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Brooklyns champion baby daddy
l Its a classic case of
mixed naches.
The Nagels, a frum
family in Brooklyn,
saw the face of Ari,
one of their seven
children, plastered on
the cover of the New
York Post on Sunday.
The story was
about how he gave
them 22 grandchildren through artificial insemination.
Nagel, 40, a math
professor at Kingsborough Community
College in Brooklyn, offers his services
to women who are looking to have a
baby and cannot afford the expense of
a sperm bank. This isnt time-consuming, and Im doing it anyway, he said
of his trips to Target to produce the
sperm. Its very easy for me to do.
Im not doing it for easy action, Nagel told the Post. Isnt that what Tinder
is for?
He told the Post that the free service
and his high sperm count, as well as his
good looks and attractive personality,
are what make his

sperm so popular.
I just love seeing
how happy the moms
and kids are Thats
why I do this. Its the
gift that keeps on giving, he told the Post.
He said he babysits
for some of the kids
and attends birthday
parties, and was present at some of the
deliveries.
The gift is not without its costs. Nagel
has been sued for
child support successfully five times, and he told the Post
that half of his paycheck is garnished
for child support. He also said that the
women all promise that they wont sue.
He has kids in Florida, Illinois, Virginia,
Connecticut, and Israel. He said that he
does not regret any of them.
Financially, its bankrupted me, but
Im still very happy with the way things
turned out, he told the Post. I got 22
million in the bank in my kids.
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Here come the Israeli robolawyers

l So much for my son the lawyer.
An Israeli firm is hoping to make

a killing as a pioneer in the nascent
field of robolaw.
LawGeex wants to bring the legal
profession into the 21st century in
the same way that Uber transformed
transportation by taking it online.
After healthcare, legal services are
the second-biggest service industry
in the U.S., worth some $400 billion,
says Noory Bechor, CEO and founder
of LawGeex. But nearly all of it is
done offline through traditional law
firms. Only 1 percent is online right
now, mostly through companies like
LegalZoom, which can help you create contracts.
LawGeex represents the flip side of
LegalZoom. If youre on the receiving end of a contract for a new job,
a lease, or stock options for that new
startup youre about to launch upload the document to the LawGeex
website. Within 24 hours, youll have
an annotated review, complete with
notes on whats missing, whats dicey,
and whats non-standard.
The review is written in plain English and includes helpful statistics
such as 94 percent of leases dont
include this clause, so you know if
youre about to get taken for a ride.

The software only handles English
contracts. Theres not a lot of knowhow out there related to Hebrew text
analysis, Bechor admits. For us to
review a Hebrew contract, wed have
to really reinvent the wheel.
For one-off employment contracts
and leases, LawGeex is free. For
other types of contracts LawGeex
handles 20 different types, from noncompete and non-disclosure agreements to the inscrutable terms of
service found on nearly every website
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As to the once iron law that Jewish mothers wanted their children to
grow up to be lawyers and doctors
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Israeli Burning Man event

sets up camp in the Negev
l Long before Burning Man, ancient
Israelites partied in the desert, if the

Book of Exodus is to be believed.
So perhaps it was only a matter
of time before the Nevada-based
festival sparked an Israeli counterpart. Midburn takes its name from
the Hebrew word for desert, midbar,
and was first held in 2014. Last week,
8,000 people attended the third annual Midburn in the Negev desert
near Kibbutz Sde Boker.
The five-day event is a citizenrun festival meant to inspire, create
art, and convey personal expression
among people of all ages. This years
theme was Abra Cadabra.
The center of Midburn was Noahs
Ark, a massive ship made of wood.
Visitors could explore the inside of

the ship, and then head out to the
deck to admire the spectacular Negev view. That was just one of the
events large art installations that
spread out into the desert.
Midburn is like a playground for
grown-ups, and there are a lot of
people here who love to play, Amir
Shalem, a leader of the Fugara Arts
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In the immortal words of Julius

Caesar, I left, I did nothing, I returned.
Comedian Larry David, announcing a new season of his HBO comedy
Curb Your Enthusiasm after a five-year hiatus
JERRYS BACK:
New or newish
on your favorite
viewing platform
The eighth season of
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, hosted by
JERRY SEINFELD, 62,
begins on Thursday, June
16, on the website Crackle
(which also can be
streamed to your TV by
devices like Roku). A new
episode is released every
Thursday and you can
stream it when you want
it for months thereafter.
Guests scheduled to appear this season include
SNL creator and producer LORNE MICHAELS,
71, and producer/director JUDD APATOW, 48,
although we dont know
when yet. The premiere
episodes features comedian Margaret Cho.
Traditional TV new
fare includes the third
season of Murder in
the First (TNT, Sunday
June 19, 10 p.m.). This
shows gimmick is that
each 10-episode season
covers a different murder
investigation. Taye Diggs,
who long was married to
IDINA MENZEL, 45 (they
split up in 2014), stars
as a San Francisco detective who leads the
investigation with his
female partner, played
by Kathleen Robertson.
This season begins with
the murder of a star pro
football player. In season
one, STEVEN WEBER,
55, had a big recurring
role as Wilkerson, the
driver and confidant of
a rich guy suspected of

murder. Weber returns
this season as Wilkerson.
Exactly why Wilkerson is
involved in this new case
is not yet clear. Weber
works constantly, but I
suspect most veteran TV
watchers know him best
as the younger pilot on
the hit TV series Wings.
Murder, a moderate
hit, is a comeback show
for producer STEVEN
BOCHCO, 72, who had a
string of hits in the 80s
and early 90s that included Hill Street Blues,
NYPD Blue, and L.A.
Law. But his stock sank
with string of TV show
flops that began in the
early 90s and continued
for more than a decade,
and included Cop Rock
and Murder One.
The second season of
the NBC series Aquarius begins on Thursday, June 23, at 10 p.m.
DAVID DUCHOVNY,
55, returns as Hodiak, a
1960s Los Angeles police
detective. The opening
episode takes place on
April 4, 1968 the day
Martin Luther King, Jr.
was assassinated. Detective Hodiak must go into
the black community
that day to investigate
another murder, which
may set off a riot in the
charged atmosphere following Dr. Kings death.
Finally, I play catch-up
on two other new series.
Jerry Seinfeld
Lorne Michaels
Judd Apatow
Steven Weber
David Duchovny
Debra Messing
The first is O.J: Made

in America. The following East Bay Times
review is typical of the
critical acclaim its garnered: So you feel like
youve had your fill of
O.J. after watching the
[dramatized] miniseries
The People v. O.J. Simpson on FX. I cant blame
you. But listen up. Hang
in there a while longer,
because you absolutely
need to see ESPN Films
fantastic five-part documentary Yes, it clocks
in at a Ken Burns-like
7+ hours, but dont let
that bum you out. This
is virtuoso filmmaking that serves as both
a provocative cultural
examination and illuminating portrait of a fallen
superstar. You wont be
able to take your eyes off
it. (Unfortunately, most
of this series will air on
ABC and ESPN before
you read this but you
can see the whole thing
on ESPN online and on
demand. Also check
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films director is EZRA
EDELMAN, 41, who previously won an Emmy for
Ghosts of Flatbush,
about the Brooklyn
Dodgers. Hes the son
of Georgetown University law professor PETER
EDELMAN, 78. Peter was
the president of the New
Israel Fund from 2005 to
2008. Ezras mother is
Marian Wright Edelman,
a famous African Ameri-
can lawyer who founded

the Childrens Defense
Fund. In her 1992 autobiography, Marian said
her three sons (who now
are very accomplished
adults) were being raised
with exposure to both
Judaism and her own
Christian faith.
ELLEN BARKIN, 62,
stars as the matriarch of
the Codys, a crime family, in the new TNT 10-episode series, Animal
Kingdom, which began
on Tuesday, June 14, at
10 p.m. Barkins characters first name is Janine,
but everybody calls her
Smurf.
Many celebs tweeted
nice things about Hillary
Clinton following the
June 7 primary victories that secured her the
Democratic nomination.
Here are a few by tribe
members: actress DEBRA MESSING, 47: Sharing HISTORY with my
son. So so meaningful.
Producer and talk show
host ANDY COHEN,
48: Historic, exciting,
strong speech. Actress/
director ELIZABETH
BANKS, 42: Very emotional about Hillary Clinton securing nomination
historic moment for
American Women. Comedian BILLY EICHNER,
37: Im ok with a female
President AS LONG as
she doesnt start busting
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A pioneer
looks back
Tenafly womans second bat mitzvah
evokes memories of the first,
with Mordecai Kaplan on the bimah
JOANNE PALMER
hen she gets on the bimah

at Temple Sinai in Tenafly
for her second bat mitzvah, Felice Kirsh, also of
Tenafly, will have a hard act to follow.
That hard act is her own first bat
mitzvah, in 1946, at the Society for the
Advancement of Judaism the Reconstructionist movements main synagogue,
then as now on 86th Street on Manhattans
Upper West Side.
The rabbi then was Ira Eisenstein, the
son-in-law of the movements founder,
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan.
And talk about hard acts to follow
Rabbi Kaplan, the shuls founding but
long-retired rabbi, sat on the bimah on the
Shabbat of Ms. Kirshs bat mitzvah, just as
he did every Shabbat.
And then there was the cantor it was
Moshe Nathanson, who wrote the little
ditty without which no not-really-Jewishbut-entirely-willing-to-fake-it wedding
band could make it. He was the composer
of Hava Nagila.
And theres another thing. The Reconstructionist movements first bat mitzvah
was in 1922; the girl at its center was Judith
Kaplan, later Dr. Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, Rabbi Eisensteins wife. Although
neither the SAJ nor the Reconstructionist
Rabbis Ira Eisenstein and Mordecai

Kaplan both were at Felice Kirshs first
bat mitzvah.
Rabbinical College knows exactly how

many bat mitzvah celebrations there were
between 1922 and 1946, the consensus is
that there were not very many. The idea
did not take off until the 1960s.
So who is Ms. Kirsh, and how did she
come to become a bat mitzvah in 1946?
And what did she do next?
Felice Rinder was born into a family
of shul-goers. Until she was 8, her family
lived in the Bronx, and her parents, Harry
and Ruth Rinder, were active in their local
Conservative synagogue, the Pelham Parkway Jewish Center. When they moved to
Manhattan, they checked out local synagogues, and liked the SAJ which then
was close to the Conservative movement
in practice, if not theology best.
When they moved to Manhattan, Felice
and her brother, Sam, went to public
school, and then to afternoon and Sunday
Hebrew school.
I dont know what made my parents
decide to do this, but all of a sudden I was
going to have a bat mitzvah, Ms. Kirsh
said. All of a sudden, I was having lessons with Moshe Nathanson, who was a
wonderful man, and did the bar mitzvah
training.
There was another girl who had a bat
mitzvah two weeks before me, but I dont
remember any before that at all, and we
went every week.
She has no memory of her parents asking her if she wanted to become a bat
mitzvah; she also has no memories of ever
objecting to the idea. They treated me
and my younger brother the same, she
said. I have a feeling that they were interested in giving equal opportunities to both
of their children, educationally, culturally,
and religiously.
Her bat mitzvah was fairly standard, but
there was one thing that made it different
from the boys who celebrated becoming
bar mitzvah at the same time. Cantor
Nathanson taught me the prayers before
and after the Torah and haftarah, and he
taught me the haftarah, and he taught me
the Torah portion. But I did not read it
directly from the Torah.
I read it from a piece of paper.
I think that in those days, as enlightened as they were, even the Reconstructionists were not ready to have a woman
Felice Kirsh of Tenafly on the eve of her second bat mitzvah. Her first was
in 1946.
read directly from the Torah.

This time, my bat mitzvah shaini
her second bat mitzvah this will be the
first time I read directly from the Torah,
she said. It will be the fourth time I read
this haftarah. (The other two times were
when she graduated from high school and
then from college, which, like her birthday, fell in mid-June.)
But the cantor made it up to her and
the other girl. Cantor Nathanson taught
us a little extra something to sing at the
bat mitzvah, she said. He had twin girls,
and I think he thought that girls were kind
of special.
She invited my friends from junior
high, she said. I believe most of them
were Jewish, but of course they had no
idea what was going on. Coincidentally,
there were 13 of them.
What to wear was an issue, she added.
There was no precedent. My mother contacted the mother of the previous bat mitzvah to see what she was doing. In the end,
I wore a white dress.
Ms. Kirsh has strong memories of rabbis Mordechai Kaplan and Ira Eisenstein.
I cant think of any word other than awesome to describe Rabbi Kaplan, she said.
I used to look at him and think that he
looked like an Old Testament prophet. He
was a very handsome man, with white hair
and a white Van Dyke beard, and piercing
blue eyes. To this day, I can hear his voice

in my memory. On Yom Kippur afternoon,
he would chant the haftarah, the book of
Jonah, and I can hear it.
He used to give hour-long, very esoteric sermons when he was well into his
80s, she added. I dont know how many
people could follow what he was saying.
Neither she nor her parents had a social
relationship with Rabbi Kaplan, but there
were many of his relatives in the congregation, and she remembers, with some
delight, that he was known among them
as Uncle Mark.
My personal relationship was with
Ira Eisenstein, she continued. He was
a warm, compassionate person, and a
wonderful teacher. He taught the confirmation class.
There were seven of us in that class,
four boys and three girls the other two
girls did not become bat mitzvah, she
added. For two years, on Sunday mornings we would meet in Rabbi Eisensteins
study, and on Thursdays nights we would
meet at his home. Judith Eisenstein sometimes would bake for them, she said.
We were confirmed on Shavuot in 1948,
and Ira and Judith Eisenstein wrote a new
cantata, about hope in a hopeless world,
specifically for our class, Ms. Kirsh said.
The confirmation was three years after
the Holocaust ended and a month after
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the state of Israel was declared, so both
hopelessness and hope were very much
present. I remember the opening line,
she continued. It was, How can you be
so disgustingly cheerful?
Ms. Kirsh, who had begun high school
at Hunter, graduated from New Lincoln,
a new private school. From there, she
went to Pembroke, the womens college
attached to Brown University, graduating
in 1954 with a degree in English literature.
From there, Ms. Kirsh moved into information technology, a field that was both
brand new and overwhelmingly male. I
started out with programming and analysis, working on an RCA 301-501 system,
she said. It began when she took a test
looking for aptitude in spatial relations,
which she had; it predicted that she
would have talent in computer science,
which she did.
Despite changing jobs as her career took
off, I was either the first woman or the
only woman, she said. Her co-workers
couldnt quite decide if I was the den
mother or one of the boys. She retired, in
2001, as the assistant director of information technology at HIP of New York.
In 1955, Felice Rinder married Robert Kirsh, who died in 2005. They always
belonged to a shul. During most of the early

part of their marriage, they lived in Manhattan and were active members either of
the SAJ or of Town and Village, a Conservative synagogue on East 14th Street.
Mr. Kirshs Jewish background was both
connected and eclectic, Ms. Kirsh said. His
parents, Alexander and Marian Kirsh, who
also lived in Manhattan, both were regular shul-goers. My husbands father was
Orthodox, and belonged to West Side Institutional. His mother was very observant
Reform, and every Saturday morning she
and her sister would go to Temple Israel.
And Bob and I would go to the SAJ.
In 1959, while she had a full-time job, she
went to business school at NYU; because
she had to go to night school, and because
she had to earn undergraduate science
credits to make up for her bachelors
degree in liberal arts, it took Ms. Kirsh four
years to graduate.
In the late 1960s, Felice and Bob Kirsh
had two children, Michael and Marjory.
In 1975, the family moved to Tenafly, first
joining Temple Emanuel of Englewood and
then, in 1982, switching to Temple Sinai.
I love the service at Sinai, Ms. Kirsh
said. It is very similar to the service I was
used to growing up. Services at Reform
synagogues often use much more Hebrew

and include more congregational song
than was the norm when she grew up.
Did her experience as a girl becoming bat mitzvah at a time when girls just
didnt, affect her decision to become an
information technology specialist at a
time when girls just didnt? Its hard to
say either way, she said; after all, a person
lives only one life. But its hard to overlook
the parallels.
Although Ms. Kirsh does not take herself particularly seriously she is quick to
laugh, and she is quick as well to downplay what must have been a serious commitment to overcome obstacles in pursuit
of her career, and to balance motherhood and commuting at a time when few
women did she is motivated by her position as a role model.
She has three grandchildren Phoebe,
Robert, and Zoe and my older granddaughter will be a bat mitzvah in a Conservative shul in Bridgewater in October,
Ms. Kirsh said. I want to show them the
importance of continued involvement in
Judaism as a civilization. Yes, I am quoting Rabbi Kaplan. It is much more than
something that you do just once and forget about.
At her second bat mitzvah, set to begin

at 10:30 on June 25 at Temple Sinai, Ms.
Kirsh will use the Reconstructionist version of the blessing before the Torah
reading, and the congregation will use
the Reconstruction version of the Aleinu
at the end of services. (Because Rabbi
Kaplan did not believe in the idea of chosenness, the phrases that describe Gods
having chosen the Jews is replaced by the
idea of Gods having drawn the Jews to
Gods service.)
It is such a great way to celebrate her
bat mitzvah shaini, Temple Sinais Rabbi
Jordan Millstein said. We are celebrating
her bat mitzvah, and we are celebrating
the fact that Mordecai Kaplan brought the
modern bat mitzvah into existence, and
equality for women and men in Jewish life
was so furthered by that.
And we have Felice Kirsh, a wonderful
member of our congregation, who was one
of the pioneers of the bat mitzvah, and she
will be able to use the brachot she learned
to celebrate her bat mitzvah shaini.
We will be looking back into her history
and celebrating her life. We will be looking
backward and looking forward.
It is a great opportunity, and a great
way to celebrate.
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Swimming for Sadna

Teaneck resident takes on a challenge in sync with her sisters
LOIS GOLDRICH
hyllis Miller of Teaneck says she

wasnt much of a swimmer last
August when her sister who
is a very good swimmer told
her about an upcoming charitable event
in Israel.
I have a lot of family in Israel, Ms.
Miller said. I have two sisters there. One,
in Jerusalem, is a swimmer. In fact, she
added, for two years in a row that sister,
Debra Weiner, had participated in an allwomens swimathon called Swim4Sadna.
Sadnat Shiluv, in Gush Etzion, helps
children with special needs who fall
between the cracks, according to its
website. The race was begun by Sadna
parent Vivienne Glaser. Looking for a way
to help develop the school, Ms. Glaser,
who had competed on the national swim
team at the Maccabiah Games in London, had hoped to take part in the annual
Cross-Kinneret Swim after she moved to
Israel. Sadly, it was always scheduled
on Shabbat. Six years ago, after going
through a series of bureaucratic hoops,
Ms. Glaser succeeded in organizing the
first all-womens swim, coupled with a
fundraiser for Sadnat Shiluv, to be held
on Fridays rather than Saturdays.
Ms. Miller calls her sister Debra the
type of person who goes for unattainable
goals. Im the oldest and much more
timid, said Ms. Miller, who is now a substitute Jewish studies teacher at Yavneh
Academy and had taught at the Yeshiva
of North Jersey. She also coordinated the
Partnership Together Program for the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Her husband, Rabbi Michael Miller, is the
executive vice president/CEO of the Jewish
Community Relations Council in New York.
Ms. Millers participation in the swim
came about for two reasons. First, she
learned from her sister that the swim
now in its seventh year benefited children with special needs. Something
clicked in my head, she said. I said,
I have to do this, even though Im not
a swimmer or an exercise fiend. I have
a background working with learning
Sisters Debra Wener, left, Phyllis Miller, next to her, and Beth Saar in pink. They are joined by their cousins, from left, Elisheva,
Shani, Rachel, Ayelet, and Shira Wilk.
disabled/special needs students.

