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F.Y.I.
Running for Blue Card
as Jews, we are responsible
for one another. and we have
a special responsibility to our
brothers and sisters who survived
one of humanitys darkest chap-
ters.
of the approximately 75,000
holocaust survivors in the United
states, about one-third live below
the poverty line, on an average
annual income of only $15,000.
thanks to organizations like the
blue card, they are able to put
food on the table, keep their heat
and lights on, and get necessary
medications.
blue card provides emergency
aid to 2,000 nazi victims across
the country who live in poverty. My
grandparents, who survived the
horrors of auschwitz and bergen-
belsen, rebuilt their lives in amer-
ica after the war with the help of
organizations like blue card.
now i can repay the kindness
the Jewish community showed
my family, by stepping up to make
sure that others who were not as
lucky as my grandparents receive
the help they desperately need.
even as the number of holocaust
survivors worldwide shrinks, their
needs increase as they age and
their health falters. they need our
help. Many of blue cards clients
were not as fortunate as my grand-
parents and have little to no family
of their own except the Jewish
community.
on november 3, i am running
the new York city Marathon on
behalf of the blue card, which
has fielded a team in the race for
the past few years, raising tens of
thousands of dollars for elderly
survivors in need. hurricane sandy
put the kibosh on my plans to run
last year, but i am lacing up my
sneakers this year and asking the
local community to help support
this important work.
nothing can replace what was
taken from victims of the nazi re-
gime. we must make certain that
its survivors are not forgotten in
their old age and have the means
to live out their final years in dig-
nity. i am running because of that
responsibility.
to learn more about my cam-
paign and make a contribution, go
to www.imathlete.com/donate/
joshlipowsky. Josh LIpowskY
Plucky N.Y. teen gets surprising
lowdown on kosher chicken
lFor several months during the spring
of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman of
Manhattan had an unusual saturday
ritual.
he and his mother would ride around
metropolitan new York and buy up vast
quantities of raw chicken.
Millman and his mother, ann Marks,
didnt cook the poultry. instead they put
it on ice and shipped it overnight to a lab
in arizona, which tested it for antibiotic-
resistant strains of the e. coli bacteria.
the study, which included 213 sam-
ples of raw chicken bought at 15 loca-
tions in the new York area, found that
kosher chicken has nearly
twice the frequency of
antibiotic-resistant strains as
non-kosher. the results were
first published in the journal
F1000 research in July.
the findings are perplex-
ing. Kosher laws contain no
requirements about how
chickens are raised, and the
only difference between
kosher and conventional
poultry is in the slaughtering
and de-feathering.
Lance Price, a microbiologist with
translation Genomics research insti-
tute in Phoenix who helped design the
study, suggested that kosher compa-
nies may be sourcing from producers or
hatcheries that use more antibiotics.
but Joe regenstein, a food scien-
tist at cornell University, and timothy
Lytton, the author of a recently pub-
lished book on the kosher food indus-
try, dispute that notion.
writing recently in Food safety news,
regenstein and Lytton say a likelier
explanation lies in the kosher method of
feather removal. Most poultry is placed
in scalding water before plucking, but
kosher poultry is dry plucked or soaked
in very cold water due to restrictions
prohibiting any form of cooking before
the meat has been soaked and salted.
immersion in scalding water prior to
plucking of non-kosher poultry produc-
tion reduces microbial load, by either
washing microbes away or by killing
them, which might account for dif-
ferences between kosher and other
production methods, regenstein and
Lytton wrote.
Millman, 17, who does not keep
kosher, said in an interview between
classes at the prestigious horace Mann
school in riverdale that he was very
surprised by the findings. he first be-
came interested in kashrut a few years
ago during a family trip to israel.
while we were there, we were eating
a lot of kosher food, and i was inter-
ested in whether kosher is healthier, he
said.
interested in exploring the question,
Millman approached his uncle, bruce
hungate, a biology professor at north-
ern arizona University and the director
of the universitys center
for ecosystem, science and
society. hungate connected
him to Price.
working together, Mill-
man and Price designed an
experiment to test 10 brands
of chicken in each of four
categories. Millman did not
perform the actual lab tests, but he col-
lected the samples, visited the lab, and
took the lead in writing up the results.
he also presented the findings at the
american society for Microbiology con-
ference in denver this year.
Millman and the professional scien-
tists with whom he partnered acknowl-
edge that the study, with its relatively
small sample size, is not intended to
offer the final word on the topic.
this was big enough for a pilot
study, and the finding was dramatic
and consistent enough to indicate a
problem, Price said. of course theres
a need to follow up with a larger study
and larger sample.
Price said that because the drugs
used by companies to raise chickens
are considered a trade secret in the
United states, provided they use Fda-
approved antibiotics, it is difficult for
researchers to track. he noted that 29.9
million pounds of antibiotics are used
each year in meat production, com-
pared to 7.7 million used for human
medical purposes.
Millman said he isnt sure whether
more research with raw chicken is in his
future, though he remains concerned
about the overuse of antibiotics in meat
production and its implications for
consumer health and the emergence of
drug-resistant bacteria.
because he has a wide range of inter-
ests, Millman, a high school senior, has
yet to decide whether he will major in
the sciences in college.
i guess the most important skill that
i learned is the importance of asking
good questions and being willing to
follow where your curiosity takes you,
Millman said.
JuLIe wIener / Jta wIre servIce
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United Synagogue looks to the future
Teaneck rabbi upbeat about the Conservative movements chances
Phil Jacobs
baltimore Rabbi Jim Rogozen of
Teaneck took a seat for a few minutes and
took in what was going on around him.
There were about 1,000 people. They
all seemed to be in a hurry. And the rabbi
knew exactly what their urgency was all
about.
They had gathered at this citys Marriott
Waterfront Hotel to celebrate the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaisms
100th year, calling the biennial convention
The Conversation of the Century.
In recent weeks, this nations Jewish
community learned from the Pew Forums
study that of all the major Jewish streams,
Conservative Judaisms affiliation numbers
were clearly decreasing most sharply.
It also has had financial problems, as
reported by the news service JTA. In its
most recent fiscal year, which ended in
June, United Synagogue raised $600,000.
That was far better than it had done in
2011, when it raised $100,000, but still
it was well below the budgeted target of
$1.7 million. United Synagogue also lost $3
million in 2012 and $2.7 million in 2011.
Rogozen, though, is confident that the
movements best days are ahead, and that
this particular biennial conference would
be a positive turning point.
I think we are having a grand
awakening, said Rogozen, who is United
Synagogues chief learning officer. We
must ask ourselves at this conversation
how we approach change. And then we
must recognize that change is good, that
its not antithetical to Jewish values.
Indeed, Rogozen wasnt alone as a
change agent.
Over the next two days, well be
questioning who we are, what we stand
for, and what we contribute to the Jewish
landscape, Rabbi Steven Wernick,
CEO of United Synagogue, said in his
opening address. We aspire to rewrite
our narrative from decline to renewal,
energy, optimism, transcendence and
transformation.
Wernick told the audience that the way
to reverse the movements decline in
numbers was by affirming three pillars
of Conservative Jewish life: tradition,
kehillah, and renewal.
He urged his audience to reach out to
other Jews, be they affiliated or not.
Lets unite on issues that matter to
all of us, whether it is the scourge of
gun violence in the U.S. or social justice
matters or the environment or access and
acceptance for people with disabilities
and special needs or supporting Israel,
Wernick said.
He invoked the memories of the
movements founder, Solomon Schechter,
and the civil rights activist Abraham
Joshua Heschel when describing the
power of renewal.
Solomon Schechter put renewal at the
center of his vision when he created the
United Synagogue, making Conservative
Judaism alive to the 20th century. That
was a century ago, and now the baton has
been passed to us, he said. What was
new 100 years ago needs to be renewed
once again.
Harold Kushner, the rabbi laureate of
Temple Israel of Natick, Mass., and the
author of best-selling works of popular
theology including When Bad Things
Happen to Good People, delivered the
keynote address at the evening gala on
Sunday.
He lamented the loss of many of the
movements most promising students,
who have defected to other movements
or started their own nondenominational
communities.
I dont begrudge my Orthodox
colleagues the growth of Orthodox
Judaism, Kushner said. I dont begrudge
my Reform colleagues the growth of
Reform Judaism, fueled in large measure
by intermarriage and conversion.
What does bother me is when the best
and brightest of our movement leave our
synagogues. We cant hold onto them
that more than anything else is what
concerns me.
United Synagogue historically has
nurtured its teenagers through its popular
United Synagogue Youth program the
teenagers in evidence at the conference
were there for USYs fall board meeting,
held concurrently with the biennial, in the
same hotel.
For 23 years, Conservative high school
graduates had the chance to stay in touch
with United Synagogue through Koach,
a program that had a presence on many
college campuses. Over the last few years,
though, funding to the program was
reduced, and last year it was shuttered.
In its strategic plan, adopted in early
2011, United Synagogue declared post-
college young adults to be vital to its
mission, but since then funding to that
demographic also has dried up.
After hearing Kushner speak, Rogozen
felt emboldened and excited about the
future, he said.
The people who are here noticed a
difference, a positive difference, he said.
Rabbi Kushner told the audience to stop
with the negativity, and instead be part
of a solution, a creative solution to help
USCJ make the changes we know we need
to make.
Rogozen said that the conference served
as a pivot point for what has to happen
not just within Conservative Judaism but
within all of American Judaism for the next
100 years.
We talked here about creating a Jewish
community we want, he said. A lot of
the focus is not just about Conservative
Judaism, but how do we contribute to
the whole Jewish community of America.
What are we going to do during the next
100 years? How do we take our community
conversation to a much higher level. A lot
of those chains that have kept us bound
up and kept us from thinking out of the
box I think have been removed. Weve
granted ourselves permission to think in
different ways.
Phil Jacobs is a contributing editor to the
Jewish Standard.
What does bother me is when the
best and brightest of our movement
leave our synagogues. We cant
hold onto them that more than
anything else is what concerns me.
Harold KusHner
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Rifka Rosenwein kept learning
Day of learning to honor the memory of beloved Teaneck journalist
AbigAil Klein leichmAn
Ten years have gone by since the death of
journalist Rifka Rosenwein, a young Teaneck
mother of three who shared her familys
joys and challenges in popu-
lar Home Front columns for
The New York Jewish Week.
Aside from journalism,
the Ivy League-educated
Rosenwein loved Mishnah,
the six-section, 63-tractate
code of Jewish law that forms
the basis of the Talmud.
Once a week for 18 years, she
studied Mishnah with her
friend Judy Heicklen, who
moved to Teaneck in 2000
a year before Rosenwein was
diagnosed with cancer.
In commemoration of Rosenweins 10th
yahrzeit, the Drisha Institute for Jewish
Education in Manhattan will host a day of
learning dedicated to the study of Mishnah.
(For more information, see the box.)
Rifka studied here and was actively
engaged here, Drishas founder and
dean, Rabbi David Silber, said. In her
memory, we want to inspire people to
take a second look at Mishnah, arguably
the most important Jewish
texts that we have in terms
of our ongoing interpretive
tradition. The study of how
Torah is interpreted over
time begins with this all-
embracing oral tradition of
the Jewish people.
Speakers include Avraham
Walfish on Commandment
and Control in Marriage: The
Poetics of Mishnah Kiddushin
Chapter 1, Devora Steinmetz
on Mishnah and Memory:
An Educational Exploration, and Eliezer
Diamond on From Cases to Concepts: R.
Joses Views on Property Rights as Reflected
in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmudim.
Walfish has done groundbreaking work
in looking at Mishnah from a literary
standpoint, which Silber says makes the
texts much more accessible to the general
public. A literary approach shows its not
just a bunch of laws, but has a certain
artistry to it. Many people think Mishnah
is dry and dont appreciate its complexity.
Rosenwein did appreciate it, long before
the literary analysis approach came into
vogue. Her weekly studies with Heicklen
began in 1985 when the two women
then casual friends living on the Upper
West Side of Manhattan discovered
they had both bought the new vowelized
Pinchas Kehati edition of the third-century
compilation, an edition that has become
popular worldwide.
Wed meet after work, and it just
blossomed, Heicklen said. We found
Mishnah very accessible. Its in Hebrew,
as opposed to Aramaic like the Gemara
[Talmud]. It really worked for us.
When Heicklen moved to Tokyo for three
years in 1993, and later when she lived in
London, she and Rosenwein continued their
studies by phone. Marriage and children,
careers and other obligations did not keep
them from their learning. Neither did cancer.
Even when she was diagnosed at the end
of 2001, we kept learning, Heicklen said,
recalling that some 150 people attended
their final siyyum a celebration marking the
What: day of study at drisha, focusing on the Mishnah
Why: to mark rivka rosenweins 10th yahrzeit
When: sunday, October 27, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: drisha institute for Jewish education, 37 west 65th street, 5th Floor,
new York, nY 10023 | 212.595.0307
how much: Free and open to the public
For more information and reservations: jgolden@drisha.org or 212-595-0307
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Health care and halacha
Yeshiva University
conference to look
at intersection
of medicine and
Jewish law in Israel
MiryaM Z. WahrMan
science correspondent
From the beginning of life to its end,
observant Jews are governed by Jew-
ish law, or halacha. Thus the practice of
medicine in the Jewish state also is influ-
enced by halachic principles. A day-long
conference, Prescribing for a Nation:
Examining the Interplay of Jewish Law
and Israeli Health Care, addresses major
issues on that topic. The conference,
hosted by the Yeshiva University Medical
Ethics Society, a student-run organiza-
tion, is scheduled for Sunday.
What makes Israel so unique is that
so many people working in hospitals
are practicing Jews, Talia Felman of
Teaneck said. Felman, a junior at YUs
Stern College for Women, is institutional
outreach coordinator for MES and
serves on its board. Its a challenge
that the Israeli government has [striking
a balance] between halacha and what
needs to be done to keep the country
running, she said.
Felman said that when she was a student
at the Jerusalem-based seminary Michlala
in the year after high school, she took a
medical ethics class that stimulated her
interest in the field. Just having a solid
background in halachot [ Jewish laws]
in general and being exposed to Israeli
bureaucracy makes it easier to understand,
and apply, and think about these issues,
she said.
The Medical Ethics Society does not
shy away from controversial or complex
issues. Past conferences and events have
grappled with the interplay of halacha
with infertility, organ donation, modern
genetics, mental health issues, and medical
dilemmas related to the Holocaust. This
conference, similarly, is boldly confronting
difficult questions in health care.
Our hope is that this years MES
conference will help participants better
understand how halacha shapes every
aspect of our lives and provides them
with a newfound appreciation for the
differences and similarities of the practice
of medicine in Israel and America,
said conference chair Rabbi Dr. Edward
Reichman, who is associate professor
of emergency medicine at YUs Albert
Einstein College of Medicine and a
mentor to the MES program. As Israel is
comprised of a largely Jewish population,
it presents unique challenges, he said.
Issues such as the practice of medicine on
Shabbat, sensitivity to the Kohen visiting a
hospital, infertility treatments, end-of-life
decision-making and organ donation are
but a few of the issues for which the Israeli
medical landscape differs from ours.
With health care policy in the United
States evolving right before our eyes,
we are all interested to learn how Israeli
institutions tackle the same difficult
questions, said Stern College senior Chana
Herzig, co-president of MES.
Professor Yonatan Halevy, director
general of Shaare Zedek Medical Center
in Jerusalem, will give a keynote address,
Running a Modern Hospital According to
Halachah. Shaare Zedek Medical Center
is on the cutting edge in many medical
fields, including infertility research and
practice, an area that has many halachic
implications. As approaches to infertility
have been developed, rabbis and doctors
have worked together in creative ways
to sanction high-tech methods for
conception, enabling observant Jewish
couples to overcome obstacles to fertility.
Shaare Zedeks in vitro fertilization clinic
boasts a high success rate for challenging
cases, enabling observant Jewish couples
to conceive within religious parameters.
Two of the speakers, Rabbi Zvi Gluck and
attorney Mark J. Kurzmann, are involved
with the organization ZAKA (the Hebrew
acronym for Zihuy Korbanot Ason, or
Disaster Victim Identification). In Israel,
ZAKA volunteers are among the first to
arrive at the scene of an accident, a natural
disaster, or a terrorist attack. They carefully
and respectfully collect remnants of victims
from the scene, including blood and body
tissue, in order to afford every part of the
human body a dignified burial. Because
they frequently are first responders, ZAKA
volunteers also have been trained in first
aid, and some have become paramedics.
One conference session will focus on ZAKA
International and the Legal Ethics Behind
Jewish End-of-Life Rescue.
Talia Felman, who is a biology major
with an interest in medicine, explained
what the Medical Ethics Society has meant
to her. The organization represents an
intersection of a number of fields, she
said. Sometimes they contradict and
sometimes they converge.
It gives a more holistic experience,
she said. I get to be exposed to issues in
science, sometimes through the lens of
philosophy, sometimes through the lens
of law, and sometimes through the lens
of halachah.
Who: speakers including dr. Mitchell schwaber, director of the israel Ministry of
health national Center for infection Control; dr. Michael Frogel, president-elect
of american Physicians and Friends for Medicine in israel, and rabbi Mordechai
willig and rabbi Yosef Blau of YUs rabbi isaac elchanan theological seminary.
What: a conference Prescribing for a nation: examining the interplay of Jewish
Law and israeli health Care
Where: Yeshiva Universitys wilf Campus, 500 west 185 street, Manhattan.
When: sunday, October 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Why: to explore the intersection of health care and halacha in israel
how: Pre-registration is required. register online at www.yumedicalethics.com.
registration fee ($36 per adult, $60 per couple, $10 for college students, $5 for
high school students) includes free parking and lunch.
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William Paterson University and author of Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture
Collide. At Mount Sinai Medical Center, she was on the team that produced the first test tube baby
in New York State. At William Paterson, she developed pioneering undergraduate and graduate
programs in biotechnology, and more recently she developed and teaches interdisciplinary
honors classes and graduate courses and workshops in bioethics and research methods.
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Two families, one concert
Musical bridge to connect generations in Emerson
Joanne Palmer
Cantor Shira Lissek, who will perform in
concert with Arbie Orenstein at Congrega-
tion Bnai Israel in Emerson on October
28, said that her fathers old friends can
hear his voice in hers.
Thats a neat trick. Her father, Cantor
Leon Lissek of Teaneck, who for more
than 30 years sang from the bimah of
Congregation Bnai Amoona in St. Louis,
Mo., was one of the paradigmatic voices
of his generation, but his is a mans voice.
Hers, clearly, is not.
The way his voice still is part of hers, just
as hers has become ever more her own
the voice of a Jewish woman traces the
mystery of the transmission of talent and
passion and belonging and commitment
and change from generation to generation.
And the way the concert will be a two-
family celebration, featuring braided
generations of Lisseks and Orensteins,
shows the connections that underlie
Jewish life in America.
Shira Lissek is a cantor at Park Avenue
Synagogue in Manhattan; in a way, it
would have been hard for her to choose
another path. Her mother, Michal Lissek,
is the daughter of Rabbi Pinchos Chazin,
who was a prominent Conservative rabbi
in Philadelphia, and the granddaughter
of Hirsch Louis Chazin, an Orthodox
cantor in Perth Amboy. And Lisseks
father was one of the great cantors of
his time, she said.
Inevitably, Lissek grew up surrounded
by Jewish music, but I never set out to be
a cantor.
She was born in 1974; the year of her bat
mitzvah was the first year the Conservative
movement invested women as chazzanim.
Its a very different Jewish landscape
now than it was then, she said. I never
imagined that I could be a cantor.
There was no Conservative day school
in St. Louis during her childhood, so she
went to a modern Orthodox school; there
she learned that a cantors
voice and a womans were
separated by an unbridgeable
chasm. Eventually, though,
she bridged that gap.
I set out to be a singer,
Lissek said. I never realized
that on this path, of opera
and musical theater, I was
building the resume for a
cantor. I loved it, but there
was something in the opera
world that I was missing. It
wasnt fulfilling me. I realized
that I wanted a direct and
elevated role in peoples
lives.
A part-time job at a shul in
Brooklyn led eventually to
Park Avenue.
The cantorate changed as
Jews adapted to America,
as well as to the sound of a
womans voice, Lissek said.
She, too, used to hear her
fathers voice in her head
as she sang. People were
hearing my voice coming out
of my mouth, but I heard him.
Over the years, I have become
more comfortable hearing
mine. The Conservative movement has
worked to make room for women, and
become more egalitarian, and I have
gone through that change as well, slowing
allowing more femininity.
It is a challenge I want to preserve
the traditional sound of Judaism, but as a
woman I cant imitate it.
When I taught a class about the High
Holy Days at Park Avenue, I kept playing
amazing moments from male cantors, and
the class kept wanting to hear women.
She played some early recordings;
the women were sisters of cantors, or
daughters of cantors, and they were
imitating them. They sounded like men.
The class found it hard to believe, in fact,
that those were womens voices. They
said no, thats not what we want. We want
to hear women.
But cantors today dont sing only
traditional chazzanaut, she continued.
Were American Jews, and the sounds
that open our hearts arent the same
sounds that opened hearts in Europe. We
as Jews always are inspired by the sounds
around us.
When she sings in Emerson, the pianist
will be Dr. Arbie Orenstein, who has his
own family connections both to the shul
and to Lissek.
Orenstein who is, among many other
things, a professor of music at Queens
College, a specialist on the life and music
of Maurice Ravel, a preconcert lecturer
for the New York Philharmonic, the
editor of the academic journal Musica
Judaica, and an active and committed
synagogue member on Long Island is
the uncle of Rabbi Debra Orenstein, who
leads Bnai Israel.
He gives concerts benefiting synagogues
usually his own, but now his nieces
as well about four times a year. The
program at this concert will be accessible,
he said; it will include Hebrew and Yiddish
melodies; works by Puccini, Mozart,
Debussy, and Schubert, as well as by
Canadian Jewish songwriter Kenny Karen;
and some Broadway and popular classics,
including Rogers and Harts Bewitched,
Bothered, and Bewildered and Irving
Berlins Whatll I Do?
Arbie Orenstein met Shira Lisseks father
when the two men were on staff at Camp
Ramah in Nyack. The facility, which for
years has been a day camp, was sleepaway
then; Orenstein, a graduate student, was
a teacher that summer, and Leon Lissek,
a cantorial student, was a waiter. The two
remained friends, and their families are so
close that they still travel together.
Although the concert will be heimische,
relaxed, and informal, Orenstein does not
compromise his standards. The pianos he
rents to play at such events must be good
enough to produce exactly the sound he
demands. Such pianos are not easy to
find. They used to be available through
Steinway, the company that makes pianos
and sold them at its showroom on 57th
street in Manhattan, but that showroom
is gone now, Orenstein said. That was a
blow. But one of my students said that he
knew a place in New Jersey, he said. That
was Lindeblad Piano Restoration in Pine
Brook. As fate would have it, the fellow
dealing with us was wearing a yarmulke.
He was a religious Jew. We were talking
Torah. As it turned out, the company
lends pianos to religious institutions,
which must pay only transportation costs.
Orenstein tried all the pianos and found
two to be acceptable. Both, though, were
sold before the concert; he made another
trip to Pine Brook, found a third, and told
the salesman, Im your good luck charm.
I play them you sell them. The salesman
agreed that if he could sell the third piano
before the concert, he would not ship it to
its new owners until afterward.
The idea of this concert is to set Jewish
music in the context of a classical concert,
Orenstein said. It is a very nice afternoon;
it gives a nice, warm, mispachadic feeling.
Were all making music together.
Were American
Jews, and the
sounds that
open our hearts
arent the same
sounds that
opened hearts
in Europe.
Shira LiSSek
Cantor Shira Lissek
Shira Lissek and her father, Cantor Leon Lissek
An afternoon of music
Who: Cantor shira Lissek will
sing, and dr. abie Orenstein will
accompany her on piano and
explain the music
What: a concert featuring Jewish,
Broadway, and classical music. (and
a dessert reception will follow.)
Where: Congregation Bnai israel,
53 Palisade avenue, emerson
When: sunday, October 27, at 2 p.m.
How: reservations and information
at the shul office, (201) 265-2272, or
buy tickets at the door.
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Akiva Roth of Englewood, who had been hired this
year to teach English at Yeshiva College, was fired last
week, after news of his 1997 conviction for lewdness.
Because of the nature of the offense of which he
was convicted, last week the Orthodox synagogues in
Englewood decided that prudence dictated that he be
asked not to show up for shul, and he agreed.
Therefore, an email went out to the members of the
shuls Congregation Ahavath Torah, Congregation
Shomrei Emunah, the East Hill Synagogue, and
Kesher. That email soon made its way to the Internet,
where it was posted on the Failed Messiah blog.
It is important that we respond appropriately, the
email said. On the one hand, with an eye towards the
protection of all; on the other hand, without jumping
to conclusions solely based upon media accounts.
Roth, now 42, was arrested in 1997, charged with
exposing himself to pre-bar mitzvah boys at private
lessons, touching himself and encouraging them to
do as he did. He was then a teacher at what was the
Solomon Schechter Day School of Union and Essex;
that West Orange school has been renamed the Golda
Och Academy.
The original charges were for sexual contact and
endangering the welfare of a child, but Roth was
convicted of four far less serious charges of lewdness.
He was sentenced to 10 years of probation, a sentence
that ended six years ago.
The judge who sentenced him, Barnett Hoffman,
allowed him to plead guilty to lewdness rather than
the more serious charges, but he is reported as having
been uncomfortable with Roth. One the one hand,
Hoffman said, Roth was in the lowest category for
risk of re-offense. On the other hand, the judge said,
Roth demonstrated a lack of appreciation for the
wrongfulness of his conduct.
He went on: Defendant is very arrogant and
continues to blame the victims, Hoffman said.
Roth has worked in many Jewish institutions, mainly
Orthodox or Conservative the Jewish Theological
Seminary, Camp Ramah, and YU. He also worked for
Hillel and AIPAC.
The rabbis who signed the email Akiva Block
of Kesher, Menachem Genack of Shomrei Emunah,
Shmuel Goldin and Chaim Poupko of Ahavath Torah,
and Zev Reichman of East Hill are making few public
statements as they decide how to handle the issue,
which is complicated by the age of the charges and the
question of whether the behavior has ever recurred.
As they consider their next steps, they are joined by
Rabbi Fred Elias of Kol HaNeshamah, a Conservative
shul in Englewood; Roth would sometimes go there as
well as to the Orthodox ones.
The community is discussing the matter and
determining the best path to take, Goldin, who is
also the immediate past president of the Rabbinical
Council of America, said. We are also researching
whether there are any current issues.
We have to be sensitive both to the community and
to Akiba, he said.
In their email, the rabbis acknowledged the
tightrope. May Hashem grant us the wisdom to deal
with this and other complex situations properly,
they wrote.
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Lois GoLdrich
When the three-session Taste of Judaism
program was created in the early 1990s,
leaders of the URJ then the Union of
American Hebrew Congrega-
tions already had a learn-
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Fri shman, one of the
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f or Tast e of J udai sm,
noted that the program
was created in the midst
of our successful 16-week
Introduction to Judaism
course, designed for anyone
who would like to have
a semesters worth of engagement in
understanding Judaism more clearly.
The course appealed to both Jews and
non-Jews, she said, drawing in those
who were interested in learning more
about their own religion along with those
exploring the possibility of conversion.
Still, Frishman said, movement leaders
found that there were many people
interested in learning more, but not
interested in a 16-week course.
As a result, URJ created the new, shorter
program. According to the organization,
si nce 1994 more than
1 00,000 peopl e have
participated in this course.
This year, the Reform group
has awarded grants to
congregations in 17 cities to
offer it. Barnert Temple is
among them.
Its an opportunity for
Jews and non-Jews alike to
explore the core principles
of Judaism and discern how
if theyre Jewish it could
be more meaningful; and
if theyre not then at the
very least to gain a deeper understanding
of what Judaism is, she said. And, she
added, a non-Jew involved in a relationship
with a Jew can learn how to integrate
comfortably with that persons heritage
and family.
Frishman has been teaching the course
since its inception, both at Barnert and
before that at the Reform Temple of
Suffern, now part of Beth Haverim Shir
Shalom in Mahwah. She has taught it three
times at Barnert but its been a while
since we offered it here, she said. Each
session lasts about two hours and explores
one of the three themes highlighted in the
program: Jewish spirituality, ethics, and
community values.
Recalling the creation of the program,
Frishman said that at the outset, the URJ
invited a handful of rabbis in the area to
create sample curricula. She was one of
those rabbis
It emerged that there were a lot of
different ways to approach these three
topics, she said. It was clear that rabbis
should have some leeway in designing the
curriculum. Our samples were [sent out]
to help others.
The rabbi said that over the years, the
makeup of the classes has varied.
This time we have 15 people, she
said, pointing out that the classes, to be
held throughout October, already have
begun. Of those, about one-third are
members of the congregation, including
some new members.
Each time, the balance has been
different, she said. Once it was almost
exclusively composed of people from
outside the congregation who were
looking into Judaism for personal reasons.
Some three or four later converted.
Thi s time we have four young
couples, three of whom are in interfaith
relationships and looking to understand
what role Judaism should play in their
lives, Frishman said. Another couple,
older and already married, is exploring the
possibility of conversion for the non-Jewish
spouse. Still another couple, longstanding
members of the congregation, are just
interested in learning more.
The course, she said, already inspired
one participant to go further and enroll in
the synagogues adult confirmation class.
This is a gateway offering, a very low-
barrier class, she said. Its very easy to
walk into, with no obligations. Just show
up.
Participants are given cards on which to
write down any questions they have about
Judaism, and Frishman promises them
that by the end of the third session, all of
Rabbi Elyse
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Making book on Fair Lawn rabbis weekly radio and bimah discourses
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Most pulpit rabbis have to worry about
only one dvar Torah each week. That, of
course, is the sermon they will deliver on
Shabbat, generally based on the weekly
Bible reading.
Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Fair Lawn
has double that responsibility. Not only
does he speak from the bimah of the
shul he has led since 1969, Congregation
Shomrei Torah, every Shabbat morning,
but every Friday morning at 8:15 he also
gives another 15-minute dvar Torah from
his electronic bimah, 91.9 FM, during the
radio show called JM in the AM.
And hes been doing it for 35 years he
has missed only ive weeks during that
time.
Now, Mosaica Press has gathered 52
of those broadcasts a years worth of
parashiot into a book, Rabbi Yudin on
the Parsha.
Although of course he talks about
the same parashah in shul and on the
air, Yudin does not give the same talk in
both places. The text is the same, but the
audience is not.
Over the years, the listening
audience has become very diverse,
Yudin said. Its not like going into a
classroom, where more often than
not your students are going to be
homogenous. This audience is not.
He has some idea of who this
audience is because listeners often
approach him. People stop me,
and theyll say thank you, he said.
The range of Jewish background
and education spanned by Yudins
listeners is both an intellectual
challenge and a reward for him, he
said. I hate stereotypes, but the
truth is that there are many Jews,
listeners, in Pompton Lakes and
Franklin Lakes who do not have a
sophisticated Jewish education. At
the same time, there is Lakewood.
Many residents there do have a
sophisticated Jewish education. And
I also reach Brooklyn, and Monsey,
and each has a completely different mix.
Its an incredible challenge to ind
something that will not be so basic that
the more educated community will turn it
off, or too advanced that the others will.
There is also the question of vocabulary.
Sometimes I must translate words for
those who dont understand but I cant
translate too much.
Another difference bet ween hi s
in-person dvar Torah and the on-air one,
Yudin said, is its use of sources. In shul, he
can ask congregants to read the words he
quotes, so the learning can be text-based;
he must assume that most radio listeners
who are driving, perhaps, or cleaning,
or preparing Shabbat dinner do not have
either a text in front of them or their hands
free to turn pages. I see it the radio
dvar Torah as an opportunity to create
bonds, week in and week out, and also the
opportunity for nourishment, not just of
the body or of the soul.
Ideally, he added, the dvar Torah can
provide the seed for a Torah discussion
at Shabbat dinner at tables where the
will for such discussions are there but the
conidence and knowledge to start them
may not be.
The book is subtitled Tomorrow we
have the privilege. Those are the words
Yudin used to begin his irst radio dvar
Torah, and they are the words he still uses
as an introduction every week. Religion
can become rote, he said. It can become
stale. I hope and really believe that it is a
privilege, that every week it is a new idea.
A new privilege.
Although it might seem to be dificult
to come up with two new approaches
to a Torah parashah that comes around
every year without fail, Yudin inds it
exhilarating. He does not worry about
repeating himself, because he has learned
that if he is excited by an idea, the odds are
that its new to him.
This weeks Torah portion, Vayera,
includes the Akedah, the binding of Isaac,
the powerful story in which God at irst
demands that Abraham sacriice his son,
his only son, and then at the very last
moment stays the patriarchs hand. On
Monday, Yudin was not sure how he would
approach that story, either on Wednesday,
when he prerecords his radio talk, or
on Saturday. He already had two ideas,
though.
The Rambam says that we dont
have prophecy today, but one of the 13
principles of faith which Maimonides
formulated is to believe that prophecy
existed.
These are my words for the Rambams
thoughts, Yudin continued. The old
commercial said that Ivory soap was 99.4
percent pure. If Abrahams prophesy
was 99.4 percent accurate, then he
never would have taken the knife and be
prepared to offer Isaac as a sacriice. You
see from Abrahams ability to go through
with it that his prophecy was 100 percent
accurate. If Abraham had thought that
God would allow him to slaughter Isaac,
he would have agonized over his decision.
The other idea, also new to him this
year, was that the Torah goes out of its
way to tell us that the Akedah happened
on the third day. The rabbis point out that
had he done it immediately, he could have
been seen as acting out of a religious high.
And had he more time to think about it, he
wouldnt have done it.
On Sunday, Fair Lawns mayor, John
Cosgrove, issued a proclamation honoring
Yudins book, and presented it to him at
a book signing and breakfast at the shul.
More than 150 people were there, listening
as Nachum Segal, JM in the AMs host,
and Shevi Yudin, the rabbis wife, talked
with both respect and admiration about
Benjamin Yudin. Shevi Yudin told stories
about her encounters with people who
wanted to know if she was married to
Rabbi Yudin from the radio show.
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show took a few minutes out from the
celebration to think about the next weeks
parashah.
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I always try to surround myself with music
and be part of as many projects as I can,
says award-winning Israeli jazz clarinet-
ist and saxophonist Anat Cohen. She and
her eponymous quartet will headline the
annual Chazen Jazz Concert at Rockland
Community Colleges Cultural Arts Center
on October 26 at 8 p.m.
Pianist Bruce Barth, guitar player Howard
Alden, Joe Martin on bass, and Daniel Free-
man on drums will back her. Well have
fun, promises Cohen, whose appearance in
Rockland was arranged by special request of
sponsors Jerry and Simona Chazen.
Cohen stole a few minutes to speak by
phone from her Manhattan home during a
week when she was jetting to performances
in several cities in California and Italy.
She regularly plays such top music ven-
ues as Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Vil-
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of the Year six years in a row by the Jazz
Journalists Association, and was named
2012s and 2013s Multi-Reeds Player of
the Year.
It is not easy to pinpoint Cohens musi-
cal style. Influenced by the international
musicians with whom she learned at
Berklee College of Music in Boston, she
plays a unique blend of Brazilian choro
and samba, classic New Orleans jazz, and
swing, tinged with a hint of klezmer.
Clarinet is often associated with cer-
tain genres, like swing or folk music, she
said. I combine the old and new, using
the clarinet as an expressive tool and not
in one genre. Im just happy that people
are drawn to what I do.
Its a gradual process of adding things
to my repertoire. Just collaborating with
a new musician is enough to bring a new
subtle flavor to my work.
Earlier this year, New York Times colum-
nist Joe Nocera described Cohen as a ter-
rific musician, fluid, full-throated, with a
knack for creating beautifully crafted, even
eloquent solos.
In addition to her quartet, Cohen often
makes appearances and recordings as a
trio with her older brother, saxophonist
Yuval Cohen, and her younger brother,
trumpeter Avishai Cohen. The three sib-
lings got their start in the Jaffa Music Con-
servatory in their native Israel, and each
successfully auditioned for Berklees trav-
eling representative in Tel Aviv. Cohen also
played tenor saxophone in the Israeli Air
Force band for her military service.
The Cohen siblings fourth collabora-
tive album, Tightrope, was released this
week. We played at a sold-out concert
at Carnegie Hall in February and we will
be playing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in
November, Anat Cohen said. When we
play together, it augments the experience
immensely.
Albums featuring Cohen as a bandleader
include Place and Time, named one of
All About Jazz-New Yorks Best Debut
Albums of 2005; Noir and Poetica
(2007); Notes From The Village (2008);
Clarinetwork (2010); and Claroscuro
(2012), which takes its title from the
Spanish word describing the play of light
and shade.
Following her Rockland gig, she is
