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Our hero on the Mount
A charedi
paper (above)
censored the
march for
press freedom
(right).
Parodies
ensued
(below).
And the truth goes marching on?

So on Sunday, a march was
held in Paris in support of freedom of speech and against
terrorism, following last weeks
terrorist murders.
Were not quite sure what to
make of the gathering of world
leaders who were photographed
at the head of the march;
in assembling a coalition
of European and Muslim
leaders and ambassadors, the
organizers managed to corral
more than a handful of people
whose regimes are among the
most hostile to press freedom.
Saudi Arabia, to take one example,
last week began flogging a blogger
who had criticized the government.
Turkey has vied with China for the most
imprisoned journalists. And so on.
One publication that did know what
to make of this weeks iconic march,
however, was the Jerusalem newspaper
Hamevaser.
It knew it had to erase the women
in the photo, who included, most
prominently, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.
Taking a page from Stalins
encyclopedia editors, it photoshopped
out Ms. Merkel, Swiss President
Simonetta Sommaruga, and EU foreign
affairs and security chief Frederica
Mogherini.
Binyamin Lipkin, editor of Hamevaser,
was quoted as saying that the
newspaper is a family publication that
must be suitable for all audiences,
including young children.
The 8-year-old cant see what I
dont want him to see, he told Israels

Channel 10. True, a picture of Angela
Merkel should not ruin the child, but if
I draw a line, I have to put it there from
the bottom all the way to the top.
He also said that he did not want to
tarnish the memories of people killed in
the attacks.
Including a picture of a woman
into something so sacred, as far as we
are concerned, it can desecrate the
memory of the martyrs and not the
other way around, he said.
Of course, you dont have to be ultraOrthodox to use Photoshop.
In England, the satirical Waterford
Whispers News reworked the picture to
make a comment on how few women
have leading roles on the world stage.
And on Israeli television, Eretz
Nehederet commented satirically on
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahus role in
the march. After not being invited at
first, he invited himself to France and
then he pushed his way to the front of
the march. In the Nehederet
version of the photograph,
many Netanyahus lead the
march.
And a rival political party
quickly produced a video
game, Push the Bibi, where
you get to try to maneuver the
prime minister to the front of
the march, next to Ms. Merkel.
Give Netanyahu this: Unlike
the invited Muslim countries,
he has no problems with a
culture of lively political satire.
LARRY YUDELSON
In the annals of the

great deeds of New
Jersey mayors, former
Teaneck mayor Mohammed Hameeduddins scuffle with an
anti-Israel activist on
the Temple Mount on
Monday night may not
rank quite as high as
the time Newarks Cory
Booker delivered a
dvar Torah while rescuing a pregnant woman from a burning building
during a snowstorm.
But its close. (And, unlike the
Booker story, this one is true.)
Mr. Hameeduddin, 41, who still
serves on Teanecks town council,
was in Israel this week as part of a
year-long program for American
Muslim leaders run by the Shalom
Hartman Institute.
The program, the Muslim
Leadership Institute, features
two trips to Israel, two seminars
in America, and monthly distant
learning sessions. In addition to
the text study that is the hallmark
of the Hartman Institute, the
program includes visits to Muslim
communities in Israel and the West
Bank.
Last year, the programs first, it
had 16 participants. This year, Mr.
Hameeduddin is one of 18 leading
young people in the Muslim
American community, in the words
of Yossi Klein Halevi, one of the
directors of the program for the
Hartman Institute.
The program has been
controversial in the Muslim
community, with supporters of
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
attacking it as collaborating with the
Zionist enemy. And it has brought
on threats to participants, leading
some to keep their

participation quiet and
anonymous.
Back out now. Uve
been warned, someone
wrote on Twitter.
Given that background,
Amanda Quraishi, a
participant from Austin,
Texas, was alarmed
when a man approached
her with his camera
phone after praying at the al-Aqsa
compound.
In my unnerved state, she later
wrote on her blog, I was grateful
that one of my fellow MLI cohort,
Mohammad, came up and covered
the phone camera in my defense,
telling him to put the camera away
and not to film the sisters.
The man who filmed the
encounter later posted the video to
YouTube and the Electric Intifada,
using a pseudonym. The headline:
Muslim Leadership Initiative
participant violently attacks
Jerusalem resident at Aqsa.
I went into this venture with the
understanding that the approach
Ive taken is controversial, Ms.
Quraishi wrote. But it hurts me
deeply that someone would
purposefully seek me out in such
a disrespectful way and then
manipulate that encounter so as to
make it seem that my group is being
violent against our fellow Muslims.
She noted that the group had
spent the previous day in the West
Bank, where they met one of the
founders of the BDS movement,
who told them that one size does
not fit all in terms of the movement.
So: Bravo to the former mayor
for standing up to bullies. Now if he
would only run for governor.
LARRY YUDELSON
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CONTENTS
NOSHES ...................................................4
OPINION ................................................ 18
COVER STORY .................................... 22
CHANGE YOUR LIFE ........................ 35
TORAH COMMENTARY ................... 53
CROSSWORD PUZZLE .................... 54
ARTS & CULTURE .............................. 55
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Noshes
I dont know how I got into this.

I have no ideas, and Im not
sure where to begin.
Woody Allen, about the agreement he signed to write and direct
an Internet series for Amazon.
AT THE MOVIES:
Blackhat, Ringer
herald new season
MICHAEL MANN, 71,
directs and writes
taut and visually exciting
thrillers (Miami Vice,
Heat) so his latest
film, Blackhat, is likely
to be much better than
most international crime
movies. It follows a
furloughed convict (Chris
Hemsworth) as he and
his Chinese partners hunt
a high-level cybercrime
network across America
and into China and
Indonesia. The Wedding
Ringer, a romantic
comedy starring JOSH
GAD, 33, as Doug, a
loveable but socially
awkward guy, is much
lighter. As the film opens,
Doug is two weeks away
from marrying his
dream girl (Katey
Cuoco-Sweeting of Big
Bang Theory fame) and
he has no best man. He is
referred to Jimmy (Kevin
Hart) who runs a service
that provides flattering
best men. Jimmy takes
on the job himself, and
the two guys really bond.
(Both films open Friday,
January 16)
While the Ringer plot
sounds like a lot of recent romantic comedies,
it was actually co-written 13 years ago by the
films director, JEREMY
GARELICK, now 39. In
2006, he and his writing
partner, Jay Lavender,
had a hit with an unusu-
ally realistic comedy/

drama, The Break-Up,
starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn.
Back in 2006, Garelick
was profiled by a Jewish
website. He revealed that
he had recently become
a very observant Jew
and that he was about
to marry a nice Jewish
girl. (Hes still married to
her. I checked.) His recollections of being the only
Jewish player on his New
York-area high school
football team were
amusing. His mother, he
added, appeared at all
his games with a sign
that read: Be careful,
tatele.
However, since 2006
Garelick has been listed
as the director or writer
of a number of films that,
in the way of Hollywood,
never got made. He just
told Variety (which
named him a director
to watch in 2015) that
Screen Gems asked him
to direct Ringer just
after another film of his
got canceled. I was so
happy, he said, when
Ringer actually started
filming.
Cameron Diaz and
musician Benji
Madden do NOT have
any Jewish ancestry. So
what are we to make of a
January 6 US Weekly
article, without a byline,
that says that all sort of
Michael Mann
Josh Gad
Jeremy Garelick
Amanda Peet
Joshua Leonard
David Benioff
Jewish wedding customs

(like stepping on the
glass) were incorporated
into their January 5
ceremony? In time, we
will learn if US Weeklys
article, which relied on an
unnamed source, was
true at all. Meanwhile, be
very skeptical about this
story. If it is a harbinger,
as some say it might be,
of a wave of kosher
style weddings for
non-Jews I dont know
whether to be offended
or to rejoice for the gelt
to be made by klezmer
bands, chuppah makers,
and even those guys who
turn chopped chicken
liver into table sculptures.

By the way, the irreverent Jewish website
Heeb claimed that
all the rest of the Jewish media got it wrong
when those outlets
commented, sometimes
harshly, about this wedding. Heeb claimed it
had a source that said
that Maddens maternal
grandmother was a Jew
who converted out
but hes still a halachic
Jew and that Diaz
may have some Sephardi
(Cuban) ancestry on her
fathers side. My family
history expert found out
that grandma was the

daughter of a Protestant
minister and his nonJewish wife! As for being Sephardi, well, Diaz
has no known Jewish
ancestors in the last few
centuries.
The new HBO series
Togetherness
started last Sunday,
January 11. A Sunday
night premiere is a sign
that HBO is confident
that the series will be a
hit. It stars Mark Duplass
and Melanie Lynskey as a
couple who have been

married for 10 years.
They try to take the
strain off their marriage
by welcoming her flaky
single sister (AMANDA
PEET, 42) and his
out-of-work actor best
friend (Steve Zissis) into
their home. The two
guests live in the living
room. JOSHUA LEONARD, 39, who has been a
guest or recurring star
on a number of shows,
appears in this show as
Director, a recurring
character. Hes the
secular son of a Jewish
mother and non-Jewish
father.
Peet is a very good
and vivacious actress
who has had some good
roles (The Whole Nine
Yards, among others)
but never became a
star. If Togetherness
becomes a hit, she and
her husband, DAVID
BENIOFF, 44, the cocreator of Games of
Thrones, probably will
be the first couple to
have two hit HBO series
airing simultaneously.
The couple had their
third child, their first boy,
in December.
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Past moves into present
Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey on the road to new home in Fair Lawn
ABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
ike the proverbial wandering Jew, the vast archives of

the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey have been
shunted from a room here to a basement
there, several times since the societys
founding in 1980.
Jerry Nathans of Wayne, who has
looked after the photos, documents,
scrapbooks, oral histories, and synagogue records with great tenderness,
says the archive now has a chance for
a forever home. The historical society
must raise a couple hundred thousand
dollars by April 1 to make it happen.
As president emeritus of the organization, Mr. Nathans, 87, appealed to
potential donors explaining the oppor-
a lot of people dont want to come into

Paterson.
Mr. Nathans hopes that Jewish residents of Bergen, Passaic, and Hudson
counties will see this collection of words
and images as much more than items collecting dust in boxes. Were doing this
for our children and future generations,
he said. Its the story of Jewish life in
America and we very easily could walk
away from it and no one would know we
were here.
Though it may seem absurd to imagine that no one would remember todays
large, vibrant North Jersey Jewish communities, Mr. Nathans pointed out that
the society was founded because the formerly large and vibrant Jewish community of Paterson was in danger of being
After more than

30 years of
less than ideal
housing, we have
a Fair Lawn
property in our
sights that could
become a perfect
permanent home
for the Society
and the collection.
tunity: After more than 30 years of less
than ideal housing, we have a Fair Lawn
property in our sights that could become
a perfect permanent home for the Society and the collection. It has suitable
environmental conditions to preserve
the archives and artifacts, and space for
exhibits, events, research and meetings.
Furthermore, it has ample parking and
is easily reached from all North Jersey
points.
The space encompasses about 2,500
square feet on the first floor of the River
Road condominium that also houses,
among other establishments, a satellite
office of the Jewish Family Service of
North Jersey.
For the past six years, our collection
has been housed in the basement of the
former Barnert Hospital in Paterson, Mr.
Nathans said. Access to the current facility is not good. Parking is a problem, and
Jerry Nathans is the historical societys president

emeritus and its animating force.
JERRY SZUBIN
The rooms in the basement of Barnert

Hospital are stuffed with artifacts, some
precious, some charming, some evocative
of a very specific time and place.
forgotten. Some 35,000 Jews lived in Paterson during its peak; many moved to
Fair Lawn and neighboring communities
after World War II.
Jews started moving to Paterson and
Newark in about 1840, he said. For 140
years, until we were established, no one
had been preserving any part of those
Jewish communities. The most important thing that existed was a biography
of Nathan Barnert by Michael Baum.
Nathan Barnert was Patersons mayor
from 1883 to 1886; he was Jewish, and a
strong supporter of local Jewish and general causes.

Other than that, historians made
little reference, if any, to the fact that
Jews even existed in the area, says Mr.
Nathans, whose family had a pictureframing business in Paterson for 75 years.
The Fair Lawn location would allow
the archive to transform from a warehouse to a museum, with a gallery for
rotating themed exhibitions.
We will have children from synagogues and schools viewing our
collection, predicted Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey board member Moe Liss. Its a perfect setup that
gives us the flexibility to do the things we
always wanted to do.
The society, which recently appointed
eight new board members, received an
allocation from the Jewish Federation of
Northern New Jersey to engage a strategic planner, and an additional allocation
toward the real-estate purchase. A professional archivist, Miriam Spectre of
Teaneck, has begun sorting the collection
Local
in preparation for the move. The forward-thinking society has a presence on Facebook and
Twitter, and every week it emails a selection of
six historic photographs from its collection to
Photo Friday subscribers.
Collecting artifacts is one half of our mission,
said Mr. Liss, who will be honored at the societys annual fundraising gala on May 12 at the
YJCC in Washington Township.
The other half is reaching out and educating
the local younger Jewish generation about who
we were and what we did. They are who they are

because we came before them and set the stage.
About 100 oral histories on tape, some of them
since transcribed, formed the original nucleus
of the collection. Someone came to Sylvia Firschein at the Wayne Library around 1980 and
asked if she had information about her grandfather, and she realized nothing existed about the
Jewish community, Mr. Nathans said. She put
out requests for people to come in and do oral
SEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAGE 8
A snapshot from Photo Friday shows Mrs. Morris Joelson, left, and
Dorothy Mackler flanking Bess Myerson on October 11, 1960.
The first confirmation

class at the Talmud
Torah of Paterson,
1925. COURTESY JHSNNJ
The winners of awards from the Paterson YMHA on May 26, 1959.
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The BCHSJS and Israeli Young Leadership contingents in Nahariya.
This is a photo from the societys Photo Friday email, showing bunk members
from Camp Veritans 1956 season.
Historical Society
FROM PAGE 7
interviews, and that is how we started.

As its website, jhsnj.wordpress.com,
says: The Jewish Historical Society of
North Jersey collects personal and family papers; records of synagogues, service
and social organizations, and businesses;
and other materials documenting the
social, cultural, economic, political, and
religious history of Jewish life in Passaic,
Bergen, [and] northern Hudson counties.
Among the treasures in the collection are a satin banner from the Independent United Jersey Verein, a landsmannschaft or immigrant benevolent
organization; and a 15,000-page autobiography of Rabbi Abraham Shinedling,
an itinerant pulpit rabbi, prison chaplain, and Hebrew school principal who
documented the names and occupations
of every Jewish Paterson resident when
he lived there for about 10 years at the
turn of the 20th century.
There are scrapbooks from Hadassah
and Bnai Brith Women, records from
the Jewish War Veterans, and documents
from defunct organizations and synagogues including the Hebrew Free Loan
Association of Paterson, the Hebrew Free
School of Paterson, Barnert Hospital,
Congregation Sons of Israel of Leonia,
Temple Beth Am of Teaneck, and Temple
Emanuel in Passaic.
The archives many photographs, some
dating to the late 1800s, include quite a
few snapshots of tombstones, which is
helpful when people from around the
world get in touch with Mr. Nathans,
looking for information about family
gravesites in North Jersey. If he cannot
find the stone in question in a photo, he
walks through old cemeteries until more
often than not he finds the right one.
Locating the Fair Lawn property follows a much longer search. Board member Alvin Reisbaum, a Paterson native living in Wayne, explains that he contacted
a broker about a Maple Avenue space
he noticed for rent as he drove by it one
day. That space was not big enough for
the archive, but the broker suggested the
River Road property. Mr. Reisbaum led
the negotiations, resulting in a contract
to buy the space for $200,000. It will
require an additional $50,000 for renovations and furnishings.
We have such an extraordinary collection, but if we cant exhibit it, then whats
the purpose of having it? asked Mr. Reisbaum, a former president of the Jewish
Federation of North Jersey.
Tax-deductible donations can be made
online or by check (the mailing address
is Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey, 680 Broadway, Suite 2, Paterson, N.J.
Helping, sharing, learning

Local BCHSJS students grow
on trips to New Orleans and Israel
Jeremy Fine and Miranda Alper, both
students at Fair Lawn High school,
were shocked to discover that nine and
a half years after Hurricane Katrina,
New Orleans Ninth Ward still looks like
a disaster zone.
The two 17-year-olds were among

10 Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies students in Louisiana over
their winter vacation. The trip was run
by the New Jersey office of the Orthodox Unions youth movement, NCSY,
BCHSJS students paint a house in New Orleans with Habitat for Humanity.
...JFS is holding a support group offering friendship and

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I was completely
emotional to see
that the destruction
and despair from
almost 10 years ago
still has an effect.
JEREMY FINE
ings. This year, the enrollment stands at 135, and

the program has moved from Teanecks Maayanot
Yeshiva High School for Girls to the Moriah School
of Englewood.
While some BCHSJS students were touring Jewish
sites in New Orleans and helping to rebuild the city,
another contingent was in Israel with BCHSJS principal Bess Adler, getting to know their peers in Nahariya, a city in northern Israel thats twinned with the
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey.
The trip to Israel was the culmination of a yearlong leadership program, sponsored by Partnership2Gether, federation, and BCHSJS, Ms. Adler said. It
was a delegation made up of ten 11th- and 12th-graders from the second cohort of Young Leadership that
learned weekly last year what it means to be a Jewish leader. We were paired with a Young Leadership
group in Nahariya that we had met twice on Skype
and interacted with on Facebook during the school
year. This Israeli delegation came to visit us last May
for a week.
Ms. Adler said that the goal of the December trip
was to introduce American Jews to Israelis in Nahariya and to foster lasting friendships between the 10
American and 10 Israeli kids, while the Americans
got to know some of Israels history and culture. In
addition to touring, the New Jersey visitors made
presentations in two high schools and ran activity
programs for Ethiopian children in a Nahariya immigrant-absorption center.
They were housed in their new friends homes
and discovered they had mutual interests in music, sports,

and television shows. Jonathan Levin of Woodcliff Lake, a
junior at Pascack Hills High School, said the major difference was that the American teens are preparing for college
while the Israeli teens are preparing for military service.
Jonathan said he found it truly spectacular to visit
Nahariyas Medical Center of the Galilee and learn how
the hospital provides lifesaving treatment to many victims
of the Syrian civil war. After a tour and briefing by the hospitals media spokesperson, the young leaders painted a
mural on a blank wall outside, depicting the nearby Mediterranean shore.
I had friends who were in Israel over the summer during the war, so I was a little nervous about going at first,
but I was confident about being in a country that would
always be there to protect me, Jonathan said. Once I was
in Israel I felt right at home, and I felt like I was never safer
in my life.
While sightseeing in Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, Rosh

Hanikra, and Tel Aviv, he was surprised to find Israel was
not as he had imagined. I had pictured a lot of deserts
and Orthodox people, but actually it was full of so many
different religions, cultures, points of view, and geographical landscapes. That was amazing for me to see.
Alyssa Seigel-Laddy, a Fair Lawn High School junior,
loved helping Ethiopian 5- to 7-year-olds make friendship
bracelets. I dont speak any Hebrew, but we still managed
to make it work, she said. All the kids were so excited
about it. It was adorable.
Alyssa stayed with a girl named Mavi, who lives in Nahariya and whose family speaks Hebrew and Spanish at
home. Despite the language barrier, the two bonded and
found they have much in common. People are basically
the same, Alyssa observed. Since returning to New Jersey
on January 2, she has been texting and Snapchatting with
the Israeli group and hopes to stay in touch long term.
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New Sleeping Beauty in Tenafly

Young musician chooses home community for opera debut
LOIS GOLDRICH
When we last checked in with now-15year-old Benjamin Wenzelberg of Tenafly,
he was working on an opera, The Sleeping Beauty, due to be given a piano-vocal
reading by New Yorks Chelsea Opera.
Now, for the first time, that opera will be
performed in its entirety.
Benjy began composing the piano
and vocal score for his opera at age 11,
and spent the last three years developing
the score, said Rochelle Lazarus, public
relations director of the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly, where the opera
will be performed on January 25. The cast
will include professional singers as well
as members of the JCC Broadway Youth
Ensemble.
Its been a magical experience, Benjamin said. Its so great to work with such
wonderful singers and the JCC to put it
together. The cast, he continued, has
been incredible. All of the singers have
been people Ive worked with in singing
and composing collaborations. Theyre
incredibly talented, and dedicated to the
piece and to music.