Since this is a program for that group
of kids, it was very important for me to
participate in it.
Second, Ms. Miller has a first cousin,
Rachel Wilk, whose daughter Ayelet has
Down Syndrome and participates in the
Sadnat program. Her cousin, together
with her three daughters and Ayelets
swimming instructor, have been participating in the swim since it began. It
touched me that Ayelet does the swim so
well, Ms. Miller said.
In all, Ms. Miller said, 300 women
participated in the event, which took

place the first Friday in June in the southern part of Lake Kinneret. Those who
didnt swim served as helpers. That
group included Ms. Millers other sister, Beth Saar, who lives in Ranana. We
needed someone to come in at the end
and bring our shoes, Ms. Miller said.
She also held my glasses. People came
from all over Israel to watch, she added.
We had to raise money to participate,
and you could not participate unless you
raised 2,000 shekels (or about $520 dollars), Ms. Miller said. She raised more
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raised more than 5,000 shekels. Friends
and family were incredibly supportive,
she said.
Participants may swim either 3.9 kilometres or 1.9 kilometres. I did 1.9, or
one and a quarter miles, Ms. Miller said.
When I was in Israel in August, I decided
I had to do it. I came home and went
right to a fitness gym with a pool, close
to my home.
To prepare for such a large venture,
she had to hire a trainer. I hired the wonderful Joan Falco, who is a triathlete,
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she said. The first hour was spent just mapping out a
plan. I thought Id just walk in and start, Ms. Miller
added, but instead she realized that she had to work
on upper body strength one hour a week and swim
one morning a week from September through May.
The would-be swim participant also tried to
squeeze in water aerobics, and ensured that she had
a chance to swim whenever she visited Israel. Fortunately, she said, Yavneh was very understanding,
scheduling her substitute teaching days so they did
not conflict with her training.
I was determined, when it was freezing cold early
in the morning and I didnt want to leave the house,
she said. When my trainer texted me that she was
not available, I went anyway.
On a trip to Israel in November, I swam with my
sister at the Inbal. Then I came in February and we
swam together. My sister is a very good swimmer.
I swam with my sister

at the Inbal. Then I
came in February and
we swam together.
My sister is a very
good swimmer. For
me, it was about the
endurance and
stamina.
For me, it was about the endurance and stamina.
The swim took me about two hours. Because I was
trained, I was able to be in the water that long. My
sister finished first.
I was the turtle, but I finished. All the swimmers
received medals.
Ms. Miller left for Israel on Memorial Day because
Thursday my son graduated from Harvard with a
Ph.D., and we came back to Teaneck on Friday. I left
Monday and arrived Tuesday morning. I thank the
Teaneck Swim Club for being open on Sunday, she
added. Thats where and when she had her last practice swim.
Ms. Miller said she will keep on swimming. Her
trainer is extremely proud, she added. I went for
the excitement and to reach a goal I felt I wanted
to reach, said the 65-year-old mother of three all
of whom were educated in yeshivot and grandmother of eight. One daughter lives in Efrat, the
other in Teaneck. Her son soon will move to Ohio.
But even more, It was important to swim for that
group, she said. The funds raised are going to build
a multidisciplinary arts center. The estimated cost of
the project is 800,000 shekels. The school has a caf,
where her niece Ayelet has worked; it offers courses in
life skills, and provides supportive apartments. Next
year it will get to build an arts center, she said.
After she came home, Ms. Miller talked to her thirdgrade Yavneh students about reaching a goal you
think is unattainable. They were so excited, she said.
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Senior meals programs beefed up; at-risk Israeli youths will be helped
LARRY YUDELSON
he Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey is taking more

responsibility for funding kosher
meals for the elderly. This is one
of the results of the charitys recently completed annual allocations process.
The senior population in our area is
growing, with more people choosing to age
in place, said Jayne Petak, the federations
president. Providing opportunities for
good nutrition and valuable socialization is
critical to enable seniors to age in place with
grace and dignity.
The federation has increased its allocations to the senior meals programs at the
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly and
the Bergen County Y by $80,000. (Although
the Y has closed, administrators still are
running some programs for seniors.) The
programs serve 450 people, totaling 15,500
meals annually. These meals programs also
receive support from the JCCs, the Jewish
Family Service agencies, and Bergen County
government.
Its not just feeding people, said Lisa
Harris Glass of the senior meals programs.
Ms. Glass is the federations m
anaging director for community planning and impact.
There are all kinds of requirements for
programming and health-related things that
have to happen.
Allocations for Kosher Meals on Wheels
remain constant, as do those for most of
the programs that the federation funded
last year.
Overall, the federation is funding 46
organizations and programs. Eighteen
of them are overseas; the largest are the
Jewish Agency for Israel and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
The federations planning and allocations
committee decided to fund three new
international programs this year. In Nahariya, North Jerseys twinned city, the federation will begin paying for an afterschool
retreat house, called a bayit cham center,
for at-risk boys, as well as a program that
connects New Jersey and Nahariya high
schools with a focus on science and technology education.
The third new program is a departure
from the federations usual focus on Nahariya: The Jerusalem Foundations Yaelim
Center, which offers educational nature
therapy to at-risk youths.
What we loved about it was that it was
for Jewish and Arab youths together, Ms.
Glass said.
Ms. Glass said the grant was motivated by
a recent Pew study from Israel that reported
that a quarter of all Israeli first-graders are
Arab and a quarter are charedi.
The Arabs and the charedim dont serve
in the army, she said. That means in 11
short years, half of the eligible people arent

going to serve. The IDF is the great fulcrum
of Israeli national identity building. For the
sake of the nation, we better find a way to
normalize the relationships, to build positive relationships between Arabs and charedim and other Jewish people in Israel.
Locally, the federation expanded its allocations to two new organizations this year.
It set aside money for the Paterson Hebrew
Free Loan Association, which provides interest-free loans for Jews in Bergen and Passaic
Counties. And it funded Yachad, which serves
people with developmental disabilities, to
enable a program for vocational certification
with the Jewish Home Families.
The federation announced a change in
how it will support the areas Jewish day
schools, which an estimated third of the
communitys children attend.
There are over 5,000 kids in that system, Ms. Glass said. Theres not enough
campaign money anywhere to signifi-
Nature therapy, including rock climbing, top, and zip-lining, will be offered to
at-risk teens in Israel.
Jayne Petak discusses the range of

federation programs.
cantly underwrite tuition. That challenges

us to be more creative about how we can
make the money work.
Ms. Glass said the federation has been
doing that by helping the Orthodox
Unions advocacy efforts for increased
state funding for private schools.
When they make inroads into state
funding that increases the per capita they
get for nursing, security, and textbooks,
thats capacity building for the schools,
she said.
Last year, the federation paid for a marketing director to work on behalf of all the
day schools.
After evaluating the program, however,
We found it was nice to have, but was it
critically impacting them? It was not, Ms.
Glass said. It was discontinued.
said. We want them to use the money

impactfully.
Bruce Brafman, the chair of the planning and allocations committee, said,
Allocating finite resources to the community is always a challenge, but we are
confident that we are investing our time
and money in the strategic programs and
areas that will have the most positive overall impact on the northern New Jersey Jewish community.
We have 31 volunteers on the committee, Ms. Glass said. These 31 people put
in an unbelievable amount of time, visiting
agencies, reading mid-year reports, and
reading requests for proposals.
The committees recommendations
were approved by the federations board
at its May 26 meeting.
What we loved
about it was that
it was for Jewish
and Arab youths
together.
Instead, this year the federation will
allocate money directly to the day schools.
The amount will be divided on a per-student basis, giving each school a sum of
money. And each school will present an
idea of how it wants to spend that money.
Were not going to have them jump
through a million hoops, Ms. Glass
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Lubavitch on the Palisades elementary
school in Tenafly grows quickly and joyfully
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
t took only 36 hours to raise the first

million dollars toward a $4 million,
18,000-square-foot expansion of the
rapidly growing preschool and grade
school of Lubavitch on the Palisades/Beth
Aharon Forem Chabad House in Tenafly.
The borough recently approved plans to
add a floor to the building at Harold Street
and Piermont Road, which will include eight
classrooms, a 7,500-square-foot gym, and a
science lab.
Seven years ago, when a group of parents
asked Lubavitch on the Palisadess executive
director, Rabbi Mordechai Shain, about adding a kindergarten level to the centers wellestablished nursery school, Bergen County
already had five Orthodox and two Conservative elementary day schools. He wasnt sure
there was a need for another.
We hesitated because there are so many
great day schools in Bergen County, Rabbi
Shain said. But we saw that the parents in
this community prefer public schools or us.

Tenafly, Cresskill, and Alpine have good public schools and these families pay taxes that
support the schools, so they feel they should
benefit from them.
But they liked our style in preschool, and
they told us that if we offered more grades
they were willing to try it. We realized that
getting the kids to continue in a Jewish school
depended on our starting a school. And after
we started a kindergarten, the parents liked
it so much they wanted us to add first grade.
The Lubavitch on the Palisades School
now has 330 children from preschool to sixth
grade; a seventh grade will start in September. In addition to the main feeder communities of Tenafly, Cresskill, and Alpine, students come from other Bergen communities,
including Englewood and Bergenfield, and
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Jennifer Davis, the associate principal for
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Shavit Eini, a mother who is a strong advocate of the school.
She and her husband, Shlomi, were born
in Israel. He was raised in an Orthodox home,
she in a Conservative home. Their four children went to the preschool at LPS, and the
oldest went on to public school because
there was no kindergarten at LPS at the time.
The three youngest children remained in
the Jewish school despite the Einis original
intentions.
I observed first grade and within 10 minutes I was hooked, she said. The love of
learning and of Torah and the amount of
positive energy in the classroom was something that I never saw in my daughters public-school classroom.
If my children are going to spend eight
hours away from me, I wanted them to be
in a warm place with a love of learning and
Yiddishkeit without it being forced. Theres
never been one day my children ever said I
dont want to go to school, and our oldest is
going into sixth grade. If theyre happy and
loved, learning and growing, and having
amazing experiences close to home, why
would I move them?
Though the majority of the schools families are not religiously observant, the school
takes the all-embracing approach of Chabad
Lubavitch chasidism, in its worldwide Jewish
outreach network of 3,300 institutions. It is

not, Rabbi Shain emphasized, a Lubavitch
cheder, but rather a Jewish day school
infused with Lubavitch values.
This is for Jewish children to have a fun
Jewish experience and a top education, he
said. The Judaic studies teachers in the elementary school are Lubavitch, but theyre
not teaching the Tanya the basic handbook of Chabad philosophy or telling anyone to wear a sheitel a wig.
We just give the children a good feeling for
who they are and make them well-versed in
Jewish texts but with a Lubavitch soul.
Nobody feels judged or threatened, Ms.
Davis added. Everyone is taught to feel comfortable with his or her level of Judaism.
Ms. Davis, who is not Lubavitch, is now finishing her third year at LPS; before she got
there, Ms. Davis taught at the Donna Klein
Jewish Academy in Boca Raton, Florida.
When I decided to move back from Florida,
I wanted to find a school that was genuinely
warm, that was growing and that I could grow
with, a spiritual place, a place for all children
no matter their background, she said. And
this fit the bill perfectly. I couldnt have asked
for a warmer environment.
She observed that many young parents
become acquainted with the school through
the centers synagogue.
People spend time at the shul and they

feel the positive energy. They love and trust
Rabbi Shain, and they see that whatever he
plans happens beyond all expectations.
Indeed, Rabbi Shain commented that
if anyone cannot afford the tuition (which
starts at $6,985 for the half-day program for
18-month-olds and rises to $14,600 for sixthand seventh-graders, with no building fund
or dinner requirements), We help out a lot,
because for us the main thing is that theyre
getting a Jewish education. The money is
secondary.
God will provide it somehow; He knows
our bank account number.
His confidence seems well founded. For
example, in 2005 a congregant left his entire
multimillion-dollar estate to Lubavitch on the
Palisades, enabling a major expansion of the
building.
The recent $1 million school fundraiser
was kicked off by three groups of donors,
each offering to give $250,000 if the final
$250,000 could be raised within 36 hours.
On May 25 and 26, 737 donors including
children with piggy banks came forward
with amounts large and small, and the campaign put $1,004,000 into the building fund.
The school is staffed with 15 full-time classroom teachers and two full-time resource
teachers. A Hebrew-speaking teacher works
with pre-K children three times a week and

with grade-schoolers every day for 50 minutes. Bergen County Special Services sends
personnel three days a week to work with eligible children.
Were a 21st century school, Ms. Davis
said. We focus on communication, collaboration, and technology. We have smartboards
and Chromebooks. Its very student centered, yet traditional at the same time. Every
student has an enrichment folder tailored to
his or her strengths, weaknesses, and areas
of interest. We have a fabulous art program,
an amazing music program, and weekly electives. Our general studies and Judaic studies
are really strong, and we are passionate about
the arts.
Orite Rubenstein, the director of the
preschool and of Judaic studies in the elementary school for the last eight years,
said teachers are encouraged to find a
way for each child and family to celebrate
their Judaism and to take a whole-child
progressive educational approach to such
subjects as literacy, expressive language,
and writing.
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Last years bikers start the race at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
JFS to race against hunger

This years Wheels for Meals Ride to
Fight Hunger, sponsored by Jewish Family Service of Bergen & North Hudson,
is set for Fathers Day, Sunday, June 19.
Races begin at the Jewish Home at Rockleigh. Bikers can choose from 3, 10, 25,
35, or 50-mile bike routes. There is also
a 5K walk. Since its inception, more than
1,500 people have participated, raising
over $500,000 to help those in need and
heightening awareness of hunger in the

community.
All proceeds support the Kosher Meals
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Kesher lauds two of its own

rabbinic liaison committees, and he is
the communitys gabbai. Natie Fox has
been shul president and led the strategic
growth and building committees through
the construction phase of Keshers new
building. He also has led High Holy Day
services at Kesher for more than 10 years.
For information or to make a donation,
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Kehilat Kesher, the Community Synagogue of Englewood and Tenafly, will

honor Michael Erber and Natie Fox at
its upcoming dinner on Thursday, June
23. Both have been essential to the shuls
spiritual and physical growth.
Michael Erber has been instrumental in the growth and development of
tfilah at Kesher. He has served on Keshers board and its religious affairs and
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Brunch adds touch of reality

Guests enjoyed a unique sensory experience by dining in the dark during
last months Jerusalem Institute for
the Blinds first Blackout Brunch. The
event at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in
Manhattan was to benefit the visually
impaired in Israel. Leo Brandstatter, the
executive director of the Jerusalem Institute for the Blinds New York office, was
the guest speaker.
The brunch gave participants the
opportunity to begin to understand how

those who are blind or visually impaired
live their daily lives without the gift of
sight.
For more than 100 years, the Jerusalem Institute for the Blind has provided
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Jersey City shul confers emerita
status on Rabbi Marsha Dubrow
Congregation Bnai Jacob honors Cantor/Rabbi Marsha
Dubrow, who has led the congregation since 2005, first as
a cantor and since 2014 as its rabbi, during the weekend.
The congregation will confer the status of emerita on her
during her farewell Shabbat.
Tonight, after Friday Night Live! Musical Shabbat services, set to begin at 8 p.m., the shul will have a special
Oneg Shabbat. On Shabbat morning at 10 a.m., there will
be an interactive discussion about the weekly portion,
Parashat BehaAlotcha, followed by a kiddush in her honor.
The shul is at 176 West Side Ave. in Jersey City. For information, call (201) 435-5725 or go to www.bnaijacobjc.org.
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The Fair Lawn chapter of Hadassah
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Editorial
Out of a
clear blue sky
unday was a gorgeous day.

