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Mayim Bialik flashes Piers Morgan
l The Jewish Tele-
Israeli Holocaust survivor

could be worlds oldest man
l Hes not the 2,000-year-old man of
the Mel Brooks comedy routine.

But Yisrael Kristal of Haifa may be the
next best thing the oldest living man
in the world.
Theres only one problem: Mr. Kristal
doesnt yet have his paperwork in order
to convince Guinness World Records
that hes the real deal. And at 112, by his
accounting, he may not have much time.
The question of whether or not he
is the worlds oldest man, now that
112-year-old Yasutaro Koide of Japan
has died, doesnt much concern Mr.
Kristal. But historians and genealogists
are working overtime to try to find
documents that satisfy the Guinness
World Records rules and prove this
Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivors
age.
The retired confectionery-makers
family say that he was born September
15, 1903. Mr. Kristal has his marriage
certificate from 1928; it recorded his
age then as 25.
That would be enough to convince
most people.
But the organization that publishes
an annual book listing the worlds
records and achievements says that in
order for Mr. Kristal to receive an official
World Record holder title, he must
provide documentation from the first
20 years of his life.
We have standard rules and it would
be unfair on other people if we bent the
rules, Robert Young, senior consultant
for gerontology at Guinness World
Records, said.
After Haaretz broke the story of the
possibility that Mr. Kristal is the worlds
oldest living man, the Jewish Records
Index organization volunteered to find

the documents necessary to prove
it. JRI-Poland has the largest fully
searchable database of indexes to
Jewish vital records accessible online,
with more than five million records from
more than 550 Polish towns.
Mr. Kristal was born in Zarnov; he
and his family moved to Lodz until the
Nazi occupation. He worked as a candy
maker in his familys confectionery shop
but eventually was sent to Auschwitz.
According to family statements, Mr.
Kristals first wife died in the Holocaust.
He remarried in 1947 in Lodz, and
moved with his family his second wife
and son to Israel in 1950.
In Haifa, Mr. Kristal made a name for
himself as an expert candy maker. His
specialties, according to his family, were
tiny liquor bottles made of chocolate
and wrapped in colored foil, carob jam,
and chocolate-covered orange peels.
Mr. Kristal has nine grandchildren
and many great-grandchildren. In
2014, after Alice Herz-Sommer died in
London, he became the worlds oldest
Holocaust survivor.
Haaretz reports that JRI sent it Mr.
Kristals mothers death certificate
she died in 1910 as well as his 1928
marriage certificate.
And while genealogists the world over
are searching for documents to support
Mr. Kristals age and get him recognized
as the record holder, the man born three
months before the Wright brothers took
their first flight isnt excited about the
promising title. In fact, when he was
told about it by a Haaretz journalist, he
answered, Big deal.
graphic Agency was

founded back in the
early 20th century, at
the time of the peace
talks that followed
the hopefully named
Great War. Britain and
the other victorious
colonial powers were
discussing the possibility of a Jewish homeland, and JTA aimed to
use the latest in cutting edge communications technology to keep the
Jewish people informed.
Back when we worked there, in the
1990s, there still was a sense that JTA
was the publication of record for the
Jewish community.
After all, how else would Jews
around the world find their Jewish
news?
The Internet has changed all that.
News from Israel is reported daily by
online English-language versions of
Israeli newspapers, as well as by such
English-only websites as the Times
of Israel. Blogs report on Jewish
philanthropies.
So JTA has tried to find its niche in
this new world. And in that niche, this
perhaps ranks as the closest thing to
an emblematic JTA sentence in the
(admittedly still young) year 2016:
Actress Mayim Bialik, a public
advocate of her Jewish faith and
modesty, showed her cleavage to
Piers Morgan on a talk show.
This has it all. Celebrity.
Controversy. And a dash of
Orthodoxy-with-an-edge.
It would have been a truly perfect
JTA sentence had it included the
factoid that this incident became
a trending topic on Facebook on
Tuesday.
More details of the hot breaking
news from JTA:
On Mondays Late Late Show with
James Corden, the Big Bang Theory
star declared herself a feminist before
turning her back to the cameras and
pulling down the front of her dress a
bit in front of Morgan, a fellow guest.
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Bialik was defending the honor

of Academy Award-winning actress
Susan Sarandon, whom Morgan had
criticized for wearing a low-cut outfit
as a presenter at the Screen Actors
Guild Awards on Saturday, earning
backlash on social media.
JTA then provides the important
context, in an effort to spin the story
as newsworthy:
In the past, Bialik has spoken and
written publicly about the challenges
of maintaining faith and modesty in
Hollywood.
Being a modest dresser, that
for me is a certain amount of my
religious faith privacy and chastity.
Just because I have a body doesnt
mean it means to be on display,
Bialik told Fox News last year.
Finally, we get to that nirvana of a
21st century media company, crossbrand synergy:
On JTAs sister site Kveller, Bialik
wrote in 2013: And as a person who
spends much of my life as a public
person being observed, judged, and
picked apart for how I look, I have
come more and more to appreciate
the healthy sense of protection that
tznius [Jewish modesty] provides
me.
Well spare you the Twitter backand-forth that followed.
Call us old fashioned, but as much
as we love Mayim Bialik on the Big
Bang Theory, we liked our JTA feed
better when it was covering the ups
and downs of Jewish Agency-JDC
negotiations.
That was something we couldnt
find on Facebook.
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My friends, I am the son of a Polish

immigrant who came to this country
speaking no English and having no money.
Senator Bernie Sanders, after becoming the
first Jew to win an American presidential primary
HOW TO BE SINGLE':
Lookin for love

in time for
Valentine's Day
How to Be
Single doesnt
sound like groundbreaking fare: its a bunch of
lightly connected stories
that follow about a
dozen unmarried New
York City singles as they
look for love and/or
hookups. Still, its usually
interesting to see how
well a familiar story is
told, and a well-cast
romantic comedy is a
good choice near
Valentines Day. The cast
of Single includes the
talented and funny
ALISON BRIE, 33, who is
engaged to a sweet guy
DAVE FRANCO, 30
in real life. Look for
Dakota 50 Shades of
Grey Johnson in a star
role I guess well find
out if she can be funny.
Zoolander 2 is a
sequel to the 2001
film that featured BEN
STILLER, now 50, as a
dim-witted, but goodhearted high fashion
model who was drawn
into a web of political assassinations. Like
the original, the sequel
is a wild satire of the
fashion industry and spy
thrillers. In the sequel,
Interpol recruits Derek
Zoolander (Stiller) and
Hansel (Owen Wilson),
another top model, to
infiltrate a clique of high
fashion guys believed to
be behind the killing of
famous musicians (the
biggest baddie is played
by Will Ferrell). A lot of

(real) music biggies, like
Justin Bieber, have cameos. Sad to say, Bens
father, JERRY STILLER,
who played the hilarious
agent Marty Ballstein
in the original, isnt in
the sequel. It appears
that Jerry, now 88, has
unofficially retired. Bens
mother, ANNE MEARA,
died in 2015.
Zoo 2 was directed
by Ben Stiller and the
screenplay is by Stiller,
JOHN HAMBURG, 45
(who co-wrote the
original), and NICK
STOLLER, 39. Stollers
credits include directing the hits Forgetting
Sarah Marshall and
Neighbors. His fatherin-law is well-known
novelist NICHOLAS
DELBANCO, 73. CARLY
SIMON, now 70, recently
disclosed that her huge
hit, Youre So Vain, was
about more than one
person, and that the guy
in the song wearing an
apricot scarf was Delbanco, with whom she
was involved in the 60s.
No one saw that credit
coming most thought
the line was about Mick
Jaggers scarf.
Vinyl, which
begins on February 14, is about the world
of rock and roll in the
1970s and its probably
the most highly anticipated HBO series since
Game of Thrones. The
Alison Brie
Ben Stiller
Paul Ben-Victor
James Franco
Ben Cohen
Jerry Greenfield
star, Bobby Cannavale

(Boardwalk Empire),
can be a great actor in
the right role and this
looks to be such a role.
He plays a record exec
trying to revive a label.
PAUL BEN-VICTOR, 50
(The Wire), is a regular
cast member. He plays
Maury Gold, a slick
record company owner.
Also, it appears that
Italian-American actor
Max Cassella plays a
Jewish character, and
another non-Jewish
Italian American actor,
Ray Romano, also may

play a Jewish character.
Finally, look for ANDREW Dice CLAY, 58,
in a recurring role as
Frank Buck Rogers, a
cocaine-fueled owner of
a chain of radio stations.
A new eight-episode
series, 11.22.63, starts
on Tuesday, February 16. Based on a
Stephen King novel, it
stars JAMES FRANCO,
37, as a teacher who
goes back into the
past (1960) to try and
prevent JFKs murder.
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However, he gets too

attached to the life he
makes in the past.
I thought with
Valentines Day
this weekend, Id do
something different and
suggest how to turn it
into a Jewish holiday.
First, start off with giving
your tootsie a Tootsie
Roll (created by LEO
HIRSHFELDER in 1886
the same Jewish family
has owned the company
since the 1930s and
Tootsie products are
kosher). Possibly follow a
nice meal with some Ben

and Jerrys Ice Cream
(founded by BEN COHEN
and JERRY GREENFIELD, both 64). Of
course, romantic songs
should accompany a
Valentines feast and its
aftermath. Here are ten
such tunes by Jewish
songwriters, five classics
and five more modern
check Youtube for
versions my suggested
singer follows names of
composer(s) of classic
tunes. Modern songs are
all sung by the songwriter My Funny Valentine by RICHARD
RODGERS and LORENZ
HART (Frank Sinatra);
The Way You Look
Tonight by JEROME
KERN and DOROTHY
FIELDS (Rod Stewart);
S Wonderful by
GEORGE and IRA
GERSHWIN (Fred
Astaire); Stormy
Weather by HAROLD
ARLEN (Lena Horne);
Tonight from West Side
Story by LEONARD
BERNSTEIN and
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
(movie version); Wedding Bell Blues (an
upbeat song) by the late
LAURA NYRO; You Aint
Goin Nowhere by BOB
DYLAN; Anticipation by
CARLY SIMON; Your
Body is a Wonderland
by JOHN MAYER; and
Hold On, Were Going
Home by DRAKE.
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Growing and balancing
Kehillat Keshers new building reflects old values
JOANNE PALMER
There are many religious groups and institutions that talk about balancing the old
and the new, tradition and innovation, the
ancient and the modern.
Without dismissing the validity of any of
those groups tensions, balancing acts, or
struggles, it seems fair to say that few manage that balance not only metaphorically
but physically too as well as Kehillat Kesher does.
Kesher just opened its new building on
Sunday. The congregation, which began 15
years ago, first met in peoples houses, its
president, Rebecca Tobin, said. It began
with eight founding families, who moved
The idea was

never to have
passive
memberships.
Once you join us,
you join a
committee. You
get involved.
Last Sunday, from left, Mordecai Rosenberg, one of the shuls past presidents; Mayor Peter Rustin of Tenafly; Rebecca
Tobin, the shuls president; its rabbi, Akiva Block symbolically cutting the ribbon that marks the building as open for business; Mayor Frank Huttle III of Englewood; Lakeland Banks vice president for commercial loans, Douglas W. Cosgrove, and
another of the shuls past presidents, Dr. Natie Fox, who is now chair of strategic growth.
REBECCA TOBIN
to the East Hill mostly from the Upper

West Side at about the same time. Once
it outgrew family basements and living
rooms, it bought a beautiful Victorian
house, a stately blue building that ruled
the corner on which it sat with its own history and sense of history and of place. Kesher met at the house for some time, but
soon it was clear that the shuls growth
would demand more space. Instead of
either moving to a new site or tearing the
house down and using the land for something entirely new, Kesher decided to grow
and build around it.
So the old blue house still stands, surrounded by the new shul building that
curves and cradles it.
The new building is all windows, open
to the street and the sun and the sky; sunlit during the day and letting in moonlight
and street lights once its dark.
And then, of course, there is the fillip
added by geographical happenstance. Keshers mailing address is Englewood, but as
its full name the Community Synagogue
of Tenafly and Englewood makes clear,
its property bridges those two towns.
One of the very first Kesher meetings
Girls dance at the opening of the new

building.
that I ever went to the 2007 annual

meeting was to discuss future building
plans, Ms. Tobin said. It was obvious
that we would grow. The shul, she said,
is a warm and inclusive modern Orthodox community, and its neighborhood,
the East Hill, which includes Englewood
and Tenafly, is home to a large number
of Orthodox Jews. So, nine years ago the
community began considering plans.
As hard as it is to deal with one municipality when you are expanding or renovating a building, it is that amount of trouble
squared when you have to work with two
of them. That took some time.
They also needed more space. We
ended up buying the house next door,

Ms. Tobin said. That one we took down.
It was significantly less charming than Keshers Victorian. Before that, though, we
housed a family whose own house was
destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, she said.
After that, but before it was time to raze
it, the community used the building for
youth activities and kiddushes.
The fact that everyone in the community
had a voice in planning its new building is
an accurate representation of its structure.
The shul is run by the members, Ms.
Tobin said. The idea was never to have
passive memberships. Once you join us,
you join a committee. You get involved.
One way that the shul works toward
that goal is the financial pledge card that
was distributed at the opening on Sunday. Its not like a financial pledge card,
where you pledge your multiple of chai,
but it is a menu of different ways to get
involved in shul maybe coming to davening on time, or more often, or learning to read Torah, or signing up for our
chesed program.
Involving everyone does get harder as
we get bigger, Ms. Tobin conceded. The
community now has about 160 families,
and it has kept growing. Making that work
is another balancing act. We dont want
160 people on every committee, but we
do want everyone to feel that they have a
stake in what we do, she said. You dont
want people to think that someone else
will clean up.

Kesher is clear on where its communal
heart is and that it is in many places. We
try to focus on davening, and on having
our sanctuary be a place of serious spiritual contemplation, Ms. Tobin said. We
also focus on chesed on engaging the
world around us, both the Jewish world
and the non-Jewish world, and Israel. We
focus on being active citizens of the world.
We also focus on Torah study. Thats
largely where Rabbi Block the synagogues spiritual leader, Rabbi Akiva Block
comes in, with the classes he teaches.
We also have a robust scholar-in-residence
program.
Often the hardest part of renovations is
paying for it, but there was a lot of communal input, and we never had to assess a
capital campaign, Ms. Tobin said. It was
all voluntary contributions, and we did not
go over our budget. Thats thanks to our
building committee and our treasurer.
There were times that we took things
that we had planned but couldnt afford
out. Maybe now, or later, we can put them
back in but we are proud of the fact that
we did not spend beyond our means.
Our shul has endured a very long and
arduous and challenging time, Rabbi
Block said. We were basically nomads for
about two and a half years. Through it all,
through the great dedication and commitment and investment of so many people,
we were able not just to survive but to
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thrive and to continue to grow.
I think that the broadening and deepening that occurred throughout these last
few months is only going to grow exponentially. As we move into our new space, we
are going to be able to do so many more
things, and do them so much better.
Among those things is a daily morning minyan. Anyone who has wanted to
daven with a minyan has had to go elsewhere, Rabbi Block said. There is no
scarcity of minyanim on the East Hill, but
people have wished for a place to daven
with their own community. Now, there
is an excitement, a buzz around the new
building, so much so that people who
havent necessarily been interested in
coming to minyan every day have started
to do it. He also plans on expanding the
shuls adult education programming.
The biggest thing of all is peoples
enthusiasm, he said. People are so
excited about making this place a hub, a
thriving center of religious life in the community. Everyone is invested in it. It is a
group effort, and that is what makes it so
wonderful.
So many people consider it their sacred
responsibility to be involved and to cultivate and to grow this community, he
concluded.
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Israeli nonprofit competing to land unmanned spacecraft on lunar surface
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Why is a team from the tiniest country in
the Middle East joining an international
race to the moon?
Its not just the promise of a Google
Lunar XPRIZE of $20 million to the first
team (and $5 million to the second team)
that lands an unmanned spacecraft on
the moon by December 31, 2017, and then
moves it 500 meters across the lunar surface as it sends high-definition images and
videos back to earth.
The Israelis participation has much to
do with a cultural passion to accomplish
the seemingly impossible. It also is fueled
by a desire to make history, inspire Jewish
pride, and encourage more young people
to pursue careers that will sustain Israels
leading position in the high-tech world.
Only global superpowers with billiondollar space programs the United States,
Russia, and China have soft-landed a
rover on the surface of the moon, said
SpaceILs CEO, Dr. Eran Privman, last
October, when SpaceIL became the first
Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) team to sign
a verified launch contract for a privately
funded mission to the moon.
On February 17, Yonatan Winetraub
one of three young Israeli engineers who
founded the nonprofit organization SpaceIL in 2010 to enter the GLXP competition
will speak about the ambitious project at
Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
At 4 p.m. he will lead a technical seminar, Innovation: The Way To the Moon,
for engineers, science faculty, and students at Rutgers Honors College.
At 7 p.m. the public is welcome to Taking Israel To the Moon and Beyond, a
discussion on the mission and its design
challenges, status, and educational vision.
This program is to take place at the New
Brunswick Theological Seminary on the
Rutgers campus.
Yonatans talk is an inspirational talk
about the story of SpaceIL, entrepreneurship and dreaming big, SpaceIL spokeswoman Oshrat Slama said.
Yonatan is now a Ph.D. student at Stanford, so he is flying across the country to
Israels President Reuven Rivlin, center left, is among the onlookers as the spacecraft prototype is unveiled.
tell the Rutgers students how he established SpaceIL in a bar in Holon with two
other young engineers, Yariv Bash and
Kfir Damari, she continued. They made
the first sketches of the spacecraft on a
napkin.
SpaceIL grew to be a professionally
managed nonprofit with 30 full-time staff
members and dozens of volunteers.
The founders have said that any prize
money they win will go toward promoting
science and scientific education in Israel.
SpaceIL has partnered with the Israeli Ministry of Education, the Weizmann Institute
of Science, and others to write a middleschool curriculum on space exploration
and to train Israeli physics teachers to use
the SpaceIL story in their classrooms. SpaceIL education volunteers lecture about
the project at schools and businesses
across Israel.
After the American astronauts aboard

Apollo 11 first walked on the moon in 1969,
there was an outpouring of enthusiasm
for science and technology studies in the
United States. That phenomenon was
dubbed the Apollo effect.
SpaceILs collective vision is to create
a new Israeli Apollo effect inspiring the
next generation in Israel and around the
world to think differently about science,
technology, engineering, and math, said
Dr. Lynne B Harrison of Verona, chair of
the U.S. board of SpaceIL. (In October,
Dr. Harrison, who is not only a scientist
but also a philanthropist, and who sits
on the boards of the Jewish Federation
of Greater MetroWest and Hillel International endowed the Dr. Lynne B Harrison
STEM Center at Golda Och Academy, a
Solomon Schechter school in West Orange.
STEM stands for science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.)

