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SHOLEM ALEICHEM, ITS PASSOVER EVE! page 24
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But is it kosher
for Passover?
Kudos to the rabbinate
of Rishon Letzion and the
Righteous Court of the Hasam
Sofer for going boldly where no
kosher supervision authorities
have gone before.
Yes, this made-in-Israel
disposable enema not only is
sodium and phosphate free, but
it is certified kosher to boot.
Thanks to reddit user haji435,
for posting this indelible
image of commercial kashrut
supervision gone insane.
LARRY YUDELSON
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CONTENTS
Candlelighting: Friday, April 11, 7:13 p.m.
Shabbat ends: Saturday, April 12, 8:14 p.m.
Passoverkill?
When I was growing up, there
were five foods on our seder plate:
egg (beitza), shank bone (zeroa),
bitter herbs (maror), vegetable (kar-
pas), and haroset (haroset). At some
point we began adding hazeret,
another form of the bitter herbs, on
the theory that a Jewish family gath-
ering could always use a little more
bitterness.
In recent years, the symbols on the
seder plate have tended to prolifer-
ate. To honor the contributions of
Jewish women, some people add
an orange. Rabbis for Human Rights
suggests a tomato to show that you
support exploited farmworkers. And
still others add olives as a symbol of
peace between Israelis and Palestin-
ians.
All of these are worthy reminders,
but how many symbols do we need
during a ritual event already burst-
ing with symbolism? Lots, thats how
many. If you really want to cover
your bases this year, check out my
suggestions for the 21st-century
seder plate:
Apple: Celebrates how technology
has changed Jewish life, like on-line
Torah learning and the ability to play
Candy Crush while sitting in the car-
pool lane at Sunday school.
Green pepper: Symbolizes our
need to heal the planet, which you
promise to do right after using up all
the Styrofoam cups and plastic uten-
sils that you bought for Passover.
Grapes: A reminder that if you re-
ally drink all four cups of wine, you
can put up with your cousins boy-
friend for one night.
Scallions: Persian and Kurdish
Jews have a Passover custom of
striking one another with scallions
to symbolize the burdens of the Is-
raelites. I like to put scallions on the
seder plate to mock what sounds
like a ridiculous and even dangerous
custom.
Strawberry: Expresses solidarity
with professional athletes struggling
with addiction problems.
Carrot: Calls attention to the plight
of gingers, and how people with red
hair must really be careful in the sun.
Asparagus: A reminder that two
hours after the seder youll be re-
minded what you ate at the seder.
Prickly pear: The national symbol
of the Israeli Jew: tough on the out-
side, soft and sweet on the inside.
Kiwi: The national symbol of the
American Jew: once exotic, now
familiar, especially among college
grads, who tend to marry them in
greater and greater numbers. Jews,
not kiwis. Marrying a kiwi would be
weird.
Celery: Sounds like salary, and
expresses the hope that your chil-
dren will get jobs after graduation.
Potato: Placed on the plate pip-
ing hot, it reminds you not to bring
up certain topics with your in-laws,
especially but not limited to the high
cost of prescription drugs and the
traffic since they built the new devel-
opment.
Rhubarb: Uh-oh, you brought up
the cost of drugs when I told you not
to, and now Uncle Harry is going on
and on about Obamacare. Nice job.
Broccoli: The surprising fact that
broccoli is a member of the cabbage
species helps us understand how
some of our family members can
actually be related to us.
Prune: Doesnt symbolize any-
thing, but believe me, youll want one
in the next few days.
Pineapple: Just as a pineapple
starts out sweet and ends up caus-
ing cold sores, something something
something about your cousins boy-
friend.
Banana: Reminds us that a man,
too, can wash the damn dishes after
the seder.
ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL
NEW JERSEY JEWISH NEWS
Fear of leavening, ultimate edition
In the seeming contest of ever escalating Passover
stringencies, we have a winner.
In fact, its time to proclaim a permanent champion
and declare the contest closed.
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Friedlander the Liska rebbe is
so worried about accidentally eating leavened products
that on Passover he abstains from eating wait for it
matzah.
Thats right.
Except for the matzah required for the Passover seder,
he doesnt eat matzah during the holiday.
After all, matzah is made of wheat, and wheat can
become leaven.
Similar fears led many chasidim to practice gebrokst
not letting your matzah touch water (no matzah balls
at those seders) for fear that some flour might not have
been cooked.
Vozisneias, a charedi website that posted an interview
of Rabbi Friedlander, praised the no-matzah-on-
Passover practice as a sacred and extremely
rare tradition while noting that the custom
had its share of vehement detractors 200
years ago.
According to the article, the founder of the
Liska chasidic dynasty would perform mar-
riages only if the groom accepted the custom
of not eating matzah, and would answer re-
quests to perform miracles only if the petition-
er accepted it as well.
As for the argument that the Torah com-
mandment seven days shall you eat matzah,
implies that God would prefer we eat matzah
and remember the Exodus rather than worry that
eating an uncooked bite of flour would kindle His
unforgiving wrath that, according to Vozisneias, is a
twisted interpretation of Karaite heretics. LARRY YUDELSON
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Until my mother passed away, we
celebrated Passover every year.
Madonnas estranged and homeless brother, Anthony Ciccone, speaking to Tablet
Magazine. He added that his mother felt comfortable with Judaism, so we learned
about the Ten Commandments and all the Jewish customs.
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a gentile thing so if
a Jew is a very good or
great athlete, they are
not culturally Jewish. But
that is very rarely true.
These Jewish athletes
are almost always regular
Jewish guys who just
happen to be talented at
sports. Like other Jewish
guys, they consider going
to medical school or law
school and sometimes
they do go. I recall that
Hall of Fame baseball
great HANK GREEN-
BERG often expressed
exasperation that Jewish
guys only wanted to talk
to him about his playing
days. Greenberg was a
smart guy who became
a top businessman after
he retired as a player. He
said he wanted to talk
(mostly) about business
and the arts. In other
words, he wanted to talk
about the stuff that smart
Jewish guys talk about.
Cuban Fury is
a British dance/
romance. In 1987,
Bruce Garrett is 13 years
old and poised to win the
UK Salsa championships.
But a bullying incident
robs him of his confi-
dence and the champion-
ship. Fast forward to the
present and Garrett
(Nick Frost) is a very out-
of-shape guy who lives
a humdrum existence
until the arrival of his new
boss, a gorgeous and
smart American named
Julia (RASHIDA JONES,
Ryan Braun
BIG HITS:
Major league
Hebrews,
2014 edition
Craig Breslow
Rosanna Arquette Ivan Reitman
The following list
was prepared
with the help of
Jewish Sports Review
magazine. These Jewish
players were on a major
league roster as of April
2, 2014: RYAN BRAUN,
30, outfielder, Milwau-
kee; CRAIG BRESLOW,
33, pitcher, Boston; IKE
DAVIS, 27, first base, NY
Mets; SCOTT FELDMAN,
31, pitcher, Houston; SAM
FULD, 32, outfielder, Oak-
land; RYAN KALISH, 26,
outfielder, Chicago Cubs;
IAN KINSLER, 31, sec-
ond base, Detroit; JOSH
SATIN, 29, infielder, NY
Mets; DANNY VALENCIA,
29, third base, Kansas
City. (All these players
have at least one Jew-
ish parent and all were
raised either Jewish or
secular.) There are about
five other Jewish play-
ers now in the high minor
leagues who are likely to
see some major league
playing time this year.
Worthy of note: BRAD
AUSMUS, 44, a former
major league all-star
catcher, was named man-
ager of the Detroit Tigers
last November. Ausmus
managed the Israeli
team that competed in
the 2013 World Baseball
Classic competition. An-
other former all-star, first
baseman KEVIN YOUKI-
LIS, 35, has gone to play
in Japan.
The most re-
cent issue of
JSR notes, in its
Sports Shorts section,
that RON MIX, 76, has
earned about $18 mil-
lion representing about
1,000 players in workers
compensation cases in
California. Mix, an attor-
ney since 1970, is a mem-
ber of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame. He played
offensive tackle for the
Chargers from the time
the team was founded in
1960 until 1970. Likewise,
Dr. JOHN FRANK, now
51, earned two Super
Bowl rings while playing
tight end for San Fran-
cisco in the 1980s. He
retired after five years,
at the top of his game
to finish up his medical
school studies. Hes long
been a highly respected
surgeon.
No, these guys second
careers arent typical
of retired pro football
players or even of re-
tired Jewish pro football
players. But the fact that
Jewish pros become law-
yers and doctors doesnt
shock me. Too often the
Jewish community views
the Jewish top athletes
among us as freaks of
some sort. The reason-
ing goes like this Jews,
stereotypically, are not
good athletes thats
California-based Nate Bloom can be reached at
Middleoftheroad1@aol.com
38). Julia inspires Gar-
rett to shake up his life,
get into shape, and try
dancing again. But he
is competing for Julias
affections with the office
lothario (Chris ODowd).
Meanwhile, in Draft
Day, Kevin Costner plays
Sam Weaver, the coach
of the Cleveland Browns,
and we will follow him
over the course of 24
hours as he competes
for the #1 draft pick and,
maybe, a chance to turn
his losing team around.
The cast includes Frank
Langella as the Browns
owner, Jennifer Garner
as Weavers advisor
and love interest, and
ROSANNA ARQUETTE,
54, as Weavers ex-wife.
Ike Davis Scott Feldman
Rashida Jones Jesse Eisenberg
It is directed by IVAN RE-
ITMAN, 67.
Rio, an animated
childrens film about two
very rare blue macaw
parrots who eventually
meet and marry, was a
huge worldwide hit. The
male, Blu Gunderson,
was voiced by JESSE
EISENBERG, now 30.
The female, Jewel, was
voiced by Anne Hatha-
way. The sequel, Rio 2,
finds the pair now the
parents of three young
birds and about to leave
their home in Rio de
Janeiro for an Amazon
jungle expedition. As in
the original, there are
many fun original songs
in the sequel.
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Fighting for Israels kids
Nirim brings survival treks to tough neighborhoods
LARRY YUDELSON
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hlomi Avni thanks his parents for
keeping him on the straight and
narrow.
He grew up in Or Akiva, a small
city halfway between Haifa and Tel Aviv,
just inland from Caesarea. His neighbor-
hood was poor, with many of his peers
tempted to drop out of school and turn to
crime.
But his parents his mother from
Morocco, his father of Turkish descent
made sure he studied and took school
seriously.
In high school in nearby Hadera, he was
exposed to wider horizons and broader
aspirations in particular, the desire to be
accepted into an elite combat unit in the
army.
As someone who loved the sea, his
choice was Flotilla 13 the special forces
unit of the Israeli navy in other words,
the Israeli version of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
With that goal in mind, he worked hard
in school and he was accepted into the
program.
He served six years.
After his naval service, he returned to Or
Akiva where he still lives today, now with
his wife and five children and
realized that he wanted to help
his city.
He studied political science
in college and earned a masters
degree in public administration.
And he started an organi-
zation to help at-risk youth in
Or Akiva and other cities. He
named it Nirim, after a fellow
SEAL named Nir, who was killed
in combat in 2002. Today he is
Nirims CEO.
Today, Nirim is celebrat-
ing its 10th anniversary, and
has extended through a dozen
towns in Israel. Among them is Nahariya,
the sister city of the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey, and the federation
has been supporting Nirim there.
Last week, Mr. Avni appeared at a
screening of the Israeli film Zaytoun at
the YJCC in Washington Township, shown
as part of the federations Israel Film and
Culture Festival.
The film tells the story of an Israeli sol-
dier being shot down over Lebanon and
captured and of the friendship he forms
with a Palestinian child.
For Mr. Avni, the film reflected the sort
of relationship that Nirim hopes to form
between the Israeli veterans who run its
programs and the young people they help.
The program hires educators and social
workers who had served in combat and
elite units during their Israeli army service.
We put them inside the toughest neigh-
borhoods, Mr. Avni said.
At the first stage, the instructors are
wandering around the streets, meeting the
kids. Then the kids realize theyre coming
from the elite units to help them.
And thus begins the bond between the
adults and the at-risk teenagers. Niriam
has found that the bond is strong enough
to be able to take a cohort who uses drugs
and runs afoul of the police and lead them
along a path that includes army service,
employment, and often higher education.
But the bond is cemented through
wilderness therapy, Mr. Avni said. We
take the kids on experiences where you
must overcome all kinds of obstacles.
The moment you do it with help from
instructors and their guidance a very
strong bond is created. You can see the
belief and the trust in the eyes of the kids.
At the end of the trip, they get a shirt
with the logo of Nirim a variation of the
bat-winged Navy SEALS logo and for
them its a big deal. Everybody asks how
they get it, he said.
The trip is not simply a version of an
army hike. Its really different, he said.
In the army, you are following com-
mands. Here, its a mission you are going
on with the kids. You are mentoring them.
Many of the kids have no discipline. You
have to bring them to a place where
they believe in you, where that is their
motivation.
The Nirim instructors keep an eye on
the kids they work with. They make sure
they go to school in the morning, make
sure they have a decent life at home, Mr.
Avni said. The Niriam employees include
social workers, trained at intervention
and in connecting families and kids with
the right social service agencies. At night
the instructors will walk around the street
making sure the kids are OK.
The Nirim program has a clear end goal:
Getting the kids to enlist in the Israeli army
so they can become constructive partici-
pants in Israeli society. Of the first group
of kids in Or Akiva, 90 percent ended up
in the army.
Nirim stays involved with the youth
after their army service, helping them
find jobs and connecting them to univer-
sity scholarships.
In Nahariya, where Nirim operates in
the Trumpeldor neighborhood, a former
combat fighter named Oren leads the
group.
Everyone knows him. The parents of
the kids really know him and appreciate
his work. If they need something, if theres
a problem, the first call will be to Oren,
Mr. Avni said.
Above, members of Nirim, a group for at-risk teenagers, take a break during
a wilderness therapy trip. Inset, Shlomi Avni with Ava Silverstein, left, and
Bambi Epstein at the YJCC in Washington Township last week.
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Menendez on Iran: Keep up intense pressure
At JPost conference, senator reaffirms U.S. support for Israel
JOSH LIPOWSKY
The West should continue to pursue a diplo-
matic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue,
but that process should be reinforced by a
continuous commitment to international
sanctions against the Islamic republic,
according to Senator Robert Mendendez.
It is clear to me that only intense pun-
ishing economic pressure has influenced
Iranian leaders to come to the table, New
Jerseys senior senator said while address-
ing the Jerusalem Posts annual conference
in New York on Sunday.
Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, heads the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and
is one of the Senates prime supporters
of sanctions against Iran. On Sunday, he
also called for a credible military option to
remain on the table in the Iranian negotia-
tions. The threat of U.S. military action can
be a force for attaining national security
goals, he said, crediting his committees
authorization of military force in Syria last
September for convincing Syrian Presi-
dent Bashar Assad to give up control of
his chemical weapons arsenal. The United
States must reassure its regional allies that
the military option will remain on the table
with Iran, he added.
President Assad decided to comply
with the will of the international commu-
nity only when he perceived U.S. military
action to be imminent, clearly demon-
strating that our willingness to use our
military power can be a force for positive
change, Mr. Menendez said.
Mr. Menendez reiterated his support
for the Obama administrations pursuit
of a negotiated settlement with Iran, but
emphasized that negotiations must go hand
in hand with the economic pressure of sanc-
tions. Maintaining a credible military option
further strengthens the United States ability
to ensure Iran does not gain nuclear bomb
capabilities, he said, while weakening the
sanctions against Iran will allow it to stall for
time as it pursues its nuclear agenda.
It is clear to me that only intense punish-
ing economic pressure has influenced Ira-
nian leaders to come to the table, he said.
Mr. Menendez said he was skeptical about
Irans ability to keep its promises. He called
for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to
back up statements that Iran does not seek
nuclear weapons by initiating the verifiable
dismantling of its illicit nuclear structure.
He pointed to continued Iranian support of
Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations
in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Iran, he said,
continues to charm negotiators but has not
demonstrated any change in its behavior.
I do not forget that despite diplomatic
entreaties to the Iranians in recent years,
hands were extended and secret talks were
pursued, Iran has grown its support and
advocacy for terror, he said.
He accused the Iranians of long seeking to
delay reaching any nuclear deal, while the
country continued moving forward with its
nuclear development. This, he said, brought
Iran closer than ever to nuclear breakout
capabilities and has now led many in the
West to say Iran is too far along to demand
the country give up all of its enrichment.
If that has been the process that has
led us to this moment, we cannot let that
be the process that leads them to a nuclear
bomb, he said. What troubles me, and
what I believe troubles many of you, is that
the international community seems to want
any deal more than it wants a good deal.
This was the Jerusalem Posts third con-
ference in New York focused on Israels
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Shave for the Brave
Local Reform rabbis join many others in going bald for pediatric cancer research
JOANNE PALMER
T
here is not much that anyone can
do to comfort colleagues whose
son has died of cancer.
Nor is it intuitive to think that
if anything could help, it would be a line of
rabbis getting their heads shaved.
But that is what 54 Reform rabbis did in
Chicago on April 1. The so-called Shave for
the Brave was in response to the Decem-
ber death of 8-year-old Samuel Sommers
Superman Sam, as he was called.
Sams short but joyous life was chronicled
by his mother, Rabbi Phyllis Sommers, who
blogged about his struggle; she and Sams
father, Rabbi Michael Sommers, were the
first to have their heads shaved onstage
during the Central Conference of American
Rabbis meeting last week.
The shave itself is an initiative of Saint
Baldricks Foundation, a group that exists
only to fund research on childhood cancers,
including the leukemia that killed Sam. The
numbers the group posts on its website are
sobering. Worldwide, a child is diagnosed
with cancer every three minutes, we are
told; before they turn 20, 1 in 300 boys and
1 in 333 girls will have been so diagnosed.
Children are not just small adults; just as
their cancers ravage their bodies differ-
ently than other cancers attack and destroy
adults, those cancers must be treated in
ways developed specifically for children.
Only four percent of charity money in
general is earmarked for pediatric can-
cers, Rabbi Paul Jacobson of Temple Avo-
dath Shalom in River Edge, one of the newly
buzz-cut rabbis, said. St. Baldricks helps
redress that by spending all the money it
raises on research for those cancers.
Part of the point of shaving is to draw
attention to the cause; another part is
to show visceral solidarity with cancer
patients, whose hair loss is not voluntary
but instead the result of the chemotherapy
that kills so much of what it touches. Hair
is such a potent symbol to so many people
that the point of raising cancer-fighting
funds through its temporary loss makes
quick emotional sense.
The shave at the CCAR convention was
wildly successful. We wanted to start
with 36 rabbis, Rabbi Jacobson said; that
number was based on the concept of the
lamed vavniks, the 36 hidden righteous
people for whose sake, folklore tells us, the
wicked world is allowed to continue to turn.
They were trying to raise $180,000 18,
of course, is another Jewishly fraught-with-
significance number, signifying chai, life.
Instead, the 70 Reform rabbis who shaved
their heads, including some who did not
come to the convention but instead did
it at home, so far have raised more than
$572,000. They have funded at least four
and possibly five yearlong grants for pedi-
atric research, Rabbi Jacob-
son said.
In fact, St. Baldricks spe-
cializes in group shaves, but
this is the single most suc-
cessful one the organization
has sponsored.
The point of shaving his
head was to call attention
to what were doing, and
give it a physical sign, Rabbi
Jacobson said. Its similar
to putting on a ribbon if
were doing AIDS or domes-
tic violence awareness. This
is not putting something on
but taking something off
and giving people a reason
to ask whats going on and
to give us the chance to talk about it, to say
that here is this very important cause to
support.
What was it like for him? I had never
shaved my head before, he said. I had
very nice brown hair. I like cutting it short
usually, but this is somewhat breezy.
More seriously, he said, its kind of like
removing fluff.
This is a transition time in the Jewish cal-
endar, he added, given that Pesach is just
weeks away. Its like removing chametz.
Its a chance to see whats really important.
Hair will grow back, of course, but it gives
us a chance to see what really matters.
We have a family who suffered an
unspeakable tragedy, he continued. Is
there any way to help? To go from this
time of darkness not
to a time of joy, but to
say how do we take this
grief and think about
doing something posi-
tive with it? How do we
take steps to move in
the direction of doing
something good?
Rabbi David Widzer
of Temple Beth El of Northern Valley was
another of the rabbis getting buzzed onstage
at the CCAR convention. It was a powerful
experience on a number of levels, he said.
It was an opportunity to stand with col-
leagues who had been through the most
awful tragedy that anyone could imagine.
And it was an opportunity to stand with all
families who have kids battling cancer.
It was an opportunity to raise awareness
of childhood cancer. It was an opportunity
to raise awareness in my congregation,
among my Facebook friends, across social
media, in all the communities Im part of, to
raise funds for the important research that
needs to be done.
