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LETTERS
The Yiddish title of the play is Vartn af Godot.
In the review, the Yiddish title is incorrectly
rendered as Varten far Godot, which actually
means Waiting in front of Godot clearly not
the intended translation.
GITL SCHAECHTER-VISWANATH, TEANECK
Mitzvah Day is coming!
Join more than 1,000 Mitzvah
Day volunteers on Sunday, Novem-
ber 3, for a community-wide day
dedicated to helping others.
This year, Mitzvah Days theme is
Building Bridges in Our Commu-
nity. As always, it is sponsored by
the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey and coordinated by
the federations Jewish Community
Relations Council. Sari Gross and
Laurie Ann Weinstein are the days
co-chairs.
This years crystal sponsor is
Northern Valley Affairs at Temple
Emanu-El of Closter. Silver spon-
sors include Century 21 Associ-
ates Foundation, Holy Name
Medical Center, and Maadan. The
Jewish Standard, many local syn-
agogues, businesses, and families
also are sponsors; the list still is in
formation.
For information, call Alice Blass
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FLASHBACK 1924
We are regularly amused by the way the Jewish community boasts a surfeit of
leaders and leadership development programs, while complaining of a short-
age of followers, a trend exemplified by the very existence of The Conference of
Presidents of Major [sic] American Jewish Organizations. Thats why this story
from the Soviet Union 89 years ago caught our attention....
Conference of Jewish peasants
called in Russia
Moscow (Oct. 21, 1924) The first
conference of Jewish peasants, the
growing Jewish class resulting from
the social upheaval in Soviet Russia,
will be held in Minsk during Novem-
ber. The Conference will discuss the
immediate problems facing the Jew-
ish settlers in their newly created
settlements.
Greatest of all are the problems of
housing and securing live stock.
Many Jewish settlers who were
compelled to leave their homes in
the cities for land granted to them,
suffer greatly from lack of housing
accommodations. In many of the new
settlements several families are liv-
ing together. The process of building
new houses is slow; although wood is
plentiful in the region, transportation
is difficult.
The situation is acute, in view of the
approaching winter.
While the Committee for Settling
Jews on the Land and the various
government institutions have pro-
vided the seed, to be repaid later, the
settlers are greatly handicapped by
lack of modern implements.
The Conference will also take up
the question of safety of the settlers,
owing to the opposition of the neigh-
boring Russian peasants.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Candlelighting: Friday, October 25, 5:44 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, October 25, 6:42 p.m.
Pope emails response to Shoah sermon
Pope Francis emailed
Menachem Rosensaft, an
American law professor
who deals with Holocaust
and genocide issues, with
a reflection on the place of
God during the Shoah.
Rosensaft had sent
the Vatican the text of a
sermon he delivered at
New Yorks Park Avenue
Synagogue on the topic
during the High Holidays, Elizabeth Te-
nety wrote in the Washington Posts On
Faith blog.
Rosensaft, the son of Holocaust sur-
vivor parents, is vice president of the
American Gathering of Jewish Holo-
caust Survivors and Their Descendants.
How, we ask ourselves, can we
believe in God in the aftermath of the
Shoah? Rosensaft asked in his sermon..
Shouldnt an omniscient God have had
to know that the cataclysm was being
perpetrated? And shouldnt an omnipo-
tent God have been able to prevent it?
Rosensaft concluded that God was
present during the Holocaust. God, he
said, was alongside and within the
victims, those who perished and those
who survived?
God was alongside and
within those inmates of
the death and concentra-
tion camps who saved or
helped others, he said,
including Janusz Korczak,
who accompanied the chil-
dren of his orphanage to
their deaths and his at
Treblinka, and Rosensafts
mother, Hadassah Rosen-
saft, who, as part of a group
inmates, kept 149 Jewish children alive
at Bergen-Belsen.
According to the Post, the pope re-
plied, When you, with humility, are tell-
ing us where God was in that moment,
I felt within me that you had transcend-
ed all possible explanations and that,
after a long pilgrimage sometimes
sad, tedious or dull you came to dis-
cover a certain logic and it is from there
that you were speaking to us; the logic
of First Kings 19:12, the logic of that
gentle breeze (I know that it is a very
poor translation of the rich Hebrew
expression) that constitutes the only
possible hermeneutic interpretation.
Thank you from my heart. And, please,
do not forget to pray for me. May the
Lord bless you. JTA WIRE SERVICE
A moving story
Whole lotta shakin goin on.
Thats how Jerry Lee Lewis
might have described the geologic
situation in northern Israel this week,
after the fifth minor earthquake struck
on Tuesday.
Tuesday mornings temblor, which
measured 3.3 on the Richter scale and
was centered just northwest of the Sea
of Galilee, was felt from Tiberias up to
the Golan Heights.
A day earlier two earthquakes struck,
coincidentally on the same day that
that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu ordered earthquake drills in
schools.
All five of the quakes have been cen-
tered near the Sea of Galilee. It sits on
the Great Syria-African Rift, which has
been the center of several earthquakes,
large and small.
On Monday, Netanyahu also said in-
structions on earthquake preparedness
should be updated and publicized for
all citizens. His instructions followed a
discussion with government ministers
on national preparedness in the event
of a major earthquake.
It is unclear what the string of tem-
blors means for future earthquakes.
Hundreds of people died and many
more were injured in a 1927 6.2 magni-
tude earthquake that centered on the
Dead Sea. JTA WIRE SERVICE
Sea of Galilee
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River Edge woman recalls heady days as Abba Ebans U.N. secretary
JOANNE PALMER
Jean Weiss of River Edge doesnt know
exactly when she became a Zionist.
The most likely answer, she thinks, is
that she was born that way.
Weiss, 88, put that lifelong passion to
good effect in 1948, when, as Abba Ebans
secretary, she typed out his speeches
and press releases, and pulled David Ben
Gurions declaration of statehood off the
tickertape machine, to resend it to the
world.
Weiss, then Jean Reich, was born in
Brooklyn in 1926; her father had deserted
his small family, and she and her sister
grew up without much money. My
mother used to light candles on Friday
night, and she belonged to Hadassah, but
we did not belong to a shul, she said. We
used to go to a shul on Eastern Parkway
Im not sure why but it was called
Murphys Shul. (It also was known as
Chovevei Torah, and the building itself, it
turns out, was owned by a Mr. Murphy).
We used to go for the holidays, but we
couldnt pay dues, so we would go and sit
outside in front of the shul. A lot of people
did that then.
When she was about 12, Weiss said, she
had her irst taste of organized Zionism. A
friend took me to a meeting of a Zionist
organization, she said. I didnt know
what that was, but I went, and I liked it.
I think it was part of my neshama, she
added; she thinks that Zionism was deeply
embedded in her soul.
When she was about 14, in about 1940,
the group gave her a pushke and asked her
to collect money for the Jewish homeland.
Using her own initiative no one ever told
me to do this, but I knew that I couldnt go
door to door in my own neighborhood
she decided to go underground. I used to
make a little speech in the subway, asking
people to please help establish a Jewish
homeland in Palestine, she said. I went
from car to car, collecting. I would go to
the garment district at about 4:30, when
the workers got out from work.
I used to get a nickel, a dime, a quarter,
and I would bring it back.
I never did know if my mother knew
what I was doing.
When she was 16, Weiss graduated from
Girls Commercial High School in Prospect
Heights, Brooklyn, with a degree in
costume design. She did well; she got a job
at Peck and Peck, an elegant womens wear
company, and then for a bridal shop, where
she would design and set up bridal parties.
These jobs all were in Manhattan, and she
still lived at home in Brooklyn. My mother
was not happy that I was working until 9 or
10 oclock at night, and coming home alone
on the subway, Weiss said. So I looked for
another job. I was crossing 14th Street when
I was sideswiped by a car.
She did not seem to be injured, but the
next day she couldnt walk. The doctor
said it was shock. I spent the next three
months at home, teaching myself to
walk again.
That gave me a lot of time to think
about what I wanted to do with my
life. I was about 20 years old, and I
decided that there was something
more important in the world than
costume design.
I decided that when I could go
back to work, I would ind a job with
a Jewish organization.
That job was at the American Jewish
Conference, the umbrella group to which
most American Zionist organizations
belonged back then. (Bnai Brith, the
American Jewish Committee, the American
Jewish Congress there were a million of
them, Weiss recalled.) From there, she
moved over to one of its constituent groups,
the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The staff
was mainly young people, idealists; We
hardly ever got paid, and we worked all
kinds of hours, but we all were dedicated
to the idea of a Jewish state.
Weiss was working at the Jewish
Agencys ofice at 1 East 66th St. in
Manhattan when a South African arrived
to plead the case for a Jewish homeland
before the United Nations.
His name was Aubrey Solomon Eban.
She became his secretary. Im not sure
why I got that job, Weiss said, laughing at
the memory. I think it might have been
because I was the only one who knew
stenography.
Not-yet Abba Eban (he assumed that
Hebraicized irst name later) was perfect
for the job, Weiss said. I never knew
who chose him, but whoever it was, was
a genius.
(Eban was a liaison oficer to the United
Nations Special Committee on Palestine,
I told people that
whatever you
hear about Israel,
whatever ideas
you have about it
from reading
books throw
them away.
JEAN WEISS
Despite her lifelong Zionism, Jean Weisss first trip to Israel was in 2007.
Here, she stands at the Kotel; in the plaza, her son, Jeff, stands behind her.

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22 Kislev 5774
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and played a major role in winning the
committees approval for Resolution 181,
which the General Assembly narrowly
passed on November 29, 1947.)
He was articulate, and he carried
hi msel f wi t h a demeanor t hat
commanded respect, even though at the
time the Arabs didnt respect us at all. He
was unflappable.
He had a British accent, and when he
spoke youd think pearls were coming
out of his mouth.
He wasnt a handsome man, she
said, but that was entirely irrelevant.
He had charisma. If it wasnt for his
speeches, I dont know if we would have
had a state. He was just brilliant.
The Jewish Agency staff had to be
ready whenever the U.N. needed them.
The U.N. would call us on, say, 5 oclock
on a Monday, to be ready at 9 the next
morning to present our case.
If you have an ofice staff that leaves
at 5, there is no way that you can be
ready at 9 the next morning, so we
used to stay all night. The ofice was in a
brownstone, and we adapted it.
There was one room that I can see in
my minds eye. Thats where we worked;
it was away from everyone else, and he
could dictate.
There was no computer it was
way before computers and no copy
machine, just a purple ditto machine.
We would work all night, and then wed
inish around 4 in the morning, and stay
in a small hotel for around four hours
and be back at 9.
She worked on press releases. Eban
would dictate them, and Id type them
for immediate release. Then we would
go out to the U.N. which then met
in Lake Success, just over the Queens
border in Long Islands Nassau County
and distribute them to journalists.
Weiss chucked. I would give the
same press release to all the reporters
the Daily News and the Post and the
Times and the Journal American and the
Herald Tribute and theyd all report it
differently.
The Herald Tribune gave us the best
coverage. The Times was not pro-Israel.
And then, in May 1948, the telegraph
that came off the machine said that
David Ben-Gurion had declared Israel
to be a state. I took it off the tickertape
and brought it out to be announced to
the world.
I sent it out as a press release.
It felt like the fulillment of a dream,
she said. I never thought it would
happen in my lifetime. I thought that
we were just a bunch of crazy kids. You
think youre going to have a Jewish state?
What are you, out of your mind? But we
didnt care. We just kept going.
Eventually, long after the state was
declared, Weiss left the Jewish Agency
to get married, and moved to Wilkes-
Barre, Pa., for a short time. In 1952 the
Weisses moved to Maywood, and the
next year, with two children, to River
Edge. Weiss has lived in the same house
since 1953, and is a member of the
Jewish Community Center of Paramus /
Congregation Beth Tikvah.
In 2007, Jean Weiss and her son,
Jeff Weiss, joined a Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey trip to Israel.
It was her irst trip there. I was in
Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, Jean
Weiss said. It was from Independence
Hall that Ben Gurion sent the declaration.
I cried the whole time, and I told
people that whatever you hear about
Israel, whatever ideas you have about it
from reading books throw them away.
There is no way to describe it. This is
a special place.
Jean Reich
graduated from
Girls Commercial
High School and
later worked for the
Jewish Agency for
Palestine.
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Security is a serious business.
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buying security services?
Now, the Jewish Federa-
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has an answer.
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group purchasing rates for its
93 member organizations.
So far, theres very good
feedback, said David Mat-
thew, community purchas-
ing manager for the Kehillah
Cooperative. Working with security consultant Joshua
Gleis, Matthew came up with a menu of items for eight
major security categories and negotiated with a
dozen vendors to find which provided the best price
for each item.
Categories on the menu include operational train-
ing services, security guard services, blastproof film for
windows, security cameras and alarms, fencing, dif-
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the detailed listing allows organizations to compare the
price and performance trade-offs of 4 millimeter blast-
proof film versus 12 millimeter, or parttime armed secu-
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This will help the eight synagogues that recently
received federal homeland security grants get the most
for their money.
For synagogues that havent started yet thinking
about security, Were going to provide a free service, a
free minirisk assessment, Matthew said.
And for all participating organizations, a spreadsheet
Matthew prepared showing a variety of different options
will enable groups to start discussing the possibilities of
upgrading their security with real price tags attached.
Using the principle of group purchasing, Matthew was
able to get special prices from manufacturers who dont
usually deal directly with purchasers.
On Wednesday, Matthew will host a presentation at
the federation for Kehillah member organizations, with
all the vendors describing their products.
Meanwhile, the Kehillah Partnership continues
with the group purchasing opportunities it already
has offered, allowing its members to save money on
such staples as office and cleaning supplies. Mat-
thew noted the importance of the savings it has
brought through contracts for electricity.
For most of these organizations, theres just not
enough staff to stay on top of things. Ive seen that
as soon as the contract ends on the electricity deals,
the provider will skyrocket the rates before the customer
even knows, he said.
All told, the Kehillah Partnership has saved just short of $2
million for the northern New Jersey Jewish community since
it launched in early 2010.
Before coming to the Kehillah Partnership, Matthew was
an entrepreneur. He owned three different businesses. Hes
pleased to be using his experience in sales and negotiating on
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It isnt just negotiating with the vendors, he said. Theres
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Second time a charm
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new building in Fort Lee
Joanne Palmer
S
ometimes you just have to go
back and start all over again.
For about three decades,
Young Israel of Fort Lee made its
communal home in a building that was
not quite good enough.
Three years ago, that building was
demolished and a new one was erected
with much more care and attention
in its place.
On Sunday, the new building was dedi-
cated; guests at the celebration included
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Congregation
Ahavath Torah of Englewood, who is the
immediate past president of the Ortho-
dox Rabbinical Council of America,
Rabbi Benjamin Yudin of Congregation
Shomrei Torah in Fair Lawn, and Fort
Lees mayor, Mark Sokolich, as well as the
shuls own Rabbi Neil Winkler.
It is not unfair criticism but accepted
fact that the original building was a prob-
lem. It was in imminent danger of col-
lapse, longtime shul member Albert Nis-
sim said.
The roof beams were collapsing, and
we had to vacate it, Nissim, a longtime
shul member, continued. It just wasnt
built properly. When we demolished it,
we looked at the plans, and we saw that
whoever had built it had left out some
parts to save money.
Until then, the congregation had
dreamed about a new building, but that
had been a want. Now it was a need, Nis-
sim said.
The new building is 6,000 square feet,
and includes a sanctuary, a social hall, a
beit midrash, and offices. We removed
the entire building, down to the bed-
rock, its architect, Garron Macklin of
Aquarian Designs of Teaneck, said.
We had to go through extensive zon-
ing review with the borough, Macklin
said. We kept an open dialogue with
Fort Lee; when the mayor spoke, he
talked about what an open relationship
the synagogue had with town officials.
Everyone helped this project along to
help it get completed.
Goldin said the synagogue was beau-
tiful, but not ostentatious. It reflects the
warmth and the beauty of the commu-
nity that has been created over these
decades under Rabbi Neil and Andrea
Winklers wonderful leadership.
It is a place that brings holiness into
the world. Everyone can come and
join together in a community, Macklin
concurred.
The main sanctuary has a large cathedral
ceiling that raises 25 feet, the architect said,
and the floor there slopes downward from
the top toward the area where the chazan
leads services. The concept comes from
Psalm 130: From the depths I have cried
out to you, O Lord; traditionally, Macklin
said, sanctuaries have been constructed to
place cantors in relatively low points for that
reason. That configuration also helps with
sight lines, and it can make the bimah easily
accessible to people with handicaps.
Two synagogue members were at the con-
struction site every day Nissim and Israel
Frumer. That, Nissim said, was in direct reac-
tion to the problems with the old building.
The congregation has
high hopes for its new
home, which was planned
with the wild storms the
area experiences in mind.
Its a very solid build-
ing, Nissim said. Its got a
half-basement we dug as far as we could
into the bedrock a solid concrete founda-
tion all the way through, and a steel frame.
There is a lot of Jerusalem stone, and the
building is all brick and stone.
It was designed with many uses in mind;
it includes a built-in movie screen and a
complete sound system. It has an ingenious
lighting system with LED bulbs at custom-
ized angles along the sloping ceiling; it will
be very hard to change those bulbs, he said,
but they should last for 20 years, and by
then technology and, to be realistic, shul
membership will have changed. Its fully
sprinklered, Nissim continued, and has a
state-of-the-art communications system
and cameras all around. In fact, the police
were talking to us the other day, he said.
There was a robbery on Parker Avenue
the shuls street and they wanted to see if
the camera had caught anything.
It did!
Nissim added that shul leaders hope
the new building will attract new mem-
bers; his hope is nourished as well by
the huge towers going up just south of
the George Washington Bridge and north
of the shul, adding even more people
to the densely populated borough. The
shul is surrounded by high-rises; most of
the residents are retirees, so the commu-
nity has few children. We have minyans
twice a day, he said. Its a place where
people can come to say kaddish on their
way to or from the bridge on their way
to work.
Young Israel of Fort
Lees new building, its
sancturary, and, from
left, Rabbi Neil Winkler
with board members
Albert Nissim, Israel
Frumer, and Gerald
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November 10 marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken
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pogrom against Jews. Windows of Jewish-owned stores and buildings were
shattered by paramilitary forces, and over 1,000 Synagogues were burned.
91 people were murdered, and over 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration
camps, in an event that would later mark the beginning of the Holocaust.
Temple Avodat Shalom has invited Dr. Joseph
Toltz (Research Associate and Lecturer,
Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney)
to the community. Dr. Toltz and Cantor Ronit
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and arrangements of songs written by inmates
and survivors of camps and ghettos, from as early
as 1933 to the end of the war. Featuring Yiddish
and art music for children, adult choirs, solo violin
and ute and voice, some of the works presented have never been heard since that
time, and were recently discovered in a small song book printed in Bucharest in June
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Reconnecting after
the Holocaust
Bergen Players to offer A Shayna Maidel
Lois GoLdrich
W
hen people ask Carol
Fisher of Teaneck about
the play A Shayna
Maidel, she tells them
that its very touching a sweet show.
Its very powerful, but there is laugh-
ter, said Fisher, who is directing the
show for the Bergen Players in Oradell.
Its not Schinders List or Sophies
Choice. Its moving and touching and
sweet, and there are all kinds of tears
tears of joy, of sadness, and of shock.
The play tells the story of a Polish
family split in half for more a decade.
Rose Weiss emigrated to America as a
young girl with her father, Mordechai.
Her older sister, Lusia, ill with scarlet
fever, stayed behind in Poland with her
mother, expecting to follow later.
The play opens in 1946 as Rose, now
a young woman living in Manhattan,
learns that Lusia survived the concen-
tration camps, although her mother
did not. Lusia is on her way to New
York. After being separated for more
than 15 years, the two sisters struggle to
reconnect.
Its really about two sisters learning
about each other, Fisher said. The one
who was brought here is trying to make
peace with being a survivor and also
letting her mother go.