SpaceIL also aspires to be a point of
pride and connection for Jews everywhere. SpaceIL envisions kids of all ages
from synagogue preschools through
college Hillel chapters learning about
science and technology while getting
connected to Israel through this exciting
mission to space, according to the organizations website.
Details about the project have been
shared with thousands of people online,
via teleconference and in person. In June
2014, for example, the SpaceIL team spoke
at schools in the New York area and participated in the Celebrate Israel Parade down
Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Winetraubs presentations at Rutgers are by invitation of the Rutgers Hillel
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February 22, 2016
7:30 pm
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and Musmach of
the Israeli Chief Rabbinate,
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Challenge grows as community ages
LOIS GOLDRICH
Do seniors in Bergen County have sufficient access to inexpensive, reliable, and
flexible modes of transportation?
According to people whose agencies
and nonprofits serve this population, the
answer is a resounding no. And given
those organizations commitment to the
concept of aging in place with dignity, this
lack of transportation creates a serious
problem.
We have
something like
70 towns.
Some have
transportation,
some dont.
Some go into
other towns,
some dont.
SUSAN GREENBAUM
Susan Greenbaum, the executive director of Jewish Family Service of Bergen and
North Hudson, said that the issue of transportation is a huge issue nationally, but
in a place like Bergen County, it becomes
even more so because public transportation is virtually non-existent. We have
something like 70 towns. Some have transportation, some dont. Some go into other
towns, some dont.
The topic, she said, comes up in any
group of service providers when the talk
turns to seniors. In fact, she added, she is
part of two coalitions, in Englewood and
in Teaneck, working on a project called
Age Friendly Communities, funded by the
Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation.
Julia A. Stoumbos, the foundations
program officer, said that the initiative is
a collaborative effort between the Taub
Foundation and the Jewish Community
Foundation of Greater MetroWest. Ms.
Stoumbos, together with Renie Carniol,
the executive director of the Grotta Fund
for Senior Care, is working with eight communities in northern New Jersey to support them in creating actionable plans
that will make their communities more
age-friendly.
While these communities have yet to
define their priorities, The priorities that
have emerged from other age-friendly
communities around the country typically
Seniors get off the bus at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
fall within the following domains: transportation, housing, social participation,

outdoor spaces and built environment,
and community support/health services,
Ms. Stoumbos said.
Patty Stoll, JFS Bergens director of
senior services, said that all of the agencys
clients struggle with the issue of transportation, and not just for lack of resources.
Theyre not reliable, she said. We
may refer them to Access Link or Bergen
County Transit or Medicaid, but [the vehicles] are late, or they dont show up, or
they leave our clients waiting in a doctors
office.
Ms. Stoll, who said that most of JFSs
senior services clients are homebound,
called the lack of transportation a major
concern an obstacle in getting seniors to
daycare or activity centers. They would
like to go, but they cant get there.
Leah Kaufman, the executive director of
Jewish Family Service of North Jersey, said
that her agency has been experiencing
problems with transportation for quite
some time. Transport, like housing, really
needs to be improved, especially since the
older adult population is increasing. Its
becoming more urgent.
She pointed out that since many of their
clients are unable to arrange reliable transportation, we end up doing home visits.
And that, she said, is not good.
Look at the impact. If people are stuck
in a house, theyre isolated and cut off

from the community. We try to encourage
them to come here. Its better for them to
get out than to have the services come to
them.
She noted that even when a county provides some busing, those buses generally
will not cross county lines. So if a client,
say, has a physician in another county, that
presents a problem. And while some clients are starting to use reduced price car
services such as ITN (see below), others
cannot afford it.
The big issue is to figure out a transportation system to accommodate everyone,
she said. To look at whats in place and
figure out how to get older adults from a to
b. While her agency tries to find volunteer
drivers, theyre few and far between. Its
so sad having to turn away people.
Karen Tucker, executive director of the
Adler Aphasia Center, said that the issue of
transportation is a major concern for both
the centers Maywood office and its satellite facility in West Orange.
Most of its 75 members neither drive
themselves nor are driven by family members. Many rely on outside help, Ms.
Tucker said. This may include the Bergen
County Paratransit System, funded by New
Jersey Transit, Access Link, or, in some
cases, Logisticare for people on Medicaid.
According to New Jersey Transits website, Although there are some paratransit
Transport, like
housing, really
needs to be
improved,
especially since
the older adult
population is
increasing.
Its becoming
more urgent.
LEAH KAUFMAN
services open to the general public, others

have eligibility requirements and may be
restricted to senior citizens, people with
disabilities, or social services clients.
Until recently, Ms. Tucker said, eight
of her members came to the center on a
bus provided by the Jewish Home in Rockleigh with a grant from the county. That
grant now has been discontinued. While
most of the eight have been able to make
other arrangements, it remains to be
seen whether all of them will find a viable
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service.
Its kind of like EZPass, she said.
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Most people start with $50 in their
means of transport.
account.
One member contracted a private perWord of mouth is helping to build the
son, but some dont have the resources,
volunteer base, but until it gets more
she said. Its a patchwork.
drivers, the local ITN affiliate will have
Carol Silver Elliott, president and CEO
to put a freeze on certain parts of the
of Jewish Home Family, said that the
county. Our push is in getting volunteers, she said. Then we can open up.
grant was discontinued because the institution was not able to meet the countys
She is, she said, 1000 percent gratified by the results of the venture. We
criteria.
see the difference it makes in a persons
There are so many restrictions on
life. She recalled driving a woman to her
everything, she said, adding that transportation is horribly expensive. We
appointment for eye surgery. I knew she
provide transportation to everyone who
was nervous and that I could distract her
comes to the Gallen Medical Adult Day
in the car. I was like a family member. I
Center. With that, she noted, comes the
made sure she called her son.
costs of running a fleet of buses, making
Reeling off the other available transportation resources, cited above, Ms.
necessary repairs, and finding appropriate and safe drivers.
Kim repeated that you have to qualify,
I think the issue will grow when you
live on certain routes. Its not arm to arm,
look at a picture of the aging population,
though its better than not having anything. You get nothing if youre a senior
with people living in suburbs, Ms. Elliott
in Wyckoff. In Mahwah, seniors can use
said. One problem with transportation
a bus that runs Tuesdays and Thursdays,
to the Gallen Center is the fact that it is
but theres no flexibility.
not close to a highway, and following regulations, passengers may not be on a bus
ITN, she said, is available technically
longer than one hour.
24/7, driving people in the evenings and
Ronne Bassman-Agins, right, was ITNs first driver and a member of the steering
That limits our ability even to pick
on weekends. One lady goes to a hootecommittee. Carol Wild also is on the committee. Both women live in Fort Lee.
nanny in Fair Lawn on Saturday nights,
people up, she continued. There are
and we take her. We help
many complexities. If we could
them engage in life. This is
solve that, we could solve a lot
the community that they
of aging issues. Think about it.
built, and they should conPeople want to age in place,
tinue to enjoy it and take an
but what happens if you cant
active part in it.
drive anymore? The world gets
She noted that the federasmaller.
tion and the Taub FoundaMs. Elliott said that the issue
tion are still involved, and
must be discussed communitythey are amazing partners
wide, in a big picture way. After
in every way possible. They
all, people need transportation
Carol Silver Elliott
Leah Kaufman
Lisa Harris Glass
Susan Greenbaum
understand the need. I think
for daily living, not just for specific services.
the municipalities should
According to Ms. Tucker, existing
volunteer drivers, which keeps costs
step up and do more. I wish there was
transportation options are not sufficient.
down. The nearly 30 affiliates serve peomore understanding of the invisible people over 60, as well as visually impaired
ple, she said, citing the irony of featurFor example, to be eligible for Access
ing athletes on cereal boxes while seniors
people who are at least 18. Passengers
Link, which New Jersey Transit provides
on dialysis battling cancer receive less
have to be self-ambulatory, although Ms.
for people who qualify as disabled, travelers must live within three quarters of a
recognition for their courage. We need
Kim said that ITN drivers stand ready to
mile of a public bus route. And because
more compassion. When that happens,
assist them when necessary.
the cars must be given a 20-minute winother things will fall into place.
We started officially in June 2015,
dow on each side for pick up and drop
Lisa Harris Glass, the federations manalthough we had the idea in 2012, Ms.
aging director for community planning
off, its annoying, difficult, and challengKim said. It took that long to get the
ing. A bus came and our member wasnt
and impact, brought the idea of funding
startup funding and become operational.
outside. So it just left.
ITN to the federation. Federation, in
We reached out to every family, priMARY LYONS KIM
vate, and corporate foundation, to 25 or
Recognizing the seriousness of the situour role as a community planner, conveation, in 2015 John Boswick, Mary Lyons
ner, and facilitator, goes out to visit partmore Rotarys and Lions clubs, hoping
ner agencies, she said. We asked them
Kim, and Kate Surgent, all of Wyckoff,
it would resonate with someone. Their
drivers the project really took off.
what trend they were noticing, what was
started up a transportation group affilicanvassing brought results: The group
Dubbed Uber for Seniors, the comated with ITN America. With the tagpany allows drivers all of whom have
keeping them up at night. We were hearultimately obtained its seed money from
line Helping Seniors Stay Mobile, the
ing the overwhelming story of a need
been carefully vetted with background
the Taub Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
mission of the group, its website says,
for senior transportation beyond whats
checks in all 50 states, updated monthly
Finally up and running, we got way
is to support sustainable, communityavailable in our catchment area.
to select the jobs they want to accept.
too busy too fast, Ms. Kim said. It was
based transportation services for seniors
We set about doing research into the
Our service is arm to arm, door to
not sustainable. There were more calls
throughout the world by building a
ways other communities are attempting
door, Ms. Kim said, and member feedback has been extremely positive. All
than we could keep up with. Lacking
senior transportation network through
to solve this, and we came across ITN
passengers must pay a $90 membervolunteer drivers, the three organizers
research, policy analysis and education,
America.
ship fee. There is a $2.50 pick-up charge,
a happy close trio, Ms. Kim said each
and by promoting lifelong safety and
Invited to attend a parlor meeting at
then a fee of $1.50 per mile. Tipping is
were driving eight to ten hours a day.
mobility.
which Ms. Boswick and Ms. Kim were
not allowed. According to Ms. Kim, ITN
Finally, when the service got a driver in
ITN (formerly known as the Indepitching the idea to the community, lookpendent Transportation Network) uses
ing for funding, she and Julia Stoumbos
charges less than half the price of a taxi
Fort Lee and then, one by one, more
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We need more
compassion.
When that
happens, other
things will fall
into place.
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went off into a corner and decided this
would be a worthy project, Ms. Glass
said.
I said something like, Look, it wont
get started if someone doesnt be a Nachshon and step into the water. (Nachshon
ben Aminadav, according to midrash,
was the Israelite who first walked into the
Red Sea as the people fled the oncoming
Egyptians.)
I believed the federation leadership
would be really interested in investing in
this, and even more so if they knew for
every dollar we gave, the Taub Foundation might be matching that dollar, Ms.
Glass continued. After going back to their
respective leaders (and, Ms. Glass said,
to committees and commissions and the
board), the two women got buy-in for
the project and were able to proceed. It
took a little longer than anticipated to get
it up and running, but we never stopped
believing in them, Ms. Glass said. It
made sense.
She said that one fact of living in New
Jersey is sprawl. Many people do not live
close to highways. While ITN may not be
the answer for everyone, we can make
We were
hearing the
overwhelming
story of a need
for senior
transportation
beyond whats
available in our
catchment area.
LISA HARRIS GLASS
a dent in the problem. ITN has such a

high demand; the biggest thing they need
is volunteers to drive. Get them more,
and the skys the limit.
Ms. Stoumbos said the Taub Foundation, with its interest in helping seniors
age in place, believed that a pilot program for transportation fell well within
its purview.
People are very challenged by

the transportation problem, finding
resources that are reliable and that get
them when they need to go, she said.
When the need is not medical, or they
cannot give advance notice, they may be
out of luck.
Ms. Stoumbos is exciting about watching ITN grow. Theyve blasted up in
terms of members, but in terms of volunteers, its more of a challenge, she
said. Theyre exploring every way. She
hopes that more people will volunteer
when they realize that it wont increase
their insurance costs and that they will
receive training and plenty of support.
Were thrilled to be partnering with
federation on this, because its great to
get a co-founder who gets it.
Jacob Toporek, executive director of
the New Jersey State Association of Jewish Federations, noted in an email that
the association has made it a key priority to enhance transportation options
for seniors, recognizing the fact that if
you cant get to it, it does not exist. He
pointed out that these challenges, in
even a service-rich environment, are very
real in our suburban state.

The association has undertaken various measures to address this situation.
For example, working with partner organizations and the state legislature, it has
overseen the passage of resolutions in
support of drivers who transport seniors
and others in need. In addition, the
group has been working with NJ Transit
to imagine creative options for seniors
through the existing infrastructure. One
approach has been to identify bus route
deviations during off-peak hours to
access senior living facilities and enhance
their mobility and to urge local jurisdictions to grant approvals for strategic bus
stops.
Mr. Toporek said that last year, the
association advocated for a $6.5 million supplemental funding measure to
enhance transportation for senior and
disabled residents. It was necessary
because the Casino Revenue Fund, a traditional source of such revenue, has been
down dramatically. Together with other
groups, the state association urged the
Governor to support A4607, but ultimately, the measure was vetoed, he said.
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Teaneck shuls film screening to lead to divorce discussion
JOANNE PALMER
Why is Shaarei Orah, the Sephardic Congregation of Teaneck, showing the harrowing Israeli film Gett: The Trial of Viviane
Amsalem?
There are a number of reasons, according to the shuls rabbi, Howard Jachter.
The first and easiest reason is found in
the shuls name, he said. Its Sephardic,
as are the main characters in the movie.
(Its also Orthodox.) Because most movies about Jews assume those Jews to be
Ashkenazim in fact, just about any time
anyone talks about Jews without specifying otherwise, those Jews are assumed to
be Ashkenazim Sephardic Jews often are
drawn toward work that highlights them.
The second reason, Rabbi Jachter said,
is because the movies in Hebrew with
English subtitles and the large contingent of Hebrew-speaking Israelis who
belong to the shul will appreciate it.
More important on his list of what he
calls subconscious motivations, though,
is I am one of the most active mesader
gittin the expert who is in charge of
administering and overseeing the process
that results in a Jewish divorce in the
New York metropolitan area, he said.
In this still from Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, Viviane, played by director Ronit Elkabetz, stands next to her lawyer,
Rabbi Jachter is on the beit din the rabplayed by Menashe Noy. Her husband, played by Simon Abkarian, stands alone.
binic court of Elizabeth, and I serve
a large area, from Pennsylvania to
Its interesting two of
Connecticut, including Long Island
Yosef found a halachic path that allowed
the solutions emanated to a
and Westchester County in New York.
those women to be remarried, Rabbi
great extent from the emiHis Teaneck home places him in the
Jachter said.
nent authority Ovadia Yosef
center of the area, and close to all the
He tells a story of Rabbi Yosefs dedication to agunot. He needed open heart sur the Sephardic chief rabbi
main highways, he added. Gittin
gery, and his doctor said, You need it now.
of Israel and legal scholar
the documents essential to a Jewish
Right now. Now with a capital N. And he
who died in 2013 at 93, and
divorce frequently are on his mind.
said, No. I need five hours.
whose funeral drew epic
Rabbi Jachter is the chairman of the
He took those five hours. He was writcrowds of mourners. Rabbi
Rabbinical Council of Americas Agunah Resolution Commission; he also
ing a responsum to allow a woman to be
Jachters own authority to
teaches at the Torah Academy of Berremarried, and he was afraid that if he
administer gittin was given
gen County in Teaneck.
didnt finish it first, and he died on the
to him in 1993 by Rabbi
Rabbi Dr. Michael
Rabbi Howard Jachter
And then there is the fully front-ofoperating table, there would be no one
Yosef.
Chernick
the-brain reason to show the film. It
else to do it.
He endorsed the RCA
is another opportunity to highlight
He was a role model, Rabbi Jachter
prenuptial agreement and
accept the get, but they are far less comand bring attention to the issue of igun
said.
he endorsed the use of communal sancmon. Also, it is important to remember
tions, Rabbi Jachter said of his rebbe. He
of those women (and to a much lesser
His own desire to help women restart
that a couple ending a dead marriage also
was in the forefront of helping agunot
extent, some men) who remain chained
their lives and still stay in the Jewish community started early, he said. He dated a
has to get a civil divorce (although that is
the so-called chained women, shackled
by their exes refusal to give (or, in mens
woman who told him that her mother had
not true in Israel, where there is no such
to dead marriages, whose ex-husbands
cases, to accept) a get.
remarried without having gotten a get.
thing as a civil divorce).
refuse to give them gets and in his lifeTime out for a very brief explanation in
time he issued rulings permitting more
That means that unless someone could
Since 1992, Rabbi Jachters rabbinic
Jewish law, only a man can give a get. (The
than 1,000 women to be remarried.
find some reason to invalidate her mothorganization, the Rabbinical Council of
word get as a noun generally is spelled
ers first marriage and at times, with
Many of the women whose plights
America, has recommended that couples
with one t; at times, as in the film Gett,
hard work and huge infusions of time and
he alleviated were married to men who
sign a prenuptial agreement obligating
the second t is added.) Once his wife has
money, such reasons can be found that
vanished fighting the Yom Kippur war.
both of them to work with the beit din
accepted the get, the marriage is over. At
woman could not marry within the JewTheir deaths could be assumed but not
to get a proper Jewish divorce should the
times, men refuse to give their wives gittin the plural of get for a range of reaish world. So much that I had learned
proven and dead men cant give gets
marriage end.
sons; when that happens, sometimes the
became a reality to me, and I saw that it
so the women were considered agunot.
When they see the movie Gett, people are going to be able to see the suffering
community applies pressure, shaming the
was a tragedy, he said. I think that there
They could not remarry; they could not
of the igun, and we will have the opportuhusband until he relents. There are also
was a halachic solution in that womans
have children who eventually would be
nity to learn about what can be done.
cases where the almost-ex-wife refuses to
accepted as marriage partners. Ovadia
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Mideast expert to speak in Teaneck

AIPAC talk will feature award-winning journalist
LOIS GOLDRICH
On February 17, Bret Stephens fresh off the
plane from Israel, where he will have met
with senior officials will speak at an AIPAC
meeting in Teaneck.
A Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Mr. Stephens will visit Congregation Rinat Yisrael to talk about the latest
developments in the Middle East and their
impact on America and Israel.
The word latest is meant literally. The
journalist, who shared with us his opinions
on the turmoil plaguing that region, said,
many things could happen between now
and February 17. Ill be talking about things
that are current and relevant. Among other
things, he will offer his views on the outlook
for us as we enter the new election cycle,
with particular emphasis on Middle East
policy.
Now the Journals foreign-affairs columnist
and deputy editorial page editor, Stephens
was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post from
2002 to 2004. In 2014, he wrote America in
Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder, in which he argued that
to the extent that the U.S. withdraws or says
it is not interested in intervening, we will create power vacuums likely to be filled by less
savory parties ISIS, for example, in Syria, or
Russia in Ukraine.
His view, he said, has been vindicated by
events. He cited a chapter in his book, which
he wrote in 2012, when the general view was
that the world was in a pretty good place.
Bin Laden was dead, Al Qaeda appeared to
be in trouble, and we had made a responsible
exit from Iraq.
In that chapter, Mr. Stephens predicted
world events over the next five years, foreseeing, for example, a fall in the price of oil, the
likelihood that Saudi Arabia would invade a
Shiite neighbor (although he thought it might
be Bahrain), a third intifada, a wave of bankruptcies in China, and a successful nuclear
deal with Iran.
Im not clairvoyant, he said, noting that if
you look at the core realities in a given situation, you are more likely to be successful at
Bret Stephens
predicting behavior than if you were to try to

imagine crazy scenarios.
When the value of the dollar rises, inevitably it leads to a fall in the price of oil, he said.
Therefore, his only challenge was to predict
whether the value of the dollar would go up.
Talking about income inequality

Author Timothy Noah to speak in Hackensack
LARRY YUDELSON
Timothy Noah was worried about income
inequality before it was fashionable.
In fact, portions of his 2013 book, The
Great Divergence: Americas Growing
Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about
It, were revised at the last minute to reflect
the fact that in 2011 the Occupy Wall Street
movement had moved the question to the
forefront of the public conversation.
Next week, Mr. Noah will talk about
income inequality at Farleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, under the auspices of
North Jersey Public Policy Network.
Mr. Noah said the current trend of growing
inequality dates to 1979.
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Who: Author Timothy Noah
What: Income Inequality: Connecting
the Dots to Money, Influence, and the
Decline of the Middle Class
When: 7:30 p.m., Thursday, February 18
Where: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Metropolitan Campus, Dickinson Hall,
140 University Plaza Drive, Hackensack
How much: Free. Advance registration
requested at www.njppn.org
Thats when increases in

worker productivity and
in national wealth stopped
being passed on to workers. Since then, increases in
national wealth mostly have
translated into income gains
for the wealthiest Americans.
Income and inequality
has been a story as long as
Ive been a journalist, Mr.
Noah said. He began his
journalism career in 1980 at
the New Republic; he is now
labor and employment editor at Politico.
I read about this subject quite a bit over
the years, he said. I was struck by the fact
you were constantly hearing contradictory
explanations for what was going on. It was
a bit of a mystery. Finally, when the recession hit in 2007, I got more interested in the
topic and started poking around and discovered that the trend had been going on for so
long that there actually was emerging a kind
of rough consensus of what its causes were.
In 2010, I was fishing around for a longform
project to write for Slate magazine, where I
then worked, and I decided to write about
income inequality. I decided to expand the
mega story into a book.
Two trends are at work

in the growth of income
inequality, he said.
One is the growing
divide between people
with a college education and people without.
Recently weve seen the
college premium wear off a
bit, and now the premium
you see is the graduate
school premium.
The other divide is the
divide between the top one
percent and the 99 percent.
Over the last decade, the
divide between the one percent and the 99
percent is the most profound trend.
When he wrote his article for Slate, he
lamented that income inequality was not part
of the political conversation.
But in the 2012 presidential election season, and now again in 2016, it has been.
The one percent versus the 99 percent
is a phenomenon that lends itself extremely
well to electoral politics, Mr. Noah said. You
can demonize the 1 percent to your hearts
content and not be worried about getting
enough votes to win the election.
Its the core message of Democratic candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. But Republican
I thought it would, he said, and it did.