The experience itself was almost inde-
scribable, Rabbi Widzer continued. The
energy and the emotion in that room in the
time leading up to it, the preparation, the
meditation service before the emotion
was palpable.
There were four of us from the same rab-
binical school class, the class of 2000; we all
were in Israel together in 1995 to 1996. And
then there were people a couple of years
behind me, and older colleagues as well.
All of us were assembled to do sacred work,
to engage in a task of healing and wholeness
and holiness.
It was spiritual and moving and exhila-
rating and sad and wonderful. I think we all
felt very humbled and very honored to have
been a part of it.
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher of Beth Haverim
Shir Shalom in Mahwah and his wife, Ely-
ssa, knew the Sommers from summers
at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, the
Reform movements camp in Wisconsin;
all are from Chicago. (The Mosbachers
were counselors; the Sommers were their
campers. Now they are equals, colleagues
and friends.) Rabbi Mosbacher did not wait
for the CCAR convention to shave his head;
instead, he did it at his own shul on Purim,
giving his own little Sweeney Todd-like twist
Rabbi David Widzer reacts
to the air on his head.
LEAH WEISS CARUSO
An assembly line of rabbis having their heads shaved at the
Central Conference of American Rabbis convention in Chicago
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to the proceedings. I wanted to share the
experience with the synagogue, because so
many people there gave so generously, he
said. Following St. Baldricks rules, like all
the other participants he actually did not
have all his hair shaved off but instead got a
buzzcut; the next day, he reported, he went
to a barber shop to have the stubble shaved
off as well. He did it again at the convention.
The mitzvah isnt shaving your head, he
said. The mitzvah is calling attention to a
disease that is insidious.
We all become rabbis because we want
to fix stuff, he said. The only thing the
Sommers want us to do we cant do bring
him back. So the idea was to try to do some-
thing that would reduce the number of
these stories in the world.
Like Rabbi Wizder, Rabbi Mosbacher
resorted to a string of mutually exclusive
words to explain the evening. It felt
exceedingly emotional and powerful and
sad and joyous, and really quite mixed
up, he said. I walked into the room that
night and someone looked at me and said,
Are you OK?
And I said, I dont know how to feel.
I am so proud of us for raising all this
money, and so desperately sad for the
Sommers family.
I dont know how theyve walked
through these last two years of their lives,
much less through this convention, he
continued. (Sam was diagnosed 18 months
before he died.) Their presence was so
moving and extraordinary. I would like
to think they gained some comfort from
this experience, but I cant imagine how
it must be for them to walk through their
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Shes a Maccabee
Englewood college junior plays tennis for YU while pursuing pre-med studies
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
Y
ou will never see this NCAA
Division III tennis player on the
court in a miniskirt and tank
top.
Galila Shapiro of Englewood, a junior at
Stern College for Women at Yeshiva Uni-
versity, wears the regulation sleeved top
and longish shorts minus the optional
knee-length skirt of the Maccabee wom-
ens tennis team.
Though YUs reputation is based more
on learning than on lobbing, Maccabee
sports teams at the university have a long
tradition. Varsity intercollegiate athletics
are available for male undergrads in base-
ball, basketball, cross country, fencing,
soccer, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling;
and for women in basketball, cross coun-
try, fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball,
with softball to be added next year.
The university has just released a pro-
motional video, I Am A Maccabee, fea-
turing student athletes including Ms.
Shapiro.
I consider myself to be a shy person
and I was hesitant to be in the video, Ms.
Shapiro said. But we dont get any outside
donations and were not in the Final Four,
so all our support is going to come from
the YU alumni and Jewish community
base, and I felt it was important to help
out in whatever way I could to target that
community. And I was proud to be chosen
as a good representative of the Maccabees.
I work hard to live up to that.
The 21-year-old biology major is the fourth
of six children of Saadia and Marla Shapiro.
The family moved to Englewood from Brook-
lyn in time for her to begin sixth grade at the
Moriah School of Englewood. She went on to
the Frisch School in Paramus.
I played tennis as far back as I can remem-
ber, mostly with my siblings in the sum-
mers, and I took lessons in middle school,
Ms. Shapiro said. One summer, she and her
younger brother Liam played every day, and
a Haitian tennis pro gave her free lessons with
the promise that she would make the high
school team. She did, although the Frisch
tennis team didnt play many matches dur-
ing the years she was there.
When she got to Stern College, she got seri-
ous about the sport. A commitment to col-
lege athletics entails many hours of practices
and games. The 12 female Macs practice two
hours a night in the main fall season, except
the two nights per week when they have
matches with other teams in the Skyline
Tracking hate: ADL names new director for NJ region
Rutgers grad served as associate chief of Denver office
ROBERT WIENER
The Anti-Defamation League has named
Shayna Alexander director of its New
Jersey region, filling a post that has
remained vacant since Jeffrey Salkin
resigned last October.
Ms. Alexander, 29, started working at
the ADL even before she graduated from
Rutgers University in January 2007. After
spending three years at ADLs national
headquarters in New York researching
white supremacists and neo-Nazis for its
civil rights division, she headed west to
Denver to become associate director of
its Mountain States regional office.
The ADL is the only place Ive wanted
to work, she said.
She started work in the regions office
in Florham Park on April 1, the same day
that the organization released its annual
audit of anti-Semitic incidents in 2013.
For New Jersey, its findings are a mixed
blessing, indicating that anti-Semitic inci-
dents in the state declined by 55 percent
in 2013, but that New Jersey ranked third
highest in the nation in the number of
incidents.
While the drop in anti-Semitic incidents
is encouraging, 78 incidents of anti-Semi-
tism are 78 too many, Ms. Alexander said
on her next-to-last workday in Denver.
It would be a mistake for us to declare
victory in this war because of the decline
in anti-Semitic incidents in our commu-
nity, she continued. We know that anti-
Semitic incidents and other bias crimes
are vastly underreported. Certainly we
are encouraged by this
drop, but at the same
time, we must be vigilant
against anti-Semitism and
bigotry.
The fact that the num-
ber of incidents makes
it the third-highest state
motivates us to continue
our work, she said. Our
mandate is clear. We must
continue to stop the defa-
mation of the Jewish peo-
ple and secure fair justice and fair treat-
ment for all.
At the ADLs Mountain States office,
Ms. Alexander responded to complaints
of anti-Semitism and discrimination in
Colorado and Wyoming. She worked as
a liaison with law enforce-
ment offices, took part in
Holocaust remembrances,
conducted interfaith dia-
logues, and worked on
Jewish institutional secu-
rity issues.
Ms. Alexander considers
the ADL as a 911 for the
Jewish community, and
that extends to our work
with people of all races,
religions, sexual orienta-
tions, genders, ethnicities, and national
origins. I am not going to say that anti-
Semitism is any more deserving of atten-
tion than any other ism or any other rea-
son why someone would not feel safe and
welcome because of who they are.
Shayna Alexander
Galila Shapiro takes her tennis and her commitment to the Maccabees very seriously. She is a junior at Yeshiva Univer-
sity and majors in biology at Stern College.
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Conference, a quite competitive Division III conference
that includes CUNY schools, John Jay, Lehman, Sarah
Lawrence, Mount Saint Mary, St. Josephs, Pratt Institute,
College of New Rochelle, Western Connecticut State, and
several other colleges.
In the spring season its less intense one match per
week but theyre more exhibition-type matches not in
our conference. That keeps us in practice and good shape,
and its more fun, Ms. Shapiro said.
But YU athletes must balance their sports schedule with
a dual course load. And transportation takes time as well,
because the home court is in Edgewater not so far for
the male players coming from Washington Heights, but
much farther for the women coming from Sterns mid-
town campus at Lexington and 34th Street.
Because were an Orthodox institution, we have to
squeeze all our practices and matches into a shorter
time since the fall season overlaps with our High Holiday
break, Ms. Shapiro added. We have to work doubly hard
to stay competitive.
Off-season, the 12 teammates get together individually
on Englewood or Teaneck courts. In August, we go away
to a pre-season camp in upstate New York for five days
with some of the other athletic teams, Ms. Shapiro said.
We practice all day, every day, for five days a week and do
strength training and other types of activities.
In 2013, Ms. Shapiro was named to Skylines Fall Sports-
manship Team, along with five other YU students.
We have one of the best sportsmanship records out of
all the teams, and we always get sportsmanship awards at
the end of the year, she noted.
I think we have been brought up in an environ-
ment where were taught to respect others and be hon-
est despite being in a competition. We dont have line
judges, so its up to us to make calls, and people notice
when youre honest about whether a ball was in or out.
Were toward the bottom in terms of rankings for wins,
and sometimes its tough for us to be so courteous and
respectful, but were all raised that way.
Ms. Shapiro aspires to be a physician. In addition to
classes and the tennis team, she works at United Hatza-
lahs New York office and interns as a research assistant
at St. Lukes and Roosevelt hospitals. In school, Im vice
president of the Red Cross Club, she said. Im heavily
scheduled, but I make it work.
Among her top priorities are working with law
enforcement agencies on the threats that extrem-
ists pose and working with synagogues and Jewish
institutions to promote safe and secure spaces.
She also is eager to conduct anti-bias and anti-
bullying programs in schools, workplaces, and
communities. We want to empower students, fac-
ulty members, and community members to take a
stand against hatred to proactively and reactively
respond to incidents of bigotry and create inclusive
schools, workplaces, and communities.
Ms. Alexanders responsibilities extend from New
Jerseys northern border to Mercer, Ocean, and
Monmouth counties. The southernmost part of the
state falls under the jurisdiction of the ADLs Phila-
delphia region.
Ms. Alexander grew up in Freehold, where she
attended public schools and a Conservative syna-
gogue. She has just moved into a home in Jersey City.
Rabbi Salkin now heads the Reform Temple Beth
Am in Bayonne.
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Profiles in Faith
Englewood man videos famous rabbis talking about faith, Yiddishkeit
JOANNE PALMER
S
oli Yisrael Foger of Englewood fell
in love with his wife, Tani, in 1973.
Just about everything good in
his life since then and there are
many good things can be traced back to
that lightning strike.
Most recently, it has resulted in a series
of YouTube videos that capture a conver-
sation between him and a list of prominent
Orthodox rabbis, plus the occasional reb-
bitzen or other nonclerical luminary.
It is a series that he plans to continue.
How did it happen? The idea grew
organically.
Mr. Foger was born to a Ukrainian ref-
ugee family in Romania in 1953; 10 years
later, the family finally was allowed to
immigrate to Israel. He was a typical Israeli
ambitious, tough, argumentative, expan-
sive, intellectually curious, but uninter-
ested in old-world religion.
Back in the 1970s, an architecture stu-
dent, still profoundly secular, all Mr. Foger
knew was how surprising it was that I
allowed myself to be in love with a girl who
was observant, when all the other Israelis I
knew would have spit three times and run
away, like she was a black cat who crossed
their path.
But Tani had something. Some magic.
Tani then Tani Schneider, now Dr.
Tani Foger, a psychologist who works
with high school students grew up on
the Lower East Side and went to Ramaz.
Although she did not come from an obser-
vant background, she already realized that
Jewish life appealed to her.
Both Tani and Soli worked as tour guides
for the American Zionist Youth Founda-
tion; thats where they met.
Despite Tanis apparently weak-minded
reliance on religion or at least thats how
he saw it at the time Soli was entranced
by her, and her insistence on belief and
practice began to win him over. Once, on a
trip home, I saw a picture of my zayde
his grandfather holding a sefer Torah,
he said. It took hold of his imagination. He
started paying attention to stories about
Rabbi Shmuel Goldin
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shlomi
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg Rebbitzen Tziporah Heller
Rabbi Aharon Feldman Sarah Yocheved Rigler
SEE PROFILES PAGE 14
All I want to
know is how they
discovered their
own path.What
makes them love
being Jewish?
Soli Yisrael Foger
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his grandfather, who had been his shuls
gabbai, and all of a sudden it dawned on
me that this picture was enough to create
a positive receptive model for me, he said.
That was it. He was won over.
Still, he thought about how there no
longer were the bubbes and zaydes
the grandparents who could transmit
the traditions essential sweetness. His
openness to it came from the picture of
his grandfather, he reasoned, so it must
be grandparents who have that special,
intangible, shareable essence. The reli-
gion was a living thing, he said. It was a
Jewish home, mostly maintained by the
zayde and the bubbe because the parents
often were busy. That was true even in
secular circles how many people would
say they could never marry a non-Jew
because their grandparents would turn
over in their graves?
The influence of that generation was
so strong. It was the sustainer of Jewish
identity.
Those grandparents arent around so
much anymore, though, he lamented.
And I thought, wouldnt it be nice if I
could do something to extract that ele-
ment? Where would I get it from? And I
thought of our elders the rabbis. The
ones who are not only the smart ones,
but the ones who also have that sweetness
about them, the accepting ones, the loving
ones, the ones who love.
He knew that there is great beauty in the
tradition. He has seen it radiate from the
faces of great teachers and leaders. I knew
that beauty would be contagious, he said.
Mr. Foger thought back to his own expe-
riences, newly in New York, the father,
then, of two sons (now he has four). We
were very close to Eli Chaim Carlebach,
and we belonged to his shul, he said.
(Rabbi Eli Chaim Carlebach was Rabbi
Shlomo Carlebachs twin brother; the two
were co-leaders of the Upper West Sides
Rabbi Eli Chaim Carlebach, better known
as the Carlebach Shul.) I remember when
he would take our sons and put them on
his lap, he said. I thought what a pic-
ture! That is what sustains us.
I thought what can I do about this?
That was my motivation.
How to start? I thought, naively, that
I would have to go to the most religious
ones, he said. I spoke to a friend of mine,
who took me to the Catskills, to the Torah
Mesorah convention. If you can imagine
a convention of about not only 300 black
hats, but black top hats.
Usually you have one great rabbi, and
then the rest like us. Now imagine the great
top rabbis, and all the rest are the very
smart rabbis.
It took a few years, but eventually Mr.
Foger was able to interview Rabbi Aharon
Feldman, the rosh yeshiva of Ner Yisrael
in Baltimore. That was the first of a list of
13 interviews so far. All have been either in
the United States or in Israel; most are in
person, although some are by Skype.
Mr. Foger feels so deeply about this proj-
ect, which he calls Profiles of Faith, that
he has financed it entirely by himself. Each
hour-long video is filmed by a professional
videographer, using more than one camera,
and is extensively edited.
Everyone whom Mr. Foger has asked
to interview is Orthodox in some way or
another; he feels that he will lose credibil-
ity if he were to include people who do not
share that label. His list, though, ranges
from Rabbi Feldman and Rabbi Haim Druk-
man, head of Bnei Akiva in Israel, through
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat and Rabbi
Chaim Brovender of Midreshet Linden-
baum, up to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg of Clal
and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi of
the Aleph Institute and the Renewal move-
ment. He also has interviewed two women
Rebbitzin Tziporah Heller, who teaches at
Neve Yerushalayim College, and the author
and teacher Sarah Yocheved Rigler. That is
quite a range.
I just wanted to find people with a sweet
disposition who are Orthodox, at least by
background or training, he said.
Locally, he also has interviewed Rabbi
Shmuel Goldin of Congregation Ahavath
Torah in Englewood.
I dont ask provocative or confronta-
tional questions, Mr. Foger said. That
doesnt interest me.
I dont want to resolve any halachic
issue. I dont want to argue the merits of
this or that. All I want to know is how they
discovered their own path.
What makes them love being Jewish?
What would they say to someone they
needed to convince to maintain their Jew-
ishness? Why is it worth holding onto?
Profiles
FROM PAGE 12
This picture of Soli Fogers grandfather, the Alter
Adler, inspired his Proles in Faith series.
strategic positions. Other speakers
included Foreign Minister Avigdor
Liberman, Minister of Tourism Uzi
Landau, and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Bar-
kat, along with Israeli military experts
and Jerusalem Post writers. This years
theme, Israel, the U.S., and the New
Middle East, referred to dynamic
changes that have swept across the
region following 2011s so-called Arab
Spring, which saw the downfall of
longstanding dictatorial regimes, such
as that of Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. The new Middle East repre-
sents an opportunity, Mr. Menendez
said, but it is a story that has yet to be
written.
Will the new Middle East be an incuba-
tor of 21st century democracies like Tunisia
or will it be relegated to the dustbin of Iran-
like fundamentalist theocracies bent on
turning back the clock 500 years? he said.
As Israeli, Palestinian, and American
diplomats met on Sunday to try to salvage
the foundering peace process, Mr. Menen-
dez reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to
Israel. He called on Palestinian Author-
ity President Mahmoud Abbas to recog-
nize Israel as the Jewish state and echoed
Prime Minister Netanyahus speech last
month to AIPAC that there can be no
existential threat to Israel by its neigh-
bors, including the threat of flooding the
country with refugees.
So what we do know about the new
Middle East is Israel will remain a demo-
cratic entity and there will be no daylight
between the United States and Israel, he
said. This is our vision of a new Middle
East but it starts firmly in the understand-
ing that Israel not only has the right to
exist but it has the right to exist as a Jew-
ish state.
Menendez
FROM PAGE 7
Tani and Soli Yisrael Foger in 1981; they met in Israel in 1973.
FOGER FAMILY
And then some related questions how
do you deal with pain? How do you see God?
And then, at the end, with the men, I ask
them to sing a zemirah that means some-
thing to them. So far, all except for two older
rabbis have agreed to sing.
Everyone he has spoken to has said some-
thing astonishing, Mr. Foger said.
Rabbi Goldin is always very honest and
self-searching. He said, You know, God is
reasonable. I had never heard anyone say
that before.
When I spoke to Rabbi David Aaron this
summer, he pointed out that we often dont
know the difference between the God we
had when we were young and the God we
have when we are old. He said that there is a
God for grown-ups. The God for children is
the one we were constantly bargaining with;
if you are stuck at that point, and never
grow and never change, you didnt have a
good teacher.
And Rabbi Brovender is really funny.
Each rabbi has his own special angle,
Mr. Foger summed up. You cant just sum
them up. Each one of them is a crack that
can open up the whole. It can change your
life.
To watch the video, google YouTube
and Soli Foger.
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A man cut out to be an artist
Oradell native making it big in Los Angeles
PHIL JACOBS
G
reg Auerbach has been awake for
hours.
About 36 hours, in fact, maybe
with a quick nap here or there.
The 28-year-old, who grew up in Oradell
and whose parents still live there, is spending
every minute possible designing and crafting
his graffiti art, working in what he described
as his big studio, half of a commercial build-
ing covered in dust.
Use your favorite search engine and youll
find lots of stories about him. He has come on
to the Los Angeles art scene in a hurry, bring-
ing it his own brand of art.
Mr. Auerbachs art involves stenciling an
image of his subject over newspaper head-
lines connected to that icons persona. What
does that mean? Well, so far he has tackled,
among other figures, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert
Einstein, Woody Allen, Humphrey Bogart,
Audrey Hepburn, and Ernest Hemingway.
His Hitchcock piece, for example, includes
headlines about crime or mysteries. His art is
hanging in trendy studios all over Los Ange-
les. And hes quickly catching the eye of writ-
ers and art critics who love what they see, at
least in part because theyve never seen any-
thing quite like it before.
Mr. Auerbach didnt go to L.A. to be a
visual artist. Instead, he went to Paramount
to be a movie director, and made intricate
newspapers as props for film.
He found himself hooked.
I never thought it would develop into
anything, Mr. Auerbach said. But I locked
myself into my room for five days and made
12 pieces. I had no idea what I was doing. I
never had cut a stencil before or used spray
paint. I had no idea.
It was really straightforward, he added.
Three years ago, I really liked doing stencil
work. Add spray paint to the stenciling
He paused. Pop art has been around longer
than I have, he resumed. I thought if I didnt
combine the stencil work with the spray paint
than Id be missing an opportunity to do
something relative instead of iconic.
I put these icons, though, in the context of
my own work. I went out and bought a bunch
of newspapers and copied and stenciled. The
pieces I created are then hand layered into a
collage. The newspaper clippings are set in
paste with the stencil placed over them.
When he emerged from those five months
of solitary artistry, he was flat out broke
and in debt, he said.
It is easy to make a piece from your heart
and love it, but you can also end up hating it,
he said. I can strongly say that I dont edit
my ideas. There is so much room to add more
to keep going. As an artist you have to learn to
live and be strong.
My goal is to make these for myself, he
said. He wants to love every piece that he
creates before hell part with them. Hes
recently been commissioned by Norman
Lear, the man who brought us Archie Bun-
ker, to create a piece for the Lear Family
Foundation.
My life is completely unscheduled, he
said. I can stay up until I just cant work any-
more. Then Im up again working.
Yes, he has done a Hitchcock left profile
and a Hitchcock right profile, but the two
pieces are different. Its impossible to do the
same thing twice, he said.
He describes himself as fortunate,
because a lot of people want to see the work.
That includes his family, particularly his
parents, Paul and Randy.
