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Vodka with a Jewish twist
Looking for something novel with which to
toast 2013? Jewish Standard vodka, a product
the reader might imagine to be near and dear
to this papers heart, could be just the thing.
Eli Hardof, owner of Wine for All, an
Orangeburg, N.Y., shop specializing in
boutique wines and spirits, began stocking
the export limited edition of the kosher
libation in mid-October.
The 700 ml bottle comes with a small 150
ml bottle the size of an airplane mini
attached to its neck. This enabled the vodkas
Russian creator, Mark Kaufman, to make an
end run around strict regulations for liquor
imports to the United States. The two bottles
are packaged together to be in compliance
with the size regulations, according to
Hardof.
Seven hundred milliliters, 500 ml, thats
allowed, but 700 ml is not accepted in the
U.S., he said. So he [Kaufman] got creative at the last minute and
he packaged it this way. When he didnt meet the American standard,
he created the Jewish Standard. So thats the folklore of the name.
The vodka, which retails for $39, is packaged in a bright orange
container illustrated with a sketch of drunken Jews that is either
hilarious or repellent, depending on your point of view or
perhaps how much of the vodka youve consumed. A smattering of
Yiddish, Jewish symbols, and a Russian hecksher provide the icing
on the cake, or perhaps the olive in the martini, in this case.
The artwork, which stylistically resembles classic anti-Semitic
propaganda, hasnt gone over that well, according to Alec Bernstein,
the vodkas distributor.
People hate it, Bernstein said in Russian-accented English.
My friends who have roots from Russia, they dont see anything
offensive, but stores such as Manhattans Sherry-Lehmann have not
been amused. He does a brisk business, nonetheless, in New Yorks
chasidic communities in Monroe and Monsey, he said, and Tenaflys
Wine Venture also carries it.
The Jewish Standard is 40 percent alcohol and in the Russian
style, Hardof said. Its a medium body and it has a kick at the end.
Its not trying to be a Grey Goose, a Van Gogh, or a Ketel One, which
are creamier, richer, and more flavored. A lot of vodka aficionados
will call that vodka with training wheels.
Hardof began carrying the vodka when Bernstein asked him for
his opinion of it and another Ukrainian one. He passed on that one,
and opted to carry the Jewish Standard.
I figured I could have a little fun with that.
Marla Cohen
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Learning through other peoples stories
rahel Musleah to speak on the Jews of india
Lois GoLdrich
T
heres no one way of being Jewish; there is no
monolithic way to view the Jewish people.
That, says writer/lecturer Rahel Musleah,
is part of the message she hopes to convey when she
speaks at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel on Dec. 20.
In a presentation called Jewish Calcutta through
Music and Memory, Musleah born in Calcutta to a
family that traces its roots there back seven generations
will introduce attendees to the life of Indian Jews
through music, personal anecdotes, artifacts, and
photographs.
I think that people are interested in finding out that
there are Jews who are like them and those who are
different, Musleah said. I truly believe that people learn
through other peoples stories.
Theres a universal sense of loss when a Jewish
community is almost no longer, she added, noting that
the once-flourishing Jewish community in Calcutta,
home to about 5,000 people, has dwindled to about 30.
Even Mumbai, which once boasted some 30,000 Jews,
now has only about 4,000.
While discussing the distinctive customs of the Indian
Jewish community, Musleah who has lived in the
United States since 1964 and now lives in New York
will recount her personal journeys as well. That includes
a 1997 trip to Calcutta with her parents.
When I went to India with my parents, the stories
and pictures I was raised with came to life, she said. It
was life-changing in the way that it reconnected me with
my parents and with what India means to me.
After that trip and a second one she and her sister
took in 2006 she started to speak about Indian Jewish
heritage to others. (Her sister, Flora Yavelberg, chairs the
upper schools Judaism studies department at the Golda
Och Academy in West Orange.)
I now had some tangible experience, Musleah said,
noting that while she does have memories of her early
years in India, its hard to know what is real. I do know
that I had a pet goat in Madhupur, the hill station where
we spent our winter vacations. I have a picture of it. And
I have memories of other things, like watching a Muslim
procession where [people] beat their chests until they
bled. It was a very searing, scary memory.
Musleah said that her father came to the United
States to study at the Jewish Theological Seminary in
1947, returning to India after he was ordained to become
the rabbi of Calcuttas Maghen David Synagogue. By
the 1960s, a lot of the community had already left,
Musleah said, explaining that most of the Jews moved
to Israel, England, Australia, Canada, and the United
States. To some extent, she said, they were driven by
the establishment of the State of Israel, economic
uncertainty after Indian independence, unrest around
the partition of India and Pakistan and also because
after World War II, the world started opening up. Her
father was offered a job in the United States, and her
parents decided to go.
In 1964 the family Rabbi Ezekiel and Margaret
Musleah and their daughters moved to Philadelphia,
where Musleahs father became religious leader of
Mikveh Israel, the Spanish-Portuguese synagogue.
It was a very big adjustment, and more for my
mother than for anyone else, she said. In India we had
people to help us a cook, an ayah [nanny], someone to
take care of the laundry. My mother didnt know how to
drive, cook, or take care of kids full time.
Musleah said that although she hasnt met many
American Jews of Indian heritage, she follows up
comments left on her website (www.rahelsjewishindia.
com) by visitors who order her CDs of Jewish Indian
music and prayers.
In addition, she visited Israel in August and met
members of the Indian Jewish community, who had
What: Jewish Calcutta through Music and Memory
Who: Presented by rahel Musleah
When: dec. 20, 8 p.m.
Where: Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai israel
For information: 201-796-5040; info@fljc.com
Free to sisterhood members, $5 at the door for the
general public
Rahel Musleah. Rahel, at the far left, in 1964, with her mother and two sisters as
they left India by ship.
The Maghen David synagogue in Calcutta, where Rahels father was the rabbi.
see INDIA page 35
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come back from all over the world.
During that trip, she learned that efforts
are underway to establish an Indian
Jewish heritage center in Haifa.
I also met a second cousin, she said.
We really hit it off. I felt a real kinship
and was tapping her memory for family
stories.
Musleah said her knowledge of Indian
customs, songs, and prayers was passed
down through everything we did in
the house. If her Solomon Schechter
education was Ashkenazic, her home
was an island of Indian tradition in
Philadelphia.
She recalls celebrations of Shabbat,
Pesach, Rosh Hashanah each with
specific traditions and melodies. There
was also a lot of singing of the traditional
songs called pizmonim.
She, in turn, is doing her best to
pass these traditions down to her two
daughters.
Its not possible to pass it down in
the same measure, as each generation
becomes one more [generation]
removed, she said, but she tries. We do
the Pesach seder the same way. My father
leads it. We do the Rosh Hashanah seder
and kiddush on Shabbat. Their interest
deepens with maturity.
Someone once asked my daughter
Shira, What kind of customs do you
still do? She said, What do you mean?
Everything we do is Indian. It was a
revelation even to me.
In addition to her presentation on
Calcutta, Musleah offers talks on the
Jews of Mumbai and Cochin and on the
Bnei Menashe of northeastern India.
To prepare for these lectures, she does
substantial research.
I have visited these communities
and interviewed people, she said. She
has connected with Iraqi Jews in Queens
and Great Neck [where there are two
Babylonian synagogues], and offers a
talk on their history as well.
Speaking about her Indian heritage is
a really important thing for me, Musleah
said. Its who I am. The trips to India, the
research, songs, and stories have helped
me to find another piece of the puzzle of
who I am, what the community was, and
what it still means to me.
Musleah who contributes regularly
to Hadassah magazine, Jewish Woman,
and many other publications has
received Simon Rockower awards for
excellence in Jewish journalism from
the American Jewish Press Association
frequently since 1996. She is the author
of several books, including Apples and
Pomegranates: A Family Seder for Rosh
Hashanah, and Why On This Night? A
Haggadah for Family Celebration. She
has also recorded a CD: Jewish Rhythms
from Baghdad to India.
see INDIA page 35
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th
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The Musleah family Torah dates to
1888.
The trips to India, the
research, songs, and stories
have helped me to find
another piece of the puzzle
of who I am, what the
community was, and what it
still means to me.
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Rahel and her two
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Purim in Indian
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Miracle of Chanukah
twenty years of candle-lighting in norwood
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
O
n the third night of Chanukah, Nanc Fellerman-
Yahr came to illuminate the eight-foot-tall elec-
tric chanukiah at Norwood Borough Hall.
Every night at 6, if you show up you get to turn the
switch on, she said .
Fellerman-Yahr, a speech and language pathologist
and a member of Chavurah Beth Shalom in Alpine, is one
of a core group of local Jews who bought and arranged
for the display of the menorah 20 years ago along with a
Christmas crche.
The answer to Who knew 20 years ago there were Jews
in Norwood? is I did! she said.
Its been nearly 22 years since she and her husband,
Peter, and their sons Maxwell and Hudson arrived in the
northern borough, which now is home to fewer than 6,000
people. There were just a few Jewish families, many still
here, when the question of the menorah came up before
the mayor and council, she said.
She was not at that meeting, but was told that the
council was open to the idea of having a chanukiah on
display but only if residents bought it and only if there
were a nativity scene alongside it.
This condition ruffled some feathers in the little Jewish
community. Fellerman-Yahr got involved because she felt
it was possible to accomplish the goal peacefully and qui-
etly through a rather atypical fundraising campaign.
She asked one of the residents to price out the two
items. He estimated that they had to raise $1,800 re-
markably, 100 times the Hebrew numerical equivalent of
the word chai, life.
I stated what we could donate, he matched it, and
then I drove through Norwood in search of all the Jews I
could find. It was the five or six Jewish families of Norwood
and two very kind Christian neighbors that made the me-
norah and manger adorn our little town each year, said
Fellerman-Yahr, whose great-uncle, Meyer Pesin, once
edited the Jewish Standard.
Until his retirement this year, Camillo Direse of the
Norwood Department of Public Works always set up the
holiday display and made sure to replace bulbs that had
burned out or to fix wiring as necessary. One winter, un-
asked, he shoveled a path to the menorah after a blizzard
had blanketed the borough with snow.
For many years, Fellerman-Yahr presided unofficially
over the annual lighting. Publicity was a home-grown af-
fair before the Jewish population of Norwood and neigh-
boring Old Tappan began growing.
Each family took responsibility for being there one
night, she said. The families of Norwood would call each
other for years, and then, later, flyers were sent home. The
kids who were the youngest, or oldest, or closest to bar
or bat mitzvah, were asked to light the first candle. It has
always been a community event we even had a Jewish
mayor and judge in town at one time, she said.
The ritual lighting is accompanied by singing, danc-
ing, and the distribution of dreidels, Chanukah gelt, and
stickers.
This year, about 200 people came out for the first
nights lighting, which was presided over by Rabbi
Mendy Lewis of the Old Tappan Chabad. Mayor James
Barsa lit the helper candle, the shamash, while Police
Commissioner-Councilman Allen Rapaport lit the first
candle.
This is a joyous occasion for our community and the
surrounding communities to join together, Fellerman-
Yahr said. She or one of her sons still drives by Borough
Hall every night of Chanukah to make sure the chanukiah
has stayed lit.
More and more children and families are showing
up, she said. Last year, as the word was passed, prob-
ably by Internet certainly not by flyers some great
Jewish families stepped forward and provided donuts and
cocoa.
This year, Fellerman-Yahr brought along her seven-
month-old granddaughter, Raisa, to the lighting. I am so
very happy to have lived here long enough to see this hap-
pen, she said.
Menorah-lighting in Norwood is a time of unity.
Tammy GreenberG
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Planning for a legacy
Jewish federation project hopes to create culture of endowment
Larry yudeLson
H
ave you thought about how your
values will live on after you have
died?
Thats a question many people are
asked by their attorneys and financial ad-
visers when they draw up their wills.
Now, area Jewish institutions are being
encouraged to add that question to their
phrasebook when they talk to supporters,
thanks to a new program from the Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jersey.
The goal is to challenge supporters of
those institutions including the federa-
tion itself to Create a Jewish Legacy,
in the words of the programs title.
Last Thursday night, the Create a
Jewish Legacy program kicked off a two-
year training program for 60 professional
and lay leaders of local Jewish social ser-
vice agencies and day schools.
We feel we will be able to create a cul-
ture of endowment giving that permeates
the community, said Paula Shaiman,
who chairs the program for the fed-
eration, and who recently
served as president of the
Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey.
The program itself is an
example of what Shaiman
calls the power of be-
quests and endowments.
It is partially funded by
a grant from the federa-
tions endowment fund, as
well as grants from the
Russell Berrie Foundation
and the Jewish Federations
of North America. JFNA is promoting the
program, which originated in San Diego
in 2002, in Jewish communities across the
continent.
Bequests and endowments are go-
ing after a different time horizon,
than regular fundraising, explained Sam
Moed, chair of Jewish Education for
Generations, a consortium of eight area
Jewish day schools. We have to do this
now so 10 years from now we dont say
we wish we had done this 10 years ago.
We recognize the fruits of this effort will
not be immediate but the impact will be
enduring.
Sixty people were at the meeting.
Twelve of them were from JEFG, because
most of the consortiums schools sent one
or two representatives.
The federation and the schools
are working together in the interest of
catalyzing much more significant endow-
ments for Jewish education, he said, not-
ing that endowments and bequests are a
major tool that other private educational
institutions have in place. By and large
our schools do not have endowments and
our community needs to change that.
Shaiman said that on Thursday night
the group heard that the average bequest
to a nonprofit is $65,000 and that mon-
ey comes from a donor who was donating
an average of $110 per year.
It speaks to the fact that people are
worried about being able to make it day
to day, but once theyre gone they want
to make sure their values are carried on,
she said.
The speaker, Bryan Clontz, a planned
giving consultant, asked how many peo-
ple in the room knew the
names of two of their great
grandparents. Fewer than
half raised their hands.
Then he asked how many
knew the names of three.
Within two generations
your family will not neces-
sarily know your name,
but theyll know what
you stood for and theyll
know what values you
had if youre making be-
quests and endowments,
Shaiman said. My kids see me day to day,
the work I do, the money I give and so
on, but generations from now, they may
not even know my name. If Ive made
endowments and bequests and the or-
ganizations I supported continue on and
continue doing the work I felt was valu-
able, then Ive done my job.
If the first time you think about leaving
a bequest is when your attorney asks you
where would you like to leave something,
maybe you spend 10 or 30 seconds
thinking, she said.
To the extent were having these con-
versations with people who are involved
with our agencies and have seen the really
important work we do, it makes it the top
of their mind when they have the conver-
sation about planning their estates. Just
asking is a big start. This is not something
thats difficult to do.
People feel that this is a difficult con-
versation. Its different than asking for
a $5,000 gift tomorrow. Its really about
getting their mind set about how do you
want to pass on your values as you leave
this earth. Its your final opportunity to
say what you value in life, she said.
The most important thing for organi-
zations is to let your donors know youre
in the bequest business. You want to
be in this business of endowments and
bequests because you want this work to
continue, she said.
Shaiman said that convening the
group, which will meet several times over
the next two years, is an example of the
federation helping other Jewish com-
munal organizations learn to fish for
themselves.
Paula Shaiman
Whos on board?
Representatives from these groups including lay leaders, executive directors,
and development directors are taking part in the two-year Create a Jewish
Legacy progam:
The Jewish Association for Developmental Disabilities
Jewish Education for Generations
The Jewish Family Service of Bergen County and North Hudson
The Jewish Family Service of North Jersey
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
The Jewish Home Foundation of North Jersey
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
Maayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
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Jeanette Friedman
A
meeting to help the Jewish
community plan for emergen-
cies brought 25 representa-
tives of local synagogues and schools
to the Teaneck police headquarters last
Thursday night, where public officials
urged preparedness.
The towns large population of
observant Jews who dont watch TV,
listen to the radio, or pick up the phone
on Shabbat creates a challenge when
it comes to alerting residents of an
emergency, said town Councilman Elie
Katz, one of the organizers of the meeting.
He cited as an example a recent water
emergency that took place on Shabbat
when the water company was unable
to reach Orthodox Jews to warn them
not to drink the water. He also noted the
2010 storm, when a falling tree killed two
Teaneck residents.
