Cabo!!
For Ages 2-6
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including Carnegie Hall and NJPAC. Her original music has
been included in television and movies.
Light Dinner Provided Crafts Interactive Holiday Fun
Each child will go home with a special craft!
Celebrate Chanukah & Thanksgiving
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Hebrew charter school, the bulk of which have done
well on state evaluations. Three of the four schools in
the Ben Gamla network in Florida earned As in 2013
from the state ranking system, which is based on test
performance and other factors. The fourth got a C.
The only other center school besides Brooklyn to
be tested so far the Hatikvah International Char-
ter School in East Brunswick ranked in the 99th
percentile of a statewide evaluation of academic
achievement.
Launched in 2009, the Brooklyn academy was the
first school founded with financial and technical assis-
tance from the center. By some measures, the Hebrew
Language Academy has been a success. Its profile on
InsideSchools.org, an online guide to New York public
schools, is filled with enthusiastic parent testimonials.
In recent years, the school has received more applica-
tions than it has openings.
Still, the academy was one of only 23 elementary
schools in the city to receive an overall grade of F for
2012-13. The annual assessment is based largely on
student progress in statewide math and English tests.
As 2012-13 was only the second year that its students
took the tests, much of the academys overall grade
was determined by the performance of its first cohort:
75 students who were fourth graders last year.
These students some entered as first graders in
its opening year and others matriculated there as
late as the second or third grade have a different
demographic profile than the rest of the school and
the schools with which the academy was compared,
charter school center officials say.
Overall, the Hebrew Language Academy is 48.6 per-
cent black/Hispanic. Its fourth-grade class is 62 percent
black/Hispanic. Harlem Hebrew is approximately 40
percent white, 40 percent black and 20 percent Latino.
Rabbi Gedzelman said the Brooklyn school is
improving, and he noted that its third graders per-
formed considerably better on average in 2012-13 than
the fourth graders.
Over the years, the academy has offered more aca-
demic intervention and support for low-performing
students. It is also adding a summer program.
The other schools in the charter school network
including Harlem Hebrew and two others that opened
this fall in San Diego and Washington, D.C. have ben-
efited from lessons learned by the Hebrew Language
Academy over the years, Rabbi Gedzelman said.
For example, Harlem Hebrew launched this year
with a reading specialist and English-as-a-second-
language specialist on staff, something the Brooklyn
academy did not add until later.
Another center-affiliated school is slated to open
this year in Los Angeles. The group also is in discus-
sions with planning groups in Philadelphia and Chi-
cago, and is considering opening additional schools
in New York City. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Charter school
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By some measures,
the Hebrew Language
Academy has
been a success.
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Brandeis suspends partnership
with Palestinian school after Nazi-style rally
Brandeis University on Monday announced the suspen-
sion of its partnership with Al-Quds University follow-
ing a recent Nazi-style rally at the Palestinian school in
Jerusalem.
At the November 5 rally, Al-Quds students wore black
military gear, carried fake automatic weapons, and gave
the Nazi salute.
While Brandeis has an unwavering commitment to open
dialogue on difficult issues, we are also obliged to recognize
intolerance when we see it, and we cannot and will not
turn a blind eye to intolerance, Brandeis, which had part-
nered with Al Quds since 2003, said in a press release. As a
result, Brandeis is suspending its partnership with Al-Quds
University effective immediately. JNS.ORG
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Bush speech a coup for the group, but acceptance as Jews eludes them
BY RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON George W. Bush
granted messianic Jews a brief shining
moment in the spotlight last week and
then just as quickly sent them back into
the shadows.
The Messianic Jewish Bible Institute in
Dallas had advertised Bush as the key-
note speaker at its annual fundraiser on
November 14, prominently featuring the
former presidents appearance on its
website alongside pages describing the
groups mission to bring Jewish people
into a personal relationship of faith with
Yeshua the Messiah.
But after a reporter for Mother Jones
wrote about the fundraiser, all men-
tion of the dinner disappeared from the
institutes site. Otherwise solicitous staff
refused comment. President Bush went
ahead with the speech behind closed
doors.
The turn of events is emblematic
of what messianic Jews have faced
since their emergence in the 1960s: a
tantalizing taste of acceptance followed
by a pronounced repudiation by the
mainstream Jewish community.
I think theres a distinction between
the gatekeepers and the general commu-
nity within the wider Jewish community,
said Rabbi Russ Resnik, the director of
the Union of Messianic Jewish Congre-
gations, an association of some 70 Mes-
sianic synagogues around the country.
The gatekeepers have to be vigilant
and at times overdo the vigilance. But
the wider community is receiving and
friendly.
Messianic Jews embrace Jesus as the
messiah but hew to Jewish traditions,
observing Jewish holidays and reciting
Hebrew prayers in services. Many, but
by no means all, are born Jewish and
have come to accept Jesus and see their
practices as legitimate expressions of
Judaism.
Mainstream Jewish groups gener-
ally have rejected messianic Jews, see-
ing them as luring Jews into Christian-
ity under the pretense that they can
maintain their Judaism even while
accepting belief in Jesus.
Messianic Jewish Bible Institute offi-
cials declined several requests for com-
ment. But in a statement Monday,
Jonathan Bernis, the institutes chair-
man, said criticism of his group reflected
an intolerance of its beliefs.
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their convictions with other Jews, Mr. Bernis said. The
real intolerance is coming from those who apparently
think that no Jewish person should ever be exposed to the
claims of the most famous Jew who ever lived.
Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles said
it was laughable to suggest that American Jews are not
regularly exposed to the claims of Jesus.
It is dishonest, deliberately or inadvertently, to say
that one can live in a Jewish faith community and accept
another scripture or accept a different God, Rabbi
Wolpe said. Its striking that for thousands of years the
definition of being Christian was believing in Jesus, and
all of a sudden theyve discovered, no, you can do that
and be Jewish.
It is, whether they realize it or not, a marketing tool,
not a discovery.
Its not clear if President Bush initially understood what
an appearance at a messianic Jewish event would sig-
nify. Sources close to the former president said that an
aide recommended accepting the engagement without
understanding Jewish sensitivities. Bush went ahead, the
sources said, not because he favored the movements mis-
sion of proselytizing but because he thought backing out
would be bad form.
Someone looking at this in the American context, who is
not well versed in Jewish history, does not look at this and
say that is a nuclear issue, said Tevi Troy, a former deputy
health secretary and top liaison to the Jewish commu-
nity under Bush. Mr. Troy emphasized that his boss
has always been sensitive to Jewish concerns.
Mr. Resnik estimates there are some 20,000 Jews
affiliated with messianic congregations, but he esti-
mates the number of Jewish believers in Jesus could
be much higher. The recent Pew Research Center sur-
vey, which caused such angst among American Jewish
leaders, actually was heartening to messianic Jews; it
reported that 34 percent of respondents believed it
was possible to believe in Jesus and be Jewish. Many
Jews understood the finding to reflect the view that
beliefs have no bearing on a persons Jewish status.
No one could ignore the Pew survey that came
about, said Mitch Glaser, the director of Chosen
People Ministries. Thirty-four percent of the aggre-
gate community believes you can be Jewish and
believe in Jesus. Its almost undeniable now in the
Jewish community. Were a vital community and we
are attracting President Bush and others who want
to speak to us.
Despite their rejection by mainstream Jewry, mes-
sianic Jews are not entirely outside the tent. Mr.
Resnik says that members of his congregation donate
to local federations and are accepted to a degree as
volunteers, making fundraising calls, visiting the
Jewish elderly, and teaching English to Jewish immi-
grants from the former Soviet Union.
Jewish security professionals also reach out to
messianic congregations in cases of perceived secu-
rity threats against the Jewish community, according
to the Secure Community Network, the security arm
of national Jewish groups.
Yaakov Ariel, a professor of religious studies at
the University of North Carolina, says there are signs
that Jewish groups have grown more accepting of
Messianic Jews in recent years. Prof. Ariel notes that
a recent call by a British Reform rabbi to be more
accepting of the movement stirred little outcry. The
World Congress of Jewish Studies, which takes place
every four years in Jerusalem, featured a panel on
messianic Jews this year something Prof. Ariel has
been seeking for decades.
It is to be expected, he said. There are hun-
dreds of messianic congregations in America. They
have been on the scene for years.
The major stumbling block remains the messianic
doctrine of proselytizing. Mr. Resnik says messianic
groups try to keep a low profile in mainstream Jew-
ish settings, but proselytizing remains a core princi-
ple. Especially irksome are bids to convert what are
seen as vulnerable populations, Russian and Ethio-
pian Jews in particular. The Dallas group President
Bush addressed touts its efforts in that area promi-
nently on its website.
Mainstream Jewish concerns about conversion
inhibit what could be a useful relationship with a
movement that has accrued a good deal of credibility
within the Christian world over the decades, accord-
ing to messianic Jews.
Were loyal Jews who have an interest in Israel,
Mr. Glaser said. We should be viewed as allies and
not opponents.
Mr. Resnik says proselytizing should not be the
determining factor for mainstream Jews in consid-
ering a relationship with messianic Jews. The Jew-
ish establishment also should take into account
the longing for Jewish connection and community
among messianic Jews, he said. We feel theres a lot
we can do and a lot of engagement we can have with
the wider Jewish community other than propagating
our messianic faith. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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countrys new reconnaissance and combat drone,
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HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE Al most from the
moment they met him, several officials
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ball team said they saw manager Brad
Ausmus headed for the major leagues.
