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CONTENTS
LETTERS
Mr. Hantgan is an amazing role model for
the next generation, and we should always
remember the lessons the past can teach us!
JESSIE GRONOWITZ, EIGHTH GRADE, YAVNEH ACADEMY, PARAMUS
Candlelighting: Friday, March 28, 6:58 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, March 29, 7:58 p.m.
Israeli Stones fans get what they want
Age 60 is for sagacity, says Pirkei
Avot.
And age 70 is for rock and rollers
to play their first concert in Israel,
according to Israeli promoter Shuki
Weiss, who on Tuesday announced
that he had booked the Rolling
Stones for a June concert in Tel Aviv.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jag-
ger will turn 71 six weeks after the
concert, scheduled for June 4.
In the 1960s, the Rolling Stones
prime rivals, the Beatles, began ne-
gotiations to play a concert in Israel.
But Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
was unwilling to authorize the ex-
penditure of scarce foreign currency
reserves on popular entertainment.
Now, though, the question of for-
eign rock and rollers has become a
national priority, as each concert is
proof of the failure of the anti-Israeli
boycott movement.
Neil Young, Justin Timberlake, the
Pixies, and Soundgarden also are
scheduled to play Israel this summer.
The Stones visit is seen as particu-
larly timely, given that two of their
songs Paint It Black and Beast
of Burden are said to refer to the
question of drafting the ultra-Ortho-
dox into the Israeli army. - LY
Pharonic foursome
Four questions. Four cups of wine.
Four sons.
Now, you can add four statues of
Pharaoh to your seder menu at
least if youre planning on celebrating
Passover in Luxor, Egypt.
Archaeologists have just restored
two giant statues of Pharaoh Amen-
hotep III at the Temple of Luxor.
Two 3,400-year-old statues of the
pharaoh long have been tourist at-
tractions at the site.
Now, thanks to the work of the ar-
chaeologists, there are four.
The world until now knew two
Memnon colossi, but from today it will
know four colossi of Amenhotep III,
the German-Armenian archaeologist
Hourig Sourouzian, who heads the
project to conserve the Amenhotep III
temple, said.
The statues had lain in pieces for
centuries in the fields, damaged by
destructive forces of nature like earth-
quake, and later by irrigation water,
salt, encroachment and vandalism,
she told the AFP news service, as
excavators and local villagers washed
pieces of artifacts and statues un-
earthed over the past months. - LY
Synagogue
singer stamped
His first gig was in a synagogue
basement.
Now his face is on an American
postage stamp.
John Jimi Allen Hendrix was
a 16-year-old high school student
when he played his first public per-
formance for an unnamed band at
Seattles Temple de Hirsch syna-
gogue in February 1959. His wild
playing, which would later make
him the worlds highest paid solo
guitarist, got him fired before the
second set.
At the time, as Jewish Currents
website has noted, the music direc-
tor for Temple de Hirsch, a Reform
synagogue, was Samuel E. Goldfarb,
co-writer of the famous Dreidel Song
(I have a little dreydl . . .), which
Hendrix, unfortunately for Jewish
civilization, never covered.
Hendrix did famously cover anoth-
er song by a Jewish composer, Bob
Dylans All Along the Watchtower.
Hendrix died in 1970 at 27 from an
overdose of drugs and alcohol. Fel-
low Baby Boomer icon Janis Joplin,
who met a similar fate two weeks
later, is slated for a postage stamp
later this year.
LARRY YUDELSON
Noshes
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On the frst day, God created the navy blue blazer with
brass buttons and khakis. And I looked and saw that it
was not good.
Zeke Winitsky of Maplewood, as reported in Esquire, talking about the difficulties he
faced in assembling the look he wanted for his bar mitzvah.
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It is now 70 years later,
and Bacall is still work-
ing. She is the voice of
The Grey One in the
English-language ver-
sion of Ernestine and
Clementine, a charm-
ing French animated
childrens film. It opens,
wide, on March 28.
At 91, actor FYVUSH
FINKEL, a former Yiddish
theater star, is much in
demand to perform his
recently created night-
club act. He tells stories,
jokes, and sings. Asked
about exercise, he just
told the NY Post: Please.
My exercise is where I
live. I walk in the halls.
Also I enjoy myself. Espe-
cially when I have to run
from ladies in the syna-
gogue. I was married 61
years. Shes gone now. I
should marry again?
JOAN RIVERS, 80, is
still quite funny when
dishing on celebrities on
her E! TV Show, Fash-
ion Week. You would
think the modest but real
success of that program
would be enough for
someone who already is
a comedy legend. Sadly,
the answer is no. Riv-
ers insatiable need for
attention will manifest
itself on Saturday, March
29, when Joans other
show, Joan & Melissa,
airs on WE cable TV.
Joans guest nude in
her bed with her! will
be rapper Ray J, the guy
who co-starred in the
sex tape that made Kim
Kardashian a star. Oh,
Joan, how low will you
go? N.B.
Darren Aronofsky
TWO BY TWO:
Noahs liquid assets
Jennifer Connelly
Logan Lerman Fyvush Finkel
Big biblical epics
represent a risk/
reward for Hol-
lywood movie studios
of, well, biblical propor-
tions. Such an epic can
become a megahit if the
product pleases both
general audiences and
the portion of the audi-
ence that are religious
believers. However, since
the Bible text usually
gives only a bare-bones
story, the filmmaker
virtually always has to in-
vent dialogue and situa-
tions to create a dramati-
cally satisfying film. The
rub is any such invention
inevitably displeases
some religious believers.
So Paramount big-
wig Rob Moore, a rare
devout Christian among
studio execs, knew he
was taking a big chance
when he agreed to pro-
vide filmmaker DAR-
REN ARONOFSKY, 44,
with $135 mil to make
Noah, the story of the
prophet and the mother
of all floods. Aronofsky,
who co-wrote the film,
sought out the counsel
of many regarding his
script, including Rabbi
GEOFFREY DENNIS,
54, an expert on Jewish
mysticism.
Aronofsky says he
shows Noah as some-
thing of an environmen-
talist, and this portrait
has upset some conser-
vative evangelicals. (Par-
amount has added a tag
line that Noah is just
inspired by Genesis.)
Moore, who pre-
screened the film for
Christian pastors, says he
is sure that Aronofskys
final cut wont offend
most Christian believers,
and hes confident that
the studios millions have
bought it a good dramat-
ic film with great special
effects. Russell Crowe
stars as Noah; with JEN-
NIFER CONNELLY, 43, as
Noahs wife, and LOGAN
LERMAN, 22, as Ham,
one of Noahs three sons.
(Opens Friday, March 28).
Sir Anthony Hopkins
has a meaty support-
ing role as Methuselah,
Noahs grandfather. He is
reported as living until he
was 969 years old; he is
the oldest person men-
tioned in the Bible. (For
more on Noah, see our
review on page 51.)
LAUREN BA-
CALL made her
first film in 1944.
She was only 19 then and
had much more experi-
ence as a model than
as an actress. Nonethe-
less, she blew audiences
and critics away with
her co-starring role as
Humphrey Bogarts love
interest in To Have and
Have Not.
Lister-Jones ... again
ZOE LISTER-JONES, 31, and her professional/
romantic partner, DARYL WEIN, also 31, have made
two critically well-received indie flicks about the roman-
tic and career problems of hip young urbanites (Break-
ing Upwards and Lola Versus). By made, I mean
that the duo co-wrote these ilms and acted in them as
co-stars. Wein directed both ilms.
Lister-Jones didnt have as much luck as a co-star of
Whitney, a recent NBC sit-com that didnt turn out to
be the hit many thought it would be. Lister-Jones didnt
write that series and maybe that was part of the reason it
flopped. Whitney was edy and urban and I think they
cast Lister-Jones for her hip persona and look.
Heres hoping that Friends with Better Lives, a CBS
comedy-drama that starts on Monday, March 31, at 9
p.m., will do better. Its about six friends, at different
stages of their lives, who all think the others in their
group are doing better than they are. Lister-Jones plays
Kate, a successful career woman who doesnt have much
luck with dating. N.B.
Zoe Lister Jones and Daryl Wein
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
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Local men make up large percentage of newly credentialed Orthodox leaders
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
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orth Jersey natives made up a
large contingent of the record
205 men receiving rabbinic
ordination from Yeshiva Uni-
versitys Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theologi-
cal Seminary in Manhattan on March 23.
The Chag HaSemikhah Convocation, held
every four years, bestowed Orthodox rab-
binic credentials on students from the
classes of 2011 to 2014.
The new rabbis hail from five conti-
nents and more than 50 North American
cities. While most will remain engaged in
fulltime Torah study or Jewish education,
the pulpit, outreach, or nonprofit work,
many will pursue careers in professions
including medicine and law.
Rabbi Yair Manas, who grew up Teaneck
and is almost 29, said he went to RIETS for
the opportunity to learn under tremen-
dous Torah scholars. He also has a degree
from Brooklyn Law School.
When I entered RIETS, I wasnt sure
that I wanted to work as a rabbi, and I still
dont know if I want to work as a rabbi,
said Rabbi Manas, a graduate of Yavneh
Academy and Torah Academy of Bergen
County. I was in the YU-Torah MiTzion
Kollel in Toronto for 2 1/2 years, and got
experience both in the pulpit and in the
educational field.
He and his wife and two daughters
made aliyah on March 25 and are living
in Maaleh Adumim outside Jerusalem. I
Many of the 39 new rabbis from New Jersey, part of the contingent of 205 men receiving ordination at Yeshiva Universitys Rabbi Isaac Eichanan Theological Seminary.
Making real change
Areyvut recognizes
Fair Lawn student
for taking on
responsibility
We are the future, said Jessica Baer, a
freshman at Fair Lawn High School. Well
be running the world, and I want to be
sure that world will be a good and safe
environment.
For the myriad ways in which Jessica is
striving toward that goal, she was chosen
to receive the Young Leadership award at
Areyvuts annual Bergen County Breakfast
on Sunday, April 6, at Congregation Bnai
Yeshurun in Teaneck.
Since its founding in September 2002,
Bergenfield-based Areyvut (Hebrew for
responsibility) has offered innovative
programs for day schools, congregational
schools, synagogues, community centers,
and families. It works to infuse the core
Jewish values of chesed (kindness), tze-
dakah (charity), and tikkun olam (social
action).
Our major goal is getting people
involved in making a difference in the
community, in making chesed a part of
their daily routine in a hands-on way,
Areyvuts founder and director, Daniel
Rothner, said.
Jessica came to Areyvut through our
mitzvah clowning program, which she
has been doing for the last three years. But
what is unique about her is that she has
engaged her family, her synagogue, and
her broader community in her chesed
projects.
From the time she was 10, Jessica has
been active in the organization Break-
ing the Chain through Education, which
works to rescue child slaves and help erad-
icate slave trafficking by building schools
in Ghana. Her older sister, Julia, and par-
ents, Michael and Robin, went with her to
the African country, and she has sought
support for this project at the Fair Lawn
Jewish Center and at her school.
Few high school freshman are worried
about children the world over, and few are
engaging their parents and synagogues in
effectuating change, Mr. Rothner said.
Shes just starting out, and yet she has
done more than many have done in a life-
time. We hope that people who attend the
breakfast will be inspired to action by her
example.
Jessica and her sister study at the Ber-
gen County High School for Jewish Studies
and they are active in USY, the Conserva-
tive movements youth group.
Jessica also is involved in Pony Powers, a
therapeutic riding program in Mahwah for
children with disabilities. All the organi-
zations Im involved in are about kids she
said. What motivates me is seeing their
reactions.
Before her bat mitzvah in 2011, she
noticed an ad for Areyvuts mitzvah
clown training in the Jewish Standard. She
thought that would make a good comple-
ment to the mitzvah projects with which
she was already involved. Now she gets
all clowned up once a month to cheer
patients in area hospitals and nursing
homes.
I go room by room or around a sitting
area, talking to the patients about what-
ever theyre going through, she said. I
break the ice by doing a magic trick or
making a balloon animal to make them
smile.
Her father said that Jessica inspired
him to join the board of directors of both
Areyvut and Breaking the Chain through
Education.
Believe it or not, Jessica was a quiet, shy
girl, but when she started doing mitzvah
clowning she put on a different persona
and interacted with the kids, said Mr.
Baer, who attended the one-day training
session with his daughter.
I had tears in my eyes to see that trans-
formation, and I saw it again in Africa. I
dont think she stopped smiling from the
time she got off the plane to the time she
got back on the plane, under not the great-
est conditions there. I cannot begin to
express our pride.
At the breakfast, Shira Hammerman of
West Orange will receive the Community
Leadership Award. She has been Areyvuts
educational consultant for 10 years, devel-
oping products such as the Kindness A Day
calendar, which suggests a specific action
to take every day. Mr. Rothner describes
her as really a visionary.
Mr. Rothner calls Areyvut a niche
organization. It partners with 150 other
agencies, including the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh. It sponsors chesed and bnai
mitzvah project fairs, Jewish teen philan-
thropy programs, and offers a variety of
courses for Jewish youth and teens, such
as Music & Morals and Sex & Torah.
Most of its annual $300,000 budget is
covered by individual donors; fees are
charged for courses and services such as
mitzvah clowning.
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and have started a website selling table-
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wrote in an email.
According to a March 24 article by
Uriel Heilman for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, most rabbinic positions in Ortho-
dox synagogues are outside metropolitan
New York. The article says that only one-
quarter of the newly minted RIETS rabbis
will find pulpits, though 80 percent are
involved in some kind of religious or Jew-
ish communal work. The remaining 20
percent go to secular trades like account-
ing, law and medicine. Furthermore, Mr.
Heilman writes, many new pulpit rabbis
also work as teachers or hospital chaplains
because congregations often cannot afford
a full-time rabbi.
The employment status of some of the
local sons reflects this reality. Rabbi Eitan
Bendavid, raised in Teaneck, teaches at
SAR High School in Riverdale, N.Y., and
is a member of the clergy team at Lincoln
Square Synagogue in Manhattan. Teaneck
native Rabbi Etan Ehrenfeld is teaching at
the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago
and is assistant rabbi at Kehilat Chovevei
Tzion in Skokie.
Rabbi Tsvi Selengut, who grew up in
Teaneck, is the spiritual leader of Con-
gregation Ohab Zedek of Belle Harbor,
N.Y., and teaches at DRS High School in
Woodmere.
Rabbi Selengut, 28, said that his calling
already was clear to him when he was in
high school at Torah Academy of Bergen
County. I look for meaning in my own life
and in the world, and people in general
are looking for meaning and for answers
to bigger questions, and the rabbanaut
and especially the pulpit are where you
can a really affect people and bring mean-
ing to their lives. He and his wife have a
10-month-old son.
He believes that the advent of handheld
technology has brought new challenges
to the rabbinate. There is a much higher
level of stress, and people are under more
pressure and working more hours than
when I was growing up, he observed. All
of this affects people of all ages on a daily
level, and I try to direct my [sermons] and
high-school classes to that mindset.
Other new rabbis are full-time educa-
tors. Rabbi Akiva Fleischmann, also from
Teaneck, is teaching middle school grades
at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Beachwood,
Ohio. Rabbi Ben Krinsky teaches at his
alma mater, Yavneh Academy in Paramus,
while Rabbi David Schlusselberg is an
instructor of Talmud, Bible, and Judaica
electives at the Rae Kushner Yeshiva High
School in Livingston.
Rabbi Krinsky, 26, spent his college Fri-
day mornings at his alma mater, TABC,
learning Torah with the high school stu-
dents. He recalls those sessions as the
highlight of his week. Not only did I
have a good time, but a lot of the kids did
as well, so I decided that education was
something that I wanted to do for a living.
I know that this is probably clich, but
when a students eyes light up when they
understand what youre teaching, that is
one of the best feelings. One of his rab-
binic role models is TABCs Rabbi Ezra
Wiener, a teacher and religious life guid-
ance counselor at the school, with whom
he remains in touch.
Rabbi Schlusselberg, a graduate of the
Moriah and Frisch schools, traces his
desire to be a rabbi and educator to his
post-high-school year in 2006 at Yeshivat
Reishit in Israel.
It was partly because of my love of
Torah and partly because of my love for
teaching and helping kids, said Rabbi
Schlusselberg, who is in his twelfth year
leading Shabbat youth groups at Congre-
gation Bnai Yeshurun in Teaneck. While
at RIETS, he earned a masters degree
at YUs Azrieli Graduate School of Jew-
ish Education and Administration. Kush-
ner was the nearest Jewish school hiring
when he was ready to begin working, he
said, and he feels fortunate to have won
the position.
The other Bergen and Passaic county
natives who were ordained on Sunday
include Rafael Abraham, Jeremy Baran,
Yitzchak Ehrenberg, Daniel Fridman, Elie
Friedman, Noah Gardenswartz, Noah
Goldberg, Zev Goldberg, Benjy Leibowitz,
Yakir Schechter, Nachum Danny Shulman,
and Avraham Yablok of Teaneck; Aaron
Fleksher, Elisha Friedman, and Shlomo
Weissmann of Passaic; Elli Bloom and
Yechiel Shaffer of Fair Lawn; Motti Neu-
burger and Dovid Preil of Bergenfield;
Mordechai (Evan) Gershon of Englewood,
and David New of New Milford.
and
Wishes Mazel Tov to
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at the YU Chag Hasemicha
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One Book, many themes,
and many readers
By Fire, By Water author will speak to One Community in Ridgewood
LOIS GOLDRICH
T
he One Book, One Community
project, now in its third year, con-
tinues to grow, attracting increas-
ing numbers of enthusiastic read-
ers from around the county.
We choose something different every year,
said Nancy Perlman, coordinator of the proj-
ect and manager of community outreach
and engagement activities for the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jerseys Synagogue
Leadership Initiative.
Ms. Perlman noted that selecting books is
not as easy as it seems.
In fact, its really dificult, she said,
describing the challenges faced by her com-
mittee, composed of community volunteers.
It cant just be a book we like to read. We
have to feel it will spark the interest of as wide
a range of people as possible, even those
who dont feel included in community right
now. It cant be too girly, and it has to have
enough to talk about and spark conversation.
Also, she said, it cant be too close in
nature to the books the project already
has highlighted. And because the culmi-
nating event of the community project is
to bring readers together with the author
the committee has to ensure that this
meeting actually will be possible.
This years book By Fire, By Water
by Mitchell James Kaplan is a work of
historical iction, set in 15th-century Spain,
that centers on the historical igure of Luis
de Santngel. Themes include the Inquisi-
tion, the attempt to unify the kingdoms of
Spain under Christian rule, and the voy-
age of Christopher Columbus. Last year,
community groups were invited to read
The Zookeepers Wife, by Diane Acker-
man; the year before, the book was My
Fathers Paradise by Ariel Sabar.
The One Book project came as an out-
growth of conversations with community
members and leaders who wanted a way
to bring the community together across
denominations, geography, and back-
ground, Ms. Perlman said. The projects
founders reasoned that since Jews are
considered the People of the Book, what
better way to bring people together? Each
book we talk about has identity woven in
among other themes.
This year, more than 20 synagogues and
other community groups offered programs
under the One Book umbrella. Its available
for any group that wants to participate, Ms.
Perlman said, noting that the only condi-
tion is that the program which should be
roughly related to some theme or idea in the
book be open to the community.
Activities have varied. Many synagogues
have sponsored book discussions. Mah-
wahs Beth Haverim Shir Shalom held a One
Book, One Community Shabbat in Decem-
ber, weaving Sephardic music into the Shab-
bat service, inviting a guest speaker raised
in Spain to discuss her experiences, and
offering a Sephardic oneg afterward. Tem-
ple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley screened
a ilm relating to the themes of the book;
while at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly, attendees were invited to taste the
spice route, learning about and sampling
some of the spices Spain sought between
the 14th and 16th centuries.
On April 3, Ridgewoods Temple Israel
and Jewish Community Center will host the
culminating event, where all readers will
have a chance to hear from,
and ask questions of, the
author. Ms. Perlman said the
event, which includes dessert,
typically draws hundreds of
people.
What excites us, besides
the fun, is that we love seeing
people get more engaged and
getting to know each other
across the divides in the
community, she said. We
love the fact that we can be
a part of what brings people
together.
If identity is one of the themes in each
book that is chosen, it is a major theme in
this years selection, author Mitchell James
Kaplan said.
My intention in writing is always to
explore history and try to come to terms
with an understanding of it, he said. The
subject of [the book] is identity all about a
man torn between different identities.
His protagonist, Luis de Santngel , is
Christian by birth, the grandson of conver-
sos, and beholden to the royal court, but
theres something else inside him that he
wants to honor: the identity of grandpar-
ents who were forced to convert.
Calling de Santngel the prototype of
modern man, Mr. Kaplan said that his char-
acter is conflicted and torn in different
directions in terms of how he deines him-
self in relation to the cultures around him.
Those cultures were in conflict, he said,
tearing Spain apart. Indeed, it was an
impossible situation for these cultures to
inhabit the same land.
In America today, we want to ind a way
for cultures to get along and inhabit the same
space, but Spain despite what we may
have heard was not a beautiful garden of
interfaith harmony, Mr. Kaplan said. There
was nothing but strife,
except for a certain level
of mutual respect among
the highest scholars of
each community, Mai-
monides, for example.
To Mr. Kaplan, the
main question is How
can one person like me,
for example, an American Jew relate to
the world as both? In some ways, these
identities harmonize; in others, they con-
flict. Juggling and harmonizing that is
the essence of what this is about.
The genesis of his book is equally
complicated.
I wrote a draft a long time ago and put it
away, he said, explaining that while doing
web suring, but with books, he followed
one idea to the next, and became fascinated
by the apparent confluence of several facts
speciically, that Christopher Columbus
set sail around the time of the expulsion
edict and that the emirate of Granada was
conquered by Christians at the same time.
It was weird. I hadnt seen the discovery of
the new world placed in this context.
The man at the center of this, the most
central igure, was Columbuss patron, an
adviser to the crown, who was accused
of complicity in the murder of Inquisitor
Pedro Arbus in Zaragoza. It was a story
that had to be told, Mr. Kaplan said.
Mr. Kaplan pointed out that while some
might characterize Ferdinand and Isabellas
religious intolerance as backward thinking,
at the time it was seen as a good thing. It set
up the foundation for uniication. What we
think of as forward and backward changes
over time how people see progress. In the
Middle Ages, Christians saw progress [in
terms of ] conquering the world.
He tries to put himself in that periods
point of view and to be faithful to that
period. Today, we think of progress as free-
dom of religion, pluralism, he said. They
would have seen that as a foreign, bizarre,
and reprehensible way of thinking.
Mr. Kaplan said that in his book, the dis-
covery of the new world symbolizes the
future a different world with different
answers to questions of identity, ethnic
and religious strife, and how to make the
world a better place.
Mr. Kaplan, who met his wife while living
in France, worked in the ilm industry for
many years, hanging with ilm stars while
raising a family. I rode with it while I could,
but I knew that this is not what I set out to
do. I wanted to be a novelist.
Returning to the manuscript, he spent six
years rewriting the book.
We sold the house, moved to Pittsburgh,
changed our life, he said, adding that his
family was very supportive. He noted that
while he was very much interested in Sep-
hardic history before he met his wife who
is Sephardic her knowledge of folklore,
together with her mothers memories, have
been very helpful.
Mr. Kaplan has been invited to speak
throughout the country and in Mexico, and
his book won an award in Italy.
I had no idea it would generate such a
reaction, he said, noting that invitations
started to pour in even before the book was
published formally.
He said he wanted to express his appre-
ciation to the Jewish Federation of Northern
New Jersey for what theyre doing pro-
moting Jewish dialogue and exploration of
Jewish identity by promoting literature and
creating a forum in which people can dis-
cuss literature considered to be relevant to
Jewish identity.
On April 3 he will talk about the experi-
ence of writing his book, answer questions
from the audience, and show slides of his
visits to Spain.
What: One Book, One Community
culminating meeting, featuring
author Mitchell James Kaplan
Where: Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center, 475 Grove St.,
Ridgewood
When: April 3, 7 p.m.
Information or registration: Go to
www.jfnnj.org/onebook, email Ms.
Perlman at NancyP@jfnnj.org, or
call her at (201) 820-3904
Mitchell James Kaplan
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Meeting of different minds
A rabbi and an imam walk into the Frisch School together...
LARRY YUDELSON
Jewish-Muslim dialogue went to a yeshiva
high school, as Rabbi Marc Schneier and
Imam Shamsi Ali appeared at an assem-
bly at the Frisch School in Paramus last
Wednesday.
It was the first time Frisch hosted a Mus-
lim speaker and the first time the duo,
who have written a book together, brought
their Muslim-Jewish dialogue to an Ameri-
can Jewish school.
Rabbi Schneier is the founding rabbi of
the Hamptons Synagogue in Westhamp-
ton, N.Y. Imam Ali, who formerly led Man-
hattans Islamic Cultural Center on East
96h street and now heads two smaller
congregations in Queens, noted the con-
nection between the word Beit Midrash
the schools study hall and the word
madrassa, meaning religious school, that
he attended as a youth.
The Imams madrassa in his native
Indonesia, however, was far stricter
than Frisch: It was a single-sex board-
ing school, which its students left to visit
home only twice a year.
The process of learning was not only
inside of the classroom, but outside of
classroom, he told the Jewish Standard.
The two religious leaders appeared
under the auspices of the Foun-
dation for Ethnic Understand-
ing, a group Rabbi Schneier,
founded 25 years ago to
advance black-Jewish dialogue.
The foundation expanded its
mandate to Jewish-Muslim dia-
logue in the last decade, after
Rabbi Schneier was challenged
to do so by his partner in the
foundation, hip-hop music
magnate Russell Simmons.
When the rabbi and the
imam first met, at a television
studio where they were pro-
viding Jewish and Muslim per-
spectives on Pope John Paul II,
we shook hands, barely looking at each
other, Imam Ali recalled. Both of us had
past prejudiced views about each other.
But their dialogue led to friendship.
Last year a book they wrote together was
published; its called Sons of Abraham:
A Candid Conversation about the Issues
That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims.
Out of the friendship that we had, we
changed, the imam said. I used to have
a lot of prejudicial views about the Jewish
community. He completely changed me.
Rabbi Schneier said, I came to the
table with clear biases and prejudices,
having grown up in a very intense yeshiva
environment: Muslims were the enemy,
Muslims were to be demonized, Muslims
were not to be trusted.
Ive been able to enlarge my horizons,
he said.
Rabbi Schneier characterized the discus-
sion at Frisch as a very open, frank, won-
derful exchange.
Many of the questions the high school stu-
dents asked were what the Muslim leader
had come to expect. Questions about the
role of women in Islam, about terrorism,
about jihad.
What surprised him was a question from
a boy who seemed to me very knowledge-
able about Islam. He had a great under-
standing of the religion, he said.
The imam said one student disagreed
with his statement that many Muslims
misperceive Jews. He said, I have a lot
of Muslim friends in Brooklyn and they
have never talked evil about Jews,
Imam Ali said.
There were parts of the presentation that
were particularly geared toward the yeshiva
students.
We spoke about there being a tradition
of written and oral law in Islam, as in Juda-
ism, Rabbi Schneier said. I said we must
be careful to interpret the Koran in a literal
fashion, as we would not do with our own
Torah.
Imam Ali said the partnership is not just
about helping American Jews and American
Muslims understand each other.
We are able to influence Muslims and
Jews around the world to work together,
he said. The most recent example, a few
months ago, Jews and Muslims organized
meeting meetings in Tunisia. While Jews
have lived among the Muslim majority in
Tunisia for more than a thousand years,
this was the first formal religious dialogue
between the two communities there.
In Austria, where 800,000 Muslims out-
number 16,000 Jews, the Foundation for
Ethnic Understanding organized meetings
of Muslim and Jewish leadership. Most of
the Muslims have never met a Jew and know
little about the Holocaust, Imam Ali said.
The president of the Muslim association
in Austria promised to organize a kind of
Holocaust education program for the Mus-
lim community next year.
The good news is that the journey has
begun, Rabbi Schneier said. There are
more and more Imam Shamsi Alis who are
emerging around the globe, who are speak-
ing out on behalf of the Jewish community.
The point I was trying to get across to
the students is that the work the imam and
I are doing is about fighting for the other. A
person who fights for his own rights is only
honorable when he fights for the rights of
all people. Here is an imam who speaks
out against anti-Semitism and Holocaust
denial, and a rabbi who speaks out about
anti-Islamic bigotry.
Usually, theres someone who says, its
lovely what youre doing, but the imam is
not a real Muslim because hes not an Arab.
I said that only 16 percent of Muslims are
Arab. The largest Muslim population comes
from southeast Asia, where this imam has
been hailed by the governments of Indo-
nesia and Singapore as their international
spiritual leader, Rabbi Schneier said.
I gave the students a reality check: We
live in a world of 14 million Jews and 1 billion
Muslims. It behooves both groups to narrow
the gap, he said.
Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali
Imam Shamsi Ali fields questions from students at the Frisch School.
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Opening Night
Saturday, March 22 8:30 PM
THE PRIME MINISTERS
Kapl en JCC on the Pal i sades, Tenafl y
Sunday, March 23 6:00 PM
Art Exhibit
Opening night art exhibit and reception
Partnership2Gether Community Task Force
cordially invites you to a traveling international art exhibit
Water: The Essence of Our Lives
Kosher wine and cheese will be served.
UNDER THE SAME SUN
Tuesday, March 25 7:30 PM
THE PRIME MINISTERS
Congregati on Ri nat Yi srael , Teaneck
Wednesday, March 26 7:00 PM
HUNTING ELEPHANTS
The Wayne Y
Thursday, March 27 7:30 PM
THE ATTACK
Ramsey Ci nema, Ramsey
THE ATTACK
Teaneck Ci nemas
SPECIAL - ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Monday, March 31 8:00 PM
THE WONDERS
Discussion with Adir Miller, acclaimed actor and comedian
Tuesday, Apri l 1 7:30 PM
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION
Fai rl ei gh Di cki nson Uni versi ty, Hackensack
Wednesday, Apri l 2 7:30 PM
ZAYTOUN
Bergen County Y, a JCC, Twp. of Washi ngton
Wednesday, Apri l 2 8:00 PM
UNDER THE SAME SUN
Uni ted Synagogue of Hoboken
Saturday, Apri l 5 8:15 PM
UNDER THE SAME SUN
Barnert Templ e, Frankl i n Lakes
Sunday, Apri l 6 7:00 PM
HUNTING ELEPHANTS
JCC of Paramus/Cong. Beth Ti kvah, Paramus
Thursday, Apri l 10 6:00 PM
Art Exhibit
Bel ski e Museum of Art & Sci ence, Cl oster
Partnership2Gether Community Task Force
cordially invites you to a traveling international art exhibit
Water: The Essence of Our Lives
Kosher wine and cheese will be served.
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Israels great Dane
Former diaspora affairs minister seeks peace from within and without
LARRY YUDELSON
R
abbi Michael Melchior has left
politics behind, but he has not
left public service.
Rabbi Melchior served in
the Knesset for 10 years as leader of the
liberal Orthodox Meimad political move-
ment. Born in Denmark in 1954, he earned
smicha from Jerusalems Yeshivat Hakotel
in 1980 and was appointed chief rabbi of
Norways 1,400 Jews soon after. In 1986 he
made aliyah, but he has held on to his Nor-
wegian title.
His main focus, though, is on Israeli
life. Rabbi Melchior is a community rabbi
in Jerusalems Talpiot neighborhood as
well as an activist for the improvement of
Israeli society.
When Rabbi Lawrence Zierler of the
Jewish Center of Teaneck spent a sabbat-
ical year in Jerusalem, he and his family
lived in Talpiot and discovered Rabbi Mel-
chiors congregation.
We never found any-
thing we loved as much,
Rabbi Zierler said; the two
rabbis became very close,
he added.
Rabbi Melchior will be
in Teaneck next week, as
part of a four-day U.S. fun-
draising trip for some of the
organizations with which
he is involved, and he will
meet with groups of people
organized by Rabbi Zierler.
Rabbi Melchiors projects
focus on uniting Israels dif-
ferent strands of society,
and on reaching beyond
Israel to connect with neighboring Arab
communities.
Rabbi Melchior, who was Israels first
minister of diaspora affairs, grew up in
a diaspora community small enough to
demand that all factions to work together.
Having chosen to raise his family in a pri-
marily secular Jerusalem neighborhood,
he was disappointed to discover that by
sending his children to religious schools
and religious youth movements, our kids
only came to know other people who were
exactly like themselves. They didnt come
to know other segments of society.
Disturbed, he set out to break down the
barriers between the groups. It started
with meetings in the 1980 and early 1990s,
but something important happened after
the assassination of our prime minister in
1995. More and more people understood
that this the division into separate
groups could not continue.
He led a movement to create schools
and educational programs where
religious, very reli-
gious, very secular,
and everythi ng i n
between could study together, he said.
A whole new Israel is being created,
which is not very known in North Amer-
ica, Rabbi Melchior said. There are tens
of thousands, even hundreds of thousands,
who are interested in creating something
new in the seam between different identi-
ties of Judaism.
From one school launched 12 years ago,
there are now 52 institutions of what is
called inclusive Jewish public education.
Another part of Rabbi Melchiors efforts
are devoted to our relationship to the
non-Jews who are living with us in Israel.
We have a responsibility towards the
Arab community, he said. Weve been
living ourselves as a minority throughout
the ages, and we know what it is to live
as a minority. Now were tested: Were a
majority, and we dont always live up to
the test.
Its not enough to say, well, the Arabs
are better off here than they would be in
Syria or Lebanon. Thats not the test. The
test is whats acceptable to the standard
of Jewish values we have preached and
which we believe in and have talked about
when we were a minority.
We dont always live up to our respon-
sibility. This is not something new Im say-
ing. Theres the Or Commission, formed
after the Arab riots in the year 2000,
which unanimously said there is discrimi-
nation toward the Arab citizens. I can give
you so many examples. The investment
we put in the education of an Arab child
compared to the investment in a Jewish
child, the funding of religious institutions
of Muslims and Christians compared to
the religious institutions of Jews. If you
give religious institutions support in the
country, you cant give half a percent of
support to the institutions of more than
20 percent of the population.
This is something we should be sensi-
tive to as Jews. Thirty-six times we read in
the Torah to be sensitive to strangers, he
said.
To deal with these gaps between Isra-
els Jewish majority and its Arab minor-
ity, Rabbi Melchior formed the Citizens
Accord Forum. Funded now in part by the
Israeli government, this is the only move-
ment which is working across the board
with all the different Arab organizations,
he said. We work with the Islamists, with
the secular Arab movements, with the
Arab mayors, with the most radical Arab
organizations.
We have a dialogue, where we both we
discuss issues of principle and we also try
to find a way through what we call a
deliberative dialogue of how we can live
with our differences.
The surprising things is you can actually
find solutions, he said.
One example: Weve created youth
parliaments in the mixed cities around
Israel. Jews and Arabs sit in the youth
parliaments together, then they decide
on youth policy together. They do things
together.
I believe not in protesting, but in creat-
ing a change through a sensible dialogue
and making people understand that this
is good for everybody. It works well. It
makes sense.
Perhaps Rabbi Mel chi ors most
In 2011, the city of Akkos youth parliament, affiliated with the Citizens Accord Forum, met with the mayor.
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auda cious arena of activism goes beyond Israels citi-
zens: It deals with the question of peace.
He believes that it is possible for Israel to find peace
with its neighbors but that the approach to peace
must change.
There has been no point where the Arab Muslim
world is so ripe and ready to make peace with the
State of Israel as it is now, he said.
Contacts with Muslims he cant go into details,
but has said they include Hamas and other Islamists
have convinced him that its possible.
Publicly, Rabbi Melchior was instrumental in orga-
nizing a Muslim-Jewish dialogue that began with a
summit in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2002.
A lot of work I do in this area is under the radar, he
said. I work with all the Arab countries, with all the
fragments of the Palestinians. There is a willingness
today to make an agreement with the State of Israel
from all segments of leadership in the Muslim world.
Its possible to get there.
Israel must be willing to make peace and pay the
prices and accept the conditions everyone knows
what the conditions are. It will demand from our side
that we make that strategic decision that we havent
made to make peace.
If the State of Israel is willing to do that, and I think
the vast majority of Israelis are, then we can have a
peace which is totally different than the peace we
made with Egypt, even different from the peace which
was signed in Oslo.
Today I think its possible to get a peace that will
include a very vast part of the Arab and Muslim world,
Rabbi Melchior said.
The problem, though, is that the focus has been on
a quick fix, a secular peace. We dont deal with the
substantial existential issues.
It doesnt work that way. If you dont build up a
legitimacy for peace among the people, and their iden-
tities are not involved, peace is not going to happen.
I think its very possible to make peace. Ive met the
most extreme leaders on the other side. Its always
been possible to come to an agreement. But there has
to be thinking out of the box.
You cant keep on telling your people that the other
side hates us and fears us so therefore we should make
peace. You cant only make a peace which is a peace
of interests.
If the only language to make peace is a secular lan-
guage, it doesnt convince the people. It also doesnt
convince the Palestinians. You have to change the
story. You have to come up with a peace of values.
I believe in Zionism. I believe also that to be here is
part of the fulfillment of a dream of Jewish history, of
a dream of the prophets, even the fulfillment of Gods
will that the Jewish people is back in their homeland.
But I cant say then that its an accident that theres
another people living here.
You cant have it halfway. If its Gods will that were
back, and this is a fulfillment of Jewish destiny that
were back in our homeland, then its part of this also
that theres another people living here
If we expect of the other the Arab world and the
Palestinian people to accept our right to self defini-
tion, we must accept the same from them. Thats the
essence of Judaism, he said.
I found radical Muslim leaders who said, if you
come with that kind of attitude, a religious attitude
that we believe in one God, that we come together
in the Holy Land to respect each other if thats the
attitude then well go along with such a peace of two
states for two people. Nobody ever offered such a
thing, Rabbi Melchior said.
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Safam turns 40
Jewish supergroup to play concert in Fair Lawn
JOANNE PALMER
S
o theyre not as old as, say, the Roll-
ing Stones theyve been together
a mere 40 years, compared to the
Stones 52 and they are famous
in a much smaller world. Still, in that world,
Safam is a very big name.
So the fact that it is choosing to celebrate
its 40th anniversary in Fair Lawn is big news.
Safams four founding members who,
impressively, still are Safam today met at
the Zamir Chorale. Most of them were gradu-
ate students, and all of them lived in Boston.
Each was pursuing a career, but they all loved
to sing. Soon they realized that as much as
they loved singing choral music, it was not
enough for them.
Choir music is wonderful, but you have
to be in a choir to do it, Daniel Funk said.
Mr. Funk, one of Safams lead singers, also is
the groups business manager and its spokes-
man. In a smaller group, you have to do
something different. Today, college and
graduate students urge to experiment with
different kinds of choral music could be met
by the many a cappella groups that now dot
the Jewish landscape, but thats now. Then, it
was not so easy.
So the four men founded Safam. (They per-
form with a drummer and a bass player, but
those performers are not members of Safam,
and many have cycled through it.)
When they began, we had no illusions
about doing anything other than performing
some Israeli music, some chasidic music
bringing some lively Jewish music out there,
Mr. Funk said. We really enjoyed it, so we
would get together and start singing, and
then we started booking concerts, and little
by little things took off.
We had no illusions about being a Jewish
supergroup but without sounding immod-
est, thats what we became in the 70s, 80s,
and 90s, he said. We put out an album
every few years, and they seem to have had
an impact.
Eventually, they realized that two of the
groups members, Robbie Solomon and Joel
Sussman, are fantastic songwriters, so we
shifted gradually until now we do about 90
percent original songs.
Many of Safams songs are lighthearted and
bouncy; others focus on social issues. When
the group was formed, the most pressing
issue roiling the Jewish world was the grim
situation faced by Soviet Jews, and the need
to get them out of there. The groups signa-
ture song, Mr. Funk said, is Leaving Mother
Russia.
The first time we performed it, none of us
had heard it, he said. Robbie surprised us
with it at an early concert at Rutgers Hillel in
1977. He had written it the week before, but
he didnt tell us about it. We were on stage,
and he took over the mike, sat down, and
sang it.