Certainly that first big storm was a
wake-up call, Katz said. We got hold of
the mayor and were able to send people
to the parks to tell everyone to find
shelter.
There are lessons to be learned
from Hurricane Sandy and the other
storms and events that have confronted
our community recently, another
councilman, Yitz Stern, said.
But the concerns were not only about
weather emergencies.
Both Stern and Katz noted the attacks
on Bergen County synagogues that began
a year ago, attempts to lure children in
neighboring towns, and recent burglaries
that took place in Teaneck while
homeowners were in synagogue.
Much of the discussion concerned
aspects of emergency preparedness that
are commonsense but often ignored
nonetheless.
We saw, even before Sandy, that
people dont have a plan in case of a
disaster, police chief Robert A. Wilson
said. They dont have plans for their
homes and the community institutions
dont have disaster plans either. But
people cant call the police and fire
departments if they dont have a plan. We
can give you advice on how to plan, but
our lights go out when your lights go out,
and we have to plan too.
Individuals and institutions need
to know what their vulnerabilities are.
The police know what works and what
doesnt. Surveillance cameras and people
designated to watch the perimeter and
stay alert are part of that. We also have
to discuss cultural and religious issues,
because they are necessary to the plan,
and you want that plan to work. You
cannot afford a failure.
As part of security planning,
institutions should have their
administrators send copies of their
building floor plans and blueprints to the
fire and police departments.
Wilson recommended the work
of the Community Security Service,
a nonprofit security organization for
Jewish institutions that offers a 12-week
intensive security training program.
The police will come and protect
you, CSS will teach you how to protect
yourself, how to be pro-active, Wilson
said. But there are also other issues. The
rabbis need to tell us how far they are
willing to go with their plan and everyone
needs to know that when there is a plan, it
must be followed. You also need to know
how to evacuate your building.
There are other security concerns
as well, like using concrete barriers to
protect the babies in their strollers on
the sidewalks. You have to worry about
drivers who are busy texting and lose
control. There is funding to provide for
these measures, and we will help you
apply for grants.
The public officials urged residents
to be alert to possible security risks, and
not to hesitate to call the police. If you
see a suspicious person photographing a
school or a synagogue, or looking as if he
or she is casing a location, dont wait
five days to send me an email, Katz said.
Call the police. We know you dont want
to look like a fool, but we would rather
have 100 calls, even if only one of them
proves to be serious.
Similarly, Sgt. John deLuka of the
Bergen County bomb squad urged
everyone to be alert for suspicious
packages and for people being in places
they should not be. He said people should
call the police department; someone
there will call the bomb squad.
Think about what belongs where and
what is out of place or if something is
wrong, he said. You need to be involved.
The threats are out there. It is incumbent
upon you to keep the conversation going
after tonight.
Fire Chief Anthony Verley urged
Teaneckers to register their contact
information on the towns municipal
website, www.teanecknj.gov, so
emergency workers can find them, they
can receive robocalls, and contact people
can come to their doors on Shabbat and
Jewish holidays.
The message is preparedness, Verley
said.
Part of preparing also involves
reaching out to your neighbors.
Teaneck has 5,800 people over 65,
he said. If they need shelter, there is no
place better to be 99 percent of the time
than at home. But neighbors need to
know that. Someone has to stay in touch.
When there is a storm alert, people
should store a weeks supply of food and
water for at least a week, and be prepared
with a different plan if the power stays off
longer, he continued. Before the storm
hits, get rid of debris on your property,
batten the hatches, and top off your gas
tanks. Be careful with generators they
need to be at least 20 feet away from
your house. Know where your closest fire
alarm is. Pull the lever for medical or fire
and police emergencies, and stay at the
fire box until help arrives.
Teaneck officials plan to continue the
discussion. The next seminar, which is by
invitation only, is scheduled for Feb. 7.
From left, township manager William
Broughton, council members Yitz Stern
and Elie Katz, and Police Chief Robert
A. Wilson all talked about security.
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Samson a strong man
with a fragile psyche
Rebecca Kaplan boRoson
S
ometimes I feel I am a ghost,
haunting used bookstores and
library sales for other ghosts
worthy books that have been overlooked
and forgotten. Sometimes
I find only corpses, books
that deserve to be buried under dust and
cobwebs. But sometimes ah, sometimes
I find a treasure.
Such a treasure is Lions Honey:
The Myth of Samson, by the brilliant
Israeli writer David Grossman and elo-
quently translated from the Hebrew by
Stuart Schoffman. Published in 2006 by
Canongate, its a small book, a mere 155
pages, and it may have simply slipped
through reviewers minds and hands.
Grossman takes us (as if by the hand)
through the story of the biblical hero, a
story whose outlines we all know so well:
his mothers barrenness; the announce-
ment by an angel of his pending birth and
the conditions set on him; the mission he is
predestined to perform.
And then lust and rage and killing; be-
trayal by an apparently beloved woman;
crippling, shaming, and revenge.
But while we know all this, we
dont know Samson the person, whom
Grossman describes so intimately, as if
seen from within, that we cannot doubt
his vision.
He begins to tell us, from the introduc-
tion on, that this is most of all the story
of a man whose life was a never-ending
struggle to accommodate himself to the
powerful destiny imposed on him, a des-
tiny he was never able to realise [sic] nor,
apparently fully to understand. It is the
story of a child who was born a stranger
to his father and mother; the story of a
magnificent strongman who ceaselessly
yearned to win his parents love and,
therefore, love in general which in the
end he never received.
Grossmans insights are stunning and
persuasive; the reader feels a sympathy for
Samson as never before, and a visceral re-
gret that his life was so lonely and torment-
ed. Miltons famous poem is titled Samson
Agonistes, but the agony as Grossman
sees it begins in the womb.
And, Grossman contends, Samsons
only respite from that agony from the
beginning of his life to its end is the mo-
ment when he falls asleep on Delilahs
lap. Samson withdraws into his child-
ish, almost infantile self, disarmed of the
violence, madness, and passion that have
confounded and ruined his life. This is,
of course, also the moment when his fate
is sealed, for Delilah is clutching his hair
and the razor. In another moment his
eyes will be plucked out and his power
extinguished. Here, in the very heart of
the cruel perfidy he has surely expected all
along, he is finally granted perfect peace, a
release from himself and the stormy dra-
mas of his life.
There are other interpretations of the
Samson story, of course, notably one
bruited in 2001 by four physicians in a
letter to Archives of General Psychiatry.
The lead author was Dr. Eric L. Altschuler,
at the time a research fellow at the
University of California at San Diegos
brain and perception laboratory. Ive
not read the letter, but according to a
New York Times article that year by Erica
Goode (thank you, Google), the letter said
that Samson suffered from antisocial per-
sonality disorder.
As evidence for their diagnosis,
Goode wrote, the writers point to a long
series of questionable incidents, includ-
ing Samsons torching of the Philistines
fields, his lies to his parents (he failed to tell
them that he had killed a lion, or that the
honey he offered them was taken from a
lions carcass), his repeated involvement
in physical fights, and his gloating after
single-handedly killing 1,000 Philistines
with the jawbone of an ass.
Goode continued, The fact that the
biblical hero finally confided the secret
of his strength his uncut locks to
Delilah after deflecting her persistent
questions with lies three times is cited by
the authors as further evidence of his self-
destructiveness, as is his violent death by
his own hand, taking countless Philistines
with him.
I prefer Grossmans interpretation of
Samson as a tormented and pitiable hu-
man rather than a psychotic monster.
Grossman, for those who dont know,
is a noted Israeli peace activist as well as a
justly acclaimed author, and he uses the
Samson story, gently and only rarely, to
put forth his views. He writes, for example,
there is a certain problematic quality to
Israeli sovereignty that is also embodied
in Samsons relationship to his own power.
As in the case of Samson, it sometimes
seems that Israels considerable military
might is an asset that becomes a liability.
For it would seem, without taking lightly
the dangers facing Israel, that the reality of
being immensely powerful has not really
been internalized in the Israeli conscious-
ness, not assimilated in a natural way, over
many generations.
To this may be added the well-known
Israeli feeling, in the face of any threat that
comes along, that the countrys security is
crumbling a feeling that also exists in
the case of Samson, who is certain situ-
ations seems to shatter into pieces. All
of this attests, it would seem to a deep
existential insecurity. This is connected,
without a doubt, to the very real dangers
lying in wait for Israel, but also to the tragic
formative experience of being a stranger in
the world.
Like Samson.
Rebecca Kaplan Boroson is editor emerita of the
Jewish Standard.
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Theresienstadt documentary
screened in NYC
A new documentary, The Resort, hosted by the World
Forum of Russian Jewry, was screened in Manhattan on
Nov. 28. The award-winning film tells the unique story
of the Jews of Theresienstadt, who refused to allow the
Nazis to break their communal spirit. Collectively refus-
ing to accept their tragic fate, these artists, poets, writers,
philosophers, and composers left behind evidence of
their cultural experiences at Theresienstadt.
The Resort received its first award at the Houston
International Film Festival and has been chosen to show
at the Montreal World Film Festival.
To see the trailer, go to www.codeoflifeproductions.
com.
Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel in
New York, left, with Svetlana Portnyansky, producer
of The Resort, and Dr. Igor Branovan, vice president
of the American Forum of Russian Jewry, at a
reception before the screening.
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Care packages for the military
The Social Action Committee of the Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai Israel is collecting items
for U.S. military personnel serving in Afghanistan and
other combat theaters. Volunteers will organize product
donations into care packages at the shul on Sunday
morning, Dec. 16.
Donations can be dropped off at 10-10 Norma Ave.
in Fair Lawn. For a list of items requested by troops, call
(201)796-5040 or go to www.fljc.com.
Friends of the IDF NJ dinner
As a result of the Hurricane Sandy, the Friends of the Israel
Defense Forces New Jersey chapter dinner, originally
set for Nov. 3, will be on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. The
annual dinners theme this year is Generations of Service,
Generations of Giving, Generations of Lone Soldiers. It
will be held at the Sheraton Meadowlands Hotel in East
Rutherford. More than 500 lay leaders and FIDF supporters
from across New Jersey are expected to attend.
Ido Aharoni, the Consul General of Israel in New York,
will be the keynote speaker. Other participants include
FIDFs national chair emeritus, Arthur Stark, and its
national director and CEO, Major General (Res.) Yitzhak
(Jerry) Gershon.
The New Jersey chapter also is known as the Lone
Soldier chapter. The dinner will honor and celebrate
Israels soldiers and will feature IDF soldiers who came
from Israel to meet with FIDF supporters; among them,
Corporal Jesse Samuel Berkowsky, a lone soldier from
Livingston, who serves as a paratrooper in the IDF.
Funds raised will go toward FIDF programs for soldiers.
For information, call (646) 274-9646 or go to fidf.org/
njgala2012.
New rabbi installed in Park Ridge
Rabbi Halina Rubinstein will be installed as the spiritual
leader of Temple Beth Sholom in Park Ridge on Sunday,
Dec. 16, at 2 p.m., where she will join Cantor Joel
Leibowitz on the bimah.
Before coming to Park Ridge, for five years she was
education director of Pelham Jewish Center in Pelham
Manor, N.Y., and she is one of the founding members of
Rosh Pinah Chavurah of the Rivertowns, a member-led
group of 90 families in Westchester. For the past nine
years, she gave sermons, organized study groups and
religious programs, and taught bnai mitzvah classes,
earning a Community Educator award from the JCC
Consortium of the Hudson Rivertown communities.
Call (201) 391-4620 or www.temple-beth-sholom.org.
YJCC Pacesetter dinner set for Dec. 19
The Bergen County YJCC will hold
its annual Pacesetter dinner on
Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 6:30 p.m. at
the YJCC in Washington Township.
Honorees include immediate past-
president Michael Feltman, its Man
of the Year; Alan Scharfstein, named
as Community Builder; and Leslie
and Kevin Strauss, Young Leader
awardees. The dinner will conclude
the yearlong celebration of the YJCCs 25 years in the
township and begin the annual operating campaign that
helps support YJCC programs and services.
Pacesetters contribute a minimum of $1,800 to the
YJCC; the dinner is an additional $100 per person. Call
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To celebrate or not
is not a question
Shammai EngElmayEr
With New Years Day
fast approaching,
we are reprising an
edited version of a
column written in 2010.
S
hould we celebrate the onset of the
secular year?
On the surface, that question
would seem silly. After all, we live by the
secular calendar. Celebrating the arrival
of a new year, then, is nothing more than
an acknowledgement that a number has
advanced by one digit.
Besides, what we call Rosh Hashanah,
our very own new years day, is itself an
acknowledgment of a secular calendar, not
a Jewish one. Our January 1 is the first
of Nisan, which occurs in the spring and
whose advent as New Years goes unmarked
by us. What we celebrate as Rosh Hashanah
actually is the first day of our seventh
month; it is our July 1.
Let us, then, put the question into
context: Our New Years falls out on the first
day of Nisan, but we pay no mind to it at all.
We mark it as the start of just another Jewish
month. Instead, we celebrate a secular
New Years as the start of our year. If so,
what is wrong with celebrating the current
version of the secular New Years Day on
January 1?
To begin with, the situations are entirely
different.
Our real new year, the first of Nisan, is
also known as the new year for kings.
In exile in Babylon after the fall of the
First Temple and the Davidic monarchy,
it seemed inappropriate to celebrate
something that could only bring sadness
and increase despondency, and the sense
of abandonment by God. It made sense,
therefore, to stop celebrating the Jewish new
year. It probably was seen also as somewhat
disrespectful of the kings of Babylon, and
even a bit seditious, because it was the new
year for our kings, not theirs.
According to the Torah, the first day
of the seventh month was the day for
remembering the blowing of the shofar
(Leviticus 23:24), but otherwise goes
undefined. Whatever meaning it had
in the Land of Israel, it clearly had lost
that meaning by the time of the exile (or
because of it). In the first exile, therefore, the
displaced Jews had a celebration without
Plea for the Jewish past
O
n page 18, Jewish Standard editor Joanne Palmer has
written an excellent feature on the Jewish Historical
Society of North Jersey and the man who has kept
this nearly invisible treasure alive these many years. Jerome
Nathans is a hero of history, namely the history of the Jews of
Paterson. We applaud him.
We are a people of memory. Chanukah, for example, is all
about memory. We look to the past, not to wallow in self-pity
for what befell us or crow with gusto over our successes, but
to remember what was as a way of understanding who we are,
how we got that way, and what we must do.
Nathans is set to retire after many years of almost thankless
devotion to his task. Someone else will have to take up the
challenge. That someone will be tasked with finding funding in
a world of diminished giving across the board, and of finding
a new and with luck a permanent home for the society and its
exhibits.
If there is a Jewish institution out there with space to spare
a school, perhaps, or a synagogue, or some other communal
entity we urge it to consider providing that space to the
JHSNNJ. Obviously, the closer to Paterson, the better, but any
centrally accessible place in the catchment area will do.
It would be a pity if such space exists somewhere but is not
offered, and the society has to shut down for good.
Plea for the Jewish future
A
modern Orthodox rabbi in Israel has made an extraor-
dinary proposal. For the sake of Israels future, it must
recognize the political validity of the non-Orthodox
streams. Yuval Cherlow, the rabbi in question, made no con-
cession regarding the halachic validity of those streams. It is
simply that the government must treat them as equals in all
matters of state. Otherwise, Cherlow wrote, Israel will find itself
without Jews in the diaspora who are willing to support it in
the future. That, he said, was an existential threat worthy of
emergency status.
Having just returned from a trip to the United States,
Cherlow wrote a letter to the students of the Israeli yeshivah
he heads, explaining that there were two reasons Jews here
were turning their backs on the Jews there, especially among
the young. The first reason for what he terms the worst kind
of disengagement from Israel was its handling of the conflict
with the Palestinians, specifically the occupation, the racism,
the control of another people by force, to use his words.
A second reason, he wrote, is the fact that they are not
wanted here: The religious movements to which they belong
are not recognized and also those who are not affiliated with
any stream of Judaism do not want to identify with a state
where the Orthodox have a monopoly, their conversions are
not recognized, and nor are their prayers (Women of the Wall)
and so on.