They cited his communication skills,
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tion not to mention his 18-year play-
ing career as a catcher, which included
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ing the 2005 World Series with the
Houston Astros.
We knew that even though hed
never had any managerial experi-
ence, hed go and be a major league
manager, said Nate Fish, the bullpen
catcher for an Israeli squad that came
up short in its bid for the World Base-
ball Classic. The overall chemistry was
at a very, very high level, and Brad was
very professional. He created a very
good environment in the clubhouse.
Fish and the others proved pro-
phetic: Ausmus, 44, was introduced
Sunday as the manager of the Detroit
Tigers, succeeding Jim Leyland.
Ausmus joins a short roster of Jews
who have managed major league
teams, which includes current Oakland
Athletics manager Bob Melvin. (Both
have Jewish mothers and non-Jewish
fathers.) The first was one of the ear-
liest Jewish players, Lipman Pike, an
outfielder-infielder who managed the
Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1877.
In the WBC qualifiers, Israel won its
first two games before being eliminated
by Spain in a 10-inning loss.
Brad did a great job of managing the
entire tournament, especially the [elim-
ination] loss, which he handled with
dignity and class, said Gabe Kapler,
who coached for Team Israel along-
side Ausmus, his former Tigers team-
mate, and now is a Tampa Bay Rays
consultant.
His age and long playing career
helped Ausmus earn respect from the
Team Israel players, officials and play-
ers said.
Ausmus was so refined in his atten-
tion to detail, said Peter Kurz, presi-
dent of the Israel Association of Base-
ball, that the team practiced keeping on
its caps for the playing of Hatikvah,
the Israeli national anthem, following
Israeli custom.
In assembling the club, Ausmus com-
piled information on prospective play-
ers on his iPad and index cards. His
recruiting effort also included calls to
scores of candidates, as well as to their
parents.
His work not only before but during
the WBC qualifying made our team
legitimate, Kurz said. The experience
apparently assured Ausmus that his
post-playing career inclination was
accurate.
He told me he felt that he was not
just the manager, but the general man-
ager that it was a lot of fun choosing
his own players. It gave him the feeling
he could do it, Kurz said.
Ausmus is replacing a successful
manager in Leyland, who at 68 was the
Manager Brad Ausmus, right, and two of his coaches, Shawn Green, left, and
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oldest skipper in baseball. Leyland guided the Tigers
to two American League championships in his eight
seasons. In 1997, he had managed the Florida Marlins
to the World Series crown.
Several members of Leylands staff will be staying on
with Ausmus, including bench coach Gene Lamont.
With Team Israel, Ausmus leaned on Kapler and Shawn
Green, both former major league outfielders. It was an
arrangement that developed unusually.
At a November 2011 meeting in Cypress, Calif.,
Kapler peppered team officials with questions, while
Green and Ausmus were very quiet, Kurz recalled.
The three ex-players were offered playing and field
leadership roles and asked to select their preferred
jobs.
I thought for sure Gabe would be the manager,
because hed managed one year in the minors, Kurz
said.
In a February 2012 conference call, the trio
revealed to Israeli baseball officials their division
of labor: Ausmus, manager; Green and Kapler,
player-coaches.
From then on, Brad came into his own on the
job, Kurz said.
That May, Ausmus and his wife, Liz, visited Israel,
where the new manager ran baseball clinics for chil-
dren, held a news conference, donned tefillin for the
first time, and went surfing in Tel Aviv.
Ausmus took great pride in meeting Israeli Presi-
dent Shimon Peres, said the U.S. ambassador to
Israel, Dan Shapiro, who accompanied Ausmus to
the meeting.
The opportunity to lead the team struck him as
fun and also novel, Shapiro said of his conversa-
tion with Ausmus, who wracked up 1,579 hits fifth
among Jewish players while playing for four teams
in the majors.
Ausmus has stayed in touch with his Team Israel
players. He helped pitcher Alon Leichman deal with
some mound struggles at Californias Cypress Col-
lege and wrote letters of recommendation on his
behalf when Leichman, who was raised on Kibbutz
Gezer, was transferring to the University of Califor-
nia, San Diego. (He is now a pitcher at UCSD.)
It meant so much that he really helped me,
said Leichman, one of three Israel-born players on
the team. He owed me nothing, so Im really hum-
bled by it.
One player on the Israeli team might even rejoin
Ausmus in Detroit: Ben Guez, an outfielder for the
Tigers AAA Toledo club. Three Team Israel mem-
bers played in the major leagues in 2013: Nate Frei-
man of the Athletics, the Astros Josh Zeid, and Josh
Satin of the New York Mets.
Leichman already was a Detroit fan because his
mother is a native. But with Ausmus as the Tigers
manager, Im rooting for them even more, he said.
Every baseball fan in Israel is now a Tigers fan.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
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roster of Jews who
have managed major
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The American Jewish Committees executive director, David
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Nigerias Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization.
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briefly after President Hollande decided he would prefer
to follow President Obamas lead and address university
students. Outraged, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein nixed
a reception for him and froze cooperation with the French
embassy on the visit.
Frances foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, ended the
row on November 9 with his announcement that Presi-
dent Hollande would address the Knesset after all.
I know you rely on your own strength for defense, but
know that France is your friend and will not allow Iran
access to nuclear arms, for it would be a threat for Israel
and the world, the president said in his address to the
parliament Monday evening.
Everything must be done to solve this crisis through
diplomacy, he said. We shall maintain sanctions until
Iran has renounced its nuclear program.
In the French media, the Knesset incident received con-
siderable play because it touched on President Hollandes
Achilles heel: His perceived indecisiveness, even among
members of his own Socialist Party.
Hollande is more of a grayish leader. Hes not a star
like some of his predecessors, including Francois Mitter-
rand and Nicolas Sarkozy, said Daniel Shek, who served
as Israels ambassador in Paris during President Sarkozys
term, which ran from 2007 to 2012.
Along with this perception of weakness, President Hol-
lande is contending with a worrying financial crisis and a
large rise in the unemployment rate, which has reached
26 percent among the young more than triple the rate in
Germany. Earlier this month, the Standard & Poor credit
agency cut Frances rating for the second time this year,
exposing President Hollande to the charge that he is not
delivering the growth and welfare he promised.
Indeed, popular support for the French president is at a
record low. A poll released Sunday by the market research
firm IFOP found that his approval rating had plunged to
20 percent, a dramatic falloff from the 54 percent he
enjoyed following his election in May 2012 and two points
below the previous all-time low set by President Mitter-
rand in 1991.
But on issues of particular importance to French Jews,
President Hollande has a stellar record. Since his election,
hundreds of people have been arrested and dozens con-
victed for anti-Jewish violence and incitement. And last
year he cleared his schedule unexpectedly to accompany
Prime Minister Netanyahu to Toulouse for a memorial for
the four victims of a French Islamist attack on a Jewish
school there in 2012.
Such overtures may make French Jews more forgiving
of President Hollandes shortcomings on other fronts
but probably not much.
It would be incorrect to call Hollande popular among
French Jews, who also worry about the economy as all
French citizens do, said Roger Cukierman, president
of CRIF, the umbrella group of Jewish communities in
France.
On Israel, President Hollande reversed Frances objec-
tion to the European Union blacklisting of Hezbollahs
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and French Jews feel toward a man who has transformed
France from one of Israels fiercest European critics into
an important ally.
Controversy threatened to derail President Hollandes
visit even before he arrived.
A planned speech to the Israeli Knesset was canceled
briefly after President Hollande decided he would prefer
to follow President Obamas lead and address university
students. Outraged, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein nixed
a reception for him and froze cooperation with the French
embassy on the visit.
Frances foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, ended the
row on November 9 with his announcement that Presi-
dent Hollande would address the Knesset after all.
I know you rely on your own strength for defense, but
know that France is your friend and will not allow Iran
access to nuclear arms, for it would be a threat for Israel
and the world, the president said in his address to the
parliament Monday evening.
Everything must be done to solve this crisis through
diplomacy, he said. We shall maintain sanctions until
Iran has renounced its nuclear program.
In the French media, the Knesset incident received con-
siderable play because it touched on President Hollandes
Achilles heel: His perceived indecisiveness, even among
members of his own Socialist Party.
Hollande is more of a grayish leader. Hes not a star
like some of his predecessors, including Francois Mitter-
rand and Nicolas Sarkozy, said Daniel Shek, who served
as Israels ambassador in Paris during President Sarkozys
term, which ran from 2007 to 2012.
Along with this perception of weakness, President Hol-
lande is contending with a worrying financial crisis and a
large rise in the unemployment rate, which has reached
26 percent among the young more than triple the rate in
Germany. Earlier this month, the Standard & Poor credit
agency cut Frances rating for the second time this year,
exposing President Hollande to the charge that he is not
delivering the growth and welfare he promised.
Indeed, popular support for the French president is at a
record low. A poll released Sunday by the market research
firm IFOP found that his approval rating had plunged to
20 percent, a dramatic falloff from the 54 percent he
enjoyed following his election in May 2012 and two points
below the previous all-time low set by President Mitter-
rand in 1991.