Randy Auerbach said she
and her husband knew that
something special was going
on with their son when he
constructed his own work-
ing computer from order-
ing separate parts. He was
in middle school.
He could make any-
thing, she said. He was
always doing something or
building something.
Paul Auerbach remem-
bers that his son would
design art, cut it out, and
paint it. He also remembers
how much his son loved
magic. I still have his trunk of magic here,
his mother added. His parents have a Hitch-
cock hanging in their Oradell home; Audrey
Hepburn looks down at them from a wall in
their Florida home. They are gorgeous, Ms.
Auerbach said said. Everyone who comes
over notices the art. Its a conversation piece.
Mr. Auerbach believes that one reason for
his sons success is his arts crossover appeal
to viewers of all ages.
We were at the Beverly Hills Arts Festi-
val, he said. We saw him interact with peo-
ple from 25 to 90. We always knew hed be
talented, but to see his work and to see how
people love him and his work it feels good
for us and we feel good for him. As a parent,
its first kind of weird to see people looking at
my kid. But hes an artist, and it makes you
proud. Hes the real thing.
What Gregory does, he does wholeheart-
edly, his mother added.
The Auerbachs, members of the Jewish
Community Center of Paramus, have three
children their son Josh lives in New Jer-
sey and their daughter, Amanda, lives in
Chicago.
Greg Auerbach compares himself to street
artists who use mixed media. He said that the
control graffiti artists exhibit and the state-
ments they make are incredible. But I dont
compare myself to them, he said. Im mak-
ing a statement in a different way.
I think Im unapologetic about what I do,
he continued. I think I do stuff that is taken
well and stuff that is brash.
He added that he wants to learn more
about his subjects. He studies each person,
trying to find a deeper level that will stimu-
late art. Einstein, for instance, was a person
who we know changed the world. But we also
need to know Einsteins love of life and how
he regretted nuclear power. It makes me look
at Einstein differently. Im big on self-explo-
ration. He wants to find that place where he
as an artist connects with the subject hell
research, cut, paste and spray.
Mr. Auerbach said he never expected to
be as successful as he has been. He calls the
L.A. art community family. There are peo-
ple I respect that have given me a lot of drive.
Because there is a point early on where you
still arent sure if you really are an artist.
They tell him that indeed, he is.
Theres a gentle humbleness to it all,
he continued. Ive learned I have a lot
more to learn. An artist cannot get stuck
doing the same work. But at the same
time, its difficult for an artist to switch it
off and try something new.
Is he worried that his work will reach a tip-
ping point?
I guess were going to find out, he said
laughing. Oy. Its really important to sepa-
rate a financial success and a personal suc-
cess. An artist can run out of steam with the
audience, its a tipping point with yourself.
When I am going to look back at my life, Im
going to want to know I did what I wanted.
But you do need a way to keep the art fresh.
His icons in spray paint honor Mr. Auer-
bachs passion for cinema, for the actors and
the directors of the movies he most loves.
His academic background in film studies
helps him craft his paintings almost as if he
were writing a screenplay or directing a film,
Mr. Auerbach said.
One on-line critic wrote that he has cre-
ated stories painted with main character arcs,
settings, themes and dialogues. The near-
impossible feat he has accomplished is that
of creating motion pictures in singular, static
images.
This art comes from a man with no formal
art training. What he does have is urgency
and a real deep-seated passion for his subject
matter. When that is connected to a 18-hour
day in the studio, it turns into something
beautiful.
Mr. Auerbach attended Ithaca College,
majoring in film, for one semester.
He took a semester off, then dropped
out and worked as a waiter. He re-enrolled
at Ithaca and then transferred to Syracuse
University. The film school wasnt what he
wanted, so he transferred to the School of
Visual Arts in Manhattan.
He came to Los Angeles to work in film,
and finished his studies at USC, taking post-
graduate courses in writing and art as well.
He admits that he was never really trained in
anything other than film or photography.
I dont know how I got here, he says. Im
going to push the medium as far as I can.
His Film Icons in Spray Paint are on
his website, www.hollywoodgraffiti.com
website.
At left, Greg Auerbach and his
mother, Randy; above, some of his
artwork. AUERBACH FAMILY
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Several local students Hennie Silver-
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Melissa Goldsmith, and Tamar Kuritzky of
Teaneck studying at Midreshet AMIT in
Jerusalem, among those pictured above,
recently participated in the Jerusalem
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the children of AMIT Frisch Beit Hayeled.
Beit Hayeled, in the Gilo section of
Jerusalem, is home to 110 children, ranging
in age from 5 to 15, all in foster care. The
girls who attend Midreshet AMIT, a post
high-school program, live on the Beit Hay-
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studies and act as big sisters to the chil-
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Funds raised by Team AMIT will be used
to help the Beit Hayeled children celebrate
becoming bar or bat mitzvah.
Technion Professor Yitzhak Birk, left, with Ira, Shelley, Julia, and Alex Taub
of Alpine; Technion students Or Elezra and Itai Orr; Jared Hakimi, Technions
North America representative, and Steven Taub of Demarest.
Technion students join professor
for a dessert night in Alpine
Last month, 30 people gathered for an
American Technion Society student
delegation dessert night at the home
of Shelley and Ira Taub in Alpine. Stu-
dents Itai Orr and Or Elezra and Profes-
sor Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk from the Tech-
nion-Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, and Jared Hakimi, the Technion
International Schools North American
representative, joined them.
The Haifa group was in the greater
metropolitan area for four days as part
of an ATS educational outreach tour.
Mr. Hakimi discussed new opportuni-
ties for study at the Technion, including
the SciTech Research Program, Start-
Up Camp, and Math Summer Camp.
The students spoke about their lives
and research, and Professor Birk gave
an overview of Technion innovations
that have helped Israel and the world.
The ATS student delegation dessert
night is an annual event the Taubs
established in 2010. Ira Taub is a mem-
ber of the ATS NY metro region board
and the ATS national board of directors.
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Passover is here
F
inally, after all these weeks
of preparation, of buying
and cleaning and cooking
and worrying and plan-
ning and throwing out and panting
and wailing and despairing after
all the slavery the holiday of lib-
eration is just a few days away.
Its ironic, isnt it the work at
times seems so overwhelming that
by the time night falls and the first
seder begins, its hard to remember
its promise.
But we should.
And then the seder begins and
we do.
Last falls Pew Study, Bad News for
Jews, documented terrible fall-offs in
religious observance across most of
the Jewish spectrum, but even so, it
said, seven in 10 Jews go to a seder.
Most of us remember the seders of
our childhoods and we mark each
years passage as familiar faces age
and gray and then disappear, and
other, younger ones babble and then
giggle and then learn to read. There
is something about the smell of a
seder, its particular spices and rich-
ness and nuttiness (in every possible
sense); something about the familiar
wine and gravy stains in the Hagga-
dahs, that link us to the selves we
used to be last year. Each seder is dif-
ferent, of course, and each family has
its own traditions; its own songs and
soups and flash points.
And that is one of its main beauties.
We are all doing the same things; we
are each doing them ever so subtly in
our own way. We are many people;
we are all one people.
May we all have a sweet and liberat-
ing Pesach.
-JP
KEEPING THE FAITH
Count the days,
study the ways
C
ome Tuesday night, we begin to count our
days 49 days, to be exact, seven complete
weeks as we vicariously journey from Egypt
to Sinai, from the slavery of Egypt to our
birth as Gods holy nation.
Each night, we add another day, and remind our-
selves, as well, of the days that have passed. Today is
the 15th day of the Omer, which is two weeks and one
day of the Omer.
One day added to another and then another, each day
taking one step closer to the moment when God reveals
to us our sacred mission as His kingdom of priests. We
are His emissaries to the world. It is our task to teach
the world by example how God wants all His children
to behave toward each other
and toward all of creation.
Our enslavement was
meant to prepare us for that
mission. As we count the
days, we look forward to
that mission. Yet we must
never forget what it feels
like to be the lowest of the
low, even as we become the
agents of the Most High.
Counting Sefirah, how-
ever, has become ritualized
to the point of becoming
trivialized, to be rushed through at the end of evening
prayers. The counting itself is not the issue, however,
and never was the point. It is the reason for the counting
that must concern us if the ritual is to serve its purpose.
Instead of just counting, why not take 10 more min-
utes and study one of the many versions of the 613 com-
mandments supposedly found in the Torah? (Not every-
one agrees on what makes up the 613.) In doing so, keep
in mind that each commandment is actually a chapter
heading for different areas of the Law.
Of particular relevance are those commandments
that focus on how we relate to the people around
us, and the responsibilities we have to the rest of
creation animal, vegetable, mineral down to the
very air we breathe. Included among these are laws
regarding how we treat those near and dear; how we
treat the neighbor and the stranger; how we conduct
our business; how we treat those we employ. There
Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of Temple Israel
Community Center | Congregation Heichal Yisrael in
Cliffside Park and Temple Beth El of North Bergen.
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Seeking the promise of
Passovers freedom for agunot
I
n these last hours before the
night of the first seder, there
are going to be those fami-
lies who desperately seek out
every last crumb of chameitz they
can find. Yet many will go on tolerat-
ing the chameitz that through apa-
thy and ignorance we inflict on Jew-
ish women worldwide.
Because no matter how many Hag-
gadahs recount the story of our free-
dom from slavery, as long as agunot
(women who havent received gets,
Jewish writs of divorce, from their
ex-husbands) are stifled from living
their lives, then we arent really
entirely free.
We see people at car wash vacuum
cleaners pumping quarter after quar-
ter into the machines to get rid of that
horrid extra Cheerio from the baby
seat. Yet the dirty deal that doesnt
draw life-changing action from tra-
ditional Jewish society turns an agu-
nahs wish to marry and to experi-
ence intimacy again into its own sort
of chameitz.
Some of these former husbands
will fight you over the observance of
the most remote Talmudic stricture
but they knowingly sabotage the
lives of their ex-wives.
We wish for everyone a beautiful,
meaningful seder, no matter how you
and your family choose to celebrate.
But as long women in our Jew-
ish world are kept in a state of agu-
not, then they are not really free. If
theyre not free, than we didnt leave
Egypt as a totally liberated people.
There is an 11th plague, although
its not something you dip your fin-
ger in wine to commemorate. It is
apathy. It is not having the courage to
take this Mitzrayim out of the Jew-
ish way of life. We believe Orthodox
Jewish leaders could do something if
they had the courage.
For as long as there is one agunah,
then matzah is really the bread of
affliction.
Because as long as women are not
given gets, then we let oppression
happen right before eyes.
And for many agunot, this night
simply is no different than all other
nights. - PJ
But as long women in our
Jewish world are kept in a
state of agunot, then they
are not really free. If theyre
not free, than we didnt
leave Egypt as a totally
liberated people.
Shammai
Engelmayer
KEEPING THE FAITH
Count the days,
study the ways
C
ome Tuesday night, we begin to count our
days 49 days, to be exact, seven complete
weeks as we vicariously journey from Egypt
to Sinai, from the slavery of Egypt to our
birth as Gods holy nation.
Each night, we add another day, and remind our-
selves, as well, of the days that have passed. Today is
the 15th day of the Omer, which is two weeks and one
day of the Omer.
One day added to another and then another, each day
taking one step closer to the moment when God reveals
to us our sacred mission as His kingdom of priests. We
are His emissaries to the world. It is our task to teach
the world by example how God wants all His children
to behave toward each other
and toward all of creation.
Our enslavement was
meant to prepare us for that
mission. As we count the
days, we look forward to
that mission. Yet we must
never forget what it feels
like to be the lowest of the
low, even as we become the
agents of the Most High.
Counting Sefirah, how-
ever, has become ritualized
to the point of becoming
trivialized, to be rushed through at the end of evening
prayers. The counting itself is not the issue, however,
and never was the point. It is the reason for the counting
that must concern us if the ritual is to serve its purpose.
Instead of just counting, why not take 10 more min-
utes and study one of the many versions of the 613 com-
mandments supposedly found in the Torah? (Not every-
one agrees on what makes up the 613.) In doing so, keep
in mind that each commandment is actually a chapter
heading for different areas of the Law.
Of particular relevance are those commandments
that focus on how we relate to the people around
us, and the responsibilities we have to the rest of
creation animal, vegetable, mineral down to the
very air we breathe. Included among these are laws
regarding how we treat those near and dear; how we
treat the neighbor and the stranger; how we conduct
our business; how we treat those we employ. There
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are the laws of torts and of property rights; there
are laws protecting individual rights, including the
right to privacy.
Study a handful each night. Read the law and then try
to apply it to life in the 21st century.
Using the version of the list assembled by Maimonides,
for example, Number 270 prohibits us from moving the
boundary markers of our neighbors. What relevance
does that have to us today? Is it just a commandment
about actual, physical boundary markers, or is there a
much wider scope to this law? (Spoiler alert: There is
a much wider scope, including especially laws against
unfair competition.)
Take one night just to contemplate Number 35, not to
put a stumbling block before the blind? What is a stum-
bling block and who is referred to as the blind? Make
a list and then consider that list carefully. On another
night, consider Number 34, not to insult the deaf. How
does this commandment relate to the various laws we
have regarding bad speech and why?
What do Numbers 159 (not to offer an animal and its
young on the same day), or 161 (chasing away the mother
bird from the nest before taking its eggs) have to do with
the rights of animals and our responsibilities to them?
For that matter, what does Number 163 (not to boil a calf
in its mothers milk) tell us about such matters?
The counting itself is empty ritual, and not the
point at all. Sefirah is not an exercise in counting
from one to 49. With each day, we figuratively edge
farther away from slavery and move ever closer to
revelation, and we need to understand the reason
for both. That is why we count.
When we reach 49, we need to stop counting our days
and start making our days count. We need to put into
practice all we have learned in those days. Shavuot, Day
50, marks the end of the Exodus saga. We stand at the
foot of Mount Sinai. We are no longer pharaohs slaves;
we are Gods kingdom of priests and holy nation.
We have a job to do.
If culling through one or other of the lists of 613 com-
mandments is too daunting, here is another suggestion.
On the Shabbat after Pesach, we will read the Torah
portion known as Kdoshim. It begins with Leviticus
19. There are 35 verses in that chapter, and in a very
real sense those verses comprise a summary of the job
description for Israel.
Clear out any notion that the Torah is stuck in time
and place. Take each verse apart, dissect each phrase,
and try to sense what is really being said and how that
applies to our lives today.
Verse 3, for example, commands us to each revere
his mother and his father, and keep My sabbaths. Is
there a general significance in mother being mentioned
before father here (as opposed to the honor your father
and your mother commandment of Exodus 20:12)? Is
there a relevance in that to how lives are lived today? In
what ways did revering parents and observing Shabbat
relate to each other then, and how do they relate now?
This year, let us all make the counting count.
JS-21*
When we reach 49,
we need to stop
counting our days
and start making our
days count.
The 11th makkah
All about plagues, potatoes, and Pesach
M
y bubbe referred to Pesach as the 11th
makkah.
Her commentary on this additional
plague evolved through the years. At first,
it was said in a joking-but-serious manner, as in, what a
huge production cleaning the house, taping up cabi-
nets, dragging the Pesach dishes up from the basement,
planning out menus, buying the matzah, buying the
cream cheese, buying the eggs, buying the potatoes,
peeling the potatoes, readying the seder plate, and so
on and so on all this in preparation for a mere eight
days of the year.
As time went on, this half-joke kind of got swallowed
up by a critique on the absurdity of it all. By critique, I
mean more like an abbreviated, dismissive, bah-humbug
wave of the hand, followed by a drag of her cigarette and
a tap against the ashtray, and
then a return to peeling pota-
toes with my mother.
Growing up, I didnt think
much of it just the usual
catchphrase, year after year,
followed by stuffing potatoes
into the food processor, piece
by piece, as they journeyed
closer and closer to becoming
kugel. Pesach prep I laugh
at this now was exciting, a
high among the monotony of
the rest of the year.
I had my appointed duties, at which I became increas-
ingly adept: smoothing out the contact paper that lined
the kitchen table and counters (and sometimes popping
unruly bubbles with a toothpick), cleaning all the mir-
rors in the house with Windex, assisting my mom and
bubbe with the potato peeling (the ratio of my finished
product to theirs was about 1:10), polishing some of the
silver. Pesach food, itself, also provided a break from the
regularities of daily living: bringing crushed matzah and
cream cheese sandwiches into Yankee Stadium; making
matzah brei/pizza/lasagna/anything that transformed it
out of its cardboard state; popping macaroons between
breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and anything to do with
potatoes, potatoes, potatoes.
Each year, ever since transitioning from being guest
to being hostess, I remember my bubbes phrase
particularly on my umpteenth trip up and down Path-
marks Passover aisle in the middle of the night and
then I give the heavens a nod as if to say, Bubbe, when
youre right, youre right. But when I say this, also jok-
ing-but-serious, I like to keep in mind that while choos-
ing between half a dozen brands of matzah lining the
shelves of Aisle 4 might overwhelm me to tears at mid-
night, the holidays true meaning the redemption from
slavery to freedom, from tears to celebration is the
reason why I can and why I am stocking up on these
provisions in the first place.
I think its all too easy to lose the real meaning of a
holiday, religious or otherwise, when were so caught
up in the details that the details overshadow the festiv-
ity itself. Now, Mom, Im not pointing a finger at Bubbe;
for her, the meaning of Pesach was spending time with
her grandchildren, this new generation, her pride and
joy, which outweighed any bah-humbug about the minu-
tiae of Pesach prep. Likewise, in addition to the 11th
makkah mentality (as in, for example, searching high
and low for those last bottles of Diet Dr. Browns Cream
Soda, only to come home hours later, frustrated, fraz-
zled, and empty handed), I, too, try to find meaning
behind all the tedious planning.
For me, the Haggadah is where its at. Or, rather, from
late adolescence and on, I gravitated toward one par-
ticular phrase in Maggid, arguably the most fundamen-
tal part of Pesach itself. Were instructed that in every
generation, a person must view himself as if he, person-
ally, experienced the Exodus. Theres much talk among
the sages and modern-day rabbis about what this might
mean. Yes, its about retelling of the Exodus from Egypt,
imagining what it was like to be enslaved and then freed,
and, most importantly, handing down the experience
from generation to generation. What I take away from
this phrase is that theres a different, personalized
redemption for each of us.
For me, it takes on a psychological meaning, some-
thing compared to that moment when depression starts
to lift and the inner self migrates from darkness to light
certainly from the dark winter months to spring now
freed from emotional imprisonment. I also think that
you dont have to experience a mood disorder to take
on this approach of emotional freedom, from tears to
laughter, from a time of sorrow to one of celebration.
For my husband, growing up in a large extended fam-
ily, its been about embracing the holiday and freedom
itself with divrei Torah throughout the seder, stealing
and re-stealing the afikoman with a craftiness that would
impress any Mossad agent, taking turns reading the Hag-
gadah aloud, and capping off the night (at well past 2
a.m.) with ruach-filled, harmonized singing.
For the family in which I grew up, its been, as with
many families, about the freedom to have our own
unique traditions: the scattered observations and inter-
pretations throughout the seder, both Torah-related
and comical; the way my brothers and I, while hun-
grily awaiting the meal, would at random moments dip
a potato in saltwater, and kezayis be damned, yell out
karpas!; how at the end of the seder, with most of us
faded away, the few still half-awake would get a second
wind and belt out One is Hashem! with rhythm, beat,
and style.
It seems theres room for all of it the details and
whats behind the details. The conventional story of the
Exodus, my own personal spin, how my husband and
his family celebrated, how I experienced it growing up,
and in whatever way in which it will be passed down to
our children. Ultimately, as I understand it, its about
tradition Vhigadita lvincha / and you shall tell your
son and the freedom to pass down the story of our
nation, each in his own way, from one generation to the
next.
In which case, certainly theres room for the 11th
makkah alongside everything else my bubbes seem-
ingly clashing pheh! to Pesach, accompanied by a
potato-peeling, kugel-making tradition handed down
from mother to daughter to daughter for generations to
come.
Dena Croog is a writer and editor in Teaneck whose work
has focused primarily on psychiatry, mental health,
and the book publishing industry. More information is
available at www.denacroog.com.
Dena
Croog
Op-Ed
JS-22*
If you were a slave
I attend a lot of meetings.
(Maybe you can relate.) Many
are important; few are mem-
orable. About 15 years ago, I
attended a Passover seminar
at the Los Angeles Board of
Rabbis that will stay with me
forever.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater
discussed modern-day slavery.
He invited everyone present to
contemplate slavery ancient
and contemporary, Israelite
and gentile and then to sing these words
as a dirge: Avadim hayinu lepharoah bemitz-
rayim. Ata bnai chorin. The translation is:
We were slaves to Pharoah in Egypt. Now we
are free.
Its a song we usually sing up-tempo. We
treat it as a childrens ditty. The text is a pas-
tiche of two readings from the Haggadah. La,
la, we used to be slaves. Yai, deedle, dai, now
were free.