To ignore the problem by continuing to deny the validity of
the non-Orthodox streams is to confront Israel with a harsh
reality in which we are committing suicide, endangering the
existence of the state of Israel and moving away from our
fundamental role in the world, And all the families of the earth
are blessed with you.
In his letter, Cherlow sought to make a distinction between
Orthodox and non-Orthodox practice. There must be a
differentiation between the position of Jewish law and the
policies of the State of Israel, he wrote. Recognition would be
political, not halachic.
Nevertheless, he also argued that the Orthodox need to
make some concessions, as well, based on a halachic principle
of turning a blind eye to certain halachic violations in order to
preserve halachah in chief a principle that flows from a verse
in Psalm 119:126, It is a time to act for the Lord for they have
violated Your teaching. He included such items as driving
to a Conservative synagogue on Shabbat; considerations
in conversion; [halachic deviations] done by Reb Shlomo
Carlebach of blessed memory; bringing Reform Jews into a
minyan and in general cooperation with various streams; and
so on.
These are extraordinary statements from a rabbi who is
not a stranger to controversy. The religious right in Israel have
targeted him frequently. He even has been referred to as a neo-
Reform rabbi passing himself off as Orthodox.
What is unusual is how swiftly he was attacked by people
from his own religious Zionist camp, especially the modern
religious Zionist rabbinic group known as Tzohar, which itself is
frequently attacked from the right. Tzohar almost immediately
disassociated itself from Cherlows views. How sad that is.
Cherlow himself has gone to great lengths never to appear
in public with non-Orthodox rabbis, or to otherwise have
anything to do with them.
He made clear, however, that it was not just to save Israels
future that he was advocating reforming the system. World
Jewry, principally in the United States, continues to assimilate
and is disappearing from the Jewish people, he wrote.
Recognition by the state, he argued, possibly would enable the
non-Orthodox streams to stem the tide of assimilation in the
diaspora by giving them greater credibility.
Cherlow argues that Orthodox Judaism will win the battle for
the hearts and minds of Jews everywhere in the free market of
ideas, and has no need for state sponsorship or legal exclusivity.
Whether this is correct remains for the future to reveal. That
there will be a Jewish future at all, however, may depend on
how seriously people take to heart what he had to say.
definition while others around them were joyously
celebrating a new year. To risk letting the exiles adopt
that celebration in place of whatever it was they were
supposed to celebrate could have led to apostasy.
Thus, the day was transformed into an adjunct
of Yom Kippur, which occurs on the 10th day of
the seventh month. It became a day of meditation,
reflection and prayer. Most important, the day was
integrated into the Jewish calendar; it did not replace it.
The Jewish year remained intact. Everyone knew when
it began and when it ended. And every day, everyone
knew where they were in that calendar.
What is todays Hebrew date? If you cannot answer
that question without consulting a calendar, you
understand the difference between then and now. And
that is one reason why not to celebrate New Years Day.
(Hint: Yesterday was the first of the month of Tevet.)
There is another reason.
By whose calendar is January 1 New Years Day? It is
the Gregorian calendar that makes it so, meaning the
calendar established by Pope Gregory XIII 400 years ago.
The current fast-fading year is not just 2012; it is A.D.
2012, Anno Domini 2012, the year of our lord 2012.
Why is the upcoming year 2013 and not, say, 5773, or
some other number? Because Charlemagne, who was
crowned Holy Roman Emperor just 1,212 years ago,
insisted that the years should be counted from the birth
of Christianitys founder because Christ alone was the
ruler of all mankind and His reign had begun when
He had first been born into the world.[It] served as
the pivot around which all of history turned. (See Tom
Holland, The Forge of Christendom, Doubleday,
pages 32-34.)
In fact, New Years Day is meant as a day of
celebration of and is technically known as the Feast of
the Circumcision. Guess whose brit they are talking
about; whose blood was shed for mankind for the first
time on that day.
That the current calendar has a religious orientation
can be seen in how and when nations adopted it.
Catholic nations jumped on the bandwagon almost
immediately. Protestant countries, for the most part,
did not come on board for 100 years or more.
Britain, which abhorred anything coming from
Rome, did not sign on until 1752, nearly 200 years
later. Japan and Egypt waited about 300 years to adopt
it. The Balkan states and Russia, which followed the
Eastern rite, did not adopt the calendar until earlier
this century. Most Muslim states tolerate it, because it
is the calendar the rest of the world uses (which is also
our excuse for adapting to the secular calendars of our
countries of exile), but they prefer their own.
Jewish law tells us to avoid even the most innocent
behavior if there is the appearance of apostasy in it. In
the Babylonian Talmud tractate Avodah Zarah 12a, we
are given several examples of such innocent behavior:
bending down before an idol in order to remove a
splinter from ones foot; bending down before an idol
in order to pick up some coins that dropped; bending
down to drink from a spring in which an idol has
been placed; and drinking from fountains shaped like
human beings, which could give the appearance of
kissing an idol.
These may sound silly, but there is nothing silly
about them. We live in a world in which appearances
are everything. Just because we live by the secular
calendar does not mean we have to celebrate doing so.
We have our own holidays and festivals. Before we
celebrate someone elses, let us relearn how to celebrate
our own special days. Shabbat shalom.
Shammai Engelmayer is the executive editor of The Jewish
Standard. He is rabbi of the Conservative Temple Israel Com-
munity Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in Cliffside
Park. He also is a popular adult education teacher. The views
expressed in his column are exclusively his own.
Op-ed
An appreciation of Vladka Meed
JEanEttE FriEdman
V
ladka Meed, a model of resistance
during the Holocaust and afterward,
died on Nov. 21. She was 90 years old.
Born in 1921, Vladka was one of the first
to testify about the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
During those days she smuggled children out
of the ghetto to safety, carried guns and mes-
sages, and lord knows what else. In 1947, after
the war, she wrote her memoirs in Yiddish, and
she became a moving force behind the Warsaw
Ghetto Resistance Fighters Organization.
I came to know her and her husband, Ben, during that
second stage of their life, when they were fighting to pre-
serve the memory and lessons of the Holocaust. I was an
activist in the group of survivors children called Second
Generation a 2G, to use the term coined by their son,
Steve. Later I worked directly with them at the American
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, an organization
that was built by Ben and others, but mostly by Ben.
Every 2G in the land was Vladkas son or daughter. The
thousands of teachers who took her Holocaust courses
and traveled with her they, too, were her children.
Vladka was a force to be reckoned with. No one who
knew her, including Steve, would say she was easy. As
Steve put it so beautifully at her funeral in Cedar Park in
Paramus, she was difficult for all the right reasons. She
was a fighter, and she fought hard.
When Ben died about five years ago, people talked
about the irresistible force and the immovable object.
(You never, ever wanted to get caught between them!)
The two of them were determined to give over the legacy
and culture of the holy ones who were murdered never
perished, all were murdered in the Holocaust and to
plant the seeds of that Yiddish culture in America.
Vladka was passionate about Yiddishkeit. When she
lived in the Bronx, her neighbors were Motl and Chana
Mlotek, guardians of Yiddish music, songs, and theater.
What they shared was expressed by Vladka in a speech
in 1983 at the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust
Survivors and their families in the nations capital, where
she hosted a major presentationa fantastic variety
show that featured the best of our performing arts and
literature.
We are hereeyewitnesses of the Nazi inferno; wit-
nesses to a pulsating Jewish culture that existed, and
then was cut down. It was a tradition of splendor. A life
full of creativity, of learning, of faith in the rights of the
human being and in the righteousness of the world. A
tradition cut down but never destroyed.
In this land where we live today, the spirit of free-
dom for all was inscribed on the great Liberty Bell in
Philadelphia. The same spirit was also close to us in the
world from which we came. Its sound was heard in the
idealistic Jewish youth from political ranks who became
the core of the resistance fighters in the ghettos, in the
forests, in the camps. They drew their idealism and their
strength from the wellspring of our cultural treasures,
which gave meaning and exaltation to their lives.
Just three years ago, Vladka gave one of her final
speeches at the Teaneck Yom HaShoah commemoration.
Although she had already begun her decline, she still was
able to express the passion for her subject, her dedica-
tion to her legacy, and was able to do so because she had
that strong sense of determination. She was
going to get the job done right, no matter what.
Vladka knew what she wanted and she
would never give up until she got it. I learned
from her that if you cant get through the wall,
you go under, above, to the left, to the right,
whatever it takes to get to the other side. She
pursued justice, and she was one tough cookie.
Thats how she got through everything.
If she wanted to make a point, she would sit
you down, grab your hand, and hang on until she made
sure you got it. Sometimes shed make you want to bang
your head against the wall and I could sometimes see
dents in other heads as well as my own. But most of the
time she was right. And she made things happen.
Vladka and Ben Meeds efforts to commemorate the
Holocaust and teach its lessons so soon after the war led
us to where we are today in Holocaust education and
commemoration. Almost every commemoration is mod-
eled after WAGROs pioneering efforts. The most notable
one is the Days of Remembrance, held in the Capitol
building in Washington. The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum on the Mall and so many other insti-
tutions that are devoted to preserving the memory of the
Holocaust exist because of them. By remembering with
such dignity the lives lost in Europe, by their dedication
for facts and accuracy, the Meeds taught all of us to ap-
preciate who we are as Jews.
She said it best: Even in the very shadow of death,
our people continued to create. They studied, they wrote,
they learned Torah The souls of the tortured could not
be stifled. Poetry still spoke through our lips, and music
still came from our throats. Even as the smoke rose from
the ovens, our children painted on scraps of paper and
wrote poems about butterflies which could no longer be
seen in the ghetto. Our people struggled to preserve
their love of goodnessof humanityof God.
We carry this heritage with us everywhere. It has
helped us find a new place for ourselves in America
where we rebuilt our homes and families. America the
infinite variety of this great land, with its many races,
creeds and nationalities has enriched us all. And our
Jewish cultural heritage has enriched America and the
entire world.
We are here we Jews who survived. We are here to
teach, to learn, to remember, to rebuild to join hands
among ourselves and with all other people in the world
in celebration of the continuity of life. We maintain the
legacy of a people who never gave up, even in the dark-
est hours, and we shall preserve that memory for future
generations.
Now the obligation to give over that legacy has been
lifted from Vladkas shoulders and transferred to ours.
Ben and Vladka are gone. Others are leaving us every day.
An era is ending. Our heroes are dying.
Who will lead us?
We will have to lead ourselves. Thats something I
learned from Vladka, too.
Vladka Meed is survived by her daughter Anna
Scherzer, her son Steven Meed, her daughter-in-law Rita
Meed, her son-in-law Joseph Scherzer, and five grand-
children, Jeannine and Michael Scherzer and Jessica,
Chava, and Jonathan Meed.
Vladka Meed
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Israels friends in Gaza
alEx JoFFE
H
amas was quick to declare victory in the latest
conflict with Israel.
A closer look at the price it paid in terms of
personnel and equipment shows that its bravado was
false. But the fact that Israel was able to destroy so many
installations, weapons teams, smuggling tunnels, and
high-ranking personnel, including Hamass military
chief, Ahmed Jabari, reveals another, less evident
fact: substantial numbers of people in Gaza have
betrayed the Palestinian cause, in Hamass terms, and
collaborated with Israel by providing it with intelligence.
Israeli intelligence capabilities are estimable, but
collecting precise information about an enemy territory
like Gaza poses particular problems. Israels intelligence
collection starts in space, where Israeli satellites (like
their far more numerous U.S. counterparts) track Iranian
weapons moving by ship to Sudan, Egypt, the Sinai, and
the Gaza coast. But these satellites make their rounds
only a few times a day. Compensating for this limitation,
Israeli unmanned aerial vehicles can stay aloft for hours
or even days. Night and day, electro-optical, infrared,
and radar sensors allow the aircraft to see what goes
on above ground, and to a limited extent below it, by
detecting minute variations in heat or soil composition.
The drones detect and jam electronic communications.
They are the eyes of attack aircraft and artillery and even
can attack targets themselves.
But what Israel accomplished in its bombing campaign
required more information than drones can provide.
There were strikes on 1,500 sites, including 19 command
centers, 140 tunnels, and 26 weapons manufacturing
and storage facilities, as well as what an IDF spokesman
laconically called hundreds of underground rocket
launchers and dozens of rocket launchers and launch
sites. This feat could have been accomplished only
with the much richer information that Israel had a
vast three-dimensional map of Gazas every street,
block, building, and floor, including names of families,
their relationships, and their telephone numbers. And
movements in and out of this maze not only were mapped
but to some extent tracked in real time.
Israels vast targeting lists could have been compiled
only through use of human informants.
Since the beginning of the Zionist enterprise,
substantial numbers of Palestinians have been willing
to work with it, selling land and providing information.
Many of them, as Hillel Cohen makes clear in his
book Army of Shadows, have done so for their own
reasons, including personal gain, family grudges, social
divisions, and a kind of local nationalism that aimed
to preserve their particular lands and possessions. Such
motivations still are at work. Some, Cohen notes, actually
see collaboration with Israel as patriotic, because it
pursues a vision of the Palestinian national project not
Judeophilic, certainly, but resigned to Israel that is
marginally realistic.
Mainstream Palestinian movements understandably
are bitter about this phenomenon: few epithets are more
contemptuous than collaborator, and the shocking
recent spectacle of bodies of murdered collaborators
being dragged behind Hamas-driven motorcycles sent a
clear message (though, it turned out, at least one of those
murdered men was not a collaborator but an Islamist
rival).
Under this circumstance, the fact that Gazans inform
at all is notable, and the extent of collaboration, though
unquantifiable, clearly is large. It speaks to the failure of
Palestinian nationalism, as opposed to local and family
identification, to attract the loyalty of Palestinians.
Villages and clans remain more dependable and
predictable repositories of allegiance than the reliably
authoritarian and kleptocratic Fatah movement.
The fact of collaboration also shows the shortcomings
of Hamass Islamized version of Palestinian nationalism,
confounding easy notions about Hamass iron control
and the radicalization of the populace, as opposed
to the leadership. Hamas leaders indeed love death,
but for other people. They are happy to consign eager
young men to suicide and to contemplate the blood of
the children who are sacrificed as human shields when
Hamas hides near schools and hospitals to avoid Israeli
airstrikes.
The attraction of dying for Islam has limits. Gazans,
like other Palestinians, have no love for Jews and Israel
and readily celebrate their murder, but they are not
anxious to die themselves.
Does this realization change the military calculus?
It certainly made possible the most detailed sort of
pinpoint bombing campaign. It also shifts perceptions
of the conflict, at least slightly. But it yields few specific
prescriptions. Palestinian collaboration, however
widespread, is hardly a sign of a people who wish to be
free, or even free of Hamas. As America discovered in Iraq
and Afghanistan, militarily defeating fascism, religious
or otherwise, means little unless populations challenge
its patriarchal, theocratic, or authoritarian culture.
Supplying human intelligence is not the same thing. So
the war continues.
JTA Wire Service/Jewish Ideas Daily
Alex Joffe is a contributing writer to Jewish Ideas Daily. This
article was first published by Jewish Ideas Daily (www.jew-
ishideasdaily.com) and is reprinted with permission.
Time to adopt a healthier lifestyle
aliza WadlEr Solomon
A
s we become a society of couch potatoes, our
health declines. Americans are eating more and
moving less, and unfortunately these habits are
rubbing off on our children.
Food marketing has led to increased portion sizes and
added sugars, salts, and fats, while the advent of new
technologies has had the unintended effect of decreasing
physical activity. More than ever, American kids eat
loads of junk food and spend much more time texting,
watching television, and playing video games than
running around and being active.
Researchers estimate that only about 20 percent of
children meet basic activity level recommendations and
25 percent are completely sedentary. At the same time,
the foods we eat have become larger and more calorie-
dense over the past 20 years. Bagels and pizza slices
are almost double the size they used to be, and some
beverage cups now can hold an entire bottle of soda.
These changes in the American lifestyle have
increased childrens risk of obesity, heart disease, cancer,
diabetes, and many other health conditions. Indeed,
children are increasingly succumbing to adult diseases
so much so that doctors have changed the term
adult-onset diabetes to type II diabetes because so many
children have the disease.
The Jewish community is not immune to this trend.