But on issues of particular importance to French Jews,
President Hollande has a stellar record. Since his election,
hundreds of people have been arrested and dozens con-
victed for anti-Jewish violence and incitement. And last
year he cleared his schedule unexpectedly to accompany
Prime Minister Netanyahu to Toulouse for a memorial for
the four victims of a French Islamist attack on a Jewish
school there in 2012.
Such overtures may make French Jews more forgiving
of President Hollandes shortcomings on other fronts
but probably not much.
It would be incorrect to call Hollande popular among
French Jews, who also worry about the economy as all
French citizens do, said Roger Cukierman, president
of CRIF, the umbrella group of Jewish communities in
France.
On Israel, President Hollande reversed Frances objec-
tion to the European Union blacklisting of Hezbollahs
military wing. Then, earlier this month,
France blocked a deal between world pow-
ers and Iran, taking a harder line than the
United States over the terms of an accord.
These moves were not born of any
desire to curry favor with Israel, Mr. Shek
said, but the French position was none-
theless appreciated in Jerusalem.
This was not expected of President Hol-
lande when he first sought to replace Pres-
ident Sarkozy, a right-leaning leader seen
as more responsive to Jewish concerns
than his predecessors. Some French Jew-
ish leaders including Mr. Cukiermans
CRIF predecessor, Richard Prasquier
warned that a Socialist in the Elysee
Palace would hurt Franco-Israeli relations
because of a perceived anti-Israel bias
among the French left.
So far, the opposite has been the case,
said Yaron Gamburg, a media adviser at
the Israeli Embassy in France. If any-
thing, there has been a deepening of the
sturdy partnership that existed during the
term of Sarkozy.
In addition to his political support, Pres-
ident Hollande has been willing to advance
bilateral trade with the Jewish state
something his predecessors limited, many
believe, to avoid angering Arab states.
French exports to Israel currently stand at
$1.5 billion 33 percent lower than Britain
and nearly half the volume of Italy.
Dozens of French businessmen joined
President Hollande in Israel, and several
bilateral trade agreements are expected
to be signed during the visit, which ended
Tuesday. In his Knesset speech, President
Hollande said he has decided to jump-
start scientific, cultural and commercial
exchanges with Israel.
Though he has continued Frances
condemnations of Israeli construction in
eastern Jerusalem and the west bank, in
his visit Monday to Ramallah he said the
Palestinians should give up their call for a
return of refugees to Israel in exchange for
a freeze on Israeli settlement construction.
In the seat of the Palestinian Authority,
President Hollande said it was urgent
that Israel reach an accord that creates a
Palestinian state with joint control in
Jerusalem.
The Palestinian issue is the one area
where France and Israel differ and even
there, under Hollande the French partners
are very open, Mr. Gamburg said. There
are no surprises.
Some argue that such openness is an
improvement to relations under President
Sarkozy, who vowed to improve Franco-
Israel relations but still cast a surprise vote
in favor of UNESCO membership for the
Palestinian Authority in 2011.
Still, President Sarkozy is generally seen as
a major improvement over President Chirac,
who had declared former Israeli Prime Minis-
ter Ariel Sharon persona non grata in France.
In response, Prime Minister Sharon urged
French Jews to immigrate to Israel.
Sarkozy, who raised many hopes,
ended up disappointing Jews and Israe-
lis because he was unreliable, said Joel
Rubinfeld of the Brussels-based European
Jewish Parliament. Hollandes presidency
began amid doubts, but ended up instilling
trust that Sarkozy never had.
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BEN SALES
TEL AVIV On the bustling bour-
geoisie avenue of Ibn Gvirol, beneath
a portico and next to a high-end hair
salon, it smells like college.
Aside from a small green sign,
the clinic is unidentiiable, its one
window blocked with a sheet and
covered with chains. A single metal
door is guarded by a man with a
large knit kippa, teillin, and a hol-
ster hanging below his belt.
Behind the door is the main distri-
bution center of Tikun Olam, Israels
principal supplier of medical canna-
bis. Some 11,000 Israelis take the drug
legally to treat ailments ranging from
cancer to post-traumatic stress dis-
order. But activists say the approval
process for marijuana prescriptions
is cumbersome, requiring patients to
appear before a committee on canna-
bis use to determine their eligibility.
We believe that you need to
expand access to it, said Maayan
Weisberg, Tikun Olams public rela-
tions director. The government is
taking a long time. Not everyone who
needs it gets it.
Leading the charge to change is an
unlikely igure: Moshe Feiglin, a Knes-
set lawmaker from the Likud party.
MK Feiglin is best known for his
aggressive advocacy on behalf of west
bank settlements and for the occasion-
ally incendiary pronouncements that
kept him off Likuds Knesset slate for
years and got him banned from enter-
ing the United Kingdom. His views
were long deemed too extreme even
for the right-wing Likud base.
This year, following a strong show-
ing in the Likud primaries, he won a
seat in parliament for the irst time.
But instead of kicking off his term
with a call for increased settlement
building or legal action to expand
Jewish access to the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem, MK Feiglin entered the
Knesset with a proposal to broaden
access to medical marijuana by allow-
ing any family physician to prescribe
it. Eventually he hopes to push for full
legalization.
I support freedom, especially
when were talking about some-
thing less dangerous than cigarettes
or alcohol, MK Feiglin said. People
can be healed, and [current laws]
are denying that.
MK Feiglin is among the more
extreme members of the Knesset now.
He has questioned why Israels non-
Jewish citizens have any say in Israeli
politics and called for stripping Israeli
Arabs of certain rights. He is staunchly
opposed to a Palestinian state.
However, he considers himself a
libertarian, albeit one with a reli-
gious bent. His opposition to a plan
to issue biometric identiication
cards to Israelis and his longtime
support for unfettered Jewish set-
tlement in the west bank are, MK
Feiglin says, of the same cloth as his
support for marijuana use.
The root of freedom is the belief in
one God, he said. We worship him
and therefore we cant be enslaved to
anyone else. An eternal nation doesnt
work against natural history, and our
return to our land, to national sov-
ereignty, means were connected
forever.
MK Feiglins push for legalization
has landed him with some strange
bedfellows. He considers Tamar Zan-
dberg, another irst-time lawmaker
from the far-left Meretz party, one of
his strongest allies on the issue. Labor
Party Chairwoman Shelly Yachimov-
ich also supports loosening restric-
tions on medical cannabis, though she
opposes outright legalization.
Feiglin and I dont agree on almost
anything, MK Zandberg said. But on
this we have a shared goal.
MK Feiglins support for liberalizing
the marijuana laws in Israel derives,
in part, from personal considerations.
His wife suffers from Parkinsons dis-
ease and uses cannabis to alleviate her
symptoms.
Not everyone who supports
increased marijuana access backs full
legalization. Hebrew University pro-
fessor Raphael Mechoulam, a leading
cannabis researcher, believes the drug
should be decriminalized to prevent
excessive arrests, but draws a line at
full legalization.
I wouldnt want to be in a taxi or a
plane where the driver is high, Prof.
Mechoulam said. Theres a certain
limit. You need the backing of the peo-
ple. Im not sure the people in Israel
are ready and in favor of legalization.
MK Feiglin also harbors reservations
about full legalization, noting that he
doesnt want to turn Tel Aviv into
Amsterdam on the Mediterranean.
I dont see Amsterdam as a bad
thing, he adds quickly. Theres no
chaos, theres more freedom for citi-
zens. [Legalization] didnt upend the
way of life.
And though cannabis is consumed
in his house due to his wifes illness,
MK Feiglin says that at least for now,
he chooses not to inhale.
I dont take aspirin, he said. I
dont like putting things in my body. I
like leaving the vessel of God as it is.
But I would be happy to know that
I could use it if I wanted to.
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Europes first state-run
Jewish divinity program
opens in Germany
BERLIN Europes first Jewish divinity program at a
state university opened at the University of Potsdam
outside Berlin.
The School for Jewish Theology, which launched
Monday, is being called a groundbreaking develop-
ment in the German university system, which until
now has subsidized only Catholic and Protestant theo-
logical training programs. Islamic programs also were
introduced recently.
The light of history now shines on Potsdam,
because it is the first time that confessional studies
of Judaism at a state university are possible at an aca-
demic level, Johann Hafner, dean of the Faculty of
Arts at Potsdam, said in a statement
With 47 students enrolled in its first class, the pro-
gram is oversubscribed, Rabbi Walter Homolka, rector
of the Abraham Geiger College and chairman of the
Leo Baeck Foundation, said.
The academic program, which is part of the Faculty
of Arts, is open to students of all backgrounds pursu-
ing bachelors and advanced degrees in Jewish theol-
ogy. All the instructors are Jewish.
Rabbi Homolka said the state is investing easily 2
million euro [$2.7 million] annually in the theology
school to cover six new professorships and the refur-
bishing of its own building on the universitys Neue
Palais campus. Funding is coming from the German
federal government and the state of Brandenburg
along with the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
Jewish students can pursue ordination as rabbis or
cantors at the other programs associated with the uni-
versity: the Reform, or Progressive, Abraham Geiger
College, launched in 1999; and the Conservative Zach-
arias Frankel College, which opened to applicants this
week. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Survey: Dutch favor
Arab recognition of Israel
as Jewish state
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS More than two-thirds
of respondents to a survey in the Netherlands said
Arab countries should recognize Israel as the Jewish
state.