Mr. Stephens said the idea of American
non-intervention is present on both sides of
the political spectrum. Ted Cruz, he said, has
voiced the opinion that we dont have a dog
in the fight in Syria. And on the Democratic
side, they kind of believe the same thing,
that no good could come from intervention
on either side.
Pressed for a possible solution to problems
in Syria with massive civilian casualties,
both inside the country and on the journey
away from it Mr. Stephens pointed out that
if Syrian civilians had safe places to go inside
Syria, where they were not threatened by
either Assad or ISIS, they would greatly prefer to go there, rather than fleeing to other
nations. But that would require no-fly zones
and supporting groups such as the Kurds,
he said. Syria tells us that [this kind of war]
doesnt diminish the power of jihad; it turbocharges it.
Israel, he said, should take a more proactive approach in the region, doing what it can
do in a quiet way. For example, it should try
candidates also raised it, both in 2012 and in

this years campaign.
How does income inequality the rich
growing ever richer hurt the non-rich?
You see it in the hollowing out of the
middle class. Weve seen much shrinkage
in the middle class. The good news is that a
great many people have moved up, but thats
been less true over the last decade and a
half. Weve continued to see a decline in the
size of the middle class, and thats obviously
worrisome.
It has helped poison our politics. We are
living in a period where politics are unusually
partisan. Studies have actually shown that
during periods of greater income inequality
you tend to see greater partisanship in Congress. It seems a natural outgrowth. A kind
of tribalism starts to emerge. Theres less of
a sense of e pluribus unum, more of a sense
that theres us and theres them.
Bringing income growth for the typical worker in line with productivity growth
would be good for the 99 percent. It would
probably be good for the overall economy.
When you dont see a rise in the typical workers income proportionate with productivity
growth, you start to wonder how long workers will care about doing a good job. It creates
alienation from work, he said.
So what led to the present situation?
Going back to 1979, one trend was a failure in the education system to produce a
sufficient number of highly skilled workers
to meet a growing demand for highly skilled
workers; that shortage drove up the value of
highly skilled workers.
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to take care specifically of the Yazidi Christians and other non-Muslim minorities in
the Middle East targeted for genocide.
For peace between Israel and the Palestinians to be achieved, the Palestinians
have to abandon their core conviction that
Israel ought to be destroyed as a Jewish
state, he said. They have to come to terms
with its permanence as a Jewish state. Its
hard to imagine a workable, sustainable,
realistic peace agreement unless this takes
place. The Palestinians need a change of
leaders or a change of mind, he added.
Although that change is not likely, other
unlikely things have happened.
Reviewing the danger of terrorist activity in the United States, Mr. Stephens said
that in 1990, a lot of expert opinion said
there was not much to fear. In fact, during
the summer of 2001, he said, the New York
Times ran an op ed from a terrorism expert
making that case, asserting that there was
a greater chance of being struck twice by
lightning than of being hurt in a terrorist
attack.
And then, he said, there was 9/11, killing some 3,000 people and devastating
the economy. It changed our lives, he
said, citing, for example, new procedures
instituted at airports. The worst posture
to take is to assume that this is a faraway
In recent years, the significance of

education has diminished as a driving
factor. Education was a significant factor
in the 80s and 90s, but in the oughts
and teens education really hasnt played
much of a role.
Another trend was the deregulation
of Wall Street, which allowed people
in finance to earn much more money
than previously and to socialize a great
deal of the risk they were bringing on to
the financial system, a level of risk that
hadnt been tolerated before.
Finally, I would say the decline
of labor unions was another big
contributor.
Can the rise in inequality be reversed?
There is no one policy solution, Mr.
Noah said. This is a complex problem
that evolved over a long period of time. Its
going to require a lot of different actions.
Theres still much talk about continuing to reregulate Wall Street, taking the first step that was Dodd-Frank a
few steps further. Theres an interesting
amount of bipartisan support for breaking up the big banks, which would help
ease income inequality, somewhat. Certainly making college more affordable
would help with the education piece.
Rebuilding labor unions also would
help. Were starting to see some talk
among Democrats about changes in
labor law that would make it a bit easier for labor unions to organize workplaces. Going back to 1947, labor law in
America has been much more restrictive
problem. Terror is not simply another type

of disaster, like a hurricane. Its a particular
kind of threat that we must address with
seriousness.
Are we doing enough? If we were, he
said, ISIS would have been defeated by
now, and the Taliban wouldnt control so
much of Afghanistan. The number of foiled
plots shows that the FBI is being proactive. But the important thing is to get over
bureaucratic inertia or overblown fears
for civil liberties in monitoring terrorist
threats.
Google knows more about us than the
NSA, Mr. Stephens said. We think about
issues in a strange and illogical way. The
NSA does not want to listen in to our phone
calls. They want to stop terrorism by monitoring those who make routine calls to
Pakistan.
Who: Journalist Bret Stephens
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What: Will speak on The Middle East

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When: On February 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Rinat Yisrael, 389 W. Englewood Ave, Teaneck
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advanced industrialized democracies.
I dont think we should expect to
see quick action on any of these things.
The discussion has begun, and I think
thats a positive sign. Discussion of the
problem will eventually lead to a movement toward consensus on some of the
possible solutions. There is interest in
recalibrating the economy in a way that
rewards work more efficiently. I think
politicians on both sides of the political
aisle will be working for ways to do that.
Im not optimistic it can be reversed
over the next 10 years. Over 30 years, I
am optimistic, he said.
In his Hackensack lecture, Mr. Noah
will speak about the role of political
money in the growth of income inequality. He will focus on money spent on
lobbying as opposed to campaign
contributions.
The lobbying money has probably
had a larger impact, he said.
If you go back to 1960, plenty of people were giving money to politicians but
you didnt see a lot of corporations maintaining a presence in Washington to lobby
Congress. The big change occurred in the
70s and 80s. To get a place at the table you
need to have a guy in Washington who can
get to the table, and thats the big change
that weve seen. Business interests are
much more deeply involved in the making
of all kinds of government policies, under
both Democrats and Republicans, than was
the case in the 60s.
Professor Emerita Ellen Ross

Ramapo College of New Jersey
Robert A. Scott Student Center,
Alumni Lounges (SC157-58)
THURSDAY, APR. 21, 4 P.M.
Jewishness on Display: Gender and

Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany
Professor Kerry Wallach

Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC156)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 7 P.M.
Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance

Day Commemoration Featuring
liberator Alan Moskin
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 9, 7 P.M.

The Polish Underground
and the Jews, 19391945
Temple Beth Haverim Shir Shalom

280 Ramapo Valley Road (Route 202), Mahwah, NJ
Professor Joshua Zimmerman

Yeshiva University, Trustees Pavilion (PAV3)
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 7 P.M.
THURSDAY, MAR. 24, 12 P.M.
The Liberation of the Concentration

Camp of Gunskirchen
Film Screening: Prisoner of Her Past

(About a Holocaust survivor suffering
from late-onset PTSD)
Mr. Alan Moskin, G.I. Liberator

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC156)
Introduction and Q&A-Dr. Michael A. Riff

River Edge Public Library
685 Elm Ave, River Edge, NJ
TUESDAY, APR. 19, 7 P.M.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 9 A.M.-3 P.M.
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Modern History at Gonville and Caius College
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Trustees Pavilion (PAV 1&2)
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Muslims in Nazi Germanys War.

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Federation represented
at UN Holocaust commemoration
Bruce Pomerantz named

JNF area board president
The Jewish Federation of Northern New

Jersey s Holoc aust
commemoration committee co-chairs, Rosalind Melzer and Allyn
Michaelson, and former chair Gale S. Bindelglass, attended the
International Day of
Commemoration in
memory of the victims
of the Holocaust at the
United Nations on January 27. It was timed to
Rosalind Melzer, Allyn Michaelson, and Gale S.
coincide with the 71st
Bindelglass
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anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners in Auschwitz.
program will feature a performance by
The federation will hold its own HoloZalmen Mlotek of Teaneck, the artistic
caust commemoration program on Yom
director of the National Yiddish Theater
HaShoah, Thursday, May 5, at 6:30 pm,
Folksbiene.
at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center. The
Bruce Pomerantz has been

School. He credits this experience for sparking his love
named president of the Jewish National Funds northern
for the Jewish NGO world.
New Jersey board of directors.
He also is a member of the
I am honored to serve JNF
library board at the Jewish
in this exciting, new capacTheological Seminary and
ity, Mr. Pomerantz said. I
the board of the northern
hope to bring visibility to
New Jersey chapter of the
all the great work done by
Federation of Jewish Mens
JNF to the forefront so that
Clubs, and he was on the
people truly understand the
board of Temple Emanu-El
Bruce Pomerantz
depth and breadth of how
in Closter for 10 years.
they are positively affecting
In addition, Mr. Pomerantz
the lives of Israelis. JNF is fulfilling extraorhas been a volunteer juvenile judge under
dinary goals in developing regions outside
the umbrella of the Juvenile Conference
the major cities by bringing in healthcare
Committee, an arm of the Superior Court
facilities, parks, recreation sites, water,
of the State of New Jersey, for the last 18
and safe environments to many populayears. Professionally, he is the CEO/presitions. I want to help ensure that its goals
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continue to be met.
the United States from recycled water and
Mr. Pomerantz became involved with
soda bottles, used cotton and spandex,
JNF seven years ago after attending and
and wood pulp.
receiving a diploma from the Melton
JTS among Covenant Foundations

new grantees
Closter shul holding

88th annual celebration
The Covenant Foundation has chosen

the Center for Pastoral Education at the
Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as
several Jewish organizations led by JTStrained personnel, to receive one of its
Signature Grants. Other organizations
with JTS-trained leaders will be given
Ignition Grants.
The Covenant Foundation, which supports innovative Jewish education initiatives nationwide, awards Ignition Grants
of up to $20,000 for one year, and Signature Grants of up to $250,000 over five
years.
With its three-year Signature Grant of
$140,650, the Center for Pastoral Education will collaborate with volunteers
and synagogue leaders to energize their
communities through the powerful work
of bikkur holim (visiting the sick). Rabbi
Mychal Springer, who received her ordination from the Rabbinical School of JTS
in 1992, is the centers director.
The center initially developed an innovative self-study course, Creating Caring
A Brand New Day, Temple Emanu-El

of Closters 88th annual celebration on
March 12, will honor Drs. Wendy Hurst
Levine and Richard Levine with the
Founders award and Robin and Steven
Epstein with the Community Service
award. The honorees are being recognized for their outstanding service to the
community.
Wendy Hurst Levine is an obstetrician/
gynecologist in Englewood and her husband, Richard Levine, is an ophthalmologist in Cliffside Park. They are longtime
supporters of the shul; they joined when it
was still Temple Emanu-El in Englewood
and they had just moved to New Jersey.
Among their activities in the community, Wendy Hurst Levine also is a trustee
of the Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center Foundation and participates in
Bergen Reads through the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey. Richard
Levine has gone on charity surgical missions through Flying Doctors of Mercy and
participates in Rabbi David-Seth Kirshners
Torah study group.
Robin Epstein is involved in various
philanthropic and community endeavors,
including at Temple Emanu-El, the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey, the
Tenafly school districts Home and School
Association, and the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, where she has been on the board.
Steven Epstein went to Temple Emanu-Els
religious school and became a bar mitzvah
there, when it still was in Englewood. He
was on the board at the Kaplen JCC and
Communities through Bikkur Holim,

with a Covenant Foundation Ignition
Grant. The centers chaplain, Allison
Kestenbaum, a certified Association for
Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor,
will provide in-person training in the
fundamentals of pastoral care at up to 32
synagogues and small independent Jewish groups. She will also hire, train, and
supervise regional trainers and community organizers who can help establish
and reinvigorate bikkur holim groups at
these sites. The course is available online
at no charge at www.jtsa.edu/caring.
Organizations represented by the
Covenant Foundations grants this
year include places where alumni are
leaders. Locally, Rabbi Shelley Kniaz,
director of congregational education at
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley
in Woodcliff Lake, is co-chair of Kulanu
NNJ, a partnership of 10 Reform and
Conservative congregations in northern New Jersey. For information, go to
www.jtsa.edu.
JLE celebrating 30 years

The Jewish Learning Experience is celebrating 30 years of Jewish outreach
in Bergen County at a dinner on Saturday, February 13, at 8 p.m., at the Jewish Center of Teaneck. JLE will honor
its founders Sam and Marcia Kaplan,
Aaron and Naomi Mandelbaum, Jeffrey
and June Glazer, and Louis and Dorothy
Karp. In addition, Dr. Shoval and Allyson

Gur-Aryeh will receive the Kiruv Rechokim Service award.
Reservations can be made online at
jle.org. For information, call Rabbi David
Pietruszka at (201) 966-4498 or email
him at rabbip@jle.org.
Wendy Hurst Levine and Richard Levine
Steven and Robin Epstein
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NORPAC hosts
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
On January 31, Drs.
Mort and Esther Fridman hosted Congresswoman Ileana RosLehtinen (R-FL) in their
home for NORPAC.
Ros-Lehtinen, who is
running for reelection
this year, chairs the
House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on the
Middle East and North
Africa. As the committee leader, she vocally
opposed the Joint
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of Action with Iran last
year.
At the Fridmans house, Ms. Rosbillion up front, which likely will be used
Lehtinen talked about JCPOAs faults,
to continue to fund terrorism against
including the fact that Iran receives $100
Israel and other nations.
Shafiers and Singers are shul honorees

Shifra and Larry Shafier will be honored and Yacha and Moishe Mo-b
Singer will receive the Shelly Leffel
Service award at Congregation Beth
Aarons annual dinner, which is set for
Sunday, March 6, at 5 p.m., at Congregation Keter Torah in Teaneck.
Larry Shafier has been the shuls
membership chair, vice president, and
president. He helped start the Yamim
Noraim Vatikin minyan and helps organize the hakafot on Simchat Torah.
Shifra Shafier, who helped revive the
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shuls sisterhood, is involved in many
charitable causes, including running in
the Miami Marathon for Chai Lifeline,
serving on the Torah Academy of Bergen Countys education committee,
mentoring new teachers at SAR, and
teaching yoga at the shul. The couple
also is involved in Emunah, Sinai, Lamdeinu, and TABC.
Yacha Singer was the shuls
junior NCSY advisor, served on the
Mishloach Manot committee, and
was the sisterhoods co-president
and president. She also invites new
Moishe Mo-b and Yacha Singer
families to her familys home and
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welcomes them to the shul. Moishe
Singer was a board secretary, Young
Members and Teen Youth chair, memequipment to people in need, is a past
ber of the dinner and Seudah Shlishit
president of Congregation Ahavat Shacommittees, Mens Club president,
lom in Teaneck, and is active in Anshei
and co-founder of the Yamim Noraim
Edgemont. He is a volunteer webmasVatikin minyan, where he is gabbai.
ter for many non-profit organizations,
He is on the board of the Rinat Chaim
including Beth Aaron.
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Museums Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust offered
Stories of Regeneration from the Second
Generation on January 27. It brought
the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors together to share their
stories and memories about growing up
in the shadow of the Shoah. Storytellers
included Rita Lerner of Englewood Cliffs,
a trustee at the Museum of Jewish Heritage; Esther Safran Foer, the director and
CEO of Sixth and I Historic Synagogue in
Washington, DC; Sarah Golabek-Goldman, known for her film Finding Leah
Tickotsky; Bonnie Levison, lead storytelling instructor with the Moth; Mitti
Liebersohn, president and managing
director of Avison Young NYC Operations;
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, rabbi emeritus at
Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn
Heights and executive vice president of
the New York Board of Rabbis, and novelist, essayist, and NYU Law professor
Thane Rosenbaum.
The honorees at Frischs dinner, from left, David and Jill Blumenthal, Cindy
Feigenblum, Rifkie Silverman, and Ilana Gdanski.
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Frisch dinner celebrates achievements

The Frisch Schools annual dinner was
held on February 6 at the Teaneck Marriott
at Glenpointe.
The dinner, Rooted in Frisch, celebrated alumni, parents, grandparents,
educators, and community members who
keep Frisch strong. The dinner raised a
record amount of funds, an accomplishment that dovetails with this years record
number of applicants for next year.
The program honored a few people who
have been integral to Frischs success:
David 77 and Jill Blumenthal, the guests
of honor; Cindy Frank Feigenblum88 of
Teaneck, who received the Nedivat Lev
award; Ilana Kaplan Gdanski 91 of Englewood, who received the Alumni Recognition award; and Rifkie Silverman 82 of
Teaneck, who received the Rav Shlomo
Kahn Memorial Educators award. The
speakers included principal Rabbi Eli
Ciner, headmaster Dr. Kalman Stein, and
Paul Rolnick, a Frisch parent who is the

first alumni to be president of the board.
Last year at Frisch saw, among other
things, the creation of the Smedra Family
21st Century Learning Space; the dedication of the Bayrish Schreiber ah Mishmar
program; the arrival of Dr. Tuvia Book,
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Transportation
and the older Jew
here are many reasons for people to move to the suburbs. Many
if not most of those reasons
involve color and space long
stretches of green lawns edged by bright
flowers and staked by tall brown trees with
great rustling green canopies.
People want the big sunlit rooms of the
suburbs, and the houses that give them
enough rooms for everyone to have privacy and storage space and a chance to
express themselves.
The downside of the suburbs, though,
may not be apparent until youve grown
older, too old to be able to drive. The city
offers subways and buses and Ubers just
minutes away and taxis that you get just
by stretching your arm out, as if you were
a net and the street a fish-filled flowing
stream.
In other words, its easier to get around
in the city if you cant drive. And often,
when people get older, they no longer
can drive.
keeping the faith
Thats why, as Lois Goldrich points out

in her page 10 story, Getting from here to
there, finding ways to help people who
are no longer as mobile as they used to
be to get to the wealth of programs and
services the area offers is a challenge. Our
social service agencies, which labor valiantly to provide as much help as they can,
are hamstrung by the lack of funds and the
no doubt necessary but still maddeningly
obtrusive regulations that hem them in.
Everyones goal is to allow all of us to age
with dignity. It is an unglamorous, unsexy,
but deeply and profoundly human goal.
We have no answers to this problem,
although we are deeply moved by the
goodness of the volunteers who give their
time to drive others. It is hard to imagine
that the right way to respond could or
should be restricted to hoping for volunteers. We hope that our elected and our
communal leaders will figure out some
way to help older people get to where they
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his seems to have become a

yearly tradition of mine I drop
the we and straightforwardly
take advantage of this space to
gush about the Shabbaton at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck.
I can justify this, though, because the
Shabbaton is not only marvelous and
it is so very marvelous! but it also is a
model that other communities can use.
Beth Sholom is unusual in the number of rabbis, teachers, and other Jewish
professionals who are members; many of
them work at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a straight shot across Route 4 and
the George Washington Bridge. It is also
unusual in the level of Jewish knowledge
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cohesion. It is terrifically welcoming to
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Snow way to think

about Torah law
or a while there, the idea of

According to the Mishnah, If [the
snow seemed so remote this
owner of a pit] covered it properly and
year that there would be no
an ox or a she-donkey [nevertheless]
opportunity to discuss how
fell into it and was killed, he would
snow is a great example of the Torahs
be exempt from penalty. The pit
continuing relevance in modern times.
owner, after all, took all the necessary
Too many people argue that the Torah
precautions.
was written in another time, for another
To the rabbis of the Gemara, though,
place, and for the most part has ceased
the Mishnah has a huge open pit of its
to be relevant in our lives.
own. But if he covered it properly,
They offer many examples, but a pop- how did an animal fall [into the pit]?
ular one comes from last weeks Torah
the Gemara asks. Said Rabbi Yitzchak
reading. When a man opens a pit, or
bar Bar Chana: [The cover] rotted on its
digs a pit and does not cover it, and an
underside [and thus wasnt visible to the
ox or a she-donkey falls
owner]. In other words,
into it, the one responsible
since he took every precaution and could not see that
for the pit must make restitution. (See Exodus
anything was wrong, he is
21:23.)
exempt.
Several years ago, I
Wood, however, rots. A
quoted the reaction one
reasonable person should
person had to this law.
inspect a cover made out
Ive never seen an ox in
of wood every now and
my life, except in movthen to be certain it still
Rabbi
ies, the person said. Or a
is in good condition. So
Shammai
donkey, for that matter, he
the Gemara needs to find
Engelmayer
or she. Face it, rabbi. The
another reason for the
Torah is full of such useless
apparent contradiction.
pronouncements.
An anonymous someone
And that is where snow
therefore asks, What if he
comes in. The open pit is all about
had covered it in such a way that it was
snow. It and another law, regarding the
able to hold [the weight of ] oxen, but
parapet, say nearly all that needs to be
not of camels, and camels came by first
said about the responsibilities we have to
and weakened the cover, and oxen then
clear away the snow from walkways and
came and fell into it [the pit], then what?
sidewalks, and to thoroughly clean them
Comes the answer: It all depends on
off our cars before we head out.
whether camels are normally found
As I have noted in the past, the open
in the area. If camels used to pass
pit has less to do with whether an ani- from time to time, he was certainly
mal falls into an open hole, and more to
careless.
do with whether we create an obstrucObviously, then, if camels are rarely
tion of some kind that creates a public
seen in the area, or are never seen
hazard. Parking in a crosswalk is consid- there, he probably was not careless.
ered an open pit, for example.
In other words, it is a matter of
To dig into this pit a bit more deeply, anticipation.
we turn to a discussion in the Babylonian
That brings us to Maimonides (the
Talmud tractate Bava Kama 52a:
Rambam). In his Mishneh Torah, The
Shammai Engelmayer is the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel of the Palisades in
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Laws of the Murderer and the Saving
of Lives 6:4 and 6, he puts it this way:
There is a person who kills unintentionally, whose acts resemble
those willfully perpetrated. Specifically, these acts involve negligence,
or that care should have been taken
[with regard to a certain factor] and
it was not.... We will return to this in
a moment.
The laws regarding the goring ox
that immediately precede the open
pit (Exodus 22:28-32) make clear the
need to anticipate hazards. If a person knows his ox is prone to harming
people or property, but does not take
preventive measures, he is as responsible as the ox for any damage, and even
must pay with his life if life was taken.
In other words, if you know a problem is likely to occur, you need to
take precautions.
That brings us to the parapet,
which is all about anticipating potential hazards. Torah law requires that
when you build a house, you must
build a parapet around the roof, that
you should not bring any blood upon
your house, if any man falls from
there. (Deuteronomy 22:8)
The Sages of Blessed Memory gave
this law the broadest interpretation
possible. Thus, we are told in BT Bava
Kama 15b that a person may not even
keep a damaged ladder in his home
because of it.
The commentator Rabbi Samson
Raphael Hirsch went so far as to say
that this Torah law even requires
local civil authorities to intervene to
have anything at all which might be
dangerous removed from a persons
home.
Practically speaking, the Law of
the Parapet means clearing the snow
off from our vehicles before putting
them on the road. Driving with snow
on top of our cars is a violation of
state law nowadays, although it was
not always so, not here and not anywhere else. That changed following
the death of a teenager named Jessica Smith in New Hampshire in January 1999. Ice and snow from one truck
flew off and hit another, causing the
driver to lose control, ramming into
the car in which the teenager was
traveling.
Another practical parapet derivative applies especially to snow birds.
If a person decides to leave the snow
zone and winter in Florida, he or she
nevertheless must arrange for snow
removal back home. Before the monster storm that fell earlier this month,
a neighbor went on a family vacation.
The family made sure to arrange for
the snow to be removed, so that no
one approaching the house would be
in danger.
So, if you think the Torahs laws are
anachronistic, just think snow.
Zayde for president
of the 60s and early 70s. Although

he was not Jewish, he took inspiration from the social justice activism
Grumpy, cool, fun grandpa
of these early 20th century pioneers.
Movements like these seem to run
speaks to millennials
in cycles, so it may well be that the
hen Larry David hosted Saturday Night Live on
socialism that arose at the turn of
February 6, Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearthe 20th century and returned in
ance during a skit about a sinking ship an apt metthe form of the counterculture over
aphor, some might say, for the state of the union.
half a century ago is due to make a
With David playing the part of a rich man arguing that his wealth
comeback now. Without a doubt, the
earned him a spot in the lifeboat along with the women and children,
counterculture movement also was
Sanders was given the opportunity to deliver a few lines about the
a youth movement, and not surprisingly, Bernie Sanders has enjoyed
Bernie Sanders speaks at
one percent getting preferential treatment, and the need to unite
a campaign fundraising
widespread support among the
and work together. A brief exchange regarding democratic socialism
reception in Los Angeles
youngest of our eligible voters, the
followed, leading David to ask, Who are you? Sanders replied, I
in October 2015.
generation referred to as millennials.
am Bernie Sanderswitzky but were gonna change it when we get to