Fisher, who during the day is a nurse
at Mount Sinai Hospital who deals with
such rare genetic disorders as Gauchers
disease, is the first to admit that while
she pitched the show to the board mem-
bers of the Oradell theater, she was sur-
prised by how quickly they embraced
the idea.
She said the board made its decision
in two days.
I didnt have to sell them on it, she
said. I was pleased, and shocked, and
overjoyed. I knew it had appeared Off-
Broadway, though I didnt see it. Some-
one told me I had to read it. I did, and I
knew I had to do it.
She also realized that she had seen an
adaptation of the play on television.
It was called Miss Rose White, she
said. It was a nice show but not true to
what [playwright] Barbara Lebow had
written. She was not happy with it.
While the story takes place after the
Holocaust, Fisher wanted cast members,
ranging in age from 21 to 69, to under-
stand what the characters had lived
through during the Shoah.
We talked a lot about the Holocaust
how it happened, what the people went
through, survivors guilt, she said. We
painted a picture of what it was like, what
the chaos would look like. We had to paint
What: a shayna Maidel, a play by Barbara Lebow
When: October 26 through november 16
Where: the Little Firehouse theatre, 298 Kinderkamack road, Oradell.
how: You can buy tickets online at www.bcplayers.org, by calling (201) 261-
4200, or by going to the box office at the theater.
Frank Osmers, Shiva Kiani, Mara Karg, Lauren Muraski, Felipe Valente, and
Emily Bosco appear in the Bergen Players production of A Shayna Maidel.
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a picture of that nightmare, to be as specific as possible.
At least one cast member, a non-Jew, had a particu-
larly difficult time coming to terms with the horrors
the director described.
It was rough on her, Fisher said, noting that
another cast member, who is Armenian, had an
immediate understanding of the situation, because
throughout her life she had heard about the geno-
cide perpetrated on her own people.
Fishers college major had been theater, and
she spent years working with professional theater
companies in the New York region, but she put her
career on hold while she raised children. When she
decided to re-enter the workforce, she chose nurs-
ing, attending school at night for 3 1/2 years.
But I did it, she said. All that science and
chemistry.
As her children, now 14 and 23, got older, she also
decided to return to theater work. This play, she
said, is particularly poignant, hitting home when
she thinks of her husbands parents, Getzle (Gilbert)
and Fannie Gertner, who came to the United States
after surviving the Holocaust. She has dedicated the
play to them.
Both of her in-laws fled to Russia when the Nazis
invaded Poland.
They met in a factory, she said. He supported
them by making clothes, mending, doing things for
the Russian soldiers, and selling anything left over
on the black market.
Her mother-in-law did the actual selling. That way,
if she was arrested which she was, several times
her husband could bribe the guards to release her.
He, on the other hand, would have been sent to the
Russian front. After the war, the couple refused to
return to Poland, ultimately finding a relative in Bal-
timore who would sponsor their emigration to the
United States.
In America, Fisher said, they lived frugally, buy-
ing things on clearance and making them fit. My
mother-in-law even made her own cottage cheese.
Raising three children a fourth died they were
content, never complaining.
Knowing their story really hit me, she continued.
While they werent in the camps, they lost every-
body. My husband had no grandparents and only one
cousin, while I grew up with a million cousins.
Fisher thinks that the play will be well received.
I think people still have an interest and are moved
by these things, she said. Why do people go to see
sad shows? Something about these shows punches
you, stretches you as a human being, emotionally
and mentally.
We find it cathartic.
Why do people go
to see sad shows?
Something about
these shows punches
you, stretches you
as a human being,
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Rutgers Hillel seeks
penalties for protest
Debra rubin
T
he executive director of Rut-
gers Hillel is dissatisfied with
the universitys response to an
anti-Israel protest by a pro-Pal-
estinian group.
Andrew Getraer said the universitys
warning to the students involved in the
protest seemed to downplay the serious-
ness of the incident, which caused some
students to feel harassed.
The incident occurred on October 6,
when members of Students for Justice in
Palestine slipped mock
eviction notices under
the doors of students in
university housing on the
Rutgers New Brunswick
campus. The notices were
meant to call attention to
the demolition of Pales-
tinian homes in the west
bank, East Jerusalem, and
Gaza by Israeli security.
Hillel asserts that the fli-
ers were a blatant viola-
tion of the universitys code
of conduct regarding solicitation on cam-
pus, which prohibits the posting of adver-
tisements, announcements, and signs to
the walls of Student Centers, doors, win-
dows, stairwells, or hallways, including
residence halls.
In a statement, Hillel said the fliers made
students feel unsafe in their homes and
their distribution was part of an overall
strategy by SJP to propagate half-truths,
misstatements, and historical inaccuracies
to push its political agenda.
SJP knew the rules and purposely broke
the rules and then purposely publicized
they broke the rules by posting it on their
website and sending it to the Rutgers cam-
pus newspaper, the Daily Targum, Getraer
said. Its not as if some student group was
holding an event and forgot to ask the dorm
adviser before putting notices under the
door.
Treating this like a student group
that made a mistake is a mistake by the
university.
In a letter to the Targum, junior Aviv
Alter wrote, These fraudulent solicita-
tions were used to frighten and intimidate
students with the intention of invoking
sympathy based on false and deliberately
deceptive information.
In an emailed response, Rutgers spokes-
man E.J. Miranda said the university com-
pleted its investigation of the incident and
issued a warning to the students involved.
The organization has been issued a formal
warning from Student Life, educated about
the posting policy, and informed that any
further violations of this policy will result
in additional consequences, Miranda said.
Miranda said the fliers were distributed
randomly. He said the student who lodged
a complaint about the protest Jake Bin-
stein, Hillel Israel advocacy co-chair had
been informed of the results of the inquiry,
and the Residence Life committee has
advised students of the resources available
to them if they feel stressed or unsafe in
their residences.
Posting on her Facebook page and the
page of the Muslim Student Association
at Rutgers, student Amanda Najib wrote
that she and six other board members of
SJP distributed 850 of the mock eviction
notices across the campus,
hitting every apartment
building, dormitory, and
residence hall we could
gain access to.
Though SJP New Bruns-
wick will wake up in the
morning with no doubt
major repercussions the
Rutgers community will
receive a lesson on the
plight of the Palestinian
people who have been
systematically and illegally
pushed out of their homes, she wrote.
A request for comment posted on her
page was not returned.
In a statement, Hillel called the fliers a a
publicity stunt and said the notices were
so real-looking, in fact, that many students
were, at first, led to believe they were being
evicted from their place of residence.
Binstein said Hillel initially did not make
an issue of the matter because it didnt
want to give publicity to an October 10 SJP
event celebrating the existence and resil-
ience of Palestine, which was promoted in
the flier.
The event received funding from the Rut-
gers University Student Assembly, which
Binstein said was not an issue. However, it
would be a violation of university rules to
use RUSA funds to print the fliers, he said.
Binstein said it appeared the university did
not investigate this matter, nor allegations
of the deliberate targeting of Jews.
While he acknowledged it was unclear
at this time whether Jewish students were
targeted by SJP, he said it appeared that
a significant number of Jewish students
received fliers and he knew of at least one
instance where a particular student was
both the only Jew on the dormitory floor
and the only person on the floor to receive
the flier.
According to the Hillel website, there are
approximately 6,000 Jewish undergradu-
ates and more than 1,000 Jewish graduate
students at Rutgers.
This story originally ran in the New Jersey
Jewish News. Debra Rubin is that papers
Middlesex bureau chief.
Andrew Getraer
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Federation taps
Jersey boy to head
Israel center
Larry yudeLson
L
iran Kapoano has no plans to
leave New Jersey.
That sets him apart from
his predecessors at the helm
of the Center for Israel Engagement of
the Jewish Federation of Northern New
Jersey, who came to American as emis-
saries of the Jewish Agency for Israel on
two- or three-year missions.
Not that Kapoano is a stranger to
Israel.
His parents are Israelis; they raised
their son in Edison but spoke Hebrew to
him at home and took him to Israel for
summers.
I really grew up with one foot in New
Jersey and one foot in Tel Aviv, he said.
To this day, if I start speaking to my
mother in English, shell stop me and
force me to start my sentence again in
Hebrew.
Kapoano, 31, went to Jewish day
schools, and then started college at Rut-
gers. But at the same time he got a job
selling cell phones. He was promoted
and dropped out of school, ultimately
overseeing a call center of 250 people
and supervising multiple departments.
In 2010 he returned to Rutgers, finishing
his major in political science and history.
He also became engaged in pro-Israel
activism, fighting back against the Boy-
cott, Divestment, and Sanctions move-
ment. He formed a group called Scarlet,
Blue and White: The Rutgers Pro-Israel
Alliance.
Its a good background for overseeing
a portfolio of pro-Israel programs, which
include Israel advocacy programs for
high school students, created to prepare
them for what they will find on college
campuses.
Kopoano also will oversee the federa-
tions sister city programs with Nahariya,
the northern Israeli town that he first
visited 10 years ago when his cousin got
married nearby and he stayed there for
a few days.
I fell in love with the city then, Kopo-
ano said. Its a very quiet seaside town.
I prefer the beach there to Tel
Avivs any day of the week. I was really
reminded of the Jersey shore.
One practical distinction for the fed-
eration beyond Kopoanos status as
a permanent rather than temporary
employee is that he has been hired
directly by the federation, rather than
by the Jewish Agency for Israel, which
sends its emissaries, called shlichim, to
Jewish communities around the world.
The notion of shlichim goes back to
the earliest days of the Zionist move-
ment, when emissaries from Palestine
provided diaspora Jews with flesh-and-
blood exemplars of the exotic Hebrew-
speaking pioneer Jews.
Two hundred and fifty shlichim now
serve in North America for the Jew-
ish Agency, according to Ariella Feld-
man, the agencys director of shlichut
initiatives.
We understand and agree that com-
munities need to make the decisions
that are appropriate for them, she said
about the North Jersey federations deci-
sion not to bring in a community shliach
to run the Israels programs.
Were glad there continue to be
shlichim in the community, she said,
referring to the two post-army emissar-
ies running Israel programs at the Wayne
Y and the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly.
(In addition, some area Jewish day
schools have Israelis who do their
national service as shlichim; these bnot
sherut are partially funded by the Jewish
Agency, but organized and overseen by
the Bnai Akiva youth movement.)
We do believe a shaliach brings
something that no one else can bring,
Feldman said. They have an immedi-
ate connection to Israel, a current con-
nection. The shaliach that is in your
Liran Kapoano on one of his many visits to Israel
community today was yesterday in Modiin
or Jerusalem.
For the shaliach, Feldman said, the expe-
rience in the Diaspora often is educational.
For the federation, not having to be part of
that education is a plus.
Kapoano sees a lot of potential for growth
in the federations Israel activities.
There is a substantial Israeli community
in the area that can be engaged with, he
said. There is also a substantial American
community thats very pro Israel, that can
be further engaged beyond what we have
already done in the past.
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retreat for lone soldiers
Nearly 2,500 Israeli lone soldiers
men and women who serve in the IDF
and have no immediate family in Israel
attended a Friends of the IDF retreat
arranged by three former IDF lone sol-
diers, Sammy Bar-Or, formerly of Saddle
River, Avi Oren of Short Hills, and Mike
Gross, who is from London but served
in the IDF with Bar-Or and Oren. The
retreat included sports, water activities,
beach games, massages, food, entertain-
ment, and relaxation. Israeli singers Kobi
Aflalo and Einat Sarouf and radio-show
host Didi Harari joined the soldiers.
The FIDF Lone Soldier Program assists
soldiers who have left their country of
origin to join the IDF and serve the State
of Israel. FIDF supports lone soldiers
financially, socially, and emotionally dur-
ing their military service.
OU Jewish medical ethics conference
The Orthodox Unions Department of
Community Engagement and the Puah
Institute will hold their second annual
conference on Jewish medical ethics at the
Fifth Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan on
Sunday, November 3, from 9:15 a.m. to 3
p.m. This years conference will focus on
Building Healthy Families: Fertility, Medi-
cine, and Halacha.
Lectures, workshops, and roundtable
discussions led by rabbinic and medical
experts will include such topics as BRCA:
Ethics and Genetic Testing; Fertility Pres-
ervation: Hope For the Future; and Physi-
cians and Rabbis: Working Together and
Helping Couples Build Families. Special
sessions for mental health professionals,
marital education teachers, and religious
advisers on Jewish family purity will be
featured as well.
In addition to the annual conference, the
OUs Department of Community engage-
ment creates initiatives with the mission
of strengthening and invigorating Jew-
ish family life through various programs
and workshops on positive parenting,
fortifying healthy marriages, caregiving
for ailing and elderly family members,
and providing educational opportunities
for seniors. In last years successful inau-
gural OU-Puah conference, more than 200
rabbis, medical and mental health profes-
sionals, marriage educators, and the gen-
eral public participated in discussions on
the topic of intimacy.
Named after the biblical heroine in Exo-
dus who served as a midwife to the Jews
in spite of Pharaohs decree prohibiting
Jewish births in Egypt, the Brooklyn- and
Jerusalem-based Puah Institute provides
free counseling, referrals, and support to
everyone seeking professional help. Pro-
fessional Puah supervisors, under the
guidance of Rabbi Menachem Burstein,
certify the genetic integrity of fertility
treatments worldwide.
For information on free registration,
call (212) 613-8300 or go to the OU Depart-
ment of Community Engagements web-
site, www.oucommunity.org. Registration
is requested; breakfast and lunch will be
included.
Interfaith relationships and marriage
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake offers Keruv, a program
initially developed by the Federation of
Jewish Mens Clubs, to help couples, par-
ents, extended families, and synagogues
deal with issues touching on interfaith
relationships and marriage.
Rabbi Leana Moritt will lead the
Keeping in Touch series, which will
offer discussions in members homes.
Moritt is the founder of Thresholds:
For the Jewishly Curious, a Jewish life
education and interfaith resource con-
sultancy in Bergen County. The pro-
gram begins at the Woodcliff Lake shul
on Sunday, October 27, at 10 a.m., with
What does successful Jewish engage-
ment look like in an intermarried
family?
Keruv is for everyone involved in an
interfaith relationship the couple and
the immediate families, both Jewish and
non-Jewish. For information, call (201)
391-0801.
Soldiers at the October retreat in Dor Beach in the North of Israel. Einav Rimon
Sammy Bar-Or and Mike Gross
Bris Avrohom dinner
and wedding ceremony
On Sunday November 3, Bris Avrohom of Hillside will hold
its 34th annual dinner and 28th gala wedding ceremony
for couples who were denied a religious ceremony in their
native countries. Bris Avrohom supporters Vlad and Taty-
ana German are the guests of honor. Rabbi Baruch and
Kreina Lepkivker will receive the Kesser Shem Tov award
for their 30 years of dedicated work at Bris Avrohom as
program directors, and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) will
be the keynote speaker. A journal will be published in con-
junction with the evening. Call (908) 289-0770 or email
office@brisavrohom.org.
Sen. Robert
Menendez
Rep. Albio Sires
NORPAC to hear
Rep. Albio Sires
NORPAC welcomes back Rep. Albio Sires (D-8th Dist.) at an
meeting hosted by Dr. Munr Kazmir in Closter, on Sunday,
October 27, at 6 p.m. For information, call (201) 788-5133
or email Avi@Norpac.net.
Jazmine Fenlator CouRtEsy ymCa
Olympic bobsled
hopeful coming
to Wayne
U.S. Olympic bobsled hopeful Jazmine
Fenlator of Wayne will be at the Wayne
YMCA on October 30 at 5:30 p.m. as
an athlete ambassador for the United
States Olympic Committees Team
for Tomorrow program. Fenlator will
tell her story of determination and
commitment to reach the Sochi 2014
Olympic Winter Games, and then she
will lead the participants in physical
activities and make a donation of lap-
top computers and digital cameras to
the Wayne YMCA on behalf of Team
for Tomorrow.
The Metro YMCAs of the Oranges,
at 1 Pike Drive in Wayne is a partner
of the YM-YWHA of North Jersey. (973)
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film sCreening: Nicky's Family,
with eva holzer, a Kindertransport survivor
Nicky's Family tells the nearly forgotten story of Nicholas
Winton, an Englishman dubbed "Britain's Schindler."
Winton organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak
children just before the outbreak of World War II through
a masterminded series of rail-sea transports. Nicky's
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himself, and has won 12 flm festival audience awards. The
evening will begin with a flm short, entitled Generations
of the Shoah: The Regina and Abraham Tauber Stories,
written and directed by JCC teen members Ben, Adam
and Daniel Danzger. Sponsored by Vivian Holzer. Brought
to you by the Martin Perlman & Jo-Ann Hassan Holocaust
Education Institute.
Wed, Nov 6, 7:30 pm, $10/$12
This year, Thanksgiving and Chanukah will fall on the same
day for the frst time in US history. This shared holiday
will not occur again for another 70,000 years! Dont miss
out join us for these great community events to get you
prepped for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Thanksgivukkah Cooking Class
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Maple-Glazed Roasted Pears.
Thurs, Nov 7, 6:30-8:00 pm, $39/$45
Menurkey Workshop
Make a hand-crafted turkey menorah in the JCC lobby
Thurs, Nov 14, 3-6 pm, $10/$12
Food & Toy Drive
We are collecting food and toys all month! Then, join us all
Nov 21 to stuf food and toy donations for those in need
in our community.
Thurs, Nov 21, 2-6 pm
Using your iPhone
Workshop
with fred seltzer
Attend this Computer Learning Center
workshop and fnd out how easy it is to
use your iPhone. Includes all the basics;
learn how to customize your iPhone, add
several apps that will serve you on a daily
basis, go on-line and explore the iPhone
network. No SeniorNet fee required.
2 Thursdays, Nov 14 & 21,
10:30 am-12:30 pm $20/$25
The Gatekeepers
a film/disCussion with harold Chapler
Dror Morehs superb Oscar-nominated flm
features frst-time interviews with six former
heads of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret anti-
terrorism intelligence organization. Analysts
and interrogators refect with lucid, unsettling
candor on the impossible choices and fuctuating
morality involved in politics and the containment
of terrorism since the Six Day War. Enjoy a lively
discussion after. In Hebrew with English subtitles.
Mon, Oct 28, 7:30 pm, $3/$5
Jewish Genealogy with ron arons
Expand your family history research with two
exciting programs ofered on Jewish Genealogy:
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keeping the faith
Overpricing
Judaism
I
n my October 11 column, I wrote that it is not
possible to maintain a strong sense of Jewish
identity without a concurrent strong sense
of Jewish community. Building community,
however, is not the only step we must take before
we tackle observance. Another is to define what
Judaism means by community. It is not merely
people living in the same neighborhood. Beyond
community, we also must
address a problem few
are willing to discuss: the
ever-mounting high cost
of living a Jewish life.
We will deal with the
cost issue this week.
As a community, we
want no, we need
our children to receive a
quality Jewish education
along with a secular one.
Yet day school tuition fees
have climbed beyond
many parents ability to pay. Scholarships are lim-
ited. As a result, some parents have taken second
and third mortgages on their homes to meet the
obligation.
Not everyone can afford such tuitions. For too
many, synagogue-based after-school programs also
are no option.
Joining a synagogue can be very expensive, espe-
cially for a young family. High dues are coupled with
building funds and other mandatory obligations,
and some that are not mandatory but nevertheless
expected.
In most cases, a parent cannot send a child to the
after-school program without becoming a member,
and the school itself has a tuition fee. This is a turn-
off for young parents, many of whom feel they are
being extorted. To send their child to an after-school
program, in most instances, means having to join
the synagogue, despite the cost. Is it any wonder that
as soon as their children reach bar- or bat-mitzvah
age, so many parents drop their membership?
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael
in Cliffside Park. Although he is the executive editor
of the Jewish Standard, the views expressed in his
columns do not necessarily reflect the opinions of
this newspaper.