It was the first day of Shavuot, and
my shul, like so many others, was celebrating with a picnic.
Wed just finished one of the synagogues
annual emotional high points. The children
and there are so many children! walked
down the synagogues central aisle toward the
bimah, as the adults stood for them and sang
them in. The children, accompanied by parents, left baskets of brightly colored flowers in
front of the ark, the seasons first fruits.
The room itself is brightly colored and
that day it glowed, with the sunlight coming
through the stained glass and the children generating their own inner-lit rose-color beams.
Then we went to the park, where the toddlers toddled and the babies gurgled and
nursed and babbled and slept, and the adults
ate and talked and watched the silent ships on
the sparkling river. The sky was an impossible
blue and the trees an impossible green; the
wind moved them so the sharp edges of the
shadows bounced and danced.
It was idyllic.
It was the kind of day that evoked the spectacular beauty of September 11, 2001, a day
when glorious physical perfection became
irrevocably yoked with human evil and
degradation.
As we sat there, news of the massacre in
Orlando began to percolate. You can keep
some people off the internet for some of the
time, but you cant keep them away from newspapers on their doorsteps, and you cant keep
them away from friends and neighbors who
dont undertake the trying challenge of three
days offline.
So we heard about what happened. We
heard that a man armed with an AR-15-style
assault rifle killed 49 people and injured 53
more before he was killed.
How do we make sense of this? We know that
its a jumble of all sorts of hatreds and threats
and sickness and pure evil. We cannot yet
Gun violence
in America
detangle the sick strands of Islamicism, jihad,

LGBT hatred, the self-hatred of a gay man
deeply in denial, the lone wolf ethos that is a
part of American culture, and perhaps most
immediately, the frightening ease with which
people can get assault weapons. (The AR15-style rifle the murderer used in Orlando was
the kind of gun that Adam Lanza used when he
slaughtered first-graders in Newtown, Pennsylvania, that James Holmes used when he killed
12 members of the audience at a movie theater
in Aurora, Colorado, and that the husbandand-wife murderers Syed Rizwan Farook and
Tashfeen Malik used at a holiday party in San
Bernardino, California.)
Its a perfect storm.
One thing thats clear is that, to be blunt,
Omar Mateen was a loser. He was socially
awkward, had no friends, beat his wife, could
barely hold a job, was investigated by the FBI
but couldnt even get it to take him seriously.
The son of a man who has come close to
declaring himself to be president of Afghanistan in other words, a fabulist he appears
likely to have been gay and to have hated himself for it.
We should be clear. Most Muslims are not
jihadists. Most people with undiagnosed mental
illnesses are not murderers. Most ideologically
or theologically driven people are not killers,
and most killers are not ideologically or theologically driven. We must learn how to balance
extreme vigilance with decency and understanding. We cannot allow ourselves to be blind,
and we cannot allow ourselves to be paranoid.
We cannot allow ourselves to be divided. We
cannot allow ourselves to act out of fear. We
cannot allow ourselves to hate each other.
We must hold two things in our minds and
hearts at the same time the knowledge that
people are capable of acts of great evil and of
great goodness, and that sitting outside in the
park in the glorious sunlight with your community is a simple, pure joy that those other truths
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Orlando is not the story

act of gun violence in which four
or more people are shot, although
hat happened in
not necessarily killed. This number
Orlando this week
includes the Orlando horror, and
shocked the nation.
the 15 mass shootings that occurred
It was, after all, the
from then until Tuesday morning,
worst mass shooting in U.S. history. but that went either unreported or
It made the front pages of our news- woefully underreported.
papers; it dominated the airwaves; it
True, no law can be written that
sent politicians rushing to the micro- would prevent a madman such as
phones; it caused orgaOmar Mateen from
nizations on both sides
committing a monstrous act of violence,
of the gun debate to
by gun or other means.
issue their predictable
Most of the death
press releases.
toll from gun violence
Forty-nine people
can be avoided, howdied in Orlandos Pulse
ever, especially deaths
Nightclub, and people
of children.
are justifiably horrified. Even more horriHere are some other
Rabbi
fying, however, is this:
statistics to consider:
Shammai
So far this year, there
One-third of all
Engelmayer
have been slightly more
households with children younger than 18
than 6,000 gun deaths
have a firearm.
in the United States, including 257
More than 40 percent of gunchildren who were 11 years old and
owning households with children
under, and 1,282 children from 12 to
store their guns unlocked.
17. In fact, in the United States every
One-fourth of homes with chilyear, more than 3,000 children and
dren and guns have a loaded firearm.
teenagers die by the gun.
Among gun-owning parents who
That is a rate of 8.22 children a day.
claimed their children had never
In all so far this year, there have
handled their firearms at home, 22
been nearly 23,500 incidents of gun
percent of the children said they had.
violence reported since New Years
Gun death rates are seven times
Day.
higher in those states with the highHere is another statistic that
est household gun ownership.
should horrify, but there are no
Because this column views issues
screaming headlines calling attention to it. In the 164 days from
through the prism of halachah, how
January 1 until I sat down to write
do these facts and statistics inform
this column on Tuesday morning, Jewish law on the issue of gun manufacture and ownership? As I have
there were 137 mass shootings in
the United States, almost one a day. noted in previous columns on this
issue, there are four basic questions
A mass shooting is defined as an
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here, as I see it:
1. Is it permissible to manufacture a weapon intended
for self-defense that does not have state-of-the-art protective devices to prevent accidental firing, or the firing of the
gun by an unauthorized user?
2. Is it permissible to buy a gun without such state-ofthe-art protective devices?
3. Is it permissible to buy such a gun if no other gun is
available, and there is a need for a weapon of self defense?
4. If it is permissible, what degree of care must the gun
owner take?
The Torahs law of the parapet (Deuteronomy 22:8)
answers Questions 1 and 2. When building a house, a
person must build a parapet around the roof, that you
should not bring any blood upon your house, if any man
falls from there.
This mitzvah, this commandment, is subject to the
broadest interpretation. (See the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Bava Kama 15b.) Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah,
The Laws of Murder and the Preservation of Life, Chapter
11:4, explains, for example, that this includes everything
that is inherently dangerous and could, in normal circumstances, cause a person to die. Anything that fits that bill
requires a parapet around it, meaning every effort must
be extended to prevent the item from causing unintentional harm.
Other commentators also note, as does Rabbi Samson
Raphael Hirsch, that this mitzvah even requires local
civil authorities to intervene to have anything at all which
might be dangerous removed from a persons premises.
(See his commentary on the verse.)
Distinction must be made between the offensive
weapon required by military and police personnel, and
the defensive one that alone should be permissible to
ordinary civilians. While a parapet is required for both,
the nature of the protective device is necessarily different for each. The offensive weapon must be safe enough
to reasonably protect against mishaps, but not so encumbered that it is virtually useless in the field. The defensive
weapon must also be able to be used if the need arises, but
the degree of protection against mishaps must be greater.
Simply stated, then, guns intended for self-defense must
have the best available protection against accidental or
unauthorized use, or else they may not be brought into
the home.
The third question is more difficult. What if no one manufactures a weapon of self-defense that uses the best available protection against accidental or unauthorized use?
If there is a perceived or well-established need for selfdefense weapons, does the parapet requirement prohibit obtaining such a weapon despite the need?
The simple answer is no. Preservation of life takes precedence over virtually everything else. (See especially BT
Yoma 84b.)
The more complicated answer requires evaluating a
variety of factors (including providing the answer to question 4). Among these are whether the danger is real or
imagined; whether other modes of defense would accomplish the same end; and whether the degree of protection
the gun owner must provide against mishaps is so great
that it renders gun ownership moot in any case; and so
forth.
Obviously, once it is in the house, the gun must be kept
in a place secure enough that it is absolutely not virtually
childproof. If that is not possible, then halachically perhaps gun ownership is not possible in homes with children.
If you need an additional incentive, consider this:
Between the time I began writing this column on Tuesday morning and it arrives in your mailbox midday Friday,
at least 28 children will have died in an act of gun violence. Four more will die before kiddush is recited. Shabbat shalom?
That which we call a rose
hats in a name?
darkness and provides a road map for navigation.
So asks Juliet of Romeos rival lineage
According to midrash, Adam, too, saw significance
in one of Shakespeares most famous
in individual names, as it is said that he looked into the
works.
essence of every living thing and named it accordingly.
That which we call a rose, by any other name would
The Hebrew name for every object is said to be the conduit for its divine energy. Likewise, according to the
smell as sweet, she reasons.
Arizal, a persons name is the channel through which
The fact that Romeo is of the house of Montague, a
the souls energy reaches the body. The Talmud goes so
rival to Juliets Capulet lineage, should have no bearing
far as to say that parents receive minor prophecy when
on who he really is, she argues. Its just a name, a label,
choosing a name, by way of an angel whispering to them
that which could easily be replaced with another and it
the name that their Jewish baby will take on.
would change nothing of the person. And Romeos all for
Of course, there is the widespread tradition of naming
it, responding to her, Call me but love, and Ill be new
after someone. According to midrash, the first of four
baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
merits that resulted in the Jewish people being redeemed
Ah, but young love. How star-crossed. What wishful
from Egypt was that they kept their Jewish names. Handthinking.
ing down these names from generation to generation
Clearly, if youve got to change your name in order for
seems to be an extension of this idea, that its important
it not to affect your relationships, the answer to the question, Whats in a name? is, well, quite a lot. And world
to maintain our Jewish heritage.
traditions, both Jewish and otherwise, seem to agree.
Within Ashkenazi tradition, children often are named
To a large degree, the act of naming your
after deceased relatives, whereas its customary in Sephardic culture to name after a
progeny, throughout various cultures and
living relative. Despite this difference, both
religions, historically has been about staying connected to your roots. Whether the
traditions seem to have the same underlying goals; that is, to bestow respect upon
child is of Norse decent and named after a
the person after whom the new name has
figure in Nordic mythology, Catholic and
been given, and to keep the name within
named after a saint, or Jewish and named
the family lineage.
after a biblical figure, a mix of ethnicity and
So, then, how does this all translate to
historic significance often plays a role.
me, at this very moment?
When it comes to baby naming, the world
Dena Croog
Tradition aside, there really are practiis rich with different cultural practices.
cal aspects to consider. Linguistically, what
Native American tribes take inspiration
sounds right? Will there be a nickname?
from the natural world and virtues. African names may represent current events. Indian names
What might others naturally call my child (and am I okay
sometimes are based on the babys birth star. Celebrities
with that)? Is it unique enough? Too unique? Does that
name their children after the direction in which the wind
matter?
I find it particularly interesting how certain names come
is blowing at the time and fruit. And the list goes on.
back years later. As a child, for example, I associated the
Child-naming ceremonies abound, as well. Many African societies give two names, one at birth and one later
name Sophie with one of my grandparents best friends. I
on to celebrate an important event. A baby in Japan may
didnt know anyone even close to my age with that name.
be named on the seventh day after birth at a celebratory
And now, the names Sophie and Sophia are so popular
feast called Oshichiya. Egyptians, too, hold a ceremony
that even Disney got in on the trend. Or did they start it?
on the seventh day, called a Sebooh. Variations of a
I dont know. In either case, as with clothing styles, time
naming ceremony called Namakarena occur in India.
has a way of recycling old names. So does it matter to me
And, of course, there are the Jewish traditions of the bris
if a name is in fashion at the moment? Should I bother
for a boy and making a Mi Sheberach during Torah
with any of these practical considerations at all?
Ive always had a particular interest in names chosen
reading for a girl.
based on underlying meaning and symbolism, whether
Baby naming has been top of mind, naturally, as my
they reflect recent events or hopes for the child. As a
due date draws near. I find value and beauty in all of
writer and lover of words, Ive given particular thought
these world practices, but as I am of neither Nordic nor
to naming my fictional characters in a way that repreNative American decent, but rather of Jewish lineage,
sents how I wish them to be perceived, both on a metaIve been focusing on the meaning associated with Jewish baby naming.
phoric level as well as on a more practical and surface
Naming a baby, according to Jewish sages, is of spirilevel. How much more so this translates into real life,
tual significance as it makes a statement to the childs
when naming your own children.
character, uniqueness, and path in life. The Talmud says
Its amazing enough to create a human being. On top
that in the beginning of life we are given a name, and
of that, I find it incredibly meaningful, and humbling, to
according the Arizal, at the end of life a good name is
be able to start the process of giving that human being an
all we take with us.
identity via a unique name.
The importance of name giving traces back to the earSo, whats in a name, you ask? Well, actually, a lot goes
liest days of creation. King David wrote in Psalms 147:4
into a name. Its something for a person to take pride in.
that God counts the numbers of the stars; He gives a
And I sure hope this kid likes it.
name to each of them.
The Torah often compares the Jewish people to stars,
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck and the
which, I think, reflects on both the importance of indifounder of Refaenu, a nonprofit organization dedicated
viduality as well as the power of coming together and
to mood disorder awareness and support. More
working as a unit. Though seemingly tiny dots from a
information about the organization and its support
distance, each star shines its own unique light, and when
groups can be found at www.refaenu.org. You can also
it is joined together with other stars, illuminates the
email dena@refaenu.org with any questions or comments.
Opinion
A 12-year-old grocery clerk and Uncle Moishe OH
his is a story about a kind man

Whenever my mother or my aunt,
who owned a local grocery
who lived with us in a two-family house,
store, where I worked when I
needed groceries, they would ask me to
was 12 years old.
run down the block to Uncle
I was born in Nyirbator,
Moishes store. It was my
Hungary, in 1951. We had no
aunt, Eva Major, who gave
running water, no electrichim the nickname of Uncle
ity we used lanterns and
Moishe. His real name was
two wells. We used one well
Moisha Deutch. Whenever
for drinking water and coolI went to the store, Uncle
ing food, and the other we
Moishe would greet me
used for washing dishes and
warmly, with his infectious
bathing. In 1956, when my
smile, and he always would
Leslie
parents, my brother, and I
joke around with me.
Srolovits
escaped to Vienna the HunEven when I was a young
garians were starting to make
child he made an impression on me, with his jovial
lists of Jews again, so we got
nature and his genuine caring about each
out we still lived under the same conditions. When we got to America, we settled
and every customer who entered his store.
first in Bedford Stuyvesant, in Brooklyn,
I always looked forward to going to pick
and later moved to Rego Park, Queens. In
up groceries for my mom and my aunt,
Queens, right down the street from us, on
because I really liked him and of course
a beautiful tree-lined block with private
it didnt hurt to get a candy each time I
homes, was a tiny corner grocery store
entered his store.
run by an elderly gentleman and his wife.
When I turned 12, Uncle Moishe asked
Leslie Srolovits and his family came

upon Uncle Moishes grave in Washington Cemetery about 48 years ago.
me if I wanted a summer job stocking

shelves and making deliveries with my
bicycle. I never had a paying job other
than walking Teddy Pollack to school,
because his mother wanted to make sure
he didnt wander off to do his own thing

for the day. I was somewhat nervous and
apprehensive about accepting the job,
because I didnt know what really would
be expected of me.
As a child, I never had an opportunity to
go to sleepaway camp, or even day camp,
because we couldnt afford it. However,
here was an opportunity to keep myself
occupied while my parents went off to
their factory jobs. My mother was a seamstress. She worked in a sweater factory
that had no air conditioning, only fans.
My father worked in a quilting factory,
inhaling the dust particles that poured
out of the quilting machines. I recall my
father coming home totally exhausted,
and so wiped out that he barely had the
strength to eat dinner. My father coughed
a lot every day, and I am certain it was
from inhaling the fine particles floating in
the air. It was only years later, as a teenager, that I found out that my dad had
brown lung. Thats the disease coal miners get.
Letters
How to fight BDS
I applaud Joanne Palmer for both her

prominent coverage of the May 31 United
Nations anti-BDS meeting (Fighting BDS
at the U.N., June 10) and for her editorial
(Confronting BDS, June 10). Many of us
are not only alarmed by the increasingly
vociferous and disingenuous BDS movement but also frustrated by the staid and
impotent responses of the institutional
Jewish establishment.
It is past time for the major Jewish organizations to move beyond hand-wringing
and advocating for objective dialogue with
BDS proponents. This approach ignores
the social component of the movements
participants. In college, being part of a
movement gives its participants not just
feelings of moral superiority but of belonging. Its the same feeling ballplayers feel for
their teammates and glee club singers feel
for their group.
The fight is not with the 50 campus demonstrators who leaflet dormitory rooms or
stage mass mock arrests. The fight is for
the hearts and minds of the thousands of
students who walk by those demonstrators, and whose only knowledge of the
situation come from those theatrics.
The way to reverse the dangerous
impact of the college BDS movement is
not with arguments about Israels progressive egalitarian stance, or advances in
medicine and science, or even its remarkable medical triage teams that travel
anywhere in the world where there is a
natural disaster. We are rightly proud of
those accomplishments, but they have no

impact against guerilla theatre.
Here is what we ought to be doing. There
should be full-size posters of a bombed bus
there are many to choose from, #5, #37,
#142, #960 are just a few each graphically showing the very real danger that
Israelis have had to live with. Four-foot
posters of murdered Israelis, especially
young people, people of color, and innocent Muslims killed by terrorists should be
held in a line, facing the pro-Palestinian
mockup of the security barricade that BDS
proponents put up. Large signs should be
erected showing the dramatic decrease in
the number of Christians left in Bethlehem
since the 2000 second intifada. The fate
of Palestinians who have been summarily
executed by Hamas for suspicion of collaboration without a trial should be displayed, as should photos of Arab women
stoned or burned to death for not wearing
a full hijab, and of Arab homosexuals who
have been thrown off rooftops by Islamic
radicals. Condemnations of the Israeli
military should be compared against the
vicious Syrian government attacks on its
own people. A list of beheadings perpetrated by Islamic extremists on Christians
the numbers are in the many hundreds
should be distributed everywhere calls
for boycotts are made.
At the rate that young people are siding
with Palestinians in this wrenching conflict, the U.S. population might well be antiIsrael in about a decade. In an age where
facts are regrettably too cumbersome to be
digested in a world of 140 characters, our

major organizations must respond with
smart gut-sensitive rejoinders aimed at
emotion, not logic. In the struggle to justify Israels right to exist, let alone its many
attempts to make peace with its neighbors,
feelings count for more than facts.
Norman Levin
Teaneck
And now, Rabbi Boteach?
Following the horrors of Orlando, Donald

Trump demanded that President Obama
resign, adding that we are led by a man
that is not tough, not smart, or hes got
something else in mind. There is something else going on, he said.
I await Rabbi Boteachs next column,
discussing how Donald Trumps current incendiary statements comport with
Jewish values. I want to see whether Mr.
Trump still has the rabbis support.
Gerald D. Fisch
Fort Lee
Get over Iran, Rabbi Boteach
In his May 27 column, Rabbi Shmuley