Many of the chorus members are current or former students of the JCCs performing arts department as well as friends
of his.
I get to work with people I know,
Benjamin said. We sing, play, compose,
and have a friendly experience. Theyre
all accomplished singers. Im honored to
work with them.
Benjamin chose the JCC for the debut
because it has been the place where I discovered my love for music. While he has
dabbled with singing, playing the piano,
and even composing since I was born,
as he put it, it was at the JCC where he first
began to spread his wings.
Ms. Lazarus noted that Benjamin has
studied and performed with the JCC
School of Performing Arts since he was 7,
starring in many productions. Ive known
him since he was a little kid, she said. He
was adorable in all those roles.
Even more, she said, besides choosing
to unveil his full opera in his own community, the composer will play the piano
and sing the role of the frog in the JCC
Benjamin Welzenberg began working

on his opera when he was 11.
production, and he will donate all proceeds to the JCC School of Performing Arts
and to cultural arts and music programs in
the Tenafly public schools.
Deborah Roberts, director of the JCCs
performing arts school, has a long history

with the talented young man.
She recalled that when Benjy, at age 7,
saw the CenterStage flier on the JCC bulletin board and asked his mom if he could
go to the musical theater camp, I agreed
to interview him even though he was
clearly below the age that the program
was designed for. I quickly discovered
how excited he was about music and about
being in a performance.
He sang beautifully for me, Ms. Roberts said. He also played an original song
that he was creating on the piano and read
a little monologue that I handed him. I was
thrilled with his skills and his tremendous
potential. I accepted him on the spot.
Several years later, he played the title
role in a musical that we created at the
JCC for our Professional Childrens Theater Series: Aarons Party Under the Sea.
I wrote the book, Glenn Gordon composed
the music, and Amelia DeMayo wrote the
lyrics. We also took it to the main stage at
bergenPAC. Benjy did a superb job bringing the boy I had envisaged to life.
Ms. Roberts said that Benjamin has
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Is there time for school? Yes, said Benjamin, a sophomore
at Tenafly High School, who insists he has kept up with all
his school work.
The Tenafly school system has really been supportive,
meeting me halfway, he said. Its a really good balance.
Im able to pursue all I want to do musically while still succeeding academically. In fact, he said, a teacher asked him
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played many other roles here with wonderful sensitivity and understanding. His singing and musicianship
have always been exceptional, and his acting has long
since caught up. Now his talents have taken him to
many much larger venues and major successes.
Nevertheless, Benjamin still maintains a close relationship with the JCC.
When he has a moment, he enjoys coming to perform in our CenterStage Lunchtime Cabaret and talking to our young campers about his experiences,
Ms. Roberts said. Recently he told them all about his
Sleeping Beauty, and sang beautiful portions of it.
Ms. Lazarus said that Benjamin recently returned
to the JCC to prepare for a solo he was singing with
the Portland Symphony Orchestra, as well as for an
exciting film he recently completed, Boy Choir, starring Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, and Debra Winger,
where he sings the voice of the lead character.
Not only does Ms. Roberts have nice things to say
about the young man, but she clearly appreciates the
opera he has written.
No matter how familiar the story, Benjy brings a
very appealing and youthful sense to it the beautiful
princess who hopes to find a prince and an evil wise
woman who casts a magic spell that makes a whole
castle fall asleep, she said. The suspense rides on
whether a prince can get there in time to save the kingdom, and whether he will really be the princesss true
love. Its a rare and delightful opera for all ages.
His opera, Benjamin said, is definitely something
for people of all ages. Inspired by his own love of
opera particularly the works of Puccini, Strauss,
and Britten my love for it made me want to write
one. He also wants to introduce other young people
to the art form, exposing them to opera at an early
age. Thats another reason he chose the JCC for the
debut. Its got a lot of children and families, he said.
He hopes that by the time todays children are his age,
theyll choose to attend operas and learn more about
them.
Calling opera both entertainment and a source of
joy, he said he decided to base his work on a fairy tale
so that children could relate to it. The only thing was,
I wanted it to have a happy ending. So its a way for
people to get into opera, it has a familiar story, and it
has a happy ending.
When the young composer turned 13, the completed first act of the work was presented in concert in
New York City by the Chelsea Opera, and the following
spring, the opera once again performed orchestrated
excerpts, earning Benjy an ASCAP Young Composer
Award and a prestigious music scholarship.
As a singer, he recently performed at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music and in the New York City Operas
production of The Turn of the Screw. Last year, he
made his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera in A
Midsummer Nights Dream, and he is now performing there in La Boheme.
Over the years, Benjamin has performed with the
Atlanta Opera, the Little Orchestra Society at Avery
Fisher Hall, Shakespeare in the Park, Central Parks
Summer Stage, and the US Open, and he was invited to
sing in Israel. He also has been a soloist with the New
York Philharmonic and is in his sixth season with the
Metropolitan Opera Childrens Chorus.
Among other compositions, he wrote a percussion
piece, The Storm, which premiered at NYUs Percussion Ensemble last fall, and a piano trio, Midnight
Tides, which won a BMI Student Composer Award
and Carlos Surinach Prize last spring. Benjamin studies composition with Dr. Eric Ewazen at Juilliard PreCollege and both classical and jazz piano at the 92nd
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Idol contest sponsored each year by
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walked away with more than just a huge
trophy.
The competition opened up many
doors, she said. Now Im getting myself
out there and performing more. She
soon also will be enjoying the two-hour
recording session offered as part of the
Teen Idol prize.
Atara, who studied at the Manhattan
School of Musics summer program this
year, said she enjoys singing different
kinds of music. We put on Aida and
Oklahoma, she said, calling herself
more of an Aida person, but noting
that she enjoyed performing in Oklahoma as well.
Im passionate about singing, she
said, though she tries to put it to good
use, helping others. For example, she
participated both this year and last year
in a benefit concert for Emunah, and
when our school goes to nursing homes,
we sing. Shes lucky, she said, that one
of my passions combines with another.
The contest meant so much to me,
she said. I really got myself out there
and have progressed in music ever since.
I had an interest before, but have gone
beyond what I thought I would.
This years Teen Idol contest the
eighth annual competition will kick
off Teaneck Sings Week, January 17-25,
which includes TCC participation in the
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who also died in 2014.
These extraordinary leaders inspired
both lasting change and timeless music,
said Gail Smith, an active member of
the chorus and co-producer, with Jack
Aaken, of the Teen Idol contest. She said
the concert will include songs of South
Africa as well as songs by the Weavers.
Among the songs will be a lively rendition of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, arranged
by Pete Seeger, Mr. Aaken said.
Ms. Smith who is also the vocal
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Becoming a man again at 83

Marlowe Marcus of Haworth, about to celebrate his second bar mitzvah, remembers
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If youve gone to Yeshiva Etz Chaim in Boro
Park, lived or worked in all the outer boroughs except Staten Island, been a jock,
moved to suburban Jersey and adapted
to it with great enthusiasm, been drafted
into the newly peacetime army, gone from
retirement as an insurance broker and
over-the-counter stock trader to decades
as an serious horticulturalist specializing
in beeches, a tennis player who has competed in two Maccabiah games, a barbershop singer, and a volunteer tutor who has
trained more than 400 children to daven
and lein and if everything youve done is
underpinned by your Jewish background,
which defines who you are and what you
do well, then, if youre about to turn 83,
how else would you mark it than with a
second bar mitzvah?
Thats true, at any rate, if youre Marlowe Marcus of Haworth, who will celebrate that milestone on January 23 at Temple Beth El of Northern Valley in Closter,
first by reading from the Torah and then
with a festive oneg.
Mr. Marcuss father, Samuel, was born in
Manchester, England, but he was not British. Instead, he was born on the way from
I was a jock, and

jocks need a
nickname. There
is no nickname
for Marlowe.
Romania; they stopped to visit family, Mr.
Marcus said. His mother, Elvira Katz Marcus, was the oldest of eight children, born
to a rabbi and his wife who lived on the
outskirts of Budapest. My grandfather,
Rabbi Martin Katz, was a very vain man,
Mr. Marcus said. He had a rubber stamp
with his name, Rabbi Mordechai HaCohen
Katz, and he had powerful handwriting.
And he wrote with purple ink.
Rabbi Katz went to America in 1922,
and then my grandmother schlepped
eight kids from Budapest to Hamburg,
and then clear across Europe by herself,
he said. There were misadventures one
child was lost for a time in a train station
but eventually they made their way to
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, close to that
states border with West Virginia. They
stayed there until 1929, when the Great
Depression struck, and the shul, which
still wanted a rabbi, no longer could pay
him. He moved to head a small, long-vanished shul on Elder Avenue in the Bronx,
This week, wearing his Maccabi jacket.
With Lisa Marcus Abramowitz of

Tenafly and two grandchildren.
in the basement of apartment building.

Thats where I was bar mitzvah the first
time, Mr. Marlowe said.
His fathers mother, widowed young,
manufactured neckware, he said. Her
only employee was her only child, Sam
Marcus. The company went under during
the Depression; eventually she moved to
Palestine. Meanwhile, Mr. Marcuss parents met at the youth group at the Young
Israel of Boro Park, which had been established in the hope of facilitating such
matches. Sam was there because he had
grown up there; Elvira, whose family was
still in rural Pennsylvania, had been sent
there, along with two sisters and a brother,
because it was a far more likely place to
meet Jews than the coal fields of home.
Sam Marcus was not a particularly successful businessman, according to his son.
He was a traveling salesman, like Willy
Loman, the sad everyman protagonist of
Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. His
mother, who was very smart and determined although she came to the United
Celebrating a birthday with some of the family.
States when she was 15, she had no accent,

because she chose not to have one was a
homemaker. God forbid she would have
to work, her son said, given the culture of
her time and place. He also had a younger
brother, Richard, whose death two years
ago knocked the daylights out of me,
Marlowe said.
Oh, and that name? My mother must
have been nuts, he said. She had delusions of grandeur. He is not sure which
Marlowe he was named after maybe
Philip Marlowe, Dashiell Hammetts detective, although he was born long before
Humphrey Bogart played him in The Big
Sleep but he does know that it was not
a fun name to grow up with.
I was a jock, and jocks need a nickname. There is no nickname for Marlowe.
But then he had a stroke of luck in the
nickname department. In 1946, when I
turned 14, there was a new professional
basketball league the NBA and one
of the stars of the Washington Capitals was
Bones McKinney. He was very skinny, and
I was a very skinny guy, so they called me
Bones. So now I had arrived.
After graduating from Etz Chaim the
first yeshiva in the United States to teach
Hebrew and Aramaic texts in Hebrew
rather than in Yiddish and then from
New Utrecht High School Mr. Marlowe
went to City College in 1950, just as hostilities in Korea began. Although there was a
draft, his status at the top of his class kept
him in school. He planned to go to graduate school and maintain his status when
the war ended, de facto if not yet de jure.
So I withdrew my applications, he said.
He spent the first year of his army service
in Fort Dix, N.J., in the cushiest job in
the U.S. army, and most guys would have
given their eyeteeth for it and the second year in Heidelberg, Germany. He had
been an accounting major and that led

directly to his army job as a statistical analyst. It was fun, he reported.
Back home, working with an uncle,
Mr. Marlowe used his street Spanish to
develop a thriving business selling auto
insurance in the South Bronx. Eventually the two men developed an expertise
in over-the-counter stock trading that displaced the insurance work. The company
stayed open for 30 years.
Mr. Marlowe met his wife, Lila Zlotnick,
on the ferry to Fire Island in 1958. We
both had shares in houses there, before it
was in vogue, he said. I was on the ferry,
and I saw a chick, reading the paper like
a guy, folded into eight long narrow sections, in the space-efficient style commuters used on the subway. Two years later, in
1963, they married; soon they moved from
Forest Hills, in Queens, to Haworth.
There were not many Jews in Haworth.
Of course, Haworth is a small town there
are not many people in Haworth but
relatively few of them are Jews. The synagogue closest to it was Beth El, so that is
where the Marcuses joined.
Mr. Marcus retired in 1986. He was 55.
And the next week I went to Rabbi Pomerantz Beth Els longtime rabbi, Fred
Pomerantz, who coincidentally grew up in
Pennsylvania, one town over from Uniontown and like Abraham Avenu our
father Abraham hineini. Here I am.
Because he knew how to chant from the
Torah, Mr. Marcus became a volunteer
tutor, working with the cantor and their
teachers to train bar and bat mitzvah students. He taught beginning Hebrew reading to adult beginners who did not know
even the letters when they started; 10 of
them learned enough to celebrate becoming bnot mitzvah there.
SEE MARCUS PAGE 17
Jewish Federation
OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY
January 12, 2015

M. Roger Cukierman, President, CRIF
M. Joel Mergi, President, Consistoire
M. Ariel Goldmann, President, FSJU
Dear Friends,
Please accept our deepest condolences on the tragic loss of life suffered, in recent days,
in your city. Please know that here in northern New Jersey we stand in solidarity with
the people of Paris, and indeed with all the people of France, as you weather these
very difficult days. We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the evil actions of
the terrorist murderers who took innocent lives at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper
Cacher food market.
This attack has served as a wake-up call for us all to be vigilant. We can only hope
that these heartbreaking deaths have awakened the citizens of France, as well as other countries, to the virulent and growing anti-Semitism that has been too much a part
of the environment in Europe in recent years.
We must all be vigilant and work toward ensuring that it stops. We should make every effort
to ensure that it is not just the Jewish community that must be vigilant, but other religious
communities, as these kinds of attacks can happen anywhere.
It is our hope that your community will grow stronger and more cohesive and that
out of tragedy you will realize closer and better relationships with other faith-based
communities.
Please convey our deepest sympathies to the families of Yoav Hattab, Philippe Braham, Yohan
Cohen, and Francois-Michel Saada. May their memories be for a blessing.
Sincerely,
Zvi S. Marans, MD
President
Jason M. Shames
Chief Executive Officer
TRANSFORM LIVES. INCLUDING YOURS.
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Alla and Arthur Ayzerov
Inna and Michail Gutnkiov
Bris Avrohom names honorees
SSDS team earns first place

professionals treating Ebola patients. The
team made its investing decision one day
before the company publicly announced it
had received an order for one million suits.
SSDS students have been invited to
share their insight at the annual SIFMA
luncheon in June.
SSDS has four of the top 10 teams in
the Stock Market Games Long-Term
competition.
The next event will be the Capitol Hill
Challenge, when SSDS students will represent Congressman Scott Garrett, the U.S.
Republican representative for New Jerseys
fifth congressional district.
COURTESY CBA
Three students at the Solomon Schechter

Day School of Bergen County earned first
place in the first short-term middle school
competition of this years Stock Market
Game, a financial literacy program of the
Securities Industry Financial Industry Markets Association.
Jesse Abed, Aidan Advocate, and Zachary Kauderer represented the winning
team at both the county and state levels
under the guidance of faculty member
Donald Cutler. They took home nearly
$70,000 in three days, buying 4,000
shares of LAKE, a company that manufactures hazmat suits used worldwide
by physicians, nurses, and other health
Arlene and Arthur Eis
Erica and Jason David
Congregation Beth Aaron dinner

Congregation Beth Aaron will hold its 39th
annual Journal Dinner on Sunday, February 22, at Congregation Keter Torah in
Teaneck. Arlene and Arthur Eis are the
guests of honor and Erica and Jason David
will receive the Shelly Leffel service award.
The Eises have been involved in Beth
Aaron for the last 27 years; between them
they have been on the board and the welcoming committee, served as baal koreh
(Torah chanter), and chaired the dinner. They are involved in many community organizations, including Tomchei
Shabbos, Project Ezrah, the Teaneck Mikvah Association, and Yavneh. Arlene Eis
founded Bikur Cholim of Teaneck.
The Davids have been the youth directors at Beth Aaron for 6 years and have created programs that have drawn young families to the shul. Former youth directors in
Elizabeth, they also are involved in the
welcoming committee, young members
seudah shlishit, and mens club programs.
For information, go to www.bethaaron.
org/dinner.
JNF cooking and conversation

Talia Tzour, the Jewish National Funds
chief Israel emissary, leads a Cooking &
Conversation program for JNF Women
for Israel on Wednesday, January 28,
at 6:30 p.m., at a private home in Norwood. The event committee includes
Doryne Davis, Susan Gutmann, Susan
Monane, Joan Oppenheimer, Debbie
Rogoff, and Diane Seiden.
Born and raised in Jerusalem, Ms.
Tzour joined JNF over 24 years ago. Her
love of cooking led her to Bishulim, Israels top institute of culinary arts in Tel
Aviv, where she became a professional
chef.
Her presentation will incorporate
ingredients and techniques from Israel,
personal stories, JNF updates, and recipes. The evening costs $72 per person
and a kosher dinner is included. Register at jnf.org/nnjcooking or call Jocelyn
Inglis at (973) 593-0095, ext. 823.
COURTESY JNF
SSDS eighth-graders, clockwise, Zachary Kauderer, Aidan

Advocate, and Jesse Abed, with Donald Cutler, Stock Market
Game adviser and SSDS math faculty member.
COURTESY SSDS
Bris Avrohom of Fair Lawn will host its

first annual community gala on Sunday, February 8. It will be in celebration of northern New Jerseys Russian
Jewish community.
Alla and Arthur Ayzerov of Paramus
will receive the leadership award; Inna
and Michail Gutnkiov of Glen Rock,
the friendship award; and Mariya and
Robert Lyubman of Ridgewood, the
community service award. There will
also be a tribute to Bris Avrohom of
Robert and Mariya Lyubman and
Fair Lawns Pillars of the Community
their family
for the past 15 years. A journal will be
published in conjunction with the gala.
classes, family-friendly holiday events,
The organization offers programs
and the Fair Lawn Jewish Day Camp.
including Mommy & Me, Hebrew school,
For information, call (201) 791-7200 or
JTeen Club, Womens Circle, Torah and
go to www.JewishFairLawn.org/Gala.
Kaballah classes for adults, daily, Shabbat, and holiday services, bnai mitzvah
Talia Tzour
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Local
Communal fellowship seeks applicants
Applications for the Joel Daner Yachad
Communal Fellowship are being
accepted for the program year, which
begins in August. The deadline for applications is March 3.
Yachad, the flagship program of the
Orthodox Unions National Jewish Council for Disabilities, provides unique
social, educational, and recreational
programs for people with learning,
developmental, and physical disabilities.
Its goal is to promote their inclusion in
the full spectrum of Jewish life.
The paid fellowship, now in its second
year, is seeking two recent college graduates interested in furthering Yachads
mission as a groundbreaking human
rights organization. The program will
support the fellows development as
they work as part of a multidisciplinary

team aimed to meet the social and inclusive needs of Jews with diverse disabilities. This includes, but is not limited to,
autism spectrum disorders, developmental challenges, deafness and auditory challenges, physical disabilities, and
medical health and mental health needs.
Fellowship applicants must have a
minimum of at least a 3.2 GPA, a personal statement, two letters of recommendation, a transcript, a resume, and
a portrait photo. To apply, go to www.
yachad.org/fellowship. Supplemental
application materials may be submitted by mail to Yachad, 11 Broadway,
13th Floor, N.Y., NY 10004, ATT: Daner
Yachad Fellowship. For information,
email yachadfellowship@ou.org.
YJCC expanding services

for adults with disabilities
S.A.I.L. (self-determination, advocacy,
independence, living), an adult day program for adults with developmental disabilities offered by the Bergen County
YJCC in Washington Township, has
added Friday to its schedule. The program now meets daily from 9:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. It is driven by the understanding that meeting the needs of each person is essential for each one to thrive.
S.A.I.L. is approved by the New Jersey
Division of Developmental Disabilities.
Weekly activities include yoga, art,

music, swim, cooking, and social skills,
as well as other recreational and group
activities, under the guidance of qualified instructors. Kimberly Locicero, a
certified teacher of students with disabilities, directs the program.
The Bergen County YJCC is at 605 Pascack Road. For information, call Gina
Wellington, the YJCCs director of special
services, at (201) 666-6610, ext. 5810, or
email her at wellington@yjcc.org.
Voices
social horizons.
Ive met many people from other
schools and other backgrounds through
the Teaneck Teen Idol competition,
Atara said. I dont think I would have
met them otherwise. They are all very
talented individuals, and Im so grateful
I got to meet them.
I definitely would not have met most
of these people ordinarily, said Avigayil
Schiff, who will compete in this years
contest. We do go to separate schools
and live on different sides of the town,
so our paths dont cross. But I did enjoy
meeting them, because it was refreshing to see the different cultures of kids
who only live 10 minutes away. Theyre
all really nice kids and made the experience even better.
FROM PAGE 12
School, but over time we started to see

kids from different schools and different age groups. Participants must be
between 13 and 18 and must either live
or go to school in Teaneck.
This year, 40 students auditioned
for the contest, and there are now 15
finalists. Ms. Smith said she has reintroduced the practice of performing a
group number, as an easy ice-breaker
for participants.
Teaneck is a town full of talent in
general, whether among young kids or
adults, she added. The week allows us
to bring to light the talent of the younger
folk.
It also allows the kids to broaden their
Marlowe and
Lila Marcus at
a recent family
simcha.
Marcus
FROM PAGE 14
Mr. Marcus played senior tennis avidly;

he made the Pan-American Maccabi team
that went to Uruguay in 1991, and in 1997
he played in the World Maccabiah Games
in Israel.
When he first moved to the suburbs, Mr.
Marcus planted fruit trees; his children
have vivid memories of picking bushelsfull of rotting fruit from the ground, and
of their mother using homegrown fruit
vividly colored apples and sweet plums
for pies. But soon he tired of that, and
replaced those trees with conifers and
beech trees. For some time, he said, he
had the biggest collection of beech trees in
the country, and his daughter Lisa Marcus
Abramo-witz had the second biggest. He
studied landscape informally, learning by
compulsively doing. Unwilling to pledge
himself exclusively to deciduous trees, he
is also a member of the American Conifer
Society.
Mr. Marcus, who played the guitar for
years, always had been fond of barbershop
music, but in 1977, the New York Times
carried a story about barbershopping in
general, and the Teaneck chapter of the
Barbershop Harmony Society in particular. He joined immediately.
Barbershop music is four-part harmony
tenor, lead, baritone, and bass sung
only by men. It has surged and ebbed in
popularity; the society once had 38,000
members and it now has 30,000. Thats
not so low, but the average age, at least
in his chapter, Mr. Marcus said, is old. It
meets in the Richard Rodda Community
Center in Votee Park.
He sings lead, Mr. Marcus said, because
it is the lead who carries the tune, and I
cant sing harmony. I am one of the lesser
lights of the chorus.
As a young man, Mr. Marcus says, he

was a jock; he still plays platform tennis every week
Oh, and he also plays platform tennis
every week; some of the guys he plays with
are significantly younger than he is.
Marlowe and Lila Marcus have three
children Lisa, who lives in Tenafly, Jeffrey, who lives in Florida, and Julie, who
is on the Upper West Side. They have 17
grandchildren.
He is planning his second bar mitzvah in
response to the tradition that comes from
Psalm 90, which tells us that The days of
our years are threescore years and ten.
Thirteen years after passing that allotted
lifespan, it is time to celebrate coming bar
mitzvah again.
Because his huge range of activities has
given him a huge number of friends, Mr.
Marcus is expecting a crowd as he celebrates by reading from Parashat Bo again.
Everyone is invited to join him there.
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Slaughter in Paris
t the center of the blood and cruelty

and pain and death was pure evil.
That much is clear. Evil at Charlie
Hebdo, evil at the HyperCacher.
Pure evil.
But nothing around it is clear. Everything is
a jumbled mess of arguments, of debates over
free speech and the right to offend and the
nature of anti-Semitism and its relationship to
Israel and the difference between lone wolves
and sleeper cells and the relationship between
ISIS and Al Qaeda and the relationship between
France and its Muslims and the relationship
between France and its Jews and most dangerously, most importantly, most transgressively,
because we are not supposed to talk about it
at all, the true nature of Islam, about whether
these attacks are a logical outgrowth of Islam
or a total perversion of its basic truth.
Whatever the answers to some of the questions might be, it is clear that we no longer can
avoid them. We cannot wish the link between
Islam and acts of terrorism away, as much
as we might like to, as much as some of our
deeply held political and even religious beliefs
might try to force us to. We always must keep
in mind that the overwhelming majority of
Muslims are not terrorists, that they, like us,
fear terrorists, and that they do not want acts
of evil committed in their name.
We also must keep in mind, though, that
there is some strain of Islam, some disease in
some part of the Islamic world, that is sick, that
does evil, that thrives and revels in darkness
and hate. We cannot wish that away either.
If we do not confront that sickness, it will
continue to grow. It flourishes in darkness, and
then it bursts out and it kills.
We have no idea where it comes from. We
do not know why there is a part of Islamic culture that hates Jews so deeply. We know that
it is not all a product of the Israel/Palestine
situation. Although we know that the impasse
between the Israelis and the Palestinians is
not the cause of the problem, the situations
increasing depth and rock-hard intractability
might be a symptom of it.
We are struck by how we are bedeviled always
with the need to find symmetry, and through it
moral equivalence, in world events. Often there
is none, and the need to find it gets in the way
of the truth. Often, one side is worse than the
other. At time the good is all on one side. World
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War II. The Civil War (at least from the Norths
perspective, which certainly we all believe to be
the true one, but then we are all northerners).
The war in Gaza this summer (at least from our
vantage point, a position widely shared in the
Jewish world and reviled outside it).
There is no symmetry in the events in France
last week. The two shootings were equally evil
but they were not similar.
Charlie Hebdo was attacked because of the
nature of the magazine, of the opinions and
the cartoons it printed. That is profoundly and
completely wrong. Even if we are grievously
offended by the cartoons, if we find them simplistic, heavy-handed, or aesthetically displeasing, or, as we are told in the story on page 22, we
cannot possibly understand them because they
are so deeply French and we so deeply are not,
to say that it is not acceptable to slaughter the
artists is ludicrously to understate the obvious.
But the people at Charlie Hebdo were killed
because of what they did. They made a choice.
They should not have had to die for that
choice, but they did make it actively.
The people in HyperCacher were killed
because they were Jews. Thats it. Nothing else.
They didnt have a choice. They didnt have a
chance.
There have been other murders of Jews in
France. Ilan Halimi was tortured and killed
in 2006. An adult and three children were
killed at school in 2012; one of the victims, an
8-year-old girl, tried to run away. The murderer
caught her by her hair and shot her in the head
in the schoolyard.
All these people did was be Jewish.
Of course, Islamic terrorists kill more Muslims than they do Jews. Last week, at roughly
the same time that their peers were murdering
cartoonists, Jews, and Dr. Elsa Cayat, a psychotherapist who both wrote for Charlie Hebdo
and was Jewish, members of another Islamic
terrorist group, Boko Haram, strapped a suicide vest onto a 10-year-old girl and sent her
out to blow up herself and everyone near her.
Who does that? How does anyone do it? Why
does anyone do it?
And most importantly, how do we stop
them?
To start with, lets try to see things clearly and
name them for what they are. There is something
in Islam that is leading to depravity and murder. It
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This time, the victim