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Courting with disaster
There is an effort within the Knesset to
curb the powers of the states Supreme
Court, especially in its role as the High
Court of Justice. It is a dangerous devel-
opment for Israeli democracy. It is also
extremely shortsighted.
Israel has no written constitution.
Instead, the state is governed by a series
of so-called basic laws. In the Supreme
Courts case, its powers are established
by Basic Law: The Judiciary. That law
establishes, among other things, that in
its role as High Court of Justice, it shall
hear matters in which it deems it neces-
sary to grant relief for the sake of justice
and which are not within the jurisdiction
of another court.
According to the Basic Law, the court
may order the release of persons unlaw-
fully detained or imprisoned; decide
the legality of government actions;
order secular and religious courts to
hear, refrain from hearing, or continue
hearing a particular matter, or to void a
proceeding improperly taken or a deci-
sion improperly given; and quash a
proceeding taken or a decision given by
the religious court without authority.
Over the years, the Supreme Court
has exercised its powers by overturn-
ing laws and voiding government deci-
sions it deemed inconsistent with the
whole body of Basic Laws. It also gave a
legal remedy to non-citizens, and espe-
cially Palestinians in the administered
territories.
And that is the problem, according to
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett of
Habayit Hayehudi and coalition chair-
man Yariv Levin of Likud. They are
promoting a series of laws that would
give the state more control over the 15
Supreme Court justices, to deny it the
ability to overturn Knesset legislation,
and to require it to give priority to the
states Jewish identity over its demo-
cratic one in deciding cases.
In essence, Bennett and Levin want
to alter the very nature of the state by
diminishing the status as a democracy,
and perhaps even paving the way for it
to become a theocracy.
Everyone is protected by an indepen-
dent judiciary. Everyone is protected
by a check on legislative power. No one
is protected if that independence is
watered down, and the power to over-
turn bad laws is eliminated.
It will be a sad day indeed if the two
men have their way.
An affront to us all
Who is a Jew is a powerfully evoca-
tive rallying cry meant to unite the
non-Orthodox masses against the State
of Israels reported attempts to dele-
gitimate them. Israel, of course, never
had such intent, and who is a Jew
was never the issue. It always was about
who is a Rabbi, and it was not Israels
policy, as much as it was the policy of its
religious affairs ministry and the office of
the chief rabbinate, aka the rabbanut. It
also never was only about delegitimizing
non-Orthodox rabbis and their streams;
for the last several decades at least, the
rabbanut has maintained a list of Ortho-
dox rabbis who were not acceptable in
its eyes.
It was never just about conversions.
The rabbanut in Israel must sanction all
lifecycle matters, from birth to death.
If it concludes that a person is not
Jewish by its standards, for example,
such person may not be buried next to
acceptable Jews in a Jewish cemetery
in Israel. That issue received prominent
attention at the most recent Yom Hazi-
karon ceremony on Mt. Herzl, when
the IDF chief of staff broke protocol by
not placing his flag on the most recent
fallen soldier, Yevgeny Tolochko,
because he was buried in the doubt-
ful Jewish section.
Marriage is another example. Couples
must be able to prove their Jewishness
before the rabbanut will grant them per-
mission to marry. Until now, a couple
coming from outside Israel could do so
by presenting a letter from an Orthodox
rabbi.
No more. With new leadership in
place, the rabbanut apparently has
begun rejecting the word even of Ortho-
dox rabbis if their names do not appear
on an approved list, and seems to be on
a course to require certification by an
acceptable religious court, rather than
individual rabbis. This is something
unheard of until now.
The matter came to light last week,
when it was reported that the rab-
banut rejected the word of Rabbi Avi
Weiss, leader of the Hebrew Institute
of Riverdale, attesting to the Jewishness
of a couple who traveled to Israel to be
married. According to the New York Jew-
ish Week, at least 10 other Orthodox rab-
bis recently were rebuffed in this way.
Israel is the Jewish state and should
adhere to certain accepted communal
norms. Those norms, however, must
be broadly constructed, not narrowly
constricted.
What is made clear in this latest
affront to diaspora Jewry is that the
who is debate never was a religious
one. This is all about political power. The
rabbanut wants to be the central address
for all religious matters throughout the
Jewish world.
What is also made clear, however, is
that the rabbanut is not representative
of any Jewish ideology but its own, nar-
rowly defined and an insular charedi
one. It must not have the right to repre-
sent anyone other than itself.
That is a message all of us must make
clear and we must do it quickly, before
the stranglehold the rabbanut seeks to
place on diaspora Jewry chokes the life
out of any connection the Jews of the
diaspora have to the Jewish state.
Shammai
Engelmayer
Op-Ed
A digression. The synagogue must be the center of
communal life. There is no more appropriate place,
yet too many synagogues are not as welcoming as
they could be to anyone young or old, married or
single. No synagogue will ever admit to being cold,
unfriendly, cliquish, or unresponsive to the needs of
all its members, but we all know anecdotally that this
is much too often the case. How many times have we
walked into a new synagogue and no one no one
takes the time to say hello and welcome to our shul?
So on top of the high cost of synagogue member-
ship, we need to add how synagogues relate to the
people who come through their doors, members and
non-members alike.
Back to costs.
The rituals that are Torah-based, at least, are essen-
tial to Jewish identity, but they are not ends in them-
selves. They each stand for something else the
moral and ethical code that is Judaism at its most
basic. They also are the ties that bind us to Judaism
in the case of tfillin, somewhat literally so. Tfillin
are a symbol of the Torah as a whole (you shall bind
them as a sign upon your arm), a reminder that you
cannot use your hands or your mind to do harm to
another, and that you have a responsibility to every-
one and everything around you.
The same is true of tzitzit. And you shall see them
and you shall remember all the commandments of
the Lord and observe them..., and be holy to your
God. (For how to be holy to your God, please read
Leviticus 19.)
This is what we must emphasize, but instead we
make them ends in themselves and then push people
to pay through the nose.
Roughly defined, hiddur mitzvah means enhanc-
ing the quality of an observance. Rabbinic texts
emphasize the concept. Thus, for example, Rabbi
Zera taught, one should be willing to pay even one
third more [than the normal price] for tfillin, talli-
tot, kiddush cups, Shabbat menorahs, chanukiot, etc.
(See the Babylonian Talmud tractate Bava Kama 9b.)
We misunderstand hiddur mitzvah, in part because
of rabbinic stringencies and accompanying peer
pressure. In the case of ritual items, hiddur mitzvah
means buying the best tfillin, tallitot, kiddush cups,
chanukiot, etc., you can afford, not the best that is
for sale.
Keeping kosher is perhaps the most basic tie that
binds, and one of the least observed. Why? Because
keeping kosher is unnecessarily overpriced, mostly
because the steady addition of stringencies has made
it so. The more stringencies, the higher the cost. The
higher the cost, the fewer people who keep kosher.
If kosher meat is kosher, why push people to eat
only glatt kosher, especially when most glatt kosher
is not truly glatt in any case.
No where is this better exemplified than with
Pesach foods. Unnecessary stringencies have priced
most Jews out of Pesach market (and away from
kashrut generally). A half-century ago, peanut oil was
the only kosher for Passover oil; today, it is not accept-
able. Quinoa started out as kosher for Passover; now
not every certifier permits it. Do you like Coca Cola?
Pay extra for the reformulated Kosher for Passover
variety, with the yellow cap. The regular version has
corn syrup, but no matter how you husk it, the corn
of the Bible is not the corn of the syrup.
We are pricing Judaism out of existence, to our
detriment.
In my next column, I will address defining com-
munity. Meanwhile, I would appreciate hearing your
thoughts on this column and the last one.
JS-19*
keeping the faith
Overpricing
Judaism
I
n my October 11 column, I wrote that it is not
possible to maintain a strong sense of Jewish
identity without a concurrent strong sense
of Jewish community. Building community,
however, is not the only step we must take before
we tackle observance. Another is to define what
Judaism means by community. It is not merely
people living in the same neighborhood. Beyond
community, we also must
address a problem few
are willing to discuss: the
ever-mounting high cost
of living a Jewish life.
We will deal with the
cost issue this week.
As a community, we
want no, we need
our children to receive a
quality Jewish education
along with a secular one.
Yet day school tuition fees
have climbed beyond
many parents ability to pay. Scholarships are lim-
ited. As a result, some parents have taken second
and third mortgages on their homes to meet the
obligation.
Not everyone can afford such tuitions. For too
many, synagogue-based after-school programs also
are no option.
Joining a synagogue can be very expensive, espe-
cially for a young family. High dues are coupled with
building funds and other mandatory obligations,
and some that are not mandatory but nevertheless
expected.
In most cases, a parent cannot send a child to the
after-school program without becoming a member,
and the school itself has a tuition fee. This is a turn-
off for young parents, many of whom feel they are
being extorted. To send their child to an after-school
program, in most instances, means having to join
the synagogue, despite the cost. Is it any wonder that
as soon as their children reach bar- or bat-mitzvah
age, so many parents drop their membership?
Putting our money
where our mouths are
A challenge to the community to prove we
really mean what we say about Jewish education
D
o we really believe that
every Jewish child is
entitled to a yeshiva
education?
Ask this question to just about any-
body in our community, and the answer
is a resounding yes
But the truth is that we dont really
believe it, as evidenced
by the fact that we as
a community refuse to
fund it. Its a classic case
of being for something
as long as someone else
is paying for it.
Once upon a time, our
schools were able to raise
enough money from vol-
untary donations for
financial aid (commonly
referred to as scholar-
ships). It has been several
years, though, since that has been pos-
sible, and now schools have to include
a subsidy for families that cant afford to
pay as part of the full tuition paid by the
rest of the parent body.
In the past few years, the percent-
age of students on scholarship has gone
from less than 20 to almost 30, and that
trend is likely to continue. That means
that an even greater percentage of
tuition dollars will go toward financial
aid in the future.
Besides the obvious unsustainability
of this financial model, it is also unfair
and inefficient, as I will discuss below.
Before I propose a real solution, let
me explain several key reasons why the
current scholarship system is broken
and ought be revamped. In no particu-
lar order:
1) The financial burden is shared
unequally. If my neighbor cant afford
to send his or her child to the school I
send my kids to, why should the mere
fact that I have a child in that school
make me more responsible than other
community members for my neighbor
childrens tuition? Moreover, the more
children I have in the school and as is
often the case, the less I can afford it
the more I have to subsidize it.
Now dont get me wrong. I think that
we should raise funds for families that
cant afford full tuition. Its just that its
no more the obligation of other fami-
lies in a particular school than it is the
responsibility of any family in the com-
munity, whether or not they have chil-
dren in that school. This is actually how
the public school system in America
works. Whether I have zero kids or 10
kids going to public school does not
affect how much I pay. Communities
are responsible to ensure that all chil-
dren have access to an education.
2) Tuition payments are made with
after-tax dollars. Voluntary donations
are made with pre-tax dollars. It is sim-
ply crazy to fund our
shortfalls this way. If I as
a community member
have to donate $1,000
( just to make the math
easy, it is already far
more in many schools) to
pay for children of fami-
lies that cant afford to
pay in full, then by forc-
ing that money from me
as part of an obligatory
tuition payment, it costs
me the full $1,000. If I
were to give it voluntarily, it would cost
me only $600 to $750, depending on
my marginal tax bracket.
To put it another way, donors could
give a lot more to schools if the money
were given voluntarily instead of being
built into tuition.
Let me clarify this absurdity by citing
another communal charity. We have
a wonderful organization here in our
community called Tomchei Shabbos,
which provides food packages to fami-
lies who otherwise could not afford
food for Shabbes. It is funded entirely
by voluntary donations. I think we
would all agree that it is a worthwhile
program.
If we operated this program the way
our schools operate scholarships, we
would ask all kosher food stores to raise
prices to pay for those who cant afford
it. Does that make any sense? Of course
not! But thats what we are doing with
our scholarship policies. This is very
inefficient. We should strive to move to
a system of financial aid that relies on
voluntary contributions.
3) Our schools have what is known
as a needs-blind policy, meaning that
a school will accept any child regard-
less of that childs parents ability to pay
tuition. This might sound generous and
praiseworthy, but in actuality it hurts
our educational institutions long-term
sustainability. This is for two reasons:
First of all, this policy has created
a vicious cycle. Some percentage of
families cant afford to pay full tuition,
so tuition is raised to cover that. The
tuition raise causes even more families
to seek financial aid, so tuition has to be
raised further. Taken to its logical con-
clusion, one day our day schools will no
longer be able to sustain themselves
financially.
We should not be fooled by tuition
having remained virtually unchanged
during the past few years. This was
achieved through cost reductions that
cant be repeated without either deliver-
ing an inferior product or substantially
changing the educational model.
Second, and perhaps more impor-
tantly, a needs-blind policy is a sure
loser when it comes to fundraising.
Donors are not stupid. By saying that
you will admit every child, you are
essentially telling donors that whether
they give a sizeable gift or nothing at all,
that wont affect the amount available
for financial aid.
By definition, having a needs-blind
policy requires a school to give out what
is needed, regardless of how much they
raise. And as I pointed out, the differ-
ence is made up in the tuition line.
Lets go back to the Tomchei Shab-
bos example. A couple of years ago, it
made a plea to the community, saying
that it was short on funds, and without
increased donations, it simply couldnt
meet the demand. Guess what? The
community stepped up and raised
the needed funds. Why? Because the
community values the idea of provid-
ing Shabbes meals for those who cant
afford it, and they knew that if people
didnt respond generously, there would
be families who literally would not have
food for Shabbes.
When it comes to ensuring that all
children have access to Jewish educa-
tion, I believe that we are afraid to find
out that our community is not willing to
put their money where our mouths are.
4) The expectations of the average
family today far exceed those of previ-
ous generations. Some families have a
hard time distinguishing needs from
wants, and as a result they are far too
quick to apply for tuition relief instead
of making difficult decisions about their
own budgets. Despite their best efforts,
scholarship committees cant effectively
dictate spending priorities to each fam-
ily. Committees are made up of volun-
teers and work with scarce resources
and imperfect information.
Furthermore, despite a worthwhile
attempt several years ago to standard-
ize requirements for families receiving
Gershon
Distenfeld
see Money page 20
Op-Ed
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financial aid, in practice scholarship com-
mittees have a wide range of procedures and
policies on how to determine the appropri-
ate amount of tuition relief to allocate to each
family. Certainly every situation is different,
but each scholarship committee will arrive at
a different number for a given family, and it
has not been unheard of for families to play
schools off against one another in seeking the
most attractive financial aid package. This
also prevents schools from pushing too hard
on any one family, fearing that they will shop
for a better deal elsewhere.
Because the marginal cost of educating an
additional child is near zero, its always better
to take a child who pays something than to
see that child go to another school. But this is
a very shortsighted approach, because even-
tually schools will need more classes, a bigger
building, more administrators, and so on.
Lastly, many scholarship applicant fami-
lies have children in more than one school.
While in general the relationship between
scholarship committees is amicable, each
one looks after its own best interests and tries
to squeeze the maximum out of each family
for its own institution.
Let me be clear. None of this is meant to
criticize the members of these committees.
They are made up of honorable and selfless
people, who perform a thankless job. It is the
system in which they are asked to operate
that is broken.
For all these reasons, I believe that the
time has come to change how we think about
financial aid in our day schools.
Im going to propose a solution that not
only will solve the problem, but also will put
our schools on a financially sustainable path
going forward. I am certain that many will
take issue with what Im about to suggest,
but I would ask people not just to critique my
proposal, but if they find it unacceptable, to
propose something else.
Doing nothing is not an option.
In that spirit, I present a three-pronged
solution:
Part I We should immediately centralize
the financial aid process and ensure consis-
tency among schools. There is no reason that
each school should have its own separate
scholarship committee. That is like saying
that each kosher food store should decide on
its own how much food every needy family
requires. Both scenarios are equally illogical.
Schools are in the business of education,
not of allocating charity dollars. We already
have a great example in our community of
such an approach Project Ezra, which helps
families get their financial houses in order,
helps them find jobs, and so on. Imagine if
that organization were split into several dif-
ferent parts, each one responsible for a sub-
set of the community. It is doubtful that it
would have accomplished even a fraction of
the amazing work it has done.
This new central body would not be dif-
ficult to form. It initially can consist of the
noble volunteers who now work on each
schools scholarship committee. There just
has to be the will to create this committee.
Every school would have to sacrifice for the
common good.
This new entity would review all applica-
tions, determine the appropriate amount for
each family, ensure consistency, and perhaps
most importantly, be empowered to ensure
that all families are doing their utmost to pay
what they can.
Part II We need to fund financial aid
entirely through a communal fund. The
mechanism for such a vehicle is already in
place. NNJKIDS was founded four years ago
as a communal charity to support Jewish
education. While this fund has raised over $2
million over the past four years, that is but
a small fraction of the almost $30 million in
financial aid that our day schools have given
out over that period. Only a small minority
of our community has contributed, and even
most of those who have participated have
done so far below their means.
NNJKIDS must be elevated to become the
only communal funding pot for financial aid
to our families for Jewish education. It must
be on par with other very worthy charities in
our community, like Tomchei Shabbos, Proj-
ect Ezra, and others. It will provide funds
for scholarships only in consonance with
the amount it raises. Like all other worthy
causes, if its important enough to the com-
munity, we will step up and fund it. Time will
tell whether we really do believe that every
child is entitled to a Jewish education.
Part III All yeshiva day schools should
announce that within the next three years,
they will reduce tuition to the average cost
per student and get out of the scholarship
business entirely. They will only accept chil-
dren who pay in full, with those families who
need aid getting it directly from the commu-
nal scholarship fund outlined above.
Why do I believe that taking this step is
such a crucial piece of the puzzle? Because
there are too many people who dont feel
the necessity of giving to Jewish education
simply because they have absolutely no fear
that children will be turned away from our
day schools. Thats a result of the misguided
needs-blind policy I mentioned above. So we
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Shaming and repentance
As a scholar of Talmudic stories, I am con-
stantly amazed at the relevance of these
ancient tales to contemporary events. As a
resident of Englewood, in light of the com-
munitys reactions to certain deeds com-
mitted almost two decades ago, I have
been thinking of three stories
in particular.
The first, from Bava Mesia
59b, i s the famous story
commonly known as the Oven
of Akhnai but should really
be titled The Tragic Shaming
of R. Eliezer. The Talmud
relates that R. Eliezer and the
rabbis disputed over the purity
of a certain type of oven, but
the rabbis refused to accept
either R. Eliezers arguments
or the miracles he performed
to prove his claim. They even went so far
as to reject Gods heavenly voice, declaring
The law accords with R. Eliezer on
the grounds that It is not in heaven,
meaning that the Torah has been given to
humans to interpret and adjudicate. Most
modern retellings of the story end here,
and completely neglect the continuation,
where events take a tragic turn. The rabbis
ban R. Eliezer, ostracizing him from their
synagogues and houses of study. When he
weeps at hearing this news, God punishes
the world with fiery destruction and the
devastation of one third of all its crops.
Subsequently R. Eliezer falls on his face
in prayer, pouring out to God his pain at
this humiliating treatment, and Rabban
Gamaliel, the Nasi and head of the rabbis,
dies immediately. The storys lesson
is therefore less about the fascinating
paradox of rabbinic interpretive authority
that so interests modern
readers, and more about
the sin of shaming another
person. God accepts the
rabbis right to interpret
the law against His own
opinion, but punishes them
severely for excluding and
humiliating R. Eliezer. And
we know this is the main
message because the story
appears in connection with
a mishnah that mentions
verbal wronging (onaat
devarim), the prohibition against hurting
others with words, and follows various
traditions about the severity of the sin of
causing shame and humiliation.