scheduled to appear in Knoxville, Tennes-
see, and she plans to be at NJPAC in New-
ark on November 7.
At the Chazen concert, the JCCs award
for lifetime achievement in the arts is to
be bestowed on jazz pianist George Wein,
founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and
the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festi-
val, among other outdoor music events.
George Wein created unique, lasting
festivals that have really left their mark on
the American popular music scene, JCC
Rockland CEO David Kirschtel said. He is
truly a visionary in the business. The JCC
is proud to honor him and that he will join
us for this exciting jazz concert.
Tickets to the concert, available from
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Patrons who pay $75 will receive pre-
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to a private dairy dessert reception fol-
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A trip to the florist three years ago inspired
Prof. Dennis Klein to found the Fair Trade
Teaneck Steering Committee, which has
organized its third annual Fair Trade Sab-
bath series of events to mark national Fair
Trade Month in October.
Among the five houses of
worship participating over
the next few weeks are two
synagogues, Congregation
Beth Sholom and Temple
Emeth. Fair Trade Sabbath
is intended to unite religious
congregations in support
of fair wages, sustainable
farming methods, and the
abolition of child slave labor.
With its origins dating
to post-World War II, the
fair trade movement originally was a
charitable effort championed by religious
organizations. Today, the movement
encourages people to buy such products
as coffee, tea, sugar, and clothing only if
those particular items are socially and
commercially sustainable products.
Such products should be chosen in
place of commodities that may harm the
environment, the economy, communities,
and disadvantaged people.
Fair Trade Teanecks decision to
convene Fair Trade Sabbath observances
during Fair Trade Month recalls the
international movements
origins in organized religion,
said Klein, a human rights
activist who directs the
masters degree program
in Holocaust and genocide
studies at Kane University.
They remind us of our faith
in dedicated hard work to
achieve a measure of justice
for the most vulnerable and
marginalized among us.
His inspiration came when
he walked into Tiger Lily,
a Teaneck florist shop, Klein said. The
stores owner, Tim Blunk, had a display
about fair-trade flowers on his counter. I
asked him about it, and he struck me as
extremely knowledgeable and committed
to the project, Klein said. He really
tapped a nerve for me.
Blunk became a member of the steering
committee that Klein put together.
His goal was to leverage the Teaneck
communitys long-time reputation for
civic consciousness into practical support
of fair trade.
At Beth Sholom, at 10 a.m. on October
19, Rabbi Joel Pitkowski will speak from
the pulpit about fair trade in the context
of environmental sustainability. The
service will be followed by a kiddush at
noon featuring certified fair-trade items.
On Sunday, October 20, Beth Sholom will
sponsor a program on the environment.
I have been involved in Fair Trade
Teaneck since I got here two and a half
years ago, Pitkowski said. For me, it is
a wonderful way to express Jewish values
of caring for our fellow human beings and
the environment, and having those values
expressed in how we live every day.
When Pitkowski came to Beth Sholom,
among his first actions was switching the
official shul treat from Hershey Kisses to
fair-trade chocolate. It was a simple way
to illustrate the idea, he said.
One of the beautiful notions of Judaism
is that it has something to say about
everything we do including what we eat,
what we wear, and how we interact with
the people who make our food and with
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Jewish Federation of North-
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October 20.
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and register to walk with Team Sharsheret. All are wel-
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old, who plan to meet at 8 a.m. in Central Park at the
69th Street and 5th Avenue entrance. Call Kim at (201)
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Fort Lee shul dedication
On Sunday, October 20, at 9:45 a.m., the Young Israel
of Fort Lee will dedicate its new building at 1610
Parker Ave. Participants include Fort Lee Mayor Mark
Sokolich; Rabbi Shmuel Goldin, honorary president of
the Rabbinical Council of America and leader of Con-
gregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood; Paul Glasser,
senior director of Institutional Advancement of the
Orthodox Union; and Rabbi Neil Winkler of the Young
Israel of Fort Lee; and shul leaderss.
The new facility, the Ulo and Ethel Barad Build-
ing, is named after its donors. Their son, Gerald, will
speak at the event in memory of his parents, who
were longtime members and contributors. An open
house will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., following
the dedication.
The original building, erected in 1980, was demol-
ished nearly three years ago to make way for a much
larger, two-floor facility to serve its 120 families. The
new handicapped-accessibile structure includes
an elevator that runs automatically on Shabbat, full
kitchen, reception hall, main sanctuary and smaller
beit midrash for weekly services.
Emunah honors leaders
Women in the community who head chessed com-
mittees in local shuls will be honored at Emunahs
Kallah Tea on this Shabbat, October 19, 435 Warwick
Ave., Teaneck. Nechama Price, on the faculty at Stern
College in the Bible and Judaic studies departments
since 2004 and a recent graduate of the first class of
the American branch of Nishmats Yoetzet Halacha
program, will discuss Strong or Weak? Women in
the Tanach.
The honorees include from Congregation Arzei
Darom, Valerie Levin; Bais Medrash of Bergen County,
Michelle Wasserlauf; Beth Aaron, Toby Feder; Congre-
gation Beth Abraham, Tammy Greenberg and Tsipi
Gurell; Congregation Bnai Yeshurun, Betty Kay and
Ofra Parmett; Congregation Ahavat Shalom, Lizzie-
Zimmer Farberwitz; Keter Torah, Estee Kirsch; Con-
gregation Ohr HaTorah, Elissa Hochbaum; Congre-
gation Rinat Yisrael, Yael Davidovics; Congregation
Shaarei Orah, Malka Jachter; Congregation Shaaarei
Tefillah, Audra Lichter and Terri Normand; Young
Israel of Teaneck, Marsha Friedman, Devorah Schatz,
Robin Mendelson, and Hadassah Weinberger; and
Zichron Mordechai, Rhonda Leibowitz.
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AMIT dinner
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Chana and Daniel Shields of Teaneck will be honored
at AMITs annual dinner on Sunday, November 10, at
Pier Sixty - Chelsea Piers in New York City at 5:30 p.m.
The evening will also pay tribute to the memory of
Esther Semmelman, Chanas sister, who also lived in
Teaneck. Rabbi Shai Piron, the minister of education
for the State of Israel, is the special guest.
Hundreds of AMIT friends and supporters are
expected to attend. All proceeds will benefit the AMIT
Network of schools and programs throughout Israel,
which in recent years has grown to encompass more
than 26,000 students from kindergarten through
junior college.
The dinner will also honor Ina and David Tropper
of Riverdale, N.Y., and Jill and Yoni Ellman of New York
City. Event chairs are former dinner honorees Stacey
and David Kanbar of New York City. Among the dinner
co-chairs are Robin and Shukie Grossman of Teaneck,
Jacques Semmelman of Teaneck, and Alex Thurm of
Englewood.
Chana Shields and her family have been deeply
rooted in AMIT for generations. Her grandmother,
Shirley Halpern, was an active member of her Miz-
rachi chapter in Brooklyn, while her mother, Marcia
Holzer, was involved on both the national and local
levels and is a past national board member, as was her
late sister, Esther Semmelman. Chanas aunt, Norma
Holzer, was also a past national president. Chana was
a member of the inaugural NewGen board, involved in
the initiative to bring a younger generation into AMIT,
served as recording secretary, and is the national vice
president of marketing.
Dan Shields is also dedicated to Jewish communal
life. Growing up in Toronto, his family was involved
in organizations ranging from the local Jewish day
schools, yeshivot, and synagogues to Bikur Cholim
and Mizrachi. He served as treasurer of the Lower
Merion Synagogue in Pennsylvania and as a trustee of
Yeshivat Noam, while also being active at Congrega-
tion Keter Torah.
Esther Holzer Semmelman grew up in Monsey, N.Y.,
and was a lawyer. She worked at the UJA Federation
and was a member of the inaugural NewGen board,
later serving on the national board. She and her hus-
band, Jacques, and their two children, were active in
many communal organizations including their shul,
Rinat Yisrael, Shalva, Keren Or, Moriah, and the Torah
Academy of Bergen County.
Esther died in 2012, after a 10-year battle with can-
cer. The Art Project at the AMIT Beatrice and Irving
Stone Meysharim School in Shoham, Israel, is dedi-
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For information on the dinner call (212) 477-4725.
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Secretary
Ceil Wolf (1914-2008)
Editor Emerita
Rebecca Kaplan Boroson
A house divided
M
uch has been said and
written in the last two
weeks about the new
Pew Research Center
survey, and its disturbing portrait of
the state of American Jewry.
No stream has reason to crow.
Attrition afflicts all flavors of Juda-
ism even the so-called secular, espe-
cially when we factor in the number
of Jewish parents who say they are
not raising their children as Jewish
either by religion or aside from reli-
gion, in the surveys own words. In
Orthodoxys case, where the picture
appears to be less bleak, the num-
bers may be unfortunately skewed,
because virtually all the Orthodox
interviewed were from Brooklyn,
Monsey, and Lakewood solid bas-
tions of charedi Judaism, but not rep-
resentative of more liberal Orthodox
enclaves.
Among the comments, press
releases, speeches, articles, and
sound bites that inundated us in the
wake of the Pew results, the words of
two Orthodox rabbis stand out. The
first is Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Con-
gregation Ahavath Torah in Engle-
wood. We are all in this together,
he told our reporter Lois Goldrich
(Local rabbis talk about the Pew sur-
vey, Oct. 11, 2013). We need to find a
way to reach out to those beyond our
ranks and boundaries, and do a bet-
ter job within our ranks, to touch both
minds and hearts.
If we are to reverse the trend long
observed and yet again confirmed by
this new survey, we need to set aside
our fractionalism and our factional-
ism. We need to eschew triumpha-
lism and embrace collaboration. We
need to agree to disagree on matters
of observance and ideology, and focus
instead on our common commitment
to preserving the American Jewish
future. The best minds from every
corner of Jewish life need to sit at the
same table, and come up with ways to
fix that which clearly is very broken.
This brings us to the second voice
that stands out that of Eliyahu Fink,
rabbi of the Pacific Jewish Center/The
Shul on the Beach in Venice, Calif.
In an article that appeared on
the website of the Orthodox weekly
the Jewish Press, Fink wrote that
Orthodox Jews should be concerned
and make efforts to help revive non-
Orthodox Judaism....Orthodox Juda-
ism is not going to magically become
the Judaism for the 89 percent of non-
Orthodox Jews. We can either wish
them well and watch them disappear,
or we can try to keep them connected
to their Jewish heritage.... [S]trength-
ening the non-Orthodox denomina-
tions is a worthy endeavor. They are
also our brothers and sisters.
We are all in this together. Only
together can we shore up the house
so that it is strong enough to remain
standing long into the distant future.
We lack only one thing: leaders in
all streams with the courage to stand
together.
TruTh regardless of consequences
People of
the bagel
versus people
of the book
A
new Pew Research poll suggests that Ameri-
can Jewry is on its way to sleeping with da
fishes.
The surprising part was not the nearly 60
percent intermarriage rate, or the two-thirds of Jews
who prefer the dentists chair to attending synagogue.
No, it was Christmas that got me.
Really? One third out of all American Jews are light-
ing a tree? Even the most secular Jews used to define
themselves as not being Christian. Now, according to
the study more than a third say that belief in Jesus is not
incompatible with being Jewish.
Basically, were screwed.
So where do we go from here? Some would say its
time to book those El Al tickets, because American
Jewry has no future. But
this is a self-defeating argu-
ment. Israel needs a strong
American Jewish commu-
nity for its basic survival.
All you have to do is look at
tiny diaspora communities
that were once robust, like
the UK, where a tsunami
of anti-Israel sentiment has
exploded, to know the price
paid for overseas communi-
ties that begin to disappear.
Others miss anti-Semi-
tism. America is simply too
open a society for Jews not to blend in to the point of
oblivion. Both Spinoza and Sartre argued that with-
out people to hate us we Jews will be no more. What
we need is some good old fashion pogroms to keep us
committed.
I find this the most offensive argument of all, not only
because it argues that Nazis can be credited with Jewish
identity but rather because its simply not worth paying
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The four Cs
Communication, conciliation, com-
promise, and cooperation. That, a
sadly underrated Gerald R. Ford told
a joint session of Congress three days
after becoming the accidental presi-
dent in August 1974, was his motto
for Congress.
A year earlier, at his conformation
hearings to replace Spiro T. Agnew as
vice president, Ford said that com-
promise is the oil that makes govern-
ments go.
To newly elected legislators, he
would often quote Thomas Huxley,
who said a century ago: Sit down
before facts as a little child, be pre-
pared to give up every preconceived
notion or you shall learn nothing.
As of this writing, New Jersey
voters had yet to choose their new
senator. As of this reading, the win-
ner likely has taken the oath of office
and is beginning his on-the-job
training.
While it is as yet unclear whether
that person is Corey Booker or Steve
Lonegan, it is very clear what are the
issues that our new senator must
help address.
Perhaps the biggest issue is how
he can help the Senate and the
Congress as a whole end the divi-
sive political bickering that brought
government to a standstill over the
last several years and inhibited the
nations economic recovery and
growth, and begin the process of leg-
islating for the public good.
In Wednesdays race, the lines
were clearly drawn. A moderate
liberal Democrat faced a conserva-
tive libertarian Republican. The two
men were as distinguishable as noon
is from midnight. The business of
governing, however, is not the same
as the business of running for office.
Our new senator now represents all
the people of this state those who
voted for him, those who voted for
his opponent, those who did not
vote at all, and those who were not
eligible to vote. He is not a candidate,
but a senator, and that is how he
must approach his new task.
Our nations greatness has been
diminished by the raging seas of ran-
cor, discord, partisanship, and dis-
trust. We pray that our new senator
plunges himself instead into the four
Cs of Gerald Ford.
Op-Ed
JS-21*
TruTh regardless of consequences
People of
the bagel
versus people
of the book
A
new Pew Research poll suggests that Ameri-
can Jewry is on its way to sleeping with da
fishes.
The surprising part was not the nearly 60
percent intermarriage rate, or the two-thirds of Jews
who prefer the dentists chair to attending synagogue.
No, it was Christmas that got me.
Really? One third out of all American Jews are light-
ing a tree? Even the most secular Jews used to define
themselves as not being Christian. Now, according to
the study more than a third say that belief in Jesus is not
incompatible with being Jewish.
Basically, were screwed.
So where do we go from here? Some would say its
time to book those El Al tickets, because American
Jewry has no future. But
this is a self-defeating argu-
ment. Israel needs a strong
American Jewish commu-
nity for its basic survival.
All you have to do is look at
tiny diaspora communities
that were once robust, like
the UK, where a tsunami
of anti-Israel sentiment has
exploded, to know the price
paid for overseas communi-
ties that begin to disappear.
Others miss anti-Semi-
tism. America is simply too
open a society for Jews not to blend in to the point of
oblivion. Both Spinoza and Sartre argued that with-
out people to hate us we Jews will be no more. What
we need is some good old fashion pogroms to keep us
committed.
I find this the most offensive argument of all, not only
because it argues that Nazis can be credited with Jewish
identity but rather because its simply not worth paying
the price. If only dead Jews get to remain affiliated, whats
the point?
Others find in this catastrophic study the ultimate vindi-
cation of Orthodoxy, the only part of the community that
is growing rather than vanishing. But as an Orthodox Jew
who has always lived among the non-Orthodox, I take scant
comfort in the argument that only insularity and self-ghet-
toization can perpetuate our tradition.
Rather, whats needed, both for Orthodox and secu-
lar Jews, is an immediate program to make all Jewish day
schools free, just as Birthright is. Jewish education is the
only guarantor of Jewish identity. We are not the people
of the bagel. We are the people of the book. An extreme,
draconian interpretation of separation of church and state
in the United States makes it impossible for a dollar of our
tax money to go to parochial schools, even for their secular
departments. America is alone among developed counties
of the world in penalizing parents who want to give their
children a values-based religious education. We have to
fight this politically tooth and nail. If AIPAC can get 12,000
Jews together to support Israel, then a similarly well-run
political lobby can bring even greater numbers to pressure
the government to pass legislation to fund the secular cur-
riculum of parochial schools.
The rest of the money should be provided by creating
a giant superfund that makes grants of approximately
$10,000 per student per annum toward the cost of Jewish
day schools, whatever the economic status of the parents.
The money can and must be raised.
Endorsing the centrality of Jewish education, Torah study,
and mitzvah observance also means putting an end to an
emphasis on Jewish culture as a means of instilling identity.
For a generation American Jewry has promoted Jewish
food, music, and art as focal points of identity. In place
of kosher we have kosher style. Portnoys Complaint can
serve as a text to replace Genesis.
Lets now admit that Jewish culture has been an abysmal
failure.
Why? First there is no unifying Jewish culture. For my
father, a Sephardic Jew born in Iran, gefilte fish and klezmer
are about as Jewish as sashimi and the Beatles.
But even if this were not the case, Jews have voted over-
whelmingly with their feet and have decided that Jewish
culture is inferior to its non-Jewish alternative. The best
kosher restaurants today serve sushi over borscht, gar-
lic chicken over boiled flanken. In Israel itself Arab foods
like falafel have killed farfel, shwarma has finished off
corned beef. The same is true of Jewish music. Jews flock
to Beethoven and Beyonc.
Does Jewish culture objectively match that of the Gentile
west? No. And who cares? The Jews were never meant to
be famous for their cuisine or sculpture. Rather, it is our
incomparable religion and timeless values that make us the
chosen people and the envy of the earth. No nation has so
contributed to the goodness of the world than the Jews. We
have gifted the world a personal God attentive to human
suffering. The equality of humankind and the creation of
life in Gods image. Directional history and thus the concept
of progress. The Sabbath and thus the superiority of rela-
tionships over productivity. A belief in moral choice that
transcends modern ideas of genetic predetermination. An
emphasis on communal obligation before personal salva-
tion. And a fixation not with entering heaven but with fix-
ing the earth with tikkun olam.
The novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer are an attractive
read. But they cannot compare with the haunting reunion
of Joseph and his brothers, or the bravery of David before
Goliath. Jewish film festivals are entertaining but pale
before dancing on Simchat Torah or lighting the Chanukah
menorah.
Greek and Roman culture may have sculpted our world
but Jewish values continue to electrify the earth.
Why Yair Lapid is wrong
on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
I
ll confess that when I first read
about Israeli Finance Minister
Yair Lapids disagreement with
Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahus insistence that the Palestinians
recognize Israel as a Jewish state, I felt
a degree of sympathy. Not for the sub-
stance of the argument, but for the
manner in which Lapid expressed it.
My father didnt come to Haifa from
the Budapest ghetto in order to get
recognition from Abu Mazen Pales-
tinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas Lapid said on October 7, at a
talk at Manhattans 92nd Street Y.
Darn right, I grunted at my Mac.
The core ethos of Zionism, as Lapid
himself explained, is that we Jews
are no longer the passive objects of
other nations histories. We make our own history and
we define ourselves, for we are, as the Israeli national
anthem Hatikvah declares in its penultimate line, a free
people in our own land.
But however much we might appreciate Lapids
healthy dismissal of the opinions of those who deny the
legitimacy of Jewish national aspirations, it is precisely
because of those same aspirations that his argument is
dangerously flawed.
When you study what others call the Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict, and what I prefer to call the Palestinian war
against Israels legitimacy, it
should be painfully appar-
ent that it is the intangible
aspects of this long dispute
that have confounded a final
agreement, and not the tan-
gible ones.
What I mean is this: if this
dispute were solely about
sharing a territory, equitable
distribution of water rights,
common security arrange-
ments, and so forth, we
might well have arrived at a
resolution by now. When you look at other protracted
conflicts that largely have been resolved such as the
one in Northern Ireland between mainly Catholic Irish
nationalists and mainly Protestant Unionists and the
British government you see that success has come
from the basic fact that each party recognizes the oth-
ers legitimacy. However revolting the terrorist actions
of the Irish Republican Army, its leaders never sought
the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Equally, the loy-
alist fanatics who terrorized innocent Catholics in Bel-
fast and Derry did not seek to destroy the Republic of
Ireland.
For that reason, the Northern Ireland peace process
was able to focus on tangible goals, like the disarma-
ment of terrorist groups and a formula for power shar-
ing, rather than getting bogged down in a competition
about historical rights. Thats not to deny the obvious
existence of historical wounds, merely to observe that
they were overcome.
By contrast, what nags in the context of the Israeli-Pal-
estinian conflict is the rejection by the Palestinian side
of the entire Zionist enterprise. Regardless of whether
they are sitting at the table with Israeli negotiators, or
gallivanting around the U.N. demanding unilateral rec-
ognition, the essential Palestinian message has, for more
than a century, been that the Jews really have no right to
be here in the first place.
The Palestinian campaign for the so-called right of
return is the clearest example of what Im describ-
ing. Abbas and the PA, as Yair Lapid really should know,
repudiate Israels Jewish character because they refuse
to give up on the idea that Israels Jewish society will
eventually be overwhelmed by the descendants of the
Arab refugees of 1948 returning to a country that they
have never set foot in.
As long as the Palestinians reject Israels Jewish char-
acter, they will insist on the right of return. Thats why
we dont have the luxury of saying, damn what you
think. Recognition of Israel as the historic homeland of
the Jewish people should not be demoted to the status
of an afterthought, something wed like to achieve if we
can, but wont worry about if we cant. It is, rather, the
key reason why this conflict has persisted for so long.
As the Oslo process of the 1990s demonstrated, you
can only go so far by not tackling these fundamental
ideological objections on the Palestinian side. Indeed,
negotiating with Palestinian leaders as if these objec-
tions dont exist simply encourages Abbas and others
to raise them at delicate moments. That way, they can
portray the Israelis as intransigent occupiers, safe in the
knowledge that the rest of the world regards the Pales-
tinians as blameless victims.
That is why Netanyahus unwavering stance on the
need for Palestinian recognition of Israels Jewish char-
acter should be welcomed as a gesture of peace, not an
excuse to perpetuate the status quo. Peace is only possi-
ble if the Palestinians revise the historical narrative that
currently leads them to denigrate Israel as the Zionist
entity.
Ah, you say, thatll never happen. And you may be
right. But thats a subject for another time. JNS.org
Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst, writes about
Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His work
has been published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and many other
publications.
Ben
Cohen
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu, at right, and finance
Minister Yair lapid sit together during a press conference in July.
FlaSh90
Op-Ed
JS-22*
Help elderly lead meaningful Jewish lives
BoSToN The elders of
Israel are like the wings
of a bird: Just as a bird
cannot fly without wings,
Israel cannot do anything
without their elders (Vayi-
krah Rabba 11.8, Midrash
on Leviticus 9:1).
Last I checked, there
was no mitzvah among
the 613 telling us to dye
our hair to counter the
effects of aging. If only
people would give charity
and observe Shabbat as assiduously as
they follow the social commandment to
hide their gray. The veneration that our
tradition gives to a person with gray hair
is undermined by a nip-and-tuck culture.
People in large numbers persist in trying
to mask the natural effects of aging, which
creates a false hierarchy of youth and
communicates that those who are older
are less valued.
Its time we got over it. The statistics
are quite clear: We are living in a time
when the oldest in our society are the
fastest-growing portion of the population.
And yet it is also clear that people over
85 are frequently marginalized, lonely
and alienated from the life of our people.
Significant change is needed.
Jewish life is inordinately
focused on children, teenagers
and young adults. They are
presented as our future and
our continuity. People observe
children in a Jewish preschool
or on a Birthright trip and
believe that we will succeed
in having them live out our
values.
There is no sin in nachas,
the emotional gratification
we take from our children.
But these populations should
not be granted the exclusive focus of our
collective energy and creativity. Ensuring
our future the future of every person
reading this article means guarding life
so that each of us can continue to live and
join the elders of Israel, living good and
meaningful lives up until the day we die.
There are some obvious challenges we
must overcome to help seniors remain in
the midst of our people. Among them are
improved access to health care, accessible
communal organizations, supportive
housing, and support for caregivers.
People should not have to struggle alone.
Jewish life should be easily accessible,
and people should be able to choose
to live in a community where they can
receive supportive services, maintain
friendships, and have a rich spiritual life
and easy access to health care and health
maintenance.
As Robert Putnam described in
Bowling Alone, civic engagement,
belonging, and active participation
in community results in better health
outcomes and increases the potential for
a longer happy life. Similarly, the reward
in the Torah for honoring your parents is
that you shall merit a long life. Here we
find an essential life circle: We honor our
parents, and our children honor us, and
we succeed in extending life and lifes
enjoyment.
How do we do this as a community?
We should be designing and building
af f ordabl e s uppor t i ve hous i ng
integrated into our neighborhoods, with
health services easily accessible and
multigenerational communal life bubbling
all around. We honor them by integrating
them into our lives.
More than 50 years ago, my grandfather,
Dr. Milton I. Levine, wrote a letter to the
New York Times outlining a foster care
program for elders. His idea remains
relevant today: Adopt an elder. Learn his
or her story. By including elders in the
mental map of our neighborhoods, we
help create a stronger klal Yisrael. But
to truly see the elders in our midst, we
also need to stop denying our own aging
process. We are in this together.
In a womens prayer book published
in Germany in 1908, there is a two-page
prayer for a daughter to recite when her
mother is facing illness, as well as a prayer
to assist in getting along with an elderly
stepmother. Such rituals and prayers
for the children of older people largely
have vanished from the liturgy. Jewish
life can support this expansive stage of
life much more fully by offering prayers,
rituals, generationally integrated social
opportunities, and relevant educational
programmi ng as we accompany
our parents and all the elders of our
community from decade to decade, even
as we ourselves age into our 60s and 70s.
As I looked out this Yom Kippur at
the worshipers gathered at the Hebrew
Rehabilitation Center in Boston, I saw a
hundred faces of aging. Many were seated
next to their 70-year-old children, an aide,
or a good friend. I indeed felt our prayers
take flight, born on the wings of those
worn and creased faces and the voices
that carried theirs, joining in song and
prayer. JTaWireService
Rabbi Sara Passche-Orlowe is the director
of chaplaincy and religious services for
Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston.
Sara
Paasche-
Orlow
Defining a true Jew
T
here have been three reports
released in the past few days that
look at the Jewish population.
Two of them, the Pew Research
Study and the Steinhardt Social Research
Institute Study, are concerned with Jew-
ish population numbers. The third, by the
University of Huddersfield in England, con-
cerns itself with the genetic history of Aske-
nazi Jews. In fact, however, all three studies
are really about Jewish identity.
The Pew and Steinhart studies have
come up with vastly different numbers
describing the size of the Jewish population
in the United
States. This dis-
parity is due to
thei r diverse
definitions of
who is a Jew.
This is not a
new problem.
Jewish identity
has been an
issue in the Jew-
ish community
at least since
the beginning
of the Common Era, and perhaps even ear-
lier. At the start of the Common Era, Jews
in Rome were proselytizing so successfully
that the rabbis felt that they had to erect
barriers to conversion for fear that the Jew-
ish community would become too diluted.
In essence, they revised the standards
for Jewish identification, and as Judaism
became more rabbinical, whole segments
of the Jewish population who were not
considered religious enough by the rabbis
became disenfranchised and were left out
in the cold.
In great part, due to this exclusion-
ary policy, the world Jewish population
declined sharply over the next thousand
years. According to the Jewish Encyclope-
dia, the world Jewish population dropped
from about five million at the start of the
Common Era to about one million by the
end of the first millennium CE. It remained
at about one million until the middle of the
eighteenth century, when it suddenly sky-
rocketed to seven million in less than a hun-
dred years.
Both the precipitous population decline
and the even more remarkable population
increase resulted from the different poli-
cies affected the way Jewish identity was
defined. In the early years of the Common
Era, before the rise of rabbinic Judaism,
Jews were defined through self description;
for example, you could describe yourself as
a Roman Jew or as a Greek Jew. There was
no other requirement than that. You didnt
have to belong to a synagogue or observe
holidays, or keep kosher, or meet any of the
other criteria that are currently applied in
population surveys. After the rabbis gained
power, the nature of Judaism and Jewish
identification changed. A Jew could no lon-
ger self select. He had to be listed as a Jew
by the rabbi. Thus, if a Jew was not affili-
ated with a rabbinic religious community,
he was not counted as a Jew.
This situation continued for the next
thousand years, until Napoleon granted the
Jews citizenship, and pioneers and vision-
aries like the Bal Shem Tov, the founder of
chasidism, and Rabbi Abraham Geiger, the
founder of the Reform movement, declared
that it was not necessary for a person to be
affiliated with a synagogue or even know
how to pray in order for him to consider
himself Jewish. (It should be remembered
that the Bal Shem Tov was excommuni-
cated by the Vilna Gaon because of this
heretical idea.)
These great visionaries said that if you
consider yourself Jewish, then youre
Jewish!
As a result of this earth-shattering decla-
ration, the world Jewish population soared
so high that by 1935, through the measure
of self identification, there were fifteen mil-
lion Jews in the world. (Hitler did not ask
how Jewish his victims were.)
Today, we are facing a problem similar
to the one that confronted the Jews in the
first centuries of the Common Era. We once
again have set up barriers to Jewish iden-
tification, and we now have standards to
determine if you are a true Jew: Was your
mother Jewish? Did you have a bar mitz-
vah? How often do you attend services?
Do you belong to a JCC? Contribute to Jew-
ish charities? Been to Israel? Speak and/or
read Hebrew? Light Shabbat candles? Have
a Christmas tree? And on and on.
These questions only serve to narrow
the field, in a time when we should be wid-
ening our tent. We can no longer afford to
be an exclusive and exclusionary club. We
need to find new ways to welcome not only
the disenchanted and disenfranchised Jews
but also the intermarried and their non-
Jewish partners.
In the same way that Jews of the twenty-
first century are different from their first
century ancestors, so too must the defini-
tion of who is a true Jew be different. Until
we can settle on a new definition, we will
be unable to measure the Jewish popula-
tion accurately.
Bernard Beck, a former entrepreneur,
marketing consultant, Rutgers professor,
and Hebrew school teacher, is the author
of many books, including True Jew
Challenging the Stereotype.
Bernard
Beck
Letters
JS-23*
Our brothers keeper
Am I my brothers keeper?
The question, from Genesis 4:9, is as rel-
evant today as it was when the world was
created. And here is why.
Eleven days ago, a 14-year-old autis-
tic African-America boy named Avonte
Oquendo vanished from his school in
Long Island City. He was not kidnapped.
He simply ran away, and he wasnt noticed
until he had disappeared into the vastness
of New York City.
This is our worst nightmare. Our 1-year-
old autistic son, Harrison, also has run
away. He has jumped from the bay win-
dow in our living room and run naked on
a busy street while we slept.
Young Avonte cannot speak to tell any-
one he is lost. Neither can our little Harry.
Worse still, these boys appear perfectly
normal, so no adult would even think
something is amiss if they passed each
other on the street.
We write now for two purposes. The
first is to raise awareness of autism in our
community. It is not just one of a dozen
or more twisted ribbons you see on the
backs of minivans. There is no peace for
families of autistic children, who are flight
risks and cannot communicate. Secondly,
we ask that you remember this young
mans face, particularly those of us who
commute for work to New York City. And
heres why: Am I my brothers keeper? No,
I am not.
We are all our brothers keepers.
gabrielle nitti
Warren nitti, esq.
Paramus
Pew naivete
There was, unfortunately, considerable
sociological naivete in the Jewish Stan-
dards reporting and comments on the
recent Pew Research Center report on
American Jews. In his October 4 essay,
Observations on Orthodox Jews in the
Pew, Rabbi Alan Brill uncritically accepts
the statistical data without seriously ques-
tioning the statistical and sociological
validity of the study as regards both demo-
graphic and religious behavior.
Does it really make sense to accept the
Pew finding that 15 percent of charedi Jews
attend non-Jewish services several times
a year? Is it realistic to find chasidic Jews
in churches and mosques several times a
year? Do 24 percent of charedi Jews really
handle money on Shabbat?
The critical issue here is the matter of
obtaining a valid sample the people who
were interviewed and who responded to
the questions. Charedi Jews are known
for their reticence about cooperating with
journalists and survey researchers partic-
ularly if the interviewers are not Yiddish
speakers and unknown to the community.
Consequently, the number of Orthodox
and charedi Jews interviewed and counted
is deeply problematic, and no conclusions
about these Jews can be made at this time.
Brills conclusions, drawn from the study,
consequently are deeply flawed.
charles selengut Ph.d.
Teaneck
Political Spin-Meistering
Its Aris party, (October 11), reported
on a gathering of Jewish Republicans in
Teaneck. Ari Fleischman, the quintessen-
tial Republican Jew, addressed the faithful.
He was quoted as saying that not even a
majority of Democrats support Israel.
Say what? A recent Gallup poll tracked
support for Israel. Since 2008, Democratic
support for Israel has increased. Over the
last three years, a majority of Democrats
do indeed favor Israel over the Palestin-
ians. Fleischer should do some fact-check-
ing before he makes this kind of statement
again. Otherwise, it is just the same old
political spin from a past master of the art.
Whats more, Fleischer and the Repub-
lican Jewish coalition privately must be
apoplectic over the hijacking of the GOP
by the Tea Party. Rand Paul and his ilk are
no friends of Israel. They favor a return
to isolationism, which would deliver the
Middle East into the willing arms of Rus-
sia and China. Without a continued Amer-
ican presence in the region something
championed by every U.S. President since
Harry S. Truman Israels security would
be at greater risk than at any time since
independence.
No American Jew can or should be able
to feel at home in the new Republican Tea
Party. Fleischer may not like Democrats,
but an examination of the facts reveals
that the Democratic Party is now a more
hospitable place for Jewish Americans.
You cant spin the facts any other way.
When and if the GOP regains its senses
and pulls back from the extremism of its
Tea Party, that might change. Ask Eric Can-
tor when or if that will happen.
eric Weis
Wayne
Communist Slovos
In his article lionizing Shawn Slovo of
South Africa (Noshes, October 4), Nate
Bloom fails to point out that Ms. Slovos
parents, Joe Slovo and Ruth First, whom
he prefers to describe as anti-apartheid
activists, were among the very founders
of the Communist Party of South Africa.
Sadly, todays Communists many among
them are Jews by birth, but not by religion,
as they dont practice any religion, but
promote atheism lend their full support
to those seeking to obliterate the worlds
only Jewish state, and, along with it, the
practice and observance of Judaism, from
the face of the earth.
harry eisenberg
Glen Rock
Dont attack Iran
For those people who urge America to
attack Iran, I ask: Where will we get the
money? We are fighting two wars now.
Where will we get the man and woman
power? Russia will have an invitation to
put missile batteries in Cuba.
Do they think that Russia, China, and
Arab countries will do nothing to prevent
the influx of other Muslims? Many years
ago I read that Iran had 40 million resi-
dents. By this time, it should have between
50 and 60 million people.
And finally, what do they think will hap-
pen to Israel, with Hezbollah and Hammas
having thousands of missiles and aimed at
Israel.
I would like some answers.
Nothing is going to happen before the
November 5th election.
Irving gall
Paramus
Alienating decorations
This is a letter I sent to the Hudson City
Savings Bank in Paramus about its Christ-
mas decorations. I hope that some readers
might consider writing similar letters to
their banks. Thats how change happens.
Dear Sir:
A Christmas tree is a standard symbol
for celebrating Christmas.
This holiday is appropriately celebrated
in a religious institution or a private home,
not in a bank.
My wife and I have had two accounts
at the Teaneck branch of the Hudson City
Bank for 42 years and have been exposed
to this religious celebration for these many
years. How can you not be aware that
many people who do not celebrate Xmas
feel excluded and offended?
Adding one little menorah to a corner of
the bank does not solve the problem.
There is no reason to celebrate any reli-
gion in a bank.
There are numerous banks in Teaneck
that do not have Christmas trees on their
premises and are competing with Hudson
City Bank for the loyalty of this very large
Jewish and multiethnic community.
May I suggest celebrating American
holidays? As a former officer in the USAF
I would like to see Veterans Day cele-
brated. Or how about Independence Day
or Thanksgiving, thus including everybody
in the community?
If you do intend to celebrate the reli-
gious holiday of Xmas in December, and
I truly hope that you will follow the lead
of Chase and other banks in Teaneck, and
omit Xmas decorations, may I suggest that
you not exclude your loyal Jewish cus-
tomers and decorate the halls with Juda-
ica beginning a week before Chanukah,
which this year begins exceptionally early,
November 28! The same day as Thanksgiv-
ing.and wouldnt it be nice if you cele-
brated this national holiday too?
There are numerous Judaica stores in
Teaneck and other towns where Chanu-
kah decorations can be purchased at a
very reasonable price.
reuben e. gross, Ph.d.
Teaneck
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Unchained
reaction
Rabbi Mendel Epstein (left and on cover) has been hailed as
one of the foremost experts on Jewish divorce law. Rabbi
Martin Wolmark is a member of the Agudath Harabonim
religious court. Both have worked on behalf of agunot. Now,
both are in a federal prison in Trenton, charged with arranging
a kidnapping to force a husband to give his wife a divorce.