Some 68 percent of 4,200 adults polled last month
told the leading Dutch polling company Peil.nl they
believed that Arab countries should recognize Israel
as the state of the Jewish People, according to a state-
ment by the Center for Information and Documenta-
tion on Israel, the Dutch pro-Israel lobby group that
commissioned the poll.
But the poll, whose results were published earlier
this month, also showed that 23 percent of respon-
dents believe Israel bears most of the blame for the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, compared to 15 per-
cent who blame the Palestinians. Forty-three per-
cent of respondents said both parties were equally
responsible.
A statement that the Netherlands should be more
supportive of Israel than of the Palestinians received
the approval of 16 percent of respondents, nearly
double the number who backed more backing for the
Palestinians.
Thirty-six percent of respondents said neutral-
ity was the best policy for the Netherlands, and 33
percent said the Netherlands should support both
Israel and the Palestinians equally.
The two-state solution was selected as the preferred
resolution of the conflict by 59 percent of respon-
dents, while 14 percent of respondents said Palestin-
ians should realize their national ambitions in Arab
states. Eight percent said Jews needed to return to
their land of origin.
Among attitudes toward Jews, 38 percent of respon-
dents said they were positive or very positive and 6
percent said they were negative. Fifty-two percent said
their attitude toward Jews was neutral. JTA WIRE SERVICE
U.N.s Ban visits Auschwitz
Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United
Nations, paid tribute to victims of the Holocaust at a
visit to Auschwitz.
On Monday, Mr. Ban viewed the public exhibits and
laid flowers in front of the wall where inmates of the
Nazi death camp were shot to death, according to
reports.
Mr. Ban was accompanied by a former Auschwitz
prisoner, Marian Turski, and met at the camp with for-
mer Israeli chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, now the chair-
man of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Israel
and a child survivor of the Shoah.
The U.N. chief also entered the town of Oswiecim,
where he visited the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot syna-
gogue, a remnant of the pre-Holocaust Jewish life in
the Polish town, according to The Associated Press.
Mr. Ban is the second U.N. secretary-general to visit
Auschwitz; Boutros Boutros-Ghali was there in 1995.
At least 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, died at Aus-
chwitz during World War II. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Keep Philly consulate open,
Pa. senator Toomey
asks Netanyahu
WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey appealed to
the Israeli government to keep open the Israeli con-
sulate in Philadelphia amid reports that it may shut
down.
Sen. Toomey (R-Pa.) made his request earlier
this month in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
The Israeli consulate, coupled with Southeastern
Pennsylvanias strong Jewish population, has long
played an integral part in developing important busi-
ness, artistic, and political ties between the United
States and Israel, Sen. Toomey wrote. The loss of the
consulate in Philadelphia could unfortunately hinder
future growth opportunities and partnerships.
The consulate may be shut to make way for the
opening of a diplomatic mission in Chengdu, China,
the Jerusalem Post reported, with Israeli represen-
tation available in the area in New York, Boston and
Washington, D.C. However, no official decision has
been made.
Sen. Toomey pointed out in his letter that the
greater Philadelphia area is home to the second larg-
est Jewish population on the East Coast and the fifth
largest in the country.
The region has played a key role in promoting
U.S.-Israeli business development, and strengthening
cultural, political and philanthropic ties between our
countries, he wrote, adding, I have no doubt that
Israel maintaining an official Consulate presence in
Philadelphia has contributed to this strong relation-
ship between our two nations. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Vayeshev: Here am I
And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not
thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem?
Come, and I will send thee unto them.
And he said to him, Here am I [Hineni,
Hebrew for Here am I] (Gen. 37:13).
Rashi, the great medieval commenta-
tor (d. 1105), notes that the language of
Josephs response suggests both humil-
ity and eagerness. He was eager to
fulfill the request of his father, Rashi
observes, despite the fact that his broth-
ers despised him.
How could Joseph express such a read-
iness to journey alone to his brothers,
knowing they resented him so strongly?
It was because Joseph was so imbued by
his Divine mission that he assumed this
journey, even to the point of self-sacrifice.
The biblical text itself hints to us to
look earlier at another great man of
faith, Abraham. Much of the same lan-
guage used to describe Abrahams jour-
ney to sacrifice Isaac is used to describe
Josephs journey to his brothers in
Shechem. There t oo
Abr a ha m r e s ponds
to Gods charge wi th
extraordinary readiness:
And it came to pass after
these things, that God did
tempt Abraham, and said
unto him, Abraham: and
he said, Behold, here I
am [Hineni] (Gen. 22:1).
The Bible relates that
Josephs brothers saw
him afar off (Gen. 37:18);
when Abraham journeys
toward the mount, he
lifted up his eyes, and
saw the place afar off
(Gen. 22:4). Josephs brothers declare
that after Josephs destruction, we shall
see what will become of his dreams
(Gen. 37:20). After Abraham is relieved
from sacrificing Isaac, he names the
mount Adonai yireh, which means in
the mount of the Lord it shall be seen
(Gen. 22:14).
Joseph knew that even
if he could not necessarily
read it in the events them-
selves, there was nonetheless
a Divine logic to his life. He
sensed that each of the expe-
riences would play a role in
fulfilling the dreams of the
sheaves and the stars. Thus,
when Jacob sent Joseph on
this potentially dangerous
mission, Joseph responded
unequi voc al l y. Thi s i s
the force of his response:
Hineni.
When Joseph and hi s
brothers were finally reunited in Egypt,
Joseph reassured his brothers that his
earlier travails were not the result of
their hostility, but were, rather, a part of
Gods plan. His speech is filled with this
awareness: So now it was not you that
sent me hither, but God (Gen. 45:8).
For God did send me before you, he
tells them (Gen. 45:5). And God sent me
before you (Gen. 45:7).
To each of us comes a call that
requires of us commitment, tenacity,
and sacrifice. It is at such moments that
we are judged. Did we respond, Here
am I?
I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, And who will go for
us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.
(Isa. 6:8)
Reprinted by permission from Letters
to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on
Faith and Leadership, where it appears
with this note: The year 1998 was a
difficult one for President Clinton. Even
in times of difficulty, a leader must retain
a great sense of purpose and mission
and not allow the turbulence of life to
distract from the greater resolve for
accomplishment. (See Torah Mail to the
Chief, page 8.)
Rabbi
Menachem
Genack
Congregation
Shomrei Emunah,
Englewood,
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Frances Hollande in Israel:
No deal until Iran renounces nuclear arms
French President Franois Hollande, at
the start of his visit to Israel on Sunday,
assured that his country would main-
tain opposition to a sanctions relief
deal between Iran and world powers
that stops short of Iran giving up its
nuclear weapons capability.
France will not give way on nuclear
proliferation, Hollande said. So
long as we are not certain that Iran
has renounced nuclear arms, we will
keep in place all our demands and
sanctions.
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Jonathan Pollards wife says
Peres comments a knife in my heart
Imprisoned Israeli spy Jonathan Pol-
lards wife, Esther, wrote to President
Shimon Peres that he disregarded
Americas refusal to free her hus-
band when he recently said, There
is no Israeli request that President
[Barack] Obama has not responded to
[favorably].
Just a week before my husband
enters his 29th year in prison, your
words, Mr. President, were like a knife
in my heart, Esther wrote. You sent
the message that, as far as you are con-
cerned, my husband does not exist.
Jonathan Pollard, 59, is the only per-
son in U.S. history to receive a life sen-
tence for spying for an American ally.
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Saudi Arabia would reportedly
join Israel in possible strike on Iran
Israel and Saudi Arabia, ostensibly
sworn enemies, are secretly working
together on contingency plans for a pos-
sible attack on Iran if the emerging dip-
lomatic deal between world powers and
Iran does not significantly curb Irans
nuclear program, The Sunday Times
reported.
According to an unnamed diplomatic
source, Saudi Arabia has agreed to let
Israel use its airspace for an aerial strike
on Irans nuclear sites. The Saudis would
also cooperate with Israel on the use of
drones, rescue helicopters, and refueling
tanker planes.
The Saudis are furious and are willing
to give Israel all the help it needs, the
source said. JNS.ORG
Across
1. Possible infection cause
6. Unknowns
9. ...and the bush ___ not consumed
(Ex. 3:2)
12. Walter who played Coach
Buttermaker in The Bad News
Bears
14. Professional name for singer
Ahinoam Nini
15. Yom Kippur mo., sometimes
16. Galil, e.g.
17. Buddy Richs role in jazz bands
19. Oscar Wildes friend Leverson
20. Mae West play, with The
22. Give the go-ahead
23. Uses a Singer
25. ___ long staircase just going up...