Boteach once again took the opportunity
to castigate J Street. This time his assertion was that J Street is for sale to the
highest bidder.
He does this because the Ploughshares
Fund supported J Street at the time that
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
( JCPOA, better known as the Iran deal)
was being debated and voted on by the
U.S. Congress.
Ploughshares is opposed to nuclear

armament proliferation and would like to
see nuclear stockpiles reduced or eliminated. Would it have been better if J Street
received donations from some organization or person that supports an organization that the rabbi agrees with, perhaps
one that advocated increased nuclear
stockpiles? Campaigns in the United States
around vital policy issues are usually very
expensive, and this one was no exception. In fact, organizations opposed to the
deal raised over $20 to $30 million, while
J Street publicly announced that it raised
only $5.5 million.
He then indicates that the JCPOA
encourages nuclear proliferation. He
states this despite the fact that Iran has
shipped 98 percent of its highly-enriched
uranium out of the country, has disabled
the Arak plutonium reactor by irreversibly filling its core with cement, has disconnected two thirds of its centrifuges,
and subjected the entirety of its nuclear
program to the most intrusive inspection
program in history. This incredible transformation and neutralizing of a key threat
was accomplished by tough diplomacy,
without firing a shot.
I understand that the Israeli government
opposed the Iran deal, although many
leading Israeli security personnel and
former military officers supported it, and
so did the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency.
Israels army chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot, has said the deal reduces the threat
to Israel and is an important strategic
I was so excited to start my summer job

because I knew I would be in an air conditioned store, and I would not sweat like my
parents had to in the factory.
I worked in the store only one summer.
Shortly after the summer, while I was in
our shul one Shabbos, a big commotion
erupted in the back, near the coat room.
Shul members were running around frantically. As I walked toward the back of the
shul I noticed there was a person lying on
the floor, but I couldnt make out who it
was. A person from shul went to get a local
doctor around the corner and only then
did I get a good look at the person lying
on the floor.
It was Uncle Moishe.
They took Uncle Moishe to the hospital, and that evening when we returned
to shul for Mincha, there was a buzz and
much whispering. I asked my father what
was going on, and he told me very sadly
that Uncle Moishe had passed away in the
hospital. It was 1966.
I was speechless. All I could do is remember all the fun times I had in his store and
how much he liked me. Uncle Moishe had
turning point. I also understand that the

rabbi opposed the deal as well. The Iran
deal went into effect about a year ago.
Has Israel been attacked by Iran yet? I
know there is always the possibility,
but he shouldnt forget that if the deal
fell through, Iran could have built up
its arsenal and Israel might have been
attacked already.
The Iran deal passed, and the rabbi,
and others who opposed the deal, lost.
They should get over it, move on to
other issues, and stop attacking J Street
and other organizations that also support Israel but believe that there are better ways to protect Israel than ones the
rabbi proposes.
Stuart Kaplan
Chair, Northern New Jersey
chapter of J Street
Teaneck
Se habla Yiddish
I refer to Larry Yudelsons story, The

fly and the bear ( June 10.) The article
brought back reminiscences of my childhood. My immigrant parents spoke Yiddish that was their culture.
Like Susan Levin, I too went to the
Workmens Circle Yiddish school. I
remember how much I liked going to
Yiddish school and how I wanted very
much to make my parents happy and
proud. My dad taught me the Yiddish
alphabet and as I progressed taught me
to read the Yiddish newspaper, The Forwards. I recall how my dad would read
no children, his first wife had died, and he

remarried a very nice lady whose name I
cannot recall. Uncle Moishe and his wife
loved children, and he gave candy to every
child who came to the store.
Uncle Moishes wife moved out of the
neighborhood after a while, and we lost
touch with her.
I never realized at the time that Uncle
Moishe and I would cross paths again. In
1969, my grandfather passed away. He
was buried a few gravestones away from
my fathers brother in Washington Cemetery in South Brunswick Township. As
is customary, my family goes out to the
cemetery once a year, usually before or
near Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
My brother and I would accompany our
father, our mother, and our Uncle Sandor to the cemetery to say prayers at my
uncles and grandfathers gravesides. After
saying tehilim, reading from the manah
loshone and saying the kail molah, at the
end we would all roll up our sleeves and
clean up the weeds around the graves.
During one of our yearly visits to the
cemetery, my father noticed a gravestone
to my mother from this newspaper. Her

favorite column was the Bintel Brief.
How wonderful to have Yiddish class
studies back in Teaneck. Some words
just sound better in Yiddish and have
become part of our English expressions. I
love, for example, oy vey, tchatchke, kibbitz, baleboste, zeeskite, kvetch, mazel
tov, and the favorite word, chutzpah.
I am moved to reflect growing up in
a Yiddish home and take pride in my
heritage. My parents instituted a sense
of goodness and love. Jewishness to me
is the Friday night dinners, the taste
of chicken soup, and all the beautiful
rituals.
We had books in the home by Isaac
Bashevis Singer. His stories had a way of
making you feel good. My favorite story
was Yentel, the Yeshiva Boy.
I recall the time I went to Miami Beach
to find a place for my folks for the winter
and overheard the manager speak in Yiddish to the agent, we dont rent to shiksas. I then spoke up in Yiddish and their
response changed very quickly. I found
this amusing!
When visiting downtown New York
recently, I noticed a sign in one of the
store windows that said, Se Habla
Yiddish!
I am glad Yiddish is back and wish
Susan Levin good luck for being proud
to be part of this centurys minor resurgence of Yiddish.
Grace Jacobs
Cliffside Park
that had so many weeds that they almost

covered the entire stone. As my father
got closer, he noticed the name Moishe
Deutch.
It was my Uncle Moishe.
My mother and father put my brother,
George, and me to work immediately
to clear up some of the weeds. We all
worked very hard to remove the weeds
that were obstructing the face of the
tombstone. After we cleaned off some of
them, my father said some tehilim and
made a kail molah for Uncle Moishe. The
following year, we came with much better tools, and we did a major cleanup of
Uncle Moishes grave.
Every year my father would make a kail
molah for Uncle Moishe.
After my father, Menyhert Srolovits,
passed away 11 years ago at 89, my brother
and I took on the responsibility of caring for Uncle Moishe, saying kaddish and
kail molah for him. (My mother, Ilona,
who survived Auschwitz, is now 90 years
old.) Every year, George reminds me
when Uncle Moishes yahrtzeit is, and I
say Kaddish for him and try to sponsor
shalahshudis in shul in his memory. I have

made several attempts to locate some of
Uncle Moishes relatives, but I have not
been successful.
This was not a story about what my
brother and I have done for Uncle Moishe
these past 48 years or so, but rather how a
simple act of kindness toward a 12-year-old
boy resulted in his being remembered on
his yahrtzeit every year.
This is also a story about how many
other Uncle Moishes there are out there,
people whose graves are totally forgotten. If you have a relative who no one
goes to visit at the cemetery please take it
upon yourself to visit and say a kail molah
for them.
If anyone knows of a living relative of
Uncle Moishe, please email me at editor@
jewishstandard.com.
Leslie Srolovits lives in Teaneck with his
wife. He was a senior technology officer at
JP Morgan and then at Capitol One before
he retired; he is one of the 10 founders of
Young Israel of Teaneck, which started in
his basement.
Tel Aviv terror attack

shatters five myths
he June 8 terrorist massacre

in Tel Aviv exposed all five of
the major myths that cloud
discussions of Israel and the
Palestinians.
Myth #1: The problem

is the settlements
This was not a massacre of settlers. The

attack did not take place in some disputed
territory. Nobody can claim that the victims provoked the violence by living in
some predominantly Arab
area. These were people
drinking coffee in the heart of
Tel Aviv.
Myth #2: It was

a reaction to the
occupation
The attackers are residents of
the village of Yatta. The Israeli
Stephen
occupation of Yatta ended
Flatow
when Israeli troops withdrew
from the territories where 98
percent of the Palestinians reside in late
1995. Yatta has been under the rule of the
Palestinian Authority for nearly 21 years.
Although Israels critics continue to
falsely claim that the Palestinians live
under Israeli occupation, the Israeli
public knows better. The Israel Democracy Institute/Tel Aviv University monthly
Peace Index survey for May 2016 found
71.7 percent of Israeli Jews say it is wrong
to categorize Israels status in the territories (it rules the areas where Jews live) as
occupation.
Myth #3: The Palestinian

Authority condemned
the attack
The Palestinian Authority never calls such
attacks terrorism, and always brackets
the attacks on Israelis together with Israeli
actions against terrorists, thereby justifying the attacks on Israelis. Its response to
the Tel Aviv massacre was
no different. It declared:
We condemn violence and
attacks against civilians on
both sides, whatever the
justification. The PA not
only condemned the attack
in south Tel Aviv early on
Monday morning, but also
the recent Israel Defense
M.
Forces strikes on Gaza, and
attacks against Palestinians
in the West Bank and in
Jerusalem, according to Israels Channel
10 television network.
Fatah, which is chaired by PA President
Mahmoud Abbas, explicitly defended
the massacre. According to the Palestinian news agency Maan, Fatah issued a
statement calling the attack a natural
response to Israeli actions.
Fatah media committee head Munir
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Why Robert Wistrich is required reading

on past, present, future anti-Semitism
new
are plenty of academics and

Livingstones response is to
activists out there who view
talk about unnamed Jews in
the entire subject through the
the street who apparently
prism of solidarity with the
have approached him offerPalestinians, and who thereing encouragement. (Which
fore dismiss any identification
doesnt sound, shall we say,
of a person or a statement as
hugely plausible.)
There were few people
anti-Semitic as an attempt to
more qualified than Wisprevent as former London
trich to comment on events
mayor Ken Livingstone has
like the latest Livingstone
repeatedly charged critiRobert Wistrich
scandal, because of the
cism of Israel.
There lies the rub: While
weight of historical knowlthe definition of what constitutes antiedge that he brought to bear. Thanks to
Semitism is, in the hands of Zionisms
Wistrich and the scholars with whom he
adversaries, continually squeezed so that
worked, we have a comprehensive historionly a zombified white guy in a Nazi unical account of the Soviet campaign against
form can be deemed a Jew-hater, their
Zionism and Judaism, as well as the New
parameters for what constitutes criticism
Lefts adoption of anti-Semitic tropes as
of Israel are far more generous. Is expresspart of its support for the violent Palesing the fabricated claim that Hitler was a
tinian struggle against Israel. Both these
Zionist merely criticism of Israel? Accordmilieus influenced Livingstone and his
ing to Livingstone, who repeatedly has
cohorts and explain why he, and they, constated this falsehood, it is. To those who
tinue to trade in abject falsehoods.
continue to protest that the claim is, in
The lie that Israel is an apartheid state,
fact, a virulent example of anti-Semitism,
the lie that a Jewish sense of chosenness
DOUGLAS GUTHRIE
year ago, the world of Jewish

Few subjects these days have the aura
academia suffered an irreplaceof a taboo as does anti-Semitism. Thats
able loss with the death of Dr.
not to say it isnt researched and studied
Robert Wistrich, the head of
in academe there are fine institutions
the Vidal Sassoon International Center for
doing just that, American universities like
the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew
Yale and Indiana, as well as the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem. WisUniversity and Tel Aviv Unitrich died in Rome on May 19,
versity in Israel. If anything,
2015, shortly after arriving in
serious academic study of
the Italian capital to deliver a
anti-Semitism, in significant
lecture on anti-Semitism.
part because of the efforts
Many of his friends, colof Robert Wistrich himself,
leagues, and admirers
is a growing and welcome
myself included took this
trend.
tragedy as a sign of Wistrichs
It is a fascinating subject
dedication to his mission to
because deciphering its
examine, expose, and combat Ben Cohen
ugliness involves so many
the worlds longest hatred,
disciplines, among them
one that he pursued until his
history, sociology, philosolast breath. After all, as his wife Danielle
phy and psychology, and so many globreminded the audience at a recent memoally critical historical episodes, such as
rial gathering in Germany organized by the
the Dreyfus trial and the ethnic cleansing
Berlin International Center for the Study
of the Jews of the Arab world. Both were
of Antisemitism, In academia, some subsubjects close to Wistrichs heart.
The problem emerges, however, when it
jects are taboo, and Robert had the courcomes to contemporary anti-Semitism. There
age to bring them to light.
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underlies Zionism, the lie that the Zionist movement

collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust all
of these were being actively circulated in the 1960s,
1970s, and 1980s, whether by the Soviet diplomatic
mission at the United Nations, or by Trotskyists on provincial university campuses in the United Kingdom.
I have many friends and colleagues who have told
me, wistfully, that Wistrichs loss has deprived us of
the most cogent analyst of anti-Semitism then and
now. And I agree with them. As I said earlier, Wistrich
is irreplaceable. But that doesnt mean we cant take
advantage of his prolific writings when it comes to
informing our response to both anti-Semitism and the
denial of anti-Semitism.
Look, for example, at the next two years. In June
2017, Israel will mark the 50th anniversary of its triumph in the Six-Day War. In November 2017, the centenary of the Balfour Declaration will fall. In May 2018,
Israel will mark the 70th anniversary of its creation as
a sovereign state.
All these occasions will be cause for celebration, but
it also doesnt take a mystic to foresee that Israels foes
will use each of them as a platform to level their standard accusations and perhaps some new ones?
and call for a boycott. All of us can counter that offensive by educating ourselves.
Thats why I want to commemorate the one-year
anniversary of Wistrichs death with a plea to my own
readers to read his books. If you want to understand
the relationship between the Jews and the left, read
From Ambivalence to Betrayal. If you want to understand the epic historical sweep of anti-Semitism, get a
copy of A Lethal Obsession if its size is daunting,
you can read individual chapters rewardingly. And if
you just want to learn why Wistrich was such a good
historian, read Fate of a Revolutionary, his study of
the Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky.
I issue that plea not from a feeling of anxiety, but
from one of confidence. After all, more and more good
scholarship on anti-Semitism is coming to the fore, at
the same time as important political and moral victories over the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign are being won. In that sense, the Jewish community owes an important debt to Wistrich in getting
us to where we are now.
And if that doesnt inspire you, let me end by
explaining how Wistrichs center at Hebrew University came to be named after Vidal Sassoon. The celebrity who daringly transformed womens hairstyles and
created a line of beauty products came from humble
beginnings, a Jewish boy growing up in a one-parent
home in London. In his teenage years after the Second
World War, Sassoon regularly battled with the fascists
who had returned to the streets, recounting how he
would turn up for work with bruises and a black eye.
That experience led him to fight for Israel during its
War of Independence. Sassoons abiding belief that
anti-Semitism had to be studied properly if it was ever
to be expunged brought him together with Wistrich.
The importance of that connection, and its legacy to
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our generation, cant be overstated.
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Schechter school
takes on new
framework
International
Baccalaureate
program for
middle school
will stress
connections
Middle school teacher Roz

Gottlieb chairs the social
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ictures from elementary
and middle schools taken
about a century or so ago
(not that they were called
that then, of course) are
shocking.
The children sit in rigid, grim rows, staring at the camera with what looks like resignation. The black-and-white of the photographs looks less arty than simply bleak.
As the century progressed, and then
the millennium turned, children, now in
color, looked brighter, happier, less rigid.
Educational theory, too, changed, going
from the idea that children should learn
information that they could parrot back,
and each set of information should be kept
rigidly walled off from the next set, to the
belief that each child learns differently,
that repetition and understanding are not
synonymous, and that no fact is an island,
entire of itself.
For years, the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County in New Milford
has used an inquiry-based, child-centered
approach to learning. Now, it is going
beyond that, working for accreditation
by the International Baccalaureate organizations new middle school program,
and complicating, enlarging, and enriching it even further by the Jewish lens that
is built into every look the school takes at
the world.
Ingrid Goldfein is the schools IB coordinator. (Thats one of her many jobs at
Schechter; she also develops the schools
Shoah curriculum and she teaches in middle school, but right now her focus is on
IB, she said.) The IB program for middle

school is unlike the better-known 11th-and
12th-grade program, which is an academically rigorous program that some schools
offer to some students. This one, which will
be phased in over three years, is an integral
part of the curriculum from which all of
Schechters middle-school students learn.
Its all about connections between various subjects, between students and their
community and the rest of the world
Jewish, non-Jewish, American, non-American. Its about connections between past
and present as well.
Its a very student-centered approach,
Ms. Goldfein said. At the heart is a learner
profile, with 10 character traits or attributes for us as learners. According to the
IB, students should be caring, balanced,
open-minded, knowledgeable, communicators, risk-takers, principled, reflective,
inquirers, and thinkers .
But Schechter is a Jewish school, so
there is an 11th attribute toward which
teachers must teach and students must
strive. Each community member also
should be a rodef shalom someone who
pursues peace. Thats about how we
relate to one another in our classrooms
and playgrounds, and the way we think
about the world, Ms. Goldfein said. That
is what we want our kids to take with them
when they graduate. We want them to see
that they have an important role to play in
this world.
Its not just about learning. Its about
taking action. This fits so beautifully with
our mission, because the IB promotes
making learning into action, and as a Jewish day school we value chesed and tikkun
Dr. Jenny Labenz talks with seventh-grader Maya Goodman in the library.
IB coordinator Ingrid Goldfein, left, and Schechters head of school, Ruth Gafni,
prepare a presentation.
olam lovingkindness, and the imperative to fix the world.