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larry yudelsoN
I
t was a crime a
thousand years in
the making.
On September 29
so the FBI alleges in
a criminal complaint
filed in the U.S. District
Court in Trenton
Rabbi Mendel Epstein
drove from Brooklyn,
across state lines, to
New Jerseys Middlesex
County to case the joint.
Would a warehouse there really be a
good location to lure a man to in order to
beat him and force him to grant his wife a
religious divorce?
Epstein saw that it was good, accord-
ing to the allegation, so four nights later
he drove to Monsey, where he met with
Rabbi Martin Wolmark, the head of Yeshiva
Shaarei Torah there, and convened a reli-
gious court that promised, in exchange for
$50,000, to procure a divorce for a woman
who was, in fact, an undercover informant.
Epstein was recorded explaining the
next step: What we are going to be doing
is kidnapping a guy for a couple of hours
and beating him up and torturing him and
then getting him to give the get, meaning
the religious divorce.
You can learn a lot about the laws of
Jewish divorce from reading this criminal
complaint.
Also about torture techniques.
Epstein favored electric cattle prods.
If it can get a bull that weighs five tons
to move... You put it in certain parts of
his body and in one minute the guy will
know, Epstein explained.
Or in the words of the Daily News head-
line after the FBI made the arrests last
week: Shock and Oy!
All told, 10 suspects were arrested in
New York and New Jersey, including the
two rabbis, a kidnap team, and a scribe
prepared to use feather quills to write the
traditional divorce document.
They all are being held without bail in
Trenton.
The quirks in Jewish law that make reli-
gious divorce so difficult have provided fod-
der for family and civil court for decades.
Now, in the 21st century, the case of the
agunah literally, a woman chained to her
ex-husband, a man from whom she may be
legally divorced but to whom she remains
married in religious law has become a
federal case.
And behind the case, explaining the
wire transfers and the scribe and the cat-
tle prod and the van with darkened win-
dows, lurks the unlikely specter of Moses
Maimonides, who decreed more than 800
years ago that a Jewish court can decide
that a man must divorce his wife, and hav-
ing thus ruled, the court can whip him
until he says, I want to divorce her.
Consent under torture may sound like