He blew everyone away. We were on
stage, and we were in awe just as much as
everyone in the audience. That was one of
the most amazing moments Ive had as a
performer.
And then, a few years ago, that moment
was topped.
We were playing at a synagogue in Bos-
ton, at a conference where Natan Sharan-
sky the famous refusenik, now a promi-
nent Israeli statesman; in the 1970s, a Soviet
prisoner named Anatoly Shcharansky, for
whom the song was written was the key-
note speaker. We sang a few other songs,
and then Leaving Mother Russia, and as the
last verse was being sung, and everyone was
standing up and clapping, he came walking
up the bimah and stood with us.
Talk about getting chills. Amazing. It was
amazing.
Mr. Funk is the son of Rabbi Julius Funk,
who was Rutgers Hillel director for 40 years;
he grew up in Highland Park. Like most of
the other members of Safam, Mr. Funk had
another career. Although he now is retired,
he is a lawyer. For 32 years, I was the city
solicitor for Newton, Mass., he said. He also
is a High Holy Day cantor, as are Mr. Sussman
and Alan Nelson; Robbie Solomon is a full-
time cantor and composer.
He stresses the accessibility and sheer fun
of Safams music. Our sound is a synthesis
of our Jewish and American roots, he said.
People walk out feeling good about their
Jewishness.
Among those people is Alan Eliscu of Fair
Lawn, a longtime member of Temple Beth
Sholom there and an even longer-time Safam
superfan.
Safam first came to Beth Sholom 18 years
ago, and my wife, Renee, and I bought tick-
ets, he said. We had never heard of them
but we became instant groupies.
And that is not an unusual thing for
this group, he said. Its followers are loyal
perhaps less Rolling Stones than the Grate-
ful Dead?
We have followed them to the Berkshires,
to Albany, to synagogues on Long Island, in
New Jersey, in Florida. We saw them in Flor-
ida on Christmas day which is what Jews do
on Christmas.
Safam has been slowing down recently, he
said, and that saddened him. I had a selfish
motive in bringing them to our synagogue
again, he said. So I presented it to our
board, and they said that if Im willing to be
the guy who carries the reins, then they will
be more than glad to let me do it. If you want
to do it, they said, go right ahead.
So from then, nine months ago, I had a
project.
He enlisted the help of Cantor Ronit
Wolff Hanan and Adina Avery-Grossman
from one of the other Beth Sholoms, Con-
gregation Beth Sholom of Teaneck. The
childrens choir there, Tzipporei Shalom,
which performs only one concert outside
its own shul each year, will sing a song
with Safam, after performing alone for
about 10 minutes.
Has times passage affected Safam? We
are still performing, and people say that
like fine wine, we are improving with age,
Mr. Funk said. He is excited about return-
ing to Beth Sholom. For people who know
us, there will be a fine sense of recognition
and nostalgia. For those who dont know
us they will become new fans!
Who: Safam
What: Will be in concert
Where: At Temple Beth Sholom, 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave., Fair Lawn
When: Sunday, April 6, at 1:30 p.m.
Where to buy tickets: At Beth Sholom, the Glen Rock Jewish Center, and the
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah
How much: General seating, $36; preferred seating, $54; patron seating (with
CD, one per family, and dessert buffet), $72; children 14 and under, $18
For information: (201) 797-9321
From left, Dan Funk, Joel Sussman, Robbie Solomon, and Alan Melson are Safam.
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Another win
Teanecks Josh Meier
comes in fourth in Intel
science contest
It was another trip to Washington and
another $40,000 for Josh Meier of Teaneck.
On December 10, the Bergen County
Academies senior won a $40,000 third-place
scholarship in the 15th annual Siemens Com-
petition in Math, Science & Technology. On
March 11, the same research on controlling
the aging of pluripotent stem cells which
could lead to new treatments for cancer and
age-related neurodegenerative diseases
won him a $40,000 fourth-place award at the
Intel Science Talent Search, considered the
nations most prestigious pre-college science
and math competition.
Just as with Siemens, the Intel organizers
were accommodating of Joshs Sabbath and
kashrut observance during the week-long
competition process.
Yet the Intel experience was not entirely
dj vu, he said. Intel was a talent search,
so it was more about how you approach sci-
ence than about the best project. For two
days, judges grilled each of the 40 finalists
chosen from 1,794 high school seniors rep-
resenting 14 states about their approach to
science in general. Next, the contestants pre-
sented their projects to the public.
We at Intel celebrate the work of these
brilliant young scientists as a way to inspire
the next generation to follow them with
even greater energy and excitement into a
life of invention and discovery, said Wendy
Hawkins, executive director of the Intel Foun-
dation. Imagine the new technologies, solu-
tions and devices they will bring to bear on
the challenges we face.
By the time he spoke with the Jewish
Standard, eight days after the contest, Josh
already had another accomplishment under
his belt: On March 15, he was chosen one of
four finalists in the North Jersey Regional Sci-
ence Fair, qualifying him for a free ticket to
Los Angeles to compete in the Intel Interna-
tional Science and Engineering Fair in May.
This one is more of a conventional science
fair, he said. And although he is presenting
the same research topic, it is not repetitive for
him. Im continuing to develop my project,
so every time I go to a competition there are
new elements to present, he explained.
Where will he use the combined $80,000
of tax-free scholarship money? Hes not
sure yet. He has gotten acceptances from
Harvard and MIT, a likely letter (unoffi-
cial acceptance) from Yale, and expects to
hear from Princeton after April 1.
Meanwhile, he spent two days in Israel
for his grandmothers 90th birthday, getting
back to Teaneck just in time to prepare for
yet another science fair on March 27-28, the
Monmouth Junior Science Symposium. If he
wins that, it could mean another $2,000 for
his scholarship fund.
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Integrating personal challenge, good cause
Local runners talk about their Jerusalem Marathon experiences
Among some 25,000 runners in the Jeru-
salem International Marathon on March 21
were quite a few current or former North Jer-
sey residents, many of them participating for
the benefit of charities in the 5K or 10K por-
tions of the route. The Jewish Standard talked
to some running novices about what pushed
them to the starting line.
It was an awesome experience to see a
lot of people you know, and people from
different countries, all running together,
said Shmuel Knoller of Teaneck. The
18-year-old Torah Academy of Bergen
County graduate was proud to finish the
10K in 47 minutes, 14 seconds as part of
Team Butterfly.
This team of about 100 runners was rais-
ing money for the Jackson Gabriel Silver
Foundation, an organization committed to
finding a cure for epidermolysis bullosa,
an extremely rare, painful, and life-threat-
ening skin disease that causes blistering
throughout the body.
The team was founded for the inaugu-
ral Jerusalem Marathon two years ago
by David Beiss from Long Island, an EB
patient who was studying at the gap-year
yeshiva Torat Shraga in Jerusalem. Since
then, Team Butterfly has been popular
with Torat Shraga students such as Mr.
Knoller and Joshua Bock, also of Teaneck.
Mr. Bock, who graduated from the
Frisch School, said he raised about $400
by running the 10K for Team Butterfly. It
was his first marathon, and although he
did not train for it, he enjoyed the expe-
rience. I would definitely do another of
these, he said.
Like Mr. Bock, Team Butterfly member
Naomi Kadish of Teaneck had never tried
long-distance running before, but she
practiced by jogging up and down the hills
near her gap-year yeshiva, Migdal Oz in
the Gush Etzion area south of Jerusalem.
It went really well, she reported. A
graduate of the Maayanot Yeshiva High
School for Girls in Teaneck, Ms. Kadish
hadnt heard of EB before, but now she has
raised more than $500 to help find a cure.
Natania Casden, 26, rai sed about
1,850 shekels $532 for Connections,
an educational not-for-profit organiza-
tion, founded in 1998, that provides
hands-on art, music, and sports projects
to international Jewish communities,
schools, synagogues, and camps in order
to strengthen Jewish identity and an
understanding of the challenges faced by
Israeli soldiers and terror victims.
Ms. Casden, a Hebrew University stu-
dent who made aliyah from Teaneck with
her family in 2007, served in the Israel
Defense Forces from 2008 to 2010 as a
weapons technician.
I managed to finish the 5K in 40 min-
utes; my original goal was to finish in an
hour without passing out, she quipped.
The hills were hard. I walked up them so
as not to waste energy.
Ms. Casden said she decided to partici-
pate after seeing a post on the Maaleh
Adumim chat forum about a running
Safeguarding joy
Teaneck couple on Jerusalem Purim Patrol looks out for at-risk revelers
Yoni and Navah Mozeson roamed Jerusalems
Zion Square in the wee hours of Purim night,
along with thousands of partying teens.
The Mozesons, who moved to Jerusa-
lem from Teaneck in 2010, were not there
to share in the drinking and revelry. Big
badges on their coat lapels identified them
as Purim Patrol. They were among about
50 volunteers from various organizations
there to keep an eye on potentially danger-
ous situations. During the course of the night,
between 700 and 800 inebriated teenagers
accepted the offer to chill out in a safe tent
set up by the municipality, and psychologists
and drug counselors were on hand as well.
While Purim generally is associated with
parades, costumes, and festive food baskets,
it also carries a tradition of drinking. And for
many visiting and resident teenagers, that
can lead to risky behaviors and even rape and
abduction on the late-night streets.
Yoni Mozeson, a marketing and adver-
tising executive, said that one of the year-
round problems Purim brings to the fore
every year is the little-known phenomenon
of young Arab men luring Jewish girls into
fabricated relationships and ultimately into
virtual imprisonment in West Bank villages.
He works with Jerusalem-based Learn & Live-
Learn & Return (www.learnandlive.org.),
which acts on pleas by family and friends to
intervene before girls disappear.
Some see it as a new form of terrorism
today that is being fought with roses instead
of guns, said Mr. Mozeson, drawing a distinc-
tion between fully consensual Arab-Jewish
relationships and those initiated with nefari-
ous intentions in response to a 2011 fatwa
(Islamic legal ruling) that Muslim men may
capture infidel Jewish and Christian
women and have sex with them.
The battlefields are restaurants and cafs
throughout Israel where Arab men often
pretending to be Jewish lure young Jew-
ish girls into a relationship, he continued.
Their motive is to convince these girls to go
willingly back to their Arab villages.
Once there, these girls are subject to
untold torture and abuse. Israels hot lines
report over a thousand requests a year from
girls trapped in Arab villages. Imagine how
many are unable to call.
The organization was founded in 2008 by
Rabbi Ariel Lurie, the director of a food-dis-
tribution charity. One day he questioned Jew-
ish girls getting into a car with Arab men, and
found out that the men had given the girls
gifts and took them out on the town. He was
so haunted by this idea that young, nave
girls can be taken so easily that he started
another organization, Mr. Mozeson said.
Learn & Live offers counseling, safe
houses, and programs that enhance social,
vocational, and educational skills in areas of
Israel that are home to a great number of at-
risk teens. That list includes ultra-Orthodox
girls from sheltered environments.
Live & Learns mission is not to prevent
Arabs from dating Jews, he stressed. We
are simply educating young girls as to the
Yoni and Navah Mozeson, identifiable by their sober clothing, stand with anony-
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group forming for the 5K in support of Connections.
I thought, Hey, I could do that, even though I
never did running before, she said. I contacted the
people involved at Connections and they said theyd
love to have me join them.
I figured if I am going to run, I may as well integrate
a personal challenge with a good cause.
true motives of certain Arab men. They must under-
stand that not everyone who buys you food and gifts
has your best interests in mind.
Before venturing out to patrol Zion Square and the
surrounding Ben-Yehuda Street, the Mozesons and
other volunteers were briefed by city official Nati Aviva.
The couple, who recently became grandparents, were
advised to be on the lookout for girls who seemed as if
they might need to be rescued from any group of men,
Jewish or not, whose intentions seemed suspect. They
were told not to endanger themselves and not to appear
confrontational.
Youre supposed to just let them know youre there,
Navah Mozeson said. If I saw a bunch of girls looking at
my Purim Patrol badge, I told them if they know anyone
in trouble who needs help or needs to rest, theres a tent
they can go to. You are not there to call their parents but
to give them a safe place to rest. At one in the morning,
when our shift ended, the tent was already full.
She hopes to volunteer again next year, perhaps at a
later hour, when the scene is even more intense.
Volunteer organizer Eliyahu Sargeon, a counselor
who works with troubled youth, told the Mozesons the
next day that eight girls were found to be in especially
vulnerable positions because they were drunk to the
point of total helplessness.
On Purim we celebrate grief turning into joy, said
Mr. Mozeson, who has rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva
University. In some sense, we were trying to make sure
joy didnt turn to grief.
In April, David and Cynthia Zimm will host a parlor
meeting in Teaneck for anyone who wishes to learn
more about the organizations work. For more informa-
tion, call (201) 677-8871.
From left, Eli Adler and Joshua Bock of Teaneck,
Eitan Bar-David of Riverdale, and Alex Shoenfeld
from Englewood all ran in the Jerusalem Marathon.
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BCHSJS will honor five at 40th year commemorative
The Bergen County High
School of Jewish Studies will
celebrate its 40th year at a
commemorative anniversary
gala on Tuesday, April 1, at 7
p.m., at Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff
Lake. The school is northern
New Jerseys only regional
Sunday program for Jewish
teens.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is
the guest of honor and fea-
tured speaker.
Martha and David Cohen will
be honored as parents of the
year; Aaron Friedman as edu-
cator of the year, and BCHSJS
board member Manny Genn
for his years of service to the
school. The gala also will honor
this years graduating class.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,
a best-selling author, is the
founder of This World: The
Values Network, an interna-
tional organization dedicated
to advancing universal Jewish
values in the media and cul-
ture, and to affirming the Jew-
ish people as a light unto the
nations. He also is a columnist
for this paper.
Martha Cohen is a JCRC
board member and Berrie Fel-
low at the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey. She is
completing her term as chair
of JFNNJs Partnership2Gether,
where she worked to establish
the young leadership program
at BCHSJS as a sister program
to the one already running in
Nahariya, Israel. David Cohen
has served on the JFNNJ board
and has chaired the Israel
Program Center. Together,
the Cohens chaired the Israel
Action Committee at Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee.
Aaron Friedman has been
teaching subjects including
Mishnah and Talmud at BCH-
SJS since 2001. Manny Genn
has served on the BCHSJS
board for six years and is the
treasurer. He and his wife,
Myra, are involved in Jewish
community affairs at Temple
Emanu-El in Closter.
For information or to place
an ad in the ad journal, call Bess
Adler at (201) 488-0834, or go to
www.bchsjsdinner.org.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach David and Martha Cohen Aaron Friedman Manny Genn
Migdal Ohr fills
executive post
Norman B. Gildin of Teaneck is Ameri-
can Friends of Migdal Ohrs new exec-
utive vice president. Tony Fromer, the
groups president, and Max Thurm,
chairman of its board, made the
announcement.
Mr. Gildin brings more than 25 years
of fundraising expertise to AFMO. He
was most recently president of his
own consulting firm, Strategic Fund-
raising Group. Previously, he was the
chief development officer at OHEL
Childrens Home and Family Services
in Brooklyn and the executive direc-
tor/chief development officer for Met-
ropolitan Jewish Geriatric Foundation,
also in Brooklyn.
Mr. Gilden belongs to many trade
associations, including the Associa-
tion of Fundraising Professionals and
the American College of Health Care
Administrators. He is a past chair of
the New York Association of Jewish
Health Care Development Executives.
Migdal Ohr is one of the premier
networks providing essential services
for disadvantaged children in Israel. I
am elated to be part of a dynamic team
effort to serve these needy children at
risk and those who are less fortunate,
Mr. Gildin said. I look forward to work-
ing closely with the board of directors
and making a lasting contribution to
this remarkable agency.
There is more information at www.
migdalohrusa.org.
Norman Gildin
Israel and social justice debated at JCPA plenum
In his first public appearance
since joining the U.S. peace
process team, David Makovsky
spoke about the need for a
two-state solution and the
prospects for peace at the JCPA
plenum in Atlanta last week.
The annual plenum allows
Jewish community leaders and
representatives from 125 JCRCs
and 16 national Jewish agen-
cies to gather, learn, debate,
and vote on consensus policy.
In addition to Dr. Makovsky,
plenum delegates were joined
by dignitaries including the
head of the Episcopal Church,
Presiding Bishop Katherine
Jefferts Schori; Abraham Fox-
man, the national director of
the Anti-Defamation League,
and Jerry Silverman, the CEO
of the Jewish Federations of
North America.
Delegates from the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey to the
Jewish Council for Public Affairs plenum in Atlanta included Gale S.
Bindelglass, left, who is the JCRCs chair and newly appointed to the
JCPAs board; JCPA board member Rabbi Neal Borovitz; JCPA vice
chair Susan Penn, and JCRC director, Joy Kurland. Dr. Deane Penn and
former JCPA chair Dr. Leonard Cole are not pictured.
At a meeting of the Community Relations Council
Directors Association after the plenum, Joy Kurland,
left, its outgoing president, receives a sculpture
commemorating her service from Carol Brick-Turin,
the director of the JCRC of the Greater Miami Jew-
ish Federation, the groups incoming president.
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Federation group names honorees
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey
holds its annual Physicians & Dentists Gala
on Tuesday, April 8, beginning with cock-
tails and a strolling dinner at 6:30 p.m., at
Temple Emanu-El in Closter. This years
honorees are Drs. Sari Zimmer Block,
Deane Penn, and Louis Evan Teichholz.
Ralph Nurnberger, a professor of
international relations at Georgetown Uni-
versity, is the guest speaker.
It costs $136 per person; $100 for young
associates, 35 years or under. Spouses and
guests are welcome. All dietary laws are
strictly observed.
For information, (201) 820-3936, email
kimberlys@jfnnj.org, or go to www.jfnnj.org/
pdgala.
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Schreiber is mens club man of year
The Brandeis Mens Club of
Temple Israel & Jewish Com-
munity Center in Ridgewood
will honor Howard Sch-
reiber at its annual Man-of-
the-Year Brunch on Sunday,
March 30, at 10 a.m., follow-
ing morning services at 9:30.
Mr. Schreiber is a second-
generation member of both
the congregation and its
mens club. His father, the
late Norman Schreiber, also
was a BMC man of the year. Mr. Schreiber
will be feted in traditional BMC style, with a
friendly roast and bagel brunch.
The immediate past president of BMC, Mr.
Schreiber has held many
positions in the shul and on
its board. He also is chair
of the Association of Food
Industries and president
of the Bergen Highlands
Ramsey Rotary Club.
On Shabbat morning at
9 a.m., BMC members will
lead services and past and
present club officers will
receive aliyot. Mens Club
Shabbat coincides with
FJMCs call to observe Shabbat HaCho-
desh, the Shabbat that precedes the first
of the Hebrew month of Nisan, when Pass-
over is celebrated.
Howard Schreiber
Ohel hosts legislative breakfast on Friday
Ohel Childrens Home
and Family Services will
host its inaugural legisla-
tive breakfast on Friday,
April 4, at 8 a.m., in the
offices of Bernstein Global
Wealth Management, 1345
Avenue of the Americas,
in Manhattan.
Its Public Service award
will be presented to New
York Senate Majority Co-
Leader Jeff Klein and New
York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon
Silver. Former U.S. Attorney General
Michael Mukasey will discuss Disabili-
ties and the Law. His son, Marc, a part-
ner at the law firm of Bracewell & Giuliani
LLP, will introduce him. Other elected
officials will be there as well.
Ohel provides an array of services
throughout New Jersey,
New York City, Nassau
County, South Florida,
and Los Angeles.
It serves thousands
of people daily through
its specialty in trauma,
school-based programs
in prevention and safety,
foster care, housing, out-
patient counseling, day
and empl oyment pro-
grams, and a summer
camp upstate for kids with and without
disabilities. It works with people with
developmental and psychiatric disabili-
ties as well as with people facing every-
day challenges.
For information, email ohelbreak-
fast2014@legislativeevents.com or go to
Ohelfamily.org.
Michael Mukasey
Jewish Memorial Chapel names
new managing funeral director
Allen Edelstein, the managing
funeral director at the Jewish
Memorial Chapel of Passaic-
Clifton, retired on January 31
after 22 years of service. Vin-
cent Marazo is the new manag-
ing funeral director.
Mr. Edelstein began his ser-
vice to the Jewish Memorial
Chapel when it was still in
its original home at 68 Howe
Ave. in Passaic. He began as
a funeral director, working
under managing funeral direc-
tor Irving Shapiro until Febru-
ary 2002. After Mr. Shapiro
died, Mr. Edelstein assumed
became managing funeral
director of the Jewish Memo-
rial Chapel of Passaic-Clifton.
He held that job for 12 years.
During Mr. Edelsteins tenure with
the chapel, he has conducted many
funerals and comforted countless
grieving families and friends in accor-
dance with Jewish tradition. The Jewish
Memorial Chapels board expresses its
deepest gratitude to Mr. Edelstein on
behalf of his service to the Chapel and
the Jewish communities of North Jersey.
Mr. Edelstein plans to spend more
time with his wife and family.
Mr. Marazo, the new managing
funeral director, previously worked
as a funeral director at Menorah Cha-
pels at Millburn. His many years of ser-
vice to the Jewish community in Essex
and Union counties has made him well
versed in traditional Jewish funeral ritu-
als and customs. Mr. Marazo has been
a licensed funeral director since 1979.
The Jewish Memorial Chapel of
Passaic-Clifton is a non-for-profit
Jewish funeral home serving the North
Jersey area. The chapel is owned and
operated by over 24 Jewish communal
organizations in Passaic, Bergen and
Essex counties.
Allen Edelstein and Vincent Marazo
AZA heads to NYC for networking
Last month, Mitchell Hirsch from Hill-
sdale was among the 35 BBYO teens
who gathered at Comedy Central Head-
quarters for a night of networking and
learning from BBYOs own Comedy
Central alum, Walter Levitt, its chief
marketing officer.
This was the first program for Aleph
Zadik Aleph (AZA), BBYOs high school
leadership program for young Jewish
men. It is an initiative that aims to help
young Jewish men build connections,
network, learn, and ultimately to engage
more of them in Jewish life.
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JCT annual Big Bread Burn coming
The Jewish Center of Teanecks seventh
annual community Big Bread Burn is set
for Monday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m. Called
the Al and Joy Amsel Memorial Biur
Hametz program, it is a memorial to the
Amsels, who gathered around a fire pit
in their backyard with their friends every
erev Passover for more than 30 years to
burn chametz.
A Teaneck Fire Department safety trailer
and department truck will be on hand to
give a fire safety learning experience for
young children and families. Streits Matzo
Company donated chocolate kosher for
Pesach lollipops for children, and Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler, a Teaneck honorary Fire
Department chaplain, will don his ceremo-
nial Teaneck Fire Department hat and coat.
Chametz should be in paper bags only.
The event is co-sponsored by the JCT with
the RCBC, the Jewish Community Council
of Greater Teaneck, and Congregation Rinat
Yisrael. The Jewish Center of Teaneck is at 70
Sterling Place. Call (201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
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Local seder roundup
To date, the Jewish Standard has received notices of these local seders.
Check with your synagogue for service times.
Spode seder plate for
Pesach
Spode has Judaica line
Spodes Judaica collection celebrates Jewish festivals,
holidays, and special occasions. Its design, in the
traditional colors of blue and white, is based on
historic Judaic manuscripts from the 1880s and is
influenced by early ceramic tile motifs. Items in
Spodes Judaica collection include candlesticks,
Kiddush cups, honey jars, mezzuzot, serving dishes,
and platters. They are dishwasher, microwave, and
freezer safe, and can also be put in a warm oven.
The seder plate retails for $120.75 and is available with
other Judaica items at www.spode.com/collections/
judaica.html. See page 54 to win this seder plate.
Pre-Pesach food challenge in Teaneck
Corned beef and pastrami will challenge
General Tso or at least his chicken to
the annual pre-Passover food challenge
between Noahs Ark and Shellys, on
one side, and Chopstix, on the other. All
three restaurant will collect donations for
Teanecks Helping Hands Food Pantry.
Each year customers of Noahs Ark
and Chopstix vie for the biggest dona-
tions to help their neighbors, while prov-
ing their loyalty to their favorite kosher
food source, Noam Sokolow, owner of
Noahs Ark Deli & Shellys Dairy Restau-
rant, said. Last years challenge resulted
in more than 300 bags of cereal, pan-
cake mix, flour, tuna, ketchup, diapers,
and toiletries for the food pantry. They
came in just as supplies were low and
they were most in need, Elie Y. Katz of
Chopstix added.
This years contest runs through April
13. Donations of unopened, nonperish-
able food and toiletries can be dropped
off at Chopstix, 172 West Englewood Ave.,
at Noahs Ark, 493 Cedar Lane, and at
Shellys Dairy Restaurant, 482 Cedar Lane,
all in Teaneck.
Last year, Noahs Ark won the contest.
Noam Sokolow of Noahs Ark and Elie Katz of Chopstix
Monday April 14
Wayne
The Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne, 7:15 p.m.
$48 adults/children, 3-12, free/$360
sponsor/$180 benefactor.
194 Ratzer Road. (973) 694-6274,
Rabbi@jewishwayne.com, or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Haskell
Chabad of Upper Passaic County in
Haskell, 7:15 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Mendy Gurkov. $40/adult,
$25/child
1069 Ringwood Ave., Suite 202.
( 201 ) 696- 7609 or Rabbi @
JewishHighlands.org.
Tuesday April 15
Wayne
Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne hosts a
seder with a potluck dinner, led by Rabbi
Stephen Wylen, 6 p.m.
$20 per family/$10 for singles, plus
a food donation to the dinner. Kosher
dinner, in lieu of a potluck contribution
can be arranged.
Reservations by April 9. 950 Preakness
Ave. Hope Haiman, (973) 305-6870 or
hopehaiman@yahoo.com or Michelle
Silodor, (973) 201-8741 or mdsilodor@
optonline.net.
Teaneck
Temple Emeth in Teaneck, 6 p.m.
Adult members, $40/$20 for those
under 13.
Adult nonmembers, $48/$24 for those
under 13.
Free for those under 5.
1666 Windsor Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Glen Rock
Glen Rock Jewish Center, 6 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Neil Tow. Vegetarian
dinners on request.
Adults 65+, $45/ 21-64, $50/ 13-20, $42/
7-12, $25/6 and under, $18.
682 Harristown Road. Reservations by
April 9, Judi Forer, (201) 445-1963 or judi.
forer@gmail.com.
Brooklyn
The 92Y in New York City presents a seder
with author/comedian Nathan Phillips
and Rabbi Dan Ain using the Bob Marley
Haggadah at the Brooklyn Conservatory
of Music, 7 p.m. Tickets from $90.
58 7th Ave., Park Slope. (212) 415-5500
or 92Y.org/Passover.

Wayne
The Chabad Center of Passaic County in
Wayne, 7:30 p.m.
$48 adults/children, 3-12, free/$360
sponsor/$180 benefactor.
194 Ratzer Road. (973) 694-6274,
Rabbi@jewishwayne.com, or www.
jewishwayne.com.
Nanuet
Nanuet Hebrew Center in New City, N.Y.,
7:30 p.m.
$25, 21 and older/ free for those
younger.
Reservations by April 7. 411 South
Little Tor Road. (845) 708-9181 or www.
nanuethc.org.
Paramus
JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth
Tikvah, 8:15 p.m.
Led by Rabbi Arthur and Shira Weiner
Adults/$40/ children, 4-12, $20/
under 4, free.
Reservations by April 3.
East 304 Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.jccparamus.org.
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Visiting
the elderly
T
he interview with George
Hantgan that was the founda-
tion of last weeks cover story
got us thinking.
Mr. Hantgan has had 98 intensely
lived years. Most people have never
met even one president in the White
House, let alone three, and probably
the number of people who have killed
a cockroach in a dining room there is
even smaller. Most people have not
been in on the creation of two agencies
that arguably did more than any other
to shape the local Jewish community in
which we glory now.
But even if you are not George Hantgan and by defini-
tion, with just one exception, absolutely you are not you
cannot reach even the near shores of old age without having
a repository of stories.
It is an undeniable if sad truth that many old people are
lonely. They frighten younger people, who see in them a
reminder of their own mortality, and they seem alienat-
ingly different. Sometimes they do not hear too clearly, and
sometimes their references are so dated as to seem foreign.
But the elderly are exactly as human as
the rest of us. Like us, they relish friend-
ship, companionship, and an available ear
and for that matter, they can listen as
well as they can talk, and they can pro-
vide hard-earned advice. They can give
perspective. In order to reach their ages,
by definition they have lived.
The elderly, like everybody of any age,
can both give and receive love.
The Jewish Home at Rockleigh, where
Mr. Hantgan lives, welcomes visitors.
Many residents yearn for company, par-
ticularly the ones whose children live
far away and cannot visit often, and the
ones who do not have children. Visi-
tors are always welcome to the homes
large, light-filled public rooms, and on
nice days, like the ones that we take on
faith will shine on us eventually, they can
wheel residents out to the lake and bask companionably in
the sun.
If you are interested in visiting Rockleigh, call the direc-
tor of volunteers, Charlene Vannucci, at (201) 750-4237. Last
week, Mr. Hantgan invited visitors to spend an after-dinner
hour with him. And if youre interested in visiting anyplace
else perhaps closer to home just call. Youll be welcome.
Not only will the person you visit benefit from it so will
you. -JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
I kitniyot you not:
The annual Pesach rant
W
e need a new opening verse for the Four
Questions. I propose the following: Why
is this night NOT different from all other
nights?
Here is another question (Pesach, or at least the seder,
is a time for questions, after all): What do Rebridge Beer,
Gluten Free Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix, and the gluten-
free version of Kelloggs Rice Krispies all have in common?
According to a Sephardi rabbi in Lakewood, they are all
permitted on Pesach despite the fact that none are so cer-
tified. The beer, this rabbi notes, is made from sorghum
and everyone may drink it, while the other two are only
for Sephardim, and anyone else who does not observe the
ban on kitniyot (see below).
He likely is correct, on a technical level. The only real
question is why anyone
would want to have beer,
bread, and Rice Krispies
(or Post Cocoa Pebbles) on
Pesach.
Pesach is eight days long
in the diaspora. For eight
days, we are commanded to
keep all leaven off our tables
and out of our homes. This
is because we are free to live
our lives without the crack of
a taskmasters whip on our
backs, are grateful to God for
that gift, and look forward to a time when all humankind
shares this freedom, in a world free from hate, divisive-
ness, and violence.
This is what Pesach stands for. It is why Pesach should
be different from all other days.
And yet we strive to make Pesach look ever more like
the rest of the year. Faux chametz products abound in
the kosher aisles everything from Pesach rolls to fake
pasta to pizza dough to too many more foods like these.
They all come with hefty price tags, yet we pay the price
so as not to feel deprived of our mundane comfort foods.
Once upon a time, such foods probably never would
have been certified because of the principal of marit ayin
doing something that has the appearance of being forbid-
den, or that causes another person to think that a forbid-
den thing actually is permissible. Such acts are prohibited
even if done in closed rooms with no possibility of being
seen.
Eating macaroni salad with your shmurah matzah
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
JS-24*
What did we expect?
S
o now we hear yet another
story about a Tweet from
Irans Ayatollah Khamenei
questioning the existence of
the Holocaust.
Then we get an almost instant reply
from the ADLs Abraham Foxman and
from the Conference of Presidents of
Major Jewish American Organizations
condemning Irans Supreme Leader.
That brings to mind a bit of wisdom
from Mel Brooks 1974 film, Blazing
Saddles.
When Cleavon Littles character,
Sheriff Bart, who is black, is dis-
couraged by the cold reception with
which the white people of Rock-
ridge have greeted him, he leans on
Gene Wilders shoulder. Wilder
playing the Waco Kid says, What
did you expect? Welcome, sonny?
Make yourself at home? Marry my
daughter?
Youve got to remember that
these are just simple farmers. These
are people of the land. The common
clay of the new West.
You knowmorons.
We know that Irans president, Has-
san Rouhani, and its foreign minister,
Javad Zarif, drew much attention last
year for acknowledging the Holocaust,
though Rouhani since has toned down
his recognition.
But did we honestly expect that Rou-
hani would give up his revisionist twist-
ing of historical facts? Did we expect
him to invite Jews to his house for a
mock seder? Or did we expect him to
host a Yom HaShoah commemoration?
Did we expect that just because Rou-
hani started out by blowing kisses to the
West, hes still not part of a regime that
wants to destroy Israel?
Perhaps Prime Minister Netanyahus
warning to the Obama administration
is true. Maybe it right that all these ges-
tures of faux friendship are a way to buy
time for Iran to further enrich its mili-
tary grade uranium.
So, to borrow the question from
Blazing Saddles, what did we expect?
These are people who want Israel to
disappear. These are people who held
American diplomats as prisoners for
444 days. This is a government trying
to ship weapons to arm Gazans and
terrorize Israeli communities. And it
is a government working to prop up
Syrias war criminal Bashar Al-Assad.
The common clay. You know
terrorists.
-PJ
Shammai
Engelmayer
George Hantgan, right and
the Jewish Standards pub-
lisher, James Janoff, hold a
copy of last weeks paper.
KEEPING THE FAITH
I kitniyot you not:
The annual Pesach rant
W
e need a new opening verse for the Four
Questions. I propose the following: Why
is this night NOT different from all other
nights?
Here is another question (Pesach, or at least the seder,
is a time for questions, after all): What do Rebridge Beer,
Gluten Free Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix, and the gluten-
free version of Kelloggs Rice Krispies all have in common?
According to a Sephardi rabbi in Lakewood, they are all
permitted on Pesach despite the fact that none are so cer-
tified. The beer, this rabbi notes, is made from sorghum
and everyone may drink it, while the other two are only
for Sephardim, and anyone else who does not observe the
ban on kitniyot (see below).
He likely is correct, on a technical level. The only real
question is why anyone
would want to have beer,
bread, and Rice Krispies
(or Post Cocoa Pebbles) on
Pesach.
Pesach is eight days long
in the diaspora. For eight
days, we are commanded to
keep all leaven off our tables
and out of our homes. This
is because we are free to live
our lives without the crack of
a taskmasters whip on our
backs, are grateful to God for
that gift, and look forward to a time when all humankind
shares this freedom, in a world free from hate, divisive-
ness, and violence.
This is what Pesach stands for. It is why Pesach should
be different from all other days.
And yet we strive to make Pesach look ever more like
the rest of the year. Faux chametz products abound in
the kosher aisles everything from Pesach rolls to fake
pasta to pizza dough to too many more foods like these.
They all come with hefty price tags, yet we pay the price
so as not to feel deprived of our mundane comfort foods.
Once upon a time, such foods probably never would
have been certified because of the principal of marit ayin
doing something that has the appearance of being forbid-
den, or that causes another person to think that a forbid-
den thing actually is permissible. Such acts are prohibited
even if done in closed rooms with no possibility of being
seen.
Eating macaroni salad with your shmurah matzah
Op-Ed
and tuna fish sandwich has the appearance of eating
something that is forbidden. Someone seeing it may think
it is real pasta, and that real pasta is permitted on Pesach.
For whatever reason, marit ayin no longer applies to
Pesach. That is wrong, because it gives the impression
that celebrating one of the greatest moments in our his-
tory, Gods redeeming Israel from the slavery of Egypt and
our birth as a free people, is too burdensome for us to
celebrate.
Some of the fault for this, however, must be laid at the
feet of those who make Pesach a burden foodwise by con-
stantly creating new unnecessary restrictions and adding
to existing unnecessary ones.
And, yes, this refers to the ban on kitniyot. Near the
start of the last millennia, a rabbi in Ashkenaz determined
that legumes (varieties of beans, lentils, peas, peanuts), for
one reason or another, should be banned on Pesach. Rice
soon was added to the list, even though the Talmud spe-
cifically (a) suggests that rice should be eaten at a seder
and (b) states that Yochanan ben Nuri, the lone dissent-
ing mishnaic sage who banned rice, was ignored by all his
colleagues (see the Babylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim
114b). For the record, he also advocated saying a form of
grace after eating bread made out of rice (see BT Brachot
37a), but not even those who ban rice from the Pesach
table agree with that ruling. Eventually, the derivatives of
these items also were banned.
Corn is also banned because corn is among the five
Land of Israel species that are not permitted on Pesach,
except that what we call corn was unknown before
Columbus set sail on the Nina. It certainly never grew in
the Land of Israel.
What is the result of the ever-expanding kitniyot ban?
You can buy a small jar of fake mustard for an exorbitant
price, even though there is nothing intrinsically wrong
with Frenchs Mustard. For that matter, there is noth-
ing wrong with Hellmans Mayonnaise, Heinz Ketchup,
or Dannon Light & Fit Greek Yogurt, among many other
products (there is that list again), or of Coca-Cola in a
white cap (the more expensive yellow-capped bottle is
the kosher for Passover variety).
There is the matter of minhag avot, the custom of the
ancestors. It is a valid concern, to be sure, but it is not
writ in stone. We do not observe every custom of our for-
bears, especially if we view the custom as misguided or
inappropriate. (All those who still take a live chicken on
erev Yom Kippur and wave it around his or head please
raise your hands.) Kitniyot never was appropriate. It was
labeled a foolish custom from the very beginning. It still
is minhag shtut.
Eliminating the ban would allow us all to eat healthier
and less expensively on Pesach, while also eliminating
the need for all of these faux chametz products whether
with a hechsher or on someones Excel list of acceptable
foods.
Have a wonderful, joyous, and kosher Pesach.
JS-25*
From Rasha, with love
T
he Passover Seders of my early childhood
are now increasingly distant, cherished, and
sacred memories.
I recall most vividly two critical moments in
those annual family holiday observances presided over
by my father: the taste of the maror, the bitter herbs,
which I approached with a measure of trepidation and
the discussion of the four sons, which I found still more
frightening. Specifically, I recall a sense of dark dismay
at the Haggadahs treatment of the wicked son the
rasha.
My fathers Litvakish (Lithuanian) pronunciation of
that Hebrew term sounded to my uninitiated young ear
as if he were saying Russia. My father was a civilian
employee of the Strategic Air Command at the height
of the Cold War, intimately involved, for example, in
the Berlin airlift. I had a keen early awareness of the
enemy lawless, godless, despotic, and bellicose. The
emblem of SAC, a shield showing a powerful armored
fist grasping lightning bolts
against a clouded sky, hung in
my bedroom.
What terrible things could
a mere child possibly have
done, I wondered timorously
during the reading of the four
sons. What sins could he have
committed to merit being
branded with so derogatory
and frightful a title The
Russia with all the evil and
danger the name of the Soviet
Union evoked? How relieved
I was each year when my older brother volunteered
to read this passage, sparing me its secretly dreaded
burden.
It was not long before I was disabused of my misun-
derstanding of the Hebrew text of the Haggadah. In
time, too, Russias repression of Jewish life would soften,
the Cold War would end, and the Soviet Union would
be dismantled. A measure of freedom and democracy
and hope would spread throughout the former Soviet
States, including Lithuania (the ethnolinguistic source of
my youthful liturgical confusion) and Ukraine.
Though both my Hebrew language skills and my
understanding of geopolitics have grown considerably
more sophisticated since my childhood seder experi-
ence, I responded to the recent news of Russias annexa-
tion of Ukraines Crimean Peninsula with an eerily famil-
iar dark dismay.
The rasha of the Passover Haggadah, at least in our
traditional reading of that text, defiantly distances him-
self from the seders celebration of freedom: What do
these proceedings mean to you? he demands. With
analogous defiance, the Russia now occupying Crimea
insists that the West and specifically the United States,
its erstwhile Cold War foe has no legitimate interest,
no standing to object to its invasion of Ukraine: What
do these proceedings mean to you? In so doing, todays
Russia with an emboldened and increasingly despotic
Vladimir Putin at its helm also has rejected freedom,
embracing a bellicose lawlessness of unsettling his-
toric resonance. As the Haggadah puts it: Lfi she-hotzi
et atzmo min ha-klal By excluding himself from the
community of nations kafar ba-ikar he has denied
the most basic of principles the freedom that is the
birthright of all peoples, and the territorial integrity of
sovereign nations.