(Fiddler lyric)
26. Center for Yiddish literature in the
early 20th century
27. Not inactive
29. Dont ___ Me Why (1980 Billy Joel
hit)
30. Barak and Olmert
33. Prominent feature on the Israeli flag
35. Zeydie
39. It rescued 10,000 Jewish children
from the Nazis
42. A son of Isaac
43. Nuclear vessel, briefly
44. You can see Saudi Arabia from there
45. Setting in Milwaukee
47. Fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
49. David ___ Yisrael
52. El Al announcement, briefly
53. Intensity
57. Stay attached
58. Remains in the theater?
60. 1051, to Josephus
61. Car option
63. Negev problem
65. Corp. identifiers
66. ___ avion (phrase on French air
mail)
67. Hair curl
68. Like very narrow shoes
69. The third day, in Isr.
70. Molly Picon played her in the
Fiddler film
Down
1. Pharaoh refused to give this to the
Hebrews for their bricks
2. ___ Natural (Malamud baseball
book)
3. ___ Haam (noted cultural Zionist)
4. Talker behind bars
5. Secular ___ (what some off-the-
derech Jews become)
6. Bernie Sanders pol. affiliation
7. What Jonah was supposed to do at
Nineveh
8. Steam baths
9. Prenatal sites
10. Amtrak speedster
11. Create clutter
12. Arts degs.
13. Rahm to Barack, once
18. First athlete to win seven gold med-
als in a single Olympics
21. Writers Himmelfarb and Stein
24. Pharisees rivals
28. Beirut-to-Jerusalem dir.
30. Barely achieve (with out)
31. Capitalized Bible pronoun
32. Ladino one
34. Smallish energy source
36. Big mail deliverer
37. Bosom buddy?
38. Co. that spun off the Baby Bells
40. German foreign minister Walter
41. ___ Under: Love (Grossman
Holocaust book)
46. One kind of Hebrew writing
48. Actress Piper (Carrie)
49. The Jew of ___ (Christopher
Marlowe play)
50. Plant problem
51. ___ Apso
54. Nellie Forbushs South Pacific love
55. Biblical herb
56. Dryer waste
59. German city whose Jews suffered
from the Crusades
62. Test for Ph.D. wannabes
64. ___ Marx (character in Philip Roths
short story Defender of the Faith)
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Arts & Culture
Bob Dylan meets opera
Israeli band records eclectic tribute album
MATT ROBINSON
F
rom Joan Baez to the Grateful
Dead, scores of popular artists
have tried to take Bob Dylans
work to new audiences and new
dimensions. Now, an eclectic Israeli band
is putting its own novel spin on the legend-
ary Jewish musician.
Diva de Lai, featuring economics
Ph.D. Yuval Nachtom on
drums, orchestra specialist
Eyal Sucher on guitar and
keyboards, mezzo-soprano
Karin Shifrin on vocals, and
Grammy-nominated bassist
and producer Yossi Fine
released its irst album, Dylan
at the Opera, in late October.
Dylans songs come from
deep emotion of the soul,
the same place that opera
originates from, Dr. Nachtom
said. We thought our irst album
would conceptualize different
styles and sounds and cover
versions of Dylans songs in a new
interpretation.
Because Dylan born Robert
Allen Zimmerman to Jewish parents
and raised in Hibbing, Minn. has
written and recorded hundreds
of songs, Dr. Nachtom admits that
it was a challenge to select the dozen
tracks for his Diva de Lais rock opera
album, but says he delighted in digging
deep into Dylans body of work.
We knew these songs were less covered
and relatively lesser known to the mass
audience, he said. All the songs to us
represent a soul and theatrical material
for opera, such as the incorporation of
Karins vocals.
An example of a lesser-known Dylan
song on the album is the irst single,
Seor (Tales of Yankee Power),
originally written in
the 1970s.
The song was not well received
nor well understood at the time, but Dr.
Nachtom suggests its simple melody and
timeless story work well in any style.
Seor is about lack of hope, the rule
of a tyrant, cruelty, lost love, and maybe
looking for an answer in a heavenly
entity, he said, observing how the color
of the lyrics and the melody present a
challenge and are a natural basis for hard-
core opera.
In addition to opera and rock, Dr.
Nachtom says the album includes a
complex palate of other genres. There
is classic 1980s rock with the songs
North Country Blues and Ring Them
Bells; hard rock with As I Went Out
One Morning, Dont Think Twice, Is
Your Love In Vain, and If You See Her,
Say Hello; country rock elements with
Wedding Song and Youre Gonna Make
Me Lonesome, and even classical music
with Dirge, Let It Be Me.
These are great tunes by Dylan,
completely redone in a new refreshing
musical style, Dr. Nachtom said.
While the band has yet to hear from
Dylan, Dr. Nachtom says feedback from his
fans and friends has been positive.
Mr. Dylans closest circle that works
with him really likes the album, and we
have been receiving many compliments
from Dylans fan base on social media on
this reinterpretation concept of his songs,
he said.
Dr. Nachtom does hope that the album
gets to Dylan, and that it will become an
honor to his legacy. In the meantime,
Diva de Lai is looking forward to its next
album, which Dr. Nachtom says will come
out in mid-2014.
The new project, like the Dylan album,
has diverse influences it combines rock,
opera, and classical music with lyrics from
some of Israels most prominent poets.
Song are like a cloud, Dr. Nachtom
said. Anyone can interpret them how he
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Friday
NOVEMBER 22
Tot Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds its
monthly tot Shabbat,
led by Rabbi David S.
Widzer, Cantor Rica
Timman, and Music Lisa,
with songs, stories, and
crafts, 5:15 p.m. Family
Shabbat dinner at 5:45,
followed by services at
6:45. 221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or
www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel & JCCs
former rabbi, Rabbi
Noam Marans, now
director of interreligious
and intergroup relations
at the American Jewish
Committee, returns to
the shul as scholar-in-
residence to talk about
Jewish-Catholic relations.
At Friday night dinner,
after 6:30 p.m. Kabbalat
Shabbat services, he will
address Christian-Jewish
Relations Today: Themes
& Trends; hell talk about
Pope Francis & the
Jewish People: A New
Era in Catholic-Jewish
Relations? during lunch
after 9 a.m. Shabbat
morning services.
Babysitting provided. 475
Grove St. Reservations,
(201) 444-9320 or
office@synagogue.org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
Israels Mens club hosts
its annual Chanukah
dinner 6:30 p.m.,
followed by services at
7:30. 53 Palisade Ave.
Reservations, (201) 265-
2272 or office@bisrael.
com.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 23
Zvi Weissler
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Learning
Experience resumes
its Shabbat morning
educational prayer
service led by Zvi
Weissler, 9:45 a.m. at
the Young Israel of
Teaneck. Programs for
3- to 11-year-olds. 868
Perry Lane. Rabbi David
Pietruszka, (201) 966-
4498, rabbip@jle.org, or
www.jle.org.
Sunday
NOVEMBER 24
Chanukah in Fort Lee:
The Hebrew school at
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
holds a pre-Chanukah
party and BYOF (Bring
Your Own Jewish Friend)
Day. Chanukah activities
begin at 9 a.m., Drum
Tales: The Hearty Story
of Chanukah and a
bake sale at 11. Parents
welcome. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735.
Thanksgivukkah
party in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
hosts a Thanksgiving/
Chanukah party with
music, crafts, and
food, for preschoolers,
9:30 a.m. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463
or administrator@
avodatshalom.net.
Chanukah in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley offers
hands-on Chanukah
learning sessions with
Rabbi Benjamin Shull
and Cantor Lois Kittner,
1011:50 a.m. Bring a
menorah. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
www.tepv.org.
Judah P. Benjamin
COURTESY YJCC
History of the Jews
in Washington
Township: Historian
James Devine discusses
Judah P. Benjamin, a
Jewish lawyer, Louisiana
plantation owner, and
the only man to have
served in both the U.S.
Congress and the British
Parliament, at the Bergen
County YJCC, 11 a.m.
Refreshments. Jill, (201)
666-6610, ext. 5812, or
jbrown@yjcc.org.
Literary event in
Hackensack: Ben
Porat Yosef holds its
annual Reading Rocks
at Barnes & Noble
in Riverside Square,
11 a.m.-3 p.m. , with a
scavenger hunt, puppet
show, face painting,
performance of songs
from Annie, shiur at
the cafe, and poetry
readings. Elana Dushey,
BPY parent and adjunct
professor at Fordham
University, will speak
about Contemporary
Jewish Literature.
Portion of sales benefits
BPY. To support online
from 11/24 to 11/30, go
to BN.COM/bookfairs
and enter Bookfair ID
11186392 at checkout. All
proceeds benefit the BPY
library. (201) 845-5007 or
www.benporatyosef.org.
Tricky tray in Fair
Lawn: Temple Beth
Sholom Sisterhood hosts
its annual tricky tray
event. Doors open at
1 p.m.; calling starts at 2.
$10 admission includes
refreshments. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
9321.
Interfaith service in
Park Ridge: Temple
Valley joins with 13
Pascack Valley churches
and synagogues in an
interfaith Thanksgiving
service at the United
Methodist Church, 7 p.m.
Rabbi Ben Shull, Cantor
Mark Biddelman, and
TEPVs senior and junior
choirs will participate.
Refreshments. 130
Berthoud St. (201) 391-
0801.
Monday
NOVEMBER 25
Play group in Emerson:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers
play time, Chanukah
music, stories, snacks,
and crafts for moms
and dads of newborns
through 3-year-olds so
they can connect with
each other and the
Jewish community, at
Congregation Bnai Israel,
10 a.m. Administered
by JFNNJs Synagogue
Leadership Initiative,
funded by the Henry and
Marilyn Taub Foundation.
53 Palisade Ave. (201)
265-2272, (201) 820-3917,
or ellenf@jfnnj.org.