a tortured definition of consent. But for
halacha Jewish law consent is the key
question, because divorce as described
by the Torah, elaborated in the Talmud,
and then debated by another millennium
of rabbis is generally the sole prerogative
of the husband.
It all starts with Deuteronomy, which
puts it like this: When a man takes a wife,
and marries her, then if it comes to pass
that she find no favor in his eyes, because
he has found some unseemly thing in her,
that he writes her a bill of divorcement,
and gives it in her hand, and sends her out
of his house....
Note that its all up to the man.
The Talmud softened that, and gave situ-
ations where a man could be compelled to
divorce his wife.
Which naturally raised the Talmudic
question: Were the Talmuds examples
the only cases where a divorce could be
compelled? Or were they simply a repre-
sentative sample?
Maimonides ruled that even in a case
where a woman had no specific grounds to
explain her desire for a divorce other than
her disgust with her husband, We force
Unchained
reaction
the rabbis offered to
free agunot, chained
women, by getting them
the religious divorces they
need to remarry. now two
rabbis are behind bars,
charged with kidnapping
and conspiracy. What
does last weeks arrest
mean for the decades-
long struggle for agunot?
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him to divorce her immediately, for she is not as
a slave though the woman does not receive
the divorce settlement promised in her ketubah
her marriage contract when she leaves of
her own volition.
This view was rejected by Ashkenazi authori-
ties. Rabbenu Asher, who lived in Europe a cen-
tury after Maimonides died in Eypt, described
the Maimonidean position as perplexing.
How can one justify forcing a husband to give
a get and to set a married woman free? Let her not
have relationships with him and let her remain
an eternal widow, for she is not commanded to
beget children and merely because she desires to
follow the fancy of her heart and has cast her eyes
upon another and desires him more than the hus-
band of her youth, shall we give in to her lusts,
and force her husband who loves the wife of his
youth to divorce her, God forbid?
Between these two medieval positions are
generations of rabbinic debate back and forth
and, if the FBI affidavit describing Epsteins
recorded boasting is to be believed, one or two
dozen customers willing to pay $50,000 to hal-
achically end a marriage, even if they had to
commit some felonies along the way.
Orthodox rabbinic leaders were quick to dis-