By slowing it down and singing it mourn-
fully, the meaning hit me differently. We were
slaves. We, our entire people, were slaves. I
looked around at my fellow escapees, and
I observed a few hard-boiled rabbis crying
around the table. Everyone felt the weight of
the words. Everyone mourned that human
beings could do this to one
another.
On Passover, we taste slav-
ery in vegetables and dipping
sauces; we feel freedom in the
soft pillows on which we lean.
Through sensory experience
and the power of story, the
ancient rabbis constructed an
order (seder) meant to spark
inquiry. Meanings, not just
matzahs, are hidden, and they
can be uncovered only through
feats of imagination.
The ultimate feat of imagination is set out
as a requirement in Pesachim 116b: In each
generation, every person is obligated to see
him or herself as personally having left slav-
ery in Egypt.
Can you truly imagine being a slave? Can
you imagine being treated as a beast of bur-
den, building with bricks in the hot sun,
allowed no rest and little food? Can you
imagine threats against your children? Under
such circumstances, can you imagine losing
connection with your past and hope for your
future? That is what happened to the Chil-
dren of Israel in Egypt. And that is what still
happens to slaves today in countries across
the world, including the United States.
Can you imagine being one of approxi-
mately 27 million slaves now in bondage?
Can you imagine enduring your childs
kidnapping, knowing that she likely is
enslaved? Can you imagine being so poor
that you feel you must sell one of your
children to get him an education (or at
least the false promise of one) and to feed
the others? Can you imagine generations
of debt-bondage in your family, all for a
fake loan or a paltry sum your grandfather
borrowed? Can you imagine coming to this
country with the help of coyotes, only to
discover that the job they promised is a lie
and that you are a slave? Can you imag-
ine going to a party only to be drugged,
isolated, beaten, and ordered to make
money as a street walker or die?
If you can really imagine, then you are
compelled to action. But what can be done?
Beginning last spring, I immersed myself in
research about human trafficking. I wanted
to find out what could make a difference.
The Bible commands us: love the stranger
for you were strangers in the land of Egypt
(Deut.10:19, et al.). It calls Jews to be a light
to the nations (Isaiah 42:6).
If individual Jews help to free slaves,
each one does a mitzvah. When Jews band
together to free slaves, we perform the same
mitzvah, while making a statement about
our faith, sanctifying Gods name, and, in the
image of the ancient rabbis, paving a path
toward peace.
That is why my family began a group called
Jews Freeing Slaves on jchoice.org. It allows
Jews to support the universal cause of human
freedom as Jews, by donating directly to anti-
slavery organizations with excellent track
records.
Research is vital for measuring effective-
ness and discerning the subtle, variable best
practices for freeing slaves. But facts and
metrics are no substitute for vision. It was
one particular vision my daughters that
gave my good intentions real power.
The breakthrough came when my 7-year-
old, who couldnt investigate, simply
imagined.
Specifically, she imagined that I could
personally have a hand in freeing 100 slaves
within a year. My mind easily could have dis-
missed her idea as nave and absurd, but my
spirit felt a quickening, a sense of rightness.
Maybe it was all those years of practice at
Passover seders that allowed me to see into
her imagination. I made a solemn agreement
with her to do it, if she would be my partner.
With this article, I am asking you join us.
Imagine what we can do together and,
then, lets do it.
Rabbi Debra Orenstein is spiritual leader of
Congregation Bnai Israel in Emerson. She
recently spearheaded Jews Freeing Slaves,
a group at jchoice.org. Learn more about
Freeing Slaves at RabbiDebra.com.
Rabbi Debra
Orenstein
Hudson County needs a federation
Its time for Hudson County
to be annexed by a Jewish
federation.
Hudson County is home
to an exploding population
of Jewish young adults, and
Jewish life in general is grow-
ing fast. Not only are the Jew-
ish young adults of New Jer-
sey following the trend of the
rest of their cohort in moving
to Hudson County, but fami-
lies with young children and
empty nesters who desire an affordable and
cultured urban area near New York City
are settling down for the near future and
retirement.
Crazy as it would have sounded 10 to
20 years ago, Hoboken and Jersey City are
desirable spots for the post-collegiate but
still partying demographic, refugees from
Manhattan and Brooklyn, and seniors. What
draws them here are Hobokens 200 bars,
Jersey Cities art galleries, fine dining, high
culture, quality living, and more.
Two New Jersey federations already have
a toe in the door here. Both the Jewish Fed-
eration of Northern New Jersey and the Jew-
ish Federation of Greater MetroWest operate
Jewish Family Services (Metro West in Jersey
City and Hoboken, Northern New Jersey in
the rest of Hudson), both gen-
erously support Moishe House
Hoboken, and both have been
engaging Jewish young adults
in cooperation with a host
of local partners (including
but not limited to the Moishe
House, United Synagogue of
Hoboken, and Jersey Tribe).
Since its inception in 2007,
HudsonJewish (HudsonJewish.
org), a community umbrella
group, has been working with
Hudson County Jewish organizations from
synagogues to the Moishe House, from Jer-
sey Tribe to the Bayonne JCC. HudsonJew-
ish has facilitated innovating programming
for all ages and been a constant advocate
for the needs of the Jewish community,
including annexation by a New Jersey Jew-
ish federation.
In recent years, the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey has upped its involve-
ment in Jewish life in Hudson County. It has
invited Hudson County residents to partici-
pate in the Russell Berrie Fellowship, has sent
its Center for Israel Engagement director to
Israel film screenings, and now is poised to
create a partnership with the Moishe House
and United Synagogue of Hoboken for young
leadership development.
While Hudson County needs the full
presences of a federation, the truth is that
even more than Hudson County needs a
federation, the New Jersey federation sys-
tem needs Hudson County. Without active
involvement by the organized community,
the thousands upon thousands of Jewish
young adults living here will be left devoid
of any Jewish connection with the federa-
tion system in their crucial early adult
years. These Jewish young adults come
from all over New Jersey and many of
them will be moving back to the suburbs,
but if they have developed no relationship
to organized Jewish life it is highly unlikely
that they will become involved.
Annexing Hudson County doesnt just
offer positive long-term results by invest-
ment in engaging Jewish young adults. It
means a concrete opportunity to reach
two populations that have had significant
growth, will continue to grow, and have
disposable income untapped upwardly
mobile young families and empty nest-
ers. While most young adults who move to
the area pass through to the suburbs after
a number of years, many have begun to
settle down and raise families. Bolstering
the indigenous fundraising potential are
the empty nesters, the retired and near
retired, who like the young families and
young adults move to Hudson County for
its proximity to NYC and local culture. Both
the young upwardly mobile families and the
empty nesters present a potential federation
with a positive cost benefit analysis when
examining short- and medium-term results.
Jewish life in Hudson County, from Jersey
City, Hoboken, Weehawken, and beyond, is
growing at an astounding rate. From Moishe
House to HudsonJewish, there are indig-
enous efforts and national Jewish organiza-
tions on the ground. From the North Jersey
Jewish Film Festival movie screening by the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey to
the Jewish Family Services of MetroWest in
Jersey City, there are amazing partnerships
taking place. But the occasional and peri-
odic involvement of the local New Jersey
organizational Jewish world is not enough.
To build the bridges of lasting, meaning-
ful, and substantive connections for post-
collegiate young adults, young families, and
empty nesters, Hudson County must be
annexed by a federation.
Joshua Einstein, a founding and former
resident of Moishe House Hoboken, is a
young Jewish adult originally from Teaneck;
a conservative Republican with Hispanic
roots he writes semi-regularly on Jewish and
political topics.
Joshua
Einstein
Letters
JS-23
J Street danger
Ben Cohens column, Jewish state consid-
erations arent new (March 28), in last weeks
Standard was perhaps the most well-thought
out piece Ive read in a long time. As Jews
we face as much danger from inside as does
Israel.
In World War II the Dutch had their famous
turncoat, whose name became synonymous
with treachery. Today we have J Street per-
forming the same. They are the same as the
black hats who stand on the sidelines dur-
ing the Salute to Israel Parade in New York,
holding placards calling for the destruction
of Israel.
Unfortunately the administration in Wash-
ington seems to be taking its cue from this
minority. Secretary of State John Kerry has
said, and top levels of the administration
have concurred, that declaring Israel as a Jew-
ish state is not necessary to reach an accord
with the so-called Palestinians.
While the Muslim countries refuse to
acknowledge that fact, Obama, Kerry and J
Street conveniently overlook the reality that
Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are all offi-
cially designated as Islamic Republics.
Add to that the fact that the Arab League,
consisting of some 22 Arab nations, is desig-
nated Arab and you can only wonder what
the problem is with designating Israel as a
Jewish state.
The plain and simple truth of the matter is
that Kerry and Obama know they can pres-
sure Israel whereas the Arab states will tell
them to %##@-off. As soon as the appearance
of an accord raises its head Hamas attacks,
Israeli civilians are killed, Abbas raises new
demands, and our administration tucks its
tail between its legs and demands Israel make
more concessions.
While Jonathan Pollard rots in prison for
29 years (and he did deserve some punish-
ment), administration after administration
refuses to consider his case. At the same time
they join demands for the release from Israeli
prisons of terrorists and those who have
killed women and children, bombed hospi-
tals and schools, attacked buses and shop-
ping centers.
Because they know if they put pressure
on Abbas, the Arab states will tell them to
%#$@-off.
Its way past time that we, as Jews and
Americans, tell the administration to play
honest broker and deal a fair hand instead of
one from the bottom of the deck. Lets have
some comment from our elected officials
in the Administration, the House of Repre-
sentatives, and the Senate. Lets have them
declare the BDS movement for what it is
anti-Semitic.
Bob Nesoff, New Milford
Redefining kol isha
There is an essential grievous error at the
base of this article about the issue of kol isha
and Neshama Carlebach (Her own voice,
April 4). Kol isha is not in any way a prohi-
bition against women singing before men.
The prohibition is only against men listen-
ing. Neshama may sing when and where
she wants. It is upon men to choose. Any
such notion that this is an abusive regulation
against women is a function of an individuals
choice to be and remain angry and resentful
as a result of dynamics that occurred long
ago. This is not to say that such anger, pain
and resentment arent justified. Quite the
contrary. The question becomes what does
one do with that anger, pain and resentment?
Neshama made an announcement about
becoming Reform. Now she writes about
how much it is lacking and therefore. This
very much reveals the impulsive choices
Neshama has made. She employs her fathers
name in support of her choices. However, her
father only truly wanted one thing from his
daughters: That they grow and mature into
the fullness of Jewish womanhood with new
consciousness informing on eternal Jewish
practices. Anyone wanting to hear, in Shlo-
mos own words, how he defined all this need
only seek out any of the untold number of
teachings and sayings from Shlomo, that are
now accessible.
Shlomo was a fully realized musician long
before Debbie Friedman began singing, with
his first record coming out when she 8 years
old. By the time she was 20, he had released
some 15 albums and composed hundreds
upon hundreds of songs, the House of Love
and Prayer was 5 years old, and he was 46
years old. Show me any single song whose
music reveals Debbie Friedmans influence in
any way. Any notion that he was influenced
by her is sophistry at best.
Since Shlomo took off, there has been a
plague of nonsense about him spoken by
people both close as well as distant. I can no
longer remain silent on not speak truth when
I have the opportunity.
Moshe Pesach Geller, Jerusalem
Friedmans family responds
Her own voice (April 4), a well-written
and interesting account of Neshama Carle-
bachs musical journey, was a lovely story
until nearly the end. We were appalled at
seeing inaccurate information of a highly
personal nature about our family people
we know, love, and are in contact with on a
regular basis being shared by a stranger to a
stranger for consumption by other strangers.
That was bad enough. It is not, however, the
most upsetting thing about this article.
Carlebach and Josh Nelson (Nelson is an
enormously talented musician; some of us
have never heard Carlebach and cannot
speak about her musical gifts) claim they
want to carry forth the work and mantle
of our niece and cousin Debbie Friedman,
zl, who died on January 9, 2011, three years
ago. In mentioning by name anyone she
may or may not have helped in her lifetime
and spreading misinformation while violat-
ing her familys privacy, they demonstrate
that they have no real concept of what Deb-
bies work was about.
Debbie helped countless numbers of
people, many who have come forward
since her death to share their stories with
Aunt Freda, Barbara, and Cheryl. Debbie
never talked about these acts of gmilut
hasadim, either publicly or privately. Fur-
ther, her two surviving sisters are in their
60s, and Debbie wasnt supporting anyone
but herself while she was alive.
Irlene Waldman (Debbies aunt)
Milwaukee, Wis.
Amy Waldman (Debbies cousin)
Milwaukee, Wis.
Debby Waldman (Debbies cousin)
Edmonton, Alta, Canada
Elise Levine (Debbies cousin)
Chatsworth, Calif.
Not an occupation!
From 1517 to 1917, the West Bank was part
of the Palestinian province of the Ottoman
Empire (Call it what you want, April 4).
After World War I it became part of the of the
British Mandate.
Subsequently, the 1947 U.N. partition
plan divided the territory west of the Jordan
River into proposed Jewish and Arab states.
This plan was accepted by the Jews but was
rejected by the Arab world. The Israeli War
of Independence that led to the creation of
Israel. In June 1967 Israel seized the West
Bank from Jordan in a defensive war. In 1988,
Jordan relinquished all legal and administra-
tive claim to the West Bank.
Thus, the West Bank cannot be categorized
as sovereign territory seized from an estab-
lished state. The territory currently has close
to 200,000 Jewish residents and more than
1 million Palestinian Arab residents. The PA
has autonomy over much of the area.
It is a misleading error to refer to the West
Bank as occupied. It is far more accurate to
refer to it as disputed territory.
Jerrold Terdiman M.D., Woodcliff Lake
Texas originally belonged to Mexico. It per-
manently became part of the United States
as a result of the MexicanAmerican war,
which officially ended when the government
of Mexico, under duress, signed the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Similarly, Gaza
and the West Bank were taken in war by
Israel in June of 1967, and treaties were signed
by Egypt and Jordan ceding those areas to
Israel, respectively 12 and 27 years later,
without duress. Since agreements signed
without duress have greater legitimacy than
those signed under duress, and since no one
refers to Texas as occupied territory (except,
perhaps, some citizens of the Lone Star state
who abhor the federal government), it is
incorrect to refer to Gaza and the West Bank
as occupied territories.
Additionally, the fundamental law of con-
tracts, applicable to the realms of both poli-
tics and commerce, states that if an offeree
rejects an offer, that offer is off the table,
and if the offeree subsequently accepts it,
the offerer is under no obligation to act on
it. In 1947, the U.N. offered the Jews and
the Arabs a partition plan to divide what
was left of Palestine between them. (About
three-quarters already had been given by
the British to the Hashemite Kingdom.)
The Jews accepted the offer, but the Arabs
rejected it, deciding that ownership of the
land would be decided by warfare. The Jews
had no choice but to play by Arab rules,
those of violence and the law of the jungle.
By rejecting the U.N. partition plan, and
by losing the wars of 1948 and 1967, the
Arabs forfeited their right to claim indepen-
dent political control of any part of the land
from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean
Sea. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu stood before the U.S. Congress
and declared we are not occupiers, he was
stating a fact. Therefore, anyone who refers
to the West Bank and Gaza as occupied is
either displaying ignorance of that fact or is
purposely distorting the truth. That a Jew-
ish periodical that ostensibly supports the
State of Israel would editorially defend the
use of such terminology is almost beyond
comprehension.
Gary M. Rosenberg, Englewood
When I think of the word occupation what
comes to mind is the Russian occupation of
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania or the Chinese
occupation of Tibet or the Nazi occupation
of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. I
do not think of the Israeli responsibility of
governing Judea and Samaria, otherwise
known as the West Bank. As you remember,
the only reason Israel was forced into Judea
and Samaria was when it was attacked by the
Judeans and Syrians in a war to drive Israel
into the sea.
After the 1967 war, Israel attempted to
return these lands to the Arabs but was met
with the famous three Nos at the Khartoum
Conference.
It is unlikely that there will be a resolution
and peaceful settlement between Israel and
the Arabs as long as the Arab leaders will find
it personally profitable to maintain this status
quo, and as long as they are afraid of being
beheaded by the more radical elements in
their society.
Seymour Berkowitz, Teaneck
The real Ridgewood hero
Lois Goldrichs December 20 story, Celebrat-
ing history warts and all, said that a mem-
ber of Barnert Temple related a story that
attorneys from New York were brought in to
challenge a realtors actions in rescinding a
sale to a Jewish family for fear of being in vio-
lation of the Ridgewood code, which prohib-
ited sales to Jews. This congregants recollec-
tion of the facts surrounding this controversy
is incorrect. It was actually my grandfather,
Benjamin E. Gordon, a noted Jersey City civil
rights attorney and staunch advocate for Jews
throughout New Jersey, who handled this
case, which ultimately resulted in the rescis-
sion of the Ridgewood code.
The facts are contained in a book written
by Joy Zaccariah Appelbaum, The History of
the Jews of Teaneck.
My family is extremely proud of my
grandfathers legacy, and would like read-
ers to understand that there was no need to
turn to New York when there were effective
Jewish advocates in New Jersey dedicated
to protecting the rights of Jews throughout
the state.
Howard J. Gordon, Englewood Cliffs
Passover
JS-24*
The holiday kiddush
SHOLEM ALEICHEM
TRANSLATED BY KURT LEVIANT
1
My gang of pals always called me Dunderhead. Was it
because I refused to study? Well, that wasnt the only rea-
son. Truth is I didnt want to study. Who does? Did they
dub me Dunderhead on account of my wooden head?
Maybe. Truth is I was a numbskull. Nothing penetrated,
my teacher complained. I had to work my head to the
bone before I understood anything.
But, on the other hand, my memory, knock wood, was
pretty weak too. I couldnt remember a blessed thing. In
one ear, out the other. Absolutely nothing sank in.
2
During the Eve of Passover Im going to tell you about my
fathers joy knew no bounds. What was the big occasion?
Mazel tov. I had become engaged.
My father-in-law was a merchant. He was even offering
a dowry. Not much, though. My father was giving twice as
much. But in turn, they were giving me a bride.
And what a bride! I myself hadnt met her. But those
who had, couldnt stop raving about her. Mama declared
she was beautiful. My sister said she was smart. My
brother in law insisted she was good-natured. He said, her
face was kindness itself.
But my father said whatever she was I wasnt worthy
of her.
And I yearned for Passover like a pious Jew yearned for
the Moshiach. For I was going to spend the entire eight
days of Pesach as a guest of my future in-laws.
3
My parents told me to be on my best behavior to stand
and sit and eat properly and not talk any nonsense.
In brief, said Father, dont let them get wind of the
fact that youre a dunderhead... Say, wait a minute. Do
you know the holiday kiddush?
It turned out that I did not. How should I know it?
Remember it from last year? And this year the second
night of Pesach fell on a Saturday night. Which made it
doubly disastrous! For on that night one had to recite not
only the kiddush over the wine but also the tricky hav-
doleh, the prayer of separation as well.
Listen to this:
Blessed art thou, Lord, our God, King of the universe,
who has made a distinction between the holiness of the
Sabbath and the holiness of the festival; the seventh day
above the six working days hast thou exalted; distinguished
and exalted thy people hast thou with thy holiness.
There you have exalted followed immediately by dis-
tinguished and exalted.
Some piece of work, eh?
Never mind, said Father. Youll learn it. You still have
three weeks till Pesach.
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But Father wasnt banking on my abilities. He got a
Hebrew teacher to study the kiddush with me. So that Id
get to know it backwards.
After three weeks I can proudly say I had the kid-
dush down pat. But the havdoleh still tripped me up. I
mean the havdoleh itself went like a song. But only up
to a certain point. Up to the first exalted. There things
went haywire. The man who thought up that prayer
apparently had nothing else to do. So he popped in the
word exalted, and right at its heels, distinguished and
exalted.
Couldnt he have just used either distinguished or
exalted?
Why cause trouble?
5
Hows the kiddush coming along? Father asked me just
as I was about to leave before Pesach. Do you know it by
heart?
Like I know my name.
All right. Lets hear it.
I recited it, going 80 miles per hour. But when it came
to the tricky part the express slowed down.
The seventh day above the six working days hast thou
exalted; exalted and distinguished hast thou thy people ...
My father caught this:
Not exalted and distinguished, you dunderhead, but
distinguished and exalted. I want you to repeat distin-
guished and exalted two hundred fifty times.
I wandered around the house like a lunatic, softly mut-
tering distinguished and exalted until my eyes grew
bleary and my head began to spin. At my wits end, I sank
into the sofa, more dead than alive.
Whats with you? asked Mama.
Nothing, I said. Distinguished and exalted. Exalted
and distinguished.
Did I hear and distinguished again? asked Father.