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues its Smile on
Seniors program at
the center by screening
Goldas Balcony,
11:30 a.m. $5. 194 Ratzer
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Tuesday
NOVEMBER 26
Networking in
Springfield: The Jewish
Business Network
meets for breakfast at
Temple Shaarey Shalom,
8:30 a.m. 78 South
Springfield Ave. www.
jbusinessnetwork.net or
(973) 379-5387.
Wednesday
NOVEMBER 27
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee holds a community
candle lighting led by
Rabbi Kenneth Stern and
Cantor Paul Zim at the
Triangle, Main Street and
Lemoine Avenue, 5 p.m.
(201) 947-1735.
Chanukah in Glen Rock:
A community menorah
lighting is at the Glen
Rock Jewish Center,
5 p.m. Snacks. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624.
Chanukah in Edgewater
and Cliffside Park:
Temple Israel Community
Center of Cliffside Park
holds a candle lighting
ceremony at Memorial
Park, River Road and
Route 5, Edgewater,
5 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. it
holds a candle lighting
ceremony in front of
Cliffside Park Borough
Hall, 525 Palisade Ave
5:30 p.m. (201) 945-7310.
There will be a grand
Chanukah extravaganza
with a DJ, photo booth,
crafts, treats, and
a menorah lighting
hosted by Chabad of
Fort Lee, 5:30 p.m. 808
Abbott Boulevard. (201)
886-1238 or chayag@
chabadfortlee.com.
Gerrard Berman Day School, Solomon Schechter of North
Jersey in Oakland, in partnership with Shalom Baby of the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, offers a sing-along/
interactive program with Dassi (Dassi Rosenkrantz-Cabo) for
2- to 6-year-olds on Monday, November 25, at 5 p.m. The program includes
dinner and crafts. 45 Spruce St. For information, call (201) 337-1111 or email
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Montclair-based Doni Zasloff, a.k.a.
Mama Doni, the lead singer/songwriter
for Mama Doni & The Mama Doni
Band, will bring its brand of funky
music with a Jewish twist to Mama
Donis Chanukah Special, a full-length
concert to be broadcast throughout
Thanksgiving weekend on Sirius/XM
Satellite Radios Kids Place Live (Chan-
nel 78).
Chanukah music on Sirius/XM
ANDREW LEPLEY
Concert to mark Bikels upcoming 90th
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
is presenting a concert, Miracle of Mira-
cles: A Chanukah Extravaganza, celebrat-
ing folk legend/actor Theodore Bikel, in
anticipation of his 90th birthday in May.
The all-star cast will gather at Symphony
Space, 2537 Broadway in New York City,
on Monday December 2, at 7:30 p.m.
Bi kel , the Oscar-nomi nated and
Emmy-winning actor, will make a special
appearance, supported by Folksbiene
Klezmorim Orchestra, led by Frank
London. His friend, the Emmy and Obie
Award-winning comic actor Fyvush Finkel,
will salute him in a rousing tribute to
Yiddishkeit.
The evening supports the Drama Desk
Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre
Folksbiene, now in its 99th consecutive
season. For information or reservations,
call (212) 864-5400 or go to www.
symphonyspace.org
Theodore Bikel in Sholom Aleichem: Laughter Through Tears, at
the Folksbiene, 2009. PHOTO BY MICHAEL PRIEST
Chanukah in Franklin
Lakes: The Chabad
Jewish Center holds a
menorah lighting on the
front lawn of Borough
Hall, 6 p.m., followed
by entertainment, hot
refreshments, glow-
giveaways, and childrens
crafts at the Ambulance
Corps building. 480
De Korte Drive. (201)
848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Interfaith service
in Glen Rock: The
Glen Rock Jewish
Center is among the
participants in the 44th
annual Thanksgiving
eve interfaith service
at the shul, 8 p.m.
Participants should
bring nonperishable
food to donate to the
Center for Food Action.
Refreshments. 682
Harristown Road. (201)
652-6624.
Friday
NOVEMBER 29
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Holy Name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services in the
bloodmobile in the
hospital parking lot,
1-7 p.m. All donors will
receive a red Super
Community Blood Drive
wristband and have the
opportunity to win two
tickets to Super Bowl
XLVIII. 718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-BLOOD or
www.nybloodcenter.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 4:10 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley holds its
annual 101 Menorahs
Shabbat, 6 p.m. Bring
a menorah and four
candles to light. Latkes
and donuts served. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Saturday
NOVEMBER 30
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck offers services
at 9 a.m., followed by
Rabbi Lawrence Zierler
discussing Making the
Cut: the Jewish Lists,
as part of the Three Cs
Cholent, Cugel, and
Conversation. Kinder
Shul for 3- to 8-year-olds,
while parents attend
services, 10:30-11:45. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee holds a community
candle lighting and
Havdalah service led by
Rabbi Kenneth Stern and
Cantor Paul Zim at the
Triangle, Main Street and
Lemoine Avenue, 6 p.m.
(201) 947-1735.
Sunday
DECEMBER 1
Chanukah in Cliffside
Park: Temple Israel
Community Center/
Congregation Heichal
Yisrael hosts a Chanukah
brunch with omelets and
latkes, a movie, concert,
and games, 1 p.m.
207 Edgewater Road.
Reservations, (201) 945-
7310.
Chanukah in Ringwood:
Chabad of Upper Passaic
County holds a menorah
lighting ceremony with
Ringwoods Mayor Linda
M. Schaefer in front
of Wells Fargo Bank,
5 p.m. Latkes, donuts,
and cholocate gelt.
110 Skyline Drive. (201)
696-7609 or Rabbi@
JewishHighlands.org.
Chanukah in Wyckoff:
The Chabad Jewish
Center holds a menorah
lighting with elected
officials at Town Hall,
5 p.m. Hot Chanukah
refreshments, glow
giveaways, and a grand
raffle. 340 Franklin Ave.
(201) 848-0449 or www.
chabadplace.org.
Chanukah in Paramus:
Chabad of Paramus lights
a menorah at Paramus
Borough Hall, 6 p.m. 1
West Jockish Square.
(201) 262-7172 or zeesy@
bcfriendship.com.
Chanukah in Pompton
Lakes: Congregation
Beth Shalom holds a
group menorah lighting
and sing-along with
Rabbi David Bockman,
7 p.m. Latkes and jelly
donuts. Bring a menorah
and candles to light.
21 Passaic Ave. (973)
835-3500 or www.
bethshalomnj.org.
Chanukah in Haskell:
Chabad of Upper
Passaic County
hosts a community
Chanukah celebration
with entertainment by
ventriloquist John Pizzi
and the lighting of a
giant popcorn menorah
at the Haskell Towne
Centre, 7 p.m. 1069
Ringwood Ave, Suite
202.(201) 696-7609 or
Rabbi@JewishHighlands.
org.
In New York
Sunday
NOVEMBER 24
Chanukah in Manhattan:
The Jewish Museum
hosts its annual
Chanukah Family Day
with performances by a
popular kids rock band,
Yosi and the Superdads;
art workshops,
including edible cookie
art in celebration
of Thanksgivukkah;
and family gallery
tours including the
museums Chanukah
lamp collection,
11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 1109
Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street.
(212) 423-3200 or
theJewishMuseum.org.
Alan Dershowitz
PHOTO PROVIDED
Alan Dershowitz: The
New City Jewish Center
presents Alan Dershowitz
discussing his life, 7 p.m.
His clients have included
Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst,
and O.J Simpson. Light
dinner at 5:30 p.m. 47
Old Schoolhouse Road.
(845) 638-9600 or www.
newcityjc.org.
Singles
Wednesday
DECEMBER 4
Dealing with
separation/divorce
in Livingston: Jewish
Family Service of
MetroWests free support
group for women dealing
with separation and
divorce is at the agencys
offices, 7 p.m. 570 West
Mount Pleasant Ave.
Missy Jacobs, (973)
765-9050, ext. 1754 or
mjacobs@jfsmetrowest.
org.
Sunday
DECEMBER 8
65+ meeting in West
Nyack: The 65+
Singles meet at the
JCC Rockland, 11 a.m.,
at 450 W. Nyack Rd.
$2. Refreshments.
Reservations, Gene Arkin,
(845) 356-5525.
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Chanukah for those
with special needs
The Friendship Circle of Passaic
County will host a party for the spe-
cial needs community at Home Depot,
545 Route 46 in Totowa, on Monday,
December 2, from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.
Along with a menorah lighting cer-
emony, participants will build a wood
menorah and snack on donuts and
latkes.
The Friendship Circle is an organi-
zation that serves the special needs
community, providing it with pro-
grams including holiday events, sports
leagues, and Friends at Home. For
information, call (973) 694-6274 or
email fcpassaiccounty.com.
Boys Town Jerusalem
shares latke recipe
When Chanukah comes to Boys Town Jerusalem, the schools Israeli-
born chef, Avi Chamal, sizzles up several thousand golden latkes with
a special twist. His creations are crispy sweet potato latkes with a dis-
tinctive bouquet of spices.