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Indeed, this has been a frequently
America, so it doesnt sound quite so Jewish. Yeah, thatll trick em,
invoked theme in news coverage
David shot back sarcastically.
of the campaign, with the pundits often seeming at a loss as to why
And certainly there is no disguising the fact that Sanders is Jewish,
twenty-somethings would support a 74-year-old candidate.
although this was one of the rare moments in media coverage of his
The expectation that young people automatically should favor the
campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that any mention has been made of his ethnic and religious identity. And that arguyoungest candidate perhaps has its roots in the fact that baby boomably is odd, given how much emphasis was placed on the
ers venerated John F. Kennedy, who was the youngest person ever elected president, but this overfact that Barack Obama became the first African-American
looks the fact that no one from that generation was
president, and on Hillary Clinton potentially becoming
old enough to vote in the 1960 election. As much
the first woman to be president.
as JFKs appearance of youth and vigor seemed to
Maybe it seems that by contrast with African-Americans
resonate with the ascendancy of the boomers, we
and women, Sanders becoming the first Jewish president
have no way of knowing how that generation would
is less of a monumental breakthrough for the nation.
have regarded him had his career and life not been
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that some
cut short by an assassins bullet. We do know that his
Americans believe that we already have a non-Christian
successor, LBJ, was vilified for his escalation of the
president that Obama is a secret Muslim. Or maybe its
Dr. Lance
Vietnam War, and that happened despite his proa matter of traditional Jewish reticence, as reflected in the
Strate
gressive domestic initiatives.
name change mentioned in the skit. Sanders is a traditional Anglo-Saxon name; interestingly enough, it origiIn the same sense that political movements may
nated in the same impulse that was prevalent among the
be cyclical in nature, so too are filial relationships.
Jews of antiquity, to name their children after Alexander the Great.
Thats why we often speak of traits and qualities skipping a generation. Millennial support for Sanders therefore should come as no
Of course, Sanders self-identification as a democratic socialist
surprise, as he easily fits into the role of Americas grandpa, or more
often is referenced by the news media, as it was on the Saturday Night
accurately, Americas zayde. Often he comes across as a grumpy
Live skit, but would that make him the first socialist president of the
grandpa, as Amber Phillips of the Washington Post suggested last
United States if he is elected? Not according to Republican rhetoric,
July. But Emma Roller of the New York Times labeled him your cool
given that most Democrats have been accused of promoting socialist policies. More significantly, not according to Sanders himself, who
socialist grandpa in December, and just two weeks ago, People profiled him as a fun grandpa, according to his own grandchildren.
positions himself in the tradition of Franklin Delano Roosevelts New
Jeb Bush, who has been struggling to gain the slightest bit of tracDeal programs and policies, as extended by John F. Kennedy and, significantly, by Lyndon Baines Johnsons Great Society initiatives. Those
tion, recently had his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, venture out into the New Hampshire snow to help him in his primary
presidents avoided the label of socialist, however, given American
campaign. The news media has made frequent reference to her
opposition, from the Russian Revolution on, to the Union of Soviet
enormous popularity, referring to her as Americas grandmother.
Socialist Republics, even during the brief period we fought together
And there is no question that she fits the image, and did so even
to defeat Nazi Germany.
back when her husband was president. Hillary Clinton, on the other
To get a sense of the brief moment in our history when socialism
hand, has included the fact that she recently became a grandmother
first represented a serious political movement, we might turn to
as part of her campaign rhetoric, but she has not been able to come
another Sanders, Edward Sanders. Perhaps best known as one of the
across as particularly grandmotherly, drawing criticism this past
founders of the 1960s rock band the Fugs, Ed Sanders also has distinguished himself as an activist, author, and award-winning poet. And
December for comparing herself to an abuela (Latina grandmother).
his extended poem, called Yiddish-Speaking Socialists of the Lower
Grumpy, cool, and fun are not mutually exclusive traits, and there
East Side, stands as a tribute to the likes of Meyer London, Morris
is something about the image of older Jewish men that plays well
Hillquit, Scott Nearing, Eugene Debs, and Emma Goldman:
in contemporary American culture, and especially on television. It
To make a New World
is indeed a mixture of idealism and humor, impatience with injustice, and infinite patience with the young. Whether this is a wining
inside the New World
formula for the Democratic primary remains to be seen, but the
at Centurys turn
source of his appeal to millennials, as a socialist zayde, should not
the Yiddish speaking socialists
be a mystery.
of the Lower East Side.
As the poem explains, they had, a passion for Justice that never
Dr. Lance Strate of Palisades Park is a professor of communication
fades away, although they failed in their efforts to translate their ideals into a successful political revolution. Ed Sanders, who is just two
and media studies at Fordham University in the Bronx and the
years older than Bernie, was an icon and leader of the counterculture
president of his synagogue, Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia.
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Letters
How long does it take to write a sermon?
The pleasures of cleaning
am often asked how long it takes to

write a sermon.
It makes me think of an article
written by a minister who was asked
that same question. He had just delivered a
well-received sermon about aging and the
changes that occur when you reach 70 and
80. His brief answer: It took me about 50
years.
Typically sermons dont take quite that
long, but there is a process. I read, read,
read and then I write, write, write. For
my weekly sermons I begin by reading
that weeks Torah portion, along with traditional and modern commentaries. For
every Torah portion I have two thick file
folders. One contains all the sermons I have
given on that portion and the other contains
commentaries and sources about it. For the
High Holidays I start with the liturgy and the
many commentaries I have about those special days. Ideas and illustrations for sermons
also come to me from many other sources.
Every morning after minyan, when I
start my day, I look at my email. I like to
clear my inbox of some of the many messages I receive. Some are from members
of the congregation about life cycle events,
meetings, and appointments. I also peruse
emails from Jewish organizations, including the Jerusalem Post, Mosaic, and eJewish
Philanthropy. Those websites contain articles and opinion pieces about Jewish history and contemporary Jewish concerns,
ranging from intermarriage to how best to
run a Jewish nonprofit. Sometimes there are
ideas that almost scream out, Hey! This is
a sermon!
Last year I gave a sermon about being
able to make changes for the new year. That
came from an online article from the New
whom I admire. Most of what

Republic. It inspired me to
I read has material that I
write a sermon about the possibility of change, teshuvah,
never could use. Sermons are
and repentance. I used an
very personal I must really
example from an article about
believe what I say. However, I
a summer camp that offered
do sometimes find an idea, an
Fruit Loops, Cheerios, and
outline, or a story that I can
bran flakes for breakfast. One
adapt.
morning I read about MaiThere is one more element
Rabbi Ronald
monides teaching about how
necessary for a sermon. That
S. Roth
to give away 1,000 dinarim.
is time to ruminate on the
The question was whether to
subject and how best to present it. I always need at least a
give it to one person or charitable cause or to 1,000 different people or
few days to put the elements of a sermon in
causes. That also sparked a sermon.
an order that will make it compelling, logical, and memorable. I try to remember that
While those ideas can begin the process,
a sermon is a truck, not a train. It should
there are many ways to develop them.
carry one load.
I read extensively. I remember that one
Do I succeed in writing a captivating serof my teachers at the Jewish Theological
mon when I have had time to research the
Seminary said that if you wanted to be a
topic, put it together, and practice it? Not
good preacher, you have to read widely
always. As I like to say, not even Mike Piazza
and always have a pencil in your hand. No
hit a home run at every at bat. I recall that
matter what you are reading, you may find
Rabbi Neil Gillman, one of my teachers,
something that will be useful in a sermon.
once said that his students quoted a speech
A few weeks ago a member of the congregation asked me what I liked to read, and
he had written quickly more than his thoroughly prepared classes. We cannot predict
I said that I love well-written nonfiction,
when our minds will click with ideas. Did
and that some of my favorite authors are
you know that the song Try to Remember
Bill Bryson, Walter Isaacson, William Least
from the play The Fantastics? It took HarHeat Moon, Oliver Sacks, Jenny Diski, Ben
vey Schmidt and Tom Jones about 10 minMcintyre, Sarah Vowell, David Quammen,
utes to write it, at the end of a long and not
Mark Kurlansky, Laura Hillenbrand, David
very productive day.
McCullough, Erik Larson, Donald Hall, and
The first draft of this article took me about
Roger Angell, among many others. Then
20 minutes to write, but then I had to revise
he asked me when I had time to read I
it. Like the rewriting of sermons, crafting an
said that I read on Shabbat and before I go
article can take a long time. Sometimes it
to sleep.
can seem like 50 years.
I also will tell you what you already know.
There are many sermons and sermon ideas
Ronald Roth is the rabbi of the Fair Lawn
available on the internet. I look at some of
Jewish Center/Congregation Bnai Israel.
them, especially ones from several rabbis
Perfection, brokenness, and Jewish

Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion month
hen my children were

born, they each represented perfection to me:
ten fingers and ten toes,
good Apgar scores, and a wail that was
music to my ears.
It did not take long, however, for challenging moments that took away from the
perceived perfection to pop up. But these
moments never diminished our love for
these amazing people. Whether it is sleepless nights, car sickness, colic, or when they
are older, non-typical learning ability or any
physical, emotional, or mental challenge,
each parent quickly learns that our kids are
not perfect. Still, we find beauty and reward
in their imperfections.
The cycle of Torah reading for the past
weeks, starting with Parshat Yitro, followed
by Mishpatim and then Trumah, teach
us a powerful lesson. The succession of
is something too many of us

these portions tie together
strive for in every arena possithe revelation at Sinai and
ble: SAT scores, GPAs, sports,
10 Commandments, and the
home dcor, cars, clothes,
blueprint for the Mishkan.
and technology. All must be
In summary, we received
perfect to be maximized.
10 commandments that
But is there really such thing
serve as an emblem for all
as perfect? And, if there
of the laws we keep: those
is, how long does perfection
between humans and God,
Rabbi Davidlast?
and humans and their felSeth Kirshner
low humans. Most of us have
Judaism is a religion where
read ahead and know that in
we demonstrate that nothing is perfect. On Passover,
Parshat Ki Tissa Moses breaks
we pour out from our cups so they do not
the tablets in a fit of rage when he sees the
overflow, and we eat broken bread. On
Israelites, led by his siblings, worshipping
Rosh Hashanah, we hear the broken sounds
a golden calf. The Israelites never got a
of the rams horn. On Sukkot, we dwell in
chance to see the tablets whole and to learn,
a temporary and non-sturdy hut. We conunderstand, or incorporate them into their
clude a wedding ceremony by breaking a
lives. They really only knew the tablets shattered in pieces and broken.
glass. I always tell couples who are getting
See Perfection page 27
In the world in which we live, perfection
No ticket, no Torah? ( January 29)

brought back many memories. I am a
member of the Paramus Jewish Community Center/Congregation Beth Tikvah,
and a retired dry cleaner.
Before I retired, every year I would strip
all of our Torahs of their mantels and ornaments in the week before the High Holidays and meticulously clean them. The
men who would hold them year round
often would leave finger and handprints
and soil on the mantels. As we clean our
souls, before the High Holidays, I would
clean our Torah mantels. It gave me deep
satisfaction.
I also did our tefillin. That is a very difficult job. Besides the sweat marks, the
unbraiding of the unauthorized braiding of
the tefillin took many difficult hours. This
was my pleasure, and part of my contribution to my synagogue.
Thank you for the memories and the
pleasures of the memories.
Sheldon Berman
Paramus
Why, Rabbi Senter?
There are several points I would like to

respond to in the JTA story about Rabbi
Senter of Portsmouth (Once Orthodox,
eclectic rabbi finds Conservative home in
New Hampshire, February 5)
First of all, there seem to be a rash of
articles in a number of Jewish periodicals
about Jews who leave Orthodox Judaism. I firmly respect all those who leave.
Indeed, as much as I disagree with their
ideologues, Cantor Bat Sheva Schecter and
Rabbi Senter are doing something very
positive if they can attract young Jews to
affirm their Jewish identity. However, cant
this paper and others also have articles
about Jews who become Orthodox? One
gets the impression that Orthodox Judaism
is dying from these articles. The surveys of
Jewish life dont support that.
Secondly, the move from Orthodox
to Conservative by many rabbis is nothing new. From the 1940s to the 1960s, it
was a frequent occurrence as many rabbis wanted pulpits that could give a wider
audience and perhaps a liberal theology.
The fact that there are fewer today is indicative that Orthodox Judaism is holding its
own.
Thirdly, there is a question why Rabbi
Senter acted as a reference for a Muslim
cleric who has expressed anti-Israel and
anti-Jewish views in the past. Maybe he
should not be deported, but someone else
ought to provide him with the reference.
Lastly, one has to ask how isolated he
and his family must be wanting to live a
committed Jewish lifestyle as a Conservative rabbi. There can not be too many individuals observing the dietary laws at all or
the various rituals of the Shabbat. If he has
children, where are they educated? These
questions should have been asked.
Alan Mark Levin
Fair Lawn
Letters
More on book banning
My first point in my January 29 letter to the Jewish

Standard was that there is nothing wrong with disputing proposed Israeli legislation. In your February 5 issue, an articulate letter writer responded to
me by doing just that. His central analogy is that
just as many object to European Union and now
U.S. demands to single out and label products as
originating from the West Bank, so too should we
object to Israeli legislation that singles out and
requires allegedly nongovernmental organizations
to disclose whether they receive most of their funding from foreign governments.
Your letter writer does not, however, compare
the European Union and the United States to the
Sudan, Korea, China, or Russia for instituting these
disclosure requirements. In contrast and this was
the point of my recent letter in a January 22 Jewish Standard opinion piece, Mark Gold and Hiam
Simon, ran, with all deliberate speed, to compare
Israel to some of the worlds worst tyrannies simply
because the Knesset was considering this legislation. Gold and Simon even accused Israel of banning books merely because someone removed a
book from a required high school reading list.
We now live in a world in which CBS can produce a headline, 3 Palestinians Killed As Daily
Violence Grinds On when the truth is that these
unprovoked Palestinians attacked two innocent
Israeli policewomen, killing one of them, and then
the killers were shot in order to stop their rampage. The irony is that as more innocent Israelis
are stabbed and bludgeoned to death every day,
the world seems to get angrier at Israel, and to
criticize Israel relentlessly and disproportionately,
rather than point the accusatory finger at the society that proudly hails these murderers as heroes. I
expect that lovers of freedom and democracy, and
especially truth, would, at the very least, not think
to mimic CBS by distorting the truth and by placing
Israel in the worst possible light, as so many in the
world are now doing.
harry J. Reidler
Englewood
Cruzs friend
I refer to the Analysis by Ron Kampeas 5 questions Jews

should be asking after Iowa (February 5).
Since Ted Cruz has emerged as a front-runner, it is important that the Jewish voters know that Ted Cruz has been
endorsed by Mike Bickle, founder and director of the International House of Prayers of Kansas City. Bickle thinks God
sent Hitler to hunt the Jews and suggested that millions of Jews
were killed during the Holocaust because they didnt accept
Gods gift of Jesus. He further stated that Jews will be exterminated if they dont embrace Jesus.
I realize that politicians arent responsible for all statements
made by those that endorse them, but Ted Cruz publicly
thanked Bickle for his endorsement. On Cruzs campaign

website, you can read where he says, I am grateful for Mikes
dedication to call a generation of young people to prayer.
Ted Cruz welcomed the endorsement from Bickle. If Cruz
has any decency, he would not accept such endorsements.
If he wants to be president of the United States, he has to be
accountable and reject such statements.
Comments by Bickle are not only divisive and destructive,
but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who
prey on hate. Ted Cruz is not the candidate you want as president and commander in chief of the United States.
grace Jacobs
Cliffside Park
Creation and superstition
Mr. Zinberg (The sacred truth, February 5) and

others should read Exodus 2:4 and discover that
there were generations of the creation of the heavens and earth in the day that God made the earth
and the heavens. Notice the change in order. The
assumption can be made that one was not subordinate to the others. The generations of the creation
of the earth alludes to a long period of time. If a
day was a long period of time, then the creation
of its occupants took a long period of time. The
Dinosaur Age was part of the development of the
inhabitants of the earth. Hypatia, a great woman of
her time, who was murdered for her beliefs, said
the following: Fables should be taught as fables,
myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies.
To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible
thing. The child mind accepts and believes them,
and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy
in after years relieved of them. In fact, men will
fight for superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth often more so, since a superstition is so
intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth
is a point of view, and so, is changeable.
Shel haas
Fort Lee
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Opinion
BDS after the boycott

2016 may well be remembered as the year that Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel finally
died its death in a clinical sense, at least.
Across the United States, state legislatures are passing bills
that will outlaw state authorities from investing public funds
in, and entering into contracts with, companies and other
entities that engage in a boycott of Israel. This doesnt mean
that engaging in a boycott of Israel is illegal, but for anyone
who cares about their bottom line, the legislation should
provide a powerful incentive against its adoption.
These anti-boycott bills should properly be seen as antidiscrimination measures, and welcomed on those grounds.
No U.S. state should contract with entities that enforce discriminatory policies and boycotting Israel in the expectation that doing so will contribute to the Jewish states demise
is, by definition, an act of discrimination. Why should taxpayer funds subsidize such bigotry? Why should jobs and
revenues be sacrificed in the promotion of hatred towards
an entire nation?
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inverted world of the boycotters, this same hatred

is regarded as love and
this same discrimination
is regarded as justified
resistance. Hence the BDS
movements depiction of
the anti-boycott bills as
a conspiracy of special
Ben Cohen
interests aimed at crushing free speech for Palestinian advocates.
This is, of course, the sort of distortion that we have
come to expect from the boycotters. The truth is that,
unlike France, which in October 2015 determined
that BDS, as a form of discrimination, is outlawed in
speech and in action, in America the advocacy of a
boycott of Israel remains protected speech. As the
Lawfare Project pointed out in an incisive analysis of
current objections to the anti-boycott bills, Individual
consumers, acting in their own individual capacities,
cannot be punished for refusing to purchase Israeli
products, regardless of motivation. Supporters of
BDS are also free to stage protests, circulate petitions,
and otherwise exercise their First Amendment rights
to advocate for boycotts of Israel, Israeli goods, and
Israeli persons. Further, with regard to the specific
allegation that the anti-boycott bills violate the First
Amendment, the Lawfare Project counters that the
statutory prohibitions apply only to business conduct
that is discriminatory, and not advocacy, picketing,
or other forms of speech in furtherance of boycotting.
You have to imagine that at a certain point, the
smarter proponents of the BDS movement will figure
out that they are campaigning for a set of demands
that in effect cannot be implemented, because the
sanctions that potentially come with implementation
are too great. So where, then, will this movement go?
It will not, sadly, disappear. Instead, BDS will adapt.
To start with, the movement can now portray itself as
a victim, so expect to read lines like Zionist oppression in Palestine has been extended to those of us in
America who wage solidarity with the Palestinians
under occupation. What this means is that rather
than campaigning for the actual implementation of a
boycott, the BDS movement now will campaign for the
right to implement a boycott in our understanding,
an act of discrimination.
Simultaneously, those academics who have
embraced the boycott of their Israeli colleagues will
introduce the BDS movement to their students as a
case study of a nonviolent, socially progressive grassroots campaign that has been battered mercilessly by
a conspiracy of unprincipled legislators, conservative
media agitators, and intimidation on the part of the
Israel Lobby (in the pejorative use of that term).
Again, it will be presented as emblematic of Zionisms
international reach, from the refugee camps of Gaza to
the state legislatures of middle America.
As a community, we would be sensible to try and
understand how a movement like this can evolve, particularly when legal obstacles are placed in its path.
For while the practicality of BDS will have been definitively checked, the ideological venom underlying the
movement may well grow more intense.
Unable to attack Israel directly, the BDSers increasingly will turn their sights on the majority of Jews
around them. (To a great extent, this is what they
have always done, as the primary harm that comes
with their efforts has typically been felt by local Jews,
not the State of Israel.) On college campuses, for
example, events showcasing Israel or involving Israeli
Opinion
participants will find themselves more vulnerable.
Many incidents during the last decade, in South Africa
and Europe as well as in the United States, have demonstrated that there is a corps of BDS supporters with few
qualms about violence.
It might even be the case that the BDSers conveniently
will park their First Amendment commitments, by trying to ban Jewish associations and societies unless they
explicitly reject Zionism. For those who think thats an
improbable notion, well, it happened, in the British student movement during the 1970s. As Dave Rich argues
in a superlative doctoral thesis on this underanalyzed
episode of contemporary Jewish history, a general antifascist policy that was intended to provide a practical tool for excluding racists and fascists from British
campuses...came to be used to exclude Zionism.