The second story I think about is
the famous story of Qamtsa and Bar
Qamtsa, which more aptly could be
titled The tragic shaming of Bar Qamtsa
(Gittin 55b). The Talmud tells of an
unnamed host who meant to invite his
friend Qamtsa to a dinner party, but his
messenger mistakenly invited his enemy
Bar Qamtsa. The host threw Bar Qamtsa
out on the street, even though Bar Qamtsa
offered to pay for the entire dinner party
if only he would be allowed to stay and not
be humiliated publicly. We also learn that
the rabbis were present at the banquet
and yet did nothing to protest this action:
they neither objected to the treatment of
Bar Qamtsa nor left with him in protest.
Because the rabbis were sitting there and
did not intervene, Bar Qamtsa concluded
that they condoned the hosts action
and slandered the rabbis to the Roman
authorities. Events snowballed until the
Romans attacked the Jews and destroyed
the temple. The Talmuds conclusion
makes the lesson unambiguously clear:
Come and see how serious it is to shame
another person. For God took the side of
Bar Qamtsa, and destroyed his house and
burnt down his temple.
The third story is that of Eleazar b.
Dordaya (Avodah Zarah 17a). We are told
of this Eleazar that he never left out
even one prostitute in the world without
consorting with her. Once he traveled to
a distant land in order to visit a famous
and expensive prostitute, but in the
middle of their liaison he despaired at
the greatness of his sins. He then placed
his head on his knees and wept in sincere
repentance. The Talmud reports that a
heavenly voice proclaimed Rabbi Eleazar
b. Dordaya is invited to life in the world to
come. That God accepted his repentance
and bestowed on him the honorific title
rabbi prompted R. Judah the Nasi, the
editor of the Mishnah and among the most
famous rabbis, to observe :Penitents are
not only accepted, but they are even called
rabbi.
The reaction of the community,
members and leaders alike, to the
aforementioned incidents of long ago
makes me wonder whether we have
learned the lessons of these stories. Have
we stood together with those who have
been shamed? Certainly the community
has a legitimate concern to protect itself,
much as the Talmudic rabbis had a
legitimate concern for the integrity of the
legal system that R. Eliezer threatened.
Yet God punished the rabbis for how they
grappled with that problem. For all the
distinctions that could be made between
these Talmudic sources and contemporary
situations, might the response of our
community bear some resemblance to the
banning of R. Eliezer? Or to the failure of
the rabbis at the banquet to protest the
shaming of Bar Qamtsa? In the coming
weeks we would do well to remember the
importance of teshuva, of repentance, not
only as a lofty ideal, but as a lived reality in
our hearts and minds and deeds.
Dr. Jeffrey L. Rubenstein of Englewood is
professor of Talmud and rabbinic literature
in the department of Hebrew and Judaic
studies at New York University. He is the
author of Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art,
Composition, and Culture and other books
on the stories of the Talmud.
Dr. Jeffrey L.
Rubenstein
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Letters
JS-21*
Character assassination
We are writing to express our frustration
and disappointment at the unfair and
inflammatory way in which the media
and elements of the community have
reported and reacted to the issues involv-
ing Akiva Roth.
In the Standards October 18 article,
the headline, Sex Offender Voluntarily
Barred from Englewood Shuls, implies
a legal characterization of a Megans Law
violator, which Akiva is not. His convic-
tion of lewdness was never and is not
a Megans Law violation, and therefore
Akiva Roth never was required to regis-
ter as a sex offender. As such, community
protections required by Megans Law are
inapplicable. With exaggerated reporting
and innuendo, the press effectively has
made of him a Megans Law violator. And
now, 17 years after the courts adjudicated
his case, segments of the Jewish commu-
nity have appointed themselves judge
and jury, to retry him and impose their
own punishments, which never were
required by law.
This unfair and extreme approach on
the part of a community that supposedly
embraces the concept of teshuva has led
to unwarranted character assassination
and a sense of suspicion and fear relating
to his communal service and dedication
to the synagogues in Englewood and to
the greater Jewish community. It is our
sense that due process has not taken
place. We expect more from our Jew-
ish institutions. At the very least, Akiva
should be given an opportunity to clarify
information, to reiterate the fact that he
understands the problematic nature of
his behavior 18 years ago, to explain his
activities and involvement with youth in
his communities, and to discuss ways in
which he might be able to return to these
communities, of which he has been an
integral part.
Notwithstanding the inappropriateness
of double jeopardy in this matter, but
recognizing community concerns, Akiva
has voluntarily agreed to Rabbi Goldins
suggestion that he meet with an outside
professional forensic psychologist spe-
cializing in this particular area, even
though he had done so many years ago.
Akivas willingness to cooperate, and his
statement that no improper behavior has
occurred since his conviction, lead us to
believe that now is the time for compas-
sion and understanding for an individual
who has been so unfairly maligned.
May reason and fairness prevail in this
matter and may we restore our repu-
tation as a safe, caring, and forgiving
community.
Merce and Richard andron, Englewood
adam and Ofra Backenroth, Teaneck
Jules gutin, Teaneck
Sydell and enrique Levy, Englewood
ami kinsberg, Englewood
Jack nelson, Cliffside Park
toby and Maurice Reifman, Englewood
Menorah Rotenberg, Teaneck
Jeffrey Rubenstein, Englewood
phyllis hofman Waldmann, Jerusalem
J Street means inclusion
I read with pride because he is the spiri-
tual leader of the congregation I belong to
Rabbi Joel Pitkowskys comments on the
results of the recent Pew survey on Jew-
ish identity (Local rabbis talk about the
Pew survey, October 11). His message of
inclusion is one which more Jewish leaders
need to hear.
Rabbi Pitkowskys comments on pro-
gressive Jewish organizations like J Street
and the New Israel Fund were particu-
larly welcome. The Pew survey found
that J Streets message of a two-state
solution to end the conflict between
Israel and the Palestinians resonates
with a large majority of American Jews,
particularly younger ones. The fact
that young American Jews feel free to
voice criticism over Israeli policies with
respect to the Palestinians should not be
regarded as an abandonment of Jewish
identity but a positive engagement with
the Jewish future. The American Jewish
establishment should no more seek to
stifle this engagement than it should feel
it necessary to squelch criticism of our
own government or Israelis criticisms
of theirs.
J Street members, and I am one, love
Israel. We want to see a secure, prosper-
ous, and peaceful future for Israel, within
borders in which a large Jewish majority
can carry Jewish culture, values, and his-
tory into the future.
Far from ostracizing organizations like
J Street, mainstream Jewish organizations
ought to embrace it, for two reasons:
First, because it represents the views of
the majority of our people in this coun-
try, and second, because J Street and
other progressive Jewish organizations
can provide the necessary framework to
keep younger American Jews within the
Jewish communal fold.
peter Buxbaum
Cliffside Park
Identifying identity
Bernard Becks opinion piece gives
several false impressions (Defining a
true Jew, October 18). Firstly, it leads a
reader to believe that rabbinic Judaism
didnt define the religions parameters
until the Common Era. The fact is that
rabbis were always in charge; they just
has different titles. Prior to the use of
the term rabbi, we had judges, proph-
ets, the Great Assembly, and the five
pairs quoted at the beginning of Ethics
of the Fathers. Maimonides, in his intro-
duction to his Mishneh Torah, traces
an unbroken line of 40 generations of
Baalay Mesorah, essentially chief rab-
bis, covering approximately 1,800 years
from Moses through Rav Ashi (the redac-
tor of the Talmud Bavli), each one giving
smichah to the next.
Secondly, the article seems to indicate
that Jewish identity based on the religion
of the mother is a relatively new concept.
In fact, this fundamental principle goes
back to the Torah itself, in Deuteronomy
chapter 7. Furthermore, strict standards
for Jewish identity can be found as long
ago as Ezra the Scribe (Number 22 on
Maimonides list) at the beginning of the
Second Temple Period in the 4th century
B.C.E. He understood that clarity of defi-
nition was critical to Jewish survival.
Assuming that Mr. Becks population
figures covering the Common Era are
accurate, the steep drop at the begin-
ning, which was maintained for many
centuries, can easily be attributed to the
continuous genocides, forced conver-
sions, and other forms of persecution
taking place during that period. Simi-
larly, the subsequent rapid expansion
can be explained by greater acceptance
of Jews in the United States, and in many
countries in Europe, rather than because
of pronouncements by the Baal Shem
Tov or Rabbi Geiger.
Given how many of the facts in
the article are subject to question, it
is reasonable to seriously question its
conclusions.
gary M. Rosenberg
Englewood
Forget the free stuff
As a Democrat, I respect Ari Fleischers
point of view (Its Aris party, October
11). He represents a part of the Republi-
can Party that virtually no longer exists.
However, I cannot understand Rabbi
Pruzansky, particularly his asking How
do you compete against the free stuff ?
Not only does this show his lack of com-
passion it also shows his lack of under-
standing of those who are in true need of
free stuff. Obviously Rabbi Pruzansky
has never been to a job fair.
If he were to go to one, he would find
people desperately seeking employ-
ment. Yes, these people are receiving
unemployment benefits they paid into
the fund for it and in some cases food
stamps. I guarantee that every one them
would give up all the free stuff for one
of those jobs at the fair.
Yes, there are people who game the
system. We all know that. This has been
going on since the first free loaf of bread
was given out. We do not need Rabbi Pru-
zansky to point it out.
Rabbi Pruzansky, please visit one these
job fairs, and, by the way, stop by a Veter-
ans hospital. Maybe this will temper your
view on going to war with Iran.
Warren katz
Palisades Park
Laughing to the bank
In response to Dr. Gross letter concern-
ing the Xmas tree in his bank, I would
like to offer an alternative viewpoint.
Christmas is the engine that drives the
U.S. retail economy. Christmas provides
the livelihood, and fortunes that in turn
support countless shuls, yeshivas, and
charities of all types in the United States
and in Israel.
It has never been the Jewish way to
have large, bright, ostentatious symbols
of our religion. In contrast to homes
wrapped in lights, and reindeer on the
lawn, large decorated trees in Macys and
the mall, we have our little menorah in
our warm living room.
We know what we have and we dont
have to compete with advertisements.
So, when Im in the bank and see the lit
tree, Im a little annoyed, but inside Im
grateful, and laughing all the way out of
the bank.
James hain
Teaneck
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Joanne Palmer
T
he aircraft carrier USS Intrepid is huge.
Thats the first and most obvious
thing about it. It hulks in the Hudson at
46th Street, dwarfing the sailboats that
glide behind it, darkening the river, swallowing
the waters sparkle. It is a behemoth.
It was commissioned 70 years ago, in August
1943, and has brought Navy and Air Force troops
and their fighter planes to both the Pacific and
Atlantic Oceans, from World War II to Vietnam. It
was home to many thousands of servicemen until
it was decommissioned in 1974, and is now home
to the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum.
And a Jewish woman from Tenafly is at its
helm.
The sailors who staffed the Intrepid during its
time as a U.S. Navy vessel were drafted or enlisted
and then assigned to it, but Susan Marenoff-
Zausner came to her job in a much less direct
way.
Marenoff-Zausner, 48, grew up in Monsey, the
daughter of active Conservative Jews. She was
always a serious athlete. Like many teenage girls,
she was in love with animals in general and horses
in particular; she rode and then taught horseback
riding, and she longed to become a large-animal
veterinarian so she could treat them. Then, the
first time I saw a horse getting a shot, I said no,
she said.
Time to reconsider.
Marenoff-Zausner also was attracted to
business, she said, so after she graduated from
Spring Valley High School, she headed off to the
school that was then SUNY Binghamton, now
Carrier becomes calling
for a JCC stalwart
An Intrepid
Susan Marenoff-Zausner welcomes the space shuttle Enterprise to
the Intrepid.
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Binghamton University, for a degree in
business management. Her father, Jerry
Marenoff, an accountant, already had held
some pretty serious positions in business
when he began his own company. Her
mother, Judy Marenoff, a dental hygienist,
is such a people person that she knows
more about her patients than their own
relatives probably do. Her own approach
to business combines her fathers acumen
with her mothers warmth and genuine
interest in people, Marenoff-Zausner said.
Her first job after college was with
Bankers Trust; she was recruited for it,
but I did not love it, Marenoff-Zausner
said, so she was ripe for a change in 1988,
when I ran into a friend of mine, who said
there was a job opening at Madison Square
Garden, and she asked me if I would be
interested in becoming a supervisor for
subscription sales for the Knicks and the
Rangers.
Marenoff-Zausner got the job, which
combined her love of sports and of
business. Needless to say, it was perfect.
She was there for eight years; by the time
she left, she had become the youngest
woman to be made vice president.
She learned much there that she has
found useful throughout her career. I
was definitely navigating a mans world,
she said, but she used skills stereotypically
associated with women to steer around
the shoals. There is an adage that what
seems sexy on the outside definitely is real
work on the inside, she said. She worked
with season ticket holders, who often felt
that their happiness depended on their
team winning. They could leave feeling
distraught if their team lost, she said.
That victory, however, was something
she could not deliver. My job was making
sure that people were satisfied, when they
were spending a lot of their disposable
income on a product that we had no
control over, she said. She headed a
group of about a dozen people.
We were a client services division, she
continued. It was my job, and my teams,
to make sure that we made the clients
happy to be a part of the team, and to
spend money in the venue.
An Intrepid pioneer takes the helm
Three hundred former crew members joined to celebrate the Intrepids 70th
anniversary in a ceremony on the flight deck.
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How do you make people feel good if their beloved
team comes up short? Sports fans become deeply
connected emotionally to their clubs, and peg their
own moods to their clubs fortunes in ways that are
mysterious and inexplicable to non-fans. Given that
truth, how can the clubs back office employee make
those fans feel better? It takes people skills, Marenoff-
Zausner said. It takes empathy, and always trying to
see somebody elses point of view. It takes working hard
to make sure that any problem that has been brought to
your attention has been resolved before you move on.
It takes paying attention to them. Everyone deserves
having attention paid, no matter who they are or what
they do.
She remembered a specific situation. In 1990 or so,
the Garden was renovated, she said. It meant that the
people who had owned their seats, thousands of people,
had to be relocated. They had to be as happy in their
new seats as they had been in the old ones. There were
no computers available for such problems then, so
we were doing it with index cards and bulletin boards
and thumb tacks. Yes, that is a First World problem,
but it is a real one, familiar to many synagogues High
Holy Days seating committees, and solving it demands
resourcefulness, patience, insight, and kindness.
We had to hand-hold, and to address each situation
and each person, one at a time, she said. We had to let
them know that the company cares about them.
It was about taking a massive organization, known
for large sexy events, and personalizing it.
Next, Marenoff-Zausner was recruited by the Womens
World Cup to be the venue director for Giants Stadium
for the 1999 championship games.
It was the right time to be in womens soccer. In
fact, it was an amazing time, Marenoff-Zausner said.
Womens soccer was reaching white heat; Marenoff-
Zausner was working for a woman whose office was
on the West Coast, so she both had a role model and
a lot of freedom. She also appreciated the chance to
provide role models for girls. It was a confusing time
for young women, with the rise of such celebrities as
Britney Spears, with her peculiar mixture of little-girl
mannerisms and blatant adult sexuality. The athletes
were much healthier role models.
Marenoff-Zausners next job was as external marketing
director for the Womens Tennis Association. From
there, she became the general manager for the New
York Power, the local team for the first female soccer
league in the United States.
Marenoff-Zausner was both moved and inspired by
her work with women athletes. Watching the impact
these women had on young girls was so significant, she
said. We would do clinics in schools, and the fathers
and mothers would say that their daughters didnt
have self-confidence, or thought they werent pretty, so
watching these intelligent, gifted women interact with
these school kids truly motivated me to think about how
you can use your assets to try to motivate other people.
After three years, the soccer league folded. The
business model just didnt sustain itself, Marenoff-
Zausner said. She decided to take some time to
decompress and figure out what to do next, when her
phone rang.
I got a call from a headhunter about the Intrepid, she
said. The foundation was looking for a chief marketing
officer and executive vice president of business
development. I didnt understand why they called me.
My background had been in sports. And then this very
wise headhunter outlined the job, function by function
and piece by piece, and soon it was clear that the job
was about building a business. It was about building
your brand, assessing the business infrastructure,
understanding the physical structure, and managing a
team of professionals. She aligned it, skill set by skill set,
to show how it applied to the Intrepid.
I was lukewarm about it, but came in to interview.
And then I immediately found a passion about this
place that I had never experienced before, in any of my
jobs.
Its been 10 years during the course of those years
she moved up to become executive director, and then
held on to that title while becoming president, as well
and every year offers something unique and different.
Marenoff-Zausner is the first woman to be president
of the Intrepid.
The carrier-turned-museum is now a private nonprofit
institution, a 501c3, and it is also on the list of national
historic landmarks. It has a dual purpose; it is both an
educational institution and a place to honor our heroes,
Marenoff-Zausner said. It has a family atmosphere, and
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one of the challenges was to grow the
business but maintain the family feeling.
It was also to analyze and assess where
things had to change. Its hard to be a
change agent; it also comes with a lot of
gratification.
The first month of her job at the
Intrepid saw Marenoff-Zausner flying to
London to bring the decommissioned
Concorde to the Intrepid; its arrival,
years in the planning, ushered in a spike
in museum visitors.
Every year since then, its been
something else, Marenoff-Zausner said.
It was during her tenure that the ship
was towed away for renovation, after
a dramatic attempt at moving it failed
because of the decades of river mud
in which it was mired. As the ship was
refitted inside and out, the exhibits also
were overhauled. We wanted to make
sure that there was a fluid history of the
ship, honoring those who served and
showing the artifacts that showcase our
core history and leadership, she said.
The ships flight deck is filled with
fighter planes, and it also has one of
the four remaining space shuttles and
space capsules in which astronauts and
cosmonauts shot up into space and then
fell back down into the sea. They are tiny;
the contrast between the claustrophobic
interior and the vast deck and huge river
is sharp.
The fighter planes look fierce; the spy
planes look spooky; the Concorde looks
oddly ungainly, and the space shuttle
hangs from the ceiling like the great
blue whale in the American Museum
of Natural History, looking oddly and
touchingly goofy.
All of it is astounding, and demands
that an onlooker explore her own
reservoirs of courage. Could she fly in
such a device? Um, no
To honor the men they all were
men back then who lived aboard the
Intrepid, whose courage defined them,
the museums entrance exhibit shows
some of the artifacts of their lives; a
timeline, divided between what is called
Hardware and Humanity, details the
mens daily lives and also the larger
history into which they fit.
The Intrepids other core mission is
education. Two hundred thousand
kids a year are educated here, whether
theyre walking around, or listening, or
going through our formal programs,
Marenoff-Zausner said. Thirty-seven
thousand of them, from kindergarten
through twelfth grade, go through our
formal programs in science, technology,
engineering, math, and history, and
our proprietary leadership programs.
We follow New York City educational
guidelines, and deliver about 800
programs a year.
Sixty percent of the programming is
aimed at underserved communities, and
the museums fundraising supports it.
Part of our strategic plan was to see
how we could do even more, and we
did that by opening our programs to
deliver them to people on the autistic
spectrum, with cognitive disabilities,
and who are deaf, or hard of hearing,
or blind or visually impaired, and those
with dementia.
Its been awesome.
We are very humbl ed, she
continued. We know we have gotten
the things airplanes, space capsules,
a very sexy set of artifacts that allow
us to deliver those programs. We
know that, and we are humbled by the
Marenoff-Zausner
and Queens City
Councilman Jimmy
Van Bramer with some
of the many children
who go to Camp
Intrepid.
Marenoff-Zausner with astronaut Buzz aldrin.
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opportunity.
The Intrepid also reaches out to the
Jewish community; it markets the ship to
observant Jews as a place to spend with
the family on chol hamo-eid Pesach.
Five years ago, the ship hosted a tenth
yahrzeit for Yitzhak Rabin, featuring
former President Bill Clinton.
Although she does not want to call
her management values specifically
Jewish, Marenoff-Zausner said the
values that drive her, and through her
the Intrepid, are warmth, engagement,
and inclusiveness.