Original research by Dr. Mendel Singer, director of the
Jewish Community Health Initiative and a professor
at Case Western Reserve Medical School, shows that
Jewish children are almost as likely to be obese as their
non-Jewish counterparts. In fact, Singer found that
Jewish children in certain pockets of the community are
substantially more likely to be obese.
Part of the reason for these troubling findings is that
children who attend Jewish day schools study a joint
Jewish and secular curriculum, which means 10 hours
per day sitting in school, and then going home and sitting
for a few more hours of homework. Physical education
often is deemed less important than other subjects, so
kids are sedentary for most of the time they spend in
school. Moreover, in many Orthodox day schools, fitness
activities are further restricted because of limitations on
coed exercise.
Unfortunately, Jewish adults are not doing any better.
We have a food-centric culture in which the highlight
of each week often is an elaborate Shabbat meal that is
rich in fat and calories and can last late into the night. Its
like having Thanksgiving dinner every week. We justify
these meals by saying things like calories dont count
on Shabbat, but its time that we become honest with
ourselves. As a community, we like to cook and eat but
we dont like to exercise very much. The average Jewish
family is more likely to eat a lavish meal together than go
for a walk or kick around a soccer ball.
Parents should set an example for their kids by
adopting healthy lifestyles for themselves. This means
more fruits and vegetables, less oil, salt, and sugar, and
far more physical activity. Instead of watching television
as a family, parents should encourage walking, hiking,
and other healthy activities.
At the same time, our Jewish day schools should
recognize that physical activity is just as important as
Hebrew and algebra, and should modify their curriculums
to make physical activity a major part of the day. This can
be as simple as creating a schedule that makes children
walk across the school to get from one class to another, or
shortening every period by a few minutes to make more
time for organized physical activity. Schools also might
consider bringing in professional dieticians and exercise
instructors to teach children about exercising at home
and making smart food choices.
Summer camps are also great places for children not
only to be active, but to learn how to lead a healthy life at
home.
Its up to all of us to make sure that todays Jewish
children grow up to be tomorrows healthy adults.
JTA Wire Service
Aliza Wadler Solomon is a graduate student in public health.
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Decline and fall
I was emailed the blog post called
Decline and Fall of the American
Empire (Decline and fall of the
American empire, Nov. 16). As a Jew,
one of my first thoughts was that now I
know why the Second Temple was de-
stroyed. The hatred that jumped off the
authors words was palatable. Another
thought was this is only a rehashing of
the Republicans talking points explain-
ing why they lost the election.
Perhaps if Rabbi Pruzansky had given
some thought before he went on his rant
he would not have considered it neces-
sary to delete his insulting description
of people.
Ivan Schiff
Chicago
High tech at Heatid
You ran a very informative piece on
new educational tools revolving around
technology in our local day schools
(Learning Hebrew interactively, Nov.
30). While the reporting was commend-
able, I found it odd that the article paid
no homage to the school that is spear-
heading this approach. Yeshivat Heatid
(literally, the yeshiva of the future) is
using the blended learning model not
only to enhance our childrens minds,
but to propel them into 21st-century
technology.
I think the other local day schools are
borrowing a page from Heatids hand-
book by incorporating these tutorials
into their curriculums, whereas Heatid
has built an entire school using technol-
ogy-based learning. To quote Heatids
webpage: Blended Learning is a blend
of face-to-face and online instruction.
Hybrid models allow educators to tailor
their teaching, using technology and
face-to-face learning, in a way that is
not possible in the traditional classroom
model. Technology often allows for bet-
ter performance tools such as real-time
feedback for teachers.
So while as the parent of a Heatid stu-
dent I can agree about the great strides
made by online learning, I was disap-
pointed that your article failed to recog-
nize Heatids contribution in this area of
Jewish education. They are pioneers in
their format and teaching style as well as
being creative financially. Typical tuition
is upwards of 40 percent less than that
of other area day schools, and Heatid is
providing our children with a key edge
they will need in societys craving for the
latest evolving technology.
Mark Kirsch
Teaneck
Editorial was bad move
Your editorial Bad moves all around
(Dec. 12) regarding the Palestinian bid
for recognition as a state at the UN was
so balanced that it cannot be allowed
to go unchallenged. I will respond only
to one paragraph, which takes excep-
tion to Israels reaction (presumably, the
threat to allow building in disputed
areas east of Jerusalem, including the E1
corridor).
You ask, What benefit is there to
threatening to build more settlements
on the west bank? Leaving aside the
fact that the areas are all consensus
areas that all parties in Israel agree need
to be kept in any peace agreement, the
implication is that there is benefit to not
building. Well, Israel did not build there
during the last several years, and noth-
ing came of it.
Do you remember Netanhayus hous-
ing freeze, which was supposed to move
the Palestinians to the negotiating table?
Mohamed Abbas stalled until the last
few weeks before deigning even to speak
to the Israelis. It led nowhere. You ask,
Will that end the killing? Will that oblit-
erate the hate? Do you honestly believe
that if Israel pledged not to build settle-
ments peace would reign? Perhaps the
better question is, Will anything obliter-
ate the Palestinians hatred of Israel? Will
anything end the killing?
You ask, Will that help build the kind
of confidence necessary to achieve con-
cord? I am afraid that what we perceive
as confidence building is perceived by
others as weakness and despair. Sadly,
the answer to your questions is that
nothing will appease the other side short
of our demise. How many concessions,
how many failed initiatives, how many
intransigent interlocutors will convince
us that the best we can hope for is to
protect ourselves? It is a horrible thing,
to paraphrase Golda Meir, that we can
forgive the Arabs for many things, but
not for making us kill them in battle, yet
that seems to be Israels fate.
Would it be better if Israel did not
build in the settlements? It would, unfor-
tunately, make no difference at all.
David Dubin
Teaneck
Spending for a cause
It is not a crime to put your money in en-
deavors in which you desire to be a part
be it politics or philanthropy (Adelson
does not speak for survivors, Letters,
Dec. 7). Many former Democrats have
become Republicans since the party has
changed from that of President Kennedy.
Mr. Adelson is a fierce defender of capi-
talism and puts his money in causes that
defend and wish to perpetuate that sys-
tem. He also contributes to many diverse
Jewish causes of his choosing. Many
wealthy Jews are heads of organizations
because of the monies they give to the
work of those organizations. I, for one,
deeply appreciate the work of Mr. Steven
Tencer and his ilk. Without the efforts of
such as he, no organization can succeed
in achieving its goals. It seems to me
that Mr. Tencer really has a bias against
those who espouse Republican policies
who were once Democrats, including
President Reagan. The commandment
about coveting applies, in its broad ap-
plication, to what others possess, be it
money or status. Jealousy on any level is
destructive and a negative force.
Shel Haas
Fort Lee
A pedal-driven sewing machine stands by a bookfrom the
no-longer-new Barnert Hebrew Free School.
The rooms in the basement of Barnert Hospital are stuffed
with artifacts, some precious, some charming, some evoca-
tive of a very specific time and place.
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Cover story
Patersons past
still present
Jerry Nathans is the historical
societys president and its
animating force Jerry Szubin
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JOANNE PALMER
I
ts not so easy finding the Jewish
Historical Society of North Jersey.
You find the address, 680 Broad-
way in Paterson. It comes with a
suite number. You dont really need
the GPS, but youre so hopelessly
addicted to its always forgiving
calm route recalculating that you
use it nonetheless.
You end up at Barnert Hospital.
You try again. You check the address against your
email you had an appointment, after all. Every single
time, you end up at Barnert Hospital.
You go to a side entrance, finally, take the elevator to
the basement, and open a door. You are faced with what
looks like a museum of filing cabinets and industrial
shelving battered metal racks holding untidy piles,
drawers that cant quite close.
Then you look at the things that are on the shelves and
in the drawers, and you realize that you have stumbled
into a trove, a jumbled history of a very real and vibrant
place, and that the faces staring or smiling out at you or
gazing past you at something you cant see look like the
faces you grew up with.
Along with the pictures and the books are objects
banners and hats and pins and posters and seltzer
bottles, chanukiot and candlesticks, newspapers,
occasional bright swatches of red, and glints of gold that
catch your eye.
There are so many stories in those small packed
New book shows Jewish Paterson in pictures
W
hat Philip Roth did for
Newark in words cap-
turing the essence of a
community and putting it on a page,
where it will stay alive forever
David Wilson says he would like to do
for Paterson in photographs.
Not, he hastened to say, that he
is comparing himself to Roth. It is
the power of the pictures in his new
book, Jews of Paterson. The book
showcases photos from the Jewish
Historical Society of New Jersey, on
whose board Wilson sits.
Wilson, like the societys president, Jerry Nathans,
is from Paterson, although he is a generation younger.
The citys close-knit community formed him.
He offers a brief run-through of Patersons history.
Most of its earliest Jewish residents were Germans;
after the Russian pogroms of 1905, when eastern
European Jews fled wholesale, many experienced
textile workers found their way to Paterson.
In 1913, the silk strike, which lasted for more than
half a year, and brought in such International Workers
of the World luminaries as Big Bill Haywood and
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, bonded the community even
further. (It also connected Jews to Italians Jews
and Italians worked together in the mills, lived side
by side in the city, and walked the picket lines as one
community.)
They had all these common bonds, and over time
one relationship got built on top of another on top of
another on top of another, Wilson said
The town also had extraordinary Jewish
philanthropists, not only Nathan Barnert
but Jacob Fabian as well. Barnert was
behind the development of every Jewish
communal institution, Wilson said. He
donated land, he donated money. Basically
he gave his fortune back.
Fabian, Wilson said, was an early
partner of the Warner Brothers. Before an
anti-trust law that forbade the practice,
studios owned theaters; they were the
storied movie palaces where people would
escape depression and the Depression
and the un-air-conditioned summer heat.
Fabian built theaters in northern New
J er s ey ; the Fabian and the Rivoli and a few others
in Paterson, Wilson said. The Loews Jersey Theatre in
Jersey City is the only one still standing.
It was Fabian who commissioned Fred Wesley
Wentworth, the architect most responsible for the
citys look, to build Temple Emanuel, instructing
him to have it resemble a movie theater. I went to
Hebrew school there, and when I walked in it was like
walking into Radio City, Wilson said. That was a huge
congregation. It started out as Austro-Hungarian, then
it got Litvaks, and then Galitzianers. Everybody got
together. Everybody.
He was able to put together this book because the
photographs still exist, and that, he said, is a direct
result of Jerry Nathans talent as a collector, and his 30
years of work on the project.
When we look at these pictures, and remember the
many stranded-bonds that connect us, we have Jerry
Nathans to thank, Wilson said.
Joanne Palmer
The poet Allen Ginsberg grew up in Paterson and returned fre-
quently. Here, he and his father, Louis, also a published poet,
gave a poetry reading at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. (Louis
is the more conventionally dressed of the Ginsbergs.) At right,
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun. PHOTOS COURTESY JHSNNJ
History hidden in plain sight
in a hospital basement
The first confirmation class at the Talmud Torah of
Paterson, 1925. COURTESY JHSNNJ
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rooms, the history of a community that
centered in Paterson until that once
thriving city, a center of the silk trade,
began to fade. Most of the citys Jews have
moved out, as have its Jewish institutions,
but the museum hangs on.
The society got its start in 1978,
through an oral history project at
the library at the Wayne YM-YWHA,
according to Jerry Nathans, who will be
its president for another month or two.
The community itself dates to about 1840;
about 40 years later, Bnai Jeshurun, the
synagogue that later became Barnert
Temple, was formed.
Nathan Barnert, who began in real
estate and amassed a fortune, dispensed
it generously. He started the Daughters of
Miriam, Barnert Temple (its formal name,
then, was the Miriam and Nathan Barnert
Temple), and the hospital that now
houses the historical society. He also was
active in civic life and was elected mayor
of Paterson.
The town thrived on textiles. The
Jewish community was made of German
immigrants until the 1880s, when they
were joined by an influx of eastern
Above and below, jumbled treasures from the historical societys collection. PHOTOS BY JERRY SZUBIN
Europeans. Many of them were weavers;
many came from the eastern Polish cities
of Lodj and Bialystock.
They settled first on the west side of
the Passaic River, in downtown Paterson,
Nathans said. Years later, they moved to
the east side of the city, as they became
acclimated and richer. And then, in the
1940s, they started moving into Fair
Lawn, which was a farming community.
Next, in the early 50s and 60s, people
started moving to Wayne.
Now theyre moving to Florida.
The shuls also moved. Barnert Temple
is now in Franklin Lakes. So is Temple
Emanuel, once of Paterson, now, at least
nominally, of North Jersey. Emanuels
huge and imposing stone building was at
the heart of the community.
Nathans life is paradigmatic. He was
born in Paterson in fact, at Barnert
Hospital moved to Fair Lawn in 1941,
and then to Wayne in 1954, where he and
his family have lived ever since. He was
the second president of the Wayne Jewish
Community Center, which eventually
became Temple Beth Tikvah. He is retired
he was a picture framer and owned an
art gallery and has devoted himself to
local history.
The items in the archive arrived there
see PATerSoN page 22
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Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON When the new Congress convenes in
January, it will be missing several longtime pillars of sup-
port for Israel on Capitol Hill.
Veteran Jewish representatives Steve Rothman (D-NJ
Dist. 9), a point person on funding Israels missile defense
efforts; Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the ranking mem-
ber on the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and Gary
Ackerman (D-N.Y.), the ranking member on the com-
mittees Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee will
be gone from the House of Representatives. Sen. Joseph
Lieberman (I-Conn.) no longer will be in the Senate.
Jewish politics watchers agree that the departures
represent a loss of pro-Israel brainpower of a scope not
seen for years.
People like Berman and Ackerman, both Congress
and the pro-Israel community will miss having people
of that seniority who know issues inside and out, said
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the dovish Israel policy
group J Street, referring to the top senior Democrats on
the Foreign Affairs Committee, each of whom served in
Congress for 30 years.
Martin Frost, a Jewish Democrat who represented
Texas in Congress from 1979 to 2005, said that Bermans
departure is a a real loss. But he expressed confidence
that support for Israel would remain strong in Congress.
You always hate to lose anyone, but I think were in
good shape, Frost said.
The reasons for the departures vary. Berman and
Rothman were defeated in intra-party battles sparked
by redistricting. Ackerman and Lieberman are retiring.
Other notable Jewish pro-Israel lawmakers who are
leaving include Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a leading
liberal who is retiring, and Rep. Shelly Berkley (D-Nev.), a
hawkish voice on Israel who was defeated in her bid for a
Senate seat.
A staffer for a House Democrat said the loss of veteran
Jewish lawmakers is significant in that their colleagues
looked to them for guidance on Israel-related issues.
They connect the dots, they look at the big board
and see how a leader on a particular issue votes, said the
staffer, who asked not to be identified, citing Capitol Hill
protocol. There are a lot fewer data points now for them
to work with.
The staffer said that top Jewish lawmakers would
garner support for Israel by showing leadership in other
areas embraced by Democrats.
The real concern I have is how those older members
functioned in the caucus as a whole that because they
were good Democrats, what they favored was seen as
good for Democrats, the staffer said.
Multiple sources cited as a particular blow the loss of
Berman, whose long congressional career is coming to
an end following his defeat in a bitterly contested race by
fellow Jewish incumbent Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.).
Howard Berman had the ability to work across the
aisle, said Douglas Bloomfield, an opinion columnist
for Jewish media outlets who was the legislative director
of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in the
1980s. He was a legislator as well as a policy person. He
was a respected voice. People took him seriously.
Berman was seen as critical to brokering the deal
that achieved overwhelming congressional backing for
enhanced Iran sanctions in 2010. He worked closely with
the Obama administration on the issue.
Howard was beloved by everybody, said Ira Forman,
who headed the Obama campaigns Jewish outreach
efforts and is a former president of the National Jewish
Democratic Council. AIPAC people like him, people who
were dovish like him.
Also on the Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana
Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who is considered a strong ally of
Israel, is relinquishing her post as the committees chair-
woman, as required under the House Republican Caucus
rules that limit how long its members can serve in com-
mittee leadership roles.
Even with the loss of so many veteran pro-Israel voic-
es, observers stress that there are still devoted friends of
Israel in key congressional positions.
They include Jewish pro-Israel stalwarts such as
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), who now leads Democrats
on the powerful Appropriations Committee, and Rep.