The Haggadah prescribes that we react to the rasha
with strength of purpose, explaining in no uncertain
terms that our course, our actions, are a principled
response to our historic experience: Because of what
the Lord did for me when I went out of Egypt. The Jew-
ish national experience imposes on us an obligation to
champion freedom, a moral and spiritual duty that we
are not entitled to shirk or to neglect. Ever since the
Exodus, freedom has spoken with a Hebrew accent,
insisted German poet (and, alas, Jewish apostate) Hein-
rich Heine.
As a Jew, my sadness (and outrage) at the invasion
of Crimea is compounded by the rich Jewish history
of that region. Jewish settlement of Crimea began as
early as the first century C.E., purportedly by descen-
dants of the Babylonian exile and deported warriors of
the Bar Kochba rebellion. The participation of Jews in
Crimean culture is said to have led to the storied con-
version to Judaism of the Khazar royal family, and after
their example, much of their kingdom in the seventh
to 11th centuries. In the 20th century, Crimea was the
site of a number of experimental proto-Zionist semi-
autonomous agrarian Jewish communities, which were
annihilated during the Nazi Holocaust. Greater Ukraine
has seen the best and worst of Jewish history: the birth
of the Hibbat Zion, Am Olam, and Biluim movements,
as well as the massacres under Chmielnicki in the 17th
century and at Babi Yar in 1941. S. Y. Agnon, Hayim
Nachman Bialik, and Golda Meir all were products of
Ukrainian Jewry, as was Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav.
Jewish communal and synagogue life continues in
Ukraine to this day.
No less than Jews at their seder tables, Americans
also have an obligation, born of our unique history, to
champion freedom, and to chart a principled course
worthy of that historic mission. A defining element of
the American ethos is recognition that all human beings
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness. That is, America stands for the principle
that freedom is not a privilege granted by rulers and gov-
ernment. Freedom is a universal right, an inescapable
consequence of our belief in God Because of what
the Lord did for me.
The founding principles of the United States, not
unlike the founding narrative of the Jewish people
rehearsed around seder tables each year, require a
meaningful response and strength of purpose when free-
dom is threatened by tyrants and terrorists. The rights
with which we are endowed by our Creator come with
equally divine corollary obligations. The cost of meeting
those obligations, it is true, at times may be bitter. Per-
haps that is the true meaning of the maror the bitter
herbs we dutifully taste at Passover, as we refrain, tem-
porarily, from our ritual reclining. As a child, I would
have preferred to avoid the bitterness altogether. Now
I understand. Neither as Americans nor as Jews can we
discharge our sacred duties without a willingness to
abandon the relaxed posture with which we are accus-
tomed to reveling in our freedom, and when principle
so dictates, to face a possibly bitter course.
The hottest place in Hell, said Dante Alighieri, in
an observation framed and displayed in my rabbinic
study, is reserved for those who, in time of moral cri-
sis, remain neutral.
Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of
North Jersey in Franklin Lakes.
Rabbi Joseph
H. Prouser
Eliminating the ban
would allow us all to
eat healthier and less
expensively on Pesach,
while also eliminating
the need for all of these
faux chametz products.
Op-Ed
JS-26*
Reclaiming Bruno Schulz
My eighth-grader is reading
Elie Wiesel.
Of course he is. Hes at
Yavneh Academy, and in eighth
grade, Yavneh kids study the
Holocaust.
And since he is my third
child, Ive had plenty of oppor-
tunity to note which books
schools assign to kids who
are learning about the Shoah:
Number the Stars by Lois
Lowry. The Diary of Anne
Frank. Night by Elie Wiesel.
To appreciate the extent of the world we
lost, it is essential to know about the life that
flourished before the Nazis came. For this,
people read Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashe-
vis Singer, stories of the fools of Chelm.
But thats because theyve never heard of
Bruno Schulz.
Bruno Schulz (1892-1942) was Polands
greatest 20th century writer, and the grand-
daddy of magical realism. Gunter Grass,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cynthia Ozick, David
Grossman, Meir Shalev, Jonathan Safran Foer,
Nicole Krauss each of these writers was
influenced by his work.
In his book of short stories, The Street
of Crocodiles, the writing is philosophical,
delirious, hypnotic, dreamlike. You dont read
Schulz for the plot; you read for the prose,
the intensely sensual visuals, the way words
unfurl like the leaves of a magical vine. Inani-
mate objects struggle to come to life. Secret
rooms grow strange, trapped gardens. A boy
becomes so light that he blows away with a
gust of wind. The narrators father fears cock-
roaches so much that he becomes one.
With precision and poetry, Schulz lov-
ingly describes the shops of his home town,
scents, streets, schoolboys, storms, town
squares, the relationships between members
of a quirky extended family. He invents char-
acters like Father, a dreamy, experimental
luftmensch; a provocative
housekeeper named Adela; an
aunt who dries up and turns
to ash from a fit of excessive
anger; a mob of villagers who
stone a flock of exotic birds
from the sky. He conjures up
a terrifying gale that barrels
through town, a comet that is
on a collision course with earth
until it falls out of fashion. He
describes simmering summer
days, tailors dummies that
may or may not constitute liv-
ing matter, an uncle who hangs on a wall until
he disappears. Schulz turns ordinary sights
into a world of magic and wonder.
How tragic that the world that he describes
with such vivid imagery is about to be utterly
obliterated.
Some random quotes:
There are things than cannot ever occur
with any precision. They are too big and too
magnificent to be contained in mere facts.
They are merely trying to occur, they are
checking whether the ground of reality can
carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fear-
ing to loose their integrity in the frailty of
realization.
From all the crevices in the floor, from all
the moldings, from every recess, there grew
slim shoots filling the gray air with a scintillat-
ing filigree lace of leaves: a hothouse jungle,
full of whispers and flickering lights a false
and blissful spring. Around the bed, under
the lamp, along the wardrobes, grew clumps
of delicate trees which, high above, spread
their luminous crowns and fountains of lacy
leaves, spraying chlorophyll, and thrusting
up to the painted heaven of the ceiling.
The dark second-floor apartment of the
house in Market Square was shot through
each day by the naked heat of summer: the
silence of the shimmering streaks of air, the
squares of brightness dreaming their intense
dreams on the floor; the sound of a barrel
organ rising from the deepest golden vein of
day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on
a distant piano over and over again, melting
in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the
fire of high noon.
Bruno Schulz was a shy, frail, brilliant
Jewish artist and writer who lived in the far
eastern Polish town of Drohobych, now in
Ukraine. At university, he studied to be an
architect. When his father died, he took on
the only job he could get; he became a high
school art teacher in order to support his
mother, sister, and nephew.
All that remains of Schulzs work are the
stories that make up The Street of Croco-
diles, and a second collection of linked sto-
ries called The Sanatorium Under the Sign
of the Hourglass. The unfinished novel he
was working on, The Messiah, was left
with non-Jewish friends for safekeeping and
has never resurfaced. (The disappearance of
The Messiah manuscript is one of the great
literary mysteries of the 20th century; it actu-
ally may be somewhere in Russia.)
Schulzs lush, effusively worded stories
give no warning of the conflagration that is to
come. Drohobych was a particularly deadly
place to be in the cauldron of World War
II. Nearly the entire Jewish population was
killed on the streets, herded into the nearby
Bronica forest and massacred, or transported
to concentration camps. For a year, Schulz
found a protector and patron in the person
of Felix Landau, an art-loving SS officer who
commissioned him to paint murals of fairy
tales on the walls of his sons playroom. Lan-
dau respected Schulz, even inviting him to
dine with his family.
In an epoch of murder on a massive and
impersonal scale, Bruno Schulzs death
stands out. On November 18, 1942, there
was an Aktzia in Drohobych. As Schulz
walked down the street, an SS man named
Karl Gunther came up behind him and shot
him. Schulzs execution was almost certainly
an act of revenge; during a previous killing
spree, Landau shot Gunthers dental techni-
cian. The next time he saw Landau, Gunther
told him, You killed my Jew. Now I killed
yours.
In Poland and in Ukraine, Bruno Schulz
is a national hero, celebrated as one of their
greatest writers. There is even a yearly Bruno
Schulz Festival in Drohobych, with readings
and stage productions of his work. But here
in America, among the Jewish community,
few even know who he is.
I propose we reclaim Bruno Schulz, whose
words have been a firestorm of inspiration to
some of our most gifted writers. Read a story,
any story, from The Street of Crocodiles.
High school teachers assign one to your
students. Students of social history read it
if you want to know more about what we lost
in the war. Lovers of literature read it if you
want to be consumed by fiction that burns
like poetry.
Whatever you do, read this book.
Helen Maryles Shankmans short fiction has
appeared in many publications, including The
Kenyon Review and JewishFiction.net. Her
debut novel, The Color of Light, is available on
Amazon. She lives with her family in Teaneck.
Helen
Maryles
Shankman
The challenges of aging
The question we are all too afraid to ask
As a recent retiree, I can truly
relate to the clich that I have
entered my golden years.
The past 10 months, since my
retirement from Temple Avo-
dat Shalom, have offered me
both time to disengage from
a hectic, fully scheduled life
and the opportunity to choose
to engage in new and exciting
volunteer activities in the com-
munity. One such new adven-
ture is my acceptance of a posi-
tion on the board of the foundation at Bergen
Regional Medical Center, the largest and,
ironically, least known health care center in
our community.
For a quarter century I
knew that Bergen Regional
housed the only adolescent
in-patient psychiatric center in
the county, and was the only
place in our community that
did detox for alcohol and other
substance abuse patients. I
also knew that it housed a
long-term care facility. How-
ever, it has only been in the last
six months of my involvement
with the foundation that I became aware that
Bergen Regional is the largest long-term care
facility in New Jersey.
The 2010 census showed that the fastest
growing segment of our population, both
locally and nationally, are people 85 and
older. Bergen countys 26 long-term care
facilities have approximately 3,100 beds. Ber-
gen Regional Medical Center has 574 of those
beds, and all of them are Medicaid eligible.
This means that anyone can receive treat-
ment at BRMC, no matter what their financial
situation might be.
These three core BRMC programs share
the fact that the issues they are addressing are
the ones that most of us are too afraid to face
until it is me or my parent who needs long-
term care, or me, or my child or spouse, who
has a substance abuse or mental health issue
that needs immediate attention.
I accepted this position on BRMCs founda-
tion board out of my understanding of Levi
Yitzchaks famous commentary on the fourth
child at the Passover seder, the one who
does not know how to ask. When it comes
to issues such as long-term care, most of us
are either too afraid or too overwhelmed to
ask the questions and find the services and
assistance that our loved ones need.
The primary mission of BRMCs founda-
tion is to be the advocate for the residents
and patients of our county-owned medi-
cal center. The so-called golden years of
so many of them and this is particularly
true for the residents of BRMCs long-
term care division have been tarnished
by both illness and financial distress. A
second but I believe equally important
responsibility I have as a member of this
board is to bring public awareness not only
to BRMCs specific programs and services,
but also to address and provide educa-
tional and informational forums through
which we, the citizens of Bergen County,
Rabbi Neal I.
Borovitz
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On Steven Fulop
What an awe-inspiring, well-written piece
(Jersey City Boy, March 14)! Thank you
for such an in-depth examination of a
political leader we all respect for his core
beliefs and willingness to change the sta-
tus quo. President John F. Kennedy, upon
accepting the Democratic nomination for
President, said, Its time for a new genera-
tion of leadership, to cope with new prob-
lems and new opportunities. For there is
a new world to be won.... Mayor Fulop
represents that future, and we wish him
Godspeed.
And to the entire Fulop family, thank
you for sharing the intimate details of
your intergenerational life story. It is a
symbolic reminder of what makes our
country great!
Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver
East Orange
34th Legislative District
Former Speaker,
NJ General Assembly
Naming names
In reminding us of the anomalous names
of the protagonists in Megillat Esther,
Rabbi Engelmayer raises what might be
an even more disturbing question than
the names themselves (Highlight of the
Gods, March 14). Mordechai, he tells
us, actually means a follower of Marduk,
the Babylonian god of war, while Esther
is named for Ishtar, the pagan goddess
of love. These were common names in
the Persian empire. It is as if prominent
Orthodox Jews today were to name their
children Jesus, Christopher, Mohammed,
or Christine.
This situation certainly calls for some
rather vigorous commentary and expla-
nation One looks in vain, however, for a
discussion of the issue in commentaries to
Megillat Esther. Just about all of the com-
mentaries, especially ArtScroll, totally
ignore this problem. When discussing
the origins of the names of our Jewish
protagonists, Mordechai and Esther, the
commentators tie themselves in linguis-
tic knots trying to find some exceedingly
obscure Hebrew or Aramaic origins for
these names, and yet amazingly totally
ignore the elephant in the room, to wit,
that our protagonists are named for prom-
inent pagan gods! Nowhere is this even
mentioned, much less discussed! If I were
inclined to be disrespectful, I might say
that such blatant avoidance smacks of a
lack of intellectual/religious integrity, if
not actual dishonesty.
Explanation, anyone?
Jeff Bernstein
New Milford
More on U4U
Many thanks for your wonderful article
Unite4Unity brings Synagogues together
for Israel but I do wish to correct one
omission. Ari Hirt of Teaneck is our other
partner in Unite4Unity, and he has been a
core member from the outset supporting
the mission and efforts of U4U.
Unite4Unity is an innovative, grass-
roots, lay leadership-driven organization
that seeks to create interesting, dynamic,
and social programming and opportuni-
ties for Reform, Conservative, Orthodox,
unaffiliated and all Jews to interact, learn
from each other, connect, and build rela-
tionships. U4U hopes to serve as a catalyst,
fostering the unity of Jewish people by
encouraging the various segments of the
community to collaborate better and focus
on the critical, transformative, inspira-
tional, and existential issues facing us all.
U4U was founded by Ian Zimmerman
and me in connection with our participa-
tion in the Berrie Fellows Leadership Pro-
gram. We are assisted by others, includ-
ing Ari, and work in conjunction with the
JCRC, the Jewish Community Relations
Council of The Jewish Federation of North-
ern New Jersey.
If you feel passionate about building
greater unity in the Jewish community and
breaking down walls and silos and want
to join our efforts please email us at unit-
e4unity@gmail.com. We need great peo-
ple who can both imagine a united Jewish
community and do the work required to
make this happen to join us.
Lee Lasher
Englewood
Talking to Mr. Hantgan
Last week my eighth-grade class in Yavneh
Academy interviewed three residents from
the Jewish Home at Rockleigh via Skype.
George Hantgan, who was interviewed
by your paper as well (And then here
comes George, March 21), was one of the
residents whom we interviewed, and he
answered our questions with earnestness
as he told us his story. When we asked
about bullying in his teenage years, Mr.
Hantgan told us of his experiences in Flat-
bush, where he had gone to high school.
At that time, there were rarely any Jews in
the area, and therefore he was an obvious
target for bullying. However, his attitude
about it did not seem at all negative, as he
told us that they were only making fun of
him to try to prove that they were smarter
than him. His attitude toward bullying
inspired me to look at bullies from a new
perspective; as them being the victims of
insecurity and the others as the ones who
are being dragged down. Our generation
could learn a lot from his wisdom, as even
at a young age he knew how to deal with
bullying.
Mr. Hantgan continued telling us that
there was also a large amount of anti-Sem-
itism in this area. Nowadays, we could
never imagine the things he saw signs
that said, No Jews or dogs allowed, put
there by the government. Obviously, soci-
ety has changed dramatically since then.
We also questioned him about his life
during the Great Depression and how he
was affected by it. At this, he started from
the beginning of his life, with his fathers
lamp business. Many times Mr. Hantgan
would help his father out and earn 5 cents
for himself as well as dinner in a restau-
rant, a rare treat. When the Great Depres-
sion grew worse, his father was forced to
sell the factory and look for a new job,
which was no easy task. Mr. Hantgan
shared with us how he worked for a news-
paper route, delivering papers for 5 cents
a paper, and giving all his earned money
to his parents.
Today, we take many things for granted,
especially Americas recovering economy.
Mr. Hantgans stories reminded us to be
grateful for all the money which we have
and the big houses which we own. We
should always remember to especially be
grateful for being born in such a peaceful
time, when anti-Semitic signs such as he
saw no longer exist in the U.S. Listening to
how Mr. Hantgan cared for his parents was
a major lesson for me and my classmates.
Many of our relationships are not as car-
ing and do not include the same amount
of responsibility that Mr. Hantgan felt for
his parents. Mr. Hantgan is an amazing
role model for the next generation, and
we should always remember the lessons
the past can teach us!
Jessie Gronowitz
Yavneh Academy
On Wednesday, my Yavneh Academy
eighth-grade class had the privilege to
Skype with residents at the Jewish Home
at Rockleigh. The questions ranged from
memorable fads to the satanic Holocaust.
One resident interviewed was George
Hantgan.
Any question we fired at him was
answered with an eagerness to share and
inspire. We received information first-
hand from someone who experienced
effects from the Holocaust while living
in America, anti-Semitism, and even
the Depression. He recounted countless
tales from his childhood, which included
stories from his fathers business to sing-
ing in the shower. As we listened to the
memorable anecdotes, it became clear
that wisdom radiated from his very lips.
Mr. Hantgans fascinating childhood cap-
tivated the class.
One important point that he brought
up was the anti-Semitism in his lifetime.
He explained that he was one of the only
Jews while in high school and was con-
stantly downgraded because of his eth-
nic group. Mr. Hantgan shared how he
beat the anti-Semites. He did his best
to forget about it and move on, but, most
importantly, he was resilient. This lesson
is one that should be learned by all Jews
everywhere.
George Hantgan is the perfect example
of a person that all Jews should strive to
be. His unpretentiousness and modesty
is most inspiring. With his amazing char-
acter and calm personality, he really is
a dedicated and compassionate person.
Noam Putterman
Yavneh Academy
Its not her business
At first I too was gripped by Drafts of
Wrath (Editorial, March 14). In the end
I determined that this issue is similar to
others that I have read or experienced
recently. In two words, it is about per-
sonal struggles. Whether reading about
women/girls and tefillin or watching the
movie The Rabbis Daughters, it is all
about personal struggles.
There is not a living being who is
untouched by personal struggle. We can
debate their purpose or worthiness but
in the end the hardships are in our lives.
Sometimes they are self-created and
sometimes they are not. Perhaps because
of all Ive read or in spite of it, Ive deter-
mined that I dont want my personal
struggles scrutinized. Therefore who am
I to sit in judgment of others when I have
no clue how or why they have come to
their determinations and actions.
Of course I have feelings of what I will and
will not support, but in the end, I feel I have
a moral and ethical obligation to mind my
own business. My only obligation is to pro-
mote ahavat Yisrael, and I will do that out
loud while encouraging myself to withhold
judgment of my fellow Jewish people. I will
not promote negativity but choose to accen-
tuate the positive. My hope is that more
Jews will make the same choice.
Varda Hager
Teaneck
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stories reminded
us to be grateful
for all the money
which we have
and the big houses
which we own.
JOANNE PALMER
R
abbi Sharon Brous radiates
intensely concentrated pas-
sionate hummingbird energy
in almost tactile waves.
It is hard to imagine how anyone could
have done what she did created and
maintained a Jewish community that has
grown wildly, attracted devoted members,
brought disaffected Jews back to Judaism,
juggled the tensions between tradition,
innovation, accessibility, and fidelity but
once you meet her, you can see that if any-
one could have undertaken that impossi-
ble-sounding feat, it would have to be her.
Ikar, the Los Angeles synagogue that
Rabbi Brous imagined and shaped 10 years
ago, is now a 580-plus family shul, with a
150-child preschool, a multigenerational
membership, and a growing future. Rabbi
Brous has garnered so much recognition
and so many awards almost off-handedly
on the Forwards 50 most influential
Jews for years! On Newsweeks Top 50
rabbis list for years, once as number one!
Giving the benediction at Barack Obamas
second inauguration! that it is hard to
realize that she is only 41.
How did she do it? How did Rabbi Brous,
who grew up in Livingston and Short Hills,
got her undergraduate degree at Colum-
bia, and earned her smicha at the Jewish
Theological Seminary, parlay this fairly
conventional background into the creation
of Ikar?
First, there was her own re-awakening
to Judaism; the Jewish life shed known as
a child was strengthened and flourished
during a stay in Israel, and then nourished
as a member of Manhattans Congregation
Bnai Jeshurun. She spent her last year of
rabbinical school and her first as a rabbi as
a Marshall Meyer Fellow at Bnai Jeshurun,
learning how to interweave music, spiritu-
ality, and social justice from that large and
innovative shul. She went to Los Angeles
in 2002 with her husband, David Light. He
was going to pursue a career in screenwrit-
ing, and she took a job teaching in a Jewish
day school. They were both 27 years old.
I loved teaching Torah, but I kept meet-
ing young Jews hundreds of young Jews
who were smart and interesting and cre-
ative and totally disconnected from Jewish
life, she said.
We made friends, from Davids work
and from mine; we met friends of friends,
she said. There were a lot of Davids old
Camp Ramah friends. And I felt a sense of
great sadness because there were all these
incredibly talented creative young people
who would not engage in Jewish life, and
who had no idea of how Jewish liturgy and
life could touch them.
Even the friends from USY and Ramah
could find no way to connect to a mean-
ingful Jewish experience, she said. (USY
United Synagogue Youth is the Conser-
vative movements youth movement, and
Camp Ramah is the nationwide network
of Conservative summer camps.) The
camp people knew what it felt like from
when they were 11, or 14, or 18. They had
Shabbes at the lake, all dressed in white,
and it was beautiful and powerful and
meaningful, and then they walked into
conventional synagogues as adults, and
there was nothing there.
Camp is extraordinary. It can open up
peoples hearts and minds. It helps you
believe in the possibility of a deep Jewish
life, but when you finally have to leave
when youre 17, or 27, or 40 you cant
find that anywhere else.
Surrounded by crowds of no-longer-
engaged and never-engaged Jews, Rabbi
Brous felt a deep sadness. She and her hus-
band became involved with organizations
like Bend the Arc and Reboot, but she still
felt a lack.
Years later, she was able to put into
words something that shed felt back then.
I realized that what disengaged young
Jews are rejecting has nothing to do with
Judaism, she said. It has to do with the
20th-century iteration of institutional Jew-
ish life. What they objected to was what
they saw as being formal, please-rise-
please-be-seated, spiritually empty, often
intellectually unchallenging, sometimes
dishonest, socially manipulative, politi-
cally out of alignment, and generally lack-
ing in resonance.
This view was most prevalent, although
not confined to, people in their 20s, 30s,
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The essence is
to wake us all up
Ikar founder Rabbi Sharon Brous and local leaders
talk about building a living Jewish community
I loved teaching
Torah, but I kept
meeting young
Jews totally
disconnected
from Jewish life.
Rabbi Brous shares challah with preschoolers as they learn about Shabbat.
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and early 40s. It is an allergy to 20th-cen-
tury Jewish life, Rabbi Brous said.
(As she made clear, she was talking
only about the non-Orthodox world. The
Orthodox world is trending differently,
she said.)
And then, last year, the Pew study put
numbers behind much of what she had
intuited. It was that 22 percent of Jews
who were asked, What is your religion?
said None, she said. Everyone is baffled.
Who are those people? But I realize that
most of the people are the ones I have met.
Not one of them has not wanted to take
one day out of the week and designate that
as a time when they can change the rhythm
of their lives temporarily, go off the grid,
and re-engage with their dreams. None of
them are rejecting Shabbes. I havent ever
met any of these young disengaged hip-
ster Jews who reject the idea of prayer or
mindful practice, and none of them have
ever rejected the idea that social-change
work should be a core religious practice
and outgrowth of our spiritual and ritual
practice; they have never rejected the idea
that we can elevate the most mundane
things in our lives waking up, going to
the bathroom, sipping a cappuccino, going
to sleep.
None of them reject the idea that the
community can hold and sustain you
through your darkest hour, and join you
in celebration.
They are not rejecting any core Jewish
concept tefillah, Shabbat, tikkun olam,
talmud Torah, or even the potential of con-
necting with God.
What they actually are rejecting is
this 20th-century iteration of Jewish life,
which happened to work perfectly for my
grandparents, and theirs, who were either
immigrants or immigrants children, who
wanted the Jewish version of a Protestant
church. They got that, and it worked for
them.
It doesnt work any more, she said.
But if we could only figure out the David Light, Sharon Brous, and their three children.
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The first year that Rabbi Brous and Mr. Light were in
Los Angeles, they held occasional minyanim in their liv-
ing room, and they invited 30 people over for a tikkun
leil Shavuot. That night they studied Torah, discussed
the road map for peace in the Middle East, and learned
about the history of the song Hava Nagila, among
other things. The minyanim drew mainly young rab-
bis and rabbinical students; the tikkun attracted peo-
ple who knew very little about Judaism. It confirmed
Rabbi Brouss instincts. These people were not hungry
for community, she said. They already have it. They
already have beautiful and full lives. But they are hun-
gry for Judaism, if we can show the beauty of Jewish life
to them, they love it and they want it, she said.
So for a year and a half, Rabbi Brous just listened to
people, learning what they yearned for. Then she met
Melissa Balaban, then a dean at USCs law school, and
her husband, Adam Margolies. The couple parents
of young children, and slightly older than what Rabbi
Brous has come to see as her target demographic
said that they had tried synagogue after synagogue but
found a home at none of them. We talked about the
profound disconnect among religious institutions, with
a tendency toward extremism and fundamentalism on
one side, and apathy and indifference on the other, and
the need to claim a serious voice for human dignity and
peaceful resolution to conflict.
I believed that if we put out an iteration of Judaism
that had purpose, was meaningful, authentic, and cre-
ative, then they would come to it.
I wanted to help stake out this ground of deep, pas-
sionate, dignity-centered religious life.
Ms. Balaban left feeling cautiously ecstatic, Rabbi
Brous reported.
She and her husband, as well as Ms. Balaban and
her husband, each sent out 10 emails, announcing a
religious service. Having invited 40 people, they opti-
mistically set up chairs for 20; 135 showed up. It was
2004, so it was just before Facebook, Rabbi Brous said.
Everybody knew each other. We were all connected
through one of the four people who sent out the emails.
Most of the people who came did not have much Jew-
ish background, and the service was traditional, but it
was one of the most moving davening experiences shed
ever been part of, she reported.
So that week, Rabbi Brous gave notice at her school;
she would finish out the year but then leave to start Ikar.
It was a huge risk. She had a seven-month-old baby;
her husband, as a writer, did not have a regular salary.
(Sharon Brous and David Light now have three children.)
I had no certainty that it would work, but I thought we
had to try it, Rabbi Brous said. I loved working at the
school, but I knew that it was not what God put me on
earth to do. I knew that this was.
Ikar launched in July 2004. We had no space, no
money, no photocopier. It was totally grassroots, just
people showing up early to set up chairs.
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peoples homes. I would ask the hosts what it was that
they and their friends think about, and what keeps them
up at night. From there came ideas like a group for sin-
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had never thought there was a Jewish frame for it, and
I would come up with a text. And of course there was a
social dimension to it, with people sitting together drink-
ing wine. People loved it.
Ikar took off.
(The communitys name means essence; it is the
point, the guiding principle, the focus, and the reason
I have known Rabbi Brous since 2001, when she
was a fellow at my shul, Bnai Jeshurun. She was
extraordinary when I first met her, and she has
grown, taken off, and flown since then. That is
why she will talk in memory of my daughter, Shira
Palmer-Sherman, on Sunday.
Who: Rabbi Sharon Brous of Ikar
What: A talk in memory of Shira Palmer-Sherman
When: Sunday, March 30, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Where: Congregation Bnai Jeshuruns com-
munity house, at 270 West 89th street, between
Broadway and West End Avenue.
How: The talk is free
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Rabbi Brous has set the tone for a cul-
ture of experimentation, fluidity, and
creative discomfort. I am a very big
self-critic generally, and especially when
it comes to davening, she said. I am
very attentive to the mix in the space. If
I feel bored in services, or if I feel that
its getting stale, we stop in the middle
and fix it.
There are so many artificial con-
straints I want to create a space where
people can have a real experience.
Sometimes that upsets people, but thats
okay. I just want to wake us all up.
Sometimes I am equally uncomfort-
able. I am not the magician in the front
of the room, making things happen.
Sometimes I am also taken by surprise
or made uncomfortable.
For example? Things that will
awaken us do not always feel good, she
said. We are constantly moving things
around, making space for spontaneity,
and that is not always comfort-
able. I get nervous about things,
but thats good.
I am really okay with tension.
She experiments, secure in
the knowledge that although fail-
ure feels terrible, at times it is
necessary.
About a year ago, a couple of
hours before kabbalat Shabbat
services, I realized that I wasnt
excited about davening that
night, she said. I usually look
forward to it, but I was getting
bored.
So I moved us into a room that
was a third of the size of the usual
one, knowing that wed have
the same number of people. I put up a
sign saying, Discomfort is better than
boredom.
It was a total disaster. There are glass
doors at the back of the room, and every-
one stood outside them, in the porch. No
one would come in.
There were maybe seven people in
the room. Everyone else was outside. I
kept asking them to come in, but they
wouldnt. I was a huge brilliant public
failure.
And then we did it again the next
week, and people came back and said
Oh my God, were doing this again. We
hate it. Most of them came in this time,
but they stood in straight lines, as if
there were duct tape on the floor. I kept
saying that I want an escape from the
straight lines what would happen to a
Jew who could move a little bit? and
people thought it was weird.
And then we did it a third time,
and it was the best davening I had ever
experienced.
Once, she said, when she was asked
how she could be so brave, she said, Its
not courage. Its a form of selfishness. I
wasnt willing to be in a place where
we would fake-daven. I dont want to
pretend to daven. I want to really pray.
There is a tension in this, of course,
she acknowledged. She wants people to
be awakened, and that might cause some
discomfort. On the other hand, she does
not want people to be alienated. At times
that line is fine, and at times she has
crossed it.
One year at Rosh Hashanah, she said,
she pushed everyone to prostrate them-
selves during the Great Aleinu. I told
them that this will be a practice that will
be uncomfortable for all of you, but I ask
every one of you to do it, she recalled.
The spiritual power of this one ritual
moment is unmatched all year for all of
us, individually and collectively, she
continued. All of us acknowledge that I
cant control everything, no matter how
hard I try. I cannot. We put our faces to
the ground and our hands up to God and
say help me.
All of us the atheists, the cynics, the
diehards all of us went down. There
were 440 people in the room, and every-
one went down. So many people were
crying! It was so powerful.
But it was not a universally welcomed
experience. One man, who had been
among her earlier supporters, went
down, and then he got up and he left
and he never talked to me again, Rabbi
Brous said. He was really angry.
She tried to get in touch with him. He
relented only once in the 10 years that
have passed since then.
You really broke my heart, he told
her. And I didnt ask to have it broken.
Music is a crucial part of prayer at Ikar.
Rabbi Brous had first-hand experience
of its wordless, bypassing-the-brain,-
straight-to-the-heart power at Bnai
Jeshurun. Unlike the practice in Man-
hattan, however, at Ikar she uses only
drums, but no other instruments.
Her musical director, Hillel Tigay, is
a rabbis kid his father is the biblical
scholar Dr. Jeffrey Tigay, who has retired
from the University of Pennsylvania
and he has incredible fluency with the
nusach, Rabbi Brous said. Hes a Torah
reader can jump up and read anything
with no notice and is also an extraor-
dinary musician. Hes not a trained
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chazzan he came to L.A. from Philly as a
rocker, and he has an eclectic musical palate.
We learn together every week, she said.
That strongly influences the music as well.
The music is a mix traditional Jewish
liturgical music, Arabic belly dancing music,
rock music. Some Carlebach, some Ramah
tunes, some Sufi chants. Sometimes its
something you wouldnt associate with dav-
ening at all.
The music isnt the same from week to
week. The basic feeling is the same, but I feel
that the world changes and we change from
week to week, so why shouldnt the music?
There is always the core service, and
there is always some element of surprise.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it
doesnt.
She does not use musical instruments
for a number of reasons, she said. For one
thing, I want Ikar to be a holy space
for people from diverse religious back-
grounds. I know that not everyone will
come, because there is a woman rabbi
and because at times we have to use a
microphone, but I didnt want people to
be uncomfortable for that reason.
I also dont like using instruments
for halachic reasons, she said. And I
also dont want a service dependent on
professional musicians playing beautiful
music. I want to empower people to do
it for themselves.
Professional musicians also made fail-
ure less likely, she said, and in music,
too, beauty can come from imperfec-
tion. Sometimes we start on different
keys, and then we all giggle.
About three years in, we had an
incredible moment, she remembered.
When the congregation started to sing
the Shema, no one was in the same key.
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community, she said. I was literally six
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who they were. There are collection
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It is a different approach, and it
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What he does is not magic, and really
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Joel Mosbacher, said. Its all about the
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We focus heavily on trying to build
real relationships with people. It perme-
ates everything we do.
He used to meet with bar and bat
mitzvah students and their families
twice before the big day, he said. It
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speeches, and to get to know them a
little big. The speech part they pretty
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It was cacophonous, Rabbi Brous said. It was dis-
sonant. It sounded awful.
But then, on the second word, We found each
other. It was beautiful.
Life is like that, she said. Sometimes it is painful
and messy, and sometimes you have to figure out how
to find beauty anyway.
Ikar is a community that is in a state of constant
struggle and tension even if one of the tensions
between that idea the need for struggle and its
golden laid-back California glow. Its really serious,
and were constantly making fun of ourselves at the same
time, Rabbi Brous said. We are at the same time pious and
impious. Ikar evokes a wide range of emotions in its mem-
bers who include both the formerly unaffiliated and such
Conservative heavy-hitters as Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson,
dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Ange-
les, and Rabbi Aaron Alexander and Rabbi Cheryl Peretz,
both associate deans there as it plays as well with the ten-
sion between comfort and discomfort, between home as the
place that welcomes you and as the place that knows you
well enough to challenge you deeply. The tension between
the need to face outward, to where social justice is pursued,
and to face inward, to pursue a relationship with God, is a
foundational one as well.
We are a halachically serious community, and we want
this space to be accessible to anyone and everyone who is
looking for a meaningful way to explore and engage, Rabbi
Brous said. We dont want people to walk away from ser-
vices saying, amazing, amazing. We want them to feel
awake.
We want them to feel that there is something they can
do when they are awake thats the social justice com-
ponent, the work in the world and ritual is designed to
awaken us.
year, there will be 60 bar or bat mitzvah celebrations.
Thats a lot of time, he acknowledged. He also tries
to meet with congregants for no particular reason,
maybe over coffee, just to get to know each other; his
staff and key lay leaders share that responsibility with
him. People sometimes ask me how I have the time
to do that, he said. I feel that I cannot not have that
time.
If we dont do that stuff well, it doesnt matter what
else do. We can have the best program, with the slick-
est pr, but if we are not in touch with people, how
do we know what people
want?
New l e ader s a r e
recruited in an ongoing
talent search; whenever
anyone comes in to talk
about something they
bring an agenda; we are
there for that agenda but
we are also always curi-
ous about people. What
do they do? What skills
or talents do they have?
What are they passion-
ate about? Then he can
match the person, skills, talents, passions, and all,
with a need or dream within the shul.
These processes dont come into being overnight,
Rabbi Mosbacher said. It isnt a formula. This has
been a gradual process, and I am very proud of it. And
its not just me its the whole staff. We see it as our
role not just to serve the purposes of the corner of the
building that we happen to work in.
The staff also takes care not to let anyone slip away
unnoticed. I dont know how many times I have
heard people say that they left another institution, and
no one ever called me to ask why, Rabbi Mosbacher
said.
They ask. If it turns out that someone is moving,
that person is connected to a synagogue there; if the
moved is caused by financial problems there is help
offered; if there is anger or dissatisfaction it is talked
through.
Even social action programs are chosen based on
congregants concerns and interests.
I would like to think that if we are thriving, it is no
small part due do the intentional work we do, Rabbi
Mosbacher said.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein of Bnai Israel has a gift
for programmatic and liturgical innovation; she also
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tell them that he was.
My favorite part was a big risk. I didnt
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I designated a time. I said Be a little rude,
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Now, the story.
I randomly divided the synagogue into five
groups, Rabbi Orenstein said. The people in each
section would represent one of the five characters
Abraham, Isaac, the ram, God, or the angel.
At any point when they felt moved to do so, she told
the congregation, as your character, you should blow
a blast as commentary for example, if your heart
was broken, blow shevarim.
Just as you stop during the Purim megillah read-
ing whenever the groggers are sounded, I stopped
whenever there was a blast. And then, after the blast,
anyone who wanted to could shout out a one-word
commentary.
I had no way of knowing whether this would work
whether it would just be a very loud reading. But I
thought that if nothing else, it would cause people to
listen in a new way to the story, she said.
As it turned out, it was an amazing spiritual expe-
rience. What I most remember is that I got up to the
line where it says that Abraham lifted up the knife to
slaughter his son, and at that point the room because
an extraordinary cacophony of every style of blast,
from every corner of the room. From every character.
People were weeping.
Several people had done a tekiyah gedolah, but
finally the noise died down. And there was a vibra-
tion n the room, and in that moment of very pregnant
silence two people simultaneously shouted out a one-
word commentary.
One yelled out obedience. And the other yelled
out betrayal.
That is not the kind of moment that can be planned,
and most likely it cannot be repeated.
There is a certain surrender, Rabbi Orenstein said.
You cant always know what is going to work until
you do it. You want to construct things so there is not
an opportunity for grand failure, but it is possible that
it will not meet your expectations.
I think that sometimes we dismiss things that work
at that moment we say I am going to pour my energy
into the things that can repeat. I will pay attention to
whatever innovations I can make from year to year or
week to week, but those idiosyncratic moments also
are worth a lot.
Stephanie Hausner is a third-generation member of
Sons of Israel and she went to USY there. Her roots are
deep; at 29, she sits on its board and chairs its mem-
bership committee.
Most people her age do not have such a strong con-
nection to Sons of Israel (or to any other shul) and so
there are not many people her age there.
That is situation she is changing.
A couple of years ago, we started something called Party
on the Porch, she said. The screened-in, heated porch
is part of a vegetarian Israeli restaurant in Nyack, and its
owner belongs to the shul. He welcomes young shul mem-
bers on Thursday evenings, after the restaurant proper is
closed, and he gives them snacks. We started getting 15
people each time, Ms. Hausner said. Some would be peo-
ple we knew, some would come through work of mouth. We
threw up a couple of fliers.
It broke down a lot of barriers.
The informality and openness worked. People said yeah,
this is fun, this is great. We love free hummus, and we want
to do more.
The group now has a name Jews on the Hudson and
it has begun to program events. It threw its second Purim
party this year, and it has begun to lead hikes in nearby Har-
riman State Park.
Some people first introduced to Sons of Israel through
Jews on the Hudson have joined the shul, and some have
not. I want people to join, of course, but sometimes it is
not the right time for them to join, Ms. Hausner said. How
many people at 26, or 27, or even 30 who are not married
and do not have kids are joining synagogues? Not many.
But if they see that you are out there, that you care about
them, then when they do reach the point when they are
ready, then you are their synagogue.
Everyone celebrates Purim at Bnai Israel.
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remember the frst sign of those lovely little fowers.
Red, pink and white.
They were not in the garden of our postage-sized front lawn
or modest backyard. The fowers were on the white glass dishes that
would be unearthed each year when we changed over the dishware for
Passover.
I loved those dishes. They were a sharp contrast from our everyday
plates and saucers, which ranged from a plastic set of black and white
zebra pattern to the ubiquitous Corelle with its olive green design, so
common in the kitchens of the 1970s.
Passover meant spring, and family, and seders and vacation. It
meant different food and a feeling that this was among everybodys fa-
vorite holidays.
I remember the Passover pots. Also white, with a gold trim.
What was so special about them is how they never got worn, the
way the Tefon cookware did from its healthy use. Rather, the pots
stayed pristine, although they were well used during the holiday as
well. But even if you used them for 50 years, if it was for only one week
during the year, the pots and pans would get only a years worth of wear
and tear!