I think that my experiences form
these values.
But, she continued, in a larger sense,
the job allows her the opportunity to
give back, to help others and that is part
of tikkun olam, the divine imperative
to try to fix our broken world. This is
something I treasure; something that not
everyone gets to do in their workdays.
To mark the 70th anniversary of
its commissioning on August 16, the
Intrepid hosted a celebration. We
typically have about 40 to 50 former
crew members who visit here, but we
worked for about a year to find 300
former crew members, Marenoff-
Zausner said. They and their families
came on board. It was the first time for
many of them to be back at the ship, and
for many of them it will be the last time.
Fourteen of them were plank
owners, she continued. Flight decks on
aircraft carriers originally were made of
wood, which soon was replaced by steel.
The original crew the men who were
part of the Intrepids crew when it was
commissioned were given thick, solid,
polished rectangles planks from that
original floor. We had a ceremony, with
300 men and their families, she said.
It was about 1,200 people from all over
the country. We had the planks stored.
We also offered eight weeks of summer
camp, so we decided to have members
of the youngest generation give bits of
the plank back to the oldest generation
the greatest generation.
So here were these 12- and 13-year-old
boys and girls, and the youngest and the
oldest generations were hugging each
other.
It was beautiful, she said. Her eyes
misted. This is why I love what I do.
And there were so many stories told
during that celebration! She could retell
just a few of them.
We opened the New York Stock
Exchange that day, she said. When
you get there, they walk you through
the exchange first. Im walking in
front, everyone i s standing, and
everyone applauds. The guys from
every generation of service were being
applauded. They were so affected that
they were crying.
What was particularly impactful for
me was that I cant tell you how many
Vietnam vets said that they heard more
thank-yous that day then they ever had
since they came back from the service.
And the stories from that day!
There was a son who came his
father had passed away his father
never spoke of his service. The son came
to the reunion, and said that he heard
more stories from his fathers bunkmate,
whom he met there, than he had ever
heard before.
There was another story, from one
of our crew members. There was a blast
one day, he said, and he knew that there
had been shrapnel. He was fine, until
one day he had to wear whites for a
ceremony. They had to roll their pants
up very tight; when he unrolled them
there were little holes all over the legs.
Shrapnel.
He pulled out a piece of shrapnel
from his pocket, which he has carried
with him for 70 years. It would have
killed him if he had been in front of his
locker then.
Susan Marenoff-Zausner is married
to Daniel Zausner. The couple has two
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children Samuel, 5, and Eli, 4.
In her copious free time (it seems as if
she would have about 5 seconds in the
middle of the night, but somehow she
seems to find more), Marenoff-Zausner is
active at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades
in Tenafly.
We moved to Tenafly from the city in
2008, she said. We were looking for our
kids future. We knew people there who
spoke very highly of the JCC as a central
part of their suburban lives.
I scoped it out for programs like
Mommy and Me I was on maternity
leave then. I hadnt thought of JCCs
as being like this place, a thriving
institution, with so many incredible
offerings. It is very sophisticated,
both in its physical structure and in its
programming, she said.
She went from the JCCs membership
committee to chairing the marketing
committee, and was on the team that
worked on its mission, vision, and goal
statement. She now sits on its board
as well. I try to be available when I am
needed, because it is a very similar entity
to the Intrepid in the sense that there is
a whole sales and revenue side of things,
that thrives on membership, and then
the program side. There are hundreds of
programs, and then the compartments of
separate businesses the music school,
the dance school, the nursery school.
Like the Intrepid, some of the JCCs
more glamorous public offerings finance
the social services that form its soul. I am
able to think about it from three levels as
a parent, a board member, and a member
of the community, she said.
Balancing work and home life is no
easier for Marenoff-Zausner than for any
other highly successful and driven parent,
but she works at it.
I also volunteer at my sons school, to
serve lunch there, she continued. Its
very important for me to be a parent, and
to balance that as much as I can, even
though I know I will never feel that I am
doing it well enough. I make sure to do a
mom thing every day before I leave, so that
even if my day is over late, Ive done it.
I have a network of mom friends
who have been my eyes and ears, doing
things like texting me to remember that
tomorrow is superhero day at camp. They
keep me included, and there is such a
sense of community.
I try to do whatever I can to give back
to them, to say thank you.
I feel blessed, she said.
Avi Lewinson, the JCCs executive
director, adores Marenoff-Zausner. I
always call her, he said. Shes articulate,
shes bright, she understands what were
doing.
I call her for advice because as heads of
not-for-profits we share some things. There
has never been a time when I have gotten
off the phone and not felt wiser, better
prepared, that I have more knowledge.
My biggest worry is that I will burn her
out.
She has a way about her. At every meet-
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feel part of the process. She knows that
their thoughts, their comments, their feel-
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Putin party and drug dealers lose city
to tough Jew with checkered past
Cnaan Liphshiz
YEKaTERinBURG, RUssia Growing
up in one of the Soviet Unions richest cit-
ies, Elena Chudnovskaya never imagined
that she would be raising her daughter in a
place so full of drug addicts that the flow-
erbeds became strewn with syringes.
But that is what became of her down-
town apartment block after the collapse
of communism, when soaring unemploy-
ment and the proximity to drug-producing
countries unleashed a narcotics epidemic
of alarming proportions in this district
capital of 1.3 million people 900 miles east
of Moscow.
Over the past decade, however, every-
thing changed. Chudnovskaya and her
15-year-old daughter gradually forgot to
look out for the junkies, who are now a
rare sight in Yekaterinburg.
For this change, she credits the man she
helped elect mayor last month: Yevgeny
Roizman, a tough-minded activist who
parlayed his successful record addressing
the citys drug problem into a rare defeat
for one of President Vladimir Putins pre-
ferred candidates.
People in the drug business were
already scared of Roizman before he
was elected, Chudnovskaya said. Now
theyre talking about finding a different
place to live.
Even before he became mayor of Rus-
sias fourth-largest city, Roizman, 51, was
an international celebrity thanks to the
success of City Without Drugs, the organi-
zation he set up in 1999 that is widely cred-
ited with effecting a dramatic transforma-
tion in Yekaterinburg.
But the change has not come cost-free.
Allegations of violence and intimidation
have dogged Roizman and the organiza-
tions staff, which engaged in radical prac-
tices such as abducting drug addicts and
chaining them to metal beds while they
endured anguished withdrawals.
We raised the drug issue and today
there is practically no heroin being sold
in this city, said Roizman, a 6-foot-2-
inch hunk of muscle who wears skintight
T-shirts and sneakers to work.
City without Drugs now works with
law enforcement, but it began as a rogue
agency. Over the years it has treated
more than 6,500 addicts and helped arrest
and prosecute more than 3,300 suspected
drug dealers, according to the organiza-
tions own figures.
Roizman, who spent two years in jail
for theft during the 1980s, says he knows
how to communicate with drug users.
But prosecutors say the organizations
methods go well beyond communicating.
One addict, Tatyana Kuznetsova, died
last year after being chained to a bed by
City Without Drugs. Two of Roizmans
associates are on trial for her death from
meningitis, which prosecutors say turned
lethal because she was denied medical
treatment for days.
In fighting the drug problem, he did
illegal things that I couldnt condone,
said Fyodor Krasheninnikov, a democracy
activist who used to work with Roizman.
He is too harsh. To Roizman, anyone
who tried drugs is a junkie who needs to
be punished.
In an interview at his office, Roizman
sandwiches short answers to a reporters
questions between meetings with citizens
whose concerns he receives two days a
week, a tradition he brought to city hall
from his days at City Without Drugs. Asked
about rumors that his former organiza-
tion tortured drug dealers on the graves of
people who died because of their product,
Roizman is ambiguous.
Maybe stuff like that happened else-
where. Around here, we solved the prob-
lem in simpler ways, he said, declining to
elaborate.
In recent years, Roizman has been the
subject of several police investigations
connected to complaints by addicts who
spent time at City Without Drugs facilities.
In past interviews, he has said that author-
ities wanted City Without Drugs to cease
operations not because of their illegal
tactics, but because they were trying to
hide their own incompetence.
That argument, coupled with a sharp
drop in drug-related offenses, seemed to
resonate with Yekaterinburgs voters, who
gave Roizman 33 percent of the ballots in
elections last month. Yakov Sillin, the can-
didate of Putins United Russia party, gar-
nered 29 percent.
That kind of success is unusual in Putins
Russia, where United Russia candidates
trumped challengers in the vast major-
ity of municipal races on September 9.
That includes the races in Moscow, where
the opposition is particularly well-orga-
nized. In the capital, Mayor Boris Sobya-
nin clinched a victory with 51 percent of
the vote over opposition leader Alexei
Navalny, who received 27 percent.
Those who have worked with Roizman
say his successful war on drugs is only part
of his popularity. The son of a Jewish fac-
tory worker, Roizman left home at 14 and
worked odd jobs before he found trouble
with the law for stealing jewelry and cloth-
ing. He likes to collect Christian iconogra-
phy and has a cozy relationship with the
church.
He is highly cultured but knows how
to work with his hands, said Konstantin
Kiselev, a political scientist who worked
on Roizmans campaign. He writes poetry
but knows how to get along with criminals.
There is something for everyone in him.
Though he has never concealed his Jew-
ish origins, Roizman says he never felt like
a member of any minority.
It was never an issue and I never felt
any anti-Semitism, but thats perhaps
because of the kind of person I am, Roiz-
man said, one palm casually wrapped
around a clenched fist.
Only three weeks into his job as mayor,
Roizman wears a harried expression as he
darts in and out of conference rooms. He
relaxes as he sits opposite a weeping sep-
tuagenarian who complains that she cant
afford heating.
Chudnovskaya thinks this sort of retail
politics is comfortable for Roizman, who
was used to hearing public complaints at
City Without Drugs.
Maybe hes a bit rough around the
edges, she said. But this city, with its
miner community and so far removed
from Moscow, has always been Russias
equivalent of Americas Wild West. We
dont mind that sort of thing here.
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in reported beating of Jewish man by police
Cnaan Liphshiz
KIEV, Ukraine The police station on Ste-
fan Bandera Street in Lviv used to be just
another government building to Dmitry
Flekman.
But that changed earlier this month, fol-
lowing a nine-hour interrogation by two
detectives, who were accused of tortur-
ing and humiliating the 29-year-old Jewish
businessman.
Its an incident that some see as indica-
tive of rising nationalism and anti-Semi-
tism in Ukraine.
Many people here want to move away
from Soviet days to the Western model,
but that can only happen if the fundamen-
tal rights of law-abiding people like me are
respected, Flekman said last week. To
me, its a symbol of injustice.
Flekmans ordeal began October 1, when
the officers arrested him on his way back
from the bank. At the police station, Fle-
kman says, the officers tried to extort
$10,000 from him.
They picked on me because they
thought they could get money out of it, but
it turned anti-Semitic when they discovered
my mothers maiden name is Rosenberg,
he said, adding, One of them told me hed
do to me what Hitler did and beat me.
After the first beating, one of the officers
urinated on Flekman and fractured his tail-
bone with blows to the back, Flekman told
prosecutors. Flekman also said the officers
forced him to sit on the floor, explaining
the chair was not for stinking Jews.
Ukrainian authorities have not named
either detective.
Flekman eventually was released and
collapsed on the street, where passersby
helped him get to a hospital. Police said he
was not harmed during his arrest, but the
Lviv prosecutors office has opened a crim-
inal investigation based on medical reports
that show his injuries could only have
been caused by blows with a blunt object.
Anti-Semitic assaults are rare in Ukraine.
But the severity of Flekmans beating and
its timing just days before a violent
nationalist march and a major conference
on fighting anti-Semitism, both in Kiev
underline the growing vulnerability of the
Jewish community in a country riven by a
cultural and linguistic divide and beset by
growing nationalism.
This is a case of anti-Semitism by state
officials, which makes it extremely seri-
ous, Meylakh Sheykhet, a Jewish human
rights activist, said. Maybe western
Ukraine has a special anti-Semitism prob-
lem; I dont know. Its complicated.
Lviv is considered the cultural capital
of western Ukraine, a Ukrainian-speak-
ing region that was part of Poland before
World War II and is the locus of much
of the countrys nationalist and xeno-
phobic sentiment. Most Jews live in the
Russian-speaking East.
The precursor to the ultranationalist
Svoboda party was founded in Lviv in the
1990s, and the city remains a hotbed of
support. Svoboda, whose leaders routinely
use anti-Semitic slogans and refer to Jews
as kikes, entered parliament for the first
time last year, winning 10 percent of the
vote to become the countrys fourth largest
party. The party won 38 percent of the vote
in Lviv, compared to only 17 percent in Kiev.
Oleksandr Feldman, a member of parlia-
ment and president of the Ukrainian Jewish
Committee, declined to comment on the
Flekman case, but he acknowledged that
Jews feel increasingly targeted by national-
ists emboldened by Svobodas success.
Dmitry Flekman claims he was as-
saulted by two Ukrainian policemen in
Lviv who tried to extort money.
Maybe
western
Ukraine has
a special
anti-Semitism
problem.
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Even if Svoboda is not perpetrating the attacks, their
activities strengthen the anti-Semitic sentiments we are
trying to counter, Feldman said.
Last week, Feldman organized a conference in Kiev
to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the acquittal
of Mendel Beilis, a Jew whom czarist authorities tried to
frame for the ritual murder of a Christian child. Hun-
dreds of local and foreign dignitaries listened as speakers
related the history of anti-Semitic blood libels.
There is anti-Semitism in Ukraine and we need to fight
relentlessly, Feldman said. But there isnt the state anti-
Semitism that existed a century or even a few decades ago.
Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul said at
the conference that the country has made huge prog-
ress in safeguarding minority rights. But some critics
charge that Ukraine hasnt done nearly enough to combat
anti-Semitism.
Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Simon Wiesenthal Cen-
ters Jerusalem office, said the street where Flekman was
assaulted, named for the nationalist Ukrainian politician
Bandera, is a reminder that Ukraine refuses to fully con-
front the lessons of history. The center has protested the
honoring of Bandera, whose troops are believed to have
killed thousands of Jews when they were allies of the
Nazis in 1941.
But little progress has been made, as many Ukrainians
consider Bandera a hero because he fought Russian com-
munists in a failed effort to prevent the countrys annexa-
tion by the Soviet Union.
Glorification of Nazis and extremist nationalism is part
of an atmosphere that affects Jews on the ground, Zuroff
said.
Even as guests were convening for the conference, Svo-
boda was organizing its annual October 14 march honoring
Bandera. The march had become an important date for
neo-Nazis since Svoboda started organizing it in 2005. This
year, the march featured masked men who clashed with
communist protesters in several violent scuffles in Kiev.
Such activity has been part of a wider rise of far-right
nationalist parties throughout Central and Eastern Europe
in recent years. Hungarys Jobbik party and Golden Dawn
in Greece have adopted anti-Semitic imagery and slogans
as part of their wider resistance to ethnic minorities and
the encroaching authority of the European Union.
But historic animosity between Ukrainian nationalists
and like-minded groups in nearby countries has created
unexpected setbacks for Svobodas efforts to forge alli-
ances with other nationalist groups. As a result, Svoboda
has become increasingly isolated from pan-European alli-
ances in which Jobbik is active.
There is very little that Europes rising extreme-right
forces have in common, said Rabbi Andrew Baker, the
American Jewish Committees director of international
affairs, except the thread of anti-Semitism woven through
all of them. JTa Wire serviCe
Oleksandr Feldman, a Ukrainian parliamentarian
and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee,
speaking at a conference on anti-Semitism in kiev
on October 15. Ukrainian JeWish CommiTTee
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Facebook feeling amazed
by amount of talent in Israel
One of Facebooks top executives said that the social
media giant, upon acquiring the Israeli technology
startup Onavo, was amazed by the amount of talent it
came across in Israel.
Facebook was amazed by the amount of talent in
such a small country like Israel, Nicola Mendelsohn a
Facebook vice president told Israeli President Shimon
Peres at a technology conference in Tel Aviv, Globes
reported.
Facebooks acquisition of Onavo will enable it to
establish its first headquarters in Israel.
It was a momentous decision for Facebook to open
its first R&D center outside the U.S. We chose Israel in
the knowledge that the best talent is found here, Men-
delsohn said. Jns.org
Former envoy Oren joins
prestigious Israel school
Michael Oren, who served as Israels ambassador to
the U.S. between 2009 and 2013, has accepted a fac-
ulty position at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliyas
Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy,
the college announced Monday.
The IDC Herzliya is a private Israeli institution mod-
eled after the Ivy League universities of the U.S. Its
annual Herzliya Conference is often the forum in which
Israeli leaders make key policy addresses. Oren, who
completed his tenure as Israels envoy several weeks
ago, has a doctorate in Middle East history from Princ-
eton University and was a guest lecturer at Harvard and
Yale universities before becoming a diplomat. Jns.org
Texas A&M University
to open campus in Nazareth
Texas A&M University will open a campus in the north-
ern Israeli city of Nazareth in about a year, Israel Hayom
reported.
Nazareth is the largest Arab city in Israel. Education
Minister Shay Piron said he hoped the new campus
would become an alternative for Israeli Arabs who might
otherwise go to Arab countries for university studies.
I see the new campus as another significant step in
the integration of Israeli Arabs into society, Piron said.
The goal is that Arabs and Jews will study as one at the
campus. Jns.org
Qatar removes Israeli flag
at international swim event
The Qatari body responsible for overseeing the FINA
Swimming World Cup in Doha removed an Israeli flag
from outside one of its venues, and state broadcasters
whited out the Israeli flag on the swimming lanes as they
were seen on TV, Doha News reported.
Aspire Zone, a sporting complex in the Qatari capi-
tal, may have been responding to pressure from local
groups, who expressed opposition to raising the Israeli
flag publicly. Following a tweet that showed a photo-
graph of the Israeli flag alongside several others, a secu-
rity guard told Doha News on Monday that the flag was
removed.
According to the FINA Code of Ethics, no tournament
may allow discrimination on the basis of gender, race,
religion, or political opinion. Jns.org
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Nearly 340 supporters and members of the community
turned out to celebrate the Jewish Home Familys 98th
anniversary at its Annual Gala, which was held at The
Rockleigh in Rockleigh Sunday. The event marked the
organizations care of the elderly in Bergen, North Hud-
son, and Rockland counties, and honored Temple Emanu-
El of Closter.
The synagogue, led by Rabbi David-Seth Kirshner, has
developed and participated in many programs with Jew-
ish Home residents, including the monthly Shabbat Ser-
vice Family Program; Family Nite programs; Youth Mitz-
vah programs; volunteer outreach, and participation in
the Jewish Homes Holiday Hot Kosher Meals-on-Wheels
program.
Tonight we salute Temple Emanu-El of Closter for
its steadfast support of our organization, said Eli Ungar,
chairman of the Jewish Home Family, as he welcomed
the attendees. Caring for the aged in a dignified, loving
manner is exhausting work, and there is no greater source
of support and encouragement than to have fellow com-
munity members, standing side by side, asking how they
can help. We are blessed to have such friends in Temple
Emanu-El and Temple Emanu-El is blessed to have such
wonderful leadership.
David Sharp, president, Jewish Home Foundation,
thanked committee members and co-chairs of this years
journal, which generated $706,000 in support. This jour-
nal is the Jewish Homes most successful to date, he said.
JHFs mission is not only to care for our elderly but to do
so at a level of excellence second to none. In addition, he
thanked the galas chairs Gayle Gerstein, Dianne Nashel,
and Fran Ziegelheim.
Myrna Block, president of the Jewish Home at Rock-
leigh, said: This is the first time the Jewish Home Fam-
ily has honored a synagogue. Their congregants have
reached out and embraced our seniors. Why did they do
this? These are not their parents, grandparents or rela-
tives! Or maybe they are Maybe the true mitzvah is to
treat seniors as if they were all our mothers and fathers.