is to blame
e do not blame the

commit such acts.
victim.
Western nations especially insist
At least, we
they will never negotiate with tershould not. The per- rorists, because to do so sends the
petrator alone is guilty.
message that terrorism pays dividends. Yet their actions belie their
That is as true in the recent attack
words.
on the offices of a French satirical
Late last year, for example, Swemagazine, Charlie Hebdo, as with
den announced that it will recogany other crime.
nize Palestine as a state, only to
In the Charlie Hebdo case, 12
backtrack a day later
people were murdered at the magaby adding in the
zines office; a rookie
future. The British
female police officer
House of Commons,
was shot the next day
not long after, voted
while responding to a
274 to 12 to recognize
routine traffic accident
Palestine immediately. The vote was
one block from a Jewish school, and four
nonbinding, but it
people were killed
echoed loud throughShammai
out the Arab world,
as they shopped for
Engelmayer
and especially in the
Shabbat in a kosher
dark corners where
market, including the
terrorists skulk.
21-year-old son of the
Then there was the December
chief rabbi of Tunis.
Those 17 dead and the many oth- 30 Security Council vote on a Jorers who were injured did nothing to
danian proposal to force a peace
deserve what happened. Only the
treaty between Israel and the Palestinians within a year; to end the
terrorists were at fault.
In this case, though, the immedi- Israeli military presence in the
ate victims were not the terrorists West Bank within two years; and
true target. Society in general was
to establish east Jerusalem as the
the target. It is the real victim. The
capital of Palestine. At the council
goal in the Charlie Hebdo attack was
table was Riyad Mansour, the Palto strike fear in the hearts of jour- estinian Authoritys spokesman at
nalists and others in order to con- the United Nations, sitting at a desk
trol what they write, what they say, with a plaque in front of him that
and even what they draw. It was an
read State of Palestine, itself a tacit
attack on free speech, freedom of
acknowledgement that such a place
the press, and freedom in general.
legally already exists in U.N. eyes.
While the terrorists in the Charlie
France was among the eight
Hebdo case are responsible for the
nations that voted yes; others
deaths and the injuries, it is the ulti- included China and Russia. The
mate victim society that is to
United States and Australia voted
blame for what happened, because
no, and five nations abstained. An
it encouraged the terrorists to
abstention is as good as a yes vote,
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because it fails to acknowledge the misguided
nature of the resolution.
What did this vote say to the world, and especially to the terrorists and would-be terrorists? It
said that terrorism pays.
Thirteen states essentially blamed Israel not
only for denying justice to the Palestinians,
but also for all the evil that terrorism inflicts on
the world. Jordans ambassador, Dina Kawar,
said as much when she spoke to reporters after
the vote. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the
crux of the conflict in the Middle East, she said.
The underlying message is clear: Israel is the
real reason the most demonic of terrorists, the
Islamic State, beheads people; why Bashar alAssad so far has killed nearly 110,000 Syrian
civilians, including 29,000 women and children; why al-Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad continue to pose threats
to the innocent in the Middle East and around
the world.
Force Israel to do the right thing, and the
world will sleep better at night.
Truth has no place here. Yes, Israel has been
reluctant to reach an accord with the Palestinians. Yes, it even has done some things that
clearly are obstructionist. Israel, however, also
has shown that it wants peace; the Palestinians
have made no such showing. More to the point,
the Palestinians have done nothing to suggest
they can be trusted to keep such a peace, or
even intend to do so.
Israel is being called to task for its reluctance
to make peace with a supposed partner in
whom it has no faith, and for good reason.
There are still textbooks in use in Palestinian schools that portray Israelis especially and
Jews generally as evil monsters with a genocidal
agenda, that deny any connection between Jews
and the Land of Israel, and that extol the virtues
of martyrdom. There are no such depictions
of Arabs or Palestinians in Israeli textbooks, but
the world is oblivious to that distinction.
In the PA, streets are named after so-called
martyrs, and their families receive PA stipends.
The PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas, says he recognizes Israel, but refuses to accept it as a Jewish
state. He also pledges that Palestine will not
allow Jews to live within its borders. The world
ignores what this means: the forced expulsion of
as many as 800,000 Jews, should they choose
to remain in their West Bank homes.
Instead of forcing the PA to be an honest partner for peace, the world blames Israel.
Consider how the so-called Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions movement explains itself
on its website: In 2005, Palestinian civil society
issued a call for a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it
complies with international law and Palestinian
rights. A truly global movement against Israeli
Apartheid is rapidly emerging in response to
this call.
What happened in France last week is a direct
outgrowth of this kind of behavior on the part of
the West. With every vote at the United Nations,
with every statement by a western leader about
Israeli intransigence, with every joining of an
academic or religious group to the BDS movement, would-be terrorists are being told that terrorism pays dividends.
This time, the victim truly is to blame.
A community responsibility
Synagogue-based religious schools need to be tranformative
ay schools are great.

Through ATID, we work with synagogue teams on their mission
Day schools are effective.
and vision, brainstorm alternative models, get feedback from
Day schools yield committed, knowledgeable Jewstakeholders, and develop metrics for success.
ish adults.
The synagogues that participate in our ATID initiative must
The Jewish community has spent years touting the benefits
have a full team comprised of its senior rabbi, lead education
of day school education. Have we been distracted by the shiny
professional, school board president, a synagogue executive
object?
committee member (not the president, but someone in line to
Day schools are not the vehicle of choice for the vast majority
take that position), a teacher, and a parent. In year one, 5774, five
of the North American Jewish community. In fact, a majority of
synagogues participated in the ATID process. This year, 5775, we
our Jewish children are being educated in synagogue-based relihave three synagogues participating in ATID.
gious schools. Therefore, there is a moral imperative to invest in
The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jerseys Synagogue
the vehicle through which we must inspire the next generation
Leadership Initiative has hosted two conferences focusing on
and our collective vibrant Jewish future.
alternative models of religious school education. The first conference, held in November 2013, was attended by rabbis, educaWe have spent a generation disproportionately focused on
tors, synagogue leadership, parents, and thought
day schools, thereby relegating supplemental religious schools to second-class status. Our efforts
leaders in Jewish education in North America. That
have done nothing to increase day school choice
included 100 people representing 34 synagogues
in the majority of the Jewish community, but they
in the northern New Jersey area. A guide was published in November 2013 as a support document for
have helped demoralize supplemental school education directors and deplete the pool of qualified,
the workshop.
inspiring religious school teachers. We have conAn early lesson learned was that for many
signed our number one opportunity to inspire and
schools, a cookie cutter, one-model approach
ignite a lifelong love of Judaism and positive Jewdoes not work. Rather, many of the schools
ish identity to less than, to a kind of wannabe
adapted a blend of different models. In response
Lisa Harris
status.
to this data point, this years Alternative Models
Glass
Although Jewish federations, including ours,
of Religious School workshop, held in November, focused entirely on hybrid models those
have invested in change processes for synagoguethat cannot be defined as just one thing (camp,
based schools, on the whole it has fallen off the
Shabbat, project-based learning), but show comradar as a communal and philanthropic priority.
ponents of many models. An addendum reflectAs in many communities, our northern New Jersey synagogues were experiencing membership
ing this research was published in conjunction
drop-off post bar/bat mitzvah as well as a low perwith the workshop. A hallmark of the Synagogue
centage of enrollment in Hebrew high school. This
Leadership Initiative and deployed in these
sad statistic demands the question: How effective
guides is that they feature only models that are
is what we are doing when so many consumers
deployed successfully in suburban communities
leave once their transaction bar or bat mitzvah
within the United States. Relatability and replicability are keys to instilling confidence in those
is complete?
Stephanie
who are change-ready and in overcoming barWe asked our congregation leaders, both lay and
Hausner
riers with the less-ready.
professional, these questions: What do we want
Exposure to innovative ideas was and is not
the products of your synagogues religious school
enough, however. We have given synagogues
to look like? What are your communitys goals for
tools to analyze characteristics and outcomes of models to
each child? What are the parents goals for that child? One of our
determine what they need to do in order to achieve their
synagogue leaders responded, in part: I would want them to
desired outcome.
find strong meaning in their Jewish identity, which may not be
With five schools (representing eight synagogues) piloting new
demonstrated in the same way I would, but it would be a positive Jewish identity. We spend so much time in congregational
endeavors, and three more beginning the process, we know we
schools prepping for bar mitzvah prayers, but if our goal for our
are touching nearly 700 students and more than 7,000 Jewish
children is a strong Jewish identity, raising Jewish grandchildren,
adults who make up those communities and who share the communal responsibility of raising tomorrows Jewish adults.
and embracing a role in the Jewish community what can we do
We at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey are fully
not just as educators, but as congregational leaders to move us
committed to outcomes. We stand ready to contribute to and parforward in that goal.
ticipate in a larger communal conversation on this critical issue.
Enter ATID Addressing Transformative Innovative Design in
Lets focus on what we want and work backwards toward purJewish Education.
posefully and relentlessly achieving our goals.
ATID is a school improvement, system change/capacity building venture through which federation provides best practice,
Call us.
resource research, education, and facilitation services to changeLisa Harris Glass in the managing director of Community
ready synagogue schools. (It is designed in collaboration with
Planning and Impact for the Jewish Federation of Northern
Debra Brosan, CEO of Gestaltworks.) The nurturing and molding
New Jersey. Stephanie Hausner is the manager of the Synagogue
of our future Jewish adults is an all-inclusive community responsibility. Religious school innovation initiatives must be rooted in
Leadership Initiative. The SLI is funded in partnership by the
partnership with the synagogue board (not just slotted into a box
Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Henry and
on a organizational chart for the synagogues board of education).
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When ideologies fail
No to new USY rules
Possible ways out of the quagmire and toward peace in Israel
ith an election date for

members of the Knesset
and the position of prime
minister set for March 17,
it is worthwhile to consider the positions on
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that are likely
to emerge, depending on who becomes
the controlling voice in Israeli politics and
policies.
While Israel faces tremendous issues
related to education, the growing divide
between rich and poor, the place of Jewish
religion in the state, and the cost of living in
Israel, none of these challenges seem to be
as intractable or as dangerous as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There are those who disagree and simply
live with the status quo regarding the conflict. Indeed, it is only when all hell breaks
loose that the conflicts reality is brought
home. Then things quiet down again, and
no matter how tragic some events were
when its face was not hidden, life goes back
to what I would call Israeli normal.
That is, people go to work as usual. They
shop and go to concerts and the theater.
They live as if there were no Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And though there is some edginess about using public transportation or
traveling in certain places after violent outbreaks, in some ways it is the same edginess
people feel in almost every country about
the same or other things. The one thing that
is different is the sense that inevitably Israel
will have to mow the weeds to go to war,
again and again. Many Israelis consider this
the necessary price for having their country.
So lets propose that words have failed
and the reality is that negotiations have gone
nowhere. What are the alternatives that are
being proposed to get out of this quagmire?
What hope do they offer for a lasting peace
even if it is a cold one?
The one-state solution
Increasingly, we hear talk about the onestate solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We would imagine that only right-wing
Israelis would suggest it, but there are Palestinians (among them Palestinian writer and
political scientist Ali Abunimah Abdalhadi
Alijla, Palestinian-American producer Jamal
Dajani, and Palestinian lawyer Michael
Tarazi) who support it as well. Israelis president, Reuven Rivlin, and Moshe Arens,
Israels former representative at the U.N.,
support it as well. Both Rivlen and Arens
claim that given the direction in which Israel
is going, the one-state solution is inevitable.
Because both men are honestly committed to democracy and have shown themselves not to be racists, their vision of the
single state is one in which an enlarged
Arab population could be assimilated into
the State of Israel. The sticking point, as
they see it, has been the failure of Israel
to deal with its Arab citizens in a way that
would give them the sense that they were
diplomatic reasons.
Israelis like all other Israelis.
Whats wrong with this
In preparation for the singlepossibility?
state solution, Israeli Arabs
Essentially, it is the end of
should be receiving services
the Jewish and democratic
in their communities that
state envisioned by the foundmatch those provided to
ers of Zionist movement. At
Israeli communities. Israeli
least as far as I can figure it,
Arabs should be encouraged
the state would be Jewish and
to join Israels armed forces.
Rabbi Dr.
perhaps democratic for Jews
That would give them the
Michael
but not for Palestinians.
sense that Israel is their state,
Chernick
Right now it is a lie that Israel
which they, like all other
is an apartheid state. Would
citizens, should be defending. Success in this endeavor
that be the case if Bennetts
would provide the vision for assimilating a
one-state became a reality?
larger Arab population into Israel.
And what would be the outcome of using
Does this sound like it would work?
the IDF and Shin Bet to keep the Palestinians quiescent: the end of the Israeli-PalesTo remain Jewish and democratic, Israel
tinian conflict or a new stage in rage, bloodwould require a majority Jewish population
shed, and endless violence?
and equality under the law for all its citizens.
Unilateral declaration of borders
So, would this be a Jewish one-state from
Given the failure of a negotiated soluthe Jordan to the sea, or a binational state
tion to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some
open to the possibility of having a majority
have suggested that Israel simply withdraw
Arab population with voting rights?
from the areas it does not need for its own
Indeed, this is exactly why many Palestinians (66 percent, according to some polls)
security and unilaterally declare the border between it and the State of Palestine. In
support this arrangement. They see it as a
essence, Israel would declare the Palestinmeans toward their own one-state, from
ian state to be just that, and it might even be
the Jordan to the sea. Further, given almost
the first nation to recognize that state.
50 years of bad blood between Palestinians
If all went well and things stayed quiesand Israelis, to what degree would Palestinians be willing to assimilate into Israeli socicent while Palestine developed its national
ety as Israelis? The Israeli and Palestinian
self-rule, governing institutions, and economy, further conversations between two
narratives are too different. Is the hope sung
sovereign states about borders might be
about in Hatikvah the same as the Palestinians hope? I doubt it.
held. At the very least, Israel, trusting in its
The alternative one-state solution
armed forces capabilities, would cease to
I am almost afraid to bring up this solube an occupying police force. If the indepention, but there are those who do so and
dent state of Palestine engaged in an act of
are not ashamed to do it in public. Nafwar, then instead of attacking the occupied
tali Bennett, head of the right-wing Bayit
territory of the stateless Palestinians, the
Hayehudi party, says quite loudly that the
Israel Defense Force would indeed engage
one-state solution is the answer to ending
in defense. Soldiers would be soldiers and
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He suggests
not adjuncts to the Israeli police, a role for
transferring Gaza to Egyptian rule. Then
which they are not generally or properly
Israel would annex Area C according to
trained. In such a case they would have
present agreements neither side may build
every right to use any and all the legitimate
there until there is a negotiated settlement.
tactics of war to defeat an attacking power.
Areas A and B would belong to the PalesWould it work?
tinian Authority, which never would be
In theory the answer is yes. But it would
allowed to become a Palestinian state. It
be hard if not impossible to sell it to the
would be under Israeli military and security
Israeli public. It would mean taking a terrible risk that the state of Palestine would
services jurisdiction in perpetuity.
not become Hamastan II, along with HamasIn return, Israel would build up Palestinian economic infrastructure by creating
tan I in Gaza. On the Palestinian side, why
joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial zones and
would the Palestinians accept what Israel
providing roads connecting Areas A and
thinks are appropriate borders for them?
B. According to Bennett, they would not
If they were given statehood, would they
require checkpoints. Essentially, the Palreally want it on Israeli terms? Or would this
estinian Authority would be under Israeli
gift be viewed as chutzpah, wrapped in a
authority that would ensure quiet, supseemingly generous package?
press Palestinian terrorism and prevent
The two-state solution
Hamas from taking over the territory.
The two-state solution, which has been
Israeli citizenship would be offered to those
on the table for what feels like an eternity, appears to be the most reasonable
Palestinians who desired it. Many right-wing
option. It frees Israel from having either to
Israelis and politicians support this solution.
SEE IDEOLOGIES FAIL PAGE 62
Others believe in it but would not say so for
I wish to state my objection to the change

in the USY leadership rules (Reworded
interdating rules sow confusion, controversy, January 2). It seems that the Conservative rabbis interviewed for the article
have lost the ability to say no.
If the issue were allowing Jewish teenagers who date non-Jews into youth group
functions, the question of inclusion might
be a fair one. However, that is not what
this change is about. What is being asked
is allowing such teenagers into leadership
position. This waters down the standards
so much that it makes it indistinguishable
from Reform.
The essential point of inclusion of intermarried couples wholesale is wrong. This
ultimately will lead to the watering down
and destruction of Jewish institutions. The
idea that our community can do that is
wrongheaded. The only viable solution is
to welcome such couples when they can
commit fully to a sole Jewish identity.
Alan Mark Levin, Fair Lawn
Recalling the victims
Our thoughts are with those who have lost

their lives because of the expression of
free thought or due to the fact that they
shopped at a kosher food market.
As fate would have it, my second cousins son-in law, who used the pseudonym
TIGNOUS, was one of the four French
cartoonists who lost their lives in this horrible event. In a weird coincidence, on
another branch of my family tree, a different French cousin lost his friend in the
kosher market.
Lets hope that the world has awakened
to this religious fanaticism and bands
together to make change for the good of
everyone.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said
If the Jews flee, the Republic will be a failure. He also said, If 100,000 Jews leave,
France will no longer be France.
Joel Ives, Fair Lawn
Remembering Dr. King

and Rabbi Heschel
By all means, go see Selma. See it this

weekend, when we remember the life and
legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The movie is powerful. It manages to
feel epic and intimate at the same time; no
mean feat. It is heroic yet nuanced; laudable for Hollywood.
Yet Selma is not without issues. One that
has already been raised in the media, and
by historians, is the portrayal of President
Lyndon Johnson. Another, less noticed, is
the role of Jews in the famous march. One
critic accuses the film of airbrushing the
Jewish presence out of the movie.
Actually, if you watch it closely, you can
see two figures wearing yarmulkes. What
is lamentable, however, is the absence of
a striking figure with flowing white hair
and beard. In an iconic photo from the
march, he is one person away from Dr.
King. He is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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renowned philosopher, author, and

activist.
While it is well known that Heschel,
along with several other rabbis, marched
with King in Selma, the extent of Heschels involvement is much less appreciated. Before going to Selma, Heschel
helped organize a demonstration at the
FBI headquarters in New York, protesting
the treatment of participants in the previous Bloody Sunday Selma march. Eight
hundred demonstrators converged; only
Heschel was allowed into the building to
present a petition.
Two years earlier, Heschel had met
King for the first time at a National Conference of Christians and Jews meeting
in Chicago, where Heschel said memorably that it was easier for the children
of Israel to cross the Red Sea than for a
Negro to cross certain university campuses. Fourteen months later, the two
again shared a podium at the biannual
convention of the Conservative movement, and a day later at a similar gathering of the Reform movement.
Both spoke not only of the civil rights
struggle, but of the plight of Soviet Jewry.
In 1968, shortly before his death, King
lauded Heschel at a gathering of Conservative rabbis, noting that He has
been with us in many of our struggles. I
remember marching from Selma to Montgomery; how he stood at my side and
with us as we faced that crisis situation.
It was not only Heschels activism that
won over King, but the depth of his religious conviction. King most identified
with Heschels profound insights into the
thinking and relevance of the Hebrew
prophets. In the January, 2015 issue of
Smithsonian magazine, biographer Taylor Branch mentions the weighty influence that one book of Heschels in particular had on King and the civil rights
movement. After commenting on how
King drew inspiration from the Hebrew
Bible, he adds that all those guys used
to carry around Heschels book The
Prophets. They really identified with the
prophets.
Heschel was asked to speak at Kings
funeral; he was the only rabbi to do so. It
was fitting for the man whom Kings supporters often called Father Abraham
and who King himself was known to refer
to as my rabbi.
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
Congregation Adas Emuno, Leonia
As we approach the 42nd anniversary of

the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe
v. Wade, the Bergen County Section of
the National Council of Jewish Women
urges lawmakers to end efforts that hinder access to abortion.
Roe established the principle that every
woman has the right to make her own
decisions about her reproductive health,
including whether or not to end a pregnancy. NCJW supports Roe and believes
that every woman should have both the
right and the ability to make these personal decisions based on her own religious, moral, or ethical beliefs.
Since 2010, lawmakers in more than
two dozen states have tried to make abortion more difficult and more costly for
women to access and for health professionals to provide. Such obstacles not
only erode a womans constitutional right
under Roe, but fall hardest on those who
are least able to overcome barriers like
cost, impeding a vision of justice for all
women and families.
The current federal ban, known as the
Hyde Amendment, restricts coverage of
abortion in federal health plans or programs and denies a woman her right to
make her own decision about abortion,
except in very limited cases. Hyde discriminates against a woman simply because
she is poor or enrolled in a federal health
program. Low-income women, women
of color, immigrant women and young
women are hurt the most. In addition, it
also restricts care for military personnel
and federal employees.
NCJW urges President Obama to
exclude the Hyde Amendment policy
from the budget he will propose to Congress, which will be released in early
February. The organization also looks
forward to the reintroduction of federal
legislation, the Womens Health Protection Act, aimed to protect womens health
from arbitrary, medically unnecessary
state restrictions, such as those that result
in clinic closures.
Although often justified as protecting
womens health, onerous restrictions on
providers and women seeking abortion,
in fact, make safe abortion more difficult
to access. They exacerbate the inequalities already permeating our health care
system and culture. Women of color, poor
women, rural women, among others, are
relegated to second-class status when
such laws are enacted.
The Bergen County Section plans to
observe the 42nd anniversary of Roe by
redoubling its efforts to ensure that abortion remains safe, legal, and accessible
for all women, no matter their income,
insurance, race, where they live, or other
factors.
Gladys Laden
Ann Levenstein
Co-Presidents, NCJW Bergen County section
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Dirty Charlie
Rutgers professor sizes up French weekly and its Yiddish antecedents
LARRY YUDELSON
Dr. Edward Portnoy
harlie Hebdo, the satirical French

weekly, entered American consciousness last week when terrorists
attacked an editorial meeting, killing
12 people, among them five staff cartoonists.
Afterwards, the phrase Je suis Charlie was
spread by people who wanted to signal their
support for freedom of expression many of
whom, outside of France, had never heard of
the publication.
But Edward Portnoy was a longtime Charlie
fan.
Demonstrators march in Paris during

the unity rally on January 11. The huge
sign reads We Are Charlie.
PHOTO BY DAN KITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
Dr. Portnoy, who teaches Jewish studies

courses at Rutgers, discovered the magazine
20 years ago, when he spent a year in France.
When he was a child, when his friends collected baseball cards, he had collected Wacky
Packs stickers that parody actual boxes or
labels. Later, he earned a doctorate in Jewish
history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America; his dissertation was on political cartoons in the American Yiddish press.
So Charlie Hebdo, with its crude and
obnoxious cartoons, was his kind of paper.
I always liked satire and parody, he said.
When I first saw these crude cartoons many
of which are very clever and sharp they just

appealed to me.
Initially, It was a way to learn the language
visually. When I was learning French, I read a
lot of cartoons, he said.
When he returned to America, he kept following Charlie Hebdo. He had relatives in
France send him copies, and he bought them
himself when he visited Montreal. When I
asked certain people to bring me a copy, they
would groan, because they said it was embarrassing to buy, he said.
Charlie Hebdo is a tabloid, closer in size
to the Jewish Standard than to the New York
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Times, printed on newsprint rather than

glossy magazine stock. It generally runs 16
pages. Its not all cartoons, but the core is
a cartoon, Dr. Portnoy said. Every cover
has a huge, very colorful, very provocative
cartoon.
Theres no parallel publication in the
United States. If American cartoonists
would publish what they publish in Charlie
Hebdo, there would be an outcry.
The closest American analogue to its
crude humor is the television show South
Park, he added.
Both South Park and Charlie Hebdo
used the outcry over cartoons showing