If this is, indeed, how the BDS movement twists
and turns over the coming years, we shouldnt simply
assume that its appeal will fade as it becomes more
transparently anti-Semitic. As to the really interesting
question whether those progressives who have made
voguish anti-Zionism a part of their worldview will follow the BDS movement along this particular path I
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Perfection
challenges are embodiments of the beauty of imperfections. Abraham Joshua Heschel taught that the single most
important thing to know about God is not Gods perfection, but Gods care for the world. Our role in partnering with God is to ensure that all people are a part of our
shared future, and that through the brokenness of tablets
or glass, we make a beautiful mosaic of our shared Jewish
future.
Rabbi Heschel and our parshiyot for this month of February Jewish Disabilities and Inclusion Awareness Month
remind us that perfection does not last for long. Soon
we all will have something broken in us. It is through the
broken pieces, and the mosaic that we create from it, that
we find our personal perfection.
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married that we shatter the glass to show that while a

wedding can feel like perfection, the life that follows is
not always that way. The days ahead will have brokenness within them. Our role is to take each broken piece,
and to make a mosaic that becomes the beautiful pattern
of our lives.
Moses breaking the tablets before the laws even had the
time to be a part of the Israelite nation is a critical lesson
to our people today. It reminds us that each person is broken, un-whole, and imperfect in one way or another. I cannot think of a more valuable lesson in being Jewish today.
Jewish Disabilities Awareness and Inclusion Month
is observed in February. It is fitting that the portions we
read tie into this recognition of all learners and Gods creations. Non-typical learners and those living with physical
Ben Cohen, senior editor of theTower.org and the Tower

magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish
affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz,
the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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pass legislation combating the Boycott, Divestment and
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A sportscasters life
two college reporter. That was 12 years
ago; shes still at CBS, but her portfolio has
expanded tremendously.
Being a Jewish sportscaster is absolutely
no big deal, she reports; being a woman
perhaps presents a few more challenges.
You are scrutinized a bit more, she said.
Every little thing is watched closely. Your
looks are more important, and thats what
people seem to care about.
It means that you have to know your
stuff, you have to prove yourself every day,
so you have to go out there and be solid. I
just focus on myself; I dont worry about
being a woman out there.
Fortunately, I have worked with a
lot of great people, and the teams have
respected me. Sometimes you wonder if
Local woman,
newly returned
from Super Bowl,
talks about
reporting it
Joanne Palmer
o theres Tracy Wolfson of Tenafly,

a dark-haired 40-year-old woman
gripping a microphone. Shes
standing in the middle of a huge
crowd of big, sweaty, exuberant men.
Other men of all ages, holding cameras
of all shapes and sizes, press in on her.
Ms. Wolfson is looking up way up into
the face of a very famous man. Hes wearing a baseball cap, speaks with a southern
accent, and looks extraordinarily happy.
That man is Peyton Manning, the Denver
Broncos quarterback, whose team had just
won the 50th Super Bowl (and who did not
tell Ms. Wolfson whether he is planning on
retiring, as most people assume he will
but not because she didnt ask).
Ms. Wolfson is a sports journalist who
has made her way up through a profession that is not particularly welcoming to
women until she has reached one of its
pinnacles. She is a sideline reporter for
CBS, covering huge games, reaching the
countrys biggest audiences.
Ms. Wolfson grew up in Congers, in
Rockland County, and went to Clarkstown
North High School in New City. Since she
was a small child around 8 or 9, she said
fiercely loyal to her teams, increasingly and
deeply knowledgeable about them, and
then about the games they played she
knew she wanted to be a sports reporter.
She went to the University of Michigan so
she could major in communications. I
not only wanted a great education, but I
also wanted to be around big time sports. I
wanted to watch it and to talk it.
Ms. Wolfson is athletic, but her interest
in sports was far more in reporting than
in playing. I played flag football for my
sorority in college, I played basketball,
and tennis was my main sport, but I didnt
want to pursue it, she said. She got an
internship so I could see a behind-thescenes perspective. I didnt get a chance
You have to do
your thing, be
sure you know
your stuff, and
put out the best
stuff possible.
Interviewing Super Bowl MVP Von Miller.
to do anything on air then, but I saw how

it works.
After she graduated from Michigan, in
1997, Ms. Wolfson worked for CBS and
was able to go to Japan for the Olympics
my work was all behind the scenes,
but it was a great chance to learn. But
I wanted to be on the air, she said. She
spent a year working as an agent, learning
an entirely different side of the business,
including how to put together an audition
tape. Soon, working as a general reporter
at a college station out on Long Island,
she used the information shed gleaned to
make her own audition tape.
It was a fake tape, she said; her talent
was real, but the games she was announcing were not. That is a way of getting
a tape together. No one will hire you if
you dont have a tape. I didnt have the

opportunity to make one this was my
opportunity.
So although the tape had never aired, I
sent it across the country, and I got a job in
Trenton, at WZBN. It no longer exists, and
then it was mom-and-pop. And thats how
I got my start. I spent about a year and a
half to two years there, doing all sorts of
news. They needed me to cover news, and
I was their only sports reporter.
Trenton is sort of in the New York market I cant really say that I started in
New York I didnt but people in New
York were able to see you when you are in
Trenton, she said.
From there, she went upward. She
worked for ESPN, and then for CBS,
where she was hired to be the number
they would have treated me in the same

way if I were a man, but you dont go into
the business thinking that. You have to do
your thing, be sure you know your stuff,
and put out the best stuff possible.
Ms. Wolfson is a sports reporter at the
top of her field, sure, but she is also a wife
her husband, David Reichel, went to the
University of Michigan, but they didnt
date until later and the mother of three
sons (Dylan, 9, Ari, 6, and Evan, 4) and a
member of the local Jewish community.
Its a tricky balance, but she makes it work,
she said.
My family is my real life, and being a
mom is my number one priority. I have an
amazing job, and I worked really hard to
get where I am, and I love it, but I always
say that when it doesnt work out for my
family, thats when Im out.
I couldnt do it without my husbands
support I travel so much and without
the friends I made in town, and my childrens friends parents. Im so lucky with
the relationships I have.
I cant tell you what a morning is like
when Im on the road. It is 5 a.m., Im
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t
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in San Francisco, and I check in with my

sons, I check in to school. I have a great
nanny who lives with us I couldnt do it
otherwise and it is constant texting with
all my friends. Can you pick my son up?
Who needs a play date? Whos going to
the birthday party? Its constant.
She knows its because of where she
lives. The suburbs mean community,
she said. And I met a lot of those parents
at the JCC.
Thats the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, where Ms. Wolfson is on the board
of directors, the board of the early childhood parents association, and the incoming co-chair of the JCC Golf Classic.
Its hard to ask anything about professional football to a sports reporter without asking about concussion and chronic
traumatic encephalopathy CTE the
syndrome that causes dementia and early
death in many players.
There is a risk, and we see it, Ms. Wolfson said. I see concussion on a daily basis.
I cover it. I see the player going through
the concussion protocol. The NFL is doing
a good job of detecting concussion early,
adjusting to it, trying to teach awareness,
teaching children and young football players about how to approach it, how to protect their heads.
To me, concussion is part of the game.
That is how I have to approach it.
Will she allow her own sons to play football? My 9-year-old played flag football.
Tracy Wolfson with the president of

the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, JoJo
Rubach.
He doesnt love contact. I would have my

kids play flag football; I probably wouldnt
put them into tackle football until their
bodies are a little more developed.
I can be 95 percent certain that none
of my kids will be playing football. Its not
their sport of choice. They play basketball,
soccer, lacrosse; they play tennis. You can
get a concussion playing lacrosse or soccer
too. They love football around the house.
Well see as the little one gets older.
Last Sunday was not the first time that
Ms. Wolfson was at a Super Bowl game
in her professional capacity. I worked it
a few years ago in New Orleans, but just
the pre- and postgame report, she said.
The lights went out in that 2013 game,
a power outage caused a 22-minute blackout and a 34-minute game delay and I
did wind up on the field, but this is my first
Super Bowl working the action game.
So what was it like?
You go in thinking, Lets treat it as
another game, but its not. It one of the
biggest games.
Its a weeklong event, not just a game.
It is everything that goes into the game, the
With the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl trophy.
Tracys youngest son, Evan (in gold 50 shirt), and his class at the Leonard and Syril Rubin Nursery at the Kaplen JCC,
celebrating at a Super Bowl party.
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Tracy is flanked by the 2015 JCC Play Fore! the Kids golf co-chairs, Jason Rubach,
Cory Hechler, Eric Kleiner, and Jeffrey Jagid. She will be a co-chair this year.
Tracy speaks during the auction at the 2015 Kaplen JCC Play Fore! The Kids Golf
Classic.
media day, the radio day, the interviews,

the meetings. Its a weeklong anticipation,
culminating with the enormous number
of people on the sidelines, extra cameras,
extra equipment.
Its just bigger in every possible way.
Now that the Super Bowl is over, Ms.
Wolfson plans to regroup, and spend
some time with my family. I was away for
have gotten so much support from other

female sideline reporters who have been
at the game before. They have come up to
me and wished me well and gave me little
tips every time I talked to one of them.
They are genuinely happy for me, that I
more than a week, and thats tough.

But her work will pick up again very soon.
I will start the first week in March, with a
regular season college basketball game,
then the Big 10 tournament, and then all of
March Madness and the Final Four.
One of the most wonderful unanticipated experiences at the Super Bowl was
the support she got, Ms. Wolfson said. I
am getting this opportunity. And I say to

myself, Wow, I know how lucky I am.
And they all say the same thing, she
continued. They all say, Take a breath.
Look around. Let it all soak in.
And I did.
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Taking stock
Scared of market fluctuations
Dear Mr. Berko:
Im 54, a self-employed engineer, married
and have over $897,000 in my retirement
plan that was worth $1,050,000 at the end
of 2015. Im scared of this market and my
wife thinks I should sell and buy U.S. Treasury bonds. Our broker of 12 years keeps
telling us: You have to do what you have
to do and is no help.
We have been reading your column since
we heard you speak in Gainesville, Florida,
in 2009. The market was bad then but your
story about owning blue-chip type stocks
plus the power of capitalism encouraged
me to stay invested. And that was a good
decision.
At 54, do you think its time to pull the
plug and go to cash? The country was so
much better off when I began working in
1984.
JG, Gainesville, Fla.
Dear JG:
This is the type of market where caring,
knowledgeable, wise and experienced brokers (they seem to be fewer in number)
must counsel with their clients to stay the
course. This is the type of market where
knowledgable, wise and experienced
brokers should hold a clients hands and
caringly (if brokers cant be caring, they
should fake it) assure clients that the falling market is temporary and normal. And
because I suspect your account owns
quality equities with low betas, (including
some oils) your dumb adviser should tell
you two things: (1) stay the course and (2)
that every downturn is temporary.
The stock market is not as predictable
as the weather though like the weather,
it has its rhythms. As certain as winter
follows fall, markets will decline. And
as certain as spring follows winter, the
I have the power

to influence
generations.
markets will rise again. Since 1871, the market has fallen 10 percent about six times
every 11 years. And like the seasons, you
can depend on that. Still many investors
become nervous Nellies and seriously
want to liquidate. But markets come back
every time, and every time the market
comes back, it comes back higher. During
that 145 years, the market has also fallen
about 20 percent about every 48 months.
You can depend on that, too. While
thats as normal as the sunshine and the
rain it still gives investors a serious cases
of shivering fits. Those investors dont
have the good advisers, cant manage
their anxiety and move to cash. But the
market comes back, and it comes back
higher each time. And about once every
decade the market declines over 30 percent and investors who cant handle the
heat have to leave the kitchen. But the
market comes back higher it has done
so every time.
Its easy to anthropomorphize the stock
market as bullish, fickle, stubborn, raging,
bearish, unresponsive or nervous. Business writers commonly ascribe these verbs
(and others) to the market, giving it human
traits. And because the stock market is a
millisecond-by-millisecond consensus of
what millions and millions of buyers and
sellers are thinking, it has developed its

own, endogenously generated, circadianlike rhythm.
And Morgan Housel proved it. Housel,
an analyst for the Motley Fool, reviewed
stock market data going back to 1871 that
covered a plethora of financial crises,
national scandals, horrible recessions and
two world wars. His research determined
theres an 80 percent degree of probability that every five years after 1871 youd be
worth more money because your portfolio will have a higher value. According to
Housel, the S&P 500, every five years since
1871, adjusted for dividends and inflation,
rose an average of 47 percent. But when
the S&P falls 20 percent, the 5-year returns
averaged 61 percent. After a drop of 30
percent, the average return over the following 5 years was 78 percent. But after a
40 percent drop, the returns 5 years hence
averaged 102 percent. And those numbers
aint chopped liver.
Market drops never feel temporary but
they always are. Stay the course, but can
that corpse of a broker who is dangerous
to your financial health. And yes, the country seemed so much better off in 1984 but
that was because you were single and a
22-year-old kid.
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ere we go again. Just when

we thought we could put
the worries of 2008 and its
aftermath behind us, market volatility once again has individual
investors spooked and wondering what
to do. While every investor knows that
risk comes with the territory, the recent
wild gyrations are enough to make even
the hardiest investors question their
approach.
So it comes as no surprise that Im getting a lot of questions about how to protect a portfolio. People understandably
want to know if the standard thinking
has changed, and if so, how. The good
news is that even though some points of
execution have been fine-tuned, the fundamental principles of asset allocation
and diversification remain the best ways
to control risk. Lets take a look:
Asset allocation and

diversification still best
for risk control
Asset allocation and diversification seem
pretty similar, and a lot of folks confuse
the two, but theyre actually quite different. The key to creating a lower-risk
portfolio is to understand that difference
and how the two work together.
Asset allocation is the way you divide

your money among stocks, bonds, cash
and other investments. This division
into the various asset classes should be
based on how much risk youre willing to take and how soon youll need
your money. Stocks carry the highest
risk, cash the lowest, and bonds/fixed
income are somewhere in between. Any
money youll need within the next three
to five years should be kept in lower risk
investments.
The use of asset allocation as a way to
manage risk was first introduced in the
1950s as Modern Portfolio Theory. This
theory basically proposed that rather
than judging risk by looking at an individual investment, you need to look at
how all the investments in your portfolio work together. By choosing a variety
of investments that react differently to
market conditions those described as
having a low correlation to each other
an investor could reduce overall risk.
Diversification takes this a step further. It spreads your money around different types of investments within each
asset class. For instance, instead of one
stock or bond, ideally you would have
many of each. Dividing even further, you
want to have different types of stocks,
such as large cap, small cap and international. And within those divisions, it may
be best to have stocks in different sectors
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(i.e., technology, healthcare, telecommunications) and different industries within
the sectors. Your ultimate goal is to find
investments that dont move in lock step
with one another. That way, when one
investment goes through a rough patch,
another will hopefully compensate.
You might say that asset allocation lays
the foundation for the structure of your
portfolio, and diversification fills it in. With
the two working together, you have greater
exposure to investments that ideally will
perform differently under various market
conditions one may go up when the other
goes down and balance your risk.
Adapting to changing
market realities
But we live in a far from ideal world. Since
the 2008 financial crisis, theres been a
much higher correlation between asset
classes. Anticipated returns from stocks
and bonds are both lower. Globalization
has meant that markets are more susceptible to external shocks not only financial
but also political and environmental.
And investors are more wary. As a
result, updated portfolio advice, while still
built upon asset allocation and diversification, focuses more on downside risk with
the goal of giving you the greatest return
for the least risk. This means that there

are some further refinements that todays
investor needs to consider.
Finding your target asset mix

As I mentioned before, the appropriate
basic mix of asset classes depends on your
feelings about risk and how long you plan
to keep your money in the market. Traditionally, an aggressive investor with a long
time horizon and a high risk tolerance
might have as much as 90 percent of a
portfolio in stocks with 10 percent in cash;
a moderate investor could have perhaps
60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds
and cash; a conservative investor could
pare that back to 20 percent stocks and
80 percent bonds and cash. Of course, the
more aggressive the portfolio, the greater
the risk.
Those broad categories still hold, but
whats evolved is the fine-tuning possible
within them. Individual investors now
have access to what are considered nontraditional asset classes that can offer
even greater diversification. These include
things like real estate investment trusts,
commodities (i.e., energy, agriculture, precious metals), Treasury Inflation Protected
Securities, and international bonds among
others. These non-traditional asset classes
have low correlation to traditional asset

classes they move differently in different
markets so adding them to your portfolio
can potentially lower your investment risk.
How to stay on top of it all

An appropriate asset allocation and a longterm view are still fundamental to mitigating risk and protecting your portfolio, but
that doesnt mean you should invest and
forget.
While its never smart (and rarely successful) to try to time the market, you can
take advantage of market opportunities or
attempt to avoid risk by tactically changing your asset mix within a certain range.
Its important to note, however, that this
doesnt mean that you would move in and
out of the market altogether, but rather
making subtle shifts to respond to changing market conditions. For instance, if
your current equity allocation is 40 percent, you may choose to underweight or
overweight by a small percentage, depending on the markets. At the very least, you
should be reviewing your portfolio quarterly and rebalancing yearly to stay within
your target asset allocation.
Theres a lot to think about, but bottom
line, yes, asset allocation and diversification are still essential for protecting your
portfolio. But to make yourself feel even

more secure, it would be a good idea to
check in with your financial advisor and discuss adjustments you might make in light of
our current financial realities.
Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, Certified
Financial Planner, is board chairwoman
and president of the Charles Schwab
Foundation and author of The Charles
Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty.
Read more at http://schwab.com/book. This
column is no substitute for individualized
tax, legal or investment advice. Where
specific advice is necessary or appropriate,
consult with a qualified tax adviser, CPA,
financial planner, or investment manager.
This column is no substitute for an individualized recommendation, tax, legal,
or personalized investment advice. Where
specific advice is necessary or appropriate,
consult with a qualified tax advisor, CPA,
financial planner or investment manager.
Asset allocation and diversification cannot
ensure a profit or eliminate the risk of investment losses. To find out more about Carrie
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Charity for the long term

Talking with the director
of the Jewish Federations
endowment foundation
endowment, Ms. Rochlin also has

opportunities for people to perpetuate
and support specific programs or organizations they value by designating their
endowment for a particular funding area.
LARRY YUDELSON
It can be a field of interest, to support
the elderly or Jewish education. Or it can
obin Rochlin takes the long
be much more specific to fund a particuview.
lar program. We have designated funds
She runs the endowment
that are used to support Israel experifoundation of the Jewish Fedences or Jewish camping, March of the
Robin Rochlin
eration of Northern New Jersey.
Living, or Jewish education broadly.
PERRY BINDELGLASS
Its the planned giving arm of the JewAre there specific things that are
ish Federation, she said. Our mission
important to you that you want to make
is to work with our existing federation
sure are funded? The broadest gift would
donors and the broader Jewish community to think
be for the annual campaign, which would give federaabout their longterm philanthropy.
tion the broadest flexibility. If youre interested in helpIf you answered the Super Sunday call to support the
ing a particular demographic, say youre interested in
federations annual campaign you did answer the call,
helping the elderly, the broader the terms, the better
didnt you? thats short term philanthropy. Ms. Rochthe fund can be adaptive over time. Todays needs for
lin wants to have the conversations with you about makthe elderly may look different than 20 or 30 years in the
ing the gift permanent.
future, she said.
Its called PACE perpetual annual campaign endowThis year, the federation used a fund set up to provide
ment. The rule of thumb is that 20 times your annual
for the elderly to help launch the Independent Transgift would perpetuate that gift based on a five percent
portation Network of North Jersey.
distribution. If somebody is making a $1500 gift to fedThe federation recognizes donors who commit to giveration on annual basis, they can perpetuate it with a
ing at least $100,000 with membership in its Dor LDor
$30,000 endowment, she said.
society. Those are typically for unrestricted or annual
You can make that gift tomorrow, with cash or apprecampaign endowments, Ms. Rochlin said.
ciated securities. (Theres no capital gain tax on securiAll told, the federation has 145 pledges and gifts in this
ties donated to charity.) Or you can wait until after your
range, totaling over $40 million.
death, leaving a bequest in your will for the gift, or namWe also have a book of life. Any donor who leaves an
ing the charity as the beneficiary of an IRA or life insurunrestricted gift of $5,000 can have a page in our book
ance policy.
of life. Its an opportunity for a donor to have their story,
There are many ways to fulfill the gift, she said. The
a photo, a brief comment about who they were and why
idea is that you lend sustainability to the charity or the
they had a commitment to Federation in their will. Some
program that is near or dear to you.
people use it to talk about the values they learned from
In addition to the PACE gifts, and the Lion of
their parents, some people use it to focus on the future
Judah endowment, where a woman perpetuates her
of our community.
$5,000 annual gift to federation through a $100,000
Thats when the donor makes their plans for the gift
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cases, well help a family member write a page in
memory of the person who has made the commitment, she said.
Recently, the endowment foundation has expanded
its work on sharing stories of peoples Jewish values
with a new initiative, The Conversation Project.
We interviewed a number of people in our community and made a number of videos about what
connects people to Judaism and their community. We
started in August and hired a professional videographer, interviewed nearly a dozen people in our community of different ages, from different towns, and
engaged them in conversations about Jewish values.
We have since produced four videos that talk about
the things that surfaced: The importance of community, of giving back, what a legacy means, how we
think about where we are in the chain of Jewish tradition, and what it means to lean on our community and
be part of the global community.
In January we hosted three speakers. We served
lunch, showed the video, and opened up a dialogue
about Jewish values, she said.
The important things that surfaced in all of these
sessions was how do we want to be remembered, and
how does that thought inform the life that we lead? If
we are conscious that we want to lead a life of meaning, hopefully that allows us to experience our tradition and our community and our lives in more focused
and meaningfully fulfilled ways.
Thats part of the work of the endowment foundation, to consider what our legacies are and how
theyre connected to the past and how we want them
to be a bridge to the future, she said.
Theres another aspect of the endowment foundation and Ms. Rochlins work that has a more immediate aspect. That is the area of setting up donor-advised
funds. Donors give money to the endowment fund,
and then advise the fund which charities to support.
Its something thats become very popular in
todays world. Its a way of streamlining your charitable giving.
You would contribute a sum of money or appreciated securities to a donor advised fund. Its an unrevokable, completed gift to federation for charitable
purposes. You get your tax receipt outright. But the
IRS allows you to request how money from that fund
will be contributed over time, she said.
Theres a $5,000 minimum contribution to start
the fund, and the grants the funds disburses must be
at least $100. Theres no maximum number of grants
that can be made a year.
Distributions go out on the letterhead of Federation, so it shows the impact of federation in the greater
world. It has a non-quantifiable impact.
Its also a way to engage your family in philanthropy,
she said.
Sometimes people will include their kids in decisions of how the dollars will be allocated. You can
name your children as successor advisers so kids can
continue your philanthropy.
We have a few funds that were set up in a will as
donor advised funds to empower children to engage
in philanthropy. If the donor wants to encourage his
or her kids to give to Jewish causes, that can be set up
as a parameter of the fund.
All the assets in our endowments are invested in
a diverse portfolio. Each fundholder shares on a prorated basis on the earnings of the portfolio, she said.
The federation has about 100 donor advised funds now.