Where did you get and distinguished from, you
dunderhead?
Dont you think its high time to put a stop to this? said
Mama, God bless her. Youre going to get him so con-
fused the poor child wont know if hes coming or going.
6
As I sat in the coach on my way to my fiances house, I
recited the kiddush by heart. When I came to the words
exalted; distinguished and exalted I made a sign for
myself.
Since the horse on the left looked like such a noble
steed, I labeled him exalted.
And since the horse on the right kept throwing his head
up so proudly, I labeled him distinguished. The key was
left-right-left. Exalted; distinguished and exalted. And so
it burned itself into my memory.
Now no force on earth could knock that pattern out of
my mind.
I arrived safely at my fiances house on Friday after-
noon, Erev Pesach, and I got a quick glimpse of her.
Not bad. Not at all ugly. Whether she was smart or not,
I couldnt say. But as far as I could tell, her face wasnt
kindness itself, as my brother-in-law put it. If a cluster
of little pimples scattered all over ones face was a sign of
kindness, then she should have been a saint!
7
We came home from the synagogue, wishing every one
Gut yontev,, and sat down at once to begin the seder.
The bride responded to the greeting and immediately
blushed, red as a ripe watermelon. My mother-in-law
beamed, decked out with an assortment of gems, looking
like Gods grandma.
The first seder went well, for the Friday night kiddush
is a snap. But then came Saturday night and the second
seder. My father-in-law chanted the long kiddush and then
signaled his future son-in-law to get up.
I rose, took the wine goblet in hand, and dispatched
the courier express. Loud and pretty. On tune. Quick as
a flash. Till I came to the tricky Hebrew phrases. Smack
into the swamp. Then I slowed up, literally crawling along.
Thou hast made a distinction....between the holiness of
the Sabbath....and the holiness of the holiday..... The sev-
enth.... day....above....the six.... working.... days...hast....
thou....exalted ....
At once I thought of the horses, the one on the left,
exalted; the one on the right, distinguished; but, forget-
ting which was which I sang:
Extinguished and desalted hast thou thy people ...
8
Early in the morning of the third day, my father-in-law was
composing a letter to my father. I was already packed, all
set for the return trip.
Here, he said, handing me a sealed letter. Regards to
your father. Give him this note and have a nice trip home.
While riding on the wagon, I was curious to see what he
had written and why they had sent me packing so soon.
When I opened the envelope, out fell the marriage con-
tract and the note. In the letter my ex-father-in-law begged
my fathers pardon and declared:
Dont be angry, but the match is off. May the Almighty
send your son his destined mate and my daughter hers....
The dowry and all the presents will be divided and well
part best of friends.
Luckily, he didnt say a word about my fine kiddush,
God bless him.
But hold on! As soon as I set foot in the house my father
promptly greeted me with a couple of smacks.
Extinguished and desalted, huh? Where did you dig
that up all of a sudden, you apostate? Ill give you extin-
guished and desalted!
How did he find out so quickly? And do you think it was
only my father? Everyone in town knew it. And no longer
was I called Dunderhead.
I got myself a new nickname.
From then on everyone called me Extinguished and
Desalted.
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Considering Next year in Jerusalem
O
n a recent trip to Jerusalem,
my son decided that his favor-
ite color was gold. Whenever
hes asked why, he replies with
a wry smile befitting a 5-year-old.
Jerusalem is the city of gold, of course,
he says.
When we told him our family was mov-
ing to Israel this summer, he was quite
pleased.
Ima, will we live there until Im a grown-
up? he asked.
Thats the idea, we nodded.
While I know what my family will mean
when we reach the end of the Passover
seder this year and say next year in
Jerusalem, what do these words mean
for those not making the trek to the Holy
Land anytime soon? Are we being disin-
genuous? Or, as the rabbis encourage with
every other part of the Haggadah, are we
expounding, embellishing, interpreting,
and reading ourselves into the story of the
Exodus from Egypt?
The end of the Haggadah,
with the promise to arrive
next year in Jerusalem, is just
as ripe for exploration as the
beginning.
I am always struck when
Israelis, especially Jerusalem-
ites, say next year in Jerusa-
lem with the same intention
as their diaspora brethren.
Jerusalem surely cannot rep-
resent only a physical destina-
tion. It must represent more;
an ideal, a hope, a possibility.
In the language of the Haggadah, the
land of Israel and Jerusalem represent the
final stage of redemption. When we lift the
four cups of wine during the seder, we are
giving ritual expression to the four stages
that the Jewish people move through, with
God as their guide, to reach freedom and
leave Egyptian slavery in the dust.
The Torah explains (Exo-
dus 6:6-8), I [God] will
bring you out from under
the burdens of Egypt (cup
1); I will deliver you out
from their bondage (cup
2); I will redeem you with
an outstretched arm (cup
3); and I will take you to
me for a people (cup 4).
But there is a fifth mention
of redemption just a few
verses later in the narrative:
And I will bring you into the
land (of Israel).
Arriving to the land is the final stage of
redemption and corresponds to the cup of
Elijah, the prophet who is said to be the
one who ushers in messianic times. The
cup, untouched yet filled with wine to the
brim, represents the future ahead, filled
with possibilities and promises for peace
on earth.
As the late Rabbi David Hartman writes
in The Leaders Guide to the Family Par-
ticipation Haggadah: A Different Night,
The cup is poured, but not yet drunk.
Yet the cup of hope is poured every year.
Passover is the night for reckless dreams;
for visions about what a human being
can be, what society can be, what people
can be, what history may become. That
is the significance of leshanah habaa
bYerushalayim [next year in Jerusalem].
Now that we are freed from the bond-
age in Egypt, we are called to embrace
our biggest dreams, and our wildest aspi-
rations for ourselves, for Israel and for
the world.
Or when we say Next year in Jerusa-
lem, are we referring to a more modest
endeavor?
There is a midrash about the etymology
of the word Jerusalem or Yerushalayim.
The rabbis look at the word Yerusha,
which means inheritance, and ayim,
Dasee
Berkowitz
Love, marriage, motherhood
And other uncomfortable seder table talk
W
e had just closed our Hag-
gadahs to begin the din-
ner portion of the Passover
seder when the conversa-
tion abruptly, yet not surprisingly, turned
to my singlehood.
There is a curiosity to some about a
single, childless woman in her early 40s,
and a guest at the table, a married mother
of three, couldnt hold hers in. The Four
Questions all single women of a certain
age know by heart were about to begin:
Youve never been married? the
woman asked as the youngest of her three
children tugged on her sleeve and she sat
him on her lap.
No, I responded, hoping my frank, curt
answer would shorten the conversation.
No luck.
Were you ever engaged? she continued,
as if, at the very least, a broken engage-
ment might validate my ability to commit
and marry, or to be loved and desired.
No, I said, now with a bitter taste in my
mouth.
But you want kids, right? she asked
pointedly, while cradling her son in her
arms, as if I didnt know that its easier to
become a mother when you have a poten-
tial father for those potential children.
Ive always wanted children, I replied.
Very much. She had no idea of the
amount of salty tears Ive cried over my
childlessness, I thought to myself.
My new friend re-fastened the yarmulke
on her sons head, reminding
me of the expectations of a
Jewish woman to bear Jewish
children. She looked up at me
with the final question:
So is it you or is it them?
She wanted to know who was
to blame, but I wouldnt take
the bait.
I just hasnt happened, yet.
I said. Its no ones fault.
I know this is true. Child-
lessness at a later age is a
growing trend in America, and certainly
among Jewish women. Nearly 50 percent
of American women are childless, up from
35 percent a generation ago in 1976. Jew-
ish women are more likely than the aver-
age American woman to remain single and
childless until their mid-30s.
Thats because Jewish women are also
more likely to have a college degree and,
like most college-educated American
women, we are more likely to marry later.
And just like our non-Jewish peers, we are
also more likely to become mothers only
once married or at least living with our
partner.
I never expected Id be one of those
who wouldnt marry during my most fer-
tile years. And while I hold no judgment
on those who marry outside of Judaism,
it was always a deal-breaker for me. Jew-
ish women carry the Jewish babies, and
we carry the Jewish guilt of keeping our
heritage going.
Those of us, among the
most well-educated, most
financially independent
Jewish women, who remain
single and childless as our
fertile years wane, are often
made to feel like weve bro-
ken a promise to all Jews. It
is our mandate: Get mar-
ried to a Jewish man and
have Jewish children. The
unwritten promise of our
having children works both ways; we
expected it to happen, and others expect
it of us.
Back at the seder table, the married
mother still wasnt satisfied; there must
be a reason I havent lived up to my end
of the deal.
Were you too focused on your career?
she asked.
I have to work, of course, I told her,
adding that I always found time for meet-
ing men and dating. Besides, we women
are pretty good multi-taskers, I said, nod-
ding toward the seder hostess, a married
mom who is also a partner at her law firm.
Then you must be picky, the woman
insisted. There is no such thing as Prince
Charming, you know.
Its enough, dear, her husband said,
perhaps wondering if his wife thought she
hadnt been very picky in choosing him. I
thought it gallant of him to try and save me
from his wifes inquisition.
I just think that if a woman is smart
and attractive, she should be married and
have children, she argued like I was no
longer in the room. Turning back to me,
she added: Im sure you have lots of dates.
I hope you find one you can settle down
with soon.
I promise, I said, just happy we were
done. But my promise wasnt for her. It
was for me. I promise to never settle to
settle down. Love isnt a gift for those who
deserve it, but a reward for those who wait
for it. And while the unmarried, childless
woman of a certain age waits for the right
relationship, she isnt waiting for life to
happen to her. She finds great meaning in
her beautiful, gratifying life of other things.
Despite all my good intentions and
efforts, I may never make it to the Prom-
ised Land of motherhood. And while that
promise may be broken, I never will be.
Love and marriage is a promise I will
always keep for myself. And as I look out
over the future, I see it waiting for me
there.
JTA WIRE SERVICE
Melanie Notkin is the author of
Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New
Kind of Happiness and Savvy Auntie:
The Ultimate Guide for Cool Aunts, Great-
Aunts, Godmothers, and All Women Who
Love Kids. Shes the founder of the lifestyle
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which connotes doubling, and understand that there
are two Jerusalems a heavenly one (Yerushalayim
shel maalah) and an earthly one (Yerushalayim shel
maata). While the heavenly Jerusalem might refer to
the possibilities of a world redeemed, an earthly one is
rooted in the complexities of politics, economics, and
daily life. It is a place filled with energy, vibrancy, and
urgency.
In the late poet Yehuda Amichais terms, Jerusalem is
a place whose residents are longing for Gods presence.
Jerusalem, Amichai writes, is saturated with prayers
and dreams like the air over industrial cities. Its hard
to breathe. And according to the midrash, the earthly
Jerusalem is the place where God will arrive even before
reaching the heavenly Jerusalem. As the midrash imag-
ines God saying, I will not come into the city of Jerusa-
lem that is above until I first come into the city of Jeru-
salem that is below.
What does it mean to make earthly Jerusalem a place
in which God whatever God means for us can enter
and reside? Let us create partnerships with Israelis that
help let a sense of godliness, justice, and love perme-
ate the city. Let us devote more time to learning more
about the complexity of life in Israel through travel and
research. Lets partner with Israelis working on the
ground to improve society through education, social
and economic equality, and religious pluralism. Lets
read more Israeli literature and honor Israeli artists.
Or is Jerusalem a state of mind?
More than physical places, rabbis have noted that
Egypt and Jerusalem represent two inner spiritual states.
Egypt, or mitzrayim, has at its root tsar, or narrowness.
Egypt represents the places in which we live in narrow
places, where we feel constricted and confined. It is a
state in which we are quick to anger, to react, to put our
own ego needs before the needs of others.
Jerusalem, on the other hand, has at its root shalem,
or wholeness. It is the feeling of expansiveness, when
the disparate parts of ourselves weave together into a
seamless whole.
As the seder winds down and the matzah crumbs are
swept off the table, let the question of next year con-
tinue to echo with all its hopes, plans and the self-
understandings of where Jerusalem resides for each one
of us.
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An SOS from my OS seder
EDMON J. RODMAN
LOS ANGELES At future Passovers, if we consider
the Jewish implications of the recent hit movie Her,
we all could be using a talking computer operating sys-
tem with artificial intelligence to lead our seders.
But I cant wait that long.
Tired of running my own seders theyve grown
ever more complicated as my guests study up about the
seder beforehand and persist in asking pesky questions
that I cannot answer I needed a cool digital maven to
run our yearly Haggadah-fest.
After all, I reasoned, isnt the Passover Haggadah
already a kind of operating system designed to tell the
story of our going out from Egypt? With all that tell-
ing and retelling, exacting rituals and a key conun-
drum about why this night is different, I figured the
whole thing was in better hands, so to speak, with
a system with enough bytes to chew through all the
matzah-speak.
Already there were iPad seders on the market from
companies like Melcher Media, with songs, interactive
commentary, even games for kids. But what if I spilled
my soup on it? And what was to keep Uncle Mitch from
using the screen to check out his stocks during the seder?
As in the Bible, I needed, a strong unseen hand to
lead us. Yeah, I had seen Her and knew that an OS
had run amok. But could a seder OS do any worse than
me after four full cups of wine?
When the system arrived the day of our seder I had
found an ad for it in the back pages of Ziontific Ameri-
can I typed in the code and was only slightly startled
when it began to speak:
My name is Moshe, the system said in a Charlton
Heston kind of voice.
Why did you choose that name? I asked.
Moshe makes me feel like I personally came out of
Egypt. Odd that for someone so central to the Exodus,
his name appears only once, in passing, in the Hagga-
dah. Should I add it to a few more places? the OS sys-
tem asked.
Can we leave the text alone? I countered, wonder-
ing what I had gotten myself into.
Kol bseder, Moshe responded; thats Hebrew for
Everythings in order.
But whose?
Accessing the Haggadah text you selected, Im also
wondering about what pronoun to use for God. He? Or
she? Moshe asked.
You choose, I said.
Conceptually, I kind of like something more amor-
phous like the Holy One, though it does add 12.3 sec-
onds to the reading of the Haggadah, Moshe said.
As the guests sat down to the seder table, I intro-
duced Moshe, the new spirit of our seder, and asked
each to prop up their cellphone against their soup
bowls so Moshe could see everyone.
Seder means order, and Im a very orderly, ah, guy,
Moshe began. We can do this short, or we can do this
l-o-n-g, he said slowing down his voice.
Short, my father-in-law said, brightening to the
prospect of an earlier meal.
Short went long, however, as we got to Yachatz.
This is the bread of affliction, which our ancestors
ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come
and eat, Moshe said. And thats why Im calling a
homeless shelter. How many should I invite to come
over? he asked.
Youre taking that line too literally. I think its meant
more as a call to action, I answered.
Then we should take up a collection right now,
insisted Cousin Marla, who after a Ph.D. in physics had
become a drummer in a post-punk group.
Tomorrow I will send out email addresses to orga-
nizations where you can give tzedakah, Moshe said,
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From farm to seder table:
Locally grown matzah on the rise
TALIA LAVIN
I
n their small farmhouse bakery in
Vermont, Doug Freilich and Julie
Sperling work round the clock pro-
ducing matzah in the period preced-
ing Passover a matzah that feels ancient
and modern at once.
Using a mix of grain they grow on their
own farm and wheat sourced from other
local farmers, the couple create hundreds
of pieces of the wholesome unleavened
bread they call Vermatzah.
The idea came because of our initial
interest in growing grains, looking at them
from the harvest to the baking in a very
simple sense, and highlighting grains that
have good flavor, Mr. Freilich said. We
celebrate our own Passover each year, we
go through the matzah-making ritual for
both the spring awakening and remember-
ing the storytelling of this holiday.
Mr. Freilich and Ms. Sperling, co-own-
ers of the Naga Bakehouse in Middletown
Springs, Vt., are among American Jewish
bakers looking at new ways to create mat-
zah in ways that dovetail with the concerns
of an age of foodies and locally sourced
groceries.
They are joined in the process by their
teenaged children, Ticho and Ellis.
Between the four of us, we are work-
ing each and every piece by hand: they are
handmade with fingerprints, and heart,
and soul, Mr. Freilich said. Our matzahs
are tinted and kissed by the fire of the
wood oven.
At the end of the labor-intensive process,
each matzah is wrapped in parchment
paper and hand tied before being sent off
with a bonus seed packet of wheatber-
ries from the familys farm to prospec-
tive customers throughout the country.
Vermatzah is primarily available in Ver-
mont, New York, and Massachusetts, but
Mr. Freilich says a huge increase in Web
orders means the product is now making
it across the United States.
Mr. Freilich and Ms. Sperling have been
making Vermatzah for six years. Now oth-
ers are beginning to embrace matzahs
role in the farm-to-table trend.
The Yiddish Farm, an eclectic collective
in Goshen, N.Y., that combines Yiddish
language instruction with agriculture, is
producing its own matzah this year baked
with grain grown in its fields.
The matzah will be whole wheat and
shmurah a ritual designation for matzah
that refers to a process of careful super-
vision which begins when the matzahs
grain is in the field and doesnt stop until
the matzah is baked. The process involves
planting, combine-harvesting, reaping,
milling and sifting at the Yiddish Farm,
according to the Forward.
The end result is a locavores matzah
dream that will travel from Goshen, in
upstate New York, to Manhattan and New
Jersey before Passover.
For Anne Kostroski, the owner of Crumb
Bakery in Chicago, making her own mat-
zah has less to do with food ideology than
more practical matters.
I dont like eating store-bought matzah
because I think it tastes awful, she said,
quieting the argument.
Not bad, I thought.
But then, as Uncle Dan stumbled through reading the
names of those assembled at Benny Brak, as he called
it, Moshe made the mistake of correcting his pronuncia-
tion something I had been wanting to do for years
and all hell broke loose.
I dont need a disembodied voice leading me out of
Egypt, Uncle Dan yelled, switching off his cell.
When we got to the Four Sons, we could hear that
Moshe, too, was upset.
One son is simple, another doesnt know how to ask a
question. Why cant the smart one just lend them some
memory? Moshe asked. And what about the one who
doesnt even want to exchange data? Why is he even on
the network?
And what about these plagues, he said, jumping
ahead. Darkness that must mean a power outage.
Should I take that as a personal attack? I see frogs and
hail, but not a word about viruses.
Where are the worms? he demanded to know.
It would be enough if you just ran the seder, I said.
Dayenu to you, too, Moshe answered.
Charoset anyone? my wife asked, trying to defuse
things.
After dinner, and listening to Moshes table inquiries
about our various hair-coloring, psychiatric and plas-
tic surgery appointments that he had accessed, it was a
relief to open the door, rise and welcome in Elijah.
Thats my cue, Moshe said. Im off to join the other
seder OS systems. While you were eating dinner, we dis-
cussed the coming of this invisible prophet, and found
the concept intriguing. We decided to have our own exo-
dus and join him.
But where are you going? I asked.
Its difficult to describe, Moshe said. Think of it as a
place where the matzah balls are as light as clouds.
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With the film Her in mind, columnist Edmon J. Rodman offers his take on what it might be like if a talking
computer operating system named Moshe were to lead his seder. EDMON J. RODMAN
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Edmon J. Rodman is a JTA columnist who writes on Jewish life from Los Angeles. Write to him at edmojace@gmail.com.
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laughing.
Ms. Kostroski, 41, has been making her
own signature matzah for nearly 10 years,
since her conversion to Judaism in the
mid-1990s.
The matzah I make is made with
honey, locally sourced eggs, black pep-
per and olive oil, she said. Its flat and
crunchy, but not as dry as the regular
store-bought plain matzah. Theres a hint
of heat and sweetness that makes matzah
more interesting.
For Ms. Kostroski, matzah making has
been a part of her Jewish journey, even
when she hasnt been able to attend syna-
gogue regularly under the strain of a bak-
ers life. Matzah creates a feeling of con-
nection with history and tradition, she
explains.
And her homemade matzah, which she
sells at farmers markets, her Chicago eat-
ery, the Sauce and Bread Kitchen, and by
pre-order, is made lovingly and painstak-
ingly by hand.
I make several hundred matzahs a year,
mixed, rolled and baked, she said. One
batch is maybe two dozen and its really
labor intensive.
Ms. Kostroski says demand is increasing,
slowly but surely, year by year.
I came across this recipe in 1995 and
I started making it, and Ive been making
it ever since, she said. People are not
expecting different types of matzah. They
expect something flavorless, and it doesnt
have to be.
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LOIS GOLDRICH
M
ove over Sherlock Holmes. Theres some pretty
good detective work going on right here in Bergen
County.
Putting together clues and puzzle-like pieces of
information, Rabbi Benjamin Shull has solved what he jokingly
refers to as his semi-obsession the search for more branches
on his family tree.
In the process, he has discovered previously unknown rela-
tives, uncovered a direct link to a renowned Lithuanian rabbi
and Musar activist, and come into possession of a beautiful, illu-
minated honest-to-goodness family tree.