The Jewish Home Family presented the synagogue
with a personalized lithograph by Mordecai Rosenstein.
It was accepted by Deborah Tuchman, the synagogues
From left, Maggie Kaplen, Dr. Irwin and Margi Hirshberg, and
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Rosenstein at the gala. It was accepted by Deborah Tuchman, the synagogues president. From left, Charles
P. Berkowitz, president and CEO, Jewish Home Family; Eli Ungar, chairman, Jewish Home Family; Rabbi Alex
Freedman; Myrna Block, president, Jewish Home at Rockleigh; Wilson Aboudi, president, Jewish Home As-
sisted Living; Tuchman, and Cantor Israel Singer.
president. She said the synagogue valued
our close relationship with the Jewish
Home and the opportunity to connect
with the residents. She pointed to bnai
mitzvah candidates who continue to visit
the Jewish Home after their bar or bat
mitzvah because of the connection they
make. When we strengthen one another,
we strengthen the Jewish people as a
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Terrorist who plotted bus
bombing killed after
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Israel Defense Forces soldiers shot dead Palestinian
Islamic Jihad terrorist Mohamed Assi near the west
bank village of Bilin on Monday, after he fired shots at
soldiers near the village, Israel Hayom reported.
Assi, 24, was responsible for a terror attack in Tel
Aviv in the last year, in which 29 Israelis were injured
on a bus near the Kirya IDF headquarters, Defense
Minister Moshe Yaalon told reporters on Tuesday.
Army Radio reported that Assi was chased into a
cave in an open field and was killed in the ensuing
gunfight. JNs.org
900 Indian lost Jews
are coming to Israel
The Israeli government unanimously voted Sunday to
bring 899 lost Jews from India to Israel at the end
of this year. The new olim belong to Bnei Menashe,
a group of Indian citizens who are believed to be
descendants of the Jewish tribe of Menashe, one of the
10 lost tribes exiled from the land of Israel nearly
3,000 years ago.
Some members of this group already live in Israel,
with 274 relocated this year. The new immigrants will
begin arriving in December in the wake of the Israeli
government vote. JNs.org
Bill gains to thwart talks
on dividing Jerusalem
Israels Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sun-
day approved a bill proposed by Member of Knesset
Yakov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) stating that the
Israeli government cannot conduct negotiations with
a foreign entity about the division of Jerusalem or its
partial relinquishment without receiving the approval
of 80 Knesset members two-thirds of the legislature.
The bill says, Jerusalem is a city that was reunited.
It will not be divided and no part of it will be handed
over to anyone. Jerusalems sanctity was not given to
outsiders. This bill prevents the possibility that at any
stage in any political process there will be a discussion
about the status of the city of Jerusalem, the joy of the
people in Israel. JNs.org
ADL lists top 10
anti-Israel groups
The pro-Palestinian campus group Students for Jus-
tice in Palestine and the far-left Jewish group Jewish
Voice for Peace are included in the Anti-Defamation
Leagues report on the top 10 anti-Israel organiza-
tions in 2013.
Joining those groups on the list are ANSWER (Act
Now to Stop War and End Racism), American Mus-
lims for Palestine, CODEPINK, Friends of Sabeel-
North America, If Americans Knew/Council for the
National Interest, the Muslim Public Affairs Council,
Neturei Karta, and the U.S. Campaign to End the
Israeli Occupation.
ADL said it considered the criteria of endorse-
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anti-Semitic motifs in programming, while compil-
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WasHInGTon Israeli Prime Minister Ben-
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In recent years, Netanyahu has said the
enmity for Iran shared by Israel and the Arab
states could become a spur to regional recon-
ciliation. Last week, in a speech to the Knes-
set, he noted the many issues on which
Israel and the Arabs have shared interests
could open up new possibilities, including
a peace accord with the Palestinians.
But while experts say that intelligence shar-
ing between Israel and the Persian Gulf states
has grown in recent years, thanks in large
part to the facilitation of the United States,
the possibility of a breakthrough appears to
be overstated.
There may be some common interest on
Iran and how to reply to Muslim Brotherhood
groups, said Brian Katulis, a senior fellow at
the liberal Center for American Progress.
That doesnt mean these countries are going to play ball
with Israel. Its quite a stretch to imply that this means these
countries will coordinate on defense issues with Israel.
Israel has long maintained low-level representations in a
Iran makes odd bedfellows: Is fear of Teheran
drawing Israel and Saudi Arabia together?
few of the smaller Arab Gulf states. But
any serious breakthrough would likely
hinge on Saudi Arabia, which enjoys
outsized influence in the Arab world
because of its unparalleled oil wealth
and curatorship of the holiest Islamic
sites.
Simon Henderson, the director of
the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at
the Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, said there had been increased
rapprochement in recent years among
Israel, the Saudis, and the Gulf states
because of shared concerns over Iran
and the Arab Spring.
For many years, the Israeli Mossad
and the Saudi General Intelligence
directorate have maintained a back-
channel communications link, Hen-
derson said.
Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud, the
Saudi ambassador to Washington from
2005 to 2007, acknowledged his coun-
trys interest in preventing a nuclear Iran and tamping
down extreme forms of Islamism, but blamed Israeli
recalcitrance for the failure to achieve a breakthrough
in relations.
Israel is kept out particularly as far as Saudi Arabia
is concerned because its keeping itself out, Turki said
this week at the annual conference of the National Ira-
nian American Council.
Turki noted that the 2002 Arab League peace offer,
which proposed comprehensive peace in exchange for
an Israeli return to the 1967 lines, was unrequited.
No one has come forward and said lets sit down
and talk about it, Turki said. If Israel is isolated in the
area, it is because it chooses to be isolated.
The sticking point is not only Israeli-Palestinian
issues, Katulis said, but Israels insistence on keeping
alive the possibility of a military strike on Iran. He said
the Arabs are deeply divided on the issue.
In his Knesset speech, which marked the 40th anni-
versary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Netanyahu said
a main takeaway of the war was that preemption was
a valuable tool and should not be ruled out. Such talk
spooked Turki.
A preemptive strike would be catastrophic for the
area and completely within the purview of a personal-
ity like Mr. Netanyahu, Turki said. JTa WIRe seRvIce
Former Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud confers
with Israeli strategic affairs analyst Yossi Alpher at the National Iranian American
Council conference in Washington on October 15. nIac
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Israeli Mossad and
the Saudi General
Intelligence
directorate have
maintained a
backchannel
communications link.
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Bloomberg flattered by inaugural Jewish Nobel Prize
Julie Wiener
In August, New York Mayor Michael Bloom-
berg told New York magazine, Wouldnt it
be great if we could get all the Russian bil-
lionaires to move here?
Today, the Russian billionaires or at
least some Jewish ones returned the com-
pliment, naming Bloomberg the first win-
ner of the Genesis Prize.
The new $1 million prize, administered
by a partnership that includes the Genesis
Philanthropy Group and the Israeli govern-
ment, is intended to show the importance
of Jewish values to the fulfillment of human
potential and to the betterment of the
world, and to highlight that importance
to strengthen Jewish identity and combat
assimilation.
On Monday, at a news conference sched-
uled to announce the consolidation of
New York City vehicles, Bloomberg said
he was flattered to have received what is
being called the Jewish Nobel Prize but
acknowledged, I dont need the money.
Bloomberg, who reportedly is worth $31
billion, said he would probably donate the
money to a cause in the Middle East.
I want it to go for something unconven-
tional that my foundation hasnt supported
in the past, he said.
Bloomberg has supported Jewish causes,
including the dedication of a women and
child center at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusa-
lem in honor of his late mother, and Magen
David Adom, the emergency medical ser-
vice. But the bulk of his philanthropy has
been to non-Jewish causes, most notably
his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University,
to which he has donated more than $1
billion.
Wayne Firestone, the former Hillel Inter-
national president who now runs the Gen-
esis Prize Foundation, said that Bloomberg
is a very sophisticated philanthropist who
has made a huge impact globally and is an
outspoken friend of Israel.
Asked how the 71-year-old outgoing
mayor will inspire young Jews, Fires-
tone said Genesis will be embarking on a
process to introduce him to
younger Jews and arrange
forums for him to interact
with young Jews, although he
acknowledged that Bloom-
berg hasnt planned his post-
mayoral schedule.
Bloomberg will complete
his third term as mayor of
New York at the end of the
year.
The awarding of $1 million
to a well-known public figure
with a huge personal fortune
spurred some head scratch-
ing and ridicule in the Jew-
ish communal world. One
foundation leader who asked
not to be identified said in an
email that the reaction in her
office has been one of some
surprise.
Most had expected the prize would
bring into the light someone doing amaz-
ingly deep unknown work, someone who
needs the prize to advance
that work and perhaps some-
one better to relate to the
very demographic the prize
seeks to attract, she said.
Writing in the New Repub-
lic, Marc Tracy noted that
awarding Bloomberg $1 mil-
lion is like giving the average
U.S. household $1.56.
The soon-to-be-ex-mayor
is a great philanthropist,
Tracy wrote. Which begs the
question of whether the Gen-
esis Philanthropy Groups
$100 million endowment
couldnt be put to wiser use.
But Ilia Salita, executive
director of Genesis Philan-
thropy Group North Amer-
ica, said younger generations
are inspired by innovation.
There is hardly a better example of
innovators than Bloomberg, Salita said.
JTA Wire Service
New York Mayor
Michael Bloomberg,
shown here at the
National Tennis
Center on August
26, was named the
first winner of the
Genesis Prize.
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to Orthodox burial rituals
Julie Wiener
When his cousin died unexpectedly a few years ago,
Hal Miller-Jacobs was recruited to oversee the funeral
arrangements and wound up helping with the tahara
the traditional preparation of the body for burial.
For the first time in his life, the 76-year-old computer
professional joined with other volunteers
in carefully washing, cleaning, and dress-
ing the body in a simple white shroud.
It was probably the most moving Jew-
ish experience I ever had in my life,
Miller-Jacobs said.
But when he tried to volunteer with
his local chevra kadisha, or Jewish burial
society, he was turned away. Miller-
Jacobs said he believes its because he is
not Orthodox.
So Miller-Jacobs teamed up with Judith
Himber, a friend and fellow congregant at
his Conservative synagogue in Lexington,
Mass., to launch Community Hevra Kadi-
sha of Greater Boston, an inclusive Jewish
burial society.
We have no dissatisfaction with the
work they do, Miller-Jacobs said of the
society that declined his membership.
Were just looking to open this up to
more people.
(Henry Feuerstein, the coordinator for the Boston-
area chevra kadisha Miller-Jacobs sought to join, did not
respond to a call for comment.)
Often cloaked in secrecy, Jewish burial societies and
traditional Jewish funeral rituals are largely unfamiliar to
most non-Orthodox American Jews, who generally out-
source the details of preparation and burial to funeral
homes. Many American Jews increasingly are opting for
cremation, long a Jewish taboo.
But now a growing network of liberal and pluralistic
burial societies like the fledgling Boston one are hoping
to popularize traditions that they believe offer powerful
spiritual experiences and comfort in the face of death
and loss.
I see this as a major educational opportunity for the
American Jewish community and frankly as a way for
serving aging baby boomers, said Stuart Kelman, a Con-
servative rabbi who is the dean of the Gamliel Institute, a
training center that provides online courses addressing
the how-tos of chevra kadisha work.
Theyre beginning to realize theyre going to die, and
theyre going to come to the question of what is that all
about, what do I do, what happens, how do I talk about
this? Kelman said. The secular world is not prepared
to deal with that, but the religious world is. And Im
hoping to create a large cadre of individuals around the
country who will be able to deal with those questions
and help guide the aging baby boomer population into
settings ideally synagogues where these questions
will be talked about openly, respectfully, and Jewishly.
Kelman says many Orthodox burial societies will use
only Orthodox chevra kadisha members because they
believe that those participating in the mitzvah of pre-
paring the dead for burial must be Sabbath-observant.
Kelmans institute seeks to broaden chevra kadisha soci-
eties beyond the Orthodox world.
In Boston, Community Hevra Kadi-
sha has recruited more than 20 partner
synagogues and obtained permission
to perform pre-burial rituals in a Jew-
ish funeral home. It recently hosted a
two-day training session attended by
100 would-be volunteers and recruited
a board that includes bestselling author
Anita Diamant.
Diamant is hoping to do for Jew-
ish burial something similar to what
she did for Jewish ritual baths with
the founding a decade ago of Mayyim
Hayyim, a pluralist mikvah in the
Boston suburbs: Taking an ancient and
often intimidating ritual, traditionally
the sole domain of the Orthodox, and
making it accessible, if not mainstream,
for modern liberal Jews.
It feels like part of the same wonder-
ful movement of liberal Jews owning the
tradition and feeling authentic in their understanding
and practice, Diamant said. Its one of the oldest things
in the world, but its new for us and thats exciting.
The Gamliel Institute is a project of Kavod vNichum,
literally honor and comfort, a 13-year-old national non-
profit that sponsors annual conferences for chevra kadi-
sha groups and offers a variety of training and resource
materials, including a how-to manual outlining tahara
procedures.
The group was recognized this year in Slingshots Jew-
ish innovation guide, no small coup for an organization
focused on death and dying. Slingshot is a nine-year-old
group best known for promoting innovative new pro-
grams that target Jews in their 20s and 30s.
Julie Finkelstein, Slingshots program director,
said Kavod vNichum helps communities offer Jews a
moment for really deep, meaningful, substantive Jew-
ish connection at a time of loss, when they often seek
out religious ritual.
David Zinner, Kavod vNichums founding president
and executive director, got involved in Jewish end-of-life
issues in the mid-1990s, when his Conservative syna-
gogue in Maryland was approached about buying a sec-
tion in a new cemetery. While researching the issue, he
discovered the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of
Greater Washington, a volunteer-run organization that
helps arrange for affordable funerals. Before long, he
was doing a tahara for the first time.
No one knows how many non-Orthodox chevra
Rabbi Stuart Kelman
sees the populariza-
tion of Jewish rituals
around death and
burial as an important
educational opportu-
nity for American Jews.
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oud think Adam Grossman has a pretty
easy job.
After all, with the Boston Red Sox own-
ing one of the most iconic brands in profes-
sional sports and gunning for their third World Series
title in the past decade, how hard could it be to put
fans in the seats at Fenway Park?
But Grossman, the teams 33-year-old vice president
for marketing and brand development, takes nothing
for granted. While players and fans are fixated on the
World Series, which began against the St. Louis Cardi-
nals on Wednesday, hes already preparing for 2014.
The competition is fiercer than in the past, Gross-
man said.
We have to continue to work to get people to the
ballpark, not just once but three or four times a sea-
son, he said recently. And while the Red Sox are
blessed with committed owners willing to invest an
abundance of resources to secure top players every
year, he said, we dont rest on that.
Grossman said the team works hard to enhance the
experience at Fenway, whether a fan is coming to the
ballpark once a year on a family outing or is a season-
ticket holder attending all 81 home games.
For example, Grossman and his staff are tackling
a long-range project to determine how many times a
season-ticket holder actually ventures into the ball-
park rather than gives away or sells the ticket. Prefer-
ences could then be ascertained and the ticket-hold-
ers needs consistently met, Grossman said.
Installing Wi-Fi is another really hot topic for
the Red Sox as it is throughout spectator sports
because fans are seeking more technological access
through which to enjoy a game, such as viewing
replays in multiple angles on their smartphones, he
said.
Grossman eyes fans as consumers with choices
extending beyond Fenway Park. Every Red Sox game
is televised and ticket-resale sites that bypass the box
office are proliferating. Plus there are plenty of other
recreational offerings.
Were talking about an increasingly crowded mar-
ketplace, he said.
Such concerns might seem overstated, given that
the Red Sox sold out Fenway Park for 794 consecu-
tive games. But the 10-year streak ended in April, and
despite the clubs strong rebound from a disastrous
93-loss, last-place season in 2012 to post the American
Leagues best record this year, its home attendance
this season actually dropped by nearly 210,000 fans.
Thats the equivalent of about six games with empty
seats.
According to Baseball-Reference.com, the Red Sox
have not led the American League in attendance since
1975. Of course, thats because even the recently refur-
bished Fenway remains the smallest of the 30 major
league stadiums. Still, only four American League
teams attracted more than the 2.8 million fans who
came to see the Sox play there this season.
Sports remains a bottom-line business on the
field and in the ledger, so Grossman knows he faces
Adam Grossmans dream job:
Packing Fenway Park
challenges.
The Duke University graduate doesnt get much rest his
responsibilities extend to advertising, broadcasting, spon-
sorships, and promoting the team via social media. But
working for one of baseballs flagship organizations, and in
sports management generally, is a dream job, he said.
Grossman joined the Red Sox straight out of Duke in 2002,
and within six years he was named to his current position.
He soon took what he dubbed a three-year sabbatical with
the National Football Leagues Miami Dolphins, handling
public affairs and marketing, before returning to Boston.
He launched his career in sports by networking with Mark
Shapiro, now the president of the Cleveland Indians, Gross-
mans hometown team. But hes become even closer friends
with Shapiros brother David, who runs the Boston-based
MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. Together
they established a Red Sox mentoring program at a high
school next to Fenway Park. And their families Grossman
is married and has a 15-month-old baby have celebrated
several Jewish holidays together and see each other most
Sunday nights.
Grossman obviously has a passion for sports, for sports
place in the community and how sports teams can advance
society, David Shapiro said. Thatll always be a part of the
fabric of who he is.
With the World Series back in Boston, Grossman is enjoy-
ing every moment, although it has meant longer work days
and a shorter off-season to prepare for 2014.
This is what were here for: the players, the organization,
the fans, he said. This is where you want to be, to play in
October. For a while, October felt like a natural extension of
the regular season.
JtA Wire Service
With Boston back in the World Series, Red Sox mar-
keting guru Adam Grossman doesnt mind the longer
work days or shorter preparation time for next season.
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What is behind Israels recent string of Nobel Prize
winners?
It could be that Israelis have a practical way of thinking
and strong strategies for solving difficult problems.
Thats according to Arieh Warshel, who was awarded
the Nobel Prize in chemistry earlier this month for his role
in developing computer programs that simulate large and
complex chemical systems and reactions.
An Israeli-American professor at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles, Warshel, one of an
Israeli Nobel laureate talks about enzymes
AlinA DAin ShAron
all-Jewish team of three researchers sharing the
prize, focused on enzymatic reactions. His fellow
winners are Michael Levitt, a professor at the
Stanford University School of Medicine who holds
Israeli, British, and American citizenships, and
Martin Karplus, a professor at Harvard University
and the University of Strasbourg who holds
American and Austrian citizenships.
Warshel and Levitt join a long list of recent Israeli
Nobel laureates, particularly in chemistry. Professor
Dan Shechtman of the Technion Israel Institute of
Technology won the chemistry prize in 2011, and
Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science
won in 2009.
Warshel said that his main motivation as a scientist
is to be the first to solve how things are working.
If the motivation is to make money those people
wont do original science, Warshel said, calling this
phenomenon equally bad in Israel and in America.
The announcement that Israeli citizens working
abroad, like Warshel and Levitt, had won the
Nobel Prize sparked a media debate in Israel on
the countrys brain drain, where promising
young professionals leave the Jewish state for better
academic and industrial opportunities.
When it comes to governments funding science,
Warshel believes that investing in many smaller
research projects is better than investing in one
flashy project. The work of Warshel and his
counterparts long has been supported by American
federal science grants, but resources are still limited,
and it has become less and less likely that the best
idea will be funded, in both Israel and the United
States, he said.
During the 1960s, working in the laboratory of
Professor Shneior Lifson at the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Rehovot, Warshel and Levitt developed
a computer model describing molecules classically,
as composed of atoms, and predicted the structure
of proteins under various conditions.
According to Warshel, atoms can be described
as balls being bonded by springs. You can model a
molecule by taking actual balls and connecting them
with real springs. Then you can follow how the balls,
representing atoms in a molecule, are connected,
vibrate, and move.