I really remember that big white pot was the one that was used for
my mothers famous geflte fsh. No carp in the bathtub. But my mother,
of blessed memory, was old country, and she would buy the fsh from
the fshmonger and have it ground to specifcation and spice it up ap-
propriately with her secret recipe. The fsh would boil for hours and
hours, its aroma flling the newly cleaned house.
These memories, though distant, come back
year after year as we round to mark the Festival of
Freedom, Passover.
While we are drinking fner wines these days,
(I miss that Manischewitz!) and the seder that we
join at my brother and sister-in-laws home is rich
with ritual and delicious food and discussion and reach deep into the
early morning hours, those early seders are the ones in which memory
is cemented.
The ones in which we ate copious amounts of salt-dipped potatoes,
and even more of the sweet and nutty charoset.
The ones in which my father, of blessed memory, beseeched us not
to rush him, telling us that he was waiting all year for Pesach, but then
read the juice- and wine-stained red-and-yellow Maxwell House edition
of the Haggadah with some haste, but still saying every word.
The ones in which my heart would thump in anxious anticipation
of reciting the four questions because even with a small seder crowd, I
was a bit nervous.
And then the ones in which I felt relief because my role as youngest
questioner was taken by my baby brother, who today presides over our
seder, his seder.
We make our memories for our children. We clean our homes to
physically and symbolically rid ourselves of chametz, the leavened,
puffed part of ourselves, the ego that gets in our way, to be ready for
the next step.
Going back, going forward, we are lucky to be able to sit together.
With family. With friends. With ourselves. We are lucky to have Passover.
Wishing all a kosher and healthy and happy holiday.
Cheers,
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1. On February 24, a group
of high school students from
Temple Sinai of Bergen County
and Temple Avodat Shalom
of River Edge lobbied at
the office of Congressman
Bill Pascrell in Washington,
D.C. The students were
participating in the Religious
Action Center of Reform
Judaisms Ltaken Seminar, a
Jewish teen leadership and
social justice conference, along
with over 300 students from
around the country. Pictured
here (front row, left to right)
are Matthew Horbacewicz,
Rabbi Jordan Millstein, Jonah
Pasternak, Rachel Jacobus,
Emma Colchamiro, Sonia
Haikin, Jessica Whitman, Sophia
Barbanel, (behind, left to right)
Clifford Yudkoff, Brad Schussel,
Liam Waxman, Sky Bolkin,
Benjamin Rich (Chief of Staff to Congressman
Pascrell), Matthew Tester, Shelby Meistrich, Ian
McTiernan (Legislative Correspondent), Morgan
Schur, Noah Rosenberg and Anat Katzir.
2. From the youngest children in the 2-year-old
program to the oldest in Pre-K, everyone at
the Temple Emeth Early Childhood Center got
into the Purim spirit. The school held its annual
Walk-a-Thon for Matanot LEvyonim, and raised
over $1600 which was donated to Project Ezra.
3. Two hundred men, women and children
celebrated Purim Italiano at Lubavitch on
the Palisades of Tenafly. Everyone had
the opportunity to get a taste of Italy with
gourmet Italian cuisine, fine Italian wines and
masquerade in Italian attire. Rabbi Yitzchak
Gershovitz and Rabbi Mordechai Shain dance
up a storm.
4. The Frisch School in Paramas and Rae Kushner
Yeshiva High School in Livingston joined in a
unique project of Chesed 24/7, an organization
dedicated to servicing hospital patients and their
families. The students were part of the innovative
Shabbos in a Box Program sending more
than 200 completed boxes to to patients at
Columbia Medical Center, Mount Sinai Hospital
and Sloan Kettering over Shabbat.
5. These girls enjoyed the festivities on Purim
at the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades. Participants
enjoyed a carnival, which featured life-size
cartoon characters, train rides, moon bounces,
slides, games and prizes, and of course,
popcorn and cotton Candy.
6. Eighth grade students from Yavneh Academy
took turns reading the Megillat with Rabbi
Jonathan Knapp for residents and family
members in Jewish Home at Rockleighs chapel
Pictured from left, Noam Kuritzky, Devin
Berman, Avi Eisenstadter, Noam Putterman,
Rabbi Jonathan Knapp, Ephraim Najman, and
Shlomi Helfgot.
7. Participants at the Jewish Community Center
of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvahs Taste
of Hebrew School program got ready for
Passover by creating frog props for Seder night.
8. During February break, across the globe
from Sochi, The Academies at GBDS held a
well-attended Winter Olympics Camp right
nearby in Oakland. The three-day camp
engaged children ages 2-8 in crafts, games,
cooking, athletics and geography.
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Gluten-Free, Vegan, Non-GMO: Healthy Food Options Abound
HE I DI MA E B RAT T
M
ommy, piped up the 9-year-old boy, does a veg-
an diet make people live longer?
Well, his mother responded, there are many
factors that go into longevity, like genetics, lifestyle and
luck. Im not sure about how much a vegan diet has to do
with it, but its always good idea to eat well.
This was an actual conversation overheard recently.
Granted, the family appeared to be a health-conscious
foursome, two boys with skateboards and helmets, with
their parents, both trim and ft. And granted, the boy
wasnt exactly swearing off his burgers in favor of quinoa
patties. This youngster was epi-curious, a precocious
child interested in food. Explained his mother, hed gone
through various phases recently, sampling global fare, in-
cluding an Ethiopian phase, an Asian-Fusion phase and
now he started an interest in vegan, that is, someone
who eschews all animal product and derivatives. No eggs.
No dairy. No meat.
Curiosity aside, more parents are taking a closer look
at what they are feeding their children and opting for an
array of more health-conscious diets that run the gamut
from buying more organic products, especially produce
and dairy, to ridding their childrens diets of gluten and
gluten products, to thinking vegan or more vegetarian-
ism, to buying food that is not GMO, that is genetically
modifed products.
Theres no question that there is so much more
awareness of what were eating and how were eating,
says Susan L. Holmerg, a certifed nutritional specialist
with a practice in Westwood.
Chief among the diet changes for adults and children
is taking the gluten a protein found in products that
contain wheat, barley or rye out of their diet.
Gluten-free is the obvious choice for the about one-
in-a-hundred Americans with celiac disease, but it has
also becoming a common choice for many others as well,
from people with specifc maladies like irritable bowel
syndrome and autoimmune conditions to those hoping
to lose weight and feel healthier after a change in diet.
As adults choose gluten-free for themselves, many are
choosing it for their children.
There are many other reasons parents consider put-
ting a child on a gluten-free diet, including mood swings,
eczema and autism spectrum disorders, although its ef-
fcacy is debatable. If a child does have celiac disease or
a severe gluten intolerance, its important to have him or
her tested, say experts.
Parents who have gone gluten free say its not easy
to make the switch, but if its absolutely necessary, going
gluten-free doesnt have to be overwhelming. Many chil-
dren are fnicky when it comes to food, and most of what
passes for kid-friendly is loaded with gluten: chicken nug-
gets, macaroni and cheese, burgers and hot dogs or spa-
ghetti and meatballs.
Although there are gluten-free versions of most of
these child-friendly staples readily available, the focus of
a gluten-free diet should be on whole, unprocessed foods,
nutritionists say. Its most important to load up on fruits,
vegetables, seeds, nuts, meats, cheeses and other health-
ful foods, instead of focusing on the gluten-free versions
of your favorite processed foods.
Its very possible to be gluten-free diet that is healthy
or very unhealthy. Because there are so many products
out there, a diet can be loaded up with gluten-free cup-
cakes, apple juice and other refned sugars.
While nutritionist may differ on their approach as to
which kind of diet is best, as one may ascribe to the Food
Pyramid, another may believe that protein should be em-
phasized, each individual has different needs.
But there is no disagreement, says Holmberg. Col-
orful produce should be the real centerpiece.
To that end, when thinking about produce and buy-
ing organic, the Environmental Working Group offers a
list of foods known as the Dirty Dozen Plus, that is the
dozen fruits and vegetables most likely to be contaminat-
ed with pesticides. If possible, it is recommended to buy
organic when buying; apples, celery, cherry tomatoes,
cucumbers, grapes hot peppers, nectarines (imported),
peaces, potatoes, spinach, strawberries, sweet bell pep-
pers, plus kale/collard greens and summer squash.
The Clean Fifteen, the produce thats okay if you must
buy non-organic include: asparagus, avocados, cabbage,
cantaloupe, sweet corn, eggplant, grapefruit, kiwi, man-
goes, mushrooms, onions, papayas, pineapples, sweet
peas (frozen) and sweet potatoes.
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RAC HE L HA R K HA M
W
hen it comes time to eat the
charoset, the nut and fruit chut-
ney that symbolizes the mortar
that the Hebrew slaves used in Egypt,
that is the time when, at many Passover
Seders, the real good eating is about to
begin. When the charoset is dipped with
the bitter herb or eaten in a Hillel sand-
wich, it provides a sweet contrast to the
stringent maror and the bland matzah.
The charoset not only gives the antici-
pating palate a pleasant awakening, but
its appearance in the order of the Seder
also heralds that the shulchan orech (the
feast) is not too far away.
Most families have their beloved
heirloom recipe for charoset that they
return to every year. It occupies an es-
teemed place on their Seder plate, and
I would never dream of suggesting any-
thing different to replace its vaunted
spot. But how about offering a charoset
sampler course prior to the shulchan
orech? Perhaps serve an exciting and
exotically favored charoset concoction,
or two, in addition to your familys tradi-
tional favorite.
Pear-Almond is similar to the tra-
ditional Ashkenazic charoset recipe,
but uses pears instead of apples, and
almonds instead of walnuts. The cinna-
mon remains the same and works won-
derfully with the fruit and nuts. It is juicy
and sweet and mortar-like in color.
Apricot-Pistachio is a version in-
spired by Sephardic charoset, which of-
ten contains dried fruits. The honey-gin-
ger syrup adds extra favor and plumps
up the sweet-tart dried apricots. The
pistachios add color and crunch. On the
mortar scale, this one is a terra cotta.
Choco-Cherry is an innovative treat
because a chocolate favored charoset
just makes sense. The dried cherries are
tart and chewy; the chocolate syrup is
dark and sweet. The chopped walnuts
add extra texture. The color is more
black tar than mortar.
Mango-Macadamia-Coconut Charo-
set is a taste of the tropics at your Pass-
over table. Sweet diced mango works
winningly with toasted coconut shreds,
chopped macadamia nuts, and a shpritz
of lime. The ginger adds a nice amount
of warmth. On the mortar spectrum, it
would rate as yellow clay.
As delicious as these charosets are
on Seder night, any leftovers will be
great for breakfast the following day.
These recipes will introduce exciting
and unexpected favors when served
with matzah brei. They will also add
texture when mixed in with yogurt or
cottage cheese. In addition, they can
be spooned on top of a cream cheese-
matzah in place of jam.
Charoset All Ways
Is Always a Seder Treat
Pear-Almond Charoset
2 peeled pears, grated
cup sliced almonds
1 teaspoon cinnamon
cup white wine or white grape juice
In a medium sized bowl combine all ingredi-
ents together and mix well. Cover and keep
refrigerated until ready to serve.
Makes approximately 2 cups.
Apricot-Pistachio Charoset
cup water
3 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon orange zest
teaspoon ground ginger
cup dried apricots, cut into thin slivers and
coarsely chopped
cup pistachio nuts, shelled and coarsely
chopped
1. In a medium saucepan over medium-high
heat combine water, honey, orange zest,
and ginger. Allow to come to boil and lower
heat to a gentle simmer for approximately
5 minutes, when it should be thickened and
reduced.
2. Mix in apricots and pistachio nuts.
Remove from heat, and let the apricot steep
until somewhat cooled. Cover and refriger-
ate until ready to serve.
Makes approximately 1 cup.
Choco-Cherry Charoset
1 cup water
cup sugar
cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup dried cherries
cup chopped walnuts
1. In a medium saucepan bring water and
sugar to a boil. Stir in cocoa powder and
cinnamon. Reduce heat and let simmer
for two minutes. It will be thick, dark, and
syrupy.
2. Mix in dried cherries and chopped wal-
nuts. Remove from heat. Once cooled, cover
and refrigerate. Allow to come to room tem-
perature before serving.
Makes approximately 1 cups.
Mango-Macadamia-Coconut Charoset
1 large ripe mango, peeled and cut into a
small dice
cup macadamia nuts, coarsely chopped
cup toasted coconut
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice (approximate-
ly 1 lime)
teaspoon ground ginger
In a medium sized bowl combine all ingredi-
ents together and mix well. Cover and keep
refrigerated until ready to serve.
Makes 2 cups.
Rachel Harkham is a food writer, recipe
developer and chocolatier. She lives in
Rockland County with her husband and three
children. Visit her on www.reciperachel.com.
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he spring brings with it April show-
ers, budding trees and the promise
of green regrowth. It also brings
with it tree pollen and a host of other
culprits that can make Garden State resi-
dents big and small suffer from seasonal
allergies. While we love spring things,
were not so crazy about the allergies that
come along with the season.
About Our Children turned to Dr. Ma-
jorie Slankard, director of Allergy and
Immunology at The Valley Hospital in
Ridgewood, and professor of medicine
at Columbia University Medical Center,
for some tips on dealing with this allergy
season.
Q: How does a parent know the differ-
ence between a cold or an allergy?
A: A cold usually lasts only one week,
most often occurs in the winter, and may
be accompanied by a sore throat or fe-
ver. Allergy symptoms can occur anytime
of the year, can last for a long time but
usually occur right after exposure to an
allergen. If your child is rubbing his eyes
because they are watery or itchy, it is
probably an allergy. If there are recurrent
colds or cold symptoms, suspect an al-
lergy especially if they occur at the same
time of year each year.
Q: When does allergy season start
and end?
A: The allergy season begins and
ends at different times around the coun-
try. For example, in the Northeast, tree
pollen can start at the end of March and
last until the end of May, then grass pol-
len will continue through May and June
with lower levels thru the summer. In the
late summer to early fall its ragweeds
time especially August 15 to October 15.
Ragweed is a signifcant problem in the
Northeast, Southeast, and large sections
of the Midwest.
A: What are the best treatments for
allergies?
Q: Non-sedating anti-histamines, leu-
kotriene inhibitors, allergy eye drops, and
nasal sprays can be helpful. Depending
on the severity of your childs symptoms,
lack of response to medications, and age,
you can consider allergy immunotherapy.
The frst step in that decision is to con-
sult an allergist, have testing (usually as
skin tests) to see what your child is al-
lergic to. Then environmental controls as
described in the following paragraph can
be instituted. If your child is still having
symptoms or does not do well with medi-
cations, then consider allergy immuno-
therapy, for example, allergy shots.
Q: Is there any way to prevent or
head off a bad allergy episode?
A: Preventing an allergy attack by
avoiding and limiting exposures is the
best way to head off a bad episode. Keep
windows and doors closed and use air
conditioning to flter out pollen. Pollen is
sticky and will adhere to skin and clothes
so bathe and shampoo your childs hair
before bedtime. Limit outdoor activities
when pollen is at its peak, usually 6 to 10
a.m., with a smaller peak from 4 to 7 p.m.
Have your child wear sunglasses and a
hat when out of doors.
Q: Can allergies in children be
outgrown?
A: According to the NIH (National
Institute of Health), Some people, espe-
cially children, may outgrow an allergy as
the immune system becomes less sensi-
tive to the trigger. Butonce a substance,
such as pollen, causes allergies, it often
continues to have long-term effect on the
person.
Q: Have there been any break-
throughs in the treatment for youngsters?
A: Though the treatment has been
around for a long time, there is increased
evidence of how effective allergy immu-
notherapy is in helping reduce symptoms
and medication needs in up to 80 percent
of individuals in controlled double blind
studies. Especially for children with hay
fever, who have an increased chance of
developing asthma, as they get older, al-
lergy immunotherapy (allergy shots)
dramatically decreases the incidence of
the children becoming asthmatic. There
is a newer form of immunotherapy, sub-
lingual (under the tongue) or tablets that
has been approved by the FDA and will
soon be available, but only for a few aller-
gens (the things in the environment that
people are allergic to.) For the child with
one or two specifc allergens (certain pol-
lens or dust mites) that cause symptoms
this may soon be available.
Q: Is there anything youd like to add?
A: There are several foods, especially
fruits and vegetables that cross-react
with certain pollens. The most common
is for the child (or adult) with birch tree
pollen allergy, in which 20 percent of in-
dividuals will become allergic to cross-
reacting fruits and vegetables, mostly the
pitted fruits (apples, peaches etc.), but
also almond and hazelnuts. The allergy
shots may also help with this.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our
Children.
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pring means outdoor fun, ftness and getting back
into shape after a long, very long winter. Whether
you choose to shape up with a walk or rollerblade
outside in park or take your ftness indoors, there are
many local options.
A big trend, trampoline jumping, has become a reg-
ular activity for many families. When Bounce! Trampo-
line Sports opened in Valley Cottage, N.Y. it was an en-
tirely new concept in family ftness and entertainment.
Although in general, the children dont even realize
they are working out because its so much fun. Thats
the beauty of a trampoline workout over anything
else. Its so much fun, children dont know its exercise.
While adults know, they dont seem to mind and more
often than not, get in on the action as well.
We traveled the country looking for new and differ-
ent ideas for family fun and an indoor trampoline park
seemed like the perfect addition to this geographic
area. And with such a cold winter, it was a great way
for families to stay warm and burn calories when they
really couldnt do much else, says Michael Gross, co-
owner of Bounce! Trampoline Sports
Bounce! Trampoline Sports offers an unequaled
way for all ages to stay ft in a safe and fun environment;
and NASA research shows that supervised jumping on
trampolines is the most effcient, effective form of ex-
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According to Gross, you can actually burn up to
1,000 calories per hour bouncing on a trampoline. This
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slam-dunk basketball and foam pit jumping. And they
recently expanded to add two more foam pits and an
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Swedish psychiatrist David Eberhard.
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have allowed their children to routinely
make family decisions like what to eat for
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to vacation, the children have become
chief decision makers in their homes.
The culture has grown overly sensitive
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translated into badly raised children.
Dr. Eberhard argues that as children
get older, he has observed an increase in
anxiety disorders and self-harming prob-
lems. He feels these children arent able
to deal with the stresses of everyday life
that adults must face. He warns that a
child-centric society causes more harm
than good, as these kids will end up anx-
ious or depressed, unable to handle the
real world.
He describes teachers who were
confronted by parents arguing that their
childrens rights have been violated
after their kids cell phones were taken
away because they were texting or play-
ing games during class.
We dont have to travel to Sweden to
fnd children who resent being told no,
are argumentative, demanding, ignore
parents and teachers, and fall into tan-
trums or rudeness if denied a request or
desire. Each week I communicate with
parents describing such children from
all over the world. This is the Spoiled
Child Syndrome children who are
self-centered, excessive, narcissistic,
immature, who show lack of consider-
ation for other people, recurrent temper
tantrums, and are unable to handle the
delay of gratifcation. Bruce J. McIntosh,
writing in Pediatrics, attributed Spoiled
Child Syndrome to the failure of par-
ents to enforce consistent, age appropri-
ate limits.
When we overindulge our children
or make them the center of our universe
to the point that they believe that the
world revolves around them, we begin
to lose control of our homes. Our teens
are unhappy and self-absorbed. Nothing
is good enough; no rule makes sense or
applies to them. Emptiness gnaws with-
in. Satisfaction is an elusive emotion.
Stop Spoiling Your Kids
We teach our children how to treat us. If
we want to regain control of our homes
we need to make clear through our ac-
tions that we are serious. We must be
willing to say, Enough! We have had
enough tantrums, yelling, screaming,
stomping, and slamming doors so that
you get what you want. The moment we
decide to stop spoiling our children, we
will feel hopeful and strong. We will re-
alize that we are preparing our children
for real life. We cant fx every hurt or
fulfll every desire, but we can provide
a home flled with emotional and spiri-
tual security. We can create a bond of
love and path of wisdom. We can help
our children live with respect for others
and gain genuine self-respect based on
purposeful living. This is the formula for
success. It is not your toys, iPads, name
brand coats and sneakers that will de-
fne your happiness in this world. It is
the knowledge I have imparted to you,
the awareness that this is how the world
really works and you, my child, can be
successful as you build your character.
Regaining Control:
Commit to your Goal
Be determined to accomplish your par-
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always give our children everything
they want. Constant buying or giving
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parenting. Sometimes the answer is
no. Dont allow guilt to get in your
way. If you are making yourself feel
better by overindulging your child,
the truth is you are shortchanging
him. Commitment means that you
have made it clear that the manipu-
lation, pouting, and defant behavior
will no longer make an impact.
Be Consistent
Parents who fail to give clear and
consistent discipline send a confus-
ing message to their children. Emp-
ty threats, long lectures or haggling
over rules show youngsters that we
do not mean what we say. Children
learn to ignore parents because at
the end, they realize that they can
manipulate the situation. They sim-
ply tune us out. Instead of over-talk-
ing, debating, or explaining, simply
give a consequence and enforce the
rule.
For example, if you cannot turn
off the computer when it is time for
bed, there will not be any computer
time for you tomorrow night. And
until you can show me that you re-
spect the rules, you will be unable
to use the computer.
There is no debating, begging,
or caving in to tantrums and whin-
ing. You do not have to scream or
yell. Be strong and consistent. Your
child realizes that he is responsible
for his decisions and behaviors.
Stop Overindulging
Whether you have created this situ-
ation by constantly buying things
and giving gifts or you have over-
protected your child to the point
that she knows you will deal with
her infractions, now is the time to
stop this behavior. Some parents
cannot afford to buy for themselves,
but will overextend their budgets
for their kids. The day has come for
you to teach your child that happi-
ness is not gained through shopping.
Children have no idea that they have
a fnancial responsibility to save up,
or not buy everything their hearts
desire. Our things cannot defne
us. Self-worth is acquired through
who we are; our hard work and ef-
forts, how we treat others, and what
we contribute to make this world a
better place.
If you step in and protect your
child by allowing him to sleep late
each morning or do the homework
for him, understand that he will nev-
er gain the skills needed to deal with
real life. Even if you nag or get upset,
the bottom line is that you have car-
ried his load. Allow your son to face
the consequences of arriving late
for school, missing homework as-
signments, or dealing with the pres-
sure of a deadline.
Shielding your child is stunting
his emotional growth.
It is true that many of us are
overworked, exhausted, and have
limited time and patience to dis-
cipline. We fnd it diffcult to deal
with angry or defant children.
Children who seem happy with all
that we provide make us feel better
about our parenting. But this hap-
piness is short-lived. Growing up
entitled, never handling responsi-
bility, unaware of how to deal with
lifes stresses creates children who
become adults who fnd life over-
whelming. Relationships seem dull
and unsatisfactory.
We love our children best by
knowing how to give our time, forge
a path of courage, and stand stead-
fast in our ability to set boundaries
for life.
Slovie Jungreis-Wolff is a parenting
teacher and author of Raising a Child
With Soul (St. Martins Press)
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About
Mayim Bialik Takes
Her Vegan Lifestyle
to You in New Book
M
ayim Bialik: Emmy-nominated
actress. Neuroscientist. Au-
thor. Avowed vegan. Commit-
ted Jew. This gal seems to do it all.
But at the end of the day, shes a busy,
busy mother of two boys, who knows
what its like to feed her family well.
She knows full well the importance
of preparing healthy meals, but even
more so, she knows even more that
preparing appealing meals is para-
mount, so that even the pickiest kid
will eat, enjoy and get nourished.
To that end, Bialik has added a
new family-friendly vegan cookbook
to her repertoire, Mayims Vegan
Table: More than 100 Great-Tasting
and Healthy Recipe from My Family
to Yours, which she co-authored
with pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon.
About Our Children got a chance to
ask Bialik a few things:
Q: Why did you decide to write a
vegan cookbook?
A: I was writing for Kveller.com and
sharing recipes there, which I had made
vegan. People expressed interest in me
publishing them, especially the Jewish
recipes for holidays, which I would talk
about.
Q: Why did you co-author this book
with Dr. Jay Gordon?
A: I needed a pediatric nutritionist
and authority on those issues on the
book. He can speak to larger issues of
health and nutrition.
Q: In a kids world rife with cheese
pizza and ice cream cake birthday par-
ties, how can a parent navigate the so-
cial scene with vegan in mind?
A: Make a decision to feed your chil-
dren how you see ft and be fexible but
follow through. Even non-vegan parents
set limits for how much processed food
and sugar their kids eat. We all get to
decide. Kids wont fall over and lose a
limb if they cant have cake at a party.
I always give my sons their own sweet
after a party or bring one along. Its not
the end all be all of parties to feed kids
sugary foods! We all need to recalibrate
how we view food.
Q: To many parents, its a shock:
No milk?! No meat?! How can a growing
child grow? How do you answer this?
A: Ha! There are many ways to get
protein, fat, calcium, iron, and all of
the nutrients we need to grow without
animal products. Its not even that hard!
Get educated about how
much protein we actually need, and
know that the dairy and meat industries
pay a lot of money to advertise and infu-
ence the FDA as to what they think we
should eat. Its not the only way and its
not expensive or hard to grow healthy
children without all of those animal
products.
Q: Mayims Vegan Table includes
many delicious recipes. What are your
some of your sons favorite recipes?
What are some of your favorites?
A: My boys love all cookies I make
that are in the book. They love brussels
sprout chips and kale chips. They love
shepherds pie (modifed without the
potatoes, so its basically beans and peas
and carrots). I love the risotto and the
cashew cheese, which I use as a dip or
in lasagna or spanikopita.
Q: What does the typical daily menu
look like for your sons?
A: They tend to eat raw breakfast
with me, like a smoothie or fruit plate.
They love burritos, anything with a tor-
tilla and beans and a little vegan cheese
and avocado. They love snacking all
day, so meals tend to be light for dinner.
They also love Thai food!
Q: What do you hope parents learn
most from this book?
A: Its not an all or nothing lifestyle
I talk about in the book. Everyone can
and should eat less animal-based prod-
ucts. This book is a good start for yum-
my affordable and easy ideas that non-
vegans will love.
Heidi Mae Bratt is the editor of About Our
Children
Mac N Cheez
People often ask vegan children if they
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casserole. Either way, it is an exception-
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comfort food in a jiffy.
Ingredients:
1 (16-ounce) package of pasta, such as
farfalle, rigatoni, penne, shells, or large
macaroni
1 1/4 cups nondairy milk (almond milk
works best)
2 tablespoons all-purpose our or white or
brown rice our
1 (8-ounce) bag shredded vegan cheese,
preferably mozzarella or cheddar
1/2 cup bread crumbs (optional)
Cook the pasta according to the package
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About
Mac N Cheez
People often ask vegan children if they
miss macaroni and cheese. With this
recipe, your kids dont have to miss
out on the creamy comfort food many
kids think comes from a box. The vegan
cheese sauce can be poured and mixed
directly into cooked pasta or baked in a
casserole. Either way, it is an exception-
ally yummy and satisfying dish youll
fnd yourself making when you crave
comfort food in a jiffy.
Ingredients:
1 (16-ounce) package of pasta, such as
farfalle, rigatoni, penne, shells, or large
macaroni
1 1/4 cups nondairy milk (almond milk
works best)
2 tablespoons all-purpose our or white or
brown rice our
1 (8-ounce) bag shredded vegan cheese,
preferably mozzarella or cheddar
1/2 cup bread crumbs (optional)
Cook the pasta according to the package
directions. Drain when al dente and place in
a large bowl.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Heat 1 cup of the nondairy milk in a medi-
um saucepan over medium heat.
In a cup, whisk the our into the remaining
1/4 of milk until dissolved. Add it slowly to
the heated milk, whisking as you go. Add
the shredded vegan cheese and stir con-
stantly until the cheese is dissolved and the
sauce is bubbly about 5 minutes. Pour over
the pasta mixture and stir to combine.
Serves 8
Kale Chips
Kale chips are one of the easiest, healthi-
est and most fun vegan snacks we can
think of. These are great for parties, and
when sprinkled with nutritional yeast,
they are one of the most irresistible veg-
an snacks youll ever taste.
Ingredients:
2 bunches kale, stems removed, diced into
2- to 3-inch pieces
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons nutritional yeast (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place
the kale pieces on two baking sheets and
drizzle generously with olive oil, tossing to
coat. Sprinkle with the sea salt and nutri-
tional yeast, if using.
Bake, turning every 5 to 7 minutes, until
browned and crunchy, almost burnt, but not
burnt.
Serves 4
Brussels Sprouts
Brussels spouts chips take a bit more
work to prep than kale chips, but the re-
sult is crunchy and delicious and rivals
potato chips any day of the week.
Ingredients:
1 pound Brussels sprouts
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Remove the leaves of the Brussels sprouts.
This is tedious work, but it can be done. You
want as many leaves as possible, and you
may need to keep cutting away the stem as
you get deeper into the sprout.
Place the leaves on a baking sheet and
drizzle generously with olive oil, tossing to
coat. Sprinkle with the sea salt. Bake, turn-
ing every 5 to 7 minutes, until browned and
crunchy, almost burnt, but not burnt.
Serves 4
Zucchini Chips
These zucchini chips are a healthy al-
ternative to fried appetizers, as they are
breaded and baked. Excellent for dip-
ping and wonderful for little hands to
help assemble, eat these straight from
the oven or optimal crispiness.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup vegan Parmesan cheese (optional)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning
1 cup plain, unsweetened soy or rice milk
4 medium-size zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch-
thich coins
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. In
a shallow bowl, mix together the bread
crumbs, vegan cheese (if using), spices, and
herbs.
Pour the nondairy milk into a small bowl.
Dip the zucchini slices into the milk and
then into the breadcrumb mixture. Place
each slice on a baking rack placed on a
sheet pan and bake for 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven and serve hot.
Serves 4
From Mayims Vegan Table: More than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family
to Yours (De Capo Press).
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How to Battle
the Beddie Bye Blues and Win
A DI NA S OC L OF
H
ow do I get my children to sleep at
night? They wont stay in bed!
Bedtime in my house is a
nightmare! I dread it.
My kids are whiny and cranky in the
morning because they are not getting
enough sleep. What can I do?
These are complaints that I hear of-
ten from parents. Bedtime can be quite
challenging.
Many times when children dont lis-
ten to us it is because they are testing
us to see if we mean what we say. And
many times we dont mean what we say
because we are so unsure about our
parenting. We feel bad or mean when
we try to get our children to sleep, eat
their vegetables, be polite, all the things
parents are responsible for so that their
children will grow up civilized and pro-
ductive members of society. Not only
that, if we make them do the things they
dont want to do they might not like us
or they will be unhappy and we so badly
want them to like us and be happy. Or
we feel like we are traumatizing our chil-
dren and they will grow up emotionally
stilted. And there are times where we are
so tired that we dont have the energy to
do all that needs to be done. We cannot
enforce anything; let alone bedtime.
But children need us to be strong,
frm and even unyielding when we set
our limits and rules. Even though they
might fght against us they dont want us
to lose the battle. Surprisingly they feel
more secure and are happier when their
parents set limits and stick to them. This
even includes going to bed on time.
Here are six ways to get your child
to bed on time.
1. Know in your heart that bedtime
is important for your children
We all know that children who have got-
ten the sleep they need are less likely to
be whiny and cranky. But science goes
even further. All the latest studies have
touted the importance of bedtime. A reg-
ular bedtime helps brain development.
Children who have consistent bedtimes
scored better on cognitive tests in read-
ing, math and spatial relations. Not only
that, early bedtimes can prevent obesity
in children. I also think that families that
have regular bedtimes are calmer and
happier. It is easier to run a household
when both adults and kids are getting
the rest they need.
Knowing the benefts, we can rest
easy that enforcing bedtime is good for
kids. We will not traumatize or hurt our
children in any way when we are strict
about getting them the rest they need.
We can feel confdent that we truly have
our childs welfare at heart. When they
balk, instead of saying to ourselves, I
am being so mean to them by making
them go to sleep when they dont want
to We should say: My kids need me
to get them into bed on time. They need
me to be frm and enforce their bedtime
for their physical growth, cognitive de-
velopment, their sanity and mine!
2. Use the voice of authority
Oftentimes children would rather be do-
ing anything then going to sleep. They
have FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Their
room could be dark and boring, while
the rest of the house is full of light and
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potential for fun. This should not deter
us; we can be frm when we are putting
our kids to bed.
Children need to know that you
mean business. We want to avoid using
wishy washy language or phrases that
might highlight our uncertainty:
Can you get into bed already!
Please???
Stop jumping on the bed, okay?
Instead we need to be more authori-
tative and sure:
Time for bed
We have time to read one story.
Cups of water are to be gotten now,
not later.
Heads on the pillow.
Bedtime for 5 year olds is 7:30pm.
Repeat as needed.
3. Put in place bedtime rituals.
Children thrive on routines and ritu-
als. Have a set one for bedtime that you
can enforce with your voice of authority.
When my kids were young our routine
looked like this: Snack, brush teeth, bath,
pajamas, two books, Shema prayer and
some snuggles and kisses.
Whatever you decide, try to be con-
sistent. They will start to move more
naturally from one to the other.
You can even make a picture chart
showing what your routine is. That way
when your child is not following the rou-
tine, lets say he doesnt want to brush
his teeth, you can just point to the pic-
ture. You can be forceful without saying
a word.
If your children are a bit older, it is
helpful if you develop a routine with your
childs input. Make some time to sit with
your child/ren and ask some of the fol-
lowing questions.
How can we make bedtime go
smoothly?
What can we do to make sure that
you are in bed on time?
How can we make bedtime a better
and calmer?
4. Be silly but not too silly
You do want bedtime to be playful, but
still low key. Roughhousing, wrestling
or tickling can give your child a second
wind. Instead, you can read a funny book
while using funny voices or have a ritual
where you kiss and say good night to all
your childs stuffed animals.
Another silly activity and a great way
to help your child cooperate and get into
bed is to give them silly choices:
Do you want to wear your pajamas
inside out or right side up?
Do you want to hop or skip into bed?
Do you want to sleep with your feet
on the pillow and head under the covers?
5. It can take some time and pa-
tience, be strong
A common question (or complaint) is
But what if my child comes out of his
room?
It is helpful to brainstorm with your
child to come up with some solutions on
how he can stay in bed. Kids are more
likely to comply if they have had a say in
what needs to be done.
You can name the problem and ask if
he has any ideas on how to solve it:
Parent: I see that you are having trou-
ble staying in bed. Lets put our heads to-
gether and see if we can come up with
any solutions?
When I have done this with my kids
we have come up with a variety of op-
tions to help them stay in bed. Some
ideas were:
Nightlight
Lamp by the bed
Listening to quiet music
Books on tape
Mommy staying for fve minutes af-
ter Shema
Coloring with Color Wonder (no
mess crayons and coloring book)
But sometimes we just need to be
frm, especially with younger children.
Parenting is hard work. You often have
to do things over and over again until
your child understands that you mean
business.
That might mean that every time
your child comes out of his room take
him back in without fanfare, talking as lit-
tle as possible (or use the short phrases
that we outline in our use your voice of
authority sections).
Soon your child will get the picture
that you mean what you say and will not
be rewarded by any extra attention, neg-
ative or otherwise.
One last thing:
Children can get us with their creative
last-minute requests, one more hug, one
more drink of water, one more book, or
one more bathroom trip. Try to ft this all
into your bedtime routine. You can say:
Last call for the bathroom is right
now!
Waters are being given out now. Last
call for water next to your bed!
You can also give them choices:
It is almost time for sleep, do you
want fve or ten kisses before I leave?
You get to choose the book, do you
want one or two books tonight?
Let them know that they can only
come out if there is an emergency.
It also fair to say, After 8 p.m., Mom-
my/Daddy needs to take care of other
things around the house, or I need some
quiet time to myself. This will help me be
a better Mommy tomorrow.
If your child tries to get you to fall
into his just one more thing trap dont
get pulled into an argument with him or
give in to his requests. If you do, you are
giving him exactly what he wants, a de-
layed bedtime and extra attention. It will
also be harder to get back into your bed-
time routine.
Bedtime can be a tough time for
parents, knowing its good for your chil-
dren, using the voice of authority, using
routine and rituals, and being frm about
that one last thing can all help to make
bedtime more pleasurable.
Adina Soclof is the director of Parent
Outreach for A+ Solutions. She runs work-
shops on How to Talk so Kids will Listen
and Listen so Kids will Talk and Siblings
Without Rivalry. Her website is www.
parentingsimply.com.
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About
Bat Mitzvah Collects
for Israeli Soldiers
Reina Amar, a sixth grader at Ben Porat Yosef, is collect-
ing items for Israeli soldiers for her bat mitzvah project.
The Teaneck resident decided to connect with A Package
from Home, an organization that provides soldiers with
packages to make them feel less alone.
Reinas mother, Arona Amar, says they learned about
A Package from Home from a local friend whose son vol-
unteered to join the Israeli Army this year. He is a lone
soldier. The friend had made successful attempts to col-
lect items for her sons unit, and Reina was inspired to
help To date, APFH has delivered more than 130,000 care
packages to soldiers serving in the IDF. APFH focuses on
helping lone soldiers as well all members of the IDF.
BPY set up a collection box where students could do-
nate items, including toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodor-
ant, and hand hotties and letters of appreciation to be
included in care packages that.
The familys synagogue, Shaarei Orah, The Sephardic
Congregation of Teaneck, sent out an email about Reinas
efforts. The rabbi, Ely Allen, who is also director of Hillel
of Northern New Jersey, set up collection sites at local
campuses. A number of our family members and Reinas
friends have made monetary donations to A Package
from Home in honor of Reinas Bat Mitzvah and she is
going to adopt a unit.
Reinas Bat Mitzvah celebration has been ongoing
but will be culminating with a Womens Tefla where she
will be reading Torah on April 1. If anyone would like to
participate either by donating items or money, contact
ahrona.amar@gmail.com
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he days of Chol HaMoed are few
and far between this year as they
fall on the calendar during Pass-
over. Theres Thursday, Friday and Sun-
day to grab some family time that is not
Shabbat Chol HaMoed. While it may not
be as big a chunk of time as some years,
its still enough to make a day or over-
night trip or get in lots of local fun.
If museums are your thing, think lo-
cal or cross the bridges.
The Liberty Science Center, always a
wonderful visit, is bringing back its pop-
ular Block Party exhibition. Young visi-
tors can make thousands of elaborate
creations with oversized foam shapes.
A pair of blocks becomes a wall, walls
make rooms, and rooms become hous-
es. Inspired by creativity and teamwork,
children can design and build anything
from dinosaurs and giant robots to cas-
tles with moats and long, winding ball
chutes. Liberty Science Center, Liberty
State Park, 222 Jersey City Boulevard,
Jersey City, 201-200-1000, www.lsc.org.
The American Museum of Natural
History, the place for the most impres-
sive dinosaur bones and more, is open-
ing a new exhibition on the gargantuan
prehistoric fying reptiles in Pterosaurs:
Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. It is
touted to be the largest exhibition ever
mounted, and highlights the latest re-
search by scientists and paleontologists
around the world. American Museum of
Natural History, Central Park West and
W. 79 St., Manhattan. 212-769-5100, www.
amnh.org.
At the Staten Island Childrens
Museum, tucked away on the bucolic
grounds of Snug Harbor Cultural Center
& Botanical Gardens, children can get
direct and authentic hands-on experi-
ences through its 40,000 square feet of
interactive exhibits. The museum cham-
pions its mission of celebrating differ-
ent learning styles and demonstrating
that learning is fun. Staten Island Chil-
drens Museum, 1000 Richmond Terrace,
Staten Island, N.Y. 718-273-2060, www.
sichildrensmuseum.org.
Childrens museums are everywhere.
Theres the original Brooklyn Childrens
Museum, the frst childrens museum
ever, founded in 1899, a mere six blocks
from the Jewish Childrens Museum
on Eastern Parkway. The Children s
Museum of Art in Soho is packed with
paintings, drawings and works of art by
children, and The Manhattan Childrens
Museum has many exhibits geared to
tots ages six and under.