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), who is replacing Berman as the top
Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Engel knows his stuff very well, he is similar to
Shelley [Berkley] in being a real pro-Israel stalwart,
Forman said.
Engel at times has taken a more critical stance than
Berman toward the Obama administrations approach
to Israel.
Newer members also may find themselves tak-
ing more of a leadership role on Israel issues. Rep. Ted
Deutch (D-Fla.), elected in 2010, already is a leader on
Iran sanctions issues, and Rep.-elect Brad Schneider
(D-Ill.) has strong ties to Chicago-area chapters of pro-
Israel groups.
Howard Berman
Barney Frank
Joe Lieberman
Shelley Berkley
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The longer Ive been in Congress, the more I see that
Congress is a living body, we lose some good people and
we gain some good people, Engel said.
Engel said there is an excellent crop of incoming
freshmen, and that those of us who are around have
been around for a while. Were eager to carry the torch.
But Bloomfield suggested that an emerging generation
of Democrats could spell long-term changes in the tradi-
tional structure of two-party support for Israel.
Younger Democrats do not naturally come by the
sympathies Israel accrued when it was under attack
in its earlier decades, he said. And, he added, Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus hawkish policies
alienate a demographic that favors Israeli-Palestinian
reconciliation.
The generation thats leaving and there are
ones who are leaving, like Howard [Berman] and Gary
[Ackerman] these are guys who grew up in the forma-
tive years of Israel and understand what the struggle
was, Bloomfield said. They are being replaced by a
post-1967 generation who know not a threatened Israel, a
vulnerable Israel who know a muscular Israel.
But Engel said he did not perceive a significant shift in
how members of Congress relate to Israel.
There are a handful of people in the Democratic Party
that see things in a different light and there are a handful
of people in the Republican Party that see things in a dif-
ferent light, he said. The overwhelming majority under-
stands that Israel is a strategic ally and the United States
has a stake in the Middle East in the survival of Israel.
Steve Rosen, a former AIPAC foreign policy chief who
now trains Europeans in pro-Israel advocacy, said the
Democratic Partys rank and file is likelier to question
Israel than it has in the past.
Whats striking is how many of the shtarkers of the
Democratic Party are leaving, Rosen said, using the
Yiddish term for big shot, and people coming in have
weaker ties and have been subject to a propaganda effort
by the Jewish left which has presented to them a set of
ideas that are outside the Israeli mainstream.
Rosen cited the influence of J Street and of journalist
Peter Beinart, who argues that Israeli policies have alien-
ated young American Jews.
J Street itself claimed that the congressional election
results were a victory, noting that of 71 congressional
candidates backed by J Streets political action commit-
tee, 70 won, and all of them are Democrats.
Rosen, however, questioned the extent of J Streets vic-
tory. He wrote in an article for Foreign Policy magazine
that most of the candidates backed by J Street also were
supported by political action committees and individuals
aligned with AIPAC.
Ben-Ami, for his part, said the successes of J Street-
backed candidates should be seen not as a diminution of
pro-Israel support but of its future shape.
Forty or 50 years ago it was a different relationship
than it is today, he said of the U.S.-Israel relationship.
The interests of the United States and Israel dovetail in
a place where you want to see a U.S. policy set that leads
into the resolution of this conflict.
Even among veteran pro-Israel members of Congress,
there has been some strong criticism of the Israeli govern-
ment recently over its approach to relations with both the
Palestinians and the Obama administration.
In an interview with Congressional Quarterly, Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) blasted Netanyahu for an-
nouncing plans for new building in eastern Jerusalem
and the west bank.
Its an indication of Israels continuing to stick a
thumb in the eye of the Palestinians, she said. I am pro-
foundly disappointed.
At a Dec. 2 Israel Policy Forum event in New York,
Ackerman who is known for his sharp tongue took
a thinly veiled dig at Netanyahu. He praised former Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, who was there, as most famous
for his activity as a prime minister who went to the White
House and did not piss on the presidents shoe. Its only
common sense.
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Congressional letter
urges Obama to shut PLO office
WASHINGTON Incoming and outgoing leaders of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee are circulating a letter
calling on President Obama to close the Washington office
of the PLO.
Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), Howard Berman
(D-Calif.), Edward Royce (R-Calif.), and Eliot Engel
(D-N.Y.) are circulating the letter, which says the law-
makers are deeply disappointed and upset that the
Palestinian leadership rebuffed the entreaties of your
Administration and the Congress by requesting non-
member observer state status at the United Nations. The
U.N. General Assembly approved the status elevation last
month.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is back-
ing the letter, while J Street opposes it.
Arguing that Palestine Liberation Organization
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas broke a pledge not to take
any unilateral action, we believe the United States must
respond strongly, the letter says.
One important way of expressing U.S. disapproval
would be to send the message that such actions are not
cost-free and that, at a minimum, they result in setbacks
to U.S.-Palestinian relations. We can do this by closing the
PLO office in Washington, D.C. We can also call our Consul-
General in Jerusalem home for consultations. We urge you
to take these steps.
Ros-Lehtinen is the outgoing chairwoman of the com-
mittee and Royce is her replacement; Berman, the com-
mittees ranking Democrat, is leaving office and Engel is
taking his slot on the committee.
The note circulating with the letter says it is backed by
AIPAC, which an official of the lobby confirmed. J Street,
which calls for an enhanced U.S. role in the peace pro-
cess and for pressure on Israel to end settlement expan-
sion, launched an effort Monday to discourage House of
Representatives members from signing it.
At a time when the United States should be looking for
ways to encourage and deepen diplomacy, talk of ejecting
one of the parties from the country defies logic, J Street
said in its action alert.
A Senate amendment proposed last month that would
have shut down the PLO office for the same reason never
made it to the voting stage.
Lieberman receives intelligence
communitys highest award
WASHINGTON Outgoing Sen. Joseph Lieberman was
awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Public
Service Medal for extraordinary service to the nation.
Lieberman (I-Conn.), who chairs the Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on
Tuesday received the highest recognition awarded by
the intelligence community to one who is not part of the
community.
James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence,
called Lieberman a steadfast ally of the intelligence
community.
It is no exaggeration for me to say that the nation is
more secure because of his leadership, interest and sup-
port for the intelligence community, Clapper said.
Lieberman is retiring at the end of the month after serv-
ing 24 years in the U.S. Senate.
Past award recipients include Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-
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Jewish groups ready to weigh in
as Supreme Court considers same-sex marriage
Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON With public accep-
tance of same-sex marriage growing,
liberal Jewish groups hope the U.S.
Supreme Court will strike down the
Defense of Marriage Act, which they long
have opposed.
The Supreme Court has agreed to
hear two cases related to same-sex mar-
riage: an appeal of a federal court rul-
ing that struck down a California ballot
initiative banning same-sex marriage,
and one of the federal court rulings in-
validating provisions of the act, known
as DOMA, which prevented federal rec-
ognition of same-sex unions.
Since DOMA was passed in 1996,
such Jewish groups as the Religious
Action Center of Reform Judaism and the
National Council of Jewish Women have
been among the liberal religious orga-
nizations arguing against its provisions.
At the time, they were pushing against
the widespread perception that religious
groups almost by definition were op-
posed to same-sex marriage.
That is no longer the case, said Rabbi
David Saperstein, the Religious Action
Centers director and a witness during
congressional hearings on DOMA.
There is an increasing religious con-
sciousness across an ever wider spec-
trum that providing legal protection and
religious sanctification to two people
who want to create their lives together
reflects our highest values, Saperstein
said.
Saperstein added that the RAC was
planning to file or sign onto an amicus
brief in support of same-sex marriage.
Sammie Moshenberg, the Washington
director of the National Council of
Jewish Women, said that recent victories
for same-sex marriage in state refer-
enda vindicate NCJWs activism against
DOMA.
We saw in the last election popular
support for marriage equality, with wins
in Maine, Maryland and Washington,
and voters in Minnesota rejected a law
that would have entrenched the ban
on gay marriage in that state, she said.
Weve seen tremendous popular sup-
port, and we see its growing.
Orthodox groups, active also during
the 1996 congressional hearings before
the passage of DOMA, are considering
amicus briefs since the Supreme Court
agreed last week to consider the two
cases.
Orthodox groups have opposed
same-sex marriage, maintaining that
marriage should be defined as union
between a man and a woman. They also
have expressed the concern that the
push for same-sex marriage will end up
infringing upon their religious liberties.
We do plan to file and let our views
be known in reference to DOMA and
Proposition 8, the California referen-
dum that banned same-sex marriage
and that was overturned by a federal ap-
peals court in January, said Abba Cohen,
who directs the Washington office of
Agudath Israel of America. We dont
know whether well file on our own or
with others its too early for us to make
that decision.
The Orthodox Union still was con-
sidering whether to file, said Nathan
Diament, the groups executive director
for public policy.
An array of liberal Jewish groups,
including the Anti-Defamation League,
NCJW, Hadassah, Bend the Arc, and a
number of Reform and Conservative
bodies had joined in an amicus brief
filed for the lower court appeal of the
DOMA case, U.S. v. Windsor, in which
the widow of a New York woman is ap-
pealing the taxes levied on her late wifes
estate that would have been exempted
had she been married to a man.
Now that the Supreme Court is con-
sidering the cases, these groups and
others are considering whether to join
others in amicus briefs or file on their
own.
Marc Stern, the associate gen-
eral counsel for the American Jewish
Committee, said his group would file
a brief backing same-sex marriage but
cautioning against a ruling that would be
too sweeping and compromise the rights
of religious institutions that oppose it.
You could imagine theories that
would lead to that result that would
preclude the possibility of protection of
religious institutions, he said.
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the music hasnt stopped
Chavie Lieber
FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. As a gentle snow
fell on the Isabella Freedman Jewish
Retreat Center on a recent Friday evening,
about 85 people gathered inside a wooden
lodge to welcome Shabbat. Half were in a
meditation circle in which Grateful Dead
lyrics served as a kind of mantra, the other
half held a more traditional service, where
the Lecha Dodi prayer was sung to the tune
of the Dead classic Ripple.
It was the second installment of Blues
for Challah, a weekend retreat that attracts
dozens of Jewish Deadheads or grown-
up hippies retracing their past, as one par-
ticipant described it to this placid corner
of the Connecticut countryside to bask in
their collective love and reverence for the
Grateful Dead.
Over the course of two days, a colorful
sea of devotees clad, unsurprisingly, in
tie-dye, hemp, and oversized knit kippot
munched on organic food, swapped
stories of their days following the Dead and
tripping on acid, and of course, jammed.
The Dead was a traveling band, they
were always picking up and moving,
Yoseph Needelman, a Deadhead from
Jerusalem and the author of a book about
the use of marijuana by chasidic rabbis,
said. Their songs always talk about a
road, a path, or driving to get back on a
journey. That directly relates to a Jewish
journey of traveling to find the right path,
and the chasidic concept of this world
being a passageway. Jews and the Dead
relate in that we both wander.
A product of the 1960s San Francisco
counterculture, the Grateful Dead in-
spired a fanatical loyalty from fans, who
were drawn both by their music and
by the traveling carnival of seekers and
misfits that followed them from venue to
venue and obsessively trafficked in boot-
legged recordings of their performances.
Though its been nearly 20 years since
the death of Jerry Garcia, the bands
frontman and creative force, the Dead
Jewish Grateful Dead fans celebrate havdalah during the Blues for Challah retreat
at the Isabella Freedman Center in Falls Village, Conn. Chavie Lieber see DeaDheaDs page 30
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continues to be a cultural and commercial force. Thats
especially true for the disproportionately large number
of Deadheads who happen to be Jews.
As Jews, were always searching for a sense of com-
munity and acceptance, and being in the Grateful Dead
scene was a way to be yourself with no judgments, since
the crowd is so diverse, said Arthur Kurzweil, the author,
Jewish educator, magician, and Deadhead who was the
weekends keynote speaker. That old balding guy danc-
ing next to you whose big belly is covered with a tie-dye
shirt will go back to his job tomorrow as a banker. But at a
Dead show, it doesnt matter what he does.
Kurzweil isnt the only one who has wondered about
those burly Deadheads. In Perspectives of the Dead, a
collection of scholarly essays about the band published
in 1999, Douglas Gertner noted how many Garcia looka-
likes attended shows big men with thick dark curly
hair and beards. Only later does Gertner realize that
these bearded men are, like him, members of an ex-
tended community of Jewish Deadheads.
Understanding the intense loyalty inspired by the
Dead is a plaguing existential question that echoes
through every Jewish Deadheads mind at some point or
another. Since its earliest days, Jews have been important
figures in the scene that grew up around the band.
The legendary music promoter Bill Graham, an early
champion of the Dead, was a German-born Jewish refu-
gee from the Nazis. Mandolinist David Grisman was a
longtime collaborator, contributing the signature man-
dolin part on the studio version of Ripple. Les Kippel
was an early pioneer in the trading of live recordings and
the founder of Relix magazine, which focuses on music.
Going to a show is kind of like going to a family sim-
cha, said the 65-year-old Kippel, who now works for an
auction house in Florida. You knew everyone there and
you felt like you belong. It made me feel like I needed to
connect with everyone around me and get everyone in-
volved who wasnt there.
Kippel spent some 15 years taping Dead shows and
created the First Free Underground Grateful Dead Tape
Exchange in 1973 to help circulate the recordings among
fans. He would organize people to bring recording equip-
ment, both to split the costs and to confuse security
guards sort of the same way a kibbutz operates, he
said.
It went from a simple act of wanting to preserve the
experience to collecting it, which reminded me a lot of
how we preserve Judaism, Kippel said. Our ancestors
cherish our past and we try to preserve it, which is why
Jewish Deadheads are obsessed with preserving the
shows. We were a family gathering.
Only one member of the band, Mickey Hart, is Jewish.
And unlike Phish, the jam band that most closely fol-
lowed in the Deads endlessly touring, live tape-trading
ways, the Dead never worked Hebrew classics like Avinu
Malkeinu into its concert repertoire. But for many Jews
attending shows was a religious experience, and the
bands lyrics contain powerful spiritual messages.
The Baal Shem Tov taught that the way you look at
things throughout your day can be an expression in the
way you relate to God, Yosef Langer said. I was blown
away when I found that exact concept in the Deads
Scarlet Begonias song when they sing, Once in a while
you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you
look at it right.
Langer, who has worked as a Chabad emissary in the
San Francisco Bay Area since the 1970s, got help from
Graham in placing a 25-foot mahogany menorah in the
middle of the city for Chanukah in 1974, a ritual that
persists to this day. In the 1980s, Langer spearheaded a
Grateful Yid movement in which he set up a table at
shows beneath a giant sign that read POT.
They later learned our sign meant Put On Tefillin,
Langer said.
Deadheads, Jewish and non, bring a talmudists eye to
the bands lyrics, most of them the work of lyricist Robert
Hunter.
Eyes of the World, from the bands 1973 album
Wake of the Flood, contains messages about how my
behavior in this world is reflected onto others, and how
I can reflect divinity, said Leah Chava Reiner, a 52-year-
old from Massachusetts whose embrace of her Jewish
roots initially manifested through listening to the Dead.
Hes come to take his children home, a line from one
of the bands best-known songs, Uncle Johns Band, is
a reference to the ingathering of the tribes, according to
Moshe Shur, one of the leaders of the retreat weekend.
Theres something about the music that is so beauti-
ful, its religious, said Shur, an Orthodox rabbi who got
close to the band while living on a California commune
in the 1970s.
Its funny to see the way Jews also exchange bits and
information about Dead shows and songs like an ency-
clopedia, the way they do about Talmud, but it makes
sense, said David Freelund, one of a number of rabbis
who attended the retreat. As a people, we have an in-
timate relationship with texts. We are the originals who
study and critique text, so of course Jewish Deadheads
will dissect lyrics.
But the Dead community is more than a bunch of
graying hippies obsessing over musical curios and ob-
scure lyrical references. For most attendees at the retreat,
the draw is the same as the band itself. Meeting a fellow
Jewish Deadhead ignites an instant bond, a feeling of
family.
The whole thing was very tribal for me, said
Jonathan Siger, a rabbi from Spring, Texas. The park-
ing lot, where fans would surround the band and set up
shop, reminds me of the way the Jews operated with the
Tabernacle and the Temple. Culturally, weve set up camp
for spiritual experiences.