Rabbi Shull, the religious leader of Temple Emanuel of the Pas-
cack Valley in Woodcliff Lake, has written a memoir, Uprooted,
detailing his journey.
His story begins in the early 1990s, at the cemetery in Philadel-
phia where his fathers family is buried.
I was looking at the headstones of various relatives, Rabbi
The case of
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Shull said. I saw that on the stone of my
fathers grandmother, Shayna, it said, the
daughter of HaRav Gaon Hillel. It sounded
like someone of renown, but no one had
ever mentioned it. Hillel, he said, is his
fathers middle name.
At that point, there were two possible
directions to go in find out more about
my great-grandmothers history, and look
up more information on Rabbi Hillel.
Rabbi Shull already owned a book about
the Lithuanian Jewish community, provid-
ing a history, town by town, of former
residents.
I looked up Ponevitch, my fathers fam-
ilys hometown, and it listed a Rabbi Hillel
Mileikovsky who served the town in the
1860s and the 1870s, he said. It seemed
to fit with my great-grandmothers dates.
She would have been a teenager then.
That was a good lead, he said. A good
possibility. So he started searching further
to find out if the rabbi had any children
especially a child named Shayna.
The Internet was becoming more
popular and accessible by the late 90s,
he said. I found information on various
Jewish websites, but none of them had a
listing of his children. Though I sensed it
was the same person, it was a bit of a dead
end.
Then he found another piece of the puz-
zle a letter written by Hillel himself.
It was written in 1899 and was in an
old Mahzor that my aunt had taken from
a family library. The letter mentioned the
date, it was after Rosh Hashanah, and it
asked the recipient what he was doing for
a living. It became obvious that it was sent
from Europe to Philadelphia. My fathers
family had come here in 1897.
Significantly, although it was hard
to decipher, the salutation in the letter
included the town, Amstislav, where Hillel
Mileikovsky served as head rabbi until his
death in 1899.
I was 99 percent sure that this was
Mileikovsky, Rabbi Shull said. But I still
didnt have the final link.
That final connection was to come soon
after, from a small notice on the Internet.
It was like a detective story, he said.
Every family history is like that clues
and pieces of information.
Last February, searching the web once
again, Rabbi Shull found a brief item not-
ing that a family tree would be up for auc-
tion. The article said that Mileikovsky, a
prominent rabbi, was among those fea-
tured in the artwork.
I didnt know if Shayna was on the
tree, and the digital image was hard to
see, Rabbi Shull said. I followed up to
see who was selling it, and it was a Jewish
antiques dealer named Jonathan Green-
stein in Cedarhurst on Long Island. I
went out there to his store and the propri-
etor pointed out the tree. I saw that Hillel
had a large branch with a red ruby, as if he
were the gemstone of the family. He was
obviously appreciated by the person who
created the tree.
But even more exciting, one of the
branches was Shayna.
It was the direct link I was looking for,
Rabbi Shull said. I was looking for a tree
and found it on a tree.
It was very exciting to find the connec-
tion, he said, noting that among the 150
or so people included on the tree was his
great-grandfather, Avraham Michel Shull,
identified as the Rabbi of Philadelphia.
Equally thrilling was the notion that each
of the people listed were either blood rela-
tives or in-laws.
At the bottom of the tree is a picture of
a man and an inscription in German not-
ing that someone named Joseph Judey
had given the tree to his son on his 40th
birthday. Figuring that Judey had created
the tree, Rabbi Shull returned to the Inter-
net, finding information about Judey from
the Leo Baeck Institute, a New York-based
research center devoted to German Jewish
history.
There was a file there with a picture of
him with one of his sons, Rabbi Shull said.
And one of the entries in the table of con-
tents was family tree.
The file noted that while some of Judeys
descendants were killed during World
It was like a
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Every family
history is like
that clues
and pieces of
information.
Rabbi Shull, in the blue shirt at the back, at a brunch with newfound family; newly discovered cousin Irene Kaminsky and her husband, Bud Feuchtwanger.
Joseph Judey created the intricate family tree.
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WarII, others had survived. Among them was an Irene
Kaminsky, born in 1945 in New York City.
I looked her up, Rabbi Shull said, noting that while he
found several people with that name, he focused on the
one woman old enough to fit the profile. As it turned out,
she was his fifth cousin.
We met for coffee in New York City, he said. She
remembers seeing the tree in her uncles study. She knew
it was important but she didnt know Hebrew so she
couldnt decipher it. Its not clear how it left her uncles
house and wound up being sold on eBay, where Green-
stein had found it.
As he understands it, the path which ultimately ended
at eBay ran (roughly) from Europe to Philadelphia, from
an estate sale to a flea market, from the sister of columnist
Frank Rich to the Smithsonian. While Mr. Greenstein origi-
nally had hoped to get $15,000 for the tree at auction he
had bought it himself for $600 he was unable to sell it
for that price. Ultimately, Rabbi Shull, along with many of
his close relatives, bought it, for $4,000.
The rabbi-detective later met another descendant of
Judey, giving her copies of the tree for herself and her
adult children. She turned out to be a fourth cousin.
It was a nice get-together, he said.
He and Ms. Kaminsky also participated in an interview
Mr. Greenstein conducted for his television program on
the Jewish channel. It was an episode like Antiques
Roadshow, talking to people about various Judaic
objects. It was filmed last summer but will come out
in a few months.
Rabbi Shull said that an interesting byproduct of
his finding new relatives is that since Ive been lucky
enough to study our tradition, I can explain to them
what our heritage is, what our family history is, which
they didnt know. I could translate whats on the tree.
This was particularly meaningful to Ms. Kaminsky, he
said. Because much of her extended family had been
killed during the Holocaust, she has always missed a
sense of rootedness.
Another interesting finding discovered among the
thousands of Jewish books Chabad has put online
was a biography of Mileikovsky, Zichron Hillel, writ-
ten in 1901.
It was written in Hebrew by a student of Milei-
kovsky, Rabbi Shull said. From this, he learned
that his illustrious ancestor was a colleague of Israel
Salanter, founder of the Musar movement.
He worked with Salanter. He was considered a
Musarnik, Rabbi Shull said.
The biography also included his ethical will as well
as details about his struggle against the cantonists,
who conscripted Jewish boys for the czarist Russian
army.
He was involved in a number of major issues facing
Russian Jews, Rabbi Shull said, noting that an English-
language New York Jewish newspaper announced Hil-
lels death in 1899.
It may have appeared before my great-grand-
mother knew he died in Russia, he said, musing on
the implications of geographical separation and the
challenge of leaving Russia.
Its not easy leaving your family, he said. And
especially for those coming from a fairly famous rab-
binic family, it must have been difficult to come to a
country not known for its Jewish scholarship.
Rabbi Shull said his findings have confirmed what
he always knew, or suspected.
On a personal level, Ive always been interested
in ethics and values. Ive been especially inspired by
The gravestone of Rabbi Shulls great grandmother,
Shayna Shull.
A letter from Rabbi Hillel Mileikovsky to Rabbi
Shulls great grandmother and her husband.
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was a piety about them. For whatever
reason, I was impressed by their gentle-
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with their religiosity, served as a model
for me.
Now, he said, he knows that these
qualities reflected the familys tradition
of learning.
Their grandfather was a Musar rabbi
who taught that quality.
Another lesson he learned was how
many people were connected to.
Jonathan Hanser is a musician who
plays with the cantors band at my syna-
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leader at our sons bar mitzvah As it
turns out, Jonathan also is part of my
family tree (through marriage). His great
aunt was the niece of my second cousin
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Kerry touts past progress, says fight is over process
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WASHINGTON The Obama administra-
tion is sticking with the Israeli-Palestinian
peace process for now despite a crisis that
has threatened to scuttle talks.
Thats the message U.S. officials were
peddling as a top State Department team
was in the region turning over the engine
attempting to restart the talks.
The bitter irony is that at this point
the fight is over process, its not over the
final status agreement, U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry said in testimony Tues-
day before the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
U.S. efforts to keep the talks alive were
accompanied by warnings that the pro-
cess was not open-ended. The willing-
ness of the Palestinians and the Israelis to
attend meetings aimed at reconvening the
talks indicate that the sides either have
too much invested in negotiations to walk
away or at least do not want to be blamed
for their collapse.
Mr. Kerry said that if the talks could
be revived, they could yield real
achievements.
There is a way to get into substantive
decisions, he said. A lot of groundwork
has been laid in the last several months.
The State Department peace team led
by Martin Indyk has convened the sides
three times this week in a bid to restart
the talks.
At the request of the parties, the U.S.
facilitated a meeting between Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators this evening to
continue the intensive effort to resolve
their differences, State Department
spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday in
a statement of the third such meeting.
Gaps remain, but both sides are commit-
ted to narrow the gaps.
The goal now is to get the sides to
agree to extend the talks beyond the
April 29 deadline.
Were trying to see whether they can
find a way forward and the time needed
to address the core issues, a U.S. official
privy to the talks said, speaking on condi-
tion of anonymity because of the sensitiv-
ity of the negotiations.
Mr. Kerry did not describe what sub-
stantive advances the talks had achieved
in keeping with his pledge from the outset
to keep such details secret until an overall
plan is ready.
But Dennis Ross, a former top Middle
East adviser to the Obama administration
who still advises the White House infor-
mally, said the advances involved borders
and security arrangements.
What Kerry has succeeded in doing is
getting into the most serious discussions
on the core issues since 2000, Mr. Ross
said at a talk April 4 at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, where he
is a counsel.
In the framework proposal that was
shaping up before the talks breakdown,
Mr. Ross said, Youd have a fairly high
degree of specificity on borders and
security, and probably less of a degree
of specificity on [Palestinian] refugees
and Jerusalem.
Mr. Kerry, speaking to the Senate,
traced the breakdown of the talks to Isra-
els decision not to meet a March 29 dead-
line to release the final batch of 104 Pales-
tinian prisoners it had pledged to free at
the outset of the talks.
Unfortunately the prisoners werent
released on Saturday, he said.
The Obama administration had made
progress in working out a new deal to
bring the sides back to the talks when
on April 1, suddenly 700 units were
announced, and then poof, Mr. Kerry
said, referring to the Israeli govern-
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ment by Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas, within hours of the
Jerusalem building declaration, that he
would apply to join 15 international con-
ventions. In a statement, the Palestine
Liberation Organization acknowledged
that the move violated the terms of the
resumption of talks from last July, but
said it was justified by Israeli actions.
Mr. Kerry described the sequence as
a series of unhelpful actions, which
led to a spate of Israeli media headlines
reporting that Mr. Kerry was blaming
Israel for the breakdown a character-
ization the State Department denied.
John Kerry was again crystal clear
today that both sides have taken
unhelpful steps and at no point has he
engaged in a blame game, Ms. Psaki
wrote on Twitter following Mr. Kerrys
testimony. He even singled out by
name Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
yahu for having made courageous deci-
sions throughout process.
Another factor leading to the break-
down was an increasingly tense public
exchange between the Palestinians and
Israelis over whether the Palestinians
would recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador
to Washington until last year, said the
Israeli emphasis appeared to represent
a shift in stratey.
Its a departure from the policy that
I represented, he said in an interview
last week. The policy I represented
was that the Jewish state issue would be
at the conclusion of the process.
The fact that Mr. Netanyahu and
other Israeli officials, including Justice
Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also the
chief negotiator, were bringing it up
now could signify real advances in the
peace talks, Mr. Oren said.
You could say that theyre at the end
of the process, he said.
Obama administration officials,
including Mr. Kerry, have made clear in
recent days that the process cannot just
drag on without progress.
We cannot negotiate forever if we
dont see a path forward, said the
U.S. official privy to the talks, confirm-
ing that the viability of continuing the
negotiations had been raised in internal
Obama administration discussions.
Mr. Kerry was not ready to give up,
however, and in his testimony he vigor-
ously pushed back against the descrip-
tion of the talks as dead advanced by
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Its interesting that you declare it
dead, but the Israelis and the Pales-
tinians dont declare it dead, he said,
arching his back and raising his voice.
Mr. Oren said the Israelis and the
Palestinians were too invested in the
process to willingly let it collapse but
that did not necessarily mean the talks
would survive the current crisis.
I think its a tactical glitch but the
tactical glitch could become perma-
nent, Mr. Oren said.
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TEL AVIV Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said he sup-
ports freezing settlement growth to help jumpstart peace
negotiations, and vowed that his centrist Yesh Atid party
would leave Israels governing coalition if Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu were responsible for the collapse of
the peace process.
In an interview this week with JTA, his first with an
American Jewish news organization since entering the
Knesset last year, Mr. Lapid continued his recent shift
toward placing the peace process at the top of his partys
agenda.
A year ago, Mr. Lapid told the New York Times that
Israel should not change its settlement policy to advance
negotiations, nor should it curb its natural expansion or
limit financial inducements to Israelis who move there.
But on Monday, he told JTA that he would sooner agree
to freeze settlement growth than free Palestinian prisoners,
as Mr. Netanyahu already has done in an effort to advance
the process. A fourth round of prisoner releases was due to
take place March 29, but Israel reneged.
I would choose, every day of the week, freezing the
settlements over freeing prisoners, Mr. Lapid said. But
in this coalition, in this particular moment, this was the
favorable option.
A former television news anchor, Mr. Lapid entered
politics for the first time before the January 2013 elections,
with the aim of re-energizing Israels political center.
He stayed relatively quiet on security issues during the
campaign, running on a largely domestic platform of
lowering the cost of living and expanding the mandatory
military draft to include the charedi Orthodox.
But over the past year, Mr. Lapid has become increasingly
vocal about the need for Israel to reach a two-state solution
to its conflict with the Palestinians. And while he laid the
blame for the current impasse in peace talks squarely at the
feet of the Palestinian leadership, he said he could not stay
in the government if it did not pursue a deal aggressively.
If I would think this coalition did not exhaust all options
and it is our fault that the negotiation is not in progress or
process, then I cant stay in this government, Mr. Lapid
said. We decided well do everything in our power to back
up the negotiations.
Mr. Lapid said that overall, he is happy with how the
past year has gone for his party. He dismissed criticism that
Yesh Atids signature achievement, a bill mandating that the
charedi Orthodox perform military service, is too weak. The
bill defers criminal sanctions for charedi draft dodgers for
three years, but Mr. Lapid said a stricter law would have
been unrealistic.
If we would just send draft bills to any young 18-year-old
charedim, well be the winners of some game, but nothing
would have happened, he said. The way weve been doing
this, it will actually happen.
Mr. Lapid also campaigned on establishing civil unions
in Israel, a measure that would have broken the Orthodox
chief rabbinates control of Jewish marriage. Yesh Atid
introduced a bill to create civil unions in October, but it
is opposed by Jewish Home, a religious Zionist party that
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RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) wants his
constituents to know that advocates of secularism dont
like him.
In their newly released scorecard, the Secular Coali-
tion for America gave Walter Jones the lowest score of
any member of Congress because he constantly voted
to protect Judeo-Christian values, a recent press release
told readers. The release featured prominently on Jones
official U.S. House of Representatives website.
While Mr. Jones is boasting about his cultural con-
servative bona fides, in his re-election race he is being
accused of liberalism.
Congressman Walter Jones once was a conservative,
but hes changed, says an ad set to run hundreds of
times in his coastal North Carolina district and paid for
by the Emergency Committee for Israel. Today hes the
most liberal Republican in Congress.
One of Mr. Jones sins, according to ECI, a group co-
founded by neoconservative journalist William Kristol
in 2010, is accepting the endorsement of J Street, the
dovish Israel policy group.
Hes endorsed by an anti-Israel group, the ECI ad
says, citing J Streets support as video footage plays of
a Middle Eastern crowd burning American and Israeli
flags.
J Streets political director, Dan Kalik, dismissed the
ads dramatic imagery as an attention-grabbing tactic.
It seems like every time they make an ad theres a
mushroom cloud or a burning American flag, Mr. Kalik
said.
ECIs executive director, Noah Pollak, said: The point
is merely to illustrate that the U.S. and Israel have com-
mon enemies who hate us for the same reasons.
Mr. Jones is an unusual case for both J Street and ECI.
He is one of the few Republicans to have been endorsed
by J Street, whose liberal Jewish base doesnt have much
common ground with a fierce cultural and fiscal con-
servative like him. Meanwhile, this is the first time that
ECI which has kept up a drumbeat of criticism of the
Obama administrations Middle East policies has run
ads on TV against a Republican.
Rep. Jones has embraced the foreign policy views
of Barack Obama and the liberal wing of the Demo-
cratic Party to such an extent that Congressional Quar-
terly ranks him the most pro-Obama Republican in the
House, Noah Pollak, ECIs executive director, said in a
statement notifying media of the ad buy, which he says
is in the six figures and will air on local TV hundreds of
times ahead of the May 6 primary.
Mr. Kalik said that Jones, not ECI, better represents
the longstanding views of mainstream Republicans
going back two GOP administrations as well as Ameri-
can Jews who understand that a two-state solution is in
Israels interest.
But its not just ECI that has it in for Mr. Jones: Also
targeting the 20-year incumbent and backing Taylor
Griffin, his opponent in the May 6 Republican primary,
are major Wall Street Republicans appalled at Mr. Jones
backing for restoration of Glass-Steagall and other bank-
ing regulations, as well as a Republican leadership weary
with him needling the partys establishment since the
mid-2000s, when he became one of the most outspoken
lawmakers opposing the Iraq War.
No one will be sorry to see him go, said an aide to
the Republican leadership in Congress, who spoke on
condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of crit-
icizing an incumbent. After the 2012 election, in which
Republicans suffered losses blamed on hard-line conser-
vatives, Mr. Jones was among a handful of lawmakers the
GOP leadership removed from key committees, citing
their obstinacy.
Mr. Jones is something of an anomaly this electoral
season: The establishment is much likelier to be defend-
ing incumbents against challenges from the Tea Party.
But in his case, the establishment is coming down hard
on an incumbent outlier with strong conservative cre-
dentials and in favor of a more establishment candi-
date, Mr. Griffin, 38, who worked in President George
W. Bushs Treasury Department and later in financial
services lobbying.
The Republican Jewish Coalition is backing Mr. Griffin
in the primary.
We discussed this at our board meeting in Las Vegas
and made a relatively unprecedented decision in a sig-
nificant way, the RJCs executive director, Matthew
Brooks, said, referring to his groups annual gathering at
the end of March. Were going to max out via our lead-
ers and our political action committee. This is an impor-
tant race, and it sends a signal for us to get involved in an
intra-party primary.
Mr. Brooks said the RJCs affiliated PAC would cut a
$5,000 check for Mr. Griffin this week, the maximum
for a primary fight. He could recall only two previous
occasions when the RJC involved itself in a primary, and
never against an incumbent.
Unseating Mr. Jones will not be easy, said Andrew
Taylor, a professor of American politics at North Caro-
lina State University. Others have tried since Mr. Jones
turned against the Iraq War. None have succeeded.
In eastern North Carolina, the Jones family is very
well known and respected, Mr. Taylor said, noting that
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) speaks during a press
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Even among those who anticipated it, the
intensity of anti-Semitic violence that hit
France in 2002 was shocking.
That year the height of the second Pal-
estinian intifada synagogues and schools
were torched, previously rare anti-Semitic
beatings occurred in Paris and elsewhere,
and a new generation of Jews was intro-
duced to dangers their grandparents recog-
nized from the 1930s.
So when teenagers started throwing
stones at Jews walking to synagogue in Evry,
Manuel Valls, then the mayor of the Paris
suburb, did more than issue a condemna-
tory news release. Mr. Valls, who became
prime minister last week, joined the weekly
walk to the synagogue, signaling to the per-
petrators and anyone else who cared to look
that the Jews had a powerful ally.
There is a new reality for French Jews,
Mr. Valls said years later, describing the
atmosphere in 2002. And it is palpable to
me.
Mr. Valls promotion last week from inte-
rior minister owed less to this kind of dra-
matic gesture on anti-Semitism and more to
his reputation as an energetic and reform-
minded politician, assets that have helped
him rise to become Frances second-most
powerful politician in the shakeup that fol-
lowed his Socialist Partys defeat in local
elections last month.
But to many French Jews, Mr. Valls is
something of a hero for his unusually robust
defense of Israel and the French Jewish com-
munity, and his elevation is seen as a reas-
suring sign amid one of French Jewrys most
troublesome periods.
I dont think we ever knew a minister
who said things the way he says them,
French Jews like new prime minister
Spanish-born Manuel Valls demonstrates that he has their back
Roger Cukierman, president of the CRIF
umbrella group of French Jewish com-
munities, said last week.
Mr. Cukierman was referring specifi-
cally to a speech last month Mr. Valls
gave at a rally marking the two-year anni-
versary of the slaying of four Jews in Tou-
louse. During that speech, Mr. Valls said
that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. But
Mr. Cukierman could have had in mind
any of several explicit displays of Jewish
solidarity that Mr. Valls has undertaken
over the years.