Now, in the programs first implementation year, following a year of theory and
planning, some of the IBs program has
been put in place. So far, its being used
in three classes; by the third year, it will
be part of each class offered in the sixth,
seventh, and eighth grades.
Its the first time Ive been in a school
where I have been involved in such a
whole school-whole child approach, Ms.
Goldfein said. I have been in schools that
included some of it, but never before the
total package.
The other piece of it is global awareness, she continued. We are striving
to address this amazing Jewish idea that
simultaneously we have to both care for
our own, for ourselves, and also for the
other, for everyone else. We have got to
figure out how we can learn about the
rest of the world in a way that is meaningful, and come out with pride about who
I am. Thats another part of being rodef
shalom.
Ruth Gafni, Schechters head of school,
said that the idea to become part of the
IB grew organically out of work the
school did on its Holocaust curriculum.
Because of our work with the USC Shoah
foundation, we were invited to visit
Rwanda for the twentieth anniversary of
the genocide there.
That was in 2014. I didnt know much
about the genocide in Rwanda then, and
I thought that if I as an educator, if we as
educators, didnt know very much about it,
then our community probably didnt know
much about it, and our children didnt
either. But the more she learned about
it, the more she saw the commonalities

of how things are allowed to happen, that
ended in our Holocaust and their genocide.
There are differences, but there are
universal principles that guide evil actions
and good actions. It is our responsibility to
broaden our students horizons and make
What do our
sages say? How
are our stories
guiding our lives
today? What are
the connections?
connections that are global and relevant to
them.
And because we are a Jewish day
school, we want to do it through a Jewish
lens.
What do our sages say? How are our
stories guiding our lives today? What are
the connections?
Why should I do this? Why is it relevant to me? Why should I care? Why
do I have to learn it? Those are typical
middle-school questions, Ms. Gafni said.
Thats especially true when it pertains to
Judaism when you are looking at learning Aramaic or Rashi or Bible stories. By
making it relevant every day for students
in every area, if we can get them to engage
in a deeper and more thoughtful way, if
you can think about marrying both sides
of the curriculum through one lens, then
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the impact on the learner is huge.
Students today have information at
their fingertips Google is their very
good friend but they have only a marginal sense of making connections through
it, Ms. Gafni continued. It is only through
a cohesive, unified approach that they
make those connections. And how wonderful it is to broaden the connection to
understand that what happens in the
world today matters to me.
And there is a call to action in it if I
learn about it, and that means that I know
about it, then what am I compelled to do.
Stephen Taylor teaches science at
Schechter, and Dr. Jenny Labenz teaches
Talmud. Both are using the IB approach.
Yesterday, our kids were learning how to
classify minerals, Mr. Taylor said. The IB
focuses on global context. The students
had to read up a little about the mineral
lapis, which has ethical ramifications.
They learned about the concept of conflict
minerals. So now kids will have to think
about whether or not lapis is a conflict
mineral. Why or why not? (Conflict minerals are substances that come from wartorn parts of the world, most particularly
in Africa, and that the U.S. Secretary of
State has determined are used to finance
conflict in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo or an adjoining country.)
Science is value-neutral, so we are trying to bring in Jewish values, ethics, and
morals to science.
Yes, many schools, including Schechter,
have tried to do what is called teaching
across the curriculum before, he added,
and yes, it is valuable. But its hard, and
the IB is a very rigorous technique, where
all the plans are written and organized and
there are standards to be met.
The framework comes from the outside, Mr. Taylor said. It is not gradeoriented, but it is goal-oriented, and the
goals can be measured. I can have a whole
lesson where kids are expected to bring a
Jewish moral and ethical view to examine
the ramifications of a new technique for
editing DNA. The IB framework allows me
to set these goals.
Dr. Labenz also is enthusiastic about
the IB framework. The idea is to focus on
big ideas, and to help them use Talmud
study as an avenue into all sorts of issues
and ideas and considerations that they
wouldnt necessarily otherwise have been
exposed to.
Two of her students, eighth-graders
Naomi Fox of New City, N.Y., and Jesse
Scherl of Tenafly, are enthusiastic about
the way Dr. Labenz paired study of the
talmudic justice system with a look at the
American system. We found out about
the different death penalties and punishments, and about how they wanted not
to have cruel punishments, and how they
carried it out, Naomi said.
We also learned about the appeals system, and how it is harder to get an appeal
now than it was then. Now there has to
have been a mistake in the trial; then there
Rabbi Fred Elias and middle school teachers Jerry Shapiro and Stephen Taylor
have helped the school refine its understanding of the new framework.
didnt have to be.

We looked at the mishnah from
Masechet Sanhedrin, and compared that to the American system,
Jesse said. The mishnah said Give
them a good death. That is kind of
an oxymoron. We compared it to
what the U.S. system does. They
are trying to make a good death
also. They carried it out in different
ways, but tried for the same end.
A talmudic execution could
involve being pushed off a building, Jesse added. If he lands on his
side, then you have to stone him,
because the fall wouldnt kill him.
Caleb Wolin, Danny Rappaport, and Eli
If he lands flat, you dont have to,
Zaretsky look at a laptop.
because hed already be dead.
This unit was augmented by
two speakers, Rachel Wainer Apter, a parWho says your blood is redder than his?
ent in our school who recently argued in
So we talked about the Black Lives
front of the Supreme Court, and Chief JusMatter movement. What does it mean? Do
tice Stuart Rabner, Fred Elias, the schools
some lives matter more? What about All
rabbi, added. They both did a great job in
Lives Matter? How do we rank it?
explaining the process.
I also talked about prioritizing their
We looked at less this year, but we
own commitments. Imagine situations
looked into them more, Naomi said. We
where your priorities would conflict. How
go into things a bit deeper.
do we navigate that?
When you look into the texts more
There are some concepts that the IB
deeply, Jesse added, it connects us to the
doesnt necessarily have, but they are central to Jewish studies, Dr. Labenz continpeople who wrote it. We know that we are
ued. I dont think personal responsibiltwo different cultures, but knowing that
ity is in the IB, but it is central to religious
they had the same thought process about
studies. I am transforming a unit to bring
cruel punishments the same good mindset kind of makes them seem more like
out personal responsibility as a key concept, and show them how the mishnah
real people, instead of just the people who
and the Talmud have examples. If you
wrote the texts.
stick someone with a hot skewer, for examAnother eighth-grade unit is in
ple, how do you take responsibility for it?
Masechet Yoma, about Yom Kippur, Dr.
The real goal is to help them see so
Labenz said. One of the running issues
many of the issues that talmudic literature
is how to prioritize conflicting needs and
is trying to work out.
commitments. So you fast on Yom Kippur,
The three-year IB accreditation process
but what if youre sick? It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly.
isnt a change, but an intensification of
And then there are the three sins that
what weve always done, Ms. Gafni said.
you allow yourself to be killed instead of
As the school has increased its eighthcommitting, she continued. The most
grade students understanding of their
powerful passage is an anecdote where
connection to the world, we have seen
someone is threatened if he doesnt kill
so many more acts of chesed this year.
someone else, hell be killed. He goes to
Students also are connecting to their local
his rabbi, and says What do I do? and the
communities. Theyre running a lemonade stand to donate to federation thats
rabbi says You must let yourself be killed.
the Jewish Federation of Northern New

Jersey for school supplies for kids who
need them, she said. Our kids volunteer
at the food bank in Bergen County, and
they visit the Jewish Home at Rockleigh
and Hackensack Hospital. We created a
live streaming celebration at school so that
the Jewish Home and other homes for the
elderly across the country could see our
Yom Haatzmaut celebration and our Chanukah zimriyah. It brought joy, and you
could see it on the faces of the elderly who
were watching it. The impulse is to spread
beyond the schools walls.
The IB accreditation process is a painstaking one. It took buy-in from staff, parents, and even students. What we are
most proud of is we had a childrens group
weighing in, Ms. Gafni said. The accreditation is prestigious, she said, but the commitment is a large one, and it could not be
made without the enthusiastic approval
of all constituent groups; it does not cost
much money, but it does take a lot of time,
energy, and attention.
Schechter already has two accreditations the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools and the Middle States
Association of Colleges and Schools. It is
the only Jewish school to pursue the IB
accreditation the program itself still is
new, and the rethinking it demands is formidable. But, Ms. Gafni said, we cannot
teach skills and knowledge and values in
isolation. There has to be a way to take the
connection to the world, and act on it.
In a year and a half, an IB team will visit,
and see if we have done what we said we
would do, she added. The assessment
involves a peer-to-peer review of a student project that is not ordinary regurgitation. The school has to come up with
assessment tools to gauge their own work
it will be judged both on the work and
on the tool. And it will have to send three
tiers of student work from high-, standard-, and low-achievers to be judged by
a panel assembled by the IB.
The chiddush the new twist is
that we are doing this with Jewish studies too, Ms. Gafni said. We will be putting together an outside panel of Jewish
experts to check if we have done it right.
The whole process is engaging and exciting to everyone.
Although she cannot and will not be certain that the school will gain its accreditation, if you put in the grit and perseverance, and if you are paying attention to the
details and implement it as intended, its
likely that it will happen.
She is excited about the changes the IB
already has begun to bring to the school.
You teach Mishnah or you teach social
studies, and it is very rare for the two to
meet, she said. Now, they can meet often.
Everything connects, in school and in
life, in the Jewish world and outside it. The
more students are allowed to make those
connections the more likely they are to see
the sparks at the intersections, and to have
their imaginations and intellects catch fire.
Jewish World
A view of the interior of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2010.
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$20 million gift to help revitalize

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON An exhibit more than
20 years old versus an iPhone: Docents
at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
increasingly are noting the battle with
hand-held devices to keep the interest of
young people.
Now a $20 million gift to help revitalize the museum will aim to assist the
docents while focusing on the challenges
posed to democracies by rapid changes in
technology.
Allan and Shelley Holt announced their
grant for the Washington, D.C., museum
on Monday in honor of Allan Holts parents, who are Holocaust survivors and
about to celebrate their 70th wedding
anniversary. Holt, an investment manager
at the Carlyle Group, an influential Washington consulting outfit, also is vice chairman of the museums governing board.
The gift, one of the largest in the museums history, will go toward a $540 million campaign aimed at revitalizing the
museum, the museum said in a release.
In an interview, the museums director,
Sara Bloomfield, and its chief program officer, Sarah Ogilvie, outlined areas where
the money will help realign the museums
educational mission with the 21st century
through a physical refurbishing and programmatic changes.

One emphasis is on new technologies
and how they can be exploited for propaganda in an age when political messages
spread rapidly through social media and
other means, they said.
The new technology of the 1930s was
the radio, Ogilvie said. The Nazis tried to
make sure every German family had one.
We will be talking about new technologies
and how young people were targets for the
Nazis.
A central message of the museum since
its 1993 opening that democracies
are more vulnerable than their citizens
believe them to be will become more
pronounced, Bloomfield said.
Its so important for an audience to see
the failure of democratic institutions, she
said.
That lesson is in the exhibition, but
we can make it more explicit, Bloomfield
added, saying it was a critical message at a
time of racially charged political rhetoric
in the United States and abroad. What we
read about in the paper every day makes
this history ever more relevant and more
of a cautionary tale.
The changes and refurbishing, which
will take place over five to seven years,
also will address how audiences have been

shaped by technology. Docents, among
them Holocaust survivors, have reported
in recent years that they have to compete
with multiple distractions, including the
hand-held devices.
Some of them have expressed concern
about keeping the attention of young people; they watch the distractions that can
happen, Ogilvie said.
The museum may open avenues to interact with the exhibit through the devices
that now are preoccupying the young
visitors.
You may be able to interact with a
Holocaust survivor on your phone instead
of texting, she said.
You may be able

to interact with
a Holocaust
survivor on your
phone instead
of texting.
Ogilvie said attention spans have

become shorter, another factor that the
museum must address.
If you look back at TV shows from
1989, when the museum designed some
of its video presentations, pacing seems
incredibly slow, she said.
Another nuts and bolts change, Ogilvie said, would be to the Tower of Faces,
a central structure featuring photographs
of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Some of them have faded, and the
museum plans to return to the original
negatives and digitize them.
Updates also would incorporate information made available since the museums opening. Access to Russian archives
post-Soviet collapse has revealed much
more about the Holocaust by bullets,
the mass murders carried out by the Nazis
in Soviet areas.
Bloomfield said Holt has been involved
in the strategic planning.
His father is 96 and his mother is 93.
This gift is an expression of our familys
gratitude to this remarkable country, and
most especially it honors my parents, all
of my grandparents who were killed, and
my mothers two sisters who survived with
her, Holt said in a statement released by
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NEWS ANALYSIS
America First
Trump doubles down on a term

that makes many Jews queasy
URIEL HEILMAN
The aviator Charles Lindbergh sits in the cockpit of an airplane at Lambert Field in
St Louis, Mo., in 1923.
UNDERWOOD ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES
onald Trump is doubling

down on America First.
After he used the term
America First in late April
to describe his policies, the Anti-Defamation League sent him a letter urging him
to drop the historically tainted slogan. It
was speaking for Jews and others who
remember it as the name of the isolationist movement championed by a notorious anti-Semite to keep the United States
out of World War II.
But in a speech Tuesday night following his victories in the last six state
primaries, the presumptive Republican
nominee for president made clear hes
not about to take the ADLs advice and
abandon the slogan.
America First, Trump said, reading
from a teleprompter, means protecting American jobs from unfair foreign
competition, tapping Americas energy
resources (including coal), instituting
protectionist tax and regulatory policies,
loosening regulation, reducing taxes for
middle-class Americans and businesses,
and protecting American workers from
immigrants.
Its important to understand what
America first means, Trump said in his
speech, as if directly addressing critics of
his use of the term.
At its core, Trumps policy shares
some elements with the isolationism
promoted by leaders of the America
First Committee75 years ago.
Created in 1940 after Hitler already
had invaded Poland, the America First
Committee argued that the United States
should take a neutral approach toward
Nazi Germany, and even do business
with it, because the Nazi regime did
not threaten America directly. Among
its most noteworthy leaders was aviator Charles Lindbergh, who publicly
espoused anti-Semitic viewpoints. Lindbergh warned that Jews posed a threat
to the United States because of their
influence over the media, movies and
government.
The echoes of the America First Committee in Trumps own America First policy include but are not limited to foreign
policy. Lindbergh argued in 1941 that
America shouldnt help Britain because
Britain was destined to lose the war
and the effort would deplete Americas
defenses. Trump says he would not have
intervened in Libya to topple Libyan
strongman Moammar Gaddafi (though
video from 2011 recently surfaced showing Trump endorsing U.S. intervention
in Libya) and he opposed the war in Iraq.
As Lily Rothman has noted in Time,

Lindbergh, like Trump, said he had the
backing of a silent majority of Americans who werent being given voice by
a hostile media. Back in 1941, Lindbergh
fingered the Jews as the culprits, saying
they were pushing the U.S. toward war
through their control of the media. In
this years campaign, Trump believes the
media is against him, too not because
theyre Jews but, he says, because
theyre liars.
Over time, the America First Committees strength waned. Though the movement, in a bid to cast off its anti-Semitic
reputation, tried to advance the argument that it was looking out for the best
interests of Americas Jews, many moderate isolationists steered clear.
Evidence suggests a growing majority of Americans supported U.S. intervention in the war, and the argument
became moot on December 7, 1941,
when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The
next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
called for and received a formal declaration of war from Congress.
The period of democratic debate on
the issue of entering the war is over,
America First Committee chair Robert
Wood said. [The committee] urges all
those who have followed its lead to give
their full support to the war effort of the
nation, until peace is attained.
The term America First cropped up
again from time to time after that. In
1944, a group called the America First
Party ran a candidate for president;
the nominee got less than 2,000 votes
nationwide. A write-in candidate in the
1960 presidential campaign also used
that party name (winning even fewer
votes than the 1944 nominee).
And in 2002, a group of activists who
supported Pat Buchanan a man many
Jews consider anti-Semitic broke off
from the Reform Party to start a new
America First Party. The party was antichoice, anti-gun control, and anti-immigration. Its candidates went nowhere.
But even without sharing the least palatable goals of the original America First
Committee, Trump seems keen on resurrecting a term with notorious baggage.
[F]or many Americans, the term
America First will always be associated
with and tainted by this history, the
Anti-Defamation Leagues CEO, Jonathan
Greenblatt, said in April. In a political
season that already has prompted a
national conversation about civility and
tolerance, choosing a call to action historically associated with incivility and
intolerance seems ill-advised.

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Slamming the proposed Muslim ban,

Jewish Republicans still split on Trump
Ben Sales
against the United States, he added.

The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, was born in the
ewish Republicans are criticizing Donald Trump
United States to immigrants from Afghanistan.
for his renewed call to ban Muslim immigration,
Trump since has repeated his plan in television
although few of his Jewish supporters seem to be
appearances. He also accused American Muslims of not
reconsidering their endorsement of the presumpreporting terror threats to law enforcement, claiming
tive Republican presidential nominee.
they know who the people are, almost in every case,
But at least one, celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,
they know who they are, they brag about it, they talk
rescinded his apparent backing of Trump following the
about it.
billionaire real estate magnates remarks.
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which congratulated
One day after a Muslim-American gunman opened fire
Trump in May for winning the primary but seemed to
on an Orlando gay nightclub, killing 49 and wounding
stop short of endorsing him, released a statement Tuesday deploring the ban.
53, Trump gave a speech repeating his proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration to the United States.
The fear that many feel today cannot be superseded
I called for a ban after San Bernardino and was met
by a rush to demonize and marginalize other Americans
with great scorn and anger, but now many are saying I
of a different faith, the statement read. As a Jewish
was right to do so, Trump said in the New Hampshire
organization we are very sensitive to the rhetoric used
speech he made on Monday, referring to the terror
against law-abiding Muslims in the United States in the
attack in Southern California carried out by a married
wake of terrorist attacks by Muslim radicals.
Muslim couple last year. According to law enforceJewish Republicans who support Trump since have
ment, the pair was inspired by foreign terrorist orgacome out against the ban, calling on the candidate to
nizations. I will suspend immigration from areas of
disavow his policy. But some of these same critics are
the world when there is a proven history of terrorism
standing by him.
The Muslim ban has always been something hes been for and I oppose, Ari
Fleischer, who served as President George W.
Bushs press secretary, said. Its not in keeping with the American tradition of tolerance.
But Fleischer, who accused presumptive
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton of being
soft on Islamic terror, said he still would support Trump, in part because he agrees with
elements of Trumps platform aside from the
immigration ban.
One Jewish Republican who appeared to
rescind his support for Trump is Boteach, the
rabbi, author, and talk-show host who lives in
Englewood and was a Republican congressional candidate in 2014. In May, Boteach published a column in the Times of Israel, and in
the Jewish Standard, calling Trump the right
candidate for the Presidency over Hillary.
But on Tuesday, Boteach said that while he
opposes Clinton, his vote now is up in the air.
He said the column was not an endorsement.
I disagree with him on the Muslim ban,
Im not in accordance with his values on
some other things, Boteach said. I will
decide who I will vote for as this campaign
unfolds.
Boteach said he appreciates Trumps
stance on Israel. The rabbi disagrees, however, with the candidates call to expel illegal
immigrants from the United States, and with
Donald Trump addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition in
his criticism of a federal judge with MexiWashington last December.
Alex Wong/Getty Images
can ancestry. Trump said the judge, Gonzalo
Curiel, whom he called Mexican although he was born in

Indiana, was biased against him in a lawsuit over the defunct
Trump University.
We have to turn to Donald Trump and appeal to him,
Boteach said. Mr. Trump, you have to run a campaign in
accordance with our values, with American values. You have
to show respect to each and every minority group; repudiate
some past statements you have made.
Other Jewish Republicans who have opposed Trump from
the outset used his recent statements as ammunition for their
stance.
Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist for the Washington Post, called Trump clueless and delusional. Dan
Senor, another former Bush staffer, said there should be serious concern over giving Trump national intelligence briefings, according to CNBC reporter John Harwood.