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Is Binghamton really tops in dreidel spinning?
A Jewish student organization at Binghamton University
is claiming to have broken a record for dreidel spinning,
but a student newspaper there says the spinners spun
out before breaking the mark.
About 749 dreidels were spun simultaneously for at
least 10 seconds Monday night at upstate New Yorks
Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life, the Associated
Press reported, citing the center. That would break the
Guinness World Record of 734 set last year by the United
Synagogue Youth in Philadelphia.
Organizers of the dreidel spin told the AP that they
have photos, video, and other necessary documenta-
tion that will be submitted for review to the Guinness
committee.
But the Pipe Dream student-run publication said the
group fell about 40 dreidels short of the mark. It reported
that while 749 people were in the room at the time of the
joint spin, only about 700 were able to keep their dreidels
spinning for the required length of time. Some 900 peo-
ple were present at the opening of the event, but some
did not stay around for the dreidel spin.
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JERUSALEM The senior rabbi of the Lithuanian haredi
Orthodox, Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, said yeshiva
students should not agree to enlist in National Service.
The rabbis decision, quoted Monday in the haredi
daily newspaper Yated Neeman, comes a day after
Israels Cabinet approved a temporary law that would
allow yeshiva students to perform national service in
place of the military.
We must warn publicly against this serious and
dangerous phenomenon, which only aims to destroy
the foundations of our existence, against the essence
and mission of a yeshiva student to devote his life to
studying Torah, the newspaper quoted Shteinman as
saying.
The Cabinets decisions and similar actions are
harming the foundations of Judaism, he reportedly
said.
Steinmans statements appeared in an article inside
the newspaper as opposed to a signed statement on
the front page, where his pronouncements are typically
placed, The Jerusalem Post reported, showing that the
rabbi may be trying to walk a fine line between his own
convictions and those of rabbis who have taken an even
more hard-line stance.
Shteinman has previously backed the formation
of an all-haredi army brigade and the Tal Law that ex-
empted yeshiva students from army service, according
to The Jerusalem Post. The Tal Law was found to be
unconstitutional.
Shteinmans predecessor as leader of the Lithuanian
haredi Orthodox movement, the late Rabbi Yosef
Shalom Elyashiv, also rejected national service and
other programs geared to the haredi community.
Israels Office Depot
chain to close on Shabbat
JERUSALEM The Office Depot chain in Israel will close
on Saturdays after being bought by charedi Orthodox
Jews from New York.
Israels Hamashbir 365 Holdings sold the chain
last week to the charedi group of investors as part of a
restructuring plan, according to the Haaretz business
daily The Marker, which did not name the new owners.
The new owners agreed to invest nearly $8 million
immediately in the franchise.
The deal was approved by the Office Depot parent
company in the United States.
Google launches
innovation campus in Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM Google launched its Campus Tel Aviv, a
center for Israeli entrepreneurs and startups.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut a virtual
ribbon at the inauguration ceremony on Monday for a
campus that occupies a floor of the Electra Tower in Tel
Aviv. The 16,000-square-foot space includes an area for
meetings and workshop space for startup companies.
Using the campus and participating in its activities
are free for entrepreneurs and startups.
The campus also will provide access for startups to
Google work teams and industry experts. At the center,
Google also will offer Launchpad, a two-week seminar
for startups in their early stages. Some 100 Israeli start-
ups will benefit from Launchpad each year, according
to The Associated Press.
Google began operations in Israel about seven years
ago.
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TEL AVIV Two months ago, the strategy for victory was
clear: To unseat Benjamin Netanyahu in elections on
Jan. 22, Israels handful of center-left parties had to unite
under one banner and choose a leader who could chal-
lenge the Israeli prime minister on issues of diplomacy
and security.
Instead, the opposite has happened. Netanyahus op-
ponents have become more fragmented, and the center-
left has focused more on social issues than security.
The Knessets largest party, Kadima founded in
2005 by Ariel Sharon as a centrist breakaway from Likud,
and later led by Tzipi Livni appears to be collapsing.
Members have rejoined Likud, defected to Labor, or are
joining Livnis new centrist party, called the Movement.
Some polls are saying that Kadima may not even make it
into the next Knesset.
Shelly Yachimovich, who heads Labor historically
one of Israels two biggest parties but the fifth largest in
the Knesset now has made socioeconomic issues her
focus.
The emphasis on socioeconomic policy represents a
reshuffling of the system far from the dominance of se-
curity issues, Tamar Hermann, senior fellow at the Israel
Democracy Institute, said.
But ceding the debate over security policy to
Netanyahu, who has more security experience than
Yachimovich, a former journalist, clearly gives the prime
minister the upper hand.
Meanwhile, the right wing has consolidated, virtu-
ally assuring a third term for Netanyahu. Recent polls
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merged lists with the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party,
winning 38 of the Knessets 120 seats. Labor, polling in
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Netanyahus poll numbers have fallen since the end
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Yachimovichs focus on social issues, including calls
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effort to harness the energy of the mass social protests
Israel saw in the summer of 2011, when hundreds of
thousands took to the streets to agitate for more help for
the middle class. But so far Labor has failed to reignite the
spark that propelled the protests.
With the Israeli left in shambles less than 10 per-
cent of Jewish Israelis identify with left-wing ideology,
polls show Labor has pivoted to the center, trying to
rebrand itself from a left-wing party to a centrist one.
The Labor Party is located and has always been located
in the center of the political map, Yachimovich told Army
Radio on Nov. 25. Its strength is from its pragmatism, its
Zionism, its very pragmatic struggle for peace and espe-
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Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom
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Were seeing a revision of the left, Halevi said. The
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of the prime minister first Sharon, then Ehud Olmert.
On Thursday, former Labor leader Amir Peretz said he
was joining Livnis party. Peretz, who served as defense
minister under Olmert, had been a subject of much deri-
sion for his disastrous performance during the 2006 war
with Hezbollah, when at one point he was photographed
observing the fighting through binoculars that had the
lens cap on. But Peretzs reputation was revived in recent
weeks as a result of the success of the Iron Dome missile
defense system during the mini-war in Gaza; Peretz had
been the main champion of Iron Dome and overcame
military resistance to its development.
While Netanyahu watches the centrist infighting from
a distance, his Likud has shifted further to the right. In
last months party primaries, several hawkish settler
advocates captured top spots, including Moshe Feiglin,
leader of the Jewish Leadership faction of the party.
Occupying spot No. 15 on the Likud list, Feiglin advo-
cates for annexing the west bank and wants to encourage
Israeli Arabs to leave the Jewish state. Some moderate
Netanyahu allies, by contrast, wont get another term in
the Knesset.
Hermann says its still too early to predict a winner
based on how the polls fluctuate in Israel.
There are new issues at play, so three, four or five
seats can change the picture, she said. In polls, a few
Knesset seats is within the margin of error. You cant build
a theory on it.
JTA Wire Service
Labor finally figured out that the only
way it has a chance for a comeback is if
it distances itself from Oslo.
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MAALE ADUMIM, west bank From the
terrace of the mall in Maale Adumim, a
west bank settlement eight miles from
Jerusalem that serves as a bedroom com-
munity for Israels capital city, custom-
ers get a panoramic view of the Judean
Desert to the east.
Arab and Jewish towns dot the hill-
tops, roads snaking between them. A
bright sun shines through the clouds,
offering some warmth to offset the
December breeze.
The northwest side of the settlement
also offers a beautiful view, a sprawl-
ing landscape of rolling hills, shrubs,
and rocks framed by Jerusalem in the
background.
It is this tranquil space that represents
the newest controversy in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
The area, known as E1, acts as a dual
corridor, connecting Maale Adumim
to Jerusalem on the east-west axis and
Ramallah to Bethlehem on the north-
south axis. The second two cities are
among the largest in the Palestinian
Authority.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu caused a diplomatic stir last
week when he announced Israels inten-
tion to build there. This is a controversial
plan that has been started and aborted
since it was first announced in 1994.
The Palestinians charge that if Israel
develops E1 it will bisect any future
Palestinian state, rendering a two-state
solution impossible. Netanyahus gov-
ernment claims that E1s development is
necessary to connect Maale Adumim to
the Israeli capital.
For now, E1 sits empty. Its only build-
ing, an Israeli police station, sits on a
plateau like a fortress, surrounded by
fences and towers. Nearby, a bright red-
and-white sign welcomes the rare visi-
tor to Mevasseret Adumim, the name of
the planned development. But theres
no neighborhood there. Instead, a road
winds through empty hills to the police
station. Traffic circles punctuate the road
every so often, but they open in only one
direction. Theres nowhere else to go.
Maale Adumim Mayor Benny Kashriel
says Mevasseret Adumim is necessary
for the burgeoning growth of his city,
home to some 40,000 people. He doesnt
think Israel will ever cede the land to the
Palestinians.
We will be an Israeli city, and our
land has to be in Israeli territory,
Kashriel said. We need it for residential
expansion. Its important strategically
because its on the hills.
Some of the mayors constituents are
more blas about what happens.
It wont bother me if they build or
not, said Maayan, 21, adding that she
was not really following the controversy.
Many Israelis refer to Maale Adumim,
along with two other large Jewish settle-
ment blocs in the west bank, as consen-
sus settlements areas of the disputed
territory that will remain part of Israel in
a two-state solution. And the residents of
Maale Adumim reflect Israels consensus
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: They
want a peace deal but are skeptical that
the conflict will be resolved anytime
soon.
I believe we can and should live in
peace, said Batsheva, who has lived in
Mitzpe Jericho, near Maale Adumim,
for 30 years. No one wants to be at war.
Everyone wants to accept each others
rights. If I knew the other side would
accept our right to exist, that would be
ideal.
Its hard to find anyone in Maale
Adumim who opposes developing the
E1 area. Most said its development is
necessary for practical reasons. Maale
Adumim is too big to give up and
evacuate in the event of a peace settle-
ment, they say, so why not connect it
to Jerusalem and provide extra living
space?
Its very important to connect
to Jerusalem, Chaim Peer, 35, said.
Theres no option to evacuate Maale
Adumim. When youre not going to be
evacuated, youre going to be calmer.
Several Maale Adumim residents
interviewed recently drew a distinction
between themselves and settlers deeper
in the west bank, who are more ideo-
logical about holding on to the territory
they call by its biblical names, Judea and
Samaria.
Im not happy about having two or
three homes in a hole that we need to
protect, just big cities, Ahuva Nachmani
said, derisively referring to far-flung
Jewish settlements.
Maayan, like many residents of Maale
Adumim, moved to the city not because
it is on the west bank but because it is
cheap, quiet, and near Jerusalem.
Maale Adumim resident Itzik Naim is
much more ideological. Along with E1,
Israelis should try to populate as much
of the west bank as possible, he said.
If we had a prime minister who was
a real Jew and who believed in God, we
wouldnt need excuses to build, he said.
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The Bible Players, an improvisational comedic
duo that teaches Torah stories and Jewish values,
promoted Mitzvah of Love at a recent performance
for students at the Hebrew school at Congregation
Bnai Israel in Emerson. Proceeds were donated
to Alyn Hospital, Israels rehabilitation center for
physically disabled children, adolescents, and young
adults. Aaron Friedman, left, is pictured with the
Hebrew schools principal, Zahava Gall; Andrew
Davies; and Rabbi Debra Orenstein. Courtesy CBI
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College students whose families belong to
Temple Emanu-El of Closter and are now at
campuses across the country Tulane, Muhlenberg,
and Case Western, among others joined the shuls
Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner for his first of many
planned live college video chats. The 30-minute
sessions include currents events, politics, ethics, and
catching up with one another. Courtesy temple emanu-el
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Mark Spivak, William Paterson University Hillel
president, left, and Rabbi Ely Allen, director
of Hillel of Northern New Jersey, are shown with
Holocaust survivors Sally Whitmore and Asia
Shindelman at a collaborative program with JFS
North Jersey/Caf Europa participants. There were
similar programs at the other campuses that Hillel
represents: Ramapo College of New Jersey, Fairleigh
Dickinson University, and Bergen Community College.
Joint programs with JFS are planned each semester.
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Temple Beth Sholom of Fair Lawn co-presidents
Kevin Swill and Richard Michaelson and Mens
Club co-presidents Burt Feldman and Robert Shaloff
cooked over 120 latkes for a Chanukah celebration,
Latke and Vodka. Guests brought a childs toy to be
donated to the Fair Lawn Health and Human Services
department for children in need. Courtesy tBs
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The Wayne YMCA held a Chanukah celebration
on Dec. 2, including entertainment by Stretch the
Silly Man, latkes, and donuts. The Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey.
Courtesy ymCa
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Temple Sinai of Bergen Countys Tikkun Olam
chair, Matt Libien, organized collection drives
for Sandy storm relief two Sundays after the storm.
Congregants brought supplies to the shul and
volunteers sorted and loaded them in 11 vans to
deliver to a collection point in Maywood and to
the Rotary in Paramus. A group also went to Far
Rockaway with the Jewish disaster relief organization,
Nechama, to do clean-up work. Tania Gold donated
Dunkin Donuts coffee, chocolate, and munchkins,
and her sons eighth-grader Jonah, left, and second-
grader, Aden sold to shul members. Money raised
was donated to Sandy relief through the Paramus
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of Miketz, always presenting itself at
Chanukah, should certainly shape our
experience of the historical events in
Hasmonean times, but there is just so
much to do and see that we are in
danger of overlooking the stories about
Joseph, Pharaohs dreams, and Josephs
brothers repeated trips to Egypt to
secure food.
If we we read through the portion
perfunctorily, we miss the significance
Parashat Miketz / Chanukah:
Joseph and the Maccabees
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knowing that Rachel had taken them,
Josephs brothers say (Gen 44:9) who-
ever has it with them shall die, and the
rest of us will become your slaves. But
Joseph berates them when the goblet is
found, saying (Gen 44:15) what have
you done? Did you not realize that a
person like me could certainly guess
through divination? (nachesh yenachesh
ish asher kamoni).
The contradiction is stark: How are
they meant to accept both that they have
stolen the means of his psychic powers
and that those psychic powers led him
to discover the magical cup? Either he
needs the prop to practice clairvoyance
or he doesnt. Ibn Ezra explains away the
problem by pointing out that the term
lenachesh can mean that Joseph uses
the goblet to test his brothers, to know
whether or not they are still untrust-
worthy, all these years later. But, scared as
they are, the brothers remain oblivious to
what is right before their eyes: Joseph is
still alive, and the bundles of money that
mysteriously reappear in their packs are
not a punishment from God but rather
a boon to them, a clue that could lead to
the truth if they would only have enough
presence of mind to pay attention to the
obvious signs.
In the Talmud (Taanit 21a) we read
an eerily similar tale regarding Nachum
Ish Gamzu, a righteous Jew sent to avert
destruction by the Romans because he is
skilled in miracles (melumad be-nisim).
Bringing a fortune in jewels to Rome, his
treasure chest is robbed and filled with
dirt by unscrupulous people at an inn.
When he arrives before the emperor and
of the magically appearing Egyptian
goblet that the unrecognized Joseph
orders his servant to place in Benjamins
pack (Gen 44:2). Soon afterwards (44:5),
Joseph orders his servants to chase the
brothers, accusing them of stealing the
goblet that he uses to accomplish divi-
nation (nachesh yenachesh bo). This
echoes the similar confrontation many
years earlier when Laban accused Jacob
of stealing his idols (teraphim). Just as
Jacob then denied Labans accusation
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gam zu le-tovah this, too, is for the
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Nachum trusts that the good will win out.
Miraculously, Elijah saves Nachum and
all the Jews.
Perhaps that is a lesson we can learn
from Joseph and his brothers, from Laban
and Jacob, and from Nachum Ish Gamzu:
Maybe we need to pay more attention to
the results of righteousness and the value
of family and peoplehood. How might the
sojourn in Egypt have differed had not the
Israelite brothers destined themselves to
enslavement by their words? How many
years of pain and tears might Jacob have
been spared had he not unwittingly
doomed his favorite wife (and Josephs
mother) to death by his careless words?
What might have happened had we
learned to respond to difficulties with
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rather than being blinded to clear indi-
cations presented to us, we would see
that dealing with tricksters and cheats is
not a punishment from God, but pres-
ents us with yet another opportunity to
practice and promote that which is right.