tance themselves from the rabbis now sitting in
federal prison.
The evening after the news broke, Rabbi Mor-
dechai Willig, a leader of the Beit Din of Amer-
ica court of the centrist Rabbinical Council of
America, was leading a previously scheduled
session of practical rabbinic training for the
National Council of Young Israel.
Willig emphasized to the participants that
they can never do anything illegal, and that
when one rabbi does something inappropriate,
everyone whose first name is Rabbi is sullied,
according to Rabbi Perry Tirschwell, executive
director of the National Council of Young Israel.
At Agudath Israel of America, the umbrella
charedi group, executive director Rabbi Chaim
Dovid Zweibel suggested that the divorces
beaten out by Epsteins kidnap team go
beyond the realm of acceptable pressure.
There is a considerable body of opinion that
you can only take steps consistent with the law
of the land, he said. Some would question
the validity of a get that was procured in those
circumstances.
But Epstein and Wolmark are hardly fringe
players in the charedi world.
The Five Towns Jewish Times, an Orthodox
weekly on Long Island, this week described
Epstein as the kind of guy that knows his way
around the maze of divorce law as it interfaces
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In August the paper published an inter-
view with Epstein about A bill of rights of
a Jewish wife that he had drafted. In the
interview, which quickly made its way on
Facebook beyond the Five Towns, Epstein
said, A wife must be treated with respect
and not be abused. A woman in an abusive
relationship has a right to seek a get.
Within some circles, though, allegations
of the violent side of his agunah activism
seemed to be already known.
In a comment posted to the article on
September 9, a reader wrote, This man
has been beating anyone he can as long
as he gets paid. Where is the story of him
having men and women beaten under the
guise of halacha. His connections with Ken
Hynes have kept him out of jail, so far,
referring to the Brooklyn district attorney
who has been criticized for failing to pros-
ecute crimes committed by charedim.
Back in the 1990s, Epstein was the target
of a civil suit by a rabbi who alleged that
Epstein ordered his beating by a kidnap
crew that tortured him and shocked his
genitals with a stun gun in attempt to force
him to give his wife a divorce.
Dr. Monty Weinstein, who works in
family therapy, told the Daily News
this week that hes heard stories about
Epsteins non-kosher tactics over the
past few decades, but that his complaints
always fell on deaf ears.
What bothered me is that the police
and courts didnt care, Weinstein was
quoted as saying.
As for Wolmark, his prominence in the
Orthodox world can be seen in a 2011
seruv, a document issued by the Union
of Orthodox Rabbis accusing Aharon
Friedman, a party in a hotly contested
divorce, of being in contempt of court for
not giving his wife a get.
Wolmark is one of six signatories,
alongside Rabbi Yisroel Belsky, a halachic
authority of the Orthodox Union; Rabbi
Herschel Schachter of Yeshiva University,
the OUs other halachic authority; Rabbi
Shmuel Kamenetsky, rosh yeshiva of the
Yeshiva of Philadelphia and a member of
Agudath Israels Council of Torah Sages;
Rabbi Gavriel Stern; and Rabbi Aryeh Ral-
bag, former chief rabbi of Amsterdam and
head kashrut coordinator of the Triangle K
kashrut supervision organization.
Any person who has the ability or
opportunity to influence him to free
Tamar Epstein [his wife] from the chains
of her agunah status is obligated to do so
and doing so will indeed be the fulfillment
of a great mitzvah, the seruve declared.
Tamar Epstein is hereby granted permis-
sion to take whatever appropriate steps
are necessary to extricate herself from the
chains of this agunah situation.
Whats appropriate?
In August 2012, the Washington Jewish
Week reported that Friedman was beaten
in his wifes driveway by two or three
masked men.
Rabbi David Eidensohn, a Monsey rabbi
affiliated with the radical anti-Zionist
Edah Charedis movement, has opposed
Schachter and his Organization for the
Resolution of Agunot, which organizes
public protests against men who refuse to
give their wives a get.
The Friedman-Epstein case may be
the highest profile case it has taken on,
because of Friedmans job: He is a senior
aide to a congressman Michigan Repub-
lican Dave Camp.
Eidensohn, who believes that even pub-
lic embarrassment is too coercive, has
accused Schachter of improperly quoting
the Maimonidean ruling in favor of beating
husbands in public lectures.
On his blog, Eidensohn noted that vid-
eos of Schachters lectures on agunot,
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Courtesy FailedMessiah.CoM
Back in the 1990s, Epstein was the
target of a civil suit by a rabbi who
alleged that Epstein ordered his
beating by a kidnap crew that
tortured him and shocked his genitals
with a stun gun in attempt to force
him to give his wife a divorce.

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where he talked of the propriety of beat-
ing get refusers, were removed from the
YUTorah.org web site this week.
And i ndeed, at l east three of
Schachters lectures on the topic of agu-
nah at that site, which had been there
recently enough to remain in the Google
search index, now return the message,
Im sorry, the shiur you requested is not
available.
Zweibel had other problems with the

arrested rabbis alleged behavior in
particular, their failure to provide a
proper court hearing before ruling that
a divorce was mandated.
On the surface of the allegations,
he said, this particular scenario was
beyond the realm of anything the hal-
acha might countenance. It seems as
if the role of one of the rabbis was to
determine whether the circumstances
justified a beit din ruling that you could
force the guy. It clearly was done in a
way that leaves a lot to be desired. The
whole case was a sham. The rabbi didnt
go on more than a womans crying and
signing a check. Its very troubling
that the court didnt hear what defense
might be offered by the husband who
was allegedly refusing to grant the get,
Zweibel said.
The allegation that the Prodfathers
as the Daily News dubbed the white
bearded rabbis nabbed by the FBI
would create an ad-hoc beit din, or
court, to decide the case highlights one
of the central facts of the agunah in
America: There is no central rabbinical
court or even the ability to create one.
There are no centralized standards.
(The same halachic issues undergird a
different set of problems in Israel, where
government-funded centralized courts
provide the only avenue toward Jewish
divorce.)
The first American rabbinic body to offer

a solution to the agunah problem was
the Conservative movements Rabbini-
cal Assembly, which in the 1950s intro-
duced a modification to the traditional
Jewish marriage contract, drafted by the
movements premier Talmud scholar,
Rabbi Saul Lieberman. The new clause
mandated that the couple would turn
to the Rabbinical Assemblys court and
obey its dictates.
While Lieberman sought Orthodox
approval, Orthodox rabbis rejected the
proposal without proferring suggested
improvements.
We can only hope that the apparent
failure in practice of the Conservative
venture will in some measure make up
for the lack of foresight in initiating it,
a young Rabbi Norman Lamm wrote in
1959 in Tradition, the Orthodox jour-
nal he helped found the year before.
And at the same time, we earnestly
pray that this attempt, ill-fated and ill-
advised though it was, will cause our
leading Halakhic scholars to intensify
their search for an authoritative remedy
for this most distressing problem.
Eighteen years later, Lamm was presi-
dent of Yeshiva University. And writing
in Tradition on the agunah question,
Attorney Irwin Haut noted Lamms hope
that the Lieberman ketubah would prod
the search for a halachically acceptable
remedy for the agunah problem, adding
acerbically: Apparently, it has not.
In fact, it was the charedi Agudath
Israel organization that would take the
next public step for agunot, champion-
ing a law in New York State that effec-
tively made the giving of a get a precon-
dition for getting a secular divorce. The
law, passed in 1983, required each party
in the divorce to certify that there were
no barriers to remarriage in other
words, that a Jewish divorce had been
given.
The law was opposed by much of
the non-Agudah Jewish community on
the grounds that it violated the separa-
tion of church and state, but it became
law nonetheless. In 1992, the law was
strengthened, allowing the family court
judge to consider a spouses withholding
of a get in dividing up property. That
one is more controversial, Zweibel said;
financial pressure is considered more
serious than holding up a civil divorce,
which has no halachic significance.
Did these legal efforts which were
successfully legislated only in New York
State work?
We hear in the field that they have
had an impact, but I couldnt objectively
quantify it, Zwiebel said.
Zweibel said he has not heard of as
many agunah situations as he used
to years ago, even as the number of
divorces has gone up in his community.
Without a question there has been
a spike in divorces and broken engage-
ments, he said. Were still nowhere
near the percentage of the broader
society around us, but is has been a
dramatic rise.
In 1992, the centrist Orthodox Rabbini-

cal Council of America came up with
its solution. It introduced an agree-
ment that couples would sign before
their marriage. The agreements broad
outline replicated the approach the
Rabbinical Assembly had adopted a
generation earlier, though it differed
in details: It was a separate docu-
ment, rather than an addendum to
the ketubah; and rather than leaving
future financial penalties in the hands
of the beit din (in this case the RCAs
Beit Din of America), it stipulated that
if a couple separated without a get, the
beit din would assess spousal support
obligations of $150 a day.
The document was drafted by Rabbi
Mordechai Willig of Yeshiva University
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It was one of the major ways Rav Ovadia Yosef has
positively impacted American Jewry, said Rabbi How-
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helping agunot, primarily through promoting the use
of the prenputial agreement.
The RCA agreement passed its first court test late
last year when a Connecticut court ruled in the case of
Light v. Light that rather than requiring a religious per-
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to compel the defendant to perform a secular obliga-
tion, i.e., spousal support payments, to which he con-
tractually bound himself.
It has become a standard in the modern Orthodox
community, said Jachter, who teaches at the Torah
Academy of Bergen County in Teaneck. I told my stu-
dents today, when you guys are going to get married,
youre all going to sign a prenuptial agreement.
Jachter attributed use of the agreement (which can
be found at theprenup.org) for the low incidence of
agunot in the modern Orthodox community.
In the Agudah world, the right type of prenup is at
least acceptable to the most charedi type of perspec-
tive on these issues, Zweibel said. In practice, I dont
see most marriages in the charedi community includ-
ing a prenup. As to why that is, Im not sure.
Theres a third factor that has come into play,
beyond the get law and the prenuptial agreement: a
cultural change of attitude.
Theres no longer a boys-will-be-boys attitude
to guys who refused to give a get, from the modern
Orthodox to the moderate charedi, Marc Stern, legal
counsel of the American Jewish Committee, said,
adding that according to the constitution of the Agu-
dah-affiliated synagogue he belongs to, a man who
refuses to give his wife a get cannot be a member in
good standing.
But for agunah activists, such as the women of the Jew-

ish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, these proposals are
band-aids. They dont help a woman whose husband
is immune to public pressure, or who has signed a pre-
nuptial agreement but can treat $150 a day as pocket
change. They dont help if the husband is the type of
man who, in Israel, would sit for years in prison rather
than grant his wife a divorce.
Its the sort of frustration that makes it understand-
able that there might be a demand for black-market,
black-bag, black-hat solutions.
Understandable but not acceptable to Judy Heicklin
of Teaneck, JOFAs president.
Fundamentally, were outraged, she said.
Its not bad enough that these women are abused
by their husbands. Then they turn to authority figures
who are demanding bribes to solve what should be a
fundamental human rights issue. Its heartbreaking,
the women who are caught in this horrible situation.
And its a shame. Its a stain on our entire community,
Heicklin said.
Heicklin said JOFA feels that halacha should be able
to solve the problems, neither leaving women help-
less, nor pawning the solution off to the secular court,
as the prenuptial agreement does.
Not that she wouldnt insist her children get married
with a prenup.
But JOFA would like to see more systemic solu-
tions in halacha.
Such solutions were the focus of a conference JOFA
ran with the Tikvah Center at the New York University
School of Law in June.
While the details vary, and draw from legal
precedents across the generations and around the world,
the basic idea is to follow the views of those halachic author-
ities that allow a court to annul a marriage.
Rather than try to compel the husband to divorce his wife
voluntarily, the court rules that the couple was, as it turns
out, never married after all. The agunah is free.
There are a couple of principles of halacha by which this
can play out. Theres the idea of mekach tauot that the
womens acceptance of the marriage was based on mistaken
information had she known the actual circumstance, she
never would have consented. In other words, the consent
she thought she was giving didnt actually apply.
And then theres the still more radical possibility of
the court declaring the marriage null and voice. You
are betrothed to me according to the laws of Moses and
Israel, the husband says to the wife and the argument
has been made that the marriage is therefore conditional
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on the continuing approval of the law, as
embodied in a beit din. Let a beit din pull
out the approval, even retroactively, and
the betrothal and the marriage never
happened.
Retroactive annulment makes many
halachic authorities, and plenty of ordi-
nary people, uncomfortable. There is
the whiff of legal fictions and perhaps
of time travel, which might even be more
disturbing.
If the couple wasnt married, then
what was going on all those years?
Since halacha doesnt make children
of unwed parents illegitimate, unmar-
rying the parents has no effect on the
children.
Except: Not for those who dont accept
the legal reasoning, and dont consider
the annulments valid. For them, the
woman is still married and children
from a subsequent marriage would be
mamzerim, bastards, unable to marry
other Jews.
We have to craft solutions that have
a higher threshold of acceptability in
divorce law than in kashrut, said one
centrist Orthodox rabbi familiar with
agunah issues. You dont want to do
things a significant segment of the com-
munity says produces illegitimacy.
In the late 1990s, a beit din under the
auspices of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
freed agunah by annulling marriages
to the consternation of most of the
Orthodox community. Now, it seems
that the left wing of Orthodoxy might
pick up the baton.
At this summers agunah confer-
ence, Rabbi David Bigman, of the
Maale Gilboa yeshiva of Israels reli-
gious kibbutz movement, called for
restarting the Rackman court. And
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the new presi-
dent of the liberal Orthodox Yeshiva
Chovei Torah, echoed the call; more
recently Rabbi Seth Farber, a YCT-
ordained rabbi, has called for the lib-
eral Orthodox community to set up its
own religious courts that would use
all methods from prenuptial agree-
ments, to writing gittin, to anulling
marriages to solve the agunah prob-
lem, without worrying about accep-
tance from all sectors of Orthodoxy.
Even if only 15 percent of the Ortho-
dox community accepted this new beit
dins freeing of agunot, seeking a spouse
among 15 percent of the Orthodox
agunot
frOm page 29
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Center, Maplewood
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1. The stock market will always do whatever makes
the greatest number of people look foolish.
2. A stockbroker says: I made money, my brokerage
firm made money. Two out of three aint bad!
3. Stockbrokers service their clients the way
Bonnie and Clyde serviced banks. William
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4. Explanations of why the stock market went up
or down yesterday belong on the funny pages. a
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5. In the stock market, water does not always boil
at 100 degrees centigrade.
6. Investors tend to water their weeds and cut
down their flowers. Peter Lynch
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8. The first rule of investing is: Dont lose money.
The second rule is: Dont forget the first rule.
Benjamin Graham
9. The only people who buy at the lows and sell at
the highs are liars. - Bernard Baruch
10. A stockbroker can make you a small fortune
provided you started out with a large fortune.
11. The only thing my stockbroker did for me was
make me broker. Andrew Tobias
12. I try to buy stock in businesses that are so
wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because
sooner or later, one will. Peter Lynch
13. Dont confuse genius with a bull market.
Warren Buffett
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those who dont know where interest rates are going,
and those who dont KNOW that they dont know
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them will stop to ask for directions.
16. A bargain that remains a bargain was no
bargain. Martin A. Whitman
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18. Dont buy everything. Theres such a thing as
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invest in stocks than having $500,000 in Treasury
bills. Bill Ruane
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are: This time, its different. Sir John Templeton
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must do much better. Because youre dealing with
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1. Just because youve been investing all of your
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rific idea to lose a lot of money, but better in your
20s than your 60s or 70s. Besides, time is no longer
on your side.
5. There are a number of ways to lose a lot of
money quickly. Two of the foremost are (a) stocks
and (b) bonds. Especially small-company stocks and
long-term bonds. True, over the years small-com-
pany stocks have done wonderfully, and long-term
bonds yield the most. But when bad times come
a-knocking at the door in the case of bonds, Im
talking about inflation long-term bonds get taken
out and shot. And any bad economic news can mur-
der the stock market.
6. Avoid long-term bonds in general, whatever
your age. After all, intermediate-term bonds do
almost as well without the greater risk.
7. Also limit your exposure to the stock market
unless, as Ive said, youre filthy rich. Theres an
old and useful rule: Subtract your age from 100, and
have that number (as a percentage) in the stock mar-
ket. So, if youre 50, you might have 50% in stocks;
if youe 70, 30%; if youre 80, 20%. And once you
reach 100, sell the stock market short. (A jokeone
Ive been making for over 50 years.) In general, have
at least 20% of your portfolio in the stock market.
8. You can have more than that suggested percent-
age in the stock market if you stick with high-paying
blue chip stocks. In fact, its almost always good to
tilt your portfolio, when you reach my age, toward
high-paying blue chips. Like Johnson & Johnson.
(My own biggest stock holding. Mostly I own mutual
funds.)
9. A great way not to lose a lot of money is to diver-
sify. Yes, diversification is an ignominious admission
of ignorance. Warren Buffett doesnt diversify. Nei-
ther does God. But Im perfectly willing to admit that
both are better investors than I am.
10. Some old saws remain eminently worthy
of your attention. For example, sell your losers
and hold onto your winners. Not just for tax rea-
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sible that other people know something about your
otherwise-excellent stock that you dont know. Recently I
wrote about buying Apple and selling for a loss after I had
lost a few hundred dollars. I suspect that I bought Apple too
soon. Anyway, it still hasnt bounced back to where I bought
it. At the same time as I bought Apple, I also bought Intel
and WellsFargo. Both have done nicely, and Im planning
to hold on.
11. Dont put a lot of money into stocks at any one time.
Dollar-cost average which means, invest gradually.
12. An excellent no-load mutual fund for older people is
Vanguard Wellesley Income. Great record; 40% in conserva-
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13. Consider getting outside help. Have someone smart
and objective look over your portfolio. A fee-only Certified
Financial Planner willing to charge by the hour would be a
reasonable choice.
14. Finally, dont look down your nose at cash and cash
equivalents. The fellow who used to run the Sequoia Fund,
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Muriel Siebert: What the obituaries dont say
Warren Boroson
The obituaries dont mention how smart
Muriel Siebert was.
The obituaries told how Siebert, who died
in August just shy of her 85 th birthday, was
known as the First Woman of Finance, how
she was the first woman to own a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange, and was the first
woman to head one of the NYSEs member
firms.
But they didnt describe how she could
look at a page of numbers and immediately
spot something that was wrong.
Nor did they mention how charming she
was. I gave her a CD of some of my favorite
music, and she glowed with pleasure when
she recognized songs by Jerome Kern.
Or how ingenious. She went out to lunch
with some jerk, who kept making anti-Semitic
remarks.
Back in her office, she sent him a poem she
had just written:
Roses are reddish
Violets are blueish
You may not know it
But Im Jewish.
Or how sympathetic to societys victims.
As New Yorks banking commissioner, she
learned about:
a 17-year-old student forced to declare
bankruptcy because of overwhelming
credit-card debt.
A young woman weeping because she
had only 50 cents on her, not enough to
get home from work. She didnt know how
to cash her first salary check, which she
had been holding for 10 days.
And then there was the young man
enraged because some crook FICA
was stealing money from his salary check.
(FICA, of course, is the Social Security
system.)
So she did something about it.
A financial curriculum she launched, via
the Muriel F. Siebert Foundation, is now
being offered in more than 100 New York
high schools, as well as in New Jersey. To
graduate, high school students will have
to take a half-year of economic and finan-
cial classes. Some 500 New Jersey teachers
have been trained to lead the classes. Other
school systems around the country are also
studying the program.
Mickie, as everyone called her, received
the first Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award from the New
Jersey Coalition for Financial
Education.
I once asked her why she had

run for office as a Republican.
(She lost to Daniel Moynihan.)
She looked pained and didnt
answer. But that was the era
when the Republican Party
boasted such people as Jacob
Javits, Clifford Case, and Nelson Rocke-
feller, and among its supporters was Jackie
Robinson.
She came to New Jersey to speak before a
forum put on by Rutgers Cooperative Exten-
sion and the newspaper I then worked for,
so I became acquainted with her. I kept
challenging her to a game of tennisshe
was an avid playerbut she always turned
me down. She must have heard what a good
player I was.
The following appeared in Newjerseynews-