Sweet potato
latkes
Makes 25 latkes
Ingredients:
2 pounds sweet potatoes
1 pound regular large potatoes
4 eggs
3/4 cup flour
2 teaspoons brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 sprig fresh thyme or 1
teaspoon dried thyme
Butter or oil for frying
Directions:
Grate sweet potatoes and
regular potatoes. Squeeze
out excess liquid. Mix remain-
ing ingredients and add to
the grated potatoes, stirring
to blend. Heat frying pan with
butter (preferable) or oil till it
bubbles. Drop potato mixture
by spoonfuls and press into
patties. When latkes begin to
brown on the bottom and at
the sides, flip them to fry the
opposite side. After frying,
place onto absorbent paper
towels to drain. Serve on plat-
ter sprinkled with powdered
sugar, with sour cream on the
side.
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Lillian Ackerman
Lillian Ackerman, ne Marcus, 93, of New York City,
died on November 18.
Born in The Bronx, before retiring, she owned Lil-
lian Ackerman Ladies Fashions in Manhattan and Long
Island.
Predeceased by her husband, Sidney, in 1994, she is
survived by daughters Marilyn Chattman of Fort Lee
and the Dominican Republic and Andrea Ackerman of
Sag Harbor, N.Y.; siblings, Phyllis Yohai of Kings Point,
N.Y., and Stuart Marcus of Park Ridge; four grandchil-
dren, and seven great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Inc., Fort Lee.
WILFRED GOLDSTICK
Tis month marks the anniversary of the death of
Wilfred Goldstick, long-time resident of Englewood
Clis, who passed away on November 11, 2012.
He was born Joseph Zev Wilfred Goldstick on
June 5, 1923, in Toronto, Canada, to Maurice and
Regina (ne Baum) Goldstick, and graduated from
the University of Toronto with a B.S. in chemical
engineering in 1944. He enlisted and served in the
Canadian Army Corps of Engineers during World
War II as a First Lieutenant. At the end of the war
he wed Marianne Lourie, his college sweetheart.
Tey moved to New York City in 1946 where he
founded Sigma Electric Company. Te company, the
original Ampex dealer in New York City, serviced
electronic appliances through the 1950s and evolved
to manufacture language laboratories for schools as
Sigma Educational Products.
Te Goldsticks moved to Englewood Clis in 1957.
Wilf was elected to serve on the Englewood Clis Board
of Education in the 1970s and won more votes than any
other candidate prior to that time. He also served two
non-consecutive terms as president of Temple Sinai of
Bergen County, where he was a member for over 30 years.
He was known for donating his audio engineering skills to
record bar and bat mitzvah services for synagogue families
and contributing his time and talents to the design and
installation of the buildings sound system. In 1991 he and
Marianne became founding members of Chavurah Beth
Shalom in Alpine, New Jersey. A trumpet player and an
acionado of early jazz, he is also remembered for his rich
shofar blowing every Rosh Hashanah. All who knew him
found him to be a mensch. He is sorely missed.
He is survived by his wife, Marianne, and children, Toba
Goldstick of New York City, Naomi and Gary Rosner of
Baltimore, Maryland, and Jonathan and Karen Goldstick
of White Plains, New York, and his grandchildren, Alex
Goldstick, Evan Goldstick, Joshua Rosner, and Molly
Rosner. His sister, Sylvia Kamin, predeceased him.
army unit, said that Israel should not be defined by
war and conflict. He shared his vision of the Jewish state
as a lighthouse nation, in the sense of being a light
unto the nations. A lighthouse projects light, he said.
Thats our mission. We have a strong heritage called
the Torah, and we are also building a strong economy.
This lighthouse can radiate its light through advances
in technology, medicine and energy for all the world to
see, he added.
Mr. Bennett shied away from discussing the Palestin-
ian conflict, but noted that when CNN reporter Chris-
tiane Amanpour brought up the issue of the Israeli
occupation in a recent interview with him, in response
he pulled out a 2,000-year-old coin to show her. The
words Freedom of Zion are inscribed on the coin. He
told her that the coin had been found in the old city of
Jerusalem, the same place where Jews were doing busi-
ness, speaking the same Hebrew I speak, and living in
the same place where I live.
You cant be occupiers of your own home, he told
the crowd, which erupted into applause.
The issue that Mr. Bennett said makes him lose the
most sleep is not the security threat to Israel but to what
he defined as the internal threat to the Jewish nation,
assimilation and a lack of Jewish education. He was
shocked to encounter Israelis in his own army unit who
had never visited the Kotel and didnt know who Moses
was, he said. America shares a similar problem with
Jews who are disconnected from their roots, he added,
and he urged the audience to act. There are kids who
are Jewish but dont even know they are Jewish, Mr.
Bennett said.
Batsheva Goldberg of Teaneck, who beamed
through much of Mr. Bennetts speech, had reason to
be proud. She recalled him, as a child, living across the
street; his family called Teanecks Sussex Road home
many years ago.
Our families are still very close, Ms. Goldberg said.
Its exciting to see that a childhood in Teaneck, edu-
cation at Yavneh Academy, and belonging to Teanecks
Jewish community contributed to his tremendous suc-
cess in business technology and the Israeli political
system.
Hes a very caring passionate man who has already
achieved so much for Israel and the Jewish people. We
are so proud of him.
Lighthouse
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BRIEFS
NY Times criticized for featuring photo
of perpetrators family for story on murder of IDF soldier
The New York Times was criticized by the Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America for lead-
ing with an Associated Press photo of relatives of the Pal-
estinian terrorist suspected of killing 19-year-old Israeli
soldier Eden Atias in its coverage on the recent murder.
CAMERA has urged New York Times Foreign Editor
Joseph Kahn to explain the very troubling decision to
exclude photos of the distraught family of Eden Atiasof
the mother and family members weeping over the coffin
of the murdered teenagerin favor of a strikingly sympa-
thetic image of the mother of the perpetrator, CAMERA
Executive Director Andrea Levin said. JNS.ORG
Thousands of Catholics gather in Nazareth for day of faith
More than 7,000 Catholics from around the world gath-
ered for mass on Sunday in Nazareth, Israel, the childhood
home of Jesus, to mark the International Day of Faith.
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, who led the
proceedings, read a statement by Pope Francis, who since
taking office this year has made Catholic-Jewish relations
a priority and has announced tentative plans to visit Israel
in 2014.
This event not only symbolizes a day or year of faithit
is symbolic of the desired future coordination between the
State of Israel and the Catholic Church, Israeli Tourism
Minister Uzi Landau said. JNS.ORG
Israeli flights prepare for possible Iran strike,
former national security adviser says
The Israel Air Force has been conducting very long-
range flights around the world to prepare for a pos-
sible independent military strike on Iran, former Israeli
national security adviser Yaakov Amidror said Sunday.
We are very serious, preparing ourselves for the pos-
sibility that Israel will have to defend itself by itself,
Amidror told the Financial Times. From here to Iran,
it is 2,000 kilometers [1,243 miles], and you have to be
familiar with such destinations. All those who have radar
cover of the Middle East know what we are doing.
Israel is capable of halting Irans nuclear weapons
capability for a very long time, Amidror said. JNS.ORG
Palestinian Authority offers released terrorists
$50K grants, monthly stipends
The Palestinian Authority has offered the Palestinian ter-
rorists who have been released by Israel over the past
three months a $50,000 grant each, as well as a monthly
stipend, according to official PA documents obtained by
Israel Hayom.
Israel pledged to release 104 prisoners for
Israeli-Palestinian conflict talks, and two of the four
release stages are complete. According to the docu-
ments, the PA has promised prisoners who served 25 or
more years in an Israeli jail a monthly stipend of $3,975.
Prisoners who were jailed for 15-25 years were promised
a stipend of 2,840 a month. JNS.ORG
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Lillian Ackerman
Lillian Ackerman, ne Marcus, 93, of New York City,
died on November 18.
Born in The Bronx, before retiring, she owned Lil-
lian Ackerman Ladies Fashions in Manhattan and Long
Island.
Predeceased by her husband, Sidney, in 1994, she is
survived by daughters Marilyn Chattman of Fort Lee
and the Dominican Republic and Andrea Ackerman of
Sag Harbor, N.Y.; siblings, Phyllis Yohai of Kings Point,
N.Y., and Stuart Marcus of Park Ridge; four grandchil-
dren, and seven great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Inc., Fort Lee.
Sari Baron
Sari Baron, ne Stern, died Novem-
ber 8 at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh.
Born in Beled, Hungary, in 1926,
she was a community leader serving
on boards and volunteering for non-
profits including HIAS, ORT, State of
Israel Bonds, Jewish Family Services
of Bridgeport, Conn.,Congregation
Ahavath Achim in Fairfield, Conn.,
Jewish National Fund, and the Jew-
ish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield
County.
She is survived by her husband
of 67 years, Abe; children, Barbara
Gildin of Teaneck and Joseph Baron
of Cooper City, Fla.; six grandchil-
dren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Paul Berman
Paul E. Berman, 62, of Hillsdale,
formerly of Brooklyn, died Novem-
ber 10.
He was the owner/founder of
Focus Eye Health and Vision Care
in Hackensack. As a founder/global
clinical director of the Special Olym-
pics Opening Eyes and Healthy Ath-
letes programs, he received many
accolades including the 2007 Spirit
Award for Special Lifetime Global
Leadership in Promoting Human
Dignity, and in 2011 the White House
Champions of Change award.