So, too, we can view the Maccabees
victory through the lenses of the fearful,
who live with chips on their shoulders,
imagining that military prowess is what
matters. Or we can see through to the
clear indications that despite setbacks
and bumps along the road, the good and
heroic are really what matters most.
Happy Chanukah and Shabbat
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Sasi Shalom plays jazz in Teaneck
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lame the piano teacher.
Thats who gave Sasi Shalom, 44, the jazz bug,
back when he was growing up in the Israeli town
of Omer, near Beersheva.
The artists who initially inspired him: pianist Oscar
Peterson and the band Weather Report.
Jazz was always very interesting to me. There are a
lot of layers to peel. Not all jazz is great, but great jazz is
extremely gratifying to me, Shalom said.
Shalom, who lives in Closter, will present his most
recent jazz which he calls contemporary, acoustic
in Teaneck to celebrate the release of his fifth album.
He will play two sets at Smokey Joes on Saturday night,
Dec. 22.
Shaloms childhood musical training was mostly
piano, with some guitar. Then he came to America,
studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where
he graduated with a degree in performance and music
synthesis.
In this new album, hes joined by some of his Berklee
classmates. Theres drummer Antonio Snchez, who has
recorded with the Pat Metheny Group, and saxophonist
Donny McCaslin. Desmond White plays bass.
All of them are full-time musicians, Shalom said.
He is not, however. Not anymore. Now he is a full-
time real estate developer, owning rental properties,
rehabilitating old buildings and building new ones, most
of them residential.
Before that, he composed music for television and
radio. Highlights include working on Nickelodeons The
Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss series in the 1990s.
Theres no real money playing jazz, he said. Very
few people make a full-time living playing jazz, and if you
do, you have to be on the road full time.
Shalom has toured as a band leader, playing in Europe
and Israel as well as across America. Now, though, he has
a family. He and his wife have two children, 8 and 5, who
are students at the Solomon Schechter Day School of
Bergen County, where they take violin lessons. Theyll
probably get piano lessons sooner or later. Im not
pushing them too hard yet, he said.
The little one sings already. Weve done some
recordings. The older one, hes expressing interest in
writing music.
Musically, Shalom is a homebody. While he plays
occasionally as a sideman every few months, My
favorite time now is in the studio, writing and working in
production.
For his album release party in Teaneck next week, hell
be playing with local musicians, rather than those with
whom he recorded.
Were going to play some standards and some pieces
from the album, he said.
Save the date
Sasi Shalom will appear
at Smokey Joes,
494 Cedar Lane, on
Saturday night, Dec. 22.
First seating:
Doors open at 7:30.
Music begins at 8:15.
Second seating
begins at 9:30.
$8 cover charge
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friday [dec. 14]
Shabbat in Tenafly Temple Sinai of Bergen
Countys Early Childhood Center hosts
Chanukah Tot Shabbat. Services at
5:30 p.m., followed by dinner and menorah
lighting. 1 Engle St. (201) 568-6867 or
SAidekman@templesinaibc.org.
Shabbat in Demarest Shaar Communities
offers musical Shabbat services and
potluck dairy/vegetarian dinner in
Demarest, 6 p.m. (201) 213-9569 or
joanne@shaarcommunities.org for location.
Cantor Marsha Dubrow
Shabbat in Jersey City Cong. Bnai Jacob
offers Shabbat/Chanukah beginning with
nosh and schmooze at 6 p.m., Friday Night
Live! services with Cantor Marsha Dubrow
at 6:45, and dinner at 7:30. 176 West Side
Ave. (201) 435-5725 or bnaijacobjc.org.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Emanu-El offers
family services at 5:30 p.m. and Spirit and
Song services, beginning with a nosh at
6. 180 Piermont Road. (201) 750-9997 or
ween@templeemanu-el.com.
Shabbat in River Edge Temple Avodat
Shalom offers a family Chanukah
celebration. Tot Shabbat at 6 p.m.,
Shabbat/Chanukah dinner at 6:30,
and family services with sign language
interpreter, 7:30. 385 Howland
Ave. (201) 489-2463, ext. 203, or
www.avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Closter Temple Beth El of
Northern Valley celebrates Chanukah with
its annual 101 Menorahs Shabbat, 6 p.m.,
with latkes and doughnuts and a concert by
Temple Beth Els new Junior Band. Bring a
menorah and candles. 221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112 or www.tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff Lake Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley holds a young family
Chanukah service, 7 p.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801.
Shabbat in Teaneck Temple Emeth has
a Shabbat Chanukah family celebration,
beginning with dinner at 6:15 p.m., services
at 8. Bring menorahs and candles and a
non-perishable food item to donate to the
Center for Food Action. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or www.emeth.org.
Shabbat in Jersey City Congregation
Mount Sinai offers its Shabbat Chanukah
Daven and Dine, 7:30 p.m. 128 Sherman
Ave. RavShlomo.MtSinai@gmail.com.
saturday [dec. 15]
Shabbat in Paramus The JCC of Paramus
offers Club Shabbat with prayer, songs,
Torah experiences, games, playtime,
and refreshments, for 2- to 6-year-olds
with a parent, grandparent, or caregiver,
10:30 a.m. Judy Fox, (201) 967-1334 or
eccdirector@jccparamus.org.
Benefit concert A Singing Out to Sandy
benefit concert is at Solomon Schechter
Day School of Bergen County in New
Milford, 7 p.m. Performers include SSDS
tuesday [dec. 18]
Gil Lainer
Israel and public relations Gil Lainer,
the counsel for public affairs at Israels
consulate in New York, asks Will Israel
Ever Win the Public Relations War? at the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center/Congregation
Bnai Israel, 8 p.m. 10-10 Norma Ave.
(201) 796-5040 or info@fljc.com.
wednesday [dec. 19]
Author speaking Bob Nesoff, author of the
action novel Spyder Hole, speaks at a
meeting of the Teaneck Rotary at Vitales in
Teaneck, noon. The book tells the story of
a retaliatory raid by Israeli Special Forces
troops. Kosher meals can be provided
with advance notice. (201) 801-0012 or
www.teaneckrotary.com.
Book discussion The sisterhood of
Congregation Gesher Shalom/JCC of Fort
Lee meets to discuss Alice Hoffmans novel
Dove Keepers, 8 p.m. 1449 Anderson
Ave. (201) 947-1735.
Yocheved Debow
Courtesy BPy
Sexuality and children Ben Porat Yosef
in Paramus continues its The Birds and
the Bees: How to Talk to your Children
Studio, 3 p.m. Music dcor/bake sale and
nail design station for children at 2. 10-10
Norma Ave. (201) 796-5040.
Special needs parents conference/
resource fair New Jersey Yachad/
The National Jewish Council for
Disabilities presents its fourth annual
Parent Conference and Resource
Fair at Congregation Beth Sholom in
Teaneck, 5:30-10 p.m. Workshops
include Addressing Challenging
Behavior, Education, Marriage,
and Communication, and Sibling
Relationships. Co-sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
Keynote by Dr. Jeff Lichtman, Creating a
Supportive Jewish Community: Fostering
Meaningful Inclusion of Individuals
With Special Needs. Scholarships on
request. Buffet dinner. 354 Maitland
Ave. Chani Herrmann, (201) 833-1349,
herrmann@ou.org.
monday [dec. 17]
Chanukah in Fair Lawn Rabbi Ronald
Roth of the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel talks about The
Real Story of Chanukah with members of
Fair Lawn Hadassah, 1 p.m. 10-10 Norma
Ave. Varda, (201) 791-0327.
Feature film in Tenafly The Treasure
Hunting in Film series at the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly continues a
series with Harold Chapler, Top Films You
Might Have Missed, with Shakespeare
in Love, 7:30 p.m. Chapler introduces the
film and leads a discussion afterwards. $5.
(201) 408-1492.
alumni band leader Aden Poller and
singers Jordan Lawrence and Ilana
Schimmel and a student, drummer
Mattan Poller. Bring non-perishable
food items or cleaning supplies to
donate to Sandy victims. Dessert and
beverages.(201) 262-9898, ext. 213, or
adenairplain@aol.com.
sunday [dec. 16]
Discussing tax reform CPA Michael
R. Marcus and entrepreneur Alvin
Reisbaum, an apparel industry veteran
and former Jewish Federation of North
Jersey president, lead a conversation,
Opportunities Seen as Tax Policies
Change, at Temple Emanuel in Franklin
Lakes, 9:30 a.m. Lox and bagels. 558
High Mountain Road.(201) 560-0200 or
www.tenjfl.org.
Preschool class The JCC of Paramus
offers Candle Club, a monthly pre-k
holiday class with stories, music, arts and
crafts, and nut-free snacks, 9:45 a.m.
Chanukah theme. (201) 262-7733 or
edudirector@jccparamus.org.
Chanukah party in South Orange The
Jewish Cultural School & Society offers
a family event with crafts, dreidel games,
author reading, singing, ceremony, and
potluck lunch at the Baird Center, 10 a.m. 5
Mead St. (973) 233-0714 or jcss-nj.org.
Marimba music in Hackensack Temple
Beth El hosts a concert with the Bit O
Rhythm Marimba Band, consisting of
professional musicians from northern
New Jersey and Rockland County, 1 p.m.
Selections from William Tell, Spyra Gyra,
Nexus, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass, and Ragtime. 280 Summit Ave.
(201) 342-2045.
Recorded concert in Franklin Lakes Alan
King and Theodore Bikel were featured
in the Folksbiene Yiddish Theaters
fundraising concert, recorded in 2003, at
Temple Emanuel, 2 p.m. Refreshments. 558
High Mountain Road. (201) 560-0200 or
www.tenjfl.org.
Benefit concert The Fair Lawn Jewish
Center/Congregation Bnai Israel hosts a
concert to raise funds for Sandy victims
with students from the Believe in Music
Gail Gerwin will read from her newly published book of poetry, Dear Kinfolk, at
the Wayne YMCA on Thursday, Dec. 20, at 1 p.m. Born in Paterson, she also wrote
Bellas Family, a two-act play about a Jewish immigrant family in the early 20th
century, based on her mothers family. The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges is a
partner of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. (973) 595-0100. Courtesy Wayne yMCa
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about Sexuality parenting series with
Yocheved Debow, co-author of Life
Values and Intimacy Education: Health
Education for the Jewish School, 8 p.m.
Question and answer session follows.
East 243 Frisch Court. (201) 845-5007 or
RebeccaR@benporatyosef.org.
thursday [dec. 20]
Networking in Short Hills The Jewish
Business Network meets with the
Tribe and members of Temple Bnai
Jeshurun, 8 a.m. 1025 South Orange Ave.
www.jbusinessnetwork.net.
Baby/toddler event Shalom Baby offers
a winter party at the Dor Hadash Nursery
School at the Solomon Schechter Day
School of Bergen County, 9:30-10:45 a.m.
The group offers a way for parents of
newborns or newly adopted babies through
age 3 to connect with each other and the
Jewish community through a monthly series
of playdates with play, music, storytime,
sunday [dec. 16]
Networking in NYC The 92nd Street Y offers
a singles networking workshop with Brenda
Stiefel-Sherman for singles, 40+, at the Y,
4 p.m. Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street.
(212) 415-5500 or www.92Y.org.
For marriage minded Jewish women
A seminar, Inner Self/Outer Self,
offers a spiritual and physical makeover
from head to toe with certified make
up artists, professional hair stylists, a
nutritional therapist, personal trainer,
spiritual and dating life coach, image
consultant/stylist, and Zumba. Bring
sneakers. Demonstrations, discussions,
applications, refreshments, give-aways,
and prizes. Congregation Talmud Torah
Adereth El, 2-6:30 p.m. Registration, 1:45.
133 East 29th St., Manhattan, between
Lexington and 3rd Avenue. Rescheduled
due to hurricane. (973) 851-9070 or
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and the Jewish Educational Center, offer
a parenting conference with local rabbis
and Orthodox mental health professionals
on The Effects of Media and the Internet
on Your Childrens Morality at Bruriah
High School, 7:15 p.m. 35 North Ave.
(212) 613-8351, www.oucommunity.org, or
bruriah@thejec.org.
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Chanukah for singles The Jewish
Federation of Northern New Jerseys
eNgageNJ, a young leaders group, holds its
Black and White Chanukah party at Avenue
Event Space in Teaneck, 9 p.m. 1382
Queen Anne Road. Kimberly Schwartzman,
(201) 820-3936 or kimberlys@jfnnj.org.
snacks, and crafts projects. Administered
by the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jerseys Synagogue Leadership
Initiative and co-funded by the Henry and
Marilyn Taub Foundation. 295 McKinley
Ave. Ellen Finkelstein, (201) 820-3917 or
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Engaging Israel The community-wide
program Engaging Israel continues with
Jewish and Democratic State at Temple
Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn, 7:30 p.m. Co-
sponsored with the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, Temple Beth Sholom in Fair Lawn,
the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, Temple Israel/
JCC in Ridgewood, and the Progressive
Havurah of NNJ. 40-21 Fair Lawn Ave.
(201) 444-9320.
saturday [dec. 22]
Parenting conference in Elizabeth
The Orthodox Unions Department of
Community Engagement, the Jewish
Family Service of Central New Jersey,
YJCC offers Chanukah gifts
The Bergen County YJCC in Washington
Township continues to offer special
events and give-aways for Chanukah.
Today, at various times through 2:30 p.m.,
free tickets will be distributed for the
Swingset Mamas concert at the YJCC on
Sunday, February 10, at 3:30 p.m. The
Parents Choice award-winning duo plays
upbeat songs with fun and catchy lyrics.
The Josh Herman Endowment makes
the concert possible for early childhood
enrichment. On Saturday, a coupon for
a free yoga class to use for any regularly
scheduled yoga program will be offered.
On Sunday, chocolate Chanukah gelt
will be distributed, there will be a draw-
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the Guess the Gelt winner will be an-
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Jewish Museums first Chanukah app, is
available free at the iTunes Store. It al-
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traditional Chanukah lamp from the mu-
seums collection, choose a unique back-
ground to place it on, light the lamp, and
then share it. There is a choice of 18 lamps
from 11 different countries, representing
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Lucy Greene
Lucy Greene, daughter of Elena
and Jeffrey Greene of Franklin
Lakes and sister of Sophie,
Charlie, and Cooper, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
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Wyckoff.
Gabriel Kahan
Gabriel Kahan, son of Donna
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Paramus and Arleen and Phillip
Lewis of Blauvelt, N.Y.,
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Morgan Maschler, daughter of
Jill and Erik Maschler of Cresskill
and sister of Romi, celebrated be-
coming a bat mitzvah on Dec. 8
at Temple Sinai of Bergen County
in Tenafly.
Julie Pavell
Julie Pavell, daughter of Heather
and Jeff Pavell of Haworth and
sister of Carlie and Alana, cel-
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on Dec. 8 at Temple Emanu-El
in Closter.
Charlie Ratner
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Ian of Ho-Ho-Kus and brother of
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becoming a bar mitzvah on
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Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg, son of Melissa
and Andrew Rosenberg of
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Danielle, celebrated becoming a
bar mitzvah on Dec. 9 at Temple
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Andrew Schleifer
Andrew Schleifer, son of Aimee
and Steven Schleifer of Fair Lawn
and brother of Joshua, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on Dec.
8 at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel.
Tyler Stimmel
Tyler Max Stimmel, son of
Ilana and Lee Stimmel, twin
brother of Zachary, and brother
of Brooke, celebrated becom-
ing a bar mitzvah on Dec. 1 at
Chavura Beth Shalom in Alpine.
He is the grandson of Cathy and
Robert Shamosh and Elaine and
Allan Stimmel.
Zachary Stimmel
Zachary Ryan Stimmel, son of
Ilana and Lee Stimmel, twin
brother of Tyler, and brother of
Brooke, celebrated becoming a
bar mitzvah on December 1 at
Chavura Beth Shalom in Alpine.
He is the grandson of Cathy and
Robert Shamosh and Elaine and
Allan Stimmel.