In a manmade model, the balls soon would fall
apart because of gravity, whereas in molecules the
gravitational force is negligible. The alternative to
using that model is to build a computer model that
simulates the behavior of a real molecule. Assuming
that the atoms in the molecule behave according
to Newtons laws of physics, which are expressed
by classical mechanics theory, and encoding the
equations that describe Newtonian movement
into the computer program, the behavior of the
molecular system can be simulated.
But the breaking of a chemical bond cannot be
described using classical mechanics, as a ball and
a spring. Warshels particular interest has been in
modeling enzymatic reactions. Enzyme molecules
are complex proteins that exist in most living
organisms and engage in catalysis, which often
involves the breaking of chemical bonds.
The Schrdinger equation, formulated in the
1920s by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrdinger,
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of atoms. From this development the field of
quantum mechanics evolved. It is an essentially
different way of looking at a molecule, from the
perspective of subatomic particles, like electrons,
that exist inside it.
There are not only springs of bonds to classical
atoms, there are also the effects of the charges on
classical atoms, Warshel said.
Quantum mechanics computer modeling creates
a map of an entire environment, showing where the
electrons are likely to be and allowing researchers
to predict what may happen next. But using
quantum mechanics to calculate and model an
entire environment of atoms that will interact with
themselves, and with the electrons, becomes difficult
for medium or large-sized molecular systems. It
would take years to model larger systems in this way,
so Warshel and his fellow researchers developed
improved computer modeling systems that look at
the molecule both in terms of its classical particles
(atoms) and its subatomic particles, like electrons.
When you do it you actually start to understand
how enzymes work, Warshel said.
The Swedish Nobel Prize academy called the work
by the three scientists ground-breaking in that
they managed to make Newtons classical physics
work side-by-side with the fundamentally different
quantum physics Previously, chemists had to
choose to use either/or.
There are also practical, real-world implications
for the research, both in the commercial world and
in medicine, Warshel said.
For example, laundry detergent often has an
enzyme that helps it digest dirt from clothes.
Hypothetically, the enzyme protein could digest
too slowly, or stop working when the temperature
rises. Since this program allows you to understand
exactly how [an] enzyme is working, you [could
know how to] change some amino acids in the
enzyme, and make it work better, Warshel said.
There are also enzyme proteins in the body that
can mutate and cause cancerous cell division,
according to Warshel. If you understand how they
work, you can try to find a way to make the broken
enzyme not be so effective. In principle you could
look for a drug that when it is bound to the enzyme,
it will make it stop working, he said.
A similar scenario involves the HIV virus. When a
new drug that is blocking an enzyme protein in the
virus is developed, the virus changes sequence and
University of Southern California Professor Arieh
Warshel at an October 9 press conference about
his Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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stops binding well to the drug. But it is possible to look at the
enzymes in the virus and analyze the mutations by which the
virus tried to unbind and evade the drug, and the mutations
that make the normal chemistry of the virus go on. Based on
those two factors, researchers can suggest the next move of
the virus. Its like playing chess, Warshel said.
In the cases where you want to understand how the virus
or parts of it change in order to have resistance to drugs,
knowing to model both the chemistry and the binding, and
also knowing to model how stable the enzyme will be, is
useful, and I believe would be more useful in the future,
he said.
According to statistics recently reported by Haaretz, Jews
make up 0.2 percent of the world population, yet 22 percent
of all Nobel laureates have been Jewish. Warshel suggests
that one factor behind this phenomenon is described in
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History,
a book by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein, which
stipulates that the survival of the Jewish faith and by
extension the survival of the Jewish people has depended
for centuries on the ability to read the Torah, enabling Jews
ultimately to broaden their own education and develop
practical skills. This strongly differentiated Jews from many
other populations, which for centuries were generally
illiterate.
In Warshels estimation, there is yet another theory
behind Jewish scholarly and scientific success, one that is
simpler and hits closer to home.
There is the idea of the Jewish mother, he quipped.
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New JCC to open in Warsaw
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In a sign of the growing revival of Polish Jewish life, a
new Jewish Community Center will open in Warsaw
on Oct. 27.
The new JCC, the second in the country after the
JCC in Krakow, is funded by the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, the Taube Foundation for
Jewish Life & Culture, the Koret Foundation, and other
private donors. It will serve as a hub for the growing
array of Jewish cultural, educational, and community
programs in Polands capital.
Since the end of communism, there has been
greater recognition of Polands Jewish past.
The opening of the JCC is yet another chapter in
the remarkable story of the revival of Jewish life in
this country, Alan Gill, the chief executive of JDC,
said in a statement. JnS.org
Peres recognizes
U.S. company for brain
signal reading implant
Israel President Shimon Peres awarded a $1 million
prize last week to a U.S.-based research team develop-
ing the technology to allow people who are paralyzed
to move items with their mind.
BrainGate is based at Brown University in Rhode
Island and collaborates with Massachusetts General
Hospital, as well as other institutions, to develop a
brain implant capable of reading brain signals and
allowing paralyzed people to move computer cursors
or robotic limbs. The company wants to make Israel
the global center for brain technology. JnS.org
Official calls Israel unique
in response to cyber threat
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin said at a
major global conference on cyber security in South
Korea that due to security threats faced by Israel, the
Jewish state has a record number of young people
who enter the fields of technology and cyber defense
every year.
Israel is a global power in the realm of cyber
defense, Elkin said last Thursday at the Seoul Confer-
ence on Cyberspace, which gathered more than 1,000
representatives from some 90 countries. Due to the
constants threats, Israel uniquely serves the global
community as a live lab for new technologies. We have
turned the threat of cyber attacks into an opportunity
for knowledge and growth. JnS.org
Report: Turkey discloses
Mossad spy network to Iran
Turkey exposed the identities of up to 10 Iranians
working for Israels Mossad intelligence agency in
Iran, The Washington Post reported.
According to sources quoted by columnist David
Ignatius, relations between Israel and Turkey had
deteriorated so greatly early last year that Turk-
ish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave the
order to shop Israeli agents to Iran.
Ignatius wrote that Israel and Turkey have coop-
erated on intelligence for more than 50 years, and
that Israel was blindsided by the Turkish betrayal.
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kadisha groups exist in North America, but
Zinner said he is seeing a steady growth. He
says he personally has led training sessions for
groups seeking to get off the ground in 100 dif-
ferent places over the past decade, including
Los Angeles and Boston.
Were sort of unique in that were more
than an educational organization, Zinner
said. Were also a community-organizing
group.
Michael Slater, a member of Chicagos Pro-
gressive Chevra Kadisha and Kavod vNichums
president, said the national group is in the
process of transforming from a startup into an
established organization.
We think were doing something impor-
tant, that addressing death openly and
through the lens of Jewish tradition and prac-
tice counters the trend toward death denial in
our culture, said Slater, a 47-year-old emer-
gency room doctor. When you dont think
about death and dont approach it in an inten-
tional, focused way, then when it happens its
all the more scary and painful.
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BriefS
Netanyahu notes increase
in Iran nuclear centrifuges
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting dur-
ing his Sunday cabinet meeting on last weeks nuclear talks in
Geneva, noted that the Iran nuclear program has seen more
than a hundredfold increase in centrifuges since 2006.
We must not forget that the Iranian regime has systemati-
cally misled the international community, Netanyahu said.
In 2006, Iran had 167 centrifuges. Today, despite all the bans
and all the promises, they have over 18,000 centrifuges, i.e.,
the number of centrifuges has increased over a hundredfold
during the talks in which they have been called upon to halt
the production of centrifuges related to enrichment. JNS.org
Family of Yad Vashems
first Arab honoree rejects
prize for saving Jews
The family of Egyptian physician Dr. Mohamed Helmy,
the first Arab to receive Yad Vashems Righteous Among
the Nations designation recognizing non-Jews who risked
their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews, has rejected
the honor.
In Germany, Helmy helped 21-year-old Anna Boros (later
Gutman), his family friend, avoid Nazi deportations. He also
helped save Gutmans mother, stepfather, and grandmother.
Yad Vashem was to honor him posthumously.
If any other country offered to honor Helmy, we would
have been happy with it, Mervat Hassan, the wife of Helmys
great-nephew, told the Associated Press.
JNS.org
Woman chosen to lead
Israels central bank
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister
Yair Lapid on Sunday named Dr. Karnit Flug as the ninth gov-
ernor of the Bank of Israel. Flug, who had been serving as
acting chief of Israels central bank, will be the first woman to
hold the position.
Flug has been the deputy governor of the Bank of Israel
since July 2011. In 1984, she joined the International Mon-
etary Fund as an economist and, in 1988, she returned to
Israel and joined the Research Department of the Bank of
Israel, where she worked and published papers on topics
related to the labor market, balance of payments, and mac-
roeconomic policies. JNS.org
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have to make it clear to all that the only way we can keep
giving every child a day school education is if we collectively
raise enough money to make it possible.
All three of these pieces must be put in place immediately,
because they are interdependent. Without tying the needs
directly to fundraising, people wont have the incentive to
give. Without a common set of criteria and standards admin-
istrated by a central body, many people will not feel comfort-
able donating when they are not sure that their charity dol-
lars are being allocated appropriately. And without a trusted
vehicle to collect funds, none of this is possible.
Putting my plan in place in all likelihood will have other
beneits as well. We would ind out that there are many fami-
lies who really could afford to pay in full but have dificulty
differentiating between necessities and luxuries and therefore
make poor choices. I do not think that most families are in
this category, but it is a large enough minority to make a real
difference.
But of course there would be many families who still
couldnt afford to pay full freight, even if they live very mod-
estly, and even if they are charged at reduced rates. What hap-
pens if the community isnt able to raise the funds to cover the
combined need? Will some children ind that they have been
shut out from all day schools?
Id like to believe that we as a community will step up and
raise the required funds to ensure that every Jewish child can
receive a Jewish education. But I obviously cant be certain.
And if we fall down in this arena, then well have been kidding
ourselves all along that we really have this value that every
child is entitled to a Jewish education.
I have reached out to lay leaders and philanthropists
in our community. The message I heard was loud and
clear. There are many generous people who are capable
of making seven or even eight igure gifts who really want
to support Jewish education. But they wont give until we
get our inancial house in order. Nobody wants to throw
good money after bad, and these donors want to see real
reform before they step up to the plate.
While what Im suggesting might seem overly pro-
vocative or radical, the truth is that the leaders of our
day schools have considered all three parts of this plan
already. Many past and current presidents, board mem-
bers, and other lay leaders support these ideas.
Why hasnt any progress been made? Its simple. We
are comfortable with the status quo because thats what
we are used to. Change is hard. This system has been
around for a long time. And when it was created many
decades ago, maybe 5 percent of the population received
aid. Todays realities are far more complex, the needs are
far greater, and a revamp of the system is in order.
So if youre reading this and you agree with me, what
can you do to help foster change? First and foremost,
speak to your childrens school. Contact the president
and executive board members. They all will have read
this piece. Tell them that you agree with it, and that
you want to see them act on it. If youre giving to your
schools scholarship fund, insist that concrete steps
are taken to move in the direction Ive outlined before
pledging this year.
You can also speak to the rabbi of your shul. Impress
upon him the importance of taking these measures and of
advocating that his congregants donate to such a central-
ized fund just as they advocate supporting other worthy
local institutions.
Let me share one proactive step Ive taken to make
my voice heard, a step that I hope you will join me in
supporting.
In the past, I have given generously to the scholarship
fund at my childrens school. I no longer do so, because I
came to realize that not only wasnt my contribution mak-
ing a positive impact, but it was making the problem even
worse in the long run. I told the heads of the fundraising
committee that I would happily donate three times what
I used to give if they would revamp the system along the
lines Ive outlined here.
I look forward to the day when I can fulill my pledge. I
know many others who feel the same way.
We need to prioritize Jewish education with our char-
ity dollars, and the proposal I made is the only way I see
of getting there. Many approaches have been tried in the
past, but none has been as comprehensive as what Im
suggesting.
I passionately believe that every Jewish family should
contribute, each according to its inancial means, to
enable every Jewish child to receive a high-quality day
school education. In order to ensure that this becomes
a reality for future generations, I ask others to join me in
urging our schools to adopt this proposal before they con-
tribute further to existing scholarship funds.
Taking the steps Ive outlined above as soon as possible
will convince donors that we are serious about creating
a sustainable inancial model, that their dollars will go to
those truly in need, and that their generosity will enable
every Jewish child to receive the Jewish education he or
she so rightly deserves. We then will collectively open our
hearts and our wallets and give generously to ensure the
survival and viability of our educational institutions, and
ultimately of our community.
Gershon Distenfeld lives in Bergenield. The opinions
expressed above are his own and are not necessarily those
of the organizations or institutions he is involved with.
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16. walter Benjamin subject
17. some Geniza collectors
18. agudath israel of america spokes-
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24. site famous for scrolls
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30. 1938 refugee conference location
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samuels
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38. Father of american anthropology
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42. Prayerbook first published in 1981
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49. holocaust survivor and author Gross
50. Grouchos specialty
51. telushkins Jewish Literacy: the
most important things to know ___
Jewish religion...
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could boil the fat off a taxicab
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59. american Jewish Zionist volunteer
group
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61. ____ aduma (the red calf of temple
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young Jews hiding from the Nazis would
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were able to speak Lithuanian.
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theaters on October 25, is a moody
romantic drama that begins in a Toronto
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watching a lot of the HBO series Six
Feet Under. I became fascinated with
the dead, in the way
when someone dies
their body remains,
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image of a man sitting
in a room with a dead
body came to her, she
translated that image
into the Jewish tradition
of never l eavi ng a
dead body alone. The
shomer the watcher
is there to keep the
soul company, Jaye
said, according to a
belief that the soul stays with the body
until it is buried.
In The Pin, an elderly shomer
suddenly realizes that the corpse on the
table is the body of the young woman
he fell in love with more than 50 years
earlier. Using flashbacks, Jaye shows how
the man and woman meet and slowly
become more and more attracted to
one another. The first draft of the script
had two young people hiding in a barn,
terrified of being discovered. What
would they be doing with [their] lives
under such great threat? Ultimately, they
are just teenagers, Jaye said, explaining
that she felt she had to capture the
natural tendency of young people to
search for love and comfort, even in the
most extreme circumstances.
Once she had the script, Jaye had to
find actors. Not surprisingly, we didnt
find anyone who could speak Yiddish
at that age, so she decided to put out a
casting call for foreign-language actors
who were willing and able to learn a new
language. The excellent lead actors in the
film, Milda Gecaite and Grisha Pasternak,
are Russian and Ukrainian. Neither spoke
Yiddish, so Jaye had the script translated,
then videotaped the translator reading a
story in Yiddish and sent it to actors. The
actors memorized their lines phonetically,
and although they are saying dialogue
they dont really understand, they are
completely convincing.
Everything had a million steps, Jaye
said. What I asked them to do was a
Herculean task.
Although the Yiddish sounds very
natural, the experience of watching
The Pin is much closer to watching any
subtitled foreign-language art film than
it is to immersing yourself in Yiddish or
Jewish culture. Jayes camera establishes
a languid, sensual rhythm, punctuated by
moments of high tension, and the images
do most of the storytelling.
Like most Canadians, Jaye speaks
French and English. Her parents, who are
of British and South African heritage, dont
speak Yiddish, but Jaye met many Yiddish-
speaking Holocaust survivors once she
began the project. Although the Toronto
Jewish community didnt offer much
financial support, the Yiddish community
was very helpful once the project got
funded, she said. The film is being
distributed by Main Street Distributors
and has been shown at many Jewish film
festivals.
A native Torontonian, Jaye originally
studied theater design and worked as a
costume designer. She made her first short
film at 28, a fairly advanced age these days,
she said, but shes hooked now. Im very
passionate about it and I cant imagine
doing anything else.
Jaye is working on a second feature film
based on the novel by Martha Baillie, The
Incident Report, as well as on a klezmer
musical. Well have to wait and see if either
will be in Yiddish.
Naomi Jaye
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offers its first innovative
shabbat service with
a celebration of the
music, teachings, and
life of rabbi shlomo
Carlebach, 7:30 p.m.
the shuls rabbi debra
Orenstein and Cantor
Lenny Mandel both had
personal relationships
with Carlebach. 53
Palisade ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
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., for a
concert after services.
585 russell ave. (201)
891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Saturday
october 26
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
temple Beth rishon
offers a torah discussion
group with rabbi Marley
weiner, 9 a.m. at 10,
rabbi Ziona Zelazo leads
an alternative shabbat
experience. 585 russell
ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
temple emanu-el offers
shabbat Beyachad for
young children and their
parents, 10:15 a.m., and
a taste of talmud after
kiddush. 180 Piermont
road. (201) 750-9997.
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
holds a boutique with
items including jewelry,
clothing, toys, childrens
accessories, and home
dcor, 10 a.m.4 p.m. 1
engle st. (201) 568-6867.
Film in Paramus:
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah shows twin
sisters as part of the
Paramus Jewish Film
Festival, hosted by
Cantor sam weiss,
1:30 p.m. east 304
Midland ave. (201) 262-
7691.
Christianity and Jewish
context: rabbi david
J. Fine, Ph.d. continues
an adult education
program at temple israel
of ridgewood with the
history of Judaism and
Christianity, 10:30 a.m.
First session, the Origins
of Christianity and its
ancient Jewish Context.
Course runs weekly
through december 15.
475 Grove st. (201)
444-9320 or office@
synagogue.org.
Carol Roth
CourTESy yJCC
Childrens authors in
Washington Township:
authors Carol roth and
devyn rose read their
books at the Bergen
County YJCC, 10:30 a.m.,
in conjunction with the
annual sefer Celebration:
a Festival of Childrens
Books. roth will read
Little Bunnys sleepless
night and rose will
read Little Girls should
not wear Make-up.
Book sale, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.;
Monday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
sale benefits the YJCCs
william seth Glazer
Childrens Book Fund.
605 Pascack road. amy
nelson, (201) 666-6610,
ext. 5662, or anelson@
yjcc.org.
Adult ed in Fair Lawn:
rabbi Baruch Zeilicovich
continues rethinking
the Covenant at temple
Beth sholom in Fair
Lawn with what Makes
the Covenant alive,
10:30 a.m. Program
based on this summers
rabbinic torah study
seminar at the hartman
institute in Jerusalem.
40-25 Fair Lawn ave.
(201) 797-9321, ext. 415,
or adulted@tbsfl.org.
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter
Chumash publication
celebration in Teaneck:
OU Press, the publishing
division of the Orthodox
Union, celebrates the
publication of the
Chumash Mesoras
harav on sefer
Bereishis (Genesis) at
Congregation Keter
torah, 8 p.m. rabbi
Jacob J. schacter, a
scholar and student of
the ravs teachings, will
be the speaker. 600
roemer ave. (201) 907-
0180.
Monday
october 28
Erica Danzinger
Senior program in
Wayne: the Chabad
Center of Passaic
County continues its
smile on seniors
program at the center,
11 a.m. erica danzinger,
holistic health coach
and owner of nature
Girl wellness, offers
tips on cold/flu-fighting
foods and combating
sugar cravings during
the winter months. $5.
194 ratzer road. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Learning Torah in
Closter: Project aliyah
meets to read the
mysteries of the torah
with Cantor israel singer,
at temple emanu-el,
7:30 p.m. 180 Piermont
road. (201) 750-9997.
Bob Gordon
Senator at Hadassah
meeting: state sen.
Bob Gordon (d-38th
dist.) is among the
guest speakers for the
opening meeting of
Fair Lawn chapter of
hadassah at the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai israel,
7:45 p.m. he will give an
update from trenton.
dr. Joel M. Friedman
of einstein College of
Medicines department
of physiology and
biophysics will discuss
what is Jewish about tai
Chi? 10-10 norma ave.
(201) 796-5040.