Opening Eyes screened more
than 325,000 athletes since its
inception in 2001. The program
has 20,000 volunteers in 80 coun-
tries, helping provide more than
100,000 prescription eyeglasses
to Special Olympic athletes. He
was also a member of Lions Club
International.
Surviving are his wife, Diane;
children, Brent, Seth, and Rebecca
Berman, Jamie and AJ Bianco, Matt
Lilien, and Brian and Chelsea Lilien;
a brother, Steven (Ellie); mother-
in-law, Bessye Shulman; and two
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to Special
Olympics Healthy Athletes, Washing-
ton, D.C.
tors, Hackensack.
Bernice Goldstein
Bernice Goldstein, ne Crystal, 94, of
Englewood Cliffs, died November 2.
Born in the Bronx, she was a
homemaker.
Predeceased by her husband,
Morton, she is survived by her
children, Wynn Goldstein and Joel
Goldstein; and a grandchild.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Inc., Fort Lee.
Saul Horn
Saul Horn of Fair Lawn, formerly
of Paterson, died November 10.
He would have turned 100 on
December 6.
A Holocaust survivor, he
lectured at various schools,
including Memorial School in South
Hackensack where his daughter was
a teacher. He was in the Warsaw
Ghetto and the Buchenwald,
Koezusko, and Theresienstadt
concentration camps.
Before retiring, he was a self-
employed homebuilder in North
Jersey. He was a member and past
cemetery chair for the Eastside
Social Center and a former member
of Congregation Bnai Israel, both in
Fair Lawn.
Predeceased by his first wife,
Masha, he is survived by his wife,
Krystyna Kagan Horn; a daughter,
Edith Gerber (Robert) of Wayne;
a grandson; sister-in-law, Helen
Novak; cousins, nieces, nephews,
grand-nieces, and grand-nephews.
Donations can be sent to the U.S.
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ington, D.C. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Clifford Nass
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in Lake Tahoe, Nev.
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Jerome Shapiro
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formerly of Englewood, died
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sica Cavic, Thea Shapiro, Elizabeth
Hewitt, and Julie Shapiro; a sister,
Rose Dinoff; six grandchildren; two
great-grandchildren; and a compan-
ion, Miriam Gross. Arrangements
were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
Inc., Fort Lee.
Rosalyn Suchow
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Born in Brooklyn, she was a
homemaker. Predeceased by her
husband, Lawrence, she is survived
by a niece, Helene Wingens.
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business.
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Reece Waxenbaum; and his wife of
30 years, Laura Oliff.
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n 1 Eighth graders at Yavneh Academy helped sort
toys donated by school families for the 21st Bergen
County Chanukah Toy Drive. Donations support
organizations, hospitals, and group homes in the
New Jersey/New York metropolitan area, in Israel,
and in the Ukraine. For more information, go to
www.bctoydrive.com. COURTESY YAVNEH
n 2 Veterans from World War II, and the Korean,
Vietnam, and Gulf wars were honored at a veterans
recognition program sponsored by the Temple
Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn mens Club. Colonel
Glenn Goldman, director of military instruction
at West Point, shown rear center, was the guest
speaker. COURTESY TBS
n 3 Students in the Moriah Schools Gan
HaShemesh (preschool) class are getting ready
for Chanukah by creating their own chanukiot.
COURTESY MORIAH.
n 4 Bris Avrohom in Hillside recently held its 34th
annual dinner and 28th gala wedding ceremony.
Vlad and Tatyana German were the guests of honor
and Rabbi Baruch and Kreina Lepkiver received the
Kesser Shem Tov award. Senator Bob Menendez
gave the keynote address. COURTESY BA
n 5 Jewish Home at Rockleigh resident Harold
Brash sings along at a concert by 78 students from
the Anne and Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew
Academy (CHAT) of Toronto. COURTESY JHR.
n 6 Rabbi Chaim Jachter of Teanecks
Congregation Shaarei Orah, left, stands with Rabbi
Eli Mansour, a leading Sephardic rabbi and leader
of the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue in Brooklyn.
Rabbi Mansour gave a eulogy at Shaarei Orah in
observance of shloshim 30 days since the
death of the former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel,
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 7 Michael Wildes, former Englewood mayor, left,
is pictured with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and
his wife, Lady Elaine Sacks. Wildes firm, Wildes
& Weinberg, P.C., secured an O-1 visa for the
rabbi, who will be a visiting professor at Yeshiva
University and New York University. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 8 Rabbi Dr. Meir So, left, moderated a discussion
with United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia and attorney Nathan Lewin, a Yeshiva
College graduate, on how the First Amendment of
the U.S. Constitution has shaped the interaction
of religion and the public sphere in America. More
than 1,200 people were at the talk, hosted by
Yeshiva Universitys Zahava and Moshael Straus
Center for Torah and Western Thought. COURTESY YU
n 9 Temple Sinai of Bergen County had its second
Sinai Session, with live music, desserts, and a
coffee bar. Pictured from left are band members:
Jon Pasternak, Stacy Esser, John Curtin, and Frank
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Teaneck Baseball Organization, the
Teaneck township-sponsored youth base-
ball and softball league, is now registering
for spring.
Dont wait until spring training actually
begins; registrations received after Novem-
ber 30 will be bunted to a waiting list.
The fee is $125 for the regular league,
which plays on Sundays and one week
night, and $55 for the instructional league
for the youngest players, which plays
only on Sundays. (Financial assistance is
available).
All Teaneck children from the ages of 5 to
14 are eligible to play.
For questions, please email suefeuer@
yahoo.com. To register, visit http://
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Toys for Tots
Esplanade at Chestnut Ridge is proud
to participate in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Reserve Toys For Tots program again
this year. The primary goal of Toys for Tots
is to deliver, through a new toy during the
holidays, a message of hope to less fortu-
nate youngsters that will assist them in
becoming responsible, productive, patri-
otic citizens. New, unwrapped toys may
be dropped off at Esplanade at Chestnut
Ridge 168 Red Schoolhouse Rd. - Chest-
nut Ridge, N.Y., now through Friday, Dec.
20th. For further information, please call
845-620-0606.
Local Realtor Joshua M. Baris joins Sothebys
Joshua Baris, an award winning real
estate expert who ranks in the top 1
percent of licensed real estate agents in
the entire State of New Jersey, recently
accepted a regional sales and marketing
position with the Tenafly regional office
of Prominent Properties Sothebys Inter-
national Realty, New Jerseys leader in
luxury real estate.
Mr. Baris, a New Jersey native, has dis-
tinguished himself among his many local,
national, and international clients for
his highly skillful real estate representa-
tion. Mr. Baris has been instrumental
in the mentoring of both company and
industry colleagues with his vast knowl-
edge of online marketing strategies and
techniques.
Although I attribute a large portion
of my success to the proper application
of technology, I believe my true value is
providing my clients with strong strate-
gic thoughts and skills deeply rooted in
the fundamentals of real estate, said Mr.
Baris.
While Joshua is widely noted for his
stellar results in all price ranges...and his
experience and results in both residential
and commercial brokerage, he is most
remarkable in how he consults, serves
and represents upscale buyers and sell-
ers stated Charlie Oppler, co-founder of
PPSIR and former president of the New
Jersey Association of Realtors.
Joshua is a perfect match for a posi-
tion with our company...we enjoy the
highest average sales price in all of New
Jersey, and we are uniquely connected to
the vital international, multicultural and
corporate relocation markets, continued
Mr. Oppler.
Baris continuously breaks records
within the New Jersey Real Estate market.
Over the past year alone he listed and sold
the highest priced single-family home in
the history of Cliffside Park as well as the
highest priced and largest size single-fam-
ily home in Edgewater
Mr. Barris said: Given that my name is
now affiliated with the Sothebys Interna-
tional Realty Brand, I am able to provide
a whole new level of service to my clients.
What I love most about representing lux-
ury home-sellers in Northern New Jer-
sey, be they Gold Coast condo and co-op
owners or our coveted home-sellers who
reside in our leafy and venerated Manhat-
tan commuting suburbs, is that these cli-
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me.
Joshua Baris can be reached on his cell
phone (201)-741-4999 or via email at Josh@
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Benzel-Busch support Englewood youth football
Benzel-Busch Motor Car Corp. has part-
nered with The Laureus Sport for Good
Foundation to provide support for 200
thrid to twelfth grade Englewood chil-
dren who want to play football but may
not have the resources to take part in the
popular sport. The program will run after
school during the academic year and dur-
ing the summer months. Using athletics as
motivation for excellence, this program
will not only ensure that the participants
are physically prepared for the challenges
of high school football, but it will also
teach key lessons about discipline, self-
esteem, cooperation and hard work.
Englewood has a long history of sports
leadership and graduating extraordinary
athletes. Vincent Lombardi, arguably the
greatest football coach of all time, served
as assistant and head coach at St. Cecilia
High School and later went on to lead the
Green Bay Packers to five NFL Champion-
ships, including victories in Super Bowl I
and II. His ability to teach, motivate and
inspire players helped turn the Packers
into the most dominating NFL team in
the 1960s. Englewood High School Foot-
ball Coach Barry Harris understands how
sports can change lives and help young-
sters reach their full potential. Coach Har-
ris will serve as a program leader.
Benzel-Busch proudly represents the
Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Maybach and Smart
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Exquisite E.H. Georgian Colonial.
ENGLEWOOD
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