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The 9 best Jewish food trucks in the U.S.

GABE FRIEDMAN
ummer is upon us. And that

me ans swimsuits, summer
camps, sticky temperatures and
food trucks.
True, many of these trendy restaurantson-wheels are known to ply their wares in
the depths of winter. But as the weather
warms, everyone from office workers to
tourists find themselves beckoned outside

for lunch.
Sadly, kosher options can be hard to
find among the ever-increasing legion of
mobile eateries. But take heart: Weve
compiled a list of standouts from across
the country. (Weve also thrown in a couple of our favorite Jewish-themed trucks
that are not necessarily kosher.) From
corned-beef hash burritos to kosher
barbecue, these are nine of the best Jewish-themed food trucks from coast to
coast.
Conversos y Tacos,
El Paso (kosher)
This truck, known for its fusion of Latino
and Jewish cuisines, began as an art project in 2013. Founder Peter Svarzbein a
Hispanic Jew and El Paso native, who
now serves as a representative in the

citys government had been interviewing and photographing Latino families in
the Southwest who believed their ancestors were Conversos, Spanish Jews forced
to convert to Christianity during the
Inquisition. When it opened, Svarzbein
played a video of his interview subjects
and the menus included an Inquisition
timeline. Since then, the truck has stayed
Kosher and Jewish-themed

food trucks serve up a
variety of tastes from
brisket to bagels. The trucks
and the crews are highly
individualized, but they all
aim to provide tempting
fare at different locales.
ks
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operational even if only for special

events these days thanks to its inspired
plates, like the brisket and pickles taco.
Clover Food Lab,

Boston (kosher)
Most restaurants dont call a falafel sandwich a chickpea fritter but Clover
Food Lab founder Ayr Muir isnt one to
follow the crowd. Drawing on data he
collects from his customers, Muir obsessively reconfigures his companys operations, tweaking everything from recipes to
refrigerator temperatures. His approach
has been a successful one: With eight restaurants and five food trucks, the vegetarian (and now kosher) chain has become
a rising health food dynasty in Boston.
Dont miss its creative, seasonal fare like
a granola, pear, and yogurt compote for
breakfast and an egg and eggplant sandwich for lunch plus year-round staples
like seitan sandwiches and those famous
chickpea fritters.
Milts Barbecue for the

Perplexed Food Truck,
Chicago (kosher)
Many people would probably like to know
what Jake Arrieta, the Cubs star pitcher
off to a historic start this season, is eating
these days. Turns out he loves
the food at Milts Barbecue for
the Perplexed, a restaurant
whose legend has only grown
since it was named one of Chicagos best new restaurants
in 2013. (The name is a play
on the essential Maimonides
text, The Guide for the Perplexed.) The old-fashioned
barbecue joint got a truck
rolling the next year. It features a delicious, if abridged,
menu that includes charred
hot dogs, brisket sandwiches,
smoked chicken and baked
beans. Who says good barbecue needs pork?
Napkin Friends,
Seattle (not kosher)
It sounds like a crazy dream
or the ultimate Jewish food
experiment: What happens
when you make a sandwich
using latkes instead of bread?
Chef Jonny Silverberg took his
culinary fantasy and started a
food truck in 2014 to focus on
the idea. Being a nice Jewish boy, Ive grown up eating
latkes my whole life, Silverberg told Seattle Met Magazine.
And then one day something
just clicked. Why cant you just
replace the bread and put it
on a panini machine and see
what happens? Good question, Jonny and the answer
is even tastier. Highlights of the
small menu include the O.G.
pastrami, peppers, arugula, Thousand

Island dressing, horseradish cream and
gruyere and an apple-and-brie combo,
all pressed between two perfectly crisp
potato pancakes.
Aryehs Kitchen,
Nashville (kosher)
One of the very few places in all of Nashville selling kosher meat is a refurbished
1971 Airstream trailer truck set up by a
Vanderbilt University undergrad. Aryehs
Kitchen, which opened on campus this
spring, gives its kosher menu a southern
twist with dishes such as fried chicken and
waffles, latkes with apple chutney and a
BLT with pastrami bacon. To keep things
student-budget friendly, most of the food
is under $10.
Taim Mobile,
New York City (kosher)
Israeli couple Einat Admony and Stefan
Nafziger opened the falafel joint Taim in
2007. As Admony went on to foodie fame
as one of New Yorks premier restaurateurs
her other acclaimed restaurants include
Balaboosta and Bar Bolonat Taims two
locations became downtown staples. Oh,
and the falafel has been called the best in
the city. The Taim Mobile truck, which
launched in 2012, serves the restaurants
greatest hits, from falafel platters and fresh
Mediterranean salads to its notable drinks,
like ginger-mint lemonade and the strawberry-raspberry-thai basil smoothie.
New York on Rye Deli Truck,

San Diego (not kosher)
Have a nosh day is the motto of the New
York on Rye food truck a sure sign that
youre in Southern California and not
the Big Apple. This deli with a twist on
wheels won San Diegos Top Truck trophy
last year, beating out nearly two dozen others in the citys first-ever Food Truck War.
It serves up New York classics like corned
beef on rye, but also gives some deli favorites a distinct So-Cal flair like the corned
beef hash burrito, Cuban sandwich and
turkey sandwich with an avocado-and-goat
cheese spread.
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Its Yelp for sheitels

the first-ever wig review site
LISA KEYS
First there was Tinder for bras. Now
theres a Yelp for sheitels, the wigs worn by
many married Orthodox Jewish women.
ShayTell may be the first-ever online
customer review site for wigs. Its certainly
the most cleverly named.
And if youve never considered the
demand for such a site, consider this:
When was the last time you bought, say, a
computer, without knowing a thing about
its quality, components, or warranty?
Thats a predicament facing many
observant Jewish women, says ShayTells
founder, Myriam Schottenstein. After all,
some of them wear sheitels every day,
and the wigs typically cost from $1,000 to
$4,500, she said. (No, thats not a typo.)
There are so few resources available on
this huge purchase, she said. Its really
discouraging.
So Schottenstein, a self-described
review junkie who bought her first
sheitel when she got married two years
ago, set about to change that. Backed by
her brother, serial entrepreneur David
Schottenstein, ShayTell launched in the
spring.
My aim is to provide more transparency, accountability and really bring more
clarity to this, she said.
Traditionally, sheitels are a word-ofmouth purchase: Women rely on the
advice and experiences of their friends
Flatow
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al-Jaghoub explained, Israel must realize the consequences of its persistence to

push violence, house demolition policies,
forced displacement of Palestinians, raids
by Israeli settlers to the Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound, and the cold-blooded killing
of Palestinians at checkpoints.
Thats the equivalent of the Democratic
Party defending the San Bernardino massacre of 2015. Imagine U.S. Rep. Debbie
Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), head of the
Democratic National Committee, saying the killings in southern California
were the consequences of President
Barack Obama sending drones to carry
out the cold-blooded killing of al-Qaeda
members.
Myth #4: Ordinary

Palestinians are
against terrorism
Israel Hayom reports that, In Ramallah,
Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Jenin, and other cities, people danced in the streets, set off
and family before seeking the services of

a local vendor.
Theres no centralized information,
said the 28-year-old Brooklyn resident,
noting that most manufacturers dont
have functional websites. I think people
mean well, but theres a lot of secrecy in
the industry.
Some of these mysteries include: Where
does the hair come from? Was it processed? Was it dyed, or can it be dyed in
the future? What kind of warranty does
the sheitel have, and what services are
included?
This lack of reliable information about
quality wigs comes at a stressful time:
Engagements in many traditional communities tend to be short, and suddenly, amid
all the planning and upheaval, women go
from knowing nothing about sheitels to
finding themselves thinking about baby
hairs, Schottenstein quipped. Those are
the small, wispy bits sewn around the forehead and temples to make the wig appear
more natural.
The process is unnecessarily difficult,
she said of sheitel shopping. I want to
make it as easy as possible.
On the ShayTell site, users can specify a
price range, see an array of wigs by various
manufacturers, and read reviews by other
users. I Love my Barbara wig, according
to one review. Color is gorgeous ... hair
feels great and looks natural.
Another reviewer was less enthusiastic.
Myriam Schottenstein, founder of the

sheitel review website ShayTell, and
her baby.
MYRIAM SCHOTTENSTEIN
Within a few months I had split ends

everywhere and the wig just feels dry and
straw like, she writes.
The practice of women covering their
hair varies widely from Orthodox community to community. Head coverings range
from full wigs to headscarves to hats and
fascinators. In general, however, observant Jewish women cover their hair for
reasons of modesty, creating a zone of privacy that can be shared only by married
partners.
That doesnt mean the intent is to
fireworks, and handed out treats while

praising the attacks. When the PAs
schools, newspapers, television stations
constantly praise terrorists as heroes
and martyrs, it is no wonder ordinary
Palestinians have come to feel the same
way.
The cities where the celebrations took
place would be the heart of a future Palestinian state. They are just a few miles down
the road from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Can
those who celebrate massacres be trusted
with a sovereign, independent state next
door to Israel?
Myth #5: The major

American news outlets
are staffed by objective,
professionally trained
journalists; if their coverage
of Israel is unflattering,
thats because of Israels
own policies, not because
of media bias
CNNs Twitter announcement of the
attack put the word terrorists in quotation marks, stating, Two terrorists
make married women unattractive. As

one Chabad website for women explains,
even if her wig looks so real as to be mistaken for natural hair, she knows that no
one is looking at the real her. She has created a private space, and only she decides
who to let into that space.
A womans hair can be protected with
a beautiful, natural-looking wig and
hence the serious shekels many Jewish
women spend to buy a wig that looks just
right.
You want to get the best quality hair
thats not a commodity thats so available, Schottenstein said, explaining the
high prices. What other product do you
get that comes from a human body part?
Since ShayTells soft launch at the end
of March, the site has drawn more than
5,000 visitors, and more than 65 companies are reviewed.
And Schottenstein plans to expand. She
hopes to make ShayTell a central place
for all your sheitel needs by creating a
comprehensive directory for those in the
sheitel business everyone from vendors
to stylists as well as photo galleries for
manufacturers. In addition, there will be a
resale section where women can sell sheitels that didnt work for them.
Ultimately, ShayTells goal isnt making
money its about creating community.
Women should help other women with
this leap in their life, Schottenstein said.
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Israeli security
forces at the
scene where
Palestinian
terrorists opened
fire and killed
four people
at the Sarona
market in Tel
Aviv on June 8.
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captured after Tel Aviv attack, Israeli

police spokesman tweets. The Washington Posts correspondents in Israel,
William Booth and Ruth Eglash, exhibited the same bias. They described the
terrorists as gunmen, assailants, and
attackers but never as terrorists,
and only indirectly as Palestinians. And
the headline-writers at Washington Post
headquarters came up with this gem: 4
Killed in Tel Aviv Market Shooting that
Officials Labeled Terrorist Attack.
Perhaps copies of the Washington Post

should bear labels of their own: Warning:
The reporting in this newspaper may be
hazardous to the truth. It is often slanted
for the purpose of protecting the Palestinian cause against criticism.
JNS.ORG
Stephen M. Flatow, who lives in West
Orange and practices law in Fairfield, is the
father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered
in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian
terrorist attack in 1995.
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n 1 Rabbis Mendel Wilansky of Bris Avrohom in Hillside; Mordechai Kanelsky, the director of Bris Avrohom; and Levi Mondshine, front center, celebrated Lag
BOmer. Rabbi Mondshine brought a group of young
men from Moscow to celebrate. Stops included the
Lubavitcher rebbes grave, Lubavitch headquarters, and
a celebration at Bris Avrohom. COURTESY BRIS AVROHOM
n 2 Nancy Halpert, a resident at the Jewish Home

at Rockleigh, has voted in every election, both primary and general, since Franklin Delano Roosevelt
became president. Here, a few weeks ago, she fills
out her Democratic primary ballot. COURTESY JHR
n 3 The graduating class of the Howard and Joshua
Herman Education Center at the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai Israel is shown with Rabbi
Ronald Roth and teacher Deb Lesnoy. COURTESY FLJC
n 4 Newark held its 29th annual Holocaust Remembrance
observance on May 27 at the Newark Museum. Among the
participants were Rev. Dr. Perry Simmons of the Abyssinian
Baptist Church in Newark, top left; Miles Berger, chair
and CEO of the Berger Organization; Newark Mayor Ras
Baraka; David Sugarman, president of the Manischewitz
Company, and David Most, Manischewitz vice president.
Robert Max, last years speaker, front row left, is with
Ruth Ravina, this years Holocaust remembrance speaker,
and Barbara Wind, director of the Holocaust Council of
Greater MetroWest. Rabbi Levi Block, director of Chabad
of Newark, was among the speakers. The Manischewitz
Company was among the sponsors. PHOTO PROVIDED
n 5 Congregation Darchei Noam, under the leadership
of Rabbi Jeremy Donath, left, and its president Mark Moerdler, right, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its build-
ing expansion. Fair Lawn Mayor John Cosgrove

stands between them at the June 5 ceremony. The
project will double the size of the shuls sanctuary to 220 seats and add new youth rooms, offices,
and an enlarged social hall. COURTESY DARCHEI NOAM
n 6 Students at the Leah Sokoloff Nursery School at

Congregation Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn celebrated an
early Shavuot. Children took a trip around the school,
singing and dancing about bikkurim (first fruits). The
day ended with an ice cream party. COURTESY LSNS
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Wear life vests when boating. Kids
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Heat-related illness can become serious
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Heat exhaustion may happen with overexertion and not drinking enough water
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Symptoms of heat
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Paleness and weakness
Heavy sweating
Headache, nausea, or vomiting
Muscle cramps
Signs of heat stroke include:

Dizziness or confusion
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Here are some treatments for common
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Bee stings. Try to remove the stinger
immediately by scraping or brushing
32 Jewish Standard JUNE 17, 2016
Dr. George Becker

it off with a firm edge, such as a credit
card. Wash the area with soap and water,
and apply hydrocortisone cream, calamine lotion, or a baking soda paste to the
sting several times a day until symptoms
subside. Seek medical help immediately
if someone appears to be having a severe
or allergic reaction to a bee sting.
Tick bites. You can prevent Lyme disease if you detect ticks early, since infection is unlikely if a tick has been attached
to skin for less than 36 to 48 hours. If you
find a tick, use tweezers to remove both
the ticks head and body. Wash your
hands thoroughly after removal. Call
your doctor if you have questions.
Mosquito bites. Most mosquito bites
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illnesses, such as West Nile virus and
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Always read the product label and follow the directions.
Avoid applying on or near eyes,
mouth, ears and open sores.
Do not spray directly to face or in an
enclosed area.
Make sure children do not handle
insect repellent directly or get it on their
hands spray it on their clothing and
other exposed skin or use your hands to
apply.
Wash skin and clothing with soap and
water once you return indoors.
If you have any concerns, please visit
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was housed in a large room off the main
floor. It was coed, although no females
were present. The room had a dank
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and strength. I then lifted weights over
my head utilizing my deltoids, curled
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my lats and rhomboids, and shrugged
them with my traps. The various exercises made my puny muscles feel alive
and strong. Again, I was hooked!
This all went through my mind as I
visited my grandfather in his hospital
room. He was in his late seventies and
had suffered a heart attack. The doctors had implanted a new experimental device, called a pacemaker, into Sys
chest. It was rather large and quite visible below his skin. He was thin, his skin a
pale yellow, and his chest seemed to sink
beneath the weight of the pacemaker. It
saddened me to see him in this state.
This powerful man, the man who had
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was now at the mercy of white-coated,

bespectacled physicians. They were
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s diseases become stubbornly resistant

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uman cells from skin or blood can be