If you dont mind getting in the car
or a train for a day trip, there is the
historic and fun and educational City
of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. Phila-
delphia is only a two-and-a-half hour
ride away and flled with historic sites,
such as Independence Hall, Betsy Ross
house, the Liberty Bell and many others.
There is also the relatively new National
Museum of American Jewish History, a
Smithsonian-affliated facility in the city
center, to visit.
Not too far from Philly or New York
is the refurbished Crayola Experience
in Easton, Pennsylvania. A colorful treat
for kids of all ages, you can discover the
magic of color through this attraction
with 60,000 square feet of whimsical ad-
ventures. The real-life extension of the
iconic Crayola brand, the Crayola Ex-
perience was completely re-imaged last
year. Now, bigger and bolder than be-
fore, it features 21 attractions that allow
youngsters to explore art and express
their creativity from building custom
markers to animating the art digitally.
Crayola Experience, 30 Centre Square,
Easton, Pennsylvania. 610-515-8000,
www.crayolaexperience.com.
Closer to home and a bit of indoor
fun in case of bad weather or just to be
inside, the world of Palisades Center
West Nyack is a very popular destina-
tion for Chol HaMoed. Located at 1000
Palisades Center Drive in West Nyack,
New York 845-348-1000, the center is
home to ice skating, movies, shopping
and more. Billy Beez, located on the frst
foor of the mall at 1282 Palisades Center
Drive, is a whimsical playground to help
keep your child very busy.
But if you must be outdoors, and
after the winter weve had lets get out-
side, there is the lovely Van Saun Park
right in our backyard. With its miniature
train ride and pony rides and gardens
and walking paths, in addition to its ball
feld and picnic grounds, Van Saun Park
is a great local attraction. 216 Forest Ave,
Paramus. 201-336-7275.
Some Fun in and Around Town
Web sites of other Chol HaMoed Options
Ellis Island:
www.ellisisland.org
Lady Liberty:
www.statueoibertytickets.org
Pole Position Raceway
www.polepositionraceway.com
South Street Seaport:
www.southstreetseaport.com
Liberty State Park:
www.libertystatepark.org
Liberty Science Center:
www.isc.org
Empire State Building:
www.esbny.com
Museum of TV and Radio:
www.paleycenter.org
Metropolitan Museum of Art:
www.metmuseum.org
American Museum
of Natural History:
www.amnh.org
Hayden Planetarium:
www.haydenplanetarium.org
Jewish Childrens Museum:
www.jcm.museum
Childrens Museum
of the Arts:
www.cmany.org
Fun City Indoor
Amusement Park:
www.funcityny.com
Bear Mountain:
www.bearmountain.com
Zipline at Hunter Mountain:
www.alpinezipline.com
Childrens Museum
of Manhattan:
www.cmom.org
Ferries and Boat Rides:
www.nywaterway.org
Newark Museum:
www.newarkmuseum.org
Hudson Valley sites and
activities:
www.hudsonvalley.org
Go Near, Go Far, Go Have Chol HaMoed Fun
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Crafting Creates Passover Holiday Fun
R I V K Y KOE NI G
P
esach, or Passover, is the festival with the stron-
gest orientation toward family. From parent to
child, from generation to generation, the mes-
sages of freedom, liberation and our national destiny
are transmitted. At the Seder, we retell the fascinating
and miraculous story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt.
Children ask questions; adults provide the answers
they heard when they were children themselves.
Theres cleaning and preparing to be done before
Pesach. Our homes must be free of all chametz, leav-
ened foods, before the holiday begins. Ridding the
home of chametz can consume the time, effort, and en-
ergy of the entire family, and loving bonds may become
a bit frayed. Heres where holiday crafting can work its
magic!
Hit-the-Road Travel Pack
For many people, celebrating Pesach means getting
together with family that lives far away. If youre travel-
ing or visiting relatives, put together this travel pack to
make the car ride or plane trip more enjoyable.
What you will need:
backpack or tote bag
paperback book(s)
crayons and coloring books
travel-size game or felt board game
deck of cards/card games
Trail Mix:
Raisins, nuts, chocolate, chips, dried fruit
How to do it:
Fill the backpack with some or all of the listed materials or
craft the notepad and include it in the travel pack. These
are just suggestions: Take along anything that will capture
kids interest and that doesnt take up too much space or
have many pieces that might get lost in the car.
Make trail mix to munch on. Place an ample amount of
raisins, nuts, chocolate chips and dried fruit in a Ziploc bag.
Store in the backpack.
Estimated time: 10 minutes
Hit-the-Road Travel Notepad
What you will need:
medium-sized spiral bound pad of paper
1 (8 1/2-inch by 11-inch) sheet cardstock
pencil
scissors or paper cutter
glue stick or tape runner
large paper tag
alphabet stickers
15-inch length of 1/2-inch wide ribbon
How to do it:
Trace the front of the pad onto the back of the cardstock
and cut out.
Glue the cardstock rectangle to the cover of the notebook.
Cut a 3-inch piece of ribbon and knot through the tags
hole. Stick letters spelling Trip Notes onto the tag. Use the
glue stick or tape runner to glue the tag to the center of the
notepad.
Tie one end of the remaining ribbon to the pen or pencil
and the other end to the spiral binding of the notepad.
Estimated time: 15 minutes
Reprinted with permission from Crafting Jewish by Rifky
Koenig, published by ArtScroll / Mesorah Publications.
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Bnai mitzvah
Mia
BEIMAN
Mia Beiman, daughter of Randi and
Larry Beiman of Hillsdale, and sister of
Alana, celebrated becoming a bat mitz-
vah on March 1 at Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley in Woodcliff Lake.
Noah
COLLIER
Noah Spencer Collier, son of Andrea
and Jay Collier of Hillsdale and brother
of Jeremy, celebrated becoming a bar
mitzvah on March 8 at Congregation
Bnai Israel in Emerson.
Carly
HABERFIELD
Samantha
HABERFIELD
Carly and Samantha Habereld, twin
daughters of Jill and Adam Habereld
of Montvale, celebrated becoming bnai
mitzvah on February 22 at Temple Beth
Or in Washington Township.
Bradley
MORRISON
Bradley Morrison, son of Jill and Eric
Morrison of Franklin Lakes and brother
of Carly, celebrated becoming a bar
mitzvah on March 1 at Temple Beth
Rishon in Wyckoff.
Aly
RUBIN
Aly Rubin, daughter of Linda and Joel
Rubin of Norwood, celebrated becom-
ing a bat mitzvah on March 1 at Temple
Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter.
Chad
SCHUSTER
Chad Schuster, son of Angela and
Howard Schuster of Old Tappan, cel-
ebrated becoming a bat mitzvah on
March 8 at Temple Beth El of Northern
Valley in Closter.
Sarah
STUPAK
Sarah Stupak, daughter of Ilyssa and
Darren Stupak of Woodcliff Lake, and
sister of Max, celebrated becoming a
bat mitzvah on March 15 at Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack Valley in
Woodcliff Lake.
Joshua
UNGER
Joshua Unger, son of Waltraud and
Daniel Unger of Glen Rock, celebrated
becoming a bar mitzvah on March 1 at
Temple Israel and Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood.
Simchas
Montclair State Gifted & Talented Offers Summer Program
Summer is a great time for students to continue to de-
velop and exercise their minds. Montclair State Univer-
sity offers a Gifted & Talented summer program in two,
three-week sessions. The frst session runs from June
30 through July 18 and the second session runs from
July 21 through August 8.
The summer program provides full-day and half-
day options on the campus of Montclair State for
high-achieving students who have completed grades
K through 11. During the program, students immerse
themselves in an educational environment focusing on
mathematics, science, technology, fne and performing
arts, English, and the humanities, as well as activities
such as soccer and tennis.
This summer, the program has developed a wide
variety of new courses to supplement the growing list of
our students favorite classes. One of the newest cours-
es for rising seventh and eighth graders is Mechanics
in Engineering, which focuses on learning engineering
principles through applied physics and mathematics.
Within this course, students learn how wheels, gears,
and levers become complex units in creating move-
ment. Students should be ready to build, launch, ana-
lyze, and tweak projects such as a Ping-Pong catapult.
In addition to new classes in technology, science,
mathematics, and language arts, we have incorporated
social skills classes into each grade level. Rising third
and fourth graders are able to enroll in Express Yourself:
Role Play, where they are challenged to think through
scenarios and act out different endings. The goal of this
class is to help students learn some of the tools needed
to make and maintain personal relationships.
The complete summer course schedule and appli-
cation are available at montclair.edu/gifted.
Established in 1981, Montclair State Universitys
Gifted & Talented program provides courses, work-
shops, and intensives designed to meet the unique
intellectual and social needs of high-ability students.
The accelerated, inquiry-based courses allow students
to immerse themselves in topics of personal interest
while engaging with other students who have similar
aptitude and passions.
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Passover Journey
through Song and Art
Shira Kline and her band, ShirLaLa are set to take children on a musical Passover
journey from the Sea of Reeds to the Land of Milk and Honey at a special show at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Her high-energy
music encourages youngsters from 3 to 10 years old to jump
like frogs, crunch lots of
matzah and dance, dance,
dance. The concert is at 2
p.m. Themed crafts and tours,
included in concert ticket
prices, will take place from 1
to 4 p.m. Museum of Jewish
Heritage A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust, 36 Battery
Place, Manhattan, 646-437-
4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Flight in
the Age of Dinosaurs Soars
For as long as dinosaurs walked the Earth, ying animals ranging from the
size of a sparrow to an F-16 ghter jet ruled the skies. These extraordinary
winged reptiles, which are
close relatives of the dinosaurs
as well as the rst back-boned
animals to evolve powered
ight, are the focus of the
new exhibition, Pterosaurs:
Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs
opening at the American
Museum of Natural History
April 5. It is touted to be
the largest exhibition ever
mounted in the United States
about these ying reptiles.
Pterosaurs highlights the
latest research by museum
scientists and leading pale-
ontologists around the
world. American Museum
of Natural History, Central
Park West and W. 79 St.,
Manhattan. 212-769-5100,
www.amnh.org.
Elizabeth
Mitchell &
You Are My
Flower
Two-time Grammy nominee Elizabeth Mitchell
and You Are My Flower will perform a folk
rock concert for families on Sunday, April 6 at
11:30 a.m. at The Jewish Museum. Mitchell,
a singer and guitarist known for reinterpreting
classic folk songs for children and their parents,
will be joined by her 12-year-old daughter
Storey, and guests, Brooklyn bluegrass ensem-
ble the M Shanghai Stringband. The Jewish
Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-
423-3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
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Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs Soars
For as long as dinosaurs walked the Earth, ying animals ranging from the size of a sparrow to an F-16 ghter jet ruled the skies. These extraor-
dinary winged reptiles, which are close relatives of the dinosaurs as well as the rst back-boned animals to evolve powered ight, are the focus of
the new exhibition, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs opening at the American Museum of Natural History April 5. It is touted to be the
largest exhibition ever mounted in the United States about these ying reptiles. Pterosaurs highlights the latest research by museum scientists
and leading paleontologists around the world. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and W. 79 St., Manhattan. 212-769-
5100, www.amnh.org.
Passover Journey Through Song and Art
Shira Kline and her band, ShirLaLa are set to take children on a musical Passover journey from the Sea of Reeds to the Land of Milk and Honey
at a special show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. Her high-energy music encourages youngsters from
3 to 10 years old to jump like frogs, crunch lots of matzah and dance, dance, dance. The concert is at 2 p.m. Themed crafts and tours, included
in concert ticket prices, will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place,
Manhattan, 646-437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Elizabeth Mitchell & You Are My Flower
Two-time Grammy nominee Elizabeth Mitchell and You Are My Flower will perform a folk rock concert for families on Sunday, April 6 at 11:30
a.m. at The Jewish Museum. Mitchell, a singer and guitarist known for reinterpreting classic folk songs for children and their parents, will be joined
by her 12-year-old daughter Storey, and guests, Brooklyn bluegrass ensemble the M Shanghai Stringband. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave.,
Manhattan. 212-423-3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Mama Doni Rocks
Passover Palooza
Mama Doni, a.k.a. Doni Zasloff, the Rockin Jewish Montclair Mom, brings her funky music
with a Jewish twist to the third annual Mama Donis Passover Palooza, a free family event
for everyone who wants to get into the Passover spirit. The concert, at the original Streits
Matzo factory on Manhattans Lower East
Side, is followed by a tour
where families can see
Passover matzahs being
made. There will be plen-
ty of music, fun and lots
of giveaways, including
boxes of Streitss matzah,
samples of macaroons,
CDs, posters, T-shirts
and more. Passover
Palooza with Mama Doni,
1 p.m. on Sunday, April 6.
Streits Matzo Factory,
150 Rivington St. in
Manhattan. 718-813-7170,
www.mamadoni.com.
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good idea to call to verify details before you go.
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Wednes, April 16
Sunday, March 30
The Pop Ups: Concert for families at The Jewish
Museum. 11:30 a.m. Tickets $18 adult, $13
child; discount for members. For children 2 to 7
years old. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave.,
Manhattan. www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Kids in Action: Chabad of Passaic County Kids
in action will focus on the ve senses and how to
make the world a better place. Create Passover
baskets for the needy and watch a model mat-
zah bakery using your hands. 1 to 2:30 p.m. For
children 6 to 12 years old. The Chabad Center,
194 Ratzer Road, Wayne. Chanig@optonline.net,
973-694-6274
Friendship Circle Bowling: Friendship Circle
of Passaic County is hold a bowling league at
the Holiday Bowl, 29 Spruce St., Oakland from
noon to 1 p.m. and at Van Houten Lanes, 564
Van Houten Ave., Clifton from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m.
Volunteers will be on hand to assist children. $5
per child. To RSVP, chaya@fcpassaiccounty.com,
718-483-5682.
Shlemiel Crooks: Free fun, music and story tell-
ing. Shlemiel Crooks, a Passover Story in Words
and Music will performed by author and Fair
Lawn resident Anna Olswanger and lyricist Clay
Zambo. Two free tickets will be given away at
the event for Shlemiel Crooks A Musical to
take place at New Yorks Merkin Concert Hall the
following week. Bookstore event at Bank Street
Bookstore, 2879 Broadway, Manhattan. 3 p.m.
212-678-1654.
Miriams Cup for Mother and Daughters:
Designed for mothers and their 8 to 18 year-old
daughters, this course honors the role of women
in Jewish history and helps you create your own
ceramic Miriams Cup. From 4 to 6 p.m. JCC
on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenay.
$36 members. Also on Sunday, April 6.
Tuesday, April 1
Media and Children Lecture: Noted expert on
child and teen development, Robyn Silverman
lectures on countering the medias impact on
childrens self image at Temple Sharey Telo-
Israel, 432 Scotland Road, South Orange.
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 3
Appetizers, Tapas and Mini Desserts: Learn the
power of the mini meal with chef Galit Aboodi.
Menu includes tomato tart with Labne cheese
and zaathar, sh cerviche, stuffed mini mush-
rooms, Oreo cookie mini-trie cups and more.
7 to 9:30 p.m. Kaplen JCC on the Palisades,
411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenay. 201-408-1457.
www.jccotp.org.
Artist Reception: Letter to My Children
Photographs by Debbie Teicholz Guedalia on dis-
play April 1 to April 28. Artist reception 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Waltuch Gallery of the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenay. 201-
408-1426, www.jccotp.org.
Friday, April 4
Family Shabbat: Temple Israel holds family
service with singing, stories and warmth. For
families of children 3 to 13 years old. 7 p.m. ser-
vice followed by an oneg. Temple Israel & Jewish
Community Center, 475 Grove St. Ridgewood.
201-444-9320, ofce@synagogue.org.
First Friday Shabbat in River Edge: Tot Shabbat
at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and
family service at 7:30 p.m. Cost for dinner
$12.50, $10 for children 10 and $6 for children 9
and under. Temple Avodat Shalom, 385 Howland
Ave., River Edge. 385 Howland Ave., River Edge,
201-489-2463
Saturday, April 5
Passover Family Fun: Music, stories, dance and
crafts from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at Temple Emeth,
1666 Windsor Road, Teaneck. For children 2 to
5 years old and their parents and grandparents.
201-833-8466.
Sunday, April 6
Model Matzah Bakery for Children with
Special Needs: The Friendship Circle of
Passaic County will have children bak-
ing their own matzah. Chai Tots Preschool,
482 Brook Ave., Passaic. Children will
be served a pizza dinner. Siblings wel-
come. RSVP chaya@fcpassaiccounty.com,
www.fcpassaiccounty.com. 973-694-6274.
Spring Boutique: Shopping extravaganza
featuring jewelry, womens fashion, childrens
clothing and more. Shop for Mothers Day.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. also on Monday, April 7 from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Kaplen JCC on the Palisades,
411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenay. 201-408-1435.
www.jccotp.org.
Family Art Project: Hear the story of a boy who
creates a forest in his room. Then join artist J.Q.
Nelson create an environment using trees, plants
and a garden. Free with admission. 10 a.m. to
1 p.m. Wave Hill House, Wave Hill, 675 W 252
St., The Bronx, 718-549-3200.
Jewish Womens Circle Torah and Tea: The
Chabad Center of Passaic County Womens Circle
invites all women and girls ages 9 and older to
an evening of art, fun and inspiration at 7:30 p.m.
in which participants will create their own Elijah
goblet for the Passover table. Light refreshments
served. 194 Ratzer Road, Wayne. 973-694-
6274, chanig@optonline.net.
Seder Plate LIVE: An interactive family experi-
ence from 10 to 11:30 a.m. At Seder Plate LIVE
children 2 to 5 and their grown-ups have an
up-close and personal encounter with a room
size Seder Plate as they travel around the plate
to explore the symbols of Passover found on the
plate through songs, activities, crafts, cooking and
a PJ Library story. Reservations pjlibrary@yjcc.org.
Federation of Northern New Jersey and Bergen
County YJCC, 605 Pascack Road, Washington
Township. 201-666-6610.
Mama Doni Passover Palooza: Doni Zasloff, the
Rockin Jewish Montclair Mom, brings her funky
music with a Jewish twist to the third annual
Mama Donis Passover Palooza, a free family
event for everyone who wants to get into the
Passover spirit. Passover Palooza with Mama
Doni, 1 p.m. Sunday, April 6 at Streits Matzo
Factory, 150 Rivington St. in Manhattan. 718-813-
7170, www.mamadoni.com.
Elizabeth Mitchell and You are My Flower:
Family concert at 11:30 a.m. for music lovers 3
and older. Enjoy the folk-rock sound of Elizabeth
Mitchell and her daughter, Storey, and guests The
M Shanghai String Band of Brooklyn. $18 adults;
$13 children. The Jewish Museum, The Jewish
Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-423-
3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Wednesday, April 9
Friendship Circle Action: The Chabad Center
of Passaic Countys Friendship Circle Action
Teen program 7 to 8 p.m. Pack Passover boxes
for seniors in the community. 194 Ratzer Road,
Wayne. 973-694-6274, chanig@optonline.net.
Friday, April 11
Family Friendly Shabbat in Franklin Lakes:
Join a family friendly service with Rabbi Elyse
Frishman and Rabbi Rachel Steiner at 7 p.m.
Service followed by an oneg. Barnert Temple,
747 Route 208 South, Franklin Lakes. 201-848-
1800, www.barnerttemple.org.
Sunday, April 13
Passover Family Celebration: Join Shira Kline
and her band ShirLaLa for a musical Passover
journey from the Sea of Reeds to the Land of
Milk and Honey. Celebration at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust. Concert at 2 p.m. For children 3 to 10
years old. Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living
Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place,
Manhattan. 646-437-4202, www.mjhnyc.org.
Tuesday, April 15
Passover Seder at Temple Emeth: Held on the
second night of Passover at 6 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road, Teaneck. 201-833-1322. www.emeth.org.
RSVP by April 6.
Passover Seder in Glen Rock: Community
Seder for Passover at Glen Rock Jewish Center.
682 Harristown, Road, Glen Rock. 6 p.m. 201-
445-1963. Reserve by April 9.
What is Cord Blood Banking?: Learn about his
potentially life-saving technique. Course from
6:15 to 7:15 p.m. at Destination Maternitys
Learning Studio, 35 Plaza, Westbound Route 4,
Paramus. www.ValleyHealth.com/FamilyEducation.
201-291-6151.
Wednesday, April 16
Paul Anka in Concert: Legendary singer and
songwriter performs at bergenPAC 8 p.m.
Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com,
wwwbergenpac.org, or 201-227-1030. bergen-
PAC, 30 North Van Brunt St., Englewood.
Friday, April 18
Matzah Box Masterpieces: Part of the Family
Programs at The Jewish Museum, this drop-in art
workshop will focus on designing a colorful box
to hold matzah or other holiday treasures. 1 to
4 p.m. For ages 3 and older. The Jewish Museum,
1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-423-3200,
www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Saturday, April 19
Tot Shabbat in Franklin Lakes: Join the little
ones for a Shabbat of activity, musical prayer,
Torah and a story. An oneg follows. Starts
at 9:30 a.m. Barnert Temple, 747 Route
208 South, Franklin Lakes, 201-848-1800,
www.barnerttemple.org.
Sunday, April 20
Freedom Art Jam: Part of the Family Programs
at The Jewish Museum, this art and dance party
for Passover is from noon to 4 p.m. for children
3 and older. Free with museum admission. The
Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan. 212-
423-3200, www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Thursday, April 24
Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Event spon-
sored by the sisterhoods of Temple Emanuel,
Temple Beth Or and the Pascack Valley/Northern
Valley Chapter of Hadassah 7:30 p.m. at Temple
Emanuel, 87 Overlook Drive, Woodcliff Lake.
201-391-080
Saturday, April 26
Tot Shabbat: Temple Israel & Jewish Community
Center in Ridgewood invite children, parents
and grandparents to a Tot Shabbat from 11 to
11:45 a.m., 475 Grove St., Ridgewood. Age-
appropriate Shabbat celebration followed
by a light Kiddush lunch. 201-444-9320,
www.synagogue.org.
Run for the Wild: Sixth annual Wildlife
Conservation Society Run for the Wild 5K
run/walk at the Bronx Zoo to raise money to
save elephants from poaching. Registration,
www.wcsrunforthewild.org. Runners start at
8 a.m.; walkers at 8:45 a.m. followed by a day at
the zoo. Bronx Zoo, Bronx River Parkway, 718-
367-1010, www.bronxzoo.com.
Sunday, April 27
Workshop for Kids with Special Needs:
Examine abstract sculptures and create a work
of your own in this program for families with
children who have developmental and learning
disabilities. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ages 5 to 17.
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.
Call 212-423-3256 to register.
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Scholarships for
Jewish Women
National Council of Jewish Women Ber-
gen County Section will award several
scholarships to Jewish women gradu-
ating from a public Bergen County high
school and planning to attend a four-
year college this fall. Applications can
be obtained through high school guid-
ance offces. Deadline for submission is
April 15.
Newborn Care
All the basics of newborn care for ex-
pectant parents and grandparents. The
class will be April 10, 24 and 26 from 7 to
10 p.m. at the Dorothy B. Kraft Center, 15
Essex Road, Paramus. The fee is $50 per
couple. Classes should be taken before
the birth. www.ValleyHealth.com/Fami-
lyEducation. 201-291-6151.
New Mom Support Group
Offered at Englewood Hospital
Englewood Hospital and Medical
Center is offering a New Mom Sup-
port Group, which will provide an
opportunity for frst-time mothers to
meet and interact with other moth-
ers. The year-round program runs in
four-week sessions, beginning Tues-
day April 1, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The group is for mothers and
their babies, ages 6-weeks to 6
months old. A certifed Child Life
Specialist will facilitate the group ses-
sions, which will focus on child de-
velopment techniques. Registration
required. Call Michelle Brauntuch at
201-894-3635 or 866-980-3462 or www.
englewoodhospital.com and click the
Classes and Support Groups tab.
Spring
Pre-Passover Camp
Chabad of Passaic County will be hav-
ing pre-Passover Spring camp from
April 7 to 9 for children 3 to 13 from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost $25 per day includes
lunch. The Chabad Center, 194 Ratzer
Road, Wayne. Chanig@optonline.net,
973-694-6274.
Splash Week at
Wayne YMCA
Swimming and water safety skills are of-
fered during Splash week, April 7 through
April 11 at the Wayne YMCA. Free, but
pre-registration required. Membership
not necessary. For more information and
schedule, 973-595-0100. The Y is located
at 1 Pike Drive, Wayne.
New Childrens Book Out for Passover
The Great Pesach Funbook: Dont
PASS OVER this One! By Chani Sa-
posh (Judaica Press)
Hours of enjoyment for kids ages 5 to
12. The Great Pesach Funbook makes it
fun for kids to be part of the excitement
before and during Pesach. With over 30
games, riddles, puzzles, mazes, fll-ins,
crafts, recipes, and more, the kids will
have loads of fun with this exciting and
educational activity book.
The Chametz Hunt: A Searching and
Counting Book By Sara Blau (Judaica
Press)
Its almost Pesach ... that means its time
to check the entire house for chametz!
Mommy hid 10 pieces of chametz for us
to fnd as we search the house ... Can we
count to 10 as we fnd them?
Let My Children Cook! A Passover
Cookbook for Kids By Tamar Ansh
(Judaica Press)
Let My Children Cook! makes it easy for
kids to share in the fun of cooking -- at a
time of year when parents can really use
the help! Kids will also discover how to
cook delicious food on their own, so no
longer will they cry, Theres nothing to
eat around here! Filled with recipes ev-
ery kid (and adult!) is sure to love, such
as Matzah Marshmallow Melts, Crunchy
Chicken Crisps and Matzah Soup
Squares, to Rocky Road Brownies and
Mock Oatmeal Cookies, the entire family
will enjoy this delightful cookbook.
Esperanza: A Novel By Sarah Feld-
brand (Judaica Press)
Esperanzas father is all the family she
has left in this world, but the evil tenta-
cles of the Inquisition have snatched her
away from him. The year is 1546 (5306),
and 12-year-old Esperanza fnds herself
suddenly lost in a world of pain and de-
spair. But her vibrant spirit and stead-
fast faith propel her forward as she fnds
loving friends who join her in her quest
to explore life and discover authentic Ju-
daism. Meanwhile, far away in Constanti-
nople, Esperanzas father, Don Raphael,
is tormented by grief over the uncertain
fate of his only child. Follow Don Raphael
through daring adventures and harrow-
ing journeys as he travels to Aleppo and
Italy, meeting many great people along
the way. Trusting in Hashem, he forges a
new life for himself, hoping against hope
that he may one day be reunited with his
beloved daughter Esperanza.
A Mystery for Mindel
By Miriam Walsh (Judaica Press)
Mindel Rappaport is a Jewish girl grow-
ing up in the city of Prague in the 1590s,
over 400 years ago. In this third book of
the Mindel Rappaport series, Mindels
trip to the famous Leipzig Fair is even
more exciting than she imagined. With
people from near and far selling all kinds
of interesting things, and many thrilling
performers, Mindel doesnt know where
to look frst. But when expensive goods
start disappearing, Mindel starts to won-
der whether things at the fair are not ex-
actly as they seem.
Therapeutic Nursery
at Kaplen JCC
Mommy & Me Toddler Socialization
Class for 2 to 3 year olds who need help
in language and social skills. Twice week-
ly classes run from April 29 through June
19. For information Anita Miller, 201-408-
1498 or email tn@jccotp.com
Spring Break
at Wayne YMCA
Swimming, sports, arts and crafts, cook-
ing and more during vacation camp at
the Y for children ages 5 to 12. Runs from
April 7 through April 10 from 8:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m. with free before and after care
available. $55 a day member/$70 non-
member. 973-595-0100. Y is located at 1
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A
fter a dreary winter,
fashion designers are
printing big news
giant owers, abstract
graphics, artsy color blocks
and fresh ginghams and
making the trend headlines.
Yes, prints are having a huge
moment this spring and sum-
mer.
But actual l y pul l i ng
off this popular trend can
be a horror story, especially
when it comes to mixing and
matching totally different
patterns. Here are some ways
you can choose the right
prints for the season ahead.
Think proportion. If
youre petite, then you may want
to stick to smaller prints; larger
sizes tend to look better in larger
patterns. Unless you are a larger-
than-life diva, beware of those huge
chiffon ponchos covered with hot-
house orals. Youll be blooming in
the wind.
Think contrast. If you do like
bolder, bigger prints, then remem-
ber that subtle contrasts in color
will be more complementary. Strong
contrasts in color will definitely
make more of a statement just
make sure its the statement you
want to be making.
Think scale. Wider spaces
mean wider places ... if you get my
drift. Oversized prints like giant
gingham squares on a light back-
ground will definitely give you a
larger-than-life presence and
that can be good or bad. If you like
the bold prints, stick to wearing one
piece at a time, mixing it in with
other solid pieces.
Mix it up. One of the fresh-
est trends this spring is mixing and
matching prints and patterns. When
it looks good, it looks great other-
wise try this new look with caution.
Many designers give you plenty of
direction in their collections. Follow
their lead. Mixing stripes with forals
can be tricky, but it has a very mod-
ern vibe when done right.
Stick to a color palette. If you
do like mixing prints, then there is
one rule to follow that usually yields
stylish results: Unify your pieces
with similar colors.
For example, mix blue and
brown checks with blue and brown
stripes. Ditto for florals. You can
even mix several colors, just make
sure they are generally in the same
color family.
Make prints work for you.
Prints and patterns can also be used
to accent your positive body fea-
tures. If youre larger on top, then
keep your prints below the waist.
Bottom-heavy? Wear your patterns
on top to distract from the lower
part of your body.
Spring wedding, anyone? All-
over prints like pastel florals are
especially popular in dresses right
now, and they look best when worn
in silhouettes that fit close to the
body. Theres nothing worse than
a bad floral print that swallows
you up from head to toe and looks
like you borrowed the curtains for
a day. And if that giant red rose is
stretched a little too far across all
the wrong places ... well, be sure to
leave that one in the dressing room.
Go for classics. Prints and pat-
terns can become outdated fast.
That color-blocked dress you wore
to the cocktail party during the
holidays will be memorable unless
everyone had too many martinis.
Include some classic prints that
never go out of style like polka
dots, checks and stripes. These
favorites will last in your wardrobe
for years.
Keep accessories to a mini-
mum. If youre wearing a splashy
floral top, chances are no one is
going to notice the necklace you
have on. Make sure the shoes, hand-
bag and jewelry you wear comple-
ment the prints and patterns you
have on ... not fght with them. Keep
it simple. This seasons fresh prints
will make plenty of fashion news
all by themselves.
Sharon Mosley is a former fash-
ion editor of the Arkansas Gazette in
Little Rock and executive director of
the Fashion Editors and Standards
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get you moving in the right direction:
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dressing up the beloved pumps. From
sleek stilettos to kitten heels, these clas-
sics are a girls best friend. This spring,
try a new pump that has an artistic vibe
in painterly prints.
Boxy heels. Chunky, square heels
are one of the biggest trends in womens
footwear styles this spring. If you want
an automatic update for your wardrobe,
this is how to get it fast. Just check out
these new heels a great way to boost
your style quotient.
Grecian gladiators. These edgy
sandals are rising to new heights on legs
this spring. The newest designs wrap up
to knee-high status and give its wearer a
real style statement. For more of a low-
key look, stick to simple ankle styles.
Glamour sneakers. Now you can
experience comfort without sacricing
style with this springs newest batch of
sporty sneakers that are updated with
shiny metallics, colorful designs and
bold heels.
Architectural slides. Those mules
may be one of the easiest ways to liter-
ally slip on our shoes and head out the
door. This spring, they are better than
ever, turning up in exotic patterns and
embossed leathers. The newest look
features boot-like vamps with stacked
heels.
Pointy-toe shoes. Whether you
prefer flats or heels, the pointed toes
are jazzing up the spring shoe scene.
Just make sure you allow plenty of room
when buying a pair of these trendy
styles.
Platforms and flatforms. Take
your pick low or high these shoes
hark back to the 70s. The latest look?
Wear your wedges with socks or tights.
You still have some time to get that
pedicure!
Colorful loafers. Dont we all
love loafers! And in living color, you
can really love the way these look and
feel on your feet. Try an exotic print or
embossed leather for even more fun.
Lace-up oxfords. No longer old
lady shoes, these menswear favorites
are fashion forward in animal prints,
glossy iridescent colors and even lace.
Denitely not your great-grandmothers
school-marm brogues.
Boot up! No, boots arent just for
winter anymore. This spring youll see
plenty of varieties of the popular look
especially in shoe boots that will take
you right into warmer weather. You can
leave the tights at home and let your
bare legs breathe again.
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Rock and executive director of the Fash-
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etting ripped may be the big-
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now, but that doesnt mean
that holey jeans are neces-
sarily the best bet for you. And then
there are all those skinny jeans.
Hmm, so much to choose from, so
many ways to make mistakes, right?
We all know about muffin tops
and mom jeans now.
Here are some dos and donts
to think about when you go to buy
the newest denim:
Do relax. The more we wash
our favorite jeans the better they
get. But now you can get instant
comfort, as denim manufacturers
churn out jeanswear thats already
soft and aged. Yes, and you can buy
distressed jeans that already have
rips and tears. They look as if youve
owned them for years. Just make
sure that all these holes are in the
right places.
Dont be afraid to wear denim
from head to toe. This used to be
a big fashion no-no, but in recent
years, designers have been putting
denim pieces for example, vests,
jackets and shirts all together.
Now its cool to wear denim patch-
work pencil skirts with chambray
shirts and jean jackets.
Do wear your jeans to work.
The newest dark denim makes the
perfect addition to a professional
wardrobe. Choose tailored trench
coats, trousers and dresses, and
team them with other structured
pieces. Add ladylike accessories,
such as high heels and a clutch, for
a more polished look.
Dont be afraid to experiment.
With all the new denim pieces pop-
ping up this fall, its time to break
out of the same ol jeans routine
and check out some new looks. Try
wearing a sleeveless denim vest on
its own, or dress up a pair of denim
shorts with tights and boots. Wear
a pair of frayed denim jeans with
a glamorous leather jacket and
pearls.
Do fnd the perfect cut. There
are roomy boyfriend jeans, slim
skinny jeans, boot-cut jeans, full-
leg jeans and super-straight jeans.
So how do you pick the right t for
you? Well, you may have to try on lots of jeans. And
seeing as there are so many options out there not
to mention colors and nishes you may want a dif-
ferent pair of jeans for several occasions: a pair of dark
washed indigo jean trousers for work, a distressed
pair for the weekend, a pair of cropped jeans to wear
with ankle boots, and perhaps an embellished pair for
dressy events.
Dont forget color. Blue may be de rigueur for
denim, but the colored jeans of the past few years have
invaded many fashionistas wardrobes. Mix in colored
denim for even more fashion jeanius.
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Color has long been believed to
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Chic girls ask Savvy questions
What should you look for in an authentic
Louis Vuitton handbag?
When shopping consignment you want
to make sure what you are buying is authen-
tic. There are several ways to tell a real Louis
Vuitton handbag from a fake. First, look for
a date code hot-stamped into the interior
of the handbag. It can be in the interior of
the handbag or even the interior of an inner
pocket. Sometimes you have to go over it
with a fne-toothed comb. It is located in dif-
ferent spots in different styles.
Louis Vuitton is extremely careful with
its stitching. The stitching should be very
even and regular. The same number of
stitches will be found in similar spots on
similar bags. For instance, on a Speedy there
are exactly 5 stitches across the top of the
leather tab that the handle attaches to on
the bag.
The hardware is brass and should look
and feel substantial. Louis Vuitton uses just
a few types of zippers so look at the manu-
facturer on the zippers.
The LV monogram should always line up and
the pattern should never be tilted. It should be sym-
metrical from side to side and in some cases actually
is upside down on the back of the bag as they use just
one whole piece to make a complete bag such as their
Speedy style.
The edges are always even, well-trimmed and fn-
ished. There should be a clean even line, not raggedy
or undone.
These are just a few things to look for when buy-
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out there, but you should know what to look for so you
can carry your Louis Vuitton knowing you are a Savvy
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Ms. Farella opened the womens boutique after
receiving hundreds of requests from customers to
create the same shopping excitement for women
as she has done for men over the past eight years.
The ultimate shopping destination for women
of all ages and sizes, Society Femme features the
most current fashion in clothing, lingerie, jewelry
and other accessories. The store provides a one-
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exclusive items not carried by other local stores.
A friendly and knowledgeable staff caters to
families from all over the tristate area. Offering per-
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giving each client a personal shopping experience
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KRISTEN CASTILLO
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our warm-weather ward-
robe is likely to include
lots of stripes, anchors,
knots and rope accents.
This popular nautical style,
which is trendy for both men and
women, is pretty and preppy.
Fashion expert and personal
stylist Lindsay Weiner of Style
Me ASAP says the look is easy to
wear and takes inspiration from
boating, yachting and all things
water-related, and these pas-
times are ubiquitous with warm
weather and leisurely fun.
Adriana John of Tout le
Monde Style calls the nautical
look a classic and notes she
spots the trend often.
Nautical fashion creates a
neat and tidy look when worn
with anything else, she says.
Worn-out jeans with a nautical
top look much more fancy than
ones worn with a T-shirt. Nau-
tical-style clothing is very comfortable without look-
ing frumpy and demands attention while still looking
feminine.
SEAFARING STYLE
The nautical trend isnt sailing away any
time soon, says celebrity style expert
Jene Luciani, explaining that designers
including Michael Kors, Calvin Klein,
Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfger all
showed nautical accents for spring.
Look for fashions in traditional boat-
ing colors like red, blue and white, with
accents in brights like yellow and orange.
Nautical stripes are the easiest way
to rock the trend, says Sara Cooper, a
fashion and wardrobe stylist who suggests
a simple striped tee paired with denim
shorts or a high-waisted leather skirt. If
youre a bit more adventurous, you can
try pairing a striped bandage skirt with a
button-down blouse.
Stripes are the seafaring standard, but
the look is often accentuated by accents
that include anchors, starsh, sand dol-
lars and steering wheels.
Accessorize your look with a variety
of nautical accents. Wear striped flip-
ops, sandals or casual sneakers to add nautical air
to your wardrobe. Carry a classic ocean-inspired tote
bag, and wear nautical jewelry, including bracelets and
Welcome to the man cave
Society Men, located at 256 Westwood Ave. in West-
wood, has been the ultimate shopping destination
for men of all ages and sizes since it opened eight
years ago.
Society Mens owner, Mary Alice Farella, hand
selects the most amazing brands of premium
denim, clothing, sportswear, tees, weekend wear
and accessories.
Shopping at Society Men is easy and fun. Its
staff provides a personalized shopping experience
designed to please any guy who wants to take the
challenge out of shopping. We thrive on giving
every client the highest level of service.
Society Men carries sizes from small to to
XXXL. The store dresses some of your favorite NFL
athletes. It carries a carefully curated mix of but-
ton downs for work or a night out as well as your
everyday sweatshirt or graphic tee to pair with the
perfect pair of jeans or khakis.
Caution: Shopping at Society Men may prove
addicting.
necklaces made from vintage ship parts. Other jewelry
options include leather and rope bracelets featuring
fishhooks and necklaces and earrings made of sea
glass.
Weiner encourages her clients to focus on a few
basic aspects of the look.
Finish off the look with buttons, especially those
in gold and pieces with rope and knot details, to suc-
cessfully wear this popular seasonal trend, she says.
Dont forget to wear red lipstick and bold nails,
including nail polish in bold blue.
WEARING THE TREND
Nautical fashion is trendy, with celebrities like Katie
Holmes, Gwen Stefani, Eva Longoria, Rachel Bilson
and Kate Middleton, the duchess of Cambridge.
Taylor Swift has been spotted wearing this trend
multiple times. It suits her image so well, says Nata-
sha Franzen, online stylist for Lonnys. Beyonce was
also recently spotted in an anchor sweater and navy
shorts.
STYLE AND SAVINGS
You dont have to be a celebrity to afford nautical fash-
ions. You can buy seafaring fashions at both discount
retailers and high-end stores, as well as online at sites
such as Etsy.