Muhammed as an excuse to double down
in support of freedom of expression and
the right to commit blasphemy.
But not even South Park would dare
show the Christian trinity the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Ghost engaged in
a sexual act.
Charlie Hebdo did.
On Tuesday evening, Dr. Portnoy presented a lecture on the history of Charlie
Hebdo at a weekly gathering of cartoonists and scholars of cartooning that meets
at the New School in Manhattan. It was
a reprise of a presentation he gave three

years ago, after Charlie Hebdos offices
were firebombed for its Muhammad cartoons, and then published more cartoons
mocking Muhammad.
As someone who has read this magazine for 20 years, it is mind-blowing to see
it as the central feature of so many news
stories, and the topic of discussion of people who have never seen a copy in their
hand, he said. Theyve only seen decontextualized cartoons online.
The cartoons all deal with contemporary news events. In order to understand
If American
cartoonists
would publish
what they
publish in
Charlie Hebdo,
there would
be an outcry.
The crowd outside Hyper Cacher during Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahus visit held signs that
read, in French, I Am Charlie, I Am A Policeman
and I Am A Jew.
AURELIEN MEUNIER/GETTY IMAGES
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the magazine you have to have a very
strong understanding of French politics
and culture. If you just look at the cartoons and dont know anything about
France, youre not going to understand it
at all. It is very left wing, in an anarchistic
vein. Very anti-authoritarian, very antireligion. I wouldnt say its anti-Muslim.
Its anti-Islam, and especially anti-Islamicist. If you look at its history, you will see
a very consistent anti-religious line that
attacks all religions, Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam. They are very much an equalopportunity offender.
They made cartoons that deal with
the Holocaust in unpleasant ways. I dont
think they were anti-Zionist, but they
published a fair amount of work that portrayed Israel negatively.
Even before the Danish cartoon crisis in 2006 they had published cartoons
that criticized Islam as a religion. The fact
that Muslims reacted much more severely
than Jews and Christians, who maybe complained but took it in stride, egged the cartoonists at Charlie on.
When they saw they were getting a big
reaction, they went even further.
Being outrageous was a sincere editorial
move from Charlies staff; it didnt make it
Frances most popular magazine. Its print
run is sixty thousand. In a country of sixty
million, its not that much.
On Sunday, world leaders turned out to
show their resolve against terrorism and
their support for freedom of the press.
Theres a huge irony here, Dr. Portnoy
said. If the murdered cartoonists knew
who was marching in support of them,
they would be appalled. Theyd think it
was a joke. The hypocrisy of the politicians
marching is outrageous. The line of people
together with the president of France
people from Turkey and Jordan and all of
those countries that jail journalists.
Dr. Portnoy said that America once,
briefly, had a similarly provocative cartoon
publication. A short-lived magazine called
Good Morning, by an artist by the name of
Young. Founded in 1919 and lasting only
through 1921, it was founded by an artist
named Art Young and based on a Yiddish
humor magazine, Der Groyser Kundes
The Great Prankster.
During World War I, Art Young was
put on trial for sedition and couldnt find
work. Der Groyser Kundes gave him a job
drawing cartoons. He was their only gentile artist, he said.
Yiddish cartooning could be very provocative but the social situation was very
different. Times have changed. Ive seen
Yiddish cartoons that show the editor of
the Forvertz, Abraham Cahan, dressed as
a prostitute, trying to lure a writer into a
brothel.
But compared to the nude cartoons of
Charlie Hebdo that is France, after all
the satire of Abraham Cahan a century ago
was positively demure.
He has a long dress on, Dr. Portnoy
said.
A French
policeman
stands guard
outside Hyper
Casher on
January 11.
SERGE ATTAL/
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Security tips from an expert

Secure Community Networks head talks safety
and the SPCJ, the organization that

oversees security for Jewish organizations across France. I have worked for
years as an adviser to governments and
Jewish communities, because of the rise
of extremism and terrorism, he said.
And extremism and terrorism are on
the rise.
Early this week, Mr. Goldenberg talked
to hundreds of Jewish communal leaders
and staffers on a conference call. Because
I was on the ground with them the
stricken French Jewish community
and the American Jewish community
wanted an update about what happened, and advice on what they should
be doing.
Here is some of his advice.
First, he defined the challenge. We
members of the American Jewish community must figure out how to achieve
and maintain a finely calibrated balance
between openness and self-defense. The
goal, Mr. Goldenberg said, is to figure out
how to remain open for business, and at
the same time ensure that your congregations are secure.
Many leaders at the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey were

on the conference call at which Mr.
Goldenberg discussed security. This
is their message to the community:
Over the last years, since 2006,
we have played a leading role in obtaining more than 30 Homeland Security Grants, totaling $2.6 million, to
improve security at synagogues and
other local institutions. Two years
ago, after the fire-bombing of Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, we
brought the entire organized Jewish
community here to Federation for
a security summit in partnership

with local law enforcement leaders, one U.S. senator, and four U.S.
congressmen., which resulted in a
large number of security upgrades to
infrastructure.
Jews everywhere shouldnt have to
worry they might be attacked if for
no other reason than they are Jews.
That being said, we must be prepared. Going forward, were going to
have to be even more vigilant than
we have been both as an organized
community and as individuals.
JOANNE PALMER
aul Goldenberg specializes
in security for the Jewish
community.
A Jersey boy from Essex
County and a former head of the hate
crimes division of the New Jersey state
attorney generals office, he has an extensive background in security; I oversee
the homeland security initiative for the
Jewish Federations of North America,
among many other such roles, he said.
He is also the head of the Secure Community Network, which provides advice
and support to Jewish institutions across
the country.
On a phone call from Brussels on Monday, he talked about having flown to Paris
last Friday morning, and a couple of
kilometers from the airport, just as I flew
in, the police were having a gun battle
with the terrorists who carried out the
massacre in the offices of Charlie Hebdo.
He was not there because of that attack,
but because he works with the CRIF
the Council of French Jewish Institutions
That balance will not be the same for

us as it is for Europeans or Israelis, or,
for that matter, Jews anyplace else in the
world. Each place is different..
Here, one of the things we dont want
to happen is to have our Jewish schools
the way they are in France. Getting there
is like going through a TSA check.
We dont want to build walls. We dont
want barbed wire around our Jewish institutions. We want to make sure that theyre
still welcoming. Thats who we are.
On the other hand, we must be realistic. If anyone is planning an attack on
our institutions, we dont want them to
think that they are welcome.
We do need upgraded security technologies cameras, for example but
I believe that technology alone will not
save lives.
The human dimension is important
in fact, it is more important today than
ever.
If the Jewish community wants to be
secure, this is what it Jewish professionals, administrators, educators, rabbis
have to do:
The real focus should be on training
and testing your plans. And if you dont
have a plan, you have to develop one.
One of the most useful resources
is tabletop exercises, he continued. A
tabletop exercise is a chance for a group
of people often sitting around a table,
so the names not a mystery to figure
out what they would do in various hypothetical situations, often based on reallife disasters, natural or man-made. Participants role-play, imagining themselves
with ever-shifting responsibilities, skills,
and limitations.
You dont want not to know how to
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respond when an armed intruder already
is in your building, Mr. Goldenberg said.
You want to tabletop your response. That
means running through different scenarios fire bombing, a fire, an active shooter
in your building and ensure that when
you are sitting across the table with your
colleagues or your staff, everyone knows
what their responsibilities should be during that catastrophic event.
And everybody must be included. That
is across the board, he said. I dont care
if it is a teacher, the receptionist, or the
person responsible for cutting the lawn.
Everybody must participate.
Tabletop exercises are critical to the
safety and security of Jewish institutions.
Next, he said, there should be training
in security awareness how to respond if
there is an active shooter.
Technology is critical, he said. Training is critical. We really want to focus on it.
Unfortunately, in 2015 the paradigm
has changed. The threats to the American and diaspora Jewish community are
different. We had been concerned about
lone wolves people who are inspired
by what they see or read. Now, we have
more established terrorist hate groups,
such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, looking to Jewish institutions.
Not Israeli embassies or consulates, but
Jewish institutions, here and abroad. They
want to attack Jewish people within our
houses of worship, our schools. They are
really seeking to disrupt and terrorize us,
and they really feel thats the way to do it.
So we have to build capacity with
local police, to ensure that we are working closely with them. Do the local police
have the blueprints to our synagogues and
our schools? When they respond, will they
know how to reach our children at school?
Do they know where our children are?
Administrators who are responsible
for Jewish institutions large, medium, or
small all need to take a leadership role
in this effort. If anything happens within
their institutions, their constituencies will
be looking to them, and will see what they
did or didnt do.
Yes, Mr. Goldenberg continued, it is
terrifying. But, he said, his mantra is
that no matter how terrifying, we have to
continue going to our shuls, to our community centers, to our schools. We have to
continue with our lives. If we dont, those
who have sought to hurt or harm us have
accomplished their goals.
The United States is not Europe, he said.
I know of no imminent or specific threats
to the American Jewish communities. And
as we watch events unfold abroad, or even
if we should see attacks here in this country, we must continue to go back to our
synagogues, our JCCs, our federations. We
must go back to school, back to work, back
to prayer.
He urges Jewish communal leaders to
go to the SCN website, scnus.org. It is nonprofit, free, never closes, and provides
open-source training.
People watch on TV in a cafe as police mobilize during the standoff at Port de Vincennes on January 9.

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Snapshots of France
French Jewish couple, living in New York, talks about home
JOANNE PALMER
rancois and Marie, a handsome, well-dressed couple in

their late 30s, the parents of
three remarkably photogenic
children, have lived in the United States
for three and a half years. For the last
year or so, they have called the Upper
West Side home.
They are French Jews, in this country
originally for his job hes a high-powered financial type for the chance to
expose their children to another world,
for adventure. And, increasingly, they
are in this country because they no longer think of their home as home. There is
no safe haven for them there, they think.
To begin with, those are not their
real names. Francois and Marie both
have large families in and around Paris,
and they do not feel comfortable being
too public. Normally we at the Standard would try to talk them into using
their real names, first and last, but not
now. Not for this. We have seen what
happened.
All of our parents, our brothers and
sisters, they were all so shocked by what
happened, Marie said. I spoke to my
best friend, and she was crying on the
phone. They all feel that the situation is
really bad for Jews.
This is the first time she has talked
about maybe leaving.
I was back in France on the Friday of
the attack I came back Saturday night,
Francois said. I had Shabbat dinner with
my parents and my cousins. I asked them
when is too much too much? When do
you decide that you need to leave?
For some people, leaving France
might be easy, but for most people its
difficult. My dad is 83. Can he quit France,

even with a son in New York? He and my
mother were both born in Tunisia. They
were young then, when they were forced
to leave but can they leave again?
My cousin is a pharmacist. Its not like
here, where you have places like CVS.
There, its more like an old-fashioned
chemists shop. It is not a portable job.
He doesnt speak Hebrew or good
English. What could he do here?
I had Shabbat
dinner with my
parents and my
cousins. I asked
them when is
too much too
much? When
do you decide
that you need
to leave?
Some people are privileged to have
jobs that can be moved, and if they have
enough money, they can say I want to
live in Israel and just go, but those are a
minority. I have a feeling that the people
who already have moved are the people
who can move. The ones who are still
there are the ones who have the jobs that
dont allow them to move.
Even if their parents want to move
to New York to live with them, he continued, they could not. The family have
visas that allow the parents to work, but
they do not have green cards.

It is very different here than in France,
Francois and Marie both said. When we
moved to New York, we realized that it
is possible to live in a country without
having protection. Security guards, he
meant, or police officers. Since we were
children, we could not wear a kippah
on the street. Most of the time, the security service of the synagogue asked us to
remove our kippah.
There were some attacks in the past,
so this is not completely new, he said.
(In 1980, a synagogue on Rue Copernic
in Paris was bombed, and a Jewish restaurant in Rue de Rosiers was blown
up two years later.) Since then, Jewish
people in Paris, in France, are always
somehow under protection, especially
on Yom Kippur. You see them a lot. This
is not new.
Shopping also is different in France,
the couple said. It is hard, if not actively
impossible, to get kosher products in
regular stores. Hyper Cacher, the store
where the four Jews were murdered, is
part of a small chain. Its a real supermarket, Marie said. Its like the Fairway of kosher products. And of course
it would have been very crowded at 1
oclock on Friday afternoon, prime time
for Shabbat shopping.
Soon after the Friday massacre, the
French government announced that it
would add about 5,000 police officers to
safeguard Jewish sites. We are glad that
the government is making that move,
but we feel it is crazy that we need it in
France, Marie said. The scale of the protection the government thinks it needs
takes her aback, even given her lifelong
experience in France.
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Charlie Hebdo
and the temptation
of self-censorship
radical students who took to the streets of
Paris and thereby changed, as Gurfinkiel
As predictably as birds flying south for the
said, the French way of life.
winter, last weeks abominable terrorist
Charlie Hebdo was integral to the culture
attack on the headquarters of the French
of this generation. The French establishment in large part loathed it, regarding the
satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, brought
magazine as an outpost of the revolutionarforth the usual burnt-out platitudes from
ies who could conceivably have unseated
those commentators who insist that Islamist
General de Gaulle during the heady days
violence is rooted in legitimate grievances
of May 1968. Many of its editorial stances
with the West.
Ben Cohen
including on Israel reflected the imperaOne of the most heinous examples of this
tives of a left that is now, in our own time,
outwardly-nuanced, inwardly-confused
all too ready to engage in self-censorship.
discourse appeared in a piece for the Financial Times
As an example, and with great sadness in his voice,
by Tony Barber. By the second paragraph, Barber was
Gurfinkiel told me about George Wolinski, the 80-yearsagely counseling us not to jump to conclusions about
old Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who was brutally murIslamist culpability Anders Breivik, the far-right fanatic
dered in the attack. A Jew born in Tunis to a Sephardi
who murdered 77 mainly young Norwegians in 2011, was
mother and an Ashkenazi father, in the 1970s Wolinski
a Christian, after all.
had been a member of the French Communist Party
(Within a few hours of the Paris atrocity, the identities of the three suspects all Muslims, and with at least
and a trenchant opponent of Israel. When Menachem
one carrying a prior conviction for terrorism had been
Begin and Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accords
revealed. But had Barber bothered to check the earlier
between Egypt and Israel in 1978, Charlie Hebdo labeled
news, he would have perhaps registered those eyewitthe affair a shitty peace, and Wolinski provided an
nesses who reported the assailants shouting Allahu
accompanying cartoon of the two leaders sitting at a
Akhbar as they embarked on their killing spree. Two
table together and breaking wind.
days later, an Islamist terrorist presumably associated
Now, a man who pushed freedom of speech to its limits including in the service of the Palestinian cause
with the two Charlie Hebdo shooters took nearly 20 hostages at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, killing
lies dead, murdered by Islamists who detest the Wests
four of the hostages.)
ability to tolerate the grotesque and the tasteless. It is, as
Then Barbers argument got worse. The murder of
Gurfinkiel recognizes, a horrible irony, but its one that
12 people, he insinuated, might have been avoided had
too many on the liberal left are unable or unprepared to
there been some common sense at publications such
grasp. Thus do we come to platitudes about provoking
as Charlie Hebdo, and Denmarks Jyllands-Posten, which
Muslims.
purport to strike a blow for freedom when they provoke
Fundamental to the stability of free speech is the
Muslims. (Here Barber is referring to the 2005 publiright to offend, along with the right to be offended. The
cation of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed,
United States is in many ways the perfect example of
reprinted by Charlie Hebdo in 2011.)
how that works. If a public figure makes a racist comment, or a newspaper says something offensive about
Got that? In publishing the Muhammed cartoons,
Jews, we can be certain that an organization like the AntiCharlie Hebdo wasnt issuing a profound reminder of
Defamation League will doggedly pursue the wrongdothe willingness of other media outlets from Yale University Press to the New York Times to censor themers for a retraction or an apology. Sure, these humorselves in the face of Islamist threats. It sought merely to
less tussles can get nasty, but the norms of engagement
provoke Muslims. And when you provoke Muslims
have been firmly established over the years, and rarely,
and here we come to a stereotype held dear by both furif ever, does violence or terrorism ensue.
row-browed liberal journalists and right-wing bloggers
What the Islamists are doing is preventing Western
you invite the apocalypse. Ultimately, were to blame
Muslims from participating in this adversarial culture of
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The assault on Charlie Hebdo was, Gurfinkiel told me,
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Ben Cohen, JNS.orgs political analyst, has had pieces
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Among some Jews, little faith

in French authorities
CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
PARIS When he heard that four Jews had died in an
attack on a kosher supermarket near his home, 16-yearold Natan Kalifa was overcome with grief, anger, and a
feeling of exclusion from French society.
He even contemplated staging an act of violence
possibly against Islamists who support the murders he
recalled on Saturday at a vigil outside Hyper Cacher, the
supermarket where a 32-year-old jihadist took 21 people
hostage and murdered four of them on Friday, before he
was killed by police.
Kalifas distress was somewhat diminished after hearing French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reiterate his
commitment to French Jews in a speech at the vigil. But
Kalifa said he still plans to leave France for Israel as soon
as he graduates from high school.
For France and the Jews who stay here, I hope Valls
becomes president, Kalifa said. For me, I hope to be
gone before the next elections.
In the wake of an unprecedented spree of terror
attacks in France last week that claimed 17 lives, many
French Jews expressed appreciation for their govern-
For France and

the Jews who stay
here, I hope Valls
becomes president.
For me, I hope to
be gone before the
next elections.
NATAN KALIFA
ments resolute stance against anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, they felt the response to be insufficient at a
time when anti-Semitic violence is a daily reality that is
already driving out record numbers of Jews.
The governments response is impeccable, but that
is not the issue, Serge Bitton, who lives in the heavily
Jewish suburb of St. Mande, said at the vigil.
The issue for the future of our lives here as Jews is
how France reacts, not its government. And right now,
France is reacting to Charlie, not to Chaim, Bitton said
of public outrage at the January 7 attack on the offices of
the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo that killed 12.
Joyce Halimi, 26, attended the vigil with her husband,
Julien.
The government talks, but its only words, she said.
We do not have a future here.
The perpetrator of the Hyper Cacher attack, Amedy
Coulibaly, 32, belonged to the same jihadist cell as Cherif
and Said Kouachi, the brothers who staged the Charlie
Hebdo attack, French police said. The cell reportedly
was involved in efforts to recruit jihadists to fight in Iraq.
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands marched along
with dozens of world leaders in defense of democratic
values and in protest of the killings, including the slaying
of a police officer by Coulibaly on January 8.
Tellingly, leaders of French Jewry are discussing the
feeling of insecurity openly, after striving in the past to
reassure their co-religionists and inspire them to stay
and fight.
There are thousands of French citizens fighting for
jihad in Syria and Iraq. When they return to France, they
are truly bombs with a time delay, Roger Cukierman,
the president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, said at a ceremony honoring the victims at the City Hall of St. Mande.
In an interview with Le Figaro, Cukierman called the
increase in emigration from France to Israel a failure
for France, and said it was the result of growing insecurity felt throughout the country.
French Jews, he added, feel like the nations pariah.
Rabbi Moshe Sebbag of the Grand Synagogue of
Paris told Israels Army Radio that he estimated the
attacks will result in a doubling of the number of immigrants to Israel in 2015. There is a tremendous feeling
of insecurity and that these events will only worsen,
he said.
In 2014, France for the first time became Israels largest source of Jewish immigrants, with 7,000 new arrivals
more than double the 2013 figure of 3,289. The year
before, 1,917 French Jews immigrated to Israel.
Among the prospective immigrants this year is
Sammy Ghozlan, a former police commissioner who
founded one of the countrys most prominent watchdogs on anti-Semitism, the National Bureau for Vigilance
Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA.
The departure, its a message, Ghozlan said in an
interview about his decision published last week on JSSnews.com. Leaving is better than running away. We do
not know how things will play out tomorrow.
BNVCA Vice President Chlomik Zenouda, himself a
retired police major, spoke of a sense of fatigue.
I have participated in many demonstrations, many
marches, many vigils. The truth is I am getting tired,
Zenouda said after the supermarket murders. And
another truth is that if it were not for my obligations at
the BNVCA, I would leave for Israel.
Part of the problem, he said, was that police are
under orders not to respond, so you see cat-and-mouse
games that encourage offenders to test the limits and
cross them.
Zenouda was referring to violent rallies against Israel
held over the summer in defiance of a ban by authorities.
The firm use of force that exists in the United States
against violators does not exist here, and thats part of
the problem, he said.
A further complication is the sheer operational challenge involved in protecting 500,00 French Jews
Europes largest Jewish community from home-grown
killers with combat experience gained abroad.
You can guard a synagogue, fine, Zenouda said.
But you cant put cops outside each kosher shop. You
cant assign police protection to each family before it
goes shopping.
Another factor eroding trust is the glorification of Palestinian terrorists by French elected officials, said Alain
Azria, a Jewish photojournalist who specializes in documenting Frances anti-Semitism problem.
Look at this place. Its like Gaza, he said at the market of Aubervilliers, an impoverished and heavily Muslim suburb north of Paris where the mayor recently
honored Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader serving multiple life sentences in Israel for terrorist attacks.
In recent months, several French municipalities have
conferred such honors on convicted Palestinians.
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After Paris, reassessing how nations thwart attacks

RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON These are the lessons of
the Paris attacks for American Jews and
U.S. law enforcement: Keep calm and
cooperate.
Enhanced communication between governments has been a key element of Americas counterterrorism successes since 9/11,
experts say, and more is planned in the
wake of last weeks attacks in France that
left 17 dead.
President Obama announced this week
that Washington will host a summit on
February 18 aimed at improving communications between nations that are wouldbe targets of terrorists. The U.S. secretary
of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, also
outlined plans on Monday for better cooperation across national police forces and
among U.S. law enforcement agencies to
identify terrorist threats.
Together with our colleagues in the U.S.
law enforcement and intelligence communities, this department will continue its
efforts to partner with the governments
of France and other key counterterrorism
allies to share information about terrorist
threats and individuals of suspicion, Johnson said in a statement. We will recommit
to these engagements.
Information sharing between the U.S.
and European governments suffered
somewhat after the 2013 revelations by
Edward Snowden, the rogue ex-National
Security Agency employee who publicized
classified information showing that the
United States routinely spied on its allies.
U.S. authorities have been in discussion with counterparts in Europe, but the
post-Snowden environment has impeded
information sharing, said John Cohen, a
senior adviser to the Rutgers University
Institute for Emergency Preparedness and
Homeland Security and until last year a
senior counterterrorism coordinator at the
Department of Homeland Security.
I suspect that [the France attacks] will
change that environment and lead to better information sharing, Cohen said. We
have to in a robust way enhance the sharing of information between European
nations and the United States.
After the attacks in France, there were
renewed calls for a French version of the
U.S. Patriot Act, which facilitated information gathering after the September 11, 2001
attacks.
Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two brothers who attacked the satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo, reportedly received weapons training in Yemen, had declared their
A police officer reacts as he is escorted from the scene of the hostage crisis at Port de Vincennes.
allegiance to al-Qaeda and were on no-fly

lists. Amedy Coulibaly, the captor who
took hostages and killed four at the kosher
supermarket Hyper Cacher, also reportedly was known to U.S. security officials.
French authorities are still seeking six
accomplices in the attacks, French reports
said Tuesday, suggesting that the captors
may have belonged to a larger terrorist
cell.
One of the threats that most concerns
Western security agencies are the Western fighters who go to Middle East battlegrounds for training and experience and
then return to their home countries. A
study published this week by the Brookings Institution says there are about 4,000
European fighters in Syria. U.S. officials
have said 100 U.S. citizens have fought for
the Islamic State, the jihadist group also
known as ISIS to which Coulibaly pledged
allegiance.
Paul Goldenberg, who directs security
for the U.S. Jewish community, said that
sharing information on returning fighters
is frustrated by the fact that Europe represents an array of sovereign nations, each
with its own security practices but with
open borders. (For more on Goldberg, see

page 24.)
European Union regulations on data
sharing are complex and replete with
restrictions arising out of privacy concerns. The 10 pages of regulations governing the sharing of telecommunications
data, for instance, allow member countries to retain data obtained from other
countries for no more than two years.
Goldenberg said terrorist sleepers often
remain inactive for periods longer than
two years.
These terrorist groups are very patient
and methodical, he said.
Potential terrorists can travel easily
through Europes open borders. Mehdi
Nemmouche, the suspect in the killing
of four people in an attack on the Brussels Jewish museum in May, was known to
French authorities and had been flagged
by Germany upon his return from fighting in Syria, but Belgian authorities were
unaware of his presence.
Goldenberg, whose Secure Community
Network is funded by the Jewish Federations of North America, said the training
evident in the Paris attacks portended
better planned attacks, even by lone

wolves who act on their own but have
undergone training in the Middle East.
Everyone is trying to figure out what
we do to stop a well-planned terrorist
operation against a Jewish center, said
Goldenberg, who was in Paris meeting with Jewish leaders when the kosher
supermarket attack took place on Friday.
There were armed guards at Charlie who
were executed.
As for the Jewish community, many best
practices remain the same even after the
Paris attacks, Goldenberg said, including
training Jewish community professional
and lay leaders in lockdowns and spotting
suspicious behavior. Jewish communities
need more such people, he said.
Another key element is making sure
that faith communities and law enforcement are in close coordination. In the Jewish community, that may mean authorities and community leaders keep in close
contact about any suspicious behavior at
or around Jewish sites. In Muslim communities, that might mean monitoring fighters returning from the Middle East who
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Divided French Jewry

Feelings are mixed about call to move to Israel
URIEL HEILMAN
rench Jews are feeling embattled.

Arsonists have targeted their
synagogues, terrorists have
attacked their schools and
shops, and, with only a few exceptions,
French society has not united behind
them to stop the assaults and harassment.
The solution, according to Israels prime
minister, is simple: Move to Israel.
To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of
Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not
just the place in whose direction you pray;
the State of Israel is your home, Benjamin
Netanyahu said Saturday in Jerusalem, the
day after an attack on a Paris kosher supermarket that killed four Jewish men.
This week, a special team of ministers
will convene to advance steps to increase
immigration from France and other countries in Europe that are suffering from terrible anti-Semitism. All Jews who want to
immigrate to Israel will be welcomed here
warmly and with open arms, he said.
But for French Jews, the answer isnt so
simple.
The Israeli government must stop this
Pavlovian response every time there is an
attack against Jews in Europe, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, the director of the European Jewish Association, told the Israeli
news website NRG.
I regret that after every anti-Semitic
attack in Europe, the Israeli government
dispenses the same statements about the
importance of aliyah rather than take
all measures ... at its disposal in order to
increase the safety of Jewish life in Europe.
Every such Israeli campaign severely
weakens and damages the Jewish communities that have the right to live securely
wherever they are, he said.
The crux of the dispute one that is
hardly limited to Netanyahu and Margolin
are divergent views about the viability of
diaspora Jewish life.
On one side are the many Israelis who
believe diaspora Jewry has no future due
to anti-Semitism (see: France) or assimilation (see: America), and often believe that
Jewish life in the diaspora is somehow less
authentic or legitimate than Jewish life in
Israel.
On the other side are many diaspora
Jews who see themselves as part and parcel of their home countries and consider
their communities vibrant expressions of
Jewish life. In their view, Israeli calls for
aliyah in response to the challenges they
face are offensive and counterproductive.
Instead, they believe, Israel ought to be
thinking about how it can help diaspora
Jewish communities thrive.
Netanyahu is hardly the first prime minister to ruffle feathers in the diaspora this
In July, new French immigrants to Israel were welcomed at a ceremony in Jerusalem.

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way. In July 2004, then-premier Ariel Sharon irked French Jews with a similar call.
If I have to advocate to our brothers in
France, I will tell them one thing: Move to
Israel as early as possible, Sharon told a
gathering of North American Jewish federation leaders. I say that to Jews all around
the world, but there I think its a must and
they have to move immediately.
In response, French President Jacques
Chirac told Sharon he was not welcome in
France. Like many non-Jewish government
leaders, Chirac bristled at the implication
that Jews should leave en masse.
In the United States, Israeli novelist
A.B. Yehoshua ignited a firestorm in 2006
when he told the audience at a centennial celebration of the American Jewish
Committee that American Jews are only
partial Jews because they live in the
diaspora.
Judaism cannot exist outside Israel,
he said, according to an account in Israels
daily Haaretz. Those who do not live in
Israel and do not participate in the daily
decisions that are made there ... do not
have a Jewish identity of any significance.
Yehoshua hit upon a similar note in a
February 2013 speech to a group of several hundred American Jews on volunteer
and study programs in Israel when he said,
Im happy to see so many Americans
here. I hope you all become Israelis and
dont return to America.
Needless to say, they didnt all move to
Israel.
French Jews are in a much different situation than American Jews, however, in that
they face the threat of physical violence.
Add Frances serious economic problems
and many French Jews agree with the view
that the prognosis for their community is
bleak.
We do not have a future here, Joyce

Halimi, who attended a vigil for victims
of the Hyper Cacher supermarket attack
on Saturday night, said. The government
talks, but its only words.
In 2014, nearly 7,000 French immigrants
arrived in Israel out of a French Jewish
population of 500,000. Thats the equivalent, proportionately, of 84,000 American
Reassessing
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embed in those communities.

Such coordination is commonplace in
the United States but has been inhibited
in Europe by mistrust among minorities
of law enforcement and by a reluctance
among some authorities to be seen as
profiling religious communities.
The Brookings study emphasized the
importance of engaging Muslim communities and not alienating them.
The goal should be to move potential terrorists towards nonviolence;
since many are in that category already,
hounding them with the threat of arrest
or otherwise creating a sense of alienation can backfire, it said. In the
past, family and community members
have at times been successful in steering returned fighters toward a different
path, even getting them to inform on
their former comrades.
Jeremy Shapiro, one of the authors
of the Brookings study, said domestic security agencies focus on foreign
fighters distracts from the overall goal
of anticipating mass attacks many of
which have nothing to do with classic
terrorism.
Jews moving to Israel. The actual number

of Americans who immigrated to Israel in
2014 was 3,470.
Additionally, the highly symbolic decision by all four families of the Hyper
Cacher attack victims to bury their loved
ones in Israel reinforces the message
that French Jews have a dim view of their
future in France.
Of course, not all of those who are emigrating are moving to Israel. Montreal,
Miami, London, and New York all have
seen significant numbers of French Jewish
newcomers over the last decade or so.
St. Johns Wood Synagogue in London
now holds a French-language Shabbat
service. Montreals primary Jewish social
services and resettlement organization,
Agence Ometz, has seen a significant
increase in newcomers from France over
the last year, JTA reported in November.
In 2013, the Italian daily La Stampa wrote
a feature about the surge of French Jews
in New York.
Unlike with Israel, however, there is no
precise data about the number of French
Jews moving to the United States, Britain,
or Canada.
But the migration westward is a
reminder that Israel is not the only alternative for French Jews seeking to leave the
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country.
We have had 74 school shootings in

the 18 months after Sandy Hook, he
said, referring to the December 2012
massacre of 26 schoolchildren and
teachers in Connecticut by a lone gunman. The foreign fighters thing has
nothing to do with that.
With such attacks notoriously difficult
to anticipate because of the challenge of
assessing when the mentally ill are true
threats, U.S. law enforcement has made
a priority of tracking people known to
have terrorist ties.
Last July, the Transport Security
Agency enhanced security at U.S. points
of entry and overseas points of departure. Now, Homeland Securitys Johnson said that he is considering further
enhancements.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told
the CBS news program Face the Nation
that lone wolf attacks are one of his great
sources of concern.
Its something that frankly keeps me
up at night worrying about the lone wolf,
or a group of people, very small group of
people who decide to get arms on their
own and do what we saw in France this
week, he said.
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France
FROM PAGE 25
Francois described the makeup of the

Jewish community in France. You have
about 500,000 to 600,000 Jews, he said,
and they can be divided into three groups.
The majority are Sephardic, which means
that they or their parents probably were
born in Morocco, Tunisia, or Algeria, and
moved in the late 50s or early 60s. Algeria got its independence in 62. At the time,
those territories were French, and at some
point, about 100 years ago, the Jews there
were given French citizenship. When the
countries became independent of France,
the Jews had to leave. There are a few Jews
left in Morocco, protected by the king, but
none in Tunisia or Algeria.
The second largest group is from central and eastern Europe, most of them
displaced by World War II or descended
from people who were, and the third
the French French Jews can trace their
French ancestry way back. Some are
descended from families that fled the
Spanish Inquisition.
The couple do not know what will happen, but they think that whatever will
come, it is unlikely to be good. It is very

tricky now, Francois said. There are at
least four different kinds of anti-Semitism
in France now, and they are all joining
forces, even though they are against each
other. When it comes to being against the
Jews, they align.
The first is the historic Catholic kind,
he went on. They see Jews as the people
who killed Jesus. They were aligned with
the Nazis during the 40s. That kind of antiSemitism isnt strong, but it is still there.
Second is the far right, the Front
National, the LePen familys party, which
traditionally has been anti-Semitic as well
as anti-immigrant in general, and which
is surging in popularity on the tide of its
anti-Muslim rhetoric. Ironically, the Front
National is trying to convince Jews to join
them, and we know some Jews who are
voting for them. That is a big problem.
Third is the far left. Its anti-capitalism,
anti-money, anti-USA, and for them Jewish
people means capitalism, means money,
means USA, means success, means everything they hate.
Fourth, the Muslims. It is based on the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but they are
against Jews not only because of that but
also because some part of the Muslim religion is against Jews.

All these groups find common ground
when it comes to Jews.
The numbers make the Jewish future in
France seem likely to be short and grim.
You are talking about 8 to 10 million Muslims in France the official version is that
there are less, but really it is more. Ten
to 15 percent of France is Muslim. France
has 60 million people. Not all of them are
anti-Semitic, but a big majority of them is
anti-Israel.
The Front National got 25 percent of
the votes in the last election they were
the number one party and its unlikely
that there is much overlap between them
and the Muslims. So that is 40 percent. The
far left is about 5 to 10 percent of France.
So you get quickly to the big numbers.
They certainly are not all anti-Semitic,
but they have an issue with Israel, and that
means that at the end of the day they have
an issue with us.
This summer, with Gaza, there were
some protests in France, and we saw
images with the Hamas flag, and people
with signs saying Jews out. There were at
least 500,000 people protesting in Paris
during Gaza.
And then there is another layer of complexity that comes from the economic crisis in Europe, Francois added bleakly.
Although they struggle to some extent
with the guilt those of us who are safe feel
when we think about those who are not,
we feel privileged to be here, Francois
said.
This part of the country feels very safe,
he said. On Shabbes, everyone wears a
kippah. You have a mezuzah in front of
all the stores. Of course, this is New York
and it probably would feel the same in
Los Angeles, or in Miami, or of course in
Bergen County, but in the middle of the
country, I just dont know.
One big difference between the United
States and France is how minorities have
been integrated, he said. If you are Hispanic, African-American, anything, you
feel like an American first, more than anything else. That is not true in France.
And there are so many more Jews here.
The proportion is so different. There are
six million Jews in the United States, versus
500,000 in France, and there are proportionately fewer Muslims, too. That makes
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Israeli-Arab is the nations first U.N. youth delegate

Felice Friedson
JERUSALEM Rasha Athamni was the
first Israeli selected to represent the
nation as a youth delegate to the United
Nations General Assembly in New York,
serving during the 69th session from
September through November 2014.
The youth delegates program was begun
1981, but until now Israel has not chosen
to participate.
The 29-year old was raised in the Israeli
Arab town of Baka Al-Gharbiyah, the
youngest of nine children and the first in
her family to graduate high school and university. Her parents do not read or write.
Athmani earned a bachelors degree in
psychology and English literature from
Jerusalems Hebrew University and is now
working on her masters in English literature. She also guides tours of Israels parliament, the Knesset.
Giving her first interview, Rasha spoke
with the Media Lines Felice Friedson.
TML: What prompted you to apply to
become a United Nations youth delegate
and on behalf of the state of Israel, no less?
RASHA ATHAMNI: Ever since I was a
child, my biggest dream was to become a
member in this U.N. society because thats
the ideal, the universality. People go out
and help others that are in need. I am a
citizen of Israel, and I have a right to apply
and to go through the interviews. And
thats what I did. And when I got the acceptance letter, I was just thrilled. Hundreds
applied after there was a call for applicants published on the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs website. Only 12 or 13 were invited
to go through the interview and I was one
of them. And then, after the final decision,
I got be the first and only

Israeli government?
youth delegate for Israel
RA: About two years ago,
for the U.N.
the students association
TML: Is there a distincat the Hebrew University
tion between Israeli Arabs
was looking for a coordinator for a coexistence projand Palestinians living in
ect that brought together
Israel and if so, what is the
eight Jewish and eight Arab
difference?
Israeli women students. I
RA: Well, its a bit complicated thats the best
applied and got the job. It
adjective that I can use to
was a very fascinating year
describe it. Its a question
for me, and for each one of
every Arab citizen in Israel
those students that particiRasha Athamni gives
pated. Its very funny when
has to answer sooner or
tours of the Knesset in
you think about it. Even
later. On the one hand, my
Arabic, Hebrew, and
though they study the same
mothers side is Arabic;
English.
courses and they go to the
my parents are Arabs. On
same classes, youd see the
the other hand, I live in the
majority Jewish students would sit on one
center of Israel and I have an Israeli ID and
side of the hall and the minority on the
passport. But Im not Jewish, so its very
other side, so theres this psychological barcomplicated. You really need to establish
rier between them. After they got to learn
a sense of yourself that is solid enough to
about each other and meet each other, then
represent Israel, especially at the U.N.
the hate recedes. Thats beyond nationality,
TML: How did you end up where you
ethnicity, or religion. Thats when that barare today, studying for a second degree at
rier just disappeared and they started to sit
Hebrew University?
and study with each other. The Jewish girl
RA: I was primarily motivated by my
would go and teach the Arab girl Hebrew
mother, because ever since I was a little kid
and the Arab girl would go and teach the
she told me it was very important for me
Jewish girl English.
to go to school, because that would be the
One of the girls used to work as a tour
best that I would have in our society and
guide in the Knesset. I needed to support
that I should appreciate that because she
myself, so I got information from her and I
herself couldnt do it. All she really wants
applied for the job. I still give tours in Arain life is that one of her kids becomes a
bic, Hebrew, and English.
doctor. I didnt become a doctor. That was
TML: How did your family react to that?
disappointment number one but I did
RA: My family is very apolitical. They
get a degree in psychology and English literature from the best university in Israel,
grew up in a society where it was taboo to
and now Im doing my masters in English
talk about politics because for them that
literature.
meant either jail or exile. For me now,
TML: How did you get involved with the
that sounds like paranoia, being afraid
to express your own opinion because of

your background. There is some truth in
that, but they just took it to the extreme.
My family was really scared that my being
involved in politics or social change or
anything that has to do with the state
of Israel could mean the demise of my
image in my own community and thats
a fear that theyre still experiencing. My
mother, every time I call her, tells me that
I shouldnt do that and its never too late
to back out.
TML: Was there backlash from other
Arabs, or from Arabs who happen to be of
Israeli descent?
RA: At the U.N., no. Theyre all very diplomatic. Whenever I introduced myself,
they said, Good job as the youth delegate of Israel, even though that person
was from Jordan, Yemen or Egypt. It just
didnt make any sense because they would
attack Israel in the Committee for Human
Rights but they had no problem talking to
an Israeli in the corridors.
TML: You said you represented Israel,
responding to different discussions that go
on in the United Nations
RA: After I was picked to represent the
youth of Israel, I had a two-month training period at the Foreign Ministry, then
traveled to New York for three months,
where my job was to summarize the meetings of the Committee on Human Rights. I
attended informal briefings at which U.N.
delegates would discuss the terms and
wordings of the resolutions, and I would
also go to events that the delegation would
be invited to.
My most prominent moment came
when I delivered a speech on behalf of the
youth of Israel. This was at the opening
was arrested shortly after entering the

country. Israeli security forces said he was
in poor health upon his return.
The indictment against Nasrallah reads,
The defendant had hoped to be killed
while fighting [in Syria], in accordance
with his religious belief that it would make
him a shahid [martyr] and he would go to
heaven, where he would be reunited with
his friend who died in a car accident.
China airline to launch

Tel Aviv-Beijing route
Briefs
Israeli-Arab resident
indicted for trying
to join Syrian jihadists
An Arab resident of the Israeli city of
Qalansawe was indicted at the Kfar Saba
Magistrates Court on Monday for traveling
to Syria to join the ranks of jihadist rebel
forces in the area.
According to the Shin Bet security
agency, 21-year-old Yusef Nasrallah admitted during his investigation that he went to
Syria on April 18 last year to join the rebels. He was arrested by Syrian forces a few
hours after crossing the border.
Nasrallah was held in Syria for eight
months, during which time he was subjected to multiple investigations and
asked for information about Israeli security facilities. According to the Shin Bet,
Nasrallah was also tortured while in Syria.
After being released by Syrian forces, he
returned to Israel by way of Jordan and
32 Jewish Standard JANUARY 16, 2015
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Historic aircraft
saved from scrap
A Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft used in 1947s clandestine Operation
Michaelberg, during which 100 Iraqi Jews
were rescued and brought to then-British
Mandatory Palestine, will soon return to
Israel after being saved from a metal scrap
yard in Argentina.
During the mid-1940s, concerns grew for
the fate of the Jews of Iraq due to increasing
persecution by their Arab neighbors. The

British denied the Jewish communitys petition to allow Iraqi Jews to enter Israel legally,
leading to the decision to mount a clandestine rescue operation and smuggle them
into the country. The rescue was designed
by the Aliyah Bet group, which operated as
part of the Haganah, the Jewish paramilitary organization that operated in Israel in
defiance of the British Mandate. The secret
operation was carried out in August and
September 1947.
Former Israeli Knesset speaker Shlomo
Hillel, one of the people involved in Operation Michaelberg, recently learned of the
whereabouts of the historic plane, and that
its owner had planned for it to be scrapped.
Hillel and Israeli businessman Meshulam
Riklis successfully negotiated with the C-46s
owner, and the plane is scheduled to arrive
at its new home the Atlit Detention Camp
Museum, which is dedicated to the history
of pre-state Israel immigration efforts in
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several weeks.
Chinas Hainan Airlines filed a request

with Israels Civil Aviation Authority
to operate three weekly direct flights
between Beijing and Tel Aviv, starting in
September.
The flights will operate on Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, days on which
Israels El Al Airlines does not fly the Tel
Aviv-Beijing route. The move by Hainan
Airlines, Chinas fourth-largest carrier,
is the result of efforts by Israeli Tourism
Minister Uzi Landau, Tourism Ministry
Director-General Amir Halevy, and Israeli
Ambassador to China Matan Vilnai.
Over the past year, Israeli officials highlighted to Hainan Airlines officials the
economic viability of operating regular
flights between Beijing and Ben-Gurion
International Airport. Until now, only El
Al has operated flights on that route.