Emma Vingan
Emma Vingan, daughter of
Drs. Monica and Roy Vingan of
Saddle River and sister of Nicole,
Perri, and Isabelle, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
Dec. 1 at Temple Beth Or in
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OBituaries
Murray Cassell
Murray Cassell died on Nov.
29 at Englewood Hospital and
Medical Center.
Born in Brooklyn, he was a
Navy World War II veteran and
participated in the invasions
of Normandy, Iwo Jima, and
Okinawa.
Before retiring in 1984, he
was a manager of garment
factories.
Predeceased by his wife,
Selma, ne Katzenbogen, he is
survived by his children, Alan
(Roxanna), Brian (Nancy), Dana
(Haryce), Cathy (Brant); and
nine grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent
to St. Jude Childrens Research
Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.; Valley
Chabad, Woodcliff Lake; or the
Jewish Home Assisted Living,
River Vale. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Arnold Chaikin
Arnold M. Chaikin, 78, of
Mount Juliet, Tenn., formerly
of Bergenfield, died on Dec. 9.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Lillian Kraushar
Lillian Kraushar, ne Schwartz,
formerly of Orlando, Fla., and
Franklin Square, N.Y., died Dec.
1. She was a resident of the
Jewish Home at Rockleigh.
Born in Brooklyn, she was
predeceased by her husband,
Dr. Carl, and is survived by chil-
dren Annette Hochberg of West
Orange, Michelle Blumenstyk
(Sam) of Tenafly; and six
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to a
charity of choice. Arrangements
were by Robert Schoems
Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Cyril Francus
Cyril Cy Francus, 86, of Fort
Lee, formerly of Oakland, died
on Dec. 4.
A Navy World War II veteran,
before retiring, he owned C &
M Manufacturing Company in
Clifton for over 40 years.
He is survived by his children,
Jerry (Judi) and Mindy Posner
(Stacy); a sister, Roslyn Scott;
grandchildren, Kyle Francus
and Lily Posner; and a nephew,
Marshall Scott.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Edith Gross
Edith Gross, 96, of Delray Beach,
Fla., formerly of Fair Lawn, died
on Dec. 11. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair
Lawn.
Ronald Kopel
Ronald H. Kopel, 85, died on
Nov. 22 in Teaneck.
A U.S. Coast Guard World
War II veteran, he was a certified
public accountant in private
practice.
Predeceased by his wives,
Ann Sister and Phyllis Morrison,
he is survived by his children,
Mimi and Paul.
Contributions can be sent to
Jewish National Fund. Arrange-
ments were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Betty Mormar
Betty Mormar, ne Goldberg,
93, of Fort Lee, died on Dec. 3 at
home.
Born in Chicago, she was a
musician.
A son, Mark of Cold Spring,
N.Y., a grandson, Max, and cous-
ins survive her.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
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Jack Schlesinger, 101, of Livingston, died on Dec. 9.
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International Ladies Garment Workers in Manhattan
and volunteered there until he was 85. He was a member
of Workmens Circle Branch 59-504 in Jersey City.
He is survived by his wife, Blanche, ne Frankel;
daughters, Beth of New York, and Merle Roesler of
Massachusetts; and four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels,
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Pauline Tobin
Pauline Tobin, 95, of Rochelle Park, died on Dec. 11.
Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair
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Ludmila Zaslavsky
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Arrangements were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
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Jacob Stein, Presidents Conference
chair during Yom Kippur War, dies
Jacob Stein, who served as chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, has died.
Stein died on Dec. 8, the first night of Chanukah.
As the Presidents Conference chairman during the
Yom Kippur War, he reportedly was influential in con-
vincing the Nixon administration to send immediate
military aid to Israel.
Jack was a great leader, devoted to his commu-
nity, people, and country, Richard Stone and Malcolm
Hoenlein, respectively the chairman and executive
vice chairman of the Presidents Conference, said in
a statement. He remained deeply involved with the
Conference for decades after his tenure as chairman.
He served during a time of serious challenges with total
dedication and demonstrated unique qualities of lead-
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In 1981, Stein became a full-time adviser in
the Reagan administration and he hosted the first
Chanukah party held at the White House. He served on
the U.S. ambassadorial staff to the United Nations and
to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
Stein also was international president of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. He lived on Long
Island, N.Y., where he was a founder of Temple Israel of
Great Neck.
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A splash of color
Industry leader Pantones annual fashion color report
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Next years contemporary kitchen will include European
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Susan Goldstick of Susan Goldstick, Inc. predicts home
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Next years trendy furniture will boast
reclaimed wood or reclaimed-looking
synthetic wood, according to Lenny
Kharitonov, president of Unlimited
Furniture Group, Inc. Combinations of
wood and metal will be popular, such as
a desk with a wood top and an iron base.
He also sees a new freedom to mix metals,
linen, or stone into wood, with the juxta-
position of materials and finishes creating
a beautiful combination.
Watch your step
Lori Kirk-Rolley, senior marketing direc-
tor at Daltile, notes that one of the biggest
style trends of the year will be porcelain
tile that emulates the look of hardwood
in high-traffic areas, offering the natural
beauty of wood with the long-lasting
durability and ease of maintenance of
tile. Rectangular-sized tiles particu-
larly those in long, linear plank styles
will remain popular in floor and wall
applications.
Back to nature
Consumers eco-friendly focus on us-
ing organic, sustainable materials will
continue into 2013. Orange, Calif.-based
Budget Blinds recommends woven wood
shades made from bamboo, grasses, jute,
reeds, rattan, and other natural renew-
able resources for honest, simple beauty.
Smith suggests using timber and wicker
furniture, ribbed and woven finishes on
accessories, and layered wool throws in
the living area of the kitchen to bring a
sense of the outdoor into the home.
You can judge a book by
its cover
Exterior design and landscaping say
just as much about a home as its inte-
rior architectural counterparts. Artist
and designer Pablo Solomon touts stone,
concrete, and brick that blend into the
environment, require little upkeep, and
is superior to weather susceptible wood
decks, rust-prone metals, and dulling
plastics. He also sees increased use of eco-
friendly native plants to save water and
reduce pesticides.
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3 Br Col on 150 ft deep property. Renovated Kitchen,
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the town.
Teaneck is the only place I ever wanted to start this
company. I got my first taste of woodworking in Teaneck
as a kid. Its been a lifetime of learning and training on
the newest innovations of the industry since those early
days. There is just something special about this commu-
nity, my repeat clients, and all the people who come in to
Studio L from around Bergen County. Thats what makes
what I do so satisfying, he says.
Studio L also repairs, customizes, and refurbishes
chairs. Weve repaired so many chairs that have been
through generations of use. I cant tell you how many
times someone has brought in their grandmothers old
chairs to be refurbished so they can use them in their
own home. Frequently these were the chairs they sat
on as children. People keep their chairs, they tend to
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Clients can visit Studio Ls web site www.studiolonline.
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Teaneck, (201) 837-1650.
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1 Br 1.5 Baths Updated $149,000
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$315,000 3 bedrooms,
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$359,000 3 bedroom,
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Organize your life
with Lifestyle Closets & Cabinetry
Once, beautiful, detailed cabinetry was only reserved
for kitchens. Now, ventilated shelving is going by the
wayside and companies that specialize in closet building
design and install custom cabinetry that can improve
and organize your life. There was a time when your shoes
were lined up along the wall of a standard closet, but
now they can have custom racks. You can organize your
clothes by season. You can end the battle for closet space
by customizing your closet with his-and-her sides.
Custom closets offer abundant shelves and draw-
ers. Large enough spaces can accommodate a center
island for storage and a stone countertop for work space.
Imagination is the only limit with todays custom closets,
and they add great value to a home.
And its not just bedrooms. Lifestyle Closets &
Cabinetry fills the demand for custom cabinetry
throughout the house, including laundry rooms, pan-
tries, home offices, home theaters, and garage storage
and work spaces.
There are many levels of custom finish when it comes
to closet cabinetry. A basic option is to go with modular
systems which can be fit into your room by entering the
dimensions of the closet into a computer and then de-
ciding which components are important to you. A design
can then be rendered showing how their pre-fabricated
components could be fit into your space. There is a
great deal of flexibility in this method and you can easily
achieve a closet that can keep you well organized. These
types of modular systems were originally white, but in
time have evolved to offer numerous wooden finishes.
A larger budget can give your closet the same look as
you see in todays kitchen cabinetry. The process is much
the same as when installing new kitchen cabinets.
There are numerous ways to tailor the cabinets to
your tastes. You can choose from numerous door styles,
molding details, and hardware options. Once you have
made your selections and your closet has been designed,
the cabinets will be fabricated in the finish and detailing
of your choice.
Lifestyle Closets & Cabinetry can come to your
home and discuss your needs, desires, and what can be
achieved within the allotted budget.
No matter which type of custom closet you choose,
it can be a rewarding investment in your home. You will
enjoy the added luxury, while a future buyer will find
your home has more detail than others.
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ENGLEWOOD
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Haifa hospital fortifies against future attack
In the wake of the recent rocket attacks
and Operation Pillar of Defense, the harsh
realization has once again hit Israelis that
no person or area in the country is ever
exempt from the threat of war. Luckily,
some have taken the initiative to work on
safeguarding the people of Israel against
this threat. The worlds largest fortified
underground emergency hospital is a
new structure on the Rambam Health
Care Campus in Haifa, and is designed to
protect patients and staff against conven-
tional and non-conventional warfare.
The initiative for a fortified hospi-
tal came about following the Second
Lebanon War six years ago, states pro-
fessor Rafi Beyar, director and CEO of
Rambam Health Care Campus. The
hospital itself was under missile attack,
and although no one was hurt, we real-
ized that we couldnt rely on miracles
anymore.
The structure that has been built is an
underground three-story, 60,000 square
meter facility, which during peacetime
will function as a 1,500-vehicle parking
lot. The structure is fully fortified against
conventional, chemical, and biological
warfare which means that not only does it
have cement walls and ceilings 15 inches
thick, but tens of thousands of ventila-
tion and air filtration units have been in-
stalled, equipped with carbon and HEPA
filters that are 98% effective in filtering
out biological and chemical agents.
If a war is suddenly declared, the
parking lot will transform, within just
72 hours, into a fully sealed off, self-
sufficient emergency hospital, able to
store enough breathable oxygen, drinking
water, and medical-gas supplies for up to
three days. The process for this transfor-
mation has been methodically planned
logistically and medically by a team
of expert consultants, so that each and
every detail is accounted for.
First, all the cars need to be removed
from the lot, Beyar explains. Then, the
60,000 square meters of floors and walls
will be cleaned thoroughly, ready for hos-
pital use. An army of designated person-
nel will then bring 2,000 medical beds,
hundreds of portable toilets and showers,
medical gas supplies, air-conditioning
systems and multiple other items from
an off-campus hangar, and install them in
their pre-determined places. Other items
such as dressers, nurses stations, medi-
cations and medical forms and files will
be moved down from the regular hospital.
Imaging systems (X-ray and CT) will also
be transported and prepared for use.
In addition to all the technical and
medical equipment, we also have to make
sure that we have enough food to feed the
thousands of patients and staff who will
be absorbed into the hospital.
Organizers are optimistic that a fully
functional hospital will be ready as soon
as possible. The threat of war has not dis-
appeared and has unfortunately grown
stronger, comments Beyar. As the main
referral hospital for over two million
people in the north of Israel, we are deter-
mined to have the capabilities of provid-
ing acute and chronic hospital care under
fire to all those who need it.
For more information about Rambam,
please visit www.aforam.org.
Yesh Shabbat camp seeks to reinforce Jewish identity
Julian Krinskys Yesh Shabbat, a highly ac-
claimed, premiere pre-college summer
camp attracting tweens and teens from all
over the U.S. and abroad, has become a
non-profit organization. The motivation
behind this change of priorities is the de-
sire of Julian Krinsky, the camp founder, to
give back to his community.
When I learned about my lineage
and the impact my ancestors made in
the Jewish world it made me realize my
responsibility to the Jewish people, says
Krinsky. I started Yesh Shabbat and es-
tablished it as a non-profit organization
to give Jewish students a sense of Jewish
identity and the same opportunities af-
forded to other teens in sports and sum-
mer programming.
Originally from South Africa, Krinsky is
a former international tennis player and
an acclaimed tennis coach. He was ranked
no. 7 in his home country and played at
Wimbledon and the French Open. He also
represented South Africa at the Maccabi
Games in Israel in 1969 and 1973 and the
U.S. in 1981, winning silver and bronze
medals.
Krinsky attributes the inspiration for
creating a camp where young Jews would
love their Jewish heritage to his great-great-
grandfather, Rabbi Eizel Charif. Charif,
born in Lithuania in 1801, was a child
prodigy who learned the entire Talmud by
the time he was just nine and knew the
entire treatise of Jewish law by heart. Reb
Eizel became one of the most important
rabbinical authorities of his time and au-
thored numerous works on Jewish law and
texts, including one of the most important
commentaries on the Jerusalem Talmud
ever written, Noam Yerushalmi. And de-
spite the hours he devoted to studying
and writing, Reb Eizel was renowned for
the communal and charitable activities he
undertook in whatever community he was
living in.
Providing world-class educators and
courses within a positive Jewish framework
are the two pillars of Yesh Shabbat. Turning
Yesh Shabbat into a non-profit enterprise
is Krinskys way of making the premiere
camp more widely accessible. Through
teaching children to value both their rich
religious heritage and the importance
of contributing to modern society, Yesh
Shabbat hopes to foster another genera-
tion of Jewish children who will contribute
to the world around them while maintain-
ing their religious identity.
After attending Yesh, I feel a strong con-
nection to Judaism that lasts me through-
out the year, said Arianna Breslauer of
London. Shabbat is a beautiful experience
and my friends from Yesh all relate to my
enhanced Jewish identity.
Yesh Shabbats programs for summer
2013 include a huge range of sports, arts
and educational courses, all of which
are taught by professional teachers and
instructors within a shomer shabbos and
glatt kosher environment.
Dedicated to providing stimulating
and enriching experiences, Julian Krinsky
Camps & Programs has been offering inno-
vative summer programs for more than 35
years. Yesh Shabbat, located at Haverford
College on Philadelphias Main Line, of-
fers sophisticated, world-class instruction
in the arts, sports, fitness, and academics.
Yesh Shabbat features small class or group
sizes and carefully selected, highly quali-
fied professional instructors. Students are
encouraged to make new friends, discover
new ideas, develop new skills, and have
fun in a friendly atmosphere of exploration
and growth. For more information, please
visit www.yeshshabbat.com.
Gift card for blood donors
All donors who help save lives by donating
blood, platelets, or plasma at a Community
Blood Services donor center in New Jersey
from Dec. 24 through Dec. 27 will receive a
ShopRite gift card as a thank you for giving
the gift of life this holiday season.
Volunteer blood donations are criti-
cally needed as we approach the New Year
when many donors are on vacation, busy
planning parties, or visiting family and
friends, said Karen Ferriday, community
affairs director. Providing the donors with
a gift card that they can use to pick up
some special treats for their holiday cel-
ebrations is just one way to thank donors
who take time out of their busy schedules
to donate during the holiday season.
Ferriday said all blood types are needed
in order to meet the needs of patients at
community hospitals, especially O nega-
tive (the universal blood type) and B nega-
tive. Platelets, used to treat cancer patients
and other blood disorders, and plasma,
used for trauma victims, are also urgently
needed, she said.
Currently, there is only about a two-
day supply of blood on the shelves and
the supply is expected to dwindle as usual
throughout the holiday season, Ferriday
added.
Donors can donate at the Paramus
donor center, 970 Linwood Avenue West
on Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24 from
8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Wednesday from 8 a.m.
to 6 p.m.; or Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to
8 p.m. Or they can donate at the Lincoln
Park donor center, 63 Beaverbrook Road,
Suite 304 on Monday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
or Wednesday from 12 noon to 7:30 p.m.
Both donor centers are closed on Tuesday,
Christmas Day.
To schedule an appointment to donate,
call (201) 251-3703 or visit www.com-
munitybloodservices.com. Appointments
are recommended for whole blood do-
nations but walk-ins are also welcome.
Appointments are needed for platelet
donations.
Whole blood donors must be 17-75
years old (16 years old with parental per-
mission) and weigh at least 110 pounds.
Donors also receive complimentary non-
fasting cholesterol and glucose health
screenings.
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