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In the future, these patient-specific human
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For now, they present an exciting new paradigm
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drug testing, according to Dr. Lior Gepstein, director of cardiology at Rambam Health Care Campus in
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own heart cells from that patients iPSCs in just a few
weeks.
We can use these cells for several things, says
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cells and then cultured to generate cells specific to

any part of that persons body.
The most ambitious project is to take a cardiac
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back to a patients diseased heart to regenerate its
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itself. Any dead areas [following a heart attack] are
replaced by scar tissue and cannot contract, which
leads to heart failure, the biggest problem we are facing as cardiologists.
Gepsteins lab has been working for several years
to overcome many hurdles from theory to practice.
Now, he reports, human clinical trials are only four
or five years away thanks to strides made in a strategic partnership among Rambam, the University
Health Network of Toronto, (Canada) and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, where Gepstein
is a member of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
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Generating pacemaker cells
Obviously, doctors cant take out a patients heart to
study genetic mutations that cause life-threatening
conditions such as cardiomyopathy (heart muscle
disease) or inherited arrhythmogenic syndrome.
However, by taking the patients skin cells and reprogramming them as heart cells whose DNA is identical to the diseased cells - the genetics can be studied
and drugs can be tested in the culture dish to find
out which will work best for the specific patient.
Gepstein and his colleagues used this method to
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generating patient-specific models of heart disease
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This also provides the pharmaceutical industry,
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adverse side effects on the heart, you can test it in
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Medical Holography in Yokneam. This

completely new technology developed
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Established in 2008, RealView has
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Capital. In the next 10 years, the incubator will fund and support 40 companies in digital health, and Im sure cardiovascular health will be the focus of at
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cardiac medicine.
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Prototype of the tiny ViRob from Microbot, which will allow surgeons to send
a camera, medication, or shunts into narrow, twisting parts of the body.
Robots help
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Rapidly emerging field
promises to revolutionize
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Israel is a world leader in
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Robotic or robot-assisted surgery can

give doctors better vision, precision,
flexibility and control when performing
complex minimally invasive procedures.
Someday, surgeons will even use robotic
tools to operate through the internet,
bringing modern medical techniques to
remote parts of the world.
Only a handful of surgical robots currently are approved for use, and Israelis
developed three of them.
This really puts us in the center of the
field, says Dr. Alon Wolf, founding director
of the Biorobotics and Biomechanics Lab at
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and
chair of the Robotics in Healthcare session
at recent 2016 IATI-BioMed conference in
Tel Aviv.
Wolf was studying for his doctorate
under robotics pioneer Moshe Shoham of
the Technion when they started developing SpineAssist (see below) for minimally
invasive spinal surgery. This revolutionary
device later formed the basis for Shohams
Mazor Robotics.
Many countries are putting a lot of
money into developing these technologies,
yet they have not been as successful as we
are, Wolf says. Israel is very respected
around the world in this area.
Wolf explains that surgical robotics
began as a vision of the U.S. Army to deliver
immediate treatment on the battlefield
without exposing the surgeon to danger.
A medic would put the robot into place
and the surgeon would operate it remotely
from a bunker.
This vision is not completely realized yet, but we do have enabling technologies that allow you to do things in
the operating room that you could not

do before, and thats crucial, says Wolf.
In addition, improved remote capabilities allow a surgeon to log into cameras
in other cities and control the view in real
time via computer.
Israel also used military experience as
the basis of its robotics advances, says serial
entrepreneur Ziv Tamir, the original distributor in Israel for Intuitive Surgicals da
Vinci, the American product that broke the
ground for robotic surgical systems in 1999.
He went on to found a few Israeli companies in this space through ZDev Medical.
The technologies from Israel are based
on knowledge from the military. This is a
critical difference because all the surgical
robotics projects in other countries are
coming from universities so the technology is not always needs-based, Tamir says.
At BioMed, Wolf discussed how medical
robotics involves innovation from many
disciplines. I showed how this puzzle
of tools and internet and users is coming
together to create a new reality, and why
high-tech companies like Google, IBM and
Apple are investing in technologies out of
the scope of their core technology, including robotics, says Wolf.
I believe the future is in robotics,
agrees Tamir. All the big companies such
as J&J have projects in robotic surgery.
Heres a look at seven significant Israeli
surgical robotics companies.
1. Mazor Robotics of Caesarea is a global
innovator in robotic spine and brain
surgery products based on technology
pioneered by Dr. Shoham of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technologys
Kahn Medical Robotics Laboratory for
Research and Instruction.
The first product, SpineAssist, was
approved by the FDA in 2004. Mazors
next-generation Renaissance Guidance
System is now installed in about 100 medical centers around the world (more than
half of them in the United States) for biopsies, reconstructive surgery, scoliosis correction, spinal fusion and other delicate
operations.
The Renaissance 3D planning software
helps surgeons map procedures for each
patient and guides the tools according to

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the predetermined blueprint during the
operation.
2. MedRobotics Flex Robotic System,
based on Alon Wolf s snake robot, can
reach body cavities beyond the surgeons
direct line of sight, especially head and
neck structures.
You lock it into location and operate
through the snake, introducing portfolio
tools we developed, says Wolf. Its a single-port surgery because the system is flexible, enabling surgeons to do things they
couldnt do before.
The Flex Robotic System was approved
for medical robotics assistive surgery in
Europe in 2014 and in the United States
in July 2015. Wolf co-founded MedRobotics 10 years ago with colleagues he worked
with at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its headquartered in
Massachusetts.
3. MST (Medical Surgery Technologies) of
Yokneam makes AutoLap, an image-guided
laparoscope positioning system to orient
the surgeon and stabilize the surgeons
motions without a human assistant in
minimally invasive surgery.
The surgeon wears a wireless ring-like
device that interfaces with the AutoLap
system. The proprietary software captures
and interprets visual data from the laparoscope and maneuvers it in coordination
with the surgeons actions in real time,
according to CEO Motti Frimer.
We compare it to Xbox in the clinical
domain, where the system understands
individual gestures, he says.
Last June, MST received $12.5 million in
an investment round led by Haisco Pharmaceutical Group of China, earmarked for
expanding marketing and sales of AutoLap
in the United States, Europe, and China.
The system is already used in a dozen medical centers in Europe and at the first U.S. site.
We are addressing a real need in computer-assisted robotic surgery, because
most robotics must be commanded by
joysticks or other devices while the MST
image-analysis platform responds to the
surgeons actions. We aim to be the gold
standard for all laparoscopic surgery, and
also hope to expand MSTs image-based
artificial intelligence technology into additional medical robot and computer-assisted
surgical domains.
4. Human Extensions in Netanya is awaiting FDA (U.S.) and CE (Europe) approvals
for its ergonomic, bionic surgical glove
designed as a robotized brain to enable
smooth and precise movements.
Founder and CEO Tami Frenkel explains
that Human Extensions disruptive technology is modular for use in a wide variety of
complex minimally invasive operations and
can be tailored to a surgeons skill level and
specific task.
This novel solution will allow surgeons
for the first time to access a patients
anatomy in a manner resembling open
surgery, Frenkel says. Its as if their hands

are inside the patients body.
She says the Human Extensions platform
represents a big step forward as the only
smart multifunctional handheld system on
the horizon for minimally invasive surgery
of all kinds.
5. Microbot Medical was co-founded in
2010 by Moshe Shoham with Yossi Bornstein and Harel Gadot, leveraging two technologies from Shohams mechanical engineering lab: ViRob and TipCAT. Advanced
prototypes are in development.
ViRob is a revolutionary autonomous
crawling microrobot that acts as a submarine allowing surgeons to send a camera,
medication or shunts to narrow, twisting
parts of the body (such as blood vessels and
digestive and respiratory organs) and to do
minimally invasive operations on those
areas guided by MRI and CT scanners. Dr.
Nir Shvalb, now head of the Kinematics &
Computational Geometry Multidisciplinary
Laboratory at Ariel University, worked on
ViRob as Shohams PhD student.
TipCAT is a proprietary flexible, selfpropelled endoscope for use in the colon,
blood vessels and urinary tract. A series of
balloons sequentially inflate and deflate
to create safe, fast and gentle locomotion
inside body structures. Like ViRob, TipCAT
supports functional tools.
6. XACT Robotics is developing a novel
platform robotic technology for accurately
inserting and steering the needle in minimally invasive CT-guided procedures such
as lung biopsies.
It consists of a robot, a control unit connected to the CT and to the robot, and a
work station where the interventional
radiologist can plan and observe the procedure. Any deviation from the planned
pathway can be detected and corrected
immediately without reinserting the needle
or repositioning the patient.
The company has raised $5 million in
a round led by MEDX Ventures Group,
which founded the firm based on technology from the Technion. The American
National Health Institute will conduct joint
trials with XACT on animals and later on
humans. The CEO of the company, based
in Shoham, is Chen Levine.
7. Memic Innovative Surgery is dedicated
to developing and delivering innovative
robotic surgical solutions that enable surgical procedures currently considered
infeasible, says CEO Dvir Cohen, who
has mechanical engineering degrees from
the Technion and an MBA from Tel Aviv
University.
Memics surgical robotic system is
based on a unique design that enables a
novel and intuitive surgical approach for
laparoscopic procedures, says company
co-founder Nir Shvalb.
Based in Kfar Saba, Memic is now moving forward with clinical trials and regulatory clearances.
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Could daydreaming be harmful?
New series of studies identifies psychological disorder
called maladaptive daydreaming where people
spend the majority of their time in fantasy
Everyone daydreams sometimes, but obsessive daydreaming is a psychological disorder
recently identified by an international team
of scientists. Researchers from the University
of Haifa in Israel, Fordham University in New
York City, and University of Lausanne, Switzerland, published studies in several leading
journals showing that people with maladaptive
daydreaming disorder spend an average of 60
percent of their waking time in an imaginary
world of their own creation, without losing contact with the real world.
Daydreaming usually starts as a small fantasy that makes people feel good, but over time
the process becomes addictive until it takes
over their lives, said Dr. Eli Somer of the University of Haifa, the first to identify and name
the phenomenon. At this stage the disorder is
accompanied by feelings of shame and a sense
of lack of fulfillment, but because till now the
disorder has been unknown, when they come
to receive treatment, therapists usually dismissed their complaints, said Somer.
Scientists never before examined the pathological aspects of the normal mental activities of
wandering thoughts, fantasies and daydreams.

In 2002, when Somer was treating adults who
had been sexually abused as children, six of
the survivors said they used to escape regularly into an imaginary world where they felt
empowered by traits and life experiences they
didnt actually possess in real life.
He published a paper about it at that time, did
not investigate further until seeing the results of
a 2011 study by Jayne Bigelsen and Cynthia Schupak from Fordham, which showed excessive
daydreaming is also reported by many people
who did not experienced childhood trauma.
Somer then collaborated on two qualitative
studies with Dr. Daniela Jopp from the University of Lausanne and Liora Somer from the
Multidisciplinary Center for the Treatment of
Victims of Sexual Abuse at the Bnai Zion Medical Center in Haifa.
Their interviews with dozens of individuals revealed recurring themes. For example,
although maladaptive daydreaming started as
a positive experience providing pleasure and
relaxation, it quickly developed into an addictive habit that took over lives and impaired
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Obsessive imaginings
He and Jopp were recently joined by Fordham Universitys Bigelsen and Jonathan
Lehrfeld in publishing two extensive studies in the journal Consciousness and Cognition. They also published in the Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease and the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. The first
study reported the development and validation of a maladaptive daydreaming scale
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The data showed that individuals affected
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more than half said that the disorder disrupted their sleep and that the first thing
they are aware of when they wake up in the
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the plot is constantly changing and evolving. She related that there were entire days
in which all her time was spent imagining,
and how she even fought off sleep so that
she could continue imagining.
Almost all of the subjects developed a
love/hate relationship with their fantasy
world, and 97 percent reported different
levels of distress as a result.
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On May 31, Cedar Crest Retirement Community hosted family, friends, residents,
and staff at its annual Scholar Awards Ceremony. At the event, 21 graduating high
school seniors were awarded $8,000 scholarships from the community.
The Scholars Program is funded by the
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Alfano expressed his gratitude to Cedar

Crest residents who donated to the scholarship fund. This scholarship has helped me
lessen the cost of college, making it more
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Thirty Israeli EMTs, paramedics and doctors recently completed a training course qualifying them as psychotrauma volunteers and teachers for United Hatzalah, a private community-based network of voluntary first responders across Israel.
The volunteers already started providing psychological
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responded to a bus bombing, three cases of sudden heart
attack deaths, and three incidents of crib death.
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a scene of a terror attack, sudden death, childs death, severe
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The new psychotrauma unit is something that we have
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the world to be fully integrated within an emergency response
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In order to assure that people are not only saved but have
a normal life after the traumatic event that they experienced,
we need to make sure that they receive not only medical treatment but psychological treatment.
Beer relates that he and other medical responders have
often arrived at situations where peoples lives can be
destroyed if they do not receive immediate psychological
treatment. Our new psychotrauma unit is a project that can
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will enable United Hatzalah to help as many people as possible heal on a physical level as well as on an emotional and
psychological level.
Rickie Rabinowitz, one of the founders and instructors of
the unit, said she considers psychotrauma as another level
of injury to treat beyond getting the wounded treated by the
volunteer EMTs. The extra facet is coming to complement the
work of the medic on the scene.
The supervising psychiatrist of the unit, Dr. Gary Quinn,
directs the EMDR Institute of Israel. EMDR (Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of psychotherapy
aimed at forestalling development of trauma-related disorders
caused by exposure to distressing, traumatizing or negative
life events. Quinn specializes in crisis intervention and the
treatment of anxiety, depressive disorders and post-traumatic
stress disorder.
Many first responders have been taught psychological first
aid, which is an eight-stage method of helping people deal
with a difficult event, Quinn said. This unit has received
extensive training which primarily focuses on stage three of
that process, which is the stabilization aspect. This step is the
most difficult to deal with, and its difficulty is compounded
when dealing with people who are in a highly activated state.
Quinn added that to the best of his knowledge, this is the
first group of EMS responders who are being taught an extra
level of stabilization. It is one of the first groups in the world
that will be deployed with the specific purpose of providing
psychological first aid, and we will need to do a lot of research
as we go along.
The new unit is headed by Miriam Ballin, a marriage
and family therapist as well as a volunteer medic for
United Hatzalah.
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Palpable purity:
The incredible Chabad mikvah in Tenafly
t is a gem of Jewish Bergen County.

One truly experiences a palpable sense of purity permeating
the attractive Chabad mikvah of
Tenafly. Under the capable founding,
supervision, and direction of Rabbi Mordechai Shain, the mikvah maintains the
highest halachic and aesthetic standards.
Its beauty makes a deep impression on
visitors. The spectacularly intelligent
design of this special space allows for elegance combined with simplicity.
After having studied the laws of mikvah construction and maintenance with
an advanced group of students, we were
interested in seeing an actual mikvah in
vivo. I called Rabbi Shain who promptly
and eagerly extended an invitation for
us to benefit from his guided tour of the
workings of the Tenafly mikvah.
Immersion in a mikvah is truly an experience of spiritual cleansing and uplifting
in Gods waters. Although the Torah normally prefers human action over Gods
action (the idea of brit milah, circumcision, is a prime example God wishes us
to improve and complete the world He created; hence the concept of tikkun olam), in
regards to mikvah, the naturainwater remain in the

ral is a sine qua non. Immerrainwater pool. Significant
sion is valid only in a natural
efforts are made to attain
source of water or water that
this goal with mixed results
directly connects to a natural
worldwide. The students
source of water.
and I were eager to visit the
Mikvaot (plural for mikTenafly mikvah as we had
vah) typically maintain a
heard that this mikvah was
pool of actual rainwater next
one of the few that successRabbi Haim
fully met this goal.
to the pool in which women
(Howard)
The students and I were
immerse. The immersion
Jachter
not disappointed in the least.
pool is filled with tap water
Congregation
We were happily surprised
which is rendered acceptShaarei Orah,
able for immersion by virtue
to learn how the Tenafly mikthe Sephardic
vahs waters are supplied by
of a physical connection to
Congregation of
Teaneck, Orthodox
underground springs. Rabbi
the rainwater pool through
Shain had the enormous
a hole in the wall separating
fortune (or heavenly interthe two pools. The connection between the tap water and the rainvention, one might say) of having a natuwater is called hashakah (kissing), since
ral spring located beneath the mikvah he
the waters kiss and become one metabuilt for his flock. Even the water in the
physical unit. In this manner, dipping in
Tenafly mikvahs immersion pool is natural water; it is a wonderful opportunity to
the immersion pool is regarded by Jewish
dip directly in Gods waters.
Law as being enveloped in Gods water.
To satisfy even those opinions in the
Moreover, mikvaot throughout the
Jewish law that are skeptical about springs,
world engage in a somewhat elusive
the spring water is purified in another step
pursuit of satisfying the opinion of Maimonides who requires that the original
by its connection to a natural rainwater
pool located beneath the immersion pool.