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Jewish World
of the first meeting of the Human Rights
Committee. When it was time for the
youth delegation to speak, they spoke
about the rights of the youth: Why is it
really important? Youth belong to a very
strange category because they are not children and are not yet adults, so we tend to
disregard their needs. A person needs to
get a first degree and a second degree in
order to just have the opportunity to apply
for a job. These are just some of the topics
that we covered, along with health, gender
equality, and education which is very
basic in our country but in other countries
is a goal to strive for.
TML: Two of your passions are human
rights and social responsibility. What
issues were most challenging?
RA: Whenever I attended meetings of
the Committee for Human Rights, I had to
sit in Israels space, and just sitting there
I felt terrified. On my first day, to my left
there was Iran. In front of me was Egypt
and Jordan, and behind me was Qatar.
I felt what Israel feels like at the international level, being under attack, even
though this was my first experience hearing the attacks. What was interesting for
me was how every country would attack
Israel, disregarding what they do within
their own borders. Youd hear the delegation from Syria attacking Israel for violations on human rights, which doesnt
make much sense. A country representing their own people needs to address
their own problems rather than pretending that everything is fine within their own
borders, and then attack another country
and join with others who are against it.
That country most of the time happens to
be Israel.
TML: As an Israel citizen, how did that
make you feel?
RA: It didnt feel fair. There are always
two sides to a conflict. It seemed that one
side is more represented then the other
side. That other side is Israel. I just felt
that someone needs to be given the floor
to express and talk about good things that
Israel is doing: the humanitarian assistance that Israel is giving to Gaza and the
West Bank. There is a project called Save A
Childs Heart. Every Tuesday a child from
Gaza goes to Israel for heart surgery. There
are also negatives, but you cant just focus
on that. There is much hope that is being
missed when everyone focuses on the bad
stuff.
TML: Youre 29 years old. Youve
got another year of what is considered
youth by the United Nations. What are
you doing in this last year as a youth, and
heading into adulthood?
RA: Thats a tough question. I would still
work for coexistence. I did a facilitation
course for Seeds of Peace, and Im hoping
to facilitate as many groups in dialogue

as possible. And where do I see myself as
an adult? I think somewhere in the government trying to make a change and to
convince young Arab citizens of Israel that
they can achieve whatever they want to
achieve.
TML: Was there ever a moment of fear
when you were sitting in the chair representing Israel that you were also of Arab
origin?
RA: At first there was fear, but after
the interactions with the other youth delegates, Ive come to the conclusion that
most of the European delegates did not
know that there are Arabs in Israel. They
asked, Are you permitted to vote? Are
you permitted to go into Jewish cities? At
that moment I embraced my identity, my
place as an Arab Israeli, and was proud to
represent Arabs in Israel an issue thats
being disregarded all the time, even this
community. We are the bridge towards
any Jewish community and the Palestinian community.
TML: Israeli Arabs and Palestinians
have complained that they do not feel like
theyre equal citizens. Do you feel that is a
fair statement?
RA: Yes. Absolutely. Sometimes I feel
like an unequal citizen in Israel. For
example, theres a law that does not give
me the right to buy land in Israel just
because Im not Jewish, even though I

was born there and my parents were
also born in Israel. But me, compared to
someone who immigrated a week ago,
and to think that that person has more
rights than I do, because of their nationality it just enrages me. But instead of
going against the system, against people
and who they are, I choose to go through
the system and make a change in the
acceptable channels. Even though I represented Israel at the U.N., on my way
back, just before the check-in at the airport, I was singled out as an Arab and
got accompanied. I was the only one
that got singled out that flight, from the
moment of check-in all the way towards
the gate. Even toys that I bought at the
airport, after I went through the security
checks and everything, these were for my
nephew, and they were checked (again)
after I got on the flight and all the passengers there, all the Jewish passengers,
were looking at me as if I was a terrorist.
Of course, that made me think a lot about
the situation that I was in. On the one
hand I represented these people, I represented Israelis at the U.N., but on the
other hand, Im not considered one of
that community to begin with. That was
very hard but I still chose to keep going
and trying to make a change.

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Jewish World
Pursuing justice in Alabama

Former doctoral student recalls rough and rewarding summer of 65
EDMON J. RODMAN
LOS ANGELES How big a We were the
Jews in We shall overcome?
Since the nationwide release of Selma
a week before the national holiday commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., I have wondered about the extent of
Jewish participation in the civil rights
movement. Was it just the Selma marches?
Was our support also financial, in the voting booth? Or something more?
In their 1998 book, Jewish Dimensions
of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices
of Our Time, Albert Vorspan and David
Saperstein concluded that Jews served in
the forefront of the fight to end racial segregation in education, public accommodations and voting. But wanting to hear
it from someone who actually was in the
forefront, I spoke with a Jewish recruit
in the fight.
David Sookne may not sound like someone who served on the front lines of our
nations battle for civil rights. The semiretired mathematician and computer
programmer a resident of suburban
Los Angeles with whom I pray a couple of
times a month is exacting in speech and
even tempered in disposition.
Hes also blessed with an excellent memory: Sookne can name the people in the
Roosevelt administration, down to the
level of the undersecretary.
So he vividly recalls his seven weeks
spent in Alabamas rural Crenshaw County
as a foot soldier in the voter registration
campaign for blacks organized by Dr. King
through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It was the summer of
1965 after the Selma marches but before
the passage of the Voting Rights Act that
would be one of their outcomes.
Sookne, then 22 and enrolled in a doctoral program in theoretical mathematics at the University of Chicago, signed up
after reading the news stories about the
Freedom Riders and Freedom Summer a
campaign to register black voters in Mississippi in 1964 in which several supporters
and volunteers were murdered, including
two young Jewish men.
After first driving home to Springfield,
Md. his parents didnt want him to go
he headed for Atlanta.
Sookne had already had his first taste
of the risks involved with working for civil
rights. During spring break in 65, he was
among three dozen University of Chicago
student volunteers in Somerville, Tenn.,
helping to build a structure to be used as
a meeting place for voting rights activities.
In the local home of the organizer, John
McFerren, who was black and a World War
II veteran, Sookne heard a car pull up outside, a pop-pop-pop, and then the car
pulled away. McFerren went to

the living room wall and pulled
something out, Sookne recalled.
It was a bullet from a .22, he
recalled McFerren saying.
They are just trying to scare
us, McFerren said, according to
Sookne. If they were trying to
kill us, they would use something
bigger. That was my introduction to the danger of voter registration, Sookne said.
As part of the training in
Atlanta, Sookne, along with hundreds of other volunteers, heard
King speak. He also heard Bayard
David Sookne in 2013
EDMON J. RODMAN
Rustin, the pacifist and civil
rights leader. He went through a
weeklong training session that would help
from being beaten up more than once.
prepare him for the domestic battle ahead.
Knocking on peoples doors at a time
We practiced various things, like not
when the passage of the Voting Rights Act
reacting to insults, said Sookne, who had
seemed imminent the law would make
a student deferment from service in the
registration easier made signing up votVietnam War. We also practiced curling
ers a hard sell. So the group members
up on the ground, protecting vital organs,
turned their efforts toward another goal:
in case we got beaten up.
integrating local restaurants.
At the end of the week, the volunteers
In the town of Brantley, they ran into
were given their assignments, and Sookne
trouble.
drove his pale green Volkswagen Beetle
They didnt want their all-white restauin a caravan that stopped first in Montrants integrated, Sookne said.
gomery, Ala. From there he drove to the
At a nonviolence training session on a
small town of Luverne, where he met up
ball field there, he recalled three carloads
with six others, including organizer Bruce
of young men in their late teens and 20s
Hartford, also Jewish, who had found the
pulling up, with perhaps five of them getgroup housing in a local residence.
ting out. They told us we better get out
Sookne recalled that about five minutes
of Brantley or they would beat us up,
after they reached town, they were met by
Sookne said.
the local police chief, Harry Raupach. He
Hartford, who also was there, has writtold us to write down name, address and
ten that the locals he refers to them as
next of kin, just in case something hapAll Klan had ax handles and chains
pened to us, Sookne said.
and clubs. Sookne said the volunteers
He also recalled that Raupach, who
made a dash for his VW.
was originally from up north and not a
On the highway, trying to make it back
Klansman, Sookne said saved the group
to Luverne, he could see that two cars
David Sookne, front left, and Bruce

Hartford, third from right, in Alabama
during a voter registration drive in
1965.
COURTESY OF BRUCE HARTFORD
were in close pursuit, with perhaps others

farther behind. When the highway widened a few miles before the relative safety
of Luverne, Sookne recalled one of the
cars passing, pulling in front, and boxing
him in.
We slowed to about 25 miles per hour,
Sookne said.
He took a turnoff and veered left, onto
a winding gravel road, where the VW had
an advantage. His car pulled ahead, but
turning onto a second highway to Luverne,
the Klansmen were still in pursuit.
Suddenly, Hartford recalled, a couple
of cars filled with black men armed with
shotguns got between the VW and its
pursuers. Hartford, who was in the car,
believes some people in Brantley had
called them about the situation.
They escorted us back into Luverne.
The Klan didnt want to mess with them,
Hartford wrote.
In the fall, back at college, Sookne
received a letter that Dr. King sent to all
the SCLC volunteers 20 to 30 percent of
whom were Jewish, both Sookne and Hartford estimate.
It is a rare privilege in life to participate
in the fulfillment of an idea whose time has
come, the letter began.
For Sookne it was also a way, he said, of
expressing Tzedek, tzedek tirdoff Justice, justice you shall pursue. Even if, as
it turned out, he was also being pursued.
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Edmon J. Rodman is a JTA columnist who

writes on Jewish life from Los Angeles.
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Six tips for better work-life balance

DEBORAH JIAN LEE
hese days, work-life balance can seem like an

impossible feat. Technology makes workers
accessible around the clock. Fears of job loss
incentivize longer hours. In fact, a whopping
94 percent of working professionals reported working
more than 50 hours per week and nearly half said they
worked more than 65 hours per week, according to a
Harvard Business School survey. Experts agree: The
compounding stress from the never-ending workday is
damaging. It can hurt relationships, health, and overall
happiness.
Work-life balance means something different to every
individual, but here health and career experts share tips
to help you find the balance thats right for you.
1. Let go of perfectionism
A lot of overachievers develop perfectionist tendencies at a young age when demands on their time are
limited to school, hobbies, and maybe an after-school
job. Its easier to maintain that perfectionist habit as
a kid, but as you grow up, life gets more complicated.
As you climb the ladder at work and as your family
grows, your responsibilities mushroom. Perfectionism
becomes out of reach, and if that habit is left unchecked,
it can become destructive, says executive coach Marilyn
Puder-York, who wrote The Office Survival Guide.

The key to avoid burning out is to let go of perfectionism, says Puder-York. As life gets more expanded its
very hard, both neurologically and psychologically, to
keep that habit of perfection going, she says, adding
that the healthier option is to strive not for perfection,
but for excellence.
2. Unplug
From telecommuting to programs that make work easier, technology has helped our lives in many ways. But
it has also created expectations of constant accessibility. The work day never seems to end. There are times
when you should just shut your phone off and enjoy the
moment, says Robert Brooks, a professor of psychology
at Harvard Medical School and co-author of The Power
of Resilience: Achieving Balance, Confidence and Personal Strength in Your Life. Brooks says that phone notifications interrupt your off time and inject an undercurrent of stress in your system. So dont text at your kids
soccer game and dont send work emails while youre
hanging out with family, Brooks advises. Make quality
time true quality time. By not reacting to the updates
from work, you will developing a stronger habit of resilience. Resilient people feel a greater sense of control
over their lives, says Brooks, while reactive people have
less control and are more prone to stress.
3. Exercise and meditate

Even when were busy, we make time for the crucial
things in life. We eat. We go to the bathroom. We sleep.
And yet one of our most crucial needs, exercise, is often
the first thing to go when our calendars fill up. Exercise
is an effective stress reducer. It pumps feel-good endorphins through your body. It helps lift your mood and
can even serve a one-two punch by also putting you in a
meditative state, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Puder-York recommends dedicating a few chunks of
time each week to self-care, whether its exercise, yoga
or meditation. And if youre really pressed for time, start
small with deep breathing exercises during your commute, a quick five minute meditation session morning
and night, or replacing drinking alcohol with a healthier
form of stress reduction.
When I talk about balance, not everything has to be
the completion and achievement of a task, it also has to
include self-care so that your body, mind and soul are
being refreshed, says Puder-York.
These exercises require minor effort but offer major
payoffs. Psychotherapist Bryan Robinson, who is also
professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte and author of the book Chained to the
Desk, explains that our autonomic nervous system
includes two branches: the sympathetic nervous system
(our bodys stress response) and the parasympathetic
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nervous system (our bodys rest and
digest response). The key is to find
something that you can build into your
life that will activate your parasympathetic nervous system, says Robinson.
Short, meditative exercises like deep
breathing or grounding your senses in
your present surroundings, are great
places to start. The more you do these,
the more you activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which calms
everything down, (and) not just in the
moment, says Robinson. Over time
you start to notice that in your life,
your parasympathetic nervous system
will start to trump your sympathetic
nervous system.
4. Limit time-wasting
activities and people
First, identify whats most important in
your life. This list will differ for everyone, so make sure it truly reflects your
priorities, not someone elses. Next,
draw firm boundaries so you can
devote quality time to these high-priority people and activities.
From there, it will be easier to determine what needs to be trimmed from
the schedule. If email or Internet surfing sends you into a time-wasting spiral, establish rules to keep you on task.
That may mean turning off email notifications and replying in batches during limited times each day. If youre
mindlessly surfing Facebook or cat
blogs when you should be getting work
done, try using productivity software
like Freedom, LeechBlock, or RescueTime. And if you find your time being
gobbled up by less constructive people,
find ways to diplomatically limit these
interactions. Cornered every morning by the office chatterbox? Politely
excuse yourself. Drinks with the work
gang the night before a busy, important
day? Bow out and get a good nights
sleep. Focus on the people and activities that reward you the most.
To some, this may seem selfish. But
it isnt selfish, says Robinson. Its that
whole airplane metaphor. If you have
a child, you put the oxygen mask on
yourself first, not on the child. When
it comes to being a good friend, spouse,
parent or worker, the better you are
yourself, the better you are going to be
in all those areas as well.
5. Change the
structure of your life
Sometimes we fall into a rut and
assume our habits are set in stone.
Take a birds-eye view of your life and

ask yourself: What changes could make
life easier?
Puder-York remembers meeting with
a senior executive woman who, for 20
years of her marriage, arranged dinner
for her husband every night. But as the
higher earner with the more demanding job, the trips to the grocery store
and daily meal preparations were adding too much stress to her life. My
response to her was, Maybe its time to
change the habit, recalls Puder-York.
The executive worried her husband
might be upset, but Puder-York insisted
that, if she wanted to reduce stress, this
structural change could accomplish
just that.
So instead of trying to do it all, focus
on activities you specialize in and value
most. Delegate or outsource everything
else. Delegating can be a win-win situation, says Stewart Freidman, a management professor at the University
of Pennsylvania Wharton School and
author of Leading the Life You Want:
Skills for Integrating Work and Life.
Freidman recommends talking to the
key stakeholders in different areas of
your life, which could include employees or colleagues at work, a spouse,
or a partner in a community project.
Find out what you can do to let go in
ways that benefit other people by giving
them opportunities to grow, he says.
This will give them a chance to learn
something new and free you up so you
may devote attention to your higher
priorities.
6. Start small.
Build from there.
Weve all been there: crash diets that
fizzle out, New Years resolutions we
forget by February. Its the same with
work-life balance when we take on too
much too quickly, says Brooks. Many
of his workaholic clients commit to
drastic changes: cutting their hours
from 80 hours a week to 40, bumping up their daily run from zero miles
a day to five miles a day. Its a recipe for
failure, says Brooks. When one client,
who was always absent from his family
dinners, vowed to begin attending the
meals nightly, Brooks urged him to start
smaller. So he began with one evening
a week. Eventually, he worked his way
up to two to three dinners per week.
If youre trying to change a certain
script in your life, start small and experience some success. Build from there,
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Listening closely for signs of hearing deterioration

Average life expectancy of an American
now approaches 79 years an increase
of more than 30 years since 1900. Thanks
to antibiotics, science-based clinical practices, vaccinations, and changes in diet
and exercise, Americans are outliving
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and social isolation.
As reported in JAMA Internal Medicine,
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in order to evaluate whether hearing loss
is associated with accelerated cognitive
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Results indicated that individuals with
hearing loss had a 32 percent poorer score
on the DSS, a 41 percent poorer score on
the 3MS, and a 24 percent increased risk
for incident cognitive impairment.
Another study sought to determine if agerelated hearing loss is associated with social
isolation, and whether factors such as age,
gender, and hearing aid use moderate this
association. Social isolation was defined
using the social isolation score.
Results indicated clearly that hearing
loss is associated with increased odds of
social isolation.
The third study using the 9-item Patient
Health Questionnaire, the prevalence
of depression among participants of the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) was examined.
The prevalence of depression increased
as hearing loss became worse. Adults

under the age of 70, particularly women,
had a significant association between moderate hearing loss and depression.
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People with diabetes have up to two
times the incidence of hearing loss.
Smokers have twice the incidence of
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30 percent of the age 65 and older group
have a treatable loss, and this number
increases with advancing age.
Over 50 percent of Americans with cancer will be treated with chemotherapy,
which may include cisplatin-based derivative drugs, which may add to hearing loss.
People who suffer from cardiovascular
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Based on a review of National Institutes
of Health, an estimated 20.1 percent of
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RICHARD PORTUGAL
Stephen Crane, who wrote The Red
Badge of Courage, also wrote this succinct poem in 1905:
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
It is futile, I said,
You can never
You lie, he cried,
And ran on.
I saw a man who has suffered with Parkinsons for ten years continue to play
tennis, golf, and exercise with weights
weekly to maintain his strength, independence, and quality of life. He perceived life
with intensity and a sense of humor. He
accepted Parkinsons and made it his own.
He understood his medication, took it on
time, and accredited its effects. He learned
to own the disease, not deny it. He learned
to fight, not succumb.
I saw a woman who had a severely
dislocated shoulder exercise daily with
resistance bands to increase her range of
motion and maintain her strength, independence, and quality of life. She was told
that full range of motion would elude her
and to accept her limitations. She worked
hard and regained full range of motion. She
chased her horizon and caught it.
I saw a man who suffered from dementia
exercise weekly to maintain both his circulatory efficacy and muscle mass to maintain
his strength, independence, and quality of
life. There were times that light would blaze
from his eyes, that an inner resource would
be rekindled. At those brief instances, you
could witness his inner soul determined to
maintain his spirit and recall who he was.
I saw a woman with Menieres disease
exercise her upper body and legs for
strength and balance to maintain her independence and quality of life. Through sudden attacks of balance loss, vertigo, and
dizziness, she was determined to function

with resolve and fortitude. Accepting her
attacks, she partitioned them to a corner of
her life. An attack would unbalance her, but
the rest of her life was in balance.
I saw a world class athlete, who in
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increase his range of motion and maintain
his strength, independence, and quality
of life. This was a man who did not recognize the concept of futility. He disciplined
his mind to exercise and slowly regained
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I saw a woman, in her seventies and
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They all pursue their horizons; they do
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The many benefits of exercise

MICHAEL METCHIKIAN
There are many life-changing and positive rewards
directly associated with exercise. Doctors do recommend it. Celebrities do it and endorse it. All successful
people in various walks of life do some form of exercise.
Here are some of the benefits of exercise for adults
and children:
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Exercise controls weight

Obesity is huge problem in America today. Over 30 percent of Americans are obese, a large number that is rising yearly.
One way to get control of your weight is to exercise.
Exercise can help prevent excessive weight gain or help
maintain weight (fat) loss. When you engage in physical activity, you burn calories. The more intense the
activity, the more calories you burn. You do not need
to spend large chunks of time for exercise to reap the
fat-loss benefits.
There are many different ways to exercise which
you choose is totally up to you and how comfortable
you are doing it.
Exercise combats health conditions

and disease
your daily chores. Another advantage is when you

do strength training exercises, they help you move
weighted objects such as chairs, tables, and other
strenuous items with less effort and energy.
After exercising you should feel invigorated and
full of energy. That is a sign that you have done just
enough and you will reap the benefits of your efforts.
Exercise promotes better sleep

Struggling to fall sleep? Or to stay asleep? Physical
activity can help you fall sleep faster and deepen your
sleep. Regular exercise helps the body relax and wind
down at bedtime. Try not to exercise close to bedtime.
You maybe too energized to fall sleep.
Exercise can put the spark back into

your sex life
Do you feel too tired or too out of shape to enjoy physical intimacy? Regular exercise can leave you feeling
energized and looking better. Regular exercise can
have a positive effect on raising testosterone in men.
Men who exercise regularly are less likely to have
problems with erectile dysfunction than men who
dont exercise. For women its very helpful activity
that can enhance their arousal for sex.
Are you are worried about heart disease or have a history of it in your family? Are you hoping to prevent or
stabilize high blood pressure? Or boost your high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or good cholesterol, and decrease
unhealthy triglycerides? The one-two punch of exercise
keeps the blood flowing smoothly that decreases your
risk for heart disease. In fact, regular exercise can help
you prevent or manage a wide range of health problems
and concerns, including stroke, metabolic syndrome,
type II diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer,
arthritis, and the prevention of falls.
Exercise can be fun
Exercise improves mood
The bottom line on exercise
Exercise increases the bodys level of endorphins, chemicals in the brain that reduce pain and induce a sense of
well-being. Exercise can help improve mood and energy
levels and may even help relieve depression. Exercise
may also help boost self-esteem by improving your overall health and appearance
At any age, we can take advantage of the benefits of

exercise. Hiring a reputable professional such as a personal trainer can save you a lot of time and guesswork
in finding out a proper successful routine. Whether
your specific goal is to get in shape or to lose body fat,
you may need to do more.
Remember always to check with your doctor before
starting on any kind of exercise program.
Exercise boosts energy

Ever feel tired after grocery shopping or doing the
household chores? Regular exercise can improve your
muscle strength and boost your endurance. Exercise
and physical activity deliver oxygen and nutrients to
your tissues and help your cardiovascular system work
more efficiently. And when your heart and lungs work
more efficiently, you have more energy to go about
Hiring a fitness professional such as a personal trainer

can lead you in the right direction and save you a lot
of time on finding what works for you. Doing a variety
of activities such as aerobics, strengthening, stretching
and flexibility is one sure way to make it fun. The fun
is in the progress that you feel. Working hard can be
fun especially when results are produced. There is a
lot of enjoyment in exercise; thats why its so popular
today and recommended by many health professionals and doctors.
Michael Metchikian is certified by the National