The great thing about this trend is that you can
achieve it without having to buy a whole new closet,
says Franzen. You can use pieces you already have
in a new way, such as combining a navy-and-white-
striped top with a red blazer.
You could also purchase just one denitive piece
to then mix and match, such as said striped top or
an anchor-adorned item. This way, you wont have to
spend more than your budget and can get the most
bang for your buck.
Like many fashion trends, nautical style looks best
when not overdone. Wear only one or two nautical
looks like a red-and-white-striped shirt and navy
wedge sandals at one time. Make sure your clothing
and accessories are appropriate, not overpowering.
The end result? A nautical style thats clean, classic and
fun.
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FIRST PLACE
CONSIGNMENT SHOP
DoubleTake brings luxury consignment to Bergen Countys fashionistas
For 18 years, DoubleTake Con-
signment Boutique has been
operating in Short Hills with
great success by delivering
luxury consignment to cus-
tomers and consignors. The
economic downturn has also
caused consumers to reset
their shopping behaviors and
embrace the idea of value-ori-
ented shopping. It is this shift
in mindset that has support-
ed DoubleTakes expansion
throughout New Jersey.
Now, you can find Dou-
bleTakes Ridgewood and
Englewood stores packed with
women who understand the
advantages and value of con-
signment shopping. Double-
Take, which only accepts the
highest quality current design-
er clothing and accessories,
has been recognized as the
areas only luxury consignment
boutique.
DoubleTakes owner Marci Kessler
said, I never expected such tremen-
dous success. From the day we opened
our doors in Ridgewood and Engle-
wood, weve had a continuous stream
of beautiful designer merchandise. And
because we have such a high turnover
of merchandise, weve built up a base
of over 10,000 consignors who bring us
their once-loved designer fashions. We
also have a large contingency of New
York fashion executives along with bou-
tiques all over the country who send us
their goods. All in all we just couldnt ft
all of the merchandise in one store any-
more and our customers have been ask-
ing us to open more stores. So when the
opportunity to expand presented itself,
we just couldnt resist.
DoubleTake offers quality- and
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the ability to develop a design-
er wardrobe at a fraction of
the original cost. In fact, some
items even offer savings of up
to 90 percent. It is not unusual
to find a $2,500 Chanel hand-
bag for under $1,000, a $2,300
Gucci dress for $800, a $190 The-
ory blouse for $60, a pair of $995
Louboutin shoes for $300, and a
wide selection of costume and
fine jewelry well below whole-
sale.
DoubleTake also provides a
valuable service to women with
clothing too valuable just to give
away, letting them earn back
some of their original purchase
price at a place where their cloth-
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Doubl eTakes consi gn-
ment concierge service provides
an in-home consulting service
where a personal consignment
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and carefully reviews the clothing and
accessories and takes the preferred
merchandise with them back to the
store for processing.
Visit edoubletake.com for more
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Tips for event dressing
from Social By Suite201
With the season of special events
approaching, Suite201 has opened a
new womens dress store, Social By
Suite201, dedicated solely to event
dressing.
To help you prepare for upcom-
ing weddings and proms, we are glad
to share our dos and donts of proper
dressing for these magical next few
months. These arent rules per say;
they are more like tips and tricks to
make you feel your very best.
COLOR:
Black and blue do indeed go
together, and in fact complement
each other very well. If you are wear-
ing a navy dress you can wear a nude
or black shoe, black tights, and of
course a black bag.
Wear red; not only is it the it
color right now, but it is also a very
rich dressy color. (No, youre not tak-
ing away from the bride if you wear
red to a wedding; just make sure you
do it with class. No cut outs or plung-
ing neck lines. Remember where you
are going and who will be there. You
want to be respectful.)
Wearing white is still a no-go
for weddings. For prom, on the other
hand, white is a key choice. Think
about it: Other than at your wedding,
when else can you wear a gorgeous
white gown? Take advantage of this!
Amethyst, lilac, mauve -- any
shade of purple will have you look-
ing very fresh and updated this sea-
son. This is the season for purple, and
there are so many different shades
that can complement any skin tone
and complexion.
Our only major dont is dont
overdo it.
Yes we are from Jersey and a
lot of us may love sparkle, but you
dont want to over sparkle. Examples;
If your dress is embellished, leave it at
that. Wear a classic diamond stud and
a dainty necklace.
If your dress is on the clean-
er side and you want to accessorize,
then pick two parts of the body.
Maybe you want to wear a great neck-
lace and cocktail ring, or maybe you
want to layer an armful of classy ban-
gles and crystal earrings, but please
dont do all four
As far as men go a bow tie is a
must right now.
For more tips and tricks email at
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through the local ooring business,
its family.
There are several area foor and
carpeting businesses that are multigen-
erational, and others headed by hus-
band-wife teams.
And thats true of customers as well;
everyone interviewed for this story talk-
ed about serving the adult children of
long-time customers from past years.
All the local flooring businesses
are uent in the language of style, color
and innovation. What your parents or
grandparents put on their oors in the
1960s and 70s, they say, probably was
colorful, shaggy, and a bit louder than
you will fnd today. Their adult children
and grandchildren go for more muted
colors and a fascinating array of choices
feel like wood, look like wood, really
could be wood but arent necessarily.
Ed Wallace has been watching
flooring styles change for years now.
He owns the Hallmark Floor Compa-
ny in Ridgewood; his wife, Betsy, is the
comptroller; his son John manages the
installers, and his daughter Katie is the
showroom manager.
Whats trending now?
I would say natural products, and
natural looking products, cork ooring,
more natural products and stone looks,
Ed Wallace said. Back when we started,
people wanted decorative sheet vinyls
with owers and sunbursts and wall to
wall carpeting, he added, laughing.
He said that if we were to take
todays customers and transport them
back to the 1970s, they wouldnt neces-
sarily like what they saw. Thats okay
those 1979s consumers probably
wouldnt like todays products either.
Hallmark Floor has been there all that
time, through every trend, since it
opened in 1978 at North Maple Avenue.
I think now families are looking for
a sense of warmth in their homes, Mr.
Wallace said. A warm backdrop for dif-
ferent interiors simplies a lot of choic-
es for people. Were seeing a lot less of
the decorative style wall coverings in
favor of stark white or muted colors.
These colors then go with wood
oors whether they are real wood or
not.
They are making faux looks in
stone and wood so real that you have
to get down on your hands and knees
to realize they arent real, Mr. Wallace
said.
Todays products are very different
than they used to be, he said. Back then,
wood floors would have to be sanded
down and sealed with Polyurethane.
People still buy wood or faux wood
oors, he said.
Often customers do not their oors
with wall-to-wall carpet, but buy rugs
that they put on wood oors.
Were seeing some customers put-
ting down carpet but leaving some of
the wood exposed and doing an inter-
esting border or binding material, he
said.
Still, Mr. Wallace added, people
tend to carpet their bedrooms wall to
wall but put wood, vinyl, or faux looks
in the rest of the house.
Will the fashion pendulum swing
back in the other direction?
Absolutely, he said. Kids who
grew up in town here now are mov-
ing back from their rst apartments in
Hoboken or Manhattan. Theyre coming
to Ridgewood, and at rst they want the
carpet removed from the house. Then
they have kids and come back to us and
say, My kids room is so cold.
He told the story of a customer who
came wanting Hallmark to rip all the
carpet out of his daughters bedroom.
Last week we put new carpeting in all
of his bedrooms.
Because more carpets are made of
wool and synthetic blends than with
nylon today, carpets are easier to clean.
Nylon fbers are soft, Mr. Wallace said,
but they dont wear well.
People over 50 are more likely to
want carpet, he said; thats particularly
true if they plan to stay in their homes
for many more years.
Fashionwise, the younger genera-
tion wants a wood oor or wood oor
look, he said. But theyre still looking
at transitional area rugs, not wall-to-
wall carpeting, and they denitely arent
buying their grandmas Oriental rug.
They are willing to change.
Sam and Gaye Levine agree with
Mr. Wallaces take on changing trends in
oor coverings.
The Levines have been at the helm
of G. Fried Carpet and Design in Para-
mus for more than 36 years.
What has changed over the past
few years is that carpet is sold by the
square foot, not by the square yard, Mr.
Levine said. This is important because
it keeps all flooring products on the
same unit pricing.
Wall-to-wall carpet leads the
product mix at this time, with wood
and hard surfaces following, he said.
People who have many wood floors
tend to buy area rugs, and carpet and
rugs in muted tones add warmth. Both
grays and neutrals are strong sellers, he
added, and patterned carpet is quite
popular now for master bedrooms and
area rugs.
Mr. Levine pointed to wool as a new
basic material for carpeting.
It is a natural fber and it is consid-
ered a green product, he said. Wool
is wool. Its soft, easy to clean, and has
always been the choice for higher end
products. But nylon bers also are soft
and durable and fast catching up to
wool. Nylon is a petrochemical prod-
uct.
Second-generation customers
shop at G. Fried, and the majority of
Mr. Levines new customers are referrals
from previous clients.
I have been in the floor covering
business for 49 years now, and I still
enjoy working with people to make
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neer days are behind us and we
start thinking of the trails end? Enough
of all this moving around, its better to
age in place.
To some extent, and not a big sur-
prise, thats true in todays home mar-
ket: people mostly baby boomers
are trading in their McMansions for
smaller, single-level homes to grow
old in. Thats something to consider if
youre going to be selling your home
soon or are thinking about buying a
new one.
According to an AARP survey, more
than 80 percent of respondents age 45
and older said they would like to stay
where they are for as long as possible,
and 70 percent of those able to make
changes have made at least one modi-
cation to make their homes easier to
live in.
If you take a look at most senior
communities around the nation, most
of these upscale planned communities
primarily offer single-family homes that
either incorporate universal design
or are ready to have it brought in, says
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ture and gerontology at University of
Southern California. People are think-
ing about safety and accessibility: That
is probably the first thing they think
about, and they dont want a two-story
house.
Research varies in all of this, he
says. Some baby boomers are keep-
ing their large homes and are ready
to install elevators, for instance. This
generation has the resources and they
are willing to pay for what they want,
Regnier says. Others are ready to trade
down and take it easy.
One thing for certain is that uni-
versal design, or accessible design,
makes life a lot easier for seniors and
the wheelchair-bound by incorporating
design elements such as grab bars in the
bathroom, non-slip oors in the kitchen
or eye level stoves and microwaves.
In the age 50-plus segment of
home buyers, there is more demand for
universal design, says Richard Duncan,
executive director of housing works of
the Universal Design Institute in Flori-
da.
But think a bit before you tear
out your custom shower for a roll-in,
wheelchair-accessible type. Universal
design can be a two-edged sword, Reg-
nier says. It can make your home look
institutional. It might be better to add
some elements, such as a non-slip oor,
but point out where other elements can
be installed quickly, such as identifying
anchor points for a grab bar in the bath-
room. You could spend a lot of money
and it might not really be that helpful.
Or even better, advises Duncan, is
to wait until a home remodeling comes
around so you can incorporate univer-
sal design into it. Then, you can then
add these features for little or no cost.
Both experts say universal design is
the smart way to go no matter your age.
Its good for everyone, says Regnier, I
dont care if youre 12 or 82.
Two schools of thought are going
on with the aging baby boomers, he
says. The younger segment, say from
early 50s to late 60s, think they will
never get old. They are determined to
stay in their home until the end and are
embracing accessible design.
The older segment, those north of
75, often recognize how vulnerable they
are, Regnier says. This group realizes
no matter what they do, they may need
to move one day to get personal care in
assisted living or a nursing environment.
Maybe one day America will copy
the European model, where housing is
not only built for aging in place, but also
incorporates care and repair programs
that allow older people to stay in their
homes until they die, he says.
These programs combine home
assessment and repair with home deliv-
ered personal and health care. Thus
residents can truly age in place without
worrying about moving as they become
more frail and unable to take care of
themselves.
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Some areas to look at if you want to add
universal design to your home:
The bathroom, called the most
dangerous room in the house for
seniors, needs grab-bar anchor points, a
curbless shower and maybe a step-in
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The house needs at least one
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The microwave should be counter
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Think pocket doors wherever
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A front-loading and front-control
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Doorknobs and faucet handles
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Non-slip fooring where possible.
Light switches and thermostat
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MARK J. DONOVAN
A
wet basement can make
your basement practically
unusable. A flooded base-
ment can cause severe
water damage. It can also lead to
mold and mildew growth that can
infect your entire home and lead
to medical problems in your fam-
ily. Airborne mold and mildew can
cause major respiratory illnesses.
Fortunately, there are a number of
remedies to clean a wet basement
and prevent one in the rst place.
Waterproofng solutions can vary
in complexity and cost. Depending
on the severity of the basements
moisture problems, the solutions
can range from simply installing a
dehumidier to installing a perim-
eter drain around exterior of the
basement foundation.
MAJOR CAUSES OF
WET BASEMENTS
Rain runoff water from the roof can nd
its way into your basement if gutters
are not used or if the soil surface is not
sloped appropriately away from the
home. Moreover, clogged gutters can
lead to wet basements. Wet basements
can also occur if the home is located
in a high water table area. A high water
table means that the homes foundation
footings are situated in such a way that
theyre nearly at the level where water
remains constant year-round. Conse-
quently, after a good rain, the water
table could rise sufficiently to cause
water to seep in between the founda-
tion walls and footings.
DEHUMIDIFIER INSTALLATION
If you simply have high humidity lev-
els in your basement, you can install a
dehumidifier to reduce the moisture
levels. Just make sure to buy a dehu-
midier large enough to handle the size
of the basement. Also, you may want to
buy a dehumidier that can automati-
cally drain its water into a drain in the
basement floor or into a sump-pump
well.
SUMP PUMP
Another remedy for a wet basement,
or to prevent a wet basement, is to
install a sump pump. If you do install a
sump pump, youll need to cut a hole
in the basement foor to install it. When
installing a sump pump, always install
an enclosed system. Standing water in a
sump-pump well will inevitably lead to
mold and mildew growth inside the well
itself. It will also lead to high moisture
levels in the basement.
WATERPROOFING BASEMENT WALLS
There are a number of basement wall
and floor waterproofing solutions that
you can employ to remedy a wet base-
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solutions involve painting a water sealer
onto the inside basement foundation
walls and foor. Alternatively, basement-
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to the exterior of the foundation walls.
PERIMETER DRAINS
For more drastic measures to rem-
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the foundation can be dug out, down
to the footing level, and a perimeter
drain installed. With a perimeter drain,
crushed stone and perforated PVC pipe
are used to funnel water away from the
homes foundation. After installing the
crushed stone and PVC pipe, the soil
is backlled around the home, and the
soil grade is made so the surface water
will drain away from the foundation.
A perimeter drain system and
pump-up ejector system can also be
installed inside the basement foun-
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hammering or cutting away a swath
of the basement concrete slab around
the inside perimeter of the foundation
walls, and then installing crushed stone
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dining rooms.
For foodies and acionados of inte-
rior design, dining rooms are often the
most important room of the house.
Whether you love intimate dinners or
enjoy large dinner parties, there are cer-
tain considerations. Do you entertain
often, or do you have a hectic schedule
and mostly serve pre-prepared foods?
Whatever your scenario, the decor of
your dining room is as important as the
food that is served there.
Many older formal homes have
separate dining rooms, whereas others
are part of a great room or just a din-
ing area. Whatever your home layout or
decorating style, you have choices.
The shape and size of the dining
table says a lot about the homeowners
lifestyle and entertaining preferences.
Choosing wisely will enhance the din-
ers experience. Generally, rectangular
tables are better for a large number of
people. Oval or oblong tables are ideal
for medium-sized groups of ve or six.
Square or round tables work best for
those who prefer intimate dining. Most
everyone loves a round table. Howev-
er, remember that when a round table
increases in size, it gets wider, thus
making it difcult for guests to talk to
and hear one another across the table. A
round table also needs to be larger than
a rectangular table to seat the same
number of people.
A general rule in choosing the
shape and size of the table is to follow
the architecture of the room. For exam-
ple, have your table be similar to the
shape and proportion of the room
a square or circular table for a square
room, a rectangular table for a rectan-
gular room, etc.
For those who entertain often, the
trend today is to use two smaller round
or rectangular tables instead of one
large table. This way, while entertaining,
the hostess can sit at one and the host at
the other. It also adds an intimacy that
is lost at one large table.
A more casual and current
approach to dining is a higher table
(with higher chairs). Inspired by bar
seating, this is popular among young
families and singles who dont want a
formal dining look. Countertops are
also used for dining in order to make
the best use of small spaces.
The most important factor when
choosing a dining table is the size of the
room. A table that is too large will make
it difcult for guests to get in and out of
the dining area. There should be suf-
cient room to pull out chairs (at least 36
inches) and move around. Conversely, if
the table is too small, the room will look
out of proportion.
Materials used for the dining table
are often dictated by the style of decor.
For example, more traditional styles rely
on traditional woods, whereas contem-
porary styling might suggest a metal or
glass table. The style of your dining room
should reect the look of the rest of the
home and, above all else, your lifestyle.
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knocking down walls or under-
taking a huge construction job. It just
takes a few easy and often inexpensive
interior design tricks to make it seem like
you have higher ceilings and lots of extra
space.
Here are the top tips for making your
bedrooms look and feel bigger:
1) Choose beautiful wall colors.
Stephanie Saul, design blogger at the
Fab You Bliss website, says, Light and
brightly colored walls are more reective,
so painting your small room with such
colors can go miles in making a space
feel open and airy. Saul says that light-
er, more neutral colors open up a room,
while dark hues tend to make a room feel
smaller than it is. Cool colors like cham-
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With approximately 15 year still on my
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Thats probably the same way the
family behind the Kaprelian Carpet
Company feels.
Gabriel Kaprelian started the busi-
ness in Ridgewood in 1969. In 1991,
Gabriels son, Glenn, started managing
the companys Hawthorne outlet. Now
their only location, the store has gone
through two expansions since then,
offering a full range of specialty ooring
as well as commercial and residential
carpeting, custom rugs, and stair run-
ners. In 2002, Glenns younger brother,
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Patrick, joined the company. Gabriels
wife, Isabelle, has worked with her hus-
band for 35 years. Glenns wife, Majda,
works as a saleswoman and merchan-
diser, and Patricks wife, Narine, works
for the company part-time.
Glenn Kaprelian talked about the
trends he sees. Shiny is out, and mat-
ted, low luster is in, he said. The looks
of ooring now are more natural.
He said that when he helps a cus-
tomer put wood flooring in a home,
he sees the wood or faux wood as the
canvas, and often an area rug becomes
the accent.
This is a more cozy feel, he said.
Like Mr. Wallace, he sees a growing
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can be too stark for walls, but a white or ecru shade on
the ceiling creates the illusion that the ceiling is higher
up.
2) The design experts at Lowes website suggest
using a monochromatic color scheme on bed linens,
rugs, walls and furniture. Select different shades and
textures of your single color, they say. When theres less
contrast between colors on the larger elements of the
room - walls, bed, furniture - the eye blurs the dimen-
sions of the room instead of seeing blocky colors that
minimize the space.
3) Use lots of glass. Saul suggests a glass coffee table,
since glass tables reect light and help maintain a sense
of airiness in the room. And decor elements made of
glass, including lamps with glass accents on the base,
also work toward enlarging the space.
4) Hang mirrors. By reecting light coming in from
windows and from lighting xtures and lamps, mirrors
can create a spacious look, especially when hung across
from each other on opposite walls. Saul says that a mir-
ror hung in a dark corner isnt ideal, so look for the light-
er spaces in the room and let a mirror work magic there.
5) Add more light. Wall sconces, skylights and tor-
chieres can open up a room. Hanging a pretty chande-
lier above the bed or over a sitting space by windows
has become trendy. And switch from heavy curtains to
sheers so that more natural light can get in through the
windows.
6) Choose light-colored flooring. Lowes design
experts say that light oak or a light-colored carpet can
make a room look bigger and brighter, whereas a dark
rug and dark hardwood oors work against your space-
creating efforts.
7) Choose furniture in ideal sizes. A big, heavy
dresser will shrink the space and may create an unbal-
anced feel in a room lled with smaller pieces. A king-
size bed still has a place in a bedroom, since all of these
steps create the effect of added space.
8) Use round furniture. Saul says that round pieces
can cut the rigidness and allow for more flow in the
room. Bedside and coffee tables should be rounded, as
should chair arms and the shape of the headboard.
9) Choose one big piece of artwork, rather than lots
of smaller framed pieces. The Lowes team says that one
large painting adds visual interest without a cluttered
effect.
10) Eliminate clutter. Remove all tchotchkes and
small frames from dressers, tables and shelving units,
and store them in a collectibles box out of sight. Orga-
nize books on bookshelves as well to create orderly
stacks, and if possible, display only books in lighter,
neutral colors that coordinate with the monochromatic
colors of your room. Brighter and darker books can be
stored away.
And always keep bedrooms neat, with shoes, cloth-
ing and toys put away in closets and storage bins. This
clean appearance goes a long way in making bedrooms
appear larger.
Hang mirrors.
By reecting light
coming in from
windows and from
lighting xtures and
lamps, mirrors can
create a spacious
look, especially
when hung across
from each other on
opposite walls.
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HOME SCENTING
Sight isnt the only sense prospective homebuyers use
SHARON NAYLOR
T
he most beautiful home will
turn off prospective buyers if it
smells unpleasant. Real estate
agents and home stagers endeav-
or to create a welcoming impression
with your homes assets and decor, and
everything youve put into improving
your home would count for nothing
if buyers were to walk into a cloud of
cigarette smoke, pet scents or mildew
smells; they might not even venture
past the entryway.
Though cigarette smoke and pet
smells are the most notorious offend-
ers, some additional scents also have
been reported as turnoffs. Strong dis-
infectants, insecticides and french fries
have all been known to dampen the
enthusiasm of buyers who might other-
wise respond positively to a house that
would meet their needs, says Realtor
Stephanie Mallios. An addition to that
list is the musty smell of an older home.
What makes a buyer connect to
a home is extremely subjective, and
scents can trigger memories and feel-
ings in an individual that you cant
possibly predict. The goal is to create a
pleasant, subtle scent that inspires the
experience of a comfortable, clean and
cozy living environment.
Here are some tried-and-true
methods for creating a lovely scent in
the home youre selling:
Before a showing or an open
house, pop some Pillsbury rolls or bread
into the oven. The scent of freshly baked
bread is one of the most advised aro-
mas. Before baking, though, make sure
your oven does not have any spilled-
over sauce for example, from last
nights lasagna in it, as that could
ll your home with smoke and a burnt
smell. Be sure your oven is clean inside
and out.
Experiment ahead of time with
scented candles. Some brands of can-
dles create a very strong scent, which
can create a too much of a good thing
vanilla, citrus, lavender or other scent
that becomes an overpowering, almost
sickening, smell. Test your space to nd
out how many candles are needed in a
single scent to create a pleasant, subtle
aroma.
Scent smaller spaces, such as
bathrooms, with a single reed diffuser
in a natural scent, avoiding very strong
smells in a small space. Some berry or
tropical scents can be too strong for a
tiny room.
If someone in the home is a
smoker, place a moratorium on smok-
ing indoors during the time you have
your house on the market, Mallios
advises.
Place reed diffusers on a window-
sill so that the sun warms the jar and
helps disseminate the scent.
Do not use scented floor clean-
ers, such as lavender- or berry-scented
cleaning solutions, even if you like the
aroma. Some cleaning solutions with
scent added can create extremely strong
or conicting smells within your home.
If your refrigerator will stay with
the property, be sure the inside of it
smells fresh, not like spoiled food or
onions. Place an open box of baking
soda inside to absorb all scents.
The same goes for your micro-
wave. To eliminate coffee or food smells,
ll a bowl with water and lemon juice,
and microwave it for a few minutes.
Then wipe down the inside of your
microwave.
If you have stains from pets on
the carpet, use a product that is safe
and specially formulated to remove pet
stains and odors.
If your puppy has made a stain
on a chair, remove that chair from the
room, even if you have spot-cleaned it,
Mallios says.
Ask a friend who does not live in
your home to walk through and assess
your house for scents. Its possible
there are unpleasant scents that youve
become used to. A fresh nose will
reveal the scent experience that first-
time visitors will have, and youll know
which areas of your home to x.
Pay special attention to scents
inside closets. Especially in older
homes, closets can hold musty odors.
Place a few dryer sheets on a closet
shelf, which freshens the air within, and
think twice about putting cedar hangers
or balls inside a closet, because some
buyers might not like that strong cedar
scent.
If weather permits, open your
windows to get fresh, clean air inside
your home.
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DIANE SCHLINDWEIN
W
hen Tom and Bonnie Taylor
were relocating from Attica,
Ind., to Springfield, Ill., they
did what most real estate
agents prefer and moved their pets out
of their home before they put it on the
market.
Because Tom Taylor had already
found employment in Illinois, he took
both of their adopted greyhounds, Jolly
and Marsha, and their grown daugh-
ters cat, Frasier, to Springeld with him.
Bonnie, meanwhile, was finishing up
her last few weeks of work at Purdue
University and getting the house ready
to sell.
It just worked out for us that I had
to move to Springfield first, so I took
the animals with me, says Tom, who
is now ranger at Camp Widjiwagan, a
large year-round Girl Scout camp. It
was easier for me to keep them with me
because Bonnie was still working there
and packing.
Tom drove with the dogs when he
made several trips back and forth from
Springfield to Indiana to help finish
last-minute projects at the Attica house.
Bonnie cleaned the carpets after the
pets were no longer living there.
Mary Hession, a Realtor with Cen-
tury 21 1st Choice in Indianapolis, says
she understands that not every seller
has the opportunity to move or board
pets when their home is on the market.
Still, Hession says its best to keep it low
key where pets are involved.
Some people literally remove the
dog, pet bowls and everything from the
home, Hession says. Some will put the
dogs in the garage or put them in crates.
It just kind of depends on the demeanor
of the dog whether or not the dog will
get worked up. Some people let their
cats run free, but just leave a note.
Hession admits for everyones sake,
pets should ideally be kept from roam-
ing the house. A pet could run away.
Ive been lucky and have never had an
incident where a dog or cat scooted out
the door while I was showing a home,
but that can happen, she says. If the
pets are there I feel better if they are in
crates or in the garage.
Even homeowners with small ani-
mals and birds in cages should leave a
note about pets. If it is a gerbil, a liz-
ard or a snake anything that would
potentially be moving we need to
know that, Hession says. I remember
coming across three birds that were in a
bedroom. I didnt know they were there
and one let out this squawk. My people
didnt even want to go in that room.
Of course, some people are so aller-
gic to animal dander that they wont
even consider a home with pets. I have
had clients who have smelled a dog or
cat in a home and that immediately
turns them off. You can tell they are not
interested - or theyll wonder if carpets
will be replaced, she says. But some
people dont mind. Theyll say, We have
cats or dogs thats no big deal.
Happily the Taylors sold their pet-
free home quickly and Bonnie found
employment in Springeld right away.
Frasier the cat is now living with his
original owner, who is married and
settled in a North Dakota home after a
military tour in Iraq.
The couple and their beloved grey-
hounds are happy with how their life
has turned out, Tom Taylor says. After
spending just a few nervous days of get-
ting used to their new surroundings -
and several very long car rides - both
dogs have quickly adjusted to their new
home in the wooded camp.
Tom believes they were fortunate to
avoid showing their home with the pets
still living there.
As it turned out, we didnt get the
house on the market as soon as we
thought, but it was best not to have the
dogs there, he concludes. We would
have had to crate them and they arent
used to that. It was just better this way.
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Timing is key when selling one home to buy another
CHANDRA ORR
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elling one house to buy another is all about the
timing.
Sell too soon and you could nd yourself
with no place to live. Buy too soon and you
could wind up with a double mortgage.
The key to making a smooth transition is in the
planning. When swapping one home for another, it
pays to plan for every possible scenario.
You need to have a very realistic approach to the
whole thing, said Carl Agard, real estate broker and
author of Getting the Real Out of Real Estate. ($19.95,
Adelphi Publishing and Media Group).
There are so many factors that you cant control,
he says. It depends on how fast you can sell your old
home, how quickly the buyer can get a mortgage and
how quick you are to close on a new home.
You want to have a contingency plan for the best
case scenario and the worst case scenario.
The best case scenario? Your home flies off the
market, you nd your dream house and both closings
give you enough time to make the move without over-
lapping mortgages. No problem.
The best thing is to sell your house rst and use
that money to buy another home, then you dont have
to pay two mortgages, but a lot of the process is dif-
cult to control, Agard said.
The worst case scenarios are the ones you really
have to plan ahead for. No homeowner wants to get
stuck with two mortgages - or worse yet, no place to
live. According to Agard, there are a few things home-
owners can do to prevent such disasters:
Worst Case Scenario No.1: You fnd the home of
your dreams, but you havent sold the old house yet.
Solution: It is possible to build a contingency plan
into the contract on your new home.
Say you want to sign a contract for a brand new
home in Atlanta, but you havent sold your old place in
New York yet. Ask for a contingency contract.
Then, youre not forced to close on the new home
beforehand and pay two mortgages, Agard explained.
Your purchase of the new home is contingent upon
selling your old home.
If youre lucky enough to nd a house in a new
development, consider signing up for a home in a
future phase of the development instead of snagging a
home thats ready and waiting for an occupant. If you
time it just right, youll be closing on your old home
when developers put the nal touches on your new
house.
Worst Case Scenario No.2: Youre set to close on
your new home, but the buyer for your old home is
holding up the process.
Solution: Put a penalty clause in the contract on
your old home.
Plenty can go wrong when the person buying
your old home sends the schedule veering off track. To
avoid delays and a double mortgage, consider putting
a penalty clause in the contract.
Everything is negotiable, and every situation is
different, Agard said. You can put it in the contract
that the buyer has to pay a penalty if they dont close
on the house within a certain timeframe.
Then, if the person buying your old home is hold-
ing up process, youre not paying two mortgages at
once.
Worst Case Scenario No.3: You sell your house,
but youre not even close to nding a new home yet.
Solution: Consider renting.
This is perhaps the best of the worst case scenar-
ios. With no mortgage hanging over your head, youre
free to consider a range of options.
Short-term leases, rentals and hotels offer quick
xes, and plenty of family members may be willing to
take you in temporarily.
It means moving twice, but with a little planning,
this can be a smooth transition. Plan ahead for such an
event by pricing rental units, storage units and moving
companies. You want to hold onto as much prot from
your old home as you can.
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inally we are seeing solid signs of improvement
in the availability of mortgage loans.
According to a survey from Fannie Mae,
credit availability is improving. For the rst time
in more than three years, the majority of consumers
believe its easier to obtain a mortgage, it was reported
by Realty Times.
The gradual upward trend in this indicator dur-
ing the last few months bodes well for the housing
recovery and may be contributing to this months
increase in consumers intention to buy rather than
rent their next home, said Doug Duncan, Fannie
Maes chief economist.
The Mortgage Bankers Association says consum-
ers are correct credit availability has increased, par-
ticularly in the jumbo and renance loan markets.
The market continues to adapt to the new QM
(Qualied Mortgage) regulation by eliminating prod-
ucts that do not t inside of the QM box, it was noted
by Mike Fratatoni, chief economist for the MBA.
This tightening is being offset, both in the market
for higher balance loans, where lenders continue to
loosen terms for jumbo loans, and in the re market,
where more lenders are offering streamline renance
programs, Realty Times
reported.
Q: Are many homes
still underwater?
A: Negative equity rate
has dipped below 20 per-
cent in the fourth quarter
of last year. Less than 10
million remain underwater,
according to a report from
Zillow.
U.S. negative equity rate fell to 19.4 percent of all
homeowners who have a mortgage. About 3.9 mil-
lion homeowners were freed; 9.8 million homeowners
remain underwater.
Q: Is there still a strong
demand for REOs?
A: Fannie Maes sales
of real estate-owned prop-
erties (REOs bank-owned
properties) dropped 14
percent in the fourth
quarter from the previ-
ous quarter, as demand
for foreclosed properties
weakened, Mortgage Servic-
ing News reported.
Between higher pricing in some markets and
somewhat higher interest rates, we have seen demand
for REO properties soften a bit.
In addition, we are seeing less interest from insti-
tutional buyers, said Fannies chief executive Timothy
Mayopoulos on a conference call with reporters.
The government-sponsored enterprise sold 32,208
REO properties in the fourth quarter, compared to
37,353 in the third quarter. For the full year, Fannie
acquired 144,384 REO properties and sold 146,821.
It ended in 2013 with an inventory of 103,229 single-
family homes.
Q: Do rst-time homebuyers have a special prob-
lem?
A: Chief economist at CoreLogic, Mark Fleming,
notes new factors affecting a homeowners ability to
buy a home.
The ability for a prospective buyer to purchase a
home depends greatly on whether the buyer already
owns a home. The market is being affected by the
intersection of rising home prices, rising interest rates
and stagnating incomes, which puts rst-time buyers
behind the curve that has beneted them greatly since
2007.
Q: Will this be a good year for multifamily housing
activity?
A: Freddie Mac recently released its multifamily
housing economic outlook for 2014 showing that mul-
tifamily growth will be favorable, but will also moder-
ate and become more in line with long-run historical
levels.
It found that multifamily rent growth and vacancy
in the coming year will be consistent with long-run
average performance at the national level, but will
slow a bit from 2013. Also, the cap rates will remain
below 7 percent for the next few years.
As interest rates rise, the cap rate spread will tight-
en. The projected positive effective income growth will
drive property values higher, albeit at lower rates than
last year.
Q: Where are luxury homes usually located?
A: They are usually found in small areas of cities
and towns. The Demand Institute, a nonadvocacy,
nonprot think tank jointly operated by the Confer-
ence Board and Nielsen, released a new report enti-
tled: A Tale of 2000 Cities: How the sharp contrast
between successful and struggling communities is
reshaping America.
The report nds that a large proportion of hous-
ing wealth is concentrated in a relatively small propor-
tion of Americas cities, towns and villages.
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remain underwater.
Q: Is there still a strong
demand for REOs?
A: Fannie Maes sales
of real estate-owned prop-
erties (REOs bank-owned
properties) dropped 14
percent in the fourth
quarter from the previ-
ous quarter, as demand
for foreclosed properties
weakened, Mortgage Servic-
ing News reported.
Between higher pricing in some markets and
somewhat higher interest rates, we have seen demand
for REO properties soften a bit.
In addition, we are seeing less interest from insti-
tutional buyers, said Fannies chief executive Timothy
Mayopoulos on a conference call with reporters.
The government-sponsored enterprise sold 32,208
REO properties in the fourth quarter, compared to
37,353 in the third quarter. For the full year, Fannie
acquired 144,384 REO properties and sold 146,821.
It ended in 2013 with an inventory of 103,229 single-
family homes.
Q: Do rst-time homebuyers have a special prob-
lem?
A: Chief economist at CoreLogic, Mark Fleming,
notes new factors affecting a homeowners ability to
buy a home.
The ability for a prospective buyer to purchase a
home depends greatly on whether the buyer already
owns a home. The market is being affected by the
intersection of rising home prices, rising interest rates
and stagnating incomes, which puts rst-time buyers
behind the curve that has beneted them greatly since
2007.
Q: Will this be a good year for multifamily housing
activity?
A: Freddie Mac recently released its multifamily
housing economic outlook for 2014 showing that mul-
tifamily growth will be favorable, but will also moder-
ate and become more in line with long-run historical
levels.
It found that multifamily rent growth and vacancy
in the coming year will be consistent with long-run
average performance at the national level, but will
slow a bit from 2013. Also, the cap rates will remain
below 7 percent for the next few years.
As interest rates rise, the cap rate spread will tight-
en. The projected positive effective income growth will
drive property values higher, albeit at lower rates than
last year.
Q: Where are luxury homes usually located?
A: They are usually found in small areas of cities
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BEN COHEN
Ah, the devious Benjamin Netanyahu! Just when we are on
the cusp of a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
negotiations, Israels slippery prime minister introduces a
potential deal-breaker, in the form of insisting that the Pal-
estinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
That, in essence, is the narrative that has emerged over
the past fortnight, as shaped by the tiresome pundits
who spend their days forensically examining Netanyahus
statements and actions. Writing in the Israeli newspa-
per Haaretz, Hussein Ibish, a faux moderate working
for the American Task Force on Palestine, described
the Jewish state negotiating theme as a new
demand deliberately engineered to undermine what
he termed the greatest of Palestinian concessions,
their 1993 recognition of the State of Israel. Also in
Haaretz, Peter Beinart, a professional Jewish critic of
Israel, opined without offering a scintilla of evidence
that what Netanyahu really wants is a Jewish state
that rides roughshod over its non-Jewish minorities,
so as to ensure that Jewish political power trumps
pretty much everything else.
Ibish, Beinart, and their co-thinkers have made
much of their dubious
claim that Israel has never
defined what a Jewish state
means. For Ibish, the prob-
lem is that the Jewish state
demand suggests a trans-
historical claim to this land
on behalf of an entire but
undefined ethno-religious
group the world over
this typically dense and
obfuscatory language is
Ibishs way of arguing that
he rejects Zionism. As for Beinart, the type of Jew-
ish state he believes Netanyahu wants one that will
use any means to entrench its Jewish majority, and
which regards democratic norms as an irritant isnt
worth endorsing in the first place. In this, Ibish faith-
fully echoes Beinart, asserting that the PLO will never
endorse a formula that cements the restrictions Pal-
estinian citizens of Israel now face. (This, by the way,
is the same logic that underpins Vladimir Putins dec-
laration that he invaded Crimea to secure the rights of
vulnerable Russian citizens facing vengeful Ukrainian
nationalists.)
Once you cast aside these caricatures, though, two
facts become clear.
Firstly, the demand for recognition of Israels status
as a Jewish state is hardly new. The Israeli archivist
Yaacov Lozowick has revealed that within the context
of negotiations with the Palestinians, the demand
emerged as early as 2001, a few months into the sec-
ond Palestinian intifada, articulated by a group of
Israeli leftists, no less. Wrote Lozowick: The Palestin-
ians were willing to join in stating that there should
be two independent states alongside one another,
but the Israelis, alerted by the fiascos of Camp David
and Taba to a nuance they had previously overlooked,
demanded that the statement clearly say that Israel
would be a Jewish state and Palestine an Arab one.
The Palestinians refused. Jews, they said, are a religion,
not a nationality, and neither need nor deserve their
own state. They were welcome to live in Israel, but the
Palestinian refugees would come back, and perhaps
she would cease to be a Jewish state.
This brings us to the second fact: rather than being
an afterthought designed to derail negotiations, the
Jewish state demand gets to the heart of this conflict.
The Palestinians and the Arab states have never con-
ceded that there is a legitimate connection between
the Jewish people and the land of Israel that is
expressed through the reality of self-determination.
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Hence, a world of difference separates
the moral recognition of Jewish national
legitimacy from the tactical recognition,
in 1993, of Israel as a state.
As Lozowick documented, and as
Ibish implicitly acknowledged in his
article, the Palestinians reject the idea of
the Jews as a nation wholesale, whether
thats through the theological baggage
of Islam, which recognizes the Jews only
as a subordinate religious group, or the
ostensibly secular reasoning of Ibish,
which faithfully reflects the reaction-
ary nineteenth century conception of
the Jews as an unnatural, non-organic
people whose claim to self-determina-
tion is necessarily based upon historical
falsehoods.
And what is it, precisely, that is being
rejected here? If you comb through the
archive of Zionist writings, you will find
that there are many definitions of what
a Jewish state means. In my view, the
most succinct and modest definition was
coined by Leo Pinsker, a Russian Zionist
who founded the group Hovevei Zion,
or Lovers of Zion. In 1882, almost two
decades before the first Zionist Congress,
Pinker wrote a tract called Autoeman-
cipation in which he pleaded, Grant
us but our independence, allow us to
take care of ourselves, give us but a little
strip of land like that of the Serbians and
Romanians, give us a chance to lead a
national existence.