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in 1932 in Cleveland and began attending
Western Reserve (now Case
Western Reserve), but had to
drop out in 1949 because her
father became ill and the fam-
ily finances were shaky. (She
still doesnt have a college
degree, but she has 18 honorary
doctorates.)
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ferent men to sponsor her. Nine
turned her down. But she perse-
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head a firm on the New York Stock Exchange.
Her firm was also the first discount bro-
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superintendent of banks in New York. And she
belongs to virtually every gilt-edged organiza-
tion in the New York area.
Her office is in the so-called Lipstick build-

ing on 54th Street and the East Side. When
she rented the place, she was told: no pets.
Not even a goldfish.
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attached to a pet Chihuahua she owned.
And when it came to the closing, she
refused to sign the lease. No leash, no
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lease, she said memorably. She got her
way.
She carried the dog, Monster, in and
out of the building. And it was confined
to her office it didnt wander at large.
After a year, the buildings manager
came to her and asked how she liked her
offices. Did she want more room? She was
quite satisfied, she said. She herself asked:
Had anyone complained about Monster?
Nope.
Same thing happened the second year.
Any complaints about the dog? Nope.
But during the third year, there was
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other tenants now wanted to bring pets
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Alas, Monster became seriously ill
she was 17-and Siebert had to put her to
sleep. Siebert went two months without
a pet. I was heart-broken, she says. So
she sent out a distress call to pet stores
and breeders around the country. The
building manager might not permit a
new dog. So, did anyone have a dog
that looked like Monster? She found a
lookalike in Florida. Monster 2. And she
didnt tell the manager that her dog was
now an impostor.
Anyway, guess who was renting the two
floors above Sieberts floor. None other
than the master swindler himself, the
unspeakable Bernie Madoff. And when
his fraud came to light, an angry crowd
gathered outside the building. The build-
ing itself was filled with roving FBI agents
and SEC agents. An atmosphere of fear
permeated the offices.
To ensure Sieberts safety, the manager
made sure that she was accompanied
whenever she left her office. And he saw
to it that a cab picked her up in the morn-
ing and took her home at night.
After several weeks had gone by, the
manager came to visit Siebert in order
to convey his abject apologies for every-
thing she had been forced to endure-the
FBI agents, the SEC agents, the tightened
security.
Siebert just smiled. And she finally
broke the news.
Meet Monster 2.
First Commerce Bank
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Why is First Commerce Bank different
from all other banks?
It seems a fair question to ask as the
Lakewood-based bank opens a branch
on Teaneck Road, its second in Bergen
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For one thing, its a community bank.
If you picture a community bank,
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Were very focused on the commu-
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somewhere else that doesnt know any-
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president Karen M. Zoda..
Already, before the doors have
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Teaneck Chamber of Commerce.
Were close to our borrowers and
customers, says Abraham Opatut, the
banks chairman.
Where else would you find a banks
president and chairman spending an
entire day in Bergen county meeting
customers and potential borrowers?
he asks.
Four of the banks board members
are from Bergen County.
Four others are Orthodox. We have
a significant Orthodox component in
our bank, says Opatut, who notes its
strong presence in Lakewood.
The bank has a heter iska a contract
that permits borrowers to pay interest
and lenders to receive it despite the
prohibitions on interest in Jewish law.
We use it in all of our deposit and
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The bank offers the usual services of
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Israels NowForce application can turn
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When a baby is choking somewhere
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Watch out, Qualcomm. An Israeli startup
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Eshed believes that for the typical use
case, a price delta of $25 will make pur-
chase of the LTEonly version a no
brainer. Altair hasnt got its chip price
down that low yet, but were on the way.
LTE in your
camera and fridge
And its not just price. LTE is so far supe-
rior to 3G in terms of speed (as much as
10 times faster), that Eshed believes users
of certain devices will wonder why they
ever put up with 3G in the first place.
Take the Google Chromebook, where a
users data is stored entirely on the cloud.
The device doesnt work at all without an
Internet connection. Using a Chrome-
book or a similar thin client device is
acceptable on WiFi, tortuous on 3G, but
positively sings on LTE. Using one of
Altairs LTEonly chips can bring down
the price of such a system dramatically.
The same logic will make LTEcon-
nected digital cameras which will, at
least for the conceivable future, always
be higher quality than the cameras
included in even the best smartphones
a viable business.
In Altairs vision, everything will be
communicating via LTE from your
refrigerator to machine to machine
devices, which dont have a specific
consumer interface (think smart traf-
fic lights). Eshed estimates were talk-
ing about some 20 billion to 50 billion
devices. Thats a lot of chips.
Eshed predicts that by the time we see
LTEonly phones around 2015, Altair
should have made decent inroads into
the market.
Founded in 2005, the company is
already shipping hundreds of thousands
of chips. With 180 employees 140 in
R&D in Israel, the rest spread around the
world in sales and service Altair is no
longer a small startup.
Placed his bets on LTE
The company has raised $100 million
in venture capital investment and has
30 Internet of everything custom-
ers around the world. One is a Russian
manufacturer that makes an inexpensive
USB stick that plugs into your laptop and
generates a portable LTE hotspot without
needing an external power source. Such
Altairpowered products are popular in
pricesensitive markets like India and
Latin America.
Eshed cofounded Altair with several
other execs who had previously worked
at a startup bought out by Texas Instru-
ments in Israel. TI sent Eshed for a while
to work at its facility in Texas, but he was
eager to get home. TI later downsized its
Israel operations.
Altair, Eshed says, is blessed with inves-
tors who are willing to see the big picture
and werent constrained by a drive to see
instant profits. That allowed the com-
pany to bet on LTE early, before it was
even clear if the market would evolve. (In
2005, most techies thought a competing
technology called Wimax, which Altair
also developed for, would rule the day; it
never took off big time.)
Its just a matter of time until mobile
broadband, which LTE represents, comes
to Israel and everywhere else, Eshed
says. 4G is not just an evolutional step.
Getting rid of the legacy stuff streamlines
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community would be a vast improvement for agunot
who had been unable to marry anyone at all in the
Orthodox community, longtime agunah activist Susan
Aronoff said.
In 1998, Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz, a Conservative
rabbi in Teaneck, made a similar statement in Jerusa-
lem. Rabinowitz was then the chair of the Conserva-
tive movements beit din, which had begun annulling
marriages.
A woman from a very Orthodox community in New
York turned to us to help her free herself from her recal-
citrant husband, Rabinowitz said. She had 17 decisions
from Orthodox batei din ordering her husband to give
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her a get. He refused to abide by these decisions.
When I explained to her that our beit din was part of
the Conservative movement, and our annulment would
probably not be recognized in her community, she
answered that she was aware of the facts. She realized
that if she remained in her community, she would never
be able to remarry. Nevertheless she wanted closure. Psy-
chologically it was necessary for her to know that she was
finally free of him, and therefore she turned to us.
We annulled the marriage, he said.
In part, its a debate over the nature of marriage.

Is traditional Jewish marriage with its inherent
inequalities a good thing? Or is it an institution that
needs to be repaired?
In the grand scheme of things, when we hear the horror
stories of the agunah situation, you also have to look at the
society around us and see how marriage has become a very
weak situation and how family life has changed so dramati-
cally in ways that are not for the better, Zweibel said.
The idea that some have put forward that women
should have the same ability to initiate the divorce pro-
cess, just as a man can divorce a woman against her will
its clearly contrary to halacha.
Heicklen and other liberals, however, see a process
of halachic evolution over the centuries, looking at the
protections that have been built in over the years to help
women.
I dont think that story is done yet, she said.
The notion that divorce should be completely up to
men is not really respecting the inherent dignity of all
us being created in the divine image, and I think thats an
anti-Torah perspective, she said.
In the core of traditional Jewish marriage, kiddushin, the

husband acquires the bride. Because this doesnt conform
with contemporary values of equality, some people have
suggested that its timme to drop that traditional form
altogether.
In her book Engendering Jewish Judaism, Rachel
Adler of the Reform Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles
put forward a model for a Jewish marriage that was mod-
eled on a business partnership, rather than an acquisition.
(In the Mishnaic tractate on marriage, the first mishna on
a woman is acquired is followed by one on how a slave is
acquired, and then on how an animal is acquired.)
A proposal put forward by the liberal Orthodox blogger
who goes by the moniker Dov Bear is less complicated.
He suggests replacing marriage with the legal concept of
pilgashut, or concubinage.
You need ritual to get into a kiddushin relationship and
you need a ritual to get out of a kiddushin relationship,
and that exit ritual requires the man to cooperate. Without
his cooperation the woman is stuck, Bear said. However,
the kiddushin relationship is not the only halachic rela-
tionship that permits men and women to live together and
raise a family.
Does that offer less holiness than a traditional halachic
marriage?
Something is holy if you believe it is holy, Bear said.
What tradition are we losing? We can still initiate the
pilegesh ritual with a big party.
Like the prenuptial agreement, eliminating kiddushin
would solve the problem only in the future. Unlike a pre-
nuptial agreement, it wouldnt rely on financial induce-
ments or the possible enforcement of secular authori-
ties, instead ensuring from the beginning that a marriage
couldnt lead to an agunah situation.
However, its still too radical a notion for JOFA.
We think the halacha is so profound and divinely
inspired that solutions can and should be found within
halacha, Heicklen said. Still, I certainly understand the
impetus for those kinds of solutions and why people are so
frustrated with the lack of progress that people are reach-
ing out for those solutions out of frustration.
Whatever the wink and nod the Orthodox community