One of the benefits of working with the federation is we
have a planning and allocations department to find out what
are the unmet needs. We have an opportunity to share that
information with our donors and highlight certain items
they might consider giving to. Because we have a global network, we have the knowledge and resources of people on
the ground in Israel and around the world that can help us
with opportunities for giving.
The main message is really that the federation endowment is here to help people realize their philanthropic goals,
specifically over the longer term, to have a lasting impact in
the community. We can work flexibly with them to make
sure that the causes that are important to them carry forward into the future.
For more information about the federation endowment,
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With an eye toward better understanding the challenges and needs of contemLori Sackler
porary women entrepreneurs and executives, I interviewed a cluster of female
executives in U.S. private and public corporations to
gain their insights.
Successful women feel strongly about working with
female financial advisors, perhaps because women
understand other women and the processes and
obstacles that had to be overcome for success.
Many male financial advisors have traditionally overlooked the female investor, said Deborah Rosado Shaw,
senior vice president, chief global diversity and engagement officer of PepsiCo.
Women want to be understood, listened to, and
asked, What are your priorities? Advisors would be
well-served by listening and communicating directly to
the female experience.
Kellie McElhaney is adjunct assistant professor at
the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and John C.
Whitehead Faculty Fellow in Corporate Responsibility.
For her, having a female financial advisor was particularly important during her divorce.
I learned firsthand how important it is to understand
your finances, whereas I had always deferred to my hus-
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is hugely differentiated and more
likely to earn the trust and loyalty of
clients, says Turner Moffitt,senior
vice president, Center for Talent Innovation and co-founder of Plum Alley
Investments.
Not only do women like other female
financial advisors, its a great industry
for women to get more involved in.
Shelley OConnor, co-head of field management, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, says her industry is the ideal
business for women.
Women make great financial advisors because they
are willing to listen, take time, and create a safe zone to
ask a lot of questions. And, female advisors can more
easily balance their work and family lives given the flexibility and local emphasis of the job.
For financial advisors, the strategy of catering to
women is self-serving, too. When male clients pass away,
their widows are very likely to fire their advisors; in fact,
statistics show that some 70% of women leave their advisors within a year of their husbands death, precisely
because they felt ignored.
Its a shift, considering that men traditionally have
been the breadwinners and the ones to manage household finances. Not so anymore; another recent survey
that found that just over half of women with at least
$25,000 in investable assets share in financial decision
making with a spouse or partner, while nearly half make
financial decisions on their own.
We must also keep in mind that for women to be successful, their personal finances need to be in place, and
their financial advisors need to communicate about
more than just investments. As Turner Moffitt notes,
Women are seeking a greater basket of goods from their
advisor. Women want to feel connected between money
and career, workplace and community.
Over the years Rosado Shaw has seen many instances
of women who make big money but dont have the
right advisors to help them understand wealth-building. Her advice to professional advisors? Challenge
your assumptions about who women are and the assets
they control. You just might find a few more well-heeled
clients!
Lori R. Sackler is a financial advisor with the global
wealth management division of Morgan Stanley in
Paramus. She can be reached at 201-967-6267.
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Stanley), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial
Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Investors
should consult their tax advisor for matters involving
taxation and tax planning and their attorney for matters involving trust and estate planning and other legal
matters. Investing involves risks and there is always the
potential of losing money when you invest. The views
expressed herein are those of the author and may not
necessarily reflect the views of Morgan Stanley Wealth
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Your numbers up
How to handle an audit
TAWNY MAYA MCCRAY
ne out of every 100 taxpayers will face

something extra this year a dreaded IRS
audit. The following are some tips to help
prepare you if you are one of the unfortunate few to be summoned by the Internal Revenue
Service.
According to the legal guide publisher Nolo, in an
audit, you must convince the IRS that you reported
all of your income and were entitled to any credits,
deductions, and exemptions that are questioned.
To do this, you must provide records receipts and
other supporting documents that pertain to the year
under audit. If you are missing any records, you are
allowed to reconstruct them.
The experts at Debt.org state that documents you
may be asked to bring include home mortgage statements, previous tax returns, receipts, brokerage statements, retirement account records, and pay stubs.
Once the paperwork is gathered, you should understand where there might be problems and determine
whether you need legal representation. You may
want to contact a tax professional to review your documents and make sure you understand any and all
discrepancies.
Certified public accountant Amber Mock-Done says
you should be able to provide supporting documents
for everything youve deducted on your tax return.
If everything jibes, youre ready, she says. If you
cant find any support or you realize that you made a
big mistake, its time to probably consult with a qualified accountant and see what your options are.
In the article from Debt.org, it states that an audit in
no way implies suspicion of criminal activity and does
not imply that you have intentionally made an error.
Many tax returns are chosen based on random sampling and income document matching. Some are chosen based on other factors, such as income or unusual
deductions.
Other reasons you may be audited, says the article, include conflicting third-party reports regarding
income on 1099s or W-2s, home office deductions,
rental losses, business use of a vehicle, hobby-related
deductions (also known as hobby losses), and foreign
currency transactions or bank accounts.
Mock-Done says those taxpayers who choose to
have a professional do their taxes versus doing them
themselves have a duty to understand whats being
included in the return.
Ive seen too many people just rely on their CPA or
on H&R Block, she says. Like, Heres my stuff. Give
me a good refund. Thank you. You have a responsibility to review your tax return.
She says people with a standard W-2 are less likely
to have a problem, unless theyve itemized too many
things. It gets more complicated for those who have a
1099 or other business returns.
If you own a business, maintain a separate checking and savings account that is completely independent of your personal account, she advises.
When it comes to the actual audit, which will take
place in person at an IRS office or at your house, you
can choose to represent yourself or have someone
for example, a tax attorney or CPA wrepresent you
or sit alongside you.
During the meeting, Mock-Done says, its important to

keep the conversation to a minimum.
They will take anything you say and dig, so be very careful, she says. Less is more. I wouldnt just start talking; I
would wait for them to ask the questions. I think you need
to be concise with your answers.
The article from Nolo says you shouldnt expect to
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come out of an audit without owing something. It recommends that you dont try to compromise on the amount
of taxes to be paid; instead, negotiate the tax issues with
the auditor.
The article from Debt.org states that an IRS audit may end
with no changes, an agreed-upon change, or changes that
you disagree with and appeal.
You will have options for when to make a payment. You
can request a monthly installment plan if you cannot afford
the payment.
The article goes on to say that any tax deficiency will accumulate interest at a rate of 9 percent per year from the date
of the original return until you pay the bill. The interest is
compounded daily. The IRS examiner will often have this
information prepared, showing the total you owe.
Based on the type of errors discovered during the audit,
you could face a penalty of up to 75 percent of the deficiency, and in a severe case, you could also face imprisonment, the article states.
When all is said and done, a relatively small number of
audits are handled by an IRS agent. Routine errors from
incorrect math or missing paperwork are often handled
through correspondence, the article reads. More than

three-quarters of audits are completed through the
mail.
Mock-Done says the main thing you can do to be prepared for an audit is to keep your paperwork. According to Debt.org, you should keep all tax returns and
records for three years.
Keeping organized files is a good idea, but frankly,
even just shoving it all in an envelope and keeping it
is better than nothing, Mock-Done says. At least you
have it.

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Almost every New Year, money-related goals rank
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The struggle is real. Many try to save money at
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work, driving past their fancy coffee shop, or ignoring
enticing emails of storewide clearance sales.
USAA Bank surveyed people of all ages and income
levels about how they save money and find extra cash
in a pinch. Though many respondents said they are
trying to save, most expressed difficulty doing so.
Savings are typically based on life stages. Those
who are just starting out are saving for a major purchase, such as a car or home. If youre older youre
more focused on retirement, says Mikel Van Cleve,
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As expected, USAAs research found a persons
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household income. Older Americans and those with
greater incomes use their savings to cover unexpected
expenses and save for retirement.
When asked how they cover unexpected expenses,
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He offers a few simple strategies to try in 2016:
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Look into refinancing your mortgage or auto loan
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Find the right credit card. Look for a card with a
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Trade down to a less expensive car. We often
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Most people think that in order to make a dent
in their savings, they have to cut out all unnecessary
daily expenses like trips to the coffee shop, but there
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Ted Nugent blames
Jews for gun control
Taking to his Facebook page on Monday afternoon,
musician and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent
posted an image of Jewish public figures under the
tagline, So who is really behind gun control?
The post features a collage of Jews including New
York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, civil rights
attorney Alan Dershowitz, and both U.S. senators
from California, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara
Boxer, with the Israel flag pictured in the lower left
corner of each of the 12 images.
Nugents accompanying message reads, Know
these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good
over evil, they would deny us the basic human
right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while
many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security!
Know them well. Tell every 1 you know how evil
they are. Let us raise maximum hell to shut them
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The Anti-Defamation League condemned
Nugents remarks, pointing out that the image,
which Nugent did not create, has appeared previously on anti-Semitic websites.
It should go without saying that anti-Semitism
has no place in the gun control debate. Nugent
should be ashamed for promoting anti-Semitic content, and we hope that good people on both sides
of the gun control debate will reject his tactics and
his message, ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said
in a statement.
Nugent recently has been called out for his
likes on social media for posts blaming Israel for
9/11. He has also written opinion articles advocating peace for Israel by eliminating the Jewish states
enemies with superior firepower.
Nugent did not respond to multiple requests for
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IDF chief says soldiers

have a duty to disobey
illegal orders
In an effort to maintain transparency in the Israel
Defense Forces, Israels army chief said that soldiers have a duty to disobey illegal orders.
Any soldier who enlists in the military is given
a lesson about unlawful orders, said IDF Chief of
Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot at an academic conference in Herzliya, Israel. Its not a right, but an obligation not to carry out illegal orders. We explain
to soldiers that we demand that they not carry out
illegal orders.
Im not talking about the hundreds of soldiers
who later make statements to the press, he added.
But its important to understand that its a duty
to disobey illegal orders.
Eizenkot said the IDF will be stronger and better after meeting with members of Breaking the
Silence, the NGO that promotes criticism of the
Israeli military through the testimonies of former
soldiers, to follow up on claims made by the discharged soldiers.
We expect from our soldiers that our values be
adhered to in real time, and not that they break
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Brooklyn meets country living:

Life in an all-Chabad Israeli village
BEN SALES
KFAR CHABAD, Israel In an otherwise
deserted field at the center of this rural
Israeli village, a Brooklyn brownstone presents an incongruous sight.
If it looks like it would fit perfectly in
Crown Heights, thats because it already
does. The three-story apartment house
topped by three gables, is a brick-for-brick
reconstruction of 770 Eastern Parkway, the
storied headquarters of the late Lubavitcher
rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson,
and his Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The
address is etched next to the doorway of the
Israeli replica, 6,000 miles from Brooklyn
and about 11 miles from Tel Aviv.
The building is an alternative to whoever
cant go to him in the United States, said
Rabbi Menachem Latar, the manager of the
Israeli version of 770, referring to Schneerson. As a Chabad chasid, if you were with
the rebbe and had a meeting with the rebbe,
you imagine everything that was in the presence of the rebbe.

The out-of-place brownstone symbolizes
the mission of this community of 6,000
Chabadniks, who call their village the capital city of the Chabad movement. Its warehouses organize and distribute ritual and
educational materials for the chasidic outreach movements global network of emissaries, and it acts as a home base for Chabad
chasidim across Israel.
Twenty-two years after Schneersons
death, the village aims to perpetuate his
legacy.
But Kfar Chabad also exists in tension
with Chabads ethos of outreach. Schneerson sent his followers to far-flung cities from
Colombia to the Congo, setting up outposts
to greet and engage Jews wherever they may
be. Chabad emissaries sometimes are only
observant Jews in their city. Kfar Chabad is
the only place in the world where every resident is a Chabadnik.
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Chabad, his Chabad [allegiance] could
cool down, said Nochum Lurie, who
grows etrogs in one of the villages
orchards. Here its warming up all the
time. If a tree grows separately, it can
grow crooked. But in the woods, the
trees stand tall.
One of the main functions of the village is to act as a wholesaler of Chabad
ritual objects. Lurie maintains his trees
for the fall festival of Sukkot, when
crates of his etrogs are sent to Chabad
chasidim worldwide. Three months
before Passover, children and adults at
a local factory begin baking matzah to
be sent to Lubavitch emissaries all over
the world. A large childrens bookstore
sells serials for Chabad boys and girls.
A leather bookbinder puts out identical
sets of Chabad texts.
The towns flagship exports, however, are emissaries. An estimated 1,500
emissaries, known in the parlance as
shluchim, have come from the town,
serving across Israel and the world.
Many children are raised by their grandparents because their parents are serving abroad.
Here we grow emissaries, and thats
no less important, said Bracha Tvardovich, a Kfar Chabad resident with children
serving as emissaries in Israel, Miami,
and Antwerp, Belgium. There are institutions that serve Chabad nationwide.
Kfar Chabad also has attracted some
of the more extreme elements of Chabad
ideology. In the past two elections, the
vast majority of Kfar Chabad voters
chose parties with far-right Kahanist
candidates, hewing to Schneersons prohibition against Israel ceding land.

City leaders, along with many others, speak of Schneerson in the present
tense, suggesting a belief that the rebbe,
whom many believe is the Messiah, is
not quite dead. The Torah ark in Kfar
Chabads 770 replica refers to Schneerson as the king messiah and uses an
acronym after his name that translates
to May he merit a long and good life,
Amen.
The Israeli version of the 770 headquarters features a replica of Schneersons study. In Brooklyn, this is where
Schneerson would greet and hold private meetings with visitors from across
the globe. At Kfar Chabad, a perpetually
empty chair sits opposite the door, and
Chabad chasidim often use the room
to pray privately, recite psalms, or feel
close to their leader.
He didnt die, Binyamin Lifshitz, the
village manager, said of Schneerson. He
went away. Hell come back.
Schneersons predecessor, Rabbi
Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, instructed
74 Chabad families who had survived the
Holocaust to found the village in 1949,
one year after Israels independence.
According to Lifshitz, Schneersohn
wanted to help settle the land while
ensuring that his followers retained
their ideology during a time of upheaval.
Early residents raised cows, chickens,
and goats, while also growing oranges,
clementines, and wheat.
Sixty-seven years later, Kfar Chabad
has lost most of its agriculture and
gained a train station. But it remains a
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A brick-for-brick replica of Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn stands at the center of

Kfar Chabad, a rural Israeli village founded by Lubavitcher chasidim in 1949.
Lubavitcher chasidim in Kfar Chabad study Talmud at 770.
sleepy town, without a traffic light and

with one small supermarket dominating
a tranquil, central roundabout. Lampposts featuring pictures of and quotes
by Schneerson line suburban-style residential neighborhoods.
Many of the residents know each
other, and there are no street addresses.
Say a name and a passerby simply will
direct you to the house.
In many ways, the village is similar to
several other charedi Orthodox towns
across Israel. According to data from
2008, the latest available, half of the
residents are children and the villages

median age is 17. Only 55 percent of
adults work, below the national figure
of 64 percent. Three-quarters of men 15
and older have studied in a yeshiva.
We say we need to be integrated in
society and not live all together, but
were in a village, said Kfar Chabad
resident Sara Zilbershtrom, director
of Israels Women and Girls of Chabad.
The village lives the mission. Its like
the backbone that makes it possible to
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50 years on, Bernie Sanders still champions values

of his Israeli kibbutz
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SHAAR HAAMAKIM, ISRAEL Every morning, Bernie
Sanders would wake up at 4:10 to pick apples and pears.
Leaving the cabin he shared with a few other American
college student volunteers, Sanders would have a quick bite
of bread before heading out to the orchard. After 2 1/2 hours
of work, he and the other 20 or so volunteers would sit
down for a traditional 30-minute Israeli breakfast of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, butter, and hard-boiled eggs.
Then it was back to work. Probably.
Its hard to know his routine for sure, but that Spartan
schedule was standard fare for American and French volunteers at Shaar Haamakim, the Israeli kibbutz where the U.S.
Democratic presidential candidate apparently spent several months in 1963. The name of his kibbutz had remained
a mystery until last week, when Haaretz unearthed a
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But Albert Ely, 79, who managed the kibbutz volunteer program in the early 1960s, remembered someone named Bernard.
And he said that if Sanders was
there, he probably was picking
fruit before the sun rose.
I was astonished that the
name Bernard, which is French,
belonged to an American, Ely
said, sitting in his home here. I
remember a lot of volunteers. I
dont remember him. If he was
here, he was with the Americans.
Founded in 1935 by immigrants
from Romania and Yugoslavia, Shaar Haamakim
sits at the nexus of two
valleys near the northern port city of Haifa.
During Sanders time, its
members grew apples,
peaches, and pears, and
were opening a factory
for solar water heaters.
The kibbutz also boasts a
flour mill.
But as much as agriculture or industry, ideology
drove Shaar Haamakim in
the 60s. The kibbutz belonged to the Israeli political
party Mapam, which had been a communist, Sovietaffiliated faction in the 1950s. Kibbutz members had
admired Joseph Stalin until his death, and they would
celebrate May Day with red flags. They spoke of controlling the means of production, taking from each
according to his abilities and giving to each according
to his needs.
All the members were equal in all ways, said Yair
Merom, the kibbutzs chairman. They lived in identical houses. There wasnt a salary; everyone received
according to their needs. The kibbutz gave everything:
food, shelter, education, health.
Merom says Shaar Haamakim is proud to have
hosted a U.S. presidential candidate who trumpets its
principles.
Our values of mutual responsibility are social democratic values, and we choose willingly to create that
society, Merom said. Sanders is talking about the
social democratic approach that gives freedom to the
individual, but with responsibility for the whole. We
do that in a practical way.
Socialist ethos permeated kibbutz life in the 60s.
All of the kibbutzs 360-some members wore the same
uniform: khaki slacks with a matching button-down
shirt. After working in the morning and early afternoon, members often would attend committee meetings, where they would discuss the kibbutzs problems. Until 1991, as at many other kibbutzim, kids lived
A photo of Kibbutz Shaar Haamakim as it was in

1963, when Bernie Sanders volunteered there for
several months.
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Albert Ely, 79, ran the kibbutz volunteer program

when Sanders was at Shaar Haamakim. He doesnt
remember the candidate specifically, but does
remember there being an American named Bernard.
apart from their parents in a childrens house.