It is this Jewish desire to lead a nor-
mal national existence, like the Serbi-
ans and Romanians, that underpins
both Zionism as an ideoloy and Israel
as a Jewish state. In rejecting the Jew-
ish ambition to be a nation like other
nations, Israels opponents distort the
debate by insinuating that the Jews
who arent really a proper nation any-
way want special treatment, even if
that means trampling on the rights of
the true indigenous people, the Pales-
tinian Arabs.
For more than a century, Zionists have
been countering these slanders. It looks
like we will continue doing so for some
time yet. And still they ask why there is
no peace!
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Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs Shillman analyst,
writes about Jewish affairs and Middle
Eastern politics. His work has been
published in Commentary, the New York
Post, Haaretz, Jewish Ideas Daily, and
many other publications.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former AIPAC President
Michael Kassen wave to the crowd at this years AIPAC conference, held in
Washington, D.C., earlier this month. AIPAC
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Israels National Transport Infrastruc-
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an Israeli-German group has beaten a
French-Spanish-Israeli group for the
contract to construct almost 60 miles of
railroad tracks in northern Israel.
The winning bid was submitted by the
German company DB BahnBau and a
number of Israeli construction compa-
nies. The project will cost $230 million.
The work covers infrastructure on the
Jezreel Valley rail line between Haifa and
Beit Shean (42 miles, five train stations)
and the Acre-Carmiel line (14 miles, two
train stations, electrification, and double
tracks).
A new rail line in the center of the
country connecting Kfar Saba with Her-
zliya (11 miles) is also being constructed,
according to Israel Hayom. JNS.ORG
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IDF on high alert across West Bank
The Israel Defense Forces has declared a high alert in the
west bank after riots broke out in the area over the week-
end. The IDF is concerned that Palestinian violence may
escalate to include the use of Molotov cocktails and poten-
tial stabbing and shooting attacks, Israel Hayom reported.
The riots followed the killing of three wanted Palestinian
terrorists in the Jenin refugee camp on the 10th anniversary
of the death of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Sunday afternoon saw Palestinians and Jewish residents
clash near the outpost of Ramat Migron, throwing stones
at each other, according to military officials. Several hours
later, dozens of Palestinians began throwing stones and
hurling Molotov cocktails at security forces stationed near
Rachels Tomb, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. A similar riot
was noted in the nearby al-Aida Palestinian refugee camp.
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Irans Khamenei questions
reality of Holocaust
on Twitter
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
questioned the reality of the Holocaust on his Twitter
account Friday.
#Holocaust is an event whose reality is uncer-
tain and if it has happened, its uncertain how it has
happened, read a post on the @khamenei_ir Tweet
account, which analysts speculate is run by Khame-
neis office.
Using the Holocaust hashtag again, Khamenei
implied that recognizing the Holocaust is a red line
for Islam, tweeting, They treat their redlines in such
manner. How can they expect us to neglect our faiths
redlines? #freedom #holocaust
The Twitter excerpts were reportedly taken from
a speech delivered by Khamenei on Friday marking
Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In that speech, Khame-
nei said the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotia-
tions were a design by the U.S. and Israel to cleanse
Palestine of Muslims and Christians. JNS.ORG
Loyola University students
launch petition to veto Israel
divestment bill
Pro-Israel students at Chicagos Loyola University are
mobilizing a response to the Students for Justice in Pal-
estine-sponsored Israel divestment resolution passed
by the schools student government this week.
The resolution, which passed 26-0 with two absten-
tions March 18, urges the university administration
to withdraw investments from eight corporations
complicit in Israels occupation of the Palestinian ter-
ritories, including Caterpillar, SodaStream, Veolia, and
Hewlett-Packard.
Drawing on the support from the Jewish United
Funds Israel Education Center and Metro Chicago
Hillel, pro-Israel Loyola students launched a petition
that urges the student government president to veto
the divestment resolution.
University officials, meanwhile, said in a statement
that the student government resolution is not the
position of Loyola University Chicago and we will not
adopt this proposal. JNS.ORG
Israeli Foreign Ministry
workers go on first-ever strike
For the first time in Israels history, the Foreign Minis-
try has gone on strike, closing all diplomatic missions
abroad as well as the ministrys Jerusalem headquar-
ters indefinitely.
A total of 103 Israeli missions are closed, including
at the United Nations. Some 100 consulates and other
lower-ranking missions are also shuttered. The strike
could cause political damage to Israel as a result of
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around the world. It also leaves Israelis abroad with-
out official assistance.
Foreign Ministry worker demands include anchored
wages and pay increases in line with the cost of living
in the countries to which they are posted, addressing
the issue of spouses loss of employment, adjustment
of pension plans, and appropriate compensation for
executive branch employees. JNS.ORG
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Israeli team of rivals rules Netanyahus coalition
BEN SALES
TEL AVIV In the lead-up to last years
Knesset elections, the pro-settlement Jew-
ish Home party released a controversial ad
showing party chairman Naftali Bennett
smiling alongside Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
The message was clear: Mr. Netanyahu
will be prime minister, but a vote for Jew-
ish Home would give Mr. Bennett what he
called a hand on the steering wheel.
But it really is much more than just one
hand. In the year since the formation of
the new government, Jewish Home and
the coalitions other smaller parties are
driving much of the governments agenda.
Mr. Netanyahus Likud party has taken a
back seat on everything besides security
affairs.
Finance Minister Yair Lapid, head of the
centrist Yesh Atid party, passed a contro-
versial austerity budget and advanced a
bill to conscript charedi Orthodox Israelis.
Tzipi Livni, founder of the small Hatnua
party, led the first substantive talks with
the Palestinian Authority since 2008. Mr.
Bennett advanced a string of parliamen-
tary bills focused on religion-state reforms.
Mr. Netanyahu, meanwhile, has spent
much of the past year fighting the same
battles he fought in his last term, arguing
for a more aggressive stance toward Irans
nuclear program and taking a hard line on
Israels security concerns.
With Mr. Netanyahu presiding over a
team of rivals a more difficult coalition
than the relatively stable right-wing gov-
ernment of his previous term many of
the governments initiatives have come
from his partners, not him.
What interests Netanyahu is the status
quo, Hebrew University political science
professor Gideon Rahat said. His style is
not to do too much. Everyone else makes
noise on smaller things.
Mr. Lapids budget drew protests for
raising taxes and cutting benefits, but
proposed religious and social reforms have
drawn the most attention.
As the first government without charedi
parties in more than a decade, the coali-
tion was able to pass some major legisla-
tion eliminating charedi privileges without
falling apart. The government cut subsi-
dies to large charedi families and sent the
first government paychecks to non-Ortho-
dox rabbis. Bills conscripting charedim
and advancing gay parenting rights are
Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid, left, talks to Jewish Home leader Naftali Ben-
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The government also has moved toward
forcing publicly funded charedi schools to
teach English and math, as well as imple-
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pushing legislation that would establish civil
unions in Israel.
Not all the coalition members concur on
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Yesh Atid, a largely secularist party, cam-
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particularly on conscription and marriage.
Jewish Home, which is largely modern
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promised by Yesh Atid, opting instead to
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Their conflict played out during the recent
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threats by Yesh Atid to quit the coalition, the
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who refuse to enlist. But because of pressure
from Jewish Home, the penalties wont take
effect until 2017 enough time for charedim
to run in another election and possibly re-
enter the governing coalition, where they
could roll back the law.
The cause of greatest acrimony has been
the peace talks. Hatnua was founded to
advance Israeli-Palestinian peace. Jewish
Home opposes a Palestinian state of any
kind and supports settlement growth.
Yesh Atid, once a quiet supporter of
negotiations, has since become a stron-
ger voice for a two-state solution, widen-
ing its rift with Jewish Home.
To jump-start Israeli-Palestinian nego-
tiations last summer, Israel agreed to an
unpopular prisoner release. As the talks
progressed, Jewish Home threatened
to leave the coalition. But eight months
later, peace talks are on the verge of col-
lapse and the sides seem to be no closer
to a deal.
Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahus security
efforts havent yielded much success.
An interim accord between Iran and
the Western powers took effect despite
the prime ministers warnings that it
was a bad deal. When Israel captured
a ship this month laden with weapons
destined for terrorist groups that Israel
said originated in Iran, few world lead-
ers responded.
The Israeli strategy collapsed after
the November agreement, said Ephraim
Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center
for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity. The world doesnt want to hear
bad news about Iran. The world is hid-
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One of Israels most significant secu-
rity accomplishments has been clandes-
tine bombings of weapons shipments to
Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist group.
But with Israels policy of deliberate
ambiguity, Mr. Netanyahu cant officially
take credit for the attacks.
Perhaps Mr. Netanyahus most notable
achievement in the year-old government
is that the coalition he cobbled together
is still intact.
Every time he keeps going one more
year, Dr. Rahat said. Staying in power
is not easy. He looks like a leader above
the fray, and he likes it that way.
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J Street: Unreasonable to expect PA
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In a letter to supporters of the self-
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J Street, the groups executive director,
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and unreasonable to expect the Pales-
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Ben-Amis position mirrors that of
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who
recently called it a mistake to continue
to insist on Jewish state recognition in
the American-brokered Israeli-Palestin-
ian conflict negotiations.
J Street agrees that a final, compre-
hensive agreement to resolve the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict will have to address
core issues of identity, recognition, rights
and redress, Ben-Ami wrote, according
to a March 21 post on the J Street blog.
However, we also believe that failure to
resolve these issues at this point should
not derail these negotiations. These
issues are appropriately settled as part of
a final peace agreement and not now
as part of a framework for continued
negotiations.
Ben-Ami added, Once the parties
have settled borders, security, Jerusalem
and refugees, mutual recognition can be
part of a package deal. But it is simply
unrealistic and unreasonable to expect
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JEREMY BOROVITZ
JERUSALEM Artem Zaptotski, from
Lutsk, in western Ukraine, sits in Hadassah
Hospital in Jerusalem, sharing his room
with a French chasid.
Seeing that I speak Hebrew and wear
a kippah, the chasid asks if he should
encourage Mr. Zaptotski to put on tefillin.
No, I tell him. Mr. Zaptotski isnt Jewish. In
fact, he had only one Jewish friend until
10 days ago.
As we are speaking, one of Mr. Zaptots-
kis legs slips out of his Yad Sarah-pro-
vided wheelchair. He struggles for a few
moments to shimmy it back into place,
sighs, and asks me for help. And as I, a
26-year-old Torah student from Paramus,
grasp the lifeless limb of this 34-year-old
Ukrainian lawyer, he looks me in the eye
and makes a verbal declaration before God:
I will walk again.
On February 20, Mr. Zaptotski was shot
by a sniper near Kievs Maidan, or Inde-
pendence Square. Enraged by what he had
seen take place on February 18, when the
government opened fire on the protesters,
he left his wife and two small children at
home and rode across the country by bus
to support his countrymen on the square.
While standing near Maidan that day,
one bullet pierced his lung, and another
pierced his legs. His spine also was affected.
But he is resilient. When he arrived in
Israel from Ukraine he couldnt sit up, and
his arms were weak. Today, he is sitting up
by himself, and he swears to me that just
the other day he felt a tingling in his toes.
When I first saw Marina Lysaks post
on Facebook a few weeks ago, quickly
reposted by a number of her friends,
advertising her efforts to send some of the
Maidans wounded to Israel for treatment,
I wrote a quick email offering my services.
I had met Ms. Lysak when I was a Peace
Corps volunteer in Ukraine. A young Jew-
ish Ukrainian who is well known through-
out the city as a top Hebrew teacher, she
has been to Israel many times, and it was
her early love affair with the country that
pushed her to organize this rescue effort.
Truthfully, I didnt see how she would
pull it off. But within a few days Ms. Lysak
and her team of four other Jewish Kievans,
with help from a team of other Ukrainians,
had found a plane, a pilot and $70,000,
with the proper documents to boot.
Ms. Lysak had been out there on the
square during the protests, volunteering at
hospitals, standing with her fellow citizens.
Her determination to send the wounded to
Israel was a way to let her blue-and-white
Jewish identity fly next to the yellow-and-
blue flag of Ukraine.
Anya Zharova called me, in response to
my email, a few days after the wounded
arrived in Israel. Ms. Zharova left Ukraine
14 years ago, when she was 20. While she
has been back to visit, she very much con-
siders herself an Israeli, and her young
daughter is a sabra.
I asked her how I could help, offering
my services as a Ukrainian-speaker. She
began rattling off ideas about organizing
volunteers to visit the injured and making
sure the family members of the wounded
were being looked after; just last week, she
sent them to the Dead Sea for some much
needed respite. By the way, she asked, did
I have $800,000?
Ms. Zharova has amassed a team of over
100 volunteers in Israel, most of them
originally from the former Soviet Union,
many from Ukraine. They are mostly but
not exclusively under 40, mostly Russian
speaking, and most of them did not know
each other until the call for volunteers went
viral. They are a constant presence at the
hospitals and can be found knocking on
the doors of Russian Jewish oligarchs at
their shore-side Netanya homes, looking
for donations.
Ms. Zharova told me that when she
first saw the pictures on the news of those
injured in Kiev and read Marinas initial
post for help on Facebook, it was Pirkei
Avot, not politics, that compelled her to get
involved. If I am only for myself, what am
I? she thought.
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Kaplan Medical Center, a hospital in Rehovot, agreed
to take on 10 of the injured Ukrainians, but the two most
serious cases, including Artem, eventually were sent to
Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. No matter that
there is no guarantee of inancial recompense. No matter
the strain this puts on the hospitals bottom line.
I stand in awe of these Israeli doctors, many of them
from the former Soviet Union, who are so eager to help
Ukrainians who were shot as they exercised their right to
stand freely. Now, they will help them stand again.
One of the lines Mr. Zaptotski kept repeating to me
when we met was Thank God for Israel. What was this
Orthodox Christian Ukrainian trying to teach me?
Perhaps it was thank God there is a country that can
sometimes allow its values to conquer its pragmatism and
its heart to conquer its mind. Thank God there is a place
where the people will care not just about you but will
have the foresight to ask your loved ones what they need.
Thank God there is a people to watch over him, and thank
God that Israelis are instilling in Mr. Zaptotski a dream not
so unlike the one Theodor Herzl talked about over a cen-
tury ago: That from the conines of his wheelchair, in this
land, he will learn again to walk on his own two feet.
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In this spirit, I invite the entire community to join me
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Medical Center for the irst of an ongoing community edu-
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discussed issues of personal and public interest. Our inau-
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We have chosen this topic and a panel of experts from
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pared, I have been honored to be asked to help plan and
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panelists will be elder-care professionals from the legal,
medical, and social service ields. The program, which
is sponsored by the foundation at BRMC and held on its
campus, will give all of us as citizen taxpayers of Bergen
County the opportunity to learn how our county hospital
is meeting the needs of the most needy in our community,
and how it is spending our tax dollars.
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration is scram-
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disputes over core identity issues for each side: rec-
ognition of the states Jewish character for Israel, the
release of prisoners for the Palestinians.
Martin Indyk, the peace process envoy for U.S. Sec-
retary of State John Kerry, is in Israel and the West
Bank this week attempting to salvage the talks before
Saturdays deadline for a fourth release of Palestinian
prisoners by Israel.
We are at a pivotal time in the negotiations, and
we are encouraging the leaders to make the smart,
hard, and historic choices needed to achieve a last-
ing peace, a U.S. official said on Monday, speaking on
condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the talks.
Israeli officials have said that if Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas does not agree to an
extension of the talks and the terms governing them,
which include refraining from seeking statehood rec-
ognition in international forums the planned release
of 26 long-term Palestinian prisoners on March 29 will
not take place.
Palestinian officials have suggested that if a new
round of prisoners are not released, they will accel-
erate efforts to achieve statehood recognition outside
the structure of peace negotiations.
The parlous state of the talks has forced Mr. Indyk
and Mr. Kerry to abandon for now their hopes of
unveiling a U.S.-drafted framework for a final peace
agreement that would form the basis of ongoing talks.
Instead, insiders say, Mr. Indyk is simply seeking the
extension of the talks for another nine months.
Also looming large over the talks is Israels demand
that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
Mr. Abbas has said he could never agree to such a
demand; Israeli leaders say it must be part of a perma-
nent agreement.
The distance between the sides, barely a month
before the April 29 deadline initially set for the talks
to conclude, has led Mr. Kerry whose enthusiasm
has driven the talks to sound pessimistic notes.
The level of mistrust is as large as any level of
Kerry scrambles
Prisoner release,
Jewish state issues
threaten to sink talks
mistrust Ive ever seen on both sides, Mr. Kerry said in
March 14 testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Neither believes the other is really serious. Neither believes
that the other is prepared to make some of the big choices
that have to be made here.
A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu declined to comment to JTA on whether the prisoner
release would go ahead.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Kerry
could reinsert himself into the talks as soon as this week.
Theyve been in very close contact as you know, because
we talk about this pretty regularly over the phone, she told
reporters in a March 21 briefing, speaking of Mr. Kerrys
interactions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Whether
or not there are meetings next week, that is certainly pos-
sible, but were still working through the schedule.
A surprise Kerry stopover in Israel and the West Bank
would be significant because of his current preoccupation
with the Ukraine crisis. His meetings this week in Europe
are primarily focused on how best to deal with Russias take-
over of Crimea.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
greeted his supporters in Ramallah on March
20 after he returned from a trip to Washington,
where he met with President Obama.
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we talk about this pretty regularly over the phone, she told
reporters in a March 21 briefing, speaking of Mr. Kerrys
interactions with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Whether
or not there are meetings next week, that is certainly pos-
sible, but were still working through the schedule.
A surprise Kerry stopover in Israel and the West Bank
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Analysts said the Israeli-Palestinian talks
would probably survive the current crisis,
if only because both sides have much to
lose otherwise.
Yossi Alpher, an analyst who advised
Israels government during the 2000
Camp David summit, said a breakdown in
talks would be a boost to the movement
seeking to delegitimize Israel and would
come at a steep economic cost for the Pal-
estinians in the form of lost European sub-
sidies and both Netanyahu and Abbas
know it.
If the European Union is serious about
threats to cut subsidies to the Palestinian
Authority should Mr. Abbas walk away
from talks, Abu Mazen will have no choice
except to fold, Mr. Alpher said, using the
popular name for the PA leader.
Netanyahu is aware of the threat of
delegitimation and boycotts, he added.
For both leaders, he said, as long as you
can extend this status of talking about a
nonexistent framework agreement, the
better.
Ghaith al-Omari, the director of the
American Task Force on Palestine and
a former adviser to Mr. Abbas, said the
alternative to talks for the Palestinians
seeking statehood status in world forums
is not an attractive one.
It is costly, he said, referring to the
cuts in assistance from the United States
and other Western countries that such a
course of action would likely bring.
Additionally, Mr. al-Omari said, Mr.
Abbas already played out the statehood
recognition gambit in 2012 when the U.N.
General Assembly accorded it nonmem-
ber-state observer status.
It is a strategy of diminishing political
returns, he said. When you go to the
General Assembly the first time, you have
TV screens. By the seventh time, when
youre at the World Health Organization,
it wont get much attention.
Aaron David Miller, a vice president of
the Wilson Center for International Schol-
ars think tank and a former U.S. Middle
East negotiator, said Kerry made a mistake
in allowing the advancement of the talks to
hinge on an issue as sensitive to both sides
as prisoners.
Its such an issue of sensitivity for
Abbas, it is the one issue that is likely to do
damage to the process, he said.
To restart talks, Israel had pledged to
release 104 Palestinian prisoners incarcer-
ated since before the Oslo peace process
was launched in 1993. All but 26 have been
Kerry
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released in three batches.
The issue is grating to the Palestinians in
part because they believe that the prison-
ers, who were convicted of involvement in
murders, were instrumental to the strug-
gle that brought Israel into peace talks
decades ago.
Several Israeli Cabinet ministers have
said the Palestinians have not demon-
strated seriousness in the talks, which
could relieve Israel of its obligation to
release the final group of prisoners.
The keys to the prison doors are in the
hands of Abu Mazen, Tzipi Livni, Israels
justice minister and top negotiator, said
last week.
Mr. Abbas told Mr. Obama when they
met last week that he would agree to con-
tinue the talks if Israel released some high-
profile prisoners, including Marwan Barg-
houti, a leader of Abbas Fatah movement.
Mr. Barghouti is serving five life sentences
in connection with terrorist attacks during
the second intifada.
Mr. Netanyahu is not likely to agree to
such a deal, given that his Cabinet already
is resisting the release of the last batch of
prisoners.
Israels demand on recognition as a Jew-
ish state also has re-emerged as an issue
in recent weeks, with Mr. Abbas and the
Arab League saying it is a non-starter. The
United States has backed Israels position,
though Mr. Kerry expressed consternation
recently over the issues centrality.
Mr. Kerry told Congress on March 15 that
its a mistake for some people to be, you
know, raising it again and again as the crit-
ical decider of their attitude towards the
possibility of a state and peace.
Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president of
the Foundation for Defense for Democ-
racies, said the real surprise was that the
talks had lasted this long. Mr. Schanzer,
whose recent book, State of Failure,
offered a sharp critique of the Palestinian
Authority, counted himself among the ini-
tial skeptics.
It has been moving forward better than
anyone expected, he said. Those who
pooh-poohed it have been wrong. But that
doesnt mean that it was a success. It just
hasnt failed.
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Kahane assassins son, Toscaninis pants
and other conference observations
DANNY KRIFCHER
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
The super-hip New York architect
launches into a brilliant review of the last
30 years of architecture, keeping a brisk
pace to make the 18-minute format of the
TED conference.
When the architect, Marc Kushner,
gets to the requisite biographical slide,
the image of his teenage self is wearing a
Camp Ramah T-shirt, lettered entirely in
Hebrew. It is a message hidden in plain
sight.
The annual TED conference, the origi-
nal that spawned the viral phenomenon
of TED Talks altogether viewed online
more than a billion times and a global
network of locally organized TEDx con-
ferences, turned 30 this week. The occa-
sion was celebrated with a new, custom-
designed pop-up theater at this years
TED conference in Vancouver.
Though the speaker list changes every
year, its never a surprise to see people
like Keren Elazari, an Israeli hacker and
cyber-security expert; Moshe Safdie, the
renowned architect; Larry Page, the CEO of Google, or
Mark Ronson, the British DJ and rocker whose family
name used to be Aaronson.
But like the architects T-shirt, its the unlikely stories
and the underlying messages projecting from the TED
stage that often catch me by surprise.
This was my grandfather. He was a cobbler, says Avi
Reichental, a leader in the field of 3-D printing, point-
ing to an image of elderly man in an Eastern European
shtetl projected on a high-resolution screen the size of
several billboards.
Nearing the end of his 18-minute talk on the disruptive
future of his field, Mr. Reichental points to his feet and
says, Even the shoes I am wearing today were manufac-
tured by a 3-D printer.
I never met my grandfather, he continued. He per-
ished in the Holocaust. But standing here today I know
that I am carrying on his work.
The illustrator Maira Kalman tells a riveting personal
story of Arturo Toscaninis stand against Hitler and fas-
cism and the pants he wore when he conducted the
inaugural season of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra
in 1936.
Her story begins, My family fled their shtetl in
Belarus in 1932 to Tel Aviv, and ends with her showing
off the pants she is wearing on the TED stage, the same
pants Toscanini wore on the conductors stand in Tel
Aviv in December 1936.
David Brooks, in a session of earlier TED speak-
ers invited back for TEDs 30th anniversary, reflects
on Stings performance the evening before and then
chooses to relate Stings personal journey to Rabbi
Joseph Soloveitchik and his seminal work, The Lonely
Man of Faith.
But it is Zak Ebrahim who hits the most powerful
chord, speaking just before Bill and Melinda Gates, in
the one conference session that is simultaneously live-
streamed out to the world.
My father killed the Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane, he
admits. Mr. Ebrahim is the son of El Sayyid Nosair, the
Islamic extremist who gunned down the firebrand rabbi
in New York in 1990 and is serving a life sentence in
prison for various terrorist conspiracies.
Mr. Ebrahim, who is now an anti-violence lecturer,
goes on to describe a childhood during which he moved
20 times in 19 years, was taken to shooting ranges and
was taught to judge people based on arbitrary charac-
teristics. Finally, he reaches the moment when he and
his mother broke their ties with his father, his mother
saying, Im tired of hating.
Mr. Ebrahims message of reconciliation and empathy
moves the crowd to a standing ovation and touches me
profoundly.
Contrary to TEDs reputation for slick presentations
and untethered optimism, there is a groundedness to
these stories, and a rawness, too; a longing by even the
most accomplished person to place him or herself in a
bigger context. The feisty defensiveness of an eternal
underdog and the passionate search for human decency
play out together, side by side.
Israeli Jews and Jews of the diaspora stake out their
roles in our collective future. I squint my eyes and see
the latest chapter of the Jewish people playing out on the
TED stage, hidden in plain sight.
Catching up with Mr. Kushner, the hip New York archi-
tect, on Thursday evening, we walk past a wall of pho-
tos, one for each presenter. At the right moment, Mr.
Kushner pauses to have his picture taken in front of his
headshot, with one of his friends saying, We need this
picture to send to your mom.
Another Jewish moment at the TED conference, I
think to myself, as we are swallowed up by the crowd.
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attending the TED conference since 1996.
Illustrator Maira Kalman speaks about Arturo Toscaninis stand
against fascism and his pants, which she was wearing at the
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IDF kills Hamas terrorist
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in Jenin refugee camp
Israeli security forces operating in the Jenin Palestin-
ian refugee camp on Saturday killed Hamza Abu al-
Hija, a Hamas terrorist deined by Israeli defense ofi-
cials as a ticking time bomb. Two other Palestinian
gunmen were killed in the operation and seven others
were wounded. Two Israeli policemen were wounded.
A joint military, Shin Bet security agency, and police
counterterrorism SWAT team raided the refugee camp
seeking to arrest al-Hija, who was believed to have
been in the inal stages of planning a major terror
attack. He opened ire on the troops, who returned
ire and killed him.
According to a senior oficer with the IDF, security
forces had credible intelligence suggesting al-Hija, 22,
was planning an imminent shooting attack against
Israeli security forces and civilians residing in the area.
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U.S., U.K. call on
United Nations to investigate
Iran arms shipment
The United Nations ambassadors from the United
States and the United Kingdom called on the U.N. to
launch an investigation into an Iranian boat carrying
Syrian-made weapons that was headed for terrorist
groups in Gaza before Israel seized the boat earlier
this month.
U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Rosemary
DiCarlo asked the U.N. Security Council committee
that monitors Iran sanctions to establish the probe.
The committee should be prepared to impose real
consequences [on Iran], such as possible sanctions
designations on those responsible, DiCarlo said, the
Associated Press reported.
British U.N. envoy Mark Lyall Grant echoed the U.S.
position. This is not the irst time that we have seen
reports of potential arms transfers to Gaza involving
Iran, Lyall Grant said.
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Hezbollah planted Syria
border bomb that wounded
IDF soldiers, report says
Hezbollah conirmed that its operatives planted
the recent roadside bomb that wounded four Israel
Defense Forces soldiers on the Israel-Syria border,
reported the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai on Thursday.
The report quoted senior sources in the Shiite terror-
ist group as saying that Hezbollah was ready for war.
The March 18 border incident left one Israeli soldier
seriously wounded, while three others suffered light-
to-moderate injuries.
Al Rai further quoted Hezbollah sources as saying
the attack came in response to an airstrike that took
place on the Lebanese-Syrian border in February,
which foreign media sources have attributed to Israel.
The oficial told the Kuwaiti newspaper that the Israeli
strike had crossed a line.
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Winnipeg Jews look for overseas newcomers
URIEL HEILMAN
W
hen the leaders of Win-
nipegs Jewish federation
sat down 13 years ago to
try to figure out a way
to reverse the communitys decline, they
came up with a novel idea: recruit Jews from
overseas.
The idea was pretty straightforward. Cap-
italizing on the pro-immigration policies of
their home province of Manitoba, the Win-
nipeg federation would seek out faraway
Jews mainly from troubled countries in
South America and bring them to the
snow-swept plains of central Canada.
The timing coincided with the economic
crisis in Argentina, and after a recruiting
trip by federation leaders to Buenos Aires
in 2001, dozens of Argentine Jewish families
arrived.
But very quickly, following an initial
infusion of South Americans, the main
source for Jewish newcomers unexpect-
edly became Israel, even though the federa-
tion didnt recruit Israelis or even market to
them.
In fact, since the inception of the federa-
tions GrowWinnipeg program in October
2001, about 80 percent of the 4,400 or so
newcomers have come from Israel, most
with roots in the former Soviet Union.
In 2013, more than 300 of the 338 new
Jewish immigrants came from Israel.
While bolstering the Jewish communitys
raw numbers, the influx has not resolved
worries about the communitys future. On
the contrary, some critics say the focus on
bringing in immigrants, most of whom are
secular Russian Israelis, has failed to halt the
exodus of Jews from Winnipeg and done lit-
tle to shore up troubled Jewish institutions.
The recent influx of Jewish families have
been Russian Israelis who seem to be less
actively involved in synagogue life and are
not involved in Jewish community life to any
extent at all, said Ian Staniloff, executive
director of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, the
largest synagogue in Winnipeg. We offer
free membership to new immigrant fami-
lies, but they seem not to be as interested in
joining or pursuing a Jewish lifestyle.
Membership in the Conservative syna-
gogue, which is located on Winnipegs south
side, has declined 5 to 10 percent in the last
five to 10 years; only two or three Russian-
Israeli families have joined, according to Mr.
Staniloff.
Federation officials argue that GrowWin-
nipeg has been a success, and that the Win-
nipeg Jewish population has risen to 16,000
from about 13,000 before the programs
launch.
Had the trajectory continued going
south, we would have lost our critical mass
and the ability to fund our institutions,
said Bob Freedman, CEO of the Jewish Fed-
eration of Winnipeg. Its worked and given
the community a real flavor in terms of lan-
guage and customs. All in all, the program
was a success. This community is feeling
really good about itself, which we werent
20 years ago.
Faye Rosenberg-Cohen, the coordi-
nator of GrowWinnipeg and the federa-
tions director of planning and commu-
nity engagement, says the program has
helped fuel a huge revitalization in
terms of our institutions and community
activities.
But critics question the accuracy of the
federations population statistics, noting
the absence of scientific surveys to sub-
stantiate the numbers. Data from Cana-
das National Household Survey actually
show a decline of Winnipeg Jews between
2001 and 2011. The 2011 survey counted
10,735 Winnipeg Jews by religion and
12,000 Jews by ethnic origin, down from
12,045 and 14,440, respectively.
Even if the federations statistics are accu-
rate, they suggest that the population of vet-
eran Jewish Winnipegers has continued to
slide because the number of newcomers is
larger than the total increase in Jewish pop-
ulation cited.
At the communitys only day school, the
Gray Academy of Jewish Education, the stu-
dent body has grown to 600 from 485 in
2001, and about 20 percent of the students
are from Russian-Israeli families. The head
of school, Rory Paul, says the immigrants
have added a whole new dimension to Gray
and exposed the Canadian kids to foreign
languages and cultures.
But the immigrants also have helped push
for a curriculum that focuses less on Juda-
ics, and the tuition discounts theyve been
given have wrought financial havoc on the
schools bottom line, according to Mr. Paul.
Originally, the idea was that the immi-
grants lot gradually would improve and
eventually they would be able to afford
tuition, he said. But two troubling trends
have emerged: One, immigrant parents
often decide after a couple of years to pull
their kids from Gray because theyre not
really interested in formal Jewish educa-
tion. Two, when immigrant parents finally
do well enough in their careers to afford
the tuition, they end up leaving town for
better jobs.
In the last two years, 30 students
representing about 20 families moved
away from Winnipeg to other cities to take
on senior management jobs, Mr. Paul
said. Wheres the payback to Winnipeg?
Wheres the payback to all the money Win-
nipeg has invested in them in the first five to
eight years? The cost factor is huge in terms
of what the immigration is doing to the rest
of the community.
Danial Sprintz, executive director of
Camp Massad, a Hebrew immersion sum-
mer camp with many immigrant children,
says that those kids, while taking a lot
financially, give back more than they could
ever take.
Many community members describe
the immigration as a tale of two cities. The
immigrants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
and Mexico bring with them strong tradi-
tions of Jewish communal engagement and
Zionism, and for the most part they are
active community members. Then there are
the Israelis, the bulk of them Russian speak-
ers, who are mostly secular and uninter-
ested in Jewish communal life except for the
occasional Yom Haatzmaut or Purim party.
Youve changed the mix of the commu-
nity by bringing in 4,000 secular Israelis.
Is that going to be a recipe for the future?
I have my doubts, said Rhonda Spivak,
editor of the Winnipeg Jewish Review,
an online publication. There are defi-
nitely people who dont think its going to
lengthen the life of the organized Jewish
community, especially if many Russian
Israelis dont integrate into the organized
community or ultimately help support
Marcelo Cohen, an immigrant to Canada from Brazil, joins the competition at a Jewish community holiday celebration in
2013 in Winnipeg. MADALENA COHEN/SAMBAJOY PHOTOGRAPHY
But critics
question the
accuracy of the
federations
population
statistics, noting
the absence of
scientic surveys
to substantiate
the numbers.
Jewish World
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Stephanie vrha Prezant zl, Class of 2004,
celebrating her love of Israel and Schechter through song.
Alumni, current families, and community are invited.
All alumni 21+ are invited to attend a
complimentary Alumni Dinner Reception at 6 PM.
Complimentary bus transportation from Manhattan will be provided.
RSVP for dinner and/or transportation by April 2
nd
To reserve bus transportation and RSVP online for the Alumni Dinner,
go to www.ssdsbergen.org/israel-night/
or e-mail Amy Winiker at awiniker@ssdsbergen.org
For more information and
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the community institutions.
Despite the harsh winters and mosquito-infested
summers, Winnipeg has much to offer prospective
newcomers. A diversified economic base has helped
make its economy the fourth-strongest among Cana-
dian cities, according to the Canadian Imperial Bank
of Commerce, and Winnipeg has big-city amenities
with a small-town feel. Perhaps most important,
Manitoba is actively seeking skilled immigrants,
so long as they meet certain criteria related to
employability, education, language proficiency and
adaptability.
For Priscilla Kerr Hatae, an acupuncturist who
immigrated from Sao Paulo seven years ago through
GrowWinnipeg, the No. 1 draw was security. In Bra-
zil, Ms. Hatae says, a good friend was murdered a
few blocks from her home, her father was kidnapped
twice, and she was mugged three times.
I really could not raise a family in a country
where you go to work and you dont know if youre
coming back, she said. For me, coming to Winni-
peg was like being in paradise. I know its cold and
everything, but theres no comparison to the life we
used to live in Brazil.
GrowWinnipeg partners with the government of
Manitoba to help identify worthwhile candidates for
immigration, and once the federation recommends
someone, immigration usually is assured.
Even federation leaders acknowledge that Grow-
Winnipegs focus must change if the citys Jewish
future is to be secured. Mr. Freedman, who is retir-
ing this year after 27 years at the federations helm,
says he is talking with federation staff about how to
ensure a larger proportion of newcomers come from
communities with strong Jewish identification, such
as Latin America, and how to attract more observant
Jews to Winnipeg.
We do have some say in terms of the criteria:
With our government we have the authority to sign
off on people and not sign off on people, he said.
We could afford to be a little more selective.
The federation, which is on the Asper Jewish Com-
munity Campus, built in 1997, coordinates exploratory
visits, introduces newcomers to potential employers,
assists with housing and makes connections with local
Jews. The newcomers are offered discounts on JCC
membership, synagogue dues, summer camp and day
school tuition. For those who need extra help, theres
the Jewish Child and Family Service, which has three
staffers devoted to resettlement.
Were the backup plan whether its helping people
arrange a bris or a bar mitzvah, or helping arrange a
funeral or having to pay a couple of months rent, said
Emily Shane, the agencys executive director.
When Misha Hanin first emailed GrowWinnipeg
from his home in Beersheva, Israel, after a friend
directed him to an online article about the program,
Mr. Hanin says he was surprised to get a response
the next day. After he immigrated in 2007, he had
trouble renting an apartment because he had no
credit history. He turned to the Jewish federation,
which wrote him a reference letter that helped him
obtain a lease. A couple of years later he turned to
the federation again for a recommendation for a
child psychologist.
I came here with nothing, zero, said Mr. Hanin,
who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine in 1991. Now
I have a lot of friends from Israel that came here. I
told them about the program I told them I got sup-
port from the Jewish community. I consider this an
amazing place to live.
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THE STRENGTH OF A PEOPLE. THE POWER OF COMMUNITY.
Tazriah / Hachodesh: A truly new life
T
hi s Shabbat i s
cal l ed Shabbat
Hachodesh (the
month); it is not
only the last Shabbat of the
month of Adar; it is also
the final of the four special
Shabbatot that fill the weeks
before Pesach. As in the pre-
vious weeks, the haftorah is
not related with the Torah
portion, which is Tazriah,
a Hebrew term that refers
to childbirth alluding to the
rules for purification after
giving birth which begin the
portion.
Nevertheless, a common theme arises
between the portion of Tazriah and the
haftorah of Hachodesh and its supple-
mentary maftir Torah reading. Shabbat
Hachodesh too is about
birthing in this case, the
birthing of a new nation, the
people of Israel. The maftir
contains the first command-
ment given to the Jewish
people on the eve of the
Exodus from Egypt: This
month shall be unto you the
beginning of months; it shall
be the first month of the
year to you (Exodus 12:2).
Tazriah prescribes that a
mother who has given birth
undergo a period of spiritual
and physical cleansing. When
completed, she may once
again be able to participate in sacred rituals.
In much the same way, the people of
Israel underwent a period of purifica-
tion from its birthing, the Exodus, before
reaching the Promised Land: a removal
of the idolatrous habits of Egypt to
enable them to build a just society and
to reach to the commandments in a state
of purity, which allows them to be in the
presence of God as truly free individuals.
The Haggadah states that in every
generation we must see ourselves as if
we are leaving Egypt. Let us take the
lessons of this Shabbat to start our own
path of inner purification towards a free
and happy life. Let us get rid from the
impurities of hatred, envy, selfishness,
grudge holding, and start a new period
of love, forgiveness, and loving kindness.
In this new month, let us each leave the
Egypts that are holding us back from
fulfilling the purpose of creation: to enjoy
life and become partners with God in rec-
reating His creation for the beginning. As
we wish each other a happy and kosher
Pesach, this Shabbat of new birthings
and new beginnings should also mark
the starting point for all of us to become
kosher individuals, laboring with a free
Jewish spirit for a better world every day.
Rabbi
Alberto
Baruch
Zeilicovich
Temple Beth
Sholom, Fair Lawn,
Conservative
Dvar Torah
Shabbat
Hachodesh too
is about birthing
in this case,
the birthing of
a new nation,
the people
of Israel.