Academy of Sports Medicine as a personal trainer,
corrective exercise specialist, and senior fitness
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CrossFit Giant has recently opened a new

location at 250 S. Van Brunt St. in Englewood to join its already successful location
at 115 River Road in Edgewater. Classes at
both locations are offered seven days a
week and are open to all fitness levels. The
life-changing programs offered at CrossFit
Giant are both fun and challenging. CrossFit Giant offers the traditional CrossFit program at its facility, as well as other other
options, including one for those looking for
a less intimidating version of the original,
CrossFit Lite; also a CrossFit Kids & Teens
program, an all womens class, personal
training, a gymnastics class, a weightlifting
class, and a mobility class.
The CrossFit program is universally scal-
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able, making it the perfect approach to fitness for any committed individual regardless of experience. The same CrossFit
routines have been used for elderly individuals with heart disease and top Navy SEALS
preparing for battle. The load and intensity
are scaled, not the programs.
The needs of Olympic athletes and our
grandparents differ by degree not kind.
Our firefighters, mountain bike riders,
and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen. This regimen
combines weightlifting, gymnastics, and
cardiovascular exercises into constantly
varied high intensity workouts.
For those looking to start the traditional CrossFit, a four class fundamentals program is first required to all new
members. In the fundamentals program,
coaches will teach the foundational
movements of CrossFit while building
up the individuals conditioning level to
ensure he or she is ready for the regular
Workout of the Day CrossFit Class. During the fundamentals coaches discuss
nutrition, goal setting, and give each
member a good understanding of CrossFit. Each of the CrossFit Giant coaches
are well qualified to teach proper technique on all movements and will ensure
the athlete has the knowledge and feels

comfortable prior to starting regular
classes.
CrossFit Giants CrossFit Lite workouts
have the same principles as a regular CrossFit class constantly varied, high intensity,
functional movement) except focus mainly
on metabolic conditioning (Met Con) with
scaled down weights or body weight movements. This class is geared towards those
who are intimidated by any of the notions
they have of CrossFit, have had lengthy
layoffs from a fitness program and want to
start getting back into fitness with a jogging start, want to work on the cardiovascular system, body awareness, and athleticism before focusing on strength or power,
generally have more flexible schedules or
want to understand some of the core tenets
of CrossFit at a slower pace.
Personal Training programs at CrossFit
Giant are designed toward the individuals fitness goals, whether they be geared
toward CrossFit, postural alignment,
olympic weightlifting, nutritional consultation, yoga, gymnastics, mobility, or other
strength and conditioning programming.
Packages are offered in individual sessions
or in groupings of five, 10, or 20 sessions.
CrossFit Giant Teens is a strength and
conditioning program designed for 13- to
17-years-old athletes and non-athletes alike.
The program combines age-appropriate
weightlifting and gymnastics with high
intensity training to deliver optimal fitness
and performance, as well as establish a
lifetime love of fitness. Proper weightlifting techniques are taught under the watchful eye of our CrossFit certified trainers to
enhance strength and power, while also
focusing on basic gymnastics to increase
agility, mobility and flexibility. Our program will increase physical competence
in ten fitness domains: cardiovascular and
respiratory endurance, stamina, strength,
flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. In addition, we
aim to boost self-esteem and confidence
within our teens. We want to give them the
strength, both physically and mentally, to
tackle any obstacle thrown their way inside
or out of the gym. With workouts that are
scalable for all individuals, CrossFit Giant
Teens can equally benefit both the accomplished athlete as well as the less active
individual. Classes for the Teens program
meets at the Englewood location Sundays
at 1:30 p.m., and Monday and Wednesdays
at 4:30 p.m. Our CrossFit Kids program is
for children ages 3-12 and is offered on Sunday afternoons. All kids and teens are welcome to attend a free class.
To sign up for a free trial or to get started
with CrossFit Giant, call or text 201-2123258, email info@crossfitgiant.com, or visit
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The Gym recently hosted several fundraising events and fitness classes for
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An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, a chronic disease marked by recurrent attacks of
breathlessness and wheezing as the lining of the lungs bronchial tubes swells
and narrows the airways.
A new study suggests that a vitamin
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increases the likelihood of flare-ups in
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Rather than adding more pharmaceuticals, such people may want to have
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young adults is
very large and
uncontaminated
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A team led by Dr. Ronit ConfinoCohen of the Allergy and Clinical
Immunology Unit at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba came to this conclusion
after analyzing the medical records of
nearly four million members of Clalit
Health Services, Israels largest health
care provider.
They zeroed in on records of 307,900
patients age 22 to 50 whose vitamin D
levels were documented between 2008
and 2012. Of those, some 21,000 also
were diagnosed with asthma.
Looking at the 21,000 records, they
discovered that those with a vitamin D
deficiency were 25 percent more likely
than other asthmatics to have had at
least one flare-up in the recent past,
according to results recently published
in the journal Allergy by Confino-Cohen
and her colleague Arnon Goldberg,
with Becca Feldman and Ilan Brufman
of the Clalit Research Institute.
Confino-Cohen, who is on the faculty
of Tel Aviv Universitys Sackler medical
school, says that most of the existing
data regarding vitamin D and asthma
came from pediatric studies and was
inconsistent.
Our present study is unique because
the study population of young adults

is very large and uncontaminated by
other diseases, she explains.
The researchers found that vitamin
D-deficient asthmatics were at a higher
risk of an asthma attack if their condition was uncontrolled defined as
being prescribed at least five rescue
inhalers, one prescription of oral corticosteroids or visiting the doctor for
asthma at least four times in a single
year.
The real conclusion is that if a young
adult with asthma is not responding to
regular medication, he or she should
probably get vitamin D levels checked,
the physician says. Adding vitamin
supplementation is certainly less harmful than adding medication.
While sufficient vitamin D can be
obtained from 10 minutes of sun exposure daily, concerns about skin cancer
cause many doctors to recommend getting the vitamin instead from supplements or from foods such as eggs, fatty
fish, mushrooms or fortified drinks.
Confino-Cohen said that she anticipates further research will support her
teams findings and open a new treatment modality to the population of
uncontrolled asthmatics.
Worldwide, the incidence of asthma
is steadily rising. According to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in 12 people in the
United States has asthma, or about
25 million people. From 2001 to 2011,
the number of Americans with asthma
grew by 28 percent.
We know a lot about this disease and
many therapeutic options are available.
So its quite frustrating that the prevalence of asthma is not decreasing and
many patients suffer exacerbations and
significant impairment in their quality
of life, Confino-Cohen says. Increasing vitamin D levels is something we
can easily do to improve patients quality of life.
She emphasizes that her teams conclusions are an educated guess at this
point.
We know that vitamin D has an
effect on the immune system and is
considered protective against asthma,
but there is not much data on the
genetic connection, she says.
You would have to follow vitamin
D levels of newborns till adulthood
before making an assumption on the
connection. We have speculated based
on information we know from the lab
and immunological effects we know in
terms of osteoporosis and cancer. Its
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Experiments reveal that animals are more vulnerable
to stress during the dark and more resilient in the morning
We are less capable of handling stress after
dark.
If you have noticed that you are less able
to handle stressful situations at night, you
may not be surprised by the results of an
Israeli experiment showing that the time
of day at which stress occurs significantly
affects the behavioral response.
Animals are measurably more vulnerable to stress during the night and more
resilient in the morning, according to
findings by graduate psychology student
Shlomi Cohen, working with other scientists under the guidance of Professor Hagit
Cohen, director of the Stress and Anxiety
Research Unit in the Faculty of Health
Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev.
Their findings were recently published
in the Neuropsychopharmacology Journal.
When we experience stress, our adrenal
cortex releases appropriate amounts of
hormones such as glucocorticoids (cortisol
in humans and corticosterone in rodents)

that enable the flight-or-fight response of
preparation, response and coping both
physically and emotionally. This process is
governed by the hypothalamicpituitary
adrenal (HPA) axis.
Inadequate corticosterone release following stress not only delays recovery but
can also interfere with the processing or
interpretation of stressful information, and
alters the trajectory of trauma exposure.
The researchers knew that the HPA axis
displays a characteristic circadian pattern
of corticosterone release, with higher levels at the beginning of the morning and
lower levels at the beginning of the night.
For their experiment, they exposed lab rats
to stress at these two times and looked for
differences in their response.
Assessing the rats behaviors seven days
afterward, the team saw that the time of
day of the traumatic exposure markedly
affected the pattern of the behavioral
stress response and the prevalence of rats
showing an extreme behavioral response
(PTSD-like behavioral responses).

Rats exposed to the stressor at the
beginning of their inactive phase (night)
displayed a more traumatic behavioral
response, and, conversely, were more resilient to stress exposure at the beginning of
the active phase (morning).
Though the researchers expected to
find a correlation between the behavioral
response and the corticosterone levels in
the bloodstream, to their surprise they
instead found that although the basal levels of corticosterone were significantly
different between the morning and night,
the magnitude of the HPA axis response
to stress was not statistically different
between the times.
However, a slower return to baseline
corticosterone levels after stress exposure
was observed in the morning, Professor
Cohen reported. In other words, during
stress exposure in the morning, high corticosterone levels are prolonged in comparison to stress exposure at night.
These findings imply an association
between the circadian phase, HPA regulation, and the behavioral response to stress.
Rats exposed to the stressor during the
night displayed faster post-exposure corticosterone decay and a more pronounced
stress-induced decline in neuropeptide Y
(NPY) expression in the hypothalamus.
Blocking hypothalamic NPY prior to
stress applied in the morning, or administering NPY to the hypothalamus prior to
stress applied in the night, had a resounding behavioral effect.
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Vaera: A hard hearts gonna fall
his weeks Torah portion brings

the first seven of what will turn
out to be ten plagues: blood,
frogs, lice, and on through hail.
Pharaoh knows why the plagues come,
and he knows what it takes to make them
stop: Let my people go, Moses has told
him.
But Pharaoh does not let the Israelites
go, and the plagues do not stop. Even
when Pharaoh seems to have learned his
lesson and promises to free the slaves, he
reneges after the plague ends and a new
plague follows.
What explains Pharaohs insistence to
act contrary to his own, and his countrys,
interest?
And God hardened Pharaohs heart,
says the Torah.
Which raises the question: By what right
does God punish Pharaoh for acting with a
hardened heart?
Yet was his behavior really that inexplicable? Was his heart harder than ours
would be?
Experimental psychologists increasingly have discovered that people are not
rational. We are wired to make mistakes in
judgment that are not rational but that
are deeply human. The road that Egyptian leadership takes from last weeks portion when a Pharaoh frightened by alien
Hebrews enslaves them to two weeks
from now, when Pharaoh and his army are
drowned, is not uniquely Egyptian, or necessarily the result of Divine intervention. It
is prototypically human.
At the beginning, Pharaoh looked out
and saw the Hebrews who live in Egypt
but were not fully assimilated. Yet, the

midrash tells us, they were close to assimilating. True, they had different habits; they
ate different food. But they were so close
to assimilating, the midrash said, that they
were 98 percent of the way from complete assimilation and so from not being
redeemed.
Psychologically, though, irrational fear
of people and groups that are different is
natural.
So too is singling out a feared group for
special treatment.
But those responses are hardly rational:
They serve only to enhance group identity. Ironically, it was the persecution that
forged a nation from the children of Israel.
More recently, look at how much stronger
American Jewish communal institutions
were back when much of American society was closed to Jews.
Slavery certainly brought economic
benefit to Egypt though surely less than
was promised when the idea was first suggested to Pharaoh by his advisers. Once
the practice had been established for
the better part of a century, it must have
seemed unimaginable to end it. Economic
dislocation is hard. The American South
couldnt imagine an economy without
slaves, so it fought a war to preserve it.
Police departments used to the proceeds
of draconian forfeiture laws and private
prison corporations lead the lobby against
marijuana legalization. Change is hard.
One could easily imagine that the latest
plague vermin, boils, marauding animals soon would end. Hadnt the water
been restored? But who could imagine the
son does the hard-headed

Egyptian economy without
heart melt away. Go, he says,
Hebrew slaves?
as Egypt buries its dead. But
Not only was it unimaginable. One fallacy mortals are
one week later, the mourning
heir to is the sunk cost falis over, and again Pharaoh
lacy. In deciding on a course
follows bravado and unyielding resolve. into the morass
of action whether to continue watching a mediocre
of the Red Sea.
movie or to continue wagL ooking at Pharaohs
Larry
ing a disappointingly unsucactions this way takes some
Yudelson
cessful war we irrationally
of the onus off God and
place too much value on
requires us to look inward.
the time or money or lives
If Pharaoh destroyed his
already spent. In deciding to spend the
kingdom because of irrational yet natural
next hour watching a disappointing film,
ways of thinking, are we immune? Has God
how we spent the past hour rationally
planted in us the seeds of our own hardened hearts? What damage are we inflictshouldnt factor in but it does. In deciding whether to free our slaves and avoid
ing on our own kingdoms, our own lives?
the next threatened plague, having painWhere are we acting through fear rather
fully toughed out blood, frogs, and lice
than hope?
shouldnt have factored into Pharaohs
The challenge, writes Paramus native
decision but it did.
Rabbi Shefa Gold in her book Torah Journeys, is to keep the heart open in the
Its also fair to guess that running a slave
face of prolonged suffering and to let the
state one that at least once tried outright
seeds of freedom grow in the darkness.
genocide had more than a little dehumanizing effect on Pharaoh and his leadAnd if we fail in that, as we often will,
ership clique. For the safety and glory of
the challenge is to bring beauty and tenderness and compassion to the heart, to
the kingdom, Egypt had enslaved Hebrews
soften and penetrate the layers of defense
and drowned their babies. Now they were
that have been built up around it.
being asked to endure some suffering a
Its not the easiest task in the world to
mere handful or two of plagues for the
undertake But as Pharaohs example in
same greater good. Pharaoh hadnt let the
this weeks portion shows us, it may be
sentimental appeal of Hebrew babies interfere with the needs of his nation. He is not
more rational than not.
some bleeding heart who buckles under
pain. He is clear-minded, resolute, and
Larry Yudelson is associate editor of this
hard-headed or is that hard-hearted? Not
newspaper. Rabbis and others who wish to
until the plague strikes a person who he
sign up to write a dvar Torah should email
cant help but view as a person his own
him at larry@jewishmediagroup.com
Honest Reporting, when later confronted

about his claims, Clancy tweeted, @
HumanRights2K Get a grip, junior. Its
my Friday night. You and the Hasbara
(Hebrew from public diplomacy) team
need to pick on some cripple on the edge
of the herd.
Ruderman Family Foundation President Jay Ruderman on Tuesday called
the cripple remark appalling, questioning how in this day and age a senior
anchor at CNN, a world leader in the
media, would use a word such as cripple,
which is a derogatory term for people with
disabilities.
Ruderman also wrote a letter to the
president of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker,
requesting an apology.
If a news anchor had hurled a racial
epithet, CNNs response undoubtedly
would have been swift, Ruderman said
in a statement. The disability community
expects CNN to extend the same sensitivity to people with disabilities as it does to
other minority communities.
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The Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation, which promotes the inclusion of
people with disabilities in the Jewish community, has called on CNN to apologize for
a tweet by anchor Jim Clancy that included
a disability slur.
Last week, after the Charlie Hebdo
shooting but before the terrorist siege on a
kosher supermarket Paris, Clancy tweeted
that two Twitter accounts @elderofziyon
(for the popular Jewish-themed blog) and
the anti-Semitic handle @JewsMakingNews are colluding to promote an antiMuslim and pro-Israel agenda. He received
heavy criticism for the tweets and later
deleted some of the remarks.
But according to the media watchdog
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Krasners early 1960s paintings
34. Some Donna Karan products
36. Demi-___, the musical revue in
which Gershwins Swanee had its
debut
37. 9/11 plotter Mohamed
38. Annual White House event since
2009
40. These critters, and not the Jews,
spread the Black Death
41. Prepared a childs costume for a Purim
43. Israeli flyer Danny Shapira, for one
45. Give a bubbe nachas
46. The Kinneret, ___ of Galilee
47. St. whose Jewish Museum was the
first in the Pacific Northwest
48. Farm home for a chazer
49. Studio where The Longest Yard
director Robert Aldrich got his start
51. Appointed as rabbi, perhaps
53. Nazi Dassler whose name was shortened to dub the shoe company he
founded
54. Food with a schmear on top
57. Term that has been used for Emma
Goldman and Saul Alinsky
64. Madeleine Albright was running it
when she learned much of her family
died in the Holocaust
65. Area under the Temple Mount
Down
1. Its the largest country in the Arab
world (abbr.)
2. Insect in Jerry Seinfelds 2007 animated film
3. Tried to join the Knesset
4. Swears on the Holy Bible
5. Trait of Bar Kochba or Yoni Netanyahu
6. Jehoshaphats father and namesakes
7. First sex in Genesis?
8. The Case for Israel author Dershowitz

9. 1948 and 613, e.g.
10. Gave two tablets, perhaps
11. Spread anti-Semitic vitriol, maybe
12. Oy vey!
13. Director Reiner (Stand By Me)
14. The whole megillah
15. Fifth Hebrew letter
20. Some temples have Moorish ones
21. How to hang your mezuzah
22. Shabbat
23. Evaluate the quality, as an etrog
24. Biblical character whose name, doubled, is a Faulkner title
25. Jews hope to do it regarding the
Temple in Jerusalem
26. Like the shield of the Rothschilds
29. Techies who can earn a certificate but
not a degree from Brandeis U.
30. Comeback from Kyle on the South
Park playground
31. The Peacemaker director Mimi
33. One of Anouk Aimes quatre
35. Feminist Orthodox activist Rivka
39. El Al path (abbr.)
42. U.S. diplomats in Israel get one for
their expenses
44. Obama Defense Secretary who said
all options were on the table to
stop Iran
50. Boychik
52. ... like ___ that is led to the slaughter
53. Merchant of Venice quote: ___ thy
friends for when did friendship
take a breed for barren metal of his
friend?
54. 1997 Martin Landau/Halle Berry flop
that played with stereotypes about
Jewish women
55. Near Eastern VIPs
56. Tightened (his loins)
57. Arthur Goldbergs WWII intelligence
agency
58. Some Mormons believe ___-Aztecan
languages are related to Hebrew
59. Radio show hosted by Ira Glass,
briefly
60. Poets erev
61. Literally, Man-made mound
62. Number of wives for Isaac
63. Abraham Joshua Heschel was concerned about civil ones (abbr.)
The solution to last weeks puzzle

is on page 58.
Arts & Culture

When is a Jewish movie a Jewish movie?
Welcome to the 24th annual New York Jewish Film Festival
ERIC A. GOLDMAN
dont quite get it.

The New York Jewish Film Festival
opened on Wednesday, and it seems
to me that about one third of the 47
films screened there are not Jewish movies. That doesnt make much sense to me.
When I go to see films at a Jewish film festival, I expect to see films that are in some
way Jewish.
For me, a Jewish film is a movie about
anything related to the Jewish experience.
The 24th New York Jewish Film Festival is
presented by the Film Society of Lincoln
Center and the Jewish Museum. When I
questioned Aviva Weintraub, who is the
museums associate curator and the direc-
Our goal is for

the program as
a whole to add
up to more than
the sum of the
individual films.
AVIVA WEINTRAUB
tor of the festival, about the selection committees choices, she said, Our goal is for
the program as a whole to add up to more
than the sum of the individual films. Each
season, we strive to deepen the definition
from the most obvious, evidently Jewish
characters, Israel, and/or historical Jewish
events to a broader perspective.
Weintraub is one of the worlds best
directors of Jewish film festivals, and over
the years she has made the New York
Jewish Film Festival a premier New York
event; her selection committee also is outstanding. But I do not understand its thinking this year. I guess I am just frustrated
that they do such a wonderful job, they
house a world-class Lincoln Center event
for two weeks, but they leave us short
films that could be screened at any festival
and that I think do not belong in a Jewish
film festival.
Last year, the Jewish Film Festival celebrated German film director Wim Wenders
and his landmark film, Paris, Texas. It
asked him to select two more films to be
screened at the festival. This year, as part
of Guest Selects, Dallas-born Jewish filmmaker Jennie Livingston was invited to
screen her important documentary about
Clockwise from top, two stills from Lets

Go, and one each from Felix and Meira and
Deli Man.
Harlem drag balls, Paris Is Burning, and

to select two films that influenced her
work. Livingstons work is important, and
it does deserve a film societys attention
and appreciation, but why highlight her
work and screen this film at a Jewish film
festival? Did I miss something? Why not
use this Guest Selects concept to showcase the work of someone who produces
Jewish work?
The answer seems to be that if someone

is a Jew, her work is Jewish. If that is the
case, why was Wim Winders chosen last
year? I see this as missed opportunity.
In addition, this years festival has War
Against War, a compilation of antiwar
films, and New York Noir, a tribute to
film noir of the 1940s and 50s. Both are
made up of films that I would love to see,
but do they really belong here?
The festival also is offering an opportunity to watch Ernst Lubitschs recently

restored 1924 Three Women, another
important film that deserves to be shown
but at a Jewish film festival? In Los Angeles, the Skirball Cultural Center is showcasing an exhibit on film noir and the impact
that many Jewish migrs including
Lubitsch had on cinema, but there much
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Calendar
avodatshalom.net or
(201) 489-2463.
Friday
JANUARY 16
Tuesday
Shabbat in Glen Rock:
JANUARY 20
The Glen Rock Jewish

Center honors Martin
Luther King Jr. during
services, 8 p.m. GRJC
welcomes Cantor Ronit
Josephson of Temple
Avodat Shalom in River
Edge and congregants as
partners for the service,
led by Rabbi Neil Tow
and Cantor Josephson.
Anthony Cureton,
president, Bergen
County chapter NAACP,
will attend. Service
includes songs, readings,
and teachings. 682
Harristown Road. Rabbi
Tow, (201) 652-6624 or
rabbi@grjc.org.
Blood drive in Teaneck:
Sen. Loretta Weinberg

Breakfast in Teaneck:
Temple Emeths adult
education program,
BYachad, hosts a
discussion on New
Jersey issues, including
Bridgegate, with State
Senate Majority Leader
Loretta Weinberg,
10:30 a.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 833-1322 or
www.emeth.org
Concert in Wayne:
Cantor Ilan Mamber

Shabbat in Wyckoff:
Temple Beth Rishon
holds Shabbat
Tzavta (together), a
participatory folk-rock
service with selections
from contemporary and
classical repertoires, folk
rock melodies, liturgical
selections, traditional
motifs, and Israeli and
Argentinian melodies,
8 p.m. Service led by
Cantor Ilan Mamber with
Mark Kantrowitz and
Adam Friedlander on
guitar, Cantor Mamber
on guitar and harp, Jane
Koch on keyboards,
Jack Seidenberg on
bass guitar, Jimmy
Cohen on percussion,
and Gale Bindelglass
on vocals. Dessert and
coffee. 585 Russell
Ave. (201) 891-4466 or
bethrishon.org.
Shabbat in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel
of the Pascack Valleys
Cantor Mark Biddelman,
on guitar, hosts Shabbat
Yachad, Hebrew prayers
set to easy-to-sing
melodies, accompanied
by keyboardist Jonathan
Hanser, bassist Brian
Glassman, and drummer
Gal Gershovsky, 8 p.m.
Free copy of CD at the
shul. 87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801 or www.
tepv.org.
Steven Masi performs

the music of Franz
Schubert at the
Thurnauer School of
Music at the Kaplen JCC Palisades
in Tenafly on Saturday, January
24, at 7 p.m. The opening concert,
An Evening of Chamber Music,
launches a new multiyear series
devoted to Schubert. 411 East
Clinton Ave. (201) 408-1465 or
jccotp.org/Thurnauer.
JAN.
24
The YMCA of Wayne

continues its Backstage
at the Y Series with
Puccini Passion: The
Operas of Giacomo
Puccini and his
Contemporaries,
performed by Dr. Robert
W. Butts, an awardwinning conductor,
composer, and educator,
11:45 a.m. The Metro
YMCAs of the Oranges
is a partner of the
YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.
Holy Name Medical