Several things, according to Ely, were considered
taboo or bourgeois: skirts, playing cards, neckties,
ballroom dancing. Instead, when they werent working
or holding meetings, kibbutzniks would take classes
on anything from English language to choir singing.
Once or twice a week they would dance to Israeli folk
songs. Tuesday was culture night.
In the 60s, the members were very idealistic, Ely
said. They believed in the path they were going on.
They thought it was [also] the solution to other problems. They thought they had a mission to help the
population outside to do as they did on the kibbutz.
Kibbutz members tried to impart some of those
values to volunteers, most of whom stayed for a onemonth program of work and a weeklong hike. After
they finished picking fruit at noon, ate lunch, and
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Hamas operative killed
in another tunnel collapse
3 Arab Knesset members

suspended for meeting with
terrorists families
Thousands of Palestinians
turn out to honor terrorists
who killed policewoman
A Hamas operative was reportedly killed in Gaza Monday in

the third deadly tunnel collapse in the coastal enclave in less
than two weeks. According to Palestinian sources, the tunnel
was located under the border with Egypt and collapsed due
to flooding caused by the Egyptian military.
According to other sources, the collapse was caused by dirt
ramparts being built by the Egyptian military along the border
with Gaza.
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett recommended
during a recent cabinet meeting that Israel carry out a military operation to combat Hamass underground tunnel threat
instead of waiting for the next round of hostilities with the
Palestinian terrorist group.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister
Moshe Yaalon rejected the idea. A statement released by the
Prime Ministers Office said, We do not comment on cabinet
discussions in general and on the IDFs operational plans in
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Three Arab members of the Israeli Knesset Haneen

Zoabi, Basel Ghattas, and Jamal Zahalka, all of the Joint
Arab List partys Balad faction were suspended by the
Knesset Ethics Committee for meeting with the families
of late Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israelis during the current wave of violence.
Zoabi, who has a long history of anti-Israel actions and
has faced Knesset discipline before, will be suspended
for four months along with Ghattas, while Zahalka will
be suspended for two months. Despite the bans, the
Knesset members will still be able to vote at the Israeli
legislature.
We will not accept a situation in which members of
Knesset support the families of the murderers of Israeli
civilians, and stand in memory of those who murdered
our children. Theres a limit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset upon the announcement of the suspension.
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Thousands of Palestinians Friday turned out to honor

three Palestinian terrorists who murdered an Israeli
policewoman earlier in the week.
The large turnout for the funeral of the three terrorists, Ahmed Abou Al-Roub, Mohammed Kameel, and
Ahmad Rajeh Ismail Zakarneh, in the West Bank village
of Kabatiya, occurred despite a closure of the village
by Israeli security forces, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Earlier Friday, Israel handed over the bodies of the
terrorists to the families on the assurance that they
would not use their funerals for a political rally or
procession.
The three terrorists killed 19-year-old border policewoman Hadar Cohen and critically injured another
female officer in an attack near Jerusalems Damascus
Gate. The terrorists, who were wielding machine guns,
pipe bombs, and knives, were shot dead by police at
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Film on French fugitive

living free in Israel stirs unease
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
PARIS An authoritative voice and phone
credit was all Gilbert Chikli needed to steal
millions of euros from seasoned bankers
and businessmen in his native France.
One of Frances most famous criminals,
in May the 50-year-old Chikli was sentenced by a Paris court to seven years in
jail for defrauding dozens of telephone victims out of more than $8 million in 200506, while he was living in Israel.
But Chikli is living as a free man in Israel
the country has no extradition treaty
with France.
Now his story is getting a fresh look
because of a new and controversial French
film starring President Francois Hollandes
girlfriend, Julie Gayet, based loosely on the
Chikli saga. Coming at a time of rising Jewish emigration from France to Israel, the
French-language feature Thank You for
Calling (known in France as Je compte
sur vous, French for Im counting on
you) is drawing attention in both countries to a criminal fringe of French Jews
for whom aliyah, or immigration to Israel,
serves as a get-out-of-jail card.
In Chiklis case, he scammed his victims from Israel by presenting himself as
a secret service agent in need of their help
or as the president of the financial enterprise where they worked. After building
trust and preying on victims insecurities
or vanity, he persuaded them to empty
accounts belonging to their clients.
In one case, Chikli had a mark give an
accomplice in Paris $400,000 in a bag
that she passed to him under the divide of
a public restroom. The cloak-and-dagger
techniques were necessary, Chikli told her,
to protect the identity of the secret agent
handling the dropoff.
At other times, he asked victims to put
clients money into a temporary account
so that Frances DSGE foreign intelligence
agency could flag the money before
returning it to the owner. In reality, Chikli
emptied the fictitious recipient accounts
and kept the money.
Chikli, a tall and handsome man, fled
France in 2009 for Israel through a third
country while French police were working to indict him. He already had spent
three years in jail awaiting indictment,
but was set free that year due to a lack of
evidence; the prosecution presented its
evidence only in 2011. Far from disputing
his 2015 conviction, Chikli has bragged to
the media about his technique, which he
labeled the president scam in an interview he gave last December to i24 TV.
When it works, he boasted, you get
off on it. Because youre 5,000 kilometers
from Paris with a telephone and a 100euro calling card and you can make 10
Vincent Elbaz, left, and Ludovik Day take a break from the filming of Je compte sur vous in Tel Aviv in May 2015.
COURTESY OF PASCAL ELBE
French-Jewish director Pascal Elbe is interviewed in Marseilles in June 2014.

SCREENSHOT FROM YOUTUBE
million euros (over $11 million). Eloquent

and self-confident, Chikli told France 2 in
an earlier interview: Im not a crook. Im
a player, and it was a game to me.
Justice Ministry officials from France and
Israel said talks are ongoing about extraditing Chikli, whom Israeli police questioned
many times and briefly arrested in September in connection with a brawl.
Chikli says he has a good life in Israel,
where he deals in real estate. He even
recently earned an undisclosed amount,
estimated at several thousand euros, from
consultancy services he gave to Pascal
Elbe, the French-Jewish director of the
new film based on his story.
Released in December in France, the

film generated unprecedented attention
on Chikli in the mainstream media as the
symbol of an Israeli-French underworld
that is out of reach of French authorities
because of the complications in extraditing suspects from Israel. Likewise, suspects in France are out of reach of Israeli
authorities because French laws restrict
extradition only to EU member states.
Its a small phenomenon that is part of
the much larger issue of criminality during
globalization, Elbe said.
Elbes film has led the French media,
including the TF1 and France 2 television
channels, to devote extensive coverage
Gilbert Chikli gives an interview at his

home in Ashdod last December.

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in recent months to what they call the

Franco-Israeli mafia.
This attention is troubling to many
French Jews, including Avi Zana, director
of the nonprofit Ami Israel, which helps
French immigrants in Israel integrate into
their new society.
Calling the coverage disproportionate,
Zana said the apparent presence of a few
dozen French criminals in Israel is a normal result of an increase in French aliyah
and diversification in the spectrum of newcomers. It does not suggest any proclivity
to criminality among French immigrants
to Israel.
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Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) cited the liberal Jewish lobby group J Street
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Weve talked to people like Jim Zogby, talked to the
people on J Street to get a broad perspective of the Middle East, Senator Sanders said Sunday on the NBC program Meet the Press.
J Street and the Arab American Institute, which is
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and mainstream pro-Israel groups such as the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee for their stances on the
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Actors and directors nominated for an Oscar this year
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trip to Israel as part of the $200,000 gift packaged typically awarded to Academy Award nominees.
Each voucher covers first-class flights and hotel
accommodations for two people. According to The
Daily Beast, which first reported the VIP trip to Israel,
the celebrity visitors to the Jewish state can stay in
hotels like the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, which was
recently ranked the seventh-best hotel in the world and
the best in the Middle East, and where a top suite costs
as much as $2,000 a night.
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U.K. Jewish schools receive

bomb threats
The British security organization Community Security
Trust (CST) said that bomb threats were received by Jewish schools in the United Kingdom Monday.
The threats came in the form of voice messages claiming that the schools would be bombed, with Arabic
music in the background. Six schools, including both
Jewish and non-Jewish schools, received the threats
Monday. The Metropolitan Police Service checked all
the schools and found no evidence of explosives.
In the past month, a number of other schools received
such threats in various parts of the U.K., in addition to
five schools in Paris. Although British police are not
calling these threats credible, CST still advised Jewish
schools receiving such messages to implement their
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Terumah: Birthright education
n this weeks Torah portion we are

instructed, Make for Me a sanctuary
and I will dwell among them. Rabbi
Aharon HaLeviof Barcelona in his
Sefer Ha-Chinuchrecords this mitzvah, and
says that it applies only when the majority
of Jews live in Israel, and when the messiah
will come it will be once again rebuilt and
observed. However, not everyone agrees with
this opinion. The Tzemach Tzedek (the third
Lubavitcher rebbe) is of the opinion that this
mitzvah is a continuous obligation for all generations. Maimonides as well, one can argue,
holds that Make me a sanctuary is a continuous obligation in all times and all places.
How would one fulfill this obligation of
making a sanctuary for God in exile? The
Tzemach Tzedek suggests (based on the
Talmud and Zohar) that building shuls and
houses of study constitutes the fulfillment of
this mitzvah in our times. When one participates in building and supporting their shul or
bet midrash they are fulfilling the instruction
of Vasu li mikdash. That is why the shul
and study hall are called mikdash meat,
mini sanctuaries.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe takes this a step
further, and applies this mitzvah to each and
every individual. He suggests when a Jew designates a place in their house for Torah study
and prayer, they too individually participate
in this mitzvah.
Jewish day schools are the modern mikdash, sanctuary, of our time. However for
most Jewish families it is simply unaffordable. To be sure, there are many who understand the importance and are willing to sacrifice their lifestyle to enroll their children
in a day school. However, many in this category are faced with choices that make them
reconsider how large of a Jewish family they
can build.
Although many schools offer scholarships
in the most dignified way possible, for most
families the process remains humiliating.
Many cannot afford the gracious discount
and remain stressed to meet the demands.
Jewish education has become a luxury that
few can afford. Some spouses are not in sync
with their level of commitment or readiness
to sacrifice to even ask for a scholarship.
Unaffordable Jewish education might just
be the number one problem facing the Jewish nation today! Our children are facing
greater temptations and challenges than
they have ever in the past. They are exposed
to every nonsense in society. It

money, time, and resources
is enough of a challenge even
to bring vibrancy, inspiration
with a Jewish education, to
and enthusiasm into our Jewish community. Chabad on
withstand the pressures of our
campus and other groups are
secular world, the least we can
doing wonderful work engaggive them is a Jewish education
ing our students on campus.
to assist them in the process.
Their work would be expoOne of the many beautiful elements of this country is
nentially enhanced if every
Rabbi Meir
that every child is entitled to
Jewish child was offered a JewKonikov
ish education in their years
an education by birthright. It
Chabad of Fort
prior. Some might argue that
was not always that way, but it
Lee, Orthodox
there is not enough money
is now so fundamental, that we
to support it. I would argue
wonder how there ever was a
that money exists in exubertime that it wasnt so.
ance in the Jewish world. Every politician
John Adams in 1785 stated The whole
campaigns around the Jewish dollar. Every
people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to
imaginable cause has a nonprofit fundraising account. The problem is less about findbear the expenses of it. There should not be
ing the money, and more about allocation
a district of one mile square, without a school
of money and resources. We simply need to
in it, not founded by a charitable individual,
shift our mindsets from luxury education to
but maintained at the public expense of the
birthright education. We need to shift the
people themselves.
responsibility from the parents to the Jewish
We need to do to education what Birthright did for Israel, we can even call it
community. Implementing this idea is not
Birthright Education. Imagine if every
easy but if we truly felt that we are responsible for every Jew alive, we can begin the
child was entitled to a free Jewish education
process.
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Make me a sanctuary, so I can dwell in
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48. The least anti-Semitic country,
apparently
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52. King before Jehoshapat
55. Exercises over Black and Klugman?
59. Biblical fruit
62. Benji, e.g.
63. NFL star Foster with a very unJewish sounding name
64. The Witch of Endor might have cast
one
65. Diamond District rocks
66. He encountered no Jews in Inferno
67. Like fresh babka
68. Flanders who visited King Davids
tomb
69. Tool used at the Bahai Gardens
Book purchase required to attend event
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 59.
Down
1. The biggest star in the world (who is
neither a Jew or a gentile)
2. Lymph masses
3. ___ to Himself, Ben Jonson poem
that mentions Japhet
4. Frasier actress Gilpin
5. In ___, sing like the Miami Boys Choir
6. Implies, as the written Torah often
does
7. Acts like a Yenta
8. chasidic leaders
9. Barometer for Sanders
10. Missing from Sayeret Matkal, say
11. Its passed down in the mishpacha
12. Yes
13. Many Jews in Fl.
21. Ilan Rubin, drummer for Nine ___
Nails
22. Like Jonah, when he runs
25. Israels Gali (with a video game last
name)
26. What Madoff did to many investors
27. What would you do if ___...,
words at the start of Savages The
Wonder Years
28. Set part for Ilan Rubin
29. Brilliant display, like a Chagall show
31. Foe of Harry
32. Talmud lengths (in English vernacular)
33. Go through a Bar Kokhba cave
34. String a tallit again
35. Take an uzi from
36. Levi to Dan
40. What Pharaoh did after each plague
43. ISIS inflicts it
45. Da ___ (city in Vietnam)
47. 1972 Bob Fosse musical
51. One Reeses in E.T.
52. Pitching like Sandy Koufax
53. Make like Sarah Hughes
54. Actor Ed
55. What a moving service can give to
the soul
56. Gehazi after he becomes a leper
57. Woody Allens The Curse of the
___Scorpion
58. City in Southern Israel
59. Time Zone in Boro Park
60. Resort that might have Ahava
products
61. ___ judicata
Arts & Culture
Shown here appearing before the Israeli Supreme

Court in 2004, Yigal Amir shot the prime minister in
the back and killed him in 1995. URIEL SINAI/GETTY IMAGES
Killing of a King
JONATHAN E. LAZARUS
he queasy sensation isnt

imagined.
It quickly develops by design,
fully informing Dan Ephrons
Killing a King: The Assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel.
Readers feel it immediately as they plunge
into the warped and chilling realm of the
extremist; the parallel universe of the selfradicalized outlier; the holier-than-thou
reaches of the messianic mind.
Consider that this toxic pathology is
embedded in one person. He is a fundamentalist Jew, not a Palestinian, or
an Arab, or an Islamic jihadist. This selfrighteous sociopath stands convicted of
Killing a King: The Assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of
Israel, Dan Ephron. W.W. Norton &
Company, 336 pp., $27.95
murdering a battle-hardened but peacemaking prime minister by the laws and

courts of Israel and by his own repeated
admissions, often delivered in giddy
outbursts.
It took this particular miscreant several years of festering and plotting (think
San Bernardino perpetrators) and two
aborted attempts before he finally succeeded in felling Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, with two hollow-point bullets
to the back from his 9mm Beretta. The
attack took place in the parking lot of Tel
Avivs Kings of Israel Square after a massive peace rally. The 73-year-old prime
minister died on the operating table
shortly thereafter.
The shots did much more than claim
one victim. They exposed gaping fault
lines in the nation, its sense of itself, its
worldview, its security services, the settlements agenda, the peace process, relations
with Arab neighbors, and the dialogue and
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
comity between ordinary Israelis. It was a

watershed, a tipping point, with the reverberations continuing unabated today.
Despite profound fallout, the assassin
would still strongly contend and proudly
boast that in the eyes of his creator he is
anything but guilty of precipitating one of
the darkest chapters in Israeli history. He
has, he insists, brought clarity to the nation
by helping undermine the peace process.
And, distressingly, many countrymen
might agree with him. He feels no remorse,
FLASH90
only a sense of cleansing and catharsis.

During 19 years in prison, he marries,
gains conjugal rights, fathers a son, and
anticipates the day when the political terrain will shift even further right, allowing him to taste freedom. His brother, a
co-conspirator in the drama, already has
been released from prison.
This is Yigal Amir, now in his forties. At
the time of the assassination the cocky,
brooding, 25-year-old, of Yemenite descent
SEE RABIN PAGE 56
Calendar
the Jewish Federation
of North Jersey,
meets at CareOne at
Teaneck, 11:30 a.m.
Music by cellist Zoe
Hassman and kosher
lunch. 544 Teaneck
Road. Shari Brodsky,
(201) 837-9090, ext. 237
or sharib@jfsbergen.org.
Yiddish club: Khaverim

Far Yiddish (Friends for
Yiddish) of the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah meets to
mark Lincolns birthday,
2 p.m. Group meets
the third Wednesday
of the month. East 304
Midland Ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
Middle East and

America: Bret Stephens,
a Wall Street Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist, discusses the
latest developments
in the Middle East and
their impact on America
and Israel, for an AIPAC
event at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael in
Teaneck, 7:30 p.m. 389
W. Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795 or www.
aipac.org.
The story of Leo Franks landmark trial and lynching is told in

an exhibition, Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited,
at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust. The exhibit opens on February 26 and will be up
through August 28. 36 Battery Place. (646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
FEB.
26
COURTESY OF THE CUBA FAMILY ARCHIVES FOR SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY AT THE BREMAN MUSEUM
continues its Backstage

at the Y series with Love
is in the Air, featuring Bill
Arnold and John Priori,
in the Rosen Performing
Arts Center, 11:45 a.m.
The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.
Friday
FEBRUARY 12
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center holds a family
Shabbat Club service,
5:30 p.m., followed by
dinner and dessert,
crafts, and activities at
6. 682 Harristown Road.
(201) 652-6624.
Shabbat in Washington
Township: Temple Beth
Or holds Shabbat Hallelu,
a family musical service,
7:30 p.m. 56 Ridgewood
Road. (201) 664-7422 or
www.templebethornj.org.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 13
Shabbat in Englewood:
Congregation Kol
HaNeshamah offers
Havdalah and a motzi
Shabbat presentation,
7:30 p.m. Alan Arenson
offers a talk and slide
show on the Cochin Jews
of India, on the premises
of St. Pauls, 113 Engle St.
(201) 816-1611 or www.
KHNJ.org.
The West Hills Project

Wine and whiskey
in Englewood:
The sisterhood of
Congregation Ahavath
Torah hosts an evening
of wine and whiskey
tastings by Wine Country
of Bergenfield and
live music by the West
Hills Project jazz band,
8:30 p.m. 240 Broad Ave.
atc.sisterhood@gmail.
com or (201) 568-1315.
Sunday
FEBRUARY 14
Concert in Wayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
and Times of American

Humorist Will Rogers,
at a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
10:30 a.m. Part two, Feb.
23. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900 or www.
jccotp.org.
Monday
Wednesday
FEBRUARY 15
FEBRUARY 17
Tuesday
FEBRUARY 16
American humorist
Will Rogers: Dumont
historian Dick Burnon
presents a two-part
video/lecture, The Life
FEBRUARY 18
Decline of the middle
class: Journalist
Timothy Noah discusses
Income Inequality:
Connecting the Dots to
Money, Influence, and
the Decline of the Middle
Class for North Jersey
Public Policy Network
at Fairleigh Dickinson
University Metropolitan
Campus, Dickinson Hall,
Hackensack, 7:30 p.m.
140 University Plaza
Drive. www.njppn.org or
info@njppn.org.
Saturday
FEBRUARY 20
Shabbat in Emerson:
Presidents Day service

in Franklin Lakes:
Temple Emanuel of North
Jersey holds its third
annual Presidents Day
service, 8 a.m., featuring
the Gettysburg Address,
translated into Hebrew,
chanted as a haftarah.
Light breakfast. 558
High Mountain Road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Thursday
Congregation Bnai
Israel congregants share
their memories of the
congregations recent
Israel trip, as part of the
shuls service, 10 a.m.
Light lunch with Israeli
foods. 53 Palisade Ave.
(201) 265-2272 or www.
bisrael.com.
Zoe Hassman
Caf Europa in Teaneck:
Caf Europa, a social
program sponsored by
Jewish Family Service
of Bergen and North
Hudson for Holocaust
survivors, funded in part
by the Claims Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany and
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Leonard Bernsteins,
Candide, an opera in
concert starring Jerry
Hadley, June Anderson,
Christa Ludwig, and
Nicolai Gedda, is part of
a Shabbaton at Temple
Emeth, 2 p.m. Live
introduction by Mark
Shapiro, music director
of Cecilia Chorus of NY
and artistic director

of Cantori NY. Coffee
and dessert between
the operas two acts.
1666 Windsor Road.
(201) 833-1322 or go to
www.emeth.org.
Zumba in Tenafly:
The Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades hosts
a Zumba party with
exotic rhythms, highenergy Latin and
international beats, and
easy-to-follow moves,
for everyone 12 and
older, led by a team
of skilled, inspirational
JCC Zumba instructors,
7:30 p.m. Rescheduled
from January 23 due to
blizzard. 411 East Clinton
Ave. Roberto Santiago,
(201) 408-1481 or email
rsantiago@jccotp.org.
Sunday
FEBRUARY 21
Book discussion in
Wayne: As part of
Jewish Federation
of Northern New
Jerseys One Book,
One Community
programming, Shomrei
Torah offers a discussion
on this years selection,
A Backpack, a Bear, and
Eight Crates of Vodka,
by Lev Golinkin, 10 a.m.
Books will be sold
for $11. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500
or adminassist@
shomreitorahwcc.org.
Heart health: Manhattan

cardiologist Randy
Cohen talks about
approaches to the
prevention, screening,
and management of
risks related to heart
disease at Temple
Israel & Jewish
Community Center in
Ridgewood, 10:30 a.m.
Breakfast. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Author in Edgewater:
Israeli author Karen
Ashram reads from her
book Seasons and
Colors at My Kinder
Club, 10:30 a.m. Open
play included. 880
River Road, 2nd Floor.
(201) 366-4501 or
mykinderclub.com.
Book brunch: The

United Synagogue of
Hoboken hosts a Book
Brunch about The
Bus on Jaffa Road: A
Story of Middle East
Terrorism and the
Search for Justice with
its author, Mike Kelly, a
veteran Record reporter,
10:30 a.m. 115 Park Ave.
(201) 659-4000 or office@
hobokensynagogue.org.
Calendar
Film in Wayne: The
Chabad Center of
Passaic County shows
Woman in Gold,
7 p.m. 35 Jessica Way.
(973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Monday
FEBRUARY 22
Networking in Franklin
Lakes: Barnert Temple
joins with Beth Rishon
of Wyckoff and
Beth Haverim Shir
Shalom of Mahwah
for job networking at
Barnert. Doors open at
6:30 p.m., program at
7. 747 Route 208 South.
(201) 848-1800 or www.
barnerttemple.org.
Feature film: The

Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly
screens Gentlemans
Agreement, 7:30 p.m.,
as part of a series, Top
Films You May Have
Missed or Want to See
Again. Coffee and
snacks. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 408-1493.
In New
York
Wednesday
Singles
Friday
FEBRUARY 12
Teaneck singles
Shabbaton: The
Shidduch Project hosts
Shabbaton Royale
for modern Orthodox/
machmir singles, 2442, at Congregation
Rinat Yisrael. Hosted
by Rachel Ruchlamer
and Dr. Shani Ratzker.
Shidduchprojects@
gmail.com or call
(201) 522-4776.
Sunday
FEBRUARY 14
Concert/lunch/
schmoozing in Wayne:
The North Jersey Jewish
Singles 40s-60s meetup
group is going to the
YMCA of Wayne for
its Backstage at the Y
series concert Love is
in the Air in the Rosen
Performing Arts Center.
Meet in the lobby at
11 a.m.; concert at 11:45;
lunch in coffee shop
afterward. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.
FEBRUARY 17
Sunday
Performance/talk in
NYC: The Museum of
FEBRUARY 21
Jewish Heritage A
Living Memorial to
the Holocaust offers
Playing for Life: Art
Under Tyranny with
a performance by
Eugene Drucker and the
Emerson String Quartet,
7 p.m. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Seniors meet in Suffern:

Singles 65+ of the JCC
Rockland meets for lunch
at Sutters Mill, noon. 214
Route 59, Suffern, N.Y.
Individual checks. Gene,
(845) 356-5525.
Lavish Lunches supports Kaplen JCC seniors

Lavish Lunches, the annual culiAlzheimers disease and dementia,
nary experience that supports
extensive programming for active retirees, door-to-door transportation in
the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
wheelchair-accessible vehicles, hearty
broad range of programs and
breakfasts and hot kosher lunches, proservices for senior adults, will be
grams for the arts, lectures and concerts,
on Wednesday, March 9. It will
discussions on current affairs, exercise,
begin at 10:15 a.m. with a light
sing-alongs and dancing, birthday and
breakfast at the home of Stephanie and Daniel Cohn. Culinary
holiday celebrations, and intergenerational programs with nursery school
expert Seamus Mullen, an awardchildren.
winning chef, restaurateur, and
Lorin Cook and Brandi Rubin are coauthor, is the special guest. He is
chairs; the committee includes Dana
known for restaurants including
Baumgarten, Alissa Epstein, Nira FeldTertulia and El Colmado, both
man, Merle Fish, Melissa Garden, Amy
in Manhattan, and Sea Containers in London. He was awarded
Goldstein, Lauren Gordon, Erica Rivera,
Seamus Mullen COURTESY JCCOTP
Chef of the Year by Time Out
Michele Ross, Beth Rubach, Jennifer
New York and has been named a
Schiffman, Jillian Somberg, Francie
semi-finalist for Best Chef NYC by the James Beard FounSteiner, special events chair Amy Zagin, and incoming
dation for three consecutive years.
chair Marci Ginzburg. Sponsors include Artistic Tile,
After his presentation, participants will choose from a
Englewood Wine Merchants, Gillys Organics, Hartly
selection of lunches, served in local homes and venues,
Leet Homes, LLc, Orly Chen, RE/MAX Properties Plus,
including six kosher homes, where hosts and hostesses
SEESAW, ShopRite/Treeco, The Real Estate Equity Company, and Verus Therapy.
provide a dining experience for their guests, each with
For information, call Sharon Potolsky at (201) 408its own unique theme.
1405, email her at spotolsky@jccotp.org, or go to www.
Proceeds support a range of senior programming,
jccotp.org/lavishlunches.
including a social adult day care for people with
Educational
workshops for
special needs
children
The Performing Ar ts School at
bergenPAC announces educational
workshops for children with special needs at the Felician School for
Exceptional Children at 260 Main St.
in Lodi. The artist-in-residence workshops are offered by the Limitless Arts
Felician School students participate in the Guitar Group workshop
Program at bergenPAC as part of the
on January 13.
COURTESY BERGENPAC
beyondbergenPAC outreach program.
Upcoming programs include Guitar
Group and Rock Band combined on February 18; Guitar
For information, call Renee Redding Jones, director
Group on March 9 and April 13, and Hip Hop Beat Box
of the Limitless Arts program, at (201) 482-8194 or email
on April 27.
her at rjones@bergenpac.org.
Art in Tenafly
Zionism film
discussion: Panelists
Joseph Dorman, Daphne
Merkin, Rabbi Michael
Paley, Jonathan Rosen,
and Oren Rudavsky
lead a discussion,
moderated by Rabbi
Peter Rubinstein, to
kick off the premiere
of Colliding Dreams,
a major new film on
Zionism, at the 92nd
Street Y, 7:30 p.m. Film
opens in New York on
March 4. 1395 Lexington
Ave. (212) 415-5500 or
www.92Y.org.
Joan Baez at
bergenPAC
The Bergen Performing
Arts Center in Englewood and Metropolitan
Entertainment present
Joan Baez on Sunday,
March 6, at 8 p.m. Buy
tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or from the box
office at (201) 227-1030.
Sights and Sounds of Tradition, an

exhibit of acrylic, watercolor, and
mixed medium works by Mirra Oliker,
is on display through February 28 at the
Waltuch Art Gallery at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly. Ms. Olikers
unique and colorful works show scenes
from the life of religious Jews and from
Jewish folklore. For information, call
Ruth Yung at (201) 408-1418 or go to
www.jccotp.org.
Paintings by Mirra Oliker
PHOTOS COURTESY JCCOTP
Arts & Culture/Local

Rabin
Enter Shimon Peres, the threetime loser for the premiership

and with a seminary education, had
who had been the dominant
served in the army and was halfforce in the Labor Party until
heartedly enrolled at Bar-Ilan UniRabins emergence in the 1970s.
versity, studying law. But his real
Without his knowledge, his aides
intent, shared with his older brother
had been negotiating secretly
Hagai, also a vet and an explosives
with Arafats team for what
and ammo hoarder, was to upend
would evolve as the essence
the Oslo peace accord by assassinatof the Oslo agreements. When
ing Rabin.
Peres learned about the back
The brothers Amir, both deeply
channel, he made every effort to
drawn to conspiracy theories,
take ownership of the initiative.
focused their hatred on Rabin as the
Competition flared once again
architect of Israeli withdrawals from
between Rabin and Peres, who
the West Bank and Gaza, and as the
served as foreign minister in
Leah and Yitzhak Rabin, then Israels ambassador to
man who had frozen settlements.
his rivals cabinet. The two had
the United States, in 1968.ISRAEL GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE
Yigal Amir actually shopped rabbis
jousted over just about every
in charedi enclaves to find those who
issue for decades, including
secular, chain-smoking, tennis-playing
would sanction the talmudic prescriptions
credit for the Entebbe raid. Where Peres
Rabin as a reluctant risk taker who liked
of din rodef (law of the pursuer) and din
felt slighted, Rabin drew strength. While
to consume his liquor with family or confimoser (law of the informer) to furnish them
Peres had a thicker government resume
dantes rather than at diplomatic functions.
with justification for their heinous act.
than Rabin, he had not served in the military. And Peres, though more lyric and
Rabins last term as prime minister was
Dan Ephrons grippingly paced and
articulate than Rabin, had been born in
his second; first he had been Golda Meirs
meticulously researched reconstruction of
Poland, not mandate Palestine.
successor from 1974 to 1977, until a scanthe assassination binds the clashing back
dal involving his wifes Washington bank
Rabin, who acted as his own defense
stories of the Amirs, Rabin, Shimon Peres,
accounts forced him to resign.
minister, soon took charge of the negoYasser Arafat, Benjamin Netanyahu, and
tiations, and events began unfolding at
But Rabins distinguished performance
other principals. Prepare yourself for a
a dizzying pace by Mideast standards. In
as chief of staff during the Six Day War, and
bumpy ride where the basest, least ennobling human values compete against aspiraSeptember 1993 the initial Oslo accords
his bona fides as the first sabra elected to
tional impulses of nationhood and healing.
were signed during an elaborate White
the nations highest position, made a rehaMr. Ephron honed his investigative and
bilitation possible. After years as defense
House ceremony after last minute-bickering about how Rabin could stiff-arm Arareporting skills during stints as Jerusaminister in coalition governments durlem bureau chief for Newsweek and the
ing the 1980s, Rabin again was elected to
fat into a handshake rather than endure
Daily Beast. He has writ large and with
the top office in 1992. A bold strategy was
twin kisses on the cheek; whether Arafat
freeze-frame clarity about an episode
beginning to coalesce in his mind.
would wear his uniform with medals (he
that deserves no less. The reference to
He would partner in an imperfect, awkdidnt); and what role would Peres play (he
ward minuet with Arafat to tamp down
King in the somewhat lengthy title conactually signed the document).
veys scope and gravitas and seems to be
the growing violence from Hamas and
Mr. Ephrons description of the flight
born more of admiration for Rabin than
the second intifada on the one side and
from Israel to D.C. aboard the prime ministers ancient 707 (which doubled as an IDF
the ground zero of a Tel Aviv location. His
the increasingly restive and vigilante settlers on the other by crafting a framework
tanker) is striking. While Peres stewed over
profile of the martyr for peace dovetails nicely with the late Yehuda Avners
for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank
his steerage class seating, Rabin worried
descriptions in The Prime Ministers.
and Gaza, supplanted by Palestinian semiabout the unintended consequences of
Readers will come to know the dour,
autonomy in the regions.
the deal. He was informed midflight that
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case, but it was a tragedy nonetheless.

The film Gett is unflattering to the
rabbinate, he said. It is accurate, but it
is not the whole picture. It is important to
him to be fair.
There are many points of light. The
head of the beit din in Tel Aviv, Zvi Ben
Yaacov, who is in charge of divorces, is
incredible. He is a workaholic. I send him
an email at 9 at night, and at 6, when I get
up, I already have a response.
Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick, who cochairs Shaarei Orahs programming and
events committee with Amy Elfman,
agrees that men who refuse to give their
wives gittin present a great problem to the
Jewish community. It is a major embarrassment to the Orthodox community, and
sometimes to other sectors of the community as well, he said. The last accurate
attempt at finding out how many women
were in this situation found about 435

women in the United States, and there are
reports of up to 10,000 women in Israel.
Ten thousand? Can that be? The 10,000
maybe is an exaggeration, but maybe not,
he said.
Im aware of at least four situations like
this that happened in Teaneck, of women
being held up, he continued. All of them
were resolved, but some of them took up
to a decade. The women were all Orthodox and observant, and they remained
kind of widowed waiting for the get.
Weve seen some really unpleasant
stuff going on here. I know of one situation
where lawsuits were brought against anybody who tried to put any pressure on the
man, saying that they were besmirching
his name. It was terrible. It also was crazy.
Most of these guys are control freaks.
They dont like the idea that somebody
has said that they were not perfect in
any way. There are several organizations
that use social pressure to bring them to

heel. Sometimes it backfires, but a lot of it
works. All of a sudden they become pariahs in their synagogues, people wont do
business with them any more.
Its a deeply felt issue in the Orthodox
community because everyone wants to
do the right thing by the women, Rabbi
Chernick continued. Women basically are
powerless. All they can do is refuse the get.
The only thing that grants them power is
the prenuptial agreement.
The movie Gett is important because
it is unbelievably well acted. It is being
used as an educational device there
maybe are some aspects of it that either
Rabbi Jachter or I would say are drama,
not real, and not exactly the way it happens. But for the purpose of showing us
just how bad things really can get, this is
a classic.
What is most amazing about the movie
is that its protagonist, Viviane Amsalem,
a lone Palestinian had tried to blow up a

bus to Ashkelon, then stabbed the driver
and was killed by an IDF soldier aboard. At
that moment Rabin realized how just one
person on either side of the divide could
imperil the accords.
But the momentum continued. In 1994,
Rabin, Peres, and Arafat shared the Nobel
Peace Prize. That year, Israel signed a historic treaty with Jordan, ending a 46-year
state of war. Rabin and King Hussein were
said to be almost soul mates. In 1995, an
enhancement of the Oslo deal was sealed,
which expanded the Israeli withdrawal
from the territories.
All the while the violence increased.
And then Yigal Amir struck.
After the assassination, Peres became
prime minister and dithered over whether
to call a snap election or serve the final
year of Rabins term. He chose the latter
course, and by the time he decided to
run he had virtually frittered away what
seemed an insurmountable lead over
Netanyahu. He lost the vote by a hair.
The nation had opted for settlements
and security over two-state risk-taking,
an equilibrium that prevails today. Peres
proved much more palatable later on as
president of Israel rather than prime minister. He didnt have to run for the office.
In an intriguing epilogue, Ephron tells
of his role in a forensic investigation
prompted by Rabins daughter, Dalia, into
a mysterious tear in the front of Rabins
bloodied shirt. Ephron smuggled the garment into the United States and submitted
it to a ballistics expert who concluded it
wasnt a bullet hole overlooked in the official autopsy but probably a rip caused by
the surgeons desperately trying to save the
life of Rabin the object of Yigal Amirs
misguided wrath.
Jonathan E. Lazarus is the former news
editor of the Star-Ledger
is willing to be dragged through so much.

She just keeps fighting. She refuses to say
This isnt important. I dont need this,
and just walk away.
What: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem will be screened
When: On Saturday, February 27, at
8:15 p.m.
Where: At Congregation Shaarei Orah,
1425 Essex Street in Teaneck.
How much: $12; includes refreshments.
What else: A question and answer
session with Rabbi Jachter will allow
the audience to consider the issues surrounding the film.
How: Seating is limited, so prepaid
reservations are necessary. They must
be made by Friday, February 19. Call the
synagogue at (201) 833-0800, email
the office at office@sephardicteaneck.
org, or fill out a form online at www.sephardicteaneck.org/special-events.html
Obituaries
Mary Adler
Mary Rachel Adler, ne

Goldfield, who lived in
Woodcliff Lake and Fort
Lee, died January 24. She
was a member of the Fort
Lee Jewish Center and the
New Synagogue of Fort
Lee/Congregation Kehillath
Baruch.
Predeceased by her
husband, Harry, she is
survived by children,
Eileen Horowitz (Harve),
Diane Weinstein (Robert),
Sandra Lubitz (Richard),
and Ellis (Sarah); eight
grandchildren, and four
great-grandchildren.
Donations can be sent
to the Center for Hope
and Safety, Rochelle Park.
Arrangements were by
Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Adeline Grossman
Adeline Addy Grossman, ne Warhaftig, 90, of

Hackensack, died January
31. She worked at Willners
in Hackensack and Bev-Bel
Corp. in Cresskill.
Predeceased by a
brother, Victor Warhaftig,
and a niece, Leslie Burgum, she is survived by a
sister, Florence Burgum
of Hackensack; nieces
Kathy Fuller and Chareise
Wills, and a nephew, Jacob
Warhaftig.
Hackensack.
Barry Leveen
Barry Leveen of Hillsdale

died January 28. He was a
lawyer and volunteered at
the Bergen County Zoo.
He is survived by his
wife of 44 years, Serpil; a
sister, Margery (Megan);
nephews, Jeremy, and
Adam (Megan), and a
great-nephew.
to: Friends of Bergen
County Zoo, Paramus.
Hackensack.
Sidney Ross
Sidney Shy Ross, 91, of

Paterson, died February 8.
He was a World War
II veteran. He was a long
time employee of the
Paterson News and Herald

News in Paterson.
wife of 59 years, Ella, ne
Cohen, daughters, Pamela
Wollruch (Ted) and Debra;
nieces and grandnieces.
Donations can be sent to
Wolff Caregivers Foundation at Jewish Family
Services of North Jersey,
Wayne. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban
Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Dora Weintraub
Dora Weintraub, 93, of

North Bergen, died January 12.
Born in Poland, she was
a Holocaust survivor. She
was a co-owner of Henry
Embroidery Supplies and
Alberts Bungalows, a
member of Temple Beth
El of North Bergen and the
sisterhood of the Yeshiva of
Hudson County.
Predeceased by her
husband Henry in 1998,

and a grandson, Shefa in
2015, she is survived by
children Steven (Trisha),
Betty, Yaakov ( Jessica), and
Abraham (Karen); grandchildren Susan (Andrew),
Vito, Izak, Elana, and
Nahara; and three
great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were
by Gutterman-Musicant
Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Stephen Saltman
Stephen Scotty Saltman,

70, of Emerson died January 5. He owned American
Injet Systems in Emerson
and was a member of Congregation Bnai Israel in
Emerson.
wife, Esther; and children, Scott, and Jennifer
Topolewski.
Hackensack.
Saperstein, Betty, 94, died February 4, 2016,

in River Vale, New Jersey. She was formerly of
Brookline, MA.
Beloved wife of the late Philip. Devoted
mother of Barbara (Steven Friedman); Nancy
(Jimmy Casty), and Joel (Susan Reef-Saperstein).
Loving Grandma of Stephanie, Chloe, Lesley,
Michael, Stacy, and Lauren. Great Grandma to
Noah, Ethan, Ari, Max, Isabella, Joshua, and
David. Sister of Lillian Miller and the late
Sumner Waldox.
Donations can be made in memory of Betty
Saperstein to: Jewish Home Assisted Living,
685 Westwood Ave., River Vale, NJ 07675.
Telephone: 201-666-2370
Paid notice
Marilyn Saks
Marilyn Saks, ne Berman,

died December 31.
A homemaker, she was
a member of the Pascack
Valley League of Women
Voters, a board member of
Friends of the River Vale
Library, and a member of
Temple Beth Or.
Predeceased by her husband, Dr. Harold in 1958,
she is survived by children,
William (Ina), and Jane;
and grandchildren, Christian, Peter, and Anna.
to a local food bank.
Hackensack.
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The crooks among the newcomers, Zana said, are detested by

the rest of us, who feel they give us
and Israel a bad name.
Elbes film, he said, is regrettably blowing things out of context
at a time when French Jews have
already enough trouble from antiSemitic stereotypes this film risks
augmenting.
Elbe, who is Jewish, said he
anticipated the film would be a
divisive among French Jews, but
decided to make it anyway because
the subject is fascinating and antiSemites cant be allowed to intimidate us into self-censorship.
Last year, Israeli prosecutors
charged 10 recent immigrants
from France for alleged telephone
scams, cyber crimes, and realestate fraud, all involving Francebased victims. The exact number of French citizens thought to
be evading authorities in Israel is
unknown, but France has sent at
least 70 formal requests to Israel
for judicial assistance with cases
involving suspected fraud by dual
nationals living in the Jewish state,
according to a 2014 expose by the
Challenges weekly. Compliance on
the Israeli side was partial.
While some suspects have been
extradited including the 2015
case of an insurance scammer who
killed someone in an arson in Paris
Israel is reluctant to extradite
because Paris will not reciprocate,
said Sammy Ghozlan, a French
former police commissioner who
moved to Israel last year.
Ghozlan noted Frances refusal

to hand over two French citizens
whom Israeli authorities sought
to prosecute in connection with
a 2011 hit-and-run in Tel Aviv that
killed Lee Zeitouni, a 25-year-old
fitness instructor.
Ignoring Israels requests for
extradition, in 2014 a Paris court
gave her killers, Eric Robic and
Claude Khayat, prison sentences of
five years and 15 months, respectively, for leaving Zeitouni for dead
before fleeing the country.
Israeli justice officials insist they
maintain a tight cooperation on
crime prevention with France, a
Justice Ministry official said.
But the lack of an extradition
treaty, Ghozlan said, means that
some crooks use aliyah as a way
of setting up shop out of sight and
reach of French police who know
them well. However, he added,
the 10 arrests last year in Israel
show that Israeli and French justice authorities have learned to
cooperate and share information
despite complications.
In parallel, Israeli authorities
have made it more difficult for
foreign nationals to open bank
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larger effort against money laundering launched in 2010.
French aliyah has been rising
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A play for children in Teaneck

A scene from
The Tale of
the Dragons
Tail.
Black Box Studios presents The Tale of the

Dragons Tail, created and directed by Josh
Kammerman, and based on a story developed
by the Apple Tree Players. The Tale of the
Dragons Tail will play four performances at
11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday February
14 and Sunday February 21 at the Black Box
Performing Arts Center, 200 Walraven Dr.
(just off Palisade Ave.) in Teaneck.
Tickets are $12-15 and are available at www.BlackBoxNYNJ.com or by calling 201-357-2221.

It is a blast to see this production coming to life again
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they are about to plan their nuptials, two evil and very
incompetent wizards cast a spell on the princess that
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by her children Shari, Joel, Daniel and 9 grandchildren.
The V&N family will miss her greatly.
Nechama Polak
Debra Botwinick
Roza Chideckel
Ronnie Faber
Ruby Kaplan
Susan Lowensteiner
Barbara Porter
Esther Schlanger
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age-appropriate workshops, while first through sixth
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their choice of two of the 23 author-led workshops that
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participants the chance to be writers for the day.
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which has been translated into numerous languages
worldwide. The Keynote speakers for the remaining
grades will be Leslie Kimmelman, author of more than
25 childrens picture books and an editor at Sesame
Workshop; and Matt Myklusch, author of the Seaborne
series and the Jack Blank Trilogy, as well as host of The
Other Side of the Story Podcast.
The event will conclude in the Media Center with a special Meet-the-Author Reception, during which students
will have the opportunity to interview the authors for
raffle prizes, as well as purchase a variety of their books
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dragon with the tail that can break the spell.
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strong influence on Moriah.
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