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Crossword BY DAVID BENKOF
Across
1. Suffixes for Zion and Yiddish
5. Downbeat Hebrew song Zemer Nugeh (___
Melody)
9. Like the rainbow of Genesis chapter 9
14. Perform the mitzvah of shiluach haken with
a mother bird before taking her eggs
15. Ivy League university with Hebrew in its logo
16. ___ offering (Temple terumah sacrifice)
17. Physics Nobelist known for his theory of
superfluidity
19. One kind of Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
employee
20. Deal-___ (diet promoted by Richard
Simmons)
21. Stand-up comic Andrew ___ Clay
23. ___ Speak! (Memorable Dianne Wiest line
in Woody Allens Bullets Over Broadway)
24. ___ Foundation (supporter of the art of
mime)
26. Irgun initials
28. ___ center of the world (location of the Holy
of Holies, traditionally)
30. Spark ___ (2012 Matisyahu album)
33. Constitutional law expert Sunstein
36. ___ Flux (2005 with black Jewish actress
Sophie Okonedo)
38. Policy area coordinated by the Obama
Administrations Michael B. Froman
39. Gloria Allred, e.g.
40. Polish Talmudist of the 16th century
42. Dir. followed when going from Netanya to
Haifa
43. Figure out a Hebrew verbs root and binyan,
for exmple
45. Molly Picon was a Yiddish one
46. Sidelock worn by many Hasidim
47. ___ Tovah! (Tishre greetings)
49. Kind of campaign the ADL concerns itself
with
51. Bud of baseball
53. Expresses the Kabbalistic concept of con-
stant devekut to God
57. Imas partner
59. Pioneering Jewish historian Isaak Markus
61. Davalos of the Holocaust film Defiance
62. Smells like herring
64. Former Israeli prime minister with a masters
degree from Stanford
66. Yarmulke alternative
67. Late winter Torah portion
68. The Golem, e.g.
69. Billy Joels ___ Young Man
70. Jerusalem Ulpan Beit ___ (House of the
People)
71. Some experts at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in
St. Louis
Down
1. Anthony Weiners wifes religion
2. It starts with Deuteronomy 6:4
3. Prime ___ (God, according to Maimonides)
4. Shiva sentiments
5. The Fountainhead novelist Rand
6. Sect described by Josephus
7. Jai ___ (sport with many Jewish spectators
in Florida)
8. ___ Bigalow (Rob Schneider character)
9. Boarding school in N. Carolina
10. Source of a rare kosher delicacy
11. Academy Award nominee for Hester Street
12. When a man divorced his first wife, ___ the
altar sheds tears (Talmudic quotation)
13. Treasury ___ (Jack Lews agy.)
18. Dr. Who actress Kingston who discovered
her Jewish heritage just a few years ago
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Noah and the Jews
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
I
t is easy to think back to a time, not
too long ago, when filmmakers,
especially Jewish ones, shied away
from a discussion of anything Jew-
ish that might be apparent in their work.
And so it was a special moment when I
joined seven rabbis at a special screen-
ing of Noah in New York two weeks ago.
The rabbis represented several Jewish
organizations and a few Manhattan syna-
gogues, and the group was invited not only
to screen Noah but to chat with direc-
tor Darren Aronofsky and co-writer Ari
Handel afterward.
Such opportunities are singular, as
most directors who tackle Jewish or bib-
lical themes rarely open themselves up
to questioning or even encourage discus-
sion of their work with Jewish authorities.
This was different. It seemed that both Mr.
Aronofsky and Mr. Handel had seen their
creation of Noah as an exercise in Jew-
ish learning, a process that began years
ago when a teenaged Mr. Aronofsky wrote
a poem about Noah for a class assignment.
My first contact with the film project
began a year ago, when I was invited to
Brooklyn, along with a handful of Jewish
educators, to begin a conversation with
the filmmakers about their story and to
visit the set, a magnificent four-story recre-
ation in a Williamsburg armory, of Noahs
Ark, envisioned and built by Mark Fried-
berg. (Mr. Friedberg, kvelling, joined us
for the Manhattan screening.) Mr. Aronof-
sky had called us in to get feedback on
his interpretation of the Noah story. He
explained that he and Mr. Handel had
done extensive text study, culling from a
variety of Jewish sources, including the
Zohar. Now, a year later, he assembled
this interdenominational group of rabbis
to screen the movie and provide feedback.
Their response was quite positive. The rab-
bis questioned the writers on a variety of
issues and story points, asking how they
had come up with their interpretations
of text. They were pleased to note that
these readings of the fixed Genesis text
had some basis. Mr. Aronofsky was happy
to refer to the film as his and Mr. Handels
midrash on the Noah story.
Jewish tradition has a long history of
encouraging interpretation of the pshat,
the literal text. Mr. Aronofsky and Mr.
Handel have done so, drawing from a rich
mix of rabbinic literature. In contrast, some
Christian and Muslim scholars and clergy
have had trouble with the film, because it
changes the Noah storys fixed literal read-
ing. Because of this initial reaction, Para-
mount, the films distributor, has chosen
to alter its advertising, now saying that the
film was inspired by the Bible story.
Mr. Aronofsky was proud to describe
his Jewish upbringing and share with us
how important it was for him to make
this motion picture. As a youth, he had
planned to backpack across Europe,
beginning in Israel, where he volunteered
on a kibbutz. His expectations for help-
ing Israeli agriculture were dashed when
he found himself on an assembly line at
the kibbutzs plastic factory. In an online
interview on his website, aronofsky.net, he
noted, So I ran away after two days. And
if you have no money and youre walking
around the Western Wall in Jerusalem with
a backpack, you get brought into religious
sects that introduce you to mysticism, that
show you the beauty and magic of religion,
to bring you back into the fold.
Mr. Aronofsky was affected by that
experience and it found its way into his
first narrative film. Text, interpretation,
and choice of words are important ingre-
dients in that film, Pi, made in 1998, a
movie that would garner the young direc-
tor a variety of awards and national atten-
tion. The film was about Max, a numbers
theorist, who begins to make stock calcu-
lations based on his computers sugges-
tions. He and his mentor, Sol, struggle with
issues of mathematical logic, which only
gets more complicated when Lenny intro-
duces new questions related to gematria (a
form of mystical mathematics that involves
assigning numeric values to Hebrew let-
ters). After Pi, Aronofsky made a series
of strong, not always popular films, which
included Requiem for a Dream and The
Fountain. Most recently, he directed the
highly acclaimed The Wrestler and The
Black Swan. Noah marked a return to
struggling with Jewish text.
Noah spends a great deal of time devel-
oping the character of the man who was
chosen by the Creator to live through the
catastrophic flood. Noah was righteous
for his time, but as most commentators
agree, he was an ordinary man in extraor-
dinary times. Russell Crowe is excellent
as Noah; he and Jennifer Connelly, as his
wife, Naama, bring us a sense of a real
couple struggling with intense difficulties.
Anthony Hopkins, as always, is strong in
his role as the sage Methuselah. But the
real star of Noah is Emma Watson, who
as Ila shows a broad swath of emotion as
Russell Crowe plays the title character in the biblical film epic Noah.
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Friday
MARCH 28
Shabbat celebration:
Shaar Communities
hosts Friday Night
Live!, featuring music-
filled services and
dinner, 6:30 p.m.
Location information,
JoAnne, (201) 213-
9569 or joanne@
shaarcommunities.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
offers Carlebach-style
davening, 7 p.m. 70
Sterling Place. (201) 833-
0515 or www.jcot.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El invites
the community to join
them for a Shabbat
Unplugged Band Service
at 7:30 pm. Service is led
by Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman.
Temple Beth El is at 221
Schraalenburgh Rd.,
Closter. 201 768-5112.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds Girl Scout Shabbat,
open to Girl Scouts of all
faiths and ages, 8 p.m.
Participants should wear
their vests or sashes to
earn a GS Shabbat patch.
585 Russell Ave. (201)
891-4466, bethrishon.org,
or jewishgsnnj@yahoo.
com.
Saturday
MARCH 29
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck offers services
at 9 a.m.; then Rabbi
Lawrence Zierler asks
How Do We Feel About
Our Most Notable Nones
(Jews with no religious
affiliation), 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 Fort Lee:
Congregation Gesher
Shalom/JCC of Fort Lee
offers tot Shabbat led
by Roberta Seltzer, with
songs, props, stories, and
a giant siddur, and family
services led by education
director Cory Chargo, 11
a.m. 1449 Anderson Ave.
(201) 947-1735.
Book program in
Teaneck: As part of
Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jerseys
One Book One
Community program,
Professor Ronnie Perelis
discusses Marranos
in Search of Identity:
How One Crypto Jew
Discovered His Heritage,
at Congregation Shaarei
Orah, 5:30 p.m. Dr. Perelis
is assistant professor
of Sephardic studies
at the Bernard Revel
Graduate School of
Jewish Studies at Yeshiva
University. Followed by
Mincha and light pareve
seudah shlishit. 1425
Essex Road. (201) 833-
0800 or marketing@
sephardicteaneck.org.
Sunday
MARCH 30
Finding inner peace:
Womens League for
Conservative Judaisms
Garden State region
focuses on finding inner
peace at its annual
regional spring program,
at Congregation Ahavat
Olam in Howell, 9:30
a.m. Keynote speaker Dr.
Alison Block discusses
Anxiety: Whats Normal,
Whats Not, and What to
Do About It. (201) 341-
3065 or Carla.buchalter@
gmail.com.
Passover cooking:
The Glen Rock Jewish
Center hosts a womens
community Passover
cooking event with
cooking demos, recipe
sharing, and tastings,
10 a.m. 682 Harristown
Road. (201) 652-6624 or
ferngold@gmail.com.
Preschool program in
Woodcliff Lake: Temple
Emanuel of the Pascack
Valley holds Club Katan
for children who will
begin kindergarten in
September 2014, 10:15
a.m. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801, ext. 12.
Childrens program in
Wayne: Kids in Action,
for 6- to-12-year-olds,
meets at the Chabad
Center of Passaic County
for a program on the five
senses, 1 p.m. There will
also be a model matzoh
bakery and a chance to
make Pesach baskets for
the needy. 194 Razter
Road. (973) 694-6274 or
Chanig@optonline.net.
Bowling: The Friendship
Circle of Passaic County
offers a bowling league
for special needs children
at Holiday Bowl, 29
Spruce St., Oakland,
noon, and also at Van
Houten Lanes, 564 Van
Houten Ave., Clifton,
1:45 p.m. Volunteers will
be on hand to help. $5.
564 Van Houten Ave.
(973) 694-6274 or www.
FCPassaicCounty.com.
Chocolate seder in
Hackensack: Temple
Beth El hosts a chocolate
seder, 2 p.m. 280 Summit
Ave. Reservations, (201)
342-2045 or www.
templebethelhackensack
@gmail.com.
Israeli film festival: The
Northern New Jersey
continues its Israel Film
and Cultural Festival at
the Teaneck Cinemas
with a screening of
The Attack, 6:30 p.m.,
followed by a discussion
with author/intelligence
expert Avi Melamed. 503
Cedar Lane. (201) 820-
3909 or www.jfnnj.org/
filmfestival.
Dr. Richard
Freund
Exodus from Egypt
discussed: Rabbi/
archaeologist/author Dr.
Richard Freund asks Did
the Exodus Really
Happen? New Insights
From Archaeology, at
Temple Beth Sholom, Fair
Lawn, 7 p.m. He is
director of Judaic studies
and history professor at
the University of
Hartford. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (201) 797-
9321, ext. 415, or
AdultEd@tbsfl.org.
Monday
MARCH 31
Senior program in
Wayne: The Chabad
Center of Passaic County
continues Smile on
Seniors group with a
pre-Passover program
at the center, 11:30 a.m.
Light brunch. $5. 194
Ratzer Road. (973)
694-6274 or Chanig@
optonline.net.
Northern New Jersey
and Cultural Festival
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly
with a screening of
The Wonders, 8 p.m.,
followed by a discussion
with actor/comedian Adir
Miller. 411 E. Clinton Ave.
(201) 820-3909 or www.
jfnnj.org/filmfestival.
Tuesday
APRIL 1
Peace discussion in
Wayne: Mort Segal
discusses The Rise and
Falls of the Catskills
and the Comedians that
Made It Famous for the
Senior Daytime series
at Temple Beth Tikvah, 1
p.m. Coffee, tea, snacks.
950 Preakness Ave.
(973) 595-6565 or www.
templebethtikvahnj.org.
Childrens bedtime
stories in Oakland:
The Little Academies at
GBDS (Gerrard Berman
Day School), Solomon
Schechter of North
Jersey, offer Laila Tov
Yeladim! Good Night
Children! (Hebrew
bedtime story hour), for
3- to 5-year-olds, with
springtime stories and
crafts, 6:30 p.m. Wear
pajamas. 45 Spruce St.
(201) 337-1111 or gbds@
ssnj.org.
Northern New Jersey
at Fairleigh Dickinson
University in Hackensack
with a screening of
Before the Revolution,
7:30 p.m., followed by a
discussion with author/
intelligence expert Avi
Melamed. 140 University
Plaza Drive. (201) 820-
filmfestival.
History of the Jews: PBS
continues a series, The
Story of the Jews, with
Simon Schama, 8-11 p.m.,
Guitar legend Larry Coryell and guitarist
Bernie Williams who is also a former
Yankee and a four-time World Series
champion share the stage at the
Thurnauer School of Music at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades 30th anniversary Gift of Music
concert. Proceeds from the performance, Wednesday,
April 9, at 7:30 p.m., benefit scholarships to support the
musical education of children with financial needs. The
concert, hosted by Rhonda Hamilton of WBGO/Jazz
88.3 FM, will honor Eva Holzer with the Gift of Music
Visionary award and David Handler with the Thurnauer
Distinguished Alumni award. Mrs. Holzer and her late
husband, Erich, have a tradition of philanthropy in
the arts and the community and maintained a long
and generous relationship with the music school. Mr.
Handler, one of Thurnauers first students and alumni, is
a composer, violinist, and founder of Le Poisson Rouge.
He has a history of dedication to the school. (201) 408-
1465 or www.jccotp.org.
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offering a look at 3,000
years of Jewish history
and the impact the Jews
have made on the world.
Wednesday
APRIL 2
Caregiver support in
Rockleigh: A support
group for those caring
for the physically
frail or suffering from
Alzheimers disease
meets at the Gallen Adult
Day Health Care Center
at the Jewish Home at
Rockleigh, 10-11:30 a.m.
Topics include long term
care options, financial
planning, legal concerns,
and the personal
toll of caregiving.
Amy Matthews of
the Alzheimers
Association will discuss
Understanding
Alzheimers: A Young
Persons Perspective.
Shelley Steiner, (201)
784-1414, ext. 5340.
Film in Closter: Temple
Beth El screens the
documentary Paper
Clips, 10 a.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
Coffee and dessert. (201)
768-5112 or www.tbenv.
org.
Caregivers support in
Wayne: Jewish Family
Service of North Jersey,
the Sam and Nina Wolf
Caregiver Support
Center, and Arden Courts
of Wayne offers a two-
part panel discussion,
Helping You Help Them.
Part one, Understanding
Dementia: A Primer for
Caregivers, is at the
Wayne Public Library, 6
p.m. Speakers include Dr.
Gamil Makar, geriatrician;
Laura Hawkins,
Alzheimers Association,
and Melanie Lester,
JFSNJ social worker.
Series continues April 23.
461 Valley Road. (973)
595-0111 or mlester@
jfsnorthjersey.org.
Northern New Jersey
at the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington
Township with a
screening of Zaytoun,
7:30 p.m., followed by a
discussion with Shlomi
Avni, former Israeli Navy
SEAL and founder of
Nirim Foundation. 605
Pascack Road. (201) 820-
filmfestival.
Northern New Jersey
and Cultural Festival at
the United Synagogue
of Hoboken/Moishe
House with a screening
of Under the Same
Sun, 8 p.m., followed
by a discussion with
Liran Kapoano, director
of JFNNJs Center for
Israel Engagement. 115
Park Ave. (201) 820-
filmfestival.
Thursday
APRIL 3
Community book event
in Ridgewood: Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey hosts the
culuminating event
of its year-long One
Book, One Community
program, at Temple Israel
& JCC, 7 p.m. Author
will discuss his book,
this years selection, By
Fire, By Water. Dessert.
Nancy Perlman, (201)
820-3904 or www.jfnnj.
org/OneBook.
Talking about Peru
and Jews in Fair Lawn:
The Jersey Hills section
of National Council of
Jewish Women meets
at Temple Beth Shalom,
7:30 p.m. Lester Kellem,
a local resident and
a frequent volunteer
to Peru, is the guest
speaker. Handmade
Peruvian items displayed.
Refreshments. 40-25
Fair Lawn Ave. Lori, (201)
796-0463.
Intimate relations: Rabbi
Ronald Roth of the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center/
Congregation Bnai Israel
concludes a four-part
series on Jewish values
and intimate relations
with Same Sex Marriage
Its legal in New Jersey
and many other states.
What does Conservative
Judaism say? 8 p.m. 10-
10 Norma Ave. (201) 796-
5040 or www.fljc.com.
Friday
APRIL 4
Shabbat in Closter:
Rabbi David S. Widzer
and Cantor Rica Timman
lead informal tot Shabbat
with songs, stories, and
crafts with a Passover
theme, 5:15 p.m., followed
by an optional Chinese
dinner at 5:45, and family
friendly service at 6:45.
221 Schraalenburgh
Road. (201) 768-5112.
Shabbat in River Edge:
Temple Avodat Shalom
offers tot Shabbat, 6
p.m.; Shabbat dinner at
6:30; and family services
and an alternative
service, both at 7:30.
385 Howland Ave.
Reservations, (201)
489-2463, ext. 202, or
avodatshalom.net.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valley
holds a service for young
families, 6:45 p.m. 87
Overlook Drive. (201)
391-0801.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel & Jewish
Community Center holds
a participatory family
service with singing and
stories led by Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg and
the shuls associate rabbi
and educational director,
Rabbi Sharon Litwin, 7
p.m. Oneg Shabbat. 475
Grove St. (201) 444-9320
or www.synagogue.org.
Dr. Jack
Wertheimer
Shabbat in Closter: Dr.
Jack Wertheimer, the
scholar-in-residence
at Temple Emanu-El,
discusses issues facing
the Jewish community
and religious education
post-World War II. He will
speak at services tonight
at 7, and during Shabbat
morning services at 9. He
is the Joseph and Martha
Mendelson Professor of
American Jewish history
at the Jewish Theological
Seminary. 180 Piermont
Road. (201) 750-9997 or
www.templeemanu-el.
com.
Josh Nelson
Shabbat in Tenafly:
Singer Josh Nelson
joins the Temple Sinai
Rock Band with his
musical style of rock,
jazz, and world music
during services, 7:30.
1 Engle St. (201) 568-
3035 or cantornitza@
templesinaibc.org
Saturday
APRIL 5
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
Passover Family Fun for
2- to 5-year-olds and
parents/grandparents,
with music, stories,
dance, and crafts, 9:30
a.m. 1666 Windsor Road.
(201)833-8466.
Northern New Jersey
at Barnert Temple in
Franklin Lakes with a
screening of Under
the Same Sun, 8:15
p.m., followed by a
discussion with Susan
Koscis, director of special
projects of Search for
Common Ground. 747
Route 208 South. (201)
820-3909 or www.jfnnj.
org/filmfestival.
Sunday
APRIL 6
War veterans meet
in Hackensack: The
Teaneck/New Milford
Post #498 Jewish War
Veterans meets for
breakfast at the Coach
House Diner, 9 a.m.
Prospective members
welcome. Route 4 East.
Past Commander Stan
Hoffman, (201) 836-0814.
In New York
Sunday
MARCH 30
Family concert: The
Jewish Museum presents
the 2013 Grammy Award-
nominated Pop Ups
performing songs from
its soon to be released
album, Appetite for
Construction, 11:30 a.m.
1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd
Street. (212) 423-3337 or
TheJewishMuseum.org.
Passover in words and
music: Bergen County
author Anna Olswanger
and lyricist Clay Zambo
are at the Bank Street
Bookstore, 3 p.m.
Olswanger is the author
of the childrens book
Shlemiel Crooks, and
Zambo wrote the lyrics
for Shlemiel Crooks A
Musical. The musical
version of the book will
be performed next week
at Merkin Concert Hall.
Two tickets raffled at
the store. Corner of W.
112th Street & Broadway.
(212) 678-1654 or www.
bankstreetbooks.com.
Singles
Sunday
MARCH 30
Laser tag: West of the
Hudson, the young
professionals groups
affiliated with the Jewish
Center of Teaneck is
going to laser tag at
Bridgewater Sports
Arena in Bridgewater.
$30 includes four rounds
and snacks. Sign up
by March 26 at www.
eventbrite.com/e/laser-
tag-tickets-10583530625,
or email west.huds@
gmail.com.
Sunday
APRIL 6
Senior singles meet in
West Nyack: Singles
65+ meet for a social
event with music of
the 1940s/1950s led by
Jeff Scherer, at the JCC
Rockland, 10:30 a.m. 450
West Nyack Road. $5.
Gene Arkin, (845) 356-
5525.
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ hosts
a lunch and mingle and a
concert by professional
guitarist Barry Ottenstein
at Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12: 45 p.m.
Rescheduled from March.
$10. 20 Academy Road.
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
Cycle for a Cause June 15
This year, the Jewish Family Service of Bergens Meals on Wheels program and its
food pantry will feature 25- and 50-mile rides for advanced cyclists and 10- and
3-mile routes for less experienced riders. There is also a 5-mile walk. All four non-
competitive rides and the walk will start and finish at the Jewish Home in Rockleigh.
A rest stop sponsored by the Tenafly Bicycle Workshop will be available along the
cycling route. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, along with a chance to win a
Sharp AQUOS 60 LED Smart TV with Quattron technology.
To register, go to www.RidetoFightHunger.org or call (201) 837-9090.
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Holocaust photographic portfolios
will go on display in Tenafly
Letter to My Children
photographs by Debbie
Teicholz Guedalia will
be on display through
April 28 at the Waltuch
Gallery at the Kaplen
JCC on the Palisades in
Tenafly. An artist recep-
tion will be held Thurs-
day, April 3, from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m.
Ms. Teicholz Guedalia has been creat-
ing photographic portfolios about the
importance of preserving and remem-
bering the Holocaust for more than 30
years. She has exhibited internationally,
and has photographs in the permanent
collections in many museums includ-
ing the Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in Manhattan, Skir-
ball in Los Angeles, the Florida Holo-
caust Museum, and Yad Vashem in Israel.
The exhibition will feature framed
original images from her book, Letter
to My Children, which pairs poetic text
and photographs that trace her journey
to Poland in 2010. Call (201) 408-1426 or
go to www.jccotp.org.
OU and partners to continue series
with Haggadah lectures for seniors
The Orthodox Unions Department of
Community Engagements SPIRIT Ini-
tiative Stimulating Program Initiative
for Retirees that Inspires Thought
continues a Passover-themed learning
program for seniors at Congregation
Keter Torah in Teaneck. The series
focuses on enhancing the educational
opportunities of the Jewish retirement
community. The lectures, presented
by Rabbi Dovid Fohrman and facili-
tated by Rivke Pianko, will present an
innovative and exciting approach to
the Haggadah.
The program at the synagogue, 600
Roemer Ave., Teaneck, will be on two
Mondays, March 31 and April 7. Registra-
tion will be at 7 p.m., lecture at 7:30.
To register online go to www.oucommu-
nity.org, or call (212) 613-8300. For ques-
tions on the program, email community@
ou.org.
Rabbi Dovid
Fohrman
Rivke Pianko
Raising helpful and respectful children
The Orthodox Unions Department of Com-
munity Engagement, Challahcrumbs.com,
and Parentingsimply.com will present a
lunch-break parenting webinar, Pesach:
How to Raise Helpful and Respectful Chil-
dren, on Wednesday, April 2, at noon. The
program is part of a series of pre-holiday
sessions directed at young parents.
According to Hannah Farkas, the com-
munity engagement projects program
manager and the websites coordinator,
This program will provide tools for par-
ents to relay proper middot (manners and
morals) to their children, important skills
for all children to learn just in time for the
holidays.
Register online at www.oucommunity.
org or call (212) 613-8300 for the free pro-
gram. For questions email Farkas at han-
nahf@ou.org.
Jeff Dunham tickets
on sale at bergenPAC
The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood
presents Jeff Dunham, who bills himself as Ameri-
cas top #1 ventriloquist and stand-up comedian, on
Thursday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available
at www.ticketmaster.com, at www.bergenpac.org, or
at the box office, (201) 227 1030.
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Super Storm Sandy rebuilding
Bonim Builders of Jewish Federation of
North Jersey is partnering with Rebuild-
ing Together Bergen County to restore
sheds at the Moonachie EMS. This facil-
ity and its surrounding neighborhood
was affected by Super Storm Sandy. Vol-
unteers, 16 and older, will help frame the
shed structure including measuring and
cutting lumber and nailing it into place.
Framing experience is a plus. Two shifts
are available: 8:30 a.m. to noon and/or
noon to 4 p.m.
Water and kosher snacks will be pro-
vided along with materials, supplies,
and tools. Volunteers can also bring their
own tools. Dress for a mess; closed-toed
shoes are required.
Register in advance by emailing Stacey
Orden at staceyo@jfnnj.org or by calling
(201) 820-3903.
April 5 shiur in Teaneck
Congregation Rinat Yisrael in
Teaneck will host a shiur with
Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, Reflec-
tions on the Past, the Future, and
Pesach, on Saturday, April 5 at
5:50 p.m. The speech by Rabbi
Schacter, a professor at Yeshiva
University, is in commemoration
of the first yahrzeit of his father,
Rabbi Herschel Schacter zl, who
as a chaplain in the U.S. Army VIII
Corps was among the first to par-
ticipate in the liberation of Buchen-
wald and later served as a former
chairman of the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major Jewish Organizations.
The shul is at 389 West Englewood
Ave. Call (201) 837-2795.
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HILLEL KUTTLER
BALTIMORE In the biblical tradition of
lingering in the desert en route to the Prom-
ised Land, major league baseball teams are
packing up and embarking on their exodus
from Arizona (and Florida) spring training
sites to begin the new season.
Rosters wont be finalized until this
weekend, but 10 Jewish players are likely to
make the journey, led by Moses and Aaron
er, Ian Kinsler and Ryan Braun. A Jewish
perennial, Kevin Youkilis, late of the New
York Yankees, signed with Japans Tohoku
Rakuten Golden Eagles for this season.
Filling out the Jewish roster are mostly
middle-of-the-road role players without
any up-and-comers at the major league
level. The World Series champion Boston
Red Sox and the expected also-ran New
York Mets each feature two Jewish players,
and the Detroit Tigers have one player (and
maybe a second later in the season) along
with new manager Brad Ausmus, who
guided the Israeli teams World Baseball
Classic entry in 2012.
At the risk of seeming too sunny, its a
terrific group, Howard Megdal, author
of The Baseball Talmud and a writer for
MLB.coms Sports on Earth, said, though
the subsequent demotion of three players
who had played in the majors in 2013 dark-
ened his rosy outlook.
While no one beside Kinsler and Braun,
who returns to the field after sitting out
the last 65 games of last season for violat-
ing MLBs drug program, projects as an all-
star, the group is impressive academically,
at least.
Ryan Lavarnway and Craig Breslow of
the Red Sox went to Yale; Sam Fuld of the
Oakland Athletics was at Stanford; and the
Mets Josh Satin went to Berkeley. (The
tribes GPA dropped when Athletics first
baseman Nate Freiman, a Duke alumnus,
and Houston Astros pitcher Josh Zeid, from
Vanderbilt and Tulane, were optioned to
the minors on Monday. Two days earlier,
Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar
went south, too.)
Then theres Ausmus, a Dartmouth grad-
uate who is making his managerial debut
with one of several teams he played for
during a distinguished catching career.
The reinforcements are promising. After
bringing Joc Pederson to Australia, where
they swept the Arizona Diamondbacks last
weekend in two season-opening games, the
Los Angeles Dodgers sent the outfielder to
AAA Albuquerque (the desert again); he
is considered a future star. Left-handed
pitcher Max Fried, the seventh overall draft
pick two years ago, is moving up the San
Diego Padres system, while another south-
paw, Rob Kaminsky, was the St. Louis Car-
dinals first-round selection last year.
If the trio can scale base-
balls Mount Sinai, they would
join the current Chosen Ones
there:
Ian Kinsler, Detroit Tigers,
second base, ninth season.
The off-season saw a block-
buster trade sending Kinsler to
Motown from the Texas Rang-
ers for slugging first baseman
Prince Fielder. Over the
past six seasons, Kinsler
has averaged 150 hits, 20
home runs and 23 stolen
bases. He has played in
three All-Star Games and
is a proven clutch player,
helping the Rangers to
their only World Series
appearances (in 2010 and 2011) and batting
.311 in the postseason.
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers, out-
fielder, eighth season. Returning from
suspension, few in baseball are in greater
need of a high on-field profile and a low
one off it. The Hebrew Hammer can
expect to face the ire of fans away from
Milwaukee for passing the buck regarding
his use of steroids. He isnt likely to address
the matter, so Brauns bat will have to do
the talking. Steroids enabled or not, Braun
did win Rookie of the Year (2007) and Most
Valuable Player (2011) honors, and he is a
five-time All-Star.
Scott Feldman, Houston Astros, start-
ing pitcher, 10th season. Feldman signed
a $30 million, three-year contract with the
Astros last winter, bringing him back to the
Lone Star State. Thats where the righty
spent his first eight big league seasons as
a member of the Rangers, producing a
career-best 17-8 record in 2009. Feldman
went 12-12 last year for the Chicago Cubs
and Baltimore Orioles.
Danny Valencia, Kansas City Royals,
third base/designated hitter, fifth season.
Valencia, playing last season for the Ori-
oles, provided an able bat nearly half
his hits went for extra bases on the way
to a .304 batting average especially
during the teams ultimately unsuccess-
ful playoff drive. After returning from the
minor leagues, Valencia contributed pri-
marily as a DH against left-handed pitchers.
Playing for the Minnesota Twins in 2011, he
cranked out 15 homers and knocked in 72
runs, by far his career highs.
Craig Breslow, Boston Red Sox, relief
pitcher, ninth season. The veteran south-
paw appeared in three World Series games
for the Sox, who dispatched the St. Louis
Cardinals in six, but didnt fare especially
well after throwing a total of seven score-
less innings in as many appearances in the
two previous playoff series. Breslow, a lefty
specialist, appeared in 61 games last sea-
son and finished with a strong 1.81 ERA.
Ryan Lavarnway, Boston Red Sox,
catcher, fourth season. Lavarnway was left
off the postseason roster despite batting
.299 in limited action during a regular sea-
son marked by several shuttles to AAA Paw-
tucket. Not that 2013 wasnt noteworthy for
Lavarnway, since in the first inning of an
August 6 game in Houston he was charged
with four passed balls, tying a dubi-
ous major league record. That was
hardly indicative of his backstop-
ping ability, since the hurler was a
knuckleballer, but the Red Sox nev-
ertheless are trying out Lavarnway
at first base this spring.
Ike Davis, New York Mets, first
baseman, fifth season. While
always a smooth fielder, Davis is
a half-full/half-empty kind of hit-
ter, challenging for the Rookie of
the Year in 2010 and hitting .302
in an injury-shortened sophomore
season, only to fall to .227 his third
year despite bopping 32 homers.
Last season, he even was exiled
for a while to AAA Las Vegas (yes,
desert) to straighten out his swing,
but that merely meant finishing at
.205. Notwithstanding off-season
trade rumors, Davis is back with
the Mets and is in a three-way bat-
tle for the starters job.
Josh Satin, New York Mets,
infielder, fourth season. In his first
lengthy taste of the majors, Satin
in 2013 appeared in 75 games (after
just 16 games played his first two
seasons) and batted .279 with 15
doubles while playing mostly first
and third base. Satin, Davis, and
another candidate, Lucas Duda,
have failed to seize the spot, but as
the lone right-handed batter, Satin
could at least play against lefties.
Sam Fuld, Oakland Athletics,
outfielder, seventh season. Fuld
was a valuable backup outfielder
while playing the past three sea-
sons for the Tampa Bay Rays.
Allowed to leave as a free agent, the lefty
swinger was acquired by the As innovative
general manager Billy Beane of Money-
ball fame.
Jason Marquis, San Diego Padres, pitcher,
15th season. Marquis will be pitching for
his eighth club, including five in the last
six seasons. The righty showed promise
early in his career, averaging 13 wins over a
six-season span, but injuries and age have
taken a toll. Still, the nine wins in 2013
were his most since 2009, and his 4.05
earned run average was among his better
efforts.
Brad Ausmus, Detroit Tigers, manager,
first season. Ausmus finished his playing
career with the Dodgers, moved on to the
front office of the Padres, leading to his
managing Israels WBC squad and on to
the job in Detroit. One of his WBC charges,
Ben Guez, is hoping to join Ausmus in
The Show.
In a few weeks, perhaps a promotion
could be his afikomen present.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Clockwise from above, Scott Feldman of the Hous-
ton Astros JAMES MCCOUGHAN. Ian Kinsler of the Detroit
Tigers DETROIT TIGERS. Brad Ausmus, manager of the De-
troit Tigers DETROIT TIGERS. Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee
Brewers SCOTT PAULUS/MILWAUKEE BREWERS.
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Eleanor Augenblick
Eleanor Augenblick, ne Schall, 88,
of Somerset died on March 21.
Born in Manhattan, she was pre-
deceased in January by her husband
of 65 years, Milton. She is survived
by her daughters, Barbara (Ethan
Brook) of Cliffside Park, Andrea of
Hackensack, and Meryl Finkelstein
(Robert) of Warren; a sister, Marie
Van Cura, and three grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to the
Alzheimers Foundation or to the
Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick
Care Center, Somerset. Arrange-
ments were by Gutterman and
Musicant Jewish Funeral Directors,
Hackensack.
Marian Baer
Marian I. Baer, ne Levey, 78, of
Paramus died on March 12.
A graduate of Hunter College
in New York City, she was a sci-
ence teacher for 25 years at Public
School 119 in the Bronx, receiving
many awards including the New
York City Teachers Alliance Award
as best teacher in the Bronx. After-
ward, she was a docent and volun-
teer at the Bergen County Van Saun
Zoo in Paramus for 20 years. She
was a member of the Jewish Com-
munity Center of Paramus for 45
years and the Paramus League of
Women Voters.
She is survived by her husband
of 57 years, Allen, children, Herb
(Holly) of Mahwah, Barbara Bober
(Paul) of San Diego, Calif., and
Lauren Lewis (Marc) of Woodcliff
Lake; a brother, Jerry Levey of
West Hartford, Conn., and nine
grandchildren.
Donations can be sent to the
Friends of The Bergen County Zoo,
Paramus. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Reza Landman
Reza Leah Landman, 83, of Berke-
ley, Calif., formerly of Paterson, died
on March 15. Arrangements were by
Louis Suburban Chapel, Fair Lawn.
Anne Esther Lefkowitz
Anne Esther Lefkowitz, ne Roth-
man, of Franklin Lakes, formerly of
Bergenfield, died on March 23.
Born in New York City, she was a
homemaker.
Predeceased by her husband,
Emanuel, she is survived by her chil-
dren, Florence Moffatt of Franklin
Lakes, and Paul (Gail) of Tenafly;
four grandchildren, and eight
great-grandchildren.
Contributions can be sent to Tem-
ple Sinai of Bergen County, Tenafly.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
and Musicant Jewish Funeral Direc-
tors, Hackensack.
Natalie Minoff
Natalie Minoff, ne Lew, 102, of Fort
Lee, died on March 24.
Born in Poland, she and her hus-
band, owned Skyland Antiques of
Paterson and Demarest. She was an
active member of the New Syna-
gogue of Fort Lee where she taught
Yiddish for 20 years and was a mem-
ber of Hadassah and the Kaplen JCC
on the Palisades in Tenafly.
Predeceased by her husband,
David, she is survived by daughters,
Deborah Kaufman of Fort Lee and
Ann of Edgewater; a sister, Doris
Sacks of New York; three grandchil-
dren; seven great-grandchildren,
and one great-great grandchild.
Arrangements were by Eden
Memorial Chapels, Fort Lee.
Keith Springer
Keith R. Springer, 64, of New Mil-
ford, died on March 22.
Born in Brooklyn, he was a profes-
sor at the N.Y. College of Podiatric
Medicine and had a podiatry prac-
tice in New York City for over 30
years. He was a member of the JCC
Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah.
Predeceased by his father, Alfred,
he is survived by his wife of 29 years,
Susan, ne Steenrod; his mother,
Beckie; children, Justine and Jordan,
and a brother, Stuart.
Contributions can be sent to the
John Theurer Cancer Center at Hack-
ensack University Medical Center.
Arrangements were by Gutterman
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the late addition to the family. The film had a $150 mil-
lion budget, and it seems that little expense was spared.
I can attest that the moviemakers did their very best to
make this story look as real as they could. They did an
awesome job of giving us their interpretation of what
happened in those four short chapters in Breishit- the
Book of Genesis.
Mr. Aronofsky chose to pull together a variety of
stories in this epic film to best position it for popular
consumption. There are the love stories, there are bat-
tles waged between the forces for evil and goodness,
there are the sacrifices made to save the future, and
there even are Watchers, Transformer-like characters
who aid Noah in fulfilling his mission. There is even a
moment when we see an Abraham story element intro-
duced. Mr. Aronofsky was quick to say he inserted it as
a way to characterize God that he is going to wipe out
humanity his creation. We were trying to put that in
human terms. There are enough moral questions and
theological issues detailed onscreen to allow for great
post-viewing discussions and Bible study. We even are
treated to a refresher course on Creation and Adam
and Eves expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Noah
is pure enjoyment, though because of some of the bru-
tality, it is not for the very young.
In our post-screening discussion, Mr. Aronofsky told
us that he regretted calling Noahs protectors Watch-
ers rather than Nephilim, the term used in Gen-
esis 6:4. We thought it was too esoteric a term, but
it is not, he said. One of the attendees, Rabbi Noam
Marans of Teaneck, the AJCs director of interreligious
and intergroup relations, showed me the reference
to the Nephilim. It is at the end of parashat Breishit,
just before the Noah story. Rabbi Marans noted that
the rabbis struggled with the question of who exactly
the Nephilim who cohabitated with the daughters
of man could be. Were they fallen angels? Some
commentators thought so and Mr. Aronofsky and
Mr. Handel provide their own interpretation of these
Watchers, these Nephilim, in their film.
Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel invite you to delve
into their midrash and challenge them. If you are ready
for a fine biblical film epic, go see Noah!
Eric Goldman is adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva
University. His most recent book is The American Jewish
Story through the Cinema (University of Texas Press).
Noah
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Rotary Club sponsoring
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Charity event features
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The third annual Taste of Teaneck will
be held by the Rotary Club of Teaneck on
Monday, April 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the
Marriott Teaneck at Glenpointe .
An evening of food and music is fea-
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and international humanitarian causes.
Local restaurants and bakeries partici-
pating include: Chopstix, Coffeecol Arepa
Bar & Grill, Pickle Licious, My Belizean
Gourmet, Five Star Premier Residences
of Teaneck, Heritage Pointe of Teaneck,
Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe, MK
Valencia, Rock & Roll Sushi and Noodle
Bar, Sapphire Thai Food Express, Mort-
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and Sea and Savannahs.
Celebrity guest appearances and photo
opportunities will include former New
York Giants Bart Oates and Curtis McG-
riff. Live music will be provided by jazz
musicians Reggie Pitman and Loren Dan-
iels. Tricky Tray, raffles, and giveaways
are also planned.
Taste of Teaneck, which this year is
sponsored by Residential Home Fund-
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for the first annual Teaneck Restaurant
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Chamber of Commerce.
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Rotary said, Id like to welcome all res-
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Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
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Ruth@MironProperties.com www.MironProperties.com/NJ
Each Miron Properties office is independently owned and operated.
Contact us today for your complimentary consultation!
FORT LEE
Full-service bldg w/gym & pool.
FORT LEE
A jewel. Updated corner unit.
FORT LEE
The Palisades. 2 BR/2.5 BTH w/NY skyline view.
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Buckingham Tower. Great 2 BR/2.5 BTH corner unit.
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ENGLEWOOD
Spacious 3 BR/2.5 BTH brick townhouse.
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7 BR/3.5 BTH. Granite kitchen.
ENGLEWOOD
Fabulous Colonial. $1,550,000
ENGLEWOOD
Amazing detail and craftsmanship.
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ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS
French countryside mansard Colonial.
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Magnicent young brick Colonial.
BAYONNE
2-story building. 37,740 sq. ft. $2,500,000
TEANECK
Picturesque setting. Private oasis.
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Dramatic construction. Numerous amenities.
HAWORTH
Expanded & renovated Ranch. + acre.
CLOSTER
Stately new East Hill construction.
DEMAREST
Classic elegance. Luxurious living.
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TENAFLY
Tuscany chalet in Bergen County.
TENAFLY
Beautifully updated East Hill Tri-Level.
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Sprawling Ranch. 1 acre on a cul-de-sac.
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One-of-a-kind manor. $3,748,000
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Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NY
Ruth Miron-Schleider
Broker/Owner
Miron Properties NJ
NJ: T: 201.266.8555 M: 201.906.6024
NY: T: 212.888.6250 M: 917.576.0776
Remarkable Service. Exceptional Results.
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