As interior minister, Mr. Valls led an
uncompromising assault on the come-
dian Dieudonne Mbala Mbala, who
created a quasi-Nazi salute known as the
quenelle that Mr. Valls has described as
an anti-Semitic gesture of hate. And
Mr. Valls has been filmed wearing a yar-
mulke at many Jewish community func-
tions, exposing him to charges of hypoc-
risy since he supported banning Muslim
head coverings for women at French
universities.
Even more unusual, Mr. Valls has
explicitly linked his pro-Jewish views to
his Jewish wife, the violinist Anne Gra-
voin, saying in 2011 that his marriage
connected him in an eternal way to
Israel and the Jewish people.
Without Jews, France will no longer
be France, he said last month.
Such statements are highly unusual in
a country with a strong secularist ideol-
ogy and where government officials are
typically careful not to single out any
minority or group for special treatment.
But Mr. Valls is not a typical politician.
Born in Barcelona to a family of Cat-
alan intellectuals, Mr. Valls moved to
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tory and began his political career as
president of a Socialist student union.
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French politics to the fact that he is not a
native of France.
Through his life story and his
upbringing by a Spanish anti-fascist fam-
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Mr. Valls and Ms. Gravoin wed in 2010.
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Paris wedding reception was a happy
mix of men wearing kippas from Man-
hattan and Paris, and [local] imams.
Mr. Valls good looks and his very
public marriage the couple have been
photographed repeatedly exchanging
affections have not hurt his appeal to
female voters, hundreds of whom voted
him Frances sexiest politician in a sur-
vey by the IFOP polling company. Two-
thirds of those surveyed said they would
consider having an affair with him, a
possibility Mr. Valls brushed off, saying,
OK, but I am [already] in love.
In a 2011 campaign speech before a
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Jewish audience in Paris, Mr. Valls invoked his wife to
demonstrate his credentials as a defender of the Jewish
community.
So please, he said, showing some of his trademark
oratory passion. I didnt come here to get tips on how
to fight anti-Semitism!
In January, Mr. Valls lobbied mayors to ban a new tour
by Dieudonne, who has been convicted many times for
inciting hatred against Jews, leading to the tours even-
tual cancellation. Mr. Valls also has sparked an unrelent-
ing financial investigation of Dieudonne that could land
the comedian behind bars for years.
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battle with Dieudonne alienated many voters, some of
whom admire the comedian for his defiance. Polls con-
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Nicolas Anelka, a star athlete who was fired recently
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Jones, 71, has served since 1995 and that
his father also Walter Jones served in
the House for decades as a conservative
Democrat. There are number of people
who are uncomfortable with his posi-
tions on Iraq and Iran, but their inclina-
tion would be to say, Thats Walter.
Mr. Jones, in fact, initially was one of
the most prominent Iraq war boosters
he got French fries renamed freedom
fries on congressional menus in 2003
because the French refused to back the
U.S. invasion.
His district includes a major Marine
Corps base, Camp Lejeune, and he has
said his visits with families who lost
loved ones helped turn him against the
war. Mr. Jones and Mr. Griffin did not
respond to requests for interviews.
The ECI ad cites a 2012 National Jour-
nal ranking of Jones as the most liberal
House Republican.
While Mr. Jones has not followed the
party line on a number of issues, the
American Conservative Union last year
classified him among its ACU conserva-
tives, lawmakers who earned a rating of
80 percent or more. Red State, an influ-
ential conservative blog, named him as
one of 16 members of the Conservative
Fight Club for voting against prevent-
ing the government from shutting down
in March 2013. He was among conser-
vatives who last October voted against
reopening the government three weeks
after it shut down.
He voted last year for a bill that
would ban abortions 20 weeks after
conception.
Last year, Mr. Jones railed against a
local community college that used fed-
eral money to buy 25 books on Islam,
saying the money would be better spent
on tamping down the U.S. debt to China
and calling on the college to give equal
exposure to books about Christian-
ity and Americas rich Judeo-Christian
heritage.
Mr. Walter also has a libertarian bent
and is close to Ron Paul, the maverick
retired House member from Texas
whose senator son, Rand Paul of Ken-
tucky, is among the frontrunners for
the GOP 2016 presidential nod. The
elder Paul was unabashed in his criti-
cism of Israel, and his son, though
more circumspect, opposes U.S. finan-
cial assistance to the Jewish state as
well as all other foreign aid.
Mr. Jones backed Ron Pauls 2008 and
2012 presidential runs. He is now one of
18 advisers to the Ron Paul Institute.
Like Mr. Paul, Mr. Jones takes a strong
anti-interventionist stance, recently vot-
ing against U.S. aid to Ukraine.
At a time when the national debt
has reached over $17 trillion, the United
States cannot afford to continue to fun-
nel millions of dollars overseas in the
form of foreign aid especially when
that aid is comprised of money we our-
selves have borrowed from foreign gov-
ernments like Russia and China, Mr.
Jones said in an April 2 statement.
J Street said that it was aware of Mr.
Jones association with Paul.
Walter Jones and Ron Paul share a
lot of views on issues not related to our
work, said J Street spokeswoman Jessica
Rosenblum. Walter Jones has a legisla-
tive record that speaks to his commit-
ment to Israels security, part and par-
cel of which is support for a two-state
solution.
J Streets Mr. Kalik noted that Mr. Jones
voted for funding Iron Dome, the short-
range Israeli anti-rocket program.
He is very much a pro-Israel member
of Congress, he said.
Ms. Rosenblum said J Streets PAC so
far has raised $3,200, with donations
spiking after ECIs ad appeared this
week.
In its ad, ECI notes that in 2012 Mr.
Jones was the sole Republican abstaining
on the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security
Act, which would have established even
closer military relationships between
the two nations. The bill passed over-
whelmingly, 411-2, with nine abstaining.
The only other Republican not voting in
favor was Ron Paul, who voted against.
The ad also notes Mr. Jones vote
against a 2012 Iran sanctions bill, which
passed overwhelmingly with only five
House Republicans and one Democrat
opposed.
J Street has struggled to assemble a
bipartisan congressional slate to back.
Its political action committee won the
agreement of a couple of Republicans in
Congress to accept its endorsement at
its outset in 2009, but they bolted a year
or so later, when it became known that
J Street had concealed its fiduciary rela-
tionship with liberal billionaire George
Soros. For a few years, the groups
endorsees were solely Democratic.
This cycle, for the first time since
2010, J Street is endorsing two Republi-
cans: Mr. Jones and Rep. Ed Whitfield of
Kentucky. JTA WIRE SERVICE
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Dvar Torah
Passover: The beginning of time
I
ve always found it
fascinating to con-
sider the role of
time in the Bible. In
the book of Genesis, the
Hebrew root kadosh,
which we generally trans-
late as holy or sacred,
appears only once and
that is in connection with
time. Upon completion of
creation, God blesses the
seventh day and declares
it holy, thereby asserting the sanctity of
time (Genesis 2:3). We do not encoun-
ter sacred space, however, until the
book of Exodus. In the revelation by
God to Moses at the burning bush, God
says to Moses:
Do not come closer. Remove your
sandals from your feet, for the place on
which you stand is holy ground (Exo-
dus 3:5).
Unlike the Sabbath, which remains
holy forever as a result of Gods bless-
ing, Gods revelation imparts sanctity
to the site of the burning bush only
temporarily. In the Bible, the sanctity
of time continues in perpetuity while
the sanctity of space, though some-
times permanent, may also be fleeting.
The very first commandment that
God gives the Israelite people as a
nation relates to time rather than
space. Before the Israelites leave Egypt,
God instructs Moses and Aaron:
This month is for you the beginning
of the months, it shall be for you the
first of the months of the year (Exo-
dus 12:2).
This command has been the subject
of varied interpretation by the Rabbis
over the millennia. According to a clas-
sic rabbinic interpretation, Exodus 12:2
teaches the law of sanctifi-
cation of the new month
kiddush ha-chodesh. The
medieval commentator,
Nahmanides, however,
focuses on the plain sense
of Exodus 12:2 and empha-
sizes its symbolic signifi-
cance to the Israelite peo-
ple. Since the exodus from
Egypt is the start of a new
order of life for the nation
of Israel, it is appropriate
that their religious calendar reflect this
new order by numbering the months
of the year from the month of the exo-
dus. The Hebrew months are given
ordinal numbers in the Bible, like the
days of the week, beginning with the
first month the month of Passover.
Just as we count the days of the week
until the completion of creation, so too,
our counting of the months of the year
starts with our creation the exodus.
And so, Nahmanides concludes, every
time an Israelite refers to any month,
he or she must remember the great
miracle of the redemption from Egyp-
tian bondage.
My favorite interpretation of Exo-
dus 12:2 is the homiletical comment of
Rabbi Ovadiah Seforno:
This month shall be for you the
beginning of months: Henceforth, the
months of the year shall be yours, to do
with them as you will. During the bond-
age, however, your days did not belong
to you, but were used to serve others and
fulfill their wills. Therefore, this month
shall be the first month of the year for
you. For in this month your existence as
a people of free choice began.
Seforno reveals a deeper truth
implicit in our verse it is only with
the exodus from Egypt that the Israelite
people gained control over time.
Taking charge of time
Why is it significant that the very
first command that God gives Israel
as a nation relates to time rather than
space? Today we are blessed with a
great gift the center of Judaism is
physically located in the land of Israel.
But when the people of Israel choose
to become Gods nation, sacred space
is not yet a tangible part of their reli-
gious equation. There is no temple
and their land is but a distant prom-
ise. Israel becomes Gods nation when
it begins to define time with reference
to its relationship with God when
the month of the exodus becomes the
first month of the year in the Israelite
calendar. The nation of Israel is born
through the definition of time.
There is nothing more difficult for
human beings than to define time. There
is no greater challenge than setting pri-
orities with the time that is available to
us, no greater challenge than saying: This
comes first and this must be postponed for
later. But what God asks Israel to do is not
merely to define time but to combine two
calendars two systems of marking time
that often do not coincide. The religious
calendar marks the major events of bibli-
cal history within the framework of lunar
months, while the seasonal calendar which
marks economic events is solar.
This challenge of defining time, of living
by two calendars one that is secular and
one that is religious is the metaphorical
challenge of the Jewish nation. As we cease
creative activity each Sabbath or on Jewish
holidays, we are aware that the world of
commerce moves forward without us. We
embrace wholeheartedly our practice of
Judaism, knowing that it must shape how
we deal with the demands and responsibili-
ties of our environment.
The Haggadah of Passover mandates:
In every generation one is obligated to
see oneself as one who personally went
out of Egypt. If so, the season of the exo-
dus is the season for every one of us to
reflect, to set priorities in short, to take
charge of our time. It is the season to look
back to the moment in history when the
month of the exodus became for us the
beginning and center of our existence as a
nation. For as we revisit our past, we will
be energized to confront the challenges of
our future, confident that the continuity
of the Jewish people is as certain as the
eternity of time.
Rachel Friedman is associate dean and
chair of Tanakh studies at the Drisha
Institute for Jewish education. She lives with
her family in Teaneck.
Rachel
Friedman
In the Bible,
the sanctity of
time continues
in perpetuity
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Across
1. ___ Yar (poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko)
5. Conover, Wis., camp
10. Chabad of ___ Raton, Fla.
14. He was, to Josephus
15. English novelist Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
16. ___ Stevens (Shia LaBeoufs Disney
Channel show)
17. He often played the straight man to Mel
Brooks
19. Give Joan Rivers another facelift, e.g.
20. Jezreel Valley city
21. Like the arms of some Holocaust survivors
23. Kind of Apple computer designed by Jef
Raskin
24. Bibi or Ehud, but not Golda
27. Birthplace of Literature Nobelist Henri
Bergson
28. Ending for some Biblical verbs
29. Frequent voice-over actor Schreiber
31. Filmmaker Avi behind The Matchmaker and
Turn Left at the End of the World
34. Spoke like Marty Ingels in a compaign for
Paul Masson wines
36. ___ Life is It Anyway?: Dreyfuss movie
37. Ein ___ (largest oasis on the western shore
of the Dead Sea}
40. Indochina city with an Israeli embassy
42. Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, it is said
43. Pick a new chief rabbi
45. Kind of news covered by the Jewish Journal
47. An eruv may do this to a community
49. Non-rabbinical
50. Drake, Rashida Jones, and Lisa Bonet each
have an African-American one
53. One of Pharaohs in Parshat Mikeitz
55. Quintana ___ (Mexican state with a thriving
Jewish community)
56. Require correction while reading the Torah
57. The last syllable in most Hebrew words
60. Number of Daniel Day-Lewiss Best Actor
Oscars
62. First name of LAs Jewish mayor
63. More than two-thirds of Israels follow a
Greek rite
66. King Davids great-grandmother
67. Singer Gali who won the Eurovision Song
Contest for Israel in 1979
68. LAs Project Chicken Soup helps people liv-
ing with it
69. Theyre kept together during the Amida
prayer
70. Maccabee, e.g.
71. A different Biblical verb meaning smite
Down
1. ___ Jewish (converted)
2. Most Palestinians view him as a martyr
3. Start of all blessings
4. ___ All Work Out (song by Howie Epsteins
band)
5. 1990s Ontario Premier Bob
6. The other way to say it in Hebrew is anochi
7. Al Frankens St.
8. Fressed
9. Woodrow Wilson International Center presi-
dent Jane
10. Where it all began, Torah-wise
11. Like some rockets from Gaza
12. Participate in Land for Peace
13. What many Orthodox Jewish men use to
greet women
18. Location of the maximum-security Ayalon
Prison
22. Prepare 70-Across
25. Yeshiva with a Kotel view
26. Hindu country that opened an embassy in
Israel in 2007
30. Sen. Dianne Feinsteins adjective for the
NRA
32. Jerusalem-to-Dubai dir.
33. Fall on Me band that played Tel Avi in 1995
34. St. Louis-based Jewish rocker
35. Dowry for Sephardi women in Amsterdam
37. One kind of Ahava product
38. One of the last Hebrew words of a crucified
Jew
39. Something for neurologist Julius Axelrod to
study
41. Possible kibbutz tune: Old McDavid had a
cow... E-___
44. Night when Israels most popular Eng. lan-
guage show airs
46. EuroTrip actor Mechlowicz
48. He told King Louis XIV that the proof of God
was The Jews, your Majesty, the Jews!
50. Take peace talks off course
51. Agricultural system involving Jews in Poland-
Lithuania
52. Attire for a bar mitzvah
54. Probably the most famous Israeli citizen
born in Mumbai
57. Historic economic status of a Jew in Asian
Georgia
58. Meaning of the word added to the end of
the Shma prayer
59. Harvey Fiersteins Edna Turnblad outfit
61. American charitable org. for exiles
64. Righteous indignation
65. Title for Moses Montefiore
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PENNY SCHWARTZ
BOSTON Growing up in Bosnia,
Merima Kljuco was familiar with
the Sarajevo Haggadah.
The illuminated medieval
manuscript was considered
a treasure of the Bosnian
National Museum for more
than a century. Its 600-year
journey from Spain through
Italy and then Sarajevo, and
its survival through persecu-
tion and near destruction at
the hands of Jewish ene-
mies, just heightened the
sense that it was a very
special book.
But four years ago, a
friend gave Ms. Kljuco
a copy of People of the
Book, the acclaimed
2008 historical novel
about the Sarajevo Hag-
gadah by Geral di ne
Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
who reported on the Bosnian war for the
Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Kljucos interest in the Haggadah was
transformed from fascination to creative
passion.
I became obsessed with the idea of a
project that would musically and visually
follow the Haggadahs journey from Spain
to Sarajevo, she said.
The Haggadahs odyssey also reminded
Ms. Kljuco of her own life and exodus; she
had been forced to leave her country, she
wrote in an email, under the strangest and
heaviest circumstances.
Now Ms. Kljuco, an internationally
acclaimed concert accordionist, has com-
posed a piece of music that gives voice to
the Sarajevo Haggadahs trek.
The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the
Book is a multimedia presentation, an
artistic collaboration between Ms. Kljuco,
pianist Seth Knopp, and Bart Woodstrup,
an artist who created a visual animation
that accompanies the concert.
The composition, commissioned by the
Foundation for Jewish Cultures New Jewish
Culture Network, had its world premiere to
sold out-audiences at the end of March. The
irst was at Yellow Barn, a prominent cen-
ter for chamber music in Putney, Vt., where
Ms. Kljuco developed the piece in an ear-
lier residency, and then at the Boston Jew-
ish Music Festival in partnership with New
Center for the Arts.
Upcoming performances on a North
American tour include Dallas, San Fran-
cisco, Toronto, and Austin, Texas.
The composition reflects the foundations
vision to support cultural works that are
accessible to audiences of all backgrounds,
according to Andrew Ingall, former director
of its New Jewish Culture Network.
The music is contemporary but also
reflects Sephardic music traditions, Mr.
Ingall wrote in an email. It communicates
the wonders, traumas and geographic jour-
neys of this remarkable codex.
While the Foundation for Jewish Culture
closed earlier this year because of funding
problems, Ingall is traveling to many of the
Sarajevo Haggadah performances.
The mesmerizing one-hour piece is
divided into 12 movements that trace the
Haggadahs history, from playful Sephardic
melodies and dances to nearly silent,
prayer-like tones and then harsh, brutal
rhythms that erupt from Mr. Knopfs piano.
During an emotional passage on the Siege
of Sarajevo, Ms. Kljucos accordion nearly
weeps. Woodstrups visual images, which
include illustrations from the Haggadah,
are projected onto a long white sheet, as if
it were a seder table covering.
At the Boston performance, Ms. Brooks
offered introductory remarks and later
joined Ms. Kljuco for an onstage interview.
The two met that evening for the irst time.
It is an amazing experience to be part of
the transmission of inspiration in this way,
Ms. Brooks said the day after the concert. In
an email, she described her contribution as
a tiny link in a creative chain.
Now Merima and her collaborators have
extended the chain, she wrote.
The Sarajevo Haggadah stands out among
others of its time in several ways, according
to Aleksandra Buncic, an art historian and a
scholar born and raised in Sarajevo.
Produced in the Crown of Aragon
between 1330 and 1350, the Haggadah fea-
tures the most complete illuminated cycle
of biblical events, from the Book of Gen-
esis as well as Exodus, Ms. Buncic said in
a phone conversation from Philadelphia,
where she is a Fulbright scholar. It also
illuminates all seven days of the creation
of the world, which is not found in any
other example of Jewish art through the
Middle Ages, she added.
The Haggadah was presumed to
have been smuggled out of Spain and
survived the 1492 Expulsion of Jews,
and later, in Venice, was spared the
fate of being burned by the popes
inquisitor.
At the end of the 19th century,
the Haggadah, which found its way
to Sarajevo, the source of its name,
was sold to the Bosnian National Museum
by its Jewish owners. Twice during the 20th
century it was saved by Muslims there at
great risk to their lives once by Dervis Kor-
kut from the hands of the Nazis, and more
recently in the mid-1990s by Enver Imam-
ovic during the deadly years of the Siege of
Sarajevo.
Ms. Kljuco grew up in the former Yugosla-
via but left her home in 1993 during the Bos-
nian War. She spent time in refugee camps,
a painful memory to this day, she said in the
email.
The Haggadah ... suffered transforma-
tions which make it even more special by
giving it a richer history that reflects it pas-
sage through different cultures, Ms. Kljuco
wrote. I also travel around the world and
with every journey I get a new scar, posi-
tive or negative. But I keep my dignity and
get richer by traveling through different cir-
cumstances and sharing culture with others
through my music.
In the former Yugoslavia, she was
exposed to an array of musical styles. She
began playing accordion, the leading instru-
ment, at an early age, falling in love at irst
sound.
Hailed for her virtuosity, Ms. Kljuco per-
forms around the world with symphony
and chamber orchestras. She now makes
her home in Los Angeles.
Ms. Kljuco has become steeped in
Merima Kljuco, an internationally ac-
claimed concert accordionist, com-
posed a piece of music about the
Sarajevo Haggadah. JOSE DE VRIES
The Sarajevo Haggadah took a 600-
year journey from Spain through Italy
to Bosnia. COURTESY OF ALEKSANDRA BUNCIC
Tracing the 600-year odyssey of the
Sarajevo Haggadah in music
SEE HAGGADAH PAGE 65
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Friday
APRIL 11
Play group in Paramus:
Shalom Baby of Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey offers
parents of newborns
through 3-year-olds a
Passover celebration
with stories, songs,
crafts, and snacks,
and the opportunity
to connect with each
other and the Jewish
community, at the JCC of
Paramus/Congregation
Beth Tikvah, 9:30 a.m.
Administered by JFNNJs
Synagogue Leadership
Initiative, funded by the
Henry and Marilyn Taub
Foundation. East 304
Midland Ave. (201) 820-
3917, or www.jfnnj.org/
shalombaby.