Feature film: the
treasure hunting in Film
series at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades
in tenafly continues a
series, top Films of
the decade, with dror
Morehs Oscar-nominated
film the Gatekeeper,
7:30 p.m. in hebrew with
english subtitles. harold
Chapler introduces
the film and leads the
discussion afterwards. 411
east Clinton ave. (201)
408-1493.
Chana Sharfstein
Pioneer rabbis
daughter in Teaneck:
Chana sharfstein, the
daughter of rabbi
Yisroel Zuber, is the
guest speaker for the
Chabad women Circle of
teaneck, 8 p.m. the film,
the Life and Legacy of
rabbi Yisroel Zuber: the
rabbi who Unchained
agunot will be screened.
desserts by rivky.
Artist/photographer Rachel Banai will display her work at
the Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411
East Clinton Ave., Tenafly, from November 1 to 26, with an
opening reception on Sunday, November 3, from 1 to 3 p.m. For
information, call (201) 408-1409 or go to www.jccotp.org.
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Chabad of teaneck,
513 Kenwood Place.
(201) 907-0686 or
rivkygee@aol.com.
Tuesday
october 29
School open house in
Paramus: Ben Porat
Yosef holds an open
house for parents of
prospective students,
toddlers through eighth
graders, 8 p.m. east 243
Frisch Court. ruth roth,
(201) 845-5007, ext. 16,
or benporatyosef.org.
Film in Paramus:
the JCC of Paramus/
Congregation Beth
tikvah shows the
Quarrel as part of
the Paramus Jewish
Film Festival, hosted
by Cantor sam weiss,
8:15 p.m. east 304
Midland ave. (201) 262-
7691.
Wednesday
october 30
Torah study in Closter:
temple emanu-el of
Closter explores the
history, historiography,
tribal nature, and
journeys of the Jewish
people with rabbis
david-seth Kirshner and
david hoffman, 7:30 p.m.
the curriculum is inspired
by hartmans iengage
israel program and the
Jts scholarship. 180
Piermont road. (201)
750-9997.
Stephen Berk
CourTESy GBDS
Jewish history: the
alumni association of
the Gerrard Berman
day school, solomon
schechter of north
Jersey in Oakland hosts
time travel the
Past 28 Years in Jewish
history, featuring
Professor stephen Berk,
at a private home in
wyckoff; reception at
6:45 p.m., presentation
at 8:15. Program includes
an overview of recent
history, dinner, wine,
and dessert. Proceeds
benefit GBds. amy silna
shafron, (201) 337-1111,
ext. 206, or
gbds@ssnj.org.
Networking in Wayne:
the Passaic County
Jewish Business &
Professional network,
hosted by the Chabad
Center of Passaic County,
meets, 7 p.m. 194 ratzer
road. (973) 694-6274, or
www.Jewishwayne.com.
open house in
Englewood: the
Moriah school invites
parents of prospective
students to an open
house, 8 p.m. Faculty
and administrators will
be on hand. tours and
information. 53 south
woodland st. erik
Kessler, (201) 567-0208
ext. 376, ekessler@
moriahschool.org, or
www.moriahschool.org.
Book discussion in Fair
Lawn: Congregation
darchei noam offers
a new book group,
the Jewish-american
experience in Literature,
with a discussion led by
Marshall wilen on the
imported Bridegroom, a
short story by abraham
Cahan, founder of the
Jewish daily Forward,
8:30 p.m. 10-04
alexander ave. (201)
773-4080 or mrkw01@
gmail.com.
Thursday
october 31
Blood drive in Teaneck:
holy name Medical
Center holds a blood
drive with new Jersey
Blood services in the
bloodmobile in the
hospital parking lot,
1-7 p.m. all donors will
receive a red super
Community Blood drive
wristband and will have
the opportunity for a
chance to win two tickets
to super Bowl XLViii. 718
teaneck road. (800)
933-BLOOd or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
Rabbi Paul Jacobson
New rabbi speaking
in river Edge: rabbi
Paul Jacobson, the new
leader of temple avodat
shalom, discusses the
Chain of tradition
at a meeting of river
dell hadassah at the
synagogue, 1:15 p.m.
dairy refreshments. 385
howland ave. (551) 265-
1573.
Friday
NoVeMber 1
Dr. Susannah Heschel
CourTESy CBS
Shabbat in Teaneck:
dr. susannah heschel,
professor of Jewish
studies at dartmouth
College, is the scholar-
in-residence at
Congregation Beth
sholom. Kabbalat
shabbat services
at 5:35 p.m., with a
discussion of the
Legacy of abraham
Joshua heschel: Moral
Grandeur and spiritual
audacity. during
shabbat morning
services at 9 a.m., the
topic will be Judaisms
responses to injustice,
and in the afternoon,
the Formation
of Jewish identity
through scholarship.
reservations requested
for shabbat dinner and
lunch. 354 Maitland
ave. (201) 833-2620 or
office@cbsteaneck.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
temple Beth rishon
holds its monthly family
service, including a story
by the rabbi and songs at
6 p.m.; dinner follows at
7. 585 russell ave. (201)
891-4466 or bethrishon.
org.
Shabbat in river Edge:
temple avodat shalom
offers tot shabbat,
6 p.m., for children up
to 6 years old and their
families. shabbat dinner
with Chinese food at
6:30; family services led
by the seventh grade
and an alternative
service, both at 7:30.
385 howland ave. (201)
489-2463, ext. 202, or
avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai
israel welcomes shabbat
with songs, prayers, and
an intergenerational
drumming circle, 6 p.m.;
traditional services at
8. drums provided; you
can bring a percussion
instrument. 53 Palisade
ave. (201) 265-2272 or
www.bisrael.com.
Saturday
NoVeMber 2
Shabbat in Teaneck:
the Jewish Center of
teaneck offers services
at 9 a.m., followed by
rabbi Lawrence Zierler
discussing For Your
eyes Only? Big Brother
is not Only watching but
Listening too, as part of
the three Cs Cholent,
Cugel, and Conversation.
Kinder shul for 3- to
8-year-olds while parents
attend services, 10:30-
11:45. 70 sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515 or
www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
temple Beth rishon
offers a torah discussion
group with rabbi Marley
weiner, 9 a.m. rabbi
Ziona Zelazo leads an
alternative shabbat
experience at 10. 585
russell ave. (201) 891-
4466 or bethrishon.org.
Tot Shabbat in Closter:
temple Beth el holds
its monthly morning tot
shabbat, led by rabbi
david s. widzer, Cantor
rica timman and
Music Lisa, 9:30 a.m.
221 schraalenburgh
road. (201) 768-5112
or www.tbenv.org.
Sunday
NoVeMber 3
Mitzvah Day: Jewish
Federation of
northern new Jersey
hosts Mitzvah day, a
community-wide day
of volunteering, local
collections, and blood
drives. alice Blass,
(201) 820-3900 or
www.JFnnJ.org.
Atlantic City trip:
hadassahs Fair Lawn
chapter takes a trip to
tropicana Casino hotel.
a bus leaves the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai israel
at 9:15 a.m. Breakfast
served on bus at 9. $30;
includes $25 slot play
money. Bring id and
tropicana rewards card.
10-10 norma ave. Varda,
(201) 791-0327.
School open house
in Elizabeth: the
Jewish educational
Centers Bruriah
high school for Girls
holds an open house,
9:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. 35
north ave. (908) 355-
4850 or www.Bruriah.
theJeC.org.
Holiday craft fair:
residents of the Jewish
home at rockleigh
have a holiday craft
fair with handcrafted
items by local artisans
and a variety of crafts
created by the residents,
live entertainment,
50-50 raffle, and silent
auction, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Proceeds benefit the
Jhr resident fund. 10
Link drive. tracey, (201)
518-1171.
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Saturday
october 26
Anat Cohen
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.
Sunday
NoVeMber 3
Director at museum:
writer/director artemis
Joukowsky iii screens
and discusses his
documentary, the
sharps war, at the
Museum of Jewish
heritage a Living
Memorial to the
holocaust, 2:30 p.m.
in conjunction with
the exhibition against
the Odds: american
Jews and the rescue of
europes refugees, 1933-
1941. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Holiday boutique in
Pearl river: Beth am
temple hosts a gala
holiday vendor boutique
including jewelry,
clothing, tupperware,
crafts, and Pampered
Chef items, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
60 east Madison ave.
(845) 735-5858 or www.
Bethamtemple.org.
Jewish humor
in Monsey: the
Fountainview at College
road and hadassah
host a speakers on
humanities lecture,
im right, Youre
right, hes right too:
Multiple Perspectives
in Jewish humor and
Folklore, with dr. steve
Zeitlin, 2 p.m. 2000
Fountainview drive.
Karen, (845) 426-6757,
ext. 232.
SINGLES
Friday
NoVeMber 1
Shabbat weekend:
Modern Orthodox/
Machmir singles, 25-
39, are welcome to a
shabbat experience in
teaneck/Bergenfield.
weekend includes guest
speakers, shalosh seudot,
and musical havdalah
with david ross. $100
includes all meals. hosted
by rZ ruchlamer and dr.
shani ratzker. (201) 522-
4776, rzr18k@aol.com.
Sunday
NoVeMber 10
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: singles
65+ meet at the JCC
rockland, 11 a.m. 450
west nyack road. Gene
arkin, (845) 356-5525.
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Chabad centers to discuss
BRCA gene in women
The risk of carrying a BRCA gene mutation that causes
breast and ovarian cancer is ten times greater among
women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent than among the
general population. With growing concern over what
preventive measures Jewish women should take and
in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month,
seven local Chabad Centers in Bergen County offer a
seminar, An Ounce of Prevention: BRCA, Genetic Test-
ing, and Preventive Measures.
The class, being held this week at Chabad centers
in Fair Lawn, Fort Lee, Franklin Lakes, Old Tappan,
Teaneck, Tenafly, and Woodcliff Lake, will explore
the biblical requirement to safeguard your health,
and whether it obligates Jews of Ashkenazi descent to
test for BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 gene mutations. It also will
tackle whether Jewish law recommends that women
undergo radical mastectomies or oophorectomies if
they do test positive.
The free class co-sponsored in some locations by
the Susan G. Komen Foundation is the first of a new
six-week course, Life in the Balance, which shares the
Jewish perspective on everyday medical dilemmas. The
course is accredited for Continuing Medical and Legal
Education, and can help medical professionals develop
a greater sensitivity to the concerns and decisions facing
some of their Jewish patients.
One in 40 women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent carries
a BRCA gene mutation, compared to about one in 400 in
the general population. If a woman carries the mutation,
there is a 50 to 80 percent risk that she will develop
breast cancer, starting as early as her 20s, and a 20 to
40 percent risk she will develop ovarian cancer as early
as her 30s.
To attend the Ounce of Prevention class call a local
Chabad center or go to www.myJLI.com.
Teaneck, Holy Name Medical Center team up
to sponsor annual health fair in park center
The Township of Teanecks 32nd
annual health fair will be held on
Friday, November 1, from 9 a.m. to
12:30 p.m., at the Richard Rodda
Community Center at the south end
of Votee Park.
The fair is an annual joint project of
the township and Holy Name Medi-
cal Center, co-sponsored by the
Teaneck Municipal Alliance Against
Substance Abuse.
The f ai r of f ers semi nars
addressing obesity and exercise.
Ot her hi ghl i ght s i ncl ude a
discussion, led by Holy Names
Nancy Ellson, called Lets Move
More, laboratory blood chemistry
services, and an array of screenings
including physical therapy, hearing,
oral cancer, dermatology, blood
pressure, respiratory therapy, and
podiatry.
There will also be exhibits and
displays from health providers,
community groups, and a variety
of local organizations promoting
health, education, and wellness.
Refreshments will be provided.
For information, call (201) 227-
6251 or (201) 837-1600, ext. 1500.
Scholarship fund
seeks applicants
The Alisa Flatow Memorial Scholar-
ship Fund is accepting online applica-
tions for the 2014-2015 academic year
at www.alisafund.org
Awards are made for full-time
study in a yeshiva, seminary, or other
approved program. The application
deadline is February 15.
Si x $4,000 schol arshi ps are
awarded each year. Scholarship,
volunteer activities, and financial
need are some of the f actors
considered. Full details and lists of
previous winners can be obtained at
www.alisafund.org
Nesmith of the Monkees
to perform at bergenPAC
The Bergen Performing Arts
Center in Englewood presents
Michael Nesmith of the Monkees
on Tuesday Nov. 12, at 8 p.m.
Ti ckets are avai l abl e at
www.ticketmaster.com, www.
bergenpac.org, at the box office,
or by calling (201) 227 1030.
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Children at the JCCP/CBT Hebrew Schools first Sunday Spe-
cial program, Fun in the Woods, listen as Elinor Grayzel, a
naturalist educator from the Flat Rock Brook Nature Center in
Englewood, explains a leaf structure. CourTESy JCCP/CBT.
New program
for youngsters
The Jewish Community Center
of Paramus/ Congregation Beth
Tikvah offers a new Sunday Spe-
cial monthly program for local
pre-kindergartners through sec-
ond graders. The programs offer
learning through a different for-
mat each month, with connec-
tions to a Jewish value or Jewish
calendar event.
The second event, Fun in the
Gym, is set for Sunday, November
3, from 10 to 11:15 a.m., with a
certified gymnastics educator.
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sports, and science. Call Marcia
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Murray Berkowitz
Murray Berkowitz, 85, of Wayne died
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Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Zelig Gerson
Zelig Gerson, 92, of Fair Lawn,
formerly of Paterson, died on
October 21.
He was a member and past
treasurer of the Eastside Social Center
and Lodzer Young Mens Society, both
in Fair Lawn.
A Holocaust survivor, he was
predeceased by his four brothers
and two sisters who died during the
Shoah. He is survived by his wife of 67
years, Henia Gerson, daughters, Ruth
Gerson Leff and Eva Gerson Friso
(Tomas); a brother, Harry Gray; and
four grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Grigoriy Krendel
Grigoriy Krendel, 98, of Fair Lawn
died on October 15. Arrangements
were by Louis Suburban Chapel,
Fair Lawn.
Leona Leyton
Leona G. Leyton, ne Grand, 86, of
Jersey City died on October 19.
Born in Atlantic City, she was an
American Contract Bridge League
instructor for Royal Caribbean Cruise
Lines before retiring and received the
Silver Life Master from the American
Contract Bridge League. She was a
member of the Shrine Center Bridge
Club in Livingston.
Predeceased by her husband,
Philip in 2005, she is survived by
a son Arnold (Deanne) of Naples,
Fla., a brother, Arthur Grand of
Hudson, Fla., all formerly of Jersey
City; grandchildren, Jennifer Leyton
McIntyre and Brittany Leyton; and a
niece and nephew.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral
Directors, Hackensack.
Esta Lovett
Esta Lovett of Fort Lee died on
October 22.
She was a professional entertainer
and sang at Radio City Music Hall in
New York City.
Predeceased by a grandson, Taylor
D. Bernsterin, she is survived by
her husband of 57 years, Jack, and a
daughter, Fylissa Bernstein.
Arrangements were by Louis
Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Inge Michel
Inge Michel, ne Moses, 91, of Fort Lee died on October 16.
Born in Germany, she was a secretary for Lehman
Brothers in New York City.
Predeceased by her husband, Martin, she is survived
by her children, Gary (Evelyn) and Lynn Sperandeo
(Richard); a sister, Alice Mathes, and grandchildren,
Craig (Marissa), and Lisa.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels, Inc.,
Fort Lee.
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Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative will cap
its fourth successful year of expanding pre-
ventive and primary medical care services
by honoring three individuals and one cor-
poration at its annual gala, Celebrating the
Culture of Caring, on Thursday, November
7, at 6 p.m. in Florentine Gardens, River
Vale.
Event co-chairs are Cynthia Goldman
and Marilyn Schotz and the honorary co-
chairs are President Peter P. Mercer and Dr.
Jacqueline Ehlert-Mercer of Ramapo College.
The Community Leadership Award will be
presented to Dr. Peter A. Gross, chairman
of the Hackensack Alliance ACO, Hacken-
sack University Medical Center, and Michael
Maron, president and CEO of Holy Name
Medical Center, for their steadfast, generous
support and humanitarian activities.
Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard,
PA, will receive the Corporate Spirit of Giv-
ing Award for its counsel and outstanding
Free elder law seminar
provides CLE credits
Elder law attorney Yale Hauptman of Hauptman &
Hauptman, PC in Livingston. will present a free semi-
nar titled, The Top Ten Things Non-Elder Care Law
Attorneys Need to Know About Elder Law: A Primer
for the Non-Elder Attorney on Thursday, November
14. The seminar will be held at the Lester Senior Hous-
ing Community, 903-905 Route 10 East in Whippany,
in the Heller Multi-Purpose Room. Breakfast will be
served at 8 a.m. and the presentation will run from
8:30 to 10.
The program is open to attorneys in non-elder care
practices as well as other professionals who work with
the elderly. Attending lawyers who submit an evalua-
tion form will receive 1.5 CLE credits that meet 2013
requirements.
Topics to be covered in Hauptmans talk include:
Long term care planning for individuals and busi-
ness owners
Estate planning
Asset protection before or after admission to a
nursing home
Powers of attorney
Some pitfalls of guardianship
Elder law issues for the matrimonial attorney and
personal injury attorney
The ins and outs of Medicaid, a history
Overview of VA benefits
Irrevocable trusts
To register for this elder law seminar online, go to
http://bit.ly/19PTRgM or call Mark Sinclair, commu-
nity liaison coordinator, at (973) 518-0993. The Lester
Senior Housing Community is located on the Aidek-
man campus of the JCC MetroWest in Whippany, N.J.
service to the community. Sen. Loretta
Weinberg will be recognized with a trib-
ute for her early and continued support
of BVM and commitment to ensuring
access to quality health care for all citi-
zens of New Jersey.
BVMI has demonstrated that we can
make a huge difference for people who
lack health insurance while also offer-
ing a model for prevention, coordinated
care and reduced cost in the long run,
said Michael W. Azzara, chairman of the
Board of Trustees. We are grateful to all
our donors and volunteers. Their con-
tinued involvement and the welcome
addition of new participants will insure
our ability to meet the increasing com-
munity need for our services.
Guided by a Culture of Caring a
belief that the way a person is treated
is as important as the medical atten-
tion they receive BVMI provides free
primary and preventive medical care
to low-income, working Bergen County
residents who have no health insurance.
Annually, BVMI volunteer medical
providers treat almost 1,000 patients
in over 6,000 medical visits. The BVMI
Healthcare Center, a state-licensed
ambulatory care facility, is located at 241
Moore St., Hackensack.
Visit www.BVMIgala.org for additional
information about the honorees, spon-
sorships, tickets and advertising. Tickets
are $200 each and may be purchased on
the website or by calling Kathleen DiGi-
ulio at (201) 518-8487.
BVMI, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organiza-
tion, provides free primary medical care
to Bergen County residents who are
working, earn between 100 per cent and
300 per cent of the prevailing federal
poverty guideline, and have no health
insurance.
Patients are seen by volunteer physi-
cians, nurse practitioners and registered
nurses at the Hackensack center. BVMI
is completely dependent on contributed
income from individuals, businesses and
foundation grants.
For more information, contact Norma
Gindes, executive director, at (201) 342-
2478, ext. 8484, or ngindes@bvmi.net.
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sorships, tickets and advertising. Tickets
are $200 each and may be purchased on
the website or by calling Kathleen DiGi-
ulio at (201) 518-8487.
BVMI, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organiza-
tion, provides free primary medical care
to Bergen County residents who are
working, earn between 100 per cent and
300 per cent of the prevailing federal
poverty guideline, and have no health
insurance.
Patients are seen by volunteer physi-
cians, nurse practitioners and registered
nurses at the Hackensack center. BVMI
is completely dependent on contributed
income from individuals, businesses and
foundation grants.
For more information, contact Norma
Gindes, executive director, at (201) 342-
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