gives to bullying tactics, its unlikely that the cattle prods
will be taken out any time soon. And while some activists
may be happy for a solution that moves halacha to a more
egalitarian stance, thats unlikely to be accepted any time
soon in much of the Orthodox community including the
segments with which Rabbis Epstein and Wolmark work.
It could be that agunah, for the Orthodox, will be like
love for the poet Leonard Cohen, who sang,
The holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But theyll never find that cure for love.
One thing before you sign...
the rCa prenuptial agreement is not without its
detractors.
in an article being prepared for JOfa, attorney
tara Bognar warns that the main purpose of the
rCa prenup was to ensure that litigating couples
bring their disputes before religious rather than
secular courts.
she bases that claim on a report of remarks
made by rabbi Zalman nehemia goldberg, one
of the agreements authors, at a Yeshiva Univer-
sity conference.
and indeed, the agreement contains optional
clauses that would empower the religious court
to decide all a divorcing couples monetary dis-
putes and questions of custody and visitation.
Bognar warns that its a trap into which un-
wary women might fall.
the document, notes Bognar, doesnt indicate
whether the beth din will use the secular best
interests of the child standard or rely on its in-
terpretation of halacha.
in fact, the agreements author, rabbi morde-
chai willig, admitted as much in an rCa booklet
promoting it.
[s]ome women or their attorneys will ob-
ject to the inclusion of monetary disputes (e.g.
property settlements, alimony, child support) in
the arbitration agreement, for the current secular
law of equitable distribution and maintenance
or community property will generally result in a
larger financial settlement for women than does
enforcing the provision of the standard ketubah.
halakhically, however, resolutions of marital
property disputes are within the jurisdiction of
a bet din, unless bet din permits the parties to
resolve them in court.
Unlike the no-fault judgments of courts in
most american states, the prenuptial agreement
states that the beit din may take into account
the respective responsibilities of the parties for
the end of the marriage, as an additional, but not
exclusive, factor, in determining the distribution
of marital property and support obligations.
its not hard to find modern Orthodox YU-
ordained rabbis who will run to dissuade people
from putting their divorces in the hands of the
Beit din of america even if theyre not willing
to criticize the beit din publicly.
the solution is simple, says rabbi shmuel
goldin of ahavath torah in englewood and im-
mediate past president of the rCa: dont check
the boxes on the prenuptial form that makes the
beit din binding arbitration for support, custody,
or any other non-agunah issues.
thats what he does with the couples he mar-
ries. -LY
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Since breast lumps can be very small, Hoffmann
wasnt certain he could discover something during
the few minutes he had to spend with each patient.
Thats when he decided to launch an innovative pro-
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an opportunity for a life-changing career by turning
their more acute sense of touch into a skilled breast
tumor detection tool.
With 17 Medical Tactile Examiners already trained
and working across Germany, Hoffmanns initiative
has connected with the Ruderman Family Founda-
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prioritizes the inclusion of people with disabilities in
the Jewish community. This partnership may enable
Discovering Hands to branch out to Israel and the
United States.
I dont know many examples of a Jewish and Israeli
funder foundation investing in Germany. Its not easy
with our history, Jay Ruderman, president of the Rud-
erman Family Foundation, said.
Ruderman first met Hoffmann at a philanthropy
conference in Switzerland. He then toured Germany
with Hoffmann, examining the program in action at
hospitals and clinics. With the support of various Ger-
man governmental bodies and Hoffmanns 2010 elec-
tion as fellow by Ashoka, an organization that invests
with social entrepreneurs, Hoffmann was able to
develop an entire curriculum training blind and visu-
ally impaired women to become MTEs. The Ruder-
man foundation granted Discovering Hands an initial
$72,000 donation in 2013 to help it grow across Ger-
many, and it will offer logistical support to bring the
program to Israel, where initial discussions have taken
place with the Hadassah University Hospital-Mt. Sco-
pus in Jerusalem.
For women under 40, mammograms are not always
very good at detecting tumors because the breast
density is pretty high at that point and a lot of things
are hidden, said Dr. Virginia Kaklamani, an oncolo-
gist at Chicagos Northwestern Memorial Hospital and
associate professor of hematology-oncology at North-
western University Feinberg School of Medicine, when
asked about the potential of Discovering Hands.
But studies have shown that if nurses are taught
how to do self breast exams and they do them on
themselves, then their exams are much more useful,
Kaklamani said. Therefore, the idea of having some-
body trained to do breast exams, especially if because
that individual is visually impaired, [he or she] has a
better sense of touch, I would think that would work.
In the MTE breast examination method, self-adhe-
sive orientation stripes with tactile orientation points
are attached to the patients breast in various posi-
tions, and the breast is divided into zones that allow
the examiners to define the precise square centimeter
where an abnormality is found. Unlike an exam by a
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to 60 minutes.
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with the University of Essen, looking
at 451 patients who were examined by
MTEs. Among these patients, there were
32 abnormal findings that were discov-
ered by the MTEs but not by the doctors.
Women with those findings would have
been sent home by the doctors, Hoff-
mann said. A new peer review study will
begin in November.
The results [of the Discovering Hands
study] are very encouraging, Kaklam-
ani said, cautioning that more studies
are needed to test the programs full
effectiveness.
This technique can be seen to be
complementary to mammograms,
replacing the mammograms, or not at all
beneficial if a woman has yearly mam-
mograms. So all these are things that
need to be taken into consideration,
she said.
Hoffmann believes that that his pro-
gram has potential beyond breast can-
cer detection. A well-trained sense of
touch is useful in other diagnostic situ-
ations. MTEs one day (could examine)
the eye bulb, the prostate, the testicals
or lymph nodes, he said.
According to Kaklamani, breast can-
cer is notably prevalent in the Ashkenazi
Jewish community because Askenazi
Jews can carry BRCA gene mutations.
In the general population one in 500
individuals are positive and in the Ash-
kenazi Jewish population its one in 40,
she said. BRCA mutations predispose
significantly for breast cancer. So from
that standpoint theres an increased
incidence.
Given its focus on the inclusion of peo-
ple with disabilities, what sparked the
Ruderman Family Foundations interest
in Discovering Hands is less the science
behind breast cancer detection than the
programs potential to employ visually
impaired women.
I think [Discovering Hands] has a
huge medical benefit for the community,
but it also has a huge benefit for provid-
ing employment and inclusion for blind
women, Ruderman said.
In Germany, training to become an
MTE takes nine months and happens
in vocational centers for the blind and
visually impaired across Germany. Of the
eight such centers in Germany, four are
now qualified to train MTEs.
Losing your sight means that you
retract yourself from public life, lose
contact with your friends, lose your job.
Many of them are reduced to the four
walls of their own home, Hoffmann
said. Taking part in aspects of other
livesconnects them intensively with
patients. On the other hand, doing their
job, they are real life savers.
In addition to learning anatomy and
breast examination technique, women
also learn communication and Braille
technology skills through Discovering
Hands, so that they can do their docu-
mentation on their own [and] dont need
another helping person with them when
they are doing their job, Hoffmann said.
After six months of study and a final
examination, the women undertake a
three-month internship at a clinic.
According to Kim Charlson, director
of the Perkins Braille & Talking Book
Library at the Perkins School for the
Blind in Watertown, Mass., and who
is blind, a challenge that blind people
discover when they search for employ-
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sighted about the abilities of people who
are blind. She said some people think:
How could I do this job if I were blind? I
couldnt; therefore, the person must not
be able to do that job.
The women in this program are abso-
lutely going to have that extra skill set,
because they know how to interpret
what they detecting with their fingers,
whether its Braille or if theyre look-
ing for a tumor, Charlson said. Its a
great opportunity to work in that kind of
Medical tactile examiners use self-adhesive stripes with tactile orientation
points to identify abnormalities in the breast.
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make a significant contribution in some
way, and have a job, and pay taxes, and
do all those things like everybody else
does.
Charlson, who is also a breast cancer
survivor, is acutely aware of the chal-
lenges surrounding the diseases diag-
nosis and treatment.
Ive gone through treatment, and
early detection was critical for me, she
said. We should use all the tools that are
out there.
In October, Discovering Hands started
another training course in Nuremberg
for the next four MTEs, and next spring
another course will begin in Berlin and
Halle, training six more. But women
who want to be screened do not neces-
sarily know this program exists, Hoff-
mannn said. Insurance companies need
to be willing to pay for these exams so
that doctors will be willing to offer them
in their clinics. In Germany, six insur-
ance companies are paying for this
examination.
Since medical, governmental, and
insurance systems vary significantly
from country to country, Hoffmann
wants his program to expand outside
Germany as a social franchise model. All
the documentations and plans behind
the program can be given to private
or governmental entities, which can
use that information to implement the
program independently in their own
countries.
Discovering Hands already is working
with partners to implement the program
in Austria by the end of next year.
For the Ruderman Family Foundation,
the next step is to try to bring Discover-
ing Hands to Israel by 2014, Ruderman
said. If the foundation can bring the pro-
gram to a hospital and make it a success,
the project may get some public atten-
tion and induce demand, and then the
Israeli government might respond with
funding and other assistance, he said.
Thats what Im hoping will happen
in Israel, he said.
The foundation is also open to helping
bring the program to the United States,
where most centers of Jewish gathering
are not inclusive to people with disabil-
ities, Ruderman said. Of the entire U.S.
population, about 17 to 18 percent have
disabilities. In the United States, the
implementation of Discovering Hands
could begin in Boston, according to
Ruderman.
I do think that this technology could
be influential all around the world, he
said. You have to think of all the coun-
tries in the world where [mammograms
are] either not available or extremely
expensive. This is a very low-tech, bril-
liant idea that could be replicated all
over the world.
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In Rome, rioting as Priebkes body
is brought to funeral
Italians rioted and shouted murderer
as the hearse carrying the body of Nazi
war criminal Erich Priebke made its way
to a church in Rome for his funeral.
The funeral was held Tuesday after
the local police chief overruled an order
from Romes mayor, Ignazio Marino,
banning a funeral in the city for Priebke,
who died there last week at 100.
The funeral was held by the Society of
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Priebkes son, Jorge Priebke, reacting
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German hometown, told the Italian
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victim.
The case against my father is a
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a call to the newspaper from Buenos
Aires. Where should he be buried? To
me Israel also would be good, so that
theyre happy.
Asked who these people were, he
answered, the same as we have been
talking about, meaning Jews.
Erich Priebke had served 15 years of
a life sentence in Rome under house
arrest for his involvement in one of Ita-
lys worst World War II Nazi atrocities,
the March 1944 massacre of 335 men
and boys, including about 75 Jews, in the
Ardeatine Caves south of Rome.
Its unfair, Jorge Priebke added,
referring to the controversy over the
funeral. Why dont these people pay
attention to whats happening in the
Middle East, in Syria, in Iran, or even
to the poor people of Lampedusa who
die in the Mediterranean? But no, they
always pick on someone [for things that
happened] during wartime more than
60 years ago. JTA Wire Service
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more attention for gender than faith
Ron Kampeas
WasHInGTon Janet Yellen is soft-spo-
ken, tough, methodological, flexible and
Jewish.
President Obamas announcement last
week that he had tapped Yellen, 67, to
succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of
the Federal Reserve made news in part
because she would be the first woman in
the top spot.
That very little was made of her Jewish-
ness likely derives mostly from the fact
that she would be not the first or second
but at least the fifth Jewish chair of the U.S.
central bank, and the third in a row follow-
ing Bernanke and Alan Greenspan.
The first Jewish Fed chairman was
appointed in the 1930s. He was Eugene
Meyer, perhaps better known as the patri-
arch of the family that ran the Washington
Post for eight decades.
Yellens Wikipedia entry lists her as Jew-
ish based on a reference to a 2001 profile
of husband George Akerlof, then a Nobel
Prize-winning economist at the University
of California, Berkeley. The article noted
that the couple attended the Reform Con-
gregation Beth El in the northern Califor-
nia city.
Beyond that, Yellens Jewish connections
are not known. Its not clear if she and her
husband are attached to any Washington-
area synagogue, and local Jewish religious
leaders are unaware of any affiliation. The
lone Jewish organization to note her nomi-
nation, the World Jewish Congress, made
more of her gender than her faith.
Profiles quoting her classmates at Brown
and Yale universities and at Fort Hamilton
High School in her native Brooklyn depict
her as a soft-spoken nerd.
Her parents were Jewish, but one class-
mates memory of her Brooklyn home
evokes an upbringing focused on all-Amer-
ican traditions. Her mom, Anna Blumen-
thal, was a den mother to Cub Scouts, Rich
Rubin told Reuters.
Yellen, who chaired President Bill Clin-
tons Council of Economic Advisers in
the 1990s, went on to become president
of San Franciscos Federal Reserve Bank
from 2004 to 2010. Obama
named her vice chair-
woman of the Federal
Reserve in 2010.
News reports about Yel-
len have focused on her
similarities to Bernanke.
According to a New York
Ti mes profi l e, Yel l en
intends to continue and
expand hi s insi stence
on transparency in how
the Fed arrives at its poli-
cies, and prizes precision
in arriving at formulas to
assess interest rates.
Yellen emphasizes unemployment over
inflation, and has said she is willing to
adjust inflation rates above 2 percent to
spur employment.
But some colleagues have noted her
past embrace of hawkish policies. Peter
Hooper of Deutsche Bank wrote in the
Economist on October 11 that in the 1990s,
as a member of the Feds Open Market
Committee, Yellen pushed to raise interest
rates amid low unemployment.
Ms. Yellens policy orientation has
proven to be flexible and appropriate
to the prevailing economic conditions,
wrote Hooper, who was a staffer with Yel-
len on the Feds Division of International
Finance. I have known her to be a straight
shooter, someone whose views are gov-
erned by an objective assessment of the
data within a reasonable analytical frame-
work. JTa WIRe seRvIce
President Obama congratulates Janet Yellen after
nominating her to head the Federal Reserve on Oc-
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Rosenwein died.
Wanting to sponsor something appropriate in her
study partners memory a year later, Heicklen decided
to fund a program in Mishnah at Drisha, where she is a
board member. This is kind of a culmination, she said
of the upcoming yahrzeit commemoration, though the
study program will continue.
Rosenwein, who also worked at the Wall Street
Journal and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency during
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mother of Akiva, Meir, and Miriam.
I feel its important that Rifkas yahrzeit be marked
with a shared study of Torah, which was integral to her
life, said Lichtenberg, who is remarried and still lives
in Teaneck. Learning Torah together enables one vital
connection to Rifkas spirit to remain. There is a sense of
comfort in that this aspect of her legacy continues, and
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Nobel laureates to hold
convention in Israel next year
More than 30 Nobel Prize winners plan to visit Israel
in the summer of 2014 for the first Science and Tech-
nology for the Future conference, a joint initiative of
Israels Foreign Ministry and its Science and Technol-
ogy Ministry.
The Nobel laureates plan to visit Israels universities
to meet with budding Israeli scientists.
This will be the first conference of its kind, said Dr.
Roger Kornberg, who is heading the events steering
committee, according to Israel Hayom.
Facebook acquires
Israeli startup Onavo
Facebook announced the acquisition of an Israeli
mobile analytics startup, Onavo, as part of a larger
plan to reduce the number of people without Internet
access. Facebook will also turn Onavos Tel Aviv office
into the companys first Israeli headquarters.
Founded in 2010, Onavo focused on intelligence
concerning mobile application data.
According to the tech site AllThingsD, the services
of Onavo are in line with Facebook CEO Mark Zuck-
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Internet connectivity to billions across the world.
Were excited to join their team, Onavos co-
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Teaneck offers flu shots for residents
The Township of Teaneck will hold its
influenza vaccination clinics on October
22, October 24, November 7, and Novem-
ber 14 from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
The clinics will be held at the Richard
Rodda Community Center, Medical Out-
reach Room (second floor in the Senior
Center).
To be eligible you must be 50 or older,
pregnant, or chronically ill with a doc-
tors order, and live in Teaneck. To regis-
ter for an appointment call the Teaneck
Health Department at (201) 837-1600 ext.
1500. You can also make an appointment
at the service window at the munici-
pal building lower level, or by email to
kkatter@teanecknj.gov.
Office hours are Monday, Wednes-
day, and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.,
and Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The
municipal building is closed on Fridays.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the 2013-2014
seasonal influenza vaccine will pro-
tect against A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)
pdm09-like virus, A(H3N2) and B/
Massachusetts/2/2012-like virus. Pneu-
monia shots will also be available at the
clinic.
The shots will be administered at no
charge to those having Medicare Part
B. Bring your Medicare Part B card and
photo I.D. with proof of Teaneck resi-
dency and age. All others will be charged
for the vaccinations. Cost is $25 for influ-
enza and $75 for pneumonia shots.
Payment by check is required for
everyone who does not have proof of
Medicare Part B. For questions call the
Public Health Nurse at (201) 227-6251.
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Institute, are available to seniors age 62 and over and/or persons with mobility impairments.
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at Daughters of Miriam Center.
Whatever your needs might be independent living, rehabilitation, or skilled nursing
care the Center offers it all, in a Jewish environment, in one location.
Miriam Apartments at Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute
A Jewish continuum of care campus at 127-135 Hazel Street, Clifton, NJ 07011 (973) 253-5310
Miriam Apartments
at
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No entry fee is required for any Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute program or facility. The Center does not discriminate against a
person due to race, creed, color or national origin. Qualifying individuals must be eligible for federal subsidies through the HUD Section 8 program.
Daughters of Miriam Center/The Gallen Institute is a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Clifton-Passaic and the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey.
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Registered Nurse: MF
Healthcare Counseling
Recreational Activities
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Beauty Parlor
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Dr. Sam Hessami of Palisades Medical
Centers Continence Center achieves
rare double board certification
Dr. Sam Hessami, director of the Pali-
sades Medical Center Continence Cen-
ter and associate clinical professor at
the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has
recently achieved board certification in
reconstructive pelvic surgery. Along with
his earlier certification in urogynecol-
ogy, the new certification makes him one
of the few physicians in New Jersey to
hold this particular double certification.
Reconstructive pelvic surgery is an
emerging subspecialty, for which board
certification has only recently become
available. As a urogynecologist who spe-
cializes in treating disorders in the blad-
der, rectum, uterus, and vagina, Hessami
has made pelvic surgery part of his prac-
tice for some time. However, to obtain
board certification, he was also required
to receive extensive training and to pass
a stringent exam.
Hessami applies both his subspecial-
ties as director of the Palisades Medi-
cal Continence Center in North Ber-
gen, a treatment center for women who
experience problems with incontinence
or with their urinary tracts or bladders.
According to recent studies, more than
5 percent of women between the ages of
42 to 50 suffer from some degree of this
problem.
For more information, contact the Pal-
isades Medical Center Continence Cen-
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The Gym to raise
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The Gym, a lifestyle
and fitness center,
is honoring Breast
Cancer Awareness
Month with fund-
raising events at its
two Bergen County
locations, Engle-
wood and Montvale. Donations will aid the Triple
Negative Breast Cancer Foundation (TNBCF), a local
charity that funds research on treatments for patients
with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).
We are thrilled and honored to be the recipient of
The Gyms generous fundraising campaign this Octo-
ber. Proceeds will help the foundation to pursue its
mission on behalf of the many women battling triple
negative disease, said Hayley Dinerman, acting exec-
utive director and co-founder of the Triple Negative
Breast Cancer Foundation.
The Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation was
founded in 2006 in honor of Nancy Block-Zenna, who
was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer when
she was 35 years old. She died in 2007. TNBCF strives
to provide information and serve as a catalyst for sci-
ence and patient advocacy groups. For more informa-
tion about TNBCF, go to www.tnbcfoundation.org.
At the Englewood location events are Sunday, at
4 p.m., a Triple Threat Dance Mash Up with Chris,
Cat and Hila members: $20 and non-members $25.
Thursday, October at 7:30 p.m. Triple Threat Spin
Mash Up with Shira, Naf & Jenn members $20 and
non-members: $25. Trainer push-up contest Wednes-
day, October 30 contact the front desk for more
information.
The Gym of Montvale is hosting a month-long raf-
fle open to members and guests. Raffle tickets can be
purchased at the front desk, $20 per ticket for prizes
valued over $1,000 retail and three for $20 for prizes
valued over $300. Raffle partners include F. Silver-
man Jewelers, Fire & Oak, Peppercorns, Blue Ribbon
Tavern, ela rae New York City, Garota Carioca, and
Athleta.
For more information on the fundraising classes
and other offerings at The Gym of Englewood, con-
tact Nurit Chasman, group exercise director at (201)
567-9399 or NChasman@GetToTheGym.com. Address
is 20 Nordhoff Place.
For more information on the raffle and other offer-
ings at The Gym of Montvale, contact Julann Kennish,
general manager, at (201) at 802-9399 or email her at
jkennish@gettothegym.com. Address is 2 Chestnut
Ridge Road.
DaVita opens dialysis center in Teterboro
DaVita, a division of DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. and
a leading provider of kidney care services, announced the
opening of a dialysis center at 502 Route 46 West in Teter-
boro. The center will have 18 dialysis stations..
We are pleased to offer these new, state-of -the-art, in-
center hemodialysis and home dialysis accomodations to
the citizens of Teterboro and the neighboring communi-
ties, said Gabe Clement, a DaVita facility administrator.
We offer convenient scheduling designed to meet the
needs of the individuals and their families. We look for-
ward to becoming a valued member of the community
through our educational and health outreach programs
that will be offered throughout the year, he continued.
Kidney failure, also known as end stage renal disease
(ESRD), is a fatal condition unless a kidney transplant
is available or a patient undergoes dialysis, in which a
machine filters toxins and fluids from the blood outside
the body.
In-center dialysis patients are treated four hours a day,
three times a week.
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Disease, which can progress to ESRD. Most are unaware
of their condition, as the disease is often symptomless
until the kidneys fail. Groups at the highest risk for ESR
include those with diabetes or hypertension, as well as
older adults, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native
Americans.
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If you have a family member who has been diagnosed
with Alzheimers disease or a related dementia disor-
der, an Alzheimers Association support group can help
you find out about community resources and learn
from others going through similar experiences. Sup-
port groups are free and open to the public, and meet
monthly unless otherwise noted. To confirm the date
and time of each support group, call the number listed
for the group or call the helpline at (800) 272-3900.
Cresskill
Sunrise Assisted Living of Cresskill, 3 Tenakill Road,
meets the last Wednesday of the month at 4:00 p.m.
Call Judith Marte at (201) 871-0300.
Dumont
Northern Valley Adult Day Health Center, 2 Park Ave-
nue, Dumont. Call Rose Marie Dudas or Nancy Bortinger
at (201) 385-4400, ext. 3086.
Oradell
Alzheimers Association, 690 Kinderkamack Road, Suite
300, Oradell, meets the second Monday of the month at
1:00 p.m. Call (201) 261-6009.
Paramus
Bergen Regional Medical Center (Behavioral Health
Entrance), 2nd floor, room 222, at 230 East Ridgewood
Avenue, meets third Tuesday of the month at 2 :30 p.m..
CareOne at Ridgewood Avenue, 90 West Ridgewood
Avenue, meets the second Thursday of the month at
6:30 p.m. Call Karen Arilotta at (201) 652-1950, Ext. 3013.
Emeritus Assisted Living, 186 Paramus Road, meets
the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Call Fred
Meyer or Vivian Green Korner at (201-797-3421).
The Kraft Center (Valley Health Medical Group), 15
Essex Road, meets the second Wednesday of the month
at 7:00 p.m. Call Sophia Heftler or Marianne Terry at
(551) 580-5638.
Park Ridge
Mill Pond, 124 Noyes Drive, Park Ridge, meets the first
Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. Call Cathy Fer-
rero at (201) 782-0440.
Ramsey
Ramsey Free Public Library, 30 Wyckoff Avenue, meets
the fourth Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Call
Sophia Heftler or Christine Clark at (551) 580-5638.
Rockleigh
Gallen Adult Day Health Care Center, 10 Link Drive,
meets the first Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m.
Call Shelley Steiner at (201) 784-1414, Ext. 5340.
Rutherford
KIP Center, 55 KIP Center Avenue, meets the third Thurs-
day of the month at 10:00 a.m. Call (201) 460-1600.
Tenafly
Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 East Clinton Avenue,
meets the second Tuesday of the month at 11:00 a.m.
Also the fourth Thursday of the month at 11 a.m. Call
Debra Turitz at (201) 569-7900.
Woodcliff Lake
Sunrise Senior Living of Woodcliff Lake, 430 Chestnut
Ridge Road, meets the third Sunday of the month at
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JHAL initiates education
program for residents
with Montclair State
University
Residents at Jewish Home Assisted Living in River Vale
can now go to college, thanks to a program with
Montclair State University.
The fall program focuses on three areas of interest
to the residents Religious Expression and Experi-
ence; Contemporary Issues in Politics; and Israel:
Democracy or Theocracy? Three sessions are sched-
uled for each of the broader areas.
Under Religious Expression, classes on Buddhist
meditation, Native American sacred songs, and Hindu
classical dance, are set. Under Contemporary Issues
in Politics, classes on immigration reform, food and
politics, and New Jersey gubernatorial/U.S. Senate
elections are scheduled. The Israeli Democracy series
will cover definitions of democracy and theocracy and
the system of government in Israel, laws and events in
the history of the State of Israel dealing with religious
issues and their effect on Israeli society today, and
how Israel currently deals with tense religious issues.
Judy Linder, philanthropic advisor at Montclair
State, said the program was spurred by the relation-
ship Montclair State has with Gerry Leboff, a past
chairman of the board at the school, who has been a
strong supporter of the Jewish Home for 40 years. He
is motivated by intense appreciation of higher educa-
tion and he had the vision to create this partnership
with JHAL, she said. The subjects for the courses were
decided by the residents at JHAL through discussions
with Director of Recreation Julie Cochrane, and the
school found appropriate lecturers. Next semester is
likely to focus on science and the environment, Linder
added.
Leboff and his wife Phyllis, who live in Teaneck,
wanted to give a gift to the home, said Charles Berkow-
itz, president and CEO of the Jewish Home Family, and
Leboff suggested a college program. He had a close
relationship with the Home because of the services the
Home provides to the community, Berkowitz said.
The Jewish Home Assisted Living is a nonprofit,
state-of-the-art facility that provides assisted living
for the elderly in Bergen, North Hudson, and Rock-
land counties. JHAL, the Jewish Home at Rockleigh,
the Jewish Home Foundation, and now the Jewish
Home at Home are part of the Jewish Home Family,
Inc., whose mission it is to develop and oversee care,
services, and advice for the elderly and their families
at home and in their facilities, consistent with Jewish
tradition and values.
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Course to explore
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role of new technology
The Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Bergen
County will present Life in the Balance: Jewish Per-
spectives on Everyday Medical Dilemmas, a six-ses-
sion course from the International Jewish Learning
Institute that will begin Wednesday, October 30, at 375
Pulis Avenue in Franklin Lakes.
Nowadays, at some point or another, everyone
faces an extremely difficult medical decision that
they arent equipped to handle, said Rabbi Chanoch
Kaplan of Chabad. Our objective with this course is
to acquaint the public with fascinating Jewish perspec-
tives on some of the most cutting-edge dilemmas in
medical ethics.
Participants will ponder ethical questions ranging
from end-of-life issues to preventive measures and
respect for the body after death. Questions include:
Must we prolong life at the expense of immense suf-
fering? Should we legalize compensation for organs
to save the lives of those on the transplant list? And
where do we draw the line between keen vigilance to
safeguard a persons health and pointless panic? The
course will also explore ethical ramifications of new
technologies such as digital autopsies and uterine
transplants.
Life in the Balance is designed to appeal to people
at all levels of knowledge, including those without any
prior experience or background in Jewish learning. All
JLI courses are open to the public, and attendees need
not be affiliated with any synagogue or organization.
The course is accredited for AMA PRA Category 1
CME credits for medical professionals, CLE credits for
attorneys, and AGD PACE credits for dentists.
Call (201) 848-0449 or to go www.chabadplace.org
for registration and other course-related information.
Breast cancer seminar at
Palisades Medical Center
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Palisades Medical Center invites the public to a free
education seminar. Attendees will hear experts dis-
cuss current research, early detection and preven-
tion, and treatment options for breast cancer. Dr.
Bret Taback, director of the Breast Center at Palisades
Medical Center, and other medical professionals from
Palisades Medical Center will be on hand to answer
questions.
Location is Palisades Medical Center Auditorium,
7600 River Road, North Bergen, on Monday, October
28, 6:30 8 p.m. Registration begins at 6:00 p.m.
Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. Free
transportation available from 60th St. and Bergenline
Avenue will be starting at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call Nikki Mederos at (201)
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Jacqueline Kates, Community Relations Coordinator
Holy Name Medical Center
October is National Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. The third Friday in
October, which falls this year on October
18, is National Mammography Day -
frst proclaimed by President Clinton in
1999 when there is a special emphasis
on encouraging women to make an
appointment for a mammography.
Breast cancer is the most common
cancer in women. Every woman has a
12% risk of developing breast cancer
during her lifetime. The risk increases
to 20-30 % if she has a family history of
breast cancer and to 60-90% if she has
the genetic BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.
Yet, 3 out of 4 women diagnosed with
breast cancer have no family history of
the disease and are not considered high
risk. Breast cancer is clearly a disease
that should concern all women.
Breast cancer becomes more common
as a woman grows older, and one out of
six breast cancers occur in women ages
40-49. The American College of Radiology,
the American Cancer Society, and the
Society for Breast Imaging recommend
that women begin getting annual
mammograms at age 40.
The objective of mammography is early
detection of breast cancer, which can
frequently be cured if it is found when it
is small and has not spread to other parts
of the body. Mammograms can detect
changes in the breast up to two years
before a patient or physician can feel
them. There has been a 1/3 reduction in
breast cancer deaths since mammography
screening became widespread in 1990.
Modern mammography is effective
and safe. The radiation exposure from
a mammogram is comparable to the
exposure that adults receive from seven
weeks of naturally occurring background
exposure from natural sources and is
considered by RadiologyInfo.org to provide
very low additional lifetime fatal cancer
risk. Mammographys proven benefts of
early detection and cure far outweigh
any minimal radiation risk. Digital
mammography at Holy Name Medical
Center is accredited by the American
College of Radiology and certifed by the
Food and Drug Administration.
According to Joshua Gross, MD, Medical
Director of Breast Imaging at Holy Name
Medical Center, when the diagnosis is
breast cancer, the frst questions asked
are: When was the last mammogram?
Could this cancer have been caught
earlier?
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things long put off, of settling into a comfortable chair, of
taking time to admire a beautiful day, of having few time
limitations, of the easing of responsibilities, and of reaping
the rewards of a life well lived.
Those of us who have aged realize the canards of these
myths and their inherent fallibility. Aging does not per-
mit us to take a vacation from life, it only intensifies life
itself; it bequests traumas to a generation that anticipated
peace and a quiet time for reflection. The myths of grow-
ing old dramatically fail before the reality of growing old.
The necessity for financial stability does not disappear
because the marketplace wishes you would; the cost of
living increases while the value of a dollar decreases;
retirement floats beyond our reach; and personal respon-
sibilities continue unabated. We have lived many long
years and now seem to have no time. Years that were con-
fidently contemplated to be within our control now are
floating in a sea out of control. The years have evaporated,
but not our problems or concerns.
Certain myths about aging needed a good bashing, how-
ever. We were told that our minds hardened in our early
years and thereafter were a rigid set piece confined to its
fixed electronics. We now know that our minds have
tremendous plasticity and, even with normal aging,
can respond to increased blood flow through exer-
cise. Aging does witness a slight shrinkage in brain
mass. Yet, that organ continues to form new neurons
and can hone and form new neural connections our
entire lives no matter your age. From crossword
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speed exercises the mind responds by opening
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Memory, learning and the ability to plan and make
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We were also told to accept our aging body in its
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to accept the natural aging process of decay, never
to recapture the vivid sense of youth. This myth is
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activities all will benefit you as the myths of aging fall
from their lack of credence.
Seniors have the capacity to control their minds
and bodies. Remember, be strong in your mind and
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conversation with
God, and ours
In the Torah portion of
Vayera, Abraham is told of
Gods plan to destroy the
wicked city of Sodom.
Abraham could have
simply listened to God,
accepting Gods will.
However, Abraham
understood that his rela-
tionship with the cre-
ator was not meant to be
passive.
Abraham had expecta-
tions of God and if God
failed to live up to those
expectations that was a
problem.
So Abraham put God to
the test and questioned God: Will the
God of justice destroy the innocent
along with the guilty?
And so begins a negotiation between
Abraham and God over the fate of the
city of Sodom.
Will God spare the city if 50 inno-
cents are found? Yes, for the sake of the
50, the city will be spared. And for the
lack of five will God destroy the city?
No, for 45 Sodom will be spared. And
for 40? Sodom will be spared. For 30,
for 20 and finally for 10 righteous souls
the city will be spared.
But alas, not even 10 righteous peo-
ple can be found within the city and so
it is destroyed.
The critical issue is not the destruc-
tion of the city, tragic as it may be, but
rather, the willingness of Abraham to
question God, argue with
God, in the first place.
This is a pivotal moment
in Jewish history: Abra-
ham, as the first Jew,
established a pattern for
all future generations to
follow. We became a peo-
ple willing to question
God, willing to argue with
God.
Consequently, our rela-
tionship with God has
never been passive.
We see this later in the
relationship that Moses,
our teacher, developed
wi th God. It too was
interactive.
Moses questions God, argues with
God and is at times even successful.
After the Golden Calf incident, God
announces that the Children of Israel
will be destroyed and God will start
over with Moses. Moses then reminds
God that there is a previous prom-
ise to Abraham to be upheld and fur-
ther points out how it will look to the
nations of the world if God fails to bring
the people into the Promised Land.
God relents and the people are spared.
Later, the Talmud (Baba Metzia 59b)
tells the famous story of the tanur shel
achnai, a rabbinic dispute between
Rabbi Joshua and Rabbi Eliezer. Rabbi
Eliezer calls upon God to testify for
him, which God does, but the position
of God and Rabbi Eliezer is rejected.
And the proof text is from the Torah
(Deut. 30:12) lo bashamayim hi, The
Torah is not in heaven. And in response
God laughs in delight at their success.
We have a God who wants us to think
for ourselves, who wants us to ask
questions and who wants us to chal-
lenge that which seems wrong to us.
We thrive in a tradition that is self
critical, ever growing, changing and
developing. We are partners with God
in an endeavor that spans millennium.
We are part of a sacred covenant that
calls upon us to help improve the world
around us, to be a part of a commu-
nity, to be a mensch. As you listen to
the words of the Torah this week may
you be inspired to join the conversa-
tion that Abraham began and we have
inherited.
Rabbi
Randall
Mark
Shomrei Torah,
The Wayne
Conservative
Congregation
We have a God
who wants us
to think for
ourselves, who
wants us to ask
questions and
who wants us to
challenge that
which seems
wrong to us.
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If the child marries a Jew, it would be quite impactful for
her family, Frishman said. She felt this was a perfect way
to learn more about what Judaism is. She has a lot of great
questions. What she gains could guide her family well.
Frishman said the program remains valuable because
so much misunderstanding exists about the other.
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Sabbath on November 2 at 12:30 p.m. by showing the
documentary Nothing Like Chocolate and following
that with a discussion with guest speaker Dr. Judith
Friedman. Her late son, Mott Green, the founder of
the Grenada Chocolate Company, is the subject of this
2012 film.
Grace Lutheran Church, Brothers and Sisters
Church, and St. Pauls Lutheran Church also are
participating in Teanecks Fair Trade Sabbath.
Klein and his committee are eager to get additional
houses of worship involved, whether Jewish, Christian,
or Muslim.
We were very much actively reaching out and
explaining fair trade to all these congregations, and
they have to decide if it fits with their mission. For
reasons I can only speculate, were finding it a bit
more difficult to make this truly inclusive, Klein said.
He credits Mimi Confer, Sharla Delawter, and the Rev.
Clemens Reinke with setting up appointments by
phone or in person to discuss with local congregations
how they might participate.
However, he added, We recognized that a sense
of economic justice is an important feature for
people who live and work in Teaneck, so we took our
campaign to the business community and there was a
good response there.
Any congregation interested in participating in Fair
Trade Sabbath or in hosting a speaker at its house
of worship is encouraged to email Dennis Klein at
dennisk@fairtradeteaneck.org. For more information
on Fair Trade Teaneck, go to www.fairtradeteaneck.
org.
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Sometimes, working to strengthen our personal
identities, we create stereotypes and generalizations
about other religions and ethnicities. The more
we understand, the more we can retain our own
particularism but build stronger alliances. Whatever
I can do to invite people to understand Judaism more
thoroughly, that can only be good for the Jewish
people.
Frishman said she also wants to help strengthen the
Jewish identities of Jewish attendees. Noting the results
of the recent Pew survey, showing a striking increase
in intermarriage and assimilation, she said, I dont
think it was shocking at all. We have known intuitively
and anecdotally exactly what the survey revealed. For
us at Barnert, its affirming the work were doing the
visioning work, from strategic planning, to education,
to ritual. We have anticipated this.
Im excited by the survey, she said. It reinforces
our sense of direction.
Who doesnt know that 6 in 10 Jews are
intermarrying? she asked. As for assimilation, in
other periods in Jewish history, when things were
going well, there was more integration into the larger
society. But what does assimilation mean? Its very
important to know how to read a survey and statistics.
The question the survey raises, she said, is What
are we doing to re-engage people religiously? Each
movement will interpret that and respond differently.
Its most important to recognize that we need to reach
out in different ways.
Arts & Culture
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The Model Apartment
MIRIAM RINN
When Max and Lola step into the 1980s
model apartment where they are to spend
several days until their own Florida retire-
ment condo is ready for them, they are
blown away by the luxury in front of them.
Beautiful furniture, big TV set, the
works.
Then they discover that its all just for
show the refrigerator has no plug, the
television has no guts, the tchotchkes are
glued down. Nothing works. Thats the
irst clue that in The Model Apartment
things are not quite what they seem.
Donald Margulies 1995 Obie-winning
play, now in revival at Primary Stages,
59 East 59th Street, may appear to be a
traditional domestic drama at irst, but
it is not that at all. Rather, it is a darkly
comic treatment of the impact of the
Holocaust on the Jews, the burden that
can never be thrown off.
Max and Lola have traveled from
Brooklyn to their idea of heaven, a
retirement development in Florida.
Speaking accented English, with the
particular combination of fear and
grievance that is characteristic of
Holocaust survivors, they gingerly
examine their new temporary home.
We are entitled, no? Lola asks, when
surveying her new digs, after what
theyve been through. Played by Obie
Award winning actress Kathryn Grody,
Lola is an attractive woman still attracted
to her husband, whom she is accustomed
to manipulating through kvetching
and flattery. Max (Mark Blum) is more
reserved, a man who simply wants to
be able to read his Wall Street Journal in
peace. Once he sees that the apartment is
just a front, he goes grumpily to sleep. He
doesnt call the agent or demand another
place where the appliances work. His
response is to hunker down and wait.
A knock at the door soon reveals what
Max and Lola thought they were leaving
behind in Brooklyn. Debbie, their obese,
mentally ill daughter, has followed them
to Florida. She barges in, making it clear
that she plans to stay. Lola keeps warning
that there is no food, but Debbie begins
chomping on the dry cereal they bought for
breakfast. Diane Davis imbues Debbie with
the manic enery and almost thoughtless
innocence of an uncontrollable child. You
cant run away from me, she cries, as if
they were all playing a game.
But thats exactly what Max and Lola are
trying to do, just as American and Israeli
Jews tried to escape the knowledge of the
Holocaust for decades before they gave up
and began to tame it through sanctiication
and sentimentality. Debbie wont be tamed,
however. When her young homeless
African-American boyfriend shows up,
they start to have sex right then and there.
When Lola tells the story of her friendship
with Anne Frank in Bergen Belsen, Debbie
mockingly ills in every other sentence. This
is a story she has heard many times before.
In fact, Debbie has her own stories to tell,
her own Nazi fantasies. I remember things
I never saw, she says. Hiding from the
Nazis ... night after night... waiting for the
Nazis to come.
The set design by Lauren Halpern
perfectly captures the bland charm
of 1980s senior housing, and costume
designer Jenny Mannis outdoes herself
with Daviss fat suit. Without that costume,
Davis portrays Dvoirah, the daughter Max
lost in the Holocaust, the perfect daughter
who comes to him in dreams. His living
daughter is his nightmare, the receptacle
of all his own nightmares.
Margulies has gone on to write much
more naturalistic, popular plays such as
Collected Stories, Sight Unseen, and
Dinner with Friends, for which he won
the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His earlier work
was more experimental, and The Model
Apartment falls into that group. With its
shifts in time, its mixing of living and dead
characters, its altering tone of tragedy and
comedy, the play is less tidy.
One of the strangest scenes is among
the most potent. Lola remini sces
about her friendship with Anne Frank
in concentration camp, when she
encouraged the Dutch teen to keep
another diary about their experiences.
I was a big character in this book, Lola
boasts. I gave her the strength to live.
Just two young girls sharing secrets and
bread crusts, trying to ill the long, idle
hours. This is the perfect sendup of the
mythmaking around Anne Frank, the
grandiosity of some survivors, the need to
turn the worst of the world into a story,
something with meaning.
Less than an hour and a half long, The
Model Apartment is illed with more such
intriguing, discomiting insights than many
other much-longer Holocaust productions.
Diane Davis plays two roles. Here, she is the
daughter her father, played by Mark Blum,
lost to the Shoah.
Diane Davis wears a fat suit to play
Debbie. Here she is with her mother,
played by Kathryn Grody.