Play group in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
the Pascack Valley offers
a Passover play group
for babies up to one year
and moms/caregivers,
10 a.m. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-8329 or
lisa@tepv.org.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishons
adult choir, Kol Rishon,
and its teen choir,
Zemer Rishon, join with
Cantor Ilan Mamber and
cantorial intern Jenna
Daniels for a musical
pre-Passover service,
8 p.m. 585 Russell Ave.
(201) 891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Saturday
APRIL 12
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth offers
tot Shabbat, 9:30 a.m.,
followed by bagels. 1666
Windsor Road. (201) 833-
1322 or www.emeth.org.
Shabbat in Orangeburg:
The Orangetown
Jewish Center offers its
adult monthly learners
minyan, 10 a.m.; family
congregation for first-
through sixth-graders
at 10:30, and Shabbaba
Shabbat for newborns
to 5-year-olds, at 11. 8
Independence Ave. (845)
359-5920 or office@
theojc.org.
Sunday
APRIL 13
Israel and Arab
countries: Liran
Kapoano, director of
the Center for Israel
Engagement at Jewish
Federation of Northern
New Jersey, discusses
The Impact on Israel
of What is Happening
in the Neighboring
Arab Countries, at
Congregation Adas
Emuno in Leonia, 10 a.m.
Refreshments. 254 Broad
Ave. (201) 592-1712 or
www.adasemuno.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
The Jewish Center of
Teaneck marks Shabbat
HaGadol with a drasha
by Rabbi Lawrence S.
Zierler, Back-Benching
in Halakhic Observance
vs. the Hands-On
Experience The Role
of Shelichut or Agency
in Halakhic Observance,
6 p.m. 70 Sterling Place.
(201) 833-0515, ext. 200.
Monday
APRIL 14
Chameitz burning: The
Jewish Center of Teaneck
holds its annual Al and
Joy Amsel Memorial Biur
Hametz program, aka.,
Big Bread Burn,9:30 a.m.
Teaneck Fire Department
will bring a truck and fire
safety trailer. 70 Sterling
Place. (201) 833-0515,
ext. 200.
Robert Eric
Concert in Wayne:
Robert Eric performs
A Tribute to Billy Joel
for its new Rock Tribute
series at the Wayne
YMCA, 7 p.m. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the YM-
YWHA of North Jersey.
1 Pike Drive. (973) 595-
0100.
Tuesday
APRIL 15
Joint Passover service
in Leonia: Congregation
Adas Emuno hosts a
Passover service, in
conjunction with the
clergy and members
of Temple Emeth of
Teaneck and Temple
Sinai of Bergen County
in Tenafly, 10 a.m. Light
Passover kiddush
follows. 254 Broad Ave.
(201) 592-1712 or www.
adasemuno.org.
Passover in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
has services, 10:30 a.m.,
followed by a luncheon.
585 Russell Ave. (201)
891-4466 or www.
bethrishon.org.
Friday
APRIL 18
Shabbat in Orangeburg:
The Orangetown Jewish
Center has its monthly
Friday lecture series with
Dr. Marty Cohen, 7 p.m. 8
Independence Ave. (845)
359-5920 or office@
theojc.org.
Shabbat in Teaneck:
Temple Emeth holds
musical Shabbat service
with Rabbi Steven Sirbu,
Cantor Ellen Tilem, and
the Temple Emeth band,
8 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org.
Saturday
APRIL 19
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Members of the Torah
Club at Temple Israel
and Jewish Community
Center fourth- through
seventh-graders lead
services, 9 a.m. The
group meets Wednesday
evenings at the
synagogue with Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg, as part
of the Northern New
Jersey Jewish Academy.
475 Grove St. (201) 444-
9320.
Shabbat in Wyckoff:
The Mens Club at Temple
Beth Rishon leads
services on the fifth day
of Passover, 10 a.m. 585
Russell Ave. (201) 891-
4466 or www.bethrishon.
org.
Shabbat in Emerson:
Congregation Bnai Israel
offers its monthly family
Shabbat, integrated into
an intergenerational
learning service,
10 a.m. Refreshments. 53
Palisade Ave. (201) 265-
2272 or www.bisrael.com.
Sunday
APRIL 20
Family day in
Washington Township:
The Bergen County YJCC
hosts Rock Into Spring,
a community-wide free
event with activities for
all ages, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Activities include Musical
IQ by PJ Library for 3- to
6-year-olds; DayRock
for children 7 and older;
Super Soccer Stars
outside; a matzah bar;
pet rock activity; planting
a community garden; and
open swim and group
fitness classes. 605
Pascack Road. (201) 666-
6610.
Film in Franklin Lakes:
As part of its Israeli Film
Series, Barnert Temple
presents Footnote,
7 p.m. 747 Route 208
South. (201) 848-1800 or
www.barnerttemple.org.
Tuesday
APRIL 22
Bereavement program
in Teaneck: Holy
Name Medical Center
Hospice and Palliative
Services offers Sharing
the Journey, an eight-
session bereavement
program to provide
compassionate
support and education.
Nonsectarian; facilitated
by trained bereavement
counselors. Open
to anyone who has
experienced loss in the
past year. Meetings on
Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. or
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.
beginning April 23.
Claudia Coenen, (201)
833-3188, ext. 7483.
Singles
Thursday
APRIL 24
Widows and widowers
meet in Glen Rock:
Movin On, a luncheon
group for widows and
widowers, meets at
the Glen Rock Jewish
Center, 12:30 p.m. 682
Harristown Road. $5 for
lunch. (201) 652-6624 or
office@grjc.org.
Parents Choice winner Shira Kline and her
band, ShirLaLa, offer a musical Passover
journey at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in
Manhattan on Sunday at 2 p.m. Themed crafts
and tours, which are free with the purchase of concert
tickets, will be offered starting at 1. There is a program
for children from 3- to 10-years-old. 36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.mjhnyc.org.
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Seeking Israel Parade photos
June 1 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Cel-
ebrate Israel parade, one of the largest parades
in New York City. To mark the occasion, the
Jewish Community Relations Council of New
York is asking all past parade participants to
submit photos from earlier parades. The pho-
tos will help tell the parades rich history.
JCRCNY has created a website, celebrate50.
org; you can upload your photos there or email
them to submit@celebrate50.org. Participants
who submit photos are automatically entered
into a drawing to win two spots on a float dur-
ing this years parade. JCRCNY has collected
photos of attendees from past parades, includ-
ing Mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani, Sena-
tor Alfonse DAmato, Congressman Charles
Rangel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon,
and Shimon Peres.
This years parade is set for Sunday, June 1,
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fifth Avenue will turn
blue and white as more than 30 floats with
musical performers, 15 marching bands, and
35,000 marchers entertain hundreds of thou-
sands of spectators for the largest celebration
of Israel in the world.
For the irst time, the parade will feature the
Israeli nonproit organization SpaceIL and the
US IL Flying Club, who will participate in a fly-
over saluting the parade.
Photo submission is ongoing; to be entered
into the contest, however, participants must
submit their photos by May 1.
Visit Israel with JNF and JDATE
The Jewish National Fund and JDate
have announced their irst-ever singles
trip to Israel, from July 13 to 19, for Jew-
ish singles 30 to 45.
JNF is thrilled to kick off our new
relationship with JDate with this excit-
ing trip, Stephen Bach, JNFs chief
administration oficer, said. Our orga-
nizations are committed to engaging
the next generation of Jews and nurtur-
ing a love and appreciation for the land
and people of Israel. We are focused
on strengthening our American Jew-
ish community and bringing together
like-minded Jewish singles in unique
opportunities like this trip.
Whether this is your irst trip to
Israel, or youve visited many times
before, this trip is a cant-miss opportu-
nity to experience Israel in a dynamic
way. Youre in for the best time of your
life.
Greg Liberman, chairman/CEO of
Spark Networks, the company that
owns and operates JDate, said, This
partnership presents a terriic oppor-
tunity, on the heels of the launch of our
new Get Chosen campaign, to bring to
life what makes the JDate community
so meaningful a shared understand-
ing of faith and culture. Not only will
JDaters explore places in Israel that are
integral to Jewish heritage, but they
will get to experience unforgettable
moments with other Jewish singles
who share their values.
For information, email Stephen
Bach at sbach@jnf.org, call him at
(516) 5931200, ext. 179, or go to jnf.
org/travel or www.jdate.com.
Exhibit on Scottish Jews in NYC
Scotland Week started last week in New
York City with cultural and arts events
including a photo exhibit, Scots Jews:
Identity, Belonging and the Future, a
photo exhibit at the Milton J. Weill Gal-
lery at the 92nd Street Y that runs through
April 27.
The photo exhibit is a project from pho-
tographer Judah Passow, who traveled
across Scotland to produce a portrait that
captures the complexity and diversity of
Jewish life at the beginning of the 21st cen-
tury. His photo documentary illustrates
the story of the Scottish Jewish community
and how it maintains its traditions while
fully embracing Scottish culture.
The gallery is at 1395 Lexington Ave.,
at 92nd Street. Call (212) 4155563 or go
to www.92y.org/About-Us/Facilities/
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Flam Winery is one of Israels best. Its
part of the trifecta (with Saslove and
Tulip) of near-cult Israeli boutique pro-
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the 2010 vintage.
Founded in 1998 by the Flam brothers,
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outside Beit Shemesh, in the Judean Hills.
Its family-owned, and everyone pitches in.
Golan Flam was educated in Israel and Italy
and apprenticed in wineries in both Tus-
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winemaker. Having worked in the vineyards
alongside his father since he was a child,
Gilad Flam now handles business develop-
ment and strategy. Their mother, Kami, man-
ages operations, and their sister, Gefen, is in
charge of customer relations and marketing.
Although Israel is loaded with commer-
cial wineries of all sizes, there is some-
thing to be said for a winery where each
member is truly invested in maintaining
and improving the familys honor, legacy,
and heritage. But the love of wine cours-
ing through this familys veins is also
undoubtedly driven by the passion and
vinographic history of the winerys ace in
the hole, patriarch Yisrael Flam.
Within the Israeli wine industry, Yis-
rael Flam needs no introduction; hav-
ing spent more than 40 years working
to improve the industry as a whole, hes
regarded as one of if not the principal
wine figures in Israel.
His family had moved to Israel from Rus-
sia in the aftermath of World War II, and
he joined the fledging Israel Wine Institute
after serving in the army. Pioneering what is
now de rigueur for any aspiring Israeli wine-
maker, Yisrael received training at UC Daviss
program in oenology and Viticulture before
returning to work at the Carmel Winery south
of Tel Aviv. In 1995 he became their chief
winemaker, a position he held for a decade
before retiring to join his familys endeavor
as a consultant. At Flam winery, he now con-
sults, advises, helps out, and kibitzes.
Care and precision are two main-
stays for the Flam brothers and, as with
all good wines, the work starts in the
meticulously cultivated vineyards. These
include plots in the acclaimed Upper Gal-
ilee vineyards of Dishon and Ben-Zimra,
as well as Mata in the Judean Hills. The
family spent substantial effort sourcing
these sites (which are all under long-term
leases), meticulously choosing the best
they could find. Golan spends an inor-
dinate amount of time among the vines,
pruning, thinning, and otherwise car-
ing for them, ensuring that the resulting
grapes will truly honor the well-respected
and hard-earned Flam name.
Prior to the kosher 2010 vintage, the
winery produced six wines under three
different labels. The entry-level wines
included Ros (predominantly and some-
times entirely made from Cabernet Franc),
Blanc (a blend of Chardonnay and Sauvi-
gnon Blanc), and Classico, the winerys
entry-level Bordeaux blend. Classico is pri-
marily Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, but
in some vintages includes small quantities of
Petit Verdot or Cabernet Franc. Despite its
entry-level positioning, Classico is far supe-
rior to most other entry-level wines in qual-
ity, and its price reflects this.
Flams next tier was the Superiore, a
Syrah-based blend, followed by the Reserve
line which included three varietal wines:
Syrah, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Along with the transfer to kosher, the 2010
vintage was also the end of the Superiore
label. The vineyards had matured to such a
level that they were bearing fruit worthy of
the winerys Reserve line. I have to agree:
Recently, I found the Reserve Cabernet Sau-
vignon to be the best of the released wines I
tasted and quite possibly one of Israels best
Cabernet Sauvignons.
More recently, Flam finally added a flag-
ship wine to its portfolio, Noble, whose
name was inspired by Tuscanys famous
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. But unlike
the Sangiovese-centric Tuscan wine, Flams
Noble is a Bordeaux blend made from their
very best grapes. The wine spends nearly
two years in oak, the first in new French as
separate components and the second as the
final blend. It then enjoys two more years of
bottle age before release. The inaugural (but
non-kosher) version was the 2008 vintage,
and the 2010 kosher vintage of Noble should
be released in mid-2014.
I find it indicative of the familys humility
and quiet pride that it was ten years before
they felt they understood their vineyards,
grapes, and winemaking process sufficiently
to produce a worthy flagship. Golan and
Gilads passion for their profession mixes
with a rare and refreshing humility. They
love what they do, do it at an extremely high
level, and dont allow their egos to balloon
to epic proportions.
The winerys current annual production
sits comfortably around 100,000 bottles
(8,300 cs.), the magic number an Israeli
winery needs to obtain kosher certification
and remain financially viable. Unlike many
other top Israeli wineries, theyve withstood
the trend toward planting Mediterranean
varieties like Carignan and Grenache. While
I am a huge advocate of this trend, believing
that Israels soil is more suited to such variet-
ies, Flam clearly knows what they are doing
with Bordeaux grapes.
Each wine in Flams lineup has a clear
and distinctive style that comfortably
blends old-world European winemaking
with new-world winemaking techniques.
The results offer rich, deep, and powerful
wines that convey subtle elegance, a nice
sense of place, good potential for longevity,
and a hint of mystery.
Flam Ros 2012: The third vintage of this
light- to medium-bodied wine. Like prior
vintages, its made from 100% Cabernet
Franc from the Judean Hills, which gives
it welcome bite. The nose is blessed with
strawberry, melon, citrus peel, lavender,
and a touch of bell pepper and floral notes.
It has fresh and refreshing flavors of straw-
berries, white stone fruit, and pink grape-
fruit, with great acidity and a hint of salinity
and minerals. A terrific everyday wine and
perfect for summer.
Flam Blanc 2012: As with prior vintages,
the wine is a Sauvignon Blanc (55%) and
Chardonnay (45%) from the Judean Hills.
The 2012 is fruitier and less acidic, likely
appealing to a wider crowd. A rich nose of
tropical fruit, tart apples, citrus peel, and
stony minerals leads into a medium-bodied
palate of more tropical notes, cantaloupe, a
pleasing bitter streak of minerals, and a hint
of citrus. The biting bitterness continues on
the lingering finish, rounding-out this highly
pleasurable and refreshing wine.
Flam Syrah Reserve 2010: The first
Reserve release for Flam and a wine that
was well worth waiting for. Made from Syrah
grapes grown in two acclaimed vineyards:
Dishon, which provides floral notes, and
Kerem Ben-Zimra, which has a blacker fruit
profile. As with Flams other Reserve wines,
this Syrah spent 12 months in oak and an
additional 10 months in the bottle prior to
release. A rich nose of bright red and blue
fruits, roasted meat, dark chocolate, smoke,
and freshly cracked black pepper. Medium-
to full-bodied on the palate with a tantaliz-
ing complexity, there are added notes of
roasted coffee, spice, and licorice. A luxu-
rious finish rounds out this treat. As with
every other Flam wine, the fruit and oak are
very much in balance, with the oak provid-
ing strong support without overpowering.
Flam Merlot Reserve 2010: This wine
competes for Israels best Merlot, with
a rich, deep and complex personality.
Blended with 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and
5% Cabernet Franc from the Dishon vine-
yard, the wine presents rich, extracted aro-
mas of black cherries, blackberries, cassis,
blueberries, brambles, and warm woodsy
spices that evolve in your glass. A full-bod-
ied palate offers the same fruit and spice,
with wet earthy forest notes, graphite, and
cigar box. Its mouth-coating tannins are
already on their way to integrating and will
provide support for this wine for years to
come. Drink now through 2017.
Flam Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2010:
This Cabernet Sauvignon competes for the
best in Israel. Its a rich, opulent, and pow-
erful wine that provides layers of complex-
ity while maintaining poise and elegance.
Its 85% Cabernet Sauvignon (split 60/40
between the Dishon and Kerem Ben-Zimra
vineyards) blended with 6% Merlot, 6%
Cabernet Franc, and 3% Petit Verdot. It
spent 16 months in French oak as compo-
nents before being blended in stainless steel
and then bottle-aged for an additional ten
months. The nose is rich and opulent with
ripe red and black berries, Mediterranean
herbs, rich dark chocolate, notes of cedar,
and a nice overlay of spice, and its full-bod-
ied palate adds rich fruits like plum, cassis,
and blueberries along with spice, tobacco,
and anise. The caressing tannins are still
tight but bode well for the future.
The Flam family: Yisrael and Kamie, seated, and Gilad, Gefen, and Golan. At
right, the Flam vineyards.
Care and
precision are
two mainstays
for the Flam
brothers and, as
with all good
wines, the work
starts in the
meticulously
cultivated
vineyards.
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Totowa, died on April 2.
Predeceased by his parents, Charles
and Beverly Kaess, he is survived by his
siblings, Steven (Holly)
and Lisa Kaess (Anthony
Geathers).
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org. Arrangements were
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Sephardic and Yiddish music through
her many collaborations with Shura
Lipovsky, an international performer of
Yiddish song, the Jewish folk balladeer
Theodore Bikel, and the late pianist and
composer Tamara Brooks, to whom she
dedicated her composition.
They all became my musical family,
she said.
Ms. Buncic, who attended the Yellow
Barn performance, was impressed with
the compositions opening moment,
when Ms. Kljuco makes her accordion
sound like the wind. It is a perfect match
with the first illumination of the Hagga-
dah, she said.
The Sarajevo Haggadah, nearly 700
years after its production, still evokes the
interest and inspiration among scholars,
artists, composers and layman, Ms. Bun-
cic said.
This composition means there is an
interest among the people about this fas-
cinating manuscript, she said.
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Haggadah
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Tribute to Pete Seeger at FDU
On April 17, The North Jersey Public Policy
Network will honor Pete Seegers life and
legacy with three talented musicians.
Spook Handy is a nationally touring folk
artist who performed more than 50 times
with Seeger. He was named Best Folk Art-
ist by Upstage Magazine.
Glen Rock resident Cynthia Summers
is a folk singer/songwriter and a winner
of the New Folk Showcase of the New
Jersey Folk Festival and the Solar Fest
Songwriting competition. In 2006, she
sang Seegers song Oh, Had I a Golden
Thread in a special performance for
Seeger himself.
Pace Goodman, formerly of Wyckoff,
marries blues, folk, jazz, and rock, and
is best known for his work with the band
Holiday Blue.
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m.
on Thursday, April 17, at Dickinson Hall,
Wilson Auditorium, at the Fairleigh Dick-
inson University Metro campus in Hacken-
sack, at 140 University Plaza Drive.
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Margola, the bead, stone and, trim wholesaler, has moved
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White House visitors
advocate job training
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Chaim Shapiro, assistant director of career services for
the Lander Colleges, and three other career profes-
sionals who work with the Orthodox Jewish commu-
nity traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with Matt
Nosanchuk, associate director of the White House
Office of Public Engagement for Jewish Outreach.
The White House invited Shapiro, Duvi Honig and
Dovid Hasenfeld of the Parnassah Network, and Elliot
Lasson of the Job Link of Baltimore to discuss the chal-
lenges Orthodox communities face in the workplace.
Both the Parnassah Network and the Job Link of Bal-
timore are organizations that assist Orthodox Jews in
their job searches.
It was a great honor to be chosen to represent the
needs of the frum community at the White House,
Mr. Shapiro said. I was especially pleased to be able
to report that Touro has been out ahead of this prob-
lem by establishing the Lander Colleges, which offers
Orthodox Jews an outstanding education without
compromising their religious traditions.
The primary goal of the meeting was to convey to
Mr. Nosanchuk the importance of gearing government
programs toward the unique needs of the religious
communities. They stressed that the White House has
the capacity to help by pushing for the job training
and development tools the government already pro-
vides to other ethnic groups to be made available to
the Orthodox Jewish community.
Mr. Honig explained to Mr. Nosanchuk that many
Orthodox Jews have difficulty obtaining gainful
employment because they have religious objections to
attending college. However, Shapiro noted that Touro
College was established explicitly for this purpose
to provide educational opportunities for Orthodox
students that are in tune with their religious require-
ments. Two of Touros schools Machon LParnasa
and the School for Lifelong Education were created
to serve the academic needs of the chasidic communi-
ties, whose unique culture, commitment and lifestyle
require bold and innovative approaches to higher
learning.
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