Lubavitch custom is to follow the enactment of the fifth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rav
Sholom Ber (referred to as the Rebbe
Rashab), to locate the rainwater pool
immediately beneath the immersion pool,
instead of the more typical side-to-side
construction. Interestingly, there is archaeological evidence to ancient mikvaot in
Judea of two thousand years ago being
constructed in both the side to side and
top to bottom methods of hashakah.
Mikvaot are designed with the aspiration to reach halachic perfection, which is
so appropriate for the concept of purifying oneself in Gods waters. While human
achievement of perfection is elusive, the
Lubavitch mikvah in Tenafly comes very
close. I encourage skeptics to consider
a visit to the mikvah with an open mind
and soul. One might just experience a
life-changing encounter with God in
this mikvah or any of the other wonderful mikvaot in Bergen County. It is especially auspicious to visit near Parashat
Naso which speaks of the dedication of
the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, a place of
purity at its zenith.
BRIEFS
Orlando shooting victims

remembered in Tel Aviv
About 100 members of Israels LGBT community held
a memorial on Tuesday in honor of the victims of the
Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. The event took
place at Evita, a gay nightclub in Tel Aviv.
Seven years ago, two streets away from here, a man
dressed in black walked by planning to murder innocent people, Imri Kalman, co-chairman of Aguda,
The Israeli National LGBT Task Force, said. Kalman
was referring to the 2009 shooting at Bar Noar, a gay
youth center, in which two people were murdered and
at least 15 others wounded.
Seven years later, another man in another country
set out to kill as many people as possible, Kalman continued. What causes a person to want to do such a
thing? Homophobia fear! Fear that turns into such
cruel hatred.The Bar Noar murderer, who is still
walking free; the murderer who killed Shira Banki [the
16-year-old girl who was stabbed to death at the 2015
Jerusalem gay pride parade], of blessed memory; and
the Pulse murderer are all one and the same murderer,
just with different faces.
Keith Mines, political counselor at the U.S. Embassy
in Israel, added that people must not get used to these
attacks and must not become indifferent to them.
Actress Asi Levi asked that everyone hope for a better world, without baseless hatred lets make that a
reality.
Meanwhile, in Orlando on Tuesday, thousands of

people gathered a few miles from the scene of the
deadly attack for a memorial ceremony. The names of
all 49 victims were read aloud at the event, and participants lit candles and laid flowers at a makeshift memorial monument set up on site.
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Israeli company creates

antibacterial fabric
The Israeli company Nano Textile has invented a technology capable of making any fabric capable of killing bacteria. The technology prevents bacteria growth
on natural and synthetic fibers, which helps prevent
the spread of infections acquired in hospitals and
reduces cross-contamination between medical staff
and patients.
Developed by Dr. Aharon Gedanken from the Department of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University in Israel
and funded by about $17 million from the European
Unions FP7 program, the technology works by embedding zinc-oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles into the fabric.
ZnO, which has antibacterial properties, is even capable of eradicating antibiotic resistant bacteria such as
MRSA. ZnO particles are created inside a solution and
transferred onto the fabric through a chemical reaction. The process is cost-effective because it changes
the fabrics appearance and still allows the fabric to
withstand up to 65 wash cycles at 92 degrees Celsius,
and up to 100 wash cycles at 75 degrees Celsius much

higher standards than what are required in medical
facilities.
Patented in both the United States and Israel, the
technology is still awaiting approval in Asia and
Europe. The process of making the fabric is outlined
in a new article published in the scientific journal
Cellulose.
The main advantages of the technology is that
it can apply anti-bacterial properties to any kind of
readymade fabric, the treatment does not at all alter
the fabrics color, and the entire process is extremely
cost-effective, said Dr. Aharon Gedanken, the Israeli
business news outlet Globes reported. In a hospital
setting, for example, our technology can be used for
inserting anti-bacterial characteristics to staff uniforms, patients pajamas, linen, blankets, and curtains,
in order to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality and in parallel reduce hospitalization costs.
After establishing proof-of-concept, we are now in
the process of raising the necessary capital to begin
operations. The potential for our antibacterial fabric
technology reaches far beyond medical applications,
as it is relevant to a variety of industries such as airplanes, trains and luxury cars in the transportation
industry; babywear, sports clothing and undergarments in the clothing industry, restaurants and hotels
in the entertainment and tourist industries, Nano Textiles president, Lilac Mandeles, said.
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16. Start of Allens Blue Jasmine
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18. Henrik who influenced Arthur Miller
19. Observe shiva
20. Actress Fisher
22. Noah
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28. LaBeouf of who played Indiana
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29. Fear of Flying author Jong
32. Hai and Aviv
33. Like many rooms Shabbat day
35. Israel to the U.S.
37. Samuel
39. Phinehas
44. What you might take in this publication
46. Where 6-Across fell when he met
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58. Abraham
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62. Religious law
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70. Sam who directed Spider-Man
71. Line to the crowd in The Merchant
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72. Joshua
73. Miriam
74. Lot
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3. Airer of Kohans Weeds, for short
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5. Morricone who was Mamets musical
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7. Country whose Muslims protected the
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8. These, to Lon Blum
9. Kever of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
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10. Munich actor Eric (and others)
11. Ancient Semite
12. Not rabbinical
13. Were All ___ Together song Zac
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21. Composer Bedrich whose Vltava
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23. School Bibi went to in Mass.
24. One might have a social hall
25. Treif sound
26. Refrain syllables in The Boxer
28. Rehovot to Hebron dir.
30. Dan Gilberts Cavaliers, on the
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31. Sheedys role in The Breakfast Club
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36. 1 shekel was worth 28 as of June 1
38. Once owned, like Gush Katif
40. Went up in Israel?
41. Defense Casspi might be a part of
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43. Kylo in an Abrams movie
45. Goal for a Stern girl
47. Iconic character created by Bob
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48. Prayer at the end of services
49. Rent composer Jonathan or
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50. Letters linking many Jewish priests
52. Academic College in Kiryat Tivon
55. Ghana city with a Chabad house
57. Israels Tikvah
59. ___ im HaGolan!
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65. Al Jolsons real first name
66. Shalom to Putin
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Pop
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for the
people
Synergy, 2013, captures David Gersteins
exuberant style.
DAVID GERSTEIN
David Gersteins happy palette

VIVA SARAH PRESS
useums and galleries tend to

abide by the no touch rule
to safeguard the artworks
they display.
But Israeli contemporary artist David
Gerstein encourages a hands-on approach,
firmly believing that his creations are for
the public and not for private collectors or
curators.
My philosophy is that art should touch
life. It shouldnt be something that you see
once a year when you go to a museum,

Gerstein said at his studio in the Bet Shemesh Industrial Zone.
Theres a pop-art feel to the everyday
items he depicts in his multilayered wall
sculptures, outdoor sculptures, paintings,
prints, drawings, and designed objects.
Its my personal pop art, he said. Im
not following Andy Warhol but Im using
the same feeling about the colors, about
the popular images. Its about speaking
with the audience at eye level. My work is
not a riddle. Many times I go to museums
David Gersteins Fifth Avenue wall sculpture, 2016.

and see artworks that are vague. I want

people to understand what I mean.
The subject matter for his paintings
and sculptures all comes from scenes in
his past. My memory of my mother riding a bike became the Tour de France
wall sculpture, he said. Im not just
inventing images. Theyre all based on my
memories.
Gerstein has succeeded in bringing his
universal language of playfulness, humor,
and optimism to the audiences in many
countries.
Among the many galleries and museums that have exhibited his works are the
Ostendorff Gallery in Germany, Gallerie
Quorum in Spain, Newbury Fine Art Gallery in the United States, Catto Gallery in
the U.K., and Museo Naional Do Brasil in
Brazil.
In Israel, his works especially his
three-dimensional outdoor sculptures
The artist at work.
brighten up cities and towns from north

to south.
Gerstein has changed the spirit of environmental sculpture in Israel, the late
prize-winning Israeli curator Naomi Aviv
wrote. No more the enigmatic object
which arouses a feeling of splendor and
distance, but an accessible object, fresh
and optimistic.
Gersteins studio is a multi-roomed
warehouse surrounded by gray industrial office blocks. What goes on inside the
building is anything but bleak.
Step through the gate, and you enter a
magical kingdom filled with 3D cows and
flowers, butterflies and birds, and cyclists
racing to nowhere. Framed paintings feature golden fish, balconies, and urban
scenes bursting with life.
It is no wonder that Chinese hospitals
and nursing homes lately have begun queuing up for a dose of Gerstein happiness.
DAVID GERSTEIN
I never thought Id get to the Far East,

he said, noting that he is working on eight
huge wall murals in China and an art
exhibit for Beijing. And hes been meeting
with other Chinese curators interested in
his work.
While he also recently made a large
sculpture for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, hospitals are hardly his
only clients.
Gerstein is on the go at least a week
every month, traveling with his exhibitions or meeting potential buyers. In January, the 72-year-old widower presented
Pope Francis with a wall sculpture in two
layers and bright colors, incorporating
a phrase from Psalms, The Lord is my
shepherd, I shall not want, in Hebrew
and Spanish.
The ceremony was exciting; they had
about 3,000 people from all over the
world, big believers, admiring my art,
Gerstein said.
His most famous work, an 18.35-meterhigh painted steel outdoor sculpture
called Momentum, is installed in Singapores central business district. It became
an icon, he said.
One of Israels best-known contemporary artists, Gerstein was
born and raised in Jerusalem.
At 21, he started his studies at Bezalel School of
Art, the premiere art
school in the country. In the 1960s,
Gerstein set off to
widen his art horizons in Paris at the
Ecole Superieure des
Beaux Arts and then in
New York Citys Art Students League.
When I returned from New
York I was still very young, he
wrote in the forward to his book,
David Gerstein Works. I immediately began teaching at Bezalel and I had to make a crucial
decision for myself as an artist:
Should I turn to what is popular
and accepted, meaning the minimalist, conceptual approaches,
or go my own way and be less popular, for the moment at least.
He chose to concentrate on painting.
Back then, in the 1970s, his palette was
monochromatic.
In 1980, Gerstein created his first twodimensional sculpture. At the time, hightech laser cutting wasnt available, so he
carved an image of donkeys out of wood.
For the next 15 years, he carved and
painted wooden sculptures that eventually would become his signature in the art
world.
I believed in it, he says of the new style
he created. My family thought I became
crazy. I was recognized as an artist and as
a painter. They thought it was a phase that
would pass.
Today he uses laser technologies for
Peloton Wave, done in 2014, is installed outside an

athletic stadium in Sinchu, South Korea. DAVID GERSTEIN
Gerstein calls this work

simply Lipstick.
steel and aluminum cutouts. And the bright colors came about thanks
to the need for industrial
paint to cover the metal.
I love pure colors and
industrial colors, he said.
My painting also changed. The
bright colors became part of my works.
The public loves his happy palette.
In fact, he started creating small objects,
stamped with the Gerstein Design logo,
because people kept telling him that they
couldnt afford his work. He continues to
add to this collection, although curators
kept telling him that he would kill his
market.
His limited-edition art is hand-painted;
the images on his unlimited smaller
objects are printed. His works range in
price from $100 to $1.5 million. Design
shops in Israel and around the world sell
his smaller sculptures, and his designs
can be found on porcelain dishes, clocks,
placemats, jewelry boxes, and more.
David Gersteins drawing of cacti in Israels Elah Valley.
Theres a saying, A car for every

worker. I say, Art for everyone. I think
that art should serve; its not something
above us. Its something that we live with,
Gerstein said.
Imagine Van Gogh seeing a tie with his
Starry Night painting on it. Im sure he
would be so happy. At the time, no one
looked at his works. And now, there are
aprons with his images, placemats with his
images. Im very happy when companies
approach me and say they want to use my
images for something, said the down-toearth, friendly artist.
But copycats irk him intensely, and
there are many copycats in Israel.
It makes me sick, he said. A lot of
people say I should be happy; not many
artists are being copied. But many times,
Im so upset with the quality of the copies. Also, Im afraid that people will stop
seeing the difference or stop seeing who
is the original.
Gerstein credits his wife, who died three
years ago, with helping him stay grounded
and bringing the artworks of others to the

walls of their Jerusalem home. In his office,
balanced precariously on his printer, is an
original Menashe Kadishman painting with
a personal note on the back of the canvas.
Gerstein enjoys visiting schools in Israel
and giving talks about Israeli art. He says
he always finds it amusing that children
ask to take selfies with him. And he gets
even more animated when he talks about
new public installations, like the Ruby
Shapira sculpture dedicated to the late
president of the Hapoel Haifa soccer team
now being installed in Haifa.
My best works are outdoors because
its in the public domain, he said. I like
people to experience it when theyre walking, driving, being part of the public. That
gives me the most pleasure. It talks with
the environment, with the surrounding
architecture. Its my great experience,
doing public works.
Which of his works is his favorite? My
most favorite is the one Im going to do,
Gerstein answered. My mind is always
thinking about the next creation.
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Friday
JUNE 17
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Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
musical services with
the Temple Emeth Band,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.Emeth.org.
Saturday
JUNE 18
Andrew Gross
Israeli politics: TeaneckHackensack Hadassah
meets at Congregation
Beth Sholom in Teaneck
to hear Andrew Gross,
director of political
affairs and adviser to
the Deputy Consul
of Israel in New York,
talk about politics,
1 p.m. 354 Maitland Ave.
Refreshments. Minette,
(201) 837-1563.
Rabbi Yitzchak Neriya

Shabbat learning
in Teaneck: Rabbi
Yitzchak Neriya, head of
Yeshivat Torah Betzion
in Jerusalem and
founder of the nonprofit
chesed organization
Echad lEchad, talks
about Raising the Bar
in Torah Education,
at Congregation Beth
Aaron, 6:30 p.m. 950
Queen Anne Road.
www.bethaaron.org or
(201) 836-6210.
Sunday
JUNE 19
Fathers Day BBQ in
Teaneck: Congregation
Rinat Yisrael hosts the
Wandering Que, a kosher
pop-up smokehouse
barbecue with a large
Texas-style woodburning smoker, in
the shuls parking lot,
12:15-9 p.m. Barbecue
menu features platters
and sandwiches with its
award-winning pulled
and sliced brisket, ribs,
chicken, turkey legs,
hot dogs/sausages,
chili, cholent, lamb-belly
bacon, baked beans,
soup, key limeade,
and side dishes. 389
West Englewood Ave.
(201) 837-2795.
Monday
JUNE 20
Camp in Oakland:
Academies at Gerrard
Berman Day School
host its STEAM Camp
by PicoTurbine,
9 a.m.-3 p.m., through
June 24, for firstto eighth-graders.
45 Spruce St.
Book club in Paramus:

Phyllis Waterstone
facilitates a discussion
on The Rent Collector
by Camron Wright at
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
Tikvah, 6:45 p.m.
Refreshments. East
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Tuesday
JUNE 21
The Shirah Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by founding

director Matthew Lazar and conductor Marsha Bryan Edelman,
will perform in the annual Bernie and Ruth Weinflash zl memorial
concert, its 22nd annual spring performance, Sunday, June 19. The
7 p.m. concert is in the Taub Auditorium at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly. Mizmor Shir: Psalms, Songs and More! will feature classic and
contemporary settings from the Book of Psalms, as well as other music by
Israeli and American composers. The concert also will include a tribute to
the music of Elliot Z. Levine, a local composer who is planning to move to
California. jccotp.org/Thurnauer or (201) 408-1465.
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JUNE 24
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Brain fitness in Tenafly:
Linda Lohsen, director
of the Center for
Healthy Living at Holy
Name Medical Center
in Teaneck, hosts Brain
Fitness, for seniors at
the Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades, 11:15 a.m. Lunch
available. Helene, (201)
408-1451.
Help for movement:

Lorraine Hansberry:
Dumont historian
Dick Burnon presents
a lecture, Lorraine
Hansberry: Civil Rights
Activist and Pre-Eminent
African-American
Playwright, with video,
at a meeting of REAP
(Retired Executives and
Active Professionals)
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
10: 45 a.m. Excerpts of
the film, A Raisin in
the Sun will be shown.
411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 569-7900 or www.
jccotp.org.
motion to improve
movement, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 1 p.m.
Program is sponsored
by Tri Boro Hadassah.
Refreshments. Guests
welcome. E. 304 Midland
Ave., Paramus.
Joyce Bendavid offers a

class in the Feldenkrais
method of movement
awareness, with gentle
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds Shabbat Tzavta
(Shabbat together), a
participatory service
with selections from
contemporary and
classical repertoires, folk
rock melodies, liturgical
selections, traditional
motifs, and Israeli and
Argentinian synagogue
melodies, 7 p.m. Service
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in collective struggle against terror
Three weeks before the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Warsaw, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with a group of ambassadors from NATO member states and called for a collective struggle against terrorism.
Before the start of Tuesdays meeting, Netanyahu told
the ambassadors, I look forward to this opportunity to
discuss our common interests, based on our common
values. I want to thank NATO for inviting Israel to open
an office in your headquarters in Brussels. I called Secretary General [ Jens] Stoltenberg immediately to express
my appreciation and I want to inform you that were in
the process of opening the office as soon as possible. We
attach great importance to that. Israel has much to contribute to NATO. I believe NATO has much to contribute
to Israel. Weve already begun that process, but I think
we can extend and increase our cooperation.
Referring to the threat posed by terrorism throughout
the world, Netanyahu said, Paris, Brussels, London,
Generations of Lasting Service to the Jewish Community
Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bali, Mumbai, New York, San Bernardino, and now Orlando, and so many other cities,
have been struck by the same evil. Terror knows no
bounds, and that is why our cooperation in the battle
against terrorism must know no bounds as well.
One day ISIS kills gays, the next day Yazidis, and
then Jews and Muslims and Christians, said the prime
minister. They have no bounds. Terror, the indiscriminate, systematic attack on innocent people, must
always be confronted and must always be fought, and
that doesnt change. In any case, it doesnt depend on
the identity of the victims. It depends on the nature
of the act. The act is evil and is perpetrated by people
with evil designs, and we, the people of the civilized
world, have to band together to defeat it. We stand
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prepared to share our intelligence and our experience
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U.K.s Ken Livingstone rejects anti-Semitism

Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who controversially told BBC Radio in May that Hitler was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing 6 million Jews, took on a new tone by condemning
anti-Semitism on Tuesday in a written statement to
the U.K. House of Commons Home Affairs Committee ahead of an appearance before the committee the
same day.
I detest racism and condemn anti-Semitism, wrote
Livingstone, who was among the various Labour party
members suspended over anti-Semitic rhetoric last
month, reported the Evening Standard. Indeed my
political career has totally opposed any such views
concerning any religious or ethnic group.
Livingstone also criticized the rise of physical and

verbal attacks in London motivated by racism and faith
hate in recent years, particularly the utterly deplorable doubling of anti-Semitic hate crimes from 2010
to 2015.
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope
whose end is at Auschwitz. I totally reject such a view
of Jews, black people or any other group, he also
wrote.
Livingstone also wrote that trigger events in the
Middle East can cause a rise in anti-Semitic incidents
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The Teaneck Farmers Market has a broad
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Teaneck resident Daniel Senters New Jersey Bees sells an array of jars of honey. Hoboken Farms brings artisan breads, mozzarellas,
frozen portion-control entres, and raviolis,
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Coco and Jasmine of Nanas Home Kitchen
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They also sell a variety of Middle Eastern style
spreads such as hummus, baba ghanoush,
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and dried fruit that is naturally dehydrated or
lightly sweetened.
Stellas Empanada Argentine Grill offers
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your family and friends. For more of a sweet
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in mini and regular size cupcakes, and cakes.
This season, the market is bringing in guest
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health issues.
July 14 is senior coupon day, featuring the
countys bloodmobile and Holy Name Medical
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The Teaneck Farmers Market has renewed
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families, said Marcia Levy, presidium

member responsible for community service for the National Council of Jewish
Women. This is a fitting way to recognize the generosity and memory of one
of our members.
The construction will occur in late
August when the early childhood program is closed for annual staff training.
Although the cost of the work will be
greatly reduced by some discounting by
the contractor and the donation of some
materials, the grant does not cover all
costs of the expansion and added curriculum and staff training. BFC seeks
additional donations. Anyone interested
in helping with this project should call
Mary Connolly at (201) 568-0817, ext.
122, or Marcia Levy, (201) 894-8739.
Founded in 1898, Bergen Family Center is the countys oldest continuously
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families, and children that enhance their
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