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Arts & Culture
The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers
Eric A. GoldmAn
L
ong ago, leaders of religious insti-
tutions in the United States real-
ized that cinema was a compel-
ling way to tell their story. This
year you can expect to see many such sto-
ries. Interestingly enough, Jews, who are
so much a part of Hollywood filmmaking,
never seem to fully grasp this potential
except, that is, for the Simon Wiesenthal
Center. The Los Angeles-based center cre-
ated Moriah Films in 1982; over the years it
has reached out to members of the movie
community to provide narration in their
13 films. Some of the documentary films
they produced have been stronger than
others, but the care and dedication paid
to the project by Rabbi Marvin Hier, the
Moriah Films staff, and producer/director
Richard Trank deserves not only our atten-
tion but our thanks. The center has pro-
duced such Oscar-winning films as Geno-
cide and The Long Way Home, as well
as last years It Is No Dream about The-
odor Herzl. Its newest film is The Prime
Ministers: The Pioneers.
The film is based on Shlomo Avners
book, The Prime Mini sters: An
Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership,
and it is the first of a two-part project to
adapt Avners work for cinema. Avner
was a British immigrant to Israel in 1947,
who worked his way up in the Foreign
Ministry, where he served as an aide and
speech writer and witnessed first-hand
interactions between the key figures
who helped shape the state of Israel. The
film begins with his wonderful insights
into Levi Eshkol, who followed David
Ben-Gurion to become the third Israeli
prime minister it was Eskhol who led
the country during the Six Day War. In
the long list of 1960s Israeli personalities
that includes Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak
Rabin, and Yigal Allon, Eshkol typically
gets little notice. We think of Dayan or
Rabin as the heroes of that war, and
Eshkol as a bureaucrat who somehow
found his way to the top. But the film
provides an insightful portrait of the
man, his warmth, love of Yiddishisms,
and ability to control a cabinet pushing
him to go to war.
After Syria attacked and Egypt closed
the Straits of Tiran to Israels south in
the spring of 1967, Eshkol chose to use
diplomacy to tackle the threat to Israel.
Avner points to these various failed
attempts to get the world powers involved
on Israels behalf when Eshkol and his
cabinet finally attacked, on that fateful
morning of June 5.
Avner, who would later represent
Israel as ambassador to Britain, Ireland,
and Australia, offers some fascinating
anecdotes. He talks about Yitzhak Rabins
early months in Washington as Israel
ambassador to the United States, and the
frustration Foreign Minister Abba Eban felt
because Rabin, not he, became Eshkols
spokesperson. Avner tells how Charles de
Gaulle instituted an embargo against Israel
on the first day of the Six Day War, cutting
off Israels ability to acquire spare parts
for the armaments and planes that France
had sold to Israel. After the war, knowing
full well that he needed a new supplier of
arms for Israel, Eshkol flew to Texas to
meet with President Lyndon Johnson. The
rapport between the leaders had not been
great until the two of them the rancher
and the former kibbutznik were on
their knees in a barn on Johnsons ranch,
discussing cows. At that point, Israel
found a new friend and arms provider
the United States of America.
Avner tells his story on camera, and
it does take a while before the narration
brings you in and makes you feel as if you
are part of this epic. Once it does, Trank
does a fine job weaving the storytelling
Avner into the footage that he puts on the
screen. There is a good balance between
anecdotes and history, and eyewitness
Avner is masterful in showing how these
various encounters influenced events.
One of the more interesting stories is
how Menachem Begin, then the Knessets
opposition leader, was brought into
Eshkols cabinet on the eve of the Six
Day War. There he was, sitting around a
table with his political enemies, and once
Jordan had entered the war he asked his
colleagues to authorize sending troops
into the Old City of Jerusalem.
Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan, hero
of the 1956 Sinai campaign, believed such
a foray to be too dangerous. But as Avner
described it, Begin had a sense of Jewish
history, and he pushed his case for taking
control of the Temple Mount, and Dayan
and Eshkol finally agreed. We know the
rest of the story; Avner tells us how he
delayed his departure for the United States
long enough so he could be at the Western
Wall, newly back in Jewish hands.
Avner continues with a look at Golda
Meir. As endearing as the first part of the
film was, I wanted more about Golda. The
film does focus on the special relationship
forged between the two Jews, Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger and the prime
minister, but some of the intrigue between
Golda and Richard Nixon was missing. I
wanted a broader picture of the woman,
and a deeper understanding of how she
coped with the growing dissatisfaction
with her leadership. These were some of
the moments that made A Woman Called
Golda so mesmerizing.
In watching The Prime Ministers: The
Pioneers, you are made to feel a part
of Israel, its history, and how its leaders
believed they were representing the entire
Jewish people. It is a fine effort. Leonard
Nimoy provides the voice of Levi Eshkol,
Sandra Bullock is Golda Meir, Michael
Douglas is Yitzhak Rabin, and Christoph
Waltz is Menachem Begin. The film opens
today at the Quad Theater in New York.
Eric Goldman of Teaneck is the author
of The American Jewish Story through
Cinema.
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and
defense minister Moshe Dayan meet
their troops on the Golan Heights dur-
ing the Yom Kippur War, on October
21, 1973. isrAEli GovErnmEnt PrEss officE
Prime Minister Golda Meir meets with Israeli troops on the Golan Heights during
the Yom Kippur War. isrAEli Gov PrEss officE
You are made
to feel a part
of Israel, its
history, and how
its leaders
believed
they were
representing the
entire Jewish
people.
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Friday
october 18
Shabbat in Closter:
temple Beth el offers
services welcoming
new members with the
shabbat Unplugged
Band, 7:30 p.m. 221
schraalenburgh road.
(201) 768-5112 or www.
tbenv.org.
Shabbat in Wayne:
temple Beth tikvah
offers tot shabbat for
children up to 8 and their
families, with stories,
songs, parades, and
prayers, 7:15 p.m. Bring
candlesticks; candles
will be provided. snacks
served at oneg. Casual
dress. 950 Preakness
ave. (973) 595-6565.
Saturday
october 19
Shabbat in Maywood:
student rabbi ellen
Jaffe-Gill and adult
education chair Martin
springer facilitate a look
at abrahams life, from
his early years to his
first wife, at a lunch and
learn following shabbat
services, 10 a.m. 34 west
Magnolia ave. (201) 845-
7550 or www.rtbi-online.
org.
Rabbi Lawrence
Troster
COURTESY CBS
Shabbat in Teaneck:
rabbi Lawrence troster
presents wrapped
in a robe of Light, a
Jewish response to
energy Conservation
and Climate Change
at Congregation Beth
sholom for a lunch and
learn program, 12:30 p.m.
Charge for lunch; no
cost for lecture at 1:15.
345 Maitland ave. (201)
833-2620 or office@
cbsteaneck.org.
Sunday
october 20
atlantic City trip:
Paramus Bat sheva
hadassah hosts a bus
trip to resorts hotel.
Bus leaves the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth tikvahs parking lot
at 8:30 a.m. $25; includes
$15 casino voucher.
send checks for $25
per person, payable to
hadassah, to 467 Berry
Lane, Paramus, n.J.
07652. include a phone
number. hdlh822@aol.
com.
Play group in Emerson:
shalom Baby of UJa
Federation of northern
new Jersey offers play
time, music, storytime,
snacks, and crafts for
moms and dads of
newborns through
3-year-olds to connect
with each other and the
Jewish community, at
Congregation Bnai israel,
10 a.m. administered
by JFnnJs synagogue
Leadership initiative,
funded by the henry and
Marilyn taub Foundation.
53 Palisade ave. (201)
265-2272, (201) 820-3917,
or ellenf@jfnnj.org.
Michael R. Dressler
Importance of wills:
Bergen County
surrogate Michael r.
dressler discusses the
importance of wills,
probate procedures,
estate tax, and powers
of attorney at temple
Beth el in hackensack,
10 a.m. refreshments.
280 summit ave. (201)
342-3045.
adult ed in Fair Lawn:
rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich
continues rethinking
the Covenant at temple
Beth sholom in Fair Lawn
with the Boundaries
of interpretation of the
Covenant, 10:30 a.m.
Program based on the
theme of the hartman
institutes rabbinic torah
study seminar. 40-25
Fair Lawn ave. (201)
797-9321, ext. 415 or
adulted@tbsfl.org.
Rabbi Neil Tow
kabbalah: the Glen rock
Jewish Center continues
discover Kabbalah, a
course led by rabbi neil
tow, through October 27,
11 a.m. 682 harristown
road. (201) 652-6624 or
email rabbi@grjc.org.
School open house in
Teaneck: Maayanot
Yeshiva high school
for Girls holds an open
house. registration,
12:30 p.m.; program at
1. 1650 Palisade ave.
nina Bieler, (201) 833-
4307, ext. 255 or www.
maayanot.org.
Charity walk: the
Friendship Circle
of Passaic County
holds its annual
Friendswalk4Friends
at wayne Valley high
school, 1-4 p.m. Fun,
food, and entertainment
for the whole family.
Proceeds benefit the
Friendship Circle of
Passaic County. (973)
694-6274 or www.
friendswalk4friends.com.
Fall festival in North
Haledon: Camp Veritans
holds its annual fall
festival with activities
including hayrides, arts
and crafts, and music,
1-3 p.m. refreshments.
225 Pompton road.
(973) 956-1220 or Carla@
CampVeritans.com.
Games in Pompton
Lakes: the Jewish
Congregation of
Kinnelon-Congregation
Beth shalom hosts
game day, including
Clue, Monopoly, Boggle,
scattergories, playing
cards, and mah jongg,
1-4 p.m. 21 Passaic
ave. (973) 492-0751 or
cmeg@optonline.net.
Yiddish film in Franklin
Lakes: temple emanuel
of north Jersey screens
the 1941 Yiddish comedy
the Great advisor,
2 p.m. refreshments. 558
high Mountain road.
(201) 560-0200 or www.
tenjfl.org.
Herb Keinon
COURTESY JCCP/CBT
Israeli correspondent
in Paramus: herb
Keinon, who has worked
at the Jerusalem Post
for 25 years, looks at
how israel will cope
with syria burning,
egypt imploding, iran
nuclearizing, and the
Palestinians negotiating,
at the Jewish Community
Center of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah, 7 p.m. east 304
Midland ave. (201) 262-
7691.
Monday
october 21
Eric Goldman
author in Teaneck: dr.
eric Goldman, adjunct
associate professor
of cinema at Yeshiva
University and the
Jewish theological
seminary and film critic
for the Jewish standard,
discusses his new book
the american Jewish
story through Cinema,
at Congregation Beth
sholom in teaneck.
Books for sale. dinner,
6:30 p.m., program
at 7:15. 354 Maitland
ave. (201) 836-2479 or
lornard@aol.com.
Tuesday
october 22
Randy Susan Meyers
PHOTO PROVIDED
Novelist at Livingston
luncheon: randy susan
Meyers talks about
her first novel, the
Murderers daughters,
at the rachel Coalitions
annual women to
women lunch at the
Cedar hill Country Club,
11:30 a.m. Proceeds
support the rachel
Coalition, the domestic
violence prevention
division of Jewish Family
service of Metrowest
new Jersey. Kosher
buffet lunch. 100 walnut
st. (973) 765-9050,
ext. 1708 or www.
rachelCoalition.org.
alzheimers workshop
in Wayne: the wayne
YMCa offers a family
education workshop for
those caring for an aging
parent or relative with
alzheimers disease or
other dementia, 1:30 p.m.
sponsored by home
instead senior Care.
refreshments. the Metro
YMCas of the Oranges
is a partner of the YM-
Ywha of north Jersey.
1 Pike drive. (973) 200-
0855 or (973) 595-0100.
Hadassah meets: tri
Boro hadassah meets
at the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah to hear herb
hahn discuss the
Jewish soul, 2 p.m.
refreshments. east 304
Midland ave. (201) 385-
7289.
Wednesday
october 23
School open house in
New Milford: solomon
schechter day school of
Bergen County invites
parents of prospective
students to an open
house to meet the
faculty, administration,
and students, and tour
the facility, 7-9 p.m. (201)
262-9898, ext. 213, or
events@ssdsbergen.org.
Thursday
october 24
Hair donation in
Tenafly: in conjunction
with national Breast
Cancer awareness
Month, the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
sponsors Locks of
Love as it accepts hair
donations in the waltuch
Gallery, 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.
haircuts provided by
tenaflys BBC salon.
appointments, Marie at
BBC salon, (201) 567-
0007 or call the JCC
seiden wellness Center,
(201) 408-1441.
The Museum of
Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust in
Manhattan hosts its annual Mah
Jongg Marathon benefit, Sunday,
October 20, from noon to 5 p.m.
All proceeds benefit the museum.
Raffle prizes. Optional lunch.
(646) 437-4338 or mahjongg@
mjhnyc.org. CaROLINE EaRP
OCT.
20
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Genealogy programs in Tenafly
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades presents two
programs on Jewish genealogy with geneal-
ogy expert Ron Arons on Sunday, November
3. Arons will teach participants how to search
beyond names, dates, and places to help
answer questions about their ancestry.
The first class, Jewish Genealogy: Under-
standing Our Families, Understanding
Ourselves, at 1:30 p.m., offers tech-
niques for conducting in-depth searches.
The second class, Jewish Genealogy:
Finding Living People on the Internet,
at 3 p.m., gives websites and examples to
expand family history research.
Call (201) 569-7900 or jccotp.org.
Ron Arons
Book discussion in
Washington Township:
temple Beth Ors People
of the Book series
meets to discuss James
McBrides book, the
Color of water: a Black
Mans tribute to his
white Mother, 7:30 p.m.
56 ridgewood road.
(201) 664-7422 or www.
templebethornj.org.
Friday
october 25
Shabbat in Closter:
temple Beth el invites
young children and their
families to tot shabbat
for songs, stories, and
crafts, led by rabbi
david s. widzer, Cantor
rica timman, and Music
Lisa, 5:15 p.m. Monthly
family service at 6:45. 221
schraalenburgh road,
Closter. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
israel offers its first
innovative shabbat
service with a celebration
of the music, teachings,
and life story of rabbi
shlomo Carlebach,
7:30 p.m. Both rabbi
debra Orenstein and
Cantor Lenny Mandel had
personal relationships
with Carlebach. 53
Palisade ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Cantor Jenna Daniels
PHOTO PROVIDED
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Cantor Jenna daniels,
a fifth year student at
the Jewish theological
seminary, will be
joined by Cantor ilan
Mamber and the Kol
rishon adult and Zemer
rishon teen choirs, at
temple Beth rishon,
8 p.m. the program
includes classical and
contemporary selections.
daniels will lead the
service and a concert will
follow. 585 russell ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Saturday
october 26
Shabbat in Fort
Lee: Congregation
Gesher shalom/Jewish
Community Center
of Fort Lee offers tot
shabbat and a family
service, 11 a.m. 1449
anderson ave. (201) 947-
1735.
Sunday
october 27
Holiday boutique in
Tenafly: the temple
sinai early Childhood
education Committee
offers a boutique
including jewelry,
clothing, toys, childrens
accessories, and home
dcor, 10 a.m.4 p.m. 1
engle street. (201) 568-
6867.
In New York
Saturday
october 26
Anat Cohen
PHOTO PROVIDED
Concert in Suffern:
world-renowned
clarinetist anat Cohen
performs in concert
with legendary music
impresario George wein
at rockland Community
College, Cultural arts
Center, 8 p.m. sponsored
by the JCC rockland.
145 College road. (845)
362-4400 or www.
jccrockland.org.
Singles
Friday
october 18
Shabbat in Clifton: the
north Jersey Jewish
singles Meetup Group,
45- 60+, meets at the
Clifton Jewish Center,
6:30 p.m. services,
dinner, activities, and
discussion with rabbi
Bob Mark. dinner
reservations, (973) 772-
3131 or meetup.com,
search for north jersey
Jewish singles at the
CJC.
Making retirement years meaningful
The Orthodox Union, in collabora-
tion with STAJE (a communal orga-
nization seeking to help make the
retirement-age years meaningful
for American Jews) and Congre-
gation Bnai Yeshurun of Teaneck,
announces the SAGE (Seniors
Actively Growing and Exploring) ini-
tiative. The four-week series will fea-
ture leading rabbinic, communal,
and mental health professionals and
focus on enhancing the Jewish com-
munitys educational opportunities.
The program will be held on
Monday afternoons October 21,
November 4 and 18, and Decem-
ber 2 at Bnai Yeshurun, 641 West
Englewood Ave., in Teaneck. (Bnai
Yeshurun is a member of the OU.)
Sessions begin at noon with regis-
tration and lunch, the program fol-
lows, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The series opens on October 21
with Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of
Congregation Bnai Yeshurun dis-
cussing The Secrets to a Long
Life, and Grandparenting: Get it
Right and Everybody Wins, with
Alex Bailey, a Northern New Jersey
licensed clinical psychologist.
Registered dietitian Devora Wech-
ter and Rabbi Menahem Meier,
founding principal of the Frisch
School in Paramus and the Long
Island Hebrew Academy in Great
Neck, tackle the question Do Sup-
plements Really Do a Body Good?
A Review of Some Vitamins, Min-
erals and Essential Nutrients? on
November 4.
The November 18 session includes
Boomers-Planning for Retirement
and Later Life: Estate and Financial
Planning with Martin M. Shenk-
man, a lawyer in private practice
in Paramus and New York City, and
Chanukah: Recognizing the Mira-
cles Around Us, with Rabbi Benja-
min Yudin of Congregation Shomrei
Torah in Fair Lawn.
The workshop concl udes
on December 2 with How to
Strengthen Your Empathic Listening
& Communication Skills: An Empa-
thy Labyrinth Workshop with Marc
Weiner, comedian, puppeteer, tele-
vision producer, and advocate; and
The Biblical and Historical Back-
ground of the Jewish Holy Days
with Reuben Ebrahimoff, who is
well known on OU.org, or at Hato-
rahman.com.
The program costs $20 for four
sessions or $10 per workshop. For
information, call (212) 613-8300.
Each session will begin at noon
with registration and lunch, fol-
lowed by the program from 12:30
to 2:30 p.m. Although walk-ins are
welcome, organizers suggest that
participants register online at www.
oucommunity.org.
A painting by Marilyn Cohen.
Art in Teaneck
Lewis Cohen will present works
by his wife, the late Marilyn
Cohen, at the Teaneck General
Store on Sunday, October 20,
from 4 to 6 p.m. Cohens collec-
tion includes the Celebration
of American Women, where
she used paint to tell the story
of immigrants in each one of the
American states.
The store is at 502a Cedar
Lane in Teaneck. Refreshments
will be served.
For information, call (201)
530-5046.
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Jersey shul offers Israeli celebration
The Fountainheads, the Israeli
singing group, will headline a
family festival concert at Adath
Israel Congregation in Law-
renceville on Sunday, Octo-
ber 20. The concert marks the
beginning of a year-long cel-
ebration of the congregations
90th anniversary and 25 years
of service from its rabbi, Dan-
iel Grossman.
Sundays festivities also will
include a street fair to show-
case Israeli vendors and a
gourmet middle eastern lun-
cheon included in the price of
admission. Doors will open at
3 p.m. Kol Ha Layla, the Rut-
gers University Jewish student
a cappella choir, will open the Fountainheads concert at 4:30.
For information call Ellen Botwin at (609) 896-4977.
OU seminar on reducing student debt
David Siegel of Citibank leads a free semi-
nar, Reducing Student Debt Payments,
for the Orthodox Union Job Board on
Tuesday, October 22, from 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. at OU headquarters, 11 Broadway,
New York City.
The program offers several federal
programs that let the borrower reduce
monthly payments and discharge remain-
ing debt after a set period of time. This
includes the Department of Educations
recently introduced Income Based Repay-
ment Program, which lets borrowers
calculate monthly payments based on
income and household size, regardless of
the amount of debt.
Another program, Pay as You Earn,
cuts payments by a third; a companion
program allows the borrower to dis-
charge any remaining debt after a set
minimum of qualified payments.
Siegel, a home lending specialist at
Citibank who works with residential
mortgages, previously worked as a bank-
ruptcy attorney and helped clients with
mortgage, consumer, and student debt-
related issues.
To join the class live or on-line, reg-
ister at http://www.eventzilla.net/web/
event?eventid=2139008534. A donation
of $5 or more is appreciated and can be
made online.
For information email jobsco@ou.org
or call (212) 613-8280.
The Fountainheads
Crossword BY DaVID BENkOF
across
1. Locust, e.g.
5. dianne Feinstein (d-Calif.) and
richard Blumenthal (d-Conn.)
9. egyptian resort where israeli and
Palestinian negotiating teams met
13. theory of relativity, e.g.
14. Bibles first grandkid
15. Celestial body with a tail
16. Cosmos creator
18. Capital of russia?
19. talmudic tractate about the census
20. hospital signs
21. rabbi dov ___ of Mezeritch
22. strove for
23. Pajama Game composer
28. Computer programmer swartz
29. Photographer Goldin and others
30. a son of noah
33. Be aware of
34. Bava ___ (talmudic tractate)
36. From a long ___ of rabbis
37. Uri Geller talent, supposedly
38. Lerner and Loewes 1958 hit musical
39. ___ and lox
40. it was annexed in 1981
43. Bais Yaakov and solomon schechter
46. Give an uzi to
47. Borneo beasts
48. Game plan
53. tier at teddy Kollek stadium
54. Behrman house competitor
55. swoon over
56. You go not till ___ you up a glass:
hamlet
57. Bnei ___ (heavily Orthodox city)
58. Fabulous flyers
59. Kinley, e.g.
60. szechwan sauces
Down
1. what spielberg makes, for short
2. ___ haChareidis
3. Like the negev
4. ___ radio (dennis Pragers medium)
5. Undercoat of paint
6. surround
7. author/linguist Chomsky
8. Us irs id
9. Promoter
10. im mean and green, and i ___
(Little shop of horrors lyric)
11. Lost in Yonkers character
12. this is only ___! (radio message)
15. woody allens ___ and
Misdemeanors
17. Forbes 400 member haim ___
20. home of a famous Gaon
22. Month before nisan
23. Garden implement
24. Kinsler and Ziering
25. Kibbutz output, often
26. First word of Blowin in the wind
27. Memoirist immigrant Mary
30. rosh hashana is this kind of holiday
31. Janis ian album working without
___
32. Brooks and Blanc
34. Graham and Maher
35. its___! (wow!)
36. ___ BaOmer
38. sergey Brins company
39. synagogue platform
40. hopeless causes
41. the adL fights it
42. second-edition section
43. Kind of year that isnt lunar
44. the ani Maamin (i believe), e.g.
45. total chaos
48. shrug-eliciting, maybe
49. word processor settings
50. shekel alternative
51. ashen
52. wont be quiet
54. Opposite of taint
The solution for last weeks
puzzle is on page 67.
Fellowship for working journalists
The FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz
for the Study of Professional Ethics) pro-
gram of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is
open to working journalists and journal-
ists in graduate school who wish to take
part in an all-expenses-paid fellowship
on contemporary journalism ethics in
Europe. The program is designed and
led by faculty from Columbia Universi-
tys Graduate School of Journalism.
Applications are being accepted for a
fellowship that uses the conduct of jour-
nalists in Nazi Germany as a launching
point for an intensive two-week summer
program on contemporary journalism
ethics.
Fellowships include a trip from New
York to Berlin, Krakow, and Auschwitz,
where students will work with leading
faculty to explore both the history of
journalism and the ethical issues facing
working journalists today.
All program costs, including interna-
tional and European travel, lodging, and
food, are covered.
The program for FASPE Journalism
will run from May 25 to June 5. To be
eligible, applicants must be enrolled in
a graduate program or be working jour-
nalists who completed their undergradu-
ate degrees between June 2009 and June
2013. Completed applications must be
received by January 6, 2014. Candidates
of all religious, ethnic, and cultural back-
grounds are encouraged to apply.
For information, go to www.FASPE.
info or email Thorin R. Tritter, FASPEs
managing director, at ttritter@FASPE.
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Bnai Mitzvah
Rebecca Brandon
Rebecca Brandon,
daughter of Cari and Eric
Brandon of Westwood and
sister of Sarah, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah
on October 12 at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
Joshua Hacklander
Joshua Noam Hacklander,
son of Beth and Frank
Hacklander of Tenafly
and brother of Zachary,
celebrated becoming a bar
mitzvah on October 12 at
Temple Emanu-El in Closter.
Paul Jacobs
Paul Jacobs, son of Debo-
rah and Alexander Jacobs
of Ridgewood, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
October 12 at Temple Israel
and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood.
Jacob Krawitz
Jacob Krawitz, son of Drs.
Lawrence Krawitz and
Debbie Barnett
Carolyn Schwartz Krawitz
of Wyckoff and brother of
Joseph, celebrated becom-
ing a bar mitzvah on
October 12 at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff.
Caroline Lobel
Caroline Lobel, daughter of
Deborah and Gregg Lobel
of Demarest, celebrated
becoming a bat mitzvah on
October 12 at Temple Beth
El of Northern Valley
in Closter.
Sam Potolsky
Sam Benjamin Potolsky,
son of Bethlee and Marc
Potolsky of Oradell and
brother of Drew, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on
October 12 at Temple Avo-
dat Shalom in River Edge.
His grandparents are Vivian
Potolsky, Gerald Potolsky
and Rose Annunziata, and
Linda and the late Fred
Shaffer.
Abigail Reissner
Abigail Reissner, daughter
of Julie Reissner of Emer-
son, twin sister of Heather,
and sister of Tyler, cel-
ebrated becoming a bat
Temple Beth Or in Washing-
ton Township.
Heather Reissner
Heather Reissner, daugh-
ter of Julie Reissner of
Emerson, twin sister of
Abigail, and sister of Tyler,
celebrated becoming a bat
Temple Beth Or in Washing-
ton Township.
Alec Sass
Alec Sass, son of Garena
and Steven Sass of Norwood
and brother of Sydney,
celebrated becoming a bar
Temple Emanu-El
in Closter.
Simone Steinberg
Simone Brooke Steinberg,
daughter of Franci and
Adam Steinberg of Tenafly
and sister of Madeline and
Noah, celebrated becoming
a bat mitzvah on October 12
at Temple Sinai of Bergen
County in Tenafly.
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oBituaries
Elyse Bloom
Elyse Lynn Bloom of East
Brunswick, formerly of Paterson,
died October 9. Arrangements were
by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Dr. John H. Cohn
Dr. John H. Cohn of Teaneck died
October 12.
Born in Bochum, Germany, he
was a physician in New York City for
48 years before retiring in 2007.
He is survived by his wife of 49
years, Marcia; a son, Nathaniel
(Amanda) of Scarsdale, N.Y.; a sister,
Marion Taube (Mike) of Pittsburgh;
and grandchildren Dylan, Trevor,
and Nicole.
Donations can be sent to a char-
ity of choice. Arrangements were
by Gutterman and Musicant Jewish
Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Louis Farber
Louis I. Farber, who lived in Jersey
City, New York City, and Teaneck,
died October 10.
Born in Jersey City, he was a
World War II Army veteran. Before
retiring in 1997, he was a financial
analyst for Allied Building Products.
Predeceased by three brothers, he
is survived by his wife, Helene, ne
Sheveck, and a son, Aram.
Contributions can be sent to the
Crohns and Colitis Foundation.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Dr. Stanley Hurst
Stanley D. Hurst, DDS, of Fort Lee,
died October 13.
He was born in Brooklyn and was
a veteran of the Korean conflict.
He is survived by his wife of
54 years, Marcia, ne Koch; his
children, Wendy Levine (Richard),
Lori Bushell (Victor), and Terry
Sanders (Bill); and grandchildren,
Jordan, Alexandra, Joshua, Abigail,
Hannnah, Austin, Taylor, and
Brooke.
Contributions can be sent to
Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center dialysis unit. Arrangements
were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Lucille Rosenblum
Lucille Rose Rosenblum, who lived
in the Bronx and Allendale, died
September 6.
Before retiring, she was a
bookkeeper for Richard Brown
in New York City. She was a past
president of a Bnai Brith chapter in
New York.
Predeceased by her parents and
a brother, Alfred, she is survived by
a niece, Carolyn Shenberg (Saul);
a nephew, Warren Shenberg; and
great nieces and nephews, Gary and
Sharon Shenberg, Pamela and Rabbi
Craig Axler, and Alan and Meryl
Shenberg.
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Stanley Shafer
Stanley G. Shafer, 79, of Fair Lawn,
Fair Lawn.
Nathan Shatzoff
Nathan Shatzoff, 95, of Paramus,
formerly of Hackensack, died
October 9.
Predeceased by his wife of 65
years, Adele, ne Tondow, he is
survived by his children, Toby
Feinberg (Carl), Judy Munoz
( Jack), and Fred.
An Air Force World War II veteran,
before retiring, he was a supervisor
for the United States Postal Service
and a member of the board of
Temple Beth El in Hackensack.
Donations can be made to the
American Cancer Society or Temple
Beth El. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Jerome Some
Jerome Some of Hackensack died
October 8.
Born in Bayonne, he was a
World War II Army Air Corps
veteran, earning the American
Campaign, WW II Victory, and
Asiatic Pacific Campaign medals. A
retail merchant, he owned Somes
Uniforms for many years. He was
a member of Temple Beth El of
Hackensack and the Hackensack
Chamber of Commerce.
He is survived by his wife,
Diane, ne Russo; sons Lee and
Jason; a daughter, Andrea (Duane);
grandchildren, Heschel (Frances),
Joshua, and Candace; and a great-
grandchild, Aurora.
Contributions may be made to the
Jerome S. Some Memorial Fund c/o
Bergen County Housing Health and
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CAYNE, Saul L., 89, of Teaneck, N.J., and formerly
of Boynton Beach and Coconut Creek, Fla., passed
away Tuesday, Oct. 8th.
Saul grew up in Bridgeport, Conn., and Brooklyn,
N.Y., the ffth of fve children of Joseph and Lena. After
graduation from Samuel Tilden High School, he served in
World War II in the Army Air Corps, stationed in Italy.
He was a graduate of New York University.
He managed department stores in several states and
later owned Mademoiselle et Monsieur Fashions Ltd.,
in Rochester, N.Y. After his retirement to Florida, he
pursued a longtime interest in sculpting.
He was married for 57 years to his beloved wife
Sheila Kaplan Cayne, who predeceased him in
2009. He is survived by their four children: Howard
(Caroline) of Bethesda, Md.; Jenny (Georges
Cohen) of Morganville, N.J., Louise (Ivo Varbanov)
of Cresskill, N.J.; and Jonathan ( Jana) of Potomac,
Md.; nine grandchildren: Brian (Elizabeth), Allison
(Doug), Elizabeth (Max), Jocelyn, Hailey, Lindsay,
Jason, Gillian, and Evan; and 13 nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at Goldstein Funeral
Chapel in Edison, N.J., with burial at Beth Israel
Cemetery in Woodbridge, N.J. Memorial donations
may be made to the American Diabetes Association
at www.diabetes.org.
Lucille Rosenblum
Lucille Rose Rosenblum, who lived
in the Bronx and Allendale, died
September 6.
Before retiring, she was a
bookkeeper for Richard Brown
in New York City. She was a past
president of a Bnai Brith chapter in
New York.
Predeceased by her parents and
a brother, Alfred, she is survived by
a niece, Carolyn Shenberg (Saul);
a nephew, Warren Shenberg; and
great nieces and nephews, Gary and
Sharon Shenberg, Pamela and Rabbi
Craig Axler, and Alan and Meryl
Shenberg.
and Musicant Jewish Funeral
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Stanley Shafer
Stanley G. Shafer, 79, of Fair Lawn,
Fair Lawn.
Nathan Shatzoff
Nathan Shatzoff, 95, of Paramus,
formerly of Hackensack, died
October 9.
Predeceased by his wife of 65
years, Adele, ne Tondow, he is
survived by his children, Toby
Feinberg (Carl), Judy Munoz
( Jack), and Fred.
An Air Force World War II veteran,
before retiring, he was a supervisor
for the United States Postal Service
and a member of the board of
Temple Beth El in Hackensack.
Donations can be made to the
American Cancer Society or Temple
Beth El. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Jerome Some
Jerome Some of Hackensack died
October 8.
Born in Bayonne, he was a
World War II Army Air Corps
veteran, earning the American
Campaign, WW II Victory, and
Asiatic Pacific Campaign medals. A
retail merchant, he owned Somes
Uniforms for many years. He was
a member of Temple Beth El of
Hackensack and the Hackensack
Chamber of Commerce.
He is survived by his wife,
Diane, ne Russo; sons Lee and
Jason; a daughter, Andrea (Duane);
grandchildren, Heschel (Frances),
Joshua, and Candace; and a great-
grandchild, Aurora.
Contributions may be made to the
Jerome S. Some Memorial Fund c/o
Bergen County Housing Health and
www.jstandard.com
Human Services Center in Hackensack.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant
Jewish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Iris Wielkotz
Iris Wielkotz, ne Rudnick, 83, of Clifton, formerly
of Paterson, Fair Lawn, and Boca Raton, Fla., died
October 9.
Predeceased by her husband, Leonard, she is
survived by sons Craig (Linda) and Steven (Susan);
siblings, Ralph Rudnick (Barbara), and Ruth Rudnick;
and grandchildren, Jason, Matthew, and Daniel.
Donations can be made to the Vitas Hospice
Charitable Fund, Livingston. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Stephen Wien
Stephen Saul Wien of Alpine and Boca Raton, Fla.,
died October 12.
He was born in Brooklyn and was a member of the
Army Reserves. Before retiring in 2006, he was a stock-
broker for Wien Securities Corp., formerly M.S. Wien
and Co., in New York City for 56 years.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Edith; his
children, Larry ( Julie) of Norwood, Brett (Kerri Baron)
of Greenwich, Conn., and Nicole Naidrich ( Joseph) of
Tenafly; a sister, Sondra Goldring of Boca Raton, Fla.;
and his grandchildren Jake, Alex, Ryan, Tyler, Emma,
and James.
Contributions can be sent to St. Judes Childrens
Hospital or the Melanoma Research Foundation, Wash-
ington, D.C.
Arrangements were by Gutterman and Musicant Jew-
ish Funeral Directors, Hackensack.
Briefs
Limmud debut in Peru
draws more than 600
More than 600 participants attended the first Limmud
educational experience in Peru on Sunday.
Limud Peru, held in Lima, featured 40 sessions for the
450 adults and 160 children and teens on hand. The chil-
dren took part in workshops on Judaism and the envi-
ronment, soccer, and dancing.
The Jewish Association of Peru, Leon Pinelo College,
Hebraica and Hanoar Hatzioni partnered to produce
Limud Peru under the sponsorship of the American Jew-
ish Joint Distribution Committee and Limmud Interna-
tional. More than 15 Jewish-owned companies and busi-
nesses underwrote the daylong event.
Limmud Jewish learning events have now been held in
more than 65 communities and 29 countries worldwide.
Among the sessions offered in the Peruvian capital
were Superman, Federman, Spiderman: the Jewish
influence on Comics and Argentine-Israeli Gabriel ben
Tasgals Connecting with Israel through its Humor.
Perus Jewish community of 2,500, which is centered
in Lima, features three synagogues and a Jewish day
school with nearly 400 students. JTA Wire service
Petition urging
D.C.s Elis Restaurant
to relocate
WAsHiNGTON Elis Restaurant, a popular kosher eat-
ery in Washington D.C. frequented by politicians, lobby-
ists, and government workers, may have a date with the
wrecking ball.
According to a petition being circulated on Change.
org, its current storefront will be demolished as part of
a redevelopment plan.
The petitions signers want the owners to know how
important it is that they find a new location in DC and
continue to serve the downtown Jewish community.
The restaurant has been serving corned beef sand-
wiches, hamburgers, and soups at its location near
DuPont Circle, at the southeast corner of the intersec-
tion of N and 20th streets, NW, since 2004.
Efforts to speak with the restaurants management
were unsuccessful.
At least one other kosher restaurant is open in down-
town Washington - in the local JCC. JTA Wire service
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to make dots on iPads, which were
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n 2 More than 20 teens attended
temple emanu-el of Closters F2F
get-together at tappan Golfs Go-
Karting. the group also meets at
the shul to do community service
projects. Courtesy temple emanu-el
n 3 Last month, wildes & weinberg,
P.C.s managing partner, Michael
wildes, who is a former mayor of
englewood, was at a book signing at the
Friars Club in Manhattan to celebrate
the release of a Mayors Life by a
former new York City mayor, david
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n 4 author Bob nesoff, center, a former
president of the new Milford Jewish
Center/ Congregation Beth tikvah, now
the newly merged JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth tikvah, holds a copy
of his novel, spyder hole, which he
discussed at a recent book club meeting
at the shul. among those with him,
from left, are Myrna Levine, irene reiss,
Miriam Levin, and howie Cohn, a former
CBt president, at right. Courtesy JCCp/CBt
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of north Jersey. Courtesy rynJ
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Performing Arts School at bergenPAC
sponsors senior citizen classes
Arts for Life offers
a month of fun
and learning for
adults 60+
The Performing Arts School at ber-
genPAC and The Arts for Life Net-
work of New Jersey presents Arts for
Life Expo, a month of participatory
classes for older adults in the per-
forming, visual and literary arts. The
classes will be Thursday, October 30
to Tuesday, November 26 . The new
Performing Arts School at bergenPAC
will host the series, at 1 Depot Square
in Englewood.
The Arts for Life Expo provides
hour-long experiential workshops at 11
a.m. and 1 p.m. Mondays through Fri-
days in acting, appliqu, dance move-
ment, dalcroze eurhythmics, drum
circle, recorder, ukelele, creative writ-
ing, and poetry, taught by artist-teach-
ers who are experts in their field. The
fee is $15 for a single class, with dis-
counts for 4 or more classes.
The Arts for Life Network of New
Jersey (artsforlifenj.com) is the brain-
child of Jacqueline Guttman, whose
work in arts education and adminis-
tration spans nearly 50 years. While
working at an area music school, she
noticed the unused classroom and
studio space during the day during
the week. A musician, she found
herself wanting to take part in some
of the schools programs as a stu-
dent. Arts education should not stop
when we graduate, she says, its a
lifetime occupation.
The health and psychic benefits
of active participation in the arts
has been documented extensively
and, with older adults being the fast-
est growing age cohort in the nation
and an unusually large demographic
in Bergen County, a population is
emerging that is eager to learn, cre-
ate and explore new possibilities.
In addition, many older artists now
have the time to teach. The goal of
the Arts for Life network is to help
Lester Senior Housing Community
marks Assisted Living Week
The residents and staff of Lester
Senior Housing Community in
Whippany, one of the senior living
communities owned and managed
by the Jewish Community Housing
Corporation of Metropolitan New
Jersey ( JCHC), marked National
Assisted Living Week last month
with a series of activities and infor-
mational and social programs that
were open to the public.
The theme this year was Home-
made Happiness and residents
of both Lester residences, Weston
Assisted Living Residence and Heller
Independent Living Apartments,
participated in creative arts classes
and fun hands-on workshops. The
special week included a private
cocktail reception for residents and
their families of both residences
within the senior community, with a
display of residents original handi-
work such as needlepoint pieces
and paintings.
Programs to mark National
Assisted Living Week included:
Sweetness for a Sweet New Year,
a presentation about apples, honey,
and the Jewish New Year, part of the
JCHCs Creative Living series of work-
shops for older adults
A presentation on Assisted Living
and Other Levels of Care for seniors
and their family members
Homemade Happiness in Art
classes in song writing, creative
writing, and poetry.
Floral & Hardy flower arranging
workshop.
The Jewish Community Housing
Corporation offers seniors a range of
housing options, amenities, and ser-
vices in four senior living communi-
ties in Essex and Morris counties. The
Lester Senior Housing Community is
located at 903-905 Route 10 East in
Whippany on the Aidekman cam-
pus of the JCC MetroWest. For more
information about its independent
living or assisted living options, con-
tact Barbara Knopf, Marketing and
Admissions Manager at (973) 929-
2525 or visit www.jchcorp.org.
What: Free Vein screening
Where: advanced Medical imaging of englewood hospital and Medical
Center, 452 Old hook road, suite 301, emerson.
Who: Board-certified vein specialists and physicians will provide free vein
screenings to men and women of all ages.
When: tuesday, november 5, 4 -7 p.m.; thursday, november 7, 1 4 p.m.;
Monday, november 11, 10 a.m. 2 p.m.
How: Pre-registration is required. Call (866)-980-3462 or visit www.
englewoodhospital.com and click the Classes and support Groups tab.
Free vein screening at
Advanced Medical Imaging in Emerson
Advanced Medical Imaging (AMI) of
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
will offer free vein screenings on Novem-
ber 5, 7, and 11 to men and women with
visible, abnormal leg veins such as bulg-
ing varicose veins or spider veins. Those
who experience leg pain or have a history
of blood clots are encouraged to attend.
Patients should know the early warning
signs for vein disease to help prevent
potential complications. Symptoms
include aching, throbbing, or swelling
in the legs, ankles or feet. The screening
will be held at AMI of Englewood Hospital
and Medical Center in Emerson and
includes a physical examination and a
thorough review of medical history. If
further evaluation is needed, a follow-up
appointment for non-invasive testing can
be scheduled.
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Teaneck shul seminars for retirees
The Orthodox Union, in collaboration with
STAJE (a communal organization seeking to
help make the retirementage years mean-
ingful for American Jews) and Congrega-
tion Bnai Yeshurun of Teaneck, announces
The SAGE (Seniors Actively Growing and
Exploring) Initiative, a fourweek series
featuring leading rabbinic, communal and
mental health professionals, focused on
enhancing the educational opportunities
of the Jewish community.
The program will be held on Mon-
day afternoons October 21, November
4, November 18, and December 2 at Bnai
Yeshurun.
The OU is proud to sponsor the SAGE
series in Bergen County, said Rabbi
Judah Isaacs, director of the OU Depart-
ment of Community Engagement. The
OU recognizes that many people are
retiring, and looking for active ways to
nourish their souls. The goal of the pro-
gram is to acquaint active retirees with
opportunities for spiritual growth in their
community.
Explained Yosef Segal, STAJE educational
director, STAJE is an organization that is
committed to fostering a culture that views
this second phase of adult life as a highly
meaningful opportunity and mandate for
personal and religious growth. Therefore
we are very excited to partner with the
OU on this innovative lecture series. We
hope this lecture series will help bring an
awareness to the tremendous potential for
growth that this phase in life offers.
Topics and
speakers include:
Week 1: Monday, October 21
The Secrets to a Long Life Rabbi
Steven Pruzansky spiritual leader of
Congrega tion Bnai Yeshurun
Grandparenting: Get it Right and Every-
body Wins Alex Bailey, Psy.D. licensed
clinical psychologist currently practicing in
Northern New Jersey who specializes in the
field of communication and relationships,
focusing on couples, parents and children,
and families and schools.
Week 2: Monday, November 4
Do Supplements Really Do a Body
Good? A Review of Some Vitamins, Min-
erals and Essential Nutrients Devora
Wechter, MS RD CDN registered dietitian
The Role of Thinking for the Observant
Jew Rabbi Menahem Meier Founding
Principal of both the Frisch School in Para-
mus and the Long Island Hebrew Academy
in Great Neck, NY
Week 3: Monday, November 18
BoomersPlanning for Retirement and
Later Life: Estate and Financial Planning
Martin M. Shenkman, P.C. attorney in pri-
vate practice in Paramus, New Jersey, and
New York City concen trating on estate and
tax planning, and planning for closely held
businesses and estate administration
Chanuka: Recognizing the Miracles
Around Us Rabbi Benjamin Yudin spir-
itual leader of Congregation Shomrei Torah
in Fair Lawn
Week 4: Monday, December 2
How to Strengthen Your Empathic Lis-
tening & Communication Skills: An Empa-
thy Labyrinth Workshop Marc Weiner
comedian, puppeteer, television producer
and advocate for listening and communica-
tion who uses comedy and a unique Empa-
thy Labyrinth to get his message across
The Biblical and Historical Background
of the Jewish Holy Days Reuben Ebra-
himoff well known to many who hear
him introduce the Haftorah in synagogues;
watch him on OU.org, or visit his website
Hatorahman.com.
Registration is suggested at www.
oucommunity.org or by calling (212)
613.8300. Walkins are welcome. Each
session will begin at noon with registra-
tion and lunch, followed by the program
from 12:302:30 p.m.
There is a participation fee of $20 for
all four sessions or $10 per workshop.
For further information, visit www.
oucommuity.org.
General Store celebrates poetry
Thursdays are for Poetry, a program at
the Teaneck General Store hosted by Alice
Twombly, presents readings by a featured
poet followed by a question and answer
period. Collections of the authors poems
will be for sale.
Time permitting, members of the
audience will have an open mike to read up
to two of their own poems. There will be
time for the audience and poets to mingle.
The sessions are on the third Thursday of
each month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. The Teaneck
General Store is at 502a Cedar Lane. Call
(201) 530-5046.
these groups find each other because, as
Guttman says, we can blossom at any
age. The Expo aims to inspire people
to reignite an old passion or find a new
one, whether by studying an instrument,
making art, acting, writing, or dancing.
The Arts for Life Expo/ is sponsored
by bergenPAC, the Northern New Jersey
Community Foundation and New Jersey
State Council on the Arts grant funds
administered by the Bergen County Divi-
sion of Cultural and Historic Affairs. For
more information and to register, call
Arlene Grunfeld at 201-816-8160, ext.
35 or agrunfeld@bergenpac.org. More
Details at www.Artsforlifenj.com
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General Store celebrates poetry
audience will have an open mike to read up
to two of their own poems. There will be
time for the audience and poets to mingle.
The sessions are on the third Thursday of
each month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. The Teaneck
General Store is at 502a Cedar Lane. Call
(201) 530-5046.
by bergenPAC, the Northern New Jersey
Community Foundation and New Jersey
State Council on the Arts grant funds
administered by the Bergen County Divi-
sion of Cultural and Historic Affairs. For
more information and to register, call
Arlene Grunfeld at 201-816-8160, ext.
35 or agrunfeld@bergenpac.org. More
Details at www.Artsforlifenj.com
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