Center holds a blood
drive with New Jersey
Blood Services, a
division of New York
Blood Center, 1-7 p.m.
718 Teaneck Road.
(800) 933-2566 or www.
nybloodcenter.org.
NCJW meets in
Teaneck: National
Council of Jewish
Women Bergen County
Section meets at Temple
Emeth to pack snacks
for needy children in
local elementary schools,
12:30 p.m. 1666 Windsor
Road. (201) 385-4847 or
www.ncjwbcs.org.
Sunday
JANUARY 17
JANUARY 18
Movie in Teaneck:
Jews and the afterlife:
The mens club of

Congregation Beth
Aaron screens three
movies from the Maaleh
Film School of Jerusalem,
Shira, Prague, and
The Divide, 7 p.m.
Refreshments. 950
Queen Anne Road.
(201) 836-6210 or www.
bethaaron.org.
Comedy in Wayne:
Shomrei Torah offers a
night of laughs, featuring
critically acclaimed,
crowd-pleasing
comedians. Doors open
at 7:30 p.m. for cocktails;
show at 8. Beer/wine
for sale. 30 Hinchman
Ave. (973) 696-2500 or
office@shomreitorahwcc.
org.
The Orangetown Jewish

Center in Orangeburg,
N.Y., offers a discussion,
Do We Believe the
Soul Survives Death?
Jewish Views On and
Experiences with the
Other Side, led by
Barbara Rosenthal and
Jane Segal. 10 a.m.
Brunch follows. Program
held in memory of
Josh Birnbaum. 8
Independence Ave.,
Orangeburg, N.Y.
(845) 359-5920 or
theojc.com.
The JCC of Paramus/

Congregation Beth
Tikvah screens The
Jolson Story, 3 p.m.
A deli supper follows
(Reservations necessary
for dinner, $12.50.)
304 E. Midland Ave.
(201) 262-7691 or www.
jccparamus.org.
Rabbi Simon Glustrom

Hadassah meets:
Paramus-Bat Sheva
Hadassah meets at the
JCC of Paramus/Cong.
Beth Tikvah to hear
Rabbi Simon Glustrom,
rabbi emeritus of the
Fair Lawn Jewish Center,
discuss his new book,
Unfinished Journey
A Rabbis Bout With
Doubt, 7:45 p.m. E.
304 Midland Ave.
(201) 342-5065.
Medical ethics/Ebola:
Dr. Louis Teichholz
discusses medical
ethics questions related
to the Ebola crisis
for a Fireside Chat
sponsored by Temple
Avodat Shalom in River
Edge, at a private home,
7:30 p.m. For reservations,
administrator@
JANUARY 23
Childrens program
in West Nyack: The
Rockland Jewish
Academy offers a
Sifriyat Pijama BAmerica
Hebrew story time with
activities and a snack,
1:30 p.m. Sifriyat Pijama
continues on March 6
and April 12. 450 West
Nyack Road. Judy
Klein, (845) 627-0010,
ext. 104, www.
rocklandjewishacademy.
org, or kleinj@
rocklandjewishacademy.
org.
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
offers family services
for 4 to 13-year-olds,
led by Cantor Caitlin
Bromberg on her guitar,
7 p.m. Oneg Shabbat
follows. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
Shabbat in Closter:
Temple Beth El holds
a service led by Rabbi
David S. Widzer and
Cantor Rica Timman, with
organ accompaniment,
to commemorate
the second bar
mitzvah of Marlowe
Marcus, 7:30 p.m. 221
Schraalenburgh Road.
(201) 768-5112.
Rabbi Gerald Friedman

Yiddish in Woodcliff
Lake: Temple Emanuel of
Dr. Louis Teichholz
Friday
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Movie in Paramus:
Saturday
Ball: An American
Comedy Icon, at a
meeting of Retired
Executives and Active
Professionals at the
Kaplen JCC on the
Palisades in Tenafly,
11:15 a.m. 411 E. Clinton
Ave. (201) 569-7900 or
www.jccotp.org.
the Pascack Valley begins

an eight-session Yiddush
Club with conversation,
songs, stories, and jokes,
led by Rabbi Gerald
Friedman (Reb Yossel),
8:15 p.m. Series through
March 31. 87 Overlook
Drive. (201) 391-0801 or
Rebyossel@verizon.net.
Wednesday
JANUARY 21
Remembering Lucille
Ball: Dumont historian
Dick Burnon presents
a video/lecture Lucille
Sen. Cory Booker

Shabbat in Jersey City:
Temple Beth-El hosts its
30th annual service, led
by Rabbi Debra Hachen
and student cantor Elaya
Jenkins-Adelberg, in
tribute to Martin Luther
King Jr., 7:45 p.m. U.S.
Senator Cory Booker
is the guest speaker. A
bone marrow drive by
the temple with the Love
of Jesus Family Church
will be held during the
oneg, sponsored by
the Pesin family. 2419
Kennedy Boulevard.
(201) 333-4229 or www.
betheljc.org.
Calendar
Saturday
JANUARY 24
Jinni by Helene Wecker,

7 p.m. Refreshments.
87 Overlook Drive.
(201) 391-0801.
Shabbat in Ridgewood:
Temple Israel and Jewish
Community Center
and the Academies at
Gerrard Berman Day
School in Oakland
offer PJ Havdallah for
Tots, led by Cantor
Caitlin Bromberg on
her guitar, at Temple
Israel. Crafts and pizza,
6 p.m., followed by
Havdalah. 475 Grove St.
(201) 444-9320 or www.
synagogue.org.
In New York
Wednesday
JANUARY 21
Kaplen JCC plans Zumba program
Caf night in Fair Lawn:

The mens club of Temple
Beth Sholom sponsors
its third annual Caf
Night with dancing to the
music of Touch of Gray
and Plaza North, 8 p.m.
Snacks and dessert.
BYOB kosher. 40-25 Fair
Lawn Ave. (201) 797-9321
or mensclub@tbsfl.org.
Sunday
JANUARY 25
Bilingual entertainment
in Tenafly: The Kaplen
Yeladudes Theater
presents The Three
Challas, a bilingual
show, 10:30 a.m. 411
East Clinton Ave.
(201) 408-1465.
Concert in Wayne:
The YMCA of Wayne
continues its Backstage
at the Y Series with
Romanticism, Then
and Now, performed
by pianist Carolyn
Enger, 11:45 a.m. The
Metro YMCAs of the
Oranges is a partner of
the YM-YWHA of North
Jersey. 1 Pike Drive.
(973) 595-0100, ext. 257.
Holocaust survivor to
share story: Holocaust
survivor Lisl Malkin of
Tenafly shares her story
of survival and discusses
her book An Interrupted
Life, followed by a
screening of Words of
Wisdom: Lisl Malkin,
at the Kaplen JCC on
the Palisades in Tenafly,
5:30 p.m. (201) 569-7900
or www.jccotp.org.
Hugo Vickers
Author in NYC: Hugo
Vickers, author and
royal historian for Queen
Elizabeth IIs mother-inlaw, discusses Princess
Alice of Greeces rescue
efforts during World
War II at the Museum
of Jewish Heritage
A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust, 7 p.m.
Princess Alice is the
mother of Prince Philip.
Program will have a
certified ASL interpreter.
36 Battery Place.
(646) 437-4202 or www.
mjhnyc.org.
Singles
Sunday
JANUARY 25
Singles meet in
Caldwell: New Jersey
Jewish Singles 45+ meet
for a lunch and mingle
event including a group
game and prizes, at
Congregation Agudath
Israel, 12:45 p.m. $10. 20
Academy Road. Sue,
(973) 226-3600, ext. 145,
or singles@agudath.org.
Winter dining in
Teaneck: The Jewish
Mosaic Outdoor
Mountain Club of Greater
New York meets at
Veggie Heaven, 4 p.m.
Vegan and kosher. 473
Cedar Lane. www.
mosaic-gny.org.
The Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly offers everyone 12 or older a free 75-minute Zumba program, with
exotic rhythms, high-energy Latin and international
beats, and easy-to-follow moves, on Saturday, January
31, at 8 p.m.
The JCC provides members and their families with
year-round health and wellness programs in its Russ
Berrie Family Health & Recreation Complex. The comprehensive, ultra-modern recreation facility offers individualized instruction, state-of-the-art equipment, and
a caring and inspirational staff. Programs are geared for
all ages and all fitness and skill levels. For information,
call Barbara Marrott at (201) 408-1475.
92Y and MJH will continue

book discussion partnership
This winter, the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial
to the Holocaust will continue to partner with the 92Y to present
book programs about Jewish history and culture. All programs
will take place at the MJH in Lower Manhattan.
On Sunday, January 18, at 2:30 p.m., Alon Confino will discuss
his new book, A World Without Jews with Liel Leibovitz of Tablet Magazine.
On Wednesday, February 11, at 7 p.m., Jonathan Sarna of
Brandeis University will talk about his new book, Lincoln and
the Jews, with Gary P. Zola of Hebrew Union College.
On Sunday, March 22, at 2:30 p.m., Leah Koenig will discuss her
book, Modern Jewish Cooking: Recipes and Customs for Todays
Kitchen, with food writer Gabriella Gershenson.
For information, call (646) 437-4202 or go to www.92y.org.
Sharsheret to host event

for young professionals
Meet, mingle, and network with other young professionals at
Sharsherets NYC Young Professionals Networking Night on Saturday, February 21, at 8 p.m. Enjoy an open bar, great food, billiards, pingpong, and more at Slate in the Flatiron District. 54 W.
21 St. www.sharsheret.org/ypcslate.
Darlene Love
will perform
in Englewood
Darlene Love is coming to the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood on Saturday, February 14, at 8 p.m. The theater is
at 30 North Van Brunt St. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com or www.
bergenpac.org or through the box office,
(201) 227 1030.
Film/book discussion
in Woodcliff Lake:
As part of the One
Book One Community
project, sponsored by
the Jewish Federation
of Northern New Jersey,
Temple Emanuel of the
Pascack Valley screens
Snow in August in
conjunction with this
years book selection,
The Golem and the
Bergen Performing Arts Center gala honors dance educator

The Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood will name its ballet studio at the Performing Arts school the Roberta Mathes Dance Studio at Past, Present, Future: A Dance Gala, on
Sunday, Jan. 18, beginning at 4 p.m.
The theaters board of trustees is honoring
Ms. Mathes, aka roberta, for her role in the

Englewood and Bergen County dance scene
for over 30 years, serving as a dance educator,
coach, and mentor to hundreds of students.
The upcoming year marks her 10th anniversary as the artistic director of beyondDANCE
at the bergenPAC.
All proceeds from the event support the
dance program at the Performing Arts School
at bergenPAC. For information, call (201) 8168160, ext. 16, or visit www.ticketmaster.com or
www.bergenpac.org.
Arts & Culture

Film
FROM PAGE 55
attention is paid on how their Jewish background affected

and changed the film form. That focus is completely missing here.
I express my frustration because what Ms. Weintraub
and her selection committee do with the rest of the New
York Jewish Film Festival is nothing short of amazing. Oh,
if only all two weeks of it were filled with selections like
those listed as main programs. At opening night, Israeli
filmmakers Asaf Galay and Shaul Betser showed their film,
The Muses of Isaac Bashevis Singer, where they dug into
how the young and opinionated women who translated
Singers work from Yiddish to English had a powerful affect
on the Nobel Prize-winning author. The filmmakers provided a moving and insightful study into the man and the
power of the translator. Other documentaries include the
long-awaited world premiere of Joseph Dorman and Oren
Rudavskys The Zionist Idea, which highlights broad ideological questions about the nature of Zionism. Dorman
brought us Arguing the World, a fine work about four City
College of New York-educated Jewish intellectuals of the
1930s, and Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness.
Rudavsky worked with Menachem Daum on A Life Apart:
Chasidism in America and Hiding and Seeking: Faith and
Tolerance After the Holocaust, and now, working with Dorman, he gives us an excellent film; a panel discussion on the
film will take place on January 25.
Another talented filmmaker, Roberta Grossman, whose
previous works included Blessed Is the Match: The Life
and Death of Hannah Senesh and Hava Nagila: The
Movie has a new film, Above and Beyond, produced
by Nancy Spielberg, at the festival. It is about a group of
Jewish American fighter pilots who helped mold Israels
air force during the 1948 War of Independence; the film
will be released theatrically in a few weeks and will be
reviewed in an upcoming issue of the Jewish Standard.
In Natan, investigative documentarians David Cairns
and Paul Duane provide a study of Bernard Natan, a Romanian Jew who became the head of the influential Path
film studios, only to die forgotten during the Holocaust
and almost erased from the history of French cinema. William Gazecki does a terrific job in looking at the life of the
so-called Queen of Vaudeville, the theater, radio, and
television icon Sophie Tucker, in The Outrageous Sophie
Tucker.
Hilla Medalia opens a window into the rise and fall
of Israeli film tycoon Menachem Golan and his cousin
Yoram Globus, with The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of
Solution to last weeks puzzle. This weeks puzzle is

on page 54.
Clockwise from top, scenes

from Tsili, The Outrageous
Sophie Tucker, The Mystery
of Happiness, and The Muses
of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Cannon Films. German filmmaker Felix Moeller gives us a

chance to take a deeper look at what remains of the 1,700
films produced in the Third Reich during World War II that
are archived in Forbidden Films. Another documentary
worth seeing is Erik Greenberg Anjous The Deli Man,
about third-generation delicatessen man Ziggy Gruber.
Anjous previous movies include A Cantors Tale and
The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground.
Several dramatic narrative films highlight the festival.
A festival favorite, Argentine director Daniel Burman,
returns with another comedy, The Mystery of Happiness. New Yorkers will have a chance to see Israels submission this year to the Oscars, Gett: The Trial of Viviane
Amsalem; the film, which is stunning, opens theatrically
on February 13 and will be reviewed then. Acclaimed
Israeli film director Amos Gitais Tsili is having its U.S.
premiere at the festival. I admire Gitais work for his creative and avant-garde use of cinema stylistics, but Im generally not fond of his films. Tsili, loosely based on an
Aharon Appelfeld book, looks at the life of a young Jewish
woman who survives the war by hiding in a forest. Breaking new ground in his extensive use of Yiddish, Gitai gives
us a film that is visually stunning, with extended scenes
that have little action, few words, and not much movement. It is classic Gitai not for everyone!
German director Michael Verhoevens Lets Go, about
the daughter of concentration camp survivors who have
chosen to stay in Germany, provides a commentary on
postwar Germany and German Jews unique relationship
with the country of their birth.

Felix and Meira will close the festival on January 29.
By director Maxime Giroux, it is about an Orthodox Jewish wife and mother, marked by an undercurrent of rebelliousness, who meets Felix, a middle-aged atheist adrift
without family ties. Set in the hipster Mile End neighborhood of Montreal, the film sets its sights on the social
and religious boundaries that somehow constrict Meira.
Actress Hadas Yaron was Shira in the acclaimed 2012
Israeli film about the chasidic world called Fill the Void.
There, she was a devoted sister and daughter. This time, as
Meira, she wants to break free. Like filmmakers before her,
including Boaz Yakin with 1998s A Price Above Rubies
and Adam Vardy with his Mendy in 2003, Giroux is finding the exotic flavor of chasidic life provides a wonderful
setting for movies about forbidden love.
As always, the New York Jewish Film Festival has an
excellent mix of films. The festival, which began on
Wednesday, January 14, continues through Thursday, January 29. I only wish that the selection committee would
have placed more truly Jewish films at Lincoln Center during the two weeks of its run.
You can but tickets online or in person at the Film Societys Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and Walter Reade
Theater box offices at 144 and 165 West 65th Street. For
more festival information, go to www.NYJFF.org.
Eric Goldman writes and teaches about Jewish film. He is
adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University.
Obituaries
Roger Byrne
Roger Byrne, 100, of Elmwood Park died on Jan. 6.

Before retiring, he worked for Savarin Coffee and was a
member of the Elks.
Predeceased by his wife, Mollie, he was a father,
grandfather, and great-grandfather. Donations can be
sent to the Lustgarten Foundation. Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Irving Gall
Irving Gall, 93, of Paramus, died on Jan. 12.

Born in Manhattan, he co-founded Fish-Aide in
1949 and then worked for more than 40 years in
the pet industry, including vice president of sales
for Metaframe, president of the LongLife division
of Hartz Mountain, and president of the National
Association of the Pet Industry.
A leader in the Jewish community, he was chair of
the ritual committee and a weekly Torah reader in
congregations in Levittown, Port Washington, and
the JCC of Paramus/Congregation Beth Tikvah. He
was a supporter of Israel and Israel Bonds and wrote
many letters to the editor of The Jewish Standard and
other publications.
He was active in the Democratic Party and, at 80,
was elected to the Paramus Town Council. He was also
an active delegate to the state chapter of the AARP.
He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Lee, children,
Martin of Scituate, Mass., Ellen Gall (Penchansky)
of Miami, Fla., Barbara Norden of Saddle River, and
Stephanie Carmel of Maplewood; 12 grandchildren,
and 15 great-grandchildren.
Services were at the JCCP/CBT. Arrangements were
by Robert Schoems Menorah Chapel, Paramus.
Martha Hirschklau
Martha S. Hirschklau, ne Silverstein, of Fair Lawn,

died on Jan. 12.
A Syracuse University graduate, she volunteered in
Fair Lawn for the library and for school district library
programs. She was a past president of the Fair Lawn Special Education PTA. She and her husband were founding
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will be leaving a little piece of myself as a legacy for generations to come Mathes said.
Her parents, who fled Nazi Germany,
did not encourage her to be a dancer. A
learning disability as a child, struggles
with dance weight that threatened her selfesteem, minor surgeries and a hip replacement later in life, could have additionally
been impediments. But today she reigns as
a role model. In fact, she can out grande
battement most of her students.
Roberta started dancing at age 4 at
a local dance school in Washington
Heights, New York City. During her teens,
when she decided she wanted to be a professional dancer, she needed better training to improve her technique and refine
her skills. She studied at Joffrey Ballet
and American Ballet Theatre Schools
and later graduated with a B.A. in dance
from Adelphi University. Along with performing, she began to teach directly after
college.
Her career as a performing artist is varied and widespread. She has performed
with professional dance companies, on
television in soaps, commercials, and
music videos as well as in feature films.
She was assistant choreographer for the
movie Carlitos Way, danced in the film
Fatal Attraction, and performed in Steve
Winwoods Higher Love video. She even
performed at King Husseins Palace in
Rabat, Morocco. She has been on the roster at Steps On Broadway and the School
At Steps for more than 20 years, along

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Ballet Theatre. Her International credits as
a guest teacher have taken her around the
world.
What stands out the most about Roberta
is her strong training system and warm up;
the Mathes Technique which focuses
on correct body alignment, building core
strength while increasing flexibility, and
proper technique, clarity in lines, details,
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assimilate or to control almost 2 million Palestinian Arabs, which is what a one-state

solution would entail. At least in theory it
would silence continuous international
condemnation of Israel as the illegitimate
expansionist occupier of the West Bank.
(I say in theory because those who hate
Israel or Jews or both always will find ways
to demonize the Jewish state.) Internally,
this solution would make many Israelis
feel that they held the moral high ground
by allowing others what they have allowed
themselves the right to national self-determination in a nation-state of their own.
Why has such a reasonable resolution of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not gained
enough traction to become a reality? The
single-word reductive answer is ideology.
Since Menachem Begins rise to power in
1977, the ideology of Greater Israel became
dominant. This meant extending Israels
borders to include areas that had historical meaning in the narrative of the Jewish
people. This meant extension of the borders of Israel to include what has become
to be known as Judea and Samaria, the biblical heartland of ancient Israel. This ideology produced the settlement movement,
which brought many Jews into what internationally was considered to be occupied
territory. This ideology, which has been and
continues to be the point of view and policy
of the government since 1977, makes it difficult to accept the idea that all or a large part
of the West Bank would become Palestine,
with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Jerusalem issue is particularly difficult to negotiate, given the historical and
religious meaning of the city. To overcome
the need to negotiate about the city, Jewish
settlement in East Jerusalem has been ongoing. While it is true that settlement beyond
the 1948 borders started under the liberal
Mapai government, that settlement was
based on security concerns, not ideology.
In sum, the two-state solution has failed
to become a reality because the government of Israel is at the very least ambivalent if not negative about it on ideological
grounds. This means that Israel enters the
negotiations toward a two-state solution
with extremely mixed feelings, searching
for a way to free itself of the Palestinian
problem without giving up territory that
would become Palestine.
The issue of ideology as a cause for the
failure of the realization of the two-state
solution is not one-sided. The Palestinian
Authoritys negotiators come to the table
with ideological demands based on a narrative of their own. Among these demands
is Palestinians right of return to their families former homes in what is now Israel.
The narrative supporting this is that these
Palestinians were forcibly and illegitimately
exiled from their residences during Israels
War of Independence. Further, Palestinians
would argue that their historic and religious
connections to Al-Quds ( Jerusalem) are
as meaningful to them as the Jews are to
Israel. Since the majority population of East

Jerusalem is Arab, why should it not be the
capital of Palestine?
The Palestinian perception of Jewish
settlements is that they amount to stealing
Palestinian lands. They should be removed.
This might mean civil war for Israel but
that is not a Palestinian concern. Alternatively, if the settlements were allowed
to remain in place as part of a negotiated
agreement, then land swaps of equal size
should be made to increase Palestines land
area. Any Palestinian Authority negotiator
who did not demand these things probably
would have no credibility with the Palestinian street. Therefore, there is little that he or
she can offer that Israel would accept.
With ideology rather than realpolitik
driving negotiations, it is no wonder that
from the Quartet to Clinton to Kerry, there
has been no movement toward a two-state
solution. If that situation is ever ameliorated, peace may have a chance.
Choosing depression or hope against
all odds
Daniel Gordis has described the Israeli
mood as depression, and my experience
with many Israeli friends is the same. Gordis holds that rather than endanger the
state of Israel by negotiating a bad deal, living with depression and accepting that the
immediate future means ongoing war is the
better option. Those who cant handle the
sadness of an endless Israeli-Palestinian
conflict should not fool themselves into
false hopefulness.
I respect Gordis for his passionate love
of his country and his incredible intellect.
For me, however, and for others as well,
the we have not yet lost our hope line of
Hatikvah still epitomizes what will make
us a free people in our Land. Zionisms
beginnings were filled with risk-taking. But
there are reasonable and unreasonable
risks, and the next government of Israel will
be taking one form or another of risk in its
approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
I have tried to be fair, or at least honest,
about what appears to me as reasonable
and unreasonable about every solution that
has been offered to ameliorate the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. I remain hopeful about
Israels voters wisdom, that they will bring
to power a government that will risk intelligently and finally bring peace and hope to
a people that should not have to live with
ongoing depression.
March 17 will be the beginning of a test
about whether my hopes, along with the
hopes of so many Israelis, are realistic. I
pray that they are.
Professor Michael Chernick of Teaneck holds
the Deutsch Family Chair in Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in
New York. Professor Chernick received his
doctorate from the Bernard Revel Graduate School and rabbinic ordination from R.
Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He
has written extensively about Jewish law and
lore and has lectured on these topics in the
United States, Europe, and Israel.
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